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BRIEF NEWS NOTES 1 , FOR THE BUSY MAN r' ? ! MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. r'V. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED j Complete Review of Happenings of | Greatest Interest From AH ' Parts of World. fefirV' Harry C. Knight, known as the Hero of the Indianapolis Speedway," was instantly killed and his mechanician, Milton Michaelis, both of Atlanta, Ga., was fatally injured at Columbus, Ohio, when Knight's front wheel driye car blew a right tire and turned turtle on the lltOh lap of the 200-mile j automobile race. A 50-gallon still was captured eight j miles south of Griffin, Ga., by the i deputy collectors. The still was lo- j cated about fifty yards from the home i of an old lady, 82 years of age, who j gave two of the officers a lively race :for a short time. 1 "A nr/\d on/1 1 o l W XU1 iiUUUl. 1UV JUU5CO ouu tu ^ v< u i j- r present tlie fifteenth annual conven- j tion of the North Carolina Bar associ- i ation met at Asheville, N. C., in a three j days' session. The principal address ] of ?he first session was that of Judge ; James S. Mannin of Raleigh, the presi- j dent of the association, which was in i the form of*a message to the lawyers f of the state. J. L. Dempsy, a prominent farmer j of Douglas county, Georgia, commit- j ted suicide by hanging himself with j a blanket in the county jail at Doug- j llasville. He had been temporarily de- I ranged and placed in jail for safe- ; keeping. ?. I ' State Senator Ben A. Smith of Jj, *JW<sst Virginia was convicted of brib- 1 ^ ery in connection with accepting $2,- | 200 to-vote for Col. William Seymour Edwards as a candidate for the United States senate. The proposition contained in the rClarke amendment to the Underwood ^tariff bill to tax one-tenth of a cent A pound all cotton futures contracts jhas aroused aggressive opposition on the part of members of the New Orleans cotton exchange and many others interested in cotton trade throughout the South. General The waving of the American flag in" Winnipeg, Man., while thousands of provincial soldiers were parading, pref , cipitated a riot during which the flag ' *4 was trampled and a number of persons received minor injuries. In the fight which followed a number of civilians were hurt, but none seriously.' The American whose name could not be ascertained escaped without serious harm, and with the aid of the police I eluded the crowd. The soldiers took no part in the demonstration. ' Evidence that serious fighting is occurring in Macedonia is found in the ' arrival of large numbers of wounded and prisoners at the various Balkan capitals, but, owing to the silence at Sofia, and to the conflicting and. probably biased stories from Servian and 21 lirees sources, it is ltupussiuic w form an accurate idea -of the struggle. There has heen no formal declaration of war and although it is reported the Bulgarian minister to Greece has j been recalled, he has not departed yet , from Athens. Five persons were killed and three 1 injured, one probably fatally, when the "Scranton Flyer," on the Pennsylvania and Reading railroad, struck a wagon containing a picnic party at '* a railroad crossing near Quakertown, Penn. Secretary Daniels has discovered how to keep cool. His prescription is: Think of cotton and forget about the warm weather. The secretary made known his discovery when some one at the navy department deplored the hot weather in his presence. "Do you realize," he asked, "that this is the finest possible weather for raising cotton ?' Bravery of the engine room crew of the battleship Louisiana helped the vessel out of a dangerous predicament When a valve bonnet blew off, flood ing the starboard engine room, incidentally the accident gave Capt. Templin M. Potts, who was dismissed by the naval "plucking board," and retires, a memorable experience at the close of his service. The rush of water through the pasasge opened by the displacement o? the bonet carried the men off their feet and forced them against the machinery, but they stuck to their work. During the season just closed there were shipped 425 cars of strawberries averaging 240 crates to the car, which ' \ sold for over $300,000. This is the largest season ever known and the prices were much better than ever before at Shelbyville, Del. John Nicholson of Vandalia, Mo., pleaded guiuy m court to murdering his wife, Bertie Nicholson, and their nine-year-old adopted son, Horace, by pouring oil over them while they slept and setting fire to their bed clothing. The Atlantic waters which have been allowed to run slowly against the lower gates at Gatun have reached sea level. The large gates are being put to the actual test of the full pressure for the first time. Four men were fatally injured in Beattyville, Ky., by an explosion cf dynamite on a railroad truck. Angered Pittsburg mothers who had seen an uncontrolled automobile plunge through a throng of several hundred children preparing for a pa- 1 rade on the streets of West Pittsburg, s almost tore the clothes from the machine's chauffeur, Abe Yuengling, before he was turned over to the police. One of the children in the throng was killed and twelve others were hurt. ' Yuengling declared brakes on his automobile refused to work while he was coming down a steep grade. 