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(3RAFF GALORE The Grad Jify ArPittsburg's Appafn BRIBERY IS EXPOSED ThE City Government of Pittsburg. Pa., Seems to be in the Hands of as Bad a Gang of Thieves and Bribe Takers as Ever Infested this Country. Republican misrule, bribery and coteuption is being laid bare in the City of Pittsburg. Pa. The grand jury has ordered indictments against thirty-one present and past council men and making a demand upon the directors of the city depositories to Investigate their own bards and as certain the bribe-givers In connec tion with the ordinance designating their institutions is city depositories. formed the meat of two presertments made by the grand jury Friday. The presentments make % sensa tional story of the Inside history of corruption in the municipal bodies in 1908, and the demand made upon the banks named indicates that even more sensational developments than have been exposed are expected on Monday. when the bank directors. complying with the demand of the grand Jury. make their report In Court A further result of the present ments of the jury of City Controller Morrow late Friday for the with drawal of al, city funds from the six banks, and the practical nulli Scation of the ordiMnane desigaating them as custodian of city funds. There Is about $3.640,320 In these banks now and this would be In creased many millions during next week by taxes that are being paid. According to the controller, the with drawl of funds will 'e gradual, however, so that the instItutions may not be embarrassed, or any un Aue alarm caused depositors. The eatract from the presentments, call ing upon the directors, reads: "We call upon directors of the dx banks named as city depositories to investigate who paid for each of said banks the bribes herein aet forth, and report the same to this grand Jury, not later than Monday March 28. 1910. And we furrther demand that said report be in writ ing and certined to by directors of said banks individually. "We strongly recommend and in sist that the proper officials of tue city of Pittsburg take Immediate leg a action to nullify the ordinance na"ng the Farmers' Deposit Na - tional Bank. the Second Natlonal Bank. of Pttsburg; the German Na tional Bank. of Pittsburg; the Ger man Ntional Bank. of Allegheny: the Columbia National Bank. or PIttsburg, and the Workingman's Savings Bank and Trust Company of Allgeny, as city depositories, in order that the bribe-givers may not beneftt by reason of their own wrong doing and criminal conduct.'' The presentments give the full de tails of the plot on the part of the cuncilmen to obtain bribes from the six banks. of the means adopted for paying the bribes and the story of the transfer of $45,000 by an un armed man to former Councilman Charles Stewart In the Hotel Imper hai, New York, is told. It is related that Max G. laslie, former chairman of the Republican county committee. received $25,000 by arrangement from E. H. Jennings and F. A. Griffin. of the Columbia National Bank, and that Leslie gave Win. Brand, who was then president of cogon council. directly or in directly $17,500 to obtain the city deposits for the Columbia National Bank. An unnamed man is said to be interested and concerned in the payment of the money by Leslie to Brand, either as intermediary or principal. It is declared that Morris Einstein received $15,000 from the Working moan's Savings and Trust company to have that bank named as a city de pository, but the name of the bank official who paid him t-he money is unknnwn. It Is further declared in the pre sentment that the members of th~e grand jury are of the opinion tha~t the books of the Workingmen's Bank have been mutilated, three pages re ferring to this deal having been cut from the- ledgee. Einstein. it is also declared, kept $500 for his services in arranging the deal. Further declarations in the pre sentments are that two city clerks were given $1,000 each, and $1,7->0 was set apart for newspaper men, and then Henry M. Belger. the saloon keeper. already convicted of bribery. was given $500 for his services in bringing about the meeting between the officials of the German National Bank of Plmtsburg and the council men. Indictments were recommended aganst Charles Stewart, Win. Brand and Hugh Ferguson for conspiracy; against Stewart for soliciting bribes from the six banks; against Stewart for distributing portions of the~ money to several councilmen; against Brand for soliciting a bribe from the Columbia National Bank. and for having received bribe money directly or Indirectl-y from Max C. Leslie, and also receiving bribe money from oth er banks and against Brand charging him with distributing bribe mnoneyv in various soms to vsarious other menm bers of councils; against Hugh Fer guson for soliciting. demanding and receiving money from banks to be used to obtain votes to get the city deposits for t.hose institutions and with distributing bribe money to other councilmen. A paragraph of the presentments that was added at the last moment. declared that former councilman. Jacob Soffel, refused the tender of $5.000, which was th'an set apart as a defence fund in case atny of the members of the clique got within the grasp of the law.