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PITTSBURGS SH?ME Grand Jury Lays Fare Bad Conduct of Officer* THE SYMPATHETIC STRIKE OFF Union Laborers of Other Organiza tion's, who Quit Werk in Sympathy With the Carmen, Have Been Order 1 ed to Return to Work-Some Have Difficulty in Getting Back Posr 1 tiona. Pittsburg, Pa., Speeial.-The grand jury have ordered indictments against thirty-one present and past councilmen, and made a demand upon the directors of the city depositories to investigate "their own hoards and ascertain the bribe-givers in connec tion with the ordinance designating their institutions as city depositories. A further result of the present ments of the jury was the order of City Comptroller Morrow for the withdrawal of all city funds from the six banks, and the practical nullifi cation of the ordinance designating them as custodians of city funds. - There is about $3,640,320 in these banks now, and this would be in creased many millions during next week hy taxes that are being paid. According to the comptroller the with drawal of funds will be gradual, how ever so that the institutions may not be embarrassed, or any undue alan? caused depositors. The presentments give the full de tails of the plot on the part of the councilmen to obtain bribes from the six banks, the means adopted for paving the bribes are related, and the story of the transfer of $45,000 by an unnamed man to former coun cilman Charles Stewart in the Hotel New York, is told. It is recited that John F. Klein and Joseph C. Wasson, by reason of their confession and statement*!, making posible the exposure of the facts, are entitled to great consideration and a reduction of Kh?n's sentence ?9 urged. Friday's finding of the grand jury puts a new phase on the ease of Max G. Leslie, who is now at Hot Springs. Leslie was acquitted on the charge of perjury recently in connection with the Columbia National Bank matter, He had denied to a grand jury that he had ever received any money in the deal, and convinced a jury whea placed on trial that on the day he was alleged to have received the money he was in New York. The present grand jury finds that he paid $17,500 to Brand and paid Leslie $25,000 in June, 1908. f Sympathetic Strike Called Off. Philadelphia, Special.-The Central Labor Union at its meeting on Sun day officially called off the sympa thetic strike, which has been in effect here for three weeks, union, workers in most of the trades still > . affected by the general strike order resumed work on Monday. , At the office of the Philadelphia National League Basebal 1 Club, it was stated that the iron workers re sumed operations on the grand stand and bleachers, and it is hoped to have the work completed before the open- ; ing of the season. Five hrindred horseshoers, who h?ve remained idle since the strike was declared, have also returned lo .work. The committee of ten. which has had charge of the general strike, met the executive committee of the strik ing carmen and discussed plans for the continuation of the carmen's strike. It made a full report to the Central Labor Union lpn Sunda}*, % when all the sympathetic strikers were ordered back to work and re quired to render financial assistance to the carmen._< Night Work by Children Prohibited. Providence, Mass., Special.-Should Gov. Pothier approve the child labor bill, which has passed the senate and the house, as it is expected he Avili the departmfct stores, of Rhode Island will haye to readjust their working forces. The new law pro vides particularly that no child un der 16 years of age shall work after 8 p. m. Nearly 1,000 children in the State" are affected. Never Ratified the Amendment. Annapolis, Md., Special.-In a cau cus of the Democratic members of the legislature looking to the dis franchisement of the negroes of this State, it was decided tb adopt the Digges plan. This is based on the fact that the State of Man-land has never ratified the 15th amendment to the federal constitution giving ne groes the right to vote. It provides that as the constitution of the States gives the ballot to white men only, negroes may be refused registration. It is not supposed under this plan to attempt to prevent negroes voting at congressional or presidential elections Etna Continues to Belch. Catania, Sicily, By Cable.-Etna still is angry.. From the top of the old crater volumes of white smoke are issuing, while from the new craters that have formed lava is gushing and large incandescent masses are exploding with loud de tonations aud emissions ol black smoke. Col Roosevelt at Carlo? Cario, Egypt* By Cable.-Up with the sun Friday, after a restful night, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his party were early-astir in preparing for a visit to the Necropolis of Sak~ kara, where the wonderful tombs of various kings of Thy and of the tombs of the Bulls. Col. Roosevelt and family returned to Cario, dined with the American Consul General. Mr. Iddings, and later attended a banquet tendered him by Sir Eiden Corst, the British agent and consul general in Egypt. " , NO FREE TRANSPORTATION Ko Passes For Confederate Voterais and Newspapers. Washington, Special.