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VOL. XVIII. ANNING, S. C., WEDNES)AY. MARC rounds of attacking cotton boils. Dr Spillman emphasized the fact tha the pest is sure to spread and that it three or four years it will take Sout Carolina. The way to exterminate the orai nary pest is by tinding another bui which will devour the weevil. as wa: done in Caifornia when the orang< trees were attacked b3 a scale louse Tne comma.u "lady bug" was put ci the trail of the scale vermin and in j ;hort tine the pest was driven out But th.re is nothing known inscienc which will exterminate the bill wee ail. It cannot be reached with spray or the r2al instrument of destruction s within the boll where the poiso vould ruin Lhe fibre as well as thi ermin. The only hope of growing cottot wih any success in an infected terra OTy is to get a very early variety anc :iant it very early, and even ther iaif the bulls would be ruined by the veavil. The price of cotton is driving farm rs to inercase their acreage. The ime may cone when cotton will be at uch a high -rice that half a crop will . The o .ject of this movement is :1. tc displace cotton entirely, but tc ,ive the farmeer something additional 0 rely upon. The boll weevil cannot >e fought with a spray, but a third of he appropriation has been set aside s a fund wi :h which to make experi nents agairst the boll weevil. In ouisiana an effort is being made by he government to raise a crop despite be boll weevil, the government ex iecting to get half a crop developed fore the weevil gets to - work and hen to cut down every stalk and burn t and plow up the land carefully. he early varieties are not so good as rule because they drop the fruit too asily. METHODS NOT EXPERDIENTS. Dr. Weber, who has been conduct ag bhbridization around Columbia >r several years, will try to breed up nproved varieties of early cotton. 'he department of entomology has iscovered varieties which are not vul erable to "root rot" and "wilt dis ase," and is now working on "rust." bhe "wilt" is caused by the water eis in the plant being stopped up y some kind of fnngus. In regard to the work which Dr. Veber has been doing here in connec ion with Mr. R. C. Keenan and oth rs, Dr. Spillman spoke in terms of :mmendation, but that is an experi lent farm and the new ;enture is a irm to teach methods. Dr. Spillman then told of the man er in which the quarter of a million ppropriation would be expended. ne-third would be given to the de artment of entomology to find some ery early plant which could be made igorous. Another third bas been set side for the purpose of making ex eriments to see if the pest can be ex .rminated by the use of any other ug or otherwise. Of the remainder, $20,000 has been t aside for the diversification of uthern agriculture. This, in his find, is the remedy for the boll wee i. In order to induce men to let e government have the use of a part their farms, the seed and half of be fertilizers will be furnished. hese farms are not experiment sta ons but are bei!'g iiun s lely for rfit and to exhibit approved meth 3s. The government wants to take vantage of local experience. He ad not come here to tell Mr. Hyatt 'hat to do, but to get his neighbors assist him, and for that reason they ould have a board of directors. There is a fine market for farm roducts iight here in South Carolina 'here there are so many mills, but om bleak and barren New England iauv commodities are shipped into be S'ate whereas they could be raised er much cheaper and sold at better roit than cotton. He had looked over Mr. Hyatt's tro and is very much pleased. Hie oes not expect as much success from ny other of these farms as he does ro:-n this one in Columbia. He then told that in the fall he will stablish another diversification farm 2 this State, perhaps in Spartahburg, here the character of the soil is dif rent, and c uring the progress of the ar work, he wants criticisms, com lientary or otherwise, just so they re helpful. In order to exhibit the manner in hich he vill go about operating hese diversification farms, he' exhib Led charts showing the work to be ore on a :30-acre tract in Texas. Hie ccunted for every item of cost and stmated item of receipts, although e declared that the estimates in the at er case w ere really a little lower han the receipts would be, judging y past experince. lie accounted for very pound of provender which would >e ootained, showing the percentage hich would be usedl and the part that vould be sold. AN EXAMIPLE CITED. On this farm of :33 acres he would 1ave 10 dairy cjws, 2 young cattle, lC logs and 2 mules. He would plant ifalfa for the hogs, one acre support ng 10 hogs, and 6 additional acres o1 bis succulent food for hay for the attle, the hay being the best stoci ood in the world, and entirely toc rich before curing. His farm wouk e divided into 11 acres for permanen1 3rops and 22 to be used alternately foi summer and for winter crops. Of th' 11 acres for permanent crops the dis Iribution would be 7 acres for aifalf; id 4 for Bermuda. Of the summe 3rops the planting would be as fol Lows: 19 acres in corn and peas, acre in sorgbum and 1 acre in pea alone. The winter distribution woul' be oats and vetch 4 acres, barley I acres and rape 3 acres. The estimat ed income would be: milk, 2 gallon daily from each of 10 cows, $810: hay $120: 4 calves. $20 (a very low tigure he declared); 15 hogs at 150 pound each, $112: total, 91.062. lie cite< this just