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V. XXvII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 28. 1913 NO.46 BIT TO IXINO WANT SIPtRATE CARS FOR BLACK AND WHITE NO MIXED PULLMAN LAR South Caronna Railroad Commission ers Address Letter to Pullman Com pany Solicitor Condemning Prac tice of Selling Berths to Negroes on Interstate Trains. Severe condemnation of the Pull man Company for selling negroes bearths in Pullman cars with white people was voiced by the South Car olina railroad commission Wednes day night in a letter addressed to F. B. Daniels, the general solicitor of the company in Chicago, by John G. Richards, the chairman. Mr. Richards ards, the chairman. Mr. Richards tells the Pullman Company that he is -aware of the fact that the train on which he found a negro man in a Pullman car was an interstate train, but warns against the company con tinuing to aggravate the white peo ple in this manner or else an appeal will be made to congress for relief. The letter, which was made public Wednesday night, follows: "On May 14, 1913, 1 boarded a Pullman car at Rock Hill, S. C., for Columbia, S. C., and was assigned by the Pullman conductor to a berth or seat No. 11, and was shocked to find that Berth No. 12 was occupied by a negro man. Practically every re servation upon this car was occupied by white ladies and gentlemen. "Southern Railway Train No. 31, as, of course, you know, is an inter state train and is under national con trol. South Carolina, however, has on her statute books a law which undertakes to separate races-in travel upon all trains operating in this State. There are "separate coach" laws in every Southern State through which this train operates and carries your Pullman cars. While we may not be able to reach your company for having violated the letter of our law, you most certainly are guilty of a violation of its spirit and purpose, and the railroad commission of South Carolina feels that it should express to you in no uncertain terms its qon demnation of your conduct in selling passage to negroes and affording them accomodations on the same coaches upon which you have white women and white men passengers. "As you are aware, the Pullman Company operating in the South Is sustained almost entirely by its white patrons, and these do not pro pose to submit to conditions which will permit negroes to occupy the same coaches. "We know full well that national law requires your company to give equ4 accomodations to both whites and blacks, but there is no law which prevents your furnishing separate ac commodations for the races, just as our 'separate coach' law requires the railroads to do in South Carolina. There are many legal ways open to your company, that If resorted to, would remove the necessity for your company forcing this indignity upon your white patrons in the South, and the people of South Carolina will most certainly expect you to provide accommodations in future that will effectually separate the races. "Through the exposure of this re cent occurrence, it has been brought to our attention that your companly ha3 frequently within recent months violated the spirit of the South Caro lina law. With the opening and clos lug of the negro college at Orange burg, S. C., we have been informed that your company sells to negroes reservations on the cars that you know are occupied by white ladies and gentlemen. "The railroad commission of South Carolina is aware of the fact that it may entail some additional expense upon your company to provide sep arate accommodations for the races while you are operating within this State. but we are of the decided opinion that If you do not do so. and speedily, you will sustain far great er loss through those who will posi tively refose to patronize your com pany. "We wish to impress upon you this fact: That we propose to continue to give this matter our personal su pervision and see to it that the peo ple of South Carolina are kept thor oughly informed as to what your practice is in future, and if you do not voluntarily give us the relief, we will appeal to our Representatives in Congress for national legis! that will compel you to meet the ands of the white people of tAis ?tate, and of the South generally." Must Have Been Crazy. At Sparta, Wis., William Hogue, seventy years of age, beat his aged wife to death with a poker, fatally shot his daughter, Mrs. Guy Wilson, wounded his son-In-law Wilson, then took his own life, by cutting his throat. Hogue, angered at the turn he fancied family affairs had taken, first killed his wife, tben attacked the Wilsons in their home half a mile distant. He returned to his dead wife's side to commit suicide. I I Great Loss From Fires. A dispatch from Warren, Pa., says the latest reports from the territory swept by forest fires indicate a loss of half a million. Flames swept from Tidioute to Ludlow, burning over an area of two hundred square miles. Explosion