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VOL. XXIII MANNLNG, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1909 NO. 51 OUT IN THE COLD No Ceasus Jobs for Democrats In this State. WILL GO TO NEGROES And Those White Men Who Are Wiling to Help President Taft BgIzd rp a White Republican Party in the South and Can Get the Bosses toO. K. Them. The Washington corresponder of The News and Courier says appli cants for positions as supervisors of the census in South Carolina should apply to L W. C. Blalock and J. G. Capers. For some time The News and Courier correspondent has made repeated efforts to ascertain what line of policy Director Durand, of the census bureau, would follow with regard to the appointment of census supervisors in the South. es pecially in South Carolina. Mr. Du rand has apparentlY been as much in the dark as any one else, but grad ualy little by little his plans are unfolding. To members of the South Carolina delegation in congress, who have importuned Mr. Durand for some in diostion as to what he would do. the latter has been exceedingly stin gy with his information. A few days ago. however. it was learned through one of the South Carolina member:" that Democrats are to fare very poor ly when the appointments are made. if. indeed, any at all are recoguizea; that an appllitions. whether from Democrats or Republicans. must have the Blalock-Capers "OK" be fore they will be given considera tion; and that lastly, in counties like Beaufort and Charleston. where there is a large negro population. the latter are to be rewarded with appointment as enumerators in many of the sections where the negroes I outnumber the whites. Representative Patterson. who saw Director Durand a few days ago about the. matter, Informed the dl rector that it would not do to ap point negro enumerators. and he further informed him that so far as the white people of Bedufort and other counties in South Carolina are concerned. they would not stand for E it. It was then practically decided that negroes should work only In negro sections and white men in white sections. It came out in the s Interview that Capers and Blalock p would probably advise all appli- n mants before nnal action. b Mr. Capers has acted with con- a mderable courtesy to the members of , the delegation who have approached o him about the matter, taking into a consideration the fact that he could t: hardly be supposed to fail in with -r their plans for the appointment of r Democrats. There is no fault there- h fore with him. .i .From all over South Carolina ap- v pllcbnts for these places are pouring t In, but no appointments would be made, this correspondent was in- l formed, before October 1. t P. H. McG- a ATTACKS TARIFF MEAm-RE. t chamip carzk Prepares Statement for Representative Champ Clark. of Missouri, minority leader at Wasn Ington, is preparing a statement dea. ing with the tariff bill as It passed the House. as amended by the Sen ate and as finally agreed to in een ference and adopted by the House. The etatemenzt will be sent out by the Democratic campaign committe. Mr. Clark endeavors to show that the bill can not. be called revision downward as the people were prom ised, and that It is more protection in spots than it is a tariff for rev enue. And. furthermore. the bill. in Mr. Clark's opinion is not a reve nue measure pure and simple, but rather a measure authorizing bonds to raise revenue to meet the expen ditures of the government. This feature of the bill. It Is claimed by the Democrats. is a con fesion on the part of the Repub licans who formed it that It will net produce sufficIent money to run the government. SCORES WITNESS SUICIDE. Young Man Wounded in Effort to Save His Friend. A hundred passers-by in a bus! ness street at Albany, Ga.. a few days ago saw Homer Santipher, aged 24, shoot himself in the breast with a pistol after a friend. Walter Kea ton, had vainly struggled with the young man to prevent the act. Keaton was shot through the left band in a desperate effort to deflect a bullet Santipher tried to send into his own body. Keaton's wound pre vented him from saving his friend. The two men were sitting quietly together talking when Santipher snddenly jumped to his feet. cried. "I! believe I will kill myself." and pulled his pIstol. The second shot he fired struck beneath his heart and he will die.I Fight Over Cards. At 7rwin. Tenn.. Friday evening. Solomon Edwards was shot and kill ed; his son. W. A. Edwards. was wounded, and Frank Miller receiv ed a pistol ball in his breast. Frank and Jake Miller. brothers, are charg ed with having done the shooting. Both are In lall. The trouble arose SERIOUS AFFRAY TWO MEN SHOT IN A HOTEL BY A POLICE OFFICER. The Officer Was Caled by the Pro prietor of the Hotel to Stop a Row in the Hotel. A dispatch from Asheville. N. C.. says Paul Cameron ( cashier of the Bank of Hillsboro. N. C.. and John Hill Bunting, a traveling salesman of Wilmington. N. C.. were shot in the.r room at the Gladstone hotel of Black Mountain. 