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VOL.XXVI _ _MANNING, S. C.9 WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 A QUEER CLISTOM BOYS AND GIRLS ARE SOLD Al PUBLIC AUCTION LEASEB FOR THE SUMMEE The Annual "Market" Has Just Been Held.-The Augr*ian Steamer Mar. ia Theresa Brought 123 Boys and So Girls, Ranging in Ages from 11 to 16 Yars,, Across the Sea. 'T11 give 150 marks for him!" "I bid 175!" "Two hundred " "Two hundred a.d ten!" "Two hundred and twenty-fivs!" The competition was keen, for the boy was a sturdy looking lad. De spite his poverty-stricken appearance, he seemed to be stronger and health ier than any of the other children. Around him swarmed a score of peas ant farmers, scanning the child as they would the points of a horse. There was little sentiment in their demeanor. It was business. They were buying him, to be exact, "leas ing" the boy. They expected to make a "profit" on their investment, hence they did not want a boy who possibly would be ill and could not work hard. He was "knocked down" at 240 marks or $60. The next boy was younger, he lacked the robustness of the other lad; he was pale, thin and did not look as if he ever had had a full meal. He went at $30. This is not a scene from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but from the annual "children's market," "little white slave market," some of the German radical papers term it, in the pretty town of Friederichshaften in Bavaria. Here in this quaint little town, in eight of the Tyrolean Alps, made fam ous as the place where German's big Zeppelin airships are built, is held the annual sale every spring of the poor children of the Tyrolean peas ants. Orphans, half-orphans and children of poor peasants in the Aus traln Tyrol region, who thereby prof if a little, are turned over to the "'Tyrolean Children's Society," which In turn leases them out for the sum mer months on the German side of the border at whatever they will bring. The annual market has just been held. The Austrian steamer 'Maria Theresa brought 125 boys and thirty girls, ranging in ages from 11 to 16 years, across the Boden sea. They were quartered at the Golden Wheel Hotel, an appropriate place for this shildren's lottery. More than 500 peasant farmers from Wurtemburg, Baden, Hahenol lern and the Bavarian region along the Boden sea were on hand to "bid" for these youthful wage slaves. Com petition was keen. The demand this yrear was greater than the supply and prices considerably higher than last spring were offered for the labor of th children for the summer. The children had nothing to say about their fate, whether they liked the looks of the lessee or not. The 'mar ket" was held under the auspica of the Rev. MIr. Eaim of the Tyrolean Children's Society, who had charge of them for the society. From daylight to dark and after, the children labor, which in South Germany, means about 17 or 18 hours daily. It is but natural that the lessees chief interest Is to get as much out of them as possible. What the fate of some of the children is Is indicated by the Tyrolean Grenz hoten, a paper which has started an agitation against the "child market." It says: "The children return to their par ents and home on October 2 8th, if they do not fall a victim to the heavy labor, long hours, intense longing for father, mother and brothers and sis ters, during the summer and are bur ied in the regions where they were 'leased'. "We ask in what land or country would the authorities permit such a 'slave trade' to exist? That many of these children have been leased is evident from the fact that the Chil dren's Society has a number of far mers on its blacklist to whom they refuse to lease children again. But what good does that do the little ones whom they may have ruined physically and morally?". The "Morganpost" of Berlin also marvels that the authorities of Ba varia, Wurtemburg and Baden would tolerate dealing in "little slaves." i' NEGRO KILLED ANOTHER. Trouble Started in Field and Endedl in Row That Night. Robe'rt Brown, alias Nigge Shirt shot and almost instantly killed Ed inborough Lawyer Tuesday night on the plantation of H. B3 .Richardson, Jrabout five miles west of Sum' merton. Both parties are negroes employed by Mr. Richardson, Brow: being the foreman and Lawyer one of the farm hands. The trouble leading up to the killing began when Brow: had some trouble in the field wth Lawyer in regard to some work. Lawyer renewed the row that night, when he was shot by Brown, it is sa!d. in self-defense. Brown surren dered to Magistrate A. J. Richbourg. Irefers Man to Money. Mrs. Carrie Garland. of Boston. de cided to sacrifice the income on $10, 000,00"', which came to her through the wili of her huisband in order that she may wed, next Saturday, Franli Cushing Green. Upon her marriage, the Income of the estate wIll go