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K y "j' I N TOLUME XLIT, NUMBER ?9. NEWRIERRY, SOUThI CAROLINA, TUESDAY. APRIL 11, 1911. PROCLAMLTION BY GOVERNOR. Says Peace Officers Must Actively Aid i-Enforcing the Dispensary Law. Columbia, April 7.-Gov. Blease is sued Thursday a proclamation call ing upon sheriffs and their deputies, magistrates and . their constables, rural policemen and city and town -officials of the State to enforce ac Itively the law again'st illicit traffic in intoxicants. The governor's proclamation fol lows: Stata of South Carolina-Execqtive a.rtment. 1 Sheriffs and their Deputies; ;istrates and their Constables; .stables; Rural Police; City and vn Officials of South Carolina: I-ease take notice that "An act to -declare the law in reference to and to regulate the man"rfacture, sale, use,) consumption, possession, transporta tion and disposition of alcoholic li quors and beverages within the State and to police the same," and acts amendatoryt hereof, provides, in part, as follows: "It shall be the duty of the sheriffs, and their deputies, magistrates, con stables, rural police, city and town officials, to enforce the provisons of this act," etc. Now, gentlemen, I beg and insist upon your doing your duty under this act, and wish to say that those of you who come under my authority, if you do not do it (while it would be very unpleasant) I shall take action in the matter and use the authority given me under this act. I hope that you will not force me to this'; and for this reason and because I am anxious that all of the laws of the State be enforced -and that lawlessness and vice shall be put down as far as with in our powers, lie, I appeal to you to assist in the enforcement of all the criminal laws of our State. I will do my part and give you all the assist ance I can, I also call upon all good ,citizens of our State to assist in the enforcement of our laws. Very respectfully, Cole. L. Bl-ease, Governor. 110ME TALENT FOR GOVEENOR. 1Repudiates Contract With Charlotte Architect tq Design Winthrop Iulding. O~n the ground~c that South Carolina $architects ought to be employed to do ~architectural work for the State, Gov *ernor Blease has held up a contract which had been agreed on between the building committee of the Win thTrop trustees and a Charlotte archi-I tect, for the draftin'g of plans and s.pecifications for the new domestic -arts and sciences building at Win throp. President D. B. Johnson. of Win 'throp, is out of the State. On his re-I -turn Governor Blease wihi have the 'Winthrop trustees meet here to can vass the situation. Governor Blease makes the following statement in re-; ~gard to 'the matter~ - "Iwant to go on record as repu diating such a contract. I have asked the committee not to sign the con -f tract and to hold it up pending the meeting. ~My reasons for so doing are it ~that we have as good architects in 'South Carolina as there are in the ? UJnion. 1 "Our men are raising families in I this State; they are paying taxes and, are helping -to support our institu tions; then why should we patronize an architect from another State for the plans of a building to be erected in one of our towns and by one of the t State's institutions? Why should the b State put itself on record as favorirz t the employment of meu from beyond a her borders? We snould employ a~ South Carolinian. As soon as I saw it reported that the building commit- b tee was to employ a man from Char i lotte. i at once made knowni my po- ti sition.' b Governor Blease was emphatic in h stating that he rep)udiate's such a con tract and as chairman of the board he will never place his namie to such a proceeding. He thinks that So:th a Carolina's professional men are good n e-nough to employ and that the State a should not set such an example as ii this in going beyond the border ton zran architect.i LINER HELPLESS, 1,.20 ABOARD. Prinzess Irene Founders O.i Long Island Coast-Danger Probably Not Imminent. New York, April 6.