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?PLANTEK'S MOM AND ?SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA? QA] Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. lb 0. HATKB, President. OKASVG. HOWABD,I y Cashier. n ?4. A: nT ft Y K IATIOKAL BA] OF AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA, ^rBQBO?A. CAPITA** - - $250,000! Surplus & Profits. 9140,000] We shill be pleased to hive J9% i account wi^b ib{8 Ba?k. Ctutptaft?8 ? , cor>e?pooo.eoti t?iare? of tri ' and accotnmodiHoa BO&bl*, o ' iratiT?. modern BanJcluir, m?th< VOL. 70, EDGEF?ELD, S. ?., WEDNESDAY, FEBRljA?Y ?. 1905, NO. 7, m ii MIEN KILLED tarty of Sleigh Riders Meet With a I Terrble Accident til BY iN/ENGINE :AT A CROSSING ^adies^AW-Society of the Universalist Ch?reh^f^orneilsv?ll?," N. Y., Has af Disastrous Return prom an Outing . in Three Sleighs^Dfiver of the Sec ond Sleigh Could Not Stop in Time, jmU. the Occupants Were Hurled in* 3H Directions. Hornellsville, N. Y., Special.-A pas senger train on the Pittsburg, Shaw mut & Northern Railroad. Wednesday ri 'night -crashed into a sleigh containing .t?lrteen-'women'-and'-?cHled seven" out- ' . right and so seriously injured the re maining six. that ,twa of them died' after being rem?v?d to the hospital. Of the other four, two are in a serious con dition. The accident occurred near Arkport. The sleigh was one of three carrying a. party from the-Universalist'; church, pbthis city. The' dead':-'' Mrs. Mary Gillette. T " ? ^S?xs^fJharles;Thomas. jLJ" ? ?^#/E?genV Shaw. ... "Mrs. Jos. Hallett Mrs. C. C. Graves. . . . " ? Mrs. Bert Moors. * ^Mr?^Ruttf Patchen. The injured: ." . . ".." ,,." "Mrs. -X .Houghton.-v~rzx Mrs. F. R. Rowley. Mrs. Bond. ; ;"".,.... Mrs. Wallace Cl?'rk. "Members of the Ladies' Aid Soci&ty of the Universalism church Went to a Tann house near Arkport to spend the afternoon. It was .. nearly dark when they started on the return trip to the city. The occupants ot the leading sleigh saw the train approaching as" they neared the Shawmut crossings The driver urged his horses ahead, and the sleigh passed ovw< the' tracks, in safety. The women ?vtbe first sleigh" then attempted to warn those in the j irae following of the danger, and they did succeed in directing their atten tion.-to the rapidly approaching train. The driver pulled up his horses, but he rould not check the heavy bob sleigh quickly enough, and when it came to a standstill the box of the sleigh was di rectly across the railroad track. The pi-' fi: . Jot of the, engine struck the .sleigh with great.force, reducing it to splinters and :-p:\-/hurling the women in all directions. v^y/.Bvery woman in the sleigh was killed ar injured. > The other members of the party hur ried back: to the assistance of tfheir un- j fortunate companions, and the. train was -stopped and--' hacked * upJ- to > the* -crossing. '- .- --'---:-?J '". T!he bodies of the dead were placed upon the train"and_the_iniur?dL_wer9? "?aJcTupo?~lmprovlsed cots in* the bag ?] gage car. The train then proceeded to I . Hornellsville. The, news of. the^accident j Iba^J^^teTe^wed^-^^the .clty^and hundreds of friends and relatives of the ? u?fortunte women were waiting at the ? 3t?tion. The dead were at once taken | to the., morgue and the injured were; J placed" in ambulances and taken to the j Mercy Hospital. Elisha Quick, driver of the second j -sleigh,, was hadly hurt. He said he I I tried to stop, the sleigh, but could not j -control thft horse. 'Emperor Contributes $25,000. "Favorable results are expected to foL low the audience given by Emperor Nicholas at! Tsarskoe Selo to 32 work men, representing the leading indus trial establishments of St Petersburg^ in addition, to paternal admonitions be-1 stowed, upon the workmen,: $25,000 has been given by the Emperor, Empress, and Dowager Empress for the relief of the families of those who were killed or badly wounded in the affair of Janu ary '22. The manufacturers of St. Pe tersburg have made concessions to the j . strikers and contributed to the relief fund. The situation in Poland-and other' of the provinces continues strained; and strikes are reported from,Irkutsk j and sever* 1 other Siberian towns. Co?on Ginned to January 16. Washington, Special.-The census, report of cotton ginned to January 16 in 695 counties shows 9,717,693 bales,' counting half bales as round bales, compared with 7,168,381 bales in the same co tun ti es last year. The quanti ty sinnett in th?se counties 'between December -l3~and January"16- is~494;-~ 95.4 running bales. To December 13, -1904, the" remaining ' number of unre ported counties had ginned; 2,748,738 counting round bales as half "; bales. Four hundred and seventy-seven ga neries refused to report The quantity previously returned by these has been brought forward in this report without addition. The total amount brought forward is 134,111 running bales. Will Co-operate With Growers. Little Rock, Ark., Special.