Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE MBEIflllt PRESS UND jffljlg Published W?okly ABBEVILLE, & 0. r If there Is a baseball trust It Is cer tain that it isn't in the umpire. A man rarely knows when to dis card an old suit of clothes. Goose eggs begin to be a little less prominent in the standing of the base ball clubs. jvo uuie oratory is now uirecieu ai the umpire. The bandwagon has lost its monopoly. A Rhode Island legislator advocates a law to stop elopements, but love laughs at lawsmiths. '"Eating," says a scientist, "Is a dy ing art." It behooves some kind friend to blow him to a meal. Freakish styles of the present sea eon need not be expected to reduce tiie number of misogynists. The "Jelly wobble" is the latest dance fad In Washington. And in pol itics "everybody's doln' It." Story tellers in Japan get 20 cents an hour, but fishermen in this country tell stories by the hour, gratis. The inventor of the wireless tele graph has taken his place among the greatest of the world's benefactors. In these nightmarish times of mov . . . . . leg ana uousecieaiiing moueru man envies his forbears who lived in caves. hy >S~' Strawberries and rubles look some what alike, and at this time of the year they closely resemble each other In price. A Philadelphia policeman has re tired from the force with a fortune or $250,000 Or course, he saved it out of his wages. An eccentric Massachusetts woman has bequeathed $100,000 to a horse, all of which may be considered a horse on her relatives. A Chicago physician says street car straps are covered with every germ known to science. tJoii your nanas after strap-hanging. A Massachusetts man comes to the front with two cats that have cork screw tails. Now we know why it's called katzenjammer. The University or Wisconsin asserts that very few of its co-eds become old maids. There wll; now be a rush to the higher education. The latest fashionable dance In Washington is announced as the "Jel ly wobble." The next one will prob ably be the "pickle prance." Anger causes cold Teet. says a Chi cago professor. Evidently preparing to boom the overshoe trade in Chi cago during the convention. A California man has been fined for beating up his mother-in-law, but there are those who believe that he deserves a Carnegie medal. It has been discovered by a statisti cian that more divorces are granted in April than in any other month. House cleaning time and moving time. Now a woman has flown across the English channel as a passenger in an aeroplane. Another notice to John Bull that they cannot be kept down! Scientists have perfected an ap paratus for broiling 700 steaks in six minutes, showing how some people like to dally with matters of pure theory. Capt. Scott has decided to spend an jther year in the vicinity of the South Pole. The women are right. Some men never do know when to come aome. A young westerner ran his motor :ar into another and wed the fair oc :upant thereof. It has always been iur contention that motoring is a dan Cerous sport. In Strassburg. Germany, a cobbler las, after working fifteen years upon ft. finished a clock that is made of itraw. This impresses us as 'oeing ibout as important as a straw vote. One Turkish soldier was killed in a bombardment of forts on the Dar lanelles by Italian warships. That is tlinost comparable with the report or i preliminary in an obscure boxing ihow. Women's clubs in Cincinnati want i curfew law for men, requiring all ;o be at home at nine o'clock. Now ' U n>4 11 K/% n KurriftH m o M n ? ?> ?. t v*m a. uui i jcu iiiaotuiuic pi U" ;est against the feminization or tne aw. It required the Austro-Hungarian i imbassador to the United States to 1 protest successfully against the extor- ' Ion of a New York automobile driv r. although this is the land of tree j lom from tyranny. A section ot the brain of an infa-t j aas been transplanted to the cranium j t" a man. if it should appear that i tne transplanted portion stili retains ;he infantile instincts there may come jioments in the life of its adult pos sessor fraught witb surprise and em- i oarassment. The army doctors after a fair test ! lave decided that red flannel is not a | protection against heat in the tropics. The soldiers who have been the unwill- ! ug victims of scientific experiment reached that conclusion the first day. j Speaking once more of the propriety of asking a witness to tell his or her tge and admitting that a woman is "as old as she looks," and no older, the estimating of her age migbt be ieft to the presiding judge. But would rt be quite fair to compel a masculine ivitness to tell bow old he feels T fik- I BANDITS HOLDUP ?. 