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WAR TO THE ND to rFk ge n.st MAKE NA1IONAL FIGHT They Will Appeal to President Taft and Will Invoke the Aid of tho Courts In Their Onmpaign Asainm the Billion DoUar Telephone and Telegraph Merger. Declaring that President Taft and the highest courta In the land wiB be invoked to check the monopoly of communication that is threaten ed by the billion-dolnars combine. recently announced by the Bell tele bone trust, representatives of tb1 Independent telephone interett through the country are planning in New York a national fght for the principle of open competition. With $400.000.000 of the savings of the people of almost every local. ty invested in the independent tele phone plants that the new wire trust is determined to rule or ruin. lead ers in this movement assert. the interest of the public demand that the government take Immediate ac tion against the giant merger. At a convention of the Indepen dent Telephone association that has been called in Chicago for Decem ber '7. representatives of the 12.000 companies, that with 4,000.000 sub scribers are now competing with the telephone trust, will make a for mal protest to Washington against the restraint of trade that they be ieve wil be effected by the absorp tion of every telegraph interest by the Bell system. To the attorney general of every one of the many States in which they assert Wall street money is now' being used to Illegally force a Bell monopoly, the independent tele phone forces are proposed to appeal for protection. Suit to preont the acquisition by the telephone trust of important systems ;--ilt by the people of Ohio. Indiana, Missouri. Iowa and Michigan. have already been instituted In St. Louis and Cleveland. and the Independent lead era declare every similar move to throttle competition will be fought to the last ditch. Unless the new wire trust is at once prevent-ed from carrying out its scheme to Illegally absorb all co= petitors throughout the continent. the independent telephone men prophesy, the people of the country will soon be forced into tne power of a monopoly greater and more ar bitrary than that of either the oil. beef or sugar trust. As a posible rival to the billion dollar communIcation trust in the telegraph ad long distance tele phone fields, Independent forces are preparing to build a trunk wire hystem t~at will reach from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missourf river, for the benefit of the people who use the telephone exchanges they have built independent at home. as well as for gederal telephone bus tines. Unlik, the Bell system. this enterprise will seek not to kill comn petition but to foster and increase it, it is declared- Already $50.00O0. 000 have been subscribed towards this plan- for preventing the pro posed monopoly of the wire trust. That the cost ,of both telephone and telegraph serivs will be In creased if the new wire trust obtali a monopoly Is proved already by the * past history of Its promoters, the independent telephone men declare. Ennbitant mtes land either poor sme or none at all were offered by the Bell combine in all the years of its former monopoty thr-ough pat-. en? rights, it is poisted out. As these cenditions brought about the~ birth of the independent telephone . movement, they must resume on the instant of Its death, it Is urged. "We feel we lowe a moral as well as a busIness obligation to the army of Americans throughout the country who have placed $400O.009. 00 of their carnings in the home telephone plants, built to rid thean of the Bell monopoly." said E. Hi. Monlton, president of the Indepen dent asociation. **We shall exert ourselves in every posible way to showr the government that it- too. has' an obligation to protect these inrestors as ell as the 20,000i.000 cnstomers in independent telephone systemns.- We shall not stop our fight Sor the right of competition. even with all the Wall street capital of this new billion dollar trust array ed against us; but will push it to the . higheet courts and administra tive authority." .TmEDr TO LYNCH HI3. Negroes Wanted to Swing up a White Man for Murder. Edward Perdee. concrete construc tion superintendent of Marianna. Pa.. was possibly saved from being lynched by a mob of 150 negroc,: by the timely arrival of police .f ..eers who lodged the man in fail on a charge of killing Skinner Younig, a negro. a short time earlier. Perdee and a friend were walking along a road near their home when three strangers approached. It is said thazt Mr. Perdee made a wage; with his companion that the mer, were negroes. He won, but the men