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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21. MUST OLLIVER IT BOOZE M iT BE SHIPPED FROM QT'ER STATES INTO SOUII ;AROLINA No Statute A gainst Importation of Whiskey fer Personal Use, Says South Carolina Supreme Court, But Webb Act Gives State Right to Pass Such Law, Opinion Adds. There is no statute by the State prohibiting the importation of liquor from another State for personal use, and the Webb Act gives the State the right to enact such a statute if it so desires, is the opinion of the South Carolina Supreme Court, in deciding a case testing the constitutionality of the Webb Act, which was passed by Congress withdrawing the protection of the interstate commerce from whiskey shipments from one State to another. The opinion holds that the old Dis pensary Act, forbidding the ordering of liquor for personal use from other states, having been declared uncon stitutional bqfore the passage of the Webb Act, could not be vitalized by the passage of the Webb Act. "It is not the intention of the Webb Act to interfere with the pol icy of the State in regard to the im -portation of liquor, but merely to provide that the enforcement of .a State statute would not be interfered with, or hampered by the interstate commerce laws," says the decision. "In other words, the Act in this respect is passive," continues the de cision, "while it is encumbent on the states to enact legislation of an active nature, if they are desirous of pro hibiting the importation of liquors for personal use or other purposes. But even if Congress had undertaken to give validity to an unconstitution al state statute it would have been beyond its powers. "While the Legislature cannot pass an Act, validating the provision of the dispensary statute which we have declared to be unconstitutional. so as to give it a retroactive effect, it, nevertheless, has the power to adopt a statute with similar provisions, having a prospective effect, prohibit ing alcoholic liquors from being im ported into this State. Such a stat ute would not contravene any provi sion of the United States Constitu tion. "As we have already said, the re cent Act of Congress divests intoxi cating liquors of their interstate com merce character, and invests the re spective States with power, either to prohibit the importation absolutely or allow it only for sale and use through a dispensary. The classit cation of the counties so as to allow the sale of liquor in some of them, while it Is not prohibited in others, would not be violative of Section 1, of the 14th amendment to the Consti tution of the United States, which provides that no State shall deny to -any person within its jurisdiction the full protection of the laws." The case arosein Richland County through W. W. Atkinson bringing suit to secure an Injunction against the Southern Express Company from enforcing its order refusing to de liver shipments of whiskey in South Carolina for personal use. The in junction is granted by the Court, the opinion being written by Chief Jus tice Gary and concurred in by Asso ciate Justices Woods, Hydrick and Watts. Associate Justice Fraser says: "1 concede that the above statement, so strongly made, is correct, but I dis sent from the judgment. The regu lation complained of in the petition rbfers exclusively to Interstate com merce, and I think this Court has no jurisdiction to interfere." A test case was brought under the same con'itlons in Kershaw County, and the Court grants the injunction in this case on the same grounds as in that from Richland. PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. Bryan Says Pleasant Things About Them at Banquet. "There is no place 'where the ideals of the people are so firmly fixed and so highly set as are the ideals of the people of the South", declared the Secretary of State, Win. Jennings Bryan in an address Saturday night - before the Southern Society of Wash ington. His speech throughout was eulogistic of the South and laudatory of the men of that section who have taken part in the formation and the affairs of the nation. He pointed to their ideals as an Illustration of those whose '"convictions are such that they don't stop to count how many stand with them. "I hope the d&y will never come," he added with empha sis, "when a dollar 'bill will look so large that a man's good virtues are small in comparison." Jack Johnson in the Toils. At Chicago Jack Johnson, cham pion heavyweight fighter, was found guilty Tuesday night of violating the Federal white slave law in transport ing Belle Schrel.ber from Pittsburg to Chicago in 1910. He was convict ed on all seven counts In the indict mnent. The jury returned its verdict after an hour's deliberation. Condemn Present Styles. That the styles in women's dresses are tending to "break down chastity and purity" and that the general convention of the church to be held at New York should take action were features of a resolution passed during the recent* session of the Egiscapal diocesan council of South Carolinq. DISCHARGES CONSTABLES BLEASE ASKS WHISKEY OFFI CERS TO RESIGN Says Action of Supreme Court on Webb Bill Makes Discharge of Con stables Necessary. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says as a re sult of the decision of the Supreme Court on the Webb law, announced yesterday afternoon, Governor Blease said this afternoon there was no use for him to continue to keep State con stables in operation and he addressed a letter to his constables, telling them that he would have no use for their services after the 1st of June. There is no statute by the State prohibiting the importation of liquor from another State for personal use, and the Webb Act gives the State the right to enact such a statute if it so desires is the opinion of-the South Carolina Supreme court. . When ask ed about the decision of the Supreme Court in the Webb case, and its ef fect upon his policy, the Governor said: "I have had more trouble and wor ry in the last two or three mouths with complaints as to blind tigers than one poor fellow can stand. I have had my constabulary force full, my detectives at work, and recently counties b -e been calling on me to send them -ial men, and I have been tigh a. ..g the screws. I had presumed that the Attorney General's views would be sustained, or, if not, that the members of the Court, who E presume are prohibitionists-cer tainly politically, if not otherwise the majority of them-would help me out in this fight, by holding the de cision. even as it was rendered, until I could get the situation somewhat Ln hand. But, lo and behold, they shoot the decision back with lightning-like rapidity and say to the blind tigers, 'on with the dance, -boys, the music will be furnished.' "Now, it is up- to the people to curse and abuse me, for non-enforce ment of the law, when everybody knows I am helpless and no power on earth can enforce the dispensary law La this State, and keep down the blind tigers so long as white men furnish the liquor and have free ne groes to sell it for them, and then go round to- lawyers' offices and hire lawyers to defend these negroes and t the same time whisper to the law yers, 'don't let me be known in con nection with the matter.' "I am not criticizing the Court. [ accept their decision as the law, but as they have delayed in so many other matters, I wish they had de layed just a little while in this. "I see nothing for me to do now but to withdraw my constabulary from Charleston and Columbia and all over the State. There is no use for people who pay taxes to pay Con stables and detectives under any such soriditions as we are living under right now, and, it certainly is dis heartening to a man who has done all he could to try to enforce the law. And, I hope the people will under stand that when the blind tigers are roaming over their communities that It is not the fault of the Governor of South Carolina. -If parties will write me I will tako the matter up and do the :best I can, and if they will go to a magistrate and make affidavits to to the illicit sale of liquor I will see that the magistrates do their full duty, but under the law of personal use I do not see how we can seize any shi~pments. MEXICAN TROOPS ROUTED. State Troops Reported to Have Made HauL. The Federal forces have been rout ed and all are fleeing toward the gulf, according to Gov. Pesqueira of Son ora, Mexico, who arrived Wednesday t Hermozillo from the front above Guayamas. He said State troops had captured rifles and ammunition. An other report from the front says that seven cannon and seven machine guns also have been captured. Esti mates of the killed remain at about 500, with 300 taken prisoners. Con fusion Is so great throughout the State, especially at Ortiz, to which point the telegraph Is operating, that only meagre details of the happen ings about G-uaramas can be obtain ed. A strong detachment of federals under Col. Barron is reported cut off from retreat and besieged In the hills by the insurgents under Col. Hill. Barron was wounded. AUSTIN HAS BEEN CAUGHT. Said to Have Been Taken in Custody Way Out in Ohio. W. C. Cathcart, chief of police of Columbia, received a letter last week, signed W. Jackson, Toledo, Ohio, to the effect that a man, who says his name is "Dick" Austin, Is in that city, and that the writer believes he is the negro wanted for the attempt ed criminal assault on a white wo man at Luray, and the resul,tant kill ing of three white men and the wounding of two others week before last. The letter was referred to Sher ff 1. B,. Morris, of Barnwell county. Although it is hardly probable that this is the Hamptor, desperado. Sher c 'Morris wired Jackson to hold the suspect, and that a full description of Richard Henry Austin would follow by mail. Tonsilitis Becomes Epidemic. At