Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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if m ie m i i i bun efi Published Weekly AB8EVILLE. 8. C. Why doesn't an Ice floe flow" There seems to be no kind of Insect powder tnat is fatal to humbugs. The forty immortals have slid back into obscurity, and all is-forgiven. There never before was a time when the world had so many ex-potentates. The peach crop promises to be big enough for cholera morbus pur poses. Other seeds may be higher this year, but seeds of kindness will coat no more. What a pity that the average man has no plaoe to store away Ice for a dusty day ! A 27-pound lobster has been caught at Atlantic City. It was not accom panied by a chorus girL It was with difficulty that Lake Michigan was kept from freezing from shore to shore this winter. Somebody has Bald "we are what we eat" We doubt it especially when we eat boiled cabbage and turnips. Doctors saved the life of a New York man whose neck was brokeD But he will still have to live in New York. China Invented fireworks a good many hundred years before it had an independence day to explode them on. Automatic starters may be all right for automobiles, but tbey would never do to set a political campaign in mo tion. mow romrht n J. uuugu a iuiuu^ovia ujuu v?v.d-- ? ton of fish with bis hands, others have made greater catches with their imag inations. The couple who get married in a fly ing machine evidently do not desire elaborate ceremonies?just a plane wedding. Fashion notes make it easy to fore tell that ladles' hats will be high and pocketbooks retain their usual shape of flatness. Golf balls are to Oe cheaper. But we cannot paraphrase Marie Antoin ette and eat golf balls If we can't have bread. ______________ ' We await anxiously the time when the little ex-Emperor Pu Yi will be srln makine attemnts to come back. They all do It A sun made of cement is one of the latest devices for w^r purposes. It is dangerous to stand either at the muz tle or the breech. We take off our hat to the pulmotor, which not only draws suicides back from the dark shore, but patches up their lovers' quarrels. *Tb<e Massachusetts man who has been on the operating table thlrcy-flve times majr b$ meredy trying to estab* llsh a reputation as a cut-up. i } Don't boast, even if you did have l eggs for breakfast The man to whom you feel so superior may have bad butter on his JohnnycaLe. A New York surgeon says the ver miform appendix fulfills an important function. He is, of course, speaking from the surgeon'B standpoint. Those Manchurian princes do not make any pretenses to tbe effect that they stepped out of power in order to devote more time to the uplift A near scientist tells us that when ever a man tells a lie his big toe wiggles. There must be some enthu siastic wiggling on the bathing beaches in summer. The death of Lord Lister, who dis covered antiseptic surgery and has saved tbe lives of thousands, recalls tbe fact that he was not placed in the list of the twenty greatest. A Connecticut bank has gone to tbe wall because its books bad not been balanced for forty years. It seems, therefore, that the balancing of bank books is important, after all. A prominent dentist informs us that false teeth are more sanitary than real ones, but the man who knocks out his fellow man's teeth is not necessarily 'ooked upon as a philanthropist. A New Jersey woman Is suing for damages because after a surgical operation a pair of forceps was sewed up inside ber. She is lucky not to have the price of the instrument charged against its loss in her bill. The Palace of Peace at The Hague will be completed in July of next ?ear. The work is not being hurried. A Boston highbrow tells us that if he bad created the world he would have made every woman beautiful. And what would the beauty doctor do then, poor thing? Now a society for promoting effi ciency has been launched. One of the ways of doing it would be to waste less time on forming fool organiza tions. One of the government's weather sharks says that ocean currents do not influence the weather. Perhaps, how ever. he will permit us to continue to believe that the moon and the tide *u*e affinities. A New York Judge has declined to grant a divorce to an actress, holding that the charge she made against her husband was not sufficient to warrant the issuance of a decree. The Judge must think marriage is a serious business even as it concerns people of the stage. VETCH GROWING i URGED IN STATE STRONG ADDRESS DELIVERED AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO- '' UNA. IT IS A WINTER LEGUME A Well Known Agriculturist Speaks! to the Students on Important Sub ject?Much Interest is Shown? Many Hear the Address. Columbia.?"More vetch should be grown in South Carolina. It is a