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L F / 'i ESTABLISHED IN 1891. NEWS OF THE Iffl LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. % SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WFST Motet From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly the Great South. k Southern. This week in the cotton market nearly everything but the weather will be lost sight of. It *? generally acknowledged that the crop is fast getting into a critical condition as the result of protracted drouth and high temperatures. At the end of last week there was no relief in sight on the weather map, and if the week opens with a dry and hot map the chances are that a sensational rise in prices will take place, and that new hign levels for the season will be established on the new crop months. An amicable adjustment has been reached between the representatives of the carmen, boilermakers, blacksmiths and sheet metal workers of the Southern railway and allied lines, according to a statement issued by the American Federation of Labor. This settlement afreets about 8,000 men, and it is said the advanced scale will apply as heretofore to the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio with 0,000 additional men. | The area of the cotton crop planted this year, 1911, in the United States, Including that already planted and expected to be planted, is about 104.7 per cent, of the area planted last year, equivalent to about 35,004,000 ftqres, as compared with 33,418,000 o or* inrtrnaco nf ohflllt 1 nJRfi.000 ?VJC9, UlA mvivaov V* a'ores, or 4.7 per cent., according lo a report issued by the department of agriculture. The condition of the growing crop on .May 25 was 87.8 per cent, of a normal condition, as compared with 80.2 per cent, at the corresponding date in 191'? and 90.9 per cent., the average condition for the Vast ten years on May 25. General. , John Delaney, quoted in a confession as having said he was employed by John J. McNamara. secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Structural Iron Workers, as spy upon non union work and that he located the places where the dynamite was to be placed, talked with visitors Id jail at Muscogee, Okla. He still maintained he was paid by John J. McN'amara to spy upon non-union work. The statement, which was made to a detective from Oklahoma City, is locked in the cault of a bank. John Delaney, who was reported as having confessed in Muskogee, Okla., that he had been employed by John J. McN'amara. secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge aud Iron Workers of America, to inspect non-union structures an dsupply Information as to where dynamic could be most easily and effectively placed, served a short term in jail in Salt I^ake City for complicity in the dynamiting of the Hotel Utah. The steel work of the hotel was slightly damaged by a dynamite explosion December 29. 1909, as stated by Delaney. The confession of John Delaney, as far as it relates to Cincinnati, is flatly contradicted by labor leaders, contractors and by the police records of Cincinnati. No fc.vpiosion occurred in any Vine street building in January, 1907, as icported in Delaneyia statewent. A severe storm, whose center increasing in intensity in Ontario, rushed down the St. Lawrence valley, caused showers and thunderstorms everywhere east of the Mississippi river. The disturbance wound up another hot day in the Cast and South, featured by a new record for Ugh temperatures fer May established at Fort Worth, Texas, where the official record was 104. Gen. Porfirio Diaz sailed from Vera Cruz, Mexico, on the steamer Ypiranga for Havre, France. The steamer goes by way of Havana and General Diaz' ultimate destination is Spain. The last words of the ex-president spoken to those he had left on shore were: "1 shall die in Mexico." Four dead and a score injured was the toll of the terrific wind and rain storm which swept over Cleveland, Ohio, and vicinity, wrecking buildings, overturning boats in Lake Erie, breaking down wire pole-, tearing up trees and smashing windows and signs on the streets. The storm was general in northern Ohio and very destructive. Thiee lives were lost at Loraine. All of the dead were in row boats. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, the British writer of comic opera librettos, died iu London He was born in ? 183b and was knighted by King Edward. He was a collaborator of Sir Arthur Sullivan. The Tennessee Hankers' association adopted a resolution approving the Aldrich currency plan. Refusing to comply with demands for money by a band of bandits at AJuno, Mexico, Robert J. Sweane.v, an American railway superintendent, was burned at the stake on May 16. according to the story of Joseph Hansfelder. one of the refugees. Several Americans were presented by Ambassador Reid to King George at a levee held at St. James palace. They were J. Pierpont Morgan. Albert Cook Myers and Edward Bringhurst of Philadelphia. At the close of an address to the university dons and undergraduates at Cambridge, England, on "The Future of Religion." Bernard Shaw made a sensational reply to a questioner by declaring that Christ was a failure, and that any man who believed that Christ was the highest possible being was not working with. He urged the abandonment of legends. Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Emperor William, was seriously injured during a sham battle exercise of the second guard brigade in Berlin. The prince's foot is thought to have been broken. THE The bursting of borabs, firing ef cannon and the sharp crack of mutketry from the ranks of 5,000 former insurrecto soldiers, drawn up on both sides of the railroad track, welcomed Fiancisca L. Madero, Jr., and his party to Torroon, Mexico. Fully 20,000 residents of th etown, including hundreds of Americans and foreigners, participated in a huge demonstration, and counting the throngs gathered at various stations en route, Senor Madero addressed nearly fifty thousand people. Gov. Woodmw Wilson of New Jersey, prominently mentioned for the Democratic nomination for president, Mr. Bryan being willing, has given hi* endorsement to the Underwood bill for the revision of the woolen schedule. Governor Wilson supports the position of Leader Underwood and Speaker Clark, and diametrically opposes the views of Mr. Bryan. The latter labeb who would vote for a duty on raw wool. Chicago police discredit the purported confession of John ijelaney in Muskogee, Okla., in which he said he had selected buildings in different cities for destruction by dynamite, among them being a viaduct in Chicago, which was, he said, blown up in February, 19<?7. Examination of police , records disclosed no record of such an explosion in that year. The Chicago Tribute published re suits of a poll of newspapers in 22 ! states of the central, western, southwestern, northwestern and Pacific divisions on the question of approving i the reciprocity agreement negotiated with Canada by President Taft. To more than 10,000 newspapers, repre senting every shade of political opinion, The Tribune submitted this ques; tion: "Are you in favor of the approval | by congress of the reciprocity agreement with Canada negotiated by President Taft?'1 The replies numbered 4,303, of which 4,240 were definite, even if qualified, expressions of opinion. Of these 2,113 were in favor of the agreement and 1,127 against it. By official decree issued by -Mexico's provisional president, Krancisco de la Barra, a special presidential election was called. In ail states and terrltoI ries electors will be chosen on October 1, and these will select the successor of Porfirio Dla;c on Sunday, October 15. Governors are instructed to define and publicly announce prior to June 30 electoral districts in their respective states and territories, using for purposes of apportionment the census of the country of 1010. Washington. There is a prospect that the seaate committee on privileges and elee: tions will report a bill amending the law providing for publicity of "ampalgn contributions and expenditures, 1 and that the measure, when reported, | will be much more drastic than the , house bill. The amendments will ext?nri th? law tn nrimarv elections. Since the primary elections in the South are decisive, it was considered advisable to make the provisions of the bill apply to these also. Senator William Loriincr of Illinois will again be called upon to defend his title to a seat in tne United States senate, a resolution having passed that body re-opening the case. The proposed Democratic revision of the wool tariff, the Underwood bill, was unanimously approved by a full Democratic caucus after it had been made public by the ways and means I committee. Through a resolution that leaves the Democratic party open in the future to renew its advocacy of free trade in raw wool, but which commits all Democrats to the support of the present bill as a revenue measure, the divergent interests were brought together, and reached an agreement. | When shown the report of the action of the Democratic caucus on the wool schedule, William J. Hryan gave out the following statement: "The Democrats in congress are response Lie to the country and to their constituents, and it remains to be seen whether this action will be eudorsed. The bi let report I have seen shows that the matter was fougnt upon a false bus;., and 1 shall be mistaken if the public is deceived by the pretense that it was levied for revenue. A lively controversy over the executive's right to witnuold confidential papers from a congressional probing committeew as precipitated by a flat refusal of Secretaiy of State Knox on the instruction of President Taft to lay bifore the house committee on expenditures in the state department books showing the record ot tne payment for the portrait of ex-Secretary of State Day. The committee is seek iug to discover what became of the $l.b o balance of the f-'.