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a aiai a Ka^.' '^.*a^n-' -< T~ < " Aflyf^k ff^d 1TF vuivn nnu uu i t&SmZ ?? , Sultw off Turkoy Deposod For " His Brother CAUSED EXCITEMENT^ ?? '- ; J The Boom of Big Guns Told the / ti People of the Change?The Troops c, at Adana llave Revolted and C . Seized Fifty of Their Officers and * - b Hold Them. a Abdul Hamid has been deposed 9 as Sultan of Turkey and Mehemmed a Reschad Effendi, his brother, has * been proclaimed his successor. P The deposition was through the a regular form prescribed by the tenets 8 of the Mohammedan faith. It Is un- ? derstood that Sheik U1 Islam, the o neaa or toe cnnrco, win issue a ue- c cree of deposition. ti The news of the deposition of Abdul Hamid and the selection of his t brother to succeed him caused great t] excitement throughout Constantino- t pie. Crowds at once began to gather in the principal squares and thor- p oughfares and around the imperial t palce of Yildiz in anticipation of the p proclamation of the new sultan. a A salute of 101 guns, fired at 2:30 p o'clock Tuesday afternoon, announc- i ed to the populace of Constantino- 1 pie a change in the sultanate. It is ii reported that the sultan has been t removed from the imperial palace p of Yildiz and conveyed across Bos- / phorus to a point in Asiatic Tur- c key. Mehemmed Reschad EfTendl was v proclaimed sultan of Turkey at 2:30 ? o'clock Tuesday afternoon in succession to his brother, Abdul Hamid II. The sultan was dethroned by the national assembly whose decision on the proposal was unanimous. Fifty Turkish officers have been arrested at Erzeroum by their troops and dispatched under escort to Trebizond. The exact significance of this action is not clear, but it is feared that it means the beginning of a revolt of the provincial troops against tne Young Turk officers. Disorders at Adunu. The following acocunt of disorders at Adana has been received here by telegraph from Rev* Herbert Adams Gibbons, a missionary: "The entire vilayet of Adana has been visited during the past five days by a terrible massacre of Armenians, tho worst ever known in the history of the district. Terror has been universal and the government has been powerless to check the disorders. Adana, tho cupital of the province, has been the storm center." -lie added that the unsettled con- 1 ditions and the animosity between y tfie Turks and Armenians resulted ' from political activity of the latter. ' An Armenian and a Turk were killed f on Wednesday night and their 1 corpses were paraded through the f streets, inflaming the inhabitants. ' Gibbons then described how the ' mob assembled and shots were fired ' In the air. This was followed by ( killing. Local authorities feared to s act. While Gibbons and Field Secre tary Chamber of the Y. M. C. A., were in the telegraph office, where 5 they went to summon aid of the Brit- 1 ish consul, the Moslems burst in and 5 killed two Armenians before their eyes. Gibbons and Chambers went Into the next room and made repre- ' sentatlons to the Vali. Being afraid of his own life, that ' olllcJal made no effort to protect them. The situation, according to Gibbons, grew worse. The Armenians, he said, withdrew to their quarter of Adnna and converted their houses i into fortresses, where the fighting went on for two days. Gibbons continued: "Adana was a hell. The bazaars , were looted and Bet on fire. There | was continuous an{^nceasing shoot- < ing and killing in every part of the j town and tires raged in many quar- s ters. j "The Moslems from the neighl>or- j hood began pouring into the city and t notwithstanding our vehement pro- ( tests. All distributed arms to these men. alleging that they were Turkish t reserverB." 1 The missionary added. "On Thurs- } day Daniel Miner Rogers and Henry i Muurer, American missionaries, were "" killed under treacherous clrcum- f stances. On Friday the Armenians i yielded, and since then there has \ been little murdering. A "Adana is in a pitable condition, s The town has been pillaged and de- I stroyed and there are thousands of t homeless people here without means I of livelihood. It is impossible to estimate the number of killed. Corpses lie scattered through the streets. Friday when I went out ^ I had to nick mv w?v 1a..,,... ?