-By a vote of 8 to 6, the house committee on com merce defeated an amendment to the administration railroad bill, au thorizing common carriers to issue free transportion to Confederate vet eraas en route to and from Confed erare reunions. The committee defeated an amend ment .authorizing railroads to ex change on an equitable basis trans portation for newspaper advertising. AUTOMOBILE WRB0K. Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum Instantly Killed'and Gen. Bell Injured. Washington, Special.-Major Gen eral J. Franklin Bell, chief of the staff of the army, was badly but prob ably not ikmgerously injured, and Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum, wife of Major Slocum of thc Seventh Cavalry was almost instantly killed Wednes day in a collision of their automobile with a trolley car on tb? Tenallytown road in the northwest outskirts of this city. General Bell has one rib brokeu and a bad scalp wound and severe bruises. The chauffeur was unin jured. Major Slocum, iv hose wife was kill ed, ia a brother of Major Stephen L'H. Slocum, United States military attache at St. Petersburg, and a nephew of Mrs. Russell Sage. Their father, Mrs. Sage's brother, is ad ministrator of the Russell Sage es tate. _ Arrested for Robbing Trunks. Columbia, S. C., Special.-Charged with rifling trunks in transit from Northern cities to Aiken resorts, B. A. Blunt, C. W. Jenkins and J. C. Jenkins have been placed under ar rest by the police. There are five counts in the indictments, alleging the theft of various articles of wear ing apparel, jewelry and a lady's work box The value of the articles alleged to have been stolen aggre gates $1,300 and the detectives and Chief Cathcart have recovered goods amounting to $518. The goods were found in rooms occupied by the three men under arrest. Five detectives have been working on the case which resulted in th? arrest of the three men, Grand lar ceny is charged and Recorder Stan lev held the men in default of bond in the sum of $1.000 each. Blunt was night inspector at .rthe union station and the Jenkins were his assistants. Methodist Women Want Recognition ia the Southern Church. Atlanta, Special.-The women of the. Southern Methodist church are preparing for the battle in the com ing quadrennial conference at Ashe ville, N. C., for a recognition in the Church. They ar? demanding the same rights granted to laymen in the councils of the church, and theil organization is confident that their demands' will be granted. Meantime, 'the women are taking no chance, but are conducting an active propaganda through the pul pit, the press and by letters. Several prominent ministers have declared in their favor and are preaching in the same strain. President Taft and World Peace. New York, Special.-The President of thc United States spoke in the cause ?f world peace Tuesday night before such a brilliant assemblage at the Hotel Astor that he de scribed it as "superlative.'* He was the honor guest at a banquet of the Peace and Arbitration League and the principal speaker advocated the immediate keynote of every address but no speaker advocated the im mediate disarmament of nations. On the other hand all agreed that armies and navies were necessary until a more utopian universe shall havo some abonne Conserve Head Waters Navigable Streams. Washington, Special.-The Weeks bill for conserving the head waters of Navigable streams at appropria tion not to exceed $11,000,000 dur ing the next five years for the ae quisitiou of lands in any of che States for that purpose, was favor ably acted upon by the House com mittee on agriculture Wednesday. Annual Convention Closed. Greensboro, Special.-The fourth annual convention of the Laundry men's Association of the Carolinas and Virginia came to a close with a "Dutch Supper" given in honor of the visitors by local laundrymen. The following officers were elected for the foming year: President, J. A. Nichols of Asheville; vice presi dents, J. E. Degunther of Charles ton, S. C.; and secretary and treas urer, M. H. Epps of Charlotte. Char leston won over four other cities in the fight for the next annual con vention, which will he held in March, 1911. . Would-Be Wreckers Change Switches. Roanoke, Va., Special.-A das tardly but unsuccessful attempt to wreck weitbound trains on the Nor folk & Western Railroad at the Em pire Coal & Coke Co.'s operation at' Langraff. Va., was made Tues day night. The would-be wreckers threw and ..locked seven different switches, all leading from the main Kne io sidetracks. The arrival of a yan! man from Vivian prevented a lerioqs wreck. Mog) ; Battleships Necessary. Washington, Soecial.