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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1913 NO.1 11118 -MUCH _PRASE JiLSIN AN WREYNOLDS LAUD ED FOR TRUST FIiHT INDEPENDENTS PLEASED Telephone Companies Not Connected 'V.ith Western Union Express Grat lilcation at the Restoration of Fair Competition, Which Was About to Le Crushed. Attorney General McReynolds has received iany letters of commenda tion from independent telephone companies- congratulating him upon his work in bringing about the dis oshition of the Bell telephone and Western Union Telegraph interests. John H. Wright of Jamestown, N. Y., president of the Independent Tele phone Association of America, in a letter to the Attorney General re eelved recently, said: "On behalf of the Independent tel ephone interests of the United States I d-sire to express our appreciation of the splendid mannir in which you have protected our rights under the law. For a longtime we have felt that there was some adequate rem edy against the wrongs that were openly perpetrated by the Bell inter ests, which were designed eventually to end aUl competition. The agree ment yoxt have reached indicates most satisfactory results which con stitute a justification and; compensa tica for our long struggle for that end. "May we also, through you, ex press to President Wilson our appre oation of his distinguished personal consideration of this controversy and the unfailing patriotism that has churacterized his attitude through B. G. Hubbell, president of the Federal Telephone and Telegraph company of Buffalo. writes: You have done a wonderful work for public good and are being pro claimed a hero by independent tele phone Interests, which embraces in Its scope more than 400,000 security holders." Mr. Hubbell also invited Mr. McReynolds to address the Inde pendent Telephone - Association of America. meeting In Chicago on Jan sry 7. Since the announcement of the plana for, the reorganization df the Telephone Trust there has been one saller. on the Department of Justice In the, cause of a prosecuted com bi-e, more than a hundred telephone calls and-scores of letters and many telegrams seeking to learn what ma be expected In the suit of the Gov ernment against certain trusts. ? -. McReynolds left Washington for Kentucky last Saturday and will not return until next week. In his ab sence there'iq no one at the depart ment' authorized to act for him In taking up fresh 'proffers from trusts which wish to reform. The inquiries an~ d reports of negotiations and pro tective~ agreements have persisted, hoawever, and In the list that has been 3rentioned .have appeared what are rcgarded at the Department as some of the most important suits that have been filed in many-years. Mi'. McReynolds, in talking over th'e efforts qf directors of the New Yornk, New Haven and Hartford Ra~il road company to avoid a trust suit, * has made it plain that heis not will ing to accept offers which do not arean a reform In accord with the department's own ideas. KIULEn AT HIS DOOR. Left Dead With Twenty Wounds In His Body. Mike Laporta-was called to his door In the South Side of the Italian quar ter of Chica'go, Sunday by cries of "Hurry, your brother Is dying.' A mo ment later he was struggling with three men who left him dead with 20 stab wounds in his body. 'Antonio Laporta, the brother came home soon after the police arrived. He said he knew who had killed Mike, but when questioned about the *Identity of the assassins he replled: "It Is ifly affair, I will find them." La porta said the murder was the result of a Sicilian feud of 20 years dura * tion. "My brother was not the first; - he will not be the last," Laporta add ed. DANGEROUS BUSINESS. Answer to Matrimonial Ad Leads We <man Into Trouble. * Answering a note smuggled out of a cottage In the south end of Los An *geles, Cal., police women Saturday found Bertha Lake, the twenty-three year old daughter of an oysterman near Providence, R. I., who said she *bad answered a matrimonial adver tisement, aid .had been drugged and held a prisoner for two weeks by the man, Robert Ciboeh. a young Austra lawas arrested, and an investiga tion is under way. Two Brothers Are Killed. William and Robert Russell, -brothers, of Petros, Tenn., were shot and killed ~early Thursday, and' Beecher Holmes and his* younger brother, charged with murder, are1 Imprisoned. 