Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i mmm nem Publl?h?d Wookly ABBEVILLE. 8 C Cocked hats may become aa numer ous as the fuzzy ones. Where there's a will there Is gener ally a way to try to break It Few Manchus resign, but recent re ports Indicate that a good many ol them die. Th? pnmmnn Inwol Is to be abolish ed. Little by little mankind is be coming sanitary. Let ua hope the Wright brothers have.really Invented a fool proof air ship. It la greatly needed. Music la to be established In the barnyard, for It makes cows give more milk and bens lay more eggs. The Wllkeebarre man who was a millionaire for a day had to go away from home to act well his part. One does not know whether to con demn or praise the Paris opera strik en!. It all depends on the opera. They And gold In chickens' crops in Manitoba, thus offering another oppor tunity for somebody to boost the price of eggs. A Montana court has decided that one Chinaman constitutes a laundry. But what If he were in the chop suey business? According to one professor the .rtfi will cease Its revolutions In 5231. II you don't believe it figure it out to suit yourself. Telephone connection between Eng land and the continent is maintained by six cables, and the number will soon be doubled. * Brides are wanted in western Wash ington Etate. Here 58 wnere me our ply of leap year can connect nicely with the demand. jf The nursery and seed men convey a reassurance that spring Is coming by sending out a bunch of finely Illus trated catalogues. Everybody will be as well satisfied If the weather man, for a little while at, least, refrains from giving us any more mean temperature. A Kansas City court refuses to grant a man a divorce from biB mall order wife. Then why doesn't he send to Reco for a mall-order divorce? m One girl married a baseball player because he made so many home runs. All players who make home runs do not at once run home, however. vThe girls of a high school In Penn sylvania are widely praised because that hair device known as the "rat" has been prohibited among them. If reports of robins seen during the lero -weather were not mistakes on the part of the observers, they were mistakes on the part of the robins. A Minnesota professor says "race ulclde Is a peril to posterity." We could hardly expect It to give our an cestors whooping cough and measles. ' *f [ English girls must promise to obey In order to make the wedding cere mony binding, but the breaking of the promise does not Invalidate anything. ' v. Few men would have been reckless enough, a hundred years ago, to make the prediction that an American hen would ever win the world's egg championship. One large railroad has ordered that Its pencil sharpeners be discarded. We accept this as another Indication that the world Is growing better. Princess Pat succeeded In slipping Into New York unnoticed. Some of the todies who employ press agents will wonder why Bbe should have wished to do so. The ex-autocrats get off with fat purses. Abdul Hamld got his 800 wives. Manual his $25,000 a year, and the Infant Emperor Pu-Yl is to have $6,500,000 annually. "Gee whiz! I'm glad I'm free!" ex claimed a woman when she had se cured a divorce In New York the other day. The man was probably too hap py to be able to say anything. Rut whv should the French or any ! other astronomers feel "worried" over what may be happening to Saturn's ringB? So far as this earth is con cerned, Saturn never has been any thing but distant and unsociable. The millionaire for a day in Wilkes- i barre. Pa., got a great deal of adver tising for his money, and he may de cHe to go on the vaudeville stage. Saturn is having trouble with Its rings, but as they are not wedding rings the people who follow divorce scandals need not prick up their ears. The National Association of Ice I Cream Manufacturers reports that we i consumed $200,000,000 worth of that j delicacy last year. The young Bwains are quite prepared to believe it. Minstrels with their poor jokes cured a yonng woman who was suffering from protracted hiccoughs. But the trouble is that not all persons who go to minstrel shows are afflicted with hiccoughs. Scrubbing and laundering are to be taught to the girls in a Chicago high school. About the time that this course becomes popular with girls In their teens the boys will be flocking Into the classes on digging ditches and breaking stones. __ WINTHROP PLANS | SUMMER SCHOOL LARGEST THAT WAS EVER HELD1 IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. INSTRUCTORS ARE SECURED The "Open Hour" Lectures Are Ar ranged For One Hour Each Day on Some Interesting Topic?To Have Many Noted Speakers. Columbia. ? Winthrop College is making plans to hold this year