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j PALMETTO j ( News Notes From All Parts of > Carolinians h May Sue Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special-The Caro lina, ClincMeld & Ohio road may I ..bring suit for the sum of $13,885.72 for a note given to the road by the .' t?ty for money advanced for the pur chase price of right of way for the % Toad from Pacolet river to the city limits. The note was due Monday and was not paid for the reason that - the city council feared that action 4 would be instituted restraining the ?city from paying out the monye as certain citizens have made objection ? to the payment. When the city :r agreed to pay for the right-of-way in question it. did not have the cash and the C. C. & 0. advanced the money and took the note of the city. The note became due Monday and the city failed to take up the note '? because of. threats of several citizens. Since the C., C. & 0. road ; entered South Carolina territory is has been having a great deal cf trouble, the State having refused to issue a ?harter and the city of Spartanburg refusing to pay off the note. York Corn and Cotton Crop in Ex cellent Condition. Rock Hill, Special.-The cotton ?crop of York county has improved wonderfully in the past two weeks and if the season holds out practi g -cally a full crop will be made where the crops have been worked out well. There are, of course, numbers of crops throughout the county that the ?ands on which they are planted were practically -drowned" out the first of the season, and will be almost a fail nre. It is expected that the crop will at least yield 90 per cent, of the av erage crop. , There is also some very I fine corn in this section. Mr. J. M. Cherry, whose farm adjoins the State I farm near this city, has a .field con taining possibly 25 acres or more . that is one of the prettiest sights to be seen in the way of a c'roD in this Bection. People from the city drive out there just to see the corn. Heavy Rain Storm Visits Charleston. Charleston, Special.-Charleston ?was visited by another thunder and rain storm Thursday afternoon, be ginning about 12:30,o'clock and con tinuing for more than an hour dur ing which the rain Came down in torrents, flooding the streets to such "an extent that the operation of th? carS had to be suspended and the car company further suffered by the ditm ! age to its largest generator at the power house by lightning. The water ^ was knee deep on Line street, places on Rutledge avenue, upper King Street, where the new vitrified brick pavement is to be laid, on east Bay and,' of course, in many other streets in the low section of the city. The rise of the water in these streets caused the suspension of traffic on the Meeting, King and the belt line cars and the Broad street line was also put out of business for a short time. The danger of having the motors damaged by the high water ia the streets forced the suspension of the cai*s for an hour or more. ^ o To Hold Educational Rally. Lexington, Special.-Through the efforts of the County Superintendent of Education A. D. Martin, this coun ty will have an educational rally on the 30th of th? month, the rally to be held in the Court House here. Among the speakers will be Con gressman A. F. Lever and other '.prominent men of the county. Be sirles there will be two addresses Vj prominent educators to be named by the committee in charge of the Stat?! campaign, the names of; whom will be made public within the next fen days War Veteran Dies of Old Wound Clinton, Special.-Mr. W. Frank Kelley, of this place, died Tuesday afternoon at 7 o'clock. Mr. Kellej had been suffering for years from an old wound received at the battle of Boonesboro during the civil war, and has been in a serious condition for some time. He was a Confederate ?teran, being a .member of James' Battalion. Two South Carolina Life Insurance Concerns Consolidate. Anderson, Special.-The Carolina Insurance and Casualty Company, of Columbia, and the Security Life and Health Insurance Company, of An derson, have been consolidated under the name of the Carolina Insurance and Casualty Company, with State agency in Anderson, and Mr. L. L. Bradley, of this city, in charge a? superintendent. The offices of tho company will be in the Anderson Building at the corner of South Main and East Market streets. Cotton Hides a Mule. Greenville, Special.