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A* > jS 3 I PROBE ORERED I' * / lerucr to Be Agaie lenstifcteJ ky Scute Ceuultee , AFTER LONG DEBATE Investigation to be Conducted by Sub-Committee on Privileges and Elections, Four Democrats and 4 Four Republicans, Equally Divided us to Sentiment in Matter. A dispatch from Washington says Oenator Dorimer, of Illinois, faros another investigation at the hands of his colleagues. The inquiry will be conducted by a sub-committee of the committee on privileges and elections, composed of four Republicans and four Democrats, four of whom voted for the c-onviction and four for the acquittal of the Senator last session. The method selected is regarded as the latest thing in jury trials. It took seven hours' debate to agree upon the system and it was finally adopted Thursday evening by a vote of 4 8 to 20, being substituted for the plan urged by Senator Da Follette, of turning the case over to five Senators who were not members when the oase was voted upon before, and, therefore were supposed to be unbiased. Before the vote was taken, Senator Bristow, who favored the Da Follette plan, accused Mr. Dillingham, chairman of the elections committee, of having capitulated in the interest of a Democratic scheme of turning the investigation over to a sub-committee. This change was bas!ed upon the fact that the author of the resolution 'adopted was Senator Martin. Mr. Bristow also claimed that the old guard Republicans bad formed an alliance with the Democrats and that they had placed the mantle of leadership upon Mr. Martin. Senator Lea, of Tennessee, said he would no more turn the case over to the elections committee for another trial than he would submit to a second operation for appendicitis by a surgeon who had failed on the first operation to locate the appendix.. Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, recently assistant to the Attorney General, intimated that the great trusts has .busied themselves with the election of Senators so -as to influence (the selection of United States district attorneys, whose friendship mfght be useful in the case of prosw mi /\r\ n CI. U Lit!HO. The defence of the Martin resolu{I tion was conducted by 'Messrs. Dillingham, Martin, Stone and others jii from both sides of the chamber. Most of the insurgent Republicans voted against substituting the Martin resolution. The resolution merely provides that the investigation shall be conducted by the elections committee and makes no mention of |: a sub-committee. Mr. Bristow said that he had been I advised that the investigation would not be made by the committee as a whole, but by a sub-committee. In discussing what he termed the ' capitulation" of Senator Dillingham, he said he accepted this act as a temporary transference of leadership to the Democratic side. It was witn a feeling of regret, he said, that he saw the mantle of Alrjrich fall upon the shoulders of a Democrat. "Mr, G'sllimser had not been able to don, the mantle," said Mr. Bristow, "and it had not been found to fit Mr. Penrose. But now that a con Idition has been formed, the man has been found and the Senate knosve whence its signals are to come." The real question at issue, according to Mr. La Follette, was whether the lumber and beef trusts could buy a seat in the Senate. "Tf the Senate does its duty," he said, "it would establish these facts, for the prooi exists, and there should be a result known. Senate seats should not Ik on the bargain counter for the trusts The accuracy of the statement that an agreement had been mad< between the insurgent Republican! and the Democrats regarding th< selecting of the sub-committee wai also spoken of by Mr. La Follette. Denial that there was a forma agreement made by Mr. Dillingham ,but Mr. Martin said there had beei s an understanding that the full com mlttee would be too combersome that the plan for the committee o eight had been approved in the can cue. He said that it would be neces sary for the Senate to confirm th< nominations of the members of thi I sub-committee. "Then why not elect members a once, by adopting the La Follett resolution?'' asked (Mr. Cummins. Mr. Martin replied that he though it desirable to place the responsibil ity upon the standing committee o; elections. The strictures which Sen ators had directed as the standin committee were declared by Mi Stone, of Missouri, to be an und<? served reproach. 