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POLICE IN JAIL 0c Oficers of Thwnville Held en the C Charge of Murdering a Ian. CRIE WAS LAST YEAR -6 A Young Mountaineer, Doc Welborn, C Supposed to Have Been Burned Up c in Town Lock-Up, Now Said to d Have Been Killed by His Cap tors. C H. W. Holcomb, chief of police; of 1 Townville; J. E. Woolbright, a po liceman; Basken Sears and Jim Bald win, who were called in by the offi cers to assist them in arresting Doc Welborn, a, young mountaineer, on the night of September 28, 1910, were lodged in the jail at Anderson Monday night, charged with the mur der of Welborn. Welborn was ar rested for drunkenness about nine o'clock at night and three hours later the guard house was burned. The arrest came as the result of detective work by M. C. Long, for merly Court stenographer of that cir cuit, but now an attorney at Wal halla. He has been working on the case for several weeks and it is un derstood that he has gathered evi dence tending to snow that Welborn was murdered before being placed in the guard house and that the house was burned to hide the alleged crime. The four men came to Anderson and voluntarily surrendered, when they learned that the warrants had been issued. The warrants were Issued .by a lo cal magistrate, upon the affidavits of the foreman and members of the grand jury. When seen at the jail Monday night the four men declared that their arrest is due to prejudice, but they refused to name the person or persons whom they think are be hind the move to convict them. The four men are married and have fam Illes. Welborn's widow and children are now working in a cotton mill 'here. Chief Holman said that in his opin ion Welborn set fire to the guard house while lighting a cigarette or In attempting to burn his way to free dom. Mr. Long was communicated with Monday night and he stated he would come to Anderson on Wednes day to represent the solicitor, when the prisoners will appear before Judge Prince for bail. The arrest of the first of the four men has .caused considerable excite ment in the Townville section and Monday many of the leading citizens of that own went to Anderson to go on the bon'ls for their release. An effort is being made to get Mr. Long to go to Anderson so that the app.; cation for ball can be made at once Mr. Long's ability in detective work~ was shown several months ago, when he .brought to justice Cantrell, Gaines and Angel, three white men, for the murder of Emerson, near Walhalla.I At the time it was thought that Emer son was killed by a train, but Mr. Long worked on the case uintil he secured sufficient evidence to bring the three men from as many States and to convict and sentence them for the murder. The trial attracted a great deal of attention. FELDER'S BOOK ON BTEASE Will Be Distributed to Voters Some Time Next Month. The Spartanburg Herald says ad ditional information was obtained Saturday concerning Thomas P. Fel der's book on Governor Blease. A Spartanburg minister stated to a re porter for The Herald that Mr. Felder had shown him part of the book in typewritten form. Mr. Felder treats Governor Blease as a politician, as an office-holder and from the standpoint of his per sonal morals. The author does not mince words in handling his subject. The minister stated that Mr. Fel der would be only too glad if Gov ernor Blease would prosecute hirm for libel, as he declares every assertion made in the book is true and he would welcome an opportunity to' prove the truth of them through court proceedings. Six men are mentioned in connec tion with the charges agamnst the governor made by Mr. Felder. Four of them have never been publicly mentioned in this connection before. It is understood that Mr. Felder will mall a copy of the book in pamphlet form to every vooer in the state about the time the legislature convenes next month. -ROBBED NEAR EDGEFmE. Held Up b-- ndits and Relieved of 'Good Sum. A special '4ispaQ.tch from Edgefield to the Augusta Chronicle says that Monday night about nine o'clock, near Log Creek on the Johnston road, Mr. Jesse C. Turner was attacked by several men while on his way from Augusta to his home in the Harmony section and robbed of the sum of $487. It has been impossible to get at the real facts of-the case; but, it Useems that &s -T'urner was to Augus tPad received the amount of money 1.Ho did not leave for his till some time after dark, and bbed at the place and of the -aed. It is said that on ac he darkness, Mr. Turner did ize any of the assalants. to Save FNer Life. e result of a midnight motor te grand prize automobile Savannah several nights W. J. Donnell, of Norfolk, -Monday afternoon at a lo-1 .Her leg was amputated ort to save her life. A mpanied Mrs. Donnell, injured, but not seri tn Bale. rmer living e, N.C. a bale t sson TE INCOME TAX OMPTROTjER GENERAL MAKES DIPORTANT RULDG. o Deductions to be Made In Certain Instance-The Comptroller's Rul ing in Detail. "No deduction can be made on ac- B ount of payments to pastor's salary r charity or on account