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The Barnwell TOL. XXXVI BARNWELL. S. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5.1912 MTORJULIN PATS VISIT TO CBARLESTON DUR ING FLEET WEEK TALKS WITH REPORTER \ s About Matters Generally and the City by the Sea Particularly.—Option of Chairmanship of Three Influen tial Senate Committees.—Thinks Wilson's Silence is Wise. Senator Tillman paid a visit to Charleston last week while the fleet was there. While In the city he and Mrs. Tillman were entertained by Mr. .lenry P. Williams. Many of the prominent citizens of Charleston call ed on Senator Tillman while he was in the city. He attended the banquet at the Charleston hotel In honor of Admiral Osterhaus and paid a formal rail upon Admiral Osterhaus aboard the battleship Utah. In a talk with a reporter of The News and Courier Senator Tillman snld: ‘‘I have the choice of the chairmanship of one of three com mittees of the sen:it«—three impor tant ones—the appropriations, the i aval affairs and the Inter-state com merce committees ’’ Asked which he would accept, the senator declared that he would wait until he reached Washington upon the convening of fongresa, when he could thoroughl' look Into the matter aiVd dec/le, which committee would he the best i vehicle with which to serve the coun try and South Carolina In particular, end the duties of which hit physical ftrength could best meet *'1 do not want to bu-den m'aett 1 do not want to undertake what l cannot do Justice to. and for some) FIRST OF THE SEASON THIN MANTLE OP SNOW COVER ED THE SUNNY SOUTH. It is the Earliest Fall of Bnow Ever Known in Some Section of the Sooth. Snow fell Wednesday and Wednes day night on an area of the Southern States extending from the Panhandle of Texas to'central Virginia and the South felt the effects of a sudden drop In temperature with prospects of colder weather. At Vicksburg the snowfall was the first recorded there in November and at Jackson, Miss., it was the heaviest on record. At Atlanta, the snow began to fall shortly after noon and a storm raged for several hours. At few places did the white mantle remain long, In many cases previous rains being responsible for the snow melting as soon as It touched the earth. Snow, mingled with a drizzling rain, began to fall In Columbia Thursday morning, commencing shortly after midnight and continu ing for some time. The scattered flakes melted as fast as they fell. Spartanburg was visited by a snow storm Wedneeday night. Bnow be gan falling at 8:45 o'clock and con tinued to fall for several hours, tho it did not stick, melting as fast as It felr. The first snow ever seen In Macon. Ga , In November, according to weather bureau records, began fall ing at 7 o'clock Wednesday night In three hourw there wa* more than an inch of snow and It was still snowing hard at 10 p m. The tem perature Is 3 4. At Vicksburg, Miss., snow began ! falling about 10 o'clock Wednesday '.morning and recorded the first snow fall for November In this section It melted rapidly. The heaviest fall of snow ever re GROWTH OF CHURCH PROGREESS OF HETBODIST IN SOUIH CAROLINA WHAT THEY ARE DOING SHOT IN HIS OWN YARD PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN SHOT BY A NEIGHBOR. Rev. H. B. Browns Writes Interest ingly and Entertainingly in the Anderson Mall of the Meeting of the South Carolina Confereace «d the Methodist Church, South. The South Carolina annual confer ence of the Methodlat Episcopal Church, South, is now in sesilon at Anderson for the third time. I: is a much larger body than U wag In 1872, or even In 1 890, and the Meth odists in South Carolina are much more numerous than in those earlier years. The following (n’mesti.ig ar ticle from the pen of Her. K. B. Browne In the Anderson Main will be read with interest: Forty years ago the confemnc,* met here for the first time. The ses sions were held In the old wooden church building that stood on the site! of the present elegant structure. | Bishop Robert Paine of Mississippi, presided. He was not present the first day of the session and Dr. A. M Chreltzberg was elected president The bishop arrived on the second day December 13. and presided for the re mainder of the session Dr WIIHm C Pooser was the efficient secretary with O A Darby. A J Stafford and W D Kirkland as his assistants. At the conference of 1872, there were 147 clerical members enrolled and 32 lay members Of the 147 WANT TO KEEP THEM REPDRUCANS WILL TRY TO BOLD ONTO THE OFFSICES. TAFT SAID TO FAVOR IT Elaborate Republican Scheme for General Shifting of Important Of fices During the Last Daya of Pres ident Taft’s Term, But Democrats May Retaliate Should It Be At tempted. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says evidences multiply that It is the purpose of the Thought He Was a Thief Trying to Help Steal His Ducks in the Night. Rushed to the Hospital. Mistaking Fred A. Outtenberger, president of Guttenberger's Music company, and a prominent business man of Macon, Ga , for a burglar, Mallory Beddlngfleld, manager at Schofield's Iron works, shot him thrc the stomach Wednesday night about 10:30 o’clock. He was immediately rushed to the city hospital, where he now lies In a critical condition. Attending doctors stated Thursday morning that chances of recovery were against him. The Atlanta Journal says: Mr. and Mrs. Guttenberger had Just returned to their Napier avenue home from down town in their auto mobile. Mr. Beddlngfleld, who lives next door, was eating supper at the time of their arrival. His ducks in the bar! yard made considerable noise as If l elng molest ed. Mr Beddlngfleld seized his pis tol and fired four shots at Mr. and Mrs Guttenberger, who were In their hark yard on their way Into the house One of the shots struck Mr. Guttenberger Just t>elow the heart and lodged In the back. Mrs Guttenberger hastened to a neighbors house across the street, an 1 summoned a physician. Hazel Sterns a sixteen year-old lad. TTving Hcro“s the street from Outtenberg- er s home, was the first to reach ttv side of the wounded man With the assistance of neighbors who quickly gathered, tho wounded r.esseo.^was ^° rCP w* 0 DP* man was carried Into the house and later to the hospital. At 2 o'clock i Thursday morning, an operation was HE WEDS HU NEV UTE Taft administration to make hay In the way of Presidential patronage* persons caught In th# plutlgs o' during the few harvest months that other coaches. The Injured were remain to the Republican party be- oarp fl f or j n nearby farm house# un- fore the Democrats take charge of the Government next March. The plan Is not only to make every possible appointment that may be reached in the regular course, but to create a number oLadditlonal oppor tunities by the device of having pres ent office-holders resign, so that their til the arrival of relief trains which were loaded, then hurried heck to Westcheeter or Harrisburg. A remarkable feature of the wreck was that so many of t^s passengers regained their baggage Sleeping car occupants said that after the first v . ... . , shock when the cars toppled over successors may be nomina ed for long! nd thpy foun(J nQ ^ Qr terms, or so that the prestige of bav- rt to the Btructurfti of the oari Ing held - — k„ distributed among ‘ the faithful 1|pht of 1(intf>rn , Bom „ ^ th * An Instance of the last named lar-l j,,,,.,, hustled Into their clothes whl gesee is to be found In cases like that standing In vestibules, of the newly appointed Treasurer of Thp acc)d< . nt nMr q**- the l nlted States, Carmt A Tbomp- Wk 30 WflBt of Philadelphia, son. of Ohio. I-^e McGlung of Ten- p u |i mani w< . r<l steel cars of the Sixteen of the Injured w.av, lur i d!)mafrfl to tbe Btructures of the ears Important positions may be abl# to th#!r 8 " T'. d *!? r “ l>0 “ t ,l8 ' way back to berths and drees by thf TRAIN LEAVE THE RAILS THREE PEOPLE KILLED AND FORTY INJURED. The Westbound Express on the Pennsylvania Wrecked When the Engine Hits Broken RnAL Three sleeping cars end e day coach. detached themselves from e derailed Pennsylvania express et Glen Loch, Pa„ Thursday, plunged down e, .20-foot embankment end landed on top or e string of coal cars on a parallel track. The accident took at least the three llvee as toll, while 40 or more paseengere were hurt. Probably some of these are fa tally injured. The heavy train, known as the Cincinnati Express, was hauled by two locomotives. It is the belief of railroad officials that a broken rail was responsible for the wreck Passengers In the cars that had remained on the roadbed hurried to -pasons I am Inclined to the na ^'' rord< , (1 at jsrkson. Miss . began at 11 affairs committee, but the snpronrlH * on* committee carries with It so much more of Influence and pres-1 * ge that Just now I am rather 1n- c'lned »o It. But of course, remem ber that I retain membership on all