-Mr. D. S. Springfield of Travelers' Rest has had a picture taken of his cotton field in which he is growing the big boll variety of cotton. There are ten acres in this field of cotton and the plant is so large and high im this par ticular part of the field that one can hardly see a mule which is standing between the rows. Mr. Springfield has used this year about the same amount of guano that be has alwaysj used. Coroner's Jury Holds Hannett for Murder. Aiken,^ Special.-Coroner Johnson held an inquest over the dead body of John Rhoden, who was shot and killed Wednesday morning . in a pistol duel at Langley by Nat H. Hannett, and the finding of th? cor oner's jurv was that the deceased came to his death from a wound or wounds from a pistol in the hands of K. H. Hamlett, who wilfully and "feloniously fired shot or shots which caused death. IAPPENINGS the State of Interest to South in GeneraJ Destroys Distilling Plant. Greenville, Special.-One of. the finest distilling plants which the rev enue officers have run upon for a long time was destroyed Sunday by Offi cers Merrick, Scruggs, Corn and Campbell. The plant was on the top of -Panther mountain, about 35 miles ? from Greenville and within a half ] mile of the North Carolina line. The outfit was destroyed, about 2! JO gal lons of beer and mash were poured out and a 50-gallon barrel of whiskey was brought back to Greenville. The officers ran upon the outfit Sunday morning about 10 o'clock, but signal shots had already been fired, ? nd the moonshiners escaped before tie offi cers arrived upon the scent i. The outfit was one of the finest and best the officers have destroyed in a long time. The raiding party got hack to Greenville about 12 o'clock Sunday night, bringing with them the 50-gal lon barrel of whiskey. Organizing to Enforce Jaw in Orangeburg. Orangeburg, Special.-In the last issue of the Orangeburg Sun the edi tor suggested that a meeting bc called for the organization of a law and or der league.. Acting upon this sugges tion, on Friday afternoon a meeting was held at the law office of Messrs. Brailsford & Mattheny for the pur pose of discussing plans for ;he or ganization of 7 law enforcement league. The meeting was presided over by Rev. Chas. B. Smith.and, after discussing the issue, pro and con, the following call was gh-en out for publication: "** "The citizens of Orangeburg and the vicinity, who are in sympathy with the enforcement of law and good order in the community, are request ed to meet in the court house on Mon day, the 23d instant, at 8:30 p. m., with a view of organizing a law and order league to aid the constituted authorities in the enforcement of law." Languishing in Jail. , Union, 'Special.-J. E. Morris, the young Southern railway and express agent at Santuc, formerly of Mont vale, Va., who was arrested several weeks ago, charged with being short in his accounts, is still in jail here, not having furnished Mhe necessary $500 bond. It is understood that perhaps no more strenuous 'efforts have been made to raise that bond because there is another warrant out and waiting to be served should he be released, this warrant charging him with forgery in connection with some money alleged to have been paid about July 15. Preparing For Synod Meeting. Lexington, Special.-St. Stephen's Lutheran church has undergor.e many improvements lately. The woodwork of the building has been freshly painted and other improvements made. The meeting of the South Carolina Synod will be held here this fall, and already plans are being made for ""the entertainment of the visitors. Lexington never does thinga by halves, and it is a foregone con clusion that the coming n#3eting of the Synod will be one of the best ever held from many points of view. Laudanum Eilis Child Spartanburg, Special.-Thc infant son of J. J. Vernon, Jr., of Wellford died Sunday as the result cf being given an overdose of laudanum bv mistake. The drug dispenser at Bal linger 's store at Wellford, chinking he was filling a bottle with pi.ragoric, filled it with laudanum. Police Seize Twelve Kegs of Beer. Charleston, Special.