0. & N. EXPRESS EXPRESS SAFE ON NEW ORLEANS AND NORTHEASTERN R. R. DYNAMITED. TRAIN CREW OVERPOWERED It Is Believed the Robbers Escaped With More Than $150,000 After Blowing Open Safe. Hattiesburg, Miss.?Two maskec bandits boarded the New Or lean Limited on the New Orleans am. Northeastern railroad, eight iniies south of this town, dynamited tin safe in the express car and escaped. The robbers did not molest the pas sengers, hut one trainman received se rious injuries as he lay bound near j the safe when the dynamite biew ii j to pieces. The two men boarded the flyer ab crowded with passengers, it was aboui to halt at Okolona to take on water. The safe was shattered and the ban dits had an easy time collecting their loot, most of which was government funds consigned from New Orleans for the East. After collecting his loot and placing it in a leather bag, the bandit who had done the dynamiting joined his companion. Then, warning the train crew not to follow or to give any alarm, they made off in the darkness. Estimates as to the amount of the hoot differ, ranging as high as $150. 000. Officials of the Wells-Fargo Ex press company admitted that the train robbers secured at least $35,000. The men are believed to be the same who held up a Mobile and Ohio train near Corinth, Miss., in Febru ary. It is said the robbers secured a package of money representing the payroll of the Alabama and Vicksburg | railroad at Meridian and about 25 smaller Vnonev packages, remittances ocrontc nf tVio dvnrpss cnmnanv at points alone the Vicksburg. Shreve port and Pacific railroad. Also there were two other packages, containing $1,000 each, packages containing cur rency in smaller amounts and several packages of jewelry ajid stock cer tificates. The hold-up of the train was effect ed in a true wild west manner, but. notwithstanding a generous flourish ing of weapons, not a shot was fired. NOTED ANARCHIST IS TARRED Vigilantes Make Emma Goldman's Partner Kiss the Flag. San Diego, Call?Dr. Ben Reitman, known as "king of the tramps," who has traveled for some years with Emma Goldman, the Anarchist, was kidnaped from the U. S. Grant Hotel I here, taken to the LaPesquimitas { ranch twenty miles north, forced to kiss the American flag and then tar red and feathered. After he had been tarred and feath ered Reitman was driven northward. Miss Goldman had come to San Die go from Los Angeles to assist in the crusade of the Industrial Workers of the World for "free speech." Reit- j man has been traveling with Miss' Goldman. The tarring and feathering was a climax of the fight the citizens here ' have been waging against the Indus trials. Reitman sprang into promi nence some years ago, when he or ganized the "hoboes" of Chicago and, ? uu u: ? ?? ln'rifr morohoH firct tn WILLI 1U1UBCL.L a J itm-v-uvu ... the mayor's office and later to the board 01 trade. Emma Goldman was spirited from the hotel, taken through the base ment entrance into an alley and rush ed to the railway sation. There she boarded a train for Los Angeles. North Carolina for Roosevelt. Raleigh. X. C.?In a state conven tion marked by bitter attacks upon President Taft. North Carolina's four delegates-at-large and four alter nates to the Chicago Republican con vention were instructed to vote for Theodore Roosevelt, "first, last and all the time," so long as his name is before the convention. There was no test of strength upon the subject of presidential endorsement, the Taft forces yielding to the Roosevelt lead ers at the start. South Carolina Delegates Uninstructed Columbia, S. C.?After voting to feend the state's eighteen delegates to the Baltimore convention uninstruct ed. the Democratic state convention adopted a resolution endorsing Wood row Wilson for president. It was re markable for its brevity: "Resolved, That this convention endorse Wood row w iiauu. Bay City. Mich.?The Michigan state Democratic convention voted to send an uninstructed delegation of thirty members to the national con vention at Raltimore. Cotton Claims Cause Protest. Savannah. Ga.?Protesting; vigor ously against excessive reclamations which Hrenten cotton merchants made upon cotton shipped from Savannah, the Savannah cotton exchange has ta ken the matter up with the cotton exchange of the German capital. Ship pers of cotton from this port to Bre men this season have l>een forced to pay enormous reclamation, so large that all who have been affected on this side have appealed to the Sa vannah cotton exchange to protest against a system. No Favors Shown in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn.?Thi* entire dele gation from Tennessee to the Demo cratic national convention will go un instructed. The state convention, which selected all the delegates, first adopted resolutions against instruct ing: the delegates, and then named eight delegates and eight alternates from the state at-large, who had been agreed upon by the campaign mana fers of Clark. Wilson, Harmon and Underwood. The twenty district del egates were chosen by the convention. President Madero recently Issued a proclamation calling upon the patri otic people of Mexico to take up arms In support of the government. NEGROES KILL OFFICERS MARSHAL AND DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT TO DEATH BY NEGRO GAMBLERS. Florida Officers Were Decoyed to a Lonely Spot and Murdered by Negroes. Gainesville, Fia.?Marsnal U. H. Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles White of Archer, Fla., were decoyed to a lonely spot near there and as sassinated. J. A. Manning, another deputy, feigned death and escaped after be ing wounded. He shot one of the murderers, capturing him and his >hree sons, who are now In Jail. Marshal Slaughter receivecf a mes sage that there was a "skin"' game in progresb on the outskirts of the town. He deputized Deputies White and Manning and went to the scene. The officers started to reconnolter, and were greeted by a volley of shots. Marshal Slaughter and Deputy White fell at the first fire, both being dead when aid arrived. Manning also fell with a wound in his abdomen. He feigned death, and as the negroes started off shot Cain Perry, one of the negroes, and at the point of his pistold held up the three sons who were implicated in the shooting. CYCLONES HIT TALLEDAGA Property Loss of $165,000 Inflicted on Alabama Town. Talladega, Ala. ? Twin cyclones' struck Talladega, doing a property damage of approximately $165,000. There was no loss of life. One storm struck the town from the southwest, onrl when immediately 6U'"6 ????. . over the business district was met by another storm. The twin disturbance united, doing heavy damage in the way of broken windows and unroof ing stores. Talladega county court house was badly damaged, the force of the wind snapping four massive granite columns like reeds. The five state institutions located at Talladega were uninjured, being out of the path of the storm. The two depots were also undamaged. The path of the tornado was a half mide and a mile long. Sunshine Aided Flood Fight New Orleans.?Another day of sun f-hine in New Orleans and throughout southern Louisiana cheered more and more the hearts of those who are concerned over the high flood stages of the Mississippi river. State and Federal engineers announced that the few reports received from points north of New Orleans where gangs are repairing and strengthening the levees, vere encouraging, although it was admitted that the situation at Daton Rouge was still somewhat seri ous and would demand careful watch ing and continued hard work to pre vent a break in the front levee. A report from Torras stated that the levee at the lower end of the crevasse mere was sluukhuij; uh aim gradually adding to the width of the gap in the river embankment. The levees in New Orleans have been repaired where damage was done by severe storm. Titanic Widow Strews Flowers. New York.?Standing upon the bridge of the Carmania in mid-ocean. Mrs. J. H. Loring of New York and London scattered armfuls of flowers upon the waters of the Atlantic in memory of her husband, who lost his life on the Titanic. When the Carmania arrived in latitude 41.16 and longitude 50.14. the nearest po sition to where the Titanic sank, Mrs. Loring. attired in deep mourning, was I escorted*. to the bridge by Captain Dow. Many passengers, touched by the devotion, wept. 500 Killed in Mexican Battle. Conejos. Mexico.?Twelve hours -of fighting on the desert plains 20n miles sonth of the American border between a force of 5.000 rebels under fieneral Oro/co and an equally strong body of Federals under Heneral Hn erta. resulted in a decided advantage to the government. At nisrhtfall the sandy mesas between liere and Yermn 14 miles north, where the in?urrectos were gradually forced back, were covered with dead and wounded. Xearly BOO are believed to have been killed and wounded on both sides. Chicago Printers Will Not Strike. Chicago.?By a vote of 1.090 to 555, members of the Typographical union voted not to go on strike in sympathy with the pressmen who are out in all Chicago daily newspaper offices. J M. Lynch, international president of the Typographical union, and Walter W. Barrett, president of the Chicago local, expressed themselves as well I pleased with the result. This vote is j final. The pressmen were downcas. over the failure of the Typographical I union to join them. IKING FREDERICK OF ! DENMARK 15 DEAD CHRISTIAN FREDERICK PASSE J ; AWAY AT HAMBURGER HOF HOTEL IN GERMA'NY. ! CHRISTIAN X NOW REIGNS j i Dead King Was Very Popular With His Subjects and Was a Brilliant Man. Pnnnnhio-Qri Phriction Y WQC t* + proclaimed king of Denmark + + from the balcony of the