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y 4THE BEST Local DR. J. 1. SPRATT, ? Dentist. Often : Up-Stalrs In M Bank Building. ______ Terns: STRICTLY CASH. . 15TH YEAR. ENTIRE CITY BURIED BY VOLCANIC ERUPTOIN. Bi . t? ? ? - ? mount Vesuvius Again Active. ?Rivers of Molten Lava and Ashes Descend Upon Surrounding Territory.?Much Property Destroyed, but No Lives Lost.?Panic Pervades Naples. An associated press despatch Sunday from Naples, Italy, says that the hope that Mount Vesuvius was becoming calm was dissipated today when the volcano became more active than ever. The panic has spread to Naples. Two strong earthquake shocks, which shattered windows and cracked the walls of buildings, were experienced Sunday. The entire population rushed to the streers in terror. No trace remains of Boscotrecaz, a commune on the southern declivity of the mountain, where up to 48 hours ago 10,000 persons lived; and Torre Annunziata, on the shores of the Gulf of Naples, one mile to the southward, is almost surrounded by the invading lava and has been evacuated by its 30,000 inhabitants. The people were brought to Naples by trains, street cars, military carls and steamships. Similar means of transportation are being employed to bring away the people from Torre del Greco. The police and carbineers are guarding the abandoned houses and several members of the government also are there. As yet it is impossible to count the craters that have been opened and from which streams of lava have flooded the beautiful, tiros perous and happy land lying on the southeast shores of tne Gulf of Naples. The atmosphere i3 heavily charged with electricity and now and then the flashes of lightning are blinding, while the detonations from the volcano resemble those of terrible explosions. Counting the Rural Mail. It is learned that an order has been issued by the postoffice department at Washington to the effect that beginning April 4th, all mail must be carefully counted for the three months, April, May and June, on rural routes This is done as it appears, for the purpose of determining a very important matter to the people living along the routes? +n anc^r+nin nrVi offVicomnnn ?. ??vv<iVA V 1UC shall be continued or not. According to the report all routes that do not made a showing of 2000 pieces of mail per month, may have the service taken away from them. The result is not announced as positive but is to find out how much mail is being delivered on the various routes, and if the average is under 2,000 pieces per month, then the department will decide what will be done. There has been a good deal of talk from Washington for some months about curtailing the rural mail service of the country and this new order appears to be an outgrowth of this move. Program For State Reunion. The special committee of the Columbia chamber of commerce appointed to arrange lor the coming reunion there on the 16th, 17th and 18th of next month, had a conference the past week with the result that the outline of a general grogramme was agreed upon, the details to be worked out later. Wednesday night, after a reception from 5 to 7 o'clock to the sponsors, will be devoted to welcome addresses and responses, which will be followed Thursday morning by a business session, at which the chief oration will be delivered. Thursday night there will be an address to the sponsors and responses following the street parade beginning at 5 o'clock that afternoon. A business session, followed by the telling of anecdotes ana stories, will be the attraction for Friday morning. Thursday night a spectacular war drama will be enacted at the theater by local talent and Friday night there will be a demonstration at the theater in the nature of representatives of camp scenes. Polk Miller and the "Old South Quartette" at the town hall Wednesday evening, April 18th. \ mAir /I ,4 tip. Newspaper and TH1 r OR1 FO BIG COTTON CONFERENCE ' IN WASHINGTON CITY. I Delegates From All Parts of the World Will be There May 1-2. Much has been written of the gTeat cotton conference which is to be held in Washington City May 1-2. Representatives will attend from the great cotton associations of this country and England, from the large cotton exchanges and those organizations which are directly or indirectly interested in the growth or handling of the staple. Addresses will be delivered by the foremost cotton experts of the world. Subjects will be considered which are of vital interests to the trade in all of its branches. The program which follows will give some idea of the scope of the conference. The sessions will be held in the New Willard Hotel, in Washington, May 1 and 2, from 10 to 1 o'clock in the morning and from 2.30 to 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon. Delegates will be present from the following named bodies: The American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, the Southern Cotton AssAPintinrs tVioMofinnol ViiV VJIJIXICIO Association, the National Association of Manufacturers, the New York Cotton Exchange, the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, the Liverpool Cotton Exchange; the