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HOLDS HER OWN Charleston Keeps Hrr Eight M mbers and CoiUion Loses Oue. # HOW IT FIGURfS OUT '? f f J After Long; Fight tlie ReapportionL htont Hill \Vn_M So Amended as to r Prevent the I^?sm of One Member by Charleston at the Expense of Colleton Coiinty. CharleBton retains her eight representatives in the House of Representatives under the provisions of the amended reapportionment bill, passed in the Senate Friday night and adopted later in the House. This ended the most persistent fight, extending over several days, that the Senate had and is all the more significant, inasmuch as the House passed the original bill with no changes. The Senate adopted the amendment of Senator Sinkler Friday nighi giving Charleston eight instead of seven representatives, as the bill at first, provided, and giving Colleton tives had been accorded, was not entitled to another representative. This cut Charleston from eight. to seven. By the annexation of Adams Run and Collins townships, formerly in Colleton, to Charleston county, Charleston gained 0,444 inhabitants. Before this Charleston's fraction was only l>,0 4 7, with a representation of seven. Adding the two townshins Charleston's fraction would he 9,491, entitling her to another representative. Colleton, on a population of 35.3 90, had two representatives and a fraction of 1 0,948, which would have given her another representative. Taking away the two township's population. namely, 0,444, Colleton Iip.1 two representatives and a fraction of only 4,504, not enough to give her another representative. th"s loses one, as Colleton now has till ' p. This state of affairs was called to the attention of the Senate by Senator Sinkler and a fi ?ht of three davs was then had 011 the hill. The onostion arose as to whether the censrs should lie adopted as it stood hef'^'e the annexation, or should the new territory lie added to Charleston a^d taken from Colleton. The Senate vo'^d 2 0 to 0 to give Charleston h'?r eifr,,t representatives and Colleton ? n'v two. The six negative votes included Ackernian, of Colleton: Blaek, of Bamberg; Earle, of Oconee; * Ore^n, of Marlboro, and Summers, of r,alhoun. T'he Senate adopted the bill with the Sinkler amendment inserted therein. Charleston's population under the census was given at 88,5IK for the county. The hill as adopted reads: "Section 1. That for the purpose of the apportionment of representatives in the House of Representatives among the several counties In the St "tea, the enumeration of the inhabitants of the several counties by the United States census of 1010 is hereby adopted as a true and correct. enumeration. "Section 2. That, until the next apportionment, the representation of the several counties shall he as folio. is: Abbeville, 3; Aiken, 3; Anderson. t>; Banrberg, 2; Barnwell. 3; Beau fort, 2; Berkeley, 2; Calhoun, 1; Charleston, 3; Cherokee, 2; Chester. 2: Chesterfield, 2; Clarendon. 3; Coneton, 2; Darlington, 3; Dillon, 2: Dorchester, 1; Edgefield, 2; Fair* JJL flehl, 2; Florence, 3; Georgetown, .. 2: Greenville, fi; Greenwood, 3: Hampton, 2; I lorry, 2; Kershaw, 2: Lancaster, 2; Laurens, 3; Lee. 2; Lexington, 3; 'Marion, 2; Marlboro, 3; Newberry, 3; Oconee, 2; Oraneeburg, 5; Picgens, 2; Richland, 5; Saluda, 2; Spartanburg, 7; Sumter, 8; Union, 2; Williamsburg, 3, and York, 4. "Section 3. That this apportionment shall not take effect until the next succeeding general election." The following counties gain one j representative each: Anderson, . Greenville, Dillon, Orangeburg, Richland and Spartanburg. * The following lose one each: Aiken, Rerkeley, Beaufort, Chester, Fairfield and Colleton. When the bill went back to the, House Friday night a big fight was precipitated on the change. * House Concurs. After some discussion the House , concurred in the Senate amendment # WAISUN IS SCARED CLAIMS THAT SOME ONE TRIED TO ASSASSINATE HIM. Wired Chief Elliott of Augusta to Come to Thomson and llring Blood Hounds to Catch Man. