Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w* Published Weekly ? ABBEVILLE. 6. C. 1 ? Vacation days are spending days. The style in gowns is certainly close to nature. The plug hat is to be abolished even In English society. Occasionally the mercury volplanes In order to get a fresh starL One way to keep cool is to avoid reading rules about how to do it It Is predicted that the sheath skirt will disappear with the summer girl. You cannot convince a sunburned man that there are spots on the sun. Wait until cool weather comes be fore you wear tight collars or discuss politics. According to a Boston savant, Americans will eventually be a flat footed race. It takes a hero to go about In his shirt sleeves, and a martyr to keep his coat on. Bathing suits bought early In the season now call for talcum powder and a shoe horn. It might help some, these days, to . go down in the basement and fondle the snow shovel. Once In a while a baseball writer speaks of a player's fingers as fingers auu noi as aigus. "The black death" Is leading to a general crusade throughout the coun- 1 try against the rats. That New York man who left his i $250,000 estate to his landlady may , have been fond of prunes. ( The only effect hot weather has on ] the small boy Is to Increase the popu- ] larlty of the swlmmln' hole. < The national fly swatting campaign j Is a huge joke on the flies and a huge ( effort to stay the hand of disease. A French Burgeon recently per- j formed a remarkable operation on himself. Maybe he cut his own hair. 1 ; I?4 f tn tinf me1r/i tha v X1UW IJLU^/Vi lOUk AC rnuov Uiuuv M.. email boy In the bathing suit feel to be told that be has a riparian right! In this brand of weather the ama teur gardener clings to hiB hammock and lets the weeds grow where they will. Two and a half millions of Amer icans live by writing, including, of course, those who write home for money. California woman died as a result of wearing too small a corset Some wome^ would rather die than be out of form. ' *t .1.. j V Just one little favor! When the ran begins to broil again, please say: "Hot, isn't It!" instead of: "Hot, aint it!* ir You can't induce a self-made man to believe that his son would ever suc ceed in getting anywhere without a lot of help. t There are said to be 10,000 music teachers In New York. We presume that this is In addition to those who teach ragtiipe. . . i At - ? ^ Statistics show that every New Yorker takes some sort of car ride every day. New Yorkers certainly crave excuemtsuu f ?_ They are fighting the grasshopper c > pest in California with vacuum clean- ^ ' ers. And. strange to say, there Bee ma to be money in it I The man who tries to cross the At- r lantic in a dirigible balloon or an aeroplane is pretty sure to succeed in 1 crossing the Styx. [ ?:i . A scientist warns us that if women do not behave the race is in danger ^ of decay. Just like a mere man to lajr * the blame on the women. , ? r*"? " * - ~ i Somebody asks a western editor * how to stOD shoes from squeaking. It's none of our business, of course, but j one way is to take them off. Grand Circuit trotting races are be ing held this year as usual, notwith- | standing the fact that trotting races j are hardly ever accompanied by fatal- i ltles. Concerning universal criticism of rats who desert a sinking ship, it I seems that ordinary Justice to the j rats will give them credit for knowing when the ship is sinking. The hammock is one of our most ' popular Institutions these days, espe cially when there is a girl In it. It Is a good thing that the post of weather man is not an elective one, for Just now everybody in the country : 1 would vote unanimously for his retire- ' ment to even hotter climes. I j There is a good deal of Intelligence 1 1 on the bench, a Judge having decided 1 that a man has no right to cross his |1 legs in a car and muddy otner people s i clothes. Aviators are going to form a union ' for the purpose of combating people I who want them to fly overtime or for Inadequate wages. Consider the hard chips that will ensue when the avia tors strike. Pennsylvania couples in a certain k town refuse to accept a marriage li cense numbered 1313 on the ground that it is a double hoodoo. They are wrong in their fear. The number ought to discount its own bad luck with all the affirmative force of a dou ble negative. NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA The Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From Many? Towns and Counties. Manning.?A series of eight cam paign meetings in Clarendon county begun at E.'ker's Mill, in the extreme eastern portion of the county, about 30 miles from Manning. ' Charleston.?According to an an nouncement made by President C. Norwood Hastie, of the Charleston Fair Association, the meeting of the board of directors and advisory board of