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WIRELESS FROM TRAIN. Called the Fiend of a Passenger to! i Meet Him. A passenger aboard the Deleware. i Lackawannaiad Western train N-o. d.j reaching hee from New York at * 12:40 p. m.to-day, was met at the station by aScrantonl friend, whom ! he had suirnoned by wireless and j telephone re&y. The mess&e was sent from Creso to the Lackjvanna's wireless station i here and relyed by telephone to the j home of the^assenger's friend, me : | reply, "I'll ? there." was transmit- ! ted as the tiin was passing through i , Tobyhanna. f The distape from Cresco to Tobyhanna is thieen miles and the running time a the train for the dis-! tance is flft? minutes. From th? same t,rain an unin-j terupted cc*'ersation was carried i on with Scraton, while the train was passing thrtgh Nav Aug tunnel, j There waalso awaiting the airi-i ' yal of the "ain a morgue wagon, j summoned .* a wireless message to take chae of the body of a passenger whoiad dropped dead. It so happene however, that tue wagon was ot needed. The passenger had Id a fit and after being supposedly ad was resnscitated. ?Scranton tspatch to the Phila> delphia Leer. NEGROESHE FOR MURDER. ^ - ! Harry ThonPn and Albert Cantey Go Cleotric Chair. r Columbia, January 3.?Harry Thompson a Albert Cantey, two Charleston uroes, were electrocut- i H ed at the StaPenitentiary to-day at j Y noon for the :rder of A. W. Steeper, | a merchant Charleston. Thompson j was the first go and he was quickly followed Cantey in the death chair, it reqing only three minutes to put both iroes to death. Both * protested thsinnocence, only Cantey admitted his last statement jr > that he had h in bad company. I ; The mandaaf the law was quickly carried oufarry Thompson had some days ag>nfessed in the Catholic faith anftris morning before the current ^turned on as he sat ?? ; in the death lir he reiterated his v) belief in Chianity and declared # that he knew hing about the death of the white n for whose murder * he was electated. Two Catholic | -* priests were lent, one of them be^ ing Father rarty, of Columbia. j Thompson wrapped in the death f chair and therrent turned on at 12.42, two sts being given him, and at 12.4tiree minutes later, he was pronced dead. Attended IXegro Minister. Albert Caiiwas attended in his last momentr a negro preacher, fci _>j and a brothetio was present. He wF ^ sang two or ti hyms, and after be ing strapped he death chair made a short talk,faring he had made his peace wais Master, and his 13 / only reference the crime was that he had beenjad company, which p'*:. I had caused Ito get into his present position.ae first shock went ' through his y at 12.58, two of them being ?, and in three minK, utes, 1.01, hts pronounced dead. ^ It took eightperes at 1,950 volts iHfc. tn nnt Canter nf the wav. while r7 3-4 amperit 1,950 volts, were used in the cff the first murderer. Cantey's bwas claimed by his brother and be taken back to his former I at Charleston for burial. Nos has appeared to claim the bof Thompson, and if no demand ade for it, the re[i mains will berred in the potter's field. Second Ife Electrocution. This is th(ond double elect; o^ cution at thee Penitentiary since the law substng elecrocution for $ hanging wento effect in South Carolina. Trst one was when two negroes* put to death for the assassinaof Constable Coller at Beaufort. The crimech the two negro murderers eied with their lives i to-day in louble electrocution was theisination of A. W. Steeger, a prtfct white merciiant of Charlestoc&ty. The negroes were found g^n the Charleston county court entenced to death on December-Je sentences being respited untii&v by the Governor. The r<5 having expired ( this morning lgroes were legally put to deathvug for the crime for which th^e convicted. J. F. WALflEFUSKD BAIL. Charged Witt Murder of Allen Idal fe Chief. Columbia, a*y 5.?Chief Justice Gary tilling refused Dail to J. F. Walkf Hampton county, charged withmrder of Chief or Police J. B. H ,f Allendale. The tragedy occur0iie months ago at Estill in Han <0unty. R. P. Seansq., and George Warren, Esq.etred for Walker, while H. E. < jSq.