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)t Cfjeratu Cfjiotttcle "Tig Not in Mortals to Command Success, but We'll do Mora, Sempronious, We'll Deserve it" Volume 16 CHERAW. CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S. C., MAY 16, 19l2 Number ~.9 . GENERAI NEWS OF THE WEEK . LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD. I "Notes From Foreign Lands, Throughout the Nation and Particularly the Great Sontb. s- Another day of sunshine in New ''^Orleans and throughout southern ^Louisiana cheered more and more the ..hearts of those who are concerned .over the high hood stages of the Mississippi river. State and Federal engineers announced that the few re;ports received from points north of New Orleans where gangs are repairing and strengthening the levees, , were encouraging, although it was | admitted that the situation at Baton Rouge was still somewhat serious, and would demand careful watching | and continued hard work to prevent a break in the front levee. , Twin cyclones struck Talladega, j Ala., doing a property damage of ap f proximately $165,000. There was no , loss of life. One storm struck the | town from the southwest, going east , and when immediately over the busi- . mess district was met by another :storm. The twin disturbance united, , doing heavy damage in the way of | "broken windows and unrooting stores , court house was , the force the I S^HH|MKr massave granite H. Slaughter and Deputy , of Archer, Fla., , tu a *A. Map-J ? New Orleans wlthsteo^t^WB^B est rainstonu' in her~'history. All oif ( BIB the lower naif of Louisiana was af , ^B iected. and thousands of the people , who lite behind the already terribly., V strained levees that hold back the j Mississippi's fioou waters. were pan . icky. The wind ranged from 27 miles . an hour at New Orleans to 40 miles at | IJatcu Ilouge, -ami at many points . along the river it swept the waves i of the swollen stream over the levees. The .Mississippi liter at New Orleans , was tanked up by the high winds, and j rose eight nchtf in two hours, fore- ] ing the wafers over the - levees at i several points. I Gen. Benin tt H. Young of Louis- | ville, Ky., commander of the Army of Tennessee, was elect-d oommauder-in- ( chief of the i'nited Confederate Vet- . eraus, succeeding Acting Commanderin-Chief Gtn. C. Irvine Walker of Charleston, s. C. The names of Gen- j eral Walker and Gen.W. K. Van 2^andt of Texas were ' oil; presented, but they withdtew and the election of General Young was made unanimous by a rising vote. Gen. Irvine C. Walker was unanimously elected honorary eomnipuder-in chief. The choosing .of Chattanooga. Tenn., as the convention city for 1913. the unanimous, enthusiastic acceptance of the invitation of Genera Tritnhle, commander-in chief of * the G. A. It., to merge the blue and the gray it Gettysburg in .Inly to heal all remaining sores of the long internecine strife of the sixties, tiie crowning of Miss .Vary Scanurett of .Macon as quern of 'lie l .12 reunion before 20.noo poo;;.-, on Coleman's hill, and a Georgia s-v.n nulling mellowly ovei the city ail day. featured the third day of the twn;'y-si rnnd rnnual re uion of the Confederate veterans in Macon, Ga. The dosfitut'on and distress that follows in the pat i of crevasses had a ~ practical demonstration wncn the steamer Whitman'with 7*o refu gees from the MeCrea section ol Polntc Coupee parish, landed at "Mel vMt?. t n. Tppcn unfortunates weT picked up aions the levee where they had been for three days without shelter, ard on almost continur,"i r.4In had prove;! od the cooking of the ra tions which had been given them. Many, iiivvwer. refused to bo taken away. After adopting resolutions favoring flie entiir Progressive movement the Kansas lovub'.iran convention nam :d fo ir dei.