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... > fy * - ttoTMWn / ESTABLISHES IN 1891. BRIEF NEWS NOIES^ FOR TIE BUSY MAN! Cl MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OP ? TUC D1CT wcr* TO I D IN Cl CONDENSED FORM. I 11 WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED J a Complete Review of Happenings ef c V Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. C J d Sot thern. ii F rhe continued progress of the far.iv ers of Georgia and Alabama is lndi cated by the records of the Southern Bed Telephone cotnpanv for the 8 month of April. Duiing the month ol ^ April 668 farmers?2:?6 in Georgia and ' f 372 in Alabama?installed telephones 1 ^ In their homes and connected lines; with the Bell system. Since January 1 1,283 farmers in Georgia and Alabama ^ have taken telephone service. Ot these 1,035 are in Georgia and 1,148 In Alabama. c rio ttln K? thr. TTn. ! mavvu, ua., " ?o vuurru uj iuc j ted Confederate Veterans as the next : reunion city at the annual encampmoot of the old soldiers in Little Rock, Ark. The following officers were re elected: Commander-in-Chief. Gen. G | W. Gordon, Memphis, Tenu. Department commanders: Army of Northern Virginia, Lieut. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, i Charleston, S. C.; Army of Tennessee, j Lieut. Gen. Bennett 11. Young, Louis ' Tills, Ky.; Trans-Mississippi Depart-1 ment, Lieut. Genj K. M. Van Zandt, Fort Worth, Texas. A complete surprise was sprung at the convention of the Southern Baptist convention in Jacksonville, Fla., when Dr. E. C. Dargan, pastor of the First Baptist church of Macon, Ga., was ' placed in nomination for president 1 1 against * Joshua Levering, who had 1 been proposed for re-election to that j pfflce.; When the votes were counted 1 it was found that Doctor Dargan had 1 been elected. { With th*? chin s hand nlavlne- the na. tlonal anthem and the blueackets with rifles at "present," the United States 1 battleship Idaho saluted the resting- i t place of the old wooden United States t war sloop Mississippi of Admiral Farragut's tteet, riddled and sunk by the ' 1 Confederate batteries at Port Hudson, ' La.. on the Mississippi river, during ' i the Civil war. The success of the voy- I j age up the river to Vicksburg was as I ( aured when the soundings at the shoals near Waverly showed 62 feet ' depth. 1 Frank R. Havne, the bull leader, 6tartled the New Orleans cotton world by bidding the market price for 100,-i 000 bales each of May and July cot- I ton exchange quotations for any or all, the 8pot cotton in this city. This last ! bid Mr. Hayne shouted out to the member who had hurried to the future ring, was open all day. Moreover, he I announced his willingness to accept any grade from low ordinary to fair, Twenty minutes after Deputy Wood, his victim, died, John McLeod, a ne- 1 gro, was dragged from Emanuel coun- < tv ini'1 .QwAinctmrn fia and hanged l by a body of men. orderly but deter- I mii-ed. The body was suspended from ' a tree and riddled with bullets. There i was no excitement to speak of. Hid- J den keys to the jail were found, and > the victim quickly swung up. Follow- I hit; the lynching, all parties disappeared. The coroner's Inquest found that ] death was caused by "unknown par | ties." 1 ?? ( General i The Lincoln, Neb., excise board has adopted a rule requiring friends and relatives of habitual drunkards to fur- ' nish pictures of the bibulous ones for | the better information of the saloon keepers and their bartenders. The photographs are to be posted behind the bars. Yokohama. Japan, is now bright with the colors of America and Ja- J pan in honor of 600 American blue jackets from the Asiatic fleet w ho are | the guests of Mayor Arakuwa of Yokohama. The mayor gave a garden party, which was attended by fifty of- i ficers and 5<?0 sailors. Speeches were made by Vice Admiral Saito and a \ number of othei notables. The wages of the trainmen in the United States and Canada have been increased $37.000,two in a year, ae cording lo report made to the inter national convention of the Brother hi>od of Railroad Trainmen by W. F. Lee, president of the association. Emjieror William, Empress Victoria and Princes Victoria Louise of Germany are visiting King George of Eng. land. Separated by the Chicago Are in i 1871, Peter Sharp and his wife, Anna Catherine Sharp of Oakland, Cal., i were reunited in Pittsburg, Kansas | Mrs. Sharp is now on her way to Pittsburg. Prince Lidj Jeassu, grandson of Em- [ peror Meneiik, was proclaimed emperof Abyssinia. With appropriate ceremonies, the ! Francis Scott Key memorial statue erected in Btltimore. was unveiled Mrs. William Gilmer, a granddaughter of the author of the "Star Spangle/. Banner,," drew the cord releasing the drapery. Capt. John H. Gibbons assumed the superintendency of the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Capt. John M. Bowyer wa. forced by ill health to relinquish th? post. Armed with an antiquated shotgun, which recently disappeared from r. local hotel, waving a piece of red calico, Charley Williams, a white man. attempted to hold up the Louisvillt and Nashville pay train at Sulphur Ky. The crew, who were armed, stop ped the train and started after Wil iiams. Williams, dropping the gun escaped. It is announced that Oklahoma