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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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Greenville.?The annual convention
of pharmaceutical association will
be held at Chick Springs, July 4 '
and 5.
Aiken.?The town of Wagener and
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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.
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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,
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WILLJEWROLED
SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT {
BY GOVERNOR BLEASE AFTER ?
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A VISIT TO STATE PRISON
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HOISERY MILL A MENACE !
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When Prison Physician Certifies Con- |
vict Incapacitated Permanently from
Profitable Labor for the State Pris- 1
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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
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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
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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