of bad ebts or accounts lost," is the ruling ontained in an opinion given by !omptroller General Jones Tuesday n the income tax question. In the etter the comptroller general enum rates the various items that may be g educted from a taxpayer's annual rcome. The letter is written to T. M. Mc lichael, auditor of Orangeburg di ,ounty, and is as follows: iz "Answering your letter of Decem- S, >er 8, in- which you enclose the in- - eme tax return for 1911 and request hat I pass upon the exemptions ti laimed therein, I beg to say that ti his is your duty as county auditor. Cou are to apply to each case as it omes up, the principles laid down I n the instructions alrealy issued e: rom this office, and I think you could t ,eadily solve the matter by referring r ;o my letter to you of March 9, 1909, ogether with the recent circular sent rou. However, I have looked over a :he return sent me, from which it f xppears that the taxpayers proposed ?aying upon their ner income, instead & the gross income required by law. This, of course, is wrong. For in 5tance: They stato they received $5,018.70 rents from city property which they rent out; from this thsy t deduct as non-taxable $1,407.66 for r taxes paid, $374 for insurance upon y property, and $1,048.92 interest upon debts that they owe, and $501.88 for - expenses of repairs, collecting rents, etc. "The items of insurance and in- t terest are clearly not to be deducted as expenses of carrying on business. This is a small fixed charge upon the capital owned by the taxpayer. "The $501.SS for repairs and col lections should be looked into and so much as was paid out as commis sions for renting the property and collecting the rehts is to be deducted t from the gross rents as a part of the necessary expenses in their produc tion. But nothing sbould be deduct ed on account of -repairs and im- i provements to the property. "I doubt whether the taxes which are deducted in this return are the taxes only upon the real estate. It appears that these taxes are tne taxes upon all of the taxpayers' property, and do not pertain to these rents alone. "As to the estimated expenses of the taxpayers' warehouse business, of course the actual expenses of such business are to be de ducted from the gross income made in such business. But no deduction car. be made on ac- I count of payments to pastor's salaryC or chr rity or on account of bad debts or accounts lost. These are in no sense a part of the expenses of pro ducing the income from the business. "You should also look into what isC the actual income from this ware bouse business. -The taxpayers stateC it is 5 per cent. profit on $100,000C estimated sales. This is very unsatis-C factory. They should be required to I submit their books to you and showC what their actual gross sales are, and- the gross profits thereon. C "It is rather remarkable that the gross income should be exactly 5 per cent. on gross sales. Yoit should as certain the exact amount of gross sales, deduct the exact cost of the goods sold, which will give you the gross profit or income; from that de duct the actual necessary expenses of. the business producing this iner ie,1 in accordance with the instructions given you. "I notice in the expenses proposed tc be deducted from the income from rents and warehouse are $735 for farm expenses. These are clearly no part of the expe'nses of producing rents or warehouse income. While the taxpayer charges $735 on farm expenses he returns no gross income1 whatever from the farm, hence the farm expenses are not to be consid ered at all as an exemption except in connection with the income from that farm which the taxpayers failed to return. Ascertain w~hat was the gross income from the farm, and if it was more than the expenses, add the gross income after deducting the farm ex penses to the taxpayers' taxable in come." WOMAN FIRES AT GROUP. s s Shot She Meant For Another Kills a t Her Husband. iAt Fort Worth, Tex., Roy Y. Trout, shot by his wife in a grill room there late Monday night, as he sat at a table with a party of friends, died early Tuesday. When Mrs. Trout entered the door . of the grill room she walked straight to the table where her husband sat. "I've ca.ught you now," she said, :lrawing a revolver from her muff. 1 I'rout paled and glanced from the [ace of his companions to his wife. The answer to his look of appeal wvas a shot and Trout sank in his s ~hair. I A moment later his wife was cry- a ng hysterically: "My God, I've kill- b -d my poor little boy. I never meant c ;o do it." When the shot was fired, Mrs. Julep saylard, who was in the supper party, a ~prang from her chair and made an n uffort to wrest the revolver from Mrs. tl ['rout's hand. At the police station the repeated C tatement of Mrs. Trout that she did s lot intend to kill her husoan'1 led the J, police to say that it is probable the a: ullet was not intended for T1';out. $ Lynching in Oklahoma, At Valdiant, Okla., a mob forced .n entrance to the jail, secured a oung negro, who refused to give his YC tame, and hanged him to a tree at ci he Fair grounds, near the town. The in egro was arrested on the charge of si ssaulting the twelve-year--old daug'b. er of Les Saunders. _.