LL ORGANIZED FORCES SEEN TO HAVE STRONi ORGANIZTION A IN EVERY COUNTY 'Spporters of Governor Are Aigned tn a. Compact Line of Committees and Are Doing All They Can to Eect Governor and Those Whom He Intends to Support. That State Senator W. H. Sharpe f Lexington County is the State chaiman of the Blease organization, n- John' . Aull, private secretary the Governor, the secretary of the "Ifg-nzation, is the information fur Ited the Pee Dee Daily of Bennett* e'by Col. J. P. Gibson of Ben ettallle, la -member of the staff of p.oBlease. and secretary of the se organization in Marlboro ty. Mr. Gibson gives the Blease com en in the townships of Marl county, and it is said that a .organization has been per of the Blease forces in every Inthe State. If this is true, . lease has an organization ex to each school district im one iof the forty-four counties, able, as be has frequently touch any locality at a a e i~ardof Col. J. Preston Gibsoi Pee Dee Daily says in part: Freeman: In your yesterday'i a) Daily you editorially offer .16w a, reward of five dollars tc for the names of the' Stat( ~miicommittee and the names o1 Tdri aad secretary in Marlbort athad the names of the town ennmmttees in this county. Wi taid or ashamed for name. bished, .for we feel that w4 litgood as any people who wal We'are Democrats and a4 as anybody. The following desired: 4chairman, W. H . Sharpe nOr from Lexington county; - )cretary, J. K. Aull, the gov w ptvate secretary." ~vwng the members of thi - ease ~organization, - Mr ses his nmmunication al ' :=3aneditorial-in his paper o: LR. L. Freeman says nDailhas accomplished ar feat, and scooped the paper State In securing a lis -and committees of th4 _.organlzation. When th4 -cnferences were held in Co veral weeks ago, the news ieporters in Columbik coul ecare any informaton as t done. Those who attendet ba oysters when asket tenewspaper men. Eno transpires that officer: ~ b~e iselected for the State or -and county chairmen ant - appointed. But it has re * 1rthe Daily -to unearth thi: ertrfor th-Diy- n VoLGibson would no doub lvnus this Information Ioni -h it not been thie purpose te - te information from the pres ~p~~.But oug discovery an: - of .Mr. Aull's letter. to - .wth ur gentle goarding and ofthe $5, has had the desir ~t has gievn us ascoop fo: ~~any live newspaper would havy - iiid?$5. We would be glas 2aee~ti newspapers in other cosn a dreY.'and publish the officer immttees of the Blease organi In their respective counties. n helthe Blease conference too In Columbia on the eve of th< of the campaign it was held ~the Supreme Court room frorx the newspaper men were bar it was known at the time tha - n- Sharpe presided over the Sbut the only informatio1 .aealabewas just what could be pick 'ei up ere and there and put togeth ior no statement was given out t< ~-the press. In fact, at no time was -itlere ever any offcial knowledge tha 5ckconferences were being held. -' t has aready been printed that al rgn zan of the Blease forces hat ee ormed in every county with ~cnrlor State organization in Co ~li~;that such and such men were *2hte eorganization and that a count: chimnIn each county had beei 'nmdand-meetings of the adminis t ation- followers organized in every f the best known coal operators in outhwest Virginia, told the commit tee considering the Tillman resolu tion regarding shipments of coal to South Atlantic cities that the South ern railroad had so manipulated things that it is now impossible for that section to ship coal with a profit to Atlantic cities. This fixing of high rates, Dulaney said, was due to the control of the Southern by directors who had com paratively little financial interest in it. Their great interests were in the coal trusts of Pennsylvania and they were also in the Northern railroads and set the rate from their mines to the seaboard in the North so high that it was cheaper to ship coal from Pennsylvania mines to Philadelphia and then by sea to Charleston than to ship direct to Charleston from the Southern mines. Those responsible for this condi tion, according to Dulaney, are Geo. F. Baker, Geo. F. Baker Jr., Elbert H. Gary, Adrian Iselin, Adrian Ise lin Jr., Charles Steele of J. P. Mor gan & Co., E. J. Berwind, president of the Berwind-White Coal company, Henry K. McHarg and Grant C. Schley. Were the rates on coal from the Southern fields to Southern poits fix ed on anything like the basis on which the rates from the Pennsyl vania fields to Northern ports, or from the Pocahontas fields to Norfolk and Newport News, Dulaney said, abot 1,000,000 tons a year would be moved by the Southern railway and other lines in that section. Putting it in another way, Dulaney said, $2, 500,000 was taken from the Southern seiboard to pay for coal brought over Northern railways and then by barges or boats which ought to come direct by rail from the Southern mines. Dulaney declared that