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THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. j t One by one the aeroplanlsts fall. Blushing is faBt becoming a lost rtIf the meat Rives out there will still bo the free lunch. Some men, In order to win the world's applause, have to dio. The trouble is silliness hasn't ended with the end of tho silly season, j After getting the safety aeroplane, may we hope for the safety banana peel? The Rood housewife haH one eye on the Icebox and the other on the furnace. Another reason why men should wear belts. Women ure going to dou suspenders. Oculists tell us green is good for the eyes. Therefore green Wise should be indorsed. The old poBt, the long and cold wintor progr.ostlcator, is again making life merry for us. Applying reverse Kngilsh. one might Bay that tho bud In the slit Hklrt has been nipped. A scientist declares that Renins can Ret into fresh eggs. The obvious remedy Is to boll the eggs. "Let women dress as they please," advtaes a Salem. Ore., alderman. They probably will, y'r honor. Ab potatoes are to be very high next winter there is some chance for an Improvement in boarding-house hash. The Chicago modiste who has In- I vented a dress with only two hooks 1b a warm favorite for the Nobel prize. About the only real get-rich-qulck scheme that pays these days Is to play on the world's champion baseball team. A Russian millionaire philanthropist named Sliakhoff is to visit us. Wo will not do t.o him according to his name. A French aviator was killed on his threo thousand five hundred and first ascension. Proof that he went up once too often. The only excuse a counterfeiter who was caught In ltoston could offer wus that he thought he was in New York. From casual observation we learn that some men swear off, others off and on and others again pretty much everywhere. The chief distinction between the risk in dirigibles Hnd neroplanes seems to be that between wholesale and retail fatalities. Science issues a warning ngainst cold soups and gravies. Our Instinctive dislikes nre again justified. Ah, the miracle of instinct! _________________________ ' ] The invention of an attachment for sewing buttons by the ordinary sewing machine, will not. however, act as a deterrent to the bachelor's wire nail method. From I?ndon comes the report that the need of a university course in journalism is felt by the leading newspaper men of Great Itrltnin and Ireland. Another American idea that has gone forth to conquer the world! | There always is something to keep , a man occupied. After the, baseball season cjosee he starts tp think about , keeping his coalbin filled. Statistics '-^ys that the world's out- ; put of stockings last year was the largest, in history, which In many coses is a fact plain to see. If porch sleeping and lake swimming in cold weather were clandestine, one wonders whether they would bo practiced by many. Having helped to move the crops, maybe the national treasury department could be prevailed upon to assist In moving the Christmas presents. Baseball la truly wonderful sport. Here Is Ty Cobb signing national bank notes, being authorized to do so by virtue of the fact that he Is a bank director. Headline says. "Painfully bruised when house fnlls on him." Wonder If It would hurt him much more should he happen to got In the way of a toppling skyscraper? The minister who spanked his father Is to be put on trial. Kvldently the "old man" Is roused at last, and determined to see If fathers In this progressive age have any rights 1 which advanced children are bound to respect. A sage of Croatia asserts that eat- : Ing garlic with ull your menls will en- I able you to live a hundred years. Hut I n pronounced Individual taste may j question whether living the hundred years with the aroran of garlic ns a J permanent companion Is worth while. J . - V COURT DEPOSES j WILLIAM SULZER REMOVED FROM OFFICE BY THE HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT BY BIG VOTE. THE VOTE WAS 43 TO 12 ___ Martin H. Glvnn. Lieutenant ftnuernne Sworn in to Succeed Sulzer. ?I j Albany, N. V.? William Sulzer has ceased to be governor of the state of New York. He was removed from office by the high court or impeachment by a vote of 4o to 1J, two members not voting. Martin II. Glynn, lieutenant governor, was sworn in as bis successor, the llrst in the histqry of the state to step into its high office in this manner. The verdict of the court was that Sulzer was guilty of falsification, perjury and an attempt to suppress evidence against him. Of all other charges he was acquitted, the court unanimously voting him not guilty of the four remaining articles of the impeachment. By a virtually