* Crashed to His Death. Joseph Rhamrstine. 46 years of age. claim agent for the Southern rail road. Sunday fell from the ninth floor of the Columbia building in Louisville. Ky.. to the stree'. below. crushing through an iron grating VERY SMALL CLEW LED TO THE C%.?f'RE OF TWO TRAIN ROBBiIERS. They Were Traced by an Old Hat Which They Had Stolen From a Car Years Before. The two bandits who recently held up and robbed a fast mail train on the Missoori Pacific road. near Eureka. Mo., have bon captured and are now in jail at St. Louis. each held in default of $20.000 bail. and it is probable that each will get a prison sentence extending over the rest of his natural life. ill Lowe and Gorge Eberling are the two men who participated in the hold-up. and it is the story of their careless ness in leaving an old slouch hat laying around that finally led to the capture. The train robbers. under cover of revolvers. compelled the engineer and firemen of the train to detach the two mail carp and run them up the track for a mile and then get out of the engine cab and walk back to the rest of the crew. Then the robbers ran the train about five miles further up the track, where they colly looted the two cars. The post office authorities detailed In spector Perkins on the job. and, af ter looking over the ground and the clews. he decided that an old, gray. felt hat, left near the soene of the robbery. was the best one to fol low. In tracing the hat's owner. he dis covered that it had been stolen with a lot of other loot from a freight car robbed in St. Louis some months before. The next move was to get a line on the suspects at the time the hat was stoien. and who might have stolen it from the freight car. In looking up these worthies the in spector was impressed by the rather dubious antecedents of one Jim Lowe. who had been employed by the Missouri. Kansas and Texas road at the time of the robbery. The inspector was still further im pressed with the fact that Jim had a brother Bill. who some 11 years before had been connected with the younger Jesse James in the hold-up of a train. Inquiry re specting Bill Lowe showed him as being for the moment engaged in the sale of mining stock. with an office in the Granite building. in St. Louis. and as ostensibly reformed and conducting an honest and legiti mate business. However. the inspector says, a sort of fleeling crept into his mind that as Bill had the nerve to hold up a train 11 years before. he might be tempted to try the old trick over again. At any rate. the Inspector found that Bill was in St. Louis and handy for the job about the time of the robbery. Furthermore Bill had been an en gine driver and In a pinch could have Idone just as one of the robbers did in running five miles up the track with the mall cars at Eureka. And then if in the latter job might he not have worn the old hat found at the scene of the holdup, and further more might not his brother Jim have given it to him, after all? Then the developments came auick and surprising, indicating the inspectors line of logic to have been well found A quiet search of Jim Lowe's home resulted in the finding of the goods stolen at the same time the' old gray hat was taken from the freight car. Then Jim was asked to explain and upon being shown xh-' hat after awhile hesitatingly' admit ted that it was "one that had been given to him by a friend" about a year ago, and which he later gave to his brother Bill. Then, the in. spector says, all was plain sailing in the matter of running down the robbers.* COIRN CONTEST PRIZE M10NEY. State to Distribute Over live Hun dred Dollars. Prizes aggregating $550 are an nounced by the State corn contest commission. The manual has been arranged and will be sent out upon request to those desiring to contest The commission consIsts of the com missioner of agriculture. Prof. W. M. Riggs. acting president of Clemson college, and Prof. W. R. Perkins. of the agricultural department at Clem son. The following are the prizes offered: One acre contest-fiest. $125. sec ond $50, third $20. Five acre con test ainder the same conditions. Boy's one acre contest--first $50. second $25. third $15, fourth $10. Ruler provIde that "each grower will be required to grow one acre of crop, or In five acre contest five acres, but no part of a five acre en.try can be considered an entry in the one acre contest." In the boy's contest all require ments are the same as in the con test among the grown men. The scale of points is as follows: Purity and selection o'f seed 10. methods of culture 25. record of re port 15. yield of