'ihe Russels had testi led against the Holmes in a liquor selling case. - Tried to Sell too Cheap.. When Jim Jackson offered to sell a Greenwood horse dealer a fine mule for $100 Saturday he was at once taken into custody. Sunday the own er, a farmer, turned up and claimed 1+he mule whic haA been stniten frm CUT DOWN DELEGATES SOUTH CAROLINA LOSES SEVF2 WITH REPUBLICANS. National Committee Ends Its Labor With Compromise Reorganizatioj and Adjourns. The Republican national commit tee has concluded its labor for re form in party procedure, and lannch ed its campaign for a reunion o warring elements, by adopting a res olution providing for a radica change in the basis of representatioi in national conventions which woulo reduce the quota of southern state: from thirty-three to sixteen per cent of the convention's total. The action of the committee, criti cised in vigorous terms by several o its members, but made unanimoui before adjournment, must be indors ed by states entitled to cast a ma jority of votes in the electoral col lege before it becomes party law. In order that such action shall b( taken as promptly as possible th( committee appointed a subcommittef of three, consisting of Charles B Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah of Idaho, and Governor Hatfield, 01 West Virginia, to prepare an addres This address will be drawn up short. ly after the Christmas holidays, and leading members of the committe( expressed the hope that it would bf met by early action. Approval- by the states will insur a call from the national committec for the national' convention of 191E along the lines laid down. The re. organization plan adopted came as a compromise which reflected the view. of many committeemen that southerm representation should be reducfd, but not brought to the vanishing point. According to figures submitted by the subcommittee, the new plax would reduce the total number of delegates from 1,078, as in 1812, to 993. Under it these states would lose delegates: Alabama 9, Arkansas 3, Florida 4, Georgia 10, Illinois 2, Kentucky 1, ouisIana 7, Mississippi 8, New York 4, North Carolina 3, Pennsylvania 1, South Carolina 7, Tennessee 3, Texas 15, Virginia 9, and Hawaii 4. The southern states would have 164 dele gates in all. FREES AMERICANS. Euerta Orders Release of Trio Held In Mexian Jails. By appealing directly to Gen. Huer a Friday Nelson O'Shaughnessy, American charge d'afaires, obtained from him almost immediately une -iivocal consent to the release of .ree Americans now in jail, whose aberation long has been delayed by legal manoeuvring. The men order ed set free by Gen. Huerta are H. J Kidder, William Krause Amd Johi Tohn Parker. It apparently developed that Gen. uerta had known nothing of the narceration of the men or of efforts hat had been made by Mr. O'Shaugh essy to procure their release. Made mpatient by the long series of eva sions and excuses given him fron ther quarters, Mr. O'Shaughnessy risked incurring the displeasure o: inor officials and apparently found uerta willing and anxious to dem >nstrate by the order for his release is intention to maintain fair play, e declareid that as long as he is president he would not countenance ay discrImination against Americant r any persecution of them because f nationality. Parker is in jail at San Luli Potosi. He Is charged with being im plicated in a murder. Krause and Kidder are In jail at Mexico City, he cases against the men are not te be dismissed, but the men will not be forced to remain in jail. The condi tions of release oblige the men't present themselves at the Americax mbassy. FIRECRACKER EXPLODES. Allendale Lad Narrowly Missec Death in Firing Cracker. Little Warren Reeves, the 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roberi Reeves, of Allendale, was seriousl3 Injured by the :explosion of a "can non" firecracker Wednesday at his home. An iron pipe stuck into thi ground was being used for holding the crackers. A very large one was dropped into the pipe, and discharg ing before the little fellow couli move out of range, struck him In the lower part of the stomach, infiictinj a terrible wound, just as the dis charge from a gun might have done The doctors say the wound is no necessarily fatal, but very serious requiring a number of stitches. Fatally Wounded in Explosion. Mrs. Harriet Adams, temperanci leader and author, is expected to dit in a hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, o burns received Saturday afternoon II a gas explosion at her home. She I: 75 years old. The explosion wa caused by Mrs. Adams striking match in a room filled with gas froi an open jet. Kills Tot and Self. While seated at the supper tabla at her home in Marshall, Ind., Sal urday night. Mrs. Mary E. Fix, witl a butchers' knife cut the throat of he two-year-old grandson, killing him She then drew the blade across he own throat. She died a few hour later. Tragedy at Still. Jordan Will was shot, perhap fatally, and his wife killed outrigh Thursday afternoon at a turpentin still near Marlow, Ga. Deputy sher if.,s a in..erc for the 3UpnoSe. BALKS THE FMES WILSON DIRECTS FIRE FlGHT ON THE GULF COAST PUTS OUT BLAZING FIRE - While Returning From Golf Unks the President Catches Sight of Blaae on Roof-Sounds Alarm and Extinguishes Fire Before the Local Department Arrived. President Wilson Friday night