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PUBLISHED THREE TI3 ?WF?LJMGEDY Wright B'plaae Buckled Under Him One Hundred Feet in Air. HE FALLS TO BIS MATH Prenieir Among Flower of British' Aristocratic Sportsman, Charles Stewart RolIsf Who Flew Across j Channel and Back Without a Stop Crushed to Death at Feet of Ad . miring Thousands. . ?-? 'At Bournemouth, Eng., the first flying tournament, of the year was brougVt to a tragic close. Tuesday morning by the dramatic death of aviator, the Hon. Charles S. Rolls, third son of Lord Llangattock. In the presence of a great compa ny of spectators, a majority of whom were ladies and children and many personal friends of the young avi ator, the Wright biplane on which he,.was flying fell suddenly with ter rific speed from a height of 100 feet. It struck the ground close to the crowded-grandstand, smashed into a tangled mass- and before the doctors and their." assistants could reach the spot Rolls was dead. The event in w-hich Rolls was com ? peting was for a prize for the avia tor alighting nearest-a given mark. The goal was directly in front of the grand .'stand where the ; spectators j were-;:massedV He had risen to a good height and . then shut off his! motor and was gliding In a broad circle; to the mark.> I Without warning - the tail piece . of the. biplane snapped*off. The ma chine'gave a sudden lurch ? ?ndt the | framework- crumpled up in the airi J W?hen it; struck the. groud ' it was! smashed to splinters. The doctors found' that Rolls had sustained ? ! fractured skull. The.wreck of;the machine and twisted stays, surround ed'the body so that there was diffi culty in extricating him. Imedj&tely after the result of Roll's acideht was known the com mittee announced that flying would be suspended for. the day. Capt. The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls.was thirty three years old^ and was one of the most popular young all around English sportsman. His death will be a great blow to aristo cratic sporting enthusiasts, with, all of w.hom he was a great favorite. At .ballooning, motoring and later in the field of aviation he had distin guished himself by his utter fear lessness and was satisfied with noth ing short of record breaking in whatever line of sport he took to. Undoubtedly his crowning feat was his round trip across the chan nel between Dover and Calais in his Wright'biplane on June 2 last. Two "Frenchmen, Louis Bleriot- and Count de Lessens, already had cross ed the channel and Hubert Latham had) almost succeeded. Channel flying was at a discount in England because it was considered an old story and because national pride had suffered from the monopoly of it by Frenchmen, when Rolls elec triled the entire kingdom by doub ling the accomplishments of his predecessors. The distance between Dover and Calais is 21 miles and when Rolls did the round trip of 42 miles in 90 minutes without stopping bis performance was mar velous both for distance and time. In his youth Rolls was one of the pioneers in motoring ,in England. He drove a motor car about while the ordinance was still in force that every self propelled vehicle on the public roads must be preceeded by a man carrying a red flag to warn pedestrians. In 1900 .he won the gold medal in the thousand miles automobile race. He was the rep resentative of Great Britain in the Gordan Bennett race in 190G ad sev eral times made world's records for speed. As a balloonist Rolls had more than 150 ascensions and had crossed the channel several times in balloons. Swallowed in Quicksand. Astray In the marshes of Jamaica bay. William Elbrecht of Mashelt. L. I., set foot in a quicksand Tues day and was swallowed alive before his friends could reach him. El brecht and three friends had been fishing and the party became sepa rated. In struggling for the shore he was caught in the marsh. Al though Elbretcth's cries for help were plainly heard, he was lost in ?the gathering gloom and sank un aided to his death in the slime. A Universal Religion. John D. Rockefeller, in speaking before the Euclid Avenue Baptist churh at Cleveland "declared on Sunday that the time had come for a universal religion. Mr. Rocke feller read an article from the Out dore Roosevelt is associate editor, I which pleaded for a fusion of the Christian churches. 