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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.
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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
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HENRY A. MORGENTHAU.
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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
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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. <
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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.
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"MAN FAILURE" THE CAUSE >
Interstate Commerce Commission De- '
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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."
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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.
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Only American on Train Escaped In- {
jury, But Was Robbed?Dyna- 1
mite Mines Exploded. ]
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Laredo, Texas.?Fifty persons were ]
killed when rebels dynamited a pas- '
*enger train on the Mexican National
railway, sixty miles south of Saltillo '
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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
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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
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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
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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.