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MONEY FOR \?Ai AYS $42,355,276 Is Recommended By House Committee. SMITH fiFTS I ARIiF SUM V w a uu a w ?-*i Iituu VUi'i There Are Further Projects Not Yot Adopted By Congroi* Which Call for $297,000,000 Additional. Washington, D. C.?Waterway projects at a cost of S-12.ar..V:?7? of whifh $7,200,4430 is l'or continuing contracts, are provided for in the rivera and harbors appropriations bill, which was reported to the iiouao by the committee on rivers and harbors. The bill provides (or harbor projects tor greater doinh at Norfolk, Va., and Mobile, Ala., besides u host of big projects for tlie Mississippi river, the great lakes, New York harbor and Pacific coast waterways improvement. me projects auready under improvement. The projects already under improvement aggregate 17,400, including the Mississippi river from Cairo to the head of the passes. Southern projects of $20,"00 or more follow: Virigma?Norfolk harbor and its approaches, general improvement, 345/100; removal of Thimble shoals, $300.(100; Cape Cliar'.es City harbor, $20,000; York, Mattapona and I'ainunkey rivers and Oecoquan and Carters creeks, $50,000; James river, $100,000; Appomattox liver, maintenance and improvement, $28,000, at Petersburg, 55,000. North Carolina- Xeune and Trent rivers, <>.>0,000; .New river, including inland waterways between Meaufort harbor ami Xvw river ami Swansboro, $2.'},700; Cape Fear river at ami below Wilmington, $200,000; Hay rivor. $21,000. South Carolina?Winyah bay, $150,000; Charleston, ?I.">0,000; Little fee l)eo river, 120,000; (S-reat Pee Doe river, $30,000; San Lee, Wateree and Coi> garee rivers and Esthersville-Minim creek canal, $!>o,000. Georgia ? Savannah harbor, $400,000; Urunswick, 150,000; Altainaha, Oconee and Ocmulgoo rivers, $75,000; Flint river, $25,0)>0; Coosa river, Georgia and Alabama, $52,5011; Savannah river, 150 miles below Augusta, $70,000; Coosa river at Uorselog shoals, $75,0(10; Savannah river at Augusta. $123,000. Florida?Fernamlina harbor and Cumberland sound, $15,000; Apalachkola bay $22,500; llillsboro iarbor river, $L\"i,0(Hi; IVnsacola, $7ri.i>no; St Johns river. $ 1; St. .Johns river opposite Jacksonville. $! |ri,<><'<>: oklawaha river, $20,17u; Sarasota bay. ?>.'!0,000; Mlackwater river, $2">.otltl; Clearwater harbor and Hooa Seica hay to Tampa bay, $2!?,r>i;?0; Si. Andrews hay. $42,:!!(.">; Apalachicolu ri\ er lr? St. Andrews bay, flt)ii.O(M): Si 1/vKna Ki'i.A.. 1.1..: ,.U<II1A I . Harney. $32,4nu: Caloosahatehee river from Port M.ver to the gulf, $50,000; Milisboru bay, $;!"0,000. Alabama?Mobile ami Mobile bar, S4iM,000; Alabama river. $xr?,ono: Black Warrior, Warrior and Totnbig bee rivers, locks and dams, $500,<h cash 8lul $50<>,<100 authorized for con, ^ .tLniTiiiK contracts, Tombigbeo in three sections, $29,000 altogether; Coosa rii'ni' \ Inhnnni ?'??m Vn m iwi 1/wLr Xn. \, $50,000. Mississippi- Ciulfport harbor and Ship Island pass, $(>7,500; I'ascagonla, $'?5,000; Pearl river. $30,000; Ya/.oo, T:\llahastchio and Coldwator, etc., $2s,"ict iv?nrl river, $20,000. 'r" .... .nn.rndl ? I p?MV :i V < f foil) ll'O lakes to tho ruIT, $1,050,000, not availab.e, pending l'urtuer action by con <niii(!clion with a Cooperative project with the Illinois au1! iril'i s from l.ocknort. Ill . to the mouth of the tiiinois river. Louisiana -Mississippi river, southwest pass, $7*>u,0i >; maintenance atul improvement of south pass channel, $<tO,Ot>0; month and passes of Calcasieu river, $.">,000; Bayou Tee he, $50,OtiO; removing the water hyacinth from water in Louisiana and Texas, $"20,000; Hod river below Fulton. Vi'k , $7.r>,0uO; Havou Terrebonne, $2f>,ut)0; .Mermentau river to Sabine river, $100,000. I ennessee. ('.miberland river (Tennessee and Kentucky) above and tielow Nashville, $105,000, and above Chattanooga $12n,0U0; Chattanooga to ulverion-iih'i* s itur mrii iiim iimiii, $50,87m; p))'*n channel work, Colbert nn.l Ike Tree shoals, $100,Ono, below Hiveiion, Ala., $lfio,000; French Hroad aatl I ,it t ie Pigeon rivers, 000; C^Tmiv^Mnt^l yi \ or, below NiislivillOy/$j;;:,m00 cash and $1.">0,000 an thoW/ed issist>ippi River?Mississippi river between Ohio and Missouri rivers, $.riO0,0(H); Mississippi river, head of passes to mouth of Ohio (Mississippi river commission), $2,00'i,ou0; expon menial unrges, j.iim,njv, $50,000 Subscribed for Y. M. C. A. Graenville, 8. C.- A (uiupaign for 000 with which to ? r?*<;l a Youiik Men's Christian \ssociation hurt-, started ten days ago. umliiiK with $ ?l 000 in hand 1'ho amount was given by nineteen hundred citizens. Makes 1,000 Mile Trip on Trolley Cars Chicago, III. Having eovored l.OBS miles, A. .1 iiitlIfijolm of Syracuse, N Y., reuched Chicago on tuc lirsl lap of 1 kih trip by trolley from the eastern city to St. Louis and return, a distancu oi 2,700 miles < omiug from Syracuse Llttlejohn .as traveled only 48 miles by steam. These w< re from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Miles, Mich. The 1,008 miles thus rar wen* covered in 40 hours of actual irav< ling, according to LUtlejohn. Senate Passes White Slave Bill. Washington, D. C. The (Jennet white slave bill, regulating the traf lie. in immoral a 11 < rj women, was passed by the senate practically in the same form as parsed by the house Ladies' Day in Chinatown. San Francisco, Cat Friday was I idieH' day in Chinatown. Krom 1 p in. till 5 p in. the men remained in doors, giving women the right of wa> iin tno street? ' ins w.i mo one nay of tho year when, According to ()ri ental tradition, woman in relieved of masculine d i ?