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* COURT ASKED TO STOP RACING Move Against Promoters of Meet a Columbia. Columbia, Dec. 8.?A rule to shov cause why a permanent injunctioi should not be granted against tn< Columbia Racing Association and th< State Agricultuural Society, on th< grounds of maintaining a publii nuisance, was signed here this after noon by Chief Justice Jones, and wai made returnable next Wednesday morning, December 13, before th< supreme court, at 10 o'clock. Tin order was issued on motion of At torney General Lyon. This is the as sociation now holding a racing mee hftro at thA Stale fair erounds. . ?' . Motion of Attorney General. Upon motion of Attorney Genera Lyon, Ghief Justice Jones has grant ed an order citing the Columbia Racing Association and the South Caro lina Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety, and sundry individuals con nected with the racing meet on the State fair grounds, to show caus< why an injunction should not be is sued against them, collectively anc severally,, for maintaining a commor nuisance in connection with the r races. The allegations presented bj the attorney general set up, upon affidavits of responsible parties, thai betting and gambling is carried on on a large scale, in connection with the races. Doesn't Stop Races. The order is not a temporary injunction and does not have the effect of restraining the conduct of the races at this time. The order is returnable before the supreme courl on next Wednesday, December 13, 1911, at 10 a. m. It is understood that among those making affidavits ?? upon which the action of the attorney general is based are Messrs, James A. Hoyt, editor and general manager of the Daily Record; McDavid Horton, managing editor, and J. E. Brunson, reporter for the same T> DAVrartltr U nrKort W _T jwpci , XV. 1JC* CI 1.1 X1C1 uviv, ... V. Ashburn and others. If the injunction should be granted by the court the order will put a stop to the race meet at Columbia and also very probably prevent the establishment of the permanent race meet at Charleston, scheduled to begin next month. |p\ f Record not Available. S < Attorney General Lyon had no statement to make and the petition % ? and affidavits in the matter were not pi, available for inspection. The Columbia Racing Association officers are: A. N. Elrod, manager; V.\ Hart Dernham, racing secretary, with E. Hall, assistant; P. A. Brady, presiding judge; Harvey White, paddock judge; C. E. Duhaim, chief of detecp. tives, and Charles J. Lynch, local promoter. It is stated that the rule \ to show cause will be served on all these and also on the bookmakers V. and layers. v UNDERWOOD NOT A CANDIDATE Won't Seek Nomination, Despite Endorsement of Alabama Colleagues. Washington, Dec. 7.?Oscar W. Underwood, of Albama, majority % leader of the house, was endorsed as jf vp a candidate for the Democrat PresinAminatinri hv the Alabama %: UVUWW """" delegation in congress, at a meeting held to-day. A resolution was adopted declaring Mr. Underwood "had demonstrated to the country that he is a wise and progressive leader and that he is eminently qualified for the presidency. When-he learned of the action taken by his colleagues Mr. Underwood said that he appreciated the honor greatly, but that he is not a candidate. ' V. "I am not a candidate for the presidential nomination, and I am not " -V going to be," said Mr. Underwood. "I appreciate the honor of such endorsement, particularly from the colleagues with whom I have worked and who have known me for years.*' iv j ~~ ' Tillman Refuses Cabman's Demand. _____ Washington, Dec. 6.?Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, declared to3 1 1 J nn,r WT ly. ph in o-frtrt nay lie YVUU1U UUt ICl auj Tia>iuiu&l,vi. cabman impose on him; and when it comes to making rates for traffic from the postoffice to the White Jlouse he intends to be his own interstate commerce commission. The senator arrived at the White house this morning by way of a rather dilapidated cab. As he stepped out he turned to the driver and handed him a quarter. The cabman looked at the quarter and then at the senator. "The rate is fifty cents," he said. "What?" said Senator Tillman "do you mean to say it is fifty cents from the postoffice to the White .House?" "Yes, sir," said the cabby. ^ "You can look at the rates inside for yourself." "Well," said Senator Tillman, "it is too much and I won't pay it," and walked into the White House office. The cabman turned away laughing, but kept the quarter. GARLINGTON AND YOUNG IX JAIL t Former Seminole Officers Met at Train by Richland Sheriff. ) f Columbia, Dec. 6.?John Y. Gar1 lington and James Stobo Young are 3 reposing in the Richland county jail 3 to-night, having reached here from 5 Laurens at midnight over the C., N. c and L. They were met at the train - by Sheriff Coleman and taken at once 3 to the Richland county jail. As soon j as the commitment is made out by 5 the clerk