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^ BaKi ^ib Renders the food more wholesor perior in lightness The only baking p y made from Rntral Crane Cream t 11 BITTER FIGHT V * IB ' Is On Between Speaker Cannon And The Insurgents. ??? DEMOCRATS JOIN IN The War on the Speaker and He May lie Defeated?The Allien Lack Only One Vote, Which They Hope to Get From Four New Members. Washington, March 10.?Republican leaders In the house of representatives are gravely discussing the insurgents movement, which has evolved sufficient strength to make imminent a change of the house rules despite the resistive efforts of the Cannon-Payne^Dalzell combine. Failing to change the rules on the day preceeding the adjournment last , week, the insurgents gave notice of ' Ak ? J ? 1 ' inuii uiunovuDie purpose tnereafter to -enow the fight with vigor when the extra session is rapped to order next Monday. In the next house there will be 219 Republicans and 172 Democrats. The insurgents will have 2 2 hold /Over members in their ranks with ! certain addition of Judge Irving I^ent Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who was elected on an Anti-Cannon pledge. United with the solid Democratic forces they will be able to muster 195 votes,* according to present estimates, while the total opposition strength will be 196. It requires the vote of only one Republican for the insurgents to change the house rules to any extent that may be desired. The insurgents claim four new members: Picket and Woods, of Iowa; Plumly, of Vermont, and Kopp, of Wisconsin. They have been working earnestly to make their converts and unless the leaders stick close to their guns the movement will undoubtedly be recruited. So intense has the purpose and the loyalty of the insurgents become that each man is constituting himself a "whip" and is doing strenuous service. Minority leader Clark says that every one of his men shall be present in the house on March 15, to vote for a change in the rules, which are as obnoxious to.i^he Democrats, as they are to thos ^.'Republicans who are leading the movement for certain radical reform. ( The changing of the rules along ( radical lines is not the only aim of , tho insurgents. They mean, if pos- ( sible, to depose Speaker Cannon, and that progress in that direction is co- , equal and co-extensive with their , campaign for a change of the unpop- , ular rules. . A proposition has been submitted ( to the Democrats by which an In- ] surgent may l>e elected Speaker with ( the aid of the minority. The plan j is to al^^the Democratic leaders ( to select candidate from among f the insurgents, who will then support ( him. It is not believed that the f ,..111 l./v ~ |M w[mim i 11?11 win ut? nixr|ut?u, as SUillO j of tho Democrats regard it as involv- t ing bad policies, and might result in the insurgents being repudiated by their party as going too far in their opposition to the Republican leaders of the house. Whether or ' not Mr. Cannon is defeated for reelection as Speaker, every indication points to the success of the movement against the existing rules in j At a banquet last Saturday night In ^ At a banquet last Saturday night In honor of Vice President Sherman, 1 Speaker Cannon took occasion to say I what he thought about the insurg- \ ents, saying,^ong other things, that 1 henceforth. ZlPrie of them would be ^ recognized by the house Republican ? regime. He also referred to them a as bullies and bluffers, whp were <i absolutely without the courage of f their convictions. r It will be seen from this that a 1 good-sized vote, at least, may be t polled against Mr. Cannon next Mon- t ^ day.?News and Courier. t fe'v. . , ' ?y?a 1 ititf Powder sohutely Pare ne and suand flavor. QpQjpj towder 11 )f Tartar* I I ^ V TRAIN 1IANI) KILLED. Will Campbell Run Over by IOtigino ?t Greenwood. Greenwood, March 11.?Will Campbell, a negro train hand employed in the Seaboard local yards, had his legs cut off while at work t in the yards early Wednesday morn ing, and died several hours later from the effects of his Injuries. He was run over shortly after 2 o'clock and died at 5 o'clock Wednesday . morning. I It appeared that Campbell was at the switch waiting for the engine to go up to the tank and return. It would seem that, as the engine came hack, he attempted to jump on. hut missed his footing and fell underneath. Both legs were cut off. The switching crew was in charge of Yard Conductor Meaders and Engineer Pittman. Mr. Pittman stated that the engine was going about two or three miles an hour. Camphell was an excellent train hand, knew his business well, and it seems more than likely that it was a case of accident. It was said at the inquest that Campbell said before he 1 died that he did not see how he could get hurt. A coroner's jury was impanelled 1 and the following