that body, which was to have been held at the Charleston Hotel, has been postponed. Florence.?Jones clubs are being or ganized now very rapidly through the county for the purpose of reaching the voters and correcting errors into whioh they are led and trying to incite their interest in securing a good gov ernment for the whole people. The reports from all sections of the county are of changes from Blease to Jones. Barnwell.?The annual Baldoc pic nic was held at that place recently, and was largely attended by people from all parts of the country. The candidates for county 'offices had been invited to attend the picnic and make speeches, and many of them took ad vantage of the opportunity to get In touch with the voters. Harry D. Cal houn and Jas. F. Byrnes, candidates for congress, were also present. St. George.?The time for filing DledKes for offices in Dorchester couu ty expired at noon August 9, and even then some of the candidates who had previously announced themselves for ne reason or another failed to qual y. The first political meeting was eld Saturday, August 10, at Summer 'ille, and for four hours an audience of about 400 people listened to the claims of the various candidates. Saluda.?Henry B. Senterfelt of Ridge Spring announced his with drawal from the race for clerk of court of Saluda county. This leaves H. C. Smith, the incumbent, unoppos ed for re-election. Mr. Senterfeit said business and personal reasons were responsible for his withdrawal. In a :ard to the local paper he expresses gratitude Jo bis friends for their sup port and appreciation of the courteous conduct of his opponent. Columbia.?Mrs. W. H. James of Bishopville, president of the Lottie Green chapter, U. D. C., has invited 3en. U. R. Brooks to deliver an ad dress at the laying of the cornerstone >f the monument to Lee county Con federate soldiers in Bishopville on August 21. Gen. Brooks is asked to make an address similar to his "Build ing Monuments to Heroes," which be ielivered at a Confederate reunion in Spartanburg. Saluda.?A campaign for raising 'undB for promoting the candidacy of! SVoodrow Wilson was launched in this ! sounty. Subscription blanks were I placed with each o fthe banks in this | :own, ong was sent to gidge Sjpring j ind another to Ward. It 7s beHe^d hat a hearty response will be made, I md It is hoped that Saluda county ! V1U bOULL la&e UtJI Utuyci yiav;e iu wo 1st qf South Caroling sjpnties, Spartanburg.?M. 0. J^oore of Dun ran, presiding officer at the county campaign meeting at that place put a itop to the denunciation and person alties that developed at Reidsville by ua announcement in the beginning hat that sort of thing had to be stop Jed. The meeting was as orderly as i Sunday school conference. All the candidates confined themselves to is mes in the campaign. Yorkville.?About 60 people wer? fathered in the court house to hear i he candidates for the United States senate, congress and solicitor speak, rhe small attendance was accounted or in part, by a picnic that was being leld at Riddle mill, but it was> mostly ! lue to the lack of interest in the! aces. Col. W. W. Lewis, county j ihairman, presided, and all the can, lidates were given a close hearing. Cheater.?Clifton McElhaney, son >f Magistrate John W. McElhaney of rort Mill, and until recently a patrol nan of the Rock Hill police depart nent, was found in a precarious con lition at the foot of a pfvcipitious 20 oot embankment whene he had rolled rom the top of a moving freight train the Southern railway. He was ound to have a badiy injured back ind a severely sprajjied ankle. Pinewood.?Red spider has made ts appearance here in several fields, rhose near her? whose fie[ijs of 9Qt> on are affected are the Rickardsort jrothers. Several acres have be?'n jufied up and burned to try to pre^&it ;he spreading of the infect. Crocketville.?A large picnic wiU be jiven in this vicinity soon, and it is jxpected tfcat from three to five thou sand |tf*)ple will be in attendance. Dne Augusta band will furnish music. Congressman Byrnes and the Hon. Harry Calheard, aspirants for Con gress, together with the county can iidates, will make addresses. Marion.?The first bale of new cot Ion was marketed here by M. Moody, who lives about six mileo lorth of town. He received lo cents ?er pound for it, and it was shipped :o Norfolk by express. Darlington.?The regular annual meeting of the Darlington County Agricultural society was held at the place of meeting of the society for years and years and on each occasion Ihere gather at this rendezvous crowds 3f farmers and those Interested in ag ricultural themes from all sections of Darlington county and other counties besides. Fairfax.?Laurens Youmans, one of the leading farmers of this section, shipped a bale of new cotton from here by express to Rodgers & Mc Cabe, Charleston. Charleston.?The annual report of the Charleston navy yard for the year ending June 30 shows that there was expended at the yard for materjal and labor something over $702,000, and that the value of the yard property, including buildings, machinery, fur niture, land and so on, is about $4,000, ('00. The collier Ajax is expected to come here this month for general overhauling. VOW IB DESTROY SYSTEM OF GRIFT GREAT MEETING OF NEW YORK < CITIZENS IS HELD IN COOPER UNION. NAME VIGILANCE COMMITTEE Speakers Declare That Civilization Is Challenged by the Developments That Have Come to Light. New York.?The resolute determi notfnn nf tha f?