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<H &e Sraii Cirtfifia Baptist liiB in Gfcenwsod. BEGAN I AST TUESDAY Splendid Reports Are Read and Re ceived?-The Baptist Colleges and Other Institutions in This State in Good Condition?Will Meet at Ab beville Next Year. "The 91st session of the Baptist Convention of South Carolina will now come to order," were the words oC W. K. Kuiit, president, as he called the convention to order at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening in the First Baptist church of Greenwood. The opening hymn, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past," was sung by a large congregation and Dr. Prestridga fed the opening prayer. ' Two hundred delegates were en rolled up to Tuesday evening as was announced by the secretary of the convention. All of the available space in both the? main auditorium and Sunday school rooms was occu pied .by delegates and visitors from all over the State. Representatives were present from other States. Rev. Ruf us Ford was instructed to cast the ballot for W. H. Hunt as president of the convention. Or lando Sheppard, Esq., of Edgefleld. and Dr. Covlngton, of Florence, were elected first and second vice-presi dents. Rev. C. A. Jones, of Ben nettsville and Rev. A. B. Kennedy, of Columbia, were reelected pecretary and assistant secretary respectively. C. St Bobo, of Laurens, was re-elect ed treasurer, B. E. Geer, of Green ville, was re-elected auditor. Pastor G. N. Cowan,- of the First Baptist church of Greenwood, In a few well-chosen words, welcomed the convention to Greenwood. "If you don't get what you want, ask for it, and-then if you don't get It. de'the best you can." He said that Green . v.ood was proverbial tor her hospital ity and would do her part Mayor Kenneth Baker^also gave a warm welcome, speakinmin behalf of the city. "We bid you a hearty welcome to* all that we have. If the Baptists had done nothing else for Greenwood but ro"pT?ee the 'orphan age here .that is honor enough. We know no denominatlonallsm in the orphanage, and it thus helps us to be unselfish. .Rev. J. B. Greene, pastor of the Presbyterian church, spokn a mes sage of welcome ftr the other de nominations... He was glad to wel come, the Baptists to Greenwood be cause of what .they are. "You repre sent more than you are, the open Bi ble and the uplifted Chris*." Dr. Ramsey, president of Greenville Fe male College, very pleasantly replied for the (Baptists to these worls of welcome. The devotional services were con ducted by Rev. G. W. Bussey, Wed nesday morning, after which several new ministers who have recently come Into the State and visiting brethren and representatives were recognized by the president. Mission aries, E. L. Morgan, of North China, and E. T. Shuggs, of South China, brought, greetings from these fields. Among the visiting ministers present were: L. S. Barrett, Elloree; J. G. Wilson, E. V. Babb, Laurens: Rev. Mr. Burroughs, Central; R. H. Waugb, Brunson; Dr. R. J. Willing ham, Richmond; Dr. J. R. Sampey, of the Seminary. President Hunt announced Wed nesday morning, the appointment of the following committee to consider the sanitarium proposition presented by Rev. L. J. Brlstow, and so fav orably received by the convention: L. J. Brlstow, chairman; Dr. Z: T. Cody, superintendent; A. T. Jamison, Dr.. Howard Lee Jones, Geo. H. Ed wards, J. W. Quattlebaum, Rev. Geo. W. Wright. Mr. Bristow'a recommendation is that the denomination establish a sanitarium for aged, crippled and disabled persons deserving a place at the hands of the denomination. The proposal has been heartily received, and already four tentative bids for location have been made. These are accompanied by very 'substantial of fers In land, and money. The convention had a day of glad surprises Wednesday, the first and foremost being tho one occasioned by the report of the State Mission Board. Dr. W. T. Derieux had been ill but he came to the convention to j make the report which was so pleas-1 ing to the convention. This report was that the State Mission Board of the South Carolina Baptist State Con tion, for tho Tlrst time in ten years, had no deficit, and, more than that, it had a surplus of $1,200. The board had paid off an accumulated debt of approximately $1 0,000 and! in addition had met all its current expenses and had $1,200 surplus.) The amount represented in this re port was something over $40,000. I The report ol Rev. A. T. Jamison, superintendent of Connie Maxwell Orphanage, was also received with joy. The Orphanage