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THE FORT MILL TIMES
VOL. XVII. FORT MILL, S.C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1908. NO. 31. r
SOUTHCAROUI
News of Interest Gleaned Tro
Arranged For
THE GAME LAWS NOW IN
FORCE.
Interesting Summary Prepared by
Secretary Jas. H. Rice, Jr.
From The Columbia State.
The Audubon Society is in receipt
of requests daily for copies of tV
game laws. These cannot he supplied
since the issue hus been exhausted,
giving conclusive evidence of the interest.
felt in the subject all over
South Carolina. The society has requested
that extra copies he returned.
Requests have come also from other
States. To make the principal points
clear the following is a summary of
the more important laws as prepared
by Secretary .las. Henry Hicc, Jr.
Gamo BircLj.
The statute of 1905. missed two
.yearn before the Audubon society
was chartered, defines what are game
birds and what are not. The game
birds are: Swans, wild geese. brunt,
wild ducks, rails (marsh hens), coots,
gnllinulcs, surf hirds, snipe, woodcock,
quail, (partridge), rice bird,
black bird, dove, sand-pipers, upland
plover, curlew, wild turkey and pnirire
chicken.
It is not known to the society why
prairie (pinnated grouse) hens were
put on this list, nor why Mongolian,
or ring-necked pheasants and ruffed
-grouse were left off. There are no
prairie chickens in South Carolina;
whereas there are both Mongolian
pheasants and ruffed grouse, but
such is the law.
The above hirds may be shot in
the seasons permitted by law, or
tnken in those seasons by any method
which the law allows.
Nongame Birds.
All birds not on this list are nongame
birds within the meaning of the
law, and may not be killed at any
time; nor may their nests or eggs be
destroyed. It is a misdemeanor to
have in possession any part of a nongame
bird, such us feathers, body or
skin; and it is equally against tInlaw
whether such bird was killed
within or without the State.
The State Owns the Birds.
In the preamble to this act it is
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resident or migratory, in this State, |
shall be, and are hereby, declared to
be the property of the State." That
is the law of South Carolina.
Birds That Are Exempted.
The act further recites that the
English sparrow, cooper's hawk (the
chicken or hen hawk), the sharpshinned
hawk (known locally as the
"Blue Darter"), the great horned
owl and all other birds which are by
nature destructive of other birds, are
^ not included among the birds pro*
tccted by this act, nor are the nests
or eggs of these birds protected.
A person is allowed to kill crows
on bis premises if they are destroying
crops, but he is not allowed to
sell them or their feathers.
No non-pamo bird may be shipped
out of the State nor may the epps or
feathers of such bird he shipped.
For Scientific Purposes.
Certificates may he pranted by the
secretary of state to any person of
the ape of 15 or upward, who is
properly accredited, permitting the
ladder to collect birds and their eggs
for strictly scientific purposes. The
applicant must hp endorsed by two
well known ornithologists, ami if it
is proved that the holder lias taken
birds for other than scientific purposes
his certificate will be at once
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he will bo liablo to a fine of $100 or
300 days' imprisonment.
Tt will ho seen tlint no woman has
^ the right to wear the feather of a
non-game bird on her lint ; it is an
indictable offense nr.ler the laws of
South Carolina, and it might be added
that it is or indictable offense
Gaffncy's Flowsr Show.
GaflTney, Special.?The annual flower
show was held Saturday evening at
the residence of Mrs. II. I). Wheat
and was largely attended. The event
was given under the auspices of the
Ladies' Aid Society of Limestone!
Presbyterian church. The receipts of
the evening were some $70 and the
ladies are Well pleased with the result.
Completo Mail Delivery fcr Fairfield.
Orders from Washington have been
issued directing the establishment of
complete county system of rural service
in Fairfield County, effective November
1, 100S. This service consists
of fourteen routes as follows:
Blair's,'1; Blythewood, 1 and 2:
Ridgrwav, 1, 2 and 3; Roekton, 1;
Shelton, 1; Strother, 1; Wallacevilie,
1; Winnsboro, 1, 2, and 3; Woodward,
J. Routes No. 1. from Rockton,
and No. 3 from Winnsboro, are
new. having been established August
1, 39Q&
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Merchants Lose Goods by Fire.
