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y.A~ DID THEID WODK ELECTION PROBERS FIND SOME 1UEGAL VOTES ' IN ANDERSON COUNTY j —•— Is That County the Investigation De veloped Seven Hundred Duplica tions and Three . Hundred Illegal Votes. — Hearing In Anderson Thursday Probably Ends the \\ ork, A letter to The News and Courier from Anderson says at the hearing ^eld there on Thursday by the sub committee of the Democratic State executive committe about the thou sand votes cast in Anderson County In the primary election of August 27 were questioned. Members of the audience undertook l>y their com ments and otherwise to give a hu morous turn to the proceedings. There were only about one hundred persons present. It has been sug gested rather freely in advance of the meeting in Anderson that Chair man Stevenson and his committee would find it unhealthy to go there; but, of course, they went, and they are in n\> respect whatsoever the worse for their going. The audience, indeed as has been stated, managed to extract a consid erable amount of entertainment out of the developments as they went along, and then, too, Mr. John T. Duncan appeared and the crowd was permltt-d to hear his charges of Im proper use of money in inducing a Duncan supporter to forsake the Dun can standard for $2 per day and work for Judge Jones. The argu ments that Duncan offered, as to why the committee should pay his ex penses there, were also edifying and Interesting. ADMITS HIS GUILT VAUGHN CONFESSES HIS AWFUL CROCKS FREELY• PRIMARY PRODEDS MAKES RAPID PROGRESS IN TBjEHi INVESTIGATION / THtJRSDAT, STv TROOPS ORDERED OUT AT AUGUS TA ON ACOOl NT OR STRIKE. He Breaks Down and Tells How He Ruined Innocent Young Girls in the Home. “1 am guilty of the charges against me. I must have been tempted by Lhe devil. If ever a, man has repent ed for his sins that man Is me. Ev ery night since I resigned as super intendent of the orphan asylum I have prayed to my ‘Maker to forgive me. My wife and child are living near Greenvll^ and It Is breaking my heart to think what my child will have to face when she grows older.” Such was the confession of Thyrs- toi. U. Vaughn, former superinten dent of the Odd Fellows Orphan Home near Greenville S. C., made just before departing for South Car olina from Baltimore with Sheriff Poole. 7 Pathos marked every faltering ut terance of the broken man. Tears coursed down hls cheeks and his frame shook with emotion. Sup ported by the strong arm of the kind ofbeer the prisoner talked to a group of newspaper men for some time be fore leaving tbe city prison. "I regret It all, regret It all,” re peated Vaughn in dirptbs of despair. ‘ If It could only be undone,” he welled Vaughn seemed to Think more of the sorrow that has come to his wife atid daughter than of hls own aw ful plipht. Since early Wednesday he has been a changed man. He broke down completely and has been In a Irgh state of nervousness since. Wednesday afternoon he voluntarily confessed to his guilt and appeared mere composed when he had unbur-j d< i ed his soul Sheriff J. Perry Poole, of Green DUNCAN MAKLHHARGES PAST YEAR WAS NEAR EIGBTEEN MILLION BALES Subcommittee J^nlshes Its Work *t / f Spart&nbiirg and Greenville, in Roth ql Which Counties Irregular ities Were Found in Several Boxes and Illegal Voting. A dispatch from Greenville to The News and Courier says productive of but meagre results In so far as interest to the public is concerned were the two sessions of the sub committee of the State Democratic executive committee, appointed for the purpose of investigating alleged frauds in the recent primary election held Wednesday morning in Spar tanburg and that afternoon in Green ville. Detective E. S. Reed, who is said to be operating in this section of the State, is in Greenville, but not withstanding the fact that Mr. B. M. Jeffries, of the committee, moved lo request that Mr. Reed testify if he had anything to tell he did not appear before the committee; neither was he requested to appear. Chair man Steverson ruling that th« com mittee Had no knowledge of Mr. Reed or his work, and that it was not in a position to bring witness?