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VOL. XXV MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1911 NO.24 TOOK POISN New Yk affch rd WA Tries to M Foul HU EGONGTO Cbarged With Wrecking the N e Bank or New York. the - -as Ooraem- Before the Coum Room Where he as to -w. B-een Arz=Msed Jsepb 4. Robin. who the Nerthern Bank of .New To rk while at Its ead, ettempted to kill himself /gain on Friday. With head erect. should ar, and eyes levelled at h teery oetameras trained on h'm -Jos0p9 G. Robin. the Indicted bank4t stePo .d from his slster's home taclce ar ralgnment. calm in the ledge that be had swallowed a tab lets of hyoscin. the svbtle deadly alkaloid, with which Dr. C, kill ed his wife. Belle ELmo Be col lapsed before be could be en into Court. with the exclama Im a dead man; I've a.ken uo son tab The ease was postponW in the greatest excitement. a rtomneh pump ,wa hurriedly brought In* p2y and the sick man was Erst to the prison hospital, adjacen later to BDellea where he lies the prison ward. No charge of ped sul eMe Is entered agin t and It Is thought he wil reco , although the action ot hyiosin slow. much wil depend on vUitslity. The time at which -too*the drug is approlately by the tes tmony af Dr. A1fsti retained fd Robt by Travers Jer on. his counsel; use, Robin owtch, his sister, an wo detectives. from the district -ney's offlce: who rode with him his sister's house to the C: Court building Dr. Flint told the that as near ly-as he could J0 from the symp toms, the poison been in Robin's natem about th uarters on an hUr when he Tb. two d were posit their prisoner nothing on the way to Dr. Robluovitch =d her brother in the habit of tking hyosecin small doses, to countetst the ects of morphine. which he used deaden the stabb lng paine by w gall stones make thamseaves She kept the Arug In her- -house d she thought .her brother swalo twelve tablet. At Befewue the surgeons es timated that bin had taken about one-tenth of grain. Robin *i in good health Sat urday better than at any -tm since troubles commeneed. The trut of mane was when he -etaggered. stepping from his au. tomobile to Criminal Court build lng. In the evator he weakened so rapidly the detentives had to lift him to couch. There he sunk iato usness and was not re vised un the stomach pump had been wo. vigorously. Its prompt tisundou saved his life. the - corridors of the Cri minal buildin fairly hummed with.e: ent but in the Court of General . Itself Judge Cratn. Was tra business as usual when .T. Jerome stepped rapidly down aisle. " Youw Honor.'* he began. hurried 1y. "I here In the Robin case. It a that the defendant has taken a drug He cannot be stimulated. An has been called and are now pumping. out his The circumstance are un On ormation that the prisoner eoeld not possibly be arraigned. the ease postponed until the receipt of fu advices to Robin's condi tion. N Is described inthe text boos' an alkaloid of henbane and in na on a cerebral and spinal men' Cases. are recorded in whf- a dosen tablets of 1-?5th gain. appl' to the membranes of the eyes ha produced several genernl toxic toms. n's frustrated attempt leaves tb .queston of hisinsanity stilop Tlhere wasq no further development connection with either the Noth Rank of New York or the Wash lngton Savings Bank. both of which ar'. in the hands of the State banking department, but the State depart ment of Insurance took over the af fairs of the Title and Guarantee Con-pany. of Rochester. N. T., and a large force ot accountants are at work on the k'dgers of the mtny in toveen concerns which Robin pro moted. * Was Playing With Gun. P"wing just returned from a hunt. sand while pointing the gun at each other in a playful manner, the gun In 'he bands of Alex Dlonaboo was ae eidentally discharged. and 0. B. Ly-ch was Instantly killed. The en tire load took effect in the top of his he'd. which was literally blown off. Both boy's are about 17 years of age and sons of well known and prosper ouzs farmers. The accident occurred Just over the North Carolina line. and the coroner of Polk County held an inquest. * Find Body of Baby. Wbne searwebing for the body~ of Ceornelts Corhett, who was drows ed in an heroic attempt to) save e life of a young Wonian w-ho ba3.' 