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ENATE BY MAJS ITY Of TWINTY THE VOTE' ON THE BILl All the Democrats Voted for It, an< So Did Five Republicans and On Progresive Republican on the Fina Vote ou the Measure on Frida Night. The administration currency re form bill. proposing a revision of thi financlal system of the United State and the creation of regional reserv< banks to act atabilizing element In the banking and financial work Friday night passed the Senate by vote of 54 to 34. Forces that had fought togethe - for improvement and amendment o the imeasure to the last divided whei the fnal vote came. Senator Hitch "'cook, who had led the opposition t the bil returned to the Demociati -.rank and-Senator Weeks, one of th eidet on the Republican side, wit] -ve other Republicans, and Senato Poindexter (Progressive) voted fo 'theassage-of the measure. Wide differences exist between th form of the-legislation passed by th Senate Friday night and the bill tha several months ago passed the Hous( Democratic leaders already hav -Party Ajusted these difference, 'I hiwer,-and it was Friday nigi - edi&ed that the bill would be con pleted by a conference committee an e6tto resident Wilson for3is sif hature by Monday night. Theadoption of the administratio .-bill, known as the "Owen4%ill", fo owed upon the formal defeat, by 4 41, -of-the-"Hitchcock bill", whic had becn endorsed by Senator Hitcl ock and the- five Republican fen bers of: the evenly divided Sena1 ommittee that passed gn the legis tion. -The Senate previously had ected; without a rolI call, a "cento banr bill offered as a substitute k Senator Burton. The Senators who voted for- t -.,-Owen bill wepe: Democats-Ashurst, Bacon, Ban] head, Bryan, Chamberlain, Chiltoi Clarke.Fletcher, Gore, Hitchcoc RolIgA.jes, James, Johnsto: Kern,-ane, Lee, Lewis, Martin', Ma tine, Myers, Nowlands, O'Gorma: deerman, Owen, Pittman, Pomeren tansdell, Reed, Robinson, Saulsbur Shafroth,. Sheppard, Shields, Shiv ey. Simsons, Smith, of Arizoni Smith, of Georgia. Smith, of Mar ln Siith, of South Carolin; Swanson, Thomas, Thompson, Til man-Vardaman, Walsh and William Republicans --,Crawford. Jone Perkins, Norris, Sterling and Wee] Pro'gressve-Poindexter. Those who voted against the bi are: .. Republicans - Borah, Bradle Brady, Brandegee, Bristow, Burto Catron., Cha'p, Colt. Cummins, Di Ilnghom,. Dupont, Gallinger,. Go: *Groania, Jackson, Kenyon, LaFollett YISijti McCumber, McLean, Nelso *Oliveri Page, .Penrose, Root, She man.' Smith of Michigan, Smoc Sutherlan, 'Stephenson, Townsen - Warren. and Works-34. Absent and paired: BSurleigh,.Clark, of Wyoming; Cu berson, Fall, Lodge, Stone, Thornto 'Vacancy-Alabama. Through the afternoon, when vote on the -bill was momentarily e pected, Mrs. Wilson. with a party< friends'from the White House, Se .retary McAdoo and Joseph P. T multy, were interestsd spectators ~and the floor of the Senate we: crowded throughout the day and pa --sage of the measure was greeted wil unchecked applause from the ga .Ieries. - COTTON SEED STATISTICS. -Figures Given Out by Census Burei for This Season. Statistics of the cotton seed pr * ducts industry for the present cottc season, announced by the census bl reau Thursday, show 289,118 runnir bales of Uinters had been obtain4 and 2, 201,276 tons of cotton se4 had been crushed from the crop 1913 prior to December 1. The nun ber of cotton seed oil mills and othe delinting establishments active du p~g the period prior to December we *8>60. The number of active establisl ments, tons of cotton seed crushe and running bales of linters obtaine prior to December 1, by states, to .low: - Establish States ments Seed Lintel -Alabama . . . 81 '192,499 23,66 Arkanas . . . 43 117,932 15,29 Florida . . . . 4 13-,806 1,39 Georgia . . . .152 375,881 4689 Louisiana . . . 32 74,581 9,34 Mississippi. . . 69 195,700 23,07 Missouri . . . 4 313,749 1,64 N. C... .. ..62 109,862 11,76 Oklahoma . . . 58 136,649 20,96 S. C.... .. .. 98 172,865 19,10 Tennessee . . . 23 99,218 12,51 Texas . . . .220 677,593 101,43 All otheystates 5 20,94-1 2,00 Helpless Man Fell into Firs,. Falling into an open fire Whe stricken with apoplexy, Bernard I DuFoss, a farmer of Hockessin. Del was burned to death. The mr~a we found lying on the hearth, his fac burned to Engine Turns Over. When a C. and W. C. engine turi ed over Tuesday morning at Four tain Inn the engineer and firema were painfully hurt. No cars wer attached to the engine at the time. Earthquake at Seattle. A light earthquake shock tori seconds' duration was felt at Seattli Wash., at 6:45 o'clock Thursda morning. It did no damage. Train Kills Two. Dillard munter, a farmer. and hi niece, Miss Nora Hunter, were kille near Nicholsville, Ky., Monday whe the buggy in which they were drivin was strneck by a aenger train. COTTON GINNING REPORT GOVERNMENT ISSUES SEVENTH REPORT OF SEASON. This Season's Ginnings Are Fine, Hundred Thousand Ahead of This Time Last Year. The seventh cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, issued