-The police department seized and confiscated Friday' 12 kegs of beer which were being hauled through the streets in a wagon of a soft drink manufactory .concern. The police officials say that it was real beer and it wis local beer. The beer did not, however, have the dispenser's stamp. The beer was destroyed. Since the dis pensaries were closed IS dealers have been summoned before the recorder and bails aggregating $900 have been forfeited to the city treasurer. Educational Rally Day at Aiken. Aiken, Special.-Superintendent of Education Cecil H. Seiglerjias suc ceeded in arranging an excellent pro gram for educational rally day in Aiken, which will be next tuesday, and some of the State's best speakers will be here to discuss educational problems. The meeting is to bc held under the auspices of the educational campaign committee. 'Looking to arouse an interest in this work. The Journal and Review comes O?:i in a handsome 16-page issue. Two Hurt in Wreck. Union, . Special.-A serious wreck occurred two miles north of Jones ville about 8:30 o'clock Friday morning, resulting in three freight cars being smashed, the ?ruck tom up for quite a distance, and two ne groes badly hurt, oue having to have his leg amputated. The train was 'freight No. 62, in charge of Conduc tor Gelston and Engineer Brownlee and was southbound for Columbia. When nearing Jonesville and when the train was going nt a moderate rate of speed, the accident occurred. j SIX COUNTIES^ VOTE WET Fifteen of/the 21. Comities Voting Tuesday Close the Dispensary While Six Retain This Method of Dealing With Intoxicants. Columbia, S. C., Special.-The pro hibition wave swept over 15 of the 21 wet counties Tuesday leaving six yet in the/ dispensary column. Complete returns from Florence and practically complete returns from Georgetown put those two counties in the dispensary list by small majori ties. In most of the counties the vote for prohibition vas .overwhelming. Rich land county voted to retain the dis pensary by a majority of about 75. Aiken will keep the dispensaries by a small majority, Beaufort remains in the wet column. Georgetown retains the dispensaries. Charleston voted to keep the dis pensaries by a large majority, about 1,800 to 300. The following counties went dry by a fair majority: Abbeville, Bam berg, Barnwell, Berkley, Calhoun, Colleton, Dorchester, Fairfield, Hamp ton, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Sumter, Williamsburg. . The following voted "dispensary:" Richland, Aiken, Charleston, Beau fort, Georgetown and Florence. With the exception of Calhoun county the 14 counties first mentioned gave prohibition decided majorities and in most cases the majorities were pronounced. In Calhoun prohibition won by 14 votes. The 21 counties voting cast in the Democratic primary for governor in 1908 47,799 ballots. The vote Tues day when it is ' fully reported will probably aggregate about 30,000. Ali qualified electors were entitled to vote Tuesday but it is believed that few Republicans participated in the election. In any event it appears that 2ess than 65 per* cent of the Democrats, not to mention the quali fied Republican voters, voted in the liquor traffic elections Tuesday. Tabulated Vote. COUNTIES ' Dis. No.Dis. Abbeville, complete .. 516 749 Aiken, 25 of 30 boxes.. .1,273 1,075 Bamberg, 6 of 9. 120 506 Barnwell, 15 of 17. 537 806 Beautiful, 7 of 10...... 255 214 Berkley, 9 boxes. 177 365 Calhoun, complete. 272 286 Charleston, 29 of 33.... 1,830 305 .CoIIecton, 23 of 26.. 179 729 Dorchester, 13 of 14_ 495 664 Fairfield, 12 of 15. 126 706 Florence, 5 out. 734 734 Georgetown, 8 of 17. 362 304 Hampton, 15 of 20. 178 594 Kershaw, 7 of 16. 234 528 Lee, 10 of 13 . 244 451 Lexington, 4 out. 663 1,116 Orangeburg, complete... 560 1,520 Richland, 3 missing. 818 741 Sumter, 12 of .14. 334 511 Williamsburg, 4 of 21... 199 308 Total .