'a! t fro a ferry boat cros!ing the Chattahoochee River. sc-ers found the body- of a baby. The body was lying In 3 shallow nooi of water and was weighted .down. The body of .young Corbett was fo',nd about a ua. o tferrye 1 TOL OF IR SPS WHAT THE SCIENCE OF AVIA TION HAS COST IN LIVES. Evewy Country Repeeented in th< List of Those Who Died in Effort to Advance the Science. They have pulled the aviation bal ance sheet for the season just end ed. One side is bordvred with gold 3Ixty-nine heroes of the air havi won medals and thousands of dol lars in cash. The other side is pip ed with black. Twenty-nine havt paid the final price of the hero busi ness On the wide-stretched wigs of mot or-pushed. man-built birds. Intrepid flyers have hung the gay emblem of achievement 11.000 feet up in cloud land. Others. reaching out for the stars, have ridden aloft to the music 'of waving kerchiefs and to a fate which 'has the foneral wreath for its fnality. -Rverywhere there has been striv lug succeeding and striving and dy Ing until the side of the aviation sheet which is piped with black bears these names: Lefebore. Ferber. Bossi. Hauvetti Michelin. RobI. Speyer. Haas. Rolla. Daniel Kinet. Nicholas Knet. Maas dydk. Poillot. Madiot. Saghitti. John stone. Fernandez. Delagrange. L -Blon. Josely. Wacbter. Plochwan. Matiewitch. Waldern. Pasca. Vivaldi. Von Pitter. Hamilton. Chariz. BMan chard. Mente. Every country has offered its ma -aome two or three; you may tal by the names some have died leaving a word or two an maybe a fgure In the record by whch tb-zr may be re membered when the list has grown large Some have died as from a tumble from a housetop-a mean takfg off when you consider tha the settg is bounded only by track les spees. Chavez died thus-near the earth. after he had marched over the Alps. And some have died with department orders signed ant countersigned thrust in their belts, as men who serve the =uns or skirmish fathoms deep under the sea in steel bottles called submarines have done before DOw. Fifteen months ao the season for yiig and dying as a double attrac 'ion -bad its formal introduction at Rheims. the ancient city of the plal:s where the kings of France were wont tM go to fit themselves with crowns. The affair of Rheims was called a meet, a wore taken fr.m the vecab nairy of the foxhunt and bicycle riding. In territory the list is both broad nd long. Meets. with thet:- cash prizes and their life pr4zes. became popular. In the two lists to which the names of aviators may be added. the average is one dead to every three living. The greatest amount of noney any aviator has won, the fig ures beinte taken from his published acrounts. is $82.000. Pauihan got that. Only 25 have won more than $10.000. * 74 VESSRlIO &nd Pitty-three People Out of 1.463 Lost Last Year. Out of a total of 6.661 persons in rolved in 1.463 disasters to vessels of all classes within the scope of the United States life saving service, on ly fifty-three were lost. and about seventy-four vessels were completely destroyed. according to the annual report of S. L.. Kimball. general su perintendent of the service, for the fscal year. which ended June 30 lat The next expenditures for main taning the ser-ice for the year were $2.249.375.68. The enactment or the bill pp.ssed at the last session of Congiess by the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving service and others of the field service and others of the fit.d service incapacitated for duty is ured in the report. Of the 1.646 vessels of ali kinds which met with accidents, the life savers rendered service to 1.047. al uied with their cargoes at $10.171. 330. Other succor rendered, by the life saving service included the res~ cue of 137 persons from drowning. surgical aid to 60 persons suffering from gunshot wounds, broken limbs or bruises and the recovery of 150O iodles of persons who had met death throuch ice or in other ways. Nine of th's number were suicides. JAPANESE IN CONTROL. .nn Offcees Dcare They COulo Take thie Phillipines. Army offcers recently returned from the Phillipines are deeply con eerned over conditions In the islands, and maintain that it was on informa tion fornished by them that Secretary of War Dickinson and Gen. Leonard Wood based much in their re'cent re ports to Congress on the unprepared ness of the country for war. In brief, the charge is openly made that the Japanese are in absolue control of the Phillipines. and that they will have ititle or no difficulty in taking over the isands whenever they arc ready to move. It is declared by responsible offi ees of the United 'States array. both in person and by letter, that the Jap anese delibrately sunk the great tdry dock Dewey in Subig bay, and that this fact is known in official circles.' Smuggle Chinese SixtVen Chinamen. ioncealed ina bne ear. w'ere arrested at Tsleta. Tex this week, and two Americans, chr;?with attempting to smnuggle them~ !nto -he Utnited States, were al so taken into custody. The, car had been lined around the sides with bal ed hay. leavini: a space in the cente of 1-he ear in, which the foreignert WAVE OF CRIME &M~ Vi" Do&I~ Iusea of Pewa ad Geod WdL MANY LS D OUT Blood and Tragedy Mark the Peace and Good Will Seaon in South Carolina-Both Whites and Blacks involved n the Tragedies of the chrsmnar' season.