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YEARS CASE ENDS .iE Of THE MEN WHO ROBBED CANADA BANK HELD TEFT WAS FOR 320.000 flelped Beat Up Catcago Policeman. -His Wife Also Arrested In St. Lams Who Posed as OriPPle Mute. .-Arrest of Woman Was Key to 6ituation. - A year's chase following the $320, 000 bank robbery in New Minister, B. C., ended in St. Louis In the arrest of J. C. Adams, who was declared Triday to be wanted as one of the robbers. The arrest of his supposed wife, known to the police as Jeanette Lit tie, In Edwardsville, Ill., early Fri day completed the task of the local police and private detectives who had been holding Adams since his arrest early Wednesday morning. Adams, bo Is also known as Walter Stacey, was declared by the detectives to be one of the two men who beat Police Lieutenant Burns in a Chicago saloon when he tried, single-handed, to cap ture them on the night of September 19. When Adams was arrested by the 5t. Louis police he was entered on the -books under the naame of Stacey and a charge of murder was placed against him. It was explained that ha'was a suspect in a local case. In the meantime his photograph taken a few hours after his arrest was sent to Chicago. There it was 4dentified Thursday as the picture of one of Lieut. Burns' two assailants. The man arrested as Adams or Stacey i$ believed by the local Ber tilhion experts to be George West, reputed leader in the Canadian bank robbery. The detectives said they now him only as Adams or Stacey. All .requests for interviews with the prisoners were denied. At the time of the man's arrest the detectives could have arrested his woman companion who was walking ahead of him. Thep hoped that by leaving her at- liberty longer they would catch another of the gang, so she was not molested but kept under surveillance until she left the city Thursday evening on an interurban car. A man met her at Gillespie, Ill-, and the two got off at Edwardsville and went to a hotel. There they were arrested but according to the detectives the man'was found to be not the one wanted and was released. Jeannette Little, or "Mrs. Stacey," as-she registered her namie at a room Ang house, told her landlady that she was a cripple, and at time walked with the aid of. crutches. At other times she discarded the crutches. In Adams' or Stacey's clothes a let ter was found which related that the bearer was deaf and dumb. The po lice said that the crutches and the deaf and dumb letter were used as subterfuges In obtaining admittance to banks ihere prospects for a rob bery were good. Detectives said the arrest of the woman was the key to the liituation. She was located by Assistant Chief &bhuetler, of Chicago, and a private detective In Elkhart, Ind., where she disguised herself as a member of a religious order and pretended to be lame. When she left Elkhart four men trailed her to St. Louis and to a rooming house where a man met her. When they emerged the man was ar ,rested and the woman allowed to "es cape" to Edwardsville.* One of the two Canadian bank rob bers who escaped from the Sidias sa loon at C~icago after beating Lieut. -Bernard -3 . Burns Into insensibility, was arrested Thursday night in St. -' Louis by Chicago detectives, accord ing to a report received by Assistant Chief of Police Schuetler Friday. The man arrested is described as th 3 "short robber". The woman was located on the South side.in Chicago, according to Schuetler, and was per mitted to learn that detectives were searching for her. She, boarded a train and went to a town outside Chi eago where she purchased a ticket for St. Louis. In.their anxiety to'prevent the man from escaping again the detectives are said .to have closed about him, paying no attention to the woman who threw away her crutches and es esped. .* In Lexington a plan has been adlopted by County Chairman Iffrd, at the suggestions of Congressman Lever, of appointing a canvassing committee at each polling precinet. to collect funds for the Wilson cam paign. This ,lan might be wisely followed in all other counties. Why not try it In this county. The State says on Monday night between ten o'clock and midnight 2.34 inches of rain fell in Columbia, which means one of the hardest rains which has fallen there in many a week. After eight o'clock Monday night 2.77 Inches fell and the total measurement from Sunday until Tuesday morning was ,4.38. Derelict Schooner Picked Up. The British schooner Bartholdi, en route from. San Juan, Porto Rico, to Mobile,- which was stripped clean of all spars. sail and rigging in the re cent storm, was picked up In the Gulf by - e Pensacola pilot boat and Talking Herself to Death. Physicians at the PennsylvanIa hospital, in Philadelphia, Pa., have been endeavoring to find some meth od that will prevent Mrs. Alice Ho! land fror talking herself to death. They have diagnosed her case as one of acute mania and hysteria. Concealed Sex Thirty Years. Two supposed men, after 30 years of service in the German army, dere discovered to be women. One went through the German Southwest Afri can campaign an dthe other servE'd In a guards regiment until she be came sergeant. Forced to Swallow roison. Miss Lettie Ward, 15 years old, who lives at the home of Samuel . Farmer, of Wheeling Junction, W. Va. was seized by unidentified men near her home Wednesday and held while poison was admmnist red. Lady Killed in Ruaway. At Greenville, Mrs. Alice Pickles iner, widow of the late Newell Pick lesimer, was killed Friday in a run away near the city. She was thrown from the buggy, striking a tree, be ing killed instantly. Joy Kills Baseball Fan. When his home team rallied late in the game and scored enough runs to take the lead, Timothy Flanagan, of Ashley, Pa., was stricken with. heart failure and died. SERVED HIM RIlGHT A STRRUT CAR HOG TACKLED THE WRONG CUSTOMER. Young Woman He