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CAMDEN, S. C., KKIDAY, JANUARY 15, JDO'.I. NO. I. VOLLTMEXII. PALMETTO HAPPfNINGSJOLD IN BRttfS Occurrences gf Interest Gletmed Prom All Swtiwi sf tKe Bw?y FdmtHs State Penitentiary Report. The superintendent u? tho State penitentiary, ('apt. i). .J. Griffith, bus completed his annual rej>ort on re ceipts and expenditures for the year 1908. The report shows that under tin* present official force1 the institu tion has made considerable money and the affair? were conducted on the most businesslike basis. Tho showing is all the more remarkalrto b?causo of the destruction of the August freshet. The statement of, tl?e cash on hand ami the expenditures is giveu as fol lows: Cash on hand De cember 31st, ? ; year 1 90S.. ..$29,262.24 Cash receipts for year 1003. . . . 85,755.48 ? $115,017.72 Expendit urea ? Expenses for yeat* 1008, cash , .$ 03,000.00 Permanent improment, 1008. . .. 10,056.20 $74,625.29 Cn*h balance on hand De cember 31, 1008.. .. .. 40,302.43 2! <7 bales cotton on hand December 31, 1008. . .... 13,30; >,00 A cronnts dUe and available 57000.00 Total on hand and available j?58,757.43. The permanent improvements in clude the reformatory building at the Lexington farm, costing $4,347.80; boiler room at same, $1,875; beds for reformatory, $1,003.20; South Caro lina Industrial school at Florence, $513.98; Heid farm mill, $580; mill equipment, $113.70; also repairs to women's building at the State prison and various incidental expenses inci dent to keeping up the penitentiary buildings and outbuildings, making the total of $10,056.20 for permanent improvements. Hv the Hood the State penitentiary farms lost about 20,00 bushels of corn as well as live or 10 tons of hay, and had it not been for this disaster the profit from the penitentiary this year would have been at least $7.r?.nno. As it is the showing of the year is tho best in the history of the instution. Anderson Farmer Suicides. Anderson, Special. ? News reached tho city Sunday of a suicide, which occurred in the northern sect-ion of Garvin township, near the Pickens county line Saturday. Mr. \V. A. Young, a white man about (50 years old, with apparently no reason except i hat he was tired of life, slashed his throat with a razor and was found by members of his family a short dis tance from the house gasping for breath, lie was taken into the house ami died within a very short time. Mr. Young was a farmer and last year wa&, a tenant on the plantation of Dr. W, A. Tripp. Laurens Merchant Tails. Laurens, Special. ? Former State Senator 0. P. Goodwin, farmer and merchant, Saturday made a general assignment for the berefit of his cred itors. Pobt. A. Cecper of the firm of Simpson, Ccopcr & Babb, attorneys, being the assignee. Assets consists of two farms and some surburban town property, including a store house. The schedule of liabilities is incomplete; but Mr. Goodwin's friends believe he i will be able to save his home. How ever, it is made without reservation, rtie homestead privelege being waived i otni dower rights renounced by Mrs. Goodwin. Il is practically certain i that creditors will be paid in full. Governor Calls For Contributions. ( 'olumbia, -jSpc-cial. ? Governor An sel Tuesday afternoon issued on ap peal to the people of the State to con tribute to the relief of the Italian earthquake sufferers through the South Carolina representatives of the Bed Cross. Governor Ansel himself has sent forward a contribution, which was acknowledged in a*dispatcb from an Italian newspaper. Fire Near Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Special. ? TTlio home of Mr. Will Niggers, situated on his farm, about four miles north of the city., with all its contents, was burned Wednesday night between 10 and 11 o'clock. Mr. Ed Diggers was the only perron at home and he awoke barely in time to save his life. Tho Are caught near the chimney in tho roof and the falling timbers waked ) tho sleeper. The insurance carried on the house and furniture is not more than />0 per cent of tho value and Mr. Big gcrs' loss is consequently heavy. " Raiding Blind Tiger*. Spartanburg, Special. ? The poliee of Spartanburg, who have been actiye in running down blind tigers, have commenced to put on the screws tight er. This yes* promises to be a hard one for the dealers in liquor. M*yor Floyd has employed several plain clothes men to aid the regular mem* Hers of the poli?