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Statement Is Given Out F?rth In Detail What 1 Say ToTwenty-Thre ?ress Who Cal Washington^ Special.--All doubt as to whcve President Taft stands with regard to the downward revision cf the tariff was swept away Friday when a statement was given out at the White House setting forth in de tail what the President had to say to 23 Republican members of Congress who called to protest against putting Taw material on the free list. The President decl?rese that the Republican party is committed to a downward revision; that he has nev er had any other idea of the Chicago platform, and that he personally has promised a downward revision to the people. This statement was interpreted in some quarters here Friday night as a direct notification to the conferees ?on the tariff bill that if the measure they finally agree upon does not con stitute u material reduction in spe cific duties, the President will veto it "The /President said that he was not committed to the principle of free "raw material, but that he was com mitted to the principle of a down ward 'revision of the tariff, which he ?ad promised, and that. he was obliged to look at the matter, not from the standpoint of any particu lar district, hut from the standpoint .of responsibilitv for the entire Re MRS. EVELYN NESBIT TH A1 White Plains, N.T.; Special-Har ry K. Thaw's wife, formerly the chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbit, went on the stand here Thursday and gave damaging testimony against him. It was the strongest point scored so far by the State in its fight to keep Thaw in the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan. When Thurs day's session was concluded, ad journment was taken until July 26. "Did Harry K. Thaw threaten to take your life?" she was asked di rectly by Deputy Attorney General Clarke. The court room was hushed and Evelyn Thaw turned appealingly to Justice Mills. She begged to be al lowed not to answer because she said she knew she would incur his ever lasting animosity. But the court ruled that the only possible grounds upon which she could decline to answer were that it would tend to incriminate her, and he added that he did not see how that would he applicable to her sit uation. . "Yes, he did," she said in a low voice. . "What were his exact words?" demanded Mr. Clarke. "He said: 'When41 get out of here I suppose I will have to kill you.' " EIGHTEEN MEET THEIR Di r Philadelphia^ * Special. - Eighteen persons were killed in the collapse ' of the' Archambault Building, at Eleventh and Market streets, at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Afc 2 o'clock ten bodies had been taken from the ruins, anrl twenty of the seriously injured had been re moved to hispitals. It is believed there are at least fifteen or twenty other persons in the ruins. Policemen and firemen were work ing like beavers in their attempt to tear down the debris. Ropes, with block and tackle, are employed in the endeavor to get under the ruins and raise ?he mass of wreckage from the bodies of the victims. , With the execution of Peter Fritz, foreman of the workmen, who was TfiEBOLL WEEVIL AND BAI Yew York. Special.-One of the most remarkable breaks in the his tory of the New York cotton market occurred Friday as a result of a spe cial report- on the boll weevil situa tion by the government entomologist, Dr. Hunter. At the end of the decline cotton for new crop delivery -was sell TO ISSUE $40,000,000.00 BC Washington, Special. - Congress will be asked at the instance of Pres ident Taft to authorize the issuance of bonds to the extent of the latest estimate of thc cost of the Panama canal. This issue would he in lieu of that proposed in the rider to thc Payne tariff bill (stricken out in the Scast*) authorizing the issuance of $40,003,000 in bonds to reimburse the general fund of the treasury for the purchase of the canal property This decision was reached Thurs day at a Sunclieon conference at the I MOHAMMED ALI, SHAH CM Teheran, Special.-Mohamed Ali, Shah of Persia, was dethron?d Fri day and the Crown Prince, Sultan Ahmed Mirza. was proclaimed Shah by the National Assembly, composed of tho chief Mujtehids and thc lead ers of the Nationalist forces in the presence of au immense crowd in Parlament square. Mohamed Ali has taken refuge in the Russian summer legation at Ser zene, where ^ he is under the protec MIL WEBB SAYS THE BAL Washington, Special.