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VOLUME x: CAMDEN. S. C.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1910. *NOjT SEINE CHECKED IN ~ RISE OVER PI ? ? :\i Water Readied Highest Pointy History. 1 1 u FOURTH OF CITY FLOODE \> Paris 1 1 its Not IIiul So Gloomy u Daf Kinco llio SU'K?* by tin* Oemmt Army in 1870 ? I'cjtlllcnco H Feared. Paris, France. The floods in Paris Were well above the highest previous record for high water on the Seine when it was ofllclnlly announced that the river wan at last stationary. At noon, when the water was still rising at the rate of au Inch and a quarter an hour, and the rain falling heavily, the gauge at the Pont Royal showed thirty feet eight inches. The high water record for the Seine In July, 1C15, at the Pont Royal stood at nine meters eighty-two centimeters, or about thirty feet six Inches. Not since the siege of 1870 hns Pm-Ib had so gloomy a day. High officials expressed the fear of de vastating upheavals because of the ?hoking of tno sewers. All day at the Clare St. Lazare this fear seemed about to be turned into u reality of disaster. The ground heaved from the gigantic pressure of water as though a small earthquake was In progress. Huge cracks appeared In the massive walls. Several house3 sank somewhat dur ing the day. Their occupants fled or the reluctant ones were driven out by the police. it ii lii In Place <lo POpera. The Place de l'Opera seemed to be threatened with utter ruin. A large area of the roadway Bank and the name effect yy as produced at varioua points in the sidewalks of the Boule vards des Capuclnes and Maleleine, while lamp-posts not only there but In many other localities leaned peril ously. The Champs Elysees, the Boulevard Haussmann, and many of the most elegant streets in those and adjoining quarters were under watpr. In many of the thoroughfares there are dangerous subsidences of road ways The cellars of the Comedle Pran <"aise were full; those of the Presi dent's palace have been Invaded. A horse, cart and man dropped through the gravel drive near the Jardln de Paris. The man was rescued, but the horse was lost. The great railway terminal station at the Quai d'Orsny is considered to be in serious danger, Very little water entered the bane inent of the Louvre. Thus far work men, toiling through the bitter cold -night, raised the height-of- t^e-r^ver^ wall to a point where, if it holds firm, will prevent further danger. I Terrible Suffering of I'oor. The tale of misery of the poor in the districts which are worst afflicted grows more and more heart-rending. The hospital at Juvel was evacuated, some of the patient3 being carried out in a dying condition. It ij feared that the utmost means for the present relief of those who have been ren dered destitute by the flood that can be raised will be inadequate. The most dreadful danger of all awaited the subsidence of the waters. The people, both the rich . and the poor, already were beset with the fear of an epidemic. In some quarters pota bls water was difficult to obtain. Many 'families departed in haste for the shores of the Mediterranean Another peril which could not he measured was hidden by the weak ness of thoubands of buildings. which may only be declared by their col lapse after the subterranean waters, now helping to sustain the very walls they have undermined, shall have re treated. The authorities attached the gravest importance to this contingen cy. If what ts dreaded should hap pen there undoubtedly will be great loss of life. , . The Figaro gavo a lugubrious w a .0 1 a ng o r to the city -from the iriunvbe.rT.ess . channels filled with water, under tremendous press-" ure, which honeycomb underground Paris. The ecploslousj of sewers which were reported from time to time, may momentarily cause the , downfall of many buildings. j Already In some quarters ominous cracks appenred in the walls of the more ancient houses. Weird Scene Presented. At night the city presented a weird spectacle.' Soldierp, bailors, firemen and police were hastily constructing temporary walls by the light of camp fires and torches in an endeavor jo keep out the invading floods, while pickets patroled those sections of the city which are plunged In darkness by the bursting of the gas K'.ains and the stoppage of the electric lighting plants. Convents lieronie Hospitals. Charitablo organizations co-opor- , ated with the authorities In throwing