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26th Year B5.00 a vear. MEMBERSHIPS ON ' PURELY BUSINESS BASIS IS POLICY Chamber Of Commerce Re organization Effected On Its Merits. LOOK T O FUTURE FINAL ! SHOWDOWN TODAY ; IN THE SENATE 1 MAS! 1LUMBIA BY TIMES ESPONDENT Defeat Of Universal Train-1 ing Plan Seems Certain. Plans On Foot Now Wil Develop Soon Into Realities. I No ono will be written a member ship in the Chamber of Commerce on an eleemosynary basis in Hie cam paign set for April 27. 28, and 30, Mr. Walter J. Johnson, secretary, empha sized today .relatively to the recon struction and reorganization program. Memberships will be written purely on a business basis, he s'tated furth- v Value for Money “The Claim of the Chamber of Commerce upon citizens of Flor ence," lie stated, "will be presented a business proposition to business men. This claim must be accepted on. the merits of its business worth, or the application for membership will b6 denied. "All the Chamber of Commerce asks is that, as business men, citi zens receive Hie solicitors and hear their presentment with unprejudiced and unbiased attitude. Business Propisition ^ “The Chamber of Commerce is a business proposition, purely. It is worth the price of membership to apy citizen—but we want our members to realize its worth and act accordingly and not s : gn up for membership with out realizing this merit. “There’s a reason! Looking to Future “Already, even in the inc’piency of this campaign, the officers of the Chamber of Comtherce are looking to the future—and what it holds for the organization and Florence. ' The offi cers want a membership on a business bask that will be active and vigor ous because it means business. “Right now’ the Chamber of Com- 53 VOTES AGAINST | Thirteen Democrats Have; Joined The Opposition Forces. . Washington April 8—Opponents supporters of universal military train ing have lined up for a final show down in the senat \ Informal can vasses are said to have indicated tiial forty Democrats and thirteen Repu Means will vote against the p an, as- -uring the defeat under these eircum stances. A movement has begun to substitute a voluntary training plan i but the details have not been annaun ! ced. Admiral Wilson Testifies Amendment To The State Before The Senate | Democratic Primary Committee. Rules* '* PRAISES D A N I E L S BAPTIST H I SrT O R Y ■m Says Secretary Co-Opsrated Dr. McGlothing _pL Furman Fully With Allied ! Consent? To Write * Admiralties. . Book. > Washington. April 8.—Admiral H.' -lorence (General view of the Newburyport. Mass., siher mine which, after lying idle lor nearly half a century, Is agu»n r Wilson, commanding the Atlantic being worked. It w as discovered 40 years ago by boys w lio wero chasing rabbits. Modern methods of mining have told the Senate Investigating made it possible to reopen the old mine. V" Times Bureau, Wyatt A- Taylor Correspondent, - • Columbia. April 8.—With a view to PRIZE HOUSE PLANS ' GOING FORWARD NEWSEGRETARY THE RED GROSS HERE ON APRIL 15 HERE REPORTS BOY DIES FROM HIS INJURIES MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS OF CORPORATION WILL BE HELD MONDAY. CR. R. M. JOHNSTON FIRST COUNTY Y. M . C. A. SECRE TARY IN C. C. ;Committee that the vessels on the ar- away with the necessity Of a ! tive list were fully prepared when Ineel ' a S of the stat? Democratic cbm American entered the war and the R1 *Hee after eaca primary election, N.avy Department had full and com- ^ or tlle P ur P° ae of canvassing the 1 plete plans to combat the German of- re8u,ts of electl °ns. ^pt where con fensive against tjie coasts and had ar i se - an amendment to the prosecuted the war with the greatest s,at ’ > democratic rules will be offer ed at the state Democratic convention in Columbia in May, by Ashley To- , energy from the first. •' He said that Secretary Daniels co REGULfR^MONTHLY MEETING OF operated ful , y with tho Allled admiral bias, secretary of the state exe’eutive ties and carried out their suggestions °ommittee, according to an announce- THE FLORENCE CHAPTER. promptly and efficiently. JUDSON LANGSTON MANGLED RAPIDLY REVOLVING MILL SHAFT. Permanent organization of the cor poration and building plans will be [effected at a meeting of the stock holders of the Florence Storage