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IB il W. BIHCKMORK, PBOPBJETOR. ??the h.yhd or the diligent shall rule. TKItMS* 91.50 IN ADVANfE l'EIt ANVVM. y?L. 30 CAMDEN. KERSHAW COUNTY. S. C.. TUESDAY. DECEMBER. 30.1913. NO 10 GETS MUCH PRAISE WILSON AND M'REYNOLDS LAUD ED FOR TRUST FIGHT * INDEPENDENTS PLEASED Telephone Companies Not Connected With Western Union Express Gr*?t li! cat Ion at tho Rewtoratlon of Fair ? Competition, Which Wa.s About to l>o Crushed. Attorney General McReynolds has re ''lved many letters of commenda tion from Independent telephone companies congratulating him upon his work In bringing about tho dls oslutlon of tho Ilell telephone and Western Union Telegraph Interests. John H. Wright of Jamestown, N. Y., pn sident of tho Independent Tele phone Association of America, in a le'ier to tho Attorney General re c(-l<'od recently, said: "On behalf of the Independent tel ephone Interests of the United States I desire to express our appreciation of ihe splendid manner in which you have protected our rights under tho law. For a long time we have felt thit there was some adequate rem edy against tho wrongs that were openly perpetrated by the Hell inter ests, which were designed eventually to end all competition. Tho agree ment you Lave reached indicates most satisfactory results which con stitute a Justification and compensa ti. n for our long struggle for that en 1. "May we also, through you, ex press to President Wilson our appre ciation of his distinguished personal consideration of this controversy and the unfailing patriotism that has characterized .his attitude through out?" 11. G. Hubbell, president of the Federal Telephone and Telegraph company of Buffalo, writes: "You have dono a wonderful work for public good and are being pro claimed a hero by independent tele phone interests, which embraces in its scope more than 400,000 security holders." Mr. Hubbell also Invited Mr. McReynolds to address the Inde pendent Telephone Association of America meeting In Chicago on Jan uary 7. Since the announcement of the pinna for the reorganization of tho Telephone Trust there has been ono caller on the Department of Justice In the cause of a prosecuted cora Mno, moro than a hundred telephone calls and scores of letters and many telegrams seeking to learn what may be expected In the Bul.t of the Gov ernment against certain trusts. Mr. McReynolds left Washington for Kentucky last Saturday and will not return until next week. In his ab- ' Bnnco there is no one at the depart ment authorized to act for him In taking up fresh proffers from trusts which wiBh to reform. Tho Inquiries rnd reports of negotiations and pro tective agreements have persisted, however, and In tho list that has been it entloned have appeared what are regarded at the Department as some of the most importanf ;lts that have been filed in many yi Mr. McReynolds, in talking over tho efforts of directors of tho New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail road company to avoid a trust suit, 1 as made it plain that ho is not will ing to accept offers which do not moan a reform in accord with tho department's own ideas. KILLED AT II 18 DOOR. I.eft Dead With Twenty Wounds In Ills Body. Mike Laporta was called to his door in the South Sldo of tho Ital'an quar ter of Chicago, Sunday by cries of "Hurry, yoxir brother is dying.' A mo ment later he was struggling with three men who left him dead with 20 stab wounds In his body. Antonio I^aporta, tho brother catno homo Boon after tho pollco arrived. He nald ho know- who had klllod Mike, hut when questioned about tho Identity of the assassins ho replied: "It Is my affair, I will find them." Im ports said tho murder was tho result of a Sicilian feud of 20 years dura tion. "My brother was not tho first; ho will not bo tho Inst," Lnportji add ed. DANOKROU8 III HIMCHtt. Answer to Matrimonial Ad Leads Wo man Into Trouhlo. Answorlng a note smuggled out of a cottage In the Jwuth end of I, on An geles, C'al., police womon Raturday found Hortha Lake, the twonty-threo year old daughter of an oyntorman near Providence, R. I., who nalfl aho had anawered a matrimonial adver tlsnmont, and had been drugged and held a prlsonor for two wroks by tho man whom she came to inarry. The man, Robert Olboch, a young Austra lian, wan arrested, and an lnvoatlga tlon la under way. Two Brothers Are Killed. William and Robert Russell, ? brothera, of Petros, Tonn., woro ahot and killed early Thursday, and needier Holmes and hla younger brother, charged with murder, are Imprlaoned. The Russets had testi fied against the Holmoa In a liquor selling