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S^wfe-' e AMD EN VOLUME XXI. CAMMflN, 8. C.? FRIDAY, 22.1910. I?<). 14. Latest News. by wire. uuncttii Dow Drops. Deud. Columbus. Ohio. ? Judge Duncan Dow( 0110 of tho most prominent law yers In the State and the author of the famous Dow Liquor Tax law, dropped dead In his homo in Belle fooUine. Fred D. Grant in the Army at 1.1. Washington D, C. ? The Houisft passed a bill declaring that General l* rod L). Grant wan mustered into the service of the United States April 29, 18 63, when at the age of thirteen he served hh aid to his father, General U. 8. Grant, at Vlcksburg. By this ac tion General Grant was mado eligible to membership in the Loyal Legion. $1000 in Bureau She Sold. Aberdeen, S. D.?Peter Greenateln doesn't believe In hanks. Therefore. ' i when he sold his house preparatory to moving on a claim in the western part of the State, he did not deposit the money, $1000, in a hank, hut hid it in an old bureau drawer. Later, in Mr, Greensteln's absence, Mrs. Greenslein sold the bureau to a second-hand fur nlturo dealer. , '? f" . $9,000,000 From Alaftka. ' Seattle, Wash.?The first estimate received here of the spring clean-up of gold In the neighborhood of Fair banks, Alaska, is $9,000,000. J. M. McMullin a Suicide. Chicago, 111.?Joseph M. McMullfn, of UaldwltiHvlUe, N, Y., who had beeu at a hotel In Sixty-third street since March 31, committed suicide by drink lug poison. He left a note which read: "Please notify Walter McMuI lln, of Iialdswlnvllle, N. Y." Mayor Horsewhips an Editor. Florence, Ala.?Mayor Walker pub* llcly horsewhipped H. E. Mooer3, edi tor df the Florence Herald, for edito rially attacking the Mayor's veracity in connection with tho campaign for Governor. '' Mayor Gives Profits to His Men. Milwaukee', Wis.?Mayor-elect Eml! Seldel says his private business will be conducted by his employes, and they will divide the profits. Will Probe Hill Charges. Washington, D. C.?Secretary Mey* er-has decided to .order a court of in quiry instead of a court-martial in the case of Commander Frank K. H11L_ captain of the cruiser Marietta, who ~ is charged with having a dirty ship. fwO' , Kills Wife; Shoots Self. Barberton, Ohio. ?? Henry Fravll4 thirty-five years old, a real estate dealer, shot and killed his wife, Min nie. Death Gives Her Divorce. Vincennes, Ind.?Because his wife 6ued. for divorce. George Mott, a pearl buyer, drank carbolic acid and died before a doctor arrived. Sleuth Accused as Robber. Charleston, W. Va. ? Albert C. Felts, superintendent of a private de tective agency, has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Kayette County. 1-Ie is charged with robbing Paymaster Rob ert Wicks, of the New River Collieries Company, of $3500 at Rush Run last July. South Carolina Get* Silver. Charleston, S. C.?In the .presence of a brilliant gathering. Governor H. F. Ansel, of South Carolina, present ed to the battleship South Carolina the silver service which tho General Assembly voted to the ship. BY CABLE, Queen Off For Cruise. London.?Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria left for Genoa, where they will embark upon the royal yacht for a Mediterranean cruise. , IT. S. Cruisers Reach Amoy. V Araoy, China.-?1The cruisers Char leston, Chattanooga and Cincinnati, of the United States Asiatic Squadron, arrived here to be entertained by the Chinese officials. Ecuador to Pay For Damage. Quito. Ecuador.?The Government has appointed a commission to fix the value of the properties belonging to Peruvians which were dajnaged or destroyed in the recent riots. Alfonso Dissolves His Parliament. Madrid, Spain. ? King . Alfonso signed a decree dissolving Parlia ment. The new Parliament will be electcd in May and assomble on June 15, ' ^ Fall Kills Child J^rmcor. Pari3.?Romeo Raba, ten years old, a famous child dancer, was instantly killed by felling from the dome of the Grand Ojiera Houfe to the bottom stop of the grand stairway. 17. 8. Get* New Kmbjwjr. Berlin.?Ambassador Hill signed the lease for'the new American Em bassy building. It la ot No. l$Rauch strasfc. Dr. Hill has rented it for .