-During tke discussion of the naval bill Saturday Representative Hobson of Alabama excited interest by declaring that the United States would have to provide for five battleships annually for ten years to regain the plaee the country occupied among naval powers in 1005. If the country was to keep pace with other nations in naval ad vancement he said six new battle ships a year would be necessary. PALMETTO HAPPENINGS Nejrs Notes of General Interest From AU Farts of the Stat?. Housebreaking no Crime. The South Carolina Supreme Court has handed down a decision in" a robbery case against a. young white man.of Batesburg of interest through the State, whose conviction is re versed. The defendant is Ralph Clai-k. The court finds that the jury's verdict of "guilty of housebreaking" is no crime. In South Carolina to break into a house is not against the law, though to break in with intent to steal or commit a felony is a crime. The alleged robbery was from the store of M. E. Rutland. This was the case in which the Batesburg chief of police, Darby, got involved in a criminal charge of a capital offense from the mother of Clark. Mrs. Rankin, whose home Darby searched. He was acquitted in the case brought against him. Chester Wants Union Depot. A mass-meeting was held at the court house at Chester to discuss again, after several years, the mat ter of a union depot for Chester. M. S. Lewis stated the object of the meeting, stressing Chester's need for a union station. A. M. Aiken read a resolution which was unanimously adopted stating it as the sense of the meet ing that the four railroads entering Chester should build at once, at some convenient place, a union pas senger station, and that a committee of 12 be appointed to present the subject at once to the railroads and the railroad commission. The city council will be requested to call a special meeting and pass similar reso lutions. Good-Bye, Ticks. The following bulletin has been issued from the State veterinarian's office at Clemson college: The State and federal agents in tick eradication work are now being placed in the field for the summer's campaign and by April 1 the entire force will be at work in the north western counties of the State-Abbe ville, Greenwood, Laurens, Union, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Chester and York. Every effort will be made to completely free this area from ticks and place it above the federal quar antine line this ysar. Greenville's New Depot. Work of clearing away the houses in the McBee avenue section, Green ville, where the new Charleston & Western Carolina depot is to be erected, is proceeding rapidly, and* it will be only a few days before work will be begun on surveying the foundation. The new station will cost' about $40,000, and its completion is prom ised by December 1. Dr. Boyce President Due West. A special from Due West states that at a meeting of the board of trustees held Thursday night, ftev. Dr. Tv G. Boyce, formerly a native" of Mecklenburg county, N. C., was elected president of the Woman's College, an office made vacant by death several months ago. Dr. Boyce has been living in Tennessee for some years, and is one of the ablest men of hu church, the Associate Re formed Presbyterian. The schools for boys and girls at Due West have long been famous for the high type of men and women which it turns out. Shot to Death at Batesburg. An unfortunate tragedy was en acted at Batesburg Thursday when W. B. Glenn, superintendent o? the electric light plant, shot Clinton Rhoden to death, on one of the main streets of the town. The weapon used was a pistol; four shots, were fired, and each shot took effect. One witness stated that Rhoden was un armed. It is stated that there had been bad blood between the men for some time., A Corporation "President" Arrested. John Ryan, of Wilmington, Del., claiming to be president of the Unit ed States Gu rantee company of that city, who was arrested in Gaffney, and taken to Orlando, Fla., by Depu ty Sheriff Gordon of that city. Ryan refused to go without requisition and this delayed his departure. He is said to also be wanted at Douglas. Lan dr um Man Deserts Home. John Blackwell, of Landrum, sud denly disappeared from his home some days ago, leaving a wife and six children. A few days later he was heard from, stating that he was in Cincinnati and that he would never return. It is believed that he became mentally unbalanced as a re sult of reading circulars sent him by a house of that city. Negro Boy Drowned in Well. Horace Johnson, a 15-year-old negro boy, who lived with hi?, sister, Emmereta Jenkins, Florence, fell into a well in the back yard of their home and was drowned. It was ascertained that the boy was subject to fits, and it is possible that one struck him while at the well, and he fell in. Coroner Cooper view ed the body and decided an inquest unnecessary. If Senator Daniel, of Virginia, serves out the term for which the Democrats have elected him, declares the Boston Transcript, lt will give him a basis of reminiscence as long as -that of the late Thomas H. Ben ton, and considerably broader. Nearly every boy, asserts the Louis ville Courier-Journal, takes a whack at selling papers tor a few days, thus qualifying as a self-made man. ?. S. AFTER BLIND TIGERS Do Not Come Under Head of Unin tentional Violators. Washington, Special.