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?AT, JANUAKY 14, 1909 ( r Tbe npnintoodeBt of ? ? HtHaUBiy, Capt. IX J.GdflHb, kaa Mphtid his annul report on ecipts and expenditures for tlM year 1906k The peport shows that vnder lbs prssant official fores His institu tion has ??"" * sbls noMy and ths affairs were eondneted en the aast businesslike basis Ths sbowinf it all tbe more remarkable becaaae~of ths dsstraetion of the August freshet. Tbe statement c? tbe caak oa hand and ths expenditures U given as fol Cash on band De cember 31st, year 1008. . . .f20.262.24 Cash reeeipts for year 1908. . . . 85,795.43 ?" $115,017.72 Expenditure* ? Expenses for year 1908, eash. . $ 63,669.00 Permanent improment, . 1908.. .. 10,956.29 $74,025.29 Cash balance on band De cember 31, 1908 40^92.43 197 bales eotton on band December 31, 1908. ..... 13365.00 Aceouhts due snd available .5,000.00 Total on band and available $68,757.43 Ths perms nent improvements in clude the reformatory building at the, Lexington farm, costing $4,347.89; boiler room at same, $1,875; beds for re forms tory, $1,003.29; South Carb lina Industrial school at Florence, $543.98; Rcid farm mill,, $530; mill equipment, $113.70; also repairs to women 'a building at the State prison and varioua incidental expenses ioei dent to heeping up the penitentiary buildings snd outbuildings, making ths totsl of $10,956.29 for permanent Improvements. By the flBod the oiite penitrntfiiy farms lost about 20,00 bushels of corn a a well aa five or 10 tons of hay, and had it not been for this disaster ths profit from tbe penitentisry this yesr wenld have been at leaat $75,000. As it is the showing of the yesr is the best in the history of the ipetution. Andsrson Fanner Suicides. Anderson, Special. ? News reached the city Sundsy of a suicide, which , occurred in the northern section of I Gsrvin township, nesr the Pickens county line Saturday. Mr. W. A. i Young, a white man about 60 years! eld, with spparently no reason except that he was tired of life, slashed his throat with a razor and was found by members of his family a short dis tsnce from the house gasping for breath. He was taken into the house and died within a very short tiifie'. Mr. Young was a farmer and last year , was a tenant on the plantation of Dr. | W. A. Tripp. ? Laurens Merchant Fail*. , Laurens, Special.-- -Former State! Senator O. P. Goodwin, fanner and merchant, Saturday made a general assignment for tMrbeneflt of his cred- 1 Itors. Robt. A. Cooper of the firm of Simpson, Cooper & Babb, attorneys, being the asaignee. Aaseta oomists of | two farm* Ind some aurburban town property, including a store house. The , ?ehedule of liabilities if incomplete | hut MV. Goodwin 'a friends believe he will be able to save his home. How ever, it ia made without reservation,! the homeetead privelege being waived | and dower rights renounced by Mi*. Goodwin. It is practically certain that creditors will be paid in full. Governor Calls For Contributions. Columbia, Special.-J-Governor An sel Tuesday afternoon iaaued an ap peal to the people of the State to con- , tribute to the relief of the Itslian earthquake sufferers through ths , South Caroling representstives of the ) Red Cross. Governor Anael himself i bat sent forward a contribution, j which was acknowledged in a dispatch from an Italian newspaper. Fir* Hear Rock Hffl. Rock Hill, Special.? The home of Mr. Will Biggers, situsted on ? his farm, about four miles north of the city, with sll its contents, was burned Wednesday night between 10 and 11 o'clook. Mr. Ed Biggers was the only person at home and he awoke barely in time to save his life. The Ore caught nesr the chimney in the roof snd the falling timbers waked the sleeper. The inaursnce csrried on the house and furniture is not more than 50 per cent of the value and Mr. Big gers' loss is consequently hesvy. Raiding Blind Tigers. Spaftanburg, Special. ? The police of Spartanburg, who have been active in running down blind tigers, b*v* commenced to put on ITSe screws tight er. This yesr promises to be a hard one for the dealers in liquor. Mayor Floyd has employed seversl plain clothes men to aid the regular mem ber* of the police force in enforcing the law. Several arrests hsve