palace + + in the presence of a huge con- + + course of people who bad gath- + + ered in the square in front of + + the royal residence. + + Enthusiastic cheering broke + + out as the monarch in the uni- + + form" of the Royal Guard step- + + ped into the balcony. In his brief + + speech he paid a tribute to his + ! + father and pointed out the dif- + + ficulties of succeeding such a + + ruler, concluding: + + "May God give me strength + + rightly to rule my dear old coun- + + try and may it liver forever." + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + Hamburg, Germany.?King Freder ick Vlll of Denmark died at the Ham burger Hof Hotel. Christian Frederick was proclaim ed king of Denmark as Frederick VIII on January 3U, 1906, after the death of Christian IX, the aged king, who was dean of the crown heads of Eu rope, father of King George of Greece, of the Queen Mother Alexandra ef Great Britain, the empress dowager of Russia and grandfather of King Haakon VII of Norway. King Frederick VIII was born at Copenhagen June 3, 1843. He was as popular with the people of Denmark as was his father. By the wish of his parents he was brought up with great simplicity. Frederick saw his young er brother and his own son become reigning monarchs of Greece and Nor way, respectively, while he himself was still an heir apparent. King Frederick was noted for his culture. He was at one time chan cellor of Copenhagen university :md head of the Free Masons of Denmark. He was well known as a promoter of philanthropic objects. His Interest in the army, of which he once was In spector general, was keen and he introduced many reforms. mAntKa r? crr\ 1finer Pro^nrlnV iJCfCiai 11IUIUUD Ut,V| JktUfj, l t V UVI?V suffered a serious illnes. While tak ing his customary walk, he had a sudden seizure and was compelled to return to the palace. ROOSEVELT GETSCALIFORNIA Election Results From Many States Show People's Preference. San Francisco.?Returns give the following results from presidential preference election: Roosevelt 26,722 Taft 16,303 LaFollette i?,984 Clark 5,974 Wilson 2,504 Women voters played a large part in the primary. Reports from all parts of the state indicate that they went to the polls ia greater numbers than the men, in proportion to regis tration. All of the twenty-six delegates elect ed were chosen at large and, accord ing to the stale law, they are bound j iiv tho nnnnlar exnression of orefer I ence. Reno, Nev.?The Democratic presi dential preference vote in Nevada primary is for Vharap Clark, Wardoe. Storey, Elke and Humboldt counties give heavy majorities for Clark. White Pine county almost entirely is com mitled to Wilson, the vote in Ely standing 134 lor Wilson to 4 for Clark. Concord, N. H.?Four delebates-at large and two from each of the two congressional districts to the Demo cratic national convention at Haiti more, unpledged, but "morally bound" by a preferential vote in the conven lion to vote for Speaker Champ Clark for the presidential nomination, were elected by the Democrats of New Hampshire. House Passes Anti-Injunction Bill, < Washington.?Supported by all of the Progressive Republicans, the house nassed the Clayton anti injunc tion bill, 244 to 34. The bill amends j the law to prohibit the issue of in ; junctions without notice being served j on those affected. Such injunctions i would lie ejective for seven days only ! and renewal would be possible only when the court was convinced such action was necessary. "John Doe" injunctions would be impossible and the risihts of "peacful picketing" would be recognized. Georgia Leads in "Moonshining." Philadelphia.?That in many prohi bition states the authorities make lit tle effort to enforce the law against } the manufacture of liquor, and that the United States revenue laws need a general revision to capably cover changed condition, was stated by Royal S. Cabell, commissioner of in temal revenue. Of the 2,471 illicit stills unearthed last year he said, full were in Georgia, 420 in North Car olina. 240 in Alabama, 375 in South Carolina, and 300 in Tennessee, Okla homa and Virginia. Congress Plans Adjournment. Washington.? flans for expediting legislation to allow congress iu au journ prior to the national political conventions were considered at con ferences of leaders of both house and senate. The house leaders outlined a program that they helieve would conclude the business of the house by June 15. The senate leaders reached no definite conclusion. On the house side It was a creed that the Panama canal administration bi'l should be disposed of immediately following the passage of the anti-injunction bill. This l? the Iate6t picture of Dowa ger Queen Alexandria, who is serl ously III with Influenza. -She Is now sixty-eight years old and great