-Speaking of the bul introduced by Representative Cowies, Representative Webb said Friday: "He shows unfamiliarity with our own election laws in making this statement, for there he will find it a crime to abet illegal registration, to bribe or attempt to bribe a voter, in timidating ai voter or discharging anJ At White House Setting ?he President Had To ;e Members of Con led To Protest publican party. He said the ques tion in each case was a question of fact to be determined by evidence, as to whether the present duty was needed for protection or whether the rate was excessive, so that a downward revision or putting the article on the free list would not injury the in dustry. "He repeated the platform of tho Republican party and said he had al ways understood that it meant a dowward revision in many instances, though perhaps in some few instances an increase might be needed; that he reached this construction of the plat form on what he understood to be the principle of protection and its pusti fication, namely, that after an indus try was protected by a duty equal to the difference between the cost or production abroad and the cost in this country, including a fair profit to the manufacturer, the en ergy and enterprise of American bus iness men and capitalists, the effec tiveness of Amercian labor and the ingenuity of American inventors un der the impulse of competition be hind the tariff wall, would reduce the cost of production, and that, with the reduction and the cost of production the tariff rate would become unnec essarily high and ought to be re duced. W TELLS OF THE THREAT "Why did he say that?" "We were discussing his mental condition. I had asked him what he meant, and he said: 'You know I was not crazy on the night that I shot white.7 I asked him again and he said: 'You know that I missed White by two minutes on the day be fore.' " Thaw, when asked about his wife's testimony after court, said he was not surprised at her attitude but de nied that he ever threatened her life. Before leaving White Plains Thurs day night, Evelyn fhaw said: "If the Thaw family had done the right thing by me I would never have taken the stand to testify against my husband. But they wouldn't guar antee me the- allowance I asked for. "I must go out and get a living some how. I can't go back to the stage. My notoriety would prohibit ?hat. I will try to get work as a model. I can do it, too, I am sure. "Often I feel sorry I ever saw the stage at all. As a model I can be a good- girl and earn enough to keep me. I can hope for nothing from my husband's family. "I don't know whether or not my husband will harm me if he is re leased. He has made one threat, though, and that has terrified me.'' SATH WHEN WALLS CRASH identified by a numbered tag, none of the dead at the morgue had been identified up to a late hour in the afternoon. All are horribly crushed, making identification difficult. With a crash that could be heard for blocks, the walls of the building which is being renovated by the United Gas Improvement Company, fell, carrying with them ten work men who had just returned to work from the noon hour, and burying a score or more pedestrians who were passing through tlio busy thorough fare. When the huge cloud of dust ros?, the bricks and mortar were seen piled in the streets as far out as the car tracks, a mass twentv feet high. Un derneath the ruins could be heard the groans, and shrieks of those who had been imprisoned. ) SEASON SCARE SUBSIDES lng at $2 a bale less than the closing price on Thursday. The break was marked by panicky liquidation and excitement seldom equaled except in times of complete demoralization. Within half an hour prices declined fully 35 points; and while the market recovered a few points of the loss, the close was bare ly steady. iNDS FOR. PANAMA CANAL White House in which President Taft, Senator Aldrich, Chairman Payn?, of the House ways and means committee, Secretary of the Treas ury MacVeah and Assistant Secre tary Norton participated. The Goethals' estimate cf 000,000 as the cost of the canal com plete, was used as a basis fov* the proposed . bond issue. The Secretary of the Treasury would be empowered to issue the bonds from time to time as the mon ey is needed, at interest not to ex ceed 3 per cent. ? PERSIA, IS DETHRONED tion of detachments of Cossacks