Canton, Mass, three more deaths from tonsilitis occurred Mon day, bringing the total since the epi demic started last week to sixteen. Nearly 400 cases of the disease have ee reported in the town. No pub. ic services were held Sunday and the public library and schools will remain osed wart week. HAVE PISTOL DUL CONVERSE COLLEGE STEWARD AND COOK SHOT SERVANTS IN A PANIC The Negro Cook, Who Caused All the Trouble, Had Been Dismissed From Service at the College, and Had Come Back for a Settlement as to Wages. A Spartanburg special to The News and Courier says while two hundred Converse College girls were at break fast Thursday morning, J. D. Ches hire, a white man, steward of the in stitution, and John Mayes, a negro cook, fought a pistol battle in the kitchen, which adjoins the dining room. Both were wounded. When the pistol shots rang out and negro waitresses, with bulging eyes, ran screaming from the kit chen into the dining room, the young women were greatly startled. They rose to their feet, and some prepared to flee. Mrs. Sarah M. Huber, the dean, finally restored calm. After the shooting the negro ser vants of the College, including six cooks and twenty waitresses, went on strike. About thirty students, some of whom had been reared in luxury, volunteered their service. They don ned aprons, cleared off the breakfast dishes, washed them, reset the table and prepared and served luncheon and supper. Mr. Cheshire discharged Mayes, it is claimed, for stealing provisions. Mayes called Thursday morning, it is said, to get the wages due him. Mr. Cheshire, according to report. handed him the money and asked him if it was the proper amount. "I don't want to have any more trouble with you," said the steward. '-Oh, you don don't want to have any more trouble with me," repeated the negro, into whose eyes came an evil, sinister look, and at the same time he drew a revolver, according to report. Mr. Cheshire grasped the weapon at the muzzle, it is claimed, with his left hand. Mayes shot. Mr. Sheshire's hand, fearfully torn and burned, dropped limply to his side. iayes shot again, the bullet struck Mr. Cheshire's breast bone and glanc ed off. Mr. Cheshire managed to draw his own revolver with his right hand and put five bullets into the body of the negro. Mayes was car ried to the Spartanburg Hospital. His condition is desperate. Warrants were issued for Mayes and Mr. Ches hire. The latter was arrested, but was released on bond. NOTABLE AUTO JOURNEY. From Hendersonville to Charleston in Seventeen Hours. From Hendersonville, N. C., to Charleston, 265 miles, in seventeen hours, is the record made on Wed nesday by Mr. John F. Maybank, Mr. Francis S. Hanckel, Dr. Joseph May bank and air. Mullins, in Mr. J. F. Maybank's automobile, says The News and Courier. The actual running of the touring car was only fourteen hours, which is believed to be the record. The party left the mountain town at 5 a. m. and arrived at Charleston at 10 p. n., raving stopped in Newberry for an hour and in Columbia for an hour. The average running time was nine teen miles an hour, which in conside ration of the sorry conditIon of some stretches of roa%, was very fast. Mr. Maybank made these observa tions from his odometer: Distance from Hendersonville to Greenville, 41 miles; from Greenville to Lau rens, 36 miles; from Laurens to New berry, 33 miles; from Newberry to Columbia, 43 miles; from Columbia to St. Matthews, 33 miles; from St. Matthews to Holly Hill, 34 miles; from Holly Hill to Charleston, 45 miles. According to Mr. Sfaybank's odo meter the distance from Henderson ville to Charleston by the route taken is 265 miles, most of which is over roads that are excellent, on the aver age. The party greatly enjoyed the 'rip, not being very much fatigued. though they were In the machine for fourteen hours. LITTLE CHILD WAS STOLEN. Year and a Half Old Baby Taken Off by Insane Negro. At Jacksonville. Lucille Arbed, the year and a half old baby, kidnapped by an insane negress Monday morn ing, was found In a pitiable condition Tuesday morning at 5:30 near an abandoned race track just outside the city, still in custody of the woman. The baby's muffled cries directed the searchers to a stall where the woman was trying to hush it. The little one was almost starved and showed evi dences of abuse but it was not maim ed, as the woman had telephoned. The child was restored to the frantic mother at daybreak and the negress locked up. The police believe that others were concerned in the kidnap ping as a demand for money had been made by telephone during the night by an unidentified negress. Drowned by Accident. The overturning of a motorboat on Sunday night near Wanson, Wis., caused the death of six persona-Her man Roehl, Gustav Jahnke and his four children. Four others were sav ed. The boat struck a sunken log, breaking the rudder. The current was swift and the craft drifted over a patialy submerged