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w ESTABLISHED IN 1891. HOSIERY MILL IS CONDEMNED 6TATE PENITENTIARY INSTITUTION CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED BY STATE BOARD. - ? m . ROAST MEDICAL SYSTEM Out Door Work Rccommendod For Convicts?To Destroy Building For Female Prisoners?Commend Conditions in Tuberculosis Hospital. Columbia.?The hosiery mill at the state penitentiary, in which several, hundred convicts are employed, under a five-year contract with the State of South Carolina, has been condemned by the state board of health, following a careful investigation of conditions to determine the cause of tuberculosis. The investigation was made as the result of a resolution passed by the general assembly. It is expected that the contract with the operator of the hosiery mill, J. M. Graham, will be takeu up at the next session of the legislature. The board of health recommends outdoor work for the convicts. The hosiery mill at the state penitentiary is an old bone of contention, and conditions there have been investigated on several previous occasions. The report was made to A. K. Sanders, the chairman of the board of directors of the penitentiary. The report quotes the resolution of the general assembly. The resolutions prvoide that the conditions may be remedied by the use of the funds of the state penitentiary. It was resolved by the state board of health thai the building used for the female prisoners at the penitentiary should be destroyed and a new building erected at an early date. It Is recommended that the sick from the female ward be removed to a ward in the general hospital and that the tuberculosis patients be removed to the tuberculosis hospital at once.. The board further recommends that the toilets in the male prison building should be removed to an tension to be constructed adjoining j the building, that the bedding of the nrisnnprs bp kent clean, that onlv one ' prisoner be allowed to occupy one cell, and that fresh water be provided for the prisoners during the night. This recommendation condemns the system in vogue of causing the prisoners to take water from tubs as they enter the prison in the evening to be locked up for the night. The board says that in the tuberculosis hospital nothing is found to condemn, but much to commend. The only suggestion with reference to the building is that it be properly screened. Concerning the medical system the report says: "That we condemn the present medical system as inadequate and inefficient." It is recommended i that a chief physician and assistant be recommended. Officer Charged With Disobedience. Charged with disobedience of the orders of the adjutant general of South Carolina, Jas. D. Fulp of Winnsboro. captain of Company M of the Third infantry of the National Guard of this state, will be tried before a courtmartial, which has been ordered to be held by Gen. W. W. Moore, the adjutant general, in ColnmKlfl MnnHov Mav 99 tUIAtlSll*, iUVUUH.T , *** 'V "* The order issued by the adjutant general details the following officers to compose the court: Col. Cha> T Lipscomb. Second infantry; Maj. Jos. R. Allen. Second intantry; Capt. Diert Jackson. Second infantry; Capt. Alexander C. Boyle, Second infantry. Capt. Artemus E. Legare, Second infantry, is detailed as judge advocate. Bennettsville. ? William Jackson and Tom Woodward, two negroes, killed each other. It seems that the two negroes were at a negro celebration or party and got into a dispute. Woodard used a pis'ol and Jackson a gun. Railway Company Increases Capital. The Greenville. Spartanburg & Anderson Railway company has be< n given the right by the secretary of state to amend its charter so as to include a line of railway from Helton, in Anderson county*, to Greenwood. The road has also been given the right to increase its capital stcck from $300,00 to $4,000,000. The road is a part of the Piedmont ft Northern railway, the interurban road that : will traverse the niodmont section of i North and South Carolina, and which ! was chartered under a special act. Heavy Claim Against Dispensary. "The attorneys, Nichols ft Wvche, of Spartanburg," said Secretary Kelly "appeared before the commission and asked that a claim for $4,000 by S. \V. Scruggs of Spartanburg be laid. They claimed that the contract was veibal, and that there was not a written contract. The attorneys said that $1,000 had already been paid for | bringiug a witness, 1 think, to this j state to testify in the graft trials." j The commission refused to take any action until advised by Attorney Gen- ' oral. State Health Officer Elected. At a session of the t.tate board of *hta)th. Dr. J. .VI in* Hiyne. of Wyoming, was elected secretary of : the board and state health otficer, j succeeding Dr. C. Fred Williams, of Columbia, wlio recently resigned. The position pays $2,250. Dr. Williams resigned because be could not remain at the salary and the board found no tray to increase the salary. Dr. i Williams trill engage In special work on chest diseases. I Dr. Hayne has been In the govern- j meat service. Til K NOCK I iG MILL MER.it RS Governor Blease Says Mergers Will "Prove Very Injurious to the People"?His Opinion. Columbia.?Governor Blease Issued a typed statement, written