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f I. / THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, 80UTH CAROLINA. This year has beeu taking Its weather in spasms. if wishes were autos street railways would go bankrupt. Woman leads the world when she j wears the diaphanous gown. It you seek sincerity you can And . It In the wag of a dog's tail. Woman leads tho human race? when she wears a diaphanous gown. A cubist camera Is announced. But , aren't they all that way with the beginners? Another danger of water drinking was observed when a cooler in a hotel exploded. California recommends dried cantaloupe, but California has not yet lived down the prune. Norway has its first woman Judge. ! Think how happy Bhe will be when nobody can talk back. No trouble to get schoolboys Interested in mathematics. There are the baseball averages to figure out. That fight ugnlnst shingles is becoming serious. Father may have to find something new to UBe ou Johnny. ' The whooping cough germ has now been identified, but most persons will continue to pass it without speaking It should not be forgotten that the fly is Just as dungerous at this season of the ycur as he is at other tlmeB. c? ?n- ? ? " * * ' * " 1 uuii ruuiciM'u uus nxeu luiriy-nvo years as the age limit for its women police. That makes every woman eligible. Manuel 1b shown in a photograph with his hat brim turned down in the rear. This is the privilege of a king out of a Job. Apparently all that a thief needB In order to walk away with a load of jewels or a house and lot is a look of assurance. Until these days of dlaplinnous gowns, mere man was obliged to t confess that he wae unable to see through a woman. Switzerland has Just discovered that the aeroplanes have frightened Its storks away. Now we kuow what's the matter with Franco. A French company wants to pro- ( duce moving picture shows on ltus- 1 siati trains, llut why add needlessly to the horrors of travel? A magistrate holds that to invite a stranger Into a poker game Is common politeness and not a misdemeanor. : Which causes much exultation among the "pullers-in." An Englishman has devised a con- \ trlvance for holding a Ashing rod. Now, who will come forward with a device tor tilting n jug, and thus make ticking an unalloyed delight? Three Inmates of an insane nsylum won prizes in a competition conducted by a London magazine. The editor will have some difficulty in denying the sllllnees of his competitions. Anyhow, those Parisian "X-Ray j shoes" won't bo any uglier than those tall, mnnybuttoned, whitewashed bro- ! gam that have been disfiguring the trim ankles of our femininity. The tango is being so severely criticised that a lot of young women will not be satlsffed now unless they can Indulgo in it secretly. Some travelers are notoriously carelees, but the climax conns with the young man who mislaid his bride in London. Some women will feel like Eskimos after putting on furs when one considers what (or what not) they have ! worn nil summer. Maybe after a while science will , spell all tlie months with nn R and we can have oysters the year round. Won't tkat he nice? It is claimed that owning and run nlng an antomobile make a man young , again. Some of them, to Judge by i their driving, have gone back to the | twelve-year old period. The man who refuses to go to church in the summer because it Is j too hot and in the winter because i it la too cold, should meditate upon the weather of the future. A young man In New York Central park was ordered to stop feeding the goats with his love letters. Even a goat's digestion has its limits. There is no use trying to Interest a man In politics, baseball or the feminist movement when ho gets started to tnlking about his indigestion. A German aviator reports that he ran his machine into a shower of meteors. Still it could have been worse. They might have been cold-storage eggs. IEN MEN ARRESTED AS TRAIN BANDITS ALL DENY CONNECTION WITH HOLD-UP AT BIBBVILLE, ALABAMA. STORY OF THE ROBBERY fusses Moanaon unase and Leave the Case to the Railroad Authorities. Montgomery, Ala.?Specials from Tuscaloosa, Ala., say that the deputies from Hirmingham and Montgomery and armed farmers of Tuscaloosa county have abandoned the search for the three men who held up and robbed the express car of the Alabama Great Southern train at Hibbvllle, Ala., and that the case is now entirely in the hands of the railroad special officers. Five men have been arrested at Eutaw, Ala., below Tuscaloosa. none of whom is over thirty years old, and five others have been landed in the Tuscaloosa county jail by Special Agent Hall. All of these men deny connection with the holdup. Mall Clerk Leander Poole pave out the following statement: "The robbery was committeed hy three masked men, only one of whom appeared to me to be at all experienced. The other two were young and nervous. One of them did considerable promiscuous shooting and cursing In the mail car. Pullets passing through the mail car narrowly missed four men. 1 am confident the robbers