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AIKEN. S. C.. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST IT. 1905.
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TERMS TOO DRASTIC
DISPENSARY GRAFT ALLEGED.
Russia Kicks on indemnity
and Cession of Sakhalin.
CREDENTIALS AN ISSUE
PETERS SUSPENDED S0CIAL EQUALITY AEFAIR ON THREE ARTICLES
Dove of Peace Fluttera Hesitatingly
Over Conference of Plenipotenta-
res at Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Muddle Over Credentials.
A special from Portsmouth says
Russia’s reply to the Japanese terms
of peace was delivered by Mr.
Witte to Baron Komura at 9:30
o’clock Saturday morning. The re*
ply is written in two texts, one in
French and the other in English.
Upon two crucial points, indemnity
and Uie cession of the Island of Sak
halin, tho reply is an absolute non
possimus. Other points are accepted
as bases for discussion, while others
are accepted conditionally.
The reply is rather long, because
enumerating the conditions upou
which d ! scussion is admitted and
those upon which consideration is de
clined, reasons and arguments are
given.
The tactics of tho Japanese are in
scrutable. They have shown through
out the war this ability to guard their
secrets, military, naval and diplomat
ic, aud now not the remotest clew
comes from behind their closed doors
as to whether they are prepared to
make substantial concessions. Silence
and secrecy are their watchwords.
A very remarkable state of affairs
exists regarding the credentials of the
Japanese plenipotentiaries, and the
end is not yet.
Notwithetaud'ng the previous ofll-
cial statement that with the exchange
of credentials all diittculties on that
point had been removed, btie Associat
ed Press learns authoritatively that
the matter stlli is in issue. After the
failure of Baron Komura to produce
his credentials at the first session on
Wednesday, an English copy was com
municated to M. Witte with the state
ment that it was a copy, but that it
was in no Vise attested.
At Thursday’s session, Baron Ko
mura submitted the original in Jap
anese, but, of course, no member of
the Russian mission could read it. M.
Witte's credentials, on the contrary,
while An Russian, were aecoropontpd bv
a certified copy in French, which bore
the signature of Count Lamsdorff, the
Russian minister of foreign affairs. M.
WMtte has returned to Baron Komura
the copy of the latter’s credentials In
the expectation that he would forth
with receive *n attes’ed copy of the
translation, but up to noon Friday he
had received nothing.
The difference in the powers con
ferred on the two plenipotentiaries
also raises a delicate point, and one
of the grea'est moment, in the Rus
sian credentials the emperor pledges
his word of honor to sign any treaty
which receives the approval of M.
Witte. The power conferred upon M.
Witte to negotiate and conclude a
treaty of peace is absolute.
Baron Komura’s credentials, on the
contrary, specifically provide that any
treaty negotiated by Baron Komura
must ret-clve the imperial ratification
of th® emperor of Japan.
This divergence in tho character of
tho credeutin’s is so vital that M.
Witte has communicated to Baron Ko
mura an official diplomatic note wdiere-
1n he notifies the Japanese chief pleni
potentiary that, while he stands ready
to exercise the full powers conferred
npon him, in view' of the limitation
placed upon the powers of Japan’s
chief negotiators, he regards it as
only proper that he should consider
his powers limited in the same way.
In other words, unless the powers of
Baron Komura are increased to make
them coequal with those conferred
upon M. Witte, Emperor Nicholas will
have the right to ratify or reject any
treaty that is negotiated.
South Carolina Legislative Committee
Begins Its Probing Work.
The committee appointed at the
last session of the South Carolina
general assembly to investigate alleg
ed graft In connection with the sta e
dispensary and which has for severai
months been working secretly, held
i’s first public session at Spartanburg
Tuesday.
John Henry Morris, formerly dis
penser in Spartanbirg, testified to
the effect that he had contributed to
a-fund to purchase the Influence of a
Spartanburg paper in behalf of the dis
pensary. He testified that he lost his
job ae beer dispenser because he
complained of the quality of beer sold
to him by a certain ooarpany and be
cause he had refused to pay C. O.
Smith, chairman of the county board,
the amount that Smith demanded.