tC her three sons. When the trust ex pires the fortu~ne will be turned ove: to Harvard college to aid strugglinli WHAT DOES HE WANT? DOES GRACE SEEK ASSUIANCE OF WIDE OPEN TOWN. Blease Has Granted to Charleston a Local Freedom Not Enjoyed For Many Years. Mayor Grace, of Charleston, seems to feel hurt because the State Demo cratic Convention refused to help him rob the Democrats of Charleston of a free ballot and a fair count in the Charleston County Convention. The action of the State convention in seating the Barnwell delegation was the only fair thing it could do with the testimony submitted by both sides before it, and Mayor Grace knows it. In speaking of the action of the State Convention in seating the Barn well delegation "Common Sense," Mayor Grace's personal organ, says: "When one has left tco full impact of the steam roller It is hard for the moment to be philosophical. We can speak with authority for the eighteen delegates regularly elected at our recent County Convention but un seated at Columbia, and we can say for them that such is their plight. It was simply the machine at work from beginning to the end of the Convention." Common Sense then goes on to say that "up to this time, although Mr. Grace's intimate friends have known I that he has had no intention what ever of supporting Governor Blease in the coming election, he has for good and sufficient reasoas not seen fit to make any public virtue of that fact. He .has been sincere in this attitude, not because he never has had or ever could have any honest admiration for Governor Blease; but because as bad as Blease Is, he has nevertheless granted to Charles ton a degree of local freedom, which she has not enjoyed for many years. The only thing which has made Grace utterly shrink from a proper appre ciation of this great boon to his con stituency is his knowledge that it is a freedom purchased for money. "Mr. Grace has hoped that he would get assurances from the Jones people that they would tolerate cer tain local freedom in Charleston, without being paid for such tolera tion, lacking which he has refrained fom throwing whatever influence he might have in favor of Judge Jones. Such assurances have not been forth coming. If he were little enough to be governed In any matter by mere personal resentment, the action of the Jones steam-roller would be enough to make him wait no longer but however bitter and distasteful it might be, he would turn again to Blease. Such, however, is impossi ble. He still hopes that Judge Jones and his leaders, in that broad spirit of toleration which he well knows has once again taken possession qf South Carolina with reference to Charleston, will see fit to regard the peculiar conditions in Charleston and promise relief therefrom.'' :ASKS HOW RICHESON DIED. Condemned Murderer Calls to His Guard in Night. At Denver, Col., on the night Richeson was electrocuted Oscar Cook, murderer condemned to die in November, rose from his cot in the! county jail at midnight and hoarsely called to his guard: "Has .2..t preacher R~cheson been electrocuted yet? I can't sleep think ing of him." Through the night, as the guard tramped the corridor, the condemned man clung to the bars of his cell. "Can't you telephone the newspa pers and find out if he died like a man or a cur? See if he had to be carried." he asked. "Is It easier than to be hanged? Do you think there as any chance of the State putting in a chair before November?" Cook refused to return to bed, dQ aring that horrible visions filled his dreams. ASHES TO THE WINDS. Body Cremated and His Body is Thrown in River. In accordance with the terms of the will of John W. Hutton, some of his friends went out in a small boat on the Hackensack river near North Bergen, N. J., during the night and scattered his ashes over the water where Hutton had loved to fish. He was fifty-four years old, and although he had a promising real estate bus iness, he spent most of his tIme hunt ring and fishing-so much of it, in fact, that the result was an agree ment between he and his wife to separate and he went to live with his chum, John L. Kayes. In his will Hutton left Kayes $5,000, and only $5 to his wife anad a similar amount jto his son Henry. Flying to His Death. At Xenia, 0., Fred J. Southard, of Minneapolis, an amateur aviator, fell 100 feet at the Wright aviation field and was instantly killed. Southard, Iwho was forty years old, had just obtained the aeroplane from the Wright brothers. He obtained keys to the hangar after he had been re fused permission to fly without fur ther experience. He fell just six min utes after he had begun the first flight alone. A Fatal Crap Game. In a row over five cents, the result of a dispute in a "crap" game, Er nest Kennedy. colored, shot and kill cd John Miller, also ecolored, at Cres cent, three miles from Woodruff. Kennedy