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One Round of Enraptu Heartily Into Thc F And Retires L Chicago, Special.-President Taft, during a stay of twelve eventful hours in Chicago, plunged with a will > into the long program of entertaining that awaits him on his long Western and Southern itinerary. With perfect weather and crowds that fairly fought ,to catch a glimpse ' of the Chief Executive, this, the first city to be visited, set a high mark of en thusiastic welcome to the President. From the moment he stepped off the rear platform of his private, car Until he rtired laie at night on board the train which will take him to Mil . waukee in the morning the Presi dent's journeyings- of thirty miles or more over Hie city's streets and park ? ? ways Jled him through lanes of massed humanity that were kept open with the greatest difficulty. Beginning with an automobile trip in review of 150,000 school children, four deep on either side of the park boulevards, the President's day was replete with incident. He attended and spoke briefly at a luncheon of ? the Commercial Club, viewed an ex-i hibit of ambitious plans for the im provement and beautificatiou of Chicago, attended, the Tegular Nat ' ional League baseball game between the. Chicago champion ."Cubs" and the famous .New York "Giants;" dined quietly with the Hamilton Club at the Congress hotel; made a notable address to a mass meeting in Orches tra hall in the evening, and as a finale attended for a few minutes the ball of. the American Bankers ' Associa tion. Mr. Taft was deeply impressed by the greeting of the school children, each one of whom waved an**Ameri can flag and sang and cheered as he passed. At the National League grounds the President saw his biggest oase ball crowd. More than 3?.?00 people were present. The President sat in one of the open sections of the double decked stand and thoroughly enjoyed a brilliant game in which the two greatest pitchers of the league, Math ewson, of New York, and Brown of Chicago, faced each other. New York won, but the crowd had some compensation in cheering the Presi dent, who remained to theN end and waved a farewell to the throngs. -, Taft Denounces the Law's Delay. Chicago, Special.-Speaking with great earnestness to a mass meeting in Orchestra hall Thursday night, President Taft declared "bat no ques tion before the American people, to day is more important than the im provement of the administration of justice, and announced ; his intention of recommending to congress the ap pointment of a commission to take up the question of the law's delay in the federal courts. The president said he hoped that the report of this commission, when rendered, would serve also as a guide to the States of the Union in effecting remedial legislation. Recalling that is was in this same hall during the campaign of a year ago'that he faced an audience of more THE SECOND STRIKE ENDE Pittsburg, Special.-Tae - second strike of workmen employed at the , prent of the Pressed Steel Car/ Com pany, .which was declared Monday, was brought to an abrupt end Friday. The climax was remarkable tn the history of industrial disputes. Kav . ing.notified the foreigners that they intended to march into the mill carry ing the Stars and Stripes, 2,000 Am erican workmen who were not favor-j PLOT TO KILL SAW SALVADi Mexico City, Special - -Charged with being" implicated in a plot to kill President Figueroa, of the repub lic of Salvador, Gen. Jose Dolores Preza and "Gen. Damas Copinel are behind prison bars in the capital of that republic, according to letters re ceived here Friday. The writer stat ed that on the 6th of last month a hie reliffious and- civic fete was held. WESTERN UNION STOCK BI Boston, Special.-It became known Thursday ' that the American Tele phone and Telegraph company has acquired nearly $16,000,000 worth of New. York Telephone company stock, owned by the Western Union Tele praph company. Papers covering the purchase were signed Wednesday. The New York Telephone company is the largest and in some respects the most important of the , subsi diaries of the American Bell Tele phone company. Of its $50,000,000 Hock. 64 per cent., or $32,000,000 is TWENTY-THREE LIVES 101 Mobile, Ala., Special.-A graphic story of a marine disaster which cost the lives of 29 persons when the steamer Nicholas Castania, en route from Havana to Cienfuegos, founder ed off the cost of the Lsle of Pines on the night of August 23 last, reach ed Mobile Friday night. Meagre news of the disaster was given by the Associated Press August 31. The crew numbered 27 officers and sail ors, and there were two passengers. ORVILLE WRIGHT FLIES li Berlin, By Cable.