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\ ;j Aft vr ; i . > I f loafer this toy JioYste\ comjp&x J t t F.S .. . : i ilEFNEIsloiES' FOR THE BUST INj i tAOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF I THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN I CONDENSED FORM. 1 WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. ? ! Southern. , An exciting scene marked the session of the South Carolina house of representatives when Governor Blease went into the hall to reply to certain statements made by W. F. Stevenson, in a speech on the asylum probe and to deliver a message in person. Personal encounters, which at one time ; seemed likely, were prevented by the Intervention of members. When the governor charged that N. B. Barnwell, member of the house from Charleston, was acting In a cowardly manner by raising a technical point, Mr. Barnwell advanced to the speaker's stand, but was restrained by members. Governor O'Neal of Alabama has announced that .he will call a special fnr Wnv 11 fnr the election of a United States senator from Ala>Mia to fill out the unexpired term <L-\he late Senator Joseph F. John- j eton. In a tellegram to R. Tyler Good wyn, chairman of the state Democratic -executive committee, which was In ses- j ?ton. In a telegram to R. Tyler Goodgests that a primary be called for; April 6 for the nomination of the shortterm senator. Two sheds of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation company, on New Basin canal, between Howard and iRobertson streets, containing 4,600 bales of cotton and several freight cars, were destroyed by fire in New Orleans after midnight, causing a loss of $250,000. The amount of insurance is not known.. A negro was asleep in the cotton and was rescued feadly burned by a night watchman. . e: 'pod as \Roys tilizQr dealei <0u, ask yours ) \ r's is ike stand \ 'ISOTl. , j? ji. TRADE MARK RE0ISTER?D .Roysler Guarvo C _ Nor folic, \??L. 1 % Sold ovferywKera tie is Demg neia uy uie yuuw. Dogs have been playing havoc with the flocks of sheep In the western part of the Georgia county in which Lyerly is situated, near Menlo, for Rome time. J. D. Blalock, J. N. F?muiett and J, W. U'Kear report mat dogs got into their herds and killed about fifty sheep. ThiB is the first time in years that dogs have made a raid on the herds of sheep. General. The paymaster of the Brown Shoe company was robbed of $10,000 at a factory of the company, according to a report telephoned to the St. Louis police headquarters. The robbery was committed by two men, who jumped from an automobile, ran into the fao tory and held up the paymaster. j Laudatory comments on President Wilson's message to congress are published in most of the newspapers of England. One paper says: "It is not always convenient to hail a stateman of another country as a 'just judge' when he advocates your case against a section of his own countrymen." The world-girdling American baseball players came home in a snowstorm. While harbor craft tooted and envoys from the Federal League figuratively waved enticing contracts, the ni a tirvi*. n? j Ulttlll- W Iliie OUA C'UIllUIliaLlUU UICW ID" I to quarantine. The Federal League 1 representatives were unable to obtain passes to board the Lusitania to greet the travelers down the bay. Organized baseball was more fortunate in having obtained revenue cuttef passes in advance and a delegation was able to j board the ship before she came to her pier in New York City. Militant suffragette^ gave further proof In London that their bltteree* animosity is reserved for the Labor party, the only political party that has espoused their cause. As soon as the j chairman of the Labor party began | ' speaking at a Labor party rally in i Memorial hall, suffragettes, aided by 1 male supporters, started to howl him l down. For nearly an hour a fierce ; ' struggle raged in the hall. There were i frequent free fights between men, i while women grabbed one another by ( the hair and scratched faces and tore ? clothing. Windows were smashed and j chairs broken. ( Though the strictest secrecy had en- i veloped the measures taken, it be- < I i\ b C I o V \ iers i , ; r saYs elf }md of % R&J/O hsi I > "Om ,. _ A -r -.? m m> <rn i * ( tame known in Netf York City that unisual precaution is being exercised by , he Metropolitan Museum of Art to juard against thieves and fire the $50,- ( )00,000 Morgan collection now on view , n that institution. It is said that } ;he protective arrangements, which , ire most elaborate, would make vtrually impossible a repetition of the , Mona Lisa theft in the Louvre museum with Raphael's Colonna Madon- , la the possible subject in this in- ( stance. A broken trolley wire was all that ( saved a suburban train carrying 250 mssengers from striking obstructions )iled on the track between Del Rey ] irwd Renondo Beach and rolling down i 12-foot embankment into the ocean. Running from Los Angeles aloqg the >cean front toward Renondo at fortyIve miles an hour the two-car train ( slackened speed and stopped when the 1 vire snapped and the current was Jo- 1 :errupted. A few yards ahead lay six lies across the track. A short distance 'arther on a hydraulic jack was chain;d to the rails. An investigation is be- ? ne mr.de. Several hundred men, who, under ? .lie leadership of Industrial Workers ( >f the World, have been marching on 1 thurch edifices in New York City re- 3 :ently, were arrested in St. Alphousus' toman aCtholic church. As the men 1 leared the church, detectives informed * ^rank Tannenbaum, who has headed ( he demonstrations made, that if the ' nen entered the building they would 1 i~ ? - * ?!"