-....10,118 13,264 For Improved System at Clemson. Clemson College, Special - The Board of Direstors adjourned Friday night. The report of the committee to re vise the by-laws was unanimously adopted. These laws are based upon an outline submitted to the commit tee by Dr. Mell upon request and as adopted they contain in a satisfac tory way the three general principles contended for by Dr. Mell when he tendered his resignation, namely, the nomination of officers and members of the faculty by the president, the administration of the affairs of- the college, by the president without in terference and the definition of the duties and authority of the comman dant and the president so that there will be no conflict of these officers and that the commandant will have charge of discipline, military instruc tion, etc. Prof. L. I. Knight of Crowley, La., was elected associate profesor of bot any io succeed Dr. Shuttuck, and an assistant for the preparatory class was authorized, the president to se lect the man. No election of a director for the agricultural department was held and the president was asked to submit a list of available and suitable'men, the board to elect at a called meeting be fore college opens in the fall. A resolution was passed asking the legislature to amend the scholarship law so that the Clemson faculty will select the beneficiaries and so they must take agricultural or textile courses. The age limit for entrance was raised from 16 to 17 years after this year so that the students will be more mature and better prepared . A tract of 140 acres of land ad joining the college property was pur chased. A resolution was passed looking to the erection of a seperate building for the work of the preparatory class in the future. Kimball Gets Three Years. Raleigh, N. C., Special.-George A. Kimball, defaulting cashier of the Southern Pines Citizens' Banking and Trust Company, was arraigned at Carthage Tuesday on the charge of embezzlement and falsifying books. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to thc penitentary for three years. He will begin his sen tence at once. Lawyer Expires on Train. Greensboro, N. C., Special-Mr. Thomas M. Hufman, a well-known lawyer o Hickory, died here Monday night suddenly, the victim of a dead ly drug, although it is not believed that the fatal dose was taken with ? suicidal intent. Mr. Hufman arrived in Greensboro accompanied by Mr. J. V. Ray, of Burnsville, en route to Raleish- on legal business. He enter ed a sleeping car of the Raleigh train about ll o'clock and shortly before the train left at 12:45 Tuesday morn ins he was found ":i a dying condition. Interesting Items From Every where. AS THEY ARE ENACTED DAILY Condensed and Crisply Stated in a Way that Does . Not Tax the Busy Beader to Keep Informed. The X-ray as a cure for some cases of leprosy has been demonstrated by the American health authorities in the Philippines, according to Dr. Vic tor G. Heizer, chief quarantine officer in the islands. He says the X-ray is suitable only for specialy selected cases, and is valuable ' only in the early stages. Sam Ray and 'Clarence McCants were killed, and Jeff McCants was seriously injured .in ah electric storm that passed over parts of Georgia and Tennessee Monday. Four others were .less seriously injured. Secretary of the., Treasury ' Mac Veagh is working on a-scheme to re form the world's money. The Cunard Lin?"fiteamer Lucania was almost burned tb the hull by a fire that broke, out Saturday night. She was submerged at Liverpool Sun day night. * Surgeon-General Wyman has a staff of doctors investigatiiig pella gra, the Italian disease, which causes insanity, and which has recently been found in America. . The medical board of Virginia on Monday created 118 new doctors within the State. A thousand devices have been sub mitted in the mail-tying-machine con test of the Postoffice Department. Commissioner- of Corporations Smith has considerable evidence tend ing to prove the existence of a vast water-power conmbine.. Gov. Haskel of Oklahoma, is now prosecuting the United States mar shal and the grand jury who present ed him on the charge of land frauds. Paul C. Collins, who was shot at Black Mountin a week ago, arrived at Hillsboro, N. C., Monday after noon. He walked unassisted from the train to his carriage,. Eight bids came from the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, all nn d"r class 2, and ranging from $5, 747,000 to $5,097,000. The highest price paid for cotton in Montgomery 'in 25' years was reached Wednesday when the first new bale of the season from this county was sold at auction for 30 cents a pound. ..; , On the Island of Crete, the situa tion is still complicated. The Greek flag which was shot down by the marines has been hoisted again by the citizens in' the presence of a powerless military force. What the doctors at Belvue, New York, say is a remarkable