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VO. XV MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY* AUGUST WHY THEY W( Liquor Forces Spent One Miien Ie) to Keep Texas Wet. MANY UNLAWFUL'Y01 The- Prohibition Campaigners Preparing to Contest in Every'I trict.-There Were M1any Surpr In the Very Close Fight.--Ex< ment Marked the Campaign. Statewide prohibition was losi the recent election in Texas in a < test in which the -Prohibitioi claim 30,000 fraxfd.ulent votes v cast by unnaturalized Mexicans negroes who came by their tax ceipts. illegally. The brewers' association whic1 composed of all the brewers in Tf and many outside the state wl drinks are sold in Texas admits I ing ekpended $1,000,000 n the fil - The brewers say the funds m distributed in newspaper advert ments, -paying the salaries and penses of speakers, hiring halls music and giving the .barbecues. The 'drys" admit the "wets" ried the election by less than 5, medority but the election will contested in the courts. The expected heavy Prohibit vote in the larger towns failed to i terialize, and several towns coun In the "wet" column gave najori the other way. The greatest surprise In tbe pc Ical history of Texas durin! a gen( tion is Dallas county. Before election the anti-prohibition claimed a majority of 8,000. The proilbitionisTs wore willinE concede 3,000. Unofficial retu: from every voting precinct in county gave the prohibitionists a : Jority of six votes. Al1 of the larger towns, includ San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dal Houston, Austin, Galveston and W went wet by large majoriies So Texas- gave the wets their majoi and showed a bette: proportion the 500,000 vots3 Cast In the Stat< The election was characterized the activity of thousands of wo and children at the polls. In m. cities and county precincts the men served free soft drinks to voters. Gen. Colquit's stump actil in the interests of the 'wets arou the bitterness of his political f and probably cost the wets thousa: of votes. Excitement ran high through the State and hundreds of pec crowded about bulletin boards i and night while the counting i going on. Statements from both the wet I dry headquarters -warn ,selection < cers to guard -well the ballot bc as It is almost certain that every v will be recounted before the result the election is known exactly. One of the most significant pro ble results of the election is the litical downfall of Senator Bail The victory of the wets by a su majority is regarderi as a practi defeat and places in the saddle aI political element in Texas, str enough to overthrow the pres Dlemocratic faction. This same ment is anti-Bailey, and is just strongyly opposed to Gov 0. B. ( quitt. DEFENDS HIS PARDONS. Blearse Advises Farmers Union to Into South Carolina Politics. A special dispatch to the Si from Lancaster says it is estima that fully 5,000 people attended annual reunion of the Confede: veterans and the Farmers' Union ly picnic at Heath Springs Thurst nothing occurring to mar the pl ure of the two events. Prominent veterans spoke: Glov. Blease made an address. TI was nothing- unusual or sensatic about the Governor's remarks eulogized the veterans, advised Farmers' Union to go into polit defended his exercise of the pard ing power and reiterated his w known views as to the negro rat The governor was well recei and liberally cheered. Somebod& the audience cried, however, "E rah for Featherstone." Sleep in the Same Grave. -Because they were to he.ve -b married in September the bo'dies Miss Bertie 'Boyles, a school teac and Leo Davidson, a travelling sa -man, of Clarksburg, W. Va.,, -were killed Sunday in an automo accident were buried in the s; grave. A double funeral was from the First Methodist Episc< church. Extra Pay Stopped. Upsetting a practice of moret thirty years, the Senate and HC conferees Wednesday agreed to e: Inate an appropriation of an e: month's salary to the employeed -the Capital. This saves the Gov ment $140,000. Dreamed He Was Flying. Dreaming he was an areoplane -was being used in an effort to 10 some of the world's records. J. Holland, of Wayctoss. Ga., "avial through a second story window broke his anle when he landed onl ground. Fifteen Million Bales. A New Orleans dispatch says gust report on the condition of cotton crop by the government flat in the cotton market. B claimed that the government re po ino a 15,000,000 bale crop IN'I MAKES COTTON GUESS CROP OF OVER FOURTEEN MIL Lrs JLION BALES PREDICTED. .0 Government Figures Say the C6ndi tion is the Best in Several Years ix AU States. The condition of the growing cot ton crop of the United States on Jul: Dis. 25 was 89.1 per cent of a normal compared with 88.2 per cent on June ises 25, 1911, 75 per cent on July 25 last year, 71.9 per cent in 1909 anc 79.4 per cent the average of the pasi 10 years on July 25, according to the reports of the United States depart In ment of agriculture's agents to the on- crop reporting board aniiounced al ists noon today. Comparison conditionE rere by States follows: and State 1911. 