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eHRQNieLE. '"' > ?' :^2 - - - CAMDKN, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 1,1910. NO. 11. Rubber Co. President Killed. ~ Akron, Ohio?George H. Ailing, thlrty-alne, president of a rubber company, while inspecting some elec trical wiring at the plant In Barber ton, was caught in a machine and crushed to death. Harry Prendiville Dead. Worcester, Mass.?Jean Paul (Har* ty) Prendiville. well known as a com poser, died suddenly of apoplexy at Dls home here. Ho was born on the Island of 8t. Helena, sixty-two years - ago. Prendiville wrote and arranged more than 2000 musical pieces, most ly for bands and orchestras. Bhoots Married Woman and ftelf. Wilmington, Del.?Charles Tin* a dall, twenty-six, a single man, shot ??and killed Mrs. Clara N?weomb. Sutwenty-three. at her home. Tindall then shot himself through the head, dying Instantly. Jealousy was the 0 cause of the double tragedy." V.Jere LIIIIh on Western Trip. fj Albuquerque, N. M.?-Jere P. Lll Us, the Kansas City banker, who was V slashed with u knife by "Jack" Cu R.dahy, went through Albuquerque on {.his way to California. | Mrs. Kathlnka H. Kptro. 1 Now York City. ? Mrs. Kathinkft. rSchucklng Sutro, widow of Emil Su tro, died at the Hotel St. Reno. Mrs. . Sutro was the author of several nov els, including "In Two Hemispheres." L*?She was born In Germany seveuty flve years axo. : Captain llobson Unopposed. K Montgomery, Ala.?The withdraw* al of W. C. Davis for the nomination t for Congress In tho Sltth Alabama District leave.s Captain Richmond P. r-Hobpoti. candidate for rc-elcction. un opposed. College Taboos Towels. p Koufctitovi, Mich. Toy.'cTs 1>?va been tabooed at tho Michigan College - o* Mines. This doe3 not tr^an that soap also has been put under the ban, but that tho faculty has decided that towels are relief of barbarism and are unsanitary and expensive. When a student now washes his hands and face he uses a big sheet of paper for drying purposes and then throws it Into a wa?te basket. Throw Opium Into Sewer. San Francisco, Cal. ? Ten thou* ^ sand dollars' worth of opium was ? boiled and poured into a sewer by the Government officials. Tho drug was confiscated by the customs officers af ter a search of a transatlantic liner. tannery Bums; I^oss, 81,000,000. Elkins, W. Va.?The Hambleton Tanning Company's plant at Hamble ton was destroyed by fire. The loss t-ls about $1,000,000, partly covered by Insurance. The plant employed 300 men. t Clerk Caught by Decoy I^etter. Wilmington, N. C.?Everett McA!? Cluster, twenty-nine years old, for the last six years general delivery clerk in the Wilmington postofftco, was arrest ed by poetofflco inspectors and charged with abstracting letters containing tnoney and other valuables. Marked 'coins from a test letter wero found on his person when taken into cus tody. Jplg Drop in Canadian Exports. Montreal. Canada.?W. H. Brad* Jey. ConsuL-General of the United (States for Canada, said that the 'rade returns, furnished his office showed that there had been a vailing off of exports from Canada to the United States. Shipments of pulp wood through Montreal decreased fifty per cent. BY CABLE. fanderbilt's >Iarc Atirele Wins. Paris. ?- William K. Vanderbllt'9 Ihree-year-old bay colt Marc Aurele, >y Rising Glass?Madame Butterfly, ron the Prix do Houdan, a selling Itake worth $600, at the Enghlea icing meeting, Kaiser's Personal Guest. Berlin.?Ex-President Roosevelt U ? be the Emperor's personal guest it the palace in Berlin from May 12 15. ;rmany Offers Aero Prize. Berlin.?The War Ministry has ot? ?red $4600 in prizes for the beat al lude and passenger carrying per rmances by German subjects In irman built aeroplanes during avia >n week at Johannisthal next Aug Ln?(rla and Russia Agree. St. Petersburg.?Count Berchtold, le Ambassador to Russia from Aus la-Hungary, and M. Isvolsky, the foreign Minister, B^ed an agree tent which restores to normal the re Itlons between Austria-Hungary and tassla and pledges also the obsefv of the status quo in the Balkan*. a's Assassin Executed. Harbin, Manchuria.?The assassin " Prince Ito, Inchan Angan, the Ko in fanatic, was executed at Port thur. He shot the statesman here October 16. Reappears tn Hawaii. -r? Honolulu.?Bubonic plague reap? ?red in Hawaii, and two white rla, daughters ot A* P. Undsajr, etmaster at HonoktTa, and nlecee Alexander Lhtdttr, Territorial At ley General, died of the disease, campaign against plague lnfect ite was pressed rigorously. De Vogue Dead."