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. Vf n- ' " s ' " - . . H " ^ \ F<b>RT MILL TIMES. 15TH YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7 hmt -=?==, ?I " NO. 45. I Late JVetesj- | I In ' 'Brief I I MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST f The Prussian l>iet began its sessions. A decision w?s reached 011 the Panama canal extracts bids. Debate, od tlie Army Appropriation bill began in the House. New York'8 building at the James town exposition will cost $31,500. The birthJ?y of Emperor William was celebrated i 11 boi tin witli iiiiiisuji eclat. R. E. Reynolds, Chatham, near Danville, \vr8 killed in a duel with a policeman. Tho total number of persons killed bv the earth(luake in .Jamaica is placed by some persons at 'J,000. Dr. Chari0* "Wilinot Townsend, of ' Staten Islnnd, who was shot by a masked tnad> died of his injuries. Secretary R?ot praises the Canadians and says lie found ofticials and j>eople ot only friendly, but cordial. Dealers in metal formed an organization and appealed to President -Roosevelt to prevent the copper trust. Rev. Dr. Alexander Gilchrist, secretary of tbe Home Mission board of the United Presbyterian church, is dead. An explosion of safety devices, with the view of saving workmen's lives, is to begin Tuesday in New York. % Tho posial commission recommends an eiitire new system of accounting, weighing and classification in the postal service. The West Virginia legislature, it i9 rejiorted, may investigate the mine explosion at Loientz, in which 12 were killed. Governor Swettenhnm, of Jamaica, is said to have placed his resignation into the h&uds of Lord Elgin, colonial secretary. ( / More tian 3U.000. persons took a Jast look it the body of Senator Al?? it lay in state in the Detroit cl.f hall. It is new said that the Thaw defense will be neither insanity nor the unwritten law, but that surprises are planned. Elmer 3arton, a mulatto charged with aasiulting a white girl at Wrightsviile, near York, Pa., narrowly escapee lynching. Two mere Thaw jurors were selected, but i; begins to look as though the special panel of 200 talesmen may not ie enough. A youig unidentified couple allowed an electric tiain at Newton Ensile, near Can den, NT. run them down, both being instantly killed. Mrs. Labelln Beecher Hooker, sister of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the last of the children of Kev. Lyman Bet*her, died of paralysis. Quo warranto proceedings were brought by the Attorney-General of Minnestota to vacate the charter of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railroad, a llill line. Rev. Dr. R. II. Bennett, president . of Rand >lph-Macou College, charges that Virginia liquor interests are raising $30,000 to he used to influence legislation. The Omaha courts fined a dealer for selTfng' reproductions of printings by Van Dyke, Rubens and Van dcr Wwflf, which were declared indecent. Aruguments were heard and decisions reserved by the Appellate division of the New York supreme court in the ense of the Mutual Life Insurance Company against former Presi nent McCurdv lor $;>,;}70,0U0. j The Pennsylvania railroad has np-j pointed a chief forester to sujxrvise | the planting of seedlings so as to injure a futnre supply of crossties. ' Alter a aonferenm _ ... i.i? ?l line 1 tllouse, it was officially announced ;thnt W. J. Oliver, of Ivnoxvillc, /feun., would be awarded llie I'nnama 'canal contraot if lie can furnish two competent partners and a backing of \5,000,000. ' Twety-oight thousand men are on rstvike in Mexico, and pillaging and Violence is reported. ' The French government will drop J!'he words "God Protect France" ?