thr^B of the commltees, no ma'ter which 1 am chairman of. I' af’er I ti.veetlgate thes fuaMon 1 bellevethaf I can do th#> work I will tak- 'he appropriations committee, otherw'se. 1 will take the na\al affair* commit i i «e " In answer to the qne* , ‘on thnt In r**e he choree the naval a"U'a com mtttee what would b- h'* at- 'ud<> •oward the raw vn-d at Charles ton Senator Tillman aald "Just wha* It always has been will ask all that Js decent and reason able. I have never b-en h'gr'ah ■ibout anything, and I think that Is •ha reason I uaually got what 1 ask- -<* for and sometime* a little mnee You know that I have alwaxs wanted * he CharWon vard to have 1*s pro 'ata share of #1) the approp-'arions •hat are made and fo- 't to v 'e de eloped In 1 • ne wMh all the -ro*'m<« that l« made tiu? re-nnmher sM ! will a*k will he w''h!n the counts of de cency a n d reason Senator Tllman seemed pa-»|cu>ar- iv desirous tST* the erroo.*ons Impres- ‘'on cres'ed ??••*• he won' t as- •-o »he 'uture of 'he Charleston ) a ’ t ‘m c<' r •»cte<l He w S*I. d to he re 'eved o' ■he Imprise'on that he w a - - z ar ntr of h' a*g*ttg or nv ori. unfi J-T. r e Vnd at the time lis-'i-''1 'I'm -eporter that he wou'd '•;«ent -'outh Carolina's Interes's and Cha- >ston's as !e had alwav* dor.*' that ,» the pollcv of the Wilson admin's •ration was to strengthen t v o naw and to enla-ve (he navy v (f 1 eiiul’v- •nents. ho would most ass f* Vv ask ‘or all 'ha? con'd he dece- C) asked for In behalf of the Char'e-'oti \ urd "As to t v e de\e!o- "■«'’•* of the r *hRrleston >a r d." sa 1 Senator T il ■nan, "and 'or Its enlargement, that all depends upon the attitude of the new secretary of the now and the general policy adopted by the \\ !l«on admlnlriraHon Mover vou know, was rather Inimical towicd this yard I have romhnt'ed that attitude, and 1 think successfully If the Wilson ad- mlnistraCon favors a policy of devel oping of the raw no! naval equip ment, 1 will want the Clinrbs'on yard to he developed In proportion to all others, ns It Is the on’r Southern yard left, and as It is nearest to Pan ama ‘ Sign a few weeks ago because ha bad p a „e n gars were placed on a special crltlclaed the nfliclal temperament oL tra)n and Tew0J ^ to thw Westchester clerical members composing that con-i ""V "Th “VnT "“a" I’ll" UeallTry ^ 0,r ’ U * , wh ! 1 * Physl- , .,,, ,, , , , performed and the bullet removed inP ireasury aepanmeni. * >“■ i clans from the surrounding country m-!' ,rnn ' hi* body. His condition la crlt-j ,er could have been brought to a with lanterns In the midst •csl with only a fighting chance fori floa< I before the election, but the Ad-| of a b )i n( ji nK pnowstorm In an effort life | ministration prudently deferred the to „ nrover other turrirors who connection with the conference: viz W. A. Clarke Wm C Bower T J o'clock Wednesday morning and con- Hyde. R A tAeber. R R Dagnall. J | Heddlrgfeld made the following' of Mrt'lung until It was rr(rh( hf) bt , rU , d ln th8 wr *ekags. tlnued for three hours Rain had fal len earlier and the anew aoon disap peared. The first snow of the season In Bir mingham, Ala , began falling Wed needsv Tt'e flake* melted almost aa qub-kly aa they touched the earth A light fall Is reported from Au run's Ga , and that vicinity Arkan s-i« ws» covered on Tuesday night The snow »tnnn took In all South '■'aroMna North Carolina and Virgin •a The fall seems to have been light e\ ervw here Impair Its efficiency The South 1- j entlfed to tta share of appointment* a"d other good thing* and ha* as good men a* there are In the nation ’ Replying to a queetton a« to hi* eet'mate of Prealdent e'ect W'l*on Senator THImsa aald he tegarded him ss a man of Judicial m'nd and a though"u] man that, as To the ftl Mir*, with W'leon aa president, he had a g-est deal of hope and confi donee a'though poaalbly a little more for f or , r year* of the former The mention of the word roneerv* tlsm led to irqntrie* and d'.acuae'on «s to what Senator Tillman regarded a* ronservat'-m and radlcal'am with the result that It became apparent senior senaton from South r.r,v nH now regards Mn-««>'f p* one H Traywuk. H I. Duffie. G I. Har man, J S Beas'ey, fjeo M Boyd, To land Hodr s. D. D I'antzler, J K McCain. J !' Wilson, R W Barber J. G fisvls C 1) Mann. Gev) H Poos er. Only five o'- s'x of these 18 are on the offer*jve list. Of the 7 7 lav men who represented the e'rht p’-esidirg elde'-s district* at that confer 1 " •• only three are now living v ? J ?t }Dimb'"-r P H Jen nines an 1 I>r N F KlrklirMl At G - corf t» e r e were re ported 3 A .! ;i » h te niein! er* who owned churih proper’y valued at ter: 499 At the conference In Menne'tsvlll. In December. 