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?r gpfte Cfierato Cftromrie '? M?rto" 10 Commu"1 Succe"' "" w?'" B.mwni?u., w.n Dwerr. " Volume 16 ^ dgERAW. CHESTERFIELD COUNTyTsTI^AU^UST^, 'Number 41 IDE VOTE OF/11 ?f AN INTERESTING SI/MMARY OF 80UTH CAROLINA PRIMARY OF TWO YEAflS AGO. OF INTEREST TVTHE PEOPLE 1? As Election is NearJf-There Was Difference of Only 5,6C0 Votes Between Featherstone and governor Blease? Wow the First PriAary Went. Columbia.?With thl primary elec'tion leBS than a mon;?off and confident claims being madw>y the ardent supporters of the two mading candidates for governor, it isVf some interest to look back to thlkcampaign of 1910 and in the light of th^lection figures of two years ago forr^some Idea of the chances this year, g^dge j Jones is a new factor personall^NP A] the primary, but the strength of Gov. Blease and of the opposition to him ? Js pretty well known. Mr. Blease was elected in the second primary of 1910 by a majority of 6,645. A change of less than 2,900 votes would have defeated him. In i Charleston his majority was smaller than that, it was 2,745, and it was freely charged just after that election that at least 1,500 fraudulent votes were casf in Charleston county. In Richland the majority for Gov. i Blease was over 1,000, it was 1,026*. and a substantial change in these two , y counties would ordinarily be sufficient Ll to bring aljout the defeat of tM-pree- , w* /e^vveflfcrTTu^io Mr. BlJfloe had" Ja the second primary the support* of ' f practically all factions in Charleston ^ ;i? .as against a .prohibitionist, whereas this year the Grace faction, triumphant at the recent municipal election, \ Is opposed to him, and the anti-Grace faction is at least not for him, so far as any one knows. At any rate it Is certain he will never receive in Charleston the landslide vote he got two years ago. >In the second primary of 1910 Gov. Blease received a majority of the votes in 24 of the 43 counties, as follows: Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson. Bamberg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Kershaw, Laurens, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland. Saluda and Union. Of these eouDties which gave Blease a majority those giving him the largest majorities were the following: Aiken, 1,024: Charleston, 2,745; liorj rv, 441: Lexington, 024: Newberry, 629; Richland, 1,026; Saluda, GDI; Union, 490. In the other counties which lie carried his majorities were small. Gov. B1 ease's opponent, Mr. Featherstone, received a majority in the following counties: Beaufort, Cherokee. Chester, Chesterfield. Darlington, Dillon. Kdgeiieid. Fairfield, Florence, Greenville. Greenwood, Lancaster, Murioji, Marlboro, Oconee, Spartanburg, Sumter, Williamsburg, and York. Negro Killed While Clearing Wreok. l)iilon.--!h clearing tip the wreck of se\?tal es.rs below here a negro. William Cooper, of Cades was killed. In i hitching a chain of otic of the dor* ricks to a car he failed to fasten it ; set urely, and when the engine tighten-! ei! (.11 it the chain flew back and broke : his neck, at the same time taking part I of his head cfi. His body was pre par- j ed for burial and sent to his home, j The same train that was wrecked went I on down to Sellers ' on ;< :tl was again wrecked. <" t ?r h i?g derailed. ' Traffic was M > ; '..t . :)< nine. CJeyo . argrr 1 New' . >.?V .i'.js ' : , colored, was i (' d jf*i! .urged willi the i killing .'..tl'"- Morgan, colored, in 1 flie Maybertr. 1 section. Gray claims I the killing was accidental, while oilier ; witnesses Maim Gray was fussing with | Morgan's brother when lie killed .Mor- j gan. ! Columbia. ? Three ' social clubs" | were raided by the Columbia police, i The managers were required to give ' . bond for each. >y.. /i'k FROM ALL O^B THE STATE Short Paragraphsabf State News That Have Been Gotflkn Together With Care by nie Editor. Florence.?Atlawic Coast Line train So. 324, the FloJtace-FayettevIlle local freight, over ?e (Short Cut) Fayettevllle division,was badly wrecked near the Marlon (fcunty Lumber Company's plant, bettfeenPee Dee and Sellers, and bloclfid the main line for about ten hours.* Greenville. ? Breenville police, in Ihe absence of aState constable, have been usually active in raiding blind tigers, severa|^>arrels of beer, consigned to John Quinn, were seized while being transported on a wagon through the city, ki all- it is said records have been found where Quinn has already received 57 barrel of beer in the last few. mpnthr ' ^ ? 