contest acre 25. quality of crop 10. profits resultine from the entire operation 15 points. The above prizes are In addition to those offered by the different prize in a county contest will be paid $50 by the State. winner of second prize. $25; winner of third prize. $15; and winner of fourth prize. $10. SERVED) HIM RIGHT. Preacher Who Wanted a Divorce Been Drtopped. The Central Pennsylvania confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church in session at York. Pa., pass ed a resolution last week deprivin, the Rev. W. W. C'adio of the right to preach in a Methodist puzpit. H. was adjudged guilty of certain charges preferred against him by his wife when he sought divorce in South Dakota. several years ago. The Rev. Mr. Cadle was married to a daughter of ex-Congressmnan Hicks. f Altoona. Pa. When he sought di vorce in Dakota the court decided he was the guilty party and not his wife and cony quently granted her the divorce. The conference accept NEW "STATE FLAG" ACT EBLEM M'%T IFU)AT FROM ALL STATE BRUA)INGS. Such as State House. Courthouses, Colleges. Public School Houses in TOWn and(l County. Representative McMahan of Rich land had passed an Act providing for the display of State flags over pub lic buidings. The Act goes into effect and Mr. M.eMahan directs at tention to it. The Act is as fol lows: Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of 'South Caro lina: Section 1. That the State flag shall be displayed daily. except in rainy weather. from the staff upon tly State House and every county court house. one building of the State U.niversity and of each State college, and upon every public school building. except when the school Is closed dur!ng vacation. Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the officer or officers in charge of said buildias to purchase suitable flags and cause them to be displayed. the expense to be borne out of the funds provided for main tenance. i Section 3. That it shall be the d-uty of Clenmson College to manufac ture in its texile department and sell at approximate cost flags of suitable sizes and correct design. which shall consist of blire. with white increscent in the upper flagstaff corner. and white palmetto tree in the centre. as prescribed in the resolution adopt ed by the general assembly. January 28. 1861. to be approved by the secretary of the historical commis sion. Section 4. That any person who mutilates, injures or desecrates the flag of the State whereever displayed. as above provided. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con viction sball be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dol lars. or imprisonnvent for not more than 30 days. it will be in order for the county supervisor and comanissioners and the school authorities of this county to se that the law is carried out s., far as the public buildings of the county are concerned. PLOUGHING WITH GASOLENE. Spartanburg Farmer Uses Engine on His Farm. The Editor of the Spartanburg Journal says recently he rode tip to Ed Foster's farm to examine the ploughing he was doing with gaso lene power. Sir. Foster bought a 12-horse engine and a gang.of three disc plows. Soon after he began to work the wet weather set in and stopped him for several weeks. but he is now finishing about fifty acres. Here is what the editor says of the experiment: "He took off one disc because the ;eower was not sufficient to jpull the three In th~e hard clay. The field examined had been ploughed 4 or 5 Inches In former years. Th. hard pan in places had never been broken. The average depth he has ploughed it this time is about S inches. It may be less In places. "We said to him that he was bringing up too much red clay in places, while he admitted that it Iwas too much, he thought by harrow ing and heavy fertilizing the crop of this year would lM good, and !t will be. He did very fine work. When a disc plow brings up and pulverizes three Inches of hard clay great power is required. Four heavy mules would not have done the work as well as It was doe by gasolene power. "There is no doubt as to the value of the work done. Next year two more Inches of clay can be turned up and in the course of thre" years the soil will be 10 to 15 Inches deep. Mr. Foster proposes to get a 1 5-horse power engine and use the three discs. "Two hands are required to do the work and the gasolene and machine oil costs about $2.50 a day of 12 hours. Two discs will cut about 22 inches. The machine does not move quite as fast as lively horses hitched to a plow. W'ith thme tw. discs four acres may be broken in 12 or 14 hours even when the clay is very hard. Counting time. oil and two hands the cost of breaking will be $2 to $2.25 an acrE'. and it is cheap at that, when the style of work is considered. Any farmer who has 50 to 100 acres of land on which such a machine can be used should have one." l W1ANTED) TO liE H IS WI'FE. Matrirnonial Advertisement Brings Many Replies. More than a thousand women an swered the' advertisement of Miarcus A. Bunce, of Groveland. Mass., who recently caused a notice to be pub lished in the papers stating that he would like to meet ai woman who de sired a home and a rood husband. Over a dow-n applicants have v'is ited him and one, a woman from itoston. has taken up the duties of a home maker on trial. If she rives satisfaction she will be led to the altar. If not, a little New York wo man will rec'eive. th--' next trial. Among Mr7. Bunce's letters w'ere more~ than 200~ from New York city. All the- mtssives br'eathes sine'::-ty. sonme coming from as far south as \'irginia and many from th'e sta.te of Mai~'. 