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mmm ADVERTISER. Oldest Piper ia Sonta Carolin*. EdgcffeEd, S, C. PpcklPRii automobile driving le to lie elhrfaated.. And nov will not the Pullman com leay reduce tb? porter's Upe? Dont mind the pessimistic weather prophet's prediction of a lons -winter. ' Flat-wheeled trolley cara and all ?oto borna are to be regulated in . Sew York, The center of population, unlike most of the eons of Indiana, remains in that state. The United States army; wanta aerp plflTiftg They will probably be manned ly the flying divisions. Winter may be trying to keep lt up tm til March. It began early and it aaa been cold throughout Slam is to have an aviation week, ead so the march of up-to-date civili zation goes-or rather files-merrily cn. The new cens?a of Berlin and Its suburbs shows a population of 3,400, 490. It is camping on New York's trafl. Overstudy killed a promising youth fa Baltimore, but there ls no danger of this malady ever becoming an epi demic A German has invented a noiseless telephone booth. A noiseless tele phone party line would be a greater blessing. The agitation to make the upper berth lower continues; but no matter at what figure they fix the price it will still be high. A St Louis man made his wife cut his hair. Barbering, however, will never be included in any domestic science course. There ls a woman wireless oper ator. Tho old saw must be amended to read: "What man has done, a wom an can and will da" Fashionable women in the national ! capital climb the Washington monu ment to reduce their flesh. Thus does the uplift reach society. A St. Louis'woman, asked why she shot her husband, said she did'it "Just for fun." And yet they say women have no sense of humor. A woman of ninety-one ia -Massa chusetts wants to go up in a balloon. Another example of how people are, ns young in these times as they want to be. man says ho wiE soon put-lobsters on the market at threV cents each. I! he'd only turu his at tention to bacon what a gay world thia would become. Now we understand^ why certain minga are aa they are. During the present year'the people of New York have eaten three million pounds of bad ia their pastry. '? Philadelphia society women protest against posing in bare feet on the plea that their underpinning is too unsight ly tb be exposed, unadorned, to the vulgar gaze. Thus are the women* of Chicago deprived of their birthright A man in New Jersey wrote a rebuke to the kaiser for riding a horse with a docked tail. It is not feared that in ternational complications will result or that a German phantom fleet will bombard our defenseless seacoast ports. A fashionable New York hotel now permits women to smoke in its din ing rooms, , corridors, or any other old place. If this smoking stunt keeps on growing among the fair sex we may soon be confronted with divorce suits over the custody of the "rank in's.* Two men propose to Journey around the globe on stilts. It is not clear why they should be permitted to do so, aa necessarily they would have to traverse territory where more or less prejudice ?gainst vagrant tramps has found ex pression in statutory restraints, ind area la reek piles. Frequent seismic manifestations of late had' prepared the world for news ot some such upheaval as that which ie reported off the coast of Salvador, accompanied** by the sinking of a email island. ' This has involved a lamentable loss of life, and Illustrates anew the peril of making homes in the earth quake-ridden sections of the earth, for several similar catastrophes have occurred in that quarter. A schoolgirl in Indiana has fallen heir to 930,000,000. This news will probably have an agitating influence la European titled impecunious cir cles. In Colorado they propose a law ma king it an offense for doctors to.cut oat patients' appendices unless lt is necessary. The enactment of such a statute would enable us to foresee the time wh,m professional ethics would require every doctor to testify that all his brother practitioners' appendix pruning was positively required. There ls a bitter controversy on be tween Gil cago and Charleston as to which ls the better city to die in. We don't know about Charleston, but Chi fcego hands out many inducements to tte casual visitor. I Accusation that Wellesley college girls are "stodgy" is met by indigna lion quick and warm enough to refute the charge. Stodgy souls would have taken the defamatory epithet with calmness,, and even if aware of its -meaning, would not have cared, this .attitude proving the case against them. Press Publishing Ca Wins Panama Libel Case. STATES RIGHTS IS AFFIRMED* Highest Tribunal Decide? That Cir cuit Court Has No Jurisdiction State Laws Are Adequate-Alleged Article Reflected on Prominent Men. Washington.