<t5zpnn nf NftW York tO rir their police force of its system of graft and blackmail was given forci ble . expression at a mass meeting at Cooper Union, when they appointed a vigilance committee of prominent men and women to see that public of ficers now engaged in exposing "the treasonable alliance of the police with organized crime" do their full duty. The mass meeting, which typified the public tndignation aroused by the revelations of police corruption grow: lng out of the murder of Herman Ro senthal, was attended by a crowd that overflowed the hall. There were 4,000 persons in the auditorium with hundreds standing up, while blocking the streets outside were thousands more who clamored for admittance. It was one of the largest "town meetings" held in the city in years, and there was no mistaking the earn estness which pervaded the gathering as it voiced its approval of the de nunciation of the police "system" which prominent speakers on the program employed when speaKing 01 existing conditions. The resolution appointing the vigi lance committee, which was given the power to increase its number to thirty and to'solicit funds and to en: gage counsel called "upon the police department to put forth additional ef forts looking to the arrest * of all thoBe implicated in the iKoesnthal murder; upon the district attorney to bend every energy of his office, as has been doing,, to the apprehension and conviction of those guilty of this crime; upon the aldermanic investi gating committee to make a thorough, non-partisan and unsparing examina tion into existing conditions and into causes which give rise to systems of blackmail and graft and to propose remedies by, which these causeB may be removed, and upon tne citizens and officials having information on these conditions to lay it before the district attorney or the aldermanic commit tee in the full confidence that they will be protected against terrorism and oppression of every sort." Qn the platform from which -AJm** ham Lincoln delivered an address at the opening of Cooper Union in 1860 sat representative men and women In ^.11 walks of Ufe n\i 11 U. S. MARINES UNDER FIRE i Rebels Continue to Bombard the Cap- 1 itai of Nicaragua. Managua, Nicaragua.?The bom bardment of the Nlcaraguan capital by the revolutionary forces under the command of General Mena and Zele don continues. Some of the shells from the rebel guns struck inside the city in the vicinity of the United 1 States legation and the' president's residence. The detachment of bluejackets and J marines stationed in the city has. <118- ' played great gallantry under fire. They are commanded by Lieutenant ' Campbell. * Several attempts by the rebels to 1 capture the city have been repulsed by ttfe government troops. The government is endeavoring to recapture Granada. Colquitt Nominated In Ttxas. San Antonio, Texas.?A thirty-min ute demonstration for United States Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey was fpfltnrp of the final session of the state Democratic convention. The demonstration arose over the adop tion of a resolution commending Bai ley for his course in congress. Gov. O. B. Colquitt was renominated and his platform adopted. Prominent in the platform i8 a declaration for clos ing the saloons at 9:30 o'clock every week day night. ., ,W; $3,000,000 Baby Is Borrt? Kew York.?Mrs. Madeline Force Atsor, survivor of the Titanic disas ter, in which her hufibhhd, Col. John Jacob Astor, lost hte life, has given birth to a son. The new arrival has been named Jahn Jacob Astor after his father. The baby becomes a di rect heir ft $3,000,000 of the Astor fortune. News of the arrival of the Astor baby was made known in a bulfclin issued by Dr. Edwin B. Crai gih, the attending physician, which read: "Mrs. Astor has a son. His name is John Jacob Astor." Army Measure Passed. Washington.?The senate passed the army appropriation bill carrying $94,000,000, a bill replacing that orig inally passed which was vetoed by President Taft. The new bill did not carry the provision of the original which would have legislated out of official life Gen. Leonard Wood, the chief of staff of the array. An unsuc cessful attempt was made by Sena tor Bacon to amend the appropriations so that not a dollar could be used to support the army if sent into foreign territory. Dog Leaves $800 in Bank. Columbus, Ohio.?Tige, the dog that saved several lives in a hotel fire here three years ago, is dead. Tige leaves an estate, having had a bank account since his exploit of rousing Leslie Hatton's hotel guests when fire broke out. He got 10 cents for every rat he killed besides a regular allowance provided by his master and other admirers. Checks paid for the dog's board, Hatton says, and there is a balance of $800 to Tige's account in a bank. Cole BI ease, governor of South Car olina, wu accused of grafting, and threatend dire vengeance on those who made the charge*. 