at 10 o'clock Saturday morn ing, announced that 12,923,606 bales I .of otton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1913, had been ginned prior to December 13, to Wlich date during the past esven years the ginning averaged 89.5 per - cent. of the entire crop. Last year a to December 13 there had been gin s ned 12,439,036 bales, or 92.2 per ? cent. of the entire crop: in 1911 to a that date 13,770.727 bales, or 88.5 per cent.: in 1908 to that date 11, a 904,269 bales, or 91 per cent., and in 1906 to that date 11,112,789 bales, r or 85.6 per cent. f Including in the ginnings were 91, 2 6837round bales, compared with 75, - 772 round bales last year, 92,790 in a 1911, 106,486 in 1910 and 140,024 in c 1909. e The number of sea Island cotton a bales included were 69,312, compared r with 60,445 bales last year, 98.035 r bales in 1911, 85,177 bales in 1909 and 80,316 bales in 1908. e Ginnings prior to December 13 by e states. with.comparisons for last year ,t and other years and the percentage i. of the entire crop ginned prior to e that date in those years follow: Alabama. Ginnings. P.C. t- 1913 .... ..1,444,603 d 1912 .. .. ..2,234,755 93.0 ' 1911 .. .. .1,561,136 92.1 1908 .. .. ..1,265,953 95.0 n Arkansas. I 1913 ..8......84,1 2 h 1912...... 703:329 91.2 1911 .... 746,802 82.2 1908 .... 847,312 85.1 1913 .. .. ..' n,1- .. 1912 52,895 89.0 1911. . 81,952 86.7 y 1908 ...... 64,131 90.8 -Georgia. 1913 3,426 1912 ..7.... 675,A70 , 92.4 1911 ......2,517.,85 * 90.1 1908- .. .. ..1,868,A> 94.5 1.nisiana \ r- 1913 --. .. 391,26 .... 2, 1912 ... 361,123196.4 e. 1911 -.... 340;304 89.4 y. 1908.... .. 435,t,03 93.4 a- -Mississippi. L; 1913 . ..1,084,584 7- 1912 .... .. 883,458 88.0 | 1911 .. .. .. 996,601 85.2 1908 .. ....1,441,947 89.0 is North Carolina. 1913 ..7....706,252 Es 1912 ..... 902,329 89.8 1911 ...... 913.944 81.1 1908 .. .....615,736 90.1' 1ll Oklahoma. 1913..........791,623 .. y.I 1912 .. .....902,329 89.9 n.l 191-1 .. .....862,838 84.9 -. 1908 .. .....514,535 93.1 South Carolina. e. 1913 .. .. .. 1,276,402 .... ' 1912 .. ..1,128,850 92.2 r- 1911.. . .1.423.383 84.1 t, 1908 .. .. ...1,134,183 93.3 d Tennesgee. 1913 .......340,546 .. 1- 1912 .. .....230,239 86.1 1911 .. .. ....360.510 83.8 1908 .. .....302,627 90.6 a| Tezs x- 1913 .. .. ...3,627,410 ... ar 1912 .. .. ...4,369,915 94.0 c-| 1911.-.-.-.-.-.3,862,143 94.0 u- 1908. .. .. ..3,368,874 92.9 f|tOher States. . es 1913 ........99,760 .. t"* 1912 ........77,811 86.4 s- 1911 .. .....103,257 74.3 h| 1908 ........63,956 87.4 The ginnings of sea island cotton. prior to December 13, by states, fol low: glorida. Georgia. S.C. 1913 .. .'.24.126 38,806 6,380 LUl 1912 . . . .19.505 35,418 5.522 1911 . . . .35,585 .58,008 4,442 1909 . . . .26,807 37,952 10,743 i- AUTO KILLS BOY. d Newberry Lad Run Over by Slow Mioving Machine. JZeddIie Berry, the 9-year-old-son of r Ed Berry of Newberry, was run over r and fatally injured Wednesday even Sing by an automobile driven by Chal mers Brown, son of Dr. W. C. Brown. ~who lives In that county. Young dBrown was arrested buit was exon derated by the coroner's jury and then 1set free. The little victim was in a drug store and dashed out into the street just as young Brown drove up i in the automobile. 3 Though the machine was going 9very slowly and young Brown seemed to be driving very carefully, he was 6 unable to stop in time and the car Sstruck the little boy, inflicting inju 6 ries from which he died about an Ihour later. Young Brown was arrest 2ed and the coroner made an investiga 6 tion, the jury bringing in a verdict 8 that the tragedy was purely an acci 3dent. Flies to His Death. Pursued by one hundred passen gers through seven cars of a subway na train in Brooklyn Sunday night, a .youth accused of being a pickpocket .,Ileaped from the front platform of the .s car when he was about to be sur :e rounded and was crushed to death against a pillar of the tunnel.* Plan to Head Off Boll Weevil. t-l Government entomologists have L- Iwarned farmers In South Carolina n that the boll weevil may reach the e State in two years. They are warn ed to take all precautions against the pest as its ravages. with normal crops, will cause a loss of from yl$25,000,000 to $30,000,000. y| Lad ills Sister. While examining a rifle given to him as a Christmas present, John Larrabee, of Washington, La., aged s16 years. late Sunday accidentally d shot and killed his sister, Mrs. H. L. nPlemming, a bride of two months. g Young Larrabee said he did not knowj Ui eaponnn wm. loaded. I [HEY COME ACROSS" . 