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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1908 NO.19 THE STATE WINS) Judge Prichard Refuses to Inter-! fere in the Dispesnary Matter. GRAFT HUNTGOES ON. Whiskey Dealers Who Swindled thef State Will Have to Face the Music or Do Without Their Money That May Be Owed Them By the Old South Carolina State Dispensary Authorities. At Asheville. N. C., on Wednesday Judge Prichard in the United States circuit court denied the petition of Fleischmann & Co., of New York and refused to appoint a receiver for the South Carolina State Dispen sary fund of $SOO,000, against which there are alleged to be claims ag gregating $600,000. The Judge made his announce ment during the afternoon session, after attorneys for the dispensary commission had presented their bill in answer to the sensational charges made in the Fleischmann petition, which was filed in this court a short time ago. t The answer alleges that the claim of Fleischmann & Co. is unjust andI invalid and that there was collusion C and conpsiracy between the plaintiff and another firm to defraud the State and that the State was cheated out of a large sum of money in each of the claims made by .he plaintiff; f it also alleges that Fleischmann & Co. sold to the State a concocktion with a mere trace of whiskey. The answer declared false the al- C legation by Fleischmann & Co. that I the commissioners were wrongfully C withholding the money for their own I Individual interests. The answer de- E nied as false and maliciouss the al- A legation in the complaint which refer red to a conspiracy between Attorney Y General Lyon and the dispensary I commission and demanded proof. ' Shortly after the court convened d for the afternoon session, Judge 6 Prichard announced from the bench that he would not appoint a re- V ceiver for the dispensary, as he felt s, that the funds are now fully protect- E ed. He directed the attorneys to con- P fne their arguments to the question I as to whether this court could as-IE sume jurisdiction, the point being C whether or not this is a suit against j? the State. Mr. D. L. Rountree of t Atlanta, for the commission, consum- S ed the remainder of the afternoonses S sion in argument to establish the m fact that the State is an indispensa- I ble party to the suit. Before the bill of the defendants e, was read, Attorney General Lyon of a South Carolina replied to the allega- n ions made by Fieischmann & Co. relative to the transfer of funds from n he jurisdiction of the court, saying hat the Stae of South Carolina was ot running away, that the allegation was false. He read a concurrent res lution adopted by the hounse'of rep esentatives Tuesday. In the course f the resolution it was stated that the legislature of Souh Carolina in reating the dispensary commission ~ did not consent to suits against the C State for claims as a result of the dispensary muddle.a Just before Judge Prichard an ounced his decision there was a C sharp colloquy between Attorney ~ eneral Lyon of South Carolina and 3 eorge B. Lester of New York and C Alf. S. Barnard, who represent Fleischman & Co. Mr. Barnard ask d for time to prepare answers to the affidavits of the commission. He stated that the commission had invited creditors to come to Colum bia to prove their claims. But at the same time it was known that some 50 or 60 warrants were ready in the office of the attorney general on which the representatives of the reditors would be arrested, and in- a tanced the case of the prepresenta- ! tive for Ullman & Co., who hadi been arrested, charged with fraudp and required to give heavy bond. t Judge Prichard remarked that if e took jurisdiction he would ap-r point a master to sift all charges ofa fraud to the bottom.e The attorney General in reply to MIr. Barnard said: "Of course we hear this cry from those who have defrauder the State. Naturally, when I can catch any of these fellows ir South Carolina, I will arrest them I have no warrant, however, for the Fleischmann represenltatives and I will agree that they shall come to South Carolina to prove their claims and depart unmolested." He added. however, that there was a warrant for the representatives of the Ao heuser-Busch concern. Mr. Mordecai responded that Mr. Farnum, the man referred to, had left the State on business. But he would return arnd meet all charges. Mr. Stevenson. -counsel for the commission, sta~ted there was no mn tention of inveigling men to South Carolina for the purpose of prosecu Judge Prichard then announced that no receiver would be app;amited and arguments on jurisdiction was then begun by Mr. Rountree GOES UP FOR LIFE. From the Lunatic Asyluml to the State Penitentiary. John Beard was convicted at Gainesville, Ga., of murder on last Thursday and ordered sent to the penitentiary for life, for the murder of W. 