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PUBLISHED THKBE T THEY ARE TIRED I Coy. Bleasi* Remaves the Members of ihe Dispensary Commission. FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY He Tbinkfi the Members Took Too Long Hit Getting Results?He Charges the Members Also With Incapacity for the Work They Were Engaged In. Governor Blease has Issued exe cutive orde:ns preemptorily removing from office Dr. W. J. Murray of Co lumbia, Mr. J. S. Brice of Yorkvilie, Mr. John McSweeny of Timmons ?vile, Mr. Avery Patton of Greenville, and Mr. A. -H. Wood of Gaffney, com posing the commission appointed to wind up the affairs of the late South Carolina dispensary. "Neglect of duty and incapacity,"' are the reasons assigned by the Gov-j ernor for his action; and particular ly does he disapprove of the arrange ment whereby the Atlanta law firm of Anderson, Felder, Rountree & Wil son was retained to asist the com mission in recovering from liquor houses and other parties money al leged to be due the State as a result of dealing with the State dispensary. An act passed in 1909 vests In the Governor power to remove members of the commission, "wherein he may deem It fcr the public interest to do so," and there will be no resistance In the courts to the orders. Got. Blease still has under advise ment the act pased by the General As sembly last month at his own urgent suggestisn, providing for an investi gation of the dispensary commission's acts by a legislative commission. News of the Governor's dismissal of the comisioners did not come from the Governor's office, when informa tion was sought there, the Governor said, through his secretary, that if anything was to be given to the press Telatlve to the matter, "It should come from the other end of the line." The Governor even refused to say whether he had removed any mem bers of the board other than the chairman, reporters being at that time unaware definitely as to the is suance of such orders to Messrs. Brice, McSween, Wood and Patton. . Dr. Murray received the order ad dressed to him by registered maH this morning," the envelope bearing the endorsement, "Return Receipc demanded." Dr. Murray declined 'to make for publication any statement upon the Governor's action. ?By telephone it was ascertained that Messrs. McSween and Brice re ceived their dismissals by registered mail this morning; Mr. Patton hau not received any communication at the hour when he was called up, and the train from Columbia had not then reached Greenville, and Mr. Wood was not at home. While the Governor declined to say whether or not he had dismiss ed all the members, of the commis sion, the copy of the order received toy Mr. Murray shows that the order was first made out with the name left Wank and. then the name filled In on the typewriter. "I had been expecting it," said Mr. McSween, when he was caled up at nis home in Tlmmonsville. "Noth ing more to say." "It's all right," said Mr. Brice at Yorkvilie, "I had heard he was going to do it the last time I was in Co lumbia. But what about that inves tigation. "No, I aaven't received anything from the Governor yet," said Mr. Patton, "but I am not surprised. In fact, I am much obliged to him. We expected rone thing of the sort the last time we met. But is he going to sign that investigation act? The commission had practically concluded its work. It has turned into the State Treasury about $400, ?000 collected from liquor houses. Governor Blease had, in a letter casting insinuations on the members of the commission, asked the Legis lature to i'.ppoint a committee to in vestigate che conduct of the commis sioners and the Attorney General in the handi ng of the affairs of the old State dispensary. After "he resolution had passed both houses and had bsen placed in the Governor's hands, he declined to sign it. It he should sign the reso lution, it would give the members of the commission an opportunity to be vindicated of the insinuations cast by the Governor. It is not believed for a moment that Blease will sign the resolution, he preferiiL? to look after the matter in his own way. The members of the commission have no other recourse, it is said, the laws of the State not giving them power to bring action against the Governor for slander. The Foolish Boy. Because he had suffered with per sistent toothache, Robert Glover, aged 20, a grocer's clerk, at New Orleans, :ommitted suicide with gas Wednesday night and his body was found in his room Thursday morning. The close j door of his room had been fastened with a stocking. Land Frauds, At Chi-ago on Thursday nine men were indicted, charged