on bis own motion, which has created a local sensation, expressing as it does a belief that the cotton mill mergers formed or forming in the state will "prove very Injurious to the people" and scoring severely the secretary of the Columbia chamber of commerce, A. McP. Hamby, for utterances by the latter concerning the governor at the recent banquet of the Winyah Indigo Society la Georgetown. "In my opinion." the statement says, "the mill mergers now going on in this state will prove very injurious to the people of the state as a whole, and as there was so much fuss raised about the railroad merger, I am surprised that som? people are not taking an interest, as the law directs, in looking into the mill mergers. In my opinion, it is only an effort to absolutely control the price of cotton and to control the price of labor in all cotton mills. Our supreme court has already held against blacklisting and gave damages against the head cf cne of the mergers, in one instance, where this was practiced. When the merger is compitueu, aim the operatives are imposed upon, and see fit to leave a mill, it is only necessary for the president to drop a secret word to the superintendents of his mills to give that family no employment; hence, the party has no redress because he cannot obtain the proof as to his being blacklisted. "It is also an effort to control the vote of the cottcn mill people, as has been attempted for some years past, but in this they will fail, for the mill people of this state are of cur own blood and kin; they are intelligent, free and independent and will not be coerced or controlled in their votes, and they will resent it, even it it costs them their jobs. Another thing, the mill merger is causing people to change their homes; taking them from one place and canning them to where the central offices are located." Asylum Commission Very Busy. The Asylum commission selected Mr. H. P. Kelsey as landscape architect for the development of "State Park," the new site for the hospital building. .Mr. Kelsey, who is from Salem, .Mass., did work for the Civic League of Columbia and other cities in various parts of the country. He worked here in 1905 and since has done work at C'lemson and at Greenville. Some members of the commission will visit other asvlums this week. and on the return to Columbia an aichitect will be selected to erect buildings for the colored insane. The first work will be on a building for the colored male patients and then the other work will be rapidly pushed. Dr. Babcock stated that the population of the Asylum is now 1,600. Ten patients were received in one day last week and thirty-eight patients have already been admitted this month. Since January 1 of this year 250 patients have been admitted. To Extend Farm Demonstration Work. Farm demonstration work in South Carolina will be greatly extended and enlarged, and announcements will be : made in a few days on many improvements to be made. While no official notice has been received, it is known that a new feature will be added that will bring the methods of intelligent and scientific farming to many thousands of thousands not al- ! ready receiving the benefits ? The general assembly appropriated $10,000 to assist the farm demonstration work in South Carolina. This amount is supplemented by about S2K noo from the national domonstra tion office. The Farmers' Union Convention. The program for the annual con- j vention of the State Farmers' union which is to be held in Columbia commencing on July 2G, has been com ple'.cd and will be announced in a few days by J. Whitner Reid, the state secretary. The program includes several well known speakers. Several important questions relative to farm conditions will come before the state union. Greenville Registrar Appointed. Governor Blease has announced the appointment of J. Al. Ferguson as supervisor of registration for Greenville county to succeed the late Supervisor of Registration Crittenden, who committed suicide. Spartanburg Prisoner Paroled. L. A. Mathews, the Spartanburg man. who was convicted on the charge of assault and battery and sentenced to 19 months on the chaingang for whipping his ward. Miss Morrow, has been paroled by governor No More Officers Going to Border. It is probable that the fourth de- | tail of National Guard officers for service on the Mexican border, will be the last sent by direction of the j war department, although arrangements may be made later for others. South Carolina's proportion of officers for this service has been 14. The Kaiircad commission held a hearing at Camden on May 16 to con- . sider the complaints as to the schedules and accommodations of the Northwestern railroad. Ice Cream Freezers Returned Free. Empty ice cream freezers will be returned free of charge by th*? Southern Express company in South Caro j lina as a result of an order issued by the railroad commission following a hearing and complaint by a Columbia dealer, Dr. 0. Y. Owings. The freezers must be returned to the point of shipment. Heretofore a charge of 15 cents has been made. Commissioner Watson will atten the National Irrigation ccncress < be held in Chicago in the fall eT? GIRLS CAN YOU GOOK HOUSEKEEPING CONTEST TO BE GIVEN BY CAPITAL SCHOOL GIRLS