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Barnwell • ->s • * ■$.<. ■'/*?* \ , VOL. BARNWELL. S. d. THTJRSDAT. JUNE 13.1912 VO 41 •4^4* THEY ARE NEEDED ! ♦ 1 " - NARINES ARE LANDED TO 7R0- TECT DDR PEOPLE WHO MAY LIVE IN CUBA Will Be Used to Guar» IMantations In the Eastern Part of tlie Island, Owners Fearing Death and De struction of Property at Hands of Rebels. Frank confession of President Comer that he was unable to meet the demands of the large plantation owners in Eastern Cuba for adequate guards against the marauders and Insurrectos, was the factor that prompted Capt. Kline, commanding the United States naval station at Guantatiamo, to dispatch nearly half of his available force of marines Into the Interior of Cuba. His action gave the signal for the departure from Key West to Guantanamo of half of the second squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, which had been lying at an chor at Key West for the last week. The facts, as disclosed at the State department, are that several of the large American, British, French and Spanish companies operating planta tions and mines in Extern Cuba, tel egraphed the Cuban Government, through the Alcade, of Guananamo, a demand for loo regular troops for each of their mills and fifty for each of their cane fields. In reply President Gomez pointed out that a ACT OF A CRAZY MAN CUTS THE THROAT OF HIS TWO- YEAR-OLD SON. Prisoner Lodged in Jail to Await Ac tion of Authorities to Determine His Mental Condition. News reached Washington, .D. C., on Thursday morning of one of the most brutal cold-blooded and atroi- cus murders ever committed In that county, when John R. Gibbs, a white man residing in Bath about twenty miles from Washington, killed his two-year-old eon, by cutting his throat from ear to ear, with a razor. The facts, as nearly as can be as certained, are that Gibbs who was a widower, and resided with his moth er and child, Wednesday afternoon came home and found his son play ing on the floor with another child. He called the child to him saying: “come here, honey, daddy want you,’’ and took the child in an adjoining room. His sister happened to pass the door a few minutes later, and hear ing a gurgling noise, thought the father was putting his son to sleep. Sh(> opened the door and was horri fied to find the child lying on the bed with his throat slashed from ear to ear and nearly severed from its body. She immediately screamed, and the rest of the family rushed into the room, the father in the meantime leisurely walked out on the porch, and sat down as If nothing had hap pened. When questioned, he said he had a motive in killing the child, but compliance would require the use of, would not divulge lt The niur( i e rer 1,250 of his best troops and he could 8 arr( . 8ted and brought to Wa8U . TALK WITH THE DEAD SAYS TITANIC VICTIMS HAVE TALKED WITH HER, SAYS HE CAN’T WIN FRIENDS OF TAFT WILL DESERT HIM FOR HUGBES. not spare them Meanwhile, complaints multiplied, j the situation in Guantanamo was be-- coming more alarming and Die Guan tanamo Sugar Company had d. finite Information that the rebels intend'd to destroy one or more of the foreign estate there. The manager of thel Spanlsh-Aui'rlcan Iron Company,; near Cuero, was threatened with the destruction of all property between that place and Juragun To add to all this, the owners amt representatives of several of tie large American properties near Guan tanamo, having failed In their appll-j cation to the Cuban Government, ap pealed directly to Capt Kline. Capt Kline, judging that the gravity of the. situation demanded the use of \iner-, lean guards, sent A JO of his marines from the naval station by boat up Guantanamo Bay to a landing place near Palmam-ra. th ( Ingtnn and placed in jail. Feeling Is strong against the prls- ■ oner in the town of Bath, and much indignation has been expressed over 1 the affair A coroner’s Inquest was held over the child's body and ver- i diet rendered that child cams to Hs death at the hand of John R. Gibbs ’ Opinion Is divided as to prisoner's sanity Some think he was crazed i by dope or whiskey. His mental con-J 'dition will bo. inquired Into by the authorities. Washington Society Woman Claims She Received a Message From Major Butt for the President. Fashionable society In Washington was astonished by the announcement that one qf its brilliant and exclu sive members .Mine. Margaret De Meissner, widow of a distinguished Russian statesman and. scholar, as become a psychic. In making this announcement Mme. De Meissner stated that she had been