unanimous vote, also, the impeachment tribunal decided that Sulzer should not be punished by disqualification to hold office of honor and trust in this state in the future. This would have been extreme penalty under the law. The ousted executive was served with a copy of the court's verdict at the executive mansion?christened by himself, "the people's house." "Good! 1 thank you," he said to the sergeant at arms of the senate, who delivered the document. Mr. Sulzer, private citizen, will leave the capitol; where he will go, he has not disclosed. The incoming governor issued a statement in which he said his endeavor would be "to give the people of the state an honest, peaceful, pro stcs' recommendations are the result of an intimate study of the pension system maintained abroad. In suggesting the adoption of pensions in the United States, Doctor Sles declared for the Scotch system. 15 Girls to Visit Washington. Washington.?Fifteen girls, one from each of lifteen Southern states, will visit Washington, probably on December 11, as a reward for their success in being awarded first place in the girl's canning club ntute contests, the department of agriculture announced. Women agents of the canning clubs will assemble here at the same time and will net as clinperones for the girls. The department estimates that 25,000 girls have been enrolled In the canning clubs of the Southern states this vear fcs SMil ? gressive and wise conduct of public affairs." At the session of the court, which lasted little more than an hour, most of the members recorded their votes without explanation and much of the ponderous formality required by the rules of procedure was dispensed with. Presiding Judge Cullen, who voted "not guilty" on every article of impeachment, stuck to his convictions to the last. lie asked to be excused from voting on the removal of the governor, and following out his logic, made a similar request on the vote for disqualification. 28 PERSONS KILLED IN AIR Germany's Dirigible Balloon Explodes 900 Feet in Air and All Killed. Berlin.?Twenty-eight persons were killed near Johannisthal, in the explosion and fall of Count Zeppelin's latest dirigible balloon, the "L-1I." The twenty-eight men represented the entire personnel of the admirality board which was to conduct the final triul of the dirigible looking to its acceptance by the government as a new unit of the German aerial navy, the pilot and crew and invited guests. ISvery person that went aloft in the big dirigible is dead. Twenty-seven of them were killed almost instantly by the explosion of gas in the balloon, or burned to death as the flaming wreck fell to the ground from a height of 900 feet and enveloped them. One iqan, Lieutenant Huron von Hleul o? the Ouoon An- , gustu Grenadier Guards, a guest- of the adnilrnlity hoard, wok extricated alive from the mass of twisted wreckage. His eyes were burned out uud he suffered other terrible hurts. Hegglng his rescuers to kill him and end Ids sufferings he was taken to a hospital, where he died. The disaster occurred just above the main street of Joluiunlsthal while the dirigible, 500 feet long, was making a trial preliminary to its acceptance ns a flagship of the new German aerinl navy. The shattered hulk of the airship, a mass of blazing canvas and crumpled aluminum, dropped 000 feet into the public highway. Hundreds of people who had been watching the flight rushed to the scene. There was nothing to be done excopt to take out the bodies of the vitcims from the wreckage. Pensions for School Teachers. Washington.? Pensions for teachers in the public schools, to be derived from funds founded and administered by the individual states and without contributions by the ultimate bcnetlciaries, are advocated by Raymond W. Sirs, in a bulletin issued by the United States bureau of education. Doctor : j 11^ I ? I ^ Hyi h" IM| i | FIRE DRILI IB F Bw JH B^bb . HS ^ri^^KERS KUfflNi ;. Fire drill aboard the steamer \ New York, which was destroyed by I portrait is of Capt. Francis Inch of tl POWER GIVEN 10 FILIPINOS! i THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED ARE AMONG MOST WELL KNOWN MEN IN ISLAND. Majority of Natives Named for Commission? First Step Toward Self-Government. Washington.? President Wilson and Secretary Garrison sereclea the tallowing Filipinos to he members of the Philippine commission: I Victorino Maps. Jaime t'. de Veyrn. Vicente llustrlo, Vincente Singson. Mnpn will be secretary of finance and justice. The fifth Filipino commissioner will he Rafael Palma, who since 1908 has been the only native on the commission. His resignation was rot accepted. The designation of five natives to majority control of the commission of nine marks the Hrst step in the policy of the Wilson administration, aiming at self-government and ultimate independence for the Philippines. Governor General Harrison recommended the native commissioners, stating that they were among the most prominent and best educated of the islanders. PRINCE AND DUCHESS WED Ceremony Witnessed by Great Gath- j ering of Royalties and Notables. Ixmdon.?Prince Arthur of Con- i naught, son of the Duke of Connauglit, | governor general of Canada. was married to Princess Alexander Vic-! toria. Duchess of Fife, eldest daugh ter of the widowed Princess Royal j Lojglsc. The ceremony took place in > tlvWancient chapel of St. James palace! ?