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IV:;; KSOUT * News of Inteest Aw4" feeo Election Returns aSweiod4 Coluniin, Special.-lcbg g the official returns as tabulate& an4 declared by the State bqi' a vassers, the total vote for the emo' cratic electoral iiclet at the election of November 3, 190-8, was 62,289; for the Ilepicinim li-ket, 3,847; fOr the Independence League ticket 43, and for the Sociaist ticket 101. This is a ttal vote of about. 67,000, slight ly more thani half the total number of votes east in the Democratic pri mary election in August. The Har eput liepublican vote -was cast in Oranzeburg county, 405, 'ih Cha lstt second, 347; ea 1rtf third, 272; Richland, fourth,'t3O; Berkeley,- fift h, 235. The largest I)emocratic vote was east by Spartanburg, 4.162; with Greenville seeond, 2,774; Orangeburg, third 2,687; Lexington fourth, 2,508, and Ai.;derson Laurens and Marion each Casting over two thousand votes for the DNeinocratic ticket. Electorial Vote by Counties. Dem. Rep. Ind. Soc. Abbeville .. .1,481 9 1 Aiken ..... ..1,990 48 48 Anderson .. ..2,099 Bamberg .. .. 848 33 Barnwell j. ..1,407 88 Beaufort .. .. 522 272 Berkeley .. .. 609 235 2 Calhoun .. ... 669 54 2 Charleston. ..1,814 347 7 26 Cherokee .. ..1,506 66 Che .er .. ....1,368 37 Chesterfleld ..1,458 47 Clarendon. .. .1,091 62 Colleton .....1,399 91 Darli:gton. ..1,279 21 Dorehester .. 883 103 5 Ed"n-ld .. ..1,097 8 Fairfield .. .. 830 12 2 Florence .. ..1,460 28 3 7 ('eorgelown . 544 1OS 1 Groetiville.. ..2,774 176 7 28 (4reviwood .. 1,765 18 10 111Il1m )toni . ..1,138 , . . Ilorry .. .. ..1,247 *56 Keishaw .. ... 922 45 1 Laneaster .. ..1,729 55 2 Latirens .....2,160 61 1 Lee 9...........963 58 1 Lexington .. ..2,508 80 1 Mariin .......2,007 91 Marlboro .. .. 916 16 Newhepry .. ..1,681 44 1 Ovone. .. ....1,126 172 2 Orangeburg ..2,687 405 1 Pickens .....1,241 5nl Richland .. ..1,750 236 3 18 Saluda. .......385 8 1 1 Spartauburg .. 4,162 225 5, Sumter .. .....1,228 175 3 Union .. .. ..1,389 49 Williamsburg .1,550 180 York........1,606 29 *Total.... ..2,289 3,847 45 97 Killing Breaks up Fish Fry. A bbeville, Special.--A negro wb-' mant namfedl Adamis was placed in jail bere charged with killing another nec gro womian named Hall at Monterey. in this county. The negro women of a church in that section were giving ui fish fry for the benefit bf the pas-' tor, and among the attendants ont these divine services was a gaily diressed gentiman of color, one of the leadling society men in a' nearby town. rThe wvomeni, quite naturally, had a little difficulty among themselves as to who should show the gentleman into supper and ''do the honors.'' As a result a general fight took pJlace' jrn which the Hall woman wats stabbed to defath. The ,woman Adams was sev\er,lv eut and six or eight others mhore or less severely wounded. Thle .society man escaped during the fes tivities. Spartanburg Store Robbed. . artanburg, Special.--The cloth ing store of the Floyd L. Liles Comn panIy on wvest Main street wvas enter ed by, protfessional burglars here some time Wednesday night and rob-, bed if goodls amounting in 'value to several hundred dollars. They sen ter4d a door at the rear of the build-' ing by removing the lock by use Q a brace and bit and lifted from tl hinges a second door encountered. ~ Breaking up Blind Tigers. -. Aiken, Speial.-Vigilent efforts are. .bei na made by the -constabulaey ofliers of this county in 'a effsut to break up thf blind tigers. t 4tdye allised to ithe ' Edisto riVO T m osw. The s ea Otto, S 8 A D~jI. H. W ,retained h EI ast week - etitt's ,b ~ wls~1theys ma sunteesiggl ,.r' it t a large o iif be new, i, dy. t p id a vigt ~qtantitrot 'AW 4A WS y Reders FarUers Aro 4AiM to Med Columibird, . spe sI q uperinte*' dent of Educati6:% rtin has sent to the county supeii%iendents - of education a letter-aljng attentiorr t'o the reqtesti of the teoantry life commission' with regard to the dis :-ussion of queit%ons sent out by the commission and.adding some sugges Lions of his own.- 'Ihat meetings'be held for the "coqtsderation of' these questions is suggested by the commis sion and Mr. Martin adds..