the largest summer school ever held in South Carolina. An effort is being made to offer courses of study of such a scope and excellence that no teacher will feel that it is necessary to go beyond the borders of the state for summer training. It is hoped that the college, during the months of June and July, will become the com mon meeting place for all education al workers. The county superintendents of edu cation, who met here last year, will hold a conference during the summer school. They will be the guests of the college for a week. Many courses will be offered again that will appeal strongly to the teach ers in rural schools and every effort is being made to strengthen mater ially the courses intended for the teachers in graded schools and, in high schools. One hour a day, called the "open hour," will be devoted to lectures by distinguished speakers and educators, who will discuss topics of interest to all teachers. In most cases the speak ers will give a series of lectures, last ing for a week. This will be one of the most inspiring and helpful fea tures of the school. All the teachers of the state will be glad to know that Dr. Thomas M. Ballet, dean of the school of peda gogy of New York unversity. will be one of the speakers for the open hour. Extension of Railway Taking Form. The present extension of the Blue Ridge railway over the mountains to Knoxvnie, Tens., is uttuug oumc ucw nite form now, since it has been learn ed that the Southern railway, which owns the Blue Ridge railway, has re cently constructed several miles of track on the other side of the moun tain. Interest in the extension talk at Anderson las also been increased by the fact that an enormous alum inum concern is installing a tremen dous plant over the mountains, which will have to be tapped by a railroad All of these things are considered ae being propitious. And the further fact that the Blue Ridge railway has recently spent between $35,000 and $40,000 in roadbed improvements and rolling stock lends further encourage ment to the people along the line. D.iU? Cak Plfu Drimaru rurinudiic nmwo w? wik/ 7. The rules to govern the primary to be held in Columbia on April 30, were adopted by the city Democratic execu tive commitee meeting in the city hall. G. P. Logan retired as chairman of the committee and James A. Hoyt was elected to his place. Mr. Hunter A. Gibbes was re-electeed as secretary and treasurer. Mr. Hoyt served as chairman several years ago. The fol lowing members of the committee were present: A. B. Langley, C. C. Wilson, James A. Hoyt, E. McC. Clark son, W. E. Evans, R. T. Corbett, D. H. Goble and Hunter A. Gibbes. Does Many Interesting Things. The rgular session of Sumter coun cil was a producer of doings of inter est. The biggest act was the aboli tion of the office of city engineer, and the cutting of the salary of the super intendent of streets by 550 a month. It was agreed the city would purchase the apparatus of the Monaghan Hose Company, and last, but not least, was a spirited reply to the last present ment of the grand jury of this county. Two Railroads To Be Connected. The Atlantic Coast Line railroad and the North & South Carolina rail road are building a track which will make a physical connection between the two. This was ordered about eight months ago by the railroad com mission. It will be quite a conveni ence to shippers at this point. The depot ordered by the commission has not yet been built by the North & South Carolina railroad. This is a branch road of the Seaboard from Hamlet. The road is pushing on to Georgetown. Preparing For a Convention. Pursuant to a call issued by the president of the Men and Religion Forward movement in Cherokee coun ty, a meeting of the chairman of the various committees was held in Gaff ney for the purpose of perfecting plans for a two days' convention to be held in March. It. is proposed to have I he meeting probably about the third Saturday and Sunday in the coming month. This convention will be for the purpose of acquainting the laymen at large with the fundamental principles of the work. Bid For Public Build'ng Rejected. Information was received in Gaff ney by Postmaster Thomas Hester to the effect that all bids for the erection of Gaffney's public building had been rejected by the treasury department. The information further stated that new plans' would have to be drawn and new bids invited for the work. The reason was given as too small an amount being appropriated by the government for the erection of the building. It will be remembered that kids were opened on February 10 for the erection of the building. PLANS FOR EXPERIMENTS The Preparations Go On For Clemson Station at Florence?The Land Has Been Laid