Witness swore, further, that in
making final settlement with the
brewing company the contern was
represented by Cole L. Blease, who
had said:
‘ You toys could have kept from tell
ing so much." Blease is a member of
tho investigating committee, beipj;
the author of the resolution, whicti
created the committee. Morris test!
fled that H. H. Evans had nsked h ! ,m
*o “chip in” $300 to tho election of
legislators Ri Spartanburg county,
promls’ng to refund it. Witness bad
never been reimbursed, although lib
had spent money on the advice of
Jesse Mahnffi'y, former member of the
legislature, who had told Morris that
Evans was good for the amount, as
(’luring the aess'on of the legislature
Mahaffey had twenty blltp stuffed
into his pockets by Evans, during the
campaign incident to Evans' re-eiec
tion. Evans is chairman-of the state
board of contiol. The committee then
adjourned un‘U Wednesday.
Vice-President of Cotton As
sociation Asked to Resign.
ACTION TAKEN BY JORDAN
Jap and Russ Peace Envoys
Come to Agreement.
Charge Made That Vice President
Has Been Working Against As
sociation—Action Approved by
Majority of the Directors.
Daughter of Wanamaker is Escorted
to Dinner by Booker Washington.
Denunciatory Comment Results.
A special from Saratoga, N. Y., Is as
follows: “Booker T. Washington’s ap
pearance at dinner yesterday in the
| great dining room of the United
States hotel caused a mild sensation
among the diners. Washington was These Relate to Korea, Evacuation of
OF SECONDARY IMPORT
FLED WITH HER THROAT CUT.
PRIVATE BURIAL FOR CHAPPELLE
Funeral of Reman Catholic Prelate Re-
etricted as Procautionary Measure.
hi order that no unnecessary risks
might be taken, it was announced in
New Orleans Thursday that the fun
eral of the l.'te Archbishop Chappeile
would be private. •
Dr. Whi e sai l it was a fact ne-
ccp.ed by the rclcnt’sts that yellow
fe\er could not be transmitted by a
corpse, but the element of danger
would be in attract’ng to the cathe
dral an immense assemblage of peo
ple from ail sections of the city.
ENGINEER DAUCHEY RESIGNS.
Woods Searched for Young Woman
Supposed to Bs Dead.
Scores of men and boys of Ro.-iS-
vilie, Ga., about six miles from Chat
tanooga, searched the woods in that
vicinity Tuesday night for the body
of a woman named Sarah Jackson,
who is supposed to have been fatally
wounded by a man named Charley
Cat r.
When last seen ths woman was run
ning into a dense thicket with her
throat cut end blood pouring over he'
body.
In the meantime, Carr was chained
to the wall of a primitive calaboose
at RofssvUle, and men with shotguns
guarded him.
The affair »* relied - tn —■»
T ffnff Mtss'tracKSon are said
from Dalton. Ga.
Jackson and a man whose
name could not be learned wore driv
ing in a buggy, when Carr, who was
intoxicated, came up on horseback.
Carr demounted when he reached the
buggy and rushed upon Miss Jackson
with a kn'-fe. The man in the buggy
jumped out and ran when Carr be
gan cutting Miss Jackson. As soon as
she could get away from him she rai.
into the woods.
President Jordan of the Southern
Cotton Asosciation has demanded tha
resignation of E. 8. Peters, vice pres
ident of the associa'ion.
The action of President Jordan
meets with the approval of the exec
utive committee of the association,
he having consulted the members
of the eommiltee by wire before taa-
ing action. After hearing from IT
members of the committee President
Jordan telegraphed to Vice President
Peters at Washington demanding his
resignation and suspending him as an
officers of the association.
The action of the president is base!
upon certain utterances made by Col.
Peters at Washington July 31, and
his actions there since that time,
where ho has since remained. Presi
dent Jordan declares that Col. Peters’
statements and actions clearly indi
cate that he is not in harmony with
the president and Secretary Cheat
ham In their efforts to push the in
vestigation of the bureau of cotton
statistics, nor in harmony with the
vi».vs of the members of the Southern
Cotton Association. It is also charged
that he is a partisan of Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, whom he openly
defends.
the guest of John Wanamaker, for
mer postmaster general, and acted as
escort to JJts. Barcaly Wiarburton, Mr.
