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VOL. xxvII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUA IY 8. 1913 NO.27 Y HOCSF1 IITE3 IT al EnltI AILIE gIESIAT LE IE UM 1y4 te T'phie and rasas 1 WaD From~ m te, While to 0th c es the ihocks W el Bare yalt. Dong No Damage An earthquake shock. in some t tances severe enough to shake do. - himneys and break vases. oceurri ta many parts of South Carolina b tween 1 and 3 o'clock WednesdaT a tornoon. The shook was quite gei oraL being felt throughout most the Statq. The earthquake was e j5Cly severe In the Piedmoat so ca. although It was :elt In oth farts of the flate in a lever dove At Gatney ehlma0e were esa Is topjl3 and at Ualo chimneys tel -At Gr eeTille the shouk proed s are nough to ease vases to eras from mantels. The shook at Ohe ter wedsumetaat to move the lin * g~e =ahan In the oBee et TI S'h earthquake visited adgeel ad eaused old residents to think e shook of 186. No serious da. it reported from the quake. I ? o all the omanitlea visits she gitiass were greatly alarms d.ziag the few secosas rocking an ellingg of the earth went on. oewere at Chestes, ., Jen. 1.-Quite a' how hen pa me alarmed here this atternoo -a w -to sharp and very distim -ar~qake shooks were pereeptabl eat. A amber of restdenees wee sakens and -rtieles moved about. I The Lantern's mechanleal dpesr mea the heavy linotype mahntae v . Ihtl7 moved. The shock was Ubi wise felt at Lowryvtle, nina mile . from here. The trat shoot canse a 1:15 and the second at 2 o'clool testing more than'a few ards. N damaese was reported. Teti at Udgeistd. 34gele1d. Jan. 1.-About :.3 o'clock tis afternoo an asrthquab was felt here very perceptibly. Tb shook was preceded by a rear c .: ltng but it was ImpeUibl0 lte 1 re what directon the sound am The vibration, or shock was of ae deat duration to be saggestive of th earthquake of 18$. shor But Seevere. RSot Hill. Jan. 1.-Rook Hi garted of the New Year with a get eas earthquake, a severe shook oa earring here this afternoen abou 1:32 o'clock. lasting about 2" see ends. The vibrations were -very di tinet. In the directiou of east t west. n many homes the effect we very noticeeble Ia the awiytag of tb elctie light fttires. Seee at Gnef.. Gatney, Jan. 1-Gefiney was vi teed thIs afternoon at 1:28 e'eloe by a severe earthquake. Bauding sheok and in sera parts of the .11 parts of chtmneyT tell." The she asted for but t'es seconds. R' ports from ?ic-.s and other es ios of the loaat 7 Indicate that tI -shock was a'& s-ry severe, but a serious dar.sce a reported in as part efthde -.ounty. -SaetsS Felt Aiasmed. Spertcnbnrg. Jan. 1.-A ss earthquake shoek was felt here 1:51 this afternoon. Many buildiai a the town tremrbled from founds tin to roof. mausing hundreds preses to rush Into the streets. TI trme lasted several seond, 61 aodamage was reported. Unton. Jan. 1.--A severe eartV quake ehock was expertenced heo ti day. Bouses were badly shaken. some 1==tncs chimneys were shaJ en down and people- rushed out deese ta alarm. The vibratles lee d for several econds, and were tI hardent felt her. eine 1134. algh t Greeavif S Greeuvie, Jan. 1.-A eith earthquake was felt hare- todayV I 1: 29 p. a. In several residese vases were thrown from mantel N. damage of eensequense is reper Ingh Abee I. Andesa. Anderson, Jan. 1--A slight eart quake was felt In every setion Anderson conty this afterne about 1:39 o'clock. No damage w reported. Charlotte, N. C.. Jan. 1.-A di tinet earthquake sheet was felt he at 1:8) this afternoon. Tbe sibi tions were from east to west ci .lasted about three seconds. No dal ago has been reported. Distinet to Greenisheee. Greensboro, Jan. 1.-A distin eartoske shook was telt hero 1:20 this afternoon. No damage fatalities wore reported. Corpse (lauses auto Wreek, In an effort to avoid driving I automobile over what he believed be the body of a man. Charles Cook, a merchant, steered his m chine into the railing of a brid over Dry Creek. seven miles south Denver, Col., Thursday night and ti car was hurled into the stream. ki ig Mrs. Juanita Barrows and fatal Injuring Mrs. Charles 3. Brown. c eupants of the car. Meety s'a -lwful Death. Alighting Nom" a moving train recover a C 'ma rift he h: bonght his ag'd mother, Sudin E ns, a young p!anter of Faslin. V fel beneath the whes and was d canitated. The ree~fdet occurred view of a thron~g of Christmas shc poe who were awating their tre = an= ~r!women hinted, LAY ASIDE ALL POMP GOVURNOD SULE R POOTS IT TO e" IJAUGURATIOY. apire sate Executive Walks to O Capital and Cuts Out Parade and Miitary Demonstration. Precedents of years' standing were 6 tgrured and others created Wednes day during the inauguration of Wit o liam Sulser as Democratic governor of New York at Albany. All the pomp and display usually y incident to such occasions were lack ing;-this at the governor's own re quest. There was no military