The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, December 30, 1909, Image 2

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KILLS WEEVILS. *wWo~~h Thousands 0? Cotton Men. a, La.-Sleet and snow, ~ flort~er' - *'~1 on~ of Loulskana and Mis ars tO LA4&~. (iarJAL '~ee~,iI With tle f the wee with . on c .ical .s de - .develop - uthern ter - - -.on Montague Virginia, in an - -:outh and the Na - a~lvocation of the Uni .?cago. s.hern statesman and edu expert urges the relaxation ?Olitical rigidity of the south division of the people of that sto potliidn parties. south's - welfare, as well. as 'the nation, must be promoted r practical affairs of the repub ne declared. "I will go further declare that the people of the -, the middle west and the west do no act more sagacious, more -g, more appealing to the mor nation of the nation than to -oi' the south a larger ant share in the working of -al govert nent." P-711 W CHOSEN. 'hief of Pan the P.a - eed Gilbert ?~ 4,000 per year. oChattanooga, Tenn.-C,. ~'yffe is a law graduate of tio erslty -of Cincinnati, and has bee -Ity 9editor of the Chattanooga Times ora the past ten years. Plea For Higher Wages. Bristol, Tenn--More than 50 repre 'iltatives of the Brotherhood of Rail .ay Clerks of the Norfolk and West-. rn Railway system met here and de ded to demand an increase of 10 per ent in wages. Increased cost of liv ais assigned as the cause for the :amand. ________ Gi of Halt a Mllion. Phiadelphia, Pa. - Announcement as made ~by the trustes of the Uni 3rsity of Pennsylvania that Henry *hipps had presented to the universi -: $500,000 to be used in the cam dign against tuberculosis. The plans r' a new hospital are now beitfg -awn. Walked 300 Miles and Dies. Paris, France.-A centenarian, Jean aller, - has performed a wonderful -at of endurance, which, however, as fatal to him. Jean Muller, aged 35, walked 300 miles from Belfort, in Isace Lorraine, to Paris, where his iildren lived. After reaching the apital he succumbed to fatigue. Newsy Paragraphs. drc In his annual report to the drc >rs of the Model License league .eeting at Louisville, Ky., President . M.Giloreasserted that the Anti. loon league is crippled linancially, id will live but two years more. All .e offcers of the league were re ected. While agriculturalists in Mississip bey1eve that thousands of boll wee-i Is llave been killed by the extremely ifavorable weather recently, during wich time, ice and snow covered the round almost all over the state, they a.ve no hope that the insect has been xterminated, or that the number kill d will materially affect the number hat will appear next summer in the oon -fields. Conforming to the avowed policy of elping the Antk:Saloon league to en frce the liquor laws, the brewers of Idiana are closing many saloons b rfusing to sell ber to them;i tey will not ,seil any saloon keep ers whose patronage comes from cunties in which the people have oted dry.. Professor William H. Hickering of arvard college observatory, declares he has proof that there is plant life n the moon. He claims to show by number of slides and drawings that* te moon is not the dead world it has ben supposed to be in the past. Mrs. Russell Sage has presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art the iportant collection of early Ameri ca furniture that she acquired at a. ost of $100,000 from Eugene B' es fBoston, a lawyer, who assembld tin a quarter of a century of d arch. . - to~ In its annual estimate of . ti nge and lemon crop. ofta The Riverside Daily Prth4 tal at thirty thou P1 shortage o: thr~ No a mpared with~ I H During the n wgr ersity Bght """- o re -.7 * a es S< ,enly le to .me Wi ame up seated of the i suddenly I g a word, a .aembers of I do. The sw .lowed within .mark by Sena1 ,vas feeling bet1 at any time sit resulting from .ne poisoning, caus oysters for breakfa .or to Senator MclA inted out that an - ..ght be made immedlati . Noel, or selected by 1 .ature, which will conve anuary. Governor James K. Var, .d Senator-elect John She As are mentioned in connecti the selection of successor .plete the unexpired term of t - Senator McLaurin. Seve: ..onths ago Mr. Vardaman annou: ad his candidacy for the subsequ term. Senator McLauiin,who was 61 ye, old, began his first term in the Unil States senate in 1894, but was elect governor of Mississippi in 1S95, a served in that office four years. was elected again to the senate 1900, and served one term. He tb returned for the term which began March 4, 1907. His present term office would have expired on Mai 3, .1913. . Senator McLaurin was a lawyer profession, and began the study law in 1868, after he had served through the civil war as a private the confederate army. He was bc on March 26, 1848, at Brandon, M. and was raised on a fari. He ent ed the confederate army when was 16 years old. Seven children s vive him. When the present session of ci gress opened, Senator McLaurin not go to Washington, because of ness. In the senate chamber he q known as one of the strongest fenders of the south, though not radical as some. He believed in I south, her resources and her futu and he never failed to rise to 1 defense when she was assailed. liGH OFFICALS ASSASSINATED. -derers Use Gun and Knife in R dIa, Korea and India. -Premier Yi, the he net, was stabt Yong, a K -oung Chi ears a r ident u. s. The p mier was rig. c.iriksha wh the assassin ca.