Wan.amaker’s daughter, while Mr.
Wanamaker walked to the table with
J. R. E. Roberts.
“Washington preached here three
Manchuria and Chinese Eastern
Railway—Main Features Are
Yet to Be Reached.
Although very rapid progress was
made with the peace negotiations at
Portsmouth Monday, three of the
times yesterday, first at the Presbyte- twelye articles * hich constitute the
rian church, in the Baptist church, ani
late in the evening in the African Ja P anese ^.tions of peace, having
Methotkist church.”
Cunningham Condemns Booker.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala,
says: Lieutenant Goverivor R. M. Cun-
The three “articles,” as they are
Saratoga officially designated in the brief com-
I munications, authorized to be given to
OIL RATES MADE UNIFORM.
MAY CALL OUT MILITIA.
Louisiana State Board of Health De
termined to Enforce Orders.
If the present chao’ic condition of
quarantine matters in Louisiana is not
speedijy terminated in obedience to
a proclamation issued Tuesday, the
state board of health has announced
its intention of immediately invoking
the civil powers, and, that falling, ol
asking Governor Blanchard to call out
the militia and restore and maintain
order.
BOARD LOST ITS CASE.
Brought Suit Against Druggists and
Mttct Now Pay Court Coots.
The case of Georg a board of phar
macy against Dr. A. F.| White and
Dr. W. J. Whits of Fiovilla for vio
latlon of the law of the state board
stores without a licensed pharmacis;
was tried before Judge J. C. Mad
dox Tuesday.
The druggists were exonerated an t
the court cost must be paid by the
board of pharmacy.
FINE EXPORT RECORD.
American Manufactures Ar e Being
Taken by All the World.
Statistics compiled by the bureau o;
statistics of the department of com
merce and labor show that the ex
ports of manufacturers In the fiscal
year just ended amounted to $543,620,-
297, ns against $452,415,921 in tm
preceding year, $433,851,750 in J'Oih
and $153,595,743 in 1595. Of manutac
tures the expor s for the past fiscal
vear were the largest on record.
Sop is Handed Out to Standard Oc
topus by Railroads.
Sweeping reductions on northbound
freight rates on petroleum produc's
so as to make the tariff northbound
?.nd southbound uniform, especially
noteworthy in view of recent charges
of a combination between railroads
and the Standard Oil company for ex
acting higher rates northbound, were
announced in new schedules filed with
the Interstate commerce commission
at Washington Friday by the Illinois
been agreed to by Mr. Witte and Bar
on Rosen on behalf of Russia, neither
of the two articles to which Mr. Witte
in his reply returned an absolute neg-
nlngham, m a statement made Mon- a t} ve w , as cached. The crisis, there-
day night, vigorously condemns the fore Js stil ^ 0 tome .
action of Booker T. Washington in
dining publicly with John Wanamaker
and his daughter at
Springs.
“His conduct in accepting those at- the press, are, in substance, as fot
tentions from northern white people..': lows:
said Lieutenant Governor Cuningham, “First—Russia’s recognition of Ja-
“proves conclusively that he is an un- pan’s ‘preponderating influences’ and
wise leader of his race. It contradicts special' i>osition in Korea, which Rus-
emphaticaily the policies he has sia henceforth agrees is outside of her
preached and the profession he has sphere of influence, Japan binding her-
made. It Impairs his usefulness to his self to recognize the suzerainty of
people, for while he may be immune the reigning family, but with the right
from the injury that will follow, they, to give advice and, assistance to in
credulous and ignorant, will ( suffer prove the civil administration of the
incalculably. j empire.”
“If he had sat down and studied how “Second—Mutual obligation to evac-
be could most effectively array the uate Manchuria, each to surrender all
whites against* the blacks in the south, special privileges ia that province, mu-
he could not have hit upon a plan tual obligition to respect the ‘tern-
that would have been more effective torial integrity’ of China *;id to maln-
than the one he has adopted.” ; tain the principle of equal opportun-
! ity for tho commerce and industry of
railroads. The reductions are:
From New Orleans to Chicago, from
41 cents a hundred pounds to 23 cents;
to St. Ix>uls, from 35 cents to 18 cents;
to Cincinnati, from 89 cents to .22 1-2
cents, and to Louisville, from 33 cents
to 18 cents.
