The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, January 27, 1910, Image 2

Newspaper Page TextMEAT BflVCiin SPREADS Wholesale Price of Beef Foils net i c n v/ik A %J III Vl^VViauu* THOUSANDS JOIN MOVEMENT By Refraining From Eating Moat for TL' n D it u...,. i n?n^ Muy i ouytunoiu hu^o iw Lower Price*. Chicago, ill.?The movement to combat the high prices of meat upread rapidly, ami Is assuming a national character. Coincident with the spread of the movement came annouueemont from Milwaukee and Cleveland mat the price of meat hud dropped. lu iMilwuuk*# two retail butchcre Quoted porterhouse steak ut 10 eenta a pound, Strkiln ut the same price and other rneatH in proportion. The wholesale price or u??i r*u on 10 cpiuh a mmdrinl pounde In Cluvelauil. From lx?nver caiue ttie report that Samuel Duttou, president of the We?)ern Hotel Men's Protective /Aisaociatlon, announced that the proposition of cutting down the consumption ot tnoii* will !?< lirniiunt huff)rr> hlrt nr. ganizaiion Ht a meeting to bo hold hero on January 31. \ Dispatches froui Ualtliuore, Kaunas Citj', Omaha, Milwaukee, Memphis Pittsburg ^ldLwettter' .eiijeH told of the rapid! gro^fHot the movement. dev? h^JgLfrftfaiUnl with being the origina ill. iinj iiiu v uuium, iiutv nun *Waiu<;B enrolled in ttic crusade, wlille - Kansas City reports XO.OOO. The heads ol the leading packing houses ol' Kaunas <uy and Chicago refused to dittciiHK the effect of ttic juovemeut upon tneir huttmoMS. Cleveland, Ohio.?From an idle Jest in the ltmclx room of a Ijik manufactory here, tho Cleveland Btrlku against the eating of meat has grown to hiitfe proportions. One hundred thousand people in Cleveland have now pledged "themselves to abstain from meat eating for thirty days. Practically every minor city in Oiiio lias taken up lint movement. Ten thousand householders are reported to have given up eg^s nntii tiie price lias dropped Irom IS ccnto retail to 2f> eenU. ftetail butchers have been compel! ed to cut down their working forces, some one-half, ;md several have retired from bUHiiK'.sH. ^/Pittsburg, Ha.?Petitions pledging abstinence from lor thirty day;; glgned by hundreds of householders. v 'J'l?i Iron City Trades Council, which 'aii.H '.iL'.'/iio members, ITs waiting the word from leaders before putting Into cflVci resolutions adopt ed binding tin; members to join the boycott. noil, lamb and pork iiavo dropped In price on account ol I'arnu rs bringing tlielr shipments to town. From all tow us In western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia come reports oi like crusades. New York City. Representatives ot Swilt & Co., Morris ,v. <'<>. and Hie -^udjjhy Company declined to la- cpmtfed concerning tins no meat" moveup<?nt mi Now York, but ??<>!< tlie at Kjtude i)f laughing the whole matter Hftf. Jteuii deal oik, however, said the ^nycott Mcined already on. Their Kilos had fallen off ou per cent in le past fortnight. Ijosopn ("onion, pre; i?1? nt. of ii very linn ot^Mflo,'e:ml<: dealers, nald: ^^11 the s are high, hut ki Vv'hen ^ VfJ^^^iirn'.iHcs our prlcen will ^ owii. Prices arc not artificial ^^ -.-<11 not ^ l.H Killed our \\i'('k and sold the llow can you hold up that ^Aof a market.'" ?f the oilier hand, representative 1 flti'H Hpoke an follows: '"I lie price Met'f has never been so nigh Tor Yearn ago when beef was HnlKU 1 t,he people bought egf.-s or poultry. 'J'Jiey can't do I hat. now when i roasting chickens bring 2D cents, trie asfiee chickens 17 and IS cents and soup fowls 112 to II cents. "iUiylng has fallen off just one- < Jialf. It will fall farther ii prices ' Et go down. I'ork is phenomenally 1 and it looks as if it. would ro *M\_?k/jl'l< Lelidcrloiti:-. Hi'e .'!il c-ulu p,ol,?;ril anil renin retail. If tiiih Bltuution i.-ontiit i' 'i n.any <l< ;U? r;, will . Bo forced out <>i busin< and tin runt, will run in il? own uhoph Wo Kro simply clorkH for tin: tru i now. M Kansas City, Mo.?That 10 e in Kan. a ? Ity will join tho anilMaftt-oatlng cni.sado durum ilio next Ma< dayn w< predicted by leaden Sn ^Hrtemphu., renn.?Following up of oilier c i 'yj 1114 i/'ar.ijJ^ll^burvlTy'loNi j on In letiard^^P^fb'.iiig 11m<*w Hi from ,n ilowu|?ri< Over HPFIY K1 I.I.I I) IN WHICH. |Hi<tr)iari Pacific I r.tin Plunged Into Hworth Bay, Ontario.? IkjiIIi in all most turriblti forma hloilr-ri out Wf?> i i v *iaptt two I> pooplo \\ llC'll Willi ' II of a Canadian Pacini: pi* r u,.,n leaped fioiii tit< track , tcai'iiu a .st'-f'p (MiitianXnu ill, and plui;,, l>uru<-<| i lO MOIIIf III UK-Ill \\ II II ; <yl; otherK criiHti'.'U to d'atli. All official liliitoiiK-nt v. '.'ii out 11 i bttji that if. prohahly v?.a > (Juc i , broken rail. TOM TAtiUAIIT SHOT. Democratic Leader May Loco One E?- #? Result of Accident. fefeAltitdhez, Mlaa. I hoinnn l iigf-.u'l . ^^KxiciuMc national coinmlttwiuau i^Jpslnnii, wbh ucrldtiiitully Hliot wlill< f|&tntlnK<' with Iiih private necrutary, Harry Horton, near Kuyi-ttr, in .1 county, MIbhIsbIppI. Korty-two Hi Hlmt tilrmli Mr. 