~ --. with a 10 kitchen knife in hib .nd. He dr( this twice into the abdomen of 1 premier and once into the 'latte lung. The assassin then turned the premier's jinriksha man, whom stabbed and instantly killed. Yi was always credited with f tering anti-Japanese sentiment In I rea. He bitterly opposed the facti among the Koreans which favored nexation to Japan and refused to p sent a petition for annexation to 1 Korean emperor. Notwithstanidi Yi's known sentiments in regard the relations between Japan and I rea, Marquis Ito regarded Yi as honest and conscientious patriot a refused to listen to the premier's peated requests that he be allow to i-esign his office. Bonbay, British india.-Arthur 3 son Tppetts Jackson, chief magistrn of Nasik, in the presidency of BC bay, was assassinated by a nat while attending a theatrical perfor ance last night. The motive for the murder is si posed to have been a wish for venge upon the mag'istrate, who b recetly sentenced a criminal to 1 Imprisonment. St. Petersburg, Russia. - Colo1 Karpoff, chief of the secret police st. Petersburg, was assassinated. had been enticed to a modest apa ment in a remote stret of the Vib district, and there was blown pieces by a bomb explosion, supp edly by his host, one Michael Vo kressensky.' RUSSIA AND JAPAN MAY FiGHT, Two Countries Are on the Verge Serious Trouble. St. Petersbulrg, Russia.-Russia a Japan are on the verge of seric trouble, and the rushing of Russi troops to the Manchurian frontier a expedited. It is reported semi-otticially that rious trouble is feared because of t attack on Premier Yi at Seoul. It is reported semi-officially that, pan is ready to annex Korea a great alarm is felt. The governm( prepared to dispatch 50,000 troc from Irkutsk to the frontier. The uation s made more critical by t belief that Japan will attempt: prisals for the stabbing of YI N1GHT RIDER JURY DJISCHARGED. Could Not Agree on Verdict in Re foot Lake Case. Unior. City, Tenn.-Standing ten two ir favor of conviction, the ju in the Reelfoot Lake night rider cas was discharged, a verdict being ho] less. Garrett Johnson, alleged lead f t band that killed Captaixr Qu< te'ind Arthur Cloar, the defendan eie left under their present bon o i20,000 each. bo' is believed that another jury et be secured. PATTEN BIJLLNG COTTON. r;,hicago Operator is Again Buying t 1 Staple. New York City.-New high recor .vre made in the cotton market, wi aauary selling at 15.20, or 45 poir above the lowest figures. It touch above the lowest figures it touch since the publication of the gover mnt-s crop estimates. The hi, ;re*s were reached as a resuti of :ssabull support, covering and - . :better demand fromn miu TifT OnRD INESTIWAIL T ainerPichot Row W'd Be Probed By Congress. i Washington, D. C.-President Taft yielded to the demands of both Sec retary Ballinger and his critics for a public investigation of the whole sub .icct matter inderlying the so-called E alilnger-Pinchot controversy. Mr. -Ballinger served upon the pres ident virtualy an ultimatum, to the id efect that such an investigation was, indeed, the price of his remaining in the cabinet. He made it clear to the president that he was ifo longer v .11 m- ing to sit silent in his olilce in the at interior department and -wait for the ching to blow over." an Mr. Taft reluctantly admitted the tL- disappointment of his hope that the country at large would accept as final on his own vindication' of Mr. Ballinger in n his dismissal of the charges brought before him against the secretary of re- the interior by L. R. Glavis, the for e-l mer special agent of tie land office. lid Mr. Baiiinger's attitude in this mat is ter has the support of leading repub ift licaus in both branches of congress a senators and representatives who feel or that, entirely apart from the merits er of the controversy itself, a festering ce sore of this character must poison the an whole system of the party in power, ed and that it is high time to resort to st. the lancet. Lu- These