The charges of combination were
made in a complaint recently filed by
the Gulf Refining company of Port
Arthur, Texas, which alleged that the
difference in the rates between
northbound and southbound petroleum
operated as a bar to Texas and I-ouis-
iann oil entering the territory of the
Standard Oil company, but did not
permit the Standard OH company’s
products to enter territory In the
south.
ROOSEVELT AT CHAUTAUQUA.
President Delivers Interesting Address
Before Ten Thousand People.
President Roosevelt delivered a no
table address at Chautauqua, N. Y.,
Friday.
Through a line of 800 boys and girls
the president was escorted to the as
sembly amphitheater, his way being
strewn w4th flowers. When he ap
peared on the platform, President
Roosevelt was greeted by 10,000 peo
ple with cheers and the chautauqua
salute. Bishop Vincent introduced tha
president to the great audience in a
few simple sentences. The president
was given an ovation.
The Monroe doctrine, trusts. San
Domingo affair and regulation of cor
porations were the principal features
of his address.
Dr. Stagg Blames Washington.
Dr. J. W. Stagg, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Birmingham,
said the action of Booker T. Washing
ton, in Saratoga, Sunday, will retard
the union of the northern and south
ern branches of the church for many
years.
“John Wanamaker, with whom
Washington dined publicly, is a prom
inent member of the northern Presby
terian church, and all southern mem
bers of the church ^will resent his ac
tion. I blame Washington more than
all nations in that province (open
door).”
“Third—The cession to China of the
Chinese Eastern railroad from liar-
tin southward.”
There was never any question about
tbe acceptance on the part of Mr.
Witte of these “articles,” the first two
ervering in more emphatic form tbe
contentions of Japan in the diplomatic
struggle which proceeded hostilities.
The third is a natural consequence of
tl^p result of war. The cession of the
Mr. Wanamaker. He knows better, 1 railroad, the building of which cost
while Mr. Wanamaker does not un- o Russi a an immense sum, estimated by
derstand sentiment in the south 4 some at between $100,000,000 and $200,-
againsF anv+hing- hmvtoring rac j a j f 000,000, is to China. Japan and Chi-
MONDAY’S FEVER REPORT.
Fifty-Five New Cases and Twelve
Deaths fo the Day in New Orleans.
Yellow fever figures for Monday in
New Orleans were surprisingly smali/f
considering that nine’een of the cases
reported really belonged to Sunday’s
list, having come in after the closing
of Sunday’s report. Monday has usu
ally been a heavy day for new cases
or account of hold-overs from Sunday,
and if the number of new cases for
the next few days continues small,
then it can be said that the situation
is really improving.
The official report for the day was
as follows: New cases, 55; total cases
tc date, 1,018; deaths, Monday, 12;
total deaths to date, 166; cases un
der treatment, 356.
NORWAY VOTES TO BREAK AWAY
former is to he remunerated, and
through this financial operation, Japan
might have a very considerable por
tion of her claim for the “expenses of
the war” liquidated. The railroad is
ostensibly the property of the Russo-
Chincse bank, although built by gov
ernment money advanced through the
bank, and since its completion, oper-
atdd, managed and policed by the Rus
sian government.
Japan cannot take the railroad her
seif. To place herself in Russia’s shoes
regarding the railroad would be mili
tarily to control the destinies of thc-
three provinces of Manchuria, which
she has promised to return to China.
NEW COUNTY BILLS PASSED.
Georgia House Finishes Its Part of
Most Important Legislative Work.
Fully sustaining the report of iis
committee on new counties, the Geor
gia house of representatives Monday
completed Its work on the new coun
ty bills, passing each one of them just
as the committee recommended.
The new county business was cou-
Secession from Sweden Approved by
an Overwhelming Majority.
The Norwegian people, in a refer
endum taken Sunday, pronounced in i
favor of the dissolution of the union j
with Sweden with remarkable uns-I ^ed when the house passed the
nimlty. Of 450,000 voters, 320,000 cast 1 °’‘ lls provullnK for thc cre at:on of
ballots. The difference between the county from parts of Hab-
j ersham and Franklin, and Toombs
| cunty from parts of Emanuel, Tatt-
I nail and .Montgomery.