to show what is possibli when a man plans his crop to suit hi lands. In regard to the farm near Colum bia, he said it would cost less to run i in diversitied crops than it would i cotton. There would be no chicken or fruits raised on the diversitiel farms for the first year or so. E1 gave an instance of wha; had bee produced on 13 acres of lat?a on jus such soil as Mr. Hyatt's place, an' predicted an entire success for tu; ne enture A another illustri OLD aiN COTTON Will Fall Under the Attacks of the Boll Weevil. DIVERSIFICATION THE REMEDY. Dr. W. J. Spill:tan Ta'ks With Great u:nthui:m::a 'lr the Pionct r 1s rk -- Started The C Lm: a S:ae Wednesday says as is .en aii nuu:ed in The State. Dr. Spiima i to Colum bia t: : diversitication farm to be located near the -city on the lands of Mr. F. ii. Hyatt. Dr. Spiilman a;,nd his auditors became so much engr .ssed :n the general discus sioln of the i.we' vii anc its menace to the south that te had very little to say of the p>as c; i: which he will work the farn nep C'lmbia. He is very prou;. thi' u taking and calls the :arm on M r. Iyatt's place "Diversitica t ion Farm No. 1' because Mr. Hyatt was the tie-st t) consent to let a part of his fai m be used by the government. Whlen the government 1 appropriated 250.ou fo - the exter minatit n of the boil weevil by the in direct method of starvii g it out, a certain sunu was se.: aside for the con duct of these pract. cal fa: ms to show 1 how crops may i.e dive:sitied with profit. Dr. Spilla an was then given the address ef a rumer of 'rominent farrers of the wut', antd wrote to each of them atking if :he govern ment could be g vn the u e of a cer tain portion of :is farm f"r the pur pose named. As the boll wcevil is so much more destructive in Texas than anywhere else, it was decided to es- I tablish in that great State 1t; of the stations, anI as the pest ias made its appeararce in western Louisiana there will be five stations in that State.i The others will be divided as fol- C lows: Misi sippi'3, Alabama 3, Geor- r gia 2, Suuth Qtrulina 2. and 1 in the e cotton growing section tf Fl-rida. This is the first station which Dr. Spillman has visited and from here hie goes to thie other places where the! farmers will be given an *xemplifica tiori of th~e doctrine preached by The State for so many year.-that the e South can get along without cotton c as "the money crop." GR.EAT Is THE SOUTHE13X CLIME. in prefacing his remarks Dr. Spill- n man said that agricuiture is the basis I a of the wealth of this c, untry. The C products annually amount to over five billion dollars. Large business con- v cerns employ the best talent obtaina ble. It is not so w-ith agriculture a where capital is not masst d. If agri culture is to have the ben-tit of scien- t tific research the gove:r:ment must b bring-this benefit to the farmers. At the risk of beinm considered ex- s; travagant. but in all sincerity, he de- 1 clared that the southern half of the United States has a climate which in v time will enable it to becone the lead- t ing agricultural section o; the world. o The south will lead in igricultural - production when' all of her opportuni- e ties are improved. The soil here will grow a great variety of crops and for a longer period than any other section of the country. The government spends less than b any other in encuragmng the farmers. The present endeavors are not over doingt the matter. Hei told how the government had spent ha f a million dollars in stamping out a disease among the cattue. Recently it had appropriat.ed 8250.000-niot to fight the boil weeviI, for that is a useless, hopeiess fight--out to provide other meaL:s by w~hich the farmers may BOLL WEEVIL HERE TO STAY. There is not the slightest probabil ity that the bull ;Nevil will be entire- d ly eradicated. The governuient is a fully justiti.d in specnding: millions of I dollars tc meet the invas;ion of the boll weevil and to teach the farmers e of this section to engage in other kinds of farming. . - When .Dr. Spillnan took up the question of the bAl weevil he was. asked if the pest w ould get as far as South Carolina. In giving enlight ment on this subject the speaker de parted from his regular line of thought but gave same very interest ing statements. MIost empha. ically the boll weevil wil come into South Carolina and will come to destroy. Wherever it has made its appearance the country has bE en blighted, and a bale of cotton could nlot be gotten from 25 acres of the most fertile land. In reply to a quest-on he stated that it would be unsafe to buy oats or any thing else shipped from :he country infected with the weevil, which has now gotten into the southern part of the indian: Territory and the western part of Louisiana. For a lung time the government saw what was comning and endeavored to get the legislature of Texas to pass a law preventingr any cott~m from be ing planted on a strip of land 200 miles wide along the Rito Grande river, for the pest flad made its appearance in M1exico and was devasting the cot ton crops thee. IBut no precaution ary meth~ods were adopted and now the entire State of Texa is plague ridden. It has been reported that 40,000O farmers are preparing to leave the State 0' Texas and a.. on account of the weevil.aic h has ruined their crops. Ie cited an irs;tance of a farmer in the very best of circum stances~ wh had. been reduced to ab-' ject poverty and would .ave suffered but for a little poultry yard which