!*"' ' ? Viscount Marie-Eugene de Vogue, author and nrem KILLED IN I FIRE IMP Sixteen Dead and Missing From . Benzine Explosion. Clerk Who Went to Fill Three Clga* Lighter* With Oil Caubed thy Jk'tUul Accldeut, Chicago, III.?Eleven persons lost their lives and five are missing ap a result of a fire that destroyed die six-story building at No. 190< Wa bash avenue, occupied by L. Fish & Co., furniture dealers. Tho structure was equipped with only one fire es cape, an antiquated ladder In an alley, and wires from which signs and a glass canopy covering the sidewalk were hung had to be cut before the firemen could raise ladders. A Cor oner's Jury was Impanelled for the most sweeping official investigation since the Iroquois Theatre disaster. The records show the building had not been Inspected for ten yours. The Identified dead are: Ethel An derson, eighteen, stenographer; Miner W. Hell, advertising manager: Rose Brucke, saventeon, stenographer; Mrs. Hannah Burden, thirty, widow, forewoman folding department; Harry Darlington, forty, painter; William Green, twenty-four, clerk; Ethel Llchtensteln. eighteen, stenog rapher; Veronica McGrath, seventeen, stenographer; Harry M Mitchell, member of the firm and its auditor; Gertrude Quinn, twenty, folder; Lill ian Sullivan, sixteen, folder. The inlBslng are: Bert St. Clair, twenty-eight, confidential clerk; Mary Wargo,| twenty, folder. Three others, whose names wera not learned, were reported to be miss ing. The fire started after Leo Stoecke.l, a clerk, went to the fourth floor to fill three pocket cigar lighters with bensine at the request of Mr. Mitchell, the member of the firm who lost bis life. "I don't know just what hap pened," Stoeckel said In police head quarters, where he is being detained. "Each lighter had a little button on the side to ignite the benzine. I filled inem from a five gallon can of the fluid used for cleaning furniture. 1 may have touched a button. There was an oxploslon and I was blown twenty feet." Forty employes escaped from tho building, which was a mass of flames before those in the upper stories real lred what the explosion meant. Tha firm's ofllcos were on the sixth floor, and the frantic men and girls trapped there peered down into a raging fur nace. Mr. Mitchell, who was a broth er-in-law of Solomon Fish, one of the partnor?, died In attempting to rescue the girls on this floor. Three bodies were found together, and their position showed they had been praying when death came. Alexander Bush, a street car con ductor, identified one of the bodies as that of Miss Brucke, whom he was to have married shortly. He recognized a number of trinkets and the engage ment ring he had given her. HE PREPARE!) FOR WORST. friend Tells Seuator Jotlmm P. A lids at Albany. Albany, N. Y.?Senator Jotham P. AlldH, of Chenango, whose trial be fore the Senate on a charge of having demanded and accepted a thousand dollar bribe to Influenco his official action as majority leader in the 1901 session of the Assembly, came to a clone, was told by a close personal and polltioal friend to prepare for the worst. It would bo difficult for any person not actually in touch with the situa tion at the Capitol to appreciate the bitterness that exists against Senator Conger among his fellow-members of the upper house. j One of the Senators -who voted for Hinman for majority leader in the re cent Senate caucus and who, there fore, cannot be regarded as an Allds partisan, said that regardless of any verdict he would move to have charges preferred against Senator Conger before a Senate committee the moment the Allds case had been decided. "And should the Senate fall to ei pel Conger, I shall offer my resigna tion," said this Senator. "I cannot sit in this Chamber with a man like Conger." MOUNT ETNA IN ACTION. Volumes of Smoko and Lava Issu* Prom Volcano. Catania, Sicily.?From the top of the old crater of Mount Etna volumes of white smoke were issuing, while from the new craters that have formed lava was