Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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~AAI I;ANl10EPRT om fetesCanl Fixed $375,2W000. OWItS TISFACIIIR of Commssion Goes Into x.0 V%1EA~ am. JL D... - Satisfactory progreAsi th donstriction of the Pnma canal .s shown in- the an nual rept-f. the Isthmian canal com '2nikssion for= the' fiscal year ending ..ne 30, 1909, just made public by ii:2secretary of 'war. - Th.-repots deals with the organiza tionbftthe work, -construction and en gineeiing problems which were solv ed,, th-dclyR government of the canal zone; thei anitary conditions,, -which er greatly 'Improved, and ,the esti diateia-dost of the canal. The totai th canal. Is plaed at .$375,-' The -report says in part! theyea the desigbs for the6 lOcks' at Gatun and the 4deks at -Pedro Miguel-.were- finished. ThU locks in pairs, separated by a wal 60.feet thick, 'aree 110 feet in xth. with1,000 .feet: usable lengths. - -he~ work .of excayating the Gatun ,ks was' continued during the year team biovels throughout the fore afy and the greater part of the lock hambers, and ;fy. one- of the 20-inch acton dredges in the lower part of the lowest dock. 'Excavation was in progreSs at the close of the year trenchini for the curtain walls. The 3nateral, excavated in the dry amount ed to 933,546 cubic yards, and that re moved in the wet amounted to 479,950 cubic yards. The plant for 'the con struction of the lock is practically In staled and ready for operation. The report says of the health con ditions: "The health conditions on the isthmus are reported by the chief san itary ofcer as showing an improve ment over the preceding year. The tal. number of admissions of em ployees to hospitals and sick camps, inding those sick " in quarters, Smounted to 46,194, -representing for the year.23.49., as the number of men 4sek daily out of every thousand Wames :on the pay rolls, as against 23.85 for the preceding year. The numberaof deaths was 530." Regarding the cost of the canal the report says: "Nearly 50 per cent more work is necessary in order to com Vlete the canal than was contemplat ed by the original estimate, 'and .that the unit: prices, due to labor condi Uons, cost of materials and gratuities given t Le employeeS, have been in creased about 20 per cent. The total cost of engineering and construction alone sums up to $297,766,000; to which, If the purchase price and the estimated cost of construction - and civil government be added, there suits the sum of $375.201,0010 as the to tal oest -of the canal.". 1-8 . . ERPLOYEES fACE CHARES, g Ig Shake-Up ini the Customs Servitet New York City.-Collector of the Port Willam Loeb caused one of the biggest shake-ups that has ever oc curred in the customs department, when he announced the discharge from the service of James F. Vail, deputy .surveyor of the port, and 18 other customs offcials. The shake-up Is the result of recent Investigations .into grafting in the cus toms service in connection with the2 'eighing of Importations and a direct outcome of the sugar scandal. Washington, D. C.-Offcial charges of misconduct .against nearly 100 em loeeb of the customs service, all lo cated in Nefr York, have been filed with Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, following close upon Col lector Loeb's suspension of 22 delin quent weighers, assistant weighers, and at least one offcial of rank. -With ' few exceptions, ~It is semi eofclally announced the accused are to be decapitated by Secretary Mac Veagh. _____ __ BABIES WILL BE RARE. .WIll Be No More Births, Says College - Professor. Ithica, N. Y.-If the present decline In the. birth rate should continue for 150 years there would be no more bfrths at that time, according to Pr lessor Walter F. Wilcox.' the statisti clan of Cornell University. "it is not -the decrease in .the bitt rate that Is disturbing," said Profes sor Wilcox, "but rather the fact that the rate decrease among the classei that would inherit the capacity fot leadership.' The figures from Har . yard college indicate that each 10( graduates produce in the next gener ation only 73 sons. The native Amern can population loses more by deaths than it gains by births. 28E1LLED1IN 2YEARS. Mortality Reports of Mississippi Rail road 'Accidents. Jackson, Miss,-.Secretary Maxweli of the state railroad commission has completed a tabulation of the numn ber of persons killed and injured ii railroad accidents in Mississippi dur lng the past two' yea.fs to October 1 this work having been deaedb tardy reports from some of the roads -The report shows a total of 225 killed, of which 77 were employees, 1( were passengers and 141 neither pas senger nori employees. The total num ber of injured was 2,209, of which 1, 414 were employees, 578 passengers and 212 neither employees nor pa sengers. BATEHET MEN IN BENVER. Threaten to Exterminate Members 01 Chinese Yee Tong. Denver, Col.