his providc'nt wife was ruumiag. Ii'W THlE PEST wORKs. The boll weevil stays under cover of the wo'ods util in J uly, said Dr. Spill man, and when the midsummer brings~ the "forms" of embryo boils to the cotton plant the weevil begins his depredations. The pest is about a ouarter of an inch in length and has a bill hail' as lonu a;gain as himself. With this bili aria its point, which is. lik-ea circular saw, the bug attacks the tender it:.le b >lls. and after bor irng a round~ hule into tue form de posits an' eg which is covered with a' kind of wax.1 The ega' in a very short* *time produ es a worm which feeds upona tne' interir of the cotton boll until the vermin develops into a full-. mege houi weevil and goes upon the tion. he told of a "hog" farm which L he has mapped out for a place in i Texas. He would put 70 hogs on this farm and expects an income of $1.231. H All through his remarks Dr. Spill - man was plied with questions, and in concluding be called upon Dr. Nesom to give bis views on the subject. Col. A Newman, the head of the d.. partment at Clemson, had been expect ed, but as i he could not c'me the prese: ce of D:. T L Nesom was gratifying. Gov. Ileyward was then called upon for some remarks. lie dec: ired that - in his onicial capacity he would do . everything he could to get t ,efarmers interested in the diversifi :ation of their crops and he thought that there m is a demand for just such farms as ac this. The DesChamps bi 1, which was introduced in the legislature, pro -vided :ur one of these farr:s in each a county, but as it was seen lit not to pass the bill he is glad th;:t the na- T tional government will esta~lish some p farms along about the same :ines. '.P CHASED AND FIRED UPON. ve pr A Lady from the North Instlted by a fr Negro at Aiken. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says Sunday night about ten o'clock a Cc negro man accosted a lady on South an Boundary street, - and when she so screamed and ran he chased her for several hundred yards and also fired a le] pistol at her twice. The lady is a northerner-Miss Kirke-and is a G trained n.rse who is treating a pa tient in a family of Boston people ki here for the season. The family have rentcd the Williams cottage on South Boundary street. Miss Kirke is spend- ro ing the season at Mrs. Ashley's about 300 yards away, on the same street. W Sunday evening was dark and rainy ( and after supper Miss Kirke left Mrs. Ashley's for the home of the patient, carrying a lantern to guide her. As she entered the gate of the William's place she saw a negro standing beside the fence. Miss Kirke asked him if B. he desired to see some one and the] man replied that he was waiting for W' his aunt, who was cooking for the family. Miss Kirke pissed into the house and left at about 10 o'clock to kit return to Mrs. Ashley's, as usual. E There are no buildings between the two houses, but the ground is covered M. with tall grass and some bushes. ( With the lady were two dogs, and as Bo they passed a small clump oif bushes they growled and barked. The lady W turned out into the road acd as she Go To did so the light of her lantern reveal- ,T, ed a negro peering from behind the oushes. She screamed and ran and sto the negro called "come here." She I continued running and the negro I called "come here" the second time. F. When she did not stop he ran after I her and tired twice with a pistol. S The negro chased her for about 100 yards, and then a young man at the house, hearing screams and the tiring I ran out and shot at the man several Lo times. When the matter was reprt- ? ed to the police this morning the th premises were searched and there w. re found footsteps showing that ma the negro had walked around the Wil liams house and" then went and hid behind the bushes and waited for the ( ady to return. Mc we Five3Miuers Killed. Five miners were killed by a cave-in kir of earth and rock in the Minnie Healy I near Butts, Mon., Thursday after- Ba noon. The accident occurred on the sixth floor of the 1,000 foot level. Fo Early in the~ day Foremani Joseph T Kane was informed that the ground 3 in that place was very soft and in ke: dange~r of falling. He withdrew all 1 the miners who were working there. 1 Thursday afternoon Shift Boss Hager- Co ty took four men into tile place to bulkhead and otherwise ,strengthen the weak spots. Just how the fall came will never be known, as not one be' of the tive escaped. Only t'vo bodies O haebeeni recovered. . Burned to i~an bu A dispatch from Andersoni to Th'le an News~ and Courier says anout two cor o'clock Wedinesday afternoon Mrs.. he W Xilson. living with Mr. L. M. Wilson, lic aprominenlt planter, at Hoiiea Path, in was terribe burned and cannot re- pa cover. Members of the family who had left her alone in the room, re- sis called by her screams, found her Onl ye the floor, with her clothing all ablazed. fel They extinguished the flame:;, but the of doctors say that the extent of the on burns and the shock preclude hope of sa recovery. ___________er' Burned to D)eath. A two-year-old child of Mr. and t( Mrs. Thomas La~nci, ot Pied :jont, was S burned to death Tuesday naht. The child was visiting next door and it is an not known how it caught tire but itc is thought that it was from a lantern. su The children had been playing with jth it when attracted by the screams of th the child. A lantern was found' scattered over the floor. They had m placed it on the grate and it exploded, a