0 + + It is true that all things come t who waits, but dt is clear that som do not always recognize that to which they have waited when ulti mately it does come. . t 14'' SWEEP INTO EUROPE THE YELLOW PERIL IS NOT A MYTH/* SAYS AN OFFICER. Thinks That the Yellow Hordes Will Eventually Sweep Through Russia Into Europe. "It Is the conviction of every Russian officer on the Chinese frontier that the 'yellow peril' is no myth," said Lieut. P. T. Eth-erton, who has lust arrived in this country. Lieut. Etherton is the Indian army oflicer who recently completed a wonderful journey across Asia from India to Siberia accompanied only by his Indian orderly. "1 have talked with many Russians from the Pamirs up to Siberia, and they were all of the same opinion," he added. "It will be a thing, they say, not of today nor of tomorrow, but they feel assured that the yellow hordes will eventually sweep through Asiatic Russia into Europe. They have great respect for potential value of the Chinese as soldiers. Trained ' ' XI 1. ? 1J ? itmrn ana properiy iea uiey uenc?c mciu to be of the same standard as the Japanese. "China," said Lieutenant Etherton in conclusion, "is desirous of consolidating, her power, and since the Russo-Japanese war is awakening to a sense of responsibilities and the latent strength she possesses. She as realized that to get at the root of the evil she must purify the system of administration corrupt and rotten to the core. "This she is endeavoring to do, though time is needed to cleanse and remodel a system in vogue fQr centuries. With the formation of the new model troops, the management of the schools on modern lines, and . reforms in the administration signs are apparent that China is desirous I of developing her illiminitable rej sources. "With a view to resisting aggression along the western, and northwestern frontiers of the empire, she is showing great energy and determination in reorganizing her military forces under foregn supervision, and this coupled with the scheme to constitute a force of irregular cavalry from amongst the Mongol population may well give rise to perturbation in Russian circles. The awakening of China is at hand! She will be the predominant power of the East." LOSES A SMALL FORTUNE. Jones Was Unsuccessful in Cotton and Wheat Deal. The Spartanburg Herald says W. T. Jones, the wealthy Union county planter, who will be taken to the State penitentiary at Columbia next week to serve a life term for poisoning his wife, bears no malice towards anybody, and has decided to submit to the judgment of the courts gracefully, although he declares he is innocent of his wife's murder. It was learned recently that Jones had lost an amount estimated at about $100,000 through speculation in cotton and wheat. He has appointed the Nicholson Trust company of Union, trustee of his estate, and instructed the company to pay his debts out of the income of his plantations. Jones owns about 5,000 acres of land, 3,000 acres being contained in a single pantation. The annual income from his property varies from $1 2,000 to $15,000, it is said. According to Spartanburg friends Jones turned to speculation in an ef fort not only to recover the attor. neys' fees and other expenses of his trial and appeals to the supreme court, but also to divert his mind from his trouble. At first, it is said, he was successful, but later the tide turned and he sustained heavy losses. Jones is now forty-one yeftrs old. He is said to be a tall, handsome man and is well educated. He nt, tended the Unversty of South Carolina and Davidson college, N. C., but did not graduate from either. i t GLASS EVE DUKSTS. (iocs Oflf Like (jii 11 as Man Talked 3 3 With a Friend. 3 With a report like a Run, Building j Inspector Frank R. Minner's glass eye exploded as he sat chatting with ^ a friend in his office at Allentown, _ Pa. Minner fell to the floor and sank into unconsciousness, f A physician was called and Minner ? was rushed to the hospital, where . he is in a serious condition. It h Q feared that particles of the eye have 0 penetrated his brain. He had worr the eye 12 years, j. Local physicians say this is the 0 first accident of its kind in history They advance the tneory that cellu. t loid was substituted for glass in th< eye and that the heat of the sun'i n rays, focussed on it hy a mirror un felt by Minner, caused It to explode f Killed by Train. ?