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onE VOL. XX-.VI MNIG, S. C., WED-NESDAY. FEBRIUARY 8' 92~8 IVIIAI FI-~lER 0lID1 HIS WORK REVIEWE] BY RON J. 3, BRICE OF IORK. SAVED MONEY FR STATE He Was the One Man Who Could Have Secured the Evidence Which Damned the Od Stae Dispensary and Who Did Secure It and Earned His Pay. The Hon. J. S. Bri-e writes the following to the Yorkvm e Enquirer: If there was one liquor house that swindled South Carolina out of more money than any other during the reign of the State dispensary, it was the Rich-Mond Distilling Company. and at the same time the Ansel com mission was removed by * * * the present Governor, this same Felder you speak of had a suit pending against them for five hundred thou sand dollars, and they had offered to compromise this suit for one hun dred thousand dollars in cash. Also it was the intention of the commis sion to require any dispensary official who h~ad taken money from the State to restore the same. Now as a citizen of South Carolina, who loves his State and who has served his State without asking for any reward for his services, and knowing the criminal trials of the dispensary ofEcials were mere politi cal battles, had I remained on the commission I should have certainly attempted to have had these parties make restitution, regardless of whether they were ever tried in the Criminal Courts or not. From the establishment of the State dispensary system in July. until its abolition in February, 1907, a period of nearly fourteen years. there were charges of rebate andI graft made on the hustings, in the I newspapers and on the floor of the House and Senate in Columbia, but these charges were always met with scorn and derision. and even the hon est yeomanry of South Carolina at tributed them to political prejudices. The State of South Carolina spent thousands of dollars through a com mittee appointed on motion of Cole L. Blease investigating the State dis-1 pensary. and while Lyon and Christ-, ensen of that committee did faith ful work. they only succeeded in stir ring up some black slime on the sur face of the reeking and rotten dispen sary caldron, and the State dispensary advocates, your friend Blease among't them, on the floor of the Senate dared v and defied them to go into the Crim- 1 inal Courts on any of the evidence t they produced. It is true. after they made their report, every honest man in the State believed the system was rotten, and acting on this belief the Legislature abolished the system, but everybody in South Carolina believed it was im possible to ever prove in any Criminal Court that any one connected with 1 the system was guilty of fraud and1 of larceny. But in 1907, when Thos. B. Felder appeared on the scene of action and stripped himself and went down into the black and seething dis- t pensary pit, he came back with his hands full of positive, indisputable wvritten evidence of the'guilt of the dispensary officials and of liquor houses. Felder and Felder alone produced the evidence that satisfied everybody. friend and foe, of the dispensary sys tem that stealing, and good stealing. had been going on to such an extent I that it was reduced to a system. Tom< Felder is 'no saint and he is no pro-c hibitionist. Hie is one of the attor-( neys for the Liquor Dealers' Associa-: tion now, the was not at the time he was employed by the commission),t but he is the man who furnished the 1 evidence that forever damned the State dispensary system. and the peo pIe of South Carolina owe him a debt of gratitude for his work. I know of no lawyer in the State of South Carolina, and I know some thing about the Bar of this State. who had the legal and detective abil ity combined to do the work Felder did, and I assert there is not a lawyer in this State could have done it. So if by Felder's "rake off'' you mean the fees of the State commission paid him under a written contract, I as sert he didn't cost the State a dollar. and through his efforts money was put in the State treasury and his fees and that money put in the State treasury was money which would oth e'wise have gone into the till of corruot liquor houses that had been swindling the State for years. and that Thos. B. Felder fairly won and richly deserved every cent he got. I know he has incurred the ever lasting ill will of those against whom he presented evidence. I know Blease's dispensary commission spent; a year trying to get him in jail. I know nothing about the man except his work as attorney for the wind ing-up commission, and I would be! unrue to myself if I did not stand up and say he did his work for South Carolina wisely and well. faithfully and eficiently, and earned every dol lar be received. While I have not the report before me today, when the win:ling-up corn mission sold the liquor and supplies