1911 there wore re ported S1.2d0 members who owned rhu r ch property valued at I.' 4 • 4 37P, ehowlng an Increase In member ship of 5 f> ''37 and an Increase tn value of church prupertv of |: Sf'i 87« When the repor** are tahnta'tvd for 19 12 at Anderson the In'--ease w'll be still greater showing the development statement Thu r *day morning •T was evtng supt'er at ld ,30 o’-J c'oek last night and heard my duck* making an unusual noise l aeW.i my pistol and hurried to thv back porch ' I saw Mr and Mra. Gnt*enhorger' -’xnd rg !u tho d irk and I took them • o t>e pals of b irgla-* I thou -ht to le n mv yard 1 fred four tinea but no? In their d'-ectinn "The h-iMot thit struck '4c Gut • on *'e Ter mu«* t. S v e beep d* flecte t, is 1 d d rot •hoot In the'r d rectlo.i It was »,mp'> an accident which I •*- ret more thau any'hlng In the world '• ( Other Injured persona ware taken to ne'ghborlng farm houses snd tom* were sent on another train to tbe West | The bodies of two Follnrae eoedoe- i tors were found wedged between two of the sleeping cars. Ths train con sisted of nine sleepera. one day coach, a combination baggage and mall cor and 'he I’nlte'd States mall car Tha fading locomotive left the track, supposedly from a broken rail Tha second locomotive, however, remain ed on the track WOMAN (XiNKKHHItn MURDER. o' the countrv's ponaervetek* or. In < ' v 'c- wo-d« he Is one of the cogs In the wWp^'pi that keep ? s e countrv from l-OTg to the dev'l Put f-om that It mu-t not be understood ‘hat Hena'or {h „ flr „ ( r o I1 f,.rvi)re’h,. r .' T "man thinks he has undergone any rvd’csl changes In nature or p'’b'1c Rtt'tude fsr from It Senator Till man th'cks thnt he ts the same to dav ns he w possibly not In manner or nub''c bearing In the earlv dav* of h's senatorial career He does admit the mellowing and softening Influence of nee, ’uit he denies absolutely the charge made bv some of the newspa pers that he has undergone a plete metamnrpbls and that he la no even a reactionary •T am Just as rad'eal now as I ever wss" said Senator Tillman doggedlv ^ 22 years over • I have not changed It Is the countrv ) t b pir labors on earth At th« conference of 1H'7, there were only eight d strn's 'there arc now twelve i in t he eon G fence an 1 ' those were ap, o :.:< d us ; re». !' :.g rid. ra W l> Morrow H A < Vkalk.r NS m Mar \\ tu H K>:n John W Ke y, 7 m He bert Henry M an I Robert I' b ran k a Tb.-ee ha • •• ,i!; ,ta-ed a w a v Tbe method,st Confer*-:, e mu f, - the second time tn Anderson Novem ber 2f>. 1 '«»<». eighteen y. ara afe-r H:*hup SS Duncau presided and made a p r > found Impr. sslon bo’h on the confer ence and on the eutom. ui, D H s ser n,on on S.. nd.iv w «.s on- of great power H K ('hre:'zb* -g was se. rtr | tary with Samuel I.aiuUr. T C I ig on and F O NL atson as ass s'ants This conference lasted or.,- day long er than usual at annual sesM-ns and so did not adjourn till Thursday, l*v- com ‘ cemb.-r 2 I Of the 215 clerical members then' I composing the conference only k a ar*- i i now members of the body Within half have ceased |*OI>4>\ Kl> in < k m K T \ 11. Oae luiblt-er Itew.l anil Anothew la tn a \ cry IU*1 U ay At Auhrn. N Y a cocktail wht h two conv'c's 'n tbe Stv.e prNo i p;e pared *: d drank caused the d.-at u of r-ne of the men snd drove the oth- • r in’o c.nvulaors wh'ch threat.-i to reap!* fv'slly The conrtrf*, Wa’k er K ng and larr.e* K Gurt's mixed O-e fa's! d- rk from * quantity of wool a! 'hoi snd other liquid* used "i tie ;''.«iin fu r n'tu‘e shop King pr* ! nr, 1 the "cocktail" and to assure t * fei * pr'Koper he had faith tn 'he m'vtuT d-»’ik the flrst glass of if He de«rr b*d it as ' fine" and t'urin* drunk of it too Both of them were soon In convuls'nns too late for him to become an active Bull Moose, Hke M*. Robert Bacon Now at considerable coat to t I Government, (becauaa with every change of Treiaaurers there must be a complete apeclal counting of all the money held by Uncle Ram.) Mr Thompson la made Treasurer for th" rest of the term which expire* March 4 1913, In order that he may go Into private life a* ’-Ex Trea»urer of the I'ntted State*" ThU distinction should be worth a fortune to