-The record for high aeroplane flight was broken here Friday by Orville Wright, who flew in his machine in the presence of the Empress, Princess Louise, Prince Adelbert and Prince August and a large party from the court. He attained a height of 233 metres (765 feet). The best previous record for height, 155 metres, was made by Hu bert Latham. Mr. Wright's altitude was measured by a captive balloon moored at a height of 1S3 metres, T IN C ? - ring Scenes-He Enters elicities AI! The Day ate To His Car. than 1,800 workingmen and made one of the. crucial addresses of his candi dacy, the president assured his hear ers that he had not forgotten his cam paign promises and the platform declarations o ! his party. Mr. Taft devoted the entire first part of his speech to the subject ol labor. The President on the Tariff Bill. At Winona, Minnesota, Friday th? President in a speech made the most important utterance he has made since- his occupancy ol: the White House. He was in the hotbed of the "insurgent" movement within the Republican party, but defend-ed the Payne tariff bill as the best measure ever passed by a Republican Congress and hence the best tariff bill the people have even known. * The President boldly asserted that the insurgents, who voted against the bill, had abandoned the Republi can party. "Was it the duty of the member of I Congress who believed that the bill did not accomp ish everything that it ought to accomplish, to vote against it? " askid tho President. . "I am here rr justify tnose who an swer this question '<?. the negative. I am not here to defend those who voted for the Payne bill, but to sup port them." "There is noshing quite so diffi cult," said the President, "as the dis cussion of a tariff bill for the reason that it covers so many different items. The meaning ol' the terms and the percentage are most difficult to un derstand. The passage of a new bill, especially where a change in the method of assessing the duties has been followed, presents an oppor tunity for various modes and calcu lations of the percentages of increas es and decreases that is really most misleading, or really throws no light at all upon the changes made. "One way of stating what was done is to say what the facts show that under the Dingley law there were 2,024 items. This included duti able items only. The Payne law leaves 1,150 of these items unchanged. There are decreases in (154 of the items and increases in 220 of the itoms. Now. 'of course, that does not give a full picture, but it does show the propor tion of decreases to have been three times those of the increases. -Taft Favors Posta! Banks. President Taft oevoted his princi pal address in Mi-waukee at the State fair Friday to tie subject of postal savings banks, which he strongly en dorsed before a l.irge and enthusias tic gathering that overflowed the grand-stand. Tte President said that the postal savings bank plank in the Republican platform bound everybody who calls himself a Repub lican. "The great usefulness of the postal savings bank is the great en couragement to thrift on the part of those who are just wavering in the balance whether they shall save the money or use it, because they do not know wher? they .:an put it safely." D-SINGULAR TURN TAKEN [ able to i the strike, assembled early at the McKees Rocks end of the O 'Don ovan bridge and cheering enthusias tically started toward the big plant. When the foreigners saw the great body of men determined to return to work these, too, fell into line and en tered the plant. Anticipated disor der failed to maierialize and the strike was over, lt is believed now that the trouble- lu;s been settled. 