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WAUi STREBT WOIdP BENT UT. Convicted of Conspiracy and Imper sonating V. H. Olli? inls. New York, Dec. 3.-David Lamar was to-day found guilty of imperson ating Representative A. W. Palmer, of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of defrauding J. P. Morgan & Co., <and the United States Steel Corj>oration. Ho was immediately sentenced to serve two years in the Federal peni tentiary at Atlanta, Ga. The crime of which Lamar-nick named by brokers "The Wolf of Wall j Street"-was convicted is ono sel dom entered on the records of the Federal Court here. The government charged that La mar and his friend, Kdward Lauter- j back, a lawyer, entered into a con- l spiracy to obtain money from the | United States Steel Corporation and ; the Morgan firm by representing ! themselves as agents of Speaker , Clark and other men high in Con- i gross. To further this conspiracy, . it was charged, Lamar telephoned Lewis Cass Ledyard and others, rep resented himself to be Representative ' Palmer, of Pennsylvania, said that j he was acting with the knowledge ? and sanction of Speaker Clark and ' sought to have Mr. Ledyard obtain employment for Lauteroack with the j Morgan firm or the Steel Cori>oration. | The telephone conversations, it ' was testified, lasted for Beveral days j before Mr. Ledyard telephoned to I the real Representative Palmer and . found that he had been talking pre- ? vlously with an imposter. In the j meantime Mr. Ledyard had seen Laxi terback, and Lauterback, Mr. Led- ; i yard said, bad demanded money for j hhs services. Three indictments were found by 1 the grand jury. Two of them clvarg- j ed Lamar with representing himself as an officer of the United States. The third charged Lamar and Lau terback with conspiracy. The one naming Lauterback, District Attor ney Marshall said, would be pressed against Lauterback at an early date. I There is more catarrh in this sec- ! tion of the country than all other ' diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be in- i curable. For a great many years 1 doctors pronounced it a local disease ' and prescribed local remedies, and ' by constantly failing to cure with j local treatment, pronounced it incur- j able. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there fore requires constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To ledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional ; cure on the market. lt is taken in- : ternally. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the j system. They offer one hundred do'.- ! lars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Ad- ' dress F. J Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. ? Sold by druggists, 7:")C. Take Hall's Family Pills for con- ? stipatlon.-Adv. Two Killed in Railroad Wreck. Royersford, l'a., Dec. 9.-Two were killed and two fatally injured to-day when a train from Philadel phia, on the Reading Railway, crash ed into a freight a short distance , from this station. Six others were injured. It is thought that a mis understanding of orders was the cause of the collision. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary | Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name ai <i j look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c. Nearly 2,f>00 electric irons were sold in St. Louis in one day the past su m mer. Severe Head Pains Caused Dy Catarrh Cured By Peruna I Feel It a Duty to Mankind to Let All Know of My Cure. Peruna Did lt. Mr. W. H. Chaney. R. P. D. 2. Sutherlln, Pittsylvanla Co., Va., ?writes: "For tho past twolv? months I have been a sufferer from catarrh of the head. Since taking four bot tles of your Peruna I feel Uko a different person altogether. The se vere pains In my head have disap peared, and ny entire system has been greatly drengthened. "This in my first testimonial to tho curative qualities of any patent medicine. I feel lt a duty to man kind to let 'them know of Peruna. In my estimation lt ls the greatest medicine on earth for catarrh." We have thousands of testimonial? like Mr. Chaney's. Some of them were cured after years of suffering and disappointment In finding a remedy. Send for free copy of "Ills of Life." The Peruna Co., Columbus, Ohio. Those who objsot to liquid medi cine! can now prooure Peruna Tab? Itt?. MR. RUTHERFORD'S NEW HOME. Former Oeoneean Writes of Impres sions in State of Adoption. Pine Level. Air... Dec. 2.-Editor Keowee Courier: I promised you a letter from Alabama, and in fulfilling my promise 1 will tell yon bow 1 find this State. 