*? ction. High Price for Hoys. Omaha, Ncbr. The hog i iiiik t -t South Omaha established ; now n.; ,i roeord wlifii several carlono of I 'u Bold at $.~> 70 per 100 pound-;. I in highest point before tho meal boycott wan $S.70. Payo Penalty for Awful Deed. Richmond, Va. Howard Idtile, >vho murdered Mrs. Hot ay J u.it iw, her son lu-law, George Meadow;;, ami tho hitter's wife and three children in their homo near Hurley, Buchanan county, laut September, was put to doath by oloctrocution lit the penitentiary without unusual Incident. A COUNTERFEIT IN CIRCULATION. The Public Warned Against a Silver Certificate for One Dollar. Washington. D. C-?A counterfeit. SI silver certificate has boon discovered by the .secret service, and Chiof Wilkio has issued a circular ill which the counterfeit is described as ot the series of 1899; check letter 'H, face plate Xo. 1810; black plate No. 2841 or 2344; W. T. Vernon, registrar of the treasury; Charles H. [ Trent, troaturer of tho United States, and containing portraits ot Lincoln and Grant." The counterfeit inspected would uasily deceive the ordinary handier or money. The face and back are printed on thin paper, and between them is pasted a third sheet to sive j tne required thickness. A few bits of I coarse and raveled silk twist wore inserted between the sheets. Mediocre workmanship la noticeable on the back note whore the words "one dollar'' in the marginal upper right panel of the note appear to have been scratched In. Other words show manipulation of the engraver and the color of the seal, numbers and do- | noLuiuational figures on th>' face of ! the note Is pale as compared witii j the original. (illAI. COMI'AM TO SETTLE. For Liver, of 300 Miners Only $300,COC Id Offered. Cherry, III.?Surviving relatives of | the nearly thr< <> hundred initiers kill ! od in the St. "T.uil tnitie are discus-I sing an effort by tlie St. Paul Coal company to settle out oi court all (Intrude suits resulting from last .Novembers mine tire. The | nodosa I lor settlements was brought to Cherry by Si at. s Attorney Kcliert ot Hu* reau county. li is proposed to pay a minimum sum <>i SKUU to relatives of unmarried mon, a nil a maximum amount ot ?l, 100 to widows witii six or more ehil dren, Hie money to be paid immedi' atyly the interested persons sign ;i quit, claim receipt. It was announced I U> those sounded on the subject that ii iv v. w i 11 i /?i i i y ^ iio liui \ I 111 jf ui iiu^ criminal negligence; that, us its cap it.nl was only SMfiO.UOU, it could not bo hold for more than that amount, and that the present oiler was mailt to avaid the delay of litigation. It ia claimcd by the St. Paul t'oal company, it was announced, to inort sago tho (.'Ik riy mine lor iMO'i.uUu to pay the damages contemplated under \ Ute company's proposal ol settlement, ileira of rescuers wao died 111 thoir ait-nipt to save livi-s ot minors I would also ahare in lho settlement 1 money. A mass meeting oi those coiiui'i'iiriJ will probably he called. hull] Koblwry of i'ostofflce. Birmingham, Aid. While J. A. Dial, stamp clerk m the Birmingham postolh< e, was counting out his money 10 make his purchase ot tho necessary stamps tor the day, two girls wain* u I up u> tin: window and asked lor sonu: one-cunt stamps. j As lie hc-Kan serving out the stamps I a white man walked up huri iedh, grabbed the stack <>f bills on tin; conntor and got away with it. .More than $ iUO, ranging in hills l rom one to l.ity dollars, with stolen. Drops Dead in Court. Gulfport, Miss?ICx-Judgo T. S | Howell dropped dead while present ! inn hin argunieut in a ease before tin I nited .siatet, commissioner here Death was due to Heart Irouble. To Rebuild Tybee Hotel. Sjvannah, Oa. it has been decided I that tin- burned hotel on Tybee Island | will Ik.- rebuilt and that too tor tin ; approae.iing season. Oi the necessary amount F. H. Stubbs furnishes tlm sii< and while citizens must raise <$?>0,000. Grconi Aged 08; Bride 19. CarrolIton, Ga?Tne marriage of E vl, Grat nor and .Miss Unth Mrock was solemnized at the homo of the bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. ('. l.rock [lev. W. M. Dozier oftlciatiiitf. Tin Kroom is ?>.s years of aj<o and tile bndi' Hi. Dmiomntir. Service and the South. vV.iahington, D. C. A resolution asking the secretary of stati to in | form the house whether tho twolvt i ( oiiori growing states nave ruprc^-jt-ii latum in tliC diplomtW and ( insulin service m the fori .?:n countries that ; ! purchase American cotum, particular iv iht- I nil til Kingdoms, France ami iiiermany, was introduced by Kepre isonlativu Hull of IVnneHsw. Newsy Paragraphs. 'J'he meteorites which were broifciil ! from tho Artie r< ttions by Coinman ' d< r Peary have been purchased by the American .Museum of Natural history for <i"i?. They were sold by Mrs. l'eary, to whom they had been given by her husband. These meteorites .ire the largest in the world,; tho largest ni iIn' threw weighing 'about, forty tons. | .Justice -M. II. Kamnielhor of Cedar j Grove, N. .1., hearing that an aviatoi : of I'at torso 11 contemplated a trial' , (light in tin- vicinity <>f his home, ha: ! nad erected n?