>? V ^ ?w%?TOUU IUC dead to avoid stepping on them. "Saturday morning I counted dozens of cart loads of Armenian bodies In ono half hour being car- / rled to the river and thrown Into e the water. In the Turkish ceme- o teries graves are being dug by the I wholesale. The condition of the u refugees is most pitiable. Not only 1 re there orphans and widows be- t yond number, but a great number of b babies are even suffering from se- e vere wounds. The situation in p Adana is unspeakable. I; f Killed by Trnln. J1 The Charleston Evening Post says John Mitchell, a colored boy six years old. was crushed to death Monday afternoon under a Southern railway car In Chapel street near Alex- p ander. The little negro with two or a three playmates Is said to have been h riding on a shif*???g "?r which was a running alowly through Chapel h street, and slipped under the wheela, si meeting instant dath. h ? i.'u R ? ' I i. - TREOTOR HARPER CALLS ATTENTION TO IT Lnd Says It Will Hart the Farmer If It hi Allowed to Stay in the Tariff BUI. Director Harper, of the agrlculural experiment station at Clemson ollege, has called the attention of lommissloner Wiatson to some other rork to be done on the Payne tariff ill, there being several paragraphs ffecting the Southern farmers. It rill be recalled that after considerble fighting the Southern farmers rere enabled to get on the free list otash salts, which is a basis for 11 fertilizer products. Prof. Harper has learned that the ulphur Interests of Louisiana and rtah are attempting to place a duty f $6 per ton on sulphur. This, of ourse, means another hardship on he farmer. Commisioner Watson had coDles of he letter m\ade and sent to each of he senators and representatives from he State. The letter says In part. "I understand that the sulphur ieople of Utah and Louisiana are rylng their bdst to get a tax of $6 ier ton on sulphur. This means nother hardship^on the farmer. Sulihur is used largely in this country n the manufacture of sulphuric acid, ^he extent to which sulphuric acid s used Is enormouB. There are more han 2,000,000 tons of mineral phoihates dissovlod by sulphuric acid, t duty on sulphur means higher pricd acid phosphate. "There is another matter that I vould like to call to your attention. Jotne of the acid phosphate people of his State are using their Influence 0 prevent basic slag from remaining >n the free list. Basic slag Is used argely In Europe and the British sles as a source of phosphorous and vhere it is used with stable manure n this country It Is a valuable tource of phosphorous. It is also 1 valuable source of plant food when i8ed on rich bottom land that conains large amounts of organic mater. The directors of the experiment stations were largely responsible for iulphate of ammonia being put on he free list. Heretofore the duty on iulphate of ammonia has been $0 >er ton and the Payne bill as orlgnally framed admitted sulphate of immonla without duty but the steel rust had influence enough to place i duty of $4 per ton on this material. 4<T llOVA Koon lint ?????! a mm? v wcu vuiiuui:;uu^ ca|?t'i i" nents with sulphate of ammonia in :omparison with nitrate of soda as i top-dressing for cotton and I find hat it is just as pood as nitrate of toda for this purpose, provided we lave favorable seasons. During a vet year sulphate of ammonia is not is available as nitrate of soda, but s is a splendid source of nitrogen ind if it is admitted duty free It vill reduce the price of nitrate of soda and other ammoniated fertilizers. The cotton planters of the 3outh are learning the value of top Iressing their cotton and corn and mch year the demand for nitrate of ioda and other quickly available nitrogenous fertilizers Increases. We must exert every effort to have (ulphate of ammonia placed on the free list. I understand that basic dag lias been eliminated from the maximum tariff in both bills and it s not likely that a duty will be placed upon it, unless great pressure Is brought, but there is considerable louht about brimstone and sulphate >f ammonia. Please continue to ight on this proposition." FELL TO HIS DEATH. \ Young Man Was Fatally Hurt In Columbia. The State says William Brewer, a /oung man about 25 years of age. Fell from the Seaboard Air Line restle, near the corner of Lincoln street and Wh/^ley avenue a few ifternoons asro, and sustained Inlurles from which he died last night it 