and seperys attached to the Serzende by the .Russian and British diplomatic representatives. The new Shah is yet in his minor ity, and .Izad U. Mnlk, head of the Kajar'family, has bien appointed re gent. Si'pahckr, one of the most active leaders of the movement, has taken office as Minister of War and Govern or of Teheran. LOt IS WELL PROTECTED employe on account of his vote, dis turbing elections, fradulent voting, impersonating another voter, treating with liquor, false entries by election officers, failure of officer to make re turns vf election, f-Ise return, etc. Our laws to protect elections are as good as any State has, North or South, and the unscrupulous and dis honest election officers of whom Mr. Cowies complains, surrely do not live in his district or he would not have been elected. MRS. HAYES DEAD Last of Family of.the President of the Confederate States 'Snccumbs to Combination of Diseas?s---Suc ceeded Her Younger Sister 'aar "Daughter of the Confederacy.1 ' Colorado Springs, Col., Special. Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis, President of the Con federacy, died Sunday night .at her home after an illness of six months. Mrs. Hayes, 54 years old, was the wife J. Addison Hayes, president of _''irst National Bank of Colo rs., oprings. Friends throughout the country had gained the impression that Mrs. Hayes suffered from cancer, but the causa of her death was announced by at tending physicians as a complication of diseases. 1 Mrs. Hayes, tho last of the family of the only President of the Confed eracy, after the death of her sister, Miss Winnie Davis, in New ATork city, made a trip through the South a few years ago, when she was made the "Daughter of the Confederacy" in her sister's stead. Her mother, widow of the Southern President, died in New York about two years ago. Mrs. Hayes is survived by two sons, Jefferson Hayes Davis and William Hayes, and two daughters, Lucy Hayes and Mrs. Virginia Webb, wife of Dr. Gerald B. Webb, of Colorado Springs. Jefferson Hayes Davis bears the name of his', grandfather through a special act of the Legislature. It is expected that official notice of her death will be given at once by the heads of the various Confederate organizations of the South, and a fit ting tribute paid by them to her memory. Only a short time ago, Mrs. W. J. Behan, of New Orleans, one of the leaders of the Daughters of the Con federacy, received a letter from Mrs. Hayes, thanking the former for 'her efforts to bring about the restoration on Cabin John Bridge, near Washing ton of the name of Mr. Davis, which had been chiseled off after his acces sion to the presidency of the Con federacy. Motor Cycle lipreads Death. Berlin, By Cable.-Four persons were killed, more than twenty seriously injuree, and a dozen others slightly injured as the result of the explosion of a motor cycle, and a fire which followed it, during a cycle race at the old botanic gardens Sunday evening. Thousands of spectators had gathered around the track which was opened for the first time a few days ago. During an endurance race, the tire of one of the pacemakers' motor cy bele burst and the rider lost control The benzine exploded in a burst of flame and the machine leaped into the air. The rider was. thrown off and fell against other competitors. So teriffic was the speed of the mo tor cycle that it continued on its course after the explosion, crashing ininto the public stand, hurling specta tors right and leftr and setting on fire several women's dresses. Two; women were instantly killed and their bodies,, satnated with flaming ben zine, were burned to cinders. The wooden stand caught fire, and the flames flashed in the faces of by standers, who, with clochhig ablaze rushed about shrieking with pain and fear. A panic ensued, in which a great number of persons, including children, were badly trampled. Eighteen men and four women were seriously injured, two of the men having since died, he hospital sur geons say that several others are in a hopeless condition. / . Big Fire at Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount, Special.-Fire was discovered in a room on the sec ond floor of ' the Hammond Hotel Saturday morning at 4 o'clock. The building was crowded, containing about 100 guests. Rare presence of mind caused the opening of a tap on the third floor by the first fireman who reached the burning building. This preserved the stairway until the third floor occupants could hurry from the building in their night clothes. The loss is reported at about $20, 000 on the building, without insur ance: furnishings about $3,500, part ly insured. Sixteen Perish in Water. New York. Special.