kills Three. Seventeen hundred pounds of pow der in a mine magizine at Sackhart, Md., exploded recently, killing three men and doing damage to nearby houses estimated at thousands of dol DEATH COMES AT LAS1 THE MACON BANKER DIES AFTE BRAVE FIGHT. The Young Business Man Goes to H End With Resignation That Con mands Admiration. After quietly facing for a week t inevitable result of his mistake I taking bichloride of mercury, thin] ing it headache tablet, B. Sandei Walker, prominent young banker am realty dealer of Macon Ga., die Thursday morning at 1:35 o'clock. Members of the family had gathei ed at his bedside several days ag when the doctors announced thei was no hope for him, and to thei Mr. Walker gave no sign of a tremo: but went to his death with a resil nation that has rendered the cas more than usually interestin throughout the country. During the last day he was undE the influence of opiates most of tb time but in conscious intervals gav evidence that he was notsuffering. Scores of sympathetic inessage were received by the family and man of them were in the nature of inqu: ries as to the treatment being give Mr. Walker. It has been impossible t find out definitely what course tb physicians took as they have refuse to talk except to briefly trace th progress of the poison's slow bu deadly effect. GIetmbers of the fsmily are quote as expressing much dissatisfactio: with some of the reports that hav originated in Macon. They declar that Mr. Walker remained constantl in his bed room after it was discover ed that he had taken the fatal dos Interest of specialists and the pub lic generally throughout the countr has been aroused by the fortitud with which the young banker ha combated the slow, but steady, worl of the deadly posion. CountIes messages conveying sympathy an suggesting methods of treatmen have flooded the Walker home. Despite assurances of the certaint of. death as a result of his paralyze organs, Walker's belief that he woul recover was not shaken at a lat hour. Repeatedly Wednesday h sought to comfort his wife, strugglin to bear up under the trying ordeal. The young banker also displaye keen interest in the conferences hell by his physicians and begged hi nurse to tell him exactly what con clusions they had reached. Walker frequently requested, unti he became intermittently unconsciou to be permitted to talk with his re latives, practically all of his immed late family having been summned t the patient's home when he becam ill. LOVED HER TO THE END. Leave Big Fortune to the Childrei of Old Sweetheart. Although he lost the hand of a gir he wooed in his youth, James Care: Russell, head of a coffee brokerag house in New York, kept green th memories of his romance and reveal ed them in his will in which he be queathed $25,000 to each of the thre children of the woman he had hopei some day to marry. Russell died a bachelor and hi most intimate friends were ignoran that he even had a boyhood romance When he left Norwichtown, Conn.. a a young man in 1880, to seek his for tune in New York, he hoped to g back some day for Mfary Walt, onl: daighter of former Congressma: John Turner Walt. But it happene that in Washington she met Joh: Howard Welles, a nephew of Liz con's secretary of the navy, and ac cepted his proposal of marriage. The Welles had three childrer .Tohn Phillip, who is now a catto: broker in Norwich, Conn., Winnifrec aged twenty-one, and Russell, now student at Cornell. who was name for James C. Russell. After th death of Mr. Welles In 1907. Russel +nok an1 interest in his rival's chil ren and on his own deathbed las Mfarch he sent word for Mrs. Welle! who was also dying, of his decislo o provide for her children. She die two weeks ago. LAWYER SOME F~IHTER. Knocked Out Five Men at Once an the Same Time. At Atlanta Mr. Burton Smith, we' known attorney and brother of Sent tor Hoke Smith, on Tuesday afte noon thrashed five men who objecte to him conversing in the corridors c the court rooms in the Throwe building with a woman witness in th famous Crawford will case. Two c the men, C. W. Walton, of Buckhea and W. H. Byrd. 41 West Twelft Street, were badly beaten up, bot showing back eyes and concussion on their faces where Smith struc them. The other three men als were given severe drubbings befor friends and policemen separated tb belligerents. Mr. Smith has only on arm. This Patient Got Well. A well known Wedgefield phys clan, discussing the case of B. Sai iers Walker of Macon suprised h auditors by telling them that he ha a patient a few years ago who tool through mistake, six consecutive se' en-grain tablets of bichloride of me cury four hours apart. The patiex had a vomiting spell after takin each tablet, which Is all that save him. Murder of Girl a Mystery. Although the police have five me under arrest in connection with ti murder of Grace Johnston. a schot girl, on Sionday near Blackburn, Pa the detectives and State constabulai