gushing. From time to time large incandescent masses exploded with loud detonations and emissions of black smoke. From Ca- J tania and along the entire railway surrounding Etna thousands of per sona were watching the volcano, fol lowing with telescopes the progress of the eruption. It- has been ascertained that the openings from which the lava was is suing number fourteen. The heat from the currents was so Intense that it wa9 Impossible to approach nearer than 150 feet of them. The progress down the mountain Bide averages f fteen feet every seven minutes. Law Takes Rome Birds Off lints. The Assembly, at Trenton, N. J., passed the bill making any woman found wearing a "closed season" bird on her. kit guilty of a criminal of - - Colonel Moyt iPor BrlgadierKteneral. The President, at Washington, D. C, nominated Colonel Ralph W. Hoyt, Tw?ntfc?!!fc Infantry, to ht brigadier* general. - ; - -?kv ^7;j>T7~ Bssk Raises Ratty"7' " ?_ The directors of this Bank ofEng land raised the minimum rata of die* count from three to four per cent. pesmngl T&r Beefsktns. There is a steady demand for moat kinds of deerskins, and arrivals are fctpt wan picked up. - r^ SECURED HE KNEW SECRETS OF COURT Albany Lobbyist Learned of De cisions In Advance. JUDGE M CALL'S $35,000 CHECK Insurance Probe Witness May* Buck ley Ha Id Hill Would Full Without Money For the Boy*?The Hill Did Not Ptw, New York City.?"The Btory of a Lobbyist" might be a fitting caption to the evidence brought out at the fire insurance inquiry as to the career of William H. Buckley, mi Albany lawyer who for years wm a legisla tive agent at the State Capital for the fire insurance companies, were the revelations put In narrative form. On the face of the do<*umentary evl denco produced Buckley was well nigh invincible at Albany. If the let ters, which wore entered on the rec ords, contained statements of fact? and for the most part they were let ters exchanged between Buckley and the late George P. Sheldon, who was president of the Phenlx Fire Insur ance Company, of Brooklyn?Buck ley's power with the Legislature was wel} worth the moa?v h? admits he received.. And Buckley's Influence at Albany went even further, according to his own words. He v/sb able to learn in advance of a decision of the Court of Appeals, ho said, and would keep Sheldon informed as to what was coming ofT in the Court. Miles M. Dawson, a consulting ac tuary of New York City, said under oath that Bjickiey had informed him that lie could not get favorable action en a bill In which he was interested unless he paid some money to "the boyB." When evidence was produced show ing that E. E. McCall, now a State Supreme Court Justice, had written Buckley's name above his own on a eh^ck for $35,00'0, which was one of the three leans made by the Phenlx Fire Insurance Company, of Brook lyn, through 8heldon to Buckley, the latter became greatly arouBod. He said that Mr. McCall knew nothing at all of the transaction, and had merely acted in the matter at his requost. He admitted that he had not indorsed the check and identified the handwriting in which his name was written as that of Justice McCall. Mr. Hotchklss said he" would be glad "to have the matter cleared up by the Justice. Buckley told almost nothing, and virtually all the information being gained from the letters which Mi'. Hotchklss produced. The first, dated April 29, 1903, was from 8heldon to Buckley, and read in part: "I note that the Court of Appeals haB decided that the franchise tax law Is constitutional. I wish I could have got onto this early enough, for I am satisfied that this is one of the things that have been hanging over the market, and if I could have learned previously what the decision was likely to be, there would have been money In this for all of us. Whenever anything like this Is pend ing In Albany It will always pay you to advise me, if you can, of the prob able outcome." Buckley replied the next day: "I am sorry I did not know it would be of interest to you to have information about the franchiso de cision. I told some of our friends two weeeks ago what It would be, but I waB advised from very important quarters that as long as the decision would be that the law was constitu tional it would not have much effect on the