amnea or loss of memory developed Thursday when a sturdy middle-aged man well dressed and to all appearance sane, applied for admission. . Questioned by thc admitting physician, he could not remember, his name, his residence or whether fie was married; nr'.:single. He had a hazy recollection of being in a saloon early in. the day and tak ing a drink. Dr. ( Charles A. Bakes is President Taft's pbysicial advisor and athletic trainer. He says in a wrestle the President is very hard to throw and that in the gloves he is decidedly a hard knocker. No surplus fat about his 304 to 306 pounds avoirdupois. Eight box cars left the track near Inman, S. C., Tuesday night without doing any dainage save delaying the trains to and from Asheville from four to six hours. The Alabama Senate finally passed all the provisions of the prohibition bill except forbidding the sal*? of newspapers containing a liquor ad. The lower house of the Alabama legislature passed a bill to prohibit the publication of the name of any female having suffered an assault but the Senate refused to concur. That Sutton came to his death from a pistol wound inflicted by him self is the verdict of the court of in quiry. Prof. J. H. Swindell, for years in the chair of astronomy at a Southern university, is sharpening scissors in the streets of Atlanta, Ga. American bankers are to get one fourth of the Honkow-Sze Chuen railroad loan. Pinning his last hope on his belief that he would regain his eyesight if he bathed in the sea on the feast day of the Blessed Virgin, Peter. Kelly, Brooklyn, found that it failed him, and, concluding that he would never be able to see again, committed sui cide early Tuesday by inhaling illumi nating gas. The National Red Cross Society hope to sell 50,000,000 stamps next Christmas to aid tuberculosis fights. Report's from all the fruitgrowing sections of West Virginia indicate a bumper crop of apples and peaches. Acapulco, Mexico, has been again shaken by earthquake and additional damage has been done. ? A new and very formidable mos . quito has appeared in the coast coun ties of Texas. They come in swarms and drive farmers from their fields and horses and cattle take to the wa ter and dip their heads under to wash away the pests and get relief. Many are dying of hunger rather than come out and fight for sustenance. The guests of a'Long Island hotel saw the captain and crew of six of a stranded schooner rescued by the lifesavers Wednesday. Relations between Turkey and Greece are at high tension and Greek steamers have difficulties at unload ing in Turkish ports. 5:48 incheas of rain fell in New York City from 8 a. m. Monday to Tuesday afternoon. It was a record breaker. It is rumored that the Pennsyl vania Railroad will at an early period run through trains from New York to Jacksonville, Fla. * j WASHINGTON NOTES President Taft at Beverly, ta over the Cuban situation for an 1 Sunday afternoon with Carlos Ga Velez, the island's minister to TV ington. From 3 until 4 o'clock diplomat and the President sat earnest conversation on the vera of the Taft cottage. Mr. Velez dared after the long interview 1 he had found President Taft de? interested in Cuba and thoroui acquainted with the ideals and am ions of the people. Mr. Velez saic realized that forces were at worl the hope of disintegrating the rer. lie. Some of the American news pers, he declared, had said unli things about the Cuban people wi were disheartening and discourag but he emphatically shook his h and said, "No, no, no," when as if he thought it ever would be ne< sary for the United Skates again intervene to set the republic's ho in order. In a letter addressed Sunday Secretary Nagel, of the Departm of Commerce and labor, Presid Taft served notice that any man gaged in the taking of the thirteei census of the United States who gages in politics in any way will dismissed immediately from the s vice. At the same time anuoun ment was made of the appointmi of 134 additional supervisors. O side of casting their votes the Pr< dent believes that census supervise and enumerators should keep clear anything that savors of politics, n ional, State or local. In his lett President Taft orders that the Sec tary of Commerce and Labor and t director of the census embody in t regulations governing the taking the census the