Pennsylva nia railroad companies entirely domi nated the rates on coal to the sea board. He cited reports of the inter state commerce commission, showing the control by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central of the Balti more & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western and other North ern carriers. . He then declared that the directors of the coal trust, through their control of the Southern and other carriers in that section, were able to stifle competition from independent coal miners in the South. As an instance of discrimination against coal produced by indepen dents and against the Southern rail way as a handler of coal, Dulaney said that on eacb ton of coal hauled from Alexandria to- Washington over the bridge -by the Pennsylvania, that railroad made a charge of 67 cents, if the coal had been hauled to Alex andria -by the Southern; .but only 20' cents if the coal had been hauled to Alexandria via the Norfolk & West ern. NAMES ON ENGINES., Southern Bailway to Encourage Pride Among Its Drivers. The Southern railway has recently adopted a novel plan in order to stim ulate the interest and pride of engi neers in their engines. It has been decided to assign each engineer to an engine and if the locomotive has been kept in good condition after a certain number of miles have been covered, the engineer's name will be printed on the side of the cob. It is a well known fact among rail road men that many engineers take a personal interest in the upkeep o1 their engines and pride themselves on the cleanliness and smooth running order of its varlous parts. Pet names have often been applied to locomo tives and it is to reward these men and to serve as an incentive to others that the plan of placing their names on the out~sde of the cabs was ad vanced by the officials of the road. President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern has recently installed a number of improvements on the road for the benefit of the employees and this will likely prove to be one of the most popular as well as beneficial in stimulating the interest of the engi neers in their work. CANAL RULES Ships Must Observe Them in Passing Through Panama. Rules and regulations for opera tion and navigation of the Panama :anal are provided for in an executive order .iust issued. Generally these are framed upon the regulations in force in the Suez canal and the Soo, though there are new features made necessary by peculiar local conditions. One is the limitation of six knots per hour imposed upon the speed of vessels in the Culebra cut, and it is even required that in approaching turns vessels shall maintain the slow est speed that will keep their head vay. In Gatun lake, however, in the thousand-foot channels, the speed may be as high as fifteen knots; in the SO0-foot channels twelve knots, and in the 500-foot channels ten knots. Everywhere else in the waterway. n Mirafiores lake and locks and in he entrances to the ports, the six knot rate prevails. Greatest precau ions are to be adopted in the pas sage of vessels containing quantities f high explosives or inflammable ~argoes to _guard against in jury to :anal locks or other vessels. Italian Miner Killed. After an Italian miner had been tiled at Meadow Lands. Pa., in a ifht with constables there was dan-1 ter of an international conflict Tues- 1 lay until the arrival of the sheriff 1 Lnd 30 deputies.1 Resigns Under Fire. Representative McDermott of Illi ois, who has been under fire as a 'esult of the Mulhall charges, resign d his seat Monday. Marine Dies at Vera Cruz. ( John McDermott, an American ma- F me at Vera Cruz, was drowned Tues- I IRIED TO HIT HIM iREENVILLE B&NKER RESENS WORDS Of GOV. BLEASE GREATES TENSE FEELINi F. W. Norwood, Wealthiest Banker of His County, Goes for Blease, But Officers Seize Him While He Struggles to Reach Blease-Asked Governor About McIntosh Matter. While three thousand persons watched with still breath, expecting to witness a fisticuff, perhaps the shedding of blood, one of the leading bankers of South Carolina, J. Wil kins Norwood, of Greenville, strug gled frantically to break away from a number of men holding him and personally resent what he considered an insult offered him by the Gov ernor of the State. Cole L. Blease, during the senatorial campaign meet ing Saturday. This furnished the only real sen sation of the campaign so far, and for a while it seemed impossible to avert serious trouble. Several offi cers were seen to reach for their pistols, but so far as could .be ob served in the pandemonium that reigned for several minutes no wea pon was drawn. Mr. Norwood was finally overpowered and taken from the speakers' stand. The situation was extremely tense, the excitement and high feeling spreading to the big crowd around the stand, but for tunately the incident passed without any real damage being done. The trouble started