*ar his house a ti n toot sign reading as follows: All avi- | i alors are hereby warned not lo II.v j their machines over this bouse under penalty of imprisonnu nt. Tin 1 Judge insists that ne owns above he uro,,> rty to the l<y and below to tlx ! center of the earth. The aviator in iiucsiion has laughed at the : imi and ; an amusing contest is expected. Governor <?iI! -tt ami several Cali forma capitalist* have purchased for $300,000, a tract of ihirty-tw<. thousand acres of land on the hor der of Mexico, between ( alexico and Yuma. They will raise cotton Anotuor ox trie ooauies 01 mimrwi , life is revealed in the iifo of .Jc^hn Uen.-miore, who died in tie Flof 'loi coal region near Pocahonta. Va., <i few days ago at the ag of seventy 8cvu Densmore luid not drunk >i drop of water in thirteen y< nr.-.. At the ago of sixty four iie was fright ened 1> tin' germ thcoi> and he came to me (ohciusioi) uiai an water was poilut< d with germs and unlii to be taken iiit i llii- stomaeh !!< i" olvcrl I never So drink it again, and iie kept tii I'.titli l or thirteen v? ;. | principal illif i mi* r if In r wa. In 111'liii i 1U l'roi< ,s:ior frost of the Yorkers Oh :.-< \ atory is authority for He (ate| !: i.l that Hailey s eoii.et ill begin |lo In visible to 111 11 1<- i < ><> aho.il April I, and will cro ? i.,< fnco ol i!.o sun May Is. I'; . ih<? Lick Observatory the pa.?;iu<' will be watchi-d, as from ?i 1 n>< < astern points tho sun will h;iv< win n the contact begins When the coinot pass08 between us- in d tlx sun iIk tail may sweep t in- I'M" of I ho earth and | cause at niospliei ic disturbances. I'ro , fessor Frost says they have obtained | spectra of the coinot snowing its com i position, hut as yet havo nono of t'.e tnll FRENCH STEAMER SINUS. 156 Person* Drowned Whan S. S. ( General Ch&nzy Foundered. s ONLY ONE PASSENIitR SAVED 1 ? 1 The Big Ocean Boat Craabod on tb? v Treacherous Reefs of Minorca s in the Dead of Night. a 1 Halma, Island of Majorca.?Driven a helplessly from her course in one of o the wildest storms that has swept (, tho Mediterranean sea in forty years, j the French Trans-Atlantic Steamship c Company's steamer General Chanr.y, f crashed at full s;teed in ttie tleaa 01 { nigat on the treacherous reels near a the island of Minurcu, and all but i one of the 134 souls on board perish- c ed. The sole survivor is an Murium customs olhcial, Marcel Rouei, i who was rescued by a fisherman, and j who lies in the hospital at Ciudadeia, \ raving as a result ot' the tortures c through which he passed, and unahlc * to kive an account of the disaster. In tlu> ship's company there were 87 passengers, of whom 30 were in the iirst cabin. The crew numbered 7<J. F I Iff Ml!|) ?\ ti:-> in I Villi I1I<1 nil IJ I V Il|jtain I'ayul, one 01 the must careful offii'crs of 111<' lino. n iYlarM.ilcc, Hrancc. Tho news of 11 tlu> wreck of Hie (Jcnural (Mianzy c caused consternation in this city, t whence ill' vessel sailo ilfor Algi?'rs. KHaiiv. and friends of the passen- t rim:< and civw rushed to the steamship olfiee, imploring details of tlie acet- tj dent a'lietie scenes were enacted r win'ii tlie.\ wire informed that with ? t;:e xcption of one passenger, all >n I .. > t . 1 h i 1 I lOI'isilltf'll i Tin governincut is arranging to as- c sist the families of the crew, who r wore ;ill members of the Mercliant n .Marine. h Among the victims was tin rele- j: hnttrd Parisian it.usfe hall singer, t Francis Dufor, as well as other prominent music hall favorites. <1 It is now believed that three Atner- t ican vaudeville players, hailing from , San Francisco, were on board the (] steamer. Their names are Elsie ? llenry and .Messrs. lJrenda and Dely in in. I SOUTH SWhl'T BY HLIZZARD. i Snow and Sleet Fell Over the Southern States. Louisville, Ky. The south from the * fll.i.. ( /? 111.. iri.lt' .111.1 t'l-flMl til ""I" ' "v It the Atlantic coast experienced a variety of weather calculated to please) the most exacting. At Tampa, Kla., a temperature of CI prevailed; north j j ami to tin west, Mobile was deluged , with a rainfall of 2 inches; northern i ; Alabama and northern Louisiana saw a light snow, aft? r a night ?Jl rain, J while Memphis, Nashville, iMiattanoo ! ' gn and Knoxvillo were given a gen- i erous covering by the w hite Makes. j(, llith winds prevailed over the lower1, gulf states from (Salveston to the At '' lantic ocean. tlalv ston reported n|' velocity of II" miles an hour, while j11 tiie wind whipped up tin- Atlantic! coast a.s far north a.< the Carolina:; I at the rate of :! < miles, making some 'C what dangerous gale-: oft llatteras. The Louisville weather bureau forecasts snow and much cohi? r for Ken- j, tucky mid Tennessee. To the far north. Winnipeg was ai j( homo with a iemperaturn of |> below! t zero, and it was near the zero mark jj in North Dakota, Iowa, New England states and northern Canada, The lir.^t. snow <it the season in ceil- . tral Mississippi fell during the day. ' Snow to tue doplli of a foot was reported at howling (irccn, Ky. Ther>" was ;i steady fall of snow all day at )'i 1 .ouisville, Nashville and generally , throughout middle Tennessee and J Kentueky. The snow in Chattanooga was followed by a sleet storm, which was i it. im iiiany miles in xevoral directions form the city. There was v considerable disarrangement of train) Schedules, and the dillicnlties of tliosi j concerned in wire communication increased as the day closed. I Nashville, Tenn. A heavy snow ft II ^ here. The snow is general throughout middle Tennessee and southern! Kentucky |r K.l .. W ; o s!n#nv full ill I )ii^' 1 section of Ti'iiih'ssi'C. Krom one and a half to two incises covered tlu* . ground. Knoxville, Venn.