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111 nifimtM 11 mm Publlshad Weakly ABBEVILLE, 8. C. Free speech Is unrestricted at a baseball game The unloaded revolver kills more than the unsinkable shlD. for it never rests. Hay Is selling in Cincinnati at $20 a ton, but what of it? What's the price of gasoline? In pay-as-you-enter cars the particu lar woman to pay fares must be se lected on the spot. Letter paper Is to cost more, but the lover will be expected to writ? long letters Just the same. Europe reports an eclipse of the sun, but China's Sun continues to shine and break into the newspapers. , The rain falls more on the Just than the unjust, for the latter attach them selves to any umbrella in sight A scientist announces that coffee is rrequentiy tne cause 01 divorce. ouujb coffee Is capable of worse things than that Harvard knows a lot, but she has had to acknowledge that Bhe doesn't know how to keep the college elms alive. Los Angeles chorus girls are said to be out on a strike. If they don't like their Jobs why don't they go Into poli tics? The hide of the whale Is said to be two feet thick in some places. This makes the whale the politician of the sea. The baseball season of 1912 bids fair to be quite as highly seasoned as the baseball seasons 01 oiner years have been. Cincinnati women want a curfew for men only. When a man has to be chased home It Is plain he needs oth er inducements. A train ran a race with a cyclone in Kansas?and won. The cyclone must have rubbed the earth too close and got full of friction. "Imports of diamonds have fallen off heavily," says the New York World. Perhaps all the hotel clerks are now supplied with 'em. A society woman in New Jersey died while playing bridge. The game Is often a shock to its players, but not often such a fatal one. The Princeton student who has In vented a pocket for a woman's silk Btocklng evidently Isn't devoting all his attention to his studies. In Ohio it has been held criminal for a candidate to give a voter a_jc?t?ar. The recipient of the cigar-^v'ery gen erally endorses that pjljKtfple. Massachusetts man who fell heir to millions has bought a farm. He is now in a position to raise chickens and still keep out of the poorhouse. The Hagerstown, Md., public library keeps an automobile that delivers books from door to door. Those books must have been ordered by telephoae. An optimist is a man who believes lhat the anthracite trouble will soon be settled, so that coal will be plenti ful and reasonably cheap next winter. On Mars a year is 730 days long. It seems evident that some of the ladies have adopted the Martian cal endar without saying anything about It The price of eggs in China now is five cents a dozen, but unfortunately for economical housekeepers, it is 8,000 miles to China by the shortest way. It Is said that the Egyptians knew about appendicitis 7,000 years ago. Which may afford a clew to how they got the money with which to build the pyramids. According to a scientist the older a Btar is the faster It moves. Long prac tice In dodging vegetables and other Blmilar tokens from audiences surely ought to count A college professor has discovered that a woman scratches a match with an outward movement. Those sheath gowns are certainly doing their share In emancipating the sex. The famous Mona Lisa is said to be In the United States. The only clue the art detectives have to trace her is that she wears a smile which will not come off. In these days that is some Identification. "Chicaeo has discovered a girl with a perfect foot," says the Toledo Blade. Did the poor girl lose the other one? A preacher Informs us that no man has a right to tell his wife a lie?not even a harmless one. And yet we have been told that self-preservation is the first law of nature. Writing paper is to advance in cost, but it is too much to expect that the rise will teach some impetuous states men tho excellence of the old rule, "Never write; send a man." T* lo -inK* fair tn rail nftpntinn to the fact tbat the Pennsylvania judge who ruled that a husband's home Is where his wife abides is not the one who sent an Allentown woman to Jail for having nine husbands. Boston reports that the marriage li cense bureau there shows that no Huh ladies took advantage of leap year. Does the Boston marriage license bu> reau examine applicants as to which Bide popped the question? If so, It seems to add a new terror to the taah of contracting matrimony. !from over palmetto state Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Gotten Together With Care By the Editor. I St. Matthews.?Unless the presiding judge who now hus two very long drawn out cases on appeal in his hands for a review, shall find where some error has been committed be- \ low. Magistrate Prlckett at this place ; will have a perfect mark on the ap peal side of the court. He has been magistrate for more than two years, j Lexington.?Lexington peaches are ripening rapidly now and the farmers are beginning to haul them to the D ?