continue the search for the guili FOUND A BIG SNAKE -4 COILED IN A CHARLESTON PRI VATE MAIL BOX. Head and Part of Body Out of Slit Intended for Letters, but Most of Snake Inside Box. To extend one's arm to place some mail in a perfectly innocent-looking mail box and have a three-foot snake c grin in your face is not the pleasant est experience that can occur to one, the average man will admit. The News and Courier says this was exact- 2 ly what happerded to Letter Carrier I Charles B. Claussen Wednesday morning. The snake, it is said by one who saw It, was probably harmless, I but It was certainly vicious in appear- c ance and for a time shivers were f coursing along- several of the spines I In the immediate neigbborhood of a the snake, which was finally killed d by two negroes. Letter Carrier Claussen's route f takes him to lower King street, t Charleston, where a large proportion t of the houses are equipped with - private mail boxes and some of these t boxes are of considerable dimensions. a The letter carrier had, as usual, is- l sorted his mail according to numbers c and was going his cheerful way, C when he came to such a box and, d taking the mail consigned for this P number from his pile, he was abou- b to Insert In the slit in the box. It t was not inserted for some time, how- a ever. The startled carrier saw the r head of a snake sticking through the slit in the mail box. Said head was waving nonchalantly to and fro and a very businesslike tongue was pro trading in a manner which would : have spoken volumes to a mail car- c t rier or anybody else. t The greater part of the snalec's , body was inside the box, as later in vestigation proved. A portion of the d body and the head was ottside. com Ing through which mail is dropped Into the box. Apparrently the snake had crawled Into the mail box, no other explanamation of its unwel come presence there appearing likely. When the mail carrier saw the C head of the snake pointing In, such a direct manner at him, he hesitated I C about Insulting the reptile by any c rude action, such as trying to squeeze I the letters in through the slit while U the snalce's head was occupying part n of It. But, of course, the letters had to be delivered and the problem of D the snakce in the box to be faced- . Meanwhile the mail carrier's di- t lemma began to attract the attention of passersby, who stopped to gaze at $ the queer and unusual spetcacle of a a snake in a King street mail box. r They were careful, however, not to r stop too near to the box, because there was no way of telling what fa cilities that snake had for getting out of the box, and since it had been able to get in and appeared to be so comfortable, It took very little rea soning power to conclude that It t could get out the same way It got in r whenever it chose. So no one wast taking any chances. No one, that Is,'until two colored l1 men, probably wise In the ways of snakes, happened along the street c and saw the trouble. They ran to a E wagon which was passing, seized a heavy whip and, returning, made s~ short work of Mister Snake. When a the reptile was killed and examined it was found to be a fairly thick s~ green snake, about three feet In ti length. The species of the snake s. could not -be ascertained, but it is k said to have been harmless. o p AIKEN FAMILY POISONED. tl One Child Has Succumbed and Three r Others May Die. l Advices received at Aiken latee Thursday afternoon state that Mr. s' Matt Clark and seven children, of White Pond, are suffering from pto- 1 maine poisoning, caused by eating q canned goods. Two physicians have been in con stant attendance, but despite this b fact, one child is already dead, and V three others are not expected to live. S For . Mr. Clark and the remaining a children, the physicians still hold out P some hope. I The afflictions visited upon this b family during the past six days are 0 most tragic and unusual. Just about b a week ago, the father and ten of his a children were bitten by a dog who ' had the rabies. The entire party was carried to h Columbia for treatment and had just I returned home, when this second s blow fell upon them. The wife and a mother is beside herself with grief. b THREE BICHLORIDE TABLETS. s Wealthy Sioux City Mfan Takes Poi son Purposely. c After swallowing three bichloride si of mercury tablets Wednesday night, o Robert Palmer, member of a wcalthy tl family of Sioux City, Iowa, is await- ti ing slow death from the poison. ti Palmer -was In a hotel when he took ti the tablets. He rushed into the streets y shoutings, "I've done It, I've done it." b A policeman overpowered him and he 1, was sent to a hospital, where It wasb reported that Palmer was resigned to s his fate. He will die in about ten e days from the time he took the drug. u t: Helps Charleston Out. The Post says the pay roll of the ;e civilian employees at the Charles- ' r ton navy yard continues to grow with e an increasing number of mechanics I: at work, pressing close to 900 men, 1: with an expenditure for salaries and s wages of nearly $60,000 a month. t The yard continued to be one of the i most active industrial establishments of that section, with much work in progress and more coming up, to I maintain the size of the workingj force nd the amount of the pay roll. 1 THREE MEN KILLEE R NINE WOUNDFD BY ACCIDENT Al FORT MOULTRIE A BIG GUN FLARES BALE e a Privates Baxter, Christensen and Dalton% Killed, Two Former Being d Cut in Two and Capt Hanna Re. d ported Badly Wounded in Side bl Fragment from the Block. 