i open their buildings and succoring refugees. Several convents and a number of public buildings were i equipped with military cots and bed- ? ding and transformed Into hospitals. Tho Red Cross performed - splendid 1 service in distributing food and cloth- 1 ing. i Nevertheless numerous /pitiful In- s stances are cited of women and chll- e dren who had refused to leave their t homes In the submerged districts, t shrieking from their windows for I bread. . _ n During one day 1500 persons were c removed from houses in the Eleventh i Til !?: V . DIED ?xm LOVE. Boy nnd Girt Could Not Wed, 8k They Drnttk Poison in Buggy. Dob Moines, Iowa.? Vernon Birr. Aged sixteen, and Llna Amraer, aged " fourteen years, killed themselves be> cause their parents objected to thsir marrying so young. Thsy were found Mar Monroe, clasped in each other's arms, sitting upright In youog Bsrr's buggy. In which Shey were riding home from a diOCC* ' - -v- -:t;r ^ ' ? ?'. IB enorn ot r?'ug>*e aend ^ SfcTsir """' V Ml ?. :a,?Hy of Work*, whose ou I ?? ?? 'VAntln was but ? ii?ri Avei?-but on the back* VlleV^and / "ed '" botttH' . s . i Closed. w.i of the schools are ?; "V>f the lack of heat. '^ctV^y all the flooded towns "e ?* A>low Paris were without ?D/T??V6ra.l of them without fjolr inhabitants were hastl n, R. Chamber of IJopn t Iom hold a in the water-beleaguered Pa urbon, believing that an nd tnt or a transfer of their ac Versailles. aa had been sug l><ipuld only serve to arouse the bllyanlc. Parliament voted "a molding business notes one asaifc of sympathy And offers of (lovtAre pouring In upon the eietleVfrom Individuals and so Am\ll over the world. ceivedVA mbansador Hacon re vldualsif of cables from indl and elsy/ York Glty% Chicago lieve 'th^offerlng money to re wero coring. Those messages Office, waited to the Foreign cont rlbuti<?lied that Individual ceptcd. l^ld be gratefully ac contributioion announces that will be forw\ to the Embassy uels. -ji the proper chan Quarter \ It is dllHcifr Inundated, picture of the\ro8ent a mental the submergec^phlcal limits of roughly speakiii* of Paris, but the surfaco lnuni estimated that which must not Vom the Seine, the overflow In trlfounded with sewerif and subtert streets from ers about nine squV'rtver9T~&ovr" quarter of the city. 'les, one one lieginning above enters the fortiflcat the Seine was under water, an^very yuay entire Eleventh Arrotlcallj the largest in the city, \jipent, the the flood extendlug b^merged, Qual de Bercy and th^om the Kapee to the Place de it de La the Placo de la Bastille. W and Just below, jfts far as n I v^naieiet, behind tho Qua?^e tins and the Qual Henry veles" covpred the old Ma;als to floater ' twelve feet. Tho lower qu*1 ?' the lie St. Louis and the Cite, where Notre Dams is \ and Immediately opposite, w<??' ered; the streetB In front of tn^" lerles Gardens, the Louvre ail" Museum were .completely lmmu and tho Bama condition existL' patchca In the Placo de la Conl Thence, in a rectangle bonndfc the river and the Avenue Cli Klysecs, a sheet of water surroii Uic^Grand iind EetiL Palaccs Iouj\ deep. The police forced the evacua of entire streets in the lie de 'la \ and the lie St. Louis, where *. houses were In danger of collapei Below the Trocadero the flood \ f?ned until at Auteuil it reached b lialf a milo Water on Left Tinttk Deeper. ? On the left bank of the Seine water wns generally deeper In flooded districts. Beginning aba, the city, It covers a major portion E the Thirteenth Arrondlssement ba^r as far as the Gobelin factory, air( thence, except for Ste. GenevievL Hill, on which the Pantheon is sitik ated, it la bounded by St. Germair Boulevard to a point back of the Pal lais Bourbon. This district is calleo Ihe Old Latin Quarter, and comprised the law courts, the Institute des Beaux Arts, the Mazarlu Palaca and scientific publishing hniiso? further below the water surround ed the Foreign Office and swept back across the Esplanade des Invalldea, and from that district to thq^phamp do Mars, where the KilTel Tower stands. Tran3vcrse streets, like Bon aparte, throughout this area, were under from two to five feet of water anc\. were accessible by boajs. Below the Champ de Mars'to tHe fortifications the Juvcl district was subrvje^getl. back to the Rue Lecourbe,. a d-i-st ( nearly a mile frora4h?' river, in many places the water reach ing to the. second stories of houses. The water in the Hois de Boulogne