verdict was render- 1 ed: "Will Campbell came to his ( death by accident on his own part." 1 ??????? < CHLOROFORM CRIMINALS. Favors Elimination of Hanging and 1 Electrocution. Atlanta, Ga., March 11.?Gen. Clement A. Evans, commander-ln- : chief of the United Confederate Vet- < erans and chairman of the prison i commission of Georgia, advocates chloroforming criminals who have received the death sentence. "I believe the law has no right to do more than take a man's life," said Gen. Evans. "No living man should witness it. The death cell should be air tight, and the man who is to die should inhale the very breath of death itself and should die painlessly and alone. Any other death punishment is nothing short of barbarous. Even this is bad (in/Minrll " v...w.If, 11. c Gen. Evans had already qualified j this statement by declaring himself opposed to capital punishment for j any crime save that of attack upon j women. b j THEOLOGY AND A DUO KEN HEAD t How One Led to the Other in Clierokee Negro Cliurrh. I Gaffney, March 10.?At a row which occurred in a colored church, a few miles in the country on Saturday, a negro named Wat v Gist was arguing some theological , questions, when a negro named e Thomas Jeter took issue with some ^ of the doctrines promulgated by the n aforesaid Gist, calling him a liar, r whereupon Gist seized e chair and jppiled same with such force to the p' iranlum of Jeter as to bring him to B lis knees, and pursuing his advan- t| age, struck him in the mouth and g tnocked several front teeth down his (j hroat. As soon as Jeter recovered S( mflieiently to come to town he in- j, licted Gist for asault and battery )f a high and aggravated nature, and he matter will be threshed out in he Courts. V WEATHER CLERK EXPLAINS Tow lie Made Such a Mistake About ir the Weather. n ai Washington, March 8.?Just how t happened that there was such a st >lizzard in Washington March 4, and P< n the fact of his telegrams to Mr. n Taft, on the night of 3rd that the ^ veather would be clear, was ex- . >lained to the president today by r Villis L. Moore, chief of the United " >tate weather bureau. Prof. Moore idmitted he had waited for several lays with some timidity beoro attempting to "pay his espects" to Mr. Taft. Mr. Moore tc las an explanation which he brought o a climax with all sorts of proof d' hat no such "highs" and "lows" ever a lefore produced such a snowstorm, cl / " GOES SCOT FREE STANDAllI) OIL ACVl'lTTKD OF ALL CHAIUiKS. The Verdict Wiw Returned On Instruction of l ulled Stales Judge Anderson in Chicago. Chicago. March 10.?The Standard Oil Company of Indiana was today found not guilty of accepting rebates from shipments of oil from Whiting, I lid., to East St. Louis, 111. The verdict was returned by a jury in the federal court on instructions of Judge A. G. Anderson, who averred that ho followed the circuit court of appeals decision as to the verdict returned at the former trial of the same case and on which verdict Judge Kensaw Mountain Landis assessed a fine of $29,24 0,000. Judge Anderson's decision was not unexpected as he had yesterday told the government prosecutors that the proof relied on in the first trial was incompetent, and that it must he complemented or fail. It was with something of an air of hopelessness that District Attorney Edwin W. Sims, and his assistant attempted to show the admissability of the Illinois classification to prove the existence of a legal rate of 18 cents, which was a vital point in the government's contention. It was after Assistant District Attorney Jas. II. Wilkerson had argued for two hours and in the end admitted that the prosecution could not furnish the further proof deemed necessary by the court for a continuation of tlin finoo ?l,o? ?..v nidi. >) nii^u /vuuerson announced his decision. Mr. Wilkerson said that the government could proceed no further and suggested dismissal of the case. Attorney John S. Miller, chief counsel in the case of the oil company, immediately moved that there he an instructed verdict of not guilty. The court so ordered and the Jury, which had been excluded during the arguments by the attorneys, was called in and charged. The decision of Judge Grosseup, Haker and Seaman, of the United States circuit court of appeals, reversing Judge Lnndls, together with the decision of the court of appeals, was assigned as authority for today's iecision. THIS IS <iOOI> NEWS. Scientists Say the Earth Won't Have Collision. | Cambridge, Mass., March 11.? Commenting on the assertion made ecently by Dr. Percival Lowell that he earth was in danger of colliding vith some large astral body and thus )G destroyed, Prof. William H. Pickering, of the Harvard Astronomo;al Observatory, says that the chance >f such an event is about "one in >ne hundred millions, raised to the me hundred millionth power." "A more possible danger,' he added, "but nevertheless an improbable >no, Is that the solar system In Its ourney through space may come dose enough to some such a dark >ody as to cause a disturbance in the irbital motion of planets and perlaps carry some of them, the earth ncluded, into space. The danger is o remote, however, that there need >e no popular apprehension about t." THEY DESTROY CROPS. 