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* *- S 3 % S? -1 . / " * * ' VfiX THE FORT MILL TIMES. 7TH YEAR FORT MIRE, S. C., THURSDAY, JUEY 16,* 1908 NO IS BRYAN AND THE The Nebraskan Wins by Large Majority on First Ballot THE NOMINATION MADE UNANIMOUS liREAT fiATHKHIXO OF DEMOCRATS COMES TO AN END Al'Tru HVIPIM"" mi i in nirtSI'IC AX1> INSIMIUNCi SKSNIOX OF CONYKNTIOX. Convention Hall, Denver, July 10, 3.40 a. in. - William Jennings Hryun was this morning nominated for president of the United States by the Democratic convention. The nomination was made at 3.40 a. in. amid scenes of tumultuous enthusiasm,the vast assemblage breaking en mass into a frenzied demonstration of intensely dramatic tribute to the chosen leader. The first and only ballot gave Uryan the commanding and decisive total of 802 votes, or 221 more than enough to nominate; Gray &9V4: was greeted with a pandemonium ^ of sound and motion, floor and gullerles joining in deafening, long continuing tumult. The de< Ision was followed after the lull with motions from the Gray and Johnson leaders to make the nomination unanimous and by acclamation. which was carried with an echoing cl orus of approval in which every Stat joined Its voice with t>?o one disserting vote from the Stute of Georgia. Convention Hall, Denver, July 9. ?The D?m locratir national convention proceeded tonight to the nominating of n candidate for president of the United States, the nominating speeches and seconding speeches tie ing made amid scenes of tumultuous enthusiasm. The mines of George Gray of Delaware an 1 Gov. Johnson of Minnesota were also placed in nomination with demonstrations of approval from their Unti ed followings. The tide of sentiment was unmistakably and overwhelmingly in favor of the Nehraskau and foreshadowed his nomi-j nation before the session closed. The .piriform committee was not ready to report when the evening session began, and after listening to politjeal i ratorv the rules of pro-' redure we**e suspended and the con- J vention pioceeded with the speeches' placing the candidates for president ' in nomination with the understanding that the actual vote would be deferred until the platform had been adopted. The spf Tbes placing Win. J. Bryan in noli inatlon was made by Ignatius J. Dunu of Nebraska, a youthful orator of tire and eloquence, whose clot Ing phrase stirred the vast assemblag e into wild demonstration "I nominate,' no exclaimed, "as tlio at an (lord bearer of our party, the man wlio In the thrilling days ??f *! ; and iflOO hore the battle scarrod Imnne ot Democracy with fame an untarnished as the Crusaders of old America's great commoner. Nebraska's gifted son. William .!. Bryan!" Immeidntcly a ipandemonium of sound and motion was unloosed, aa delegates and spectators rose en masse and joined in the reverberating chorus of tribute to the Nebraska candidate. The standards of the Stater were wrenched from their plares an I borne through the hull to the platform, while banners bearing the portrait of the commoner wore wav'd aloft and the multitude joined In long continued tribute. At times the intensity of the demonstration threatened a panic. One woman was borne out fainting. Denver, .Inly 10.?The Democratic national convention concluded its labors thU afternoon by the nomination of John Worth Kern of Indiana for vice president, completing the ticket on which William Jennings Bryan wish made the nominee for president during the early hours of this morning The nomination of Kern was made by acclamation amid the resounding cheers of delegates and spectators. No ballot was necessary as ho tide of sentiment had set irreslatiblly toward the Indiana statesman. State after State registering their votes in his favor and all other candidates Kvith-drawing before the universal demand for his nomination. The conention. after addjonrning at daylight with the nomination of Mr. Bryan, resumed its session at 1 p. m., with a nowerfnl undercurrent already in motion toward the nomination of Kern for the second place. ? On the call of States Indiana presented the name of Kern; Colorado, through Former Governor Thomas, I KERN . NOMINEES. placed in nomination Charles A. Towno oT New York, Connecticut placed Archibald McNeil and Georgia Clark Howell. The names of Judge George Gray of Delaware and of John Mitchell of Illinois were not presented, owing to the explicit requests of these gentlemen not to have their names go before the convention. For a time it looked as though a ballot would be required. "But the skyline of States which joined in seconding Kern's nomination soon made