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TUM DAM IT .M id STA
Condemned by the Legislative Com
mission-What Will bc Outcome?
Columbia, Keb. I. Thc commis
sion appointed by tho last Legisla
ture to investigate the dam across
thi Savannah riverai Augusta to-day
made n report alleging bad faith on
thc part of the city of Augusta and a
similar commission appointed by the
-Governor of Georgia.
The Carolina commission reports
thai the llsh-wny ls entirely Inade
quate, and soys the Goorgla commis
don, after agreeing lo remedy ibis
.>n the plans of tho Federal commis
sion, and at the expense of tho Geor
gia owners of the dam, not only re
fused to do so. but de< lined io an
swer letters and refused lo meet the
Carolina commission ill Augusta for
a conference.
The Carolina commission recom
mended legislation to pul o patrol
boat oil the Savannah river from Au
gusta lo Mi,, coast lo cul up nets and
enforce tho fish laws, and thal the
attorney general bring suit lo compel
the Georgln OWIKM'H of Hie dam to put
in proper lish-wnys or abate the nuis
ance by destroying the dam.
HASKELL WILL NOT RESIGN.
inalares Indictment Against Him
mis Itel urned I leen lise ol' Malice.
Vllltbrle, OUIa.. Keb. I. Frc mis
of Governor Charles \. Haskell de
nied to-day the truth ol' rumors thal
i bc stale's Chief iOxecutivo would re
sign Ills O fllce as a resit ll of the ju
liet aunt returned against him yes
terday by the Kedernl grand jury at
Muskogee. Kriends of the Governor
staled that the story was absolute!)
without foundation in tact.
Governor Haskell Hus morning,
when asked ii be had further state
mcnts to make regarding bis indict
ment on a charge of conspiracy
against the government In connection
with Hie townsite frauds, said:
"I will buln lin- case to Hie bittet
?.nd, and carry ii' i>> the highest
conns. The evidence submit led io
the grand Jury ls false, ami an In
dictment was secured only through
malice." ?
The Goi eim r i ; roi <i v inn tele
grams assuring bim ol' the sender's
support. Alans prominent men have
offered io sifAii the Governor's bond.
FOHLST l illis IN GEORGIA.
Trains Stopped by Flames anil Tur
pentine I arms Destroyed.
Albany, Ga., Feb. I. The whole
Vaco of the earth in this section is
covered with a thick pall ol' smoke
this evening, the result of woods lires
which cover a wide area. Reports
coming into Albany to-day by tele
phone, incoming trains and parlies
who have driven through tim country
in buggies and automobiles, indicate
that tho lites are burning every
Vv hil ".
in many places turpentine farms
Lave been Invaded by Hie Hames,
which have fed on undergrowth dried
hy the di vest tall and winter this sec
tion bas experienced in many years,
and the loss will be exceedingly
heavy. Thc lires have been buming
for several days, but have aol reach
ed their height till to-day. Railroad
trains coming into Albany to-day
have had to stop numbers of limes
Vor the crews io exth. :"*K1I tires that
bad begun to feel on cross-ties. The
tires are still burning furiously to
night.
Dead Operator at His Key.
v. _
Atlanta, Keb. 5. Kay Larkin,
aged 35 years, a telegraph operator
on a block station in Hie suburbs,
was found dead sitting in a chair
wllh lils hand reaching for tho open
key, here to-day by Hie engineer of
a freight train after the engineer had
waited a few minutes for orders,
which were md received.
The body was warm when found
and the man's report showed that he
had just signalled a train a few min
utes before. The cause ol' his death
was hean failure.
A lazy liver loaV? to chronic dys
pepsia and constipation-weakens
the whole system. Dean's Regulets
(20 cents per box) correct the liver,
tone the stomach, cure constipation.
WIDOW AND LOVER VIEWED
Corpse of Die Husband Who WUM
Done to Deutli.
Newark, N. J., Feb. fi.-There
wore sensational development:? in the
ease of Frank Wilhelm, the contrac
tor, who was found murdered in his
home here Monday, though the ac
tual clearing up of the mystery that
surrounds the tragedy has not yet
come. The revelations included the
charge that Wilhelm had three wives
living ami that he had never been
divorced.