-three - year* and. has. iho option, of renewing the leaee for two years ... .loncetv',r\ Cblflnrjr Elerntor Rurnrrt. Calgary, Alberta.?The Calgary ~ Mtlllng Cof-pany*s etevator herw was destroved ?" Are together with 80.000 bushels or vheat, 26,000 bushels of r?other flr&W) and savaral carf prod uce. Loss, $150,000. Bryan Sails Fof jfawr York. VilH. "? San Juan, Porto Rico.?When "William Jennings Bryan failed for New Ydrk City ? l?r#e crowd jra# the pier U> bid blrtT farewell. Mr. Bryan expects to ?all for Scotland in iniBflii I" I i i^^TTiiiPpmiti^ CHARGES MUST THE MUM LIFE COKIPm Hotchkiss Exposes Settlement of McGurdy Suits. MORE PAID THAN RECEIVED Committee'* Statement Culled De ceptive When Not Untrue-? RvkmIoii of I/Ow?Mouey Ut?ed in Ix>bby at AlJwuiy. Albany, N. Y.?Superintendent Hotchklna of the State Insurance De partment severely criticises several matters 4n the affairs of the Mutual Life Insurance Company In the re port to be filed of his first extensive examination of any life insurance company since taking office, and the first examination accorded tho Mu tual sinco the Armstrong code went Into effect. Tho examination was on the com pany's statement of December 31, 1908, and It deals with the Mutual's affairs for the years 1906, 1907 and 1908. Close to a quarter of a million dollars, the report states, was paid out by tli'e Mutual over and above the amount received in the final set tlement of the McCurdy suits, and In this echo of the life Insurance investigation the present Superin tendent finds his chief criticism. mese suits, instituted for the purpose offsetting back some portion of the vast sums of money which the Hughes investigation disclosed had been UBed for lobbying at Albany, were put in the hands of a distin guished committee of trustees. The commltteo reported that tho aggregate amount of money claimed to have been expended improperly, restitution of which was asked, "somewhat exceeded $3,000,000," but because of demurrers and* various dilatory tactics interposed by the de fendants, and also because of numer ous duplications and complications in tho details of the claims, the com mittee, on tho advice and with the aproval of its counsel, recofhmend ed that all the claims be settled upon a payment by the Mutual of $750,000. This payment was divided equally among Charles H. Raymond & Co., Robert McCurdy and JR. A. McCurdy. The Raymond & Co. account was set tled when the company paid that firm the difference between $656,527.97, the amount of their claims against the company, and the $250,000 agreed upon as their share of the -restitution?fund, which subtracted from the company's treasury tho Bum of $406,697.97. The company settled the Robert McCurdy account by paying him tho difference between $330,82.1.63, the amount of his counter claims, and $250,000, or $80,821.53, which was a total disbursement of $487,349.50, which, with the additional restitution of $2?-0,000 on the R. A. McCurdy account, made the net subtraction from the company's assets on the mat ter of the claims $237,349.50. Superintendent Hotchklss brings the flat charge of deception. The company's expenditures under the head of "supervision of old business," which amounted to $334, 144.0d In 1908, the .report says, really were paid out not for super vising old business, but substantially in the form of bonuses to thoso agents who were most successful in getting new business, thus defeating the pur poso of one section of the Armstrong law. which limits the amounts to be paid to agents for new business. WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS TWELVE. One Victim's Daughter Died of the Same Cause Several Days Before. Westerly. R. I.?Throe persons died after drinking a concoction said to be of whisky and wood alcohol. In all three women and nine men have succumbed to the lethal stuff in West erly and Hopklnton, R. I., and Ston ington, Conn. Daniel T. Sullivan and John Mc Avoy, of Westerly, died, exhibiting the same symptoms as did the other victims, including blindness, charac teristic of wood alcohol poisoning. McAvoy was father of Mr?. Albert Tucker, who died of the same, cause several days ago. Rosarlo Patti, of Stonlngton, waB the third victim. PLANS BUREAU FOR "KICKS." Fitzgerald Hopes to Savo Valuable Time of Clerks. Boston, Mass.?