0 e The News and Courier says three a soldiers were killed and 9 or more 7, seriously injured late Thursday nighi at Fort Moultrie when the breecb e blew off a three-inch gun which was g being used for night target practice. Privates Baxter, Christensen and Dal r ton were killed, the former two be e ing cut in two and dying instantly. e Capt. Hanna, who was standing with several other officers of the 9 coast artillery, was badly wounded y In the side by a fragment from the exploded cannon, Sergt. Lamar, of a the hospital corps, was injured in the D right arm and hand. Several were e slightly wounded by the explosion. I It was stated by a resident of Sul e livan's Island that several officers t were reported wounded, Capt. Hanna being one of them. He said that it I was diffcult to learn just how many i were wounded when the fragments a of the cannon scattered among the ? soldiers close by. F It was reported that the breech had - not been properly closed after the in sertion of a cartridge and that when - the cap was exploded the breech was r thrown back with terrific force. The wounded men were rushed to 5 the post hospital, where Immediate I attention was given them. Several s Charleston physicians, responding to I the alarm, went hurriedly to the fort t and assisted In taking care of the vic tims. r The men killed were members of the Sixteenth company, which was firing the guns of the battery. A hurry call was sent to Charleston for surgeons and several responded to assist the two army doctors in care ing for the injured. The semi-annual spring practice was begun that morning, starting 5 with the firing of the mortars at - Battery Carpon, under the new army regulations the practice is to be en I gaged in at night as well as day. The facts of the accident were hard to get Thursday. An offcer who was asked for a statement would not discuss it except in a general was, since the accident will be a matter of official Investigation by a court of in quiry. FOUND IN COTTON FIELD. Spartanburg Baby Lost in Runaway Enjoys Escapade. F A Spartanburg special to The News B and Courier says G. N. Nichols, his a wife, two-year-old daughter and - nursing baby were riding in a buggy - Sunday afternoon on their way home a to Fairmont from that city when the I horses took fright and ran away. As the horse turned sharply to one side 5 of the road, Mr. Nicholls was thrown t out. -The two-year-old child next fell out 5 of the side of the lurching buggy and - the horse darted across a cotton field, > where the baby was deposited. About F half a mile further down the road Sthe horse ran the buggy against a Stree and Mrs. Nichols was thrown out 1 and painfully but not seriously in - jured. The mother, father and two-year old child scrambled to their feet and eventually met. In a perfect tremor Sof apprehension they then started to find the baby. In the cotton patch, Ssitting up on a tiny hillside, crowing and cooing, the little mite was found I-a picture if happiness. t COLLISION OF MOTORCYCLES. I One Young Lady Killed and Three Obther Persons Are Hurt. At Fort Pierce, Fla., Miss Ola Dan iels is dead; her sister, Miss Ada Dan iels, is at the point of death, Fred Jones has a broken leg and hip and Raymond Saunders is badly cut about the hip and is internally Injured I from the effects of a head-on colli -sion, four miles north of that town, -late Saturday night. The boys and I girls had been to a party at the Dan f iels home, and the boys were riding r the girls over the fine rock e road when the accident occurred. f Both machines were going at a rate [ of sixty miles an hour when they met In the shadow of an orange packing b house on the road, head-on. The two s boys and Miss Ada are not expected k to live. e Nine Men Were Lost. e Nine men were drowned Sunday e night when a storm blew a pile-driv er and a barge ashore near Katelta, Alaska. The men were building a fish trap for the Northwestern Fish - eries Company at the mouth of Mar -tin river near Katelta. A furious s storm started Sunday night and d broke six anchors with which the .pile driver and barge were made fast. They were driven eighteen miles 'along the shore, where they struck on Lt the beach. d Graduates of Naval Academy. Senator Tillman's bill allowing the Secretary of the Navy to assign grad. uates from the Naval Academy