rule as forcibly li down in his letter. Mr. Taft sa that in appointing census supervise it has been found necessary to seh men recommended by Senators a Congressmen in their districts. ] says he realizes that this method selection might easily be perverted political purposes, and it is to ta the census out of politics, so far the actual work is concerned, that has explicitly expressed his desire to the regulations. The census supe visors announced from North Cai lina and South Carolina as follow North Carolina-First district, J siah C. Mpekin, Sr. ; second, James ] Newborn; third, H. Frank Brow: fourth, William Claudius Pearso: sixth, Irvine B. Tucker; seventh, . Turner Grant, Jr.; ninth, J. Yat Killian, South Carolina - First distrh "William J. St?ren; second, Geor; I Waterhouse; third, William Walk Russell; fifth, Robert Leroy Douglas . . . ? Lowest bids for the constru j tion of the battleships Wyor . ing and Arkansas were submi j ted, to the Navy Departmei ? by William Cramp &'Sons, of Phil; j delphia, and the New, York Shipbuih j frig Company, of .Camden, N. J. Tei j ders also were made by the^Newpo: .'News 'Shipbuilding & Dry Deck Con . p'any of Newport News, Va.,! and ti Fore River Shipbuilding Company, c Quincy, Mass. The Cramp yard submitted tw bids, one at $4,450,000 and another ? ; $4,475,000. As both ships cannot i. i built by the sarre yard the Carade ??yard's bid of $4,675.000 is considere as lowest for one of the vessels. The Newport News eompanv offei ed to build a battleship for $4>90f00 according to the Navy Department' plans. Two bids were made by th Newport Ne.ws yard, under class 2 the department's plans as to hull an equipment but the company's desijrn as to the machinerv. These bids wer $4,680,000 and $5,010,000, respective Iv. Under class 2, propositions wer made for the installation of turbin coupled with reciprocating engines and turbines combined with electri motors. The speed promised general ly was 201-2 knots under botl classes, but the New York Shipbuild ing Company offered to build a vesse at 20 3-4 knots at $4.750,000 unde: class 1 and at $4,875,000 under clas 2. Another bid by the same com panv was for a 201-2 knot vessel a $4,780,000. . . . . Accusing the court of inquiry whicl investigated the death of Seconc Lieutenant James N. Sutton, Unitec States marine corps, of cullins: frorr mixed and contradictory testimony certain statements almost, if not_ex elusively, those of the accused, whici the court finds " standing out clearly, distinctly and beyond dispute oi cavil," Henry E. Davis, counsel fot Mrs. Sutton, mother of the dead of ficer, in a statement issued Friday declares that the court conveniently rejected every statement, whether of the accused or of other witnesses in conflict therewith. Mr. Davis declares that the judge edvocate was derelect in his duty in not confirming the two legal proposi tions submitted by Mr. Davis. Had he done so and the court heeded him, Mr. Davis continues, "it would have been absolutely obliged to exclude the hypothesis of suicide, and almost as certainly to exclude the hypothesis of a wound self inflicted in any manner as the ex planation of the cause of Lieutenant Sutton's death." Mr. Davis, taking up the sixth finding of the court, which declared that Sutton "was killed.by a revolver shot from a service Colt revolver, held in his own right hand and fired by himself, without intervention of any other hand," declares that if Lieutenant Adams' statement bc true, "obviously thc fatal shot was not fired from the Colt revolver." Touching upon that feature of the investigation relating; to the owner ship of the pistol nt the time of the fatal encouuter, Mr. Davis declares '.hat "comment upon the court's Iatter failure, to deal with this preg nant incident, would be superfluous." t The Indianapolis Automc truction And Sorro And Its I Indianapolis, Ind., Special.