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FAVOR BRYAN Progressive Democrats Effect on Organ izeaion in Ohio State A FIGHT FOR PROGRESS Member of the Conference Charac terizes the Stand-pat Sentiment a Fatal to the Chances of Demo cratic Success in the Next Presi dential Election. The Progressive Democratic League of Ohio came into being a Columbus Tuesday at a conference o Democrats of nearly every county ii the State. Although many of the conferees had entered the- gatherin with the avowed intention of de clariug against the presidential can didacy of Gov. Judson Harmon, th< executive's name was mentioned only Indirectly and the organization satis fled i*tself with the adoption of reso lutions urging the members to work against the choice of any delegate tc either State or national convention who had not proved himself a tried and true Democrat. The name of W. J. Bryan, herald ed as "ablest to represent progres sive Ideals of any party," was re ceived with applause, and speakers who fanned the Democratic ardor while awaiting the report of the res olutons committee made adherence to him the final test to a title to the progressive Democracy. The conference which had . beer called by W. W. Durbin, chose For mer Congressman Lentz as chair man. Mr. Lentz later was elected prdsident of the newly formed leagues. The resolutions adopted follow: "We, the representatives of the pioneer progressives of the Demo cratie party in the State of Ohio in conference, realizing that the never ending conflict between the stand patters and the progressives is stil: on and that certain selfish, sordid and mercenary agencies are active in thefr efforts to thwart the purposes and hopes of the 0,500,000 men whc voted the Democratic uational con vention gave them a progressive platform and leader, and recogniz Ing the historical fact that the larg est vote ever cast for the Democratic ticket was In the three times when the party had a platform and a can didate satisfactory to the progressive Democracy of the country, do hereby declare and adopt the following prin ciples: "1. That there ssall be no back ward step taken by the Democratic party either, in the platform or tc the ieader named b3 the next Dem dcratic national convention. "2. That to guarantee a progres sive platferm and progressive candi date it is nece~ssary that the ranlb and file of Ohio Democrats take im mediate steps to secure the election of 48 tried and true Democrats at delegates to the coming nationa: convention. "3. That to protect the progres sive Democrats of Ohio against the possibility of any traitor amonl those 4S delegates, it is imperative that no advocate, associate, protect or, ally, agent, co-unsel, attorney, re ceiver, champion, or hireling of Wall street or other predatory interest be chosen as delegates. "4. That to protect the progres -sive Democrats of Ohio against the -possibility of any traitor 'among the delegates tc- the State convention it is imperative that none be sent tc the State convention to adopt a plat form and nominate -candidates fox tateafiges :md- select delegates at large to the Democratic nationa] convention except men who have thown by their past records that they are progressive Democrats. "5. That the recent victory of the Democratic candidates in certain Eastern and Middle States normally Republican Is a revolt against the tariff and other selfish measures of the standpatters in that district. "6. That the suggestion of the nomination of any other than a known, tried and true progressive Democrat brings immediately to our memory the disastrous defeat of 1904,-when in Ohio, Parker lost the State by more than 253,000, out of the 24 congressmen we lost 20 out of 450 county officers we lost 400, and out of 88 counties we lost 71. "7. That in order and for the pur. pose of effecting and assuring to the Democratey of Ohio and the nation the final consummation of the prin ciples here set forth, we do hereby pledge our every effort to that end." Former Congres~man Lenin a,s temporary chairman, named Mr. Bryan as the Democratic candidate most likely of selection. "I am one of those who believe that . more progressive Republicans will vote for Mr. Bryan than for any other Democrat," he said. -Bryan was hailed as the original progressive by State Senator Frank T. Dore. Charged With Taking gewelry. Several members of a carnival com pany which pretended to show at St. Matthews last week, but which had a hard time staying on the earth with their tents, got into trouble. Two, a man and his wife, broke into the trunks In their boarding -house and plundered them of several pieces of jewelry, and other trinkets. They were caught in Columbia and rturned to St. Matthews, where, in the mag Istrate's court, they were tried Tues day morning- and fined. I ' Young Man Drowned. Gazz Peay, a brother of Mr. N. A. Peay, formerly of Chester, and nephew of Messrs. T. 3. and R. L. Cunningham, was drowned near the ford on Dutchman's Creek; in the Longtown section of Fairfield coun ty, Sunday aftrnoon, December 24. His body was found Monday. Engineer Died at Throttle. While running a locomotive on the Achison, Topeka & Santa Fe R~ail road, Wallace Everill, an engineer, dropped dead at the throttle near Pueblo, Col. He had been an em ploye on the road for