casn. ? ? ? Tried to Bell too Cheap. When Jim Jackson offered to sell a Greenwood horse dealer a Ann mule for $100 Saturday he waa at once taken Into custody. Runday the own er, a farmer, turned up and olalmed the mule which had been stolen from hit plantation. CUT DOWN DELEGATES SOUTH CAROLINA IX>SES SEVEN WITH REPUBLICANS. National Committee Ends Its Labors With Compromise Reorganization ami Adjourns. The Republican national commit tee has concluded Its labor for re form In- party procedure, and launch ed Its campaign for a reunion of warring elements, by adop'.in,? a res olution providing for a radical change in the basis of representation in national conventions which would reduce the quota of southern states from thirty-three to sixteen per cent, of the convention's total. The action of the committee, criti cised in vigorous terms by soveral of its members, but made unanimous before adjournment, must bo indors ed by states entitled to cast a ma jority of votes in the electoral col lege before It becomes party law. In order that such action shall be taken as promptly as possible the committee appointed a subcommittee of three, consisting of Charles B. | Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah, of Idaho, and Governor Hatfleld, of West Virginia, to prepare an address This address will bo drawn up short ly after the Christmas holidays, and leading members of the committee expressed the hopo that it would bo met by early action. Approval by the states will insure a call from the national committee for the national convention of 1916 along the lines laid down. The re organization plan adopted came as a compromise which reflected tne views of many committeemen that southern representation should be reduced, hut not brought to the vanishing point. According to figures submitted by the subcommittee, the new plan would reduce the total number of | delegates from 1.07S, as In 1812, to 993. Under It these states would lose delegates: Alabama 9, Arkansas 3, Florida 4, Georgia 10, Illinois 2, Kentucky 1, Louisiana 7, Mississippi 8, New York 4. North Carolina 3, Pennsylvania 1, South Carolina 7, Tennessee 3, Texas 15, Virginia 9, and Hawaii 4. The southern states would have 164 dele gates In all. FREES AMERICANS. Huerta Orders Release of Trio Ileld in Mexican Jails. By appealing directly to Gen. Huer ta Friday Nelson O'Shaughnesay, American charge d'affaires, obtained from him almost Immediately une quivocal consent to the release of three Americans now In Jail, whose liberation long has been delayed by legal manoeuvring. The men order ed set free by Gen. Huerta are H. J Kidder, William Krauae and John John Parker. It apparently developed that Gen. Huerta had known nothing of the incarceration of the men or of efforts that had been made by Mr. O'Shaugh nesBy to procure their release. Mado impatient by tho long series of eva sions and excuses glvon him from other quarters, Mr. O'Shaughnessy risked incurring tho displeasure of minor officials and apparently found Huerta willing and anxious to dem onstrate by the order for his release his intention to maintain fair play. Ho declared that as long as he Is president he would not countenance any discrimination against Americans or any persecution of them because of nationality. Parker Is in Jail at San Luis Potosl. Ho is charged with boing Im plicated In a murder. Krauso and Kidder are in Jail nt Mexico City. Tho cases against tho men are not to bo dismissed, but tho men will not bo forced to remain In jail. Tho condi tions of release oblige the men to present vhemselves at tho American embassy. ? FIKKCKACKKK K.XPLODKS. Allondalo I. a(l Narrowly Missed Donth In Firing Cracker. Tdttio Warren Reeves, tho 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeves, of Allendale, was seriously Injured by tho explosion of a "can non" firecracker Wednesday at his home. An Iron pipe stuck Into the ground was being used for holding (ho crackers. A very largo one was dropped Into the pipe, and discharg ing beforo tho lit t lo follow could move out of range, struck him In tho lower part of tho stomach, Inflicting a torrlblo wound. Just as tho dis charge from a gun might have dqno. Tho doctors say tho wound Is not necessarily fatal, but vory serious, requiring a number of stitches. Fatally Wounded In ICvploslon. Mrs. Harriet Adams, tomporsnce leader and author, Is expected to dlo In a hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, of burns received Saturday afternoon In a gas explosion at hor homo. She Is 7 5 years old. The explosion was caused by Mrs. Adams striking a match In a room filled with gas from an open Jot. Kills