leaders, determined that a p- cleansing of this wound is necessary, ,y have not hesitated to go to the White he House and impress their views upon ne Mr. Taft. A joint congressional committee ia- probably will be appointed to make ,rp the investigation. on The investigation, whoever makes to it, must be relentless, and everybody he seems agreed that it must te abso ,ai lutely public; it is admitted that any ic- thing in the nature of star chamber nt proceedings would satisfy nobody. The entire department of the' interior, so rs far as it concerns public lands and ed mineral and water rights, it is agreed, ed must be bared to the searchlight ; d from the time when Mr. Ballinger be was commissioner general of the land in office under the Roosevelt administra en tion, down to the present moment. on The position of Mr. Ballinger and of his friends goes beyond any questien ch of personal controversy, and they and those who voice the attitude of the by administration disavow any desire to of "convict somebody else," as a means af to vindicating the secretary of the in in terior. For instance, it is positively rn declared that the interests of the de s partment of agriculture and its forest er- service, of which Gifford Pinchot is he chief, will be recognized as having an r. important stake in this business, since much of this unhappy controversy )n. has concerned matters in which the Lid forest service was more or Jess di 11. rectly involved. e- TAFT RANTS CHRISTMAS PARDONS. as Many Federal Prisoners Get Xmas e, Gift From President. er Washington, D. C-Eight Christmas gifts in the way of pardons and com mutations of sentences granted by President Taft were announced at the department of justice. s As an incident of the land frauds which sprang up against non-resident ad owners and were carried on by squat ed ters in southern Georgia, Charles or- Clements; was convicted of conspir acy and murder at Normandale, and 'is- sentenced early in 1891 to imprison es- meat for life. President Taft has re- commuted the sentence to expire im en Imediately. ng Pardons were granted in two North e Carolina postoifice cases, those of Jno. he T. Leonard, sentenced to five years' r's imprisonment for breaking into the on office at Dunn, and that of Charley he Williams, sentenced for a like term for a similar offense. 0s- A pardon restoring civil rights has Co- been granted Albert Smith, sentenced on a dozen years ago at Paris, Texas, to m- a brief term of imprisonment for. re re- ceiving stolen prope~ty. he James and Lincoln Wolfe, full ng blooded Cherokees, in prison for life to for murder, had their sentences com Co- muted to expire at once. an If his conduct remains good until ad May 28, 1910, the sentence of five re- years' imprisonment, which ordinafily ed would expire November 28, 1910, will then be commuted in the case of Eu fa- gene Robinson, alias E. E. Robinson, tte iconvicted at Antlers, I. T., for bur m- glary and 'larceny. ye The president has commuted to ex m- pire immediately the sentence of eigh?t years' imprisonment imposed in the' i case of S. B. Hudson, convicted at rc- Salliswa, I. T., for carnal knowledge. eRed Cross Stamps Oo to England, elWashington, D. C. - Postmasters fthroughout the country were notified a that Great Britain has temporarily rt- withdrawn its prohibition against the yrf use of Red Cross stamps. Postmas to ters are requested to ask patrons of s- their office to fix Christmas stamps s- to the backs or eltters or parcels mail ed to any part of Great Britain. Supreme Court TakeS Recess. ofWashington, D. C.-The supreme court of the United States has taken a recess for two weeks. It is ex us pected that when the court recon an venes on the 3rd of January one of as. the seats now vacant will be occu pied by Judge Lurton, who was con e firmed by the senate as the successor he of Justice Peckhlam. ra- 8,000,000 Red Cross Stamps. ad New York City.-Eight millon Red t Cross Christmas stamps have been S sold in New York thus far this year. it- The officers in charge of the distri ie bution hope to double this number e- before the end of the holiday sea son. IStole $643 000; Six Years In JaiL. . Cincinnati, Ohio.-Charles L. War' riner, deposed local treasurer of the to Big Four railroad, pleaded guilty to ry embezzlement in the common pleas es court and was sentenced to serve e- six years in the Ohio penitentiary. er Warriner confessed to a shortage :n- of $643,000. Of the money he is al s, leged to have taken from the Big :is Four less than half has bene re covered. .n Warrinern appealed to the inercy o the court. Christmas Gits for the Presldent.. Washington, D. C.