with having defrauded the Government out of 1,0, 000 acres of Alaskan coal lands. [MESA" S?wej. -? PARDON MILL GOVERNOR BLEASE TURNS SEV ERAT. CONVICTS LOOSE. Some Are Paroled and Others are Pardoned Outright as the Spirit Moved the Governor. James W. Gallman. a prisoner at prominent rarmer of Union county, was Wednesday paroled during good behavior by Gov. Blease. Gallman was serving a sentence o:.' ?.5 years for manslaughter, having been con victed in 1907 for killing Sims Gil more. The announcement of the parole was made following a. confer ence between Ben Townsend, attor ney and former State senator from Union, and Gov. Blease. Both the solicitor and the presid ing judge failed to recommer.d a par don when the matter was preserved to them by Gov. Ansel. Gallman was tried at a special term of court in July, 1907. The dying statement of Gilmore was to the effect that Gallman asked him if he had told Allen Pride that Gallman stole Capt. Foster's cattle. "I said 'no,' " said Gilmore, "and he called me a damned lie. I called him j the same. I asked him If he burned j Mr. Cannon's barn." Gilmore then described how he followed Gallman and took his pistol from him and struck him over the head. "I was sitting down after this," said Gil more, "and he then commenced to shoot." Govenor Blease Wednesday pi^rd oned Mark Duncan, of Aiken, who was serving seven years in the peni tentiary for manslaughter. The Mark Duncan case is of particular interest in view of the fact that in the appeal to the Supreme Court At torney D. S. Henderson, of Aiken, laid special stress on the matter of news papers crying out for conviction..;. At the time of the argument be fore the Supreme Court this ques tion was the subject of much dis cussion. It is, therefore, an interest ing circumstance that Governor Blease has pardoned Duncan, whose case the Supreme Court not so 'nng ago affirmed. The defendant, Mark Duncan, was indicted at the fall term, 1909, Tor murder, for the killing of William Brooks, on August JS, 1909. Wed nesday Governor. Blease pardoned Duncan, the petition merely reading: "Pardon granted. Cole L. Bfc-ase, Governor. March 15, 1911." C. P. Palmer and Lou Belcher, whose cases came before the former Administration, both being from j Oconee County, and the petitions, be ing presented by Senator Earle, "w..o so stood by Governor Blease in the Senate, had all but twenty-two months stricken from their sentences of seven and eight years, respective ly, Wednesday by Governor Blease. This makes the two prisoners soon free, as they were imprisoned in the fall of 1909. Cromer Haidt, of Orang.eburg, who ! was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years, the sentence j being commuted to seven yeara by Governor Ansel, was Wednesday pa j rolled during good behavior by Jole |L. Blease, the Governor of the State. I No reason is .given for the parole on ! the back of the petiton. Carl Austin, sentenced by Judge Devore, at Greenville, to :hree years' imprisonment for housebreaking, was Wednesday paroled "during good behavior." > Gov. Blease has paroled Tom 3ad gett, the Spartanburg man convicted a year ago of the murder of Zubine | Suber, a negro woman with whom it| was alleged he had been living. Two weeks ago it was stated that the gov | ernor had refused to pardon Badgett. IS. J. Nicholls, .his attorney, said 'Thursday the governor had parolled him. He was under a seven year sen tence and the supreme court recently confirmed the. sentence. Placing the condition upon him to leave South Carolina withia 24 hours to never return to the State Gov. Blease yesterday granted a pa role to John B. Waldrop, a life term prisoner in the State penitentiary from Greenville county. Should Waldrop ever return to South Caro lina for any reason he will he re arrested and will have to spend the remainder of his days in prison. He was con.-icted in 1905 and has thus served six years of a life sentence. In the petition filed it is stated that he is dying of tuberculosis and that; his people desire to send him away from the State for treatment. L. A. Lloyd of Greenwood, who was convicted of manslaughter in! 1909 and sentenced to ten years in' the State penitentiary, has been par doned by Gov. Blease. Solicitor' Cooper, writing of the case, said that he would not recommend a pardon as the killing was done without prov ocation. Superintendent Griffith of< the penitentiary recommended the pard?n, stating that Lloyd was sick and unable to work. Must Be New Board. The work of winding up the af fairs of the old State dispensary has not been completed, and it will be necessary for Governor Blease lo