Tot and Self. While seated at tho supper table' at her home In Marshall, Ind., Sat urday night, Mr*. Mary K. Fix, with a butchers' knife out the throat of her two-year-old grandson, killing him. She then drew tho blade serosa hor own throat. She died a few hours 'later. ? Tragedy at fltlll. Jordan Will wan shot, perhaps fatally, and his wife killed outright Thursday afternoon at a turpentine still near Marlow, Oa. Deputy sher iffs are In search for the supposed murderer. BALKS THE FLAMES WILSON DIRECTS FIRE FIGHT ON THE GULF COAST PUTS OUT BLAZING FIBE While Returning From Golf Links the President Catches Sight of Illaze on Roof ? Sounds Alarm and Extinguishes Fire IJefore the Local Department Arrived. President Wilson Friday night found himself the hero of the gulf coast. Word spread far and wide j that the watchful eye of the chief executive of the United States had spied a blaze that threatened to de stroy one of the handsome homes of . the Southern shore and that he had 1 acted tho volunteer fire chief in ai manner that long will be remember- ! ed. Thein cident created a stir In the 1 otherwise quiet life of the gulf esc-! t i o n . The president was returning from ! a quiet game of golf towards noon 1 and on passing through Gulfport, i eight miles from Pass Christian, Miss., saw a blaze on a roof of a big! house. It was the home of John J.i H. Neville.w ho won fame in 18 91 by j prosecuting John L. Sullivan for a' prize fight at Richburg, Miss., with I Jake Kilraln. Mrs. Neville, who was alone In the' building, had run to tho window toj watch the president go by, when sud- 1 denly two machines stopped and the president himself alighted. Quick as a Hash he darted up the front steps, followed by I)r. Cary T. Grayson, 1'. j S. X., the secret service men and | chauffeurs, who had unstrapped the fire extinguishers from their ma- J chines and awaited the president's! orders. Mrs. Neville was confused.] "Don't bo alarmed," said the presi- 1 dent coolly. "Your house is afire, but the men will put it out quickly u' you will show them the way to tho attic." Mrs. Neville pointed tho way up stairs and Robinson and Fredericks, tho chauffeurs, broke a window and climbed out on the roof, while Jamos Sloan and Jack Wheeler, the secret i service guards, tore away the Bhtn gles and helped fight the flames. Mrs. Neville did not know how to treat her unexpected but distinguished gue?t, who urged her to keep calm, as there was no danger. "Will you come into the parlor?" she asked. "No, thinks," replied the presi dent, "but you might let mo get a bucket of water." Mrs. Neville has tened to comply, but before it could bo of service the firefighters on the roof had descended with the report that little damage had been done and that the blaze wbb out. "Well done," said the president and the entire party left the house for tho automobiles. The chief of the local fire department was just ar riving with his hook and ladder and other apparatus. "The fire's over," announced the president, and added, with a proud smile, "my men have just put it out." Judgo Neville and his son came running up at that moment and a big crowd collected. The judge was pro fuso in liis thanks and spoke appre ciatively of the president's thought ful concern for Mrs. Neville. Tho president took no motor ride in tho afternoon, resting after his ex ertions at golf. Ho enjoyed the change in the temperature and was enthusiastic about the links which lie along the shore of tho gulf. The president dictated a fo wletters and read scores of telegrams that poured in, congratulating him on tho enact ment of tho currency hill. Tie took a nap during the afternoon and again spent the evening with his family. PARDON MILL STILL GRINDS. ? Another Man-Killer Turned Loose l?y Governor Illceso. James f). Relglor, tho well known white farmer of Alkon county, who Rhot and killed Officer Patterson on, tho streets of Alkon and was tried in Juno of last year, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years In tho penitentiary, wan Friday afternoon paroled hy Governor Hlonso on condition of good behavior, fiolg ler was paroled during October to let him go homo and try and save his property, which was being sold under foreclosure of mortgage. Ho is Raid to have been worth $00,000 before his trouble, but It. Is stated that, his trial cost him tho larger portion of his wealth. Ho returned to the peni tentiary on tho 1st of December to resume his sentence. KITjTjINO IN HARN WKIili. ?. Woman h Accusal of Rhootlng Young Mnrrloil Man. News of tho killing of Angus Main, In tho section of Tiarnwoll county known as Mlxson Corner, reached Allendalo Thursday. No pnrtloulnrs are obtainable except ho was shot about. 