> ? ?>m-li Tonnenhanm. in- ^ iu ou ai moii yei n. *. w ? itead of heeding the advice, called on 1 :he men to follow him. 1 Disputed points between house and * senate on the postal appropriation bill , c vere compromised. The measures J vere accepted by the senate and went 1 o the house for final passage. The postmaster general would be empow- 'f jred to fix the time for delivery of par:el post shipments in congested zones. The pay of substitute clerks and carders was compromised at 35 cents an ' tour and the $1,200 a year maximum f 'or rural carriers was agreed upon. 6 The life of several point postal com- 1 nissions was extended to December 1. ' - t An "army of the unemployed" broke :amp on a vacant lot at San Francisco " md have started on a march to Wash c ngton, D. C. There are 24 companies p )f 90 men each, and the men have ill the officers of a military regiment, i ;xcept a paymaster. They were led j i iy buglers and drummers. "General" J. T. Kelly Is the commanding officer. .Asserting that there Is no warrant if International law or treaty under /hlch the 5,000 Mexicans who fled to he United States after the battle of )jlnaga, and who are Interned at Fort iliss, can be held, representatives of he Huerta government at El Paso, Texas, are preparing to Institute haieas corpus proceedings to obtain heir liberation! Harris Walthall and I. R. Gamble are acting for the Huera government, under the immediate Urectlon of Miguel E. Diebold, the Mexican consul general at large. The right of express companies to efuse to deliver C. O. D. shipments >f liquor into Texas was upheld by he Missouri supreme court. The de iision of the court was based od the Texas law prohibiting such shipments. / Washington. President Wilson went to congress ind pleaded for .repeal of the provilion of the Panama canal act which sxempts American coaBtwise shipping, rom tolls. / He tersely asserted that lis reason for asking the repeal was >ecause everywhere execpt in the Unitid States the tolls of the exemption vere regarded as violation of the Hay3?unoefn?p trpptv, arAl he further ask;u iv iu suppo. v 01 tne administraJon's general policy. In i here was a quick response to tne presdent's address, the committee voting 13 to 3 to favorably report the Sims epeal bill. John Bassett Moore, counselor of :he s ate department add the recognized authority on international quesJons, concluded his service with the jovernment, when President Wilson iccepted the resignation Mr. Moore lad submitted a month ago. Coming; ivhen international affairs occupy the i 'orefront of official and public atten-l Jon, the departure of Mr. Moore from i position* second only to that of Mr. Bryan, attracted wide-spread attention ind comment. It is stated that he will eturn to the Columbia university as lead of the international law department. J Washington paid tribute to Col. O. vV. Goethals, builder of rae Panama :anal. The occasion was the annual banquet of the National Georgraph j Society, with Colonel Goethals present | is the guest of honor, and to receive !rom them and the president a special ;old medal awarded him by the socijtey in recognition of his wonderful oastThe banquet pres^^^H striking scene. At one end, rals^^HP ibove the table, the words, "A^BlcJoethals-Paciflc," blazed in bi^ant ilectric 'tetters as all other lights were extinguished. j The United States army forces in fiawali are to be increased from 8,000 nen to 14,000 or 15,000 as soon as lie troops can be transferred from the states, according to MaJ. Gen. tVilliam H. Carter, who is to sail for rlonolulu to assume command of the livision of Hawaii. With General Carer will go about one thousand men tc lugment the present garrison on Oahu The remainder of the proposed in-! :rease, he said, will be transferred as soon as the men can be spared from! he Texas border. A monument to commemorate the victory of Andrew Jackson over thej >eek Indians at Horse Shoe Bend onj he Tallapoosa river in i814 in Ala-J jama, was provided by a bill passed jy the house. Majority Leader Unlerwood made a speech vigorously supporting the bill. It carried an appropriation of $25,000 for the monument. Preliminary figures made public by llrector of the census, W. J. Harris, shows the total indebtedness of the 48 states of the Union, less sinking fund issets, on June 30, 1913, was $342,251,)00? an increase of $107,342,000, ox learly 50 per cent., over the total ten rears ago. President Wilson revealed to thoce nho discussed Mexican affairs with lim that he fully realized the gravity )f the situation resulting from the kill ng of William S. Benton, a British