* The birthday of the Prince of Peace has been a day of bloo.. in South Carolina and many killings, both accidental and intentional. are reported in various parts of the State. All the details are not in. but it is known that as many as a dozen people have lost their lives and many others have been injured as a result of the festivities incident to this 4eason. which should bring peace in' to the world and good will to men. Here is a partial list of the tragr dies: Nolly Hancock. a 14-year-old boy. whose home is in the Highland Park village at Rock Hill. was shot and kiled by a companion off about the same age, named Adkins. The boys quarreled over a small rifle and Ad kins used it with deadly effect. . Near Hampton. Harry Mason. aged 17. was accidentally shot by his cousin. William Priestr, aged 19, as the boys were starting on a bird bunt Priester became distracted ov er the accident and had to be re strained from doing injury to him At Beaufort, Saturday night. Dan Middleton, nego, was shot through the keyhole of a house where ho va visiting and instantly killed. Corneli us Thompson. another negro. is held far the killing. Clem Dean. a negro girl, was shot down in the road, about 10 miles from Greenville. by Tom Leather wood. The girl was returning from a party and her parents were with her. The slayer has not been caught. At Linton's place, near Cash's De pot. Chesterfield county, in which, it !s stated. a man named Copes, while -trunk. shot and killed a traveling man named Love. Particulars of the affair are not obtainable. The coroner's jury empannelled to inquire into the death of Edward Bomsard. colored. held J. W. Harper. white. for the killing. and R. T. Bate man. white an accessory. The de ceased was a hack driver and the shooting followed an alternation at the Atlantic. Coast Line depot In Sumter Sunday night. On Christmas Eve night there was a shooting near White Pond. Aiken county. at which several darkies --ere reported to be shot. Ilen versio Is that a party of negroes were fired into by a negro with a -hotgun and one worran and three men were hit by the shot. High Addison is charg ed with the offence and he made his escape. Tiliman Dunaway, a young piant-, er. shot and killed Euiene Janes, a negro, on the Dunaway plantation. some two or three miles from Hop k'ns. Sunday afternoon, 'about 5 o'clock. D~unaway surrendered and was committed to the Richlana :ounty jail Tuesday afternoon. Thomas Mackey. a young wh:te san. about 18 years old. committed suicide by shooting himself in the bead with a pistol, the tragedy oc-1 curring in the Charlotte road, about three miles north of Lancaster, op-I oosite the residence of Mrs. Mary Montgomery. A homicide occurred in Charles boro section. about ?4 miles from Lancaster. C. C. Faile being shot and killed by Caesar Watts. both white. The diffculty took place in front of the house of a man rnamed T'ate, in the presence of several wit nesses. On Priday night, at Dunbarton. a :own a~bout twelve miles fromn Barn well. Henry Lishe shot and killed Hamp Floyd. both negroes. From what can be learned they were gnmb .ing and became engaged in an alter cation. Lit'he is cut in several places. one finger being almost severed. He was brought to Blarnwell and lodged ~n the county jail. Saturday ntght, near Blackville. Ed Wicker, colored, who killed an ther negro a few weeks ato and etc -aped, went to his w~fe's home and 4hot at her. The bullet missed th-, woman and killed her child. After the killing of the negro some time tgo. W~cker is said to have made the statement that he~ would not he 4atisfied until be had kIlled his w~fe. Unfaithfulness on the part of the woman is said to have caused the killings. Monday morning Tomn Pugh struck Dolphus Malloy in the head with a piece of Iron. which resulted in Mal loy's death soon afterwards, the blow having fractured his skull. Both are negroes. living near Society Hill and are considered peaceable and quiet. Roger Andrews. a negro, in a irunken rage shot and killed his wIfe, his wife's mother and then himself, at Ninety-six Tuesday night at seven o'clock. Ther was no eye witness. The negro was seen in the afternoon -irunk and nothing furth er was reen of him until he committ ed the murder. Lige Horn, was shot and killed by another negro. Joe Smniley. at Smil ey's home near Verdery Monday airht. Whlsk~ey is supposed to have been the real starter of the row which led up to the killing. The dead negro had tw'o brothers killed a year ago at \'erdery at a bat sup per. KTwo negroes have been, killed in -Newberry -''onty dt~ring the holi days. At Whitire. Lence Farr was -killed by Lomie Williams, in the 1at ter's pressing club, where Farr had Sgone for. his clothe. OnT. .T. Dav MOVED ENTIRE TOWN PLACED ON WHEELS AND H.LL ED ACROSS PRAIRIE. With Bank Open. Meals Srved li Hotel and Clerks Working u Courthouse. Lamro. S. D.. has been put or wheels and moved to Winner. wher as the result of a bitter county sea war and azreement betwe-n the tw< towns. it has consolidated with Win ner and as a town ceased wholly tt .exist. Large store buildings with tb-il valuable contents were moved intact. Banks. with their cash in the vaults, were put on wheels and made the trip across the prairie while the clerks continued to work and money was received and paid out ot cus tomers. 