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RECTOR BAD RUTh PLE IN GREENVTII3 QPPOSE HIS ELECTION. They in Mass MeetIg andPut Out a Candidate Against or c Sheriff. A special 4ispatch to The News and Courier frm :;_eenville says the most remarkablegatheriggs1 a pout -Ical nature held .in ,t city for many Sa+-A th..ass meeting of the Scinzes of; G;eenville County at the bid of trade rooms Wednesday t night, for "the purpose of formally naming an independent candidate for the ofioe of sheriff of that county. The-result of the gatberings was a unanimous endorsement of Mr. W. F. SVegdin, of. Austin Township, as the ndepen.deat candidate to oppose Mr. eni ector for this highest exe- E calaoffice of the county. In the ( meeting were men from allwalks of t life. The mill operatives, the'.farm- ( er, the clerk, the merchant, the' mill superintendent, the mill president, f the banker, the broker and the bar- ( ber were all represented. A more i comprehensive collectionuof men it a would be very difficult to find. The meeting was the culmination, t of the opposition to Mr. Rector; be-: t cause of the alleged part he tooklin the arrest of Messrs. Gilreath, Gas nell and Phillips. The meeting was not extensively advertised, being f more in the nature of voluntary up rising of the conservative citizens. I Of the approximately one hundred c and fifty men who were on hand, per haps twenty-five gave expression of their views. The keynote of all these speeches was that the. oaths of the primary were absolved, because of the fact that matters have now risen above the standard of politics. The question, as these speakers put it, is no longer one of loyalty to a more or less perfunctory form, -but = of loyalty to the manhood, prestige. dignity and welfare of the county." As one of the gentlemen who ad- I dressed the gathering stated, the call was no longer one of politics, but of "simple manhood an ! decency." It c was pointed out that the movertent on foot is not one to split the Dem ocratic party, but to preserve It from men who would vitiate It. t TURKISH SOLDIERS EXECUTED. c - Many Put to Death as Result of Kirk Kilisseh Panic. A Constantinople dispatch says three hundred Turkish officers and men have been executed in connec Lion with the panic among the Turk ish troops at the taking of Kirk-Kil ssed by the Bulgarians. It is said that a night attack upon the Bul garian advance guard was ordered by -.ne Turkish commander, but the en ergetic defence offered oy the Bul garians disconcerted the Turkish T roops and a panic set in. The troops dispersed, abandoning in their flight their guns, rifles and ammunition. Mahmoud Mukhtar Pasha tried to stem the panic by e shooting several fleeing soldiers. Prince Aziz Pasha joined in the thght. After consultation with Ob dullah Pasha, the commander of the Turkish troops at Adrianople, by tel- t egraph, Mahmoud 'Mukhtar Pasha ordered a general retreat. Many divisions of the Turkish ar my retreated in the greatest disorder. The main body retired toward Visa, t where the- divisions commanded by Fahri Pasha and Djemal Pasha stop- a ped the routs, restoring some sem blance of order. Fahri Pasha held the Bulgarians temporarily in check and recaptured four of the guns they. had taken from the Turks. TERY COSTLY PEST. Boil Weevil Has Caused Loss of Ov er One Million Dollars. The cotton boll weevil, the great est pest of the so\1th, has caused a loss of $125,000,000 represented by 2,550,000 bales of cotton since the weevil first invaded this country, ac 1cording to an estimate of the depart-co ment of agriculture, issued Wednes day. The weevil crossed the Rio Grandee into the U~nited States 26 t years ago. "The problem of the control of the boll weevil will be more difficult as the pest continues its invasion of the cotton belt," an nounced the department. It can not be considered as yet completely solv ed. There is no occasion to lose hope, but there must be devised bet ter means of controlling the pest and reducing the enormous loss suffered, t especially during unfavorable sea sons in Texas. YOUNG GRIL IS KILLED. 