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!L HetablUhed in 1891. - FOBT MllX, S. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1815. ? J1,3ft Per Year. STATE NEWS ARRANGED . FOR QUICK READING. The ex-National Cjjjard met in ! Columbia vesterday with a view of reorganizing the militia. * * * Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, was elected Thursday by the legislature as judge of the "fifth judicial circuit, to succeed the ^late Judge Ernest Gary. W. E. Austffll, manager of the Insurance Trust company of uanney. nad tne mistortune to have his right feet badly mangled while attempting to board No. 39 Thursday morning while the train was in motion. Reorganization of the National Guard of South Carolina is to begin at once* according to a statement by W. W. Moore, adjutant general, after a conference Monday night with Governor Richard I. Manning. There are 177 State convicts in South Carolina, according to figures announced by peniten tiary officials. Of this number *120, 80 men and 40 women, are; confined in the penitentiary; 153 , at tha State farms and four on the county chaingang. The McDuffie county contest will be brought before the State board of canvassers today. The Greenwood county board held that the election for the new county was illegal and the. case was appealed to the State board for a decision. T-he secretary of State has issued a commission to the Harshaw-Cloud company of Yorkville, with a capital of $7,000. The netitioners are F. F Flnnd and W. O. Harshaw. The company will do a general dry goods business. The 16th company of coast artillery at Fort Moultrie, has been ordered to leave February 18 for New York to embark for the canal zone, and two months later the 116th company of coast artillery at Fort Scriven and the 40th company at Fort Howard will proceed to Panama by the same route. W. M. Cook, a young white man, charged with breach of trust, pleaded guilty in the criminal court of Richland county and was sentenced to two years in prison. Young Cook was in the employ of the Columbia:Mills company and, thrpugh the padding of pay rolls, is said to have embezzled a considerable sum of money. Owing to the stress of the times John E. Nunnery, owner of The Semi-Weekly News, formerly the Chester Lantern, has turned the paper over to the mortgagees, C. C. Edwards and Samuel E. McFadden, and it will be offered for sale the first of February. The paper will be issued twice a week as formerly and will not be stopped. Howard B. Carlisle, senator* from Spartanburg county, has introduced in the upper house of the general assembly the two measures, passage of which is desired by the prohibitionists, thie submits the question whether manufacture and -?ale of kalcoholic liquors and beverages kehall be prohibited throughout Hhe State to a genera! election to He held September 14. The gHher is intended to make availUl. ~ i. i- _ ixr % % hc tu it certain extent tne went) j|Sr of the federal government , l^kricting shipment of liquor < I^^Lprohibition territory. (* 1'i'. ' ; r" > ' ^ ANTICIPATES NO TROURLE OVER MILiTIl HUDDLE Adjt. Gen. Moore/ ot South Carolina, who was in Washihgton for several days straightening out the trouble with the South Carolina militi^, caused by exGov. Blease disbanding the troops, returned home Friday night. Gen. Moore was in ference> several times with the officials of the war department and stated before leaving for home that so far as the departmonf Affininln * ? ?? - J iwiiv uiuv.iain aic L'uiicenieu there is no trouble in sight. He found the secretary of war and the army officers very glad to talk with him about the matter and they assured him that the fullest cooperation of the federal authorities would be extended the South Carolina troops. The only real question about the matter, according to what Gen. Moore said, is whether or not the order, issued by ex-Gov. Blease is legal. This ques^n is now being examined by^^ood legal talent. If the Blease order is illegal, that settles it and Gov. Manning can rescind it, thus restoring the troops to their former ritatus If, on the other hand, the order is declared to be legal, then the different companies must be reorganized. While this will cause much additional work to fall on the office of the adjutant general for a few months, every thing will go on as usual after the reorganization work has been completed. Gen. Moore does not "take the situation at all seriously and said r.hat in either case the most injury that would come to the National Guard of South Carolina by the Blease order would he a temporary inconvenience. There will be no delay in holding the inspections throughout the State and within a few months, at most, everything should be in good working order again, even should the Blease order be de viui^u ir^cii. Thousands Die in Earthquake. From 25,000 to 50,000 remains the unofficial estimate of casualties in the earthquake that rocked Southern and Central Italy early last Wednesday morning. The amount of damages to property probably will never be known. Such details as have been made known, however, leave no doubt that fully 100 towns and villages were utterly demolished or partly wrecked and that the loss of life was great.. Scores of people Monday remained beneath the crumbled buildings throughout the earthquake zone, some of whom were thought to have still been alive. Lee Breaks Two Records. The following from the Birmingham (Ala.) Ledger of the 4th will be read with interest by the t>eople of Fort Mill and vicinitv: "Having become a slave to the habit, T. K. Lee, of the Birmingham Athletic club rifle team, has made two new world's records with his trusty rifle. Lee has