-^atrs at large to the na tlonal convention and instructed them 11 for Colonel Roosevelt. The Taft (J strength in the convention was 104, the Roosevelt strength 790. Worn out by grief over his father's death and his efforts to cheer his youthful stepmother, young Vincent Astor, now head of the family lu H America, has turned to his "real mother," rMs. Ava Astor, for solace. Senator Clapp of Minnesota heads the subcommittee which will invesMtigate the campaign contributions. The bureau of fisheries, confident that the diamond back terrapin can be cultivated in the United States for commercial purposes and placed within the means of everybody, wants an appropriation from congress to pay a terrapin culturist. t* In an address before the Society ot st Anthropology at Chicago, Charles of Frederick Adams of Xew York declar- tb d there will be no real democracy pi until women are granted equal rights k? ".t the ballot box de Standing upon the bridge of the jn Darmania In mid-ocean, Mrs. J. H. Loring of New York and London scat- je tered armfuls of flowerB upon the p, waters of the Atlantic in memory of Bh her husband, who lost his life on the ai Titanic. When the Carmania arriv- ^ ed in latitude 41.1 and longitude 30.14, the nearest position to where m, the Titanic sank, Mrs. Loring, attir- rj?j ed in deep mourning, was escorted to rpj the bridge by Captain Dow. Many passengers, touched by thed evotion, wept. S(< Twelve hours of fighting on the j8l desert plains of Merlco 300 miles to the south of the American border he- ^ tween a force of 5,000 rebels under ^ General Orozco and an equally strong gj. body of Federals under General Hu- an erta, resulted in a decided advantage Qe to the government. At nightfall the wj sandy mesas between there and Yqr[A. 14 miles north, where insurrectos pg Are gradually forced hack, were ^Q, dead and wounded. ^ Ve^^^^^^fch^j?ved to have been of Chfgo oh striker In pressmen whA '-f daily ncw:;psper jfflees. J. M. T.-rnch, international wl president or tne Typonrapn-cui uikuu, re ind Walter W. Barrett, president of mi the Chicago local, expressed them- sa ?elves as well pleased with the re- no suit. This vote is final. The press- -p men were downcast over the failure the Typographical union to join . ,. i re them. s hfl A graphic picture of the scenes thai accompanied the sinking of the White ^ Star liner Titanic giving a new viewpoint to a tale already told many times, was painted for the British JJ. government's court of inquiry which gr is investigating the great sea horror. Frank H. Morris, a baker of the lest ship, told how. foreign steerage pas- . sengers were prevented from rushing the lifeboats, how sixteen persons were saved from a collapsible boat ^ as it was sinking and how the life- ' boat in which he was rescued passed ^ among hundreds of human beings .J floating in the water in its path, while jj only three of them cried out for help. ju An attack cf William J. Bryan, ' *' '1?A *,K! ?* ! M/l-v 4?* tMo nro. staling inai ins ti i.uiuc in iino i#.^ ^ convention campaign be accounted for qji only on the hypothesis that he hopes ^ to be again nominated at the Haiti- jgi more convention." was given out at , Washington, 1). C.. by the Harmon national headquarters. The statement calls upon "the Democrats of the country to give candor to the real situation." It declares that a successful Democratic candidate must carry Northern states, as well as those that I'.ryan carried in his last campaign. Apparently beaten In their efforts to tie np Chicago newspapers officers of the Webb Pressmen's union, ac- f _ 1?. ,|,a COrUXUK 'U il blei ll inciu i?ancu vj publishers, have started a movement lor a nationwide strike of newspaper pressmen. This and charges by the publishers that the pressmen were using misleading state incuts In efforts to gain sympathy were the principal developments in the situation. The publishers said tiicy expected normal conditions to prevail before the end of the week. In the same hall where the regular Republican organization of Pennsylvania was overthrown last week, the regular Democratic state organization was swept out of power by the "reorganization" faction of the party. The ( victory of the new men in control of * the party's machinery was complete, and no resistance was made by the regulars after the vote on permanent I. S. MARSHALL SELLS WHISKEY PS PURCHASER IS ARRESTED. his Action Harks An Open Conflict of Authority Between the State and Federal Officials. Greenville.?The first clash bereen the United States court and ate officials over the recent decision Federal Judge H. A. M. 8mith that ie government has a right to sell at tbljc auction in a "dry" county whls sy that has been seized and con>mned as contraband occurred