made hIs escape, but was later caught near Fountain Inn, in Greenville County, and awaits trial n jai atSartanburg. jSPREAD OF REVOLT I ~3L HAYTIAN NEGROES INCITING CUB AN NEROES TO KILL CUBAN WHITE PEOPLE Hard to Ascertain Exact Conditions Th of the Trouble, as the Government *e mc I of the Island Republic is Reticent su pa: as to Its Proportions and Speak Lightly of It. co eri A cablegram from Havana says Cal while the situation arising from the cr2 racial revolutionary movement un- ma questionably is serious, and appar- no ently growing more dangerous, re-I ticence of the government renders fr impossible a precise determination of its gravity. The only thing abso- tur luely certain Is that a condition of cu1 insurgency exists among the negroes trii of 'Mantanzac, Santa Clara, and Or- fai iente provinces, especially in the last ab] named and that the government is er3 straining every nerve to stamp out , the rebellion, by the use of all the ho military forces at its disposal. . h Additional troops were rushed by rio to: railroad to Oriente Thursday after- ti noon and a force of 1,200 men was fo dispatched to that province Wednes- di day night. The new cruiser Cuba, a which arrived there Thursday and it was accorded, with her consort, La is Patria, a great popular demonstra- iSu tion of welcome, had hardly anchored tha before she received orders to take o aboard 600 infantry and artillery cai and proceed to Guantanamo. Sev eral carloads of ammunition have qu been sent to Oriente. d The secretary of the interior, Sen- oth or Bru, says that newspaper reports agh alleging there are 2,000 insurgents t in Oriente are greatly exaggerated. The government, he added, has posi- Oh tive information that the Insurgents pol under General Estomez and Ivonet has do not exceed 150. In spite of this Mr. oficial information, reports indicate hai that Estonez and Ivonet have fully ie 600 armned men and mounted follow- for ers. res The American minister, Arthur M. Beaupre, has visited Secretary of State Sanguily to demanad proteo- eve tion for the property of the Juragua wh Iron Company, which a band under has Ivonet is reported to be deprecating. ber The secretary gave assurance of pro- hav tection. While the insurrectionary ere movement in Havana province appar ently has been crushed by the disper- r. sal of armed bands at Mariano, Ohl mounted patrons guard all the roads Ca: approaching the capital and all po lice reserves are kept at the station ao houses. oth A serious feature of the situation con in Oriente province, the center of the negro insurrectionary movement, is ru the presence of many Haytlen ne- W groes, who recently surreptitiously entered the province, and are report- the ed to be inflaming the whites In theiran country, and sample of the Haytiens erv in exterminating the whites In their coutry, and urging the establish ent of a black republic in the eas tern end of Cuba. These Haytiens, it is said, number several thousand. Ba It is rumored that several m 4ooners from Hayti have landed cargoes of arms., Unsettled conditions are rapidly ch; growing more serious. Now It is es- cap timated that over 5,000 negroes have afte taken up arms in the province of Or- wh iente alone. Two American citi- and zes, Floyd Shick and Joseph Bry-1 the an, have complained to Ross E. Holla- was day, Americana consul at Santiago, sto of being assaulted and robbed while the on their way to Sioboney, by a band rut of armed negroes. Sueh outrages les are of frequent occurrence. ity. Government reports say that near sui Holguin, sixty-three miles northwest eig of Santiago, a detachment of rural Ione guards dispersed a strong band of to negroes. The situation in the prov- He ince of Oriente continues grave, the end secretary of government said, but bla the movement in the other provinces the appears to lack importance. Advices fire to the State Department confirm an! press reports that negro revolution- me ary movement in is much more yar alarming and widespread than at first supposed. Foreign property is ] menaced. Conflicts between the rur al guards and armed negro bands Thj have resulted in the killi~ng of many guards. NEGRO DETECTIVE KILLED. Co: Su: Attemp: to Arrest Lewis Little Re- at Sulted in Death.o A negdo detective, Sam Washing ton, was killed at New Sumter Fri- jtlo day night. New Sumter is the vil- ! lage around the C. Mi Betts company ed lumber plant, about four mles east flo of Sumter Another negro, L. J. ev ieerson, was shot and dangerously Io~ wounded. Lewis Little, the negro al who did the shooting, escaped. ma Washington had been working up sei blind tiger cases and had a warrant ea: for the arrest of Littie. He went to tio LTt~le's house Friday night about 9 ro~ o'clock and arrested him. When cv; they reached the door Little shot the deectve. the ball passing entirely through