Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i-V : v V... Jli lllilllli ffiSHIMB Publtihad Weekly ABBEVILLE. 8. C. Probably when the modern heroine **sbrink8 Into herBelf," ' she merely draws in her claws. As Mocha coffee is grown in Brazil. >the Italian bombardment of that ctty "won't stir up your coffee. The man who used dog hairs in making counterfeit bills might be cured by a bite of the dog. Perhaps you think you know how to pronounce Delhi, but it will do no harm for you to look it up. Several Cincinnati school girls have proved that they can live on seven cents a day. But will they? Another Austrian archduke drops i his title. Ah. if some Americans 1 were only allowed to pick them up! Almost any many can live to be 100 years old if he can dodge the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. A Boston preacher has quit the pul pit to go into the coal business. Con tinuing to make it hot tor the sinner? The stealing of pictures from French art galleries continues. Dealers in pic ture post cards 6hould take warn ing. That the Filipinos are capable of a high degree of civilization Is indicat ed by the interest they take In base ball. Before the women ' get on an equal footing with th6 men" they will have to come down from their French heels. Andrew Carnegie says that $25 a week is enough to get married on. Andy wants to die poor, but not - ? alone. ' With a reform league of some kind meeting every week this country should be saved, provided it requires Bavin^ The beauty doctors are prescribing two carrotB a day for the complexion; which looks to us like the high cost of color. Suit for $10,000 dumages growing out of events started by kicking a cat hows how terribly that animal can come back. A health expert tells ub that candy la an aid to beauty. Likewise it is an aid to young men who are paying attention to beauty. V. Tailors are planning a system to be paid regularly like the butchers and bakers. Still, there is no such thing as custom-made bread. We are told that 8,000,000 Russians are on the verge of starvation, but we have not noticed that the czar is los ing his appetite over it An old church In Minneapolis has been turned into a laundry, wblch, ac cording to the old adage, is just one mmnira/l frnm cnritlnoen If people would only wear concrete Jewelry and carry concrete money the hold-up man would have to turn to toioe lighter occupation. A scientist claims that be has dis covered a way to obtain gold from the baser metals, but there Is nothing new in Che goldbrlck game. The Indiana citizen who was given eight years for* stealing chickens prob ably would have been given-life if he had been caught stealing fresh eggs. An exchange tells us that a great many Japanese women are pearl div ers. Evidently the Japanese dairy lunch foundries believe in employing women. .A historian tells us that Sappho was a woman of good repute, but it Is & safe bet that some scandalous things were said about her In Greek tewing circles. New York Jury upheld the defendant In a breach of promise suit brought by a "klssless" girl. It Is not neces sary to marry an Iceberg even If one promises to do it A sudden shock will sometimes change the color of the eyes, accord ing to a London highbrow. It depends on the force of the blow whether the eye Is turned black, blue or green. Girls In a Los Angeles high school ire taking a course In matrimony. Yet It is more than likely that scientific methods will be discarded when it comes to the critical point, and the courting will be done in the same old way. A Boston man. writing to a New York paper on the subject of football, ays the country "should not tolerate so dull and stupid a performance" Probably he is so used to the excite ? ? * Kof an np/1lno?^r f*n??>^ llieui VI V.I WJUIUBI/ & of football doesn't appeal to him. Flatfootedness will be In the future among the defects which will bar would-be teachers from the Gotham public schools. Yet ability to come out flat-footed for anything or any body has hitherto been regarded as an important part of educational training. A woman fell dead the other day in a Chicago street car. It must be that a man got up and offered her his eat. Dog mouth is a new disease discov ered in Pittsburg, and is contracted by kissing pet poodles. As a cry hag arisen that human osculation is un healthy unless antiseptic to a degree which makes kisses more sanitary than useful, and as kissing of babies has fallen under the ban of scientific bringing up. it is no wonder that tin kissing habit is going to the dogg. Li MAKERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA THE GENERAL ASSLMBLY HAS CONVENED FOR A FORTY DAYS SESSION. THE WORK OF BOTH HOUSES Will Publish From