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- Tl VOL. 11, No. 39, SEMI ffiiir FALL AT EARLY DAW Sine Die Adjournment Reaehec in Roth Houses at 5:.'15 Sunday Morning. A PPOlVTMPVTC w * * * A Vflil 1 ilili.l AO /111" NOUNCEI Determination to Hold Appro priation Bill Down Accomplished to Good Effect. Columbia, Feb. 20.?Special t The News and Courier: The sec ond session of the seventy-firs General Assembly of South Care lina came to an end this morn if? at 5.35 o'clock. It was not ye midnight by the legislative clocl when Senator Sharpe move' that the Senate adjourn sine die The final motion on the Hons side was made by Represents tiye J. W. Boyd. When the gav els of Lieutenant Governo Bethea and Speaker James A Hoyt fell for the last time an the members of the General A? sembly trudged out, the firs streaKs ot dawn were visible 1 the east. The end was calm an peaceful, and there was nine wringing of hands and expro sions of mutual esteem an friendhip as the various men hers hade one another good-bv and turned their faces norm ward. There were 868 Acts pns< ed by the Legislature at its r< cent session. The entire time of hot houses from the moment the assembled at 8 o'clock Saturda night until they broke up at daj light this morning was taken u with detai1 incident to tli clise. This consisted for the mos part in adopting free conferenc reports and ratifying bills. Th houses spent most of the time i recess, subject to the call of tl Chair. The usual jollification scene occupied a large pla?e in the fii al night. The piano, which hi stood for several days in tt lobby of the State House, w* rolled into the House of Repr sentatives and the niembei gathered around it singing tl old familiar tunes, ijrhich are a ways a feature of the last nigl of the session. As the night woi on and the fact that the partir would soon come was realize the songs drifted more and mo: to the entimental, culminatir in the patriotic. A thrill wv throughout the House when 11 group around the piano broke i to the national anthem, and tl feeling found its climax in tl outburst of hand-clapping ar cheering when "Dixie" wi heard. Representative Beckett Beaufort, with his violin a companied the piano, greatly the enjoyment and pleasure the throng mere were several mock se sions of the Senate and Hon . during the hours of waitin Senator Hughes. of Union, ar Senator Leo. of Darlington,. 1< 4. the fun-making in the Serial and tho clever manner in whi< they got off hits on the va?io' Senators was fully appreciat. bv the crowd, Reading Cle Hutchison, of the House, called in to to act as readii clerk of the Senate at the 11101 session, and this he did in h usual happy way. He was p-i ticularly good in his burlesq bills on the pet subjects whi various Senators have kept the front during the session. . .On the House side Represent tive Odom of Chesterfield, ai Representative Massey of La caster, wore the Speakers f the mock session, and they a a good team. There were several resolutio put through uist before Una! journmet. The Senate concurr in the House resolution reque* ing the Senators and Congre:^ men from this State to vote f the hill now before Coneress pension Confederate soldiers ai their widows. The following Senate a pointments of various comm tees for the ensuing year we announced by President Bethe Committee on penai and chfl itable institutions, Senator G? 4E L/ -WEEKLY. VENERABLE MINISTER In GOES TO HIS REWARD Jj I Rev. W. C. Power, Aged 81, of Methodist Conference, Passes Away at Marion. 1 Marion, Feb. 20.?Special to F The News and Courier: The Rtv. VV. C. Power, one of the oldest hest known and ablest ministers l of the South Carolina Methodist ) Conference, died at his home of * his daughter, Mrs. M. C. Woods, - in this city, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. lie was 84 years of; age and had been in declining health many months. For several o years this venerable and well loved minister had not been in t active charge of any church, but NN >- lived here quietly with his dan- v - ghter. He is survived by a widow, t three sons, Messrs. William, |b k .John and Walter Power; two ? d daughters, Mrs. Woods and Miss tl '. Julia Power, and a stepdau- d e ghter. Mrs. Robert Teskey, of 1-1 i- Charleston. tl It is likely that the funeral ' r will take place some time tomor- J1. ^ row, but the hour has not been ' d fixed, pending the arrival of sev- * ertl menibei s of the family. The t interment will be in Rosehill a n emetery here. ? b THREE MEN BLOWN - UP THROUGH RIVER c d c j_ Blowout in Subway Sends Work- s v ers Sky-Rocketing Through ?