-A mem ber of the executive committee of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association, sent the~ following message to Presi dent Harvie Jordan: "After conference with H. B. Sherman, national organ izer of "the American Society of Equity, and the deputy State organizer in that city in convention here, the hearty and full co-operation of, the A. S..O?.E., of Arkansas?with "the Southern Cotton Growers* Association- has- ' been se^ cured." Faf?rFight Over 'CandTL1 n?. . Abbeville, Ga., Special.-Ono person was killed and five wounded as the jesuit of a dispute over a land line near Rhino, eeven miles west of this p?ace Tuesday evening. The ' dead nun is W. P. Livingston, bailiff. Wounded: M: A. Burham, W. B. ! Bryant, W. T.. Bryant, Tom Coffee and Mrs. Georgia Ray. Livingston and one of the Bryants, lt is reported, had seriously beaten a eon of M. A. Burham last Friday. Bur ham met Bryant the next day. and thrashed: him. ? r ? ' \ j 'il r ' >' ? ' j If.: " ^Nominations.Sent tojienate,_ Washington, Special-The President .vJtoday"; sent "to^tho S enata? che ?X0II0W3. -ing^n?minatiens:1. v'- .l : .' ?M^?s -Consuls-James C. Kellog, of Louis-" :? .^ix'?a^-at Barranquilla, ?plombiafeDani-' :; . ' j ie! S. Kidder; of Florida; aj? Nanking, China. "1;<te5?-f :?**B s?t?gs?r4 Register o?}Land Offlce^m?f?rL; ( - . Cohen, at-New-Orleans, .> ? ^^vPostr?a^cr^ames, V&yb$??rfc Rockmart, Ga.; J?mea "A. - Davison, . Blackville, S. Cr John P. LitthvCUn-i - fon* S. C.; Ptmhwr&J&y, Waiterboro, I CUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS . The Senate and House Regularly Work-What They are Doing. Th? agricultural appropriation b was considered in the House, b'dt'tl debate turned principally. 8? the top . o? restrJctiflg.-the xailroads in the ma ; tfei^??. freight rates. As If impatient "deaTwlt'ff"the'""subject, the Hepbvu ; hlH; although" j?>t before the House, ai which probably will not be for sever da"s, formed^ the-basis of the discu sion. A-i?ature'of the. debate wan tl statement by Mr. Williams, of Missi sippi; who wald that on the subject* revision of rates^the Democratic-part was.committed without addition or sui traction to the ^recommendations ( President Roosevelt in his recent me? sage.- ;The Democrats, he said, wei glad to have the President's views, "b( cause it was 'Democratic ^doctrine." 1 ought, he said, to be-American do< . trme^and-he-said 'he was only too gla that the President waB more Gf a American thau a Republican ?r Derne crat.fWe will, t?emark his tracks.'.o: -this-??ub?ect," declared Mr. William; amid great applause, "and," he con tinned, facing, the Republican side, "W will callion you as American citizen to help us toemarft' theta." ' . Mr.^WiniaifiS "later asserted it as hi fbefi?f,that railroad influences were fel inf the Senate at the same time th so-called Cullom bill, establishing th' inter-State commerce commission, wa substituted by the Senate cQnf?r&? for the so-called Re-ag?ll bill. Th< latter bill,-, h?; ?cilar?d, would hav< fulfilled the requirements, ar Mr. Bell, of California, asserted tba the -HepbUrn biirwas: so v/orded as t( b^ indefinite as to what constituted i reasonable rate. --Consideration of the agricultural bil had not been concluded when th( House -fttUOurned; Agricultural Bili Passes House. The House Friday pased the ftgrietil tural appropriation .bill wtth?ut m?t?r ial amendment. During its considera ?on the usual discussion of the provi sion for free seed attribution was in d?lged in, Mr. Lilly, of Connectidlifc characterizing it ns. petty iarceny. Mr. Pou, O? North Carolina, wantec the appropriation increased to ?400.00C and offered an amendment to thai effect at the same time remarking that IL would cost more than that to ir* aug?rate President Roosevelt; The amendment w?'s rejected-. The present syste?? of the Agricul tural Department in publishing cotton reports Was denounced by Mr. Living ston, of Georgia, as damnable and shameful, and he pleaded for some ono to submit an amendment requiring .that-the reports shall b? published every two weeks, in order to stop gambling in cotton. He would, he said, have'offered such an amendment himself had he not been ."thrown down and turned out ot doors" when he brought in fi.' resolution of the same character some time ago. ; Eulogies upon the character of the late Senator George F. F " Mas sachusetts, . practically uie time "of the" FP- ' .