Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEWS CF THE WEEK LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. SOOTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST ffotea From Foreign Lands, Through ut the Nation and Particularly the Great ftouttw Southern. latest returns from the Texas prtatary show Gorernor Colquitt main tains the lead for the governorswp bj 8,000 over his competitor, Judge f&msey. Congressman Morris Sheppard's lead for United States senator has increased with the fuller returns. He now has a majority of 12,000 over all his competitors. Returns as to . other offices are meager. Apparently, Congressman James b Younp of the Third district and Congressman Oscar C. Alloway of the Twelfth district have been nominated. Governor Hooper gave out an interview in regard to his recall of the revocation of the extraction of W. J. Mhseee from 8outh Carolina, In Which he eays the action waa based on the statements made h? Tennessee that the case had not been fairly heard la Georgia, and while not aco?(>Ung the statements as correct, he takes the view that it would not be harmful to hare the controversy passed on by unbiased power. The French market, where four generations of housewives have bargained and bought meats and vegetables, will soon have passed. The New ' Orleans sanitarians won in their fight for conditions that will insure purer food, and the market, part of which has stood since its first establishment * - * ???* ?? - la 18U1, II to D6 reyi?cou uy ? iciui/ueled structure, with white-tiled stall* and modern screening instead of the open-to-fly booths a century old. The renovation of the market has begun. L For years the old market, the flrst | the Spaniards erected in the latter part of the 18th century, in Decatur atreet, then the levee, has been -- nought by painter op?;for it* along with it a tremendi'Us fall of rain and during which time lightning played pranks in many parts of the city. Two fires were started by the lightning; the street car service was stopped and a great deal of inconvenience caused. The flagpole on top of the four-story Odd Fellows' hall, on Barnard and State streets, was struck by lightning. The large building is tenanted by a great many people, and the blinding flash of lightning and the terrific peal of thunder, accompanied by the falling pieces of pole to the earth, almost created a panic among them for a time. ^ rronrwon Dri'mltlvo Pon. IVC V U . v. fAW&xmuy i v tist minister and storekeeper of the village of Mixie, Tenn., was found dead In his storehouse, as the result of a bullet wound in his head. Whether the minister was assassinated or shot himself was not determined. A small caliber rifle was found near the body. One theory advanced, however, is that possibly the rifle was thrown near the body of the minister as a ruse by those responsible for his death. While swimming in about four and a half feet of water off Sullivan's Island. S. C., Corporal Kirkpatiick of the Seventy-eighth company, coast artillery corps, was bitten by an eightfoot shark. The soldier sustained the loss of several toes. Kirkpatrlck, seeing the shark, undertook to escape by hurrying for the shore. The fish followed him and snapped at his feet The victim suffered great pain. GeneraL A honeymoon trip of four hours, duration in a balloon that rose to the height of 8,700 feet, traveled 22 miles and came down in a pig pen, waB described at Smithvllle, Mo., by Mrs. Mllo Hartman, who landed near here, when the pilot balloon Kansas City III, came down. She was the only woman In the party and became the bride of Dovtor Hartman in Kansas City just before the balloon was cut loose to show the course for the contesting balloons In the national race, which started from Kansas City. Harry K. Thaw, in the eyes of the law, is still insane and must remain In the asylum, where he was placed on February 1, 1908, after he had killed Stanford White. Justice Martin J. Keogh of the Supreme court, denied Thaw's application for freedom. The court took the ground that Thaw's release would be dangerous to public iafety. When a piece of slate fell on a mine mule, it kicked the driver, Mike Ready. off the first car, and that car and another ran. over and killed hirn when the mule started up In Terre Haute, Indiana. Storms did damage of $50,000 or more in Louisville, and kept thousands of Sunday excursionists marooned. D. L. Koontz of Altoona. Wis., returned to Chicago after an absence of seventeen years and became lost. He obtained the aid of a negro in finding a hotel. The "hotel" proved to be an alley where the negro robbed Mr. Koontz of $30 and then fled. Miss Lois Bell, 19 years of age, the daughter of Oscar Bell, a New York lawyer, found a big negro exconvict under her bed. She dragged him out and held him till her father came with a gun. The Progressive party in Kentucky has locked horns with the Republi* cans in a fleht for recognition. Americans in normern Meclco ham bten officially notified by rebel commanders to give up their arms and leave the country, according to advices received In El Paso, Texas, by representatives of the Mormon colonists. An only alternative is to Join the rebel ranks and fight against the constitutional government of the renublic. Refugees from Mormon colo nlea are flacking to the border. They Fill be houied in tents If necessary, and the EH Paso customhouse building will be thrown open to them. The American population of Colonta, Juntos and Dubllan Is fifteen hundred. Death and widespread devastation from tremendous rains has resulted In western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. Prom all sections oomes details