-{ Roof. i , d a_! New York. Feb. 19.?One man 1< is dead and another is missing ( ^ as the result of a compressed air t blowout late today in a subway f , under construction 100 feet be- s low the surface of the East river ' A third man, who was shot with . v [0 j the others through mud and wa- s .fiter to the surface of ihe river. ( , wna hrnicoil uiul flu-jorl Ki,4 onmrt ? recovered after removal to a c 10 hospital. The blowout, believed l} n to have been caused by a leak in j 10 the compressed air pumped into! the subway to stabilize the work f s under construction, imperiled \ the lives of thirty-five other men g ls working in the tube. \ \C I 1 t,i The three men were sent sky- c 0] rocketing up through the roof of 1 _ the tunnel into the icy water.! ? Witnesses on the water front de- \ |l dared the three men were hurl 1 7 ed fully thirty feet above the! v surface of the river. j 11? !< f] America Has (Jiven 1 > Helffiuni $7,300,000 c 1 r New York, Feb. 19.?America ^ 1 h e. contributed $7,500,000 to the lej relief of Belgium, according to . n~ E. Van de Vyvere, Belgian in in- ( I ister of finance, who sailed to- j j day for London on the steam-, j u; shiip St. Paul, after spending jj several weeks in this country. j f Up to February foodstuffs and! l>1 clothing valued at more than 11 $80,000,000 had been shipped ( " into Belgium, he said. Kelgi..n , ' interests supplied more than 1 $60,000,000 of the sum expend- 1 en. 1 ne remainder was given by ' the people of the United States j and other countries. Mr. Van de i J. Vyvere stated that $56,000,000 >(l worth of supplies had been pur-j e.; chased in this country. The Belgian minister thanked ' the people for their generosity j j and said in a farewell message: < 1 ."I ask you, individually and as 1 ^<r a nation, to accept the love, the j friendsh'p end the faith which ( is offered to America by evei.v : Belgian as the tribute of their ^ Ll^ gratitude^ ^ M. Stuckey, of Lee: committee on State educational institutions,, 1 M Senator Hu'ger Sinkler, of Char- i |VI leston; committee on Code commissisoner, Senator R. I). Epps, h 0'~ of Sumter; committee on quar-j tqts ior mate orncers, senator J. M. Nick'es, of Abbeville, and j Senator T, H. Ketchin, of Fairfield; committee to investigate 1 7 rural credits and make recom- < 'n mendation to the Legislature, as ' provided by resolution, session i 1016, Senator D. R. Williams, of 1 to Lancaster; Senator Alan John-!, rid stone, of Newberry; Senator J. . L. SherartJ, of Anderson; coifi- i mittee on State printing, pro- 1 vided for in Act of 1916, Sen- ' re | a. ator Neils Christensen of Beau- j ir- fort, and Senator C. D. Lee, of , jo. Darlington. ] ... t V.NCAS LANCASTER, S. C. KKRIU' ROPS DESTROYED IAR] BY RISING WATERS ear Expressed by Mississippi Trent Planters. X; HEAT LOSS IN GRAIN otton Yield Now Threatened. ' Absence of Labor May Pre- Oishc rnnl 0,.~1 t VIII iivivwdi,! lVV|JI?tlll- rh()( ins. ! Atl Natchez, -Miss., Feb. 20.?! trem( ear that grain and cotton yields f ill be destroyed by the rising1, ' 'ater from the Ruck Ridge ere-, throi ase in the Mississippi river Soutl >vee was expressed here tonight porti< y a number of farmers and and wners of large plantations upon early heir arrival from the flooded j felt : istriet. The white refugees had tral t cmained by their farms since any c he break in the levee last, in so 'hursday in order to get their riedb ve stock to places of safety nothi 'hi> creavasse there is reported , panic o be more than 1,000 feet wide ! yp .'he oat and wheat crops h \ to be lready been destroyed by the the t verflow. the planters reported, wher 'rospccts of