- The State says Hen Kelly, for th< past month employed by the Sea board railway as car repairer's helpei o In the Columbia yards, lost his llf< e Monday afternoon at 3:25 o'clock r when a switch engine backed int< [- some cars, crushing htm betweei : them. I. ? TRAINS COLLIDE SEVERAIj PERSONS KILLED AND MANY INJURED. The Day Coach Was Totally Wrecked and In This Car Most of the Casualties Took Place. At least nine persons were killed and 20 Injured Monday in a head-on collision between eastbound and westbound passenger trains Nos. 9 and 12, on the Burlington railroad, ten miles east of McCook, Neb. The engineers of both trains are reported among the killed. The members of the Denver and Omaha baseball teams of the Western leaeruo were passengers on the westbound train, the Colorado limited. A number of members of both teams were slightly hurt. James McGill, president of the Denver team, was among the injured. The day coach on the limited was totally wrecked aftd in this car most of the casualties took place. The tourist car and baggage car were i thrown on their sides but, so far as is known, their occupants escaped serious Injuries. Surgeons and nurses have been summoned from McCook and other nearby towns. Officials of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad have only meagre information of the accident. The first report to the Chicago office said the wreck was the result of a head-on collision between trains Nos. 9 and 12. Both of these are through trains, the No. 9, or westbound, being on its initial run as far as Denver. No. 9 left Chicago Sunday morning with a heavy passenger list: Previously it had only run as far as Nebraska points, but a new schedule took it to Denver and it carried a full list of passengers with through transportation. It was due at McCook, Neb., at about 7 a. m. Monday. The No. 12 train was also a through train, eastbound, and due in Chicago at 7 a. m. Tuesday. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Body Found Lashed to Post in Midst of Embers. Refusing to comply with demands ! for money by a band of bandits at Ajuno, Michoacan, Robert J. Sweasey, an American, superintendent of the Central Railroad of Michoacan, was burned at the stake on May 16, according to the story of Joseph Hansfelder, one of the refugees, who arrived at San Francisco Monday on the steamer Newport from Manzanillo. Hansfelder eays that the bandits had made demands for money of every American in the district. Some complied but Sweasey refused to pay. Hansfelder declares he made his way to Sweasey's house, three miles distant from his own home, on May 16, and found the house burned to the ground and Sweasey's body lashed to a post in the midst of the burning embers. Mrs. Sweasey had disappeared and is believed to have been taken prisoner by the bandits and he'd for ransom. Fearing his own house * ' * - aa - -1- - j ttr* a!/1/m? tv h vf WOUKl 1)6 HlltlCKtJU naiioiciuci , his family, made his way to <Manzanillo and took passage for the United States. Sweasey is believed by Hansfelder to have been a former resident of San Diego. ? REGRETS HE IS LIVING Pennsylvania Druggist Hired a Man to Kill Him. In a letter ;signed, "A Broken Hearted Husband," received in Hazleton, Pa., this week, Francis X. Eble, a druggist, who disappeared two months -aieo, sends his regrets that he is still living, despite the fact that he paid a man $250 to murder him. Eble is now in New York city. He still desires death but will not commit suicide. According to his letter Eble left Hazlcton because of marital difficulties. All trace of him was lost until several days ago when he was traced to Buffalo, N. Y., by mileage he had used. From that city he went to New York whore he obtained em ployment. In his letter ho rails rmt^rly at the "coward'' who took his i money and failed to keep his bargain by -appearing at the appointed time and place to do the murder foi which he had accepted pay. The disappearance of Eble created a great deal of interest in Hazleton. j Searching parties scoured the mouni tains for weeks after he left home. It > as believed that he had killed himi self until several days ago. ? ? One l>end and Three Hurt. Speeding at the rate of sixty miles . an hour, four motorcycle riders cols lided in front of the grandstand i packed with thousands of spectators - at Chicago, Monday, on the Ilaw. thore race track. One rider was killed and three others wee injucd, one perhaps fatally. 3 Made Fatal Mistake, p Mistaking for salts oxalic acid thai 3 she used for bleaching curtains, Em, mb. Lee Parks, aged 8 8, the wife ol > Victor Parks, deputy city collector ol i Norfolk, Va., died within half houi after swallowing the fatal dose. ILLEGAL COMBINE TOBACCO TRUST MUST DISSOLVE IN EIGHT MONTHS. Justice Harlan Dissents as to Bearing of Extent of Restraint on the Trusts. The government Monday won a sweeping victory over the so-called "tobacco trust" when the supreme court held the American Tobacco company and Its allied corporations to be operating in violation o fthe Sherman anti-trust law. Associate Justice Harlan delivered a vigorous dissent to part of the decision, although he agree that the American To-bacco company and Its accessories and subsidiary corpora tlons were members of the Sherman anti-trust act. His dissent, as expressed from the bench, centered