is out of debt, and tho handsome new convention ball replacing the one which was burned while the convention was in session in Laurens last year has been completed, and is now occupied. In addition to this the large three-story Industrial building, made possible by the Terrlll Smith bequest of $30,000, TWO FREIGHT TRAINS AND AN EXPRESS IN A MIX CP. Several Men Are Killed and Many Others Are Hurt in an Unusual Railroad Accident. Four men were kihed and a score injured, a number of them seriously, Wednesday morning, in a wreck of two freights and an express train on the Pennsylvania railroad at Dev S 's Bend, one-half mile east of iMan or, Pa. The dead are: Engineer Frank Dailey of the ex {press train and three unidentified men, who were in the express cars. Fireman John Myers was perhaps fatally injured, while several other members of the three crews were ser iously hurt. Many others sustained bruiBes. Twenty-six out of twenty-seven valuable horses which were being carried in one of the express cars were killed. Debris wa3 scattered over the four main tracks and traffic was tied up for hours. A second extra freight which followed ran into . the rear of the first. The impact threw both trains from the track. Before flagmen could be hurried to give warning, a f-st Chicago train, carrying nothing but express, rushed along the westboui d passenger track Into the wreckage of the freights. The express train was thrown from the rails and went over a 20-foot em bankment. has been partially completed and part of it Is now being used by the printing department of the Orphan e.ge. The new sanitarium given to the Orphanage by a donor who will not allow h:.s name to be known is about completed now. The report was heard with great interest. The report of the Greenville Fe male College was read to the con vention, telling of the brilliant pros pects ahead for this institution The trustees in this report ask the con vention for permission to Inaugurate u campaign this year to raise a fund oft" $100,000. The college last year :ssued $75,000 in bonds, and these Mil be. retired torn the $100,000 fund if the campaign is launched and Is successful. - Tbc*-report-o* the Anderson Fe male College, the first annual report, was submitted by K. H. Watkins for the board of trustees. Work Is well under way on the elegant new build ing of this college. The board called attention of the convention to the) fact that,the new college will be a strictly modern and up-to-date plant. No detail las been neglected In providing for tha health and com fort of the studer '.s. The buildings will not be over two stories In height, obviating the necessity of eo much stair climbing. Details of construc tion were made showing how excel lent the new dormitories will be. The buildings will cost around $85,000, and they are to bo completed by next August. Fur.uan University made a mag nificent leport also. President Po teat *was present at the convention and was a central figure. This report showed tha1; Furman has the largest attendance this session in Us history, and also the largest income for cur rent support. TL old Furman men and Furman frlei is of the conven tion were delighted at tbe ehowlng Dr. C. C. Brown, who is insistent in season and out of season for the aged ministers' relief fund, was de lighted to report that board out of debt, but more funds are needed. The convention is taking deeper interest in this matter than ever before. The report of the statistical secre tary will show a total membership in this State of araund 140,00 Bap tists. Tho memt ership reported at the convention he;e 11 years ago was 97,000, so the gain has been most substantial and gratifying. The report on foreign missions was submitted and them three re turned missionaries, Rev. E. L. Mor gan, Rev. W. H. Danford and Rev. E. N. Snuggs spoke on this report, tell ing of condition in China, of the pro gress made and of the great needs there and in all the foreign fields. Mr. Snuggs had three of his children all born In China, on the rostrum and these sang sacred congs in Chi nese and recited. A new insight in Chinese life was had by this work. Dr. Willingham closed with a powerful plea for aid, both money and workers. At the close he asked for any who would go or who were willing to go out as missionaries to stand up and something like a dozen young men and women stood up in different ports of the building testifying their willingness to go. Dr Potent, president of Kurman called attention to the fact that nine out of the young men