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TROOPS ARE READY t TER THOUSAND BEING ASSEM- - BLED IN TEXAS AS WARNING TO MEXICO The Army Will be Prepared to Go Into Mexico at Once on Order* From President Wilson Should Necessity for Invasion Arise Dur ing Latter's Administration. A Washington dispatch says mili tary orders flew thick and fast Mon day in redemption of President Taft’s promise to have an army of 10,ooo men assembled at Galveston, the most convenient port to Mexico, all equipped for foreign service and ready to execute any order that his successor might choose to issue on the basis of conditions that will exlbt after March 4. These orders were supplementary to those which left the war depart ment last weeks and were calculated to in sure assemblage of the second division of the reorganised army at or in the neighborhood of Galves ton. The completion of the orders to move the entire second division is Intended as further warning to Mex ico that there will be no departure from the established policy of pre paredness during the remaining week •f President Taft's administration. All plans for the possible sending of trops into Mexico will continue with the same minuteness of detail which would characterize official or ders had the present scute condition arisen in Mexico at any time earlier lr. the strife which has rent that re public alnce the flrst uprising against Porflrlo Dias more than two years ago. This course is based on the ground tbst any cessation in the cloatng days or even hours of the Taft administration might be seised hold of by the Mexican malcontents as an opportunity for a strike of Americana. •o far the Bute department has given little thought to the qaeettoa of political recognition of the new government In Mexico, desiring te •wait farther developments In the attwatioa and wllltag to regard It largely fry the recommendations of Am be see Bor Wilson, whooe course so tar, nader estremely dlflcult and de ll eats circumstances, bss met with the unqanllBed approval of the de partment. Major Gen. William II. Carter, who commands the second division, was ordered Monday from Chicago to Oalveoton Thla will be the aec- . ond time that this officer has bad the honor of commanding a complete division of troops within the limits of Texas, the Brut being In the case of the mofeljlsatlon of Itll, when the Maxima trouble Brut became acute Tfcd fifth brigade of this division already la moving to Oalvecton, as is tie fourth field artillery, compoeed of mountain batterlee. The order lasued Monday *ill eet in motlou the fourth brigade, tho eis'h bngudn and the sixth cavalry. Brig 'h i. Kr. d- c rick A. Smith ommaoita the ffth brigade, prevlouely ordered to con centrate; Col. Edwin F. Glenn of the twenty-third Infantry, will cornu.and the fourth brigade in the IlIncM of Brig. Gen Raraeey D. Potts, ami Col. Arthur Williams, of the 11th infan try, will command the sixth brigade In place of Brig. Gen. Clarence Ed wards, who Is under orders for Phil- lipplne service. Tho war depart merit’s estimate is that under these orders there will he concentrated at Galveston between 8,000 and O.ono infantry, about S"u cavalry and about the Halin' number of field artillery, or a total of nearly 10,000 men. These troops are widely scattered throughout tho Middle States and along the Mississippi River, from the Gulf to Canada. During the man oeuvres of 1911 it required two weeks’ time to get some of the sol diers to Texas, but it is believed this period can be cut in half at present. Even then the whole second division ■Will almost certainly be at Galveston, or In the vicinity, some time before water transportation can be provided. The four army transports, all the Government owns In Eastern waters, can only carry a brigade at most and there are three brigades in this di vision. It will be necessary to char ter from ten to fifteen merchant steamers of large size to accomodate the remaining to brigades. The quartermaster’s department has a long list of available ships, but