* force in enforcing tho law. Several arrests have been made within the last twenty-four houra. Skeleton Eaten With Quicklime. Charleston, Special. ? A gruesomo and uncanny And was made Wednes day afternoon by Sex Ion Conklin in some marsh land just cast of the St. Laurence Cemetery, when ho stumbled orer the partial skeleton of a human being, scattered in pieces over the ground. Immediately alter the dis covery Mr. Conklin communicated with the coroner. The thigh and shin bones, together with a portion of the jaw bones of the skeleton were found lying within a distance of three feet apart. Nearby a eoat, hat and lady's satchel were in evidence, wrapped up in a part of a sheet very much de cayed and covered with quicklime, Further on a paint brush was also picked up. TIks coroner was at a loss to say whether any foul work had been dono or not. That the ghastly object was not there Inst Sun day afternoon is positively stated by the sexton, who had occasion to in spect that part of tho grounds at that time. Knifed to the Heart. Columbia, Special.? What promises to turn out a sensational scandal is the finding {Sunday afternoon oi'.m body of Mr, Mann Phillips, a promi nent young Oconee man, two miles south of tho town of Walhalla, with ft k'iiitf wound in ? his heart. Very meagre details have readied here so far about tho tragedy, but it is evi dent t lint Oconee county Is ,, great Iv stirred up over the killing. Enogb evidence has been gathered t<? warrant the arrest of two prominent young men for the murder, I)e Witt and CloO Vandiver, of Westminster. The theory is that young Phillip's body had been carried to the spot whore it was found after he had been murder ed. He was not armed and had on his heavy driving gloves and an over coat. It is believed he has been dead sin'ce Thursday night. Tried to Shoot Train Hand. Blaoksburg, Special. ? On Sunday night three hoys got on a freight train at' Gastonia and proceeded to beat their way South. On the way to Bessemer a train hand was walking the top of the cars back to tho mid tiie three boy tramps shot at him. One of them, -Charley Boyles, was lying flat on top of a ear shooting when the conductor came up behind and secured him and brought him on to Blaoksburg, where he was locked up. A deputy came down from Gas tonia and carried him back to jail in Dallas, lie gave the names of the other bays who had escaped. They have probably been chught by this time. Three Persons Faint in Court. Spartanburg, Special. ? Laboring under intense mental strain, three persons, closely identified with cases being tried in the court of general sessions, fainted in the court house Wednesday. They were: Mrs. M. E. Looper of Greenville, appearing an complainant against Oulla and Dan iels; Elmore Daniels, defending him self on the chargo of defrauding Mrs. Looper of $2,500, and Mrs. S. S Tiner, wife of the Pacolet man who is being tried for the murder of Ed. Kir by. Farm Producto. Tho report of Commissioner Wat son to the Legislature puts the total value of farm products in the State for 1908 at something over $118,000, 000 exclusive of cotton and live stock and live stock products. The year just closed will also be a bumper cot ton year, the yield going over a mil lion and a quarter bales. $500,000 For Good Roads. Spartanburg, Special ? At a well at tended meeting of representative cit izens of Spartanburg county Tuesday, a resolution was passed suggesting to tho Spartanburg delegation that a bill bo introduced authorizinc an elec tion to vote on the question of issuing bonds in the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of building good roads in the county. -- Spartanburg Levy Fixed. Spartanburg, Special. ? Tho board of county commissioners havo asked tho Spartanburg delegation to tbe Legislature for a levy of 5 1-2 mills for this year. Tho commissioners pledged themselves not to pj^mtside tho amount to bo raised by this levy, provided the delegation made such provisions as they deem necessary to pay off the present floating indebted ness. The indebtedness is between one hundred and fifty and two hun dred thousand dollars. Quake In Olpster County? Chester, Special. ? Some of tho cit isens of Lewis and other sections of the country think ?hey felt a slight earthquake shook last week at about the same lime that the great Italian disaster occurred, and while no dam age resulted to lifo or property, we understand that the quiver was qnite perceptible and caused considerable alarm in oertain quarters, ' -- - , v . *? < ~ _ . - ? THE WORK OF CONGRESS Kumwary of Important Proceeding* Enacted From Day to Day. Seuato. Characterizing tlio action of the President in directing tho Attorney General not to prosecute the I Initial States St ?