^Vi n Annri fliie vaof I V^UlUUiUia luai IVCl. XllC VIVSjf IU1? J VU.I will be good and the fruit of a very high class. There will be no apples 1 of consequence on account of the blight, which has practically killed all of the fruit. i Hompton.?Considerable excitement ! ! was caused here when a telephone | message from Camp Branch to Judge ; Murdaugh announced that two ne-i gro women had killed two white chil dren at Stone & Patrick's mill. Judge : J. G. Murdaugh, J. Reid Fitts and Dr. C. A. Rush set out at once for the scene, which is six miles away. Charleston.?Forty electrical work ers employed by the Charl^et?.??? Kail way & Lighting Company, which oper ates Charleston's electric power and street railway plants, struck for high er wages and a nine-hour day. The company has no strike-breakers here. x-- i?..wi. :_ iv. ' i\U Liuuuie 10 euiuviyaieu aa Liic quca tion of compensation will be settled amicably, it is said. Orangeburg.?Candidates for cotton weigher for the various towns of this county and candidates for magistrate for the different districts of Orange burg county are coming out fast, and the races for these offices are going to be interesting. All the cotton weigh ers are elected by the voters of that section, but the two cotton weighers for the city of Orangeburg are voted for by the whole county. Greenville.?George Benson was 1 fined $50 in recorder's court on sl charge of storing illicit liquor. This particular blind tiger is very ingen uous. When arrested he had an or dinary lard bucket. When the offi cers opened they found a pan on top filled with real lard, but when the pas'" was lifted they found two gallon" of "moonshine dew" resting intact'below. The case was heard by a jury. Leesville.?The Methtdist confer ence of the Columbia'district is now in sessin in the Mftihodist church of Leesville. About 65 delegates are in attendance. TMs is about an average attendance for this season of the year. Rev. W. M. Duncan, presiding elder of the district, is in charge. Rev. Ham llll TTHKH err* i a o /"?+ in or oo Dft/ifatomr **** 10 uvuug uo ocv/icbai/ A spirit of harmony and concord pre vails and all seem to enjoy the meet ing to the fullest. Newberry.?The friends of New berry college are rejoicing at the suc cess that has crowned the efforts of the president, Dr. J. Henry Harms, to raise $50,000 for the endowment fund. He began the canvass in January of this J ear, and has just completed it. His success in raising this fund se cures in addition $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie, who contributed that amount on condition that the college would raise $50,000 by June 1. Darlington.?The annual July 4th celebration for Darlington is assured for another year. The business men of the town who have always given liberally to this movement have de cided that the horse show and races must be pulled off again this year, and the only change that will be noticed ! will be in the added features of the occasion not heretofore seen. It is certain that there will be more prizes and larger prizes, and more and bet ter stock than has ever been shown or raced here on this occasion. Chester.?It is reported here that the Seaboard Air Line railway has under advisement the monumental project of lowering its tracks, in the Hemphill avenue section of the city, and then tunnelling under the Caro lina and Northwestern and Southern railways at the crossing above Ches ter. This arrangement, if carried through, will be a bonanza to the real estate men here, giving them an op portunity to develop a section that i owing to the deep and precipitious railroad cut has kept Chester from expanding in that direction. Columbia. ? Council convened in special session and disposed of much business. A committee from the Young Men's Christian Association presented a petition asking for sew ers and drain on the property in con nection with its new buildings on Sumter street. Swansea.?The buggy house of C. B. Jefcoat, R. F. D. carrier No. 2 of Swansea, who lives about two miles from town, was destroyed by fire. The fire was evidently the work of an in cendiary, as a bicycle track from about one mile east of