now at tbe seminary preparing to go ?s mission aries were Furman university men. He then introduced three young men, T. H. Watson, of the senior class, Mr. Moore of the junior and Mr. Green of tho freshman class at Fur man, who had desided to devote their lives In the foreign mission service. The young men made earnest talks on their purpose in life. Killed as Trains Crash. Sixteen persons are reported killed In a head-on collission between two Union Pacific passenger trains a few miles east of Ogden, Utah, Thursday. ? # I_ ORANGEBU WILL BUT TAFT Ua?ed States Senator Frank J. Can non Thinks Governor Wilson WOULD SWEEP COUNTRY Says the Entire West is for the Gov ernor of New Jersey, and that Only Folly or Perfidy Can Prevent His Nomination for President by Dem ocrats. In a commulcatlon to The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Col., former United States Senator Frank J. Can non,, in speaking of the Presidential election next year, says: I have traveled in ten States since leaving Colorado a month ago. The cry of the Progressives in these States?Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and even Mis souri?is for La Folette and Wilson. The Progressive Democrats waat the Republican party to nominate Rob ert M. La Follette for the Presidency; so that?if the Democratic party shall lose?the people will win. And Progressive Republicans; want the Democratic, party to nominate Woodrow Wilson; so that?if the Re publican party shall lose?still the people will win. You will observe that the Progressive Dove has at last learned wisdom from that wily old Serpent, the System; whose favorite plan has been to select both candi dates, subscribe to both campaign funds and then let the people, in deadly earnest, fight a useless bat tle. Personally, I fear that the Pro gressive Republicans cannot control their convention, although that fear grows less as one observes with what gigantic stature La Follette 13 now standing In the public gaze. And It| In possible that the popular feeling may find effective expression in the national convention. But It does not seem to be probable. The office-hold ing machine Is powerful, Insidious, and experienced. The Interests are desperately de termined to prevent a La Follette term in the White House; and their financial aid makes the machine al most resistless. Frankly,. I do not believe in this talk Of a fatal breach' between President Taft and Big Bus iness. On both sides It looks like a cal culated quarrel, a melodrama played for national entertainment. The need of Buch an affectation of battle is too obvious. Despite his earnest work, the people had no faith that President Taft would solve our prob lem and restore the government to the custody of the people. A play was needed. It is being played. But there remains Wilson, whose nomination by the Democratic con vention can only be prevented by in sanity or perfidy?or both. Other candidates are able; they have sin cere advocates. But the Progressive Republicans?as well as tne mass of Democrats?want Wilson nominated; and it is the Progressive Republicans whose votes will decide the Issue. If both La Follette and Wilson shall be nominated, the Progressives of the two parties will choose be tween them. If, as Is more likely, Taft shall be the Republican nomi nee. Progressives of his .party would turn almo3t en masse to Wil son?and Wilson is the only possible Democratic nominee to whom they would turn. They will not leave Taft in order to vote for any Democratic ally of the Interests. They will not desert their own party to chance any hu miliating experiment with the other. They want to preserve their self-re Bpect and at the same time perform a high public service. Negio Boy is He'd. At Charleston Alonzo Small, ten years old colored boy was committed to jail Thursday, charged with the death of Capt. T. H. Symriies, who was killed by a run-awa/ car of the Consolidated Company, the boy hav ing started the car, It is alleged out of the car shed. The boy is held on the statement of several other col ored children that he started the car. Very Big Tater for Tuft. Rev. J. B. Brazell, a Baptist min ister of Pooler, near Savannah, shipped to President Taft as a Christ mas gift, a giant sweet potato weighing 35 pounds ai.;l three feet, ten Inches in circumference, which he raised on his farm. The express charges were $3.25, but the parson did not seem to mind the expenses. Dies of Acute Pellagra. R. Marcus B.urriss, at one time Probate Judge of Anderson County, a prominent banker and