>>re 16 speeches by .ors. iriciud Lodg?V and7 his s>^ . Mr. Crane." After the conclusion of the memorial services, the Senate adjourned out o? resnect to th? tlSa? Senator's memory. Among th? speakers were Messrs. Dan iel, Bacon and C?ckrell. Mr. Pettus took accasion to speak especially of Senator Hoar's fairness to the South in the period succeeding the war, saying: "He was throughout it ?ll a man of infinite compassion, of comprehensive sympathies, of hobie and unselfish impulses. He waa a par tisan -without rancor, ah antagonist without bitterness, a friend without reservations and conditions, .a con querer without vengeance, a loser with out resentment." Charge Against Catholics. V , Sensational disclosures in relation to the alleged use of Indian trust funds for the support of sectarian schools were made by Senator Bard, in a state ment to the Senate committee on Iu .dian affairs. Senator Bard addressed the committee after the statements had been made by S. M. Broslus, agent for the Indian Rights' Association, and Francis E. Lupp, commissioner of In dian affairs. Senator Bard addressed he had been visited by Dr. E. L. Scharf, an agent for a Roman Catholic Mission Society, and asked to use hi? influence with Republican members of Congress looking to ^forwarding the interest of Catholics in getting a diversion of Indian trust funds for the support of Catholic schools on the reservations. ;He quoted Dr. Scharf as saying that if the Republicans would agree to bring about the desired legislation, the Cath olics would see that twenty congress ional districts in which the . Republi cans were weak were'carried for the .party...Dtv_Scharf was-said to' have given the names of the districts, to gether with the number of - Catholic Toters in.each, and names of the priests who would look after the agreement and deliver the necessary votes to car ry'the districts. * Senator Teller said that if it was proven that the statement of Dr. Scharf was made in earnest, then there was more cause to complain of the inter-, ference of the Catholic Church than' the Mormon. Church in political affairs - of the country. - * Gen. Miles and President Davis. The treatment by'General Nelson A. Milep of. Jeffefspn ".Davis, President of the" Confederacy,^.during the time he was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Va., was recalled in the House when Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, the minority leader, tried to secure the adoption, of the Senate amendment to the House ^provision ' tregaxdihg retired officers serving--with the State militia. Messrs. Hull, of Iowa, and Hay, of Virginia, both members of the military affairs committee, endorsed-the House pro vlsion.T?aking it retroactive. The latter, declare 1 it was Democratic doctrine to save money and for that reason called upon the Democrats to stand by the committee. Mr. Williams', motion to a^ree to the Senate amendment, which does not make the law concerning re tired officers retroactive, was lost-71 to 171. The bill then*wes sent to con ference. i The postoffice appropriation bill was debated for an hour, but its considera tion had not been concluded when the House adjuorned. , Favor Corporation Reports. Washington, Special.-Tho House committee'.on-the judiciary authorized a favorable report ou a bill requiring .all corporations-engaged - in inter-State commerce to make annual reports to -the ^Commissioner- of-vCorporations of ..the>Departmenr^poin^erce,'.and La hjbx: The information is to contain the ?amount and- va?Ue?of- stocks, bonds and i property constituting capitalization, j elements .upon, which, the market value iis-fii?i?;- a^d"earning-capacity. The re ?urn ia tp he-made under oath, and Sat?e^i-dc?Q Jo aays/'thV, corporation Miaute -toMTrestainlhg-order from en -gaging in^bu8in,W3 until tb? return ia PALMETTO AFFAIRS Many Newsy Itema Gathered Ff?rft ?? Sections. General Cotton Market. Middling. Galveston, firm .7 3-16 New Orleans, firm.7 1-16 Mobile, firm.i.?7i00 Savannah, quiet ?.?iV m.i v? ; i i if:?? CharlPSt??, St??dy .;; ii'.-.iifM 'Vilmingtou. steady.6% ."crfolk, steady .7% Gai timor?, nominal.J% New York, .quiet ..ni;? .'?A? Boston, quiet.7.45 Philadelphia, steady.7.70 Houston, steady .7 3-16 iugusta, steady.7 3-16 Memphis, firm.7% it Louis, firm.7% Louisville, firm. .....7% Nd Compulsory ?du??tien? . The b?us? by ? d?cisive vote killed ?fce compulsory education bill. While jours have been spent in debit? cm Jther matters of far less serious im port, the members of the house seemed mwilling tc discuss this measure. In ess than ah hour it was numbered ?mons the good which lie burifed in the archives of the house. Those who voted, in favor of ?trlkiSg Gut the ejjj acting- clausa-??a thus" to kill tne bili -were: Speaker Smith and Represen tatives Ardrey, AoMey, Baker, Ballen tine, Banks, Beamguard, Bradham, Brant, Brantley, Browning, CalKson, Clifton, Cloy, ColcoeTc, Cothran, Doar, DukOB, 