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, ? :j "F I ?> 4 i* 4 * 4 *' 4 4 II B j[ JL R( }i = if G. L. < < > 1 ? 1;: t '^5? > .ji? ?> PLANS liHiBER ' OF COMMERCE A DOLLAR DINNER WILL BE GIVEN IN COLUMBIA ON NINTH OF JULY. URGE BUSINESS MEN TO COME Temporary Organization Has Been Completed With Lewis W. Parker, President, and A. McP. Hamby Secretary?Address Issued to Public. Columbia. ? A South Carolina Chamber of Commerce will be organized in Columbia at a dollar dinner to be given on July 9. The Idea is for not only the commercial organizations of South Carolina but for all citizens to get together and work for the state. At a preliminary meeting Lewis W. Parker of Greenville vas elected temporary president and A. McP. Hamby secretary of the Columbia chamber of commerce was selected temporary secretary. A call to the business men of South Carolina was issued . "Those who attended the meeting of the Ad Clubs of America in Dallas, Texas." said Mr. Hamby, "were impressed with it in South Carolina. Petty financial and other jealousies should be dropped and everybody should work for the whole state. After the permanent organization has been perfected meetings will be held from time to time, and members from mill Krt nriro/| 1a of tnnH W??1J OCV.WUU nil! l/TT ui^ru U?vuu and tell their troubles or what they have done to advance their interests. The dues will be 7eiy light and every good citizen is urged to join, whether he be a member of a chamber of commerce or a board of trade or not." The towns and cities represented at the meeting either by proxy or in person included Charleston, Columbia, Sumter, Florence, Orangeburg, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Georgetown and Greenville. The dollar for the dinner must be sent in to Secretary Hamby not later than June 26. Magistrate* Have Been Ousted. Holding that they are usurping and unlawfully holding office the supreme court in a decision by Associate Justice Watts ousted J. M. Bowden and A. H. Klrby, S. S. Tlner and D . T. Gossett, T. O. Fowler and W. C. Harrison, W. R. Tanner and E. Potter from the office of magistrates in Spar taaburg county. Bowden. Tiner, Tan ner and Fowler were appointed by the governor as magistrates without the recommendation of the county delegation. The othera ousted were eoeh BU I There are pi bia, Atlanta and Real Estate in ar that all Rock Mil! ly, and especially OAl/T AMH PI ( wnub/inu ivi j Winthrop Collej South Carolina n Rock Hill, arouni i want to give you j ! few vacant lots, i OAKLAND, tha } OAKLAND was ;! now at $2500.00 part of OAKLA1 "town side" ofW >ck ti GOBB, Secretary, holdover officials and ft a a oeen confirmed by the senate. The court or dered the defendants to pay the costs assessed. Bring In Verdict of Manslaughter. William F. Martin, who last January shot aud killed James Karris, a i lineman, at a boarding house on As| sembly street, Columbia, was tried for murder In the Richland county court and found guilty of manslaughter with a recommendation to mercy A motion will be made for an appeal of the case. Martin's plea was selfdefense. He did not take the stand. The state had six witnesses, and the following jury brought in the verdict: J. O. Poozer, J. B. Urquhart, J. E. Young, Q. B. Soott. S. B. Hyatt, H. W. Entaminger. W. C. Klugh, Preston Hooper, W. D. Uaybon, E. E. Faust, J. H. Jones and 0. S. Swygert Dispensary Trials Are Closed. Attorney General Lyon, discussing the recent dispensary trials in Rich land county, said that he did not expect the jury to convict, and that he did not believe a Richland county Jury would convict in the dispensary cases no matter what testimony might be presented. A verdict of not guilty was returned in the cases of H. H Evar.s. former member of the dispensary board, on a charge of receiving a rebate and conspiracy to receive a rebate, and against John Zell Towill, W. 0. Tatum and . W. Bovkln in the , label deal. Fire Djss Damage in Lexington. The large turpentine still of J. Press Clarke In the town of Lexington was destroyed by fire and the ringing of the fire bell caused considerable excitement for awhile. The turpentine ant' rosin made a tremendous black smoke, which caused