-Denvers' Chinatown is in terror as a result of warnings re ceived from San Francisco that a band of thirty hatchetmen are en joute to Denver to exterminate mem bers of the Yee Tong, of whom there are nearly a hundred here. This action is the result of the long feud that Is now raging in San Francisco Ca., between the Yee' Tong and the on Ylck Tong. ASTOR ISSAFE, 'Tie Nourmahal Steamed into the Porto Rican Port on Nov. 24. hillemstad, Curacao.-John Jacot yacht Nourmahal was safe in j~T"bor of San Juan. P~orto Rico, b er15, according to a re ~'-here by the Red D liner cas reports that ~rved at San Juan ?nd that she was tsafely -anchor bottle ~teat rejoicing &C~'tives. 92 Dead and 198 Are. Still Mising at Cherry, .0;h Chery, ~i~ ~ ~ i~ici~had promised. to be rya drea of thaksgiving feuddin a nighs of hope defer r despair All the long d ft the vigi- was kept. At the end of-It no'living man or boy had been addd- to the list of the twenty resoued. At nightfall the tolI stood 20 saved. 92 known dead and 198 missing, All day long the tolling of churchj bells resounded in Cherry and Spring Valley. Eighteen- bodies were interred in an-field south of the town. At the mine coffins of a'dozen victims await ed removal, while a score of caskets were piled nearby for those who are to come. "The men they brought up could not have lived more than a few hours longer," said one despairing woman. "It they don't come up they will come up dead." The 'rescuers worked as if this was their belief. The fire in the second level -was forced back, and early in the afternoon- the workers could pass it, but the black 'damp in the east gallery- was an obstacle that proved insurmountable. In the mine level the work of the rescuers went on unceasingly. Re lays of-. eager miners succeeded those whose strength failed. ' Those who staggered -from the pit mouth were surrounded instantly, and a babel of questions hurled at them. "We can see the bodies. There are piles of them. They are dead, boys, all dead," was the reply of the first, and those who followed gave no more cheering answers. Letters written in their underground prison by the twenty miners rescued alive Saturday came to light in vari ous quarters Sunday. The two Pigati brothers. Joe and Salvatore, wrote several short notes, but all of the same tenor, save that in one a de sire was expressed that their funeral be embellished with a brass band. George Semmerich's inexperienced efforts -to make the contents of his unth last as long as possible, threw a light on the extremities to which the - prisoners were reduced. Sem merich's -pail contained four slices of bread, a piece of pie and a huge dill pickle. Semmerich's estimate of how this food would last proved woefully wrong, for deducting what he gave to others, it had all disappeared within 24 hours. Fortunately the prisoner still had a practically unimpaired plug of tobacco. From this he ex tracted all the nourishment possible, and then swallowed the quid. This diet kept his stomach in so feverish -a condition that for three days that the supply lasted he experienced practicaly no pangs of hunger. The leather band of his cap was next pressed into service as a substitute for the tobacco and as a destroyer of appetite served quite as well as to baceo. His gloves fololwed. "It ws Dot very sustaining," said Semmerich, "and I got pretty weak, but it was better than being hungry all the time." STANDARD OIL COMPANY ILLEiAL Federal Court Orders Combination of Oil Con'panies to Dissolve. St. Paul, Minn.-In an opinion writ ten by Judge Walter N. Sanborn of St. Paul, and concurred in -by Judges Vandeventer, Hook and Adams, with a special cocurring opinion by Judge Hook, the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri anded down an opinion 'declaring the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey an illegal combination, operating In restraint of trade and ordered its dis solution. The opinion of the court was filed simultaneously in St. Louis and In St. Paul. In this decision the government of the United States wins a sweeping victory, and, according to Frank B. Kellogg, of this city, who was the government's special proseluting of fcer, the government has won every point for which It contended. The case will -be appealed direct to - the United St'ates supreme court. Ban on Big Hats. Columbia, S. C.-Callinlg for co-op eration on the part of the women of cther churches, the Sou'th Carolina Baptist Women's Missionary Union has launched a movement designed to put a stop to the wearing of big hats in church. The resolution denounc ing the peach basket and Merry Wid ow styles of headgear for Sunday wear was passed amid great enthust Editor of Century Dead. . New York City.-Richard Watson Gilder, editor-in-chief of the Century Magazine, since its foundation in 1881, and widely known as an author and lecturer, died uexpectedly of aingina pectoris at the house of his sister, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. He was 65 years old. Carlo Sheriff Removed. Springfield, li.-Governor Charles S. Deneen declared the office of sher 1ff of Alexander county vacant, be cause -Sheriff Frank E. Davis allowed William James, a negro, and Henry Salzner, white, uxorcides, to be taken from his care and lynched at Cair3 -by a mob on Nvember 11. - To Conserve fueL Washington, D. Co.