'JdgK'irt in tho mIi'mi Idi r ^penult, hcnldeH othor Injuria, it gjlrcd that tlui HlKht of ono eye ? n?;Huoy. Kocknfullor, Hording to rollahlo r? ports, hau ?lv Bb./'niMiMi lo help 11Kii I MH O^J'nrt. of the money Ik (o Im ostiibliHlilMK newapuporu in Jfrfat'iH. anionic them holng Vir^^^Florlda and Washington ?lfcvv YOrk City.?John I) Hock" Bu>r, Jr ,yrofi)H?fl to il my or nfltrin Hoc roport from Norfolk, Va , that In ^^tlwr had flvon $f?,0l)0,0<J0 to aid1 !" '? y.llil!l" "1,1 iff' 4* HIUUKK WA8E9 DEMANDED. Two Hundred Thousand Men Aik Railroad* for Increased Pay. it A A ROAD3 DENY DEMANDS. A A A A Now York City. ? The Now A A York Central Hull road rejected A the demandH of its employees for A aa III1.1CIIDVII II nh>-D, nllf.'K' Ml > "K llltll Mt. A tho moil name u committee to A A meet Willi a similar body ol' of- A A IIcIuIh to ? adeavor to adjust tho A A dlfforeucos. All tho other roada A A have (iivou similar reply to tlio A A demand. A A A AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Cleveland, Ohio.?A crisis lu tho railroad affairs of this country only etjualod by the memorable strike of I'JOU wan created wnon tho conductors ami trainmen of 32 railroads, embracing all the linen east of Chlc.ayo and north of the line of tho Olios*apoulco and Ohio railroad, mado for m.U demands on their employers for a genoral Increase in wages and botter working hours. What tho outcomo will be Is problematical, but tho louder* on both slden admit that t.ho possibilities of a strike are remote. In tho event of a strike being declared, however, nearly 200,000 men would bo affected, and about 100,000 miles of ruilroad, including all the linos to and from New York and other groat eastern terminals, would be tied up. Tiio list of demands was prosonted to the general managers of the respective railroads, and contains 15 articles calling for advancement in wages of bt tween 10 and per eon lor freight and passenger conductors, IrelKht and liassotiucr liinUciiii.M III..! llugnuMi, together wllli requeatH for shorter bourn In various branches of tho service and better runniiiug condl Hons. The demands arc1, for tho greater pari, of a technical character, and a number ol tli?-111 will undoubtedly be rejected. NO FfcUhRAL I AW I OR INSURANCE. Eo Taft Tells the Chiefs of the Life Companies. Waaliinyton, L). C.? President Tall, addressing tin- annual meeting (if th*. Association ol' Lllo Insurance Presidents, hold out no hope lor tno enactment ol' a federal law to govern the companies, and advised the executive oMeers lo li<-ii11 their efforts to secure nniroriu legislation in the I KtlllPS. In I lie president's audietiee were a| uo/.eu or more ftdvcniors of states anil nearly ?0 leaders of tin- lilt; insurance l>usine:;s of tin' railed Slat*-.; The ns.soclat ion discussed plans Tor Urn coiihm valion of |inl>li<- health and measures which may ho taken in lho hope of lengthening Hit' span of IiI? . ('onservnuon ol tue health of policyholders in no\s so paramount an Ihsuo with the 111"1 insurance companies thai one of the largest of IIh-mi is planning a sanitarium for lis policyholders. Alfred llurrcll, ccurisol lor tho in suraucc department of .New York; K. M. ('rain of ( hattanooga, Tenn., and others addressed th association on tho subjects of uniform lile insurance i" Him aiiiaiKiiMiui ion ni com* panics. DEMOCRATS IU WIN. Victory Certain in Next Election, Sayt ' Ex-Governor McMillan. New York City. The democratic | party will swoop ilie country in the j next, presidential election, according lo Kenton McMillan, former jsovernor , of Tennessee, who Is in .New VorN ! for a brief visit. "Tlio democratic parly'h prospects brighten every day," said the lorincr governor, discussing the polilical sil nation. "'I'hIh is the undoubted and in ! uvitable result of republican misrule, ! It J2.l)0n.lMMJ. 110(1 cnnirrii'i :in<l ii.?. I wornt of all, tin* tarilf. "No wonder we havo recurring panics. Thu great. wotwl<?r is thai we uvor get over I hem No wonder that. ;i rovolution has o<enrred out west. No wonder that the in urgent;! ol' tho republican party in i The earth rjtiako h is Just begun The republl ['litis are wholly t<> Maine for Hie high r:ost of living winch is causing ho much complaint and consternation If the democratic party will ntarn? j hy Its ancient, principles it caniio> ; rail." m WtMltlTS illLTIONAKY. Steps Taken to Have Famous Work Declared Obsolete. Washington, D. C. St<p? w re la ken l>y (lie ucnal<' coinmll ?*? mi mil llary affairs f.v Ihut an llmrlly i? not KailKfnelory. Hcuutor Dupont wiik nutliori/.cii lo, introduce a bill pn'suibliiK kkuIh-! lions RovornliiK ili?" dlBinlH.sal ol ?a j iletH from the \\'<-: t J'oilil Military Aradomy on < bari" ? of lia/.irw, and In d'dlnn vlial < ?ni: i itut? s ba/.iny. Jmitliurn Mills futures. Savannah, Ua.? nvaiiiiuli bruUors roceivod r< poru 11 :;I soul Imrn mill.*: I wi'rc DoyiiiK iK iivnv i i ><.11011 in turn coiiiran* in \<'\v Vorl<, and would (Icilinnil rl< Ii\ I'i'ii': li. Hum means tin- ii ills an <M i <! i;i." I?i iinyl limx like a rori'i-' iioihIiiil' (|i'Ki'''i' Fx liuviiiiror l.uwry IHjnd. JacUeon, Misg.?<'oltjucl Koliort I Lowiy, IWKM' r<>v?riiof of Mi .. 1 . ij?1/1. 1 a eonledi'iate \'l< ran ami J?>r iiair ' si <? n 1111 > i > i< ?m i 11 ' fi' in ill.' .iffnii-; < if i liii' si a I? , ?11? i > i li ??!** , ii k? I 7H yoarH. lo I nn: the Illncs. Boaton, Mass.