*rffcere both were baptized. There was room for fewer than 300 persons in the simply decorated chapel, but since the coronation of King George there had not been such a gathering of royalties and notable persop.ages as 011 this occasion. Resides King George, Queen Mary, Queen Mother Alexandra, the king and queen of Norway and other royal rel- ! atives of the couple, the congregation consisted of the diplomatic corps, the J British cabinet, members of tlie royal households and a few distinguished civilians. The chapel glittered with diamonds and penrls, almost every woman pres ent wearing a tiara and necklace of | fnbuloAjs value. I Lit Cigarette on Wire. Rurlington, Iowa.?H. A. Fillmore, an employee of the Mississippi River company at the West Burlington substntion. uttompted to light a cigarette j at an electric spark and was killed j by 11,000 volts passing through his body. He has been seen to light cig-1 arettes in this manner a number of times, and had been warned. To Investigate Japanese Question. Tallahassee, Fla.?Governor Trammel! announces that he is investlgat ing the question of Japanese colonizn 11on in norma ny mnu companies and will act as his judgment dictates as soon as he has made up his niind as to the seriousness of the influx. An ex tra session of the legislature may be called to pass an nlien land hill as a big protest has gone up over the coming of these Japanese from California. They are settling in the celery belt for the purpose of rnising vegetables for the Northern markets. New Date in Rate Cases. Washington.?The interstate commerce commission has postponed the date when its decision in the La- I Grange and Vienna, fta.. cases will become effective. The new date is February 1. 1914. Many questions have arisen concerning the proper alignment of rates under the commission's order. The commission is now considering the whole subject of the long and short haul clause of the amended commerce act as it applies to the Southeast, it has been decidqd to postpone action. ~TPB ~T~r - ' L ON BOARD THE LOST P^>Pfv^4fBi^^K? s^HH^oBB k " x. , |B IS < folturno of the Uranium line, plying b< tfe ::oo miles southeast of Halifax. At le ill-fated vessel, whose behavior is 40nSs"A?lLE? WFI CU MIMC ei_lA-f-tg-r.tr.-. a r t f-r-. . ? -w> t v_y i i i c_ r t_ w nr i t.n NEARLY A THOUSAND MEN BEGAN WORK. About Five Hundred Were Rescued. Forty Thousand Persons Surrounded Mouth of Pit. Cardiff. Wales. \ disaster, possibly the greatest in the history of the South Wales coal Holds, whose annals are blistering with terrib'e catastrophes, occurred through an explosion in the Universal colliery near here. Shortly after the day shift of 931 men entered the mine an explosion shattered the works. During the day and early in the | night about five hundred miners were brought to the surface alive. After midnight rescuing parties began to get the fire under control and at 2:30 o'clock next morning twenty more men were found alive at the bottom of the pit. This gave hope that others may he found, hut there is still a probability that nearly four hundred men perished. Including the bodies recovered and those killed at the pit head the known death roll numbers lf>. Doctors with oxygen and mediatnents descended the shaft. A crowd of nearly forty thousand distracted persons surrounded the pit head all night and another five thousand waited for news So violent was the detonation that the coutnry for miles around was shaken as though by an earthquake, and from the severity of the shock it was feared that all the entombed men had been burned to death or been blown to bits, making the disaster the worst in the history of Wales. Cardiff trembled from the shock, tire followed the explosion and smoke rolled from the mouth of the mine. UNITED STATES DISPLEASED United States Will Not Accept Coming Elections in Mexico as Legal. Washington.