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■j. The Barnwell VOL. XX XIV /1 BARNWELL. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 0.1011 NO 44 HE IS SHOWN UP P8ICES ARE “R stands by the board held LIVE WIRE M1SSE0 BIG kmm ‘ I TW0 G,RLS win GIRLS ROB -— I —*— i —*— ■ l —.— i —♦— i —*— ■ . ' i. ’ • Seoalsr Williams Ptfint OjI lacoDsbleicj of Senator Commings. THE ('OST OF TEXT IHK)K SOME WHAT IXCREASEI). GOVERNOR ULE.VSE SATISFIED WITH WHAT IT DID. Derrell Barrison Lest His Life While Viewing Base Ball (jam?. I train robbers made mistake in RAFFLES and are awarded IN STOIM’ING TRAIN. A LIFE PARTNER. r —. HE WAS ON BOTH SIDES Rut Then It I* Presumed That the Rooks Selected Are Ik'tter Than the Old One«. Says the Members in Their Action Were JuM a* UonjM'ieiitlous as WAS HIGH UP ON A POLE Swearingen Was. Only Swag Comes From Registered Mail, No Express Rein>; on Board. Posse in Pursuit. fhi j CU m Thai They Wert Tia|kt H«« it Steal Thia|s Fraa Stem Iowan \I'liiies Against Can'idian Re- ciprocit^ and John Sharp Williams tiles IIMM Speci li in v.!iich Cum- inJiis I axored Puttiiij; I arm Pro ducts in Free List. I he Washington correspondent of I In News anu C .uricM sax-' the gen eral opinion of disinterfste l auditors of the colloi|liy in .liio.tatir ie Thurs day between Senators Cuuiniins of Iowa, and. Williams, of .Missjppi, that the brili'.a! ' South rner touted the le’.van. li ir.-e, too' and dragoon. The deed was accomplished by the apt citation of a speech delivered by Mi' Cummings sex • ral years ago in adx o. acx of reriproc :ty. putieularly w • thj;e . a rdj.p.,! a rr. n rod nets. There i.s w ide re e.'i.ition rliie fact that in John Shir > Wi Hants the South has added ai.o'her u. the galaxy of g r t at S 11 I’er . .'senaior t'.immings continued his argument ag Hist tlte Canadian re- ciprocity iiili, hut did not conclude. He attacked this measure from the standpoint trot only of its alleg'd in- jusdiee and piltiral 1ne\pedi'Vto>\ but on Hie jroiinds that it was not properly drawn as a tariff law. If pass d in its present form, he Faiil. tlie a g ree men * would give Can ada the option of reorganizing one- half of it without acepting it all. The statement, explained in detail by tlie Iowan, drew th attention of the Senate, manC members miestion- ing the interpretation thus |>nt upon the hill as FyC-nt to Congress by the President. S- nator ('umnrins stiid the passan* of the hill would tie followed by a s’orm of disaporox^ij, against which ttie Rep.iitdican party could not stand He amid i' would 1"' accepted by the ngriciilt ura! interests as notice that tile Conuri -s had de; rmtued tiiex were not enMtled to the same con sideration at its hands that is given to t be o' tar > rodueers of til ■ land. ' \u self restieeting nation can ac tion tlie Cana- ment in the e\- i us," deciared He declared he non, '•but mark ■ the people of cent w *’ dian rec j a * * 11) r 1 Sen v Sr ' ti.o .■ 1 a! die: d t< ir: :T r. lie s i, this c o \1 n • r> V itb UIK ■ri'ing iudement ii nil i n*c || • r :* nco, w i! 1 know who i? r- ' I < > i »n t T in ■ tlif farmer into 1 fr* I1( j , ] j-j | led competition in %vl i.i» to* b.’lls. wh il.’ s' ill protect Inl' ’ i. , !)”< ’>1 \ * in' b' i \ s >• T r W’.IBam? M Mississipid. Intorr • u p t • (I to r» i I from Senator r n w ” [ V, in iu.l:11 i r;t 1 address in Iowa in 1 '* 1 n 1 \ • i eh Mr Cummings ex- " 1 ’ 1 * ' i r 'i,o i h H f tlie Iowa farni- r w ( I’M , • l; 11 tT , 4 'rom free (’ana <!:, t n : i il’' 1 ,. * r -1 | .roi I’lets more 'ban 11 ‘ i 1<> t I’0» nth* «' <nn pet ition of near- !■ St nt*- I r 1 ! h.T ’ f h;M speeb,” sail pic ?1 , 1 ♦ or < f H n in i n s. ccHI 4 ' ' i h ^ Senator is now t n n * Mil’ 1 !'!)