* lit fore it. The net result of the meetings Wednesday were: Hearing reports on the counties of the Pee Dee section Four Companies Held in Readiness. — Strike-Breakers Attacked and Beaten by Mob. Upon instructions of the governor, the Adjutant General has issued an order to Major Levy, of Augusta, to order out four companies of the Na- tionaj Guard, to be held subject to dliect orders from Mayor Barrett. Capt. Thad Jowitt has taken the cal! and is now assembling the men of the four companies at the armory, wnere they will be on duty. Any use of the troops on the streets or on cars will be only upon the order of Mayor Barrett, according to a dis patch received by The News and Cou- riei yesterday morning at 2 a. m. The n\ob failed to show up at the Third Street car barn, though a squad of policemen from the special detail were there waiting for them, and are still on duty at the barn. The crowd at the power plant began to dis perse half an hour or more ago and at 2 o’clock only a small portion of them were floating around in the vlc : nity. A strong police guard is on duty arc und the power house and will re main there unless removcil and ie- placed with militia by the mayor. o' the State, similar to those sud- mitted Tuesday by Sub-Chairman I. H. Bark, with substantially the GIVEN BY THE CENSUS dutlook WAS LEFT fifteen cents a pound is hop ed FOR THIS YEAR. Slow Marketing of the Crop la Being Urged In This State by Tboae Who Have Given the Subject Study. By a proper marketing of the cot- Some Interesting Figures Issued by|^ i; price of the staple will reach 16 I certs, according to experts who have the United State* Government in; gl4u the matter much 1hought . Reference to the Supply and Dts-| Among the expression recently giv er out Is one from President Dabbs tribution of Cotton for the Year'of the State Farmers’ Union, In which he says; “Never before cgfi I ,4% WOMAN SUES PIGEON CARELESSNESS. PERFORMED OPERATION Ending Lost August. recall that we have had better prot- A dispatch from Washington says of sood prices for cotbcm/ . . L . ,i Others share the opinion and some the feautre of the census bureaus a]p forecasting a fifteen cent price report issued Thurrday on the sup-jf or cotton. In this county the crop ply and distribution of cotton for] Is short, as has been stated and this tho cotton year 1912, which ended August 31, was the Indication of the South's growth in the cotton spinning industry. The amount of cotton used there was for the first time in the history of the Industry greater than that is generally true throughout the Slate. Mr. R. M. Mixson of WI1U*- toa, S. C., urges the holding of cot ton in the following statement: The season is sufficiently advanced to enable us to make k reasonably correct estimate of yield of cotton for used In all other states in any one] tho season of 1012-13. yeai and the number of active spln-j My Information from every section dies operated increased almost half of every State in the cotton belt Indl- a million over the number operated j cates a yield from tne cotton crop last year. |giown this year of 12,181,294 bales The cotton growing states used 2,-jOf f»0h pounds each. The crop by 7K , .fi22 bales against 2,665,049 States is in my opinion, as follows: PaYs in all others. The number of Bales. For Two Years Mrs. Ginther Garries About a Lialea Napkin a Post Square Before She LeOras Troth, and Then She Saes for and Dollars Damages. A small siztd Blease demonstra- vilU . left Wednesday afternoon with tion also entered as a factor in re-i Vaughn and will proceed direct to llevlng the monotony of the day. the State penitentiary at Columbia This, howe\er. was rudely nipped in J ♦ ♦ ♦ the bud by Chairman Stevenson. The REFUSED PAYMENT at dUnre, however, freely and gener- ter< d Into the proceedings. I <>* Account Kenderr-d by tbe Colune Id* lUx-ortl. o u ^ 1 y < offering opinions, with request for compenwatlnn, on almost any matter in hand Josh Ashlev and hls son in-law W Tt Columbia correspondent of H Canfield, participated largely In Ttie \- w* and Courier sa\s Governor the proceedings Thursday The lat- tele I, Blease itiseried In th>' ( o- t. r. though, was denied the privilege lumbla Becord before the primary a s’ one time of completing an P* litical advertisement, for which he Following the adoption of a reso lution providing for a sympathetic strike at a monster labor meeting held by Augusta Federation of Ttrdes at the court house, attended by quite 2,000 laboring men, a crowd o.‘ union sympathizers attacked the non-union men at the power house at 11:30 o’clock Thursday night. A ante result; a few Irregularities tr&1 ‘ named Cason has been badly | shewn In Beikseloy, Marion, York beaten, and five men, who have been Dillon and Dorchester, where It Is taken away In an automobile to be ] stated that 12.'i votes on the State |b i; t on the next train and driven from j Mc>:et w ere placed in the county i town. -ix and counted; the 1 disappearance I ^ * Furrow and G \\ . Peger of of the club rolls and_ poll lists In ( rangeburg. but a statement from County Chairman Koht. I.lde that tl<re was apparently no fraud; re- poits of no irregularities In Char- le.