it apparent thnt the chance* of all other candidates had been extinguished. Mr. Towne in person war. the first candidate to recognize the decesive nature of the Kern movement and In a ringing speech withdrew his name ^\tI pledged his c*. pi ort to the ticket ul Bryan and Kern. Withdrawals quickly followed from the supporters of I Jewell of Georgia and McNeil of Connecticut, leaving the Indiana candidate alone in the field. The withdrawal of the Connecticut candidate was accompanied by a motion that the nomination of Kern be made by acclamation. The motion was carried with a d?afening shout and the great assemblage broke Into clamoring demonstration on the accomplishment of its work nnd tho completion of the Democratic national ticket. The nomination was made at 4.1!tt o'clock and the convention adjourned without delay. The Democratic national committee will assemble tomorrow to complete its new organization and to select the chairman who will be the commanderin-chief of the Democratic forces In the campaign. Thousands of delegates and spectators nre scattering tonight their homes and every train is bearing away thousands from the eventful scenes of the Denver convention. * SLAIN BY HKR DAUGHTER Aged Peasant Woman Kill?>d Because of Her Life Pension. Emtio Zola, in "La Terre," has told no grimmer story of squalid and savage peasant crime than came out in the assize court of Rodez. in Auvergne laHt Wednesday. A widow of sixty was shot dead In an orchard by some one hidden behind an apple tree not fifteen feet away. Suspicion pointed to the woman's daughter. Gcrmanie .Tammes, and her husband. They had been sued by the deceased over a money transaction, and had lost their case, being ordered to pay her a life pension of $11.87 a year. Afterward both daughter and sonin-law had constantly threatened to put the widow out of the world, because of the money she would cost tliem for the rest of her days. At the trial it .was proven that the daughter and her husband, the former carying a gun. had gone out at nightfall to shoot the widow. The woman fired while the man looked on. and havng brought down her mother wth the first shot, they went home wthout troublng to find out whether she was dead or not. Germane .1 amnios made only inco he?out remarks at the trial, and wrangled with her brothers and sir-1 ters in court. The jury found mitigating circumstances for the daughter's crime, and she was sentenced only to ten years' penal servitude, her husband getting five. w 11,1. r^iii 11 .11 him i.irr,. ( riil|M'<l Typhoid Fever Through Glass Tu tie. Gulped Death (Jcrnw Through Tube. Kdgar T. Chatham, a medical student at the Western University of Pennsylvania, is dying i>f typhoid fever, at the Allegheny General hospital. f which malady he contracted in a most remarkable manner. Young Chatham, since the closing of college, has been taking a special course in pathology at the hospital.. About two weeks ago Chatham was engaged at mixing typhoid fever germs with pure blood. Ho had a glass tube, which he inserted into a bottle containing the fever germs, and stuck the other end In his mouth, to draw some of the germs up in the tube. Chatham took too long a breath, and a big lot of the fever germs, Instead of stopping in the tube, slipped down into his throat, and now he 1h suffering from the most malignant form of the fever with no hope for his recovery. Ar??*st of Suspect Caused Heat I). Cess than an hour after Fred Singleton, of Cincinnati. O.. was asked to sign an affidavit charging the man Evans, or West, arrested in Boston, Mass., with the murder of his father. Squire Fred Singleton, of Newport, Ky., the young man was seized with convulslpns and soon afterwards died. * Populists Notify Watson. Georgia Populists held their State convention Thursday, at Atlanta. Ga., when Thomas E. Watson was notified of his nomination for the Presidency. DEMOCRATS AT WORK WHAT THE CONVENTION DID THE FIRST THREE DAYS. Mention of Bryan's Name Sets the Convention Wild, and the Applause Lasted Eighty-Seven Minutes. Denver, Convention Hall, July 7? The Democratic national convention began Its sessions at noon amid scenes o! stirring animation. The vast amphitheatre of the auditorium was packed with i? ? ?,wv iicupie, ail ever-moving, intense and expectant throng, moved by patriotic uirs and stnrrd into tnninltnous demonstratou as a silken portrait of Bryan was borne within the hall. It was just 12.20 when Chairman Tuggurt, of the national committee, called the coaptation to order, llishp J. J xeane. o- Cheyenne, Wy.en lng. pronounced the opeuing invocation. an impressive plea