pier and1 c5 sized. LETTER TO VETERANS GENERAL TEAGUE WRITE ABOUT REUNION. Which Is Soon to be Held at Gettys burg and faking Arrangement for the Same. Maj. Gen. B. H. Teague, command ing the South Carolina division, U. C V., has addressed to the veterans F letter setting forth offilally the ar rangements that have been made t< care for them during the Gettysburg reunion, July 1-4, next. S. E. Welch his adjutant, and chief of staff, urge. that all county papers copy the no tice. The letter follows: To the Confederate Veterans of Souti Carolina: The State of Pennsylvania has ex tended an invitation to all Confeder ate veterans to unite with the Granc Army of Republic in the celebratior of the fiftieth anniversary of the bat tle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this year, on the battlefield. The legislature of our State at it last session appropriated $1,000 tc pay for the transportation of sucl Confederate veterans, residing it South Carolina, as participated it that battle. The Gettysburg surviv ors only are to share in this fund foi their transportation, and those whc purpose attending the celebration must furnish a certificate attested b3 a Confederate veteran, sworn to be. fore the clerk of court of the county in which they reside, and forward the same to the commanding officer, Gen. B. H. Teague, Aiken, S. C., or or before the 15th day of June. With this certificate must be sent the name of the railroad station from which each one will start. This certificate will be recorded and returned to the sender with a check for his propor tionate share of the State's appro priation for railroad fares. All veterans who purpose attend ing the celebration, who were not participants in the battle of Gettys burg, will have to pay their own rail road fare. Free entertainment will be furnished to all veterans, in a large camp to be established for this purpose. Remember, all Confederate veter ans who were not in the battle of Gettystburg, who attend this celebra tion, must obtain before leaving home, a certificate signed by the com mander or adjutant of a camp of United Confederate service. Thi: ertificate will be presented at Gettys burg to insure entertainment. While any veterans wearing civil ian's clothes will be entertained, it is desired that all who can will wear the gray uniform. Information about trains and rates will be furnished by railroad agents on application. B. H. Teague, Major General, S. C. Division, U. C. V Official: S. E. Welch, Adjutant General, Chief of Staff' TRIED TO CUT WAY OUT. Sweetheart Hands a Convicted Bur glar a Knife. When Harry Evans had been con victed of burglary in the Chicagc municipal court Wednesday, Garnet: Fairfield, a cabaret singer. .his sweet heart, passed him her handkerchief Evans extracted an open knife frone th handkerchief azid started to carve his way to freedom. Detective Bos chulte was severely cut In the neci and Deputy Bohaber was stabbed it the breast before Evans was over powered. The girl was arrested. Only the presence in the couri room of an unusually large numbei of the bailiffs and detectives pre vented a double murder and the re lease of Evans and Albert Jensen who had been tried with Evans fo: burglary, according to Municipa Judge Cooper. A number of friends of the tw( men were In the court room, and I1 is believed that they had planned t< go to the prisoners' aid, but were frightened by the number of met who met the attack of Evans and Jen FITE HUNDRED LIE DEAD. Field of Carnage Near Guaymas is Strewn With Federals. A dispatch from Mexican source: says more than 500 dead are lying on the battlefield above Guaymas The soldiers fell during three day of desperate fighting last week. Col Juan Cabral, who arrived at Herno sillo from the front reported that hi had estimated the killed to exceet 600. A trainload of oil and firewood wan rushed south with which to cre mate the bodies. The official repor of Gen. Alfero Obregon, the insurgen commander, stated that the Federali killed alone numbered 500 with 204 Huerta soldiers taken prisoners. Bot] sides have been executing all com missioned officers captured. Driver to the last station north of the Gul: port the remnants of the Federa army of some 2,500 found itself cui off from further retreat Small Boy is Missing. Search for six-year-old Alber Smith. son of Alfred Smith. believe< to have been kidnapped, continues a Burlington, N. J. The lad has bee1 missing since Friday a week. Thb only clues to the lad's disappearanc< was the story told by a neighbor' butler, that he heard Albert cryini "don't take me away." Mexican Officers Mlurdered. Twenty-five federal officers, includ ing an infantry and artillery colonel taken prisoners during last week' fighting above Guaymas, Mexico. wer shot at public execution by order o the Constitutionalist commanders The execution is admitted officiall: by state authorities. STYLES FOR WOMEN