-ton Chester, Chesterfield. Fair- field. Kershaw, Lee, and Wllllams- active spindles was 1 1,585,839 com pared with 1 1,084,623 tn 1911. The total supply of cotton for the Alabama ..1,179,603 Arkansas 695,404 Florida .. .. 71,219 cotton year 1912 amounted to the] Georgia 2,124,067 unprecedented total of 17 672,294 1 y <0) ,| B ) aria 282,673 bales, of which 1,276,031 had been].Mississippi 865,742 held over from the previous year and \;ri r th Carolina 852,932 22.276 bales imported. This total j Oklahoma 803,604 supply exceeded last year by 3,699,- Couth Carolina 1,276,847 871 bales. Of the total supply 6,637,671 bales were used in this county, a quantity greater than ever before and 10,681,- 768 bales, or more than 2,000,000 in excess of previous records, were sent aboard. Tennessee 362,274 Texas 3573,758 Total 12,181,724 These figures are full and will rather be over than under the crop. Th< demand for cloth Is good and Ea’es an- made at full figures The number of spindles in other New York, strikebreakers, were less than cotton growing states increased stt.ouMy beaten. They nre now at aln ost 300 00# to 1 8,726,891 Ik lice barracks and say they are wll- Cotton Supply and Demand. lint- to leave the city. The names 1 The supply and distribution of cot- hu n, 0 f the rrop w j|j 5* forced upon ot tn.- others could not be ascertain- t... in the Cnited States. In running t i l( . niar k et November 1 and sold ed | bt.ies, for the cotton year of 1912 aI a Barr |fjre At I.- minutes to 12 the mayor or- wT.rh ended August 31, 1912, wlth| k-ow’ I* the time to market your . : • ' A . The New York World nya iCf* Charles Glutber ot Newark, N. J., not only has lived for two year* vftk & twelve-inch linen napkia Implant ed in her side, bat Is waU after her unusual experience to angry about it and to aae for lld.ldd damages. 4 The defendant Is Dr. Ckariss L. 1H, - head of the sarglcal staff of St Mar tin's Hospital of that city. He is one of the most famous surgeons In the country. He perfomod an operation upon 'Mrs. Ginther in 1910 and sut ured up his Incision, It Is alleged, without making snre that all the surgical dressings had been remoret by his attendants. To ho sure, Mrs. Ginther didn’t kuow she waa carrying the napkin about with her until two months ago. Who would? UYs scarcely to be sup posed that, knowing she was toting about a foot length of linen, Inter nally, she would let it remain where tt was. But she decided, after finding It ar.d getting over her first feeling— of amaxement—that she had suffer ed 110,000 worth of serious dis co nr fort. It was a grave operation that was performed upon Mrs. Ginther tn 1910. Dr. Ill was assisted by several of tbe slater-nurses of 8t. Martin**, who ore noted for their skill and ! carefulness The operation woe a t success and after a few weeks la the Calhoun. [ (l ' rt *d the fir*- d.-partm.-nt to me,. ompansona for previous year*. msi< f , tto> a , B | ow i y aa possible You able and entertaining defence of Anderson County, which, he aalfl. hsd been disgraced by the newspa pers The committee Thursday ended its Itinerary to reconvene next Monday at noon, tn the State Library at Co lumbia. The State Democratic com mittee meets the next dav and to that body the subcommittee will make Ita report before adjourning Some ■peclal work was apportioned to Individual member* of the com mittee. Messrs Blv.na and Jeffries were appointed to visit Orangeburg and Inquire into the reported mys- teiious disappearance of the club rolls and poll lists ft t* likely that these gentlemen will confer with Chairman Robert I.lde Mr Bark was instructed to take up Greenwood aud Mr Butler to gather up the docu ments from Spartanburg Quite out of the usual, the com mittee Thursday called by name the duplicat'-s appearing In the report of the An J.