( represented the State. GRANT CASE TO HIGHEST COURT. V. S. Supreme Court to Decide Question of Extradition. Lexington. January 4.?Solicitor j George Bell Timmerman is in receipt | of a letter from Assistant District Attorney George Welsh, of Philadel! phia, to the effect that the attorneys for Joe Grant, the Edgefield county negro who is fighting extradition to this State on a charge of murder, ! have appealed from the decision of i the lower courts and have carried the : case to the United States Supreme t Orvifrt ot TXrocViinctrvn the* sairt an W u I t MUkJiUUQVVMt w**v wv.v | peal to act as supersedeas. This I means that the case will be argued at Washington at such time as mav | be fixed by the court. The case has already been argued five times before the officials and in the State Courts of Pennsylvania, Solicitor Timmerman having won his fight in every case. He will now go to Washington to argue the case before the highest tribunal in the land. Attorney General Peepies has written Mr. Timmerman, expressing his gratification over the results so far, anu urging the solicitor to fight the case to the bitter end. The-Grant case is one of the most interesting in the history of the State. More than seven years ago Grant, it is alleged, killed J. T. Durst, a white man, in the town of Johnston. After his arrest, upon the promise that he wanted to change clothing before going to the county jail, he eluded the officials and made his escape. He was traced through many States, being finally captured up in Philadelphia last spring by a mulatto detective, who had learned that there was an outstanding reward of large proportions in this State for his arrest. Grant at once refused to come back to South Carolina, setting up the plea that he could not get a fair and impartial trial, his lawyers even going so far as to quote alleged public utterances of Governor Blease, in an ef fort to gain their point. Solicitor Timmerman is confident that the higher court will decide against the negro in favor of the State of South Carol'na, and that the appeal only serves to delay the ends of justice. AIKEX WILITHAVE HIGHWAY. Accept Offer of Government to Join Work to Extent of $10,000. Aiken, January 2.?Yesterday the county commissioners made a big step forward in che building of good roads in this county, when they decided to accept the government's offer of $10,000 for the building of a good road in the county. The day will be a memorable one in the history of the county and, by chance, it was the first dav of the new year, and it is hoped that it is just an omen of the beginning of a new era for this county. . This offer by the government was to the effect that if Aiken county would furnish $20,000 the government would give it $10,000, and was secured through the efforts of Congressman Byrnes. A meeting of the county commissioners was held last Friday and after considering the proposition it was decided that the money could not be accepted. It seems that the reason the offer was turned down was because they thought that by expending 520,000 on one good road other portions of the county might not fare so well because these sections would not be affected directly by the road. At the meeting yesterday morning a delegation of citizens of the county. composed of bankers, lawyers, farmers and merchants, waited on tiie commissioners and urged upon them the acceptance of the proposition. Several speeches were made and at times the meeting waxed warm. After due consideration of the matter it was decided to accept the money and the road to be built will be one running from the, Edgefield line to Aiken, and then continuing on to the Barnwell county line, thus giving Aiken county 28 miles of the best roadway in the State and at the same time accommodating a vast number of citizens. Ample money was promised to the districts not directly affected by this appropriation for the building and keeping up of the roads. Fixing the Blame. "Auntie, when when you were a young girl were you very pretty. "Yes, my child, very pretty." "Were you popular?" ' Oh, yes, very popular. I was the belle of the neighborhood." "Didn't any young man ever come to call on you?" "Oh, yes, my dear. Lots of them." "Then, auntie, why is it that you never married?" "Xobodv ever proposed to me. my dear." "Why not?" "I don't know. But I've often thought it must have been the high cost of living that scared the young men off in those days."?Detroit Free Press. 