*t?l Cor|H>ration for it h ab sorption of thy Tennessee Coal and Iron Company as "another arbitrary and lawless act of tin; Chief Magis trate," Senator Culberson, of Texas, introduced a resolution Thursday instructing the committee oji the judi ciary to report nt as early n dale as practicable whether in the opinion of -that committed the President was authorized to permit such absorption, Mr. 4 Culberson, at .considerable length, criticise*! the. President and undated that Congress had the right to give directions' to a head of an oxecutivo department undoi** certain conditions. ? Senator Hopkins declared that the Texas Senator was not properly rep resenting the President and said that Mr. Kooseveit hud not approved the action of tho steel corporation, but that ho had merely "not f*?l t it his duty to oppose such action." Senator Foraker gave notice that lie would soeuk on the Brownsville af fair next Monday when he said he would ask to make his bill for the re lief of tho soldiers of the Twenty fifth Regiment tho unfinished busi ness of the Senate. An amendment was reported to the Senate from the committee on finance providing for an incrcn^c of the sul ary of the President to $100,000, and of the salaries of the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House of heprescntalives to $20 jOW c a ?? h . The Senate passed a bill providing conditions under which the thirteenth census will bo taken. The House bill which was under consideration \yas amended to allow printing and bind ing of census reports to be done by , private contract instead of in the government printing office if found desirable by the director of the cen sus. An amendment placing tho ap pointment of 3,f>00 census office clerks under the civil service commission was defeated. Senator Culberson's resolution in structing the committee on the jif diciarv to report whether the Prrsi dent lias authority to permit tho ab sorption of the Tennessee Coal and Tron Company by the United States Stool r'ni'tirivatio!] v.'ss adopted. A number of confirmations, were made by the Senate. In pursuance of tho resolution un animously adopted by- the House Sat urday providing for an investigation into the whole subject of tho secret service Speaker Cannon announced ( the following as the committee to have charge of the matter: Olmsted, of Pennsylvania, chairman; Currier, of New Hampshire; Young, of Michigan; Brantley, of Georgia, and Bowers, of i Mississippi, tho last two being Demo crats. Senate. Although technically under consid eration in the House of Representa tives the District of Columbia appro,, priation bill was. side tracked, while the members indula-ed in general de bate on Thursday. This took a wide range, the proceedings opening with a defense of the rules of the Houso by Ml*. Olmsted, of Pennsylvania. His remarks stirred up the subject in all its phases and gave the so-called in surgents undei the leadership of Mr. Gardner, of Massachusetts, an oppor tunity to air their grievances. Mr. Co.ckran, of New York, occupied mid 'dlo ground on the proposition. Mr. Taft's reported intention to break the solid South was incidentally brought into discussion in the course of a speech on the tariff by Mr. Slu'p pard, of Texas, who remarked in that connection that the President-elect had made himself ridiculous. After having made him tho target all day for criticism with here and thero words o'f commendation, the House of Representatives by a vote of 21 2 to 35 rebuked (lie President by tabling so much os his message as re flected on members of Congress in connection with his recommendations regarding the secret service detectives and also declaring it to be the sense of tho House that they shall decline to consider any communications from any source which