'Ealhardt, ?pting, L. B.' Ethe redge, E. J., Etheredge, Faust, Ford. Foster, Fraser, Gause, Graham, p, I* Green, Hamlin. Il?t'rlsfirl. Halley, ?lemphill; j. g: S?rbert, Higgins, kir veh, LaFitte, Laney, Lav/son, Lester, Lomax, McCants, Massey, Miller, Mor rison, Nance, Parker, Priric?. Pyatt. RawithS?n, Richardson, Seabrook, Shel don, Stoll, Strong, Tribble, Verner, J. J. Watson, Webb, Whatley and Wim berly. Those who favored the '?.ll and voted nay on tho motion wefei Messrs. Ariela's Bass-, Brice, Bruce, Culler, Davis, DesChamps, DeVore, Edwards, Frost, Gaston, J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gib son, Gray, W. McD. Green, Gyles, Hall.i D. 0. Herbert, Hey ward, Hutto, Keenan, Kirby, Little, Lyon, McGolt, McFaddin, M?Ma?t?f; Lab?ii M??idi?, T; M?uidi?, M?ses, Nicholson; ?Us; Patterson, Pittman, Pollock, Posten, Riley, Sanders, Sellers, Sinkler, Spivey, Taylor, Toole, Turner, M. W. Walker, J. M. Walker, and Yeldell. Killing Near Honea Path. Greenville. Special.-Sheriff Gillrath waa notified that ? mail hdd killed . wife in tlr? Princeton a?ignadrHWi. ??rihg Thursday night He '.* olspaieuea ueputy Sheriff "?alien, to the scene of the crime. The m?rdfc. occurred about one-half mile from Princeton and nine and a'half miles from Momea Path. Dennis Wood, a white man, tenant on a farm, killed his wife, who was said to have been half-witted. It is said that Wood beat her first and then shot her, the wfr man only living a few minutes: pie; coupl? haV? four ?r fiv? childr?rt-. The tragedy ?cchrr?d at 4 o'clock. The mah was ?rrested and is now in the Greenville county jail. Burned to Death. Aiken, Special.-A telegram was re ceived here stating that Mr. George P. Astley was burned to death in thc office oar attached to tbs rai?ro?d G?mp bf \V. J. Olliver & Co. at Wyckliffe, Tenn., at 2.20 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Ashley is an Aiken boy, about 27 years of age, a son of Mrs. S. J. Ashley and a brother of Miss Annabelle Ashley and Mr. Charles Ashley, nov/ a student at South Carolina college. Mr. George Ashley had been in the employ of W. J. Oliver & Co., and had worked his way up to a responsible position with that large firm of railroad contractors. No further'particulars of the tragedy were given in the telegram. Will Rebuild Mill. ; Bennettsville, Special.-The manage ment of the Southern Cotton Oil com pany say that the mill here, which was burned last Wednesday, will be rebuilt at once. They say that Marl boro is one of their best counties, both ] for buying seed and selling meal and ( other fertilizers, and they cannot af ford for a single season to pass v/ith- .1 out a plant in operation hero. The j new building and equipment will prob ably be much larger and more modern ! than the .old one, South Carolina Items. At the next term of the court of general sessions of Horry county, which i convenes on Monday, William T. Bell \ will be tried for the murder of Mollie I C. Bell on Tuesday, November 1, last i year, in Bay boro township, near Zoan nostoffice. George C. Bell, Julius Wa terman Bell, C. B. Van Bullock and James M. Bell will be tried at the same time as accessories to the crime. Wil liam T and George C Bell are in tho ? county jail. William is held with- i out bail and George's bail was fixed at $3,000 and he was unable to get bonds men. Julius Waterman and James M. Bell are out on ball in the sum of $1,000 each. C. B. Van Bullock is also out on $500 bond. Dougan & Scheftall and Solomon Scheftall, wholesale merchants of Sa vannah, have purchased the White Stone Lithia Springs property and will at once begin improvements and in novations looking toward the establish- ' ing of a modern tourist hotel in Spar tanburg county. It is understood that the consideration was $150,00. It ls probable that J. E. McDonald of Winnsboro will be appointed to act as special judge to preside over the regulnr term of criminal court which begins in the city next Monday. Some Claims Approved. About 100 claims were approved by the house, among them being the ap plication for 25 newspapers for pay for advertising general election, these claims averaging about $42.50; claims of sixteen members of State board of medical examiners, averaging $25, and Dr. Mary R. Baker. $100; and the claims of the following special judges: Ernest Mooro, $251.22; F. B. Gary, $504; J. A. McCullough, $189.4-1; Ellis G. Graydon, $225.36; C. C. Feather stone, S1S3.86; J. E, McDonald, $102.91; J. E. 