*• : Mil i n his views." said Mr ,VM! 1 1 ! I 1 So nator (’umiiilns. * * o n r\ r • \ . • n ■- r-* \ ♦ •n \ (• irs a -’O. there not » I. . <1 tn ■- r of eornpetition of (';i ii ad i i n I’ mn 1 ■ rodiict - that tberd in* w . V. 1 • n *t Ik ■ i' nited S'ates ai- m o -t ( -1 • r> 1”’ nn exporter of sin h pi-n • In : s." J The new books adopted by the State board of education for the free public schools of South Carolina will cost the patrons of the school some more than the books now used ac cording to comparative figures made i up at the office of the State superin- ; tendent of education. The increased expense is shown in the following comparative statement , of the cost of new and old books prepared by Mr. Swearingen: Primer. Cost of old Primer 12 Cost of new Primer. ... . . .25 Increase over 100 per cent. During the five year period 1906- !91 1 125,000 primers were sold. Up on that basis the total increase to the pupils of the State will be $17,- 680.00. ! '^ v Renders. Cost of old First Reader. . . Cost of new First Reader . . incrase 25 per cent Total number of Fi^st Raiders , sold during the past five years, 200,- tnio copies. Aggregate increase to the pupils $ 1 o.nno. Cost of old Second Reader. . . .28 Cost of new Second Reader . . .35 Increase 2 5 per cent. Total number of Second Readers sold during tlie last adoption period, I 29,000 copies. Aggregate increase $!>, 02 0.09. Geography. Cost of old Ki m Geographxn Cost of new Eleni. Geograph Im rease 22 1-2 per cent Tola) number sold during last adoption period. 62,090. Increase to pupils, $7,560.00. Physiologies. In place of a two-book serb s a three-tmok series has- been adopted. Cost of old series Klein 2 9 Cost of old series Adv 50 Cost of new serbs, 1st book. . .25 Cost of new series, 2nd book. . 40 Cost of new series, 2rd book H'oi increased cost to each pupil of the Serb's, .55 Increase about 60 p'r cent. Arithmetic. In place of a two-hook series < ov- ering the work up to the high school i three-hook series has be- n adopted The first two books cover the work up to the 7th grade. Kverv put H therefore who passed into the 7th crad will have to purchase a new book for tlie one year at a cost of II cents. Cost of old Arithmetic Klein .2 2 Cost of old Arithmetic Adv Cost of new arithmetic Klein. . Co-.t of new Arithmetic, Inter Cost of new Arithmetic. Adx Inorcas. 0 in cost of the series ecu’s, about 66 2-2 per cent. Oxer Txxo Thousand People Who Were Witnessing Rase Ball Game Haw tlie Unfortunate Man Fall Backxxards and Hang Head Doxvn- W ai d for Some Time. Tlie State says while perched on Governor Blease Wednesday after noon issued a statement in connec tion with the text book contract mat ter Governor Blease said: "i have seen Superintendent Swear ingen's statement. I have no com ment to make He is entitled to his opinion, and I have the highest re gard for him, and, if he is a can didate for re-election, he has my best an electric li.ht pole near the centre wishes for his success, for I think fi.dd fence watching the Columbia- he is conscientious atpl trying to do Charleston game Wednesday after- what he believes is right- However. ) )0on a ( je| n , wood park, Derrell Har after a most careful arvd thorough j r i BO n, a voting white man came in investigation I am satisfied that the contact with a live wire and hung seven gentlemen who represented suspended from a cross arm head the. State by appointment oh this downw - ards for abont fivo m i nut()S board, (and who were appointed by pla | n view of about 2 non horri . my predecessor,) are equally as eOn- fled spectators. Death result’ d nl- scientious and as honorable gentb'-J mos ^ instantly ! n, en. and did what they believed wasN xhe accident occurred In the sixth for the best interest of the •child^rf nrfijng, about 6:40 'o'clock.’ Ham of South Carolina. son another man. whose name as "I considered the changing of th. yet hk not been ascertained bv the - board Certain newspapers were very | authori\-«, were watching the game loud in their denunciation of me in from the Electric light pole \ light contemplation of such action and which looked like a hall of fire flash- spoke in the very highest and lauda-jcd and Harrison t.