found himself the hero of the gulf coast. Word spread far and wide that the watchful eye of the chief 3 executive of the United States had - spied a blaze that 'threatened to de ' stroy one of the handsome homes of the Southirn shore and that he had acted the volunteer fire chief in a manner that long will be remember ed. Thein cident created a stir in the otherwise quiet life of the gulf esc tion. The president was returning from a quiet game- of golf towards noon and on passing through Gulfport, eight miles from Pass Christian, Miss., saw a blaze on a roof of a big house. It was the home of John J. H. Neville,w ho won fame in 1891 by prosecuting John L. Sullivan for a prize fight at Richburg, Miss., with Jake Kilrain. Mrs. Neville, who was alone in the building, had run to the window to watch the president go by, when sud denly two machines stopped and the president himself alighted. Quick as a flash he darted up the front steps, followed by Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N., the secret service men and *hauffeurs, who had unstrapped the fire extinguishers from their ma chines and awaited the president's orders. Mrs. Neville was confused. "Don't be alarmed," said the presi dent coolly. "Your house Is afire, but the men will put it out quickly if you will show them the way to the attic." Mrs. Neville pointed the way up stairs and Robinson and Fredericks, the chauffeurs, broke a window and climbed out on the roof, while James Sloan and Jack Wheeler, the secret service guards, tore away the shin gles and helped fight the flames. Mrs. Neville did not know how to treat her unexpected but distinguished guest, who urged her to keep calm, as there was no danger. "Will you come into the parlor?" she asked. "No, thinks," replied the presi dent, "but you might let me get a bucket of water." Mrs. Neville has tened to comply, but before it could be of service the firefighters on the roof had descended with the report that little damage had been done and - that the blaze was out. "Well done," said the president and the entire party left the house for the automobiles. The chief of the local fire department was just ar riving with his hook and ladder and other apparatus.1 "The fire's over," announced the president, and added, with a proud smile, "my men have just put It out." Judge Neville and his son came1 running up at'that moment and a big crowd collected. The judge was pro fuse in his thanks and spoke appre ciatively of the president's thought ful concern for Mrs. Neville. The president took no motor ride in the afternoon, resting after his ex ertions at golf. He enjoyed ,the change in the temperature and was enthusiastic about the links which lie along the shore of the gulf. The president .dictated a fe wletters and read scores of telegrams that poured in, congratulating him on the enact ment of the currency .bill. He took a nap during the afternoon and again spent the evening with his family. PARDON MHLL STILL GRINDS. Another Man-Killer Turned Loose by Governor Blease. James G. Seigler, the well known white farmer of Aiken county, who shot and killed Officer Patterson on the streets of Aiken and was tried in June of last year, found guilty of. manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary, was Friday afternoon paroled by Governor Blease on condition of good behavior. Seig 1er was paroled during October to let him go home and try and save his property, which was being sold under iforeclosure of mortgage. He is said to have been worth $60,000 before his trouble, but it is stated that his trial cost him the larger portion of his wealth. He returned to the peni tentiary on the 1st of December to resume his sentence. KTILING IN BARNWELL. Woman is Accused of Shooting Young Married Man. 1 News of the killing of Angus S Main, in the section of Barnwell county known as Mixson Corner, . reached Allendale Thursday. No i~ particulars are obtainable except he was shot about 10 o'clock Wednes day night while on his way home from Fairfax. A woman by the name e of Mixson is said to be accused. - Main was a young married man of i good standing. He was a farmer and r lived about seven miles from Fairfax. .He leaves a wife and five children. s Mania for Setting Fires. * Herbert Whittaker, a nineteen year-old boy of Quincy, Mass., was held on his confession that he had set s fire to seven buildings within two t days. The youth's foster parents say he has had a mania for setting fires -isince he saw his father and mother perish in flames that destroyed their ANXIOUS TO OBEY LAW CORPORATIONS WOULD CON FORIM WITH LAW. Wilson Says He is Willing to Do All He Can, But is Insistent That Statute be Obeyed. President Wilson let it be known Monday that some other corporations besides the American Telephone and Telegraph company had shown a dis position to take the initiative in re organizations