City had been selected as the meeting place of the general conference of the If. E. church, South, in 191-f. The committee which had the matter In hand was aotided Vf THE In the first Federal anti-trust propedings brought under the Sherman nti-trust proceedings, under the herman law as interpreted by the tandard Oil decision, the department f justice filed suit in the Fedoral ourt in New York against various onstituent organizations of what is roperly known as the "lumber trust" lleging the existence of a widespread onspiracy, "unreasonably," to retrain the lumber trade in this counry. It is said the suit may be the rst of a series planned by Attorney leneral Wickersham looking to the reaklng up of alleged agreements mong the retailers of many of the ommodities of life to maintain high rices. ' J * nn/l ProoiHpnt fresiuem L>ias ?uu , .v.^ . 'orrel of Mexico will resign before une 1. Minister of Foreign Relations e la Barra will become president &d nterim. Francisco 1. Madero, the tevoluiionary leader, will be called o the City of Mexico to act as de la sarraa chief adviser and as the ;reatest guarantee possible that every iledge made by the government will ie carried out. As viewed by the pubic it will be virtually a joint presilency, pending the calling of a new residential election A now election vill be called within six months. Poitical amnesty will be recommended 1 o the chamber of deputies. These ire the conditions upon which Presilent Diaz will compromise. In Columbus, Ohio, State Senator Jdgar T. Crawford and Representaive A. Clark Lowry, Republicans, and Representative Owen J. Evans, Democrat, were Indicted by the grand Jury or bribe soliciting. Crawford is aleged to have asked $200 from W. H. 'cok, secretary of the Ohio Butchers md Grocers' association, in connecicn with trading stamp legislation. Svans is alleged to have solicited a jribe of $650 from the Stark-Tuscaravas breweries for his vote on one of :hc city local option bills. Washington. The principle of arbitration on pracicallv all disputes between nations, ncluding even questions of vital inerest and national honor, assumed vinlitv U.<h?n SorretarV nf State Knox mbmittod to the British and French unbassadors at Washington the draft if a convention to serve as a basis )f negotiations. A petition for the admission of Hawaii as a state was received by the senate from the Hawaiian legislature, ind referred to the committee on territories. While there was much gratification n administration circles over the Supreme court order for the dissolution )f the Standard Oil company, which a ad been declared 'an unreasonable combination and monopoly in restraint of trade, there unquestionably was also some misgiving as to the interpretation of the anti-trust law giving to courts the right to determine whether or not a monopoly was "reasonable" and declaring a "reasonable" monopoly not to be in contra^ ventlon of the statute. President Taft who a little more than a year ago in a special message to congress declared that under Supreme court precedents there could be no such things as "reasonable" and "unreasonable" restraints of trade, or in other words, 'good trusts' and "bad trusts," was ;aid to have been rather keenly disappointed that the court should have seen fit to reverse itself in this important matter. Secretary .MacVeagh invited popular subscription to a >50,000 issue of government bonds to reimburse the treasury general fund for expenditure on account of the Panama canal. The treasury officials expect the loan will be largely oversubscribed, and in distributing the new securities, the government's announced intention is to give reference to smallers bidders. The new securities will be at 3 per cent interest, payable quarterly; will be free from all national, state or mu nicipal taxation, ami will be in denoranations of $100,$500 and $1,000. They will be dated June 1, 1011, and will be payable in fifty years. The supreme court of the District of Columbia instituted proceedings for alleged contempt against President Samuel Gompers, Vice President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation ol Labor. The sentence of imprisonment imposed upon these men by this court was revoked by the I'nited States Supreme court. Mr. Gompers when told of the action said; "Justice Wright can go just as far as he likes, lie will find we are not running away.' Although the special session of con gress is but little more than a month old, talk of adjournment has already become general. Republicans in both branches have beeu hinting that a recess during the hot weather would not interfere with legislation, while many Democrats in the house are bejHnnini? to believe thev will be en tirely through with all they care tc enact of their legislative program in aDother month. The Standard Oil Company of New Jirsey and its nineteen subsidiary corporations were declared by the Su preme court of the I'uited States U be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It was also held to be monopolizing interstate com merce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The dissolution of tht combination was ordered to tak? place within six months. Thus ended the tremendous struggle on tne pari of the government to put down, bj authority