-Sixteen per sons, five of them women, met death by drowning in the waters either sur rounding or in thc vicinity of New York Sunday. Ten of the victims per ished after the capsizing of the ex cursion sloop Roxana, carrying 22 passengers, which was struck by a sudden squall in lower New York bay, midway between Coney Island Point and Hoffman Island, late Sun day afternoon. Of the survivors, one woman, Mrs. C. Knudson, of Brook lyn, is in such a serious condition that she probably will die. Her two daughters were drowned. Frenchman Eclipses Wright's Record Fer Height. ' Doue, France. By Cable.-M. Paul ham on Saturday beat the world rs aeroplane record for height, hold by Wilbur Wright. He made a flight at an altitude of about 450 feet. Thc previous record was 3G0 feet. M. Blcrioi vol. the speed prize, covering 2,000 metres in . 2 minutes 19 seconds. M. Paulbara's flight oc cupied 57 minutes. Aviator Has Dizzy Fall. New York, Special.-A frightened amat?nr. silting like a wooden man, went up Sunday in Gleen IL Curtiss' aeroplane, which hovered a moment in mid-air and then crashed to earth. The beautiful craft in which Curtiss made his remarkable flight Friday was badly wrecked, and Alexander Williams, the would-be aviator, was lifted unconscious from the twisted frame, his left arm broken, his left thumb dislocated, his body bruised and his brain reeling. IM NEWS IN Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO D'V Live Items Covering Events of Mow or Less Interest at Home and Abroad, John W. Hodges and Rufus Lu cas, well-to-do. fanners, at Oliver, Ga., fought, an impromptu duel last Saturday over a trivial affair, result ing in the death' of Hodges and the fatal wounding of Lucas. John D. Rockefellow has recently added $10,000,000 to his former gifts of $42,000,000 to the General Educational Board. Arne Boerner, a Belgian, offers to build for the, United States govern ment an airship that will carry 200 men a distance of 3,000 miles with out landing. He figures the. cost of \e trip ?t $600,000 but will build it naided if the government will pay him $1,200,000 for it when conditions are fully met. Herman ,T7ilcox of Chicago, not knowing that Good Time lake near Pensacola, F]?., contained aligators, week. Four days lai:er his hones were found. The aligators had de voured him. Miss Lois Campbell traveling with her father, the president of the "Frisco" system; in a condition of somnambulism rose from her berth and walked off of the coach that was running 40 niles an hour early last Friday. When she came to from the shock she found he?elf alone on the-prairie. She fortun ately had on a* skirt' that had some red and flagged ? freight train. By this time all .train crews were run ning slow along that part of the road looking for her,, When the freight arrived at Sweetwater, she saw. her distressed father on the plat form and surprised him by her ca resses. State Auditor Kenehan, of Colo rado docks the salary of Governor end all other State officials for the time they are out of the State. He goes further and makes out bills against former officers for the time of absence which was not docked by his predecessors. The German Reichstag has com Eleted the tax law' which provides igher rates on tobacco, beer, tea, and coffee and imposes a stamp tax ?n checks. ' Two hundred ..and fifty-one Ameri can wood pulp- mills in 1908 con sumed 3,346,106 cords of wood val ued at $28,000,000. "Petrol Butter" is thu latest pro duction of the Standard Oil Compa ny. . Its color is brown and it docs not get rancid from age. Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., a New Or leans banker, just married, has been arrested on charges of being a de faulter to the extent of $100,000. A ibig cave near 'Masontown, W. Va., is being explored and 250 per sons who went in .Sunday did not see it all. The tunnels of the .Pennsylvania Railroad under the Hudson river and Berge Hill to New York city are finished and the work of electrifi cation and tracklaying will begin at once. About Governenr, N. Y., last Sun day there was a heavy storm that dropped young frogs. Pedestrians could scarcely proceed on the side walks and the frogs lay so thick on the railroad track that the wheels slipped with the slimy mash. Bristol, Va., went "wet" .by 32 votes in th? late election but the Virginia law forbids issuing 'license to any but qualified voters of the county. There will bi some business disappointments. Washington News Notes. William J. Bryan has written to President Taft urging bim to allow popular vote for Senators. The Cabinet decided upon the new form of the corporation income tax Tuesday. President Taft has the use of the trowel and at a' corner-stone laying recently spread morter for about 15 minutes. Chairman Payne is standing firmly for the lower House rates in the tar iff conference. Mr. Taft last Saturday reassured Senators Taylor and Frazier in re gard to census appointments in the South. Summoning Thursday Aldrich and Payne to the White House Thursday, the President insisted upon the re tention of the corporation tax. President Taft spoke last Satur day at the laying of the corner stone of Ingram Memorial Congregational Church which is to have a swimming pool, gymnasium, bowling alley ami club rooibs. Foreign Affair!!. France and Italy are now consid ering the matter of a tunnel through Mont Blanc. It would be eight miles long and to equip it with a doublu track electric .railway would cost about $18,000,000. A fearful storm swept part of tlv; State of Vera Cruz last. week. Six arc known to be dead and property loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Hun dreds cf ?acres of land were from 3 to 9 feet deep in the flood. A message by wire from Budapest, Austria, saj'S Leon Ling, the murder er of Elsie Sigel, is in that city. He is being looked after. The insurgents have taken Tehe ran and have deposed the Hamid Ali. The Crown Prince Ahmed Muza is made Shan. The reyclutioh in Colombia was short-lived; The insurgents at Bara quilla have surrendered and all ,is quiet. j f'SOUTH'S OCEAN FRONT JV?.?I Director Dawe Tells of Its Vast Ex tent and Superior Advantages. (Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Nearly 100 Southern cities were represented here on Wednesday at the first an nual convention of the Southern Commercial Secretaries' Associa tion. \ Statistics showing the South's re sources were given by G. Grosvenor Dawe of Montgomery, managing di rector of the Southern Commercial congress. Mr. Dawe ,took as his theme the potential greatness of the Southern States. "Viewed from the point of coast line, it is well to understand that the Southern States possess an enormous ?advantage over the other two-thirds j of the United States ; for the coast line of the Southern States is 3,007 miles, while the_,coast line of the North Atlantic States is 888 miles; of the Pacific coast 1,557 miles. _ "The natural advantages of coast line are already asserting their in fluence, for we are able to say that a Southern port still holds the sec ond position for exports among all the ports of the United States New Orleans in 1900-and now a Southern port that nine years ago was wrecked and rent by storm, the port of Galveston. "We are able to show you that the exports along the gulf now exceed the exports of Philadelphia and Bos ton by 81 per cent., and they equal more than 50 per cent, of the total which belongs to the overshadowing port of New York. The tables of exports for 1900 and 1908 show that 27 per cent, growth in exports has taken place in New York, Philadel phia and' Boston regarded together. During this same time the gulf ex ports increased 31 per cent. Water Power Potential. "The vast Appalachian range, the greatest mountain range in the Unit ed State?, lying within the region of plentiful rainfall, is producing at present unharnessed, every moment of every day 5,000,000 horsepower. The day is coming when, through con servation impulses, this water will be used to drive the wheels of industry and of. transportation throughout the South, thus indefinitely extend ing the life of power buried now in the coal fields of the South. "If you look at the estimates re garding the iron ore life of the United States, you will see that the Southern Appalachian region is ex pected to endure 100 years after the Lake Superior region is stripped and exhausted. Yet, with all the advan tages belonging to the southern ex tremity of the Appalachians, advan tages so great, that Birmingham sets the