to conform with the Sherman anti-trust law. Department of justice officials de clare that every day representatives of business concerns are, calling to learn what they can or can not do under the law. While officials stated emphatically that prosecutions would not be disconinued where they were warranted, co-operation would be us ed wherever possible to secure an ob servance of the law. - It became known that the department is at work on plans submitted by other corporations for friendly settlements. Just which ones they are was not divulged. The president did not specify what corporations he referred to, though in informal discussion of the subject i with callers, he spoke of having some 1 in mind. He reiterated that there. i seemed to be a very general disposi tion to Inquire what the law was, to I know what would be expected of "big i business" and a desire to comply with the spirit of the law. Mr. Wilson made it clear to his 1 allers that it would be the policy of I his administration to co-operate .in E avery way it legitimately could to e bring about a satisfactory under- < standing of the law by the business c men of the country, and the execu- c tive departments did not expect to I raise barriers against those , who I wanted- to obey the law. The presi- i lent pointed out that the attorney t eneral would co-operate and hearti- t ly desired and welcomed the impulse I n the part of business to take the c nitiative. The presideit indicated in' his nanner of discussion that he hoped 1' :he government had shown by exam- f ple in the American Telephone and .3 relegraph settlement what might be I mpected as the future.course of his x idministration. He has been conf.Qr- I ring with congressional leaders on t ;he anti-trust subject and will read a t special message to congress after he 1 returns from his vacation, in which ie will point to the necessity of a 3 rigid enforcement of the Sherman I aw and will endeavoi to make clear t he interpretation of that statute c which the department of justice will 2 ollow. Some statement on the sub- 3 lect may be made when the presi- 2 lent signs the currency bill. A note of confidence that the bus ness men of the country will co- t yperate with the government in se- 2 :uring a compliance with the Sher an law is expected to be sounded n the president's remarks. He will indicate the manner in which the ad inistration will approach the sub ect and express his realization of the delicacy of the task and the nec 3sity for cautious and careful treat rent of It because of its Intimate re atlon to the business conditions of the country. The president learned from the2 :onferees early Monday that a satis Eactory agreement had been reached 2n the currency bill. He expressed ls gratification that the organiza tion committee has been retained as provided In the House bill because, it gave the 'president 60 days to se lect members of the 'federal reserve , board while the organization commit Lee was making Its investigations.2 The president has been cohsulted on the telephone by the conferees and indicated to them his approval of the way the .bill had finally been complet ed. HUERTA CLAIS MILLION. rexican Resident Says He Can Secure < That Many Soldiers. Replying to a letter sent him by the correspondent of the Frankfurter1 Zeitung, a German newspaper, Pres ident Huerta said that if it should be come necessary he could put into ser vice immediately more than 1,000, 000 armed men. This stitement he explained as follows: "~Without counting the 150,000 men of the national army, the gov einent in agreement with various states of the republic have organizedi an armed force for the local service of 1,800 men for each state. Also the government has arranged with 1 52,000 hacieneados (farmers) that they keep ten armed workmen each i for their own protection. "Thus, then, the government counts upon the number of armed men aggregating seven hundred and some thousand without taking into consideration the. reserves, which to the number of 300,000, could be or ganized If the peace of the country should be disturbed." YKilled Near Former Wife. Daniel de Villiers, of San Antonio, Tex., was shot and killed early Thursday by Roy L. Glover, a wealthy land agent, who' came to Los. Angeles, Cal., two months ago with tbA mother of De Villiers' chil dren. The shooting occurred in the doorway of the Glover home, where De Villiers called in an effort to see his former wife. Two New Rural Routes. Two additional free delivery routes will be established January 1 from Bamberg, to be known as Routes 3 and 4. Route 3 will be twenty-two miles long, and will serve one hun dred and twenty-six families. Route 4 will be twenty-four miles long and will reach one hundred and figben THEY FOUND HIM DEAL NEGRO'S BODY DISCOVERED I WOODS NEAR CADES. Had Shot Another Man in Crap Gan and His Wife-Supposed to Hal .Committid Suicide. After shooting Jim Witherspooi mear Cades several days ago during -rap game dispute, and later sendin a. bullet entirely through his wife body, Laurence White, alias "Poo Pig", a negro of Cades, committe suicide by shooting himself throug: he temple. His body was foun xbout two miles below Cades, wher t had lain probably there days, wit .