farmer, died at his home in Anderson after suffer ing three days with an acute attack of pellagra. Mr. Burriss was one of the best known citizens of the county and during his lifetime amassed con siderable wealth. Schooner Is Abandoned. Tho five masted schooner Nathan iel T. Palmer, bound for Portland, Maine, from Norfolk, has been aban doned at sea one hundred miles east of Bermuda. The crew of the schoon jer was rescued by the steamer Lord Ormolde, which arrived at Baltimore i Wednesday. i RG, S..C, SATURDAY, DECE ANNUAL CORN SHOW OPENS NEXT MONDAY MORNING IN OITY OP COLUMBIA. The Great Agricultural Exposition Promises to Attract Large Crowds to the Capital City. The second South Atlantic States Corn exposition, the greatest agricul tural show to he held in the South, will open In Columbia Monday when farmers from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia will compete for prizes aggregating $8,000 In val ue for the best corn shown. The exhibit from the Clemson col lege agricultural experiment station arrived Thursday in a special car and 19 being set up in Craven hall. The exhibits from the experiment stations of Georgia and North Carolina will arrive later In the week. ?Ail of the officials of the exposi tion, including the corn juflges, sev eral being of the best known agricul turalists in the country will arrive in Columbia within a few days. A special feature of the exposition this year will be the corn judging school and the contest to be held be tween teams from Clemson college and the Agricultural and Mechanical college of North Carolina. Hand some trophy cups will be awarded to the winners of the contest. Special railroad rates have been secured from all points in the above named States and It is expected that several thousand farmers and bus iness men will attend. ", The State department of agricul ture will have an excellent exhibit of long staple cotton.- There will also be an exhibit from the labora tory of the feedstuffs department showing how corn is examined to determine food value, acidity, and protein. The exhibits are arriving daily and are being placed in Craven ball. An artist has been secured to decorate the hall for the show. Several hundred boys, members of the Boys' Corn clubs will attend the exposition. Friday of next week will be Boys' Corn club day. An address will bei delivered by Bradford Knapp, head of the United States farm demonstra tion work. There will be several hundred exhibits by the boys. A special car has ,be.en secured to bring the exhibits of the-Boys' Corn clubs down at the-Atlantic show to Columbia. There wiir be several hundred exhibits by the Georgia boys. WOMAN KILLED AT HOT SUPPER. Shot Aimed at Rival Kills the Cause of Trouble. Last Saturday night a negro wo man named Florilla Lawson was shot and killed at Sliver, ten miles west of Manning. According to reports a hot supper was in progress at the homo of Jim Conyers and Harrison Wells objected to Jim's dancing with Florilla without his-consent. An al tercation followed and Jim attempted to shoot Harrison, but missed him and killed Florilla. After doing the shooting Jim made his escape, and has not been heard of since, although Sheriff Gamble has endeavored to ap prehend him. It Is a singular coincidence that on the same date seven years ago a ne gro named Ed Mack shot and killed Dave Conyers at Silver, and -was af terwards convicted and banged for the crime. Subsequently Ed's widow married Jim Conyers, the man who hab not committed another homicide. Taken From Smoking Ruins. At Philadelphia .four bodies?one man, two women and a child?have been taken from the ruins of the 'Marc apartment house, which was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. They have not been identified, but it is believed they are the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Balfour, their child and Miss Baker, who wore first reported to have escaped. Ret They Will Not. John D. Rockefeller and Rev. Fred D. Gates, manager of Rockefeller's charities, were invited by Chairman Stanley of the House to tell the trust, investigating committee to appear be fore the committee next Monday, if they care to do so, to reply to the charges by the Merritt brothers of Minnesota. Lynching in Oklahoma. At Valdiant, Okla., a mob forced an entrance to the jail, secured a young negro, who refused to give his name, and hanged him to a tree at the Fair grounds, near the town. The negro was arrested on the charge of assaulting the twelve-year-old daugh ter of Loo Saunders. Physician