discussed, realizing that they had been coni'ected with the bet, asked about it. and resented the epithet "nigger." said to have been appli ed to them by the white men, and in the quarrel which followed, Young was shot. WASHINGTON'S TENT SOLD. Gem. I. E. ILe's Daughte Receives Fise 'Thousand for the Heirloom. Miss Mary Castis Lee. the only daughte~r of General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate loader, has sold the George Washington tent. In which piece of canvas the Father of His Country lived during the Revolui tionary war. to the Valley Forge Miuseum of Pennsylvania, for five thousand dollar~s, whitch proceeds hare been donated by Miss Lee to the Home for Needy Confedera:& Women in Richmond. Va. The tont has been an heirloom in1 th family of the Virginia Lces SOUTHERN RAILWAY HE RECORD OF NEW CON STRUOTION OF INDUSTRIES And of the (kneral Progress Along Two of the Southeasts Railways. for a Year. The showing made in the Cscal year. ending June 30th. last, of the new industries, additions to estab lished industries and the expendliurec. for improvements of various knds in the cities and towns along the Southern Railway and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. is a remarkable one. when It Is considered that the period covered includes the last half of! the year 1909 and the first balf ofI the present year. a time when the demand for manufactured goods of all kinds In this country was at a low ebb, and capital was hard to1. .flnd for new investmnents of any i kind and in any portion of the country. Some of the figures for the industr!al investments along th.e Southern Railway have heretofont been published. They show a total of 4'.3 now in dostries. calling for an investment of $z0.43t.S35, and additions to existing industries costing $7.SS3. 963. In the same period there were put under construction new Indus tries to be completed later in which $6.473.00 will be invested. Sinc the close of the Soutaern's fscas year there has been a steady im pro-ment in all business conditions. manufacturers and operators of mine have felt warranted in re newing plans for new plants and capitalists and bankers have been more ready to supply needed funds for Industrial investments. The new industries started in the last half of 1909 greatly outnumber tnose begun in the first half of the year. so that for the frst time in two years. the normal industrial advance of the Southeastern States may be said to be under way. It is confidently expected, and alh the Indications show that the pres ent year will greatly exceed -the past in the amount of factory build Ing and In the invesments made in all kinds of Industries. That over 52S.000.000 should be invested In industrial development in the pe riod covered along one line of road in the Southeast shows !a the most iarked manner the advantage of that section for various lines of industries. The growth of industries along the line of the Mobile & Ohio Rail road was also marked. In the stretch of 1.000 miles of terri'ory covered* by that road there were constructed in 1908-09, ending June 30. S5 new industries, at a cost cf $2.123.600. while additions to ex isting plants raised the investment to $2.254.700. The figures from the two lines show duplication at four or five points. Taking out these the two lines show an aggregate of 489 new plants eosting $21.149.535 and a total investment in industries of $35.'09.071. including the amount which went into new industries un der construction on June 30. to be completed at a later date. In general Improvements during the year there were invested along tlhe Southern Railway 369.315.051. The aggregate amount Invested aloug the Mobile & Ohio Railroad was $12.3S7,554. It is noteworthy that duing the year along the Southern $3.892.80 were spent for new schools. $1.846.l5 for necw church es. $10.270.818 for new business strnctures. $32.212.963 for new residences. At the same time the am~ount expendtd for public im provements was $5.558.3i1 on streets. 