-hat these weetings, if lield, nAight also serve ither good purposes. His letter is is follows: November 23, 1908. To the Comity Superintendents of Education: Ailoiv, me to call your attention to the regucst of "the com mission on country life" that patron of schools hold meetings before De oember 5 to discuss the questions named by said comniission. . Such meetings will acepmpish a great amount of good. Whenever the peo ple begin to con5ider questions which vitally aff6et. their life and interest, good results will be forthcoming. In addition to discussions suggest ed these meetings might be returned to practical account by starting move ments for new school buildings. local taxes and libraries. Hundreds of libraries should be established or en larged within the iext month. Many 'of the library books treat the sub jects now being considered by the commission. Please urge your teach ers and trustees to send in their orders for libraries before the close of the year. Orders coning in after January 1 will have to wait for an other legislative appropriation. If you have not sent in your supple mentary report please do so at oace. Sincerely yours, 0. B. MARTIN, State Superintendent of Education. After Federal Prisoner. Columbia, Special.-Governor An sel telegraphed Governor Hoke Smith )f Georgia, requesting him to hold James Boulware, a Federal prisoner in the United States prison at At lanta, whose term is about expired and who is wanted in Fairfield coun ty, this State on the charge of mur der. The request is made at the sug gestion of Sheriff Hood, of Fairfeld. Boulware was sent to the Federal prison on the charge of robbing the mails, and it is said that while out 6n bond in this ease lie killed a ne Zro in Fairfleld, and a true bill has been found against him by the grand jury.. Expenses of Election are now Being Filed. Columbia Special.-Practically all of the bills for the November general election have been filed with Comp tr'oller General Jones only one .or two rounties being out. It is thought 'that there will be a small remainder after all of the bills are paid, but, ini eludinag the newspaper advertising, the general election cost about $24, 1)00. There was an appropriation of $4,000 for advertising the election notices in the newvspalpers and the gen eral assembly appropriated $20,400 for the election. Monument to Qonfederates. Edgefleld, Special.-The . monument erected by the D)aughters of the Con federacy to the unknown dead buried here was unveiled Thursday after-. noon. Rev. T. P. Burgess opened the exercises with prayer, and introduced Dr. C. E. Burtis, wvho delivered an eloquent address. Mr. Simkins read an original poem, ''nnon' by Rev. Mr. Burgess. Four Daughters then unveiled the shaft. The entii'e exercises were beautiful and appro priate. Five Prisoners Escape. GLexir)gton, Special.--Tuesday morn ing about 8 q'elock '(he entire force of hands on the county chain gang, which Is leilted in the Dutch Fork, near Wyse's Tecrry,smade a dash for liberty' and six out of twenty-six prisoners succeeded in making their escape, and up to a late hour at night had not been captur.ed. Particulars are mleagre, anid nothing definite has been 'learned. .Terrible Tragedy at Winona. 'Florence, Special.-News. has .inst reached this eisty of a terrible tragedy 'thic~ txiquered at Winona, *in the ea.Sstein $60ti6il of the eog1ri ?. John Haynea ahi$e farmet-, 4ing on 1r. N4ath4n Oibson's jntation, jdile a despierate attempt kill his ~qte and whole family vw a -Shot m, Henry Moore, :wbog ent to yh~ assistate' was he 1~te, leg ~ ~esy. ho then tr)(Vbe gun hsele and ble oi* 1t raihs ni Z C'> Railroads ll igni c' mprovements lllC.ostilglillions o'A Dollars---lNainlrospeiy ssoiaion,, HavIji Fro a II'ill1 ver the countr haHven coeH Jeprt ofi reo ei of factorlllliMiesanm!nths.ofessto.irrNinglmacinerylltlls fl W/h/ile onllEly aishortEhilelaoisll rni onllhllt ie . -/panibi to [xnmiEltfionpM of dollars ulponl Imrveet.Mierll;hal bee r losnin u o t e monllm aetilililll s illhat llunds to curry on the Cpgrespoildents!send In glow i lglrpolslofc lnitisIn alli t he mat--tuhS eason's.cleverestNcrthwy enpti the NewtlYorkheas. Oailroa silan Gigaentc oftimprovement C tin g Miliions ofgie Intedllardens- eNational Prosperity Association, ofavingUls t cran Etur of prmosepriyd ts eounotlyiniatprei to swfyromtalliove thecountry hae ok o e porsuofteropn of factrs atrtn otr m ry t o t h e~ ~ e m p l oeme n o f t h u a dBf e n o e th o h ae r h a d i m o t h Ralradil ny atwile agpoem entssr runing on ihaofntime Wt heyZ4'Gu, are rh