just shot two more possibles, making nine consecutive possibles. "Last week Lee shot his seventh consecutive possible (200 shots) this season, breaking the world's record established by him the previous season. In the two matches for this week, Lee n^-st made an eighth possible in the Arms and the Man match, and then followed that up with his ninth possible in the National Rifle association match. Thus Lee has broken two world's records this week and each time established a jiew world's record." j MUST ANSWER CHARGE OF FORT MILL ROBBERY Thomas Nolan,. alias ^Pennsylvania Tom," who was paroled by Gov. Blease and immediately rearrested at the penitentiary on January was given a preliminary hearing here Thursday ' before Magistrate Robert P. Harris. Nolan was held under bond of $5,000 to await action of the grand jury at the April term of court. The noted safeblower, the leader in the principal, safe burfflarips in fViia Sf-oFo rlnfinnr fV>? I 0.^.. ... IL/VMVV VlUk lug WilU last four months of 1902, was brought here from Yorkville Thursday morning by Deputy Sheriff F. E. Quinn, who transferred him from Columbia to Yorkville on January 6 for commitment to the county jail, to which place he was returned to await the convening of the court of general sessions on April 19. No attorneys appeared at the hearing. Inspector Gregory examined the witnesses for the State, and they were crossexamined by Nolan. Both the inspector and the defendant made brief arguments op the conclusion of the testimony. Four witnesses were sworn | lor the JState. W. B. Meacham, president of the Savings Bank of Fort Mill, testified that the front door of the bank was forced open during the night of September 29, 1902, vault and safe doors blown open. The money lost "by the burglary was 3,690.36, including a considerable quantity of new coins consisting of Columbian half dollars, dimes and nickles. Some jewelry was also secured. A. A. Young, blacksmith, gave an account of how he was called to the bank on the following morning by the late Capt. S. E. White, then president of the bank, who inquired as to whether the sledfce hammer, chisels and . r iviv wj viiv/ uui f?iai 3 Hi ! the bank, were his property. When he admitted ownership of the tools then in evidence, Capt. White told him to consider himself under arrest. It is needless to say th^t Mr. Young did not so "consider." W. B. Glover, who resibed six miles north of Fort Mill at the time of the burglary, near Flint Hill church, but who is now in the employ of the Southern Railway company, identified Nolan and "Portland Ned" (the latter by photograph) as the two men that came to his home on the afternoon before the burglary and arranged with his mother to do some cooking for them. "Portland Ned" soon left and went in the direction of the railroad, but Nolan remained for about one hour and then carried off in a basket the chickens, biscuits and potatoes cooked by Mrs. Glover, going in the direction taken by "Portland Ned." He next?*?aw the defendant in January, 1903, when, with his mother, he attended the preliminary hearing at Columbia of Nolan, Howard, Duggan and NcKinley. Inspector Gjregory testified to the arrest of the defendant on January 6, 1903, the evidence found on the search of certain hoilSPR tllAn ??iiiv.il iic cAiuuiieu | to the magistrate, certain statements made by Nolan at that' time and other developments of j his investigation. Report reached Fort Mill Mon] day to the effect that John L. | frhu onrl Mm ?-t- ? ? *? una. maty rarnsn, mc latter a resident of Fort Mill. i were married Saturday afternoon . in Charlotte. ! 80V. BLE4SE RESUMED [ SUCCEEDED BY SMITIT I Perhaps the greatest surprise of the administration of Cole L. 1 Blease was the announcement of 1 his resignation as Governor of South Carolina, which was < flashed over the wires Thursday c afternoon. His reaiomnfinn ?pnt > to Secretary of State McCown, was supplemented by a brief 1 message to the General Assembly * informing the members that it ^ also was tendered to them. Lieutenant Governor Charles c A. Smith was immediately sworn k in as the State's Chief Executive to serve out the unexpired term, [ Chief Justice Gary of the State ' Supreme Court administering the oath of office. Mr. Blease s and several State officials then accompanied Mr. Smith to the * Governor's office. Legrand G. * Walker, president of the Senate, f automatically succeeded to the Lieutenant Governorship. 1 No previous intimation of the c Governor's action had been 1 given and no reason for it was assigned. The present Logis * - -? ' " mLuie is cnieny composea 01 men 1 who are his political opponents * and it was said that proposals * to institute impeaehment proceedings against him were made 1 at a meeting of legislators Tues- ' day night but that no action was c taken. "I hereby resign my office as Governor of South Carolina" Was the full communication of Gov- ^ ernor Biease to the Secretary 1 of State. It was written by ^ hand and in red ink. Both the a Governor and his friends re- e fused to add anything to the f brief statement.. The message 1 to the General Assembly was v equally terse. c "I hereby tender my resigna- 0 tion to you as Governor of the 2 State of South Carolina." * "I love the pardoning power," v Blease once said. "I want to 0 give the poor devils another 11 chance. I hope to make the ^ number an even 1,000 before I ^ go out of office." n Records show that the Gov- * ernor surpassed even his own c expectations. Just before re- 0 tiring Thursday he issued 27 c clemency grants. Four men ^ sentenced to life imprisonment v for murder were paroled .and four others received commuta- *tions. Thursday's action made n