1 _ a ci ureenwuuu.? i ue oi rjrw kine college met Mere several days ago. The mattgr of the endowment campaign fm^vas the chief topic of RliMMrlllxcollent progress 1b being made In this campaign. It was decided to have a financial agent of the college to make a thorough and systematic canvasB for funds for the endowment fund. Anderson.?Nothing new was injected Into the1 campaign meeting here when the candidates for United States senate, congressman from the third district and solicitor -'of the tenth circuit addressed about 300 voters in the courthouse. J. M. Daniels and Proctor A. Bonham, candidates for solicitor, led off, and each was given a respectful hearing. ; Abbeville. At, a buaJness raetj'a eating in -oitj* hal? It' was decided to make a trip through the southern section of Abbeville county for the purpose of boosting Abbeville and getting better acquainted with the people. Mayor C. C. Gambrell presided and appointed the several committees, which will begin at once to plan for the trip. cuiumuia.? me ljvuhj\^i anv; caci^ulive committee of Richland couunty met in the court house and named the manager of election. The question of whether to hold the Columbia meeting in the court house or theatre was discussed and it was decided to have it in the theatre provided each caudidate would pay his share of the expense, otherwise it would be in the court house. Chapin.?The annual temperance picnic cf the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Chapin will be held! August 15 at the Methodist church, j Among the speakers expected aro: J .Mrs. Joseph Sprott of Marion, who is state president of the Woman's Christian Temperat.ee union; Rev. Waller I. Herbert of Sumter and Rev. J. A. Branson of St. .Matthews. In. the evening both a musical and an oratorical contest will he held. Columbia. ? While in Dlythewcod trying to trace the party or parties v ho robbed the postoiiice at that place, a call was scut to J. C. Mohhin of i!ie penitentiary to take his blood-1 hounds to Hinnnut's store, about. 15, miles from Columbia ou the Monticello road, lo investigate a robbery tlujio. Mr. Rohhins went and as the result brought two negroes to Columbia and lodged them in the state | prison. Newberry. ? Five thousand people : attended ti;o Newberry College re-J union at Little Mountain and enjoyed j a line outing. Addresses w.ere made i by C. .1. Itatnage, of Saluda; E. H. j Anil, J. H. O'Neal Holloway, Dr. A. J.; Powers and President Harms. The address o! welcome was uy .wr. narliion, of Chapiu. The crowd included people from all the surrounding counties and the occasion was one of the most pleasant in the long history of these annual gatherings. Chester.?Dr. J. LafJruce Ward, director rural sanitation, visited Chester county, and wiiile here decided upon Chester, Ilichburg, Fort Lawn, Ulackstoc-k and Leeds as the points at which dispensaries will be establishes! for the treatment of hookworm during tfie campaign that is to be carried on in Chester county. Dr. L. A. Hiser, of Leesville, who will have charge of the campaign during the six weeks of its progress, will arrive in the near future. . BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOD THEBUSY MAN M08T IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of i Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. I Southern. "Not guilty!" A startled cry fell from the quivering lips of Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace, when the Jury foreman pronounced the verdict that forever puts the woman beyond the pale of the law on the charge of shooting her husband, "Gene" Grace, in their home, 29 West Eleventh street, Atlanta, Ga., last March. The Burnug tnuia.