market and I didn't think it advisable to say much about it. If it had been the other way you would have been advised, because I knew of your interests in 'big gas.' In the future I will keep you advised." It was a dramatic moment when Mr. Dawson appeared on the scene unexpectedly and was sworn in as a witness. Dawson, who was consulting ac tuary of the Armstrong committee, which Investigated tte life insurance companies, said that in 1905 he drew up a bill relating to the method of valuation of llfo insurance policies which afterward was made a law on the recommendation of the Armstrong committee, although it failed the first year. He went to Albany and had the bill Introduced. "While In the lobby of the Sen ate," he continued, "Buckley, whom I had known for some yearc, came to me and told me that the bill wouldn't pass unless money was provided "for the boys.' He said that 'the boyi' thought I would get a liberal fee, and thought I ought to divide with them. I told him I wasn't there to bribe any one. Buckley said he didn't like to have me speak of It In that way. The bill did not pass." Mr, Hotchklss turned to Mr. Buck ley. "What have you to say to this?" "I never said a word to Mr. Dawson of money for 'the boys,' " he said. Henry Evans, president of the Con tinental Fire Insurance Company, was on the stand long enough to say that he contributed $2500 to a fund Shel don raised in 1903 to defeat legists* tlon adversa to the companies. Sculptor MacMonnlrs Married, Frederick MacMonnles, an eminent American sculptor, and Miss Alice Jones, a daughter of the late United States Senator John P. Jones, of Ne vada. were married In Lucerne, Swlt*erland. Prleet a Martyr to Duty. The Ret. John H. Boeratg, of Madi? ion, Ind., who died In Indianapolis of blood poisoning, contracted the dis ease irntlf he *?? administering the viaticum, a eaeraaeit, to a dying loner one year Large BulstM in Wool. With Increased buying of wools suitable for earded woolens there la m fee! 12 s in the market and come leading houses report a IMIr buelneee than haa been recorded for GIRL STRANGLED, BURNED AND PUT ON FIRE ESCAPE Ruth Wheeler's Body Found Un der Wolter's Window. SHE WAS SEEKING WORK Wrote to a Commercial School For a Stenographer and Child of Fif. teen Was Sent to Him and St ran Klcd iii His Rooms. New York City.?Ruth Wheeler, fifteen years old, who only recently was graduated from the Merchants' ind Hankers' Business School at Mad. ison avenue nnd Fifty-ninth Htreet, wont back to that school to no if the school knew of any place where she could get employment na stenogra plier. Tho school gave hci- the ad dress of Albert! Wolter, 22^ East Sev enty-fifth street, who had sent a post card to the ?*hool asking Chut a can didate for stenographer he sent to him. Ruth Wheeler went to see him about 9.30 in the morning, and in bis flat she was murdered and an attempt was made to burn up her body. When she did not come home at linner time her sisters, with whom the lived at 313 Wost 134th street. iAt out to IInd her. and being business Klrls wont, first to the, school. They learned that she had been there and that she had gone to answer the call af Albert Wolter. They went then to Albert Wolter's rooms, only to find that he denied any knowledge of their lister, but they did not like bis beha vior and they went to the police of tho East Sixty-seventh street station. Wolter was arrested and sent to a cell under $f>000 bail, charged with Abduction, only because Ruth Wheel sr's two sisters felt convinced that ho had done wrong. In his rooms was found a memorandum book with 'Ruth Wheeler, $7 a week." written in It. Later Ruth's body( burned al most beyond recognition, was found at Wolter's home and he was charged with murder. John Taggert and his wife, who oc cupy rooms 011 tho fourth floor of the building at No. 2 2 1 East Seventy fifth street, directly adjoining the Wolter apartment, were attracted to a bundle 011 tho fire escape. A closer inspection of the bundle led Taggert to believe that bis neigh bor had wrapped a quantity of old c.othes in tho bag. Although he was surprised at its weight he pushed the package off the fire escape into tho "Adjoining yard, four flights below. A skirt which had been hanging on the rail alongside