win ter legume and occupies the land when otherwise it would be idle. Its culture is rapidly spreading. Over 1,000 fields are now' planted in this state. It im proves the land more rapidly than cow peas. It iB the best winter le gume in South Carolina." These state ments were made by A. G. Smith in his lecture on legumes at the Univer sity of South Carolina. Mr. Smith exhibited specimens of alfalfa, with; its roots longer than the human arm sinking down into the soil, enrich ing it to indefinite depths. He ex hibited also specimens of vetch and other leguminous plants. Concrete instruction in the basal aspects of i farming in this state has marked this [ course, which has given a practical trend to the mind and life of the uni versity of inestimable benefit. Before Mr. Smith sat many mem bers of the faculty, among them Dean A. C. Moore, Dr. W. B. Burney j and Dr. J. E. Mills. All have been en ' thusiastic as to the value derived ! from these lectures upon the progress of farming in the South. "Legumes are distinguished from other plants by their power to take | nitrogen from the air by means of ! nodule forming bacteria, and use It j as plant food or deposit it in the soil ' for future crops. Every acre of the j earth's surface is covered by about 75,000,000 pounds of atmospheric ni* | trogen, and unlimited quantities'of it can be obtained for the use of farm grops, and at a small cost." South Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a I j commission to the Neel mining Com- J I pany of Abbeville, with a capital stock of $22,000. The petitioners are W. W. Bradley, C. J. Lyon, R. A. Link. The company proposes to do a general gold mining business in Ab beville county. A commission hag been issued to the Darlington Build ing and Loan Associattion of Dar lington, with a capital stock of $100, 000. The petitioners are A. Hyman, W. C. Edwards and T. E. Smith. The . Merchants and Planters' Bank of Bishobville has been chartered with j a capital stock of $o0,000. The offi cers are J. S. Corbett, president, and A. M. Lee and W. J. DuBose, vice presidents. A general banking busi ness will be conducted. May Soon Have New Building. A strong effort is being made to have the treasury department Jet the *? A r A AAA I contract 101* me new *>ov.uvu icuciai j building at Union, which was author ized by congress several years ago, but the bids for the erection of which : were rejected when opened some I weeks ago. When the bids were ; opened, and there were eleven of j them, it was found that they ranged i in price from $49,392 to ?56,700, and < I as the balance available, after paying | for the lot is $48,975, Hon. J. K. Tay j lor, the supervising architect of the I department, decided that it would be | better to slightly change the plans I and re-advertise for bids. Marlboro Guards Were Inspected . ! Thp Marlboro Guards, of Bennetts- i ville, were inspected by Gen. Moore and Capt. McMaster, particular atten j tion being given to the examination i of property. The company made a very creditable showing when they j were reviewed. Allen Grant was | awarded a gold medal for being the ; best drilled man in the company and Marion Brassington was declared the i winner of the improvement prize. ; Has Prospect of Street Railway. Florence has the prospect of a street railway, and in addition to that being made a centre for interurban j lines, which may branch to all parts I of this connty and surrounding cities j and probably to Sumter and George ' town. The city lines are to be built I by local capital if the council grants | the franchise. The cars are to be operated, as those in Rork Hill are, j by storage batteries, the light grades ; of the streets and the county sur ! rounding make it possible for light i oorc tr\ ho tiHPil tn urivantairp ! - ?=. Violated Slate Military Laws. I Lee Rabon, a young white man ! from Batesburg, was arrested and ' placed in the Lexington jail by Sher I iff Sim J. Miller upon a warrant I sworn out by A. E. Legare of Colum i bia, captain of the Second Infantry. National Guard of South Carolina. Young Rabon is charged with violat 4 ing the military laws of the state. I lilt; CAati uaiuic ui iiic uucunc uui I being known here. The young man will be held pending orders from Co , lumbia. It is expected that a prelimi i nary trial will be held soon. Appointed Factory Inspector. William S. Bonner was appointed I as a factory inspector for the state | department of agriculture, commerce and industries by Commissioner Wat i hon. The second inspector to assist in the enforcement of the factory in spection law will be named by Mr. Watson. Commissioner Watson con siders Mr. Bonner particularly well fitted for the work. He was educa ted at Due West, and has had several years' practical experience in the mllis of