to the n lowest commissioned grades In the e marine corps, or staff corps of the >1 navy, was ordered favorably reported. .,The bill would also nullify the Act o1 7 1903. reducing the allotment at the * Academy of each Congressman from two to oneand would griva each the SOME PLAIN FACTS PHOWING HOW PROHIBITION HAS PAID KANSAS. That It Has Done for That State it Will Do for This and Other States is Set Out In the Following Article. Hon. John S. Dawson, Attorney eneral of Kansas, delivered an ad ress at Chicago,- April, 1912, on 'What Prohibition Has Done for [ansas". The constitutional amend aent prohibiting the manufacture ,nd sale in the State, of Intoxicating iquor except for medical, scientific, .nd mechanical purposes, was adopt d in November, 1880. It has, there ore, been in operation long enough t afford a reasonable test of the ef ects of State-wide prohibition. Mr. awson acknowledges that for quite , number of years the law was openly efied in many of the larger towns ,nd cities. It took a long bitter fight r the people of Kansas to convince he law-defying liquor interest that hey were really in earnest about anishing the infamous traffic from heir State. But they are convinced t last an~d for some time the prohi ition laws of the State have .been as onsistently enforced as those against ther common forms of crimbal con uct. In estimating the resuits 'of rohibition, however, allowance must e made for the delay occasioned by ais protracted battle against an rchy, and yet, in spite of this, these sults, as summed up by the Attor ey General, are thoroughly convinc g. Here'are a few of the more nportant of them: 1. Illiteracy has 'been reduced rom 49 per cent. to less than 2 per ent. and this is confined almost en rely to the foreign element in the utheastern portion of the State. 2. Eighty-seven of the one hun red and five counties of the State, ave no insane, fifty-four have no ,eble-minded, and ninety-six have no iebriates. There is only one pauper i every three thousand population. 'hirty-eight poor farms have no in iates. In July, 1911, fifty-three aunty jails were empty, and sixty ve counties had no prisoner serv ig sentence some counties have not iled a jury to try a criminal case ten years, and a grand jury is so common that half the people would ot know what it is.. 3. In 1880 the bank savings de osit in Kansas were $30,000,000; )-day they are $200,000,000. The Late is now the richest per capita in le Union, the average wealth being 1,700, whereas the average for the ation is only $1,200. Missouri, which djoins Kansas and is rich in natural sources, has an average of less than 300. During the panic of 1907, ansas sent $50,000,000 to New ork to relieve the money market, 'hile Missouri sent nothing. 4. In 1880 the death rate in Mich an, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas as practically the same, seventeen the thousand. Since the death It of Kansas has gradually fallen 11 It Is now only seven and one-half. hile of the other States has slight Sincreased. 5. The per capita cost of intoxi ting liquors In Missouri is $24; In :ansas is $1.48. 6. It has demonstrated that the loon is not a business, but a par aite on business. 7. It has taken politics out of the loons and the saloons out of poll cs. Every political party in Kan is now stands for prohibition, and eeping joints, dives, and br..thels ut of cities as much the business licy of the average city as keeping ie streets clean, water pure, and the ublic parks attractive. In answer to the question as to the ~altive value of prohibition and high cense as a means of abolishing the is of intoxicating liquors, Mr. Daw m says: There is no relative value. *igh license is not a means of abol hing the evils of intoxicating 11 ors. The only solution of the li nor business Is a bad business. It a bad business, and a tax upon a ad business, a cruel, vicious, and icked business, means that the tate says to the rum seller: You re corrupting the morals of my peo le, you are undermining the man ood of my young men, you are rob ing the cheeks of my young women their .bloom, you are poisoning the lood of my babes, you are wrecking ty homes. filling my jails, and fur !shing a spawn for the brothel. ou are at the back of all the vil inies of the age, and are turning my eople into drunkards, lunatics, and .icides, and you make a very large mount of money out this infamous usiness, and I shall require you to :and and deliver to me a very con derable portion of this dirty moniey 'hich you are making in this villain us fashion." Does prohibition prohibit? "Of urse not," answers Mr. Dawson. Neither does a gun shoot nor a ship all nor a piano make music of its wn accord. It takes a man behind e gun to make it shoot, a sailor to sail the ship, and an artist to play ae piano; so, too, with the prohibi on law. It will sleep away the ears in the musty tomes of a law ook and never prohibit anything un ss