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Tic Census Shows a Good increase of Pdps'afri in Nearly AH TOWUS OF ?STATE Spartanburg Stands Third in Popu lation, Having Passed Greenville : in the Race for Numbers, and Greenville is Dissatisfied and May ' Ask a Recount of Her People. South.. : Carolina's municipalities | Javlng a population in excess of 5, - 000 made an average Increase of 22.9 per cent during the last decade. Sta tistics of the 13th census issued Mon day ehow<the number of these places Increased from eight In 1900 to 13 !n 1910. Their total Increase in pop-j ulation was only 19.5 per cent of the i State'B total Increase of 175,084 for| the decade. Anderson, among the cities, made ,'^the most rapid strides in population ? Increase. This increase amounted to* ' 75.5 per cent. Spartanburg gained 54.6 and Greenville increase 32.7 per csnt while Columbia grew 24.7 per ?cent and Charleston only 5.4 per \bent. \South Carolina's municipalities of | over 5,000 population rank as fol lows: 1910. 1900. Charleston. . . . 58.833 55,807 Columbia. '. . . . 26.3:19 21,108 Spartanburg. . . 17.E17 11,395 'Greenville.15,741 n,8G0 . Andereon.9,?54 .5,498 Sumter.8,T09 * 5,673 Rock Hill. ... , . 7.?16 5,485 Florence.7.057 4,647 Greenwood. ... 6.614 4,824 Orangeburg. . . . 5,906 4,455 Union.., . 5,623 5,400 ^Georgetown, . .'. 5.530 4,13,8 . Newberry. 5.028 4,607 Comparative Gain. Increase. Per cent. Charleston. . . . -3,026 05.4 . Columbia. .... 5,211 . 24 SSpartanburg. . . 6,122 54.6 Greenville. . . . 3,881 32.7 Anderson. . . . 4.156 75.5 Sumter. . . . . . 2.436 42.9 Rock Hill. .... 1,730 31.5 Florence.^ . . . . 2,410* ' 51.8 ... Greenwood. .. . 1.790 . ..37,1 ?Orangeburg. : .1,45 V 32.8 Unicjn. ! . . . . 223 00.41 Georgetown. . . , 1,391 33.4 Newberry. .... 4**t 09.1 Some Towns Kick, f The annorncemeit of the census figures for South Carolina cities or 5,000 cr over precipitated a storm in nearly all the towns concerned. i Greenville and Sumter especially se^m d's?ati?fied with the enumera \ tion and both threaten to use every -eeort to have another count made. Sumter e.'.ly council has even appro priated money for thi3 purnose. An derson, the mavor savs, certainly has moro people than given in the census enrmeratlon. By authority of the ?eensus supervisor of that district, the mavor siys, the poot'latlon as re ported to the census bureau was 10. 987. He savs an eTort will be made u.to have the figures corrected. In no case, so far as reported, have the figures been satisfactory to the people or official bodies of the towns Involved. One thing Is .probab'e. however, and that is that ail of the towns, as shown by reports from them, are growing either directly, or Indirect ly, by increase in the population of suburbs. LEAVES HIS TROUBLES. Prominent North Carolina Merchant Skips for the West, Leaving behind him at Concord, N. C, a bankrupt business and a familv. John L. MWer, a prominent merchant and politician, has disap peared comoletely, leaving no trail save for a telegram received today by his wife, from New Orleans, with the statement that he was bound for tbe West an' would never return. Hfs 17-year-oid son, Lester, is with him. Mlll?r left Concord several days ago vi?h the statement that he was goin?: to Newberry, to place his son In collesre. There was no suspicion of business entanglement until his telegram todny led to an Investiga tion 'lrin^rlng about the disclosures. Miller was chairman of the Demo cratic executive committee, chief of the fire department and assignee for several bankrupt concerns, in whieb he has male no accounting. His cred itors will receive practically nothiug. Bride's Death a Mystery; Mrs. S. M. Foster, a bride of three months and the wife or S. M. Foster, a lawyer of Rockwood, Tenn., was found dead with a bullet hole in her temple at her home Monday niglit. Whether she killed herself or picked up the pistol and accidentally shot herself Is .inknown. She was in fine spirits Monday afternoon and even ing and the family can assign no reason for iho tragedy. -> m * Bleaso Sees Tilliwan. Senator Tillman arrived in Wash ington on Monday and says he thinks he will be able to remain for the re mainder of the season. He made an appointment with Cole L. Blease, governor-elect, for a conference Tuesday morning, presumably about general matters, political and per sonal DUES A "WEEK. RICH CKOOK DEAD WEALTH!' YOUNG MAS WHO LED LIFE OP A BURGLAR. Thomas Wandlass Preferred the Un derworld to a Life of Luxury in His Brooklyn Home. Death has ended the career of Thomas Wandlass, the "white front" burglar, who was