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VOL. XXVI iMANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 21. 1913 NO.45 BOOZE M tY BE SHIPPED FROM O1 ER STATES INTO $01 1 CAROINA No Statute Against Importation of Whiskey f)r 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 hhcis that the old Dis pensary Act, forbidding the ordering of liquor for personal use from other states, having been declared uncon stitutional before 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 classifi 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 fail protection of the laws." The case arose in 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 us.e. 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: "I 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 refers exclusively to Interstate com merce, and I think this Court has no jurisdiction to interfere." A test case was brought under the same conditions 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 day 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 Schrei~ber from Pittsburg to Chicago In 1910. He was convict ed on all seven counts in the indict ment. The jury returned Its verdict after an hour's deliberation. Condemn Present Styles. That the styles In women's dressee 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 Episcopal diocesan council of Sou~th Capilina at Charleston. 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 m. .as 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 have been calling on me to send them special men, and I have been tightening the screws. I had presumed that the Attorney General's views would be sustained, or, if not, that the members of the Court, who I 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 in hand. B'ut, 1o 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 in 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 around to lawyers' offices and hire lawyers to defend these negroes and at 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. I 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 oon stables and detectives under any such conditions as we are living under right now, and It certainly 1s 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 flault of the Governor of South Carolina. If parties will write me I will take 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 shipments. 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 at Hermozillo from the front above Guayamas. He said State troops had captured rifles and ammunition. An other report from the front says thai 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 igs about Guayamas can be obtain ed. A strong detachment of federalh under Col. Barron Is reported cut ofl from retreat and besieged In the hull by the insurgents under Col. Hill. Barron was wounded. AUSTIN HAS BEEN CAUGHT. Said to Have Been Taken in CustodI Way Out in Ohio. W. C. Cathcart, chief of police of Columbia, received a letter last week signed W. Jackson, Toledo, Ohio, t< the effect that a man, who says his name Is "Dick" Austin, Is in thai 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 resultant kill ing of three white men and th4 wounding of two others week befori last. The letter was referred to Sher 1ff . B,. Morris, of Barnwell county Although it Is hardly ,probable thai this is the Hampton desperado, Sher. Ic orris wired Jackson to hold thi suspect, and that a full descrIption o: Richard Henry Austin would follov by mail Tonsiltis Becomes Epidemic. At Canton, Mass, three mor' 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 been reported in the town. No pub ic services were held Sutnday and thi pblic library and schools will remla clod next week. HAE PISTOL UE CONVERSE COLLEGE STEWARD AND GOOK 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 1 any more trouble with me," repeated the negro, into whose eyes came an 1 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. Mayes 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 ;Mr. Mullins, in Mr. J. F. Maybank's automobile, says The1 News and Courier. The actual running of the touring I car was only fourteen hours, which I is believed to be the record. The I party left the mountain town at 5 a. I m. and arrived at Charleston at 10 p. n., raving stopped in Newberry for an hour and in Columbia for an hour. I The average running time was nine- I teen miles an hour, which in conside ration of the sorry condition of some stretches of road, 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. Gdaybank'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 ip, not being very much fatigued, though they were In the machine for fourteen hours. LITTLE CHILID 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 Wansop, Wis., caused the death of six persons--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 garially submerged pier a~nd cp LETTER TO VETERANS GENERAL TEAGUE WRITES ABOUT REUNION. Which Is Soon to be Held at Gettys burg and Making Arrangements .for the Same. Maj. Gen. B. H. Teague, command ng the South Carolina division, U. C. V., has addressed to the veterans a .etter setting forth officially the ar -angements that have been made to >are for them during the Gettysburg -eunion, July 1-4, next. S. E. Welch, is adjutant, and chief of staff, urges hat all county papers copy the no ice. The letter follows: ro the Confederate Veterans of South Carolina: The State of Pennsylvania has ex ended an invitation to all Confeder tte veterans to unite with the Grand Army of Republic in the celebration >f the fiftieth anniversary of the bat le of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3 and 4, )f this year, on the battlefield. The legislature of our State at its ast session appropriated $1,000 to >ay for the transportation of such 'onfederate veterans, residing in south Carolina, as participated