of law, a combination whict it claimed was a menace to the in dustrial advancement of the countrv Samuel Gompers, Johu Mitchell ant Prank Morrison, president, vice pres Ident and secretary of the Ainericat Federation of Labor, respectively stepped from without the shadow o jail when the Supreme court of th< I'nited States sei aside their sen tences of imprisonment for contemp growing out of the litigation between the Bucks Stove and Range com pan j and the Federation. The highest trib una! in the iand has left with the lower court, however, the right to reopen the contempt proceedings. This grant or power was accepted by the District supreme court. L F0 OFFICIALS ELECTED V1R. ELLISON A. SMYTH OF GREENVILLE CHOSEN PRESIDENT MILL ASSOCIATION. A COMMITTEE ON TARIFF President Smyth Most Prominent Cotton Manufacturer In the South? Head of Merger of Some Dozen Mills Capitalized at $12,500,000. Richmond, Va.?The American Cotton Manufacturer's ended its convention after electing Ellison A. Smyth of Greenville, president, and W. A. Erwin of Durham, N. C., vice president; re-electing C. B. Bryant of Charlotte, N. C., secretary and treasurer; adopting a series of resolutions end hearing read a number of technical papers. The selection of the next place of meeting was left with the board of governors. Richmond's the only city as yet in the field, Xe chamber of commerce here having extended an invitation to the association to make this its permanent annual meeting place, a plan favored by many because of Richmond's central location. The convention elected Sir Charles W. Macra, bart., president of the International Federation of Master Spinners and Manufacturers, to hon, orary membership, and resolved that a standing committee of not less than 15 be appointed by the president to be known as the committee on tariff and other legislation, whose duty it shall be to act for and represent the association and co-operate with committees from other similar organizations in all matters of legislation. Ellison A. Smyth of Greenville is one of the moBt prominent cotton mill men in the South. He is at the head of large cotton mill interests in thh state which recently have organized a merger of some dozen mills with a capitalization of $12,500,000. Strong Pardon Petition for Show Man. Lexington.?Perhaps the largest petition ever presented to a governor of South Carolina, asking for the pardon of any one man?a petition bearing the signatures of approximately 17,000 individuals?will shortly be presented to Governor Blease, asking for a full pardon for George Nichols, who is serving a life term in the state penitentiary for complicity in the murder of Paul A. Williams of Columbia, who was killed on the Hagenbeck Wallace circus train on the night of October 8, last year, according to the statement of G. S. Cunningham an attorney of Pekin, 111., who came to Lexington, seeking such information as might be of aid in securing the pardon of Nichols. The chief ground upon which a pardon will be sought is the fact that Nichol's health is such that he will soon die, it being alleged that the young man is now in the first stage of consumption, and that the confinement in the penitentiary will hasten the end. Patents Issued to Carolinians. Washington.?Patents have been issued to the following South Carolinians: M. O. Carter, Travellers' Rest, railway rail joint; R. A. Erwin and W. P. Ixng, Rock Hill, cotton chopper; Thomas It. Spivey, George town, blackboard. Yale Honors Carolinian. Aiken.?Mr. Joseph Hell, of this city, has recently been made editorin-chief of the Yale Literary Magazine at Yale university. This is one ! of the highest honors that can he given at that University, and Mr Hell i is to be congratulated. Farmer Sells $35.COO Worth of Cotton, Walterhoro.- The largest single sale of cotton by a farmer in Colleton county has been made by M. H. Hiott of Round, seven iniles from Walterboro. to Joseph W. Lucas. This sale is over .500 hales, the price paid being 15 1-16 cents. This will net Mr. Hiott about $15,000. Cunden ?Municipal ownership of the water and lighting plant is being i urged in Camden. First Drainage District. | Charleston. -The first district to he ! i organized under the new drainage act is launched in McClellanviiie. with only preliminary legal formalities tc , be gone through with to perfect the , j organization Engineer K. 0. Eason of the United States drainage Investigation department, is now making stir, verys of a tract of 4,0(10 acres of land, 500 acres of which only are under cultivation. He will complete his surveys in a week's time. Other districts will be formed for the purpose of drainage. Bey's Desperate Chance. Spartanburg.- That John H. Qtiinn, , ! <vhe? nine years old, deliberately , stuck his finger into the machinery I j of a spinning frame on which he was . employed in the Pacolet mills and , | permitted the finger to he cut oft i i so that he might obtain a holiday j 1 was the unusual defense of the Pac II (<let Manufacturing company, to suit t i for $2,000 damages for the loss ol r the finger, which was tried in com i mon pleas court before Judge Watts The dury refused to award dam r ages. Senators Paid Clemson a Visit, i Clemson College.