'Without disturbing the offcials the county court house was hitched tc two of the largest traction engines ever built, and it was dragged f...m Larmo to Winner. where it was pla ed on a foundation peviousiy prepar ed for it. The Larmo hotel. drawn by 72 teams of horses. rade the trip without so much as ceasing business a single meal. The court bouse, a big two story frame building, was the flrst to ne moved, since It was necessary that the big house be put In place before smaller ho'aes blocked the way. The big traction engines were hitched to it, and across the prairie It went, the big engnas uffUg and snorting like Mogul locomotives. The distance was three rales, and this was covered in just two hours. So evenly was the "job carried on that clerks, writing at their desks were undisturbed. After the court house and Jail were moved residences went over in reg ular flocks. When nightfall overtook a house which was being move *-P structure was left by the ro.ads.,'. for the night and the family occupi ed it Is usuaL Then the movers began on the business houses, and store after store was taken to Winner without being interfered with. Banks were removed without the money being locked up, and deposits were receiv ed and checks paid without a halt. The big school house was taken over for the day, only half a day be ing lost by the students. Although the men in charge of the engines offered to take house. teachers., ch!l dren and all, the authorities did not care to risk the collapse of the build ing when it was occupied by so many children. The cost of moving varie" fro-m $50 for a dwelling to s5o i for a store filled with goods. It cost near ly $1.000 to take the court house to the new town and put it in -.he position it now occupies. PLANTERS SVFFER GREATLY. Six Million Dollarw is the Annual Damage~s to Peach Growers. The fearful ravages of pests on a1 ricuiture, entailing many millions of dollars' loss. are outlined in a state ment which Acting Chief Powell. of the bureau of- plant industry. h.'.s submitted &o the House committee on agr-'culture in connection with the agricultural bill which the comnmtte. reported Monday. Mr. Powell says that through the use of a sulphur spray, the Eastern peac-h business has been made stable' for the first time. He says that the estimated loss annually from brown rot on peaches is $5.000.000l and from peach se'b $1.&000.000. virtual ly all of which loss might be saved by proper spraying of orchards. Blister rust on white pine :s esti :nated to cause losses of $l.00S.000~ annually and other plants show hes vy losses from diseases and inse.-. s. Investigation of the cotton indus. try in Egypt has indicated that: l!. m-ixing of Hindu cotton with the Egptian cotton has entailed e.loss of $l0.000.000 a year and that strains of the Eryptian cotton can he bred In the Egyptian cotton cen be bred in the United States which will not show the conditions that cause :hese enormous losses in Egypt.* LOST OVER A MILLION. Grand Jury Investigates New Or leans Sugar Frauds. That the Federal Governmnent has been defrauded out of more than a million dollars in import duties at New Orleans, through fals'. weights and improper grading of sugar, was developed by the grand Jury investi gation which was in progress in that city two wt-ks before the holidays. according to unofficial imformation made public Thursday. It is saia that no criminal prosecution is to fol low the investigation, but that the Government will brinc suits agains: certain sugar refineries to recovet the alleged unpaid d:ties. The grand jury is expected to reconvene and p'esent its report on the suga: probe. line. Cain Henderson was kille-d by' Robert Golden. at the home of nis brother Clarence Golden. with pistol. Mr. John Edwards. who was shoi by Danier Toney. at Johnston os last Saturday. is still alive. with some hopes for recovery. He is at a hospital in Augusta. Tn additioo to these trageiie: M. G. Copelani was caught in the nrachinery at the Charleston poweti house andi n'a life wa. crushed out There wr-e several other killinrts 01 negroes in and about C'harleston. I Tflinnis Judc,- T~rnwns. Prec-ipitated into Sho.31 'reek whet Ithe ice broke tnder the w'eicht 01 'his !orse and husgv. Judge Miltot IM. Creighton of ti'e Montgomner3 county circuit edurt of Litchfield. Ill Tbttraday. A comyanion. riding witi 80W BLOWUP iKiling Sixieeu People and hei*g Twelve Others Badly. THE GAUSE IS UNKNOWN A Terrific Explosion at the More wi wood Ice Companys Plant, at to Morewood Lake, Maa., Thursday, e Spreads Death and Injury Among wl we the Workmen. on Duty. Sixteen workmen were killed Thursday when a boiler at the plant d up of the Morewood Ice Company, at U Morewood Lake. two miles south of ml Pittsfield. Masa.. exploded. Twelve wera killed instantly. one died short ly after the accident and three others T2 died in the hospital. In adition. 