of court they will be placed 3 in the penitentiary to begin their sen tences of three years and one year re spectively. It is presumed that the t commitment will be issued in the morning and that by noon both Garlington and Young will be numbered 1 among the inmates at the State peni tentiary. Messrs. Christie Benet and R. E. - Carwile, two of the counsel who de fended the prisoners at their trial, - were at the train when it arrived and # i accompanied them to the jail. The ? party made five, the journey from - the depot to the jail being on foot. I Both Garlington and Young shook i hands with the sheriff and the attori neys when they alighted from the ' train and seemed to be not in the - least perturbed. : BOY "INDIAN" KIlXS SISTER. 1 Gun Left Too Handy by Father, Child Tragedy Results. Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 9.?Shooting at his 3-year-old sister, Mary, 5 while playing Indian, Harry Bickel, m7 almost instantlv killed the h "' ' child at Mazejja, six miles east of ' here. The tragedy was the result of their 5 father, William Bickel, leaving a loaded gun on the hack porch on returning from a hunt. Discovering ^ the weapon, while Bickel was at the barn hitching the horse to take the children to school, Harry suggested i to his sister that they play Indian. ' The little girl, who was in the house, agreed, and placed herself on guard at a window. Gradually getting closer to the ' window, the boy discharged the gun, 1 the contents striking his sister in 1 the face badly mangling it.They "Need the Money." , Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 6.?Twelve University of Pennsylvania medical students who "need the money" have put their bodies in the care of the United States Government for experimental purposes and formed an eating squad which meets morning, . noon and evening to eat government food, prepared with different kinds . of aluum, in order to test the effect it will have on their systems. The experiments are being carried out by Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, of the i Ramsen Board, assisted by fourteen government chemists. The squad has been eating alum for some time ! and shows no ill effects. Its members will continue on the govern. ment's diet until June. The members of the squad receive their board and $5 a week. The danger of being injured by the . food amounts to practically nothing, as each man is watched by Dr. Al. fred Stengle, the physician appointed by the government to watch out . for the men. They are examined alr>~,not Hailv I XUVl^b UMA*^ The results of the experiments will not be known for a year. Sheriff Not Guilty. Barnwell, Dec. 9.?At a late hour . last night the jury in the case of the State against Sheriff Frank H. . Creech, charged with assault and , battery with intent to kill, returned a verdict of not guilty. On the after. noon of August 5, at the Southern depot, Sheriff Creech fired his pistol to stop a buggy in which John and . Barney McLemore and Frank Grubbs . were riding, after his command to halt had been disregarded. The ball passed through the coat sleeve of Barney McLemore and lodged in , John's leg. The sheriff was attempting to seize an alleged shipment of . whiskey. The verdict of, the jury . was not unexpected by those who t heard the testimony. As this was the ; last case to be tried by the court of i general session a nigra sessiuu was ; held in order to finish it up and al. low the jurors to depart for their homes. Submitted Without Argument. ' It is said that one of David B. Hill's first law suits was a non-jury case, in which the opposing counsel f was one of the best attorneys in New York State. Hill gave a speech which lasted about three hours. It ' was such a speech as might be ex - i ? A ; + ' pected rrom a young lawjer, emu. it | was very trying to the court. After he had finished his opponent arose and said: "May it please the court, 1 I intend to follow the example of my young friend, and submit the case without argument." Hill, lost the case. A beautiful assortment of Christmas cards at Herald Book Store. MAY RESTORE SERVICE. Congressman Byrnes Urges Postmaster General to Do So. Washington, Dec. 6.?Congressman Byrnes to-day took up with Postmaster General Hitchcock the matter of having the mail agent placed on the afternoon train from Augusta to Port Royal and Beaufort on the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad. Until recently trains carrying the mail from Augusta to Beaufort and other points along the line left Augusta in the afternoon. 