-38-calibre revolver by his sid( Althodigh bearing a serious wound White's wife does not seem to suffe nuch and is going about, while th loctors look on in amazement. With -rspoon was taken to Florence fo reatment. For several days after shootin; Witherspoon White evaded the off ers of the law, but returned to ii rife and shot her through the bod5 he ball entering near the stomacl nd coming out in the back. White' vife says he then took a shot at him elf, but missed, made some threats hen escaped. Since then his bod; vas found two miles below Cades ear the roadside, with a bullet in hi emple. The coroner's jury gave i rerdict of suicide. While engaged in a crap game wit] ,Vitherspoon and others, it Is said, h< ras abused, but without saying muel n reply whipped out his revolver an( hot Witherspoon near tha groin, ex mination showing- the ball embed ed in the thigh bone. - While thi Ificers of the law were on the lool ut for- him he went to his home, an is wife says he wanted her to g< ith him to his hiding place In a bal Lear by, and that on her refusal h( old her he would kill her there an hen. She says he shot her througl he body and then took a shot at hi wn head, missed and went back t< is hiding place. Sheriff Graham was sent for, an rith two bloodhounds and twenty ive white and colored men the hun1 mas begun. The trail was was read Ly taken and the dogs gave solemi usic, while some of the men fol wed in fear and trembling througl he thick undergrowth.. Soon thi rail came out the bay to a negr< ouse and was lost. Three days afterward White's bod] ras found one mile from the ba3 ear the roadside, his head resting a1 he foot of and in between two littl ak trees, a pistol ball in his templi nd powder burns on his face. H( ras 'begun.- The rtain was read. cross his stomach and his pistol b3 is side. His hat brim showed hi rife's statement to be correct, foi here was a bullet hole in the fron .d very near the head. SACK OF MAIL LOST. iysterously Disappears From Cran at Gaffney Depot. Gaffney post office officials and em iloyees of the Southern Railway a hat point are anxiously wonderini rhat became of a sack of mail sup posed to leave Gaffney last Frida: ight on northbound train No. 30 'he sack was closed up at the usua tour at the post office and turnei ver to the railroad later beinj ung up on the crane for northboun roin No. 30. at 9:45 o'clock. Th' tation agent saw the sack hanginj n the crane only ten minutes befor re arrival of the train, but when thi rain reached there the sack was gon nd has not been seen or heard o A thorough investigation has beer nade by the post office officials, as isted by the railroad, but so fa: here has been absolutely no clue at o what became of the sack. Whei sked whether or not It con ained any valuables, post office offi :ials said that there were no regis ered letters or money orders in tha nail, but it is, of course, impossibl o estimate what the loss of some o he letters may mean. SMALLPOX IN SCHOOLS. 'orence Commissioners Close Schoo and Vaccinate Pupils. A case of smallpox was diagnose< n one of the pupils of the Florence ~raded schools Sunday. A meeting o he board of commissioners after con ultation with the president of the ocal board of health, it was ordere< hat the schools be closed until Mon lay, January 5, 1914. In the mean ime all pupils of the schools, white mnd colored, will be vaccinated. Non< sill be permitted to re-enter school il ranuary unless they have been suc essfully vaccinated. The schoo uildings are being fumigated by thi oard of health. The school boar< ook this action to prevent any out >reak. Old Man Cremated. Robert E. Lee, 70 years old, care :aker for Joseph B. Sellars, of Whit, Plains. N. Y., was burned to deat] aturday night when the Sellar! place, near Greensborofi N. C., wa iestroyed by fire. Neighbors attempt ad in vain to rescue Lee, but th eat drove them back. Madison Electrocuted. Nineteen days after the murder C B. Petyon Best, a merchant of Barr wel Scott Madison, a negro, Mor lay morning paid the penalty for hi :rime by electrocution at the Stat penitentiary. Three Killed at Crossing. Two men and one boy were kill. it a grade crossing at Hammontor N1. J., Wednesday when a Readin Railway express train stzuck a wall a nau~ damnlshed lt TERIBLE TRAiElY FALSE fIRE ALAR STARTS A CHRISTMAS STAMPEDE e SEVENTY-TWO ARE DEAD a While the Children of Calumet, Mich 9 igan's Striking Miners Were r Around Huge Chris was Tree b Some One Maliciously Shouted "Fire", Starting the Fatal Panic. On the day Christendom has set aside as one of rejoicing over the birth of the Savior Calumet, Mich., r stricken to the heart by an almost unbelievable catastrophe, stood mourning by the side of its dead r the seventy-two victims, most of them children, of the frightful panic on Christmas Eve in the Italian Hall. - This 'panic followed a false alarm B cry of fire during the progress of a Christmas tree entertainment arrang 1 ed for families of thec opper strikers. 