- Imu IuikI 1m to have ;i "ouro foi Ili? l?iiics," an irtfititntion Klv(*n over lo the In>ainiont of melancholia, oIjHp> loin ami like ni.iladieu, under a spfi iall/iMl modern form of troatiiiMit Min Martha .loneti, a resident of tliia city, and widow of tli<- late Frank .lonna, th? millionaire mr-wer, 01 I'orUfJiolnil, N II., Iiiib lurn'fl Im t oxtfiiMlvu Br;ho I'ark, ov< i In In |{? rl? StdlM, of Harvard, for mioIi a sanatorium, which will opfii May I Ronsevfilt lor SpuakKr ni tin: lluiisu Washington, D. C -UooHovelt, for Hpoaknr of iho |io?m<- <if ropmHontatlvnn. Tli 1 h Ik tho laU'Ht (IrclHlon an lo what "uhali In- iloim with our ex proHWinnt, acorning lo .t ri-porl (hat twin Hj>r<*a<! among in"iiiIkth ot COngr<-HH. It 1h ('voii hiikJ that \1r. KoohovHI iuiK agrc'Ml to run for oongrogn In tinfirHt dlMrk't of .Now York Htato, In which oyhtor May, i i.oiih . ih i?>< a* el. The undorrttandlng that no \s [bo filcctod tf? thr> k<THli11> If ho irunw 1 h. It. Ih deotaP'ri, iiihIhIccI upon ' t>y Mr. JtooHovolt. , _ ' HOOKWORM DISCUSSED Warning Sounded on Diaease Which Attacks South Most. SIISCFPTIRIF TO TItFATMFWT | wwvwi nuiiii i u iiiidiuiun ? The Hookworm Is Declared to Bo tho Moat Serious Infectious Disease in the Southern States. Atlanta, Ga?"The moat serious Infectious di Reuse in the south is that of the hookworm," declared Dr. Chats. Wardel Stiles of the United States public health service in addressing; tno llrst national conference called for tho study of the hookworm disease. Whllo tmacimens of the hookworm have been found in the New lCnglaml Htate?, thu middle went and northern Pacific states, tho disease 1b primarily one of warm climates and is genorally prevalent in th? uouth Atlantic and gulf BtuteB. On tho negro iB placed th:.! resiionnihility for tho presence of the di?easo in the United States. Dr. Stiles Hi\id that tiio hookworm found hero has been traced to the west coast of Africa, "and It undoubtedly was brought here by tho negro." In this connection Dr. Stiles called attention to the fact that while the in sro had given to the whites the hookworm, tuberculoslH had been presented to the 1101*1*0 bv the willies. and the death rule union# tlio negroes Iruiu consumption ih throe times tiif toll til tliul (i I souse unions thu whites. Twenty-live per cent of the cotton mill yinploycefi of the south me at I'octod with the hookworm, nald L>r. Stlh'H, who based the statement on personal visits to 12M nulls in North and Hout.i Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. The mills in the sandy mictions of these states showed a much higher percentage of Infection than did those ol the piedmont. or clay sections. In the mills of Atlanta the infection was found lo he less than ft per cent. In some of the rural communities of the south whero there is an absolute la> k ot sanitary arrangi mont, '.to I'OCtOl]. More than 250 physicians and ropr?# sentutives (it 111 ? insurance companies and commercial organizations Iroin all sections ol tli?- I'liiied Slates wi re present at the conference. Dr. II. I?\ Harris ol Atlanta, ol whom l >r. Sliles spoke as (lie llrrti mini to recognize the hookworm in America, discussed l lie 11 vat ment <>t the disease.. lie declared u to be most susceptible to treatment. HOUKWUKM IS mm. Southern Factories Mere Deadly to Children Than P.irasiteb. Chicago, III.?The hookworm is much aliuaed, according to I'loTessor (.'. K. A. W'iiiHlow ol' the .Massachusetts Instil ute of Technology, the astern scientist, who says: " I nrnti:*f?i v:i !?!< 11 imiu in ii?*. Houthern 1'nrtories are causing tuotv deal,is t it tin tlx; hook v.* <?i in. ('hlldrcu under th?? legal ago are working hours a day in cotton lactone* i hookworm is n:?nt .toned when 11: hlaine r?*:?Ily should lull on industrial condlt lon?. "I do not nay the honk worm is not an evil that litis to he comhiil ted. Hut. while \ve.nr?" on tin- suhjerl ol deaths in tlx- t<outh, why not. mention tin:' otln-r ,-parasite?'' I'liJlt : <u" \\ inslow mimed tne hahli ??!' ' walking haretool tts conducive to the hook worm disease. cnirio 11j11 i i urn miirn ouiiiii run, iiwr ilanniij. Antarctic Trip to Be Made in the Interest of Scientific Work. Washington, D. C.?An expedition In the South Atlantic and the Antnrc tic kiio'v regions In tin' interest of economical and ttclentillc work liy flic Kisli commission steamer Alhutro*? ik under consideration I?y Secretary Nap el of tin1 d< partim nl. ol commerce and lalior. It wuh sunKesled l?y Men j ry K. <>l?l?oii??-, president ??I the Ainer j lean Museum ol Natural lltMory tit New York. Mr upborne said he recently has received ?i in I idcii I ia I I ti font ii t ion from jno who has just returned from tli"* f-? itii 1 ii i< 11 <i(< hllainlH 11< r out 11, rivaling i lit! 111<J11 I ry < ! t iiorl Ii Mr <) Inn Hi- naym Ii'- ik i n-ililily in Jonni'il I?iit>< 11111>11 ' i <il <'lc|ihautH iii <(i i xi i In tin* A lit ;n < t h-^hjii Mon of Kiif'iM'i' ilchiri- ili'lliuti I ii r orniation in i? i',;11?i io tin' <|in t iiin nt tin' .'- 'ii Imttoin, 111? iiii *il I ii- on an aliyj^Ki and tin- dint i Unit ioii nt lain) IIIUKH' ') III III*' HOIll tli'l'll A11 i 111II <'. WOULD SHUR1KN HINIKAI.8. Tcnncacee Ministries to Reform Order of Conducting Burialw. Columbia, Icon.- I lit n* i a move 1.1. Ill l.ll I . ./.I v illi II. - I'1' " "''in ?'i ihiH H< < tion in r< MM in ili>' order ?11 net I III' t ii' i''l 1 lii' liillllMcf'K hiivf siiK^'i'sl i| iim follow my, i iiu'h: Kir# I I lie : i vii' Hliall lie \>-ry brief. .S< eouil I : i ill he !