Ware ,N house company at a meeting Monday afternoon, 3:30 o’clock. Mr. J. M. (Lynch, temporary president, called , ~ 4 . the meeting today and through the Wilbur Judson Langston, 12-years chamber of Commerce, the notices old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Lang- are jj S i n g y en t t 0 the subscribers to ston. died at 11 o'clock yesterday stock morning in the Florence Infirmary, The no t ce of Ihe meeting also death resulitng. from injuries sustain, makea a can far tl „. payment of the ed Saturday mornirg when he was initial assessment of 20 per cent on caught on a rapdly revolving shaft lh(J st0( , k subscriptions. Subscribers in the McLeod grist mUl in the Glen-. should pav t , )is asse ssment either be wood' section of the city. The body f()re thls n , ee ting. or arrange to pay of the little fellow was'terribly man- at tl , e meetlng . Several persons and , v i gled in the accident, it having been whirled over and over, as a fly wheel, til) the machinery could be stopped to remove the' lad. firms already have called at the Chamber of Commerce and made their initial payments. Stock sales in the company today touched the ?2l>.900 mark, this being 'M The regular monthly meeting of t be ; executive committee of the Florence i Chapter of the Red Cross was held | on Tuesday afternoon, m uie Federal i court room. I Reports were received from Dr. N. | W, Hicks, chawman of the Nursing i Activities Committee, and from Rev. W S. Poyner, chairman of the com- NEARLh A THOUSAND YARDMEN mlttee on Home Service and C vivlian GO OUT IN SYMPATHY WITH CHICAGO MEN. STRIKE SPREADS TO PACIFIC COAST ment made by him today. ! Mr. Tobias has addressed a letter to each member of the sraie Demo cratic committee and to the county chairman, asking tor their opinion as to the proposed amendment. Mr. To- blas states that th.e amendment would rave the Democratic • party, in the state and the candidates in each elec- ion much money. At present the state committee has to meet to canvas aU election re turns. When there are no contests the secretary of the committee has The accident occurred while little Wilbur was plaving in the mill, which ^“above the half way point in the merce is closing up the job pf getting i is adjacent t 0 his home. .., <550 qou canMal zation recently autho- ■ ! rized. Additional subscribers report- Jewr And Moslems ! eil at the Chamber of Commerce are .... .Jnfiagf.In Fights Relief. Both of these committees, as ^ find 1 have ^iccmupilsl^r splen 11 Los Angeles. April 8.-Retween five the returns all tabulated and all the lid results during the past several Hundred and a thousand yardmen ‘’""mrttee does is t 0 approve his months str Ufk In sympathy with the Chicago fadings, and thi s takes usually less A number of routine business ma’- railroad men and it is predicted that tHan half an hour, and yet It costs -r. diHPoaed of. and. the chair- the eu.,re Pacific c.a,, atlec WO. man also made a report of the activi- ta soon. ties of the emergenc committee ap- > pointed several weeks ago in connec- Steering Committee tion with the epidemic of influenza. - - — The following were elected to fill vacancies existing on the executive # au adequate warehouse here, such as will guarantee necessary storage fa cilities; it is fostering a company which will erpet a chain of sweet, po tato curing and storing bouse fn this action; i it is after a textile plant hmi Norfolk, with excellent pros pects of getting It; it is undertaking to interest a large manufacturer in establishing a fertilizer plant hero. 1 ,rtl1 Dr R. M. Johnson, wh# was elect- Mr. Tobias’ idea is that the state convention provide for the appoint ment of a canvassing committee, to be comnosed of one member from Will Meet Tomorrow fanh Congression district, to be se lected e'th«r by the chainnso of the committee:'Mr.*T ^“Aiken,'publicity! Further plans for the hotel project ^• A® r t H6 C< thM chairman, and Mrs. E. E. Howell, 'or Florence will be taken up tomor- to have authority to can vat ai le'ectlon returns, except where there are contests and then the en- chairman of the committee on edu cation. / row afternoon at 4 o’clock when the 1 steering committee is to meet in the In Jerus’hm Mr. W. V. Parrott Mr. L. E‘. Waters Jerusalem April 8—Although mar Mr. W. D. Harper tla! law has been declared here Bril Mf- J- W. Ivey , . „ . ,, ,r x- ,, The following members were pres- office of Mr. J M Lynch who as presi R. W. Shorkey, dear of the ObstlWW of Commerce. ^ ct>Dimlttee W0U,d S,t f5r the pur * r.