Insulted Ab out Big Bag and Feathers Hands Him Over to the Police. The New York World says passen gers on a north bound subway train were attracted Monday by a pretty girl whose large plumed hat was un usually becoming. The train stopp ed at Fourteenth street and a man got aboard and took the seat next the girl. He seemed inerested in his newspaper, but suddenly he looked angrily at the girl aid cried: "Those ugly feather things you are wearing tickle one's face. I wish you'dkeep them out of mine." "They are not ugly," objected the girl, and she turned away. At the next jostle of the train the man slap ped at his face and exclaimed: "Keep the blamed ugly things out of my face, will you? It's getting so a peaceable man can't ride one of these subway trains for all the hideous wo mens fashions. Then he said a good deal more, telling the girl what his opinion was of her and of others like her. At Ninety-sixth street he was still abus ing her when she leaped to her feet, grabbed the man by the arm and shaking him roughly said: "Here's where you get off, and get off with me." The man drew back, but the girl pulled hard and with the assistance of some passengers he was hauled to the platform, where the girl appeal ed to Patrolman Verenkomf of the West One Hundreth street police sta tion. "I want this creature arrested for annoying me," she said. At the West One Hundreth street station the girl said she was Lillian Gray, twenty, of No. 317-Halsey St., Brooklin, and that she was stenogra phet and secretary to James Regan, proprieter of the Hotel -Knickerbock er. The man gave his name as Ru dolph Shane of No. 106 West Ninety eight stree. He said he was a bar ber. Shane was arraigned- in Night Court before Magistrate O'Connor on a charge of disorderly conduct. The magistrate heard both sides of the stry and said to the prisoner: "I know women wear big plumed hats these Nys but it is the duty of men to put up with them. You should have changed your seat if you didn't want your face tickled. I'll fie you $10. Shane paid the Sne. MICAH JENKIN'S OFFICE GONE. Internal Revenue Districts of South and North Carolina Combined. An order has been. Isaed by Pres ident Taft consolidating the internal revenue district of North Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh.- The offlice of Major Mich Jenkins, collec toi of internal revenue for South Car olina at Columbia, thus disappears. The deputy will probably be sta tioned at Columbia to sell stamps. Who this officer will be has not yet been determined, according to a statement made Tuesday at the office of Commissioner Cabell, in Washing ton. The order of consolidation is oflective October 1, and follows the enactment of the legislative, execu tive and judicial appropriation bill passed at the last session of Con gress, 'when provision was made for the sixty-seven revenue districts now In existence, leaving to the Presi dent the designation of the districts to be merged. One Texas district will be conso1ndated and o:le in Califormta. The fourth ilistrict to vanish remains to be announced. SPANSH TRAINMEN STIKE. Government Using Every Precaution Against Outbreab. A general strike on the railroads of-the province of Catalonia, Spain, is ta be started by the employees at midnight Tuesday night. The Government has taken stern measures of precaution against eut. breaks on the part of the men. Milt tory telegraphers have .been placed in charge of all the instruments at the stations which are guarded by troops while soldiers of the engineer corps have been placed on the trains to re place the engineers and firemen who leave their posts. Auto Hit a Big Tree. Dr. John L. Hughes, health officer of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., was killed and Mrs. Louisa S. Clement was perhaps fatally Injured in an automobile ac cident near New Rochelle, N. Y. dMrs. C'ement, who is a wealthy divorcee, had been a patient of Dr. Hughes, and he was taking her home from his office In Mt. Vernon when the auto mobile struck a rut and !skIdded. The machine grashed into a tree; throwing out both occupants. Killed by Falling WAall. Charles Hawley, a brick mason of Arcedia, Fla., was killed and Joe An derson, a three-year-old chill was struck on the head by flying brick, when the front wall of the new Car nd'chael building collapsed lat. Mon day afternoon. A large force of wor't mer. were rushed to work clearing away the debris but it is not be lieved any one els'e was hurt. Will Collect Teachers Fund. J. E. Swearingen, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction of i'outh Caroilina, who has been elected as one of the vice presidents of thle Wilson and Marshall Democratic As sociation of the District of Colum Ida, has accepted the dfy of colleet inig the teachers' campa~ign fun'l for the Democratic national committee in the Palmetto State. Excessive Loans Reduced. Reports of national banxs In the reserve cities made in response to tne la.' call of the comptronier of tnle cmiirency, it was announced Tuesday, s:iows a 40 per cent. reduction of ex cessive loans, as compared with the call of June 14. The aggregate or the excess portion or the loans now equals only $999,000, as against 1L 788,000. Derailed Train Kills Fourteene Thirteen persons were killed an' 50 injured, one of whom died in the hospital, by the derailment of the ex press from Chester to Liverpool at Ditton Junction, eight miles from Liverpool, England. Steeplejack's Long Tumble. George C. Winders, a steeplejack of Cambridge City, Ind., fell from the top of a forty-foot smokestack he was painting. Rolling a cigarette, he rig ged& up another scaffold and finished the job. First Victim of the Season. At Merrill, Wis., Joseph Lincoln Va. Rossen aged 14, who was kick ed in the he'ad while playing football THE S B-COMMITTEE HEARS RE PORTS ON PRIMARY NOISY CROWD PRESENT Many Irregularities in Some of Coun ties--Roll Called for Reports From Cbairman.