12 M4 men were injured and it was'-stated it was feared two of these will die. b At a special meeting of the city countil re.olutions were adopted call- " ,n, for imnmediate actions to supply the wants of the fatherless and in jured and in a short time nearly $3. 000 had been subscribed. United H( States Senator Winthrop Murray Crane headed the list with $500. i Gather.-d Thurslay forenoon in and about the little boiler building h were about 125 men. mostly Poles h and Italians, at work. With a ter- h rift crash the WOWe berst._ odell of men antd fragments of Iron and timber were burled through the.aIr. Most of the workmen who er not killed outright were either injured or dazed by the shock. Physicians, ambulances and automobWes were rushed from that city to the scene H4 and the injured were hurried to hoe- be pitals there. B When the explosion occurred one odr was %!own a di'tarce of 200 an ev.*t and a:other 150 feet. ' The cyl inder of the boiler was found In a tree on the edge of the -lake, more than' 100 feet away. Ju The Ice house is about two mDles & from Pittsfeld. and It was some time b before word of the disaster reached b there. Every ambulance was immea lately dispatched to the lake. The at ambulance service. however. was to- go tally inadequate to the needs of the occasion, and automobiles were used b to aid In the work of removing the Injured to the .hospitals. One of the owners of the More- ** wood Tee company said that the boil- ti er was Inspected during the summer P by an inspector of the State police, lie who ordered certain changes and $1 that these changes were made. st Thursday he said a test of the water P& :tuage showed that Instrument to be to In perfect condition. Willian Dunn. di( one of the men who was killed, was in charge of the boiler Thursday. an He was an experienced en;lneer. tiE The boiler was used In furnishing Ic the power to drag the cages of ice up the inclines into the ice storage dr houses. The police department has tul ordered an investigation of the ex- 9 ploston. The property loss will not exceed $500. n ___________ by PROBE TEDDY'S AFRICAN TRIP: so E: Georgian- Charges. Instiltute With Wrasdang Public Money. "The African hunting trip, as or .anized and carried out by the Smithsonian Institute, via Roosevelt-.t "Is the subject of the latest proposed Ne Congressilonal investigation. The be suggestion was received by Repre- Go sentative Rainey, of Illinois. from a on citizen of a Georgia town, who re farred to such an inquiry as a "pub- hv tic st'rvice-' and to the "Smithsonian" r't as a "trash heap institution." Mr- fr Rainey is the Democrat who recently lIg introduced a resolution to inquire in-Ide to the manner in which Mr. Roose- lu velt obtained his transportation and supplies on his trips about the cou try while he was President. so Mr. Rainey proposes at the earliest Ith, opportunity to press this resolution. I though it was referred to the rules ur committee and promptly pigeon-hol- ga ed. The Georgian declared that anth extension of such an inquiry to in- 5 cI-ude the way in which the African g hunt e-xpedlition expense was borne by the Smithsonian Institution , "would show waste," extravagance ~ and sqiandering of public money." .. The Smithsonian has never reported w th-- cost of the expedition to Con- d rress. but did submIt a statement ti that 6.662 skins and 2.500 shoots or g plants were obtained. 'n The old year is almost gone. but the~ new year is right at hand to d~e commence the race of 191!.tr RAVAGES OF BUNYGER. I Millions- of Chinese are Affected by a Famine. An affecting picture of the ravages of famliI.w in China is afforded by a repoPrt in the state department by t'he American consul at Nanking, inclos- jris ing extracts fromw the Shanghai news- at papers. The consul says that the la famine Is even lw.re severe than that of three yearsi a;;o. since it effocts be a larger territory and greater ppn-jfo (iC& persons. The~ famine is owin~g to thl the serious floods last slimmer, which in destroyed the antut~n crops. The -ht roa ds are filled with refugees who, ed in mnyn caises. in their desperation, so are~ robbing and plu:ndering the vii- ME a.ces where foodstuffs and money et are to be found. A1 (lcaned Up FandLy. te At !Mitimore. Md.. as a climax to ca a series Cr 3Ijttt ouarrels 'ntw'een WVo.iC. Strickler, and his wife. the forerFriayshot and kimed thel atter and his 1'- rear-,ld stepdaoght jer. Eiula Kih Striek-les. who '-as at emnployed as a Sremin at a Dee 4 house. then fired a b'nilet into his Ibc SOLD THEIR VOTES HOLESALE CORRPtTION IN THE LAST OHIO ELECTION. say Farmers and Other% Confessed to the Court That They Accepted Bribes. A dispatch from West Union. 