doing the shooting were drunk. While crouched under the counter 1 had the presence of mind to Bave a few registered letters. "The last charge of dynamite that blew the express safe was very heavy. It jarrc-d us, 100 yards away. They had modern appliances equipped with lights that threw rays so they could see us, but wo could not see them. As they were marching us back to the passenger coaches I fell into a cattle guard and sprained my ankle. One robber warned us of the cattle guard just as I fell. "The fireman stated the robbers pot off with mail sacks full of booty. My impression is they left the car before we reached Vance, letting the engine run wild to throw the posses off the track, i believe I can identify the robber who did the shooting and cursing. I got a good look at him. The smaller robber, who guarded the rear end of the express car seemed experienced. The express messnger had no chance to defend himself." According to statements of the train crew, Engineer Daniels and his firemen were covered with revolvers when the train stopped on the hlock danger signal at Bibbville. The fireman was forced to uncouple the express, mail and baggage cars, and they were run down the track some distance from the passenger coaches. There the mall clerks and express messenger were driven from the cars and the safes blown open with nitroglycerine. PROGRESSIVES WILL RUN. Chairman Says Party Will Not Join Republicans. New York.?Fifteen members of the Progressive national committee met here and decided at the next congres sionnl election to place a Progressive candidate in every district in the United States. Representative William Hinebnugh, Illinois, chairman of the party's congressional committee, declared the Progressives had no intention of joining the Republicans. "There can be no so-called Progressive Republicans in the Progressive party," he said. "A man either is a Republican or he is a Progresive." A joint campaign committee representing the Progressive national committee and tho Progressive congression committee was organised. It consists of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former Senator Heveridge of Indiana, Walter F. Brown, George W. Perkins, Medill McCormick, Representative liincbaugh and Miss Frances Keller. It will meet at an enrly date in this city to mature plans for the party's tight to nominate and elect straight^ out Progressive candidates for congress in the campaign of next year. 2,000,000 Lady Bugs Visiting Chicago Chicago.?About two billion lady bugs are flying around Chicago ow Ing lie carelessness of an employe of tli* International Refrigeration Kxpositlon at the stock yards amphltheatdt. The frozen insects were packed in an icebound caso with a glass top. When an attendant filled the refrigerator he forgot to close it and soon the bugs were revived by the warm air and flew away. The lady bugs were shipped from California. where they are used to fight the fruit scale. Will Attempt to Pass Immigration Bill Washington.?An attempt will be made before the adjournment of the special session of congress to pass an immigration bill with a literary test of its leading feature, such as was vetoed by former President Taft. At ! a meeting of the house committee on immigration the old llurnett-Dillingham bill, which met Mr. Tuft's disapproval, was ordered reported to the house. Democrats back of the measure will get to work immediately to have this legislation Indorsed by the caucus, an action which is necessary 0 HENRY A. MORGENTHAU. %.y?. aBHffi litipr mHW i Henry IV.orgenthau, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, tes- , tified before the court of impeach- , ment, which is trying Gov. William , Sulzer on the charges of high crimes and misdemeanors that Sulzer, after being impeached by the assembly, urged him (Morgenthau) to treat Ms campaign contribution of $1,000 as a i purely personal matter. i MURDERER KILLS MERCHANTS i POLI ;E OF COUNTRY NOTIFIED 1 TO BE ON WATCH FOR ' JOSEPH ELLIS. After Stripping Corpses of Valuables, ' Murderer Vanishes?Latest Crime ^ in Indianapolis, Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind.?Convinced that ' the vouni: man who hminiiv ed Joseph Sehlansky, u clothing merchant, In a hotel here, is the same person who has committed similar 1 crimes in several Eastern and Middle Western cities, the local police de- i partment asked officers in every large city east of tlie Mississippi river to watch for the slayer. They believe the murderer is Joseph Ellis, about twenty-one veurs old of Richmond, Virginia. Aftei murdering the merchant, the man discarded a collar spotted with blood, walked to a nearby store, where he purchased another and then, returning to the lobby of the hotel wherein his victim lay dead, remained for an hour or more. Late in the afternoon the slayer returned to his room, and then, going to the union depot, secured his suitcase from the checkroom and is believed to have caught nn eustbound train. In each town where the man operated ills scheme was the same. He would