the Piedmont section Df the jtate. REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS The Receipts and the Disbursements in Both the Water and Electric Light Departments Shown. Orangeburg. ? The commissioners of public works for Orangeburg have just published an interesting report concerning the water, light and power plant of this city, showing the re ceipts and expenditures, as required by the rules and regulations of the water and light department. The re port is for the year 1911. The commis sioners of pu-blic works are Dr. J. G. Wannamaker, Sr., E. N. Scoville and Sol Kohn. me report, snows mat me receiyib from the water department amount ed to $7,339.07; the amount of re ceipts from electric current was $17, 954.85; receipts from the electric me ter rents was $610.26; material sold receipts, mainly electrical fixtures, amounted to $3,226.81; other items of the receipts totaled $448.01, mak ing a grand total of receipts in amount $29,579.10. The amount transferred from the city's general fund to aid this department amounted to $2, 517.87, making the total receipts come up to $32,067.97. The larger amounts of the dis bursements were as follows: Mainte nance, etc., $3,042.84; fuel, $9,922.27; labor, $8,129.10; and with the other disbursements makes a total amount of disbursements of $28,764.29. The amount returned to the general fund of the city was $3,332.68. This report is very gratifying to the citizens of this city, as it shows that the local plant, besides sustaning itself and furnishing the city with light for all the main street lights, ^s returning to the city treasury eacliT year a neat sum as a profit. Two Were Hurt in a Collision. Southern passenger train No. 30 Columbia to Charlotte, crashed into the rear end of a freight train at Blythewood. Engineer T. M. Glenn and Fireman F* W. Barmore, both of the passenger train, were painfully injured, the former suffering a broken shoulder bone and the latter a frac tured leg. The freight and passenger were both northbound and the pas senger *4ertook the freight with the result that a rear-end collision occur red. The injured men were brought to Columbia and taken to hospitalE and given attention. It was stated that they were resting easy. Three of the freight cars were splintered by the wreck, but no damage was done to the passenger train. A wreck ing train from Columbia cleared the tracks in about two hours. Re-elected Mayor of Camden. Dr. S. F. Braslngton was re-elected mayor of Camden over Dr. W. J. Dunn by a majority of 54 votes. The election created more interest man any election that has been held here during the past 20 years. All day long about a dozen carriages and an tomobolies transposed the voters tc the polls. All sides claimed victory and every candidate was very hope ful, until the votes were counted Large crowds congregated around ths opera house and Hotel Camden cor ner when the results began coming in, and as soon as tliey were an nounced there was considerable cheering. ' + Hearings of Railroad Commission. The railroad commission has called several hearings on matters of gen eral interest. A hearing will be held about the middle of May on the ques tion of a reduction of rates on intra state shipments of starch. The boards of trade of Greenville, Spartanburg and other towns of the state request ed the hearing. The commission will soon hold hearings on the question of improving the schedules on the Ben nettsville & Cheraw railway and the Northwestern railway of South Caro lina. State Co-operative Committee. Will H. Seigler, superintendent of education of Aiken county, who at the 1911 convention of the oStuehrn Educa tional associatimi, held in Dallas, Tex as, was elected president of the South Carolina board, and was given au thority to appoint a committee to serve for one year, has named the committee, which Is known as the state co-operative committee. Col. Moore Kills A Bad Negro. Col. C. F. Moore, a native of the county, but now residing in Cheraw, 1 j ? * several ua.vs agu, wuuc ai uno ui mn large plantations across the river In Chesterfield county, had trouble with a desperate negro by the name of Randall Jackson. Later in the after noon, while Colonel Moore was in his commissary, Jackson entered aud be gan firing. Two balls struck Col Moore, but he is not dangerously wounded. Colonel Moore returned the fire a? ns possible killing Jack son instantly. Cherokee County Court Closes. The spring term of court of general sessions for Cherokee county has come to a close. In the term, there has been only one acquittal and this in itself is quite a remarkable record. The court has dispatched the business in remarkable time. Only one mis trial occurred during the present term. Up to the time that Judge Gage came to Gaffnev, he had not had a