Arkwright Club, Boston, Mass., and the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers. Dethroned Prophet Up ia Arms. John "Alexander Dowie, with his fighting instinct aroused to the highest degree, will make a last desperate effort to regain the control wrested from him by the administrative body of his church. Dowie sent a telegram from his mountain retreat in Mexico directing Deacon V. V. Barnes, his general counsel, to cancel Deputy Overseer Voliva's power 01 attorney and appointing Fielding H. Willhite in his stead. Willhite is Dowie's only friend in Zion City. Voliva and his followers do not believe that Dowie will be willing to go into court and suffer exposure of the details of his Drivate lifp. Vnlivn and his adviser have made plans which they will not disclose to offset Dowie's efforts to regain control. State Democratic Convention in May. The State Democratic executive comittee held a quiet meeting in Columbia Thursday evening and issued the calls for the State and county Democratic conventions. Nothing of a startling nature or of unusual interest, except a resolution by Mr. Magill denouncing Thos. E. Watson, of Georgia, on account of a magazine article in which the Georgian said that the proposed cut in Southern representation in Congress would make little difference to the Southern States, was brought up. Mr. Magill's resolution was coldly received and was later withdrawn. Senator Manning submitted resolutions that the convention be held in Columbia at noon on May 16 and that the county chairman throughout the State be instructed to call together the clubs on the 28th day of April for the purpose of electing delegates to countv cnnv#?ntir?ns whipVi will assemble May 7, for the purpose of electing delegates to the aforesaid State convention, each county being entitled to double the representation it has in the general assembly. This was adopted. Twelve counties were without representation in the convention. Meeting of State Medical Association. The 58th annual meeting of State Medical Association will convene in Columbia on April 18, will continue for two and probably three days. The house of delegates, the executive body of the association, will meet on the day preceding the opening of the session and will transact all matters of an executive nature to be disposed of before the opening of the meeting proper. It is expected that the attendance will be large. .. ? - V yf i 7g V 1 1 BEST Advertising PMII DEMOCRACY, JUST RT MILl, S. C., THUR LIVE ITEMS OF STATE NEWS 1 The city of Spartanburg has let the contract for $100,000 worth of street paving. The Carr Contracting company of Rock Hill has been chartered by the secretary of State. There are only 93 dogs in the city of Columbia; at least, that is the number on the city tax books. W. B. Cooper has brought suit for $15,000 against Richland county for damages from a defective bridge. Rev. L. M. Rice has tendered his resignation as pastor of the First Baptist church of Union, to take effect June 1. The county officers in Spartanburg are to be investigated. The money has been advanced from the general county fund. Senator Tillman was notified the other day of the formation of the "Benjamin R. Tillman Literary Society" in New York. The records of the Southern Railway show that 1,025 solid cars of freight were handled in .QnQH onluir(V rl11vir* ut/tuiunuui5 UUllllj^ LUC IUUULI1 Ui February. The executive committee of the Republican party in this State has decided to call a State convention in Columbia on the second Wednesday in August. Rev. Henry A. White, D. D., of the Columbia Theological Seminary has written a school history of South Carolina which will be published by a Boston firm. The franchise tax returns show that there are thirty-eight more State banks in this State this year to pay franchise tax than there were last year at the same time. A negro woman 75 years old and a negro boy nine years of age are among those indicted for murder and who will be tried at the the present term of the court at Chester. The plumbers' strike in Charleston was settled by the master plumbers conceding the demands of the union for KH nor* Hov I ? ? ? ? ?~ ? ? If V^t V/ \S JtWl \4UJ } an increase of 50 cents. A. W. Jones, comptroller general, has received from the clerk of court of Colleton County a check for $423.97, in settlement of the "pension frauds" in that county. Senator Tillman has received an invitation from Dr. George H. Denny, president of the Virginia Military Iustitute, of Lexington, Va., to deliver the commencement oration before the literary societies of that institution on June 26. He declined. Quite a kick is being raised by some of the county auditors and boards of control in regard to using request blanks as requested by law. The auditor of Lee county has flatly refused to comply with the law, and says that if the law is enforced it will drag Lee county into the prohibition rank. The truck farmers in the vicinitv Cbnrlpcfnn Viif by the recent coid snap. It was the most destructive spell of cold weather in five years, and the losses of the farmers run high into the