< '.v, if Hhf coin111< 111. Ii; 11. 11;i. lor ((Milliict 111k j I lie h(*i ic< ;:ikI con ui'-iil only In ox ( ( i ;it Ion it I ' i ( TljiVd 'I Ik Ian 11v KitoiiId not r<- ! ma: ii . ri i li< < > lory mill i Hit' ^ruv I Is 1111 ( i, oi !?? < ;ill> In ili<- whiter. Fourth Sunday I .n< ia!:: Hliotild, as j far ?ih po n|lilo, Ii<' (IlKcouraK'id. Ml) I til It ANII (Jill I) HI!K VIII. Charlotte Wom.in nnd Oa by Roaateo to a Criap. Charlotte, N. C. -KnaMod to a erlup til'; bodb-H of Mis I A MuIIIh ami Ih i1 (hree-weeks old miaul won* din covered in Hi" !ii? j>I: <? of tin lr hot'* near I jincolijton A lew feet away lay the tWO-yearold Kill KulTorHted by j the Hfiioke from In r mother's gar mentH. She may recover Mik. MtilliH wan Hiihject lo faint trig, ""'I " 'K presumed Hhe swooned and fell Into the grate SHIII S Wil l. CIISI MIlHi:. | High Price of Material Necessitates Advance. Boston, ?Tin- prim of ahoPR Ik KolnK up Olllrial aiiiioiiiiminont to thin "fTcrl w;ih mailf; liy the \a tlonul Slio< \V liok'salorK' Association Tho aHH'j'liil Ion i-ay a thai, tlio cxlal ii?K 111KI prirt-R <>f l^athfr mid mute rinla mukcH tin- Incnrvxc ih'cdmrupy, lllll I lifll till* |:H? |il l< <-S Will li<> HO ltd JiihKmI "lit to p? i'ii i H I tin addition to <'ii' h Ki'adis of Kti' ii viilwo an w'li ( <?m|)?MiHat<* tin- w< ar< i for Incronurd coat." FARMERS URWDJOBOLD ioiTON. Slump in FuturM Hun't Afivcted th? Vadue of Real Cotton. Now Orleans, La.?Apropos ot tho Ro-uallcd bear raid In th? New York cotton market. President W. R. Thompson of the New Orleans cotton exchange, iBaiu'd a signed statement, In which lie Hays; ii iiirru wno uv?r u mwu wni'U wiw cotton producer aiul tliti holder oi upot cotton should nuiko u (stand that time in the present. We havo recently passed through ono of the most trying and unwarranted declines in the history of the cotton trade. Spot cotton 1b intrinsically worth little if any leos than It was two weeks ago, yet in the meantime, through the manipulation of a few bear operators In the New York market, the entire cotton trade has boen for tne time l>elug demoralized. jjhi u uo unuoraioou mat tno slump in tho contract market has nut. affocttil the lntrtaulc value of cotton. The law of supply and demand dwtorminen thlB value. The New York raid is not a legitimate Incident of the cotton trade either in spots or futures. It represents tlio ettorts of a few men with much money to gain ! their purpose by a guerrilla attack. | It lb uk if a man or set of men lor the Bake of gratifying a personal grudge uud of reaping a personal profit should endeavor to stampede the occtipantK of a crowded building by the ory ol' 'lire.' "Tile issue is a largo one. It coin ^ii unniun iiKJIf I 11II11 111(3 I UU?n*KlH Ol the bear or bull curators In cotton. | It ralsex the question uh to whether u few manipulatory shall demoralize a great trade ?ynte?n and go unpunIcthed therefor. It affoctB the bent j Interests of not only the spot market, but tl<e future market nK well. '1 lie luoet powerful agent of retribution Ik within the eontrol of the farmer and Bpot holder, if they will line It." BUTTfcK TO STAY HHiH. Had News for Housewives is Sent Out From Elgin. Elgin, III.?llouKewlven, who expect the price of butter to drop from 40 cents to 25 cents u nound an the summer approaches, ate 10 < <-ut a oft on their K?tebs, according to members of tin- IOIrIii hoard of trade, who establish butter prices for the middle wok I. tev?*ry spring the quotations lit>111 30 to -1 > cents wnolesale to between 20 and eentn. TIiIk year, rreainy :nen declare, (hero will he no derided drop in the market. A Uo cents wholesale quotation meatiK butter at the grocery stored at cents. Petition tor Morse's Pardon. Charlotte, N. C.?Prominent men of this city in rapid succession alilxed their mums to a petition praying President Tail for the absolute' pardon id t'harles W. .Morse, the New York hanker, who was convi< led of n violation o| the national blinking acf, | and Is now serving a fifteen-year | entence in I lie federal prison in Atlanta, (ii 'l in- petitioners declare their appeal is made because of tiielr belli | ami firm conviction that the sentence imposed upon Mr. Morse is a pitiful miscarriage of Justice. f) Persons Burned to Death. Philadelphia, Pa.?Five persons? four girls and one man?leaped to their death in a panic caused hy a lire in the four-story factory building on Chancellor street. Five others received Injuries from which they will prohahly die, and many more were less r.eriously hurt. .Nearly all of the dead and severely Injured were emoloyed in the shirtwaist factory of Joseph ('nacliklri, which ?jc'.-ui?hii imri or 111o fourth floor of tli<' huilitiiiK. C'liiK-likin him* self wiiH injured. Oni! of his dauKli tors is dead, hihI another dylnj?. Millions lsi!d Hyhttay Tulwrculttsls. New York City.?EVfOit millions of 1 dollars wen- Hpi'iit for the prevention I and treatment of tuberculous during the year IStO'J, according to the coin pilatiomi ju? t roinplHf'd by the Nil ilonal 'I'liherciiloHiH AHUodation. Of 1111h :i MI' >11111 tH,^:>0,U00 was Spent from public moneys and the remainder lrom funds voluntarily contribul< .| Twice a? inucii will be spoilt in 1Q10. Newny Paragraphs. 