Off. Florence.?Prof. Harper of Clemson College was in the city making ar rangements for the work on the ex periment station here. This is to be largely a stock and dairying station and the plans that Prof. Harper has laid out will make it one of the most attractive places in this country. The land has been laid off in acre plats, and walks and drives marked out. The plats will all be sowed in forage crops this year, but will be cultivated for all sorts of experiments next year. The buildings are to be put on the Gregg lands, facing south and work on them will be started soon. The permanent superintendent will be in Florence soon, in the mean time Mr. Gregg has charge of the work. The back of the place is to be de voted to hogs and their care, and the front will be for cows, and there is to be meadow lands and all that are needed for the dairying business on the most perfect miniature scale. It has been decided that the dairy work will be in charge of Prof. Mason, who is said to be one of the beat men in this kind of work that there is to be had in the country, and he will be of the greatest benefit in teach ing and assisting the dairymen of the state. The place is going to be as pretty as a picture, and the two railroads are going to join with the manage ment in trying to make it worth the farmers' time to come here just to look at, and being rignt Between tne two well traveled roads its fame will spread far and wide. This year corn, hay and oats are to be raised, and peas, and it may be that Clemson College can show the farmers of this section how to get back the pea crop that they have lost. South Carolina New Enterprises . The secretary of state has issued & charter to the South Atlantic Candy Company of Columbia, with a capital stock of $10,000. The officers are: L. E. Rankin, president; C. E. Boln neau, vice-president; J. W. Boyd, sec retary and treasurer. The company will do a general candy manufactur ing business asd will open a ware house in Columbia. A charter has been issued to the Butler Marble and Granite Works of Greenville, with a capital stock of $5,000. The officers are: B. A. Butler, president and gen eral manager; G. D. Butler, secretary and treasurer. The Enola Ginning Company, of Spartanburg county, has * ? J mtfli o no nlfol Deen CUlllJIIiabluncu mvu a, stock of $4,000. Not to Succeed Himself For Sheriff. It is reliably stated that Sheriff J j B. Hunter, of Bamberg county, will not offer for re-election to succeed I himself this summer, but will at the meeting of the next general assembly ih 1913 become a candidate before that body for the superintendency of the state penitentiary/of South Caro- [ lina. Sheriff Hunter was a candidate for this position while a member of the legislature in 1894 but had his name withdrawn. He has been sher iff of Bamberg county ever since the creation of the county. He is the fa ther of J. A. Hunter, who is now a member of the legislature. Attempted Criminal Assault. William Reed, a negro 24 years of ! age, was lodged in the Anderson coun ty jail on the charge of attempting to criminally assault the wife of a prom inent farmer at her home at Dean's station, six miles from Anderson. The allleged attempt was made while the husband was absent from home, hav ing been called away to sit up with a sick friend. Reed admits he is the negro wanted, but declares that he had 110 other intention than to roD tne house. Demand For Warehouse Room. There is great demand in Florence for warehouse room by wholesalers and manufacturers who wish to open Southern distribution houses here, the railroad facilities v {foiled them in Florence for establishing distributing depots for their products. The first one of these will open here, it is be lieved, soon. Farm Work l? At A Standstill. The farmers of Sumter county art not a very exuberant set of people just now. On account of the heavy and continuous rains farm work is at a standstill, and it is exceedingly dif ficult to make any headway in the breakng up of ground or preparing it for planting. It seems to the people that Sumter has become the rain centre for no sooner than the sun has shone for 24 hours following a rain and the farmer hopes for a little dry ing out but the clouds gather again and down comes a new deluge. Upheld State Educational Board. The supreme court in a decision re eentlv uDheld the state board of edu- I cation when the ruling was made that a student of the preparatory de- J partment of Clemson College is a stu dent of the college proper. The court ' affirmed the decision of the Richland county court in the case of Gub B. Taylor against the education board. Young Taylor, who is a resident of Lexington county, was refused a schol arship to