1 New Cotton Mill. The stockholders of the Chesnee Cotton Mill met in the office of W. E. Burnett Monday mornine: and or ganized the company with a capital stock of $400,000. The Chesnee Mill will manufacture fine lawns ex ol lively.. Chesnee is a thriving town in " Spartan burg county*. j 1ES A WEEK. TRADE INCREASING. ; ?:? - * Between the United States and the . Territories. Trade of the United States with the ^i~cal year jusit ended aggregat ed n^^.lSO,0OC 000, according to st. fyg^e Department of Com merce -x The department contrasts-^ f<9 >>. If':-the record of 1897. when v ^^''"'th non-con tiguous territory ^o&tei only $35,000,00. . Statistics show ttia* for eleven months of the 'last fiscal year the shipments from the United States to Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Phillip pines, Guam, Midway, Tutuila, and Alaska, amouutod !to $75,000,000, and the shipments therefrom to the trade, both exports and imports, was larger than that of the- proceeding year. The largest percentage bf gain was In the Phillippines, to which the recent tariff act extended the privilege of interchange of mer chandise free of . duty. Imports from the Phillippines in the eleven months ending with May 1910 were valued at $15,887,418, against $8,860,429 in the same time of 1909. Exports. for the corre sponding periods amounted to $15,140,445 in 1910 and 9,825,083 in 1909. L\ NO HURRY President Taft Defel-s Consideration of Supreme Court Vacancies. At Beverly, Mass., President Taft announced that he would not give serious consideration' to filling va cancies in the United : States Su preme Court until the fall. As to calling an extra session of the Sen ate, in October, to confirm, appoint ees to the Supreme Court and thus facilitate the rehearing of the Stand ard Oil. and Tobacco corporation tax cases, the. President has not defi nitely made up his mind, Mr. Taft will not officially, an nounce the new chief jt stice of the | tribunal until t ? is ready to send in his nomination to the Senate. In case Governor Hughes is elected to the chief justiceship, as now seems! Jikely, it will be necdsarily in a new nomination. ? fJSii President has offered to Pres ident Hadley, of Yale, the chair manship of the commission autho^ rized by Congress to investigate the subject bf railroad stock and bonds and to recommend a plan for bring ing the issue of the securities under | tire supervision ?f the"Tnter-State j commerce commission. If Presi dent Hadley accept, the President j will consult with him regarding the j other members of .the commission. - IS LOOKING OUT. Diplomatic Washington Watching | Pan American Conference. Diplomatic Washington is await ing with keenest intcest the out-j come of the fourth Pan-American | conference in progress at Buenos Ayres. Threats of a possible Latin American coalition to nullify the Washington government's influence have been treated lightly by the American Diplomatic government I along with the other governments is watching developments closely. The United States delegation to j the conference is under instructions to avoid being placed in position of undue prominence in the selection of o'nicer^ and committees Matters lieif/ to give rise to unnecessary controversies and thus endanger the j success of the conference have been purposely omitted in. the program adopted by the governing board of the bureau of ?tnerican republics. 'The objeht, (as viewed by the state department, is harmony of dif ferences of detail, substantial agree ment and co-operation along com mon lines. The conference is con temporaneous with the Indepen dence of several South American republics. Mayor Threatened. An echo' of the recent Reno fight was the receipt Sunday by Mayor John T. Moore, of a letter threaten ing his life because of his action in prohibiting the exhibition at Ma con of, the moving pictures of the fight. The letter,, which Is believed to have been writen by a negro was postmaked Atlanta. The letter will be turned over to the postal authori- | ties. Nine Wero Hurt. Nine persons were injured when the engine of fast southbound pas senger train No. 1, on the Alabama| Great Southern railroad, jumped the track near Toomsuba, Miss., ear ly Monday morning, pulling the mail and baggage -jars and the sec ond class passenger coach with it down an embankment. Dies Under Wheels. At Philadelphia F. H. Lincoln, until recently assistant general man ager of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company, was instantly kill ed while attempting to get on a Washington train at the West Phil adelphia station of the Pennsylva nia railroad Monday. Crushed to Death. While attempting to