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THE FORT MILL TIMES / Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, 80UTH CAROLINA. iiruin nr Tiir uirri/ Nt wd ur int wttiv LATE NEWS OF 1 HE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. SOUTH, EAST,iRTH AND WEST Notes From Foreign Lands, Throughout the Nation and Particularly ths Great South. Southern. Mtb. Mabel Mills, wife of a wealthy land owner of San Antonio. Texas, lies under the care of physicians at an Kvanston, 111., hospital, after either having lost or been robbed of about $43,500 in that city. Mrs. Mills is suffering from a wound In the back of her head, but is uncertain whether she was felled by a blow and robbed or whether she fainted and sustained the injury by a fall to the sidewalk. In a running ArIu on the border near Douglas. Ariz., between Mexican soldiers and troopers of the Ninth United States cavalry, four Mexicans were killed. None of the American troops were killed or wounded, according to advices received at IC1 Paso. Pour American oftlcers, walking on the American line, three miles from nonplus, are reported to have been fired on by forty regular Mexlckn soldiers, patrol'.ng the border out of Agua Prieta, opposite Douglas. Sixteen of the negro troops of the Ninth rushed to the place of the llring and had a spirited skirmish. The settlement of a murder case for $01.50 sounds rather unusual, but is it said that was what happened at Athens, Ga., in the settlement of tho killing of one small negro boy by another. Percy Carson, aged 12, shot Arthur Johnson, aged 10, through the thigh, after the two boys had quarreled. The boy who was shot bled to death; the boy who did the shooting fled. He is said to he in the country, three miles from Athens, but has not been arrested nor has a warrant been sworn out for his nppi ehension. If Clinton M. Roczkowski, tho two and a half-year-old son of Mr. ami Mrs. O. \V. M. Roczkowski, of Albany, Ga., recovers from frightful burns, it will be because his sister, six years old, hud presence of mind to dash several panfuls of water which she drew from a hydrant, over the little fellow's burning garments. Po?>eman John Gibby was shot and killed ..t Cornelia, Ga., ly two tramps whom he had put under arrest. The two tramps, who were negroes, were lynched. Many women and children were present at the lynching. Doth the army ami navy recruiting stalions in Atlanta are experiencing record enlistments. The army station has enlisted something over sixty men for one month ami the navy twentyeight men. Giles \V. Farrls, Oklahoma state printer, was Impeached by the Oklahoma senate on charges of forgery und the approval of illegal claims. O. V. SisBon, a well known farmer of the vicinity of Talladega, Ala., was fatally injured when an old ex-flre horse with which he was plowing heard a tire alarm and suddenly (lashed away in answer to tho old call. The horse was formerly connected with the local tire department and was accustomed to gallop off with his mates at the sound of the alarm. General On July 1. next, the collect-on delivery feature will be added to the parcel post service. For half an hour after he had killed (..eorge h. Marsh, an nged manufacture of Lynn. Mass., William Dorr drove up anil down the Lynn boulevard with the body propped tip beside him in the single seat of his run about. The state alleges that Marsh was murdered so the defendant might profit indirectly through a trust fund which lie thought would go to his aunt. Another was added to the list of antarctic tragedies by the news received at Sydney, N. S. W., of the death of two members of the expedition commanded by Dr. Douglas Mawson. The party left Tasmania in 1911 accompanied by a large body of scientific men, to explore thoroughly the regions around the southern magnetic pole. Once again the British army is affected by the loss of a brilliant officer, Lieut, 1). K. S. Nlnn'n of the famous Uoynl Fusiliers regiment. Switzerland has suffered a severe loss in the death of Doctor Merz. a prominent scientist and sportsman. In accordance with orders received from Washington, the old Anoni tor Puritan, now at the Charleston, S. C., navy yard, will be stripped of all her fittings and prepared for use as a target. Built in 1876 the Puritan did good service during the Spanish wnr. The widow of llapt. Robert F. Scott, the antarctic explorer, will henceforth be known as I^uly Scott. King George bestowed on her the same rank, style . and precedence aB if her husband had been nominated a knight commander. A number of counterfeit ten and twenty-dollar bills have made their Appearance at Jacksonville, Fla. wPfr BBc*' IfeaLtdi; / I Fire destroyed the Dewel hotel at Thirteenth anu Farnatn streets, in uniuiiit, ?