- th fnger of destiny points to ow Wilson as the next Presi fthe United States. We .pre- ,0 She will be nominated by the 'et WATS CREDIT esident Taft Tries to Play a Game of Shabby Politics 0 Ex OW AND WHY HE DID IT a Attempts to Take Credit From ar the Democratic House for Getting as After Russia for Ill-treating the CA ro Jews by Turning It Over to the ep N< Senate. cr President Taft ttrned over to the nate Monday the task of complet- 1 g the abrogation of the treaty of er i32 with Russia, because of alleged fr scriminations against American cit- te al ens of Jewish faith. The House on turday passed a resolution demand- m g this action. th Ignoring the House of Representa- th res, the President sent a message to I= ie Senate announcing that ca Friday ca st, he had caused notice to be for- tj arded to St. Petersburg that the ti nited States desired the treaty to hi id January 1, 1913. This notifica- fc on was officially handed to the rep- a4 ,sentative of the Russian Govern- u ent Sunday. d4 Mr. Taft asked the Senate to ratify ad give effect to his action. The tC )reign affairs committee of the Sen- v :e voted unanimously to report a res- si lution of ratification, couched in dip- ti )matic terms, and Senator Lodge of- t] red it later in the Senate. V There was every reason to believe s bat the resolution would be pushed 11 irough, inasmuch as the Senate com- c 2ittee, as an act of courtesy to the o [ouse, had decided that the lower s ranch of Congress should be asked to ncur in the Senate's action. 3 Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, how- I ver, took the floor and after pro- .i esting vigorously against hasty ac- c ion, asserted his right under the ules and by formal objection -threw o urther consideration of the matter i ver until Tuesday, when 4t was tak- I n up and the President's suggestions s were carried out. Democratic leaders, both In the e enate and the House, are determined e o claim credit for the abrogation Cf I he treaty. Senators Culberson, of I 'exas, and Hitchcock, of Nebraska, r he latter a member of the foreign f 'elations committee, served prelimi tary notice to this effect in the Sen te Monday. Senator Culberson ac used President Taft of trying to strip he House of one of its prerogatives nd asserted that the President was rying to steal Democratic "thunder." In his message to the Senate, Pres dent Taft transmitted a copy of the etter which American Ambassador ruild, at St. Petersburg, had trans itted to the Russian foreign office. n it was expressed the view cf the inited States that the old treaty no onger met the political principles or :ommercial needs of the two nations ad should be terminated. Senator Culberson said Monday tight that he could not venture a pre iction as to how far the Democrats if the Senate would go in their oppo ition to the Lodge resolution, or any ther resolution approving the action f the President in taking the matter ut of the hands of Congress, fol owing the adoption of the Sulzer res 'lution in the House. "There is a feeling among the Dem crats," he said, "that the President ; trying to steal their thunder. I hink the country ought to be made cquainted with the facts." The Senate upon convening lost no ime in taking up the question. Im aediately after the reading of the ournal, an executive clerk from the White House appeared with the Pres fent's message and it was at once ead to the Senate, receiving unusual y close attention. With the message disposed of, Sen .tor Lodge presented the report of he committee on foreign relations, rith the resolution providedas a sub titute for the House declaration. In speaking of the matter the W'ashington correspondent says polit :al Washington is an agog over the ifort of President Taft to take the ~ aad In the movement to abrogate be Russian treaty, after the House ad acted for abrogation against the )xecutive's expressed wish that the aatter be deferred until after the C olidays. It is understood that a great game f' politics is being played, with the redit for abr.ogaticn as the prize. I 'he Democratic leaders, while not S bjecting to such alterations In the rords of the House resolution as may eem advisable, are inclined to re- e eat the President's effort to disre ard the House in the handling of I be subject. There is a feeling that the Presi ent unwarrantedly affronted the [ouse when he sent his message of T1 [onday to the Sepate only. There will e fireworks in Congress about this efore the holiday recess, unless all [gns fail. COSTS THEM BIG MONEY. si [en Who Tarred School Teacher Will C ir Have to Pay For It. c Miss Mary Chamberlain, the young :hool teacher who was so shameful- '? -treated at Shady Bend, Kansas. by ~ lot of ruffians, will be paid $25,000t y the men who t-arred her. Miss r hamberlain intended to bring suitsb >r damages against all the partici- 0 Znts in the tarring, but