0. Hammond, his father-in law The killing occurred three years ago. On the first trial Beard entered an insanity plea He was sent to the state sanitariuim at .Mlledgeville Lately he. was declared by the au thorities there ha have been restored to meutal health. He was brought back to Ha!!l county and arraigned for the killing, conviction result PROHIBITION KILLED The House Refuses to Pass the Nash Prohibition Bill W. C. T. U. Delegation Appears in Gallery Prepared to Assault the Legation With Hymns. The Nash bill to provide for State prohibition was killed by the House Thursday, the vote being nearly two to one During the progress of debate on the bill a delegation of W. C. T. U. members appeared in the gallery and took seats They had open hymn books in their hands and it was evi lent that they were prepared to sing ymns at the psychological moment. rhe attention of Mr Nash was called :o their presence, and at his reQuest :he Rev. A. N. Brunson, of the z.Iain treet, M. E. Church, of Columbia, I vent to the gallery and suggested hat it would be better not to make e ny demonstration c Meanwhile Speaker Whaley had in tructed the sergeant-at-arms to y trictly enforce the rules and sup- I ress any demonstration at once. 5 he ladies, however, acceded to the i uggestion of the prohibitionists on he floor and there was no expres- t on whatever t The vote on the motion to strike e ut the enacting words was as fol Dws, the ayes being opposed to the b ash prohibition bill and the nays d a favor of it: 3 Ayes-Speaker Whaley and the ollowing representatives: Ayer, Bal- c ntine, Banks, Beattie, Boyd, Brant- I y, A G Brice, F M Bryan, Cannon, s arson, Carwile, Cosgrove, Cothran, j ox, Croft, Culler, DeVore, Dick, k )ixon, Doar, Dowling, Fraser, Frost, ary, Glasscock, Gyles, Hall, Harley, ro arman, Harris, Harrison, Hughes, o ydrick, Kellahan, Lawson, Legare, s< [cMaster, Miley, Miller, Nickols, h .ickolson, Richardson, Rucker, Saw- b er. Saye, Sellers, Shipp, Slaughter, , . P. Smith, Spivey, Stillmell, Stubbs, 'homas, Todd, Von Kolnitz Van- 1 erhorst, Wade,'Wallace, Wiggins- c 2 Nays-Arnold, Bailey, T. S. Brice, u 7. D. Bryan, Carrigan, Clary, Clink- 0: ales, Courtney, Derham, Dingle, J. T Dodd, Douglass, Epps, Gause, J. n Gibson. Goodwin, Greer, Hardin, w [inton, Johnstone, Jones, Kershaw. w irven, Lane, Lester, Leitner, Mc- a oll, McKeown, Mann, Morrell, Nash, c: esbitt, Niver, Norton, Parker, Pat B rson, Reaves, Richards, Robinson, w carborough, Scruggs. Sharpe, D. L. v, mith, J. E. Smith, Verner, Wanna- n, iaker, Wimberly, Woods, Wyche, w eldell-5 1. The following pairs were announc- i 1: Bethume nay Garris aye; Gibson d, ye, Tatum nay; Major nay, You ians ye; Aull nay, Tompkins aye. g The clincher was then put on theg Lotion to kill. tp ni GOT A MOVE ON HIM di orado Made a Sick Man Run For tI His Life. A tornado swept through the ortheastern portion of Etowah ounty, Alabama, Sunday night. .hile no lives were lost, much dam ge was done to property. At Coate's 0 end, several dwellings were destroy-C :1. The home of Bid McCurdy wast truck and crunibled like an egg dell. A 75-year-old bachelor, broth e of McCurdy, was on what was fought to be his death bed. In S ar the -sick man jumped up and ed from the house and got out of ie way of harm. KEEP TO THE RIGHT. e he Duty of Chaffeurs is to Be en tl the Lookout. ti A decision by the district court of ppeals at Los Angeles, Cal., recent- *g i declares in effect that automobil- o ;ts are obliged to look out for the a edestrians and keep from running a: bem down and that pedestrians can- d ot be charged with contributory e: .egligence if they do not keep out a f the way of automobiles The de ision confirms a judgannt for $7, 00 damages awarded Stanley King a rho had been run down by an au-: y omobile of E. K. Green. t OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE. e h rooklyn Drug Clerk Saw Apparition , of His Daughter. Believing that he had seen the ap- s arition of his daughter and that v his foretold of the nine-year-old gir! uering from scarlet fever Albert t feller, a Brooklyn drug clerk, took t n overdose of morphine and died in o hotel. Moeller is said to have seen u he haunting vision on sunday eve- e ing. He left home on Monday and iothing more was heard of him until r le was dying in the hotel. t r DANCED WITH JACKSON. ies at the Age of One Hundred and Twenty. At Bristol, Va.. Mrs. Mary Ramsey WSood, a native of East Tennessee. I ied Monday at the age of 120 years. ln her youth Mrs. Wood saw George i Washington, Thomas Jefferson and thers of the early statesmen. It is said her best recollection of public men was that of Andrew Jachson, with whom she frequently danced when a girl. Eight Stores Bu-n. Fire yesterday morning swept ,1 Fire early Wednesday morning swept the village of Girard, Ga.. consumiin eight stores, the hotel and several residences. Dr. F. G. Brigham, one I of the most prominent, physicians rushed into a residence to save his. medicine case. He was caught under t.e falmi rno and burned to death. FARNUM WANTEJ "The Beer King" Has Not Beer Arrested, Yet But WARRANT IS ISSUED For His Arrest, and Has Been Out Two Wecks.