-The heaviest '' snow of tin winter fell in Knoxville and vicinity. It is stuck to the ground, unci trafllc was more or loss itit< i lered with. Charlotte, N. C. ?A heavy snowfall L o< curr? <1 here. Commerce, G<i. i wo inches of snow fell her**. Trees were bent witi> a <1 heavy >l?et., an<i wires heavily loaded j; vtitli Chattanooga, Term. ? Chattanooga v exuorit need a snowfall of .Hi inch. < Dispatches Ironi Decatur, Ala , say d all of North Alabania is covcnd with a U inches of snow. v No Hobbles to He Used. New York City. Itcginning with the season of i'.'iO, no hobhlrs shall f b( used on paring borm-n and tip to that time the device in to ho Knuhi i ally eliminated. This d<?< mioii was', adopted l?y tile IWeiliy-UIwi ruiiKirno I | ol tlio National Trolling Association. 1 . Labor Leaders Sentenced. i Chicago, III. Martin M. Madden, j ?< for mo r president of tin- Ituildiug !'' Trades council; M .1 Hoyie, ;ui oili- > rial ol the lOiectrieal Worker.'. union; 'I and Fred I'ouehot, former business ! agent of the Metal Workers' union, I > were sentenced to pay a line of $> ' each, following their conviction on 11 May 2'J of conspiracy 10 no ?n uuk<h act. A motion for a new trial was l overruled. 1 Sugar Trust Scapegoat Sent to Pen. New York City?Oliver Spit/.er, former dock (superintendent of the f American Sugar Refining company's plant at Williamsburg, was sentenced , to t*o years in tIn* federal |wnlt<ntiary at Atlanta. (in . for his pari In the recent exi< nsive sugar underweighing Hands Six Killed by Explosion. t Bay City, Mich. Six men wore killed by the <pl<> ion a boiler in \ fncWK s f..?vi ii, ;u t i nmj. i lie 11,111 i u as blown I" pit I ruKinentH Iicimk s< ait>T<'i| it?out it: <i railiii.s of olio iiumlrcd foot Roi)l is Lot' Bank. (ViempliiF., Neb. I! is looted I ? Hank of ',<-i?.pr, ; and ortin'd ^J.7<> ' in run-' icy. I ho vault \va. dynaliiil ' " I >.n. ilie li ii ilil<t i s ,iO'd wiliioil! arons'i?k i 1h' ell i/.? i< ;. Chattanooga Plants Bought. C.wittanooya, I onn IVipiKlor o. t two l<I manufa' : nrlnK companion, i v ?111 -<I at $100,(100 won; t ran. fcrr<*d i io the Atlantic lc<> and Coal corpora tloti, with hondqimrtora iiiAt.lanta. i Tho corporation has recently seen rod ! control of Ice plants in several i aotuh?m titled. : I IMPUBiINti UYPTMN COTTQ* ihi|)|nont? of FIvscy Staple from Fur l.Att Sent to Carolina Factories. Charleston, S. C. ? Six hundred )l\les of Kfirvutian cnttnn have l<or>ti hipped by rail from Charleston to he upper part of the state in the aat few days, this being the lir?t use of tho transportation of foreign ;rown cotton into thin port for Caroina iiner by way of Liverpool, reeraing the usuul order 01 cotton hipping. More of it is coining, it is nnounced, ami extensive experiments ire being made with tnis staple,which s cheaper than Uie American product md somewhat inferior to American otton. tl has been found to bo iracticable lor manufacturing purposes and Charleston bids fair to beOI11H an iiiliim-l nti( iiiiiwu-f iti?x I'unlur 1 r - - r? v"Ha* v"fc"vv* | or the foreign tsuiple used iu South Jarolina mills. Already a consideribl? quantity of this cotton has been n\ ported into South Carolina, but it awe by way of New York. While Egyptian cotton is now being mported, much American cotton, es "dally sea island cotton, the highest irlct d cotton grown, has been exporttl for English and German mills tiiin eason "Dirt" LAW DfcAl) IN MEMPHIS. 'rohibition a Failure and Even the , Courts Laugh at It. Memphis, icnn. -Replying to a me- j norial presented by the IjUw Enforce- '< nent league ol' Memphis city and ; ounty ollicials made lormal deelara- 1 ion with regard to certain statuory iiws, especially state-wide prohihi- | ion. Kuihodying his own views and in I icluilf oV inetnhers of the municipal . oinuiission, Mayor te. II. Camp isued a stateiiH nt pointing out that lemphis had indicated opposition i) prohibiten and, in his opinion, he i ould accomplish more in enforcing, emulative measures and inaugurating Municipal improvements than "in inving to secure something I believe s opposed by the great majority ot he people of Memphis." Judge John T. Moss, judge of the ' irst cvimiiiiil court. wmle iissurmir he committee presenting the memoial of his sympathy in their eiuleavrs, evplained Llml a judge alone can- ; lot enforce a law. IHILDREN lUflllATk BIKDS AND FISHES. "he Pupils of Pittsburg Are Being Put Through an Ordeal. Pittsburg, Pa. -The pupils of the ixtli ward public school, north side, m MtumiiK iu liiiiuur ?n?* uiiu tiiivi lie lish, an art which t>. > name , aeroplane swimming." I'roi'essor Walter \V. Shook lias d opted the use of small biplanes in lie course. Sara ller/.herger. a 11car-old pupil in the school, demon- I rated t;ie new name by gliding rem u high balcony by means ol the liptane and us sin1 reached the pool lie hliook her 'wings,'' turned a soni rsaiill and dived into the water. 