demon stration; no governor's salute of 17 guns; no parade; nothing to feature a the induction into office of the State's chief executive, except a noteworthy f gathering of prominent people and the carrying out of the program pro vided by the constitution. The new governor insisted upon walking from the executive manson to the eapitol. refusing to ride in a carriage which had been provided. After the ceremonies he inaugurat d .d a new feature by appearing on the front steps of the capitol and ad dressina the thousands who were un able to witness the ceremonies In side. Gov. Susse took the constitutional oath of omce in the lavishly decora d d assembly chamber. In his Inaugural address the new executive pledged "an honest and er Rcieat and economic and business a like administration, and was greet d ed with prolonged applause when he -said: "The people know that an ounce of performance is worth a ton of promise, and they will judge my ao '- ministratan not by what I say now, i but what F-'4.-ereafter." 4t In the asiey chamber of the y capitol, whieh was thronged with e State and court officals and promi a neat citizens, Mr. Sulzer took the formal oath of office. a The formal ceremonies In the as sembly chamber differed but little a from these of ether years, but there t was a vast difference between the , ceremonies immediately preceding D Gov. Balser's induction into office and Inauguration of other days. This year ?at the new executive's request there was no military dis play, which formerly has been a fee taro of inaugural day. There was instead only a small procession from -the executive man s"e to the capitol, made up of the incoming and retiring governors and their stalls. The eustomary govern e or's salute of 19 guns was omitted also. d AYLATA'S CRIME RRORD. t Patcy-ve Kllings and Only One Maz' doe Is Hanged. Fifty-ftve deaths from violence, an average of more than one each week, occurred in Atlanta during the year 0 eding Jan. 1 according to ngures complied by the local -polie. While sereral eases resulting from these Ihomicides still are pending in court. k only one person has .been convicted P of murdar iS the Irst degree and 7 hanged. This was Robert L. Clay. k wife marderer, who enaintained a I sphynx-like silence until the day of -his execution, Friday, December 13. 0 Night persons connected with the 55 0 homicides have been sentenced to y from eight year. to life Imprison ment. Sixtoe of the murder mysteries eare unsolved. Of this number five or athe murders are attributed by the ;police to "Jack the Ripper," whose victims all bate been negro women ,f found with their throats cut. eo Sixteen trials are pending. In the i remaining cases the persons charger with the crime either were exonerat ed er have committed suicide. h. Thirty-two of the death were y. caused by gunshot wounds and seven a of this number were killed by police a men. Seventeen persons were stab s bed to death or had their throats cut. t- The remaining six wore either kick 04 edr beaten to death. Pigures complied by the police also Aew that 17 of the slain were no a groes. During the year 1911 Judge t Broyles of the city court bound over sa f76 pwseen for carrying pistols. MAYO3 A MURDERBR. PreFsshmssa Stabs Two Aged Women. ii Bobbery the Motive. is A sensation was caused by the ar rest of Eugene Pirron. mayor of the suburban city of Gentilly. to the S- south of Paris, on a charge of at e tempting to murder two aged women. I- The crime occurred on Saturday. 4 when the assailant gained access to - the parlor of the villa where Miadame Chabreux and Madame Solet lived. e. used a subterfuge to gain admis t slon and immediately rushed at the at women and stabbed both of them in r the back 'with a carving knife. He then ran from the nouse and escap ed. The mayor was taken to a hos pital to confront the victimes. As soon as the women saw him both shrieked. "He is the man." a- MEXICAN AFPMTRS BAD. of Situation Is Too Much for the Pres en Feea Forces. Er Disorder and turmoil in Durango. o Mexico, continue without abatement, and a stateme~nt issued by the state departmient Tuesday said the situa tien "is beyond the control of the toj e"ral s'uthorities with the troops td flow at their dIsposal." a- The rebels are said to hAnome hoF . i. er as the approech DuranT'o Cit". e- Refugees .zom outlying districts re in inte pitiful storIes of suff'ering. Rail p- road comrmunication with Durant es in out. Telegraph coarmmunloation is ima prteet A LEAF FROM PAST SOME MORE STANDARD OIL LET. TERS GIVEN OUT INTERESTINGi READINi Correspondence of McILurin With a Chief of the Great Octopus Shows that It Had No Use for Sen ator Tillman and Was Anxious to Defeat Him. In the December number of the Hearst magazine a letter from Sena tor J. L. McLaurin to John D. Arch bold, the active business manager of the Standard Oil Company, was published. This letter is followed