The house has thus passed bills pro
total number of voters and tbe num
ber of votes cast is attributable to ab
sentees, such as sailors abroad and
others who are out of the country at
present.
Thousands of women who did not
have the right of franchise, signed
petitions in the streets indorsing the
dissolution.
riding for the establishment of eight
now counties, all that are allowed un
der the constitutional amendment.
The matter of new counties is now
up to the senate.
SIXTY-EIGHT NEW CASES.
Panama
Another Canal Official in
Gives Up His Job.
A Panama dispatch says: W. E.
Dauchey, who has been engineer in
charge of the Culebran division of the
canal work, and an appointee of for
mer Chief Wallace, has resigned. He
left at once for New York. The engin
eering operations on the canal are
now suspended pending sanitary work.
iPAPER SLANDERS ATLANTA
Other Nationalities Than Italians Be
coming Victims of Fever.
Thursday's advices from New O.-
leans stated that the situation dots
not look so good in the face of such
a steady augmentation in tho number
of new cases and new sub-fcci. The'
seem to be popping up all over the
oihy, the discouraging .feature
is that only 19 of the CS new eases
reported &re those of Italians, show
ing that other nationalities are bev-g
affected.
LUSTER ADMITS FOUL CRIME.
Says He Placed Pistol to Wife’s Head
and Pulled the Trigger.
"Yes, I killed her. I bought a powder
at the drug store to make her sleep,
but she would not. Then, when she
was not looking, I put the gun to hei
head and fired.”
The above is the confession of Per
cy Luster, who killed his wife at
Guthrie, Kv., about two weeks ago, to
Chief of Detectives Pender, at Og
den, Utah, Friday morning. Luster will
icturn to Guthrie without requisition
papers. He is a complete nervous
wreck.
ABOLISHES COLORED MILITIA.
OCCUPATION TAX FOR GEORGIA. FRENCH CLAIMS ALLOWED.
Measure Passed in House /\ssesses
All Corporations in the State.
An occupation tax upon each and
every corporation doing business in
Georgia, domestic and foreign, was
what the bouse of representatives
adopted with practically no opposi- j
tion.
This occupation tax is graded in
accordance with the corporation's
capital stock, varying from $5 on eor-
p.orations whose capital stock is les*?
than $25,000 to $100 on corporations
having a capital of more than $1,000.- I
000. The same tax is put upon foi-
eign as upon domestic corporations 5 . !
Pe'eree Decides That Venezuela Must
Pay Move Than $650,000.
Claims aggregating more than $650,
000 held by the French government
against Venezuela, have been allowed
by Referee Frank Plumley of North-
field, Vt., to whom they had been re
ferred for a decision and final ad
judication.
The claims are for damages alleged
to have been sustained by French cit
izens conducting mercantile enter
prises in Venezuela during the insur
rection of 1001.
TEAMSTERS RE-ELECT SHEA.
MRS. COBB UNDER ARREST.
Georgia House Passes Bill Eliminat
ing Negro Troops from Service.
If the Georgia senate sustains the
action of the house, the negro troops j
of the state must go out of the serv
ice.
The house, Monday, by a vote or (
106 to 6, passed the bill by Mr. I>and
of Wilcox, which abokshes the battal
ion of colored troops in Georgia.
STATE REFORMATORY BILL.
PHILADELPHIA MINT STOPS.
York Tribune Published Fake
tory About Yellow Fever.
New York Tribune has printed ■
iderous communication from
malicious fakir, alleged to be
1 physician, to the effect that
are at least a dozen cases of
fever in Atlanta. The Tribune
been wired by the mayor, City
i Officer Kennedy and indlvid-
tizens, denouncing the story as
icious fake and demanding the
of the author.
Charged With Murder of Husband.
Her Bond l« Fixed at $7,000.
MYs. W. H. Cobb was arrested at
Royston, Ga., Friday on the charge cf
manslaughter for shooting to death
her husband. Her bond was fixed at
$7,000. No further Investigation will
be made until the superior court meets
in September.
