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Every Paragraph ?n the Amendment When li and the Whole Bi to Revision B ; Washington, Special.-The first reading of the traiff bill foi- conaid erationof committee amendments was concluded when the Senate adjourned Frday. According to an agreement made when the reading was begun .very paragraph of the entire bill will be subject to amendment when it is taken up for final consideration on each paragraph Monday. While the whole measure is thus subject to fur ther revision, alL. conceded chat sub stantial progress has been made, There will be no return to many of the schedules. t There was comparatively little de bate on the measure Friday, as Sena tor Aldrich postponed replying to many questions asked of him in order to hasten the conclusion of the read ing of the measure, saying Le would make full explanations when the various amendments receive final con sideration. Many provisions, includ ing the wood pulp and wool schedules] were Friday passed over on specific objection. During the reading of the tariff bill, numerous requests "were made on the part of both Republicans and Democrats for the passing over o? varions schedules, although an agree ment had previously been made that ?ueh action was not. necessary in or der to permit a Senator to enter anti obtain a vote on any amendment. Senators McCumber and Simmom suggested that the lumber schedule be passed over and Senator Beveridgt made the same request in respect to the tobacco schedules. HOW SENATOR ALDR1 Senator Aldrich estimates that t 679,70 in 1910 on the basis o:? the im 118,263.54 in 1907. He calculates that the Aldrich t than the Dingley law did in 1907. He claims that the Aldrich bill nries and $1S3,510,141 from dutiable He submitted the following state bursements, actual and estimated, of to 1911' inclusive : ' Actual receipts and disbursem?i -.el years 1900 to 190S, inclusive: Fiscal Tear. Receipts. jifiOO.: ....$ 567,240,851.8' 1901. 587,635,337.5? 1902.^. .. 562,478,233.2] 1903 . 560,396,674.4C 1904.. .. ,. 540,631,749.4( 1905 . 544,274,6S4.3c '1906. 594,454,121.6'; 1907.. W-. 663,140,334.0; 1?08.: .. 601,126,118.5 .Deficit. Estimated r.*?eipts and disbun inclusive: Fiscal Year. Receipts. 1909. 1 .. 605,047,230.0( 1910. 655,090,000.0< 1911.. .', ..... .. ,695,000,000.0( .Deficit Actual receipts, nine and one-half n Disbursements, nine and one-half n Deficit, ri?e and one-half months, 1! KIDNAPERS IN THE Mercer, Pa., Special.-Indictment were returned here Friday night tr Mercer grand jury against James H Boyle and his wife in connection witl the abduction of Willie Wbitla, o Sharon, Pa., on March 18. A tra bill was found against Boyle, charg ing kidnaping. The maximum sen tence is life imprisonment. In th case of the woman, the same bill wa also returned, with an extra conn charging her with aiding, assistinj SIX PERSONS INJURE Fort Gaines,' Ga., Special.-Si: persons were injured and thousand of dollars' worth of property de Stroyed in a cyclone that . swep through Clay county Friday norning The approach of the storm threw thi place into a panic, the roaring of th elements causing woman and childrei to run about the streets erring dis tractedly. Within a few hundrei yards of Fort Gaines the storm sud TAYLOR GETS PARDON; G( Frankfort, Ky., Special.-G-overno ]Wiilson Friday cleared the Kentuck court records of all charges growin out o fthe murder in 1900, of Williar Goebel, except those hanging ove witnesses in the alleged conspiracy by granting pardons to former Go"v W. S .Taylor and Sec. of State Chas Finley, who have been f?gitives i the State of Indiana for nine yeai to' John Powers, brother of Cale Powers, to Holland Whittaker, Jol TERRIFIC CYCLONE Eichmcnd, Va., Special.-The Ol Dominion steamer Pocahontas, whic arrived Wednesday morning, wen through a cyclone off Wyanoke Is land, in the James river, on Wednef day. Women on the steamer becana pario-stricken when the vessel wa tossed about like a cockleshell. Tb boa* was drenched with water, ti deck chairs were washed away an SULTAN'S ULTIMATE Constantinople, By Cable.