Clemson College on the ground that he had attended the Clemson preparatory class. Planning Colonization Effort. A man owning a large tract of land situated between Florence and Tim inonsville is planning a colonization effort which promises great develop ment in that part of the county in the next two years and the location in this county of a number of North ern and Western farmers A large tract of land will be divided into small farms to attract the attention of those who desire to go into truck production and the very profitable em ployment of fruit and vegetable growing. KNOX'S MESSAGE TO SOUTH AMERICA SECRETARY TALKS AT PANAMA OF BENEFICENCE OF MONROE DOCTRINE. CLOSER RELATIONS URGED Secretary Knox Declares That the United States Wants No Terri tory to the South. Panama.?Secretary of State P. C. Knox made in Panama the first of his public addresses on his trip to the capitals of Central America and northern South America auu me West Indies. This speech, while delivered before the acting president of Panama, Se nor R. Rodsolfo Chiaria, was in re ality addressed to all the countries he will visit and included an expla nation of the attitude of the United States towards South and Central America. Mr. Knox said the president be lieved the early completion of the canal should mark the beginning of closer relations between the United States and all Latin-America: that the purpose of the United States to wards all the American republics was to live in amity and essential harmo ny; and that the United States desir ed innrp near??. more nrosnerity. more happiness and more security in their national lives. He declared that the United States craved neither sovereignty nor terri tory in Latin-America. ???? ? ? SUSPENDS LOW RATE RULING Commerce Court Annuls Order of In terstate Commerce Commission. Washington.?An order of the inter state commerce commission reducing certain class freight rates from New +? Vf /%r. fn-rtm Orv Colmfl Q T"> rl i urieuiis iu iuuuifeujuv'ij, mvhum M-v* | Mobile, Ala., and to Pensacola, Fla., was annulled by decision of the com merce court. The decision, handed down by Judge Archbald, is certain to add con siderable fuel to the controversy al ready acute between the Interstate commerce commission and the com merce court ' The court declares that congress never intended to clothe the commis sion with the wide authority it has assumed. It is asserted the court could dis cover nothing in the record in sup port of the conclusion of the com mission or to justify the reductions in rates that it ordered. TAFT TO TAKl THE STUMP President Announces He Wil Begin a Speech-Making Campaign. Washington.?President Taft will soon start a vigorous speech-making campaign to explain his position on current questions and further his can didacy for renomination. Before the Republican national con vention meets in June, the president will spend many days on the road, and is expected to deliver scores of speeches. He will travel as far west as Chicago, as far north as New Hampshire and south at least as far as Georgia. Other engagements may be made in the next few weeks. The president's political advisers believe he is their best orator. Madero to Stop Revolution. El Paso, Texas.?A brief outline of the ^general situation in Mexico is contained in the following telegram from President Madero: "President's Palace, City of Mexico.?'It must be understood by every one I have not the slightest intention of resigning the presidency. The government is or ganizing many forces of volunteers under experienced military leaders who will take command in the zones of disturbances and make more rapid \nd effective their pacification. " 'l''KA.N l/lSUVJ I. .viAUtnu. Strike Children Go to Congress Lawrence, .Mass. ? Arrangements for sending a party of textile strik ers, including children, to Washing ton, to appear before a congressional committee, as suggested by Congress man Victor Berger, were completed. More than fifty men. women and children, representing each of the eighteen nationalities among the strikers, will make the trip. The chil dren selected are themselves mill workers on strike. In some instances they bear scars from injuries sus tained while at work. Taft Kind to Confederate Veteran. Washington.?Though Confederate veterans generaly are excluded from government hospitals. President Taft made an exception of Captain J. W. Myers of Jacksonville, Fla., and or dered that he be admitted to the army and navy general hospital at I lot Springs, Ark. Senator Fletcher in formed the president that Captain Myers was crippled with rheumatism and unable to obtain relief anywhere but at Hot Springs, where he had been prevented from going because of t lie expense. Doctor