9 o'clock. The fall caused a fracure of the skull, a fractured and Uslocated hip and a broken arm. The Injured man was removed to ho Columbia hospital at once, but le was found to be fatally hurt, and ill efforts to save his life proved of 10 avail. He was an employe of the Virginia Tron Company and was engaged with a corps of workmen In eplaclng the old wooden trestle, vhere the Seaboard tracks cross the Vtlantic Coast Line, with a steel itructure. It was In this work that le was engaged when he fell to his leath. The dead man Is a nntlve of forth Carolina and was unmarried. MISTRIAL FOR JOSH ASHLEY. Tlie Jury Enable to Agree In the ry The Jury In the case of John W. Ashley, tried last week In the Fedral court at Anderson on the charge f peonage reported Monday mornng to Judge Urawley that It was inable to agree and was discharged, 'he case will not come up again till he fall term at Charleston, Columla or Greenville. The trial attraetd wide attention on account, of the romlnence of the defendant, who * a member of the legislative delgatlon from Anderson county. The ury stood seven to five for acqultal. It Is currently reported. Slept I/ong Time. At Kenton, Ohio, Miss Laura Caser, 20 years old, who had been sleep for one hundred hours, at the ome of her sister, Mrs. Knapp, woke Thursday apparently In good ealth, although weak. Physicians *y her condition la due to a ncrveysterlcal collapse. AF*ER THE TRIAL OF CALHOUN IS OVER. Opposing Attorneys at Calhoun Trial ; il Threaten Each Other?Stormy Day in San Francisco- Graft Trial. At San Francisco Francis J. Heney and Earl Rogers, opposing counsel In the trial of Patrick Calhoun, agreed that their private differences arising out of a clash over the admission of testimony should be settled at the fl rut nnnnrfimUv nffoe * K ~ I ? ?- ? - vrrvi%uu?vj ?ivv? vuc trial. For the first time, Rogers appeared to take offense at Heney's re- *, rqMlMj^pd said "don't you talk to nSBftt manner. Mr. Heney." jwN&sKeet you at any time you 8*rjjlrered prosecut?r> "Alt tight. Mr. Heney," replied RdBMKnhat is agreed; but we will selHHIni&tter after we have en(ied ?4tr duties to our resr 4ve cll|fr. Uwfcy departed from the court roq|j$ gjgjflr the escort of his customaty, hfcdjguards, and the adjournmettt marked the end of a stormy session,' during which Heney addressed I^e^MK^^^f^rington of the defense, as a "barking cur," and Byington retortfd by..addressing Heney as "a trailing dog." Between ^quarrels the cross-examinatibn Of James L. Gallagher, who has occupied the witness stand since last Tuesday, was concluded, and Daniel S. Coleman, a former supervisor, was called.-* THEY WERE RATHER GAY. Ex-Governor of Oklahoma and Womnn Arrested in St. Louis. Frank Frantz, former governor of Oklahoma, was arrcBted In St. Louis a few days ago In company with a young woman after an automobile ride to a road house In the suburbs, which began Saturday night. The couple was charged with disturbing the neace. Thev were detained at the police station until 9 o'clock the morning they were arrested, when they wore released on bonds. At 8 o'clock at night an additional entry vai .made on the police blotter.; It read: "Charges dismissed by order of the chief." The woman gave her name as Edna Wilson, and said she lived at the Jefferaon hotel. Chief Creecy, explained that the charges were dismissed after a personal appeal by Frantz. "The facta i..wero that he and the young woman were just a trifle hilarious.'* said the officials. "They had not done any particular harm, and I could not reafst the appeal." WITNESSED AN EXECUTION. " An American and His Wife Present i ' by Accident. Mrs. N. W. Stowell, of San Franer Prinz Frledrlch Wllhelm, of the North German Lloyd, told how she had been compelled to be present at Canton, China, when a man's head was cut off. ('Mr. Stowell and I were taken to the execution grounds In Canton among other sights," said Mrs. Stowell, "and when we were within the enclosure the gates were suddenly closed. To our horror they let out a poor wretch, and our guides told us tney were going to cut his head off. We wanted to get out, but they would not open the gates until the execution was over. "Of course I turned my head away and suffered Intense emotions, hut there were no unusual sounds or outcry. Afterwards we were told tney had given the