Spartanburg, Special.? Fire destroyed
the stores and stock of goods
of J. TT. Grifiin and .1. II. Stone iu
the Spuntan Mill village. The total I
loss is estimated nt $13,000. partially
fffvcrrd by insurance. The building
occupied by Griffin & Son was
owned bv O. L. Johnson and not insured,
he having dropped his policy
beranse he thought the rale too high.
The fire originating in Stone's stoic.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
NA NEWS ITEMS
m All Sections of the State and
Busy Readers
under the laws of almost every civilized
country in the world. There are
^50,000,000 birds used up in the
plume trade of Europe every year,
these birds being imported from Asia,
Africa and Polynesia. Many species
have become extinct through this
savage slaughter.
The Open Season for Game.
According to the act of 1900 tho
season for shooting partridges, wilti
turkey, woodcock, Mongolian or other
pleasants is made from November 15
to March 1, with the exception of
the following counties.
Beaufort, Hampton, Dorchester,
Colleton. Charleston, Barnwell. BeikIcy,
Aiken, Oconee, Fairfield. Saluda,
Georgetown and Clarendon.
These counties have from November
1 to April 1. Lexington was
formerly among the excepted eoun
tips, but has boon taken off and the
season there is from November lf? to
March 1.
The deer season is from September
1 to January 1, hut the law applies
only to Georgetown county. The rest
are from August 1 to February 1.
Game Birds Not to be Sold.
The act of 1006 makes it a misdemeanor
to sell, or offer or expose tor
sale, to pot hunt, net, or trap, or bv
firelight to pursue with intent to
catch, kill or injur eany of the game
birds named in that section. The
handling, possession or ownership of
these birds is prima facie evidence
that tliev are being offered for sale.
The Law of the Land.
These are the laws of the State of
South CaVolinn. made by the lawful
representatives of the people and are
binding on every citizen whether he
thinks tliev are wise or unwise. The
first consideration is that they are
the laws of the land. Any person
has the constitutional right to make
representation to the legislature to
have any law changed, hut while it
is on the books he is bound to obev
it.
Big Verdict at Greenville.
Greenville, Special.? In the Federal
Court here a verdict for two
hundred and sixty-three thousand,
four hundred ami fifty-three dollars
and fifty-three cents was returned
for the Southern Power Company, of
Charlotte, in the suit against the
Catawba Power Company, of Hock
Hill, S. C. The suit was for the collection
of some promissory notes.
The verdict was agreed upon by the
attorneys for the two companies.
Fire in Darlington Causes .$15,000
Lors.
Darlington. Special.?Fire on Wednesday
morning destroyed a large
tobacco warehouse on eusf Hr/iml
street. This building bad been used
for storing eotton and there were 'i04
bales of eotton in it at the time of
the fire, all of which was destroyed.
The origin of the lire is unknown.
The loss is about .flo.OOO. which is
protected by insurance. One of the
Atlantic Coast Line passenger
coaches, which had been sent up as
a special for the delegates of the T.
P. A. to the progress meeting at
Columbia, was burned.
Imperial Company's Plant at Mnllins
is Destroyed by Fire.
Mnllins, Special.? Fire destroyed
the three-story structure of the Inij
perial Tobacco Company, owned and
I operated hv J. P. Sale & Co. The
fire was discovered in the redrving
machinery, and in a short time was
beyond control. About 200 negro employes
were at work in the building,
and so rapidly did the tire gain headway
that several came near losing
their lives in getting out. In the
building were about .'100.000 pounds
of leaf tobacco. The loss is estimated
at $100,000 mostly covered by insurance.
Union County Votes Prohibition.
Union, Special.?Union county
again voted for prohibition by about
three hundred majority out of fifteen
I hundred votes vast. Purinp the past
three years of prohibition the arrests
for drunkenness have decreased
50 per cent and property valuations
in the county are said t?> have increased
two million dollars.
Spartanburg Lawyers in Personal Encounter.
Spartanburg, Specinl. F.x-Gov
John Gary Evans and his former law
partner, S. G. Finlev, engaged in a
personal encounter here in the law office
of Nichols & Nichols. Several
blows were exchanged but they were
separated before either was injured.
Messrs. Evans and Fin ley were associated
in the practice of law at the
Spartanburg bar for several years. A
few months ago they dissolved the
partnership and there was a disagreement
as to a.settlrment.
Sa-lnda Bank Prosperous.