his home, to the bug gy house and back, was noticed. Columbia.?David Senters of Moul trieville has been appointed as a game warden by the governor. There is no salary attached. Orangeburg.?Mr. W. W. Watson, proprietor of "Carolina Farms," near the city of Orangeburg, has received report of sales of two bales of "Al len's upland long staple cottons," ! which sold at 21 1-2 cents a pound, the proceeds of the two bales amount ing to $277.35, an average of $138.67 per bale. This lot of cotton was com pressed in unarieston on or about the 31st of last December and shipped to Mr. Watson's agents in Boston, Mass. Columbia.?The details of the Scot tish Rite re-union to be held in Co lumbia on Thursday and Friday, June 6 and 7, have all been completed. The Lodge of Perfection will convene at 9:30 on Thursday morning and con tinue until Friday night with recesses j for refreshments and sleep. Lancaster.?Fire from an unknown i cause broke out in the Lancaster Oil mill'3 immense seed house, and for ; several minutes before the fire de i i pariment could reaoh the scene the : flames raged furiously on until the : fire department quickly extinguished the blaze. PLANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A DOLLAR DINNER WILL BE GIV EN IN COLUMBIA ON NINTH OF JULY. URGE BUSINESS MEN TO COME Temporary Organization Has Been Completed With Lewis W. Parker, President, and A. McP. Hamby Sec retary?Address Issued to Public. Columbia. ? A South Carolina rhamhor nf f!nmmprce will be organ ized in Columbia at a dollar dinner to be given on July 9. The idea is for not only the commercial organi zations of South Carolina but for all citizens to get together and work for the state. At a preliminary meet ing Lewis W. Parker of Greenville was elected temporary president and A. McP. Hamby secretary of the Co lumbia chamber of commerce was se lected temporary secretary. A call to the business men of South Caro lina was issued . "Those who attended the meeting of the Ad Clubs of America in Dallas, Texas," said Mr. Hamby, "were im pressed with it in South Carolina. Petty financial' and other jealousies Should be dropped and everybody should work for the whole state. Af ter the permanent organization has been perfected meetings will be held from time to time, and members from, every section will be urged to attend and tell their troubles or what they have done to advance their ip erests. The dues will be very light- and every good citizen is urged to Join, whether he be a member of a chamber of commerce or a boar* of trade or not." The towns and cities represented at the meeting either by proxy or in person included Charleston, Colum bia, Summer, Florence, Orangeburg, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Georgetown and Greenville. The dol Jrjr for the dinner must be sent in to Secretary Hamby not later than June 26. Magistrates Have Been Ousted. Holding that they are usurping and unlawfully holding office the supreme court in a decision by Associate Jus tice Watts ousted J. M. Bowden and A. H. Kirby, S. S. Tiner and D . T. Gossett, T. O. Fowler and W. C. Har rison, W. R. Tanner and E. Potter from the office of magistrates in Spar tanburg county. Bowden, Tiner, Tan ner and Fowler were appointed by the governor as magistrates without the recommendation of the county delegation. The others ousted were hold-over officials and had been con firmed by the senate. The court or dered the defendants to pay the costs assessed. Bring In Verdict of Manslaughter. William F. Martin, who last Janu ary shot and killed James Harris, a lineman, at a boarding house on As sembly street, Columbia, was tried for murder in the Richland county court and found guilty of manslaugh ter with a recommendation to mercy. A motion will be made for an appeal of the case. Martin's plea was self defense. Hs did not take the stand. The state had six witnesses, and the following jury brought in the verdict: J. G. Poozer, J. B. Urquhart, J. E. Young, Q. B. Scott, S. B. Hyatt, H. W. Entzminger, W. ,C. Klugh, Pres ton Hooper, W. D. Raybon, E. E. Faust, J. H. Jones and G. S. Swygert. Dispensary Trials Are Closed. Attorney General Lyon, discussing the recent dispensary trials in Rich land county, said that he did not ex pect the jury to convict, and that he did not believe a Richland county jury would convict in the dispensary cases no matter what testimony might be presented. A verdict of not guilty was returned in the cases of H. H. Evans, former member of the dispen sary board, on a charge of receiving a rebate and conspiracy to receive a rebate, and