-Mayor Fitzgerald announced his plan to establish a bureau for .."kicks." It will be au office In City Hall, where two officials will be stationed to listen to all com 'plaints made by citizens about mu nicipal service. Most of the complaints made at the City Hall relate to tax and water bills, collection of garbage and con ditions of streets, and citizens who have ^'kicks'' to register don't know where to go. The Mayor says the valuable time of clerks is consumed in listoning to recitals of grievances they can't remedy. Fire Almost Wipes Out Torrn. The hamlet of Orleans eight aillea southwest of Geneva^ N? Y.. was near ly wiped out by fire. Twenty-two buildings, including the church and schoolhouie, were destroyed. The villagers wero without fire npp.irtltus -of- any kind, and bucket brigades were unable to make headway against the 4*fi}ee> ? ?? K ELLKD IX VAXDERB^T^AUTO, Wife of W. K. VanderlHIt's Assistant Wth in ffrnnca-? p. Paris, Franc*.?A persistent rumor was eurreat in Pari* that W. X. Van dorbilt had been injured in an auto This rumor was not true. It was a result cu a&jfeftidant to an automo bile containing William Dake, trainer of Mr. Vanderbllt's racing stable; I Plat.. hla assistant trainer, and Mr* Piatt. >lrs, Piatt was killed. w - ' ? $754,114 COLLECTED; OWK $191637 LEFT Robert B. Armstrong Accused In Insurance Report DENIES CHARGES AT CHICAGO I'rivofc* Secretary to Lenlie M. Shaw nnrt Former A Mis taut Secretary - of Treanury Wl| Head of Coiuol. tdated Canualty Company. Charleston, W, Va.?That the ac tive managers of the Consolidated Casualty Company before ltft reor ganisation here collected $757,114 in one year and nine months, of which only $191,637- remains, that they made false returns to the Insurance Department of this State, are some of tbe charges contained in the re port made to the State Insurance De partment by John P. Iloche, of New York City, consulting actuary. The actuary found that the entire management of tho company was in the handu of Robert B. Armstrong, president: C H. Hurras, vice-presi dent, and A 8, Mitchell, secretary and treasurer, as officers, and Arm strong, Burras, Mitchell and D, Fol ansbee as the executive committee. The company wob chartered in West Virginia about two years ago." The administrative offices haya been !n Chicago, Armstrong was prlvato secretary to Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, and af terward became an Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury. Three weeks ago, upon complaint of State Auditor John S. Darst, the directors turned the company over to Darst foV adjustment. Tho stock, holders reorganized by electing C. C. McChord, of Louisville, Ky., presi dent, and J. Walter Scherr, Deputy Insurance-Commissioner of West Vir ginia, general manager. The actuary's report gays that the condition of the company's books was such that a corroct audit la almost Impossible. Among the irregularities charged is the cancellation of stock Issued, collection of partial payments for which nothing was issued, issuing of stock which was not paid for, list ing as a $50,000 asset Chicago real estate that cost tho company $11,500. The actuary says that President Arm strong drew a salary of $1000 a month. "On June 30, 1909," the re port says, "it was discovered that he (Armstrong) had overdrawn his sal ary $2312." Subsequently this "over draft" of salary was charged to mis cellaneous expenses." The report charges that in Decem ber, 1909^ If. W. Huttlg. of Musca tine, Iowa, loaned the company a note for $38,000, and this note the company showed as an asset in its statement to the Insurance Depart ment and tho officers took oath to that effect. Chicago, III.?Replying to charges of mismanagement and falsification of accounts made against Robert S. Armstrong, former president of the Consolidated Casualty Company, by John F. Roche, a New York City ac tuary, at Charleston, W. Va., Arm strong Issued a statement,7 saying in part:-- ~ "The report of Mr. Rocho reflects the hostility which the company has encountered from its inception. For practically two years there had been apparently an organized effort to as sassinate the company. These guer rilla methods of the competitors of the company were encountered on every side, and enromously increased the expense of organization. "That the management made false entries