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THEY WILL MOVE Southern Powers Company Locates in Columbia _ i LEAVES CHARLOTTE I Ilwaiise of What it ConstniPs to lie ] I Hostile liO^islution on (la* l'art of the City (ioverinnent ? Will .Wean M in h lor This S?s-li<m nt' <jiiiiIi Carolina. For so 1110 time past there have been rumors afloat that there was a possibility amounting to a strongl probability that the general otlires of the Southern Power Company would j be lost to Charlotte, and the indications were that Columbia would secure them. When it was first talked ! about the people of Charlotte derided the idea that the institution ! would sock a new home for its headquarters. The newspapers had cartoons making sport of Columbia. The Columbia State says a day or two ago a prominent business man j of Columbia was in Charlotte, and j in conversation with Mr. W. 11. Twitty, cashier of the Charlotte National Hank, was told that it was an open j secret that it had been definitely determined to transfer the ollices to Columbia. Since then it seems information has been given out from the management itself that the step had been decided upon, and that within the next eight or ten months conditions would so shape themselves as to ad urn 01 mailing ine permanent removal to Columbia. There are two principal reasons given for the contemplated action of this great corporation. The lirst is stated to he that the new charter of the city of Charlotte empowers the hoard of public works to regulate public service corporations, with especial reference to rates to consumers. This action, it is claimed, has the effect to interfere with the sale of bonds, and the company felt that is rights and privileges have been so impaired as to make it. expedient for them to relieve themselves of their public utilities franchise. The second reason assigned is that the power at Lang's shoals on the Catawba river about 28 miles from Columbia is the next property to he developed, and that therefore, Golumbia is the logical place for the establishment of its offices, being so much nearer the point of operations. This company, which is rated at $1 1,000,000, has acquired all the riparian rights along the Wateroe and Catawba to within 15 or IS miles of Camden, and less than 20 miles cross-country from Columbia, and their plants are of enormous magnitude. On the line of water power development indicated, the Wateree and Catawba, there are now six valuable properties that are owned hv this company. On tho Watcroe canal just above Camden there is a fall of 4,370 square miles, Riving 20,000 horsepower when developed. At Rocky creek, Great falls and Fishing creek are other powers belonging to this corporation that have a total fall of 173 feet. Of these the development of Great falls has recently been completed and that of the others will follow as tho demand for power warrants. The amount of horsepower developed at Great falls is 32,000, with a probable total when developed of 07,000 horsepower. Rock creek and Fishing creek will afford 15,000 and 20,000 horsepower respectively. At Landsford, near Lancaster, another power belonging to this company there is a fall of 40 feet, draining an area of 3,4 25 square miles and affording energy of 1 2,000 horsepower, as yet undeveloped. At Rock Hill, on the Catawba, the company has a 1 0,000 horsepower plant in operation, supplying power to Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Pineville Charlotte. At Niney-Nine Island, on the Jlroad river, is a plant having a 51,? foot fall, the full development ol which is now under way This power will form one of several powers belonging to this company which wil be electrically connected by a sys tern of transmission lines furnish Ini/ nriU'ftr lr> all (lift lai-cra l/?mn j 1? tup) j/v/ ?? v? v. v/ (4ii tuv/ m i iu n 10 ji the northern central part of thii State and to a number of towns ii North Carolina. The coming of the Southern Pow or Company to Columbia will meai there will soon be located there als< ofllces of the large electrical machin ery and manufacturing concerns which will augment the business o the city to a considerable extent. The ofllce /orce of the com pan; will be a valuable acquisition to tin city and to them fair Columbia ex tends the glad hand of a cordial web come. The acquisition will not onl> be in the fact that nil of the forct are high salaried people, but thai Columbia society will have a welcome addition to its ranks. TAXING THE PEOPLE l ok tiii: ki:m;i it of tiik spfc l.