price for pig. iron, yet at pres ent only about 10 per cent, of the pig iron of the United States is made in the South. Then look at the size and energy of Birmingham, the Bir mingham district, Chattanooga and other cities in Tennessee and in Al abama dependent upon iron ore, then realize that their marvelous growth to present dimensions has come through the creation of merely 10 per cent of the pig iron of the United States. Then let your imag ination run riot and picture to your self what will be the development of those portions of the country when instead of 10 per cent, of the pig iron of the United States and largely giv ing that iron its final form. Favorable Situation. "The Southern States as a whole possess more general accessibility to coast line, and therefore to the com merce of the world, than either of the other thirds of the United States. A string and a pin wheel will enable you to prove this. You men who think on commercial subjects do not need that I should detail to you the advantages that rest with a portion of the country that can by statistical and governmental proof declare that it had more coast line, more naviga ble streams, more water power, more minerals conveniently arranged, more agricultural range, more forests, more cheap land, more accessibility to ports than any third of the Union. "The meaning of this summing up of Southern opportunities is this: and none but the clint! will fail to see it. That there is to come a time in the history of the United States, as a whole, must have the support and development of the Southern States. It means that our nation will never reach its full greatness. It means this, also, that as sure as the sun shall r'~c tomorrow there is to come a period of commercial development in the South compared with which the past growth has been but the tottering footsteps of an infant. These are not words of boasting or of bombast, but they are serious words, based upon the incontrovert ible evidence of the South's re sources and what those resources must lead to." General News Items. In Charlotte, N. C., recently an alienist put in vogue the term "con fusicnal insanity" and in Detroit, Michigan, the term "transitory fren zy" was later plead in a court trial. The indicted sugar men appeared in court in New oYrk and pleaded not guilty Thursday. Glenn H. Curtiss won the Orst pres idents prize for aviators on the Mor ris Park race track Monday. A man and six children were burn ed to death in their borne at South Boston, Va., last Monday. ? woman shot herself in New York to escape the Fourth of July noise. Destructive floods are reported from Nebraska and Colorado. A woman in Los Angeles, Cal., fast ed ':9 days, with the result, sho says, of being relieved of various ailments. Li New York Thursday an oil tank exploded saturating 100 men with oil which was ablaze. They were on a pier and all saved themselves by jumping into East River. P?LllTf?l -?i Things Doing And Mappe Told In Condensed -- Extend Farm Work ia Cheraw Section. Columbia, Special.-In the opinion of many experts scientific methods have demonstrated that the belt of land enxtending from Aiken county across the State to the North Caro lina .?ne, commonly known as the sand hill section, will grow any kind of /egetables or crops. The Chester field development company has com menced to ship, vegetables, to the Florida markets. This company has a tract of about 40 acres under culti vation, and there is found growing there on land that has been thought practically worthless for over a cen tury cotton, corn, cow peas, beans, cantaloupes, tomatoes, cucucmbers, pepers and bunch beans. Near the tract is a- large field of tobacco, con tainin.?, approximately, 20 acres, com paring favorably with any in the State. The growing of crops in the sand country is brought about by putting humus in the soil and using the winter cover crops. During the early season the pio ducts of the company will be ship ped to the Eastern markets, and in the late season the truck will be ship ped to Florida, as vegetables will not grow in that State during the sum mer on account of the excessive heat. In the winter the company will grow lettuce under glass. , Sad Fatality. Florence, Special.