in the books of the company is also untrue and likewise is the statement that false returns were made to the Insurance Department of West Virginia." DEMAND BILBO SHALL QUIT. Mississippi Senators Want Colleague to Resign??Others Leave Chamber. Jackson, Miss.?In open session the State Senate by an overwhelming vote demanded the resignation of Senator Theodore Q. Bilbo. President Pro Tem.' Hebron then resigned, and was followed from the Chamber by several other Senators, also sup porters of ex-Governor Vardaman. By a vote of twenty-eight to fifteen the 'Senate had failed to adopt a reso lution to e$pel Senator Bilbo, who recently charged that he accepted from L. C. Dulaney a bribe of $645 in exchango for his promise to change Ms vote irom foi-uier Governor James K. Vardaman to Leroy Percy for United States Senator. The accept ance of the money; Bilbo explained, was to obtain evidences of irregulari ties in connection with the Senatorial election. BARS * AMERICAN FARM ADS. Quebec Governmental Journal Will No Longer Accept Them. Quebec, Can.?In the Legislature Minister of Agriculture Caron an nounced that advertisements of farms in the United States would not in tho future be printed in The Agriculture Journal, which is published by the Qucbec Government. The Minister's announcement was occasioned by the criticism of Mr. Platte, a member of the Opposition, who drew attention to on advertise ment of farms In Vermont In an issue of the Journal and declared that these advertisements had been- largely the canse of tbe great exodns of Fretach Canadlans to the United States In the past year. Oh n't Educate Bnyera. Owing to the narrow margin of profits, particularly for' tii&fc grades of fiber rope and cordage and the In ehWky -of manufacturers .la educato buyers to pay higher prices, consider* able dissatisfaction has resulted on the part of manufacturers. 1 - ' ' f.. 1 ? More Pig'Iron. The coueUtVi 0!g iron output dur^ ing the month of March amounted to S.f tons, which exceeds any previous monthly record with the eS crption of Ifctt December. ~ BIG FLEET TO CIRCLE GLOBE Taft 'and Secretary Meyer Am bitious to Excel Roosevelt Admiral or Vir^Adiniral ia Coinman<) ' "-CoiigreKs Must Provide Addl t iontil Personnel?25 Ships. WaaliiBigtoB)', D. C.?To closo his administration by sending around the world the greatest battleship fleet over assembled under any flag is the ambition of President Taft and hlBB naval secretary, Secretary Meyer. The prograBU becomes operative July 1, this year. By 1912 the plans will have culminated and the fleet will begin a trip around the wQrld which will overshadow that which the sixteen battleships made at tho close of Roosevelt's adBninlstration. Protection of tho Pacific coaaj and of our Far East possessions Is provid ed for in the program. If Congress allows the Administration a free hand and acts upon the recommendations of the President and Secretary of War by 1913 there will be a fleet on the Pacific larger than the entire Ameri can fleet at the tlino of the Spanish Amerlcau War, On July 1, 1913, tho fleet will be made up for the closing year of t,he Taft Administration, with twenty-ono battleships, including the Wyoming and Arkansas, tho 20,000-ton dread naughts JuBt laid down. Thd fleet which win assemble in Hampton Roads for its special trip Will coBisiat of the battleships Wyom ing, Arkansas, Florida, Utah, Dela ware, North Dakota, Michigan, Con necticut, Louisiana, South Carolina, Kansas, Vermont, New Hampshire, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersoy, Vir ginia, Ohio, Minnesota,Mississippi and Idaho, and the armored cruisers Ten nessee, Washington, North Carolina and Montana?twenty-one battleshipB and four armored cruisers. Tho com mander-in-chief, It Is hoped by Mr. iaft and Mr. Meyer, will be a vice-ad miral or a full admiral. This, tho most stupendous fleet scheme ever adopted, will depend, in a measure for !ts successful operation upon tho passage of tho bill now be fore Congress for a gradual increase In the naval personnel. If Congress falls to allow the per sonnel increase, the Secretary of the Navy plans to shelve all of the older gunboats and cruisers In order to pro vide a sufficient number of men for the uew fleet. This, naval officers point out, would be crippling the Pa cific's fleet. If tho present program goes through tliore will not be a single bat tleship, cruiser or gunboat in service which took part in the Spanish-Amer ican war. It is planned, however, to hQld the older ships in reserve, so that with a fleet ofrtwenty-flve power ful vessels plying the Atlantic seas there will be a second fleet of eleven battleships?a fleet which will be as powerful as the entire navy won twelve years ago. TAFT'S VIEWS HISSED. Suffragettes In Washington, D. C.