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--Ji, The Barnwell People. yol. xxxiv STILL AN ISSUE Tke State Supreme Court lasists oo its Constitutional Rights BARNWELL. 8. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 16.1911 NO 28 IN JUDGESHIP MATTER Governor Blende Wants the Newspa- I»erN to Live Publicity to All the Correspondence in the Several Cases That Have Arisen Between Him and the Supreme Court. The issue between the supreme court and Gov. Hlease is no nearer a final solution than on the first day when the chief executive sent a note to the judicial department of the State stating that he would appoint special judges who were tils friends, regardless of the recommendation ot any one. Gov. Hlease has received a lettei from Chief .lustme .tones appointing F. L. Willcox of Florence as a special judge for that county to take the place of Judge J. (', Klugh, who is ill. Gov. Hlease said that he did not know what disposition he would make of the matter. He did say, however, that "In hoped that the newspaper men would be honorable enough to publish the letter from the chief justice." A letter which was not given out by the chief executive from the chief justice, which state i conclusive that the governor had gone beyond his jurisdiction in making up a Itst of "elL-ibles" was se\eral days ago sent to Gov Bleaeo. The following is the letter re eivcri by Gov Hlease Wednesday fron Chief Justice Jon' s: "Being advised that Judge J. C Klugh, because of illness, is unable to hold the court of general sessions for Florence county, commencing on Monday March 1J, 1 !•! 1, to which he was regularly assigned, and there Se ine no other circuit judge disengaged. TURNS BAD ONE LOOSE I COCK OF WALK XOTOKIOIS BOBBER IH PAR DONED BY GOV. BLEASE. now, pursuant code of law, I mend that \ou issu F 1. Will ox of learned in the law f".. respectfully re hold i urm follow ng CO d from the .lorn ( i n am 1: rr. t. J bv V dor. m e Bar nation at sp :i 1 me. tine to. say tit,it d. <* min it neeess.ar the regular s, r: 1 ic ' rm 1 r court he h. ki ))' r* in Xt » eek kelm.* 16 pr Ison*-' rs mi jail. niotis!\ r.-.iiti 1 ni»*tn ! F I. Will special j 1 n L e to 1 .r. de this F < I ()'!\er h* cf t a rv " There u no ( 0 art in Conu ; week ''.'cause r, n HI' as refu com mission ;i >■' e. I ll jtldve docket \4 a s r r 0 U ' ] ♦ * d. O ere he.n 2•' privoners t :n » b» ■ Horn mint a u ait ini; *rta 1 :\ n. ! ’he law r. that the itoi. • m or o f the St at. commission - ■ 11»■> 1. t 1 J lid ee upr r> e 'mnienda' : on of tiie sic ci.urt The-e va »* r♦ r no :re.|jt cl IS' 11 caved 11 i.tf rn i . tit hue siened b> tlo* supr .■me court These fac t - w r* * [ • PeSe 11 ’ ed t Blease Mild h 0 rof use’ll to a;.p special jmlve On three i 1 HV'l s ions riii. f , \So rti Till BE Ml >T BE \ ( H WGE. —♦ Kepuhlirnn Pari) Must Progress or It \\ ill I he. C'Torl Bin hot, speakine at \k r (i n v th* ' :in<iuet of the [irogressive M •|o; hi ie ms of Oliio, said the A m er Ml p. e; h el devoted the Us: > 'rd of tfi. ip 'e,,nfh centurv "to I he cr it task of material develop- I le cent III led Alien the treat c on' iniMons of ,1 11 , • con - a >n B Wmt la I the con:rover> Jones r • i'oiimu law, the comm tlehaum for special F\erv ret)nest i f for (he a ppoint n: • n judge w as ignored to The followini t wa re ex> hanged in are giv en "Twenty prisoners in jail, heavy docket, h >w shall wo proceed. "B W Wait, Secretary." To which following response was made "H W Wait, Secretary, Conway, 3 C." "Telegram received 1 rap _^jo nothing hut urge gov rm r to appoint special judge as recommended, whiih I am doins. Judge Copes assigned to Richland court,, Judge Mcmmingor too ill to serve "tra B. Jones. C. J," The telegram to the goveno r was as follows: "Gov, Cole L Hlease, Colnmhia, S. C "Received following telegram from Horry bar: ‘Twenty prisoners in jai', heavy docket, how shall we proceed.’ J urge you to irrmediateiv commis sion C. P. Quattlehaum as specitil judge as recommended by n'e at the request of Horry bar. No circuit judge being available. "Ira B. Jones, C. a " Gov. Please, in refusing to commis sion a special juqge for the Convav court, took the position that there were two disengaged einmit judges. He thought that Judge Copes and Judge iMemmtnger were disengaged It afterwards developed that the two judges were not disengaged, and Gov. Please w’as so informed three times by Chief Justice Jones. f. Found Tied to Horse With his wrist tied to the tail of a wild horse, the body of a Papago Indian was found yesterday by a de tachment of the First Fnited States cavalry at the edge of the Gila river near Mesa, AHz. In order* to secure the body it was necessary to shoot the horse. It is believed the young Indian had been condemned to die in this manner because of having vio lated some law of the tribe. Got. Bleast Says He Can Beat Any One in Snotk Carolina Except No One Knew He Was Turned Loose I'ntil He Turned I’p in Charles ton. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says Rudolph Rabens, who has several aliases, is hack in that city, having been pardoned by Gov. Bleaee after a service of about two-thirds of his sentence in the penitentiary, hav ing t>een convicted at Walhalla for complicity in the blowing and rob bery of the safe of the Newry mills in Oconee county several years ago. Through his attorneys, Rabens made a hard fight to keep out of the penitentiary hut it was a futile con test and he was placed behind the bars. The pardon of the governor enables Rabens to return to Charles ton much sooner than he had hoped 10 do. Rabens was charged with being the "fence" for the gangs of yegg- men who operated in South Carolina some years ago, blowing safes in postoffices and cotton mills. In sev eral instances better results were got ten with the prosecution of the yegg- men in the State than the federal courts »u<l the fnited States authori ties gave way to the State in the trial of Rabens and his pals on the charge of robbing the Newry cotton mills. It was not known- in Charleston that any steps were under way for the pardon of Rabens and hie return to Charleston without any notice of his ase waA a surprise. His former friends and companions could scarce ly believe that it was Rabens when h** showed himself a few days ago for the first time about hie eestablish- tnent on upper King street. The State says no announcement as to ’be pardon of Rabens was made by Gov Please Gov Ansel refused a pardon to Rabens. and it was t hie ik; lit that sii'li a notorious [ins on«r a- he wiopd surely have to serve out h s t• rm, hut it si-ems he found favor with the Governor, and he ■d him loose, without letting >ne know anything about it be lie was pard ’tied. SENATOR HUMAN tr-d of • e nai’.r.il soupes of weal, h iiild be s.-eiip'd more easily through pout: - than in at. v oiler wav, t h> v w • nt into polite s f sing corrupt mm■ '. 111 un ho !- w i' h the tip e-ss etli v they had learned in Coer lepi’i'r ite operations, they set oil' lo t'et polities! power, and they s0'-re.■ d. d Political [iow.t opened ill • as.v wav to use money to get more u. uiev, and they clung to it ’ill they wore Hour welcome out The I i v ne Md t o li t ariff w ,us t he last s t r 4 vv "\Yha*ever is right and vital in , t he R ; uhli an party todav is •pro- Igr.ss’v. Whatever is 11 n[irogressive i- dying or .fad The Republican jnarty .annot live half dead and half Xfter ['raising [irogressive legisla tion by state legislature, which he said was no’ reactionary, Mr I’i.i hot said. In the field of national poTtlcs the situation is l.-ss clear." H. said the Republican candidate f t President in 1 !* 1 L 1 must be a pro- re~s:ve and have certain qualities, for the party could not risk its chance of victory on the hope of I leinocrat ie blunders. PARDONS WOTHEK Ml BDEBEH. Governor BRuise Turns Burrill Thom as Ii0ose t _ Burrill Thomas of Hampton coun ty who was serving a life sentence in the State penitentiary for murder has been pardoned by Gov. Please. He was convicted with recommenda tion to mercy in for killing John Lightsey at Varnvillo, in Hamp ton county, and was sent to the [>eni- tentiary for a life sentence. Benja min Bennett was convicted at the same time with Thomas on the same charge and was pardoned in 1 !H)3 by Gov. McSweeney. In a previous peti tion for pardon of Thomas, the par don was recommended by G. D. Bel linger, former solicitor, and Judge Aldrich, who heard the case. On His Way to Atlanta the Governor St<>|>|M‘<l Over In Augusta and Took Tea With His Friend, L. J. Wil liams and Talks to a Newspaper Reporter. Governor Cole L Blease of South Carolina passed through Augusta Wednesday night en route to At lanta, where he will he in attind- ance at the Southern Commercial congress. The Augusta Chronicle says of the visit: “Gov. Blease was met at the Al bion hotel by Mr. L. J. Williams, w ho accompanied him to supper. In a conversation, at which a representa tive of The Chronicle was present. Gov. Blease rehearsed his fight dur ing the recent campaign for the ex ecutive chair. “Gov. Blease stated that the Caro lina press, with a few exceptions had fought him with an unwarranted bit terness and that the Columbia Stave and the Charleston News and Courier had fought him from personal reas ons, disregarding his ability as an executive. "Gov. Blease stated that the idea of trying to force him to appoint his enemiee to office In the State was foolish, saying that he had no idea of doing so. He, however, said that some people misconstrued his mean ing and did not understand the dif ference between an enemy and an op- [Kinent. 