the owner of It tn the wsy of mak'ng bus tneM connections for there are *1 w*>* Mg bank* which are ready to (sy well for the adveitieement ot having a former National Treasurer on their ataff The p-occ** of playing for longer tenure of good office# for Republican holder, has been under war for some Goaded by her oonsrlM** after •'me In the opinion of Democratic *ee1 ng a moving picture In which th* rbserver# who know "the political killing of a husband by hit wtf* was game’ Three wacjvera hat# seen, depleted. Mra. MoAfas. S w*ll to 00 s number of resignation* wmv- widow of Miron. Ga . has eonfessad aroused the atisplrton that they were lh , t , h „ |,t|| #d h * r hnaband In Ir» submitted primarily for th* pnrpos* land ten years ago. Two wsshs ago of giving the President an opportun- Mra McAfee saw the moving plcturs. 't) to name new men for fall terms ,he plot of which the thought, cor- S-jppiute a Presidential po«tma*ter reapnnded tn a measure with th* hld- rclgna now Th* President will ap- d*-n *tory of h*r life From that day, r for four year* Of her relative* say. *h* began to worry Of Her HwabaiKi After In U ILL t.O Ol T W ITH TALT Navannah Collector to Itewinn Fourth of March. on hat has changed Rome of the verv •h'nps I preached twenty yearn ago are to-day commonly accepted poli- rtea.” Mr \V R l.eaken. collector of the port of Savannah ha» announced that i-n Siturd.iy or t.efore he will for ti ally t.-nder h:* resignation to Pres l.lent Tuft, effe<'tlve March 4 HI* con.n,lB»lon does not expire until Au gust 6. but he does not care to aerve under a Democratic administration and will step out when Taft does This probably means that the Favan- l< Int a sure rourse the Incoming Democratic Ad Ministration can remove such an of ! e holder If the President see-* fit but th'a power will not always bw a I rssant or a dclrabt* one to exer and Republican nominee* arc, glad to 'ake their O.ance* on being eble to hold on for at leaat a const 1 erable time after tha t>olHlc*l bal ;ance change* 1 A Reput'Mcao national commlttee- n'an representing a certain l>emo I rra’lc State ha# recently eome to Wsahlngton with a complete plan for the nomination of over a hundred regular Republican postmaster* In that State before the Administration ends The resignation device will be employed In many of these caae* It Is rot atrange that fvemocrs'lc [.op ticians are alarmed and angry when they contemplate such proapect*. and that there are muttering* of sharp retaliation unless the outlook changes One weapon which the Democrats can use Is that of holding up In the and weep She summoned fc*r rel* ttve* and eon'eased that ah* bad been -.•pone ble for the vloUal death of her husband In Ireland In 1 902 and that It was preying on her mind flh* **14 she would nereis know another n om.-n' s pear* unless ah* r*turn*d to Ireland and suffered for her act She says that ah* wa* ywaloaa of her husband and brought about hla death in such a way that it a**msd acciden tal. Complete ssK-aseriles «a4 Inconceivable devotion to Ideals U tbs keynote ot tbs able atory which Mrs. Marlon Wentworth, tbs noted dramstts er, playwright, and socialist, told her reasons for obtaining from her hnaband. Dr. Franklin H. Wentworth, antbor ot tbs "Woman's Portion, M In order that ho m'gtU to free to marry the woman he lowed. When Mrs. Wentworth dlseodorod tbe love which existed between tor hnaband and Mias Alice Chapman, whom Dr. Wentworth has now made hla wife, the planned to set her hno* band free. She went to Reno. New., established a residence of one year there and secured a divorce last Jane on the ground of desertion. On No vember 6 her husband and Mlaa Chai rman were married in Washington. "in order that the slightest hint of scandal or criticism should attach Itself to the name of th* woman mf husband has married,'* sal 1 Mrs. Mo rton Craig Wentworth. “I think M only fair that I should make th* exaet situation known which haa. mp to thin time, not been understood even by our most Intimate friends. "I had known Miss Chapin aa ter aome years, have alwaye been and ■till ara very, very fond of toff, t lor# her for tbe very "quality whkh my huaband aaw and admired In her. So when I discovered—end I did not need to be told, for I hav* always poaaaaaad a remarkable latattlea— that Dr. Wentworth sad Alio* on* another I made up my m1a4 th* only fair, th* only thing for me to do wee ta divorce and set them tree* to each