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ESTABLISHED UN" It lAFT'S BOOM. Money Spent Lavishly to Force His Nomination by the GRAND OLD PARTY Spends Most of His Tune Travel" ing Over the Country Hunting Votes?Print Paper Users Will Get No Relief?Cost of Yachts. ?Cost of the Navy?Plan of Stand Patters. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. One of the curious features of news gathering in Washington is the rapid ity with which a story, at first merely hinted at, passes quickly from the realm of rumor to the point of publi cation. A few days ago it was ru mored that the facts concerning the enormous expenditures of money beiug made to secure the nomination for the presidency of Secretary Taft were like ly to be made the subject of investiga tion by a widely circulated weekly pa per. Within forty-eight hours the story of the Taft money campaign was told in full in a New York newspaper. Secretary Taft is fortunate in having a brother who is enormously rich, who attained his fortune partly through marriage and partly because of a shrewd combination of politics and business and the successful manipula tion of public service franchises in Cin cinnati. Two weeks ago people iu Washington who professed to know told me that the Taft campaign for the nomination was costing in the neigh borhood of $S00,000. The investigators for the New York paper, proceeding along, as I have reason to kuow, entire ly distinct lines, fix it at $750,000. This, be it known, is the expenditure up to date, yet the real work of controlling a convention has only just begum While there have been men traveling all over the United States in the in terest of Tuft, while he has had head quarters in Washington and iu Colum bus, yet what has been done up to the present time does not represent half the expenditure that will necessarily have to be made If his brother is to buy the nomination for him. The con vention is nearly three months off, and these three months will be the time that, if it does not try men's souls, will try their pocketbooks. Many people on the Republican side of the house and senate think that Sec retary Taft would have done better to have made his campaign without this lavish expenditure of mouey. A Kentucky congressman living almost directly across the river from him said to me today that two of the issues likely to be raised against Taft are his apparent neglect of the duties of bis office while traveling all over the Unit ed States in the interests of his can didacy and the lavish use of money to force his nomination upon an unwill ing party. At present Secretary Taft says nothing in answer to uuy criti cism, but if he shall be uoraiuated he will have to explain whence came the money that paid for his extravagant campaign and how he was able to se cure from a civil service reform presi dent the leisure to go to all parts of the world for self advertisement anil political purposes. Dodging Free Paper. The newspaper publishers and own ers of the United States who have been pleading with this congress for relief against the extortions of the paper trust will no doubt shout with joy when they learn that the Republican majority has agreed to put an item iu the agricultural appropriation bill for their benefit The huge sum of $10,000 is to be asked for the investigation of new substances from which paper may be made. I happen to know the proprietors of three or four different newspapers of circulations ranging from 15,000 to 25, O00 daily who say that the recent in crease in the price of paper has cut down their net earnings from $15.000 to $20,000 annually. You can imagine what it must have meant to papers like the Chicago Tribune, the New York World and the Philadelphia North American, with five times that circula tion. The Newspaper Publishers' associa tion asked that print paper and the raw materials necessary for the manu facture of print paper should be ad mitted to this country free of duty. They sent a committee to interview President Roosevelt on the subject, and he tossed them a wilted bouquet by saying in his next message that this should be done in order to protect our forests. The Republican congress, or. rather, the five men who run it, de cided, however, that to touch the tariff on paper or on wood pulp would be to open the tariff question. Therefore nothing is to be done on the subject except the appropriation of $10.000 to secure information which will be quite as valuable to the paper trust as it ?will be to the newspapers now ground under the heavy heel of that ti -st. What are the Republican papers re sponsible for the president who be trayed them and for the congress which ignored them going to do about Yachts, Private and Public. A New York newspaper the other ?day printed half a page of pictures of steam yachts owned by millionaires of that city that ware offered for sale because of the financial stringency now existing. They are beautiful big ships, two or three of them requiring crews of from thirty-eight to fifty men, exclusive of officers, and all employed for the comfort and luxury of one man and his guests. They are bigger than S69. the caravels with which Columbus dis covered America or the ship with which Commodore Perry opened Japan to western civilization, but they are nothing more thau floating pleasure houses. If President Roosevelt had done noth ing worse than to cause a panic which compelled the millionaire owners of steam yachts to throw them on the market nothing could be said against his policies. The trouble Is that the same policy adopted by the Republican party which impels Mr. Vauderbilt to sell his yacht cuts Tom and Jim and Jerry out of jobs. Meanwhile the president suffers not in the slightest degree. His salary and allowances, which in nil exceed $300,000 a year, continue without reduction. And one of his two yachts,* the Mayflower, is even now on a voyage from Hampton Roads to Viekshurg. Miss., nearly 2.