register at a hotel under nn assumed name, call on either one of the smaller clothing merchants or a second-hand dealer and, explaining to them that he had some sumplcs lie must get out of his possession at once, asked the dealer to go to his room. Once in the man's room the procedure nearly always was the same. The victim either was struck down or was iorceu at the point of a revolver to ! submit to being bound and gagged. Then his valuables were stolen, and 1 the robber, leaving the merchant to ' be discovered by hotel employees, de- ' parted. ? Want Corn Instead of Cotton. Chicago.?The responsibility of averting a future meat famine was 1 put up to small farmers by speakers i at the eighth annual convention of i the American Meat Packers' Conven- i tion here. All the speakers agreed ] that if the decrease in meat produc- I tion of the last ten years is not stop- i pod, the question of the meat supply < for the people of the United States < will be most serious. Among the rem- 1 edies suggested were: Every small farmer should raise at least two beef steers a year to effect the decreased i production of the great ranches of the < West. 1 Across Mediterranean Aviator Flies. Bizerta, Tunis.?Roland tl. tiarros, the French aviator, flew 558 miles across tue .ueuiterranean from St. Raphael, France, to this city, the most northern seaport of Tunis. His time was 7 honrs and 53 minutes, lie started here at 1:45 p. in. The flight i is the longest over-sea journey ever i made in an aeroplane. Tho aviator i refused to accept the advice offered 1 him that ho should aflix floaters to his aeroplane as a precaution in case i he should be forced to descend on the water. I Father Slain by 16-Year-Old Son. i Greenville, Ala.?Essiek Gibson, 16 years old. was arrested near Fort He- , posit, this county, and brought to jail here, charged with the murder of his father. The boy claims his father was cruel to him and severely beat him. The boy says he crept into ins father's bedroom and crushed tho sleeping i man's skull. He closed the door, locking a little dog in tho room with the ' body, and then ran to his brother's home, some distance away, telling i him what he had done, and asking time to get away. < -iai HUERTA BOWS TO THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN MINISTER OF MEXICO IS NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. HE MUST LEAVE OFFICE Futility of Opposing U. S. Dawns On Him?Believes Gamboa Will Satisfy Washington. Mexico City.?Frederico Gar.iboa, minister of foreign affairs, was nominated for the presidency by the Catholic party convention. Gen. Eugenie Rascon was nominated for the vice presidency. Both candidates are regarded as men of high standing. Senor Gamboa accepted the candidacy. Frederico Gamboa was a disciple of Ignacio Mariscal. at one time minister to the United States. He was subsecretary of foreign affairs under .Mariscal. Later he became minister of the Netherlands, and has recognized ability us a diplomat. He is a writer of some note, and is about tifty years of age. Gen. Eugenie Rascon was minister of war under Provisional President de la Barra. He served as military | commander of the federal district for a short time, and later as governor of Yucatan. He Is 65 years of age and has u long military record. According to a prominent member of the Catholic party, the selection of candidates was made with the ap- 1 proval of General Huerta, and therefore means the elimination of Huerta as a presidential possibility. The efforts of the Catholic party, it is said, have been directed at the 1 selection of men who would be ac- , ceptable to the United States. The choice fell upon Senor Gamboa," for the reason that he has not been prom- ' inently identified with any political ' party, while it is believed that he will I have the confidence of Liberals as well I us Catholics, and upon General Has- 1 con, who is regarded as a desirable running mate for similar reasons. He 1 was a friend of I'orfirio Diaz, and was ' Mudoro's choice for war minister in ' ie la Hurra's cabinet. I "MAN FAILURE" THE CAUSE > Interstate Commerce Commission De- ' \ nounces Directors and T-ainmen. ( Washington.?"Man failure" all < along the line, from officials and directors of the New Haven railroad / down to its trainmen, is held by the interstate commerce commission to I have been the cause of the Wn'Mngford wreck, September 2, in which 21 were killed and 25 injured. In its report made public the commission 1 blames the crews of the wreck trains i for lapses and scores officers and di- i rectors for "inefficiency of manage- ( meat." , Operating officials of the New Ha- , ven and the officers and directors | jf the system are grilled scathingly for promulgation of regulations that , were permitted to become practically , 'dead letters" and for not seeing to < t personally that operating conditions | Acre what they had directed them to t tie. 1 "Man failure in this case," said ( Commissioner McChord, who prepared the report after an exhaustive per- < sonal