0 1 ELENPONE AND TELEGRAPH COM PANIES GIVE IN WILL DISSOLVE TRUST ittorney-General McReynolds Stops i Litigation When Big Corporation Agrees to Dispose of Its Holdings in Western Union-A Complete Victory for the Government. Attorney-General McRe.,nolds Fri lay night made public details of an Lreement for reorganization of the kmerican Telephone and Telegraph ,ompany-the "Telegraph Trust" vhich will prevent the litigation to lissolve that corporation under the Anti-Trust Act, and under which ompetitive conditions will be restor -d in the telephone service of the en ire country and the combine will dis )ose of its holdings in- the Western inion Telegraph Company. The reorganization plan originated ith the company, although it follow ?d many reports that a suit against it night be filed. It was Friday night regarded by department of justice of Scials as the most striking indication >ffered in a decade that "big busi 2ess" has come to the conclusion that t is better to conform to the Sher man law than fight it. The plan met not only the approval of the Attorney General and his chief "trust buster," G. C. Todd, and offi cials of the subsidiaries of the com bine; but was heartily approved by President Wilson. In a letter to Mr. McReynolds the President expressed bis admiration for the attitude of the telephine company and his conviction ha'tsich conduct on the part of bus Ehess men meant a building up of bus iness nn sound and permanent lines. Com7ing on the heels of the an noucement that Postmaster General Burleson is seriously interested in Government ownership of telephone lines, the action of the department of justice took on .n added significance and some officials went so far as to express the opinion that It indicated that legislation to acquire the coun try's telephone business would not be pressed by the Administration at the present session. In brief the agreement provides that: The American Telephone and Tele ?raph company will dispose promptly Of Its holdings in the Western Union Telegraph Company so that each con cern shall be under distinct manage ment and so that all shall be entirely independent. The company hereafter will not ac quire control of 'other telephone com panies, and where control of tele phone companies has been acquired, but no actual physical union has been effected, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will submit the course it is t& pursue to the inter state commerce commission and to the department of :justice. The company promptly will mlake arrangements by which all other tel ephone companies in the United Staes shall have access to Its toll lines. Department officials declared that the plan gave the Government every thing and more that it could have hoped to obtain in Court. Officials were particularly pleased with the last part of the agreement, by which the Bell company gives long distance service to subscribers of other com panies. The agreement will not affect the suit entered several months ago to dissolve the connection of the Bell Company with the Pacific i'elephone and Telegraph Company, the WVest coast branch. President Wilson's letter, written to the Attorney General Friday was. one of the most interesting docu ments made public In connection with the settlement. It reads: "My Dear Mr. Attorney General: Thank you for letting me see the let ter from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. It is very grati fying that the company should thus volunteer to adjust its business to the conditions of competition. 'I gain the impression more and more from week to week that the bus iness men of the country are sir re ly desirious of conforming wi,.h the law, and it is very gratifying, indeed, to have occasion, as in this instance, to deal 'ivith them in complete frank ness and to be able to show them that all we desire is an opportunity to co operate with them. So long as we are dealt with in this spirit we can help to build up the business of the country upon sound and permanent lines. "Cordially and sincerely yours. "Woodrow Wilson." Mr. McReynolds, in accepting the American Telephone and Telegraph's offer, wrote to N. C. Kingsbury, vice president of the company, as follows: "Permit me to accept with appre ciation your letter of December 9, outlining the course of action which the telephone companies composing the Bell system obligate themselves to follow in the future. "Your frank negotations in re spect of these matters compel the be lief that what you propose will be carried out in good faith: and it seems to me clear that such action on you part will establish conditions under which there will be full oppor tunity throughout the countryfor competion in the transmission of in telligence by wire. "May I take this occasion to say that the Administration earnestly de sires to co-operate and to promote all business conducted in harmony with law: and that, without abating the insistence that the statutes must be obeyed, it always will welceme oppor tunity to aid in bringing aboit what ever adjiustments are necessary ror ne re-establishment of lawful coni tions without litigation." Burned to Death. Mrs. James Coyle, 35 years old, ell into a fireplace at her home near Cowpens Monday morning and was burned to death. There was nobody else in the room at the time. It is spposed she failed. Two Hurt by Explosion. Miss Sarah E. Wiley and her repiew were seriously injured in hicago Tuesday when a boiler explo ;ion and fire wrecked the apartment iou.e in which sbe was visiting. j HREATENS TO EXECUTE ELLA SAYS HE WILL COURTMAR-, TIAL LOOTERS. eclares Right to Confiscate Rests With Constitutionalists Alone Shoots Six as a Warning. "Any one who hereafter loots or Lolests property of foreigners or [exicans will be executed. The right confiscate property will rest only ith the Constitutionalist govern tent." Gen. Francisco Villa issued this or er Sunday as showing his intention > maintain strict military discipline. s an example he executed on the laza a band of rebels who had been >und guilty by courtmartial of sack Lg the home of a wealthy Mexican. 