INTERESTED. . COOKS CF THE OLDEN DAYS To Make Bread "Like Mother"? School Should Teach Domestic Art?June 2 the Day, Co'wmbia the Piece, Palmetto Girls Participants. Columbia.?The Mothers' and Teachers' club of the Bon-Air school, through MIbs A. E. Bonham, secretary, is daily receiving entrances for Its housekeeping contest, and the indications are that the event will arouse even more of a widespread interest than had been expected. The 1 very practicability of it appeals to ! everyday housekeepers and in all probability the attendance from over 1 the state will be large. With the object in view of Btimu- j lating an interest among the young j girls of the state in the simple fea- I tures of Lome-making ^nd with the ultimate aim in view of having a domestic department introduced into ; the public schools of the state, the 1 w 1 T ?1?K nf Ihn .noiueib iuiu icmucio viuu v? v..w , Bon-Air school will conduct this contest on the second of June, each of the following items to furnish one contest: (1) best resllts in cooking loaf bread, rolls, biscuit, corn muffins, waffles, battcrcakes, hominy, rice, boiled Irish potatoes, broiled steak, scrambled eggs, tea and coffee; (2) sewing, plain shirting, darning, button holes; (3) starching and ironing; (4) bed-making; (5) table setting; (f) lamp cleuning; (7) arrangements of flowers in vases. Prizes will be awarded, the work to be done in the presence of competent judges, and the rules to be enforced as follows: 1. Residents of Columbia are excluded for obvious reasons. 2. Applicants must be members of :ome school and must present a written statement from the superintendent or t~rincipal, stating that she has been clios*.-' to represent the school. 3. A schoo. may enter but one contestant. 4. The applicant iust be a member of the seventh grade or above that. 5. The work must he done in the presence of the judge, appointed by the club. The plan has receive, the cordial indorsement of J. E. ^wcaringen, state superintendent of e ucation; of W. K. Tate, state super* tor of elementary schools, and of Miss Elsie Kudd, field agent for the ri *al schools. In connection wtih t 9 contest there will be an exhibitii . of laborsaving devices for the benefit of housekeepers. All the modern intentions in cooking utensils, in stove improvements, in laundrying conveniences, tireless cookers, vacuum cleaners, etc., will be lent by the firms ? dentine in such things, and will be arranged for the inspection of visitors. The benefit to housekeepers will be incalculable. A number of the ' hardware merchants and others dealing in such articles have contributed the prires for the contest. These will be announced later. All material used by the contestants will be supplied by the Mothers and Teachers' club and the contestants will be entertained by the club from the time they arrive in Columbia until they leave. A Calf Born Without Eyeballs. Spartanburg.?There have been fhree-legged chickens, two-headed calves, five-legged horses, not to speak of freakish dogs and cats In this part of the globe, but .1 K. Nolan, who lives near Coiling Springs, claims the distinction of having the freakishest of all freaks. To his faithful old cow was born three weeks ago a calf, which is perfect in every respect with the exception that the animf.l has no eyeballs. There is the socket for the seeing paraphernalia on each side of the beast's head and there are the lids for the eyes, but no eyeballs. The calf can blink the lids and open and shut them, but not the slightest resemblance of eyeballs is noticable. Otherwise the calf is physically perfect Better Things in Life Than Money. Atlanta, (la.?Heir to $6,000 (m>0 and with $30,000 now in her possession. Miss Lillian Swygert continues to follow her chosen vocation of school teacher in the mill district ot this city. Miss Swygert came to Atlanta Fix years ago to take a position as teacher. Soon after her arrival she fell heir to $ 1 tl.000 upon the death of her father at Columbia, S. C.,; $14,000 upon the death of her half sister and several thousand additional left by another relative. I,nst November she t-f? AAA AAA Has ieii ?o,vvv,vw. School to Teach Men to Fly. Aiken.?Aiken is to have a school for army officers' instruction in the use of army aeroplanes next winter. Frank Coffyn. who is tinder contract to conduct a Wright Brothers aeroplane school in Aiken next winter. Mr. Coffyn is now in San Antonio demonstrating the use of the army aeroplane on the border. Recently Mr. Coffyn participated in a bombdropping experiment, when a railroad was ostensibly blown up. Coffey and his wife recently flew from Aiken to Augusta. Seven Dispensaries in Aiken. Aiken?The fight as to whether ot not there will he r. d.sprnanr., at Windsor was termin,..ed at the regular weekly meeting of the dispensary board, when It was decided to open a dispensary at that point, making the number In this county seven. Patents have been issued to South Carolinians as follows: H. C. Allen Ruby, mail box coin holder; W. W Atkinson, Columbia, kitchen safe and drawer: R. A. Matthews, Chester, italk cutter. RT ? FORT MILL, S. C, Til I ALES OF PALWET 0 TOWN > Moving Picture Panorama of News ' Quickly Portrayed in Paragraph Form Without Heads. Washington?Congressman