thousands. Several crops had to be replanted. Rev. Jas. Boyce, president of Due West Female College has had an offer of $10,000 from Andrew Ctrnegie for a new dormitory building for the college on condition that an equal amount be raised by friends of the institution. Dr. Henry W. Farnam, professor of political economy at Yale University has sent the South Carolina University a check for $500 to be used for the purchase of books for the university library. Upon a formal request from the intendant of Prosperity a constable is to be sent to that town. Governor Heyward's policy has been not to send constables to any county that has voted out the dispensary unless there is evidence that the constables are wanted. Representative Johnston has concluded arrangements with the United States fish commission to send to Greenville at an early date a car load of mountain trout to be turned loose in the streams of that county. Medium Published in XT] ICE, TRUTH. SDAY, APRIL 12, 1906. BULLS PAWED EARTH, BUT WOULDN'T FIGHT. Ancient Sport &t Thomasson's CockPit Near Rock HiU. An nr> .... ? ?**VA V*AUV CV 1. J tv; 1 uc Times' article about the proposed cock-pit for Gold Hill, the Columbia Record has the following1 to say of R. F. Thomasson and the bull fight which he attempted to pull off at his home near Rock Hill some years ago: "It is beginning to look as if Governor Heyward will again be ! called upon to send the Rock Hill military company after York county's sportiest citizen, Robert F. Thomasson by name, who a few years ago attracted the atI tention of three States by having ! the military company at Rock Hill sent after him to suppress a bull fight he had advertised he would pull off near Rock Hill on | a stated day. He advertised with circulars through three States and a great gathering was promj ised. However, when the I sheriff of York, as commander in chief of the military forces of that section sent out under him by direction of the governor, arrived on the scene, the crowd that had assembled was confined mostly to those living in the immediate neighborhood who came out of curiosity to see Thomasson "suppressed" by the military. The performance was allowed to come off because it was ludicrously tame. The two bulls were brought and for a time they bellowed and pawed up the earth after the manner of some politicians, but on approaching each other they made friends without even locking horns, lickinc each Other nfFertirmntelv! to demonstrate to the militia, the sheriff and the crowd that the joke was on the audience." Leading Lady in "The Clansman" Dead. Times readers who witnessed the Rev. Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman" play and got so much worked up over it, will regret to learn of the death of the pretty leading lady, Miss Georgia Welles who gave such an able interpretation of the part of "Elsie," the daughter of the Northern philanthropist, whom the negro Lieutenant Governor Lynch coveted, but who fell in love with the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. She died of appendicitis in a New York hospital last Friday, hers being an emergency case which had been neglected too long for a successful operation. Hundreds of Federal Liquor Licenses. It may be of interest, and no doubt will be a shock, to some of the good prohibition people to learn that there are three hundred and twenty-six Federal liquor licenses in the hands of so many "blind tigers" in South Carolina. This astonishing fact is vouched for by a correspondent of the Anderson Daily Mail, who has made a very careful investigation of the liquor question in this State. Of these 326 blind tigers only twenty-nine are, according to the correspondent of The Mail, located in prohibition territory, the balance, or 207, are located in dispensary towns and cities. There are 213 licensed blind tigers in Charleston; 22 in Columbia, and 18 on Johns' Island. The remaining 73 are located in various dispensary towns throughout the State. The article goes on to show that these illicit resorts are situated all around the State dispensary in Columbia and abo flrftiinrl ita Hr*inr?V??c in PVionlnot/vn ?vw w?lVI4\yU 1U Vliai Even going: so far as to purchase a portion of their supplies from the dispensaries. The police wink at them, the cities collect license from them, the State constables seem to be afraid of them and all patronize them. Electric Lights For Clover. The city government of Clover are taking steps to light the town with electricity. The power will bo obtained from the Catawba Power Company and will be put in operation soon. The town will put in arc lights in the main streets and there will be incandescent lights in the residences and stores. THE BEST Town i IMI> Millionaire Swift Dead. Edward C. Swift, the Chicago millionaire beef packer, died in Boston early Thursday morning. He had lingered between life and death for the past few days, smTeriner from nnpumnnin Steele Creek Dirt Changes Hands. Mr. C. W. Cathey has sold his farm in Steel Creek to Mr. Beattic Ferris, of York county, S. C.. and bought a 165-acre tract, near Croft, from Mr. J. B. Alexander. He got $30 an acre for his place and paid $5,000 for the Alexander farm. The deal was made through Mr. Parks Brown, of the Southern Real Estate, Loan & Trust Company, of Charlotte. Mr. Cathey is one of the leading young farmers of Mecklenburg county. ? Observer. Thornwcll Gollegc Commencement. A number of parents in this section will be intesested to know that the commencement exercises of the Thornwell College for Orphans at Clinton will be held on the 17th-20th of June. The baccalaureate JJ sermon will be preached by Rev. Richard Orme Flinn of Atlanta; the baccalaureate address, which will also be a dedicatory address of the new Carolina Memorial chapel, will be made by Rev. S. M. Smith, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Columbia, on the 19th. The board of trustees of this institution is composed of seven representatives from the synod of South Carolina, five from the synod of Georgia and three from the synod of Florida. This body will meet on the 19th of June at 3 o'clock p. m. End of Green-Gaynor Trial This Week. The famous Green-Gaynor trial at Savannah, Ga., on Monday entered its fourteenth and probably last week in court. Arguments for the defense will perhaps be concluded by today, immediately after which Judge Speer will deliver his charge to the jury. It is expected that the jury will conclude its deliberations and report its findings before the week ends. Mr. A. H. Merritt of Upper Fort Mill, who has been seriously ill, was on the streets Saturday for the first time in several weeks. don't mm w e will soon be in our new store. Watch our ads. as we have something pleasing in store for you when we get into our new quarters. Don't forget! Mclwj k Co. . j s . k dSOfe ii York County, S. C. X THE TIMES will be ^ sent only a reasonable Jf ? time on credit. Don't Look for More. Pay Up Promptly. NUMBER 2. EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. Every man wants a square deal in life. Also a good deal. ?Somerville Journal. There is not so much in having: a surplus of brains as in knowing how to use the little that one has. ?Waxhaw Enterprise. Between cheap liquor and patent medicine it seems that we will be damned if we drink or be damned if we don't.?Bamberg Herald. The women's hats this season are smaller than they were last, and there is something to be thankful for in that.?News and Courier. Statistics show that Georgia and South Carolina are now using more commercial fertilizers than were used by the whole southern states ten years ago.?Edgefield Advertiser. Petitions are being circulated in Charlotte asking for an election to decide whether that city shall cut out prohibition and go back to barrooms. That would be a blow to the drug store saloons. ? Rock Hill Record. The statement that a producer is fond of his own product is not always true. No man likes to eat his own words.?Washington Post. Mr. Carnegie has generously put it up to tlie friends of Amherst college to raise $75,000. Then he will see the raise. It is the regular Carnegie game.? Boston Herald. At the rate the dirt is flying at Panama we of this generat ion are quite as likely to enjoy the millenium as to see the completion of the canal.?Times and Democrat. It is a toss-up which w;-? thfc - ? longest? Senator Tillman's mani* 1- r iL _ ' lcoiAJ ui liic answer 01 vne Columbia State thereto. It is ,x fact that some people butt in where angels fear to tread. We believe Tillman will still be able to sit up and take notice.?Rock Hill Record. Somedody has discovered that 4* church hymn books are full of microbes and likely to spread disases. Why is it that nobody has ever found any microbes hanging around the poker table and door knob of the individual whiskey locders in the various clubs.? Times and Democrat. Goob-bye, the juicy plum and the toothsome peach! Good-bye for many a long day! And as we pen the words, our tears roll down in torrents, Niagara is but a xill compared to them! And oh God! spare us now the seedy and ungenteel blackberry and the desultory and delusive apple. And we would be immeasurably thankful for even the haw and the may-pop. Remember, oh Lord, that wc arc going to have a hot and burning summer? that Ben Tillman is going to consume our inmost vitals with dispensary fire?that we shall have no X, XX,XXX?to moisten our parched tongues. Woe is upon us! This morning, March 21st, the ice is a furlong thick in Edgefield, and the earth is spewed up a yard high. Lord have mercy upon us, and vouchsafe unto us the blackberry and the may-pop ?and the stringy collard and the watery squash.?Edgefield Chronicle. Meach&m & Epps' Opening. The spring millinery opening Thursday at Meacham & Epps was perhaps the most elaborate and embracing of any seen in this establishment in years. Everything in the millinery department seemed to harmonize with the prevailing shades and styles. Tne general arrangement of the stylish Parisian creations together with the efficiency of the force seemed to be an added attraction at this establishment. . Miss Warlick, the accomplished milliner, exhibited a distinctive and well-worth-seeing array of milinery furnishing.