-War on "blind tigers" and on "bootleggers" has been declared by the administra tion. Hereafter, persons engaging in these forms of the liquor traffic are to he dealth witt much more dras tically than heretofore. This stand of the government has particular reference to violation of the internal revenue laws in "dry" country, where local enactments pro hibit dealing in liquor. Loud com plaints had come to President Taft from various "dry" districts, notably in the South and West, that the prohibition laws were negatived through the operations of the "blind tigers" and the "bootleggers" and, in response to demands for re medial measures, he directed that steps be taken to stop the practices so far as lay within the federal power. New regulations were drawn un der the supervision of Mr. Cabell, the Commissioner of Internal Rev enue, and approved by Secretary MacVeagh Saturday. They set out that as the peddling of liquors is not contemplated by the internal rev enue laws and no provision is made for the issuance of any stamp legal izing such practice, peddlers of liquors, or "bootleggers," are not to be regarded as coming within the class of unintentional violators and should be arrested and reported for prosecution whenever found selling liquor in such manner. Heavy penalties of fine or impris onment or both are prescribed for vi olations of the law. As a supplemental measure of as sistance to the States in the enforce ment of their prohibition laws, a method has been provided by which .they may obtain information gather ed by the Federal government, of internal revenue violations. Large Number Hookworm Suspects. Washington, Special.-In southern Florida in company with Dr. E. E. Lindeman, of the State Board of Health laboratory at Tampa, and Dr. John S. Helms, Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the public health and marine hospital service, in the public health reports, says he visited 8 schools located in three counties and saw 1,306 school children, of whom he puts down 55.9 per cent as hookworm suspects. The number so classified, Dr. Stiles says, may, as experience shows, be taken as an ultra-conservative esti mate of the number of these chil dren who had hookworm infection. At least five of the teachers in the schools visited showed clear and pro nounced effects of hookworm infec tion. In a second paper Dr. Stiles speaks of a visit to three cotton mills in Rockingham, N. C. In those three mills 224 people were employed and the percentage of hookworm suspects was 64.8, being about what was an ticipated in view of the fact that the mills draw their labor chiefly from the sand areas. Tariff Concessions by Canada. Washington, Special. -Gr)ieral satisfaction is expressed here at the announcement made that an agree ment has practically been reached between the officials represnting the Canadian government and the Pres ident and Secretary of State Knox, respecting the adjustment 'of the tariff of Canada and the United States. No one in authority here is w:iling to discuss thc details, but t'-ere is good ground for the belief that material concessions have been granted by Canada and that the United States will receive iii refurn for its minimum the intermediato rates given by Canada to France and twelve other countries on a con siderable number of articles in which exporters from the United States are specially interested. Charlotte Mint is Doomed. Washington, Special-The Char lotte mint is doomed, not today or to morrow or this year, but some time in the near future. The gold pur chased there, it is said, "costs tho government more than 4 per cent. Representative Webb, has filed a pro test with the Secretary of the Treas ury against the discontinuance of the mint. Bloody Work of Drunken Man. Wilmington, Del., Special.-John Henry Bethea, of Dillon, S. C., a contractor about 40 yetrs old, while 'on a passenger train near Wilming ton, Del., shot and killed the negro porter, and later the conductor. Bethea was drinking. He had taken offense at some remarks of the color ed man. He shot the conductor for interfering. He barricaded himself in the toilet room, and defied arrest. The fire company turned the hose on him. When he came out he was shot aud killed by officers. He had fired several times with his magazine pis tol at the crowd, but not doing much damage. Father Would Butcher Boys. Hartford, Conn., Special.