for Divine grace on the conventtion's deliberations. The convention promptly effected the preliminary organization, electing Theodore A. Hell, of California, as temporary chairman. The keynote speech of the temporary presiding officer started the echoes linging and brought forth entnusinstic demonstration for Bryan and the other party idols. The appointment of the convention committees and the presentation of resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Grover Cleveland completed the formal work of the day. Public interest was coutered in the opcn'ng session of the convention end aside trom this the early pnrt of the day I fought few developments of importance as to candidates or platform. i The overwhelming drift of sentiment continues toward Hrvan and the enthusiasm of the opening session only emphasized his commanding hold of the convention. A strong cordon of police was stretched about the Denver auditorium when the delegates to the Democratic national convention began to arrive at the scene of the next four days' activities. The sidewalks were uii io assist tno officers In handling the curious throngs that began to gather about the ball early in iho day. M- tinted police kept the streets e'ear at; a passageway for those holding tickets. In two of its streets floating the auditorium great banks of snow gave a cool greeting to the visitors. From the mountain heights the snow had been brought down to this mile-high level on a special train and hauled through the streets in carts of various descriptions. The day was by no means warm, however, and the only effect of the snow was the novelty of an icy street scene in July. Denver. Convention Hall, July 8.? The convention is now marking time so far as the nomination of candidates and the adoption of a platform Is concerned and is passing through the stages of organization and the throes of frenzied demonstration. Today has been marked by turbulent demonstrations and the bitter strief of party leaders, the essential developments of the day being these: Two sessions of the convention w<-ic utmi, xur nrsx. ax noon, producing n Bryan demonstration breaking ail records in duration, and the second, at 8 o'clock tonight, being the culmination of the struggle over the credentials of the Pennsylvania delegation and the supremacy of the Pennsylvania leader. Col. GufTy, who has been denounced by Mr. Bryan. Outside of the convention the committees have proceeded with the serious work of preparing the way for convention action. The credentials committee unseated eight of Col. (luffey's anti-Bryan Pennsylvania delegates, thus reversing the domplexlon of the Pennsylvania deleeu'ion from anti-Bryan to Bryan and precipitating the intense eontroverscy which is being fought out before the night session of the convention. The platform is still in an incomplete condition and will not he presented until tomorrow, but its essential features are agreed upon, and little remains but the details of phraseology. The early meeting of the convention today was productive of little practical progress as the special committees were not rendy to report. Hut it hud the effect of explosion of longpent up Bryan enthusiasm,which took the signal from Senator Gore's eloquent reference to the Nebrttku lender and hurst into a whirlwind of enthusiastic applause, lasting one hour and 11> minutes, with seven minutes more of the expiring echoes of clamor, establishing the convention record of an hour and 26 minutes. or full 3!> nil flutes in excess of the Roosevelt. demonstration at Chirago, which held the record until today. It v.-as a decisive exhibition of the overmastering strength of the Bryan column, and one of the most dramatic convention pictures ever presented as tho standards of the Stutes were torn from their moorings and borne through the hall, until ibey stood together on the perform. like an army of banners, proClaiming their united allegiance to Bryan: Amid this storm of Bryan - demonstration the six standards of SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN UNION. Mrs. \V. T. Jones, of Salnda, Die; From EITects of Strychine. Coroner Hanies, of Union county was called upon on last Monday t< investigate the sudden death of Mrs W. T. Jones, who died at her houu in Santuc soon after 12 o'clocl Sunday night, and the jury returnee a verdict that she came to her deatl from strychnine administered b> parties unknown to the jury. D. J T. Jeter testified that he v. as called upon Sunday night about 12 o'clock to go to sec Mrs. Jones, whe was said to be in convulsions. Before reaching the Jones dwelling the