fortification reached the Grand Cas riHe. and below the river was one third of a mile wide over the entire plain opposite the palisades. l-uuiic Services Crippled. The pulillc services continue badly crlppl?d. The mails are slow and un certain. The tclrrsaph lines were down in every direction, and commu nication with Holland, Denmark and Austria, and many o: the cities and towns in France was completely cut off. The telephone was practically abandoned in Pari?, it being impossi ble to se.rve three-quarters of the sub- | ecrlbers. The newspapers were filled with pages qf pitiful and terrifying details. Business was almost at a standstill, p.r.d tli e hotels are crowded with per sons who have fled from inundated homes. The prices o| necessaries ad vanced by leaps nnd bounds ns the paralysis of transportation facilities jntering the city extends. v Within the city there was practical ly no moans of transportation Except jy cabs and tsxl-autos, the owners of which charged fabulous prices. The iteam tramways, which were the only turface lines remaining after the clec rlc cars filled, were unable to move, ia_tho water had entered the enslne >ox3s. Communication by omnibus ind autobus between the two sides it the river has been suspended, ow- 1 ng to the unsaT# condition of ths | STATE LOSES ON AVAR. CLAIM. " Now York'i Statement of . Pay Doc Volunteers PrfMnted Too Late. Washington. D. C. ? New York State h^s lost the right to prosecute herd aim for psy alleged to be due certain to lute ere from the 8tate who served In the Spanish-American, War. The claim cannot be collected utfless relief Is given by Congress or the courts. The law provided that such claims should be in by January 1. bridge*, twelvo of the twenty-five &?* ir.g cloned to I rattle. The Northern Railroad alone of the vast network of railways operated directly Into the city. And the opera' Hon of this lino was threatened by the deplorable situation at the St. Lactwo station, where the tracks were aubmergtd and the immense building in danger of falling as a result of broken water mains beneath its foundations. IKiUCTKD FOB C hicago Oflleinls Acvimrd of 9^^0,000 I'Vaud in Sewer Contract. Chicago, ill,? Paul Redleske, re signed Deputy Commissioner of Pub lic; Works; Michael II. McGovern, u wealthy contractor, who has h;id many city contracts, and nine city of ficials and employes of McGovevn, were indicted here charged with cou spiracy to defraud the city of $254, 000. The Indictment* came as a surprise, as It was believed the alleged frauds involved only about $45,000 in the so-called "shale-rock" scandal. The men indicted, besides Redleske and McGovern are: Otto Nlehoff, secre tary to McGovern; Max LundKuth. former superintendent for McGovern; George Moore, a foreman for McGov ern; Italph Bunnell, resigned assist ant city engineer; John C. Parks, as sistant city engineer; Robert Green, A foreman for McGovern; Richard Burke, John McNichols and Joseph Maher, city Inspectors in the engi neers' department. The men are specifically accused of conspiring to defraud tho city by lay ing only one-sixth of the concrete and brickwork callcd for in the contract for the construction of Sectiou N ot the Lawrence avenue tunnel. UNEARTH DEATH SWINDLE. Insurance Crusade Brings to Li^lit Remark uhle Conspiracy, i Louisville, Ky. ? In line with an In vestigation that Is said to have un earthed a conspiracy to swindle insur ance companies by means of "grave yard" cases, warrants were Issued here for three local insurance solici tors, John J. Koane, P. J. Needham and T. T. O'Leary. on charges of con spiracy to defraud by insuring dying persons, through misrepresentation. The affair Involves in one way or another more than fifty persons, and relates to fraudulently-obtained life insurance policies to tho value of $100,000. It is also said that many physicians are involved. One physician has admitted that he acted as a par ticipant in a conspiracy by filing out medical certificates asserting that men and women he had never seen were in good health and constituted /good Insurance "risks. - * Vwl lVl? C \I.IM All * tlvill HOW under way will unearth one of the biggest Insurance swindlen ever ex posed," said Stato Insurance Com missioner Bell, as he took up the case of Walter E. Rider, a teamster, who died January 4, and whose body was exhumed. SCANDAL SUIT IN SOCIETY. Wife of Federal Juti^e Quark's Oup ol I "our