- The United States government informed Provisional President Huerta that it looked with abhorrence and amazement upon his assumption of both executive and legislative powers in Mexico and that in view of his course could not regard as constitutional the elections planned for October 26. Two notes, one strongly phrased and written by Secretary Bryan, inquiring about the safety of imprisoned members of the Mexican congress, and the I other drawn in forceful language by President Wilson himself and said to constitute practically the last efforts of the Washington government to deal with the Huerta authorities by diplomatic means unless there is a decided change of spirit 6n the part of the oflicials in Mexico City, were seut to the Mexican president. 4 Persons Killed; 20 Hurt. Dallas, Texas.?-Four persons were killed and more than twenty injured when a freight car loaded with cross teis which broke from a train on a down grade crashed into an interurlmn passenger car near here. The collision occurred on a 50-foot trestle and practically demolished the entire front end of the passenger car, but without throwing it from the bridge. The dead are Walter O. Seal, Dallas, motorman; Walter It. Hurlbert. Lancaster, Texas; James Shippey, Maxahachie, Texas; J. Carpenter, Waxahachie, Texas. American Killed by Mexicans. K1 Paso. Texas.?P. P. Kills of Cripple Creek, Colo., arrived in Juarez from Toreron. He said his brother Joseph was killed by Mexicans while a party of Americans was leaving Torreon for the border. K. it. Kllis was shot in the arm. Three others of the party are missing. They are J. M. Parsons, Wichita, Kans.; I.. M. White, Itutte, Mont., and A. T. Stevens, Sacramento, Cal. The party was about half-way between Torreon and Kl Oi*o when Mexicans in uniform who claimed to bo rebels attacked them. ^ppj WVm, -> ' ,5v 7y^'""^*s5! t \ VOLTURNO : gfi >twecn Rotterdam and Halifax and tout 140 persona lost their lives. The highly praised by the survivors. GEM WARSHIP TO MEXICO PRESIDENT WILSON WELCOMES THE ACTION OF GERMANY. President and Cabinet Will Confer and Decide What Steps to Take. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA A A A Powers Decide to Send Warships. A A A A Mexico City.?The diplomatic A A representatives of Great liritain, A A France, Spain, Cuba. Guatemala A A and Norway, at a conference, de- A A elded to recommend that their re- A A spective governments send war- A A ships to Mexico for the purpose A A of uffording legation guards, A A should conditions so require. A AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Washington.?Germany's decision to dispatch a warship to Mexicun waters attracted wide attention in official circles here. No intimation had beer, received here of Germany's intention, and President Wilson was informed oulv bv nress disniitclies nf flir> no. tion. No formal comment was made on the incident, but it was apparent that the Washington government was not displeased. The sending of a German warship is in line with the policy of other European governments which had vessels cruising off the Mexican coasts from time to time during critical moments of Mexico's internal strife. Significance was attached to the action by ofticial Washington, however, because it was accepted as indicating that European powers who previously had recognized the Huerta government?among which were Germany and Great Ilritain?now saw evidences of lluerta's inability to compose the situation. J. R. PARROTT PASSES AWAY President of Florida East Coast Dies in Maine. Oxford, Maine.?J. It. Parrott, president of the Florida East Coast railroad, died at his summer camp here of angina pectoris. The end came suddenly. During the day, Mr. Parrott was apparently in normal health. Jacksonville, Fla.?Joseph It. Parrott, president of the Florida East Coast railroad, who died suddenly in Oxford, Maine, made his home in Jacksonville. Mr. Parrott was born in Oxford. Maine, October HO, 1859. He was a graduate of Yale, and while a student there was active in athletics, being a member of the football team first and then stroke oarsman in the sculline team. McAdoo Says Banks Will Enter. Washington.?"I have no more idea that any considerable number of national banks will refuse to go into the new Federal reserve system than 1 have that I shall fly over the Washington monument." said Secretary McAdoo, in discussing the administration currency bill with a delegation of the eoutnry bankers from the American Hankers* Association here to appear before the senate banking committee. The delegation of callers plied Mr. McAdoo with questions about the circulating pricilege. Police Routed by Angry Women. London.?After a fierce struggle, the police arrested Miss Sylvia Pankhurst at How Neate, in the east end of London, where she was making a speech. Hut when they got her outside the