-rson committee, allowing persons In the audience*, to slgnlfv their willingness to make affidavits that there were two of such name. It ”>I'* nse A our reaper rully. w;s rendered a bill by the Record fo • fs 4 0. He drew a warrant on h.s. contingent fund, sent it to the Comptroller General .with the MB at proved, and ordered paid. The Comptroller General declined to pay tbr Item in the following letter, which he sent to the Record "The Record Publishing Company. Co!nmb!a, S C Gentlemen: 1 have or. file your bill for advertisement Inserted tn your paf>*r by the Hon. ('(-I* I, Blouse, whim has been ap proved by him for payim-st out ofi hls contingent fund aa Governor. "This approprlatloti is for contin- g* r” fund for rewards and other pur- p< m s This was intended to cover disbursement* incidental to the ad mit.istration of the Governor's office which could not well be foreseen. "The bill handec) me does not ap pea’’ to '>e for any expense Incidental to the administration of \he Gover- not s office, but to be a [K-rsonal charge against tbe Hon Cole L.i Bk-ese The matter of publication was purely personal. i.nrr its publica tion is not authorized at the public burg: no reports from Calhoun, j J" rt ‘ (1 l* 1 *’ . _ , . Florence. Georgetown, Horry and ' l< v ' , ‘ r l-latit with instructions to dis-, announced in tho annual report of* meet this stay-out of th« mar- Marlboro. deferring examination of P'‘ r se the mob with water. At the i‘i,- Census Bureau, waa: Vet policy of the spinners by staying ih- Richland County rolls and lists ■ s^me time a report was mate to p»» The total aupply of cotton for the ()ll | () f market yourself Don't ut t il t he committee meets in Col urn- M' re headquarters that a mob was rot' on year 19 12 was 17,673,294 dfiei a bale for sale that you can pos- br. which will tie on Tuesday; re- 1 "'ing to the Third street car barn, - ),alea, compared with 1 3.873.42 B |Mv hold. Warehouse your cotton f m al of the committee to disco miss " 1 » re it is understood - 1 ci-octd st rlke- j 1, B j n 1 c, 1 1 a nd 1 2.1 88,02 1 bales In and borrow money on It, if you Boot. :1 protest of Judge Ira B. Jonea, 1 breakers are quartered A squad ot i<,»iO. 1 to pay your debit, but don’t Mil. If ccnteste. againet Governor Blease. i I" ' K '’' ,lien have been ordered out and of this quantity the ginning* dur- tpr south will follow this policy, you refusal to give Greenv ille County a i ur* °n their w ay to that barn now j the year amounted to 1 6,067,987 w .,1. in my opinion. Me 15 cents cot- c I-an hill of health, an affidavit by 1 he resolution adopted at the la- c ompared with 1 2.384.249 t, in by January 1, but if you rush It John T Duncan, who ran for Govern- ■ '‘t ’ meeting at the court house pledg- p;*'es in 1911 and 10,350,978 bale* on the market and have it sold at or in the recent primary, charging , ' 1 ' the 16 affiliated organizations 01 j n 1910 tp^ stocks held at the be-[forced sale, you will. In my opinion t Pc illegal use of money In behalf tb > federation of trades to a syntpa-j ^jj n | na () f the year were 1.3T5.031 , see It sell at or below il cents, of Ira B Jones: and the decision of .thetlc strike upon the call of tbe pj.;,. H rompared with 1.040,404 bales j If this cro^ is marketed slowly t hi* committee to meet In Anderson , b'i'der of the striking car men Lea jn jyjj an( j 1,483,685 bales In 1910 'you will. In my opinion, see an aa- to hear a re ort of the Anderson Cornelius, a national organt/.er or eiti/on's committee on their findings; tl <- carmen's association, after the 11 tp a t cenmtv meeting made the statement to a Asked for Dismissal of IVotest. (newspaper man that he would call \t the conclusion of the hearing' frr » general sympathetic strike "If in Spartanburg Counsel F H Dom- he* f*-lt in necessary. hut, In* said, it . k. for Governor Blease, made re- Intend to maintain tho organiza- qt’est of the committee to dismiss the Dc 11 pectest of Judge Jones upon the slo wing already made, that It ap- pi a-ed that granting‘all the votes in • iu-*K*lon there w.i* still an insuffi- in 1 1 ! hales !’) 1910 The total distribution of th* above supply was as follows: e tc tit number of vitiate the election Vnis reqnest was dismissed for the n i‘*-on that the* sub-committee, as re'ed by Chairman Stevenson, Is con s' B uted t o I n \ estigate tho on t Ire eleo- t'on without specific regard to the contest of any aartlcular candidate. dev eloped that at least some one person in the audience was aide to identify a majority \ the voters thus questioned Mr Ashley, who knows Anderson County pretty thoroughly, ■was able to furnish a considerable amount of information. When the napie of "J. W Ashley” was railed as appearing at two different polls, Citizen Ashley remarked facetiously 'T am surprised that there ain’t mere of them.” One name, John Wesley Brown, appeared as having voted e'ght times. When Chairman Leon L Rice of the