10 o'clock Wodnes-| day night, while on his way homo from Fairfax. A woman by the namo of Mlxson Is said to bo accused. Main was a young marrlod man of good standing. Ho was a farmer and lived about seven miles from Fairfax. Ho leaves a wife and five children. Mania for Hotting Flro?. Herbert Whlttakor, a nineteen year-old boy of Qulncy, Mass., was held on his confession that ho had sot flro to seven buildings within two days. Tho youth's foster parents say ho has had a mania for setting flros since ho saw his father and mothor perish In flamos that destroyod tholr homo eight years ago. ANXIOUS TO OBEY LAW CORPORATIONS WOULD COX FORM WITH LAW. Wilson Says He Is Willing to I>o All Ho Can, But Is Insistent That Statute be Obeyed. President Wilson let it bo known Monday that some other corporations besides the American Telephone and Telegraph company hijd shown a dis position to take the Initiative in re organizations to conform with the Sherman anti-trust law. Department of justice officials de clare that every day representatives of business concerns are calling to lep.rn what they can or can not do under the law. While ofllcials stated emphatically that prosecutions would not be discontinued where they were warranted, co-operation would bo us ed wherever possible to secure an ob servance of the law. It became known that the department is at work on plans submitted by other corporations for friendly settlements. I Just which ones they are was not | divulged. The president did not specify what corporations he referred to, though in lh(orinal discussion of the subject] with calTPrs, he spoke of having some in mind. Ho reiterated that there seemed to be a very general disposi tion to inquire what the law was, to i kn&w what would be expected of "big] business" and a desire to comply with the spirit of the law. i Mr. Wilson mado it clear to his! callers that it would bo the policy of! his administration to co-operate In every way it legitimately could to I brin? about a satisfactory under staivl'nc of the law by the business men nf t he country, and the execu tive departments did not expect to raise harriers against thoso who wanted to obey the law. The presi dent pointed out that the attorney general would co-operate and hearti ly desired and welcomed the impulse on the part of business to take the initiative. The president indicated In his manner of discussion that he hoped the government had shown by exam ple in tho American Telephone and Telegraph settlement what might be expected as tho future course of his administration. lie has been confer ring with congressional leaders on the anM-trust subject and will read a special message to congress after he returns from his vacation, In which he will point to tho necessity of a rigid enforcement of tho Sherman law and will endeavor to make clear the interpretation of that statute which tho department of justice will > follow. Some Btatemont on the BubV' ject may be mado when the proal-f dent signs tho currency bill. A note of confidence that the buB- 1 lness men of the country will co-| operate with tho government In se curing a compliance with the Sher man law is expected to bo Bounded in the president's remarks. He will indicate tho manner In which the ad ministration will approach tho sub ject and express his realization of the delicacy of the task and the nec essity for cautious and careful treat ment of It because of its Intimate re lation to tho business conditions of j tho country. I Tho president learned from the] conferees early Monday that a satis factory agreement had been reached on tho currency bill. He expressed bis gratification that tho organiza tion committee has been retained as provided in tho House bill because It gave tho president CO days to bo loct members of tho federal reserve board while tho organization commit tee was making its investigations. Tho president has been consulted on I the telephone by tho conferees and Indicated to them his approval of the way tho bill had finally been complet ed. in'KRTA CLAIMS MILLION. Mexican Resident. Says Ho fan Secure That Many Soldiers. Replying to a letter sent him by tho correspondent of tho Frankfurter Zeitung, a German newspaper, Pres ident lluorta Raid that If It should bo come necessary l,e could put Into Bor vlro Immediately moro than 1,000, 000 nrmod men. This statement he explained as follows: "Without counting tho 150,000 men of tho national army, tho gov ernment. In agreement with various states of tho republic havo organized nn armed forco for tho local