-isome time - - — -- J is sponsori is the project. pose. _ _ r,.” „ r n '. ■“ . is * f a c;t ve-r an off year in elections. . . , , ,, 1- Kev ’ ' v ' *■ chairman of the campaign orguniza- fhu tn' x eti’'es of the state Democratic $101) nience his work on April lo. Dr. Urowni R . K . Rutledge. Mrs. Earl -■ — - - ^ 1 mm gs or me s are uemocrauc $300 r - A - for Florence county some ume choirman; Mrs . F . E . Wright. Dr. N. which $100 a KO, ' v ’il' hrrive in this city to com- yy Hicks nience his work on April 15. Dr Urown , r. K. Rutledge. Mrs. Earl tlon . The mernb3r3 o{ th9 commU . for the purpose $5(i0 Jem sen has had a t. -0 and a d Martin and Mrs. D. H. Smith. j tee expect to cons der tc morrow at’ of canvassing election returns, cost 1 ternoon plans for incorporation and tno-p than sonoo. Tt 4 s he'i~V' , d that t*-e plan n-iu meeV Several Killed In I stjrung the stock sales. Gas Explosion 1 n’-mber is renuestod by P troop's" pstioi The "city "and ‘The Lucas & Brunson (additional $500 - nerier.ee in different lines of work _ — , , troops pan01 me cuy ana ine ^ $>! 00() b „ t {or t . v> ]a8t F ,. veral years has with reasonable hope of accomplish-1-h * - * n “ d . ^; osler “’ «nS’aged in scat- pr ^ vjou total $24,900 been encaged in just tha kind of lug that end; it is projecting a large tering fights on Monday and Ties- Total to date $?6 9<)0 work wbic’i he wi'l undertake in this and uptodate hotel, which positively r ‘ s ” n sM T > . r ® f n . 1 “ , 11 Before making further solicitation, county. Florence county is the first . will be built if not Immediately, cer», md on both sides. Aocnt two huir gtoak sales committee membe s j n the state to actively start the ru- Ponco City Okla Aprif 8—One is tainly at an early date; it has taken dred and fifty were injured most of expect to meet and g0 ove r the list r;U , vork of the Y. ,M. C. A. dead, one serions y injured, and 2 up tho question of improved freight Hiem slightly. J J' J 1 ^ subscribers to date and make up q-be county committee, composed persons unaccounted for as a result aervlce out of here and has very defi- —another list of prospects to avert dup- of buslness a mi professional men of of a gas explosion in a restaurant nite prospect ot getting it, it experts FLORENCE SCHOOLS Mications which have been occurring t j 10 connt y w j-j , nf>e t very soon af- here. The damage is estimated at LEAD THE STATE in the sales Iter Er. Johnson's ari-.al * and plan hundred thousand dollars. | the work which be is to do. In a | general way,, it is stated that the plan through the erection of storage hous es, to afford the farmers surety of Immediate supplies of fertilizer in the future. .STATE HIGH SCHOOL INSPECTOR GERMANS USE DECLARES PROGRESS IS PHENOMINAL. •‘There are other plans'on foot, in, process of definite achievement. If business men cannot see business ► principle In Joining, a business organi-i State High School Inspector, Prof, zation fostering and accomplishing Charles Stoddard of Columbia, was in business growth, they would not be the city yesterday and after inspect- very valuable business assets in such ing the schools of the city wastaken a business institution." by Superintendent Ga^qu’e to fTim- GAS SHELLS includes work along religious', edu- j cational, social and physical 'ines. j REGULAR TROOPS BOMB DUSSE-i The three main lines or activity LDOR” SAYS A PARIS DIS- j comprise organization of bov’s groups jthroughout the county, such county-j 1 wide activities as boy’s conferences.! regular | athletic TURKS BURN ORPHANAGE PATCH. TWO HUNDRED ARMENIAN CHIL DREN ARE SAFELY REMOV ED meets, county evangelistic | Personal Of Red Paris. April 8—German regular , *■; - | (’nnstantinon’e ^ie il 8—The Ar- ..j * tpn .. nw bombarded Dusseldorf efio'ls for young people, and such! Lonstanunop t, Ap 11 s 1 monsville thence to Olanta and on to troops have Dorn Dai oea uusseip rn k(lidrfl , ) . K . ttvIt;o s as t , t( , | (K . a - menlan orphanage was burned when I sin:, tier irav se-rn to ueniand. (the Turks destroyed the village of