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WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
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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. .
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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
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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. (
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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
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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. '
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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