against John Zell TowiK W. O. Tatum and . W. Boykin in th? label deal. Fire Does Damage in Lexington. The large turpentine still of J. Press Clarke in the town of Lexington was destroyed by Are and the ring ing of the fire bell caused consider able excitement for awhile. The tur pentine anc" rosin made a tremendouB black smoke, which caused many peo ple to think that the fire was far more disastrous. A lot of turpentine and a few barrels of rosin were con sumed, causing a heavy loss. The fire originated while the still was in operation from a spark, and the flames spread rapidly. Shooting Scrape at Greenwood. A young man named Hayne was shot in the neck by a young farmer, Dupre Sheay at Greenwood. The^ shooting took place in Lee & Blake's drug store on Main street. Sheay was trading when Hayne walked in and started toward him. Sheay, according ! to eye witnesses, retreated warning | Hayne not to come upon him. H^Vne : continued, it is said, until Sheay had reached a brick wall and could not retreat further whereupon Sheay pulled a pistol and fired, the ball mak ! ing double perforation in the neck. Convict Killed By Falling Tree. Joe Hagens, working on the county chain gang, under a ten-year sentence for shooting Mr. Frank Nienuesse on the 31st day of last December, was killed at the long bridge over Little Pee Dee River, one mile eaBt of Dfl i Ion. The gang was clearing the right ! of way for the new steel and con j crete viaduct, when, in cutting a large tree, Hagens was caught as it fell. His neck was broken and death was instantaneous. Another ne^ro convict, John Clark, was painfully in jured at the same time. WILL HAVEFtLDtRARRESTED Blease Stated That He Would Instruct Sheriffs of Two Counties to Arrest Thomas B. Felder. Columbia.?Governor Blease stated that he would shortly instruct the sheriffs of Greenvile and Spartanburg counties to arrest Thomas B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney who has won such a name in this state and who is ] charged with conspiracy and attempt j to bribe an official of this state, as ( he passes through this state on his j way from Atlanta to Baltimore, en I route 10 tne national uemocrauc con vention. He further stated that if Felder should be arrested in Balti more he would issue a requisition on the governor of Maryland for his re- j turn to thiB state. Mr. Felder is a ; delegate at large from Georgia to the J Baltimore convention. In going from Atlanta to Baltimore Mr. Felder will almost certainly have i to pass through South Carolina. He | will in so doing either use a South ern train stopping at both Spartan- i burg and Greenville, or else he will take a Seaboard Air Line train pass ing through Abbeville, Greenwood j and other towns. There are rewards outstanding for j the arrest of Felder in this state j amounting to $200 and there are three warrants for his arrest in this state, these being held by officials of as many counties. There is one war rant for .his arrest in the hands of , the sheriff of Lexington county. A warrant for his afrest is' in the hands of a magistrate of Newberry county j and there is also one in the hands of a magistrate in Richland county. These warrants charge Felder with conspiracy to defraud the state of South Carolina and with attempting to bribe a state official. The whole is the outgrowth of the affairs of the ! old state dispensary. South Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a ! charter to the Bank of Hemmingway I with a capital stock of 515,000. The I officers are W. C. Hemmingway, pres ident; F. E. Huggins, vice president; ! H. Edward Eaddy, secretary and | treasurer. A general banking busi- j ness will be conducted. A charter has ; been Issued to the Lee Mercantile Company of Angelus, with a capital of $3,000. The officers are: W. K. Tj>o nroolHont' TV S T&C> vlf.ft nrfisi dent; J. E. Lee, treasurer. A com- j mission has been issued to the Char- . leston-Summerville Development Co. of Charleston with a capital of $1,000. J The petitioners are Edw. H. Hughes and J M. Phillips. Additional Postal Saving Stations. Additional postal saving stations have been designated to be ready to receive deposits July 1 next, at the following South Carolina postofflces: Lamar, St. Matthjttk, Timmonsville, Brunson, Dorchester; Elloree, Eutaw vllle, Fairfax, Furman, Greelyville, Holly Hill, Kline, Loris, Neeses, Nlch- ! ols, North, Norway, Olar, Ridgeland, Ridgeville, Scranton, Springfield, Wil liston. Varnville. In the interest of Postmaster Murphy, the incumbent, an effort is being made to hold up the confirmation of