-In view of the rapidly diminishing fuel supply of the United States, the great railway sys -tems of the country are to .be urged -to adopt measures for economy of fuel, thus assisting'in the great worle -of conserving the natural resources of the nation. lomen May Be Census Enumerators. Washington, D. C.-Instructions to supervisors who are to take the next ensus, beginning April 15, 1910, have ust been forwarded them by Census Director Durand. There Is nothing in the act providing for the taking of this census, the director says, which will prevent women or persons under 21 years of - age from becoming eligi ble to appointment as enumerators, and he says that in -both the eleventh and twelfth censuSes women were em lo~yed in such work. football Cost 30 ives. Chicago, 1it.-Football has claimed a toll of thirty lives and 216 injuries during the present season, according to figures compiled. This is t larg est number of deaths recorded in n The thirty deaths include eight col llge players, twenty high school boys and two members of athletic cubs. The injuries were divided among m7 college men, forty high school players and five from athletic clubst No record shows to date that any southern football player has been se iously injured. II i 51)1 SEEK REPt AL Execution of Two Ameicans By Nicaragua Arouses Government. WARSHIPS HURRY TO SCENE The United States Has Practically Rec ognized Belligerency of the Nica raguan Revolutionists. New Orleans, La.-Private advices from Nicaragua say that a reign of error exists throughout a portion of the country controlled by Zelaya. Gov ernment troops are rounding up per sons suspected cf sympathy with the revolutionists and executing them without trial, it is stated. More tha2 500 men suspected of revolutionary sympathies have been summarily shot and the bipody work continues. Residences are ransacked by Zela a's soldiers in search of incriminat Ing evidence and when resistance 13 offered the houses are destroyed. Wo men relatives of revolutionary sympa thizers have been subjected to most horrible- indignities. Nicaraguan ref gees arriving at Panama and Costa Rica declare it is time for civilized powers to forcibly intervene and put an end to the barbarities. The United States consul at Mana gua reports that two American citI zens, Leonard Grace and LeRoy Can non, had been captured with the rev olutionists and shot by order of Preis ident Zelaya. The execution tooa place at El Castrillo, near Greytown. The American consul asked President Zelaya to commute the sentences, brt a reply was sharply made that the sentence was final. Managua, Nicaragua.-Messrs. Can non and Grace, the Americans who were executed for comprlicity in the rebellion, were tried at a fair court martial, held under the direction of the government. The men, it was charged, were responsible for placing dynamite mines which were intended to blow up government steamers, la den with troops which entered the riv er at Greytown. Washington, D. C.-Announcement that this government is tired of the high-banded actions of the small Cen tral American republics was contained in'a dispatch sent to the Bluefields Steamship Company, which sought the protection of the state department from interference by the insurgents now operating against President Ze laya. . A peremptory note, couched in dip lomatic language, but none the leps direct, was- delivered to Senor Felipe Rodriguez, charge d'affaires of the Nicaraguan legation, demanding a full and complete explanation of the exe cution of the two Americans. Leon ard Grace and Leroy Cannon, who were executed by order of Zelaya, when they were found in the insurgent army. Pending a satisfactory explanation of the occurrence, President Taft has refused to recognize Isidore., Hazera, the new Nicaraguan minister. Mr.Taft is thoroughly aroused by the actions of the -Zelayan government, and a parently is determined to make the lives of United States citizens much safer and considerably more respect ed in Central America than they have been hitherto. Nicaragua has been one of the Cen tral American republics that has giv en this government more trouble in the last few years than any other, save perhaps Venezuela under the sway of Castro. The state depart ment maintained a quiet and reserve that was was described by one diplo mat as "ominous." It was learned, however, that botW President Taft and Secretary Knox practically have determined on the ex ertion of some forceful moral suasion, if nothing more, with a view of .bring ing the Central American States to a realization of theirr esponsibilities. It is evident that the temper of the administration has been thoroughaly aroused, and, if occasion warrants, teh state department m'ay advise some drastic action. Orders have ,been issued for the cruier Vicksburg to proceed in all haste to Corinto, and the gunboat Des Moines will proceed at once to Port Limon to observe events there and re port the situation at that point by wireless. Harrisburg, Pa.