1910. av'ge re- 10-yr Virginia ......102 80 81 1 i N. Carolina 87 71 7 xas S. Carolina 86 70 79 LO** Georgia .. ....95 70 80 av- Florida . ... 94 70 82 rht. Alabama ......94 71 79 ,ere Mississippi 86 71 79 ise- Louisiana 84 69 78 ex- Texas.. ......86 82 79 and Arkansas 94 73 79 Tennessee 92 76 82 3ar- Missouri ..... 96 72 83 000 Oklahoma 88 87 81 be California 99 98 - .ion Reports on the growing cotton crop n- of 1911 received by the Department ta- of Agriculture continue to indicate ted that the yield tnis year will be one ties of the greatest, if not the greatest in the history of the industry. The con ditions of the crop on July 25, as an t nounced Wednesday was 89.1 of the a normal crop. This was 9-10 of one per cent higher than a month ago and 9.7 per cent above the average on ;to July 25 for the past ten years. is Based on the average condition of na- the crop on July 25 for the past ten years. and th'e average yield per acre for the same period, condition report Ing ed Wednesday if It should continue, las, would indicate a final total Oyield of aco 207.25 pounds per acre,.which upon uth 34,000,000 acres, the estimated final -ty acreage, allowing for the abandon of ment of three per dent of the acreage Tneans a total cotton crop of 13,093, by 000 bales, of 500 pounds each. This Ien estimate is unofficial. my W "PM SHOT, CENTRAL; HELPl" the ity These Are the Words of a Dying sed Man Over the Phone. oes ads "I'm shot Central, help!" These words coming over the telephone out were heard .by an operator in the ple Monroe street exchange of the Chi Iay cago Telephone Company about mid ras night Wednesday night ' She then heard the sound of a mnd Falling body and several crashes in ygfi- :licating the banging of the receiver xes against the wall as it fell from the ote har..d of the wounded man. of She at once notified the police sta tion that some one had been shot at ba- ->ne of the two addresses where there po- were two telephones on the party ley. line. al One of these addresses was that of :cal Matthew Stron's saloon and that was iew the place where the call came from. ng The police found John Dalzall, the ent hartender, lying -unconscious on the ale- loor near the .telephone. The cash as -egister had been broken open andl jol- the money taken. Dolzall probably will die. He had been shot by the robber. WATER SUPPLY SHORT. Niew York Runs Short on B'er sual Water Rations. .ted A New Yor dispatch says that in the spite of the recent rains the amount -ate f water in storage along the cotton ral- hed and available for the city is on Lay, y 2,000,000 gallons. There wire las- 0,000,000 a year ago. The loss last veek was about 2,000,000,000 gal and ons. But by means of the water ere saving campaign the loss of early nal aummer has been reduced at the He --ate of 5.000,000 gallons per day. In the Tune, 1910 the average daily con ics, sumption was 327,000,000 gallons. Ion- 'n the same month this year the av 'ell- 'rage consumption fell to 286,000, st i 00 gallons. veci __ __ __ . _ _ mSale of Texas Oats. [u "This is the usual season of the -ear,'' said Commissioner Watson Vednesday, "when this office is lit 'rally flooded with letters asking een | hether Texas oats brought from the ;of 'I oll weevil territory, are prohibited :her | rom sale in this State." Several les- --ears ago the general assemibly pass wrho | law prohibiting the sale of seeed bile rom the weevil territory. There i: ine |-t penalty of not less than $50 or eld I tore than $1,000. Plunge From Train. Frank McGee, alias Clark, unde: arrest on perjury charge, made dar han ng escape, while in charge of a sher >use -ff on a swiftly moving train near Sal lin- 'isaw, Ola. frhe officer, turned his ctra b ack for a moment. and the prisone2 of dashed through a window of the cai ein. and escaped. Tramps Shy at Atlanta. The city of Atlanta has rid itseli f tramps. Judge Broyles, of the mu and nicipal court senteneces every trami wer found in the city to so many day! H. .a hard labor. The result has beer ed'' than tramps have given the city and wide berth. the _ _ _ _ _ _ Charlotte Gets Water. With practically 1,000,000 galloni of water received from the Catawb: Au- river at Charlotte and surrounidin: the towns in the past twenty-four hour fell and lowering clouds, with a pros ears pect 6f rain, the water situation ther port has assumed a decidedly brighre REPLY TO BRYAN Verbal Broadside is Fired at the Grea Commoner By Underwood. MADE CAUSTIC SPEECH The Nebraskan is Denounced by the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of Congress for his Charging Underwood With Block ing Revision of Tariff Standing on chairs, waving hand kerchiefs and yelling at the tops of their