Editor A. W. Knight, of the Bamberg Herald, to be post- ' master at Bamberg. Mr. Knight is a Democrat. While there may be a brief delay to see what those who are objecting to Mr. Knight may have to say, if they say it quickly, there j lu+io mvionadt that tho nnmlnatinn la V HO ^iUDyvvv VUM.V will not be confirmed. Call Meeting To Fix Assessments. The state Democratic executive committee haB been called to meet in Columbia in the library at the state house by John Gary Evans, state chairman, when the assessments for the candidates entering the campaign will be fixed. It is estimated that the campaign this year will cost over $4, 000. This will necessarily cause the assessments to be raised as there are a small number of candidates in the field. The itinerary which has been prepared by the subcommittee is per manent as the committee was author ised by the state executive committee to map out the campaign. The first meeting will be held at Sumter on June 18 and the steady grind will be kept up untiJ August 22 at Greenville with a recess of one week beginning on July 26. Brooker's Plan Falls Through. Although Norton W. Booker had announced that he would meet the people of the upper portion of the county at Summerland on June 1 for the purpose of pushing the agitation of his scheme to consolidate the coun ty of Lexington to Richland, or to talk over the proposition of forming a new county out of portions of Lex ington, Saluda and Aiken, with Sum merland as the county seat, less than half a dozen people met him. To be candid, there were no persons present to help Mr. Booker. Automatic Sprinklers At All Mills. All cotton mills in South Carolina are equipped with automatic sprink 'lers. Their value as a protection against fire is invaluable. The fol lowing report indicates from actual experience their absolute security. As a result of investigations completed recently with reference to fires which have been extinguished by automatic sprinklers, it is stated that during the last ten years 505 of these fires have resulted in such slight damage either by fire or water that no claim was made on insurance companies. Escaped Convidt Has Been Captured. Sheriff Thomas is in receipt of in formation to the effect that a negro named Will Sarratt, wanted in Chero kee county for escaping from the chain gang in 1906, is being held by the officials in Washington, D. C. A deputy has been dispatched to Washington to identify the negro e/id if the suspect is the party wanted here, the officer will secure the neces- | sary papers and return with the pris- j oner. In 1901 1n a game of "skin" j near Blacksburg, Will Sarratt shot j and killed another negro. BEACH IS I1ICIED GRAND JURY FOUND TRUE BILL AGAINST THE NEW YORK CLUB MAN. GRAND JURY DELIBERATES The Trial of Frederick O. Beach Will Be Held in Aiken in September.? He is Charged Witn Slashing His Wife's Throat. Aiken. ? After deliberating foui hours and 25 minutes, the grand jury returned a true bill against Frederick O. Beach of the New York "400" charged with assault and battery with attempt to kill his wife, Mrs. Camilla Beach , last February, when the Beaches were occupying their win ter home here. None of the New York witnesses were present nor was Detective Baughn, who worked up the case for the city, but his brief, covering every detail of his three weeks' investiga-i tion, was placed before the grand jury. When Solicitor Gunter placed the case in the hands of the grand jury he told that body taat in addition to the witnesses he would place at their disposal, there were a number of others who are in other cities, and he instructed them that if they could not return a true bill from the evidence which would be laid before them not to make a report on the matter at all until the next term of _?purt when all the witnesses will be here. The solici tor also requested Judge Rice, who is presiding at the June term of gen eral sessions court, to excuse from service any of the grand jury who have formed or expressed an opinion "D/\n nVi 'ri n-iidf aw icgaiuiug ucatu o guui Judge Rice stated to the foreman of the grand jury that if 12 of the grand jurors could not agree ,from the evidence laid before them, that there is enough in the Beach case to warrant it going before a petit jury he would excuse such men who have formed or expressed an opinion. The case went to the grand jury at noon and at 4:25 o'clock the true bill was returned. Beach will be tried at the Septem ber term of court. Conference On Public Health. Columbia.?Dr. Jas. A. Hayne, stati health officer and secretary of the