shot and fatally wounded while breaking into the home of Thomas Tapley, a contractor In Pas8alc, N. J. Wandless preferred the underworld to a life of luxury In the home of a fond and wealthy mother. He developed from a sort of "angel child" to a desperate crim inal. Paralysis of his vocal organs shortly aft?r his capture kept the po lice from obtaining any correct ac count of his amazing career.1 Jean Mitchell, aged 17 years, who called herself his "chicken stall" and assisted him in 22 burglaries, has pleaded guilty and will receive sen tence. She declares she is eager to get back to her home in the New England states as she has had enough of travel and nice dresses, the bait offered by Wandlass when she con sented to become his accomplice. The police called Wandlass a "supper worker" and a. "dress suit burglar." He called himself a "white front" burslar ard was fasci nated by the danger of robbing a house while there were many per sons about. Often he would stop to listen to the dinner chatter be fore making his escape. Generally be selected a dark or dimly lighted parlor, jimmied the window and climbed in. During the months that the girl worked with him he relied upon her to "spill a faint" as she called it, and draw the crowd while he made his escape. Wandlass was about 30 years old. His mother, Mrs. Augustus F. Ber ner, is a woman of wealth and re finement In Brooklyn, N. Y. Her first husband, Wandlass. was a hotel proprietor and well to do. He left a comfortable fortune, and when he died his son, Tom, was a model youngster and a great church work er. . He was precocious, high strung and had a vivid Imagination. Just when he became transformed into a "had man" no one seems to know, but he ran away from board ing scboofc tit-17 ar,d tbe next his mother heard of him was that he wan a member of a gang of thieves. He was never what might be called a Raffles, except that he dressed well and committed most of his burglaries while clad in evening clothes. He was' known to the police as Kid Howard and Thomas Hanley and had served time in several penal insti tutions in the state of New York. , Dir:? ON WAY HOME. After Being Absent Twenty-Ont , Years Unheard From. A mysterious stranger who died suddenly in a hotel at New Canan, Conn., a few days ago has been iden tified as Francis Humphreys, a well to-^o resident of New Canan, who disappeared from his home there 21 years ago, leaving his wife and four daughters. Humphreys, who was 6"? years old, returned with the Intention of join ing his family, who had heard noth ing from him since his disappearance. Wearied from his journey, he stop ped at tbe hotel to rest and soon af ter his arrival was seized with, an at tack of heart disease, from which he died almost instantly. He did not live to see any member of his fam ily. A large sum of money was found In his clothing and will be turned over to his widow. WORK OF A FIEND. A Can of Lye Thrown in tho Face of a Young Ludy. With her face and shoulders seared and scarred by the contents of a can of lye that was thrown in her face Sunday night, Miss Myrtle Burney lie3 at her father s home in Oakdale, a suburb of Pittsburg. Pa., and is probably disfigured for JIfe, while I county detectives are searching for a man whose description the young wo-l man gives. Miss Burney was walk- j In? from the Oakdale station to her I home Saturday night with a brotner \ when a man appeared from bebind a tree and dashed the contents over her. Instlnctiveiy she closed her eves, thus saving her sight. The fam ily is at a loss to explain a reason for the attack. Public Reprimand Ordered. President Taft Tuesday decided j tbat Commande- W. S. Sims, the; United States naval officer, who at a , recent dinner given In London by tne j Lord Mayor of that city, declared that If Great Biitain ever was seri ously threatened she could depend on "every man. every dollar and every drop of blood" It this country, should be publicly reprimanded. A Mule Famine. "Never since the Boer war have mules been as scarce as they are at the present time in this conn : y.M sail J. P. Hudson, a stock dealer of Lo'iisville, Ky., Tuesday night. Mr. Hudson has just arrived home after a trip over the country seeking the animals. He can assign no cause for the "mule famine," which he claims Is becoming constantly more marked. OBANGKHOKO, SEV??MN DROWNED THREE BARCIES GO TO DESTRUC TION OFF CAPE COD. Guards. Stand by Helpless and Wit ness Worst Disaster of Years Off the Massachusetts Coast A dispatch from Highland Ugh'.. Mass., says the worst disaster the life guards of the coast off grim old Cape