^ Voice Disapproval of. His Speech. Washington, D. C.?Because sev eral members of the National Woman Suffrage Association hissed while President Taft was telling them why he was Opposed to woman suffrage, he administered a sharp rebuke to them. The President had just told his hearers that if the ballot were grant ed to woman there was danger of it being exercised by the least desirable class when a. hiss was heard in the back part of the auditorium. It spread to other parts of the room and brought this comment from the distinguished speaker: "My dear ladle*. you must show yourselves equal to self-government by exercising, in listening to opposing arguments, that degree of restraint without which successful self-govern* ment is imDossible." GUILTY OF KILLING HUSBAND*. Blaine Woman Had Been the Man'# Sole Support For Fifteen Years. Rockland. Mo.?Guilty of tho mur der of her Invalid husband, Fremont Newbert, who died November 15 from the effect* of strychnine poisoning, was the verdict found by the jury lu the Supreme Court against Mrs. Sadie F. Newbert, a middle-aged Thomas ton woman, who for fifteen years had been her husband'* pole support. The penalty in this State for mur der is life Imprisonment. The State prison is located in Thomaston, with in sight of the prisoner's home. The defense contended that the poison was Belf-adminlstered,while the State held that the alleged friendship of tho woman with another man furnished a motive for the killing. $C000 FOR SAYING "YES." It Deckled Miss Peterson to Marry Rich Man on His Deathbed. Chicago, 111.?Lawyer Seth F. Crews was allowed $5000 by Judge Pinckney for saying "yes" when Sarah Peterson asked him if it would be legal for her to marry rich John R. Smith on his deathbed. Smith died almost immediately afterward, leaving her $260,000. Crews sued for $35,000: Mrs. Smith's defense was that she didn't marry Smith for his' money, but JnJgo Pinckney intimated strong ly that he bete-* contrary flew; " ~" - Tavpsyrn Grouted Vote. '! The Csnate c.1 Albany. N. Y., passed the bill of Assemblyman F. L Yoimt giving winaVa *T5?fayer# In villages the right to vats ua propositions in YoJvir,T lond Uaues for public im provement*. Blinded by TuMIr Towel, |fc Sues. WTfll Depot Ojmnany, of St. Paul. Minn., for 525.Oft* alleging that 1>h wuffprred b1in*r?>M through using a to??] la thstutlor. - ? - ? V ' i-.As* SIX FIREMEN LOSE LIVES III HUH M 8LAZE Three Others Are Saved by Dar? ing Work of Their Comrades. TROOPS GUARD THE PRISONERS All Are Returned to Their Oils nt Night in Vudninaged I'mt of (lio I tit tiding?Many (Bremen Wert Fourfully Burned. New Ilaven, Conn.?Trapped by metal doom and barred windows, nix firemen who were fighting flames In a workshop Were caught by n back draft and burned to death during tho partial destruction of tho New Have0u County Jail. Three of their comrades were aavod through the heroism of other firemen outside. The bodies of the six men were found lute after tho ruing cooled. Many other firemen were fearfully burned, but remained at work. The dead are: Captain C. L. Chap man, of Truck No. 1: Lieutenant William J. Doherty, of Truck No. 1; Ladderman John liuokley, of Truck No. 1; Hoseman James T. Cullen, James Mortell and Thomas Jv Wrath, of Engine Company No. 4. The seriously hurt: Laddermen A. EJ. Wilcox and Thoma* I v?w?h,, Truck No. 1, and lloneman John B, llussey, Captain Charles H. O'Neill, of Knglne Company No. 4. and Cor nelius Bhugrue, ladderman of Truck No. 1. Rlx men from Truqk No. t wero fighting their way through tlye cell room of the Jail Into the workshop when an explosion of a gasoline tank caused ?a back draft and slammed behind them the Iron doors separat ing the two buildings. Three of the men were hemmed