Dr. Johnson is a boy expert, and ian orphans wore removed to safety Lake City where the schools were w 'th gas shells according to a 1 Inspected. Mr. Stoddard stated that, patch to the. Matin. CrOSS Committee no county in the state was ahead of | the schools of Florence county. The Pane Fashions The Nursing Activities Committee work being done throughout the conn-1 . bis whole Mfe and training peculiar- of the Florence Chapter of the Amer <>’ ou |y favorably compared with lean Red Cross, held -a meeting on, “'at of other counties, but he predict 4 o'clock. A ed that when the tabulated statistics Monda> qfteinoon at . . h ‘ were prepared that Florence would most interesting report was read b.v , b(; on ^ ver> . top He wag very the .Red 1 ross niuse, Miss A ta f a h>i t f . orn p|j men t ary 0 f t] ie work being or - (ioiio in this county and stated The committee has been recently, g U j )C , r j n ^ en ^ eT1 ^ Gasque was' one ot Next Fall To Be More ‘Undressy’ Paris. April 8.—Women's wear next fall will be even more “undressy’’ lan orphans v ere removed tosafety The Turks are besieging other Ar menian villages. /liner UlU Will UTI C V XT H | 4 j , f than during the past winter, according 1 1 to Paris wholesalers, who welcome orward m,)V the very best (-ouiity superintendents Mrs in the state. j He was delighted with the plans of the new high school building be* . ing erected here and stated htat when . . . completed it would be one of the best ave . ra ^ woman will be able to buy * • . u t nno.b*vlf tnp nmmnt nf built, conveniently arranged, most modern school nuliding in the ,i,CD .s revised, and is as follows: Dr. N VV Hicks, chairman. E K Howell, secretary. Central Committees U \Y Sharkey \ H Gasque D Gordon Baker A C Ellerbe Mrs. L T Burch Dr. J T Howell Mrs D H Smith Mrs F E Wright Sub Committees Dr. J ^J^frell, chairman A Bye^^ami ihe City Health off: *cer • Tuberculosis Mrs. E Howell, cl*iirman H E Davis and Dr. H T Graham Baby Welfare Mrs. D H Smith chairman Mrs. W T Martin • Miss Comer Mrs Earl Martin Mrs D W Alderman and Mrs Riley ' rt f Supofles Mrs. F E Wright, chairman Mrs F H McT.end 'Mrs J P McNeill Mrs N M T.o ,# ‘ance Mrs A C White Mrs. Van Miken & Mrs H E Boatl\ The central committee is requested to meet the first Monday in every month at 4 o’clock, iu the Sheriff’s prisomnent in the state office up stairs, in »he court bouse Mrs. E E Howell,See of the fabulous the fact because prices of materials. Woolens have Increased 50 per cent; silk 100 per cent and cottons 75 per cent, which means that the ! Iv fit him to,,work for the b••-t in- j forests of the voting people of the jCnuiuv. He will co-operate with all, j other aeencies having to do with bov, Officers Installed And life and activities. His coming wiil mean much to the county, and he is fill a large place in the ement of Florence coun ty. * dres s goods she bought this past win state. “It will not merely serve the , . . immediate purposes of a high school,” ,!! t !f S aonie , in venter disco \ers a ;,aid the inspector, “but is a lasting method of making cloth of bay or , monument to the far sighteness of clay, it is feared the majority of wo-, those who has charge of the plans. It t tron ) co ™* ° r < 1 is so constructed that it will serve E,M J>pe next winter, for already the j ARMY AND NAVY ” LINE UP FRIDAY Visitors Entertained NEW DIVISION O- L. A. TO O. R. DULY ORGANIZED. FULL CORPS OFFICERS IN STALLED r Y. M. C. A. MEMBERSHIP DRIV^ TO BE LAUNCHED AT BIG DINNER. Levy On Telephone Subscrbiers In Germany that measure an item covering this $49,000. State Superintendent of Edu cation stated today that this means that the “overcrowded school act” Mrs. K. B. Griffin, of Columbia, Grand Organizer of the L. A. to the O. R. 0.. arrived in the city- Monday morning for the purpose of installing the officers, of the new division which was recently organized here, Officers: Mrs.