over 30 years. Helped the State Treasury. Secretary of State McCown turned $35,905.92 into the state treasury from charte fees the past year. NEDED VERY BADLY WANTS MORE FIGURES ON COT TON SITUATION. Congressman Lever Proposes Bill Calling for Statistics on Exports, Stock, Consumption,Spindleage. A Washington dispatch says Rep resentative Lever, who has spent the holidays in the capitol, has prepared for introduction immediately upon the reconvening of congress a joint iresolution directing the census bu reau to publish, in onnection with its ginning reports and in connection also with the acreage and condition reports of the department of agri culture, the latest evailable statistics .of the exports, stocks and consump tion of cotton, and the number of spindles in operation in the manu facture of cotton. Discussing the purpose of the resolution Mr. Lever says: "I have already introduced a bill changing somewhat the system of the department . of agriculture in its work of gathering statistics of pro duction of cotton. Even under the present system the cotton trade is giten the benefit of most compre hensive and detailed statistics as to the amount of cotton produced dur ing the season. The manufacturer of cotton is furnished, through govern mental agencisa, a complete view of the situation from the producer's standpoint. The trade Is advised from time tA time the number of acres planted with cotton, the con dition of the growing cotton, and fin ally is given the judgment of the government's statisticians as to the yield. "This is a big advantage to him in deciding upon the probable sup ply of his raw material and there fore upon the price which he must likely pay for it. It is an advantage unfair to the farmer and to remedy this condition-at the suggestion of the Farmers' union in my State--I had passed a joint resolution two years ago calling for the publication of statistics quarterly covering the exports, stocks, etc., of cotton. These reporta are sammarized as *f No vemb'er Arst, January Erst and March first, the liouse having decided not to publish a report for December first as provided in my original res olutiom. "Complaint has come, and I am sure it is justified, that the reports are not issued with sufficient fre quency to keep the farmer informed as to the condition of the manufac turer, who consumes the cotton pro duced by the farmer. This resolution which I am about to introduce pur poses to give to the farmer, through governmental agencies, the same ad vantage as Is given to the manufac turer. The farmer has as much right to be informed as to the probable consumption as has the manufactur er to the probable, yield and when we have given to him the most com prehensive statistics of the exports, the stocks on hand, and the con sumption of cotton for definite peri ods, together with the number of spindles in active operation, he is put In a much better -position from which to judge as to the price of his product. Either there should be no statistics published at all or all the facts should be made known and both consumer and producer, treated with equal fairness. I believe this resolution will bring about this re sult as nearly as it is possible to bring it about." TWO NEGROES ARE HED They Are Charged With the Murder of David Hutto. At Anderson Lou Wright and Bob Williams, two negroes, who live with in 100 yards of the little store-room in which David Hutto, the Confed erate veteran, was brutally murdered oy having his head and face mashed tr. a pulp, were arrested on suspicion Monday afternoon by Sherifl King and were lodged in the county jail. At the coroner's inquest these ne groes testified, and the fact th'at they were fully conversant with Mr. Hut to's habits and actions, arid that they .discovered blood under the store room, which had trickled through the floor, and that they reported the matter to the officers, put them un der the ban of suspicion, and their intense inter.est in the developments since has increased the suspicion to such a degree that the arrests fol low. It Is thought that the Wright woman will soon tell all she knows about the murder, and it is likely that! one or two other persons Will be come incriminated. NEW CHIL'2D LABOR LAW. Children Under Twelve Elininated From Mills. The amended child labor law, elim inating all children runder twelve years of age from the textile plants of South Carolina. went into effect Monday. Under the old child labor law certain exemptions were allowed, because ot "widowed mother or dis abled parents." T'he new law will af fect about 540 children, who were working under the exemption clause of the old act. Commissioner Wat son has notified all manufacturers of the new law, anid the: children under twelve years of age have beens grad ually taken from the mills. At the last session of the general essembly the governor vetoed the item of $2, 400 for inspectors to enforce the child labor law. He later stated that he would ask the whiskey constables to enforce the law. During the year ending June 30, 1911, American raIlways killed 356 passengers. 