board a fast moving train at a railway station in Phllidelphia Monday the Rev. D? Jacob Sallade, secretary of the American Home Mission society, and acting pastor of the Grace Bap tlsrTenrple, was crushed" to death. TRAIN KILLS THREE 3LEMJBE?S OF THE CREW WHEN IT LEFT THE TRACK. The New York Central Express Rolls iuo the Ditch, Shaking Up the Pxissengers. Three trainmen were killed and a train load of passengers were bad ly shaken up when northbound train No. 59 on the New York Cen tral, known as the Northern and Western Express, was wrecked near Newton Hook, nine miles south of Hudson. The engine and baggage car jump ed the track and toppled completely over. The railroad offices report that all of the passengers were able to continue their journey. The Twentieth Century Limited, on which Jack Jonhson the heavy weight champion fighter, was travel ing, was delayed an hour by this smash-up. Three persons, all railroad 3m ployees, were killed in the wreck of train No. 59 at Newton Hook, ac cording to reports received at the New York Central office. One pas-j senger, name not yet ascertained, was injured, the officials said. The killed are engineman J. Tyndall, Fireman R. Holes and Baggageman F. Ray. The fatalities'were primarily due to the overturning of the engine completely * when they left the rails. Every other car of the sev en comprising the train were de railed, hut only the baggage car was overturned. The tracks were bad ly, torn up and traffic was blocked. Aside from the baggage car the train equipment comprised Pullman coaches. The train, northbound, was kinown as the Northern and Western Express, and carried sleep ers for. Utica,. Syracuse, Buffalo, and Dther points, including one for St. Louis. The train left New York at 1 12.03 A. M. DISPATCHER ADMITS ERROR. Conflicting Orders Caused Wreck on C. H. and D. Road. That conflicting orders giving :wo trains the right of way caused :he wreck on July 4 at Middleton jv&s admitted at the coroner's in luest at Hamilton, Ohio Monday vy \lbert J. Smith, train dispatcher of :he Cincinnatti, Hamilton, and Day ton' irailway. After trainmen and operators had told Coroner Burnett )f the orders they had received that lay, and that official had declared lis belief that Smith was to blame lor the twenty-one deaths,' the lat er took the stand. "We were rushed with trains that lay," he said. "I sent the Big Four passenger train on from Day ion to Cincinnatti. Then after they started I figured I could save time n getting the freight to Dayton, so [ tried to send an order to Carlisle ;o have the Big Four stop at Poast Town and let the freight pass. "When 1 reached Carlisle by wire [ learned that the passenger train aad passed there going like wildfire. Then, to prevent trouble, I sent word to Middletown to "bust" the >rder allowing the freight to pro ceed to Dayton. "If the freight had .been on the siding at Middletown when they re ceived this order the wreck would tiot have occurred. ; THEY MADE GALLANT FIGHT. Fiit? in the Hold of a big Steamer on the High Seas. Blackened and charred, her decks warped by a six day's fire, which raged beneath them, the British tramp steamer St. Nicholas of Liver pool sailed through the Golden Gate from which port she sailed May 3 with a general cargo of 5,000 tons Puget Sound ports. When 1,300 miles off the South American coast he?" commander, Capt. George Aitkeu, June 23, dis covered smoke pouring down from the ventilators, and when a halch was opened it was discovered that the cargo in the shelter deck was a seething mass of fire. Chief Offi cer Dickson, Second Officer Mar riott and Third Officer Chavner vol unteered to go below with the hose passed along by the crew. With their mouths and nostrils covered by cloth the volunteers were alternately lowered. All that day and the following night the fight to save the ship continued. Early on the morning of June 24 the fire in the shelter deck was seemingly! stamped out. At nine c'clock in the J morning fire was reported in lower bold No. 2. Two hundred tons of ! their merchandise were overboard thrown before the fire could be I reached. Then tho steam pipes were run below and after five days of fighting Hie flames were finally subdued. The total damage is es timated at half a million dollars, mostly covered by insurance. Sucessful at Last. Antone Rochi, of Chicago, who made two attempts to commit sui cide because of the defeat of James J. Jeffries is dead In the county hos pital at Sacramento, Cal., of