resuting as above stated. PC Murder and suicide. p A t Buffalo, N. Y., Henry Schwartz,'hi a prominent attorney, was shot and p fatally wounded in his private office ar in the Marine Bank building Friday or by H. A. Knowles, of the tirm of a to large dry goods house. After holding pl the police at bay a few moments di Knowles turned the revolver on him- ut self and blew out his brains. Ti -Crushed to Death. D William Brady, a farmer of Campo- pr bello, Spartanburg County. was killed s Thursdayv afternoon by a tree fallirngt oni him and crushing his body. He and several other men were out fell ing trees on the lands of Benjamin i, BowTig, near Campebello, when the A tragic occurrence happened. Mr. a s Idy is survived by a widow. p Ab It Should Be.s t Wa shington enThursday theb house committee on elections No. 1e e decided the Gudger-Moody contestt from the Tenth North Carolina dis-j trict in iavor of Gudger (Dem.) sitting~ member. and the Dantzler-Lever con t test from the Seventh South Carolina0 district in favor of Lever, the sitting S member. -- t Leaves Six Widows. nThe Greenville News says the Gor trn:un elder who killed himself in Kan- a sas City on Saturday did so because a t: e younc convert refused to be his wife. It ~le leaves six widows.jV CAPERS ON DECK. e Is Sustained by the Republicans South Caro ina. KD E RAYTON IS KNOCKED OW te Principal Feature of the Repul lican State Convention Was the attack by Brayton on J no. G. Capers. The Republican State Cinventic et in Coumbia on Wednesday, tran ted its business and adjourne< .ie complexion was mostly dark, wit faintsprinkling of white-those wt Id ofice or hope to bold an ottic m make-up was very much like i edecessois. A hurried glance ov e temporary roll wi 1 show the con sLion of the conv2ntion and ti ry smal sprinkling of whit( esent: Ab)bvie-Rl. R. Tolb)ert, Jr.. A c Ellison, S. .1. Donaldsor. Aiken-lR. B. Perry. G. W. Raifori Dickerson, J. G. Eubanks. Anderson-E. F. Cochran. Joh echran, Jr., A. E. .uick, J. S. Ac w.and G. Wadsworth. Bamberg--). ). J el er. C. P. Robin Irnwell-W. S. Di:son, G. G. Bu .J. A. Davidson. Beaufort.-Robert Small, Samut een. J. 1. Washington. Berkeley-A. P. Prioleau. R H. Jet s, F. S. Edwards. Charleston-W. ). Crum, J. I tchell, T. L. Gran, J. G. Capers. ( English, M. Caulfield, E. B. Bur ighs, S. E. Smith. herokee-W. M. Goodwin, J. 11 illiams. Jhester-C. Ross, J. C. Atkinson,. :Cullough hestertield-J. B. Highland, I ilkins. 3larendon--R. A. Stewart, S. 11 ilker, Julius Durant. olleton--W. F. 31yers, S. B. Butler Levy. arlington-E. 11. Deas, Z. \ ines. WV. H. Smyrl. orehester-.J. H. Abbey. dgetield-P. Sinikins, A. W. Sim Is. airfield-I. S. Byrd, J. B. Williams W. Bovkin. -'lorence-.J. R. Levy, W. C. Rusl W. H arrall. eorgetown-J. A. Baxter, J. W Its; alternate, R. B. Anderson. Frenville-J. A. Brier. A. A.Gate: T. Smith, Thomas Brier, L. F Idsmith. reenwood-J. R. Tolbert, J. W bert, J. I. Reynolds. lampton-W. A. Alston, G. W. A] n. orry-G. C. Singleton, J. H. Goudy ershaw-C. C. Scott, P. S. Brown Pierce. ancaster-F. R. Massey, W. F argen. aurens-P. S. Suber, L. W. C. Bla k, J. D Adams. ee-Job Toney, A. T. Butler. exington-F. C. Aldridge, S. L rick, G. W. Assman. arion-W. H. Collier, N. E. Be a. T. R. Alford. Iarlboro-E. J. Sawyer, J. C. All n, W. S. Thompson. ewberry-R. E. Williams, J. C ung, J. D. Eichelberger. )conee-R. Q. Merrick, S. M. Smith )rangeburg-J. II. Fordham, Jacol orer, A. D). Webster, C. W. Cald I. A. D. Dantzler. ikens-R. K. Moon, WV. M. Wat tichland-E. M. Brayton. R. W lors, L. C. Scott, ;i. F. Lopez. aluda-J. M. Jones, M. WV. Watson .partanburg-B. F. Means, G. _ iter. Laban Moroan, S. T. Pomnier Os. Rhodes, G. G. Page. umter-G.'W. Murray, Z. E. Wal ,C. C. Jacobs. Inon-J. C. Hunter,.J. P. Sartor. Viliamsburg-James Tharpe. Z. R oper, G. WV. McCullough. fork-G. A. Wat, J. W. Satter ite, A. W. Lee ,S. H. Harris. L'ae work of the/cogventionl wa: un by the election of E. H. Deas D~arlington, as chairman, and J. H mson, of Richiand, as secretary J. Dickerson, of Aiken; threw ch of bouquets at Chairman Deas said: "You have won."' H iratulated the convention on wha called the reuniting of the Repub in party. He whcoped things u g>od style on the reuniting of th . M. Brayton also rejoiced and irl ted that this representative con ation was an omen ')f success. H t that it meant mu::b for the goo t e State. He most heartily sec led the nomination of Deas an d he deserved all of the glory show d on him. Robert Smalls placed the nomine n before the conventionl and pr( Ited Cnairman Deas. Deas spoke of the unity of the part d expressed his surprise and gratit tion at the selection. Politics :h a~~peculiar thing, he remarked at most folks do not know wlhet ey will go to slee p. Smalls said it seemed to be a hal nious gathering and he moved the committee on credentials be al intea. Capers then took the floor and i ed to the attack recently made c m by E. M. Birayton in a Charlesto per. lie denied that he ever ha y connection with lynching negrom embezzled funds of anyone. Bra: n replied and accused Capers< ading the baby act. He said 1 d not want Capers elected to ti ional convention as a delegat ae convention then adjourned unt .e evening when it reassemble< uiring the morning session tv eachers got into a fisticuff ovi me discussion they were having ne; Le cairmans desk. T he combatan re Revs. A. P. Dunbar and E. I 'hite, members of the statl of a ca ed paper published in Columbi t the evening