'oisoned Wheat to Rait Prairie Dogs in tlic West. Washington, March 11.?Poisoned /heat is to be used as bait to kill off he prairie dogs, the ^stockmen's enmy, that now infest Arizona and lew Mexico and have become a meace to the forest ranges there. On anch lands prairie dogs have proved estructive to a variety of crops, inluding wheat, grain, potatoes and ugar beets; while on grazing lands hey destroy so much grass that the razing capacity of the land is reucod 50 to 75 per cent. The forest srvice is employing every effort to revent range deterioration. STARRED HIMSELF Hth Scissors While Riding on a Georgia Train. Savannah, Oa., March 10.?Recom- i lg violent on a Southern train last < ight between Atlanta and Jesup, i nd claiming he was being shot, Dr. T Tlalrfl r\f . ? v., > ivuviiknouiHK, Vtt.f ' abbed himfielf in the chest with a 1 air of scissors, then attacked the egro porter and other trainmen, i e was found dead this morning in I Is berth on the arrival of the train i i Jesup. It 1b presumed he was I nder the influence of some drug, he body was taken to Jacksonville. Twenty-Seventh. j The home of Morris Conner, of Al- i >ona, Pa., was visited by the stork >r the twenty-seventh time a few i ays ago. The blessing this time was i girl. Conner has now had ten i llldren by his second wife. i GOES TO WORK IN DEAD EARNEST TO FIGHT CONSUMPTION. A ikon Employs u Trained Nurse Who Will Dovot? All of llor Time to Tuberculosis. The Columbia Record says Miss Susie S. Uuvenel lias been employed by the Aiken County Antituberculosis TjeaRue, as a trained nure, to assist in its work of prevention of the white plague. The league has been very active in its lunuguration of a war against consumption. Although the league has been organized only a few weeks, practical results are now being obtained, and the people are being instructed in the means of preventing disease. It Is only recent years that means for cope with this dreaded disease have been discovered and this knowledge is not yet prevalent among the , people; and the dissemination of this knowledge is the primary object for the league in this county. No dues are paid for niomimrahin ??. n.~ V...uv?wui|/ til 111 VT league, but voluntary subscriptions are being received by the officers for the prosecution of the work. Many of the Northern visitors have liberally helped in this work. Miss Havenel has already commenced her work. She devotes tlm forenoon to the work, making visits to all parties who may need her assistance. No charge is made for her assistance, which Is given not from a charitable standpoint, but as a matter of giving valuable suggestions for the caring of patients and prevention of the spread to other members of the family, and the iblic, with whom infected persons 1 v come in contact. Miss Ravenel has had long experience as a nurse, and she has entered the work with a spirit. She will make periodical reports to the president of the league, Dr. Filmore Moore. The trained nurse will conduct her work in conjunction with, and in harmony with the board of health. Miss Ravenel will also consult with the physicians of the city, and work in conjunction with them. Such cases that are reported to her, as needing assistance, advice, or in any manner that she can help them, she will visit. The object of thlR is r?f course, to prevent the further spread of the disease, and it is stated that where persons refuse to heed friendly and voluntary suggestions for the safety of the people against tuberculosis, such eases will he referred to the hoard of health, to lake such action ns they see fit for public safety. TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT. Arrested on Charge of Causing Wreck at. Harhins. Greenville, March 10.?John Tarrell, colored, was arrested near Seneca this morning by Special Agent Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff Kay, of Oconee county, charged with wrecking train No. 35, near Iiarblns, on February 22. It will be remembered that Engineer Will O'Neal lost his life in the wreck. A warrant has also been C/*?? 1% ~ T ? 