-xkw r>a >,i ; hie terms of these gentlemen, and it ie. es catching on the cross-arm. tin- appeared from their ravings that had other man dropping to the ground I removed these gentlemen I would His hat then sailed to the street be- \ Voxel Manner of Haising Money at a Churdi Ditery Held in Phil adelphia, Pa.. Apparently mistaking the first sec-: It Is quite the thing in PhHadel- ur of the north hound passenger phla now for a girl to t;ike a chance in a husband. That sounds as if it , , ,, , . were not new, Imt the fact is that a to he carrying a shipment of $490,- K | r ] nt BUT THEY GOT CAUGHT train No. 16 on the Southern 1‘aclfic railroad for a southbound train said 99n in gold dust from Seattle to San I-ram sco two robbers hqld up the northbound train on Thursday night in I* r West l-'ork. an isolated station in Cow Creek canyon, Oregon. » The robixTH rifled the mail car, blowing up the safe, and made away with the registered mail They tried to secure entranco to the express car, but were foiled by Messenger Robb, who refused to open Hie door despite threats that they would use dyna mite if he refused. The robbers after fruitless a fair can put her hand in a grali bag and pull out a husband if she is lucky. Miss Mary Doyle did alhiost that at the fair for the benefit of St. Greg ory's Roman Catholic Church Wed nesday nigtit. She and several thous and young women bought tickets in a lotery for a husband whose identity was careTully hidd n St Gregory's Arrested in a Department Store Tell Strange Tale on Inatnirtioi) Shoplifting.—Won Prize* in Shape J of Sticks of Candy for I^roAdeBtQr in Stealing, I tie New York World aayi the pretty, starched frock* of two girl*, each about ten years old, with anoth er girl, about three toddling between them, attracted the eye of Mtsa Marie Young , detective, in the Greenhut- roctor vouchsafed that the prize r> „ N"“' *“ ‘“7 V ' ,, ”' UUU4 ' »o”,a n,a k o . S 0„ Inihbanc!, and an .tfi and P, “ ! '‘ 1> "‘ pounced that lie would perform the Avenue Friday after* noon. At the lingerie counter, Miss have been subjected to the most se vere Censure. "Now', that the adoption is over, low. It is said that the other man was not Injured. In an instant the grandstand and S fl» prying with a crowbar E | r “ tl ’- *• , Young .ay., ,h. ... on. of tte girl, .i .li » .v. « .1 a additional Inducement a diamond j 0 . . • *» the side door of the car, finally de-i . .. . : Ude a slip in her sleeve. A moment sist’ d and decamped with the loot later the other took a similar rar- F'ecijred from the mall cay. . _ .. ...J!: |the detect|ve The""amount taken i>y the robbers * )r /fk '' aK (iS^ch of fTYe ( She fol^lowed them wnd law them can not he ascertained at this time, headquarters of the church fair com- ta'k’e garment after garment, making This train carries in its registered 1 Wednesday night. Miss Jen-1 frequent trip* to'the waiting room. mail the cash from Southern Ongon ' n * e " o°dhouse held a box full of finally Mis* Young invited the chil- postofficixs to Eugene, Oregon, w hich ’’’'nibers Miss Mary Muray. blind- : dren to tlie office, where Mist Young is their depository, and this was | thrust her hand In the pox a*rprts she found $9.87 worth of r’pi'li'ded in t''e mail sto 1 ^’’ Mlf * dfew f'<tu'i a number 1 1’’' i" 1 -ilk and linen slip* pinned under the The robbers Hoarded the train at ' a0 held that number was the "Bi-jolder girls ckirtfl and one silk gar* West Fork w hile the engine was tak-j u< ‘ r ^he united heart pit a-pats of ment pinned to the little chlld'e dreaa. At the police station, where they 2 k .45 some of these same papers are crlti-1 bleachers were in a state of confus cising these gentlemen, if they can j(>n. Women shrieked and hundreds make their position consistent, after | 0 f others rushed on the field for the publishing these contradictory state- uccnc of ttie accident. John Burke, meats, all right, for it will onlv| rpn ( r ^ flpi d e r on { be Columbia team, he in keeping with the easin': of their i was among the first to go to his aid ‘ conscience for their oth r falsehoods \ nian r ]| nlbpd the pole with a and vituperation in which they havt rope and attempted to tie it around engaged. f bo dfy ad man's body to lower it to "On the morning .of the becinnine 1 the ground, hut tiis body was so limn of the book adoption I was railed , that it slipped out, falling into the .way from Columbia and, thereforecrowd. Examination showed that he was not pres nt at the adoption of xvas d ad. the books on the morning of the first Derrell Harrison was about twenty- day. Neither was I present when the fixe year old. He was from the vote was taken on the question raised Horse Creek valley of this State, but by Superintend-nt Swearingen that has recently been with his broth'r- enrh man record his vote on each hook, if I had been present 1 would have voted for Mr. Swcurin ten's plan: and. if any one is interest’d enough to now, I will lie delighted to state how I voted on each ivook that was adopted during my presence «■ I think my record in the House of One Man Mortally and Another Se. R prosentatives and in Hie State Scn- •vne taken, the older girl* laid they were HeJen Stewart and Helen Hen- wood of No. 421 Welt Thirty-ninth street, and the baby wai Agnea Han 't >, of the same addrea*. When eharged with gtealing one of the girla said earnestly: "No, mister, we didn’t take the Borne one ju*t put them in-law. G. T Scott, in the Olympia mill village His wife was n Colum bia. After tlie ;icri’](>nt the game was resumed, imt main left. 1 VT \l. SIDK H IM. SCR \I*K. ate and in the Governor's office will Justify me in saying that I have al ways been free and open in every verely Wounded. 'oster K. Harper and Ridgeway, two voting white William men of in a pis te 1 1 47 act that I have ever committ-d. and prominent families, en.agi I have no apologies to make to any tol duel near Holliday s bOdg-, An man or s<q of men. I recognize no derson county. Monday afternoon, 'boss' but the ptople, and. when I each firing 15 shots, and eaeii being go before Hem to them alon" will wounded, Harper probaMy mortallx t Hxe an account. The row was a result, of some reports I refused on several occasions to one of tlie principals started, so it b see bonk men Notably in this class said. Hut ttie n.uu'r of tlie reports were the agents of the Aim rican can not lie learned ( \t sF.S SOME COMMENT. Ill KT BA s \Mi Mi I.E. 1 atlier and Son Both 'feet Death the Same Way. t in News res’ lied L xinrton Monday of ath of Gus Bouknigh!, a young farmer of the Chapin section of tlie county. (!■ t!i resultin: from inju ries FTistained hr be’ng thrown front a mule A strange coincidenc’ in connection w itli tlie death of the young man is the fact that his fath er. John Bouknight. was injured in a runaway last fall by being thrown from s bfrke-of eoHem, t ho same muie being hitched to the wagon, that threw Gus Bouknight on Saturdey. Ttie father lingered, a few days, when death'came as a relief to his suffer in' Gus HoukoisH.t .was abont 29 years of age. and. b sides his wife and child, is survived by his aged mother and several brother? and sisters. His remains were laid to rest in Hie Meth odist church cemetery at Chapin Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock in the presence’blNfi very large congre gation of relatives and friendr. \ciion of Stale Board of Education Is Being Discussed. The State says much inter’st is be ing manifested in the action ot^ the State Board of Education in eliminat- •ng about 89 per cent of the text tiooks now used bv ttie free public schools of South Carolina Tlie members of the State board of education are: D M O'Driscoll. Charleston; H F Rico. Jr. Aiken: H W Daniel, Clemson colleg : \ G Rembert, Spartanburg; J. L\les 'il nn. Chester: Nathan Toms, Dar- linvton; A J Thackson, Orangeburg: 1 E. Swearingen, the St ite superin tendent of education, is the secretarv of Hie lioard and the governor is the • x*ofTH'io chairman ■ "r. Swearingen several days ago issued a statenient in which lie crit- i-d/ed ttie tmard for Hv sweeping changes in text-books. He charged H’M the ho'Td had placed an unnec essary tax of several hundred thous and dollars upon the peotde of tiv State. The actioa^pf the board has caused much comment and further developments La conn