-tuo voucher. A deb gut.on representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called on Prea ldeut Taft and urged him to send a ,special message to congress on the subject of lynchings. The president heard them patiently, but replied that punishment for violence of this kind lay with the states where the crimes were committed and that while they had his sympathy in their desire to see the law enforced, their petitions should be addressed to the state governments. Medicine which is nothing but sweetened water or pills composed of colored mud may be labeled "cures" and sold as such with impunity under the national pure fool and drugs act according to a decision rendered by tbe Supreme court of the United States In the ease of Dr. O. A John son of Kansas City, Mo. Provided I there is no misstatement on the bottle j or package as to Its contents, the | manufacturer is free to sell his goods Justices Hughes. Day and Harlan dissented The opinion was quite lengthly and was delivered by associate Justice Holmes. The most spectacular feature of the ! Lorlmer debate in the senate was the remarkable speech of Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas. who threwdocorum to the winds and then launched forth into real backwoods | Arkansas style of stump speaking j "Senator I-orimer Is either the greatj est ass or the greatest knave that ever disgraced the senate," said the honorable members from Arkansas. He was promptly called to order by Senator Heyburn of Idaho, who was In the chair, and reminded him of the rules of the senate, which prohibit I any personal remarks : fo PALMETTO GIRLS CAN KEEP ROUSE . HOUSEKEEPING CONTEST BRING8 OUT NINETEEN SMART GIRLS NAMES OF WINNERS. ORPHANAGE GIRLS PRESENT . Fairest and Best Product of South Carolina Demonstrate Their Skill In the Simple Departments of Homemaking?Better Biscuits. Columbia.?The housekeeping coni est held at Bon-Air ErchtJtri unfier the ; uispices of the Mothers' and Teachirs' club of the school was even more I tuccessful than those in charge had : inticipated. Nineteen contestants ame from various places around the state for the event and gave most in' teresting demonstrations of their skill In the simple departments of homemaking. The following are the various contests and the winners in each: Flower mixing. Miss Hallie White of Johnson; coffee making, Miss Lauretta Baker of Church Home orphanage, Yorkville; broiling steak, NUsb Eula Hudson, Connie Maxwell orphanage, Greenwood; darning, Miss Lauretta Baker; boiling rice. Miss Margaret Norris, Greenwood; table setting, Miss Hallie White; breadmaking, Miss Lyndelle Boston, Church Home orphanage, Yorkville: bedmaking, Miss Sydney Watts, Connie Maxwell orphanage, Greenwood; tea making, Miss Margaret DeLorme, Sumter; lamp cleaning, Miss Sybil Salley, Salleys; boiling potatoes. Miss I Margaret Norris; making rolls, Miss Kienza Tollerson, Spartanburg; shirtwaist, Miss Susie Timmerman; making waffles, Miss Eula Hudson; starchi Ing and Ironing, Miss Lauretta Baker; making button holes, Miss Susie TimTnLnntnn OAnl/incr h Am i TV \* ! uifi man, (/uuiioiwii, vvvmup, uvuuuj, Miss Helen Lewis, Johnston. The contest was given for the purpose of stimulating an interest in the simple, everyday affairs of house-" keeping, the idea being that such things are too often lost sight of nowadays in the interest taken in higher education for women. Remarkable Growth of Business. About $20,000,000 represents the amount invested in new enterprises In South Carolina during the first six ! months of the year. The amount is greater than waB invested during the entire year 1010. Statistics prepared : by R. M. McCown, the secretary of 6tate, show that $23,256.36 as office \ fees was turned over to the state treasurer since the first of the year. Tkn 1 rxf rxfTw.s* i tic iuiai aiuvutu \ji i/mv.v uco vur lected for the year 1910 amounted to J23.122.32. More money has been Invested in South Carolina during the first five months of the present year than in the entire 12 months of 1910, and last year was one of the most prosperous in the history of the state, j It is expected that the amount of new capital put into South Carolina enterprises will reach $30,000,000 before the end of the year. Fifth Detachment Officers to Leave. The personnel of the fifth detail of officers of the National Guard of South Carolina to participate in the manoeuvres along the Mexican border was announced by the adjutant general. The detail will leave on June 10, and the period of attendance will he limited 14 days. The fifth detail will number 12 officers, there being four assigned from each of the three regiments. The following are those assigned for duty by the adjutant general: First Infantry?Co!. William W. Lewis; ("apt. IV E. .McNulty, Jr., adjutant; Capt. J. Frost Walker, Jr.; Capt. William R. Richey, Jr. Second Infantry?Capt. James D. Gillespie; Capt. N. C. von Tresckow; Capt. Jacob C. Herlong; Capt. R. F. Mc Korell. ThJrd Infantry?Col. Julius Cogswell; Capt. James C. Clot worthy; Capt. Joseph McQ. Morrer, First Lieut. Charles J. Levy. State Tax Board to Meet. The state hoard of equalization has boon called to moot in Columbia on June 13 at noon, when the textile plants of the state will be assessed. This announcement has been made by Comptroller General Jones. The textile plants of the state were last assessed at $25,987,000 or on a i basis of 50 per cent. The textile plants were assessed in 1909 on a basis of 50 per cent. Last year the rate of assessment was reduced because the rate on banks had been reduced. The assessment may be raised. Suspension of Sentences Illegal. Governor Blease paroled during good behavior J. E. Smoak, the ."ormer policeman of Columbia, who was convicted before Special Judge Aycock. for assault and battery with intent to ki!!. and was sentenced t-> a fine of $100 or six