'hile the six rebels were marched fore the firing squad, the stolen Dods were returned to the owner. All stores conbscated from the ex elled Spaniards Sunday were closed nd sealed. Orders were given that o more goods are to be taken from iem. This action was believed to ave resulted from the protest of the nited States against the seizure of' panish property. Already great uantitles of the goods, valued at sev ral million dollars, had been utiliz d by the rebels. The remainder of hg property is to be held pending an ivestigation as to whether the own rs aided the Huerta government. Gen. Villa said his forces were be ag strengthened by desertions from he Federal troops. He -proclaimed mnesty to Federal soldiers, who rould surrender and give up their rms. Many Federal troops are re orted to have joined the rebels. hree hundred thousand rounds of ifle ammunition and 500,000 rounds f artillery ammunition were recov red east of Chihuahua. where they vere hidden by Gen. Mercado's evac ating Federals. Telegraphic and railroad communi ation has been extended as far west Ls Minaca and as far south as Berme illo. If there is no Federal inter erence, Gen. Villa expects soon to iave the states of Chihuahua, ;onora nd Sinaloa as freely open as il times >f peace. Raoul Madero, brother of he late president, conferred - with 3en. Villa regarding the formation of .Ivil government. Mr. Madero Is to )e an adviser to Villa. WEDDING BUREAU. ensational Story Tells How Foolish Men Were Fleeched. Martin W. Farris of Princeton, [nd., who with his wife and daugh :ers, Louise and Ora, were indicted here on a charge of misusing the nails in operating a matrimonial bu reau, Wednesday told Judge A. B. nderson in federal court that Louise ilone was responsible for what harles W. Miller, district attorney, ,haracterized as one of the biggest natrimonial swindles operated in this ~ountry. Mr. Miller, in outlining the gov ernment's case, declared that the plan of the swindle was for Louise to write letters to men who wished to marry her. Mrs. Farris mailed the letters, he said. Ora warned away prospective bridgegrooms and if they became insistent the father threLt aned them. Five men who had p~ro posed to Louise arrived in Princeton it the same time, Mr. Miller said, and at times she was engaged to 50 men. Dne of the victims who -.ent Louise $100 was a prominent pugilist, the listrict attorney asserted. According to Mr. Miller there al ways was a scramble at the Farris borne in Princeton when packages or etters arrived and the first member >f the family to open a package or etter kept its con'tents. Mr. Miller :old of many prospective bridegrooms who had sentb diamond bracelets, dia nond rings, money and railroad :lckets. Louise, who confessed her part In the scheme. Mr. Miller said, old him that she wrote to the dis fruntled lovers threatening to have ~hem arrested for trying "to lure a roung, ilnnocent girl away from iome", if return of money o'r jewelry was askeS .,, SAVES HiS LIFE. Pennsylvania Minister's Bible Stops Bullet Fired at Him. What is believed to have been an ttempt to assassinate the Rev. R. E. McClure, president of the Indiana iounty Anti-Saloon League, residing tt Blairsville, Pa., failed late Satur lay night when a bullet penetrated a Bible which he carried under his rm and made a slight abrasion upon )r. McCure's side. Dr. McClure had nade a sick call and was returning iome when fired on. As the minister reached the street eading to his home he saw two men. .s he approached them a whistle ounded and one of the men fired a evolver at him. The minister pick d up a stone and hurled it at the nen, running toward them. As thei ssailants retreated the man with the evolver fell. Before Dr. McClure ould reach him the man had regain d his feet and fired a second time, he bullet tearing through the min ster's Bible and clothing. Both men hen fled. Sentenced to Walk 70 Mj. Edward Leo and John No , 17 'ear-old boys of New York cii. who. an away from home, were arrested: .t Middletown, N. Y., on a charge of lesal train riding. They were re eased on their. promise to walk the 6 miles back to their home. Had Concealed Weapons. At a hearing of a strike case atl alumet, Mich., the witness/s de tanded that those in the c wded ourt room be searched for we pons. hen the justice told the bailiff to: eeck for weapons twelve men rushed* rom the room. While testIng a toy cannon which had bought for his son, Charles wo fingers in the resulting explosion aturday.