'McDonald, $203,13; M. F, Ansel, m ~"' .. PALMETTO LEGISLATURE The House and Senate Getting Down te Solid Woriti A t?j of Biisines?;. . After disposing of the 33 third read: iDg bills and 16 second reading bills; the Senate took up Senator Brown's bill to require all common carriers for hire to transport sheriffs and .their deputies free when on official business; Senator Raysor moved to strike out the enacting words, and Senator Brown spoke for his hill. He said that li? ralii'Qa??' l?rgG -Interests make item ?hxio?s foi l?e enforcement of the laws-. It w??M no hardship on the roads, for he..^a^\iiifot-mod that previous to .trie fre? ?^.es law every elk-riff heid ? p&ss. While having no interest in the bill,' -.aid Senator. Raysor, ho thought it wrong in principle, especially since the passage of the free pass bill. The ?ailroads had made no objection to the bill, but the principle was wrong. Senator C. L. Bleaso offered an am?nHmfiht.pt'GVidiilg that fchO sheriffs Shouiri r??eiv? ho mileage while trav eling. ?his w?? adopted; ' Senator Raysor said, that no State officer, should be c?rric? fr??s that the telegraph Was very instrumental in j thc apprehension of criminals, and that tho bill suggested moro haste [han was necessary. "You might as -v.-oil infurte livery stables," said Senator Blake, who op posed tho bill. Concret? instances iii which the hill would be advantageous were given by Seh?t?i' WelisY Opposition was made r?en?rflf f?l?cli ?tid Senat?r Hay, the chairman of the judiciary commit tee- ' Senator Raysor renewed his motion~ to kill the bill, but debate was post poned and so no action was taken. . . Besidos . Senator Brown's bill and tho bills already Bpokon of there were lo other bills which were disposed of. This makes a total, with the pix spe cial orders, of 65 entries on the cal ShfifiP which ifty ?i\ tJi? flcisk? yester f?f xdOralhjt': , Third Raiding ?i?ts. The following ?r? the third reading bills which were passed .yesterday. Mr.,W.jfc Gibsons to increas? sal iry cf the county superintendents of education as follows: Spartanburg ?1.000 to $1,200; Lancaster, $500 to ?G00; Korry, $300 to $400; Georgetown 5500 to ?C00; Orangeburg, $750 to $850. Special committee's bill fixing time 'of, holding epttft ?? tke Slgutn cir iiiit. Mr. eloy's to make it a misdemeanor Cor ? tjain or a person to obstruct a street or a road for more than five minutes. Mr. Laney's to authorize Jefferson school district, in Chesterfield. county Lb ifesiie $7?500 Hil bonds td build new school hdii??: . Sen?tcf McGowan's, to ?mend char ter cf Presbyterian College of South Carolina. Mr. Morrison's to authorize school trustees of district No. 18 in Green wood county to borrow money to pay past indebtedness. Mr. DeVore's to exer;p:, Fdgefield:> :rom the act requiring county superin-*' Lendonts of education to establish -. school bodfc repositories lo shV .' M. p.'?zt.. j.?f- Kirby"* to pr .v^cuoiiLLc vcLciitiua wuu euusieu 'rom other States and are now living ,n this State. Mr. Brice's to provide for expend! Lure of $15,000 on new -jail and repairs Df court house at Wlnnsboro. Mr. t? aston 's to authorize Chester :ounty to borrow ?75,000 pending vali Jation of bend issue. Mr. D. L. Green's to place under the Dperation of the stock law Motte, Douglass, Mouzon, Midway, Mt. Zion, i \Tew Zion, and Sandy Grove townships . in Clarendon county. Mr.. Lyon's to require the secretary i 3f state to make to comptroller gen-' 3ral monthly report of receipts of his Dfiice Und to turn over funds to State ; treasure)': 1 Mr. Haskell's to make it "a mis demeanor to place any explosive sub stance whatever upon the rails of any railroad in this State by any unauthor ized persons." A Busy Day in Legislature. The South Carolina Legislature ac complished more Wednesday than in my two days of the present session, svhich is over half gone, and there were some interesting debates on both sides of the capitol. In the House, Mr. Richards' bill set- , ting aside 5 per cent, of the country's i dispensary school f??d to. be drawn ou Lo the extent of $100 at the discretion ? of the county board of education for . a. new school building by a district that h?s raised $300 by subscription or otherwise) was passed; after it was , amended so as to make the amount to 1 be raised $100 and that to come out 3f the special, fund $50. ? The House was hardly out of this ii tangle before the wheels became clog ged again with the widow pension j Bills. It had to Deat a retreat from ' this by referring tho matter to a spe- . cial committee, proceeding on the principie that he who fights and runs ? away lives to fight another day. The f propositions under the two bills under ii consideration were to increase the pay to Class C, No. 4 pensioners from $3 }; to $4 a month, and merge into one m class the present two classes of wid-$; ows-those of "men who died in thoE service and those of men who have ? died sinco the war-and allow a fu ture widow of a present pensioner to , draw the deceased husband's pension it his death when she has reached the 0 age of 50 years. 