'Ihc larm census for tin' last do* l ittle shows Unit on a basis of l hr? '* acres or more the number of new farms brought under cultivation wan olio million, and that the value of all larm in till: country Increased I rom I ^.iKio.odU to $i!!l,7H".0IM?,(Mill, Hie greatest increase being ill tin- west, and next In the south. The Frankfurter Zoilulig Is inform ed that Or. Frederick A Cook has ar ranged for a strictly incognito stay at a t aultariuiii near Heidelberg, tiermany. 'I lie nealth ol Hie explorer Is represent! d as having heeii seriously affected hy recent events. 'I li<- iinal v?T?ll<-t on |)r Krodorlck A ("ciok, llif* diKcredltid lor<-i\ was panned l?y the rnlvernlty of <!? pi-olwiircn < xuinIitIiik fiiiiimill* Having Kont' lliroiiKli Hie original notes in tlielr entirety, the <<>i)1111111?*< confirmed 11k previous decision that I ?r Cook had not r"iwh?*<l tlie* noitii polo. I mvid Khapeiro. widely known t Ii roiiKiiont t!i<' <<>t t < 11 states, who about two y?*ars ago proinoteil u rot t in wan-lion (homo in Texas, and wlio disappeared after iiiimeionr eredItorn liiid Instituted Imnlmiplcy pro rrcdintfagainst iiim, wan i n?l ict hy tin- Hants county wand Jury on xevcral counts, all uII<*kInk lottery, "I'lic* wlicicaliOiilK of Sli.i|ii? i o Is no known, bill In* la believed to bo la XW anif; ia Rejecting many of the demands, (irTiuMn> stent lo WaHljIiiKlon an outline ol l?? r llnal stand in regard lo a tariff aKroi-im-nt with the UnllOu Status. If Anmrica HfekH to force I more advanta ;?<mih termn than (Jermany prints in th? memorandum ca| bled, the o*ly r<?nult will lie a tarlli war. u<*rinuny Iiuk not backed down from her *ti?nd against American meatB, which has bnn the principal point of conization In I he ueKOtint ioph conducted h?itw**-n iii* i.i nt e I department and th? (itrmnn anibaHHa| dor (it Washington. Il Ik Btutod on fjood authority that I im- l'ort?* linn romrnftin i d procuodln?{K to r?!Cov<T from the Deutnchn banU til'; in 111 Ion u dnpoKiicd ilierc by Abdul ilurnld, tins former Hullan of Turkey. Firi?!?>n yoar old John Lohner of ChloiiKO quit six positions in nix inoiithK, and .linlgu l'l? kitty of tho Juvenile rotirl ih uiixIouk to learn why. MiKrt Caroline lillnn of llio Inlveralty of Chicago nettloment, ilnnku It Ih liM'iiilHO i In- hoy Hinokrs clKar*ttoH to exeeBB. I ii" < oiirt think* there may in1 hohii* c*111< i rr;iu)ii iind will have Mm- l?oy examined liy a physician hi tho juvonllo court. / OPPOSE LEPS STATUE! Senator Heyburn Object* to Honoring Memory of General. MADE UNPLEASANT SPEECH Idaho Senator Makes Spoctacular Exhitional of Sectional Venom?Statue Already Up. Washington, D. C.?Sonutor Heyburn of Idaho, renewed his hOHtllity to auy movement honoring the memory of Robert 10. Lee, whose utatue he objects to being accepted for Statuary It II I I Itv nfTitrinur n racnlnHnn /Inmitwl. lng to know why the United States collector of customs ut Newport News Joined In the celebration of Lee's birthday. The resolution considerably surprised southern democratic statesmen and probably many on the republican side of the chamber. It wna such an unexpected waving ot the red flag that it astounded everybody, particularly in view of the light it shed 011 Senator H?yburn's aspvr niuiitt. i iiw reifit'UCHH IU iiuiium unu Benedict ArnoldB in thatt spuecii became miplcuKaiHly significant. In Ilia speech Monday on tho accoptance of tho statue of George L. Shoup, presented by the state of Idaho, H<'iiator Heyburn asked if It wore the intention of congress in passing the act of July H, mt>4, to provide that any traitor should ever have a place in statuary hall, or that a Benedict Arnold should ever be ho honored".' lie held that no statue was of rig/it in the hall unless accepted by congress. aonuvoi Money OT MiBBUHippi, 111 Kpeakiug of lleyburn'8 address after tho Henatc adjourned, Bald: "It Is Ptrange to me that hero f>0 yearn after the war, a man who never heard a gun fired should make such n spectacular exhibition of EectKmal venom. Even Mb own colloagueH will condemn him. Nobody would havo done ho more quickly than that great Koldier and magnnnlmoun man, <;?meral Cirant, During; several weeka spent with (J<?n<*ral (Jrant at a hotel in Mexico ho frequently spoke of lx-e j in tho highest terms of admiration. 1 I hope Senator lleyburp will not pur mi! iiio iinwiHo ciJiirnu iuruiur, uui lei tliis matter drop." Since the opposition to the acceptance of the I,oe stutue by congress? has developed, there haB been conslderablo talk of not Insisting upon tliis mere formality. The Btatue 1b already set up in Btatuary hull. Asked ii he tuought the usual cere- 1 monies would be dinpensed with In tliis ease, Senator Money Bald: "Hather than have a statue of General Leo sneaked into statuary hull, ' 1 think no means should be Bpared to make the ceremonies of acceptance the most elaborate and impressive of any over held. No man whose statue ' now stands in the hall deaerveB more j praise tor his noble qualities us a ' in.ill a soldier liliil n ("lirf ft. lun ('.en. trill Grant would have echoed tout. I greatly admired General Slioup, wb >se Klatwe wax accepted from the j Bt'ilo of Idaho. Had 1 been able to spare the time to prvpare It, 1 would | have delivered a tribute to his lncinory. Hut, if Senator Heyburn persifiti; in bis present course, I favor having every