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\ * ' - ' / ;?y\ . * ' Ar^Aj'.-V ||f)C ||eraiD and ||cm . VOLXLIV NO 100 NEWBERRY. 8. 0., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1007. TWICE A WEEK;. $1.50 A YEAR , R. / SIMPSON TRANSFERRED 1 TO ASHEVILLE DIVISION I Oapt. Honry A. Williams' Division I Has Been Enlarged'?General I Shake-up in this District. HSR. Columbia Stnte, 14th. 'Willi Tlvo rumors of changes affecting ' 'l(i superintendents of the Columbia MS Spartanburg; divisions of the wisf Sout,lorn rnilway, were yesterday confirmed by an order from Mr.'-W. ?| N. Foreaere, the general superintendI cnt of the Southern, instructing i Siipt. R. E. Simpson of the Spartanburg disi vision to report for duty al Asheville t-o take charge of thai division, and Supt'. llenry A. Williams of the Columbia division was instructed to take charge of the FpnV'tanburg division, consolidating that with the Columbia division. |Uf This means a promotion for 'oacli of these officials, which will be very gratifying news to their many friends in Columbia and throughout the state, although Supt. Simpson's removal from Columbia will be a matter of general regret, jpk) It is rumored that other changes Bp will be announced today or tomorrow, one of the rumors being that fMtr. (jco. \V. Bishop, trainmastdr of the Spartanburg division, will be assigned to other duties,-and another is to the effect that Mr. W. W. .Barber, general yardmastcr of the Southern at Columbia- will accompany Mr. Simpson to Asheville and will be promoted to trainmaster of that division. Mr. Bishop was special iaw agent for years of the Columbia division before the formation of the Spartanburg division. Mr. W. N. Foreaere, general superintendent of the eastern division of the Southern, is expected to arrive 5n the city this morning to consult with Supt. Williams about the other changes which this new order makes necessary. Trouble in Arhoville. 'The changes announced in the order issued yesterday are caused by thw recent dismissal of the head officials of the Asheville division. ?upt. Ramseur, Headmaster Ramsey and Trainmaster Fortune of the Ashevilie division wore forced to resign. Their resignations were followed by the resignation of the chief dispatcher and other minor officials. The action of the Southern in forcing these men out. aroused a strong protest from many of the business men of Asheville and a petition, numerously sign id, has bean forwarded to President Finlcy, asking that these parties be given a hearing 011 the charges which were preferred against them. The wording of the following petition indicates that those charges were of a serious character: "Mr. W. W. Fin ley, President \ Southern Railway Company, Washington, B. C. i "Bear Sir: You are doubtless aware of the recent action of the ^Southern railway resulting in the <lUsmissal of Supt. Ramseur, Roadmaster Ramsey and Trainmaster Postunc of the Asheville division. 'lis is generally understood by the Asheville public that there has been no hearing given these gentlemen, and 110 opportunity of making a proper defense. We believe that the charges we have heard in connection with this matter arc untrue; and j that, judging by the character of | these gentlemen, nn injustice has been ? done through lack of full informa? tion. Relying on your sense of justice and fairness, we request you to i make a personal investigation at II once, so that there will be no possiB bility that any injustice be done HS these gentlemen." |H The following; telegram from Oeneral Manager Ackert, in reply to a l&l telegram from Mayor Campbell of |1& Asheville, indicates that the Soutlipjjjgl (>1'n win stand pat in its action: lira Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 11. John A. Campbell, Mayor, Asheville, jgjaHt T have telegram addressed to Mr, jrg|ffi Finlcy in regard to petitions being sent in from Asheville relative to l <?'ian"e *n division officials at that gflllBl point. B is not my desire to do any Xhb|^K injustice to any one, but conditions are such on the Ashevillo division 1 . that I feel it my duty to make the changes decided upon. I can assure 1 t you it is done only wit-h a view of perforn'.ng my duty to the Southern railway. ^ C. II. Ackert. Superintendent Williams is a na- ( f tive of South Carolina, his birthl place being Williamston, Anderson I s county. lie began his railroad car- | ' Per when a mere lad. as brakeman '( 011 the Columbia & Greenville rail- v road, now Southern. llis father, c Capi. Newt. Williams, has been a o conductor for