wh'le the gov ernor was speaking, when Mr. Nor wood, who was on the stand at the rear, asked, "How about Dr. McIn tosh?" The governor replied: "When I get to Columbia I will'ask Dr. McIntosh on the stand and then answer the question, not behind his back, like a coward like you." Mr. Norwood then made an effort to get to Gov. Blease, hurling an epithet at the executive while ,en deavoring to break from the half dozen or more men who seized him. Sheriff Rector and Mayor Marshall were also on the stand and appeared to be using their best efforts to avert a clash, and perhaps a tragedy. Sev eral men were heard to make threats of shooting. The governor remain ed where he had been speaking, and by his side were State Detective E. F. Hammond and several others who, it was said, were also officers. Mr. Norwood's question, "How about Dr. McIntosh?" was prompted by a statement issued by Dr. J. H. McIntosh of Columbia, denying that he had recommended a pardon or parole for R. A. Richey of Abbeville, which matter Gov. Blease exhaustive ly review at the meeting in Ahbe ville, when he read a statement from Dr. McIntosh, who had examined Richey while in the Penitentiary. In his last statement Dr. McIntosh declared he not only did not recom mend the pardon of Richey, but that he had stated in his first certificate that he believed Richey was feigning. After the candidates had spoken there were many calls for Mr. Nor wood, who came to the front of the stand and in simple manner related his version of the affair, saying that "If what Dr. McIntosh says is true, Bease is what we all know him to be-a dirty, infamous liar." He then bitterly arraigned the governor, saying Newberry is the home of the Gov. Blease and~ Dr. McIntosh, that "Blease can't go Into the home of Dr. McIntosh" and the latter "would not enter the home of Blease". He said that any educated man who was supporting Blease was a, "dirty skunk". He made further re marks bitterly denouncing the gov ernor and his followers, saying: "This fellow Richards running for governor is a prince of hypocrites." "I happen to know that." He de clared every man Greenville in terested in selling blind tiger liquor was "tearing his shirt for Blease and Rector''. Mr. Norwood is presinent of the Norwood National Bank of Green ville and is interested in banks in other places. He is said to be the second largest representrative of banking interests in South Carolina and is a brother of Joseph J. Nor wood. the well known banker of Co lumbia. Greenville has no citizen more prominent than J. Wilkins Nor wood and many expressions of re sentment were heard from Greenville people that Gov. Blease's reply to Mr. Norwood was insulting and un called for. The crowd was anti-Blease by three to one, according to County Chairman M. Mills Mooney, who pre sided, and of whom the governor spoke In high praise during his speech. The meeting began at 1 o'clock. all the twelve cotton mills around Greenville having closed at noo, so as many operatives as desir ed could hear the candidates. Sev eral hundred of them marched to the park, where the meeting was held, .behind the Blease banner, and when the governor, who spoke sec Ed. concluded, most of the march ers left the grounds with him. The line-up apepared to be the same as in other cotton mill towns, the farm ers for Smith, the mill men for Blease, and there were hundreds of Earmers present. Messrs. Jenpings and ?>,llock evi :lently had many friends in the au ience. Their speeches were splon didly received and they were fre uently applauded. Senator Smith ;poke first. He repeated some of his otton speech and directed some re narks on immigration to the mill orkers. declaring that lie opnio ed etting down the bars to the riff-: aff >f Europe to compete with Amerie'n ahor. He said: "You cotton mill >oys don't know Ed Smith intimate y, but by the eternal gods you can't eep him from working for you if 'ou are of pure American blood." Dynamite Kills Gang Foreman. 1 While using dynamite at Straw-ji 'erry, preparing for the subsequent 1 uildng of a roadbed for the Caro-li in.. Atlantic and Western to enter harleston upon, Gang Foreman 'i 'Tank Rose was killed Friday by the I remature explosion e'f dynamite us- t STRIKERS ROUT GUARDS LFTER ALL-DAY BATTLE RIOT. ERS FIRE ARKANSAS MINES. trikers Wreck Plant With Dyna mite and Apply the Torch-Loss $200,000. After a pitched battle between sev ,ral hundred coal miners and their ympathizers and one hundred guards it the Prairie Creek mines of he kiammoth Vein Coal company, near Fort Smith, Ark., Friday. which end d in the rout of the ggards. tipples )f three mines were destroyed by fire and dynamited. The property dam age is estimated at $200,000. So far as can be ascertained no one was killed or seriously wounded in the fighting, which began shortly after daybreak and continued until late in the day, when the mine guards retreated