1,000 DEAD; 6,000 HID DEATH tlOLL OF THE EARTH QUAKE IN TURKEY IS CON STANTLY GROWING. Towns Completely Destroyed and Fires Are Reported From Many Cities. f - Constantinople, Turkey.?The inter ruption of telegraphic communication makes it very difficult to obtain ac curate details of the disastrous seis mic disturbance which occurred on both sides of the Dardanelles. No accurate figures of the number of victims can be tabulated, though some estimates place the death list at 1,000 and the injured from 5,000 to 6,000. In the town of Shary-Koy, which was completely destroyed, sixty per sons were killed and 150 injured. Fires are reported from many cities in which numerous buildings were destroyed. Fissures opened to a length of about a mile along the river at Lule Burgas, 40 miles southeast of Adri anople, and' from these apertures hot water, sand, foam and sulphurous va pors were emitted. ' Everywhere in the stricken zone there is terrible want and distress. Appeals for doctors and help are con stantly being received at the capital, and the government is doing its ut most to satisfy them. The Hospitals here are crowded with injured per sons. The vail of Adrianople reported to Consatntlnoplo the loss of life there was small. The quake, however, se riously damaged the public buildings of the city. . t deadly box sent to girl Startling Disclosures About the Ex? plosion at High Point. Greensboro, N. C.?Startling dls closeures followed a rigid investiga tion into the cause and circumstances of the explosion of an infernal ma nhin** In thf> Hizh Point office of the Southern Expreis company, and from which Manager W. M. Busbee is in a critical condition and his cashier, Al ton Morton, is suffering from seri dus_ burns^^ ? ... ?-*1 The Investigation was under the direction of United States District At torney A. E. Holton and Police Chief Ridge, and from revelations made by a High Point society girl it is admit ted by Chief Ridge that his men are searching tor a young Thomasville business man of prominent social connections. It is stated thEt the package was entered at the Thomasville office on the morning of December 2 last, and that through a mistake in billing it was way:billed to Charles Hoover, at High Point. The original shipping tag, however, bore the name and address of a High Point girl. Expressmen made unsatisfactory inquiry, the young woman declaring that it could hardly have been meant for her ^ Uncle Sanj as Pled Piper. Washington.?The government Is to become a modern competitor of the Pied Piper of Hamlin as an extermi nator of rats. But the magic of the Pied Piper flute is to be displaced by the most improved, modern, double action, steel-jawed rat trap that the American inventive genius can fur nish. Through Surgeon General Blue of the public health and marine hos pital service, the government has ask ed for demonstrations of rat traps. The government wants traps to ex terminate rodents which carry plague. He Gives Away $687,500. Chicago.?Julius Rosenwald of Chi cago made birthday gifts amounting to $687,500. This is his fiftieth an niversary. Charity and education re ceived the entire sum. Mr. Rosen wald, who is a leading merchant, di vided the total into parts. Half a mil lion dollars was split evenly by him between the University of Chicago and the Associated Jewish Charities here. Among the other contributions, one was unique, $30,000 to endow a ' ? n,lli ? country CXUD ?un;u mil iuiuidu a comfort resort for week-ends." Widow Gets, Salary. Washington.?Mrs. Kate Ferrell, widow of John Ferrell, a rescue work ers of the United States bureau of mines, who lost his life several months ago in an attempt to save others at the Spring Valley, Pa., mine disaster, has been forwarded a cheque for $1,080 by the government. The cheque, which represented one year's salary of the dead man, was granted by special act of congress, at the so licitation of Dr. J. A. Holmes. Special legislation for such cases will not be needed in the future. . ft PEELS POST WINS ITS WAY BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE HAVE STAMPED THE SYSTEM WITH APPROVAL. t