1-unce has a home of his own, cows. chickens. hors"3a. is a me'mbe'r of the Masons and nights of i''thias and! a prominent man in politics in his home tow'n. Opposed to Progrt-ss The men who sa: "le!. things alone, they're good enough for us." 4tand in the way of progress in the town in which they live. They want :hings to continue in the same old way that sufficed fifty years ago. We knew a man who was opposed to the electric lighting or any other sys tem of lighting the streets of thA town in which he lived. becaus?. so he said, he couid take a stable lan tern with him whe'n he wantea to :to down town. That man did not hive in this city. but we have some h.ere who would pass for his twin BRIBERY SCANDAL MONEY USED TO SHAPE INSUR ANCE LEGISIATION. Investigation Shows that German Companies and Natiunal Fire Un derwriters Worked Together. The fire insurance inquiry started in New York City last week, bids fair to assume national importance. The testimony adduced shows that foreign companies made their boasts that they were spending money free ly in Albany. N. Y., to assure passage of the Grady reinsurance' bill. Wit nesses also told that ow.-n $19.000 was expended In the West to secure the passage of favorable and to block unfavorable legislation. The most far reaching piece of evidence yet produced was the fact that Emmet RhoX's received $10. 000 in 1903 to be used in securing the repeal of the stamp tax act, pass ed by Congress during the Spani:;b American war. It is declared an investigation will be asked to show w'hen and upon whom this cash was used. Concerning the Grady bill p-ssed by the New York legislature. E. H. A. Correa. vice president of the Home Insurance cnmpany. told that two German re-insurance companies made open statements to the effect that they were seeking to dominate thing. at Albany. They were the Munich Reinsurance company and the Prus . Reinsurance company. The %,un ich company made no bones about spending its money for the passage auoiq jo ssozdc aigi a4!dsap %nr r~ 11l1s sl Iliq ai.L *9061 a; lrad4J m;! mad01 puV *t~06t ul flq al4 ;0 companies. The largest cash payment vet men tioned in the inquiry wns quoted by Col. A. H. Wray. manager of the Commercial Union Assu14rce cow pany. limited, of London. CX'!. Wray is a member of the Nathnmal Board of Fire Underwriters. he stie.I that $19,000 had been paid ir :ne West -o establish and keep up a sy3tem for controllng leeisla'oto- that it might be favorable to inaa.z11;ce coM panies. The National Board of Fire Under writers was touched io- :1-',000 in 1903. according to the Leameny vy Mr! Correa. a member o' uia board. Emmet Rhoades securea t:;;. money. "for service rendered ir connection with the repeal of the sznp tax.'' The law in question wi* p:issed by Congress at the time of tLe Spanish American war. requii--g a tax, among other things. uZen fire n surance policies. How the money was used !s not known. LNSANELY JEALOUS. Carpenter Tries to Wipe Out His Whole Family. Enraged because his wife had gone to the theatre Friday night with her brother, taking the children of the famitly with her, Alfred Mitchell. a carpenter. Saturday shot and prob ably fatally wounded her, seriously wounded their 12-year-old son, and sevn-year-old daughter then shot himself in the head dying instantly at New Orleans. La. Mitchell lived on the Genti'y road, several miles from New Or leans. When he returned home on Frday night and found that his brother-in-law. Conrad Falk. had taken his family to the theatre, he leeaded a double barreled shot-gun and waited for them. When they re turned. he fl-red two shots at Falk. wfho ran down the road and escaped. After heaping abuse upon his wife and children he went to bed but was in a bad humor. When he arose Saturday morning he commenced a quarrel with his wife which culmi nated in the shooting. The wounded woman and children were brought to a hospital in New Orleans. Mrs. Mitchell received a load of shot in the abdomen and her conditicn is critIcal. The daughter is badly wounded in the shoulders and breast and may not live. The boy will probably recoer. Mitchell reloaded the gun after shooting his wife and children, and placlng the muzzle against his forehead blew off -be top of his head.