doctor heard screams, and on reaching the room where the dying woman lay she was in convulsions, her liody rigid, head thrown hack, pupils widely dilated, lower jaw fixed and het hands folded so tightly across her breast that t hey could not be moved. The doctor gave her an injection of morphine and states that her mind was clear, but her shrieks were brok*en by convulsions. There was a bottle of strychine on the bureau in the room, ond Mr. Jones, the dead woman's husband, stated to the doctor that she had gotten up two or three times after retiring, going to the bureau. Death occurred a few niiuutes after the doctor arrived and be gave it us his opinion that she died from strychnine poison. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. .Tones were the only persons in the house Sunday night, their fourteen-year-old son being nbsent on a visit to relatives. Evidence by several witnesses, which is too revolting for publication, tends to show that Jones's treatment of his wife for a number of years has been brutal beyond belief. z Mrs. Jones was n woman of less than middle age, and her character nud geutle disposition made her many friends. Her sad death arouses great sympathy and no little indignation and suspicion. HEAT KILLS TWENTY-ONE. New York in Grasp of Tropical Spell. Scores Prostrated. A smart southerly breeze that followed in the trail of a mild summer storm on Thursday filtrated through New York'B sun-baked streets and brought some relief from the tropical spell that has killed nearlv twn-G<T?rt? of persons, prostrated hundreds and held the city's population helplessly in Its burning folds for over a week. Twenty-one persons succumbed to the heat, a total of 31 deaths from that cuuse within the last thirty-six hours. Scores were prostrated. The thermometer reached 92 degrees at noon at the weather bureau, which is located in a down-town skyscraper. but many thermometers on the streets found the mercury hugging the 100 mark. New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota and Connecticut stood rooted on their places, the rallying points of little groups unmoved by the frenzed scenes about them, while the deafening roar continud, ebbing and flowing intensely, women joining with the men in bearing the Bryan standards while the whole assemblage of 12,000 people Joined in the tumultuous demonstration. Denver. Convention Hall, July 9 ? With the overthrow of Col.James V Guffey, of Pennsylvania, and the completion of the work of temporary organization last night, the Democratic national convention has a el* ai fleld today for the real work ol the convention unii ?.m i- ~i - ?v WMU/ n 111 111 <111 human probailty see the candidate for president named, the platforir adopted and the candidate selected and the convention ready to fluist up ita work and hid Denver good bye. Whatever hope there might ho ir the minds of the allies of a possiliil itv of defeating Bryan's nomination was shattered by the great spoil tan cous outburst of enthusiasm whicl followered Senator Gore's mention o Bryan's name yesterday afternooi and the vote on the mnjorlty repor of the credentials committee fuvora ble to tho Guffoy delegates last night An analysis of that, vote is interest ing. It is to be presumed that ever] vote which could lie mustered agains Bryan was cast for the minority re port and yet it is certain that i great many of the votes it did re ceive will be cast for the Lincoln lead or, while it is altogether probabh that Gray and Johnson's combinei vote will fall far short of half th< votes recorded for the Guffey men. Of the ay**"- votes on the minorit; report, these are certain for Bryan California ti; Colorado 9; Georgi; 3; Idaho 2; Illinois 54; Missouri 5 North Carolina 2; Pennsylvania 10 South Carollina 4; Tennessee 12 Virginia 22; West Virginia 3?a to tal of 134 votes. In addition t these, it Is probable Bryan will re ceive the 18 votes of Louisiana, th 78 of New York, the 6 of the Ola trict of Columbia and possibly Ne\ Jersey and some of the New Englam votes. x With the doubtful votes out. there fore it would appear that Bryan' mlnumum vote will be 74 9 with strong probabbtlity that it will rear. 851 or even more. It Is evident that Murphy's dc niand that he be shown enough vote to give him at least a gambler' chance before leading a forlorn hop ' against Bryan could not be let. BATTLE FLEET SAILS. 