many people to think that the fire was far more disastrous. A lot of turpentine and r. few barrels of rosin were consumed, causing a heavy Iobs. The I Are originated while the still was in ' operation from a spark, and the flames spread rapidly. Shooting Scrape at Greenwood. A young man named Hayne was : 1 shot in the neck by a young farmer, ) Dupre Sheay at Greenwood. The shooting took place in Lee & Blake's drug store on Main street. Sheay was trading when Hayne walked in and started toward him. Sheay, according to eye witnesses, retreated warning 1 , Hayne not to come upon him. Hayne 1 : oontinued. it is said, until Sheay had 1 readied a brick wall and oould not retreat further whereupon Sheay ' pulled a pistol and fired, the ball making double perforation in the neck. i A man in Chicago complains that | he is continually being identified by ( 1 the police on account of hi.? gold teeth. ] He must belong to the numerous class i | who are always getting into trouble 1 | because they cannot keep their mouths ' i shut. 1 CHIL T YOU I IN ORDER 1 eople living in Charlotte, C other places who own va id around Rock Hill. It is I Real Estate has enhanced is this true of building lots ilSIDENTIAL SECTION ?<e is located. You often sal estate men refer to "Li d Winthrop College" when an example of inhancement. in the thickly built up pc t Sold for $250 and $300 ? first opened up are being and $3000.00. 7 his deve MD lies in front of and or inthrop College, Th< w <?> < o**<3>* f?)' "<;>***<" [> *3-^ <?> .?./?%. .<** <? > <vi HI IS INDICTED GRAND JURY FOUND TRUE BILL AGAINST THE NEW YORK CLUB MAN. GRAND JURY DELIBERATES The Trial of Frederick 0. Beach Will Be Held in Aiken in September.?. He is Charged Witn Slashing His Wife's Throat. Aiken. ? Arte* >el?Derat!ng four hours and 25 minutes, the grand jury returned a true bill against Frederick O. Beach of the New York "400" charged with assault and battery with attempt to kill his wife, Mrs. Camilla Beach , last February, when the Beaches were occupying their winter homo here. None of the New York witnesses were present nor was Detective Baughn, who worked up the case for the city, but his brief, covering every detail of his three weeks' investigation, was placed before the grand jury. When Solicitor Gunter placed the case in the hands of the grand jury he told that body niat in addition to the witnesses he would place at their disposal, there were a number of others who are in other cities, and he instructed them that if they could not return a true bill from the evidence which would be laid before them not to make a report on the matter at all until the next term of ?purt when all the witnesses will be here. The solicitor also requested Judge Rice, whe is presiding at the June term of general sessions court, to excuse from service any of the grand jury who have formed or expressed an opinion regarding Beach's guilt or innocence. Judge Rice stated to the foreman of the grand jury that if 12 of the grand jurors could not agree from the evidence laid before them, that there is enough in the Beach case to warrant it going before a petit jury he would excuse such men who have formed or expressed an opinion. The case went to the grand jury at noon and at 4:25 o'clock the true bill was returned. Beach will be tried at the Septem ber term of court. Conference On Public Health. Columbia.?Dr. Jas. A. Havne, state health officer and secretary of the ?tate board of health, has returned from Washington, where he spent a lay in conference with other state health officers and the public health and marine hospital service. This was the tenth annual conference ol state and territorial health authorities with, the public health and marine 5onth rO MAKE MONEY BY INV Jolum- l Juable > true | rapidin the where j hear < ots in i they i The irt of | when i sold iloped l the IAS S WH Km/ A A PC/A 1^/ * ? ' * ^ = OW] 2 People hospital service. In addition to the surgeon general of the public health and marine hospital service, and other members of that service, there were representatives from many states of the Union. Decrease Shown In Child Labor. Columbia.?There has been a decrease of 32 per cent in the number of children in the cotton mills of South Carolina according to reports I furnished Commissioner Watson by ! 