* Apply for Membership. Banks in Union have applied for embership in the reserve sy em of IRK SLICK iAME 1W YORKERS PULL Off WIRE TAPPING TRICK NOS UP WITH HIS CASH Vealthy West Indian Visiting in New York Meets Stranger-They- Be come "Friends" and Get Ready to Win a Fortune, but It Doesn't Work Out. The New York Sun of Tuesday ublishes the following story of a wire-tapping" swindle, played in the ame old way on the confiding tranger in New York: Right In the midst of District At rney Whitman's campaign against ireless wiretappers and their police onfederates and while Deputy Police :ommissioneb Dougherty's assertions hat 1o wo Id take drastic action .ginst su gentry were still re ounding, the professional gentlexwn whb tf credulous persons from out ying , arts to good things in ho-rse aces.put one over on a visitor from he West Indies, who contributed $2, 00 in cash to the ancient enterprise. This was on December 2, and In pector Faurot heard of it two days ater when L. C. Wharton, a West ndian chemist, who was stopping in ew York on his wby home from England, came into police headquar :ers and told the story. Wharton ar -ived In New York on November 30 ind went to the Hotel Albert in Uni ersity place. That same day, Sun lay, he went for a walk. On Fifth ivenue he met a stranger who -bor rowed a match and introduced him elf as Earl B. Linton, a mechanical engineer from Montreal The new made friends saw the sights the rest of that day and the ext and the next. By then they wel intimates. On Wednesday fol lowing they took a walk and met, at 17th, street and Fourth avenue, one P. B'urke, a friend of Linton, from Charleston, S. C.,-and, according 'to the Canadian, a "bear on doping the poniesi'. Burke was feeling pretty rosperous, having just won $201' or the4Charleston races and invited C others to go and see how he did iK. They' wentgo a poolroom in a fur nished room house In East 24th street, just off Fifth avenue, and started in to break the bookies. Wharton lunged to the extent of $5 and won -$50. A second dash with $10 brought him $20 and a third mad vent e of $25 netted another $50. The'West Indian thought he'd like to ko on forever. A little later Burke whispered that he -had a sure thing, a hummer, and he was going to it strong. Linton and Wharton could do as they liked. The.y stepped on his heels in their eagernms. to place the money. Burke put up $7,500 and Linton $8,800. Wharton produced $300 in bills and made out a check for $5,000. Noth ing doing on the check they told him, so he hurried downtown to his bank and came back with $2,500 in real money. Burke took the pot and gave It to Linton, with instructions to bet it-all on a certain .horse for place. Whar ton and the plun er waited with bated breath. Lint came back pres ently. He thought he had been told to bet on the nag to win and the nag had lost and he wab out $8,800, not to mention his friends, and It cer tainly was rought going. "You thick-headed, thieving, low down Ignorant squine," shouted Burke. "I told you to bet on the horse for place." "Don't talk to me that way, you dog," shouted Linton. "I won't take it froml'ou or any man." ' They clinched and went down in a cloud of dust. Wharton hopped around on the outside and begged them not to forget they were gentle men. Finally Linton rememnbered, and getting up went away with the peacemaker. The Canadian was very sore on Burke and said he would make good Wharton's losses, giving him a note for the $2,500 and then disappearing with a promise to re turn and cash it the next day. The West Indian waited two days, then began to read the papers and hustled to headquarters. Lieut. Flannelly and some men from the East 22nd street station have been working on the job since. Monday night they arrested four men, though they won't say where they got the prisoners, except that it was near the alleged poolroom. There they found a suitcase with the usual wireless wire wiretappers' outfit of Morse keys and newspapers done up like bundles of money. The prisoners are: John H. Brady, 33. bartender in the Leland Hotel, Manitoba. The police say he is known to them as William McSherry and Franklin Hud son, that his picture is in various rogues' galleries and that he has served several terms in prison for reen goods operations. He is sup posed to have taken the part of Burke. Charles Carbell. 43. of 147 West 1 6th street, who the police say was n Sing Sing for three years and who used to work with Larry Summer ield. He had $1,870 in cash in his pockets. James T. Burton, of 112 West I 2?th street. 60 years old, and known :o the police as John J. Fitzgerald. {e also has been in prison there and yther places, the police say. He is upposed to have been Mr. Sullivan. he bookmaker in the plot. Henry Nadison. 