voices, Democratic Representa tives Thursday acclaimed Represen tative Oscar W. Underwood, leader of the house, when he fired a verbal broadside at William Jennings Bryan for criticising his position of an ex tension of the tariff revision pro gramme.' It was the most remarka ble scene in the house since the be ginning of the extra session of Con gress. Excoriating the three times candi date of the Democratic party for presidential honors, Leader Under wood denounced Mr. Bryan's state ments as false, defended his (Under wood's) attitude as to revision of the iron and steel tariff schedules, and said Bryan had placed upon every Democratic member implications un founded in fact. He called on 'his Democratic colleagues of the ways and means committee for corrobora tion of his attitude in committee and in caucus. Mr. Underwood was backed up. in a similarly striking speech by Repre sentative Kitchin (N. C.) long a de voteo friend of Mr. Bryan Mr Kit chin expressed surprise that any Democrat should so malignj Mr Un derwood and the party. It all came about from a publish ed interview, which purported to be "authorized" by. Mr. Bryan, declar ing it was time Democratic Leader Underwood was. "unmasked." "The action of Chairman Under wood in opposing an immediate effort to reduce the iron and steel schedule reveals the real Underwood," said the Bryan interview. "Speaker |-Clark and other tariff reformers tried to secure the passage of a resolution in structing the ways and means com mittee to pass a resolution including the iron and steel schedule, but Un derwood and Fitzgerald-the Fitz gerald who saved Cannon in the last congress succeeded n defeating the resolution. "'The unmasking of Chairman Un derwood will serve a .useful purpose," added the interview, "if it arouses the ")em6crats to an understanding of the mistake in putting Mr. Under wood at the -head of the committee if he solidifies his policy of delay. The Hg~use listened intently as the whole interview was read from the clerk's 'desk. Word of the an swer that Underwood was to make to Bryan had 'been passed among Democrats and an almost full mem bership on the |Democratic side greeted the majiority leader. Cheers and appla'use that lasted for several minutes greeted him as he rose to speak. As the clerk finished reading the Bryan interview, Mir. Underwood in calm and even tones, opened the vial of his wrath. If Mfr. Underwood's attack was remarkable for its bitter Dess and vigor, it was not more so than the general applause jwhich greeted his sarcastic references to the Nebraska leader and his specific and complete denials of the charges made by 'Bryan He declared that he was interest ed in iron and steel mills in his own State of Alabama, and he had urged the ways and means committee at the beginning of the session to save him from embarrassment by taking up the iron and steel schedule at once. This had not been done by the committee, he said, because it had determined that thle textile schedules over which there is the greatest com plaint from the public should be the subjects of earliest revision. Hris op position in the recent case calling for a revision of the iron and steel schedule, he said, had been due to the fact that it had been determined no further tariff programme should be worked out -until it was certain what would be done by the president. Mr. Underwood had read the pub lished Bryan statement, and speak ing very deliberately said: "Mr. Speaker, the statements con tained in that paper are absolutely false. If the reflections which that article contains rested only .on my self I would not take the time of this house to answer them. But those statements reflect not only upon my self, but unon Democracy in control on this side of the capitol, and as leader on this floor I would be untrue to my fellow Democrats here and to myself if I did not reply to this at tack. "That interview charges that there is a difference between the speaker of this house and myself as to legis lation in this house. The statement in absolutely false. We have been together, we are together now, and I redict that we shall be together to the end.'' Mr. Underwood had read a tele gram from Mr. Bryan to Representa tve James (Ky.) transmitting con eratulations5 to Mr Underwood "for his great work." "The gentleman from Nebraska did not think I was trying to protection ize the Democratic party then," said Underwood "It was not until I dif fered with him on the wool schedule that he changed his mind." "The gentleman who has issued that statement. William .Tennings B ran, of Nebraska." said Mr. Un Iderwood. "charges that the chair man of the ways and means commit ~te, standing in the interest of a ,-otev tarife has led this house PASSES THE HOUSE BILL REDUCING DUTY ON GOODS MADE OF COTTON. Measure Received Every Democratic Vote and the Votes of Thirty In surgent Republican Meinbers. Supported