11oth Feet Are Cut by a Train at t Allendale Thursday. Miss Ruth Myrick, the 1 I-year-old daughter of Mr. B. R. Myrick, of Ag lendale, was run over at 7:30 Thurs day morning by the east-bound C. and W. C. passenger train, and both of her legs severed from the body, and as a result of the accident diedi few hours later. It seems that Miss Myrick was walking on the track in front of her home, and in an effort C to free herself of danger from the ap proaching train, stumbled and was caught beneath the whe'ls before the engineer could stop his train. The untimely, death of this fair girl, just budding into womanhool, has cast a o *gloom over the entire community. CARRY TYPHOID FEVER GERMS. r Cockroaches and Bedbugs Are so n Branded by Surg'eon. Cockroaches and bedbugs are Ibranded as carriers of typhoid fever germs by Surg. R. E. Riggs, m. S. N Experimneni~s on the cruiser Newark some time ago made Dr. Riggs s us *picious of bugs in gener:2. and oft' these two classes in particfr l teiis. of an outbreak of tyi lion! at naval post on an isola:. islandl. whehe he was in charge 0: the fco-l land water supply. Careful studyr vealed that cockroaches ani bedbugs were the distributors. Dr. Riggs Lis a native oi- South Caroline. Murder Mystery in Ck~emro. * Myster.y surrounding th'e murde ofi Sop'ha I)'. Sinrmr, a me- -b-; < a el,1-nown Ddltimore family, whosej body wa f-ouni bound and gagged nl a Coomng house in Chicago onl Wed'-sday, three we-'hls after her- C was n'ot solved by an innuest. which C Iwas ad ourned Wecawsd.,v niht af ter a few wtnesse-s had been exam fined. II -Cat Comes U::ek Mst Mils. Robert Rohlinson, a Pittsbure a! road engineer, carrieel anf undsr able cat 60~ miles out of the city. ina bag, and dumped it into a s'ream as the train w*as crossing. Tihe stri! C t roke sed th'e eat was lihorated. WhAn Robinson arrived home the following morning he found the catlu under the store and his wife sarcas-11 TRKS MAIN ARMY OIJLY DEFETED. IN A FOUR DAYS BATTI Turkish Army Retreated Towar< Constantinople After Its Crushing Defeat at Thrace, Bui awns 1 Hot Pursuit and is Now Almost a the Door of the Ottoman Capital. A. dispatch from London sayasi four days' battle in Thrace hasg ed in the triumph of the Bulgariaa commander-in-chief, Gen. Savof whose skillful strategy has probabi: brought to a close the Turkish-Bal kan war- and made it one of ti .shortest and most remarkable e on record. A great Turkish army, ' .t0 at over 200,000 men, has n de Peated, and is in retreat. 06nstanti nople is believed to be at-the merc of the victorious Bulgarian army an a council sitting at the/Porte, is dis cussing the advisabiliy of suing foi peace. Such is the nes which come: from Constantinople. It is only a fortnight since Turkey declared war. The first weelof the campaign clos ed with the.' matic fall of Kirk llssen, fduy revealing for the firsi time.-the digorganization, mad morale and -inefficint commissariat of the Turkish army. To-day that army is defeated,?routed within fifty miles of Constahtinople and possibly its re treat wiin the Capital's line.of de fence ifcut off. Only the briefest and vaguest ac counts of the great battle have ye1 been received, for the war has beer espedally remarkable in that not e sing war correspondent has been al lowed at the front except in the case of /the little Montenegrin campaign agast Scutari. - Thus no independent personal nar -atives of the absorbing .events have been possible, and the world has had to depend on biased official account. provided by the respectable Govern ments or confused details supplied by wounded soldiers. Apparently Nazim Pasha has bees -completely out-manoeuvered by Sav off's skill The Bulgarian turning -+- movement along the Black Sea coast now appears to have been a feint which induced the Turkish command er, to throw his main army to the eastward, to such effect that the -Bul garlan force on this side had the -greatest diffculty in holding the Turks in -check. The Bulgarians gave away and thus enabled Nazim Pasha to report to Constantinople some sue ces in this direction. In the meantime, however, Gen. Savoff hurled his great strength against the Turks' weakened left wing, which he crushed in at Lule burgas. The fighting along the whole - front, which evidently has been of the most stubborn and determined character,.-was carried on day and night without intermission and both .ides- lost heavily. -The capture of Nazim Pasha's headquarters at 'rchorlu, to which town: the. defeated Turks retreated, has not as yet been reported, but is hourly expected at Sofia. In this event the Turks, will be forced within the deensive lines of Tchatalja, the only remaining fortified position 'protect -ing Constantinople. It lies twenty five miles to the northwest of the Capital. Adrianople still holds out, but has lost its importance now that the Turks have met their "Sedan" at Luleburgas. It is Jbelieved a peace settlement will be arranged either by the Porte suing for peace or through interven tion, and an interesting question in -volving difficult diplomatic problems -will immediately arise as to the divis ion of the spoils of war-a question concerning not only the victorious al -lies, but also Russia, Austria, Rou Inartia and possibly other Powers. The campaign of the other Balkan states