a frac tured epine. In his second attempt at suicide Rochi flung himself from his bunk, eight feet above the floor of his cell; to the cement floor. JBG, S. C, THURSDAY, J MAYOR SUSPENDS GOV. HARMON OF OHIO SUS PENDS NEWARK MAYOR. Formal Complaint of Neglect of Du ty Mntle Against Sheriff Linke ami Mayor Atherron. ^Monday Governor Harmon took I steps looking tu the retirement from | office of Mayor Atherton, of Newark, | and Sheriff Linke, of Licking Coun- j ty, as a result of the recent lynch ing. Simultaneously, arrangements were made at Newark for the em panelling of a special grand jury to begin a probe into the lynching, and the Newark police arrested a negro suspected of assisting in battering down the doors of the jail, from whicn Etherington was forcibly tak en. Because of a formal complaint against the sheriff of neglect of du ty, filed with the Governor, and the announcement by Mr. Harmon that a hearing would be held on the charges July 25. there was a dispo sition on t.he part of the State offi cials to have Common Pleas Judge Sewar?, who ordered the grand jury called, to have this action delayed! so that a new sheriff would serve the summons', but after a conference with Judge Seward, Governor Har mon decided not to interfere with the probe. The grand jury will be in the personal charge of Attorney General Deman. .Before he had been in office an hour Monday, J. N. Ankele, the vice mayor elevated to the office of chief executive of Newark following the suspension of Mayor Herbert Ather ton by Governor Harmon, had sum marily removed .Chief of Police Zergeibel and Police Captain Rob ert Bell. He gave as his grounds for re moval the non-enforcement of the county option law, which resulted in the lynching of Detective Ether ington Friday night. Charles Hindel, a former deputy, as chief of police, and patrolman Charles Swank, as captain. He gave them orders to commence the im mediate enforcement of all laws to the lotter. v As soon as the new police officials had assumed office, they caused the arrest of a second negro, who is held in connection with the Friday 11 riots. TWO MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. In Which About Eight People Lost Their Lives. Caring for the homeless and searchiing the ruins for other vic tims were the tasks that confronted the authorities at Camp.bellton, N. B., following last night's destruc tive fire in which eight persons are reported to have been killed, more than three hundred driven from their homes and a loss of $2,000, 000 caused. All outside communica tion with the. little lumber town on the north shore of New Brunswick was cut off and it was not thought until today that messeugers began to bring details. Seven men were reported to have been killed in an explosion during the fire. The body of an infant was recovered from the ruins of a dwell ing .house The blaze started in the Richards company shingle mill on the western side of town. A heavy wind was blowing and within a short time the fire was beyond control. Two banks, three large lumber mills, three churches, the inter-co lonial railway station, telegraph and telephone offises and other large buildings were burned. The resi dential section is also reported to have been destroyed. FINE SHOWING. Reduction of Deficit is Being Made by Post Office. More than $10,000.000 reduction in the postal deficit has been made in the first nine months of the fiscal year just ended, according to final returns just received by Postmaster General Hitchcock from the auditor of the postoffice department. Such a reduction is unprecedented in the history of the department. The de ficit for the nine months was $2, 709,000 as against $12,832,000 in the same period or the preceeding fiscal year. In the third quarter of t.he past March 31, the postal service earned a surplus of $1,363,000, the rev enues for the quarter amounting to $58,93 4.000 and the eqpenditures to $57,5 61,000. The later showed an increase of 10 per cent over those i of the same .quarter last year, while the former showed an increase of less than four per cent. Makes Good. The United States submarine boat Salmon, which sailed from Quincey, Mass., July 5, reached Hamilton, Bermuda, a distance of S00 miles, Sunday. The seaworthiness of the little craft was proved to the entire satisfaction of the representatives of t.he navy aboard and the builders. Elks in Chicago. What is said to be the biggest an nual reunion in the history of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks got fully under way Monday at Chicago with hundreds of additional delegates still arriving hourly. ULY 14. 