CONDEMNED BY THE EPISCOPAL CLERGYDMEN. Certain Popular Dances, Says the Clergymen, Also Tend to Corrupt the Young People. The News and Courier says much comment, especially among women, I has followed the Diocessan Council's action in passing resolutions that condemn the prevailing styles in dress and in dancing as tending "to break down chastity and purity". The Episcopal clergymen are directed by the resolutoins to preach on the sub ject before the session of the 124th Council. The deputies to the Trien nial General Convention in New York are required to ask that body to take suitable action expressing its opposi tion to modes that are not -considered E modest. The resolutions were pre- e sented by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, rector of the Porter Military Acad- a emy. Their text follows- r "Whereas, the prevailing style of c dress and some of the recent ways of i dancing tend to break down chastity and purity; therefore be it "Resolved, by the Council of the Diocese of South Carolina, That It is the sense of this Council that our church people generally, but parents and the clergy in particular, ought to do all in their power to improve these conditions. "And be It further Resolved, That the clergy be requested to preach against them once before the meet ing of the next Council. "And as these things are not pecul far to our own State, but are making their influence felt over all the na tion: therefore be it "Resolved, That the Bishop and delegates to the General Convention be requested to secure suitable ac tion, if possible, by that -body." According to a woman of fashion, many Charleston women personally 1 endorse the spirit in which the Coun cil has made its protest, but she said h that women were all but powerless since the decrees of fashion are blind- I ly followed. "The narrow-bottomed e skirt, the slinky petticoat," she con- o tinued, "is an arbomination. Women c are not graceful in their movements when they wear some of the current styles. My friends and I have often discussed the matter, but we cannot stick to the old ways unless we vol- I unteer to retire. As a 'matter of fact, a the women of Charleston and other ' South Carolina towns have not adopt ed the extremes. Some of those who want to appear up-to-the-minute in c affairs of dress have displayed ad vance costumes. but, taken enmasse, Q the women of this section have not S gone the length of their sisters of the Eastern and Western parts of the f country. "As everybody knows, designers in Paris and Vienna dictate the styles. The (Balkan war furnished Y them with an excuse for introducing costumes that smack of the Near- t East. These are not pretty. Theyc are all but shapeless. But, to my mind, the Balkan vogue Is preferable to that which makes general the wearing of bobbles and tubes and other such cstumes in which a we man is not really comfortable. Many 1 omen would like to get away from the styles the Episcopal clergy are I condemning, but they can't. s "As to the dances, It Is unfortu- t nately true that the craze for dances that owe their origin to resorts of a I more or less questionable nature has t spread in this section. The wretcheda turkey trot in all its variations has invaded Charleston and many nice girls profess to see no harm In the dances. Society leaders have In va rious places tried to -place the ban on dances of this sort, but they have been unable to gain headway. It Is a tendency of the times and a slender body of women can't overcome the ways of a great majority." The resolutions are ofakind wth those passed by other religious or ganizations, the members of which believe that present day styles and present day dances are corrupting manners, the danger spreading. But resolutions, addresses and editorial articles have not had appreciable ef fect on the women who follow~ the fashions. MANY KILLED IN WRECK. Mexican Rebels Blow Up Train With f Mexican Regulars. 4 Two hundred lives are reported lost in the train disaster at Den, near the Sinaloa-Sonora border Thursday. State troops leaders declare the train t bearing 250 'Mexican Federal soldiers t was not dynamited by stealth. It Is said the insurgents fired Into the train, exploding a car of dynamite which the Federals were conveying to Guaymas. Only fifty of the pas sengers are reported to have escaped death, and others were wounded. The troops were moving from San Bas in Northern Sinaloa, to Alamas,. below Guaymas, from which point Ithe insurgents feared they would proceed to reinforce the garrison de fending the Gulf port. Escaped Prisoner Killed. tAt Soperton, Ga., W. L. Radney, ai Ifarmer. arrested on a burglary charge was killed Thursday after he fled 1from the lock-up. The shot Is saidt Sto have been fired by Lee Keen, mem Iber of a posse, which included Mayor Lamar Holmes and Town Marshal Wadney, and is claimed to have been< accidental. Fought Fatal Pistol Duel. ; In a