-Leroy Cannon, re ported shot in Nicaragua as a revo lutionist, was a native of this city, and was 29 years of age. He had been living in Central America for eight years, and in that time had been heard of half a dozen timnes as figur ing in hazardous enterprises. Within a year word was received that he had been condemned to die for participa tion in an uprising, but was saved by intervention of the United States. An effort will :be made by the pa rents to have the body brought here for burial. REPENTENTIGAMBLER. Race Tr'ack Man Desires to Pay Back All Losers. Kansas City, Mo.--One of -the strangest wills ever made here came to light when the last testament of George Brown, Jr., well known as a gambler and race horse man, was fil ed in the probate court. "It Is my desire, as far as possible," the will reads, "to repay every per son, man, woman or child, any money which I may have won from then by gambling during my life time, and I direct my executors to make effort to learn their names and reimburse them to the full amount with inter est from the day the money was EDITOR LAFFAN DEAD. Publisher cf New York Sun Dies After Operation. New York City.-William M. Laffan, successor of the late Charles A. Dana in the management of the New York Sun, and publisher of that newspaper for the last 25 years, died at his homs n Lawrence, Long Island, following an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Laffan was born in Dublin, Ire land, 62 years ago, and after cornpier. ig his tsudies in Dublin University, came to this' counitry-. DUCHESS/OF MANCHESTER BEAD. She Was ihe Daughter of a Prominent *Cuban Planter. Lond . England.---Consuelo, Dow ager .?chess of Manchester, died at r ]1~e here of heart failure. TD~ owager Duchess of Manches ter was the daughter of Antonio Yze a adel Valle of Ravenswood, La., a Cuba. After the civil war Mr. Yenaga moved north and Consuelo tecame a prominent figure in New Trks social life. Her weddmng in Grace Church in May, 1876, was a WILL* REM.S WI~ON 1WAIESS The New York EzCla-nge Orders an Im mediate Change. New York City.-The.meeting of the revision committee of *the -New York Cotton Exchange was held, and differ ences applying to the delivery of cot ton in contract were fixed for the bal ance of the trade Widespread interest has been felt in the action and after the result of the committee's deliberations had been made known more or less gene ral satisfaction was expressed, as the changes were comparatively light, amounting to a reduction of from 15 to 25 points in the penalties against low grade cotton, of which there is comparatively little in the local stock at the present time and which is also reported to be scarce in the south. The committee also fixed differences on the quarter grades of white cotton which will be delivered on contract after the first of March. The differ ences fixed go into effect immediately. The following table will show the new differences compared with those fixed last September: Old New Differ- Differ Grade. ences. ences. Fair-..-. .. ....1.50 on 1.50 on Strict middling fair ..1.30 on 1.30 on Middling fair .. .. ..1.10 on 1.10 on Strict good middling. .66 on .66 on Full,y good middling ....... .55 on Good middling .....44 on .44 on Barely good middling ...--.- .33 on Strict middling .. .. .22 on. .22 on Fully middling .. ........... .11 on Middling .. .. .. .. basis basis Barely middling .. ....... .12 off Strict low middling. . 25 off .25 off Fully low middling . ....... .42 off Low middling .. .. .75 off .60 off Strict good ordinary 1.20 off 1.05 off Good ordinary . . . 2.00 off 1.75 off St. g. mid. tinged .. .35 on .35 on Good mid. tinged... .val. of middling Strict mid, tinged . . .15 off .15 off Middling tinged . . . .25 off .25 off St. low mid. tinged . .75 off .60 off Low middling tinged 1.75 off 1.50 off Middling stained . . .1.00 off .75 off AN EXAIING HUSBAND. His Ten Commandments Wife Refused to Obey. Ann Arbor, Mich. - Mrs. Minnie Root, who is suing her husband, Frank, for a divorce, says that after their marriage he laid, down ten com mandments for her to obey. The com mandments were: 1. Thou shalt love thy husband. 2. Thou shalt obey him. 3. Thou shalt not find fault with thy husband. 4. Thou shalt beat upon the cymbals and proclaim thy husband master. 5. Thon shalt not covet thy neighbor's costly gowns. 6. Thou shalt not run up bills. 7. Thou shalt not waste kiEses upon cats and dogs or keep them as pets. 8. Thou 'shalt not take any intoxicating liquors or smoke. 9. Never neglect washdays. 10. Honor thy husband so that thou shalt not dishonor thyself. CAN BRIN DEAD TO LIFE. Woman Has Perfected a Wonderful Electrical Apparatus. New York City.-Louise G. Robino vitch, the young Russia woman, has startled medical men of this city with her declaration that she had discov ered a way to bring the dead to life. She demonstrated to scientific and critcal men that she can perform wonders with the electric apparatus she has -perfected. In the presence of those who saw the demonstration, Dr. Robinovitchi electrocuted a rabbit and brought it to life again by ryhthmic _electric ex citations that caused its heart and respiratory organs to resume their functions. She also showed the ad vantages of electricity as an anaes thetic. WASHINGTON CALLS SN PRESIDENT. Support of President Taft Asked for Great Neigro Exposition. Washington, D. C.