continues with the ,succes! which throughout has- attended them. Scutari has not yet been captured, but Ipek has fallen to the Monteno grins. The Servians have taken Prisrend' and Greece is occupying the - island in Aegean. in addition to many towns In Macedonia. The Powers, fearing disorders and massacres in Turke, are hurrying warships to the sarious ports of the country to pro. iect foreign residents. Anoticeable feature of the war is the-Insignificant parts played by the Turkish and Greek fleets. - FOUR .LOST THEmR LIVES. Wreck of a Ferryboat Drowns am Auto Party Sunday. Four members of an alvtomobile party- bound for Shawee, Pa., from their home In Noble, Pa., were j drowned in the Delaware river Sun -day when the ferryboat wich they 'were crossing from Delhware, N. J., aswrecked. The dead are: Mrs. LenH. Gilbert, Miss Rebecca Ty*son, Mrs. H.- W. Trump, Leon Gilbert .Jr., Syears of age. There were eight members In the party in two automo -biles. In one machine, iriam Gil bert, and son. Leon Gilbert Jr. In the other automobile was Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Trump, Rebecca Tyson and Nathan Trump. TEGAMBLERS MUST GO. Courts Sustain Governor Marshall Using Militia. At Michigan City, Id., Judge Tut lull rendered an opinion Saturday denying to the Racing Foundation 'Corporation of America an lijunce tion and thereby sustaining the ac tion of State authorities in cuarter Ing troops at the Porter race track. When told that the Indiana suiperior court had sustained his action in quartering state troops at the Porter race track. Gov. Thomas R. Mar shall expressed himself as satisfied. "That's fine." he said. "'I'll show them they can't dump all those Chi cago gamblers into Indiana." Gives Him Five Years. William H. Kruse, former teller of the German National Bank of Cov ington, Ky., was sentenced to five years !a the federal prison at Athan ta Wedinesday. when he pleaded gu'il ty to the misuse of $14,000 of the bank's funds. Four Lost Their Lives. Four members of an automobile party bound for. Shawnee. Pa., from their home~s in Noble. Pa., .were drowned in the Delaware River Sat urday when the terry boat on which they were crossing from Delaware, N. 3., was wrecked. Killed by an Ostrich. A shepherd, named Kleviet. o Stolaktj, South Africa, was ataeikerl by an ostrich, which kich-od him s ee=rrel that he Maed a few homr lat TOOK WONW GARRIED ENTAI 1 A- BIG BALLOON. -. With)I1s Head Downward, the Un yilliing Man Was Carried Three Miles Cross the Country. One of the most hair-raising, breath-taking scenes that has ever been witnessed in that section was one at the Cumberland County Fair, held at Fayetteville, N. C., last w ek, which was viewed by the ten or re thousand pe1e who had gathered to take pa n that great show. There was a balloon ascension on Thur d great crowds gath ered around ' show grounds where the 1n was to start his up ad asinto space. A the ;rangements and details fi l'n e? alloon had been com j iet an who was to ride eIl-te stepped back into his ant or: . ents to get something he had aT n all of a sudden the monster iag fied with gas, broke loose from its fastenings and began its ascension alone. As it made its way upward and the ropes began to be picked up from the ground, a sharp shrill cry of a man was heard, then there were groans and screams, and to the hor ror of thousands of people who were witnessing the upward trend of the bag, they saw dangling from the end or one of the ropes, hanging far be low the basket in which the balloon artist rides, a human being. All hope of staying the bag was lost as it swept upward and onward with the man hanging head down ward, with his leghocked hard and fast in the rope that dangled from the bailon and several feet below the basket or parachute. It was soon learned that the man who had so suddenly been caught up and carried away with the balloon was Mr. J. M. Smith, of Cypress Creek, near Parkersburg, N. C., a man about 50 years old and a farm er The balloon continued its flight until some 1,500 or more feet In the tair and then began to waft slowly with the wind and settle slowly to earth. As it moved slowly It was noticed hat the man had managed by some me.ns to pull -himself up and was i grasping for the basket, which be fln ally did and seated himself in the basket, where he remained until the balloon once again rested on Mother Earth, about three miles away from where it went up. Mr. Smith was :ot injured in the least and after get ting himself into the seat of the bas ket rather enjoyed the ride down o.ard to the earth. KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND. Prominent Railroad Man Slain by His Chief Clerk. Geo. C. Thomson, division