* F.AIILY GOES CRAZY. Five Stricken With Insanity in Two Days' Time. Insanity. 2ie Nemesis of the Goetz family of Belleville, Ill., claimed five victims in two days last week. Three of them are now in an insane asy lum, while the remaining tw, are in the detention ward of a hospital under observation. 'None of the five thus stricken. it is said, can be cured. The dread ful visitation is having a depressing effect upon the other resident of the little town of Belleville. and the G;oetz home is being shunned as a pest ilenc. Nothing can save the qtieer afllie~ tion of the family is talked about the town and all sort of themes are suggested. Some say it is the man isfestation of divine wrath for sonme infraction. Others sug::est it is her editary. but long dorman. All that is known is that each had accused the other of dishonesty, and possibly the accussation drove each initurn insane.* BLACK HAND IN KENTUCKYT Incendiary Fire Causing Hearvy Loss Credited to Italians. Fire. supposed to have been or incendiary origin. early Friday at Morgansfield. Ky.. destroye-d proper ty to the value of $200.000 in th.e business rsection of that place. The fire was discov-sred in th.e Green River Department store. which was destroyed. toget her with the fol owing buildings: Masonic Temple, the opera house, the new Baptist church and parsonag'; John Conway & Co.. vehicles and groceries: thce Bank of Union county, the Nathan Dyer company, dry goods, and a number of offices in that building. The Green River department store claims to have receive-d seve rall threatening letters lately from th e THE PEOPLE WIN A Democrat Elected to Succeed a Repab lican in the House. WON A GREAT VICTORY Wipes Out a Republican Plurality of Over Fourteen Thowsand and Carries the District by Nearly Six Thousand to the Great Surprise of His Political Opponents. A dispatch from Brackton, Mass.. says the national political weather cock turned to the Democrats in Massachusetts on Tuesday. when the old colony section. one of :he Re publican strongholds of the State. placed Eugene N. Foss of Boston, one of the country's leading exponent3 of reciprocity with Canada. in the Congreosional seat of the la Wil liam C. Lovering. Mr. Foss accomplished what was regard-d as almost a political mir acle. turning a Republican plurality of 14.250 into a Democratic victory of 5.64f The vote was: Eugene N. Foss. of Boston (Dem ocrat.) 14.980. William R. Buch annan. of Brockton (Republican.) 9.340. It was the most overwhelm ing defeat that the Republicans have met in Massachusetts since Governor Bates was overthrown by William L. Douglass. six years ago. TMhe result is considered of more than State-wide importance. for Mr. Foss stumped the fourteenth district on national questions and the people backed him up with a whoop. It was the first contest to be decided by the voters since the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill bec:-vae operative, and had a peculiar interest on that ac count. 'Mr. Foss. who has figured in sev eral campaigns. first asc a Republi can, and later as a Democrat, with moderate protectionist leanings, left the Republican party last year on the issue of Canadian reciprocity. and became the Democratic candidate for Lieutentna Governor. He failed by only S.0000 votes to carry the State at that time. The 'hizh cost of living. the Dem ocrats charged in the campaign to the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and the failure of the Republican party to properly supervise the trusts. The fourtventh district has been the most consistently Republican district in 3Massachusetts. having never before elected a Democrat to Congress. The remarkable shift of votes is difficut to analyze. Th- Republican leaders admit that their party, in the gist. was divided. Twenty-five thousand ballots were cast, which is about four-fifths of the average vote in the three past Congressional elec tions. Congressman-elect Foss is a prom inent manufacturer, banker and cap italist of PBoston. He had been twice defeated for Congress in th.e eleventh district. He is a brother of Con gressman Foss, of linois. Mr. Buchanan Is the publisher of the Brockton Times. MfUST PRO VIDE FIRE ESCAPES Hotels and Large Boarding Houses Mlust Comply. Every hotel and boarding house in South Carolina over three stories in height is required to be equipped with iron fire escapes by an act pass ed at the last session of the Legis lature and recently approved by Goy. Ansel The act will go into effec: on Otober 1 of this year and its enforcement is left with the insur ance commissioner. A fine of not less than $10 and not more than $50 is provided. The following is the act: SectIon 1. That every building or structure kept, used or maintainert as. or adv-rtise as. or held out to the public to be. an inn, hotel or pablic lodging or place where sleep :ng accontmodations are furnished for hire to transient guests in which ten or more sleeping rooms are usedt for the accommodations of such gtests shall, for the purpose of this act, be considered to be a 'itte. Sec. 2. Every hotel having thr'ee or more stories shall be provid.o with an iron fire escape on the cut side of the building. th-- insurance commissioner shall have the power to prescribe the numiber and char acter of such nire escapes, and it shall be his (futy to see that this act is enforced. Sec. 3. This act shall go into ef fect October 1. 