in eommun- ciation with the spirit of Major Arch ibald Butt, who sank with the Titan ic. “I do not see ghosts,'’ said Mad ame Meissner, “but I can hear spir its when they speak to me. Frequ ently the voices come when I am sit ting or reading quietly. I have had many messages from victims of the Titanic. One that came from Major Butt on April 2 4 was a private mes sage for President Taft which I have communited to him. I am sure that message must have been a comfort to the President in his grlsf. Major Butt stated that when, af ter falling into a great gulf, m It were, he came to his senses, he was standing in the present of W'llllam T. Snead, Frank D. Mlllett and Isador Straus. "We had no idea we had died,” he said, “and were amazed when some one told us we were in another world I think it was Mr. Snead who re marked that there was no such thing as dying. It is simply marvelous, the passage from life to what men 'call death.’’ "I asked Major Butt if he had met John Jacob Astor," continued Mme. De Meissner. " ‘No, I have not seen Mr. Astor,’ he replied.'' MARKED FOR SLAUGHTER Tbe President's Most Intlnuvto Pol itical Friends Are Afraid of His Weakness Before the People and X < Believe That He Would Be De feated in the General Election, The Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal says a well- thought-out plan to deprive both Wil liam H. Taft and Theodore Roose velt of the Republican presidential nomination has been devised by lead ers of what is kno'wn as the reg ular faction of the party. The men who entertain designs hostile to Taft and Roosevelt, are the men who forced the nomination of James S. Sherman, of New York, for the vice- presidency four years ago, in oppo sition to the wishes of Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt. STOLE WILSON VOTES DELEGATES ELECTED FOB HIM GIVEN TO HARMON. The Washington Times Comments in Severe Terms on Adoption of Unit Rule by Ohio Convention. How Gov. Wilson was euchred out of a large block of votes in the Ohio State convention is told as follows in the Washington Times today: “Nineteen Wilson delegates, re presenting nearly one-half of Ohio's vote in the Democratic national con vention, were disfranchised by the Ohio Democratic State convention Tuesday. “In the Ohio primaries Gov. Wil son captured 19 out of 21 district delegates to the Democratic national convention despite the fact that Gov. H&rmon was making much the same sort of * ’do-it-to-please-me’ cam paign that Taft was making on the Republican side. “It was a great victory for Wilson and the progressive element of Democracy. But by the same sort of private office manipulation of the State delegates that distinguished the Republican State convention, Gov SHOULD BE FORMED BRYAN NOT IN On the surface, these leaders favoTj Harmon's forces secured control of SOUTH DAKOTA FOR WILSON. New Jersey's Governor Gets .All of the Ten DclogAtOM. Governor Wilson gained a signal the re-nominatlon of President Taft They have come to tbe conclusion that Mr. Taft would be certain of de feat If nominated, and that there would be no more hope of success In naming him than there would be In the attempted burglary of an empty safe. Vice-President Sherman, Ellhu Hoot. Joseph G. Cannon, William B. McKinley, Senators Smoot, Crane, Penrose and Galllnger are the mem bers of the Old Guard who, outwardly supporting President Taft, are secret ly devoting their time and talents to the Introduction of a third man In the race. They wll igo to Chicago, prepared at the proper time, to present the name of Charb s E. Hughes, of New York, associate justice of the United StatesStates supreaie court, for dis cussion as the presidential candidate The members of the Old Guard men tioned have practically given up hope the Democratic State convention and put in fore,, the unit rule on Ohio's Baltimore delegation. This disfran chises the 19 Wilson delegates as well as the great body of Ohio Demo- crates who elected these delegates. “Thus by arts known to politicians we witness one presidential candi date robbed of 19 delegates elecrted to vote for him and wanting to vote for him and another candidate against whom thousands of bis party regis tered an overwhelming protest is given the right to vote these 19 op ponents to his own advantage. If he does not want them he can, through the enforcement of the unit rule, deliver them to some one else equally as undesirable to them and •h<ir eonstitutents as be is ” The New Jersey delegation, which stands *24 to 4 for Wilson, at s W ELL W AS A DKATH TRAP. railway running tip