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E L t R a1 ti s. ESTABLISHED 1865" -7EWBERRY-, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUA\RY. -5 1904. TWICE A WEEK, S1.50 A YEAR TillS WEEK'S WORK Of GENERAL ASSEMBLY. THE FERTILIER TAX AND THE ROAD LAW DISCUSSED BY THE HOUSE. Disposition of The Proposed Labor Meas ures-Four-year Terms of Represen tatives Diussed. Columbia, Febrnary 4.-The general assembly has devoted a great deal of its time this week to uncontested matters and in this way a number of measures of a more or less local nature have been pushed through each iouse. Only two weeks of the session re main after the present week and the house has adopted a resolution introduced by Mr. Kibler that no new bills be presented or received. except through committees, after Saturday. The proposed reduction of the privilege tax, which goes to the support of tlemson college, was discussed at length in the house on Tuesday. By a vote of 45 to 53 the house refused to strike out the en acting words of the bill and on ac count of the absence of a number of members the debate was ad journed. THE ROAD LAW. There was also a good deal of discussion on the bill to Iegulate the commutation tax. Mr. Pollock proposed an amendment requiring road work to begin at 2I instead of x8. The house finally disposed of the matter at the night session on Tuesday night by fixing the service for road duty at not less that two nor more than eight days and the age limit at iS to 50 years.' Min isters, school trustees aud teachers, students,. etc., are exempted from the provisions of the bill. TEN-HGUR LAW KILLED.% By the decisive vote of 69 to 26 the house on Tuesday night killed Mr. Toole's ten-hour labor bill. There was a long debate on the measure. THE LATE MR MC'MASTER. On Wednesday a good portion of the session was devoted to memorial exercises in honor of the late John McMaster, who was a member of the house from Richland county. The memorial exercises were held at noon, the senate attending in the hall of the house. NO LIMIT TO APPROPRIATIONS. By a decisive vote Mr. Kibler's bill to fix the appropriations~ for the State colleges, except Clemson, was continued, which means its defeat Mr. Kibler proposed to allow the South Carolina college $25,ooo, the Citadel $25,000 and Winthrop $35,0o0. He wanted to fix an amount each year and avoid the an ual wrangle. TERMS OF MEMBERS. The matter of submitting to the people an amendment to the con stitution, along with the biennial sessions amendment, providing for the election of members of the.house for terms of four years, came up on Wednesday. A yea and nay vote was taken on the .measure, result ing 78 to 26 in its favor. 83 votes, the constitutionel two-thirds, were necessary for the passage of the bill, and consequently it failed. This senot mean, however, that it is dead and it will likely come up again at the session today. BICYCLES AND AUTOMOBILES. The house passed a bill provid ing that any person riding a bicycle or automobile on the public high ways beyond the corporate limits of a town or city, and meeting any person riding on horseback oi in a buggy, must dismount from the bicycle or automobile within not less than twenty-five yards and re main so dismounted until the horse or vehicle has passed. The bill, it was stated by its advocates, was aimed at the reckless riding of bi cycl by negroes. IN THE SENATE. The senate has killed the bill providing for the payment of travel ing expenses of circuit judges and stenographers and has amended the bill to indrease salorie - of supreme court justices to $3,ooo each and opposition to the bill has been with-. drawn. The senate discussed at length on Tuesday the bill to prevent treat ing on election days but no action was taken. OnWednesday the senate held two sessions, one at night. Only local and uncontested measures were taken up. THE LABOR BILLS. A number of cotton mill men ap peared before the senate committee on commerce and manufactures on Wednesday afternoon in opposition to the Marshall bill to apply the remedies of the "fellow-servant" law to cotton mill employes. The mill men declared that it would i simply be sayitg to their em ployes, to go ahead and have all the accidents they wanted and the corporations would pay for them It would relieve the operativ-s of aany responsiblity. The committee decided to make an unfavorable re port on the bill. A number of mill men also ap peared before the house committee on commerce and manufactures in opposition to the bill to prevent strikes and lock-outs. It was