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iff DISTRESSED. Criticises Traveling Expenses of President (DREW $25,000 ALLOWANCE &ply Grieved by Suggested R^lec . on Southern Hospitality Dem ocratic Congressmen Object to Nsw Appropriation For Expenses Becom ing Immediately Available. Washington, Special..- President i's traveling expenses and the that he had overdrawn his al ice of $25,000 a year voted by w "ess led to acrimonious debate the house Thursday and a refusal permit him to use the next year's swanee to meet the deficiency. reported from the house com ittee on appropriations the items of 15,000 for the fiscal year beginning inly 1, next, would have become "im ' it ely available" except for the ts of Democratic members. The "immediately available'' were ly stricken out by the action -of Mann (DI.), the occupant of the r, in sustaining a f?int of order by Mr. Macon (Ark), a Demo It was.the .Western and South trip made last fall that exhausted White House traveling fund. Dur lg the debate Chairman Tawney, in rge of the bill, criticised Southern loerats fox their attitude in ?bject to an appropriation to defray the iae of-a trip on which they had the president 's guests. Mr. Hard (Ga), drew from Mr. Tawney the Imission that Secretary Carpenter furnished him a list of names of democrats who had accepted the president's hospitality. In connection with the use of such ?es. Mr. Burtlett' (Ga.), charged [that "the president has violated both [the rules of hospitality and of decent [conduct." ^ The. president, Mr. Tawney said, [had made his. trip through thc West land South at the invitation of sena tors, governors of States and civic {organizations. 'This trip," Mr. Tawney said, "was not made for his own pleasure. Congress was in session when delega tion after delegation from the house, ?rom the senate and from the differ ??nt States visited him urging him to ?make this trip." At that time, Mr. Tawney said, there was no appropriation to meet the traveling expensen. Washington, Special.-"In all my experience, and I have enjoyed the j hospitality of many sections and F-countries of the world, I never had a .more cordial, generous or open and lavish" welcome than I had in the Southern States during my trip, and ? the slightest hint that puts me in the atitude of a critic of that hospitality ; gives me great pain." This in part is the manner ir. which President Taft Friday ia latter to Chairman Tawney of the House committee on appropriations deeply resented criticisms passed by Democrats in the debate in the Honse Thursday upon the traveling expenses of the President. The President says he is escpeeially distressed by "suggested reflection on Southern hospitality." Onion Veteran "Sat Down On." Freeport, 111., Special.-At an ex ecutive session of the department of Illinois, G. A. R., here Thursday, a . resolution of Col Jasper P. Darling Columbia post, Chicago, calling upon the president to take such steps as may seem best to remove the staiue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from the na* lion's hall of fame at Washington and to return it to the care and cus tody of the State of Virginia was kid on the table as ill-advised. Prisoners Cht iv Style. Columbus, Ohio, Special.-One hun dred prisoners, from murderers to burglars, went on a strike at the Ohio penitentiary and refused to work because they thought that they were being fed condemned meat. The strikers were placed in solitary confinement The officials deny that the prison ers are being given condemned meat. Compared Lee to Benedict Arnold. Freeport, 111., Special.-Inveighing against the placing of the statue of Gen. Robert , E. Lee in the hall of fame in Washington, Col. Jasper T. Darling, past commander of Colum bia post, G A. R., Chicago, address ed the initial campfire of the State encampment of the Illinois G. A. R. ~ compared Robert E. Lee to Bene ict Arnold and prophesied that the acceptance of the statute of the Con I federate leader would be a step to wards pensioning Confederate soldiers and opening the way to the federal government assuming the burden of Confederate war bonds. Pugilistic Performance Will Caine Ort San Francisco, Special.-rTh* police committee of the board of supervisors have recommended that a permit be granted the Broadway Athletic Club to hold a boxing contest in this city on July 4 . Representatives of the Church Fed eration were prevent and protested against the recommendation, the Jeffries-Johnson fight will be held un der the auspices of the Broadway Athletic Club. An Opinion. Little Rock, Special.--In the opin ion of Dr. W. D. Hunter, entomologist Of the United States Deportment of Agriculture, the boll weevil will have invaded the entire cotton belt within the coming 15 years. Organization Escaped Prisoners Now. Rome, Ga., Special.--The 22nd es cape from the county1 jail within thc preaent year was made Tuesoay morning- when Ava white prisoner* **4 teator r*d. "BY THIS SIGN CONQUER," Sunday School Children in Uni form Parade and Sing. "Washington, Special.