a total of 1,708 prisoners granted ^ clemency during the Governor's ? four years' administration. Full pardon* recently were h granted approximately 1,000 F prisoners who previously had a been paroled, this action re- 'r storing their citizenship. Super- (j intendent D. J. Griffith of the State penitentiary, said that less J than 125 prisoners are now held 11 there. In* his last message to the South Carolina Legislature last Monday Governor Blease said: "I have attained the highest ambition of my life. My life's work so far as my personal interest is concerned, has been completed. If my people want my services in future I will give them, but I shall ask for nothing more." Three Governors in Six Days. With the inauguration Tuesday of Richard I. Manning, of Sumter,* South Carolina has the distinction of having had three governors in six days. Governor Blease resigned last Thursday, with only five days to serve. Gieut. Gov. Chas. Smith was then sworn in, pending the beginning of Governor Manning's term. " . ~ ' II. .n .j ^ ; THE NEWS IN BRIEF. * / ' ' . . General New*. General Gutierrez has fled ?rqm Vlexico City and the convention las elected Gen. Garza president. The store of S. H. Kress & 3o., Charlotte, was completely lestroyed by fire Saturday night.Stock loss, $20,000, insured. The United States warned Caranza about confiscation of foreign owned oil wells in .Mexico ind the embargo was at once aken off. Senator I^odge says the United States is unprepared for war. Some estimates plac^the dead n Italy's recent earthquake at >0.000. The French acknowledge some aiccess by the Germans. In its report to Congress, the lOUSO nnval PnmmiHoo _? www pi uv juta 'or two dreadnoughts and severil smalTer vessels. Every. building in Avezzano, 'taly, was destroyed in the re;ent earthquake, and only two )er cent, of the city's population ?scaped. On account of the unprecelented high-price of wheat the government as ordered an invesigation. A son was born at the White louse Sunday to Mrs. Francis 3owes Sayre, President Wilson's laughter. - The Clyde Clement Case. Clyde Caldwell Clement, of jDartanburcr. rpppivprl Viic fifa* nformation Friday relative to Governor Blease's favorable iction on his petition for clemncy. The message was tele>honed to the sheriff's offio* and rajismitted to the young man, vho h*ad been a prisoner in the ounty jail since the afternoon f February 3, 1914, as accused md later convicted principal in he drowning of his alleged six week's old infant in the water f Lawson's Fork creek on the light of January 30. At the ^.pril term of court Clement was ound guilty of the charge of mirder and sentenced to serve he remainder of his life in the itate penitentiary or on the ublic works of Spartanburg ounty. The co-defendant, Fleta 'endlcton, mother of the infant /as acquitted. When Clement received notice hat Governor Blease had commuted his life sentence to 10 ears, the young man smiled and ppcared brighter than he had >een for several days past. He old his informer, however, that ie did not know if he was surmised or disappointed. Clement cknowledged that he had been uite despondent lately, and had 10 idea what the governor wojjId lo in his case. LAST f-i 1-1 o ror rire o New Spri Are coming in now. good Shoes and Dry < selling at less than whol you well to see the bar; % L. J. N Now in the Jones Building. STATE'S NEW GOVERNOR INAUQURATED TUESDAY Richard I. Manning Tuesday was inaugurated governor of South Carolina. Mr. Manning succeeded Charles A. Smith, who, as lieutenant governor, became the State's chief executive upon the resignation of Governor Blease January 14. Governor Manning in his inaugural address urged passage of a compulsory school attend Mui: i? ? ?mvc: iaw witu a provision lor lo<*l voption; recommended appointment of a legislative com- ' mission to investigate working conditio^ and to prepare a working merPs compapsation act for submission to tne 1?16 legislature and. urged repeal of the State income tax law. He also recommended amendment of the child labor law to raise the age limit from twelve to fourteen years. Referring to the State militia which was disbanded by Governor Blease last week, Governor Manning declared he "favoretf. a strong, well maintained, well disciplined national guard." The "new governor paid a tribute to President Wilson, saying: ,"We are to be congratulated on having at the head of the nation a man of great discernment, courage and ability who is dealing with national questions in a statesmanlike way." Pleasant Valley Items. Correspondence Fort Mill Times. Hon. S. E. Bailes, one of our representatives in the State | Legislature, spent Friday, Saturday and SuiTday at his home in Pleasant Valley. The farmers of this community have been able to do very little work on 4he farm lately on account of the bad weather. We are very glad to know of [Miss Alice Patterson's recovery from pneumonia, and her schoolmates gladly welcome her again, into their midst. Mr. Robert Ross, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. C. H. Ross, has returned to Raleigh. Miss Vena Patterson entertained a crowd of young people at her home "Friday evening.( The young people of Pleasant Valley are busy preparing a play which they hope to be able to render publicly in the near future. Messrs. R. B. Wolfe and N. D^Duncan made a flying trip to Waxhaw Saturday night. The Pleasant Valley school is progressing very nicely under the management of Mr. N. D. Duncan, principal, and Miss Lillian Fickling, assistant. L. E. F. call] ale Prices. ng Goods We still have a few Goods left that we are lesale cost. It will pay gains we are offering. Iassey. I " - ' ' fv ' r. S'/WN njitt -