on hand. the liquor houses proved debts against the State to the amount. of about S-O0.fI0', and there was not enough money on hands to pay the costs of the administration -and the lquor h'ouse debts, and when Felder apteared wi' ahis evidence and show ed by "'m'een and indisputable evi eneilottheState did not owe em ii us aoun~ft, the liqu.or Ccu:: i ra *o get their $~ 0,0i0. Ad :. t er.I must say that I hav avs been surprised at the la.g numbr of our citizens. manyj VWATSON BEFORE SENAT BILL IS AMENDED BECAUSE OF STATEMENT MADE. Governor Would Veto the Measure If Passed With the Commissioner's Name in It. The State says Senator Summers at the meeting Wednesday night moved to call from the engrossing department the bill that will place the election of the office of the com missioner of agriculture, commerce and immigration in the primary in order to amend the title. This was carried. Senator Appelt offered an amend ment to strike out the provision that hall require the governor to hold iu affice the present commissioner un il his successor has qualified. On the presentation of this motion enator Summers said that he hal onsulted a number of persons and :hey all seemed to be in favor of the neasure. At this point Mr. Appelt said that ie also had seen some persons and :hey did not think that the proviso should remain in the bill. Mr. Summers then made a motion :o lay the Appelt amendment on the :able. On vote this was lost, 15 for ,nd 16 against. Senator Clifton said that he is no roponent of the present governor, Mut he understood that Mr. Blease vould veto the bill if it passed in ts present for-m or unless the proviso vas modified. Mr. Clifton introduced Ln amendment to strike out the word 'present." Senator W. L. Mauldin moved that :he consideration of the bill be >assed over till Friday. Senator M1ontgomery was of the )pinion that the bill should be con dered and that the vote be taken nce for all. He said that he did not hink that the bill could be passed .ver the governor's veto. Senator Lyon opposed postpone nent on account of the time. Senator Montgomery withdrew his noion for reconsideration and the uestion came up on the adoption of enator Appelt's amendment. "I have been asked the question s to whether or not the bill will be -etoed and I have replied that the overnor has assured me that he will -eto the bill if the proviso relating o the retention of the present con nissioner in office is not killed. Also. hat he would retain Mr. Watson in fice unless there was some miscon tuct." Senator Appelt, replying to a ques ion from Senator Wharton said that! he governor did not say that he ould retain Mr. Watson until Jan ary 1. 1913, but that he would re ain Mr. Watson in office except for aisconduct, as previously stated. Senator Appelt believed the gov rnor should hold a club over the eads of the senators. Again questioned by Mr. Weston. enator Appelt said that if the pro iso was killed he would not remove Tr. Watson and if Gov. Blease went ack on that statement, he (Appelt) ould stump the .State at his own *xpense to defeat Blenase for gov rnor. There was considerable debate fur her, and it was finally decided to mass the Appelt amendment. and it ras finally ordered to the house. SEUEN KNOWN TO BIE DEAD. lany Other Imprisoned Miners May Not Be Found Alive. Seven miners are known to have en killed and the fate of a. score r more. imprisoned in Mine No. 5. f the Western Coal and Mining Iompany, at Lehigh. Pa., which is fire, is doubtful. Up to midnight everal bodies had been brought to he surface and half a dozen mer. Lad been rescued alive. The mine, which is located sev ral miles from Lehigh. was discov red afire shortly before noon Thurs Lay. At that time 100 men were at ork in the mine. The greatest num ir were near the mouth of the mine' :nd escaped, but others in the lower vorings were entombed. The fire was suffleiently subdued ay Thursday night to permit res ue parties to enter the mine. A egro was the first man found alive. n the same recess was foundl the lead bodies of three men. One or he number was an American. th I :thers foreigners. On the second rip of exploration the rescue party ought out several whom contac! vith the air revived.