1 Then the House immediately but ted into further trouble with the wo- f1 men in the discussion of Represen- ?? tative Ardrey's bill to prohibit child f marriages. The bill as amended by ' the committee makes it a misdemean- , or for a preacher or other person to 3 marry a couple where he knows the age of thc male to be less than IS ] yearg and that of the female less than 16. The bill was favored by those 1 having a large cotton mill operative 1 constituency, but the House, true to , the South Carolina tradition to be j wedded to its unique marriage laws p.nd not permit any kind of an innova tion, killed the bill by the decisive ma jority of 64 to 40. The Senate, after virtually killin? the Rayster compulsory education bil) with amendments and by re-commit ting it by a vote of 20 to 15 plunged into a dispensary debate on the Urice bill, a local option measure providing for voting out dispensaries by those communities opposed to them. Aftei a vigorous speech from Senator Brice the discussion was adjourned. The Senate refused to tamper with the anti-free pass law killing by a decis sive majority the bill to allow Immi gration Commissioner Watson to trav el on a pass. The mill stone thai proved the death of the bill was the rider compelling the roads to trave: sheriffs free, The Senate Friday took a fall out 0. the present d&penBary arrangemente with reference to the dlroc^icmate and tho purchasing power, by passing to a third reading the Raysor bill, with an amendment from the Manning bill requiring the quarterly purchases to be madR eempi?tely at e?ch quarter so r.s to do away With rhfc erii of "filling ip." The bill gives the ?ppomtmenj of thc three members of the board tif directors to che Governor and requires ihe purchases to be made by secret, humbered bids, the bids to be submit ted to the Senate Treasurer along with samples in a bottle of uniform size and pattern and with no distinguish ing markfl. ""hu contracts are to go to .bc number vkOse c?rrS>}p?ndi?iS sam ple shows up best according td Quality nd price: Only Standard case goods ire to be us?? 'iri? what .remains ovei :k these at the end of tho year is tc pe returned to the sellers. Senato Cole L. Eleace. leading the ultra du bensary forces, made a vigorous figh' Against that portion of the directorate to the Governor on the ground that a Governor hostile to the dispen ar would be given the authority thro.-.gh his beard to close every dispensary in the Stat?; but his motion to con tinue the bili till next session f?coived only five other votes besides his own ' It is frenzied l?gislation la the House today over the Cock fighting bill and a number of omer bills. The House re hised to kill the bill forbidding cock fighting or attendance on such sports. Mr. LaPitte wanted to amend it so as to exempt fight without gaffs, as he contended that under the bill in its ori ginal shane any One Who hesitated by tne ro?d-sld? t? '1?6K at two dunghills trying their marihddd"' w'??ld bQ liable to criminal prcsecuti.on' 1jut ?e ?allecl as did Mf:'Ashley; wno wanted to in clude fcot'baii, horse v?cif?? and base ball, and Dr. Dean, who wained to include dog fights. Tho House also passed Mr. Edwards bill to prohibit shooting matches for prizes of vaule. 1 The House killed Mr. LaFitte's bill to amend the lav/ with regard to drunk en.aess aild dls?faV.y conduct on high ways and fit othar public placen. It was objected to on .ne ground that In asmuch as the wpr'airig Would make three separ?is OffPn^s grow mi of the same act; which is forbidden, by the "constitution-would, ?s Mr. Foster ex pressed itj get ? man iii, ?boiit seven different kinds of imprisbnrii??t for the same one old drunk. The bill had passed to third reading when Mr.. Har ley, reminntaring that ?tr. LaBUte had failbd to apply the clincher, had 1 reconsidered, and it. was soon killed. PEOPLE GOSSIPED ?B?C'?. tientenant Robert E. Peary recently spoke at a dinner of the Arctic Society. Johfi Sparky Governor of Nevada, i? the Ia '-g?st owner of range cattle in the United States'; Dr^Hocici.it is announced, is to marry Fravjlejrl Bertha Krupp; the richest girl iii the world: ' Rev. Alexis C. Jeffries, father of the famous pugilist, is going to be a mis sionary in Australia. The Sultan of Turkey and the QUPCJI bf the Netherlands are the only total abstainers nmonglSuropoan sovereigns. Mrs,.Je?!s?eS^?