service of 1,800 men for each state. Also tho government has arranged with 52.000 haclenoados (farmers) tha: they keep ten armed workmon oac.h for their own protection. "Thus, then, tho government counts upon t'io number of armed men aggregating seven hundred nnri some thousand without taking Into conslderntton tho reserves, which to tho number of 300,000, could bo or ganized If tho peac.o of tho country should he disturbed." Iilllo<1 Near Former Wlfo. Daniel do Vllllers, of Han Antonio. Tex., was shot and klllod oarly Thursday by Hoy L. Olovor, a wealthy land ngont, who eamo to Los. Angeles, Cal., two months ago with the mother of Do Vllllers' chil dren. Tho shooting occurred In tho doorway of tho Olovor home, where Do Vllllers called In an effort to see his former wife. Two Neiv Ilurnl llouto*. Two additional froo dollvory routes will be established January 1 froti Hnmberg, to bo known as Routes 3 and 4. Route 3 will be twenty-two miles long, and will servo ono hun dred and twenty-six famlllos. Route 4 will bo twenty four miles long and will reach ono hundrod and fifteen families. THEY FOUND HIM DEAD NEGRO'S BODY DISCOVERED IN WOODS NEAR CADES. Had Shot Another Man in Crap Game nnd His Wife ? Supposed to Have Committed Suicide. After shooting Jim Witherspoon, near Cades several days ago during a crap game dispute, and later sending a bullet entirely through his wife's body, Laurenco White, alias "Poor Pig", a negro of Cades, committed suicide by shooting himself through the temple. His body was found ?about two miles below Cades, where jt had lain probably there days, with h 3S-callbro revolver by his side.' "Mthough bearing a serious wound, j White's wife does not soom to suffer j ihuch and is going about, while the doctors look on In amazement. With erspoon was taken to Florence for j treatment. For several days after shooting j Witherspoon White evaded the ofii Vers of the law. but returned to his! vwife and shot her through the body. | <he ball entering near tho stomach I and coming out in the back. White's wife says he then took a shot at him- ' self, but missed, made some threats, then escaped. Since then his body was found two miles below Cades, near the roadside, with a bullet in his temple. The coroner's jury gave a! verdict of suicide. While engaged In a crap game with Witherspoon and others, it is said, he I was abused, but without saying much In reply whipped out his revolver and shot Witherspoon near the groin, ex amination showing tho ball embed ded in the thigh bone. While tho officers of tho law were on the look out for him he went to his home, and bis wife says he wanted her to go with him to his hiding place in a bay near by, and that on her refusal he told her he would kill her there and then. She says he shot her through the body and then took a shot at his own head, missed and went back to his hiding place. Sheriff Graham was sent for, and with two bloodhounds and twenty five white and colored men tho hunt was begun. The trail was was read ily taken and the dogs pave solemn music, while some of tho men fol lowed in fear and trembling through the thick undergrowth. Soon the trail came out tho bay to a negro house and was lost. Tlireo days afterward White's body was found one milo from tho bay near tho roadside, his head resting at the foot of and In between two little oak trees, a pistol ball in his temple and powder burns on his face. Ho "Avas begun. Tho rtaln was read Across hla stomaoh and his pistol by his Bide. His hat brim stfowed his wife's statement to be correct, for there was a bullet hole in the front and very near the head. SACK OF MAIL LOST. Mysteriously Disappears From Crane at Gaffney Depot. C.affney post offico officials and em ployees of the Southern Railway at that point are anxiously wondering what became of a sack of mall sup posed to leave Gaffney last Friday night on northbound train No. 30. The sack was closed up at the usual hour at the post ofHce and turned over to the railroad later being hung up on tho ernne for northbound troin No." 30, at 9:45 o'clock. Tho station agent saw the sack hanging on the crano only ten minutes before are arrival of the train, but when tho train reached thoro the sack was gono and has not been Been or heard of since. A thorough investigation has been made by tho post office officials, as sisted by tho railroad, but so far there has been absolutely no clue as to what became of the sack. When asked whether or not It con tained any valuables, post office offi cials said that there were no regis tered letters or money orders in that mall, but It Is, of course, Impossible to estimate what, the