ap point a new commission, since he has dismisse d the old mein hers, who have ror the past four years worked so faithfully in the interest of South I Carolina, and who have saved from a wreck approximately $500,000. OKANGEBU WORK OF FIENDS A Negro's Brutal Ootrage oo a White Wo man in North Carolina. HE HELD HER FOR HOURS The Daughter of a Farmer Residing Near Rose Hill, KT. C, Brutally Assaulted by a Black Fiend, for Whom Search is Being Diligently Made by Posses.. Late Wednesday afternoon a young lady, about twenty-one years of age, the daughter of Mr. J. W. Judge, a well-to-do farmer, rtslding about twelve miles from Rose Hill, in Dup lin County, N. C, was criminally as-j saulted by u negro and is reported as being in u serious condition. Posses searched all last night for the negro and scoured the surround ing country today. This afternoon a ne?ro was arrested at Magnolia who filled the description of the negro, but there was doubt about him being the man wanted. Miss Judge had started from her home to visit her brother and while passing along the road, walking, was met by the negro, who compelled her to go Into the woods near the road. This was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and the young woman re mained In the woods from that time until 8 o'clock last night, when she made her escape, there being a heavy rain most of the time and the weath er very cold. Owing to the inclement weather, the negro left Miss Judge for a few minutes in order to get some mater ial to make a covering to protect them from the rain, and the young woman took advantage of the mo mentary absence of the brute to make her escape, although she had .beet, told that she would be killed if she moved. When she reached home most of her clothing was torn from her body. When the news reiached Wilmington and other places great indignation was expressed, and posses set out to hunt down the fiend. \ ANOTHER NEGRO FIEND. A Young White Woman Assaulted Near Due West. An unknown negro attempted ti> assault a prominent woman, near her home, at Due West late Wednesday afternoon, and that town is crowded with indignant persons who are mak ing a thorough search to catch the brute. The n&?ro suddenly attacked the woman from behind, snatching her shawl from her shoulders and throw ing It ever her htiid. The woman screamed and th' negro became frightened and fled. Some people were in a nearby field and they were attracted to the scene, but not belofe the negro had disappeared. He tore the shawl and part of the garments of the victim. Because of the suddenness of the attack and because it came from be hind her, the woman did not get a good look at the negro. She has furnished a meagre de scription, and the towns in the neigh borhood have been notified to look out for the man. The assault was made near the creek about one-half mile from the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. Sheriff Lyon and his deputies are on the scene and great excitement prevails. SEVEN MEN PERISH. A Fishing Tug Goes to the Bottom Nenr Cleveland. One fishing tug with a crew of seven is lost; and one other with a crew of three is missing as a result of the gale that swept down over the lakes Wednesday, and is still raging on Lake Erie off Cleveland. The Silver Spray, of Erie, Pa., op erated by the Booth Fisheries Com pany, went down off Cleveland har bor Wednesday night after battling with the heavy seas for twenty hours. The last seen of her was at 2 a. m., Thursday, when Capt. Hansen, of the life saving station, sighted a vessel a few miles out, burning torches as signals of distress. Thursday morning the tug Buck eye patrolling the breakwater, sight ed what is believed to have been tne pilot house of the Silver Spray afloat in the lake, off East Fortieth street. Two bodies, which Capt. Cornelius believes belong to members of the Silver Spray's crew of seven, were lying on the breakwater. It was im possible for the tug to get near enough to take off the bodies. Works Some Havoc. At Laurens a local yard engine in charge of Engineer T. C. Nelson Thursday started out to Watts mills and when rounding the curve a quar ter of a mile from the station the engineer saw a special train coming in on the same track. He reversed his engine and with his fireman jumped. With a slight impact rhe engines collided and immediately the reversed locomotive went wild on th" .back track and crashed into a caboose and coal car in the freight yard. EG, S. C. SATURDAY. Ml I WRECK NEAR A1KEN FREIGHT TRAIN RAN INTO BY A PASSENGER TRAIN. The Fireman oh the Freight Train Has His Skull Fractured and is Expected to Die. i A