session the preacher ho had the tight in the morning, e ained their troubles, apologize .id they were not delegates at gged forgiveness. They were exo ated by a formal vote. Chairman Deas issued an ultim im that the deficiency for hall re: d expenses be raised. Capt. Capers put up $25 and me the candidates $5 each. Chairman Deas is a wonder as a c< tor. He utterly refused to g 3ings moving until the collectil 'as complete. The platform endorsed Roosevt nd his administration. It wasi cduced by Capers. Another resol ion protested against the manner mic the dominant party is enfo: ing the suffrage laws, which are not only repugnant to the Federal Cn stitution. but are enf-:rced in viola tion of the laws of Scuth Carclina itself. A separate resolution con demned as unjust and nirrcw the act of the State otlicers wht had refused the use of h all of the 1 suue of Rep resentatives. Resoutior.s were adcpted on the! - death C Marcus A. IIanna. Ther were two prote:tis against the allege: disfranchisemen; ,f the col ored voters of the State. It was held 'hat 100.000 Republicans were dis ranchiked, and aske I ti:e Republican n party t) take the matte: u. s- Geu. W. Murray we ited to take :away the suggestin of nominations h from ti-e national comrcitteemen and put it in the hands of the cingress o men or congressional no ninees. Tneras were nom inatec for delegates to the National Convet tion: L. W. 'r. Blalock, Laurens: 'V. D. Crum, - Charleston: John G. Capers. Charles e ton; E. H. Dea, of Da-lington; :s tobert Smalls, Beauforl. R. R. Tol hert,-Aobeville: G. W. Murray, Sum ter; )r. V. T. Smitb, i;reenville; E. . L..B iyton. Calumbia. Afttr nominating speches of ten n minutes each and second ng advertise l- ments cf five minutes e ich the con vention went into an Mlection, the (delegates voting for ,f our as their names were called under the direction of three tellers. The cbtir announced that t13 would be necessary to a choice, there bein 125 delegates. Capers voted for Blal:ck, Deas, Crum and Smalls. Cruni voted for Capers. Deas voted for Smith, Bla lock, Small and.Capers. A. A. Gates voted for Capers, Smith, Smalls and Blalock. John R. Tolbert voted for Daas, Tolbert. Crum and Murray. Joe Tolbert voted for Capers. Blalock voted for Capers, . Smith, Deas and Crum. United States 1arahal Adams voted for Blalock, Capers. Deas and Smalls. J. H. Fordhata voted for C.tpers, - Bla lock, Smalls and Deas. Before Rich land was reached Deas. Capers and Blalock bad received a majority. Brayton, by proxy, voted for himself, - Deas, Smalls and Murray. Postmast er Poinier, of Srartanburg, voted for Capers, Crum, Smith and Blalock. G. W. Murray voted for Tolbert, Brayton, Smith and Crum. The vote on the first ballot was: " Blalock 80, Crum 43, Capers 102, Deas 107, Smalls 45, Talbert 4:3, Murray 47, Smith 22, Brayton 10. Great yelling and rushing about - the ball followed the announcement of the vote, and Chairman Daas threatened to put a motion that Crum be declared the fourth delegate if the members did not take their seats and maintain order. This finally restored order. Brayton and Tolbert then withdrew their names. Murray withdrew in favor of Crum. Smalls followed suit in withdrawing in Crum's favor. Then after some more disorder . Smith's name was withdrawn and Crum was elected by acclamation. - An attempt was. made to have the four defeate- candidates chosen as al. ternates, and- a motion to this effect was put and dociared carried by the chair, amid cries that Brayton be sent - as one of the alternates. IThe district delegates to the Na !tional convention are elected by the district conventions. 1 Served 1-im LRiht. *A man in Philadelphia purposely 'fell in front of a trolley car and lost 'his leg ia order that he raight secure - damages from the company. Two friends who were to adt as his wit nesses against the company were un -able to udergo the ordeal of a severe cross-exaLminationl and revealed the scheme. The cripple was found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced to two years imprisonment. lie finished his term. the other day and has returned to his home, broken in health, maim ed for life, a charge upon his relatives and forever branded with the stigma of his convict sentence. His was indeed : n unprofitable a id even piti able "get-rich-quick" s~heme.--The State. L ntouched b~y Baltin ore Fire. -The 1-uilding of the Bbbitt Chemi -cal C. No. :316 West Lo. ibard Street,l e Baltimcre, the proprietrs of "Rheu 3 nacide, the famous remedy for .lRheu matism. was savd f rom the 3 meat fire that destroyed most of the .business. section of theciBaltimore. ime and again it wa;; threatened .with destruction. But "Rheuma .cide" is still being man~factured and I ~hipped in quantities from the same old star~d. Two Lives Lost. s\t Colorado Springs, C d., two lives e wee lost in a tire Friday morning that destroyed three buildings and .threatened the entire business section. t The dea~d are Lela Smith. 15 years oid, .and a man burned beyond recognm -ion. The girl's mother escaped by .jumping. Six horses were killed and the loss is $10,000. d A Family Traged.. :s The daughter of Thos. Hess of -Madison county. N. C.. eloped with a fyoung man named liensley. Her e father induced her to return home eand then shot and killed, her, and he .in turn was shot and icilled by the il young lhusbandl. This happened on - Monday night. r Kined iy a Bear. The body of Baron Martin Von s Schosser. formerly an oflicer in the - Germanl army and for many years a -resident of P'ort A ngeles, Col. has been found on the range south of the Hot Springs, near the body of a dead bear. The Baron undoubtedly had been killed by the bear while hunting. 