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??? >' "* *?/??*+ ? ->^?7 '. - v * VOL. V. NO. 11. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1908. Sl.SOPer Year I? ^ ^ ? ? t Palmetto Affair* The News of Soutfli Carolina in Condensed f ornk Mors Cadets Dismissed. I Clem son College, Special. ? Two hundred snd fifty-seven students of j Clemson College were dismissed from * the institution. This number, with the 48 members of the junior elsss dismissed on Saturday, aggregates 305 dismissed on account of the all fool's day escapade, when 300 cadets absented themselves from the cam f pus, drills and elasses from 7 :45 a. m. until (i p. m. Of the 300 partiei rits only fouV were not dismissed. B. McBrady, a member of the ju nior class from Charleston, was sus pended until next September. He testified before the discipline com mittee that he absented himself from drills and classes, but did not leave the camnus. Cadet B. T. Knight, of 0 Chesterfield, a member of the fresh man class, was excused of this charge. It was on account of extenuating cir cumstances surrounding his case that the committee dismissed the charges. Cadet J. H. Haydon of Orangeburg of the preparatory class and Cadet J. R. Fizer of Summerville of the freshman class will be dealt with ?* summarily by Commandant Minus. The testimony in the cases of these young men differed widely from the testimony in the other cases. The discipline committee met in the pres ident's office. The session lasted until 1 o'clock in the morning, when it was announced the committee had de termined upon punishment for the participants in the escapade. The committee has been holding sessions ^ three times a day excepting Sunday since last Wednesday ? one week ago. At 7:45 Friday morning when the > corps formed in line for their regular daily drill Commandant Minus had his adjutant to publish an order di ? recting the participants in the escap ade to turn in at the quarter-master's department all college and govern ment properties in their possession. Settlement in Sight. _ A special from Asheville, N. C., gives the latest developments in the ^dispensary litigation as follows: 4 'Judge Pritchurd, ir the United States Circuit Court, signed an or der in the South Carolina dispensary matter which, it is believed by local counsel for the complainants, will have the effect, if accepted by counsel for the winding-up dispensary com mission, of ending the matter terapor . arily and permitting it to pursue its way through the courts. The order made by Judge Pritclmrd provides: First, the defendants, constituting the State dispensary commission, shall, within five days from the date of this order, .deposit in the registry of (his court, to be held subject to the orders of this court, all notes, evidences of indebtedness, collaterals and other se ^ curities of whateve.r kind and charact er, taken by them to secure the pay ment of the moneys deposited in the various banks within the State of South Carolina. Second, the defen dants shall, within the said five days, ^ tile a bond with good and sufficient surety .to be approved l?y this court, in the sum of $250,000. payable to the receivers heretofore appointed by this court, nnd conditioned to turn over to said receivers in the event that the orders appealed from shall be affirmed, or the defendants shall fail to prosecute their appeal, all moneys, credits, accumulated interest, property or assets which said defen dants or any of them, now have, or ought to have in their possession or under their control under and by vir tue of the act of the General Assem bly of t he State of South Carolina, creating the dispensary commission." It is given out on reliable authority that the dispensary commission will accept. Rev. Mr. Hafney Accepts. Clover, Specinl. ? At a enll meting of the Bowling Green Presbyterian congregation last Friday Rev. \V. II. j Hefner announced his decision to ac cept the call to Fort Mill. Mr. Hef- j ner has been pastor of the Bowling Orcen ebureli for ten years and a j half, and is held in high esteem by , all who know him in this community ] ^ .? regardless of denomination. Violated Military Law. .m Columbia, Rpe<4nl.? ^Ajt. (Jen. Boyd i has received a letter from Capt. Hud- I ley of the Clifton company, stating t ^ that Jesse Bryser, a former member: of his company, is in the Spartanburg , jail, charged with selling his uniform, a violation of the military law of this xtate. It is probablo that the ease against the man wiM be dropped up on the payment of all costs but Oen. , Boyd stated most emphatically that ' the military companies must take ! better care of the property issued r which belongs to the gove;Timcnt. J Tho next