freight agent of the Southern railroad, with headquarters at Greensboro, N. C., widely known in the South, was shot an' killed by William F. Blair, chief clerk in his office, at noon Tuesday. An egort of Blair to end his own life when advised by a physician that Thomson was dying was frustrated IS by the physician who wrenched from his hands a .32 calibre revolver f~ eshly loaded. When carried to jail he muttered in broken sentences re gret of his action and declared he had killed his .best friend. Later he II lapsed into a semi-comatose state, II brought on, his physician said, "by the use of whiskey during the past week." R Thomson was shot down in Blair's home after he had responded to a request of his assailant that he come to his home for a few moments. The request by Blair was In answer to a note delivered during the morning and signed by Thomson in which Thomson stated that effective No ember 1 the services of Blair would be no longer desired in the division wC freight offices. PC MfORE DRINKS AND SMOKES. m' su Consumption for 1912 Heaviest n in History of Country. r The American people are drinking more whiskey and beer and smoking le n-ore cigars and cigarettes than ever on before in history, according to tax Go returns received by Royal E. Cabell, to' commissioner of internal revenue. no Fro:n July 1 to October 1. 1912, an more than 3,800,000,000 cigarettes were smoked, an increase of one bil- tr lion over the corresponding period of ab the prevIous year, which broke all S records. ' G The nation consumed 33.150,000 gallons of whiskey during July. Au- ag; gust and September, an increase of be 40,000 gallons as compared with int that quarter of 1911, while nearly of 1,90.000 cigars were smoked dur- Vi ing that time The cigar consump- Ch tion promises to establish a new rec- to: ord.t A total of 10,800,000 barrels of beer were consumed during the three rei months, which was 320,000 barrels trt more than in the same period of hil 1 911. This somewhat surprised rev- sul enue officials as beer drinking fell ed off considerably during the . fiscal cff year ending June 30 last. HUNTING A FIEND. W Sti or, Ohio Farmers Seeking Negro Wholi Attacked a. White Girl. A dispatch from Columbus, OhIo, be says farmers armed with shotguns twt were scouring the subur bs of the city rie in an endeavor to capture a negro Me who attacked and seriously injiured Miss Louise Miller, a young white pa girl. The negro beat her with a he club and physicians at the hospital Ttr to which she was taken say her in- foi juries may~prove fatal. Miss Miller was returning from work and was m knocked down from behind by her ed assilant within a short distance of su her-home. Miss Miller was dragged aci into a ravine and badly beaten about the head, portions of her body were dis lacerated as if by teeth and most of sh 'her clothing was torn from her body. Bloodhounds have been sent for in an' endeavor to trail her assailant. Drank Too Much Booze. pu A dispatch from Spartanburg says in to the lax enforcement of the liquor as laws in that city is attributed the fif- '1u ty-seven arrests which were made ca there for drunkenness on circus'nay. a The session of the Recorder's Court Ith lsted practically all day and fines'to -ere imposed on the men who got soused. It Is also a notable fact that i the heavy docket there was not one defendant charged with violat-- e ig the whiskey and beer ordinances1 1H of the city. co . . er Fell Th wn Elevator Shaft. te2 I. C. '. a retired mining mil. the lon- a . ad as the result of in ur= ivr I in a f al. down an ele vato .. le -was sixty years old. Mr. t .tered the lobby of the Ii Broadt. partment house where be P lived and walking hurriedly, plunred Se nto the open shaft. The car had rei been raised to the second floor for th r.ears rea Orangeburg Count: last year and offers Tuesday morning, friends will be in C and will be cared f FIVE THOUSAND DOL TWENTY THOUSAND I provement of grounds and buil months. Five thousand dollars prizes this year. AUTOMOBILE AND Automobile, motorcycle and ing any ever seen in South Caro] prove attractive to the owners o Foot ball games between leac on the best gridiron in the Souti CHEAP RATES ON A Reduced rates and special ti Come and greet your friends thousand visitors expected and : Special attention given to, e trons on Friday and Saturday. Remember tl IOMAN WAS SLAIN IE TESTIFIED AGAINTST THE WHITE SLAVERS Le4 ER DEATH THE RESUT whi >sa Rossi, Who Was Murdered Abi Near Bridgeport Last Week, Had lar Been Working for the Govern- of dov ment, and Told of White Slavery Sou cen in Chicago. a A dispatch from Chicago says the Pre man shot to -death near Bridge- era: rt, Conn., last Tuesday week