0.. iere the court has been engaged r sometime in trying election brib y cases, says there was another big an-up Tuesday by the grand jury tich Is Investigating the charges of te bribery In Adama6 county. The grand jury Tuesday reported 2 indictments and carefully revis figures. bringing the present total to 747. It is expected that 145 re Indictments will bje returned. Of those arraigned Tuesday 70 aded guilty and four not guilty. o usual fines and disfranchise mts were imposed on those con ising teir guilt. Fully one-half of those who have en before the court seem to favor , investigation and open!; declare is proper. ecause !e had made a mistake in linr the court Monday how much received for &elling his vote. Sam well. aged 84. a vet, ran of the ar of Secession. Tuesday walked muIes througb the orld to correct rerror and to tell Judge Blair th. t had figured up and instead of ring received 811 as the purchase ce. he had been given $15. How was fined $5 and costs and dis Prank Sallsbr. who ives In mnklin township. was arrested for atempt of court and arraigned for Ing to intimidate a grand juror. also was charged that he had a making Indirect threats against 0ir, through Injudicious remarks. isbury was fined $50 and costs 1 10 days in jail. the l: e n ng suspended. Two new features developed at afternoon's session of the grand Y investigation. One was that of woman selling her son's vote, and P other concerned a voter who was acht In three different ways. The woman Is a widow. who lives Peebles. She is accused of having :epted $5 for her son's franchise. th mother and son were Indicted. t neither has been arrested. A. farmer in Jacksonville precinct ,dnesday surprised the fury by his ifession that he war ught three ies last election day. For his xnise to vote the straight Repub in ticket. he said, he received 2.56: on a contract to vote the aight Democratic ticket he was d $10, and the price for agreeing vote for a certaIn Democratic can ate was $1. lie pleaded guilty when arraicned I was disfranchised for five years. ed $5 and costs. and given six Uths in the work house, with the son sentence suspended. One hun xd end six indictments were re -ned. which brings the total up to There are indications that the mber will reach 1.500 as predicted special Prosecutor W. B. Stephen 1. CTEND OVER FIFTEEN YEARLS. stoms Orlicial Makeni Statement Lbout New Orleans Sugar Fraud. "When the grand jury now inves ating the samplIng of bugar at w Orleans finishes its work, it will found that the frauds against the vernment there have been going for at least fifteen years." This statement was made Friday an omci of the customs s'ervice. *o declared all the suspe'cted uds would be found in the samup g of sugar and in the tests which :ermine the sac'harine contents an which the importer pays duty. An investigation of alleged "draw :k"!raus at San Francisco, is al imminent. In fact, it :.s known it a preliminary investigation has -nlshed evidence which leads treas r' omcials to believe that the guds at San Francisco will eclipse sne at New York. whiebi th.- Azu.-r n Sugar Refining Company recent ordered to settle for $~00.00'). Evidence collected by the customs 'vice is 'aid to show the Govern ~nt has for years zeen paying rawback" on Phillipine su;gar, tich came into the United States ty free, was used in the pres-srva n of California fruit and later ex rted as sugar impor:.-d from Java which duty had been ;'aid. One of the officials of thet treas.-ury partment Friday said: 'The .ubles of the sugar importers havn ly begun. The discov'er'ies of thet uds have only started."* PEACEMAKEER THE VIC'TLM. berille Citizen Receives Perhaps. Fatal Wounde.. With a knife M~ade stujck in his :h: lung to a diepth of !ou' inches. d still protruding from the wojnd hn Davis. a well-known citizen of est Asheville. staggered into his me early' Friday morning and in r'med his wife that he had been t. The injured man did not know s knife was still embedded in his am until it was pulled out by his rrified wife. -The stabbing result' from an affray between the youin: n of Davis and a younnt man nawced !3lahnn. in which the father was dcavoring to art as leacemaker. ter the -cuttine, which is alleuecl to ve ben done by McMahon. the lat r made his escape. but 'ter was ptured and returve to Mahevile. tLis's con:"ites is eri'lenl. Boy Mashed to Death. While swiging on an~d off a train Greenville Wednesday afternoon iy Johnson. an 11i-year-old negrc iv. fell beneath the trucks of a boa DEATH LURKS Ioteresti g Tabrculesis sased by State Board