11 miles from that city, about 2 o'clock Saturday morning by Policeman F. C. Wat kins. of that town. and are now at the Mission Hospital. Asheville. Bunting Is expected to die from the effects of a wound in the abdomen. while Collins. though shot under the beart. is expected to recover. Policeman Watkins. who came in Saturday and surrendered to the au tboritles of Asheville. and was plsac e-d under a $1.000 bond, pending ievelopments, claims that he was alled from bed by the proprietor )f the hotel, who stated that the nen were creating a distubrance in :heir room. cursing and threatening :he guests of the hotel. When he reached the hotel. the >oliceman claims that he heard the nen using the language attributed to hem. that on entering the room he was attacked by Collins and Bunting who upset the lamp, and that he Irew his revolver and shot In the Larkness to protect himself. Wat zins says that he fired twice and he men fell away from him. A ight was secured and Collins and unting were seen lying on the floor if the room. both bleeding profuse F. The wounded men are responsi >le citizens, and of high standing in heir respective communities. Tele ohne messages to Black Mountain eveloped many conflicting rumors bout the case. Friends from the ection where Collins lives say that rhen his condition warrants It, he rill make a statement which will brow a different light on the case. ,t the Mission hospital it was stated hat Bunting could not recover. He led later. The two men were drink ag. THE INMATES ESCAPE. aut the House Almost Wrecked by Lightning Stroke.4 A dispatch from Dillon to The tate says a serve thunder storm arsed over that section Thursday Ight. The lightning struck the ome of Mr. S. D. Jordan in the ortheastern part of the town, and hile none of the family. consisting f Mr. Jordan. wife, two daughters nd niece, were seriously injured. bey were all fearfully saaken up. he bo.t struck the chimney of one Dom. demolishing it. tore a great ole in the roof, through the ceiling fto a closet. There It seemed to dl ide, one fork going to the right. be other to the left between the I lastering and front weatherboard-1 ag, the bolt passing to the left rareling the hal, eorng no dam ge save to the mirror of a hatracz. nd passing Into the adjoining room, rhere a heavy washstand was brown forward against a table. The full force of the explosioa xpended itself on the front win ow:, the sash of which, the screen. be frame work and weatherbearding. round and below look as though a romb had exploded at that spc/.. )ne piece of timber was d -iven across the room into the plaster n~g of the opposite wall with such orce that it was withdrawn with onsiderable difficulty.* Mrs. Jordan was asleep In a bed rithin a few inches of the window. and while terribly shocked, she wmi able to give the alarm to Mr. Jor Ian that the house was on fire, a lerce blaze springing up the tide if the window. A pitcher of water n the room enabled them to extin ~uish the flames before they could nake any headway. The freakaish fluid played queer ,ranks. All around, 'the silvered >ack of the hall mirror shows the nost beautiful fern like traceries. ' metal handle of an umbrella was >iown off and melted and the screen irindow in its metal parts showed he same effect of the great heat. -loles were bored through the wood tnd plaster, the whole presenting the ippearance of some of the houses as seen by the writer in Charles'on luring the war within the shell dis -rct. The escape of the family was simply marvelous.* RITCHIE KILLED) BY TRAIN. Run Over by Blue Ridge Special Near Anderson. Robert M. Ritchie. a white man of '5 years of age. was run over and killed by a train near Pendle ton on the Blue Ridge railway at an early hour Friday morning. The train was an excursion train on its return trip from Asheville. On Ritchie's body was found 314S In coney and near him was a satch el. His body was horribly mangled. being cut nearly in two. He was unmarried and lived near where the accident occurred. s Row to Remote Them. Dishes that have brown marks from use can be made as good as new by putting them In a pan with one an done-half gallons of cold wa ter a.'d one half cupul of soda, put on th-: back of the range, and let boil about aifteen minutes, then rinse well, and the marks will have on CUT IT OUT Drug Stores In Many Towns Selling Near Beer IN VIOLATION OF LAW Wagon Loads of the Stuff Being Bandled by the Drug Stores