-The ae -vance of the concentrated army ( investment began Friday a:?ternoo? Teaching within two and a indf mil? of the . Yildiz Kiosk. Cavalryv sei .ont to reconnoitre and squads we] sent to picket the bridges across tl Sweetwaters. Infantry was then ol served advancing and rumors spres that the army was about to enter tl capital and fighting was inevitable There was a veritable panic. Sho] keepers put up their shutters. Bill Will Be Subject to : is Taken Up Monday ? ?I1 is Thus Subject ? efore Passing. Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi, requesting that various schedules un der the head of agriculture be pass ed over, Senator Aldrich, asked "whether he did not wish to make a simihar request in respect to rice, the duty on which the finace committee had allowed to stand afc 2 cents per pound as passed by the House. "There is nothing under the agri cultural schedules that is so high as the 'duty on rice," , suggested Mr. Aldrich. ."Still we might amend the schedule," said Mr. McCumher, smil ing. '.'Let it be passed," interposed Senator Gallinger with a significant glance toward the Democratic side. The Philiipine sugar schedule call ed forth a vigorous criticism on the part of Senators Clay and Bacon, of the policy of admitting sugar from the Philippine islands to the United States free of duty. They declared that the free admission of 225,000 tons of silgar from Porto Rico and 400,000 'tons from the Hawaiian is lands had not affected the price of re fined sugar and added that while g anulated sugar inthe United States sells for 4.06 cents per pound, it is sold for 2.70 eents a pound in Lon don. Mr. Bacon insisted that the introduction of free Philippine sugar would, by replacing an equal amount of dutiable sugar, reduce the reve nues without any benefit to the peo ple of this country. The paragraph was passed- over under objection by Senators Foster and Newlands. CH FIGURES SURPLUS he Aldrich bill will produce $399,052, portations of 1907,, as against $329, iill will raise $9,934,426 more in 1910 will collect $155,542,533 from ltti I necessities. iments showing the receipts and dis the Treasury for the fiscal years 1900 its exclusive of Panama Canal for fis Disbursements. Surplus. I $487,713.791.71 .$ 79,527,060.18 I -509,967,353.15 77,717,984.33 . 471,190,857.64 91,237,375.57 I 506,039,022.04 54,307,652.36 ) 532,237,821.31 ' 8,393,923.09 > 563,360,093.62 .19,085,403.77 I 549,405,425.35 -45,04S,696.32 > 551,705,129.04 111,435,205.01 } -62i;i02,390.64 .19,976,272.11 sements for fiscal years 1909 to 1911, Disbursements. Surplus. ) $674,509,630.00 .69,462,450.0C ) 700,000,000.oo ?45,000,000.00 ) 655,0Q0,000.ob . 30,000,C00.oo ?onths, 1909.. . . ., . .$46S,042,S73.2S aonths, 1909. 533,936,815.88 309. 65,943,942.60 MESHES OF THE -AW and abetting in the kidnaping. The indictment against Mrs. Boyle identi fies her as follows: Mary Doe, alias Helen Anna McDermott. Parker. Miner, Yorke and Boyle. The trial of the abductors will begin next Fri day, April 30. The grand jury re ported that Sheriff Chess had been instructed by them to place Boyle in a burglar-proof cell because of recent attempts' to liberate him hy parties on the outside. D IN GEORGIA CYCLONE de'nly swerved and took away only a corner of the town, demolishing, a number of negro romes, wrecking t?ie country homes of B. F. Grimsey and J. W. Sutton. Mr. Grimsey, Mrs West, two negro children ? a id . two farm, hands of Mr. Grimsey were in jured. A Central, of Georgia trail? escaped by the narrow margin of thirty ' seconds, having passed that far ahead of the cvclone. )EBEL'S MURDER UNAVENGED Davis, of Louisville, and Zach Steele, of Bell county. j 'Those over whom indictments are left hanging are Walton Golden, of Knox Co., now in Colorado; Frank Cecil, of Bell county, now a railroad detective in St. Louis, and WilU?m ?f . Coulton, of Owesley county, said to have died in the West recently. These cases, with the possible ex ception of that against Cecil, will be dismissed, leaving Henry E. Youtsey, now serving a life sentence in the State penitentiary, the only person ti suffer for the assasination of Goebel. an automobile on board had to be lashed to the deck.to prevent its be ing washed overboard. The members of the crew were compelled to tie themselves to their posts to escape1 being blown over the side. The steam er was badly damaged. Pessengers say the hurricane came as suddenly as a bolt