by 1.9 e of five men who had taken her 13 an auto to a lonely spot in the jI burbs was Rosa Rossi, a Federal tist iverment detective. After she was tots tied it was said she was Rosa Thi ite, who lived in the Bridgeport abo light district. - cen Rosa Rossi had lived in Chicago's this 'ee district many months, carrying ext: her work of investigation for the but vernment. She worked herself in- chu the confidence of some of the most F torious of the men of the district, stre d as a result gainiea much valuable mis ?ormation about the "white slave" is tde. In particular she got facts is t out the importation of girls from mn t rope. These facts went to the is a vernment. and When the woman spy- informed ge~n ainst Demetrio Mariano she sealed ate r death warrant. He is now await- ent trial in New York for violation strc the Mann act. Mariano carried F olet Nicholas from New --York to a n icago and sold hpr to the proprie- in -of a resort at No. 104 West Twen- or first street. the The Rossi girl found this out and boa orted to Government oflcers. A hod p was set for Mariano by writing thal n a decoy letter asking that he' Sou pply another girl. He was arrest- or I as he was leaving a branch post- A ice in Brooklyn with the letter. the George Craft of the New York of- non e of the Department of Justice C011 nt to Chicago and arranged with Abl: Lte's Attorney Wayman for a raid reni the house in which Roso Rossi Mat ed. She and eight other women Roc .re found there. Jennie Dora, the I usekeeper, agreed to turn informer hell ause of Rosa's example. These of' o and one other woman were car.. aid id to New York to testify against five riano. i-e' The Rossi woman's evidence wasi dev rticularly damaging and he was por d for trial. Then Rosa went ;o S idgeport, where she had lived be. R *e she went to Chicago. int Associates of Mariano sat in .indg mt on the "squealer" and Fenitene her to death. Five men were ft mmoned from different places to:so as executioners. g ennie Dorn, the housekeeper, h'as e ;appeared. Mir. Craft fears that g too has been murdered. j Turks Still Retreating. The Bulgarian army is vigorouslyj rsuing the Turks, who are retreat- T r in disorder and panic on Seral .Tad d Tchorlu. Many guns and larre Ore antites of ammunition have been lag ptured. Aivali, near Luleburgas,.r d Maras have been burned. All:h Christian inhabitants. accordingL tint the Dulgarians. were massacred. Tj . I iha" Pirates' Gold Found in Cellar. While making excavations In the Jar of a 200--year-ol'd ho'ie nat Now' T iven. Conn., an Italian laborer dlis- n vered a pewter pot containing ov-~ Sr-: 1,70fl coins. The vessel was about C inches in diameter and fll"ud to had brim with "eight-real" pieuces. i~ Ghost Guards Tunnel. neg "A man without a head.'' is terror g freight trainmen at the Sand tch tunnel, near Hyndman, Pa. A veral brakenen and fiagmen have plat !used to ride any train that enters H-ai tunnel unless they be allowed to of nain n tbe ca'bdie. in I rA NTS AiAINST TE eIm GERS ARE WITIIDRA N.4 1 WNfr %AS INTENSE mo the Tremendous Crowd That Was Prse nt at the Preliminary Hearing of tiejCases Against Gil reath, Phillips and Gosnell, Ar rested by Order of Gov. Blease. The Greenville Daily Piedmont ays the warrants against Inspector d Police J. D. Gilreath, Policem'a ilex Phillips and. Constable Reuben losnell, charged with aiding -Thurs on U. Vaughn. to escape from t2 a Ireenville county jail last June, were vithdrawn Wednesday afternoon a ew minutes before 4 o'clock.- Mr. )scar K. Mauldin, attorneyafor thed >rosecution, asked io.a withdrawal Liter Magistrte Samuel.Stradley had -efused to grant'the continuance of he preliminary bearing, asked by he prosecution. The .preliminary was demeanded y. connsel for the defense, Hayns rorth and Haynsworth,.-and was set ,or 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon >efore Magistrate Stradley. A few ninutes - before- 3 o'clock a tremen bus :crowd gathered near the mag strate's court room and in order to Lcommodate the people the place of he hearing was changed to the oard of Trade rooms. The room vas filled and numbers of people vere standing in the hallways lead ng to the room. Attorney Mauldin, who says he as secured by the prosecution to :onduet the case, appeared before dagistrate Stradley and in the form !f a motion asked for a continuance. e said that important witnesses rere out of the city Tuesday and that vithout their presence the prosecu ould not go on with the case. He urther said that a detective, who Lad been working on the case for ome time, could not be located at his time and for that reason they rere unwilling to proceed with the, :se. Mr. Mauldin had prepared a notion which