1- egiste r is. Han"aed. a For the double murder of .Jesse at Soles and Jim Stanley anid the burg lary of their liouse. which was burned st to conceal his crime, .Jalbul Register was hanged l'riday at Whiteville, N. .C. The father of the condemned man et is serving a life sentence for instigat ylig the crime. t I Broke Her Heart. n-M~ss Pearl Niedenthal, aged six uteen, committed suicide in Baltimore in on Sunday by swallowing carbolic acid THE NEW LAWS % List of the Acts of General Interes Passed at the Late MAETING OF THE LEGISLATURE B: ice Bill, the Coggeshall Bill, the Dog Tax Bill, the Immigra tion Bureau Bill Among Most Interesting. Below 'vill be found a list of thi nev laws >f general interest enacted at the la ;e meeting of the Legisla ture. Flom time to time we wil: pu'>lish tt e full texts of these acts: Senator Warren-To provide for bi. en nial sessions of the general assem bly. Mr. Larlham-To require common carriers of passengers to trausport baggage o, sample trunks of two hun dred pour ds weight or less, free o1 charge wi Ih any passenger. Mr. Ric iardson-To require owners and tenan ts to fence in or fill up aban doned wells. Mr. Sin kler-To punish malicious and mischievous interference with fire and police alarm boxes, wires and ap paratus. Mr. Whaley-To empower cities of over 40,00) inhabitants to impose and collect a license upon certain condi tions. Mr. Wright-To provide punish ment for safe-crackers. Mr. DeBrubl-To amend the con stitution, so as to permit the general assembly to enact local and special road law. Mr. Haile-To grant electric light ing and power companies all the rights, powers and privileges conferred upon telegraph and telephone companies. Mr. DeBrubl-To make baby car riages baggage. Mr. Walker-To pay Col. M. P. Tribble $1,500 for compiling Confed erate records. Mr. Tribble-To exempt soldiers and sailors from paying license. Mr. Gause-To prevent the ship ping of shad beyond the limits of this State. Mr. Smith-To allow persons to be tried before magistrates to deposit a sum of money in lieu of entering into recognizance for their appearance for trial. Mr. Haile-To have constables for industrial communities of 50 persons. Mr. Toole-To provide or special township road tax. Senator von Kolnitz-To punish malicious and mischievous interference with tire and police alarm boxes, wires and apparatus. To provide for repairing the monu ent erected by the State upon the >attlefield of Chickamauga To encourage the establishment of ibraries in the public schools of the rural districts. Senator.Mclver-To amend the code elating to the execution of mortgages )f railroad companies. Mr. Morgan -To amend the code, as oo labor contracts. Mr. D. U. Herbert-To amend the node, as to mileage of members of the eneral assembly, so as to make It con orm to the provisions of the constitu ion of 1895. To amernd the code, concerning wit esses' fees in court of general ses ios. [r. Whaley--To amend the .code ao 3erning the lien of certain mort a; es: fr. Doyie-To prevent treating on le ;tion dl ys. : r. Pya t-To prohibit the theft f lectric current. Mr. Little-To amend the code so s cto include private banking institu ions. -- Mr. Doar-To authorize establish nei-t of municipal courts in cities la ing a >opulation of not less than i,000 and not more than 20,000 in aitants. Mr. DeVoe-To amand the' code eltive to the counties exempt from the general laws providing for cotton veigers. Mr. Has kell-To amend the code as o homestead exemption of persobs ther thar- heads of families. Senator Stackhouse-To guard against thl introdution of the Mexi can boll w sevil into the State. Mr. For i-To fix the salaries of the sheriffs in this State. Mr. Mc~oll -To make the filing own or o1 herwise altering of horses nd mules teeth a misdemeanor. Mr. Der nis-To prohibit the false rarking, ~>randing, stamping or label ing of food products. Mr. Wale-Making it unlawful tC perate any slot machine in this State. Mr. Moses, for Tax Commissioner To require the payment of annual license fees of corporations doing busi ness in this State and report to the secretary of state. Mr. Richards --Relating to the scholarships at Winthrop, providing $100 for each scholarship and prescrib ing the conditions of competition. Mr. D. 0. Herbert-TO provide fol beneficiary scholarships in the Clem son Agricultural College of Souti Carolica. Senator Manning-TO establish Department of Commerce and Immi gration and to provide for the ap pointment; and compensation of a sec retary. Senator Hydrick-To give the rail road commissioners jurisdiction ove: all telephone lines In this State. Senator Raysor-To fix the salariel of county supervisors. Senator Mayfield-To approp.riatt 300 to aid the D. A. R. in erectidg monument to tbe partisan generals 01 the State house grounds. Senator McCull-To incorporate the South Carolina Immigration asso tion. Senator Sharpe-To amend the code relating to education. Senator Mayfield-To amend thi code relating to the oath of apprais Senator von Kolintz-To mark Jir Crow apartments on ferry boats. Senator Raysor--To secure the pu: chase money of property sold by al tacment proceedings. Senator Douglass-To protect ele< tric lines, wires and appartences. Senator