-News was re ceived in the city Saturday morning of the death of Mrs. Charles D. Brav, at a hospital in Richmond, Va., Fri day night. Mrs. Bray had been in bad health for several months owing to a nervous break down, and it was thought that she would improve un der treatment in the hospital in Richmond. Mrs. Bray had only, been in the hospital about a week, having been taken there on last Friday by Mr. Bray, who after spending a few days with her, returned home. . He received a telegram Friday afternoon summoning him to come at once, ow ing to a turn for the worse in the condition of Mrs. Bray. He arrived ,too late, however, to see her alive. All Florence grieves at the loss of one of her most beloved young mat rons. Shooting Affray at Sumter. Sumter, Special.-As the result of a quarrel Monday night which was renewed Tuesday morning, Joe L. Wells, who runs a small store near the depot, shot and seriously wound ed Eugene Petit. It seems that Monday Wells used some profane language in his store which could be heard by Mrs. Petit at her home across the street. She protested to Mr. Wells, but he would not quit, it is alleged, and when Mr. Petit return ed from work she told him of it. He went to the store to see Wells and the quarrel ensued. This morning it was renewed and Wells shot Petit in thc right breast just below the liver. Fire at Yemassee. Beaufort, Special.-A fire that de stroyed about $25,000 worth of pro perty swept the village pf Yemassee early Tuesday morning. The large general store of Mr. W. I). Sanders, Weekley's drug store, Littlefield s store and the postoflice were burned to the ground with all their contents. The nearby railroad freight and pas senger depots were saved by the ef forts of the foul members of the railroad night force. The cause of the fire is unknown, it started at 2 o'clock and burned until 5 without check. The amount of insurance car ried by the losers is not known at present. Dispensary Sales Fall Off. Columbia, Special.-The dispen sary sales for the month of June, 1909, show a falling off of $29,389.77, as compared with the same month in 1908, according to the report of Dis pensary Auditor West given out last week. The sales for May of this vear were $239,304.17; for June, 1909 $214,646.35; for June, 1908, $244, 036.12. Mintz and Gardner Guilty. Spartanburg, Special-In the Court of General Sessions Monday George Mintz, white, a native of Greenville county, and Tom Gard ner, colored, were convicted on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and robbing Mrs. Sallie Green, an aged lady of Corapobcllo about one year ago, Mrs. Green liv ed alone. Mintz and Gardner visited the home of the old lady and Gard ner kept watch on the outside while Mintz went into the house, struck Mrs. Green in the head with an axe and then robbed her. Purchases Trust Company. Spartanburg, Special.-The First National bank of Spartanburg Sat urday purchased tho entire stock of the Fidelity Loan and Trust com pany, paying $294 a share for the stock, the purchase price amount for thc entire stock amounting to $88,200. The trust company will be absorbed by thc First National. W. E. Bur nett is president of the First Na tion: 1 and A. M. Cbreitzburg io cash ier. Angry Lover Shoots. Abbcvilh Special.-Angered by Mrs. Maggie Fender's rejection of his snit for marriage, L. L. Patter son, a mill operative. Sunday shot the woman twice with a revolver and then turned the weapon on himself, sending an instantly fatal bull vt through his head. Thc tragedy oc curred at the woman's house in the mill villasre, near here, about 2:30 o'clock. The two were quarreling on the back steps when the shooting took place. The woman's wounds are not serious. OWS ITEMS sning In Sunny Carolina, And Pithy Phrase, i? 1 Improving Water Supply. Rock Hill, Special.-As was stated recently well No. 3 of the Water, Light and Power company's group furnishing water for the city, having been found unfit for drinking pur poses, its flow was at once cut off, the mains emptied and flushed nn4 the reservoir empited, scoured, ^nd flushed. Consequently after GblyOa short periol of inconvenience-jUie^ city is getting plenty of pure water from wells Nos. 1 and 2. >. The well found to be contaminat ed has been entirely discontinued and the company has already b??$n sinking of a new well in Oa?ihCnln the outskirts of the city f?$fS the home ^f Dr. T. R. Carothers. The big reservoir, holding 185,000 gallons, located near the power com-i pony's plant in the heart of%erc?ly'. has received a most thcrroi^HePo^er hauling. It was completely emptied and the cement walls a?