violation reported will be prosecuted. Spartan City Band Named. Spartanburg. Special. ? The Spar tanburg City band has been appoint ed the offloinl band of the First rcgi ^0 mcnt. South Carolina National Guards, and will be mustered in at an early date. It is possible that the band may be mustered in next Wed nesday when Adjutant General Bovd Asssitant Adjutant General Brock and Lieut. Cabaniss come to Spartan burg to inspect the Hampton Guards. Mr. Henderson Eu Withdrawn. Aiken, Special. ? The Hon. D. 8. Henderson has given out the follow ing statement: "Some time ago I announced that I would be a candidate for the long term for United States senator, but there are now reasons, in which the public would not be interested, which induce me not to enter the race, cud I feel it mv duty to my friends to so state at this juncture, in order that they may align themselves where and with whom they see tit. , "I am very grateful for the sup port which my faithful friends have tendered me. "If any issue presonal to myself I was made or if there was any public j issue in which the welfare of the State and public at large were involv ed that would arise in the ensuing canvass 1 would continue the race to the end; but as none such exist there is 110 duty which requires such action on my part. There will be no dearth of candidates from pi ^sent nppoar an?es, and for the good of the State I hope the people will make a wise choice." Gaffney Man Badly Hurt. Gaffney, Special. ? Mr. J. A. Ma son ,one of the good citizens of Gaff ney, went to train No. 33 Tuesday night with Mrs. Mason and the child ren, who were going to visit relatives in Kentucky. He helped them on the train. Before he could get off the cars had gained considerable head way, and in endeavoring to jump Mr. Mason fell, striking on his head and face on the hard cement pavement j along the track, mashing in one of his { cheek bones and fracturing the skull. , The injured man was taken in chargp ; by Dr. Sherrad, who gave him proper 1 attention. Mrs. Masop and the child I ren knew nothing of the accident and j Conductor Mauncy told them noth | ing of* it until his train met No. 30 | at Cornelia, Ga. They transferred at that point and came back to Gaff I ney. Dr. Sherrard says that the pa 1 tient is getting on fairly well and if ! no complications arise there is every t reason to hope for his recovery. Mr. I Mason is held in high esteem by the j people of Gaffney. and the accident is regretted by all who know him. Important Decision in a Railway Suit. Columbia, Special. ? The Supreme court has rendered an intersting de cision in the case of Alice Ida May field of Spartanburg against the At lanta & Charlotte Air Line railway. The suit was brought for $20,000 for the death of her husband, J. O. May ficl.l, in Spartanburg in September, 1005. Lrter a suit was also brought : in the United States courts and the ' attorneys for the railway asked the : dismissal of the State suit on the ground that the other suit, which was ulso against the Southern railway, the lessee, had precedence. The State supreme court holds, however, that ' the action in the State court is allow able and acordingly the suit will be tried in the usual way. Saw Mill Burnod. Sumter, Special. ? The sawmill of , I'arker Brothers Lumber company, I situated at Harriett's Crossroads, was j burned last week. The mill was a J total loss and 250,000 feet of lumber stacked in the yard was also burned. The tire started in the sawdust pile and fanned by the high winds, spread j to the mill. The actual loss was be tween $3,500 and $4,000 with no in , surance. This is the third lire that . Messrs. Parker have had in the past ? three years, the total loss by the three | tires exceeding $10,000. I Help For T. P. A. Sumter, Special. ? City Council ap propriated $350 as its share to assist the chamber of commerce and Post G. T. P. A. of Sumter in properly en tertaining the State convention of T. P. A., which meets in Sumter next month. The T. P. A. and the chamber of commerce will appro priate similar sums, through the business men of Sumter. , Fertiliser Receipts Havo Been Heavy. Columbia, Special ? The fertilizer season ha* practically closed until the fall shipment* begin and the receipts by the State treasurer indicate that the income from the tag tax will be heavier than ever. So far the tag tax, which is 25 cents per ton on all fertiliser shipped, has amounted to $140,04S.77 as against $120.41)7. OS for Die same period in 1007. The to!?l receipts for 1007 amounted to $150, 934.81, this indicating that t lie re ceipts for 100S would exceed the fig ures for 1907 by several thousand dol lars. Mr. B. W. Rushton Doad. Johnston, Special ? Saturday after noon about 2 o'clock Mr. B. M. Hush ton died suddenly at his home here, his death being caused by rheumatism of the heart. He was buried Sunday afternoon at Bethlehem Methodist church, six miles from Johnston. Mr. Hushton was born and raised near Bethlehem and he was the son of Mrs. Tahitha Rushton. Mr. Hushton was a good citizen and much respect ed. THE WORK OF CONGRESS ?riM> of Ov National Law Kaktn DV by Day. Army Bill p mm, The army appropriation bill u re Pjrted to the Senate carries $98,820,. JO0, a net increase of $14,612,843 over the amount of the bill as it was pas*. by the House. The principal items of incressc are as follows : Telephone system at interior and Joast artillery posts, $70,000; increas sd pay of officers and enlisted men, $7,000,000; militia encampments and maneemvres, $1,000,000; subsistence, *382,591; regular supplies and inci dents! expenses, quartermaster's de partment, $1,215,394; barrscks and quarters, $1,472,580; transportation army supplies $274,437; wv ter snd sewers and military posts, 1711.275; construction and repair of hospitals, $225,000; special apparatus and supplies for field artillery for or ganized militia, $250,000; manufac ture of arms, $300,000, and quarters for officers and nurses at Fort Bay. ard, N. M., $214,100. Ser.ate Devotes Day To It. Nearly the entire time of the Sen a c was taken up in the consideration of the army bill, but only minor amendments were offered and these, with one exception, were voted down. I he only amendment adopted pro P ^ wT.-a 8y8tcm waterworks for . J, n Hei,lT? Montana, for which $*-0,000 was appropriated. The pay of officers and enlisted men in the army will be materially increased should the clause earning $7,000,000 tor that purpose pass the House when the bill as ir.nended is sent back to that body. The Fortifications Bill. Senator Perkins reported to the ^ nate the bill making appropriation? for fortifications and other work of defense. It carries $11,510,187, an increase of $3,299,570 over the amount of the bill as it was passed i the House. The principal item* of increase are as follows; Construction of gun and mortar batteries. $835,000; fire control sta tions and accessories. $90,035; current for power and lighting at seacoast fortifications $248,888; sea wall at Fort Travis, Texas. $350,000; sea a-QtAioannon carriages ami sires 01 3; seacoast batteries in Ha waiian islands, $2(59.400; submarim *-onnoTtnr<7'' Hawaiian islands $oJ,000; torpedo planters and launch rrs ,for Hawaiian and Philippine is lands $199,000; guns and carriage/ looo 4AAn,lan nnfl Philippine islands * ? 1.400 : ammunition for insulai possession, $200,000; submarine mini material for Hawaiian islands, $188. 014. Of the appropriations made $1,882, 900 will go toward extending the de fenses on Puget Sound, in accordant with the recommendations of tin Jaft board. Liability Bill Passed. With only one vote reeordet ncrainst it, that of Mr. Littlcfield. ol Maine, the House of Representative? under suspension of the rules passed the Sterling employers' liability bill after 40 minutes' debate. Tn brief the bill establishes the doctrine thai the the railroad companies encrajred it inter-State commerce are liable foi personal injuries received by eni|?lo os in the service of such carriers. abolishes the strict commor law rub of liability which bars a recovery foi the personal injury or death of ar employee, occasioned by the necrlj gence of a fellow servant. It alsr relaxes the common law rule whiel. rrakes contributory neirli^ence a de tense to claims for sunh injuries. A provision, however, diminishes tin amount of the recovery in the sam? degree that the negligence of the in jnred ono contributed to the injury The bill further makes each part\ responsible for his own netjlijenee tnhereo7n,rPS PnCl1 to b?ar ",e b"rdor n ^ truce between the D*mocr?t? nn<t Republicans was declared for t time when under a suspension of tin rules the House took up the employ, ^rs' liability hill. ' * Tho Bill Explained. 'Mr. Sterling, of Ilfitiois, explained the provisions of I lie bill, and in re spouse to n question bv Mr. Orum packer, of Indiana. stated that tin bill would ba upplienble to inter urban car linen between States and street railroad liner, in the loriiloric? and the District of Columbia. Mr Hcnrv, of Texn?