caiep of old confederate voter- , ans in the south come to Washington 1 in their gray uniforms and attend the presentation exercises.' TAH HONORS Uh8R61A. President Takes in Mrs. Brown at t White Houcc Dinner. Washington, D. C.?President Taft took ill Mrs .liiHciiti VI llrnwn r\1 (ieorglu ut tii<' white house dinner In honor of the visiting governors. Waiving the usual formality which proscribes that the president shall take In 0110 of thn cabinet ladlex, precedence at the dinner was fixed according to tho order In which the states entered tin- union. (Jeorgia wuh the third state to adopt the constitution of 1787, which repluced th?:old articles of confederation. As tho wives of tin! governors of Delaware and 1'rnnsylvanla were not present, til** wife of (ieorgla's governor took precedence. This whs the historic explanation given l?y Captain Archie i IJutt, the president's military aide. MU'IH OBSLRVtS LKt'S HIRIIIHAY. Exercises Were Held in Many South- I crn Cities. i New Orleans, La.?The 1 OHtl birth- j ; day of Ceiiernl Robert K. Lee wan j 1 celebrated Ihroiigliout the Houtli. He- 1 lug a legal holiday In a number ot i KtatuH, it v.ar? attended with a par i tial suspension of buHlueHH activity. The dialributlon ol ciohhcs of honor to confederate veterans hy the Daughters of the Confederacy In praei Ically every town mid city of tho I south coiiKtl'uted a prominent feature j of the duy'a commemoration. IIAII.WAV KOBK II III $850,000. 1 Chicago and Western Indiana Briny Suit Afjain?t Officials. Chicago, III.?Charges that llenjumln I'homaK, former president of the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad; Charlen R. Kappes, former real stale dealer for the road, and John (' h'etzor, obiulned at loaol ?.xr><i,000 hum llio railroad through a real ohlato conspiracy, are made la a hill tor an accounting lllcd in tin* circuit court. According to tin* )>! 11, tho real ohtato truimart lorm In quoHttou took plaoo In 11)06, and Involved tho expenditure of 1 ,>.! !?. 'I lio dofondantH aro aliened to have divided tho $850,000 prolltrt FIVK CANUlUATtS FUR (iOVtRNOK. Alabama Race Promises to Be Very Hard Fought. M r\ ?a ft r\ m * *? A I ^ - J, /-? ?. > m\i ii-ri | Con, preaidwnt of tlio railroad comiiiIshIoii, announced for the democratic roiittnation for governor, muklriK flvo In tin* rare, the otiiwrn belli# U. H. I>. ilnllory of 8?lma; Km in <>t t O Ncfti of Florence, Samuel L> Weakley of lllrnilngham, and Waller I). Hood of TubCIllOOHU Mr. Henderaon wa? aKitlnnt the pro hlbltiou amendment. (i A. R. MAN liUNDKI D. For Defending Q?n?ral Loe Chicago Man Gets Loving Cup. Columbua, Oa.?"For lh?? manly and (onrageoua dffonK? ho made of (Jon* era I Itobnrt K. Doe at a moetliiK of Ills camp r?rontly railed to protent a^alnHt the placliiK ol (Jonoral I Ate n Ktatm- In the llall of Kauio at Wash Ington," Dr. (Jr?y of tno Chicago, ill, < mini> <it the (Iraml Army ol lint Republic, will he preflmdod with a loviitk cup by tlift riti/.ciih of thin city, A resolution to HiIh effect wa? adoptmI here on i*eo'g birthday. UTE KtWS NOTES. Gw*nl. Nln? billion dollara' worth of agricultural products have boon exported from the Unltod States during the last ten years, thoae exported In thp . flBcal yoar 1909 having alone amoynted to practically 1900,000,000, agalnaf Ihrh thnn l#(in nnn nnn mnu Tlie will of Darius O. Mills, dlsp Ing of property which his business soclnto and frlond, Honry Clowe,/ /io bunker, said would amount to $o0,* 000,000 or moro, has been lllcd in Now York city. The bequeats Include $100,000 each to tho Muvcuni of Naturul HiBtory, tho New York Hospital for Incurables, and American G?* graphical society; J&O.OOO to t*? j?roux /.ooiosicai garaena asm the Metropolitan Muoeum of Arts, 125,000 to tho American lied Cross aoclety, and the balance to his Hon, Ogd?n MIUh, and his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Held, tho wife of tho amtmesador. n. President Taft wah elected an active member of the society of Mayflower doxcondanta by virtue of a discovery that ho 1b a descendant of Francis Cook, one of the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, in 1620. Hereafter whou President Taft goes forth aB commander-in-chief of tho army he will have a Hag more in keeping with hlH nize. War department officials. decreed tbwt his Hag should bo changed in order lo make it more symmetrical. It will bo fashioned on a pike oleven feet long, instead of ten feet. Tho fourinch American eagle that has stood alert on tho mlobe that adorned the top of the pike during all these yearn, Is to give way to a bird measuring live three eighths Inches. Tho globe Ik to ho reduced from three to two inches in diameter. Preparatory to tho Increased number of stamps which tho internal revenue department will have to keep on hand on account of (he urowth of tho country's trade nnd on account of tho new stampu which will Ik; IbBucd to meet tho demands of the now tariff, orders have boon given to hnvo the present storage vault of tho bureau enlarged. Wheu coinplctod tho vault of tho bureau will be about seventy-ll vo feet long and twenty foet wide. At present the bureau Rends annually by registered mull to various parts of tiio Dinted States about eighteen tons of stamps. It Is believed that during the present fiscal year