55 years old, of 40 rove street, Jersey City, known also is Horace Norton. The police say he ~erved time in Allentown, Pa., for lisposing of green goods. He was a ooster of the poolroom, making fake >ets. The four are held as suspicious ~haracters until Wharton, who has eft the city, but who Inspector Fau ot says will be produced in good ie, can have a look at them. The 2,500 is still among the missing. Shoots Man and Kills Self. William Murphy, 40 years old, rs shot dead in front of his home, ns West Philadelphia, by Catherine' Vitman, 35, Wednesday night. The oman then ran to her home. a block way, and committed suicide by hooting just before the police broke The FaCt No amount of misi peddlers of alum bakiI gling with chemicals, ( or cooked-up certifica1 any kind, can change Royal Bakir has been founi cial examlnatioi highest leaveni free fron alum, purity and wi Royal Baking Poi for making finest and n USED IN BATTLE SPANSH AEROPLANES DEFEAT MOORISH TRIBESMEN. S Moors Flee Before Spaniards at Muley Abselam When Air Craft Prepares Way. A large force of Moorish tribesmen was routed with heavy loss Thursday I by the Spanish troops at Muley Abse lam, Spanish Morocco. Spanish mili tary aviators threw the Moors into disorder'with showers of bombs. The Spaniards attacked the Moors with a brigade of sharpshooters, a battalion of infantry, four batteries of artillery and a large body of native auxilia ries. e When the order for the general ad- t vance of the Spanish column was I given the advance guard discovered I several thousand Moorish mountain- t eers concealed in the irregularities of v the ground. A flotilla of military I aviators'was sent up to reconnoitre. I By means of flag.signals the aviators a guided the column of Spanish troops. o A heavy artillery fire was opened -by 1 the Spaniards without effect. 2 The aviators then ascended to an altitude out of range of rifle fire and N flew directly over the place where c the Moors were in the greatest num- t bers. Then came what the dispatch t to the Spanish war office describes as r a "veritable rain of bombs, tossed by 2 band by the airmen, into the midst of t the Moors". After this bombardment r the Spanish infantry charged with the bayonet and dislodged the Mbors t from their positions. causing them to t flee in great disorder, leaving large s numbers of dead and wounded on the e field. The Spanish troops also lost a r considerable number of men, as the e rifle fire of the tribesmen was very s accurate.. A dispatch from Washington says ii experts in the signal corps at the war department heard with keen interest I the report of the successful bomb dropping by the Spanish aviators in , the battle with the Moors at MuleyC Abelam, Spanish Morocco, Thurs day. "That is but another instance," said Col. Samuel Reber, in charge of f aviation in the army, "of the value of t the aeroplane In actual reconnois sance. and its use as a weapon of of-C fence during an attack. It confirms3 he experience of other nations in us ing the aeroplane in actual warfare1 and Is a practical demonstration of t the use of the aeroplane -in a cam-< pagn.'," Other officers recalled that the usefulness of the aeroplane in bomb dropping first was demonstrated in the Italian-Turkish war, when Ital an aviators claimed on several occa-C sions to have di-opped explosives on t Turkish warships. It is presumed t that the Spaniards flew lengthwisei over the enemy's lines, and by con tinuous dropping of bombs while so flying had innumerable chances of t hitting them. It was pointed out t that the chances of dropping an aero-T plane bomb on a battleship would be slight compared with the opportunity 1 an airman would have while flying lineally over a column of troops- on ( land.t ADOPT BYRNES' SCHEME. s House Committee Agrees to South Carolinian's Plan. The good roads committee of the House, after conducting hearings for several weeks, has appointed a sub committee to draft and report the hill embodying the views of the commit tee. The subcommittee has been in structed by the whole committee to include in the first section the plan similar to that introduced by Repre- 1 sentative Byrnes of South Carolina. 1 providing for co-operation between* the federal government and the states in the building and mainte rance of roads and to have SectIon 2 contain practically the provisions of the Shackleford bill of last session. Section 3 will provide that the states may elect under which section they shall receive federal aid. Mr. Byrnes says that an appropriation of $20, )00,000 will be asked for. Hite Out of Hospital. . Marion Hite, the Batesbuzrg bus iness man who was shotk and serious- s ly wounded in his own home on the night of December 6. has left the hospital. His condition is said to b'e unfavorable, his right arm and shoulder being impaired. Recvers Stolen Horse. K Hearing that a negro had sold a horse for $5 cash and a mortgage TI Sheriff Miller ordered the horse to be h held pending an investigation. Its proved to be an animal stolen fromn Mr. P. E. Huffman, a farmer of the; h Dutch Fork section.