1 live on the border of Pine I^evel. which is a considerable area of low, level pine forest, of ~~.?iai thousand acres of fine pasture land, with cot ton farms here and there. The for est is a dens? ly timbered tract of j tall, long-leaf pine-certainly a flu^ ? opening for si w mills. Timber it, I cheap and lum icr brings one dollar j at the mill or two dollars at the j railroad, 12 miles distant from the i mill. 1 I am on the border oi the big cot ton belt, where can be'seen thousands of bales of cotton at farm hou. es and ; in warehouses. Cotton, sugar cane and con. are plentiful. Hogs are fattened on sweet potatoes and i eanuts, and cait tle run at large dining the v inter mouths without being fed. V e are In a white community, with a church and tine school house in a hundred yards of our home. For eight miles below us, on the Troy road, are large farms, well supplied with ne gro tenants, who live In good houses, with fine churches, all painted white. These farms belong to large land owners, who furnish land, mules, guano and rations. These land owners are quite at a loss to know how to meet their contracts with fi ce nt cotton. At this time 1 see no wheat, oats or rye being sown. The problem with the big planters ls, will they risk another big cotton crop and expenses or let the land rest? The negroes have nothing after settling for this year, and they cannot farm without aid from merchants or the landlord. The land in Montgomery county ls partly prairie, with some timber belts; sells at $30 to $100 per acre, and ls mostly very level. In Pike county, near me, part of the land is similar to land south of Walhalla, and is selling at $20 to $60 per acre. When this was "Alabama Territory" the United States govern ment had the land surveyed in 80, 1G0, 320 and 640-acre tracts. All land lines are perfectly straight. The public roads generally follow th<3 land lines; consequently the roads are straight. Roads. And speaking of roads: The coun try bei' level, it is absolutely nec essary wt they be graded with a road 1 ?" 3 to 20 feet high to keep water on the sides and off the road The roads are being macadamized and are very hard and solid. Team sters do not ask "how much can tho team pull," but. "how much can the wagon bear up." All bridge planks are sawed 3 by 6 Inches and aro placed one inch apart, so 'that dirt* will not accumulate on the plank hence no rotting. The Troy road crosses the Conecuk river on a very fine bridge, with an embankment across the swamp 20 feet higa for one-fourth of a mile. This work cost a large sum. Near this bridge aro three artesian wells, which supply the city of Troy with water. I Troy is the county seat of Pike county and ls a beautiful city on tba Atlantic Coast Line Railway, which goes into Florida. On my first trip to Troy I named it the "City of ' Flowers." The street that 1 trav eled is the principal residence street, and all the houses for a mile are cottages with beautiful flower gar dens around each. The Courier finds me promptly. I forgot to invite you to take a "tur key dinner" on the 20th with ns and try some Alabama sugar cane syrup. There are plenty of turkeys and ex tra sweet cane syrup. If you are scare of water remem ber me. My well is running over, and lt is 40 feet deep. I hope to get moved into our new home befo iv Christmas. The bird hunters were out in full force on Thanksgiving day. It ap peared like a war zone In my r dgh borhood. I am informed that .'.inlr rel? are plentiful. I will Invest'ga to this report about Christmas. . J. N. Rutherford. The liver Regulates the Rod y-A Sluggish Liver Needs Care. Some one has said that people with chronic liver complaint should be shut up away from humanity, for they are pessimists and see through a "glass darkly." Why? Because mental states depend upon physical states. Biliousness, headaches, diz ziness and constipation disappear af ter using Dr. King's >Jew Life Pills. 25c. at your druggist.-Adv. Warning Against Potatoes. Washington, Dec. 7.-The Depart ment of Agriculture has issued a warning to Southern farmers against buying seed potatoes from Maine un less they hear thc department's cer tificate showing they ?re free from powdery scab. They are also warn ed against, planting table potatoes, as I they may have been exposed to dis enso even ?f they don't ?how it. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM IN S. C. Care Should Re Taken, However, as to Foot mid Moutli Disease. Clemson College, Dec. 7.