\l, intkkfsts . Is (lie <"I?i?*i" Object ol' t lit' Tarill Kill That tin* Trusts Will Kiisli Through Congress. The tarift bill that the trusts have framed and passed through tin? Mouse, and which they will push through tho Senate, is distinguished from all other tariff hills in the last thirty years by a duty on importation of tea. This is a wise provision. lOvery penny, less the cost of collection, upon importation of tea will reach the 1'nited States treasury. The greater part of the other duties proposed are simply in the nature of a surrender of taxation in favor of special private interests which our government clothes with power to levy trouble on the great body of consumers. To illustrate: We will import under this tariff bill probably about $.">00.OtiO.OOO worth of highly protected products which will pay an average ad valorem rate of duty of at least 10 per cent, while the domestic producer, by reason of the! prohibitive' or restrictive duties of! that bill, through the agency of the trusts, will raise to the duty line the selling price of more than $10,000,000,000 worth of like domestic products to the consumers of this count ry. In short, the bill, when enacted, will not only impose high duties upon $.">00,000,000 of imports, but in practical effect will permit a few thousand manufacturers to make 90.000,000 consumers pay them tribute of $ 1,000,000,000 in the enhanced price of their goods. France exempted its nobles in the eighteenth ceniury ironi taxation, wliilo the peasants and the middle classes defrayed tlte expenses of government. We go further and delegate to a few thousand men the exclusive privilege of practically taxing for their own benefit the whole body of our consumers. The proposed tariff bill as framed by Congressman Payne will not curb the plunder of a single trust. It will not add a dollar to the public revenue, and revenue we must have. We have a deficit in the payment of ordinary current expenses of the government of about $90,000,000. The appropriations for the fiscal year 19 10 are $1,04 4,000,000. It is evident that Mr. Payne and his associates appreciated the danger that this 1)111 would not produce sufI flcleut revenue for the expenses of the government, because they provided for the sail of $40,000,000 of Panama bonds and authorized the issue of $250,000,000 of treasury cert ideates. The tariff makers have simply provided for forced loans to defray the current disbursements of the government rather than to lessen the burdens of consumers by reducing prohibitive duties and thereby making the bill produce a sufficient revenue. The cruel wool and wool n schedules remain unchanged except, as to a slight reduction in carpet wools, while tho duties on carpets of every description continue, and average from 1 5f> per cent to 150 per cent upon the cheaper grades of carpets used in fiats or apartments by the poorer people. William Whitman will still enjoy six cents per pound duty on "tops" notwithstanding the cost of changing 100 pounds of wool to "tops" through "combing" is not five cents. Not only have the woolen men been secured in the enn t in luineo r.f high duties on woolens, but the glass manufacturers are to enjoy oven increased profits on a considerable part of their product. The duty on t li<? smallest size of plate glass has been increased from an equivalent of 82 per cent to 102.04 per cent. The second in size has been increased from, G3 per cent to 73.3 per cent, while window glass, now made in this country more cheaply than anywhere else in the world by the use of recently patented machinery con! trolled by a single corporation, remains still protected by duties o! ! from 80 per cent to 2 00 per cent. \ In the schedule devoted to cottoi goods and yarns no material de crease in duties exists, but there ha | been an increase of duty on mecer ized fabrics and an increase of dut; on hosiery so great as to amount ti j almost a prohibition of imports H While a reduction of the duty oi leather has been proposed, still th duty on women's and eHildren' leather gloves of certain sizes ha 1 been increased from 3 0 per cent t ^ 300 per cent over the rates exist . ing in the Dingley bill. There i? however, no agitator in the worl f so powerful as injustice, and er long the great body of consumer / will appreciate their helplessness 3 and then they will unite and pu - an end to these oppressive duties. r Cione to New York. * Senator Tillman went to New Yorl f Wednesday night, where he was th guest of honor Thursday night of th South Carolina Society at a banquet. DISCUSS SUICIDE MAX Til HOW'S IIIMSIILF INTO A VOKC.WO CHATOK. I I , Japanese Mountain Itosoi't Made I anions hy l<argo Number of Suii I rides Committed. The Toklo papers arc at present devoting much spare to the "shinju" or suieide, together of a young man and watiiiin in n u-/nwl ........ 