>m coin3 and the inscription, "Libc'ty, K^uality and Fraternity" will a'npear instead. ^ AViHiam T. Snead is making n tonr ? >. the world in the interest of intejnnational peace. ) I.cgislatur cih a number of States jj'egnn their sessions, and various Gov'.Tnoif wore innnguarated, among ^Ihein Kcv. Dr. Homy A. Buchtel, o! . Colorado, who took the oath of office ] . ,'in church. J - 'i %;) ?I ' President Roosevlt expects to sen? to Confess another message contain ing additional evidence against tin discharged negro troops. The American Institute's goli medal was presented in "Wnshingtm to Sir Asliton Webb, architect t< King Edward VII. Seventy-two mrsnbers of the thir class of the Virg.r.ir "Military lnsti tuc were sentenced to i'sv.issal fo i lie liiernorks display on the root' o I the accdcinic building. Senator Daniel, of Virginia, ahl. defonded the President's ordel* dis charging the negro troops. Percy Martin declares that Charlc Powley, under arrest at Boydton, Va. had nothing to do with the train rob bcry at La Crosse, Va., to whic1 Martin confessed. The State Departmenl fears tl: United States will have to interveiu to prevent armed con diet bctwcei Nicaragua and Honduras. The National Bank of Comnicre; Norfolk, increased its eanital to $1. 000,000. Investigation of New York Cotton Exchange is Recommended. Washington, Special.?A sub-commit tec of live members of the House committee on intcr-rstate and foreign commerce decided by unanimous vole to recommend to the full committee that a favorable report be made on the Livingston resolution providing for an investigation of the New York Cotton Exchange by the Department of Commerce and Labor. The itural Guard of Cuba to he Increased. Washington, Special.?As a result of a conference at the White House between the President. Secretary Tuft ami General Bell, chief of staff, an order has been issued directing an increase of the rural guard of Cuba from (i.OOO to 10,000 men. The purI post is to avoid increasing the number <d' American troops in the island as originally intended, the native guards being outre acceptable to the people. Moore's Appeal Sustained. Cincinnati, O., Special.?The Birmingham, Ala., club iu tbc Southern league owes Player Moore salary from April 10, 3906, when the season opened until his releuse on April 26, 1906, according to a decision announced by the national baseball commission. The player had appealed to the commission from an adverse decision by the National l-tmr.i ol' Minor Leagues and his appeal is sustained, the commission declaring him entitled to 15 days' pay. Land by Uncle Sam. Washington. Special.?A bill appropriating $10,000,1)00 to purchase all of the property on the south sidf of Pennsylvania avenue between th?United States Treasury and Capitol buildings, and south to the Mall, in Washington, was ordered favorably reported bv the Senate committee on public buildings and ground. It is proposed to use the ground for Kite<for buildings for the executive departments and to park tue portior not needed. MAY HE COFFEE Tluit Causes All the Trouble. When the house is afire, it's like a body when disease begins to show, it's no time to talk, but time to act? delay is dangerous ? remove the cause of the trouble at once. "For a number of years," says a Kansas lady, "I felt sure that coffee was hurting me. and yet I v.aa so . fond of it 1 could not give it up. I paltered with my appetite, and of course yielded to the temptation to i drink more. At last I got so bad that I made up my mind 1 must either quit | lue uu? 01 corree or (lie. "Everything I ate distressed me, and I suffered severely almost all the time with palpitation of the heart. I frequently woke up In the night with the feeling that 1 was almost gone? 1 my hegrt seemed so smothered and weak In its action that I feared it would stop beating. My breath grew short and the least exertion set me to 1 panting. I slept but little and suffered from rheumatism. ' "Two years ago I stopped using the old kind of coffee and besan to uso 1 Postum Food Coffee, and from the very first I began to improve. It i worked a miracle! Now I can eat anything and digest it without tron- i bio. 1 sleep like a baby, and my heart beats full, strong and easily, i My breathing has Income steady and normal, and my rheumatism has left rne. f feel like another person, and it is all duo to quitting coffee and | using Postujvt Food Coffee, for I haven't used any medicin? and nono ^ would have done any good as long as I kept drugging with coffee." Name given by Post am Co., Battle Creel:, 1 Mich. "Thcra'3 a Reason." Read the little book, "The Road to WellYiUe," 1 In pkgs. All grocers. THAW JURY TILLED Twelve Men Secured After Much Delay INSANITY MAY BE THE PLEA Length and Breadth of the Ground to JSC uovciea Dy iur. jctonc in ma Opening Address for the Prosecution Not Disclosed, 'out a Dramatic Recital is Expected. New York, Special.?The trial of Ilarry K. Thaw for the killing of Stanford White began last week and promises to run for a great length of time. There was but a single vacant chair in the Thaw jury box when court adjourned and it is expected that District Attorney .Jerome will begin his opening address to a completed jury. Then the defendant. 