years. In time Henry I Williams was promoted to conductor, i then yardmaster and trainmaster. In j .1805 he went with the P. C. & P. t (now Seaboard Air Line,) as train- 1; master of the lines between Colum- I bia and Jacksonville. After two 1; years he returned to the employ of s i the Southern, as trainmaster of the ? - North Carolina division, with head- 1 quarters at- Durham, N. C. After a | year lie was transferred to Greens- ?' ; boro, N. ., as trainmaster of the I . main line between Spencer, N.. C., ( and Monroe, Ya. lie held this posi- c ; lion about four years, when lie was h promoted to the position of superin- tendent ol the Norfolk division, s which included the lines from Norfolk to Danvilie and from Norfolk a lo Selma, N. C., with headquarters f at Norfolk. After a couple of years ( he was transferred to Columbia and 1' put in charge of the lines now in tfTe j Columbia and Spartanburg divisions. ( Last year, when the territory cover- u e;l by the Columbia division was di- o vided, Mr. li. E. Simpson was put in f charge of the new Spartanburg di- t vision, Capt. Williams remaining in ;i charge of the lines under the Co- o lumbia division. n The change made yesterday puts v iMr. Williams again in charge of the (' territory which he had under his su- s pervasion prior to the change, of last c year which means considerably more p work for him and his office force. s Mr. R. E. Simpson got his first ex- c perience in railroading on the West- ti era North Carolina railroad, now the s Southern, starting in tlie roadway s department in a minor position. lie r worke.l up rapidly, becoming train- o master at Aslveville. He came to Co- 11 lumbia last year, when tli? Spartan- u burg division was created, as super- p intendent of this division. e Mr. Sim-j)Son is a native of North e Carolina and by the new order re- a turns to the lines on which he start- s ed as a section hand not many years ti ago. As division superintendent. h'< n will liave^ charge of the lines from Salisbury, N. C., to Aslveville, Ashe- T ville to Spartanburg and branch ii lines. c Mr. Simpson will leave Columbia a this morning for Asheville, but will not move his family for several w weeks, probably not until after the holidays. He said last night that while he appreciated the promotion, h he regretted very much that he had I lo leave Columbia. He made many c friends during his stay here and the ? best wishes of all these will follow ?' him in his new field of labor. d Mr. Simpson will have under his 1' control the following lines, in addi- H tion to the terminals: r Miles 1J 'Salisbury to Asheville .141 w Asheville lo Spartanburg .. . . 70 fi Asheville to Murphy 123 TIendersonville to Toxaway . . 42 n tl Total 376 s By coin billing t'e Columbia and Spartanburg divisions Superintendcut Williams is put in charge of 0 about 700 miles of road, including terminals, as follows: t Miles >' Charlotte to Hardeeville .. .. 230 1 Columbia lo Augusta 82 ICdgefield-Aiken branch 24 '( Balesluirg-PeiTy branch 20 f Total Columbia division . . . . 371 ? Miles il 1 Columbia to Spartanburg .... 04 e Columbia to Greenvilie 145 o Hodgcs-Abheville branch . . . . 12 ' ' Lockhart branch .13 Total Spartanburg division . . 2fi4 ' Grand total both divisiions, not v ; including terminals, G35 miles. C t PEDDY AGAINST OORTELYOU. iitchcock and Capers May Lose Their Jobs?Won't Work For Bill Taft. A special from Washington lo the Columbia State says: The deep lni;l "conspiracy" of ''rank II .Hitchcock, first assistant >ostmaster g?inernj, and John G. Papers, commissioner of internal reen lie, who have formed the Soul lira Republican muckamueks into a oalition for the nomination, not' of ioosevelt, but of Cortelyon, is the nost interesting aftermath of the iresident's great second rcnuneiaion. And Washington awaits with >oth ears trained and one foot- susxmded to hoar the axe fail upon tlie lenighted heads of the throe conpirators. For the Great Silent dan himself, who is said to have laid the foundations of the deep >lot, it indeed lie lias not directed very move, is involved now with his wo ardent admirers, Hitchcock and apers. Capet's will not today disuss the report that his resignation, iy request, is now pending, pendant -indeed, between the pen and the word. It is said here, though, on tire best uthority that Capers, when sent or by the president some time ago, old the big chief in so many plain /.lglish words with a few others a row n in that if lie was expected in he ofiice of commissioner of interial revenue to organize the federal llice