building with the intention of placing her in a tn.'lcab and rushing her to Ilolloway jail, the militants attacked the police so savagely that they had to let her go and she eseap ed. Miss Pankhurst, who has an uncompleted term of imprisonment to serve, was not recognized until she threw aside her disguise. ' SULZER IN RACE FOR ASSEMBLY BECOMES CANDIDATE OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY FROM mic r?i n nicTDirx ADVICE OF HIS FRIENDS . Begins Campaigning at Once and Believes That it Means Journey Back to Governor's Office.?Make Enemies Pay For Wrongs. ? Albany, N. Y. A few minutes after the Progressive Convention that nominated him for Assemblyman met in New York recently, William Sulzer issued a statement telling why he had "consented to come back to Albany." Throughout the evening he was in communication by telephone with Progressive leaders in .Yew York. There never was any doubt but *hat be could have the nomination if 10 wanted it. he declared. Nor does he duoht that the lirst of January will see him back where he began hi* political career 20 years ago. lie and his friends also are convinced tha". he I will go from there to th?? Speakership and thence back to the Governor's chair. Slilzer will go to Now York and bepin a cam palp 11 for the Assembly iin-mediately and speak day and night tip to election time. After that ho will ! accept some lecture engagements up ; 'o the first of January. If it then la 1 necessary for him to come to Albany. J he will arrive here on the opening day ' of the Lepislature to start the fight which he supposes will put him back in the Executive chair. His promise ! is to make the "fur fly" if he is made ! an Assemblyman. "And not only will 1 make it warm for my enemies in the Assembly," he declared. "I'll make them take notice in other places, too." His statement follows in part: "In view of the urgent pleadings from life-long friends and the request in writing from more than half of the j registered voters of the Sixth Assent bly District, regardless of party affiliations, bopping me to accept the nomination for member of the Assembly to further the cause of hones* government, 1 have consented to come back to Albany as a member of the Assembly for the pood that 1 ca.i 1 do. "1 shall be n non-partisan candidate. ] having no axe to grind and no motive or purpose other than to do what I can for the cause of good government tlie struggle tor which accomplishment brought about my removal from the Governorship bv an arrogant boss whose dictates to do wrong I defied " t r* run nftor /"?n o.%l. iug with a score of political advisers 'Hie Rabbi of every .Synagogue in tljo Sixth District called at the Bxechtive Mansion to urge Sulzer to mnke the race. They brought petitions signed by 3.X00 voters in the district asking Sulzer to run. There are said to he only 5,700 voters in the entire district. Mrs. Sulzer urged him to accept the nomination. Mrs. Eaton on Trial. Plymouth. Mass.?Prof. William F. Whitney, of the Harvard Medical school, was called to the Wi.ness stand recently in the trial of Mrs. Jennie May Baton, charged with the murder of her husband. Hear Admiral Joseph G. Baton, to recount the result of his analysis of the organs removed from the body of Admiral Baton. District Attorney Katzmann asserted -that Prof: Whitney found fifteen grains of white arsenic in the admiral's stomach. Lowell (Mass.) Bank Closed. Lowell. Mass. The Traders .National Bank of Ixiwell was closed on a report from National Bank Kxaminer Norwin S. Bean that the institution is solvent. Harold G. Murray has been appointed receiver. A close relationship existed between the Traders'and the Atlantic National Bank of Providence, it. I., which closed April 14. Lawrence Duke on Trial. Seattle, Wash.?Laurence Duke, son of Brodie R. Duke, the tobacco nianu facturer. was formally charged wi*h manslaughter recently in an information filed by the prosecuting attorney. Cotton Broker Found Dead. Spartanburg, S. ('. B. King C'ouper,. a well known cotton broker, with offices in several cities in the Carolinas, was found dead in bed at his homo hero. He seemingly was in good 1 health the night before. w \ Fire Destroys Much G ain. SI. Bonis, Mo. With an estimated loss of $100,000 in grain, the Advance ' elevator in Bast St. Ixuils, Ills., burned to the ground recently. CrawJin^ up and down the strip of land between tlie Mississippi river and Oahokla creek the blaze did another half million dol* lars damage to the warehouse of the Chicago and Alton, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Clover Ix?af railway companies. Citizens of Bast St. Bonis were kept up all night protecting; their homes from flying embers.