by the public action in the January num ber of several letters that passed be tween McLaurin. Archbold and others Some of these letters speak of the campaign in this State made by Sen ator McLaurin in his eff6rt to estab lish the commercial Democracy, which brought on a rupture between SenatorTillman and aimself and which resulted finally In the retire ment of McLaurin. From these let ters it will be seen that Senator Mc Laurin in his fight against Senator Tillman was backed by the Standard Oil Company, which was anxious to. have Senator Tillman defeated. In introducing the letters Hearst says "in the last chapter we beheld Senator McLauhin, a Democrat, writ ing Mr. Archbold and conveying cer tain information regarding Mr. Roosevelt's expressions of hostility toward the Standard Oil Company. This information was not sent be cause of McLaurin's Democratic hos tility to Mr. Roosevelt, a Republican. The reader will see from a letter published later in this article thv McLaurin personally liked Roosevelt. Senator -McLaurln's warning to Mr. Archbold was therefore merely an act of non-partisan tevotion to the Standard Oil Company to enable Mr. Archbold intelligently to consider the best interests of the Standard Oil Company in th.s impending election. Senator McLaurin was out of office at the time, but he remembered past favors" and had al ively sense of favors to come. "What all the favors were that Sen ator McLaurin had .aceived from the Standard Oil Company we cannot tell. but what some of them are we can tell by McLaurin's own correspon dence. In the first letter to be pro duced in this series Mr. Archbold merely acknowledges the courteous call of Senator Mcaurin. Apparent ly no mutually advantageous associa tions had as yet developed between these two gentlemen. Senator Mc Laurin had perhaps heard from fel low senators of Mr. Archbold's be nevolent disposition and naturally wanted to establish agreeable rela tions with so noted a political phil antropist. Senator McLaurin had announced his cowring by the follow ing letter, but 9' ;h a misunder - standing had mi 'dsr. Archbold. Febrarary 13,1900. My dear sir: I am very sorry indeed to have missed your call on Saturday. On receipt of your favor of the 8th, which indicated that you might come on Monday, I immediately wrote you. telling you that I would not be here on Monday, as it was a holiday. z do not usually come to business on Saturday, and as no suggestion was made of your calling then, I did not advise yon. I am very sorry. I will, of course, be glad to see you any day except Saturday. I am con templating a little absence of ten days or two weeks, to leave here pos sibly about a week from now. Very truly yours. Jno. D. Archbold. Hon. 3. L. McLaurin, Washington. D. C. Commenting on the above letter Hearst says "there is no mention in the letter of any requirements on the part of Senator McLaurin, but Mr. Archbold seems to realize that Sena tor McLaurin did not call upon him merely for the purpose of inquiring about his health So although no re his health. So that although no re utrements are mentioned the letter of Mr. Archbold is so friendly that f Senator Mctaurin has any re quirementi, he will be deprived of ny hesitation about expressing them at an early date. And surely enough in the next letter of the series we find that Senator dicLaurin has had re quirements all along, and is moving to bring them to Mr. Archbold's at tentIon through a common friend. Mr rasty. Mr. Grasty knows benevo lent Uncle Archbold's establishment whre einbarrassed politicians can pawn their independence and receive such accomodationsu as are rerquired. He knows how eager Uncle Archbold Iis to do business with any good polit ical risk and he was willing therefore to present Senator McLaurtn's ease to Uncle Archbold, which he did on February 10. On Febuary 19 after the call of Senator McLaurinl Mr. Archbold answered Mr. Grasty as foi lows: February 19. 1900. Mr. Thos. P. Grasty, Baltimore. Ed. Dear sir: I have your favor dated at Wash ington on the 1 6th, and the enclos r accompanying. which I beg to re turn you herewith. I will be glad to see Senator McTaurin here any day, and hare no doubt we can ar range the matter to his patisfaction. Very truly yours. I ~ Jno. D. Arc'hhold. "Mr. Archhol1 "will be glad to see Senator Mc~aurin here any day." and Mr. Archbold continues "no doubt we en arrane the matter to his Isatisacton." Thtun we see that nof withtandng Senator 'McLaurin's social call and Mr. Archbold's elab nrately nnitte letter in return, there .... .