pistol duel at Girard, Ala.. Wednesday right, H. C. Elliott was| skilled and W.'B. Perry was probably Ifatally wounded, according to advicesi Ireceived. Perry and Mary Lou Web-1 ster, a young white woman, who is< Salleged to have been the cause of te nd uel bohr under arrest. i W(ANT H1OUSE BILL lILSON COMES OUT FOR FREE SUGAR AND WOOL S WANTS NO ;OMPROMISE egards It as the Duty of the Demo- t t cratic Majority in the Senate to n Fulfill the Platform Pledge by En. 0 acting the House Tariff Bill Into ii p Law. President Wilson came out strong y Thursday as the champion of free p rool and free sugar in three years as provided for in the tariff bill recently passed by the House. He announced p emphatically that he was not consid- s ring compromises of any sort; that te stood squarely behind the measure a it passed the House and that he egarded it as the duty of the Demo- e ratic majority in the Senate to fulfill e ts platform pledge by enacting the c louse bill into law. "I am not the kind," said the Pres dent, "that could ask compromises rhen I once take my position. I ave taken my stand with the House eaders for the present bill. Enough aid. I am not loking'for or accept g compromises." The President's utterance was lade a half a hundred newspaper e orrespondents who gathered as isual at the White House for he semi-weekly conference. Prac ically at the same time the Sen ,te was engaged in protracted debate .t the end of which an agreement ras reached to vote on the question a f public hearings on the tariff bill. n -While the President smilingly let o t be known that he was expressing f; 0 opinion whatsoever on the pro- c 'al for hearings and that this was a ubdect for the Senate to dispose of, D is statement of unqualified support n or the House bill was taken general- a to mean that Mr. Wilson consid- t4 red arguments from special interest e, *n the tariff schedules to have been losed when the measure passed the h louse. He is understood to regard tl he effort to obtain hearings as a tl ilibustering device. The correspondents were about to c' save the office when the President sked if it were true that reports h ere being circulated of compromise n the wool and sugar schedules. dl day there had been rumors that oncessions of some kind would be made on the principal schedules in S order to satisfy opposition in the senate. The President had been told by riends that in some sources there 1i ras an expectation that a duty would d e put on raw wool or that the pro- a ision for free sugar after three o ears would be dropped. It was to ti ounteract these statements that he n ook occasion to make his position tl lear.n Of course, it is exnpected at the hite House that ther ewill .be min- fl >r changes in the bill mnade by the e: nance committeb, certain equaliza- V ions and corrections which have si seen approved by House leaders since t4 he bill left their hands, but in the u >rincipal schedules, such as wool and ugar, the President is determined p hat there shall be no change if he ti an prevent. There were even inti- e ations that he might veto a bill t) hat came from the Senate with mendments on wool or sugar. s ANOTHER FLY DANGER. a nsect Said to Carry Infantile Paraly- s sis Germs. - c Warring against the fly as the nost common cause of infantile par- L 1ysis was given by Dr. E. W. Saund- d rs of St. Louis in an address before medical association at St. Louis Tednesday' Dr. Saunder traced a connectiond ietween infantile paralysis and the alsing of poultry and gave this as an a xplanation why the disease is more irevalent in country and suburban listricts than in the crowded part of city.s While experiments were not com ete, he said, yet ho was conident hat inal tests would demonstrate a1 onnection between "limberneck" in d 'owls and infantile paralysis. His heory is that flies carry the germs pf infantile paralysis from the car asses of fowls and possibly from. thee odes of hogs and dogs to food. I Dr. Saunders condemned legal pro ection of the buzzard which he said ransmits infectious disease of live tock- d LUNATIC KILLS GENERAL. -gh Prussian Officer Was Shot Down On Streets At Munch, Bavaria, Major Gen. Ton Lewinski, the Prussian military Lttachee to Bavaria. and a sergeant 2 i police were killed Tuesday by a p upposed lunatic. The assassin. p those name Is Straffer, attacked the z ;eneral on the crowded street. first s iring several shots at him, then turn- s ng the weapon on Police Sergeant i1 'ollander. Gen. Von Lewinski was h tl alive when picked up. He was c aken to the hospital in an ambu- o ance, but died shortly afterward. P ['he assailant was seized by a crowd fl wich tried to lynch him and suc- t :eeded in seriously injuring him be t: tore he was rescued by the police. G ien. Von Lewinski was an officer of 1 he general staff. b t First )fan to Land Job. The Senate has confirmed the nom nation of 3. R. Montgomery to be ,ostmaster