from the, heavens, and took everybody unawares. . Evidently the constitutionalists an of two minds with regard to the rulei of their country. The Parliamentarj deputies, who held sessions at Sar Stefano Friday, seem to be in favoi of his deposition ; but the splendid re ception, which was accorded the Sui tan on his appearance in public, wat a graphic demonstration that his ma jesty retains a strong hold on tin people. No guarantees of any kine p- i have been given to thc Sultan by tb? i constitutionalists. ICE J?MiLOCKS RIVER Beeideiits .and . Property , Owners. Meng Banks of the Lower Niagara River Are Panic\ Stricken. Lewiston, N. Y., Special-Tho great ice jam still seals the waters of the lower Niagara river. In '24 hours the ponderous mass has not moved forward a hair's breadth. ' Residents and property owners all along the banks from Queenston to Lake Ontario are panic stricken, fear ing out so much a futrehr rise in the river as the sudden breaking of the jam., The ice, which, in its slow progress during the past few days, has uprooted huge trees and carried away dozens of docks and boat hous es would, it is feared, in a sudden rush, erase acres of territory along the upper banks of the river. With the approval of the War De partment and Governor Hughes, ef forts are being made by State em ployes to dislodge the ice jam in the Niagara by the use of dynamite. Re ports submittad to Superintendent Stevens by experts in the use of ex plosives, detailed to make an exami nation of the river, stated that con ditions were serious; that the ice waff twelve miles long and sixty feet high; that damage was, inevitable and that something should be done at once. They recommended the use of dyua mite., \ j Tov-r billed ia Tornado. Cleveland, 0., Special.-Probably four deaths, scdres of persons injur ed, and hundreds of thousands of dol lars worth of damage marked the path of the tornado which passed acoss the northern part of Ohio at noon Wednesday. The storm con sumed only five minutes in passing a given point; but . during that brief period it was as dark as night, hail battered in windows, lightning set fire- to hundreds of buildings, and the wind, which reached a velocity of 66 miles an hour, razed buildings and chimneys, tore off roofs, laid low many telegraph and telephone lines and demoralized traffic upon .steam and electric railways. In neighbor ing towns considerable damage was done. Ten dwellings were reported to have been blown to the ground iii the southwestern part of the city. Many homes were burned as the fire department could not attend to all of th? calls. An unidentified young wo man was blown into a lake and drowned. Alabama Statute is Held Invalid. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-The State* law of Alabama annulling the licenses of foreign corporations tak ing cases from State to federal courts has been declared unconstitutional in a decision by Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States court of the mid dle district of Alabama. He said that the law violated both the State and the federal constitutions. The decision was made in an order en joining the secretary of state from canceling the license of the Western Telegraph company in Alabama. Judge Jones holds that the act ia violative of -the 14,.th amendment of the federal constitution, in that it does not apply to ?domestic corpora tions as ft does to foreign, and of the state constitution because it de nies the right given by that instru ment to a corporation to conduct its business without molestation. He holds that the law is in no sense jus tified as a police measure. "Tennessee Dutch" in Jail. Atlanta, Ga., Special,-Advises re ceived here by the post office" inspector in charge from the authorities at Bowling Green, Ky., ar to the effect that a man believed to be " Tennessee Dutch,** the notorious safeblowci who recently escaped from the Green ville, S. C., jail, is under arrest there. The man is being held pending identi fication. American Schooner Seized. Yancover, British Columbia, By Cable.