there will Ik; issued from the revenue office about three billion stain |xv Domestic exports for lllOi) were $77,(100,000, less than in 11(08. Cotton alone Is the one redeeming feature. It shows an increase of over $22,000,ooo. lireadntuffa led the decline with a falling off ot more than f67,000,000, and meat and dairy products fell off more tiian $28,000,000. Mineral oils ; about hold their own wlt.li losses of ii little more than $."1,000,000. The Individual louses In l'our cIuhhcb brings the gross decreaBe to morn than 5100,000,000, but this is reduced by the Increase in cotton exports. The agricultural appropriation bill reported to the house takes good care of the Houlh. Two hundred and ilf* teen thousand dollars Ik appropriated for the study and demonstration of | the best method of meeting tne rav- 1 ages of the boll weevil. For the in- I vostigation of Insects nffecting south- ' ern Held crops, ?I7,000 is given. The mi iimu 1:1111 irn f i^.vuu nil i IIO coil- ^ trol of diseases of cotton and truck crops, 'rim secretary ib authorized i by the existing law to IIx the stand- j aids of certain grades of cotton and \ to prepare sets of samples which will illustrate thane standarda. The work of ntnndardl/.htion has been completed and it is hHieved that at least one hundred ??*th of aamplcH will bo called for during the coming year. The law requires that these samples shall be paid for at the actual cost of preparation, but of course the expense must llrst bo Incurred and the committee gives $25,000 tor that purpose. Horace MacFarlaml, president i\' the American Civic association, made a plea lor state legislation to promote miblie control of nrivatelv owned tor. ?'hih before U)> conference on uniform hIhIu legislation. "Ufdng every day tin'') tluuiH ub much a a wo grow, and wanting a a much an we use, we can nee tlio ( lid of wood in tin* United St atea," declared .Mr. MacKarland. "Four-lift Iih of tiic timber standing in tlie United States Ih privately owned, and ai! in being cut destructively, i lu- remaining ono-llfth is in government posKcsKion, and if it were ent clean there would only ho enough leil lo In?t. tho United Slates ten yearn ai the present rate of conmnnt ion." .loai|uim Nabuco, lira/Mian ambassador lo Washington, died suddenly jit 1 In* (Miilcmkv In W si h'Ii I lift?in 11^ w;iH Hixly yearn old. 'I in- immcdtuto cnuHe rf (lenlli in mild to have linen tho n.pturo of an artery in the bruin. There Ib no bu/./.Ing of tho 1U12 presidential bee In the bonnet of <Jovernor Hughes of Now York, according to hi? Htulonienl The governor, who Is in Washington, to attend the meeting of the govei noi'H, was asked: "lioes your declination to run for the govnrnorriilp of New York a third time moan you will consider the republican noirdnntion for pronl dint In 19127" "It iin-aim nothing of the Hurt," Mr. Hughea promptly repiled. "It means simply that I Intend rerunning the practice of hiw when I llnish my present term and that I will he out of politics. This talk of my being a presidential posuihllity comes t'roin my friends and not from me, as I luivo not given tho mnltor any thought." All hut Tour or live of tho throe hundred and twenty nine supervisors of tho census appointed by President Tnft wore favorably reported to the senate. The east and south have a right to ask the name attention to the dovel- j w|nuviii iii i im ioiiik\k on inc wainrhIkuIh of tho Appalachlnnti at the hands of tho national government ax hiiH bt?en already given to tin* wont, declared former Oovornor Curtlsn (lulld, Jr., of MaHnnclniHottr;, prrsldent of the American Foroatry uhhoelation, al ltn annual dinner. Another national hlutorloal aoclety, tho descendant* of Hignt-rH of tho declaration of Independence, will be brought Into holuK by a hill ordered favorably reported from the inmate commltteo on Judiciary, authorizing tho Incorporation of thia noclety. Hhr.Prealflnnt - - ..y?nvi?n, mini.* from Nairobi under date of December 15, 190'J, ha? Informed tho Hmlthmjp Ian iiiHtitution thin Hk expedition under IiIh chargo liuk flnlnbed Its work in Mrilitfiri lOawt Africa and tn about to loavo for I.Ruuda. lie Hlatos bo ban colleotod 8,4^3 vertehrutOH, a number of Invertobralea and many plunt.it and photograph**. PAlitTTOSTlTF. NEWS c//mbia, e. C??-The Calhoun statue Vjmmlesion announced tiiat the ( 'Veiling of tho John C. Calhoun atui would be hold on March 12 In jtatuary Hall at Washington. The former date was January 19. , Tho commission Iiuh boon noli Hod that the exercises appropriate to the reception and aoceptanco from tho state of|*3outh Carolina of the statue would not bo prepared by January 19. Kvery South Carolinian la invited toi attend the unveiling exorcises, and limitations have been issuod to a. number. Washington, D. C.?Representative Lever, in support of bis proposition to appropriate $50,000 to raiso the lock and dam at Cranby on tho Congaree river, filed an Important brief with tho house rivers and harbors, committee. In the brief ho sot out what the DroDoeitlon would mean to Columbia and (Jeorgetown, and showed also that in the nour future a third boat between these points will probably be running. This appropriation, wae auked to bo made Immediately available to permit work to start as. soon aw possible and to go on during