been made within the last twenty-four bourn. Omrlaaton, SpedaL? A _ ?ad wny And was made Wadan daj afternoon by Sexton Conklin in ?mm marsh land jmfettt of the 8t Lanrsiiea Cemetery, when be stumbled over the partial skeleton of a human i beings scattered in pieoea oyer thov ground. Immediately after the dia eovery Mr. Conklin oommunieated with tike eoroner. The thigh and ahin bonea,. together with a portion of the tew bones of the skeleton were found qrini vithin a distance of three feet apart. Nearby a eoat, hat and lady's in evidence, wrapped up in i part of a sheet very mueh dt eayed and covered with quicklime. Further on a paint brush was also picked dp. The eoroner was at a^ loss to aay whether any foul work had been done or not. That the ghaatly object was not there last Sun day afternoon is positively stated by the sexton, who had occasion to in spect that part of the grounds at that time. Knifed to the Heart. Columbia, Special. ? What promises to turn out a sensational scandal is the finding . Sunday afternoon of the body of Mr. Mann Phillips, a promi nent young Oconee man, two miles south of the town of Walhalla, with a knife wound in his heart. Very meagre details have reached here so far' about the tragedy, but it is evi dent that Oconee county is jjreatly stirred up over the killing. Enogh evidence has been gathered to warrant the arrest of two prominent young men for the murder, De Witt snd Cleo Vandiver, of Westminster. The theory is that young Phillip's body had been earned to the spot where it was found after he had been murder ed. He was not armed and had on bia heavy driving gloves and an over coat. It is believed htf has been dead since Hiunday night. Triad to Shoot grain Hand. Blacksburg, Special. ? On Sunday night three boys got on a freight train at Gastonia and proceeded to beat their way South. On the way to Bessemer a train hand was walking the top of the cars back to the cab and the three boy tramps shot at him. One of them, Charley, Boy les, was lying ? flat on top tff?a^tSir shooting when the conductor came ap behind and secured him and brought him on to Blacksburg, where he was locked up. A deputy came down from Gas tonia and carried him back to jail in Dallas. He gave the names of the other bays who had escaped. They have probably been caught by this time. Three Persons Faint in Court. I Spartanburg, Special. ? Laboring under intense ipental strain, three Grsons, closely identified with cases ing tried in the court of general sessions, fainted in tho court house Wednesday. They were: MfsT M. E. Loopcr of Greenville, appearing as complainant against Oulla and Dan iels; Elmore Daniels, defending him self on the chsrgo of defrauding Mrs. Looper of $2,600, and Mrs. S. S Tiner, wife of the Pacolet man who if being tried for the murder of Ed. Kirby. Farm Product*. The report of Commissioner Wat son to tbs Legislature puts the total value of farm products in the 8tatr for 1008 at something over $118,000, 000 exclusive of cotton and live stock and live stock products. The yeai just closed will also be a bumper cot ton year, the yield going over a mil lion and a quarter bales. - - $000,000 For Good Roads. Spartanburg, Special ? At a well at tended meeting of representative cit isens of Spartanburg county Tuesday, a resolution was passed suggesting to tho Spartanburg delegation that s bill be introduced authorising an elec tion to vote on the question of issuing bonds in the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of building good roads in the county. Spartanburg Levy Filed. Spartaaburg, Special. ? The board of connty commissioners have asked the Spartanburg delegation to the Legislature for a levy of 5 1-2 mill* for this year. The commissioner* pledged themselves not to go outside the amount tb be raised by this levy, provided the delegation made sucl provisions as they deem necessary tc pay off the present floating indebted ness. Tho indebtedness is betweer one hundred and fifty and two hun dred thousand dollars. Quake in Chester County? | Chester, Special. ? Some of the cit isens of Lewis snd other sections o1 the country think they felt a sligh* earthquake shock lsst week at about the same time that the great Italia?1 disaster occurred, and wh^le