loss of somo of tho letters may moan. SMALLPOX IN SCHOOLS. Florence Commissioners Oloso School and Vaccinate Pupils. A caso of smallpox was diagnosed on one of the pupils of the Florence graded schools Sunday. A meeting of tho board of commissioners after con sultation with tho president of tho local board of health. It was ordered that tho schools be closed until Mon day, January G, 1914. In the mean time all pupils of tho schools, white and colored, will ho vaccinated. None will bo permitted to re enter school In January unless they have been suc cessfully vaccinated. The school buildings aro being fumigated by tho board of health. The school bosrd took this action to prevent any out break. Old Mnn LYemated. Robort R. Lee, 70 years old, caro tnker for Joseph H. Hollars, of White I'lnlns, N. Y., was burned to death Saturday night when tho Hollars' place, near (Jroonsborofl N. C., was destroyed by flro. Neighbors attempt ed In vain to rescue Lee, but 'he heat drove them back. ? Madison Klwtrmut<Ml. Nineteen days after tho murder of F. Potyon Host, a merchant of Harn well, Scott Madison, a negro, Mon day morning paid tho penalty for his crlmo by electrocution at the State penitentiary. Tlireo Killed nt. CYosslng. Two men and ono boy worn killed at a grade crossing at Hammonton, N. J., Wednesday whon a Reading Railway oxpross train struck a wag on and demolished l<? TERRIBLE TRAGEDY FALSE FIRE ALAR STARTS A CHRISTMAS STAMPEDE SEVENTY-TWO ARE DEAD While the Children of Calumet, Mich igan's Striking Miners Were Arouml Hugo Christmas Tree Some One Maliciously Shouted "Fire", Starting the Fatal I'anlc. On the day Christendom has set aside as one of rejoicing over the birth of the Savior Calumet, Mich., i stricken to the heart by an almost unbelievable catastrophe, stood mourning by the side of i ad ? the seventy-two victims, most of them children, of the frightful panic on Christmas Eve in the Italian Hall. | This panic followed a false alarm j cry of fire during the progress of a , Christmas tree entertainment arrang ed for families of thee opper strikers, j All bitterness and ill feeling that I has existed in this strike-ridden com- j munity for months past is wiped away by the one great, common af fliction. Christmas day the people) of Calumet only saw their neighbors,! their brothers, their sisters and their little children staggering under ati almost unbearable burden of distress and grief. A mass meeting of Calumet citi zens was held in the afternoon to ex press sympathy and devise ways and means to ameliorate the suffering and sorrow of those families on which the hand of death had fallen. A committee of twelvo was appoint ed to visit each home and ascertain what financial assistance was needed. Funds are assured and no outside aid will be needed. The accident occurred Wednesday night while several hundred miners, and their wives looked on, the chil dren pressed eagerly to the stage to receive Christmas presents. At this point a man put his head in at the door of the hall and yelled "Fire!" The cry was taken up by those in the hall. Every one started for the doors. The weaker were thrown to the floor, and those behind tried to climb over those ahead of them. The stairway, and other avenues of egress were blocked so effectually that those inside could not get out, and thoso without could not get In to aid the panic-stricken crowd in the hall. The principal exit was a nar row stairway at the back of the hall. When this had been cleared of the bodies that filled It to tho top and a quick recounting had beon made, it was found that seventy-two corpses had been piled up besido tho hall building. It Is thought that a dozen others were carried away by friends. Tho dead were piled up beside the -hall included 3 7 girls, 1 J) boys, nine women and flvo men. Excited men and women stood about (he building, some dazed by the sudden change from holiday festivities to tragedy, others calling hysterically for a miss ing child, and a few oven threatened violence to the resetters for keeping them back from tho long row of bodies. Thoro was not much work for tho many doctors who hurried to the sceno as soon as tho alarm was spread, for thoso who were not kill ed in the first rush wero held upright and safo by the very force of the on rush towards tho exit. Only three Injured persons wero taken to hos pitals. A few went home, assisted by friends. For many days the children of the copper mlno strikers had waited ex pectantly for Christmas troo exer cises, arranged by the Woman's Aux iliary of tho Western Federation of Miners. Tho entertainment was set for tlio early evening, and