-His Present Where abouts Is Unknown, But His At torney Scoffs at the Suggestion That Farnum is a Fugitive From Justice. Where is J. S. Farnum? Is he a fugitive from justice? Or is he out on a business trip? Is he a man of such unbusinesslike aethods that his employers do not :now where he is? Is he aware that the dispensary ommission has had issued a warrant harging him with conspiracy? Has he seen no South Carolina .ewspapers in the last few weeks, .as he received no statement from his -ife,, no. notification from the An euser Busch Brewing company? If he did know of the existence of ie warrant, then has he not treated ie commission with contempt in rading service of the warrant? These are the questions propounded ypothetically in the meeting of the ispensary commission on Thursday torning says The State. It was published in newspapers cir 2iating as widely as F. S. Farnum known that the warrant was is ed for him on the 16th day of muary, and the officers of the law ow not his whereabouts. When the commission Thursday sumed its investigations, the case the Anheuser-Busch Brewing as ciation was first on the docket. It d been stated that there would be a >okkeeper from that concern who ould produce books of record. He as not in eridence at 10 o'clock. At ):30 the commission was formally mvened. Three times the marshall, in reg ar court fashion, cried the name the defendant. No response. ree times the name of J. S. Far im was called No responce. It as reported that a lawyer, the same ho had represented W. D. Roy. id others at a former meeting, had >mmunicated with the Anheuser usch association, to inquire if they ished to be present to establish the lidity of their claim. This attor y had not been advised to proceed ith the case. With something of mock distress his tones, Col. T. B. Felder ad 'essed the commission: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: e were hopeful, though not san iine, that Mr. Farnum would be -esent on this occasion. But he is >t. However, I will assume the bur m of proof in this case and will tablish by documentary evidence at the plaintiff has no just claim ~ainst the State." Continuing, Col. Felder said that wished to go just far enogh into e matter to show that this "Bud iser claim" as he referred to it "is eking with filth and fraud and is e of the basest conspiracies on re rd in all the annuals of th'is coun "Under the laws of South Care a," he added, this commission is much'of a judicial tribunal as the preme court itself. This commis on s vested with the right to serve rits and to compel attendance. If .e parties u' ho are notified by regis red mail that the claims are to be :amined fail to present their books, Len this court may proceed against Lem as it sees fit." In coacluding his opening remarks r. Felder said that after consulta on with the attorney general he ight ask the commission to take is action. "Call a case in its order i the docket and when the plaintiffs 'e in default by not being present id when there is prima facie evi ee of guilt as to graft and brib -y, then the attorneys would record reQuest that judgment be entered behalf of the State. There being no answer when the ames of the plaIntiffs were called, :r. Felder put in evidence a card. hich he stated was the legal ac nowledgement of the Anheuser usch Brewing Association that they ad received the registered letter in hich the claimants were notified to he at this time with certain ooks of record and of expenses to low that their claims were just and alid. This notification not only au borized and directed and invited 2e Anheuser-Brewing association on to produce the books, but also rdered them to produce J. 5. Far um as their agent. Except for the ard indicating the receipt of the stter from the South Carolina comn 1ssion. there was no acknowledge 1ent or other statement from the t. Louis brewers. John B. Carr. deputy sheriff, who ras sent to Charleston with the war ant then testified that the paper had een placed in his hands at 10 p. m. v Sheriff Coleman and that he had aken the train at 2.15 a. im. for harleston, that being the most noto ious place of abode and of business *f the said Farnumn. A visit was nade to the abode of J. S. Farnumn .t the Charleston hotel. Farnum as not there. A second visit and earch of the premises was made. Egain no Farnumi. The latter's wife rted that Farnum was away on a usiness trip. Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecal, attorney 'or J. S. Farnum, ca'.led the State on he long distance 'phone Thursday light and stated that he had heard n Asheville the allegation that Far im is a fugitive from justice. 