\ snid t lir* bill was ? meritorious and const it tit ion r' on?? and tbat not a Pcmorrntic vote bf recorded npoinst it. In tbe opinion of Mr. Tiittlcfleld faction 'A of the bill, rHatincr to ac tions at law in <as"s ef contributor* t?r?rli'ZfM*rc. i* n" 'rnov.t ion of ex isting laws. Tie delivered a le<ral ar prumrnt in support <>f his confentiot and declared tbat the bill is nov op"n to the srvn? < bi^elien that wai tjrs"<' i' th? -o' drt"larcd nn const it 11 ? ional bv the Supreme four of the t'nitcd Stntcs. Minority leader V-'illiams wel eomed "the opportunity *<> illustrnt to the country how rub 1*1 v and hov rapidlv wc can join in pa*??in' remedial letrislation." fontinivr* Mr. Williams said tho Dnnoorat would b" Had to b? furnished wi*1 more like it "nnd to re*?cnt tbe il lustration as each remedial bill i furnished to the lTou*o. It was," h< said, "The first tncouva cement it rome time." A SIP, OOP, 090 FIRE Boston Suffers Heaviest Los* Since San Francisco TWO LIVES KNOWN TO DE LOST ^ Fir* Which Originated From Spon taneous Combustion in Rear of Beaton Blacking Company's Works Devastates More Than One Square Mile of the Manufacturing, Busi . ness and Tenement District ol Chelsea. Boston, Special. ? Fire devastated more than one square mile of the manufacturing, business and tene ment district of Chelsea Sunday en tailing a loss estimated at fully $10, 000,000. The fire started at 10:40 a. m. near the Boston Blacking Com pany's works on West Third street, near the Everett City line, and crossed the city, a distance of ono mile and a quarter to Marginal, op posite the east Boston shore. So far as can be learned there was one fa tality. Hall' a hundred persons were injured. Among the buildings burned were 13 churches. Frost Hospital, Chil dren's Hospital, City Hall, Fitz Pub lic Library, five school houses, a doz en or more factories and about 300 tenements and dwellings. The residential section of the city where the wealthier class reside, es caped the flames. In the retail section, through which the fire passed, were 200 busi ness blocks which were destroyed. The United Slates Marine Buildings wero not damaged. Fire Under Control. The Chelsea fire was practically under control at 9 o'clock Sunday night. The women are known to be dead as a result of the fire. Neither body has been identified. The fire originated in the rear of the Boston Blacking Company's works on West Third street, near the eastern division of the Boston & Maine Railroad and in close proxim ity to the Kverett City line. A terri fic gale from the northwest, which at times had a velocity of (50 miles an hour, carried burning shingles, embers and myriads of sparks to a score of wooden buildings, most * of them of cheap wooden construction. The fire started almost in the ex treme southwest section of the city and cut a path to the end of Mave rick street at the extreme southeast ern nd of the city, which borders on Chelsea creek. This point is about one mile and a quarter from the point where the conflagration began. The flames swept through the heart of the retail business section, which was about midway between the two ex treme limits reached bv the fire. Exact Cause Not Known. The fire started on the marshes bor dering the eastern division tracks of the Boston & Maine Railroad in the renr of the Boston Blacking Com pany's works, where oinploves were at work drying out rags. The com pany's works are situated at the end of West Third street, half a mile northwest of the heart of the city. A series of long, low wooden build ings comprised the works, stored for the most part with old rags and pa per. The exact cause of the fire is not known, but it is supposed that spontaneous combustion among the rags was responsible. A high wind, blowing at 45 miles an hour from the northwest drove J he tlmnes from the rag heaps direct lv uppn the wooden buildings of the Boston Blacking Company. The buildings were soon a mass of flames and as surrounding property consisted largely of wooden buildings used for storage of rags, the fire de partment realized that a serions fire was threatened, and a general alarm was sounded. Realizing flint the eitv was appar ently doomed if the names could not be stopped a? Kvorett avenue, Fire Chief H. A. Spencer summoned help from Boston and all the surrounding cities aud towns. Four alarms were rung in on the Boston circuit and all the available apparatus was sent across the harbor. Karlv in the af ternoon aid had arrived from Fvor ftt, Lvnn. Haverhill. Wakefield, Sn Wn, Maiden, Cambridge, Wirithron nnd Revere. Shipment of Chailbourn Berries Be gins. Wilmington, N. C., Special. ? He quisition whs made for seven refrig erator oars f >r strawberry shipments from the Chadbourn sort ion, and twenty cars are asked to hp iced f >r Monday. The (irst berries appeared on this mnrkct Saturd.iv and sold rea lily at 2T> eents a quart. Tin* shipments to the North have not vet been sufficient to establish a market for the North Carolina fruit. Tin* eomincr week the movements is ex pected to reach 7"> or l'v) car?, daily. Toachers Go To Savannah, New York, Special.