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ESTABLISHED IN 1891.
HOSIERY MILL
IS CONDEMNED
6TATE PENITENTIARY INSTITUTION
CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED
BY STATE BOARD.
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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
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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.
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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
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GIRLS CAN YOU GOOK
HOUSEKEEPING CONTEST TO BE
GIVEN BY CAPITAL SCHOOL
GIRLS INTERESTED.
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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.
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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
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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. *
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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
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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.
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$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.
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