3,602 employes, 5.2S4 "trespassers" and 1.154 others, pre sumably grade crossing victims. During the same year the same roads ijured 13,43.3 passengers, 126,039 employes, 5,614 "tiespassers" and 5.07.3 other persons. The total killed was 10,136; injured, 150,159.I -That recent bang'ing in the op eraI house at Jackson, Ga., seems to have' been an exclusive socIal 'function with relatives of the murdered man in the' bme and friends of the sheriff in the front seats. Some one r;L if thie Republican party can reVor CIAtself. If it did it ROCK HILL PLAN Anderson Tells Twelve Governors of the Scheme to Help Farmers SUGGEST SOME THNGS The First Step in the Much Dis cussed Plan is to Select a State Superintendent, and Then the Work of Organizing and Getting Pledges Should be Pushed. As a further step in the direction of putting the "Rock Hill Plan" be fore the planters of the South, John G. Anderson of Rock Hill Saturday night sent out letters to the gov ernors of twelve cotton growing States, a copy of which follows: "At the request of Col. E. J. Wat son, president of the Southern Cot ton congress, I am sending you under another cover a package of printed matter setting forth the 'Rock Hill Plan,' as adopted by the executive committee of the Southern Cotton congress in New Orleans on Decem ber 1, and am also inclosing a copy herein. "Col. Watson is busy preparing his annual report for the legislature, and hasn't the time to give this mat ter attention, but realizing that it is very important, and that you should have the information immediately, he has, as stated above, requested me to write you for him. "You will note that the governor, commissioner of agriculture and State Farmers' union president are to select a State superintendent, who is to have direct charge of the or ganization of counties. A call for funds is also to be made by the above named officials, and I &hpuld th+nk that from $300 to $500 will be am ple, as th6 only expense to be In curred by the State superintendent Is the salary of steozgraphers, post age, printing, etc. "Ool. Watson suggests that a let ter be mailed the larger banks of your State, manunfacturera. Jobbers' and fertlitzer men, asking tor a do nation of $15 each, and he believes that will bring the necessary funds at once. "If you can get a good man to act as State superintendent, who has he necessary ability, energy and en thusiasm and will get the counties organized promptly, aLd then keep In behind them every few days, I am satisfied that we can put this thing through by the last of February, and if we do it will be the best thing that has ever been done for the South. "Just as soon z.s you select your State superintendent, please give me his name and address, and I will for ward him some other matter that will be useflul in his campatgn, and will also send him a donation from the Rock Hill B.uggy company of $25 for the general erense fund. "I am enclosing a sample of the Farmer's union pledge. In order that these may be obtained promptly, I have arranged with a printer to get them up at $240 per 1,000; $1.50 per 500, and 50 cents per 100 for a les.a quantity. "The State superintendent 'may ned a few more copies of the 'Rock Hill plan' for hIs correspondence with the various county committees. I have asked the printer to keep the type up, and if any of these blanks are wanted they can be had at the same rate as that of the Farmer's union pledge. "Hoping to hear from you as early as possible, I am, yours very truly, "J. G. Anderson." What the "Rock Hill Plan' Is. As slightly modified by the execu tIve committee of the Southern Cot ton Congress, at a meeting in New Orleans on December 21, 1911, it Sproposed that the plan shall be put into operation by each state acting or Itself and not in collusion with athers. It is proposed to call upon bank ers, merchants, mercantIle and man ufacturing Interests for small sub criptions to meet the expenses of ,rganlzation and the work to be done i the various counties. It provides or the selection of a state superin :endant who shall have entire chargo >f the work in the state and be re sponsble for It. It Is suggested that he governor, the commissioner of .grculture and the president of the 'armers' Union start the work and -rrange for raising the necessary ~nds. The state superintendent is to ap point county committees> in each ~ounty, composed, it is suggested, of en taking enthusiastic Interest in he work-one a banker, one a mer ~hant and one a farmer. The county ~ommittee Is to have charge of rals ng county funds for the purpose of ~onductng a house to house canvass or the purpose of securing signed ~ledges from all farmers, and those nterested In farms, that they will reduce their cotton acreage in 1912, 20t less than 25 per cent, or by whatever amount may be agreed ipon. It is pointed out that the average :ounty can be covered by canvassers* .t a cost of from $125 to $200,! which can easily be raised by proper ffort. Enough canvassers should be amployed to cover the county thor >ughly within a period of two weeks. they should make daily report to the sounty committee, and the names should be pnblished In the county pa per. The county committee should eport daily to the state superintend mt who should give out a consoli ~ated statement to the press. It is confidently believed that the ercentage of those who would fail C adhere to such a pledge would bej o small as t-o be Insigniflcant. The ~ewspapers are counted 'upou for as-I dtance, whidh they will