negro plantation brief iborers leaving makes the agree hances for planting corn and from otton rather dubious, they as- only erted. Labor agents from across c;.l t u? river have appeared and it hovve * alleged they arc offering in- vere lucements to the laborers to ; only eave and work the delta farms. vorn and cotton must be plant- . renc.y <1 immediately after the over-i low or it will be too late is the ^ \'e *iew taken by the planters. Refugees from the Buck Ridge | rill be taken to Natchez. The > \y iteamers Concordia and Uncle nijc )liver left here today for theionds revassee to continue the work noon >f rescuing persons marooned shod ilong the lc* ee and in high places f0])o< n the flooded sections. dam; As only a few boats are cap- ment ible of navigating the district oral >etween Newellton and the Ten ware las basins, it was estimated her- herns hat it wou'd take a week to res lie the people in that section, -pr) < Rescue work, however, will b' icilitated by the construction o lat boats, it was made known ;\fnn, lere tonight. J The condition of the marooned i efugees tonight still was un- j :ertain. Reports from rescuers (\ ,vho have penetrated into the Gove loser sections of the hack lands I the dated, however, that suffering least ,vas on the increase. |sent< The flood was reported to be of s< last Waterproof tonight ar.d had | lina. 'overed all of Tensas parish with ed b< :he exception of a few high aftei aoints. East Madison and More-1 that louse parishes also were report j tenc< id covered. year A member of the Mississippi | nrer egislature here in the interest but )f relief work said an effort For would be made to have the legis- alty ature of Mississippi appeal to cept :he government for shelter tents of a for the refugees at Natchez. law. HOLI) lTP STEAMER, LiffJ TAKE GERM VNS OFF Corr 'rilish Cruiser Removes |fl Teutons From China. P.Vin Shaighai, Feb. 19.?The Am- i..1 srican steamship China, which left Shanghai yesterday morning for San Francisco, was held ( H.' >n the high seas by a British au- 2-Ql miliary cruiser and .'18 Germans ivere taken off, *'r'? rPKn PVvinn id /\tvno/l l-vw t Ua * iiv. V IIIIUI ir> W.y I iv China Mail Steamship company.' It is thought she may h ive been ^( held up by the Laurentk\ which conl recently stopped the Tonyo Maru Ql,a!, whiVon a voyage to Manila, and socti removed nine Indians. if to p Educators Meet in Detroit. I stnti Detroit, Mich., Feb. 20.?Y h all of the leading hotels iv, once ed fdled many Detroiters to< ay i "rec threw open their home to vi oroh ing educators who h: . co n-0, the city by the hundred 'o *, tend conferences o r . tions Which I .ncrip'- tr. Find conclude on Friday meetings which arc el< f the auspices of (ho tin' .,<1 r, ucational Association, are i dis j pose of a great mass of ro ' business incident to the an convention of the N. E. A., ??n New York City in July. ' gove ITER N ARY 22, 1916 skefett f=5 in south carolina tttsw lina b} or of Slijiht But Distinct Columbia. Fe Occurred About ate ,ast ni^ht l.> 1. M. Monda>. house amendm< )AMAGE YET REORTED Association oui s Broken at Wlnnsboro and '''n^ 'lt ion' k Fell in Other Section, latiflcation. 1 he act minis' lanta, Feb. 21.?An earth viding for a boa >r of slight, but distinct, Pas.sc<1 the **na ,, , , ., ... ,. ,, and was return *e, that made it sell ten wph amendmer ighout Geoigia, Noith and At the night i Carolina, Virginia and at0 passed the 1 3iis of Eastern Tennessee for militamen v Alabama, was reported The bill was r tonight as having been house with mil \t about 5. 45 P. M., Cen- a test vote si inic, today. In no case was overwhelmingly lamage reported, and while cent railroad ra me instances persons hur- sure came up I / left buildings there was Sen itor Carlish ng in the nature ot a passage, said tl' the railroads. ( e only seismograph known Senator Shnrn. in the section affected b\ bate? on the bill remor is at Mobile. Ala . unlay. Senator e tbo instrument record' 1 table this motio shocks. Most reports ate refused to < id that the tremor passed to 2!. Those w east and west and was fell motion to table momentarily. In Augusta . blv i\a *iv? \> and several other places, beat tie. Earle. 