1:is wife and tlie members of bis family who are able to be in court must listen to the story of the roof garden tragedy, told in all its dramatic detail and as impressively as lies wit lithe power of the prosecuting oftieer 10 imniay 11. The length ami breadth of the ground has not been disclosed. Just how far back lie will delve into the history of the principles in the famous ease no one hut Mr. Jerome knows, lie has not related the plan of lis opening address to any one, though it has boon intimated authoritively that the direct evidence of the prosecution will he of the briefest possible character, dealing only with the incidents leading up to the killing and the story of the tragedy itself as seen by eye-witnesses. One or two witnesses may he heard as to the alleged motive for the crime. It remains for the defense to open the way to testimony which has to do with any relations which may have existed between Stanford White and Evelyn Ncsbit prior to the slaying of :he atch tcct. A Plea of Insanity, The manner in which Thaw's attorneys continued to dwell upon the subject of insanity in their examination of various talesmen seemed to indicated that a plea of temporary insanity, which would he a legal defense, will eventually be entered. Jn developing the claim that Thaw was insane at the time of the tragedy, the defendant's atorneys may bring in such details as ihey and the prisoner believe will influence the sympathy of the men who may have an undefined belief in the so-called "unwritten law." There is much speculation as to what course Mr. Jerome will pursue if Thav's iinnnonl I .1 1 ... ... vu.u.ov^ ucj;ii ii i'l iii'u'ihi tlieir plea of temporary insanity. He ij prepared to combat their alienists, but there is a possibility that he may bring the proceedings to an abrupt halt and apply for the appointment of a commission to decide whether 01 r.ot the defendant is insane at the present time. Or lie may let the matteriu be fought out in open court, ex pert for expert. In that event the tiial v".l drag out to a great length. Suit Against the Thaws. New York, Special.?Suit has been begun by Dr. Charles Dana, alienist called into the Thaw case when the defense was in the hands of \Ym. K. Olcott, against Harry Thaw and his mother, for $1,000 for professional service, which he says lie* has been unable to collect. Dana's lawyer, who says the services cons! ted of consultation as an expert for the defense, and an examination of Thaw in the Tombs, will move to have the cas' called at an early date. Thaw's pros cut lawyers routes; the claim. The Jury Completed. The Thaw jury was completed at 4:.'J7 p. m., by the acceptance of Hcrnord (lerstman, .'5t> years old, married, from the jury, however, all tales man not yet examined have been or dcrcd to report in court Monda\ morning. The jury, as completed follows: Fo I'man, Doming P. Smith, b."?. retired manufacturer, meriied. No. 'J, George PiafT, hardware, tna rricd. No. 3, Chnles 11. Feieko, 4o, shipping agent, married. No. 4, Oscar A. Pink, 4(5, sales man, married. No. 5, 11 en ry <". Ilarney, 50, pianos, married. No. 0, Harry ('. Hrearlcy, 35, adrcrtisin^ ayenl, married. No. 7. Mn'.eolm Kraser, 40, salesman, married. No. 8, diaries I). Newton, Go, retired railway official. n.allied. No. 9. \\ illmr S. Steele, GO, manufacturer, mauled. No. Id, Jolt a S. I huii'Pp. 33, rail- ( vny t'rei'.iit a.'