unquestion ~bly giv'e, and county f-alles are urg d to arouse Iiterest. It is earnestly recofnmended that he acreage of cotton planted in 1912 > redluced not less than 25 per cent s compared with 1911, and that the written pledge adopted by the N 1 :ional Farmers' Union, be used in ach state. The letter ''K" promises to be the. rost prominent in the.t0phabet in! -nress for the next few months. schedule K of the wocoien tariff is >robably the one around which the retats controversy will rage. TRAINED TEACHERS NEEDED IN THIS STATE FOI, THE COUNTY SCHOOLS. Prof. W. K. Tate Make Some Interest. ing Suggestions With Reference to Rural Schools. "The most insistent need of the country school is for the trained teacher who is willing to enter into the community life and lift the edu cational standard of the people." This statement is contained in the annual report of W. K. Tate, super visor of rural elementary schools. Under the caption, "Wanted: Train ed Teachers for Country Schools," he points out that "one year with such a teacher will often revolutionize the popular attitude towards the school." "Near the close of the past scol astic year," says Mr. Tate, "I endeav ored to obtain accurate facts as to the number of college graduates now teaching in the town and city schools of South Carolina. A complete list of all the teachers employed in the county was obtained frou most of the county supdriutendents. Of this list the superintendent was asked to indicate after the names of the col lege graduates the colleges from which they received their diplomas, as recorded on his certificate regis ter." The table appended hereto in cludes the counties of Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Calhoun, Charleston, Cherokee, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Dillon, Dorches ter, Georgetown, Greenville, Green wood, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Marlboro, Newberry, Oco nee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Saluda, Williamsburg. I was unable to se cure definite information from the other countiei. The result was as follows: College graduates now teaching in 26 counties of South Carblina: Town Country Chicora. .- - . . 7 12 Citadel. -. . . . . . - 1 Clemson. ........2 20 College foz Women ..T 3 Charleston college. -e S Columbia Cqilege.. . U6 17 Converse. ..... -.8 6 Erskine. .. . 9. 9 6 Furman University. 14 5 G'ville Female College 17 2 Lander. '...... .14 2-7 Limestone. . . . . . 14 19 Newberry. . . . . . 1-7 35 Presby. Co. of S. C.. . - a University of S. C.. . 9 29 Winthrop. . . -. . .. .114 71 Wofford. . . . . . . 21 25 Woman's C. of D. W.. 14 28 Col. in other States. . 52 29 Totals. . . . . . .353 '401 Grand total. . . . . .754 "In the counties named there were 2,616 white teachers employed. Twenty-eight per cent have received college training and most of these are teaching in the town and city schools and in the consolida'ted coun try schools. Few are employed in the one-room country schools. Of the colleges named( only two or three offer an adequate course of pro fessional training." CHINESE CUT OFF QUEUES. This is the Way They Pay Tribute to the Chinese Repubic. Hundreds of Chinese in New York zelebrated the inauguration of the irst president of the Chinese Repub Lic by having their queues cut, thus severing, as they said, the last sym bol of Manchu rule. At noon, when 3,000 Chinese gathered for the cele iration not a queue was seen. Many of the Chinamen also shook aff their sandals and in heavy Amer can shoes climbed the stairs of the ,d joss house In Mott street, which vas rechristened "The Chinese Pub :ic hall," and gravely bowed before a large portrait of the new president, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Chinese girls and boys dressed in Amercan fashion sang a new Chi nese national song entitled "The country of the Chinese Republic" to he air of "America." The sentiment >f the song was* something as fol Lows: "Dr. Sun Sen has sown the seed nd grown the republic. All Chinese should be patriots of one heart, one tove and one life for their country nd liberty and freedom. Manchu ule Is gone, and the Chinese shall -emain forever free." More than 500 of the now Chinese ags were displayed in the district, ogether with portraits of the new resident. There was a parade 1rough the district and speech-mak g at the public hall. The shops entributed almost their entire sup ply of firecrackers, hundreds of thou sands of them being thrown from roofs and balconies. SHOWS A BIG INCREASE. 