ZONE SCHEME IS ADOPTED Parcels Post Is Logical Extension of the Rural Delivery?Most Popular Measure in Many Years. Washington. ? Universal parcels post system In the United States Is assured by the action of the senate in formally ratifying its action in adopting the Bourne plan, based on a zone system which provides for a max imum charge of $1.32 for transporting an eleven-pound package over eigh teen hundred miles. This ends a long fight extending over many years in which the ex press companies of the United States have exerted their utmost effort to , prevent the adoption of a parcels post system. Before the final vote was taken, Senator Hoke Smith offered two amendments to reduce slightly the rates prescribed for the first and sec- ( ond zones, but they were voted down and the scale of rates as uaanimous ly agreed upon b ythe postoffice com mittee was adopted 31 to 21. Senator Smith was successful, how- I ever, in securing the adoption of an amendment which raises the rate on magazines published less frequently than qnce a week when sent in mail cars from 1 cent to 2 cents a pound. ? Such magazines are permitted to be y shipped by fast freight whenever J - ???1 ? ?? nAafmOa. | uewmeu prauucciuie uj uic iiuomw? Iter general at the option of the pub lisher at the reduced rate of 1 cent, which is the existing rate %on all second class mail matter. . This amendment re^nacts what is techni vally known as "blue tag" provision. It has caused extensive discussion and investigation by the department. The postal appropriation bill was passed by the" senate at the end of two days' sharp fighting over provis ions relating to parcels post, good roads improvement and" the affiliation of postal employees with labor organ izations. It contains some restrictions upon the right of postal employees- to join outside organizations and an en tirely new system of parcejs post based on the "zone plan" with vary ing rates for varying distances. EXPLOSION KILLS 19 MINERS i Fifty-Eight Men Escape From the Ala bama Mine. Abernant, Ala.?Nineteen negro miners were instantly killed by an explosion at the Abernant Coal com pany's mine. Sevteen bodies have ben taken out. Forty white men and eighteen n^ ernes who were in the mine when the explosion occurred got out alive. * The explosion was in entry No. 15, e twelve hundred feet from the surface, t The men who escaped were farther down in the mine, and were able to < get past the afterdamp fumes. State Mine Inspector Nesbitt has reached the scene, but was unable to give the exact cause of the explosion, but thought a windy shot had been fired in the pressure of gas and dust, v Rescue parties came from Jonas 1 Yoland and other nearby mining i camps; but, while they were Boon or- e ganized for work, their early efforts e were greatly hampered by tbe crowds c of distressed "friends and relatives i about the mine. i t The mines are owped by tne ADer- c nant Coal company. The Abernant ? mine la only a few miles from the Yoland mine, where a disastrous ex- I plosion occurred several years ago. Handcuffed Men Leap From Train, i Whitehall, Mont?Handcuffed to e each other, Melvln Jowel and John < Adams, convicts from the Montana c state penitentiary, escaped from offl- 1 cers by jumping from a Northern Pa cific train traveling 30 miles an hour, t The men leaped through a window c and rolled down a step embankment. ( The spot where the escape was effect- i ed is a wild one near the main divide f of the Rocky mountains. Two posses ( with bloodhounds are in pursuit. c Wool Sill Passed. Washington.?By the narrow mar gin of five votes the house passed the t wool tariff revision bill over Presi- r rent Taft's veto. The vote, 174 to 80, 1 was made possible only by the defec- 3 tion of twenty-one Republicans who < voted with the Democrats. The an- < nouncement of Democratic success < created a wild scene in the house, 1 and, amid great confusion, the Re- < publican leaders protested that Speak- i mnot s>mint no vnHnu ten i [ er u-icii tv liiuHi, ?- B members who answered "present" to ' their names. j $58,845 in Graft. New York.?Records showing that within the last eight months Police I Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged s with the murder of Herman Rosen- ] thai and accused of gambling graft, i has made bank deposits of $58,845 in - his own name or that of his wife, 1 were placed in the hands of the pub- 1 lie prosecutor. These deposits, the 1 records show, were first made in No- 1 vember, 1911, shortly after Becker < became head of the "strong-arm ' squad" of gambling raiders, and con- 1 tinued until his arrest. ' Mob Shoots Negro to Death. Columbus, Ga.?Holding up officials in the court house at pistol points, a mob of about forty men took T. E. Cotton, alias T. Z. McElhenny, a 16 1J K'n r?Tj orl him "Jiicf year-oiu ucgiu, nm* ijUvUvU