to the city Guantanamo, fifteen miles inland The gunboat Paducah, about the tame time, reported the situation at Santiago so critical, which determin ed Capt Kline to call upon the navy department for more marines Ac cordingly, Admiral Osterhaus Four People L>se Their Lives Trying to Rave a Man. Five persons perished as the result of being overcome by gas fumes In a : grain well at the dairy of Jacob terminus of the ^achs In Falrmount near Cincinnati n f • \ fireman who went Into the pit te, get out the bodies also was overcome and li's at the city hospital In a seri ous condition. Two of the dead are | women. Four of the victims forfeited their lives in efforts to rescue Jacob Sachs I he first victim Henry Ester- mann, a city fireman, was overcome , , „ , , of nominating President Taft and victory in South Dakota, winning in , . . j # | , , . they will go to anv extreme to defeat the direct primaries a so d v n-i,, , . ,, a.. - , , , , , - ( olonel Roosevelt They are far istrueted del-gat.cm that wi 1 cast 10 ...... . ,, ! ... from convinced that they will be able to attain their ends, but they are In a desperate situation and Intend to 1 play the game to the limit. I votes of that State in the Baltimore] convention. This victory is especial ly important in vu-w of the fact that South Dakota, la the home of ex-Sena- tor Pettigrew, one of the chief sup porters of Sm aker Clark Nineteen Wilson delegates elected by the people in Ohio were bound by unit rule in instruction to vote for Governor Harmon by the Ohio State convention, ak hough many of Gov- > rnor Harmon's friends opposed such action. Tile New Jersey delegation, which stands 24 for Wilson and four for Jim Smith, had a meeting in Tren ton Wednesday Th.- 2 4 Wilson de legates deckled that as the voters of the two Essex county districts had eleo'ed antiWilson delegates, It it is safe to say that practically 1 meeting on Wednesday refused to | I adopt the unit rule, which they had a right to do, holding that the peo- I pie having refuted to Instruct the | four dek ga’es that were not Instruct-1 ed, they would not do no. This Is i the right view to take of the matter In Ohio the people Instructed nine- t<en, and yet the State Convention rev.-rses the people and Instructs Wilson's nineteen delegate* to vote i for Harmon That Is the kind of ring rue that brought about the present revolution. PLAN FDR A STATE WIDE CHAM BER OF COMMERCE. Dollar Dinner Will Be Given In Co lumbia, Which All Business Men Are Urged to Attend. A So tilth Carolina Chamber of Com merce will be organized in Colum bia at a dollar dinner to be given on July 9th, Tbe idea is for not only the commercial organizations of the state, but for all citizens to get to gether and work for South Carolina, a preliminary meeting held in Co lumbia Wednesday Lewis W. Parker of Greenville was elected temporary president and A. McP. Hamby secre tary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, was selected temporary secretary. A call to the business men of South Carolina was issued. “Those who attended the meeting of the Ad Clubs of America in Dallas, Texas,” said Mr. Hamby Wednesday, "were impressed with the pull-to gether spirit of that meeting, and that is what we want in South Car olina. Potty financial and d hor jealousies should be dropped and everybody should work for the whole State. After the permanent organ ization has been perfected meetings "ill h(> hel l from time 16 time, and member from every section wlR. be urged to attend and tell their trou bles or what they have done to ad vance their interests. The dues will be very light and every good citizen is urged to Join, whether he be a member of a chamber of commerce cr a board of trade or not.” The towns and cities represented ad the meeting either by proxy or person Included Charleston. Colum bia, Sumter, Florence, Orangeburg, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Georgetown and Greenville. The dol lar for the dimer must be sent In to Secretary Hamby not later than June 2fith. The following is the call issued: ‘ To Business Men and All Good Cit izens of South Carolina: “A meeting of the commerrial sec- DATS SO IN LETTER REAR HI DOUnH CONFECTION — . FOR WILSON Statement from Bryan Stop* Effort Or Stampede Minnesota Democrats It Commoner—Wilson Adbermto Dominate State Convention, which Instructs Delegation for Wilaon. Minnesota Democrats In State con vention at Duluth Thursday voted to send a full delegation of 24 delegntor to the Baltimore convention with In structions to vote for Woodrow WIL son. It Is