special to The News and Courier from Aiken says several persons were injured, one seriously, in a head-on collision on the Southern Road, about 11 o'clock Thursday night, the scene of the. wreck being about a mile below the passenger de pot at Alken. The injured were given attention by local physicians'7 and later taken to a hospital in Augusta. It seems that passenger Train No. 17, from Charleston to Augusta, was about two hours late, and after leav ing Aiken was running, as the engi neer expressed it, "pretty fast," when it ran into an extra freight, which was coming around a curve without a headlight. The freight was running at about a five-mile rate of speed. The engl I neer of the passenger did not see the freight until the headlight of his own locomotive revealed the situation. He immediately applied the emer gency brakes and yelled to his fire man . to jump, intending to do the same himself. However, before eith er could jump the crash came. It developed that the freight engineer was stooping down in his cab and did not see the approaching passenger. The fireman on the freight had his skull fractured and the engineer was considerably bruised about the head. On the passenger, the engineer, fireman, ticket collector, and Pull man conductor suffered various bruises, as did also six of the pas sengers, all men. The only serious injury, so far as could be learned, was to the fireman on the freight, who may die. Both locomotives were badly dam aged, one being partly derailed and several of the passenger coaches were considerably torn up. The injured were placed in a baggage car and taken to Augusta, an engine, in the meanwhile, having been sent from that city. TWELVE MEN ARE KILLED. Seventeen Injured by the CoUapse of / Brick Wall. By the collapse Of- the side walls j of the Fall Hardware building, whi.-h ; was burned ten days ago, at Nash jville, Tenn., about 30 men were buried under tons of brick, mortar and timber. Most of those caugbr under the walls were negro la'lwrers who were clearing away the debris and tearing down the walls, but then were a few whita men connected wi'h Insurance companies In the bnli-iing at the time. The latter were looking after the salvage The known dead at 7 o'clock Wed nesday night number 12. It is cer tain that 17 were injured. The work of removing the debris is still in progress, and it is believed other dead and wounded will be found be fore morning. ?Ralph McCallum, unmarried, wa3 the only white man known to have been killed. He wa3 crushed to death. McCallum was superintendent a Bai vage corps. Edward Hart, white, who was endeavoring to save goods in an adjoining .building in the in terest of the insurance companies, was badly injured but will recover. HER LONG LOST BOY. Saw Him After Long Absence in Moving Picture Film. A special dispatch to the Augusta J Chronicle say3 through the medium of a moving picture film showing the lassoing of wild animals in Africa a young Georgian whose relatives have not seen or heard from him in six years probably will be reunited with them. Mrs. W. H. Winn of Savan ? nah saw the picture and was enjoy j ing it when suddenly the "audience" ; and Mrs. Winn gasped. Looking di j rectly out of the lariat picture at iher nephew, Ambrose Means, missing six years, inquiry showed that tht I name of the young rope handler is really Means. The young man's moth- { j er is Mrs. J. M. Poole of Elko, Ga. Means is said to be a wonder with! the lariat, having captured lions with1 the rope. It is said that he hav joined a wild west show and his mother or aunt will endeavor ioi catch him at Pcoria, 111., where ho Is J expected soon. HOTEL MAX A SUICIDE. Wounds Friend, Misses Another, j Then Shoots Himself. Henry P. Powell, proprietor of the; Powell House at Sanford. X. C, com-I rnitted suicide in the crowded union [ depot at Raleigh Thursday afternoon; by shooting himself, after firing wild ly. Powell was at Raleigh as a mem-j her of a delegation asking for bet ter railroad service and was talkin?! to two friends, D. E. Mclver and C. I W. Smith, of Sanford, when he sud-j drnly stepped hack, pulled two pis-' tols and began shooting. One bullet struck Smith in (he arm and shoul der, and the other missed Mclver. Powell then turned the pistol to his! head :-n'l kille.1 himself. Powell was GO years old. Temporary insanity is iwii as the c;:iise for the deed. AUCH 18, 1931. CHINA IN GRIP Its the PI;:?uf, and Tens of Thousands Are Now Dead. MYSTERIOUS HORROR Awful Disease is Spreading in Spite of Efforts to Check It, and Fears Are Entertained That It May Get ' Out of the Stricken County?Rats Common Medium of