-Booker T. Wash ington headed a committee which call ed at the white house to solicit the spport of President Taft for a move ment whleh has been started by col ored people throughout the country looking toward the holding of an ex position in 1913 to oelebrate the 50th anniversary of the freedom of the ne gro race in America. *The exposition idea is to show the negro's progress during the fifty years of his freedom as compared with the progress that he made during slavery days. _______ __ Newsy Paragraphs. Silas Morgan, living on Whidbee Is land, Washington, found several doz en cans containing a substance re sembling paint, and believing a case of r.ed paint had washed ashore, painted his house with the material. On taking a sample to town he was told that the sticky find was pure op im, and each can was worth about $300. As he had used or spilled near ly thirty cans of the opium, he wasted more than $9,000. After a search lasting more than twenty years. Edward Williams of Vallejo, Cal., found his daughter, Mrs. M. Jackson, at her home in Chicago. Twenty-three years ago Mrs. Wil liams and her one-year-old daughter left Williams' home and disappeared. He searched for them for several years, but failed to find any traces q.r his wife and daughter. Laura Livandais of an old Louisia na family, was arrested in New Or. leans accused of smuggling hundreds of Chinamen from a Mexican port to New Orleans. The woman engineer ed giant smuggling schemes, ft is charged, aided by Nick Stratokas and Charley Chun, who were arrested with her. The smuggled Chinamen were sent to New York, it is charged. The Oklahoma supreme court has sustained a lower court In dismissing proceedings begun by the direction of Governor Haskell to restrain the circulation of publications from out side the state which carry advertise ments of intoxicants. Official statistics shows over four divorces a day were granted in Swit zerland in 1908, the total number be ing 1,331. Separation and divorce are as easy to obtain in Switzerland as in some American states, and cost from $10 upward, thle maximum be ing probably $60. The convention at Toronto, Ont., of the American Ftderation of Labor went on record as favoring woman suffrage; an eight-hour day for post office clerks; legislation for better protection of actors and actresses from the "extortion and corrupt Dus iess methods" of so-called theatrical employment agencies; a postal sav ings bank act; deep Waterways pro jects; a continuation of the fight against tuberculosis: the granting of American citizenship to the people of orto Rico, and the construction of a twenty-six-foot channel through the Great Lakes from Buffalo to Dultnsh, andfrm Buffalo to Chicago. MONEY FORiiOD ROAS' $30,000,000 to Be Expended in South and West for Highways. LAND VALUES INGREASINi Improved Roads in North Carolina Add ed $85 to Value of Each Acre of Farm Land on the Highways. Savannah, Ga.-Figures just gather ed from fourteen states show an un precedented movement throughout the south and west for improved highways. Contracts proposed or al ready entered on call for the expendi ture of -between $25,000,000 and $30, 000,000. But for the intense prejudice against automobiles it is estimated fully $60,000,000 would now be avail able for better roads. In Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Oklahoma state con victs are being largely used. In parts of Missouri the money from saloon licenses is appropriated for the purpose. In Kentucky the county courts set apart a certain sum to be matched with equal amounts by citizen. In Alabama the new roads are paid for, half by the county and half by the community. In some parishes of Louisiana the police jury fees pay for new roads. There is a notable lack of county engineers and much incompetent su pervision in all parts of the south. But in the aggregate a tremendous amount of work is being done. Grades have been reduced, roads have been clayed, iron or steel bridges have re placed wooden ones and sewer drai'h age has been installed in the low places. In Kentucky $25,000 a year in each county is being raised by taxation, for gradual improvement. The own ers of timber and mineral lands are joining in putting good roads through the hill regions. Drouth In parts of Texas, three crop failures in succession in districts In Missouri and the boll weevil in Mississippi have delayed bond issues or other provisions. The inst year's figures for actual expenditures In the south for improv ed roads are as follows: Alaboma. $1,576,000; Arkansas, $1,400,000; Florida, $578,000; Georgia, $2,100,000; Louisiana, $925,000; Missouri, $870, 000; Mississippi, $1,615,000; North Carolina, $1,359,000; Oklahoma, $775, 000; South Carolina, $746,000; Ten