proceedings -e now under way for a compro ise and it is said that $25,000 is e least her attorneys will accept in T] ~ttlement. The three men, E. C. lark, Jay Fitzwater and Watson ~ranton, who pleaded guilty, and >hn Schmidt, who was convicted, at e worth in the aggregate more than s 00,000, Clark alone being rated in o, :cess of $50,000'.i Young Man Shoots Himself. At Laurens, John H. Price, a th >ung white man., committed sui- Ti de early Friday morning by shoot- ofi g himself through the head with a of ot gun at the home of his father, 1i1 anry T. Price, four miles north of th at pjllie. lit They Were Short in Cash. Thirty hoboest arrested in Eugene, e., had just 1 5 .cents in their pock- ba 3. One had a 'dime and another ul nalk. th, FATAL TRAIN WRECK 2N PEOPLE ITEED IN A REAR ( END COLLISION. igine Ploughs Five Feet into Sleep- I er, Which is Telescoped in Forward End by Diner Ahead. Ten are dead and nearly a score e more or less seriously injured, a result of a silk train on the icago, Milwaukee and St. Paul ad, which was running as section >. 2 of the "Columbian Flyer," ashing into the rear Pullman of the er at the station at Odessa, Minn., onday. The engine of the silk train ughed for five feet into the sleep , but the greatest loss was in the ont end of the Pullman, which was lescoped by the dining car just Lead. Although both the diner and Pull an were of steel, the former sheared e upper portion of the sleeper from e floor as if it had been cardboard. some manner the diner's floor be me elevated slightly above that of e Pullman, at the impact, and with e force of section No. 2's engine be nd, the Pullman was jammed along ir fully twenty feet, while the diner, if a gigantic knife, cut away the pper structure and did its work of astructlon. Responsibility for the wreck is said rest between the operator at Arton [Ile Junction, who, it Is asserted, iould not have permitted the silk -ain to enter the block, in which iere was a train; the operator here, 'ho, it is added, failed to lift the top signal for the Flyer, and the agman of the Flyer, who, it ij aimed, failed to protect the rear f his train immediately following its topping at the block. All of the occupants of the Pull ian but two escaped without injury. mmediately after the crash the un aured assisted in the work of rea ue and many feats of heroism were erformed. G. F. Shuster, a "Jacky" f the United States battleship West irginia, on his way to his home in oledo, Ohio, on furlough, was -con picuous in the work of rescue. Nearly all of the Injured were tak n to Minneapolis and many of them ontinued on to their destinations. he bodies of the dead are being held er and will be sent to their desti tatifns as soon as word can be heard rom relatives. ONFIDENT AS TO FJTORE Negro Bridegroom Asked Parson Who Performed Ceremony to Walt Until the Brida Got a Job. The pastor of a large Baptist church [n a neighboring city. whose congrega tion ineluded many negroes. received ecently a call from a young colored nan and woman on matrimony bent. 'he man had been a shiftless person und the woman was known as indus rious. 'The preacher noticed that the bridegroom was all spruced up and :onc'uded that the bride had made a proper member of society out of him, so he went ahead with the cere ony with a good deal of satisfaction. He had izt in mind not to accept a ee from these lowly members of his lock, but the bridegroom, with a beaming face, banded over the usual imall envelope and departed with his Dinah before the preac.her could pro est When the pastor opened the envelope later he read this note: "Dear Pastor: I am sorry I cannot ;my you a fee now for uniting me in wedlock, but I spent all I had on wed 1fing clothes. I will send you the noney just as soon as Dinah gets to work agaht." The preacher got a fee later from a rery grateful Dinah, who seemed to :hnk it proper that she should pay, md was n'vercome with surprise when he fee was given back -to her as a wedding present. BOW ABOUT DIVORCED WIFE. he Present Husband Shot the For mer Husband. "Mysv'rious Billy" Smith, formerly well known pugilist, who was shot unday night at Portland, Oregon, by aptain A. B. Loomis, husband of mith's divorced wife, 1s said to ave a fair chance for recovery. oomis surrendered to the police, laiming he shot in self-defense. mith and Mrs. Loomis were walk 2g on the street when Loomis came p. The men exchanged revolver bots and Smith fell with four bul ats in his body. Loomis said Smith ad been in a grill with Mrs. Loomis arlier in the evening and that Smith' r a long time had been looking for im to shoot him. ARRESTED IN CHARLESTON. wo Men Suspected of Holding Up Train at Hardeeville. George Beaureguard, William pencer and C.K. Irby, all white, ar sted at Ashley Junction, just out de of Charleston Thursday evening, e being held In the county jail at harleston on the suspicion that they lay be the men who held up the oast Line flyer near Hardeeville on uesday morning. Beaureguard, who short and stout, and Spencer, who tail and