~imeting to be arraned to Senator McLaurip'.j "satisfaction." Encouraged by ir. Archbold's will ingness to "arrange the matter," Senator McLaurin promptly tele graphed Mr. Archbold. The letter to Mr. Grasty which was written on February 19th, was undoubtly receiv ea by Mr. Grasty a day or two later and .then forwarded to Senator Mc Laurin, who too eager to wait for the mails promptly telegraphed Mr. Arch bold at No. 26 Broadway. Mr. Arn-' bold telegraph's the Senator In return and welcomes the Senator with tne encouraging phrase, "glad to see you any day next week except Saturday." Feb. 23, 1900. Hon. Jno. L. McLaurin, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. ('. Yesterday being close holiday, 4id not receive your messag-e untily to day. Have delayed answerms, hop ing to see you. Glad to see you any day next week except Saturday. J. D. Archbold. "Mr. Archbold Is as e;aburately polite as ever and expiain h;s trif ling delay ir. answering Senator Mc laurin's telegram. It is plain that Mr. Archbold Is quite as anxious to ar range the matter" to Senator Mc Laurin's "satisfaction" as Senator McLaurin is to have the matter a' ranged. The matter that Mr. Arch: bold was to arrange for Senator .\1c Laurin at this time was for the Stan dard Oil Company to contribute with its usual generosity toward Senator MlcLaurin's campaign for re-election. We do not hear from 'McLaurin again until the seventh of May, -when he writes Mr. Archbold telling him of the progress of events in South Car cina. 'Mr. Archbold answers with the following: ,May 9th, 1901. My dear Senator: I have your kind favor of the 7th with the Interesting enclosures, for all of which I beg you to accept thanks. We are intensely interested in the courageous and praiseworthy stand you have taken, and believe that the general intelligence of the Scuth, will support you in it. Indeed. I think it marks the beginning of a new era for the South. For anything I know now I will be here until about the middle of June, and will, of course, be delighted to see you If you call. I expect to go away about the middl. of June for a vacation of a week or so. Very truly yours, (Signed) Jno. D. Archbold. Hon. Jno. L. McLauria, Bennettsville, S. C. Mr. Archbold applauds Senat'r Mc Laurin for the attitude which ex-Gov ernor Evans had demanded wh' n accused McLaurln of ha 'iug the mon ey of Mack Harvin jingu.is in I's pockets, and says "we are inteasely interested in the cour.ageous and' praiseworthy stand you have taken' Dlr. Archbold as usual attempts to monopolize for his adherents and pur poses the morality and mentality of the country, and assures Senator Mc Laurin smugly that "the general in telligence of the South will support him in it." Mr. Archbold says nothing about further campaign con tributions, but leaves an opportunity for Senator McLaurin to express his needs by saying, "I will be here un til the middle of June and will be delighted to see you If you call." Senator McLaurin did not call, but he wrote the following letter. United States Senate Washington Bennetuville, 3. C. May 29, 1902. Jear Mr. Archbold: I have pushed the fight so vigor ously that they called on Tillman. I met him at Gaffney and beat him at his on-n p-ame. I called hI. bluff, and now the iight is for two seats in the Senate :nstead of one. -I can beat Tiliman if properly and generously suported. There Is no time to loose hweier. I enclose an account of both meetings for your information. With kindest regards. I am sincerely yours, Jno. L. Mcbauria. "denator McLaurin has pushed his fght vigorously and is reporting pro gress to the Standard Oil Company. 'illman has been called upon to rep resent the people, as usual. McLau rn reports that he has met Tillman at Gaf'fney and "called his bluff". "And," continues Mecaaurin, "now he fight is for two seats.in the Sen tte instead of one." There is an op nortunity for the Standard Oil Com pany to get Tillman out of the Senate with his old-fashioned ideas about the rights of the people and his an archistic hostility to the control of government by criminal corpora tions. The Standard Oil Company will, of course. be interested In de feating Tillman and in gaining "two seats in the Senate Instead of one." and Senator McLaurin proceeds to explain how it can be done. "There are conditions which moust he met. There are necessities which must be recoynized. 'I can beat Tilt ian.' says Senator Mcbaurin, 'if ,~roperly and generously supported.' \fc!aurin will pot up the fight If the standard Oil Company will put up -he money. But the Standard Oil oo-nnv must act generously and' promptly too, for, continues MoLau in. 'there is no time to lose.' "As we have seen in many In -inae's. the Standard Oil Company supported its friends with notable reerosity at elections, and Senator -\cauria doubtless had nothing to~ complain of on that score. T'llman, however, had too strong a hol-! upon the people of tbe State of Sou'h Car olina to be overcome by Senator Mc Larin, even with all the force of the tanard Oil backing, and this phase of the situation Is sunmed un in a letter from Mr. Archoold to Mr. Bib 1r'7 reproduced below. Governor Mc SweeneY had refmused to accent the r-esigntions of Tilhnen and McTau rn. The resignations had been with drawn andI the opportunity of the Standard Oil Comnoany to secure two senatorial seats instead of one had ben drferred. 