his body, so that death was almost instantaneous. Little shot W. Jefferson in the back and threatened ! av the negro hack driver who had tre brought them off. He then made off. th4 Money to Noble Charity. thi wlls of George D. Widener and to is son, Harry Elkins Widener, who were victims of the TItanic horror, 'e-e filed for probate at Philadel p'a P. A. B. WIdener, father and bei grandather of the deceased, an- w ouced the endowment of $4,000,- sei M00 for the Widener Memorial Home' St WILSON WAS STROM !DE GOOD SHOWING IN GOVER NOR HAIMON'S STATE. ich Has Materially Strengthened His Chances for the Presidential Nomination. The Washington correspondent of e State says the splendid vote giv Woodrow Wilson In Governor Har n's home State was one of the big rprises of the pre-convention cam ign. The result in Tuesday's primary itest emphasizes the fact that Gov ior Wilson is the only nation-wide ididate contending for the Demo tic presidential nomination and .kes more certain than ever his mination at Baltimore. The contest in behalf of Governor Ison in Ohio was made by his ends, who waged an uphill fight thout campaign funds. The re -ns show that the New Jersey exe Ave carried the progressive dis Its in the State and that while he led of victory, he made a remark e showing as a vote getter in ev section of the State. ro have made such a run in the no State of one of his strongest als for the presidential nomina a was a remarkable achievement Governor Wilson. Little else was cussed in Democratic circles at the dital Wednesday and on all sides as admitted that Governor Wilson nore strongly in the race as a re t of Tuesday's primary contest .n at any time since the Inaugura i of the presidential nomination paign. leports received at Wilson head ters indicate that Governor Wil . has carried four congressionial tricts and he may win in three ers. The Wilson campaign man rs had figured on but one dis t. t is generally admitted that the 1o result was more important in its tical significanace than any that been taken in the other States. Taft's chances for renomination -e diminished, while it is not de d that Governor Wilson is a more midable candidate than ever as the lt of the splendid run he made overnor Harmon's own State. rovernor Wilson is a candidate in ry State in the nation, and erever he has failed of victory, he run a strong second. In the num of votes cast by Democrats who e participated in presidential pre ne primaries, Governor Wilson outdistanced all of his riVals. Clark was not a candidate in o; he is not a candidate in North -olina, which is holding county ventions this week, and he is not andidate in a great many of the er States that are to hold primary ventions. fr. Underwood likewise is only ning in spots, while Mr. Harmon given a clear field in Ohio. Mr. erwood has the right of way for combination in North Carolina iGovernor Wilson is running ev where. I- | ONLY BROKE FIVE TOES. glar Fell Three Stories and Was Not Much Hurt. Lt New York, George Miller, rged with burglary, was taken tive by the police Friday morning, er a long chase in the coarse of ih he suffered five broken toes a fractured nose. According to police report, the alleged burglar seen breaking into an uptown re. Two policemen gave chase and nimble Miller led them a long " p and down the stairs of a ser of apartment houses in the vicin In a final effort to shake off pur t, he leaped from the roof of an ht-story apartment, gripping in hand a telephone wire which led the third story of the next block. slipped down safely, but at the I of the wire was stopped by a nk wall. Miller paused a moment, attempted a flying leap to a escape ten feet below. He missed I fell three stories. The police a found him lying in the court ?LATORM OF A DELEGATE inks Delegation Should Carry Out People's Wish. 3scussing the result of the State avention, Mr. R. I. Manning. of nter, who was elected a delegate large to the National Democratic avention, while in Columbia on nday, said: 'The result of the State conven a should be satifactory to Gov. Ison and his friends. It amount to instructions for him. While instructing in words, there was dence of a very strong sentiment him and delegates to the nation convention would not represent thfuly the views of those who .t them there if they fail to work nestly for Gov. Wuison's nomina a. I shall vote and work for Wood Wilson's nomination not only be tuse I yish to represent truly those Felder's Firm Gets Big Fee. rhe Atlanta Journal says Charles Morse will pay $100,000 to the Sfirm of Felder, Anderson, Roun e and Wilson for his release from federal prison. His contract with m called for a fee of $100,000 if y succeeded in showing him a way freedom. Life Termer Is Freed. tenry Gilliam, convicted at New y in Febrnary, 1903, of murder, :h recommendation to mercy and enced to life