victim opium. When 'iie gates were opcn?d we hurried away as quickly as we could.' FATAL POLITICAL FRAY. One Dead and Three Wounded in Shooting Scrape. Cornelius Prltchard 1h dead and three other persons are wounded as a result of a six-handed shooting affray at Meadville, Miss., Tuesday, the outgrowth of a political feud. At a recent election Dr. A. M. Newman, formerly sherlfT of the county, defeated the father of the young man killed for the office of chancery clerk. Feeling between the two factions became intense, and *hen Prltchard met Newman today weapons wer.e quickly drawn andJlreinrr hc?nn in- I graham Pritehard dime to the aid of hi9 brothef'and tliree eons of Dr. Newman caimc to his assistance. When the fiftim ended Cornelius Pritehard wa^ dead, bis brother had sustained a bullet wound in his leg and two byst^pders, Herbert Applewhite and Sidney Horton, were less seriously hurt* , J | m ill WILSON >fjVY KHKP PLACE If Fight on Oaaoell for Postmaster Com On. A dispatch from Washington to the Columbia Record says there is little chance of the appointment of any Democrat to the Florence po^tmastership. Unless the South Carolina senators stop fighting the Republican. Cassell, it is likely the negro Wilson will keep the place. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the postofflce commit- ' tee, is willing to see Wilson ousted, l but is unwilling to see Cassell, the son of a friend, the former represen- i tatlve from Pennsylvania, lose the 1 Job. He thinks the removal of the , negro ought, to satisfy the Caro- ] linians and make them leave the road 1 open to a white Republican, es- i pdally as no Democrat's name has i been presented in opposition. < " * v.'' ^ ." , ". ?.. 'V . . \ \ ArI Chicago Swindler Forced to Cheat Others BY HIS CREDITORS He Says Two Men Whom He Had Swindled Hounded Him to Dupe Others so as They Could Get the Money He Swindled Them ? Out of Back. Peter Van Vlisslngen. who last winter confessed that ho hn?i fArmui mortgages to the extent of $1,000,000, thereby causing a great sensation in Chicago, where he had been known for 20 years as a leading real estate man, exploded a bomb-shell In the bankruptcy court at Chicago Tuesday when he stated that his confession a few months ago was antedated by four years by a confession made privately to men who held $400,000 of his spurious papers. Van Vlissingen was brought back to Chicago from prison to testify before Refereo in Bankruptcy Frank L. Wean, who is attempting to locate the valid assets of the prisoner. Van Vlissingen declared that in 1904 he was compelled to confess to Maurice Rosenfeld, at that time a director of the now defunct Chicago National bank, and Bernhard Rosenburg. a real estate dealer, that the mortgage held by them and valued at $400,000 had been forged. "They discovered some Irregularities in the paper In that year," said the witness, "and came to my office for a conference. I admitted the forgeries and said. 'I would go beforethe State's attorney, tell him Just what I have related to you gentlemen about these wholesale forger es, plead guilty and go to prison like a man.' " we want our money,' they said. " 'I can got It,' I told them, 'but I must dupe others as I have duped you.' "We had another conference soon after," continued the witness. "I proposed to settle with them. I promised to pay them from $1,000 to $5,000 a week. Altogether I paid them approximately $250,000." Further conferences were held from time to time. At one of these. Van Vllsslngen said, they said, "We want our money." He replied he was getting it as'fast as he could raise it. " 'We don't want to know how you get the money,' they told me at one conference, held in December, 1904." Bernhardt Rosenberg had been prominent in real estate business and in Jewish social circles for many years. Van Vlissingen's face was pale and his hands trembled as he told his story. His eyes were bloodshot and his lips twitched as he faced counsel and recognized former friends among the spectators. The witness stated that his forgeries had continued for 30 years but that he did not know the exact extent of them. "Will they aggregate $l,000,00t)?" "Surely." "And may be more?" "Yes." "Have you any property or other assets not accounted for at present?" Van Vlissingen was asked. "No, except my clothing, I had about $150 when