-The cruiser Kestrel, of the Dominion government, arrived in port Wednesday, having in charge the American halibut tushing schooner Charles Levi Woodbury, which she captured after firing four rounds from her machine guns, and threat ening to sink the alleged poaching vessel unless she surrendered. The action took place Sunday afternoon in northern waters, alleged to be con tiguous to Canada. Roosevelt at Mombassa-. Mombassa, British East Africa, By Cable.- Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt arrived here Wednesday evening on the steamer Admiral. Mr. Roosevelt was in thc best of health, as were all the members of his party. The people of Mombassa were in a great state of expectancy throughout the day, and the first word of the sighting of the ship brought them in crowds to vantage points, where they might catch sight of Roosevelt. For Relief of Foreigners. Tiflis, By Cable.-General Snarsky, who was in command of the Russian punitive expedition to Julfa in 190S, has-been designated to lead the pro posed Russian exp?dition into Per sia. This expedition has been or ganized at the suggestion of Great Britain for the relief of the foreign ers at Tabriz. Ks departure, how ever, has been postponed on account of the armistice granted by the Shah. Ten Thousand Reported Killed. London, By Cable.-A special dis patch form Athens Wednesday says telegrams from Mersina say fully 10,000 persons were killed in the anti Christian rioting of the last few days in the Adana and Tarsus districts. Entire villages were razed and the country is a smoking wilderness. Wire andxCaWe GLEANINGS'FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Homo and Abroad, - Four wealthy*; white men were lynched by hanging in Oklahoma last Monday for tEe murder, of an officer. A terrific cyclone passed np James River, Virgt?iaV;\/on Wednesday, working wonderful freaks and doing considerable damage especially to boats .along the river. Since the Easter cold an ice'wall 12 miles long and 60 feet high has made a dam just above Niagara Falls. It is being dynamited to prevent the great damage of: turning the .river out of its natural-cburse. Robbers tunnelled their way under four buildings and; entered a bank at Suffolk, Va., last .week.; They could not open the vault but secured about $1,500. . Capt. Minus,' who recently resign ed as military commandant at Clem son Collegey has published some sharp reflections' on 'President Mell, who seems to defend himself against ev ery charge. The controversy how ever is a matter'of much interest in South Carolina. The Beech Island, Farmers' Club, at Augusta, Ga., is said to have the original copy of .Gen. Lee's farewell address delivered at Appomattox. ' Leo M?llhern, ? ?2 year old boy, is missing from his home in Cinci nati. Several letters haye been re ceived by his mother demanding a ransom. A tornado' struck Cleveland. Ohio, at noon Wednesday and' left five dead, with a possible fatal list of 20 and a property loss of $500,000. The widow of the famous Col. Robert Gt Ingersoll, .recently won a long drawn out suit against An drew J. Davis,- a wealthy mine owner, of Montana, -for $133,810, a fee for her husband's legal services. The five Powhatan county, Va., murderers will be .put to death-two on April 30, two on May 5, and one on May 7." They were sentenced to die on same day but prison officials realized too much difficulty in tho electrical arrangements. At Robinson, Bl., a nitro-glycerine factory blew t?p-'last week carrying two men and every trace of the plant away into atoms. At Stuart, Iowa, last Sunday hail stones weighing as much as half a pound fell almost as in sheets? A glass factory at Mannington, W. Va., was burned Monday entailing a loss of $50,000 and throwing 150 men out of employment. It, is said that James A. Patten made about $5,000,000 on the late flurry in the weat nr-ket, and that he will retire from th oit. Judge . William He is Mann and Mr. Henry St. Gejjpr; "ucker, candi d?tes for governor "a hot" joint debate at Boydton. a., Monday night. A negro ran am;:-' in Richmond, Va., with a shotgun ?md a pistol, wounding four persons before he was captui'ed. Five men were seriously burned by an explosion of gas in a mine at . Warnock, Ohio, near Wheeling, W. Va., Monday. Mi*, and Mrs. James H. Boyle held as the .kidnappers of- "Willie""' Whitla, are to be tried in Pennsyl vania. Ohio had set up a claim on them. , i.. The steamer Elberward was sunk in Lake Michigan by striking