after their ammuni tion was exhausted. Rioters held possession of the mines for several hours, wrecking the plants with torch and explosives. All Friday night the properties are deserted. Preparation are being made to send additional armed men to. resume occupation of the mines. County officials went to the scene, but before they arrived the attacking party had disappeared. Friday's rioting was a culmination of a series of minor disturbances which have occurred at intervals since the contract with the United Mine Workers was abrogated - last March, and announcement made that the properties owned by the Bache Denman Coal company, but under lease to the Mammoth Vein com pany, would be operated on an. "open shop" basis. In one attack several employees of the company were badly beaten after they had been forced, by a mob estimated to have numbered more than a thousand men, to withdraw the fires from the boilers. Last Sun day night Frogtown, a union min ing camp a mile distant from Prairie Creek, was "shot up' and the disor der was repeated Wednesday night. Each faction of workmen charged the other with the responsibility of the shooting. No one was injured. At the time of the first outbreak an Injunction, was secured in the United States District Court to re strain the strikers from interference with the operation of the mines, and a force of fifty men, under the direc tion of the United States marshal, placed on guard. This force was re called under instructions of Attor ney General McReynolds, who held that it was the duty of the State and county officials to protect the mine properties. Last Friday officials of the com pany applied to United States Dis trict Attorney Bourlaind to be per mitted to recruit a co-npany of mn to be commissioned by the United States marshal, but under instruc tions from Washington the company was not organized, the attorney gen eral holding to his previous ruling that the situation should be taken care of by local authorities. Gov. Geo. W. Haynes stated that no re quest had been made to him for State troops. WAS INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT, . P. Gibson Tells of ils Candidacy in 1880. From a long statement, containing much Irrelevant matter, we publish the following essential statements, made by J. P. Gibson, in reply to the display of Mr. Pollock of a ticket bearing his trame and two negroes as candidates In 1880. Mr. Gibson states: That in 1876 and in 1878 he was a "red shirt" rider for Hampton, voted for Hampton and did arduous and dangerous work to bring about the Democratic triumph. That Ii. 1880 he was a candidate on a white Independent Democratic ticket for the legislature, along withm a number of prominent white men, for various county offices. That he did not know that his name was placed on a ticket with Republicans and negroes until the day of the election and that It was without his consent. That in any address signed by him self and others on hi. ticket, pub lished during the campaign, which he has preserved, It was declared that they were opposed to the restoration of radical rule in the State or the county. That he can prove that in a speech -the campaign of 1880 he said that he was not a Republican leader and that he would withdraw and help to elect the nominees of the Demo cratic convention If the Republicans put out a county ticket. That the ticket exhibited by Mr. Pollock was not the white independ ent ticket on which he was a candi date, but the Republican ticket on which his name was placed without his knowledge or consent. ATTACK3 WHITE MAN. Gaffney Negro is Shot to Death by Man He Slashed. While dozens of hurrying pedes trians, composing the usual Saturday evening crowd, looked on. Harold parks, a well known young white man of Cherokee county. shot and in stantly killed a negro named Hose Ioorheal, alias Mose Petty, on one >f Gaffney's principal thoroughfares. 'he shooting took place about 8 'clock and no shots were fired until fter the negro had already cut the white man across the left shoulder. nflicting a number of painful rounds. It is said that the dispute arose wer the fact that the negro would iot drive his wagon out of the way o let the wnite man pass, and when he two met later in the evening the rgument. was .renewed. . Heated ords were heard and then the negro said to hae seized Mir. Sparks and ragged him from the door of a store. ficting the cuts with a large knife. arks then opened fire with his pis 1 and three bullets took effect in WILL iO TO COURTS EFFORTS TO SETTLE NW AVEN WITHOUT SUIT FILS WILSON WANTS AION President Directs Attorney General McReynolds to Bring Civil Suit for Dissolution and Lay Facts Before Grand Jury for Investigation of "Criminal Aspects". The long continued effort to un tangle the New Haven railroad with out litigation came to-an end Tues day night, when President Wilson in a letter to Attorney General McRey