I reached the prison at Jollet, but I sent that back to my wife." i ioia uosemeia at least 25 times and Rosenburg half as often" said Van Vllssingen, "that I could reimburse them only thrpugh illegal business operations. "I told them further," the witness continued, "that I was rapidly hecoming deeper involved, that the number of illegal transactlans was multiplying and that my legal transactions were falling off and almost ceased to be profitable." Van Vllssingen said he transferred life insurance policies aggregating $40,000 to Rosenfeld, delivering them to him, and further stated that since turning them over to Rosenfeld he paid the premiums on the policies. "Rosenfeld and Rosenberg, particularly the former." the witness stated , "kept crowding me for money until I feared the situatloh would kill me. Finally I warned Rosenfeld that If he did not cease T would not duplicate more notes and that I then could not make money to pay him. "I said I feared the end was near, that I did not Intend to go to prison, and?well, he knew what I meant." Here the witness wept, but when f ho rofAeAO o ** * * cuo icicirr nu^^raLCU IIIUL tilt? Ht'lITing be adjourned. Van Vlissingen protested: "I want to get through. I can stand the strain. Go on." A recess, however, was ordered. Rosenberg and Rosenfeld have engaged an attorney and refused to discuss they sensational testimon All Inquiries they referred to their counsel, Lessing Rosenthal. TROLLEY STRIKES AUTO. Society Woman Fatally Hurt in an Accident. At Pensacola, Fla., four prominent society women were injured Monday, one fatally, when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by an electric car. Mrs. Gonzales, of Pensacola, was fatally Injured. The others hurt were Mrs. J. M, Mulcoon, of Pensacola, and Mrs. .Luce and Mrs. Clark, of MoIdle. The*automobile was struck by i Bay Shore car running about forty miles an hour. Mrs. Gonzales later lied of her injuries. ______________ GETS HIS REWARDS ANOTHER "TAFT DEMOCRAT" IS REMEMBERED FOR His Good Work in lie half of tho Republican Party During the Last Election. Zack McGee, writing to The State from Washington says James T. Williams, Jr., of Greenville, was named Monday by the President to be one of the three civil service commissioner's. He puts down his residence ai "joincointon." The salary Is $4,000. Here Is the story: "Jlmmle" Williams hit this town some seven or eight years ago as a typewriter and assistant to one of the Wash-! lngton correspondents. Being a bright young man and alive to his opportunities he has steadily risen ever since. From one suit of clothes with the vanishing point of the "breeches" somewhere In the vicinity of the ankles and a string tie hanging down on his bosom, he has steadily advanced In the satorial scale, till the "breeches" have been converted Into "trousers" and his haberdashery has become one of the fashionable Institutions of Washington. It takes four valets, it is said, to keep his wardrobe. He soon got a position with the Associated Press and being assigned to the State, war and navy departments it soon developed that he could shake hands high In air and bowdown before "your excellency" most efficiently. Having a fairly good head for news and being able to write j well, he became a valued reporter of | the Associated Press. Three years [ago he was made the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript. Jlmmle kept growing, and the hand-shake went steadily up with him. By the time I arrived here, three years after him, he was saying "parst" and "arfter." for "past" and "after" and when I asked him one day how to apell "collards" he said he had never heard of such things. In due season he became a Republican and last year was made one of the secretaries to the Taft propagandist bureau, prior to the Chicago convention. After Taft's nomination he stayed with the Republican campaign committee and is said to have done valuable service for the Republicans. Any way. Mr. Taft felt under obligations to him and has given him a job In the administration. KILLED BY BURGLAR. Assistant rostnmstcr of Lenox, Co.. filiot Down, While searching for two negro men who had In succession robbed the posrofflce, a hank, a dry goods store and a drug store at I.enox, Gi., Monday morning. Asslstante Postmaster Clifford Rutherford of th.