1'roc! sor Shook hopes next summer to ;ik< his human tisli birds out to the iv.TS and ponds to glide from high oais, bri Iges and banks. IhlMb IN SI. I.blilo. >ver Seven Hundred Robberies Reported in Twenty-Cne Days. St. Louis, Mo. While tin; police deart inent has boon busying itself for he past, three weeks investigating iself because of a shortage of boween $ 17,5(10 and *2.r>,000 in the Koit l Assoc iation funds, criminals have ft!) having a merry time. For tweny-ono days seven hundred and tweny-oigln robberies have been entered 11 the police records. Included in list of crimes for the period are no hundred and forty-nine burglai four hundred and eighty-live rob t rios by sneak thieves and twentyluce highway robberies. DYNAMITE ffRtXKtU POOL ROOM. Veil Known Cincinnati Resort Is AlMeGt Completely Destroyed. Cincinnati, O. -The house known I s the "Hanover Pool Ituom," near .aw renceburg, Intl., was blown up by ynamitc. Tin; building was completely wreck<1 and the watchman nad u narrow scape. Tbo house was well known among lie "sporting" fraternity throughout lie country, it was understood to be perated by Cincinnati racing men, nd last summer was the objective oiut of numerous excursions. UllANDS FlCiHT DULL. .ocked in Each Other's Arms They Fouflht to Very Death. Chattanooga, Tenn.?In a bloody uel in the office of the "l<" street ail, (I. \V\ Thomas, a guard on the ity street gang, was shot and fatally nunded by Superintendent. Matthew lodsey, of the street force. Thomas ied at Krlanger hospital two hours fter the duel, (lodsey in seriously rounded, but will recover. DR. I!YD? BKLD H)R MURllhR. hy6ician Held Responsible for Colonel Swope's Death. Kansas City, Mo.?As u climax to hi* lengthy investigation of the mys1'iioiis death of Colonel Tiiomas II iwope, on OetolHT 3, 19(Jji, Dr. U. lyde, husband of the lute million . I M IIUMI', >\ (II I TMMJ I II-1 J.Uftl ft d with the murder. The warrant was issued at the re- j luest of Attorney .1 CI I'axon, exeeu- , or of Swops (state. H'irst degree mrder is charged. The warrant says hat Dr. Hyde, with felonous intent,! id ministered strychnine to ('olonol >wope oil the day of his death. The >hysi< i a it pleaded not guilty, lie; was j < lei-sed on a bond of $50,000. Will Study Pellagra. London, England. A committee has ormed, tin- membership of which inhides the Italian ambassador, the daiquis of San (Jiuliiuio, Sir Thomas 'lifford Allbut, professor of physics a Cambridge, and a number of promlK-iii Ft ieni iBtH and physicians, to pronote tie- investigation and study of lie disease, pellagra 11 is proposed to send I jr. Sambon, \ :ki has made a close study of the .- i use, to some pellagrous area, with i laff to investigate the conditions i ! ! in varioun uioou-Hijrkiiif; iui?h# i?v .. i;ich ?ho diseanr ik cliflHruiinat^d. I'-i i lii!ili'i'ii in id Yphtk U ? IIIHII Wll III -W IMII III iM.icon, O.i. Willi cloven children i .< !i . i|i mid in their anus, Air. nil \li I. W liowland lott .Macon o reside in Ashburn, On. of thonc [< \ ii children, tho oldest is 11 Two ire (lead, but then? have been tnlron childron born to them in lour> ( ii years. Neither parent has reachd middle ago, and Mrs. (lowland is lot over 34 years of ago. Mr. Bowland ins boon a very suiceosaful carpontor, ind has resided In Macon for over 20 rears. > I TO ADVERTISE SOUTH Southern Railway Plans to Do Extensive Work. IIIW I miABiArrr finiirn irrinftf WILL rnUraulL InlffilllliAl luni Prosident Finley Promise* Great Thing* for the Territory Reached by the Southern Railway System. Washington, D. C,?President Finley announced that the Southern Railway will, in the near future, through its land and. industrial department, again enlarge the publicity aud promotion work which it .has carried on for the development of the country reached by its lines. It was necessary to curtail this work somewhat followitiK the business denression of iy07. on account of both general and special conditions. It la now felt that not only tho business conditions in tho country, but the local situation in the southeast, warrants a larger campaign for tiie location of industries, the bringing of new settlers and a general development work, that is, the resumption in full of the company's efforts to build up the southcast. In carrying out this policy, there will bo a larger use of the trade, agricultural and other newspapers and periodicals of the north and west, tiic publication of many special pamphlets, exhibits at many northern lairs and a larger work in northern Europe. The Southern has found that one of (lie best methods of publicity is in tho < \hibits of the products of its territory at the larger fairs held in the north and west, and more attention than ever will be paid to this line of work. The south will be advertised in . s ..? 1. . . .... I/.........,#... ?v. iiijl iii*i it i iiii ujm an v vin 111 i n.;r> u\ in*. circulation of specially prepared matter, and by the use ol' newspapers, in a way that is consistent with our immigration laws and as is permitted by tiio laws of the respective countries. The Southern has maintained for some years a European agency ot its land and industrial department, with headquarters in London, which will carry on the prosecution of active efforts to interest land seekers and investors from that side tif the ocean in the south. The most thorough co-operation possible is to be given ti local business and other organizations in the development of the various communities along the Southern system. KAIStK WANTED HOLLAND. German Emperor Threatened Seizure of Little Empire. The Hague. The heretofore veiled reports tiiut iOmperor William at one lime threatened to occupy Holland unless (his country was placed in a state of defense against the possible descent ol the Knglish, were given a moie delinife form in the lirst chamber of the states general during a discussion of the foreign office estimates for the year. liaron Von lleckeren urgently doinauded that steps be taken to secure a Ktiarautee of the integrity of tin .