'The ~harge is ridiclous.' said Mr. Mor ecai. 'The fact is that Farnumn is on ml of his regular business trips and n his return to Charleston will sur ..- d,- an giv ndm, and I so stated GIVEN (10UD TERMS. Two Scoundrels Sent to fhe Peni tentiary From Lexington. For Twenty-Five Years Each For Assaulting a Man and Attempting a Worst Crime on a Woman. At the term of the Lexington Court last week the two negroes who some months ago committed an attrocious assault on Mr. and Mrs. Bickley, of that county, were tried and convicted by Judge Wilson to twenty-five years in the Penitentiary One night the two negroes went to thee ountry store kept by the Bick leys, and while one of them asked Mr. Bickley to come outside and sell him some whiskey, the other remained in the store, where Mrs. Bidkley also stayed. A gun was fired and Mr. Bickley was shot. At the sound of the gun the negro inside seized Mrs. Bickley and attempted a horrible crim e. While his wife was in the clutches of this brute, Mr. Bickley, wounded and bleeding, staggered into the store and reached for his shotgun in the corner. The negro made his es cape, however. The alarm was given and the two negroes were sought all over that territory for days. When finally captured sentiment against them was still high, but a lynching was prevented. At the trial each negro denied any knowl edge of the presence of the other that l night and told a story quite different from the evidence put up by the State. Each of them was indicted on two counts, assault with intent to kill Mr. Bickley and assault with in tent to ravish Mrs. Bickley, and both d we.e convicted on both counts. Judge Wilson, in passing sentence, congratulated the county of Lexing ton that a lynching had been averted under strong provocation and that justice had been done, regardless o' the fact brought out in the evidence that the Bickleys themselves were violators of the law in selling liquor. LEVER AFTER MONEY For Soil Demonstration Work in Or- a angeburg, Lee and Sumter. s( TheWashington cnrrespondent of the a News and Courier says a hearing of c onsiderable Impoitance to the peo- t< ple of Orangeburg, Sumter and Lee y ounties was had in Washington on t) onday afternoon before the House ommittee on agriculture. Represen tative Lever, in whose district the three counties named lie, secured the presence of Messrs. . A. Bonsteel T and Frank Bennett, experts in soil survey work in the department of agriculture, in an effort to secure an appropriation with which to carry S on work already commenced in those ' ounties. Messrs. Bonsteel and Bennett, who ave been in South Carolina on fre- S uent occasions, and who have done ' onsiderable work in Mr. Lever's hi District, demonstrated to the comn mittee just what the soil in the coun ties named can produce under prop-a r conditions anu~ how much the farmers living in those counties ~. ould be benefited by a continuation f the demonstration work already n ndertaken there. Mr. Lever believes that hi will be a successful In securing an appropria- T tion with which to carry on the work. ~ t will mean much to the farming el nterests of all the counties in the a' h seventh district. THE NEW PISTOL LAW.t The Bill Firing Size of Gun a Man ti ti staiy C'arry. s< The new pIstol hill, which will be ome- a law before the Leg1slature adjourns provides that from and af ter the first day of July, 19"8, i t shall be unlawful for any one to carry about the person, whether con- ti ealed or not, any pistol !ess thain twenty inches long and three pounds C n weight, and it shall be unlawfu: for any person, firm or corporation o manufacture, sell or offer for sale. lease, rent, barter, exchange or trans - port for sale or into this State, any pistol of less length and weight. Any violation of this section shall be pun-. ished by a fine of not more thani one hundred dollars or imiprir ment for not more than thirty da- an case of a sale by a perso. - ' corporation, the sum of on' hr - . dollars shall be forfeited t- -. - d the use of the school funt, the g ounty wherein the violation takes o place, to be recovered as other fines a and forfeitures. TORNADO IN TENNESSEE. t c One Man Killed, Several Hurt and Two Homes Destroyed. A tornado swept over Pond Creek j' Valley, Tennessee, late Saturday 1 night, killing James M. Cassidy and ~ injuring five other persons. Cassidy's t home, which was at Blue Springs, 8 ~ miles from Sweetwater, was demol shed. His wife was among the in-C jured. The home of Edward Everett, at Pond Creek, four miles from Sweet- ~ water, was swept away. Three of his children and his wife were Injured. verett himself escaped unhurt. Damage was also done at Philadel phia, Tenn. Several hcmes in the path of the storm were damaged. The tornado moved in a northeasterly