Saluda, Special.? At the recent an
tmnl meetimr of (ho stockholders of
the Bank of Saluda the reports of tho
president and cashier showed the hank
had had a prosperous and successful
year. It was evident from the president's
report that a verv conservative
poliov had been pursued and this was
especially endorsed by the stockholders.
The regular dividend of !? per
cent, was paid and the sum of $J 000
carried to the surplus account.
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THE OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS
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Charlotte Cotton Mills Resume Operations.
Charlotte, N. C., Special.?The Continental
Mills, after several months'
shut-down, have just started up;
the Fidelity Mills are again in operation;
the Atherton are also on full
time. Not a cotton mill in the city
will be idle.
There is a general tendency towards
the manufacture of the higher
grades of yarns and the higher numbers
according to a well posted mill
man who was discussing the question
Years ago there was little market
for any but the coarse yarn, say 20's,
but now the average of the demand
has risen fifteen to twenty numbers,
so that the present average may be
said to be close to number 40's. This
means that the average grade of
trnnrl g Kotnir m
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than it was when the cotton mill industry
was just beginning to be a
leading industry in the South. The
entire trend of the textile trade now
is towards the higher numbers and
the finer grades of cloth.
China Ready With a Welconmc For
Second Squadron Battleship Fleet.
Amoy, By Cable.?"When the Chinese
government selected Amoy as the
port to receive the second squadron
of the American battleship fleet, it
made a wise choice. The broad wellprotected
harbor, the climate (t'rom
October to April) Unsurpassed and
the scenic beauty of the surrounding
country all unite in justifying the
select ion.
The second squadron consists of
the battleships Louisuua. Virginia,
Ohio, Missouri. Wisconsin, Illinois
Kentucky and Kersarge, under command
of Rear Admiral William H.
Emory.
The Chinese government has set
nside the sum of 400,000 Taels (1T. S.
gold $1180.000) to meet the expenses
of entertaining the battleship squardron
during its visit. The committed
in charge of the arrangements lias
stated that the Peking govenment
has signified its willingness to make
additional appropriation should the
original appropriation prove inadequate.
Cotton Crop Short.
New Orleans. T.n.. Special.?Then
. Picayune says in. its crop report: Material
progress was made during the
last week in gathering the last remnants
of an apparently short crop of
cotton throughout Louisiana and the
Southern half of Mississimri. Most
of 1 lie reports from these sections
concede that first estimates were too
high, and that sudden deterioration
resulted from the ravages of the boll
weevil. Tn the weevil-ridden sections
of Louisiana there is a well-defined
movement to either reduce the cotton
acreage next year or abandon
the growth of the staple altogether
because of the uncertain conditions.
Planters naturally turn to sugar cane.
Frost prevailed in many sections
of Louisann, and the cooler weather
is entirely favorable for the matured
cane crop. The cane is being rapidly
harvested and transported to the
sugar houses: Grinding has already
begun in some of the houses hut the
great majority will not begin before
the next six or seven davs.
Major Graham, of Raleigh. N. C.,
State commissioner of agriculture,
estimates the eottor. crop in North
Carolina to he sixteen per cent short r
of last year's crop. No State, reported
a crop equal to last year's
except Texas. j
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Cotton Mills Start Up.
Augusta, Ga.. Special.?Nine of the 'i
eleven cotton mills located here started
operations for the first time since
the freshet of August 20. The canal
repairs are practically complete and
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weekly pay roll of these manufactories
is $23,000.
Prosperity Note.
Now York. Special.?As a sicrn of
returning prosperity, the 1'nion Bank
of Brooklyn, formerly tlio Mechanics'
and Traders' has just paid its second
referred disbursement of 13 per
cent to depositors, this dividend being
antieiivated six weeks apo. Tiie
bank has been able to realize from
its resonrees more than was expect,
ed. Since the resumption of business,
hundreds of new accounts have
been opened and deposits liavc increased
$300,000.
P~>s Rulinjs Announced.
Washington, Special.?Free passes
may be issued to bona fide ex-employees
of a railroad who are traveling
to re-enter the railroad's service. ]
Passes cannot bo extended to the
families of employees who died a
'natural death while in the service
of common carriers, though that
privilege is accorded to the families
of employers killed in the service.