mistrial in two and a half years. In the case of the state against alleged moonshiners this record was broken, as the jury faled to agree. Will Reduce Cotton Acreage. The committee, headed by State Senator D. M. Crosson of Leesville, appointed a few weeks ago to push the operation of the Rock Hill plan for the ieduction of cotton acreage in ! Lexington county, has begun work in | earnest, and plans are being formulat ed to Ret the pledges signed. On ac count of the bad condition of the roads, however, the work will neces sarily be slow, as it is impossible tc cover the county under the present condition of the roads. It ie believed the acreage will be gieatly reducdil. SANS BOIS COAL COMPANY'S MINE At McCURTAIN, OKLA., SCENE OF HOLOCAUST. ONLY ELEVEN MEN ESCAPE More Than Half of the Mine Victims Are Americans and Leave Families. r? 4 McCurtain, Okla.?One hundred and five lives is accepted as an approxi mately correct estimate of the human toll taken when mine No. 2 of the Sans Bois Coal company here was wrecked by an explosion. Of 116 men of the day shift only 11 are known to be alive, while the others are en tombc behind the debris. In lue opinion of government ex perts and mine officials they are dead and a special train which brought physicians and nurses from Fort Smith, Ark? returned. Five phy sicians remained with the faint hope that some of the imprisoned men might be found alive. Among those unaccounted for are a surveying par ty headed by W. D. Roper of Clio, S. C. Forty-three Americans were era- j ployed in the mine. The explosion occurred shortly af I ter nine o'clock in the morning. Those on the surface heard a faint rumble and an earth tremor. When those nearest to the mouth of the mine's mouth reached the opening a cloud of dust and smoke belched forth. Then came tense moments of wait ing for those in the mine to emerge. Frank Fields, a miner, was the first to stager out. He was walking in an entry and heard the explosion, he said. He jumped into side room and the explosion paused and he made hiB way to the mine opening. Nine other miners escaped through a "man wayv" A "rope rider" who was com ing to the surface when the explosion occurred was the eleventh man to es cape. Superintendent Brown of the coal company led the first rescue party into the mine, hut they could proceed I no further than the sixth level be cause of the accumulation of debris and returned to the surface with the body of John Colvas, a 17-year-old youth. Accumulated gas or coal dust was the cause of the explosion, according to experts. NORTH DAKOTA PROGRESSIVE ? V Return? Show That LaFollette Will Have 15,000 Majority. Grand Forks, N. D.?Robert M. La Follette's majority will not be far from 15,000 when the final presiden j tial preference primary reuirua aie received and may be heavier. Of the total vote LaFollette has polled about 32,000 votes, while Roosevelt has poll j ed about 18,000. The Taft vote in the state has only been about 3,000. The trend of the vote throughout the state as indicated by the incoming returns was interesting. It is in the western congressional district that the greatest surprise was found. The entire northern part of the district, consisting of a group of eight counties, went to LaFolette solidly, giving him a plurality of about 3,000. i !n the southern part of the district \ this lead was increased. Thomas Marshall, the LaFollette ; candidate for national committeeman, ! has a majority which it is believed I ?in that nf LaFollette. The La Follette presidential electors have all been elected with majorities ranging about the same as the head of the ticket. For Southern Development. Annapolis. Md.??Two bills were in troduced in the legislature in. connec tion with the Southern Development and Demonstration Organization, which was formed here recently to exploit the South. One was a bill of ; incorporation and the other provided ( for an appropriation of $20,000 for the organization, which will depend upon contributions of states, railroads and transportation companies, boards of trade and individuals to maintain it. Bombs Placed to Murder Knox. New Orleans.?As the result of the discovery by the government of Nica ragua of a plot to assassinate Secre I tary of State Knox on the occasion of his recent visit 'to the capital of I that country, it is not improbable that a number of prominent Liberals will ' be put to death. Thirteen dynamite 1 hnmbs placed beneath the roadbed over which Secretary Knox'B special train traveled from Corinto to Mana gua and connected with an electric ( battery were discovered by govern 1 ment agent. Administration Watching Coal Strike. Washington.?President Taft post ! poned indefinitely his proposed confer I ence with John Mitchell regarding the | coal situation. This announcement