Time to Time the Latest Newt of Interest From-the Senate and the House of Repres entatives. Columbia.?The general assembly of South Carolina convened for its annual session of 40 days. The halls of the senate and hpuse of rep resentatives had been placed in con dition /or receiving the members of the legislature. The /annual message of the gov ernor was read to both the senate and the house soon after they were called to order. The following is the annual mes sage in part of C. L. Blease, governor of South Carolina, read before the senate and house: To the Honorable, the Members of the General Assembly of the state of South Carolinn Gentlemen?Once again you have met together and it becomes my duty, as- governor, to make recommenda tions which are for the best interest of the people of our state. f This having been a very busy year in the executive department, it is im possible to embody the various mat ters into one message without mak ing it entirely too lengthy. There fore, whatever may have been the usual custom, I will communicate with you by several messages in stead of one. I have given close attention to financial interests and find extrava gance in many places, and that use less offices have been created; and j mac u is poBwioie 10 ruu mc guvcm ment on less money, which would re lieve our people from their heavy tax burden. The joint assembly unanimously elected Eugene B. Gary of Abbeville, now an associate justice, to the posi tion of chiof justice of the supreme court of South Carolina. Associate Justice Gary was the only nominee and succeeds Ira B. Jones, resigned. Richard C. Watts, former circuit judge from the Fourth circuit, was sworn in as an associate justice of the supreme court, following his election. , Associate Justice Watts addressed the following letter to the governor, which was .sent to the general assem bly in a special message: "Having qualified as associate jus tice of the supreme court, I have the honor to inform you that a vacancy exists in the office of judge of the Fourth circuit." The message was received by the legislature as information. A date for the electioR of the successor will be set by the house and senate. A well defined rumor in legislative circles was to the effect that the house and senate will be asked to make thorough investigation of the details of the loan of $500,000 made to the state /or running expenses. Res olutions are expected to be intro duced simultaneously in the senate and house calling upon the legislature to appoint a commission to make the investigation and report on the mat ter 1 at earliest possible date. The Senate. The following appointments were announced by C. A. Smith, president of the senate: Journal clerk, G. E. Moore, Anderson; bill clerk, E. A. Terry, Saluda; secretary to the president, L. M. Green, Sumter; pages, Jack Mulligan, Columbia, and Edwin Fuller, Laurens; mail clerk, N O. Pyles, Columbia; doorkeepers, Jonas Armstrong, Anderson; R. M. Floyd, Spartanburg, and John Brun boA, Edgefield; laborers, Albert Nance, Newberry; Calhoun Butler, Abbeville; John Floyd, Florence. A vetoed measure providing for rural police for Newberry county was passed by the senate over tho i veto of the governor by a vote of 35 "Label Case" Date Is Not Yet Fixed. The time set for the trial of the "label cases" was not set by the court as has been expected. Attorney Gen eral Lyon, when asked about the matter, stated that Mr. W. P. Stev enBon, who will be associated with the prosecution was out of tho city, and it would be after a conference with him that they would be ready to say when the cases would be tried. L. W. Boykin, J. B. Towill and W. O. Tatum are charged with having paid too high a price for a shipment of labels. Honea Path Holds An Election. The election held at Honea Path to select officers for the town resulted in the election of J. F. McKenzie, mayor, and J. H. Callaham, warden from Ward 1; L. M. Wilfon, Ward 2; J. E. Allen. Ward 3; A. Y. Hughes, Ward 4; J. D. Beacham, Ward 5; Chas. Bolt, Ward 6. For mayor, J. F. McKenzle received 51 votes, P. W. Sullivan, the former mayor, 44, and L. L. Wright 5. There were no other candidates, and Mr. Sullivan distinct ly stated that he did not want the of fice. The election passed off quietly. A Jail Delivery Prevented. The plans of four negro prisoners to break jail were upset by Will BriB coe, a ,'ellow prisoner, at Spartan burg, when he told the authorities that they had been receiving saws, knives and other tcols smuggled in to them in bananas and sweet pota toes. A search proved Briscoe's story to be true, and one of them, Ellis Sampson, has been indicted for at tempted jail delivery. Briscoe recent ly pleaded guilty to housebreaking. He was given a light sentence in r?ccgr.ition of his disclosure. to 2. The measure will be sent to the house for a vote. The measure provided that rural policemen be appointed by the sher iff of Newberry county and not by the governor. The chief executive sent in a message giving his reason for vetoing the measure. Among the reasons assigned for vetoing the measure was that, the title did not state clearly the meaning of the act. Senator Johnstone of Newberry cham pioned the measure and stated that any one acquainted with conditions * ? v' ?