* Destitute Men Are Fed. Two thousand destitute men of t Portland. Ore., were guests of the N Oregon-Washington Railroad and* F Navigation company at dinner on r< board a river steamer. They fed inb relays of 200 each. Flies Upside Down. Lincoln Beachy Saturday looped of the loop four times in a biplane at of resno, Cal. He also flew upside w, Remains -epresentation by the ig powders, no jug >r pretended analysis, :es, or falsehoods of :he fact that ig Powder I by the offi is to be of the ng efficiency, and of absolute tolesomeness. vder is indispensable 1ost economical food. ADMITS -4-[TT PARTANBURE IUSPET S31 aE IS MK1NLp 'ARIONEB AST MONTH 5 Now In Jail Bound Over on the Charge of Burelary and Attempted Safe-Cracking trong Chain of ~ Evidence Has Been Gathered About Him. After a strong chain of ev1denCe. onnecting him 'ith the robbery-and e attempt to blw open the safe of. tenard C. Frey, who runs a store at airforest, Spaitanburg County ou e night of December 10, had b 'ound around him, William McKin ey, alias "Daytop Scotty," alias John Cenny, was Moiday afternoon. bound: ver by Robert . Gantt, magisitrate f Spartanburg, 'on the charge of bur..j 3.rg and attempted)safe-cracking to .wait the action of ihe grand' jury. The prisoner 'admitted that he was. Villiam McKinley, one of the leaders '. f the notoribus Nolan-McKinley I and of yeggm+ which operated in. his State in 19D2-1903 and was oled by the g4cernor on Novembe 7. McKinley took the decsion d he magistrate xonchalantly and df5 Lot seem to be it all worried. - ,I It was esta1shed by witnesses;I hat Frey's stor' was broken into he door being i!zed open with soMA-' harp instrumekt. The safe showed vidences that ar- attempt had- been, nade to blow 1topen, and around the dges of the dcor and in the cracks .oap was - stuffd, and on top and 'ront was sonDb lIquid, supifosedly itroglycerine. When the robbery was discovered n the morning, Mr. Frey found a ad been emptled of me'roeA indershirts, side. 38, how many Lid not know, also one pair* of wo nen's and oney pair of men's ahds vere missing. Enside the store wrerie ound a hammer and& a chIsel and on he outside aj punch.'- These werE ecognized by 'V. L. Shores as'-he mes stolen froin his blacksmith slioD ihich Is not 'far from Mr. Frey'st. tore, and on the night an attempt was made to blow open the safe. Ie( he blacksmith shop Mr. Shores dis :overed a button, to which was a ached a tuft of cloth. When' examined In prison McKin ey was found to have one butto' nissing from thie rear~ of -iis trousers nother was.taken off by the shliri ompared and were found to be ide' ical Mr. Shores recognized one hem as being that which was 'fo'un n his blaeksmith shop. Thus th tton was traced from the blacke --- mith shop through the robbed-stordt o the trousers of MeKinley.' Near he place where. McKinley ;was ar 'ested on the night after the robbery, bag, containing an undershirt, a >lue overshirt, a coat, an empty vial Lnd a syringe, was 'tound by -o. . )'Shelds on December 14. The a. ies of apparel were identified-'by vr. Frey as the onesistolen from his tore. The most Important testimnony'iras iven by Elmore Wright, himself a paroled murderer who was serving. a Ife term In the state penitentiary lien he was released, and who Is LOW In jail for shootIng his cousin me time ago. He testified that Me-. inley swepped him an undershirt in, xchange for the one which Wrigh tad on. sayIns . "A store at Fiirforest was broken pen, and some things'were'taken out nd they are searching'-for'- them. - They might searc'h me for them 'and do not want to have the shirt on." 'his shirt was identified by Mr. F'rey' .s one which was stolen out of-hbis tore, because of its size. makeland he word. "Sanitary," branded cm it.' Gertrude Williams, a -negro hook rho sleeps in tlhe Frey. resl~ence" rhich is only 60 yards from the ~oe" estified that she heard two' .eplo . o'clock in the morning. William McKinley. who rput on he stand stated that he was not 'uity explaining that he found the hirt he gave Wright under the coal hute at Spartanburg Junctiol and ut it on. McKinley admitted he was the oted yeggman, whom the gerernor'. aroled from the State penitintar n Thanksgiving day. He said as soon s he was released he 'made tiacks to et 'away" and went to Georgia. 'hrough excessive walking, "he sy is feet became~ .sore and began -t well, and when arrested, he was iaking his way to Baltimom where e hoped to enter a hospital. * Fireworks F~ctory Blows Up. The explosion of a fireworks fao >ry Thursday .In the province of 'aples, Italy, lKilled many persons. ourteen dead and five Injured were moved. It Is. believed many other adies are coveted by the debrio. Falls Fro Roof, 'Toe Washington, a colored tinnev Charleston, Thursday morning fell f the roof of a house where he was orking. His skull was fractu WUERTA SLOWLY FALLING T ILANS TO RELIEVE NATIONAL DIPOVERISHMENT. 