- W. M. Riggs president of Clemson. some time ag< f invited the finance committee of th? 51 state senate to make a visit to thi - college, in response to that invita t tion the following came to Clemson 1 W. L. Mauldin, P. L. Hardin, Alai r Johnstone, G. W. Sullivan, W. H Sullivan, W. H. Steward, Hough ant i McCowan.. Senator Mauldin made i fine impromptu address. Senatoi Mauldin cast the deciding vote on the acceptance of the Clemson bequesthe being lieutenant governor then. RT 1 FORT MILL, S. C., THU1 LOOK FOR YOUR "OLD TOWN" I Collection of Captionless Articles I Condensed Into a Column of Crisp Current News. Greenville.?The annual convention of pharmaceutical association will be held at Chick Springs, July 4 ' and 5. Aiken.?The town of Wagener and ~? J 1A school district .no. t>u nave umucu to erect a $10,000 school building, and has levied a special 2-mill tax to | maintain the school. Abbeville.?Acting upon the recommendation of the board of health, the ' school trustees closed the city graded schools. A boy in the second grade developed smallpox. Darlington.?The South Carolina Western will cross the Atlantic Coast Line tracks as soon as it complies with the conditions in regard to the interlocking switch. 4 Greenville.?Since early in the week j the Oliver Construction company, ' 1 contractors for the interurban electric j line from Greenwood to Greenville j 1 has been working day and night | , Bhifts along the line at several points. Sumter.?Bernard Manning of this city, is another South Carolinian who ^ will soon receive instruction in con- j sular work. He does not yet know where he will be sent. He iB a son of Mr. It. I. Manning. j Washington.?S. L. Earle of Jack- ( Bonville, who was recently appointed ( to a position in the folding room of the United States senate, has assum- ( ed his duties. Mr. Karle is original- | ly from South Carolina and has many , re'atives in Columbia. Walhalla. ? William Reihle went j i down into a well to save a neighbor's son and was overcome by gases before he could be hoisted to the top. Sumter.?The outdoor festival of the civic league was a great success, and the hardworking women will clear about $300 for their organization. Between 750 and 1,000 visited the grounds. Florence.?By advices received in the city from the Chicago bureau of the association of commerce, it is seen that a through train service has been arranged for over the Coast Line's new connecMon from Chicago to Florence. Union.?Mr. Victor E. DePass, for , many years a well known attorney ! of the Union bar, but for the past year had resided in Columbia, died in Greensboro, N. C., after a few days' illness. Gaffney.?The most destructive fire that has ever visited GafTney occur; red when the old Central hotel buildi inir. one of the largest buildings in l the city constructed entirely of wood caught on fire. It was valued at 110,000 with no insurance. Washington? Hasel Dick of Sumter, who was designated some time ago to be a consular assistant of the United States government, and who has been in Washington for the last few months receiving instruction from the state department regarding his future duties, received instructions to proceed at once to Yokohama, Japan. Dillon.?The exceedlnly hot and continued dry weather is causing considerable alarm in this section. The wells are going dry and it is with difficulty that water is gotten by some with pumps. Not over 60 per cent, of the cotton is up and in many parts of the county it is dying from drought. The oat crop is cut short 50 per cent. Greenville.?The hot wave which held Greenville in its shriveling grip for the past few days has not in the least curtailed the desire of certain citizens for "fire water." All records of seizures of contraband whiskey were broken when members of the police department raided several ne- 1 pro hovels in the vicinity of the Sou- j th< rn railway station, and seized 28 gallons of booze. Darlington.?P. A Willcox, state j counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line j railway, and R. B. Hare, train master of the Columbia district, stated that there was no fight between the Coast Line and the South Carolina Western over the crossing at Darlington. They said that no unusual demands had been made, the Coast Line's only requirement being that the other line install an interlocking switch under what is known as a standard ccntract, ; which is made by the payment of $1. . Washington. The following navy orders of interest to people in South Carolina were issued here: Surgeon , E. Thcinpon, detached navy yard i Charleston to Maine: Passed Assis- j 1 tant Surgeon M. A. Stuart, detached ! Isthmian canal zone to ncvy yard, Charleston. Savannah. Ga.?At the official opening of the summer season at Isle of Hope a. suburb of Savannah, Miss Josie Berger, of Charleston, was awarded the prize for being the most graceful dancer on the pavilion during the evening. Miss Berger's dancing was (tie feature of the evening. Newberry.?The Newberry Chau uusoriation. the chamber of > commerce, city council and the people of Newberry generally are united in the endeavor and the determi1 nation to make Chautauqua week, beI i ginning on June in. a success McClellanville.?The new drainage district at McClellanville is a noteworthy step toward land reclamation in Charleston county, as it