&tcfe&rt?fiii scrubbed clean and fiusharnjCBfrifitetou ly. A new top, which, ?lwbBresfinish ed, will be entirely impenetrable by anything deleterious, is be^Jtft^^n0 and the ventilators in th^sblit?eWtf?ll near the top of the sicKeeekvill be doubled and carefully sofceeLedt have - le, N. C., for Crop Conditions Disheartening. Yorkville, Special.-(Etnafeta^edeit?d ly conceded that ther?dha?lDeeEr*i?te marked improvement fiP^he condition of the cotton crop in' of the county where t^siairS^Tl "Vas not been excessive duTing^uie ,past two weeks, while ?Fh^A/1^ marked decline in ttfe^?er?l^?P dition of corn owing to the inabil ity of the farmers trf gNe^ibepr?pei? attention because c&ni&c\fi^MM?n? fall. While some fields are in fav orable condition, tjaj^n <#s Etftfglt?l&, the corn outlook igj anding bjitienj.. cou'raging. In some' neighborhoods the farmers have been nuable i&?get in more than six^br^h?ys. with" their plows during^he^'p^s? r?li',1 while in many instances others living .within two or th^^SiKst^afen^eH1 able to plow almosmeons??tntTyii^'T???' is notably true ofin^tBetlhinyiis?G, tion, near King's MfcuidftiAtlanta. -^ltiwanger, of Txeasurer Bume^Re!?Hrd*.0usin, Columbia, Special>geA. special from Rock Hill says thei anditepeopleJ report that City TreasurfercaiGpiSs May's shortage will beti^oujb^dOjp. treble the amount he acknowledged; that lie falsified in his o^jPr^vio-US. report of the audit compaivy^j tba| before confessing he destroyed ?ne stubs of the city check book, b'urtlea^ the paid checks, returned from the bank, tore leaves from the cash b6q^ and destroyed all vouchers except foi? last June. The council adopted a" resolution instructing the police to arrest May if he attempts to leave town. He has not been arrested pending a final report of the audit company. All the shortage has been within the past two pears and a half. Before that he was audited by a local committee. Wound Gives Trouble. Lexington, Special.-Sheriff P. H. Corley's hand, which Avas so severely injured by the shot from tbe gun of Ed ??ynum, is giving him a great deal of trouble. All of the wounds are entirely healed, but the pain is severe and it is feared that the sheriff will he unable to use it for several months to come, if not for all time. But few of the shot have so far been extracted, in fact, none has been ex tracted, but they continue to work out in places. More than 100 shot took effect in the hand alone. All of the other wounds seem to be entirely well. _' New Auto is Ruined. Rock Hill, Special.-Mr. Burton Massey lost his nice, new Maxwell runabout iu a peculiar manner this week. He and a friend were attempt ing to fill the gasoline reservoir by the light of a lamp, which was sit ting near by, when the fumes from the gasoline ignited. This carried the fire to the tank, with the result that nothing of the auto but the steel wns left. Sentiment Exists Against Messervey. Charleston, Special.-Considerable feeling is reported to exist in Colle ton county against J. W. Messervey, who killed Dispensary Constable T. B. Fishbourne and J. D. Altmau. According to a report received here Saturday afternoon, the death of Mr. Altmau seems to have stirred the sentiment of the people considerably and the. Colleton , county man who told of tba high feeling existing through the county said that he would not be surprised if a lynch ing were attempted. Mr. Altaian's body was shipped to Reavenel Saturday morning. Southern Power Company Ready to Enter Spaitanburg, S. C. Spartanburg. Special.-A repre sentative of the Southern- Power Company is in the city looking for the most advantageous point to bring in the feed wires of tho power com pany. It is understood that a right of-way has boen secured through most of thc farming lands iii the county. Thc city granted a franchise to the Southern Power Company sev eral months ago. Charleston Wonr.an Honored. Knoxville. Tenn., Special.-The fifth annual session rf Hie Southern Ivindorgortcn Association at. the Uni versity rf Tcn:ic?sr> Saturday elect ed the ff.Howii?!: officers: President. Miss Marian. Stuart Hanchcl. Charlton. S. C.; vice pres ident. Miss Willett Allen. Atlanta,, Oa.; rcccrding ECrr'iarr, Mr?. Delia Cawood. Knoxville, Tenn.: corre spbndincr secretary. Miss Marsaret Somerville, Jacksr^iHt', Fla.; treas urer. Miss Ruby Willingham, Colum bus, Ga.