he read to the court. in reply to .ir. Mauldin's request ir. H. J. Haynesworth said that the itnesses whose names appeared on he warrant, were, in Greenville and ,e could see no reason why the cases hould not be tried Wednesday after ,oon. Mr. Mauldin interrupted the peaker and said that two of the wit esses referred to were not there, ut were in Columbia. He said that ack Power was in Columbia and that Iendrix Rector was sent after him. [r. Haynsworth then inquired to now why the witnesses were not here. Speaking to Mr. Mauldin he aid: "You knew the witnesses were anted, why didn't you insist that bese men be here." When Mr. Haynsworth had con luded his argument Magistrate tradley demanded that the prelim :iary should be held at the time set. Tr. Mauldin then arose and said that he only thing the proszzution can ake is the dismissal of the charges. 'he announcement ofthe magistrate hat the warrants had been with rawn was followed by much laugh er and discussion. Feeling was nse during the hearing. A dispatch to the Greenville Pied 2ont Wednesday said "Hendrix Rec or and Jack Power, of Greenville. re in Columbia and it was stated by .man who came down on the train ith Rector that Rector. Power and heriff~ Lyon, of Abbeville, were go-* crg to the penitentiary td try and get statement from Vaughn. The same ian said that he was told by one of hose three men that Rector came to. 'olumbia for he express purpose of eeing Vaughn at the State prison." A later dispatch from Columbia to he Greenville Piedmiont said "Hen rix Rector and two other men whose .ames the penitentiary officials did ot disclose, but who are supposed a be Jack Power and Sheriff Lyon. ! Abbeville, at 1 o'clock Wednesday ere in consultation with T. U. uaghn in his cell in the peniten iary, the conference having been al awed on an executive order of the |overnor. Newspaper men who were, ent to the penitentiary Wednesday, cere not allowed to see Vaughn." In commenting on the above tele ams, the Greenville Piedmont says t the Greenville County jail Wed eday morning, it was stated in re ponse to an inquiry that Jailer Rec or was "out in the country". The irect question "Is he in ColumbIa?'' rought the response that he was not. Iewspaper men have been denied the rivilege of seeing Vaughn even in he presence of a guard, at the peni entiary at Columbia. But it seems hat Rector has free access to him. It will be remembered that Gil eath, Phillips and Gosnell, all high 7 respected citizens of Greenville. ere arrested Inst Sunday afternoon n the order of Governor Blease. be ng charged with assisting Vaughn a escape from jail last June. This harge was based on an alleged con esion of Vaughn. the wretch who .as confessed to ruining fire little 'irs, inmates of the Odd Fellows irhanage while he was at its head. This matter has created a great el of excitement in Greenville, an'1 eeling is .-o strong nanst Rector. ho was nominated in the prim.,ry or sheriff, that at a mass mneetinr n Wednesday evening an independ nt candidate was nomInated to run gainst him. The people are Indig ant because three resn'ectable citi ens have been arrc'sted on charges ade by such a fiend as Vaughn con essed himself to be. It looks like a case of norsecution n the part of the enemir's of Gil eath. Phillips and Gonnell, or an ef-1 art on the part of Vanghn's fr-ientde a have himn pardoned so as he cotl-' e made a legal witness in court vainst the ahove pmen. No) one' -nrc'lv In Ctrens"e 'iieves what 'aani ru"n- +n have said. A YERY ST"'N '"AN. :o Hop.e for th'e 1:i tmery of Vice I1'redn S::eraan. A dsitc fomme-.N. Y., says ames S. "'wr. .c.: Preside~nt of noUiei2s. emsly ill and Chbile his phyi;cian, Dr. Fatyette 1H. Tee, believes there is no immediate1 anger, yet the dis'ingihed patient ondition is such that it is a matter' co-peture how much longe~r he] an withstand the ravaus of the di-! ease with which he is sufferinig Hi.e ay withdraw from the Repuiblien 'residential ticket. Hilled His Sister by Accident. A Clarksville. Tenn.. special says~ h-at Louis Hale, vaccdentally shot rd killed his sister, 17 years .old, itheir home. a few miles south of 'arsville. H-e had been cleaning a volw-r and stumbled as he steppedl cross the r-oom to puit it awaiy, the: rearon striking something and be Sfired. The shot struck the girl -i eburg )VEMBER 12th r set the standard f< more attractions thi November 12th., an )razgeburg, S. C. Fil or, splendidly entert LARS IN PRIZES )OLLARS spent on im lings during past twelve offered in premiums and HORSE RACES horse races daily, equal ina. The purses offered f the fastest horses. ing colleges of the South LL RAILROADS ains on all. the railroads.. they will be here. Fifty