1- 1 .......v.. ,wi ui?j u?wif>, colored, charging hlni with being a party to tho deed. The grand jury at Walhalla returned a true bill against both negroes this moring. Tho sheriff of Oronee has gone to Georgia looking for Lewis. BOAT TO BE RAISED. First. Confederate Torpedo Boat on Bottom. New Orleans, March 11.?That arrangements have been completed to raise the first torpedo boat of the Confederacy from the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain was announced at a meeting of Confederates hero last night. The boat is lying near Spanish Fort, where it went down years ago. It is proposed to place this vessel on the lawn of the Confederate Soldiers' Home in New Orleans. WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. j Was Pursued All Night by an Angry Mob of Men. 1 Siccurney, Towa, March 11.?After j a ten-mile drive over the worst roads experienced in Iowa, on tho darkest ( night imaginable, and then a twenty- f mile ride upon a handcar, Sheriff Grimes, with his prisoner, John Dunken, the confessed murderer of Cara H Aaon V\/\ /"\ ft.. ??? ?- ? - * * me vuuiuwa cnoir singer, managed to escape with what is he- < lieved to be the approaching of a mob find landed his prisoner in the penitentiary at Fort Madison today. Several Drowned. , Montgomery, Ala., March 10?Five < persons wore drowned Wednesday in I the Alabama river here in the rising 1 waters which followed Tuesday < night's storm. Three white and1 a I negro were drowned from the ferry, ' and William Dillard, a white boy, < tlio doors and windows. ' ( FOUND CJl'ILTY OF Ml'KDKU. Laurens Break* a ltccord Covering Fifteen Years. Laurens, March 10.? For the first , time In about fifteen years a Lau- 1 reus jury has returned a straight ver- j diet of murder without a recommon- j dation to mercy. This occurred tills afternoon in the Court of General Sessions, when the Jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of the I SLito vs. John Henry Anderson for the murder of ids father-in-law. it will bo recalled that Anderson shot I and killed old man Joseph Carter at the Cedar Grove church at the funeral of one of Anderson's child- i ren. lie shot him In the back, and without immediate provocation. ( Anderson will very likely be seatenc- 1 ed on Saturday. Two cases of attempted criminal assault were tvle#l ? - .. . . ? ...... II/iiii; in 1 111' General Sessions Court, one against a young white man, Albert Duncan, accused of attempting to ravish a young girl in Waterloo Township, the home of both. Duncan was found guilty with mercy recommended i>y the jury. The other case was against Will McCollough, colored, charged with attempting to ravish a young white girl in Sullivan's Township. The Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. MUlll>Elt WOMAN'S HUSBAND. "Hcv." Wolfram ami Mrs. Mnlindn Lockhart liockrd Up. Atlanta, On.. March 1ft.?Charles IT. Wolfram, whom cnlims to he an ordained Holiness preacher, and Mrs. Malinda Lockhart are being held In the county jail on charges growing out of their discovery together in the former's room on Marietta street. The arrest was caused by woman's husband, James J. Lock hart, whom, the two prisoners claim, they had planned to murder. Wolfram Is author of several socalled religious books, and earned a livelihood selling them on the streets. Mrs. Lock hart Is a strikingly handsome woman, and apparently intelligent. She has not lived with her hushand for two years, became, as sho claims, Wolfram was found to bo her "soul-mate" or "affinity." Religious attraction led to their association, Is is claimed, and to remove all carnal barriers they had decided to remove Lockhart hy the poison route. Their nerve failed at the last moment and Lockhart still lives to enjoy his estate of $10,000 or $15,000.?Augusta Chronicle. VERY QUEER TALE. Told by Escort of (JUi Who Was Hliot. I Baltimore, March 9.?Jennie Reed, aged 21 years, of this city, was mnr dered Monday by a highwayman at Mount Washington, residence suburb. She and Joe Mueller, to whom she was engaged to be married were on the way to visit friends at Mount Washington, according to Mueller's statement and left the car at Seventh avenue. When they had walked half a block and were In a lonely place, they were stopped by a man, who, leveling a pistol, called for their valuables. Mueller said he gave up what valuables he had and then the highwayman demanded a necklace worn by Miss Reed. Her reply was a slap in the face, upon receiving which, the man fired, the bullet strlklncr tlio iriri l.nsirwi ?-?* ? ,-> uvmiiu nit; it!11 oar, She was carried into a nearby house, i but death had been almost install- , taneous. The highwayman disappeared and Is being diligently sought by the police. . Mueller, who appears to have been | the only witness to the shooting was ] placed under arrest. ] ONE HUNDRED MEN ! ( From One State Caught Pneumonia ' 3 At Inauguration. f Washington, March 10.?A letter * e received here states that of the 800 f men which represented the Massa- t chusetts coast artillery in the inau- , gural parade, 100 of them are suffering from pneumonia, one has died from typhoid pneumonia and another Is dying from the same disease. The Massnehlianf la nnnut ' ? uunm at uuery was quartered in National Rifle's armory and like many of the other troops were not supplied with coats, but slept on the floor with only a thin (1 mattress to protect their bodies from ^ the drafts which swept in through 'v Tell in and was drowned. POWDER MILLS EXPLODE. ^ h Only One Man Was Killed In the y T Accident. 