anxi ety is felt throughout the empire. fOR DIOr ElfCTIONS CONGRESS PASSES RESOLUTION ORDERING AMENDMENT SUB MITTED TO STATES. ooutnern Democrats Based Opposition to Measure on Fear of Negro Domination. Washington.?Despite the fierce op position oi Southern representatives, the house accepted the Bristow amendment to the popular election of senators resolution by a vote o? 237 to 39. The announcement of the result was greeted by cheers on both sides of the house. Both houses of congress have now approved of this fundamental change in the organic law by the requisite two-thirds majorities and if the amendment is ratified by the legisla tures of three-fourths of the states it will become amendment No. 16. Since the first resolution- for the di rect election of senators was introduc ed in 1826 the house has five times passed such a resolution, but the sen ate has never yet come to terms with the house. On February 28, 1911, the house resolution failed by four votes in fhe senate. It contained as reported from the senate judiciary committee the objectionable Sutherland amendment, or Bristow amendment as it later be came known, which some Southern congressmen feared would open the way for interference by congress with the election laws of Southern states. The first paragraph of section 4 of article 1 of the Constitution now reads: "The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislatures thereof, but the congress may at any time make or alter such regulations, ex cept uS to the places of choosing sen ators." rnnrr l III iTnnO l/ii I r I"1 IMtttt HVirtiuno niLLcu Two Airmen in England dnd One at St. Louis, Mo., Fall to Death. St. Louis.?Kay Wheeler, amateur aviator, was killed and Peter Glasser, a companion, probably was fatally .injured when their machine struck a telegraph pole at Kinloch Park. Perry, Iowa.?Aviator Ralph Mc.Mil en was seriously injured during an exhibition flight here. When more ihan Hid feet in the air the engine stopped and the biplane fell into a creek. He suffered two broken legs, a broken shoulder bone and numer ous other injuries London.?Victor Louis Mason, an American identified with extensive mining interests and at one time pri vate secretary to the American sec retary of war. Gen. K. A. Alger, and 10 his successor, Elihu Root, was kill Hd, while making a Might at P.rook lands with the English aviator, E. V. Kisher. Fisher also was killed \ Methodist Ban Stays on Cards. Minneapolis.?Unless the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church overrules the action of the committee on state of church, that part of the famous paragraph 260 of the Church Discipline, which espec ially prohibits dancing, card playing and kindred amusements, will remain a law of the church. The committee voted to reject the report which fa vored the elimination of a portion of the paragraph and leaving amusement questions to the "conscience'' of the individual members. Reunion Cost Macon $250,000. Macon, fia.?Careful estimates place the financial loss sustained by Macon people on the reunion at not less than $250,000. The greater part of this was invested in thousands of cots which were never used. There are numerous instances where the loss falls upon those least able to hear it. Tn one case an aped school teacher mortgaged her home, spend ing ?snn for cots ,and failed fo rent even one. A Russian harber who saved SSftft. likewise bought cots and did not have a single roomer. Two Killed in Georgia Feud. Douglasville, Ga.?A family feud of many years' standing came to a cri sis at Sudie, near here, when three members of the McCard and Cooper families engaged in a bloody knife and pistol duel, which resulted in the death of two and the fatal woundinp of the third participant. The dead and wounded are:' Will McCard t; oat cut by Grady Cooper, died al most instantly; Grady Cooper, shot by McCard, died Monday; Grover Cooper shot by McCard, not expected to live E SUPREME COURT HOLDS THE RPANPriRT rniiMTv addhimt. MENTS INVALID. DELEGATION NOT CONSULTED This, The Court Finds, Is Sufficient to j Render Nugatory Blease's Selection of the Township Commissioners? I Caao Will Be Hard Fought. Columbia.?Holding that the de fendants are usurping and intruding upon and are unlawfully holding and exercising the duties of office, the supreme court in a decision by Asso ciate Justice Watts, concurred in by the entire court, ousted the appointees of Gov. Blease in Beaufort county as township commisssloners. "It is the judgment of this court that the defendants be excluded from said offices and that the plaintiffs re cover costs in each case against the defendants," says the decision of the court. The action was brought by J. Fraser Lyon, attorney general, repre senting the state of South Carolina to oust