months, and the sentence suspended. Smoak subsequently being arrested. The supreme court having held that a circuit judge cannot lift a sentence. This is believed to be the first direct application since the original decision during last year. Glass Company Won't Give Up. The present dispensary commission has dismissed the appeal of the Carolina Glass company of Columbia frr i the return of ?21Jhiu taken over in Richland county by h.e old commission. This is the second time that the commission has refund to return the money. It Is very probable that the case will be carried to the United States Supreme court, or that suit for $21.000 will be instituted against the members of the old commission The eompsoy t? fighting gamely y I RT FORT MILL, S. C? THU WILSON POINTS OUT DANGERS New Jersey Governor Speaks of Concentration of Nation's Wealth In Hands of Few. Columbia.?Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, speaking before the State convention of the South Carolina Press association pointed out the dangers of the concentration in a few hands of the Nation's wealth. Ho warned the editors that thetr duty was not only to comment upon the workings of "the system with a capital 'S' but also realize to what these activities were and what they signified. The lawyers of the country he said, are the men who must solve the difficulties, and "I believe they will have sense enough to do so." Governor Wilson said that the country is menaced by a wave of socialism unless some steps are taken to unlock the double bolted doors of opportuMoney From Insurance Licenses. Insurance Commissioner McMaster has reported to State Treasurer Jennings the amounts to he paid to the several county treasurers in the State on account of what is known as additional license fees, collected from the Insurance companies for the six months endmg December 31, 1310. This shows a total collected on this account of $60,117. One-half of which goes to the state and the other half to the counties. The total collections by the insur ance department from January 1, 1911, to June 1, 1911, amount to $101, 120.21. Objects to Transfer of Funds. The state treasurer R. H. Jennings. will refuse to countersign checks transferring the dispensary fund, amounting to $25,000, to four banks in the state, the banks not having been approved by the state financial board as depositories for state funds. The $25,000 In question is now on deposit in the National Loan and Exchange bank of Columbia, whe're it was placed as a working capital by the former commission. Felder Will Fight Requisition. Atlanta, Ga.?Governor Brown announced that he has set Tuesday, June 20, as the date for the hearing on the requisition from Governor Cole L. Blease, for Attorney Thos. B. Felder, of this city, the requisition having been issued on a warrant sworn out, charging Mr. Felder with having attempted to bribe "Hub" H. Evans, former chairman of the state dispensary board, in Newberry county, South Carolina, in 1905. What's-the-Use Says Mr. Lyon. Attorney General Lyon made it clear to Judge Aldrich in the Richland county court that if the alleged dispensary grafters should be convicted at this time that there were others who would undo the work. Judge Aldrich refused to sign an order which would have forced the attorney general to bring the cases tc trial at the next term of court or have them nol prossed, but he grant ed the several defendants the right tc have their demands for trial spread upon the minutes. Blease in Favor of Harmon. Following Gov. Woodrow Wilson't address to the South Carolina Brest association, Governor Blease made it known that he intended heading a fight to carry the South Carolina dele Ration to the national Democratic con vention for Harmon as against Wilson Governor Itlease thinks the ticket should be Harmon for president, ant Wilson for vice president. Sentence of This Man Commuted. The sentence of John Wheatly o1 Spartanburg, who was convicted 01 the charge of assault and battery ol a high and aggravated nature, has been commuted by the governor frorr two years tit a fine of $100. Wheatlj has already served 15 months. Sen Takes Father's Place. The governor has named James I Crews of Laurens as a member of th< Confederate home board, to take th* place of T. B. Crews, his father, de ceased. Sumter.?Sumter county has wit hit its borders six cases of smallpox. A1 of those attacked by the disease art negroes. Mcuntains-to-the-Sea Highway Work The committee of representative! from the automobile clubs interestet in the construction of the propose! mountnins-to-the-sea highway is ac t'.vely at work securing mapfi of th? various routes and stimulating inter est in the sections through which th? road may pass. According to the plai being worked out, this great trans state highway will be built in one day all arrangements for rushing the ac tual construction being made in ad vance. Plans will be announced ver soon. Will Remove Dispensary Funds. The present dispensary conunissiot Iiirta uri. jut'i iu ururm me n/wiia u . the respective members of the rom mission. There was $25,0r?o on de posit in a local hank and the com mission has decided to apportion fhi: amount among five banks. The sun of $5,000 will be placed in banks It