nessee, $1,6622,400; Texas, $4,138,000; Virginia, $688,000; West Virginia, $893,000. Thirty-odd counties in the adjoin ing states of Virginia, North Carol: na, Georgia and South Carolina are co-operating in the building of a con tinuous highway seven hundred and fifty miles In length. It is to be known as the "Capital Highway," and will connect Rich mond, Raleigh, Columbia and Atlan ta. From Richmond it leads to Wash ington. Sinice the new roads were built In Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, the value of farm lands t1age has ris en from $15 an acre to $100 an acre. More than four thousand four hun dred convicts are now employed in improving southern highways. More than $1,720,000 has been ex pended in the United 'States on so called good roads. There are now 43,450 miles of ma cadam roads and 124,468 miles of gravel roads. About $70,000,000 a year is now be ing spent In the whole country in the work of improving old roads and building new ones. CALLS RURAL LIFE IMMORAL Dr. Landrith Advises Parents to Rear Their Boys in the City. El Paso, Texasi-Rev. Ira Laudrith, president of Belmont College of Nash ville, head of Presbyterian Men's clubs and former secretary of the Re ligious Educational association of America, in an address ibefore the Y. M. C. A. here, took occasion to differ with most educators who declare ru ral life is the best for a young man. "There is nothing to equal the im morality of rural life," declared the speaker. "Rear your boy in the. city Iif you can. His physical health may be better in the country, but that is only one-fourth of it." BONFIRE Of HAIR RATS. Religious Enthusiasm Touches Wom en in Wichita, Kan. Wichita, Kas.-The religious enthu siasm which caused a grocer of this city to burn his stock of tobacco re cently, was demonstrated again when Mrs. Fannie Freeman made a bonfire of playing cards. hair rats, hair puffs and other artificial adornments for the head. (;6TTON TRUST HAS RIVAL Garner Mill, in New York, Will Be Run Independently. New York City.-The Marquise de Breteuil and her sister, Lady William GordonCumming, formerly known In this country as the Garner gir-ls, have just closed a deal with southern and eastern cotton manufacturers for the sale of the vast cotton print manufac turing plants in northern New York, which they had inherited from their father. II. is said that the purchas ers are thus freed from the yoke of the cotton trust, which operates in the New England States, and will be able to reduce the price of the goods The price paid for the mill was $15, 000,000. LABOR INIIORSES BOYCOTT. John Mitchell's Speech Thrills Labor Convention. Toronto, Ont.-Inidorsing a commit tee report on boycott, John Mitchell, one of the three ofmcers of the Fed eration of Labor who are under sen tence for contempt of court, made a dramatic speech to the convention -ot that organization. He declared that as far as he was concerned, regard less of consequences, he intended to declare for the rights gained him by the laws of his country. INDIANS MAY LEAE, Sioux Tribe of Indiens Preparing to Move to Nicaragua. Boston. Mass.-With plans practical ly completed to remove one of the Imost famous tribes of Indians out of the United States into Nicaragua, Chief Bison of the Sioux Indians sail-. ed for Port Limnon. Chief Bison is going south to confer with the predi dent of Nicaragua and his capinet re gardIng the removal of th'e entii-e tribe from their reservations in Soiuth Dakota to plantations in the Centa Ameican nrenn blie ATE NEWNOTElrM The irst wireless mesage ofrog Great -Lake to the -Gulf of Mexico was Inaugurated last week by two newspapers, the Chicago Record-Hez SPoSt. hundr a was - lature be .. the p auna, or at least plac ing such restrictions on the game as to reduce the danger to life and limb. This plan is the result of a campaign by the death of two players this year. Fred D Warren, editor of the So cialist Appeal to Reason of Girard, Kans., who was sentenced to six months in jail and a fine .of $1,500 for sending through the mails an-offer of a reward of $1,000 for the kidnapping of former Governor William S. Taylor. of Kentucky has filed the record for an appeal in the federal court of ap peals at St. Louis. In an effort to discover the cause and remedy for pellegra, a series of experiments on monkeys is being con ducted at the New Orleans Pasteur institete. Innoculated two weeks ago with the blood from a victim of pel legra, the simians are being carefully watched for a possible development of the symptoms of the disease. it was said, however, that thus far they had failed to respond to the infection. Howard Bennett of Beloit, Wis., is said to have discovered a new sub element, not unlike the waves of wireless telegraphy, but differing in many essentials from electricity. He Is- developing. machines to utilize this mysterious power, which was discov ered by accident. Details of the dis covery are being kept secret until pa tents are secured. Howard Bennett is a sophomore tu Beloit college. Those who are acquainted with the discov ,ery say it is one of the wonders of the age. "If the American people could be cut off from the influence of Europe for three years the' effects on Ameri can art and literature would be not only vastly beneficial, but positively astoundfing. Native genius, would, in that time, lay the foundations of a literature and an art that would be typically American and Americans would then begin to produce an art and a literature that could be recog nized as American the moment they were seen." This was the declarato of Dr. Frederic van Eeden, the notea Dutch dramatist, novelist and scien tist, to a Chicago society. Washington. The fine of $5,000 assessed by the collector of the port of Mobile against the Norwegian bark Hodving, for en tering port without a bill of health from an American consul in South Af rica, has been reduced to $25 by the treasury department. A gobbler weighing fifty-one pounds a whopping turkey, so fat that he can hardly hobble,. is to' fall- before the axe in a few days to grace the Thanksgiving ,table of the biggest (avoirdupois) prsident that has ever sat at Washingto . Ever since the first year of Gen al Grant's term in the white house Horace Vose, Wes terly, R. I., has supplied American presidents with 'their Thanksgiving turkey. The bird he sends to Presi dent Taft this year is the largest one that Vose has eter raised. While General Marshall recom mends in his annual report that $36, 000,000 be carried by the next rivers and harbors bill, it is probable that the secretary of the treasury in his annual estimates to congress the first day of the session will cut this down some $20,000,000. The agitation for a $500,000,000 bond issue and the meet ings of waterways conventions all over the country will likely result in a rather liberal rivers and harbors bill framed on the usual ,lines by the house and senate -committees. The employer' liability law of 1906 was declared to be constitutional in territories of the United States and the District of Columbia by the su preme court of the United States, des 'pite the fact that more than a year ago this law was declared to be un constitutional when applied to the states. The question arose in a suit for damages for the death of an em ploye named Guiterez on the Bl Paso and Northeastern railroad in New Mexico. That there will be no pardon from the white house for Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of Ithe American Federation of Labor, in case the supreme court of the United States upholds the lower court and finds them guilty of contempt, is a fact strongly indicated by the jailing of former Sheriff Shipp of Chattanoo ga, and his associates. The depart ment of justice has come to the con clusion that Sheriff Shipp and the men sentenced with him f or contpempt of the United States supreme couirt cannot be pardoned. The secretary of the navy has ap proved the recommendation of the superintendent of the Naval academy for the dismissal of Cadet John P. Hyman of South Carolina. General inaptitude, which has caused seven other cadets to leave the acedene this year, is the cause of the dismis sal of Hyman. Commander Peary, the Artic ex plorer, will be promoted to the rank of captain October 20, 1910, accord ing to Assistant Secretary Winthrop of the navy department. On that date Captain U. S. G. White will be retireid on account of age. Peary Is the only civil engineer in the navy with the rank of commander, and his promo tion to' a captaincy will come as a natural advancement. In line with his policy of leaving to congress the enactment of legislation affecting the disposition of public lands containing power sites and pe troltum deposits, Secretary Ballinger has announced the withdrawal from settement of several locations In Or egon, believed tO contain water sit4 possibilites. Secretary Ballnger also announced the withdrawal of 2, 635 acres in California for action by congress affecting the dispdsition df petroleum depositS, making up to this time 3,621,062 acres in this class of withdrawals. Trhere has been att increase of near y 300,000,000 busheli, or fully one ixth, in the production of wheat re ently harvested- In six countries of the Northern Hemisphere, which f~ 1908 produced' practically two-thirds of the world's. supply. These coun tries embrace the United States; Can ada, France, Hungary, Russia -and Roumana. Although improvement was noteat mthe prospects of the Eu ropean.sga beet crop during the past mnhvleprobable siugar: pro uction. ding the coming campaign is stdunocially estimated consider coltmbia, s. C. itteen more counties are now added to the "dryll column In Sott Caroliua tere is on hand in the counties which gave up the dispensaries, but according to a statement iby Dispen sary Auditor West, it will not -be. very large. In most of the countleb the stock was disposed of when the doors closed. There are claims against the dis pensaries to the- amount of over $200,000. ;It is stated by the dispen sary auditor that there will be enough money to pay all of these claims. In Orangeburg county there was a considerable amount left over ac cording to to a dispatch from there, which says, in part: - - "The dispensary bosrd of this coun ty finding itself overstocke4 with 1-H qucrs had regular bargali' sales of the stuff during the last two days. of the life of the great institution, and will make the best disposition.. pcssi ble of what was left over. Just how the financial end of the dispensary will pan .out cannot be told. It owes a lot of money, but has a lot of good0s on hand." The fifteen connties have a mcst stringent law to obey. Bamberg, S. C.