* ?l??A?r that tho in jNc'wnerry uuuii^ nucn tuui. measure was necessary. The act providing for the investi gation of the governor, the attorney general and the winding-up commis sion of the old state dispensary, that the governor vetoed, was passed over his veto in the senate by a vote of. 36 to 3, and was sent to the bouse for further consideration. There was much acrimonious and caustic debate on what one senator termed "a slap in the face cf even' member on the floor of the senate." . H. B. Carlisle, senator from Spar tanburg county, opened the debate on the bill. He stated that the bill was introduced at the Instance of the gov ernor to take the stain off the char acter of those Whom he accused. Af ter its passage, the governor saw fit to veto it The House of Representatives.' Speaker Smith announced these ap pointments: R. E. Carlisle, journal clerk; J. R. Arno'd, bill clerk; W. S. Bonner, general deslc clerk; W. S. Tlllinghast, secretary to speaker; doorkeepers, J. R. Kay, W. S. Turner, C. W. Teal; pages, Thomas Trussell, Clifton McCain, Andrew McGlll. Many were, of course disappointed, as there are not sufficient places to go around for all who want positions. The shoe-string county bill, about which thpre has been much said, was reported as becoming law without the approval of the governor. This bill is directed againBt what are called "ill-shaped" counties. The bill as to the rural police in Cherokee was "left over" and the Spartanburg county rural police bill, that has been vetoed, will provoke a I rucua. The senate notified the house of the passage a? the act reopening the dispensary investigation over the veto of the governor. On motion of Mr. Sawyer the message was considered immediately after third reading bills. On K. P. Smith's motion the message and the act to which it relates were ordered printed in the house journal. The house took up a few second prescribe a mileage base for making pescribe a mileage base for making freight rates, and to fix penalty with in this state." Mr. Dixon spoke in favor of the passage of the bill. The railroad commission has already [ made a ruling covering the provisions j of the bill. On motion of Mr. Magill. ! the enacting words were stricken out. Bills Before Houie. The following third reading bills and joint resolutions carried over on the calendar from last year were pass ed by the house and ordered ratified: To require the use of electric head lights on certain locomotive engines owned or operated by any company, corporation, lessee, manager or re ceiver, and to provide a penalty for a .failure to use same. To require all- municipal corpora tions of more than 200 poulation to keep an itemized account of all re ceipts and disbursements and to pub ish same. A joint resolution to authorize the county supervisor of Barnwell county to borrow money. To amend an act entitled 'An act to declare the law in reference to and to regulate the manufacture, sale, use, consumption, possession, transporta tion, and disposition of alcoholic li quors and beverages within the state, and to police the same, approved the 16th day of February, A. D. 1907, in so far as the same applies, to coun ties of Charleston and Georgetown," approved the 25th day of February, A. D. 1908, in so far as the same applies to Charleston county, ap proved March 3, 1909, exempting Richland county from the provisions thereof. A bill relating to toe piace 01 iriai of mutual fire and life insurance com panies. (Sent to senate with amend ment.) To authorize the school trustees of Gannt school district No. 34, In An derson county, to chargte and collect a matriculation fee of pupils attend ing schools in said district. License Law Wanted in Charleston. The abolition of the dispensary law and the substitution of the li cense system for the regulation of the liquor traffic .formed the Bubject of a two houf-s' session of city coun cil of Charleston as a committee of the whole in Conference with Char leston county legislators at which Mayor Grace argued at length declar ing that the dispensary is the root of all evil, that it is not suitable for a seaport and that if the matter is properly presented the