by all the Democrats and by th~irty Republicans, the Dem ocratic tariff cotton bill, the third of the big tariff revision measures. brought forth by the Democratic house of representatives, passed that body early Thursday evening by 202 to 91. The bill cuts the av erage tariff on cotton manufactured goods from 48 to 27 per cent. ad val orem, a .1 per cent reduction in duty that the Democratic leaders estimate to reduce revenues by about $3,000, 000. Not an amendment was offered to the bill, although the Republicans attacked it vigorously on account of alleged increases in certain items over the rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Scarcely had the cheers that greeted the passage of the cot ton revision bill subsided when Dem ocratic Leader Underwood calling up the free list as it passed the sen ate a few days ago, accomplished a stragetic move which greatly sur prised the Republicans. He asked for a conference on all the amendments to the free list bill except that of Senator Gronna of North Dakota putting cement on the free list. He urged that the house accept the amendment adding to it lemons. Pacific coast Republicans made ineffectual efforts to stop this sudden and unexpected putting of lemons on the free list, but tue amendment carried. The - change gave the house Democrats what they claimed to be an added advu-ntqge in dealing with the senate in the conference committee. TIb4rsd)y night the Republilan leaders in both :houses of congress called In absent members 'from all parts of the country in -preparation for a threatened, attempt of the Democrats to pass the wool tariff bill over the President's veto. The Democratic leaders in the house have aserted within the last 24 'hours that they have the necessary two-thirds majority to pass the wool bill over the. president's veto and have been doing eiective missionary work In the senate today The Republican managers in the house insist that they have enough votes to prevent a two-thirds majority in support of the wool bill. BLOWS THEM TO ATOMS. --4 Novel Way of Geting Rid of the Cat erpillar Pest. Caterpillars have no terrors for Elihu Batdorf, a quarryman, living near Breiningsville, Pa., who discov ered a new way to rid the trees of his orchard of -pests of all kinds. Re cently he happened to spill a small quantity of nitroglycerin on some bushes near his quarry. Shortly afterwards he heard a se ries of short explosions coming from that direction. He investigated and found t-hat as each caterpillar de voured a small amount of the ex plosive he fell to the ground and exploded with. a loud report.. 'Batdorf was not slow to utilize his discovery and mixing an ounce of the explosive into four gallons of water he began to spray his apple trees with the mixture and in a short time there was regular fusilade of explosions in the orchard, sounding like volleys of minliature m11sketry. All his trees were cleared .of cater pillars and every other known tree pest. ASK~S PRAYERS FOR RAIN. Head of Farmers' Union Urges that It Be Statewide. E. W Dabbs, president of the South Carolina Farmers' Union, has issued from Mayesville a call to all minis ters of the gospel of all the churches and devout men and women, in the State requesting that next Sunday be set aside as a day of -prayer for rain, as information from many sections of the State tells of prevailing droulht which in some localities Is a bad as the drought of 1851. Those people who have been blessed with rain are asked to join in the prayer and, all in thanksgiving for showers wherever they have fallen ** Many Lives Were Lost. Fifteen persons were killed in a head-on collision late Saturday nitht between a crowded excursion train on the Bangor & Aroostok railroad and the night train from Van Buren to Bangor M~aine. Thir ty or forty persons are known to have been injured, and it is thought that several others are beneath the wreckage. Dangerous Business. Although the climbing season in the Alps has only begun 29 tourists have been killed and an unknown number injured. If this rate contin ies until the close or the season on September 15 the death record will be the heaviest on record. Fired Her at Last. After a pursuit in which he says he traveled 40.000 miles J. M.Abercom hie of Marietta, Ga., found her in in Stockholm. Cal., with her compan ion, Nolan Blalock. He also recog nixed his five-year-old daughter. The runaway pair will be prosecuted. Made Fatal Mistake. The four year old child of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Wright of West Dur ham, died Saturday morning as a re sult of drinking carbolic acid Friday night. The child called for Castoria and the mother directed her to the m.ntle where te misake was made. BRYAN HITS BACK CRITICISM BASED ON WASHIN( TON NEWS DISPATCH. If That Dispatch Reported Under wood Wrong Bryan Will With draw His Criticism. A Chicago dispatch says