1 The Mohave desert in California has A story of misrepresentarion, impersonation of public men and organized 1 effort to influence Wall street finan- , ciers probably without parallel in the history of congressional investigation was unfolded before the senate lobby ! committee. A prosperous-looking, selfpossessed individual, calling himself David Lamar of New York, self- I described as "an operator in stocks" . and atfmittedly the bearer of several assumed names, was the principal in Via romarVaWo cocsinn - ? I A bill to appropriate $300,000 to drain the swamp and wet lands of the ; country was introduced by Representative Tribble of Georgia. He explained that reclamation of the swamp lands of Georgia was important. He stated that if the swamp lands of Georgia were drained, the state of Geor- , gia would buy no more corn and the ' other states would be coming like the children of Israel down into Georgia to buy corn. gone drV. For the first time in its ' history the desert is minus the saloons which dotted the sandy stretch for a distance of 200 miles. The hottest day of the year marked the advent of the "dry rule." , It is reported that rifle pits and trenches are being dug by federal soldiers on the western outskirts of Juarez and barbed mire is being stretch| ed as an additional defense against i attack by t4ie Constitutionalists. An outpost of 100 federals has been stationed two miles south of the town, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Logan A. Vilas, an amateur aviator of Chicago, made the first aero- 1 | plane flight across Lake Michigan. His ! trip, made in a hydro-aeroplane, from ! St. Joseph, Mich., to Chicago, con SUULLCU uuc auui auu 11 lumuico. Denver was selected for the 1916 meeting and W. F. Carter of Peoria, 111., elected president of the Brotherhood* of Locomitve Firemen and Enginemen convention. Federal Judge Charles S. Wolverton signed the decree in the Oregon and California railroad grant case, which forfeits to the government 2,075,616 .acres of land in the Williamette Val! ley held by the Southern Pacific. In the pitiless glare of a sun that sent the mercury bubbling over the 100 mark and made clothes a burden and a bath only a delusion, the armies of the North and South have begun formal exercises set to mark the j semi-centennial of Gettysburg. [ Forty women, mostly of the better ?lass, have committed suicide in Du! rango since its occupation by the rebels after a long seige, according to a private letter received in Mexico City. The women, said the letter, became desperate because of their treat I HieDt by victorious reDeis. i | ' Four hundred coal miners were rescued from the Paradise mine, Illinois, j near Duquoin, which caught fire. The I chief engineer stood at his post, a few j feet from the burning coal chutes, and I worked the hoist that brought the men up the shaft in spite of the heat that blistered his hands and singed his hair. When the last man was rescued Matthis fell unconscious. He was taken to his home A newspaper has a legal right to expose a business firm's business methods, provided motives of its publishers are "open to the belief that they are in good faith." This was the opinion handed down by Federal | I Judge Hand in New York City. | i j The Roumanian government tender- i ! ed a not6 to the Bulgarian govern- ^ ! ment refusing Bulgaria's offer to rec- f tify the Bulgarian-Roumanian frontier j in consideration of Roumania's con) sent to remain neutral. i Washington ? i Majority members of the senate . i finance committee decided that all the j schedules of the new tariff bill except * i sugar and wool should become effect- * ! ive immediately after the enactment c | of the measure into law. Sugar, with i j the approval of the Democratic cau- j The waving of the American flag in j Aldrich rates until March 1, 1914. Additional revenue was provided for by the committee when it decided, in J view of the revenue tax on brandies, used in fortifying sweet wines, to levy a revenue tax of L'5 per cent, ad valorem on what are known as "spurious wines," wines made from pum- I mis and fortified with chemicals. < j . Uncle Sam closed the fishcal year ( 1913 with a surplus of $40,083,229, ( representing the excess of receipts j over expenditures, exclusive of Panama canal and public debt transactions. This exceeds last year's suriplus by $3,750,000. The Panama trans- ( actions, however, wiped out the sur- 1 plus of ordinary receipts over ordinary expenditures and created a deficit of $2,149,000. | National banks will pay about one j hundred thousand dollars into the 1 j United States treasury, as interest for ( I one month on deposits of the federal 1 government. This is the first step in carrying out Secretary McAdoo's recent order charging interest on government deposits at. the rate of 2 per cent, per annum. The order became l effective June 1 and as the interest j j win be paid on July 1 and January 1 ! : of each year, the first payment will be for only the month of June. The government expects to tarn more than a ifliPion avv.Hy in this mail- ' ner. Cross Roads News. We are enjoying the good old summer time, and old general green is smiling in the copiou9 showers. Crops are looking well. T.iere was a box party and ice-cream sociable recently at Boynton academy school honse, which was enjoyed very much by those present. The "Two Silver Bells'' have been fighting general green for the past week and are pleased with results. Come on you Pond Branch boys and the Sand Hill fellows, show ljpw to treat the girls. Ler us have Pond B. audi new9 tigain soon. What-. fhp maf-fcpr with .Tim Crow? Mr. Haskell Sharpe has returned aome on his vacation from school. Mr. Frank Lawson 9pent Sunday ivith Mr. R. B. Lawson and family. The Summer school will open at 0ros9 Roads school house the second Monday in July, with Prof. J. V. Smith as teacher. Rev. B. C. Herlong spent a recent Fricoy night and Sunday night at Mr. D. H. Lawson's. Mr. and