The Royston Record, the paper of
which Mr. ^obb was editor, will be
published without interruption.
Passed in Gergia Senate After Adop
tion of Important Amendment.
The bill establishing a Georgia state
reformatory for juvenile criminals,
passed the senate Friday morning by
a vote of 36 to 1, Senator Mills rf
Cherokee, being the only senator to
vote against the measure.
The senate amended the measure
phovidlng that the reformatory should
be located at the prison farm.
Opposition to President Was Not of
Sufficient Fc'ce to Defeat Him.
Despite the sentiment against Pres
ident Cornelius P. Shea, which haJ
been plainly manifested at various
times during the convention of the
International Bro'herhood of Team
sters at Philadelphia, there were
enough delegates favorable to his ad
ministration to secure his re-election.
SOUTH CAROLINA l
2 STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Accepts Challenge of Tillman.
C. P. Sims, a lawyer of Spartan-
lurg and a stanch prohibitionist, is
willing to accept the challenge mad®
u few days ago to meet Seagdor Till
man in joint debate on the whiskey
question, and has sent him a letter to
that effect.
Charleston Greatly Interested.
Tho revelations of the dispensary in-
| vcs'igation were especially interesttns
to Charleston. Charleston county has
the largest number of dispensaries, ho
tel privileges, retail beer establish
ments, two beer bottling works and a
brewery and the opportunities of gnaft
i are consequently greater.
His Citizenship in Doubt.
John Leonard,'' tbe insane man of
t
Anderson county, who has figured in
the newspapers owing to the fact that
the asylums of the states of North
Carolina nud South Carolina have re
fuged admittance to him because of
an uncertainty of his citizenship, is
confined to the jail in Spartanburg,
having been transferred from Ander.
son.
Excursions 'Under the Ban.
The board of health of Charleston
has put the week-end excursions from
Augusta, Columbia and other places
over the Southern railway under the
ban, calling off all special excursions,
on account of the lax regard which
has characterized the issue of healta
certificates at the interior ci'ios and
towns. The board thought that the
chances were too great.
To Discuss Trolley Line.
There was a meeting in Piercetown
last Tuesday in tbe interest of the
proposed trolley line between Easley
and Anderson. The speakers for the
occasion were R. S. L’.gom, M. L. Bon
ham, J. A. Brock, Fred G. Brown, Dr.
S. M. Orr, and Dr. George Coughlin,
of Anderson; Dr. Frank Smith and
WL M. Hagcod of Easley, Hon. J, F.
Boggs and J. P. Carey of Pickens.
This Dispensary O. K.
The Newberry dispensary, J. H
Chappell, dispenser, was checked up
by Inspector Dean’ a few days ago. itv'-,
RAVISHER BURNED AT STAKE.
No More Bullion to Coin and 600 Enr
ployees Are Discharged.
Orders from Washington have been
received at the Philadelphia mint to
cease operations and dispense- with
the services of the 600 employees, ex
cept those necessary to attend to the
affairs of the institution when coinage
is stopped.
The 1,000,000 pesos being ecJned for
tbe Panama government will be fin
ished in a few days, and there is no
more bullion to hi Cbtlaed. , ,
REFUSE TO ARBITRATE STRIKE.
Railroad Officials Have Said Final
Word to Telegraphers.
There will be no arbitration of the
strike of the telegraphers against the
Great Northern railway. That was
finally decided Thursday by General
Superintendent Slade, who sent word
to the reporters that eo far as the j
Great Northern was concerned
strike is a closed Incident.
the
Horrible Fate of Negro Who Attempt
ed Assault on Little Girl.
A negro, charged with criminally
assaulting tho daughter of a widow,
was caught and burned at the stake in
the court house square at Sulphur
Springs, Texas, Friday, before an im
mense crowd of excited citizens.
The name of the negro was Tom
WilliamE. He ettemp'ed to assault a
14-year-o!d girl. Little resistance was
made to the mob by the officers.
erything was feund O. K. by ♦he i”-
i'erai hours,
wfiTi il (JUUH'il^ie gathering of a large,
curious crowd.
The result of the investigation is
very gratifying, especially in view of
the fact that a great deal of rottenness
is being unearned in other local dis
pensaries.