: | ii'niYglil
RAMPANT RUSSIANS
Object to Abiding By Decision
of the Powers
OFFICIAL POSITION DIFFERENT
Parliamentary Leaders Say that the
Idea of an International Congress
Will Be Abandoned?Foreign Office
Says Negotiations Are in |
Progress.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Interest
in the Balkan situation is centered in
tlie positive statement of several
parliamentary leaders that Russia
has determined to drop the idea of
the proposed international congress
and will refuse to recognize the annexation
by Austro-Hungary of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
This information, although purporting
to be from ofiicinl sources is
not entirely exact. Russia has finally
committed herself to the principle
that the question of the annexation
of the provinces may be discussed in
a conference of the powers, and
Austria will permit the status of
Herzegovina to be included in the
programme, but only on condition
that the delegates will refrain from
questioning her action, and content |
themselws with registering the alno- |
gat ion of the artiele referring to this
matter in the Berlin treaty.
The Foreign (Ulice states that the
negotiations between Russia, Austria?
Hungary and other powers on this
question are still in progress ami considers
that an aeeeptable formula for
submission to the congress may
ultimately he found. It is difficulty,
however, to foresee how a satisfactory
agreement may be reached without
one side or the other withdrawing
its contention.
Great Religious ParaJc.
Boston, Special.?What was probably
the greatest parade of a religious
character iu the history of New
England brought to a close Sunday
the eentennarv celebration of the
founding of the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Boston which was begun on
Wednesday last. It is estimated that
fully 40,000 men representing the
Holy Name Societies of the Roman
Catholic churches in the five counties
which constitute the Diocese, with
over lot) priests, participated, marching
to the music of 100 hands. Thousands
of spectators tilled every point
of vantage along the line of march.
Passing before the arch-Episcopal
residence on Bay State road, the
parade was reviewed bv Cardinal
Gibbous and Archbishop William II.
(VConnell, together with a number of
visiting prelates, from a reviewing
stand. The day was begun vith a
solemn pontifical mass at the Cathedral
of the Holy Cross, with Archbishop
O'Council as celebrant, and
Cardinal Gibbons occupying the pontificinl
throne within the sanctuary.
At night in the same edifice a te dcum
on ? a r ? ?tllt'lil.
Fire Destroys a Florida Phosphate
Plant.
Mulberry. Fla., Special.?Fire destroyed
a largo portion of the Mulberry
plant, of the Prairie Pebble
Phosphate Company. The lire was discovered
at S:fiO a. in. and the employes
of the company battled with
the fire for several hours before the
fiaines could be extinguished. The entire
drying plant, dry bin and general
offices of the company, together with
a boarding house, hotel and two private
residences were burned to the
ground. The loss is estimated at $100,000.
Tragedy in Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala., Special.- \V. B
Sullivan, whose home is in Dallas,
Tex., was shot and perhaps fatally
injured on the south side, and A. .T.
Coolev is under arrest charged with
the crime. Sullivan is not in condition
to tall; and Coolox refuses to dismiss
the affair, so that it is not known
how the ?hooting occurred.
Virginia Farmer Shot to Death.
Roanoke, Va? Special.?-Edward
Gorman, a young farmer, was shot
to death in lus yard in this county
Saturday night. Sydney Britts, another
young farmer who lives neai
the Gorman place, is missing and it is
alleged that lie killed Gorman. It is
said that a brother of Britts brought
the latter to Hoanoke after the shooting
and that Sydney Britts boarded
a train here for unknown parts. The
two men had been enemies.
Georgia Gtatc Fair.
Macon, Ga., Special.?A State Fair
was opened here under the auspices
of the Georgia State Agricultural
| Society, and $15,000 in prizes will he
distributed among the exhibitors/ ,A
special prize of $1,000 has been of
ft*red for (lie best nnd most eomplcti
county agricultural display, nnd hn*
provoked rr.ueh livr.lry anion? the nil
| fcrent county organizations.
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f OUR. SCHOOLS I
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Hr PRor. Wiujam H. Hasd.
riilvcralty of South Carolina.
Paper Number Eight.
POOR ATTENDANCE? Kven with
insufficient funds, poor school houses,
short school terms. and incompetent
teachers, the people may still show
a commendable educational purpose
by sending every child to school every
day the schools are in session.
Much good may be got out ol' a \? iv
inferior school, if the children attend
it regularly and with the purposee
of gtting the most possible out
of it. How are the white children of
South Carolina attending the schools?