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr. I Thomas E. Watson thought, Hhursday night, an attempt was going to he made to assassinate him. In fact, Mr. Watson is now offering a reward of $500 for the capture and return to Thomson of three men whom he has seen around his place. Thursday afternoon Mr. Watson wired and later called Chief George P. Elliott, of the Augusta police de x x a 1 a x 1 x l? ^ two representatives, instead of three, as originally inserted into the bill and as Colleton now has. In the battle for reapportionment at this session Senator Robert hide, of Orangeburg, was the leader, ana it is owing to his untiring efforts that the measure finally passed the Senate. He was helped by other Senators, "with no ill-feeling toward Colleton county. Senator Sinkler, when he found that Charleston should, because of the annexation of a part of Colleton, retain her present, repret 1, ,ti ^i(i nin tn ihft r<>RP.IIft won out. It bo happened that whon the reapportionment bill was made up. Charleston, because of the smallness of the fraction of proportionate inlio'vUnnta fiftrxr thft HAVAtl rfll)rf!Hent a parinieiiL, aria hsk?u uiui ue ciiuci go to Thomson, or secure and send blood hounds to that place, to capture "a boyish looking young man, wearing high heeled shoes, whom 'Mr. Watson thought was "skulking around to kill him. One of the messages received by Chief Elliott, while rather meager as to description and information, was to the effect that the chief was wanted in Thomson on account of an attempt. to assassinate Mr. Watson. Chief Elliott, in telephone conversation, told Mr. Watson that there were no dogs available in or near Au-gusta, fit to trail a criminal, and suggested that he try to get them from At lnnta. Subsequent information from Thomson is to the effect that Mr. Watson called on the sheriff of McDutile county early Thursday night to send a posse to his house, to capture some men who were trying to assassinate him, and a search was made of the woods around Mr. Watson's house, which developed the fact that some McDufTle people?it was not learned how many?were in that neighborhood, trying to catch a couple of ne7roes. Chief Elliott says one of the messages received by him Thursday night was to the effect that a posse was on the scene at that time, hut the dogs were still wanted. Testerday subsequent telegrams were received from Mr. Watson by the chief asking for assistance, and last night, the following telegram was received from Mr. Watson by The Chronicle: Thomson. fJa., Feb. 17, 1911. Chronicle, Augusta, Oa.: Will you kindly allow me space to announce that i will pay a reward of fr>00 for the arrest and return to Thomson of the three men who have been skulking around my home at nl?ht and concealing themselves in the swamp on my place during the daytime ever since Monday night of this week. One of these men is said to he boyish looking and his footprints on the soft., damp ground indicate he is wearing practically new shoes with unusually high heels, narrow pointed toes, curving slightly inward. The style of shoe Is known among deal ers as extreme. This mnn is thought to he wearin? a derby hat. The men are well drer^ed, on eh in dark clothes which should now show ?jgns that th^y have sncnt. several days and rd'rht.s dodging a!>out in swamps and thickets. Tt is thought they are headed towards Atlanta. Thomas TO. Watson. * nrUGIiAUS TOItTI'ltlO VICTIM. Singe His Ilair and Hlistcred His Face to Get Money. Torture by fire was resorted to by two burglars who broke into the rooms of Joseph Wishnock, a cobbler in Williamsburg, N. Y., Wednesday in their determination to make him reveal the hiding place of his pitiful small hoard of savings. Tt was not until the men had burned off Wishnock's beard and hair and had blistered his face and neck that he told that his small store of $12 was hid non in tho mattress 011 which his torturers had him pinned down. At the hospital where the cobbler had his painful hut not fatal burns dressed he identified two young men whom the police arrested as the pair who had tortured and robbed him. A woman has less faith in her ideals after marrying one of them. by the following vote: For concurrence in Senate amendment: Messrs. Ashley, Reiser, 1 tothea, Rooker, Rowers, Bowman, Royd, Connor. Courtenay, Drummond, Earle, Edwards, E. C. and Isaac, Evans, Fultz, Gibert, Harrison, Hopkins. TTorlbeck, Hunter, llutto, James, Kibler, Kirklond, League, Lee, Leland. Magill, -Miller, Motte, Mower, H. A. Odom, Riley, R. L. Rhuler, C. R. Smith, Todd, Vander Horst, Vincent, Wlngard, Wyche and Youmans. Total, 41. Against concurrence In Senate amendment: Speaker Smith, Arnold, Beamguard, Brice, Butler, Carj, Chandler, Daniel, Davis, Dixon, DuBose, Gasnue, Graham, Hamilton, Harris, Hill, Irby, Jones, Kellahan, Ketchin, McKeown, McQueen, Manuel, Meares, Mitchum, Nunnery, Paulling, Peeples, Polk, Rembert, Sanders, Seott, C. T. Shuler, D. L. Smith, Tison, Turnbull, Watson, Willis?39. 