in Greenville-The Drink Contains Three Per Cent of Alcohol and Intoxicates. The Columbia Record says tV have found a soothing balm for pro hibition pain up in Greenville in the form of a sort of near beer known as Wurtburger Malt, which is destined to become rapidly pop ular throughout the State if its seiz ure is not ordered by the State ad ministration. A Columbian in Greenville a few days ago saw a two-horse load of the stuff in barrels being unloaded at the rear of one of the Main street drug stores, and investigation disclosed that this supply was ex pected to last this particular store only three days. and that it was be Ing sold at scores of places through out the city at 15 cents a bottle, and was eagerly sought as a substitute for beer. He was informed that the Green rille sheriff and mayor had agreed that it could be sold as a tonie re- r gardlems of its being used as a rev rage, though the dispensers of it 1 were cautioned not to allow it to C be drunk on the premises, and It is aot being kept on ice. The Record further says that 9 :halrman Murray of the dispensary d ommitsson frankly stated Thirs- d lay that his wholesale drug company a selling this malt in various parts Af the State, but he was not advised hat It was being sold as a beverage | )r used as such. The Columbia P truggists are not selling it. beins ldered last spring to cut it out. The drink contains three per cent P )f alcohol, and Attorney General Ly- 3 i Is under the impression that he I mas rendered an opinion aganst the d ale of it under the name it now | ears. but he could not get at his t( < ecords handily Thursday morning h o confirm this. 0 Any way. If the stuff contains any & mount of alcohol, and is being used -r LS a beverage, whether sold as such C r not. its sale is in violation of law. ti nd the renders are liable to the .enalty under the new law provid g for a fine of not less than $100 P 'or the first offese. and imprison ment without fine for from one to h Ie years for subsequent violations. If this is the same n'ar-beer that t s being sold in Georgia it should t e cut out. It is as bad or worse an lager beer, and should not be Llowed to be sold anywh-sre in the tate. The Governor should have S e matter looked after at once. STABEED DURING PLAY. fIle Dazie Unable to Assist Company Because of the Accident. b Mile. Dazie, an acress, will not be $ ble to assist her company in the If roduction of a pantomime -fr some ce ime, following a serious stab wound |g he received in the breast in full a -ew of the audience in a theatre at r tockaway Beach. N. Y- t< Mile. Daxie's jealous rival on the |b ~tage was supposed to stab her to jA he heart with a dagger, and for j, his purpose two weapons were em-1 >oyed, one with a shin'ag steel jg lade to impress the a.dience and he other with a rubber blade for 5 ~he actual use of the jealous rival. I t In some manner the rival. Mile. Lna, grasped the wrong dagger at it he critical time and plunged the I. teel blade into the breast of MIle. a azie, inflicting a wound four inches a ong. The audience on hearing thea shriek of the wounded actress and y seeing the blood, became wildly ex-t ited, but was calmed by a state nent from the stage manager. Doctors in the audience dressed i he wound, and said that while it ras not mortal, it was sufficientlyt erous to prevent the actress' publie ~ apearance for some time to come. Freakish Work of Lightning. t Lightnlng did some freakish work I at the home of Mr. David Strother at Johnson Wednesday. Beginning ~t a corner of the house it tore up the weather boarding and knocked off plastering. Darting from the up per story into the kitchen it 'what tered the safe door and did injury to other wood work. A negro girt I was in the kitchen washing dishes but was not even shocked. neithe.' were Mr. and Mrs. Strother, who were in the house as the electric cur rent ran from room to room. Bobber and Pursuer Dead. Following the bold and partially sncessful robbery of the First State Bank of White Bear. Minn.. Henry Paul, the robber, and Fred 'irkins. one of the pursuing cit! zens. were' shot and instantly killed and William Butler. of the posse, was shot through the abdomen, and is said to be dying. One other man received a wound in the thigh and still another was shot through the wrist. Used His Gun. While on their way to church Wednesday night near Renno. Lau rns county. Pearl Gist and Bubb Golden. negroes. engaged in a pistol duel. both using Iver Johnson "guns.'' with the result that Gold en was left dead in the road with a bullet through the heart. Gist was WANTED MONEY AND THREATENED TO BLOW UP A RAILROAD TO GET IT. A Very Hot Letter Written by Him to the President of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. Tbis