.cnt, ir.au td. ( No. 11, JoM-pli I*. Il(nS i., >., eleiI narried. No. 12, [lernnrd (trc-'n i i. 1 | , nanufnotnrer'* a?cot, r d DOINGS Of CONGRESS What Our National Lawmakers Are Doing From Day to Day Mr. Lever Warms Up. Representative Lever, of South Carolina, stirred up hornet's nest in the house when he ottered to the agricultural appropriation hill an amendment appropriating $.'5,000,000 for the purchase of the Appalachian and White Mountain forest reserves. He said twelve States wore interested in the movement, and many Clovcrnors had personally solicited the Sjwmker of the house to permit the hill to come before the body on its meiits, but through mysterious influences, lie said, the Speaker was contain;? to hold the bill up and lie wanted the country* to know the facts about the measure. Mr. Tawr.ey objected to the personal attack on the Speaker, and said he would object to further considera! 1 Mil "Wants People to Know It. "Oh, it's not a personal attack on the Speaker." replied. Mr. Lever. "It's ai outspoken statement as io whore the objection to the bill is. Personally 1 have profound regard for the Speaker, but he and some of hiheneciuent are blocking consideration of this bill and by the gods 1 propose that the people shall know it." Mi. Tawiiey replied that lie was not questioning the motives of the genti-'inan from South Carolina, but he was questioning the language used. Mi Lever tried to make it appear that the agricultural committee was unanimously in favor of the bill, hut Mr. Haugcn, of 1 >wa. with considerable warmth, replied that lie had not voted in favor of the measure and ho gave notice that he would vote rpninsl it it the bill should ever get before the House. "You v do against four-fifths of the good propositions that eome hefore this House," hotly replied Mr. Lever. Mr. Wadsworth made a point of order nginst the amendment, which was sustained, but not until Mr. l^ever had been hcajd. To Abolish Pension Agencies. The House voted to abolish all I pension agencies throughout the country, 18 in number, and centralize the payment of pensions in the city of Washington. This ection was taken on the pesion appropriation bill after spirited opposition on tho part of those having pension agencies in their States. By a vote of 58 to 114 an amendment offered by Mr. Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, restoring the number of ageneies to 38 as at present, was defeated, and \then an amendment offered by Mr. Gardner, of Michigan, consolidating all the agencies in one was adopted without division. The pension appropriation hill carrying $158,000,001) in round numbers was passed. A message from the President was read relative to insurance, and at 2:30, out of respect to the memory of the late Senator Alger, of Michigan, the House adjourned. A Brief Session. The Senate was in session Saturday only for a little more than an hour, the early adjournment being taken to permit attendance on the funeral of the late Senator Alger. A few hills of minor imn/.vln..? __ lilliV C WIM'U passed, bul most of the time of tiie sill ins; was devoted to the further discussion of Senator Hale's resolution providing for an inquiry into the personal interest manifested by nava! officers in the navy personnel bill. The resolution was ultimately referred to the committee on naval affairs. The Chald Labor Law. Senator lleveridge occupied the attention of the Senate throughout the day with a continuation of his argument in behalf of his child labor bill. He had but reached the legal and eonstitutional phases of the question after speaking for more than four hours and arrangement was made whereby ho will continue. In taking the position that as to power. Congress could exercise any power it saw tit on inter-State commerce, Mr. Beveridge met a fussilade of questions by his colleagues and his progress in argument was slow. A\"11i 1 o he said the power to regulate was absolute, he maintained that the question of policy would always restrain any hurtful regulations. Mr. Bevcridgc stated that threefourth of the cotton factories of the South were opposing the bill, that the railroads of the South were opposing it and that the coal mine operators of the South were opposing j it. lie presented an illustrative map showing the location of the opposing industries, and said that in anticipation of this weighty opposition he should devote the major portion of his speech to setting forth evidence of the deplorable conditions lie liad pictured. Tnis evidence, he said, was all sworn to and in the form of aflidavits. " , PALMETTO AffAIRS Occurrences cf Interest From AH Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A. Batch of Livo Paragraphs CoveriTKfT *1 TXf 1. n ?O w ?