as it would cost on an average of $700 a day for each ship to keep them ready for service, the war department has avoided incurring any such large liability. So, in all probability, it will remain for the next Administra tion to authorize this expenditure if It sees fit. Herbert Suit is Dropped. A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch ■ays advices received from South Carolina by attorneys of C. J. Herbert la that city Indicate that all prosecu- Itan oa the charges filed against him }a the loath Carolina courts alleging it of ltt.0000 in se- tho BaaUaole Land Co. dropped by ot FIRESHIPS IN SEA FIGHT HlaxAng Craft Caused Much Destruc tion la Naval Battles. Nothing in the thrilling adventures of many old Ssa fights appeals more strongly to the modern imagination than the doings of ths fire ships, says thq London Globe. "The idea of using incendiary vessels for the detructlon of a hos tile fleet was of great antiquity. They are said to have been employed at the selge of Tyre In 333 'B. C. and again by the Rhodians about a cen tury and a half later. By the En glish however, they were first used in 1370, and two centuries later had come to be looked upon as a legiti- ing rewarded and dreaded in much mate naval weapon, their attacks he- the same way as’those of the torpedo craft and submarines at the present time. The explosion xessels, or “in- fernals,” invented by the Itallian en gineer Gianbelli, were the most for midable. The designer procured two vessels of about eighty tons each and laid along their bottom a foun dation of brickwork. Upon this he erected a marble chamber with five- loft walls containing 300 tons of gunpowder, while on the top of this champer was a 6-foot layer of grave stones placed edgewise. A marble roof rose over these, and upon it was plied a quantity of round shot, chain shot millstones, blocks of stone, iron shod beams and anything heavy which would cause the explosion to take a literal effect. Tho effect of this floating volcano was appallng, for the masses of stone and htiu , disintegrated and flyng skyward by the explosion, fvll and destroyed a.i \fsels, buildings .or men in the vici nity. Three years later the Spanish arm ada before Calais was attacked j> hteships prepared by the English Eight ve-.seIs were seieited, and so great as the hast** that not even their Runs or stores were remove | They were Ignited and launched, and. with the air.d and tide in their fa vor, advanced straight for the cen tre of the anchored armada Shi^ foiled ship, and the rrle# of terror and the rraah of falling apara. and. though the Spaniards finally succeed ed Id getting to *«a the fireship at tack completely (Reorganised and de moralised them, and helped largely to make the eventful Battle of Oravullneua the succeus it was The moat recent, and at. the same tlma one of the moet interesting fftre- •hlp exploits which ever took place, was that carried out against the French fleet in Basque Roadsln 1101 by Lord Cochrane Hta explosion v«ee*l. Intended to destroy the boom, behind which lay the French fleet, was a truly awful contrivance Coch rane piloted the vessel and lit the train at the last moment, and on the evidence of the Kren<h reptain whose ship was close by. It did !‘ < work well, for the air was filled with •hella grenades, and biasing debris, while the explosion tore a huge rent In the boom DIAZ IS AWAITING CALL READY TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY IN CASE OF NEED. GOMEZ DKPLOKKM TRAGEDY. Expresses Borrow Over Killing of Mndero and Soares. Emilio Vasques Gomes Monday wired from hit capital at I'alomar Mexico, to friends, expressing his sor row over the killing of Frapc.sco 1 Madero and Jose Pino Saures and t-. ndemnlng such an act as beir;; out side the pale of enlightened govern ment The telegram is adii.et.td t > Melchor Mamacho, who .v is >ne of Gomel'a closest advisers *n oan An tonio. and is us follow s "Kindly express to iko press in\ deepest regret for the doa.h of .