no dam? age resulted to life or property, w< understand that the quiver was quit<' perceptible and caused considerabh alarm in certain quarters. , Cm it WI, Smmu SU to Death. OTHER TWO GOOD FOR 20 YEARS IMfaa Ac Hnr Trimi OnriiM ? T^? of th? flick* to SmiOTMii to Pitoi lihf Bauwy of Oxto iuliW Tfeir Oiftm. Union City, Tenn., Special. ? With ? verdict of gnSIty in varying, degree the jury in tha night-rider trials re port id at 8:49 p. m. Thursday. The twelve men fonnd Garret John spa, Tid Burton, Boy Hansom, Fred Pineon, Arthur Cloar and Sam Apple white guilty of murder in the first de gree with mitigating eireumstanees, and Bud Morris and Bob Huffman, the other defendants, guilty af mur der in the second degree and fixed their punishment at twenty years in the penitentiary. The punishment of the six first named defendants was left to the court and may be death ox life imprisonment. The defense filed a motion for a new trial which was set for hearing Saturday and which will be overruled, aa indicated by the eourt when sentence will bepronoune ed. The court will sentnece the six first named defendants to death. Thus is ended, in the lower court, one of th* most vigorously contested j^nd notable criminal trials ever heard in this 8tate, the outcome of a reign of lawlessness, the culminating act of which being that of which men were found, guilty, calling forth the muster- ] ing of the militia of the State, under , the personal direction of Governor Patterson, to the aid of the civil authorities in the ferret in?r out and the taking into custody of thoso who were charged with the commission of the crime, the so-called "night-rider clan" of Reel Foot lake. The operations' of the night-rider bsnd began with the burning of fish doteks ettending to the inflicting of corporsl unishment on those whom the leadors in their counsels demed guilty of actions in opposition to the wishes of the clan, finding a climax in the lynching of Captain Kanken. MRS. ERB A, FREE WOMAN. With Her Sister She is Acquitted of the Murder of Oapt. J. Clayton Erb by a Jury in Meida Court. Media, Pa., Special. ? Mrs. Florence M. Erb, wife of Capt. J. Clayton Erb, and her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beigell, who were charged with the sensation al murder of Captain Erb on the night of October 4th, 1908, Thursday walk ed from tho Dcleware county court house free women. After tho jury had been out nearly eighteen hours it brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of each woman, both of whom had been charged separately and jointly with the shooting of the captain. During the morning the jury filed into court and asked for further in strustions on the question of self defense, soon word cams from the Juhy room that the men bad agreed. Tho defendants were sent for at onoe, but there was a few minutes' delay before they arrived. When the foreman announced the verdiet of aoquittal there was a sec ond 'a pause, a dead silence and then with half a scream, the sisters fell in each other's arms. Women wept as they looked st the pathetic scene. In an instant the women were sur rounded by their frien4* and attor neys and overwhelmed with' congratu lations. Fnnd Distributed. Durham, N. C., Special. ? The larg est per capita distribution of school funds in the history of the State was made Wednesday by the county Board of Education. It "was |4 for every child attending school. Forty thousand dollars wai apportioned to the publie schools of the county. Dur ham leads the State in this respect Bared By a Parrot. Naples, By Cable. ? Queen Helena is taking particular interest in a six year-old girl who was rescued from the ruins under remarkahlo eireum stanees. While some Italian sailors at Messina were climbing over wreck age tbev heard weak cries of "Maria I Maria I" After much work they reached a room where they found a parrot continuing to utter cries of ''Maria." The seamen turned to leave, but ns the uariot persisted in its cries, they brolte into an adjoin ing room and found a girl lying sense less. She and the parrot were taken on board the battleship Regina Elena. Hill Pays Carnegie's Oift. Berlin, By Coble. ? David Jayne Hill, the American Ambassador, paid into the Seehondlung Hank, Wednes