gill be cared for. xhibits from valored pa e0 Dates: NO ORANGEBU 0ME BAPTIST FACTS 0 iAT A GREAt CHURCH IS DO ING IN TIlE STATE. A o:tI thos ds All Other Denominations in inte . quil 'oint of Church Members in South ing rpart arolina- the he Baptist State Convention, out ch will hold its annual session in wa ieville early in December, is the ceni ;est religious body in the State. the last United States census figures T1 religious denominations, puts day: n the leading denominations in beca th Carolina as follows: 51.3 per caun . of the total church membership, prol ist; Methodist, 37.4 per cent.; the sbyterians, 5.3 per cent.; Luth- visii as, 1.9 per cent.; Roman Catholic, a! h per cent; Protestant Episcopal, mid per cent.; all others, 1.3 per eeni. exh~ twill thus be seen that the Ba.? hi constitute more than half the( the l membership of all the churches. belc Convention will be attended by bey4 t 400 delegates, about 65 pe:' II . of whaom will be laymen. In Faia denomination, preachers have no lng, a rights by virtue of their office, uca1 are elected as delegates by Ora. rches just as laymen are. 1 6t 'robably the chief source of Cou ngth of the Baptists Is their home able sion work. In every State there but mission board, whose only duty eclil m develop the denomination with- in he bounds of its own state. There met iso a mission board for the south, and one for the north. These two mai eral home mission boards co-oper- expm with these state boards, strength- all ig the week by the help of the Eve ng. stru or forty-two years there has been and ission board among the Baptists durn outh Carolina. More than half T he white Baptist churches now in exp< State have been helped by this gro: rd, and innumerable colored pasi ies. There are to-day no less doll 558 white Baptist churches in m th Carolina which were organized fere ostered by this board. for mong these churches are some of and very strongest bodies in the de- mes ination, as the First Church, at' beez imbia; Florence, First; Shandon; will eville; Central. Greenville; Lau- just :s, First; Lancaster, First; St. don thews; Union, First; Conway; T k Hill, First and others. plet .is the policy of this board to toi churches for a limited number uca1 'ears, and it is a rare case where scht is extended for more than four or sent years. save in a most limited de- e .The purpose ,,r the board is to - alop weak churches, not to sup them. ecretaies of this board in the have been men whose influence h State can hardly be over esti ed. These men have been: J. 0. )argan. J. F. Morrall, A. W. La ,W. H. Strickland, R. H. Grif nd T. M. Bailey. Of these all Mr. Lamar and Mr. Baile, are' . The present secretary is the .W. T. Derieux, D. D., a native rinian. of old South Carolina nich Huguenot stock, as his name Turks Ravaging Country. e Turkish army in the district of in Epirus, retreating before a ek army, is leaving burned vil s and massa cred women and chil in its wake, according to a ca am rec'eived at the Greek lega at Washington Tuesday night. mwssm says six villages already e been burned. Savfd Them From Chair. 'aniel Byrd Jr., and Jake Moore,. riten of murder in Fairfield. in ember. 1912. and sentenced to b? 'roeutd on Novemaber 1, have their sentences commuted to life isonment in the State Peniten y by the Governor. They are both Another Aviator Killed.. t Munich. Bavaria, when a e. operated by Lieut. Moritz rburger collapsed at an altitude 'o feet. The aviator waskid h mani bra to the irth., South Carolina fore. Between lov. 16th., your s are expected . ially instructed. s UNEXCELLED FREE attractions have rld wide famous acts of Vithout a Loop, and. then and LaMart, Silent Acro attractions that thousands s of miles and paid high e free to all. visitors of the IN THE SOUTH. TIMATE, high class car 1es, with his $20,000 Car y, and his Famous Wild the Fair Grounds and the' :ompany travels in its-own louble- lgigth cars and is est -carnival company now th to 16th 11 be conducted by the County Sn rintendent of Education. Foot ball mes between leading southern col ;es, are scheduled for.two days- of e Fair, and this highly scientific d enthusiasm producing sport will aw thousands of people. In the rse racing events that take place ily, will be seen some of the fast . trotting and running horses of the uth. The automobile races will be races reality, and applications for en r are coming in from all sections of angeburg, and neighboring coun s. A hair raising feature will be e remarkable performance of the >rld-wide famed Babcock, in his iginal ac+. entitled "Looping the op, wit'. a loop, and then Leaping e Flume''. This is a free exhibi n that takes place twice daily. The ite and LaMartys