direction.C Heavy Damage Reported. A cyclone is reported to have done damage over a territory of consider a~le extent north of Brookhaven. Miss., on last Friday.t Ito the attorney general, Mr. Lyon.j "Any charge that Farnum has closed out the greater part of hisi Ibusiness in Charleston and in comn Ipany with his family, has left the V Saeis absurd and I wish to deny DEATH IN A CYCLONE Six Persons Killed Outright and Several Others Injured. Laid Waste a Strip of Farmin, Coun try Three Quarters of a Mile Wide and Several Miles Long. Six persons were killed outright Friday afternoon by a cyclone which laid waste a strip of farming coun try three-quarters or a mile wide and several miles long just north of Wos ;on, Miss. Four persons were probably fa tally wounaed by the storm, and nany others were slightly hurt when heir homes were blown down. The oiiowing persons were kiied: Mrs. Ben Martin and her small hildren. Dave Martin. Fatally injured: Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Maddor. Unknown negro man Seriously injured: Wm. Allen, Miss Allen. The tornado struck about four 'clock. For a distance of twenty niles in a northqsaterly direction he wind tore a pathway nearly a aile wide, partly or wholly destroy ag nearly every building in this rea. Scores of dead farm animals lit red the storm's track. The resi. encr of Mr. and Mrs. Maddox was lown completely off the premises nd Mrs. Maddox's back was broken. A negro was found fatally injured i the debris of Robert Littleton's rm house. The cotton gn and store f Ras Matthews were almost wholly estroyed. At Georgetown buildings were lown down and at Hazelhurst, two aw mills were destroyed, many mnces and several small buildings -ere blown over, and some loss of fe is reported Messengers reached Hazelhurst tte Friday evening from the region ept by the storm in quest of phy clans, all those available at that int going to the scene. Consider ble damage is reported to have oc irred at Millsays, twelve miles )utheast of Hazelhurst. - Darkness settled down so quickly ter the cyclone that only an in )mplete estimate of the destruction life and property was obtained. 'en in carriages are driving through e district offering aid to. the suf rers. t HELD FOR TRLAL. he Alleged Safe Cracksmen Given a Preliminary Hearing. J. T. Leonard, C. Frank Shaw, Jas. :anlan, Charle Williams and Henry Hallon, the alleged safe crackers ho have been in 3ail at Lancaster nce the arrest at Van Wyck, a onth ago, were given a preliminary aring before United States Comn issiner Paul Moore Thursday. The arge was ro~bbery of the postoffice Dunn, N. C., on Dec. 28, 1907. The examination was conducted by nited States Postoffice Inspectors regory, Bulla and Mosby. A large umber of witnesses in and near unn and Smithfield, N. C., were n tendance at the hearing. he witnesses for the government ere all cross-examined by the ac ised the questions being mainly~ hed by Scanlan, who never to'ok s rIght hand -from his mouth to sep a snap shot picture from bcis~ ~ken of hIm. The evidence against tem was that when shortly after e robbery at Dunn they had in elr posession dynamite caps, fuse. >ap and other articles used in -acking safes. It .was also found that they were 1 seen in and near Dunn a short me before the robbery. At the con usion of the hearing the commis oner announced that he would send e case up to the United States ourt for tral. ourt for trial. t HUMAN LOTTERY heatre Management Advertises to Give Away a Little Baby Incensed at what they term an ins-.1t to motherhood," certain wo-~ en in Minneapolis, Miss, are band ig together in an effort to compel ae manager of a local theatre to esit from his denounced plan of iving away chances on a six-weeks Id child to all women who attend matinee performance at the play oue in the near future, and as 2. ist resort declare they will attempi: secure an injunction from the Durt to prevent it The theatre maintains that It is a gitiate advertising scheme in hich many women who wish a child ill be more than willing to partic ate. The baby has been provided. d if nothing happens to prevent. be human lottery will take place us utlined, the child going to the hold r of the lucky number, but the in ignant mothers say that the "san tity of the American home" is at take and they think they can stop he lottery. t NINE MINERS PERISH. Ciled by Explosion in West Virgin ia Coal Mine. Nine miners Thursday met sudden teath in the New River Valley col ir known to miners as the Lower oone Mine, near Hawys Nest, W. ia. in an explosion that partly vrecked the mine. About 25 men were in the mine t the time of the explosion. Those ho escaped suffered only slight in ury. One of the bodies was thrown ut of the mine and into a tree sev ral yards from the shaft. Bowles, me of the dead men, who was blown iown the incline was the only man