Jamet F. Byrnes, of the second South Carolina district, is sick in Washington with the mumps. Sumter.?Sumter will hare another count of some irregularity that has count o fsome Irregularity that hag been discovered in the former elec tion, which carried. Florence.?The Florence district conference of the Methodist church was in session at TimmonsvUle, with Bishop John C. Kilgo presiding. Lancaster.?Neade Knight accidentally shot and killed his little 3-yearold son at his home while cleaning his shotgun. Charleston.?The Greeks of Charleston are about to build a one-story brick church at the corner of St. Philip and Fishburne streets. Lexington.?Barnie Reeder, ajyd 21, was lodged in jail here on the charge of shooting Clarence Rucker, a farmer. in a fight at Moore's pond, about six miles from Swansea. Columbia.?The South Carolina C(*tton Seed Crushers' association has decided through its executive committee, to meet in Columbia during the latter part of June. Greenwood.?The contract for the building of the Greenwood hospital has been awarded at a price of $9,100. Columbia.?South Carolina sent a large delegation of cotton manufacturers to the annual convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association, in Richmond, Va., on May 18 and 19. IJlacksburg.?Inadequate accommoi dations for the large and increasing membership of the Baptist church has necessitated a more commodious building and a finance committee has been named to raise $10,000 for the purpose. Union.?J. H. Gault, manager arid treasurer of the Kxcelsior Knitting mills, while having a well bored at his home, on South street, found gold at a depth of about J5 feet. Several small nuggets about the size of a tack head were discovered. Gold is stfll found in the dirt as the boring continues. Washington.?J. B. Adams. United States marshal for South Carolina, was in Washington end while here he would not discuss the federal judgeship matter. Swansea.?In a fight between C. J. Rucker and Barney Reeder, Rucker was shot by Reeder, it is alleged. The ball, a .41 calibre, entered the calf of the leg about five inches below the right knee and passed out in front, shattering both bones, which necessitated an amputation below the knee. Greenville.?The Odde Fellows in their meeting here elected James G. Long, of Union, grand master. They will meet at Orangeburg next year. Washington. ? Former Governor Ansel spent a day here. He was on his way to New \'orK to attend a meeting of the trustees of the Peabody fund. Chester.?Arrangements are under way for a poultry show to be held in this city in next January. Local poultry fanciers have organized an association, and are now pushing the plans for the poultry show. It is planned to invite poultry men from nil parts of the country to come here for the occasion. Greenville.?After holding the county sheriff and a corps of deputies by pressing against his temple of a cocked revolver, and threatening to blow out his brains if any member of the i?isse advanced a step nearer, Robert Menton, a white man. was airested on the outskirts of the city and lodged in the county Jail. Newberry. ?"Home-coming" week will be observed by Newberry beginning June IS, in connection with this city's Chautauqua week, and it is expected to make this one of the most important events in the history of the city. Dillon.?The court house commission let the contract ior the building of the court house and the jail to a Charlotte man for $75,149. It is to he completed in 12 months' time. A Columbia man got the contract for the heating system at $l,H?>rt. Charleston.- I'nited States District Judge Will am H. Brawley, who was appointed in President Cleveland's second administration has celebrated his seventieth birthday. He has forwarder his resignation to President Taft. After retirement Judge Brawley will travel extensively. Bnnettsville.?Sttdie John, the negro woman who has ' een in jail for sever*! weeks, charged with the murder of her husband by poisoning him, is 6ai? to have made a oonfession in which she admits having given her husband a dose of "rough on rats." Washington.? Benjamin H Knotts, of Orangeburg, financier of the 'badger game" conspiracy at the Cairo apartments last December in wbirh Charles Rosenthals nearly lost $50,000. was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Columbia?Several Greenwood county officers must pay the salaries of the rural police of that county. The securing of an order from the supreme court follows the alleged refusal of the officers to pay the salaries on the grounds that there are no funds in the hands of the county treasurer legally applicable. Spartanburg The only orthodox Greek chur- h between Washington and Atlanta was formally opened In this city, when Kev. Joachim George, a Greek priest of Charle:*?on, preached the opening sermon in the new edifice in Spartanburg. Aiken.?After consuming the whole of one day and late into the night the "cow ca6e" resulted In a mistrial on the order of Magistrate Smoak. This is probably the first case In the history of Aiken county, or perhaps in the state, where a Jury was locked up all night in a magistrate's misdemeanor case. vl ILL URSDAY, MAY 18, 1911 STANDARD OIL CTI 151 DISSOLVE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ORDERS