telling of persons drowned or buildings wrecked or completely washed away; streets torn up and bridges swept down; crops ruined; light plants put out of commission and towns left to suffer their misery in darkness, while transportation, telegraph and telephone facilities are badly crippled. From Brownsville, Pa, It Is reported that horsemen dashing frantically down the Red Stone valley, often with water up to the saddle girths, made a journey of nine miles in time to save the lives of hundreds of persons at Smock, a mining village. Aside from the great quantity of water due to the cloudburst, It was fear- i ed a huge reservoir was about to let | go. With'n a few minutes a thou- | sand fami! os were rushing in and | through the muddy waters to the hill- I sides. Soon ^he waterjmjshed^^) I ^vhe SMfaage. That mail trains frequently are compelled to run more than eighty miles an hour to make the schedules demanded by the United States government, was brought out at the Investigation of the recent Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad wreck at Western Snrlnsrs. 111., in which thirteen lives were lost The Illinois railroad and warehouse commission Is j making the investigation. Robert t Rice, superintendent of the railroad, , told of having ridden more than eighty miles an hour on mail trains. ' Washington. What has become of the Atlantic and Great Western canal movement inaugurated by the Atlanta chamber of commerce five years ago to revive interest in this great waterway project? A favorable report on the canal was made by Maj. Walter McFarland to Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, chief of the engineers of the United States army, dated May 23, 1872, and Is contained in volume two of the secretary of war's report in 1872. It is stated that a state commission ' will be appointed to investigate the advisability of having the state con sruct tli;< j.reat puunc worn. Samuel T. Farmer of Carrollton, Ga., is in Washington, with a story of a seedless watermelon, which, he says, rivals the discovery of the seedless orange. "Why, in my watermelon patch I accidentally broke off a portion of a melon vine," said Mr. Farmer. "I replanted the new portion. In a few days it began to send forth delicate roots. It cut the melon from the vine and carried It to the house, where, to our great surprise, we found it was seedless." Each battleship of the navy will be equipped with a speedy hydroplane within the next year if later plans of the navy department materialize. Rear Admiral Phillip Andrews, acting secretary, has called upon manufacturers to notify the department not later than August lo, whether they will submit hydroplane designs to meet naval requirements. It is proa speed in the air of not lesB than posed to have the machines sustain mi in a an hmip rarrvini? two Das sengers. President Taft will appoint Dorr Hazlehur8t of Evansville, Ind., a brother of Second Lieut. L. W. Hazlehurst, who was killed in an aeroplane accident at College Park, Md., June 11, a cadet at large to West Point. The president has ten of these appointments each year, and he has made j It an Invariable rule to name the sons of array officers. The excise bill was pat through the United States senate by a coalition it Democrats and Insurgent Republicans. It extends the provisions of the corporation tax to all persons and firms having an annual net income in 1 excess of $5,000. The vote was 37 j to 18. This action, following the j adoption of the LaFollette wool bill, presages the passage of a bill sharp- j ly reducing sugar duties. The house committee on agriculture recommended an immediate approprl- . atlon of $5,000 to 8top the ravages of the army worm in Southern states. Secretary Wilson asked for It Representative Heflin of Alabama told the committee that the worm was stopping railway trains in his district. I The committee will try to rush the appropriation through before *he agricultural bill is agreed upon. Legislation which will make effective 4he anti-liquor laws of prohibi tion states; which wll divorce the express offioe from the liquor business; strike a stunning blow at the "bootleggers" and the "blind tigers" snd make dry states dry in fact, was ordered favorably reported by the Judiciary oommittee of the senate. This was a decided victory for the temperance folks who have for several years valiantly sought to overcome the barrier raised by the Supreme court of the United States in its delaton of the Wilson law. Blind tigers ill he outlawed. eoend Weok Oreepeaepg Ciwpetg*. Orangeburg.-?The second week of the Orangeburg county Democratic campaign ended with the meeting at Cope. The meeting waa weU attended and was notable Is some way*. Until recently (he candidates " for the legislature had not been ; catechized as to how they stood In j regard to the candidates for governor. It was rumored some days ago that Cope was to be the "finding out point" Some candidates have been ready to speak out while others hoped the question vneuld not be popped. 