-An in sane father was prevented from butchering his four little children on the banks of the Connecticut river Saturday by the arrival of the police. When located back of some bushes, his four boys were partly undressed and were lined in a row, the maniac father standing over them with the uplifted axe. A boy of 4 \&s to have been the first victim. Tho poor child was standing beneath the shin ing blade with a crucifix in one hand, calmly awaiting its fate. The other, under orders of the madman, were terrified spectators. NEIGHBORLY. "So you don't like that crowing rooster?" "I haven't anything against the rooster personally. Rut every time lie crows he reminds me that I don't like the people he belongs to."-Wash ington Star SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS The Cream of Newi Itemi Gathered From All Over South Carolina and Boiled Down. Alleged Swindlers Arrested. B. F. King, Jr., has arrived from California, where he landed a few lays ago after a long cruise with the navy, with which he enlisted a Pew years ago, just after the collapse jf the Metropolitan Loan & Trust Co., au alleged endless chain swindle which operated extensively through aut the State from headquarters at Gleenwood. Mr. King was a olerk in the Green wood office of the loan company. He and the head of the company, W. J. Nichols, formerly of Greenville, N. C., have been indicted for fradulent? use of the mails. Nichols was rnji to ground in Oklahoma a few days ago by Postoffice Inspector Gregory, where Nichols was operating as C. L. Jackson with ar? office of seven teen stenographers, selling the right to sell some sort of a stove. Nichols is a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina and has a 6ne appearance. He is about 34 years old. Among t je bigger swindles alleged to have been perpetrated in this State by the loan company were those whereby the Hartsville Bap tist church lost $1.300, the Pendleton Street Baptist church in Greenville $700, and a Greenville negro carpen ter and contractor named Henry Moseley $1,300. The purchasers of loan contracts were given written agreements that they would get loans nt a lower rate of interest ai the rate of $1,000 for each $12 advanced payment they made. Sharpers Dupe Express Agent. Two men giving their names as James Carril! and James Parris, worked a clever swindling game on the people of Fairfax and other ad joining places. Recently there came a package of diamond rings by ex press to Godans. They were con signed to "James Farris" and were valued at something over $400. The package was marked collect. There came a similar package to Ulmer which was valued at $265. There was also a package of diamond rings shipped to Syracuse to "James Parris.''' Last Wednesday, the two men called on the express agent at Godans. Paris asked to examine the jewelry, as it had been sent with that privilege. After they left the ex press agent became suspicious, and examined the box. He found that several of the diamond rin*rs were gone and cheap imitations substitut ed. Carrill was arrested and taken to Bamberg jail. Parris escaped. Sumter to Employ Physician. The special committee from the Sumter city council, board of health, and board of education, appointed at the last meeting, have submitted a report recommending thc employ ment of a physician to make quar terly examination of pupils of the city schools and to attend the poor. The placing of a water faucet on the grounds of Kendall institute for free use of that school. The report was adopted and it was ordered that advertisement be made for proposals from physicians. Recovery of Mr. Tillman. Senator Tillman is very much im proved in Atlanta. He has so much improved that he was out for a walk for a short time. This is the first time sine his ill ness that he has been able to get about and his doctors arc now hop ing for a speedy and complete re cove ry, New $400,000 Cotton Mill. A company has been organized to build at Chesnee, S. C., eighteen miles north of Spartanburg, on the line of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad, a $400,000 cotton mill. Lady Wins Free Scholarship. ' Miss Frances Mciver Thompson, a graduate of the College for Women of South Carolina, won the ?wo years' free tuition scholarship in the New York university school by get ting the best mark in the examina tion for the Chancellor's certificate. The $50 for the best essay on suff rage rights was won by Miss Edith Chapman. Balloon Passes Greenville. Moving in a northerly direction, a large balloon was sighted by num bers of persons at Greenville Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. It is stated by citizens who saw the sailing gas bag that they could discern an occu pant of the basket. Traveling Man Dead. Dr. Thomas F. Jones, traveling representative for the Vernoica Sales Company, Boston, with headquarters in this State, at Columbia, died at a boarding house at Laurens Friday night at about 12 o'clock. Five Dollars From Soldier. A recent letter from Manilla, Phil ippine Islands, containing a money order for $5 as a contribution to the Clarendon County Conf?d?r?e