is not in its own judgment respect ful. Toward the close of the debate Mr. Gardner, of Massachusetts, vainly en deavored to secure, first the adoption of a substitute for the resolution in "the shape of an amendment express ing confidence in the committee on ap propriations, and then th? postpone ment of tho whole matter, ^intil Mon ads y but he was overwhelmingly out voted. The following naval programme for appropriations at this session was adopted JWondav : Two battleships of 26,000 tons displacement, $19,000,000;! five torpedo boat destroyers, $4,000,- J 000; three colliers, $3,600,000; four! submarines, $2,000,000; on snbsur-j face boat, $400,000. Total, $20,000,. 000. The House Committee on rivers and harbor?**again failed to reach a con clusion to report a general rivers stfd harbors bill this session. It is undeT*. stood, however* that a majority of the eommittoe favors a measure appro priating about $10,000,000 for sur veys, for emergencies and for. the maintenance. of projects under way. The committee will meet again Sat urday in an effort to reach a definite conclusion, but it is practically certain no bill will U p ported. Gives President few u Prods off the Pitchffork. HE DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION T *?' : ' t. 11 ??" . VVcnted to Buy Land Land Held Un lawfully UxpcFed the Wrong and tbt Fraud JB Not Guilty of Crime. J" a^UosHintf i|,o Senate Mouday iillnian arose to a question of peisonal privilege, declaring that for the rtr*t time in iljf history of thin government, *0 far ^ hc. |)cji)| a|)Jp ? " member of | lie Senate had been, brought to the bar of public opinion before tht> SeuMe iiw-lf to lie* Judged muler indictment |>v n<> less a person than the President of i ho t inted States. The manner of ?|oiiiR "/ 'll' ami the amnions ami zenl displayed l,y. the ( hlef Kxecutivc were w ort by j of eotisiderat ion. The Senator limited hi* sent hint; of , President l,ei?x warned hv I, is ph.vfneian against overexertion.' 11,. said:. "One of the truest ^nd best senti ments in English literature is this from Tennyson: 'Soiling another will never make one's self dean.' H hutci on in litis session it is my purpose to devote some time to bring ing Theodore HooKevcIt faee to fare with Ins (nie self and let the people Wales wf w )i a t ,.|,n 1;1r ti t?l man they have been so bowed | down to. For the present I content mys(d fwith ot>i>|y i iig to him ibis quu ration from Spencer's 'Fair Queen:' He rages throughout the whole woi Id, neither is there any that can restrain him. Of late he has grown especially proMimpt nous and pestilent barking at and biting all alike whetli <i they he blameworthy or innoeent. None are free from his attacks. He spares neither the learned wit nor I be gentle post, h it rends and. tears without regard of person, reason or time.' " "hi iny public work here," said Senator Tillman, "1 have not hesi tate,! jo eritieise rind comment oh the oflieiul actions and utterances of Pres ide!)! Koosevelt and I have doubtless "i \ en him good cause to seek revenge. T was not aware that those darts of mine had quivered in the Executive bide ami siting him so. hut the eager ness and intensity with which helms presented his ease against me, his vaking a precedent, when none has existed before, his taking- from the commit fee lo which lie has forwarded them, the papers and giving theni-to the press before that committee had eonsidered thein, indicates that Theo dore Koosevelt enjoys to the limit the feeling of getting even with Hen Till man and lays on the " Hig Slicjt' with the keenest relish, doubtless believ ing that the 'Pitchfork' has gone out of business." I lie declared that the President I was was an adept at advertising and had used the press with more skill than any man in American polities. "Another probable reason for his great haste," said the South Carolina Senator, "was that he sought to dis tract attention from the action of the Houso of Representatives on Friday in laying part of his message on the table, by the sensational accusation against a man who has had long ser vice in the Senate. "First, he promotes me to member ship in the Ananias Club, and charges in effect that 1 have deliberately lied to the Senate. "Second, he charges that I have exerted mv official influence and work as a