Accused. Milwaukee, Wis. ? Mrs. Kate A. ownsend, a society leader and club oman, has brought suit tor $-0,000 *mage3 on a charge of alleged slan ?r against, four prominent, women, hey are Mrs. Frances S. Kempster, !c:ntly divorced from Dr. Walter empster, noted alienist: Mrs. S. V. uarleB. wife of Federal Judge and irmer Senator Quarles; Mrs. Thomas . Brown, former president of tho :atp Federation of Women's Clubs, id Mrs. Edward Ferguson. The charges filed by Mrs. Town nd are gsneral, omitting times and aces tho defendants are alleged to yve spoken unfavorably of her. ON F ESSES KILLING FATHER. light to i'revent I'nrcnt's Divorce mul Ilemarrlngc. Vlinot, N. D. ? Charles Mo! Ihe, aged jnty-three years, confessed that ho J murdered his father, Frank Mo I!. The elder inaii died on his way *be from Barton, in Pierce County, it an Inquest was- in progress on the *Mmption that Mollnu had died of I h?t disease. he son confessed that he had put stfchnino In whisky which ho' gave tola father. Hs said his mother, wlhad been divorced from Mollne, beved that Moline was about to re and was afraid he would leave hisroperty to his second wife. Tho soiuld he meant to murder both hla fatfr and the woman. DlVlMITlC KILLS F1SIIE11MAN.' W'asl'linw Inp It in Court House Two Fatally Injured. j A&ville. N. C. ? The accidental rtfspffgo of j\ ptick of dynamite in ? he founty Court House at Bryson <'ity natantly killed Omar Conley. Barrtt Banks lost both eyes, and Leo KraniR, Register of Deeds, of Swain Coua was fatally Injured, Ccaiey and BaMks were thawing lynrtijlte on the radiator of the Iteg Wtecp\ofllce in preparation for a flsh ? ig tf ill. One of the sticks of dyna* fritofet\ to the ground and exploded wth Mich fores as to shatter the doors akl windows of the oflAco and serious, lydamagrithe west end of the Court HinBe. Many valuable county rec oils and lagal papers were destroyed. Ignore Cotton Decline. Italer* In the South show amaruetl ilisftaitlon to belittle the recent sharp tlecliio In cotton prlc*"*- particularly futur? quotations i Tal Poshes Beef Yrast; Cm?. I' Pr?Ndefet Taft, annoyed at reports, Rent wad?~ EIIIb, assistant to the At torney-General. to Chicago to push the Beo\ Trust inquiry. Rev. \V. G. R. Mnllan Rend. . The R*. W. O. Read Multan, for mer presUent of Loyola College, died In Kalttjporc, Md. He was fifty years old and a toted educator. Miss Atrae Morgan started a earn* psigo for a anion of working women, 1 who will find protection in the law. TRAIN 1NTW0 FATAL MISHAPS Hits Woman at One Crossing and Auto Party at Another. Mr*, Roy Covert Killed and Her Hug. bund Mortally Hurt Near J<outluii? vlllc, Ohio? launch Run P"??vu, Mansfield, Ohio, ? Pennsylvania train No. U. west-bound, struck ami killed Mrs, Hoy Cover! ami mortally injured her husband at a crossing near Loudonviiie. Proceeding furthor tho train struck an automobile on' the outskirts of Crestline, a few miles away, and killed J. H. Slglcr, aged nitty, and Charles EeboU^erger, both of Ilayes ville. lu tho automobile with Eohelber ger and Slgler was Curtis Doerrer, of Mansfield. Doerrer'a shouMfor was crushed, his leg was broken and bo rcccivod internal Injuries. The young woman who was tho first to meet donth on tho track was on her way. with her husband, to visit a neighbor. Her death was In stant. Covert was picked up many yards away, and did not know of his wife's death. The automobile party, struck at Leas Crossing, came upon the trucks in their machine. from the rear of an east-bound freight, directly in front of tho express. In an instant their machine was lifted high in tho air. When it fell Siller and Echelherger were dead. Their bodieB were brought to Mansfield. Doerrer, tho injured man, was taken to a Crestlluo hospi tal. Three Drown in Launch. Memphis, Tenn. ? Floating help lessly in a disabled gasoline launch three men were drowned when tho little craft was run down by the tow boat Enterprise off Hopeflold Point at night. The dead are Albert Schinner er, aged thirty-two; Joseph Dietrich, aged thlrty-thr^e, and Harry Hurst, aged thirty years. Charles S. Auferoth, a fourth occu pant of tho launch, saved himself by seizing the gunwale of a heavily la den coal barge which the Enterprise was towing. SIX HELD IN MURDER CASE. Husband Among the Suspects in Kill ing of Jessie Van Zandt. Cincinnati, Ohio. ? Six persons were arrested In connection with the death of Mrs. Jessie Van Zandt, whoso body, bound