>fu. ai least a score autl possibly more ot persons lost their lives. The fifth box car loaded with a portion of the skeleton of an Atah lizard started from Jensen, Utah, for the Carnegie museum In Pittsburg. It Ib estimated that ten more carloads will be necessary before all the bones of the giant dinosaur, which is being excavated on the banks of the Green i^ver, are assembled in Pittsburg. The bones are quarried in blocks out of solid rock and the blocks cased fpr shipment. The skeleton measures 84 feet in length. John Beal Snced, a wealthy west TexaH ranch owner, was declared not guilty of the murder of Al Hoyce, Jr.. at Amarlllo, Texas, last September. Sneed shot Royce to death on a downtown street in Amarlllo at what was said to have been the first meeting' of the two men after Boyce had eloped with Mrs. Sneed about a year before the killing. Al Boyce, Jr.. was the second member of the Boyce family that Sneed had killed on account of developments following the elopement. The flight of Ernesto Madero and Francisco Madero, uncle and father of the late president, became known in Mexico City. Ernest Madero had attempted to induce the troops to join in a new revolt and orders had been issued for liis arrest. The Maderos reached Vera Cruz and went on board a Cuban gunboat. Emilio Madero, a brother of the late president, has been shot and killed near Monterey, according to information received Washington With the adjournment of congress the end is written to two years o! epoch-making struggle within party ranks; and to three sessions of effort only partially successful, t? adjust the differences between a Democratic house, a senate under DemocraticProgressive control and a Republican president. The power of the Internationa! Harvester company, the so-called harvester trust, which the Federal govern ment Is seeking io dissolve under the oucruimi law, lies in lis superior com- I mund of capital, including its coniKc- | tious with J. P. Morgan & Co., and John 1). Rockefeller, and certain objectionable competitive methods, according to Luther Conaut, Jr., commissioner of corporations, in bis report on the operations of the giant corporation submitted to President Taft. The Webb liquor bill, prohibiting the shipment of liquor into "dry" states, was repassed in the senate over the president's veto. There was only a short debate. The rejoinder of the British government to the last American note regarding the Panama canal zone tolls question was delivered to Secretary Knox by AmLassador Bryce. Though naturally of great interest to secretary Knox, he will make no effort to consider it, but will allow the negotiations on the American side to be continued by his successor ofilce. The new president has made his position plain lately to several Democratic senators, lie has made known to Democratic senate leaders most closely in bis confidence that he favors the passage of Senator Root's amendment to the Panama canal bill In ronAllI (hc? " ? .... |.iw<iniwil |H 111!' ill! American coastwise ships from pay | mcnt of tolls. The bill to create a department of labor with a cabinet officer at its head passed the senate after less than an hour's consideration. The measure had previously passed the house, but amendments in the senate will require its perfection in conference. One amendment would put the new children's bureau under the di rectlon of the secretary of labor. President Taft sent to congress bis much-discussed "budget" message. Ho recommended the adoption of a budget system of relating proposed expenditures to expected revenues and declared that congress would be greatly benefited by having before it such a statement before it began the nnnuul grind upon appropriation bills. The United States, he says, is the only irient naflnn in the worlit whlrli <li/l not use the budget system and in consequence It "may be said to be without plan or program." He indi rated that owing to the late day at which be was able to transmit his message he expected little legislation on the topic from the present congress. In n special message to congress, President Taft urgently recommended immediate appropriation of $250,000 for the first annual payment to Pan ama under the terms of the treaty by which Panama gave to thu United States permission to build the Panama canal. The treaty provided that in addition to $10,000,00(1 in gold paid for the canal zone in annual sum of $250,000 was to he paid as long as the treaty existed, beginning nlno years after ratification of tho treaty. The first payment is dno February 20. The government might have gained thirty-six million dollars in the last twenty-six years had it collected interest on ail Its deposits and what it might have deposited In hanks and still retained a working balance of thirty-five million dollars in the treas ury, according to the conclusion of a report of the house committee on expenditures In the treasury department. The committee recommended that the ways and means committee or the hanking and currency committee report a law compelling deposit of excess government funds at interest under a competitive bidding system. _Lj WILSON INDUCTED INTO HIGH OFFICE Inauguration of Twenty-Seventh President Is Witnessed by Great Crowds. MARSHALL SWUHN IN FIRST Simple Ceremony In Senate Chamber Followed by More Impressive Affair on East Portico of the Capitol. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington, March 4.?In the presence of a vast throng of his fellow citizens, Woodrow Wilson today stood in front of the east portico of the capltol and took the oath of president of the United States. Thomas R. Marshall already had been sworn in as vicepresident, and with the completion of the ceremony the ship of state was manned by the Democratic party, which had been ashore for sixteen years. As the new chief executive of the nation stood with bared head, Edward Douglass White, chief justice of the Supreme court, held before him the Hible always used in the ceremony. Mr. Wilson pluced his hands upon the book and in a voice strong, though somewhat affected by emotion, swore to sunuort the Constitution and the laws of the country and to perform the duties of his high ofllce to the best of his ability. Thomas Riley Marshall swore fealty to the Constitution and to the people in the senate chamber, where for four years it will be his duty to preside over the deliberations of the members of the upper house of congress. Severely Simple Ceremonies. Both of the ceremonies proper were conducted in n severely simple but moBt impressive manner. The surroundings of the scene of the president's induction into ofllce, however, were not so simple, for it was an outof-door event and the great gathering of military, naval and uniformed civil organizations gave much more than a touch of splendor to the scene. In the senate chamber, where the the oath was taken by the man now vice-president of the United States, there were gathered ubout 2.000 people, all that the upper house will contain without the risk of danger because of the rush and press of the multitudes. It i6 probable that nowhere else In the United States at any time are there gathered an equal number of men and women whose names are so widely known. The gathering in the senate chamber and later on tire east portico of the capltol was composed largely of those prominent for their services in America, and in part of foreigners who have secured places for their names in the current history of the world's doings. The arrangements of the ceremonies ror the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Riley Marshall were made by the joint committee on arrangements of congress. The senate N "SHi President Woodrow Wilson. section of this committee was ruled by a majority of Republicans, but there is Democratic testimony to the fact that the Republican senators were willing to outdo their Democratic brethren in the work of making orderly ntul impressive the inaugural ceremonies in honor of two chieftains of the opposition. Ride to the Capitol. President Taft and President-elect Wilson rode together from the White Douse to the cnpitol, accompanied by two members of the congressional committee of arrangements. The vicepresident-elect nlso rode from the White House to the capitol and in the carriago with him were the senate's president pro tempore. Senator Racon of Georgia, and three members of the congressional committee of arrangements. The vlce-preBldent-elect took the oath Just before noon in accordance with custom and prior to its taking by the president-elect. Every arrangement for the senate chamber proceedings had been made so that they moved forward easily and with a certain ponderous grace. mannHii oworn in. The admission to the senate chamber to witness the oath-taking ot the vice-president was by ticket, and It la needless to say every seat was . i n liTiftiL . - \\ ' j I occupied. On the floor of the cliamRber were many former members of \the senate who, because of the fact (that they once held membership in that body, were given the privileges of the floor. After the hall was filled jind all the minor officials of government and those privileged to witness ijhe ceremonies were seated, William A. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, precede*l by the Bergeant-at-arms and the < Ummittee of arrangements, entered lMe senate chamber. They were folf Sved immediately by Vice-Presldentnet Thomas K. Marshall, leaning fa on the arm of the president pro > npore of the senate who, after the ^.tlng of the incoming vice-president. ( Jk his place as presiding officer of \ je senate and of the day's proceed\if " v Wie preRident and the presidentelt*>? sat in the first row of seats direct*? in front and almost under the deskjof.the presiding officer. In the sama row, but to their left, were the vice-Wesldent-?elect and two former vice-ttiresidents of the United States, Levi \p. Morton of New York and Adlal A.l Stevenson of Illinois. Whfen the distinguished company entered Vhe chamber the senate was still ut.ider its old organization. The oath otf office was immediately administered! to Vice-President-elect Mapshall, Vvbo thereupon became VicePresident Marshall. The prayer of the ! day wul? given by the chaplain of the senate, utev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, paB jggr^ ^ ^ | ! Y!, Vice-President \viarshall. tor of All Souls' Unitarian church, of which President Tuft lias been n member. After the prayen the vice-president administered thtV oath of olhce to all the newly chosen ^"tiators, and therewith the senate of the \ United States passed for the first time" -in years into the control of tlio Demo" cratic party. Procession to the