is the f first definite movement taken under the new act, and it will lead ultimately to the reclamation of some 110,000 acres of swamp lands in St. James parish. Charleston.?The Atlantic Coast Line will soon have a telephone sys. tern for train regulation in working 1 order between Florence and Savane I nah, with headquarters at Charles9 ton. This system supplants the telegraph system In a large measure. Laurens.?As the result of his eni gine being wrecked here, David Kelly of Augusta, engineer of through ' freight 202, from Spartanburg to Aui gusta on the Charleston & Western ' Carolina road, was more or less serl' ously injured, and a colored trainman, - Cullen Dolphus. also of Augusta, was probably fatally scalded, MILL RSDAY, MAY 25, 1911. FIVE YOUNG GIRLS |! BURIED TO DEAIH k LAMP CONTAINING GASOLINE EXPLODES RESULTING IN TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. PARENTS' EFFORTS TO SAVE 1 r.tal Mistake of Mother In Filling Lamp With Gasoline Starts Fire? Names and Ages of the Daughters Who Perished. Utica, Kan.?Five daughters of Mr. ind Mtb. Harvey Itoach of this place, ranging in ages from 7 to lf> years, sere burned to death In a Are which started in the Roach restaurant. The parents were badly burned. The mother of the young girls by mistake filled a lamp with gasoline. Preparatory to ascending a stairway leading to the second floor room, where her daughters were asleep, she applied a match to the lamp. An explosion followed, ttie fire being com- i municated to a two-gallon can of gasoline, sending a burst of flame up the narrow stairway. The woman's dress caught fire, but the flames were extinguished by tier husband, who had been asleep in an adjoining room. He rushed up the burning stairs and caught his young- I est daughter. 5 years old, in his arms. ' Calling to the other girls to follow him and leap into his arms, he ran to a rear window and Jumped to the ground, the little girl In his arms. 1 1 - ~~ ~ .rJ Mttfk ttntiniaA/l nrmc tn rnfph Jl? Bi'JUU Willi u |/i aioru in mo > w the others as they Jumped, but for some reason they failed to follow him and a few minutes later, when another window was broken into, the bedroom in which the girls were sleeping was a mass of flames. A half-hour later the bodies of the five girls were recovered. All had died where they lay. The dead are: Bessie, aged 16; Leah, aged 14; Ruth, aged 12; Hazel, aged 9 years; Fern, aged 7 years. The j girls will be buried together in one grave tomorrow. Final Peace Agreement Signed. Juarez, Mex.?Officially designated representatives of the Mexican government and the revolutionists signed a peace agreement at the customs house here intended to end the hoa- ; tilities that have been waged in Mexico for the last six months. Though covering only the princi- i pal points negotiated thus far, tho agreement practically records the concessions by the government of those demands which started, on No- | vember 20, the last armed revolution In Mexico. Monoplane Kills Minister of War. Paris.?France paid a terrible toll for her magnificent endeavor to attain supremacy of the air when a monoplane, the driver of which had lost control, plunged Into a group of members of the cabinet who had gathered to witness the start of the race from Paris to Madrid, killing the Minister of war and injuring the prime minister, his son and a well-known sportsman. Electricity Failed to Revive the Dead. Lynn, Mass.?In an effort to restore RCtlon into the heart of a workman killed by an electric shock at the plant of the General Klectric com- j pnny. Prof. Thomon, the well-known scientist, repeatedly sent a current of 5ft,f>O0 volts through the body. The experiment, which has been known, it is said, to succeed in a few cases, was futile. Whole Family Killed by Street Car. Newark, O.?The family of I). \V. Dodson of Hebron, was wiped out when an interurban car on the Newark division of the Ohio Klectric Railway struck their buggy and killed Dodson, aged .10. Mrs. Dodson of the same age and their two little girls, aged 7 and 4. The Dodsons were riding along the highway which flanks the electric line, a mile east of Hebron and were passing a car, when their horse became frightened and plunged across the track in front of the car. President Praises Work of Y. M. C. A. I Washington. ? Speaking to more than a thousand negroes here. President Taft congratulated the race in j Washington upon the consummation | of the movement for the erection of a $100,000 home for a colored Young Men's Christian association. The Fresident paid a high tribute to the work of the Y. M. C. A., aad praised t.hiln nf h rnftlf trie pen pros u j nnu uiumi imum.,. of Jnlitis Rosenwald of Chicago. who recently agreed to give $25,000 to the Washington negro branch's building fund. Nitro-Glycerine OoeB Terrible Work. Muskogee, Okla -Clarence Henderson. book keeper in a bank in Beggs, Okla.. is dead and Kdward Bright will die as the result of mistaking a quart can of nitroglycerin for muddy water. The young tnen were hunting when they discovered the can of explosive under a boulder. They placed it on top of the rock and one of them fired into it form a small caliber rifle. Henderson was so badly mangled by the resulting explosion that he died within an hour. Hundred Postal Banks a Week. Washington. ? Postmaster General Hitchcock. Impressed by the reports of the successful operation of the postal savings system, has decided to designate hereafter for a considerable time 100 additional postal depositories each week, instead of 50, as announced a month ago. Announcement is made of the designation of 50 additional depositories, 23 of them to he located in states west of the Mississippi, where the heaviest deposits heretofore have been made, . TI SICKLY PRISONERS !l WILLJEWROLED SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT { BY GOVERNOR BLEASE AFTER ? 