Wiley May Resign. Washington.?Dr. Harvey \V. Wiley, pure food champion, is seriously eon sidering resigning his position as chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture. Admit ting this in an interview, Doctor Wi ley said that, while he had not yet determined to offer his resignation, it seemed that he could not be suc cessful in his efforts to secure har mony as long as there were "incon gruous elements'' in the department. It is said Doctor Wiley contemplates entering politics. t* es * WtP* m ota* ATH RtfCAT ** MC30 (Cop J ROOSEVELT A CANDIDATE Colonel Roosevelt Says He Will Take Nomination and Stay in Race Until Convention Acts. ' New York.?"I will accept the nom Ination for president if it is tendered me, and I will adhere to this decis ion until the convention has express ed its preference," is Col. Theodore Roosevelt's reply to the letter oi seven Republican governors asking him to stand for nomination. The eagerly awaited reply was giv en out at Colonel Roosevelt's offices here during his absence on a trip tc Boston. It was unexpectedly brief but definite. It follows: "New York.?Gentlemen: I deeply appreciate your letter, and 1 realize to the ful] the heavy responsibility it puts upon me, expressing, as il does, the carefully considered convic tions of the men elected by populai vote to stand as the heads of govern ment in their several states. "I absolutely agree with you that this matter is Dot one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole. "I will accept the nomination foi president if it is tendered me, and 1 will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its prefer ence. "One of the chief principles for which I have stood and for which 1 now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeav or to reduce to action, is the genu> ine rule of the people, and therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance through direct primaries to . express their preference as to who shall be j the nominee of the Republican presl I dential convention. "Very truly yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." FIGURE ON ADJOURNMENT It Seems Likely Congress Will Quit About Middle of June. Washington. ? Political activities are heating the atmosphere to such a degree that it was freely predicted that Democratic leaders of the house and Republican leaders of the senate Knon would find themselves agreed that congress could not keep up the pace beyond the middle of June. Un til now it appeared to be an accepted fact that the session would be pro longed beyond the Chicago and Balti more conventions. Unless Democratic Leader Under wood and his associates in the bouse are willing to abandon a part of their program to bring in metal, sugar, chemical, cotton and woolen tariff bills, night sessions soon will be nec essary, for practicaly nothing has been done with supply measures. The appropriation bills will require time for consideration, as the Democratic economy scheme is directly involved. The Republican senate leaders be lieve if the session drags out beyond the conventions and nothing is ac complished, that the bouse will have I to carry the lion's share of the re sponsibility. Phosphate Deposits in South. Washington.?The prospbate depos its of Tennessee rank next in import ance to those of Florida, according to a bulletin by the bureau of soils, de partment of agriculture, dealing with the natural phosphates of Tennnes see, KentucKy ana AiKausos. m gard to the Kentucky deposits, the I report says their value lias not yet been sufficiently well established to encourage the outlay of much capi tal and those of Arkansas, it adds, "are not generally regarded as of great economic importance.-' Taft Wants Two Battleships. Washington.?President Taft, speak ing at the peace meeting of the Xavy League here, declared the time had not come for this country, to be eco nomical at the expense of an inade quate naval establishment, expressed hope that the present congress would authorize the construction of two battleships, and said he gladly would sign a bill that carried such an au thorization. "In order to keep up with other nations I don't think two battleships are too many," said the president. Thorough Probe of Money Trust. Washington.?Aided by the best le gal talent obtainable in the United States, the money trusc invesligat'oo will shortly be undertaken by the committee on banking and currency of the house of representatives. The New York stock exchange and cotton and grain exchanges of the country will be given attention in connection with the probe into the existence of a money trust. The big deals on "change" are to be closely scrutinized by the committee. TEST DECREE Tight) SLAVERY IN LAWRENCE MILLS Presidet Taft Orders Attorney Gen eral Wickersham to Make an Investigation. I Washington.?The Lawrence mills " strike occupied the attention of both ' houses of congress, President Taft ' and Attorney General Wickersham. " Two resolutions directing an investi ' gation of conditions by Federal au thorities were introduced, but no ac ! tion was taken upon them. President Taft, however, at the re quest of Representative Berger, ask ?