In 1907 the white enrollment in the
public schools of the StaC; was 144,668,
while the average attendance
WHS onlv 103.:uu Tho fiulnrol .....1
sus taken seven years before (1000)
gives South Carolina 217.072 white
children between the ages of .5 ami 20
years, while our legal school age is
between 0 and 21 years. It is safe
tb assert that barely sixty per cent
of the white children of the State
arc enrolled in any kind of school,
ami not over forty per cent are in
nvciage attendance. In 1000, thirtysix
per cent of the white children
between the ages of 10 and 14 years
were not enrolled in any school, public
or private. In the same year
Massachusetts had only six per cent
of her white children of the eorrepntiditig
ages out of school. Connecticut
had seven per cent and Michigan
eight per cent.
In 10(11) South Carolina ha 1 54.177
native white illiterates over HI years
of age. only 702 fewer white illiterates
than the State had in 1S70. thirty
years previous. At tin* same date
Connecticut, with nearly twice the
white population of South Carolina,
had but 1,0.">S white illiterates over
1(1 years of age. Again. Smith Carolina
had l.->,(il:i native white illiterates
of the voting ages; Rhode Island,
with foilr-tftlis the population of
South Carol inn, had .just .">50. We
had 17.S.40 native white illiterates
between the ages of 10 and 1!) yeais;
Michigan, with twice our population
had 1.141; Connecticut had 100. and
Rhode Island 100. Is it reasonable
:<> hope tor the South Carolina of
tomorrow, with her load of helpless
illiti rates, to cope success full v with
those States and sections which have
freed themselves from the bondage
of ignorance"? The dav is forever
gone from South Carolina when a
few highly trained men of leisure
could direct and control the destinies
of |lie people. This responsibility
litis; Inunt sjiift^.l r\ fl??i w 1?.?111.1.. - - -?
tin" masses, ami now \ve are forced to
consider the training of tin- masses.
Only yesterday lion. (>. It. Martin
rave this out: "Several ('durational
lenders in New Kngland frankly told
lis that tliev are spending their money
and building up their schools in
order to retain and maintain their industrial
supremacy. They realized
that we have advantages and great
resources in the South, but they propose
to keep the lead, if possible,
through the power of trained brains
and trained hands." Intelligence and
skill will win every time in every
race. What is South Carolina doing
to meet this open challenge frctn
New Kngland f
Why are these South Carolina
children not in school, and why are
they not in school? Some are tlie
sons and daughters of parents themselves
ignorant and unable to appreciate
or to understand what education
means to their children and to
the State; some are the children of
fathers and mothers, greedy and selfish
who are more than willing to
make wage-earners and bread-winners
out of their young untaught offspring;
a tew are the children of parents opposed
to education, because they have
known some educated scoundrel; a
very few are the children of parents
who actually need the labor of their
children to eke out a living; and
many are the children of fathers engrossed
in material affairs and mothers
recreant to duty. Many of these
children are at work on the farms, in
stor - and shops at a few cents a day,
ami in the cotton mills making good
wages for children, while hundreds
of others are roaming the streets and
countrv lanes?the training grounds
for idlers, vagrants and enemies to
law, order and decency
Two of the worst enemies to childhood
and youth aic overwork n..d
idleness, ( lose cnntincmenf at manual
labor is dulling, stifling, and destructive
tc? childhood; idleness is
poisonous and ruinous to youth. Attendance
upon school mr.y ho used as
a corrective for both evils. The
Stat*', in order to protect at least
one class of children nirainst overwork,
has passed a child-labor law.
Ttnrrinar some notable exceptions, the
nbortiveness of that law is a common
jest. To ilustralc: In 1005, one of
our eitv school superintendents lost
more than twentv pupils from one
school room within two months. In
eompanv with one of the cotton mill
superintendents of that town (a man
in favor of schools), the school superintendent
went from bouse to house
in the mill villnye enquiriny for these
missiny children. In one afternoon
he located twelve of them, every one
of them unlawfully onynyed at work
ip. the mill, thouv.ii oulv three of
their names appeared on the pay r< II.
Xoiv. the child of the 'a/v. yrcedy,
Relflsh parent is ei work, and not in
schorl. The child < f the iynorant
and indifferent parent is neither at
N
work nor in school: lie is idling. Roth
children need to he educated; the
State needs both of them; and the
State has already decreed that the
taxpayers st.all establish and maintain
school-, for both. There remains
hut one logical tiling to do?compel
the parents of both to send their
children to school. There is but little
logic in compelling: people to pay
taxes to support the schools, then permitting:
the parents of the children
who most need the schools deliberately
to keen tlmm from the benefits
of the schools. The poorer the child
the more is the need for compelling
lus pa 1 cuts t?> send him to scl* -d.