TRUST TO DISOLVE WITHIN SIX MONTHS. TOBACCO CASE OP.NION NEXT Highest Tribunal Holds That Oil Cor* poration is Guilty of Conspiring to Reetrain Trade?Victory For Government in Famous Suit *** ******* The Supreme Court holds: : That the Standard Oil company * is a monopoly in restraint of trade * That this giant corporation must * be dissolved within six months. * Corporations whose contracts * ; are "not unreasonably restrictive of competition" are not affected . Other great corporations whose I acts may be called into question * will be dealt with according to * the merits of their particular * cases. * The Court was unanimous as to the main features of the decision, ' Justice Harlan dissenting only as * to a limitation of the application * of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Taft and cabinet will consider immediately the entire trust situation and the advisability of pressing for a Federal incorpo- * ration act. ; * A decision in the tobacco trust * case, which was expected siinul j * taneouslv, was not announced and may be handed down on May 29. * #? I Washington.?The Standard Oil j company of New Jersey and its nine- 1 teen subsidiary corporations was de- | clared by the Supreme Court of the i United States to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It also was held to be monopolizing interstate commerce in violation of tho Sherman antitrust law. The dissolution r>f thp rnnihin.itinn was ordered to take place within six months. Thus ended the tremendous sfrug- i gle of years on the part of the gov- j I eminent to put down hy authority of law a combination which It claimed was a menace to the industrial and economic advancement of the entire j country. At the same time the court interpreted the Sherman anti-trust law so as to limit its application to acts of "undue" restraint of trade and not "every" restraint of tnide. It was j on this point that the only discord- 1 ant note was heard in the court. Justice Harlan dissented, claiming that | cases already decided by the court had determined once tor all, that the word "undue" or "unreasonable" or similar words, were not In the statute. He declared that the reasoning of the court in arriving at its findings was in effect legislation which belonged j in every instance to congress and not to the court. I Ever since the decree In this case in the lower court, the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri, was announced, hore was expressed by the "business world" that the law would be modified so as not to interfere with what was designated as honest business, that section of the opinion calling for the use of the "rule of reason" in applying the law is regarded in many quarters as nn answer to the prayers of the "business world.' The opinion ot the rourt was announced by Chief Justice White. In printed form it contained more than twenty thousand words. Many expected that the decision of the court In the dissolution suit against the tobacco corporations would be hauded down immediately after the decision In the Standard Oil case. This was not done, however, but the decision is expected on May 2!t, the IflBt day of the court until October. The opinion of the court is construed to mean that the tobacco case, like every other case In which re Btralnts of trade are alleged, must be subjected to the new test of reasonableness of the restraint, as laid down In the Standard Oil decision. Labor Officials Won't go to Prison. Washington. ? Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank .Morrison, president, vice president and secretary of the American Federation of Labor, respectively, stepped from without the shadow of the jail when the Supreme Court of the United Slates set aside their esntences of imprisonment for contempt growing out of the litigation between the Duck Stove & Range company and the federation. The Supreme Court left with the lower court, however, the right to reopen the proceedings. Democrats on Wool Schedule. Washington?Democrat members of the ways and means committee of the house undertook the task of drafting a bill revising the wool schedule. The committee debated the situation for three hours without attempting to reach a decision as to whether the bill shall place raw wool on the free list or reduce the tariff aO per cent or more To put raw wool on the free list would cut off at or.ee $21,000,000 In revenue, while the entire wool schedule brings a revenue of more than $40,000,000. Senator Overman's Amendment Stands Washington.?The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Overman anti-injunction amendment tacked on the recent railway rate bill, which provides that in injunction suits there must be a hearing before three Federal judges before a writ can be Issued. A judge In Kansas ignored the law and declard it unconstitutional, issuing an inunction without hearing. The Suireme Court instructed him to go back and try it over. The Overman amendment stands. , Tl> EMS OF THE WEEK NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE TOLD IN A FEW LINES FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD A Condented Record of Happening! of Intereat From All P?rt? of the World Southern. The German Saengerfest came to