1 A VISIT TO STATE PRISON r HOISERY MILL A MENACE ! ( ( When Prison Physician Certifies Con- | vict Incapacitated Permanently from Profitable Labor for the State Pris- 1 i oner Will be Paroled. I Columbia.?Following a personal inspection of the penitentiary, in com- ( pauy with Chairman Sanders of the hoard of directors of that institution, , (lovernor Hlea.se made the sensational announcement that he purposes paroling all the convicts there who were disabled by chronic disease. "They are simply burdens on the state," the governor said. Dr. F. W. P. Butler, the prison physician, will in each case be asked to certify whether the patient is incapacitated permanently from profitable labor for the state. When his answer is in the affirmative, the prisoner will be paroled", except in cases where no home can be found for him and his realease would Bimply mean his infliction upon the county from which he came. Governor Blease said after his visit that he would not call an immediate meeting of the board of directors, but at the meeting to be held June 7 he would urge the immediate cancellation of the contract by which about 300 convicts are worked by Capt. J. M. Graham in the hosiery mill within the penitentiary walls. This mill was recently criticised severely by the state board of health, as tending to breed consumption among the prisoners. It was at the suggestion of Governor Blease that the general assembly passed a resolution calling upon the board of health to investigate the place. The Graham contract has five years to run. Reports of Governor Blease's speech at Jones' Spring, Greenwood county, to operatives of the Ware Shoals cotton mills, have reached Columbia. The governor is quoted as saying there that If the hosiery mill contract at the penitentiary was not cancelled he would achieve the end in view himself by pardoning every convict assigned to work in the mill. He attacked the newspapers as usual. Jasper County May be on the Map. The survey of the territory seeking to become incorporated as Jasper county has been completed and the map has been delivered to the special commissioners. This territory was the scene of numerous conflicts during the War Between the Sections and there are said to be at least five battlefields of note wthin the lines of the proposed county. It is proposed to adopt the name " T~nf tm omnrv nf j impci 111 iiuuui ui iuv iwvM?vf. j wthe fearless patriot who was so distinguished at Fort Moultrie and who was afterwards killed at the battle of Savannah. His remains are buried at Purysburg, within the limits of Jasper county. Pardoned White Life-Termer. Following his visit of several days ago to the penitentiary, the governor paroled Tom Godfrey, of Spartanburg county, a white man who was serving a life sentence for the murder of Tom Jones It is claimed by the governor that Godfrey is not able to do any work and therefore he should be paroled. Tom Godfrey was convicted in 1905. Early in 1905 he went to the home of Tom Jones in the city of Spartanburg. Jones was preparing to go to his work. Godfrey, according to the testimony, shot him down without a word of explanation. The governor several weeks ago refused to pardon Godfrey. He now grants a parole during good behavior. Laurens.?The annual meeting of the Piedmont Itental association will be held here May 30. In Memory of Judge Pope. i Memorial exercise^ in honor of the ! late Young John Pope, former chief Justice of the supreme court, will be held in the supreme court room on June 5. Eulogies will be delivered by members of the bar. This announcement has been made by Attorney General Lyon, who was asked to arrange for the exercises. Those to deliver addresses are John ('. Sheppard, Edgefield; R. W. Shand, Columbia; James Simons. Charleston; R. T Jaynes, Walhalla, ami l'. it isrooKs, toiumma. Carolina Glass Company Case. Following the refusal of the dispensary rommission to return $21,000 taken over by the old commission in Richland county, announcement has , been made by attorneys for the Carolina Glass company that the case would be appealed to the United States Supreme court, or that a suit for the above amount will be filed against the members of thp former commission. It is expected that a definite announcement will be made as to what action will be taken in a few days. Delegates to Prison Association. Governor Rlease has named delegates to the American Prison association. which Convenes at Omaha, Neb., on October 14-19, as follows: Mr. A. K. Sanders, Ilagood; Mr. W. H. Glenn. Anderson; Mr. J. M. Smith, Smoak; Mr. J. D. Deas, Summerton; Mr. John G. Mobley, Winncboro, these being of the penitentiary directorate, and Col. D