'By this vote Charleston retains her eight members and Colleton loses one of her three. SHOT BY THIEF Creeirille if Stirred by the Shsothinf of Two of Her Poiicvmea INI?NS? EXCITEMENT Officer Gunnels Dies From the Wounds Inflicted by the liandit. Who Mado His Kscape, and Fosses Are Scouring the Country on the Ijookout for Him. Scores or men, private citizens, policemen and deputies, armed to the teeth, scoured the oountry between Greenville and the mountains to North Carolina Friday and Friday night in search of the lone stranger, believed to be a professional yeggman, who Friday morning, between 2:30 and 3 o'clock, engaged in a desperate pistol duel in the passenger station of the Columbia and Greenville Railway, with Officers 1>. V. Johnson and Sergt. Oliver S. Gunnels, of the Greenville police force, in which Gunnels received wounds from which he died at 9:40 o'clock, while Johnson was shot through the right leg. Perhaps never before in the history of the city has Greenville been so excited. The tragedy of Friday, which cost the life of a universally popular and faithful officer, coming ^?? f l?rt h n/xlfi /\P < /I a of o r/llu aoao n If ull inu itirv."in ui iiiu uuqlwi uij uoo(?uk, upon the life of "llncle Tommy" Cnreton, the oldest policeman on the force, Tuesday morning by (J. W. Stonecypher, in a drunken orgie, was heightened by a. dastardly assault, made a few hours later, upon the life of another member of the police f-orce, by an aggregation of disreputable men -and women as the oflicer attempted to place one of the women of the gang under arrest for committing a revolting act. At coroner's inquest held Friday morning over the remains of Sergi. Gunnels, at the undertaking establishment of Jas. F. Mackey & Son, but one witness, Officer Johnson, was examined. His testimony tells the story of the tragedy. "Gunnels and I," said he, "were coming along Augusta street, beyond the Intersection of Vardry street, toward the city, shortly after 2:3ft o'clock. I saw a man emerge from the railroad cut of the Columbia and Greenville Railway, and move on down the track toward the passenger station, some 3 00 yards away. I could see a mysterious looking back slung over his shoulder, but could not tell whether he was white or black. I called Sergt.. Gunnels' attention to the lone tmmn ami mnflo the rcninrk that lie was probably a chicken thief. "I watched him closely and saw him approach the door of the colored wail in 7 room of the passenger station. I advanced toward the station and when within a few feet ol it I heard the man moving about on the inside. Gunnels and I approached the door at the same time. Ho put his right hand to the door and poshed it open. At the same time, with his left hand, he flashed his eleetric flash light into the dark room. The light revealed a tough looking white man, short, thick sot, heavy, with a shurt, black mustache, and dressed commonly, without a collar or tie, and wearing a slouch hat, standing in the centre of the floor. "Simultaneously with the flash of the oflicer's pocket flash light, the man raised his revolver and fired. The first shot pierced Gunnel's abdomen and he fell back against the door facing, exclaiming: 'John. I'm shot, kill him.' llefore the stranger could fire a second time, I had my pistol out and opened tire on him. The second shot he fired struck Gunnels in the right thigh and Gunnels receded toward the south end of the station. The third shot from the man's revolver pierced my riirht. leg. "All the while the man and T were exchanging shots with lightning-like rapidity. 1 had a Smith & Wesson 3 8-calibre pistol and I think he was armed with a 3 2-calibre Colt's magazine revolver. I tired four times and pulled the trigger of my revolver again, but the cartridge failed to explode. I receded then and the man sprang through the door, firing as ho ran. When on the outside he wheeled about, ran backwards a i short distance, and fired several more shots, the first one being fired at Gunnels, who was in the act of sinking to the ground, and the remaining shots being fired at me. lie then fled, and T turned to assist Gunnels." The words of the only witness, now nlivo tn fho fatal nffrav in the lone ly little railway station, in the dead < of night, with a desperate man, who, < it is believed now, committed a series of robberies earlier in the night at Williamston, eighteeen miles below Greenville, is a story which has stirred Greenville from centre to circumference. Men threw down busi- ! ness and seized weapons to join squads that left at intervals throughout the day to scour the country for the fleeting murderer. The