is a declaration of war. My life is openly staked on the result. for I am prepared to meet you at iny time and place you may name. rhe weapons I shall use are dyna mite and other high explosives." Thus wrote Abram C. Eby, mayor and referee in bankruptcy, of Burke -flle. Va.. to the "president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadel phla." on July 23, naming $45.000 ts the ransom for the safety of the t allroad. its stearships and the trav lling public and therwise threaten ng the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fol owing a carefully laid plot of the r ederal postal detectives. Eby was f rrested, while in company of Os- j rald J. Derousse. chief clerk to Pres- t dent McRae. who acted for the lat- 0 er in Inveigling Mayor Eby to Phil ,delphia. He was given a hearing eforo United States Commissioner n ,raig and held In $10,000 bal for n ,eptember term of court. 14 At the hearing Wm. L. Calvert, ostoMce inspector, of Richmond. 'a., furnished evidence showing that f :by mailed threatening letters on g be Richmond and Charlotte Rail- d Dad postoMce. h All through the hearing Eby sat F nmoved, and said simply that he IC Duld not furnish ball. Is In his letter Eby said he would n teet no one except the president or n, )me high oMcial of the road. He d esignated the sign of a secret or- = er to be used in the insertion of a sI personal" as an answer in the al .Ichmond Times-Dispatch. A "personal" was Inserted by ,I stoffice detectives and Eby's de- di iand of $150 and transportation to R hiladelphia was acceded to through st :r. Derousze. Eby reached PhIladel- st bia Wednesday night and wrote to p1 :r. Derousse, making an appoint- t Lent to meet him at noon Thurs- ec iy. About 12:30 o'clock the men fc et, and Mr. Derousse took Eby o i the Third National Bank- where vo e secured a certifed check for $30, )0 and $300 n cash. These he of- im red Eby. but the !atter refused R tying: "Keep them for awhile. ' cl hIef Postal Inspector Cortelyou fe ten made the arrest. pl Inspector Calvert said: ta "Mr. Eby is not crazy. He has tii ug entertained a spite against the 01 ennsylvania Railroad. His father tb ?Id stock in a branch road in Vir nia. and Mr. Eby believes that by lo te reorganization of the road ai trough the Reading and Pennsyl- it; mnia influence his father lost some is 200.000." It it: [NGULAR CASE OF MR. HARRIS h4 'y His Friends Think He Has Not hi Been Guilty of Any Crininal Act. I Ther are no further developments the Calhoun Harris alleged em ~zzlement case at Anderson, other an that several friends put up the Si 2500 bond, and he has been re ased. The accountants are still iecking his books in their cotton II office and have not announced my further Irregular results. Har-K s secured an expert accountant rep'resent him In the audit of the tl ooks, but the accountants left nderson W..ednesday afternoon s ithout taking part In the work. h he accountant claims that he was t Iven no show; that his duty as inted out by auditors of the Amer an Audit Company was to sanctioin ler work as thety progressed. The attorney for the mills saidt dat there is on the minutes a roe aton adopted by the board toT 11w Harris. hIs attorney, or expert countant to be present at all timesI ud watch the audit of the boots. [arris' friends are disposed to think t bat he has broode& - much over his 2stakes that his mind is unbalanc-a d. They say that many things havea een unearthed that would not have e en done by a sane man, and thatt he discovery of so much money b tored away in old boxes and bags int he vault, with every appearance of aving been there for years. shows hat there was no criminal intent on a larris' part. Harris is at his home on Southe lain street and insists stoutly that he accountants will find that not a Ingle dollar has been misappropriat . when they complete their audit. I President Hammett said: 'Even f the shortage is found to be fifty housand dollars. the Orr Mills will ot be crippled at all. We have a urplus of a little more than four undred thousand dollars. and the hortage can be charged off without feprecating the value of the stock. )ur mills are capatalized at eight iundred thousand and are worth one Ld one-half millions." Killed by Train. The body of Harrison Cline, who aturday night went to the home of 2is father-In-law. W. F. Gordon. and I utempted to kill his wife after she efused to return and live with him.