i from the white house was unaccom ! panled by any stated reason. While I officials were extremely reticent as j to the cause of the postponement of j the conference with the labor leader, it was generally believed the presi ' dent and secretary feared that the ' activity of the administration at this i time might be premature and mieht complicate the situation. Heavy Snow in Northern States. Chicago.?A blinding storm of snow and sleet swept across the north cen iral states and heaped disaster upon transportation and communication fa cilities. Half a hundred cities were shut off from communication with the rest of the world when telegraph and telephone poles were blown down or wires were covered with ice until they broke. Steam and electric rail roads were brought to a standstill, and in several instances trains were snowbound. A. B. Ferguson Is one of the con gressmen from the new state of New Mexico. He was sworn in recently and is now busy getting acquainted with methods of procedure in the national legislature. 32 HEN KILLED; 50 INJURED SOUTHERN PACIFIC PASSENGER ENGIINE EXPLODES AT SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. Force of Explosion Terrific, San An tonio Being Jarred as by Quake. San Antonio, Texas.?At least thir ty-two men were killed and more than fifty injured when the boiler of lo comotive No. 704 exploded in the chop yards of the Southern Pacific railroad here. The property damage will approximate $200,000. A committee of railroad officials, army officers and citizens made an investigation, and is of the opinion that the explosion probably was due to carelessness of one of the men killed in allowing an inrush of cold water into the superheated boiler, in which the water was already low. Twelve bodies have not- been iden tified. and human fragments picked up within a radius of several blocks probably account for several missing. The engine, a big passenger mogul, practically new, had been brought to the shops for inspection. Those in the vicinity who escaped immediate death declare that the boiler burst without warning, tearing the huge ma chine to bits. Parts of the locomo tive and the wrecked roundhouse and adjoining shop buildings, together nr<41% ?rmo lotrc onH mOTI TTIIJI Hi? OUUP, A tftO, UVttUD UUU gled trunks of the victims, were scat TAFT FAVORS PRIMARIES But the President Is Opposed to "Soap Box Affairs." Boston, Mass.?President Taft end ed his party in Boston's belated cele bration of evacuation day and St. Pat rick's day here with an address to the Charitable Irish Society and a ,"look in*' on the dinners of the Bank Officers' association, the Boston Trade association and the Yale Club of Boston. In many ways it was the busiest and most demonstrative day the pres ident has spent since he entered the white house. Members of his party were unanimous in declaring that no reception ever accorded Mr. Taft in his travels exceeded in cordiality that which Boston gave him. During the day the president spoke on many subjects. Louisiana Mob Lynches Negro. Shreveport, La.?According to a dis patch to the Times from Mer Rouge, La., Henry Lee, a negro, was Hanged to a water tank near Mer Rouge. The dispatch says Lee insulted a white man and gred into a party returning from an entertainment. The negro resisted arrest, was wounded, his wounds were dressed and later was taken from prison and hanged. A cor oner's jury found that Lee came to his death at the hands of persons un known. Will Erect Carmack Statue. Nashville, Tenn. ? Announcement was made by the Carmack Memorial Association that the contract for the foundation and granite pedestal had been awarded for the statute of Ed ward \V. Carmack, former senator from Tennessee, whose tragic death in 1908 upset the state. The contract lis awarded to a Georgia concern. The work is to be completed by September 1. A heroic bronze statue will sur mnnnt the uedestal. the memorial standing immediately in front of the | statehouse. j Pitney Is Sworn In. Washington.?Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey took the oath of office and assumed the duties of associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States as the successor of the late Justice Harlan. Meeting with the other justices in the robing room, the New Jersey chancellor took the statutory oath of office, administered by Chief Justice White. Attired in the long somber robe of office, he then joined the procession of judges as they took up their duties of the day. Poisoned Whiskey Kills Five. Mount Airy, Ga.?J. P. Bridges, who was committed to Clarkesville jail loot u-ppk. charged with selling whis key to Bob Hyers, that resulted in his | death, is still held, awaiting the decision of the state chemist on analy sis of the whisky and stomach of dead man. Four other