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I WATCH j *4 Your Label B gj and Keep 1 m P" Paid Up. | a VOI,. 11, No. 29, SEMl-\> VILLA TAKEN BY T CAHRAKZA MPS1 Reliable Authority Reports Capture of Northern Mexican Chief. * 1 PLANS EXECUTION 1 4 T Til 17* D ? /""P TIJ k f IS 1 m a nci nnv ej t i\/\v rv ; ; General Gavira Prepares to Or- 1 der Bandit Shot in Juarez. El Paso, Texas, Jan. 20.? Francisco Villa has been captured at Hacienda, San Geroni-i mo by Carranza forces under] General Cavazos, according toj % a private telegram from Chi-! huahua City, received here. The] telegram came from the source J > that first reported the massacre at Santa Ysabel. 1 Mexican Consul Andreas < Garcia confirmed the capture of < General Villa. His advices stated that the capture vvas ef- 1 tected by Maximiano MarquezJ < who recently also captured Gen.; i Jose Rodriguez, one of Villa's! generals. A message announcing Villa's capture also has been re-1 ceived at the office of the American Smelting and Refining company. Messages from Chihuahua J City confirming reports of the capture of Villa stated that a j' number of bandits who partici-h pated in the Santa Ysabel mas -1 < sacre were also captured and ji are being brought to Chihua- ? hua City for execution. Carranza Consul Garcia ex- < plained that his confirmation of i the report of the capture of i Villa was based on unofficial, 1 i a. i1.1 . r a. * ii out. rename lniormauon. rie ' telegraphed to Chihuahua City 1 asking official information 1 from Gen. Jacinto Trevinoj the 1 w military chief of the Northern States. I At the same time a message i was prepared to be filed in the I event of formal confirmation 1 requiring that Villa be sent to i Juarez to be executed at then race track. This message was i written at the office of Gen. 11 Gabriel Gavira, commandant at j Juarez, who said he had receivj ed nothing official concerning the capture of the outlaw chief- 1 tain. Reports received here indicated that Villa had been hemmed: ' in a triangle formed in the mountains. Col. , Maximiano Marquez was on the southwest point, marching from Madera. Col. Jose Alexandro was closing i in from the northwest, while < Hpti aA\Tar\noA f rnm the southeast. < BROTHERS DIE 1 UPON SAME DAY ] And Both Suffering: With Same Disease?Buried at Rose- . mont Cemetery. Union, S. C., Jan. 19.?Dying j within less than three hours of" each other Munro C. Childers, and J. C. Childers, two brothers ! of this city, passed into thei great beyond Sunday afternoon '' suffering from tuberculosis, and, ' were laid to rest in Rosemont cemetery yesterday in nearby graves, the same funeral 1 services being used for both of , them. DELEGATES TO CHILD LABOR CONFERENCE! Governor Manning Names Rep- J resentatives to Conference ] at Asheville. i % Governor Manning has ap-; inted tHe following delegates to tbe 12th annual conference! of the National Child Labor j Committee to be held at Ashe ville, N. C., February 3 to 6: ( Rev. Z. T. Cody, of Greenville: Dr. George Z. Cromer, of Newberry ; John Porter Hollis. of Rock Hill; Rev. A. T. Jamison, of Greenwood; Jos. A. MrCul0, lnutrh of Greenville; J. Wh'tner Reid of Columbia, and W. Str.ckhouse, of Marion. Emerald Unlike Other Oeme. , xf, Many precloua atonen may b? "r? . conatnicted," but not the emerald. IE Lj WEEKLY. FUND TO PERPETUATE U INSTITUTE AT TUSKEGEK j\ Flans Announced for IVIeniorial to Hooker Washington at Washington Sunday. A plan to raise a $2,000,000 jy fund to perpetuate Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Ala., as a nermanent memorial to the late Booker T. Washington was an- ? nounced by Seth Low, of New Vork, president of the institute's hoard of trustees, at a H memorial service in Washington Sunday in honor of the dead negro educator. Low said that iinder a plan adopted by the i trustees, white people would raise half of the fund and the ,x negroes of the nation the re-1 ' mainder. . Secretary of the Navy I)aniels and Secretary of the TreasLirv McAdoo were among the speakers. Mr. Daniels said he