in hat battle. The Gettysburg surviv irs only are to share in this fund for heir transportation, and those who urpose attending the celebration nust furnish a certificate attested by Confederate veteran, sworn to be 'ore the clerk of court of the county a which they reside, and forward he same to the commanding Qfficer, fen. B. H. Teague, Aiken, S. C., on tr before the 15th day of June. With his certificate must be sent the name if the railroad station from which each one will' start. This certificate ill be recorded and returned to the ender with a check for his propor ionate share of the State's appro priation for railroad fares. All veterans who purpose attend ng the celebration, who were not articipants in the battle of Gettys iurg, will have to pay their own rail -oad fare. Free entertainment will ie furnished to all veterans, in a arge camp to be established for this urpose. . Remember, all Confederate veter Lns who were not in the battle of settysburg, who attend this celebra ion, must obtain before leaving Lome, a certificate signed by the com nander or adjutant of a camp of 7nited Confederate service. This ertificate will be presented at Gettys iurg to insure entertainment. While any veterans wearing civil an's clothes will be entertained, it. is lesired that all who can will wear he gray uniform. Information about trains and.rates rill be furnished by railroad agents >n application. B. H. Teague, Major General, S. C. Division, U. C. V.I )ficial: S. E. Welch, Adjutant General, Chief of Staff. TRIED TO CUT WAY OUT. weetheart Hands a Convicted Bur glar a Knife. When Harry Evans had been con ricted of burglary in the Chicago nunicipal court Wednesday, Garnett rairfield, a cabaret singer, his sweet Leart, passed him her handkerchief. vans extracted ian open knife from h handkerchief and started to carve as way to freedom. Detective Bos hulte was severely cut in the neck Lnd Deputy Bohaber was stabbed in he breast before Evans was over owered. The girl was arrested. Only the presence in the court -oom of an unusually large number f the bailiffs and detectives pre rented a double murder and the re ease of Evans and Albert Jensen. nho had been tried with Evans for ,urglary, according to Municipal udge Cooper. A number of friends of the two nen were in the court room, and it s believed that they had planned to go to the prisoners' aid, but were ~rightened by the number of men vho met the attack of Evans and Jen FIVE HUNDRED LiE DEAD.* P'ield of Carnage Near Guaymas is Strewn With Federals. A dispatch from Mexican sources says more than 500 dead are lying an the battlefield above Guaymas. rho soldiers fell during three days >f desperate fighting last week. Col. ruan Cabral, who arrived at Herno sillo from the front reported that he uad estimated the killed to exceed 500. A trainload of~oil and firewood was rushed south with vrhich to cre ate the bodies. The official report f Gen. Alfero Obregon, the insurgent :ommander, stated that the Federals killed alone numbered 500 with 200 Euerta soldiers taken prisoners. Both sides have been executing all com missioned officers captured. Driven to the last station north of the Gulf port the remnants of the Federal army of some 2,500 found itself cut aff from further retreat. Small Boy Is Missing. Search for six-year-old Albert Smith, son of Alfred Smith, believed to have been kidnapped, continnes at Burlington, N. J. The lad has been missing since Friday a week. The only clues to the lad's disappearance was the story told by a neighbor's butler, that he heard Albert crying "don't take me away." Meican Officers Murdered. Twenty-five federal officers, in.clud ing an infantry and artillery colonel, taken prisoners during last week's Sghting above Guaymas, Mexico, were shot at public execution by order of the Constitutionalist commanders. The execution is admitted offially STYLES FOR WOMEN CONDEMNED BY THE EPISCOPAL CLERGYMEN. Certain Popular Dances, Says the Clergymen, Also Tend.to Corrupt the Young People. The News and Courier says much comment, especially among women, 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 expreseing its opposi tion to modes that are not considered modest. The resolutions were pre sented by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, rector of the Porter Military Acad emy. Their text follows: "Whereas, the prevailing style of dress and some of the recent ways of 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 iar 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 endorse the spirit in which the Coun cil has made its protest, but she said that women were all but powerless since the decrees of fashion are blind ly followed. "The narrow-bottomed skirt, the slinky petticoat," she con tinued, "is an a'b'omination. Women 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 unteer to retire. As a matter of fact, 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 af'airs of dress have displayed ad vanc& costumes, but, taken enmasse, the wbinen of this section have not gone the length of their sisters of the Eastern and Western parts of the country. "As everybody knows, designers in Paris and Vienna dictate the styles. The 'Balkan war furnished them with an excuse for introducing costumes that smack of the Near East. These are not .pretty. They are all but shapeless. But, to my mind, the Balkan vogue Is preferable to that which makes general the wearing of hobbles and tubes and other such' costumes in which a wo man is not really comforta-ble. Many women would like to get away from the styles the Episcopal clergy are condemning, but they can't. "As to the dances, it is unfortu nately true that the craze for dances that owe their origin to resorts of a more or less questionable nature has spread in this section. The wretched 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 