Mr9. J. C. Shepherd spent Suuday with Mr. Dave Yonce and family and were delighted with their visit. Hey there ! Little Joe, what is the matter with you? Why don't you ocrito mnrA as thfi SilvPr Rolls are anxious to hear from you. Our good brother, Rev. B^ C. Herlong and Mr. D. H. Lawson, spent a Saturday night with their good brother, Mr. Tie Yonce, of Pelion. A protracted meeting will start at Antioch Baptist church on the 4th Sunday in July. Mr. Henry Rish and family spent a very pleasant evening at the home of Mr. R. B. Lawson's recently, Mr. J. A. H., sure will agree with you about the marriage queston. They sure are getting strict. Come again soon Mr. Jacob. Your letter is always welcome. Best wishes to all. The Two Silver Bells. Gaston, R. F. D., July 3, 1903. Rheumatism And The Heart Don't oyerlook the grave fact that rheumatism easily "settles in the heart,'7 and disturbs the valvular action. The cure consists in removing the cause. Foley Kidney Pills so tone up and strengthen the kidneys that they keep the blood free of poisons and uric acid crystals, that cause rheuma tism, swolled joints, backacke, uriuary irregularties, and disturbed heart action. Try them. Harmon Drug Co. adv. LevcrJHonors Press. In addressing the Columbia club of Newberry college at the Jefferson hotel in Columbia Tuesday evening of last week Congressman Lever made reference to the press in the following remarks and right he is. Mr. Lever said: "The greatest struggle in public life since the establishment of American independence is now going on," he said. "Secret forces are arraying ;hemselves in such a manner that the neatest battle that has been fought :or more than a century is now being vaged. When the press of the county boldly prints the names of men ligh ia public life, men who are iccused cf political corruption, it is a lign that we are reaching a crisis." 'All honor" to the press of the coun;ry that exposes corruption in high jlaces, and at the same time treat nen fairh7. The public conscience is indergoing a bath, and it is for you who have had seme little opportunity i) do the rubbing. Not only the nation, >ut the state needs this service from rou. . Group ability, team work, is what is needed. The secret forces are it work at all times but we are sure ;o win under the leadership of men ike Woodrow Wilson, who does not ?o about his business with rubber joots on, but takes the people into his ;onfidenee. Our appeal here tonight s that you support the men battling :or integrity in public life. Stand belind us, and we will make this a government by the people and for the people in name and in fact also." Joint Council Meeting. The Joint Council of the Zion pasr\f fVi o Ror _T A. P.rnmer's UUlCfrUts Ui IUU xw ? w charge will meet at Lexington Moniav, July 14. All members of the 2oancil are urged to be present. By order of II. J. Roof, Pre9. G. B. Wingard, Sec. Sheep Go 4 Months Without Drinking Washington, July 3.?Sheep on the Nebo national forest, Utah, go four md a half months without water ex? sept for such moisture as they get from Fhe dew and the juices of forage plants. Malaria or Ciiills & Fever Prescription No. 686 :3 prepared especially tor IVJALARIA or UHina <5t rtvtn. Five or six doaes will break any case, and if token then as a tonic the Fever will not return. !t eels cn rhe liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken- 25c. ENTIRELY BHD Her Hair Commenced to Grow after Two Weeks' Use of Newbro's Herpicide "Fever caused me to be entirely bald. I had given up all hope of again Having nair wnen i was aavisea to use | Herpicide. After two weeks my hair commenced to grow. I now have the most beautiful head of hair anyone ever s*w. Praise to Newbro's Herpicide." Thus writes ^.rs. Howard Bailey, of Bellevue, Mich. We can point to thousands of instances where the proper use of Herpicide has been followed by a remarkable growth of hair. Newbro's Herpicide is "the original remedy which kills the dandruff germ" and stops falling hajr. Applications may b9 obtained at the best barbers and hair dressers. Newbro's Herpicide in 50c and $1.00 sizes is .guaranteed to do all that is claimed. If you are not satisfied your money will be refunded. adv. Harmon Drug Oo. Special Agents. WHISTLE AND I'LL COMEYO YOU, MY LAD. I Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad; Ob, whistle aud I'll come to you, my lad. Though father aud mither and a' should go mad. Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad. But warily tent, when ye come to couit me, And come na unless the back-yet be a-jee, Syne up the back style and let naebody see, And come as ye were na' comin' to me. At kirk or at market, whene'er ye' meet me. Gang by mo as though that ye cared nae a flie. "Rut-, sfcpal me a hlink o' vour bonnie biack e,e, Yet look as ye were na looking at me. I Aye vow and protest that ye care na for me And whiles ye may lightly my beauty a wee, But court nae anither, though jokin' ye be. For fear that she wile your fancy frae me. ?Robert Burns. 1785 1913 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. South Carolina's Oldest College. 129th Year Begins Sept. 26th. Entrance examinations at all the county seats on Friday, July 11, 9 a.m. Full four courses lead to the B. A. and B. S. degrees. A free tuition scholarship is assigned to each-county of the State. Spacious buildings and atheletic ' -i 1, 1 j grounds, wen equijjycu iauujaiw,ro, unexcelled library facilities, and the finest Museum of Natural History in the South. Expenses reasonable. For terms and catalogue, address, HARRISON RANDOLPH, Pres. 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