imprisonment in the te penitentiary., received a full . do frm nov. Blase this week. RACE WAR IN CUBA, NO DOUBT OF WIDESPREAD PLOT AMONG NEGROES. Government Take Prompt Steps to Meet Any Uprising Among Blacks Dissatified With Political Status. A cablegram from Havana says there is no room for doubt of the ex istence of a negro conspiracy extend Lng to all the provinces of the island with the apparent intention of taking up arms against the government on Tuesday last, which was the tenth an niversary of Cuban Independence. The negroes appear to have be come aroused to rebellion by the de nial of what seems to them their just political rewards for services rendered in the war of independence, in which they constituted a large part of the Cuban forces. The feel ing against the Government has been intensified by a law denying the no groes the right to organize a politi cal party. The principal trouble now is in the vicinity of Sagua La Grande in Santa C3l.ira province and Cruese, where two -med parties are operating, and in )rienta province, where several bands are converging on Guantanamo city with apparent purpose of making a display of force at that place. The rural guard dispersed one small par ty and captured two others. The situation Is considered suffm ciently grave for the government to dispatch a column of 1,200 men from Camp Columbia, composed of cavalry and infantry, with field and machine guns, bound for Santa Clara and Or enta provinces. The secretary of the interior, Sen or Bruo, said that there was no doubt about the widespread racial conspir acy which the government is deter mined to deal with drastically, but that up to the present the only dan ger points are Santa Clara and Orien a. There are no symptoms of serious trouble, he added, in other parts of the island. The situation resembles that pre eding the last revolution, when the egroes in February, 1906, conspired to make a simultaneous attack on all the rural guard posts, but only at tacked that Guanbacoa, the garri on of which was massacred. This as a prelude to the general revolu tion which broke out in August of hat year. WILSON GETS ELEVEN. obst of the Other Delegates Are Not Committed. Democrats of Virginia in State con ention at Norfolk Wednesday named 32 delegates to the Democratic na tional convention at Baltimore in une to cast the 014 Dominion's 24. otes in that convention. With the exception of two instruct d votes for Woodrow Wilson, the irginia delegation is without ties of nstructions or preferential resolu tions. The First district instructed (or Wilson. Of the State's 24 votes the line-up s believed to be eleven pronounced totes for Wilson and 13 unprononu~n ed in choice. Of the latter 1 1-2 are expressed for Underwood, 2 1-2 ean to Underwood, 1 is for Clark and one for Harmon. The unit rule will not be applied until the delegates get to Baltimore and then not until after several bal lots shall have been taken and two thirds of the 24 votes are cast for a unit rule. LIVED ON AN IRON DIET. Had Over One Thousand Articles in Her Stomach. An official report of an operation performed upon Miss Letita Miller, f San Raefel, Cal., for the removal f 1,097 articles, mostly metal, from her stomach, says she is on the road o recovery. The report was filed with the state board of control. One~ undred and eight wire hairpins, fif ty-five open safety pins, twenty-one broken pins, five prune pits, twenty three collar buttons, thirteen nails, three screw eyes, forty tacks, one staple an inch long, five parts of tea spoons, four hundred and twenty Bve broken pieces of hairpins, one piece of string, one piece of thread, one hundred and four unidentified aids and ends, mostly metal, nine parts of combs and two hundred and eighty small pine. 'e * Toadstools Kill Two Children. As a result of eating toadstools, mistaken for mushrooms, two chil dren in the family of George English, of Missaukee county, Mich., are dead. Mr. English and three other chil dren are said to be dying, and Mrs. English is reported to have tempor arily lost her reason because of the shock caused by the deaths and sick-* Wanted to Poison Wife. The Carroll county grand jury is expected to make immediate investi gation of the charge that Dr. 3. M. Gilbert. of English, Ky., tried to in duce Charles Ross to enter the Gil bert home and chloroform Mrs. Gil bert while she was asleep. Ross in formed county officers of the alleged proposals and Gilbert was arrested. Thousands Get Rations. Out of approximately 70,000 per sons who have been driven from their homes by the Mississippi River floods, the United States army relief corps is dispensing rations daily to nearly 140000 people and such of the oth ers as need assistance are being car ed +f.or bylcrienf committees. BOTl IN SAME BOAT THAT THE TRUSTS OWN TAf AND ROOSEVELT IS A WELL VENTILATED