-By unanimous decis ion the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the Federal government could not maintain the so-called "Panama canal libel suit' against the Press Publishing Com pany of New York, in the Fe_eral courts of New York. In so holding, the court affirmed the decision of the circuit coart of the United States for the southern district o"f New York, which had quashed the famous indict ment t , In effect the decision was that the Federal court had no Jurisdiction over the alleged offense, because the case I might have been brought in a State court The Press Publishing Company, publisher of The New York World, was indicted in March 1909, in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New "Jork on a charge of libel. In effect the alleged libel was the publication of articles, stating that Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell, with J. P. Morgan and others, 'obtained control of the Panama canal route for about $3,000,000 and, by the co-opera tion of Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, %nd^ brother-in-law of Mr. Robinson, and William H. Taft, then Secretary of War, and brother of C. P. Taft, were enabled to effect the sale of the Pana ma canal to the "United States at a profit Of $35,000,000. The United States claimed jurisdic tion to punish the alleged libel on the theory that the publisher had com mitted a crime upon Federal territory ?t West Point, N. Y., and in the post office building in New York City. Chief Justice White said that in vestigation plainly established: "First that adequate means were afforded for punishing the circulation of libel on a United States reserva tion by the State law and in tue State courts without the necessity: of re sorting to the courts of the United States for redress." EXPENSE OP LABOR UNIONS. Number of Strikes-Carpenters Paid Larges^^mount. nial expenses' of the~various national and International unions in the Amer! can Federation of Labor, with the number of strikes ordered and other details, based on official reports has been prepared here and. will shortly be forwarded to the different locals.. The statement shows that the Bro therhood of Carpenters paid the largest amount in death benefits, aggregating $250,000. This union paid $90,000 In sick benefits and $23,000 in death benefits to wives. It had sixty strikes during 1909, of which thirty were won, twenty compromised and two lost, while eight are still pending. The Bakers and Confectioners' In ternational Union leads the list in di rect cost of strikes, the amount being $67,781. It had sixteen strikes during the year, of which ten were won and six are pending. Senator Elkins ls Dead. Washington.-Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia ls dead. Death was due to septicaemia or blood-poisoning. He was conscious until within a half-hour of death. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, September 26, 1841. In February, 1894, was elected to the United States Senate tc succeed Hon. Johnson N. Camden, and re-elected in 1901 by the unanimous vote of the Republican members of the Legislature. Pre viously h 3 had held other high posi tions of honor. Two Bandits Rob Overland Limited. Ogden, Utah-Southern Pacific train No. L the Overland Limited, westbound, was held up by two masked bandits at Reese, nine miles west of Ogden. The negro porter. William Davis, was shot and instant ly killed and another porter, A. W. Taylor, was mortally wounded. A passenger was slightly wounded. One hundred passengers cn the train were relieved of their valuables. None of the passengers were dis turbed except those on pullmans. Big Counterfeiting Plant Unearthed. New Yosk-Government Officials unearthed in Brooklyn one of the biggest, best equipped ?~? most dan geroub counterfeiting and moulding outfits which veterans In the secret service have ever seen. A large lot of spurious quarter dollars, partly finished, was found in heap, on the floor of a tenement, while.in an ad joining room a man was caught filling moulds with hot metal. There were more than 300 pounds. War Expected to Begin. Puerto Cortez, Honduras, via New Orleans.-The long-expected revolt of the, adherents of Manuel Bonila against the Davilla government in Honduras has broken out and a de cisive battle is expected to" be waged in the streets of this city within the next few days. Accurate information says there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 Bonilla soldiers, well armed, on the Montague bar, in the disputed ter ritory between Honduras and Guate mala. . GOV. HARMON'S JESS?GE -** 1 Ohio's Chief Executive Inaugurated His Message Urges All to Support Government. Columbus, Ohio.-"When 1 the gov eminent is conducted by the people themselves," said Governor Judson Harmon in his annual message to the Ohio legislature, "every citizen ought to regard contributing ' to its support w a patriotic duty, the shirking' of which involves disgrace. Yet many evade their taxes. The result is that those who do and those who from their condition, or the nature of their property have not equal means of svasion, have to pay more than their mare of the public expenditure, so JUDSON HARMON. Governor of Ohio. hat discontent mars the cordial rela ions wb?oh should exist between the ?eople and their government. "At the last session," continued the lOvernor, "I transmitted the pro tosed amendment to the Federal con titution authorizing the levy of a ax on incomes and recommended its ?doption, but no action was taken. A ew States have undertaken to tax in omes but, as I am advised, with ittle success. Changes of legal resi lenee are too easy to make. The fflciency of a Federal income tax ias been proven." INITIAL CARRIER LIABLE. ?armack Amendment is Declared '. Constitutional.