Cod had seen, in more than. a, dozen years occurred today on the treach erous sand bars that make off from the peaked hills. The guards stood on the beaeh with their boats and other apparatus, unable to ranker as sistance, while three stout coal car rying bargeB were hurled to destruc tion and all on board?17 men?lost their lives. The barges were the Treverton, Corbin and Pine Forest, valued to gether at $125.000. With the ex ception of Capt. F. L Brown of the Treverton, who belonged In Lincoln ville, Me., and Capt. M. W. Hall of the Pino Forest, a Provincetown man, all were drowned, Including Cant. Charles N. Smith of Philadel phia of the Corbin. As two of the barges, ths Trever ton and Corbin. broka up very quick ly, It Is believed that 12 lives were lost within an hour after the bar:es broke away from the tug Lykens about 3 o'clock this morning and went fnto the breakers. Five of the seamen were seen clinging des perately to the Pine Forest until the mid-forenoon, when in attempting to reach shore in their own little boai they were hurled Into the seething billows and lost. The tug Lykens of the Reading Coal company started from Philadel phia last week with tbe Treverton for Poortland. the Corbin for Ports month and the Pine Forest, for Mar blehead. Coming over Nantucket shoals Monday the Lykens encountered a heavy southwester which began haul ing into the northwest ai she round ed Monomoy Point and hes.ded down the cape. The Lykens with her tow was off Xausett late in the evening and could be seen In the moonlight from the shore as she was hugginr the caoe for a lee. She finally mat the full force of th? gale at the bund In the arm of the cape. ?> ? The life saving ?; patrol!1, saw her standing off shore to avoid the Peaked Hill bars, but darkness blotted her out four hours before dawn. The gale Increased In fury and about 3 o'clock tho Irug hawser astern of the tug parted. The Lykens was then a mile or more to the west ward of Peaked Hill life saving sta tion. The last watch of the nieht patrol w?s just start'ng out from the station when he discovered wreckage in the breakers. The crew ^'a3 quickly summoned but it was too dark to make out anything. At dawn the form of a stranded barge with a single mast could be seen far out in the breakers on th" outer bar. while In the ofTlnr hovered a trg which afterward proved to be the Lykens. 'The life savors realized that no life boat pulled by men could traverse those 800 yards of whirling billows. Two men were seen clinging to the rigging and three others holding on to the house. ? Tt was apparent, that the other two barges had long since broken up. Tho Lykens could not render assistance owing to the heavy sea and started for Prnvlncetown. Shortly before 10 o'clock the men of the Pine Forest were seen to father In a group. Before those on t^n beach realized their purpose the little dory on top of the barge house had been cut lonse and launched. AH five men thou tumblel In for the last fight for Mfe, but before they had grasped their oars, a big comber' came rolling around the stern of the' barge and over them. That was the end. Stops Cotton Mills, While a lineman was putting up a wire, he threw the wire within a few feet of the Southern Power com pany's line* and Immediately the cur rent jumped from the main wire. Fortunately for the lfneman he turned tho wire lo~se as he threw It, saving his life, although he was ba-'ly shocked. As a remit of this rll the mi"s between Easley and' Charlotte 'hat are run by electricity went dead for about half an hour. Fell Sixty Feet. ?Badly Injured by a fall of (50 fe?t, from the t >p of the Paclfla Electric railroad bridge to the bottom of the Arrovo Seco (the dry stream) bed, which separates Los Angeles from Pasadena, W. B. Blacker, a chauffeur, who came from Indianapolis; lav bleeding and helpless for probably HO hours and died soon after his re moval to fhe county hospital. Powder Factory Explodes. .Many fatalities were caused by an explosion in a gun powder factory at San Martin Tuesday. Twelve bod ies were extricated from the ruins of the plant soon after it was blown to pieces. The search for other dead continues. Total Land Jilide. At Castro Urdlales, Spain, forty persons were killed arid five injured Tuesday when a landslide over whelmed a gang of laborers, burying them all beneath a mass of earth and rock. S. C, TUUJfSOAY. tlAlSTl BRYAN I POWER Tbe Dtnccrafic Pa ly Would Commit suicide by Ripsdialiig 0 - i ISSUES HE STANDS FOR The Personality and Doctrines of the G:*eat Commoner Are Dearer to the Great Majority of Democratic Hearts Than