- A party of New York's public seliool teachers '?.ailed for Snvnnivoy. ov ilt<> <'f :irnsliip City of Columbus, to spT.d 'he Master holidays in tin? South. There are 70 women and 10 men in ?lie party, which included Principals Walter R. Gunnison. of Krasmns 'fall Hie!) Scho< 1, and Charles 1) 1-arUins, of the Mutual Training School. MONEY FOR NAVY Lttfe Appropriations to Build and Equip Vessels PLAN FOR TWO NEW MONSTERS Chairman Foes, of ths Committee on Naval Affair*, Beports the Naval Appropriation Bill Authorising the Construction of New Battleships and Torpedo Boats ? Carries a To tal Appropriation of $103,967,618? Provision Made For Enlistment of 7,600 Men to Man New Ships. Washington, Special. ? The naval appropriation bill authorizing: the construction of two instead of four battleships and eight instead of four submarine torpedo boats, and carry ing a total appropriation of $103,967, 518 for the naval service for the fis cal year ending Juno 30th, 1909. was reported to the House by Chairman Fosr, of the committee on naval af fairs. The total appropriations recom mended is $22, ">18,831 less than the aggregate estimates submitted by the Department, und is $3,663,916 more than the amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1908. The bill carries an item of $1,000, 000 toward the const ruction of sub marine torpedo boats and an item of $445,000 toward the construction of subsurface torpedo boats. Provis ion is made for the enlistment of G.000 men to man the following ships which arc to be put in commission within the next few mouths: The California, Mississippi, Idaho, New Hampshire, South Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Chester, Birming ham and Salem; and for 1,500 men to man the torpedo boats not now in commission. Chief Items in the Bill. Among the chief items in the hill are the following: For naval tcain ing station. Great Lakes, $1,095,000; for construction and machinery $9. 332.902 ; for armor and armament $7,000,000; for equipment $400,000; for subsurface and submarine boats $1,445,000. An increase of .">00,000 over last year's appropriation was allowed in the appropriation for ordinance and ordinance stores, mainly for target practice and because there will be in full or in partial commission during the fiscal year 24 battleships, 12 first clnss cruisers. 60 second and third rate vessels, 00 torpedo vessels and 15 auxiliaries, making a total of 177 vessels. There is also an increase of $150, 000 for smokeless powder. The bill further provides an appropriation of $415,000 fo'r replacing the 3-pounder and fi-pounder guns by 3-inch 50 cnlibre or larger guns, because of the increase in the effective range of the latest type of torpedo. These new guns are designed to give the ships protection against long range torpe do discharge. Provision is nlso made for other changes intended to keep the batteries of the ships in the high est state of efficiency. Nine hun dred and fifty thousand dollars in ap propriated for torpedoes and the con verting of torpedo boats. The ap propriation for arming and equipping the naval militia is increased to $100,000 "in order that this branch of the naval reserve of the I'nited States may be more efficiently con ducted." The appropriation for equipment of vessels is increased $500,000 over the current fiscal year on account of the increased number of ships in (commis sion and the necessity of fitting them with new gun firing apparatus and with wireless telegraphy. Twenty-seven New Boats. Tin* appropriation for coal and transport at ion is increased $S.">0,000. For provisions for the navy an ap propriation is made of $(>, f>47. OO.'I. The report Accompanying the bill states that an allowed increase of $100,000 in the appropriation for pro visions for the marine corps "is dne to the increased cost of 1 (> per cent, in the price of rations." The report shows that there arc in eoursp of building seven battle ships, fonr armored cruisers, three scout cruisers, five torpedo boat de stroyer*. four submarine torpedo boat;-, two colliers and two seagoing tugs. The amount necessary to be appropriated to pay for the work now progressing and contracted for durintr the next fiscal year is $17. L\TJ!)(?2. I'nder the heading "naval programme," the committee reeoin rn"nds that the President be author ized to have constructed two firsl elass batleshipy, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding. $0,000,000 each; ten torpedo boats destroyers, to have the hitdies' prac t i? able sp"ed end to cos! exclusive of nimantent vol to exceed i{Md0.000 each; that the Hecretarv of Hie Navy be authorised to have constructed eight submarine torp"do boats to cost in the neffffgate not more than $.'