In a corner and burned to death, while the other three made their way to a barred window, to which they clung, with streams of water playing on them from the outside. Soon after reach ing tho window the roof fell In.'iiml ladders wore put up from the outside and down the inside and tho men taken out. Tho otbor dead firemen were caught by tho sam$ buck draft as they were working at the other end of the building and carried down by the roof when It fell In. Shugrue, who was found lying at the foot of the wall of tho workshop, told how Doherty. Cullen and Mortell met their death. When they found tliemsolves hemmed In by tho closing of the door they made for the cellar in search of air. The flames already licking their clothing, they reached the cellar, and searched for a place to get out. but there was none. "IFs up to the roof, boys," said one of tho men, and the four crawled up the stairs again. Dy this time the build ing waB a maBs of flames. Bhugrue was the first to reach the roof, and, holding his head In his coat, reached down to Lieutenant Doherty to pull him up to the roof. Ho got hold of the Lieutenant's wrist, but tho otherfl, exhausted by their efforts to reach the upper stories, were unablo to help, and Shugrue held on as long as he could and then let go, Doherty dropping Into tho flames. Tho two others he could not see. Bhugrue crawled to the edgo of the roof and jumped, landing at tho foot of tho building, where ho was found I wo hours later. Vaugh, who was caught In tho building, was rescued by James Cronogue, who crawlod Into the building, put his helmet ovor Vaugh's face and pulled him out. The flre was discovered by a pris oner, and tho 175 men In tho work shop were sent to their cells. When It was seen that there was danger of the flre spreading to tho main build ing the 246 male and forty-two fe male Inmates were taken to the po lice stations and tho Foot Guard Ar mory. Under authority of Governor WeekB, three companies of the Sec ond Regiment, Connecticut National Guard,took charge, of tho Jail grounds and patrolled the surrounding streets. The prisoners, under military es cort, were returned to the Jail. The buildings destroyed were two three ?tory brick workshops and several adjoining sheds and two dwelling houses in Hudson street. FREES COLONEL COOPKlt. Governor PattcrsoilAssorts Belief He is Not Oailtjr. Nashville, Tenn. ? While the Su preme Court of Tennessee was con firming the conviction of Colonel Dim can B. Cooper for the slaying on No* vember 9, 1908, in a Nashville street of formor United States Sepator E. W. Carmack, Governor Patterson wrote a full pardon for the defendant, declaring that In his belief Colonel Cooper was not guilty. The Supreme Court remanded for retrial the case'of Robin Cooper, convicted of the same crime m his father. The situation was tense, because of allegations by friendsof Carmack that politics entered Into th* enso. It Is probable that Robin Cooper will nev er be retried. Both Coopers had been sentenced to twenty years' imprison* ment. New York Cenlrnl Yield J. The New York Central Railroad feurprlsed its trainmsuand conductors, vho had talked of itriking, by offer ing to submit the dlderences to arbi tration and naming two ex-chlefs of the men's own. organisation as arbW trators. Interstate Commission Not a Unit on Recent Pullman Redactions. that Chairman Knapp aud^Commis^ sioner Harlan did not agree with the Interstate Commerce Commission's decision just gtven reducing Pullman rates *n<l ordering differencial charges , It h said tho distension of the chairman and onp of t^e commission ers from the majority report is one ofj the prims hope# oh which the com pany will fight the decision in the courts, ..,. _ ?