1 iver, three distinct shocks win. Harvey reported. At other point Johnson. Man one tremor was felt. chin. O'DoM. Sh< 2 earth shoak either did not D. Reese Willia 1 Florida or was so slight Those who v ?t to he felt there, according motion that ports here tonight. against the b , Ruck. Carlisle, Dishes Broken. Rant, E. C. Ep] innsboro, reb. 21.?A seis- jjanev [jee |a, disturbance of several sec- Cowii." Mull'ins, was felt hero this after- ardson, Sharpe, About 6.30 o clock. The Stacy, Stuckey ks were two in number and John F. Williiu wed in rapid succession. No ige occurred worthy of n\'F< icvr ion except the loss of sev-j " valuable pieces of crockery-! VT .. ,, ... and other fragiles by the * m "v"l: ewives of the city. caster \\ .do, To the* Editor O Cr tNf! I* We ?ee fro*1 VIOLATE "DRY" LAW Kinston Daily ? ? 10 an article r ning Signs I.'.les Bill ?Mc Pollie Simpso irmick County Ml Right. county. South ( rinihall New Solicitor. t Hurt to seeur . . ? 77 . death of her ilumbin, S. ( reb. 19.? cr........... j.ai... irnor Manning today signed in'(hV'sprinlr'n Idles hill, providing for at sav }lor ji^t thirty days' chaingang ?'ian, William V mce for every man convicted nonr ni0 who slling li<|iior in South Caro- factS; he rem* The measure, which pass- ent an(j jias to nth houses of the legislature again. I have to r some opposition, provides Walter's) word for the first offense the sen- man's in my se e shall be six months to two no olu, who wi s, tlie judge having the assertion of hi? ogative of suspending all j h.iye to s. thirty days of the sentence. , ,j jn mC] subsequent offenses the pen-, n fhi (i is one of five years all ex ; ,f Mr WhUc ' sWty days. The alternative | fine is eliminated by the | of his ^ea(j c make further > nvernor Manning, late today, essary, after 1 ed the act creating Me- to what is ws nick county. with the laws ivernor Manning tonight ap- such matters, ted William H. Grimball. of Kinston, N. rleston, as solicitor for the :h Circuit. Mr. Walfei Kinston, VNf.ES MADE IN THE To Whom Thi IAKT MONTH MEASURE The undersi that ho was a is Containing Whiskey \\ if! panv I), Sixtyfot Have to He Labelled North Carolim . he was with tl ilumbia, Feb. 10.?The free certain night erence report on th? two- ot- Secession n< *t-a-month bill struck out 1 m;i0s east of h ion 10, which requires a man. that Peter Sin b carries whiskey in a grip, j aerved about aste a label on the outside various duties ing how much whiskey the s|,ot in the th contaihr. The free confer- soldier about 1 also struck out the wordnext eive." as the original bill l111'' ('ani a, ' . . . , . i ust where he ubited a man from giving his i1 . i i tl * i The occurrei id a dnnk. rhe section pro- me an(j j ^ive ting non-residents from get- knew Peter Sii whiskey while in this state and never kne also stricken out. The bill from, but my inally adopted allows each was a dark skir lent of the state to order two average size. ts of whiskey or five dozen 1 feel certaii les of beer per month. As husband of Mr as the bill is signed by the rnor it will become law. Witness: Ge i - ' ---- [EWS $1.50 A YEAR governor signs Fill MESSAGE / Law. t , 1fk m .Manning Approves Appropriab. If.?The sen- linn liil'. agreed to the ;nta to the bill WITHOI T ONE VETO itheastern Tari 'V of the state. 1 he fJenoral Assembly Adjourns at id enrolled lor O'clock Sunday Morning. Resolutions of tration bill pro- Thanks, rd of conciliation te late last night Without vetoing a single led to the house item, Gov. Manning at 5:35 its. o'clock Sunday morning sent his session the sen- > message ot approval of the ap)ill providing pay propiiation hill an - the omnivho attend drills. l>?s county supply hill to the eturned to the general assembly. Two minutes lor amendments, later the Ibid legislature heno wed the senate come history, from its eonvenagainst the two-: \nK at noon January 11 to its adite bill .The mea- i?ui anient. 