at Marion. This is the b mly South Carolina postmaster nom-' e nation tbat has been contrmed thus s.ar in teWiran Adninistration. t THINK THEY SEE JOKER EAR EFFECT OF NEW CIVIL SERVICE RULING. ome Republicans Declare Democrat ic Administration is Only Trying to Clean Out Republican Postmasters. Republican politicians at Washing n expressed the opinion recently iat they saw a "joker" in the ad inistration's decision to revoke an rder of former President Taft bring g 50,000 fourth class postmasters ato the civil service, this decision roviding hereafter for examinations >r Democrats and Republicans alike. Republican congressmen see large opsibilities in the action of the ad Linistration. Under the civil service rule, the ost office department will make its ilection of a postmaster from a liet f three eligibles. One at least of iese eligibles is almost sure to be a emocrat. That the postmaster gen ral will see to it that the Republican igibles are passed over for Demo ate is not only expected, .but it has een asserted on good authority for -eeks that this was just what Post Laster General Burleson was plan ing in the way the Republicans see .Under such an arrangement a Re ublican incumbent of an office -ould have little chance. He might ass a successful examination. Some emocrat or more than one in the )mmunity would probably get on ie eligible list. The post office de artment, as Republican members of ingress view it, will do the rest. In other words, while the Senate emocrats are just now crying out gainst overloading the civil service th Republicans, a Democratic ad inistration Is alleged to be planning ae of the greatest pieces of political voritism under the guise of the vil service on record. Against any such charges, the emocrats declare, their plan Is much Lore fair than President Taft's holesale order putting the postmas rs in the fourth class offices Into the rvice without examination. While Republican senators and use members are disapproving of te Burleson announcement and ireatening trouble, as a matter of Lct there is probably nothing they mn do, except to make speeches and tack the Democrats for not observ tg the spirit of the civil service law. TORNADO IN NEBRASKA. sveral Towns Are Reported as Wip ed Out. A tornado, which took a toll of ten ves, injured thirty odd persons and stroyed more than a third of Sew d, Neb., occurred shortly before 6 clock Wednesday evening. Twenty vo residences were destroyed and .any more were partly wrecked, but e business portion of the place did at greatly suffer. The identified dead are: Mrs. avid Hooper, Mrs. William Heffing , ;rs. Chris Wasserman, Mrs. B. L. asserman, 3. Schultz, Burlington ection foreman; sIx-year-old daugh r of Schultz; Mrs. R. Imlay, Sam e Crim and Mrs. Edwards. The tornado struck the residence rtion of Seward and swept every ing in its path. Most of those kill I were caught in the wreckage of ieir homes. The tornado after passing through swrd continued to the northeast. eports say that the towns of Tom ro, Lushton, Grafton and McCool sction were wiped out. Four per. ms are reported killed at Tomaro ad several at McCool Junction. Uti t was in the path of the twister. Before the last telephone wire ent down an appeal was sent to incoln to send physicians and un srtakers. Reports from surrounding sections dicate. that the effects of the torna o were felt over a wide range of ter tory. The tornado was followed in Sew rd by a hail and rain storm. Wed seday night the town was without ghts. A storm of great fury struck the uthern part of Omaha at seven clock Wednesday evening, unroof ig many houses in the vicinity of 3th and Gol streets and doing other amage. No person is reported in. ired. Coming so quickly after the East n tornado, In which more than 100 yes were lost, Wednesday night's :orm caused many hundreds of outh-end inha,bitants to rush to cel Lrs and other places of refuge. Three ches of rain fell in the down-town itrict. .MANY YEARS IN PRISON. ocked Up Twenty-Three Years Out of Thirty-six. Arthur Patten, who at 30 has spent 3 years in Kansas prisons, left the enitentiary at Topeka, Wednesday, aroled to a farm "to become a citi mn". At the ago of seven Patten :ole a three-dollar-watch and was mt to the State reformatory as an orrgible. Paroled after four years e entered a farmer's house in Osage unty where he had vainly souight -ork, and ate food he found in the antry. Caught, he was compelled to nish his reformatory sentence and en was sentenced to the peniten ary for second degree .burglary. ov. Hodges acted promptly when he ,arned the circumstances. "Society as committed a crime against Pat mn," he said. Currency is Germless. Dr. W. C. Rucker of the public .lth service declares that the Unit. d States currency is free from erms. The ink used in printing FIGH FREE SA PROTECTION DEMOCRATS ASSAIL SCHEDULE TAKES SHOT AT WILSON Letter Characterizing Advocates of lNo Duty