Compulsory attendance lav.- are aimed
at the selfish and indifferent parent.
not at the child. Of what ad- |
vantage are good teachers, loin; s
school terms, and tine school houses j
unless the children attend the schools f
In a recent election to increase the n
local school tax in a district in North
Carolina, where they have recently
enacted a kind of local option compulsory
law, a certain taxpayer made
this declaration: "If you vote to j
compel the children of this district
to go to school, increase my tax as
you please; if you are not going to
put the children into the schools 1 am
opposed to any further tax.'' That
man's argument has no answer.
Some opponent to a compulsory '
law says. iou have not enough
school houses and teachers lo take '
care of the thousands of children not '
in school." That argument is worthless
unless we are willing to admit !
that the white people of the State are
actually unable to take care of their |
children. l.et some outside philnn- '
thropist otVer to aid South Carolina
in matters educational, then you yet i
an answer to that question. Will the.
school houses ever be built or the
teachers cmployeiP until there is a
need for them .' Would it be wise for
a farmer to let a $.">00 crop waste in
the liehls, miller than build a >100 ,
house in which to store it .'
The last argument of the opponents
to compulsory attendance it
that it cannot he enforced without '
truant ofiicers, and that truant oflicers
must be paid. Certainly. The
present child labor law if this State
is a dead letter, because no provision
is made for its enforcement. And
the police of Charleston. Columbia,
and other places have to be paid, :
but it pays to pay them. We arc !
perfectly willing: to pay an ofiicer of
the law to arrest little negro boys in '
n 10-cent crap game, but it is too
much to pay an otlieer of the law to
see that a lazy, scltisli father sends his
child to school. We are paying today
in actual money every year tivo
times as much i:i tribute to the :'i- 1
dust rial supremacy of New Kngland '
and other sections, as ii would cost
us to put every white child in he
State in school for six months in the I
year. What economists wo are. And I
what philosophers we trv to lie. i
WILLIAM II. HANI).
University of South Carolina.
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Prohibition in Ohio.
Columbus, 0.f Special.?The wave I
of prohibition sweeping over Ohio
has already rendered 7 out. of SS
counties dry, according to n state- !
ment by the Anti-Saloon League. A '
total of 1.S43 saloons have been put
out of business. Trumbull, Greene
aim ?imams counties voted "dry"
last week. I
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Forest Fires Do Great Damage in
West Virginia.
Charleston, W. Va., Special.?Forest
fire around Turkey Knob near
here threatened death to miners em- i
ployed in the mine of the Turkey
Knob Coal Company. The tire reach- I
ed the fan house of the coal com- |
panv. destroying1 it. then burned the
drift mouth and set tlie mine afire.
Fortunately there was no explosion 1
and the men in the mine escaped. >
Two men were overcome by smoke I
but will recover. The tire was brought 1
under control. I
Boy Kills Stepfather in Duel.
Covington, I.a.. Special. Following
a quarrel here between John
Blnkely. about JO years old, and hi>stepson,
James Krwin. a mere youth,
both secured wermuns and fought a
pitched battle. The hov used a shot
gun with sn h deadlv effect that his
stepfather fell mortally wounded and
dmd short Iv afterwards. Young Kr- 1
win was acquitted by a coroner'*
jury.
I,ouiaana Cashier Gets 5 Tears.
Baton Rouge, La., Special.?Oscar
Kondcrt, formerly cashier of the
First National Bank of Baton Rouge,
charged with the embezzlement of
about $50,000 of the bank's funds,
was sentenced to five years in prison
by Judge Saunders in the United
Slates Circuit Court. Kondert and
his family mn?le restitution nn in
consequence his sentence was comparatively
light.
Eentscliy Feudists Clash Fatally.
Lexington, Ky., Special.- Word
reached here of a clash on Standing
Rock creek in Wolfe county between
the Hall and Ashley feud factions in
which two of the Ilnll boys were
shot, ne fatally, the other seriously.
Ore of the Ashlrys was fatally stabbed.