regarded Dr. Washington as the strong- I" sst leader the negro race has! lc jver produced. The work done by Washing- n ton, Mr. McAdoo said, had been ^ squally beneficial to whites and ' negroes. y EMPEROR WILLIAM ISSUES ADDRESS Asks Subjects to Celebrate His *' 58th Birthday Only With Thoughts and Praver. * P Berlin, Jan. 20.?Emperor William has issued a public pronouncement requestinf the P German nation to celehrntp his P ~>8th birthday, January '27: with :>nlv quiet thoughts and prayer. ? Whoever wishes to give special . expression to his feelings is urged by the emperor to do so in the form of gifts, in order ' that wounds inflicted by the (> war may be healed and in order . that soldiers' families may be . better cared for. The emperor . further says: "It is still necessary that the( 15 heart, thoughts and strength of the German nation, both in the field and at home, be directed to the one great aim of gaining a decisive victory and winning a peace, which, as far as the human mind can conjecture. shall be permanent safeguard the country against a ^ repetition of hostile 'attacks." ITNLEY INTRODUCES 11 INTERESTING HILLS e il Measures for Building at York, s Cheraw and Winnsboro and j I for Historical Purposes. v 1 t Washington, Jan. 19.?Con- \ pressman Finley has introduc- ^ sd the following bills: To ap- a propriate $100,000 each for the 8 construction of public buildings i at Cheraw, York and Winns-Ir boro. He also wants $(>0,0001 for the purpose of either en- i " larging the public building at * Rock Hill or to acquire a site find erect a suitable building v for the purpose of holding fed- * sral court there at a cost of ^ f!(>0,000. t Another bill Mr. Finley introduced would appropriate $50.- rv 300 for the purpose of printing * ii roster of officers and enlisted men of both the Union and ? Confederate armies. In order to erect a monument to the memory of (Jen. s Daniel Morgan, the hero of the battle of Cowpens, Mr. Finley would have congress appropri- * J?OA AAA VT _ I O :iue fou.uw. i\o pari 01 tnis " fund may be used, however, un- v til the Cowpens Battleground c aaaociation has conveyed to the government not more than 10 2 acres of land. . n NO COAL FIRES f FOUND IN ITALY 11 p Rome, Jan. 20.?In spite of the cold weather Italy is a , ? country almost without coal * fires, the only smoke to be seen ? is that from locomotives, fac- h tories and a few hotels. Peas-: ^ ants in the mountains and the,^ poor of the cities are able to' make a few fires of wood, hut coal ia beyond the reach of any except the moat wealthy. t American coal liea unsold at the e seaports. On account of the s high freights anthracite costs :i more than $40 a ton. < <3 LANCASTER, S. C. (OMAN'S SUFFRAGE ;H KILLED BY HOUSE IcCullouglTs Joint Resolution Meets Defeat in Lower Body by Vote of 61 to 51. iDUCATION LAW TO N STAND WITHOUT CHANGE! Representatives Decide to Let I, Compulsory Measure Remain As It Is. Columbia, Jan. 20.?On a irect vote tonight the Worn-; h n's Suffrage resolution was illed in the house by a vote of u 1 to 51. It would have requir- u d a two-thirds majority for x he resolution to carry. . It is evident that the genera! 1 ssembly is not going to under- ^ sike anything very new or rad- 1 :al at this session. It may ? ass a cluster of measures of } linor importance, but the big- \] er issues are apparently going > wait until after the campaign ear. Prohibition has already een voted upon by the peonlc L' nd therefore the legislators i el that they can go the limit., ' A1 today's session the house etermined that it would make 0 change this year in the comulsory education status. At V resent under the Harper law \ ach school district has the do- . errnination as to whether com -1 1 idsory att? ndan^ should aply for that district or not Mr. larper had a bill by which he ought to change the unit from he school district to the conn- ^ y, and sought to have the uestion of county adoption inected in the approaching gen- N ral election. The majority of 4 he nu mber today thought that 1 i ne