Platform. Immediately after the senate ceremonies a procession was formed to march to the platform of the east por- i tlco of the capltol, where Woodrow ! Wilson was to take the oath. The procession included the president and the , president-elect, members of the Su- J 1'n-uiv! cuun, dotii nouses or congress, all of the foreign ambassadors, ail of the heads of the executive depart- , ments, many governors of states and , territories. Admiral Dewey of the navy and several high officers of the sea service, the chief of staff of the army ' and many distinguished persons from civil life. They wore followed by the ; members of the press and by those persons who had succeeded in secur- i ing Beats in the senate galleries to witness the day's proceedings. When President Taft and the presi- j dent-elect emerged from the capitol on to the portico they saw In front of them, reaching far hack into the i park to the east, an immense con- i course of citizens. In the narrow line j between the onlookers and the plat- | form on which Mr. Wilson was to take ; the oath, were drawn up the oadetn i of tire two greatest government schools. West Point and Annapolis, I and flanking them were bodies of regulars and of national guardsmen. The whole scene was charged with color 1 and with life. Ou reaching the platform the president and president-elect took the seats reserved for them, seats which were flanked by many rows of benches rising tier on tier for the accommodation of the friends and families of the officers of the government and of the press Oath Administered to Wilson. The instant that Mr. Taft and Mr. Wilson came within sight of the crowd there was a great outburst of applause. and the military bands struck quickly into "The Star Spangled Banner." Only a few bars of the music were played and then soldiers qnd civilians became silent to witness respectfully the oath taking and to listen to the address which followed. , , The chief justice of the Supreme court delivered the oath to the president-elect, who, uttering the words, | "I will," became president of tin United States. As soon as this ceremony was completed Woodrow Wilson delivered his inaugural address, his ; tlrst speech to his fellow countrymen in the capacity of their chief executive. At the conclusion of the sneecli fho bands played once more, and William ; Howard Taft, now ex-president of the \ United States, entered a carriage with the new president and, reversing the order of an hour before, sat on the left hand side of the carriage, while Mr. Wilson took "the seat of honor" on the right. The crowds cheered as they drove awny to the White Houbc, which Wocdrow Wilson entered as the occupant and which William H. >Taft Immediately left as one whose lease had expired v ; ; y,\^ \ GREAT PARADE IN HONOR OF WILSON Federal and State Troops, Men From Navy, Veterans and Civilians March. GEN. WOOD IS GRAND MARSHAL Indians, Hunt Clubs and College Students Are In Line?Enthusiastic Spectators Continuously Cheer the Inaugural Procession. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington, March 4.?The "JelTersonlau simplicity" which Woodrow Wilson requested should be observed in every detail of his inauguration as president did not apply to the inaugural parage, for it was as elaborate as bucIi an affair usually is. The people wanted it so. and they showed their appreciation of the spectacle by turning out by the hundred thousand and cheering wildly as the marchers passed with bands playing loudly and flags waving bravely. The newly inaugurated president reviewed the procession and smiled his approval aB ho returned the salutes of the commanding officers, for nil the glittering show had been arranged in his honor. Pennsylvania avenue, from the capitol to the White House, was full of color, muBic and movement. People Enjoy the Sight. The inhibition of the inaugural ball and of the planned public reception at the capitol hud no effect as a bar to the attendance at. this ceremony of cnanging presidents. Masses were here to see, and other masses were here to march. There was a greater demon| stration while the procession was passing than there was four years ago. Victory had come to a party which had known nothing like victory for a good many >years. The joy of possession found expression In steady and abundantly noisy uce'aim. crcsiuem ran and 1-Tesuient-eleet Wilson were escorted down the uveI nue by the National Guard troop of ( cavalry of Essex county. New Jersey. ' The carriage in which rode Vice. President-elect Marshall and Prcsij dent pro tempore Macon of the United States senate was surrounded by the members of the Hlack Horse troop of the Culver Military academy of Indi'felK Scene on Pennsylvania Avenue Durin tion Parade. ana. This is the first time in ti.c history ot' inaugural ceremonies that a guard of honor has escorted a vicepresident to the scene of his oath taking. Formation of Parade. The military and tne civil parade, a huge affair which stretched its length for miles along the Washington streets, formed on the avenues radiating fiom the capitol. After Presidentelect Wilson had become President Wilson and