-Rules for Probe of Charges Adopted. --- Keeting Dis turbed by Crowd in Court Room. The Spartanburg correspondent of The State says although not quite sensational, the two opening sessions of the, investigation of the sub-com mittee cif the State Democratic execu tive committee to conduct an inquiry inte charges of fraud in the primary election of August 27 there Tuesday proved far from quiet. The noise of the two sessions was furnished by the crowd that practically filled the court house in the early afternoon and at the later session packed the place considerably beyond its seating ca pacity. The majority of the "fuss" came from the spectators. In a more dignified manner continual objections from attorneys for the governor kept the proceedings from being monot onous. Despite the constant interruptions of practically all the first session and over half the second the committee made a good start in the investiga ticn it set out to make. The sub committee was organized; a plan of procedure was reached and put in ex eeution; reports were received and admitted from J. B. Park's division of the State, including the counties from which he has received infor mation; the routine work of the com mittee was disposed of and when the committee met Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock W. B. Wlison Jr., will make his report of the counties in vestigated in his division. Explains Their Side. At the opening of the first meet ing, called to order in the court house at 1 p. m., attorneys for the governor, chiefly through F. H. Dominick, ex pleined at some length to the com 'mittee the position taken by them. At the afternoon session S. J.- Nichols had much to say. At one time in the first session cheers and yells of ap plause for J. M. Greer by the spec tators consumed considerable time and at the aftersoon session the crowd cheered lustily in approbation of remarks by Mr. Greer and R. X. Jeffries. In the crowd that filled the court room were many supporters of the governor and some of the Blease lenders of the Piedmont as well as Spartanburg county. Visitors from several nearby counties were inevi deuce, including Cherokee, Union and Greenville. The most exciting incident of the day came shortly after the commit tee met at -3:30 o'clock after the din ner recess. Just after the commit tee had indorsed the action of W. F. Stevenson, chairman, in mapping out the work of the committee from Charlotte, J. GV. Greer demanded in a loud tone "your" authority for meet ing members of the committee in Charlotte. This created a demon stration that deepened in a moment Into an uproar. Cries of "Give it to 'em, Greer," and "Go to Charlotte." came from various parts of the hall and men in all parts of the hall rose in their seats and pushed toward the inclosure around the judge's stand where the chairman sat with the members of the committee grouped just outside the railing. Demands Order. Mr. Stevenson announced that un less there was order the committee would adjourn to a room where the audience would be so small it would have to be orderly. Mr. Greer shout ed "You can't do It." The cry was taken up by many in the crowd. S. J. Nichols made an appeal for order. Mr. Stevenson reminded the crows that if any man Is declared the nomi noeC for governor it will be on the re pcrt of this committee and If the ecommittee could not proceed In the ourt room the work would be con tinued elsewhere. In the midst of the uproar 3. T. Duncan, appearing as a contestant, spoke at some length, and the yells of the crowd turned to cheers for Duncan. "We are glad to have an audience. but I will ask that members of the audience will not participate In the procedure of the committee and will refi ain from voting on motions," cautioned Mr. Stevenson after order was restored. Not long after the demonstration the roll of counties was called, and with the reading of more or less lengthy reports from sub-comnmittees in the various counties the ardor of the crowd waned and a large ma jority of the 600 persons left the court room. Ssand Just after the convening of the cen:mittee for the second session on motion of Mr. Park, the work of. the chairman In apportioning the work of the sub-committee was "approved and confirmed". Convening at 1 o'clock, the com mittee, with every member present and attorneys on nand rep' senting both Judge Jones and the -rnor, began the work. R. M. ., r s and T. B. Butler were nominated tor sec retary, but Col. Butler declined the honor and Mr. Jeffries was elected by acclamation. Mr. Stevenson in a statement ex plaimed the posItion of the sub-com mIttee. He reviewed the three sources of evidence--information In the hands of the contestants and the con testees; reports from people through out the State who had information which this committee would not be able to get unless furnished by the people who had the information, "as it is not gifted with the art of mind reading and could not possibly in terview 140,000 voters " and last the records to which the committee has access. To get the evidence from the pub lie. therefore, notice and time was required to be given to the public and to get the records required time. "Some criticism has grown out of the postponement, which, I think, was made without considering the situation as it existed," said Mr. Stev enson. "As the report which this com mittee makes must be used in jus tification and must show an endeavor to get the evidence -from reliable soirees who were desirous of fur nishing It, and if it then reported1 that everything was all right then the pblic would not have the right' tereafter to rise and condemn us fr not getting Information which it itself failed to furnish upon invita tior and sufficient time given. That is the reason for the organization of I t.e