iot instantly killed Ihis arms and NEW LABOR LAW As It Passed the House on Last Thursday Morning IN PLACE OF OLD LAW Which Has BeenDeclared Unconstitu tional By Both Federal and State Courts-It Has Been Designed to Stand the Test of the Courts and to Regulate the Labor on the Farms. Besides killing the prohibition bill the House Thursday acted on anot'aiir very mportant measure, passing to third reading without debate the bill prepared by the judiciary committse providng a labor contract system to take the place of the law declarei unconstitutional by both Federal and State courts. The full text of the bill as it passed the House as fol lows: Section 1. That any person who shall hereafter contract with another to render him personal service of any kind, and shall thereafter fraudulent ly, or with malicious intent to injure his employer, faii or refuse to ren der such service as agreed upon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 2. That any person who shall hereafter contract to secure rom another personal service of any kind and to compensate him there for. and shall thereafter fraudulent ly, or with malicious intent to in jure his employee. fail or refuse to vscure such se-vice or to make com pensation as .greed upon shall be leemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 3. That the failure of ither party to such contract to per ormMthe obligations assumed by him bLereunder. without sufficient cause md to the injury of the other, shall e prima facie evidence. in prosecu :ions under sections 1 and 2 that he iolated such contract fraudently and 'vith malicious intent to injure the ther party. Section 4. That any person who C ;hall hereafter contract with another :o render personal service of any V ind to him, and shall thereafter raudulently and with malicious in :ent to injure the employer, produce l Ldvances in money or other things 0 >f value from him, with intent not c :o render the service agreed upon, n .nd who shall thereafter with like c ntent fail or refuse to perform the ervice agreed upon, shall be deem d guilty of a misdemeanor. Proof f the fact that the employee enter d into the contract, without suffi ent cause to the injury of the em-F )loyer, shall be prima facie evidence V >f the offence herein described and it leclared a misdemeanor Section 5. That any person who hall hereafter contract with anoth r to receive from him personal ser ice of any kind, to compensate him 2 herefor and to make advances to im and shall thereafter fraudulent-a y and with Intent to injure the t ~mployee secure the benefit of such ervice in whole or in part, and witha ike intent fail or refuse to make .he compensation or advances agreed ipon, shall be deemed guilty of .a nsdemeanor. Proof of the fact that he employer entered into the con ract, received the benefit of thet ~mployee's service, in whole -or mn art, and failed to make the compen ation or advances agreed upon, with- ' ut sufficient cause, to the injury of he employer, shall be prima facde evi ence of the offense herein described 3.d declared a misdemeanor. Section 6. The contracts referred o in this act may be either verbalq r in writing; if in writing they must >e executed with the formalities re luired by section 355 of the Code, L D., 1902; if verbal, they must be vitnessed by at least two disinter- 2 ~sted witnesses; and the terms of :he service contracted for must not ~xceed one year. Section 7. That upon conviction y n a court of competent jurisdiction1 f any person charged with any vio- p ation of this act, the person so con- t icted shall be punished by a fine i: aot exceeding $100, or by Imprison- I nent not exceeding 30 days for each i >ffense. i Secction S. That this act Is not in-i ended and shall not be construed to protect any of the parties to, or pun- f ish the violator of, any contract or matter connected therewith, where a Lhe inducement or consideration of a such contract is money or other thing of value advanced to the em- t ployee prior to the actual commence ment uff service thereunder All such I contracts are hereby prohibited an-.l c declared null and void. Section 9. That all acts and parts e f acts inconsisteilt with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 5 Section 10. 