Silent Comedi s" is another of the free exhibits, d is one of the highest priced per rmances that could oe secured. What is' conceded to be one of the st if not the :best carnival comn Lnies touring the United States, has en secured for the entire week,, d will have midways on the Fair >unds, and Main Street. An offer thiat has attracted num us exhibits from other counties, is at of the railroads to return all hibits by freight free. The rail ads have granted very attractive tes from all points. The promo s of this vast enterprise have -ar nged for the entertainment -of, m fifty to one hundrede thousand sitors, and their expectations wiHl realized, If the attendance last ar Is a fitting criterion by which judge. There will be amusement d instruction for every man, wo an and child, who come to .Orange irg during Fair week. ARGE 'OF TRAIN WRECKINJG. an and Boy in Jail - Engineer's Widow Sues Southern. Charged with wrecking Southern lway Passenger Train No. 43 on ~tober 4,. causing the death of En eer Jacob Ccs3tner, Edward Ren e, aged 43, Is in fail at Clarksville, L., Monday. This Is the second ar t for the crime. Tom Tankersley, d to be a country boy, being ar sted several days ago. Tankersley said to have made a partial con ~sion, declaring that, while drink , he, with others, opened a switch, iich caused the wreck. Renfroe nies any complicity in the affair. s. Costner, wife of the dead engi er, has filed suit for $50,000 dam s against the railroad. methods and con tractive the whole sted. licious; this cake is "I made them," both father and ~rhas maehome re and a profit, and the world over is wounty to 16th, 1912 r County Fairs in i year than ever x d Saturday night, r ty thousand viitoi ained, and benefic FREE ATTRACTION THE HIGHEST PRICEI been secured, including the w< Babcock's Looping the Loop ' Leaping the Flume; and White batic Comedians. These are of people have traveled hundre prices to witness. T hey will b Fair. THE BEST MIDWAY THE MAMMOTH, LEGI nival company of Johnny J. Jo ousal, the finest in the counti Animal Show, will exhibit on Main Street Midways. This special trains of twenty-two < recognized as the best and bigs touring. VEMBER U RG, S. C. RANGEBURG COUNTY FAIR. w Be the Largest and Best Fair in South Carolina. al comparison of the County Fairs di he Past in South Carolina with h< e of the present would furnish an resting study. The patch work es t, made by hand, and represent- Sc hours of tedious wotf on the of the housewife, and made from is accumulated scraps from worn tr garmens, that had found their 0 to the rag bag, was usually the ti er of attraction and interest in ti art exhibit..w he agricultural exhibits in those 0 would be interesting now only .use of their cruideness, and be- ti e of the progress they would ti re has been made. Features for 'I amusement or entertainment of ai ors, consisted mainly in occasion- ai arse or mule races. Carnival and IC ways, and free acrobatic, or citer bitions were unknown. The ex- b tsad., all departments were fromn P2 couty, in which the Fair was bc ., and few came to see them from ai nd the county lines. gr Sis indeed a far cry from the 's of that period, to the entertain- ei instructive, modernized and ed- t ;ve fair that is to be held in e3 geburg on November 12th to the rc , inclusive. The Orangeburg r~ ty Fair of 1911 was a remark- te success, from every standpoint, IEE the fair of 1912 will probably R se anything of the kind ever held south Carolina. Every Depart t has its experienced manager, Y7 no expense has been spared to tc :e the Fair this year a, mammoth ai ~sition of the advancement, along U ines. of this section of the State. bi rything is arranged for the in ctive entertainment or the thous who will come to Orangeburg ng Fair Week. 3 wenty thousand dollars has been inded in the improvement of the ids and buildings during the few months, and five thousandR ars has been set aside for prem Sand prizes. The premiums of- Oi cl for merit, make it worth while gi xhibitors to bring their products fr already practically all of the im- G i se foor space for exhibits has' re applied for. Visitors to the Fair jsa have an opportunnty of learning rt what is being done and can be is SIn ur State. f e program for each day is re- in with features that cannot, fail w] nstruct and entertain. On Ed- de ional Day, November 12, all the M: ols of the county will be repre- ne ed, and an old time spelling bee, a ABsoLUTE Cooking under moderi venences is made so al family is becoming intere "These biscuits are d excellent," says the father says the daughter, and daughter beam with pleas Royal Baking Powd< baking a success, a pleasu the best cooking today done with its aidL