191'.. Sec. 4. Every owner, manager. agent or person in charge of a hotel. who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $50. and every day that such ho;. I is carried on in violation of this act snail constitute a s'up.rate offense. I RLAFT TELLS OF IIASTER. The Mute Evidence of I.oss of Lum ber Schooner. A raft 30 f.eet long. wave-swept. :ad with only a brok *n maist from which !!utt er.'d a torn fragmient of a saIlor's shirt. was pass.-d at sea b the Gernman st.eamer Scharzfes. which arriv"'i at Philadeliphia from: Calcutta Friday. The' mute evidence of a possihE~ disas:.er was encount--red by. the. Scharzf.'ls March 17T in ilatitude ::7.44 :orh.l lnu:rude 4~'..7 west. The raft had bee.n substantilally construict c. pres.umnably by the crew of an aibandloned lumb--r schoo)ner: but the ':.sseli on which ;he :aft had tr-.n built was r.owhere to be seen. The following day th.e Sch:,rzi.is pass. - a brown pain ted wooden d'*r" liet with k-el abov.e wait.r.* Watches Child's Shoes. A white shepherd dog. neve:t be fore seen in the vicinity of D~anvilie. Va.. is keepin:: constant vigil over a pair of child's shoes on the bank of the Dan River. The dog resists all efforts to lure him from the tiny shoes andi is being f'd with food brought by farmers.. No one i known to be missing from the com , u , . - * GETS OFF EASY MAN WHO KILLED HTRET PEO PLE SOON TO BE FREE. On the Slightest Provocation He Killed His Wife's Grandfather and His Two Sons. The doors of the state penitentiary at Columbia. S. C.. will soon open and free "Bob" Jones, whose crime. trial, and conriction 25 years ago created such a furore. Following a trival dispute. Jones killed his wife's aged grandfather, A. Pressley, and two other near relativ-:s. It was one of the most brutal crimes in the criminal historp of the South. and it was only after six years' legal bat tle that he was sentenced to the penitentiary to &irve a term of 20 years for his deed. That oJnes did not hang was due to the fact that his resources at the time of the triple murder were ample for him to retain a corps of the ablest law yers in the state. who saved his neck and got him off with a 20 years' sentence. One frosty morning in November, 1885, the Pressleys, the old man and his three sons wv'nt out to plant some oats. Charley and Ed the elder sons. plowed the furrows and the old man dropped the seed. Then Jones cames on the scene. It is said he thought they were using more of the land than they were entitled to. When Jones say the Pressleys he did not indicate his murderous intentions. Withou-t warning he walked to within a few feet of Charles Press ley. called him by name and when Pressley turned around to meet him, fired a load of shot into his stomach. killing him instantly. Then Jones ran and Ed Pressley ran after hi- Ed was annarmedl There was method in Jongs' fight. As soon as he saw that they were alone and far away from possible aid Jones stopped and, turning back, ran into Pressley, driving a long-bladed knife into his vitals, Pressley drop ped dead in his tracts. Jonez then reloaded his gun and went back to the place where old man Pressley was grieving over the body of his son Charles. The old man was ~6 y-ars of age and was suffering from palsy. Jones walked up to him and touched him on the shoulder, and when the old fellow, tears run ning down his cheeks, turned and faced him. he calmly said: "Well, grandpa, I believe that I will kill you too." and then he fired the load of shot into the old man's stomach. The old man lived long enourth to tell what Jones had said just before shooting him. For six years the trial dragged on. and again and again Jones escaped with a mistrial. For sonve myster ious reason the prosecution was un able to get together 12 men who thought the man should suzffer the penalty of his crimes, Finally the~ prosecution got a change of venue to Irxington county, and there, after a hard fight, he got a conviction carry' ir a sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary. Jones has been a well behaved convict, and the usual com mrutation due to the fact accounts for his release in the next few weeks. SCEDULLE OF THE COET When and Where It Can be Seen to Best Advantage The comet is still far away but is faintly visible with a good opera glass in the west after s~unset and is rapidly growing brighter. It will probably be visible to the nacked eye by the middle