'he Fertilizer Tag Tax Was Quite Heavy for Last Year. Figures announced from the State ;reasurer's office show that the fer ilizer tax for the past year is $255, )82, as compared with $240,098 for :he year before. The increase is tout $15,00O0. The amount to be -eceived from the tax was expected ;o reach $270,000. The decrease was aused by the low price of cotton. L'he fertilizei' tax fund goes for the iupport of Clems~on College and the ublic work of the institutiou. A Fat-al Train Wreck. A great Northern railroad train, nown as "The Oregonian," was recked four miles west of Finley. V. D., Monday, with a loss of at east 'six lives, and the injury of 13 ersons. The wreck was due to a roken rail. The train left St. Paul landay morning for Seattle. Died on Sathe Day. At Wic'hita, *Kan., Mr. an d Mrs. eorge Bailey, pioneer residents of .bat city who were born on the same lay seventy-six years ago and who lied within a period of four ho'irs, ere buried there Monday. Both cof ins were lowered irnto one grave. The Legislature will soon be with s again. It should pass an anti 'acE' rack betting law the very first 1ee it s in ession TOLD GOV. MANN Wfoui SpiritAlist Ohlained S:ory-of th Beattie Murder TAKD WITH THE DEAD Wrote It O(t and Sent It to Gov. Mann Before Beattie Confessed His Awful Crime and Was Cor roborated by the Confession of the Murderer. That a spiritualist wrote to Gov ernor Mann, of Virginia, a full and minute account of the Beattie mur der, which was later entirely corrob orated by Beattie's confes be came known In Charleston s-, The News ar - Courier during Gov. Mann's . .>,ent visit to that city. The governor himself, while at a loss to explain the mystery admitted that the spiritualist had been correct in every detail of her description of the murder. He averred, however, that her communication had not in fluenced him in the least in his de cision not to pardon Beattie. In the days after the trial, Gov ernor Mann received an average of from fifty to seventy-five letters a day, many of which declared that the evidence was Insufficient to convict, while others maintained that Paul Beattie was the guilty party. One letter in particular caught the gov ernor's attention. A spiritualist wrote to say that she had at first been convinced that Paul Beattie was the murderer. As she had the power to converse with the dead, however, In order to satis fy her curiosity, she had summoned a friend from the other world and had asked her to call on the mur dered 'irs. Beattie and get from her a full description of the affair. This her obliging friend had very willing ly done. Mrs, Beattie and her husband, it seems, had been talking about Beu lah Binford. The conversation was resumed ia the aitomobile. Beattie stopped the machine and took her Into the road. There he shot her, which aceounted for the pool of blood IA the turnpike. He then had placed her body across the front seats of the machine and sat on her head while coming back. At the time this letter was re ceived the prosecution was unable to explain the pool of blood in the turn pike, except on the theory that he had dragged his wife from the car, and was unable to offer any accept able theory as to the big spot of blood on the seat of Beattie's trous ers. Other details at that time clouded in mystery were also fully stated In this remarkable spiritual ist's letter. Governor Mann o course, let the matter drop from his mind until Beattie's complete confession was brought to his attention. He was then astounded to note the accu-racy of the letter when compared with the confession. The two dovetailed ex actly. It Is possible that the spirit ualists merely guessed what had hap pened. If so, she ought to be in the weather department, for she could easily -make a living estimating the size of the crops or the status of the future market. It Is noted that she did not claim to have taken or com municated with Mrs. Beattie herself, but sent a friend to interview her. Governor Mann himself is too en grossed In- the present to be worry ing about spiritualism, but he does not deny the facts as they have been presented here. On the contrary, he substantiates the .whole story. There have been rumors of late that Detective -Burns depends for his success almost entirely on his ability t communicate with the dead. H-e has not denied or affirmed this, if Indeed, It has been brought to his attention. The Beattie case is al most the first in which a spiritualist ha given advance Information that later proved to be accurate. Did she guess or did she know? WHISKEY CAUSES A IULLING. Well-Known West Virginia Physician Shot by Feudist Son. Dr. Edwin 0. Thornhill, aged 35. a well-known physician and business man of the southern section of West Virginia, was shot and killed Mon day by Willie Hatfield, son of the noted feudist, "Devil Anse" Hatfield, i a drug store at Mullens. The phy sician was attending an injured per son when the shooting took 1,lace. Hatfield, it is said, asked Dr. Tornhill to issue a prescription for a pint of whiskey. The doctor re fused and when Hatfield used abusive language the physician slapped him. Hatfield, It Is alleged, Immediately drew a revolver and fired two bul lets into Dr. Thornhill's body. Step ping closer, Hatfield again fired two more shots, each taking effect In the 1ead of the prostrate man. Hatfield ran from the drug store, but was captured within a few min tes by persons who had witnessed the shooting. Fearing lynching Hat eld pleaded with the officers to pro ect him, and he was taken to Pine vIlle, the county seat, where deputy sheriffs are guarding the frail prison. There it b. good deal of truth in the assertion that egotism and false benevolence marks those men who bave made millions of mnoney out f the people and then given back in 2harity or education what is a mere Eraction of their wealth on condition :hat their names are peirpetuated in :he institutions helped. Considering :he way much of the wealth has been :nade their action suggests the old panish proverb, "Steal the liig in sods name i.nd given the