* ui iuc uiai v>u "U<.u itBelf upon the prisoner, her attorneys, the court and others. The woman, pale and trembling, almost ran through the streets from the car line to the court room, where she sank, exhausted, In her seat. In front of the Savananh, Ga., cotton exchange, the first bale of cotton for the new season of 1912-13 was sold at auction. The staple brought 311-2 cents, a new record for the first bale for many yeajs. It graded middling and weighed 350 pounds. The bale was expressed to New York. The first bale was received In Savannah last year on July 28 and sold tot 25 T<2 C"jnts-a.,p!3T:Trd: Satisfied that 12c is an excellent price for cotton, even with the assured prospects of the shortest crop locally in several years, some farmers in Americus, Ga., evidence a willingness to sell at that figure. Several hundred hales were sold through a warehouse to American buyers for 12 cents, the cotton being good middling to be delivered during September. Similar lines were attempted three years ago, A Socialistic lecture at Tallapoosa, Ga., by Mrs. Cates Richard OTIarc of St. Louis. Mo., in which she attacked the employment of children under legal age in cotton mills, was broken up oy tne nre department | sprinkling the assembled crowd after | Mayor C. E. Pearce, who is also su- J perintendent of the largest cotton mill at Tallapoosa, had failed in his at- j tempt to have Mrs. O'Hare arrested, j General. The conquent of Mount Sir Sand- j ford, the highest peak in the Sel- j kirks, by Howard Palmer, secretary ' of tlu4' American Alpine Club, is an-; nouncvd in New York City in a message v'hicli was sent by Mr. Palmer to the?'American Geographical society, i The assent of the mountain, which is 11.U3-1 teei high, and is practically j one continuous wall of ice, * as made j one June >'4. No less than eight separate attempts to scale Sir Sandford 1 have been made during the last half j Deposit yc i> The Bank CKerzwu STRONGER THAN* ALL OTHER B.\ 40 compoi 0 in savir dozen years. The n:cd( rn Rip Van Winkle lives in Liberty, Mo. This name is Gus B.shop. In forty-one years he never has been outside the city, he never has seen a telegraph instrument, never has seen an aeroplane, never has sen a moving picture show, never sa wan electr.c street car, never was inside a theater, never saw a horse race. There are scores of buildings in the little town that Gush Bishop has never seen. A fifteen million dollar corporation for reclamation and drainage purposes and the development of electrical power in southwest Louisiana has been practically formed according to representations made to the state tax commission by Wellborn Bradford, representing New York interests. The company plans to divert water from the Red river by means of a natural and art flcial waterway system through the southwestern portion of the state to supply Irrigation and power for electrical transportation in mill Btruuuu. Sworn statements In New York 1 City tend to show the annual graft 1 collected by high officials from the 1 gambling houses and illegal resorts 1 has amounted within the last year to |2,400,000, and are in the hands of < the district attorney. The annual < yield of $2.400,Goo protection money was equally divided among four high I officials of the police department, ac- i cording to the evidence so far gath- i ered by the newspapers. It is stated ] that there were four separate sys- 1 terns or bureauB of graft collection, < A tombstone toppled over in the ' cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.f while the funeral of John D. Rockefeller, of Tivoli, a distant relative of the I oil king was in progress, and crushed to death Raymond Callendfer, aged 4. England will make no further pro j test against United States,ships past- , tag through the Panama, canal free. Because It oosiruc&TfUiV vtewcltfi the Western mountains from the But- j more house, George W. Vanderbilt has ordered the demolition of a threestory 30-room residence built by Mrs. Mitchell, sister-in-law of Marshall Field, at a cost of 136,000. By a vote of 6 to 7 the finance com' mittee agreed to adversely report the | Pujo resolution which would especial- , ly empower the house "money trust" j committee to investigate national ( ^anks. j Clyde Marcellus Sims, 42 years old, ] who disappearer from his home in Georgia tea years ago and has been , hiding under the name of C- E. Van i Wormer, was found in St. Louis, Mo., ] and, after close questioning by detec- i tives, admitted his Identity. His wife has been seeking him for a long time. t a n-nonfiiliatiou took ulace between , them in the office of the chief of do* c tec fives. Sims was found through de- j tectives employed by an insurance j company, wh'ch had been sued for . a $5,UU0 policy on his life, under tlie j legal presumption that one who i3 r missing seven years is legally dead. v General I'ascual Orozco, comman- t der-in-ch cf of tl:a .Mc.vcan rebels, de- ? clares that he does not iccognize the t United States govirninent. He