Two < f the combatants were
aive-tcd. The Halls were armed with
Lai', cts and the Ash leys with pistols.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable '
*,
CLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events of More
or Less Interoet at Homo and
Abroad.
National Affairs.
Col. George W. (Soethals was comjletelv
exonerated after an investigation
of charges of favoritism in'nuaina
eanal contracts.
Fourteen-inoli guns, it is said, will
tc used on future battleships as a
esul tof the Newport conference.
The Congressional committee itivegigating
the pulp wood supply eximined
several large lumber operaors
in Minnesota.
Foreign Affairs.
IY--I -
nuifrana lias agreed to the principle
of eompensntion for Turkey anil
\ustra has adopted a coneilntory
joliey.
All records for target practice wer?
jroken by the cruiser and gunboat
tquadron at Manila.
Cardinal Salvador Cnssanas y
^ages, of Spain, is dead.
Prince llcnry of Prussia took a
rip in the Zeppelin airship with the
'outit.
The Kmperor of Japan replied to
he President's thanks for the roeepion
of the battleship fleet.
Miscellaneous.
William Montgomery, former casher
of tlie Allegheny National Hank,
.vas again convicted in Pittsburg.
At Hussellvilleti Ala.. James Thorn,
i farmer, while attempting to run a
mule out of a yard picked up a
unall stone and threw it at the .initial.
lie missed the mule and hit
lis two-year-ohl son, killing him initantly.
At Montgomery. Ala.. Hr. Shirley
Hragg. State jail inspector, and a
icphew of (leu. Hragg, shot and kill>d
himself. It is not known if the
shooting was accidental. He was fif?
rears old.
W. \V. Hunter, a well known civil
mgineer, is in Augusta, running flood
iml water levels, having been employed
by the city council flood commission,
appointed to devise ways and
neans of protecting the city in f 11?
are from a recurrence of the recent
lisaster.
Temporary insanity will be the defense
of Captain Peter C. llains, Jr.,
[*. S. A., who killed William K. Anlis
at the Hayside Yaclit Club laming
in August.
The baseball season just closed
iroke the record for death and scrims
injuries. There were fully 2o0
wreinn 1 ?> 1 i
.M . n?.i.->iV llljllirci will it* piftVing
the game, besides seveenteei;
leaths that are known to have been
lireetly eansed by aeeidents on the
ield. Pittsburg bad the largest
iinount of deaths of tlie hi;* cities.
Its records show six persons to have
>ee? killed.
While sitting in a rear room of
tier home at Pooler, ten miles from
Savannah. Mrs. \V. E. Torrenee, wife
r?f an engineer, was fired upon an<t
instantly killed by Solomon Rilev,
i negro boy. The bov was arrested.
The special grand jury to investigate
the Reel Foot Lake Night Rider
out rape was chosen in Tennessee.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Rattle Creek Breakfast Food
Company, manufacturers of Egg-0
See.
Testimony in the suit of TIngft
Crabbc, former manager of t tie Loiter
estate, showed that Lady Curzon was
pursued to the grave by poverty and
that Joe Loiter lost .$!),000,000 in
liis famous attempt to corner wheat.
Edward English, a wealthy resident
of Mount Yernor, Wash., was
kidnapped and held for $.~?,000 random.
but managed to get away.
"Tid" Burton in court confessed
his share in tlie Reel Foot Lake
Night Rider erime and implicated 40
other men.
The fir-t man convicted of "white
slave" traffic at ( hicago was sentenced
to two vears in the penitentiary
and a tine < {'
One hundred snnjmer eotlagrs at
Salisbury Benrh, Ma--, were burned,
.inn arson is saspeeieu.
Daniel .1. Ilcmu'ssv. nn onliated
man in the n:nv. I-:il]< ?! his wife ami
himself in Norfolk.
A Western syndicat has laid elaim
to the heart of the business section
of Aurora. 111., valued at $'2. ">00,000.
T. (?. Jones was mysteriously shot
down at Ins pate at Holland, and dying?,
declared he was killed "far the
truth."
.Iildjre ('. J. Campbell was acquitted
of the contempt charge by Judgft
McDowell in the I'nited States Court
at I.ynehbiirt?.
Japanese Troops Withdrawn From
Korea.
Seoul, Special.?Tim thirteenth division
of the Japanese arm? nft'-r
havimr hoc n on duly here since (he
outhrerk of hostilities with the
iu emhaikim: for Jflpnjl
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