beyond the city limits. The negro was accused of killing young Cedron Land, a white boy, near town, two months ,ago. Land was found in a field, his face riddled with bird shot. He had had trouble with the negro, whose arrest soon followed, and it is I MRS. G. W. WICKERSHAM Mrs. George W. Wtekersham Is tha wife of the attorney general. ens SLAUGHTER MANY DVER 20 PASSENGER8 AND 36 80LDIERS BUTCHERED BY A BAND OF ZAPATISTAS. ringera of Men and Women Chopped Off to Secure Rings?Bodies of Women Mutilated. Mexico City.?Thirty-six- soldiers tnd more than twenty passengers vere slaughtered by Zapatistas in a :anyon, one kilometer north of Ticu nan, 110 miles southeast of Mexico Ulty, when a passenger train, pouth-1 )Ound from this city, was attacked rom ambush. Meager details indicate that the :avagery displayed was not less, and jerhaps greater, than that which iharacterlzed the massacre of troops ind passengers on a train between 3uernavaca and Mexico City on July !0. So far as known only a part of he train crew escaped. The first story of the assault was lent to Mexico City by Conductor Harin and Collector Dominguez, who, ilthough wounded, had managed to nake their way to Yautepec, 12 miles iway. They were forced to steal h.ough the Zapatista lines. After hb firing ceased the rebels swarmed town t'e hillside and set fire to the hree cars composing the train. A ew of the wounded had crawled out >nto the right-of-way, thus escaping he fate of those unable to leave the :ars. They were burned. According o reports received, the leader of the ebels made absolutely no effort1 to estrain his men from acts of brutal ty greater than any that has yet narked the campaign in the south, rhe wounded, pleading for their lives, vere struck down without pity, and sven looting was held in abeyance un il the slaughter was complete. SEVEN DIE IN DEATH CHAIR .argest Batch of Murderers to Die in Single Day. Ossining, N. Y.?Seyen murderers ?ere electrocuted in Sing Sing prison, nils' Is the largest number of crimi lals to suffer the death penalty by Slectrlcity on any one day since the ilectric chair was adopted as a meth >d of capital punishment. The six talians and one negro executed went o their deaths quietly. T&e war inn'a TOftrt was accomplished within in hour and sixteen minutes. The condemned were put to death n the following order: John W. Collins, Lorenzo L. Call, Salvatore Demarco, Pilepo Demarco, Vngelo Gysto, VIcenso Cona and Jo teph Ferrone. Prison guards expect ?d that Ferrone might put up a fight >n his way to the execution chamber, jut he walked meekly to the chair. Ail the prisoners, with the excep ion of Collins, walked into the death :hamber protesting their innocence. Collins came in smilingly and seem ngly happy. He did not deny his juilt He prayed on his knees at the ;hair for a minute before he was exe :uted. Bear Bothering Taft's Son. | Benton, Mont.?What to do with :he cub ' bear presented to Robert raft, son ot the president, by a Black- j 'oot chief on his arrival in Glacier, National park, has been solved. An 1 )ld bear, hearing the wails of the :ub, made her way Into the Taft camp I jn Red Eagle mountain and gnawed j ihrough the rope that tethered the: :ub to a tree. Then she retreated \ ip the mountain side. Guides started: n pursuit, but young Taft shouted : 'It'j probably her cub and there is no room in the white house for a bear." "Honor Squad" Makes Escape. t imq Ohio.?Thirteen Ohio penl tentiary prisoners of the "honor; squad," now here, escaped from the j prison camp created a reign of ter ror before ten of them were captured, j After escaping from the prison camp j the men broke into saloons and seized liquor, which they drank until wild | ly intoxicated. They fouhgt among themselves and with citizens, who1 lid not recognize them as convicts , The men recaptured were nearly all: found sleeping off the effects of the svhiskey. Planning Death for Army Worm. Washington.?Extraordinary efforts j are being put forth just now by the Separtment of agriculture to acquaint i farmers with the best means to fight the fall army worm which is destroy ing corn, cotton, sugar cane, rice and ather crops throughout the South. Ar senical poisons, and particularly arse nate of lead, to be applied dry, are recommended by the department; and second, the working of the ground wherever practicable to prevent an Dther brood rising from the worms now in the ground. CANDIDATES SPEAK r - " 4 . * * # j AT NEWBERRY WHICH IS BIRTH PLACE OF BOTH JONES AND GOVERNOR BLEA8E. i /" * ' \ * ' * t ' ? ' , . - JUDGE MAKES STRONG TAU Takes Up Platform.?Gov. Bleas* Did ' irw Not Speak of Policies, Only to 8ay Ho Would Continue to Stand By His Friends. ? i 9* f; : sS. Newberry. ? Strikingly different were the Bpeeches whiche Col. L. Blease and Ira B. Jones delivered lfif the town where both wre