trotters to :he poor." Blizzard Kills Many Cattle. With mercury ranging from 15 to 2 degrees below zero, southern and ~astern Colorado, is now experienc ng the most protracted spell of cold veather for many years. Cattle are lying from hunger by the hundreds ecause of deep snows. The man who thinks that New ear is the only time to turn over a 1ew leaf makes a mistake. Such ac :ion is seasonable at any time of the WANTS TO FIGHT GOVEENOR DIEFS THE C mE ( JU.STICE Or, STAT. The Governor Threatens to Call Out1' the Militia to Carry Out His Or ders. A dispatch from Oklahoma City, Okla., says Governor Lee Cruce Fri- I day defied the Supreme Court of Ok- 1 lahoma, threatened to call out the mi- t litia, of which he pointed out he is I Commander-in-Chief, and sardonical- 1 ly told the high tribunal of his State, ( if it wanted to measure swords with a him, "it had better send a force right away." The muddle arose through the re- i moval of the county seat of Delaware E County from Grove to Jay. The rec- i ords were started from Grove Tues day, but instead of reaching the old I town site of Jay, designated in the < Governor's . proclamation, were I stopped at a recently established ad- I dition to the town, known as New i Jay. Thursday when it was reported i armed men were on guard at New Jay to prevent the further removal I of the books and papers, Governor I Cruce ordered a company of State 1 militia at Tulsa under armfs, and in- 1 structed the Adjutant General to , proceed to the scene of the conflict. t After the arrival of the Adjutant i General it was stated that no further i effort would be made to impede the I removal of the records, but Friday citizens of New Jay applied to Chief I Justice Turner for a restraining or- I der, and it was granted. The Governor-was informed of the Court's action, and in a telegram to the Adjutant General said: "As 1 Comamnder-in-Chief of the Okla homa militia, and as Governor of the State, I direct you to proceed with the enforcement of my proclamation 1 and order, as delivered to you Thurs- 1 day. Whatever ferce is necessary for you to employ to enforce the or der will be called for by you." Calling the Chief Justice on the telephone a short time later, the Gov ernor is reported to have said: "If the Supreme Court means to have its order enforced, it had better send a force right away." In the meantime, however, Adjt. Gen. Canton had removed the rec ords to Old Jay, where a fresh start was made in the governmental ma chinery of the county. WORST SINCE SHERMAN. A Big Blaze Sweeps Columbia Whole sale District. The worst fire since Sherman burned Columbia was experienced there Friday morning when -flames destroyed practically an entire block in the wholesale district and inflicted a loss estimated at not over $250, (00. For a time the whole section was threatened. For over three hours the firemen made desperate efforts to check the raging flames, but this was not accomplished until the greater part of the buildings in the block had been consumed. A steady wind from the west, blowing low on the ground, sent the flames and sparks in every direction] and for a time overcame the des -perate attempts the fire fighters werei making to confine the conflagration.i The steady gale from the west car ried the sparks in every direction and many tenant hcuses and sta-bles, as well as warehouses and lesser buildings, in the rear of the whole sale district, were ignited and some of t-hem were burned. The fire originated in the base ment of the Gibbes Machinery Corn pany, just under the office room, and had gained considerable headway when discovered, in the main build ing of the Gibbes Machinery Com pany, which was two stories in height and faced on West Gervais street. Just in the rear was 1o cnted a large warehouse, where the automobiles were housed. This was soon consumed and nineteen auto. n-obiles were lost in the fire, four onldy being saved. Several other buildings were eburned. AFTER~ HUB AGAIN. Indilcted for Allowing Himself to Be Bribed is the Charge. H. H. Evans of Newberry, former, chairman of the State dispensaryt oard of control, was indicted at I Columbia in the Richland county court Friday on the charge of ac cepting rebates and for conspiracy to receive rebates. A true 'bill was returned and the case is expected to come up for trial in the near future. It is hardly probable that the case will be called at the present term of the Richland court of geneal ses-I sions, as the "lJabel" case is to be tried. In the indictment it chargest that H. H. Evans received $50 from M. A. Goodman as a rebate, and that he conspired, with Goodman to re ceive rebates. MEANEST KIND) OF TRIEVES. Robs Man of Money They Demandedt Pfor Stolen Rings. George W. Culver, of Ogden, U~Tah, now has an opportunity to offer a reward for a reward. Culver and his wife were -held up two weeks ago in ~ their home, and $5,000 worth of dia monds and jewelry-taken from them. Culver at once inserted advertise ments in local papers, offering a re-f wrd of $300 for the return of the J purse. A reply was received and a Culver answered with a second ad- i vertisement. By t.elephone an agree- c ment was made whereby Culver wase to meet the man who answered the r first advertise'ment, give him $300 11 and receive his diamonds. -Culver t passed a 1deserted building near the r designated meeting place and as he t lid so a window was raised and Cul- s ver looked into the muzzle of a car bine in the hands of a masked man. wo others relieved him of the $300 reward and presented him with a v small package containing some 'ball k bearings for an automobile. r IKilled in School House. b A large number of children and y heir teachers v~ere killed and maimed by the collapse of the build-I ng of a private school at Seville, a Spin, Friday.il CHARGE IS DEND FFIMIALS EXONERATUID IN LON NIM HAL14 CASE. 