1910. MURDERER SHOT SLEW FORMER EMPLOYER AN O > WAS SLAIN. Policeman's Shot Pierced Herman Zipfel's Heart as He Was Leaving the Scene of His Crime. Because he was discharged fK.ni Iiis job as bartender, Herman Zipfel shot and killed Leo Hirschfieid, a wholesale and retail liquor dealer, in New York city, wounded John Swanso, and was himself shot and killed by Policeman Hugh Sheridan. Before the policeman shot Zipfel the latter fired two shots at his pursuer, neither taking effect. Sheridan's bul-| let pierced Zipfel's heart and killed tiim instantly. '< , Zipfel killed Hirschfeld without warning. When after ten days' ser vice as a bartender Zipfel was told lie would not be needed longer he made no protest. His home is in Kingston, where he was once p. depu ty sheriff. Instead of going there he checked -his trunk to that place ind remained in New York city. Later he went to the Hirschfeld bottling works. Those who saw him enter say he was sober and that there was nothing in his demeanor to cause alarm. Mr. Hirschfeld was not disturbed ' when the bartender entered the room in which he was it work. Swanso, the only other oc cupant of the room, said afterward, that Hirschfeld greeted Zipfel cor liaHy" but that Zipfeld answered the salutation wiih abuse. 'Swanso heard a pistol shot, fl owed by another, and when Le look ed toward the men at the other end jf the room he saw that Hirschfeld iad fallen and that Zipfeld, with a | revolver in his hand, was walking to ward the door. Just before reach ing it he tuned and shot twice at Swanso. The first bullet grazed the Iriver's neck, inflicting aj slight wound. The second went wild. Sirschfeld had been shot once in ;he neck and one in the right temple md died instantly. GUNBOAT RAMMED. submarine Castine Injured in Mini ic Attak. The gunboat Qastine, flagship of he submarine flotilla, was rammed >y the submarine Bonita during the nancuvres Monday at Provldene Hass., and was bear-hod to prevent ler from sinking. No one on board vas injured. Two of the plates ofj he Castine were loosed. Her dyna-j no and boiler compartments be ween frames No. 19 and 51 are 'looded, but the btlkheadB are sai-d o be holding firm. The accident occurred during aj nimic attack on the Castine by the-j submarines, the Bonita apparently nisjudging the distance and strik ng the gunboat with considerable !orce. The men on the boats felt ;he impact and were momentarily stunned, but no one was injured. Bonita escaped with slight denting )f a portion of her irmor and the J oss of a small portion of her rail ing. As soon as it was seen how bad ;he Castine was damaged, it was de-| :ided to beach her near North Tru ro. KILLED AT FRIEND'S GRAVE. Lightning Struck as Corpse Was Be-1 ing Lowered. Walter White, a young man of ibout twenty years old, while aiding n lowering the body of D. N. Barks Jale into his grave, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The tragedy of the elements oc curred near Tyner, Tenn., Tuesday ifternoon. Members of the funeral party, already somewhat excited by j the approaching storm, became al most panic stricken when White was stricken dead. Several others of :he party were stunned. The body of the young man wasj removed to his home in the hearse which had carried that of his friend :o the cemetery a few minutes be fore. Tue Killed. Two trainmen were instantly killed when west bound freight train, No. 19, on the Seaboard Air Line crashed into a landslide two miles east of Tniomas, a., at 2:25 a'clock Monday mornin?. The en gine turned completely over and line cars were derailed. Trainmen Kille?*. Two trainmen were instantly kill ed when westbound fast freight No. 19 on the Seaboard Air Line crashed Into a landslide two miles east of| Thomas Ga., Monday. The engine turned ompletery over and nine cars were derailed. Killed a Bobber. At Chicago, in "sight of hisfiancee, whom he had just kissed good night. Elmer Cooper, a saleman. shot and killed one of two highwaymen who attempted to rob him. The second thief, who is believed to be wounded escaped. Nineteen Killed. Nineteen persons were killed and thirty-one others injured by the de railment of a train near the station of Klsllarwat, on the Trans-Cas pian railway in Russia. UP TO LEGISLATURE To Provide Funds For the Payment for Boyd-Brock Court. The General assembly will appro priate