83.53 0.283 on sewers. $3. ?00.34 for water works and water supply of towns and cities. These figures show in the most conclus.ive manner the growth of the South In wealth and ability to make needed Improvements as well as the con tinued expansion of its business. There were built in the twelve months along the line of the Souta ern Railway. In cities. towns and villages on less than 13.000 resi dences. The statistics are not available to show fust what the gain has been during the year agriculturally. but that the same advance in agricultu:re has been made as an the various in dustries is certain. Indeed, there was probably even a much greater advance. The statistics published by'the United States department of agriculture show in the nine South eastern States. through which the Southern Railwny and the Mobile' & Ohio Railroad run, returns fro mtize staple crops of cotton, corn wheat1 oats. potatoes, hay and tobacco i 1908 of $86S.000.000. It Is well known that the greati-sti advance is taking place in the mueth ods of cultivation, soil preservation. crop diversification, and in every thing which goes to the prosperity of the farmer; and also that on Southern farms more and more con veniences and Improvements of allI kinds are being added, while the great value of Southern soils is be ing demonstrated as never before. There has been a steady movement of people from the North. and. the Northern European countries, to the erritory reached by the lines. This movement is gaining all the timie. as the value of Southern farm lands bcome better known. In the past eight years there has| een invested in industrie-s along the I outhern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad the enormots amount of $518.000.000. This great industrial epansion has come because the re curces and other conditions whIch affect industrial development are ound to the best advantage in the Southeastern States. A Young Flend. Abraham Williams, a negro bov of Alken. has been arre:,ted and placed in jail on a charge of attempt to ravish a respectable colored wo man. He was carried before Mayor Salley, who. when he heard the de-. tails of the case. promptly bad h. egro turned ove to the county~ authorities. Sailors Los.. Hope of finding the five "'Jackes" f the gunboat Marietta off Port Li non. who were driven to see in a a eposs whaleboat on l:Iiay 2:3I1 tas een ahind'. * I WHAT COAL COST 2 Human LiTes Before ReaChig the cm er. MANY MINERS KILLED ktatitics Show That Over Thirty Thousand Have Perished in the Lat Twenty Years. Which i-; Four Times as Many as Were Killed in Eurvpe. The mIne-rescue station represents ne of the most recent efforts made iy the government to reduce the iumber of fatal accidents in mines. ind it is but one feature of a gen ral study of the causes of mine isasters now being undertaken by he Geological Surv-y at the mine aeeidents station in Pittsburg. Pa. This humanitarian work was ktarted in July. 1905. by authoriza ion of congress. which appropriat ed $1.400 for this purpose. after four explosions in coal min-s in De cember. 107, costing 70Q live. These disasters startled th.- ent:re, country and led to a general inquiry into the deat*h rates anong miners in the United States. Statistics gathered by the United States Geological Survey shows ".001 miners killed and 4.S4J in jured in the coal mines in 190'6. and 3.125 killed and 5.800 injured in 1907. The death rate for 1907 was 4.S6 for every 1.000 men em ployed. In 1908. 2.450 men were killed. or 3.60 in every 1.000 em ployed, a reduction of 675 in the number of deaths from 1907. European coal-producing countries show d-ath rates in mining as low as I in every 1.000 men employed and not more than 2. In other words for every man killed in Europe coal mines from two to four are killed In the mines of the Unit ed States. Since 1889 more than 30.000 miners have been killed in the United States. The lower death rate In European countri.-s is due to the establishment of government testing stations for the investiga tion of problems relating to safety in mining. including the use of ex plosives. The principal work at the Pitts burg sation consists of testing ex plosives to determine their safety when fired in the presence of explo sive gas or coal dust, and much progress has already been made in this work. It is the purpose of the government to continue the .eSts of explosives until certain of them can be recommended to state mining bu reaus. coal-mine owners, and miners as reasonably safe. Government mining engineers thoroughly t raIned in the use of rescue apparatus have been assign ed to the stations already establish ed and are ready at a moment's no tice to go to any disaster in their districK. When an explosion occurs in a coal mine, the re-establishing of the ventilating current la often de layed several hours, and many lives have be-en lost apparently because rescuers have been unable to ad vance beyond the area where the mine was ventilated In order to fnad persons who had suffered no physi cal injury from the explosion. but who were slowly dy~ng from inhal ation of poisonous and non-lIfe-sup portIng gases. With a prope'ly equipped rescue corps wearing oxygen helmets many lives may be saved if the rescue-r: can reach the mine within