citizens’ com mittee, stated that he could not make o: 'h as to the correctness of all the figures submitted, there was an outburst from the Blease sympathiz ers who largely comprised the audi ence. » Summed up, tho report of the com mittee is that there appears to be about 7 Ml duplications of votes a.nd about 2d0 who have no legal right Jo vote in the primary. At the Pfi zer box it was re'porled tTiat 3IT men whose names were not on the club rolls were allowed to vote. It Is found, therefore, that of Anderson’s vete of 8,000 there are something over 00 that are questionable. The merits r f the allegations will be sift ed by the committee. Thur' day’s proceedings were ham pered by inability to secure a sten- ographe-. It was stated there that the ye ung women stenographers were reluctant about undertaking the tas’G Delay was occasioned by discussion of the method of proced ure. A’torney F. H. Dominick again called f ir a ruling as to the specific scope of the investigation, and Mr. •K. P. Smith asked a ruling as to whether or not the burden of prov ing duplication or repeating in vot ing was with the investigators or the men whose names appeared twice. Chairman Stevenson declared that the committee with the use of the poll lists and club rolls would be able to unravel the tangles. It was declared that all the apparent dupli cates who could not be Identified by the audience should be published and affidavits secured, either establishing or disproving the voter’s right of bal lot. A Urge part of th* day was con sumed in the call of names and the side comments, ed his opinion quite frequently as to whether or not the man was a good cKizen. “He’s all right, he’s a Blease man” was the frequent remark. Mr. John T. Duncan appeared and Y>y Indulgence of the committee re- "A W Jones. "Comp’roller General.” At 12 3b Thursday morning M.iy- o- Thomas Barrett called Gov Brown t \ long distance phone and asked fo' a. 11 ■’ , rte order 'or .v * , a. W I !’ I purpose of 1 e ’l ,. 8 \ .*i;*-',» i > i n martial la-v Just before 6 o'clock Wednegi lav afternoon one of the cars oit the i elf line was attacked by a in i v on l-lf- te* ath street and the conducm* a man by the name of Kelly one o' the corn- w ns si*, Kplnnera are staying out of the' . .. market, hoping to force the price of hospital Mrs. Ginther waa able ta fotion still lower, believing that the r *** urn 10 her home at Nof 66 C®t- tage place In better health thaa ska has been for years. She was perfectly well aatll Ik* latter part of last July, whan aa ap parently trifling eruption appeared upon her skin, close to the scar left by the Inelalon through which the oj eration had been performed. She did not pay very such atten tion to thla until oae day she saw a bit of lint protruding from the end of tbe old Ineiatoe. She palled this out and was surprised heyoad belief when it grew to aa lack, twa inches, four laches sad finally eight Inches In length. Then the was afraid to po aay further with the llaea, aad harried back to 8t. Mania’s waere'ehe shew ed the strange eoaveatr to Dr. IU. He used the knife again sad with drew tbe rest of the aapktn. It wan Intact, even to the red emt ^sundry mark. Mrs Ginther recovered ■hock and pain of the tior within a few days. Bet she felt that she had gone through maeh uunecessary inconvenience, and aa ■be sued. It la not chargod in her coaplalat that Dr. Hi personally was rsepoa tIMe for the napkin being Mwod ap Rhln the woman’s *rda, but elaea in 1911 and 1.483,585 balea in 1910. you Ths net Import* amounted to] rending market, until 16 cents is '*.2 7 6 bales, compared with 23 1 1 reached Use bualneM judgment In 1911 and 1 5 1,395 bale* mmketing your cotton; the crop la • tu.rt. I*eIow a supply for the apln- illt* for the next 12 month*; there la no use In making your Iomss still MANY LIVES ARE LOST. (Beat Damage Wrought in Japan by Terrific Storm. and report its findmgs to the State the m<*n brought lu re by Icx.TUtivH commit'.*«• I't.ny in the past few davs- In rcplv to the request of Mr. bn.sly beaten. Twenty me i ui-re nr- Do.ninirk, Counsel Robert \V. Shand r.rted and taken to police tr.n.irka. Vr Judge Jones, stated that Judge Prior to that a conductor was he- n. s, through his attorneys, would labored on May avenue by a crowd !ak< the evidence as submitted to' 01 ' women. the committee, compile the figures] ■ — and If it was found that there waa an 1 right would be taken awa,’ by a 3 to* amount of cotton consumed in'greater by »arrlflrlng your cotton. M e Fnlted Plates during the year] The following I* {’resident Dabbs’s * nr 5.367.67 1 bales compared with ‘ letier to the farmer* «f the State: 4 704,978 bale* In 1911 and 4,798,-, 1 <' tbe Farmer* of South Carolina: 9 53 bales In 1910 | Never before that 1 can recall have Ot tht* amount the quantity con- »e had better proepecta ot good anmed in cotton growing stare* wan ;u Ices for cotton. Btity day* ago ’ 7I2T22 bales, compared with 2.