>V uuujjC HUM U> VIOLUg 1 Ga iu Our State. Charleston Truck Not Eurt by Cold. Charleston, Special. ? The cold weather of the past few days seems not to have done much, if any, damage to the crops of this section. The plants have not generally reached the point where they would be effected, except by very cold weather, and the fall of the temperature of the past few days seems not to have been serious enough to have done much, if any hurt. On the contrary, it is slated by the truck people that the cold wave is very accept able for the purpose of delaying the vegetation and making the crops safer later in the season when they are all above the ground and more liable to be nipped by frost. The warm weather of the winter has l>?en threatening much damage to the truck people in prematurely developing the crops and continued cold weather will prove WPl <'l kttlf* 1 ..in. i\'i i llliU I*' IMIIIlt? l)\ th?' (nick growers, simply that tlie | maturing of the drops may be deferred. Losses in Bamberg Fire. Bamberg, Special. A lire starting early in the morning destroyed properly worth about $15,000. Origin unknown. It began in the stables of .1. S. Jennings. The Southern depot, Johnson's hotel and (he mercantile establishment of J. 1). Copeland were saved by hard work. Dr. J. J. Clerkly had one horse burned. The losses < with insurance are: S. \V. Johnston, two out buildings, $1,000, insurance $250; J. S. Jennings livery stables and lot of feed $.'5,000. insurance $1,500; M. M. Sinoak wheelright and wagon establishment, $5,000, insurance $2,000; (}. A. Jennings brick store $2,000, insurance $1,400; dispensary stock $0,000, insurance $1,400, most of the whiskey was saved; E. li. Price dispenser lost on personal property $550, no insurance; J. D. Copeland, fertilizer house $550, insurance $550; J. J. Sinoak livery and feed stables $2,000, insurance $1,000. Rewards Aggregate $1,050. The reward of (lovernor Ansel of $500 for the arrest and conviction <>f tnc party or parties who burned the | house of Mr. E. E. Phillips on .lanuary 29, at Springfield, has been supplemented by a reward of .$.">01) ottered by the town eouneil of Springfield and an additional reward subscribed by private citizens of about $2">0, which makes the total amount of reawrds about$l,050, while the citizens who subscribe to the reward fund say their amounts will be doubled if necessary. The several tires that have recently oceured at Springlield point in a measure to the work of an incendiary and in the destruction of the property of Mr. Phillips there can be no doubt that the tire was started by a fiendish hand. Graniteville Depot Robbed. Aiken, S|>ceinl. ? On Saturday night some party or parties entered the ticket oflice in the passenger depot at <Jraniteville, and robbed it of about $100. It is supposed that some one with a key entered the place. The porter was suspected and at the request of parties concerned, he was searched by Chief Howard, but only about $S was found on him. The negro has keys to the depot, and on Sunday did not appear at the depot to meet the trains as usual, but no direct clue has been found against him. New Firm For Union. Fjiion, Special. Clarke Clothing Company is the name of a new firm that Wilt -Un't in Iaiiwiiwwj 1.inv. 1. It is com posed of Capt. E. L. Clarke, who lias been a resident of Union for 12 years, and having been in the colthing business all his life knows it thoroughly; Mr. .F. A. Sawyer, a prominent attorney of this bar, and Mr. David C. Clarke, late of (JalTney, who is also familiar with the clothing business. Epworth League Meeting. Bamberg, Special.?The date has been set for the annual meeting of the Epworth League as the second week in April, probably beginning on the 12th and continuing through Sunday, the 14th. The State convention meets at Bamberg this year and committees will no appointed in the near future to make arrangements for the entertainment of this host of young people. Kev. ,1. C. Koper is stated president. Prof. W. S. Huberts is at the head of tho local circle. 