-Three more lives were sacrificed Saturday in the mad speed carnival which has inaugurated the great Indianapolis motor speedway. One mechanician and two spectators paid the penalty of their lives to satisfy the extreme desire for speed. - The fatal accident came when a National car, driven by Charles Merz in the 300-mile race, lost^a tire and crashed through a fence into a group of spectators, spreading death and destruction in the wake of its wild plunge. The dead: Claude Kellum, of In dianapolis, mechanician in the Nat ional car; Ora Jolleffe, Trafalgar, Ind.; an unidentified man. Besides the three deaths, two serious injuries resulted during the day. Henry Tapking, of Indianap olis, was seriously injured in the fatal wreck, sustaining a compound frac ture of his right arm, a broken nose and several scalp wounds. Bruce Keene, the driver of a Marmon car in the same race, crashed into, a post shortly after the National wreck and was badly cut about the neck and head. After the second accident the' of ficials decided to call off the 300-mile race when the leading car-a Jack son with Lee Lynch at the wheel had covered 235 miles. Ralph de Palma, in a Fiat, was second and j Stillment in a Marmon was third. The i race will be declared no contest and the great Indianapolos motor speed way trophy will be raced for again. . TROOPS FIRE ON STIKERS AT Pittsburg, Special. - One State trooper and one deputy sheriff and three foreigners were shot and kil'ed Sunday night in a wild riot at me Pressed Steel Car plant in Schoen ville, whose employes are now on strike. At least a score of persons I were seriously wounded, ten iatally. i The rioting followed a day of quiet and broke without warning At mid night the following partial list of I dead and injured was made up from reports received from the morgue, hospitals and several physicians' of fices: The dead: John L. Wilson, State trooper; Harry Exler, deputy sheriff; three foreigners. Fatally injured: John C. Smith, State trooper; T-iueelian Jones, State trooper; seven foreigners. George Kitch and John O'Donnell, State troopers, were seriously injured and one woman was shot in the neck. SEVEN CADETS DISMISSED / West Point, N. Y., Special-For being involved in the hazing of Ro lando Sutton, a brother of Lieut. i James N. Sutton,1 Jr., United States marine corps, whose death at Anna polis two years ago has just been investigated, seven West Point ca dets were dismissed from the United States Military Acedemy Thursday by direction of President Taft, j Joe cadets ordered to be dismissed are John H. Booker, Jr., bf West Point, Ga., first class; Richard W. Hocker, Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Duumore, Utica, N. I Y., third class; Chauncey-C. Devore, GEORGIA WOMAN SHOOTS Augusta, Ga., Special.-In a fit of jealousy Thursday afternoon Elvia Todd, a young white woman about 22 years of age, entered the office of thc Central of Georgia freight depot and probably fatally shot Cashier D. . Richard Wilson. The young woman claims that she has for the past seven years been J infatuated with Watson, who is a young man. She claims that he held out a ray of hope for her until a few days ago, when he "threw her over." A COLLISION IN THE AIR Rheims, By Cable.-The American aviator, Glenn H. Curtiss. at sundown added a dramatic feature to the trial flights of the aeroplane entered for the contests of aviation week by skilfully guiding his machine above another aeroplane and averting a collision in thc air that seemed im minent. The feat was accomplished when for the fi1 st. time in history three THE KING'S MOUNTAIN M( Rock Hill, S. C., Special.-Too much praise cannot be given to Hon. D. E. Finley, Congressman from this district, and Hon. E. Yates Webb, of the adjoining district in North Caro lina, for their successful work in se curing the national appropriation for the $50,000 monument which is just being completed on the space which marks the scene of the battle of King's Mountain, undisputed as the turning point upon which glorious ?success the Arnei'icnn forces swung steadily to the complete and final vic-, ILLINOIS RIVER STEAMER Peoria, Ul., Special.