'There are some of my op- "Gov. Blease stat'd that to won his fight by telling the [1 in his speeches throughout the what he intended to do and th had stuck by his platform pro: He stated that his ainbiuoua huU- heeii gratified and that if the people of South Carolina wanted him lo serve another term as governor lo would do so, hut that he was gov ernor now for a term of office an 1 he was going to fulfil the law to the letter while holding the chair "W hen asked what the out'ome of his altercation with the supriti.e court would be, the governor stated that that body would eventually wake up He said that he had the law on his side and that he would he lo- ' . ] up before he would appoint his o!n lines to any position, no matter wh it the supreme court wanted "Gov Blease stated that m fulfil merit of his life s ambition Ie had written his name on the [i.iges of ite liistorv of South Carolina s.i tliat it would never !*• wiped off H. an have this satisfaction if def-ated ,1; the election two years from now "Gov Bbase does not heli.ve however, that he will be def- ated 11 said that he could lick tnv man :n South Carolina for the Fnited Stales sen a t e except Ben Tillman ami tbit he could lick any man for governor "He thinks that the people w 110 elected him believe in him and 1 • said that he would not go b.u k on them "Gov Blease stated that the Giro llna press was of no <onsequenc.’ ’ , him. and that he paid no attention t the articles they printed on him dm ing his race or during his admims (ration. He could reach the p.opb in other ways and that was all tint he would ask. "Gov Blease had noth mg to say in regard to the new county, hut sug gested to Mr. Williams that tin Sa vannah river s course be changed t > include Augusta, which city lie wo .1 ‘ then recommend for the county s. .if "Gov Please will stop over a b vv hours in Augusta on his return trip from Atlanta." THEIR DEATH KNELL MORE BOOZE PREDICTS REALIGNMENT OF PO- LITK’AL PARTIES. Prriition Dies Not Aftd the Coisinp- tion of Liquor. Gov. Foss Says Failure of the Senate to Respond to Peoptn TWtrTHnds Hastens Its Downfall. A realignriYent of political parties in this country was predicted by Gov. Eugene X. Foss in the course of an address before the Holyoke Board of Trade Wednesday evening. This, he declared, would come as a result of the failure of the Senate to pass the McCall Reciprocity hill. "The action of the Republican Sen ate," said Gov. Foss, “in rejecting this opportunity to carry out the principles of its party platform, the request of its President and wishes of the people; its support of Loritner and Its opposition to other progres sive measures of legislation hut em phasize the necessity of securing legislation that will make the Sena tors morftj responsible to public sen timent by their election by the di rect vote of the people. The Repub lican leaders by their action have sounded their own death knell. "It. means, in my judgment, a re- Hlitfnment of parties. This is in fart already going on. It is taking place now. The only tiling that the pro gressive wing of the Republi’-an par ty can do is to join liand.s with ihe progressive wing of the Democratic party and secure legislation that will be in the interests of all the people and not of special privilege." Tiie Governor declared that the Fnited States" has much to gain and nothing to lose" from reciprocity with Canada. Frging the necessity of getting ready for the result of re ciprocity, the Governor advocated the enlargement of transportation facili- MORE USED THAN EVER TALE OF WOE TOLD TAKEN TO COURT MORE DETAILS OF THE CHINESE FAMINE REACH I S. Wei Niaed fir Secired n IvjuctMa Afiinxt Tbeu to to ties in M assarh it setts ami particn- VA ♦ rr : 1 r! V ;! e dove opment of inland » nt- t : i 1 e r w a \ s K f. rn n • t 0 the proposal rnor to d re. Ce (1), To n no 1 Unit riv. r. so h ad as to . Xtetld nt \ i j:.it on f om Hart f Td to Hoi\o \ •• 1' 'ss said : Si a t ■, "Ido com |.t t :tt i >n s >f the ex [tense at tie and Hi' ■•neti ts *0 t-ni to justify all in n: s 1 K askinv ’hat tt 0 < i 0 VO rnnient proceed ui-Uv-Uu*... wurkW AG \l\sl Ills I*\K1MIN. ^ I'eoplc of Barnwell Want Kenned) t<> Serve His Time. Representative James F Davis, of Barnwell, presented to Gov Bleake on To-dav afternoon a petHim counter to th.it which was recently fiRd n i'efia'M of .1 ('better Keinn d v , ’to w h to It in vv hn*V as eon v i ■ t. (1 of pi o. tiring t to m ini' r of a ueigh- or I ’err v I -s. rv \ ti.