here. compliance with the order of idge Smith at the April term of the deral court, held in Greenville, J. mean Adams, United States marlal, advertised for sale at public iction at Greenville county court tuse, two packages containing in xicating liquors, the packages being arked "G. V. Stoeber" and "J. B laoksto'n," care of the "Hundred lousand club." Several days ago Gov. Blease adeased letters to the sheriffs of >uth Carolina and to one of the magnates in Greenville advising them arrest any party who might purase contraband whiskey sold in e state by United States officials, lerlff J. Perry Poole of Greenville d Magistrate Samuel Stradley reived copies of the letter and forthth primed themselves for the clash Deputy Marshall J. L. Adams ap ared in Greenville and prepared r the auction. Governor Blease .s ordered any purchaser of the verRTTX to be arTested. airman of the 'state conve^.ion | owed, that the "feorganizers" bad i ntrol of the convention. What probably wah' the iceberg lfch was struck by the Titanic was ported by Captain Wicke of the Gerin tank steamer Clio. The captain ys that on April in latitude 41.25 rth, longitude 4S.43 west, he saw , Iceberg about 130 feet high, President Taft took a step toward vision of the patent laws, which ve remained unchanged since 1S70. ?* ? ? onnoroco nal'ino z bflll U mcoaa^c IU wuf,ivMg r legislation to authorize him to up>int a commission'to investigate the tent laws and repjort what changes jre necessary to make them fit modn conditions. The president gave asons to show the need for the ange. He enumerated five reasons rich demanded the revision of the >v. Charges against Judge Robert \V. chba'd of the commerce court, were [folded before the house committee i judiciary which is to determine impeachment proceedings shall be ought against the jurist. How dge Archbald, in partnership with Iward J. Williams, a Scranton coal aler, while deliberating as a judge i the "lighterage cases" to which e Erie railroad was a party, Is algod to have negotiated an option am that railroad for 42,000 tons of T\ rr/ JL7epU51l yi II Fhe Bank Chera.v STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER B 40 compoi 0 irv savii culm dump property to be sold at a $12,000 profit, was related to the committee by Williams himself. President Taft sent to congress a message approving the plan of the commission of economy and efficiency to retire all government employees at the age of 70 years on annuities equal to half-salary with a maximum limit of $600. The plan provides that employees entering the service shall make annual contributions to provide a retirement fund. The commission estimates that the plan would cost the government $227,000 a year dur,ng the next twenty years and that the saving during the succeeding sixteen years would equalize it. COUNCIL CLOSES ' SESSION. Three Pleasant Days Speht at Beanfort-t-Mnch Business Disposed of. Next Meeting at Charleston. ?eaufort|?After a three-day sesglon of the 122nd annual council of the Episcopal diocese of South Carolina adjourned sine die to meet next year at Grace church, Charleston. The morning's session was given up to routine matters almost entirely. An exception was the matter of the g^ft of property in Aiken left by former Senator Edmunds. The vote referring the matter to the finance committee for a report next year was re- . considered and the trustees of the diocese instructed to sell the property if an advantageous offer is made the funds to be held untiJ the next council makes disposition thereof. It was decided to leave the disposition open after a majority had decided that the proceeds should be turned into the bishop's funds. The attendance had fallen off at this hour and it was thought best to leave it to a full* A committee to prepare resolutions of thanks to Senator Edmunds wad appointed "as follows: 'Rev. T. W. Clift. During this discussion R. I. Manning referred to the division of the diocese as something more than a possibility in the near future. A committee on the increase of the number of the ministry was appointed as follows: Rev. A. S. Thompson, chairman; Rev. T. T. Walsh, Rev. W. M. Way, J. I. Waring, E. W. DuVall and G. W. S.' Hart. The resolution to take up this work had been thoroughly discussed