FAC According to the Testimony of Pres dent Taft, Roosevelt Was the P of Big Business When He Wi President and According to Roos< velt Taft Is Now. The old adage that honest men go their dues when rogues fall out : being verified by the testimony Pre ident Taft and Colonel Roosevelt effering against each other in the mad scramble for the Republica nomination for the Presidency, I which neither of them should hai ever been elected if what they say c each other is true. A dispatch !rom Washington say since President Taft and former Prei ident Roosevelt entered upon the! wild scramble to obtain delegates t the next Republican convention, tb people have come into the possessio of the following information, whic they never knew before; except as J came to them through unprQve charges or unverified rumors: That George W. Perkins, organh er of the Harvester trust and mem ber of the board of directors of th Steel trust, was "highly pleased with the present administration' methods of prosecuting the trusts hat he contributed most liberally t the Taft campaign fund out of hi money and money of the trusts h managed in his campaign for th Presidency. That there is a close political al ianace between Mr. Perkins and The dore Roosevelt, as evidenced by th< Eact that Perkins, in a sworn state nent to the Secretary of State of Nel fork admits he sent $15,000 to hel] Roosevelt in the primary election i lew York City this spring thus re 7ealing that the big interests woulb De perfectly satisfied to have elthe: raft or Roosevelt President. That Mr. Taft, in the present cam ;aign, and Mr. Roosevelt, in his cam ?aign of 1908, made free and unre tricted use of Federal officeholder :o obtain the nomination from one o :he country to the other. It was :ommon practice with both of then .o place the offices in the hands o :hose who would not fall to round u] :he delegates on their side at tne con rention. That Mr. Roosevelt, while con ;tantly writing messages and givini yut interviews, while he was Presi lent, all professing the deepest hat -ed of trusts and illegal corporationi ecretly and clandestinely suppress d a report showing that the Harves ;er trust was an illegal combinatior n restraint of trade, and later order d that a contemplated suit agains hat trust be dropped "until he gay ;he word to start It," which word h' ever gave. That Mr. Roosevelt was so fright ned by the possibility of tariff agi :ation during his more than seve1 rears of office that in all his message id official papers he never made an: nention of tariff except to say, once hat he would discuss it in a futura aessage, which statement he with trew from the message before i reached Congress. That Roosevelt I till a standpatter on the tariff. That Mir. Roosevelt's trip to Africa was paid for by Andrew Carnegie, th reatest beneficiary of a Republica: fgh tariff that ever lived. Carnegi made millons of dollars out of th eal when Roosevelt gave the Stee rust permission to gamble with thi Tennessee Iron Company. It has alsa been brought out that Roosevelt wa on most intimate political relation with J. P. Morgan and other "male actors of great wealth." If the present scramble for dele gates continues a while longer it ma: afely be said that both Mr. Taft an' Mr. Roosevelt, at the present rate will thoroughly demonstrate tha neither of them Is fit to be President but ought to be in some penal insti tution. Bryan made the same charge against both of they that they ar now making against each other whe: be ran against Taft. Killed Girl and Self. At Havana, Ill., William W. Brow> twenty-two years old, shot anad kill ed his sweetheart, Miss Jennie Kelly seventeen years old, when he met he on the street Friday, and then kille< himself with the same weapor Brown had quarreled with MIss Kell: because she had walked witn anothe young man. Brown was a railroal telegrapher. ..Negro Fireman Saves Child. 'Soap" Lockwood, a negro firema: on the Georgia Midland road, saa a baby on the tract in front of hi train, at Jefferson, last week. Realia ing that the train was too close t stop, he ran out on the runnin board, dove fronr the beam and rol) ed from the tract with the child 1: his arms. lills a Young Child. A mysterious prowler at Litti Rock, Ark., entered the residence c D. P. Coulter, and attempted to at sault Mrs. Coulter. The man fire twice at her. Her nine-month c1 baby lying on her breast was instan1 l klled. Mrs. Coulter was not it jured. The intruder then fled. Follows Brother In Death. Rising from his seat In the churc where his brother's funeral was bi ing held, kissing his aunt and siste tenderly, Samuel Brannon, a wel known young farmer livIng :nr AC ree, Ga., walked outdoors and ble out is ra~n inthechurh yrds IS STILL IN THE RINu TAFT CLAIS THAT HIS NOMINA TION IS CERTAIN. Issues a Statement in Which He Says He Has More Than a