0R/S PRESIDENT DETECTED in the capital. It was planned by a number of men, it is said, that the President should die on that day. While the fiestas were in progress government detectives arresr.ed and imprisoned a number, among them General Preza, who was commander in-chief of the Salvadorean and Hon durean forces when they fought Nicaragua in the war of .1897. OUGHT BY RIVAL COMPANY owned by the American Telephone company. Contrary to the general impression, the transaction just concluded does not involve any settlement of the long pending suit between the Ameri can Telephone and Western Union, judgment in which was recently re turned in favor of the Western Union for approximately ?'5,000,000? Practically speaking, therefore, it will be fully two and one-half jrears before the American Telephone com pany enters into actual possession of the entire" $16,000,000 of New York Telephone stock. ST OFF THE ISLE OF PINES Fourteen human bodies have been re covered. The missing ll are believed to have become the victims of sharks. All the bodies recovered were in a terribly decomposed state and identi fication was impossible. A govern ment commission, af er an examina tion, reported that the immediate cause of the wreck -was the simultan eous explosion of the steamer's bat tery of boilers, commend with a con cussion of the steamer on the rock. ?5 FEET HIGH AT BERLIN and it i.s estimated hat he rose 50 metres above the balloon. The Em press and her sons congratulated Mr. Wright on his peribrmanee. Mr. Wright was in the air for 53 minutes and his flight was witnessed by his sister. Miss Katherine Wright. A strong Wind was blowing part of the time and made it necessary for the aviator to execute thc most intricate maneuvers so far witnessed here. Mr. Wright made another flight of 47 min. and 5 sec. with u passenger. EIGHT KILL?D_IN WRECK Seven Receive Slight Injuries-Two Passengers Fatally Injure i-Killed Are of Crew-Passenger and Freight Train/Collide. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Eight trainmen killed and 15 passengers in jured, two fatally, perhaps, :.s the re sult of a collision between si passen ger and a freight train Wednesday morning on the Nashville, Chatta nooga & St. Louis railroad a;; Pegrara station, 20 miles west of here. In the lire that followed at least two of the mangled bodies were completely con sumed. Among the slightly injured are: Capt. T. Jobe, Burton, N. C.; William Lunsford, Peachtree, N. C.; W. L. Thomasson, Peachtree, N. C.; R. W. Boyd, Almond, N. C.; Mrs. L. . M. Lee, Tullahoma, Tenn.; Mrs. Tem ple Lunsford, Murphy, N. C.; Mrs. A. C.* Thomasson, Murphy, N. C.; May Thomasson. Murphy, N. C^; Mrs. Mary J. Jackson, McLean Branch, Tenn.; Mrs. Joseph S. Lively, Mclnn ville. Tenn.; Mrs. John Dunn, Cum berland Furnace, Tenn.; Mr.' John Dunn, Cumberland Furnace, Tenn. Thc collision occured about 8 o'clock, and was between passenger train- No. 4, westbound, and fast freight No. 51, -en route to Nashville. The wreckage at once caught lire. The baggage, mail, express and smoking ears of the passenger train and sever al of the freight cars were burned. But one mail bag was saved, "brough the almost superhuman strength ex erted by the passengers the three day coaches and tho Pull-man were pushed back from the fire aud the equipment saved. It is the general impression among passengers and trainmen that the fault was with the passenger crew, as orders to meet at Pegram had been issued and the wreck occurred west of that station. The Precident Starts. Syracuse, N. Y.. Special.-After traversing Wednesday thc two great States of Massachusetts and New York, President Taft Wednesday night skirting the southern shores of Lake Erie on his .way to Chicago, where he arrived at 11:30 a. m. Thursday to make his first impor tant stop on a 13,000-mile tour of the West and South. Wherever the train stopped on its run from Boston there were large crowd's at the railway stations and the President was greeted willi en thusiastic cheering. The day was typical of many that are to come, and the President was prevailed upon to make a number of five-minute speeches from the rear platform of his car at points not including the itinerary. In Massachusetts, Mr. Taft spoke at Wordiest er, Spring field and Pittsfield. Entering New York State he was greeted at Albany by Governor Charles E. Hughes, and both made little talks to the depot throng, which cheered the State and Federal executives with equal enthu siasm. _ Women Fight Fatal Duel. Chicago, Special.-Mrs. Julia Tripp and her sister-in-law, Mrs. . Jacob Silvers, of New York, are both dead as the result of a pistol and knife duel between the two women in Mrs. Tripp's apartments at 56th stree! and Prairie avenue, a fashionable resi dence district of this city. It is said Mrs. Silvers' husband left her about three months ago because of hei" pe culiar actions. Mrs. Tripp was the wife of a superintendent of a manu facturing firm of this city. There were ten bullet wounds and one cut on the body of Mrs. Tripp. Mrs. Silvers had a bullet wound in the chest and several knife slashes. Only one revolver was found in the apart ments but eight empty shells and two cartridges were found indicating that the revolver was emptied and reload ed during the struggle. The furnish ings of the apartments were in dis order and in every room there were evidences of a desperate struggle. Governor Johnson I1L Rochester, Minn., Special.