-T PALMETTO HAPPENINGS Newa Notes of tienersl latecest From All Part* of the HUte. Carolinian Accountant in Mississippi A young South Carolinian has sprung into prominence'.in probing tiio Mississippi graft, which now is attracting a great deal ol' attention not only in that State but through out the country, owing to the promi nvnee of the olllcials uaid to be con nected with graft scandals. This Carolinian is Charles J. Moore, of Columbia, who litis been engaged as expert accountant to look otlicially into the graft charges. Red Men Elect Officers. At their annual convention the Red Men elected the following oUlcere: Grand prophet, ,). S. Booth, Chester; great sachem, Otto Klcetner, New berry; great senior sagamore, l>r. J. 1'. Carlisle, Greenville; great ju nior sagamore, James (1. I<ong? Un ion; great chief of records, B. C. Wallace, Sumter; great keeper of wampum, S. M. Clarkson, of Colum bia-) great representative, Cole L. Mease, Newberry; trustee, II. C. Summers, cf Newberry. Colored Industrial School Burned. The Walton cottage, used as a boys dormitory at the industrial school for ibiKtttu.t? negro children r?t frum, vw?g totally destroyed by fire. The oc cupants, several colored boys, had a narrow escape from death. Richard Carroll believes that the fire proba bly originated from a lighted cigar ette. lid does not believe it to have been incendiary. Aiken Wants S. A. L. Too. * Aiken is going to make an attempt to get the Seaboard Itailway. At a meeting of city council the matter was informality discussed, and the fact t hut Springtleld, Barnwell arid Orangeburg are alive to the situation was brought out, and the advantages of having the Seaboad to pass through the city were discussed by the gen tlemen of the council. , Lake City Truckers Complain. W. L. Bass and I). M. Epps, repre senting the Lake City Truck Growers Association, have made their formal complaint before the Interstate Com merce Commission of rate discrimi nations by the Atlantic Coast Line. The Atlantic Coast Line has made a small reduction on crates. No Postofflces at Universities, Postmaster Geo. II. Hugging of Columbia, is not able to arrange for a branch postofllce at the University of South Carolina. This is because the postofllce department is averse to establishing a precedent. Gen. Reed Will Command. Gen. J. W. Reed, commanding the first brigade, S. C. Division, U. C. V., who by reason of tne death of Gen. Zimmerman Davis and the illness of Gen. B. H. Teague, of the Secoond Brigade, will bo in command of the division in Mobile at the annual re-, union. U. 0. V. Maids of Honor. Miss May Meetze, of Columbia, has been appointed one of the two maids of honor for the South Caro lina Division, U. C. V. Miss Mildred Patterson, of Chester, is the sponsor for the division. Miss Edith C. Rice of Denmark, is the other maid of honor. I ' ? ' Found Dead in Bed. J. Q. Lindlcy was arrested at Greenville, charged with the murder of Ben Allen, who was found in bed at his home Friday with a bullet hole in his head. There are 'mys terious circumstances surrounding the killing, it first being alleged that Al len had committed suicide. Latei development disproved this theory, when it became known to the police that Dindley had bben intimate with Allen's wife. All parties are white. Another Stor? on the Citadel. At a meeting of the Board of Vi?? itors of the Citadel, at Charleston, the contract for the erection of the fourth story of the Citadel wai awarded to the J. T. Snelson Co. fox the sum of $26,800. There were six bidders. The work will be begun- oo May 0 and it will be completed ,by Sept. 15th. Pensions for Home Soldiers. As the result of a resolution pass ed at the meeting of State Board oi Pensions, ut Columbia, all veterans at the Confederate Home who receiv ed pensions beforo going to the home will continue to reoeive the same amount. Income Tax Act Constitutional. The Supreme Court has ruled upon the constitutionality of thfe State in* come tax. The court, in an opinion handed down> declares the inoome tax act is constitutional the dccision of ^* ^**11' Specific case. 1 Lady Agent educational Campaign. EUse C. Rudd, a graduate of Win -throp College and treasurer of the South Carolina School Improvement Association, has been elected field aifont -efr the educational', and will have h iice of Statu Su jki^l^cQwearingcn. Miss from Saluda county and sii at ion has taught in the i ths State. EDITOR KILLS THE HUYOD Result of Throe Years' Feud In Morehouse, Mo. Four Rtillfta Fired in Rapid SucceB? ?ion ?t Dr. Hurt in l<iout of a SI < <1 ??. Morehouse, Mo.