* >f them good. honest men. loyal cit 7ens. but so blinded by their love tor :he State dispensary system that they 1most pra'yed that the United States ourt would acquire jurisdictioen and: wind up the affairs of the State dis pensay. Of course, if the Supreme ourt of the United States had sus rained the judgment of the United tates Circuit Court andl of the Unit d State Court of Appeals, then Fel der would not have received a cent. and all the time and all the money and all the services he had spent would have gone for naught. And it has been conservatively esti mated that the costs of the admin istration in the United States Cour:, and which the State of South Caro lina would have pail, attorneys' fees and all. under these circumstances. would have been over $200.000. Now whie you, possibly, like Teddy. Rtoo sevelt, would have been d-e-1-i-z-h-t e-d when the United States Court called on them to pay a dispensary deeiency of from two to three hun dred thousand dollars. A Thrifty Bank Porter. A warrant has bern sworn out by the Mrchants and Farmers ltank of a ney, for a negzro porter. who hais stolen $i.26~ from the hank. IT'e SiL M i fIii THE K EUM E R[A T iET READY FR ITHE ANPAliN WItt RE T llEL iATE Governor Bl3ease an Avowed Harmon Advocate, and There Will Probably be a Clash Between the Wilson and Harmon Fcrees for Instruction of t the Delegates. h p The Democrats of the State will 11 hold their Convention on May 21, at which time the fo-ur delegates at a large and the di;trict delegates. four- tj tcen in number, will be chosen to the n National Democratic Convention, h which will be held in Baltimore. d While it is still probably too early to i. predict what the Convention will do. c: still some of the more important ac- a tions can be forecasted with cempar ative certainty, and these will be stat- h ed, says the Columbia correspondent a of The News and Courier. . tl For one thing, tnere will be a new t chairman of the Democratic State - executive committee, for Gen. Wilie f< Jones, who for the past twenty years tl has held this position, has announced j( that he will retire and not accept an- ti other term. Gen. Jones has piloted the party in the State through many o elections, from the early days of Till- t roanism until the present, and he has h long been a conspicuous and leading B figure in the councils of the party. It ti has been customary to elect him as r1 one of the delegates at large to the! t National Convention-one of the el "Big Four"-and he has assisted in m nominating several of the leaders of tI the party in the national contests. fil There will likely be several candi- pi dates to succeed to this position, al- . though no strong one has developed e so far. at There will undoubtedly be a fight li in the Convention between the rt friends of Governor Woodrow Wil- gi son, of New Jersey, and Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio, for the con- sc trol of the delegation to the National rE Convention. From public utterances pt and endorsen:ents by various local Of organizations throughout the State it in appears that Wilson is the favorite b< candidate of the majority of the pt South Carolina Democracy at present. le and those whose judgment on politi- to cal sentiment is competent say tnat of Wilson will get an instructed delega tion from this State. As an example pc of the.sentiment for the New Jersey ca Governor, one of the Democratic ward le meetings in Columbia recently en- T] dorsed his candidacy. At present he m undoubtedly has the best chance of th wnning this State's delegation. co Dut Governor Ulease has declared w. for Governor Harmon as the candi date for the Democratic nominatIon E for President, and will no doubt load a fight in the State Convention for a Harmon 4ielegation. 'It is believed that the delegation will more than likely go uninstructed, but will prob aly favor Governor Wiisonl, unless a Governor Please and his friends can et control the Convention, in which case of Harmon will get the delegation. This situation adids ui certainty to the g cmplexion of the delegation. h There may he some show of og strength in the Convention for R~ep- n resetative Underwood, of Alabam.. ei the chairman of the ways and means w eenuittee, for not very long ago r' Senator Bankheadl of that State, vis- I: itd Columbia and looked over thte: tield. it has beenu suggested that in et case cof a dead lock in the State Coa- hi vent ion over a possible struggle be- hi twen the friends of Harmon and pi Wilson that Un'ierwood will be tak-1 a: en as a comlpromise choice, but th'is is hardly probable. Underwood senti mentntlr mv so grow beotween now and the date for the meeting of the State G Convention that he wvill be a fact or is that time. An interesting story was sent out from Washington tihe other day re-1 grigtis very. point, the story. stating that the Underv~;ood bao'rers t wee. going to use the weekly pros rtheir camallr~n to build up senti ment for their ntan. No evidence of tis ha:s yect appeared in thts State peaker Champ Clark. while he is admired by the Democracy of the Pa! :'a.tto State, is out of theo running as fr as South Carolina is concerned. Th genial""' in po uar Miissourian '.'I "ot at preen ou l-:, be a fac-' i .o n " t:te Contvention. ho will. be the four delegates at large For~erl itwa tihe cut~om, to' send' the tvonie States Sena :r, te chuir can' th at De erratic'em-mie""mmito nd r~oerxo ' the "V"Four, but i rea' 'S that.... ' thi cn'b countedi come to " the Governor dteSaei -.hil s'rfriC."'"