'ihat this act shall go 1 into effect immediately upon ap proval by the governor. t HIE PROTECTED HER. iarried His Cousin to Prevent Her Marrying Another. A special to The Augusta Chroni- I c from Albany, Ga., says the con- 1 tractiug parties to a marriage Sun dy were Miss Lemmie Giddens and Mr. B. T. Giddens, both of Worth county. .uiss Gidden's father objected to her receiving the attentions of a cer tain young man of the neighborhood. He ordered his daughter to remain in the house day and night. B. T. Gidens, a third cousin, went to her father, and offered to co-operate in the plan to save her from the objec] tionable suitor.1 Young Giddens kept his part of1 the bargain so far as other men were1 concerned, but he construed the: agreement liberally in favor of him elf and married the gtirlt THE APPELT BILL To Impose a Tax of $5,000 or Liquor Drummers. Passes. the Senate by a Large Ma Jority-It Will Exclude Wh1s key Drummers From the State. At the night session of the senate Thursday Mr. Appelt's bill providing for a license tax upon liquor drum mers passed a third reading and was rdered sent to the house, but not until it was amended by providing that the tax shall be $5,000 instead >f $1,000 as proposed in the original bill. The bill was taken up under the ead of special orders shortly after :he night session was convened. Be 'ore there was any debate, Senator 3raydon moved to strike out the en icting words, the vote on that notion being as follows: Yeas (to kill the bill)-Bass, 3lack, Clifton, Earle, Hough, Laney, 1aysor, Stackhouse and Williams. Nays (for the bill)-Appelt, lease Brice, Brooks, Carlisle, Car )enter, Crouch, Gibson, Griffin, Har in, Harvey, Holliday, Johnson, dauldin, McGowan, McKeithan, Otts, ikler, Smith, Sullivan, Talbert, 'oole, Townsend Mr. Rogers wanted no $1,000 li ense issued in any prohibition coun y He did not want to li'ense drum aers because they may be debarred y federal legislation. Mr. Appelt fought this and waited ds bill kept intact. Senator Crouch was strenuous in is. support of the bill and favored $5,000 license. Mr. Carlisle said the courts have eld that a license fee will stand e tests of the courts and he fav red the bill. Mr Rogers' amendment to prohibit tenses in prohibitio.n counties was illed Mr. Courch had the license fixed t $5,000 per county for soliciting quor orders, which is deemed ab ,lutely prohibitive. Mr. Rogers was persistent and anted Marlboro county excluded -om the bill No license to sell li or has ever been issued in that yunty for 50 years, and he se,*irusly pposed any and every license sy Im Mr. Brice said a drummer could ow solicit liquor orders in dry yuntles and as be saw it the prop ition was simply to collect a li mnse from outside drummers wh ow solicit orders without paying a mt and he felt the $5,000 license ould keep drummers out of the ry counties Dr. Black was opposed to any sor: license; he was not in favo' of ese drummers coming here at al! :e felt that this license would give ie semblance of authority to solic business. He wanted them barredl 'om the State. Mr Rogers' amendment exempting :arlboro county from the provisio1 Sthe bill was adopted 1of a vote of 0 to 11. .The bill was amen ic- ro not to apply to Lancaster as well. Mr. Raysor offered an amendmnent >make it a criminal offense to silic orders. That he urged would void the objections as t.o a license rstem. Mr Otts thought this would not. :and the tests of the courts. The .aysor amendment was kilhed. The bill was finalty ordere.1 sent >the house providing for a $5,000 cense for drummers soliciter~ Ii uor orders for interstate dipinent 'his license is applicable in eaceh >unty in which such interstate shirp tent may be solicited. Senator Ar elt thinks his bial will do m:uch to ill the promiscuous soliciti'ig of li uor orders, which he declare.1 had ecome a nuisance in his secrton. t THIEVES RIFLED. SAFE d Got Nearly One Hundred Thous and Dollars Out of It. The Columbia Record says three oung men of the Olympia mill vi: ige-Claude Lawhorne, Marshal! arker and Tom Grimsley--are in se county jail, charged with break g into the store of Magistrate S. I. iley on the Bluff road, and taking rom the safe the sum of $876 leav i behind the amount of $74.50 i silver. Lawhorne has been em loyed at the store as a salesman :r about eight weeks. He saw the money counted out nd deposited in the safe Saturday vening and admits having had in his ossession a slip of paper bearing be combination of the safe. During fair week Mr. Riley lost a lunch of keys. containing, among thers, the keys to the door of the tore. Sunday night, as he was tarting to church, these keys were rought to him by Marshall Parker. rho claimed that he and Tom Grims y had found them near the reser 'olr. -s Mr. Riley pocketed the keys and rent on to church. When he got ack home he was informed by Law orne that during the evening some ne had entered the store, unlocking he side door, and had robbed the afe of $876, gaining entrance to he strong box by operating the comn ination, instead of blowing it opeil -eggmeu fashion. AN DROPPED DEAD nd the Shock on Seeing Him Killed His Neice. At Millville, N. 3., Thursday, Rollin ficklesonl, a well known oyster ship >er, dropped dead Thursday as he tepped from a train on his return iome from Savannah, where he had een ill from typ~hoid fever. The yody was taken to the home of a rother near the railroad and when tildred Nickelson, a niece, saw It ;he