\rtla Hands in the event of trouble between Germany and (ireat Britain and gave as a reason for such a necessity that a neighboring sovereign intimated a few years ago that lie would be obliged to have Dutch territor> occupied if Holland did not place herself 111 an adequate statu of defense against (.ireat liritam. Foreign .Minister Van Swinderen declared that he was not in a position to refule lleckeren's assertion utiles? the latter explained precisely what WHS meanl oy lilt; wurua ih'I^iiihm nif; sovereign" and "intimated." lie urged ileekeren, in the interest of the country, to he moro explicit. COMMON DHINKINti CUF mm. It is Placed Under Ban by the Wis conoin Legislature. Madison, Wis.?Tho coinuion drink ing cup must go in Wisconsin, Its doom has been sealed by the state hoard of health at a meeting in thif: city. Hy the passage of a rule which, upon oflicial public ation, will have all the force and effect of law, tho board has tak< n a notable and far-reaching measure toward the prevention of in feetious diseases. The new rule reads as follows: "The use of the common drinking cup on railroad trains, in railroad sta ions, in the public and private schools is hereby prohibited. !?'! ''"II "I WM )IWlttUUIJ III V.iKilfs* of or control of any railroad train or station or public or private school or state educational institution shall fur nish any drinking cup for public use and no person or corporation shall permit on said railroad trains or in stations or at said public or private schools, or stfitf educational institu tions, the common use of the drink ing cup. $io,ooo,ogo cm tin concern. Hammond and Sully Plan Organiza tion of a 8ecuritlec Company. Washington, D. C. ? John Hays Hammond and Daniel J. Hully, associ n(cd with several men prominent ii the cotton business in the south, an planning tho organization of a Hcruri ties corporation, which will have i capitalization of $10,000,000. The scope of tho new organizatioi will ho very broad, for in addition t< being a holding corporation, It wii also become an operating company and will go in for tho introductioT of improved cotton gins and othei machinery which is expected to hav< a decided effect upon tho productioi oi couoii iimnmarMiren*. YIHINli ROOSKVELT WILF MAUUY. Engagement of Miso Alexander anc Ex PreEident's Son Announced. New York City. Mrs. Henry Addi son Alcxandor of No. 12 \vcst Forty seventh streot announced tlio om;ag< mont of hor rlauAhter, Kleannr Hutlfi Alexander, to Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest son of Colonel Theodore j Roosevelt. Young Roosevelt, sincn his graduu Hon from Harvard, lias been learning 1 onrix t manufaelurint; in a factory si i Thompson villo, Conn. 26 ESCAPE FROM MEMPHIS JAIL Workmen Spend Many Hours Repair ing the Damago Done Building. Memphis, Tenn. Within the? wool i twenty-six prisoners hayo take! i "French letive of the city roek pile Monday nine men escap d by bond ing aevrnl ham in an outer windov ' of tlteir sleeping quiii'lors in the rea | of tho centrul police stattion. Friday seventeen others cscape< I by boring a hole in tiie ceiling wit) i improvised tools and removing i ! number of bricks and a ventilatini I window in tho prison wall. LATE NfcWSJjOTES. General. Professor William Mooro of tho United States Weather bureau has given his explanation of tho heavy <M?uo MUU 1VUV/IU liUUUO iu ouuuiuru Europe. Ho traces it to a persistence of low barometric pressure over the Iceland area. Similar conditions prevailed over the area in tho northern parts of tho Western Hemisphere, with the result that tho United States had heavy rains and snow. It has just cost Andrew Carnegie $1,125 to break an endless chain, and other millionaires are beginning to wonder how soon they also will bo lassoed. There wore eighty-eight links in tho chain that draerarfid from tho rich iron mastor hla check for $1,125 to buy a;i organ for tho Coto Prilliaute Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Mo. The firat iotters were received at intervals of two weeks, being oight months ago and then begun to arrive daily as no response was made. The evideut prospect of an hourly letter was too great a I storm to brave. | J. Piermont Morgan has just promI ised to donate to the University of I the South $.">0,000, and it ia expected that within the next two or throe weeks another donation ol' $G0,000 ! will be received from Andrew Carne| gie. Bishop Thomas F. (Jailor, chancellor of tho university, received Mr. Morgan's promise while in New York i last week. Some time ago Mr. Carnegie o/Forori tr> rlntmtn sko arm f/<>- n mechanics and arts building oil conI dition that all of the debts of the ! institution should bo paid, it being j Mr. Carnegie's policy to refuse to donate to incumbered institutions. ' Arrangements iiave been made with London and San Francisco banks to advance $500,000 to finance the planting, cultivating and harvesting | of this year's cotton crop in tin* Imperial valley, it is believed that the I land devoted to cotton this season j will exceed lifty thousand acres. Gins will be scattered throughout the val| ley and a compresser, an oil mill and a refinery built at El Centre. The cotton industry in the Imperial valley lias grown so rapidly in the last two ! years that it