de cided by the committee to report th, bill favorably. Peak News. Lexington Dispatch, 3d. Miss Elizabeth Dominick went Ito her home in Newberry last Friday and spent a few days. . Mr. George W. Summer, a prom Iinent merchant of Newberry and president of the Mollohon cotton mill was in town last week. Prof. W. K. Sligh, of Newberry, was in Peak last Wednesday on business. Mr. Milton Wilson went to New berry on Thursday for a short stay. Fred H. Dominick, Esq., of Newberry, was in town last Friday enroute to Columbia. gaeaperformance before a large galr ada sprinkling in the par quet in the opera house Wednesday night. The show was simply noth ing. A concert was given after the show, 25 cents admission being charged to the concert. ThM con cert was nothing, too, the v.hole performance being two iiothir.gs,. which added together don't make anything. $5,000 BUILDING FOR PROSPERITY'S SCHOOL UNDERSTOOD COMMITTEE IS READY TO RECOMMEND THAT AMOUM. But One Other Question on Which the Peo ple Can Now Disagree. And That Is The Location. Prosperity February. 4.-The one object of thought that domi nates all others in this immediate community is the school building. The committee (f twelve are still having conferences and it is gener ally understood now that this com. mittee is ready to recommend a bond issue for $5.ooo. So it seems now that this question of para mount consideration will be arranged to the satisfaction of all. It appears now there is but one other question on which our people could disagree-the location. Al ready this discussion .has begun. We believe that with the general good feeling predominant towards this enterprise. when the question of location is reached its settlement will be accomplished with the same regard for the interests of all. Another meeting of citizens has been called for tonight at 8 o'clock to hear a further report from he committee. Dr. B. T. Wise, of Plains, Ga., in company with Mr. Ralph Wise, stopped over here this week on their way to Newberry on some very important and pleasant busi ness, especially to the latter. Mr. A. B. Wise accompanied them from this point. Mr. and Mrs. -S. F. Wheeler, pro prietor of tne Columbia hotel, spent one day recently with his brother, Dr. J. S. Wheeler. Miss Bettie Werts. of Saluda, is with Miss Lola Bedenbaugh. Miss Lucille Wise, of Saluda, is visiting relatives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise are off on a trip to Charleston. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed Outside the State. Senator Hanna is sick in Wash ington, having'been seized with a congestive chill. King Edward, ofEngland, opened the British Parliament on Tuesday with a great deal of ceremony. In his speech he touched upon the far Eastern situation, expressing a hope for a peaceful solution of existing troubles. World's records for a mile by steam and electric automobiles were broken in Ormuond, Fla., this week when a steamer covered a mile in 55 2.5 seconds and an electric ma chine made a mile in i .oo 3-5 It hais been announced that' Thomas Nelson Page, the well known Southern author? will, in the near future, establish a techni cal school in Hanover county, Va., the county of his birth. The plan is to teach young men and girls the different manual callings, such as carpentering, mechanics, cooking, sewing, etc. The city council of Roanoke, Va., has offered areward of $i,ooo for the capture of the negro who last Saturday assaulted Mrs. George J. Shields and her little daughter with a raor and hatchet in their home and left them for dead. Citizenm have added $250 to this amount and it will be increased by the State. John Eastland, a wealthy p!anter of Dodsville, Miss,, and a negrc tenant on his place were killed by another negro in a shooting scrape. Tbe negro escaped but when the posse arrived on the place there was more* shooting and another negro was killed. There will prob ably be a lynching. Hon. Win. C. Whitney, formet secretary of the navy, died at hiE home on Fifth avenue, in New York, on Tuesday afternoon. He was being prepared for a second operation for appendicitis. Mr. Whitney spent a great deal of his time during the winter in Aiken' in this State. having left there only two weeks ago for one of his flying trips to New York His death is a sad blow to Aiken, in whose wel fare he had takien a great interest during the past several years. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items Of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. $6,ooo of the $ioo,ooo wanted for the college proposed to be estab lished by the Anderson chamber of commerce has already been sub scribed by six gentlemen of Ander son, provided the full amount o $ioo,ooo could be raised It is reported from Washington that Columbia is have the only complete weather bureau observa tory in the State. The building I will cost between $io,ooo and $r5, iooo. Tbe executive committee of the State Agricultural society met iE Columbia on Wednesday night and decided to hold the next State fai on the new grounds at the State farm in the Southern suburbs ol the city. Patsy Eligan, a negro woman i Colleton county, went to the bed oi her daughter and choked her tc death one night last week. She has been committed to jail. She denies killing her daughter but says she killed the devil and did so at the command of Christ. She is nc doubt crazy. The daughter wa. about 17 years of age. R. , Thornton, a white man from one of the cotton mills near Anderson, was killed on Wednes day morning by being thrown from a wagon and the wheels passing over his body. He was moving to the country to farm and was on the wagon alone. It is reported from Bennettsville that for several days officers and other indignant citixens have been > uring that section in search of .Johnson, who is wanted for criminally assaulting the ro-year old daughter of John Hooks at Mc Col. The crime was committed on January 21, but the girl did not make it known till last Saturday, when she told a girl associate whc was working in the Marie cottor mill with her. The news soot reached her father and he found that she had been seriously injured. She said she had not revealed hei condition sooner because the negrc had threatened to kill her if she told. If you wai2t to rent a house ai WAR CLOUD LOWERS IN THE FAR EAST STORMY NEWS COMES FROM THE CEN TRE OF OPERATIONS. If Russia's Answer Is Delayed Many Days Longer Japan Will Issue U timatum. Tokio, February 3--A specially called conference of the cabinet, elder statesmen and military and naval chiefs, was held to-day at the residence of Premier Katsura. The meeting is believed to have been of much importance, though no details of the discussion have .been given the public. Possibly it foreshadows energetic action on account of Rus sian procrastination. Although the Governments con tinue reticent, it is manifest that the situation is of the gravest, and that the crisis is near at hand. The time in which the Russian -reply will continue to be a factor in the situation is narrowing. The patience of the Government is becoming exhausted, and if the expected answer is delayed many days longer, the issuance of an ulti mation by Japan will become inevi table. The Japanese feel that the exist ing conditions have entitled them to a more prompt reply and are bound to infer that the St. Peters burg Government is determined not to yield, but is utilizing the time to advance its-preperations for war. PREPARATIONS AT PORT ARTHUR Port Arthur, February 3.-In response to the Japanese war meas ures important naval and military movements have been effected here. SITUATION IN ST. PETERSBURG. St. Petersburg, February 3 Ths statement printed abroad that the Russian note is held back while M. Lurino, the Japanese minister, communicates its substance to his Government is untrue. The Associated Press is semi officially assured that the Ru.sian response will not be sent before February 5 at the earliest. The tension unquestionably is increasing and the Bourse' shows a nervous feeling, but beyond the de cided Russian military activity there is little definite news. WARLIKE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA. London, February 3.-A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from St. Petersburg, dated yester day, and forwarded by way of fron tier, says the Russian general staff has given Viceroy Alexieff author ity to declare war and open hostili ties on his own responsibility if circumstan ces render it necessary. Newberrian Entertained. Mr. and Mrs. Giles M. Berry en tertained last evening in honor of their guest, Miss Schumpert, of Newberry, S. C., and the guest of Mrs. Porter Fleming, Miss Cooper, of Indianapolis. The rooms were charmingly and artistically dres.ed with quantities of white carnaticns and green ferns and smilax. There wer sixteen tables of four-handed euchre. The guests were among the young and unmarried social set. -Augusta Chronicle, 2d. - Notice. The WV. F. M. S. of the Central Methodist Church will meet at Mrs. Cavenaugh's residence next monday P. M. at 3.30 o'clock. Mrs. E Cavenaugh, Pres. AMiss Edith Henderson, Sec.