Held on Forgery Charge.
E. H. Durham, a young man of Gaff
ney, has been arrested and lodged in
jail on a charge of forgery. He is al
leged to have signed Magistrate Brid
ges’ name to the probate of a chattel
mortgage.
Durham claims that he signed the
probate with the permission of the
magistrate.
After preliminary examination by
Magistrate Spear, he was committed
to jail in default of bond for $300. lie
gave bond later and is now at liberty.
Delay in Calling Election.
Count y S upervisor Miles has not
yet passed on the petition calling for
an election on the question of dispen
sary or no dispensary for Spartanburg.
He said that he was ready to begin
the work of verifying the sigua’ures
with the names of those on the regis
tration books, but it seems that those
advocating the voting out of the dis
pensaries want him to use their I sis
in his work.
Mr. Miles agreed to comply with
their their requests if the accuracy
of the names could be certified to in
pi'oper manner. This was refused, so
unless a list is furnished within thc
next few days the registration books
will be used.
Probing the Rice Blast.
Dr. Havin Metcalf, state botanist
and special agent of the United States
agricultural department, is prosecuting
an investigation of the rice blast which
has made its appearance on several
plantations in the vicinity of Charles
ton. The planters and dealers are look
ing forward to a very successful yea-,
since a good yield is promised, if the
blight does not spread and cause se
rious damage.
The existence of yellow fever
Louisiana will cause a scarcity of la
bor on the plantations in the south
west and will otherwise militate
against thc- sale of the western rice,
thus benefiting the Atlantic coast
plante; s.
Alleged PostcfFce Robber Jailed.
Thomas H. Lacey, who is under in
dictment in the fedeial court on three
charges of conspiracy to rob, breaking
into cud robbing a postofflee at Mc-
Cail, this state, has been brought from
Raleigh, N. C-, and placed in the jail
Spartanburg, to be more accessi-
.e when the time of his trial comes.
District Attorney John G. Capers
hopes to send Lacey to the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta, where there
are now fourteen yeggmen doing time
for breaking into and robbing South
Carolina postofflees during the pas:
three or four years.
Opening of Line Considered Safe.
The action of the Charleston board
of health in granting permission
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house in Augusta. We invite you to make our place yout
headquarters while in our city.
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the United Fruit company to re estab
lish its Jamaica line to Charleston on
September J, has excited some citizens
who believe in drawing the lines >f
quarantine about nil commerce with
the south during the present yellow
lever sc.'ure.
The board of health has iesued a
statement, however, showing that Ja
maica is not only free of yellow fever
or of any other contagious or infec
tious disease, but. that it is one of the
health resorts of the world, and that
the terminus, Port Antoinoi of the
Charleston line, is a British garrison
port, where the most Improved sani
tary regulations are observed under
military discipline, insuring the com
plete safety of commerce with the
island.
Smith Created Sensation.
C. O. Smith, who figured prom nent-
ly in the d spensary investigation at
'par anbv.rg in the testimony of other
witnesses, was put on the stand. There
were two sensational incidents in h s
testimony’. He testified that he found
J. H. Mcrris, who had testified against
Smith, in a house of 111-fame drunk.
“You ara a liar,” said Morris, who
was in the room, and arose from his
seat promptly.
“You’re another,” retorted Smith,
and the chairman rapped for order and
finally objected to it.
The other sensational incident was
the admission of Smith that he had
offered £500 to Wall, another member
of the hoard, to support Thaokstonw
for election as beer dispenser. Wall
was not in tho court room, but an affi
davit read by Mr. Lyon said practi-
fally the same thing, although it did
net mention Srai'hs name.
Smith also, under the examination
of Mr. Lyon, said that while he bad
made mistakes he had tried to enforce
the law, and denied that he had re
ceived any money from Toland. He
admitted accepting a watch from To
land, however, after an election. To
land was a former beer dispenser.
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Estimates furnished for power plants
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Vrc characteristics of all tho
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made nt JtlllNSllV.b BAKKKY,
Park Avenue.
The Choicest Confectioneries snd Css-
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The petrification agate was named
for the river Achates, In Sicily,
where it was first found.
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