^enui Francis, o I Madero and tli>’ lei rii U manner in which he 'net h s tii-ath. I must deeply dote the situation tor my <• untry. my countrymen and mys. If. occasion' d by thi > s •■•to ny; unjust tragedy. "While opposed poli'le iM>’ to ".ll" late President, eaniesMy ' o:ie\ ing t:e v. as nut the p. r.-,en to prcs.de or o my country's destini.s for prosperity ai d complete union, yet I would bit terly oppose death in any event as a punishment for political offences. "i believe sincerely frf the law £>f civil government and the proper ad ministration ther.'of, and I oan not, nor do I, believe my countrymen can ever look with favor upon military government, which seemingly has no respect for human life nor guaran ties, and does not safeguard the na tion or give its people the protection enjoyed under civil government, which is true democracy.” ALLEfiEOJRUaiY GOV. CLEASE ARRAIGNS PRISON OFFICIALS Former Dictator, Whom Madero Forced Out of Office and Rato Exile Bays He Will Answer Bummons. Porflrlo Diaz, who is n*w In Egypt, former dictator of Mexico, declared Monday that he is holding himself In readiness to respond to the call of his country in case foreign complica tions should arise out of the revolu tion there. If this should not oc cur, he said, he would n*t return to Mexico until settled government had been re-established there and his re appearance on the scene where he had held such long sway could be made without risk of being wrongly interpreted. The aged Ex-President expressed the hope that ‘‘hands off Mexico” would continue to be the policy of the United States. Gen. Diaz was greatly elated at the success of his nephew, Felix Diaz, and Gen. Huerta, Provisional President, whom he con siders quite capable of working out the salvation of the Republic. The Ex-President’s yacht is temporarily at this ancient gathering place of pilgrims, whence he has made sev eral trips to Denderah and other not ed temples. The Ex-President, after pleading that his entire aloofness from the politics of his country precluded any criticism by him of the late Presi dent Maderos administration, made tiie following statement to the As sociated Press "1 prefer to sav nothing regarding the faults of Francisco Madero's rule, nr the causes of the revolution. As a pol;t- i< a! opponent of Madero, my opinion might l.e considered biased "Gen \'|( toriano Huerta I* .in o' fleer an 1 a gentleman who pos». «-. •> the confidence of all classes m Mexi co Personally 1 have the grea'i-Hi i esport for and confideii. r .n n in I chose him to e«cort n;e from Mexe > City to Vera Cruz when I was .xlie ! I think Gen Huerta la in a po»|'|on t( maintain order until a Conatr i tional Government baa been deflnl . ly re established " When questioned regmrd'.ng the probatdllty of further rvmpliratlona In Mexico. Gen Dias replied "That depend* entirely upon th* energy of th* provision*) government In *up- prMntng pillage sod brigandage Kells Dias ha* bad long •xpertecre In th* army and fully realise* the importance of enforcing reepect for life and property " When report* of the poaaitdlitiea of intervention bv the Fni'e.j Siate« were mentioned the former Mexican I’real dent gravely retorted I and inv adherent* a!way* have been and will remain, aincere friend* of the t'nited S'ate* government I can not Imagine the United State* or oth era taking action* inronalatent with Americas well known honeaty of purpoa* '• Gen Diaz hope* and Intend* to re turn to Mexico at aome time Thla however, he taid. "will not be until peace haa been firmly eatabllahed and my return can not have any mlaconatructlon placed upon it. Should, however, foreign rompllca- tlona arlae, I will hold myaelf entire ly at my country's aervlce ” WAS SEVERLY BEATEN WHril Story of the \\ tree. That Is a weird story that a cor- r *ui pon den t lias put on the wires form Lafayette, Did . to 'he Eastern papers. As a narrative runs. Evans I ones, wtio is beginning to recover from a rough that lias made hi- life miserable for the past two year-, -ays tiie cause'was nothing less .ban a li/ard three indie- long .lent s dsdared that lie brought up ’.a- r. ; t:! It .