William J. Bryan replied to the criticism of Representative Underwood, made in the house Thursday, by declarinZ that the statements which Mr. Un derwood criticised were based on a Washington dispatch which appear ed in an Omaha paper. "If that report is incorrect," said Mr. Bryan, "I take it for granted that Mr. Underwood will read the re port before the house and:deny it." "If the report is correct, I have nothing to withdraw. If it is eron eous I shall withdraw my crilcism of Mr. Underwood so far as it is based on his action in that particular case. "Whatever the outcome in this in stance, I do not withdraw my criti cism of Mr. Uncerwood on-other oc casions and I intend~ to take early opportunity to give him some other things to discuss. "Yes, I read~the report of Mr. Un derwood's speech in the morning pa pers," said Mr. Bryan. "The criti cism to which he refers is contained in an editorial which I wroteenyself." "The report on which the editorial was' based," continued Mr. Bryan, "appeared last week, after the House caucus of July 15.. "I am not sure of the exact date, but it was not earlier than Wednes day of last week and not later than Saturday. The dispatch from Wash ington said that Speaker' Clark of fered a resolution-a modification or a substitute for a resol-ution-in tructing the ways and means com mittee to proceed with the prepara tion of other bills. The dispatch stated that Xr. Clark was supported by a number of members, but that Mr. Underwood and Mr. Fitzgerald led a fight against the resolution and defeated it. "The report also quoted Congress man Kitchin as Insisting upon in troducing a bill reducing the tariff upon iron and steel, and quotes Mr. Kitchin as calling attention to Mr. Underwood's holdings in the steel comipany and as expressing the fear that in case of failure to proceed with the reduction of the tariff on iron and steel, such failure might be at tributed to 1\r. Underwood's inter ests in the business. My editorial was based on this published re port. Mr. Bryan was in the city between trains and Is now on his way to Iowa. "MOURN1UL COMFORTERS. ' 0 [s What Democratic Congress Calls President's Advisers. Declaring that he desired to defed President Taft because the latter "had nio one In his own party to say -a word in his .behalf," Repre sentative Burnett, of Alabama, Dem crat, said in the House Wednesday that the only trouble with the Pres ident is, being honest himself, he is too credulous." "No honest man, as I believe Mfr. aft is," said Mr. Burnett, "ever had such mournful comforters since the ays of Job. I have no doabt that his dalily prayer is tbat Wickersham and Hitchcock wifl do as Ballingier id." lMr. Burnett said Secretary of Agri ulture Wilson was another honest man to fall a victim of bad advisers, ad that consequently the downfall of Dr. Wiley, who has often stood be tween murderers and the people, had almost been accomplished. into lines that were unworthy of sny Democrat in the land. "I know this is false, Mr. Speaker, you know it is false, so do the Demo rats of this side of the house. But we must let the country know it is f'alse. The gentleman from Nebraska says that my leadership of this side of the house could not stand in the open. There is not a Democratic member here that does not know that if I misrepresented for one ma ment the Democracy of this house in bearing my commission, I would send my resignation to the speaker's desk." Both Mr. Underwood and Mr. Kithchin were greeted with deafen ing cheers. Speaker Clark repeated ly pounding his gavel to restore or Mr. Kitchin confirmed Mr. Under wood's statements in every respect, and declared that Mr Br-yan had launched his criticism without hav ing any specific information as to what the committee had done. "Mr. Underwood stated the facts clearly to the caucus," said Mr. Kit chin. "He did state before the com mittee at the beginning of the ses sion that he was interested in the steel and Iron business and it would relieve him of embarrassment if the committee would take .up that sched ule and get rid of it at once 'But it was the judgment of the committee that the most lniq'uitious schedule that had ever been put on the stat ute books the woolen schedule ought first to be revised. Mr. Kitchin referred to Mr. Un derwood's frank statement about his iron company's holdings and said he had expected that might be made "an occasion by our opponenus to slander and libel the Alabamnan and the po sition of his Democratic house, but I never dreamed that any Democrat in this country would attempt to malign Mr Underwood or the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan is not responsible.' said Mr. Kitchin, amid great laugh ter from the Republicans. "?nr he was not in our caucus; he must have gotten his information from some body and he was the mast badly in LIVE AND SAI rIiur Entembed Three Days is Resenei by His Brave Comrades. NEVER - WITHOUT HOPI Threw Himelf Into the Arms of His Rescuers.