cell on withtiic situation are expected. Book Company, and I have been in formed that Mr Fair, one of yheir representatives, was rath r severe in his criticism of my not allowing hNn Friends of iiotii men iinHc'pated a fight and asked Harper and Ridge way to meet at the home of Bn! Holliday in order to idiust their dif- *o see me and discuss his bonks with for neps It is said that both men I'im When Hook men called. I de-'began tiring when Hiev met and t Imt (lined ro see them stating to so in Aach emptied Ids revolver three time- to sop Mr. Swearingen that he was atWl when their pistols were < nipped State Superintendent of EduraHon. the\ calmly reloaded and began firing ant! Hint the peopl had elected him agaih. to perform that dut\ and not me. As 'o Cinn <C- Co. I guess Mr Wal ker win hardly say that 1 had any stomach!, Ridgeway favors for them The only agents bullets in',ids b-g H with whom I did have H ith’er was stint thrmi-Hi the liver and two other tiaiis lodged .In ins. eceiv* d Hir. e was move! to m v con versa- bis liome, Vyli< ’e he wiT attended liy phvsicians. \Harper was rushed to Belton in atV aut.omobil p and was tirought to AmWu'son o\"r the electric trolley. He wa\ carrie'l to ttie lios- pital and DrtttoVs Hans, Haynie ine water. Soon after it had got un- hundreds of gi-'s assembled were der way they crawled over the tender a l ni0fi t audible. "No. 1695 wins" into the cab and directed the engineer announced Miss WoodhousA to stop the train. After much fluttering It was dls- This done one of the men kept the covered that .Mis Doyle held No. 1 669 engineer and fireman under cover; Her envluos co-gamblers in (hi game with his revolver while the other j of love thrust her forward and she one went back and uncoupled the ’ was directed to step on :he perch mail and baggage car. j and discover imr "winnings" vvno Then Hie engineer was ordered to was hlden behind a screen j things, pull these cars some distance up the: An orchestra played the wedding 1 there.’’ tract, where he was again ordered : march from “Lohengrin," With a The police then gave up their ef- to stop. Ttie robbers went bark to ■ prety, petulant gesture Miss Doyle' forts to learn anything and took the Hie mail car and lining ttv' mail knocked down the sc-pr*, j three to the Chi dreu’s Society, clerks up, took the registered mail j There stood William Bowers, From the time the smslleet girl pounches and dvnaniited the mail car known to a 1 the girls of the (hurch ns . reached the station house she beg&u safe "the bashful bachelor ’ He was to cry for her mother and father. The noise of the explosion warned blushing furiously. Besides he wore, All attempts to comfort her failed. Messeng r Robb of what was takin? evening clothes, except that he had on j The detectives went out to look up a gren necktie. the address,, which was found to be ‘‘Pshaw ” said Miss Doyle in n tone j fictitious. This was about nine p. m. that made Bowers Mush a deep’r Soon after they left the West Forty- irlmson, T know Mr. Bowers is vprv | seventh street station called up the nice, hut I don’t want a husband that, Gerry agents and asked If they had costs me only tmi cents.’’ She gave a lost child there, givin; a description up the diamond ring too of Agnea. An hour later Edward Ah- B’Owers will he raffled off again,: earn, a city fireman, and his distract- next time to buy a new organ for, ed wife, appeared at the Gerry room*, the church. i When they saw Agnes there was no Mis Doyle may change her mind ! need for identification.- The mtoher did this afternoon 1‘lty, as well as seized the baby In her arms, crying again Miss Catherine N. Flanagan hysterically. budding affection, seems to have in-j Mr. Ahearn said she had missed spired Miss Flanagan, for she said: ’Agnes in the afternoon, and nelgh- \ Washington dispatch to The "Nobody loves a fat man, so I’ll hors told her that two little girl* had State says a bull and In ar war has marry him." She h* Id the ticket that taken the child away as If for a walk. ’Token out again although on a small won Thomas Skelley as husband at j The next morning the babv’g com- ?