investigation of the accident, | 'began high up in official authority i ind it was a natural sequence that it \ readied down to those in positions < lower in official rank, but still weightad with great responsibility." i Alcohol Congress for U. S. Milan, Italy.?The president of the fourteenth international congress on ilcoholisin, l)r. Angelo Killppeiu, announced at. the session that tlie per- | manent committee had decided to pro- , pose that the congress in 1915 should ] be held in tho United States. This requires the ratification of the whole ] cqaigress prior to adjournment. Sev- , eral interesting papers were read, in- ( eluding one by William Johnson of < Westervillc, Ohio, dealing with the light against alcoholism in the United States. The delegates also dls cussed tho liquor traffic from an eeo- ) nomic standopint. Hermit Is Robbed and Shot. Waycross, Ga.?After lying in the hushes near the ruins of his home, which had been destroyed by a negro , who first robbed the place nnH tiion phot him. James Bennett, known as The Hermit" in the Manor section | of Ware county, was found in a serious condition. According to a story, a negro strange to him entered his home and when discovered fired twice at Mr. Bennett, only one shot taking I'ffect. The negro then finished his search of the house, presumably trying to find a sum of money Gaynor Disinherited Married Daughter New York.?The will of William J. Gaynor, late mayor of New York, as filed, leaves to the widow his Brooklyn residence and BOO shares of Royal Unking Powder company stnok. T1-n inuinder, with tiie exct-puou of minor bequests of the estate, is divided, two-sevenths to each of two sons and one-seventh to each of three unraarried daughters. The two married daughters, Mrs. Harry Vingut and Mrs. William Be ward Webb, Jr., receive $1,000. CHARLES S. THOMAS Charles S. Thomas, the newly elected senator from Colorado, Is a Georgl- I j an by birth, a graduate of the Unlver- ; slty of Michigan, and has practiced law ! ] In Colorado since 1871. He served one i term as governor of the state. i , 80 PUS ARE KILLED | i TWO TRAINS ON THE MEXICAN,] NATIONAL RAILWAY ARE j i WRECKED. i 1 Only American on Train Escaped In- { jury, But Was Robbed?Dyna- 1 mite Mines Exploded. ] . ! A Laredo, Texas.?Fifty persons were ] killed when rebels dynamited a pas- ' *enger train on the Mexican National railway, sixty miles south of Saltillo ' I Mexico, according to official reports , to Mexican federal headquarters in i Nuevo Laredo. The train was then looted and the surviving passengers \ robbed, it is sa'd. < Forty federal soldiers and ten sec- 4 t)nd class passengers comprised the , jfficial death list. The number of ? iiijuicu nuc HUI KIVKU. W. \V. Morvain of San Francisco, t , the only American on tlie train, is i *aid to liave escaped injury, but was | , robbed. Two dynamite ruines were set ofT by electricity. it is said. The first class ^ .ouch was only derailed, but the baggage, express and two second class | roaches were blown to pieces. AMERICAN SCHOOL SEIZED Seizure in Line With Plan of Greekc 1 to Terrorize Albanians. Vienna, Austria.?The Greek author- , 1 ities at Koritsa, in Albania, seized the ] .] Vmerican mission school there, where i instruction is given to nearly one hun- 1 ired Albanian girls. The information cached here in a telegram from Avlo- ' la, the principal seaport of Albania on lie Adriatic sea. ' The Greeks also have arrested nainy Albanians who recently return- 1 *d to Koritsa from America and otli- ! ( ?r foreign countries, releasing tlieru j 1 Tom detention only when tiie Albani i ( ins promised to Join in the agitation j < tor the incorporation of the district i < :o Greece. ' The whole affair forms part of the I Jreek terrorization of the Albanian 3 population with the object of compell- | ( ing them to agree with inclusion of : he whole of Albania in the kingdom i af Greece. | 1 The mission is in charge of Phineas 1 B. Kennedy, a native of New Jersey < ind a Princeton gruduate. Colleagues Honor Roddenberry. Washincton Senators Paeon nn?l 1 < Hoke Smiiu and every Uitmut-r oi l the Georgia delegation in congress, < except Representative Tom Bell, the j Democratic whip of theh ouse, left i Washington to attend the funeral of Representative Roddenberry. Speak ?r ('lark offered no objection to the Ueorgia members going and agreed it was right and proper, but in view of the probability that Representative | Hell would be needed to whip up the ! , voters for the vote on the tariff con- ^ Terence report, he insisted that Mr. Hell should remain. Sulzer Must Go to Trial. Albany, N. V.?Governor William Sulzer must go to trial. This was decided by the high court of impeachment when, by a vote of 51 to 1, its ; members overruled the motion of the governor's counsel to dismiss t'.ie proceedings on the ground that he was 1 unconstitutionally impeached by the j 1 assembly, because that bo<Jv. in ex- i tra session, brought the impeachment. ( Senator Gottfried II. Wende of Buf- ; 1 falo. Democrat, an ardent supporter * of the governor, cast the solitary nay, ( Seven members were absent. Cotton Seed Combine Charged. Washington.?Complaints from the j Southern farmers, principally in Ala- ' ( bama and Georgia, alleging a combi- < nation among cotton aeed mills to eontrot the cioo of cotton seed were j 1 . v. .... ......../ .