around two points, First, he took issue with the court for sending the case back to the lower oourt. "I have found nothing in the record," he said, "which makes me at all anxious to perpetuate any new combination among these companies which the court concedes had at all times exhibited a conscious wrong doing." In the second place, he reiterated the objection he expressed in the Standard Oil decision of two weeks ago to the adoption of the "rule of reason'' as a standard for ascertaining what restraints of trade violate the Sherman anti-trust law. The tobacco trust decision is characterized by Attorney General Wickershain as a most comprehensive and sweeping verdict for the government, The trust is held to be a combination in restraint of trade?a monopoly in violation of the law. The decision affects 65 American corporations, two English corporations and 29 individual defendants. An opportunity is given the trust to disintesrate and re-create a condition of transacting business not repugnant to law. If at the end of six or eight months the corporations fail to bring themselves within the law, a receiver and dissolution will follow. The trust is held to have been guilty of intimation, and clearly to have shown a purpose to stifle competition. MARRIED SAME MAN TWICE. Children See Father First Time in Thirteen Years. If statements are true, and there is no reason to doubt them, Mr. Robert L. Henley and his wife, of Macon, will be married in a few days for the second time?to each other. The Henley family lived in Texas thirteen y.ears ago. The father of the family left the mother and three children and went further in search of work, the family came Ixiik to Georgia, and the father was to come back to s"e them the following Christmas seaaon. He failed to come. Also no word ever came to the family in Georgia from their father?till the Galveston flood when it was reported to them that he had been ;mor.,T the numb, r who lost their lives in that disaster. Just previous to that time, however. Mrs. Henley got a divorce from her husband on the .grounds of d-eser_ tion. Thursday night Mr. Henley appear ori snnnd and well and wrote from the hotel a note to Ills former wife asking that he he allowed to call upon her and see the "children." The children are now grown?two arc full grown, pretty young ladies and the son is a traveling man for a local wholesale house. The daughters went to their home on Pulaski street Thursday evening to see a middle-aged stranger sitting on the veranda. For the first time since they wore tots of six and eight years, they spoke to their father and felt his hands upon their heads. Mr. and Mrs. Henlv, it is stated on goon authority will remarry. The husband has heon living at Paris, Texas, and has had fine success in business. ? miMiliAR FOUND HANGING. Attempted to Hob New York House and Met IFis Death. As an animal might he caught in s trap in the solitude of woodlands anci held there until it died, a human be ing was found in New York rjcentl; ?a man who attempted the burglar; of a wealthy man's home. The bod; was identified as that of Joseph Tau er, twenty-seven years old, who hac lived at No. 218 East One Hundrec ; and Twenty-third street. Mrs. Ellai Surut, wife of a woolen merchant I came from her summer home at Arv 5 erne end discovered 1n h>er towr house at No. 5 28 West One Hundrec and Twenty-first. street, Manhattan ? the body of the burgler hanging fron the skylight. The lid of the skyligh Ijay across the back of his neck Slowly he had strangled. Then hii > body had dangled for daye from the . roof of the vacant house, r ? r It Is said that Texas Is gettinf ready to repudiate Bailey. We hop< such will be his fate. t BANK Of Conwa Hat largest capital and surplus of ? than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK. . . . SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF 8TOCJ SECURITY OF DEPOSn DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we tOBBBT B. 8CABBOBOUGB, I Pbesidknt. We continue to pay 5 pe gm&999 999999m& f FIRST NATI( A OONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK W SURPLUS PROFITS ft TOTAL ASSBSTS a? DIREC ? J. A. McDermott, John < hi B. G. Coilins, H. L. I jh M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu /ft Successor to the Bank o jL Horry County, and a pioneer iy allied with the recent de\ /n Republic. Backed by the a United States Bonds, we are I W tomerg any reasonable accomj JL H. A. SPIVEY, f Cashier. \K\Y YORK MURDER MYSTERY. Woman's Body Found in Bath Tub. Husband Suspected Detectives delving into New York's latest sensational murder mystery, Thursday niiglit succeeded in finding the remains of a woman in a bath tub. There were two sets of letters, one