-Seventeen hun dred and twenty passengers, within sight of the first of the big lights which marked the finish of their transatlantic voyage, spent a sleep less night tonight on the graat steam ship Prinzess Irene, of the North G ;r man Lloyd Line, fast in the sands jfi the seaward coast of Long Island, on the edge of the "Graveyard of the A.t lantic" and less than fifty miles from this harbor. As night fell a high ground swell was battering the full height of the vessels' superstructure. After running her big nose in the sand during the fog early this morn Ing, the liner lay helpless throughout the day, surrounded by tugs and reve nue cutters. Efforts to pull her free at afternoon high tide, failed, and be cause of a rough sea, no transfer of passengers was attempted, pending renewed attempts to drag her clear early tomorrow. If these fail, transfer will be made to the Prinz Frederich Wilhelm, of the same line, which will be sent to the scene from her. dock here soon after daybreak. Transfer Made to Sister Ship With out Mishap. Lone Hill, L. I., Life Saving Sta tion, April 7.-In five hours and ten minutes this afternoon the 1,725 pas sengers on the stranded North Ger man Lloyd Liner Prinzess Irene were.. transferred to her sister ship, the Prinze Friedericth Wilhel-m', and one hour after nightfall .they were on their way to New York. The feat is unparalled in the history of marine disasters. Not a life was lost, not a case of panic was reported. The first pas senger off was a- woman and the sec ond a baby. The cabin passengers, masters of the situation and the lan guage, generously gave precedence to tho more timorous steerage. SCORES PERISH IN MINE. Iaught Like Rats in Trap Lives Snuf fed Out-Fire and Gas. BlockI Escape.. Scranton, Psa., Apiil 7k-One of the nost serious mine disasters of this~ etion occurred todv1 e : the Iit ile illege of Throo:, a shor't distance] ~rom this city, when the lives of be ~ween fifty and sixty men and boys vere snuffed out Among., those known to have per shed are Joseph Evans, who was in I harge of the United -Sta:tes mine res ue car; Isaac Dawe, a fire boss, and 'l Valter Knight, a foreman. Evans's death was the resuIt of a ~efective oxygen charged armor. tharles Ensian, -the expert in charge f the mine rescue work for the fed ral govern,ment, was also overcome, nd is said to be in a critical condi ion. Bodies Piled in Shaft Up to a late hour tonight nearly ~ wo-score of bodies have been piled t the bottom of the shaft, but it was ought advisable not to bring them1 o the surface until -the crowd had windled. A temporary morgue has een erected at the opening to ther ine, and here were congregated hun reds of women and children, rela ves of the men and boys who ha.l een so suddenly snatched from them Their grief was pitiful, children, of ~nder years slinging to the skirts of s F eir mothers, while older male memn-. ers of the family sought to soften ~ e anguish of the distra'rial mothers ~ d sisters.e None of the bodi%s recovered was;G utilated, death doubtless having en caused by inhaling flames ami ses. The rescuers are pushing into e mine, and it is thought all of the dies will be rescued within a few L urs. I ForHundred in Mine. . h< The fire~ started in an engine house s the opening of a slope 750 feet f'rom i en inl the mine when the fire started,.t ot sixty of them in the workings. " Lto which the slope led. Thr- sixty b r at work in a "blind"' tunn'l at H SHOT AN INFANT. Negro Boy Twelve Years Old Shool Infant in the Arms of Its Sister. On last Thursday afternoon Coi oner Felker was called to hold an ir quest over the dead body of an infan Flossie Glenn, who had been shot t death by Thomas James, all colore< The infant was only about one yea old, and was in the arms of a littl girl about ten years old, who was sil ting on the door step of her mother home. James is about twelve year old. The testimony taken at the coroner inquest developed no cause for th offense. It could not be stated tha it .was an accident because the bo went back after bringing the gun ou and put a cap on it and deliberatel fired. The jury of inquest simply stat ed that the child came to its death b a gunshot wound in the hands o James, and he has been placed i: jadl. - The following is the testimony tab en before the coroner: Elizabeth Glenn, sworn, says: Thom as James said if I did not stop cryin; he would shoot me, and he shot a me and hit the baby. I had the bab: in my arms. Thomas said Lone: Glenn shot the baby. After he sho the baby he ran. He was about 11 yards from me. He held his gun u] in his arms when'he shot. He reach ed in his pocket and got somethin; out. When he got the gun out of thi milk house there was no cap on th, gun. I am 11 years old. Fait Jame went in the milk house and brough the gun out. Marion Worthy was no here at the time of the shooting. Her Elizabeth X Glenn. Mark. Lonnie Glenn, swo:n, says: I wa. sitting on the door steps and Fai James said, "I am going bird hunt ing;" and he went in the milk hous( and got the gun and shot. He hel :he gun toward the baby and -her sis ter and said, "I am going zo shoo ou." Sister was crying and telling im to 'put the gun down. He, Fail ames, comes up here oftyn, Lonnie X Glenn. Ike Glenn, swornl, says: I am the ather of the dead barby. It was my tiIn, The gun was loaded once, but thought the boys 'had taken the load it, This boy, Fai-t James, often ~omes up and plays with my children. 