-Whii? urging farmers not to relax their vigilance, and to be prompt in com municating with Clemson College whenever their suspicions are arous ed, Dr. R. O. Keeley. State Veterina rian, has issued a statement, repeat ing his recent reassurance that there was vo'y slight danger of foot and mouth disease reaching South Caro lina. Inquiries which have been re ceived at Clemson recently led to the veterinarian's statement. Two alarms have been received s'nee the outbreak of the epidemic in t te North and West. One came from .1 jrdau, in Clarendon county, and the < thor from Bishopville, Lee county. Veterinarians were immediately dis patched from the college to in ves! 1 gate and in both cases the report was that no symptoms of foot and mouth disease were present. Dr. Feeley stated that so energeti cally was the Department of Agricul ure handling the problem, r.nd so s.rictly bad the quarantine lires been dn.wn, that be felt safe in te.ling the SouC' Carolina farmers H.at they need h."1 ve practically no anxiety on the subjev* The State Veterinarian feels satisfied v.illi the precautions that have been taken, and although he will continue to be vigilant he has no fears that the area of infection will spread to South Carolina. Stop that Cough-Now. When you catch cold, or begin to cough, the first thing to do is to take Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey. It pene trates the linings of the thront and lungs and fights the germs of the disease, giving quick relief and nat ural healing. "Our whole family de pend on Pine-Tar-Honey for coughs and colds," writes E. Williams, Ham ilton, Ohio. It always helps. 25c. at your druggist.-Adv. Canadian's Novel Spade. (British Cor. Associated Press.) Canadian troops arrivng at Salis bury Plain carry ai? entrenching tool that ls novel to the Englishman, lt is capable of being used as a shield and is slung across the shoulder in a leather case. The tool is a spade, weighing about four pounds, and consequently can be carried at all times. The spade has an oval hole in the center of it through which a gun barrel can be thrust. The tool thus serves both as a rifle rest and a shield to the soldier In the trenches. All the spades have been subjected to heavy fire and the metal in them is practically bullet-proof. Ata dist ance of 200 yards heavy ammunition only cracks the shields und does not penetrate them. Paris Again Government Seat. Paris, Dec. 9.-President Poln care and Premier Vivian! arrived in Paris to-day from Bordeaux. For eign Minister Delcasse and members of the diplomatic corps were to fol low them late rin the day. The return of President Poincare to Paris from Bordeaux marks the re establishment of the seat of French government in that city alter an ab sence of nearly three months. In the early weeks of the war when the German armies were sweeping south ward across France the French gov ernment, on September 3, issued a proclamation announcing its tempo rary transference to Bordeaux. On several occasions it was re ported the French government, be lieving danger of the capture of Paris to be past, would return to that city, but it was not until Decem ber 3 that formal announcement to this eifect was made. ? SPECIALTY, CRIMINAL CASES. Il Governor to Konn ParOnersl?p in l p- I Country Cities. (Anderson Mall.) Governor Dlease will likely open an olllce for the practice of law in I Anderson, and will probably he asso ciated with Wyche & K?ster, well known attorneys of Sparenburg. The style of the linn here will be Bl ease, Wyche & Foster. C. C. Wyche, who was known as the administration leader on the door of the House of Representatives, and his partner, M. C. Foster, have been In Anderson for the purpose of looking over the field here. They returned to Spartanburg last night. Neither Mr. Wyche nor Mr. Foster , had any statement to make before ! leaving for Spartanburg other than : that Mr. Wyche would probably move ; to Anderson in the event the office ls opened here; that Mr. Foster would ! r?onin in Spartanburg, where a sim liar ari'dPflCetnent with the Cover*.or will ne made, ..?d that the Oe;ornor would remain in Columbia, coming to Anderson and going to Spartan burg on Important cases. Their s|>e cialty will be criminal cases. The visitors from Simrtanburg said they did not know whether the Gov ernor planned to have similar ar rangements in other counties in the State. Mr. Iilease has already an nounced that he will open an office In Columbia for tito practice of law. i Jurynian Dies in Buggy. A dispatch from Camden, under date of December 2, says: John Elliott, a prominent and highly respected farmer of the Cas satt section of the county, was found dead in his buggy near his home early Sunday morning, ho having died some time during the night while on his return home, after be ing discharged from jury duty Satur day afternoon. Barties seeing him late in the afternoon say that he seemed to be in good health and his death is supposed to have been due to apoplexy. Colds Are Often Most Serious-Stop l*ossible Complications. The disregard of a cold has often brought many a regret. The fact of sneezing, coughing, or a fever should be warning enough that your system needs immediate attention. Certain ly loss of sleep is most serious. lt is a warning given by nature. lt is man's duty to himself to assist by doing his part. Dr. King's New Dis covery is based on a scientific analy sis of colds. 50c. at your druggist. Buy a bottle to-day.-Adv. Chester Has "Bad" Men. Chester, Dec. 9.