apparently from the father, and the other from the mother cf the victim, each writer addressing the missive to a different person at different addresses. The woman who signed herself "mother" dated her letter from Blue Island, 111., and forwarded them to Mrs. Henry A. Schieb, or Mrs. Lillian Schieb, at 187 West 63rd street. Letters from "father" were dated 3 7 Thomas street, Springfield, Mass., and sent to M&s. Hugh Sherman, to 2 67 West 78th street. The body has been identified as that of Mrs. Schieb, by the victim's husband, Henry A. Schieb, whom the police have looked up on a teihnical charge of driving his employer's automobile without a license. Schieb was plied with questions for three hours. He is said to have admitted that he himself wrote a letter addressed to himself signed "Anna," which the police took from his pocket when he was arrested. "I was going to show that letter to my wife when she came back/' he itquoted as having said, "to prove ttva. other women liked me." His handwriting tallies closely with that of the person who si.gned the letter. killed by fall from car John Hutto, Young Man, Meets Instant Death. At the planing mill of the Danville Lumber company, one mile south of Pelion, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, John Hutto, a young white man, was thrown from a train car and instantly ki 11 led, his neck and skull being broken by the fall. The young man was an employe oi the Danville Lumber company and was operating the car. The brakes refused to work, it is thought, and i-i- ? the car crasneu mvu u ?|mh with gr-"at force. The accident was witnessed by a number who rushed to aid young Hutto, but he was al. ready dead when they reached him John Hutto was the son of Brltl ? Hutto, and was well thought of r the comunity. His remains wen buried in th>e cemetery at Good ITop< Raptlst church this afternoon at foui j o'clock. r Nek York's Water Power. f New Yorw state's water power r without including that of the Niag . ara and St. Lawrence rivers, has beei j estimated at a million and a hal I horse-pwoer. Right hundred an< s eighty thousand horse-power of thi amount is undeveloped. The Nev . York Water Supply Commission ha i recently recommended that the etat I expend $20,000,000 to develop thi water-power, which, according to es i timates, would return an annua t profit of a million and a half dollars? ? 9 Preacher Fatally Burned. J The Rev, J. H. Hastie, a Baptls minister aged 69, was .burned t death .early Friday morning at Talla % dega Springs, Ala., when he wen b back into his burning home to recov er some money left in a trunk. ' HORRY, I iny bank in Horry county. Mrfey Jus of all other banks in the county. II *60,000 12)609 (HOLDERS .... 50,000 TORS 112,600 'A A ;K)ks D. V. Richardsonr W. A. Johnson, ^ II Will A. Freeman. II ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will a. fbbkma* Vice President. Cashix* I r cent, on yearly deposits. _____? DNAL BANK | LY, 8. C. ' fl $26,000.00 ^ S 2.600.00 fflb v 126,000.00 /jy HI TORS: T 3. Splvey, D. T. McNeill, \ luck, W. R. Lewis, D. ML ' attlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ar H f Conway, the oldest Rank In in Eastern Carolina. Close- jL r?lopuient of the Independent W I Government and secured by ^IL prepared to extend to our cus jlk modations. 'jf mm R. G. COLLINS, A PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I ? i i ????? ??i H. H. WOODWARD I Attorney ana uounoeior ai law. h CONWAY, 8. a |H R. B. BOARBROUGH ^ | CONWAY, 8. Cu I Attorney at Law. I BL H. BURROUGHS V j Physician and Sargeoa I hfi, . WJB CONWAY, 8. a B. WOFFORD WAIT. I Attorney at Lav A ^ I Bank of Horry Building. I CONWAY, 8. O. I I WE WORLDS GREATESTSEWIH6 MACHINE} I |^^HT RUNN^^ X i VlhmtlngShu^ W ^ ebultleor ftHlngloThroad [Chain ?Uilch\ Sewing Machine write to . M SfW HOMK SEWINt MACHINE SQMPAflf l Orange, Mbm. MarNwhi machine* are made to tell reaardteeagt' 1 g?*iajra but the New Home la made tewea* 5 OoT guaranty never run* out, rii i* MtkorM <tilw mmlBj \ roe t**m wt BURROCQUS * UILUNS OS, Ooiiway, S. O. * * I II I I , Italian Aviator Killed. The Italian aviator Cirri, while 1 f making an aeroplane flight near a Voghera, Italy, Mbhday, fell from s a height of 650 feet and was killed, v Twenty thousand persons, including a Cirri's wife and children, were view- riA 9 ing the exhibition. Cirri used a ^ " 8 Rleriot monoplane. He had completi ed a number of evolutions when sud1 denly the motor exploded and in a , moment the wings of the machine wene on Are. m m ? t Submarine to Make 15 Knots. 0 The Skipjack, the new United . State naval submarine, was launched 1 at Quincy, Mass., last week. It is r. expected she will make 15 knots an hour on the surface.