9 ???? PASSES THROUG1I GOLDEN GATE ON ITS LONG VOYAGE. j 5 The Nebraska lx*ft Behind on Ac| eon id of Seurlot Feevr Epideinie, i Will Join Fleet at Honolulu. Fifteen battleships of the Atlantic 5 fleet sailed Thursday from San Fran! Cisco, on the voyage that is to take ? them around the world and end at Hampton Bonds, whence they started last December. The sixteenth l member of the fleet, the . .ebraska, was left behind because of an out break of scarlet fever among the crew. She will be placed in quaran. ^ - * i?i?c mree uays and thoroughly fumigated, after which she will join her ' sister ships at Honolulu. Without ceremony or celebration of any sort, the fifteen big fighting ships got under way promptly at 2 i o'clock, on signal from the Connecticut, Hear Admiral Sperry's flagship, and, steaming in single column, slowly wended their way out of the bay. where they had found anchorage from time to time since their arrival there two months ago. A fow small craft followed in the wake of the fleet afe far as Golden Gate and gave the white ships a parting saluto with their sirens, while on the hills were scattered groups of people silently watching the departure, which was in striking contrast to the enthusiastic welcome on its arrival. The vessels presented a beautiful appearance as they steamed thtrough the harbor. As ^ the Connecticut passed forth the Hag ship signalled for more speed, and the bows of the war ships were seen throwing up a sea of white foam as they ploughed through the water. It was 3.10 o'clock when the Kentucky, the last ship in line, passed the light house at the entrance to the Golden Gate, and half an hour later the fleet was lost to view in a dense cloud of black smoke from the copse of funnels and the thick water which was rolling in from the sea. The afternoon was one of busy preparation on the ships, at 1 1 o'clock Secretary of the Interior Garfield, who arrived Monday night from Honolulu on the St. Louis, boarded the Connecticut to pay his respects to Admiral Sperry. He was saluted with seventeen gnus when he took Ills leave. On the water front patrols of bluejackets with stout "billies" rounded up a few belated stragglers from tinvarious ship. At 12.60 o'clock the last boat left shore with mail orderhes. Just before the fleet sailed Rear Admiral Sperry received u telegram from President. Roosevelt conveying (o the fleet, his heartiest good wishes ?h<> f ??.. -j? - c u i 110 wvjiai IUI f. swallows roiso.v ix coritT. VounR Frenchman Declares He Prefers Death to Disliouor. a young Frenchman of Paris dei termined that his family name should , not be dishonored, M. Hureau, a man of good position and education, handed to his son in the dock of a Paris court an envelope containing . poison, which the young man was t.o swallow if he were convicted. The . prisoner was found guilty with others r of complicity in an insurance swin. die. ! As his counsel was absent to plead r extenuating circumstances, the young I man stood m> in the dock and desire'' ? the barrister to be silent. At the t same moment he put the envelope to t his lips and swallowed the contents, i A few seconds later he fell heavily, . foaming at the mouth. A doctor who was in court attendi ed to him instantly with a stomach - pump, while one of his fellow prison, ors, Dr. Lacombe, did his best to . help by inducing artificial rcspirai tion. r Ultimately, after two hours, the i young man, who had taken a large t dose of digitalis, recovered and was - brought into court and sentenced to , a year's Imprisonment, while Dr. La combe was condemned to two years' |r hard labor. The prisoner had told t ids father that he preferred death to - dishonor. j Fi'iUher Ousters .Must <io. On the theory that tuberculosis is e largely traceable to dust, the War i department has issued orders placing e feather dusters on the retired list. Hereafter other means will be emir ployed in the big building to get rid : of the dust on chairs, desks, etc. Th? it calling in of the feuther dusters in the War department is merely a de; monstration of the strict precaution ; which the Government will take in aiding the tuberculosis crusade. * o i- Primary to Select a Wife, e It has been suggested that the pooi pie of Florida select a wife for Gen. v Albert Gilchrist, who has been namd ed for governor of the state on tin Democratic ticket. The general sayt !- he has no objection but desires that s the lady be as anxious to be his wife a as he is to be governor of the state.