-President Taft land members of his farmily received Christmas presents from all over toe i country. Many of these come from tl close friends and relatives, bot a ts large proportion of gifts come from aadmirers whom the president has a' never seen. f- Two big packages turned out to ta 1 rathe-r crude oil paintings. One was a 'e- bust of the presidert. and the other -was a full-length group picture of the, 5. president's entire family. 'inle painm. VAS ___IEDDLER.":I Zelaya Issues Bitter M ifest On Nicaruguan Situation. tl IMPERIAL DESfINS ALLEED t( n 0' Zeleya Says That United States Wishes t< to Convert the Latin Nations v Into Dependencies. t] Managua, Nicaragua.-Ex-President t( Zelaya issued a manifesto declaring S that his surrender of the presidency s was caused by a desire to save Nica ragua the humiliation of outrages thre'atened by a powerful foreign na tion, which was now inaugurating de cisive influence over the destiny of t Nicaragua. Because of his resistance against A the imposition of tutelage, which was the forerunner of the conversion of the Latin nations of this continent into dependencies of the United States, he had incurred the hatred of that government, and when the defeat n of the revolutionists appeared certain, C the United States government inexpli- ] cably severed relations with Nicara gua through Secretary Knox's letter to the charge d'affaires. He protested P before the world against the mec dling of the United States and the d threat to land marines. Zelaya, in his manifesto, takes up various causes of the Knox letter in 7 an attempt to refute certain charges with copies of letters he had received from John Gardner Coolidge, the for mer American minister at Managua, thanking him for his courteous treat ment in -the matter of the claims of t] Guatemala and Salvador. The former president declares that the Americans, Cannon and Groce, were executed according to law. This pretext for intervention, he asserts, is a similar to that employed when the 1 United States first intervened in Cu- c ba, for there was no proof that the : battleship Maine was blown up by r Spaniards, yet this was taken as a k case for dction. Nor, according to a Zelaya, is there any proof that Can non and Groce were put to death un- b lawfully. G General Gonzales, in command of t the government troops at Rama, In an t official dispatch received here, claims fi to have won a victory over the revo- t lutionists. He admits having suffered : severe losses. u Bluefields, Nicaragua.-General Es trada has won r complete victory z over the government troops at Rama. 1< A total of 600 men of both armies a was killed or wounded. Nineteen hurdred of Zelaya's men have sur- I rendered, including General Gonazles, 9 who was in command. Two Ameri- C cans are reported killed. d STATUS OF THE ARMY. h Brigadier General Crozier Says Coun- t try is Not Prepared for War. Washington, Ga.-"There is no first y class respectable power with which e we are in the slightest degree liable to have any complications or a con flict which cannot put into the field immediately at least 3,000,000 men. v They would- put them wherever the conflict might be more rapidly than we would manufacture arms, organ-. ize troops and deliver them on the j grounds to oppose them." -tl This statement was made by Erig- ti adier General ~Crozier, chief of ord- t nance of the army p "The reserve of ammunition whicht we consider desirable to have," add- c ed General Crozier, "considering the e facilities for manufacturing, both in private and government establish-h ments, has been fixed tentatively per haps at 300 rounds per rifle for 600, 000 rifles. If we have that upon C entering into war or active prepara-1 tion for war, with the facilities wet have for manufacturing, operated at t their full capacity day and night, wet will be able to keep up the supply 1 that is needed. At the rate at which .L we would go under the amount that C was propriated in the last appro- 0 priation act, it would acquire about c six and a half years to accumulateC that reserve; at the rate which wes will go under the estimate before ~ you, for use after June 30 next, It will require 12 years to accumulate the re- h serve. Manufacture is under way to s) run the supply on hand up to 123,- n 000,000 rounds by June 30, next." -F KINGi LEOPOLD BURED. i el Leopold's Body Placed in Vault Wtith al His Queen-.s IBrussels, Belgium-The body of C Leopold II, king of the Belgians, was I placed in the royal burial vault, In fC the Church of St. Mary, at Lae~eni, ti the suburban residence of the royal si family. Near it rests the remains of si his queen, Marie Henrietta; the Prin- tc cess Josephine and the duke of Bra- w bant. There also repose the bones of is Leopold I and Quene Louise. p] TRiNITY STUlBENTS EXPELLED. 