'or debate and The governor's farewell mes\ in opposing its sage was: iat it was baiting "Permit me to thank your )n a motion by honorable body for the courtesy to adjourn do- and consideration e 1 ei ded to until 10:30 Sat- -the executive department and to Hughes moved fo me persomd'y luring your sesn. which the sen sion. The friendships brought lo by a vote of 1 1 \1 out Giro di nei -ip- - <>c iho voted for the tion in a patriot! vv'ce 'o our .that is, presum- lvmorel State wi'l linger with T. were: I?anks. me long alter von have adiournK. T). Epp \ ' 'oo i- ed and rctuvu nl t?? your h mes Hugh"-;, T>. H. and love I ores. Johnstone bet- "j respectfullv inform your Tank \\ "'lWr.aii, honourable body that T have ms, lotal i t. signed the nvpropriution bill and 'oted against '.he the school and county ripply bill is, presumably end have no further communicnill were: PJark, tion or message. Christensen. T)u- ?Ma.v p.od's blessing rest imps, Evans, Giv.nn. on vou and yours always, is my ile.Manning, Mc- earnest prayer." Ni( holson, Rh-Following the reading of the , Sinkler, Spigner, nyntsan?a * Verner Walker hu.miui-iiiiwhi, ' Tnt il 9 i immediately thereafter, members of the house and senate ex~ w?x;Tr.<n tended hearty hand hakes to ? AM I wli. their departing coworkers in the ? i 'ogislative halls. It was in pledge in ( onies to t.an- 0f the many words of farewell ?v s Assistance* and good wishes that had been "of The Stato: rl'"ke" ?,<W intue'', !" ,,m'ins , the nine and one-hall hour sesiows of February sio" ol' n*ht' elativo to Mrs concluding session of the n of Lancaster 101 legislature was enjoyable Carolina, and her *'10 members and the itinere facts as to the nn* vis'tors because of its irhusband, Peter regularities, its songs and music 1 near Kinston 'n'l 'ts mock sessionns of nnrf 'hi. Now please liamentarv procedure. In various there is a crenth - wa.vs the legislators passed away Valters, who lives''I10 time between the adoption can give her the n1 ^ree conference reports and unhers the ineid the ratification of bills. Id of it time an l All attaches of the legislative i say that his (Mr. department received thanks for is as good-is any the services rendered. Loving ction. there being cups were presented to Speaker mild distrust any ITovt. who was highly eomplim*. j ented in short speeches by more ty that he is the than 20 members, and to Junius ruber of Company T. Piles, chairman of the ways on that we know and means committee. Speeches s is anxious to be of presentation and acceptance nice to the widow1 of these "slight tokens of high omrade and will esteem" were made with a sinstatements if nee- cerity that was not forced. le is infoi mod as The engrossing department, intcd, to eompb which had completed all bills ot our Stude in turned over to it by 5 o'clock in ( iCO. r. 1 lllott. the nini'nilKr ol'tni- ? 4 . . ..... ..4..^ (41 kV I (I V ? 'I I L I 1 1 UWll -S C. session of many hours, was i commended in the following vers' Statement- solution, introduced in the hous N. Feh 12. hy .Mr. Massev and in the sonat s May Concern: by Senator T,aney: gned has to say "Be it resolved, by Ihe hou<,? member of Com- of representatives (and tlm sc seventh regiment, ate), That the engrossing dei troops, and that partment is commended for their lat company <>n a /oal and nvmner in which thev during the War have attended t > the multitudin?ar Cobb's, at few oik duties which have been dnston, N. C., and theirs, and we especially desire ipson, with whon to congratulate them on the six months in th< pronmtne -* and correctness with of a soldier, war which they transacted the busiligh hy a Yankee ness 0f enrolling the acts on this ) o'clock at nigh; the closing night of the 1916 morning on the session." he old Cobb mill ! M*ay of the members of the was shot down. ] 7i9t genen! nsemb'y left on nee is all clear to early morning trains, others deto snv 1 i pnrit-d miring tn^ day, while mpson in the war c.t,i 11 others remained in Colurpw where ho cnmo jn all of ysterday.?The State, recollection is he Feb. 21. med man of about McCcrmfok Fo'inty. l that ho was the, c0jmrp; hYh 19 Governor 3. Pollio Simpson Manning Into today signed the W. F. Walters. ac.^ crating McCormick couno. T. Parrott. ty.