Commits Suicide. At Philadelphia Dr. Sydney Buf fington, a nephew of Judge Bufling ton, of the United States court of appeals, and a member of a family prominent in the western section of the state, committed suicide Wed nesday by shooting himself through the head. Will Make a Goo<! One. Col. E. H. Aull was elected Monday by the State Board of Education to the position of superintendent of ?ducation of Newberry County, to suc ceed Mr. J. S. Wheeler, and will as sume his duties on the first of Jan uary. :MBER 9, 1911. SHOTJNCO?RT A Hau Trys lo Cheat the Gallows of (he Slayer of His Brother MURDERER IS HANGED It Was Thought at First That the Negro Had Again Escaped, But His Wound Was Slight, and the Execution of the Sentence Fol lowed Shortly Afterward. A special dispatch from Washing ton, Ga., to the Atlanta Constitution says the climax to the murder case of T. B. Walker, perhaps the most remarkable criminal case in many particulars ever tried in Georgia, came Wednesday at 11 o'clock when Walker was being resentenced to be hanged for the murder of Charles Hollenshead on the night of October 28. Judge B. F. Walker arrived Wed nesday morning at 10:30 o'clock and at once called a special session of the Wilkes superior court for the pur pose of passing a second death sen tence on the negro Walker, who was brought from Augusta by automo bile at daylight. After the sentence of the court had been pronounced and the time fixed for Walker's execution at 2 o'clock Wednesday, John C. Hollen shead, of Lincoln county, a brother of the murdered man, attempted to kill the negro prisoner before he could be taken back to his cell. ?? Only one shot was fired, and that took effect In the right cheek of the condemned negro. The court house was well filled when the shot was fired and consternation reigned for a time. J A hasty exit of a seore of citizens, together with a yell of "where is Walker," gave the Impression that the negro had made another sensa tional dash for liberty. The negro was only slightly wounded and was ruBhed from the side door to the Jail adjoining the court house by Sheriff Bobo, where his flesh wound was dressed by the county physician. Walker waB not sufficiently wound ed to Interfere with his legal execu tion, which occurred Wednesday af ternoon at 2 o'clock. His neck was broken and he was pronounced dead iL eight minutes. Hollenshead Buffered a physical and nervous collapse after the shoot ing in the court house and was taken from the building by several friends. He had since the death of his broth er advised that Walker be given a legal execution. During the last search of four days and nights, Hollenshead, who is a prominent planter of Lincoln coun ty, had joined the county officials in the hunt for Walker and was not in control of bis faculties. Walker killed C. 3. Holelnshead, a prominent man of affairs of Wilkes county, with a load of buckshot on the night of October 28 at riollens head's store near Washington. He was captured the sam? night about ten miles from Washington and was delivered to Deputy Sheriff John W. Calloway, from whom he was taken by a mob at midnight, bent on lynching. H? escaped from the mob as they attempted to take him from a buggy to string him up, and was recaptured November 2 in Lin coln county and was taken to Atlanta for safe keeping. On November 8.he was tried at the regular term of the Wilkes superior court and sentenced to be hanged on November 29. Following the first sentence Walk er was taken to Augusta for safe keeping and was being taken to Washington on the night of Novem ber 28 for execution the next day, when he escaped from Deputy Sheriff Florence at Barnett. On December 3 Walker was recap tured near Gibson, Ga., by ex-Sena tor H. A. Williams, who hastened with him to Augusta, where he re mained until Tuesday nignt, when ho was taken to Washington and paid the penalty of death for his crime, which ho confessed. BLEASE IN SENATE CHAM HER. Says He Would Be for Underwood for President. Governor Cole L RJease was in Washington Wednesday attending the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. He visited the Capitol and saw most of tho members of the South Carolina delegation and was introduced to a number of prominent Democratic leaders, including House Leader Underwood. He told Mr. Underwood that he would be for him for President if he thought a man from the South could be elected. Tho Senate was not In session, but the Governor took a look at the Senate chamber and remarked that he would have n seat In