(100 miles, for the purpose of taking Mrs. Roosevelt and a few friends to New Orleans, a distance of barely 200 miles. Time was when a president of the United States who used navy vessels even for his own carriage up and down the Potomac was not merely ridiculed, but denounced. Today when the presi dent himself goes nothing smaller than a battleship with two cruisers in at tendance will serve him. The presiden tial yachts are ordinarily useful only for the women and children of the Roosevelt family. Expenses of War and of Peace. Naval circles in Washington are in terested in the reports that come here concerning whtit seems to be an effort of Emperor William to check the rival ry of nations in naval expenditures. Of course every one remembers that the first news of Emperor William's entrance upon this cause cmne when a letter from him to Lord Tweed mouth was given a limited publicity in Eng land. More recently it was gossip about the Army and Navy club here and the various legations that a like letter had been sent by the kaiser to a distinguished Italian statesman. Gossip has it that other letters of the same sort are out. Of course the professional navy man insists that the reason for the em peror's interest in limiting sea arma ment is due to the fact that Germany .is not well fitted to become a naval power. Her harbors are few, her peo ple not maritime. But all the same her navy Ls either the second or the third in the world. Her merchant marine is easily second, and in one line of ships, the Hamburg-American, she has the greatest fleet of merchant ves sels afloat. If Euiperur William is diplomatically tryiug to reduce ex penditures for war vessels, he cannot be charged with doing it through fear or for persona] reasons only. Few people understand how great are the expenditures made by congress I either in payment for past wars or in j preparation for future and possibly imaginary wars. Today out of the rev enues of the nation more than G5 per cent goes to pensions, to the army and the navy and for new naval construc tion. Mr. Roosevelt has asked for four battleships this year. His request is not goiug to be acceded to, but if it were it would mean an appropriation of easily $50,000,000. Understand that this is merely for new construction, for battleships only, eliminating cruis ers, torpedo boats and the submarines which are just at present the rource of much scandal in congress. If one tenth of the money spent iu paying the cost of past wars and in preparing for others, which all hope will never be declared, could be used in developing our waterways, in digging canals, in preserving forests and mineral lands, the country and Its people would be so prosperous that If a foreign danger should threaten it it would be better able to meet the emergency. The least estimate of the appropria tions of this session of congress Is $900,000,000. That is the money which will be appropriated in a six months' session just before a presidential elec tion, a time when the politicians of the majority party are trying very hard to be economical. That means, roughly speaking. $12 for every man. woman and child in the United States. Chil dren don't pay taxes. Their parents must pay them for them, for of course this money must lu some way be found. Statisticians estimate the aver age family as being made up of five people. That means that this six months' congress will cost the average man $00. Is there not reason why he should interest himself in securing a congress which will reduce taxatiou. even if it reduces the spectacular fea tures of the army and navy in so do lug? Tariff Reform In the House. Now. this is the cheerful agreement by which the Republicans of the house hope to humbug the tariff reformers of the nation. Moreover, it is the shrewd plan by which the stand patters in the same patty arc going to try to keep their tariff revision brethren hi line. | The plau is to authorize the commit tee on. ways and means, which is of course the committee in charge of tar iff schedules, to sit during the coming summer, taking testimony and gather ing data with a view to tariff revision after the next inauguration. The chair man <>f that committee Is Sereno Payne of New York. Its most powerful mem ber is I?alzell of 1'ennsylvauia. high priest of protection. All the other Re publican members down to Nick Long worth of Ohio ::re avowed high tariff men and st?Md patters. The seven Democrats, headed by Champ Clark, could do nothing to secure even fair hearings. Of course the scheme is sim ply to offer an excuse for putting