other. ‘•My hnaband and 1 attuarion la all Its phaoss, and AMoa herself was present nt many of wwr conferences Rha protested et brut that tha oaly thing for her to do wan to go away from ua both forever, toft that would have been uaeleee far M would not havw bean eliminated thaftr leva In the slightest Owgree. ‘•Alice la gentle, kind end toeftam There la nothing whatever to h* Hid agatnat her or th* step ato looE lb marrying my hnaband "1 esnaot conceive of e woOHO fighting to heep a he*band whH afco realtars that his love oth*r or of her trying to • he love that haa departed. I far too greet raopoct and for leva and for tha feelings ef others to do ench n thing. a»d It far too much te me to do the thing ttoft 1 feel to he Jnet and right "I etlll love and reop apt my hum hand and our Intellectual frtendtolp, shlrh haa always been one of the kreneet 'ova of my married life. wtB not be dealed me. even aadet the eo- letlng rlrrutnatanree. for 1 have MOO Dr Wentworth since my reform from the weet and ahatt aea him and Attee after their retaru from their trip I regard my former h« one of my very beet friends end I know that be feels th* I rorall tho fart that thp reports t'^h port office whl be the first flllrd from the rhuriT.es that y.-ar were ox-' ln Georgia by President \A llson repttonally good ^ There are already four or five randl- I recall another fart that the young, ^ or position.'whlrh la the ^^natA those Prealden'lal nomlna- [rlfy of Anderson was then forging IT > 0 ft desirable Federal appointment tt 0 na which require confirmation If rapidly to the front as an enterprta-1 * n Savannah Waldo lee Emerson, sgrd fi years.'progressive, commercial center I tw.M.r. There had been organized a Board of Rtocklngs ( <>et nfty IKvllars. Icid Pies From IxK-UJaw. grand nephew of Gen Rtephen l ee heart!!. outburst that Charleston was in all reality "the most convenient port to Panama". Again asking to he ab solved from any assumption of brag ging airs, the Senator made assur ance of his friendship to this city and this port—‘‘Just as I have always been". In regard to the cabinet appoint ment# to he made by Woodrow Wil son, who will noon assume the reins of the national government. Senatorj Tillman thinks that the presldent-i "last chance" office-grahhlng goes too far for fhelr patience, the minor ity In the Senate may come to ahso- Mlss Laura Merriatn. whose mar- lute loggerheads with the President ge to Assistant Secretary of the and block all his closing appolnt- when he fell upon tne upturned •Resolved, That we heartily ap- Treasury. James Curtis took place at ‘ ments. Another weapon la whole- rori a rakf> Tbp p ronR A pApA-j predate the thoughtful attention of, Washington Wednesday wore at the sale e'ectlon of these swan song se- wt vneA nnrt loch 'the Board of Trade and the citizens ceremony a pair of white silk stock- lections when the Wllaon admlnlstra- of Anderson in securing to the mem-! ings given her by Mr and Mrs. Jo#- tlon begins, bers of this conference a drive thro’jeph I elter. for which they paid |f>n. their growing city and Its suburbs " [The stocking* are of the finest silk Senator Tillman ap-esred to Jo'n nf v , r , n j a dif>d ^ a n .- nnn ah Monday| Trade, and the conference pasaed this ! artlly In the reporter's patriotic from in , ur , PB BnBfatnpd i a( , t week resolution of thanks. rla tburst that Charleston was in all . n lino _ tr .„ unturned ‘'Resolved, That we heartily ap- Tn YOI N(J UOM4N RANTED. Hundred* of letter* \waiUa4 Mia* KjuVrllffe at Elgin. Th* postmaster at Elfin, 111 , haa over 4 000 letters addressed to Mias 7 X Radcliffe and ta receiving them at the rate of more than 300 a day 7 he cause of this flood of mall la a Utter made public by Mlaa Radellfe in which she asya 'Tf I do not gat a huaband by 1913 I will loee a for tune of fSTOOO and a large estate I do not care If he I* a hod-carrier or a bricklayer so long aa he ts well mannered and kind." The postmas ter Is waiting for Mlaa Kadcllffa to call for her mall. Her names does not appear In the city directory. trated the hoy's left knee and lock jaw developed. Thirty Were Made Hick. Mrs. Margaret Fahey, mother of the child which died from ptomaine po'snnlng, which affected 30 other persons in Pittsburg, Pa., la out of danger. The majority of the others ^y,"" and‘'they are reported convalescing. The au- 1 Flagman Was Killed. Flagman Worn mock, of the Bee- hoard. was killed at