work as it was done, and for the postponement of this meeting until portunity to do this work. Tillman's Criticism,. "Criticism of the probable outcome of the investigation has been made~ b7 mpr distinguished senator," aid fr. Stevenson, "whose advice wi Liways be duly considered by me any rhose wisdom I will always respect hether I follow his advice or no1 3ecause I differed politically froi be governor, I am not responsibl or being on the committee, was no yresent when it was ordered, and fo me or two days declined to serve btu iDally did reconsider and decide t ierve." The chairman then reviewed th l.pointment of the two sub-commit :ees and the division of the State. H pointed out that the chairmen c ;hese sub-committees are two young rigorous methodical attorneys wh ave never been connected with ool: is, and he had separated hi:ad absolutely from such evidence in o0 icr to avoid "the implied inferenc :hat our senior Senator said would b lrawn." He reminded his hearer ls' that the public mind is now in ohdition to accept evidence that ma D4 brought out without unnecessar at. "The cooling time has bee beneficial to the body politic," b aid. Mr. Stevenson suggested that motion was in order to adopt a set < rules and suggested a plan previou !y outlined by the chairman throug ,he South Carolina daily press. won't make it," exclaimed Mr. Gree: nod this stirred the first outburst c .be day from the crowd. When th noise subsided Col. Butler moved th adoption of the rules of procedur previously suggested by Mr. Stever son. This was done. The chaiman in response to th uery from Yr. Dominick held the neither party to the contest waive B.y legal rights they may have in al pearing before the committee. The rules as adopted are as fo lows: Rules Are Adopted. "1. That the burden of proving i: regularities or fraud sufficient to a: ul the election or reverse the face c the returns rests upon these chart ing the same. "2. That since the entire public as deeply interested and have bee invited to furnish evidence of crool edzess if known, the public will ha' the right to be heard in support < charges made and those makin charges whether the publ' general] or the contstants should produt thei proof in opening. "3. That the coLaestee has the the right to offer proof in rebutt. and the contestants in reply. "4. That where no proof is pry duced as to county, either by the col testants or by the public as hereto fore requested, and the records furnished the committee show not] Lug wrong, such county shall be pas ed on correct, proof of crookednel not having been forthcoming to o rthrow the presumption of correc ness which always prevails. "5. That applying such rules, on those counties will be investigate where tangible specifications are hand, either produced by contestant the public or appearing from the re ords collected by the sub-committe appointed heretofore, and it will 1 the endeavor of the committee , take up- the counties and comple them, one at a time, beginning Spartanburg this course to be vane as justice may require, of course. "6. The character of evidence at the method of production will have 1 be determined- by the committee fro: time to time as the questions arise At the second session of the d, much discussion was had by the a torneys for the governor as to t1 procedure of the committee and t} method of inquiry adopted. Appea ing for Judge Jones at the hearir are R. W. Shand and W. H. Towl send. The governor is in the cit but did not attend the hearings. E is represented by F. H. Domihick,] S Blease, 3. M. Cannon and S. Ncholls' A .roll call of the counties in tl district apportioned to Mr. Parks w made and reports from the countit entered in the record when availabl Spartanburg was first considere, L A. Phifer, for the sub-committee< th county Democratic executive con mittee, presented the report. M~ Flfer presented spcifications of a leged frauds. The sub-committee hi not epmpleted the work of mair! the probe of the county, but presen ed numerous alleged irregularitie~ Instances are given of persons vot:! twce, negroes voting who are not el gible to cast a ballot and of persor voting who did not have their namt on the club rolls. The partial repo: adn!tted Tuesday- gives a large nun ber of names arranged as a prec' ic na voting where their names did n< appear on the club rolls. A furthi !vestigation must be made by fi conty sub-committee to ascertal whether or not certain votes cc mre than oce under the same nan: are repeaters or persons of the san name. Abbeville county was called. cortest there was recognized by tI county committee and two boxes Cold Spring and Antreville-wet thrown out because the manage: and voters were not sworn. Charges in Aiken. In Alken the sub-committee he not reported but specifications as alleged fraud are made. The report of the sub-committee< the county committee in Anderso was put in evidence. After readin only a portion, further reading we :lispensed with and the document we ntered in the record. The sub-committee of the Bamber ecunty executive committee has na lied its report. No report has bee received from Barnwell. In Beaufoi there is no evidence of fraud. A report from Cherokee stated th :!stence of Irregularities but no proc of intent to commit fraud. The pr mary was conducted in a slipsho maner, according to the report. In Edgefield no Irregularities wer oticed. A report from the sub-committe , the county executive committee i reenville says: "There were nurme aus irregularities appearing of on ind and another but in the main w :n not fbd evidence that these 11 regulaities were with fraudulent ir tent or accomplished a frauduler purpose." The committee is incline : believe many negroes enrolled ai ctitious. Central box at Greenvill w freely considered. "Many name yn the club roll there can not b dentified. At each of the clubs e: re~ined ten per cent. to 15 per ceni f those who voted can not be ident! ied. Numerous incidents were dis :overed where persons who are dea r removed from the county are rt :orded as having voted." Greenwood's report was not read hen that county was called4 In Hampton the sub-committee ri orts the primary conducted loose13 b:t no more so than in previou 'ears. Mr. Jeffries announced tha n Jasper the county chairman sai :hat he was not advised of an invest: ~ation. Would Not Move. When Laurens was called Mr. Par wnounced t'gt his request for thi Lprointment of a sub-committee wo iot regarded. J. M. Cannon announc d that under a telegram receive rm John Gary Evans. State chai: nian, a recount was made and a resc ution passed calling .on the Stat ~ommittee to exonerate that count rm the charge of fraud. Mr. Par Lnnonced that his rerluest for thi Lapointment of a sub-committee I CONFESSES ROBBERY W e FFARED OFFICERS WOULD SUS e t PECT HIS BROTHER. r 0 Bank Clerk Tells low He Arranged e Bogus Package and Took the e Money. If William H. Bell, 20 years old, a o bank clerk, Tuesday night confessed Sul Shar he robbed the local First Nation . Dank, Tuesday, of a package cos e tainr-g $55,000 of the Louisville and e Nashvile's payroll, and substituted a s bogus package in its place. Fear a that the oficers would suspect his 1 y brother is said to have caused Bell to, y confess. n The young bank clerk has been in o .e the employ of the local bank for two An years. In his confession to detec- m a tiv: es, he declared that he had plan- fu >f n':d to secure the money a week be 3- fore the pay-roll was made up. Last idi h Sunday he made a bogus package, of 'I similar in shape and size to the pay of r, ro:1 package of money filled with of >f magazine slips. st e On Tuesday afternoon, when the be .e Louisville and Nashville pay-roll was tel 'e being fixed fcr shipment he slipped ti I- the package containing the $55,000 an into his locker and substituted the na ,e package of paper in Its place. No In Lt one noticed the change and the bogus th s package together with a shipment of su >- $20,000 was taken to the express of- in flee and receipted. on 1- Tuesday night Bell took the pack- th age of money to his home in a suit el( case. Activities by detectives a4tl of r- f eials when the robbery became th 1- known caused him to return the 2, )f mcney Saturday. He wrapped the Q1 - package in a newspaper and after ca notifying the cashier of the First Na- fr is tici al Bank where the missing mon- i n ey would be found, placed It on the co c- back steps of the bank building. co .efo if Bryan Doing His Share. ev g The tour of William Jennings In y Bryan throughout the West, in be e half of Governor Wilson, Is being w made at a great personal sacrifice to ,l the peerless leader from Nebraska. te After opening his campaign In Den- ha ver, on September 14, Mr. Bryan of 1- whirls through Colorado. Utah, Mon- be 1 tana, California, Nevada, and Wyom s ing. He will return to Lincoln on gi 1 October 2, and expects to devote the tb rest of his time to the campaign in t p the Middle West and the East. be t- "Mr. Bryan is giving up at least co $15,000 by giving all his time to the ul y campaign," said Congressman S. A. pc ,d Burleson, chairman of the speakers' te in bureau. Mr. Bryan has written a te s, number of very gracious letters to 0- Governor Wilson and to members of s e the national campaign committee e and said that he wanted to give all cc te his time from September 14 to Nov- te It mber 5 to Wilson and Marshall. Mr. sc ,d Bryan has also contributed $1,000 re and his work in the,West is sure to as Ld be most effective." r' to Some of . those newspapers that er m never miss an opportunity to slander u: Bryan should make a note of the PC 7 above. Bryan is a patriot and will di - do as much for the success of the re e Democratic ticket as any Democrat in el rthe country. He not only made a lib- ve eral cash donation to the campaign, m a- but is now giving his valuable time ki y, by making speeches no other man -ci e could make. What the Democratic p -party needs is more men of the Bry an stamp-.s ie BTLER'S SENTENC COMMUTED. E s~st; e. Life Imprisonment Instead of Elec- B d. of yf tro'cution to be Fate of Negro. m rhe Governor Tuesday commutedm to life imprisonment the sentence of it< dthimp~osed on lsiah Butler, the s~ nChleton negro, recently convicted it, aCharleston on a charge of attempt- BI s ed crminal assault. Butler was un- th de sentvence to die In the electric chair We dnesdlay. The sanity corn-s mi:.sion: appointed to examine Butler reiv ted to ene Governor that he was v -n imbecile and irresponsible at the of tir he committed the crime for i wlI ich h~e was sentenced to death, tar.- acting on this report, the Gov er. or commuted the sentence to lIre morisonment in the State Peniten- r ntiary. i st CRARLESTON FLEET ARRIVES. W. teta Torpedo Flotilla Gets to Norfolk of A C: eAhead of Storm. Di - The naval torpedo flotilla bound nc( -e from Charleston, S. C., to join tne gt s rnaval rendezvous at New York, arriv- fri edi Tuesday at the Norfolk navy yara, fu just ahead of the severe storm sweep ts ing the coast. The little vessels, there o for a ''brushing up" prior to sailing for New York, are the Stockton, Tin >r gey, Thornton, Shubrick, Delong, A: n Dahigren, Craven, and McDonough. g All are torpedo boats except the Mac ts dotrough, a destroyer. s -- ri pa U... -- pr e p g trh th e ita bo col - Se Dominick told of the correspondence. bciween himself and Mr. Park al r.dy famliar tc the public. No re- ic: pcrt was on hand from Pickens and gen Icon e. It was announced that Salu-/ da had refuised to appoint a sub co nmitte". as did Union. Mr. Greer sa:e the Union county chairman had kil * renoWod to the State executive corn- an Wednesdlay morning at 10 o'clock rei W. Bi. Wilson Jr., presented his re- a kc ipo ts. lic C' Mr. StevenonlO announced that he ch ahrai taken up the question of the WI -Inonher of male whites of voting age di in South Carolina and from Director - Drun had secured the following -' fi~res for 1910: Native whites, of oei1.