-Wept While Multitude i Cheered Down the Shaft.-Relates His Experience Far Below the Earth's Surface. Joseph Clary, a miner, imprisoned by a cave-in at the White Oak mine near Joplin, Mo:, since last Sunda3 morning was reached by rescuers or Wednesday morning. He was.alive and well. - When .the last spades' full ofteartb were removed by workmen In the shaft and they dropped through intc the drift, Clary threw himself int< the arms of his rescuers and wep1 while the-shouts of thousands cheer ed at the mouths of the mine echoet down ithe shaft. A glare of light flashed in on the entombed Clary, and :he looked upos his fellow being after a period in darkness which, through reckoned by him to be something over four days, was exactly three days and forty-five minutes. Clary's Imprisonment had severely weakened him, but shouts from the mouth of the shaft, sounds from the outer world and gushes 01 fresh air gave heart and strength tc him. At first he had little to say save to breathe 'his thanks. A physician,,was lowered and he administered stim ulants. Clary was hoisted to the surface and set foot on top of earth ten minutes -after he -was fobnd. Spectators were kept away from him. His father and brothers and physician hurried him away to the Clary home nearby to his mother, whQ weakened by the strain of her longi virgil, lay. M11 The -physician urged Clary not to talk until he;-had gained strength. Clary is twenty-three years old, the son of a pioneer mine operator who ihas directed the rescue work without rest since his son's Imprison ment. Relays of workers began dig ging the shaft on Sunday, and have worked night and day since. The first three attempts to drill a small hole to adniit air and nourish ment failed to locate young Clary, but the fourth -was successful. It was found that Clary was in Immi nent danger of drowning from water rising in the drift. Dilzgers in the shaft redoubled their efforts and the drift was reached hours earlier than expected. As Clary told of his long vigil In absolute darkness, fraught now with hope, now with bitter disappointment, but never with despair, :he interrupted the conversation now and thean to re ceive supplies of food lowered through the five-inch shaft, which, after three :holes were bored In vain, finally reached the drift where he was sheld a prisoner... The suspense he suffered is-indi cated in part of his story as told over the telephone. He said: "I ti'ed to count the strokes of the drill and was able to gauge time a little .by the pounding of the bit. Hours passed until I heard the drill cutting into the hard ground, but I could not locate the sound In tlie darkness. "Soon the drill stopped. I knew they :had fissed the drift as time passed and 1 could hear no sound. I could picture them making new cal culations. I was not surprised when I heard tihe drilling of the first hole. All the time the water was rising a little higher, but I was not worried. I was hungry, but I tried to keep them from thinking about anything to eat. It was hard to- keep from thinking about It Itowever, and ] drank a lot of water from the drift. 'After a while I felt a draft of fresh air and I knew the drill had cut into the drift, but In the dark ness I could not locate it. I called with all my might, but could not make myself heard. It was madden ing. -"Then when I heard the drilling again In a new location I was dis couraged for the first time. but not for a minute did I give up hope. It was just the same thing over and over again for the next few hours. I grew -ravenously hungry all the time, but tried to forget it. I busied myself as much as possible until the fourth drill hole penetrated the rool of the drift. It took me a long time to locate the hole." Says Dorothy Arnold Lives. Dorothy Arnold is not dead; she is abroad and her parents have gone there to look for her. That is all can .be said definitely now." Mrs Griffith, companion to Mrs. Rufus W. Peckham, Dorothy's aunt, is quoted to this effect in a dispatch to the New York World from Biddeford Pool, Me. Bit Off His Ear. James McCord is in the hospital at Homestead, Pa., with his right ea-1 gone. There is no chance of a graft ing operation, because WTilliam La mone, who hit off the ear, swallowec it. Then he fled and the police are still looking for him. Drunks Come High. Hereafter it will cost $25 and costs or sixty days on the streets 01 Cedartown, Ga., for a plain drunk The mayor and city council believe it is their duty to stop drinking and the sale of blind tiger whiskey. IHilled Little Sister. At Valdosta, Ga., three year old Eliba Mitchell was killed when s shotgun, supposed to be nnloaded was discharged by her brother, Wal ter M~itchell, Jr. SIMON IN EXILE PRESIDENT OF HATI SAVES H[S NECK BY FLIGHT. His Daughter Shot and Six of his Party Are Killed as the Deposed Executive Embarks. Revolution in Haiti has triumphed once more, and a few weeks of peace may be enjoyed, while preparations are being made for the next revolu tion. President Antoine Simok left the Capital Wednesday and took ref uge on board the Haytien ruiser .Seventeenth Decembre, formerly the yacht American. With him are his wife and a nimber of his followers. A On all sides Port on Prince, the ci capital, and at which place President c Simon went on board the steamer is invested by followers of Gen. Firmin, D one of the revolutionary leaders. 