and gagged and literally V^nnt-nrt nil-' u qi>o UtBV? w?o faitlld in the kitchen of her home. Those arrested are: Charles Berry," Edward Ilattmann, Patrick Lang en. Ada Friendship, Mrs. Mary Ford, and the latler's fourceen-year-old daugh ter. Lillie Ford. The policu have Information that J. Van Zandt, the husband of the nrurdered woman, who is being hold on suspicion, spent considerable time recently In the house with the persons 'arrested, in company with Agnos Berry, sister of one of tho man ar restad, and it is believed that their testimony will develop something on ?which a formal charge against Van Zandt can be baf^d. Van Zandt spent the day In a ceil and he continued to assert his inuo C2I1CC. HORSES KILLED FOR FOOD. Much of the Moat is Sold in and Near Chicago. Chicago, 111. ? In an official report to the Illinois State Food Commis sion. State inspector Hoey says that horses are slaughtered in Chicago and tho moat Is being sold and distributed for human consumption. The meat, he says, is being cut. into roasts, steaks and sausages, and 1h sold to frcen lunch veniera in Chicago and to some farming districts and mining camps wlicro foreign min?n; are em ployed. Heretofore, Fays tho report, It was tho general belief that all horse meat prepared in Chicago was for shipment to Copenhagen, Denmark, and tho fact that it Is being put up for homo consumption is looked upon as re quiring a new State law regulating the killing of horses. In one place It was found fifteen horses a week wero killed. THIEF SHOT FATHER AM) SON. In Struggle With Durglnr Moses Goot ninn Lost Hia Life. New York City. ? in a struggle with a burglar Moses Gootman, fifty-five y6ars old, of No. 16 Enst lOSJth street, a shirt waist manufacturer and head of the Arm of M. Gootman & Co., No. 4 05 Broome street, was shot and killed. His son. Isaac, thirty-fivo years old, a lawyer, and known under tho namo of Gutman, was shot, but only slight ly injured, when ho went to his fath er's aid. The murderous attack on the Gootmans followed a visit by bur glars, of whom the police figured there were two or three, to several flats in the house and In the Imme diate neighborhood. At least one flat was robbed of, jewelry valued at $275. The bur glars cscaped, and the police have onl? a meagro description. The Van Norden* He?ign. Warner M. Van Norden, president ol the Van Norden Trust Company, who was robbed of $28,000, and Warner Van Norden, hi* father, a di rector, resigned. Two I'atally llort in Pistol Duel. . ~ In a pUtol duel in Edgewood, Kjr., Deputy 8heriff Gprdon Glvens and Benjamin Qatllff, a minor. were both mortally , wounded. Givena wm at tempting to arrest Gatllff on a chargo of dlsordorly conduct. Samuel Gompefft* Advice. Samuel Gompers told the leaders ot uu.lGlng trades union*. New Yort City, that there muct not 2?e a general strike in sympathy with the ateam flitffi. OINGS AMONG THE LAW - MAKERS. Bejow is given a brief summary of the doing* of the law-milker* of (he South Carolina General Assembly day by day : TUESDAY- -January 26th. The Senate. ? The Otts liquor nuis ance hilt passed third reading and was ordered sent to the bouse. Thin lull simply declares the "unlawful *ale, barter, storage and keeping in possession of alcoholic drinks a rum*' ?nun nuisance; Griffin's bill "to pro vent exposure fhr sale of dressed meats without production of head and ears" passed, the provisions of (he bill being limited to Dorchester. Colleton and Berkeley comities, and also the production of the cars is all that will be necessary, the bill hH\> ing been so amended ; the 11)01) pro hibition act was amended so that sec tion 10 shall provide also that wood or denatured alcohol may be manu factured as well as sold. This is to allow an industry to be started up id Georgetown, it, is understood; Gray don's bill providing for adjustment of insurance losses after a number of amendments, was ordered printed in the journal. There was a joint session of the Senate and House to elect several judges, insurance commissioners, State librarian and trustees of col leges, which resulted as follows; For assosciate justice, 1). K. Hvdrick, of Sparanburg; For judges: First Cir cuit. C. (J. Dantzler of Orangeburg; second circuit, Robert Aldrieh of Barnwell; third circuit, .John S. Wil son of Manning; fourth circuit, K. 0. Watts of Cheraw ; eighth circuit, J. C. Klough, of Abbeville; State librarian, Lavinia II. La B rode of Columbia; insurance commissions, F. II. Me Master of Columbia; penitentiary di rectors, J. D. Deas of Kershaw, and W. II. Glenn of Anderson; Clemson College trustee#. 