of April, but it will then be in the morning sky and one must look for It in the east about two hours before sunrise. On May 14 the comet will pass directly be tween the earth and the sun and will be only 13,060.000 miles from the earth. This will be Its closest ap proach to the earth and after this date the comet will move rapidly away from the earth and sun and will soon be lost to view, On account of its rapid motion it will be seen in the west again in the evening from M\ay 20 until the early part of June, Iwhen It will fade rapidly as it has tens onward along its outward path, iror some days before and after Mlay 18S, if the prognostications of astromomers are correct, the comet will be. a magnificent object. Its head is already over 190,000 miles in diameter and its tail is more than 5.000.,000 miles in length and con stantly growing. Without doubt the brilliant tail will extend fully one third the distance from the horizon to the zenith during its close ap proach to the earth, and the earth may be enveloped in the tail as it sweeps past us on the ISth of May, But as a comet's tail is exceedingly fiimsy, being nothing more than tiny particles of ga; or fleeks of dust, its visit to us will cause us no incon yenitence. On April 4 the comet may be seen in the morning in the east It will is.e am about 5 o'clck. On April 16 it will rise at 4 a. m. On A pril 24 it ris's at 3.30 a. m., On .\May 14 it rises at 3 a. mn. After Miay 20 it will be seen in th west after sunset, On M\ay 20, it sets at 7.45 p. m. On M\ay 25 it s--ts at 10.30) p. m. On May 30 it sets at 10 p. m. After the ist of June the comet will be faint and will soon disappear from sight. Raising Pepper. The Calhoun Advance says: "An unusual sight which created consid erable inquiry and comment on our streets this w'ek was several loads of dry peppers grown and prepared for shipment to Baltimore, by Mr. J. E. Wannamnak.'r. who planted sev era! acres last year as an "xperiment r. \\'annamake'r says' he is pleased with the experiment, the crop hav ing made him as much money por acre as his cotton crop. He will plant pepper again this season." Long THat Pins Tahoed. A misdemeanor for any woman to woar a long hat pin in pubac. places in Chicago. Any woman cait w-earing one is liable to ar r'st and a fine of $50. After al month's discussion the city counc ill by a vote of 6S to 2 Tuesday night hot breads, pastry, are lessenedincost tand Increased wholesomeness, BakIng Pider Bake the fodat home Mgm and save maoney and health NEATLY FLAYED TOOK PLACE OF PLOW DYNAMITE USED TO BREAK UP Taft ad His Party Taken to Task forPLAN G LAND. Deceiving the People. Eight Hundred Charges of the Ex A WARM HOUSE SPEECH --s'r in t * -' Then Set Off. paler of Pennsylvania Attacks the The Spartanburg Journal s3vs J. Henry Caldwell, a farmer living in AdministraLon.-SYs Taft is A the Ardella section of that county, Pliant President and that Roose- four miles from Spartanburg, Tues day afternoon broke up an acre of velt is the Greatest Insurgent.- land with eight hundred charges of Republican Party Helps the Rich- dynamite, the explosive being used Referring to President Taf -as "a for breaking the land for cultivation reterplingto Pestidet aft -asa Instead of the plow. Mr. Caldwell 'ather pliant executive." and charac- claims that blasting land with dyn terizing former Presidvnt Roosevelt amite is the best method for subsoil as "the greatest insurgent of them ing, and that it can be done more all, who taught the insurgents how cheaply than with a plow and hired to 'insurge,' " Representative Mit- teip. chell Palmer. Democrat, of Pennsyl- we ietuniqemand unher ofli vania. attacked the administrationl the county and the result will be from the floor of the house Tuesday. watched with interest by many farm Mr. Palmer, in introducing his at- ers in the state. Dynamite, oe of tack upon the Repuolican organiza- the most powerful explosives know, tion and the administration me-15" is used extensively in blasting rock, ure. st d that the country could ex-, mining, sinking battleships, railroad pect little real benefit from "this engineering, blowing up stumps n show of effort on the part of the fields, etc-. but never has It bee~n president to redeem the pledges of tested n breaking land for culti the Republican platform. vation. The speaker said 'he did not Im- Sometime ago. bMr. CaldMrl. who pute to the president any lack of good is of an urininal turn of mind, de faith, but, he added, "any student chded that land could be broken with of recent and present conditi-ols w in dynamite charges ad in order to hat howver uch he pesientsik the sttedynamite h e and the Repubican party must realize put his idea to a test he buried a hay. deet ry ut the prietstohe off p erfue. the explosi k no to Ahi at inmistationt the meas- s tsa led ensively n ati roc k, ures.d tiehas bhoun r himsl d eartmhin. sHnkingue tatsIfps, cairad