agreed, however, that whan-* ever, in the opinion of two thirds of T the delegation, Wllaon’i nomination Is Impossible, the vote may be thrown to another candidate. Victory came for the Wllaon foro- es-only after follower* of the Champ Clark and William J. Bryan had made an attempt to have the dele gates either instructed for Bryan or not instructed at all. As a result of the attempt to stampede the convention for Bryan, the hall was. an uproar for mora than an hour. During all that tlma, however, the name of Clark waa not mentioned, even by tboeO who eon- tended for an unlnWrncted delega tion. Several delegates who are said tr favor Clark are not on the Hat hot , they are under instructions to voto.. for Wilson. The Clark manager. H. 8. WU- ’ Mams, said after the convention ♦kwe he would carry his flghft to tho n»- tlonal convention at Boltlmoro. The Wilson men selected Fred B. Lynch ot St. Paul for national cork* mltteeman. It became evident early In the eon- | ventlon that the opposition to WU- 1 son was hopeleeely in the minority, John M. Freeman, a Wilson man, war offices of the Columbia Chamber of' name<1 temporary chairman without Commerce today for the purpose 0 f opposition. C M. Tiff of lACnnoa- starting something. In the line of wa * made I >< ’ rm,in ® , »t chairman viiera] State publicity, which means ^ on same manner, enlisting the Interest and services Several laudatory speeches wero of the business and public spirited ' mafle ln f»*or of the Nebraskan aad retarles of the State was held In the TAFT DF LEG A TEH IN OHIO. He promptly dispatched from Key WVs! to Guantanamo the fourth division of "blip being lower'd into the well by the Atlantic fleet, comprising the bat- uieans of a rope. He was pulled out lleships Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi. an ' 1 rushed to the hospital, end Minnesota They a-e under The firemen then used grappling 1 "O' he proper under th* direct command of Rear Admiral Fsher, hooks and brought the bodies to the primary sxstem to adopt the unit who. by virtue of his superior rank, will assume command at Guantan amo, when he arrived there yester day morning , every regular Republican leader ofi prominence is firmly convinced that he will pass from public life, If Col onel Roosevelt Is again elected to the Presidency. It Is a fight for survival and therefore a fight to ths finish. Although th- Roosevelt-Taft forces were in control of the Republican 'convention of 19f')>. the Old Guard! was successful In Its efforts to nom inate Mr Sherman as the vice-presl-1 OMo s R-publican State (<>nvcn- dential candidate. The scheme to ,lon awar, l ,, d I resident Taft the six put Sherman on tbe tb ket with Taft delegates at large to tbe national con was hatched long before the conven- 'entlon l v a vo’e of fluo 1-. to !D>2 tlon was held It was conceived and The state ticket will be chosen promoted In secrecy ' a l fho adjourned session. Which was 1 T>uring the closing days of the fight 1 for J<lly Was Indurweil While Itoovvvelt Was Voted Down. Admiral Fsher can easily land 1 .- 200 marines and blue Jackets, which force, with the marines and sailors available for landing parties, would make a formidable little army of about .1.000 men. If this force Is not Btiffiebnt, Admiral Osterhaus's remaining four vessels may be tailed upon for further levies. For the present It Is the poliey of the State department to maintain Che third division of the fleet at Key West to guard against any uprising in Hav ana. surface. The wsll was used by Sachs rule, for the storage of wet malt feed, I Th 'which he fed to his milk cows. The , cratn had fermented and generated deadly gases. A ladder was the means of entrance and exk. on Mr Taft, who was O K.'d bv Mr He was also victor when the con- South Dakota the Ohio convention th rimary ami not s Indicative of Roosevelt, the Old Guard sought to' ven " on th, ‘ niajority report get some glory out of the contest c«solutions committee, as fol- They went to work in behalf of Air • lot citizens of the Sr at. . Lew is \V Parker, of Ore. nville, S r , w as unanimously elected t*tn- porajv president of the organization ■nd A McP Hamby «f th* Columbia I'hamtser of Commerce, temporary Hceptary. who was Authorized to civ,, due publicity to the movement and arrange for the permanent or ganization on Tuesday. July 9, 19 12. "The proposition Is that a dollar dinner be given at Columbia on Tuesday July 9th, text, at 8 10 o', lock p in , to all men throughout the h t a * e, w tin s.