79 companies. In 1911 the total num ber of children in the mills under 16 years of age was 4,221 and the reports this year show-, the number to be 2,734. The reports filed show that no children under 12 years of age, are employed, while in 1911 there were 168. These figures will be used by Commissioner Watson in an address to be delivered before the annual gathering of the International Association of Factory Inspectors in Washington. Watson Makes Cotton Report. Columbia.?That the most conservative figures for the eleven princial | cotton growing states show a total reduction of 6,071,750 acres, was the statement contained in a report by E J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina and president of the Southern Cotton Congress on the results obtained under the ' Hock Hill plan" for reduction of cotton acreage, which was inaugurated by John G. Anderson of Rock Hill. Young Man Shot To Death. Hartsville.?Dalton Gilbert. a young man. son of A. J. Gilbert, a farmer of good standing who lives about five miles west of Hartsville, was shot tc death by another man, Barney Wallace. The killing occurred in tie woods of a byroad from the public road, leading from Hartsville to McBee, about three miles from Hartsville. The spot was an isolated one, and there were no witnesses. It appears that Wallace and Gilbert had been driving together and apparently had been friendly. Politics In Lexington County. Lexington. ? The political pot in Lexington county Is beginning to simmer, and the candidates are "covering" the field at a lively rate. There has been, however, up to the present less interest shown in the politics of the county than at any time in many years, due no doubt to the fact that the people have had other things of ifcore serious and vital nature to occupy their thoughts. The interest in the gubernatorial race between Cole L. Blease and Ira B. Jones is overshadowing everything eise. A Gotham Judge in a suit over a suit decided that the dress in dispute was a fit. This nearly gave the fair defendant one, and proved again to the satisfaction of injured femininity the intrinsic injustice in our man made decisions. AVE TO ESTING IN ROCK HILL'S l B c j A T1 i OU Tr Pr G r Ii 101 j: R< [ITE, Secretary VER = >s Trusl SEABOARD RY. SOLD By THOS. 5. RVAN BALTIMORE FINANCIER AND HIS ASSOCIATES PURCHASE CONTROL OF THE SYSTEM. PLANS TO DEVELOP SOUTH Warfield Says South's Position in Sea board Affairs Will Now Be Emphasized. New York.?Announcement was made here of the purchase of S. Da vies Warfield. president of the Cc:i imental Trust company of Haltimorj of a large block of stock in the S?.a board Air Line railway, whereby th control of the railway will pass to .Mr. Warfield and a group of financial interests associated with him. The transfer, it is stated, marks the practical retirement of Thomas F. Ryan from the Seaboard. The sale announced includes 90,0<io shares of the preferred and 120,Oo1 shares of the common stock of the Seaboard Air Line, and was made bj the Cumberland corporation. During the last year .Mr. Warfield has acquired iarge holdings of Seaboard stock, which, with the latest purchase, pass os control to the group with which hr is nssnrintnrl In nil nrnrtiralv S.'T i0,000 of common and $21,000,ono of | J he preferred stock are outstanding. According to announcement made, I leading financial interests in tl:-1 states traversed by the Seaboard syv teni are closely identified with Mr WarfU Id. Among his New York as | sociatese are F. A. Vanderlip, Albert II. Wiggin, Blair & Co., Benjamin Strong. Jr., Charles H. Sahin, Samu< 1 I.. Fuller and Robert Walken, former i chairman of the railway and of th' ' board of the Rock Island company It is understood that the block of | s'ock taken over will be trusteed f:: j five years. Mr. Warfield acting as the , chairman of the managers. The first large and concrete tin ! dertaking in the making of the New | South has just been consummated in ; lu> acquisition of the Seaboard A!t I.ine, the most important industry o! th" South Atlantic states, by Mr. Dn vies Warfield of Baltimore and a syn dicate of Southern business men and New York bankers. The transfer of the majority stock of the property has been made and now Southern men or men possessed of a keen desire to develop the South, have come into control of the property. When the new board of directors is chosen this fall men of wealth and influence to represent each of the Virginias, and North and South Carolina. Georgia. Florida and Alabama will find places on It. Purchase of this railroad was part ^ t>.?