- wi eqully as !!~ s~reuomy v~rk or him-. As tos: c"c.s: or 'o the '-1:a! chairman r wi be o:: o' !!-'? ".g Four" will ."ndlrg. on w~'~ho is. it !eps on ombe theConr.aiona * 'r-i: - o" An'ti-i;Ic-ae as to v~o il gtbE tE eightee-n de'legaltes I the N\'tionlal Con-;enition and who Icomp'ose theC "B Four." No o - v~ih 'actio is int control nator T ia wi: heone of th-e tlrge, but the other I. C' in '''n Piture Show. In n e. oon oi a i int~h a NOTED bC.ROK WAUIiI IREENWOOD OFFICERS NABBE HIM LAST TUESDAY. Is Pal, D. M. Cheeks, Was Also A rested and the Two Noted Crool Are Now Safely Behind the Bar Covered with four pistols and su ounded by as many oflicers in t] ouse of a Mr. Ward, at Grendel mi Zo. 1, at Greenwood, early Tuesd, aorning, W. Britt Stanley, who .an ted for several safe robberie wo murders and on the charge i aving a number of wives, and h al, D. M. Cheeks, were arrested at re now in the county jail. That th.- o.Ticers have one of t orst criminals in the country seen > be a fact as the photograph of t. ian wanted for several crimes fi im exactly. He is wanted in Va osta, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., for bloN ig open two safes; wanted on t: arge of murder in North Carolit nd also in Georgia. There is a r< 'ard of $1,000 or $7.,500 offered fc is capture which will be divide mong the local ofcers who mad ie arrest. For the oast several da 7o detectives have been in Greex 'ood looking for him. They hax >llowed him over several States bi ie Greenwood officers were on ti >b and made the arrest as soon a iey learned that he was here. Tuesday mo'rning shortly after fiv 'clock four men gathered aroun ie breakfast table at one of th uses in the. Grendel Mill villag< y lamplight they had begun eatin eir breakfast when four officer ished in and covered the bunch wit ieir guns. Up went the hands c rery man-the photograph of th an wanted was pulled from one c te officers pockets-he was idont ad from this and hand cuffs wer 'aced on him and his pal. Sheri: cMillan and Chief of Police Whit itered the front door of the hous id Police Sergeant Elledge and Pc eman Still came in the bacic-a: ishing into the dining room at ven signal. Stanley has been in Greenwood fo me days and at the time of his a: st he was working in the mill. Hi 1. M. D. Cheek, seems to be a kin spy for him. He visits the cit which they stop, and as soon a finds that the officers are on hi L's trail he puts him wise and the ave. But this time his "spy" wa o slow, or at least the Greenwoo icers were too fast. In a little note book in Stanley cket was found the following: "I: .se of accident write to L. E. Hat y, Holladay, Tenn., R. F. D. No. 4 ae officers in the places where th an is wanted have been notified o e arrest and they will probabl me to Greenwood for him in a shor hile. ILL HONOR HER GREAT SO onumtent to be Erected at Columbi to Dr-. 3. Marion Sims. The general assembly has passe bill providing for the erection of atute on the State House ground Dr. J. Marion Sims, one of th ost famuous gynecologists and sur ?ons the world has produced. Th 11 froma the senate, passed withou position in the house Wednesda ght, provides for the appropriatio) $5,000 for the s:atue by the Stat hen an equal amount has bee: ised by the South Carolina Medict ssoci at ion.. tr. McDow, Mr. Hines and Mr. Dice :logized the late Dr. Sims in th ghest terms. They declared tha had been an honor to his birth ace, Lancaster county, to his Stat d to the United States. RIS CONSCIENCE RURT HIM. reenville Man Makes Restitution fc Stolen Booze.. An employee of the dispensary i 300 stole one pint of "XX" o KXX'' rye whiskey, and, to ease hi oubled conscience, which hasn't 1e m rest since the deed was commit d he wrote a letter to Governo lease confessing his sin, and er osed a $1 bill as a contribution t e "conscience fund" for the pint guor which he filched from th :a:e. The Governor returned th money to the man, tellin ghim tha ehoped his sin had been forgive: d that he should put the dollar t meC good puraose. The letter can -om Greenville, the man being a ploye of a cotton mill. MUmERED) OLD SINNER. iughs on the Gallows in the Yerx Shadow of Death. Reusing the of'ers of a ministe ho labored with him all night, hi sn son, a Catholic priest, and me:: ers of' the Salvation Army. J1. Lav :nee Odomi, a triple murdere-, wer ,his death at Mobile on the gn ivs early Mionday. On the- gallov. e ondemned man when askedt y his lasr. prayer, answered by rf esting that his :-ycar-old daughtc azel he brougb' to him to remot 1 e back cap from his face. I iuntedl the gallows unconernedl ud laughingly askced to see his wifi dm was convicted of killin harles Golandl. Joseph