Senator for my personal benefit alone to secure the passage of a reso lution and to press the Department of Justice to bring suit against ihc corporation which holds so much of the public* domain in the West ind will not sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants from the gov ernment. . He has perpared his indictment with- consummate- ability and skill. Ho is even cunning in the apparently innocent pretense that in making a search through the secret service for one. kind of malefactor ho has run down another and the ease of that one, of such serious importance, that his sense of official obligation com pelled him to prompt action. Mark you, he has been in the possession of all the facts in this ease since July last, and men will bo curious to know why, if his zeal was honest, he did jot make them known then." As to the Oregon land pffair the Senator say^j "It will be rioted that I accused Dorr in the Senate of being a swindler, and asked the Postoffice Department to issue a fraud order' against him. Dorr declared in his circular: 'So sure is Senator Tillman of our success that ho has subscribed and paid the necessary fees for a quarter section for himself and ten other quarter section for ten of his nearest relatives.' Dorr's declaration 1 that I had paid the fees is an abso lute falsehood and the postofficc in spcetors, while they searched the re cords for onfirics at Coouille and not ed that Kccder & Watkiu* had filed 'several, hundred applications' n? where mcntioucd that any had been liled in my name or for me. There fore, the falsehood is proven on Dorr, and yet thtf President declared 'the assault which Senator Tillman made upon Mr. Dorr was, according to the report of the inspector, a wanton as sault made to covcr up Senator Till man's own transactions.' * 'Now about Ut? lying: ICy letter of February 1 At li, of which t lie 1 'if#* dcit secured a photographic' eopy . antedates by four da>? my stateim lit in the Semite t hut I had not bought any 'and or undertaken to ' ? u > tu>, Ulid tlif I 'resident coiisidei * this posi iJVe proofutf falsehood. I did 11?' * " ^ 1 had lint considered till' purchase of 111 n.l ; I (lul not m?y 1 had not colt template'! tin- pillelirt*o of land. be culise I bad hot !?. In my con voi sat ion ^ it h the A t tonu'V lieticr.il in vizard to l In' rcsotu.l ion uhich I in t rodni't'd, and which himself pit pa r<*il after we had talked over ihe whole Bit nut ion, 1 dn-HnctU remember telling him that my interest in the matter had been Hint aroused by my desire to purchase some t) !' the timbei land and that my coming to him was due to the fuel That 1 discovered, up en i 1 1 v? st igat ion, that 1 eouM not buy it. through any agency whatsoever; that 1 eould hot buy it even by law suit, because 1 was advised by very able lawyoiB in the West, among tljeni the lion. (icorge Turner, of Washing ton, that in attaching the holder* "l those land grants no one would have any standing in court except the grantor, the government itself. I \\as perhaps disingenuous, lint a moment thought will convince any honest minded .man that as I had not signed any papers, had not paid any money, had taken nobody's receipt, the usual processes by which one 'undertakes to buy land; 1 \*as speaking accurate ly and not falsely. Kveryt lung hinges oil the meaning of the word 'under taken' and my use of it. l>id I mean t?> conceal the fact that 1 was anxious to buy auinc -u?-4-h??- land ? ?? Kol til till. I > i <1 I mean t<> attack Dorr as a swin dler when 1 ni) self was engaged in a dishonest and dishonorable 1 i a nste liou I ? That is wltnf ? -Hrr President would have people Inlieve. ( an 1 be justly charged with falsehood when if I had told the Senate of the entire transaction it would have made no difference whatever while 1 would have been charged with intruding m\ private affairs into a public discus sion ? .lust what law did I break? What wrong did I do or contemplate1? I never expected, and could not un der the terms of the law, as I < ou st rued it, get more than seven quar ter sections for uiyselt and tainil\. one for my private secretary and one for Mr. liOe, making nine in all. *1 his. in the aggregate, would mean tha. 1 would obtain through my activity here, as the President's' chartre is. nine quarter suctions, of 