a close with a ball In Atlanta The 1 ? * **- - ^ *9 meeting ui me ueniiuu bucicucr <ji ; the South Atlanta league has been a great success. The convention selected the following officers; Honorary president. C. H. Toussaint, Savannah; president, F. H. Hanne, Jacksonville; secretary, Fred Bachman, Jacksonville; treasurer, C. Brickwedel, Jacksonville; attorney, John D. Cappelmann, Charleston; first vice president, J, H. Moellerlng, Savannah ; second vice president, G. Maw, Atlanta, third vice president, G. Steelier, Tampa; fourth vice president, A. Morgenstern, Charleston; fifth vice pres- j ident, Th. Winter, Brunswick, Ga. It was unanimously agreed to hold the next Saengerfest at Jacksonville, probably in April of next year. Chancellor Thomus M. McConnell dissolved the temporary injunction restraining the new commission, elected to govern the city of Chattanooga, Tenn., from assuming control of municipal affairs. The constitutionality of the new charter is upheld, and 'he suit is dismissed with costs on the complainants, who were members of the old government. Mayor T. C. [ Thompson and the four commissioners held a meeting, bonds were signed and approved, and the old government has passed into history. Chattanooga commmands wide attention, not only throughout the United States but in England and Canada as well. The joint commission rep relenting three -Methodist bodies is in session there to consider momentous uestions. The 27 commissioners who let have been appointed by the Methodist Protestant church, the Methodist Episcopal church. South, and the Methodist Episcopal church to consider the question of unification through reorganization. Frank B. llayne, the well-known cotton bull leader, threw the New Orleans cotton exchange into a fever of excitement 2<> minutes before the final gong, when he offered to purchase the entire stock of cotton in New Orleans ] at 15.4S cents. Pandemonium reigned for a few mintues and the days of the great "Sully'' pool were recalled. Now there are whispers here of a big "corner" in May cotton, but those believed to be in the deal refuse to discuss the matter. Ctenerai. The application of John J. M'N'tmara, for the fixing of bail on the charge of dynamiting, was disallowed by Superior Judge Boruwell in Ixjs Angeles without prejudice and with leave to renew at any time. Canada will have three trans-continental railroad lines and a fourth road to tidewater by way of Hudson bay, if the announcement of the policies of the Liberal government are carried out. The Canadian Pacific | was the pioneer road. The Brand 1 Trunk Pacific is rapidly nearing com- | pletiou under the government supervision. The third line to span the Dominion will be the Canadian Northern. To insure the completion of the third line the government proposes to guarantee the Canadian Northern's bonds. (lei many has warned France of the dangerous c .nserpiences likely to follow the occupation of Fez by French troops. Further than this, the government has taken no step, though watching developments in Morocco very closely. There Is no truth in the rumor published that Germany [ had decided to send three cruisers to Morocco. For the first time in the history of mankind. the human voice carried 2,000 miles direct over phone wire when New York found Denver. A group of newspaper men in a New York skyscraper, talking to another group fn the Colorado city, po ked up Oma I &a on tlie way and also gossiped with Chicago. The total dead fur the first day's | fighting, near Juarez, .Mexico, is now estimated at nearly thirty, i ; The wounded will number close to j Sixty. The casualties of the insur- i rectos and Federals are not known, ' but five persons on the American i side of the line were killed, and at ! least twelve were wounded. A monument to the memory of Po cchontas, the Indian maid of Virginia history, is provided for in a bill introduced by Senator .Martin. The till provides for the erection of the monument at Jamestown, Va. Lord Lansdowri.- introduced in the English house of lords his bill for the I reform of the upper house. Efforts to compel the girls of the j senior class in Radcliffe college to i wear "plain and simple costumes" on commencement day has aroused emphatic protests and some of the seniors declare that they will forego their diplomas rather than submit, j Confirmation was received of the less of the Gulf Refining company's i schooner Queen of Tampa, Fla., with the five members of the crew some time during the storm on the gulf two weeks ago That women school teachers should receive a higher scale of wages than ; men because their expense for living Is higher, is put forward by a teach ers* committee in Boston, Mass. The committee furnishes statistics to show tbat a single woman teacher cannot live properly on less than 11,240 a year, while an unmarried man teacher can live comfortably on >?3S. The long-awaited edict aboli hing Ibe Chinese grand council and substi tilting a constitutional cabinet of ten members was issued. The change is In line with the demands of the na tional assembly. LES. A courier reaching Juarez, Mexico, from Ahumada, about half way be tween Juarez and Chihuahua City, re ported that General Robago, with about flfeen hundred Federal soldiers