Stakes an uvid Gartmanl, the latter a 16-yea: Id by. Ey Strict Parry Vote. Supported by every Demnocrat e H ouse. but opposed by the i ,rgent and regular Rlepublicans, tI ou~e Wedneisday Passedl the Undle *ood el'mie:.i tari l'ill byh a voi 178 to 127. The insurgents o1 cme ;Ti ieasure on the groun cat it. was a revision upward instea M MINAL POT WILL SOON BECiN TO BOIL AT A VERY RAPID RATE rEOPRE MUST DETERMINE Will Have County to County Canvass as in Former Years-Both Jones and Blease Want to Face the Peo ple-They Must at Last Decide the Issue. The Florence Times says there is a great deal of talk in political circles about Columbia of doing away with the county to county .campaign this year, but that sort of thing is talked every campaign year. It is hard on :he campaigners and not of interest :o the people, but each year it in creases in force. Generally the can didates themselves want the deadly round cut out, but the committees are afraid of the people and so it goes on. In this instance the candidates are both anxious for a chance before the People. Mr. Blease has always en oyed the rough and tumble of the stump, and he has been saving up so much thunder for his fght that he would think himself a very badly treated man if the campaign meet ings were cut off, and he is looking aiso, after the scalps of the members of the general assembly who opposed him, and a.fter every other little thing that is of interest to him so that he would be unwilling to give up he opportunity to meet the voters. Judge Jones left the supreme 1 bench to come out before the people nd to meet the man tho, from his 1 ficial pos~n attacked the integrity >f the supreme court, and whom he regards as the wrong man in the t place that he fills. He would not be i illing to forego that pleasure, and ae is a man who glories in the noise nd din of battle. He is a good tump speaker, and will give a good ccount of his stewardship when he reets the people. He is a self-made an and rose to where he is by his 3 wn exertions. He is the man that your long- 1 teaded Uncle Ben Tillman chose as I hief lieutenant on the floor of the ouse because he was an aggressive .s well as an able man and was not o be scared, and ho is clean and ears no successful i tack on his rivate or public recL: . it has been xceptionally clean and good, and e is beloved of the masses, for he s one with them and of them, one ho has risen above the masses only r intellect, power for good in the tate and patriotic spirit. There will probably be candidates n -.ympathy with the governor for 11 of the other offices except that of idutant general, for that and the ~ecretary of states office are the only nes that the governor has not had . quaxrrel with. If R. M. McCown uns for congress as he is likely to Jo, there will be a number of -candi ates for the position of secretary of ate, and one of them may be W. 3nks Dove, who has been assistant ~ecretary of state for a long time. The main fight is going to be for he office of attorney general where he main fight comes in, and even o blind a man as the governor can ee that neither Barney Evans nor 1ub Evans can win, so that there re many stories of better men that tre to he brought out. It is also said hat Senator Earle, the chief lieuten tat of the governor in the senate is ~eing to come out for lieutenant gov ~rnor on the Blease ticket. So the ~olitical gossip runs, but we will have o wait and see. BODY IN A MILL POND. lystrious Death of a Colored Manc at Spartanburg. Suicide, foul play and accidental irowning were theories advanced :hen the body of Henry Lyndler, col ~ed, was fo und Wednesday morning lating on the pond of the cotton ?nill at Chesnee, at Spartanburg. The ~egro was last seen Sunday morning tnd his hat was found Tuesday. A :earch lasting twenty-four hours re utlted in the finding of the body. No ceason can be assigned for suicide. mnd, if so it was, no one knows of 2ny reason the dead negro had. The( 2e is mysterious as the water is not deep enough for a man to acci entaly drown. GRtOOM HU.NG HIMSELF. hile His Dride Was Getttng Ready for the Wedding. While his affianced bride was mak ag ready her joyful anticipation of I ber wedding the Bro oklyn policei ere cutting down t1he body of John denerCschmid t, her fiance, as itf5 fwung from an apple tree in a va- I cant Brooktlyn lot. It is believed that Menerschmidt, after leaving his, ;wee~theat en the eve of their wed lng wet immwediately to the scene Shis sui ide. Miss Anna Speatch, si irde-o-be. vwho is in a danger msiy hysterical condition, can gire1 Ligle Girl s Hilled. The w.;rst v in d and rainstorm Ia the renvilh; vicinity has ex grierd i rs passed! over there * wednesd.. At Travelers' Rest, "'1m Watson, seven years old, was < 'l Ib: a failing tree. Wil FIy .l~cross Ocean. Harry N. Atwoo~s