11... * * ?? W,M| l|' (1 1 111** himous pleasure resort of lOnoshima. The case is one of so many dial it cannot lie denied that, a certain class 'of the Japanese is extremely prone to hyst ria and sent imentalism. I A Jong series of suicides began with the death six years ago of a student of Tokio 1'niversity, who I threw himself over the lofty Kegon ' waterfall in the Nikko Mountains. II left liehind him, pinned to a tree on the brink of the fall, a letter explaining the cause of his death, which seems to have been due to over-study and his finest for a "new way into the unknown." The circumstances of the suicide made the beautiful resort notorious, and numbers of hysterical young | men and women took their way ov r the fall into 'the unknown, their reason for seeking death being carefully chronicled on paper and left, near the spot. Finally the police stepped in, tin ugly police-box was placed near the fall a jarring sight amid beautiful scenery- and an unromatic policeman is now on duty t here. Ambitious youths wishing to set the example in other modes of death are not uncommon. One young man, a student, threw himself info the crator of Asatna Yama, an active volcano S.ooo feet high. The walls of the crator are perpendicular and worn smooth by lava action. Alone, before break of day, when the lava threw a glow upon the heavens, the student cast himself down. He left a carefully written but very badly worded note in English on the subject of the futility of life and love. The suicides at Knoshima were a geisha and her lover, a clerk in a brewery, who had got himself hopelessly into debt to her account. They were found bound together with their throats cut. Owing to the "romantic" circumstances of the tragedy the papers prophesy that this form of suicide will become fashionable, as did that over tin; Kegon Fall. Columns are devoted to the details of the affair, and a photograph of the suicides is published, the man with his arm placed affectionately round the neck of the woman. LAKE STHAMKH SINK. Five of Crew of Oram Laden Boat Drowned at Vessel (joes Down. News comes from Mackinsey City, Mich., that five of the crew of the steamer lCben Ward, laden with grain from Milwaukee for Fort Huron, were drowned Tuesday .when the steamer sank in Lake Michigan, after striking a heavy icefloe about six miles west of this port. Nine of the crew were saved. The dead are as follows: John Hern, James Perry, John Mebaroth, Kinney McKay and an unknown deck band. i lie w are was z \ .1 ier in longin. She was brilt in 1 884, and was owned by 1). M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit. Shortly before entering the straits of Mackinaw, about 9:30 o'clock in the morning, the steamer crashed into an unusually heavy ice floe. The Eber Ward stayed afloat but three minutes. It was just lonu enough to enable a barge to steam alongside and take off the deck ol the Ward the persons whose live: were saved. The live victims ar< supposed to have been asleep below when the collision occurred. BOY WFA BS TAG. Crossing Ocean and Continent Will Sweets Barred. f A sturdy 7-year-old English lad ^ carrying a big basketful of eatable - started from New York for Blsbee s Ariz., recently on the second an last stage of a lonesome journe v o from England, says a New Yor . special to the Philadelphia Recou tl Pinned to the boy's coat was a bi ? tag reading: "Tills boy is going t s a loving mother in Arizonh. Trofi s hirn as yon would have your own bo treated. Don't give him any jam. The boy, Jimmy Holland, who cam to New York Saturday on the Tei tonic, is traveling in care of tl] 1 steward. e Whole Village Hazed. A special dispatch from At her ^ says that telegrams received thei from Mersina set forth that full 10,000 persons were killed in tli anti-Christian rioting of the last fe k days. In the Adana and Tarsus dii 0 tricts entire villages were raised, an e the country is a smoking wlldei ness. # TRIES ONCE MORE I STARTS OX KKiHTIl JOl'ltNKY 1 OK HIS KAC'IIKL. Arthur Ilurke, ?