-jroes on th** spuare of Barnwell and who was sen teto.d two years ago to life impris- - li Mo n t .11 tiie [’•'ll 11 ■ n B a r v Mr Mivts. a forno r solfi itor. was one of aforn-vs (ssi-ting Solic itor I • no s in th. , ros. , ,it on He - u; ; or: • d t lo- [»•• :t :ou with a strong personal a; , ■ F to H e Governor, not to pardon or parole Kennedy and urn 1 :m loose- attain upon the com Mr Ha . is s Mil he had procured the -iun.ot ure- of s me of the best p o- ; 1 1 e if Barnwell county to the peti tion Intone tiie endorsements is one bv Mavis-rate T S Ininhar of Four Mile, who swore (iov. Bb ase into of fice For God s sake d >11 t grant K rn mil v : - a man of about J4 ' ears ills father dbd recent I v. Killed by » Teacher. At Tennille, Ga., Dr. T. J. Kelley was shot and instantly killed Thurs day by Nathan L. Johnson, superin tendent of Tennille institute. The punishment of Dr. Kelley's eon at the ‘institute, it is said, led to the trou ble, the culmination of which was Thursday's tragedy. Friends had tried to settle the trouble, but when the disputants met on the street Thursday the killing occurred. BRYAN REJOICES. That Reforms He Mas Advocated \re Being Adopted. Declaring that it was a greater pleasure than being President to sit hack and see the reforms he had ad vocated for years being adopted by the West, most slowly accepted by the East and publicly supported and proclaimed by Col. Roosevelt ami President Taft, William Jennings Bryan Wednesday ni l -’ht addressed a thousand members of the Boston City Club. Mr. Bryan upheld the Canad ian reciprocity measure, declaring it would be the end of the Republican party, and he said that reciprocity would he finally adopted. In closing he said he would not again be a can didate for the Presidency. Murderer Captured. Bascom Carlton, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff White and A. Schneider last Sunday night at EspAnola, Fla., while they were searching him and two other prison ers, was captured at 2 o'clock Wed nesday morning on island in the middle of a lake near there. Killed for Burglar. Sig J. Moore, a young farmer, shot and killed his sister, Mrs. Lottie Wll- mon, at an early hour Thursday at their home near Dallas, Tsfxas, mis taking her for a burglar. Marries Oiinese. At Vancouver, B. C., Wise Anita Deschontz, actress, aged 22, was mar ried to Lew Ling, a wealthy ChinA-B' merchant of Hoquiam, Wash. The girl is of Spanish descent and bar home is in Pittsburg, Pa. Tin: DL'DM R \Ts I MTED. ♦ - \\ lint < h.unp ( lark Says Vltout Po litical Situation. A statement made at Pittsburg, Pa.. Wedn- sday night by Congreos- man Champ Clark of M’ssouri. speak- •T of th-- n* xt congress, severely ar- r a 1 - ties Republicans and riewspap-rs of the country who are alleged to >e [-redieting a split In the Democrat ■c party In part the statement fol lows: The strangest political phenome non of our times is the persistence with which Republican newspapers try to create the impression that Uiere is. or is about to he, a gre.it split among Democrats. They work at the game as industriously as any raftlepate ever worked to discover perpetual motion. "All this hullabaloo about 'Demo cratic splits is to hide the wide and irreconcilable splits among Republi cans. Democrats art- united for vic tory in 1912 and aftenvards for many years to come " Worked Ham Circuit. At New Orleans Ananias Penny, negro, is under arrest, charged wtin stealing $fiuO worth of hams from a [/acking concern* It is said that Penny has been operating a "ham circuit" for a month peddling his wares at reduced [trices. Clerks checked up the stock this w’eek and found the shortage. Penny declares he is sure ho did not get $600 worth, as he only took about eight hams ja yveek. Blow Proves Serious. At Aiken Robert F. I'ssery, a young printer, was arrested Wednes day morning and placed in jail for striking Gary Glover,1 {ton of P. B. Glover, with a poo! cue in the Hotel Aiken