proposed flight afcrss the Atlantic is no longer an an ?rmed plan. lie said in Miay if he wye:: ther condlit ions will permit. ie declanres he expects to cover the CONFEISS AWFUL CRIMEf NEGRO FIEND ASSAULTS YOUING WHITE WOMAN. The Scoundrel Pleads Guilty to the Horrible Crime When He is Ar raigned in. Charleston. The News and Courier says Isaiah Butler, a negro, pleaded guilty to a charge of housebreaking and rape, in a preliminary trial held at the county .ail by Magistrate Towles,- of St. Paul's Township. The case has been referred to the Court of Sessions. This case is one of the most re volting that has been brought before the Courts of South Carolina. But ler's victim is a young white woman, who has been married several years and has a family of small children. About the 12th of this month the usband had to leave his wife and :hildren at their home, on the island knour. as Little Britton, while he went away for several days to attend o some !usiness matters. The negro, who, it -s alleged, has 7ade several attempts at rape be rore,. must have learned that the oung woman was unprotected. Ac ording to the story, late in the night e forced his way into the house. During the course of a struggle with :he lady, the man, enraged by the ries of her baby, reached out and aught the infant by the-throat and trangled it into unconsciousness. Leaving the woman unconscious, he negro made his escape, but when ie first came into the room the wo nan noticed that he was a cripple, aving one leg longer than the oth r, and by this clue he was traced to 1is hiding place. When the authori les caught him, they feared the peo e would try to lynch him, so they rought him quietly to Charleston md lodged him in the county jail. It is alleged that a number of at empts of rape have been made on the sland of Little Britton. Though ev ry effort had been made to catch the ulprit, all attempts have been unsuc essful. It is thought by a number 'f people that the man Butler is the ne who has been causing all the arm on the island. Butler is a oung negro, about 19 or 20 years f age, and beyond the fact of his ameness, is perfectly strong and .ealthy. EIGHT PEOPLE WERE KILLED. ornado Plays Havoc at Shreveport, Louisiana. Eight persons are dead and about 0 injured as the result of a tornado hich swept through the western sit urb of Shreveport, La., Wednesday. ll the dead are negroes, with the xception of the two-months-old baby f A. J. Manheim, whose home was emolished. The baby's body was ound a block from the Manheim res lence. A number of negro cabins ere destroyed on the outskirts of h city and on the nearby planta cns. The tornado approached hrveport from the .southwest, weeping a path through twc negro uarters and crossing Red river, truck two plantations where negro abins, barns and outhouses were de troyed. In the city proper no dam go was done. REMMBERED THE ORPHANS. homas 1. Harper Gave These Or phanages a Lift. The Columbia Record says that he will of the late Mr. Thomas J. arper, farmer, former alderman and itizen, who died Sunday, February 1, was probated Tuesday morning. haritable benefactions h::ve a con uicuous place in the provisions of he will. To the First Baptist church which Rev. W. C. Lindsay is pas or emeritus, the sum of $2,500 was equeathed to nay existing indebted ess. The three leading orphanages the State are remembered in the ill-Connie Maxwell orphanar at lreenwood, Thornwell orphan .ge at flinton and Epworth orphanage of ~olumbia-are to receive a share of h proceeds from the sale of prop rties by the executirs, as set forth in he will. SEES TRAIN CRUSH FOOT. sot Caught in the Switch Frog and Mashed by Engine. At Morganton, N. C., Claude Click *f Asheville. a brakeman on the 10 -al eastbound freight train, with his' oot accidentally locked in a switch rog and realizing escape impossible, el to tho sidc and braced himself o prevent his body being drawn be imath the train, and calmly watched he train pass over his foot, crush ng it to a pulr'. Several people saw ie accident, but could offer no as istace. HeI was taken to Asheville t oncc. Fortunately, a few days ago, e ook out an accident policy for 1,000. Augsusta Makes a Mistake. The fight for and against commis ion government, in Augusta Wed ~esday, resulted in defeat of the iroposed new charter by 51 votes. rour wards of the six voted a ma ority n~,r the proposed charter, but be majority of the other two wards lefeat it. In those two wards the ~penly termed "professional ward 'eeler"' element has its stronghold. Tied to Fool Them. At Louisville in the hope of join ng her soldier sweetheart in Peking, girl clad in male attire, applied i he reruiting office for enlist met She broke down when or ered to submit to a physical ex iminaion. admitted her sex and re :mo in give her name. MU I I lAMAi