Alamo. Ge. He Much depends upon the attitude of waH flagging on an eaatbound freight, Mr. Wilson himself. That he would «r.d <t Is stated that, while uncoupling As I recall now. I think that aaonj weave and are Inset with point lace I app^dj^e t,,.j n g relieved by M-.lfars near a aeed house, the doors of , u : thorltles are Investigating the stores elect has horn eminently wise In re- : p ^ faml , leB affPct od purchased frainlng from any statements P^taln- r lfl)onB Ing thereto. , B ^ ‘•Wilson la wise In not making the, ^ ^ Hunt ^ newspapers h's spokesmen In the| A a ~ matter of cabinet appointments." said, Two hunters who wounded a deer he. "He would be running away in the mountains near Waynesboro, ahead of his hounds In shooting off|l >a - wer^, treed by the angered anl- hls mouth prematurely. All the time! mal and compelled to climb into the now between the convening of Ton- b ranc * lf ' B antlers. Har- gress and his inauguration Wilson vp y Llfa* flred the shot that wonnded will have oprmrtunlty to confer with ihe deer. His companion, John H. the leading Democrats of the country| Schadler. made the kill, and to make Judicious selections." ‘How about the appointment of Southern men'" was a question pro pounded. "Wilson ought not to appoint an undue number of Southern men." said the Senator, "but the South has been out in the hold so long. I hope the return of a Southern man to the presidency after sixty years will be signalized hv a return to the ante-bel lum policy Inaugurated bv the Demo crats coming, and unless Southern men have lost that characteristic of honor and honesty, Wilson cannot make a mistake If he picks Southern men for any office in his gift, for'th* Booth Is In favor, aa nndev Jefferson, of haying a government nrn ta eco- oomicelly te ponlblt, but set eo ta to of Abraham was one of the leaders In that carriage drive. "We will show you all the varied and dnterestlng things In the progressive and hustling did and hosts and gueats quickly formed a mutual ad miration society on wheels. At this conference Bishop Duncan was presented with possibly the cos/ iiest gavel ever used by a presiding officer In South Carolina. His friends among the clergy and laity raised the money with which to procure this em blem of authority and the bishop treasured the gift ever afterwards. This has been a prosperous year and the reports from the churches throughout the State will show decid ed progress along all lines of church activity. The following Items reported at the Bennettsvllle conference a year ago will Indicate somewnat the strength and work of Methodism In South Carolina: ..91,2P0 804 and embroidered! In rhinestone and pearls. Was a > tslonfid t a Hfimlerer. by the belief Thought He Remorse oocn that he had killed \a man caused Jesse Boykin to shooL himself dead with a Wilson Taft of the burden of mnk- ! house knocked him down in* Prf*flMf*ntial appointment*, a*; ail d the engine ran over his body. He Is benevolently suggested around the, lived about one hour. Mr. Wom- Whlte House offices, Is by no means probable The situation Is a ticklish one for bona fide Republican hold overs who would suffer If retaliatory Bhotgun at hlk horn < near| Democratic reaction were provoked N. C.. Thursday. Boykin’ by a policy of greed In tha remain- quarreled with Jewse Burnett, an ar- Ing Republican months oualntance, at Simms, a village near Wilson, Saturday night and'ffhot him In the hand. Burnett fell\lo the floor, exclaiming that he had been killed. Brutal Act of Brute, Peter O. Hanson, a farmer of Win nipeg, Man., Is under arrest, charged mock had been with ths company for some time. He married 00s month ago. "Both Dr. Wentworth ato III IS now regard m* In th* tight of aa *44- *r slater or gaardtan angst Poof Is need not be In th* leeet sergrlssft K we are not neen la p«Mt* together. | have bad several letters from AMso since their marriage snd I am sU4. through and through, that they too* found happiness togsthhr." Franklin Hareoart WeotwortA. who was born In Chicago la 1 ICC ato la a wall known socialist wrltar, ato Mlaa Marion Jean Craig of BL Pool were married by Bamnsl M. Jooss> the "Golden Rais’* mayor of ToMa. on March 31, 1900. Doth bsliewto marriage to be a purely eirll It was the first marriage performed b*> Mayor Jonsa. and to did It tn what he called tho »*0eliag Rule" fashion. Th* parties wore not required to answer any quest Ions, (to mayor aaylng their presence ttoftaaft- ed their deal re to be married. Ho reviewed the Biblical story of tto cre ation of woman and quoted from (to Bible on the subject of marring*. Ha bads the couple to bo dlltgoat I* bringing about a better conditio* ot social affairs. He did not doom It necessary, he said, to tell thorn to to faithful to each other, aa anything to might any would amount to llttlo K their souls were not congenial. Dice From Lodge Initiation. The- authorities at Cumberland, Md., are investigating the^ death of Zadock Troxel Offner. 