off any tariff legislation until after elec tion. That postponement will be made with or without any excuse. But if this plan shall be adopted uo citizen of the Unitod States who is restive under tariff taxation need look upon it as other than a cheap subterfuge. Washington. D. C. Ten Were Injured. Ten persons were injured, none seriously, in a trolley car accident at Philadelphia yesterday. ORANGEBTJ] BRYAN'S RECORD As a Vote Getter Compared With Other Candidates. The Columbia State Shows by the Results of Two Presidential Elec tions That the Great Commoner Is the Strongest Possible Candi date (lie Democrats Can Possibly Nominate. The following editorial should be read by all Democrats: Papable weakness evidences the attempt of the esteemed News and Courier to contend against the posi tion of Mr. Bryan, as expressed in his letter to the editor of The State. And it seems as if consciousness of that weakness is having an injurious effect upon the temper and morals of the South Carolina champion of the New York political programme. Commenting on Mr. Bryan's ex pression of pleasure that his Demo cracy "has been satisfactory to the rank and file of the Democrats of the South as well as to the rank and file of the Democrats of the North." iThe News and Courier says that South Carolina gave Judge Parker more votes in 1904 than were given Bryan in 1 900. and that Georgia , gave Cleveland more votes in 1S92 than Bryan in 1S96, and continues: "So it would appear from the records that the rank and file of the Democrats of the South are not by any means sat isfied with Mr. Bryan, and the rank and file of the Democrats of the North have shown Mr. Bryan very clearly that they do not want him and will not have him." It is scarce ly ingenious to cite the vote of a one-party Southern State in a general election to prove or disprove a point like this, but since The News and Courier has appealed to the record, and attempts to mislead its readers, we shall quote the whole record to its confusion. What are the facts? In 1S92 Mr. C'eveland was given more votes than Mr. Bryan got in 1 896 in these States: Wisconsin. Vermont. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecti cut. New York, New Jersey, Dele ware, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vir ginia, Georgia and Alabama. In other words, in 15 States, including four in the South, Cleveland received more voles than Bryan; and in 33 States and territories, including nine Southern States, Bryan was given moer votes than Cleveland. Bryan's popular vote in 1S96 was 953,000 greater than Cleveland's in 1S92. If the record appealed to by the Char leston paper proves anything, what does it prove? Proceeding to the record of the Bryan vote by States in 1900, and the Parker cote in 1904, it is found that Parker got more votes than Bryan in New York, New Hampshire, Masschusetts, Rhode Island, Dela ware, West Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia ana Mississippi; or that in nine States, including three Southern States, Parker revived more votes than Bryan; while in thrity nine States, including ten Southern, States, Bryan was given a greater vote than Parker. And Bryan's pop ular vote in 1900 totaled 1. 280,162 more than Parker's in 1 904. What does the record prove that is ap pealed to by The News and Courier "to show that the rank and file of Democrats in the South are not sat isfied with Mr. Bryan," and that the Democrats in the North will not have him? It proves just what Mr. Bryan said, and proves that The News and Courier is a misleading and unsafe counselor. Since we have gone into the rec ords, let us pursue a little further. In 1896, even after the awful bumps Democracy received in the then cur rent Cleveland administration, Bryan had 31 more votes in the electoral college than President Harrison when Cleveland defeated him in 1S92. And in 1896 Bryan had seven more elec toral votes than Cleveland got when as president, he was defeated by Harrson in 188S. The least number of popular votes received by Bryan was nearly a million greater than was ever given to any other Demo crat. In 1900, William McKinley, gen erally beloved because of his success in allaying sectional animosities, and abnormally popular because he was the maker of a brilliantly successful war, had a majority over Bryan of 849,790. Four years later Roosevelt defeated the New York World's can didate. Parker, by the enormous plur ality of 2,545.5 1 5. Once more to the record: We find that Bryan earned eight States in 1896 that went against Cleveland in 1S92. And in that year he carried twelve States that Parker lost, losing only two that Parker carried. That was just after the last Cleveland ad ministration had given Democracy a fearful black eye. In 1900 the Re publicans, having the prestige of a successful war, and McKinley as leader, were practically impregnable, particularly whoa many Democrats knifed Bryan. Four years later a man chosen as Democratic chieftain on the advice of New York newspa pers and to - lease New York and its in'erests. was o-.erwhc!mingly de feated. This year New York is boost ing nother candidate; making a reg ul -in:i ign in his behalf and ag ? Bryan, but that man can not RO, S. C FRIDAY, MAK ATTRACTIVE S DIED AT