It. He went to Balti more Thursday to attend the irriga j tion conference. Two Fell to Their Death. A double aviation fatality occurred at Filey, near Scarborough, York shire, England, Wednesday morning. Hubert Oxley, an aviator, was killed instantly and his passenger, Robert Weiss, sustained Injuries from which he died soon afterwards. YOUNG MAN RUNS AWAY UNION POMCEMAN DISAPPEARS WITH CITY'S CASH. Left His Young Wife and Two Little Children to Fight It Out AU Alone. A special to the Columbia Record from Union says Sergeant C. B. Gregory of the police force of that city, has left for parts unknown, and. It is alleged, since his disappearance it has been discovered that the city is short of $403, which he had col lected for fines and $235, which was the net amount the police depart ment received from the carnival held here recently, and $17, an overdraft on a bank. It ueems that Gregory disappeared last Thursday night or Friday, the first Inti nation that he had gone be ing a noto, which his wife found un der his pillow Friday morning. This note reads: "Am leaving home; will take care of you and babies. You will hear from me soon. Yours, C." The matter was kept quiet for a while, pending an Investigation, but the newsfsoon leaked out. Chief of Police Evans was very busy Monday with others checking over the police accounts and it is Chief of Police EvanB' statement that the amount short in all is $665. Gregory, it Is alleged, signed his own name and that of H. H. Hicks, who wa3 one of the custodians of the carnival fund, to the check. Soon after Gregory's disappear ance, Chief of Police Evans went iu search of him, but returned without having located him. It Is understood that there is an effort on foot to make up the amount that Gregory took, but Mayor Duncan stated that the law would have to take its course, although as yet a warrant has not been issued. Gregory is a man about 25 years old, rather tall and of a nice appear ance. He leaves a wife and two chil dren. It is reported that he had been drinking rather heavily lately* CHARGED WITH MURDER. Colored Elevator Man Taken Into , Custody and Held. For the murder of Isaac S Vogel, a wealthy dealer In gems, In New York, Josepl; RoS^siJi.j, a uegro eiova tor man, was held without bail by the coroner Wednesday night, upon charges made by detectives who questioned him all afternoon. Rob erts asserts his innocence, but ad mits, the police say, the ownership cf yellow shoes, spattered with blood, found not far from the body, a ring and fountain pen belonging formerly to the dead man. iRoberts explains the blood on the shoes by saying that he stepped in the pool around the dead man's head; declares he bought the ring two weeks ago, and that he picked up the pen from the floor early Wed nesday. The thieves lifted from tho dead man's body gems valued at $10,000.' Vogel's watch was found later in the basement. It bore finger prints, through which the police hope to convict the murderer. THREE BURNED TO DEATH. Outrage in Remote Rural Commun ity in Tennessee. Two negroes and one young ne gress were burned to death by a mob of white land tenants, who ob ject to th? occupancy of land by col ored people, near Savannah, Tenn., Wednesday, according to meagre re ports received at that place Wednes day. The lynching Is said to have oc curred ten miles from Clifton, Tenn., In the vicinity of Bob's Landing. Clifton is about 100 miles east of Memphis. It is a few miles north of Shlloh national military park. Three negroes were traveling to a gin, with a load of seed cotton. They were waylaid, held up and tied to the wagon load of cotton, It is said, and the mob, after building a fire be neath the wagon, stood guard until the wagon was consumed. The ne groes' team consisted of two mules. One animal was permitted to burn to death, according to tho reports re ceived at Savannah, while the other was shot, to end its misery. Man Found in the Woods. John Neal. a mill hand of Rock Hill, who was found helpless and al most unconscious in the woods near the (Manchester Mill Thursday and was taken to the Fennell Infirmary, is still in a precarious condition. It is said that two white men were .Veal's assailants and that tliey left the country at onco. Thieves Steal an Auto. W. A. Putnam, a prominent citizen of Barksdale. Greenwood County, had bis automobile stolen Saturday night. The car was a Ford Model T, five pas senger, No. 41,964, body black, fully equipped. It is thought that the car went toward Columbia as it was traced as far as Laurens. Throe