mayor of the city himself joined a squad i and went in the direction of the mountains shortly after noon. ? The city of Greenville has offered i a reward of $500 and the State a : V FALLS TO HIS MATH BEDSPKINOS BOUNCES LITTLE BOY OUT OF WINDOW. Little Fellow Coch From tlie Fourth Story of His Home to the Pavement. "Mind the window, Morrie!" cautioned flve-year-old Sadie Solomon, who, with her brother, Morris, aged three, was bouncing a ball against a wall in the front room of their home on the fourth floor of No. 1295 Park avenue, New York Friday afternoon. The boy and girl were standing on a bed while playing their game of hand-ball and the springs lent elasHnliir in i Knit* Innna ofinr f ha t I I - I I J IV tUUII IVUJ/O Ui VVI Vift V The l>ed was alongside the window. The last time the lad struck the ball it shot toward the window. Morris with a cry of alarm jumped for it and caught it in his chubby fists. Hut in leaping he failed to take into account the bedsprings, which shot him into the air and through the window head foremost. A hundred feet up the block was Herman Panzie of No. 5 4 East Ninety-ninth street. He saw the baby come crashing through the window, as did several other persons. Panzie started on a run, with outstretched arms, in the hope of catching the child before he struck the ground. A woman across the street rushed quickly to the other side with- her skirts held out like a lifenet. But both were too late, though Panzie only missed catching Morris by a few inches, his jacket grazing the finger tins of the man's hands. Morris struck the pavement on his head. When Panzie picked him up he was still breathing and the man ran all the way with him to Mount Sinai Hospital, four blocks distant. 'n 1- _ i _ .1 * i. 11. ? .x J A ^ 1 f. i ne noy (iie?i jusi <is tut* iiuMj.Mi.iii wmm reached, the rubber ball still in hlc hands. FOUND HTM A WIFK. Wrote His Nmne on an and Cupid Did the Host. Because an egg on which he had written his name while packing a crate t'or shipment. East reached it destination in a fresh condition, Edward Taylor of Alexandria, S. Dak., a grocer's clerk, and Miss Margaret Orayner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were married last week. Miss Orayner when opening the eg? noted the name and address on the shell, and being struck by the freshnees of the morsel of food and the oddness of the affair, wrote to the young man, more as a joke than anything felse. Enter photographs wore exchanged, then more notes, and finally Taylor journeyed down East to see in real life the object of his peculiar romance. Things were better in real life than on paper, and after a short courtship he returned to Alexandria and the grocery store. He did not write on any more eggs?lie didn't have to?lie vaa engaged and lie i i i l. _ . 1 1 ii. _ ! ?i l -1 K t loved i lie 55111 anc i/ie gui mveu 111111. The gi'*l wns the Brooklyn lass who wrote the joke note because she round a boyish name inscribed on the shell of a fresh egg. Two weeks ago Taylor returned to Brooklyn and last week married Miss Grnyner. Killed For flis Money. The body of Richard Hancock, an aged man who for years had lived alone, was found at his home near Panama, Fla., Friday with three bullet wounds in the back. Richard McNeill, a negro, was arrested and confessed to having killed him. Hancock was reputed to have been wealthy and it is said that he kept large sums of money in the house. * Deaths From Plague. The viceroy of Manchuria estimates that the fatalities in M inch uroia from the Beubonic plague already have reached 65,000. According to the general belief, how over, (ho number of fatalities will ho nearer double those of the official estimates. Starving Chinese. The relief committee at Shanghai, China, believes that the minimum number of deaths from famine is 1 0,000. reward of $200 for the capture of the slayer of Officer Gunnels. Mobs are still scouring the country for the tleeiii'2 murderer. Several suspects have been brought into the city, at Intervals, since nightfall. Every outgoing train, freight and passenger, is being halted and searched by police and citizens. Tho excitement, throughout the city is intense, and should the slayer of Officer Gunnels be captured and brought back to Greenville there will undoubtedly be danger of a lynching. The funeral services over the remains of the dead officer were held Saturday afternoon. The board of police commissioners and the police force will attend in a body. A selected squad of police will act as pallbearers, while Interment will