made 5 , this remark to Thomas Edwards, the United States consul at Juarez, who f called at the rebel leader's quarters i t to deliver a message from Secretary i 0 Knox. While Orozco did not receive ^ .Mr. Edwards as a representative of r fl ~~ n v vmt* m An DT7 a mx xxxvxx^j t s A ii of Gherawi d \ S. C.i n \v p L>'KS IX THE COO'TT COMBINED T w w m inded quarterly I ai lgs departmentS :he United States government, be was ;lad, he said, to see Mr. Edwards and :o receive him as an American citizen. Orozco accepted the message vithout comment. Two Americans were hanged near Jananea, Sonora, Mexico. Their bodes were found and the incident reported to President Madero by the governor of Sonora. The governor las ordered an investigation. He beieves the two men were executed by ebels in order to precipitate Amerf:an intervention. The victims have iot been identified. The era of Taisei?"great righteousness'?has commenced in Japan. The sra of Meiji?"inteligent administration"?closed with the accession of Yoshihito. Telegrams of sympathy aver the death of the emperor are. pouring into Tokio. They include messages from President Taft. The Japan home department has Issued instructions for one year's mourning, but it is understood that full mourning will be limited to fifty days to prevent disturbance of business. The self-restraint and dignity of the en Lire people was a striking feature of the first day of mourning. No change in the Roman Catholic shurch law relating to marriages ot Catholics with non-Catholics in the United States has been made by the recent order of the pope affecting such cases, according to Bonaventura Cerretti, chargede'affalres of the papal legation at Washington. Mgr. Cerretti said that the order as explained from Rome simply restored force to a provision of the church governing mixed marriages in Germany and Hungary which bad been suspended In the early nineteenth century. # Clover.?-The picnic at Filbert was attended by the smallest crowd of ata like occasion since this place band and was acconLed a qutt^hMLT 7 Ing. Blease failed to show up, W/shinqrton. Evidence of the growing anxiety of the administration in regard to the revolution in* Nicaragua was shown , when orders were issued to the gunboat Tacoma at Guantanamo, Cuba, to proceed forthwith to Blueflelds. She Is due to arrive soon, and will try to communicate with Managua, so Minister Weitzel may keep the state department informed of developments, rhe gunboat Annapolis, on the west :oast, has been getting only fragmen:ary advices from Managua. These lave been sufficient alarming to war ant sending another warship. The senate gave its approval to aholition of the "blue tag" system )r fast freight branch of the second :lass mail service inaugurated by ^ostmastor General Hitchcock, agreeng to second class provisions of the jostoflice appropriation bill, requlrng transportation of periodicals ia nail cars. Senator Swansron led aa insuccessful fight to give publishers he option of having their publications ;o by mail or fast freight, declaring hat the postoffice bill as presented ras unfair to the newspapers. The United States has again proested to the Mexican government and o General Orozco, leader of the revisionists, against attacks upon the American citizens and property in ,or thorn Mexico. Secretary Knox oficially renewed his notive of two lonths ago, that the United States fill hold Mexico to strict account for 11 damages, and unofficially notified irozco that he would be held peronally responsible for damages to imericans or their property. That the Monroe doctrine express7 forbids any foreign nation acquir ig a naval base at Magdalena bay r otber similarly sitwated points on tie American continent Is tho subtance of a report made by Senator .od.ge. Senator Lodge is chairman of ie subcommittee to which the Magalena matter was referred last April, Tho house ways and means comlittee determined to- reintroduce the democratic cotton tariff bill, which as passed at the last session of Conress and vetoed by President Taft he importance of the tariff program as reflected in the meeting of th? ays and means committee, all of th? lembership being called into conferice. When the house met, Majority eader Underwood preseuted the mended wool tariff measure and the ccise tax bill passed last week by ie Senate. He will ask that conforms be named to take the measures. t ?