'The camnaka.' Mr. Archold writr's to Mr. Sibley, 'will not be made at present.' Dear Mr. Sihley: Jue,19. I duly received your favor of the LEAVE NAVAL AFFAIR SENATOB TILLMAN DECLIN CHATflfANSHIP. He Has Decided to Accept the Cha annship of the Important Comn tee on Appropriations. A Charleston dispatch say it is ported in a special from Washingt that Senator Tillman has decided 'ake the chairmanship of the app j.riaticns committee in preference tl.e naval committee or the comme committee, because the appropr tion work will be less onerous I him. If he does this. there will considerable disappointment in t1 Si ate, since it was hoped that would assume the head of the pow tul naval body. The special from Washington is follows: "Senator- John Walter Smith, Maryland, will be chairman ui Senate naval affairs committee wh the upper branch of Congress is i organized, according to the press Democratic program. "This fact developed when pai leaders became convinced that Se stor Tillman of South Carolina, n< thE ranking Democrat on the cot oittee, had decided to take the cha manship of the committee on apps priations. "Since it became known deflnite that the Democrats would organs the next Senate, Senator Smith h been ambitious to head the naval , fairs committee. "Senator. Tillman, however, h told friends that he did not fe steng enough to meet the duties the naval committee. Having choice between two or even thr mportant chairmanships, the Sout rner has decided to take that of t appropriations committee leaving t: caucus free to name Senator Smi for the more exacting position. "By this decision Tillman mak probable, too, the election of Senat kartin of Virginia, as chairman the committee on commerce. Tl South Carolina Senator is the ran ing member of that .body also, but taking the appropriation chairma hip he leaves commerce open to t Virginian." 4th, and herewith return you Sen for MeL's very interesting letters. wrote Senator McL. some days as ipressing my great amiration f his wise and courageous course, a: eying to him that I would be ve lad to confer with him at any tin either 'in person or by letter. I course, the, situation is now entire changed. and the campaign will u be made at present.. This is u doutedly very favorable to Senat teL., as the trend; of events Is ce ainly tremendouslin his favor. am especially delighted this mornii ever Governor McSweeney's reply illman. Tillman is so rank a del agogue and the logic of events is much against him, that if McLaur will only keep coole, perhaps dol: little judicious nagging oeasio ally, Tillman will hang himself. would be the greatest possible mi ake for McL. to lose his temp' and be drawn into anything like prsonal encounter with Tillman. would be so far beneath his digni ersonally, and would so injure ti reat step of progress which he h, ad the courage to undertake on I aalf of his State and the South, th t would be almost a national mi fortune. Very truly yours, Jno. D. Archbold. on. 3. C. Sibley, Franklin, Pa. The fact that Senator" Tillm: a as upon the popular side made hi a fit subject for Mr. Archbold's vitu eration, and again we have an exal le of Mr. Archbold's disposition, vrcal of all men of his class, to t ibute unworthy motives to all thc that oppose him and to applaud t ~ur poses of all those that agree wi ri. "Tillman is so rank a den3 ogue" in Mr. Archbold's opinion I aus he insists upon representi: the people of his State instead of I coming a subservient tool of t Standard Oil Company. On the other hand Mr. Archbc expresses his "great admiration" f Senator McLaurin's "wise and col ageous course," because Senator ) Laurin had called for Standard support and put himself under o1 gations to the Standard Oil nt< uts. It i. the habit of the repa entative. of these greedy corpoi tions so to attempt to discreditt efforts and purposes of all who a opposed to them, in the hope tl (Continued on last page.) INDIAN LIThS POORLY. Report on Condition of Fire Civilh Tribes. Most of the full blood Indi among the five civilized tribes of C lahoma "live in the most primiti condition, poorly clad and still mt porly fed, and it- is the excepti rather than the rule that their ct dren go to school at all." says Da l. Kelsey. United States Indian perintendent in Oklahoma, in h!s nual report to the secretary of I interior. He adds that most of them h: no knowledge whatever of busin transactions "and they know noth about their land except what so person who has secured a lease fr them tells them." Yon Lad Was Killed. Stewart Lewis. 1 2-year-old son C. Lewis. a merchant of Johbns was accidentally shot and kil Christmas Day by his plarmate. W son Nicherson. 