tho hall, on the second floor, soon was filled to its limit. Children selected to recite Christmas selections and sing carols bad finished, and tho man selected to play tho pnrt of Santa Claus had prepared to distribute tho presents that, wero piled around tho tree. Tho aisles wero filled with tho boys and girls, when tho man thrust bis head In at tho door of tho main ball way and shouted "Fire!" A wo man near tho door realizing tho Im port of tho act, seized tho man by tbo shoulder.) and tried to counteract the alarm, but her efforts wero fu tilo. Tho man wrested blmself from (Continued on pago two.) ber grasp and ran away and the cry nkc;rc> stki'xcj i;i\ ? Man Found Fnder Woman's BcmI in Ktnto of Florida. Henry White, a young negro, was lynched at Campvllle, Fla., at a lato hour Friday night after ho bad been discovered under the bed In a young white woman's room. Several young men wero calling on tho young wo man when they heard a nolso in tho bed room. Upon Investigation tho ne gro was found. A ropo was secured and bo was strung up near tbo house Tho ropo broke and tbo negro fell to tbo ground, hut ho was promptly rid died with bullets, his body being found early this morning. For Cntlln Not ll?^l>elq. Senator Ashurst told tbo Senate Saturday that his bill for a barbod wlro fenco along tho Mexican border was not designed to stop Incursions of rebels In American territory, but to keep out Mexican cattle lnfocted with ticks ? Yields to Dentil. Slimmer A. Cunningham, aged 70. author. Journalist, publisher, former Confederate and since 1803 editor and proprietor of Tbo Confederate Veteran, died at Nashville Saturday night at (?:30 o'clock. ? FIGHT FOR THE FARMER LEVER GETS HOI SK TO ACCEPT S E \ A TE AMENDMENT. Action Guarantees That the Amond nient Scoured in Senate by Senator Smith Will Heroine I J* w. Representatives Lever and Crisp came strongly to tho rescue of tie farmers Saturday In the House when Mr. Lever, after agreement with Mr. Crisp, moved to instruct the House conferees to agree to those Senate amendments to tho currency bill which provided that notes, drafts and bills drawn or issued for agricultural purposes having a maturity not ex ceeding six months, may be discoynt ed and extending tho provisions or the bill in reference to loans on farm lands from one to five years*. Messrs. Lever and Crisp both, fought hard for the provisions in th House bill but w<?re defeated, but they took advantage of the parlia mentary situation Saturday to fovc< the House to agree with them with :: view of placing the papi-r of t'?? farmer on the same foot:n^r wit) paper Issued from any other source and at the same time putting a lon?e: limit upon loans upon farm land The action of tho South Carolina a.-"' Georgia congressmen Saturday mn'r.> s certain that tho farmers of the coun try will be as fully protected in th> currency bill as will other people. Tho point raised by them proved to bo tho vital proposition considered hy the House and to their efforts and un derstanding of the parliamentary sit uation tho victory of the fanners is duo. It was extremely graHfy'nlr to S ator Smith of South Carolina, w had made tho fl^ht in the Smate !*<<? the extension of loans to farnnu that even though the House d'snurce ' to most of tho Senate amendmi nts it mado an exception with regard to two, and Instructed the eonfere, * te vote for his particular amendment. This action guarantees their ret en tion in tho bill. Senator Smith said S:\lurdav night: "In view of Ihe aciion of tie Senate and House it has at last 'rotv.e' to pass that the farmers are beinc heard and their rights respected ;v they slioutVl he. It is not. a question] as to whether or not it is convenien' for legislators to so frame logi>latien as to lncludo the Cannot s, it H a (litestion of a fundamental duty that of all those engaged In the different industries of this country the fanner. should havo extended to them every ! encouragement and aid that can he] given them legitimately. - "The farmers have a right to de mand it, and they aro now getting in a position where they can demand it. They rightly havo iho first claim to financial legislation, for the entire world is first dependent upon them. Tho two features of this bill, allow ing tholr notesT bills and drafts to be subject to rediscount for reserve money, and the admitting of real estate as a collateral in tho national banks, place them in a position where with tho same economy and thrift that characterize most of them, they can realize a profit at tho end of the year as others do and not disappoint ment as they have been accustomed to." ADOPT I1Y1 