-The steamer Fred Swain, Capt. Verne Swain, of the Peoria & LaSalle Packet Com pany, with 25 passengers and 15 sail ors aboard, burned to the water's edge Friday after the Haming craft lind been piloted into four feet of wa ter and the occupants had ascaped to the bank of the Illinois river, up, Ililli GO T( HARLI NG Before insuring elsevvher Old Line Companies. At The Farmers ?bile Racing Brings Des? w-Frenzied Speed Results. By a strange freak, of fortune Merz escaped from the tembl? wreck with hardly a scratch. He fell under the car when it turned a somersault through the air and -iown into a gul ley near the side of the track. He was in imminent danger of being burned to death but by extraordinary luck he was able to shut off the en gine and thus save himself from a horrible death. Helium was hurled out of the car^ and landed in the gulley some dis tance from the twisted mass of steel and iron that once had been a speed machine. The three deaths raises the toll cf the speedway to seven lives this week. William A. Bourpue and his mechanician, Harry Holcombe, of the Knox racing team, were, killed.in an accident in the 250-mile race Thurs day. Cliff Litt?ral, a Stoddard-Day ton mechanician, was killed by being hit by a big racing machine while on the way out to the' speedway. On Thursday Elmer Grampton, a 6-year old boy, was killed by the automobile of Dr. Clark E. Day, of this city, while the latter wa6 on his way to. the speedway for the first day's race. . A pall of grief hangs over the city and the more reckless automobilists drive more carefully through the streets than they did earlier in the wfek. The frightful penalty paid for a few broken speed records is greater than was bargained when Indianapo lis threw down the gates of its "greatest speedway in the world." . PITTSBURG KILLING THREE Over a score of persons received more or less serious injuries. The riot scene was practically indescrib able. Mounted State troopers gallop ed indiscriminately through the streets with riot maces drawnx crack ing the heads of all persons loitering in the vicinity of the mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke in the doors of houses suspected of being the retreat of strikers, and whole sale arrests Vere made. From 9:30 to 11.30 scores of persons, were ar rested and placed in box cars, as^ a jail, in the yards. During the early stages of the riot ing women were conspicuous. Some of them were armed, others effective ly used clubs and stones. These women, all foreigners, insane with rage, were mainly responsible for in citing the men to extreme measures. At midnight quiet reigned in the strike zone._ LT WEST POINT FOR HAZING Wheeling, W. Va., third' class; Gor don Lefebvre, Richmond, Va., third class; Albert E. Crane, Hawarden, Iowa, third class; Jacob S. Fortner, Doton, Ala., third class. The action of President Taft and Secretary Dickinson in directing the dismissal of the cadets . is accepted by the officers of the army and the civil officials of thai; department, as a clear indication of the purpose of the administration to fully support Col onel Scott, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, in his effort to eradicate the practice of hazing in all its phases from student life at the academy. MAN WHOM SHE ADORED Watson was hurried to the city hos pital, where he was given surgical at tention, and the unfortunate girl put under arrest. When she was arrested she said: "I love the ground Dick walks up on, but I will not let him marry an other -roman. I Lope I have killed him." She is being held without bail. Young Watson's condition is consid ered very critical by the hospital sur geons. IS NARROWLY AVERTED heavier-than-air craft were manoeu vreing at the same time. All were flying rapidly when suddenly Curtiss saw M. Dumanset, in an Antoinette monoplane approaching at right an gles and on the same level with him. As quick as a flash Curtiss realized the danger and elevating his planes, his machine instantly shot ' upward and soared safely over the French man. ?NUMENT APPROPRIATION tory at the surrender at Yorktown, Va., one year and twelve days later. While this is the first monument erected by the United States of America in recognition of this bat tle's important part in determining the existence of the republic, it is not the first to mark the ' spot where the gallant mountaineers and farmer soldiers, with their /'Brown Betsy" rifles, undauntedly faced a larger, more numerous and seasoned, but not superior,'foe, and almost obliterated them. BURNS TO WATERS EDGE which the steamer was bound when it caught fire. No lives were lost but Joseph Case rider, the engineer, was burned about the face and body and Charles Rcich eberger, of Peoria, suffered a broken arm. The loss is $35,000. Several of the passengers lost their belong ing::. iUHANC } SEE ? & BYRD. e. We represent the Best ? BYRD*' Bank of ?dgefield