**^'i-,1l ' vea r? ir* fb<* Manuel Garcia, the eminent teacner af singing and inventorie the laryngo scope, will celebrate Ins hundredth birthday ou the 17th of next March. Jules Verne, nt the age of nearly three score years and len, is still pour. og forth fantastic, wonder tales for french boys'; his fiftieth published book ?laving just been issued. Only three of the thirteen Presiden tial electors of Indiana who voved for A-brabam "Lincoln are still living JIajor Will Cumback, Isaac Jenkinson End Colonel John W. Ray. J. N. Tilton, a merchant of Bozeman, Kont., left in a will that was probated ftcently the income of his estate for ti? celebration of Fourth.of July, with rreworks; flags and bunting: The most popular fiction writer in tngland is not Mr; Hall Caine or Miss Karie Corelii, but Mr. Silas K. Hock in;, once a Methodist minister in Lin colnshire. The sale of his books is sdd td haye ''totalled more than those bi any other living writer." FEMININE FANCIES. The Baroness Burdett-Coults, now >ver ninety years old, is still in excel ent health. lt ls said that Mrs. Astor wore nearly 300,000 worth of diamonds nt ft bail i ecently giveii by he:1; MIKS Et ja ?J, Nelson is rt driver on I touta-3 of the rum i free delivery from he Pittsfield; ile., office; Miss Clam Medlin, of Pilot Oak, Mo., ear? the distinction f being the only emaie blacksmith on record, Anna Werner, eighty-one years old. as served four generations of the chraub fairily, living near Cologne, s cook. Miss Alice M. Robertson has just een appointed postmistress at Musko ee. the most important town in tho :idia:a Territory. The Queen of Portugal is an expert Liysician, and bas raised her amuse lent to the dignity of a profession, tie is said to be the busiest woman in urope. More than S00O women arc employed ; the various Government offices in 'ashington, 20i-i of whom have en red the service after competitive ex nination. No woman not a professional musi nn lias ever played so important a trt lu musical history as Frau ?"osima rag:ner, the daughter of Liszt and the ?fe of Wagner. ? Just across lots from Senator Knox's tate, out at Valley Forge, there lives young woman, Miss Ella W. Fr?d?r ics, who manages a fifty acre farm | < a way that has won for her the vy and admiration c.' all her neigh es. Miss Carrie Davison, daughter of the tc Darius J. Davison, of Detroit; who !s just been appointed Clerk of thc ?lt?d States District Court, at De tit, Mich., is thc only -woman in the li ted States honored with such an ?ce. Wise Provision of Nature. "The eggs of sea fowls," said a nat alist, "afford us a striking instance . the fine way nature fits everything ..its environment. 'Sea fowls' eggs are conical In ape. Thus, being broad at the base ?r narrow at the point, they only il in circles. If they rolled otherwise, they would r.rly all fall into the water or smash ethe rocks and the sea fowl would so become extinct. For these birds h their eggs on crags and led&js, ob to the winds, a^? eggs given tc ng wiould be quickly blown fco' de* ajctlorii" SOUTHERN BLIZZARD Tile land of Dixie Fast in the Grasp ?f the Ice King EVEN GULF COAST FROZEN HARD More or Less Complete Tie-Ups Are Reported from Louisville to New Or leans as a Result of the Three Days' Storm of Snow and Sleet. Louisville; Sj-; Special.-Telephone and telegraph service over a wide area of the South was almost com pletely crippled hy heavy sleet Sunday. Railroad service also suffered, and in some towns the lighting and street ear facilities were suspended. The tie lit) was the most complete in many years, and although telegraph com- . banies and railroads have large forces hi men at work it may be two or three ?!?y?? b^forfc normal conditions prevail. The stoffil which cdvered Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, ?ndiart Terri: tory, Mississippi, Alabama, Lcuisana, and Georgia, had prevailed intermit tenly for three days, and the wires broke under the accumulated ice. The fall of snow and sleet, varying from fine to three inches, extended as far fi?f?H fis Louisville. For several hatti's Atlanta and Nf . Orleans were cut off from the rest of the country. All wires were down from Memphis' to Natchez and New Or leans, and the teipgrflph companies sont iae -sages for these poifits to New York aid down the coast, but even this sjrvic? was interrupted for a time. Two hundred poles went down ID the Mississippi. In Chattanooga the itruets were filled with broken Wire, and a lineman was killed by a live wire. The lighting and street car (torrents were turned off to avoid fur ther ufthg?r" to pedcstrains and line men. Norfolk a City of lee'. Nonoiic, V??; Special.-Norfolk is a city of ice. T"be" ct"id that has con tinued for several days h&? frozen ev ery piece of water in this section, ex cept the main harbor, and thousands of people have enjoyed good skating iisro for tho first time in years. A . drizzling raitt it'aze as it fell and hun dreds of people are skating in the west end of streets. Hospitals afid police report a great number of injuries, due to falls. The sleet storm is general throughout this section and probably Will ruin the growing crops on the big trUefc farms), Th? thr??'i?itst?d schooner D. M. Anthony, ashore near False Cape,, is in (l?nger of goiflg to pieces. She floated at hig?i lld* Saturday night, but when back on the sh?al? deidre a tug could reach her, and now it 209ms ?he will be a total loss. Philadelphia Port Frozen. I PViOorlolnh?o <?'