poolroom. The blow was not thought to have been serious, but it developed that the hoy Is ^not ex pected to live. Ussery is about 20 years old and Glover is said to be 17. According to the Annual Report l>e- splte the Closing of Many Baloons In Various States, Production of Intoxicating Liquors for 1010 Ex ceeded That of IOOO. The last annual report of the com mission's/ of internal revenue, show ing that there had been a large in crease both in production and con sumption of intoxicating liquors dur ing the year 1910 over 1909, raised an interesting question in the session of Congress Just ended a« to whether the closing of saloons really tended to increase consumption, says the Washington correspondent of The News and Courier. The House com mittee on Inter-State and foreign commerce gave a number of hearings concerning the question. Many per sons were brought before the com mittee and otherwise a large amount, of data was closely examined. Congressman James. H Miller, joint author of the Miller Curt's hill In the House, was asked for an ex pression of opinion just before he went to his home in Kansas today. His statement Is especially significant not only because he Is a member of the committee which has been in vestigating the subject, but also be cause the State from which he comes, Kansas, has in recent years been the battle ground of many hot liquor contests. "It Is not denied," Mr. Miller said, "that the amount of both distilled and fermented liquors produced and consumed during the last fiscal year has increased over the amount for DJ'ifi It is highly Interesting to note, however, that there Is a very material decrease In both the con sumption and production of liquors in the revenue diaLrirts, comprising prohibition States, while the increase is largely in three or four of the States where the license policy pre- v-rRs "It is important to notice also that while there is an increase In the to tal production and consumption of li quor. as compared with the year be fore, yet there is a substantial dc rcase in comparison with the fls< nl 'ear of 1909 The reason for this -bowing ts indicated by the fact that while during 1910 there was no back ward step, and some additional coun ties and communities were in toe 'dry column, yet the number of these districts that became dry during 19 1o was not so large as the aggie- gate of those which went 'dry' dur ing either of the two previous years: subsequently the amount of decrease in the sections that were add' d to the no license list was not sufficient to offset the continued increase in Hie large cities and license States. "During the fiscal year of 1910 there were the following decreases, \labama and Mississippi, 176 gal lons: Georgia, 7.24, r >; Kansas and Oklahoma, 31.7: Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, f>97: North Caro lina. 27 1,DUi. Tennessee, 460,1 X1. "In conn’ast to these figures those containing the three largest licens* ritii-s in the Fnited States are as fol lows New York, increase, 2,10b... 79 1. Pennsylvania, 1,526,147; lilt no is, 2 3 4. no 5 " Fpnn being asked in what manner the varii us States might l>e enabled to stop the Inter State shipment of liquor. Mr Miller said: “As we view the problem, three or four pos sihle ways by which the State may be given the necessary relief 1 Action, such as is contemplated by the Miller-Curtls hill, which now attempts to remove an Impediment which now exists by reason of tht absence of a specific utterance, on tfie [tart of Congress, thus allowing iin ported liquors to fall within the Juris diction upon arrival immediately within the boundary of the State to which consignment has been made, and thereby become mingled with the common mass of property within the State. 2. Action by which the Inter State shipments of intoxicating liquors may he forbidden altogether, as in the case of lottery tickets. 