Rishopvllle. Charleston. Mullins. New berry and Orangeburg, the respec tive homes of the various member ! of the commission. The actic-n wa decided upon by a resolution of tin commission. Governor Wilson Endorses Y. M. C. A Governor Wilson paid a high tri; bute to the work of the Y. M. C. A saying that the association "is tran.' running the face of great kingdoms, lie .aid the corner stone. Admissions to Practice Medicine. Applications for admission to th practice of medicine in South Can iina will be examined by the stat board of medical examiners In Colurr hia during the week of June 12. Thl announcement was made by Dr. Mar J taker, secretary of the board. MILL RSDAY, JUNE 8, 1911. PRESIDENT TAFT REBUKES OFFICER COLONEL OPPOSED PRIVATE'S PROMOTION BECAUSE HE IS MEMBER OF JEWISH RACE. CONDEMNS RACE PREJUDICE Commander-in-Chief of the Army Usel Plain Language to Col. Garrard? President Will See the Soldier Through?Commends Ambition. Washington.?President Taft creat" 1 Ifri'in il a a^SarniTHP iTrrTTr^ rebuked Col. Joseph Garrard, commanding the cavalry post at Fort Myers, Va., for disapproving Private Frank Bloom's effort for promotion because of Bloom's Jewish parentage. Colonel Garrard's endorsement characterized Jews as not "desirable social associates," and President Taft immediately directed the secretary of war to investigate the matter. The President stamped the expression as those of narrow race prejudice. He also said it was hard to deal with the matter "with patience and without condemnatory words that had better not be written." The war department pointed out that there have been many Jews among the army officers. Notwithstanding the President's inquiry directed to the secretary of war as to what should be done to discipline Colonel Garrard, the incident has been practically closed with the rebuke. The department decided that there was no ground for a court martial; an officer being at liberty to express his actual belief as to the availability of any candidate from the ranks. It was concluded that the President's purpose would be best served by the pub licatlon of the correspondence and with the delivery of ft copy to Colonel Garrard, with a letter from the secretary of war duly admonishing him not to repeat the endorsement. The case of young Bloom, who is a private in battery "F," Third Field Artillery, now on duty on the Mexican border, was brought to President Taft's attention by Simon Wolf, a prominent lawyer of this city. Several years ago Bloom was urged for appointment to West Point. President Roosevelt, not being in a position at the time to make the appointment, suggested to Bloom that he enlist and, "like a true American, fight his way up from the ranks." Bloom took the advice, entered the army, where he is said to have made a good record, and recently took his first examination for promotion. It is said that Bloom fniled in this examination, but, in view of the prejudice brought about by Colonel Garrard's endorsement, Bloom will be allowed a final examination in September. Famous Confederate Dead. El Paso, Texas.?Col. F. M. Locke, chnlrmnn nf the Ti-yhh seresqinn cnn vrntion, which deposed Gov. Sam Houston, died suddenly at his homo here, aged 87. Colonel Lock'1 fought through the Mexican war and was a colonel in the Confederate army. He founded the town of Alma, Ark., and was the first agricultural commissioner of Arkansas. Iowa Elects New Congressman. Council Bluff, Iowa.?Judge W. R. Green. Republican, was elected to Congress to fill the vacancy of Judge Walter I. Smith by an estimated plurality of is opponent was W. S. Cleveland of Harlan. The Canadian reciprocity agreement was the i?sue. Judge (tror-n derlnrmg against the pact. Over 100 Miles Pictures Destroyed. New York. -One hundred and forty miles of moving pictures melted into air leaving no ashes behind, when flames swept through the two-story building of the Towers company, film manufacturers in the Hronx. Seventy heroes and heroines, who were rehearsing a moving picture drama when the Are was discovered, fled for their lives and for an hour stood in their stage clothes on the sidewafk Work of Raising the Maine. Havana.?The preliminary stage in the work of exposing the wrerk of the old battleship Maine was completed when repairs to the caisson, which was ruptured two weeks ago, were finished by the driving of the last interlocking piles. Immediately the work of pumping out the water from the main cofferdam was begun, two powerful centrifugal pumps being used. Present indications are that some weeks must elapse before a complete examination is possible Committee to Try Lorimer. Washington.?Senators Dillingham Gamble, Jones and Kenyon, Republicans, and Fletcher, Johnston. Kern and Lea. Democrats, will constitute the sub-committee that will conduct the new investigation into the bribery charges against Senator Lorimer. Of the eight members, Messrs. Dilling ham and Gamble, KepuDlicans, ana Fletcher and Johnston, Democrats, voted for Lorimer in the previous investigation. Mr. Jones (Republican) voted against him. The wo.k will be pushed to completion. Ohio Legislator Confesses Guilt. Columbus, O.?What Prosecuting Attorney Turner and Attorney General Hcgan have been hoping during several weeks came about when a member of the