compulsory attendance lawad better stand as it is, and herefore defeated Mr. Harper's n roposition. f LECISLAT1VE NEWS. n tepresentati\e Railes Writes of ' Several House Hills. lj (By S. E. Bailes.) ? Columbia, Jan. 20?The LilesjJ' ill imposing a chaingang sen- 1 ence, without the alternative f a fine, for selling alcoholic quors in South Carolina, pass- ? d the house by a large major- . :y and has been sent to thei (' enate. I voted for this because) ^ think that the people by their ote last September indicated . hat they wanted real prohibi- J ion. When a blind tiger is ned it amounts to practically a hiorVi liponco on/I V//. /!??" ?/?* ^ lawiiovf mm lit UUC.1 IIUl top his nefarious practice. ^ I voted against the bill to aise the dog tax from 50 cents o $1.00. Nearly all towns col- ^ ?ct about one dollar municipal ax on dogs in addition to the fty cents tax, and T felt that it *" /ould be manifestly unfair to he town people who wish to ten a dog to further increase heir tax for this purpose. As o the "nigger's" dogs, they /ill not be returned anyway, i 'his bill was killed. ^ For the first time in fifteen (. ears, the house and senate j oth worked on Lee's birthday. v. 'he have usually been going on ,v ome .iunketfng trip on this ( ay. j. I voted for a bill regulating he temperature in cotton mills s I felt that such a measure . /ould promote the health and j omfort of the operatives. , 1 r-u: i 1 UUII1I MJ. ITI1II>C| U1 IliL'il^O, j ,J ave an interesting and instrucive address to the house last J ight on the single tax subject, ' dvocating the taxation of un- + mproved lands rather than the iroducts of labor. Capt. J. M. Hough, of Lanaster, was a pleasant visitor on he floor of the house yesterlay. Capt. Hough was a mem-1 > ?er of the house for eight years vhen he was a resident of Chesterfield county. Light for 8ick Room. To shade the electric light in a sick- S oom or In a child's sleeping room, 1 nake a bag of green china silk, Inrge t mough to slip over the light, shade V ind all. Put In drawing string to tie tl t on. This will soften the light won- I lerfully. 1 (j STER JANUARY 21, 191 (i. OUSE SAYS TIGERS f SHOULDGO10 GANG1 ill Making it Chain Gang Of-j fence to Violate Prohibition j f Sent to Third Reading. t ? ! ii U UI'TIUN UK b ALTERNATIVE ; i, h vies Makes Splendid Defence i; of His Measure and Was- 'I non Supports Him. | a v Columbia, Jan. 18.?The pro- o ibition fight started in earnest! a xlay. It was on the Lyles bill; ri taking it a chain gang offence, 11 ithout option or alternative, to < iolate the prohibition law. ]< At the night session of thejt ouse debate on the Liles chain () ang bill was resumed. The ouse, on an aye and nay vote i i I IS to 71, refused to kill thejt ill. An avalanche of amend lents was rejected by the ' s ouse, except those offered by i n ,iles. He proposed to reduce i P le sentence to thirty days for le first offence and to make it ixty days for any subsequent: Ifence. He also had the bill1 j mended so that it would not pply to any pending cases nd reduced the maximum penlty to two years. Under th ,iles amendment the Jud^e' lay suspend all of the sen- f nee except thirty lays for the 1 \ offence and sixty days n.v subsequent off< nee. The 1 ill then went to third reading i1 dthout further debate. < , J\ PRISONERS IN MORS HANDS , legroes Taken From Sylvester t Jail?Probably Dead Now. i r Sylvester, Ga., Jan. 20.?A s lob supposedly from Lee and x 'errell counties stormed the |( ail here tonight and removed i( ix negroes suspected of the * mrder of Sheriff Moreland at c )oles, a few weeks ago. It is : elievtd the negroes have been * inched. Five of the negroes ( 'ere said to be members of a amily named Lake, at whose ' ome Sheriff Moreland was kill-1 [1. The other negro was said ' > be John Seymour, who was hot at the time nnfl hrrmorht 1 - "**??,,v ; ere for safekeeping. The mob j 1 emanded a seventh negro, Jiml' itith, but found that Sheriff ' 'otts had removed him. Keith is believed to have ' een taken to Moultrie. Members of the mob