'he boy Falt Janies is a second cous ai to me. I never had any objection o Fait James' playing with my chil [tren; never knew my 'children to ave any fuss with Fait -'James. The ast time I saw the gun it was ini the ouse. I moved here since Christmas. don't know who carried it in the relI house. *His Ike X Gi?enn Mark. May Boozer, sworn, says: I put the ~un in the milk house Christma-3 eek, behind the door. T told the ildren not to bother the gun as part f the load was in it. There was no ap on the gun when I pu' it in r.he ilk house. When I leave I always ck the well house to keep the 2hil ren from the gun. I live in N.'aw rry county, where the sh'xtin-g took lace. The child lived abo: r a hair our after I got to it. Her Mary X Boozer. Mark Dr. W. G. Houseal, being sworn, 1;ys: I have examined the body of lossie Glenn. I found several shot 1 right leg, two in right chest near ipple, three in head; one shot pierc I right eye and entered brain. This ot caused the death of said Flossie W.~ G. Houseal, M. D. sttement of Fait JIames or .Jeames. W\hen1 I came up here yesterday onie had the gun and some caps on and snapped it, and went in the use and got some more. And when came back he put two caps on and d he was going hunting, and got it then in front of the wood pile and rued around, and Fann1ie said,' hoot at me, but don't shoot the by" and he shot and hit the baby. e said I shot it. but I never had my ndIs on it. And when he shot h'o ran and put the gun behind the, doo in the well house. I was sitting o: :s the well when the gun was shot. H had the gun in the well house snap ping it when I got here. After th baby was shot I ran down across tb - field to my home. His t, Fait X James. o Mark. i.1 Elizabeth Glenn, recalled, said: Fai r I popped three caps in the well hous< e before he shot. First cap popped a wood pile it went off. I made Lonni, s come and sit down by me. I was cry s ing because Fait said he was goin to shoot. me. The cap that popped a the wood pile is the one that kille< e the baby. ti Her Elizabeth X Glenn. Mark. t yi DISPENSARY COMMISSION TO BE WOUND UP QUIETLI f Matter Will be Disposed of and the En a tire Squabble Will Soon be Writ ten on Pages of History. Columbia, April 8.-None of thi . principals care at the time to be quot ed directly, but it may be said with t out violating any confidence, that thi r winding-up of the State dispensary is 7 not now expected to extend over anj t considerable period of time. The rev 3 el.ations incident to that process wil y be neither so numerous nor so start - ling as the public exipects. Dispensar affairs are unlikely to have much fur a ther attention at the hands of the criminal courts'and that comparative a ly little probing is to be done-into the t actions of the winding-up commissior t recently dismissed by the governor. It may be said also that examina tion into the law has given rise to a doubt in several quarters as to thf authority of the new commissioner: to make formal investigation of theii predecessors. Or, in fact, to investi gate anything of date subsequent tc the abolishmont of the Statc; dispen sary itself, An analysis of the statu, involved has ~ut neW aspec'ts tipoi several features of the situation. There is some question whether the former commissioners would, without a fight, submit to such cross-examina tion by their successors as has been proposed, even If the new comission ers themselves should conceive thema selv s to be clothed with ,aut'hority to put . e~ old board on the gritl in such fasihion. This Is said without authority from either set of coimesioners, though it is kno~wn to set forth a sphase of the situation, whc is being given more than passing thought. The attorney general remains con sistently firm in his refusal to dis cuss the djispensary question for pub lication or to' talk to reporters about his intentions in 'regard to criminal prosecutions. T1here is no reason, nev ertheless, for a belief that no impor tant moves will be made in this direc tion at any earl, date. Secretary Kelley of the .vaw di.zp mi sary commission also .refuses to be interviewed. He has been in Cblum bia for some days looking over the ground, attending to clerical duties and in general finding out for the board just how the sit:oAtioni $lant'. He has had several talks with the at torney general. There is a feeling around the State house that the old State dispensary has produced about all the sensation it will yield and that it will very shortly be done w ih and forgotten. Things are working 'irounrd of thiem selves to a point where it will be said of the whole unsavo:' affir', "e the dead past bury its dead." "Prinizess Irene Again Atloat. New York, April 9.