legislature, Owen J. Evans, confessed in open court that he had accepted a bribe and declared his willingness to go before the grand Jury and make a clean breast of all his knowledge concerning alleged legislative corruption. Evans, after he had been fined $500, went before the grand Jury and will bp a witness, He will be a witness In court. ? TI WOODROW WILSON ON WOOL TARIFF JERSEY GOVERNOR APPROVES DEMOCRATIC COURSE IN CONGRESS. DISREGARD BRYAN'S VIEWS Follows Party Principles?Executive Comes Out Squarely and Firmly on Action of Caucus?All Parties Must Work for Good of Country. Washington.?After a day of politli^lconferences, Gov. Woodrow Wil~n r?r,iM--rri fl-iif1""-" resume his gubernatorial duties at Trenton, following a tour of the West and South. His visitors were from all sections of the country, including senators, representatives and private citizens. Senators Martlne of New Jersey and Gore of'Oklahoma were among the first callers on the prospective presidential candidate. All the conferences were open. To the members of the house particularly Governor Wilson expressed repeat- { ed congratulations. He said that the vigor with which the house had taken 1 ?1 ' ?' Kirl ir.cnir.wl thn pmin- I , IIUIU U? HO "W. ...oK ; try with renewed confidence in the Democratic party. The action of the caucus of Democratic representatives In voting for a reduction of the tariff en wool to 20 per cent ad valorem re| ceived his hearty commendation, despite the fact that William J. Bryan had warned the Democrats against any other course than taking all the duty off. What the governor had to say in regard to the Democratic caucus was summarized in these words: "The resolution passed by the caucus is a very frank statement and Justifies Itself by showing that the Democratic party is trying to do the , best that is possible and practicable in the circumstances. I mean that when we are revising a system, such as the tariff as a whole, we can make i compensations of revenue along the whole line. But in revising it schedule by schedule, we cannot make these compensations, except in the individual schedules. That is one of the i penalties of the step by step process. It does not seem to me that there is any abandonment of principle in the action taken. It looks to me as though the Democratic principles had been reasserted. Of course I am in favor cf free wool materials, including free raw wool, but every Democratic platform has declared for gradual tariff reduction." He reiterated his belief in the pro. gressive movement as inaugurated in I the West. The reforms adopted there, he declared, had proven very satisfactory. Along this line, he spoke of the progressive Republicans. "I do not see any difference between the Democrats and what we call progressive Republicans," said he, I "except possibly on the tariff." He reiterated his approval of the Canadian reciprocity agreement. "Will it help the Republicans or the Democrats In he was asked. "Which party it will help Is entirely a matter of indifference. The party j that thinks of itself and not of the country is going down to defeat," was the response. Negro Shoots Into Train Kills One. Demopolis. Ala Clifford Foxhall, a braketnan, was killed and two white passengers were shot through the hands near Tayloe. on the Southern railroad, when an unknown negro fired upon 'he train, while it was running at a medium rate of speed. Foxhall was shot twice and died shortly after being wounded. Girl Killed in Joy Ride. Worcester, Mass,?Miss Katherine Ryan of this city was instantly hilled and her sister, Miss Margaret iivnn fatally iniured when a large touring car in which they were passengi rs. returning from an outing, ran into a telephone pole. Four others were injured. Employed as Spy on Non-Union Work. Muskogee, okla. - John Delaney, quoted in a confession as having said he was employed by John J. Mc.N'amara, secretary and treasurer of the International Association of Structural Iron Workers, as spy on non-union work and that he marked the places where dynamite was to be placed, talked with visitors hen.. He still maintained that he was paid by John McNamara to spy on non-union building operations. His confession created a sensation. This testimony is damaging. Six in Pleasure Party Drowned. Salt Lake City.?Six persons were drowned in Utah lake when the sailing launch Galilee, on which Id persons were attending a party given in honor of the approaching marriage of Miss Vera Brown and Edward B. IlolmesT capsized in a squall. Among the drowned were the prospective bride and bridegroom ana rraiin aim Helen Brown, two other children of : Captain Frank Brown, owner of the launch. The lovers went to the bot| torn clasped in each other's arms. The bodies wer received. One Hundred and Fifty Banks Weekly Washington. ? Postmaster General Hitchcock has decided to increase the I extension of the postal savings system from one hundred to one hundred and fifty offices a week, with at least one thousand depositories designated by July 1. After July 1 the system is to be extended to first-class offices in the large Cities, only second class post offices having been designated so far. Fifty additional postoffices have been designated as depositories mak? Ing a ?o?al to data of 450k 9 