thin, appear to answer to L meagre description of the train >bbers. Post office inspectors have een notified and will look the men WHAT FRANCIS HENEY SAYS. bin Woodrow Wilson Would Beat President Taft. Francis J. Heney, fighting lawyer id reformer from San Francisco, ys it is his emphatic belief that if vernor Woodrow Wilson and Pres ent Taft are oppo~sing candidates r the presidency next year the New *rsey executive will walk away with e plum. He doubts, however, if ift will even be nominated, as the ce-holders, who form the backbone his support at the present time are :ely to become panic-stricken when ey dIscover that the President has te or no chance to succeed him The chains that do us the most rmn are those that sit most lightly on us. Whenever a chain galls TOYED WITH DEATH -0. HILDREN SKATED OVER DEAD LY EXPLOSWVES. Oeople Horrified to Learn That They Had Lived in Close Proximity to Large Stores of Dynamite. People who for weeks unknowingly ived near .enough dynamite to blo"w ip the neighborhood and whose chil tren skated over the floors of a va ,ant house in which nitro-glycerine Lad been spilled, testified in the Gov rnment's investigation of the dyna nite conspiracy before the Federal ,rand jury at Indianapolis, Ind., on ruesday. Witnesses from Muncie, Ind., were iuestioned. concerning what they new of the renting of a house in duncie to Ortie McManigal in De ,ember, 1909. After paying rent for everal months in advance, McManl val stored It with boxes and sawdust n. which he packed nitro-glycerine. The fact that the rent had been paid and the house always in dark sess, was visited periodically by a tranger, created an element of mys tery, which still was unsolved even after the place again deserted was thrown open and school children skated over the floors upon which appeared grease spcts. Later it was found the spots were caused by nitro-glycerine and ex perts were called to destroy the ex plosive power. Among the witnesses from Muncie were Mrs. Elizabeth Hiner, Isaac Grant and a manufactur er who sold boxes to McManigal. The evidence was traced by the investi gators, not only to confirm McMani gal's confession, which implicates John J. and James B. McNamara, but also to bring out who, If any, as sisted them. Other expressions of horror at dis covering they had been living near explosives came from members of the family of D. Jones, a farmer near In dianapolis. For a long time prior to his arrest on April 22, 1911, J. J. Mcamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, on the pretext that he was storing old rec ords, kept in Jones' barn, a piano box filled with dynamite, from which Mc Manigal replenished his supply when going on dynamiting expeditions. The piano box still had twenty-five pounds of dynamite in it, whben Jones, digging on his farm, was apprised of the fact by detectives who visited the place the day John J. McNamara was arrested. It was learned thaft these witnesses willingly told of the rep resentations- under which they rented their places and of the persons who paid them money. CONCRETE FURNITURE. Thomas A. Edison Claims He Can Equip Houses at Small Cost. Trhomas A. Edison, who recently startled the world Dy saying he would make it possible to build a concrete house for $1,000, went further this week and declared that soon he'would put .on the market concrete furni ture, so that newly-weds, instead of adorning their homes on, the install ment plan with $450 wor of dubious chairs, tables, etc., can invest $200 and rival "palatial residences" with their display. Pieces of furniture made in the new way are on their way to Chicago and back to show what they can stand In the way of resisting handling by freight men. At present the weight of the concrete furniture Is about 33 1-3 per cent. greater than wood, but Edison expects to reduce the excess to 25 per cent. "If I couldn't put out my concrete furniture cheaper than. the oak that comes from Grand Rapids," says Mr. Edison, "I wouldn't go Into the busi ness. If a newly-wed now starts out with $450 worth of furniture on the installment plan, I feel confident that we can give him more artistic and more durable furniture for $200. I'll al'so be able to put out a whole bed room set for $5 or $6. ILLS HDtISELF ON HONEYMOON. Florida Man's Bride Unable to Ac count for Suicide. "I cannot bring disgrace upon my family, so I have decided to end it all." This was the substance of a note found in Room 44 of a Jackson ville, Fla., hotel Monday morning, af ter Zebulon Vance. Fowler, aged 2S, a young lumberman from Terrill, Florida, had taken a quantity of strychnine. Only having been mar ried since December 9 and having come to Jacksonville with his bride to spend his honeymoon, the young man, a member of a prominent fami ly of the State, committed suicide hortly after 10 o'clock Monday morn ing. His wife was with him at the time of his death, but declared she was unable to account for his terrible act. FEAT MAKES HER FAMOUS. Girl Saves 1,OO0% Dimes in a Year and Duiys Fur Coat. Deluged with