holders in his division for Taft lien he would resign his ofiice. If liis was a biuff the president did ot call it; he preferred to play the ame another way. Mr. Capers lakes 110 denial that with Rooseelt now out of the race ho is for Jortelyou, though he declares tlint 0 far as his part in forming the oalition is concerned, it was for the resident's nomination. This is now criouslv doubted hereabouts, beause of the smoking out of Mr. Corelyou's candidacy with various moke producing circumstances and ubstances, and for the additional eason that it is known so well what bligations Mr. Capers is under to lie ambitious secretary of the treasry, if for nothing else than for'his iresent job. T( is also rememberd that Mr. Capers was once relievd of a goodly position as district ttorney of South Carolina by this ame Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Hitchcock, im, owes his all to Cortelyon, and lighty little to Roosevelt. Neither of them owes anything to 'aft. As for paying anything; or givng anything in the form of in fiance, promotion or manipulation to ny leader high or iow without owig it or expecting pay for it after'ards these two are not celebrated or that kind of politics. So the conspiracy is thoroughly elieved in by many in Washington, t might be called a 5,000,000-vote onspiracv as a sort of counterpart, f tire $5,000,000 conspiracy, though 1 truth ir seems to have 11101*0 founation. Drastic measures are contemplated, it is said, but lots of lung's have been said hereabouts in eeent days and enterprises of great ith and moment are sicklied o'er 'ith the pale cast of the possibility f making matters worse. And matters would cortainly be lade worse should three heads like liese fall in a bunch. They would lie horn of their Irength which lies in lie main in their dominance over the ederal office holders under them, specially those in the south, which ave already been organized with lie magic name of Roosevelt' as the harm. lint, on the oilier hand, here would be the effects of so gr.'at row, and the necessity, if (lie pivslent would make things any better or his protege, Mr. Taft, of his aploinling men to these offices who ,'otild. with the presidential aulhorIy, organize the federal ofTiec holdi's for Taft. Could the president ( lite United States afford to do I)at ? Question for debate: Resolved, 'lint Augusta, and not Savannah, .'ill be the blind tiger metropolis of leo?":'ia.?News and Courier. TILLMAN PRIMED. Will Lay Bare Finacaiial Situation 1 in Senate?Refuses to bo Held Off. A special from Washington to the News and Courier under date of Do- '] comber lo says: Senator Tillman ? will, i[ nothing prevents, throw some hot. shot into the Administration to- ^ morrow when lie takes the floor to '> speak on his resolution oal 1 iiitr for 0 information relative to the issuing " of clearing ly?use certificates and a the management of national banks. ' 1* or several days he has been col- a lecting data to use tomorrow and is (> now prepared to make some stinging comments on the financial affairs Si of the government as conducted by the presen't Administration. C He is of the opinion that the issues of clearing house certificates by ^ slate institutions may be subject to ? the 10 per cent lax imposed by Federal statutes upon currency issues by v stale banks, and is not so sure that ? national banks are not exceeding the " rights conferred by their charters u when they issue cul'raney through 'l the clearing house associations. Il Incidentally, the Senator will dis- t< cuss the alleged mismanagement of.'1 the Mercantile National Hank, of!'1 Xew ork, and pay his compliments J(> to John li. Walsh, lie is of the opin-l^' ion that there has been inexcusable In delay in bringing Walsh to trial. , " The Senator was in commuuicn- " lion yesterday with the comptroller ^ of the currency and the United Slates attorney of New York regarding b tlie conditions disclosed by the fail- ti ure of the lleinze banks. si There has been a determined ef- 0 fort on the part of Republicans in ithe senate to choke off the Tillman 1 resolution "for the good of the fin- a ancial world and to prevent another t' flurry," as stated bv Senator Aid- t rich. The real reason is that, as on <> former occasions, Lbe Administra- 'I >tition is seriously guarding its ae- tl tions for political , reasons. Just' ,i' now, especially Senator Aldrich and other Republican senators, fear an attack on the Administration from fl Tiilman and would cheerfully shelve ^ an investigation and probable ex- c posure of bad