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J A AIRMEN PERISH V Twt Tmb( Aviatars Use Tktir Lifes ^ at lateraatieial Meet. r . >. DROWNED AND CRUSHED >' William Badger, of Pittsburg, Goes ^ to His Death at St. Croix and Johnstone Plunges to His Instruction Under the Yawning Waters of I.nkn \fl/'Viliran Two aviators, William R Badger, of Pittsburg and W. L. Johnstone of Chicago, both young men, > lost their lives at the international aviation meet at Chicago on Wednesday. In dying both revealed the frailty of "the craft in which two score or more aviators were curving and gliding about the air, with scarcely a * pause for the deaths of their contemporaries. Death in both cases was dae to unexplained accidents, probably the results of unsuspected defects In the mechanism of the machines and was y in no way caused by carelessnes or lack of responsibility of the drivers, Badger, a wealthy young man, careened to his death in a pit in the w avaiation field. There had been a 7 flaw in one of the wings of the propeller of the Baldwin machine he drove. Centrifugal force broke the propeller, upset the delicate equilibrium of tho machine and Badger ; . dashed to his death 100 feet below to tho bottom of the pit, his neck broken. Johnstone fell five hundred feet r into the lake and was drowned under his engine as the result of an equally unsuspected defect . Caught under the heavy* engine in the Moissant monoplane, he was carried deep into Lake Michigan and his body was not recovered urotil three-quarters of an hour had elapsed. Brad'ger lived for three-quarters of an hour after he had been extricated ih?. TCf?*A/ih /\ 9 I a m,o oh Inn TTa A I V HI 111U VV 1 Ul/IV V/ i ii i n iimvyiiiiivi ^ did not recover consciousness, but died almost at once after he reached < tho hospital. His death was the first M of the aviation meet. The meet at Chicago, which began last Sunday, was Badger's first public/ appearance. He had been up Tuesday just two hours, 13 minutes, and nineteen seconds on the flight that ended his life when he fell. He dropped just in front of the grandstand before thousands of spectators. Thousands rushed into the 'pit where the wrecked biplane fell. There was a party of police in the fields, and numero-us heads were hit with their clubs. Badger received 1 his first flying lesson at iM'ineola, N. Y. June 2 5 he made a successful flight and was granted a pilot's in.' spection license. Capt. 'Baldwin after the accident at once withdrew his 0 machines from the meet. Johnstone's accident was due, according to expert aviators, to a similar unsuspected flaw in the mechant ism of his monoplane. Just what it was probably will never be known as the engine is deep in the lake. Johnstone's fall was witnessed by his young wife, although it was not until ^ half an hour later that she was informed of his death. As the monoplane faltered in midair and crashed downward to the surface of the lake, the young aviator's wife, who had been following his flight closely, ' i?.. -i ~ .> .1 nv grasped a meonaiucu uuuu uuu ca4 claimed: "Oh, oh, pity, he's fallen. My boy will be killed-" Wives of half a dozen other aviators rushed to Mrs. . Johnstone's side and attempted to assure her that her husband would not be injured. Five minutes later Mrs. Johnstone pleaded to be allowed to cross the field and go to the lake, where her husband's machine had ; * plunged. A mechanic rushed up and assured i Mrs. Johnstone that her husband had 4 been plucked out of the lake unharmed. Reassured by this news, which had been deliberately invented ' > . to calm the aviator's wife, she went back to her hotel and hurriedly laid . out dry apparel for her husband. For half an hour she waited, then a member of Johnstone's family took her word of the aviator's death. Tho young wife was prostrated by the shock. They Are the Kickers. . . The man who habitually sends his money to mail order houses for goods whiuh he could buy to better advantage to himself from home merchants Is generally tne nrsc to grow* aooui the deadness of his home town. Apparently he forgets that he is a prime cause of Its deadness and thai he is i the most fitting person to officiate at its funeral. Live men imbued with true local pride and patriotism mean a live town every time, even as dead ^ men mean a dead town. Shot Raiding Still. Two doctors are in the Brushy < Mountains fighting to save the life i' of Robert Henry, deputy collector, I who was shot Tuesday aftornoon ' when raiding a mountain plant, and a heavily armed posse is scouring the mountains for his assailant, a man ? named Lane. The revenue officer y was hit just above the left eye and ( his condition is considered critical. 6r: i * REFORM NEEDED AUTOMOBILE FATALITIES ARE ON THE INCREASE. Colonel August Kohnv of Columbia. Suggest a Safe and Sane Campaign in This State. Col. August Kohn writes as follows to The News and Courier from Columbia: A day does not pass that does not give occasion for a funeral notice as a result of an automobile accident The New York papers record severai accidents a day. "With the increasing use of automobiles in this State it may be a good idea to have an early start in a "safe and sane" campaign. In New York city the pedestrian is given a chance for his life?that's about all. There is no need for legislation, as there is now ample law on the books All that is wanted is an enforcement of the existing laws. Every city and town has a law against speeding and, hile it may not be known, there is a State law against fast driving. In effect the main features of the present law read: Section 591. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than Is reasonable and proper at the time and place, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, and its condition, or bo as to endanger life, limb or property of any person or in any event at a greater rate than fifteen miles an hour, subject, however to the provisions of Sections 592 to 598 inclusive. Section 592. "Upon approaching a crossing of interest, public highways, or a bridge, or a sharp curve or a steep desent, and also traversing such crossing, bridge, curve or descent, a person operating a motor vehicle shall have it under control, and operate it at the rate of speed no greater than six miles an hour, and in no event greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic then on such highway and the saftey of the public." Other sections relate to cars stopping upon signal. The automobile clubs and organizations cannot take up and encourage anything that will do the automobilist as much good as to discourage speeding and fast driving. Reckless driving is not general among automobUJst,but the mp.ny will suffer the few if the "safe and sane" idea is not impressed. At a recent term of the Court in Spartanburg the grand jury In its presentment to Judge Watts said: "We desire to call the attention of the owuers and drivers of automobiles and other motor driven machine to the law regulating their operation on the public roads. Ix no case are they allowed to run more than fifteen miles an hour, and on curves, bridges, etc, the rate of speed is limited to six miles an hour. We believe many violations of the law are from thoughtlessness, but the danger of acidents is very great, and we call up.m all officers of the law to enforce same in the interest of the public safety "It has also been called to our attention that a great many automobiles and motorcycles are being oporated in this county without havinj? such motor registered in accordance with the law, and by not having such numbor placed on the rear of said machine in a conspicious place, with the name of the county in which said motor vehicle is registered." nra thft hpi?inninfrs of dam age suits and extreme legislation! Some months ago there was in Columbia a break-neck automobile race. A fine young man from Grenwood was injured in the preliminary spin. Ho is now dead as a result of the accident by which his back was injured It may bo locking the door after the horse is out, but some one will, no doubt, propose a statute, at the next session of the Genearal Assembly outlawing speed and endurance contests with automobiles. Benj. Briscoo and other leading automobilist arguo that nothing is now to be gained by such contests and that they should bo discouraged. Automobilists generally shoud suppress the speed maniac and it is best for it to be done by those interested in the new motor machines (Money in Peaches The State says "Col. R. B.. Watson of Ridge Spring was in the city recently looking halo and hearty. He was in fine spirits and talked interestingly of his success this year in mnrkAtlnir iion.chos crown in his or chards. He says from less than 25 acres he has already made a clear profla of $12,000. In all of his shipments he did not lose a single .bushel of peaches. Proved Fatal Mixture. Uames Conyers, an Industrious, well-to-do and honest negro, of Pinewood, died from ptomaine poisoning, produced from the effects of a surfeit of catfish stew and buttermilk. Prompt medical attention was unavailing and death ensued. Turns Rapist I/oose Raney Chavers who was convicted in Kershaw county in 1905 on the charge of rape and sentenoed to ten years in the State penitentiary has been paroled .by Governor ?lease | during his good behdvior. TAFT IN A HOLE His Afainistratfea Will Have a Tine le Clear It* If ?f frari. FRAUDS ON ALL SIDES State, Agricultural and the Postofflce Department** Are in Order Now and the Surface of the Frauds and Rascalities in Them Have Only Been Hinted At. MT. P. H. McGowan, the Washing ton correspondent of The State says it is .becoming more evident in Washington day by day that the Taft administration is going to have an exceedingly difficult time proving a clean bill of health when it goes before the people for Indorsement In the national election next year. Even lifelong Republicans?those who have stood the G. O. P. outfit in its good days and its bad ones, through the exciting times of the Roosevelt administration and the tame ones that make every day alike at the White House now?are beginning to see that aside from talk, hope and expectation there are sev eral good reasons to believe that next year will see the departure? bag and baggage?from the White Mouse of the Republican party as now organized and operated in the United States No one blames William Howard Taft for the present condition of affairs. He is a good man, thoroughly honest in all that the word honesty implies, but absolutely unable to see that he is surrounded by much the same surroundings that characterized the days when Capt. Kidd was piratical lord and master of the high seas. Today President Taft Is surrounded by as shrewd a band of political gamesters as ever came down the road. And the funny part about it is that they are getting away with it, and Taft?with his strictly judicial temperament and believing that everybody is honest, even the politicians?does not see It, though everyone else does. Mr Taft unfortunately was left