born andl reared. Gov. Blease made this the oc casion of a virulent attack upon Judge Jones and his kinsmen, ostensibly be cause of the arraignment of his ad<{ ministration which was a feature ofi 1 Judge Jones' recent address in Lab- ' caster. Judge Jones, having briefly and vigorously made reply to this , attack, announced that now, as here* tofore lie would refrain from discus sion of the governor's private life or family affairs, apd turned to an ex position of his platform; hiB remark* under this head comprising explanar tions of the Torrens land title plan, progressive reforms in (public educa- - t tlon, a workmen's compensation or employers' liability statute, modifica tions of harsh common law defenses n actions resulting from industrial lccidents, a workable state warehous ing syBtem for cotton growers, the J feasibility of requiring insurance com panies to invest a portion of their re serves In the state, andf the necessity of elevating the ideals of government. Gov. Blease spoke of policies not at all except to assert he would con* tinue to stand by his friend*. Judge- /: Jones' speech, aside from that portion / which might be called defensive, was. altogether of policies and suggestions v, for improvement of the public ser vice. Both of these candidates for the governorship spoke with more than or dinary vigor, each in his own way. yj There were co unusual demonstration* by the crowd, which consisted of . about 2,000 persons. State Aroused Over Situation, i > Columbia.?Old soldiers quartered vj there and the officials of the Confed erate home are buBy writing article* ' to the papers explaining the pro's and cons of the recent difficulty reaolttojp ; in the whole state being aroused over thfl situation! florpo rpnontmont fcaln* expressed at what is said to have been a "hint" to one of the old sol' dlers that, unless tie voted tor Blease, : he would be discharged; the a aspen-' ston of a veteran from Lancaster "(i county, the home of Judge Jones, tor ' thirty days, and the charge by Mr. 4 John J. McMahan thai: the chairman \ of the board, Major Richardson, in 1 allowing himself salary is violating the law. Negro Goes to Electric Chair. Columbia?Alex. Weldon, the Flozv /; ence county negro, was electrocuted at the state penitentiary for the mur der of Elihu Moye. Before the cur rent was turned on, and when he was seated in the electric chair, he talked freely and bitterly and pleadlnzly de nied that he was guilty. He said that he was being sent to his death tor a 4 crime abtfut Which he knew nothing. He wa? brought Into the electrocution chamber and placed in the chair by two guards. The current was turned on by J. C. Robbins, one of the guards at the penitentiary, and the negro was pronounced dead / . after two charges of 1,960 volts had been sent through his body. County Campaign Opens at Clio. Bennettsville.?At the opening meet, ing of the county campaign at Clio the crowd seemed to be overwhelm ingly for Judge Jones. Chairman J. C. Covington, in opening the meeting, said that the people wanted to know hnw all rnndidatps stnnd. and he thought that it would be best for the candidates to express themselves on. the governorship. Those who declare ^ ed for Jones were all given rousing* applaus. About a dozen applauded the Blease candidates. Issues Call For Contribution. f Columbia.?Governor Blease issued, a proclamation calling on the peopl* of the state for contributions for th? relief of the bufferers from t^e recent) cyclone which swept over Clover, inr York county and caused so much ruin. Among those named by the governor to receive and disburse the contribu- < tions is Editor W. D. Grist, of the Yorkville Enquirer. The governor has v appointed P. A. Lawton, W. H. De- < Loach and M. L. Peeples as township assessors for Lawton township, in Hampton county. Hookworm Campaign in Chester. Chester.?Dr. L. A. Riser, the hook worm expert of the state board of health, has just completed the initial week of the five weeks' campaign that he mapped out for Chester county, and expressed himself as being very much gratified at the way the people of this city and county were respond ing to the call made by the press some weeks ago. He has examined 300 peo ple thus far and discovered 20 per cent to be afflicted with the malady. A large number of the Chester pa? 'ients spent a day in bed. Campaign in Darlington County. Hartsville.?The Darlington count> sandidates spoke here several days igo. The crowd, numbering about 200, assembled at the South Carolina Western's new cotton platform, where the meeting, presided over by W. A. Sumner, was held. Good order pre vailed and pleasantness and good feel ing were evident on every face. Each candidate appealed strictly on his own merits. All the dates thus far filled aave been noted for the splendid or ier and good behavior.