letters and with Christmas gifts, Miss Ivy Cole, a wait ess in a Denver, Col., cafe, who saved up 1,000 dimes received in tips with in one year to buy a fur coat, Is amazed at the attention her *rugality bas attracted. She has received let ters and postal cards from many parts of the country and proposals of marriage from East, West, North and outh. Miss Cole began saving all the dime tips she received a year ago ast Thanksgiving Day. One day be fore Thanksgiving, of the present rear, sre had saved exactly $100, or .,00 0 dimes.] Seven Persons Killed. Seven persons were killed and sev tral injured in the head-on collision >etween two trollcy cars on the Kan ;s City-Leavenworth electric line iear Wolcott, 17 miles south of here, tcording to reports received. The , og caused the collision. Gave Him Ten Years. Ten years in the federal prison at ~tlanta was the sentence imposed at ~ortland, Maine, upon Rev. Frank W.] anford, leader of the Holy Ghost and s society of Shiloh for causing the eaths of six persons in the steamer| ornt.1 1E FEEDETH ALL ale of Crop Exclusive if Colten is Nearly Fear Billion. HAT THE FARER DOES inal Estimates of Eleven Most Im portant Crops Announced by De partment of Agriculture, Showing Increase in Value of Nearly Two Hundred Million Over Last Year. With decreases in the production of he eleven important farm crops, not ncluding cotton, the value of these .rops this year reached the total of ;3,769,562,000, according to the fin i1 estimate announced Tuesday by :he department of agriculture. This s an increase of almost $190,000,000 iver their value last year. The department's final estimate of production today differs considerably Erom its preliminary estimate, made in November, because of a revision of acreages based upon the census bureau's figures, which became avail able since that time. The important features of the diffc-rent crops, com pared with last year were: Spring Wheat-An increase of 2,029,000 in acreage, a decrease of 10,297,000 bushels in production, and a decrease of $14,841,000 in value. ME Oats-Au increase of 390,000 in its acreage, a decrease of 253,215,000 o'c bushels in production and an increase to of $8,257 000 in value. of Barley-A decrease of 116,000 in ne acreage, a decrease of 13,592,000 ce: bushels in production and an increase we of $38,756,000 in value. thi Rye-A decrease of 88,000 in acre age, a decrease of 1,778,000 bushels NE in production and an increase of T. $2,604,000 in value. wE Buckwheat-A decrease of 27,000 ju In acreage, a decrease of 49,000 bush- m els in production and an increase of ur $1,099,000 in value. gr Flaxseed-An increase of 290,000 bi in acreage, an increase of 6,652,000 of bushels in production and an increase co of $5,800,000 in value. . J. Rice-A decrease of 26,500 in acre- gr age, a decrease of 1,576,000 bushels PC in production and an increase of $1,- gr 650,000 in value. R Potatoes-A decrease of 101,000 in a acreage, a decrease of 52,295,000 ne bushels in production and an increase J. of $39,212,000 in value. til Hay-A decrease of 2,674,000 in acreage, a decrease of 13,534,000 as tons in production and a decrease of M $53,199,000 in value. TI Tobacco-A decrease of 35.3,300 in Gi acreage, a decrease of 198,306,000 K pounds in production and a decrease gi of $16,932,000 in value. S. The final estimates of the depart- El ment of agriculture on the production Sz and value of the principal farm crops sa of the United States for 1911, an- te nounced today, were as follows: J Production. te Crop. Bushels. Value. Corn .2,531,488,000 $1,565,258,000 Wheat 621,338,000 543,063,000 Oats 922,298,000 414,665,000 Barley 160,240,000 139,182,000 Rye 33,119,000 27,557,000 Buckwheat 17,549 12,735,000 Flaxseed 19,370,000 35,272,000 Rice 22,954,000 18,274,000 E Potatoes 292,737,000 233,778,000 a Hay 47,444,000 *694,570,000 m Tobacco 905,109,000 **85,210,000 s *Tons. **Pounds. R Cents per bE Crop- Acreage. Bushel. cc Cornr.... ...105,825,000 61.8 D~ Winter wheat .29.162,000 88.0 ac Spring wheat. .20,381,000 86.0 R All wheat. . . .49,543,000 87.4 P: Oats.. .. ...37,763,000 45.0 Barley. .. ....7,627,006 86.1 we Rye. .. .. ....2,097,000 83.2 tic Buckwheat. . . 833,000 72.6 w. Flaxseed. . . .2,757,000 1.82 PE Rice. .. .. .....696,300 79.7 10 Potatoes. . . .3,619,000 79.9 of Hay. .. .. ..43,071,000(a)$14.64 te: 'robacco.. .. ...1,012,800 (b)9.4 sh (a) Per ton. (b) Per pound. tic i i .to FA31INE IN RUSSIA. ni' - .