>f Millsberry, Mass., (iocs to Montreal to Propose to His "Heart's Desire." .Jacob served seven years for cheerfully served three times seven Massachusetts Jacob?who has Now comes a modern Jacob? a u re. another seven years for good measThen he got her and served still Kachel. 111? 11 seven yars more, years without getting ltis Kachel. Kvery three years for L'1 years, Arthur Kurke, of Millsberry, Mass., lias journeyed to Montreal to ask t he ?iuest ion : "Will you marry me now?" 10very time the answer has been "No." Soin times there was a laugh accompanying the word, sometimes a sigh, sometimes she hesitated as though reluctant to refuse the devotion so liberally offered. Hut in the end the answer has ; a 1 ways been "No." Now Kurke is off on his eighth love pilgrimage. He is as lighthearted and confident as he was the first time. "Somehow I think this is the time," ho tobl his intimate friends before he started. "1 think this time she'll say yes." Kurke was a young man just turned JO when the stv.r.ge courtship began. Now he is a middleag"d man of 5 1. I lis nair is turning gray, his step is less elastic. Who the Kachel is, Kurke won't tell. lie will describe her in glowing terms, but the words he uses aren't the ones which would aid a Kertillon bureau to find her. To him she is sweet and nrettv as when ii soljer-eyod slip of a girl in her | Icons, she listened to the old love : story. She, too, in the '.apse of time, j must have rounded out. to mature womanhood, but you can t make gallant, gray-haired Arthur Burke, who j has loved her for years, believe this. Hurke carried his bri if groom's clothes in his grip. "There's lots of opportunities you lose, by not being ready for 'em," he argued. "If she says the word, I wnn't give her ! any time to change her mind. We'll hurry to the nearest church." Before he left Millsberry, Hurke sketched the history of his Marathon | wooing. "I went tip to Montreal on business 21 years ago," he said. "Then ' I met her. I fell in love at sight Within a week I proposed. Sht I turned me down, but so sweetly that , I didn't feel discouraged. I tolci : her 1 would come back again. Slu | laugh* d. "Business affairs interfered witl my plans. I wasn't able to return ! for three years. Then I asked hei again. Again sin* refused me Right there 1 told her 1 would conn ! back every three years unless slit married someone else. "She laughed again. T guess sh< j didn't believe me, didn't realize how | much I wanted her. She must know ! it by t his time. "Now I'm going hack again. This time I think 1 will win. The las: ; time she almost consented. Sim h more beautiful in my eyes now thai ibc was 21 veer- ago. I'm goiiu 1 to tell her so. She has stayet single all tk's time, 'that's a goo I sign." FOLDING HFD TltAUKDY. | .Man Dies and His Wife Taken Ou ' j Unconscious. i no ioiuing dou accident wind ; used to 1)0 common some years ag< i before the patent beds wore as wol f constructed as now, lias caused th * death of James F. Maher, a feat he i curler, in Williamsburg, X. Y. During the night the bed bega: to rise as if pushed by an unsee hand, pinning both Maher and hi wife, despite their struggles and el forts to release themselves. A sqn, who was sleeping on th floor above, heard his parents' crie and ran to their assistance, but lx fore he could extricate them, Mahf ' expired. Mrs. Maher was taken oi s unconscious. She is little the wors i. for the experience. d KINGS COMR 1I1GH. k I Alfonso Receives Sixteen Times i B Much as Taft. o it A recent compyication of the moi y eys paid to the members of the roy: families of Spain, including tl ie King, shows that His Majesty r i- ceives a salary more than sixtec ie times greater than that given tl President of the United States. The total of $1,540,533 paid 1 Spain to its royalty annually is d \s \ vided as follows: King Alfons '0 $ 1,211 ,658; Queen Victoria, $77 ly 892; Prlnco of tho Austrian, the tw ip year-old heir to tho throne, $86,54' w Infants Maria Teresa, sister of tl s- King, $25,964; Infant Isabel, aim d $43,273; Infant Paz, aunt, $25,96r Infanta Eulalia, annt, $25,964, ai the Queen, mother, $43,273. TOKNAIH) SWHKPS OHIO. Death and Huin in Wake of Terrible Storm. Probably four deaths, scores of persons Injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of dniuage marked the path of a tornado, which passed across the northern part of Ohio at noon Wednesday. 