-The store of George B. Minter, situated several miles from Chester, was broken into Monday night about 12 o'clock. Af ter a quantity of merchandise had been taken the store was fired. The loss is partly covered by insurance. There lr. no clue to the robbers. Elihu Johnson, of the Well rid ge community, while on his way home from Chester Monday night, was held up by several men and robbed of what money he had, $10. Three white men held up I. Sims in this city Monday night. They made him empty his pockets. They secured only 15 cent3. Card of Thanks. Editor Keowee Courier: We de sire through your columns to thank our friends and neighbors for the many kindnesses shown us during the sickness and death of our father. May God's richest blessings rest upon each and every one of them. Children of Henry Pearson. iiiiiiurniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiui ts?s Your Eyes lieht of the RAYO Lamp urely as a harsh white glare cntists recommend thc light LAMP how you the Rayo, to light and care for. No DIL COMPANY JERSEY ) CWlMt,, N. C. ?IMAD TC" Charle?tot?, V/. Va. 1MUKC. OtrUtton. H. C llillllllllilllllllllllllllilliPIll PRANK EXECUTION JANUARY 22. Prisoner Makes Lengthy Statement Before Fijiol Date ls Fixed. (Atlanta Georgian, 10th.) Leo M. Frank Wednesday was sen tenced for the third timo to die on the'gallows for tho murder of Mary Mingan, killed in the National Pencil Factory on April 2(>, 1913. Judge Hen Hill set the date for the con demned man's execution as Friday, January 2 2. 1915. On each of the other occasions when he was sentenced to hang Krank was respited by an appeal to the higher courts for a review of the case. There now remains between Frank and death only tho State Prison Commission and Governor John M. Slaton. Within a week it is expected that the Governor will be asked to grant a further respite so the case can be argued and a idea for clemency entered before the Prison Commission. The third sentencing of Frank was tho most dramatic of the many dra matic episodes of the famous case. The court room was jammed with people, the great majority of them men, with here and there a woman. The murmur that greeted the en trance of Frank, walking slowly with a deputy sheriff on either side of him. died away to absolute quiet as the condemned man rose to his feet in answer to Judge Hill's question as to whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed unon him. Gestures Emphasize Words, Quietly and Impressively, empha sizing his statements with gestures and again speaking slowly, with his hands clasped behind his back, Frank made what was probably the most remarkable assertion of inno cence and a belief in his ultimate vindication that has ever been heard in a (Jeorgia court room. The prisoner was taken from tho Fulton County Tower shortly before 12 o'clock by Sheriff Mangum and Deputy Sheriff Miner. Frank's aged father, M. Frank, was with his son j when Deputy Sheriff Miner entered his cell. Thc aged mau assisted his son into his coat and walked with him to the door of the tower, where a closed automobile waited. At the door of the tower the father clasped his son's hand and bade him good bye, and the condemned man was placed in the automobile and taken to the court, house. The court room was Ailed with men. Many of them had been wait ing for hours to witness the sentenc ing of Frank. Every scat was filled by 1 1 o'clock, and when it became known that Frank bad entered the building tlio crowds that had been waiting patiently In the corridors rushed in a struggling mass of hu manity into the court room. The jain became so great that deputy sheriffs closed the doors and barred thom. Hundreds remained in the hallways for an hour, hoping to get a glimpse of Frank. Prisoner's Remarkable Statement!. The following address was made to the court to-day by Leo M. Frank when asked by Judge Hill, when brought from the tower, why sen tence of death should not be pro nounced on him: "May it please your honor, this is a momentous day-a day >f far greater importance to the State of Georgia and to the majesty of the law even than to myself, for under the guise of law your honor lg about to pronounce words that will con demn to death an innocent man. Transcending in importance the loss of my own life is the lndelllble stain and dishonor resting upon the name of this State by reason of Its judi cially murdering an innocent man. "The jury's verdict of August 25, 1913. nnding me guilty of the death of Mary Phagan did not then, and does not now, speak the truth. I declare to your honor and to tho world that that verdict was made In an atmosphere seething with mob violence and clamor for my life--a verdict based on evidence absolutely false, which, under other circum stances, would not have boen given a moment's credence. "Your honor, I deeply sympathize with the parents of Mary Phagan. The brute that brought so much grief on them has plunged me