as "Accursed, Unpardon able Apostles of Democratic Faith" and Sugar Schedule as "Boomerang to Knock Out Democratic Party". Using an "original Wilson man" from Michigan, with a fluent pen, for an oracle, the anti-free sugar Demo crats, led by Senator Ransdell, of Louisiana, assailed the Underwood sugar schedule in the Senate Wednes day, despite strenuous efforts of Sen ator Simmons and other Democrats to stop the flow of the attack. Republicans enjoyed the efforts of the Democratic leaders to prevent the reading of a long letter submitted by Senator Ransdell, written by Lewis C. Rowley, of ransing, in which free sugar advocates were characterized as "accursed, unpardonable apostles of Democratic faith" and the free sugar schedule as "a boomerang to knock out the Democratic party". With Republican votes Senator. Ransdell was aided in getting the long epistle before the Senate as part of an argument against the proposed sugar tariff. It precipitated lively discussion between the Lousaanian and Senators James, Meyers, Sim mons and other Democratic leaders. In his plea from Michigan Presi dent Wilson's attitude on sugar, the party platform pledges and the Presi dent's campaign pledges not to hurt any legitimate industry were recalled, the writer declaring "there is al most imminent danger that in his almost hilarious enthusiasm for the Democratic ideals the President will 'try to do too much'." The Democrats also were forced to hear from this same trenchent Mich igan protestant that "the statesman or party leader, who, in formulating important legislative measures, does not take into consideration the phy chological effect as well as the ulti: mate practical results of these meas ures, is a raw hand at the business." He said he did not believe President Wilson was "that kind of immature leader". "I refuse to believe," he continued, "that the President will commit the party to radical courses which-however sound theoretically -are calculated to alarm and alien ate large numbers of voters in many of the most populous agricultural sec tions of the country." Republicans applauded when the Senate clerk read "is free trade, too, inscribed as the- party gonfalon, which erstwhile bore the immortal watchword of free silver?" And again, when the admonition was sounded that the "Democratic party had better effect changes moderately and safely rather than hastily and at the dictates of a caucus, too many of whose members leave their private judgments and consciences where the Mussulman leaves his shoes-outside the door." Senator Penrose later injected lev ity into the proceedings when Sena tor Simmons, on behalf of the finance committee, tried to get an agreement for a vote on the question of public hearings on the Underwood bill. The Pennsylvania Senator emphatically denied that he had any Idea of con ducting a filibuster on the Issue. He had asked for public hearings, he said, because he conscientiously be lieved that they should be held and he felt sure that the Senator from North Carolina had not entertained any idea theat he ever had captained any "legislative piratical craft". While Senator Simmons was en deavoring to fix a time for a vote the time for the consideration of the mat ter expired and it went over until Thursday, when the Democrats en deavored to .bring the reference of the bill and the Republican public hearing amendment to a vote. Discussing the attitude of the Dem, ocratic party toward the sugar tariff, Senator James asked Senator Rans dell if he did not think that the plat form of the party gave fair warning to Louisiana. Mr. Ransdell emphati cally replied, "no." The Kentucky Senator then proceeded to read from the platform endorsing what the par ty did last year and demanding re ductions to reduce the cost of living. In this connection the Louisiana Sen ator referred to a statement In the Rowley letter, which said: "Neither in his campaign for the Democratic nomination nor for his election did Mr. Wilson pledge him self to give the country free sugar. On the contrary, whenever he was asked about his position on the su gar tariff, he distinctly declared that he was against any tariff changes that would injure or destroy any legiti mate Industry." - WORK OF A REAL FIEND. Some One Poisoned Two Horses for Hampton Farmer. A small farmer, a good straight citizen of the Hockory Groce sec tion of Hampton county, about eight miles distant from Brunson, lost his only two horses a few nights ago from poisoning. Going in the early morning, as ueual, to feed his stock he discovered his horses down and in a dying condition. Examining the troughs to see if they had eaten their food of the night before he discovered a quantity of Paris green powder In the troughs. Both horses soon died. Tracks of a bicycle wheel were found and followed some 11 or 12 miles in to the county of Colleton, where they were lost and no further discovery has as yet been mades