-Children took the principal part in the closing ses sion of the sixth Convention of the World's Sunday-school Association. Dressed in costumes of mest of the nations of the world, rad carrying the flags of those countries, preceded by the ..conquest flag," which hears a cross and the words "by this sign conquer," a long line of them filled the front of the big platform and later marched through the aisles of the immense hall singing. The next Convention will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1913. The month and date will he determined later by the executive committee. The committee on resolutions pre sented a report, which was unani mously adopted by the Convention, declaring for a campaign of evangeli sation in the Roman Catholic coun tries; for civic purity; for universal peace and expressing the conviction that Sunday-school influences are re sponsible for the wave of prohibition which has swept some sections of the country. Boys Lost to Church. Washington, Special.-Seventy-five per cent, of all the boys over 13 years in the Protestant Sunday schools of the United States are lost to the .liureh and never make professions of faith. Such a statement, spoken by Eugene C. Foster of Detroit, in one of the workers' conferences, which followed the World's Sunday School convention, astonished Sun day school workers from all parts of the earth. Killed When Looking at Comet. Princeton, Ky., Special.-Lincoln Oliver,.a well-,known farmer, of Cald well county, was shot and seriously wounded while standing in his yard looking- at the comet. Oliver was a leader in the^ Dark Tobacco association and was concern ed in. the suits recently filed at Pa ducah. ' He was also a witness against the alleged night riders, tried a few weeks ago at Hopkin s ville. WiU That Stop the Girls? Washington, Special.-After con sidering all sides of the controversy which has arisen over the use of shellac and other gums for coating chocolates, the board of food and drug inspection of the Department of Agriculture has decided that the use of shellac is not a proper proceeding under the food and drug acts. Good Man Falls. Cleveland, Ohio, Special.-Chief of P?Ece? - F* ederick Kohler, known throughout the count ry as the "golden rule" chief, and lauded by President Roosevelt as the best chief of police in the' country, was suspended by Mavor Baehr on charges bf gross im morality, habitual drunkenness and disobedience of orders. Aged Veterans Meet . Houston, Texas, Special-Texan Mexican War veterans Wednesday met in reunion, with an attendance of fo?uteen. Thursday will be spent on the field of San Jacinto, where General Sam Houston crushed Gen eral Santa Anna, winning the in dependence of Texas in 1836. Alonzo Steel, sole survivor of the battle, and ninety-three years old, is among those in attendance. Each Claimed Blackest Husband. Valdosta, Ga., Special.-Sallie Washington, colored, who cut her neighbor, Letha King, to death with a razor following an argument in which each contended that her hus band was thc "blackest" was con victed of murder, the verdict carrying ft life sentence. Ko Law Aghast Buying Vote. Chicago, Special.-Declaring there if no Illinois statute regulating the election of United States Senators and arguing therefore, that there was oo law violation if Lee O'Neal Browne, as is. charged, paid Representative White to vote for Wm. Lorimer, At torney W. S. Forest continued efforts here to have the bribery indictments against Browne quashed. Startling Testimony of Sugar Witness. New York, Special-Oliver Spitzer, former superintendent of docks of the American Sugar Refining Com pany in Williamsburg, (Brooklyn), who recently was pardoned from the penitentiary by President Taft, ex plained Thursday why he did not con fess during the trial which ended last February with his being sentenced to two years at Atlanta. Such a con fession, he declared, on. the stand, would "have carried him to a ceme tery." ; In other words, he would hae implicated a dead man-Henry 0. Havemeyer, late head of the Sugar trust. Greatest Man in the World. London, By Cable.-The Daily Tel egraph, in a long editorial eulogy of Colonel Roosveelt, describes him as the most powerful statesman in the English-speaking world. "His personality," says The Tele graph, "is better known throughout the globe than any other, except the German emperor, and in some ways he,is the stronger marked of the two, and he could, if he pleased, become the Warwick of American politics." Great Men Honored. Washington, D. C., Special.