from he garrison a Chihuahua was in the viciniy of Lnguna, 70 kilometers north of Chihuahua, on his march northward' to give battle to the insurrectos nd recapture Juarez. The 1 peace negotiations have been resumed between the Federal government and th insurrectos. The steamship Merlda of the Ward line with 207 passengers from Hayana, for this city, was rammed by the I steamer Admiral Farragut, from Philadelphia for Port Antonio, off Cape Charles. The Merida's passengers and crew were transferred to the Admiral Farragut. Five hours after the ; collision the Merida sank. Wireless signals brought the United States , battleship Icowa to the Merida's assistance. The Admiral Farragut was able to return to Philadelphia. Mexico's provisional government became an established fact with the naming of a cabinet by Francisco L. : Madero, Jr., the president of the provisional government, and with the es- i tablishment of a capital at the cap- j tured city of Juarez. The cabinet fob j lows; L>r. Vasquez Gomez, minister of foreign relations; Gustavo Madero, minister of finance; Venustiana Carrauza, minister of war; Frederico j Gonzales Garza, minister of the in- j terior; Pino Suaroz, minister of justice; Juan Sanchez Azcona, secretary I to the president. Charles Kittrick, who sold his "body | and soul'' to seven nurses at a maternity hospital in Chicago, III., j died at the hospital, where he was j being cared for. Kittrick was suffering from a peculiar form of locomotor ataxia, and by the terms of the bill of sale of his body the corpse will be used for clinical study. Kittrick sold himself for $7 and he used the money to pay the last bill he owed?1 is room rent. Record of the sale was filed with the county recorder. Fighting with grim determination to end her life, Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley of Buffalo, fiO years of age, was rescued from death at the very brink ot Niagara Falls cataract by Constable Thomas Harrington, who faced constant danger of being carried over the falls with the demented woman. Mrs. Hartley entered the water about 60 feet above the falls, and her dress caught on a jagged rock 15 feet from the brink of the falls. There she was held until Harrington hocked a pike into her dress. Dan Sully, formerly "cotton king,' made the startling statement from the witness stand in the Supreme court at New York that a delay of two minutes in announcing his failure on the cotton exchange had cost him $1,760,000. Mr. Sully was a witness in the suit brought against Mrs. Sully by Col. 1'cter H. Corr to cover au alleged loan of $20,000. Sully was asked by the lawyer for Corr if he thought he was insolvent." "I never considered myself Insolvent," said the cotton speculator. Washington. Although the special session of congress is but little more than a month old, talk of adjournment has already become general. Republicans in both branches have been hinting that a recess during the hot weather would not interfere with legislation, while many Democrats in the house are beginning to believe they will .he entirely through with all they care to enact of their legislative i rogram in another month. Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson of Tennessee, the Democratic member of President Taft's cabiuet, has resigned, and Henry D Stimsou of New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the war portfolio. Coincident with Mr. Dickinson. retirement came the announrem< nt of the appointment of C. S. Millingtou of Herkimer, X Y., to be assistant tieasurer of the United Statea in New York. There will be no invasion of Mexico as the result of the killing of Aniericau citizens in the city of El Paso as an incident of the fighting at Jualez. The statement of President Tart JOUUYYIIIK tilt: I C|lUi ICU UCHUO UI ? half dozen Americans, and the debate in congress provoked by this occurrence, made plain the future conduct of the government. Senator Bacon of Georgia undoubtedly voiced the senti meat of an overwhelming majority ol lie senate in his superb analysis Canada ill have tluee trans continental railroad lines and a fourth load to tidewater by way of Hudson Lav, if the announcement of the policies of the Liberal government are carried out. The Canadian Pacific was the pioneer road. The Grand Trunk Pacific is rapidly nearing completion under the government supervision. The third line to span the ; Dominion will lie the Canadian North- I em. To insure the cumpleiiou of the j I hud line the government proposes to guarantee the Canadian Northern a hoiids. Chairman Godwin of the committee ? n reform 111 the civil service, which is investigating abuse in the postal service, has announced that he j bad leceived hundreds of anonymous letter > lroni clerks in the department, who have complaints, but who fear to di.-<lo.-e their identity. "I wish to announce through the press that the committee will pay 110 attention to anotiy 1110m communications, but if the clerks will mark their letters confidential they will be given every pro- i lection,'' said the chairman. The members of tlie committee voiced ! their amen to Godwins statement. 