financiering at this 't time. t Senator Tillman is backed by Sen- I ators Culberson, of Texas, and Clay, a of Georgia, and shows no signs of '' letting up in his determination to ( demonstrate that in many respects c the financing of the government as .1 now carried on is radically wrong. I Besides paying his respects to Walsh a and other bank wreckers he is pre- a pared to handle Secretary Cortelyou ? without gloves. t' Tomorrow's work in the senate, if h 'Tillman gets the fioor, will be deeid- 0 edly of a sensational nature and will t.i probably give the financiers of th'3 n country something interesting to fi- X i>ure on. ji As already stated in this corrcs- <> pondence Senat'or Tillman proposes r to go to the. very bottom of this mat- P' ter regardless of what the result c may be for the present- to the business world, believing in the doctrine flint a sick patient sometimes needs heroic treatment to bring about an p ultimate recovery. ENTRY FOR THE SENATE. p Hon. Daniel S. Henderson, of Aik- j en, Announces His Candidacy. -i 4* Aiken, December 15.?The lion. Daniel S. Henderson has announced <> > that he will be a candidate in the ' I stale Democratic primary for United <* J State Senator in 1008. Mr. 1 lender- <' | son is so well known throughout the I I stale that il seems hardly necessary j I J to say anything about him. lie is I j one of the leading lawyers of South . 'Carolina, and has always been ac- t j live in public affairs, lie wan n can- I i didate for I'nitcd St.nfes senator in i h 1002 when, it will bo remembered, ! ii j the aggregate votes received by the ' six candidates were not very widely r separated in the first primary, Senator Latimer and ICx-Covernor John Clary Evans leading, and the other i I four candidates following, all with t j laigc support. e SHIP LOST IN STORM. B! Flic Schooner Thomas W. Lawsou N Turns Turtlo and all but Throo of Crow Perish. H ugh town, Scilly Islands, Decemier 14.?-AM or (successfully riding F: u( n succession of gales which she ra ncounlorod nil (ho way across the wi Uiantie, in which she lost all her bu ifc boats, the American seven-mast- *31 (1 schooner Thomas W. Lawsou was ch npsizod in Broad Sound. Scilly Tsl- th litis, wheiv tho captain sought shol- th iM* I'roin the fierce storm raging bo long the coast, last nigh I. Of the row of 18, including Pilot. Hicks, I J. ho boarded tho vessel from a life liver's boat during the night, only lai iirce wore rescued. Those, were on lapl. W. N. Dow, of Melrose, Mass.; in Idward L. Rowe, the engineer, of 1ft ^iscassott, Maine, and George Alien, *>11 f' Bradford, England. th Tho schooner loft Philadelphia No- Pi ember lft for London with a cargo d.v f oil. She had a hard battle with pe lie seas all the way across, and to lien she entered the Broad Sound *a or captain, knowing the dangers of th le coast, threw out his anchors. La r, in answer to his signals of disress, the life savers put out two K< I'o bonis and found the Lawsou an- lh ho rod i:i a dangerous position oil' ut [minor's Hock. The seas were run- to ing high and tho gale was incroas- a:i ig, and tho life savers foun.l that he lieir efTorts at rescue were useless. >ne of tho boats returned for a tugith ml the other was compelled to put ed nek to shore because of the oxhaus- St ion of the men. During their ab- 11 [ nee I 'no Thomas W. Lawsou turn- dii d turtle. One of the rescued men o' ; not expected to live, while Capt. low is suffering from a fractured oil nil. His rescue was effected af- tin sr the most superhuman efforts of st he life savers and the gallantry o.a f Fedcrick Hicks, the son of Pilot in licks, who accompanied them on ed lieir second trip in the hope of find- ar ig his father. ,v< Late this afternoon, after a long enroll, Capt. Dow and Engineer in [owe were seen alive on the IIel- st 'other Hocks, to which -they had so lung for upwards of fifteen hours, ho tremendous waves preventing Fi lieir making a 'iandimr. Young at licks plunged into the boiling seas nd swam ashore, carrying a lif.? al no by means of which he and the ni 'aplain hauled back to the boat the <>' ngineer, who was practically unin- <>1 nred. After assisting Capt. Dow IJ licks was able to reach the boat un- on ided, but the effort exhausted him C< nd the doctors ordered him to re- be lain quiet tonight. Capt". Dow told p? ho life savers that when ho foun.l or is vessel was doomed ho. the engin- th or and tho pilot lashed themselves pi i) the mizzen rigging. When the en lasts fell tho captain and the en- w< ineor managed t'o got clear. They p< umped to the dock, but wore washed *'s verboard, being carried by tho our- fo (" nts to the rocks whore they were to mind. Pilot Hicks, however, seem- re d to bo entangled i:i the rigging. pi |>< NEW COUNTY ELECTION. io m otition for Injunction Forbidding 11 it Denied by Court. il* to m Columbia, December 1f>.?Tne suireme court has refused to issue an injunction against I he elect ion on 'uosday, December 17, upon the st ablishment of Calhoun County nd has dismissed the petition. The pinion of the court, whiedi is writ- A en by Associate Justice Woods, reognizes tho conflict between the oustilulion and statute in regard to hose entitled to vote at such eleeio.i, hut disposes of th.