day Andrew Carnegie's gift of $125, 000 to tho Koch Institute for Tuber culosis Research. Mr. Hill also com municated to the president of the in stitute Mr. Carnegie's cordial ac knowledgement of the gratification he felt upon having been elected an hon orary member and his good wishes for the success of so benefioient a work. IK NEWS M BRIEF Wire and G*le emma mum to my - ? ? ? Uvi Mpi Ooratai Btnto ?f lfeit ?r Lm> Xntamft H Bnm tat AteMi % Washington, N. C, had a $20,000 nam Fndij morning. The United State# Ms the world in the production of lead. - The eleven-year-old eon of Wm. rillmui, of Chatham County, commit ted suicide with a (on last week, because his father punished him. Si* Tennessee night riders have beep convicted of murder in the Jrst degree and two in the second degree, with Jury penalty of 20 years imprisonment, all for the murder of Capt. Rankin. Sheriff Van Pelt, of Pcnsacola, has had to stop street cat* from nmning on Sunday to conform* to1 the law. , The Virginia Portland Cement Co. has started up in foil Torce again, with 500 hands and ' hfcpes to double its force soon. vl Hampton, Va., voted on Wednes- I day to issue $100,000 ip bonds foj sity purposes. An address from the people of 8pflttsylvania, Va., will be issued soon, calling on the people of the na~ tion to nnite in erecting a grand mon ument at Bloody Angfe, in honor of Gens. R. E. Leo and U. 8. Grant. Hon^ John S. Henderson, reeeiver, announces that affairs at Whitney, N. C., will soon be straightened out and woA will begin on the great electric power plant. The American Battle Fleet, as soon as it came out of the Suez canal, tendered its services to Italian au thorities to aid at Seicily but were declined because not needed. Hon. Bert M. Fernald was inaugu rated Thursday as governor of the State of Georgia. jF Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat as Governor of Massachusetts on Thursday. The inaugural assembly *as unprecedented. ] , The North Garolina legislature lias increased the salary of- the Governor from $4,000 to $6,000. The annual ineome. of the late CUu8 Speckles is $275,000 per month. Pending the probate of the will the widow is to have $4,000 per month. Dr. Roseburgh of the Jefferson Med ical College, Philadelphia, has made a wonderful discovery about tuber culosis germs, and hopes soon that an anti-toxinc will be in use to which the dread disease will yield. The South Carolina Penitentiary shows a net balance of $20,495.19 fori I907' nfter losinff about fl 5,000 by flood and making perma nent improvements to the extent of nearly $11,000. Half starved dogs in the stricken cities of Italy are dangerous to the crippled, and they eat the dead like hyenaa. The next meeting of the Cotton Manufacturing Association will be held in Richmond, Va., on the 4th Tuesday in May. A head-on collision occurred on th? Southern at Canegte Tuesday, in which Ave persons were hurt, one of them probably fatally. A late pitched battle between vig ilantes from Mexioan ranehee near the California line and a party of ?tock thieves resulted in the kilUnc of the four thieves. The Virginian Railroad Is now open from Norfolk through Roanoke, Va., 320 mile* James Treanor, a printer, was burned to death with the loss by Are of Central Hotel, Covington, Tenn., on Tuesday. A score of others made narrow escapcs. Senor Castro Venezuela's deposed ruler, is fast recovering from an operation, which he has undergone in Berlin, and has promise of health. Congress has appropriated $800, 000 to the earthquake suerers in Itsly. A semi-annual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent on North Carolina Railroad stock was declared at Greensboro on Tuesday. A sanatorium^ for consumptives hai been opened atr Red Springs, a Vir ginia mountain summer resort. C. P. King, famous in finance, wa* convicted of larceny in Boston. He gave bail of $35,000, and came out of jail, but soon one of the suretie? surrendered him to custody again. Tie is in jail. A convention of the Virginia ami Carolina Hotel Association convened at the Jefferson, Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Congressmen will be limited this season to 10,000 packages of vege fable seeds to send to their consti tuents instead of 