1 .Representative William Schley Howard appointed Douglas Woodward of College Park, Oa, to be a midshipman at the naval academy. Beverly Randolph of Atlanta sm named as first alternate. The entrance examination will be held at Anapolls June 20, and Representative Howard said that 1t was important that the alternate prepare for the examination in order to obtain the place in event the principal should fall ! Woodward 16 the son of Col J: C. 4 Woodward, president of the Georgia ' Military academy. Randolph is he j sen of Mrs Randolph of Atlanta. >< - A V t " . ?' $1.25 PER YEAR HUE OF CROPS $8,926,000,000 INCREASE OF $104,000,000 OVIR 1909?TEXAS LEADS. ILLINOIS SECOND. SOUTH CAROLINA JUMPING Georgia Strides Into Fourth Plaot From the Tenth?Louisiana anS Kentucky Sluggish?Cotton Report ' V V ' to be Issued June 2. Washington.?The value of wealth produced on farms of the United States was $8,926,000,000 during 1910 is estimated by the department of ag ieulture in a statement just issued. This is an increase of $104,000,000 >ver 1909. Texas, with her ten million acres >f cotton, wrested from Illinois during 1910, the honor of being the first State of the Union in point of valae if her principal farm crops which iggregated $364,110,000, an increase if 14.9 per cent over 1909. Illinois, with $290,295,000, dropped to second place, the decrease having been 13.1 per cent. Iowa held her place as third state, while Kansas, in 1909 fourth state, dropped to tenth. Georgia made a rapid stride in crop production for the year and jumped from tenth to fourth state with a otal of $210,192,000, cn increase of ' 26.5 per cent over 1909. All the other Southern states made :ood increases except Louisiana and Kentucky. South Carolina made the argest, 28.4 per cent, or $140,009,000, lumping from twenty-first to thirteenth state. The other states rank >d as follows: State 19101909 Value la- * State 1910 19C9 Value InAla 14 20 $126,867,000 19.7 Miss 15 18 134,401,000 10.6 N. C 18 22 122,037,000 18.3 Ky (x) .... 20 16 110,731,000 9.5 Ark 21 24 109,7o3.000 11.5 Tenn 22 23 102,009,000 3.3 V'a 24 26 71,264,000 2.0 La. (x) .... 26 25 63,448,000 11.3 Fla 42 42 15,004,000 8.9 (x)?Decrease. Washington.?Revised figures of the department of agriculture's cotton report indicate the area planted in cotton in 1910 was about 33,418,000 acres, instead of 33,196,000 acres as estimated last June. These figures will be used as a basis in making the estimate on June 2 of the acreage planted to cotton this year. The yield per acre in 1910 is estimated at 170.7 pcunds and the area picked 32,304,000 acres. Revised dentails by States for 1910 follow: State Acres Acres Yield planted picked Va 34,000 33,000 212 N. C 1,511,000 1,478,000 221 ? " o C')C fUlA 1 C1i ftfirt >!(? O. L. . . 6fU6i;,VUV l|i/<n,vvw >*? Ga 4,970,000 4,873,000 173 Florida .. 268,000 257,000 110 Ala 3,633,000 3,560,000 160 Miss 3,420,000 3,317,000 183 La 1,075,000 975,000 120 Texas ....10,250,000 10,060,000 1'5 Ark 2,37o,000 2,238,000 175 Tenn 783,000 765,000 207 Missouri .. 103,000 100,000 285 Okia 2,260,000 2,204,000 200 Cal 10,000 9,000 335 ' U. S 33,418,000 32,403,000 170.7 The first cotton report of the department of agriculture this seasoB will be issued Friday, June 2, at nooa Kastern time and will give the estimated acreage of cotton planted this year with the condition of the crop on May 25. Hot Days Make Congressmen Tired. Washington.?Although the special session of Congress is but little mors than a month eld, talk of adjournment has already become general and the suggestions are not all one-sided. Republicans in both branches have been hinting that a recess during the hot months would not Interfere with legislation at all, while many Democrats in the house are beginning to believe they will be through with all the leg islative program they care to enact within another week. Murderer Slays Sheriff's Posse. Montgomery, Ala. ? Two negroes are dead and one mortally wounded, and four deputy sheriffs are wounded, one fatally, as the result 01 a muraei committed by one of the negroes 21 miles south of here and a spectacular battle that followed an effort to capture the murderer. When the posse arrived Benson was barricaded in his cabin, refusing to surrender, and declaring that he would die before he would submit to arrest. The officers then opened fire on him and he returned it. Presbyterians at Louisville. Louisville, Ky.?With an extensive program arranged for the celebration of the semi-centennial of the church, and confronted with some of the most important questions which have ever demanded its attention, the fifty-first General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States (Southern) convened here. Delegates, both lay and ministerial, from every section of the South aro present. Three sessions will be held daily, tbe assembly extending through eight days. This is the fiftieth anniversary. Merchant Murdered and Robbed. Norfolk?Searchers hunting* for J. L. Benton, missing from his horns on the Shell road in Norfolk eounty, found his body on the edge of a w/jodB near Paradise creek.. There was a hole in the face, which showed that the man had been killed by a load from a shot gun. Mr. Benton kept a grocery store , oti the Shell road and was very prosperous. When he left home Benton had $!t00 in his pocket. When hie body was found the money was miseing. A