an ice floe and five of the crew drown e d Wednesday. It is said that the Houston Oil Company will take over the proper ties of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com panv, which was ordered to cease business in Texas. The builder of the railroad across the .Florida Keys, is dead . Miss Jesse Brown shot Earl P. Adams, an actor of the Mabel Paige Company at Jacksonville^ Fla., on Tuesday, because haying. been once engaged to her he had since conclud ed to marry Miss Elizabeth Bagley. Washington Notes. Senator Stone, of Missouri, op poses the policy of President Taft as to the Philippines and would have the United States to prepare to with draw by 1915. Senator Aldrich spoke on the tariff fighting the. income tax and giving notice that he intended to hurry the bill through. The state of Texas has finally won a suit against the Waters-Pierce Oil Companv by which it will receive $2.000,000 in cash. Mrs. Matthew Y. Scott was elected on Ttyursdav as president general of the D. A. R. Mrs. Sarah Thompson, who acted the part of a spy that caused the cap ture of Geo. John Morgan ,in the Civil war, and was carried on the pension roll as a soldier, was most painfully hurt by being run over by a Trac tion Company car last Wednesday morning. She is 71 years old but still holds a position in thc Capitol. President Taft on Wednesday di rected the scout cruisers Chester arid Salem to carry thc Liberian Com mission to Monrovia. - - Foreign Affairs. The young Turks seem to have the better of the Turkish Sultan and will make him abdicate or yiald to their demands, which will probably mean no more riotinc: in Armenia. It is said that 5,000 persons most ly Christians, in Annenia, perished in the late riots and that Adana is in ruins. Ex-President Roosevelt has left Bombassa where he received great ovations and is now on the hunting grounds of Africa. After twenty hours devoted to counting and recounting the ballots cast Thursday the Daughters of the American Revolution Friday found the honors of the biennial election of their society divided between the ad ministration and the anti-administra tion forces. The big fight of the con gress was won by the administration, in the election of Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, of Illinois, to be president general. The second officer m point of honor, that of vice president-gen eral in charge of organisations, how ever, went to the anti-administration followers by the election of Mrs. Mi randj B.. Tulloch, of this city. With a majority over Mrs. William Ottmarings Story, of New York, of only 8 votes ont of 873 ballots cast, Mrs. Scott's victory goes down upon the records of the society as one of the most closely contested in the his tory of the organixatin. Scarcely hod the first wave of disappointment at the narrow defeat of Mrs. Story swept' over her followers before action was takeh to renew the fight to elect the retiring State regent as president-general two years hene?, whn Mrs. Scot's term of office will expire. So close an election stirred the con gress beyond the experience of years. It was characterized by a bitterness that prevented the motion of Mrs. Story to make the election of her rival un?nimous being adopted, with dissent from a group of anti-adminis tration delegates. '. . . Senator MeCumber, of North Da kota, Tuesday, in criticising the con ference report on the census bili,! made the charge that the census of fice has in its employ in one bureau the wife of a secretary of a Represen tative in Congress, the wives of two officials of the War Department and the wife of a prominent official in the Treasury Department. "Promo tion," he said, "seems to be almost wholly for women who have husbands in tlie departments. This is getting to be a city of official families hold ing positions under government.'1 . . . In the Senate Wednesday cotton seed oil was tho subject of an ex change of opinion between protection ists Republicans and tariff-for-revenue Democrats. 