the-bundle was also thrown into the yard by Taggert. Taggert called on John Mohl, tho janitor of the place, and they went Into the yard where the bundle had fallen. Mohl shrank from tho pros pective discovery, but Taggert drew his pocketknife and ripped open tiie sewed end of the bag. As the cords were released tho Jagged ends of the arms and legs protruded through the paper wrap ping. Taggert instantly realized that he had found a human body and at tempted to cut further into the bun dle, but his progress was hindered by picture wire which bound tho inner wrappings over the head and chest of tho murdered girl. Thero was not a shred of flesh on the portions of the body found in this bundle, but a turquoise necklacj and a shred of silk which was a part ot the girl's shirt were taken to dis close that the victim was a woman. They were identified by Itutli'B sis. tors. Tho arms and legs were miss ing from tho bundle, which also con tained a quantity of burned coal and jharcoal. Ruth Wheeler came of a hard working, respectable family. Her father, John Wheeler, died a dozen rears ago In his service as a railroad man at Spuyten Dxiyvll, having pre-' vlously served as an engineer on the iteamBhip line between New York and Bermuda, and her mother then re sumed work as a dressmaker to sup port her four children, whom she suo? :eeded in educating for their work In life. There were four of them? Pearl, Adelaide, John and Ruth. As each reached the age when it was possible to go to work and contribute to the family's support each found a place, Pearl in Stern's, Adelaldo with W. R. Gregory & Co., of the Produce Exchange, John with the Standard Oil Company, on Staten Island. Wolter persistently denied his fullt. He said he was an expert Ger man stenographer and wanted to ox Jhange lessons with an English sten ographer. He is about eighteen years aid, and has not lived at home let tlx months. INCOME TAX VOTE VALID. If tor Opinions From Washington Kentucky's Approval is Upheld. Frankfort, Ky.?Governor Willson has decided that the Legislature's three attempts to adopt tho Federal income tat resolution wero product ive of at least one passage. Twice the Legislature adopted a resolution which tho Governor sent back on a technicality, and during the third attempt at passago the Legislat ure adjourned. Congressman Ollle James arrived here from Washington, D. C.? with opinions of prominent lawyers, in cluding Senator Root, that the second passage was legal. It was said thai Tames was prepared to make a teat in the courts, but the Governor had al? ready decided to certify the resold *4on. " WOMEN PERISH IK POWER BOAT. Ihejr Go Over a Dam in Upper Mill Pond in HUltboro, S. H. Hilleboro, N. H. ~ A motor boat, rendered unmanageable by the sud den stopping of the engine, was swept OTsr the dam of the Upper Mill Pond here, hurlifeg two yonng women, Mrs. Mellie Dares and Miss Mildren Craige, to their death. WMH*m H. Parker, who was in charge of the boat, eseaped by being thrown Into shallow water, front which be was able te crawl ashore. , THREE MEN KILLED III BAIIIE ON TRAIN ?; 1 Pullman Car Passenger Slays Col ored Potter and a Conductor, J. H. BETHEA BECOMES A MANIAC Drowued Out by Ftro Hose at WIN miiigtoii After an Hour's Fight and Mullet lti<Ullc<l, the Mur derer Fell l)cad. Wilmington, Del. ? A battlo In which three men were killed begun on a north-bound Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tvaln between Newark, Dol., and Wilmington, ut 5 o'clock p. m., and wa? eoncluded at tho Delawuro avenue Btatlon here. Sevoral others were wounded. The dead ure: O. B. Wellnian, forty, of Philadel phia, cond.uctor of tho train. J. H. Bethea, forty, of Dillon, S, C, Samuel Williams, 11 fly, colored, Pullman porter. Tho injured arc: John J. Wilo.v, forty, a Wilmington Park gKard, shot in tho groin and hand. Mathew Haley, a citizen, shot In the leg. Others were grazed by flying bul lets. Tho tragedy was an outoomo of a quarrel between Betjiea, who was a passenger, and Williams, the porter In tho Pullman pallor oar Mevcury, bound from Washington, D. C., to Jersey City. Methea, who had been drinking, shot the porter through the heart, killing him Instantly. Wellnian, tho conductor of tho train, heard tho first shot