{. *>00,000 ?>f <v!.i(b amount $!. 000.000 5k approm ia'cd ; and one stih-tirfrtcc tornado boat at a cost 11 r?! to exceed $4(10,000, and two ?ma11 vessels of like not to exceed in cost ^22 r>00 o;i'h-- a total authorization of $2.'V 0!">.000 which will be increased $7, 000.000 by the cost of arming aud equipping the two battleships. STATE MAY RESIST South Carolina Will Probably Refuse to Give heaoy Bond REQUIRED BY JUDGE PRITGHARD Order of Judge Pritchard Granting SoptmdMa on Certain Conditions in the Dispensary Matter Served Friday on Commission and At torney General. But Conditions Will Not Be Complied With? Col lateral in Hands of State Treasurer Who Is In Mississippi and Not in Possession of Commission ? Attor ney General Lyon Back From Washington, Where He Called on Chief Justice Fuller and Discussed Case. Columbia, S. C., Special.? Attor ney General Lyon returned from Washington, where lie has 4>een for several days, accompanied by Mr. I). W. Rountree, of Atlanta, of counsel for the dispensary commission. Mr. Lyon stated very emphatically that the dispatches sent out from Wash ing to to the effect that he had made a motion before Chief Justice Fuller in the dispensary matter were erro neous, being utterly without founda tion and unauthoized bv him. He said that as a matter of fact he and Mr. Rountree had called on Chief Justice Fuller and had talked with him in regard to the procedure which could be adopted to get the case up speedily before the highest tribunal in the land, but that he had made 110 motion at all. The case, it appears, has some unusual features, and there is little precedent for getting the mat ter b<>fore the Supreme Court with out going through the usual formali ties of appeal. If a motion were mado before the Chief Justice, it would be a motion for an order to show cause why a supersedeas should not be granted, but it has not been decided to take this step. The order of Judge Pritchard, granting a supersedeas on conditions was not served until Friday when it was received through the mail by Chairman Murray and the other mem bers of the commission as well as by Attorney General Lyon, from the of fieo of the clerk of the Federal Court in Charleston. The order is dated April 8th and requires compliance within five days from date of order, the members of the commission have now only three days to arrange their personal affairs so as to take an en forced absence from business, for a longer or shorter period. The commission will not give the heavy bond required by Judge Pritch ard ami will not surrender the collat eral which he requires to be surren dered, so that the commission will be in contempt in refusing to obey the order to deposit the collateral with the Federal Court. As a matter of fact, the collateral is not in the pos session of the commission, but is with the State Treasurer, and has been in his possession for a long time, even before the books and records of the dispensary were placed in the Treas urer's vaults, so that the commission can make answer that the collateral is not in its possession at all, and it cannot comply with the primary and most important condition of Judge I'ritchard's order. Of course, if Judge Pritchard can get hold of the collateral, he has the case in his hands absolutely and, of course, the State is not going to surrender the collateral. Judge Pritchard may serve an or der on State Treasurer Jennings, but it happens that Captain Jennings is in Mississippi and not at this time in the jurisdiction of Judge Pritchard 's court, lie is having a pleasant visit out there and is doubtless not in any hurrv to return, unless he is request ed to come home by Governor Ansel. The Governor will not, however, ask the Treasurer to come back to give up the collateral, and lie will not in struct any one to give it up. because the State is going to keep its hands 011 the collaterals. These collaterals were deposited as security for the de posits of the dispensary money with the various banks of the State, and the banks will not pay out the mopev without getting their securities back. Jealous Husband Shoots Wife and Suicidcs. Now York, Special ? Without warn ing and apparent motive Albert Heis er, ;i b:iker, suddenly drew a revolver at Hie dinner table, fired two shots at hi* young bride and then killed himself by sending a bullet through his bruin nt their home on Lexington avenue. Mrs. llciser who was twice wounded in the body, is not expected to recover. She told the police that her husbnuvl had been .jealous of her but could not say whv he had at templed t ?? take her life. LaFollcttc Ahead In Wisconsin. M