daces of this sort, -but they have been unable to gain headway. It Is a tendency of the tines and a slender body of women can't overcome the ways of a great majority." The resolutions are of a kind with 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 fet on the women who follow the fashions. MANY KILLED IN WRECK. Mexican Rebels Blow Up Train With Mexican Regulars. Two hundred lives are reported lost In the train disaster at Den, near the Sinaloa-Sonora border Thursday. State troops leaders declare the train bearing 250 'Mexican Federal soldiers 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 Guaymnas. Only fifty of the pas sengers are reported to have escaped death, and others were wounded. The troops were moving from San Bias in Northern Sinaloa, to Alamas, below Guaymas, from which point the insurgents feared they would proceed to reinforce the garrison de fending the Gulf port. Escaped Prisoner Killed. At Soperton, Ga., W. L. Radney, a farmer, arrested on a burglary charge was killed Thursday after he fled from the lock-up. The shot Is said to have been fired by Lee Keen, mem ber 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 night, H. C. Elliott was killed and W. B. Perry was probably fatally wounded, according to advices received. Perry and Mary Lou Web ster, a young white wontan, who is alleged to have been the qause of die RANT HOUSE BILl WILSON COMES OUT FOR FRE SUGAR AND WOOL WANTS NO COMPROMISI Regards It as the Duty of the Demo cratic Majority in the Senate t Fulfill the Platform Pledge by Ea acting the House Tariff Bill Int Law. President Wilson came out strong ly Thursday as the champion of fre wool and free sugar in three years a provided for in the tariff bill recent: passed by the House. He announce, emphatically that he was not consid ering compromises of any sort; tha he'stood squarely behind the measur as it passed the House end that h regarded it as the duty of the Demo cratic majority in the Senate to fulfil its platform pledge by enacting th House bill into law. "I am not the kind," said the Pres ident, "that could ask compromise when I once take my position. have taken my stand with the Hons leaders for the present bill. Enoug] said. I am not loking for or accept ing compromises." The President's utterance wa made a half a hundred newapape correspondents who gathered a usual at the White House fo the semi-weekly conference. Prac tically at the same time the Sen ate was engaged in protracted debat at the end of which an agreemen was reached to vote on the questioi of public hearings on the tariff bill. While the President smilingly le it be known that he was expressini no opinion whatsoever on the pro posal for hearings and that this was subject for the Senate to dispose of his statement of unqualified suppor for the House bill was taken general ly to mean that Mr. Wilson consid ered arguments from special interee on the tariff schedules to have bees closed when the measure passed th< House. He is understood to regard the effort to obtain hearings as : filibustering device. The correspondents were about t leave the office when the Presiden asked if it were true that report, were being circulated of compromise on the wool and- sugar schedules All day there had been rumors tha concessions of some kind would b made on the .principal schedules Ii order to - satisfy opposition in the Senate. The President had been told b, friends that in some sources ther was an expectation that a duty woul be put on raw wool or that the pro vision for free sugar after three years would be dropped. It was t< counteract these statements that hi took occasion to make his positolo clear. Of course, it is expected at thi White House that ther ewill be min or changes in the bill 1made by the finance committee, certain equaliza tions and oorrections which haye been approved by House leaders since the bill left their hands, but in thi principal schedules, such as wool and sugar, the President is determine< that there shall be no change if h< can prevent. Ther'e were even inti mations that he might veto a bil that came from the Senate wit] amendments on wool or sugar. ANOTHER- FLY DANGER. Insect Said to Carry Infantile Par'aly sis Germs. Warring against the fly as thb most common cause of infantile par alysis was given by Dr. E. W. Saund era of St. Louis in an address befor a medical association at St. Loui Wednesday. Dr. Saunder traced a connectio1 between infantile paralysis and th raising of poultry and gave this as al explanation why the disease is mor prevalent in country and suburbal districts than in the crowded part o a city. While experiments were not com plete, he said, yet he was conlden that final tests would demonstrate; connction between "limberneck" Il fowls and infantile paralysis. Hi theory is that flies carry the germ of infantile paralysis from the car casses of fowls and possibly from tb bodies of hogs and dogs to food. Dr. Saunders condemned legal prc tection of the buzzard which he sai transmits infectious disease of liv stock. LUNATIC KILLS GENERAL. High Prussian Officer Was Sho Down On Streets At Munch, Bavaria, Major Gei Von Lewinski, the Prussian militar attachee to Bavaria, and a sergean of police were killed Tuesday by; supposed lunatic. The assassli whose name is S. offer, attacked tb general on the crowded street, firs firing several shots at him, then ture ing the weapon on Police Sergean Pollander. Gen. Von Lewinski wa still alive when picked up. He wa taken to the hospital in an ambu lance, but died shortly afterwarc The assailant was seized by a crow which tried to lynch him and su< ceeded in seriously injuring him b fore he was rescued by the polic' Gen. Von Lewinski was an officer e the general staff. First afan to Land Job. The Senate has confirmed the non ination of .T. R. Montgomery to b postmaster at Marion. This