two or three houirs after the explosion. Such Is th'e record at mines in foreign count:ie-s which are equipped with similar rescue apparatus has beer brought into action within a few hours after the exp~losion. Sever al coal-operating companies have realized the advantage of such safety appliances and have Installed them at some place convenient to tneir mnes. Equipped wIth the oxygen hlmes. which permIt artificial breathing, the rescuers are e-nabled to e-nt.r a mine at once. even though it is filled with noxious and irre spirable gases or with stmok.. ALL DIED TRAGIC DEATHS. Fourth of Five Brothers Killed by HIs Brothee-In-lAw. Dr. Clay Henderson, a prominent physician of Leake county, was shot and killed Monday night by Bell Hudson. his brother-in-law, near ZI on. 20) mIles north of Forest. Miss. The killing occurred at the home of Hudson. but details of the tragedy are not known. Dr. Henderson is the fourth of five brothers to meet a tragic death. A few years a go Dr. Tom Henderson was shot and killed by a man name-d Morehead near Zion. A short time afterwards another brother was mortally wound ed by th-: accidental discharge of a revolver. About a year ago a third brother died as a result of swallow ing carbolic acid by mistake. GIRL LOST IN MOUNT.UlNS. Posse Finds 11er in an .thznost Frozen Condi:iomn. Miss Mary Ove.rstreeit, a welIl known young woman ci~ Roanok.. LCa.. was found on the side of Mill ountain. near there Friday bya osse of zearchers. her body being tretched on the frozen ground and1 ter head resting on a pile of stan-. s was ao nuimb from exposure hat she was almn:st unconscious ' visited ihn home of a frie~nel in be southern section of thrt- eity be day before. and instead r urning to her own home after leav ng the friend's house, wandered into he sountry.* Tr-agedy Follow,. Dance. After killing Williaim Walls andi roa.ly fataly shootiog Hal H-.. tad. hil.' returninlg from a daisc . -lico and1 "as piated in i-.n coun.--I lat Daln. Gi . Monday. (>3 - am deciares that the trouble grew uof a misund.:ratanding ofi his vitato: by a young woman whomn BLND TIGERS ReavyBrt by the New Fedei Code Wch Regulates the SPMMNTS OF UQIJOR Into Prohibition Territory, Which (oe.. Into Effect on the First of January-Railroeds and Express Companies Incur Severe Penaltes if They Violate the New Code. Another phase In the great cam paign against liquor will come to the fore the first of next month. when the revised penal code of the Unit ed States Is to become effective. Many of the changes made in the penal laws by the SixJeth congress were of minor interest, but the see tion relating to the shipment of In toxicating liquors Into "dry" terr tory contained new legislation, the result of which will be to make the United States a factor In prosecut ing violators of the act. In thickly settled communities the local authorities. as a rule. are able to deal effectively with offenders. but in certain sections of the South and West. where settlement is sparce. the task is not so easy. and the members of congress from those sections in sisted that the federal government should come to the aid of the local authorities. Three sections of the new codifi cation relate to the liquor traffic. The most important provision is that on and after January 1. every ship ment of intoxicating liquor shall bear the name of the consignee, the nautre of the contents of the rec-pt acle and the quantity contained therein. It is a notorious fact, so say persons who have had experi ence in attempting to drive out *bliud tigers.' that practically all the liquor now shipped Into pro hibited territory is labelled as some other commodity, or not labelled at all. and frequently addressed to per sons other than the consignee.. The federal authorities already have sent out notice to all manufac turers of intoxicants that their wears must be labelled on the outside of the package on and after the first of the new year, aetting forth the nature of the contents and the ex act amount in each package. It is believed that If the local authori ties co-operate with the federal gov ernment in the enforcement of the law it will be a comparatively easy matter to suppress the "blind tigers. It is pointed out that from now on they can not exsit without violat ing the federal statute, and the as sumption of the departmetat of jus tice is that would-be violators will not care to take the chance of fall ing into the clutches of the fgieral courts. It has been alleged from time to time that in some of the States where the sale of intoxicating liquor has been prohibited In one way or another the railroads and express