ilwaukee, Wis., Special. ? Scat tering returns received from through out Wisconsin indicate that four del. "gates at large favorable to the nom ination of Kobert M. LaKollettc a I the K"pub!icnn Nntional Convention at Chicago have been elected. The returns so far show that in ?lm'>:;' every instance LaFollcttc delegates have a good lead on the Taft oppon ents. CONGRESSMAN DltS Representative Brick Added to Long List of Present Session HAD JUST BEEN RENOMINATED Abraham Lincoln Brick, Rapreeenta tire From the Thirteenth Indiana District, Dies in a Sanatorium at Indianapolis ? While Attending State Convention He Became Sick and Did Not Betnm to His Home Indianapolis. Ind.. Special. ? Con gressman Abraham Lincoln Brick, of the thirteenth Indiana district, died suddenly here Tuesday in a sanato rium. Acute Blight's disease is given aa the cause of death. He came here from his home in South Bend last week to attend the Republican State convention. Representative Brick was nominat ed recently by the Republicans of the thirteenth district for his sixth term. A question has arisen as to whether another nominating conven tion will he necessary or whether the district and county chairman are empowered to till t he vacancy. Resolutions of Regret. Washington. Special. ? Official *n noune'ement of the death of Abraham lj. Briek. of Indiana, was madVr in the House of Representatives by Mr. Ovcrstrcet, one of his colleagues, who offered resolutions of regret, which were unanimously adopted. Speaker Cannon announced the usual committee to attend the fun eral and as a further mark of respect the House at 4:0(5 o'clock in the af ternoon took a recess. The Senate was notified of the death of Representative Brick aro<f upon motion of Senator Beveridgo resolutions of regret were adopted and as a further mark of Respect the Senate adjourned. Fort Macon to Be Repaired. Washington, Special. ? The fortifi cations appropriation bill' was passe<? by the Senate with appropriations of $12,116,187. As passecl bv the House of Representatives the bill carried' an aggregate of $3,210,(111', the Senate addintr $.'{,905,576. j^niendments to the bill were made in the Senate ap? propria! ing $500,000 on motion of Senator Flint, of California, for land" and fortifications at Point Firmen, Los Angeles, Cal., and $100,000 ad" ditioual on motion of Senator Sim mons, of North Carolina, for the re pair of fortifications at Fort" Macon of his State. Bank Property Soli. Atlanta, (la.. Special ? According to an announcement made here the Buena Vista and o!her suburban property in Havana, Cuba, which were one of the assets of the Nenl Bank, now in a receiver's ha mi's in this city, has been sold to .T. K. Bar low, of Havana, for $75,000. A local firm had an interest in the property and received half of the sale price, the other half going to the NVal bank. Incipient Riot Quelled. Augusta, (5a.. Special". ? The police reserves were called out here to- quell a riot amonir negroes Monday at Twiggs and Charles streets. Maefc Frever. a nevro, was fntaflv shot by the poljce. The trouble originated in t lie negro settlement when a police man attempted to quell a disturbance. The L. & N. Rc-Employs Shop Force. Decatur, Ala.. Special. ? The Louis ville & Nashville Railroad re-enifwdv ed 150 men at the shops in New Def eat ur and i' is stated that others will be taken on in a few days, ft is rm derstood that the company wiff re sume the building of new freight ran# in the near future. Street Cars Tiet! Up in Pcnsacola. Pcnsacola, Fla., Special. ? Street car traffic in Pensacola is at n stand still owing to the fact that the con ductors and motormen nrc on a strike. They quit work hecouse the company wanted men whom they had suspend ed to report at the offices Hirer times a dav. The men refused and their comrades struck out of sympathy. Child Labor and Education. Atlanta, Ca., Special. ? A discus sion of child tabor in its feint ion to education, in which many prominent delegates participated, was the feat ure of Friday's session of the Nation* al Child Labor Conference. Friday evening Dr. Felix Adler, of New York spoke on "The Basis of t lie An t i-Child-Labor Movement in the Idea of American Civilization." Don Mar quis, editor of Cncle Remus' Maga zine, discussed 44 The Child and the Mill," and addresses were made by several others. Asquith Will Bo British Prcmior. London, By Cable. ? Chancellor of the Exchequer Herbert II. Asquith left for Biarritz, in Southwestern France, to receive from Kin?j Edward the offer of the British premiership* to acept it and hurry back to London to resume at once the duties he has been performing during the illnesa of his predecessor, Sir Uenry Camp? bell-Bannermon.