desired leg islation will be provided. Injured While Attending His Duties. Capt. I. P. Gregorie, conductor on Charleston & Western Carolina trains No. 43 and 44, running between Port Royal and Yemassee, was painfully injured while attending to his duties. He was standing on the rear platform of his train signaling to the engineer ' when he was knocked off by a stand pipe as the train was passing it. He waB rendered unconscious and receiv ed painful injuries. He is now at his home recuperating. Capt. Ben Black has charge of the trains during Capt Gregorie's confinement. Good Roads Meeting In Columbia. There is much Interest shown in the announcement as to the 12th an- ! nual convention a,! the South Caro lina Good Roads association, w?iich will be held in Columbia. This con vention will be held Monday, January 22, and not January 26, as has been previously announced. The conven tion is ol' special importance to the county supervisors and commission ers, inasmuch as 'they are the real road builders of the state and are re sponsible for the actual development along such lines. TEXAS PEOPLE FLEE FROM MENINGITIS SPINAL MENINGITIS PLAGUE IS CAUSING EXODUS FROM CIT IES IN LONE STAR STATE. U CITIES ARE QUARANTINED State Health Board Asks Help of New York Board to Combat Malady. Au6tin, Texas.?About fifty families -mostly women and children?seek ng a temporary residence free from :erebro spinal meningitis, arrived nere from north Texas points. A large number of families is said to have passd through en route to San Antonio, where the disease has not appeared. t Dallas, Texas.-^-The state board of heatlh decided t6 try to secure for distribution throughout Texas a sup ply of the New York board of health meningitis serum. It urged county attorneys to prosecute the practicing of alleged healing of meningitis by unauthorized persons and also to prosecute delays in reporting or diag nosing meningitis by regular physi cians. The disease was declared to be most prevalent among negroes. Dr. Abraham Sonhian, the New ^ork meningitis expert, received word that hiB mother is dying in New York. He said he would remain in Texas to help combat meningitis. Twelve new cases in Dallas and five deaths have been reported to the city board of health. All these deaths were of white persons. Three of the new u les were negroes. At f .lsboro, Texas, the city coun cil requested churches to discontinue Bervices temporarily because of the rear of spinal meningitis. Waco phy sicians recommended to the city board 01 neaun leuuyuiui/ uidwu^uu ance of church services, public fun erals and the closing of moving pic ture shows. Hewitt, McLennon coun ty, was reported to have quarantined against Dallas. The closing of public schools at Marshall, Texas, near the Louisiana line, was recommended by officials of that city and physicians there because one case of meningitis had appeared It Marshall. The schools will close. Long View, Texas.?The city board Df health announced a rigid -quaran tine against Dallas, Waco, and other places where meningitis is prevalent Health officers will be placed on all trains to enforce the Quarantine. Shreveport, La.?Despite strenuous protests of Mayor Eastham, the local board of health has abolished the juarantine that the mayor establish sd .against Dallas, Waco and other nnints in north and east Texas, infect ed with cerebro spinal meningitis, ind also refused to request the state board to put on a statewide embargo igainst Texas. ANDREW CARNEGIE BOASTS Jarnegia Gloats Over Having Got Ahead of John D. Rockefeller. Washington.?"It does my heart good to think that I got ahead of John D. Rockefeller, my fellow mil lionaire, in that Lake Superior ore Jeal." Andrew Carnegie, former ruler 3f the steel industry of the United States, gloated thus in testifying be fore the house committee of inquiry In the United States Steel Corpora tions Mr. Carnegie had just told the jommittee about his deal with Mr. Rockefeller, whereby he obtained con trol of Mr. Rocekefeller's iron ore i holdings in the L.aKe superior regiou it a rate of fifteen cents a ton, hold ings which when turned into the steel ;orporation later, formed a large part jf the assets valued at $700,000,000, )00. Mr. Carnegie laughed like a school boy, as he referred to the business ' triumph he had achieved over his "fel low millionaire." Throughout the in quiry Mr. Carnegie declared he had come to tell all he knew, but he was anable to supply many facts which the committee desired, stating that tie had never paid any attention to the books of the Carnegie company J before its absorption by the steel cor-' poration. v Gentry Heads Cumberland Co. Atlanta.?Col. W. T. Gentry, presi dent of the Southern Bell