Those of Any Other Man in the Party. Judge Maynard T. Stiles, of Char leston, W. Va., who Is known In that State a3 a far seeing, wise, conserva tive Democrat,' in a letter to the Ga zette of his city gives his party good, wholesome advice. We make some ?xtracts from his letter, which we feel Bure will be read with interest. Tudce Stiles opens his letter by say ing that one of the strange results of fbp recent election is the notion en tertained in some quarters, particu larly by certain eastern journals, that the election eliminates Bryan as a leader or as a controlling Influence in the democratic party; or that the elimination of Bryan and "Bryan ism" is necessary to the retention and extension of the party advantage just gained. These journals, he roes on to say, most of whom supported Taft in 1908, talk of "new leadership" for democracy 95 they did in 1904. By "new leadership" they mean the o>'? leadership which, despito Bryan's loy alty to the party name and cand" dates, led us so far isto the Elougb of eternal despond that only the re turn of the standard into Bryan's hands give the faintest hope of de liverance. The same mutinous crew that .mttled the ship in 1S9G and 1 900 and 1908. and ran her agroi;nJ and abandoned her when they cap tured her In 1904. are preparing to clamber aboard again, now that she Is onco more afloat and out in mid stream, and to throw overboard her navigator and fear up the chart in which lies the only hope that the democratic passengers and cargo will see port in 1912. I do not mean to imply that Bryan should necessarily become the nomi inee dn 1912; It 13 not the time now ;to pick candidal-.?*}, but I am oncof, thoEe who believe that to abandon the things which Bryan championed in the last campaign would be to plan ?'efeat in the hour of victory. I am one of those who believe that the personality and doctrines cf Bryan ^re dearer to the preat majority ot democratic hearts than aro those ot any other man in the party or ort of it. and that the elimination of "Bryanism" by "new leadership," If it could bo accomplished, would car jry with it every hope of the triumph of democratic principles under the party name two years hence. Tho New York. Worl J, In an edi torial quoted in your Issue of Satur day, advised'Mr. Bryan "to get in 'step with progressive democracy, and ^Ive all the moral support within his power to new leaders," and he add ed: "Ho has had his chance?he had three chances?and each time the country repudiated him." The justi fication for the reproduction of those attacks upon the foremost livln? democrat, made by professed demo cratic editors, Is to be found in the warnin? it aPords to the "faithful" of the attempt to conceal reactionary plans In the disguise of a pretended "progressive democracy." It is un fortunate that great nominally dem ocratic papers, like the World, can not give more convincing evidence of their progressive democracy than persistent misrepresestation of Its greatest evponent; and that they, should suppose that party harmony can be restored or party Interest ad-| vanced by attacks unon him. ?Oy whom was Bryan three times "repudiated?" By "Standard Oil"; by the "Morganhelms" and the Al driches: by the steel trust and all the ?tral trrsts: by the "Svstem," by the "Interests." the Individuals, corpora tions, and combinations of corpora-J lions that had their snouts and fore-i feet, in the swill of special privileges! ?to the success of whose eiTorts to keen them there the World and Its. kind contributed, and without which | treasonable succor Bryan would have) pulled them squealing from tho | trorgb. These rejected Bryan, as they will always reject anyone who peeks to loosen their vampire hold upen the public. The World flops not rrmlrd ns of how millions of "fat." fried by Hann a from protected and entrenched priv ilege, It cost to "repudiate" Bryan. I It does not remind us that, without) money enough to b"y postage stamps, I Bryan three times led t'.'e hosts of 1 progressive democracy up to the very castle moat of the money barouB, the tariff barons, the graft barons, et id 1 omne een'is, and was swept back I ea?h time only by the deluge of slush- I cold that Ilanna and his band let loose. There can be so greater mistake than to suppose th"t the result of the election means a recession of Brvan ism?of prosrressiveism. Republican Insurgency, which contributed to the democratic victory, Ib the outward manifestat'on In the republican party of that which, in the democratic par ty, has taken the name "Bryanism." In both parties It Is real democracy? opposition to the rule