< h . 1 ' or d..\ lie had ; ing on the road, doe ked. Ilf said !• - i h i'i 'a t for i > out i pal When Whiskey Was Costly. Rest old whiskey at any price no\V- aday is as cheap as dirt when you come to think how it used to be down in the Corncracker country, says the New York Press. One hun dred and thirty years ago a . decree was passed in the court at Jefferson county making the price of whiskey $15 a half pint. By the gallon it went for $240, the lowest bargain price. And a dollar was a dollar in those old day* in Kentucky. I I \ in g 'he O' \>i i ' i ■ o u g- At t he end of it lie and reai in d d iw n let'. He -ei/rd the li/.nd ami drew it to the Lglit of day. The li/ard seeme 1 to he as happy Join s to dissolve partner.-hip and was wriggling away as. fast as it could when Jones decided he would capture it and show it to his doctor, Edgar Allen. The doctor dropped the wriggler in alcohol. Jones got the doctor’s theory, which was that Jones must have been drinking at a well or spring and taken a lizard's egg into his stom ach. The grateful warmth hatched the lizard. Tiie agony of coughing that Jones endured is ascribed to the frantic ef forts of tho lizard to deliberate itself. -- Augusta Chronicle. ♦ TRAPPER WAS STARVED HE BECOMES INSANE AND TURNS TO CANNIBAL. COLE SETS HIM FREE TURNS OUT IAN HO TOLD NIK AIODT ELLIS CASE An old time philosopher once *aid "an ambassador Is an honest man *ent abroad to He for his country". Minister Calero of Mexico must be something of that kind of a man, for he now aaya thak for the paat ten months he has been lying to the United State* government as to con ditions la Mexico. Still, It U hardly likely that he deceived our eat Hunting for Old Fiend. News of a criminal assault upon a twelve-year-old negro girl, alleged to have been committed by an old negro 7 0 years of age, on Mr. J .J. Britton’s place, about seven miles south of Sumter, reached there Wed nesday. Tom McFadden, a negro who has served several terms on the gang and ten years In the penitentiary, is the negro alleged to have committed the crime. Bacrnmhs to His Injuries. J B. Derorier, holder of all the roo’orcycle records from 35 to WO mile#, died at hit home at Spring- field, Maas., Wednesday night. He was 23 year* old. Daroaier’a death waa the roanR of Injurlea acaUlted during a racing maet la Loa Angeles Because Negro Convict Bpoke to Gov ernor on Streets, It Is Alleged He Was Cruelly Beaten, Tortured With Electric Current and His Per son Bears Evidence of Rougii Handling. Charges of cruel punishment of a convict at the penitentiary were sent to the Senate Wednesday night by Governor Blease in the following message: ”1 transmit to you herewith let ter received by me on the morning of February 25, 1913. "‘February 23, 1913.—His Excel lency, Governor Blease, Columbia, S. C.—Honorable Sir; Simeon Ellis, (colored, a prisoner,) I understand was talking to you yesterday (Satur day) on the street. He was working on the city street detail, and as you passed asked his guard, Corpora! Boykin, to speak to you, and Boyk’n refused him the permission to do so, and he spoke to you anyhow. " "To-day i e was brot.gi.t up bc- f. re ('ant. S'lidley iiy lb; .in and sas sentenced to the st uks. and K'iis s. y b lie was st ruek 4 5 or ’ ' I t -in - - I . cannot say the ex.i't iiu:.in> r ..n i hi Pack now mIiosvh tin* '•■-'i.l' idem Ins head down to h:s hips T am telling you this as a mut- '• r of 111!"r:i:at.ni;. u b n h I f!. nk y ■> i A 1,1 be '.-lad !" know n* this Mine, it - I ;i'n w ry w< II ; ms'.- I a- to w 1 ...