<t place was shot twice through the head and was Instantly killed bv Marshal Lewis, one of the negroes, who had taken re'uge In the railway station. Lewis' accomplice was caught, hm Lewis escaped and was later trailed down by dogs at Adel. nnd was taken toward the Nashville. f!a.. Jail. The negro confessed nnd begg d not to he taken back to Lenox. A hundred friends of Rutherford went to Adel late Monday afternoon with the Intention of Intercepting the sheiiff. It Is admitted that a lynching Is Imminent. Indignation over the murder Is deep and If the sheriff falls to reach a substantial Jail the probabilities are that his prisoner will he hanged. Rutherford, while peeking the robbers. put his head in the door of the depot room and struck a iiiat.h. At that Instant two shots rang out and he dropped to the floor. FELL FROM THE TOP /"v# in?*_ - --- ? . m imkii nKysorapcr ami was Instantly Killed. Falling 425 feet from the thirtyfourth story of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's skyscraper. on Madison Square, New York, Monday, Thos. Mortimer, 4 2 years of age, was Instantly killed. Mortimer, who was foreman of the riggers at work on the huildlnR, was superintendlnR the erection of a scaffold four floors al>ove the hip clock, on the 24th street side of the tower. Hundreds of people in Madison Square were watchlnR him a* work and saw him fall to the balustrade ef the balcony above the clock. Here the body poised for a moment and dropped to the street. ATTACKED BY RATS. Fierce Onsal ught Upon Men Fighting Flumes. Firemen who were called to fight a baize In a Junk shop in Fast Eleventh street, New York, Monday night, were attacked by hundreds of large rats. So vicious was the onslaught of the rodents as they climbed the legs of the flrftmon an H M? their hands and ran over their shoulders and helmets that the firemen turned th** streams of water from the Are on to the rats. After the rats had been washed away by the terrific force of the wa'ter, the Are was extinguished. Profeesor Dies Suddenly. A dispatch from Greenville says Prof. Harold N. Clare, musical director of the Greenville Female College, and director of the musical festival to be held next month, died suddenly this morning. He was from Ohio and was a brilliant musician ard composer. >/ ' V. ' Southern States fy \ BUY PR ^>5j5C Machinery Plumbing COLUM E north'musYgo Is to be Ousted For Alleged Scandalous CONDUCT IN OFFICE He Wrote the Iniquitous Wool Schedule fn the Present. Dingley Tariff Law, llut That Is Not the TIiIuk for Which He is to be Fired by Taft. Zach McGee, the Washington correspondent of The State, 6ays the real reason Mr. S. N. D. North, director of the censing Is nbout to be fired from his job is scandalous and unfruitabie. But the reason why he should never have been appointed to this Job, Htid why since recent exposures it is a public disgrace to ha\e him holding any position of honor or responsibility in the government should be known to men and women. Mr. North is the man who wrote the present wool schedule in the Dlngley tariff law. This he did at the direction and as the agent of the Wool Manuafcturers' association, from whom he claimed his reward and got it in cold cash. He was appointed by Senator Aldrich as clerk to the finance committee. In that capacity he wrote the iniquitous and pillaging wool schedule. For this he was paid by the Wool Manufacturers' Association. Whether Mr. Roosevelt knew this when he appointed Mr. North director of the census I do not know. But. Mr. Roosevelt did know it last November when it cam^out in certain letters Champ Clark submitted to the ways and means committee, which letters Mr. North came before the committee and admitted he had written. Mr. North admitted that he had written the wool schedule and that he had been paid for it by the Wool Manufacturers' Association. Tho letters were there, it was no uso to deny them, so Mr. North admitted it. What happened? Did he lose his job? Did Mr. Roosevelt spurn him from his "righteous" administration and denounce him as a traitor and a hired thief? Not at all. Mr. North holds his position until this day. Mr. Taft was apparently going to keep him, but that a lesser offense is charged against him. Mind you, the offense now charged is more scandalous; but that is because public thievery is so common that it does not excite