-Gover nor John A. Johnson was operated on in St. Mary's Hospital here Wednes day by Dr. William J. Mayo, assisted by Dr. Charles Mayo, for a deep seated intestinal abscess. It was a very serious operation and the worst is feared. The latest is as follows: Dr. C. F. Nevin, house physician of St. Mary's hospital, at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday evening issued the follow ing bulletin on Governor Johnsen's eonditiou : "Governor Johnson's condition is very bad. Puls? irregular and fast. Temperature sub-norma:." Car Workers Strike Again. Pittsburg, Special.-The car work ers' strike at the plant of the Press ed Steel Car Company in Schoenville which was thought settled, after cost ing nine lives and heavy financial loss, began anew Wednesday when be tween 3,000 and 4,000 employes of f;he car works walked from their weirk and quietly dispersed to their homes. Say They Were Poisoned. . Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-A telephone message received ,by The Times Wednesday .night Johnny Dobbs, manager of the Chattanooga baseball team, says that the members of his team were poisoned Wednes day while playing in Augusta. All the men who drank from a bucket of water aro ill. Two, who did not drink of thc waler, escaped. Meek, the star catcher, is confined to his bed with a doctor in attendance. Far Famed Clermont Comes to Lifo Apiin. New York, Special.-With plain cord wood as fuel thc scow-shape], stove-pipe funneled craft in which Robert Fulton first navigated the waters of the Hudson river under steam propulsion 102 years ago, came to life again Tuesday, when the re constructed Clermont, built for the Hudson-Fulton celebration had her official speed trial from Mariners Harbor. Staten Island, to Robbins Reef Light in the lower bay. " With a .22-caiiber ballet imbedded in the center of his brain, fired there with suicidal intent more than two weeks ago, Frank Blaine left the Casualty Hospital in this city Wed nesday, discharged as cured. He said he suffered no discomfort other than pains in the head and neckband he talked rationally at all times. The surgeons at the hospital who watched him closely said they detected no ill effects from the bullet in his brain, and it is their belief that he will not suffer from it in future years. An X-ray photograph of the young man's head showed the bullet im bedded in the center of his brain. "Free Sunday" for so many years the hope deferred of "Jack Tar" in the United States navy is about to be come a ...realty. Acting Secretary Winthrop issued an ord<*r having the object in viey Wednesday. Its pur pose is to reduce the work aboard ships on the Sabbath to a minimum consistent with requirements of the service,;to the *end that the day may be generally-observed as a day of rest. Conditions at the Western peni tentiary . .of Pennsylvania at Alle gheny have 'been found so distress ing and so intolerable as to require the immediate removal of all federal prisoners whose transfer is practi cable and to demand the most se rious' consideration of the proper pub lic authorities; This is disclosed in the report of C. H. McGlasson of tb? 'department prisons and prisoners to the attorney general. Rear-Admiral Daniel D. Stuart, who ".ras promoted through the re 'tirement bf Rear-Admiral Sperry September 3, will be transferred to tito retired list September 15. He is a native of New York and was graduated from. the United States Naval Academy in 1869. He has served practically all around tho world. After serving at the New York Navy Yard he went to Carite for duty at the naval station in Jan* uary, 1899. He went next on duty at New York and his latest assign ment was as.commandant of the navy yard at Norfolk. Considerable damage was caused by fire about 2 o'clock in the morn ing at the bakery of Ferdinand Pries ner in the rear of 476 L street, south west. The night's baking of several thosand loaves had been finished and the employes had gone, to bed. The proprietor was awakened by the sound of crackling timber and gave the alarm. Tie fireman were quick ly summoned, but the fire burned for nearly an hour and several thousand dollars damage was