into sorrow about to accomplish my undoing. "But this I know, my execution will mark the advent of a new ora In Georgia, where a good name and stainless honor count for naught against the word of a vile criminal; where the testimony of Southern white women of unimpeachable char acter lg branded as false by the pros ecution, disregarded by the jury, and the perjured vaporings of a black brute alone Accepted as the whole truth; where a mob crying for blood Invaded the court room ai;d becamo the dominant factor In what should have been a solemn judicial trial. O. sha.. e. that these ihlnga Ibc true! "Life is very sweet to me. It Is EDISON PLANT IS DESTROYED, Fire at West Orange, N. J., ll? ,UHN In $7,000,000 Damage. West Orango. N. J.. Dec. ?.--Fire destroyed virtually the entire main plant vif the Ellison Company here to night, causing damage estimated at nearly $7,000,000 with insurance that it is expected will reduce tho loss to approximately $f>,00C,000. An entire square block of modern reinforced concrete buddings which wore supposed to be fireproof was burned out by the Hames. The only building saved In the block was the laboratory building, containing valu able scientific machinery under im mediate superintendence of the in ventor, Thos. A. Edison. Especial efforts made to save this structure were successful. lt ls estimated that 3,000 men and women will be temporarily thrown out of work because of the fire. In all about 7,000 persons were em ployed at the plant, but as the stor age battery building across the street from the main plant was saved, with other buildings nearby, it will bo possible to keep something more than half the force employed. Four firemen were Injured lighting the blaze and were taken to a hos pital. "Although I am more than 67 years of age, I'll start all over -again to-morrow," said Mr. Edison. "I am pretty well burned out to-night, but to-morrow there will be a mo bilization here and the debris will be cleared away If it is cooled suffi ciently, and will go right to work to reconstruct the plant." The inventor expressed himself thus as he stood watching the flames lick up building after building of his mammoth plant, started, it Is thought probable, by an explo sion In the Inspection building, one of the smaller frame structures. This building was quickly a mass of flames and the fire spread rapidly to other structures. Chemicals in j some of the buildings made the fire fighting extremely difficult. Explos ions occurred frequently. AU em ploy?es at work in various build in ETC escaped. In all eleven buildings in the main plant were destroyed. The buildings destroyed included those occupied by the New Diamond Disc Company, tho one occupied by the Klnetophone Company and the building which housed the Dates numbering ma chines, together with the Edison pri , mary battery building, the talking ? machine building and the ndmi-nis ! tration building. j Fire departments from Orange, East and South Orange, Bloomfield, i Montclair and Newark responded to a call for help, but were badly handi capped by lack of sufficient pressure. Fleet ric light wires of the town j went out of commission when tho power house at the Edison plant was destroyed, plunging tho place , into darkness. From the blazing electrical plant itself, however, there shot up towering flames which illu minated the country for miles around. Mr. Edison was not at the plant when the fire started, but he soon .?ppeared qud assumed personal charge of directing the forces com j bnting the flames. He was especially j anxious regarding the laboratory i building, and when he found that it j probably would be impossible to save ? the greater part of the rest of the j plant he had the efforts of tho fire fighters centerod upon this structure. In the meantime much of the valua ble scientific apparatus, drawings, models and other treasured posses sions of the Inventor In this building as could be readily moved were car ried to a placo of safety. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Vote on McDufllo County. Governor Blease has ordered an election to be held on December 29 on the question of establishing the now,county of McDuflle out of por tions of Greenwood, Abbeville and Edgefleld counties, with McCormick as the county seat. The new county wi!, have an area of 402 % square miles. , not an eaty thing to give up the love of dear ones, of wife and parents, of ever-loyal friends. Though, this bc ? true, death has no terror?? for me. I ? go to my end in the full conscious ness of Innocence and in the Arm conviction that-,, as there is a God in i Heaven, my full vindication must come some day. With the dawn of that day there v/111 come to the peo ple of Georgia a full realisation of 1 this horrible mistake, a mistake ir . retrievable-the execution of an in nocent man, a victim of perjury, prej ; udice and passion."