-New Law. Washington.-The new policy of iw, making an initial carrier of inter tate commerce liable for loss of ship ?ents while in transportation, not nly on its lines, but on those o? con ecting carriers, has been declared onstitutional by the Supreme Court f the United States. The policy acorporated in the ? so-called lack amendment" to . ate law, enacted by Congji?^p,uT One objection to : interfered with t' ontract. Justice T 1?re was no sur ree dom of contr mtra jolicy," si )e lawful!, o make ci ?egulated - - auu .ali di ty as-co tnird persons. The >ower of government extends to the lenlal of liberty of contract to the >xtent of forbidding or regulating ?very contract which is reasonably ?alculated to injuriously affect the mbllc interests." Autoist Paid $5,300 for Girl. Fort Wajme, Ind.-Mrs. Sedil Tres telt, wife of a wealthy business man, ?leaded guilty to manslaughter in the rircuit court here for having run iver with her automobile and killed rene Cox, aged 9 years, August 20, ast. Mrs. Tresselt was sentenced to 2 to il years in prison, butv the sentence vas suspended. She paid John A. :ox, father of the little girl, $5,300 Fund for Philadelphia Employees. Philadelphia.-Through the gener >sity and cooperation of Rodman Wanamaker and others of Philadel 3hia, a fund of $150,000 will be estab ished for the support of the widows md orphans or dependent parents of ill city employes who may be killed >r incapacitated by injury received in he discharge of their duties. The creation of this fund is the result of .he fire here when 13 firemen and one Doliceman was killed. Won't Marry Eloping Couples. Bristol, Tenn.-The Bristol Minis :erial Association has adopted resolu tions pledging its members, more han twenty in number, not to marry sloping couples on Tennessee soil xmtrary to the laws of the State 'rom which either or both of the dopers come. The resolutions con lemn the hundreds of hasty and "in lecent" marriages of elopers here an ?ually and memoralixe the Tennessee Legislature to pass laws to prohibit it Jue pastor has married 4,000. Hotel Men Go to Charlotte 1912. Richmond.-The Southern Hotel Association in session here voted un. injlmonsly to meet in 1912 in Char lotte, N. C., and endorsed New Or leans as the logical point for the Panama Exposition. A feature of the lay was an address by A. T. Moore, )f Staunton, Ya., who declared that prohibition is an injury to the hotel business. The officers elected are: President, B. H. Griffin of Ooldsboro, ri. C.; vice president, J. B. C. Spencer, )f Virginia; secretary and treasurer, f. B. Callahan, Clifton Forge, Va. Additional Suspension of Tariffs. Washington-Additional suspension if the tariffs of various railroads in connection with the cancellation of iivision of rates with rap line have been made by the interstate com merce commission. The tariffs sus pended affect 537 carriers: Cancella tions are suspended from January 5, 1911, until April 15, 1911, or until ?uch time as the commission may is mej a final order in the case. A con tinuation ,of the New Orleans hearing1 in the tap line cases will be held in 5L .Louis, Mo., on January 23, 1911. 12,608 Suicides-Money Em bezzled Increased. LEGAL EXECUTIONS ARE LESS Number of Deaths by Personal Vio lence of All Kino's, Except Suicides and Lynchings, 8,975-Record Given by States-Women Lynched. Chicago.-Statistics for the year 1910 show there waa a marked in crease in the number of suicides and ?omicides and a decrease in the num ber of lynchings. The amount of noney-embezzled increased 300 per :ent Suicides numbered 12,608 as com pared with 10,230 in 1909. The pro 3 or ti on of suicides as between men md women remains about the same, )eing 8,252 males and 4,35(5 females. Physicians, as usual, bead the list imong professional men, the number )eing 51, as compared to 27 in 1909 ind 42 in 1908, and clergymen next, Ll of them having taken their own ives. The number of deaths by personal riolence of all kinds in 1910, except luicides and lynchings, was 8,975, as :ompared with 8,103 in 1909. This ecord is not confined to such cases )f murder and homicide as result in irrest^and trial, but include deaths >y every form of violence. The prin :lpal causes of these deaths were: Quarrels, 4,049; unknown, 984; liquor, '98; by highwaymen, 930; jealousy, ?12; Infanticide, 125; highwaymen tilled?. 73; resisting arrest, 100; in anity, 225. The most striking feature of these igures ls the increase in murders ommTtted by thugs, thieves, burglars .nd hold-up men, the number being an ncrease of- 33 over that of 1909. The number of legal executions is lightly less than the number in 1909, ?eing 104 compared with 107 in the atter year and 92 in 1908. Classified ty States, the record is as follows Alabama, 6; Arkansas, 7; da, 2; Connecticut, 1; NorUgjf^Q^ ; Florida, 4; Georgia^^&fIllinol8| 2; owa, 1; Kentucky?