-Presi dent Taft,.Mrs. Taft, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, King George of England, President Diaz, of Mexico, and Wm. Jennings Bryan were made life mem bers of the World's Sunday School Association in the convention amid scenes of great enthusiasm. For each of those so honored $1,000 had to be subscribed, and in the case of Colonel j Roosevelt the chairman of the con-j von-tion, by popular demandi limited A MtortfiptiM M QM Arilftft . < HIS TO RESCUE Augusta Business Men Come to Aid of Taft OFFER TO PAY THE OVERDRAFT Of $5,000 of the President's Traveling Expenses Made hy Southerners Taft Pleased at Evidence of Friend liness-Cannot Accept Offer. Washington, Special-A protest against the action of certain Demo cratic members of the Congress in opposing the appropriation of $25, 000 for the President's traveling ex penses, covering the President's last Southern trip and an offer to make up the deficiency, was telegraphed to Speaker Cannon Saturday by the Au gusta (Ga.) Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Exchange and Georgia Carolina Fair Association. The tele gram announced that at a called meet ing of the three organizations the fol lowing memorial was ordered sent to the Speaker, to be presented to the House and to President Taft: "Augusta, the winter home of President Taft, stands indignant and mortified at the action of certain Democratic members of Congress in defeating by technical objection the proposition to make retroactive, so as to cover all the expenses of his last Southern trip, the appropriation of $25,000 for the President's traveling expenses. "At a joint meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce, the Merchants'and Manufacturers' Association, Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade, and the Georgia-Carolina Fair Associa tion'held this day, it was unanimous ly agreed that we respectfully tender through you, to the government of the United States the $5,000 necessary to meet the deficiency of the Presi dent's recent trans-continental trip which did so much to cement the ties between the different sections and bring nation and the nation's Chief Executive in closer touch and sympa thy with each other." The President could not possibly accept the offer of the patriotic Geor gians. He intends to pay out of his own pocket his traveling expenses for the remainder of the fiscal year. These will amount to about $7,000 or $8,000, as the President proposes to make all tho visits planned by him be tween now and the end of the year. Two Brave American Boys. Washington, Special.-After riding on horseback most of the way across the continent to meet Colonel Roose velt on his arrival in New York, Louie and Temple Abernathy, aged 9 and 6, respectively, sons of Jack Ab ernathy, the wolf catcher and friend of the former President, arrived here Saturday night. They rodo from Frederick, Md., Saturday, a distance of 57 miles. Temple dropped off to sleep the minute his head touched the. pillow. While the little fellow was curled up restfully under the white covers, Louie talked of their trip. "Temple and I," he said, "wanted to see some of the animals sent from Africa and we will go over to the Smithsonian Institution to see if we can have a look-at some of them." When asked what he intended to say to Mr. Roosevelt when he met him in New York, Louie replied that "it would depend on what Mr. Roose velt said to them" and that he "could not cross that fence until he came to it." President Taft received the two little travelers. Virginia Urged to Welcome Roosevelt. Representative C. B. Slemp, cf the Ninth Virginia District, and Republi can State Chairman; is urging that Virginia be represented In New York City on June 18, when Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt is to be welcomed home, Sub-Marine Boat Stays Down. Calais, France, By Cable.-Another French sub-marine, the Pluvi?se, with all her crew aboard in thirty fathoms of water, was sent to the bot tom of the English channel Thurs day afternoon by the 'cross-channel steamer Pas Ne Calais, which, crowd ed with passengers bound for Dover, struck the partly submerged Pluvi?se when about two miles from harbor. Ought to Live Like Editors. Chicago, Special.-On $70 a month you cannot save money if you are married; you cannot have joy rides; you cannot go to theatres and you can barely exist. Testimony to this ef fect was given by witnesses before the Federal Board of Arbitration, be fore which the locomotive firemen and enginemen employed on 47 railroads are fighting for an increase of salary. Bacteriologist Dead. Baden Baden, Special.-Prof. Rob ert Koch, the famous basteriologist, died here from a disease of the heart. He was born at Klausthal, Hanover, December ll, 1843. Increased Revenue on Tobacco. Atlanta, Special-After July 1, tobacco manufacturers in Georgia will pay the government an increase of from 17 to 60 cents in tax for every 1,000 cigarettes manufactured. They will also pay an increase of from 6 to 8 cents per pound on smoking to bacco. Internal Revenue Collector Rucker has received information from the department in regard to this increase. Railroad Trunk Robber Caught. New York, Special.-Martin Jacob sky, alias Jackson, alias Bosky, who is charged with having a part in a series of trunk robberies in the South ern States aggregating more than $200,000, started for Richmond, Va., Thursday in charge of a railroad de tective. Jacobsky Avas arrested last Saturday and has been awaiting re quisition papers. One of the indictments against Jacob sky is for the alleged theft of a trunk from the Chesapeake & Ohio R*Ur??4 worth $9;g?g? ti-.. SAYANNAJ? Aged White Man Guilty of WU ? ing Three Women Savannah, Ga., Special.