and, running back, remon strated .with Methea, who still held tho smoking weapon in lUs hand. Although the negro was dead, the Blayer fired a second shot, the bullet entering tho victim's Ktomach. Then, without a word, Be the a turned and shot Wellnian, who fell dead. Tho double murderer, before tho passengers could Interfere, barricaded himself in tho lavatory of the Pull man car and threatened to kill tho first person who attempted to open the door. Meantime tho train reached Wil mington. As it pullQd into the station a hurry call was sent to the police station. Police Captains Kane and Evans, Sergeant I^elleber and a squad of patrolmen, reinforced by park guards aud a posse of trainmen and citizens, rushed to the scene. Bethea wag called upon to surren der, but he only opened the door far enough .to paint au automatic re volyer at tlue p&llce and tho crowd and fired at them. After an hour's fierce battTTngtKtr police sato they would be unable to drive tho man from cover and a call was sent to the Waterwltch Fire Com pany for its engine. The apparatus responded on a run. In a few min utes Bethea, drenched with water, staggered to the platform, and again tho police shouted to him to hold up his hands. Without a word and with An air of bravado, he levelled his au tomatic revolver at the police and pred several shots in quick succes sion. Just as he fired his last shot Police Captain Evans, who, with others of tho police force, had procured a shot gun, fired. A load of shot struck tho murderer In the face, but still he con tinued to blaze away. Patrolman Baughman then fired with a pistol, tho bullet striking the desperado In tho right arm. Ho tried to fire again, but Sergeant Kelleher flred and at the same tlmo sprang upon the man. Bethea fell dead at his feet. Bethea had gone to a Baltimore hospital for treatment and had be come demented. Columbia, 8. O.?J. H. Bethea was a well to do contractor of Dillon. B. C. FOBS ELECTED TO CONGRESS. Gets 5040 Plurality in Massachusetts, Overturning Plurality of 14,250. Brockton, Mass.?On issues of high tariff, Canadian reciprocity and tho high cost of living, helped by party disaffection, Massachusetts Republi cans lost their stroncest Congression al district, the Fourteenth, Eugene N. Foss, running on the Democratic ticket, overturned a plu rality of 14,250 given in 1908 to the late \V. C. Loverlng and won the seat mado vacant by Mr. Loverlng's death by a plurality of 6640 ovSr William R. Buchanan, Republican. The total vote was: Foes, 14/980; Buchanan, 9349. DEATH FOLLOWED ANTITOXIN. Mr*. Smith Died in Conditions After Being Inoculated For Diphtheria. Minneapolis, Minn.?Mrs. Guy E. Smith, of this city, died as the result of being Inoculated with antitoxin. She died in convulsions five minutes after the antitoxin had been adminis tered by a physician. Mrs. Smith was visiting at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Franklin, Jr., whfr-'had been ailing for several days. A physician ' pronounced Mrs. Franklin's {rouble diphthoria. He Inoculated both women with an titoxin, and Mrs. Smith's death fql lowed. Senator Grady Mentioned. Senator Grady was named In-the In surance bribery Investigation la New York Cltr. Graded Butter Scarce.. ~ Tli* scarcity of upper grades df butter tended to diroet attention to firsts and seconds, wfctch had fjtfr in quiTT ?t steady prices. Paotr stor age butter was inquired for. Mies ranging from thirty-one e*nts to thir ty-two cents; General tyeft is Fatal Accident. The wire of Major Slocum jftg kuivu nuu G?h?s'i J. Frsablls Bel? was injg^ed in an auto aecldent la W?aMi|Ui, D. C. PALMETTO HAPPENINGS Nem Notes of (Jcneral Irter<*t From All Tarts of the HtuU. Housebreaking no Orlwe. The South Carolina Supremo Court "ti'nK hamtrd ifrnm-n dfrimon 4? ? robbery case against u young while man of Huteaburg of interest through the Stuto, whose conviction is re vdrted. Tho defendant is Ralph Clivk. The court finds that tho jury's verdict of "guilty of housebreaking" is do crime. In South Carolitm to break into a house is not against the law, though lo break in with intent to steal or commit a felony is a crime. The alleged robbery was from, the store of M. K. Hut land. This was the rase in which the Hateshurg chief of police, Darby, got