Another occurrence of Interest was
the action of the police in suddenly
bringing Mrs. .Mary .1. Wilhelm and
Ni< hulas Sicca, her alleged love'", and
a hoarder in the Wilhelm home, both
held in connection with the murder,
into tho pr?seme of the body of the
murdered man.
Mrs. Wilhelm and her alleged lover
weir taken to the morgue at mid
night and suddenly confronted by the
corpse of the slain husband.
Wollum Became Hysterical.
When the sheet which covered ht r
husband's body was suddenly remov
ed slie became hysterical, fell to ber
knees and frantically declared ber
love for lier husband. As her hys
teria increased, Mrs. Wilhelm became
incoherent, and thc detectives who
were watching ber and listening
could make nothing ol' wita! she said.
When she was taken lundi to the po
lice* station again she was In a state
Of Utter collapse.
Sicca was much shaken by the or
deal, but be made no statement.
Mrs. Wilhelm and Sicca, however,
were in such a slate of collapse thal
the arraignment in court had io be
post poned.
Wilhelm's Other Wives.
Tho allegation regarding the do
mestic life of the murdered man caine
during the progress of thc funeral
of Willi.dm. Mrs. Fredericka Wil
helm, of New York, claimed she was
married to Wilhelm in .Jersey ('itv in
IS'.M, soon after he had deserted his
Hist wife. Hannah Wilhelm, w ho was
also his step-sister. Two y;?ars later,
sin said, she discovered Iiis perfidy.
When she accused him he desert
ed her. slie all -ged, and her year-old
daughter and baby soon lo bo born,
and lied with his stepsister wife.
Since then she had not beard from
bim until Hie child, then unborn, and
now a lad of twelve years, read of his
murder in a newspaper Tuesday and
recognized lu. picture in the paper
a.s fha! of tho man whose picture In
their boni" he had been told was his
i father.
Patterson's Veto was Overridden.
! Nash?. Hie, Tenn., Feb. 1. The bill
prohibit lui", tho manufacture ol In
I toxicnting liquors In this State caine
up in the House to-day for passage
over Ibo Governor's veto. li was
' passed over thc veto by a vote of iii)
to ;!7. Tho law goes into offed .lan
uary !. 1910,
The House is largely State-wide,
ami (hero was no doubt hut thal the
hill would be passed over Ibo velo.
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W'.si Point, Ga., Feb. ft. After
liulvdng little Velma Pennis, six
years old, to accompany him to the
woods, ii is ni leged thal slie was
criminally assaulted by Joe Chappol,
a while boy. li; years old, both resi
dents of Pani;.-dale. Ala.
Feeling ls very strong against
Chappol, and ho was carried to La
fayette. Ala., which, in all probabil
ity . prevented a lynching.
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Walhalla, S. C.
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"PELLAGRA" MENACES SOUTH.
Deadly Disease May BOCO0ie Epi
demic in this Section.
Washington, Jan. 30.-Looming
up as a grave menace to health con
ditions in the South is the recent ap
pearance ot a deadly disease known
to medical scientists as "pellagra."
This strange malady is a veritable
scourge lu the old world and the
possibility of its becoming epidemic
in Hie .Southern States is by no means
remote.
Por several centuries "pellagra" ls
known to have existed In the old
world, but Its presence In the South
has but recently been discovered, lt
probably has existed for several years
in thal section ol the country, but
medical men have failed lo recog
nize i's presence.
Now, however, this peculiar dis
ease has been diagnosed as true pel
lagra, and the credit for its discov
ery in the South belongs to Paused
Assistant Surgeon C. H. Lav in 1er, of
the public health and marine hos
pital service. He has made a thor
ough Invest igai iou of the disease anti
has bul recently made an exhaustive
report on his observations to Sur
geon General Wyman.
"Pellagra" is a malady caused by
thu ealing of spoiled "maize" and
produces in persons afflicted with il
a siirt ol' Intoxication. Tho disease
generally occurs among tho poorer
classes of the rural population, who
subsist largely, or exclusively, mi
emu, most usually prepared by boil
ing corn meal in salt water called
"polenta" in Haly. Dr. I,aviador
states that In pellagrous countries
the corn is often of a poor quality,
gathered before maturity and liol
properly cured and stored, so that
parasites mote easily develop upon
it.