-Guilty of the atrocious murder of his wife, Mrs. Eliza Gribble and her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, here last De cember, was the verdict returned against J. C. Hunter, in Chatham Superior Court. With the court room's silence broken only by the sound of the voice of Judge Charlton, the sentence of death was pronounced and unless saved by legal formalities the aged prisoner will die on the gallows June 10th. r Looking steadily at the Judge with his one remaining eye, Hunter, shrivelled with age and hard usage, and after the ordeal of the trial, ap parently was as calm as any one else jn the court room. The murders for which Hunter is under death sentence were conunitted in the early afternoon of December 12, in a small frame two-story house on Perry street. Mrs. Gribble's skull was cruehed in with blows of a blunt instrument. She was very old. Her daughter, too, met death almost in stantly from blows over the head. Mrs. Hunter, the wife of the'eonvict ed man, was not dead when a patrol man pushed open the door of the house on the terrible scene, but died several days later in a hospital with out regaining consciousness sufficient ly to tell who struck her. She bab bled of a "white man" who attacked her. W. H. Walls, a white man,- Mrs. Hunter's alleged lover, and John Cooker, a negri, who are charged with aiding Hunter, are prisoners. A second negro who confessed the crime was not held, his story being proven untrue. Bribery Charges Stirs , Senator. Washington, Special.^For iust two hours Saturday Senator Lorimer of Blinois stood in the Senate and discussed the charges of bribery made against him in connection with his election to the Senate. He made emphatic denial of all the allegations and sought to turn the accusation of wrong-doing upon The Chicago Tri bune, in which paper the charges were first printed. Senator Lorimer declared that all of the power of the city, county, State and Federal administrations under the leadership of Senator Hop kins, Governor Deenen and Mayor Busse, assembled into a misfit organ ization, combined to destroy the or ganization controlled hy / Lorimer, with intent to give control to The Tribune. Are There Others ? Washington, Special.-Publication of the information that Congress might pay the claims of heirs of Geo, Washington, who contend that $305, 000 worth of land was- taken from them without warrant of - law, has brought out a new claimant to dis puie their rights,,, George M. Roberts, of Wellsville, Ohio, has written the-following let ter to the chairman of the House Committee on Private Land Claims : ,"Observing that your committee is about to award the $305,000 to the sup posed heirs of George Washington, 1 forbid any such proceedings, for I am the only heir to that land, and I will prove it when I get the original naoers from England, the papers that John Paul Jones took in the river on his first trip. I write this as a warn ing, so that you will not spend the people's money unnecessarily." Thanks. New York, Special.-Appropria tions for more than $700,000 have been made by the General Education Board for the endowment of work of various colleges and for agricultural work in the South. What Difference is There ? Rockford, 111., Special.-After be ing "dry" for a.year, 40 "model" saloons have been licensed to begin business in Rockford. The new ordi nance regulating the traffic contain? several novel features, including the prohibition of treating. It is also unlawful for a saloon keeper to have a chair or a free lunch .counter in his place. The High Cost of Votes. Springfield, 111., Special.-Senator D. W. Holslaw, Saturday confessed to State's attorney, "Burke, and later to the grand jury that he voted for William Lorimer for United State? Senator and was paid therefor $2, 500 by State Senator John Broder ick of Chicago._. Don't strike Uncle. Sam's Boys. Memphis, Tenn., Special.-A hun dred and twenty-five dollars a punch is what it costs to strike a mail car rier in Memphis. At this ratio, J. W. Fleece, a local business man was fined $250 by Judge McCall in the United States district court of an assault committed several months ago. Negro Sunday School Convention. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-One thous and negroes, representing every State in the Union attended the National Baptist Sunday school Congress at its annual session here. "We are struggling to uplift the negro through the Sunday school-and church by the proper training of the children and by discouraging loafing and substitut ing industry, honesty and thrift," said the Rev. Dr. C. N. Clark, of Nashville, Tenn., who presided. Killed Her. Husband. Henderson, Ky., Special.