-The're began what the officers and private citizens of this county are determined shall be the beginning of a continued drought in Bamiberg county as far as intoxi cating liquors have are concerned. All of the dispensaries have sold out;. the Olar dispensary was assisted in its approach to the dry state ,by some thirsty one or ones breaking int and stealing nearly every bit, of stock on hand. The dyspensary system as -t has been managed in this county has al ways had- the appearance of having been conducted in a clear cut bus; ness way, and the officials ..Of this county are perhaps as competent as any in the entire state and their re gime has given entire satisfaction. The members of the Law and' Or d eague are for the most part Very comihaent citizens and their m ence Kill do much towards givin the reoe of this county what. they voted for,X enuine prohibition. St 4 have already een, taken to apprehend any one sellin liquor illegally. Florence, S. -'M D. - of the United 'tates reau, who was building an tal roadway .one thousand feet in length, ccmpletedhis job and left -for Tennessee. Mr. Winslow and the mayor of the city. and county supervisor kept an accurate account of the constructtioi of the one thousand feet of good roa'd and the following is the result: Ac tual ccst of the one thousand feet of roadway, including gravel, sand, clay, construction of drags, labor, teams and everything else, was $178. Of thbi amount there was expended $72 ft gravel, dred ai - gcd rc right fr; structed It cer . ': . . change in t - at the point has-thee than his coming a thousand feet Orngeburg,.. ducts of 1,721 were sold on his market and brought $108.49, nearly 6 1-2 cents per pound for seed cotton. A mammoth bale of six hundred and twenty-two pounds of lint and seed of one theusand pounds were the divisions of the seed cotton, the former selling for $93.65, and the latter for $14.84. This showb a yield of lint of about 38 1-2 per cent, which further shows a steady and ever-increasing yield of lint, as not may years back to obtain one-third lint was regarded as fully 'up to the average. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. *. ...That the corn crop will exceed last season's crop by at least ten mil lion -bushels is the opinion expressed at the offi~ eGf the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industr'es. The rreliminary reports received show that already 37,000,000 busheis are to be obtained from the crop. Commissioner Watson thinks the to tal yield will be over 39,000,000 bush -is. Last year's crop was 29.250.c000 buheS, this being an increase of ten mililon bushels, over the previous two :ears. . It is also expected that the present season's crop will bring a high market price. In 1908 the aver- - age p rice per bushel in this i state was '21 cents. This was a higher price than in any state save Arizona, where the 6.verage was $1.05. The average price for the whole country was 60.6 cents .per bushel. The prices. have gradually and substantially in creased for the past several years. In 190J4, for the state, the price wE 70 cents; in 1905 the market was 74 cents; In 1906, 73 cetns; 1907~ 78 cents: 1908, 91 cents. ...r. C. F. Williams, secretary of the State Board of Health, has re turned to the city from Ninety-Nine Island, where he went to investigate the small pox situation there. Dr. Wil liams states that the Board of Health feels sure that\ the epidemic will sooni be checked and that no new cases will develop. No alarm need .be felt in any other section of the Istate be cause of the recent infection at Nine ...In a ;called session of the South. Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' asso ciation the body' decided that there was no moudy made in operating at the current prices for oil, though the ~ demand for meal is strong, and espec- . ially from thE- " '' i - hulls Is also ward curtaili - ports showed thousand five is available. - . the price wil South Carolina wov.'uu i ed at 1,027,000 bales. ...."Peg Leg" Hughes, the negro'cofl victed in Bamberg of killing W-B Causey in Hampton was brought Columbia to begin serving a life sen ....Governor Ansel revoked the con~ mission cf Charles Stevenson,cn stable at Shelton. It appears ta Stevenson was guilty of miscodc in office and there were varius tk ports of such to the yovernor. iI~ tated the constable shot som D L' dog and was tried for this ofeSm court. He was not convicted-~ there were also other' charges U him and Governor Ansel, tho o ta away his commission. ;k