5 All bitterness and ill feeling that - has existed in this strike-ridden com munity for months past Is wiped I away by the one great, common af fliction. Christmas day the people o of Calumet only.saw their neighbors, L their brothers, their sisters and their little children staggering under an almost unbearable burden of distress and grief. A mass meeting of Calumet citi zens was held in the afternoon to ex . press sympathy and devise ways and . means to ameliorate the suffering and sorrow of those families on which the hand of death had fallen. A committee of twelve was appoint ed to visit each home and ascertain what financial assistance was needed. Funds are assured and no outside aid will be needed. The accident occurred Wednesday night while several hundred miners and their wives looked on, the chil dren pressed eagerly to the stage to receive Christmas presents. At this point a man put his head in at the door of the hall and yelled "Fire!" The cry was taken up by those in the hall. Every one started for the doors. The weaker were thrown to the floor, and those behind tried to climb over those ahead of them. The stairway and other avenues of egress were blocked so effectually that those Inside could not get out, and those without could not get in to aid the panic-stricken crowd in the hall. The principal exit was a nar row stairway at the back of the hall. When this had been cleared of the bodies that filled It to the top and a quick recounting had been made, it was found that seventy-two corpses had -been piled up beside the hall building. It is thought that a dozen others were carried away by friends. The dead were piled up beside the hall included 37/girls, 19 boys, nine women and five men. Excited men and women stood about the building, some dazed by the sudden change from holiday festivities to tragedy, others calling hysterically for a miss ing child, and a few even threatened violence to the rescuers for keeping them back from the long row of bodies. There was not much work for the many- doctors who hurried to the scene as soon as the alarm was spread, for those who were not kill ed in the first rush were held upright and safe by the very force of the on rush towards the exit. Only three injured persons were taken to hos pitals. A few went home, assisted by friends. For many days the children of the copper mine strikers had waited' ex pectantly for Christmas tree exer cises, arranged by the Woman's Aux iliary of the Western Federation of Miners. The entertainment was set for the early evening, and the hall, on the second floor, soon was filled to its limit. Children selected to recite Christmas selections and sing carols had finished, and the man selected to play the part of Santa Claus had prepared to distribute the presents that were piled around the -tree. The aisles were filled with the boys and girls, when the man thrust his head In at the door of the main hallway and shouted "Fire!" A wo-' man near the door realizing the im port of the act, seized the man by the shoulders and tried to counteract the alarm, but her efforts were fu tile. The man wrested himself from f(Continued on page two.) - her grasp and ran away and the cry NEGRO STRUNG UP. SMan Found Under Woman's Bed in State of Florida. - Henry White, a young negro, was lynched at Campville, Fla., at a late hour Friday night after he had been discovered under the bed in a young - white woman's room. Several young men were calling on the young wo man when they heard a noise in the bed room. Upon investigation the ne - gro was found. A rope was secured and he was strung up near the house i The rope broke and the negro fell to the ground, but he was promptly rid s dled with bullets, his body being - found early this morning. For Cattle Not Rebels. Senator Ashurst told the Senate Saturday that his bill for a barbed wire fence along the Mexican border - was not designed to stop incursions - of rebels in American territory, but to s keep out Mexican cattle infected with e ticks. Yields to Death. Summer A. Cunningham, aged 70, I author, journalist, publisher, former Confederate and since 1893 editor and proprietor of The Confederate Veteran, died at Nashville Sturday ent at 6:30 o'clock.