50 KILLED IN EXPLOSION The Stowart Mine, in rayettcvill% County, West Virginia, tho Scene a Horrible Accident?About 20# IJen in tho Shaft When the Explosion Occurred and Every Effort is Being Made to Itcach the Entombed Men?At Least DO or f?? Bead and the Death List May bo OC T.\-~ - Unvu?u lo oii?inc occnc .'loanx Mine r. Pathetic One The Mine m Operation for Over Three Years, But Has Never Been Fully Developed. Charleston. \Y. Ya., Special- -There is at loa<t ."?D or 00 persons dead a result of an r\-| l.isiun in tit-* Stenwart mine near i'ayettoville, in Fayette county Tuesday, aeordiiur to the last reports received and it is expected that the number will reach 25 more. The explosion was caused by <htsft in the mine, livery effort us being made to u-t to the*men who are entombed but there is little hope that any of them are alive. At the time of the explosion thrfff wore about 200 men in the shaft and there is grave apprehension that a groat many of them were in tui? mine when the explosion occurred. v i:_?. - j\ u>i <>i rue uean is now being ct?wupiled and will include at least if*-* number inenlioned. Orogani/.ed efior* is being made to get to the men iu the mine and volunteeis ate jdentit'ul. The scene about the mine is a pathetic one, men, women and children crying for their dead ones audi imploring those on the ground to go to their rescue. Location of the Mine. The Stewart mine is a shaft f><\8 feet deep. The development is the Sewall scam, which ranges ia thickness from four to tive feot. Th*? mine is located on the White Otiz Fuel Company's private line, connecting with tlie Chesapeake & Oh? Railroad at Carlisle. It is located about four miles from FavettevilW and seven miles from Thurinon. 'ft*? mine has been in operation for altos^ VcatN (tr !% * i * * . ?. .mi iias HOI MWi fully developed. The work of development has almost entirely been tloear in the double entry system. The permanent structures, such as tsesd houses and tipples have been eos?pleted within the last year. T5i* mine is owned by the Stewart CT-oJl? liery Company. Explosion of Amonia. Chicago, Special.?Three men were killed and 115 others seriously injured as the result of the explosion of an ice "machine tilled with aaaonia fumes in the power house of Armour & Co. at Forty-fourth strnrS and Packer's avenue. Twenty uk?b were working in the room when tLe head of a cylinder on the ice machiw blew off liliini* the room with fnnm. Three men were instantly killed aod I he other men are in a serious condition. Killing in Danville, Va. Danville. Va., Special. John Covins, a white man, about ."15 years of ape, was shot and instantly killed l>,f c j *o-??rgc i j. Mcilman, a r*rpenter. The killing occurred ais i??e home of Stei'nian, while Cousins, ii is alleged, was in the act. of eutrriruj"; tin* room occupied I>y Mrs. StciUccast and her children. Stcilman said ikat he had had a difficulty with ('out-ins six mouths ago and that tho la'.Pe-ir swore vengeance. They met x.i.C drank together. Stcilman says Cousins insisted on following him /ioc.<r despite his protests. When ho r<scamanded him to stay out of the hou*?. Cousin.-', he declared, tired at J;tEi twice with a pistol. Stcilman tiicxs got a shotgun and emptied u loan ui his breast. People hayo begun to talk of goo3 thnes in a strata of optimism I,en Is t Kn thuul) Mercury doolaw*. From all parts <f tl.c country comer reports of prosperity such as tu? country lias not. known f*r scvciai v. ins. U trade ha-.; become so prosperous it is rcinarkai 1 that the >P ' it of Inve-rtmcnt la * > chastened OUR PRICE LIST. 'mnhiniiig good quality and low pmca. ! he prices (jnot9(1 below are guaranlTwd in ho iliti lowest for quality of 1 v?;ar old Com W jisky, j>er gallot(li>0 i ' ,, ,, \JWI 1 n .. [ .. 2.3ft *? ,, ,, Tnr 1 f^el Corn Whiskey r* PO 1 ,, .. < <r>?i 1 Hve Whisky per pi! S.75J 'i ,, Iiuini live Whiskv " " 52.00 I ,, (livwl live Whisky " " 2.M* I .. .. i.tiotl li>o Whisky rr " tf.flO liood live Whisky " " 4 U0No charge for vessel or packing. <c extra will prepay express cia? ? hree gallons; over -i gallons, 7.x;. SHUMAN Si CQtfiPAHY, SAl.lSliUKY - - - -Ma