'Senator Simmons, of North Caro lina, protested against such action, declaring lhat he was free to say that he was not in f?vor of placing cotton seed oil on the free list. Stating that the importation of cotton seed oil in 1908 was 202 gal lons, worth $81, and yielded revenue of $8.28, Mr. Aldrich said the tax on that article was "for protection pure and simple." "Any pretense," declared Mr. Till man, rising in his place and speaking in vigorous language, "that there is protection on cotton seed oil through such a duty is a humbug. Cotton seed oil producers do not want any protection at alL" w I . . . Senator Cummins' bill for an in come tax provides as follows: Upon incomes not exceeding $10, 000, 2 per cent; upon incomes not ex ceeding $20,000, 2 1-2 per cent ; upon incomes not exceeding $40,000, 3 per cent; upon incomes not exceeding $00,000 3 1-2 per cent; upon incomes not exceeding $80,000, 4 per cent; upon incomes not exceeding $100,000, 5 per cent; upon all incomes exceed ing $100,000, 6 per cent. Mr. Cummhis believes that the graduated tax so provided for will produce a somewhat less revenue than a flat tax of 3 per cent and is of the opinion that the amount raised under his amendment would be about $40,000,000. ' PROMINENT PEOPLE, E. H. Harriman returned to New York City from a three months' rest in the South and West. Stefan von Kotze, one of the lead ing German writers, died from apo plexy, aged thirty-nine years. Representative Sereno Payne, of. New York, author of the Payne Tar iff bill, is a baseball enthusiast. Professor Goldwin Smith, now in Jiis eighty-sixth year, is still a fre quent contributor to the newspapers and magazines. Prince Henry of Prussia delivered a lecture in Berlin, illustrated with moving pictures, on his voyage in the Zeppelin airship. King Alfonso is seeking to bring about the marriage of King Manuel of.Portugal, and his cousin, Princess Maria Pilar of Bavaria. The President's plans for the sum mer and early fall, including the itin erary for a prolonged trip, were given out at Washington, D. C. ' Among the passengers that sailed for New York from Southampton was Professor William Osier, regius pro fessor of medicine at Oxford. Anton Hess, the sculptor, died at Munich, Bavaria. He was seventy one years old and held thc profes sorship of plastic art in the Munich Technical High School. , Dr. Samuel Fozzi, a noted French surgeon and gynecologist, arrived ?in New York to represent the French government at the centennial of the first operation of ovariotomy in this country. General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., and Mrs. Wood returned to Governors Island. N. Y., from Porto Rico. Gen eral Wood has been on a tour of in spection, reviewing troops aud in specting army posts. Cotton-PIcklng Machine. A cotton-ploking machine has bees devised, on lines similar to the vacu um-process cleaning machines. Th< vacuum-producing apparatus, driven by a gasoline engine, is mounted OD a wide-wheel truck which is drawn about the cotton field by mules. Eac"b operator has 100 feet of hose with the picker suction-tip at the end. Il is claimed that each operator cai gather 700 pounds of seed cotton ;>r> day of ten hours, at a total cost o from $2.15 to $3.10 pe;- opfvatiou pc day.-Farmers' Home Journal. Arranged for Court Findings. . Spartanburg, Special. "- Harvey Bradford, colored, charged with burg lary, entering the room of Miss Julia Reed, a student of Converse Colh-ge, was convicted on last Saturday, the jury returning a verdict late in the afternoon. The principal witness was Miss Reed, the heroine of the night in question. In a most dramatic man ner she described the midnight in truder and told of the fierce strug gle she had with him and the bite she gave him, causing him to flee. In his flight he dropped his hat, which, with' the bite she gave him, served as a clue that led to his arrest. Har vey is a rough looking negro, who lives in the outskirts of the city. Under the verdict he was given ? life sentence. John. Guinn, white, who was con victed on the charge of manslaugh ter for the killing of Earle Trammell at Greer several weeks ago, was sen tenced to serve two years. The jury recommended him ta the, mercy of the court. Will Haywood, who killed Matthews Harley, at Reidvil?e several months ago. and found guilty, of man slaughter, was sentenced to serve twelve years in thc pen. John Col lins, convicted of killing Jot Lock man ? last Christmas Eve, and who was recommended to mercy, was giv en a life sentence. Negro Hanged