subject, the reported murder of Gus av Bauch and Clemente Vergara, Vmerican citizens, and General Car anza's denial of the right of the Unit ;d States to look after the interests >f foreigners generally in Mexico. The jresldent spoke deploringly of armed nterventicn, but said the power and size of the United Slates warranted a a m and patient course and did not ivr>r fash action. Tomato Clubs For Marion. Marion.?With the visit of Miss Cdlth Parrott, state agent of the ;irls' tomato club work and also igent of the United States departnent of agriculture", to this city, vhere she conferred with the county >oard of education and the directors ?f the "Marion Boosters," it is now ertain that Marion county will have ;irls 'tomato clubs for 1914. The requisite amount of money fori he support of the movement, jnclud-, ng nine months' salary for a local i;;eut and her expenses, raised. PLAN FOR BIG HORSE SHOWS 8ix South Carolina Cities Make Prep* arations For Event.?Many Visit* ors Will Corns. Greenville.?Plans are in making by six South Carolina citfes for the entertainment of thousands of visitors to this state during tne months of April and May, the occasion being the* first annual exhibitions of the Soutnj Carolina Horse Show association^ which are to be held in Camden, Sum-* ter, Darlington, Columbia, Greenwood and Greenville. The idea was first originated la Greenville last year, and it immediately met the general approval of horsemen from all parts of the country, who have assured the horse show association of their co-opertion and their intention to bring to this state Rome of the finest an'mala of America for exhibition. The dates of the various shows as announced by the executive commits tee of the South Carolina Horse Show association are: Camden, April 12 and 13; Sumter, April 7, 8 and 9;. Darlington, April 14, 15 and 16; Columbia, April 21, 22 and 23; Greenwood, April 29 and 30, and Greenville, May 6, 7 and 8. It is the plan of the promoters to make the horse shows in South Carolina this year greater than any event of .its kind ever held in the South, and if possible, equal to the Capital horeq < show in Washington city. The last Of the South Carolina shows will procede the Capital horse show by a week or so, and for this reason horsemen from all sections of the country are expected to bring their animals to this state and after the close of the show in Greenville carry their stock to Washington. On assurance of success is the /> enormity; of the prize lists, which include valuable trophy cups and casn prizes amounting to approximately $10,000. These are well distributed in a carefully arranged program, separating and taking care of aO classes. There will be local classes, state classes and championship classes, providing 4or "keen compete ^ 4, tlon. 8outh Carolina Crops. , Columbia?"It is worthy of note that we succeeded in having seded 138,009 fV acres of cover crops as follows: 64,000 ^ acres of as^jOOO^es of vetch, . . "gen" says W. W. Long, state agent for the United States farm demonstr* tlon work and the superintendent of r the Clemson College extension work^ in his annual report, prepared for th? national department of agriculture. , ' "It may be mentioned In this co? aectlon that there were 2;100 acres of alfalfa grown nnder the supervi ilon of the demonstration agents,* continues the report. According to the report, there wers 1,268 boys enrolled In- he boys' corn club work last year, 4' of them making reports. The average number ol oushels produced by these young meo was about 60 per acre. OsAi%A?a C 5 rmars 011 Mill. Union.?A farmers oil mill may probably be established in this city luring this year, if the movement launched recently meets with the sueteas that the present prospects seem>d to assure. For some time there has been talk m if organizing another oil mill here to >e owned and operated by the farmirs of this county, and this plan took leflnite form at a meeting of the bounty Farmers' Union meeting held it the court house a few days ago. There were about 50 representative farmers present at this meeting ind there was a thorough discussion if the. matter from all points of view. Offers of sites for the plant were nade by several parties representing llfferent sections of the county, hough the egneral opinion seems that t should be located in Union. Some State Charters. Cloumbia.?Gray Land and Improvenent Company of Spartanburg has teen commissioned by the secretary if state with a capital stock of S5.000. ^ Petitioners are Lucius Gray and Lew* s Gray. Rose Hill corporation of Charleston ias been chartered with a capital took of $12,000. The officers are. John McCrady, president; W. S. MoDrady, treasurer, and M. S. Saint* Wmand, secretary. Ingenious Smuggling Device. Opium smuggling was frustrated by the San Francisco police recently, when an ingenious attempt was made to get it into the city Jail. Patrick Dougherty stuffed an Imitation rubber grape with opium, tied it to the stem of a bunch of real grapee, and carried In the bunch to a woman prisoner. As Dougherty Is a probationer, his offenBe is likely to cost him dear, i I