Killed in Wreck. At Kent, Ohio, three were killed and four injured in a collision be tween two Erie railroad freight trains in the fog. The dead are: Conduc tors William Seardon, Vance Keller and Engineer McCleskie. i I _t_ TWO CENTS PER COPY. CALL ON TAFT -_ i ? I Senator Mann Visits the Presided it Ike White House WAS A BUSINESS CA1L Went to Beek Aid in Search fo? Lieut Gibbcs Lykei, Who Has Been Missing Since August and to Put in n Good Word for Surgeon Rupert Blue. A special dispatch from Washing ton to The News and Courier sayfl' Senator Tillman called on President Taft on Wednesday to ask aid of they* Government in searching for Second Lieutenant Gibbes Lykes, of the 9th cavalry, U. S. A. Lieut, Lykes, who is from Richland County, South Caro lina. He has been missing since] the last week in August, when he obtained leave of absence from Fort S. D. A. Russell, in Kansas. He was last heard from in St. Paul, Minn., al though he told the army authorities that he was going to see his parents in South Carolina. Lieut. Lykes was appointed to WeBt Point by Senator Tillman and had an excellent record during his four years of service in the army up to tho time of hl3 disappearance. The President dictated, a letter td the Secretary of War in regard to the effort to aid in the search. Be cause of restrictions placed by Con gress on the use of the secret service in Mr. Roosevelt's day, this arm can not be employed in looking for Lieut. Lykes. Senator Tillman is 8per daily concerned on account of the grief of the missing officer's parents, who fear that their son has com mitted Buicide. ' The South Carolina Senator also spoke to the President in support of the suggestion that Surgeon Rupert Blue .be appointed the successor of the late Surgeon General Wyma.n as the head of public health and marine hospitals service. Mr:'Taft asked if Dr. Blue was a South Carolinian, and when answered In the afflrmaV tive, jocularly remarked that this fact would not be held a gainst the doctor. Mr. Taft greeted Senator Tillman affectionately and undertook to twit him upon the alleged differences'In, the Democratic party, but the Senator turned the joke very readily' by re* ferring to the demoralized condition of Mr. Taft's own organization. An incident of the Senator's visit to the White House was his refusal to pay what he considered exorbitant hack fare. v ? : . As he got out of his'cab he handed the driver a quarter. "Fifty cents, sir," said the man. : "Not a bit of It," replied the Sen ator, "take this quarter. It's enough and too much." "B.ut the rates have gone up," per sisted the cabby. ;"Won't pay it," declared Stator Tillman, and walked into the Execu tive offices. THEY STOLE AN AUTO. The Sad Story of Three Wild, Way ward Young Men. Three to five months in prison for Robert R. Taft, .ten months in Jail for Raymond Manson and a grave In a lonely country cemetery, seven mileB from Buchanan, Va., for Rich ard Clark is the teiminatlon for an escapade of three Springfield, Mass., youths, which began SeptemDer 22 with th.e theft of a $4,000 automo bile belonging to Geo. L. Bidwell of Hartford, Conn. The boys drove the machine to Virginia, and when near Buchanan met with an accident In which the car was overturned and Clark was killed. He v?b nurled In a small cemetery near the scene. The other two were subsequent:}- arrested and tried. Wednesday the sentences were imposed. Taft is 19 years old and Manson is 17. SEARCH FOR DEAD BODIES. Four Workmen Killed lu Collapse of Concrete Building. At Indianapolis under the glare of searchlights police and firemen Wed nesday night sought todies of four persons caught in the wreckage of a three-story concrete building which collapsed Wednesday at noon, kill ing four workmen and injuring twen ty-one. The contractor believes ow ing to the recent cold weather the concrete had not set properly. The building collapsed at the noon lunch hour, when most of the work men were not in the structure. Most of those caught in the debris were seated about the building eating their lunches. Two Trainmen Killed. Two trainmen wore killed and nearly a score of persons were in injured, two seriously Wednesday af ternoon, when Southern railway pas senger train No. IG, running between Atlanta and Brunswick, was derailed near Helena, Ga. Litt?c Boy Fatally Burned. || The four-year-old son of J. W. Kendrick of Taylors Station, Green ville County, died Thursday night from burns received the day before when his clothing caught while he was standing in front of the are.