^?^0ui8lanaf 4; las*af us*tta' ^Mississippi, 3; Mis ouri, *; N^Mork, 9; New Jersey, ; Nevada^": North GarolIna> 2; , i?^klahoma, 1; Oregon, 1; emjp!ylvania, 9; South Carolina, 7; ^Smessee, 4; Texas. 6; Virginia, ll; ^shington, 2. There were 37 ex?cu tons in Northern and 67 i:a Southern States and in these cases; 50 were vhites, 53 negroes and 1 Indian. The ?T*?TTIOO - -* _ss^-A, IJOUIS cuiit i; Mississippi, 5; Missouri, 2; North Carolina, 1; Ohio, 1; Oklahoma, >; South Carolina, 2; Tennesee, 2; rexes, 7; Virginia, 1; New Mexico, 1. Of the total number there were 9 whites and 65 negroes, among the atter 3 women. There was but one ynching in the North, in Ohio. There vas one in Illinois in 1909. The' record of embezzlements, for geries and bank wreckin g shows a naterial increase over 1909, being in .ound numbers about $25,000,000 as .ompared with $8,000,000 in 1909 and 513,000,000 in 1908. Danced Into Motherhood. Americus, Qa.-A few hours after me had sung and danced at a local heatre, a Japanese chorus girl gave )irth to a boy. Takes Money From Superstitious. Atlanta.-Will Williams, a negro ?vho sprang into notice not long ago ?rhen he was given a workhouse sen tence for driving a tack into an old legro man's head on the pretense of curing him of blindness, 1B back in :he spotlight again. This time he is charged with swindling a negro wo man Who called him in to attend a ?ick child. He rubbed the child vig orously with a rock, collected a fee jf $1.50 and departed. For this of fense he vras fined $100. After National Com Show. Columbia, S. C.-Launched by Mr. Rutherford P. Hayes, cf Asheville, son of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes, a campaign to have the aext annual meeting of the National Corn Association held in Columbia aas been taken up with great enthu siasm by Mr. A. ?P. Hudson, of New berry, president of the South Carolina Corn Breeders' Association, and also bead' of the South Atlantic Corn Ex position held last month in Columbia. Other projaijMMit men will aid. West Virginia Complications. Charleston, W. Va.-The death of Senator Elkins adds to the political complications in West Virginia. The Democratic Legislature, which al ready was charged with the duty of electing a successor to Senator Na than Bay Scott, Republican, and which, for the first time in years, has s. large Democratic majority, is now confronted with two Senatorships. Governor Olasscock, Republican, has the power to appoint a Senator to succeed Senator Elkins temporarily. To Prosecute Loan Sharks. New York-Suits against five sal ary loan companies have been started by agents for the Russell Sage foun dation, which plans a national cam paign against usurious money lend errs. Twelve more suits are said to be under preparation, and where ever the evidence justifies, criminal action will be brought through the District attorney's office. "The loan sharks are in all large cities; of the country," said Arthur Ham,; special agent for the foun dation. JOHN , Democrat-Inaugurated GOVERNOR JOHN DIX lis Motto: "Let Not Your Heart fae Troubled." rSAND PLAYS. 's Executive Inducted Office Amid Scenes of Great Brilliance First Democratic- Governor in Six-1 teen Years-Recommendations. Albany, N. Y.-"Let not your heart | be troubled." This verse of Scripture, from the fourteenth chapter of John, is to be the watchword of John A. Dix, New Vork's first Democratic Governor in 16 years. In taking the oath of office ?JnVArnAi- TW- M-a -n-?-?-SOleCt 3 Governor ed a point living be ting duty f reform reverse -wmuuon-antt'restore us to the healthy and normal, position where we shall have something more than) fi largely flctltiouss surplus. "I realize that this is neither a pleasant nor a popular position for an Incoming Governor to take. I doubt Dot it will be the more conducive to an easy popularity were I to use this occasion to suggest that the attention of the people should be fixed upon the solution of abstract questions having to do with conduct and morals-all admirable and necessary in their way-rather than? to direct attention to the humdrum but nevertheless vital problem of receipts and expendi tures. "In my opinion, it is far better to insist on inconveniences and difficulty in public departments than to re sort to an expenditure which will compel a return to direct taxation." Many New Banks Organized. Atlanta, Ga.-During the year 1910, 393 new banks were organized and be gan business in the South, with aggre gate capital of $7,420,000. Fifty-five banks that began business previous to 1910 increased their capital $2, 554,000 in the aggregate during the year just closed, making a total acces sion to the banking capital of the South of $9,964,500. The total num ber of new banks includes 60 national and 343 State and private hanks and trust companies. Prepare For the Worst Mobile, Ala.