Telephone company, will be elected president of the Cumberland Telephone and Tele graph company at a meeting which (s to be held in Louisville, Ky., early In February. This confirms the re cent Associated Press dispatches from New York, and means that Co.lonel Gentry will be the chief officer of that part of the Bell system east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio rivers. The same officials will be elected by both companies. Crusade {o Kill Tipping. Charlotte, N. C.?After launching an anti-tipping crusade the Southern Hotel Men's association adjourned here after electing officers. The ho tel men will issue an appeal to the traveling public in the South to help abolish the tipping system. To prove their sincerity in the crusade a com mittee of three was named to meet In the near future in Atlanta and attempt to enlist all hotel organiza Hons in the soutn in me rciwui through amalgamation with the asso ciation. One Negro Defied Posse. Rochester, N. Y.?William Twyman, a negro, considered insane, murdered his father at their home in ScottS ville, a little village near Rochester, shot dead a deputy sheriff, severely wounded three other deputies and slightly injured Sheriff Harley Hamil, the leaders in a posse of more than a hundred persons who endeavored to enter Twyman's house, in which he had barricaded himself. Twyman held the besiegers at bay for six hours until a one-pounder gun arrived on the t-pet. V- M v: 1 HATS OFF TO ' JACKSON DAY BANQUET JACKSON DAY BANQUET IN WASHINGTON ATTENDED BY LEADERS OF DEMOCRATS. No Sectionalism, No Dissension, No Anything But Predictions of a Democratic President. Washington, -r- Democratic leaders at the Jackson day dinner here urged their followers to stop fighting each other and assail the common enemy, the Republican party, with a united front Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, Speaker Champ Clark, Wil liam J. Bryan, William R. Hearst, Jo seph W. Folk and other Democratic chieftains, who have differed in the past, joined in a unanimous plea for harmony for 1912, and predicted po litical victory would follow. It was a tumultuous dinner in which prospective candidates for the presi dential nomination shared honors. Governor Wilson was given a tremen dous ovation.- When he said it was tne duty or uemocrats in couBiuer ing the trusts to "hit the heads that we see, and see that our shillalehs are of good hickory," the banqueters al most raised the roof. When William R. Hearst declared that he would use every "source and resource" in his power to bring about a Democratic victory pnd characteriz ed Theodore Roosevelt as a "harle quin of politics," there was another explosive outburst But when Champ Clark, speaker of the house, called attention to the har monious action of the Democratic ma jority in the lower house of congress, and set it up as an example for the party to follow, the climax was reach ed. Mr. Bryan, who followed many other speakers, predicted a revolution of political acti6n in November. NAVAL STORES TRUST SUED i United States Files Suit in Macon, Ga., to Dissolve American Concern. Macon, G&.?A suit brought by the United States government to^dissolve the so-called. Naval Stores trust, of which the Savannah Naval Stores company is alleged to be the parent and controlling concern, was filed in the Federal court here by Assistant United States District Attorney Alex. Akerman. The action is brought under the Sherman law, and Is directed against the following companies: The Ameri can Naval Stores company, organized under the laws of West Virginia; the American Naval Stores company, or ganized under the laws of the state of New York, with principal -offices In New York city; the National Trans portation and Terminal company, or ganized under the laws of New Jer sey, with head offices in Jacksonville, Fla.; the National Transportation and Terminal company, organized under the laws'of New York, with head of fices in New York city; the Peninsu lar Naval Stores company, organized under the laws of Florida, with head offices in Jacksonville; the Uniofl Naval Stores company, organized un der the laws of West Virginia, with headquarters in New York city. School Girl Kills a Man. Atlanta.?Defending herself and mother from the attack of a boarder in their home, 350 Fraser street, Miss Kate Moore, 15 years old, shot and killed W. L. BanKSion, as ne lureat ened her with a heavy oak chair; at I ter the shooting she took to her heels I and ran to her mother and two young j sisters, who were waiting some doors above. The two younger girls were almost without clothing and had been drlvan from their beds when Bank ston commenced his disorder. Macon Agent Confesses Robbery. Macon, Ga.?Following