'J'he storm consumed only five minutes in passing a given point, but during that brief period it was as dark as night, hail battered in wfn(lfllVM 1 i ??)l t II i II 1' lii'n * V III* IU II II II11 i I'll ^ of buildings, one-fifth of an inch of rain fell, and the wind, which readied a velocity of sixty-six miles an hour, razed buildings and chimneys, tore off roofs, laid low many telegraph and telephone lines and demolished trafllc upon the steam and electric railawys. In neighboring towns considerable damage was done. Ten dwellings were reported to have been blown to the ground in the southwestern part of the city. Many homes were burned, as the fire department could not attend to nil of the calls. An unidentified young woman is reported to have boon thrown into a pond at Wade Park by the force of the wind and drowned. Three men are reported to have been killed by falling walls in the fiats. St. Stanislaus Catholic Church was demolished. The loss He re was upwards of $100,000. CIIILI) I I P TO IKXiS. Incensed Localise Step-Mother Loft llim at Home. Incensed because his step-mother had left him at home, near Opelouaas, La., in charge of his young stepbrothers and sisters for the day, Tom Godfrey, a 12-year-old negro boy, fed the youngest of bis charge to the hogs, and later, with an axe, inflicted what will probably prove fatal wounds on the heads of the other children. Three children were injured. The stop-mother reported the triple eritne today to the parish authorities and Tom was paired in tail at Onelousas. She says she found the baby in the pen with the hogs when she returned home late yesterday. Its hands and 1 feet had been eaten off, but it was 6till alive. She straightway whipped Tom and when she went for a doctor to attend the baby, Tom seized an axe and attacked his six-year-old step-brother, ' inflicting several deep wounds. His 1 young step-sister interferred and lie crushed her skull with the ave. The girl is dying, and the other two children have little chance for re eovery. t MASSACKFS IX TUKKIOY I Cost Over Five Thousand Lives in 1 Fight Days. i No loss than f?,000 persons lost their lives in the massacres that have > been going on in the vilayet of ? Adana during the past eight days as the result of an outbreak of the ? Moslem fanaticism. Of this total, j 2,000 were killed in the city of f Adana. This information was received in Constantinople Tuesday ^ morning through the consular chanl nels. ^ All forts surrounding Constantii nople from the sea of Marmora to { the lllack s< a are now occupied by 1 constitutional troops and soldiers . supporting the Young Turks are arvancing upon the capital. No definite information as to when they will enter Constantinople can be had. Attacks on Christians Konowed. Adana at the present lime is quiet, hut there have been renewed attacks on the Christians at Marash in the 1 vilayet of Aleppo, about 80 miles :> northeast of Alexandretta. The conI sular advices describe the situation e as extremely grave. r lh'itish Cruiser a Comfort. Kxeitement at the poit. of AlexanII (lretta is intense, although the presn once of the British cruiser Diana at s that port is expected to have a tranquillzing effect. Disturbances are reported from Hadjin in the northern e extremity of Adana vilayet, where a s large Armenian community is count? ed upon to defend itself. T it YOUTHFUL OltAXD-FATIIER. ;e A Thirty-Four Year Old Man Has the Honor. To crowd three generations into ls thirty-four years sounds rather unreasonable. Yet, such is the case. The birth of a line 12-pound baby ii- boy, coming to the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ilryant, living a few miles 10 north of Pembroke, in the lower e- edge of Bulloch county, Ga., makes >n ?ir. nan i.anier, agon ;*4, ratner or 10 Mrs. Bryant, grand-father of this promising citizen. )y |i- Better Than Money, o, The hest investment farmers can make is in giving their children a o- good start in life. But that doesn't 7; mean a big farm and a fine moneyis outfit alone. They will need some t, help, some courage, some hopefulf, ness, much truthfulness, clean hearts id and pure minds considerably more than money. MADE A MISTAKE KEMAltKABLE CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY'. A Woman Takes a Strange Man for Her lltislmml and Sues Him for Heinous Crime. The jury at Yorkvillo in the cas* against Marshall Steele, Indicted for assault with intent to commit a heinous erime. linunrlit s?, .. n_?. , - ~i- " ?