J. Griffith, the superintendent of the penitentiary. The purposes of the American Prison association Include the Interchange of ideas. MES :ELDER MAY NOT TESTIFY iommission Has no Power to Bring Atlanta Lawyer to This State. History of Act. Columbia.?The new dispensary :ommission has no power to make T. 3. Felder come to South Carolina, irid the matter is optional with him. The law creating the dispensary comnission and outlining its powers does lot give it the right to investigate he acts of the governor of South Tarolina as a private citizen, and the :ommission has no power to invesigate the former commission. The governor of South Carolina sent a message to the general as- | jembly in which he charged graft ind corruption on the part of the members of the former commission. All or the memDerB or me uiu tuwmission are well known in the state. The governor was very insistent and demanded of the general assembly that a commission be named to investigate the dispensary commission. The general assembly complied with the urgent demand of the governor and passed the resolution. The measure was sent to the governor to sign. He did not liko the personnel of the members of the commission from the senate and vetoed it. The governor then dismissed the members of the old dispensary commission and appointed a new commission, all of the members being his personal and political friends. One member of the commission is F. H. Dominick of Newberry, former law partner of the governor. When the gcrvernor had appointed his commission he said the members would investigate the old commission. He also asked the new commission to investigate the charges mode against him by T. B. Felder. The governor was insistent and wanted his record as private citizen. State senator and governor investigated. The investigating act has been vetoed by the governor. The act will have to come back to the general assembly for any action that body might take. The members or tne oia commission are desirous th|t the act he passed so that the charges pr?* ferreo by the governor may be Investigated. They want the charges substantiated or cleared up. Glass Company Petition Dismissed. Sustaining the action of the old state dispensary commission, the new commission signed an order dismiss ing the petition of the Carolifcu Gl#ja company of Columbia for trie retxir> of about $21,000 taken over in Richland county. The commiseicgi afco refused to reconsider the Canjina Glass company case. It was stated by B. F. ?<elly, sec retary of the commission, that the commission had not named an attor ne to take the place of the firm ol Anderson, Felder, Rountree & Wilson of Atlanta, but tliat an attorney would be named at the noxt meeting of the commission, which has been called for May 29. The claim of S. W. scrufigs 01 spar tanburg for $4,000 alleged to be due for servioes rendered the old cominis ! sion was not considered by the oom mission. The claim will come up foi consideration at the next meeting. Railroad Case of General Interest A case of state-wide importance an* the first of its nature to be broligh in the courts of South Carolina wa: decided in favor of the Pullnmn Ca company in the Richland count; court. The suit was brought by th< Seaboard Air Line railway compan; against the Pullman Cax company b recover $1,300 damages paid becatts a Pullman car porter put a passenge off at the wrong station. On the evening of December 2' Mrs. Campbell left Jacksonville, Fla She had purchased a ticket by th Seabo<u'd Air Line for Denmark. Sh also purchased a Pullman car tic! ?-t to Denmark. At Govati, seven mile south of Denmark, the porter on th Pullman car put her off. When th train left the station, it was cluiwei that the porter tried to stop it, bu failed. .Mrs. Campbell brought sui nirninef the Seaboard Air Line rail way and recovered $1,300 damage! The road then entered Butt, agnins the car company for that amount. The jury held that the conducto of the Seaboard train had ample tim to stop and go back to Govan an get Mrs. Campbell without serious d< trirnent to tho other passengers. Detycns Case in Supreme Court. Attorney General Lyon is trying t have the Detycns case of Georgetow argued at this session of the suprem court. If the arrangements can no be made he will ask the America Bonding company to pay the agree amount on th> siiortage of Detyeni which is about $0,000. Detyens, treai urer of Georgetown county, wa found short in his accounts to th extent of about. $10,000. He was ui der bond for $25,000. The bondin company agreed to pay all of th shortage except $5,000. To Organize Farmers in Aiken. R. F. Keller of Calhoun count] deputy organizer of the South Care lina State Fanners' union, will wor for two weeks in Aiken ctunty in th interest of the Farmers' union. Hi object will be to revive and strengtt en the local unions and to secure re organization of the county union. Carolina University Closing June 4. Commencement exercises at th University of South Carolina will b< gin this year on Sunday, June 4 with the baccalaureate sermon. Labor Men and McNamaras. In the shadow of the state hous a large crowd of laboring men of Cc lumbia gathered to protest against th arrest of the McNamara brothen Following the meeting, at whic speeches were heard, resolution