* point as fol- K dws: c ''The queslion made by the plain- '*< iff is obviously ;i serious one, b it j gl Is decision in this proceeding woul I | g< ie preinatlire. The riylit to vote at ci in election being a mere political j bi ig'nl the general rule is that il is ! A io| within equitable cognizance." m ft will be observed that the Washngton jury did not delay tr? let loose he woman who can shoot as soon as tl ongress met.?News and Courier. lei 1 ..II, I I 111^, REACH IN FARMERS' UNION. otico Recalling Call for Mooting Calls Forth Notice from Originators of First Call. Greenville, , December 13.?Thv) \rmors' Union fight is warming up pidly. Yesterday President Gondii called off the Columbia meeting, it today Secretary Farle and ate Agent Moore eanve back, arging Goodwin with trying to bo c whiole thing. They insist that e meeting will be held on Decemr 18. The notices follow: "To the Members of F. 10. and C. of A., S. C. division: " Wthereas on the request of a rge majority of the membership a il for a state meeting to convene Columbia, S. on December 18, 07, was issued by (lie undersigned icei's ol the Farmers' Union, after e prc.-odcnl. (). 1\ Goodwin, J. C. ckett, \\ . ('. Moore, \Y. I,. Kenneand .Jonn P. Hoggs had had tha tit ions ol tin' members presented them and had disregarded Hie ino and neglected to respond to e demands ol' I In1 membership, and, "Whvreas, (he said O. P. Goodwin, H. Picked, \V. ('. Moore, W. L. sniredy and >lohn 1'. Hogg's assume at they are the whole union and terly disregarded and endeavored override I he will of the members, d stale thai no meeting shall bo Id. "Now we stale to the members at in accordance with their recordvote and wish, a meeting of tiro ate Union will be held al lire City all in Columbia, S. ('., on Wednesiy, December 18, 11)07, at 10 clock, a. in. "That every delegate 'heivlofiore osen is urged to be present and all embers ol tin? union I1 roughout the ate are invited to-attend, and in so your county oUlcers have failed their duties and have not providfor the election of delegates, you e urged to be present and see that >ur county is represented. H. F. Farle, slate secretary, treas er and agen-t; T. T. Wakolield, ale vice preudenl: \V. L. Andern, secretary executive committee. "Ollice of Slaie business Agent, irnicrs' F.ducal ional and Co-operive Union: ' ;t "1 hereby make a general cali to I local and county business agents id all local and counly presidents the Farmers' Union of South Carina to meet me in a State Farmers' nion meeting to be held in the uncil chamber i.i the City Ilali of dumhia, S. C., Wednesday, Decem?r IS, 1007, al 11 o'clock, for the irpo^e of devising plans and an 'ganix.nlion to make the service of e union benefit each individual tying member, and to report tlra tidnct and management of my ?rk and ollice for the year, and es'.cially I he work accomplished in lablis'hing direct sale's and olTices r the shipping and delivery of cotn to European spinners. And tire suits of my trip lo Furope for that irpose. This will be the most imirlni.t meeting ever held in llie unn i:. the .-Male and some twenty or ore counties will be represented, e meelMig will positively be held : slated, disregarding any notices the contrary. Your interest vleands your presence and protection. "\V. C. Moore, "Stale Pusiness Agent." GEN. OATES IS SELECTED. ppointed as Commissioner to Mark Confederate Graves?Has Had Distinguished Career. Washington, Dec. I.'{.?-President oosevell today appointed (Jen. Win. , Dales lo succeed Col. Flliolt as a >iniiiissioii(?r (lo mark (Confederate raves. (Jen. Oates was a former vernor of the slate of Alabama, a donel in lln* ('onfederale army, a rigadier general in the Spanishmerica:i war and also a former ember of the house of represerilave.-'. Senator Davis al least convinced ic country thai his family is big longh.?-News and Courier.