scandal. The other charge against Mr. North is, in brief, and without the details, that whenever a member of congress or another high official of the government has a pretty young lady friend to supply with a remunerative job In Washington all he has to do is to go to Mr. North and apprise him of the fact and the director will provide for her. Whenever later the congressman finding himself under further ehiitraf his young lady friend wishes her promoted to a better paying position, why he goes to Mr. North and tells him, and Mr. North promotes her. The young lady may bo the daughter of the congressman or his niece or his brother-in-law's stepmother. It is all the same to Mr. North: the congressman wants her promoted and It Is done, regardless of the public service, regardless of the individual merits of the other young ladies or young men in the office, who have to stand on their own merits and records without any influential senators or "congressmen" to intercede for them. 1 say this, as had as It is. is not worse than Mr. North's thievery in connection with the wool schedule in the tariff bill, because some members of congress are now at bottom equally with North the real offenders. Some time ago a high official in the congress, who is also a member, went to Mr. North. "Mr. North." he said. "I want this young lady promoted to a $1,800 Job." "Why. Just at present, Mr. ," replied the director, "I have no such positions vacant." "Well, replied the high and Influential congressman, "yon heard what T said. T want her nrnmntn,! to a $ 1,80ft job nt once." The young lady pot her promotion. And, you may recall, that the census hill wan passed by both houses of congress with a provision that appointments In that branch of the service should he made without the assistance of the civil service commission but practically by the director, upon the recommendation of members of congress. There Is a reason why, as the old song used to be. President Roosevelt vetoed this bill, and congress is now wrestling with the problem of another which will save their faces?and their favo rites' jobs. ' The American All-Wrought Tllfl 1 Split Steel Pulley*. * "V 1 STANDARD DKS1QN * **0 Supply Company J '^Supplies M I mbm&bbb m^r 3'A. S. O. IM EXCITKMENT AT MAYESVILT.E H Caused by the Attack of a Negro on I n White Man. 1 Wednesday niglit a serious clash ? MM between? white and colored people of Mayesville over in Sumter coun- 9 H ty, was narrowly averted, but the f counsel of the cooler heads prevail- I ed, and quiet was restored. \ Mr. John Cunningham, who is em- \ ployed by the Linson Lumber Com- ^fl pany, reprimanded one of the negro ^fl hands, Lindsay Conyers, for careless work, and hot words followed. ^^^fl As Mr. Cunningham turned away, the negro struck him a blow on the head with a scantling, laying o^en the scalp to the bone, and render- fl| ing him unconscious. The negro then took refuge in a nearby cabin, and when an ofllcer attempted to arrest him, resisted, and drew a Colt's automatic pistol. fl| Fortunately he did not understand flj the safety catch, and ho was ovorpowered and taken to the guard Hj house. Considerable excitement pre- fl vailed, and there was talk of lynch- fl ing. fl This, however, quieted down, and fl Sheriff Epperson was notified. Pep- fl uty Sheriff Sykes went to Mayesville fl immediately and brought the prii- fl oner to jail without troublo. fl PLEADEI> GUILTY. ^fl George Ttarton, the Yeggban, Con- ^E| fesses Crime. ^fl George Parton. the escaped yegg- ^fl man, was arraigned in the federal ^fl court at Greenville Tuesday morning on the charge of robbing the postoffice at Pol/.er in December last, MM pleaded guilty and was sentenced to >|g serve five years in a federal prison, fl and pay a fine of $1,000. lie will ^ he taken to the prison near Atlanta. Ilarton declared tlint his escape from J? the Greenville county jail was ef- ag fectcd by blowing a hole through the gwa two-foot stone floor of his cell with fl collodion. jfl As a rule, the man who boasts that |? he has never made an enemy doeBn't fga Aninnnt t r\ muoL It Is just as well to put off till H tomorrow the worries of today. CLASSIFIED COLUMN | I Why don't yoji work for I'nrle Rom? 1 Civil Service Manual, which pre- 4 pares you ,Jir the examination. 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