companies assisted the viblators of the law by acting as buying or sell ing agents, or both. Congress. with the idea of putting a stop to this practice, provided as follows: "Any railroad company. express. Company or other common narrier, or any other person. who, In con nection with the transportation of any spirituous, vinous. malted, fer mnented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State. ter ritory or district of the United States. into any State. territory or district of the U'nited States, or from any foreign canntry into any State. ter ritory. or district of the United States, shall collect the purchase price or any part thereof before. on. or after delivery, or shall in any manner act as the agent of the buy er or seller of any such liquor, for the purpose of buying or seling or completing the sale thereof. saving only in the actual transportation and delivery of the same, shall be fined not more than $5.000."* DEAD)LY WORK OF FIENDS. Young Widow Bound and Burned to Death by Them. At Tampa. Fia.. Marie Acosta, a young Cuban widow, died Monday afternoon from frightful burns, in ficted upon her by a rejected suitor. Miguel Gomez is under arrest. De fore she died the young woman charged Gomnez with having set her afire. She declared that she had rejectod Gomez's suit, and that, with two confederates, he forcibly enter ed her home in West Tampa a few nights ago. She was bound hand and foot. Then the men saturated her clothing with gasoline and touch ed a ligbred match to her. The un fortunate woman was found Mion day. frightfully burned from head to foot. and she died at 2I p. in.. after making a statement to the po lice. She did not recognize the men who were with Gomez, and who aid ed him, she charged, in perpetrat ing the awful crime. FLYING STONE KILLS MAN. Dynamiite Blast Claims Viktim at Ninety-nline' Iland. A Btlacksburg dispatch to The Nws and Couri,-r says 3Magistrate Ligon we-nt to Ninety-nine Islands a few days ago to hold an inquest over the body of one Leneir. who was struck by a stone that had been blown out by a charge of dynamite. It appears that at quitting titne in the evening the quarry foremnan saw to it that all the quarrymnen were wefl out of the danger ZOne before firing the chbarges of d':nmitn. This man, Leneir was nt w..rkin; in the quarry. bnt was. some tour or ive hundred feet away from the quarry when the shots were fired. He was struck on his forehead by a piece of flying stone and sustain cd a fracture of the skulI. Dr. Yuans. the company surgeon. dM' a1 for him that suirgicali skill could do bu th :ow was too :-vvere for the man to live. Dlied From Shock. At Evanstmoe. tnd.. Mirs. Wilaam uter. while witnesir. the ope r ion of her son. swooned and dIed DECISIVE DEFEAT FOR PROMBITION AMENDENT TO ALABAMA CONSTITUTION. 0 Business Men of State Say Failur of Clonstitutonal Proehibition Does Not Indicate "Wet" Sentimenut. A dispatch from Birmingham. Ala., says lat-r returns from the State indicate that Tuesday's majori ty against the prohibition constitu tional amendment will run above 25.000. It appears that a vote of not less than 125.0)19 was polled. the largest In the history of th State. As the sweeping nature of the d^ feat of the amendment is realized. there is a disposition in all circles to see the result of its probable ef feet on future legislation In the State. Industrial leaders and business men of Birmingham are almost unanimous in their belief that the result was a rebuke to recent dras tic legislation and a declaration of the people of Alabama of their de termination to return to conserva tism. Leaders of the Birmingham cham ber of commerce bWlieve the elec. tion will have the effect of bringing a great deal of Eastern capital te Alabama, which has been timid fo the past two or three years. Leaders of the amendment force were overwhelmed by the news o the result, as they were absolutel: confident of victory up to the las moment. Gov. Comer left for MIs sissippi the night before on a fishinj trip. *The election determined that th, men of Alabama did rit wish ti write into their constitution polic, measures, nor surrender rights the: have expressly reserved.' said Unit ed States Sanator Jobnson. "I does not mean the return of the sa loon. nor any backward step in put lic morals. "It means that Alabama is cor servativo and not to be shaken oi her feet by mere sentimental a; peals." WEDNESDAY UNLUCKY IN MILT. More Accidents Happen on That Dha Than on Any Other In the Week. Some interesting figures in regar to accidents in cotton mills are give by a writer in the Textile Mant facturers' Journal. The plants whos