■ yonr s ar*- r• c.ii d n ir -b fb.i.vs r> Karding the S:ai>- pen:'* n t ,.IT ' Therefore I do tel' le le ' l'o to send you this Information, a- I know that you will not g the source of yioir :nfi rtimtion " Y .nr* r v <•. ■ ' - MC nr d ■ i if. a » M .r • I:. x ' The letter rout Hue* " Kills waa taken to the black • mlth ahep and a pair of >erv abort aback lea put on him and be than told the captain and Dr Jenninga that b« waa going to tell you tha first chanr* that he bad bean whipped for talking to you Then h* waa taken to the tbop* again to have the chela leng thened end while this wee being done he had a fit He la aubjeet to aurb *;'**lta Th*» chain* were cut off him end he w a* taken to the ho* p:t*l where he now i* I understand he it m a aeriou* condition !.ater To *r:!l punlah th:a poor .xnorallf defe|,ee|e»* negro Dr Jell ning* appl;* d a ttroi.g e!<>< ! r:e bat tery to him an 1 tortured him for more 'ban a half hojr H » -.ream* and erlea and piteou* ap;«-a » for merry could he heard all over the penitentiary ground* ' Upon receipt of th:* letter Col Aull. my private eecretarv request ed ('apt of the Guard Sondley. at the Penitentiary, to bring thla prisoner to my office at 5 o clock p m He waa brought in hla pitaon garb, cloaely ahackled. with a chain around both legs Aa to hla phynlral condi tion. I leave the description of that for Representatives C G Wyche. Mltrhum and Fortner. who were present and saw the negro s back and hi pa "This Is but another Instance, which came to my ears only by acci dent. and which I am giving to you for the purpose of showing thnt I am doing whit I c.m to relieve suffering humanity, and that I am only heed- leg tiie demands of humanity upon mo " \ f’ r finding th.if the negro hid ten in t lie 'iiit'-ii' .!r> for ! \ eit - 'or killing another negro, and feeling Mite that if 1 ro'urnod h.m to 'lie ''('[litt'ti: iurv as a prison' r ho would .'tgain ho whipp'd, shmklod and pos sibly killcil, I granted him a parole during his good behavior. "In taking tills course I am pntis- fied that 1 am not only heeding ttu demands of humanity, but that I am upholding the letter and spirit of the Constitution, which provides in Sec tion 19 of Article 1, ‘Nor. cruel and unusual ‘punishment inflicted’, and ‘corporal punishment shall not be in flicted.’ "The letter which V‘ have trans mitted to you says that when this ne gro was tortured with ‘a strong elec tric battery for more than a half hour, his screams and cries and pit eous appeals for mercy could be hoard all over the penitentiary grounds’; they reached my ears; they have now reached yours. The de mand upon me was not for mercy, hut for justice, and I believe that justice was secured from me, oO far as In my power lay to give it. What will you do?" The message was referred to the committee on penal and charitable In stitutions, whfbh will hold an imme diate investigation and report to the present seesion. Foodless for Eight Days, Kills His Bleeping Companion and Eats Part of His Body. Tortured by the furies of an Alas kan winter, subsisting thirty days on skins of dead animals and finally driven insane by an eight-day period of starvation, Henri Le Caire, a French trapper, killed and partially ate the body of Len Lemieux, a guide of the Hudson Bay Company, near Mile 53, B. C. Such was the tale unfolded in a letter received at Cleveland, O., from a former Cleve land, Frank Richardson, twenty- three, of No. 33 91 West Twenty-fifth street. In the letter to his father, from a log cabin ’at Mile 63, Richardson gave a graphic word picture of the suffering undergone by men on the snowy trails when the wind sends flint-like flakea- of snow driving into a man’s face until he is nearly blind ed. The elder Richardson, who is stage director at the Euclid Avenue opera house, also received a half- dozen pictures, one showing the dis membered body of the murdered guide. Richardson Jr., has for a partner in British Columbia Emmett Thorpe, formerly captain of the Lincoln High School foot hall team. Both depart ed in 1912 with an engineering crew, but have since given up that, work and ar*' now contracting on their own initiative In his iet'iT tolling of th** tragedy. !’ ' hardson -nys tiie trapper and th*- ► !'. Letuirux. departed .from Mil*' ■ 1 * in emended hunt, and a-* 'h* ;, 1 ! b .' ;i si: .til Ml; ply of prov i» * mi s ■ 1 • w*". v.. rtied iig making the I s w ,i s n I »*•, .Mntier \ I ni'Mii'" r of th*' tr;t;.; ng p;ir’\ p*'d out at th*- st.ir’ and th- Lem;.mix. anl Le (’lire con- .