came in utomobilcs. They drove away J ith the negroes in the cars. It ; 'as believed they were going d Doles to hang the negroes. ' r IX THOUSAND GARMENT \\ WORKERS ON STRIKE If 50 Factories in Philadelphia j Closed ? Better Conditions Asked. ! r Philadelphia, Jan. 19.?Gar- r lent workers numbering about 1 ,000 went on strike here Mon- < ay for higher wages and bet- i sr working conditions. As a < onsequence about 250 factor- n ?s are closed. The operators ay several thousand workers ? ho are not members of the nion joined the strikers. NearI all of the strikers are vomn and girls. I The demands are a 50 hour i 'eek ; a maximum of 4 hours a 1 ijiht when working nights; a t 5 per cent increase in wages: i minimum wage of $6 a week c or women and $8 for men; the ppointment of grievance and s rbitration committees and ^ he supplying by employers of < t II materials used. 11 1 HURMOND AND LYON c CONFIRMED BY SENATE 1 I J. S. Attorney and Marshal. > Respectively in Western District South Carolina. i i Washington, Jan. 20.?The 1 enate has confirmed the nomi- { lations of J. William Thurmond t o be United States attorney, i western district South Carol? ] ia, and Charles J. Lyons to be i Jnited States marshal, weste?Ti < listriet South Carolina. j hat any offenses of which Mrs. ^ ^ankhurst might have been < onvicted in England were po- " itical. The law excludes only ^ persons convicted of crimes in- ^ solving moral turpitude. Mrs. Pankhurst, here in the nterest of Serbian relief, may emain in the United States as < ong as she wishes. Two years igo she was admitted only long ' ?nough to fill lecture engage- , iients. At that time the de- j partment did not pass on the nature of the suffrage leader' . nffonses against the British government. ney IGREE REGARDING 0 LEFT-OVER LIQUOR Q legislators From Former 'Wet' Counties Would Have Remaining Hooze Sold. Columbia, Jan. It)?At a eon- I' erence of the legislators from he former dispensary counties i. J 1 J - A ' ' i was ueciaen 10 introduce a ill permitting those dispensar- E es having left-over stock on land to reopen and remain open intil they dispose of the stock. E "he idea is to sell the whiskey t retail prices in conformity ibth the gallon a month act. in ther words, a person will be ble to buy only a gallon -i <, nonth from the dispensary, "he stock will be sold only at ounty seats*. The bill would eep the dispensavies open un* P il all stock on hand is disposed p f. A committee, consisting of a lenators Sinkler, Spigner, and ^ ade, was appointed to draw he bill. j It is estimated that there is omcthing over $100,000 worth ' f liquor left over in the formr disnensarv counties. ; o FEDERAL WAREHOUSES. ?ill Favorably Reported to the Mouse bv the V'Ticulfural 'J Committee Wash! '.' ton, Jan. 10.?A bill c ') ' stnblish a sy-tem of federal 1 ic< nsing and supervision oi a varehouses for startle ajrric.il- e ural products, was favorably r eported to the house by the; I (Hlimittoi* on :urri.*lilt 111-.? Tunc- ( lay. a "This bill." explained Repre- \ ientative Lever of South Caro- c ina. chairman of the commit- t ee and author of the measure. ] 'undertakes, through the use o >f the warehouse receipts, islued from a federal supervised s varehouse on agricultural prolucts weighed an<l graded or { lassified by federal weighers tnd graders, to liquidize agriultural products in such a way , is to make them the best pos iiblo collateral for the securing 0 >f money." t S LIISELOIJS TO t TO CALL MAN II DAS t I v Madison, Wis., Jan. 20.?To fj onipare a man to Judas lscar-jj ot is libelous, according to the j leeision of the Wisconsin su- 1 >reme court Saturday in the ase of Giles H. Putman against Congressman E. E. Browne and he Post Printing company. j Chief Justice Winslow said I ( he opinion of the court was s hat the article complained of 'likens the plantiff not to an c >rdinary turncoat, but to the r nan who, in the estimation of ( he Christian world, committed < j, he greatest crime in history j t >y selling the life of his Divinely jaster for