22 years old, which occurred daring Initiation into the Loyal Oflder of Moose at Western- port. While members of the qrganl- 2,780,8 Aged Atlanta Recluse Die*. At Atlanta, William Franklin, an aged recluse, who was beaten by rob bers in his home died Thursday at a local hospital without regaining con sciousness. Frank Rlstley, a young|r burr h members. . .. man, Is being held on suspicion.! Church organizations.. . Franklin, who lived alone, was sup- Value of church buildings. $1.931.830! an <l foreign missions. Paid by Sunday schools GROWTH OF A CHURCH for missions Paid by Enworth Leagues for missions 625.85 Paid for education .. .. 1 4,464.00 Paid for church extension. 8,873.00 The Sunday schools raised over 830.000 for various benevolences and tho women raised $30,000 for home with attempting to murder Maggie i zatlon V® r *' t J , r C ’ U J* V Warnlzlki, who was In his employ. I occurred «uddenly during horse It is said Hanson tied the girl to the; b ,a y ,n th ®' Initiation »hen *n eleo- horns of a cow and tho frightened] tr,c tottery wa» used. anlmaJ ran through the woods, drag ging the girl for a long distance. Train Went Down. Mve men were killed Monday and tral hurt, some fatally, when a . u. j logging train went through a !7 5 .; see and practically all ths bird, were sev« Thousands of Turkeys* The "turkey special,'’ a train of 3 4 cars, containing provision for 65,- 800 Thanksgiving tables, reached Jersey City Wednesday from Tson foot trestle at Bear Creek, Oregon.) sold on the New York market before posed to be wealthy. Four Bum to Death. Four persons, on# woman and Value of parsonages. . 51 2,550j forP S° ln K th » Epworth Orphanage when t Total churches and par- j was sustained and liberal amounts were sonages 2,494 370 were raised for other benevolent en- Buperannuated preachers. 1C,600 uprises. three small children, were burned to i The amount contributed for mls-j The Methodists of Sonth Carolina death and one ot^-r woman reoefr- 1 rione. home and foreign, follow* 'own and control three qollegea and ed probably fatal Injuries in a fire Paid for foreign missions $24,265.58, two fitting schools, valued at $761,-) are no patro near Newport News. Vs.. Thursday,j Paid for conference mis- | 250. with an endowment at $1 86,900 1 th# police a slons 23,028.1 9 Sixty-sir professors are employed and ’ frequent the Besides* the] The boiler of the*"engine"’eroded ^ndown. The shipment Is the larg- locomotive fell. The bodies eBt /_ ln « 1 ® consignment of birds ever ed under the wreckage. New York Gajnblers Qnlet. Gambling houses In New York are closing for la^k of patronage. There practically, because made. Woman Married Ten Times, Ths world's legitimate matrimonial record is believed to to held by Mra. Thella M. ds Beer, aged 71 years. 1 a resident of Pretoria. Pa. she became a widow for tto time and was married to bar tantb husband. She was married tto tnl time at 18 and is mother snd step mother to 49 children ato grand mother to 270. Unhappy Bride Ends LHn Because her mother threatened 6S commit suicide if she did not sssfffff one of her own nationality* Elisabeth Nardini. 20 yean American torn daughter of 4 lan fruit dealer at Marion, nouncod her Amerienn and married her Then she drank died. wljlph was featured by ths heroism: of the two mother* In an afort to; Special for missions—di- thatr ehfldran. i Bent to an Aasyluxn. John Bchrank who shot Col. Rooae veh, was taken to the Northern Hoe- ^ pltal for the Insane near Oshkosh, pylng"on"those “who] WU - Monday, Judge Backus haring and aerving them 1 e4M,m,tte<1 h,m 10 th,lt *n»t!tution «• When a . Lansdal*. Pn., a men found a step. Inveetigattm of tto engtah there are 7,047 pupils In sttsndanbe] with John Do# subpoenas* to appear * eotnmiralon of aUno-j L^ter th# T.788.1J on these institutions of tnarnlag. I tn court and testify. | iedtf bto adjudged him Inssaa. 1 Haul*