Majority of the Convention. Claiming that 570 delegates to the Chicago convention, or 30 more than t enough to assure him the nomination, President Talt Wednesday in a state B ment declared he was going into New Jersey to "make assurance doubly sure." He left Washington Thursday for Philadelphia at seven o'clock Thursday morning and made his first t political speech at Camden Thursday a evening. - The president's statement was is s sued after a day of activity at the White House. Political conferences n with his managers and appointments .o with members of the cabinet were e followed at four o'clock by a meeting 1 of the full cabinet. It was stated later that this meeting was devoted a to "routine business," but members i- of the cabinet admitted that the pol r itical situation had been reviewed In o considerable detail. e "Our opponents quote from a a statement of mine, made in Cleve a land, that the fight In Ohio, my home t State, much to my gratification, m would be the decisive one," said the president in his statement, "and . would settle the question of my nom ination. I shall have at least 17 e votes from Ohio, including the dele gates at large, for we have every as surance that we shall control the State convention. 3 This will constitute a clear ma 5 Jority In the national conventions. a Tndeed, in addition to the votes from D Ohio, delegates elected for me from other States, of which I have been - advised since my Cleveland state - ment, give me at the most conserva a tive estimate 570 out of the 1,078 - votes In the national convention-30 r more than the number necessary to y nominate. L "I am going to New Jersey to take - part in the coming campaign there I for the same reason that I went to r Ohio, and such delegates as we may receive from New Jersey will thus make assurance doubly sure." Earlier in the day Congressman McKinley, director of the Taft head quarters, claimed "at least 600" del egates for the president. The presi dent's estimate, while smaller, was declared at the White House to rep resent "rock bottom figures," which were expected to be materially in creased. The claim to the six dele gates at large In Ohio was made by the president after reassuring mes sages from his Ohio managers. TELLS OF HIS ADIS. - Bryan Says He Is in Politics But Not ss a Candidate. W. 3. Bryan, in a speech before the Methodist General Conferenc.e at Minneapolis on Wednesday reiterated -his recent statement that he Is a candidate for no office and did not expect to be. "I hope that no un friendly newspaper," he said, "will He urged all church members to get in politics for the benefit of public Smorality and good government. I got into pol!;ics when young and ex tpect to stay until I die," he declar Sed, "but I don't want you to believe that I am or ever expect to be a can didate. I can do more by remaining in politics as a private citizen." BLAMED FOR TRAGEDY. SSenate Committee Report Condemns Dead Captain. 3 The senate commerce committee - jFriday considered the report on the ~Titanic disaster, which will be sub - mitted to the senate next Tuesday. ! It will be a sweeping arraignment of I the conditions under whch the Titan ,ic raced along through the iceberg t area to her doom. It is understood ,the report will severely criticise Cap -, tan Smith, of the Titanic, as mainly~ responsible for the disaster, because Sof failure to heed the 'warnings of other vessels; the British board of trade for tax Inspection; J. Bruce Ismay, who was a passenger, and will point to the lack of discipline In the time of danger. Captain Lord, of the Californian. will figure in the respon sibility because of failure to take ne cessary steps when near the Titanic, whose rocket signals of distress were seen aboard the Californian. Con gress will be asked to reward Cap tain Bostron, of the rescue sh~p Car pathia. Took a Fatal Fall. James Barr, Jr., 20 years old was -killed in attempting a parachute drop from a balloon at a height of 100 feet. He was unable to make the parachute open, although he clawed frantically at the tangled cloth and strings during his rapid gdescent. Two thousand persons wit-1 - nessed the accident, among them two a Isisters of the young man. Many Thrown Into Water. Two persons are known to have e been drowned and forty or more f were injured when the adjustable - end of a tempopary passenger gang d plank at the Colman dock at Seattle' d dropped, precipitating sixty passen -gers into the water as they were pre -paring to board the sound steamer Flyer for Tacoma. Bishopville Man A Suicide SAt BishopVille. 