| ed Attorney General wicKersnam w 1 ascertain If any Federal laws had ? been violated by local authorities, who prevented the removal of chil dren from the strike-ridden district 1 Both houses of congress rang with speeches. Senator Poindexter of ; Washington, just back from a visit to Lawrence, introduced a resolution di recting an inquiry by the United States commissioner of labor. Senator Lodge objected to any in ; terference with the affairs of his state ' in which he was supported by Sen 1 ators Bailey, Williams, Overman and > others. ' Senator Bailey quoted Senator Till man as saying the Lawrence strike had revealed conditions in Massachu setts similar to those in the slave ' states before the Civil war. "They have substituted white slav ery for black slavery," shouted Sen ator Tillman. "The condition is no worse than 1 under the Democratic tariff," retorted Senator Gallinger. The questions aroused the ire of 1 Senator Gallinger, and he- replied with some asperity that the influence 1 of the tariff on Industrial conditions 1 would be discussed in due time. POSTAL EXPRESS IS URGED Bill for Federal Ownership of All Ex press Companies. Washington.?Senator Gardner of Maine introduced a bill under which the government would take over the properties of the express companies and operate them as a part of the postal service, extending the service to the rural delivery. The measure indicate the probable cost of taking over the properties as fololws: Real property J14.930.169, equipment $7,381,405, materials and supplies $138,210, advance ptyments on contracts $5,836,666 and franchises and good will, etc., $10,877,369, a to tal of $39?165,819. While the balance sheets of the companies show other assets of near ly $150,000?000, Senator Gardner urg ed that these are not devoted to ex press service ana mat mis yrujicnj might be retained by the corporations without impairing its value. It is proposed by the authors of the bill for the establishment of the "postal express," including members of both branches of congress, that rates charged for express servicb un der the government shall be based upon weight and length of haul rath er than upon the system in qffect for the carrying of mails. The power to fix rates would rest with the postof fice department, subject to appeal to the interstate commerce commission. Arkansas Tornado Killed Ten. Little Rock, Ark.?Detatils of a double tornado which devastated por tions of Lincoln, Jefferson and Ar kansas counties, particularly the lat ter two, place the list of dead at ten, with at least 25 persons seriously in jured. In addition, the storms caused property loss that, as yet, can only be approximately estimated. Hand some homes, plantation equipment and pumping stations caught in the path of the storm were reduced to wreckage and strewn along in the wake of the storm for miles. Prepaid Shipments to Cease. Washington.?"Demand for trans portation charges on prepaid ship ments must cease. The complaint of this practice of express companies is I \ o romoHv fnt? if mncf I universal, ami a. .ui be found." This ultimatum wag laid down by Commissioner Lane to the express companies after the rsutnp tion of the investigation of the in terstate commerce commisssion into the rates of the companies. "We must find some method of ascertaining the proper rate and how properly to col lect it," said Commissioner Lane. South Being Slandered. Washington.?Sharp criticism of a bureaif of labor report on labor con ditions in the South was made in the senate by Senator Overman of North Carolina. He found especial fault with a comparison of the bills of faro of the mill men of North Carolina and Georgia with the menus of the prisoners in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, (3a., and, after reading several of these bills of fare, declared they were equal to those of the aver age senator. MACK DOES NOT AGREE J \?