C. A. Verdier, J. R. Cooler W. W. Hudson, A. J. Alexander, W. H. Stalworth, C. E. Boineau, J. W. Campbell, B. Josselson, C. A. Walker R. A. Cobum and S. S. Kellars, who were appointed township commission ers by the governor without regard to the recommendation of the Beau fort county delegation. "The demurrer to the return," says the supreme court, "is on the ground it fails to state facts sufficient to con stitute a defense and that it fails tc show why defendants should not be ousted from office in that it falls tc allege that any of defendants were appointed by' the governor, either In 1911 or 1912, upon the recommenda tion of the senator and members of the house of representatives of Beau fort county. On the trial of the cases an order was passed dismissing the complaint as to B. Josselson. The de murrer interposed by the defendants to the plaintiff's complaint are over ruled, and the demurrer interposed by the plaintiff to the answer and returns of the defendants must be sustained. These cases are controlled by decis ions of this court In Ellege vs. Whar ton (Advance sheets) 89 S. C.f 113 and Golden vs. Wharton (Advance sheets) 90 S. C., 355. York County Poultry Association. For some time the matter of organ izing a York County Poultry and Fair Association has been discussed, but until recently the move never took definite form. However, the com mittee, appointed some time ago by the chamber of commerce of Rock Hill is working on the proposition and in the near future will call a meet ) ing of business men and prominent planters who are interested, at which time the feasibility of such an organization will be discussed. Despondency Was Cause of Deed. ' Further details of the Steading tragedy at Olympia village has be come known. J. H. Hendricks, step father of Mrs. Charles Steading, whose husband cut her severely and afterwards took his own life, stadted that the only reason he could advance for the deed was that Steading was despondent on account of ill health He had told his wife several days ago, it was said, that he would soon end it all by taking her life and his own. Acquitted of Murder Charge. In the sessions court Perry Ed wards and Will Edwards, wealthy planters of Greenville county, were acquitted of a charge of murder. The verdict of not guilty was drected by the court upon the consent of the so licitor. The Edwards brothers were charged with slaying one Robert Per ry. It was charged that the brothers attacked the deceased in his yard about 2 o'clock in the morning last ian. Double Tracking on The A. C. L. Tie Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company has Just closed the contract with the Smith Construction Com pany for the continuation of the dou ble tracking from Bcmneau's to the soutt end of the Santee trestle, about one mile north of St. Stephens, a distance of about ten miles. The Coast Line now has double tracks from its terminals in Charleston to Moncks Corner. From Moncks Cor ner to Bonneau's the double track if also ready, but is not yet in opera tion. I Richland County Delegation Met. The ' Richland delegation held e meeting at Columbia. All members were present except J. D. Frost. J. P ; Thomas was elected chairman and named to present the Woodrow Wil i son resolutions to the convention. J J. McMahon moved that it was the sense of the delegates that the Rich- < land county instruction for Woodrow | Wilson mean that the delegates shall ] j not only vote for instruction of dele- i , gates sent to Baltimore, but shall vote i | also for only delegates who will favoi j the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. ( i Negro Has Made Good His Escape. The negro who entered the home of a prominent lady in Conway and i abandoned his foul purpose on ac ( count of there being two ladies in ( the room, has made good his escape ; thus far. The bloodhounds which i were put on his trail followed in his i path some six miles from town, then ( by a circuitous route returned to the i A. C. L. Railroad station, into th? ) colored waiting room, to the ticke' window and to the train yards, where i he evidently took the early morning i train for North Carolina. i i NEGRO CHARGED WITH ARSON Chapter in Shocking Story?Go*nell is Lodged in Jail at Landrum.? Four Children Lost Lives. Campobello.?Following an investl gation by B. A. Wharton, inspector Df the state insurance department, on che burning of the home of W. J. Gib son, when his four children lost their lives, January 28, Allendar Gosnell has been arrested and lodged in jail at Landrum charged with arson. The insurance inspector has been* con ducting an active investigaton into the burning of Mr. Gibson's home three miles from Campobello at 1 o'clock in the morning of January 28 and has unearthed sufficient