collapsed and died in a short line.t NEARLY FREEZES To Death in His Own Refrigerator an Atlanta, Ga. DOOR SHUT ON HIM And W. H. White, Jr., Had Artic Adventure in his Ice House, Where He Had Gone to See How the 'Thermometer Was Working and if the Meats Were In Good Condi tion. This is the story of how an Atlan ta man was lost in the artics Sunday morning and kept himself from freez ing to death only by dragging the forequarter of beef frantically back and forth for more than an hour as told by' the Atlanta Journal. On last Sunday morning shortly after ten o'clock W. H. White, Jr.. of the White McLendon company, wholesale dealers in meats, stepped into the refrigerator of his ware house at 1 and S East Wall street, for the purpose of seeing what de gree his thermometer registered. No sooner was Mr. White inside than the door of the ice house banged and the spring lock clicked fast. From then until 11 o'clock he had no need to consult the thermometer to know the temperature. "I have discovered the north pole," he said shortly after his release. "and I can tell you it's a bad thing to hunt for." While Mr. White was workfiig his hardest to keep up a faint spark of warmth in his blood, his carriage with Mrs. White In it was awaiting him in front of Durant's restaurant on Alabama street. He had called at the restaurant a few moments be fore to take James S. Gaines and Ars. Gaines for a morning drive. Mr. Gaines was slightly delayed so Mr. White said: "I think I'll drop by the warehouse while we're waiting and have a look at the mercury. Be back in a mm ute." When the minute had passed and twenty more hadnfollowed the ladies grew uneasy. By eleven o'clock Mr. 3-aines yielded to their anxiety and set out to find the trouble. In the meantime a strange and, for the time being a terrible drama was being enacted In that ice house. Anyone who could have peeped in at he time would have seen a white aced man lighted by the misty. blie of a solitary incandescent globe rao ing from one' side of the box to the other with a huge quarter of beef on his shoulder. He would hang the beef first upon one hook and then apon another, all the while swinging his arms high above his head and do ing a thousand and one . Swoboda :tunts. "It was either this or freeze," ex plained Mr. White. "If 'a man is iard at work he can live In such a refrigeratort hree or four hours, but f he stands still he will pretty soon e like one of those petrified animals hat geologists dig up in northern ussia. And so back and forth he tugged he beef until the end of his Impris nment It looked like a soup bone hat had done duty three days. Once a telegram messenger boy passed on the alley on which a tiny side window of the refrigerator op ans. Mr. White heard him whistling nd with all his might he shouted nd beat upon the sides of the ice ouse. But the boy kept on his way an-eeding. Then he began to think what might happen. He concluded t first that someone, was playing a oke on him and then he decided hat pretty soon the policeman of he beat would pass and seeing the keys in the front door would Iock :hinks up and go away. He conjectured that in the mean-. time Mr. Gaines and the ladies would ecide that he had been detained on business and would take a prelimi aary drive over town. However, he :night view the situation. it looked uopeless and he remembered all the stories he had read of travelers being buried under the snow and freezing to death with no earthly -sound to greet them, -except .the. lugubrious iowl of far away packs of ivolves. dvery detail of his strange prison fell Into harmony- with such roman es. The incandescent globe cloaked in its chill fog'shot forth fantastiC rays that seemed like the aurora borealis and the- huge blocks of* Ice that hemmed'him -in were for all the world like the mou'ntains of Lapland. By the time the .quarter of beef had been frazzled .to'g'aunt skeleton Mr. Gaines arrived. Inside the store e heard the steady beating against the walls and pretty soon recognized his friend's voice in the muffled shout for help. Mr. White never stopped to see what the thermometer registered when the door was finally pried open and he stood once again in the tem perate zone. "I don't believe there's a ther mometer with enough notches on It to tell the story," he said. SEVEN ARE CREMATED. Collapse of House Causes Flames to Destroy Whole Family. By the collapse of the house of Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bed ford City, 'Va., the building was fired and destroyed the whole family, consiting of himself, wife and five children, burned to death. The fam ily was sitting with the corpse of a child that died on Sunday when the building fell in. The Kentucky Deadlock.' The joint assembly of -Kentuky Itook one ballot for United States sen ator on Friday. which resulted as fol lows: Beckham 58; Bradley, 57;