at Chester. Chester, Special-Lawson Addison, colored, was hanged here Friday for the murder of Matilda McMaster and Mamie Halsell. The execution took place in the jail, an immense crowd gathering around the building, but only a few being admitted to the in ner precincts. The drop fell at 10:25 a. m., and in twenty minutes Addison was cut down. His neck was broken by the fall. The execution passed off quietly. There was no sort of demon stration, and the feeling among thoss who ga>hered seemed to be that Addi son had mei with a righteous ,fate. He admitted this himself. He advis ed his race to heed the advice of the white race and shun liquor. Orangeburg "Drys" Organize. Orangeburg, Special.-Dr. P. A. Baker, of the Anti-Saloon League of America, made a strong address to a very good audience again Tuesday night. After the regular exercises of the evening a conference of prohi bitionists was held and a committee formed to organize an executive cotn .mittee to take charge of the cam paign in this county. Mr. A. W. Summers and the Rev. B. M. Fore man are chairman and secretary, re spectively, of this committee. A rep resentative from each of the churches of the city is also, on the committee. This committee is to report a plan of organization to a public meeting to be he?c?' later/" Fire Destroys Large Barn. Darlington, Special.-Fire Monday morning about 1 o'clock destroyed the large barn of Mr. E. 0. Woods of the local bar, in the rear of his resi dence on Cashua street, together with a buggy and a carriage. The fire also came near killing a horse in thc stable. This makes the third fire in Darlington in less than two weeks, no one of which has destroyed more than $1,000 worth of property. The work of the local fire department is largely creditable for this, and it can not be too highly praised. Monday morning two streams of water were playing on the building ten minutes after the alarm was turned in. , Drowned in Saluda River. Greenville, Special.-F. C. Buckner who has been in the employ of the Pelzer Manufacturing company, was drowned in the Saluda river Sunday afternoon hile swimming. The body was recovered about dusk, Sunday uight. His mother lives in this city. Rosemary Happenings. Rosemary, Special.-The citizens of the Rosemary school district, cre ated by an Act of the last session of the Legislature, are very much grati fied over the election held last Sat urday for the purpose of issuing $7.000 for the erection of a new school building at Rosemary. There was nota single vote against tbe pro losition. The people of this district ire keenly interested in the cause of ducation. The new school building viii be of brick and will be modern -n every particular. Something like .!00 children will attend this schcol. St Matthew's Fears Smallpox. St. Matthew's, Special.-At the suggestion and request of the secre tary of the State board of health, the phycicians of this town met Tuesday in the office of Dr. A. R. Able and formulated plans for a thorough vac cination of the people of this com munity. 'This action was thought necessary in view of the outbreak of smallpox in a few towns of the up-j country. Father and Two Sons in Limbo. Lexington, Special.-Tillman Proc tor, Sr., is in the jail at Saluda with a sentence of two years in the State Penitentiary hanging over his head, having been convicted of thc charge if obtaining money under false pre ences from an Augusta commission inn while his two sons, E. W. Proe or and Tillman Proctor, Jr., arc anguishing behind the bars of the ?exington jail charged with obtain ng money under false pretences from a Batcsburg bank. VA NE wr ?TEMS '-~ Ti All Sections of the State and Busy Readers Real Estate Hising. Columbia, Special!-Men who have money to invest., in this country ari looking for real estate, and the result is that land has gone up ?bout here at east twice as high as it was ten ?i twelve years ago. Factory stock is not as desirable as it was a few yean since, and the country is pretty well filled with banks, which fact has caus ed men who have money to invest to tum. their attention more to reaJ estate. With the improved methods of farming now in use and the proba* bility of still greater improvement! in agriculture, the prospect is good for this Piedmont country to be one of the most- prosperous parts of- the South.