is now regarded as one I of the most important in southern i California. Profits from last season's crop, which was largely expcr! imental, are estimated to have been ! close to $50 an acre. I A male child, weighing less than live pounds, hut with teeth, was born ! to Mr. and Mrs. Francesco CuKlianeso of Chicago. Two of the teeth wore clear through the lower gum. The teeth protrude through the gum about an eighth of an inch. All its teeth are beginning to shew through and inside of a day or two the baby will have a full set of upper and lower j teeth. Washington. The shooting and limiting of game u.Y i urui man earners wnne omciauy employed on routes, or the carrying ' nf trims for tliat purpose, is now for* ! mally forbidden. An order to this efi free has boon issued by tlio postoliice 1 department, Complaints were recelv* | ed that delays in tlio delivery and collection of mail wore caused at cerI tain places by the practice of carriers | becoming nimrods. Consul (Jeneral Jddings of Cairo forwards to tin- state department extracts from an address delivered before the Cairo Scientific society on K&yptian cotton. The decrease in the cotton production of Rgypt from seven hundred million to live hundred and tilLv million pounds is attributed to the fact that the country is wateri logged. The difference in the cost of living for the traveling employes of the department of agriculture in the different sections of the country has been shown in testimony just submitted to the house committee; on expenditures in the department of agriculture by Chief Disbursing Officer Sappone, of that department. In the south tho expense for lodging and meals, as shown by their sworn statements of expense, averages between $1 and $2.50 a day; in tho far west, $2 and $3.50; in tho ccntral west, $3.T>0 ind in the east, $ I to $t?. In New York, j Hoston and other largo cities it is very ditlicult for thoin to obtain satisfactory accommodations, rooms and meals, within $.1. Decayed and unwholesome beef, unfit f'nr Innd \v?im K#?rvfwl thn white house table when Theodore Roosevelt was president, according to the testimony 01 Food Inspector Dodge of the District of Columbia, at the office of the attorney general before the committee on the District of Columbia, which is investigating food and its cost, in Washington. Mr. Dodge said it was the practice of I the white house steward to purchase a quarter of beef at a time , and place it in a refrigerator, lie tested it every morning by poking his finger into it, and it was not used until it was "ripe." The biological survey, which holds ; 11 p its hands in horror at the thought of tho ruthless slaughter of game birds, now proscribes lire and poison, trapping and shooting, artifice and running in destroying the English sparrow The survey lias Just, issued 1 a bulletin on the subject. While admitting that the absolute extermination of (he sparrow is out of the ques1 tion, Mr. Dearborn, in Farmers' Bulletin 38, holds that a large reduc1 tion of its numbers is feasable and important. There is no closed season ' for the sparrow ) The president has Issued a proclar mation granting the minimum tariff rates of the I'ayno Aldrich act to Ari ! gentlne, lira/il, Uruguay, Paraguay, M< xico, Panama and Liberia. President. Taft has accepted an invitation to address the world's Sun1 day School convention, which is to bo held In Washington May 19-24. Ton thousand delegates, representing all the civilized countries of the I world, are to bo in attendance. The senate passed the army appropriation hill and the urgent deficiency ] appropriation hill, the former carry. I Hik $95,110,507 and the latter about > $*>,150,000. The army hill was put t | tl.rougn in about forty hinutes, with: out debate. America seems to be losing her I hold on her ability to be a breadbaa' ket for the world. Foodstuff exports last year f< II off heavily as con pared with tho previous year, while food\ stuff imports Increased. According to i figures prepared by tho bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor, the foodstuffs exports in 190X amounted to $193,04(5,r DM, while last year they amounted only to $300,950,419, a decrease of I almost nineteen per cent. A similar 1 comparison shows that the imports ' of foodstuffs increased, those for J 1U0X amounting to $2?2,:<99,3!H, whlln ' last year tiioy totalled $334,430,106, I 'an increaao of nearly 16 ,?er c *rt. PALMETTO SMTE HEWS Columbia, s. O.?The appropriation Dill to meet the expenses of ttie state government Tor thtf fiscal year commencing January 1A 1910, was reported by the ways an^ means committee to the house of representatives. The bill calls for the sifyu of $1,777,352.84 as against a total of $l,(i32,43<> <>. This is an increase of nearly $150,000. For the State Hospital for the Insane $70,000 additional is ai$ropiiated. On aecoutot of the fact tiiat this is election year, an > increase of $31,500 was necessary for election purposes. For the Citadel $35,000 additional was recommended to build another Btory for additional dormitories, and $14,u0u for the State Colored college, by reason of the recent destruction, by lire oi its dormitory. These items of increase total $150,000. ine appropriation tor tue governor's ofiiee is fixed at If 16,150, there being an increase of $2,500 over last year In the amount provided "for the enforcement of the law," this amount being fixed at $5,000 this year. There is uo change in the appropriation for the secretary of state's ofiice and tie comptroller general's office, the appropriation for the former being fixed at $0,700 and for the latter at $ll,5o'?. For the insurance commissioner's office the amount fixed is $S,100, an increase of $1,000 over last year. There are some minor changes in the appropriations for the other state olfices, but there is no material increase or decrease. For the department of agriculture, commerce and immigration an increase of about $3,ooo is recommended, the appropriation being iixed at $150,000. The appropriation recommended for the University of South Carolina is $-jo,ooo, an increase 01 auuui 3>i<s,uui.