8 Wilmington, Del., March 8.?One n man was killed and several others dlghtly injured early today in an ixplosion which destroyed two mills n the ITagley yard of the Dupont s Powder Company, near here. The h lead man is George Whitman, aged r 50 years, an employe. The accident s was caused by the explosion of an o experimental barrel. The country 1 was shaken for miles around. c WELL ONCE MORE Senator Tillman and Mrs Tillman Spent Short Time In . | THE CAPITAL CITY Tho Senator Talks With Much tutor* ( Nt Almut Ills on ('ruin am! How llo Hold 1'p Sixty Senators !>y Keluting Iteniiiiiscciiccs of Hccoiisl ruct Ion. Columbia. March 11. ?Senator and Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of hours in Columbia today. Senator Tillman I was on his way home from the meeting of the trustees of Clemson College. Mrs. Tillman had been on <u visit to relatives at Greenwood. Senator Tillman looks remarkably well. lie said thnt ho had never felt, better. Ills face is well filled, his complexion ruddy and healthy, and altogether he looks well. He is devoting himself to indoor exercise and says it is tine. Senator Tillman says that the Clemson board transacted considerable business. The board has asked that Major Marcus B. Stokes, originally of Hampton county, be detailed to Clemson College as commandant to take the place of Capt. Minus, i i rniHIMMl, I Senator Tillman expects to spend a month In Trenton, as he does not think tho Democrats can do very much in tho tariff situation, and he Is satisfied that the Republicans will carry out their policies. Senator Tillman said he did not know what President Taft would,do with Dr. Crum. He had heard nothing whatever about any appointment for Dr. Crum and would not be surprised if he wero not appointed to any place, nor would he be surprised if he wero given somo place in Washington. Senator Tillman talks with much Interest about his fight against tho confirmation of the appointment of Dr. Crum, and said that one of tho remarkable things about his fight wns for hours he held up sixty senators, while he was relating his reminiscences of reconstruction and his fight with McLaurin. The senator says he feels quite well enough to go out on another of his lecture tours, and incidentally he thinks that the "wild talk" in which h? f?#1 1 1 ?* '* milieu wniie on his lecturing tour had done much to clear up the atmosphere with regard to the race question. Mrs. Tillman says that Senator Tillman is not to go on any lecture tours, but she is quite willing for him to go to Europe again. Senator Tillman continues to bo much interested in the Navy Yard at Charleston, and says that he had the work there well cared for in the appropriation bill, and that "an long as he is alive the Charleston yard has nothing to fear."?News and Courier. SHOULD SHUN SOFT IHlINKJ. Government Pure Food Expert Warns Girl Students. Washington, March 10. ? The dangers of "the soft drink habit" and the innocence with which girls become addicted to it, were emphasized tonight by Dr. Harvey, with W. Wiley, the Government's pure food expert, in a lecture before one hundred girl students at Holy Cross Academy. "If you only know what I know about what those soft drinks contain you would abstain from them,'' he said. "It will surprise you to know that most of them contain m w-' ..w.u uiiueine than coffee, and a drug which is more deadly. So bewaro >f the soft drink. It is more harm'ul than coffee, and I advise all 'oung people against the use of this itlmulant. Perhaps you would be nterested to know I have collectid more than one hundred samples >f soft drinks sold at soda founains, and each contains caffeine, and nany of them a deadly drug." WANT SOLDIKIIS ARRESTED "or Robbing an Eagle's Nest oni James Island. Columbia, S. C., March 11.?Presient Taylor of the State Audiihon oclety has secured warrants from laglstrate Fowler here, against tho leven federal soldiers stationed at 'ort Moultrie, accused In an article n the News and Courier of today, of aving robbed an ??* -* " v>D>V o IICSl OI lis oung on James Island Sunday . Mr. aylor Is having papers sent down for ervlee. Tho warrant charges the len with violation of the act of 1905. Three Men Rurled Alive. Hamilton, Ohio, March 11.?A ewer trench eight feet deep caved n today, burying three men. When escuera reached the bottom of the ewer they found the dead bodies f James Robinson and Alexander loward. Thomas Revera was renued alive, but will probably die.