---- ga Nineteen Provinces Are in the Starv- gi ing Provinces,.a The failure of crops in 19 Russian as provinces have left over 19,500,000 co people without a supply of food for i the winter. More than half of these Rc will starve, according to M. Kokov- ca: tsoff, if not otherwise relieved before the the reptapeism of Russian bureau- cr< cracy will let them get relief. The government has begun public works ce and $2,500,000 has been earned since re the harvests thereby, but is only in sa: the less severely stricken districts; go in the 19 provinces wher e every vil lage is famine-stricken grain and food are distributed free; but the districts are so remote from railways and cen- W ters where corn is stored that many months must elapse before the ma jority can get it. Meanwhile the peasants 'must live on bread made of d grass and the roots they find in the yo, forests- the noi REWARD FOR MISSING MAN- thE No Seeks Messenger Who Is Accused of Ma Taking $y,000. Th The Southern Express Company mc Monday offered a reward of $300 for Un the arrest of Robin C. Fargason, of cer Macon, Ga., an express messenger 1 7, wanted in connection with the disap- the pearance of a package containing ant $7,000. The package was consigned par to a bank at Griffin, Ga., and left Ma can in Fargason's care on the Central cf of Georgia train Saturday. .The mon- ly ey is declared to have not been de- fou livered and Fargasoin did not show on up for the return run to Macon. He par has not been seen since, It is reported. the Plunged to Certain Death. Jar Mounting to the 1)th floor of the set MIasonic Temple at Chicago on Tues- 20 :iay, J. F. Greew, a machinist, dis- ary robed, crawled out on a bea~m and M plunged to the rotunda below. Death likE wvas instantaneous. In its fall theMa >ody struck a man at a cigar stand, hot >reaking both his arms. Ever Responsive to Genius. Ma "There is no work of genius which for ins not been the delight of mankind; don 10 word of genius to which the human ciet leart and soul have not sooner or cr1i ater responded."-Jamies Russell vict '<-Ii BakingF AbsoluieI) Makes Home I With minimum trou cuit, cake and pastr3 clean and greatly sup made, dry, found-in and danger of alum MASONIC GRAND LODGE. cts Officers for the Next Year, and Then Adjourns. rhe grand lodge of Anclent Free sons of South Carolina concluded 135th annual communication at 2 lock Wednesday and was called off meet again next year in the city Charleston. At high noon Wed sday the gr:and lodge elected offl s, and these iAd their appointees re duly installed. The officers for . ensuing year are as follows: Grand master, George S. Mower of wherry; deputy grand master, Geo. Bryan of Greenville; senior grand rden, R. A. Coopei of Laurens; ior grand warden, W. W. Wanna 0ker of Orangeburg;, grand treas er, W. H. Prioleau of Charleston; and secretary, 0. F. Hart of Colum ?.; grand chaplin, Rev. W. P. Smith t Spartanburg; scnior grand dea ns, J. P. Duckett of -Anderson and F. Kinney of Bennettsville; junior. and deacons, S. T. D. Lancaster of 2 uline and L. I. Parrott of Sumter.; i and stewards, C. K. Chre!tzberg.of t ck Hill and A. J. Thackston of Or geburg; grand marshal, John Ken rly of Edgefield; grand pursuivant, E. Cogswell of Charleston; grand er, W. A. Winkler of Charleston. District deputy grand masters are follows: First Cistrict, W. G. zyck; Second, J. - H. Peurifoy;' ird, A. Patterson; Fourth, W. .A. les; Fifth, B. E. Nicholson; Sixth, anneth Baker;' Seventh, W. A. Hud as; Eighth, 0. R. Doyle; Ninth, A. Rowell; Tenth, W. B. Patton; eventh, Van Smith; Twelfth, M. H. Lndifer; Thirteenth, Joseph Lind y; Fourteenth,,J. B. Wallace; Fif eth, I. S. Jones; Sixteenth, W. E. mes; Seventh, 3. C. Sellers; Eigh-1 eth, W. L. Glaze. I ' I HOLY ROLLERS" IN FRENZY. I omen Shriek and Beat Themselves, I Moan and Gesticulate. The congregation of the select First esbyterian church at Macon,.Ga.,11 nday night is aghbast over the de omstrations made at the morning rvice by the local sect of "Holy >11ers," who comprise some of the j st-known women and men of Ma-I1 . A meeting of the Elders will obably be held this week to take tion so as to prevent the "Holy >11ers" from ever- attending the esbyterian chturch again. C Sunday morning the demonstration ia violently vociferous and sensa nal, and the entire congregation s so excited that'the audience di rsed precipitately, immediately fol ing the last prayer, and numerous the women went away in hys -ics. "The "Holy Rollers" mumbled, uted, swayed, moaned and ges ulated all during the service, and ard the end Mrs. Minnie Scott, her ce, Miss Davis, and the others be n to shriek, beat themselves and e vent to frantic manifestati'ons. Elder John 3. fI'ackay,- the pastor r : others sought to quiet them, sof to restore order again among the igregation, who were excitedly fl- 1 out of church. Finally the "Holy s les" were induced to enter their riages, but as they moved away k y continued to shriek, causing b wds to gather along the sidewalks. Professor 3. R. Moseley, who re- a tly forsook the Christian Science tl igion to become a "Holy Roller," p, s that he and his associates will a to another church next Sunday. y OUR ECLIPSES NEXT YEAR. '.T -4-- b. ~ather Predictions for the First of Isi b tecording to a rew issue of the -time "almanachs," the very kind E r grandparents left hanging on mantlepiece years ago, there will sC4 be much more cold weather for wv South, and very little in the si th. But for sitorms January and be rhiU ul dow ,~.mis. here wil be ~in 19 first is a p se of t on, April 1, ble in the cc ited States. Thes ond will be a rc tral eclipse of the sun, on April