< as found Sunday morning badlyt nanged. near the tracks of the suthern Railway, three miles east of Winston-Salem. N. C. He threw bimsef under the train. (oin Kills L.ad. At New York. on obtaining one of the new Lincoln pennies. John Nic! to gave it to his nine-year-old son James. who placed It in his mnouth1 When he laughed the coin slippedjL haif way down his throat and stuckjL there. The boy died before he RATES ARE HIGHER T.UrS CLADI OF DOWNWARD REVISION IS NOT TRUE. rhe Testimony of Experts Contro verts President's Expression Re garding New Tariff Bill The Washington correspondent of rhe State says President Taft's claim hat congress has revised the tariff town did not look well in paralle-! olumns in the newspape-:: Frid.y norning with numerous sto-les to he effect that the steamships made , race against time across the ocean n an effort to get their cargoes nder the custom house wfr before he new tariff should become effe. lve. There could have been no nch acing with downward revision. In act the president's statement in ustification of his signing the new iriff bill did not make very much t f an impression anywhere for it t universaA testimony of all the D iriff experts that the rates in the I ew bill impose average duties of t early 2 per cent n excess of those vied by the Dingley law. The president in his statement ad Litted that the bill was not per ct, but he evidently had no mis- b Lvings as to the propriety and wis- 0 )m of his signing the measure. He I ad no such doubts as influenced ormer President Cleveland. who al- t wed the Wilson bill to become a b .w without attaching to It his sig- a ature. As a matter of fact the P ?w tariff bill is the first great and lstinctive feature of the new ad- 14 inistration and the president will t tare whatever of discredit or glory e taches to the measure. Ii It is not contended by any one at the new tariff measure will re :ce prices to the consumer. The V epublican leaders are hoping that l ich an era of prosperity will re- i ilt from now on as to make the t iblic forget the fallnaee to revise a e tariff downward, as was promis- U I in the campaign. While hoping n r this result, there is no doubt It the fact that the Republicans are ry much worried. They realize that many of the 0 surgents will assist the bill in c, epublican communities and on the t tatauqua circuit They are also 5 arful that a big section of the Re- r iblican press will join in the at ck. Senator LaFollette gave no- ' 3e in the senate that he is going P it on the warpath and will assail n e bill. Thus the great Republican party ' ng rn!d on the tariff question t: id lcaig dt;endent for Its popular- tl r and power on the strength of that h ;ue with the country. Is, plunged 7 to an acrid joint debate with v~ self. t2 The Democrats are returning a >me mighty hopeful of carrying the ii >use. Champ Clark said he did s: >t see how the Democrats could b ose next year. * WILL BE STATE WIDE. h ach a Prohibition Law Wml be c The Columbia Record says Rep sentative John G. Richards. Jr., of C ershaw, prohibition floor leader in b be house and who got his bill g brough that body last year after a most memorable contest with a ubborn filibuster, will reintroduce s bill at the next session, and bough it will be identically the same gislature he is confident a State ide bill will pass both houses with e Lse. "We are going to pass here thIs ~ me as sure as gun is made of ~ on." he said to a representative of he Record. "There will hardly he ro counties in the State 'wet' when iese August electIons are over and e will complete the job next win 'r in the legislature by passing a tate-wide act. These spasms they re having in various parts of the tate about the last act being un ynstitutional, about how soon after so election the dispensaries shr' i e reopened and all that sort of sing. are not worrying the prohi itionists who know the situation. 1 l'e have got liquor beat in this State1 nd that had as well be accept-4 SHORTAGE OF FOOD. .abor Conflict Brings Distress to Stockholm. The town of Stockholm is suf ering seriously from the shortage| f food which so far is most the not ble result of the labor conflict. 'he stock of bread already Is al-| siost exhausted and meat is searce nd expensive. Restaurants have raised their rIces and the figures are prohibitive| xcept for persons of ample means. The strikers themselves are living ractically on fish. Thousands of hem are camping orat. some itptents. >ut many without shelter, on the hores of Lake Malar and the islands f the archipelago, where they spend heir time in angling. Saves the Baby. At Marion. Ohio. lightning stru-k Tharles Kitsemiller's home Friday ight and ignited the bed-clothing in he crib of sleeping baby, who was 10: eve~n awakened. The bolt de cended by way of the chimney. tray !!ing along the iron framework of he child's crib and passed down a as pipe to the cellar. Mrs. Kitse niller found the infant Still sleep ng with the fire creeping toward TAFT SAYS BILL Fulifills Campaigns