••*1 on th- lr w ay. A storm overtook them and when m !••* a*ay from the n«'ire«t actle- M'-nt 'her were compelle.) to frav*! with the mercury at 62 degree* be low zero Finally they atumbled on a d*•»er?ed cabin about seventy five n I lea from the ae'tlement Here scratched with * knife point on wood, we* written the last chapter of a groeaome tragedy For eight day* Caire and I^m- teux tasted no moreel of any kind While the wind howled and anew banked up agalnet the cabin walla the men were atarvtng By day they aat at the bare table each man fur- l.vely watching h'.a ma'e Bv night thev wr^e afraid to ale^p but terror and aufT’-r'.ng r!o»«-d ’he r eve* ami at t.me* both men for a h**ur» Ea BROUGHT HIM LIBERTY F. J. Nichols, White Convict Who Wrote Blease Concerning Alleged Cruel Treatment of a Negro Con vict, Handed a Parole by the Gov ernor While Testifying in the Case. That F. J. Nichols, a one armed white prisoner, wrote the letter to Gov. Blease containing the charges of cruel punishment of the negro, Simeon Ellis, because the latter spoke to the Governor in spite of the guard's refusal, was brought out be fore the committee on penal and charitable institutions, which is in- vestigatinc the charges, at the hear ing Wednesday afternoon. The let ter was smuggled out of the prison thrsugh a prisoner, but who, it was not stated, it was written on the let ter head paper of the State Senate. The investigation took place In the hall of the House «f Representa tives, Senator Laney presiding. Gov. Blease was present and read the lot- p • t.: dr g'i'd. ter of Nichols to him about the al- b ged treatment of Ellis and then gave the author. Nichols ha 1 been brought from t h»* IVtil ten Gary and was sit'ing in t he r*ar of tiie hall. . !i*’ Gov* ri.or (;i l ltd him to foino for w ard anl w! i* r, dl l * bo I’d’M-” sap! ' \n hoi- ■ < >: : at *■ a ! t ••*• man.'* .md h.ii i i . ’ i ti > ' 1 ’ ' Th” *.■'*i ji,.* i ;. .. • « i 11 . It * 1 tl,t* ‘- gro . . 1 . . '. 1 ' . , .’god. W .1- 11. ' ■.!*" . a * on - ii i11< <• i. . t- •., ■ .• ...• , ■. o: .a b* .i' 1 u g • 1.• o', m ■ ■ . n op* 11 S' ■ • ' . .t > r* ; • a'o.i th*- < h . t I g * n * .* . i n 1 ! ■ !*•’: , nnt- . *1 Thur*.! .> .. • r n. ' g. e. ik ng ' !.* .i i - ijii*8iun ih-t in e . a: ii-r> t r* at u.i-at ’ gixoii him b> Dr J* mi ngK * L.r «n < p.l*-; •. 1" to w b ■ ti h*- w I., i i')- Jet. un 1 ’ h *1 (.* ha 1 oft* a b*'*’n glv»*n thl* treatment It waa v'ated by M* hda in hla let ter to the Governor that th* erw-* Of Kill# when he »** being given the "battery treatment could be heard all over the ground*, end It had been mad* to app<ar that this waa a form of punlahment. Kill* h'.maelf admit ted that It waa given him for fit*, and that no burr.* had resulted K J v - ho’» * one armed whlto convict v nv 'e of WVMxan. form erly etn; ' ■ 1 b the Southern Rail road a- a • • »;rai t. operator working In v:.it'< ' "b x' • a i* * *o j- a and ('*>um tt a: 1 •*'. ».•<> -••rv'r.g a »e*'on*1 term :n :.':.tr\ t avli.e »• r\ * h man afr.xi i of t h” >t h ”d ot,” ' , m K . .hi. 1 f .r Lir* • ' . a t ban*-* to kn: For th#* and »«■ r v ” v * »••• c nd from Fair fi.-bl on*’ meant fo.,.1 for t he for h'*U8< rt-.ik :.k and birr ■ n ' to. b w **<1 t b *■ *)•■ rro El 1 a » two un1* r ' h*» nnth n;*ht ram* o n I l real m^rit of 11 •• bat 'try in tho Ho.ng other \» tt C*:re matih’-d Lemieux nod and fail aaleep With a bound the trajper was on hla guide burying h!» knife in the sleeping man a heart eight time# Twenty three other knife wound* were also inflicted Caire ate parta of the dead man e body and then scratched with hla knife on the cable door the atory of Lemieux ■ death The carved part of the door now !g in the hand* of Ken McKenzie, an engineer from Montreal, hut Le Caire has not been found 4 picture forwarded to Cleveland by the younger Richardson depicts the finding of the body, the wooden 1 box in which It was placed and the burial ground. State Feeds Wild