11. the bn!!1et fron 22-calibe parlor rifle entering yola Lews' , art. The distressing at " a.. -ed while the boys w< SOME HARSi HORD ES SENATOR BAILEY MAKES l1 FAREWELL SPEEH ir- . - -. it. SOON TO LEAVE SENAT re on lb His Speech the Senator Refers I to r. Hearst In Terms of Deaunclati to .and Evokes Defense from Senst -ce Ia- Ashurst of Arizona, Who Prais 'or be I the Publisher. :s Senator Jos. W. Bailey of Texa he' long one of the picturesque figure ar- and striking speakers of the Unite States senate, delivered before crows as ed floors and galleries his final speec as a member of that body. Within Oi day or two his resignation will t he laid before the senate and commun p cated to Gov. Colquitt of Texas, h: e' expectation being that R. 'M. Joni ston of Houston will be named to fl : out his term, which would end Marc 'ty 4 n- Senator Bailey's speech was an al tack upon the principles of the initia 2- tive and referendum as instances the r- would, If adopted, bring about th 1 overthrow of the present system c American government. He declare lo they originated in the desire of poll ze ticians to escape the responsibility to as action on such petty questions as th Li location of State capitals and the set tlement of prohibition lights. As Is stances of government, he declare el the schemes for direct legislation b of the people would convert the Unite a States from a republic into a demot racy, and would give its control int "the hands of the unskilled, the idl le and the vicious." ,e An attack upon William R. Hears in the course of his speech, in whiec he characterized Mr. Hearst as es "miserable dog, who had bounde or him," brought Senator Ashurst c Arizona to his feet. He attempte 1e to answer this phrase of Senato Bailey's attack upon radical newspa n pers and magazines, but was stopper by the Texas senator with the re e mark that he "could make that re ply outside." Later Mr. Ashurst took the toor b a his own right and In the course o li defense of the system of direc government paid a tribute to Mi Dr Hearst as a loyal American citizen. id Galleries were crowded to thei 7 utmost capacity and long lines o )e people waited in the corridors for at ly cpportunity to hear the Texan's fare well address to the Senate. -To th ot members of the senate were adder nearly 75 members of the house, wh+ Dr filled the benches and lined the wall along the floor of the chamber. Sen ,tor Bailey spoke for four hours, any o throughout that titre he received tbi to closest attention from members an+ epectators. As he concluded a way 0 of applause swept through the gal n leries. bringing a sharp reprimani from Senator Gallinger, the presidini cmelcer. It President-elect Wilson, altheng1 'o-uoted liberally by Senator Bailey 11 'r defense of his declaration that direc a legisationl is not in aecord with th Itprinciple of Am'erican governmest tyrcie hsconinendation from ta Te'vs Senator: "If the man we have elected presi delet of the United States gives th at(e untry a sane and satIsfactory ac minsstration," he declared, "the Me publican party will never nominat ariother candidate for the presidency '-Why should you?" he continues advancing toward the Republical ride of tbe chamber. "You carrie< Ln nut two states this year and the m twc of the smallest. The contest fon p- years from now will be betweea u - and the Rooseveltians." -BRUIKS PARCEL POSTED. Onue Thousand Mailed Cader' the Nei a- Postal Laws, aEvery employee of the Gary Paa .. office has sore arms as the first tast he of the parcel post. and Postniaste John W. Call and Chief Clerk Josep Id Tracey are carrying their ar~ raround in bandages.. r- Two big dray wagons backed up t -the post office and unloaded 1,00 eheavy paving bricks, each one a set -arate stamped parcel. The bricks ar -samples being mailed by W. P. 1 r-Paa local brick dealer, and bi -found that he could send the brich ae cheaper by .parcel post.hi ssti re spent most of the day tar ingth at 6.000 ;ounids of bricks into the poi o'iee to .be ready for the first outgt :ng nostal parcel mail on Wednesda morning. I ' I Bull Dog by Parcels Post To a nameless brindle hiill doj rrobably belongs the distinction< nbetnr the first canine that ever tral aneled by post. He was delivered in crate at the opening of the parel re poet at Yonkters. N .Y., and addresi n enl to a local resident. Although lbi o 1 anita is are not accented for tran' nortation by the new parcels post tt na nostmester made an exception of th uinnururation ceremony and had oz ~of his carriers deliver it. ve Inhale Fumes of Nitric Acid. 1s At Portland. Maine. Deputy Chi ng William H. Steele. of the Portlat reO Fire De'oartmient, is dead.' and Cap ym W. 0. Parker, and Giles Redmoun al'e in a serious cor dinion as a resu! r'f inailne fumes of nitric acta, the baement of a drug store. yn. IPolice Force Mutinies. led e"" bMq been re'ttved from Ma at- sos. e. ital of' th-e State of Amiro a as. Re-M. th-t :he ent~re 