with an overstock of the Roosevelt junk on hand in the way of official timber, and has been unable, so far to unload. And right here will ne nis undoing wnen n? uies to explain to the people next year. The worst blot on the Taft official record is the case of that missing vouchers in the Hay portrait case and the manner in which the case was hushed up for fear that more and worse developments might come. It was bad enough, to be sure, as it was but no case is ever helped by covering up the truth, and it is going to take a mighty lot of clever work to make the people believe that anything but crooked work has been going on in the department presided over by Philander C. Knox. The missing voucher and the manner of its beinig found must stand | out as particularly objectionable to the minds of honest people who want an honest administration. I The Wickersham administration in ; the department of justice has fared little better and the great head of the nation's law department did himself no credit when he shifted the ( calcium from himself to the department of agriculture, where he is trying his level best to make "Old Tlorax" Wiley go home. He may succeed. Wiley may rrn Kllf fll All Qfl n/1 Q n f I 1 il IU gU, Ullb l lll/UUIll.MU v? people who have followed Wiley's efforts to enforce the pure food laws will say: "There goes an honest man" Then the scene will shift hgain to the Wickersham stronghold and yhat developments will follow, ! unles they too, are chloroformed with administration dope, will probably recall the days of Diogones and the honest man. But with Wickersham and Knox in bad and poor old "Tama" Jim Wilson, for thirteen years the administration's official farmer, about all in because he has acknowledged that he does not know what is going on in his department and that the crop statistics and like matters are manipulated to suit the wishes of his underlings, the people may, indeed look for something real, classy when they take hold of the great and only Frank IT. Hitchcock in earnest. So far the handling of this gentleman by the congressional committees has been merely perfunctory, but some time at no distant day his real investigation is going to begin. Then take notice. That same Hitchcock knows things, and many volumes will be needed to make the records when he comes down from the witness stand. There are just a few facts relating to the baiting of small "postmasters all over the country that the Democrats want light upon, a few figures about campaign assessments, and just a bit of information regarding pledges to support William Howard Taft and his band of G. O. P. braves Rut this is only part of the programme which Ringmaster Taft will present to the country's 90,000,000 people next year in the hope of securing another four years' tenure in the White House. Seriously, the administration is in a bad hole, and it is a Question whether it is not too FIGHT FOR PURE FOOD NOT WEIii SUPPORTED BY SECRETARY WILSON Dr. Wiley Hampered, and Tells of Opposition .to His Assistant and Solicitor McCabe. Dr. Harvey W Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry and of the agricultural department testified before the House investigating committee Wednesday that he has surrendered practically all his authority for enforcing the pure food law to Dr. F. It Dunlap, associate chemist, and George P. tM!cCa,be, solicitor of the agricultural department. Overruled in over two thirds of the cases he has brought before the food and rues insnection board, composed of these two men and himself, he declared that he had found it useless to appeal to Secretary Wilson and had not even received an answer to one of the most important appeals he had made to the Secretary. Dr Wiley, summoned before the committee to tell of his connection with the employment of Dr. H. H Rusby on an alleged illegal contract, gave to the committee the most illuminating information that has been developed in the investigation now being made into the agricultural department He testified he had never received the letter from Dr Rusby, which was used by the personnel board to prove that he knew about the Rusby contract. lie said that in using this letter, the personnel board had omitted its most essential portion, namely, the statement by Dr. Rusby that "we have agreed upon the following arrangement as fair and satisfactory, if approved by the department." Dr Wiley stated that Solicitor McCabo held the decisive vote on the board of food and drug inspection. When Dr. Wiley and Dr. Dunlap disagreed on questions of chemistry, It was Solicitor McCabe who decided whether a prosecution should be made In fully one hundred cases, said Dr. Wiley, where he and Dr. Dunlap had voted together and Solicitor McCabe had disagreed with them, Dr. Dunlap changed his vote to agree with Mr McCabe. "Did you ever appeal from these decisions " he was asked. "I found it useless to appeal," Dr. Wiley answered, "for the Secretary invariably upheld the decision of the board." In two cases he did appeal, he added, where he thouight public health was "seriously menaced " One of these involved the labelling of gluten flour, the food of diabetes patients. The board's decisions he believed, left physicians without sufficient information as to the exact contents and strength of the flour. In this case the secretary upheld the board The other case involved the labelling of fruits and fruit products which containod sulphur dioxide This subject is now before the Reinsen pure food referee board. The