Spreading It. All the vast far East from Siberia's frigid wilds to the equator is terri fied by the pneumanic plague, the scourge that Is killing thousands a day in Manchuria and China, and which threatens to 'sweep not only over Asia and the islands of the Pa cific, but, it is now feared, Europe and America as well. While many acts of heroism and noble self-sacrifice are recorded in the plague-ridden districts, the for eign doctors and scientists who have arrived from Europe, America, Japan and India, and are working night and day at the risk of their lives to prevent the spread of the disease, are the great heroes. They are seen everywhere, angels of mercy dressed in the garb of ogres. The germ attacks the lungs and destroys the victims with amaz ing swiftness. The patient's breatu is poison?and the doctors dressed in armor-like suits with medically treated masks covering the face an? showing only the eyes. Dreadful scenes have been report ed from Fuchlaten, where the epi demic first showed Itself. The Chi nese have thrown their dead into the street, and, panic-stricken, they have been known to throw out even living plague victims. The deaths in that town at the beginning of the plague averaged 150 a day, Increasing daily until nearly 15,000 succumbed. From Fuchlaten the plague spread with the swiftness of the wind to other cities In Manchuria?Harbin being the first, .where 160 deaths have been reported in one day, in cluding a number of European resi dents. In the midst of it the weather be came intensely cold, and with the thermometer registering 40 degrees below zero it was impossible to use the disinfecting apparatus. Euro pean hospital attendants have_ been stricken by hundreds. Crematories are being constructed in many places, for It Is impossible to bury the thou sands of victims. The Japanese and Chinese authori ties, more particularly the former, are doing all In their power to stop the progress of the plague. The Jap anese residents of Shihchienfang, Mukden, bought the houses in which the plague had appeared and burned them to the ground. This is not by any means an isolated case, and where the Chinese hesitate to destroy pest-infested houses the Japanese do so without hesitation. Some of the smaller towns are as deserted as a graveyard, for the peo ple fled from them as the scourge appeared. There are to-., ns In which the entire population ha\\; died. One of these Is on an island in the Sun garl river, near Fuchlaten, where not one person remains alive of the near ly 400 who lived there. The author ities made one great fire of houses and bodies. When the South Manchuria Rail way Company stopped selling low class tickets It was found that the coolies raised the money for first class tickets and thus carried the epidemic into the Interior. Traffic was entire ly suspended for a time, but was resumed under reasonable restric tions. Passengers are detained at stations for medical examination and only those who have passed the test are admitted to such cities as Fort Arthur, Dairen and others of equal importance. Meanwhile expe-ienced rat catch ers are being engaged by the authori ties of all the cities at salaries which they can name themselves. At Dai in one day. The contagion is spread, so the physicians agree, through I fleas, which becoming infected, are carried by rats from house to house, where fresh victims are bitten by the little insects. The fleas can only 'be killed by killing the rats and im mersing them in liquid acids. The Russo-Aslatic bank at Tlar ! bin hps temporarily suspended busi ness, while the Yokohama specie haul: I at Darien keeps a deadline outside its doors, admitting only those custom ers who can show a clean bill of I health. New business is refused am? all the currency received in the bank Iis disinfected. Other banks aie i adopting this course. The Japanese are especially active in the construction of hospitals. One 'large enough to accommodate 1,500 i was hastily built near Mukden. The 'barracks at Tafanghen station have [been rented from the military au I thoritles as a place of detention. The I barracks will hold 4,000. The Man ichurla Railway Company has built Iat Changchun seven large detention buildings, each large enough to con tain 400. Physicians board all trains and passengers showing the slightest symptoms are hauled off and hustled to the detention houses. The Chinese police have closed all !theaters. 