12,5000 as before 500 packa/es of flower seeds are still allowed to each. The Brownsville trouble which has been so much agitated, has cost $15, 100. and the end is not yet. It is reported that Geo. F,. Milton, of the Knoxvilte Sentinel, has pur chased the CI ittanooga News con sideration, $175,000. PRESIDENT DEFENDS no roMoon as 10 xcrct acr ^ . vice Irregularities GIVES INS ANSWER TO CONGRESS ;? \ Holi ltiroadeziuod ud MUquoWd nu Great Bmm| for Oomti 11 Good Work of Boeret flenrloo? It b ? Koco*ity--IJrie? Frneot R? ?tricttoaa Jtafcowd. . Spseial. ? Unusual at BB ?? P?u in lh? Hou?. <5 Reprwentative. Monday t0 the nJf m* of . message from the fCjC 32sc to ? a?* of tEr&r; "Wp? npon bin for an .??/.. :V?:? *?? ?XR8S Nf ijg jrsstfsrs.'r loT^"dfn? T^'"" reference* V Measrs. Taw sSrtCT J} ??e,fUi S,ni",? ot Iowa ; New vLk e? ,, 5'.V*nd I the ??????(? f" provision for Um ?? operations of X^a^o* 7r.%XdiX ?Cm oMsP?Cr "rheT' 2**^ " oed KPvtroi #- . 0 8P*aker ran. iped se\era] dmes vigorously for or I 3a says: I ?*??,! ?? ot a loss to under lain*! concluding portion of the resolution. I have made no charges ftgajnst con^r So?? If T T??ber ?/ the P^nt ruDO^n -Li Pr0?f of 8uch cor" Sf ? a?ectln* a?y member of the Federal11 " to ^ich t?e Ltt? J?L'rnment baa jurisdiction, I""''0* Wo?!d -t once be brought, as Mitefe?*. '3 ih? CMCS of Senators I tatives Willi on? _and Represen Dri?^ S^SST": ?ermann- and i/nggs, at different times sinee T I ^T?. This woali Sn f "y duty in the *? I 2?i? i enforcement of the laws without respect to persons. But I Jo OT thfir " .WiVhin ,he Province the President to report to the House "alleged delin | qnence... of members ? %? czn,pL a?!inn" "f ? n>c? r 111 ms official capacity." The membership of the House is by the' er nf h n p,aced wUhin the pgw er of the House alone. In the prose mentV thCn.nUna,Suand the enfo"?' L laW8 the Presi<lent must stJtH." 8 of ths Unitefl s J?* ?,rTe8ident quotes from his mes inSni^a. ? j -yearLan amendment was inirforHi 10 ! measure provid ^fj0r#,th? ?ecret service, which pro from th* I"6 8h?U,d bo no deta?l /CCref 8cmce and no trans rinSStft^m T,,at ftct he doims anT thor f* efflCIenCV ?f tbo 8ervicc and therefore was of interest chiefly <o wrong doers. 7 th?? * ^rbade the practices that had been followed to a greater or lesseotent by the exeet.tive^head, years Ta t1epartment.3 for twenty years. To these practices we owe the ST* ?f ]h.e 6vidence "hi<* cn! of hn.?" 7* 81:601 lotteries out I bSSSTS ?ind W a <uart" ot a million doUars in fines from their ahlS ? j*ie Praotices have en a ft*d Au* to di?cover some of the tTofi wuVfP0.? in conn?c land .n ] J ?/ Rovermnent ?i ^overnment timber by great SB"*K and individual.. Anew practices have enabled tis to Jf t.b# ?videnco indispens ntV"?TAtLt0 ,ecure tbe wnvietion JiiJLj T#a , !e,t ,nd mo,t formidable has to* d?n k 7u?H the R?vernnaont oas to deal, both those operating in othere!0" ?f tb# ftnti"tro8t and He refers to the fact that through be secret service both a senator and ITEY? <?ere c?nvicted of ahnd ;raud8 in Oregon. He believes u-Ij a i Roverament should be al li ?il?i,,?ale a11 branches, but pleads that Congressmen might be ?ut eutHnJ^S ?n i? de8ired' with out cutting off so much of the power of the secret service as to cripple its usefulness in other spheres. that AT ?j*or?9ly that he said wif^ ? k^?i y ?.f con*?** did not want to be investigsted and says on tho contrary I have always not onlv Hepr?Ciated but. vigorously resented Practice of indiscriminate attack Con5rCM- and indiscriminate trJ'lT? ?f aU r<5nRressmen. St^i flt ftnd "nflt, good thmn T ?i a - one realizes more than I the importance of co-operation between the Executive and Congress, and no one holds tbo authority nnd dignify of the Congress of tho United Mates in higher respect than I do. I arc not the slightest sympathy with the practice of judging men, for good or for ill, not on their several merits, but in a mnss, as member* of one par ticular body or one caste. In defense of his terms in the mcs *age that argument in f?vor of the Co?*~m?n wuh '? ?>? in I5l x !* ?*?ret Mrrid qcb. h? 2?? '? 'Mi that when '2? P*?"** "*? Wo* dUeimed I be **** *? ?"?. ?? n. b, a SL2tTT " <We? ?fj ????? ?? Mji In would n?