-'cotton sold at 13 1-2 rente at Inter-; . 3'.' v 4 v 7 bale* in 1911 and 2.292.333 lor point* All of a sudden ’’without WM ,n °' tl,w operation. M I.ales In 1910 and the quantity con-, r!'me or teaton” the market broke sumed In al! other state* was 2.655.-; ami R continued to go down nntli <M<« bale*, rompared with 2,376.491 ' •'» 1*- cent* wa* renewed In the lo- ' ha’es In 1911 and 2.506 620 bale* rn 1 ’1 markets Not having the desired 11 q efi.et of stampeding the farmers like ■t has in the past, we *ee it steadily going up F.ach day the •’wieeacrea” s..y it will break to-morrow. Kach d. v thev say Liverpool should come The exports of cotton during the yen; nmouM.d to 10,681.71*8 bales, compared with 7.781,414 bile* It, Dll and 6.339,028 bale* In 1910. number of so-called; .* typhoon swept over Japan the night of September 22. There was' los; of life and heavy damage to property and shipping. A torpedo boht and the destroyers Tachlbana and Fubuki wee^ sung in las B*y., Toklo has been completely isolat ed since September 22. The typhoon can led down all the telegraph lines. Even yet details are meager. The most disastrous effects of the storm were felt along the south coast. At Yokohama the Frenqh armored crui ser Duplex dragged her anchors and went ashore. She was pulled off, lu wever, the following cay". At Shlmonaseki a Russion mail boat foundered. The casualties are unoknown. The losses to shipping have been very serious. The Japa nese battleship Satsuma and the ten- de,- Manshu wero dismasted. Four destroyers and five torpedo boats were driven ashore. There was a heavy loss of life at Nagoya, capital of the prefecture of Atchl, Island of Hondo, where a school and other buildings collapsed. h* .efficient Daudulcnt votes to change tho re sult of the election, then they would withdraw their protest, not other- v isi*. Mr Shand took occasion to explain] f, ':L except Judge Jones's position In the matter, that he was unable to carry on a complete investigation of alleged 'frauds and that as some of hi" friends and supporters we”? about to raise a fund for that purpose the executive committee moved to act on account of tho numerous com- t'. i:ii’s made to it. look up tbe «o'k cf lip < btieation and that Ju Jg? lobes was merely abiding the finding.* of the investigating committee. Duncan Makes Dharge'. Mr. John T. Duncan invited the committee to closely Investigate con ditions in Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood Orangeburg and Rich land, charging the use of moneytand m.lawful betting on the eleetioii bv Jones men. In Greenvillt, on char ges that the Jbnes headquarters was a scene of ‘‘flagrant breachers of the criminal law and our election laws in the matter of betting on the elec.-i Judgment at this time.” Mr. Avery Patton w is sworn that tifG-rnoon and testified to the state ments contained in the report made Tuesday. Nothing new was brought the intimation. In the form of a question from Mr. Domi- r-i-ek that there had two hua-di; dred questionable votes in the Bun- eombee street box. It was stated that there appeared 3 47 duplicate n;,mes in the Central box at Spartan burg, aqd-that 158 names were of persons absolutely unknown. In reply to cross examination from Stocks of cotton on hand on au- °r po’nt*. Each day gust 3 1 amounted to 1,623,865 bales,’*• • * 'he report that Mancheater con- compared with 1,375,031 bales in 'Inues to buy at higher prices than 151 1 and 1 040,040 in 1910. | can be paid on this aide. What doe* Of the stock* on hand manufactur- *' a ^ mean? ers in cotton-growing statea field ^ mean* anything. It means that 24 1 704 bales, compared with in\,- lr, '"°n * s In demand; tkat organlza- 1 i , bales In 1911 and 1 21,3 40 bales 1* 'flHn* or that mere 1* fear In 1910 and manufacture™ L. other Htatea held 629,T»89 baloa, corn- hankers nond put fo pull pat ed with 441.077 halo* In 1911 and T-Mier and we will .see 1 5-cent cot- '41 : .883 haTes in 19Tt: - , U n. for two-thirds of this crop. It la blamed for the qaMr aeddeat. Tb* record-chart of tea operation, examined at St. Maftla’a, shows that the nurses reported thwy had removed every drewlng placed In the locta* Ion. Phyalclena said that probably no permanent barm hod been dom to Mr*. Ginther by the premaco of tho h'.