- -.00; foreign and mixed parent- se: y-ebtnative born. 3,405; unnatur- tei k a7zed 1 602; first papers taken, he: ei -"ed, 1.'602: fiirst papers taken, rim n 1 54: aliens and unknown, 239; un- frc r im wn m0 The chairman annonne- lit HAT MAY BE DONE ANOE IN PRIMARY LAWS MAY B BE RECOMMENDED. 1Y ELECTION PROBERS b-Committee to Investigate Alleg d Frauds in Recent Primary Not hi ikely to Report on Present Con test but May Urge Certain Reforms m to Safeguard Future Primaries. se 51 Mr. S. E. Boney, of The News and ti urier, writing to his paper from a derson, sums up what the sub-com- as ttee may say in its reports to the w I committee when it meets in Co- a nbia to-day. He says a mass of ev- C, nce has been placed in the hands the committee, covering about half tI the counties in the State. Charges S, fraud have been made in some in- H nces, but in most cases there have n en simply the reports of commit- rt s appointed by the county execu- w e committees as to duplications H d the voting of persons whose d mes were not on the club rolls. R short, the evidence submitted to si D sub-committee of probers is of f< th a nature as to merely give an tl ,estigating committee grounds up- h which to proceed, not to 'act, in e sense of whether declaring an f, tion valid or .void. Roughly estimating the work of e e committee it appears that about h Z00 votes have been called into e: estion. This by no means indi- h tes that there have been 2,800 ti Ludulent votes cast; but, jyst that a any have been submitted to the a mmittee for investigation. This, of b urse, covers only about half the 1: rty-four countieis of the State, and b en in those reported, only partial restigation was made. It is estimated that if the reports rre complete from all counties there E mld be eight or ten thousand votes estioned. Just what the commit e will do with this information in nd in reference to the 2,800 votes character to be questioned, now t fore it, remains to be seen. The sub-committee, of course, ha, e yen no-indication, during or since e meetings held in the three big t edmont counties, as to what its ac m will be. Neither has any mem r disclosed the sentiment of those mprising the committee. But spec ation has been quite free as to the ssible report that will be submit d to the State Democratic commit e. From the nature of the evidence bmitted, and taking into consid ation the time necessary for legal oceedings upon which to base a rtest, it is believed in 'many quar rs that the~ sub-committee will arcely undertake to make % definite port on the recent primary, except to general conditions. This cor szadent, not endowed with pow s ofprophecy, therefore, does not idertake to forecast what the re rt of the sub-committee will be. But it is quite apparent that con tions in reference to the conduct in ference to the conduct of primary actions in the State have been re aled in such a light that the corn ittee is almost bound to make some I nd of recommendations looking to anges of the rules governing the iknares. Whether or not there will be a ma rity report and a minority report bmitted to the State executive corn Ittee next week remains to be seen. is well known that the committee inds three to four Blease and anti ease. On the general proposition needed reforms In the primary, it ay not be a hazardous guess to pre t that both Blease and Anti-Blease em'bers of the committee 1wil1 be un Of course, if question of the valid rof the renomination of Governor ease in the recent primary Is raised t ere would doubtless be a division of t ntiment. Notwithstanding partisan- j ip, however, even -the possibility of a estionng the validity of so many d tes has planted firmly In the minds p those who have attended the hear- c gs of the Investigating committee t at there are changes that are not f Ely expedient but necessary in the anner of holding primary elections this State. ( In all probability the committee, ~ 2ch has worked faithfully upon the ~ ek assigned It, and which has roughout evidenced a jealous care e the purity of elections In South C rlna, will recommend that the i ~mocracy of this State bestir Itself I w and, devise some means to safe I Lard t'he .primary and prevent U auds that may be attempted In the I ture. S. E. Boney. ' MONEY LOST AND GAINED. ~ nount Foreigners Brought ta and Carried Out. The 1,114,919 aliens em'grants as 1 as aliens temporarily here, ar ing in this country during the last months, brought $46,712,697. The D migrants carried $33,132,550. I tey had an average of $38 per capi- ti during the fiscal yes.- and $43 h: r'r: the two months -'oa1 -wiu~g b These figures are given In a corn-t rative report made to Commission- o Keefe of the Immigration bureau. 1e Le report shows that the tide of r migration Is running stronger than g year ago, that the 58 per cent. l3 eater for July and August, al- D ugh that ti'e first five months of hi fiscal year ran heavily behind the a vious year's figures.n Of the fiscal year's arrivals 1.6 per 0 at. were debarred from this coun . The immigrants from Canada rried the greatest amount per cap and those crossing the fMexican i rder had least money.* i | Complete Aeroplane Armada. The first review ever held of a|2 plete aeroplane armada took 1: Lce at . V'llacoubly, near Paris.| q enty-two French army flying ma-| a nes, with their full complements s5 pilots and observers and the at- n hed park of motor trucks bearing 0: plies therefor passed in review be-- t t the French minister of war. Al- 1C :re Millderand. *Ia: Policemen Were Electrocuted. " A~t Philadelphia one policeman was s led, another rendered unconscious n : a number of others were less n lously shocked while attempting to 'ort from call boxes in West Phil lelphia late Saturday when the po telephone wire became heavily ' rged with eletricity from a feed h< Dropped Dead at Depot. 