le visible to the eastern portion of TI United States. At Washington ti Montgomery it will be seen as a 1i1 tial eclipse, the sun rising eclipsed. he third will be a partial eclipse M he moon, on September 26, part- "I risible to the United States. The o1 th Is a total eclipse of the sun, be October 10, visible as a slight. n tial eclipse to the southeast tip of gi United States. here will be blustery weather in se uary, mixed with pleasant and un- Ti :led days toward- the last of the by t. Storms will come in Febru- in with unsettled weather before ta ch 1, which md~ntli will come in er a lion and pass out like a lamb. er will be mild and June stormy and pa he Governors of New York and sahstsare being condemned re: granting less than a dozen par- a1 since their terms began. So- all evidently believes that it is a ho e for a Governor to turn con- is d criminals loose on it, and so- la' owder F Pure 3aking Easy ble. and cost bis are made fresh, erior to the ready -the-shop variety, food is avoided. LTTI A CK LADIES Bung Negro iighnwxymel in Charlests Hfd U) a;. %b Thrm NATCH THIR PURSES he Daring Hold-Up Exploits by No gro Lads on the Street Result in Their Arrest After Three Ladies Are Made Victims of Their Bold At tempts. The News and Courier says one of he most daring exploits in recent po ce annals is charged against two mall colored boys, Stephen Meyers nd Robert Taylor, aged 13an'd 12, espectively, who were arrested at he corner of Ashley avenue and Ventworth street at 7:30 o'clock 'uesday night. The-two boys are ac used .of having held.-up three white romen Monday and the day before, .ctually- robbing one of them and :nocking her down, -and attempting. o rob the other two. Robert TayIor ne of the' boys, confessed to having een with Meyers on all the three oc asions, but ;declared that Meyers lone was guilty of taking the money. Reports had come to the detectives hat some colored boys had snatched ocket-books from two ladies, and the iolice were on the lookout for the oys. It was 'after Meyers had natched a pocket-book from Mrs. segare at the c ffrn- Wfentrt' treet and Ashley avenue, according 6 the story told by Taylor, that the oys were arrested.. They are charged with highway 'cbbery, knocking down Mrs. C. G. ilmmons and taking from her a pock t-book containing $3.41, on .?1onta uie street, near Smith; with attempt nag to rob Mrs. Legare at the corner if Ashley .avenue and Wentworth treet, and with assaulting and at--* empting to rob Miss Garvin on Cal toun street, near Pitt. Mrs. Sim sons' pocket-book was recovered.. Robert Taylor, according to his.awn tatement, Is 12 years old. A re orter talked with the boy late. Mon .ay night. Stephen Meyers, in an pposite cell, was apparently sleeping nd did not get up whecn called. Tay >r, however, .iumped up eagerly when Is name was called,. and standing rith his face pressed against the bars old readily and glibly what he de lared to be a true story of the ~two oys' adventures. Taylor and Meyers, according to be former, had beeri walking on Cal oun street, near Pitt, Mlonday after ,oon, when Meyers, Taylor said, con eived the idea of getting some mon-. y easily. Meyers, according to Tay 3r, went up to Miss Garvin, who was -alking on the street, shoved her and satched her pocket-book. He then an and Taylor ran with him. The ext field of action was on Montague treet, near Smith, where, said 'Tay >r, Meyers went up to Mrs. -C. G. Immons and grabbed that lady's ocketbook, pulling at her and nocking her down. The pocket nok contained $3.41. Taylor said he saw Meyers running bead of him, take something out of ie' pocket-book, and thrust it into his acket, throwing the pocket-book way. He said that when he asked 'eyers what he had put in his pock the latter ansewered, "Nothing." aylor said that the same thing had een done to a lady on~ MAntwe reet, near Glebe, Monday afternoon, at this case is not on the poliee yoks. "What Ci.. you boys do with the oney?" Taylor was asked. "He ain't give me none but fifteen :ts," he answered. "An' de rest hat he git from de lady Mtonday he iend for a pistol dis-mornin'. He een shot * ~ tdy rding to the police, attempted to ib Mrs. Legare at the: corner of Ash y avenue and Wentwortli street 2e boys were arrested just after is, if Taylor's story can be be ~ved. When Taylor was~ asked how old eyers was he said: {e ent no biggern'a me, but he's der, I year dem other boys say he en lock up before. He~ Iib right, ar to de Jail anyway," and Taylor inned. The charges against the .boys are rious ones and it Is evident that tylor is attempting to clear himself -telling all he knows or all he can rent about the affair. He denies king an active part in any of the mes, putting all the blame on Mey Sand saying he was merely in com fly with the latter when it all hap ned. The action of Governor Blease in ~using to commission Judge Smith :rustee of a high school because he -eady held an office of profit or nor calls attention to a law that violated by many good men. .This 7, like all others, should be en