< piece of linen. WAS THIS FRAUD OR NOT? Associated Press Acronat of tho Greeavllle Meeting* The Associated Pres* account ot In nB oM'; that the farmer., the merchants tU fr, " d lnT f t, *‘ ,6d . V ,n " ! nnd the bankers need p„t‘fo pull to-1 pv,d€nre tiding to indicate that Independent warehotiBe* in cotton- ;x s ' J that they are working to- growing states on August 31 held ne'lmr more slowly and the price i. 445,555 hales, compared with 349,- ^ ( " rs " e72 hales In 1911 and 1 55,871 bales| n the activity di.play- tn 1910 and Independent warenouse*, P ' 1 in pt’K-inlzIng chamber, of com- In all other state, held 1 08,925 bales.'™’™ ,n ‘ h « town, ami cltie. of the South. We rejoice In such ‘booster. . ,. h 7f .Q y, *i 1 e r tn 1911 O' ""t- * vo rejoice in *ucn ooo.ier. Vr. Dominick. Mr. Patton stated that ^ n , I ,a r r J d q , J'J , 3 ’' ° Drips” as Richmond ju.t pulled off. hi* citizens’ committee made R V charges of fraud, but reported estimateif at ! 98 09'’ bales l n ‘ 0D ths. We rejoice at the hopeful dll ton* as it found them. He declar-1 P 1 jres 18 RSt . ! ° aat ® d a a letters from the varlou. counUe. of ed it as bis opinion that of tho throo, c( ’^^^ ^ J 4 : 00 °,i ‘ 8 ln 11 j South Carolina that look to thorough managers of the Central box, Mr. i and_ 200,000 haYe.Jn^ ! organizations of the Farmer.’ Union Poole was a Blease supporter and Messrs. McGhee and Davis were Jones men. The trend of counsel's questions, was to show that the machinery atj' n 1 ^ •L The number of active cotton .pin- . ,, v ... . dies in the United States was 30,132,- ^ hl tt. 0 ^"^' 730, compared with 29,522 597 spin- k.. " * * • loi-t _ _ j no Aft9 arvlnel Yob ‘ ^ ^YOTR tv flj OH» &Q(i P&CI1 tOWIl itLfl d'es in 1911 and 28,266, 06- B P lndIes j at p roSR j- Vfi chamber of commerce all working in harmony then we will Spartanburg was entirely In the] 0f thl8 - n I t ’ mb ” r t tho f e I ope y atP<1 ^ see a State farmers tiriion and a State fraud wa. practiced in Greenrilla County in the Democratic primary of An front M,- waa plaee* .ub-commlttee of the south Carolina Democratic State committee at a hi let session held WOaneaday after noon In the Court House. A local committee wnich had beoh err.ducting an Investigation In Greenville County reported that rop- etltlon. of name, on polling lists hod been found in 340 Instances and that the name, were repeated anywhero from one to five times each. Thla the committee Drowned in Congaree Swamp. Thomas Dawson the 17-year-old st^q of a prominent tvicnland County farmer, was drowned Wednesday night in the Congaree Swamp, while ert Being a creek tweive miles below Columbia. Hls body was recovered by a companion and carried to Lykesland, several mll^s away. hands of Jones men. Mr. Dominick 1 colfo11 K r0W ' ln K states during the year rl _ fimber Qf cornmerce building again called for sneclfic charaes andj‘ WCR 11.585,839 spindles, compared g|(a ^ er 3 0U (b Carolina. E; D. Dabbs, President S. C. F. U. again called for specific charges and. __ ... , Mr. Shand stated that hls complla-i w '^ 11,084,623 kpltidteS operated In tioi and the use of money to pur-|Uon of the figures in the hands of thoRP R tates in 1911 and 1 0 494,1 1 2 chase votes.” He cites G. Heyward | the committee, would constitute the spindles In 1910; and those operated Mahon as manager of the head-quar- charges upon which Judge Jones ' n other states were 18,726,891 ters and says that a Mr. Whitmire,''"'onld base his contest, provided they ; 8 I lil ‘01 p s. compared with 18, 43.,9i4 assistant to the conductor on the proved sufficient. The scope of the R P :ridles ° pe !'? t r^ n 'Pr! h0Be , B i? t08 ! n ,, r ^ rOT1 * a i... vr... Southern Railway, Columbia and ; conimlttt « work was thereby some- 111,1 and 17,772,7o0 spindles in r ' nts "reck by Finding N^ass of YOUNG GIRL SAYES A TRAIN. Greenville division, can tell about: w1ia1 more clearly defined, these illegal practices. 'Mr. Steven-] I" short, It is a Court of Inquiry 1911. These statistics are In runnmg Rock on Track. Miss Beulah Chandler, 18, prevent- read his affidavit regarding charges of improper use of money in this county. His witness from Pelzer, one W. A. Lee, <Jid not appear. The committee, upon motion of Mr. Jef fries, decided that it was incumbent upon John T. Duncan tfi sMure some affidavits in support or hls charges. 