* ?urum of guilty of simple assault. Judge Klugh imposed a sentence of thirty days' imprisonment or $100 line. This ended, says the Columbia Retold, one of the most remarkable cases ever tried in South Carolina. Tlsa case was entitled the State vs. Marshall Steele, and the charge was attempted assault. The beginning of this trouble was on Saturday night, February G, who* a lady came to Rock llill from Iaincaster to meet her husband, from whom she had been separated for seven or eight years, the husband having just received his discharge from the United States army, had written his wife to meet him here, but the husband's calculations miscarried, and the wife after alighting from the train and not finding her husband, secured a colored hackman by the name of Price Cloud, and was driven to her uncle's. Steela was at tin? depot, and being an almost. exact countrpart of the husband. the wife naturally gave him a searching glance, which Steele claims was more than ordinary, and one that might be expected from a woman of the world. After she was carried to her uncle's the driver returned to the city, and meeting Steele told him th? lady he had just carried was looking for some one to meet her, and from the description given Steele filled the bill. Steele told the negro that if he thought she was "all right" to go and get her and that he would be in the pool room. The negr? returned and informed the ladv that a man wanted her uptown, and the negro described Mr. Steele. The laday, thinking that her husband had sent for her, came with the negro, and was driven up in front of tfc* pool room, the negro going in and informing Mr. Steele that he had the lady. /4 Mr. Steele went out to the carriage, which was a closed one, and on opening the door was greeted a very affectionate manner by the lady. She called him by her hi?wband's name and he indulged th? deception. The couple was driven teo the outskirts of the city. What happened in the carriage was not fully brought out at the hearing before a recorder's jury, as Steele was being tried for disorderly conduort. On this charge he wais iconvict?d t and a fine of $100 or thirty days given, from which he appealed, bnt the evidence showed conclusively .* that the lady thought Steele her husband and Steele was just as sum ho was not her husband. Aftey considerable parleying the driver was Instructed to drive batik to town. Steele telling her ho was sorry the mistake had been made, and that he thought her a perfect lady. The driver was told to tak? her to her uncle's, and that gentleman learned of the affair. Tie immediately had a warrant issued for Stele's arrest, and he was tried as \ above stated, on the charge of disorderly conduct in the city of Hook Hill. On the charge of attempting rape before Mayor Beckham he waived examination and was bound to court under a bond. rni. ~ 1 1 -- J - - ? 1 * i iiu lauy is a very oeautliui woman and her character is above reproach, so say those who have known her since childhood. She nramied ,the husband about leight years ago at her home in Lancaster, but they separated, the husband joining the army, but they have continuously kept up a correspondence and the meeting that was planned to bo a happy one was turned into one of remorse and much notoriety. They have been living in Charlotte since February. PELLEGRA IN CHARLESTON. Deaths From the Disease Seems to he Increasing. I nUin .1 ? ? 4 ~ e ' > - ^ It iic iitiuiuci ul uciuiiB i rum peiia- ' gra in Charleston has been increased to eight with the deaths of two colored patients at the Ttoper hospital Friday. All the deaths from this disease have been reported from the Roper hospital, starting with the return of Dr. Rabcock of Columbia from Europe last summer when ho began lecturing on the disease and declaring its prevalence here as well as in southern Italy, where is is most common. f ^ Putting On Wall Paper. One reason why we don't get our ** J wall paper to stay os is because we do not cook the starch when wo make it. It ought to be made with boiling water, stirred all the time till it looks good and smooth. If you dissolve an ounce of powdered alum to every ' two pounds of flour you use, that will make the starch better. * J!