at the session of the day before when an aggressive movement was decided on. Last evening's session was given up to a report on the apportionment of the mission and other funds among the several parishes and reports of new buildings and other activities of the three convocations. Each made a gratifying showing of growth. Probably. "Does your new assistant do thiugs with spirit?" "I must say, he does not seem to do anything without it." A Cinch. "How did he manage to get elected by sv.cn a large uimuue ; "He told the voters he was a piefort statesman." nir money sr ? of Cheraw s. c. INKS IN THE COUNT! COMBINED mded quarterly rigs department A EXPENSE ACCOUNT MUSL BE ITEMIZED ' v CREIGHTON SENDS ACCOUNT. I Was Agent for Governor?Payment for Services Rendered. Columbia.?Taking the position that the law expressly requires that an Itemized account must be filed for ex* penaes, A. W. Jones, the comptroller general, has refused to pay a claim for services submitted by C. W. Creighton of Greenwood, who Vaa appointed as a special agent of the exetv utive department by the governor of , South Carolina. This action was tak-. en because of a letter written by Comptroller General Jones to' Mr. Creighton. He says: ' ^ "I have Before me your special ac count for the enforcement of law for special service rendered. "I. beg, to say before we can pay this account It must be itemized, giv ing the number of days and date* on which services were rendered. Ser- i ' vices rendered'on -the special fund by the month is not permissible. "Kindly send statement and we will attach to your account and issue you a check for same." The salary is $100 per month. On May 6, Mr. Creighton .replied as follows: "Your letter of the 3rd inst, . vjffl is at hand., I am leaving home oa' duty and will not return until the last of the week,'about Saturday, * and then I will take up the subject' matter of your letter with you." -jR On May 7 the governor sent a let- Jjk tor to the comptroller general with Tpforoncp ty claim Thf, requested tfutKlie # MmM out resorting to the cotank. 'The ernor gave the opinion that the ized account is to be fi^ed with the/^B^^H chief executive and not with the . comptroller general. In his reply Mr. . Jones quotes the law and decisioha by the supreme court to show that aa . , ^6 itemized account of expenses must be filed with theA"comptroller general. . . Interest In Southeastern States. Never before has. there been such widespread interest in the Southeastern States as is now being manifested . throughout the North and West, The resources and opportunities of the entire section are batter known than ever before and the agents of the Vj Land and Industrial Department of J the Southern Railway Company are ifl meeting with encouraging uiCcetB in 4Q the solicitation of farm r ttlers apd the establishment of new industries. , Tha growing interest of people of other sections iri the a '.vantages- ofp the Southeastern States is summed up In the following paragraph from a recent report of the Western Agent of the Southern Railway Land and Industrial Department: "The work of this oftyee reveals Cha continued growing interest on the part of residents of the North nnd ' West in the Southeast, and Its opportunities in agriculture and the various lines of business, and our territory was never before so well and favorably known in the section in which we ere soliciting new business or had as active inquiry concerning its resources, advantages and possibilities. We are anticipating an active spring and summer." t South Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Eimwood Develop ment Company of Columbia, with a capital of $<>,000. The petitioners are Frank H. Gibbes, J. B. Urquhart, Y7. A. Clarkson. A general real estate business will be conducted. A commission has been issued to Leverettei Furniture Company of Laurens, with! a capital of $10,000. The petitioners j are: J. G. Lcverette, w. k.. Huagensj and. E. K. Todd. A commission has been issued to the Field's Patridge Wyandotte Company, Inc., of Florence with a capital of $2,000. A general poultry business will be conducted. The petitioners are W. H. Fields, C. E. Commander and C. M. Boyd. only $1.00 per year, and get the news * y Subscribe to The Chronicle?it lij