-nd in their dollar mo later 'ban June 2*". There must be a limit to the time In order that 'he preparation may be made for the exact number who will attend the dinner At this dinner Dr M Ashly Jems, of the First Baptist ( Church, Augusta, Ga , will be invit- . ed to deliver th. his name waa loudly cheered. The clamor for Br?*n ended wkrr Guy Thomas of Minneapolis reed r letter from Mr Bryan saying be war not a candidate for president and John \Y Freeman made an address urging that as the mojorlty of Min nesota voters hsd named Wilson ar their choice, the convention ahonld stand tiy him EASY THING, 8AY8 MACK. DemocratA W on't Have Any In W inning This Year. "The Democratic party has several candidates for the Presidential nom ination and any one of them is strong enough to defeat either Taft or Roosevelt," remarked Norman ■. Mack, chairman-of the Democratic same address that Committee at New York, while on T prevailing opinion of th* Demo- Shprnian and thf> name of th „ New cratic masses :hat Woodrow Wilson WILL VOTE FOR HARMON. They IWome so t»y the Adoption of the Unit Rule. Governor Judson Harmon Wednes day won his fight in the Ohio Demo cratic State Convention for applica tion of the unit rule by a vote of 197 to 117 and will have the undivided ] support of tho State's 4S delegates In one way tho distribution of the|' n his candidacy for President at the American marines as plantation Baltimore Convention. The Anti-Harmon forces, led by ventions earlier in the week Clark is the only Democrat who can hope to def. at the nominee of the Chicago convention, both In the cast and In the West Wilson as the Democratic nominee will not he a sestionnl candi date, even as lie has not been sec tional candidate in the pr-conven- tion campaign. Six More for Clark. West Virginia's six delegates at large were instructed to vote for Champ Clark, at Baltimore, as long as there was any hope of his nomina tion, by the Stale Democratic Conven tion here to-day. At district ron- Yorker was sprung upon the conven- tfon with a suddenness that swept the Roosevelt-Taft leaders off their feet. It became known that some weeks ago President Taft was strongly urg- "We <lo hegrtlly endorse the ail-1 ministration of President Wm. How ard Taft | Warren G Harding, former randl date for governor, who addressed the convention for President Taft, was he made a' Dallas, Texas, during the! visit. meeting of the Associated Ad Clubs “If half what Roosevelt and Taft of America, and as near as I can are saying about the Republican par ty Is true, then that party ought to ed by c. rtain regulars to give coun-^ 1 ^ 58 ‘‘ d ^ supporters when (•nance to a movement for a third, ° T^red that In supporting the man. The president, so the RtoryJ'*P rm *“ r president goes, agreed that his nomination their Titanic full probably meant party defeat. How-! guards will serve to test the real pur pose of the Cuban*Government. It is calculated that Gen. Monteagudo's Mayor Newton D. Baker, of Cleve land, made a determined fight on the troops, b.lng relieved in large partl'mit rule proposition and declared from the onerous duty of guarding plantations, will no longer have ex cuse for falling to move Immediately and relentlessly upon the insurgent negroes. There is grave intimation in re cent tragedies that this may become an international duty if the Cuban Government longer delays action. [Minister Beaupre reported a case of horrible atrocity which occurred near flaviga, in Oriente, which is believed to he only one of many similar cases. His information, derived directly they would file their protest at. the National Democratic Convention. Nineteen of the forty-eight dele gates to the Convention are Wilson adherents elected at a direct primary, but under tho unit rule will be oblig ed to cast their ballots for Harmon at Baltimore. their Titanic the ice." they were driving speed ahead into come tA describing this address Is to 'lliolc the expressions of Several who hf*ard him, which were that 'it was worth the trip across the continent to hear him ’ There may also be on** or more addresses made by other nti'ii of national reputation in the line of advertising and city-building b" Indicted by th* grand Jury,’* eon- nnued Mr. Mack. “Tbe American people have made up their minds to kick the Republican party oat of power and It doesn't make say dlf- ferine^ whether they nominate Taft- Roosevi It, or a dark or brown horso.