-Almost continuous I trembling of the seismograph at the Spring Hill College, near here, has caused Professor C. Ruhlmann to Is sue solemn warning to the world of a great seismic upheaval, which, he says, id sure, to come In the Immediate future. Constantly increasing trem ors have been recorded at Spring Hill College since December 23, the ten dency being south to north, and these, says the scientist forecast a distur bance of great intensity and wide range at no distant date. Supr?me Bench Full. Washington-The vacancies on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States were filled when Judge Willis Van de Vanter, of Wyoming, and Judge Joseph R. Lamar, of Georgia, each took the oath of office as Associate Justice. For the first time in 19 months the bench was complete and for the first time in the history of the court, nearly a century and a quarter old, one president had commissioned within a 1 single year five men to sit upon the bench. Death Dream Comes True. Southboro, Mass.-The dream of Mrs. Archie Dupree, of South Fram iagham, that the mangled body of a man found on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks here was that of her husband, proved true, the body being identified. Mrs. Dupree dreamed that she saw her husband crushed to death be tween two freight cars. When he failed to return to hiB home in South Framingham Mrs. Dupree told her brother-in-law, Christopher Dupree, about her dream. A. DIX, Governor of New York. STEAMSiilS LINES NEXT. Government .They .Entered. Into .an Illegal Combine to P-orate New York.-The Federal govern ment has brought suit in the United States court under the Sharman anti trust law against thirteen of the trans-Atlantio carriers, which are estimated to control nineiy per cent of the steerage traffic, worth to them $65,000,000 a year. Twelve officers of the defendant companies, all residing in America, are named ns co-defen dants. ' These thirteen companies, the gov ernment charges, entered Into an ille gal contract February 5, 1908, at Lon don, England, by which they consti tuted themselves the Atlantic con ference with power to apportion all traffic pro rata, impose he ivy fines on members of the conference for viola tion of any of the articles of agree ment and wage competition against all lines outside the conference. As a result, it 1B alleged, the Russian Volunteer fleet, plying hutween New York and Libeau, was dilven out of .business and the Amer ican-Russian-l line was forced to make termB witli the conference and enter its member ship. Carnegie Turns Loose $1,250,000. Berlin-Announcement is made that Andrew Carnegie had givsn $1,250,000 for a "Carnegie foundation for life savers" in Germany. The conditions and purposes of the endowment are similar to those of the "hero fund" previously establish ed by the American financier and philanthropist in the United States, England and France. Rats Eat a Prisoner. Fort Worth, Texas.-William Wig gins, 75 years old, was found dead in the emergency ward of the city jail here, death having resulted from the loss of blood sucked from his body by rats. When discovered one eye and a hand had been eaten off by the rodents. Gaynor's Assailant Gets 12 Year* New York.-James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor last August, was sentenced to 12 years' imprison ment. He was convicted in Jersey City on an indictment charging him not with' shooting Mayor Jaynor, but with assaulting with intent to kill William H. Edwards, commissioner of street cleaning of New York. In ad dition to the 12 years. Gallagher will have to stay in prison until the cost of his prosecution has been paid by prison service. " Pirti Loss $300,000. Troy, N. Y.-The business section of Greenville, N. Y., a village of 6,000 inhabitants about fifty miles north of this city was swept by fire with a loss of $300,000. Flames Cost a $1,000,000. Little Rock,.-Ark.-^ire originating in the Hollenberg Musical Company's building, destroyed the entire block of business houses here, the loss nu the buildings and stodks of goods amounting to $1,000,090. Toy Balloon Travelled 110 Miles. Florenoe, S. C - Little Miss Blanche Ta) lor, daughter of W. F. Taylor, a merchant of this city, sent np a toy balloon during Christmas with a note attached, asking the party who found lt to report She has received the following card: . "Balloon with note dropped on my plantation in Brunswick county, N. C., John Muldoon, white." The distance traveled was 110 miles. The place where it landed is not fax from Wilmington. Noted Lawyer Attempts Suicide. Greensboro, N. C.-Judge Spencer B. Adams, attempted to commit sui cide by cutting his throat with a razor. No direct motive for the act has been assigned and his friends and relatives have succeeded in maintain ing close secrecy. Judge Adams was well known throughout the country, was for sev eral years State Republican chair man. He was once a member of the Indian claims commission in Okla homa. 1 ?HI Sarsaparilla Cures all humors, catarrh arid! rheumatism, relieves that tired, feeling, restores the appetite, cures paleness, nervousness, builds up the whole system. 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