victims have been added to the list of deaths caus ed by poisoned whisky within the last few days. Two men in Dillard, Oa? and two at Tallulah Falls have died immediately after drinking the whisky. , ROBBERS RAID I 8 0. TRAIN FOUR MEN HELD UP MOBILE AND OHIO TRAIN NEAR CORINTH, MISS., AND LOOT SAFE. GOT $60,000 IN CURRENCY / f Two Robbers Forced Engineer to Halt j the Train While Two Other? Dynamite Safe. Corinth, Miss.?Mobile and Ohio passenger train No. 4, northbound, was held up and the express safe dynamited and robbed, seven miles south of Corinth by four men, heavily armed and masked; After accomplishing the robbery, the quartet took to the dense under brush of the Tuscumbia river bot toms. - < While definite information is not available, it is reported the safe con tained considerable money and valu ables. One report has it that $60, 000 in currency was among the con tents. Where the robbers boarded the train is not known. Engineer Wilder and Fireman Kulman first learned of their presence when two of the men crawled over the engine tender wieh revolvers drawn and command ed that the train be brought to a halt at a point designated. The command was obeyed. In the meantime the other members of the band had gained entrance to the express car, and after subduing Express Messenger Snoddy, set the explosive which was touched off when the train came to a stop. The con tents of the safe was quickly gather ed and at the signal of the man who seemed to be in charge of operations the four took to the woods without attempting to rifle the mail or molest the passengers. INCOME TAX' BILL. PASSED The Democratic Excise Measure Pass es House by 250 to 40. Washington.?The Democratic ex cise bill to virtually tax everybody's inr>r>mp when It. is S5.G00 or more a year passed the house, 250 to 40. The J D^nocrats voted solidly, for it, and carried eighty Republican votes with them. Forty regular Republicans were the opposition. . The bill now goes to the senate, where its fate is a guess. Many sen ators declared that if upon analysis they found the house measure would tax all classes of people alike they would support it. Democratic sena tors with a few exceptions are ex pected to vote for it. Democratic Leider Martin expressed the hope th. tthe Democratic senators and the Progressive Republicans might put the Ml through. Republican leaders are depending upon the president's veto to check revenue revision bills from the house. The excise bill, though prlmarly in tended to produce anywhere from $20,000,000 to $60,000,000 a year to make up for the losses on free sugar, s also expected to be one of the off sets to 'general pension legislation which seems sure to be enacted. e.i..,ic, Ditic fnp ftraHinn. Washington. ? Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the agricutlural department's bureau of plant "Xlndustry, believes that to get a. more scientific basis for grading cotton than the present one. If a "community type" ol' cotton can be raised the farmers of the South will get more money for their prod uct, said Mr. Galloway and the de partment of agriculture is planning to make extensive efforts to have groups of planters in various sections raise exactly the same grade of cotton. Anniston to Be Maneuver Site. Anniston, Ala.?Anniston will be the site for the maneuvers of the Na tional Guard of nine Southern states this summer, according to a telegram received here from Congressman F. L. Blackmon at Washington. The mes sage states tha tthe war department signed an order detailing a number of regular army officers and men to An niston for the summer maneuvers of militiamen from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. Augusta Plans to Build Levee. Augusta, Ga.?There is not a doubt that within two weeks arrangements will b? completed for legislative en actment giving "Augusta the right to build a levee capable of retaining 42 feet of water in the Savannah river, based on plans made by Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, when he was in charge of the Savannah river and harbor work, showing the points between which a levee is needed. Already the com mercial organizations of the city are holding a meeting 10 uetuc ?a?a a..u means. Army Aeroplanes Fly Over Augusta. Augusta, Ga.?The official tests by the United States army officers of the new Curtlss war biplane began. The military board which will pass on the machine consists of Capt. C. DeForest Chandler, in command of the army aviation camp; Capt Beck and Lieutenant Milling. It is expect ed that the tests will continue for two or more days. The weather is ideal and great crowds of people are on the aviation field. Aviator Walsh is conducting the tests for the Cur tion ntrnnlo Bringing Egyptian Temple to U. S. New York.?Following J. P. Mor gan's