state board of health, has returned from Washington, where he spent a day In conference with other state health officers and the public health and ' marine hospital ' service. This was the tenth annual conference ol state and territorial health authorities with the public health and marine hospital service. In addition to the surgeon general of the public health and marine hospital service, and other members of that service, there were representatives from many states of the Union. Decrease Shown In Child Labor. Columbia.?There has been a de crease of 32 per cent in the number of children in the cotton mills of South Carolina according to reports furnished Commissioner Watson by 79 companies. In 1911 the total num ber of children in the mills under 16 years of age was 4,221 and the re ports this year show, the number to be 2,734. The reports filed show that no children under 12 years of age, are employed, while In 1911 there w6re 168. These figures will be used by Commissioner Watson in an address to be delivered before the annual gathering of the International Associ ation of Factory Inspectors in Wash ington. Watson Makes Cotton Report. Columbia.?That the most conserv ative figures for the eleven princial cotton growing states show a total re duction Of 6,071,750 acres, was the statement contained in a report by E. J. Watson, commissioner of agricul ture of South Carolina and president of the Southern Cotton Congress on the results obtained under the '"Rock Hill plan" for reduction of cotton acreage, which was inaugurated by John G. Anderson of Rock Hill. Young Man Shot To Death. Hartsville.?Dalton Gilbert, a young man, son of A. J. Gilbert, a farmer of good standing who lives about five miles west of Hartsville, was shot to death by another man, Barney Wal lace. The killing occurred in the woods of a byroad from the public road, leading from Hartsville to Mc Bee, about three diiles from Harts ville. The spot was an isolated one, and there were no witnesses. It ap pears that Wallace and Gilbert had been driving together and apparently had been friendly. Politics In Lexington County. Lexington. ? The political pot in Lexington county is beginning to sim mer, and the candidates are "cover ing" the field at a lively rate. There has been, however, up to the present less interest shown in the politics of the county than at any time in many years, due no doubt to the fact that the people have had other things of more serious and vital nature to occu py their thoughts. The interest in the gubernatorial race between Cole L. Blease and Ira B. Jones is over shadowing everything else. A Destructive Railroad Wreck. Cheraw.?A deadly and destructive wreck occurred here when a through freight train, consisting of 26 coal cars on the Winston-Salem south bound division of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad coming from Winston Salem and bound for Florence jump ed the switch at the pumping station Just outside of this city, killing the nogro brakeman. George Eddy, whose home is in Florence, and badly soalding the engineer, E. P. Epting, also of Florence. Epting's injuries not. fatal. ! NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA The Latest News of General Interest i Collected From Many Towns and Counties of the State. Anderson. ? G. Cullen Sullivan of : Anderson, president of the South Carolina League of Building and Loan associations, announces the program me of the fifth annual meeting, which is to be held at the Isle of Palms, be ginning Wednesday, June 19. Jonesville. ? The John Hames chapter of the Daughters of the Con federacy and the children's chapter, which has been recently organized held a joint meeting to celebrate Jef ferson Davis' birthday. Five crosses of honor were presented to veter ans. Moultrie Clement, candidate for the Legislature; E. H. Towels, candidate for magistrate of St Paul's Parish; Mr Vonnlnc ralHMata fnr maHfltroto of Christ Church Parish; Crosskey Royal, candidate for. magistrate of James Island; Samuel J. Padgett, can | didate at Ten Mile Hill. Lexington. ?Fine showers have fal len throughout the county during the last few days, which are welcomed by everybody, and especially the farmers, j Crops are growing rapidly and are in a fine state of cultivation. The stand of cotton is the best in years, and while the crop is several weeks later than last year the prospects are very bright. j Union. ? Swollowing a nickel, which his mother had given him to buy something with, little Guy Kirby ' the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Landrum Kirby living in South Un ion, after being so nearly chocked that he could not eat any solid food for five days, was taken to Columbia where he was X-Rayed and the coin located. Lexington .? Fire of an unknown origin destroyed the barn and stables together with other outbuildings of C. H. Roof, a prosperous farmer re siding about six miles from the court house. Three wagons, two buggies, harness, fertilizer and a large amount of food?all that was on the place? were totally destroyed, entailing a Iosb aggregating $1, 500, with no in surance. 