condemning the "kidnapping" of th McNamaras were passed. Announcement is made from At gusta that the Augusta-Aikpn Rai way company will spend a large sui in the Improvement of its roadbe from Aiken. $1.25 PER YEAR CASE OF LOHiMEH WILL B REOPENED TWO RESOLUTIONS IN UNITED STATES CONGRESS PROVIDE RENEWED INVESTIGATION. SPEECH OF MR. LAFOLLETTE Wisconsin Senator Charges Illinois I Member With Personal Knowledge ^ of Corrupt Methods Employed? | 9 Elections Committee to Investigate. Washington?An immediate investigation of sleeping scopo of the renewed charges that Senator Lorlmer of Illinois is not entitled to his seat is provided for in two resolutions, by Senators Dillingham and LaFollette. Senator LaFollette called up hit resolution and made a speech arraigning the Illinois Senator, whom je charged with personal knowledge it the spending of money in behalf of his election. Both the Democratic atanrlne committee and the Re publiccan members of the senate committee on privileges and elections discussed the charges of corruption In the Lorlmer case and Senator Dillingham. chairman of the elections committee, presented his resolution of inquiry as a substitute for the LaFollette resolution. The LaFoliette resolution provides for a renewed inquiry into the L<r rimer caae by a special committee, while the Dillingham measure direct! the oommtttoe on privileges and elections to make tho inquiry. The Democratic senators will support the Dillingham resolution. It is likely that the elections committee will be directed to Investigate through a subcommittee to be affirmed by the sen( ate. Mr. LaFoliette reviewed the Loritner case, citing the confessions of bribery in the interest of Mr. Lorlmer's election. "Is there another senator against whom such an imputation would have been made who would have not risen in his seat and demanded an inquiry?" he asked. "Can you conceive of any man holding such a trust as a seat in the . ^senate who couid sit here for weeks and months after his title had been Impeached without saying something?" He said the votes of the thirty. Democratic senators for Mr. Lorlmer \ would stick in the Wnnds of the. peo-' -/vmomKaro/! thof pi6 wncii iL w*? icmcuiuvivu 1 the DemocrptH" \otes were under the leadership Lee O'Neal Browne, ' who had -W^.OOO strapped on his per1 son. Ha 'said he understood that the senate committee had permitted an nttoracy in the case to divert it from an inquiry to Mr. Lorlmer's knowledge in the case. Page upon page of tfc? testimony, he declared, showed r the closest associations between Mr. Lorlmor, Speaker Shutllff and Lee \ O'Neal Browne, the Democratic leader. | Will 8lnk Maine in the Deep. Washington.?Unless otherwise dls" rected by Congress all that remains r of the Ill-fated battleship Maine after y It has been raised from Havana harI. bor and stripped of parts of value ' will be towed out to sea and sunk In deep water. The board of engineers engaged In raising the vessel so recommended In . their report, which the war depart' ment submitted to congress. Secree' tary Qloklnson has approved the recommendation and says "action will I v. ' ^ ; vr> wiiru (tttuiuui&i;. 8 f Over 200 Chines* Massacreed. p i Mexico Clfy.?Official reports reachf) I lng here by couriers tell the story of f the ma**acre of 20f> Chinese at Torf reon, following the rebel occupation , of that city last woek. Upon receipt ( of the news at the Chinese legation, t the charge d affaire* immediately made formal representation to the r Mexican government. The three-day battle and sacking of the city of Torj rean, is replete with incidents of cruelty and Indicate that the rebel leador* did not hold their men in check. Law Between "Wet" and "Dry" States n Jacksonville, Fla.?At the Baptist convention In session here retiring . Pr*sldent Levering of Baltimore re! ut.i ? letAswiAn/ \\a ImH with for. ^ ( ICllCU ? U IIIICJ Tien lit M?M "?* ? ?? (J ' mer Speaker Cannon. Mr. Levering s said Mr. Cannon expressed sympathy [ | with the movement to check traffic I in liquor between "wet" and "dry" e states, but doubted if a law sought by j the Baptists would stand in the SuK preme Court if it were enacted by the e : Congress. The law sought was to invest control of liquor traffic in state : governments. Time Extended Beef Packers. ' Chicago.?Judge George A. Carpen^ ter in the United 8tates district court e granted an extension of time to attor8 neys for the indicted beef packers to file briefs in the latest attempt to a void the Sherman anti-trust statute as to their cases. The extension was granted after ; Attorneys John S. Miller and Levy p Mayer pleaded that the Federal Supreme court in its expected decision t in the tobacco case, might give new light on the packers' attack on the statute. e Increase Cotton Production to Acre. h Atlanta.?President Flnley, of the e Southern Railway company, has jHu j. pointed out that, if the South ia to h preserve the greet economic adtaalS tag# which it enjoys In having a sub. e staatial monopoly in the production of the ootton supply of the world, Southern cotton growers must ini]. oreaee their production so as to ksep I paoe with the constantly growing deII man*. He is strongly of the opinion d that this can be done moat profitably by Increasing the averags production