• ale, bci ausp it developed there on the fair of the Church of the Immacu- panlons were arraigned in the Chll- U’dnesdav in the hearing of the late Conception. Skelly is six feet dren’* Court before Judge Hoyt, committee on expenditures in the de- tell and weighs 280 pounds. There "Helen Stewart*’ said she was partnient of justice that there ha? nj s identity which has been a baf- Helen Birmingham, of No. 541 West been a studied effort on the part of fling mystery for a week, during | Fiftieth street, and the other said Northern spinners for the last four which the fair has been in progress, j she was Mary Murch, No. ,641 W«*t \i ir- to curtail the output of cot- was ddselosGl simultaneously with Fifty-sefond stre<jt- These names ton goods in onb r to force down the i| 1P announcement that he belonged and addesseg were verified by the prl ' s of the staple to Miss Flanagan if she wanted him ( detectives. Books of the Arkwright dub which Skeilv mounted a ehalr and said After telling their right names the have Jnst boon exhibited to Congress- br . had entered the affair in a spirit; police say the two girls told them man B> ill of Texas led him to say 0 f f lini hut since he had seen Miss the following amazing story: They that inioresMn: disclosures might be Flanagan he was willing and anxious j had been taught to steal by a Mrs. "xpecto’l anv day in view of the nr- to relingulsh his bachelor life. Miss, Kiernan, who lives In Weet Flftletu Hons of Aftornev General Wicker- Flanagan blushed prettily adn It was street. With other girls about their sham last year when Hiy- bull and agreed. -> same age they had recelvW a regular ar movements were the issues of , ! course In shoplifting. To make them place and when the demand came lor him to open his door he made no respOIleo Ttie conductor of the train as soon :.s ho discovered what had taken P!a’o 1 went hack to West Fork where he notified Glendale and surrounding points Posses have been organized ursu ■ the robbers. t< DEPRESS PRICE OF COTTON. \ Plot for That Purpose Said to Have Been Formed. Hon of consequence, did not get even a book, except Prof White. "As I have said before, in v fight was for Southern hooks, and we adonted Thompson's. Kinarls. Wal- ia - X, White's. Sims's and other Babb and Young \operated on bin South Carolina authors As to the They say there is vAyv littl nope fn the day. While it is too early to say what the outcome of the matter will be SHORT WEIGHTS IN fXJLl MBIA. his revovery Ridgetyav "ill re-over if no eomplieations se\ in. JURA I NAT TED TO R VREIN’l E. \\ heeler reader, while ! was not pres ent when thev were adopted, thev are bv a Kentuckian and many of the other hooks adopted were by -outhern authors: and in my opinion, « our people would rather pay allttle But Judge Spear Says They Cannot more and have their children taught the truth in Southern hooks, than to pay le<« and be taught hooks hv Attend the Affair. Announcement in Hu* newspaper? Yankee authors, and faurht to he- fhat fnlir prominent planters of Pul- 1 ieve that their grand fathers, and Theii great-jrrand-fathers were trait or? to their State. A'oiing Brothers Drown. Alex Doyle, aged 11, and his brother, J. Doyle. ng<Vl 9. were drowned in Blue Pond lake Monday afternoon, near Chattanooga. T‘*nti The vounger hoy fell Into the watei and the brother leaped from a 29- foot embankment Into the water in an effort to save the drowning boy Neither could swim. The bodies lound an hour later, were locked in ci’ii oHior? vrms. aski county, who wor - recently ac- qnilted of peonage in the United States court at Macon, C,a , ware t\n "I regret that Superintendent ( . oM , ratfl « hoir acquittal on July t with a big barbecue and that an in vitation had bo n extended to the 12 Swearingen looks at Hie matter as h does "As for mv part of it. ignorant jllrors t0 bp Km ,. fs nf bonor ba as I was as to the needs of the chil dren, 1 did the best 1 could. As for Hie balance T refer the people to Prof. O’Driscoll: Mr Rice. Prof nan- provoked from Judge Fmorv Spear of the United States court a warning to the jurors not to attend. Thv. fudge takes the tins it: on that it b iels. Prof Rembert, Prof. Tom?. Prof apa , nflt th „ hw fo tam per with a jurv »'>-d:.y at about $290,000. proficient In the art their Instructor, they said, converted her parlor Into a shop. Table* and chair* were plac- there is a feeling that spinners from Exjierts Find Scale* and Measures j e d In the centre of the room to rep- hot h the North and South will he resent counters, which were covered summoned to testify before the com- Inanurat*. .with ribbon* and various article* of mittei ’Jo ascertain whether thecot-j 'weights and measures used in Co- wearing apparel. Then they were •on market had suffered because of ] 1)ni bla are generally Incorrect, the told they would “play atore." The the agre ment of the Northern men errors favoring as a rule the dealer: w-oman’s 15-year-old daughter acted to curtail their produi tlon and to against the consu m er and, upon! a *t the store de tec 11 v e, Mm' extent the Southern spinners a p howlng: to tblfl effect by Federal! "You come in as if to buy," the m iq onJ’-d. exjierts, the city council has set foi girls say their Instructor told them, ♦ ♦ itself the task of remedying matters.! a >'d the one wfco c8n take the most KILLED AND INJURED The situation Is complicated and without being caught will receive a Its proper readjustment will require stick of candy- some time. The promising feature The two children boasted that they Ry a Terrific Oil Explosion at I ort )s cordial cooperation which the had won four sticks of candy In suc- merchants themselves offer. It Is re- cession, although the glrle pitted allz.ed, by city; council aa well as by against In the contest of wits were At T’ort Arthur, Texas, Iwo lives, the Government agents, that the: much older. Encouraged by this were lost half a dozen or n.ore men losses Inflicted by short weights and achievement, the detectives say the were injured some seriously, three measures upon the consumers are in- girls told them, they decfded to "work oil barges and on<* tug burned to thpjfli Cl ^d innocently and ignorantly by j for themselves” instead of for their water's edge, about 1 9,000 barrels of i most of the dealers so offending, and 1 instructor and deserted the school oil (1 st roved and two lane ware-! these merchants say they will he very j and successfully pllfefed article* houses and over 500 feet of wharves j gi a d to have their standards correct-'from several shops. burned, in an explosion followed by | ed. » > — a disustrious fire in the Port Arthur! i n April experts from the bureau j harbor and. water front Monda. . 0 f standards of th*? natlorja} depart-’ morning. The loss is estimated late ’ ment of commerce and labof quletfiy , . 1 chant and planter, was shot and klll- .Arthur, Texas. Caused Double Tragedy. W. E. Hudson, a prominent m*r- made an investigation Into the: Thackston and Senator Glenn If Engine Jumps Track. Fastbound train No. 26, on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was wrecked Wednesday evening, one mile east of Aden, Ky. Th* engine jumped, the track and turned over. Mat F. Kelley, of Mount Sterling, Ky.. ^ the engineer, was killed, and Edw'ard A. T. Watkins of Lexington, travel ing engineer, sustained a broken leg. None of the passengers was hurt. Young Man Gone Wrong. R C. Kuhle, an express messen- lodged In jail, charged with the theft day h yDeputy Sheriff Harell and logded In Jail, dharged with the theft of articles In his charge while in transit Kuhle was running between Florence and JackeonviUe white ip Man and Wife Killed. A message received at the sher iff's office at Ocala. Fla., Wednesday afternoon giving only mearre Infor mation of a double murder at Lake Bryant, in the eastern part of the county. A man named Higgins and his wife were found dead, but nu details of the tragedy were gtven. Sheriff Galloway left Immediately for the scene of the tragedy in an automobile. this is a Blease board, or