is th only South Carolina postmaster non ination tiat has bees contrmed thi ar in the Wisn AdnirdstIation. T HuNK 1INEI ME JUNAL FEAR EFFECT OF NEW CIVIL E SERVICE RULING. Some Republicans Declare Democrat ic Administration is Only Trying to Clean Out Republican Postmasters. Republican politicians at Washing ton expressed the opinion recently that they saw a "joker" in the ad 0 ministration's decision to revoke an order of former President Taft bring ing 50,000 fourth class postmasfers o into the civil service, this decision providing hereafter for examinations 'or Democrats and Republicans alike. Reppblican congressmen see large e possibilities in the action of the ad s ministration. Under the civil service rule, the post office department will make its . selection of a postmaster from a list t of three eligibles. One at least of e these eligibles is almost sure to be a e Democrat. That the postmaster gen eral will see to it that the Republican 1 eligibles are passed over for Demo e crate is not only expected, but it has been asserted on good authority; for weeks that this was just what Post master General Eurleson was plan s ning in the way the Republicans see it. e Under such an arrangement a Re publican Incumbent of an offie would have little chance. He might pass a successful examination. Some s Democrat or more than one in the r community would probably get on s the eligible list. The post office de r partment, as Republican members of congress view it, will do the rest. In other words, while the Senate e Democrats are just now crying out t against overloading the civil service with Republicans, a Democratic ad ministration is alleged to be planning t one of the greatest pieces of political favoritism under .the guise of the civil service on record. Against any such charges, the Democrats declare, their plan Is much t more fair than President Taft's - wholesale order putting the postmas - ters in the fourth class offices into the t service without examination. 1 While Republican senators and house members are disapproving of the Burleson announcement and threatening trouble, as a matter of fact there is probably nothing they can do, except to make speeches and t attack the Democrats for not observ Ing the spirit of the civil service law. TORNADO IN NEBRASKA. 1 Several Towns Are Reported as Wip ed Ont. 7 A tornado, which took a toll of ten lives, injured thirty odd persons and I destroyed more than a third of Sew - ard, Neb., occurred shortly before 6 a o'clock Wednesday evening. Twenty y two residences were destroyed and B many more were partly wrecked, but 1 the business portion of the place did not greatly suffer. e 'The Identified dead are: Mrs. -David Hooper, Mrs. William Heffing e er, Girs. Chris Wasserman, Mrs. B. L. -Wasserman, J. Schultz, Burlington section foreman; six-year-old daugh e ter of Schultz; Mrs. R. Imlay, Sam e nel Crim and Mrs. Edwards. I The tornado struck the residence I portion, of Seward and swept every thing In Its path. Most of those kill ed were caught in the wreckage. of their homes. IThe tornado after passing thirough Sewai . continued to the northeast. Reports say that the towns of Tom aro, Lushton, Grafton and McCool Junction were wiped out. Four per .sons are reiported killed at Tomaro and several at McCool Junction. Uti ca was in the path of the twister. Before the last telephone wire went down an appeal was sent to Lincoln to send physicians and un dertakers. eReports from surrounding sections sndicate that the effects of the torna do were felt over a wide range of ter ritory. eThe tornado was followed In Sew ard by a hail and rain storm. Wed e nesdiay night the town was without lights. A storm of great fury struck the southern part of Omaha at seven o'clock Wednesday evening, unroof ting many houftes in the vicinity of a13th and Gol streets and doing other damage. No person is reported In sjured. sComing so quickly after the East ern tornado, In which more than 100 lives were lost, Wednesday night's storm caused many hundreds of South-end inha,bitants to rush to cel lars and other places of refuge. Three e inches of rain fell in the down-town district. MANY YEARS IN PRISON. Locked Up Twenty-Three Years Out of Thirty-six. y Arthur Patten, who at 30 has spent t 23 years in Kansas prisons, left the penitentiary at Topeka, Wednesday, ,paroled to a farm "to become a citi e zen". At the age of seven Patten 't stole a three-dollar-watch and was sent to the State reformatory as an t incorrigible. Paroled after four years s he entered a farmer's house in Osage s county, where he had vainly sought -work, and ate food he found in the . pantry. Caught, he was compelled to d finish his reformatory sentence and -then was sentenced to the peniten e tiary for second degree .burglary. . Gov. Hodges acted promptly when he *f learned the circumstances. "Society has committed a crime against Pat ten," he said. Currency is Germless. e Dr. W. C. Rucker' of the public e halth service declares that the Unit t-ed States currency Is free from . germs. The ink used in priating PROTECTION DEMOCRATS ASSAIL SCHEDULE TAKES SHOT AT WILSON Letter Characterizing Advocates of No Duty as "Accursed, Unpardon able Apostles of Democratic Faith" and Sugar Schedule as "Boomesang to Knock Out Democrtic Using an "original W0jsiea' from Michigan, with a fluihfpen, 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 Lansing, 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 Louisianian 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 Xich igen 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 end 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 proceedinge 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 that 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 usual, 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 f'urther discovery