1.11" acres at a cost of $4..">n0. Will the Pn si dent nndcrtnke to say that 1 have "lost my right to buy land because 1 am a Senator T Can the President dcn\ that my activity secured the passage of the resolution instructing the At torney (Jenernl to bring suit for the recovery of this land for the use of actual settlers? It llarriman and others like him are made to disgoige bv reason of these suits shall the lact that I was endeavoring to buy a little pittance of the land be used as the basis of a charge of. being a liar and a corrupt Senator to be disgraced After relating a long drawn out consideration of certain men connect ed with the situation through which he abandoned the hope of obtaining the land he said : ? "Dorr, of whom I had never heard before," he said, "was evidently pushing hi# scheme of getting suckers to invest and using my name, as 3 have indicated, without authority, because I had not paid any foes to him or written to him or filed any ap plications. I, therefore, felt it incum bent on me to expose the swindle in the Senate, which I did on February 19th, and asked the postofilce author ities to issue a fraud order. T press ed the passage of the joint resolution in the Senate and on April 110th it he came a law. March ISth I was taken ill and on May 10th, after a partial recupernt ion, I sailed for I'.utnpe, Re turning October 21st. "I have not attempted to deceive anybody; T have not told any false hood.*; I have not broken any; law: t have not been guilty ot any immoral conduct. 1 had the light to pur chase the land if I eould, but my iudgment told me it was unsafe as an investment. 1 would like to get some of 'it. yet. . . "In conclusion. Mr. 1 resident. I court the most searching invest. na tion. Kav. 1 demand it. I decline I most emphatically 1 ue\er ! sought to conceal my efforts to buy I land." HOW IT CAME ABOUT. To bring: this whole matter before the public eve at onee let it b<> noted that Senator Till man some lime ago I urged that certain land grants in Oregon had beenffdrfeitcd bv lack of compliance with terms of the erant and urge that they be sold. Before looking into the matter liw concluded to make an investment IrmSelf. When certain investigations were being made by the secret service men this was discovered. In the late troubles between the President and Congress about the secret service appropria tions which the President wanted re stored to former sufficiency and the charges by Congress that the secret service department was becoming of fensively active, tho President used strong language which Congress looked upon as reflections on that body and demanded of the President instances to justify his language. While disavowing any intention of discourtesy ho complied fq far as lo give names that furnished the basic of his language. Thus the cast of Senator Tillman became a part of the justflcation of the President. It seems that the Senator's e as< was stumbled upon while making cci lain other ju vesication#. Il in ills' stated 1 1 1 1? I <*<*!'( niii parties who won f(V? tided with Senator Tillmnn'f tiiging the sain of thin Oregon land resorted to I fiirt method of revenge t< put the 1 i rt posaeKsion of tlx1 fao Is of Sonutor Tillman's purpose t< 004)uire some of i liin land. To ?fdd lo the complication Post master Hiiriin has j*<mi t Senator Till man a bill of for postage foi a typewriter thai the Senator ha<" franked from Trenton, S. (\, to Wash inylon, it being daimotl that he had no ii<;lit to Neiul it under the frank ing privilege. The Senator refuse* to pay ihtV hill on tho ground (hat it is the government'* typewriter, thai lie was using in tin* interest of Uu publio and that it was the custom sc to do, he having never heard of any rule pioinulfitiled against it. ITad il l?"4?i? his own private atTaii ho would have expressed or freighted it. Senator Tillman has been aecred.it cd with rigid honesty as is President Hoosovr.lt, I ho forn.it' r tierv ti> the tern df ' ' pitchfork * ' and the latter iniptil sive to an unusual decree. Wit ha the publie will most piobablv pass m indgment until further development v j N i;\VSY OLE AXIKtift. Congressional calendars arc now crowd od with legislation. President Roosevelt offered the use of the battleship fleet to Italy. Receivers were appointed for tho Atlanta, Lilrmlnghaiu