there are faithful executives be id it." It has been shown in Kan as, he declares, that it can be enforc d even in a community where pop lar sentiments is against it. "It akes just three men," he says, "to o it, a judge, a sheriff, and a pros cuting attorney. These three and o more, who fear God and nobody lse, and determined to enforce the aw-not all the saloon keepers and rewers and all their followers and yipathizers can prevail against hem. Most imuportant of these three the judge, and that is the officer to rhom the liquor Interests give the rost attention and the temperance eople the least. You must have a udge, or your law enforcement is, mound to b inefficient. TAXED TO DEATH JAPAN COULD NOT ENDURE ANT ADDED BURDEN TERRIFIC INCOME TAX Letter from Consul General at Yoko hama Shows What Lengths Japan ese Are Willing to Go to Support Government, But the Taxes Are a Great Burden. Apropos of two questions of pres ent interest to the people of the Unit ed States is a communication just re ceived from Consul General Thomas Sammons, stationed at.Yokohama, on the income tax in Japan. The information from Consul Gen eral Sammons is striking from two points ef view. It indicates the as tonishing lengths to which the people of Japan have been willing to go In supportting their Government, and it indicates that they could not well en dure any additional financial burden at this time. Mr. Sammons says that a new in come tax law has been adopted in the Island Empire. Under the for mer law the rate on private incomes began with 2 per cent. on incomes above $150 a year, rising successive ly to 2% per cent. on incomes be tween $250 and $500, to 3% per cent. on incomes between $500 and $1,000, to 4 per cent. on incomes be tween $1,000 and $1,500, to 4% be tween $1,500 and $2,500, to 6 be tween $2,500 and $5,00, to 7% be tween $5,000 and $1,500, to 9% be tween $7,500 and $10,000, to 11% between $10,000 and $15,000, to 14 between $25,000 and $50,000 and to 20 1-3 per cent. on all above $50, D00! As if the old rate were not heayy enough, the new law provides for a tax of 2% per cent. on all private in :omes below $500 a year, for 3% on ill between that figure and $10,000, !or 4% between $1,000 and $1,500, !or 5% between $1,500 and $2,500, lor 7 between $2,500 and $3,500, for 3% between $3,500 and $5,000, for 10 between $6,000 and $7,500, for 12 -between $7,500 and $10,000, for Eourteen between $10,000 and $15, 000, for 16 between $15,000 and 25,000, for 18 between $25,000, and 25,000, and $25,000, for 20 between 35,000 and $50,000, and for 22 pjer :ent. on all private incomes above 50,000. On commercial incomes the eld law exacted 4% per cent. Miow $2,500 a rear, whereas the new law reduces :his tax to 40 per cent. Between $2, 500 and $5,000, however, -commercial ncomes have to pay 5 .per clent., an increase over the former rate. Be :ween $5,000 and $7,500 the rate is iow 6 per cent., as compared to the previous rate of 5. Between $7,500 mnd $10,000 the Japanese merchant nust pay now 8 per cent., instead of 3%, as formerly. Between $15,000, md $100,000 this rate now runs ~rom 9 to 13 per cent., when it used : run from 8% to 12 . The puzzle is now the Japanese cit zen manages to exist under such a burden of taxation, which would :ause the overthrow of. any Occiden :al Government. That any nation truggling under such a financial load would venture on war with a country ike the United States over a ques ion such as now agitates the Pacific oast states is almost inconceivable. WAS GiVEN LIFE TERM. Por Murdering His Own One-Day-Old Infant Child. At Waycross, 'Ga., W. C. Lainier ecently was sentenced to life impris )ment in the penitentiary by Judge arker, of the Ware Superior Court. Ganier 'was convicted of murdering is infant son, one day old. The risoner's eyes filled with tears as he eard the words condemning him to rison for the remainder of his life md the .Judge was not unmoved. zanier is but twenty-two years old. udge 'Parker referred to the need of nore care on the part of parents of :he present day and alluded to the resent-day fashions as one cause of :rime. Ware Superior Court will re onvene in special session June 23 to :ry Mrs. Lanier, who was jointly in licted with her husband for the death >f their child. "FERTILIZER KING" DROWNED. Fi. 0. Painter Falls From Ferry Boat Into St. John River. E. 0. Painter, "the Fertilizer King", was drowned at 9:30 Thurs lay morning by falling from a ferry oat into the St. John's River. Mr. Painter was seized with a fit of oughing and fell from the boat sink [ng immediately. He was a million ire and carried $500,000 insurance. Ee had only applied Thursday morn Eng for an additional $50,000. He was at the head of the big fertilizer plant of E. 0. Painter and Company, md half of the insurance is in favor >f the firm, sthe remainder of the family. Why Not Paddle Him? At Saluda Jullan Warren, white, was lodged in jail Tuesday afternoon