Pledges of Republicans MADE TO THE PEOPLE But Apologizes to the Country b) Saying That While the Measure is Not a Perfect Tariff Bill. or a Complete Complance With the Promises, It Will Have to Do. President Taft gave out a state nent Thursday night embodying his riews of the new tariff act whichi s designated officially as the "Payne Aill" In accordance with past cus orm of giving recognition to the ramer of the mesauro In the house of representatives. The president declares that wail!e he bill is not perfect by any means 2or "a complete compliance with oromise made, strictly interpreted," t Is nevertheless a sincere effort an he part of the party to malre a lownward rev!sion and to comply nita the promises of the platform. 'he statement in full follows: "I have signed the Payne tariff bill ecause I believe It to be the result f a sincere effort on the part of the C tepublican party to make a down rard revision, and to comply with he promises of the platform as they ave been generally understood, and a I interpreted them in the cam aign before election. C "'he bill is not a perfect tariff Ill, or a complete compliance with he promises made strictly interpret- t d. but a fulfillment free from crit- t :ism In respect to a subject matter t .volving many schedules and thou inds of articles could not be ex ected. It suffices to say that except < ith regard to whiskey, liquors and ines and in regard to silks and as > some high classes of cottons- 1 11 of which may be treated as lux ries and proper subjects of a reve- t ue tariff-there have been very few t icreases In rates. S "Real Decrease." s "There have been a great number C E real decreases in rates, and they S anstitute a suffcient amount to jus- E fy the statement that this bill is a t 3bstantial downward revision, and t iduction of excessive rates. $ "This Is not a free-trade bill. It t 'as not Intended to be. The Re ublican party did not promise to e take a free-trade bill. C "it promised to make the rates C rotective. but to reduce them when a iey exceed the difference between m ie cost of production abroad and C ere. making allowance for the C reater normal profit on active in- I stments here. I believe that while t ils excess has not been reduced In C number of cases, in a great major- t y the rates are such as are neces try to protect American industries. d at are low enough. In case of ab- C ormal Increase of demand, and C rising of prices, to permit the possi Ility of the importation of the for- J gn article and thus to prevent ex assive prices. "The power granted to the execu ye under the maximum and mini uum clause may be exercised to se ure the removal of obstacles which ave been interposed by foreign overnments in the way of undue' ud unfair discrimination against merican merchandise and products. "The Philippine tariff section 1 ave struggled to secure for 10 years 1st past, and It gratifies me exceed Igly by my signature to give it the ffect of law. I am sure it will reatly increase the trade between be two countries and it will do 2uch to build up the Philippines in-1 u a healthful prosperity. "The admInistrative clause of the ill and the custom court are ad afrably adapted to secure a more niform and a more speedy final con truction. "The authority to the president to se agents to assist him is the ap lication of the maximum and min num section of the statute and to nable officials to adminIster the law. Fres a wide latitude for the acqui Ition, under oircumstances favora 41e to its truth, of Information in espect to the price and cost of pro luction of goods at home and ~broad, which will throw much light ~n the operation of the prese~t tar ff and .'e of primary importance as filcially collected data upon which: uture executive action and executive ecomimendations may be based. "The corporation tax Is a just and ~quitable excise measure, which it Is loped will produce a sufficent Lrmount to prevent a deficit and rhicha incidentally will secure valu tble statistics and Information con ,erning the many corporations of the :ountry, andx will constitute an mm >ortant step toward that degree of yublicity and regulation which the endency in corporate enterprise in he last 20 years has shown to be 2ecessary." Buildings Rocked by 'Quake. An earthquake has been reported from Brest and vicinity, says a dis patch from Paris. A number of buildings were rocK ed by the 'quake and people were 'hrown into a state of panic, but so! far as is known the disturbance Is not serious. Counscating Conraband. They are rubbing it into the blind tigers in Columbia. Raids at four places by the police Thursday yielded' several two-horse wagon loads. vala ed at $1.200, and a joint raid by constables and police at seven other: places was productive of about thej enme ~antfttu BOOZE JUG TRADE IS DANGEROUS IF NOT DONE AC CORDING TO LAW. Any Railroad or Express Agent So liciting Business is Subject to a Fine of $3,000. Since tae prohibition law went into effect it is probable that the "jug trade" in dispensary counties will increase to a great extent. as it has done in the heretofore dry counties. The United States laws in reference to the shipment of whiskeys into the State and the re ceiving of it are very strict. Literature setting forth the se ductively low price at which the stuff that cheers can be bought in "plain packages" in Jacksonville, Louis ville. Richmond and other places. a pouring Into the mails In a steady stream thirst looks happy if he still has the price. Since the prohibition law went Into effect the United States laws in reference to the shipment of whis cey into the State and the receiving )f it will prove very Interesting. he delivering of whiskey to any >ther than the consignee or upon a written order from the consignee s punishable by a heavy fne. It s generally understood that many >rder whiskey under a Actitious Lame. The following is the law: "Section 238. Any offcer, agent r employe of any railroad company, %press company or other common arrier, who shall knowingly deliver ir cause to be delivered to any per on other than the person to whom t has been consigned, unless upon he written order in each instance of he bona Ide consignee. or to any Ititious persons, - to any per on under a flctitious name, any spir tous. vinous, malted, fermented or ther Intoxicating liquor of any kind rhich has been shipped from one tate, territory or district of the nited States, or place noncontig ous to but subject to the jurisdic [on thereof. into any other State, erritory or district of the United tates, or place noncontiguous to but ubjected to the jurisdiction thereof. r from any foreign country into any tate, territory or district of the nited States or place noncontiguous D but subject to the jurisdiction hereof. shall be fined not more than 5,000 or imprisoned not more than wo years. or both. "Sec. 289. Any railroad convfany. xpress company or other common arrier. or any other person who. in onnecton with the transportation of ny spirituous, vinoub, malted. fer anted or other Intoxicating liquor f any kind. from one State. territory r district of the United States, or lace noncontiguous to but subject : the jurisdictIon thereof. into any ther State. territory or district of he United States, or place noncon Iguous to but subject to the juris iction thereof, or from any foreign ountry into any State. territory or istrict of the United States, or place oncontiguous to but subject to the uridiction thereof, shall collect the urchase price or any part thaereof, efore. on or after delivery from the onsignee, or from any other per on. or shall in any manner act as he agent of the buyer or seller of ny such liquor for the purpose of uying or selling or completing the ale thereof, saving only In the act al transportation and delivery of he same, shall be fined not more han $5,000. "Sec. 240. Whoever shall know ngly ship or cause to be shipped rom One State. territory or district f the United States, or place non ontiguous to but subject to the urisdiction thereof. into any other tate, territory or district of the nited States, or place noncontig ous to out subject to the jurisdic-I ion thereof, or from any foreign ountry into any State territory o. listrict of the United States, or place ioncontiguous to but subject to the ursdiction thereof, any package of >r package containing any spirit. zous, vino-.s, malted, fermented or >ther intoxicating liquor of any| tind. unless such package be so ha yeled on the outside cover as to >lainly show the name of the con ignee, the nature of its contents, Lnd the quantity contained therein. hall be fined not more than $5.00; tnd such liquor shall be forfeited to he United States, and may be seiz d and condemned by law for the eizue and forfeiture of property Im orted into the United States con rary to law."