MES SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS Cream of Current News Carved Out and Condensed Into a Column for Brief Reading. Washington.?Peter H. Bethea, of Latta, has been granted a patent for a sign. Columbia.?The governor has ap? pointed J. T. Kichey to be treasurer of Pickens county to succeed B. D. Dargan, deceased. Sumter.?The Sumter branch of the postal savings bank has been opened Columbia.?Irving Bachelor delivered the address at the graduating exercises of the College for Women in Columbia. Iva.?Fire of an unknown origin practically destroyed the entire business section of the town of Iva, in Anderson county. Greenville.?Mrs. Margaret Henderlite, wife of Rev. R. E. Henderlite, *Ajj?for of the Presbyterian church at P^j^N^^GjggJijjllecounty, died sud Columbia.?Waddy Hinder, who was serving a sentence of five years from Cherokee county on the charge of manslaughter, has been paroled by the governor. He was convicted in 1909 and has served two years. Mayesville.?Another evidence of the commercial growth of this town was given when Postmaster Cooper received notice from Washington that his salary would be raised to the $1,100 class on July 1. Columbia?The South Carolina Firfc Insurance Agents' convention, in session here, heard an address from Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster and decided to meet in Greenville next year. Columbia.?The governor granted a pardon to Isabella Hunt and Ella Gyles. A parole was granted to Wash Moore. The three were convicted In Horry county on the charge of manslaughter and were sentenced to "two years in the penitentiary. Concord, N. C.?Mr. J. M. Cherry of Rock Hill, was a visitor in the city inspecting the Edison storage battery street car with a view to buying one for the Rock Hill urban lines. Columbia.?John Wher^b/, of Spartanburg. has had his sentence commuted by Governor Blease, from a sentence of two years, having served fifteen months, to a fine now of $100. Wheatley was convicted at the fall term, 1906, and given two years on two counts. The charge was assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Greenville.?With the approach of summer has come a remarkable increase in building activities in Greenville and vicinity, an increase that must be charged to many accounts, but possibly the chief cause is the decided prosperity in this section as a result of general activity in construction work of all kinds, and a bright j trade outlook. Columbia.?A committee from the Chamber of Commerce of Columbia will go to Charleston on Juno 13 to co-operate with the chamber of com1 merce of that city in their efforts to secure a 30-foot channel for the harbor of Charleston. The project to secure a channel of this depth has been delayed and the meeting on the date set as arranged to formulate plans to bring the matter before congress. . ureeiivme.?yvnei nanus nnucu on the 2nd of May a letter to the public announcing what he had determined to do, to which was added a postcript, \V. K. Henton left his home in the Woodside cotton mill village about 6:20 o'clock /or the home of his sister-in-law, where he blew out his brains with a .38 calibre revolver. Greenwood.?It is stated that in district No. 18, which includes the city of Greenwood, only 732 polls are paid. Including white and colored. There ought to be at least 1,600 or 2.000. Here is a loss of at least $1,000 annually to the schools. We do not know who is responsible for the state of affairs, but it exists nevertheless. The number of dogs paid taxes on is 86. Any one knows that there are over 86 dogs in the city of Greenwood alone, to say nothing of the district outside of Greenwood. The pool tax and the dog tax, made to do what they should do. ought to yeild an income of at least $2,000 per annum. Florence.- The farmers of Florence county are well up with their work now, the fields are as clean r f grass as they ever were ,and many of the farmers are just "loafing around," as it were, waiting on Providence and the elements for a shower or a downpour. Chester.?The delegates to the state convention in Florence on July 4, from Chester R. F. D. association, will be instructed to invite the state convention to hold their 1912 session in this city, according to the action taken hv the Chester county It. F. D. men at their annual session here T>/?? T W Uf T> uiiniou.- i ii'.* mi. ui. ... .. Jacobs preached his forty-seventh anniversary sermon at the First Presbyterian church. He was installed pastor here in 1S04, when he was 22 >ears of age. Since that time he has been the constant and faithful pastor of this church. Mallorv.?It has been impossible thus far to estimate the damage to crops from the sand storm. The fields in the sandy section are as brown as though a frost had killed the vegetation and a filmy haze has settled over everything, making an unnatural appearance that is almost weird. Yorkville.?A barn, two mules, wagon and lot of feed belonging to estate of Capt. W. D. Smith, at Clover, York county, were destroyed by fire from an unknown cause. The destroyed property was insured for $450, which only covers part of the loss. Atlanta.?Governor Drown honored the requisition of the Governor of South Carolina for D. A. Tendardls. wanted in Calhoun county, on a