anho to anor ornizeat in the of the explsi, wutneurha itbeen h coressn whoc rdeh pdemonsoftedsated in suchakn manr tauhli pathapubican beatretm." in h an. y The isteffrt ofi the dintram- hsodmte stick ir. Canldr el.h pteon thaed byRpres ntatik ofagoo bison eriach sticufr on min de faiths bthe taif.de ratudn ed hot hethen orkld berkn woth Pfreient aftd presnondis the dynamithe ncharesd in rmer ind tes inpubica plcarms realize and hsvea ction o tethe cuied ta etiothwvetmc the pr fteideth ntdof dnmt blo te eart acre mua pasretcy fou tarif promises toueld fthafenoon. The newspson mean ti arti reuction. tthsme- atloed raidyovrthera cou re and the "Ts.he peopl bunderistoodthe.d wae arthge crgued onhantoi oineshrg aid foot toan 'thnati in hento the noexlmod. wofl preaen upathe coness latfor thas Remicnstrtyd ah in r ultvatine.ht h pave tha poissornte to nth n p hesae-ay ecept ws eowfasedb traiiams." Tu Je OFn MEPR. lwle Tht ands aceport by thepol adiita hidnait _tiksina_ areed mrasthe ction, i ne reltd hav si.Whntewokhdbencm Presden Taf ha prmise thpatehe ond Is Reprtedrt fred boersn eteis out atee edoreadsvrlctznso h iyta enti orha the crede of the mae-r eitne o lwu nar pu te bligartyo arif beensim-n htatroo.Tenw as paednt tarif rectodofyers. e Fathlyoer Laheruty Loud there broke pele unerss. th radywas dyarg cowd losy handon wte sIfr Plrsiden Tatha ipsedn tee olon ehod Cofnrepain am thlafor the ealincan ttet tng cdland tor ltrcivt. force Cosnpremssoyt to dc the tarif tae.tItn was teneese tiey ofliameH Father C OF LoEdPERS. t Tat andisayped in tern p ee le i h aala sad o thedulction. duti which wull haet eigters bfore IgReorted to Chna ben accpte prwitou theatedsefoestigotfrCiah-p mnufactrers, aredy enrihed make twDerslcuing.i h U~e o teoation arif lasbeondy th tts asnmbot-000 o i darem of athe he oul yea o j ec.FahrLmetousC erknedes.gttosythta t ady e dyog an laros n thee "endresoide Tapublian diplay's siper colony fero Canton, tranaort prois hfhe haze its oiattpio eodin tho0 leers ecnvd.itte force CongreThisttookd$c0,0he ofrthe taxation san the pnnciies of lwofeha ahe iConrad ored00 aongth. thgat by diaevi euing hi ceaes cot-es ithe wawayiian, Inrs at redctins f utis wic wilrsvt eght oyears bfore aond o xCuina. on goodeaster pro s te protecte eoestigotfrCiah pn doarsufctrerst alrustnice by in heafrs thecturn, an asheo Unitd intortsills oftraws maeriasondnl thraee cenisin au day0 for hiser muchm redurce enue, hname pojewsit.fi a t ar earned the right tosahe in t'he hgea bourde n.iln n h ie earse of the oreahpuican paryssxymlsfomCnotasot thelteruncils ofooke$administfathe pr m rtbenuh lf a ane-lmoney, hend a f o vte r e malo ine his Thes rosaecii the niffoesupr of the wok-haunsncmeo to.000ch er ingmn b giinghim heaer ot- As deoe is phyic. Wese te ongsas pucae a he pris to sav tae tendante appa fre aprva ofectihe dolars ofithe steeoal tr oo dumpighai orteclny-n sodcs intoits illsits aw mterilsgaeont moey cents oayfo tecountr, opertio ree eaximunse. iso-m son theat in ma f whopates ther would inave been anshrined in the ghin grtbren.ftemnypw htarfs of lumer podts bis ' prie r cng thsspot croet." "Wlh..bcue nhe laskerzaloverinment "T sy ha te ecin eol suppor of d thic cupon te whih e Thre dedciond. ihe triffd "ono lgihsldevteiof. We see pase ther a desriedpayo by r. Pamer pofthesvig feeank iationdedl tas pucased "ato the prcf a trad wihe autent walkolo theplnwhc n n . w ih i li beto bringinto reat money centes of the coun-tryoobiio . tperatisowatin thmu recpro- iso that evemr wo dheprecats prom viddr the aw pnd:ner-aehe he gingb steRegthlofcth ploey pow tad oin thme poduts y pa0e er er canS orv oiited wipoth.n a cent. t h'r t "Wepor d bythe grast n sv ermet 'Nowa that the Amercian havpe ofithe alrlct upon who haght te ere whied. int lproe'.esed. "hysuresato. to 'inres the ans yth oe relaya of athe pli;at ing waoof the rncRpublian brl mosctgivean al n atute histor of andl e Stanho was Arsonsi-n this Rbodyan organezin ouin Niew moexc ths aomnly erasented tendast inning~ and ahe taion aes the b e ot chie ewalk e the ma nhc tobm en orral e itiz no th is cousu- i let a o l e cy toon."co~ n ander e s o warrani n toher reor" a i t atieyon e f iihe d a prom what thespromt ofihmn the naveg ine gra whe h Republican paty in pe ublca liltie pogram ptartsr- 19Ino ori~giatedris, andpwas c edant rv y t o t r est- h rt suppot ed bya the gremited t hs re ttt "Nowhic preie insurhen heto binemn fal. thei calition tht the ofeen whppe io ne." ather saed insurdent thow rto 'insurgen thad see the itemsa of th publicz gpaep oin u fth ug~. on bfthe thcess inssum ofart "Hsprt.,he ad s eto mosth oganitic lf n whch hiso. of-~sa,"il emr otnt s bodl . and > lthise manc of "ido~ tfn pnhs eunta i ernent. htouro tffetivacaion, illvb e coralewl esdte p~t-Iped in the apartydytocall-usu cnd ofate getes prmise :t oser-jthgoosodoe h rerspn watlo has beo thserledg s~ in frtebecho i at'