-B. W. Eblen, a wealthy liveryman, was shot and killed by his wife at their home Saturday. The woman fired three 6hots into the body of ber husband, one piercing his heart. She then shot twice at Mattie White, a negro woman, and beat her over the head with the clubbed revolver, inflicting injuries that are expected to cause death. She then ^?ilt to jail rind INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column of Current Bve&ta Caught in S very Count; From C$s?6.t? Mountain Gap. w More Time to Reflect. Because be lashed an old woman? who was in his employ, H. H. Brig man, said to be a wealthy Marion County farmer, will have to serve his sentence in the State Penitentiary. Governor Ansel has refused to grant him a pardon. Brigman was con victed during the present year in the Marion County Courts and sentenced to eighteen months in the Peniten tiary on the charge of assault aftd battery. No Bible Riddle About This. It has been known for several yean that there was a colony of bees in th? boxing of the Baptist Church build ing at Johnston. On Tuesday as Mr. Parish was pull ing off a plank to get to the honey the bees in an instant covered his neck and head and stinging bim fear fully, causing sueh pain that two doctors were called to his relief. Mr. Parish had, as he thought, protected himself, but the angry bees found a way to his body. About seventy-five pounds of honey was found. Freedom, Thy Name is Sweet. Bob Jons has been dreaming of the open fields and the bright summer tints in the sky near his old home in Edgefieid County, for this is the month he expected to be back among his own people. Twenty-four years in jail and in the State Penitentiary has made the word "freedom" the sweetest in the English language to Bob, and he is thinking just how it would feel to be able once more to be beyond the prison walls. But he may yet be at the Penitentiary for four months, unless pardoned er pa roled by the governor. Chickens Come Home to Roost. Governor Ansel has under con sideration the matter of whether" or not he should honor.a requisition re quested by the Governor of Tennes see. Overshadowing the mere ques tion as to the merits of the case there is great interest to the public at large not onlv in this State but throughout the countrv in the fate that last fall Governor Patterson of Tennessee refused to honor a requisi tion sent from this State for C. J. Herbert, wanted in connection with the Seminole scandal. Watson Knows. Th princapal feature of tho open ing day's session of the second an nual Convention of the Southern Commercial Secretaries ' Association at New Orleans was the address of E. J. Watson, commissioner of ag^i oulture of South Carolina, who stressed the need of co-operation among the secretaries in the upbuild ing of the South. "What the South needs," he said, "is people-white people." Sign That Corn is Coming. The fertilizer movement as shown by the tag tax receipts will aggregate $250,000 in receipts at the Treas urer's office or about $43,000 more than last year's receipts on the basis of 25 per cent per ton. The tag tax received to date is $212,505.03 which is $41,545.91 more than to the corresponding date last year. The figures for last year to March 29 were $170,504.12. "Brother Crafford" Will be There. The committee to prepare the pro gramme for the Conference of Gover nors, which is to be held in Washing ton during the month of December, will meet in Frankfort, Ky., on June 16. The members of the committee are Governor Ansel, Governor Wilson, of Kentucky, and Governor Hadley, of Missouri. Pin Money on 1-4 Acra. Geo. W. Baker, one of Lancaster county's model farmers, who uses modern machinery and modern meth ods of cultivation and raises every thing possible on the farm, even to fine mule colts, experimented with a strawberry patch this year. On 14th of an acre he gathered and sold over $44 worth of berries, besides what ^ere used by bis family. Killed Biri of Freedom. At Saluda, a negro living on W. W. Stone's place, killed an eagle, which measured six feet, five inches from tip to tip of its wings, Noth. ing like it has ever been seen in this community, and it is proving a great curiosity. Palmetto Tree Leaves. William E. Hendrix, who is serving a sentence of five years in the State Penitentiary on the charge of bigamy has been refused a pardon by Gov ernor Ansel. Hendrix was convicted in Richland County, at the Septem ber term of Court iii 1907. Brunson Wilson, a well known ne gro laborer at the Coast Line shops at Florence, was probably fatally in jured while at work, his backbone be ing broken. Governor Ansel will attend the com mencement exercises at Winthrop Col lege on June 14, when he will present the diplomas to the graduating class. William Whitworth, the rural policeman charged with the murder, cf Henry Popwell, a fortune teller's son, was acquitted by the jury in fifteen minutes at Columbia. Two hundred and thirty-eight bales of cotton were sold at Marion by one party. The price obtained was 14 5-8, which netted about $17,000. Attorney General Lyon has been in ' St. Paul in attendance upon the an nual meeting of the Attorneys Gen eral of the