involved in a criminal charge of a capital olTense from the mother of Clark. Mrs. Rankin, whose home Darby searched. He was acquitted in the case brought against him. Chester Wants Union Depot. A mass-meeting was held at the court house at Chcytor lo discuss again, after seveVnl years, the mat ter of a union depot for ('healer. M. S. Lewis staled the object of the meeting, stressing Chester's need for a union station. A. M. Aiken read a resolution which was- miinmnously adopted stating it as the sense of tho moot ing that the four railroads entering Chester should build at once, at gome convenient place, a union pas senger station, and that a commit too of 12 bo appointed to present the subject at once to the railroads and the* railroad commission. The city council will be requested to call a special meeting and pass similar reso lutions. Good-Bye, Ticks. The following bulletin ban been issued from the State veterinarian h office at Clemnon college: The State and federal agents 111 | tick eradication work are now being placed in the Held for the summer's campaign ami hy April 1 the entire force will be at work in the north western counties of the State;?Abbe ville, Greenwood, Laurens, Union, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Chester and York. Every effort will be made to completely free this area from ticks and place it above the l'edo.'al quar* an tine line this year. Greenville's New Depot. Work of clearing away tho houses in the McBec avenue section, Green ville, where the now Charleston & Western Carolina depot is to be erected, is proceeding rapidly, ami j it will bo only a few days before work will be begun on surveying the ! foundation. The new station will cost about $40,000, and its completion is prom ised by December 1. __, , Dr. Boyce President Due West. A special from Due West states that at a meeting of the board of trustees held Thursday night, Rev. Dr. T. G. Boyce, formerly a nativo of Mecklenburg county, N. C., wns | elected president of the Woman's College, an office made vacant lyy death several months ago. Dr. Boyce has been living in Tennessee for some years, and is one of the ablest men of his church, the Associato He formed Presbyterian. Tho schools for boys and girls at Due West have long been famous for tho high type of men and women which it turns out. Shot to Death at Batesburg. An unfortunate tragedy was en acted at Batesburg Thursday when W. B. Glenn, superintendent of the electric light plant, shot Clinton Khoden to death, on one of the main streets of the town. The weapon used was a pistol; four shots were fired, and each shot took effect. One witness stated that Khoden was un armed. It is stated that there had been bad blood between the men for some t ime. A Corporation "President" Arrested John Hyan, of Wilmington, Del. claiming to be president of the Unit ed States Guarantee company of that city, .who was arrested in Gaffney and taken to Orlando, Fla., by Depu ty Sheriff Gordon of that city. Ryan refused to go without requisition and this delayed his departure. He is said to also bfl wanted at Douglas. .. Landrum Man Deserts Home. John Blackwell, of Landrum, sud denly disappeared from his home somo days ago, leaving a wife and six children. A few days later he was heard from, stating that he was in Cincinnati and that he would never return. It is believed that he became mentally unbalanced as a re sult of reading circulars sent him by a boufce of that city. f Negro Boy Drowned la Well. 'Horses Johnson, a 15-year-old negro boy, Who lived with hit sister, Eramerets Jenkins, Plorenee, fell into a well in the baek yard of thmr home and wi? drowned It was ascertains was subject to fits, and it is thai one struck biro while at and ho foil Obronar ed the body and decided an inquest ?nnn?eeiy. ^ . End Comes Suddenly Monday Night by Appoplexy Washington, Special.?Ifovid Jo= siah Brewer, Associate Justice of the Kuprevie Court ?