'he Court of Enquiry Finds that He Was a Bad Prisoner and Had to be Punished. The board of directors of the Pen tentiary, after investigating the al eged mistreatment of Lonnie Hall, he white prisoner whom Governor Ilease some time ago paroled, and at vhich time charges of ill-treatment f Hall -by the Penitentiary officials vere made, issued the following tatement Friday night: "After reading an account of the lleged mistreatment of Lonnie Hall, erving sentence for 'manslaughter, rhich was published in the newspa iers some time ago, the board of di ectors of the penitentiary, at a re ent meeting, investigated the same. Each and every officer and guard that iad any connection with the case vas duly sworn and their evidence s now a matter of record at the pen tentlary. "From evidence obtained, the >oard of directors .feel satisfied that he said Lonnie Hali brought all of he trouble on himself. He came to he penitentiary with a bad record Lnd his conduct while in prison fully onfirmed that record. He was re arded as an obstreperous and dan erous prisoner and had frequently iven the officers trouble. "In regard to this particular case, he board found from the evidence hat the said Lonnie.Hal was the ag ressor and that the officers acted olely on the defensive and with a reat deal of forbearance. To main ain discipline in the prison it is ab ;olutely necessary to infiict' punish nent. "After careful consideration, the >oard of directors are of the opinior3 ;hat the punishment inflicted on the ;aid Lonnie Hall was not cruel oz inmerciful; on the contrary, they lo not regard it is commensurate fox :he offence committed." *M. W. Thrailkill, the Saluda Coun ;y man sent to the penitentiary foi nanslaughter, and whom Governor lease paroled, wrote a letter to the >rother of L6anie Hall, in Chester, giving an account of the alleged mis. ;reatinent o'f Lonnie Hall. The mat. ;er was taken up to Governor Blease with the final result that Lonnie Hal) vas paroled. I. I FINDS A SMALL FORTUNE. Whale Coughs Up Mass of Staff Thai is Valuable. William H. White, of No. 28 Chap I street, Brookly, N. Y., considerE .hat he has the best New Year's pres nt in the world. White is the mar rho, while walking along Nantaskei 3each Christmas Day, came across a arge chunk of some foreign sub. tance which he took home. suspect* ng he had something valuable. Breaking off a piece of the strange nass he carried it to Cily Chemisi 3harles S. Bolling for analysis. Mr. B~olling subjected the matter to a iumber of careful tests, and finally iscovered that It yielded all the roperties of amabergris, that precious natter that Is used in cologne mak nxg. The standard rate for ambergris s $60 an ounce; so the mass White ound is worth $19,200. "Nothing takes the place of amber. ris in the finer gi ades of perfum ~ry,"~ said Bolling. "The matter was ~oughed up by a sick whale, and be ~ause of its scarcity it is very valu ble."' JONVICTIED OF MANSLAUGHTER. 3.W. Long Found Guilty for Killing Luther P. Mnlnx. A dispatch from Greenwood says tfter being out practically all night he jury in the G. W. Long case greed upon a verdict of manstaugh er. The verdict was reached at :30 Friday morning. Attorney for he defense will make a motion for .new trial as soon as it can be reard by the court. The case has >een closely followed for two days, he court room having been .packed >oth days. Long was tried for the hooting of Luther P. Mullinax In he town of Troy, this county, about bree months ago. At the time Long as 'acting as special deputy for~ the own of Troy. Self-defense was the lea urged by the defense. HERO FALLS AT HIS POST. 'oted Baptist Missionary Passes Away in China A telegram received at Greenville ~riday announced the death of Dr. C. B. Hart at Hwanghien, China, anuary 3. Dr. Hart was one of he most noted Baptist missionaries f the country on the foreign field. e was born at Darlington and grad ated at Furman Taniversity in 1857. he following year he left Green ille for China, and for over a half entury labored among the heathen. le was a member of the T'irst Bap ist church of Greenville from the ay he came to Greenville until his .eath. SECOND VI~fIM SUCCUMBS. oth .James and Bellinger Folk Die From Inhaling Fumes. After lingering at the Riverside In trmary in Charleston for three days, ames Folk died Friday afternoon .s the result of inhaling illuminat aig gas at the Pavillion Hotel Tues .ay night. Belling~er Folk, his broth r, died from the gas Thursday after oon. Some slight hope had been eld out for the recovery of James, ut the young man had received the oson of the gas throughout his en ire system and it was impossible to ave him. Caught in Belt and Kjlled. At Brunswick, CGr., Irving Cowman, 'hite, a