w-thor anrer itvn matoe nt toral who aply.r Work t D Disbans. Theacrain aretfuelngteAadnikeoih of prosperity iseounlniated e plingnw tof expa ilst ofdwerepokmroeet.Ter a giatcProjlletcopltry ae ombe hretsofthly. enngo fCtorespoferdentsonend .of geslown. reporingo chiioin tells the temufctumgentretosa nd the Notenst, then woh he hast, eveyhere there ashrt his o mtter tiere igonhlie onytey postie rushdec ofithern amre,iigpoment toitosi ie iniheadisae fein the anliletPhorosperity andiain o t Lores Itlairng to e.en mimons, fxpolasedupon nimatpronspTeret has seenftlsening,u the isnomoe marke o that fugnsai to dryo. h gigwti pofet contepedk r Thto h owsediy inerwnc hreaE vsig d fherncies. ete i e Oahnegitive e.vi-deeofrt e he cUntiecdtiIsteenpoa eivenb the IntentotNational thrtoneided Asoiti,ofeet. Lo,00,00 soodof Opetrtine .Ptheres drn more porkfothe .onena,in the o - we.ek indicated a general opening up nongahela Valley.: of work everywhere in that industry. The Schoen Steel Company, of The force at the Riverside Pottery at Pittsburg, announced that it would Wheeling, W. Va., has been greatly take on 300 more men and spend $1,. fncreased, and the .frm is getting or- 500,000 in improvements. ders in a steady stream. The National Tube Works, of Mc The Df'esden Pottery is w.orking at Keesport, Pa., placed its plant on full full force. The Klondike Pottery will time. have no slack time this winter, its The Westinghouse Electric Company employEe, baving all they-can do. The put all its departments on .full time. Sebring P'ottery, at Sebring, 0., has The Republic Iron and Steel Comn had the b,ust%st Novem ber it has pany, of Pittsburg, ordered every'one known in years. It is expected that of ItO furnaces run to full capacity. the American China Company, of TO- Every spindle in the cotton mills of ronto, will .operate steadily to the Midham. and '1'ew London counties, year's end. Conn., has been start4d up, and the The Union Auffalo Cotton Mills, of mills are rushed with orders. Union, S. C., which is said to operate The American Woolen C'ompany's more lootns than any other textile mills at Moosup. Conn., are'prepar corporation in .the South, .reopived ing to run full time, after a bad' pe such a rush ot orders that it will be riod in which less than half time was obliged to run .all of 'its three in- worked. inense plants to their fullest e.apacity. The Michigan Lake Superior Power This sets golnhg 17,000 spindles and Company, of Chicago, which suspend 800 looms, which were idle during ed because of the financial conditions, the summer. . The mills employ 2000 started to reorganize, and it is expect men and wonien. - ed to resume within a few weeks. The Fates & .Jenlcs Miachine Coin- Mills of the International Paper Nany, of Pawtucket, R. ., employing Company, at Berlin, N. HI., idle fo* 490 hands, began ork~ig On a fity- three 'months, ,zeopened with a re. t*ve-hour-a-week - chedtgle. The fac- duced force. tory had been running on half time. J. D. Farrell, of Seattle, Wash. The Easton &s Burnhp,m Machine- representative of E. H. Harriman,. in Company, of Pawtusket, I. I.,'started the Pacific Northwest, has been called its factory on full time, after running to New York. . Financiers and con on short time during the sumnmer. It tractors ## that railr*oad construc emiploys 200 men. tion work on a' scale heretofore un Lumbermen of Tittonm Ga., report known is about to be inaugurated in that all the mills are: booked with the Pacific. Northwest. The North enough orders to kee them going Coast, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. full tilt for three mo,45' Some' are Paul and Harriman system are the declining orders until~ febc 1. 'three factors in the spending of mill. The Amnerican. TobgccO Company ions for a dominapt p9sitiQn in Pu agreed to take sevent* ftye per cent, get Sound and Northwest Coast.. of the 60.000,000 p.i,t4of tobacco Offioials of the Lackawanna Rail. of the Buirley Lea '1alo Society, road anno'unced that improvements TJhe deal Involves .