'ollee for n% t ere has mmtinied. The govern ci- or the State has fled and tha vi > governor bag assumed the p.at sni ' .t-' SEVEN MEN KILLED RAILWAY BRIDGE BREAKS WIT S HEAVY FREIGHT. idge*ad Bee Built at Low Wati E sad High Waters Underwin Foundations. .Seven men -were killed and tU e lives of several others believed I have been lost when a westbou Chesapeake & Ohio railroad freig] train erashed through a weakene bridge across Guyandotte river i Guyandotte, a suburb near Hunting ton, W. Va. Upwards of a dozen me were ianred. The crew of 30 < :nore iron workers were employe installing a double track across tt bridge, when the freight train a proaehed. A few left their posts, is said, believing the bridge unsar When the train was near the centr a of the structure the bridge crun bled. The heavy train crushed 'nt the water and the bridge debris coi ered the train wreckage. Members of the train crew an b iron workers not caught beneath th wreckage struggled through the ws ter to shore. The engine, one of th Jargest types, probably will have t be removed from the water befor e progress can be made in recoverin bodies. * The accident is believed tb hay . been caused by water underminin r the piling that had been put in a e low water stage. A heavy rise I . the river had caused considerab: . loss during the past several dayf d but the railroad officials felt con! dent that the bridge was safe. 1 passenger train had passed over th . bridge a few moments before it gay y way under the weight of the freign train. A rigid investigation is un der way both by the civil author. *lee and olcials of the Chesapeak, & Ohio. EPIDEMIS OF MENINGITIS, f ---- i Sixty-one Cases Reported in Dye r County, Tennessee. Sixty-one cases of cerebro-spina - meningitis have developed to date I; - Dyer county, Tenn., and of this num ber 35 have died, according to : statement made to the Associate Press by Dr. J. A. Albright, formerl; t secretary of the Tennessee board c health, who has been engaged by th county authorities to direct effort to stamp out the disease. Twenty f .'ne of the cases and 11 deaths op 1 ci rred within the town of Dyersnur; Within the past 24 hours two case developed in Dyersburg sad to rases in other parts of the count Dr. Albright stated that immunisin agents are being freely used ant within a few days he anticipates tha his forces will have the situation wee in hand and a, marked improvemen be shown. Public gatherings have been discontinued. Quarantines have been established by adjoining coup 1 ties. FOUR BROTHERS DROWN. Thy-Were Skating When the le Uroke With Them. At Utica, N. Y., N(ew Year's da; brought~ death to four sons of Mr and Mrs. Daniel Kahler, of Croghai Ray, Roy, Francis and Daniel, rng ing in age from 7 to 16 years, wer< coasting near their home. They wen down a hill and on to thin ice alena the edge of Beaver river. The 1c broke and all went into the stream Near Boardsmanville, Milo Williami (4 years old; Homer Williams, 12 and Raymond J1. Fath, aged 11, wer drowned. Young Fath broke througl r the thin ice. While trying to rescu him the Williams boys and Charle Fitch, a companion, alsc brok through. Fitch was the only one the four who was able to reach shor4 r AVALANCHE CRUSHIES SHOP. Heavy Slide of Snow Kills Eighteel e Carpenters. r A heavy slide of snow Monday a the Coal Croek mines of the Crow sNest Pass Coal company at Fernie B. C., carried with it a carpenter sho ini which 15 men were working. On ly four bodies have been recover'ed There is no hope for the other 1 men. Shortly after the carpentel had gone to work in the shops of tb e Crow's Nest Pass Coal company, se' eral hundred tons of rock mud, Ie and snow came down and carried thi smen into the valley, 530 feet belo~ eA corner of the shop protruded fro: t the debris and rescuers went to wor at this point. The building had bee crushed, however, and rescue wor was difficult. Eight People Rescued. -After being imprisoned behind all of coal, rock and other mine r~ fuse, eight of the nine men entombe a Wednesday in the colliery of the E aLehigh Coal company near Tamaqut Pa., were rescued alive ThursdS enight. The other man. Joseph Wa ter, is missing and Is believed to ha~ been killed. The men were impr' soned nearly 40 hours. Dies of Blood Poisoning. A fter an operation to remove si vers of wood which had entered h i hewing toothpicks, blood poisonin d set In, esausing the death of J. ' t. Moir, a leading merchant of 1( ?, em N. C.. according to a special ni It ptch from that place Wedneedi 'n night. Molt was a native of VI .'4'i and leaves a widow and or child. Y'oung Girl !