'Mr. Duncan was generous in his ot ter* to "accomodate” the investiga ting committee but consumed con siderable time in his contention that the committee should pay bis expens- er in coming here Thursday. The Mr. Ashley express- gentlemen of tbe committee, however, appeared rather unanimous in the opinion that John T. Duncan, if he chose to enter charges, - should see them through, so action in reference to financing Mr. Dunean s complaints was deferred. son called for both Messrs. Mahon'fil 0 the methods and praltices of the hales. Including linters, except Tor _ ard Whitmire, but neither could be ' p cent primary, and whether or not foreign cotton which has been re- m the wrecking of Norfolk & Wes- for.nd. No one seemed to know the] there Is a contest by any candidate 1 duced to equivalent 500-pound bales. t f . rn Passenger train No. 1 when she Mr. W’hitmire. Some little merri- or candidates is left with those In-] The statistics of cotton consumed disiovered tons of rock on the track ment was created by the reading of Mr. Duncan’s affidavit. Mr. Jeffries after the examination on the stand of Mr. Avery Patton of the Greenvillf Citizens’ Committee moved to give Greenville a clean bill of health as to the election. The motion was ruled premature by the chairman, who stated two reasdns for the ruling: first, "because the report of this committee could not b*' prepared until the committee ha* f.t.’.ahed its work anu wo could not give any county a clean b'.'.’. of health until the entire report waa made; and second, because, the attorneys forested. The Greenville session of up'r-dles, and stocks held at mills ana at a curve near Bleeford, W. V., the committee was brief and quiet,; in warehouses shown in this report. Wednesday. She was walking near no large crowd having assembled. [ w*ere collected by canvassers of the tfi.? spot and heard the train ap- Moving on to Anderson, the commit- mills and of the warehouses, hut the’preaching. She took off her apron tee will adjourn to meet in Columbia, stocks in 1912 shown under the clas-’ ra* down the track ana flagged the and nish its work prior to a meeting slfaction “Elsewhere” were arrived train which ran up to and touched of the State Democratic executive at by deduction, this quantity being*tbe side of rock. Passengers cheer- committee, which has been called by^lie difference between the total sup- ed her and t6ok up a large collection Chairman John Gary Evans for Tues- ply and the sum of the quantities ex-] for her. ‘ Norfolk & Western officials 3 40 men voted anywhere froth t#o or five times each in tne primary, The committee further reported that it had been unable to Identify 128 names on the polling list ot on box in the city. Votes to the Bom ber of 752 were cast in this boo. Their testimony will be offered later day, when final action relative to ported consumed, and that held^by the election is expected. Body Riddled With Bullets. The body of Sam Johnson, a negro, who was taken from deputies at Grand Cane, La-, late Wednesday fr* Governor Blease we:o reswlng 1 night by fifty masked men, was found manufacturers and warehouses. Beats Wife and Suicide*. At Marietta, Ga., after beating his wife over the head with a baseball bat Hope Irwin, son of R. C. Irwin. of the State comptroller’s office, stood the right to attack any county until I late Wednesday swinging from a tree before a mirror In hls bed room early tb# hearings were dostl and. that| twenty miles from Oreea Cane. 1 | Wednesday and killed himself took her name and sne will be^Te- watded by them also. . . 8 Forced to Swallow Poison. Miss Lottie Ward, 15 years old, who lives at the home of Samnel Farmer, of Wheeling Junction, W. Va. was seized by unidentified men near her home Wednesday and held | while poison was admmist red. Mobbed Him in the At Lima, Peru, former Prestdeht 1 >: Augusto Leguia waa mobbed by furious crowd late Wednesday while proceeding to hls private deuce from the Presidential which had just been taken the new President, Guillermo hurst. The demonstrators i “You should go to jail home,” and obliged the Ex to take refuge In the Unv< Were Killed in Theodore N. MoK: pairer, and his da were found dead W Knelly probably tent on the outsl Kan., where they for thtf daughter’s health, had been shot,/4nd their tured. Robbery is been tbs motive. Its*} % ‘■■•'-XV'.K * - •;* a ear wk Injured in of Wei: hsd; First Victim qf 4 Al Merrill, WU., At Merrill, v Rossen I ed In the ' s week s «f0. V4 y--* •> -