If these een- are ln tbp jnrv box VPti thev are tlemer. were controlled by me. or if Qn thp Jury , |st an d ma v he called they are corrupt, then lay all 'he U p 0p t 0 ; r y a almiiar case Several blame on mv shoulders, and I will jurors announce that they will gladly carry it until the people of a t( en d the 'cue despite the remark? South Carolina give the command 0 j tbe j u dge "lay it down." a He says that the names of the men Capt Frank Weber of the barge j weights and me*asures used In Colum- ed Monday by Drew Hudeon, the Humble,'and a man who Is as yet un-! bia under the direction of Mr. m. ado T ,,ed son 0 f, ^ Glbbes knew of I brother of W. E. Hudeon. In turn Drew Hudson was killed with hle^ identified, lost their lives in the ex- j h. Stillman. Mayor plosion aboard the Gumble, where 1 the investigation, and, forseelng the| — Fell Under Train. Negro m. End* Ills Life. As he ( was alighting from a South- Jack Etherldee, a negro living in ern train Monday night at the termi- the Watson vicinity, two miles from ria ' station at Atlanta, after a visit . Ridge Spring, committed suicide a bis family at Eltenwood, Ga , J. R. dav or two ago hv beitlnv Ms brains I* ( ' n f° r d’ aged 42, slipped and, fyil He out against the side of his horse. He was 8fruek b y the train and so badly had been afflicted with what the at- 1n J ur<1 d 'b a t death resulted ten min the fire originated. i importance of Its bearing, asked to be own ' vsea P” n jr J.‘. 0r j an K1 U t ’j- The flamOy swept rapidly over ! furnished with a copy of the report, | third brother. The Ott r*g smaller vessels belonging to the Tex- 1 embodying the findings of the ex-| occurred V6 j 131 ! «... as Company aftd spread to two large! perts. This reiiort has just comet Dycrsburg, Tenn., it ^ warehouses of that company. These! to hand, from director S W. Strat- been the outcome Of*® C _ with 600 feet of ton, of the bureau or standard*. had existed for some me wee two, together wharves, wo-re soon a mass of ruins Other buildings wore damaged. W. E. and T. A. Hudson. Must H»xe Been Thirsty. On the voyage over the 75 2 c^bln pasengers on the Olympic consumed the following: Champagne, 7,000 bot- itleer, Beer, 13.00ty bottle*; Mineral waters, 1,000 bottles; Whiskies, 500 .pottle*; Liquors, 160 bottles. tending physician pronounced pella gra, and It Is sunposed his mind be came unbalanced. ^ utes later. leaves a widow and ten children. I Tired of Life. Capt E H. Jarvir, formerly of rbe Dispensary Constable* Removed United State* revenue cutter Eofviec, Gov Blease Monday removed 12 shot and killed himself In a room at d’spensarv constables, located In'll the AthleMc Club at Seattle, Wash, drf eountle^ of the State. , on Monday. Carries Many People. The largest number of cabin pas sengers that ever left New York on a £lngle$ihlp boarded the AVhlte Star liner, Olympic, Wednesday for Eng land. The Olympic, the largest steamer afloat, started the second i ■ . ' r- Ignored Governor Blease. „ „ . , * . , , Girls Drink Carbolic Acid. A eitecial dispatch from Atlanta to ^ -t.- - , ,. the Augusta Chronicle say* the state- ^ *«*cide pact between ment is made that Governor Blease, waB carrle< l OUt of South Carolina, being Ignored In wa >'* IN-* when ,J#ee$* l^ObeafMK sending out invitations to the unveil ing of the monument to the "Old Guard” there this fall—and he is the only governor la the South thus .half of its maiden trip with 2 , ,2j)^lgnored—is not due to the fact that perzon* in It* three cabin*. The he did not attend th* conference, but cost of sailing from Southampton and back 1* $175,000 and the rotfcirn | from passenger lam wlQ be $2211,000. rather la due entirely to hia aetlon in and conduct in reference to the •tease. years oldf, aud Lticy ’Davidson, 18, years old drank carbolic add Thr girls agreed % die together if any attempt was made by the former,* parents to recover her. A constable called for J eerie. She asked for time to drees, hot Instead went to her room and drank the poison. 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