of privilege and pelf. It was truly said by the st^ednatters that Roosevelt was Bry anlzlng the republican party though LAKY 12, Hill. MUKDER KECORD GREAT INCREASE OP CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES. Andrew D. White Says This Country Is a Refuge for Anarchists and Cut Throats Generally. I A great host of accomplished Eu ropean anarchists and criminals is ,soon coming to this country to join the thugs, yeggmen and blackhand ers who already enjoy American hos pitality, according to Andrew D. White, former president of Cornell university and' ebc-minister to Russia and Germany. In a statement to the press, Dr. White urges the immediate passage of laws to bar from the shores of the ?Dited States a flood of undesirables who he declares will hasten thither as soon as England espels them. He says: "The assassin and anarchist, whom London plans to bs well rid of soon, >ave an admirable refuge In the United States, a country lying wide -men to them, In which they find moru companions, sympathizers and affective helpers than in any other. A Happf Rendezvous. "Our'nation afforis them the hap piest of happy hunting grounds. Events in New York, in Los Angeles, in Chlcajo and other cities prove this. "This nation with its carelessness in admitting foreign criminals, its "neffectlve wavs of dealing with them and Its facilities for clearing them of gult Is becoming more and more j attractive for them every day. j "In-the United States the number of murders during the year just closed was 8,975, an Increase of 900 over the year nreceding. Only one murJereT in 86 was given capital nunishment. The number of mur ders In the United States Is to the number in England as 11 4 Is to 6. [ "In the sundry murder trials, the statement wts frequently made that, our administration of criminal Jus tice as regards raur 'er hss.become a farce. These trials were by most of those who conducted them, and, ln 'eed by the public at large, evidently Considered not. as efforts to secure Justice, but simply as- games, and mostly between ? pettifoggers, the lud.res appearing much like umpires ! at games of football. The men whom we glorify !n our courts are the men who can clear murderers In spite of undoubted evidence of guilt. The nrosecutlng attorneys ar9 largely chosen from among those of least ex perience In the legal profession and are in many ways absurdly handi capped. Naturally'then the criminal ?dass Is bosoming in many parts or our country a body somewhat fav ored by politicians. "Another thing Is the fact that our government, really seems to make no strenuous effort to prevent their "omlng here. No examlnat'on of iorhtftil characters made In our own -orts can be effective. The examina tions should he made at our consu late abroad where police records cap bs obtained and where testimony of value can be taken." 't was in truth Do'Hver, Cummins. Beverldge and LaFol'ette. more than ^e. who were accomplishing that rev olution. The repudiation of Roosevelt was no rejection cf anvthlng for which Bryan has stood. So lonj as Roose velt was believed to he committing larceny of Bryan's principles from natrlotic motives, there was" none mor9 popular than he. When he was finally understood, when. In addition to his known disregard of constitu tional limits to executive power, and his disclosed willingness to solicit and accept secret aid from tho "male factors" he professed to war upon, it was made plain that he was aiming at a third term and a peruetual dic tatorship, and that (o realize his am bition ho was as ready to stand pat with Lodge as to "Insurge" with Bev erldge, then the people smote him Into the dust with a mighty smite. But. Insurgency and Bryanlsm Ji J vot fall with blm. Incidentally, it may be said, t' at never wns there a sharper contest ba tween the repulsr? of a champion of principle, and the overthrow of a swash-buckler, animated solely by personal ambition. Roosevelt, when routed from the field, sounded no nore of defiance to his fors or oj comfort cr hope to his followers. Wrapned In wrath and disappointed egotism, he skulked to his lair, de nying himself to friend, foe, and strnncer alike. Ho "had nothing to say," to aryone. When the nvalanche of purchased and coerced ballots piled up disaster for Bryan and h's follow ers. B-yan's own disappointment w.ia fr-rrotten by him In their greater loss, an'', more-; heroic ^n defeat than he would have been In victory. rallied his forces and sounded the ad vance. ? Declined Invitation. Cole L. Mlease, governor-elect of South Carolina, and Mrs. Blease ai rived In Washington Monday. Trey were invited to dinner at the While House Tuesday night, but the invita tion was declined as Mr. and Mrs. Blease left for homo Tuesday after noon. Newspaper O'Pco Ri.