1. M. Mauldin of Bickens, W. 1). Evans of Cheraw and B. II. Rawl of Lexington ; Winthrop College trustees, I). W. McLaurin of Dillon, B. R. Tillman of Trenton; University of South Carolina trus tees, R. P. Hamer, Jr., of Marion and C. K. Spencer of Yorkville; State Colored College trustees, J. W. Floyd of Kershaw, G. B. White of Chester. The House? By a vote of (>(1 to *20 Dillon county was placed in the , fourth circuit instead of the twenfth. Representative McMahan has in trt?luc??t tn the- hoti^B it HtM affeftinj the advertisement of liquors or alco holic beverages, the terms of which will be of considerable interest. The bill reads: "It shall be unlawful to print, publish or present to the public in any form any advertisement of any alcoholic liquors or beverages, which, if drunk to excess, will produce in toxication, either in any newspaper printed in this State, or on any buihl Hig, wall, fence, tree or conspicuous place of anv description, either by means of printing, painting, stamp ing, sf needing, pictures, illustra tions or otherwise: Provided, that nothing contained in this act shall prohibit the advertisement of de natured alcohol. "That any person convicted of violating the provisions of this act shall bo punished by fine of not less than $100, nor more than $1,000; or for not less than 30 days, nor more than one year." There was no session held on Wed nesday, members of both houses vis ited Charleston to inspect the Citadel "Academy, and generally to have a good time. THURSDAY? Jan. 27th. The Senate-? The Audubon Society measu re providing for a license for hunters, was killed; it was agreed to take up the bill for State-wide prohi bition on Tuesday, Feb. 1st, no other matters of State interest was taken up. No session Friday, ivisited Clen.? son College. The House. ? Bv a vote of (51 to "J") the house killed Rocker's bill pro viding for a separation of the school funds from taxation; by a vote 'of 40 to HO Tuesday, Feb. Is*, was nam ed as the day for considering the State-wide prohibition bill; Smith's hanking bill was killed; a number of unfavorable reports were submitted ami hill# killed. Among these was a bill to exempt Y. M. ('. A. property from taxation and a divided report was made on the bill to provide for a board of State auditors. An unfav orable report was made on the bill looking to municipal and to libraries. An unfavorable report was made on the resolution changing the mode of selecting the regents rf the Hos pital for the Insane; llydrick offered a concurrent resolution fixing Febru ary 11 as the time for adjoining sine dm. lie did not press for immediate consideration; no session of House Friday, visit ed Clemson College. MONDAY? Jan. 31st. Tho Senate ? The Senate hold two sessions, the session at noon whs favored with small attendance. the night session being largely attended. Among tho measures passed to third retfding at the afternoon session wen Senator Oraydon's hill providing that contributory negligence shall not he n War to recovery by. .employes of common carriers in case of injury or death; Oraydon's bill require rail roads to accept mileage cou|>onR on trains, and to make the Legal pas senger rate not over 2 1-2 cents per mile was up, bul went over until Tuesday; Carlisle's bill to repeal that section of the code relating to the income tax, passed second reading without discussion. Notice of ?ren erai ameauuwui* vu third ?<*in<r was given. A bill by ths same seria lor providing tor the service ?> t' hiiiii mons by mull passed second reading; Crossou 's lull making it u misdcincRU or to spit upon the doors of passiMigur trains | uisscd to third tending with amendments; F.arlc's lull rclutiug to survey ing with killed by u vote of -U to '?. This lull provided lot' I lit* rug* istermg of surveyors' uiid the issuance of a certificate to surveyors by the clcrks of court in the various coun ties; Sullivan's hill rcguUtiug tin* sale of paints was killed by -a vote of 1H to 15, The hill provided for paints to he sold only with the in greilients of the paint eoiituiued iu the lahel on the outside of the can. The House- Jrby's hill regulating tile employment of children in the cotton mills, after long discussion, was passed as follows: "The pen ally for violation id' the child labor law by a line of .