money for the expenses of the Court of Inquiry recently appointed to look into the Boyd-Brock contro versy, according to the opinion of Governor Ansel given Monday. Gov ernor Ansel has filed the expense ac count with the Comptroller General and the matter will come regularly before the General Assembly next year. The cost of the court was $1,056. Even before the Court of Inquiry got down to work there was specula tion among those who were interest ed in the proceedings as to where the money would come to defray the expenses of the Court. The mem bers of the Court had no solution of the problem and Governor Ansel ' was the one appealed to. because the him by the court and he stated at expense alcount was reported ^to the time that he would find a way to get the money. he procedure is this: The re po.t, has been flleb. with the Comp troller General and will be present ed regularly with other claims to to the claims committeea of the House and Senate. The acout will be gone over by the legislative mem bers and will be - presented in the claims report to the House and Sen ate. The amount will be appropri ated in the regular appropriation bill. This solves the question of the Boyd-Brock expense acount. It is the same procedure as in cases of special judges, for whom there is no special appropriation. The ar counts are put into the claims de partment of the Comptroller's office and presented to the General As sembly. ONE IDEAL JUROR. Never Heard of Tariff But May Have Heard of Roosevelt. The only man out of a special venire of fifty raeD called for the trial of Robert S. Noah, charged w'th murdering a homesteader near Ken more in 1908, to be seated was John Brama, aged 52 years, and a farmer in the ".bad lands" south of Minot, 'N. D. He declared that he never took and interest in "noospapers' and knew nothing of the "tariff" or the case in question. "But," inquired Judge E. B. Goss, "do you not get papers?" Brama ex plained that occasionally he was giv en a farm paper at Fargo by a neighboring farmer, and that his wife still :"insisted" on getting a story paper for one of his children, of which he had four, the eldest aged 21. He did nothtnow what the word "tariff" meant. The picture of aer oplanes he thought, those of kites, and tittered incredulously when told his fellowmen has mastered the air. "Roosevelt, Roosevelt?" muttered* Brama unfamiliarly. "It seems I've heard te.ll of the name, but I cler.n most forgot it. Soldier, wasn't he?" "Your .honor," said State's Attor ney George A. McGee, of Mine t, "the attorney for the defense will not challenge the juror and I will not." "The juror is selected," said Judge Gross grimly. "Take a'seat in the box, please.- At any event, the juror knows nothing about the case," re marked the judge. * AUTOMOBILE SKIDDLED. Went Over a High Embankment With Fatal Results, |W. H. Allison, president of the First National Bank of Boulder was probably fatally hurt and Judge James Garriges and Harry P. Gam ble, of the California district court sustained serious injuries late Mon day when an automobile in which they r?vefe riding skidded over a cliff and fell eighteen feet. Allison, who was driving, was pinned be neath the car. One of his arms and qoilar bone was broken, his face mashed and he received internal in juries from which he cannot recov er. Warships Sold. Secretary of the Navy .Meyer has signed an order authorizing the sale of the third class cruisers Detroit and Boston, the gunboat Concord and the torpedo boat Winslow. From a military standpoint the usefulness of these vessels has passed. The amount of money required to place them in condition was so large and their value, comparative, so'small when in service, that the board of inspection and survey for ships re commended that it would be poor economy to refit them. To Prevent Strike. Offering the co-operation of that organization in an endeavor to pre vent a threatened strike of the con ductors and motormen of the New Orleans Street railway Company. President Wheelin of the New Or leans Progressive Union requested officials of the company and of the men to meet in a joint conference with representatives of the commer cial body Monday night. Both sides agreed to do so. Yardinaster is Killed. Capt. C. E. Hr- ., yardniaster of the Seaboard Air Line, was run ov er and instantly killed late Sunday while shifting cars in the yard at Cordele, Ga. He was caught while cars were making a running switch, lie leaves a widow and six chlldien. TWO