-11. H. McClenneghan | President ; Mrs. E. J. Jeffords, vice president: Mrs. B. H. Putnam, secy [treasurer; Mrs. C M. Gregg, senior for a comine and a greater eenera- Ltshion artists are desgning some j The plans /or the Membership sister; Mrs. L. B. McCutcheon, jun- tion The grounds are large and new <l a i’> a K "undressy” dresses. The Week Drive of the Y. M. C. A. will mr sister: Mrs. Noel Johnson, guard; roomy Additions may be added at hanger Is increased by the govern- be fully wrought on* at a dinner at Mrs. E. W. Baldwin, corresponding 'any time without spoiling the archi- me nCs ban on the importation of silk the “Y” building Friday evening at '< secretary; Mrs. E. J. Jeffcoat, musi- tecture of the building or cramping stockings, which has elided threats o’clock. At this tiue there will he cian: Mrs. C. W. Damon, chairman ho grounds. at..... «,411 »n P.-. »* l I1,, . ., . n . » . , . — _ « n T . Lin * R ° ffl p^; graph rates will be'heaviiy advanced, tigation into the causes of the recent sident Lynch te h- Hoke Smith Aft;r Pennsylvania Votes —1— 1 Harrisonburg. April s—Senator Smith of Georgia is inquiring the procedure recsssarv to become a ea’ didate in the presidential primary ir Pennsylvania. w 'h frepp-ai rtnpr'-val a”d. that the present promptly amendment will, be adopted. The stnt.emnvention mosts on tbe third Weduesdayin May. May 19th this year. H'sory of Baptists PsnHds of South Carolina will be •- )n the annonocomont from the r.t'if’' Rapti'ft bc'dauarters here that tv W .1. McStothltn. president ef Furman ITn'vn*-vill write a history of the Baptist denomination In S ,: nth Cs’-ollra ' r ho book will cover C „ T _ *T>r>T\M70 about 4 k) mures a”d wi'l be pnhltshed OlllP AJKK1VLS bv tho book dey>o^(tory of the denoml WITH BODIES na ;«^ column^ The promise of Dr. McG’othlin to write the history o f h ! a church In the rtato the resu’t of overtures made to him by a special committee ap pointed hv the General Board of the ■— Baptist State Convention, through its New York, April S--The transport committees of Sunday school. B. Y. "Naasemoud" arrived today with 87 j». tt. and colportage work. Dr. Mc- American soldiers who died in Eng- Glothlin is under contract to write a land during the war. Relatives and similar history of the Baptists of Vir- fripnds received the flag draped cof- ginia, but he yielded to the pressure fins as they were born from the ship from the South Carolina denomina* .tion and will do the work for the Assembly Called church of*tiiis^ta^ ^ For Special Session An act of the recent legislature, authorizing the appropriation of $40, Berlin. April S—The National As- 000 for augumentlng teachers’ pay in sembly has h^e^ -nlled for a special weak schools and especially to pre session on Saturday. i vent overcrowding of schools, failed to be effective because of the failure of the committees acting on the an- Miual appropriation bill to put Into RELATIVES AND FRIENDS RE CEIVE FLAG DRAPED COF FINS. Berlin, April 8.—The German gov ernment hopes to raise 1,000,000,000 , . ... ... marks by unusual levy on telephone b<> <)f no ( '^ rrt tbls >’ ear - subscribers. It is announced that they will be assessed a special onetime HoUSC Orders Probe tax of 1,000 marks which will bear Interest and be returned when the subscription is cancelled. jCharges to rthe use of telephone will be 111010 than doubled and postage rates in creased 100 per cent in April. On Gasoline Prices Washington,. April 8.—The federal trade commission was directed by q-eio- the House to make immediate inves- Mr. Stoddard declared no county in ,lie y wil! s ° stockingless, for lisle niand of Major General W. A. Cole, Mrs. J. C. Lewis. -Mrs. C. CHARLESTON’S DROUGHT D T Mrs. II the state was making greater prog- !irP expensive, while cotton res s - along educational lines than was * s t0 ° u Sly- Florence and that hoi - people had j ! every reason in the world to be proud o flier school facilities, and school „ officials. Less Liquor in Proportion t 0 Popu “Florence county lias a live wire at lation of Any Other City. the head of her school affairs ” said I work, which begins Monday, the 12th. Mr. Stoddard, "and the educational Columbia. April 8.