caused, including the loss of about 3,000 loaves of bread. Additional appointments of census supervisors by President Taft were. announced Wednesday by Census Di rector E. Dana Durand. Among them is that of Ernest Madison Du Pre, a wholesale commission dealer at Columbia, S. C., to be supervisor of the seventh South Carolina district. The appointment of John J. Stump as supervisor of the fifth Maryland district, followed a vigorous . fight against him because he is engaged in the retail liquor business in Mary land. He has had experience, how ever, which was regarded as entirely fitting him for the duties of the place. The light house tenders Hibiscus and Oleander will carry President Taft's party down the Mississippi river next month. The Hibiscus has been order ed to accompany the Oleander pro vided the Mississippi's channel will accommodate a vessel of her draught. The Oleander is now at Key West. Formal announcement was made at the Department of Justice that Act ing Attorney General Ellis has ad dressed letters to Governors Hughes, of New York, and Stuart, of Pennsyl vania, calling their attention to the results of the investigation of the Pressed Steel Car Company strike at Pittsburg and submitting evidence for such action as the State authorities may wish to take. Tales of great suffering and the serious situation in the flooded dis trict of Mexico, as told in telegrams received at the state department from American Consul General Hanna, brought forth another appeal from the American National Red Cross so ciety for funds with which "to sup ply our unfortunate neighbors of Mexico with the necessities of life." The great loss of life and destruction of property is even greater than was at first supposed and it is predicted that great physical .suffering will pre vail among the homeless during the fall and winter if ample relief is not afforded. Admiral George Dewey's face glow ed with pleasure as he read the re ports of the splendid work being done by the men of the navy in their record target and battle practice off the Vir ginia capes. "See that record," said he, as he pointed to an unofficial re port which said that the battleship Louisiana had made ?6 hits out of 16 shots at 2 targets. "That is a world beater. I feel great pride in the manner in which our men have acquit ted themselves. Four cadets at the Annapolis naval academy have been dropped from the rolls by direction of President Taft because of "inaptitude," which was said to have been demonstrated on the practice cruise of the corps this summer. The names of the dismissed cadets are M. Dunnell, Jr., fifirst class, of New York City; L. E. Fagan, second class, Philadelphia; L. K. Tay lor, second class, Wheeling, W. Va., and C. M. Flett, second class, Lari more, N. D. Items Gathered and Told While You Hold Your Breath. SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar nered From the Fields of Action at Home and Abroad. The American Red Cross society in the flooded districts of Mexico are sending urgent appeals for more funds, stating that the worst has not been told and that great suffering must follow if relief is not forthcom ing. Extensive joint maneouvers be tween the Virginia militia and the fon st Artillery have begun at Fort Monroe. The New York suits against steam ship companies and railroads appear to be the result of a general inquiry into rates and combines on the Atlan tic. While swimming in Amite river, near Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Charles Rouse, 14 years old, took cramp. His brother, Walter, 12 years old, attempted to rescue him but both went down together. George R. Colton, formerly Collec tor of Customs at Manilla, will be ap pointed Governor of Porto Rico by President Taft in place of Governor Post, who recently submitted his re signation. Mrs. Isaac Moody, residing near Pierce City, Mo., celebrated her lOOtu birthday on Tuesday. ' A pyramid has quite recently been discovered in the State of Mexico, and it lends to the discovery of a very ancient buriad city. A Frenchman says he has invented a flying omnibus, and wants a fran chise to carry freight and passengers in Paris. A German expedition has been or ganized to conduct scientific research in the polar seas. An examination of the body of' Lieutenant Sutton, which was dis intered at Arlington Cemetery, show day before, shot himself dead on it indicated that he did not shoot himself. Cesnus Director Durand has sent letters to supervisors notifying them that