of eal&h. FAKE CURES SHOWN UP No Vital Statistics Have Been Kept. But the Records Show What Has Been Done, and History of the Rules of Treatnnt and Manage ment are Given. A mo6t interesting bulletin issued by the State board of health ra'ers to tuberculosis as "the captain of the men of death." The bulletin gives ruch information as to the "great' white plar.ue * and shows that it is a preventabl., disease. No vital statistics were kept in South Carolina until last ye'r ant. from these statistics the following It !stated concerning the ravages of thec disease: "Though approximating the num-I ber from the statistics collected dur ing this pericou. It is safe to say tit1 the mortality from this disoase alont is 1.500 or more each year. This not only me-ans that we are !osing thawmany of o:r :'.haltd:jts. but the.e .0 and many others whc now have *he disease have and are giving off the deadly geri" which will infect thousands of others, It is an appallIng situation." - "Avoid as far as possible any con tact with the germs of the diseas "So live at all times that your nat ural powers of resistance will be con tinually at top-notch strength." These two rules are given in the bulletin and the chief factors of pro tect!o. against infection. T -!-m of ennumnt:o-." con i::aes the bulietin. "known as the tubercle bacillus, was discovered and proved to be the cause of the disease by Robert Koch of Germany in the year 1882. "It is an extreme minute plan: cell, or spore. invisible to the naked eye. so light that in the dry state it may float with every breeze and thrown 20 feet from a consumptive in the moist state enormous numbers of these germs may live in cuspidors, in the fresh spittle on the pavement, in the invisible f1lm of saliva left on the edge of a glass or- cup after Its use hV a consumptive: the germs may be throfn !0 feet from a consumptive in the act of coughing or sneezing several feet ty the effort of ordinary "onversation-they are left in some drree on everything which touches the consumptive's mouth or lips. "Tub.-re;4osis is an insidious sneaking 'oc. There is reaton to be lieve that the germs may enter thr body and s:e there dormant for years until some depretssing influence. sncj as fatigue, cold. exposure. wetting or excesses with tobacco or alcohol gives the crouching foe a chance for the tatal spring and symptoms of the disease appear in their irhastly se quence of cough, hemnorrhage, fever sweats. emaciation. diarrhoea and death. "Over $l5.000.000f annually is poured into the coff.ers of those who exploit and advertise fake tubercu insis cores, according to a statement issued b~y the National Asso.-.atlon for the Study and Prevention of Tu berculosis: and for this vast sum the victims receive nothing in return but are often per-manently injured and In the majority of eases cheated out of the 'hance for a realI cure. WVorse. still. most of this money is paid by those who can least afford it The following advice is given to the hteathy: "D~n't be afraid of a consumptive if he observes the rules laid down in this pamphlet. "Don't he.tate to tell a consump tire that it is his duty to protect his fellowman. Dlon't. und'-r any circumstances. 'si.ep with a const:mptive. "DIon't occt py a house where a consumptive has lived!. without firs! havlng the hou:se properly disinfect ed. WVh.n a house is proroerly disin f-tdit is no linger dang':rous. "Don't spit on floors or 5idewalks iet the consumptive a good example Wh'-n you spit. spit into the gutters or into a spittoo. Don't stay in a room with the windows clos'-d. Keep them opez, summer and winter, at home and at work. Sleep with the windows open but he sure that the entire body is "Don't h.- afraid of ni::ht at?. mois):t or dry. .'arm or cold. :s good for youz "D'on't drink milk from cows not tu:berculin tested without boiling it. fr-r the' disease is often cor.!racted in thsway. .D'rmt ever stir ::p a dust by dry sweopine. Sprinkle water or moist lsawduist. or morst h'its of paper over tn' e hor before s!we'pm.- Dusting should be done i'ith a mob: -l.ab ''Don't ever neites a cold or cou,~h. and be aspecially careful to protcct yourself frott consumption when convaleccing from grpp and pn'.umonia, and when !n a r':n-down condition from any cause." Beats Off ~.ro. A: Chicaco Miss Fulen K(. MilIer strom. a nineteen-year-old girl. re isted a neco who attarked her last !eveninrg in North Ff-ieth~ avrnuie. After a striet-le in which *he. yon woa ret':mn--d the r."ro' blows. =cratch'n and kicking him. he knorked h'.r dcw:n. ran thr-ough ar' alley and -me:i-Y Kills Small Child. At Briist'l. Ter".. Slttew Tims, ardR yea-s. -as fitally shot F'riday aizht by Robert Hill, an old z:.an, whom he had been persistently teas lng. The ball lodged near the child's hemr and he died Saturday. W'ill TOLL OF THE MOBS FffY - SEVEN