* RIDES HORSE INTO HOTEL. California Millionaire Creates Sen sation in London House. Frank Jay Mackey. the well known California millionaire, who has resided chiefly in England for a number of years. has been fined $10 and costs in a London p~ice court for riding a horse into one of the hotels, according to a cablegram re ceived at new York. Mr. Mackey is said to have made a wager 'that he wourid ride the horse into the hotel and around the billIard table. He did so and was cited to a policeman and taken to the police court. In paying his fine he said he was satisfied because he had won the wager. Minister Feavily Indicted Thirty-one Indictments against the Rev. John J. Holtgreve 9astor of the Catholic church at Plaqueminie. La.. were returned by the grand jury of Iberville parish. Twenty-eight of the counts charg ed grave crimes and the other three alnee riminal libeL TAFT SIGNS BILL Tarriff Measures Made a Law by His Signature. CONGRESS ADJOURNS Both Houses Quit After Putting Fin ishing Compromise Touch on the Tariff Bill and Sending it to the President for His Approval, Whicb He Very Promptly Gave. The tariff has been revised and the extraordinary session of congress has been brought to a close. Both houses adjourned sine die officially at 6 o'clock Thursday night. The actual adjournment was taken in the house at 5:38 p. m., and In the sen ate at 5:58 p. m. The closing hours of the session were attended by scenes of a most uninteresting character. The revis ion had been according to the desires of some, and with the hearty ap proval of others, and the last two days had been consumed by mem bers of the senate in expressing their satisfaction or dissatIsfaction. The conference report on the bill was agreed to by the senate by a vote of 47 to 21. The vote was tak en at 2 p. m. and soon aft;rward the concurrent resolution maing certain changes In the leather sched ule was adopted by both houses. President Taft arrived at the cap itol at 4:45 p. m. It was his first appearance there since his Inen brency as president and there was a constant procession of hand-shaking statesmen through the president's room from the time of his arrival until his departure at 5:30 o'clock. Just as the bands of the gold clock In the president's room reach ed 5 minutes past five, the Payne tariff bill, as the measure will be known, as laid before the presi dent. He picked up a pen supplied by Chairman Payne of the house ways and means committee, which was used by both the vice president and the speaker In signing the bill, and attached his signature. After writing "William H. Taft, the president added, "Signed five minutes after 5 o'clock, August 5th, 1909-W. H. T." Bending over the president as he aflixed his signature were Secretary Knox. Secretary MacVeagh, Attorney General Wickersham , Postmaster General Hitchcock. Secretary Nagel and Secretary Wilson. Standing about the table were Senator Al drich, Representative Payne and many other members of the senate and house. Mr. Payne stood wich hand ex tended, waiting to receive the pen with which the bill was signed. He took it with a picture of boyish glee overspreading his face. Another pen was handed to the president and he wrote the word "Approved," and handed the pen to Representative Langley (Ky.). A number of interesting incidents occurred In the president's room pending the signing of the tariff bill. The president had something of a personal nature to say to each senator, and good nature appeared to be overflowing. SERVED) THE SCOUNDREL RIGHT Enters a Lady's Room, Got His Throat Cut by Her. At Gainesville. Ga.. Edwin Mat thews. colored, night porter at a lo cal hotel, early Friday morning had his throat cut by Mrs. Mamnie Law son for entering her room through a window. Mrs. Lawson arrived Thursday night from Jafferson Ga.. and was assigned to her room. Matthews be ing directed by the night clerk to perform this duty. Later Matthews knocked on the door end asked to enter to see about a key which he did. Mrs. Lawson became uneasy af ter the negro left and fastened her door securely, the negro having acted queerly. Between 1 and 3 o'clock Friday morning she was awakened by some one sitting on the side of her bed. She instantly grabbed a knife which she had placed under her pillow and cut the negroe's throat, Inflicting a serious wound. Matthews was then carried to the county jail, where he was kept un til 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, when She ' Crow carried him to Atlanta for safe keeping. intense feeling hay ine been engendered by the negroe's action. LEADING LAWER TO PRISON. New Orleans Attorney Forged to Ex tent of Over $130.000. To begin serving a sentence of fourteen years Robert J. Maloney. formerly a leading lawyer of New 'Orleans. will be taken to thie Ste. pen itentiary shortly. Maloney was charged with forg eries exceeding $150.000. Many of the clients whom Maloney defraud "d petitioned the governor to let him remain In New 0O1l3nn. with the hope of straightening out some of the tangled transactions of which they were victims. This was done. The governor decided a few nights auo. however, that six months was long enough for su'h astistgnee and ordered that the pen:tentiary term be begun at once. Ptomaine Poisoning. Ptomaine poisoning caused by eat ing lobster kiUed Capt. C. G. New bury, a: Groton, Conn., one day las: ..... e