3. Action forbidding partial Inter- State shipments of liquor when con signed to those who are not author ized by State law to dispose of them 4. The adoption of an amendment to the Inter-State commerce clause of the Constitution which, without question, will give Congress full power to take whatever action is nec essary in giving relief to the State. ' "This latter suggestion Is condi tional on the possibility of Congress failing to take further action on the ground of unconstitutionality. If however, the public sentiment al ready aroused on the question shall be compelled to resort to this ex treme', it is problematic where the demands for constitutional changes will end. "The bill In question proposes to constitute intoxicating liquors as a special class of commodities, to he admitted to and carried in Int~r State commerce on condition that ^he Inter-State commerce character of the shipment shall cease at once upon arrival immediately within the bouu dary of the State. By this proposed Act Congress Is not asked to b^Jp Missionaries Working Hard snd Have Attacked l*roblem of Believing HiitTerers. More gruesome stories of the hor rors of the Chinese famine reached the state department Thursday from the consul general at Shanghai, who descril>es conditions at the beginning of February. One traveler reported passing 13 dead bodies in 13 minutes. Others tell of the natives eating cakes made of leaves and stems mixed with mil let chaff, which they buy with the al lowance from the government of three cents apiece Trees have been stripped of the hark and eaten. An American Presbyterian mis sjonary declared that in the whole afflicted region there wore 2\oftd,ft<rf> starving people. In one village of 100 families one-third were dead of hunger and pestilence. Snow was falling and many were without prop er shelter or clothing. The missionaries have attacked the work of relief with the greatest sys tem and directness. The families in the province of Buchow, for instance, were divided into four classes and. numerated with this result: Those who had plenty numhere’’ IN,997'. those vv h 1 could t.xlst till harvest on wheat grain they had, 09,937: those who had a little grain, hut would t>e in need before the end of February, 17.6,301, and those real ly destitute and In need of Immedi ate relief, 1 95.65 1 One thousand dollars raised by the Chinese relief committee of the hamJser of commerce of Cincinnati was cabled to Shanghai Thursday by the American National Red Cross. APPOINTED BY BLEASE FREE 10 YEARS, GOES BACK. Escaped North Carolina Convict Cap tured in Kentucky. After being at liberty for sixteen years, T B Whitson, who on Ft Itru- iry 27, 1 X95. escaped from tht* State priaiH»—«v4—R4*l«.4Kh, N ^— whitra hr was serving a sentence of thirty years for murdfr, was arrested at -exington, Ky , Thursday, and will be taken back to North Carolina to serve out his t -rm. Resi ling in .etcher county, Kentucky, as "Sam uel Jones. ' he has amassed a com- irtable fortune He was sentenceil > death March 19, 1X93, for the murder of C C. Byrd at Bakersville, N (' , hut on a second trial he was given thirty years imprisonment Supporters of the Beaufort Delega tion Nominees for CommUnionem, Who Were Ignored by Gov. Rleaae, and Others Given the Places, Brought the Action in the Court. Judge Gary Thursday at Waiter- boro issued a temporary Injunction against the men recently appointed township commiesioners In Beaufort county by Gov. Blease In opposition to the recommendations of the legis lative delegation, and they are cited to show cause why the temporary In junction should not be made perma nent. Gov. Blease, in appointing the township commissioners, entirely Ig nored the recommendations of the legislative delegations In six of tne seven townships In spite of the pro vision of the code that he shall ap point them upon the recommendation of the delegation. The appointments were made, It Is mdi j rsto^d, after a conference with Thomas Talbird, a political follower of the governor, who opposed tbs election of the members of the Beau fort delegation. The governor's action caused in dignation In Beaufort and as It Is b*v- lieved that the appointments made by the governor are Illegal It was de termined to take the case to the courts. It Is eepeclally necessary that there be no question as to the legality of the township commissioners because they are to be entrusted with the spending of $300,000 for the erec tion of a bridge from Beaufort to the opposite Island. Now that the restraining order has been Issued the case will have to. he argued upon question of making the order permanent and the decision of This > see may be a precedent that will settle-the other disputed ap pointments In the State. BEECHES TO OBEY BLEASE. HORKEKS ABE ('At GMT. Conductor Identifies Men Wlio Held I p His Train, W. A 1’inkerton, head of the Pink- rton detective agency who is in Mo ils was notified Thursday in a tel egram from Chicago of the capture in the woods of Michigan of the rob ers who robbed the mail train on the Oregon Short Line some time ago The men arrested are Thomas O'Hara and Victor Cloee. At the