-ided. Vandals some time Tuesday nl?ht entered the office of the Annlston, .Ma.. Star, "pied" all the forms, emp tied the type into Ink barrels and de stroyed other printing material val ued at several hundred dollars. IJVtS TWO HOOKS AFTER BEING TOLD BY A MED1 UM HE WAS TO DIE. After Receiving the Message He Dressed Himself and Waited for the End nd It Come. At a family senance at Spokane, while sitting at a table with his wife in their home, Sunday night, Sey mour Simpson, who has bepn a spir itualist for forty years, received a message that he was ?oing to paBs away in a very short time and also was given a view of himself in a mystic haze lying in a coffin.. Immediately following the reading Mr. Simpson bathed and dressed and In two hours had passed away. The funeral was held from Smith's fun eral chapel .with a spiritualist ser vice. Rev. Cora KIncannon Smith of ficl?.'ing. Mr. Sinlpson had not been ?orlously HI. He had been troubled with asthma for a number of years. Mrs. Simpson notified the parents of the R?v. Cora KIncannon of the Golden Rule Spiritualistic Society, asking them to communicate with their daughter so she would return from Butte, Mont., where she had been for several weeks. Mrs. Simp son was informed Rev. Kincannon would receive a spirit message. The Rev. Kincannon Smith said Monday afternoon: "I had been in Butte six weeks and was planning on coming home the latter part of this week. Sunday night, as I was pre naring to retire, there were three raps on the door of my room. I im mediately realized some one had passed away and it was a spirit mes sage for me to go home, so I an swered that I would leave at once. I thought it might be my father, an:1 I hurried to this city to And that it wps Mr. Simpson who had passed away." Mr. SImDSon was sixty-nine years of acre and had lived in Spokane for a number of years. VICTIM OF ACCIDENT. Spartanburg Man Kills Himself Handling a Pistol. While sitting at his desk in the Young Men'3 Christian Association room in Spartanbur? Tuesday after noon, at fifteen minutes past 12 o'clock, Walter Brooks Abbott, sec retary of the Association, shot him self. Tho weapon was a 38-cal!bre nls tol and the ball struck Mr. Abbot*, ?nunrely in the ritrht eye. Ranging downward, the ball passed throng!' the bass oof the brain and lodged in 'he skin in the back of the head. He lived perhaps four or five minutes. Monday night Mr. Abbott and his wife went to a recital at Converse College, and found It nenessary to 'cave his sister-in-law at borne alone. He remarked that in the future te would provide a pistol for his wife ind hpr sister, as he feared to leave them alone. Testimony was broueht out in the "oroner's inquest showing that he had bought this pistol and it is supposed th?t he was cleaning It un when It war; accidentally dischareed. It Is presumed that he was look ing down the barrel, and there being hut one shell In the chamber, that ?bis was concealed and he did not know it wag loaded." COTTON GINNED TO JANUARY. Over Eleven Million Rales Reported by Census Bureau. Cotton of tho growth of 1010 ginned prior to January 1 Is shown hy the report of the bureau of the ?ensus, issued at in o'c/ck Tuesday morning, as 1 1,037.4-12 bales com pared with 9,G47.:127 from the ?rowth of 1009 and 12,4G5.:!'8 from tb??t of mos. The percentage of the last two iro-'s ginned to January was 95.8 for 1009 and 95..1 for 1 008. Round ba'es. included th's year are 1 09.29G I compared with 14H, 0-19 for !009 and n;s7? or 1 008. The ginning by States follows: a'aV-ma.1,101.50(1 rkansas. 72."..ITS Florid*. 63,032 1 r?eoreia.1.7G1.SH ! ro?'l?i."m. 240.22fij Mte??s>lnpl.1,131.033 j North Carolina. 701,426 Oklahoma. 896.3"?'? 'outh Cirolina.1,15ft.696 T^fit'piig ? 291317' [ Texas.2.888.479 All other States. 