( E^Le'S^T .. . artie lea, bat for the fact that it is de manded. the folio wi up from the CteafO Inter-Ocean. written fctwa Washington by L W. Busby imrrta see ret a 17 to tbe Speaker of ?ho House: He (the chief of the divisionn ?nd his men art deairons of doine the secret deteetive work for the whole government, and are not par ticular about drawing the Jine be tween the lawmakers and the law weaker*. They are ready to ahsd fonu?r a? well a? the latter." Then, after saying that Congress will insist thr.t the men shall only be wed to stop counterfeiting. the ar Uelo goes on: ? _ dor* not to bsrr e V anj oth*r fctod of inin 'r?;?,Apoh? be used by the ex ecutive departments sgalnst the legis lsUve branch of the government S & nd ? " -??? that it has been so used iweently. ? c?. legislative b?neh of tht government will not tolerste tbe meO dling of detectivea, whether tbe\ represent the President, Cabinet o? ncers, or only themselves ? ? ? Congressmen resented the secret in terference of the secret srvicc men ho for weeks shsdowed some of the ?US S^>Tted*mVnbIn ot th? House snd Senate. ? ? ? Wh*n :* mere*?* thlt ***** eerriee men mere shadowing Congressmen there T.nifi ["Ration at the capitol find I the bureau came near cut^oi ? ^ "d lh* aPProP"at'on 5? k ? \ ! M mother time r?? u a Wcret wrvic? had his men shadow Congressmen with a view IoJm u,* t,bem in sandals that would enable the bureau to dictate to them as to the price of silence ? ? - me secret service men nave shown an inclination again to shad thL"^^. ?f Con*r"*> hnowinp them to b? law-makers, and this if ZJ? \ f?"1 of "?a departments have asked Congress for secret fundf for investigation, and the Treasury Department wants the limitation re moved from the appropriation for sun pressing counterfeiting. This show* a tendency toward Foucheism and ihuShSjt* "* ?"1" oflki?l? ?.? This the President considers an index to what seems an enimus o I tongress to the secret service. ? k^Vu6" ?My,: "In eonnection with he Nebraska prosecution the gov ernment has by decree secured the ?n,rn *ke government of over a million acres of graring land; in Col orndo of more than 2,000 acres of mineral land, and suits are now pen dlHfr involving 150,000 acres more." / The President follows with a Jong list of crimes against the government brought out in his administration through the secret service detectives ?n which even wealthy men have been punished with fine and imprisonment. He then specifies o number of con victions by the secret servioe sueh as the selling of fraudulent naturalisa tion papers, (which congress has since remidied except that the appro priations are still too low for full effectiveness. Green and Gaynor have been brought to justice and are in prison. In the State of Nebraska alone sixty defendants were indicted : and of tho thirty-two cases thus for brought to trial twentj-eigbt have rosulted in conviction, The secret service was nsed to as* sist in the investigation of crimes under the peonage laws, and owing partly thereto numerous convictions were secured and the objectionable practice was practically stamped out, at least in many districts. The most extensive smuggling of silk and opium in the history of tho Treasury Department was investigated by agents of tho socret service in Now York and Seattle and a successful prosecution of ths offenders under taken. Assistance of the utmost val ue was rendered to tbe Department of Justice in the beef trust investiga tion st Chicago, prosecutions we*t followed up and fines inflicted. The eotton-leak scandal in the Agricul tural Department was investigated and the responsible parties located. The destruction of tho Honduras lottery Company, the successor to tho Louisiana Lottery was affected and $300,000 fines collected. The ink fraud contract in the Durcaij of Print ing was discovered and $100,000 a year was saved, while the total ex penses for the official and field force of the gecret service hat year was $1 35,000. Tho President says: "Such a body us the secret service, ?uch a body of trained investigating i.gents, occupy ing a permanent position in the gov -rnment Mrviee, and separate from oeal investigating forces in different department, is an absolute necessity f the best work in to be