(illed. - Ad'a" Stevens"on. rand son of fo -e er viee-Presidenlt Adial E. Stev0 Er son. accidentally shot and killed MI . Rth Merwin, si'teenl. In the Steve ofj son home in Bloomington, Il1.4 Mnday night. ITiE PARGi PJ3 H HITCRCOCK INAUGURATES TE' PARCLLS POST SEIIE OFFICIAL FIRST PALKAiiE IC c Postmaster General Sends Silver ev. ing Oup to His Subordinate is Nde SYork, Thus Starting the Govysm Lt - meats latest Enterprise0-We into Operation January 1. ' d As the clocks ticked off the list . seconds of 1913, Postmaster General .itchcock inaugurated a connectioa with the new era in the American postal service by depositing in the Nashington postoffice the first pa. ige to be entrusted to the domeetle o jarcels post service. The strones of he last hour of 1912 were dying sway when the postmaster general d .tepped up to the newly painted in scription "Parcels Post Packages" Lnd handed in the official "first pack. ige." At the same moment the par :els post service was opened for bus ness in every postoffice in the Ualt. 3d States open at that hour. Postmaster General Hitchcock's 'ackage contained a silver floving cap nclosed in a stout box. The pack ge was addressed to E. M. Morgan, ostmaster of the city of New YorK. nd after it has made its journey to ew York it will be sent back to .Vashington to be engraved and pro erved in the national museum to ommemorate the inauguration of he parcels post service. The postmaster general paid for 7 cents. worth of stamps affixed to he package, which weighed about wo pounds. Of this 17 cents was for egular postage and 10 cents for "in arance," or registration. Elaborate preparations had been ad. by the postoffice department for -'e inauguration of the new servbe iroughout the country. The pose iaster set 'aside $30.000 from the '750,000 appropriated by congress -or the parcels post to be used -In quipping the offices in largest ett -es for handling the great amount of natter expected to be sent by the new 'ervice. This sum was divided pre ata among the .big offices and the va ions postmasters were allowed to 'se their own discretion in the expea 'iture of the funds for additional jerks and for delivery service. Auto nobile delivery trucks were provided n several cities. Mr. Hitchcock has ordered from he postmasters in charge of the of 'ces reports on the workings of tae )arcels post to be submitted January '6. On these reports will be based t comprehensive plan for handling he new service and the estimates for '.ppropriations to conduct the service luring the next fiscal year. Several )ostmasters have already reported -hat large department stores and -nail order houses in the big cities "ave sign~fied their intention of uo ~ng the parcel post for local delivery to replace local emipress companlem and package service. On the extent of this charaeter et business will depend to a great de gree the size of the force and equip 'nent necessary to handle the addi tional business to be done by the -sest-off'ce department. "This occasion mark. the euba) nation of years of work and develop ~nent and forecasts more work and ievelopment," said Postmaster Gen lral Hitchcock, as he turned In his "ackage to Assistant Postmaster Itoo 'nson and Granville Hunt. superin tendent of registry, of the Washing. *on postoffice. The postmaster gen oral deposited the Mrst packakg un -der the fire of a battery. of cameras 'ind moving picture machin's and as he turned away from the window he held an impromptu reception for the officials of the department who has accompanied him on his errand, aRU'SSIA'S TREATY EXPIREEV ,t ft Is Urpeeted, However, That Nasv smsal Relations Will Continue. p Notwithstanding the publication in SSt. Petersburg of -an official an L nouncement that Russian Imports in 1 to the United States would continue E to enjoy the minimum rates after the e expiration of the present trade tree ty Tussday night, state department e officials decided tO adhere to their e original purpose to .issue no official - statement bearing up~n this questfou. SThere is said to be no intention to k controvert the publicly accepted visw D that the trade relations between the k two countries-after the expiration of the treaty of 1832 may continue ou practically the same basis as at pocs ent under the well accepted prncl a pies of international law which g.e ern in absence of express treaty :A d Iations. Apparently, however, the .af fiecis have concluded it would be unwise at this juncture to commit the United States to any specifie line Sof actIon by a formal statement. Ligh's Reveal a Suicide. After conversing in a dark work rom for a quarter of an hour, em o'oyees of a St. Paul Lumber Comn Spany of St. Paul. 'Mton., was startled when the lights were turned on early Tuesdqy to see the lifeless body of a co-worker dangling from a ceiling stpam ripe, almnost in the centre of t?'e g'oun. The man had hanged His name and address were not known. Prefer T'urkey to Pardon. Fifteen negroes refused ta accept r-Christm3o comnmutaton1s of thbir sen n- tATnces wbich rmen release from the seMacon city stockaele. They Dreferred nl- Ito remain in prison and partake of ) the eleant t1nrkey dinner prepared