* h fCinhez/.lcd From Fraternal Order. >- An indeterminate sentence, not tc R be more than five years, was givenW s L. Wilson at Port Huron. Mich., foi e emhezzltng$75,000 from fraternal order. LYNCHING FEARED IX AIKEN. Much Feeling (<n?vs Out of Killing of White Man by Negro. A dispatch from Aiken to The News and Courier says on last Monday night SherlfT Raborn received a message from Wagoner asking that he come at once to that poiut. as | troublo was brewing. The sheriff went to Wagoner in an automobile as soon as possible, and found that the cause of the trouble was the shooting of Policeman Henry Salley, ol Salley, by George Moore, a uegro. It has been learned that posses are ( after the negro, armed if he is captured a lynching may result. Up to 1 this time he has not been captured. 1 but it. is said that he is being dill- , gently e* arched for by friends of Sal- . ley and the officers. From the stories told by parties in 1 the city from that section it appears 1 thu Salley and a man named Poole ; had been in Wagoner Saurday, and t when they were on their way home near Wagoner they whipped a negro. * and further ou they struck up with 1 a brother of Moore, whom they allog- I ed owed one of them a nickle. It is \ stated that they struck him and afterward fired their pistols at him. lie 1 ran home and the men came on toward Perry. Moore's house is on the road. When they reached it they got ^ out of tiie buggy and thr??t?noii negro. When they were advancing toward the house George Moore step- ' pod out with a shotgun and fired at them, most of the load strikiug Sal- ' ley in the thigh and hip, and one or two shots striking Poole. Salley fell and the uegro struck him twice tvlth ' the gun. Salley then got up and the negro .jet out of the way. Poole it is said, went i.wav. leaving Salley ' when the shot was fired. Sal ley's wounds were dressed, and it is not thought that he is seriously hurt. It appears that here is a great 1 difference in opinion upon the affair, many being in sympathy with the negro, alleging that the two men v were under the influence of liquor. At the same time others appear to he infurated about the matter aud 1 have a great deal of feeling against the man. The sheriff was unable to locate the negro He returned to ' the city late that afternoon. Talk ' of lynching is still being indulged in. MASyt'KH.\l>EI> FOR YEARS ^ ____ ] Woman Caught When Taken to Hos- ' <; pital by Police For Treatment. ; v Charged with disorderly conduct r in masquerading for nine years as , a man. Mrs. August Sieb, thirty-six years old. of No. f>41 Sixth avenue, New York has been sentenced to the j workhouse for five days. t Two policemen came across the c unconscious form of what annwnwd . to he a man at Sixty-second street j and Broadway on Saturday night. They called an ambulance and tnu , "man" apparently overcome by the s heat, was taken to the Roosevelt ,, hospital. There it developed that ( the patient was a woman who gave , her name jjs Mrs. Sieb. r Mrs. Sieb told the police that she z had been in this country about ten | years, and that after seperating from , her husband she started out to earn , her living. Dressed as a man she ; readily obtained employment, men s (toning hotels in Broadway where she worked us a "lunclimun." I ACT! sr.l) OF POISONING WIFK. , \V. T. Jones, of Tnion County, Cliarg* , c<l With Murder. \V. T. Jones, of Santuc, whose wife 1 died suddenly last Sunday night, was ' arrested Thursday and lodged in ( jail under a warant charging him with administering or causing to be administered strychnine poison to Marion Jones, thereby causing her 1 death. The warrant was sworn out Thursday morning by J. Roy Fant, a cousin of the deceased, aud was issued by Magistrate Vinson. ( It will he recalled that the jury of Inquest returned a verdict that Mrs. Jones came to her death from ' the effect of strychine administered I by parties unknown to the jury. Jones Is a large land owner and n progressive farmer, but it is alleged that he has mistreated his wife for years, ana tms together with the circumstances surrounding her death, caused suspicion to he directed against him and led to his arrest. * Son of "America's Writer .failed. F. Smith, former mayor of Davenport. Ia., and son of S. F. Smith, who wrote "My Country 'Tis of Thee," wont before the Iowa State Itoard of Pardons, this week, and asked that he he released from the state penitentiary at Anamosa. where he is serving a term of four years for the embezzlement of a large sum of money. * Flies u Mile a Minute. ? Glenn H. Curt Irs made a flight in his "Juno Bug" near Hamniondsport, N. Y.. and has won the Scientific American silver cup prize for the longest (light made by any "heavier. than-air" flying machine. Mr. Curtiss covered over a mile in a min ute and a fraction. No trouble was 1 experienced In lnnding. Caused Sodden Boath. While eating peanuts, shelled by his father, William Ford, of Wset Schuvlkill, Pa., his flve.