CENTS PER COPY SEES HOPE ONLY la the Success of the Insurgent Repabti? cans Who Are the SOLE LUMP OF LEAVEN According to Jas. R. Garfield. For mer Secretary of the Interior, Who Avows Himself a Member of That Wing of the Republican Par ty, Which He Praises Highly. James R. Garfield, former secre tary of the interior, in a speech de livered Monday night to the new ly formed Progressive Republican organization of Cleveland set forth the platform upon which the Insur gent element of the Republican par ty will enter the fall campaign in Ohio. Mr. Garfield announced his acr ceptance of the appellation of "in surgent." Mr. Garfield declared that the?nation, stood today in a critical situation so that confronting the country was the problem wheth er the fight of the progressive was to be carried, to a successful issue, or whether they were to surrender and admit that government for and by the people was a failure. He said in part: Like the prodigal youth, we as a nation, have wasted our resources, sold our inheritance, acquired evil habits, but, fortunately, we have re alized the need of radical changes in time to save ourselves. "At the coming election wo are to, choose between two great national parties. The Democratic party, while declaiming against special interest .has, whenl in power allied itself, with, special interests. Many of its leaders have been and are the recognized ?representatives of special interests;. In our state the Demo;;r? i.'c govern or failed to be on th: people's side in the' fight for phbi'.e utilities and the Democratic senators defeated that measure. In the recent Dem-, ocratic convention the 'progressive'. Democrats were ignored. I can see no hope for better things from De mocracy as now conducted, "How is it with the Republican, party? It likewise has among its leaders some who are allied with, or. represent: special interest; but, on the other-hand it has progressive, aggressive leaders who are the peo ple's representatives. "The country 'owes a debt of gratitude to the insurgents in Con gress who made the fight against ihe domination of special interest and who placed the common good high above party regulation. '"The real friends.of conservation., relied upon insurgents and their progressive .allies for, the protection of the public domain against the as saults of special interests. Insurgent senators prevented the passage of the Alaska biil which in its original form, might have giv en over the untold wealth of Alaska to a favored few.. Dealing in a general way with the Rational problems and continued his eulogy of the insurgents, Mr. Garffeld took up special state prob lems. The recall, regulation of cor porations, wokmen compensation act, the strengthening of child la-^ bor laws and the development of a canal system were the principal planks in the platform which he put forward. In regard to the recall, Mr. Gar field said: "There is one method of dealing' with public service which demands our most earnest consideration, namely, the recall. I believe it to be the most direct, most efficient way which people have of dealing with the unfaithful servant. It is said that the recall makes cowards of public men. I. ask whether it is any more injurious to the public welfare to have an officer afraid of the people than to have a public offi cer the servant of a special inter est." Mr. Garfield concluded his gen eral defense of the l.epublicun par ty with a warning against the reac tionary. "The real danger to the party." he said, "comes from the reaction ary who is controlled by special in cause it is the easiest way. is willing to return to the weak policy of Laissez Faire. To follow such ' leaders means disaster. Charges Against Mayor. Encouraged by the removal of Mayor Atherton, of Newark, by Gov ernor Harmon Monday, the Civic League of Zanesville- announced through its officers that it will de mand similar action immediately in. the case of Dr. A. N. Gorrel, mayor of that place. The civic league aas already filed charges against him with the governor, alleging that he has failed to enforce the county option law, permitting ZanesvHle tO' border upon a state of anarchy. Shortage in Funds. A shortage of at least $23,ODD has been discovered in the accounts of the Citizen's Bank of Swainshoro, Ga., as a result of which Hugh D. Strickland, cashier, and L. W. Pon der, former bookkeeper, are under bond of $10,000 each and bank ex aminers from Atlanta are working on the books of tbe institution.