1 Columbia. ? Officials of the Sea board Air Line Railway company have notified the railroad commission , that an investigation cf the conditions at the Elmwood crossing here will be started. The commission recently condemned the crossing as a manace to public safety and ' directed" that it be abated. The Taylor street cross ing on the Southern railway was al so condemned. Greenville. ? At Park school Green ville charter, No.' 53, United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, tended a pic i Dice luncheon to the Confederate veter ' ans, the occasion commemorating the birth of Jefferson Davis. It was one of the most pleasant affairs of this na ture ever given in Greenville, and the veterans and their families en joyed a day long to be remember ed. Columbia. ? Allusion was made to the abnormal condition obtaining in the fine goods mill in New Bed ford. The better conditions prevailing in the print cloth and export mills hava not yet reached this type of goods, but conditions are getting bet ter. Two new mills in South Caro lina, the Westervelt and the Duncan, are of this tvne. and those caDable of I judging say that there are none bet ter in th world. Columbia. ? The special committee of the sinking fund commission left New York to confer with bankers relative to the refunding of the state debt amounting to over $5,0C0, 000 as authorized by the Browning measure of the last general assembly. The members of the committee are Lowndp J. Browning, chairman of the : the ways end means committee of the i house; Competroller General Jones I and Attorney General Lyon. Greenville. ? The 58th session of Furman university came to a close | with the graduating exercises in Jud son Alumni hall. The main points of | interest to Ihe exceptionally inter esting progifpime were the announce | ment by the board of trustees, the I conferring of degrees, the announce | ment of winners of various medals | and the president's remarks to the graduating class. Washington. ? Just before the Sen ate adjourned Senator Smith, of : South Carolina, secured the passage of ; j his resolution authorizing the com missioners of Horry County to con , struct a bridge across Kingston Lake, at Conway. I Columbia. ?The Supreme Court, in a decision by the Chief Justice Gary, has affirmed a verdict of $5,000 $3,000 actual damage and $2,000 pu nitive damages, in the case of Henry R. Geddings against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and C. E. Henry and Alger Hawkins for dam age received. Newberry. ? The subscription to the capital stock of the Newberry County Hospital have now reached about $8,000, and are steadily climb ing. Summerville. ?A lineman, Charles ! Barfleld, from Charleston, working for the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company, met with a very serious accident here. While up on a pole on Carolina avenue he in some manner fell and fractured his hip ; and was severely injured otherwise, it is feared. Ho was given every medi-1 cal attention possible and carried to ] Charleston. i Gaffney. ? As evidence of the fact hnt rhprnkpp nnd liaftnev officers are on the jobs, some ten gallons of corn liquor went down the gulleys ' of Gaffney. The booze had been seiz ' ed by the officers during the past two weeks. Lancaster. ? The annual meeting sf the taxpayers of the Lancaster School District was held here in the Tourt House. The following were elec ted trustees for the ensuing year: Leroy Springs. D. Reece Williams. J. D. Funderburg, John T. Green, 0. C. Blackmon. The tax levy was fixed at five mills. COMMERCE E BETS A BODY BLOW THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL RULES THAT IT HAS EXCEEDED ITS S RIGHTS. THE OPINION IS BY WHITE ?