-year-old son I choked to death. The nut lodged in the lad's windplj e. BREAK IS MADE. OVR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH VENEZUELA AND. Honor Vrloz-Coit icoa Notifln Hec rotary Huron That His tJovernmrnt Onlors the Legation Closed. A dispatch from Washington on Thursday says tho diplomatic relalons between America and Venezuela :hat have existed unlnt? rruptodly for more than half a centuiy, though in ecent years severely strained, were Thursday completely severed. That ifternoon Seuor Velzo-Goiticoa, tho Venezuelan charge d'affaires, called it the state department at Washing ou by appointment to present to Vctiug Secretary Bacon notice from lis government that he was to quit lis post here, close up the Venezuean legation in Washington and reiair to Venezuela. The charge explained to the acting lecretary-tliat the action of the state lepartmeut in withdrawing Jacob Ueeper, the American charge, from Caracas and in closing up' its legalon there made it necessary for his foveernment to take similar action 11 the case of its own legation in iVashtngton. Just what took place between Acttig Secretary Bacon and the charge an not be known beyond the fact hat the latter presented his letters if recall. He niado no demand for lie passports, nor could he do srt onsistentl.v. in view of the fact that foreign Minister Paul had declined ssue such passports to the American charge when he withdrew from Caracas, on the ground that there vas no necesity for passports, the ountry being in profound peace and lis person not being threatened in my way. Senor Veloz-Goiticoa did communiate to Mr. Bacon the fact, that the iles and papers of the Venezuelan egation would be placed in the cusody of Senor Jacobo Pimental, the Venezuelan consul general In New fork. This statement is regarded s an Indication that the Veneiruoan government will follow the preedent established by the United Hates iu refraining from interfering irith trade by closing the consulates, lotwithstnncling the branch In dlplonatic relations. It ispointcd out by officials who iare followed closely the dovclopnents in the Venezuelan situation hat there Is not the slightest danger if war in the immediate future or ndeed at all. Hat her will the situaioil I'OKCmliln thi?l fnllnirlnor tfVo uptlire of diplomatic relations baween France and Venezuela, fok* lntunce, where legations were closed >n both sides and all official relations erminatcd while trade between the wo countries continued. The history >f these episodes in the case of Vene;uela is very much alike. Senor Veoz-Goiticoa's withdrawal follow* hat of Minister Rusell as diplomaic representative of the United Itates to Venezuela about two months igo and that of Mr. Sleeper, the secretary of the legation, and IAeut. tugglcs, the military attache, about wo weeks since. The reason for the vithdrawal of the American legation it Caracas arose from the persistent efusal of Venezuela to give redresH 'or the governmental action [by vhich all American interests in Venezuela were either destroyed or -onflscated, or to submit the claims >f American citizens to arbitration. It'.MI'KI) THROUGH (Wit WINDOW. Wonderful -Feat of Iteuiitiful Black Mare at Rock Hill. An almost incredible thing occurred at Rock Hill Thursday. A Friedlieim & Bro delivered to tho South rn Railway a fine black mare, weighing about one thousand pounds, to be siiipped to Camden. The animal was put into a regular car for shipping cattle and the car was run on n side track to await shipping, and i he wonderful part of the matter is that the mare succeeded In jumping through the high window In the end nf the car and to the ground. To look at it one would suppose that a yearling calf would have a hard lime squeezing through the aperture even if it were near the floor of the (a.. It is ror near the floor, thougn, in fact, is quite high up. The mare cot through it some way, though, and apparently is little the worse for the adventure. There are a few scratches and little cuts around one eye and ( 11 the lower part of the legs, and one hoof ragged, as though the shoe had been torn off. Outside of that there is apparently no injury. The animal is a very valuable one. a beautiful black mare. John Mitchell Has Fat Job. John Mitchell has accepted the position of secretary of tho Trade Agreement department of the Civic Federation, at Scranton, Pa. It pays u salary of $6,000. and its duties involve the promotion of trade agreements betwoen employes and employers, with the ultimate end in view of more friendly relations between the forces of capital and labor.