$.'>() unit tin* inspec tors are required to make reports, hut it also provided that a parent or guardian making a false statement should recover nothing. BffifiSilTw * AIbo Ask For an Eight-Hour Work Day. Indianapolis, Ind., Special.- Ten cents per ton increase on all mined coal is demanded for the bituminous coal miners in the report of the scale committee of the United Mine Work ers of America submitted mi it* con vention last Monday. New wage contracts are fo he made iu the following districts: Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Western Pennsylvania, ('out nil Pennsylvania, Jowa, Kansas. Arkansas, Missouri. Indian Territory, Texas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Col orado, Washington, Wyoming, Mon tana and British Columbia. The total demands are: Coal to be weighed before screened and paid for on that basis. An absolute eight hour work day. Time and a half for overtime, holidays and Sundays. A two-vear contract to go into effect April 1, 1910. TREATY IS WORTHLESS. Foreign Powers Not In Sympathy With White Slave Law. Washington, Special. ? The treaty ratified by the Senate March I, 1005, providing for universal action of the powers toward the repression of the "white slave" t rathe has been declar ed by Daniel J. Keefc, commissioner general of immigration, to he "prac tically worthless." The failure of this convention to ac< omplish the good expected was ex plained iu a report of the commis sioner general, which was transmitted to the Senate by President Toft in response to a Senate resolution. In summarizing an exhaustive re port, Mr. Iveefe says: "Practically no co-operation at present can he cx|>cc.ted of the signa tories as regards the enforcement of our immigration laws, with which some of the powers are found to be out of sympathy. The procuration. of innocent women and girls for pur poses oj' debauchery has seldom, if ever, come to the attention of the bureau, and if it is the purpose of the treat to prevent such procurations, the treaty's usefulness ends there. " Kven with the passage of new legislation with stringent provisions, this bureau, which has heen desig nated hy the government in the re pression of this traffic, will not be in position to properly enforce the Same without specific financial provision being made which will permit of an unremitting warfare against the evil througohut tlie country as a whole and not in isolated portions alone, this welfare heing restricted, of course to aliens." COTTON PRODUCTS. Meeting U form New Organization Will l?e Held in Atlanta. Atlanta, (la.. Special. ? A meeting to organize the National Cotton Products Association has heen call ed for Atlanta for February 10. The call says the purpose of the new as sociation will he: "To toneenl ate the heretofore scattered effort' of helping the gov ern men t to improve agriculture bv means of State press, colleges, rail roads. experiment stations, industries and individuals, into one great "o oner'ative movement through which alone we can hope to achieve the burliest results and secure enduring prosperity. ' ' Royalty Aids Sufferers. I.ondni). By table. ? Tlx* K i i ? jr has pent 1 .0.10 pounds and the Queen I 1.000 pounds to the Mansion House Fund, for the relief of the sufferers bv the Hood in France. The Prince of Wale# had subscribed ">00 nonnda to the cause. The Red Cross Soeiety of this country lias tnnde an appeal for help; also President Tnft cabled his offer of services iu behalf of the United Stntc?*. Donations sen: from the United' Sfutes: Standard Oil Co., #20.000; Speever & Co., $10,000 and Frank J. Gould, $.1,000. 1 ' Tired of Rules Committee. Washington^ Special. ? A resolu t ion abolishing the present Committee on Rules of the House, and provid-' ing for the creation of a new one to be composed of fifteen members, elected by the House, has been intro-, Lduced by. Representative Cbompl Clark, of Missouri, the minority leader. The resolution provides that the committee shall be directed "to re-, j vise, amend, simplify and codify the rules of procedure of the Hons* and reper! their ieet day practicable." ? SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS .. ^ The Cream of News Items Gathered From All Or? Uwuiii Carolina and Boiled Down. (Jov. Ansel has suspended M I rutc |>. Lester Gault, of Kelton, rnion county, for belting on game of chance. Representative