'rovisional Government May Last t Many Months, but Its Final Fall Seems Certain. National impoverishment and an nereasing organization among scores >f rebel bands have reduced the pro-. risional government to what appears o be a desperate situation, but con ;ervative residents of the Mexican 'ederal capital profess to see, in the ecent military operations and the ontinuation of provisional President luerta to secure money, even though t( n driblets, evidence that the govern- A nent may not fall for many months P inless some unexpected turn for the ,orse occurs. Saturday past was pay day for gov rnment employees, and in almost all lepartments there was little delay in g neeting the pay rolls. That the gov wrnment may not be able to float an- P )ther loan generally Is conceded by a dexicans, but none has lost sight of n he fact that the country is rich and t h :hat Gen. Huerta, as a last resort, would not hesitate to take money where he can find it. Already a drastic measure has been q liscussed by the Cabinet-that of the e ,onfiscation of the property of all in- e lividuals who are known to have ar rayed themselves against the Huerta government. The measure has not e Fet received the full approval of the ministers, but if adopted it will prove a rich resource. Collections that fall little short of being forced loans have been made in cities outside the capi tal and provisional President Huer ta's new order for the establishment of a militia at the expense of busi ness men generally in the various states is in line with his policy to draw directly from the country the revenue necessary for carrying on the war. The failure of Gen. Phncho Villa to march south from. Chinuahua because of the undesirability of leaving the forces of Gen. Salvador Mercado and Gen. Jascual Orozco in his rear; the failure of the rebels to take Tampico; the reoccupation of Torreon by gov rnment soldiers, and the presence at Monterey of 5,000 Federal troops are construed by military men as indica tions that the swinging advance of the rebel army has slowed up and that from now on, as their campaign is carried farther into the heart of the republic, their progress much slower. The banking situation continued bad, State bank bills still being re jected, except In limited amounts, at the Central Bank. The run on the Bank of London and Mexico, though slightly diminished, continued thru out Saturday. The committee of bankers, which has been attempting to- solve the financial situation, has not yet suc ceeded in going beyond the point of making suggestions, although it is believed Gen. Huerta, in the end, will Issue a decree forcing the acceptance of the State Bank notes, thus enlarg ing the volume of medium of ex change in the business world. The National Bank of Mekico has an nounced that on account of 'the ex isting conditions and as a measure of rudence," it would not pay the semi-annual dividend due this month. KILLED IN CAR. Dillon M - Loses His Life in W. Aai. a was instantly kill ed and Miss Lary ,Moore was serious ly injured Sunday afternoon at six o'clock when an automobile in which they were riding ran Into a deep ditch one-half mile from Dillon. Miss .oore, daughter of John B. Moore, of Latta, was rushed to Dillon in an, automobile, where she was given medical attention. Mr. Fass is a1 well known merchant of Dillon and Is a native of New York. A spoke on1 the steering whell severed the jug ular vein of Mr. Fass. Mr. Fass and Miss Moore had been: for a ride through the county and were returning to Dillon late Sunday afternoon. Just after passing the Maple dairy the machine swerved sharply to the right and plunged Into a dit ch. The car was badly damaged. Several persons In an automobile passing 30 minutes later found the wrecked car. Mr. Fass was dead and Miss Moore was unconscious. Those who viewed the wreck were unable to account for the accident. It Is sup posed that the steering gear broke, sending the machine into the ditch, which is about sIx feet deep. The car was overturned.' Killed in Collision. A. C. Parker, aged 40, of Millen, Ga., clerk of the superior and city courts, was instantly killed Mondayi night in a motorcycle collision on the outskirts of the city when Mr. Park r. who was on his way home, col lided with Mr. T. W. Aaron, who ws riding into the city. Warships Save Town. Possession by the Mexican federalC forces at Tampico of two gunboats, it has been made clear, has forced thet Constitutonalists who have been be seiging that port for the last two weeks to abandon the undertaking notwithstanding they far outnumber the enemy.* Auto Goes Wrong.r One person was killed and twoa were injured Sunday night when an automobile traveling along a drive- I way in upper Central park, New Sork, dashed over a low stone cop ing of a bridge and dropped 25 feet to a foot path bordering the drive. C Rebels Repulsed. r After four days of fighting the Mex- C can federal garrison at the seaport I >f Tampico reinforced by the arrival s f gunboats with troops, amunition f and dynamite Sunday drove the at acking Constitutionalists out of >f their guns. Riot at Los Angeles., Rafael Adams, a Mexican, wast dled and five policemen were injur- S d Thursday In a riot at the Plaza, Zos Ange1ts, Cal., when the police started to break up a meeting of sev aral hundred unemployed and hun-)