evidence to cause the arrest of Gosnell. The burning of the home and the rlpath of thft fnur ohHrirfin was nne of the most shocking tragedies in th? history of this community. Mr. Gib son is a prominent farmer, a former member of the house of representa tives and one of the most widely known residents of this section of the state. The children who lost their lives in the flre were: Hugh Gbison, 16 years of age; Annie Thomas Gibson, 14 years of age; Laura Gibson, 10 years of age; James Gibson, eight years of age. i Walter J. Gibson had gone to Green ville to attend the funeral of a kifts man leaving the four children at home. Their mother had died teveral years before and their stepmother the previous winter. The children spent the Sabbath with their sister, who lived a mile from their home, but had returned home at 10 o'clock Sun day evening. ? Neighbors were aroused by the roar of the flames in the early, morning and when the first to reach the scene arrived at 1 o'clock the large two story frame building was a mass of flames. The screams of the children were heard by those first on the scene. South Crolina New Enterprises. A charter was issued to tne Ander son Paint and Color Company of An derson, with a capital of $3,500.. The officers are: Ernest Dugan, president and secretary; F. J. Martin, vice pres ident and treasurer. A commission was Issued to the Standard Insurance - and Realty Company of Columbia, with a capital of $2,000, to do a gen eral insurance and real estate busi ness. The petitioners are E. B. Can tey, Jr., and T. D. Meares, Jr. The Unted States Supply Company of St George ws commissioned with'a cap ital of $500. Governor Paroles Three Men. A. W. Morgan, who was convicted In the Richland county court in Janu ary of this year on the charge of shooting into an electric car in Colum tia and sentenced to serve six months on the county chain gang or in the state penitentiary, or to pay a fine of $200, has been paroled by the gov ernor, on condition of good behavior and that he refrain from the use of whiskey. Morgan fired into a'street car on Main stret in Columbia last winter. A parole has been granted to P. W. Bentley, who was convicted in Richland county, in January of 1908 on the charge of forgery and sentenc ed to five years in the state peniten tiary, on the condition that he leave the state within twenty-four hours af ter securing his freedom and that he never return. The sentence of F. W Johnson, of Spartanburg, who was convicted on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons and giver a fine of $200 or six months' imprison ment, has been commuted by the gov ernor to a fine of $100 or six months Further Complications Likely. Will an auction ale price of five 'lUliars sa.tiaij' lac rcuciai auiuvnucc for liquors valued at about $190? Will an auction sale where state officials ( stood by and warned all prospective purchasers that they were liable to ar rest for purchasing the whiskey, and thus reduced the number of bidder? to one man, be accepted with equani mity as a legal auction under Federal requirements? Such questions as these were freely discussed in Federal official circles at G;eenville, in con nection with the auction sale of cham pagne. Bendictine and Imported Scotch whiskey. The Greenville Horse Show. The annual exhibition of the Greenville Horse Show Association takes place in the near future and the indications are that this will be the most successful show in the history of the organization. Greenville has the reputation of holding the best open air show in the South, horses being shown from Kentucky, Virginia Georgia, North Carolina and many other sections of the South. Entries for the horse show closed several days ago. Jeter Again In The Toils. Jacob B. Jeter, said to be the first man pardoned by Gov. Blease, was lodged in the Lexington jail on the charge of assault and battery with in tent to kill. February 24, last ,it is alleged, Jeter attempted to shoot P L. Redmond, chief of police of Swan sea, W. L. K. Johnson and H. K Hooker, who went to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly and at tacking his wife. Jeter fired at the shief twice, but missed his aim. He still held the officers at bay, and it be same necessary to shoot. Southern Railway Train Derailed. Several days ago a number of cart tvere derailed above the north switch jn Blanding street yard of the South ?rn railway, causing a delay of over in hour to passenger train No. 36( due to leave Columbia at 5:35 o'clock lr the morning. The accident also caus ed considerable delay to the South jrn's vegetable dlBpatch northbound trains. In order to clear up the' tvreck it was necessary to order oul the wrecker. No one was injured and the damage to the several derailed ;ars was slight.