long sojourn in Kgypt this win ter, reports have reached this city to the effect that he is negotiating for the purchase and removal to America of the famous ruins of the temple of Philas. The temple is threatened with destruction, owing to the rise in the level of the 1'pper Nile river as a result of the enlargement of the Assouan dam. The cost of the work which .Mr. Morgan is said to contem plate would be more than $8,000,000. , RICARDO ARIA! DYNAMITE BOMB SQIF JUDGE ATTEMPT IS MADE ON THE LIFE OF JUDGE OTTO ROSALKY OF NEW YORK CITY. Chief- Egan Badly Injured When the Bomb Exploded?Rosalky Es caped Unhurt According to recent developments in the presidential campaign In th? re> public of Panama, the ^candidate of the Conservative party Js likely to be 8enor Ricardo Arias, at.present minis ter to Washington. isew lortc.?An auempi uj uil Judge Otto Rosalsky of the court ot general sessions, with a bomb, came near being successful. It was only a. defect?said to be a small accumu- S. lation of dirt?in the mechanism ot the infernal machine?which the jus-' tice had unsuspectingly opened, that saved him from probable death or certain Injury. The bomb later ex ploded while being examined by In-, spectbr Owen Egan of the bureau of combustibles, seriously injuring him about the face and arms. The intended victim of the explo sion has been given a great deal of publicity lately in connection with the Brandt case. It was Judge Rosalsky who sentenced Brandt to a 30-year term for burglary at Mortimer L. .1 Schix's home in 1907, And who recent- v ly reversed his action. The attack upon the jurist is the first case of sucfi violence attempted against a judge here within memory, and it set the whole machinery- of - ? the police speedily at work on the M mystery. The bomb came by mail. The home of Judge Otto A. Rosals ky* of the court of general sessions. where a bomb delivered to him by mail exploded was the scene of renew ed excitement caused by the appear ance of a man who wildly kicked at the door and demanded admittance. WARSHIPS TO PHILIPPINES J ?I Significant Ordera Are Issued by the; Navy Department. Washington. ? Significant orders. were issued from the navy depart ment directing three of the big ar mored cruisers of the Pacific fleet to proceed at once to the Philippine Isl ands for an indefinite stay. The navy department will not admit that the big vessels are to be attached/to the Asiatic fleet, but their arrival in the Orient will give the United States the most powerful foreign fleet, excepting that of Japan, in touch with Chinese waters. The vessels ordered to the Philippines are the flagship Califor nia the South Dakota and Colorado, now at Honolulu. These cruisers, with the Maryland, of the same type, constitute the Pa cific fleet with base at San Francisco. Their withdrawal will leave the west coast without any naval vessels of consequence in full commission, with the exception of the cruiser Maryland, all of the other armored ships being now in reserve at Puget Sound, with skeleton crews. The Maryland has been conveying Secretary Knox be tween the Central American porta on the west side, and soon will ar rive at San Diego for the target prac tice of the Pacific torpedo fleet about April 8. Operatives Get $10,000,000 Raise. Boston.?Wage increases aggregat ing more than $10,000,000 will go into the pockets of New England textile workers during the next twelve months, according to authoritative es timates of the result of the present upward trend of wages in cotton and woolen 'mills. On the basis of an annual payroll of $79,000,000 in the woolen mills, the increase there will amount to $5,600,000, while cottoa mill operatives will receive an ad vance of $5,000,000. Fully 275,000 op eratives will share in the raise Outlaws Defying Virginia Posse. Hillsville, Va.?'Two thousand feet above sea level among the crags and caves of the Blue Ridge mountains the Allen gang, who demonstrated their contempt of constitutional law by a massacre of the judge, the pros ecution and the sheriff of Carroll1 county court continued to defy cap ture. The day's search by a posse of seventy-five detectives and citizen vol-? unteers demonstrated that unless the militia is sent here they may never he brought to answer to the indict ments for murder. Wage Increase on Central Railway. Macon, Ga.?Announcement was made by the Central of Georgia rail road that .wage increases from six to ten per cent, had been granted to all telegraph operators on the railway system exclusive of train dispatch ers. About two hundred employees are affected, and the average salary will now run from $75 to $S0 a month all v over the system. The increases are based on the class of work done. Each year the operators of the system ar range a scale with the corporation.