** ever, his reply to the suggestion that' 1 lir ‘* P°' i,i< ' a l brigandage, said received six instructed delegates, two uninstructed were favorable to him and :wo more uninstructed were said to Ohio. Instructed for Hark By a vote of 314 to 2 4 2, the Ar kansas State Democratic Convention refused to embody in Us platform an indorsement of the so-called “grandfather clause" as a qualifica tion for suffrage. Eight delegates True Bill Against Beach. at large with half a,voto each, as well Tho case of Frederick O. Reach at as district delegates, were in- Aiken for assault and battery with j struted for Speaker Champ Clark, which offense he is he should consent to bo sidetracked f'd° nf d Roosevelt at Oyster Bay) was couched in language so expres-1 " d »>' nl * ht of the capture of sive that It was never repeated. i ()hl °' 9 , plx delegates at-large to the The regulars above named sffe g0 _ Republican National ( onvention by Ing to Chicago In an effort to push 8 upporters of I resident 1 aft aside tho president and predecessor “The organization meeting will be " ■ called a' Mire,, o'clock p m , at which <>f Texas has and more, too, with on* Mme til" Views and opinions of the exception and that is what w« or* j leading business men of South Caro-j after now, viz: thorou^A cooperation ' lina will bo expressed with respect ,,n the part of every man and town la. to the purposes of the organization, the State in letting the outaida world and place the standard in the hands of Associate Justice Hughes. They are not sanguine of success, but the favor Governor Harmon, of stakes are so large that they Intend to play the game as Indicated. HEAT HAS RAD EFFECT. Intent to kill, alleged to hare perpetrated upon his from the Cuban secretary of State, | w ^ 0 ’’Y cirttiVig her throat at their was to tho effect that a band of ne-| winter home at Aiken last February, groes entered the house of a former! wa8 K iv c n by Solicitor R. L. Gunter white official of prominence, tied him and his son and outraged his wife and two young daughters before his eyes. The son was killed . In cold blood while endeavoring to break his bonds and rescue his mother and sisters. into tho hands of the grand jury at 12:10 o’clock Tuesday. Thirty of a Mob Is Killed. At Verviers, Belgium, a mob as sailed the gendarmes with missllefe. Tbe gendarmes opened fire. Thirty of the mob were killed or wounded. Seven gendarmes were injured and many arrest made. Killing Near Pinewood. On Sunday afternoon at Pinewood at the home of John Richardsoii, Nathaniel Bracy, aged seven, acci dentally shot and killed Janett Cor- des. aged nine. All partle* are col- pred. - ~ - _ - Cotton Acreage Reduced. In his report on the cotton situa tion in the South, Commissioner Wat son, who is presidenDof the Southern Cotton Congress, and charged with the handling of the acreage produc tion, estimates that the acreage has been cut 16 1-2 per cent throughout the cotton belt under the “Rock Hill Plan’’. Man Killed by a Pin. A pin which he accidentally swal lowed fifteen years ago Is believed to be responsible for the death of Eu gene Fetter, an iron worker at Leb anon, Pa. An operation for a pelvic abscess disclosed the presence of the pin In Fetter’s body. Fetter was fifty years old and of magnificent bttlll v Sheriff Saved Fiend. Sheriff Tull, of Somerset County, having in his custody, Wesley Miles, a negro, aged forty-five, who it is al leged twice attempted to assault the fourteen-year old daughter of Wil liam J. Phillips, of Princess Anne, Maryland, eluded a mob which pur sued the prisoner with the avowed purpose of lynching him. FELDTR TO DOGE BLEASE. .Makes Two Men at Greenwich (hit Up No little. looking to the ailvertlslng and up building of the State of South Caro lina in Its entirety. "The MeistiT singers of Charleston who have made for themselves a na tional reputation, will he on hand to furnish vocal music for tho occasion, know what we have to offer. “Every county in South Carolina will be communicated ,with by on* of those present at the meeting to day, and the chambers of commerco or boards of trade will be urged to send at least five representative “Crazy with the heat" Is given as )as Wf .u a „ ttie Columbia Ad Club from each county and aa many mom Mill Not Pass Through This Stale to Baltimore, An Atlanta dispatch says “while the friends of Thomas B. Felder do not believe he has ever violated any criminal statute In South Carolina, neither do they propose to let the Governor of that adjoining State get his hands on Felder If they can help it. They figure that It would be a hitter pill for Mr. Felder and a tri umph for Cole Blease if he could succeed merely In jailing Felder over the cause of the antics’of two Green- whlch, Conn men Wednesday. August Johnson, fifty-six years old, tried to drown himself near the quartet, which will, among their se lections, ruder their famous song, No. 23.’ "It is probable that a brass band Belle Haven dork, first by jumping| from Sunitpr and ono from Columbia Into the creek at low tide and sniffing ^ ^ on hand to furnish the Instru- up handfuls of water in his nose andj mpr) ( a j rnusic mouth and by holding his head under[ addmon to the buslnP88 men water. When rescued he btfoke away j and al] othpr8 ln(Rregtpd , n the wel .; it matters not whether a city or and jumped in again. He was put In’ fare of South Carolina, the editors! town has a chamber of commerc* or as will come. “Bear in mind that only those who’ have forwarded their d^lMr to the undersigned will be prosified for at this dinner, also that 3$pdneeday, June 2Cth, is the last day when seats may bee procured. 'It may be well to state here that a padded cell. Hugh Elliott, thirty-nine old, disrobed at his home on Rail- read avenue and in Adam’s Garden of Eden attire paraded the village streets calling for Eve. Instead of Eve, Chief of Police Ritch came post night. Therefore they are going to haste in an automobile. Elliott was Wants to Catch Felder. Blease told newspaper men that he had received a letter from a citizen of a^Georgla town asking that one of the warrants pending In this State against Felder be sent him, and stat ing that he Intended to go to Balti more and arrest Felder and secure the $200 reward offered for his re turn to this State. Five Born to Death. Five negroes were burned to death when fire destroyed Morris Turner’s home near Lynchburg, Wednesday. Turner’s three children and two crgndchlldrfo are dead. advise and try to persuade Mr. Fel der not to go through South Carolina at all on his way to the Baltimore convention bat to travel around by Chattanooga and Cincinnati. It is believed that Mr. Felder will accept their advice, as he has been avoiding passing through South Carolina ever since Bleape first issued the warrants against him. • Mr. Felder is rtow In Chicago.’’ wrapped In a blanket and taken to a sanitarium. I Three Asphyxiated in New York. The bodies of Mrs. G. M. Warner, her sort, 26 years af age, and her granddaughter, two years old, were found Tuesday in the Warner home In the Bronx. All had been killed by illuminating gas. Cracks In the windows and doors were stuffed with paper. Spoony Girl Lost Diamonds. Miss Nellie Burns, of Unlctotown, N. Y., has complained to the t police that after a stroll in the moonlight wltb a young man at Yonkers, whom Steamers Ice Bound. Upwards of fifty steamers, mostly of foreign register, are marooned In an unprecedented jam of ice floe In the neighborhood of the 8viatol-Nos lighthouse in the White Sea. A Nor wegian Ice breaker has left for the she permitted to hold-her hand, the scene to release the Imprisoned craft, missed Her diamond ring. oE all papers In the State are Invited years t0 participate and to Join this organ ization and all officials and other In terested In tho agricultural develop ment 6f the State, at whose head Is our esteemed commissioner of agri culture, E. J. Watson. "Alt county papers are urged to copy thla call and to do all In their power to bring about a large attend ance from each county. At least five representative citizens of each coun ty in the State are expected and urg ed to attend this meeting and as many more as will send In their dollar for the dinner. “Nearly all of the secretaries who attended this meeting today also at tended the meeting of the Associated Ad Clubs of America In Dallas, Texas, during the month .of May, and their determination to organize a Chamber of Commerce for Statewide good is but a m&nlsfeetation of the Texas spirit, which made possible the greatest convention of business men ever held in this country. “ W« have eTerjUxlof Xlmt the Staf board of trade at present; the repre sentative citizens of every town nni city In the State are invited to JolA In <hls movement and help to pvt South Carolina where she belongs in the line of agricultural and manu facturing pursuits. “A. McP. Hamby, Temporary Secre tary, S. C. Chamber of Commerce, C.” Columbia,, S. i Built Bridge Quick. Company M. Third batalllon of en gineers has set a new army and ths world's record for building n ponton bridge. Sixty men of the constructed & bridge aerow lake near Leavenworth, Kna feet in length In siffteel and thirty-five seconds. - Lad Drowned st Ths surf at Savannah first victim of ths Tuesday when Joseph 10. was swept beyond hit was drowned hbfore i