records he took were twelve in nun ber. and wtih the exception of ou in New Hampshire. we're South c the Mason and Dixon line. Of the total number of acnident only 42.3 per cent were the resu of macrinery. The larger percei tage happened on Wednesday. an with the exception of Saturday tb percentage for the other days < the week is generally uniform. Saturday shows a low percentag< due to two reasons-first, less worl ing hours that day, and in genera less machinery in operation, thus 7 ducing the chance of injury. A larger percentage of the acc dents occurred during the forenoc hours from eight to twelve. whi: the lowest percentage are shown the starting and stopping hours. si to seven a. mn., one to two and fi to six p. mn. The larger number of acciden occurred in May. June. July and A' guest, and the smaller number March and December. "I am unable to explain why mot accidents happen in summer montl than the other periods of the year, writes the investigator, unless it because of the greater number < children employed during school va cation. It Is also possIble that mor carelessness or Inattention may hai been shown, caused by the high ten perature of the season. -"The largest number of accideni occurred to those sixteen years olh the next smaller number to those si: teen and twenty-two years old. Tb average time employed before It jury was 2.78 years. Nearly 5 p cent of the entire number of acc dents occurred within a week of tb time the parties entered upon servic at the plants, about 12 per cent witl in a month, about 5S pr-r cent with! a year. the balance. 42 per een occurring between one year's sern ice and 35 years' serv'ie". MM.tH URIAN~ IARKS These Are Being Imported by a: Oregon Womn.n Manchurian larks will be liberal ed in Oregon next spring. and it I believ'di the feathered sonasters wil thrive in this climate. They will b< the first birds of the species eve brought to America. Mrs. Fred D Fisher. wife of the .Ameriecan consu at Niu-chwang. Manchuria. wh< reached Portland a short time ag< with her husband from th.- Orient brought 15 of the birds back witl her. The larks will be cared for thi: winter by Mrs. Fisher in Portlanr and liberated next spring in Jose pain.. county. Oregon. It is though1 that by turning themu out in the spring, after the winter has paissed, they will have a N-t."e.r chance to thrive in their n.-w homes. These birds, litt:> known in Amer ia. ar.- rated as amnong the iines: songsters in the world. Th.ey art about the sirze of native America:: larks, but are the color of the wren. Because of their sptendid voices the Chinese keep them in cages In their home?. This importation is the se'ond of Chinese birdis to the Sta'. of ('regon The Mongoi:an. T"nny e hns phcasant was bro'::h'. to Oregoen from China by the iae 0. N. D).nny. f Portland. who iwrved as e'ns' at Tean T:n. The game birds w':--" liberated there' ' yea.rs ago and have spread to such an .'xt.:nt th:.t hey have become the State's great t game bird. Horse Burn in Stable. A' anFsas City. M" . ec hindir. d forty horse:: were rr mated Mo: a ni;:br :n a hlvery ..t '. wb:ch~ ,urned to the grouind Tv.o of h Lnimals were tizh-ca~s drivinghr .which had taken ru" rino:: RE PAYS UP L Troeger Coghs Up Nine Thousad Doars to the Board FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE The Windlug-Up Board Pays Oul Two Hundred and Nineteen Thou sand Dollars on Claims, Which Leaves the State Over Three Hun dred Thousand Dollars Clear. The Columbia correspondent ni The News and Courier says I. Troe ger. who did business with the od State dispensary, has forwarded through Col. Felder, of Atlanta, $9. 000, to be added to the 'consciena fund." This places the amount receiveN from various firms past the $50. 000 mark. being $54.000 in all. Th largest contributor was the Bern beim firm, which handed across $30. 00A. Then came Weiskopf wit] $7.500 and other firms with smalle amounts. The present contributo is from CincinnaU. Like the other firms from who: such collections have beer made. th Troegers had no claim against th State. The "back charges" ari therefore. represented in the mone "coughed up." As Col. Felder ei pressed it when he heard it: "N< it's not conscience money. I don see why you fellows call it tha They just have to come across b cause we have the goods on 'em." Chairman Murray. of the dispet sary commission supervised the pa, Ing out of the last of the liquC claims allowed by the commission recent judgments. The amount pai put was $147.874.74. the large amount being $65.000 to Clark Bro $4Z5.00011 to Flelschmann and] $1b 000 to the Schlitz beer people. The only claim allowed remai ing unpaid is that to the Big Sprini Distilling Company. which is su pended pending appeal. This wi the only? concern allowed anythI: which has appealed. The commi sion has left about $450,000. whit includes about $50.000 ''ocnscien money," half of which goes to la1 yers. Chairman 'Murray said th afte~r all attorneys' fees are paid at all otbr-r expenses met, the commi sion would turn in to the State abo The following ib the list of clait paid this week: r'lefischman Company ...