_ The Chief Justice Makes a Scathing Arraignment of the Body In Its At tempt to Override the Commerce Commission.?Had No Such Power?. . f Washington. ? Blow after blow was given the new commerce court by the Suppreme Court of the United V States which upheld the executive jurisdiction of the Inter-state Com merce Commission over the adminis trative machinery of the Federal rate laws. The principal decision was .an nounced by Chief Justice White In the so-called "Proctor and Gamble case." He was sustained by the en tire court. In substance he held that the commerce court was not to sub stitute its judgment for the interstate commerce commission in the admin istration of the rate laws. The spe cific point ruled on was that parties who failed to get relief before the Interstate Commerce Commission have no right to go into the commerce L 3 nnoft 11 nATI COUFt ctnu IlilVtj lildL cuuii yaoa upvu the facts to ascertain if they should have been granted relief. In his opinion Chief Justice White, however, went further. - He showed that the commerce court was not given "new and strange" powers, but succeeded to the powers of the circuit courts in existence when the com merce court was created, and that the commerce coyrt was limited in review ing the commission's orders to ques tion of law. In cases yet to be passed' t' upon it is claimed ihat the commerce court went out of the domain of law and gave its judgment oi^l pure ques tions of fact. Chief Justice White stated the ques tion for decision to be whether thfi authority of the commerce court was confined to enforcing and restraining, as the case might me, affirmative or ders of the commission, or whether it had the power to exert its own judg ment by original interpretation of the administrative features or tne act to regulate commerce. Have Refused to Appropriate. Washington?The House voted 72 to 47, not to iilclude in the sundry civil appropriation bill the money nec essary to continue President Taft's tariff board during the coming fiscal year. The vote was preceded by a debate that grew acrimonious at times and was strictly along party lines. Another brisk battle marked the con-. sideration of the appropriations for public buildings. The committee had cut $13,500,000 from the estimates and a score of members sought to have the appropriations for their especial pet projects increased. None suc ceeded. < Million In Bonds For Revolution. Chihuahua, Mexico.?Bonds in the sum of one million dollars and for any additional amount that may be found ' necessary for the successful prosecu tion of the revolution against the Mex ican government were authorized by the legislature of the state of Chihua hua. Two agents have left here for New York City to negotiate the sales of the bonds, which are guaranteed not onlv bv the state of Chihuahua but by General Pascual Orozo, as chief of the liberals. Twelve Killed By Explosion. Vienna.?Twelve persons were kill ed and many injured at the Woellers i dorf ammunition factory in Wiener | Neustadt, when an explosion occurred in a shed containing scrasite* the Aus trian equivalent for melinite. The victims were soldiers and workmen. The shock broke windows throughout the town and did much damage in the neighboring watering places of Baden. Wiener Neustadt is a manufacturing town thirteen miles south of Vienna. Five Thousand Troops Go To Cuba. Txraohinctrm?The eeneral staff of ~~ w~~ the army issued preparatory orders for the despatch of a military expe I dition of 5,000 troops to Cuba. Four army transports at Newport News were ordered provisioned and sup plied. The troops wHl be taken from Plattsburg barracks, forts Porter, Niagara and Governor's Island, N. Y. At the war department it was emphat ically stated that if the expeditionary force did go to Cuba it would not be with any thought of political itner ference in the affairs o fthe island. Count Tlzsa Had Narrow Escap?. Budapest.?Count Tizsa, president of the lower house, had a very narrow escape from assassination. He was fired upon three times by Deputy Ju lius Kovacs, who then shot himself,. >robably fatally. Count Tizsa was un ;cratched. Kovacs was one or tne most militant members of the opposi tion and was among those who were ejected from the chamber because of disorderly conduct. He was suspend ed for several sittings but when the chamber reconvened he managed to ?et into the press gallery. Violence Marks Traction Strike. Boston.?Violence marked the be ginning of a strike of several thousand <? f.he employes of the Boston elevat ed railway. Those who refused to ork demand recognition by the com pany of a recently formed union. The company's reply is that they have treated the men unusually well for many years and refuse to deal with theai other than individuals. The street railway service and the elevated road were being operated on about half time. Five arrests have been made for assaults on motormen.