^tv^2v^-r>*^*<cw#* *<t'*#"C>*#* J>,#" ?* $*H LIVE Th REAL ESTATE. tut Here is Anoi tunity to Buy a Let at Your O )N JUNE 201 new section of Oakland wi ON, WITHOUT LIMIT. t Limit, By-bidding or any c icks. We shall sell over 2( ice and on easy terms. 1 E ash; the balancein five equa December 1st, 1912, 1 7 per cent In Watch this space for furthei copy of our beautiful ill )ck Hill and map of Oaklam c Wll c : to. of a larger idea of Mr. WarfleM an progressive Southerners who organi; ed early this year the Southern Se tlement and Development associatlo at Baltimore. TAFT USING STEAM ROLLE! i 1 24 Delegates From Alabama and Ar kansas Added to Taft's Column. Chicago. ? Twenty-four delegate; from Alabama and Arkansas wen added to the Taft column by the ac tion of the Republican national com mittee on the so-called Roosevelt con tests from those states. All congest! presented before the committee wen decided in Taft's favor, and in all bu two of the decisions the action wa; unanimous. One roll call test, appar ently, had shown fifteen anti-Tar votes. The cases decided were those ol the six delegates-at-Iarge and the twc each in the First, Second, Fifth Sixth and Ninth congressional dis tricts n Alabama!, and the four dele gates-at large and the two each in the First and Second districts of Ar kanssa. The contest over the six delegates , at-large from Arizona was postponed until a latrr day, on motion of Com naittceman Penrose of Pennsylvania. In view of the bitter feeling between the Taft and Roosevelt adherents, the meeting was surprisingly peaceful, although it opened with a contest which seemed to forecast a degree of friction. This, however, failed to materialize. Commerce Court Stripped cf Power. Washington.?Plow after Mow was given the new commerce court by the Supreme court of the United States, which upheld the exclusive Jurisdic tinn of the interstate commerce commission over the Federal rate laws. The principal decision was announced by Chief Justice White. He was sustained by the entire court, in substance he held that the commerce court was not to substitute its judgment for the interstate commerce commission in the administration of the rate laws. Solvent Banks Were Forced to Wall. New York.?Testimony intended to show how the power of the New York clearint; house committee was used to * ~ Vionlr fn t V? r> xv n 11 rlnp. iurce cl SUP cut ivy WAV. v.... ing the aftermath of tho panic of 1907. with th" rrcult that the "fair reputation" of its president was "blasterl." was dramatically presented before the Pujo committee of the house of representatives, which is investigating the so-called money trust. The testimony was elicited by Samuel T'ntermyer, special counsel of the commit'ee. :'o tlc published list of the ten ::?ot.t b ; :! v. uen the young man v. ho oa; ju t become engaged takes violent deception. ther Opporn Oakland wn Price :h 8l21st II be sold at AUG' j YES, we mean with>ther hind of Auction 30 lots at your own RMS: ten per cent I payments, 3, 14, 15, 16, | terest j r information. Write ustrated Booklet of d. ^ t SELLING I i , <t t * ? ? ? ' ' # ? .0 ? *? ? i MARINES 10 STOP CUBAN RAGE WAR " ADMIRAL OSTERHAUS ORDERED TO HAVANA FROM KEY WEST 3 s WITH HIS TWO SHIPS. CONDITIONS ARE VERYGRAVE Minister Beaupre Cables Washington t That Situation Has Assumed i Character of Race War. ' i r ++++++++++++++++ 4- + M + No Comment by Gomez + i . + About the Warships. + . 