'he H city itself is in the hands of a com-. mittee of safety and there Is no gen eral disorder. The departure of the aged Presi dent was not without disorder, how- Of ever, for as he .was embarking at the ni wharf there was a riot demonstra- N tion, In which the Ex-President's hc chamberlain Deputy Prin, of Jeremie, c and five other persons were killed. .lu and Clementina Simon, his daughter, and six other persons were slightly wounded. -1 President Simon left the palace at fcur o'clock that afternoon, after he H( had been Informed that one wing of h the revolutionary army, commanded n by Gen. Peralle, had denied is re- 01 quest for thTee days in which to se ere the safety of the city. al The general informed the French i and British ministers who went out h2 to parley with him, that -owing to st recent summary executions by Sim- ei on's order, the President must leave ca the Capital immediately or otherwise ei he would attack -the city without le delay. The ministers, who went to Crdix bt Des Bouquets on a similar errand, Jt found the rebel commander there, m, Gen. Ducaste, grant the truce, pro- el0 vided a committee of safety was ap- re pointed. In view of the attitude of 01 Gen. Paralle, It was deemed best, TI by the President, to leave the city at vi once. th When the Presidential party had in boarded the schooner, it ran out into i tha harbor alongside the Seventh 1ec. ed embre, on which they took refuge. Among the party was Gen. Monplasir, .hd minister of war, and Minister of the fa Interior Sylvain. -e Antione Simon assumed the Presi- wl dency of Hayti December 17, 1908, n after Nord Alexis had been deposed. th ed MORE CONVICTS GO FRfEE. - su Five Paroles are Granted by Gov. ril ernor Blease. kv so Five convicts were paroled Wed- ac nesday by Governor Blease, as fol- an lows: Otis Hilton, white, sentenced .tra by Judge DeVore at Chester, in April iin< 1910, to life imprisonment upon con-- bl viction of murder with recommenda tion to mer,cy; parole conditioned up- an on Hilton's abstention from intoxi- ths cant's. James Love, sentenced by cu Judge Ernest Gary, at Spartan.burg,. yo in December 1904, to life Imprison-| br ment, on conviction of murder, with of recommendation to mercy. Mellie lSp Bolton, white, sentenced by Judge -Al-: ca drich at Marion, in February 1911,' hc to one year on chain gang, for lar- be ceny. Sam Williams, colored, sen- ma tenced by the late Judge D. A. Town-! he send, at Camden, In September, 1900 ty. to 20 years imprisonment, on con viction of manslaughter. Young ste Springfield, white, sentenced, by wi Jude Robert Aldrich at Greenville, tr< in September 1909, to two years at flc hard labor, upon convictioni of man- sti slaughter. p1 WOMAN AVIATOR. nl( TJ Receives' License as a Qualified Air e Pilot. At Hemnstead, L. I., Miss Harrietm Quimby received an air pilot's 1l-in cense Tuesday from the Aero-Club of t America. This is the first license p that has been awrded a woman in o America. - w Miss Quimrby, the aero'officials and in a large number of aviation enthusi- ,p( asts arrived at Hempstead Plains be- rc fore 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, but ni fog made 'flying impossible until a s few minutes before 7 'o'clock. n Thoroughly composed, Miss Quim by rose gracefully in the air complet- d( ing five number eights about 130 feet in the air, and then landed not t only witiiin the 1 64-foot mark desig- m nated by the conditions, but also be made a world's record for landing. se Her mark was seven feet nine inches. n le Slayer's Mother Faints. te Paul Giedel's mother fainted when da she heard from her own boy's lips ef a confession that he had murdered hi William Henry Jackson, the aged we broker. Mrs. Giedel came here from we her -home in Hartford. The words wl still on his lips when his mother fell se in a swoon and it was still half an hour before she regained conscious ness.. Opposes Increase w; Great opportunity or machine dom- mn Ination and for the use of the "pork L. barrel'' will be given by the proposed to increase in the membership of the at house of representatives, according to 'h Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, is who Monday filed a minority report ch against the rea-ppointment lil. The house bill is to be voted on in the Senate Thursday. Hilled by