and Atlantic Railroad. * The single turret ..monitor Wyom ing has been reehrlstoned tho Chey enne at. Hhii Franelsco. There was a secret mooting of. tho Chinese revolutionary party In Pektn, traded bX'^nir^-Ynt^So'n. Kansas Democrats will Incorporate as an educational organization, with headquarters in Topeka. Richard Croker was notified of hie election as a member of tho exclusive Albany Hurgctsses Corps. Tho increasing numbar of death sentences in Russia brought about a stormy debate in tho Duma. At tho Now Year reception at the White lio use President Roosevelt shook hands with GO 5 3 callers. All milk in Chicago must now bo pasteurized unless lrom cows that have passed the tuberculin test. it was estimated that there were 5-0.0,000 b< neilciarics of tho new pen sion system now in effect in tho Uni ted Kingdom. President Gomez, of Venezuela, re voked Castro's decree of May 14 pro hibiting trans-shinmeut of goods des tined for Venezuela. Tho public debt at. tho cloao of business December 31 was 97, 340,751, according to tho statement issued at Washington, D. C. Ten thousand guests accepted the invitation of the New York World to Inspect its building. Thtsy wero wel comed with music and flowers. Charged with fraudulent use of money collected for an orphanage, Hlshop W. M. Williams, of tho Apos tolic A. M. E. Church, was placed un der arrest at Omaha, Neb. FEMININE NEWS NOTES. . , , v. Mftdamo Melba appears as a suf fragist, In loyalty to her AuBtralla. Mrs. Margaret Zane Wtchor wat chosen County Clerk In Salt Lake County, Utah. Mrs. Frances Taylor, trafficker 1e glii8, wbb convicted and sentenced to not lees than seven years in Auburn (N. Y.) prison. The Order of Jesuits has declared for woman suffrage, according to aD announcement In tho order'? official organ at Rome. Mrs. Richard Sophrls was the old est woman to caBt a ballot In the re cent election In Denver, Col. She li In her ninety-eighth year. Queen Helena of Italy and the Duke of Aosta wero slightly Injured while aiding earthquake sufferers, but continued their work. Mrs. D. W. McFadden has been olectod to the Idaho Legislature. She will represent Ada County and will bo tho only woman In that body ol lawmakers. Tho National Council for Jewish Women has a membership of 10,000 women banded together for work along philanthropic, leglslatlvo and co-operatlvo linen. Mrs. Caroline P. Nixon, who lit the first light In the Abaecon Lighthouse, now known to thousands ol visitors from nil over tho world, died at At lantic City, at the aso of seventy-six. Italy's first woman barrister has begun her legal career at Rome. She Is Slgnorina Lollinl, daughter of a Roman Socialist and ex-Deputy, and her calling to the bar is hailed as a victory for tho feminist movement. I Dr. Rosa Lioblg, of Marshalltown, Iowa, holds six dlfforont positions, including an office in the W. R. C., ono in tho .Eastorn Star; she is offi cially appointed human officer, is tru ant officer, county overseer of the poor' and eecrctary of a private com pany. - ------ T 6 A HANDY KITCHEN BOX. Get a box 3 feet long, 2 1-2 wide and 2 1-2 high, made from a tight parking box and paper on outside with wall paper. Attach lid with hinges and cover top with oilcV)fh. While closed It is useful for a side table. Th? Hd when lifted is held In place by ~a support, a piece of inch lumber I feet in longth and 2 inches wide, fastened to the end or tho box Just below the edge with screw naila, so it will torn free Jy, holding lid in upright position by end of support cut diagonally fitting into notches cut In under aide of Hd. This box can contain l cwt. of flour, sugar and small groceries, also -a jvastry board, rolling-pin, potato mash er and similar noceaaarjr articles hung on nails driven infc> side of box. A nail driven la each end or side Is convenient to hang art Idea on out tide.? Boston Post. Latest News. BY WIRE. J-'Isli Skin Disease Kills Cirl. Winch'J/Star. Va.? -After hiiTitIik Intense agony for a weefr. Ceneviovp Reynolds, ten years ol?l , die I at Mld fdtiBiOWII Iconi ichtllVO J.-, or "ibif akin" disease. Auxiliary ^fet. Surely KcfoJvcr. k Trenton. N. J.~ -Market Cummero was named by Chancellor JMtney a# Auxiliary receiver in New Jersey c .1 the Metropolitan ijure'y (Company, of Now York. The concern ha* ho mo I.SO.OOO deposited with the New Jjpr? soy State Couiptrollor. ' Indict* Hank Cashier. v Holso, Idaho,? 