Dean--To make the pena: ty for assault with intent to ravisi 30 years. Sena'or Hard m-To provide for co tonseed meal inspection. Mr. Sinkler-To regulate the givir t of security for loans under $25. Mr. Moses-The new medical regul ticfn act. Mr. Johnson-To declare all mun cipal charters perpetual unless othe: wise provided. Senator Mayfield-To test tiL e Southern's lease over the S. C. & C by suit, conducted by the a'torne general. Mr. Lancaster-To allow entire fan ihe:.'the use of milage; tickets. Judiciary Committee-Ceding !ar.i in Richland, York, Spartanburg an Georgetown to the govern ment f( federal buildings. Mr. Logan-To create pension fur for disabled and superannuated firs men. Mr..Cooper-Relating to violatiu of labor contracts. Mr. Bomar-To allow city office] to grant warrants to break into an enter gambling dens in cities of 5,O inhabitants. Mr. Mauldin-To provide for the it vestigation of incendiary fires and fc the better prevention of excessive fl insurance rates. Mr. D. 0. Herbert-To tax dogs 5 cents each, for the school fund. Ways and Means Committee-Gen eral appropriation bill, supp'y bill. Mr. Irby-Pay check system of lh borers' wages. Mr. Dean-Relating to the manage ment of ferries. Mr. Coggesball -To prevent freigh transportation delay. Mr. Youmans-Relating to count courts in certain counties. ,Senator Sheppard-Change in gen eral precinct bill. Senator-Mayfield-To incorporat the Voorhees Industrial school. Senator McIver-To write certal accounts off the books of the Stat treasurer. Senator Mclver-To provide for th disposition of certain funds now I: the State treasury. Senator Warren-To ascertain tb amount of phosphate in the waters 0 the State. Senator Brice-To allow voting ou of established dispensaries. IN THE BEST OF HANDS. Mr. E. J. Watson Appointed to th Commissioner of Immigration. Gov. Heyward announced Tuesda night that he had appointed Mr. E J. Watson commissioner of the nee department of the State government the bureau of commerce, agricultur and immigration. In speaking of th appointment The State says to thos who know Mr. Watson, and they ar not few. this is assurance that Gov Heyward is determined to see tha the department shall be a succe-s Mr. Watson has been tried in work o: a very similar nature and has beer found eminently fitted for the wort and for the responsibilities. The new department of the govern ment of the State is one of the mat ters in which Gov. Heyward has beet interested most deeply. Through thi: medium he hopes to build up th< State and bring money and settler into South Carolina. He took a per sonal interest in the work of th< immigration convention here last fall and seeing the opportunity for effec tive work has chosen a man who 'ha! had experience in promoting the inter ests .of the State, and a man of un bounded energy and enthusiasm. The qualifications exacted by th' law creating this office are that tha commissioner shall have a. good mora character, competent knowledge c matters of commerce, shall be charg ed with the work of promoting agricul tue. manufacturing and other indus tries and to prepare a handbook gis ing a statement of the resources an advantages of the State in such way as to appeal to people who ar dissatisfied elsewhere and are seekin a fertile soil in a temperate climate To these qualitications Gov. Heywar< added that the commissioner must b a business man not in politics an' must devote his entire time to th work. - It is declared wvithout reserva tion that Mr. Watson tills I11 of - th qualifications, and after some deliberr tion has agreed to take the p lace wit the added requirement of giving it hi~ entire attention. The position came unsoli cited-fc Mr. Watson was not an applicant but was arranged through mutu; friends who wishing to see the ne' step taken successfully recommende Mr. Watson to the considerationC the governor who had witnessed til successful efforts of Mr. Watson managing the Columbia Chamber< Commerce the hardest months of it existence and was convinced thati Mr. Watson's hands the departmer of immigration would be -an entir success. Mr. Watson stated that he woul not establish the bureau before tr 1.5th of March, as he has in hand ti opening of the navigation on the Go' garee and he does not want to leas the office of secretary of the Chiambt t of Commerce until that work is ii -augurated. He has had a consultatic - with Gov. Heyward, and will carn -out the wishes of the latter as to tl: general policy of the office, althoug -as yet he has no statement to make;i to the manner in which he will pr< ceed. Mr. Watson was secretary Sthe immigration convention anca member of the executive committ< Sof that organization and his intere: in the work has been of a purely ut selfish nature. As -secretary of the Chamber a Commerce, Mr. Watson became kno'u personally to a great many people in South Carolina on occount of ti a way in which he managed the genet preparations for the reunion ba spring and for the last State tal But before that time he had had wide acquaintance on account oi h work for ten years as city editor The State. which position he held 1. -to last March when he was promoti - to the position -of news editor. II retirement from The State will1 .regretted by his associates, and t~ members of the Chamber of Commer .will find great difficulty in getting 1,efficient man to carry on the wo hich Mr. Watson had established. The Russians Give the Japanese a Very Warm Reception, AND FORCED