1 + + j + Havana. Cuba.?President Go- + + moz. on being informed that + i ; + American warships had been or- + + dered to Havana, declined to + 1 + make any comment. Scnor Kam- + + rez, the presidential secretary, + + however, said that the president + + had expressed neither satlsfac- + + tion nor regret on the receipt of + + the news. + + ++++++++++ +++++ Washington.?The navy department, acting under instructions from the state department, ordered Admiral Osterhaus to proceed forthwith from Key West to Havana with one dispatch ship and one other ship. These orders were issued by the state department, after the receipt of a dispatch from Minister Beaupre report, Ing that conditions in Havana and the I I suburbs had assumed the character of ; a race war. I It is probable that Admiral Oster j i haus, besides the dispatch ship, will tak<- his flagship, the Washington, in to Cuban waters. Minister Beaupre's message said that conditions in and around Hava I na had been menacing and there were anti-negro demonstrations of large proportions by irresponsible el- j 'merits and that there were clashes in every quarter of Havana and vi cinifv. He rrported that the negroes were being goaded into violence and that retaliation might have disastrous consequences. Americans and other foreigners and many Cubans, he said were very apprehensiv eand desired .the sending of an American war ves sel. The state department has decided to leave entirely to Rear Admiral T'sher, commanding the Fourth divls oin of the Atlantic fleet, the disposi tion of the American marines, whc : are to be employed as guards for for eignowned properties in eastern J Tuba. 1 An : -t< : :i man has been equipped rtth a celluloid jaw. probably to i.-.r.trh bis celluloid collar. s T I II i.l f ?, 4? JO" ::} <i? w r T T * ? JI ???i 11 4 9 2 I r H : I .u I/, <*> *2* 44 It II ...* ft J y T VT ^0- if o i :! ft A < > AGENT || ' ! T T t T <.1^ CONVICTS IN "GRUB STRIKE" Nineteen Hundred Prisoners in San Quentin Mutiny at Dinner. San Quentin, Cal.?A continuation of the "grub strike" demonstration, began in San Quentin prison, developed into a riot in the general mess hall, as a result of which one prisoner was shot and killed and two were wounded. The dead: H. L. Lynnwood, a naval prisoner serving a term of six and one half years for desertion and impersonating an officer. The wounded: Frank Taylor, negro, serving twen'y years for robbery committed in San Francisco, shot through the hand; H. A. George, struck in the leg by glancing bullet. Nineteen hundred prisoners were sitting down to dinner, when 200 or 300 of the men began a concerted demonstration. Not content with voicing their protests with shrieks and catcalls, the demonstrants began throwing dishes and food about. Some made a rush f<?- the adjoining wicken and begwi hurlnig pots and pans around the room. No sooner had the mutiny started than the prison bei was sounded with the "lock-up'' signal. The prisoners were quickly marched to their cells, but the rioters even after being locked up, continued their shrieks of defiance and kept up their shouting at intervals. Warden John Hoyle said that thirty or forty of the mutineers would be severely disciplined. Ten men were singled out for disciplinary measures for the disturbance, but of these only four were punished. Democrats Gathering in Baltimore. Baltimore.?Batlimore awaits the coming of 1,090 delegates to the Democratic national convention, the preparations for which have practically been completed. Already the advance guard of boomers for candidates for the presidential nomination have now pitched their camps on the batteground and are laying the final plans of campaign. With the arrival of National Chairman Norman E. Mack, the official arrangements for the convention will be considered for adoption later by the arrangements committee. Twenty-five Men Killed In Card Game Knoxville, Tenn.?Twenty-five men were killed at Dante, Va., in a drunken row precipitated in a card game. It is reported that the dead men are Italians and mountaineers who made their homes at Dante, a raining town of about 6,000 inhabitants. The fight which resulted in so many fatalities is said to have ensued when the Italians charged the mountaineers with trying to defeat them at their game by using unfair methods. Practically every man in the game lost his life. It is a breach of the peace to dance the "turkey I rot" in Connecticut, to say nothing of being a breach of etiquette. i '