'Meetings ^re prohibited. The Import of old clothing. ra?s and the like is prohibited. The quaran tine office has onion rl by wire a large quantity of prophylaxes and T WHY THEY WERE FIRED GOV. BLEASE GIVES HIS REAS ONS FOR HIS ACTION. TeHs Why He Removed the Members of the Dispensary Winding Up Commission. The following are the reasons as signed by Gov. Blease for the re moval of the Dispensary Winding Up Commission: Whereas, the general assembly, by an act, approved the 16th day of Feb ruary, A. D. 1907, entitled, "An act to provide for the disposition of all property connected with the State dispensary and to wind up its af fairs," provided that "immediately upon the approval of this act the governor shall appoint a commission of well known business men, consist ing of five members, none of whom shall be members of the general as sembly, to be known as the State Dispensary Commission, who shall give bond for the faithful perform ance of the duties required, in the sum of ten thousand dollars," and the said act further providing that the said commission "shall pay to the State treasurer, after deducting their compensation.and other expenses al lowed by this act, all surplus funds on hand, after paying all liabilities. In my judgment the members of the commission 1>h 'e had more than ample time to finish their work ana make a final report, and it appear ing to my satisfaction that this has not been done, and that said commis sion is guilty of neglect of duty by not making the investigations re quired in said act themselves, but delegated this power to a firm of at torneys, under a contract which pro vided an exorbitant fee, and provid ing "The said parties of the first part In their negotiations of suits in behalf of the parties of the second part or the State of South Carolina, are hereby clothed with full power, subject alone to the approval of the attorney general of said State, to of fer to any of the parties involved, Immunity from prosecution upon such terms and conditions as in their judgment may be deemed to the best interest of the parties hereto and to the State of South Carolina"?which provision of said agreement was wholly without any authority of the commission to make, in violation ot the law and contrary to the policy and dignity of the State, placing the ?reat and delicate power of the State to give pardon and immunity to vlo fators of her laws in the hands of people not even citizens of the State, subject to the approval of an officer of the State In whom I fall to .ind any constitutional or statutory power vested. Much delay and loss, unaer provisions of this agreement, has oc curred; caused continued agitation among the people of the State, and has prevented them from doing their work "at the earliest date practica ble." Therefore, they have been negli gent in- the discharge of and shown plainly Incapacity for the duties re quired of them; and, taking into con sideration all of the circumstances and facts in regard to the delay and neglect in winding up the affairs as provided for in the acc, and in view of the fact that all moneys have not been turned over to the State treas urer, and this being further neglect of duty, and showing clearly Inca pacity and Indisposition to do the work . as the act provides, "at the 'earliest date practicable"?It being four (4) years since said act was ap proved?and for divers other good and sufficient reasons to me appear ing, and; Whereas, an act to further provide for winding up the affairs of the State dispensary, etc., approved the fourth day of March, A. D. 1909, pro vides, "That the .governor is hereby authorized and empowered to remove any member of the said commission whenever he may deem It for the public interest to do so," and I now deem it for the public interest to do so. Therefore, by virtue of the power vested in me by the constitution of the State of South Carolina and the laws, I do hereby remove W. J. Mur ray of Columbia, South Carolina, from the office or position of member of the State dispensary commission, or of the commission for the disposi tion of all property connected with the State dispensary and to wind up Us affairs, and I hereby revoke and declare null and void the commission of W. J. Murray, of Columbia. South Carolina?heretofore issued and un der which he is now acting and de clare any further act of his as mem ber of such commission to be null and void. A copy of the above was sent to each of the members of the commis sion by registered mail. Log Caugh Him. Caught under a huge falling log. Harry J. Hahn, vice president of the Big Stick Lumber company and a well known lumberman, was instant ly killed at the plant of the company at 'Montieth, Ga., Wednesday. He came to Savannah five years ago from Ohio. serum fluid for hundreds of thou sands of inoculations. There is a i;reat