1 When, however, a morniDg train was i placed in operation the mail agent , was taken off the afternoon train. The result of this is that morning, mail out of Columbia and elsewhere 1 does not reach its destination until 1 the next day, because the train from i Augusta passes the junction point be- , fore the one from Columbia reaches there. Mr. Byrnes explained the matter at length to Mr. Hitchcock and told 1 him the hardship it was proving to the citizens of Columbia and other , places. He believes the postoffice department will remedy the situation by placing the mail agent back on the afternoon train. No Liquors Served for President Taft By his total abstinence President ? Taft has aided very materially in < creating a sentiment against serving ( wines at public functions. The following from an exchange shows that through deference for the presi- 1 dent wines were not servea at iwu banquets given in his honor while i on his western tour: , "Two banquets attended by President Taft on his recent Western trip underwent changes in the programs * in respect to the presence of intoxi- 1 eating liquors on the table after plans < had been arranged by those in charge i of the spread. In St. Louis the in- ^ toxicants were taken off the menu ! because the Presbyterian ministers of ; the city insisted that it would be dis- 1 courteous to permit them before the < plate of a totally abstaining guest. < In Pittsburg, the plans originally con- , templated a banquet in a hotel, at which wine was to be served, but the magnitude of the dinner made neces- 1 sary the use of the Soldiers' Memo- 1 rial hall, and the county commission- i ers, who have charge of that build- < ing, directed that no liquor should be brought into it." Resents Action of Connecticut. < Columbia, S. C., Dec. 9.?Fitzhugh ; McMaster, State Insurance Commis- j sioner, gave to the press to-day advance copies of a section from his ' forthcoming annual report to the I general assembly, in which he recom- | mends that South Carolina put on { notice all States which may have < such "insulting statutes" as a certain law of Connecticut that "these ' statutes must be blotted out, or that ' after a given time South Carolina | shall refuse to grant any franchise { to a corporation from that State to j do business in South Carolina." ' * 1 ? ?** n t?f* /\ "Keiaiiatory leglSiauuu, bayb cur; commissioner, "savors of the methods of the highwayman and is not recommended. But with dignity one State may decline dealing with another which wantonly and unjustifiably impugns the integrity of her promises^to pay by a statutory enactment, because, forsooth, at one time scalawags from other sections of the country united with renegades and negroes in South Carolina, and, sustained in power by military, issued fraudulent bonds and unloaded them on willing takers in the sections from which the scalawags came." Reference is had to a statute of Connecticut forbidding savings banks to invest in State, county or municipal bonds of several States south of the Mason and Dixon line. Mystery Over Shooting. j Franklin, N. C., Dec. 9.?There have been no developments of importance in the shooting affair which occurred at West's Mill, this county, Thursday night, when former State Senator W. J. West's daughter and her sweetheart, Perry Morrison, were shot. West's objections to Morrison paying attention to his daughter brought on the quarrel which re- ! suited in the gun play. West claims that Morrison shot the girl and he shot' Morrison in defense of his ; daughter. Morrison says that West i shot both of them. Owing to these i * 1 " 1 X _ U. _ ? ? A? AM/) f V> /\ 1 contradictory statemeuts <iuu mc j fact that no other evidence has come ! out, the authorities have made no i arrests. 1 It now appears that Morrison's < mother was somewhere in the build- ' ing when the shooting occurred, but i she has made no statement and there is a noticeable reticence on the part i of all those who may throw light on ' the circumstances surrounding the i affair. s Both Morrison and the girl receiv- 1 ed two wounds and their condition i has been critical since then. Accord- ] ing to the statements of physicians < and attendants, there is little pros- 1 pect for the recovery of either of : the injured parties. < I Have Yo & 3? 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Memphis, Dec. 6.?Two negroes and one young negress were burned t to death by a mob of white land c tenants who objected to the occu- i pancy of land by colored people, near Savannah, Tenn., yesterday, according to meager reports received here to-day. The lynching is said to have ^ Dccurred 10 miles from Clifton, renn,. in the vicinity of Bob's Landing. The three negroes were traveling to a gin with a load of seed cotton. * I_:J i-.ij ..~ +;o,} " 1 Ii6y were wa.yia.iu, neiu up emu. n^u. < to the wagon load of cotton, it is said, and the mob after building a fire beneath the wagon stood guard until the wagon was consumed. The negroes' team consisted of two mules. Dne animal was permitted to burn S to death, according to the reports J received at Savannah, while the other ^ was shot to end its misery. ' t ??f *f?'ftJti ?f? -*f' *tl 1ft *9* if* ??? 7 7*7 "a" %? 74? U?7|7 7*774? "477477 n Thougl lore shopping days after ;ime you were getting busy { i have? 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