3. D. Stokes, who conducted a fancy and staple groc r ery store committed suicide In a va -ca~nt room over his store at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, by shooting himself in the mouth with a 38-cal Ibre Smit & Wesson pistol. TEIIY BEATS TAFF HARMON HAS A SIMHT ADVAN TAGE OVER WILSON. IN THE OHIO PRIMARY Roosevelt Seems Certain to Have Won Twenty Out of the Forty two Districts, and Harmon Seemsi to Have Led Wilson and Will Get Majority of Delegates. On te face of the early returns in Ohio's first Presidential prefer ence primary Tuesday, Col. Theodore Roosevelt led the Republican ticket by 3 to 2 over President Taft, and Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio, led Governor Woodrow Wilson on the Democratic ticket, by a some what smaller percentage. The re turns, however, were given on a basis of complete figures from little more than half the precincts out of a total of 5,192 precincts in the State. President Taft appeared to havei carried Cincinnati by a large margin and also Toledo and Dayton, among the larger cities.' This was more than offset by the vote given Col. Roosevelt in Cleveland, Columbus and other cities. The Roosevelt lead in the north end of the State, seemed to give the former President an ad. vantage which Mr. Taft could notov ercome by his vote In' the south end of the State, Including Cincinnati, his home, and the rural dstricts. Harmon's campaign managers, do spirte the early fIgures, declared that their candidate had carried the State. They said they based this statement on the heavy vote they exr icted had been given him In the country dia tricts. Governor Wilson's chief strength, -they said, had been In Cle7eland, where Mayor Newton D. Baker had waged a strong fight against Harmon, Mayor Baker in a statement declared Governor Wilson had carried Ohio by a vote of 2 to 1. Both Champ Clark and Col. Bryan, although their names were not on the preference ballot and they were rot represented by delegates, were given a scattering vote, which when inal returns have been received may effect the outcome of the Wilson Harmon race. Out of 21 Congressional districts In the State, totals computed at a time when fewer than half the pre cincts were counted, indicated that Roosevelt will have 20 of the 42 dis trict delegates and that Taft will have 14, while the returns are so In complete that 8 delegates at present cannot be counted on either side. Apparently Mr. Taft has the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, and 15th district delegates. Mr.- Roosevelt Is believed to have won the delegate. In the 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 1 4th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 21st. The vote In the 3rd is very close and it is In the 9th and 16th. FrIends of President Taft declare he has carried the 18th, but Roosevelt supporters will not concede this. - Apparently Governor Harmon has carrIed 14 out of the 21 distrIcts, iving him 26 out of the 42 delegates to the NatIonal Convention. If this proves true, It also will give him the 6 delegates at large from the State. En the call of the Democratic Con rention It was stipulated that the winner of the primary should name elegates at large. Governor Wilson's managers claim the 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 2 0th, and 21st istricts. The Harmon managers de lared that beyond doubt they had won the 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 10th, 11th, .3th, 14th, 15th, 17th' 18th, and 19th districts. The 12th and 16th were not claimed by either side. Scattering Returns. First returns in Tuesday's primary from the four largest cities In the State, show: In Columbus: Harmon 4 to 1 ov er Wilson; Roosevelt 2 to 1 over Taft. In-Toledo: Taft 2 to 1 over Roose velt. . In Cincinnati: Tart 50; Roosevelt In Cleveland: Wilson 3 to 2 over Harmon, and one Repuhican pre inct counted gives Taft 33; Roose elt 19; LaFollette 6. Complete Democratic returns from 199 precincts out 5,192 in the State, give: Wilson, 3,133; Harmon, 2, 554. Complete returns from 31 pre incts In Cincinnati, Governor .Har mon's home, give Wilson 491 and Harmon 433. Unofficial returns from 30 "Cleve land precincts show Wilson leading Harmon 3 to 1. First two precincts in Dayton give Wilson 32; Harmon 9. Seventeen precincts out of 45? in Hamilton County, (Cincinnati), give Taft 1,180 and Roosevelt 670. Young Tramps Are Hurt. Otto Edney. 15, and Ernest Hill, 13, both of Hendersonlville, N. C., were fatally injured in a Southern Railway freight wreck a~t Naples, four miles from Hlendersonville Tues day afternoon. The boys, it Is said, were hoboin g their way from Ashe ville. Negro Cheats the Gallows. At iacon, Ga., Oliver Simmons, a negro who was to have been hanged uesday for the murder of a woman, was found dead in his cell at day light that morning, having taken car bclic acid during the night. Fifteen Men Drowned A wireless from the steamship A. W. Perry Indicates that the schooner wth which the steamer colided Thursday, 12 miles from the harbor of Liverpool, N. S., went down with al n bo ard, probably 15 men.