\iCtwe)' 1 nobis. The farmers ask a government j t Investigation to unearth suspeeted re- t strains of trade. The continually high- > er and uniform price of cotton seed, t the complaints declare, indicate a < combination in violation of the Slier i man law. The question will be look- i ed into. I I ' 1 TARIFF MEASURE WILL SOON BE LAW THE DEMOCRATIC CONFEREES HAVE AT LAST RffACHED AN AGREEMENT. THE CURRENCY BILL NEXT unairman Simmons Gives Out the First Complete Estimate of Federal Revenue and Expenditures.?Have Signed the Final Report. Washington.?The Democratic tariff revision till, first on the program o? reforms mapped out when President Wilson came into office, advanced to Its last congressional stage when the joint conference committee returned it to the House with tUie unanimous endorsement of the Democratic conferees. Leaders in both houses of Congress were confident the hill noAr practically complete, would be signed by President Wilsin 'before the end of tlifs week. It scarcely will leave tho center of the stage before the currency bill is forced to the front and coincident with its consideration will begin the Administration work on the anti-trust and railroad control program. These measures will be brought forward when the December session opens. President Wilson Is satisfied with the tariff bill out of the way. Congress will take up the currency question and dispose of 'it before adjournment. The course to be followed in the Senate has not been mapped out, but there is a growing belief among supporters of the Administration bill that the Senate will take up the currency question at an early date, even though its Banking and Currency rommirtee has not settled the measure's details. The tariff conference report went to the House soon after that body convened Monday. During the morning the full conference committee convened by Chairman. Simmons, had jiven the report its formal approval. Senators Simmons. Williams .Toh.n. 3on and Shively and Representatives Underwood. KiteliIn, Dixon and Radnev, the Democrats who have adjusted s? ill differences between the Senate and House excepting only the cotton futures tax proposition, signed the final report, while the Republican and Progressive members declined to sign. Mexicans Fire on U. S. Soldiers. Washington.?OfTlers at the war department minimized the importance of the firing on United States soldiers near El Paso by Mexicans when It ivas kurned in a report from (ten. Bliss, commanding the United States border patrol, that the Mexicans were lot In uniform. Gen. Bliss said that the half dozen Mexicans who fired the ? 'hots had been celebrating at San Bliuvrio and were said to he intoxicated. Roosevelt to Invade South America. New York.?For more than threauonths, from about the middle of December to the end of March. Theodore Roosevelt will be buried In the wilds >f South America. Arrangements for tills end of the colonel's South American trip were described but the announcement did not tell much about, times and places because the coloned iimseif is not sure Just where he will to or when he will emerge into oiviltsed country. Colonel Roosevelt will Mill from New York fWr?h*r- a V*wl ? < ivill spend about two months visitingrarious cities in Brazil, Argentina, i'.hile and Paraguay. Two Killed in Motorcycle Accident. HaverMU, Mass. ? Harry F. I^eo lied from injuries received when hia notor cycle collided with an electric "ar. His sister, Lillian l^ee, who was -iding in a basket attachment of the notor cycle was instantly killed. They were related by marriage to Col Theodore Roosevelt. Peace Treaty H26 Been Signed. Constantinople: ? The treaty of [>eaee between Turkey and Bulgaria R-as feigned by the plenipotentiaries lere. Loan Agreement Dissolved. London.?The British government innounced the dissolution of the C!h1iese loan agreement, from which tho ['i.ited Slates withdrew its support ?ome tme ago. The agreement had lot worked to the satisfaction of any >f the powers concerned. "The Brltsh government took the initiative in Jie dissolution," it is explained, "be^ au?e of the failtire of the other now?rs to observe its spirit. They had Trade tl)? agreement an instrument igainst the interest of British tltian;lers." Untermycr Approves Currency Bill. Washington. Construction of the idministration currency bill was dismissed before the senate hanking committee by Samuel Untermyer, of S'ew York. He approved tlie general principles of tlie bill. Mr. ITnterrayer, towever, objected to the language In he bill w hich deflnca the hunk securiies upon which currency shall be fcs(ucd, saying it was too loose. He mggeeted that It be changed to include only commercial papers representing the purchase or sale of comnodlty.