board, composed of three cabinet members, Secretaries MacVeagh, Wilson, and Nagel, decided that the manufacturers could continue to use the sulphuring process if the fact was made clear on the label. Dr. Wiley left the agricultural department one day at four o'clock to go to 'Boston Between that time and 4:30, when the department closed, a special meeting of the'board of food and learned of the action, said Dr | Dunlap, acting as chairman was made overruling! the "three Secretar-| ies" board, and permitting the manufacturers to use the sulphuring process without publishing the fact on their labels. As soon as he reached Washington and learne dof the action, said Dr Wilev, he wrote to Secretary Wilson, appealing to him from the decision, and declaring that the health of the public, particularly of invalids, to whom fruit juices are often prescribed, was seriously threatened by the decision and the board of drub and food inspection had no right to overrule the three secretaries. "What was Secretary Wilson's answer?" asked Representative Floyd, who conducted the questioning of the Moss committee. "I never received, any answer," replied Dr Wiley. Flying Fisli Attack Men Flying fish by the thousands attacked Capt Selley and son, of the lobster launch Audrey, just off the Coronado Islands, Saturday, accord ing to reports urougnt to i^os Angeles, Cal, Tuesday. As a result Capt Selley is nursing a badly bruised head, and his so nis suffering from numerous sore spots and cuts and bruises. ? ? Pellagra Can lie Cured Pellagra can be cured. That fact has been demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt by E. W Dedmond, of Belton. He was dying of pellagra and cured himself Since that time he has treated more than one hundred cases with results that are nothing less than marvellous. His discovery is the most discussed subject in the Piedmont section today. Who will be the next political martyr for conscience sake? late for political doctors to do any good. The crisis is at hand. ATTEMPTED ASSAULT I WHITE IiADY ATTACKED IN HEIt HOME AT ST. GEOIIGE ' Fiend Failed to Accomplish His Purpose but Struck the L<ady Blows in the Mouth. St. George was in a fever of excitement Tuesday night, following an attempt at criminal assault .by a negro on the person of u well known and highly respected white woman. While the assailant failed to accomplish his purpose, he succeeded in inflictine severe and painful injuries on his intended victim, having struck her in the mouth several times, causing the blood to flow. In endeavoring to escape she also stumbled over the furniture In the darkened room, from which she sustained painful bruises. Clinton Glover, a negro suspected of the dastardly crime, was arrested and lodged in jail. Glover is a negro who had been in St. George but a short time. He was seen loafing about the premises of the lady Tuesday by several people, and suspicion naturally fell on him, and he was taken in custody. He denies his guilt, but he will be safely held until he can be thoroughly examined or the guilty party is found beyond doubt. The dastardly crime was attempted about half past ten o'clock Tuesday night, when the would-be fiend entered the bed room of his intended victim, who had retired and was sound asleep. The lady says she was awakened by feeling someone clutching her throat, which was her first intimation of any one being in the room besides herself. She screamed, and the fiend struck her several blows in the mouth, and then ran. The residence of the lady is located in a principal part of the town, only a block from the business portion of Main street, and her screams brought many people to 'her rescue, but when they got there the fiend had made his escape. The room being in darkness, the lady could not 'tell anything about the fiend tihat had attacked her. Suspicion fell on Glover and it was thought advisable to arrest him and await further developments. The county bloodhounds which were eight miles from St. George were sent for, and put on the trail of the fiend with the hope of running him down, and it is hoped that the brutal assailant has been caught. The husband of the victim is employed several miles from town and was not at home when the attack on his wife was made. It is thought that the party who committed the offense was aware of the husband's absence. The lady upon whom the assault was attempted is the mother of six or seven children and is a highly respected citizen of the town. The dastarly outrage, has stirred up the people of the town and surrounding country, and should the fiend be caught and unmistakably identified, it would be a hard matter to keep the infuriated citizens from visiting summary punishment on him. Tt was one of the boldest crimes ever attempted in this ection of the State. CAUSED DEATH OF THREE. Four Men Engage in Pistol Duel About Italian Girl. Love for a woman resulted in a free for all gunfight Tuesday in which three men were shot to death, another was mortally wounded and a woman severely wounded. The dead: Valdo Aronoco, 3 3 years old. Antonio Lasarr.2 8 years old. Pietro Matalli,25 years old, The wounded: Pen Petrollo, 2 4 years old; shot through the breast near the heart; will die. Mali Partino, 28 years old; shot in left leg; will recover. The following occurred at Whiskey Run, a mining settlement near Salisbury. Angelo Marceldo, accusin of Aronoco, spent last night at the lattor's house. The two men and three boarders were in love with Marie Hartino, Italian girl. Tuesday