01 Eight Young Men Dismissed for u Hazing. u( Durham, N. 0.-Eight young men 0 were expelled from Trinity College. Seven boys cast lots with a freshman t to see which was to plunge into a cold water tank. The freshman lost. The young men pleaded not guilty of ti hazing, but President Kilgo dECiared A them guilty of gambling. All were S expelled. 51 President Kilgo declared the aver-.e age college could not be governed d< without the strictest surveillance of n< the faculty,'and that 25 per cent of d< the students of the countr? are unfit pt to be In college largely on account of a: the immoral indulgence of parents. o HIRE iN ENtliLSH STORE. at Twenty Repoi-ted Dead and 50 Pa-h tients Are in Hospital. g Lon~Ion, England-At the height or ti the Christmas shopping rush, the big ti store of Ardington & Hobbs was de- cc stroyed by fire. Within a short time o] 30 injured had been taken out and it sa is reported that many persons were h killed. The crush of shoppers, men cc and women, fled in panic and dozens su were hurt in the jani. The police re- cc ported that twenty persons were be killed. I SOUlTHERN lIMIhR~ATIdN STATION. U The Government Will Spend $75,000 tc on the Structure. Washington, D. C.-An immigration station at Charelston. S. C., to cost s $7,00, was approved by the secre tary of commerce and labor and the commissioner of immigration wLi Op proceed to erect the sta~ton ua grunlu which has already been gmen by t m city of Chareiston. U.scals intenai this as a rep'sy to t;o' uIt-reptsL su. chatge that tue gamrumaent ns. nothing to turn southward de'' .1 Go ra Chicago is facing~ coale famine le extreme cold weather and the Lability of the railroads to deliver -full supply wil enpty the yards 'Ithin two weeks. The failure of ie railroads to bring In all the "coa eeded Is attributed by some dealers ) the great rush of the holiday busi ess'that has tied up traffic, while by thers it is said the shortage is due ) confiscation by railroads to pro ide fuel for their locomotives. A $1,000,000 endowment fund for ie support of the Florence Critten )m mission throughout the United tates will be raised as a memorial ) their founder, the late Charles Nel on Crittenton. The money will be aised largely through gifts of a dol >ar each from members and friends f the missions. Life members and 'iends of the missions will be asked > subscribe one hundred dollars ach. The missions were founded by fr. Crittenton for the rescue of fal m women. That a decided step has been taken )ward success in the crusade against ae boll weevil, by certain experi ients conducted in recent months un er the direction of the Louisiana rop commission, is the opinion of aose who have experimented. A Lrge number of experiments with the oison have been made in various ections of Louisiana. In some in tances the yield was more than oubled and the average increase of ie yield of the plant this year was 0 per cent. Washington. In a complaint filed with the inter tate commerce commission the reight rates on citrus fruits from 'acific coast points to other parts of le United States are declared to be xcessive, extortionate and unduly Iscriminatory. Captain Ben W. Hodges, command nt of the naval station at New Or %ans has been designated to take ommand of the battleship Wiscon In. He will relieve Captain Frank . Beatty, who will be assigned short. r as commandant of the navy yard t Washington, D. C. Owing to illness Senator Clay has een obliged to return to his home In eorgla for recuperation. The sena 3r has been a sufferer from stomach roubles for several months, and his riends have advised him to undergo reatment. Should he decide to do o he may not return to Washington ntil the middle or latter part of Jan ary. While Senator Clay's illness is ot considered serious, it is neverthe ass interferring with the perform nce of his duties in the senate. For the first time in many years, i fact, as far back as the present eneration Is able to remember, the hinese legation has two young aughters, who not only have acquir d an English education, but wno ave permanently adopted American ress. Mme. Chang Yin Tang, wife of he newly appointed minister, has rorn American dress for several ears, and her daughters, have adopt-' d the same fashion. The states of North Carolina and ennessee are at variance as to the ianner of determining the boundary ne between them, the case concern ig which is before the supreme court f the United States. The attorney eneral of North Carolina would have ommissloners appointed to survey ae line, and take testimony, whereas te attorney general of Tennessee 2lnks the appointment of commis-' loners should follow the taking