Pellagra is both an endemic and
epidemic disease, which occurs in
I hose who feed on diseased maize,
and is characterized by an erythema
of the skill, digestive disturbances,
and nev rous disturbances, lt may
terminate in such serious conditions
as grave cachexia or insanity; it is
periodic in its manifestations, and
usually appears with the beginning
of spring, ameliorates during sum
mer, and ordinarily in winter the
symptoms disappear to such an ex
tent as ellen to give the false Idea
of recovery. So long as the cause
persists, however, it reappears each
year.
"The disease usually begins with
gastro-lntestinal disturbances." says
Assistant Surgeon 1.aviador, "follow
ed shortly by the erythema of the
skin, ami in a brief while there is
more or less hiv oh emt .t ol' the nerv
ous syst mn. lt is a slowly advancing
toxemia, ibo brunt of which, in the
end, 's home by the nervous system,
and each annual recurrence leaves a
deeper ami more indelible mark on
tho mental and novous condition of
the sufferer." Tho great gravity and
danger ol' the disease, it is pointed
oui. lie in the number ol people af
fected, and in its immediate and
remote consequences not only to in
dividuals, but to lite race intellec
tual feebleness, lessoned resistance,
economic loss, physical deterioration
of the race, etc."
An Interesting theory advanced by
Dr. Lavinder is that if the cause of
"pellagra" be accepted as feeding on
spoiled maize, then the maize crop
of the I'll i ted Slates must in recent
years have undergone decided change
in some respect, for maize has always
been very extensively used as food
in the Southern States, and "pella
gra" has not appeared in former
years. This is a subject which, be
declares, will require extensive in
vestigation should the disease con
tinuo to advance.
Concerning the etiology of i ne dis
ease, ii is said to be an Intoxication
duo io using as food Indian corn
(maizei. which, under the Influence
of unidentified parasitic growths
(fungi), lias undergone certain
changes willi 'the production of one
or more toxic substances of a chemi
cal nar ti re.
In Ibo preface of his report. Dr.
Lavinder declares thal lhere is rea
son lo believe that perhaps "pella
' g ra" may be quite prevalent in the
Southern Stales, but is unrecognized.
Within the past two or three years,
for some reason or reasons unknown,
this disease has rapidly increased in
numbers and extent of territory af
fected. "Pellagra" bears a close re
semblance io the accepted descrip
tion of "pellagra" as it occurs In the
old world, though differing in some
particulars, and the acute cases
greatly preponderate and the mortal
ity is high.
I "Since it is of ii serious nature,
ami ?pid?mie in character," declares
Dr. Lavinder. "knowledge concerning
it is becoming of much Importance
lo the American physician, and es
pecially to ibo practitioner in the
Southern States."
OASTOHIA.
Boara the I-18 K,nd Yon Wm Always Bougft
Bridge Destroyed.
Fayetteville, N. C., Feb. C. Fire
Thursday destroyed tho massive
wooden bridge which spans the Cape
Fear river in this city. This bridge
originally cost M?,OOO and waa in
sured for s 2 "?,000.
20(1 \egroes Arrested.
Piltsburg, Pa., Fob. G. Because
scores of young women and school
girls bav,. been molested by negroes
in Ibo past few weeks, tho police on
Wednesday night arrested 200 ne
groes. The attacks became so fre
quent thal the police determined lo
arrest every negro who could not
prove that he was employed.
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Texas House Defeats Prohibit hm.
Ansi in, Texas. Feb. 5.-The House
tO-day, by fl vole Of Sa to I !. defeat
ed the resolution to submit State
wirb? prohibition to a popular vote.
The prohibitionists lacked two votes
of a necessary two-thirds majority.
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"WH ITH SLAVER" CONVICTED.
Touching Story is Told in Chicago
Court [(oom.
Chicago. Hi.. Fol). I. - A |>itiful
story of a beautiful girl snatched
from the streets of Paris and lured
to the United States, has resulted in
the conviction of Henry Hair, charg
ed ' y the government with promot
ing "white slave" traille in this coun
try. Lair was sentenced hy Judge
Landis to serve two years in the
government prison at Leavenworth,
Kan., and to pay a ifL'.?oo line. The
next case to he tried ls that of Lucie
d'Arvaille, Lair's supposed wife, who
was Indicted with him on charges of
importing French girls to this coun
try in violation of the immigration
laws.