Vice-President-elect Marshall had become Vice-President Marshall, they went straightway from the capitol to the White House and thence shortly to the reviewing stand in the park at the mansion's front. The parade, with Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. United States army, as its grand marshal, started from tlie capitoi grounds to move along the avenue to the White House, where it was to pass In review. The trumpeter sounded "forward march" at the instant the signal was flashed from the White house that in fifteen minutes the newly elected president and commanderin-chief of the armies and navies of the United States would be ready to review "his troops." It was thought that the parade might lack some of the picturesque features which particularly appealed to the people 'on former occasions. There were Indians and rough riders here not only when Roosevelt was inaugurated, but when he went out of office and was succeeded by William H. Taft. The parade, however, in honor of Mr. Wilson seemed to be picturesque enough in its features to appeal to the multitudes. They certainly made noise enough over It. r . : 1 y - M t The procession was in divisions, with General Wood as the grand marshal of the whole affair and having a place at its head. The display, in the words invariably used on like occasions, was "Impressive and brilliant." Wotherspoon Leads Regulars. The regulars of the country's two i armed service naturally had the right of way. Maj. Gen. W. W. Wotherspoon, United States army, was in command of the first division, in which inarched the soldiers and sailors and marines from the posts and the navy yards within a day's ride of Washington. The West Point cadets and the midshipmen from the naval academy at Annapolis, competent beyond other corps in manual and in evolution, the future generals and admirals of the army, had place in the first division. All branches of the army service were represented in the body of regulars?engineers, artillery, cavalry, in- , fantry and signal corps. The sailors and marines from half a dozen battleships rolled along smartly in tho wake of their landsmen brethren. The National Guard division followed the division of regulars. It was commanded by 13rig. Gen. Albert L. Mills, United States army, who woro the medal of honor given him for conspicuous personal gallantry at the battle of San Juan hill. General Mills is the chief of the militia division of the United States war department. The entire National Guard of New Jersey was in line, and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland. Virginia, vjeurgm, .tiaiin* unu i\onn Carolina were represented by bodies of civilian soldiers. Cadets from many of the private and state military schools of the country had u place in the militia division. The third division of the parade was composed of Grand Army of the'Hepublic veterans, members of the Union Veteran league and of the Spanish war organizations. Gen. James E. Stunrt of Chicago, a veteran of both the Civil and the Spanish wars, was in command. Thousands of Civilians. I Robert N. Harper, chief marshal of the civic forces, commanded the fourth division. Under his charge were political organizations from all parts of the country, among thejji being Tammany. represented by '2,000 of its braves, and Democratic elubs from Chicago, Itoston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities. They put tl.e American Indians into tho civilian division. The fact that they were in war paint and feathers helped out in picturesqueness and did nothing to disturb the peace. Mem 1 hers of the United Hunt Clubs of \ 4 f 1 W*?" / g the Progress of a Typical InauguraAmerica rode In this division. Their pink coats and their high hats ap-' parently were not thought to Jar '.leffersonian simplicity" from its seat. Pink coats were worn ou the hunting field in Jefferson's day and in Jefferson's state. There were 1,000 Princeton students in the civic section of the parade. Many of them wore orange and black sweaters and they were somewhat j noisy though perfectly proper. Stu1 dents from seventeen other colleges ! and universities were among the I marchers. Cheering Is Continuous. All along Pennsylvania avenue, from j the capitol to a point four block be1 yond the White House, the spectators | were massed in line > ten deep. The cheering was constant and Woodrow Wilson cannot complain that the ceremonies attending his induction into , oillce were not accompanied by apparently heartfelt acclaim of the people over whom he is to rule for at least four years. Every window in every building on Pennsylvania avenue which is not occupied for office purposes was rented weeks ago for a good round sum of money. Every room overlooking the inarching parade was taken by as many spectators aB cound tind a vantage point from which to peer through tjie window panes The roofs of the hiilldings were covered with persons willing to stand for hours in a March duy to see the wonders of the inaugural parade, and many of them partlc many gina or an opportunity to go homo and to say that after many years waiting they had seun a Democratic president inaugurated.