- '? In the Interests of Farmers. . Senator Smith got in some good work in the TJ. S. Senate Wednesday for the farmers of South Caroina, when he began his fight for the reten tion of sulphate of ammonia on the free list in the new tariff bill. Al though this commodity is placed un der the head of those that are to be admitted free, Senator Smith feared that through some means a duty might be placed on it which Would come out of the pockets ef the far mers in the end. He protested on thc floor bf thc Senate and secured per mission-to place his remarks in the Congressional Record at length. ? Inspecting Lexington Farms. Lexington, Special-The Hon. H J. Watson, commissioner of agricul* ture, and Prof. Ira W. Williams, in charge of the farm demonstration work in South Carolina for the Unit? ed States Government, were here Tuesday inspecting the demonstra? tion farms near here, which are undei the supervision of Mr. G. A. D?rricki Both were agreeably surprised ai the progress made on these ? farms Commissioner Watson took photo graphs of several patches of vetch) which crop is said to do better it( Lexington than in any of the othei counties in the State. Mr. Watson took snapshots at a hunch of heel cattle also. Negro's Case tb Be Appealed. Laurens,Special.-John Henry An ? derson was not hanged on Friday as has for some time been expected ; and : if he is ever to hang, it will not be for several months yet. This situa ! tion is brought about by the fact that 1 Attorneys Richey and Blackwell have ! served notice of intention to appeal [ to the Supreme Court for a new trial, j basing the appeal on alleged erroni : in the trial and sentence of the con ; demned negro. It is understood that : the cases for this circuit do not come "p in the Supreme Court for at least ; six months, and that even if the ap peal is dismissed, it will be some time-, before the execution. Making Sumter a Clean City. Sumter, Special.-The ladies of the Civic League are making active prep arations for the reception of the Fed eration of Woman's Clubs of South Carolina on April 27. This organiza tion of patriotic ladies not only main tains a nurse, who attends to the needs of the sick among the poor of the? city, but fee' a great; deal of civic pride in the appearance of the city. Already a number of the pub lic places have been greatly improv ? ed under their direction, and the i League is constantly encouraging pri I vate property owners -to beautify, their premises. Damage Suit Against Southern Won hy the Railroad. Saluda, Special-The jun' in the case of Krepps against the Southern Railway Company, being a suit fol damages in the sum of two thousand dollars for alleged personal injuries, sustained while alighting from a pas senger train in Augusta, returned f verdict in favor of the railroad. State Treasury at Low Ehh. Columbia, Special-The State of South Carolina Monday made ar rangements to borrow. $500.000; if sov much be necessary, at any time this year. It appearing that the hid of J. P. Matthews, for the Palmetto National Bank-, of Columbia was the lowest offer, as appeared from the bids submitted, the said offer to make thc loan at three (3) per cent in '.erest for the Palmetto National Bank was accepted. It will be necessary for the State to borrow about $200, 000 at once on account of the pen sion payments . Four Arrests in Scranton. Scranton, Special.-As a result of an investigation held here Tuesday and Wednesday by Deputy Insurance Commissioner Wharton relating to the burning of P. M. Lee's store last December, the following men were ar rested by Sheriff Geo. J. Graham: P. M. Lee, C. P. Johnson. Bert Johnson and C. F. Kamrow. The two John sons are brothers and acted as sales men for Lee. ,. ., Woman's Monument Fund. Columbia, Special.-The Woman's Monument Fund is growing with very gratifying progress. The total has crossed the .f4,000 line. There is need of work in twenty or more counties to bring them up to meet the enthusiasm of such counties as Sumter, which has given n?arly $400. When (he required .$7.500 -is raised our state will have set the pace for the other Confederate States in this long neglected work of love to honor the peerless heroines of tho South.