HIS POST. A MAX BEATING HIS WAY ON TRAIN Shoots and Kills the Conductor, But Is Shot Also and He Hies Later in Jail. A special dispatch from Anderson says Conductor C. D. Swink, of freight train No. 24, of the Ander son branch of the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad, was kill ed by a while man, named Bunnie Brock, Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock, while his train was standing in the yard at Calhoun Falls. Brork was arrested and lodged in the Ab beville jail. Brock is about 22 years of age and has the reputation of be ing a big bully. Brock got on Swink's train at Lowndesville in a drunken condition. He succeeded in beating his way as far as Latimer. when Swink went in to the coach and collected his fare from Latimer to Calhoun Falls. Brock, it is said, cursed Swink very vilely and got off the train near the Calhoun Falls yard. When Swink's train pulled up to the station Brock secured a pistol and cursed Mr. Swink again. Conductor Swink then struck Brock and Brock opened fire. He fired only one time, the bullet penetrating Swink's heart. As Swink fell he pulled his pistol and fired at Brock once or twice, one of the shots taking effect. Conductor Swink was a man of amiable disposition and friendly. He was about 28 years old and was from Woodruff, in Spartanburg County, where his parents now reside. He was unmarried and had ocly been running on the Anderson branch for about sixty days. He wa? popular with all of his fellow tra':imen. The body was carried to Woodruff for burial. Brock Dies in 4M. A dispatch from Abbeville says at Calhoun Falls, in this county.. Tues day evening Conductor Swink, of a freight train of the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, was .'-hot and killed by Bunnie Brock, a des perate young man residing in the western part of the county. Brock was also shot by the conductor in the hip and died after being lodged in jail here. It seems that Brock was on the top of one of the cars of the train and was in a drunken condition. He was ordered to come down by the conductor. Words were passed and the shooting began. The conductor of the train was shot through the heart. Brock was a very young man, a son of a good father, but he is said to have been a desperate character. RAN AWAY FROM SCHOOL. Young Boy Killed While Riding Un derneath Express Car. Young Dean, the son of a promi nent citizen of Langley, was killed Tuesday afternoon on the electric car line between Langley and Warren ville, near Alken. It seems that he slipped off or ran away from school and got on the Augusta-Aiken ex press car. It is supposed that he either fell off or was shaken off, falling on the track and was then run over by the car. The men on I the express car, it is said, did not know anything about the matter and the boy remained on the track until j the car bound for Aiken came up a little later. The affair Is avery de- j plorable one. hope to be more successful than Parker, or even to get the New York j vote. If New York would not give i Parker her vote, what chance has a man of the same type coming from the West? A year ago Democracy seemed ab solutely hopeless. Today, with a leader, an Inspirer, that can create enthusiasm, that can reach the peo ple, that is known and respected by the people, there is hope. Bryan is the only Democrat in that class, and it is useless to attempt to blind the people of South Carolina to that fact. CH 27. 1908. HOP WINDOWS. ?McCutchoon in Chicago Tribun?. IMPORTANT RULING RY THE UNITED STATES SU PREME COURT. Another Notable Opinion Handed Down by the Highest Tribunal in Railroad Rate Matter. In refusing to grant to Attorney General Young of Minnesota a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the penalty imposed by the United States circuit court for the district of Minnesota on the charge of con tempt of court in instituting a pro ceeding in a State court for the en forcement of the railroad rate law after the federal court had prohibited such a course, and in affirming the decision of .Judge Pritchard of the United States circuit court for the Western district of North Carolina, discharging from imprisonment Jas. H. Wood, a ticket agent of the South ern railway at Asheville, after he had been sentenced by the Asheville police court to serve a term on the rock pile on the charge of collecting for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the State Railroad commission, the supreme court o f the United States added another to a series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. In both cases the right of the States to fix rates for railroad trans portation was the issue, and both involved conflicts between federal and State courts. The decision in each case was opposed both to the States and to their courts. The opinion of the court in both cases was announced by Justice Peckham, and with the exception of Justice Harlan, all the other members of the court stood behind him in the announcement of the court's finding. Justice Harlan read a dissenting opinion in the Young case in which he took the view that the suit, was practically a proceeding against the State and therefore not permissible under the eleventh amendment to the constitution. He therefore character ized