.r:nial-An olmnqM eel ved at t?is port m cuuyequeuue or the extreme cold in the mining re gions, and great delay is being experi enced by steamships under charter for the West Indies in getting their car goes. More than fifty vessels were held fast in the Id? OH the lower bay and ? fluttlb?r ?f ?ce?n steamships which attempted to forc? their way through the obstruction* ai t.h? Delewar? capes were compelled to r?t?rh* t? sea and anchor for the night. Worse in Atlanta's History. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Never before in the history of Atlanta has the ice king held euch a grip on the city as he did Sunday. Trafile ls completely kt ft standstill, the street car service closing d?wjl flt night fall. The entire electric light ??*fv'I?e except that in the immediate cent?f Of the city is dead. It has been either sleeting or r?'fi* ing since Friday afternoon, a heavy rain falling and freezing as it fell Sun day afternoon. Sunday night three inches ?f solid Ice Covers the streets. The telephone and telegraph service Is badly crippled. Every wire between here and New Orleans is down. South Carolina's Worst in Years. Columbia, S. C., Special.-Reports from various sections of South Caro lina show that thc entire State ls ex periencing the most severe sleet and snow storm for years. The ground is covered with half an inch of ice, and sleet is still falling. Pedestrainism is perilous and scarcely possible. The thermometer registers about 20 de grees above zero. Men Draw Hearse at Funeral. Columbia, S.. C., Special.-The un usual spectacle of men drawing a hearse containing a corpse was wit nessed here Sunday afternoon. This was made necessary by a sleet storm which ifls prevailed for 24 hours mak ing it almost impossible for horses to keep their footing. After several futile attempts to darw the hearse with horses, sixteen negroes, members of fraternal orders to which George Mc Fee, the corpse, belonged, procured ropes which they fastened to the tongue of the hearse, thus carying the body to the cemetery, a distance of aver two miles. Militia Commander Dead. Fairmont, W. Va., Special.-Briga lier General Clarence L. Smith, com nander of the West Virginia National Juard, died of a nervous disorder. The general recovered from a disease he ?ontracted in the Spanish-American var, in which he was in command of he First West Virginia Regulars. He vas 55 years of age and prominent po itically in Marion county as a Demo rat. The funeral will be held Wcdnes lay. Intense Cold in Manchuria, St. Petersburg, By Cable-Accord tig to General Iluropatkin's latest re ports, which indicate the wounding of third-Russian-general, the operations t Sandiapu and the fighting at Shakhe ave been momentarily suspended, 'he Russians successfully repulsed lie latest attack of the Japanese east ard with heavy losses. The cold is till intense, there being 24 degrees f frost There are indications that tie Japanese are preparing to break ie Inactivity on their own account as r.oa w the weather moderates. .Vi T li] ?7 T ?] A: u SI efl if M on H J( F. Master of Dreams. "Behold, thin dreamer cometh. They stripped me bare and left me by the way To pine forsaken in a lonely land; They gave me to night-frorts and burn ing day. To griefs none understand. They took my silver from me and my gold. The changing splendors of my rich ar ray; Night's silver rain of dew escaped their hold. And the fine gold of day. On the world's highway In. vain pomp they tread; By paths unknown I stray and hidden streams; They tooic all else and left me there for ? dead; They could not take my dreams. . Still, morning comes with marvel 83 of old; Still In soft ro3e descends the even tide: Still in the castle of my heart, grown bold, The sweet*swift thoughts abide. Pass by. pass by, O clamorous folk and wild! To this last fortress of the soul 1 cling; Men gave me winter weather from a child. Eut God haa given me spring. -Robin Flower In Spectator. Among the advertisements in a Te? j cent number of a Munich journal waa j this: "Wanted: A second-hand grave/' THE KAFFfR AND HIS SNUFF. . Etiquette That Had Origin In Self? Protection. ? In South Africa, amongst the Kaffirs snuff taking is universal, and it la a' grave breach of manners to ask your host for a pinch when you are stand* ing up. The reason for this is found in the treacherous practices of former times. 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