>t' t ht* United States, died Monday night at 10 :30 o'flock M tiit? result <>f a stroke of ajwplexy. His death followed within a minute or two before he could he carried to hi* hod, Mr*. Hrewcr was with him when the end came. Jindict Hrewur was 711 years old. The end came altogether unexpect edly. Although he had not been feeling well for the past few days, the aged jurist was up and out Mon day, apparently in the hest of health and spirits. He was in equally good spirits at dinner and spent the even ing in reading. Shortly after 10 o'clock he retired to liis room, and within a few min utes Mrs. Hrewer hoard a heavy fall and went to investigate the cause. She found her husband prono upon the floor of the hath?room. lie did not regain consciousness and died before a physician, hastilv summoned, lould reach the house. Eight Killed on Oruiser Charleston. Manilla. Jiy Cable. The rejmrt that a fatal accident had occurred on the ( r.itod Siaies rrWi&W Chsrles ton, was eonllniied Monday. I'Hght men were killed and several others slightly injured. During practice at sea oft Olon gapo, the breech look of a three-inch gun blew, off and in Hying across the dock cut through a steel stanchion and mowed down the men. Seven of the victims were instantly killed. The eighth died as the Charleston was hurrying.to Cavlte. The cause of the explosion is not known. Hear Admiral John Hub bard, cominandcr-in-ehiof of the Asi atic fleet, has ordered an investiga tion. The bodies of the victims will be buried at Cavilo. The Charleston, which is rear ad miral Hubbard's flagship, returned today to the firing range. Hor com manding officer is Commander John II. Gibbon*. She is a protected crui ser of 0,700 tons and carries 08 guns. Pittsburg Bankers Rotten Too. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.?Monday whs "Honkers' Day" in Pittsburg. The district attorney has questioned more than 100 officials and empfuv ecs of the six city depositories in ref erence to money being paid to city councilmen to obtain the passage ot the bank ordinance in cUy councils during 1008. Forty or more council men have confessed that they receiv ed money for the passage of the or dinances. Two bank presidents, one now serving a term in the penitenti ary for bribery have admitted that money was paid to hove the ordinan cch passed. The grand jury wants to know who were the men "higher up" in the bribery. 4 It has been asserted in varions con fessions now in the hands of the dis trict attorney that the six city de positories provided o fund of $102,500 to secure the passage of the bank or dinances, which included an interest rate of only 2 per cent, whereas oth? cr reputable institutions made writ ten offers to pay 2 1-2 per cent, on daily balances. The bankers will be sharply examined on these facts. To Reimburse Old Depositors. Washington, Special.?A bill to re imburse the 01,131 depositors, iu the Old Freedman's Saving and Trust Company has been favorably report ed to the Senate bv the Committee on Education and Labor. For this purpose $1,201,744.50 is made avail able. One provision of the bill pre vents the employment of a legal rep resentative to assist in collecting tho money. Claims must be made within one year after the bill becomes a law. Oan't Vote on Saloon Question. Chicago, Special.?Chicago will not vote on tho saloon question on April 5, the election commissioners uphold ing the contention of the "wets" that of the 74,000 names signed to the petition of the "drys" to have the question "shall this city become an- * ti-ealoon territory" put on the bal* lots, 26,128 were those of persons not registered. ^ ! Charges Against Court of Inqniry. Washington, Special.?Just as the army court of inquiry," which ite inves tigating the Brownsville raid of 1900, was in one of its closing sessions, At torney C. B. Marshall, who has been appearing as counsel for the negro soldiers seeking restoratipn to the army, sprang a sensation by imply ing broadly that the court had been improperly constructed by Secretary Dickinson and that the recorded, Capt. Charles R. Howland of the Twenty-flfth Infantry, had made no effort to produce any testimony favor able to the discharged soldiers. ISrof. OoOk Accepts Consulship. Washington, Special,?Prof. Arth ur B. Cook, or South Carolina, form erly of Wofford College, has decided to- accept the position of United^ States eonsul at Patroe, Greece, re- ! cently tendered him. ^ ^Vesuvius Active, Too. Naples, By Cable.?Five new largo Assures Uve opened near the central orstmr of Mount Vesuvine, but the volcano showa ?* ? . - . . ?