mechanic. was instantly illed when heo was caught in a big ioving belt in a manufacturing lant. One arm was torn from his ody and his neck was broken. He -as a member of' a well to do family. One strong man who dar'ed to do 11 that he should do. might en gaten nd liberate the South. DOUBLE MJRDE Shockiug Crime e lh East SideSee tim of Newark City VICTIS OF FOUL PLAY An Aged Man and His Aged Wife Fearfully Mutilated.In Their Home by Fiends Who Have Well Covered Up Their Tracks and Their Ide. tity. A case of double murder found In an East Side house in New York Sunday is one of the most shockIng in details of any since the Guiden suppe dismemberment and the "Jack the-Ripper" series of crimes. Isaac Futterman, 80 years, and his wife, Rachael, 72 years old, were found dead in their room, their bodies ter ribly mutilated. The police believed the aged cou ple was practically tortured to death and In the absence of any wellbes tablished motive for such a trime think the Futtermans were victims of a religious maniac. Futterman was a retired manufac turer, who had accumulated a small fortune, but always had refused ,to leave the East Side neighborhood where he settled when he came from Russia many years ago. He was a zealous hurch worker and aided in founding the .synagogue in his dis trict, which he and his wife attend ed. The couple lived alone. Their three children dwelt in other parts of the city. One cf these Aaron Futter man, - superintendent of a brass fac tory, discovered the crime on his weekly visit to his 'parents. The father's body lay on a sofa, and the mother's on a bed. Each was only partially dressed. There were deep gashes across both faces and bodies and the eyes of both were ter ribly mutilated, one of the man's being torn out from its socket . The man's abdomen was terribly slashed, and there 'were cirts runtfug lengthwise from head to foot. - 'rhe nature of the mutilation lea the po lice to believe that it had been be gun while the Futtermans were alive and that death had been actually caused by .blows over the head, which fractured both skulls. The bodies bore finger prints, which the police experts took photo graphs of. A small neck bag, in which Mrs. Futterman Is said to have carried money and jewelry, could not be found. The police, however, scout robbery as the motive for the crime. Aaron Futterman said he did not know that his father had an enemy. His father kept practically all his money In a baik. -'The police believe that he murder occurred several days ago, as decomposition ihad set It. Neighbors do not remember 'baving seen the aged couple since January 3. FOUR FATALELY HURT. Cincinnati Street Car Drops 515 Feet From. Bridge. Four persons'were fatally injured, while another was seriously hurt at Cincinnati Friday night, when a Scuth Belt Avenune car jumped from the central bridge, which connects that city with Newport, Ky. The car landed .on Front street, after turning a somersault in its drop of fifty-five feet to .the pavement below. The fatally. injured are: Harry Wesslyinug,. Newport, Ky., conductor en the car; Benton Schrnoll, secretary of the Central Bridge Company, N!ew port,- Ky.; Edward Hahfel, Cincin nati; Harry Finnan, Covington, Ky., motorman on the car, and Samuel Hollowell, Newport, K~y., the only other passenger. The car left the track after cross ing the Ohio River,. with a sharp curve in the bridge. It was making its first trip of the night from the barns in -Newport, which accounts for the small number of passengers aboard. THE FROZEN. UP WEST. Having the Coldest Weathe for Years in That -Section. Cold weather records for the year, and in many instances for marny years, were broken today, or -will be broken by the succeeding twenty four hours, in the territory wr,.hin a one-thousand-mile radi~us of the Great Lakes, according to the- pre dictior. made by the Chicago weather bureau on Friday. West as far as the Rocky' Mountains and north into Canada, low temperatures f.or Satur cay, it was predicted, would lbe for g(.tten in'the bitter blasts of the next twenty-four hours. Canah's low figure-42 below zero-was expect ed to be lowered several degrees. In States northwest of ChicagG, where Duluth reported- 35 below, Lacrosse registered 25 below and Eau Claire,. Wis., 28 below, a shrinkage of the mercury to figure like 40, 30 and 22 degrees below, respectively, was pro dicted. WOMEN PERISH IN FLAMES. Trapped in Servants' Quarters of 'Burning Hotel. The Transit House at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago was burned Friday night. ~'The flames started while the hotel, which is a gathering place for stockmen from all parts of the country, was crowded with guests, It is reported a number of girls in the servants' quarters on the top of tre burning buil'ding were trapped. Firemen rescued some of the women, but were said. to have been driven back by the flames be fore all had ben carried to safety. Duluth Coldest Place. 'Street thermometers at Duluth Friday morning showed 33 to 35 .be lo zero. A slow north wina Is blow ing. Duluth Is skid to be the cold est place in the United States. Made a Good Fortune. IAt Champaign, Ill., George W. Smith, born a negro slave in Tennes see seventyfive years ago, left proper t~y worth $116,000, according to his wil mie'! for probate.