four hours of sweat-box examination at the hands of Central of Georgia Special Officer Poole and Sheriff Hicks of Bibb coun ty, P. H. Smith, the railroad ticket agent who was found bound and gag ged in his office, saying two men had robbed him, broke down and confess* ed that he had taken the money.' He at once led them to a store room in the union depot above the ticket of fice and produced $1,300 in bills, most ly wrapped in bundles. Alleged Bank Robber Caught New York.?John McXamara of San cmnnisco. known to detectives of half a dozen cities as "Australian Mick," was arrested here on ?. warrant charg ing him with the larcony of $375,000 from the Bank of Montreal at New Westminster, n. C., which was dyna mited September 14. Eleven hun dred dollars were found in his wallet, and detectives are searching the city for $240,000 of the bank's funds, which he is hflleved to have brought to Xew York. *: tv. LAWS TO GOVERN CANAL Judge Adamson and Committee Have Returned Irrespective of Panama Canal. N / . / Washington,?Legislative machin ery to provide for operation of the Panama canal and control; of the ca nal zone was started when the house committee on interstate commerce held its first meeting to frame a pro* gram for hearings and other prelim inary work as a basis of the bill CHAIRMAN OF CANAL COMMITTEE which will ble reported out to the house later in the session. Chairman Adamsori and his commit tee have just returned from a trip to Panama, where they conferred with Chief Engineer Goetbals and other of ficials who are working to put the great isthmian ditch into active op eratlon by /anuary 1, 1915, and per haps as they say, a year earlier. Mr. Adamson has voiced the opinion that the progress and quality of the work done there is entirely satisfactory. The question of the treatment to be accorded American - shipping, whether to give craft flying the' Amer ican flag In service either coastwise or to foreign,-ports, preferential rates in connection with the passage through the canal, etc., and the prob lem of whether to, vest wide discre tion in the president as to the amount of tolls, or to make specific legislative provision for 'the rates in th j bill, will be fought out in the com mittee. The senate committee on in ter-oceanic canals has made no plans, being disposed to wait upon the house. - , North and South in Hall of Fame. Louisville, Ky.?Dispatches from Washington and from Kentucky's state capital, Frankfort, say the state legislature soon will have under for mal consideration a bill providing that the bluegrass commonwealth place in the hall of fame at Washing ton statues of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. It is pointed out that inas much as the bluegrass was the birth place or ttie two great jeaaers or me Civil war, it could with propriety, place statues of both Lincoln and Davis in the hall of fame. To Improve the Coosa River. Birmingham, Ala.?H. Home of Ma con and New York City and associ ates have secured control of water I power sites along the Coosa, Talla poosa and Tennessee rivers. They In tend to make the Coosa navigable to the gulf, and Horne stated that there would be a total expenditure of $150, 000,000. The work will start within the next thirty days, Birmingham be 1 ing the headquarters of the company. Mr. Horne would not divulge the I names of the interested parties. Parson to Escape Death. Boston.?Speculation was rife as to what ultimately will be the fate of Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson, who, in a written statement, confessed the 1 ~a V.{? Ar murQCr Oi Ilia iui luw O itcciucai i, Avis Linnell. From a source close to Governor Foss the statement came that the attitude of the executive probably would be in favor of, a com mutation of sentence of death in the electric chair to one of life imrpison ment if the law's fullest penalty is imposed by the court Bryan Confers With LaFollette. Washington.?Col, William J. Bry an of Nebraska and Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin had a con ference at the Union Station upon their joint arrival in the city, the for mer from the South and the latter from the West. The meeting between the three-time presidential candidate nomnnratifi Dartv and the Pro gressive Republican who is seeking to wrest the Republican nomination from President Taft was said to be accident! DEMOCRATIC VENTJON ?nic un <iunc A "PERMISSIVE" PRIMARY . ;/.m A :/'i Delegates to Convention May Be Elected by Popular Vote at Primary Election. Washington.?The Democratic na tional committee completed its work . ' j here with the selection of Baltimore as the convention city. June 25 was fixed as the date of the national gathv - x ering, when