be acoompanied by Masonic rites. Public subscriptions to a fund to employ a Pinkerton detective has amounted to hundreds of dollars already and Is growing hourly. GETS THE MONEY The Colleges Liberally Profiled For by Ike General Assembly. GIVEN ALL THEY ASKED Swells the Appropriation Hill to Over Two Million Hollars, Which is the Largest Kver Passed by South Carolina Legislature for One Year s Expenses. The appropriation bill has passed both houses and is now ready for the signature of the governor. Kor the first time in years a fight was made in the senate on the adoption of the free conference report on the bill. By just one vote, IS to 17, the senate early Saturday morning adopted the free conference report which meant that the bill passed with the appropriations for permanent buildings at WJnthrop, South Carolina University, and the Citadel restored to the bill. The report of the free conference committee was not unanimous. Senator W. L. 'Mauldin, chairman of the finance committee of the senate, not signing the report. The question of adopting the report from the free conference committee was debated freely and warm ly. Senator Montgomery moved the adoption of the report. Senator Hardin said that for the first time in his legislative career he could not support a froe conference report. Senator Johnstone explained the action of the oommittee and told how carefully the items had been considered and the deliberations of the com initteo. Senator Rainsford regarded the committee as a board of arbitration and the senato in honor bound t,o abide by its decision. Senator Uaney put in a word for the common schools but said he would vote for the free conference report. Senator Montgomery said all governments are bases on compromises, and when he saw tax levy would not he put up he consented for the senate to recede from Its amendments. Senator Hardin thought the senate lost out entirely instead of participating in a compromise. IIo could not conscientiously vote for it. Senator Strait sounded a warning, saying the time is coming when people are going to rise up against those Institutions. Might as well call a halt now. He reminded the senators ho helped establish Winthrop and Clem son. Senator Weston was emphatic in his remarks. Ho said the University of South Carolina, the Citadel, Clemson and Winthrop are not the rich man's colleges. The appropriations for Improvements are to be accompanied by increased . and additional educational advantages. Senator Young was glad to see the action of tho committee and told of what the action will mean. rsenaior liners announced that, no would vote against the adoption of the report as a protest against ext rovaganco. Senator Tjawson asked Senators Johnstone, Weston and Montgomery a number of questions drawing out the features of the added appropriations. Senator Johnstone told again of tiie stand taken by' the committee and earnestly urged the senate to adopt the free conference committee's report. The rote to adopt the report was passed, 18 to 17, as follows: Ayes?Senators Ackerman, Carlisle, Clifton, Hough, Johnstone, I.aney, T. J. Mauldin, McCown, Montgomery, iMuekenfuss, Rainsford, Sinkler, Spivey, Stewart, Sum mors, Waller, Weston, Young?18. Nays?Senators Appelt., Hates, ( Black, Christensen, Crosson, Marie, ; lOpps, Forrest, Green, Hardin, Haw"on, Manning, Mars, Strait, Stuckey. Sullivan, Wharton ?17. Not voting?Senators Croft, Den- , "'s, Ginn, Hall, W. J. Johnson, Hide, , W. H. Mauldin, Walker?8. i rp \, ^ ? K .... - -1 ? .?i ?1 it. I III? llUUJSt? I 111 11 <1(IllJ; I I'll lilt? I Import. -VIr. Brownin? explained that j when the bill left the house it provided for appropriations of $1,971..122, and as reported by the free conference committee tho total would he $2,019,652.46. The report carries the additional ( $1,000 for militia, $2,000 for corn oreeuers association, and a row older items. The principal points at issue were tho appropriation for the State colleges. The committee reported that the senate should recede from its amendments on State colleges. The university is to get its auditorium and NVinthrop the new building for arts and sciences. The high school appropriation of $60,000 and the public schools appropriation of $20,000 are to come out. of the dispensary profits and will therefore reduce the direct appropriation by $80,000. Held Up Town. Terrorizing the citizens of Duncan vtlle, Tex., robbers destroyed the vault of the Farmers' bank and escaped with $2,000. The most venturesome residents were forced to etand in line while