CMOS' SC III.MK, i House Oonimitteo A gives to South Carolinian's IMnn. The pood roads conunittoo of (ho House, after conducting hearings for several weeks, has appointed a sub committee to draft and report the bill embodying tho views of the commit tee. The subcommittee lias boon in structed by tho whole committee, to include in tho first section tho plan similar to that introduced by Repre sentative Byrnes of South Carolina, providing for co-operation between tho federal government and tho states In tho building and mainte nance of roads and to have Section contain practically the provisions of tho Shackloford bill of last Fusion. Section 3 will provide that tho states may elect under which section th'-y shall receive federal aid. Mr. Hyrnos says that, an appropriation of $'.'0, 000,000 will be asked for. * Wreck Injures Nineteen. Nineteen persons wero Injured, four seriously, in tho wreck of Texas & Pacific, passenger train No. ?, , west bound, r,0 miles oast of '1 Paso, Tex,, Saturday. Doctors find ?urges wont on a relief train nnd tho injured carried to El Pnso. * i TURNS HIM LOOSE I SPARTANBURG MURDERER GETS A PARDON IN FULL | KILLED MARRIED WOMAN Was Tried fur lli* Crime and Al though Keprcscnted by I /earned I.c^al Talent lie Hecelved Death Sememe. Which Was Later Com muted hy (iincrniir Mease. .h"> !\it. the convicted murderer ? i p.M-i Hoi ' ?' r , a white man. who ? i- I '.or.ed Monday by the gov arrived in Spartanburg; Mon !.:? ? . ;,t :.i. i i s at tlte homo of hl8 ? . !'.? v met at the train by . ?in r a " I brother, Jack Hates, ?* ' ?? : ..%?> b ? ? < a untiring iu their ef ? ? >5 to 'v.\e a pardon granted, and .!>??! ? - v. i ? at one time a polico ?? "i - i ?:> ".r. inif:;. He was con* ? ? ! a ;i ;i d sentenced to 1 a; ; 1 ? : > ? r many delays his sen ? ?? -a. commuted to life impris ? ? n ?.jit coventor, who . ? : ? \..n a lull pardon. Mrs. ' - i ;i.;, ] ' v; years, wife of J. K. 1 * ? ? : i = ? t ? . a farmer living near i ' ut was shot at and instantly ? by .loo P.a'es. a former polico ? er. but at tho time of the crimo a o-' :bo , chainunng, on Sun : ,y r;o!"i m.', \uuust 1009, at ' 1 : " t a: t' o h. me of W. H. fox, 10S u ;?>?< ' . M ?:< ?> Ci\ . the eiuht-year-old <'o\. who was stand t: ? w it 't I j < ? r little baby sister in a: ::"- v a! <> shot by Hates and ? w <e tided. Hates was caught ?i t'.e t.'.liwa;. <>f the bouse by Mr. v 1" ' ? o !?.<? i .uhl jzet away and ; 1 . . 1 1 ;:r il tin* police officers ar !\ ? h ? *? I oeUman. Cudd, (lash v..! Croi at rived and took charge t es. who \v;i ?< carried at once to |'!;o ( tuutv jail and turned over to :T W '? i'e. When t T ? < * case against Hales was in t!.o ?.'??noral sessions court '? r 0( ;<?!?<?!*, ! :?e:i. he wiu^ represent ? ! v b i ,, Miw^fa nd it was one , the b.a.nb'.-t fonrht legal battles \. .? waged in the Spartanburg . "'Mty court room. Tho principle ' ;'t "? > for Halt ?? was a idea of in iui'v. l!e was convicted nnd sen 1 < : ? ? 1 1 o h an appeal to the au pr>*;ne court was made without buc < and af:<~r two years confinement in t lie county Jail the governor com muted his sentence from death to life imprisonment. Tho pardon restores | his citizenship. The Spartanburg Journal tells tbo fallowing rtnry of the tragedy for wh'eh notes wan convicted: Docia Hoiter, until a few weeks previous to the shooting, was Docla Moore. She lived with .Too Bates at his hoi;n' at No. 100 Thompson street as his housek coper and alleged para nmiir. She had lived with him for about two years. when a month pre vious s'.p l"ft him and married J. R. I'olt'-"-. Since tho marriage it wai thought that Hates was crazed with jealousy. It is said that just 'before she left him. the Moore woman sold a con- Hates had and a number of household articles. For this Rates had a v nmnt sworn out for her ar rr.ef. but before the rase bad been ta'.'-'u up the woman was dead. Mr. and Mrs. I loiter were coming to Mr. C i < \ ' s louse to spend the day. 1 As ti y ri' ip d t he house. Hates was in tl.e rend, so was Mr. Cox and his , ron Wi'liam. I' it"S said to Mrs. I'f-itcr that lie would put "them to ; ?' e had", and followed them to Cox's I hoi; e. Wl.in Mr.-, P.oifer got. out i of 'lie hu: "".' Hates followed her to ward the lieu Suddenly ho loft ' !?< r and ? a-c d around to tho front ' ef t'ie h'd'diri". He entered tho front I ? Mr?. I'.oJter entered tho back I Mr i. !',..1for too'; hold of the hand .of ](:?''? >-:? M-y<<nr-oh| Mamie Cox land \ ;i = in the n't of placing a ring mi !' r r 'i ? uh'ii l'.atos fired upon l'"r from ill |<mr of the back porch. 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