Marie Peuroy, nineteen yeats old,
was the Chief witness for the govern
ment. When fourteen years old, she
said, she met in the streets of Paris,
.Inlcs Du four, who later Introduced
her to Louis Paynt, now in the gov
ernment prison at Atlanta. Ga.
Paynl induced her to come to Amer
ica, and brought her to Chicago,
where she full into the hands of Lair,
who came from San Francisco. Mlle.
Peuroy informed immigration offi
cers of her plight, and she was finally
rescued. Jules Du four, who met the
girl in Paris, is a brother of Alphonse
Dltfour, who, willi a woman known
as Eva Dufour, forfeited !? 2.1,000
cash bail, following indict ment for
white slaving in Chicago, and lied to
France, where they were recently
convicted in a French court.
Hoarse coughs ;.nd stuffy colds
that may develop into pneumonia:
over nigh! are quickly cured by Fo- j
ley's Honey and Tar, and it soot lies j
Inflamed membranes, heals the lungs
and expels the cold from the system.
J. W. Bell, Walhalla; Stonecypher I
Pharmacy, West minster.
World's K?nning Kccord is Broken. 1
Savannah, fla.. Feb. 4. - Fred !
Simpson, a Canadian Indian, o roko
tile world's record for fifteen m Mes
running it in one hour, twenty-seven
minutes and four-fifth seconds. A
large gallery in automobiles follow
ed. Those w lio drove horses were I
distanced. More than 2,omi people
saw the finish.
OCONK1'] liLOCIvADKH ARRESTED;
Duri Allciii Who Escaped from the
(hing, lias Reen Captured.
(Anderson .Mail. 6th.)
Deputy Sherih- W. W. Mitchell, of
Oconee count v, cunio here this morn
ing from Walhalla for Hurt Allen, a
white man who escaped from the
county chain gang there last March,
a few days after he had been sen
tenced to serve a term of four months i
for blockading. Mr. Mitchell will re
tarn to Walhalla with his man tills
afternoon. \
Allen was captured by Deputy
Sheriff M. M. Stewart yesterday af
ternoon at the J. J. Fretwell lumber
camp on the Hammond place, a few
miles east of the city. The officers
here had been on the lookout for
him for some time, and in some way
got wind that he was working at this
camp. Officer Stewart and Tom Davis
went there yesterday, and Allen was
found in the act of handling a large
log.
.lust as soon as he saw the two ?
strangers, neither of whom he knew,
approaching, Allen threw down his
log book and headed for the woods
at a rapid rate. The officers gave
chase for a short distance, but real
izing that Allen bad a Steep hill to
climb, decided to await develop
ments. When he had reached the
top lie was so nearly exhausted that
he gave up, and was brought to Jail
here.
Allen ia about six feet In height, Of
slender build, and on level ground,
no doubt, would have given the ofll-!
cers the ( base of their lives, had no
shots been (ired. Ile lived near Oak
way.
A Charlotte .Man Suicides.
Charlotte, X. C., Feb. Charles
F. W adsworth, one of the most prom
inent citizens In the business and
social life of lids city, suicided to-day
in a Greensboro hotel. Wadsworth
wein to Greensboro Saturday on a?
business trip. Last night the stran
ger registered as R. lt. Varne, Vir- '
ginia. He shot himself in the head,;
dying shortly afterward at a hos
pital. He has been Identified as
Wadsworth, No cause ls assigned
for the rash deed.
AFTER ROAMING TEN YEAHS
Mun Wanted for Murder Surrenders
at Dublin, (bi.
Dublin, Qa., Feb. 4.-Drawn by
Borne Irresistible Impulse to return
to the scene where he killed a man
when he was fifteen years of age,
.Manly B, Tripp, after roaming over
a good portion of the world for ten
years, to-day surrendered to the she
riff of Laurens county.
For BOme days he has been hero,
and was an interested spectator In
the court house during a trial. He
was not recognised until he volunta
rily surrendered. He was a well
known youth, and is prominently
connected. He shot .lames Hood
down on the street in ISM. He es
caped, and effort to capture him
failed.
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New York, Feb. ?"?.--Six men were
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when a construction train on the New
York Central Railroad ran down a
party of track repairers near Uni
versity Heights in Bronx borough. A
gang of laborers, all Italians, were
working near a curve when the train
swept around the bank, plunged Into
the group and hulled the men in
every direction.
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