by the rural policemen charged with cursing a young lady of the McNary. Ferry vicinity on Monday. He man-| aged to elude the policemen until Tuesday morning, when it was learn ed that he was in Batesburg, where he was arrested and brought to Saluda. Crazy Man Kills Five. A patient of the Idaho State In sane Asylum Wednesday ran amuck -3uand kile fiether patients. TELL AIYIUL I[AL ' DIARY Of RESCUED IAN RECORB TERRORS OF COLD' ARTIE REGilUNS Story of German Arctic Expedition Which Met Disaster at Spitzberger Given by Artist Herr Eave-Suf ferred Dreadfully from Fromen Limbs, Lack of Food and Drink. A description of the terrible suf fering undergone by members of the German Arctic expedition, command ad by Lieut Schroeder Stranz, which- - met disaster in Spitzbergen, is -given In the diary of the artist Herr Rave one of those rescued. He telegraphed extracts Thursday - from Advent Bay, giving details of:' the movements of the expedition af ter Its members had abandoned theltr ressel, the Herzog Ernst, Septemebr , 21, 1912. The extracts in -some. places are incomplete and almost In wherent. They say: "The proposal to abandon the ship came from Capt. Ritschel at the be ginning of September. The vessel then had provisions for four months, besides a large supply of condesed$ foods, and she was otherwise well equipped. "The party started for Advent Bay and reached a hut on Wide Bay o4. October 4. Dr. Rudiger, the ocean grapher, was suffering then fro -a half frozen foot, two of his toes be Ing In bad condition. I offered to re main with him there until the others :ould bring back help. The.hut con tained a month's provisions. "Dr. Rudiger and I were without tools, sleeping bags or lights.- I melt ad some fat and made lights and ; tashioned some sleeping bags from:'Th salted skins, which I found In the ,' tut. Dr. Rudiger's foot. became - worse and there was no more band tge material. "The provisions ran out and we. eft the hut November 23, hoping to egain the ship. We suffered sever y, hring nothing to drink, but we Inally reached a hut at Mossel Bay, where we found some hard and nouldy bread. "We remained there three days luring a storm and then started again for the ship, guiding ourselves >y the stars. We arrived at the ship )n December 1. "Dr. Rudiger meanwhile had sRt 'ered greatly, two more of hia, toes tnd four fingers having been frozen, while his foot became-so bad that It iad to be amputated. The guides mnd sailors of the expedition return -d unexpectdly to the ship Decem >er 24, reporting the loss of Eber iardt. The had no news of Dr. Dett ners or Dr. Moeser, the 'botanist. rhey said Sapt. Ritschel had gone n alone to Advent Bay. "Stave died February 24, and the forwegan relief expedition, comn nanded by Capt. Stairud, appeared april 21." The expedition started last sum ner under the patronage of the Duke >f Altenburg with the object of find ng the northeast passage. WOMAN STARVED TO DEATH.. Found Dead in a Handsomely Fur$ nished Old Mansion. In a large residence at Yonkers, N. r., occupied by herself and brother - m a fashionable residence street, Ada unscomb, a middle aged spinster, i-as found dead Thursday night, a ictim of starvation, according to the :oroner. Searchers found no food in :he house. A physician was called y S. Dunscomb, aged 60, the wo nan's abrother, who found the woman n a couch in a room, her body clad n rags. The Dunscomb residence ias been a house of mystery to the. aeighbors for twelve .years when the amily moved there. The blinds have 1,ways -been drawn. No servants were mployed and no visitors have- been een at the mansion. Officials say ostly old furniture is falling to pieces from neglect. . Dust has accu nulated, apparently, for years. HERO OF EPISODE GONE. apt. Frank Wilson, Master of the Buckmnan, Missing, Capt. Frank Wilson, who was for nerly In command of the Alaska-Pa :ific passenger liner Buckman, has >een missing for more than three nonths. On February 1 he left his iome at San Francisco, saying he ould return In a few hours. Three lays later he was seen in Los Ange es, but no trace of hIm has been 'ound since. Wilson was the hero of he pirate episode on the Buckman n 1910, when two robbers attempt d to seize gold treasure when the - essel was off the coast of Oregon. fter Capt. Wood had been shot, Wil on, then mate, overcame the two ,lrates. Gone to the Canal Zone. Representatives Byrnes and Lever, , the South Carolina delegation, ac :ompanied -by their wives, left Wash ngton Friday for New York, whence they will sail for the Canal Zone. Killed by Brother-in-law. Mile Martin. for many years agent of the Central of Georgia Railroad at Dunlap, nine miles from Athens, Ga., was shot to death Wednesday afternoon by his brother--In-law. Death of H. M. Flagler. Henry M. Flagler passed quietly away at Ocean View cottage, Palm Beach, Fla., at 10 o'clock Monda MAKING SOME CHANUMW ---- ELDHNATING NEGROES FROM THE OFFICES. Where