8tudy Method of Tick Eradication. Spartanburg.?Members of the Australian tick commission, accompanied bv Dr. E. M. Neighbert of the United States department of agriculture, have spent a day in Spartanburg studying the metnds or licit er&aicauon applied in this South Wales; P. H. Chauvel, a large live stock owner and C. J. Pound of Brisbane. bacteriologist. They will be in the South until January. "Were all medicines as meritorious s Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and larrhoea Remedy the world would be xiuch better off and the percentage of mfferlng greatly decreased," writes Jndsay Scott, of Temple, Ind. For ale by all dealers. Encouraged Over Prospects. Dr. J. W. Babcock, chairm^i of the committee of arrangements for the pellagra oonference to be held In Columbia next October, announced that the committee is very much en- I jouraged over the prospects for the meeting. In one mail were received promises of papers from Dr. C. #C. Bass, professor of tropical medicine in Tulane university, New Orleans; l from Dr. M. F. Engman, the St. Loius 1 lematologist, and from Dr. Antonini, 1 jf Milan, Italy, whose subject will be t 'the Ethology of Pellagra " I ? One of the most common ailments x that hard working people afflicted 1 with is lame back. Apply Chamber- I Iain's Liniment twice a day and mas- t sage the parts thoroughly at each application, and you will get quick re- 1 lief. For sale by all dealers. J ????? ? Snakes That Bother nsnermen. j Poisonous snakes, driven to higher t land by the high water In Lake Pontchartraln, have been playing y havoc with fishermen, two of whom t were bitten so severely the other day c that they had to be sent to the Char- t lty hospital. James Nary, nineteen years old. a resident of Bucktown, occupies a cot In Ward 66 as a result of being bit- D ten on the great toe by a "lemontaU" c -nr?* rr>_ J snake no encountered near wesi mu ?r shortly before daybreak while hunt- 0 lng bullfrogs. John Qallaty of MUn*burg, the other snake victim, Is not j bo seriously affected, although bitten In the same place by a "cottonmouth" a snake. 'The 'cottonmouth' and the 'lemontaiP are the only two snakes fishermen fear," said Nary at the hospital, y "Moccasins and the other poisonous f snakes amount to nothing. I catch moccasins In my hand and twist t their heads off. It Is the 'cotton- :) mouths' and the 'lemontalls' that ] bother us."?New Orleans Tlmes-Dem. j ocrat. missc& natiosij CoMrickt 1909, br C. X. Zimaeuu THE National banking la\ NATIONAL BANK she cent of its profits each j until the amount aggergates at of the surplus stock. The First National Bank of ( yeor account, and offers you aba The Firft Nati HO! FOR HENDE The St Joh (Formerly The j -The mountains of Nor! been accorded the invigorati Jife-jrivinp qualities incident tc 75 can be imagined; Godd put ter, newly paved streets and ] tions. At the St. John everyth to-date. It caters to a refined Modern in all its furnishing! just the right place for one to i enjoyably. The Orchestra, under t Charlotte Erson, furnishes mu For rates apply to ST. JOHN Heni Individuality. J AUI "Nature never rhymes her children, ] UliI ior makes two men alike." So says ! 3merson, anjl the mothers of young { ainilies might do no worse than take ' his saying as a nursery motto. j Has It is curious how few parents, com- j . jaratlvely realize the wisdom of this, I ! ind consequently hov/ many homes are ! D narred and rendered unproductive by >eing made "forcing" instead of "tern- cona )erate"~ houses for the young lives hey contain. 6 The creeds, ideas, thoughts and ca- ey jrices of the parents are forced on the one :hild; he is molded or "patterned" by T1 he parent, according to that parent's store itandards. He is taught to be like this be t >erson, or that, to take such a one for lis example and object of imitation. BU^B1 He either becomes a nonentity, or, #r T( vhen he flnds that his shape Is unltted for the partntal mold, he rebels, llou<l ind then parent and child become anagonistic one to the other. do 11 liqui Mr. W. S. Qunsalues, a farmer Iiv- tarrr g near Fleming, Pa? says he has peop ted Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and ura larrheoea Remedy in his family j urteen years, and that he has found! , , 1 a bot to be an excellent remedy, and takes | I with easure in recommeaumg iu cut ile by all dealers. 80 Great Labor Bureau. ' In the Civil Servlco Commission the fnlted States Government has the ^ken reatest employment bureau In the cl?clt orld. Over half a million people U?80' re on the Government payroll, and of ^erda lese nearly half are receiving pay as a c'? ie result of competitive examina- ^lgh ons. Paul UMBIA ^VARUS IT TS IN A LBANR Jri _ ?f w MM.' w requires that every >uld set apart- ten per. rear as a snrpltis fund feast- twenty per oent: Riersw will appreciate' oltiter protection. ional Bank :RSOX>ULE! in Hotel, | 5 Gates)) | . 'y ' ( T :h Carolina, have long ng, strengthening and { f a m ( * tU - TT . e air, fresh spring waperfect sanitary concjiing modern and up^ and select clientele.. < s and equipment, it is spend a vacation most he direction of Miss j sic of a high class. 'j r & SON, dersonville, N. C. ! ATTACK FOLLOWS ANOTHER That Been Yonr Experience Tak? Calomel for Constipation? Try nilcnn's T.lv?r.Tftm? Next Time my people take calomel to cure tipation, and It does cure It for day, but twto or three days later are alcker than ever. That Is of the after effects of caomel. lis Is the reason why Ladd's drug: ! will not guarantee calomel to larmless. Bat we do guarantee ion's Liver-Tone to be a perfect tltute for eaiomel. Dodson's Livjne will cure constipation and bilattacks and keep them cured, by ilatlng and toning-up the liver to :a best )vork. It is a vegetable d with a pleasant taste and is iless to children as well as grown le. It livens up the liver by natmethods, does not act so strongly > weaken the body, but is safe lure Just the same. You can buy tie today trom Ladd's drug store the assurance of your money if it faila in your case. *uplls and tha 8chool Clock, jh school pupils do better work their eyes are not fixed on th? This opinion was expressed Imously by the school board yeay afternoon and a proposal to put >ck in every room in the clty'? schools was abandoned.?St_ Pioneer Presa.