$ 45.645. Schlitz Company ...... 1S.S1Z. Rosenegk Company .... 829.1 Darley Park Brewing Co. 235. Moyse Bros........ 8.176. G . .Dickle & Co._%..%..2700. CClark Bros. & Co ... 67 5 Green River Dist. Co.. 3,153. Richards & Co.. .. ...- 1.112. Delair Dist. Company .. 1,423. Est. of C. P. Fishburne . 79. UJohn McSmyrle . .. . .. 33.881. IE. A. Sa unders & Co. .. 35,906. S. G. Perrce &Co. ., . .. 663. Acker Merrell & Cond it. Company .. .... ... 65 CE. La.Montague & Sons. 457. Total .. .. ... .$219.0R. Air. Felder's law Birm in Atlan Sgets 10 per cent on the amount reductions, which. with commissio on claims previously paid out. w Sbring the firm's straight commissi up to about $37,000, In additi LIto this the firm gets half of t conscience vuoney and half of was ever can be r'ecovered on the ove judgments amounting to over $204 000. NEGRO SHOT DEAD) in the Dark by a Cowardly Whi The Columbia Record says nel Cof an attempted assassination of rnegro by a white man several mil out on the Winnsboro road has be< Sreceived. The negro is natr .K'nne'dy and a brother of his can into thbe city Wedne~ay mornii - and had a warrant issued for a mi name~d Metz, whose initials no oi in reach recalled. The Kennedy n .gro lives out near the race trat and was returning home from h work. s.omewhere farther out in t! country. When near a lonely pla< on the homeward road, the negl was fired upon by some one who ste: ped from behind a tree, a shotgt being the weapon nued. The negr it is said, is pretty badly wounde but will likely recover. Good to Hare Around. Tbhe National Magazine says simple ire~ extinguisher may be mad at homne, and if kept always on han will some*time's prove of great value Take twenty pounds of common sa and t.-n pounds of sal ammoniac nitrat.- of ammnoniac, which can 11 houht at any drug store. Dissolv thve.e in a-ve'n gallons of wate I'uit in th:n glass bottles holding quart each, cork tightly, and se. to pre'vnt ev~aporat~on. Whe.2 tire br'aks out throw one of th'es sot j- so hat it will br.'ak in c -near th.: ?lame.s; or if this is not pos si:de.. areak off the* neck of the bot :1e andi scatter the contents on th fir.-. This has been t.-sted. Som" '.im-sit is necessary to use severa Furniture May Ctoat More. Th'e National F'urniture Manuafc turers' Association. representing rh' .rading~ furniTure makers of the rointry,i.'me in annual se-rion a1 A'hd:.\ndor!'jm in Chicaago a few days.:; State'ments made by M:ul.ti;'-i' ti.llbe-s Oft the aasocia *'nn 'ML..'t--d ?h:,T ar-on w-i1: prihb : ?;b. 'tk- locokin:; to an adi vaue. o 1" p--r c.-nt in th-- p'ric. -- I':rn: ur--. *o tak effect at th.: Ianur Will SelJ Ki."e'. Royal Baking Powder is the greitest of time and labor savers to thepastry cook. -Economizes flour, butter - -- DA eggg and makes the RUlNS AMUK BOZMEMA AN OH10 MAN KILLS TWO PEO- 4W.,sy s i aPLE AND SIICIDES. I l Shot and Killed His On 4other and n Oice and W1oiinded Two WOUD E OD THIG hOther People. At Greenville. Ohio, after murder- Shud h Fim Against Whom inlg his mother and an offcer who thad attempted to arrest him, and the Dispensary Board Found Over Sprobably fatally injuring another Judgments efuse to ship Any woman and her Gusuand, Clyde arta ver. 34 years old. Mionday complet- 3~~Lqo u4 hsSaa red the tragedy by committing su- They Threaten to Do. S CidO The Coiunewi Cornesneto dW9av4"r was declared by physi t clans to be aicted witz "exaggerat ed eg.- He was under suspended o . sentence fronm the Probate Court. Iydrn aiu eid ftm Sheriff John F. Haber and Deputy A. t Sherie Wmi. o.Farra went to Wrea Sve'r's home to arrest him. The ap-lyaddt h'dsyclmwli upearane.' of the ocers seemed too sdrive the man mad. He opened firewecotesmybfredryb on them from an upper window with ar shotgun and Farra fell wounded. lugm s heir to the A moment later Weaver's mother State is the htske staio as rushed from the house, crying. 