01 At Sumter, Mrs. Minty Thomas, that city, dropped dead at the pas iger station Thursday, when, af walking rapidly there, she found t rtain pulling out just as she ar- D ed. Mrs. Thomas was originally ju im Marlboro County and had been ' m WOMAN SUES SUliEON FOR 1IS CARELESSNESS. PERFORMED OPERATION For Two Years Mrs. Ginther Carries About a Linien Napkin a Foot Square Before She Learns Truth, and Then She Sues for Ten Thous' and Dollars Damages. The New York World says Mrs. Charles Ginther of Newark, N. J., not only has lived for two years with a twelve-inch linen napkin implant ed in her side, but Is well'enough after her unusual experience to get angry about it and to sue for $10,000 damages. The defendant is Dr. Charles L. Ill. head of the surgical staff of St. Mar tin's Hospital of that city. He is one of the most famous surgeons in the country. He perfomed an. operation upon Mrs. Ginther In 1910 and sut ured up his incision, It is alleged, without making sure that all the surgical dressings had been removel by his attendants. To 1"e sure, Mrs. Ginther didn't know -.e was carrying the napkin. about with her until two months ago. Who would? It is scarceiy to be sup posed that, knowing she was toting about a foot length of linen, inter nally, she would let It remain where it was. But she decided, after finding It and getting over her first feeling of amazement-that she had suffer ed $10,000 worth, of serious dis cowrfort. It was a grave operation that was performed upon' Mrs. Ginther in 1010. Dr. Ill was assisted by several of the sister-nurses of St. Martin's,. who are noted 'for their skill and carefulness. The operation was a success and after a few weeks in the hespital Mrs. Ginther was able to return .to her home at No. 55 Cot tage place in better health than she haa been for years. She was perfectly well until the latter part of last-July,. when an ap parently trifling eruption appeared. upon her skin, close to the scar left by the incision through which the operation had been performed. She did not pay very much atten tion to this until one day she saw a bit of lint protruding from the end of the old incision. She pulled this out and was surprised beyond belief when it grew to an inch, two inches, four inches and finally eight - inches in length. Then she was afraid to go any. further with the linen, and hurried back to St. Martin's wnere'she show ed the strange souvenir to Dr. III. He used the knife again and with drew the rest of the napkin. It was intact, even to the red embroidered laundry mark. Mrs. Ginther recovered from the shock and pain of the second opera-, tion within a few days. But she felt that she had gone through much unnecessary inconvenience, and so she sued. It is not charged in her complaint that Dr. Ill personally was respon sible for the napkin being sewed up within the woman's srde, but since he was in charge of the operation, he is blamed for the queer accident. The record-chart of tne operation. examined at St. Martin's, shows that he nurses reported they had removed every dressing placed In the Incis Ion. Physicians said that probably no permanent harm had been done te Mrs. Ginther by the presence or the big piece of linen. FATHFR AND) SON SENTENCE~D. Given Fifteen and Seven Years Im prisonment. Fifteen years and seven years, re spectively, at hard labor in the State Penitentiary or upon the .public works of Lexington County, was the sentence of the Court at Lexington Friday in the case of Jacob Watts and Govan Watts, father and son, who were convicted of manslaughter in the General Sessions Court last week. T'he two were charged with the killing of Adam Watts, a Confed erate soldier, 72 years old, the 7th of August last. Adam Watts was the brother of Jacob Watts and an uncle of Govan Watts, and the killing oc curred after a general row in the home of the aged veteran. Judge Shipp said that he would show the licy mercy on account of his youth, and that he hoped that he would yet make a good, law-abiding citizen. Jacob Watts, according to his testi mony on the stand, is now 51 years of age, while his son is only 19.* JILTED MA1N SHOOTS SELF'. The Girl Says She Will Marry Him If He Gets Well. "If he gets well I will marry him," was the declaration made by Miss Grace McKinnon as she sat .by the side of Preston Arthur, who attempt ed to kill himself at her home Tues day night at Athens, Ga. "'I ha'd the grit to do it and I have the grit to get well," asserted the ycung man who has a pistol bullet wound through his body. Arthur and Gerdine Phelps, rivals for the hand of Miss McKinnon, ask ed her to choose between them Tues day night. She chose P'helps. Ar thur left her home only to return a few minutes later and send a bullet through his body. He fell a short distance from the front door on the MKinnon home. It is believed that ho has a chance to recover.