scarcity of carbolic acid and in two weeks the price has risen from 24 sen to 2 yen a pound (12 ? nt to ?1. Five hundred now cases a day in ome nf the larger Manchurian cities s a fair estimate of the plague vic ims at t;iis lime. WO CEiNTS PER COPY TRIED TO TRADE A dlanslayer's Brother Offered Votes to Get Sim a Fall Pardon OFFER WAS REJECTED J. W. Gallman, Who Was Sentenced to Fifteen Years Imprisonment for Killing a Man, Since Paroled by Gov. Blease, Tried to Purchase a Promise of Pardon. The State says last August or Sep tember, after the first State primary and before the sbcond, a ms.n whq supported Mr. FeatherstoDe for gov ernor told a member of the istaff of The* State that a man named Galli man had come to Columbia that day bearing a letter of introduction from a resident of Union. Mr. Featherstone was not in Co lumbia and Gallman called to see one of the men active in his cam paign, presenting the letter to him. The letter said, among other things, that Gallman, the bearer, had a brother in the penitentiary and that the bearer of the letter had large political influence in Union, Spar tanburg and Greenville counties. The bearer of the letter desired to know if Mr. Featherstone could be depended upon to pardon his brother in case of his election, provided tho Influence of the bearer were exerted for Mr. Featherstone's election. Mr. Featherstone's friend promptly told the bearer of the letter that no pledges or promises would be made. The Union man thereupon begged that the matter he taken under con sideration, and left, showing some anxiety to catch a train. Of course the matter ended there., so far as Mr. Featherstone and his friends were concerned. The man. who told The State man about the visit remarked at the time that in any event he expected to keep an ej*e on developments in the Gallman case. ?Yesterday the announcement was. published that the governor had pa followlng a conference with Senator in the State penitentiary, convicted in 1907 of manslaughter and serving: a sentence of 15 years, during good behavior. James W. Gallman was convicted in Union county In 1907 for killing Sims Gilmore at Jonesville, In Union county. He was sentenced to 15, years in the State penientiary. The: parole was announced by Gov. Blease roled James W. Gallman, a prisoner Townsend of Union. WILL BE GIVEN A CHANCE. Over Three Thousand Officers Waat to Serve in the South. With the District of Columbia?, Kentucky and Wyoming still to be heard from, 3,180 officers of the or ganized militia have accepted the war department's invitation to partic ipate in the present military opera tions in the Southern border States. The war department Thursday communicated by telephone with. } Gen. Bliss, at San Diego, asking lor i definite information as to how many militia officers can be accommodated by their commands at one time. As soon as this information is re ceived the department will call on. the adjutant general of the State? and territories to select the officers who will constitute the first body of i militia officers to be sent to tfeo j "front." : According to tentative plans for mulated by the department, 2b0 mi litia officers will be sent to Gen. [Carter and 30 io Gen. Bliss at a time for a maxi urn service of two weeks each. By rotating the men at. this ratio, ' it is expected that all of the Sta.te guard officers who have accepted the federal government's invitation will j be given an opportunity to participate , in the manoeuvres. ICY DEATH FOB FIFTY. Many Brownings in New Engiamd During Fast Winter. Half a hundred persons, a majori ty of them children under twelve years of age, went through thin ice to their death in New England and the maritime provinces of Canada during the winter just closing. There were several double drown ing. Many instances of heroic at tempts at rescue were recorded, some of which resulted fatally to the would-ljo rescuers. Josephine Pizroski, thirteen yes.rs old, looking from a window of her home while changing her wet stock ings, saw three other little girls fall through the ice in the Chicopeo riv er. In her bare feet the child scam pered over the snow and, plunging into the water, rescued two of the children. Her collie dog sought to save the third, but she struggled so hard that the dog was forced to leave her to die. Killed by Collision. At Gloucester, Mass.. four deaths resulted from a collision betv.een the power fishing vessel Hope and the fishing schooner, Hallle A. Ileckman, in Gloucester harbor Wednesday. The victims comprised the crew of the Hope. The power-boat sank al most immediately. The other vessel sustained no damage.