candidates for president and vice president will be selected. The Republican national convention is to be held in Chicago June 18. The Democrats adopted a 'permia- ^ * sive'" primary resolution in conriec tion with the call for (delegates, and euch states as have laws on the sub ject, or desire to do so, can select their representatives in the national f , * convention by direct vote. There are 1,074 delegates to be chosen. Harmo ny marked the sitting of the ^com mittee, which was given over almost entirely to the arguments of repre sentatives of the various cities bid ding Ipr the convention.. Wllliata Jen nings Bryan did not attend. There was. a brief controversy o?er the proposed recognition of the Pro gressive League clubs, an organiza tion said to have grown out of the Independence League movement start ed by William Randolph Hearst. National Chairman Norman & Mack was nam?d to head the subcommittee on arrangements for the convention. Vice Chairman Hall of Nebraska and ? " ? ?- ' - - , ' 1 iir+*'iE8 Secretary uray wooason 01 cveiivuosy will be ex-offlclo members of this sub committee, and there will be seven additional members to be named la ter by Mr. Mack. The primary resolution adopted was a modification of one proposed by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon. It was framed by a subcommittee, heed ed by Clark Howell, and was as fol lows: , "That In the choice of delegates and alternates the national Democrat ic convention of 1912, the Democratic starte or territorial committees .may, ifnot otherwise directed by law at such states , or territories, provide -fbr ? .. the direct election of such delegated or alternate, if. In the opinion. of the I respective committees, it is deemed I desirable and possible to do so with proper and sufficient safeguards. Where such provision is 'not made by the respective committees for the choice of delegates and alternates, and where the. state lafs do. not pro*, vide; specifically the manner of such choice, then, the delegates an dalter- ' nates to the said national convention shall be chosen in the manner that governed the choice of delegates from the respective states, and territories to the last Democratic national con vention.'' 7 ' / $6,000,000 FIRE IN N. Y. CITY' Equitable Life Assurance Society Buflding Destroyed. New York.?Flames destroyed the 3gj great granite and marble nine-story -/; building of the Equitable Life Assur ance society at 120 Broadway, the home of the Mercantile Trust com- ' pany, the Equitable Trust company, the banking house of Kountie Broth ers, the Mercantile Safe Deposit com pany and the Harriman1 lines. Four men are known to be dead and five hurt Several persons are missing. , Conservative damage estimates now place the Iobs at $6,000,000. Other* say it will rim as high as flo,000,? 000. The flames got their start in the very basement of the great building, In a store room of the Cafe Savarin a tiny blaze cracked and spurted, tin * heeded, until it worked its way tc the elevator shaft Then gusts of ait took the growing, flame, hurled it up ward, and in the flash of an eye the upper floors of one of the pioneei metropolitan skyscrapers were in ' / ' flames. Death Sentence Given Preacher. Boston.?Clarence V. T. Richeson, formerly pastor of the exclusive Im manuel Baptist church of Cambridge, bowed his head in superior court and confessed that he murdered Avis Lin nell, music student, and immediately was sentenced to electrocution daring the week of May 19. Richeson's for mal pleading to the first degree mur J-- -* ?' millt hv whlnh hp nC aer vuaiec m (,? ?, ~j knowledged he sent cyanide of potas slum to the pretty music student, ii the guise of a drug. Rail Commission Gets More Powtr. Washington.?The grip of the inter state commerce commission over th* commerce of the country was tighten ed through a series of decisions b> the Supreme court. The paramount authority of the commission in rea sonable rate-making was upheld. Thi fiel dtouchding the acceptance of at goods for interstate shipment wai marked forever as Federal territory and states were warned to keep off The supremacy over state laws ol the Federal "hours of service law' was upheld. Jap Athletes Are Dangerous. New York.?If the Japanese time keepers and athletic trainers may bt believed Western athletics will havt to look to their laurels at the forth coming Olympic games in which rep resentatives of Japan will participate for the first timeC Aspirants for th% Olympic trip were recently tried ou' at Tokio with surprising results. On?. of the greatest surprises was the low ering of the Olympic world's recorc for the 25-mile Marathon race, Shizj Kaniurki setting the mark at Viours ?>? minutes. a