PEPLE WERE LYNCHED THE YEAR PAST. Florida, Georgia, Alabama. Arkansas and Texas Led in This Clas" of Vi olent Deaths. Only 57 lynchings were recorded in the United States in 1910. a much smaller number than in almost any previous year in the last 16. In 1909 the total was 70 and in 1908 it was 6:. Au tut sre of the 57 cases of lynchin;. in 1910 were of negroes, and ten of these cases were those in which the charge against the victim was assault on white women or girls. In 11 of the remaining number th9 charge was attempted criminal as sault. In the fve cases of wtte men. four were for murder and the other for aiding and abetting In- & jail delivery. Several of the ces In which negroes were lynched were based upon the murder, or alle'ed murder of white women in wbichAhe question. of assault is implied. As in previons years. nearly all the l."cbings were in Southern stafes, Florida and Georgia having ten each. Alabama and Arkansas eight each. TAxas six. The only Irnching in the North o.e'.-rr in Ohio. the victim g Cril Etherington. and agent of the Ohio Anti-Baloon league, who met death at the hands of a ab Ia Newark folowing hMs !mPrieeI In jal on a ebte of having murde ad a saloonkeeper whfle mahag a rdd on an auged bInd tig. Oe man has been convicted of bving paticipated In this Vnebhng sad given &20 years prson sentence. Folowing is the record for 1919 br states: Alabama, eight nerroes; Arkansas. eight negroes: Florida. eight negroes and two whiltee: Geor ten n--oes: Lou;sana. one white man: Mississippi. Eve negroes. Missouri. three negroes: North Curo lina. one negro; . Ohio, one white man: Oklahoma. one negro; South Carolina, one negro; Tennessee, two negroes: Texas, four negroes, and two whites. Of the fve whites lynched, two were italians, who were lynched in Florida. They were charged with murder and with inciting the sdat during the strike of cigarmakers fa Tampa. Another of the white viittw' was a Mexican( who was shot ad burned at the stake near the Texas border. following his confession that h-, had murdered a white woman. Of *he 52 negro ri::tims, two were wo men. Tn many of the cases the lynchings followed the arrest or conviction of thp victims on the charges made aralnst them. In other caees the victims met death while endeavoring m escape from pursuing posses. In two '-eLs the negro victims were lynched by mobs composed of mem hers of their own race. In almost every case the victim was. summarily hanged or shot without burning at the stake. such as accompanied these acts of summary vengeance in for- - mer years. GREAT RACE CONFERENCE. yhe Fourth to Be Held In Orange burg January 24-27. . To the Colored Citizens of ISouth Carolina: Let me urge you to attend the iare Conference at Orangeburg. It ,pens at eight p. in., Tueaya, JTan nary 24. It will be the '.:ost. Inter terw'sting Race Conference we have yet had. We are sure to have as aneak.'rs of that meeting, the most noted men of North Carolina. South CarolIna and Georgia. and men and women ofote Our program is a strog -e.We ' have some of thbe abt. e (white and colored~ Iin th te of South Carolina. Addressd each day and A night. on various subjects, Incluig agriculture, by the governor of the . State and .tovernment experts. We. want farmers, educator., . t.-aciers, mechanics, business men, ~ pbsicians. preachers, and dther peo-~ pie to attend this meeting. Redued rates will be granted on all ral roads leading to Orangeburg. The citizens are preparing to 'gfre a big bonquet on the second night - of the conference. Write Rev. E.L Quick. D. D., or. Rev. N. C. NIc. I). D).. if you are going to attend this con ference. AP' members of the State Fair Association, and the Batesburg Fair .Associat Ion, are requested to meet at i 1 a.m.. January 24. in Trinity A. , M. E. Church. to elect ofmeera and to attend to any other business eoen nected with' the State Fair Associa tion. and to arrange to hold anhe fair in the city of Columbia. -We want all farmers to bring sorme farm product for exhibition on the 26th. ~til abord for O-angeburgI * Richard Carroll. SWALLOWED Wxim JOYNE Dluck Escapes Alive from Codfish. But is Sot. At Nantucket. Mass., a fisherman 'rought ashore a huge codfish. While dressirng his -ish a hunter stopped to e~at. The big cod caught his Opr. and the fisherm~an opened it. There was a com~motion within, and to the aston'shmnent of the onlookers ant I i'ttored a full-sized "shoaI duck." .'.ppirently dazed the duck hovered overhead asendotw rp ~tore to strtn or two oighepa. I was a fatal hesitation, for the gun i'r promptly threw his double-bar re! to h~is shoulder and fired, killing the bird. On seeing the fisherman sp proach the bird dived and had beEn swalowed whole by the coddh Iwhich a momnent after was aght. jEnough ai' passed through the -gis , of the fs-b te tiermit the duk t Ibrosthe.