nolds directed the institution of a Sherman law suit to dissolve the sys tem and ordered that the "criminal aspects of the case" be laid -before a federal grand'lury. The president's approval of the course mapped out by the department of- justice means that the civil suit will be filed against the New Haven in the United States court at New York at once. The attorney general also immediately will direct United States District Attorney Marshall at New York to summon a grand jury, and the task of laying evidence* be fore that body on which to ask for criminal indictments against officers and directors of the New Haven un der the Mellen management will be begun as soon as possible. How many indictments will be sought was not divulged but it was plainly indicated in correspondence made public that the attorney general expects to ask for a bill against Chas. S. Mellen, former president of the New Haven. The most significant fact, in connection with the prodeed ings was said to be a statement which Mr. McReynolds gave out several months ago when the interstate com merce commission -began its New Haven inquiry. In the statement the attorney gen eral. warned the commission that im munity might be given certain men if made to testify as to their actions as directors of the road. The names he mentioned were: Charles 8. Mellen, William Rockefeller, George McCul lough Miller, Charles F. Brooker, Ed win Milner, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Goo. F. Baker and Edward -R. Robins. In addition to directing a suit, the president in his letter to Mr.McRey nolds declared that the decision of the New Haven directors not to keep their agreement to dissolve peaceful ly had caused him "the deepest sur prise and regret", and that their fail ure "upon so slight a pretext" was "inexplicable . and entirely without "justification". The department's course, he said, was just, reasonable and efficient, and should have resulted in avoiding a suit. Accompanying- the president's letter, the department made public correspondence between the attorney general and the president 'and the at torney general and President Hustis of the New Haven. One of the most interesting phases, of the correspondence was contained in the attorney general's letter to President Wilson, in which there is a idecided rebuke for the interstate com merce commission for its action in subpoenaing Mellen "and perhaps others of the greatly culpable" with the possibility of embarrassing the department by a claim of immunity in return for their testimony. In this connection the -attorney general makes the statement that criminal prosecutions have b een always in mind and that there has never been "the slightest hope that parties guilty' of criminal violations of the law would escape." The letter from the attorney gen eral to President Hustis made it clear that the department takes the posi tion that the New Haven directors did not live up to their agreement of last March for a peaceful dissolution in their refusal to sell' their Boston & Maine stock, under conditions Im posed by Massachusetts, and put the blame for what may follow on the heads of these directors. . AIK EN KITLLING Lee Yann Charged With the Death of Willie Brown. The place of Mr. Albert Yaun, in the Shaw's 1' erk section of Aiken county, was the scene of a killing on Saturday night, when Lee Yaun, son of the former, shot and killed Willie Brown, a farm hand. There were only two eye-witnesses to the occur rence and the testimony of each was in contrast at the inquest, which was held by Coroner Spradley Sunday morning. One. Mr. E. *C. Moseley, testified that the shooting was justi fiable homicide and the other claimed that it was without provocation. The dead man and Samp Hightow er, it seems, had been to a frolic in that neighborhood on Saturday night and when returning went to the well at Mr. Yaun's place to get water. While there they cut a watermelon. Some claim that Mr. Lee Yaun came out and asked them where they got the melon and that the fuss started over that, and the shooting was in self-defence. Others claim that Mr. Yaun stated that he would settle with Brown and began firing. READS PARODY. Pollock Amuses Crow at Pickens at Governor's Expense At Pickens Mr. Pollock Friday re viewed Goy. Blease's record, saying it contained so many things the gov ernor could not explain that he (Blease) would not attempt to do ro. In connection with the governor's pardon record the speaker referred to the pardon of "Portland Ned", and read a parody on "Old King Cole", which amused the crowd. He referred to the appointment on the governor's staff of J. Preston Gib son, James Sottile and Edwin Hirsch, alling them "a sweet bunch" to be saluted when the governor, "with his topknot waving," reviews the State militia. Mr. Pollock read the "Char eton list", asking the Bleasites pres ent how they liked being "lined up