evening the girl was particularly devoted to Marceldo. Upon the angry and jealous muttering of the others, Aronoco challenged the entire party, and soon the pistol battle was on near the home of the amorata. Automatic, revolvers were used and when the ammunition was exhausted Petrello was the only one alive and there is no hope for his recovery, as he was shot through breast near the heart. While the battle raged, Miss Partino the innocent cause, was attracted by the * f A ~ A k ^ M snooting anci nurriii!gi iu uin iwu door of her homo, opened the door only to ,be shot through tiie left leg by a stray bullet from the gun of one of the combatants. Blouse's Pardoning Record. Governor Please holds the championship as a pardoner of criminals. Since assuming ofllce the governor has extended clemency in 216 cases as follows: Paroles, 114; pardons, 102 Two Blown to Pieces Two men were blown to pieces in a powder mill explosion at Careeso- i na, a few miles from Pottaville, Pa. 1 % PLAN NOT FAIR New Orluas Cattaa Exctasge Dc ac vice t Validitiaa Scbiaie. UNJUST TO THE SOUTH Declares that This Section | Should Fight Against the Discrimination Proposed by the Bill of Lading ing Clearing House in New York and Repudiate It. Branding the proposed plan of the Liverpool cotton bills of lading committee to institute in New York a clearing house for the palidation of cotton bills of lading as a "direct reflection and insult upon those engaged in the exporting of cotton," and placing itself upon record as opposing the plan in its entirety, the New Orleans cotton exchange Wednesday afternoon, through its board of directors, passed resolutions to this effect and approved the report of its special committtee, appointed tc investigate the proposition. The directors also adopted resolutions authorizing the president of the exchange to issue invitations in the name of the exchange to all Southern exchanges, boards of trade, bankers and exporters and others interested ir the handling of cotton to meet at New Orleans in joint conference, probably during the annual convention of the Amercian Hankers' association, about the purpose of adopting measures for the protection of their respective and mutual interests The New Orleans Exchange expressed itself as being willing in the future as in the past, to cooperate if any feasible and just plan for the protection of the legitimate cotton trade and the elimination of practices contrary to commercial morality; any feasible plan that will not take further tribute from the Southern planters. All cotton exchanges in the United States were urged to oppose the proposed plan. In the report of the special committee it was stated Wednesday that Charles S. Haignt, representing Liverpool interests at a conference last Saturday explained the whole plan to the local committee, but as no change from the original plan was noted he was informed that an adverse report would be made and the proposition opposed. "To the surprise of your committee," says the report, "i.Yllr. Hnight thereupon informed the committee that this matter had been practically concluded by the Liverpool committee and the New York Sub-bill of lading committee, disregarding the agreement to leave matters in abey ance until further conference with the Southern interests' anil that a letter was being printed and in 17 different languages to be issued to cotton importers and foreign banking interests all over the world, requesting said cotton buyers to ask their American sellers of cotton to comply with the plan and to request A mereian evchango buyers to haveall their documents approved as totheir genuineness through the central office in New York." The committee, in giving reasons for opposing the plan, reported that the losses through Knight, Yancey, & Co, and Steele-Miller & Co. were nothing, and consequently there was nothing to justify the complex and cumbersome methods of handling cotton," as proposed; "that the proposed plan is an insult to those interested in the handling of cotton," and that it gives to New York a decided advantage in the purchase of documentary bills, while the other cities will bo under the necessity of paying for theiir hills before verification can be obtained. "In other words," says the report, the plan is drawn entirely in the interest of the foreign cotton buyer and the Now York exchange buyer, without regard to the interests of the large section of the country in which cotton is produced and which bears the primary burden of financing the crop." Attention is directed particularly tc the fact that cotton alone is selected out of the enormous quantity of commodities exported for the validation of bills of lading, nor is any such plan in vogue in any other commercial country. Therefore, it can only be construed as a reflection upon the cotton business as carried on in vSrui i horn stnfns " rrtnrliidea tho report. The committee rocommonded immediate action on tho part of tho directors in calling a conference of all cotton shipping organizations for the protection of their respective Interests. | ? ? A Homance of the Sea. When tho schooner Hedfield, for Seattle and Nome, arrived off Capo Flattery, the captain found a sea sick girl, 16 years old, on hoard. Sho confessed that she had stowed away to be near her sweet heart, the engineer of the vessel. By virtue of his authority as commander, Capt McKenna pronounced tho engineer ? e The Governor has adopted quite a unique and novel plan to prevent affidavits from being made against blm.