Lightning. Fi At Carthage, N. C., Wednesday, a in stroke of ligrhtning instantly killed 0( young Earl Tyson, son of a leading o1 business man of that place, and one h; of the most 'popular young men of th that town and secton. f FIVE IN JAIL IAin Camy Tragedy Causes ete -Ecitemeul Near Scee. M BRUTALLY BEAT %dy Dies From Shock Caused by Beating of Husband and Nephew - by -Parties Seeking to'4Pevent Marriage of Young Man and the Daughter of One of the Prisoners. Five white men were lodged In the. 1ien county Jail Friday night, arged with implication in a most >rrible affair- Thursday night at:Mo ,tta, in that county. The men are ack Cockman, A. L.. Holstein, R. Holstein, Sidney Holstein, and, I -Holstein all of whom are prom_ ently connected. As a result of the visit of a part men to the home of the -Spradleysl ar .Monetta, Thursday -night rs ttie Spradley lies a corpse in-her me and her husband Is in a crti 1 condition, with their nephew, Co mbus Spradley, disappeared. His whereabouts are not known. - 3 has not been seen or heardof ice the difficulty Thursday n hether he was murdered and.n s hidden in the.woodsohr i1 was freightened nd left th ighborhood remains only' amilitter conjecture. No eye-witnesses are'known w.tlii rful tr.gedy. other than the partlae volved, and the eIdei:Spradley, not0_ ving regained consciousness, tli.* Dry has not been told and may iev. be unless'Columbus pradleyds I. ted alive, as the physicians do t tertain hopes of ther elder Sprad.-. Flo recovery. The story as told Is thati Coland Ls Spradley was to be miarr.edto Mlia May Holstein. TheImplica en under arrest are thefather, un;, ? and cousnis of the grLoft sts are expected to followic . ter's. inquisition. It i , mrsday night a party of white-men sited the home of theSiad e elder Spradley was thrashed i sensibility, sustaining seriousid ries, from which he is not expectf -- to .recover. Mrs Spradley, wh6 was in. the. ius'e was freightened-to death. Sher [uted and never regained conscious-. ss. Columbhus Spradley, about - iom the entire affair-occurred, can t be found. His friends- believe at he is dead or seriously wound Mrs. Spradley gave birth :to by five weeks ago and the bab rvives her. The affair Is one of the mnost hor. >1e the county officials have ever Lown and particulars are eagerly ught after, but are hard to get on. ount of the distance from Aken d the remoteness in which the Igedy is shadowed. The coaroner's cuest Is likely, to veveal a horr a state of affairs. Both families are fairly well-to do d are prominent in the section -of e country in which the flogging oc red. When the parents of the ung lady found that they could not eak up the love match, members the Holstein family went to the radley home Wednesday night and lng Columbus Spredley from. the use took him to a nearby field and gan flogging him in a merciless, Iner, telling him meanwhile ;that would have to leave the coinmuni Ben Spradley followed the Ho! ins and- Cockrell to the field, and ien he attempted to interfere was ated .similarly, being so -severely gged about the stomach that he is 11 in an unconscious condition anud yicians say he has little chance of covery. Columbus Bpradley ;has t been seen since he was beaten. e affair caused great excitempnt the community where It happen Mrs. Spradley, formerly Miss Ette wyer of Alken county, was the ther of a five wreeks old baby, and her wdakened condition, hearing e screams of the flogged men and obably seeing the flogging going tsuccumbed to nervous fright. She S found dead the following morn g in the Spradley home. The re >t that Mrs. Spradley had been ughly handled by the mob, Is de ed and the statement is made that e died of fright after-seeing her phew flogged. Close investigation in Augusta es not bring Columbus Spradley, phew of Mrs. Spradley, to light in at city. Spradley, who. Is a young. an, about 28 years old, appears to very well known throughout that tion Reports received from Mon tta were to the effect that he had [t that community for Augusta, af r being flogged by the mob. Frd .y night the information was to the feet that it is not known whether left for Augusta or whether -he is so serilously whipped that he had mdered off in the swamps some biere, and is either In a semi-con ous condition or Is dead. * Nilled by Lightning. Henry B. Langston, a farmer liv g about four miles from Olanto, as struck by lightning Thursday orning and instantly killed Mr. ngston was going from his house: his barn when theC storm camelp. Ld stepped upder a large oak' for e tree, killing hin instantly. He survived by a wife and several tildren* Brought Good Price. Manager McGraw of New York ants, has purchased Pitcher John rrell from the Spartanburg clu~b the Carolina Association for $3, ) according to a statement given it Thursday by the Spartanburg seball management. The price 1s .e highest ever paid for a player -