the robbers used I their high explosives. NURSING SERVICE AN IMPORTANT DEPARTMENT OF RED CROSS ORGANIZATION. National Society Expects to Enroll 10,<K)O Trained Nurses for Service in Time of War or Disaster. A red cross on white ground encircled by the words, "American National Red Cross Nurse," in letters of gold on blue enamel, the whole enclosed in a laurel wreath?this is the oilicial emblem of the Nursing Service of the American Red Cross, and 110 higher honor can be bestowed upon a nurse than the right to wear this badge, for it means that she ia pledged to the service of her country. This emblem is protected by law, and still further to prevent its improper use each badge is numbered and the names and addresses of the nurses to whom they are issued are on file in the Red Cross office in Washington. The selection of these nurses is one of the most important duties devolving upon the Red Cross, and so important indeed did this duty seem that a National Committee on Red Cross Nursing Service was appointed by the War Relief Hoard of the American Red Cross in December, lOOi). This committee, consisting of nine members representing the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and six members representing the American Red Cross, was made responsible for the organization of an adequate nursing personnel which shall be :it nil Hmna available for service under the banner of tbe Tied Cross. The magnitude of this undertaking may be indicated by tbe following figures: During the last year of tho Civil War there were 20 4 General Hospitals under tho control of the Medical Department of the Ignited Army, with a capacity of 1 3 6,894 IkhIS. If the Medical Department of the Army of 1865 had undertaken to furnish a nursing service comparable with that which is considered necessary in our large hospitals today, an army of over 27,000 nurses would have been required. There were, however, no trained nurses available in those dark years of the Civil War, but today there areNin the United States alone over 50,000 women who have graduated from training schools for nurses, than which there are none better in the world, and from these the Red Cross hopes to enroll at least 1 0,000 nurses?10,000 selected women who are not only vouched for [>y tne schools ror nurses from which they have graduated, but are recommended by well-known members of their own profession. The system of enrollment adopted by the Red Cross is a guarantee to the nation that in the stress of calamity or the turmoil of war there stands ready for service a band of women worthy to follow in the footsteps of their great teacher and exemplar, Florence Nightingale. * DETAILS OF EASLEY KILIJXG. Olin Fletcher, Slayer of llarrall Good soil, in Jail. . ? Tuesday night, at the Easley Cotton Mill, in the town of Easley, Olin Fletcher killed llarrall Goodson. From what can be learned it seems that several boys were sitting on the church steps at the mill, about 9 o'clock. Olin Fletcher walked up lo the boys and asked Luther Norris for a cigarette. Norris gave it to him. None of the boys had a match. Olin Fletcher, seeing Ben Harris coming down the street, asked Harris for a match. Harris pulled a pistol out of his pocket and said: "This is the kind of match 1 will give you." Harris put the pistol back in his pocket. Fletcher then pulled the pistol out of Harris's pocket and began to sling it around. It was discharged and the bullet struck llarrall Goodson and he was killed almost instantly. They were young men about 20 years of age and unmarried. Fletcher was caught about four miles from the scene of the killing and is now in jail. The coroner held an inquest, and it is said a motive for the killing was brought out. Woman Drinks l'oison. Swallowing laudanum then carbolic acid with suicidal intent, Mrs. Charles M. Tripp of Dublin, Ga., died late Friday, after suffering six hours. It was stated domestic troubles raused her act. Mrs. Tripp was thtf niece of her husband's ilrst wife and was wedded but a few deeks after the first wife's death. * Hotly Was Found. Michael Llllek who Friday night lied from Brostos, Pa., after shooting and instantly killing Miss Alice Hy land, aged 19, because she objected to his attentions, was found dead on a mountain side a half mile from the scene. Rather than submit to capture ho shot himself. * Make War on Rata. Pittsburg, Pa., is overrun with rats and there is $1,000,000 of Pittsburg money ready to be handed to the man who will invent something which will exterminate rats Quieuy and effectively. #