time of the robbery one of the porters on the train was shot, to death and anothe. wounded The men were traced to the woods of Northern Michigan but tiie arresta were not made until the conductor of the train was taken to Michigan and identified the men. Magistrate Kirby Declines to Give Ip His Office. Magistrate A H. Kirby, of Spar tanburg, has received a letter from Gov. Blease ordering him to vacats his office as magistrate and turn over his records to Malcomb Bowden, tha governor's appointee Maj - Kirby has said that he will do nothing of 'he kind Though the major is 83 years old, he says he Is not ready to retire at this time and holds that the governor has no right to remove him trom of fice. His attorneys advise him that he can hold over, since Mr Bowden, whom the governor appointed to suc ceed him, has not had th© Indors©- ment of the county delegation nor )>©en recommended by the aenate. Both Maj Kirby and Bowden ata transacting business. What th© d©- velopments will be is the queatlon In which the city Is much Interested. Ia-t \\ at<1 Flow (hit. At Florence some one left open a alve in the waterworks system, probably after reading of a similar •use In Columbia a few days ago, and Med the standpipe to death Saturday night. While the late risers were bathing and getting breakfast the water supply suddenly gave out, and investigation showed that the stand pipe had been emptied. The pump was put to work at one** and the drought lasted only about 10 min utes. Shot Himself on Hoof. Standing on the edge of the root of a tenement house In New York Thursday an unidentified man sent two revolver bullet* into his head. The body crashed to the street, five stories below*. That the suicide had Intended to make sure of dying If hia revolver failed him was indkaied by the finding on the roof of a bottle filled with a powerful acid. Crushed to Death. Arthur M. Stuart, a switchman of the Charleston Terminal Company, fell from a freight car, and was fa tally crushed under the wheels of an eneine tender. He died a few min utes after the accident happened, and an inquest held Thursday by the cor oner resulted in a verdict of acci dental death. Holds On Also. The latest developments In th© magisterial situation at Greenwood is a letter received Thursday morn ing from the governor by Judge Kerr. In this letter Magistrate Kerf is told that “his successor having been appointed, his commission is re voked and Is null and void." Previous to this the governor had advised hts appointee, J. W. Canfield, to go ahead transacting business as magistrate and if at the end of 30 days Magistrate Kerr had not turned over his books to him, Mr. Canfield, it would J>e in order to have a war rant swork out for him. The notice of revocation of Magis trate Kerr’s commission Is another move which Mr. Kerr say* can not be sustained as the cause given, the appointment of hts successor, Is net one of the three causes specified by law upon w’hlch his commission can he revoked. Feeding the Starving. For the relief of the starving mul titude of China, The Christian Her ald Wednesday sen! $10,000 to the state department for transmission to Khanghai. This account will be ca bled to the American consut at Shanghai for distribution to the* fa mine sufferers. What It Means. A Washington dispatch says all doubt as to the purpose of the gov ernment In sending 20,000 troops to the Mexican border has at last been swept away. The United State© baa determined that the revolution In Mexico must end. The American troops have-been sent to form a solid military wall along the Rio Grande to stop filibustering and to see that there is no further smuggling of arms and men across the internation al boundary. enforce the police regulations of any State, or to do anything which the States can do for themselves, hut simply to protect the States in the exercise of their police powers at a point where such exercise is not now fully guaranteed.” Sets Him Free. Izrael Lazarus, a negro, who was convicted in Colleton county On th© charge of manslaughter. In March of 1916, and sentenced to three y^ar© on the chain gang, ha© been paf- doned by Governor Blease. Th© par don was recommended Peurifoy, who prosecuted Lazarus killed another neg/o. Circular Saw Bunted. At'Jacksonville Daniel Johns, 21 years old, waa killed instantly thigr morning at th© Burk© LuiBb<pr Mills, when a circular saw bursted and, af ter passing entirely th rough a two- by-four plank, cut hit / TiT »e. the par- by Solicitor ed the can. negro.