C., T. Wyche of Newberry, h uM received a cablegram from the American consulate at Par is that liia daughter, Miss Isoline Wye he, who with another Carolinian and former Winthrojp student, Miss Florrie Bates, of Orangeburg , has been ?l inlying in Paris, in "perfectly safe," from the flood danger*. Southern Railway Defective 8. .11. Buyer, who wan phot through the lung by one of three negro car thieves whom he surprised at work in the H oyater yards at Columbia be fore dawn last Wednesday, died Fri day morning at the Columbia Hos pital. Seven pupils and a teacher wore hurt last Friday morning when a fierce cyclone demolished the Two Mile Swamp school house, 12 miles from Orangeburg. One of the pupils, a son of Dan Oarick, was severely injured about the back. The injured teacher is Miss Julia Heed. Oreonwood county has organized a hoytt' eorn club. Lexington cotton mills are running only four days a week. High price of cotton said to be the reason. Timmonsville is to have a new passenger depot. The Southern Textile association, which will meet in Columbia, Feb ruary 11', will be largely attended and an attractive programme has bj}cn arranged. The Itoddey cstnte was sold at pub lic auction at Pock Hill and brought $240,000. Clarendon county is to have a county fair in the fall. ? The Chcraw printing company has been chartered with $2,000 capital. The Charleston & Western Caro lina railroad will not build a new dejM>t but will enlarge tho present station at Woodruff. Gen. M. L. Bonham. of Anderson, haH been elected president of the South Carolina Bar Association. The railroad commission ordered the Southern Hallway and Atlantic Coast Line Railway officials to ar range their schedules as to make con nection at Prognall's, a junction point between ? Charleston and Branchville. Greenwood is making a strong ef fort to have the Citadel cadets an nual encampment this summer. Ten thousand bales of cotton wan sold on Chester's market since Septi 1st. Anderson is to have a public abattoir for. inspection of all eattlc, hogs, sheep, etc., before being slaugh tered. ? Isaac Martin died at Inman of pellagra. Rev. Jas. Boyce, I). D., president of the Woman's College of* the A. P.. It. church, at Due West, is dead. Aged f>0 years. The sum of $32,058.41 represent the receipts from fisheries from Char leston. Colleton, Georgetown, Horry and Dorchester counties from 1906 to 1009. The expenditures as shown from reports received by Comp troller General Jones were $30,357.84 thus leaving a balance qf $2,320.5? to be divided between tho State and ^ county, > Citizens of the town of Blaek-' stock. Chester county, have begun the matter of moving for the forming of a new county with that town as the county seat. It is announced from Columbia that Hon. R. S. Whaley, Speaker of the House, will be a candidate for lieutenant governor. At Greenville thirteen heirs settled up with creditors and sixty-seven inortiravres were satisfied in one day. Chester is to have an electric road, _ which will link tho county seat and Great Falls. ? After an illness of about a week Judge Jas. A ldrich passed away at his home in Aiken last week. He was .judge of the second circuit from 1S92 to 1 008. The largest steai^ plant in the Southern Stntcs is to be erected by the Southern Power Co., at Green ville. The cost will be not less than $300,000. A tuberculosis conference will be held in Columbia on February 21 and 22. A State- wide campaign for the ed ucation of the boys 01 South Caro lina in the growing of corn and other agricultural products has been inau gurated by O. B. Martin, former State superintendent of education, Ira B. Williams, who has charge o? the farm demonstration work. There is much interest among the people of Lexington county at pres ent over a proposed new railway leading from Columbia by way "of Lexington and Saluda to Greenwood. It is understood that the com mittee appointed to seloct a presi dent for Clemson college will not re- 4 port until the regular meeting of the board of trustees next summer. Representative Johnson ssya that out of the number of So?th Carolina men* and women who ttwk the **auu- lu nation, some weks ago for appoint ments a^elerks in the census bare an 66 passed and their namfi have been placed on tfr# 1 ' ettgihls lls|, the apportionment. A meeting of the rur^ letter ear-t riers of South Carolina has jw e<l. The meeting is to be held ift Spartanburg ?? February 22.