—J. H. King, fed- Everybody appreciates that the un progress betag made is really phe- oral prohibition agent with head- dertaking is a big one. as it is an at- 1 nominal." Iquarters in Charleston, was in Colum tempt to do the work in one week , , ibia Monday at the office of the col- that ordinarily takes a year. Gut visiting J a dies_ were ^vonjmautomo ind the "Navy" led’by Admiral G. E. Mrs. R. H. McClenneghan, Rollins. The latter promises to “put w. Scarborough. ’em over,’’ while the former engages After being installed the officers to “treat ’em rough.” were instructed in Hie beautiful rltu- The meeting tomorrow night Is a a ij(.ti c work. Mrs. Griffin was assist get-together occasion to instruct and p , ln t , 1P work by Mrs> 3. Tate> | enthuse the workers for the actual Mra j E oilston, Mrs. F. L. Shit llto, Mrs. G. P. Summers, and Mrs. D P. Ouzto of Columbia, and Mrs. Gayle and Mrs. Hahn of Charleston. The LONG PRISON TERMS FOR CONVICTED I. bile ride over the city Tuesday af ternoon* after which they were enter- H. H. Disctisr Ruhr Valley ‘ lector of internal revenue. the worker^ arc confident that it can W. W. “There is less liquor in Charleston be done. | today than in any other town in the Tho members are peratly interest- Cnined In the homes of Mrs. Monte Sano, Wash., April 8.—Im- state, in proportion to the popula- ed in the plan to raise funds snffi-1 McClenneghan, and Mrs. Noel John- isonment in the state penitentiary tion,’ he sijid, when discussing pro- rient to renew the shower baths and <!0n an d Mrs. T. H. Le*- :n behalf of for from twenty-four to forty years hlbftion in Charleston. Mr. King says other equipment. This is a crying the G. I. A. to the B. L. E. The was tho sentence Imposed today by despite tho* fact that Charleston Is need, as Tnany of the fixtures are,visitors left for their respective Superior Judge John Wilson upon the growing by leaps and bounds, liquor completely worn out, and the prac- (homes‘Tuesday evening, charmed at seven I. W. W. who were convicted in is a commodity difficult to handle firal impossibility of securing repairs ( the hospitably of the Gate City, the Centralia armistice day murder with safety. (for tho last two years has aggravated — — — Prince Honoree at IGreat Reception advance iu prices of gasoline, fuel *** . , toil and kerosene. A report not later Women Keleased than June was called for under a On $1,000 Bond record vote, and which also asked that the commission determine wheth 'or “any combinations In restraint of trade exists between those engaged in the oil business." Washington April 8—Four women favorable to the Irish cause were ar rested for picketing the British Em bassy and. were admitted to bail in the sum of qne thousand dollars each for the appearance before the Feder al* Commlgsiono- i>n Monday for ; preliminary heariag. Human Bodies Magnets Strange Form of D seate Attributed to Eating Salmon. ; the situation. ’ case. Washington, ,: Apri l T f~ Co " v *^ a ‘ Loren Roberts was ordered taken; Fire Company was called out this' tions between tjie United btates. t 0 the criminal insane ward In the! afternoon at 3 o’clock to a Are on K. THE WEATHER France. Grea I ritaln and Italy, over penitentiary at Walla Walla. j Evans street. The fire caught on tlU'|Fpr South Carolina: Pertly cloudy tonight and Friday. the Rubr valley situation are in pro-, The men were convicted of second-j roof of the house of Mr. Cannon Dei. grass sa.d the state department. The degree murder as « result of the! Berry. The fire company reached! Not much change in temperature, nature of the conversation has »ot jfcooUng down of Lieut. Warren O.jthe scene in time to check the flames General to moderate west and north- jin [before any serious damage was done west winds. . » San Diego, April S—A reception aboard the “Renown" concluded here the visit of the Prince of Wales. He sails tonight for a visit to Honolulu 1 , Albany, N. Y„ April 8.—Botullnus- poisoning, which has caused a num- To Washington b p r of deaths In various parts of the I'nlted States In the last few months, has taken an unusual form at Dan- Summerlin.' Oar*,, o, U,e American «» Embassy at Mexico i-lly ba» >'«™ Thlrtv .prisoners no» sulterin, |S» summoned to Washington. The State (ho diKease jt , 8 gal(1 ar0 .p fuU Qf Summerlin Called Washington April 8—George department said his visit had no con nection with Mexican affairs. electricity," their bodies acting as maanets for small pieces of mat«l ' and paper. They are thought to bav« Through a powerful microscope ^ become affected through eaUng sal- such thingn as a nettle-sting, the mon which was' packed in tins, ac* scaler, of a butterfly, or the solid pari cording to a report by Dr. ‘Ransom, tides In smoke are plainly seen. Jthe prison surgeon.