the best part of the yenr. Columbia, 8. C.?"Committees ot Five to do Five 'Pilings in Flvo Weeks" are being appointed In every county in the state to begin the biggest short campaign ever undertaken by tho public health forces of tho state. The usual chairman of these comnmieea will be the county tuborculoels chairman already appointed to that position by the Statu Medical society. The new "Commlttoes of. Flvo" are to fight consumption, the chief cauHo of death In tills state. The flvo weeks of lighting will bo iu connection with the Tuberculoids exhibition in thin city, and will ond fit a bl* "public hoalth conference" tobe conducted here by the Htato Hoard of Health. Columbia, 8. C.?John Y. Carllngton and .Tunics Stobo Young, president and secretary, respectively, of the defunct Seminole Securities com pany, who were found gllty of breach of trust with fraudulent lntetit, were sentenced by JudKO l'rlnco. (iurlington wan given three years juhI Young one your at hard labor on tho county chain gang or In true Htate penitentiary- Hall who granted in the mini of $r>,iiuo, pending hii appeal of th?ir cases to tho uupreine court. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. ....Although there were four more counties "dry" this last year t'natx In 1908, and in spite of all lining dry a month for the AuguHt election and liftmen countiea dosing out in November, last year's total dispensary sales are $11,020,376.U1 as against ?3,f.d4 V14 K1 fnr 1<I(|H 'I'lm iu># i.r/.fltu for 190'J were l.HS, as against. 9U84,(iUO.OO for l'JUS. The year 11)01' Blurted off with twenty-one counties op?ruting dlupcnuarlcH, CharluBton, Laurens and Clarendon having voted and closed out their dispensaries In November and Chesterfield In February of the preceding year. ....lly a strnnge colncidonco twenty three prisoners died at the state penitentiary last year and twenty-throe wero given liberty by pardon or parole. ....The comptroller general says there in food for thought iu tho alarming Increases of the bonded lndeht cflueKU continually croatod by conntiou, Hchool illKtrlctH and munloipnlitiuB and increasing expenditure** for both Btuto and county purposes. "There arc," nuys the comptroller, general, "largo corporatlonn whirl), have iarg? capital invented in timber or timber rights on landH In thiK state, which pay no taxes* on such, property." NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE. ....The poBBibillty of a complete blocking of further whiskey legislation loomed up Btrongly in the senate when a careful poll of tho senate showed at least twenty of tho mem bora present wero either for local op tbm or wished to stand by tho compromlsc effected at tho lunt session of tho general assembly. Wiillo none of the momberH consider tho compro miso legally binding, it 1h gene-rally held by thorn that the compromise is of Bulllclont moral force to cause no liquor legislation in the somite this year. Of course, there ih no tolling what may later turn up, but the present status is largely in favor of a complete standstill on the much-legisbited topic. ....Senator Clifton's bill to allow certain widows, above llfty-Hvo yearn t\f turn fit 11 j i r I i f' i 112111 * in I lie iiMmloik fund, paused third muling after con?id< initio dlHfuHHloii, and wan order <-d Rent to the house. ....Senator Wharton'H rural free do11 very exemption hill yvhh killed. The 1*111 was ntate-wlde and provided that rural freo delivery mall carriers should ho exempted from road duty, and the committees report thereon wan unfavorable. \4i* Vl'ndit'u Mil nninmlltHr (ho Id u. "... !?. ?* ? .? / itn?\<>iuii?n vi.*/ " relating to the raliiond commiHHlon puhb(!(1. 'i'lils bill pWlCOH in the IiuikIh of the coinmlHHloii the control of ull lnterurlmn railways operated by oleetrlelty hh well hh Uioho oper ated by utearn. ....Tho Iioiiho killed Mr. Ulley'H hill requiring I ho owner of live slock tin dor a lien to report tin; death of mieii live Ktock and providing for a penalty Should tho report not bo inndo. . ...Hy a vote of Hlxty to thirty-nine the houno killed K. I'. Sinlth'M hill requiring all anHiK" uient h of real entat? mortgagon to he recorded. ....Senator Hulllvan has a bill almoCat the voting membera of tho pool playing society. The bill Ih to prohlbIt minors from playing pool and 1>11 Hards In public places. Tim ago limit Is placed at eighteen years ami fur ther does tho bill say that such youth ful hopefuls shall not loiter around pool and billiard rooms. ....Senator .Sullivan's bill increasing, witnesses pay from f>0 cords to $l. In court of sessions, was killed, by adoption of the committee's unfavorable report. . .. .Senator Carlisle of Hpartanburg Introduced a bill to make summonsby registered mall legal. ....Senator Laney'n bill to further regulate the runnlnK of motor veht' clen In thin state was killed. This an explained hy the author, provided that If one were Injured In person or property hy an automobile the damage would constitute a lien on the au tomoblle. ....Senator Hlnkler Introduced tho Charlestaon tradlnK atamp hill. While this bill omenates from the city hy the Rea ft Ih of equal Importance 1th other Diii'tH of tin- nt 11 to 'I'lin 11In11 la to <lo away with tho trading stamp proposition.

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