Docks. Thousands of wild ducks, caught by the cold and held prisoners In Sodus Bay, Lake Ontario, are being fed by New York State. Game pro tectors notified the State Conserva tion Commission that the ducks ware dying from lack of food and were promptly ordered to buy grain to THEY HAD \ TOUGH TIME. The Terrible Ex |H’rieij<(* of Three Men in the h e Regions. Of the tht'c e pros’ c * tors who sPirt- • 1 a mon'h ,ipo from At n, ;i ; l.i * i' '•.imp on the Yukon lino, in senreh of pold. one nearly starved to death, one lost both foot and one became insane from cold and died. The men headed for Silver Crook. Thoy had to broak thoir own trail and travel ed light, expecting to replenish their stores at a trading post near Jeslin Lake. The trading post was found abandoned. One man, sent hack for more supplies, lost his way and was rescued by Indians when nearly dead. The mind of one of the two remain ing, a Swede named Lindemann, be came affected and in his desire for warmth, he jumed into a camp fire. Redmond, his companion, pulled him out, but he died. Redmond buried Tiindemann in the snow and turned the dogs loose, following them wher ever they went. They finally led him '.o an Indian camp and Indians took him to Atlin, where both feet were amputated. Annual GatFtering in Pittsburg. Delegates to the annual conven tion of the National Association for Standardizing Paving Specifications are arriving at Pittsburg Monday for the session which openes with a re ception to the delegates. New stand ards in paving were discussed. hospital and tha’ h** had gon*- to hi* r**ll and ert-n th” imprrsBiona of the lashes on his back. He did not trll who *muggl*’<1 out the letter he wrote the Governor tell ing him of the thrashing of the negro and admitted that he had never eeeu the "battery treatment" Imposed, however charging that It waa fre quently given for pumahment. accord ing to what other prisoners had told him H* 1 said that prison officials had treated him all right, except one** he ha 1 been "tanned ’ In tho "leather house Nichols said that he has two children who are now living in Georg.a The negro Simeon Ellis, testified that he li.c l been placed in the sUcks in the "leather house" and beaten with a leather simp about two feet long all ovt his back, from head to foo' He s.iid that il was on Sun- tb.nt he was c ill. 1 from the* ,!a v < Im • d bv Guard Rovkin. ! ad i a a.- Strange Horse Disease. Spartanburg County fanners are alarmed by a disease whiefi is attack ing mules and horses and whi m In the last few weeka haa ceased the death of many valuable animal* ’.n various aactiana of tha (ornty. in charge of the detail when he working on the' streets Satur- i:i\ and had spoken to the Governor w itiiour permission; that Boykin car ried him before ('apt. W H. Sondley, related the occurrence of Ills speak ing to the Governor, and the latter ordered him to the "leather house”. He said that Messrs. Boykin, Wil son and Grant accompanied him to the “leather house”, where he was stripped, placed in the stocks and then given 75 lashes with a leather strop in the hands of Mr. Wilson. He said that once he was knocked down in the stocks by the licks and then was whipped from the other side. He said that on Monday, when he was taken to the shop to'be shackled he fell into a fit and then was taken to the hospital and given the "bat tery treatment". He didn't seem to remember much what happened at the hospital, except that he said sev eral men werd sitting i on him and the electric current was applied. He said that he yelled and screamed, al so that Dr. Jennings, Dr. Dobbins, Mr. Wilslon and two other men were in the party. He admitted that the treatment was given him for fits and no burns resulted. The negro charg ed that he had been whipped many times. Dr. Dobbins said when Ellis was brought to the hospital he thought he waa "faking” about his having a fit, hut the treatment waa given him as a test and waa never given aa a punishment. The Bryan-hatera have our sym pathy, but they win have to bear It.