of astimony. A motion to carry the arolina Idea into effect was present d to the court and was opposed in ie interest of Tennessee. The court as the matter under advisement. Chang Yin Tang, the newly arrived hinese minister, said that when he aft China the relations of that coun -y with the United States were bet. Er than they ever had been. lie said 1at while he was not charged spec lily to enlist the Investment of merican capital in development of hineses enterprises, he felt that any vertures of that kind would be wel amed. Minister Wu's recall to hina, he said, simply meant that the ervices of Mr. Wu were desired In nother Important capacity. Complaints which for several years ave been made by French cotton pinners on account of excessive toisture In cotton Imported into rance from the South Atlantic ates, have caused a movement to etermnine the degree of moisture and stablish both the extent of damage ad the depreciation in value occa oned thereby, reports United States onsul James E. Dunning at Harve. he humidity in the cotton exists, >r the most part, in or near the cen ~r of the bale and is due to the. Lream or water used In pressing the apie. It not only injures the cot mn, but It gives it a fictitious weight hich is lost shortly after the bale opened and evaporation takes Lace. Every American who takes is cup coff'ee may like to know that in te ten months of 1909 he has helped ~e up just $64,000,000 worth-846, 0,000 pounds, and that eight-ninths it came from South America. And all that, Brazil furnished nfore tan 600,000,000 pounds. In continuance of efforts to reduce te number of fatal accidents in mnerican coal mines, the United tates Geological survey has just Is ied a primer for the benefit of min 1s and others who have anything to > with explosives. Written in plain, mn-technical language, the primer ascribes how explosives are made, )ints out the dangers in their use id shows how these may be avoided reduced to a minimum. Representative Hardy of Texas in [dressing the house in support of .s resolution asking for the investi Ltion of printed charges of corrup on of members of congress and of e subsidizing of the public press in ;nnection with the ship subsidy, vig ously assailed the papers which he Lid had printed the charges. He said had no idea that any mecmber of ;ngress had been bribed in the ship; ibsidy legislation, but he thought ;ngress ought not to allow itself to "bespattered" without investigat g the subject. Declaration that constitution of the uited States was unsuited .in part the needs of the present generation as made by Dr. Harvey WV. Wiley, ief of the bureau of chemistry. He is speaking at a meeting of -the cular league here. The defect to *. he pointed in 'particular was a n nich, he said, rendered in cratie the pure food law, and ed the governmaent to confine Dp onof the food packing in , to articles :ntended for inter l'te commerce, leavmng the federal raient no jurhialon over food, -ever impure, manufactured or FMM --T.--I PALET[O STA1iENEW Colurebla, S. C.-"I egret V6ry much to report the conditions -of many school buldings In the Rtate far short of 'what they should be," says B. A. Wharton In his report -to insur ance Commissioner McMaster after inspecting the school buildings of tfie state with reference to fire protec tion and fire- escapes. "I, find comparatively . few school buildings in the state properly pro vided with fire extinguishers and tire escapes which in my opinion is- very essential to the safety of the property and the lives of the occupants of sucn. buildings. "I further call ytur attention to the fact that there are school buildings In South Carolina packed to their fullest capacity with human souls that ei ther have no fire escapes, or the fire escapes are so inadequate , that in event of a confagration during school hours, it would be almost, if not im possible, to empty such buildings of their occupants without serious loss of human life. Washington, D. C.-Director Durand of the census bureau, Informed Rep resentative Patterson that only fifty four of the applicants in South Caro lina who recently stood examination for clerkship in the census bureau. here had been successful. This- cov ers the entire stats. Mr. Durand seemed to think that this Inability to pass the examination successfull was no reflection on those who at tempted them~~but was more to be accounted for by reason of the fact that the questions asked were largely those dealing with manufacturing and kindred matters, about which many. persons have little knowledge. It IS not yet shown whether another op portunity will be given South Caro lina to try for tnese places. Charleston, S. C.