the opinion as era-making in the history of the court, and said it had the effect of closing the courts of a State against the State itself and predicted that the result would be disastrous. The two cases were so similar that both practically were de cided in one opinion. The principal pronouncement was made in the Minnesota case. CAR ENTERS BUILDING. Twenty Persons Hurt in an Accident at Detroit. At Detroit, Mich., over a score of people were injured late Tuesday when an interurban car on the Ann Arbor branco of the Detroit United Railway, bound into the city from Jackson. Michigan, was derailed by defective rails near 31st street and ploughed across the brick pavement into a store building. The car was wrecked and the front of the two-story building was de molished. Twenty people were taken to the hospital for treatment and many others sustained minor injur ies. Two of the injured are reported to be in a serious condition. One is Mrs. E. Halladay, of Napoelon, Mich., and the other is Mike Rhowika, of Detroit. Storm In Georgia. About six o'clock Tuesday morning Pelham. Ga., was visited by a severe storm. Several houses were destroy ed on the plantation of A. R. Dasher. One negro was killed on the turpen tine plantation of Uoswell & Carter, where several houses were blown down and mules were killed. Trains Collide. One man was instantly killed, another probably fatally injured and five others badly hurt in a rear-end collision between a work train loaded with laborers and a freight train on the Illinois Central Railroad early Tuesday. The accident occurred at New South Memphis and was caused by a dense fog. NEW RULE CONCERNING RURAL FREE DE LIVERY CARRIERS. It Is Held Improper to Transmit Un stamped Letters From One Point to Another. The Washington correspondent of The State says it is not proper in the opinion of the fourth assistant postmaster general, Mr. DeGraw, who has charge in general of the rural free delivery routes, that R. F. D. car riers should carry unstamped letters from one point on their routes to another. Representative Sleyden of Texas recently made inquiry of the department as to this, from which fact it appears that in Texas at least, whence Mr. Slayden hails, it has been customary for some of the ru ral carriers to carry from one point to another letters or parcels which are not stamped. It is doubtless true in all parts of the country that rural carriers, who get to know their patrons well, do small favors of this kind for them. The fourth assistant postmaster gen eral, though, in answering Mr. Slay den in effect lays down a policy which will put a stop to all of this. Mr. DeGraw's answer to the Texas representative is made after consult ing the department of justice at torneys general advising him as to the legal question involved. Said Mr DeGraw. "All patrons of rural free delivery routes are required to pro vide themselves with approved boxes, and their contents are recognized by law as mail boxes and protected frnn. wilful damage or depredation." He further stotes that these boxes, while provided at the expense of the citizens on the route, are erected ex clusively for the United States mail. Hence the matter iu them is to be considered United States mail. "All mailable matter placed in ru ral mail boxes," says Mr. DeGraw, "is subject to the rules and regula tions governing the mails, including the payment of postage. While it is not in violation of law to place un stamped mailable matter in rural boxes, it is not proper that it should be done. Rural carriers finding such matter in boxes on their routes are required to bring it into the office to be held for postage. "It will, therefore, be apparent to you that in the use of rural mail boxes there can bo divided authority between thee postoffice department and the patron, for if this were so, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce the law protecting rural mail boxes and meir contents from damage and depredation." In this connection Representative James Griggs of Georgia has a bill now per ding to allow 1 cent postage on R. F. D. routes from one point on a route to another, just as in the case of a "drop letter" in a postoffice. TOWN COMPLETELY DESTROYED And Two People Killed by a Cyclone Tuesday Morning. The town of Lynn, Ga., was com pletely destroyed by a cyclone early Tuesday morning. Two persons were killed, Jim Wright, colored, and a child of Major Lyles. A number of others were injured, including Doze and Pete Hatcher. Mrs. Bailey, Miss Blance Mimms, Miss George Williams, Miss Kate Arline and Mrs. Wlliam Lynn. The costly home of Mr. Bailey was picked up and carried ten feet. Every dwelling, tenant house, barn and store house were destroyed and all the contents ruined. One little child was blown into the woods. The track of the cyclone was 400 yards wide and two miles long. Doctors from Brainbridge and Brinson were sent on a special train to care for the injured. APPARENTLY ASLEEP. A Strange Case of Suspended Anima tion of a Little Girl. A remarkable case of suspended animation is reported at Maycock, N". C. where Bessie, the 10-year-old daughter of a farmer named Perry, lies seemingly dead, hut with a body still warm, and a face with all the natural coloring of life. The child