* M'~ASTODON SKELETON FOUND. One Tooth Unearthed in Ontario Weighs Four Pounds. The skeleton of a mastodon has been found by Leaman Mawley, near Milahide, Out. The Bones have not all been dug out yet. The ribs meas ure fIve feet in length. The verte bre joints are as big as a small sized frying pan. The upright bones from the vertebrae joints measure from eight inches to 16 inghes in length. One tooth has been unearthed which weighed four pounds and is 14 inches a ound. The skeleton was found on ti'e banks of a ravine. This seems to be the largest skeleton ever discover ed anywhere. Bomb Kills Wealthy Planter. Ambushed assassins believed to have been members of the Blaclk Hand, dynamited the home of John Mondella Sr.. near Shreveport, La., killing him, after he refused to pay them $10,000, demandied in a letter. His wife and three sons were injur ed. Died From Mosquito Bite. At Columbus 0.. Mrs. Win. F. Brown, a society woman of that city, died after several months illness with malarial fever caused by a 'mosquito TOOK HIS OWIN LIFE iNJAMIN SAlS KILLS HIMSELF ON WEDNESDAY. signed No Cause for the Rash Act, But it is Supposed He Was De spondent. Mr. Benjamin Sauls, thirty years age, committed suicide by shooting meelf through the head with a otgun at his home in Smoatis, 1z iles from Branchville, Wednesday orning about noon. No cause is Yen for the deed, except that he is Jd to have been drinking, and is ipposed to have killed himself in a r of despondency. . He leaves a wife :d three children, his step-mother id several brothers and sisters. He as buried 10 o'clock ~Thursaay orning from the Smoaks Baptist Lurch. Mr. Sauls was a member of one of te most prominent families in the noaks section of Colleton County. e had served for several years as a ail carrier on one of the rural >utes from Smoaks, and his work as believed to be very satisfactory. e was well liked by a large' circle or icuds for his genial disposition. rdnesday morning he was on the :rcets up to about an half hour De ire the lttle town was shocked witn te announcement that he had killed lmself. He talked sand laughed with his 'lends as usual, and nothing in his canner indicated that he contemplat I the deed. It is said, however, that e had threatened to kill himself sev rai times before. He went to his ome shortly before 12 o'clock, en wred his bed room and a few mo uents later a gunshot was heard and Lembers of his family rusjling Into is room found his lifeless body ly ig on the floor with the snotgun es!de it. NEED OF WILSON FUND. emocratic Committee Must Have the Sinews of War. A dispatch from New York says he total contributions to date to he Democratic campaign fund mount to $298 750, it was announc d Thursday night by Henry Morgen tau, chairman of the Democratic na Lnal finance committee. Of this um, he added, $206,036 had been xpended and while the national com :ttee feels encouraged over the con ributions received, there is urgent ed of not less than $750,000 add Lonal to pay legitimate expenses to he close of the campaign. "The feeling of confidence thro ut the country in the ruccess of the Vilson and Marshall ticket is hurting s in a financial way," said Mr. Mor enthau. "We have received contri utlons from 17,116 persons, and very State in the union has been eard from." The States credited rith the largest amounts are: New 'ork, $105,385; Pennsylvania $19, 16; Illinois, $15,453; Missouri, $9, 90; New Jersey, $7,012; Wisconsin, 6,125; Louisiana, $5,565; Alanama, ,036; Texas, $3,382; Massacnusetts, 3,039. Including the $100 given by tne mocratig Executive Committee or ,ngeburg County has given a little ex 150 to this fund. Some of this as not been sent in yet, but will .De a a few days. We should raise at east $150 more, making the comtrl ution of the people $250, whIch, ded to the $100 given by the Ex cutive Committee, would make $350 all from this county. Let us go to rork and raise tie additional $100. 'he committee needs the money. so t', get to work at once.. AW MAN LEAP INTO NIAGARA. 'he Man is Believed to be Frank I. Parker, of Buffalo, N. Y. Workmen on the Canadian side of he river at Niagara Falls reported liat they seen a man vault the rail ust above the brink below the falls ud fall among the. rocks, two hun red feet below. Shortly after, the lice picked up a derby hat, business ards anAd insurance papers, bearing ie name of "Frank I. Parker, Buf alo, N. Y." Parker, who was a captain in the 4th regiment, New York State uard, had been in' poor health for eieral 'months. He has been mis Ig since Wednesday. earch also is being made for trace Mrs. George Fitch, of Windsor, onn., whose husband believes she ras the woman a section gang re orted they had seen leap into the rbirlpool rapids on the Canadian ide Wednesday afternoon. Mr. 'itch, who is here, says his wife rote -him from Buffalo that she in ended to die in this way. She had ee in bad health for several. onths -. TWO AIR PILOTS KILLED. erman Military Of~cers Meet With Fatal Accidents. Near Freilburg, Saxony, two Ger san .military officers were killed rhile lying Friday. This makes the aird double fatality in Europe with the present month in which mom ers of the army flying corps were e victims. The machine, which was the monoplane type, was being p1 >ted by Lieut. Berger, who was car ring Lieut. Junghans as a passen &r in a flight from Chemnitz to Ber n. When passing over the city the a~chine suddenly plunged from a 1gh elevation to the ground. The irmen were instantly killed and the ~achine smashed to bits. The cause the accident is not expine l.* MTINOUS TROOPS KILLED. o Hundred Chinese Rebels Shot by Loyal Troops. At Wu Chang, China, more than 00 mutinous soldiers were summ~ari executed by loyal troops in conse uence of the outbreak that occurred niong the soldiers encamped out de that city on Tuesday. The re ainder of the mutineers fled into pen county after they had attacked ie town and been defeated by the yal garrison. The mutineers were i cavalrfaren and numbered over o thousand. They had arranged ith the artillerymen quartered in d the walls to join in the move tent, but the gunners at the critical coment failed to keep their promise. Three Hilled in Collision. At -Kansas City. 'Mo., three men ere killed and several hurt in a ad-on collision .between a north >und Kansas City Southern passen r train and a switch engine on the tskirts of .Kansas City.* No Chance of Recovery. A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., says be condition of Constable Bates of unbarton, is slightly improved Sat rday night, but physicians' state nts do not indicate any chance for