-James R. John son, Grand Master of Masons or Sotuh Carolina, closed the one hun dred and thirty-third annual commu-,, nication of the Grand lodge in airipe form at the Masonic temple, this city,. the labors of the body having been, completed. The elections resulted as follows: Grand Master, James R. Johnson of Charleston; deputy grand master,, George S. Mower of Newberry; senior grand warden, George T. Bryan of Greenville; junior grand warden, R A. Cooper of Laurens; grand treasur er, Zimmerman Davis of Charleston; grand secretary, Jacob T. Baron of Columbia; grand chaplain, Rev. W. P. Smith of Spartanburg. The trusees of the Masonic orphan age fund made a report showing that there was now in hand for this Insti tution the sum of $33,400, an increase of more than $10,000 during the year Washington, D. C.-It is announced here that President Taft has practi cally settled upon John J. Hemphill, former congressman from South Car olina, and a candidate for the United States senate a few years ago, for commissioner of. the District of Co lumbia to succeed Henry L. West. Washington, D. C.-The chief of en gineers of the war department has sent a communication to congress, in which he stated that in his opinioA. the expenditure of more money at this time for the development of Black river, between Kingstree and. Georgetown, would not be justified by the business carried on. At both Kingstree and Georgetown the people want this river kept open for navigation, as it enables the peo pie of the former place to get In their supplies cheaper than they could be rail, and at the same time it produc'ea considerable business for Georgetown The chief engineer of the war de partment also recommended that no more money be expended in the 1m provement of the Great Pee-Dee river in the vicinity of Cheraw. He states that past expenditures have not been in keeping with the commercial ad vantages of the river, hence he thinks it would be unwise to invest further in that direction. STAT CAPITAL NOTES. ... .The first installment of the report of the asylum investigating committee was given out by the committee. In the first section of the report only statements of a preliminary nature are made. There is a rumnor going the rounds that a general shake-up is likely, when all of the report has been completed and the fnal'~onclusions of the committee reached. This re port will be transmitted to the legis lature in January. -..Te Aububon society of this state in Its annual report recommends C~at some steps should be taken td lessen the loss of life from -hunting acci dents. In some states it is customary for huntsmen to lire at those who mistake them In the night time for deer, so that great care has to be exercsed by those who are huntIng deer. ...In the five and a half months,, du'ing which the state laboratory has been - open, the people of this state have been saved $7,293 which is more than half the entire appropriation for the heatlh department. This is a won derful showing and should be appre cated by those who -have taken the treatment in the Pastuer department. especially. Thirty-three patients have been given immunizing treatment for rabies- and all save two cases have turned out successfully. ....Comptroller Jones is getting to be known as the "reformer." For the' past twenty years he has been fight ing for equalization in taxes botkt with reference to the Individual and. the corporations. HIS coming annuaL. report will contain some stinging pas sages, not of a personal nature, but based on cold facts. It has been a. long fight with him and he may in the end win. ... John Charles Brookhouse has been day commissioned by the secre tary of state as commissioner or deeds of South Carolina in London. Mr. Brookhouse was recently appoint ed to the place by Governor Ansel The address of tie new commissioner is Queen House, 8 and 9, Queen street, Cheapside, London, England.4 ...."The income tax should be be tween $50,000 and $75,0""" -e * Comptroller General Jones ing out his annual stateme: amount of Income taxes. TI - received during the year ii against $8,462, for 1908. ...The wheat acreage for bas shown an increase o - acres over the past year an e received for the crop is in many years. This state s-w aise the highest value per bushel for wheat of all the states In the union. 'It begins to look like home bread," r said Commissioner Watson In suming. p the showing made. 'The produc- - ion in bushels is 3,610,000' as against 35,000 bushels for 1908. The . acre e by years since 1900 and foi 1~30.I ~ere: 1900, 174,245: 1937, 214:000; 938, 215,000; 1909, 47.000. The val :e of the wheat in this state per bush Son December 1 was .$1.46 which~I *a' above that of any other state.