105 WERE KILLED IX ALPS, 1?13. Majority of Victims Were Poorly Equipped Excursionists. The Alpine climbing season of IS 10, which terminated on Nov. !, took a toll of 105 lives. Of these 105 only a small proportion, perhaps 20 at most, were really mountaini r? tlld tnip SPTlSe Of tile WOV(l. a iii tt*v v* v?x/ ? ? writes an exchange. The others were, as usual, tourists or excursionists in quest of flowers, or ill equipped pedestrians out for a mountain ramble. Three guides lost their lives and one was injured, while four woman were killed and two injured. Two of the women were killed by lightning, Mile. Renee Eugster, who lost her life on September 7, was an experienced climber, always on the alert I for new routes. On August 25, 1912, for instance, she made the first ascent of the Aiguille du Midi by the northwest wall. On September 7 last she was attempting to descend from the summit of the Aiguille de la Perseverance to the Vallee de Berard, a route entirely by way either of perpendicular cliffs or of overhanging rocks. With a double rope Mile. Eugster, accompanied by a porter, had already safely descended tv.o rock walls and was beginning to descend a third when a violent thunder storm supervened. The guide | was in a safe position, holding the I double rope, /by means of which j Mile. Eugster was descending, the porter having already got down, and being busy putting the ice axes unI de.r some rocks lest they should act as lightning conductors in the storm. The guide for a time lost sight of Mile. Eugster, who called out that the rope was too short to allow of lier reaching the ledge at which the porter had arrived. There was no ether way of doing this, but by unproping which she evidently did, for afterward she was heard to call out that she was in a safe place. The guide then began to descend, but when he reached the overhanging rock a flash of lightning suddenly occurred, which seems to'have dazed lam. for he let go the double rope, exclaiming: "I can't hold any longer. I am falling." He was, however, saved, owing to his having rolled the double rope around his leg, and he hung by one foot on a ledge of rock, from which predicament the porter speedily released him. By this time, however, Mile. Eugster was nowhere to be seen. Exactly what happened will never be known, since for a time neither the guide nor the porter could see 1 - "U 1 "1- J 4- ? 4--U ~ | uer. one pruuauiy iiasLeneu iu cue I assistance of the falling guide and | in so doing slipped on the snow of ; the couloir by which she was standing. What is certain is that she slipped in a standing position and that death was due to a wound on The temple sustained from a projecting rock. TWO HI KT^IN WRECK. "Shv i't" Train Splits Switch at Vam ille; Engine Turns Over. Hampton, January 4.?Train Xo. 4 6, generally called the "Short," between Augusta and Port Royal, on the C. and W. C. Railway, split a switch at Varnville this morning at 8.12 o'clock and was wrecked, the engine and tender turning on their sides and the combination mail and baggage car leaving the track. The train, consisting of the engine and three coaches, was running on time and was slowing down for the station stop, the accident occurring within two hundred yards of the depot. Con ductor E. L. Foster was in charge of the train and Engineer W. E. Rheney was at the throttle. John Foster, colored fireman, jumped and received slight bruises about the face. Mail Agent Summers, colored, had an arm fractured and his back sprained. No others of the I crew were hurt. The train was not running mere j than 12 or 15 miles an hour when the tender jumped the track at the I switch just west of the station. Very | [ soon after the wreck occurred many people from Hampton, Varnville and j surrounding communities were on the ! scene. Traffic has been interrupted all day, but Roadmaster Flannigen is doing all he can to have trains to get by the wreck some time to-night. Abolish Chair Factory. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 5.?Reliable information in Columbia is that a bill will be introduced at the coming session of the general assembly to abolish the chair factory at the State penitentiary. The contract with A. D. Martin, to act as selline: asrent for the prison, was made by the board of directors several weeks ago and holds good only until the next session of the legislature. About fifty convicts have been put to work in the chair factory, :ind more than 100 chairs have been completed. It is said that the bill to be introduced in the legislature will proviue for the convicts to be used in high| way work in the State. AN HONEST PRIMARY. | W How to Get It.?Suggestions FYom a Legislator of Experience. The reader of these lines, if he is one of the thousands who have helpof ed manage any of our primary elections, can write a better set of regu- m< lations than we now have. lei The great problem has been not d a. what to do, but to get anything done. tir Why Convention I)oes Not .^ct. * ici j We have depended on party conk i ventions. Time after time the convention has sidetracked proposed reforms. If you have ever been to a he State convention you know why. It a ! in an unwieldy crowd of men who rush through a lot of business in a he few hours. They get to a considera- ar tion of the report of the committee de on rules late in the program, some- lil times it is near midnight. There is ba no time to deliberate and rather than bo adopt changes they do not under- ed stand the convention does nothing, ba Even should the session be extended to two days, and the second given po to the rules, there could be no thor- b0 ough consideration. Delegates twice tn as numerous as the whole legislature, Ve unorganized, split into warring factions, many of the individuals candidates in an impending primary cannot be expected to give the calm, JO( fair, non-partisan attention and de- p, cision without which there could be no satisfactory change in our primary system. We are not guessing at possibilities, but facing established conditions in our conventions. Something Stronger Than Rules. But suppose for a minute that we could eliminate factionalism for once and hold the convention in session long enough for careful deliberation, we would then get only party rules and not State laws. We protect our , hogs by laws, shall we trust the birthright of our suffrage to a party rule? When our people go to the ballot box there is set in motion one of the ? mightiest forces that ever move them. Deep convictions are stirred, strong prejudices aroused, with passions v loosed. Along with the many moved L by high motives march the deter- J mined band of avaricious seekers for personal advantage, and those lusting for power. Here if anywhere in |j the life of our people the strong arm of the law is needed to protect us from the forces of evil, in the exercise of the most sacred and fundamental act of citizenship. At the hands of the legislature we can get redress. It can build a bulwark to protect our ballot, a bulwark buttressed by the law and backed by all the forces of our government. Even in States where the primary nomination is not equivalent to an election they control every detail of their primary elections by laws. How much more neecssary are legal safeguards with us where the primary is everything. ?' Our legislature has felt the neces- 1 sity of primary protecting statutes 1 and has enacted some. But they are scattering, and apply only here and there leaving such wide spaces unprotected that they amount to little or nothing. By passing them we have admitted the principles of statutory regulation, but by stopping with only a beginning accomplished our efforts have been futile. _ Now Is the Time to Act. It only remains for you, the readers of this article, and the rest of the rank and file of the party, to say to our representatives now about to assemble, "Give us a simple, plain, strnner law to nrotect our primary without taking away the ballot from any honest Democrat." Now is the time to strike. All the members of the legislature want is the word from you. They can work out the details in their forty day session. But it is up to you to insist that they act. Interested men may try to have them postpone again as they have in the past. You must look after your rights or they will be lost by default. LEGISLATOR. BRIDEGROOM IS WROTH. May Bring Suit to Test Wisconsin Eugenics Law. Milwaukee, Wis., January 2.? Steps were taken to-day to bring a test suit to determine the constitutionality of the eugenics law requiring male persons to present a satisfactory doctor's certificate before marriage. The law went into effect yesterday and Alfred A. Peterson and Hattie J. I Schmidt, each 29 years old, to-day [ were the first to seek a marriage [ license. They were accompanied by an attorney and when the county clerk refused them a permit the intended bridegroom became active. Feterson with his attorney began a search for a doctor who would examine him for $5, the price prescribed in the law. .Milwaukee physicians have agreed that they cannot give the required tests for that amount. If the doctors refuse to make the tests Peterson says he will begin a suit to test the constitutionality of the measure. ILLIAMS ACTED LIKE MADMAN. ltler Describes Hand-to-Hand En- ^ counter With Man He Slew. Dublin, Ga., January 4.?The story 1 a hand-to-hand battle with a mad- a in, each gripping the pistol of the ? her as they stood with drawn guns ? relied at each other, was told to- I y by S. D. Butler in his explana- * >n of how Postmaster J. M. Will- L ms, of Rock Ledge, was shot and 1 lied last night. "I shot Williams," said Butler, as rushed up to Marshal Devereaux 1 c short time after the shooting. "Here's my gun, and here's his," t ! added. "He was mad. I dis- ^ med him, but I am afraid he is ( ad. We stood there?it seemed b ce an hour?he holding my gun j rrel and I had hold of his?and th of us shooting. I finally wrenehthe gun from his hand and he ^ell c ckward to the floor." 1 When the marshal reached the * stoffice the discovery of William's * idy already had been made by relates. The chambers of both revol- ^ rs were empty. Butler was closely questioned at 1 3Ck Ledge and then brought to this i :y this morning, where he v/as 1 eked in the county jail by Sheriff ] anders. The coroner's jury order- < . Butler held, as there were no eve- i W anted^? Every person who has a de* an account with us. When the bank, you will not spen< if it is in your pocket. The and then you will have a des We pay 4 per cent, interest PEOPLES SANK - C. LEE, President armers-Mercl ! you are going to Build invite your COMPLETE HOUSE I I We manufacture and dea Stairs, Interior Trim, Stoi Pews, Pulpits, etc., Roug Lath, Pine and Cypress Sh Siding. Distributing agei Estimates Cheerfully Yoodward Lun AUGUSTA Corner Roberts 6 OUR Mi QUALITY = = "Procrastination is the thi PUTTING OFF that gets a in the picture?"Going to st< day, some day." Don't YOU ] MAKE A START?begin n< start an account. We will take care to serve you well. Make OUR ban! We pay 4 per ce nounded Quarterly c x X Farmers & Mc BUR HA HI TWO BROTHERS KILLED. Third Wounded in Row in Anderson County. Anderson, January 4.?C. D. Ellngton and Jay V. Ellington, negroes md brothers, were killed, and mother brother, Press Ellington, was ;eriously injured at a "skyrocket" >artv last night on the John Mc}lure plantation five miles west of he city. The row was begun when lother Henderson escorted Janie Joore home from the party. Jas. V. Ellington, it. is said, had been "go ng" with the woman, ana ne oc:am? jealous. The three Ellington >oys followed the couple home and he shooting followed. Rother Henierson has escaped. Joy Lee and Charley Henderson have been irought to jail and officers are searchng for Henderson. rjjj The State department of insurance :ollected the past year $172,492.b7 vhich has been turned into the State reasury. The operating expenses of :he department amounted to $10,19 4,73- 7| witnesses to the tragedy. According to Butler he and Wil- 'm iams "made up" last night over previous trouble and sat down to drink :ogether. Then an argument arose. Butler states that then Williams aet3d like a madman, the final tragedy esulting. | sire to save money to open yon deposit yonr money in 1 it as foolishly as yon will srerfore, yon have saved it; lire to have a large account, t on savings deposits. - - - Bamberg, S. C. II Ml ' "PTE GIBSON, Sect'y & Treas. iants - - Builders | i , Remodel or Repair, we inquiries. JILLS A SPECIALTY 1 in Doors, Sash, Blinds, re Fronts, and Fixtures, h and Dressed Lumber, lingles, Flooring, Ceiling its for Flintkote Roofing and Carefully made. iber Compajy f GEORGIA J ' *^3 : Dugas Streets OTTO: = SERVICE J| sgpCUT THE KOFfc /? I p&ND PUT YOUR I ^MONEY IN THE I BANK OR YOU WILL I :?^BE LOST , I 404 I ief of time." It is constant man in a fix like the one = Dp wasting his money some put off banking your money, ow. Gome to our bank and treat you courteously and < YOUR bank nt. interest, com>n savings deposits Rank I :>r, s. c. /i