they must give up all political activity while the census work is go ing on. ? Paper mills in the United States are planning to move to Canada, ow ing to the prohibition against the ex portation from the Dominion of pulp wood. Five thousand mill operatives at Fall River, Mass., are out of work from a shut down of mills. Oscar Leisner, of New York, through abnormal devotion to his wife, whom death took from him the day before shot himself dead on Tuesday. They left one little son that Leisner tried to find ' and it is believed he meant to kill him too. The budget as made out for run ning New York City next year is $183,248,000. It is an increase of $27,000,000 over last year. Raymond Lnstonnat, a French scientist, says Cook and Peary may both be mistaken about having reach ed the North Pole. The Chicago subway stock has dropped $5 on the share from the death of E. H. Harriman. M. Paulham, at Tourney, France, last Monday, wished to pay a visit to a friend a few miles-away. He simply took his aeroplane and flew over, landing conveniently near, dis mounted, chatted a while, then mount ed and flew back to the starting point as if it were a thing of every dav life. Mr. Jarnon Meredith, says the Wilkesboro, N. C. Chronicle, had an ox bitten last week by a copperhead snake. The ox bellowed as if in great pain and died in less than a half hour. While cleaning a 45-calibre target pistol, Orville E. Stockwell, Jr., ac cidentally shot himself through the heart in the apartments of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville T. Stock well. Sr., Wednesday afternoon at Nashville, Tenn. L. W. Bonney, a hotel man of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, made a flight in a monoplane of his own design at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning. Its con struction is along simpler lines than any other air craft, and it ascended readily at the first trial. He in jured it however in descending. An effort is being made to secure a new trial in the Breese case at Asheville, N. C., on the affidavit by two of the jurors that Marshall Ramsey said to jurors that the de fendants were as guilty as h-L Ramsey denies the charge in to to and has been vindicated by the court. The late E. H. Harriman's will designates Mrs. Harriman as the sole legatee of his estate estimated at from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000. There is a belief, however, that he had, before the will was made, set apart a goodly portion for his mar ried and unmarried children. The Post Office Department, has made a ruling that mail deliverers shall not be required to deliver mail where vicious dogs are allowed to run at large. Judge Sutton, of Nebraska, in pronouncing the judgment of hanging on John Masourides last Tuesday, named Monday as the day of the week and gained high commendation therefor by the ministerial associa tion of that community. Coffeeville, Kansas, on last Tues day, by a respectable majority adopt ed the commission form of govern ment. The Jewish New Year began Wed nesday, Septembfer 15lb. It is the year 567?. TROLLEY LINE TO RIVER Rock Hill to Take Steps Which Will Bring About This. \ Rock Hill, Special.-A movement is on foot here to rebuild and elec trify the street railway which is n?V operated by mules. The railway is I owned by the Land and Town Site Company, which also owns ,250 to 300 acres within the city limits of Rock Hill. Mr. J. M. Cherry owns land all the way from Rock HiU to the river. He has graded a road to within a half-mile of the river. This grading was supposed to be simply a good road through his property, but it' now transpires that he contem plates using it for a trolley to the river. If the proposed arrangements go through Mr. Cherry will organize a new company to take over the town site company and build a trolley to the river and develop at the Catawba power plant an extensive park. Such a road would naturally be extended sooner or later to Charlotte and the park and big river lake would.then be at the service of the people of Charlotte for recreation. Rumor has it that arrangements are already made to finance the company . which will take over and develop the prop erty now owned by the town site company and build an electric road not only to the river, as above stated, but to three of the cotton mill vil lages, namely, the Highland Park, Aragon, Manchester and through the new Cherry park. Insurance Concerns Have Large Profits. Columbia, Special-Insurance Com missioner McMaster's statement shows that the net premium receipt? from fire insurance companies for the six months ending June 30 were $9.12, 429.08; life insurance companies, $1, 621.125.25; miscellaneous companies, $140,652.03. The additional license fe'-s as authorized uiider the re *e:.t act of the legislature show collections as follows: Fire insurance com panies, $17,340.04; life, $30,051.94; miscellaneous, $2,693.52. The fire in spection tax amounted to $1,833.9'.. Liquor Flows in J " Yard. Lexington, Special.