THEN TO RETIRE From Port Arthur, Which Place They Attempted to Bottle Up With Some Old Worn Out Sbips. A dispatch from Paris says the Rus sian embassey in that city received a communication to the effect that a (Japanese squadron. during the night of February 24, tried to bhck the en trance of Port Arthur harbor. at the same time attacking' Russian war ships there with torpedo boats and trying to set them on tire. The bat 'S tie ship Retvizan, supported by the coast batteries, repelled this attack 0 forced the Japanese to retire and su ceeded in sinking four of their vessels. - The news of this Russian victory was r posted in the lobbies of the hamber e of Deputies and 'the Senate during the sitting Wednesday and caused great p enthusiasm. -i FIVE SHIPS SUNK. - A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from St. Petersburg, sent at - - 11 o'clock Wednesday night, says that :-' on February 23 the Japanese attempt - ed to send four steamers tilled with ex plosives among the Russian fleet in t Port. Arthur harbor. These tire ships did no damage and were themselves r destroyed, two being sunk and two going ashore. Two Japanese boats = - escorting the tire ships were destroyed by Russian guns. A dispatch to the Central News from St.. Petersburg gives another ver n sion of the reported Japanese defeat at Port Arthur, according to. W the Japanese planned to sink e barges in the strait leading frorot h i a r iouter to tihe- inner har'bor of Arthur, thus blocking the exit.t e Russian gun fire, however, sun barges before they arrived at the tended spot.= t A EUSsIAN ACoUNT. A Telegram from Viceroy Alexie= to the Czar says: A. a quarter before - 3 in the morning of Feb 21, numer ous Jz ptnese torpedo boats attempted ' to attack the battleship Retvizan' ands sink large steamers loaded with. -ii dammables. The Retvizan was.the first to observe the torpedo boats-.and opened a strong fire on them. She was supported by the land batteries.; She destroyed two steamers nearsthe entrance of the harbor; they were e! coming directly towards her. . Ope o them went on the Peninsula and other sank under Golden Hall: Retvizan observed four steamers i sinking condition and eight to boats departing slowly to- rejoin e. ? waiting Japanese war ships. So 4 the sailors of the Japanese were drowned. The grounded s er is still burning.. The enemy is served in the odiing of Port Arthur two lines. The Japanese crews saved themselves in boats; and it is possible that some of them were picked up by . the enemy's torpedo boats. --"I am . prceigto examine the coasts. The entrance of the harbor is open. I at- ' tribute the complete derangement of the enemy's plan to the bril~ant ac tion and destructive fire of the Ret vizan. Floating mines are still visible in the roadstead. I have recalled the three cruisers sent in pursuit -of the enemy in order, in the dirst place. to clear the roadstead of floating mines. We had no losses." THE WEATEE FOR IMAECIL fWhat It M1ay Be as Indicated by Records of the Past. -The following data. covering a pe -riod of thirty-three years; have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Charleston, and are issued to show the conditions that have pre" vailed, during March, for the above period of years, but must not be con strued as a forecast of the weather conditions for the coming month. IMean or inormal temperature, 58, degrees. The warmest month was that of 1871, with an average of 61 de rees; the coldest month was that of 1872, with an average of 52 degrees. The highest temperature was 86 de grees, on March 21, 1897; the 10oWest temperature was 24 degrees, on Maref r; 1895. The earliest date on whigh i rst "killing" frost occured in autumn, 1 November 9, 1S86. 'A verage dat-s on '1which first "killing" frost occured in autumn. November 30; average date 'on which last "killing frost occured in spring, March 3; the latest date on which last "killing" frost occurred in spring, April 2, 1l81. Average precipitation for the month, 3.75 inches. Averag6 number of days with .01 pf as inch or more, ten. The greatest monthly precipita tion was .9.'78 inches. in 1872; the least dmonthly precipitation was 0.50 inches ein 1887. The greatest amount of pre ecipitation recorded in any twenty-four '' consecutive hours was 3.14 inches, on eMarch 13-14, 1889. The greatest . ramount of snow fall recorded in any twenty-four consecutive bours (record extended to winter of 1884-85 only),: w as a trace on March 7, 1889. Average - e number of clear days, eleven; partly ~cloudy days, twelve; cloudy days, Ls eight. The prevailing winds have been rom the southwest, twenty-five per cnt. The average hourly velocity of the wind is 11.4: the highest velocity e of thec wind was firty-five miles, from tthe rorth-east, on Marenh 29. 1903. I Big Money for Clemsgon. ~t.dispatch from Columbia to the nCharleston Post says the fertilizer - privilege tax receipls to date are 821, ec 00 in excess of tne receipts up to this ii time last year and equivalent to the t entire inic'me from that tax two - years ago. The t.ral for all of last a year was 8983,00, while to date the - 1904 receipts are $80,000, with the sales of' March expected to be quite p heavy. As this is the principle source dof revenue of Clemson College, the I s friends of that institution will appre e cate this vastly increased revenue. e GL\'ANIED Republican is the n ony kind of a carndidate certain so kcalled Democrats want for the presi dency