--Bearing no vis ible sca:s, except a sattered rudder post, the North G-erman Lloyd Lotr Prinzess Irene slipped away from Fee Island this afternoon as in en'ctedi as she had come in the fog of rhurs (ay morning. After 83 hours of ba-' prisonment in the sand o'f th Lone' Hill life-saving sianon, she~ ho:tT-'d the "'graveyard of the At!imiic" ozd was floated with the aid o& -um a 3.05 p. mn. At 3.40 sh.a Yer~ 7n ;ow for Scotland Light, practie-?fy al th.' entrance of New York hoh'hr. 10 8n r I STATE BOARD GIVES REASONS. e Explains Opposition to Dispensary - Fund Act-Will Prepare e / Substitute. e Columbia, April 8.-Following the announcement today that, upon the board's unanimous vote, Governor Blease late last night vetoed the dis t ,penary distribution act, the State e board of education, concluding its ses t sion here today issued, through Sup e erintendent Swearingen, a detailed - statement of the causes for the board's vote, and an official outline of t other matters considered by the board. The following is the statemert of the board as to the dispensary distribu tion (or the "Stevenson") act: "For the following reasons the State board of education adopted a resolu tion approving the action of the gov ernor, in withholding his signature. from the bill to distribute the dispen sary money, and a committee consist ing of three was appointed to dratt a - substitute bill, which will be present ed to the gcneral assembly, at its next session, with the request that it be enacted. . , Reasons for Opposing. "The board is of the opinion that this money belonged to the common schools, and will oppose any effort to use it for any other purpose, and the governor will strenuously oppose and, If necessary, use the constitutional power given him to prevent this money from being used for any oth er purpose than for the 'benefit of the common schools. "In our opinion the act providing for regulating the distribution of the dispensary moneys paid into the State treasury by the dispensary winding up commission is defective in two im portant particulars. "This act does not furnish the coun ty boards of education any basis for 'apportioning,' among the schools ofI the several counties, the amount to be received from this fund. If the county boards of education could be given a free hand in 'apportioning' this money to th. needy schools ~nd school d istricts of their respective counties, such a c9urse would meet a long felt and pres ing need. In the absence of this prQviion. however, the word 'abportionin' se lited in the bill requires the amount 1/iid each county to be disti'ibuted ani6fig th4 everal districts oni tlis bais of en-* roimaent, just as 6thei- i-eiiar school funds are appertiened and distributed., Other Objedtione "Section No. 3 provides tiiat the bal ance on hand July 1, 1912, $100,000 shall be distributed on that day on the basis of enrolment for the schol astic year ending July 1, 1912. The scholastic year ends June 30, hence, the purpose of the bill may be clear, the phraselogy is inaccurate. "Furthermore, the enrolment for the scholastic year 1912 can not be ascertained on Ju-ly 1 .of that year. Thes'e figures are sup-1.> only from the~ annual reports of the county sup-V] erint 'idents of educatior, andi these reports can net be compiled by or be-: fore JIuly 1 of any year. 