done against >riminaK It is by far the moat eA ilftt instrument possible to use igainst crime." He avers that Cdn rress should hold itself in readiness to nrestigate the executive department it any time, and adds that any. abuse of the service employes themselves should bo vigorously prosecuted. He says: "To use the secret service n the investigation of purely private -?r political matters would be a groas ibuse. But there has been no single .nstance of su<h abuse during my term is president. In eonclnsion, he says, "I most ear nestly ask, in the name of good gov ernment and dcccnt administration, in he name of honesty and for the pur '?os$ of bringing to justice violators of the Federal laws wherever they ray be found, whether in public or private life, that the action taken by the House last year be reversed. When this action was taken, the Senate com mittee. tinder the load of the late Sen ator Allistcr, having before it a strong 1y worded ptotest (Appendix D) from Secretary Cortelyou like that he had nent to Mr. Tawncv, accepted the Sec retary's views; and the Senate passed the bill in the chape presented by 8cn ntor Allison. In the conference, how ever, the House conferees insisted on the retention of the provision they had inserted, and the Senate yielded. The chief of the secret servicc is paid a salary utterly inadequate to the importance of his functions and to the admirable way in which he has performed them. I earnestly urge that it be increased to $0,000 per an num. I also urge that the secret ser vice be placed where it properly be longs, and made a bureau in the De partment of Justice, as the chief of the secret service has repeatedly re quested; but whether this is done 01 not, it should be explicitly provided that, the secret servicc con be used to detect and punish crime wherever it is /ound. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The Whife House, January 4th, 1900. Stamp Clerk Short in His Accounts, Anniston, Ala., Special ? According to a statement of postofliec inspectors here Wednesday, Ed D. Smith, stamp clerk in the Anniston postofllce, who suddenly left here Saturday night, was short in his accounts between $1,800 and $2.00(V It is said that friends of the young man will make good the shortage. Nothing has been heard from Smith since the recepit of a letter MVmday, saying that he left because he could not stand trouble. He was last seen in Bir mingham Sunday night. ^ Montana on Endurance Test. Norfolk, Va., Special. ? The cruiser Montana left here Monday on an en durance run of several days which will bring her back to Hampton Roads to join the North Carolina after repairs to the latter. Both cruisers will then proceed to Charles* toll from which point Presidentelect Taft will start for Panama. ihftft at Fort Mahone. Petersburg, Va,, Special. ? Pennsyl* Y?nia i* having oreoted on tbo cite of Fort Mahone, in Prince Oeorge couq? ty, a granite shaft in honor of the memberi of the Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, who were killed in bat* tie in front of Petersburg during the Civil War. Tho shaft is 00 feet high and is of Bnrre granite It will be unveiled in May next, at which time an address will be ramie by tho President of tb9 United States. Wilbur Wright Smashes All Aero* piano Records. Lemans, France, By Cable. ? Wil. bur Wright, the American aeroplanist, beat all previous aeroplane records here Thursday with a magnificent flight that lasted for two hours, and nine minutes. He covered officially a distance of 73 mtyfcs, but as a matter of fact, counting the wide curves, he made over 00 miles. Mr Wright's feat was the more remarkable because of the intense cold. AtVor breaking the record Mr. Wright wtnt aloft again with M. Barthou as a passen ger. Tour States Go Dry. State-wide prohibition laws went into effect Friday in three Southern States, North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama. Georgia is 'the only other Stato wherein statutory prohib ition exists, the law having been in operation ono year. Burton Named For Senator. Coluirbtu?, O., Special. ? Theodore Burton of Cleveland was named as the next senator from Ohio by the Repub lican senatorial caucus Saturday. SURE CURS IW AO Mnmh of STOMACH, UvntKmocrs