* FIGHT FOR THE FARMER LEVER GETS HOUSE TO ACCEPT SENATE AMENDMEN'T. Action GuaranteesThat the Amend ment Secured in Senate by Senator Smith WilI Become Law. Representatives Lever and Crisp came stronglf to the rescue of the farmers Saturday in the House when Mr. Lever, after agreement with Mr. Crisp, moved to instruct the House conferees to agree to those Senate amendments to the currency bill which provided that 7iotes, drafts and bills drawn or issued for agricultural purposes having a maturity not ex ceeding six months, may be discount ed and extending the provisions of the bill in reference. to loans on farm lands from one to five years. - Messrs. Lever and Crisp both fought hard for the provisions in the House bill but were defeated, but they took advantage of the parlia mentary situation Saturday to force the House to agree with them with a view of .placing the paper of the farmer on the same footing with paper issued from any other source and at the same time putting a longer limit upon loans upon farm lands. The action of the South Carolina and Georgia congressmen Saturday makes certain that the farmers of the coun try will be as fully protected in the urrency bill as will other people. The point raised by them proved to be the vital proposition considered by the House and to their efforts and un erstanding of the parliamentary sit ation the victory of the farmers is lue. It was extremely gratifying to Sen itor Smith of South Carolina, who iad made'the fight in the Senate for .he extension of loans to farmers, :hat even though the House disagreed :o most of the Senate amendmehts it nade an exception with regard to :wo, and instructed the conferees to rote for his particular amendment. his action guarantees their reten ion In the bill. Senator Smith said Saturday ilght: "In view of the action of the enate and House it has at last come o pass that the farmers .are being eard and their rights respected as .hey should be. - It is not a question s to whether or not it is convenient or legislators to so frame legislation is to include the farmers, it- Is a iuestion of a fundamental duty that >f all those engaged in the different ndustries of this country the farmers hould have extended to them every mcouragement and aid that can be iven them legitimately. "The farmers have a right to de nand it, and they are now getting in L position where they can demand it. rhey rightly have the first claim to Inancial legislation, for the entire world is first dependent hpon tbem. he two features of this bill, allow ng their notes, bills and drafts to be ;ubject to -rediscount for reserve noney, and the admitting of real estate as a collateral in the national manks, place them in a position where ith the same economy and thrift ;hat characterize most of them, they an realize a profit -at the end of the rear as others do and not disappoint nent as they have been -accustomed o." VOLCANO ERUPTS. Deals Death to Five Hundred Near New South Wales. Steamers arriving at Sydney, New south Wales, bring terrible details of he recent volcanic eruption on the sland of Ambrim, in the New Heb ides group, in which 500 natives lost heir lives. Witnesses of the disturb. nce describe it as having been so udden and violent that they expected o0 see the whole western side of the sland disappear. With a terrific roar, which follow ad with a rapid succession of artil ery-like detonations, all the craters af the volcano entered into full ac tivity, spouting flames and lava and throwing out huge .boulders. Great streams of lava soon were rushing lown the slopes, cutting off the vil agers from escape. In one instance, wo torrents of the molten mass join ad and made an island of an entire section of a village. Here 50 or 60 persons perished. The scenes at night were awe-in piring. Flames shot into the air to a height of a thousand feet, illumi ating the whole scene of destruction. 'he ocean seemed to boil as huge superheated masses of stone fell into the sea and streams of lava poured into the bay. Dust from the craters radually formed a black cloud which blotted out the light of the stars. The bay, after the eruption, was filled with dead fish and large aumbers of dead turtles. The water :n the river was hot. * Sign Peace Treaties. Secretary Bryan and Chevalier Von Rappard, the minister from the Net rlands, Thursday signed a peace treaty for their two nations. Nether s the first European.country to agree to Secretary Bryan's peace plan. Saved by Safety Device. A serious wreck was prevented at oliet, Ill., Thursday by an automat It derailment switch, which sent a runaway freight train into the ditch barely In time to allow a passenger flyer to shoot by. Three Die in Flames. A mother and her two small child ren were burned to death and three other persons slightly injured in a fire which swept through an East usew York tenement house Wednesday. Broken in Two Places. Walter Chapman. a young white man of Lexington had his arm brok en in two places when it caught In a beln whic he was