mon ument fund, has been received by Capt, D. J. Bradham, of Manning. The subscription is sent by Mr. W. Thompson Wilder, who is a son of former Sheriff Wilder, of Sumter, and who is well known and has many friends in Manning, Weak Schools Get $60,000. An all-afternoon and a lengthy evening session of the State board of education was taken up for the most part with apportionment of the funds under the Act providing that $6*0, 000 be given to weak schools of the Slate in the several counties. At the night session also was taken up the report of Prof. W. H. Haud, State high school inspector, Hard Problem for S apr erne Justice. One of the biggest jobs of arith metic a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States has confronted in a long time, faces the one who may be assigned to work, out thc alleged indebtedness of the State of West Virginia to the Commonwealth of Virginia, growing out of the former's setting up in business for herself during the civil war. Charles E. Littlefield, special Mas ter, has just reported on- the claim of Virginia that West Virginia should have a proportion of Virginia's in debtedness preceding the breaking away of Weist Virginia. Exceptions which the States are expected to file will require the Court to review the work of its special Master. The amount West Virginia will be called upon to pay Virginia varies, it would seem, from the Littlefield report, anywhere from $3,250,000 to $8,660,000. In round numbers, Vir ginia is asking West Virginia to pay about $11,000,000. The difference in the amounts reported by Mr. Little field varies according to whether the Court apportions the debt of Virginia by population or by valuation of property, and whether slaves are to be classified as population or as pro perty. The Supreme Court has not indicat ed what steps it would pursue if West Virginia were to refuse to pay the amount it decress is due Virvinia. In the suit of South Dakota to compel North Carolina to satisfy an alleged indebtedness, the Corri ?9? creed that if North Carolina did not satisfy the claim within a specified period, the marshal of the Court should sell certain property of the State from the east door of the Cap itol in Washington. North Carolina settled within the period specified. Fine Record for the Louisiana. The battleship Louisiana exceeded all her previous performances Sun day in a test of speed in' Cuban waters where the vessels of the At lantic fleet are engaged in )nan oeuvers with the purpose of drilling the personnel of the squadron in the art of naval warfare. Admiral Schroeder, commanding the fleet, in his report to the navy department for last week stated that a prelimi nary estimate sliowed that the Lousisi ana maintained an average speed of 18.942 knots an hour in a four hours' full power trial under forced draught. This was accomplished with about 1,000 tons greater displacement than was the case on her contractors' trial. When the fleet; entered Guantanamo bay several weeks ago to begin the drills 4.054 men were unable to swim. As a result of the instructions which have been given in this re spect 3,226 of those have now quali fied and the lessons will be continued for all men wbo can not swim 50 yards. In a competitive match of small arms teams of various ships last week the Missouri was declared win ner with the Nebraska a close sec ond. During the stay of the fleet in Cuban waters over 5,000 men hav& carried out a progressive course of small anns firing and about 1,000 have attained the qualification of marksmen or sharpshooters. The Nebraska and the New Hamp shire are engaged in a series of three (james for the baseball cham pionship of the fleet. The first game Tas won by the Nebraska in ll in nings bv a score of 4 to 3. The Wisconsin was detached from the fleet and sailed for New York. House in Serious Mien. Monday the House assembled to pay tribute to one of its late mem bers, Hon. Robert C. Davey, of Louis iana. Only one member, Representa tive Towns 't:d of Michigan, made reference to the incidents of the last few days when he said: "I am much impressed vith the difference of the scenes now and those of a few hours ago." Big Methodist Church in Washington. The national building committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, appointed for the purpose of raising funds for the erection in the National Capital of a building which will be, as the four Bishops who at tended the meeting, expressed it, "our representative church in Washing ton," adjourned Monday after an councing that of the $300,000 which will be needed for the building, $132, 000 already has been pledged. This amount is in sums ranging from $100 tc $10,000. Prioleau Entitled to Privileges. A negro sitting at a desk in the rear tier of seats in the House during the recent animated scenes excited the curiosity of the 2,000 spectators who banked the galleries. He was Aaron R Prioleau, of Charleston, S. C., who as contestant for the seat of Representative" Legare is entitled to the privileges of the floor of the j lower hottsc of Congress. ... ? GOTO HAULING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. A.t The Farmers I Brownsville Case Nearing Close. , All of the evidence in the celebrat ed Brownsville case now is before the court of inquiry and it is expect ed the opinion of . the court will be ready for submission to congress within the next two weeks. The com manders of three of the negro com panies, which were dismissed froin-?