/m Entrance of Roosevelt Causes Detno* tratic Leaders to Consider Post poning Their Convention. ? Washington.?Senator Bacon ot Georgia, one of the Democratic lead ers In the senate, declared In favor i of postponing the Democratic ?mven- j tlon in Baltimore, which has been vi called for June '25, until a later date, . because, as now arranged, it wtmld be held only a week after the Re publican convention in Chicago. "The entrance of Mr. Roosevelt to the contest for the Republican noml* nation for the presidency," said Sen-\ :& ator Bacon, "has bo complicated things that I think the Democratic national committee should take steps to postpone the time for holding the "/ Democratic convention. "The Republican convention is call- ,, ed for June 18, and the Democratic ormvontlrm Titnnp "J5; Inftt n. week lft ter. At best there cannot be more than three days between the adjourn ment of the Republican convention : v and the meeting of* the Democratic ' i convention. Who knows that there ' ' ! will not be such a conflict of views $| a? to the platform and aspirations of candidates as to prolong the Re-' publican convention beyond the time /? of the meeting of the Democratic / convention? In that event the Dem- *? ocrats would be in no posltioii to give ' proper consideration of this situation, and I think the meeting of our con-' vention should be deferred for two or three weeks beyond the date now At fixed, to insure such an opportunity, in case it is presented." New York.?'This is the first I have heard of such a suggestion, and ', as yet I don't see any need of a ;'s postponement," said Norman E. Mnolr chairman nf the Dflmocratic national committee, when his atten- ; ^ tlon was called to Senator Bacon's declaration in favor of a later datev for the Democratic national conven tidn. "Our convention is to be held a & week later than that of the/ Republl- . cans, and if any emergency arose &X through the action of the Republican ;r V" gathering, a postponement for a week of the Democratic caucus could be arranged for then. While not desir ing to take any issue whatever with & the senator, my personal opinion is . * ; that there is no need for any such 0! arrangement now." MOB ATTACKS AMERICANS $? Tourists Not Spared in Trolley Riot* at Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica. ? Americans ,/ were not spared in? the rioting which has been going on here in connec tion with the street railway trouble, ', a party of Americans driving in ail automobile were attacked by a mob, and one of them was seriously in jured. The party included Capt. and Mrs. Fritz du Juesne of New York and Mr. and Mrs. Wortley of Brook lyn. A group of men attacked their automobile with bricks and stones. Kingston was given over to mob rule, and as a result of collisions be tween the police and the populace , two men were killed and more than thirty injured, some of them severely. The governor, in an interview, said the car company was trying to get v out of an honorable undertaking in the absence of legal demands. He add ed that he had referred the question a tKft Knar/1 nt trarlo of- T iu IUC UVJU1 U V4 bkWUV MW ?. Juarez' Loss Doesn't Worry Madedo Mexico City.?The taking ot Jua rez lacks the importance that tbe 1 same occurrence had when Marero wrested it from Diaz' troops last May in the opinion of administration offi cials. Then it was the crpwning ' m event of a long series of operations ; at a time when the entire country was in sympathy with an organized revolution, it is contended, while the same circumstances do not exist. The rebels now plan to capture Chihua hua. Orders Jury to Pray. Fort Worth, Texas.?"Get down on your knees and pray to Almighty God for whom wisdom in reaching a ver dict, but send me no more communi cations." Such was the message sent i the jury in the case of J. B. Sneed. < [ after Judge Swayne had been inform ed by a court attendant that the jury wished to come into court and report, finally their disagreement. When the jurors received his message they re plied that he could not stop them from writing to Judge Swayne. They are voting 7 to 5. Chinese War on Dutch. San Francisco.?Chinese warships. J have been ordered to Java under in i structions to begin a bombardment of Datavia, if the Dutch government does not pay an indemnity demanded for the killing of Chinese said to have been attacked by Dutch soldiers. In an ultimatum sent to the Dutch government. Provisional President Sun Yat Sen stated that an attack 011 Java would be begun by the war ships of his country if the indemnlty were not paid within a week. Nine Governors Support Taft. Washington.? Pledges of support from nine Republican governors were given out from headquarters of Pres ident Taft. The executives in favor of the president's renomination were Eberheart, Minnesota; Carroll, Iowa: Hay, Washington; Coldsborough, Ma ryland; Tener. Pennsylvania; Hooprr. Tennessee; Spry, Utah; Pennewill, Delaware, and Pothier, Rhode Island. Taft managers also claimed the sup port of Governors Deneen, Illinois : Oddie, Nevada, a art Mead, Vermont. ''s:' - /