$10.4;'000. costing $25,000,000 will be begun After a dhuit-doW f-six months, soon. Plans have been drawn for the the Illinois 8 ny reopened .extension of the road to Chidago. The four of its 'Da ~ ~~t Chicago, electrification of the- suburban lines is 700 men bein ju Vrk.S Seeral contemipiat. s.dditiobal fur qf.'euiring, 600 Generai 'thd eh1pient of curren mneh,.wib blb taee- .47 gold~ silyd to financial 'insti., t en, inclid$t tit6#s, districts begins-to den 10ft&~ lei tl.t1RIock Z lno~ oyeinbherin accord wihtl b$ V Coie~6~6fthe. ,*lao g'o ottde and thle receipio motie Wi 'd the, tu O0 abr'oad Q99 gr'aItndO. *ORel(o on eta to~z tln at~to o Q0006 1 - 0 .ALL _ A t~ Alleged Agreement Over the Control of 'he Pedfic 4AYBE WAR TALK WILL ENIP States and Japan Have Ar at Definite Mutual Progrant gards the Attitude or Polcy att Problems That May Arise IPoMin. Washington, Special.-Despite offl-' cial'eticenee, ifonation from re liable sou e's' has been obtained o. an agreement ' of far reaching isa krtance betwebn. -the United State and Japan covering the policy of the, two. countries in the Pacific. The agreement is based dlpon the idea of endouraging and - defending free and peaceful commercial de velopment in the Pacifle. It contains not only a mutual guarantee to re spect each other's territorial pos seRtions there,- but defines the attitude of the two dounties towards China,. binding each 'to defend by every'' peaceful means China's independence and integrity, and to give equal com mercial .opportunity in the Chinese empire 'to all nations. But more im portant still the agreem'ent in the event of complications -threatenin the status quo, binds the Uni States and Japan to consult eack other with a view to acting together.. Articles of Agreement. The agreement has been drawn up in the form of a declaration and con sists of five article. of which the following is an accurate and .faithful description: The first article gives. expression to the wish of the two. governments to encourage the free and peaceful development of their commerce in the Paciflc. The seoond J is a mutual disclaimer of an aggres sive design, and contains also a, definition of the policy of jach gov ernment, both as directed to the maintenance of the existing status' quo in the Pacific and the defene of the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and industry in China. The third article contains a state ment of the consequent "firm'' re ciprocal resolution of each govern ment, each to represent the territorial' possession in the Pacific of the other. In the fourth article the' United' States and Japan Express their . de termination "in the common interest of all.powers" in China to support' "by all peaceful means at their dis posal" the independence and in tegrity of China and the principle of equal commercial and industrial opportunity for all nations in the em pire. The' fifth article mutually pledges the two governments, in the case of "the occurrence of any event threatening the status quo, as aabove described, or the principle of equal' opportunity.. as above defined"' to communicate with each other for the purpose of arriving at a mutual' understanding with regard to the mneasures they may consider it usefuT to take. mtchcock for Cabinet. Hot Springs, Va.. Special.-Frank H. Hitchcock has been offered and has accepted the position of Post master General in the Taft Cabinet that is to be. The officeial announce ment of this conclusion regarding the first Cabinet selection of President elect Taft, will doubtless not be made' until Mr. Taft has completed his Cab inet, at which time it will' be an nonneed en bloc. Because of this view of the situation no expression- ' regarding the selection of Mr. Hitch- ' cock was obtained for publication from either Mr. Taft or the Repub lican national chairman. There wvere many reasons, it was pointed out, why it was expedient that Mr. Hitcheock's status,shoiuld be fixed, at least so far as the principals are concerned, and" a complete understanding is knowrm tp exist between them. As chairman+ of the Republican national committee Mr. Hitchcck became more familiar than any other persons with the poli tical phase .of questions likely to arise at the beginning of the Taft administration, and the knowledge" he gain'ed regarding the personnel of the party will be of great service to' Mr. Taft throughout his administra tion. Plunges Oft Memphis Bridge. Meiniphis, Tenn., Special.-W. - B. Kimball, of this city. unable, it is~ said, to choose between his wife ands Miss f'ora Acton, a, young woman o Elvondale, Ala., ,with whom it is al ledged he had' 'becorte oenamored,. jumjed rom tJ' %fempll "bridge .hi ~6,bdy being