HUNE TUESDAY ENVENING'S CYCLONE TOOK BIG TOLL SIXTY PEOPLE KILLED Great Damage Done Shipping. and Other Property in Its Track Many Homes Destroyed In Differ ent Parts of the Country and 3any Cattle Killed by Trees. A total of twenty persons were killed and at least three score In jured, many of them seriously, in the cyclonic storm which swept through a strip of northern Louisiana and ;:ssissippi Tuesday evening. The :roperty damage, according to the :rcomplete reports received here, will perhaps total $500,000. The fatali ties, except in three instances, are ccnfined to negroes. One white child was killed at Shreveport, Mrs. Crow, an aged white woman, was killed at Homer, La., and a white man named Timmon was killed near Ringgold, La. A dispatch from Meridian, Miss., says a destructive windstorm swept over this district Tuesday night, de stroying thousands of dollars' worth of property, killing many head of cattle and demolishing homes In the surrounding country. - Rev. W. T. Carroll was seriously injured when his home at Klondyke, ten miles north of Meridian, was de. stroyed. A tlozen other residences at that place were blown down and a number of mules and cows were killed. At Baily six negro houses and four barns were destroyed. At Antioch, a church was scattered in every di rection and two houses blown down. The tore and home of D. J. Stin son, :- miles north of Meridian, were destroyed. At Bodgett the new mill of the - Sumter Lumber Company was un roofed, blown down, several negro houses wrecked anu' trees uprooted. The high winds, starting their vio lent activities with a disastrous vis itation to Shreveport, La., Tuesday, Wednesday contnued their sweep ov er the Southwest and come on to the Atlantic, demoralizing telegraphie service in nearly all sections of the country. The climax of their velocity en the Atlantic coast was reached at Pensacola, Fla., where the gale at tained a 60-mile an hour gait. At Austin and San Antonio, Texas, con siderable damage was reported, while the entire State of Texas felt the force of the winds. A terrific wind and hail storm swept over the little town of Stamps, Ark., Tuesday night, demolishing several houses and killing cattle. No loss of life has .been reported. The storm was followed by a, light snow fall. The Piedmont says two dead, one fatally injured, giant trees uprooted arid strewn through the forest, fences and small houses blown from their fastenings is the concrete results of the storm, which raged Wednesday at Travelers' Rest, in Greenville County. Citizens from Travelers' Rest who were in the city Thursday morning reported that the worst storm in years struck Travelers' Rest Wednes cay reaching the height of its vio lence Wednesday afternoon when the wind blew a veritable hurricane. According to the gentleman from Travelers' Rest large trees stood no show with the wind and today the forests are filled with trees scattered here and there. Numbers of fences and small outhouses were blown com pletely over. 'Mr. Lewis Dundan and little Ruth~ Watson, the 8-year'-old daughter of Mr. Jesse L. Watson, are dead as a iesult of injuries received when Mr. Dishop ,whos'e given name could not bc ascertained has both legs broken from which he later died. THE COTTON WAREHOUSE BILL. The Governor Does Not Like It But. Lets It Pass. A special message from Governo? Elease on the act to establish a State system of warehouses for the storage of cotton was among the first mat ters to come up in the session of the general assembly Wednesday night. The special message was not a veto message, however, but a message stating that after careful considera tion of the measure the governor had decided to approve the act. The governor expressed doubt as to the constitutionality of the act, but said that in view of the decided majority of the members of the general as sembly who favored the bill, he had decided to waive his views and ap prove the act. Thinks Clark a Winner. Representative Ellerbe, of South Carolina, who is one of the most. n thusiastiC supporters of the Champ Clark Presidential boom in Washing ton, expresses the opinion that the Speaker is certain to get the nomina t:oni. Shoots Woman and Self. At New York Mrs. Rose Silverman was shot and mortally wounded Wed nesday afternoon by m; mn believed to be Jhnjamin Frieu, an unwelcome dmirer, who afterwards turned nls weapon upon himself inflicting two wounds in his abdomen-which proa .l~y will cause death. May Enter Race. Former Senator John L. McLaurin is quoted as threatening to enter the race for governor in the event that Goy. Blease vetoes the cotton ware t TE IT STOPPED :D D)YNAM1TE MEN CALLED OFF BY A CONVENTION. .r- Gathering of Union Labor Men at ks Rochester Ordcred That No More 's. Bridges Be Blown Up. r- That the dynamiting plots were ie brought to