'Right indictments liavo bean roturned by the Ada boun ty Grand -Jury against It. E. Nenl. for- ? mor cashier of the defunct Capital State ' Bank. Forgeries aggregating $78,000 are charged. i&at i Given City l'a*teurf?.cd Plant. WIlKPfilmrj-e. Pa.? Nathan Strang, of Now York City, lias derided to do nate (ho machinery for a milk pas--, twurlzation plant to tlits oily in nu ef fort to roduce the death rato anion j children. Roy Slayer Won't Fat. -J] Millvi.lt>. K. ,T ? Walter Keller, the youth who killed his grandfather nt Vinoland -?+? ? UuU. N'oveniher 18, and who was mn-rir*trn or-TTnrrrt?,T'"in llio"" first degree, tried to starve himself to death. Jap to Raise Carp ITcre. South NorwnlKr C<7jTiT:~T3ifiu' Tot lcmachiis. a Japanese resident of Now York City, intends to propagate his native cam In this country. Ho says he rnn sell a ttsh as good as shad at a cent a pound. *-'??? v ~ 157 Fires in One Diiy. Chicago. ? One hundred and fifty seven tires within twenty-four hours wrought havoe here as an indirect, re sult of t ho cold pnell, pnd physically worn-out firemen fought the flames. ) Former N. Y. Woman a Leper. '*> Augusta. C.a. ? Mrs. Mary V. Kirke, a former missionary to South America and for fourteen years a resident" of Aiken. S. C.. was isolated in a house at that place, a victim of leprosy. She ? came from New York. ? f Husband Would Not Speak. Los Angeles. Cal. ? Mrs. Fannio Speik. mother of Miss Fanehou Lewis, the actress, wept profusely when Judge Monroo asked the eauso that .prompted her to seek divorce; "My husband found what he thought was a grievance against me." said the wit ness, "and then remained silent for. weeks in succession. At the tablo not a word was snoken by hint and when ho was asked a question ho sim ply Bhrugged his Hhoulders." The de cree was granted. . BY CABLE. Turkey and Austria Mnkc Up. Vienna, Austria. ? Ilechld Pasha?? the newly appointed Turkish Ambas sador to Austria-Hungary. be&an di rect negotiations with Daron von Aehrenthal, the Foreign Minister, looking to a settlement of all the differences between Turkey thul AU8* tria-Hungary. Daylight Thieves Get $200,000. Paris. ? A mall sack containing bonds worth $200,000 was stolen from a delivery wagon in the Chaus see d'Antlry.'in broad daylight. The police had' not the sllghtesr clue to the thieves. - Vanderbllt to Pay Peasant. Paris. ? Tho Civil Court of tho Seine ordered Harold S. Vanderbllt to pay $ too to a peasant named Guigard, who was struck recently by Mr. Vanderbllt'H automobile near Nice. Mr-. Vanderbllt- hna-'Hlready" given him $300 voluntarily; s Fund For Tuberculosis. Rerlin.? David Jayne Ilill, tho American Ambassador, paid Into tho Seehandlung Rank Andrew Carnegie's gift of $125,000 to the Koch lustltuta^ for Tuberculosis Research. Warns Roy King at Feast. . . Lisbon, Portugal. ? During a ban quet given by ofllcers of the army ill this city, at which King Manuel wan present, a lieutenant publicly warned Ills Majesty that a plot to dethrone him was in course of preparation. Tho officer declared further that- lim iting was surrounded by spies and traitors. ~ <".a \ 1'!* - American Riflemen Win Match. .."'y Sydney, N. S. W. ? Aftet' a long in quiry, tho committee of tho National RifleAssocIatlon reports the superior ity of tho American team in tno match held during tho fleet'? visit. This was chiefly due to the excellent I ammunition, especially prepared at high cost for match purposes. ^ ? * * Fatal Riot in Assyria. Mosul, Assyria. ? Rioting, with considerable loss of life, occurred here. The trouble arose over the ar rest of a soldier for insulting a Turk ish lady. His comrades tried to res cue the soldier and the turbulent ele ments of the populace joined in tho fray. Thirty persons were killed ahej thlrty-tWo wounded. Magoon at Santiago. Santiago, - Cttbai-^-Governor *Ma^v~ goon, whilo making a tour.-.- aver ^ part of the island, was received at the railway station hero by detaohmenta ? of American troops, tho Rural Guard and many Government officials. ^ Net? Haitian MinieUivr^?; - * Port an Prince, San Domini President AntoLnc Simoi to send to Washington. Haitian Minister to the M. pauleus Sannon, (oriuuriy mister of the Interior under General Nor* Ataxia.