--Claude D. Hay, editor of the Hustler, a local news pap&i, shot and killed In the main highway Dr. L, W. Hart, the Mayor of Morehouse. The tragedy mark* un epoch in a feud that has lasted three years and has Involved all of the public men in this part of Mis souri In one phase or another of the bitter controversy. Hay and Hart both come from old and prominent families of this State, and each has been influential in town and county politics. The trouble began in 1907, when Hay made an edltoriul attack on, Dr. liart at the time the latter was a candidate r??r a local office. The physician met the editor the next day in the street and quarreled and fought. A pistol was drawn, it was said.,but friends rushed in, and the antagonists wore separ ated before harm resulted to either. From that time tho two men did not speak to each other, no matter what occasion brought them together. After the town election recently*.at which the Aldermen were chosen, jand -ft=r fSs| Ksrt* frtsiiuH in ihe viii kens' party were elected, a Socialist, a member of tho .opposing faction, wrote an article severely condemning Hart's activity in the campaign. The article was printed In Hay's paper. This caused a renewal of open ex pression of hatred between.the Mayor and the editor, and threats were made. ;?,/ Hay was in the main street when Mayor Hart came out of a store. Without a word the editor drew bis pistol and opened fire. He shot four times as flint as he could pull the trigger of, his weapon. Three of the bullets eutered Dr. Hart's body. The Mayor staggered into the store ad Joining that ff-om which he had come, and an instant later fell dead. ? Hay walked unmoleited, pistol In hand, to his newspaper office and there awaited the arrival bf the po lice. The town marshal was the first to get there and to him Hay surren dered. He was taken to the county jail in New M&drld. Hart's friends took possession of the body, to be burled at Charleston; Mo., his former h6me. KIDNAP S JUS OWN CHILD. New Yorker Seizes Daughter From Former Wife Jn South Carolina^ Mayesvllle, S. C.?Israel Benjamin, of New York, having failed In his efforts to get possession of his small daughter from bis former wife, who Is married again and living here, kid naped the child and left for New York City. Benjamin's wife, after obtaining ? divorce from him, married Joseph Denmark, who has a business at-tWa town. During the absence of Den mark In Sumter, Benjamin hired a buggy and seised the dhltd from the nurse. Benjamin once held a position of some sort with the New York City Government, BOY "BANKERS" IN PRISON. Little Mountain Town in Kentucky Develops Real Gonitis. Covington, Ky. ? Tfcree^ -youths, each less than twenty years of age. were taken to the Federal prison at Atlanta, to serve one year each for a fraudulent banking scheme which they conducted in tho little mountain town of Orr, Ky. A fourth boy waa sente^ped to four months in jail. The Voys realized about $2800 by their scheme, which included the es tablishment of a mythical "bank," to esUbllah their credit with wholesale dealers and enable them to obtain large shipments of merchandise. David Prlnte, Marlon and Richmond Sparks and George White are the youngsters, WHITE PATOtBACK $40,000. ficttlomcnt of People's Mutual Lift Cam ia Explained. B Syracuse, N. Y.?A former' officer of the People's Mutual Life Insurance Association and League, discussing the payment of $150,000 to th? so ciety and the settlement of all litiga tion, said: ??The trustees of the soolety with, one exception paid back the money re*v celved for Its transfer. Lieutenant Governor Horace White, who received $20,000 aS" a debt due from John Tevis, contributed about $40,000 and the directors of the First National Bank us Individuals gave a like sum." . . BARONESS DE ROQUE8 DEAD. ?. Mrs. Maybrlck's Mother Expires In Paris In Great "Poverty. Paris, France.?Baroness Do Ro quee. mother of Mrs. Maybrlck, who spent many years In a British prison under a' life sentence, died in Parf?fr In the stmo^ poverty and was burled at the expense of non-relatives. - Consul General Mason endeavored to communicate with Mrs. Maybrlck, supposing her to be In America, but dli not receive any response.-? ? A certalu degree or secrecy has been maintained regarding the death % of the Baroness. Few Americans ia Paris knew of her presence here. gj - i'1 il{'hi i C iV'' *?? ; Australian labgritks win.;/ rmtve wmis* iwlrr Housca of' Parliament. Sydney, members