the attention of certain committees at the International As 'v s sociation of Bridge and Structural s, Ir-on Workers' Convention in Roches f ter, N. Y., in 1910, came to light is Monday as one of the government's charges against the 54 indicted men e at Indianapolis. is It is charged by federal authorities e that a resolution deminding that "no ts more bombs or explosives of any 1- kind be exploded while this conven . tion is in session" was written out in te regular form by a delegate at the convention, was secretly referred to a committee and without the action on r it becoming known was later found d by the government among the papers e taken from the iron workers' head s quarters in Indianapolis. _ The charge is that a delegate at the 'e convention, known to the govern it ment, demanded that the explosions e temporarily be stopped at a time Ls when many steel and iron structures under erection by "open shop" con e tractors were being blown up. Ad d dressing President Frank M. Ryan, e H. S. Hockin, vice president, and members of the executive board, had the subject brought to their atten -s tion. h What was the real motive of the f delegate in offering the resolution e was not divulged, but it is pointed df out that J. J. McNamara, the convict - ed dynamiter, and Orie E. Mc'. .ni e gal were on their way from Indian M apolis to Rochester, when, according e to McManigal's confession, McNa e mara decided to leave at Cleveland a - suit case containing 20 quarts of ni I tro-glycerine. McManigal asserted a McNamara had mapped out a series of explosions "which were to be pre r sented to the convention." -- Information from delegates who s had arrived in advance at Rochester d is held by the government to have In y duced McNamara to change his plans. 3 That information, the indictment S charges, was that the international y officials, including President Ryan s and business agents, were aware of d the dynamite plots and some of the men now indicted objected to any un 5 usual numbers of explosions while a the convention was in session. In this connection McManigal's . confession is quoted as stating "Mc e Namara said he wanted a lot of 'open f shop' jobs blown up at one time to make the delegates feel good. Just t before meetings of the executive com mittee McNamara wanted many jobs pulled oif, go it would please the -members and show them business was good. The 20 quarts of nitro s glycerine with which we stated out from Indianapolis were left with Pete Smith in Cleveland." SThe year of the convention 25 a bridges. viaducts and buildings were s reported blown up in various pafts of e the country. Advices were received -by the government today that at least e Ihalf a dozen of the defend1ants are t preparing to "tell all they know." It y was said that developments resulting a from new information the govern e ments expects to receive might be a expected before all the men are ar ,1 raigned here on March 12. k STANDS BY CHiAMP~ CLARK. -Missonri Instructs for the Speaker e for President. At Joplin, Mo., after an all after noon Eght on the floor of the conven tion caused by the effort of the con rvention caused by the effort of David A. Ball, a candidate for the guberna torial nomination, to oppose the pro gram agreed on by party leaders, the r Missouri Democratic State Convent s tion late Tuesday elected eight dele It gates at large to the Baltimore con -vention, each with half a vote. . Each r of the 1GC congressional districts chose -delegates to Baltimore. Ball's fight :o stop) What he termed "gag rule"' f and "Cannonism"~ was unsuccessful e and the prograr. went through. The e delegation was instructed to vote for .t Champ Clark, for president on every 1, ballot taken before the Btaltimrore o convention. Edwardl F. Goltra, St. e Louis millionaire, was reelected by n acclamation as national committce men from Missouri. In a speech ac cepting the nomination Mr. Coltra piedgred his allegiance to Mr. Ciark's candidacy. BANDITs WERE~ FOILED. r Opened Throttle and Sned Away s From Riobblers. Five men made an unsuccessful :effort to held up a westbound pas-, 1- senger train on the Chicago & North swestern Railroad at 3 o'clock Thurs o day morning nine miles east of Ce - c.ar Rapids, Mich. Whiic the tram ~r vas passinag slowly over new cn-! -e siruction work, the bandits signaled :e the engineer to stop. When the cn y gineer opened the throttle, they be e en firing. A bullet struck the engi greer in the arm, but he stuck to his d ost and brought the train into the -city. Posses started in pursuit of the robbers. ce pod Baggage Pce xldd n A trunk exploded at Norton.a. 1- IWednesday anernoo'n. resultingi eserious injinrics to Dresma r mih of the Louisvie& shi e o railway. Th~ t rnk co ida in p tity of son: ; hi eri.i ro l jayn lufire.Ia0ld c i- e Igarn'