fell suddenly to the ground last Friday. Two physicians pronounced the girl dead. The face of the child retaining its natural col or and her body its warmth, however, the parents of the child refused to permit a burial. The child presents every appearance of being asleep, ex cept that her limbs are stiff and there is no breath. Killed Himself. At New York Charles P Campbell, an engineer, who recently went from Atlanta, Ga., took his life by shoot ing himself through the head Tuesday night in his place of employment on West 23d street. Campbell brooded over his failure to obtain employ ment in his own calling. He was 52 years old. Cyclone at Pinewood. A cyclonp passed through Pine wood Tuesday night about S o'clock doing considerable damage. Several out houses were demolished, and the Methodist Church was badly dam aged. A negro house was lifted from its pillars and left the occupants un hurt. $1.50 PEB AINTNTTM. WANT BRYAN The West Will Be Solid For His Nomination. NEARLY ALL FOR HIM. Indianna, North Dakota and Illinois Are Solid for the Great Commoner and Send Delegations to Nation* al Convention Pledged to His Xotn* ination as the Democratic Standard Dearer. Delegates to the Indianna State convention Wednesday afternoon m district meetings selected 26 district delegates to the National Convention at Denver and the commmitee on. rules selected four delegates at la.-ge. A majority of the delegates will vote at Denver for the reelection of. Thomas Tagart as the Indiana mem ber of the national committee. While some of the district dele gates were not instructed it is th? present, announced intention of all 30 delegates to suport the candidacy of Willam J. Bryan for the presi dential nomination. North Dakota Unanimous. After three hours' of oratory Tues day afternoon the North Dakota Dem /oiratic convention unanimously a dopted resolutions endorsing WMiami J. Bryan for the presidential nomi nee and instructing delegates to vote* for Bryan's nomination. The supporters of Gov. Johnson of Minnesota threatened to introduce a second choice resolution, but the resoluton was not forthcoming. That part of the resolution relating to Mr Bryan says: "The Democrts of North Dakota, in convention assembled, believing that William Jennings Bryan repre sents the truest typpe or' American citizenship and is the natura! leader of the reform forces of the United States of America resolve that the delegates from this conventino to the national convention are Hereby in structed to vote as a unit for the* nomination of William J. Bryan for the president of the United States." Endorsed in Illinois. In a harmonious meeting of the Democratic State central committee of Illinois Wednesday, W. J. Bryan was endorsed for the presidency in emphatic language. It was decided that the State convention should be held in Springfield, 111., on April 23. The friends of Roger Sullivan, mem ber of the national commitee, were in complete control of the meeting. The only point upon which there appeared to be a division of senti ment was over the manner of select ing delegates to the State convention. In this the Sullivan men won their point, defeating the followers of M. F. Dulop of Jacksonville, 111., who wanted to put through a rule re quiring county conventions to bo held. The resolution endorsing Erya* was adopted by a vote of 33 to 1. Jas. H. Donohue of East St. Louis being the only dissenter. Sullivan voted in the affirmative. IMPROVES SLOWLY. Senator Tillman Wont Return to Senate This Session. The State says the condition o? Senator B. R. Tillman is not alarm ing, according to his physician, but it is not thought that he will be able to return to the Senate this session. In responce to an inquiry Dr. T. J. Hunter, Senator Tillman's physi cian wired The State at 9.45 Wednes day evening as follows. "There is nothing alarming in Sen ator Tillman's condition. Left off anodyne last night for first time since he has been sick, and he did not rest as well as he has been. He has been somewhat depressed today. H has developed no organic symp toms at all. His trouble is purely functional. His improvement has not been as rapid as I first expected. Don't think he will be able to return to the senate this session." Th following was received from The State's Trenton correspondent Wednesdoy afternoon: "Senator Tillman is slowly improv ing. Has only been up once and has very little control ol himself while standing. It is thought he is in need, Of a complete rest." Refuses to Receive Hill. . The German government has de Icllned to receive Dr. David Jayne Hill i in the capacity of American ambassa dor to succeed Charlemagne Tower. [whose resignation has been accepted to take effect on the acceptance of the appointment of his successor. Mr. Hill is at present American minister to The Hague and was formerly first assistant secretary of state under 1 the administration of Secretary Hay, Farn tun Surrenders. James S. Farnum, age :t for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, and charged with conspiracy to de fraud the State o! South Carolina, went to Columbia Wednesday and voluntarily appeared before Magis trate Fowles to give bond for $10,000' for his appearance before the Rich land criminal court when the ca? is called.