-Sheriff P. H. Corley last week emptied 90 gallons of liquor and cider in the jail lot. This lot had been captured at Irmo, about six weeks ago. The stuff was consigned to John Davis, and was seized as being conlrband. No in quiry was ever made by the supposed owner, and as the required time was up, the sheriff decided to get rid of the entire lot. This is about the first case of this kind reported in the county, there being but few viola tions of the liquor law here. Bold Robbery at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.-The resi dence of C. D. Loane, 221 Kennedy street, a well known travelling man, was entered Wednesday night and jewelry and .silverware valued at $500 and $30 in currency taken. Among the articles stolen were two solid gold watches, two diamond rings, a gcM brooch set with dia monds, silver, knives, forks and soup ladle. There were evidences that the burglar used chloroform on the in mates. Since the above report the sensation arises that the jewelry hid been pawned by one close in the home. Got a Quarter in Her Throat. * Florence. Special.-The 3-year-old daughter of Mr. Ragland Brimson, of Dillon, was brought here Monday for surgical treatment. The little girl while playing with a silver 25-cert piece, accidentally let it get down in her throat, and it turned flat ways, thereby cutting off her breath almost; entirely. By means of the X-ray the piece of money was located in tho evening, was successfully removed and the child relieved. $20,000 Verdict Returned. Union, Special.-Probably the lar gest verdict ever given in a damage suit in this county was the one ren dered Wednesday by the jury in the case cf Jae Holcomb vs the Southern Railway. This verdict was for twenty thosand dollars in a suit wherein six ty thousand was asked. Holcomb is a young man who, while in the em ploy of the Southern, had one foot injured. Death of Geo. A. Norwood. Greenville, Special.-George Alex ander Norwood, a prominent banker of the Piedmont section, died at his residence here Friday. After finish ing school he was successively a school teacher, a journalist, a farmer, a merchant and a turpentine distiller. He went into the commission business in Charleston, handing cotton and naval stores for eleven years. In 1884 he organized and became president of the Bank of Marion, remaining there six years, when he came to Greenville and had since been intimately con nected with the banking interests here. New Police System. Columbia, Special.-Part of the equipment of the new police alarm System arrived Saturday and the re mainder is expected to arrive before October 1 when the work of instati ng the new apparatus xviii proba bh be commenced. The new equipment is thoroughly modern in every partic ular and will replace the system that uas done service for 25 years or more. The same system is now being install ed in sevrai Southern cities. Closing Out Stock of Dispensaries, j Columbia. Special.-The work of checking up the dispensaries going out ot" business will proceed rapidly. Dispensary Auditor West has. ap pointed Mr. R. L. Gaffney of Gaffney to assist in the work and it is expect ed that in a number of the counties the stock will be very quickly dispos ed of by the dispensers. The law re quires that all stock must be sold be fore November 15 and in case of a balance of supplies on that date the stock must be disposed of to other counties remaining wet. *TfT"r% PALMETTO HAPPENINGS News Notes of General Interest From All Parts of the Statt. The "Unloaded Gun" May Cost Boy Sight. Union, Special.-Another "unload ed gun" has nearly resulted in a terrible tragedy, even though no fa tality occurred, and may make a lit tle boy blind for life. It was at Buffalo, in this county, that Elmer and Luther McCreight, aged 10 and 8 years respectively/ sons of Mr. Robt. McCreight were playing on the bed with a shotgun that was supposed to be unloaded as their father usually kept it that way, but was loaded now because Mr. McCreight had loaded it to kill some dogs that had been worrying him. In playing with the gun it suddenly went off, the charge tearing a larg? hole in the ceiling of the room antf a few of the scattering shot entering Elmer 's eyes. Sowing Clover and Alfalfa Scien tifically. Columbia, Special.