charge of having disposed of mortgaged property and drawing checks when he bad no funds to cover them. Laurens.?A postal savings bank will b? opened h?r? on June ?7, 1 $1.25 PER YEAR BOYS' GOOD RECORD ^ t, 60UTH CAROLINA WON HONOR? AT GRADUATION MIDSHIPMEN U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY. HERBERT BOUSON'SSTANDING Other Achievements of Charleston Lad ?Two Other Young Men Graduated, Oliver M. Read, Jr., of Beaufort, and Robert B. Simons, Jr., of Charleston. Annapolis, Md.?South Carolina has iinnA.a tha annnnl ernrltinfInn WU11 uuuvto av tuv uiimuw. o*-- ? of midshipmen at the Naval academy, second standing in the class having been made by Herbert H. Bouson, a member of a prominent family of that name in Charleston. It was nip and tuck all through tho last term between Bouson and Hatch of New race for class honH a m p s h i r e two ors, and the standing a year ago was exactly reversed. Bouson had stood at the head of his class for two years, and his exchanging places with Hatch was due to a straining of his eyes by hard night study, which made it impossible for him to hold his own. The eyes suffered during the first two years before the academy authorities discovered they were about to lose some of the best men, and effected a remedy. However, at the commencement exercises Bouson was highly commended by Capt. Gibbons, the superintendent, and by Acting Secertary Win* throp, for his indomlta/ble courage and his excellent work despite the handicap. Aside from coming out secondv Bouson held his coveted position as champion of canes, which he attained two years ago. He is expert in all forms of fencing and leads in canes. For this he was awarded the silver medal again this year, which ho will hold through life. Two other South Carolina meil graduated, Oliver M. Read, Jr., of ueauron county anu nuutri o. onuons, Jr., of Charleston. Bouson was born in Charleston in 1889. He graduated from the Bennett nubile school, the Charleston high school and spent one year at the Citadel in Charleston. He was appointed to the naval academy In 1907 by Representative George S. Legare, he being the prinpical. He has done well in everything he tackled, but has held to books more than to athletics. He stands at the top in seamanship, navigation and mechanics and mathematics, the main essentials for a successful naval career. He is strong in engineering, and when the engines on his ship went wrong on the practice cruise, Bouson put them right after the ship's officers had failed. He will be assigned to his choice of the battleships and this will doubtless be the semi-Dreadnaught South Carolina. Read is a loyal South Carolinian, also. He was born in Beaufort county in 1889. He spent a couple of years at the Virginia Military institute before entering the Naval academy. The boys affectionately call him "Monk." His class standing is number 149. Simons is known as "Blondy." He was born in Charleston in 1888 and pmHiiatprf from thp high school there. He spent two years at Charleston ; college, where he went In for "frats," becoming a member of the Beta Kpsilon chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega. Clio.?Capt. W. A. Hinshaw was stricken with apoplexy and died. Capt. Hinshaw was a native of North Carolina. Commission's Lawyer Paio $5.00. Columbia ?W. A. Holman of the firm of Holman & Holmr.n of Charleston was paid $500 by the present dispensary commission, a warrant being drawn for that ^mount by Chairman Stackhouse. The commission did not receive the consent of J. Fraser Lyon, attorney general, before naming Mr. Holman as attorney. The act creating the dispensary commission gives the commission the right "to employ such assistant counsel as may be approved by the attorney general." Aiken Wants Encampment. Aiken - The city council has agreed to offer the National Guard of this state a site and water for an encampment. This offer is made to the brigade or to either of the regiments. The location, in the event of the coming of an encampment, would be the fair grounds. The water pipes now run to the city limits, and can be placed on to the camp ground for a small cost. The matter has been referred to the chamber of commerce, and it is probable that that body will < take some action in a few days. Complaint Against Freight Rates* Washington.?The D. W. Alderman Lumber company filed a complaint against the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern railways, alleging unjust and unreasonable rates on shipments of lumber from Marion to Canton, ?N. C. The rate between these points, it is claimed, should not exceed 17.8 cents per hundred pounds, this being the rate to Landrum, 262 miles from Marion. Reparation Is asked and the com* mission is requested to fix a fair rate between the points named. > vVill Try Oil on Sand-Clay Roads. |1 Aiken.?At a special meeting of city council a motion was passed approprl- m ating the sum of f50 for experimental purposes. One thousand gallons of * 3 crude oil has been purchased, and this oil will be spninkled on one of j the sand-clay roads that are being built through the city. -l $ \ How Jasper County Is Formed. Columbia.?The proposed new coun* ty of/Jasper embraces parfs o Beaufort and Hampton count'M. chairman is C. S. Perry H / | h J