'We believe that this entire fund belongs to the free public schools. Tese defect; in the bill r.'nder itsi execution difficult, if not impossible. A contingent fund in the hands of each county board of educatio-a, to be usedi in their discretion f-or -ha 'estI intrests of their schools, is highly de- I sfrable. The framers of this bi!l de- i .ared,their intention of creating such < a fund, but they failed to write this i ten tion .in' the law. For the rea- jt sns, we approve of the actiona of the governor in withholding his signa ture, and we would respectfully urge I him to ask the legislature to modify the measure in these two important C particulars.'' Amount of Fund. . The amount available under the act is not as large as was thought at first, owing to independent appropriations' for school purposes in the 1911 ses sion. I "The State treasurer, upon the re- p quest of the State board of education, I ~ furnished the following statement of a dispensary funds now. in his hands.[ The balance April 8, was $32,660.35; tl appropriation~s, 1911, high schools, $60,000; extension public schools, $60,-{ a 000; public school buildings, $20,0000: b total, $140.000, less amount paid this year, $40,953. Balance on account of,- d appenratn,n 1910 . $13.,044.43; re- r maining. balance, $185,515.92. This money is deposited in banks at 4 per cent interest compounded monthly. The amount of interest received dur ing March was $1,100." RALIROAD TO SALUDA TO BE OPENED JULY 4 Nation's Birthday Will be Double Hol iday for People of That Town. Work Progressing. Saluda, April 8.-W. J. Montgom ery, president; M. C. Woods, vice president and treasurer; Dr. J. C. Mace, secretary, and Mr. Boyd, man ager of the Independent Construction 'company, all of Marion, with' their chief engineer, Mr Roberts, wE"re -in Saluda yester'ay looking over the g"ound with a vieav of selecting a site for a- depot, pass ager station :L. sidetracks for .he ro.ad boing' bui!t from Wards to this ton a. There are three available sites, but an selection was made, or if any conclusion was reached no announcement 3f it was given out. It is said that.about threa acres will be needed. Mr. Montgomery stated that the work of grading was progressing rap idly and crossties are now being dis tributed along the line out from Wards for some six miles. The work ing camp has been moved over to the Bell place, some five miles from Sa luda, to which point the grading is practically completed. The building of the line from Wards - to Saluda has been making good prog ress for the past several weeks, and It is authoritatively announced that it is expected to run the first train into Saluda on the Fourth of July, when all South Carolina will be ex pected to be on hand and partake of the biggest barbecue dinner ever beard of, and to join with the people of the county in fitly celebrating the greatest event in their history. Mr. Montgomery and party return ed to Marion this morning. 45 WIDOWS' 17 QBPHANS. Fs Families Bereft of leads by Tlroop .+ Mine Horror-All Bodleg of Vie. Urns Recovered. 7. Scrantoii, Pa., Apr!! 8.-Seventy diree 1s the revised total- of the toll ot the finn fi'e at the Pancast Clir in fhfooy f4sktddA: A CanvYass of'J the fami ide thd tiOsn. Phowa 5 widows and 137 drinhans tI is authoritatively stated tonight that every corner of the workings hich a fleeing victim might have reached in his frenzq for pure air has een searched, pid that every body as been removed. The last group of lead, compising seven men, was >rought up from the diepths a little >efore noon today. As fast as the bodies were identified hey were tagged, and if relatives did ot come to claim - them ihey were -- urned over to an undertaker to bye repared for burial and taken home. he undertakers fairly fought for the )dies, believing that 'the company rould stand for a good round charge,r .d scenes that were disgraceful re ulted. Police authorities had to in erfere to preserve some aspect of ecency. Crepe on Kany Doors. About every other house in the vil age of Throop, a typical mining set lement, had crepe on -the door, and n some houses there ,are more than ~ne corpse. Funerals probably will e held Monday. In the matter of he nuumnber of victims . this is the rorst mine horror that has ever oc urred in the Lackawanna Bailey re ion, and the worst in the whole an racite coal fields since the Avondale isaster of September 6, 1869, when ne hundred and ten men lost their [es. The twin shaft disaste~r of June 26, 96, .in Pittston, near here, claimed 1 victims. These men were entrap ed by a cave-in which they were orking to preventby tne erection of illars., No one of tlgeir bodies was er recovered. Many explanations e offered as to how the Pancast vic ms came to their death, but none of emi is as yet generahy accepted. The fire started yesterday morning itle after 9 o'clock. It is not known t it is estimated, that it was well one~ towardls 11 o'clock when the . nger to the men in the tunnlel was