They Have Precedence Over Hundreds of White Men and Wo men Employees. A Washington letter says as a gen eral thing, this Administration is not disposed to cater to the colored vote by letting negroes hold oftes which carry authority. The President's Cabinet may not be absolutely a unit in its view of this matter, but -it comes nearer being unanimous about the desirability of observing the racial line than any other Adminis tration since the war. The colored Assistant Attorney General of the United States, who was appointed by President '"aft, has been eliminated by the simple process of abolishing his office, and the same plan is being considered with regard to the $4,000 position of register of the treasury; now held by J. C. Na pier, of Mississippi. This place has been considered the special plum of "the colored brother" for many years. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo recently referred to First Assistant Secretary John Skel ton Williams the question of what to do about Napier's place, and Mr. Wil lams is believed to have reported that it could be dispensed with with out impairing the efficiency of the service in the least. Secretary McAdoo and Assistant Secretary Williams are both South ern men and fully appreciate the un desirability of having negroes in of ficial positions where they have prec edence over hundreds of white men and women employees, to say nothing of the public. An order has been promulgated by Mr. Williams requiring that the white and colored clerks in the treasury department shall not eat together at lunch, but that separate places for their recreation, shall be provided. And not a murmur has been, heard against this change in Washington, which is really very tired of the un due "swing" which has been hereto fore allowed the negro for political reasons. WORKING FOR A NEW COUNTY. -0 - Wagener Aspires to be Its County Seat If It. Is Made. Lexington, May 21.-Special: An other effort is being made -by the peo ple of Wagener to secure a new coun ty, the name of which is to be Edisto, with Wagener as the county seat. Petitions has been filled with the gov ernor asking that an election be or dered on the proposed new county, according to information received here. E. B. Jackson, cashier of the Bank of Wagener, and J. Ray Gantt, dis penser at Wagener, spent a portion of to-day in Lexington looking up the registration books with a view to se ertaininly just how many qualified lectors are in the Lexington territory proposed to -be taken in the new area. Both Mr. Jackson and Mr. Gantt are ethusiastic over the movement. The proposition Is to get enough territory from Lexington, Alken and rangeburg counties to make up the requisite number of equare miles and the necessary amount of taxable property. If the new county is es ablished It -will take away from Lex-1 ngton the towns of Pelion, Thor. Samaria, and Steedman, together with a large portion of the Black creek and Edisto sections. The new county would take a large ortion of rich territory from Alken also, and a good portion fromr Or ageburg, It is said. It would be well for the people living In the sections of the old counties proposed to be cut off who do not want to make any change to bestir them selves. The new county, if formed, which is very doubtful, would not be very rich one. DANIEL TRIES AIRSHIP. Secretary of Navy Travels Eight Miles Through Air. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels Wednesday afternoon travel led eight miles through the air In a fying boat. "It was delightful; I en joyed the sensation thoroughly," was the Secretary's reply to an Inquiry just after he alighted. The Secretary went up with Lieut. John H. Towers, senior officer of the navy aviation orps, whose camp is across the river from the Naval Academy at Annap ois. The flight was made in the fly-1 ug boat C-1. The air trip was beguni at four minutes to four o'clock. Eight minutes later the trip was over anda the Secretary, after travelling about< eight miles at a height of 500 feet, was telling of his experience. Goes With All-State Nine. The Spartanburg Herald says: "In selecting an All-State team last week, Frank Dobson, the coach of the Clem son baseball team, included the name of Wallace Bethea, the Wofford catcher. The local admirers of the little receiver were not surprised at the honor conferred upon Bethea, as he has been one of the mainstays of the Wofford team during the past sea son. Though not a spectacular play er, be possesses few equals in college circles as a receiver. His work has been a feature of all the games in which he has participated and has been a large factor in the excellent showing of his team." South Carolina Plums. The president sent the following nominations of South Carolina post masters to the Senate Thursday: Joseph M. Poulnot, Charleston; J. F. Way, Holly Hill; S. M. Ward, George town: Louis Stackey, Kingstree; P. H. Fine, Snntanburg.