-Over 200 farm ers of the State are now planting - winter leguminous clover crops under the direction of Prof. A. G. Smith of the United States bureau of plant industry, who has charge of the work in South Carolina. Many of the farm ers are planting crimson clover, re?J clover, burr clover, alfalfa and vetch. Thoa? desiring information concern ing the planting of winter clover crops can secure specfiic information by applying to Prof. Smith, who has an office in the State capital and gives personal attention to all in quiries made to his department. Want Circus Kept Out. , A. Spartanburg, Special.-Barnum & Bailey's big curcus, which will show in this immediate locality Octobei 27, and the Spartanburg County Fail Associatif i have clashed. The Fail Association wants the city to keep the circus from showing within the eity limits for the reason that Oc tober 27 is the date for the opening of the Fair, and if allowed to pifA their tents in the city, the business*" o fthe Fair will be ruined. The city, when asked for a license fixed tho fee at $2,G00, and then dropped to $1,000. The circus people, have re fused to cough up, but will show on the outskirts of the city near the Fair Grounds. Magistrate Suspended For Miscon duct and Neglect of Duty. Columbia, Special.-Governor An sel suspended Magistrate J. E. Pavisj .vho was appointed last spring' for Clearwater township. Aiken county, ; for " misconduct and noglect ol duty," in failing to turn over to the county $4.90 he collected as costs ic a negro disorderly case which was compromised. Mr. Davis was given a hearing and explained that the case was compromised last spring and he neglected to make a record of it and in this way forgot to turn over the funds. The Governor regarded hi? answer to the charges ^sufficient and removed him. Flans for the Celebration. Gaffney, Special.-Mr. J. A. Car roll, who was recently appointed fro? Gaffney as a member of the executive committee of the King's Mountain Monument association, met the mem bers of the committee at Gastonia Monday. About 20 members of th* committee were prosent, and all were most enthusiastic as to .the prospect? at the time of the unveiling of the monument. Mr. Carroll said that it was thc sense of the committee that a day would be devoted to the unveil ing and one day to thc reproduction of the battle of King's Mountain, which was really the turning point of the war. Wants a Decision. Columbia, Special.-?-The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad has re quested the Supremo Court of South Carolina to hold a speen 1 session tc pq^s on the eonsti?ition.dity of the Legislature's act permitting the com pany to obtain a charter in this State, Chief Justice Jones now has the mat ter under advisement. Rice Birds Are Destructive. Charleston, Special.-Harvesting of rice is progressing satisfactorily for the planters in the Savannah river territory, and within the week will be finished, says the Savannah Morning News. Some of the larger planters have commenced threshing The condition of the rice crop is very good, and unless some very badi weather turns up will give an abun dant yield. Rice birds are playing havoc with the alte rice particularly according to reports which are brought to Savannah. Ship Lots of Booze back to Baltimore? Charleston, Special.-Three thou sand two hundred and fifty-six quarts of whiskey and 4,680 bottles of im port ed beer were 'loaded Tuesday on a steamship of the Baltimore line and! shipped back to Baltimore and im mediate points. The conrtaband had been consigned to blind tigers here, but never reached the. consignees a? the police patrol the water front day and night and the stuff gradually piled up ou thc wharves. Case of Pellagra in Florence.' Florence, Special.-It is reported! that Miss Laura Jones, who has Been: an inmate of the county poor farm for seveiinl months, died, Sunday with pellagra, which is thc first case of the kind that has been diagnosed in this county. Tho report is to the effect that Dr. William Uderton was the attending physician, and after diag nosing the case as pellagra, Dr. F. H. McLeod was called in conference, and the diagnosis as made by Dr. liber ton, was confirmed.