money. It requires j 10 argument to prove this is a i ^ i'oe, contemptuous insult and j ^ iui mere criticism ui any typo i . lence it is not privileged, being s ihellous on its face. The only juestion to be submitted to the n urv in connection with it is ;j juestion of the amount of damtges." HRS. PANKHURST IS ADMITTED TO V. S I c Washington, .Ian. 19.?Mrs. i, \mmoline Pankhurst, the Brit- , sh suffragist leader, detained ^ >y New York immigration auhorities has been ordered ad- e nitted to the United States un- , conditionally. ( In over ruling the action of a . ipecial board of inquiry at New fork excluding Mrs. Pankhurst j he department of labor held \ F (T^1 WEATHER j vf ('n< rally Fair J f M J ?1.50 A YEAR. ml grooming " ' rnn nnimnrnn inn/t m mm& JUb5 'ifth and Sixth District Congressmen May Find Opponents From Assembly. 1UCK AND McINNES ARE MENTIONED 'inspects of Several Entries I nfold, Including Lawson, Sawyer and Hamer. Columbia, Jan. 20.?Conressmen J. Willard Ragsdale, 1 the sixth district, may find iimself confronted with two oponents next year, who are at iresent members of the gener1 assembly. Friends of Senaor II. L. Buck of Horry couny, and Representative J. S. Mcnnes, of Darlington, are urgng them to run tor congress in he sixth district. No announeenent has been m. '? by either if the !e delators regarding the natter, but friends of both expect them to make the race. n i " i- 01 ?vi; ! entries :i the field ign nst Con essmao I: -d.J- w? i unol k >' du 'i". Lr t !v. o n^e of 'Iks w ' h people Vom h? sixth listrict who have h en in Coumbia n. d i-. st ft " d: vs. In dditien to the two probable andidates referred to above the tames of format Son itor L. M. jiiwson Darlington; Mayor )lin Sawyer of Georgetown, nd A. L. Hamer of Bonnettsille, are mentioned as possible andidates. It is reported that here may be an entry from 'lorence county, and possibly ne from Marion also. Congressman Ragsdale hinielf is a resident of Florence nd has a strong following hroughout the district. Proslective candidates who have joked over the field are aware ; his strength and will not go 11 to tin* race without taking very possible development ino account. One oi' the gentlemen from he sixth district in discussing he matter said that several andidates in the field might !raw away from Congressman tagsdale's strength enough to :eep him out of the second ace, and surface indications re that this method may be ttempted. For m a 1 anlouncements a r e expected rom some of the possible canlidates before the present sesion of the general assembly nds. The fight up in the fifth ongressional district next sumner is also attracting attention. Congressman I). E. Finley, who las served that district since 898, will be opposed by W. F. Itevenson, of Cheraw. who was n a on/'oiul vo oo b - .? i? ovvviiu i nv.c Willi I11II1 111 <>14. There is talk of J. E. IcDonald, of Winnsboro, who t one time was solicitor of the ixth circuit, may be in the ace. It is known thtit friends >f Mr. McDonald have been irging him to run. but he has ;ot given any definite answer, attempts are also being made o get John T. Roddey, former nayo- of Ko 1< Mil! in the voce, t has long he n known through iiit the fifth district Mint, un ss a candidate can break into lie strength of Mr. Finley in fork county there will be small ii'ospect of beat in g him. Howver, that race is looming up nore .every day and visitors in Columbia from the fifth district av they expect several candilates to oppose Congressman Mnley next summer. Dr. T. J. Strait of Lancaster, 'ormer congressman; Claud N. >app of Lancaster, former nember of the house, and N. If IT Jt? ^ /^l- 1 " v\. riHrwin, 01 v^neronee, iormer nember of the house, are <poken of as possible entrants n the list against Mr. Finley. The talk around Columbia of Hie congressional races next summer predict a warm fight n the third district also. Congressman VVyatt Aiken will be opposed by Fred H. Dominick, . f Ncwber^v, assistant attorney general, who made the sec(Continued on Page Eight.)