'ui- STh' Canm. . shot" and fell dead at the feet of I the sheriff.isapsiiiytath rmagit d While Haber was trying to revive dthe woman. Weaver walked from the junts will bcot he South house to a woodshed into which Cona trade. Farra had crawled, and fred twice Tor disear wndig-up com sat the wounded offcer. killing him. msinrcnl asdarslto Hle then jumped into the buggy in adedt the dsty audito nt - which the o fficers had reaehed theo aprove th sevirs of u e . house, and droe to the home ofof firms. Tis ma wa refrred L I4oi Minnich. from whom he de to Governr whskey houordere th 0 manded protection. In ship boards in hc h When tinnich hesitated. Weaver tes the isesaries to shot Minnich throusg. the baczt. holdSuth la. - Weaver then turned on M1rs. Minnich ahedubyteoersno and shot her twice. kt the atis ett 15 Armed citizens quicxty surround- e taot5000 h oa ed the house and two deputy sheri ossnt i the dry cans i h broke through the rear door. They wasasou fou.0o0. discovered the body of Weaver un- Tng the Jurms named der a bed. He had used his last bul-in The re o asdyh cor 2 let to kill himself. mission Thomas F reutJon THe condition of Mr. and r. T. are e dC.teuak aton innich is critical. ompanye S. eldsr Co.. bar tlti ireto o Teke oseratryB: lunhaClon bickrrespon of o ehe Ner uir as feried es ilB o . hamm Khomhede-ountvelr &et- w the Thadednx ad to thbst colum bi4 e rtectheiewsoofn.roethe potardi t s everal of the oun ohanr nd hstaed. eas tothed retaining the dispensaries refls shefet fth earthspassi through aod u the r st hhuno t Lt- he til f Haleys coet, sai tas thee statsed statio theat ).. Yrkes bservtoryat Wita isveall probeaica hyet nthfee Bay ~i afewdas ao:wiskey psiilty Sth thearosagains Pwhomentecoommtstionsfoundeoree and b Seagave idicat t Judgmen ts all bngtl that Soth sageof it'comt btwee th eaT h-dispofen lawinding-the corn and he un t adisanc ofi~'mission ofecey whiskey firmsoion budeinsgwt the co dspensaritorso ooo.oo il frm th eath n t arve the elaims of asn number Ma S.a 1 . n. etrltie 'rs Th.mte wa efre The ailalwys pit awyfo whisernouAse, ho ordered a h edispensa oars in thsx Stae. tiesheetanningdtheedcspensardeshe Serth Attha tme t i dobtfl huld the clais.kJus how reuse tos el pb h orderscnrte fo is-o whtrhe te til il belon eoug knwi n, sut the aofnth wsetimat "Metorsarethedebis f cmet.acount heus eain the Sdry countis ThTheforllowifgtheeendeofrtsenaall ~ j eachs t theeart a mteoi thel preoibtion forase at theastm tn showerimay reamonably bc ulty.tJohn ie om iluintin f hesk, !T. Barb &Co., thek.Caso t~redi& Co.,'nilfrom theaordinary.s :k Dightcr ComputatisOnser iaty De- ru lo icvre tF eefcofthe earth 'sbl passing through the tail of al- comet ue3." said ~ "~ and b lh'~y neacrave ntecthe ay asiko dnmtwt sageI Cofthe coetbeteen ctheainrt tacehic a ee eno0iou males fomouhe ofearbon ~o h ~dwsl ako h 3ad nIStr 1p. m..t thetra tiym ergatsds.t h oiesa T oshe tatwy nont prcaway tro tFr ot.Ts ti e stho u ad henpodcei towrdaos thet'dta lt'ok n'o h perh.'eni At ha time ver nis dutheful deksreat 's rsr , ther. whce awll benong enough epos' a s lae dthat ateligharenohe debrisofftcemdes. a Therefor e.If hfe endofte ould aetrw tt h or rAchispatc h arth ok Muteori scranta h lnn.t show.. m~Say eaonbly be exeted.sfii~r ohv'w.'kJteCt epSome tiumipationg h sy' ra' Hallllit-s yt~poiet tie diferenpt frtomuan l trinry. a fild k migt ocur Computatin thiatesit Stnhe eath proay pased thnloughy %cspig w we ntofa coe t Jue s3e. Ths186rl1.rca tte r Te. at13.'o.000 miks ofr thtevs had. ue et.Terhstr smd io a y nrtical duc oequencs.~o oeyadta.d.Te Sjtn orus ae copount nds th cabnn~ odpo~~os~ ,hr and t nitroh.-a. bu han iralo dethe h(dadYth.. ,aohrwt hsn slight '~ ththo apptreciab eifec phere: evlnwefe etwere 'ery nearoths ear ll .: te tu...WaPigt o., S.tdruss. Prn:. ito. _____________B-menthdas &fth Bietioo &a Nego Mrdredat ~na~tr aweduheome Comp any Aandr Fried DaveVe~iey. nego. w sht he sonex dth rdi to e rmae b Frak 'h~' anthr ngr o te th e bards andsve of th counts plarat on f i Y uri~rbrk.a Tet alln thmeiaensreLs and b .1 ~e e: L.n'as~. S U.Th boyt e rst b - ~Is~rand. n'~r(~s ~~'~ ,~e'.'rtb~ yc Itas bheen stated that thenad and a dsi~z'~ u~nrtheir ho'sesanot to ship andydir~~nZrti ore tlo.'c th~. ~r rx.i~ng.Af~~hisk teyr~c in Soth Carolin. I MK~rn~ww~.~h~ W'~tetured o Iis a'sbeingr talke dithat the runanda~ e id o MK~a~y'ni- *lmisin of thes whiskey firmt dng :i.' !oh brr.~s f asboge~ iu buFsianesswith tecudipnar ies~:,-: hint. ~t~willOhaveikthegeffect of tcausfngiother with the dispensaies innthhs Stade n.'rbr o "ltlb ~.erous Wile h uld the hikeyses rfus wa~ nin' datey arsed.The filt ores ont 'rtd fo thedis Y.'ua 5su lrnine'1 tensies in sevra of the wet co H'z~r' a'nad :rr"'i~'es Mrdderous ~. Plo'it-' Discoered atFr waoaretoc>.rgooftheNasauj~ .Idpy of a2ick of dynamite wih "L'" L :'~ ~~~a~~.L cap~r attached. .hich hadben pac