tin to replaca. TURNS HIM LOOSE SPARTANBURG MURDERER GETS PARDONIN FULL KILLED MARRIED WUMAN Was Tried for His Crine and Al. though Represented by- Learned Legal Talent He Received Death Sentence, Which Was Later Com muted by Governor Blease. Joe Bates, the convicted murderer of Docia Bolter, a white -man who was pardoned Monday by the gov ernor, arrived - In Siigrtanburg Mon;, day night and is at the home of his father. He was met at the train by his father and brother, Jack Bates, who have been untiring-in their ef forts to have a pardon, granted,- and a number of friends. Joe Bates was at one time a police officer in Spartanburg. He was con victed in 1909 and sentenced -to death, but after many delays his sen tence was commuted to life impris onment by the present governor, wh'o now grants him a full pardon.- Mrs. Docia Bolter, aged,18 years, wife of J. R. Boiter,* a farmer living -near Fairmont was shot at and instantly killed by Joe Bates, a former -police officer, but at the time of the crime a guard of the city chaingang, on Sun day morning, August 29, .1909, at 11:30 at the home of W. B. Cox, 108 Thompson street. Mamie Cox , the elghtyear-old daughter of Mrs. Cox, who was stand- - ing near with her little baby sister In her arms was also shot by Bates-and - seriously wounded. Bates was caught in the hallway of the house by Mr. Cox -before he could get away Eand . was held until'the police officers ar rived. Officers Lockman, Cudd, Gash and Crocker arrived and took charge of Bates, who was carried'at once to the county jail and turned -over to Sheriff White. When the case. against Bates. was called in the general sessions court - for October, 1909, he was represent ed by learned counsel and It'was. one of. the hardest fought legal battles ever waged In the Spartanburg county court room. - The principle defence for -Bates was aplea of..in sanity. He was convicted and-sen tenced to hang, an appeal to'the su preme court was made without sue cess and after two years confinement in the county Jail the governoricom: muted his sentence from death to life imprisonment. The pardon restores his citizensiip. The Spartanburg Journal tells.the following story of the tragedy for which Bates was convicted: Docla Boiter, until a few weeks previous to the shooting, wa, -Docia Moore. She lived with Joe Bates at C his home at No. 160 Thompson street as his housekeeper and alleged para mour. She had lived with him aor about two years, when a month pre vious.she left him and married 3. R. Bolter. Since the marriage It -was thought that Bates was crazed writh jealousy. It is said that just before she left him, the Moore-woman sold a cow Bates. had and a number of household articles. For this -Bates had a warrant sworn out for her ar rest, but before the case had ,been taken up the woman was dead. Mr. and Mrs. Bolter were coming to Mr. Cox's house to spend the day. As they neared the house, Bates was in the road, so was Mr. Cox and his son William. Bates said to Mrs. Bolter that he would put "them to the bad", and followed them to Coz's - house. When Mrs. Bolter got out - of the buggy Bates followed her to ward the house. -Suddenly he~ left her and passed around to the front of the building. He entered the front door as Mrs. Bolter entpred the baelk door. Mrs. Bolter took hold of the hand of little eight-year-old -Mamie Cr and was in the act of placing a ring on her finger when Bates fired upon her from the door of the back porch. Three shots entered .Mrs. Bolter's body on the left side, one ball broke her arm In three places, - the other ball entered her right temple. Shie died almost instantly and as she fell she exclaimed: "Oh! my God." The ball that broke Mrs. Bolter's arm is supposed to have entered the body of little Mamie Cox, dangerously wounding her. GETS Di TROUBLE AGAIN. Man Paroled by Blease Arrested on Two New Charges. A dispatch from Greenville says E. S. Gilmer, who was paroled by Gov. Blease some weeks ago while under sentence of six months for shooting Constable Reuben Gorgell,-was Mon day arraigned In police court on charges of being drunk and refusing to pay hack fare. Both cases were continued by request of the defend ant. Gilmer was convicted at the last term of the Greenville county court of general sessions of assault and battery with a deadly weapon upon the person of Constable Gosnell, with intent to kill. He was sentenced to a term of six months, but was paroled by the governor before beginning his sentence. Wreck Injures Nineteen. Nineteen persons were Injured, four seriously, In the wreck of Teas & Pacific passenger train No. 3, west bound, 50 miles east of El Paso, Tex,, Saturday. Doctors and nurses went on a relief train and the injured carried to El Paso.* Killed by Auto. Raymond Harroun, aged ten, of In dianapolis, Ind., was struck by an au tomobile in that city Thursday, and