71,151 Snow Sweeps Down (Avalanches from the Alps is Ttaly [of extraordinary extent, are reported, nsrtlcularly In the province of Cucno. Between the villages of Llmone and Vernr?nte two snow sll'os estimated at i'OO.000 cub!'' feet have obstructed ] the railway. In certain districts near! Ma 'alena Hill many homes have been isolated. In one valley the only things appearing above the snow are chim ney tops and the upper parts of tele graph poles. Killed I)} Piano. When the home of JameB W. Chance was destroyed at Waynes boro, Ga., Tuesday morning, a piano, saved from the firo. was set down in front of the home of Walter Hatcher, a rural mail carrier. The Hatcher children, playing about it, were caught beneath it when suddenly It tipped over and fell, killing one of them and seriously Injuring another. AVO CENTS PEB COPV ME OME MORE rhe LcgUIa'nre is Again'in Session ait the Slate Capitol ; OFFICERS ARE NAMED Senator Mauldin President Pro Tem and M. L. Smitli Speaker of the * House?Clerks Mann and Hoyt Are Iieelected?Old Officers in Various Positions. Promptly at noon, on Tuesday, tbe senate was called* 'to order by Hon. Thomas G. McLeod, the retiring lieu tenant governor. :Tbe roll call snowed the entire body present, Tbe day's sitting was opened with prajer by Rev. J. P. Knox of Columbia, and the body Immediately proceeded with the organization and'election of of ficers. '!' The roll of senators In counties where elections had been held for the present term was read, and these senators appeared at the bar of the st-nate to take the oath. President M-cLeod . made a short address to the senate, commenting upon the fact that there were *?o great questions to be settled s-u* it was all the more possible to luve the quiet and conservative work of legis lation and work more devoted to the general Interests of the public The election of the officers of the senate was then proceeded with. Senator W. L. Mauldin of Green ville was unanimously elected Presi dent pro tempore of the senate, to serve until the recently elected lieu tenant governor, Hon. Chas. A. Smith of Timmonsville, takes his plaee next Tuesday. Mr. W.- W. Mann, the incumbent, was rejected clerk of the senate. Mr. J. Fred Schumpert of New berry was elected sergeant-at-armu and Dr. W. S. Stokes received the ?lection of reading clerk. For chap lain Rev. A. E. Holler of Columbia and Rev. J. P. Knox of Columbia received nominations, the vote re sulting In the election of Rev. Mr. Holler by a vote of 32 to 10. The list of appointments of Presi dent C. A. Smith were read as fol lows: vJournal clerk, .G. E. .Moore, Ander sen r blll-clerH,'E. A. Perry/ Saluda; - secretary ti the president, J. R. Mo Ghee, Greenville; pages, Frank Des ChampB, Florence, and Edwin Ful ler. Laurens; malt clerk, N. O. Pyles, Columbia;- doorkeepers, C. P>. Gil mer, Anderson, and R. M. F'oyd, '5partanburg; laborers,-. Albert N?tnce, \Tewberry; Calhoun Butler, Abbe ville, and Eugene McCutcheon Flor 2nce. ? FATAL GKORGIA FIGHT. Three Men Are Rilled and One Man Wounded in Raid. Knives, pistols and shotguns were i'Fed in a terrible fight at Wilson's Mill, five miles from Abbeville, Go,, Tuesday morning, and Matthew Wil son, a planter; James Mixon and Noah White are dead, and Perry Wilson is seriously wounde I. White was a tenant on the Wilson nlantatlon and the trouble is st.Id to. have followed a dlsagreenie.r_t be tween Perry Wilson and White. White used a knife and lacerated the planter's throat. A short Mme after wards, Mixon and Matthew Wilson, ' ?in one side, and White and hi-, wife, on the other, met. Shooting with pistol and shotgun began at once. White and Wilson fired almost at tbe same instant and both dropped, Wil son dead and White rapidly dying. Witnesses stute that when her husband fell. Mrs. White took his shotgun and fired the charge Into the body of Mixon, who dropped and died soon afterwards. Officers are at the scene, but It Is not known here if arrests were made of the survivors. The Wilsons were wealthy and prominent. Mixon was their close friend. It is not known whether be fired before Mrs. White Is said to have killed him. Raiten by Wolves. Several residents of the west coast I of Prince of Wales Island, South eastern Alaska, have been killed and eaten by wolves during the past year, according to Charles A. Suizer, a brother of Congressman Suizer of New York, who has just returned from tbe north. M. Suizer say? that the wolves, having killed off all the deer, have become desperate with huncrer and now come right up to the doors of the cnblns of the miners. Coat Saved Him. At Atlanta J. H. Andrews, secre tary and treasurer of the Georgia di vision of (he Travellers' Protective Apso'dttion, missed death by a hair's breadth Monday when n heavy iron bolt, red hot, fell from the thirteenth story of the new bank building being constructed at Broad and MariKffc streets, striking him on-the shoulder. Killed by Train. The Cherr.w and Darlington train in coming into Florence Monday night struck and killed John Mulllns, a negro laborer at the shops. The negro evidently attempted to cross the track just ahead of the train a*i?I was not quick enough. Engine rr George Wilson, one of the best aad most careful in the service was on the engine.