*/ the sen-ice by President Roosevelt, have submitted evidence strongly dis crediting the hitherto accepted state ments of witnesses that all of the ammunition at the Brownsville post was accounted for. The testimony of these officers was to the effect that in one company from 500 to 1,000 rounds of ammunition were missing and in another company, a surplus is shown, and in still another the records were so imperfectly kept that it was impossible to state whether there was a shortage or not. Almost the last item of testimony received by _ thoj board was the1 deposition of Thomas Hill, a negro from "Wyoming, who was. acquainted with one of the. ? soldiers supposed, to have been im- ' plicated in the shooting up of the town. This soldier, now dead, not long after the Brownsville affair, told him that the negro soldiers shot into the town, not only from the barracks, but also from the enclosure in whieh . the barracks are located. Speaker Camion Passes Responsibility. - Speaker Cannon is not taking anyj" leading or dominating part in the proceedings of the House, nor is he talking for publication about his at-, titude on the subject. From a source very near the Speaker, it was 'earn- . ed Tuesday that he felt that tLe ma jority which had taken control of things last Saturday was now re-' sponsible for legislative matters and that it might be poor taste for him to make suggestions or to attempt to have anything to do with the di-??. recting of affairs. As to tt?fe com position of the new rules committee, the fact most prominent seems to be that a large number of the "insur gents*' will insist upon knowing in advance of the caucus action, who the members are to be and upon hav ing the privilege of' placing their "O. K." on them. Congress Passes Minor Bills. By unanimous consent numerous bills of minor importance were pass ed Tuesday and the pension appro priation bill, carrying nearly $156, 000,000 was taken UD. The house agreed to limit general debate on the measure to eight hours. Representa tives Gillett, (Mass.) told of the nec essity for economy in government. Representative Golden (N. Y.) op posed ship subsidy and Representa tive Langley talked on pensions. A number of minor bills were passed, including one appropriating $3,P00,-jf:' 000 lo purchase 12 blocks for an en largement of the grounds surround ing the capitol. President Taft in New Haven. President Taft paid a brief visit to New Haven to attend the meeting of : the Yale corporation, of which body he is a member. Mr. Taft reached there Monday morning and was driven in an automobile directly from the station to Woodbrige hali, where President Hadley received him and where the corporation meeting took place. After the meeting the presi dent returned to his car, which was attached to the express leaving the city at 4:55 for Providence. Graduates With High Honors. Dr. Willard J. Riddick, of Gates ville, North Carolina, has been in. attendance at the Naval Medical School at Washington, D. C., and graduated with high honors this 3, week. He will he commissioned su^" geon U. S. N. Night Weather Telegrams Again. The weather bureau has decided to resume on March 24 the distribution by telegraph of the 8 p. m. observa tions relating to temperature, rainfall, wind, weather, etc., which were re cently discontinued in the interest of economy. This action brought forth protests hom many sections of the country, and it has been decided ta restore the service. Panama Canal Work Booming. Work on the Panama canal booming. The last edition of the canal records shows that more ma terial was taken out of the Culebra cut in February than in any other month since ground first was broken for the canal. The total was 1,259, ?13 cubic yards; the daily average was 54,757 and steam shovel No. 214, also broke all records' with a daily average of 2,203 yards, while on one day shovel No. 213 made an other record by taking out 4,009 cubio yards of rock and earth Publication of Campaign Contribution The enactment of a national cam paign publicity law now has a chance :o become a possibility, in the opinion )f Perry Belmont, president of the National Publicity Law Association. Mr. Belmont declared Monday that he defeat of Speaker Cannon would favorably and vitally affect the pur pose of the measure requiring the publication of campaign contribu? Mons. SEE & BYRD Wej*represent the Best &. BYRD* Bank of Edgefield