>. The appropriation for VVJnthrop is about $11,000 less than last year. The whole appropriation recommended for the Citadel, including the increase named, is 165,000, and $31,ItuO is recommended for the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, an increase of about $2,000 over last year. The total recommendation for the State Colored college is $21,284 .-1 -I. for other educational purposes tho appropriation is $88,039.65. For tho Str-te Hospital for tho Insane $200,000 is recommended for maintenance, $3,000 for salarj of superintendent, J ,200 for board or regents, $50,000 for improvements and repairs, and $t)7l.ol for the additional amount due the investigating committee, making a total of $25-1,817.01. For the South Curolina Industrial school the recommendation is $7,500, an increase 01 about $3,600 over last year. For tile penitentiary tlie appropriation is the same?$0,500. Tiio recommendation of $202,000 for pensions is the same as was appropriated last year. The item for Interest on bonded debt is also the same?$2'J5,58ii.22. For elections the amount named is $39,(!UO. The miscellaneous item is about $08,000, and the necessary appropriationt are of course rec oinmeuueo 101 me expenses ol uie general assembly. The levy will of course not. be fixed until the bill has been considered and acted upon by the general assembly. 1!) is the rccommendatior1 of the committee for the South Carolina university. The appropriation last wear was ?S4,755.74. Columbia, S. C.? -The dates of inspection of the different companies of the national guard of South Carolina were announced by Adjutant General Hoyd as general order So. 4. The following schedule for the inspection will be followed, _ and no changes whatever can or will be made; Kdgefleld, March 7; Aiken, March 8; Uaniberg, March 9; Harnwell, March 10; Orangeburg, March 11; 101 loree, March 14; Snniter, .vlarch 15; Tinunonsvllle, March IB; Conway, March 17; Ccorgetown, .March IS; Walterboro, March 21; Charleston, March 22. 23, 24, 2f>; North Itrookland, March 2i?; Columbia, March lit), 31, April 1, 2; Florence, April 4; Darlington, Ai/ril 5; llartsville, April ti; M?-nnettHvihe, ( April 7; Chesterlield, April 8; Camden, April 11; Lancaster, April 12; Liberty llill, April 13; Hock Illll, A pi II i 1 , I' III I .Villi, /\|H II 1U, Winnsboro, April 18; Cornwell, April IS); Yorkville, April 20; Spartanburg, A prl 1 21; (Milton, April 22; Union, April 2(1; Greenville, April 2(J; Anderson, April 27; Laurens, April 28. GcNERAL ASSEMBLY NOTES. . .. The measure for one hundred and twenty-four scholarships to tlio University of South Carolina was killed by the house. ....Governor Ansel signed tho bill creating Dillon county. The bill was signed with a gold pun and a large number witnessed the exercises which were held in the governor s olilce. ....The sympathy of tho senate of South Carolina is with Mrs. B. 11. I'mman, Jr., in her fight to secure possession of her two children. Not only in express language was this feeling shown, but when the senate passed to third reading Senator Graydon's hill limiting tho authority of the father to dispose of his child, It wan manifest that the sentiment ot tho upper branch of the general assembly is that the mother should hare CQual rights with tue father as to the disposition of her offspring ....Mr. Foster secured the passage of a bill relative to the liability of common carriers. The bill seeks to enact as a state statute the federal statute upon the subject. The Idea appears to be to bring such suits In the state courts rather than in the federal courts. . ...Ihe state whin proamnion meanuru, which wan passed by the house, and which is similar in its provisions to the measure already ktlie<l by the senate, has reeelved a divined report from the senate, tho majority favorable report being presented i>> Senator lilack and l/ie iinravoraole minority report by Senator Kelly. It will be mailed that the senate bill, which was Killed, hud a majority favorable and minority unfavorable committeo report presented b' tue same seuutorn, wlio have reported for tho committee on the house hill. ....The hill to provide for instructing school children on the dangers of contagwniR diseases and distributing literature upon hucIi topics was adopted, the means for tho work to bo provided by the State hoard of hoaltn out of it? general funds. ....Senator Carlisle's bill to rep< thottu KOctloiiK of the code relating to tho income tax, was killed in the HI'IIUU' ?UU IIIO INX till IIU'UIIM'H remains. ... . Hy a >ty of twenty-two to fifteen th? genatt- killed Senator Graydon'a bill proYld.ig that contributory negligence Hhoi it not bar recovery by employee in ca <e of injury or death as the re?ul< ol the negligence of commoncarrl'irs.