United States. The average yield of cotton for the State for last crop was 210 pounds. This is greater than in any of the other strictly cotton States and is only equalled by North Caro lina. South Carolina is, therefore, the best cotton Stole, AR wall a? the best cora Ststa * IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gathered From All Sections of the Commonwealth For Our Many Beaders. Becord Battleship South Carolina. Calculations giving the battleship Idaho the trophy for record target practice may be entirely upset owing to the remarkable record made Wed nesday by the new battleship South Carolina, now engaged in her first target practice off the Virginia Capes. The new ship in her day firing rip ped the target to pieces in such amaz ing style that she already stands in line to challenge the Idaho for first position. One of her 12-inch turrets made a record which has never been excelled in any navy, averaging more than two Hits a minute, every shot fired scoring a hit, and her firing throughout was constantly good. If her night prac tice and-torpedo practice is up to the mark, she is very likely to eclipse the best records made this year under the same conditions. Court of Inquiry Adjourned. The taking of testimony by the court of inquiry appointed to investi gate the Boyd-Brock controversy was concluded Thursday with the argu ments. It was announced by Gen. Wilie Jones, the president of the co?rt, that the session had ended and that a decision would be rendered at some future date to be set by the court. It was asked that the sten ographic report be completed by June 4. In the opinion of Gen. Wilie Jones, the expenses of the court will not ex ceed $500. Improvement in Railroad Service. The double tracking of the Coast Line from Florence to Pee Dee river will so relieve the congestion ?of trains that the railroad men say that the amount of traffic that can be hand led then between Florence and Rocky Mount, where the road branches oil to Norfolk, will be practically un limited. Bids for Convicts. Nine bids for the services of 200 to 300 convicts have been received by the board of directors of the State Penitentiary. The bids will be con sidered and the award will be made at the meeting of the board, which has been called for June 8. The con victs must be employed within the walls of the State Penitentiary. Socialist Woman Will Speak. "Woman Under Socialism," will be the subflect of the address of Lena Morrow Lewis, national com mitteeman for the State of California of the Socialist party, who is to address the Socialists of South Caro lina in Columbia on June 11th, Bock Hill Teachers Fay Baised. The board of trustees of the Rock Hill school have agreed to raise the teachers' salaries for the incoming session. The raise will be on a 10 per cent advance on former salaries paid. Nothing Doing. Nothing whatever has been heard of W. B. Avant since the receipt of the letter from Atlanta. Sheriff Scurry, on behalf of the Georgetown bondsmen, has increased the offer of reward for his capture from one hum dred dollars to two hundred and fifty dollars. South Carolina Will he There. South Carolina will very likely be represented at the expositions which are to be held at Cincinnati and Knoxville. It is thought that some arrangement can be made whereby a part of the South Carolina exhibit, which will be greatly improved, will be shown at these two expositions. Tobacco Short at Florence. The tobacco crop of the Florence lection will be cut at least 25 per cent,, ls tho estimate of those in a position to know the situation. This is largely due to the wire worm, which infested the crop during the cool spell and so destroyed the young plants that 'the farmers gave up the crop, ploughed their fields and replanted in cotton, which promised to bring a good price. Locomotive Boiler Exploded. An unusual accident happened at Elliott on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad Monday as tbei train for Lucknow was about to pull out from that station. The engine boiler ex ploded with engineer and fireman on the cab, completely demolishing the engine, and yet not affecting the en gineer or fireman at all. Meeting State Epworth League. State Secretary Power W. Bethea has issued the announcement that the seventeenth annual conference of the South Carolina Epworth league of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, will be held in Newberry June 16-19. Grand Lodge K. of P. Officers. The officers for the ensuing year: Grand chancellor, J. Walter Doar, of Georgetown ; grand vice chancellor, Frank K. Meyers of Charleston; grand prelate, Frank S. Evans of Greenwood; grand keeper of records and seal, C. D. Brown of Abbeville; grand master of exchquer, Wilson G. Harvey of Charleston; grand master at-arms, C. W. Crosland of Bennetts ville ; grand inner guard, J. L. Beeves of North; grand outer guard, Dr. J. M. Oliver of Orangeburg. BARLING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. HARLiflG -? At The Farmers \ THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD Th? Heart of Happenings Carved From the Whole Country. The intense hatred of proselytes from the native religions is shown in the more than ordinary Chinese ia genuity employed in torturing them. In some instances victims' tongues have been torn out by the roots, and they have been mockingly told to preach the new creed. Bound till they could scarcely move a muscle, others have been tickled continually till their brains gave way. The water torture-the steady dropping of water on one spot of the body has been frequently employed. The oldest theological student ever graduated from the Union Theological seminary, New York, is the Rev. Hareatune Jinishian, who has just re ceived his diploma. Mr. Jinishian will be 70 years old in a few months. His wife and children witnessed tho graduation exercises. He is an Armenian and is older than any of the professors who taught him during his work in the seminary, where he has been a student for six years. After a delay of 32 years, Charles Dana Burrage, a wealthy attorney of Boston, was graduated Wednesday from the University of California with the degree of bachelor of arts. "Charles" Burrage we denied a diploma because of a snake, an owl and a pair of-lizards which appeared in Professor Palda's French class back in '78. But his classmates have labored incessantly in his behali\ And new the faculty has relented and Burrage was given his degree. Mrs. Alfred Gillison, was nearly pulled overboard by a shark, which grabbed her line while she was flsb ing, with her husband, off South At lantic City. The woman pluckily held on to the line until her husband reached her and pulled in the fish. The shark was over five feet long, and weighed 50 pounds. Glenn H. Curtis decided not to make the trip from Albany last week in an aeroplane in an attempt to reach New York and win the $10,000 prize offered by the New York "World. The 9-mbnths-old child of Mrs. Anna Blakely was found suffocated in bed at Chicago, presumably by the house cat, which previously had been lying across the child's neck. Mrs. Tabitha King, who died at London, Ky., at the age of 94 years, leaves 95 living grandchildren. She was the mother of 12 sons and daugh ters. Benjamin Boyce, accused by Chi cago Blackstone Hotel officials of dis orderly conduct in assailing his father, W. D. Boyce, the millionaire publish er, pleaded guilty in the Municipal Court and paid a fine of $5. He ob jected to bis divorced father remarry ing. Champ Clark, minority leader of the House, sees a long and hot road anead of Congress before it finishes the work of this session. Two officers are out of the National Guard of Georgia as a result of their failure to attend school for officers at Fort McPherson. Capt. George W. Ruggles, inventor of the rotary snow plow and of na tion-wide fame as a canoe builder, is dead at his home near Rochester, N. Y. Net profits of $110,000 were realiz ed for the Actor's Fund, devoted to the care of aged and needy stage followers, by the recent fair held in New York city, according to the state ment of President Daniel Frohman, of New York. Alfred H. Marshall, on trial for murder, at Savannah, Ga., growing out of the killing of -two negroes with his automobile on April 1, was acquitted after the jury had been out but a few minutes. Uriah Stevens, who pleaded guilty to having shot two blackbirds, at Allentown, Pa,, was fined $20 and costs by Alderman Reninger. The prosecution was brought by Game Warden Milton H. Weiss. friends of Miss Elinor Wickham, of St. Louig, are authority for the statement that the father of her fiance, Joseph Pultizer, Jr., has pre sented her with a solid gold dinner service for a wedding gift, coeting $50,000. A bill has been passed by the Sen ate appropriating $250,000 for the purchase of a site and the erectiou of buildings for an immigrant sta tion at Seattle, Wash. It would be unlawful for the Post office Department to print the name or address of a business firm on stamped envelopes after June 30, 1911, if a bill introduced by Repre sentative Tou Telle, of Ohio, and re ported favorably from the House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads is passed. In the last nine years the price of mule-power has gone up more than one hundred per cent. In 1901 a first class mule could be bought for $145, in 1907 the price had risen to $210, and it is now about $300. The late Woodbury Kane's famous polo and tandem pony Punch is dead at the age of 45 years. The elimination from bill boards of the abbreviated skjrt and of tights was advocated at Cincinnati and at the International Poster Printers' association of the United States and Canada convention by its secretar}', Clarence E. Runey. Fat women, take notice; Miss Ruth Armstrong, of New York, who is 19, has solved the get-thin-quick problem, and without drugs or doctors, for her fasting scheme is proving successful beyond her greatest expectations. She lost 40 pounds in 13 days. UKANCE ) SEE \ & BYRD e, Wejjrepresent the Beat & BYRD> Baak of J??gefield