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GOVERNOR'S VETOES TO BE REHASHED INTO CAMPAIGN THUNDER LATER. HE VETOED A GOOD MANY Refused to Sign Medical Inspection Act, and to Pass This Hill Over His Veto Will Probably bo First Business to be Taken Up by House When legislature Meets Today. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle says the South recalled in a special session last night, and probably one of the first 1 * * 11 will K otfA In iningB lllti JIOUBO Will 1IUIO 1U uvv.uv during the recess session is whetner or not the act providing for medical inspection of children in the public schools by a physician employed by the schools' hoards of trustees is to become a law the "veto of the governor to the contrary notwithstanding." The act with Gov. IJlease's veto message was returned to the House last Saturday night and referred to the committee on medical affairs which is expected to report soon after the House reconvenes. The medical inspection act was considered by many a decided forward stop. It was drawn with a view to protecting the health of children in South Carolina's schools, helping the boys and girls to acquire a sound mind in a sound body. Many of the ailments to which children are especially subject, such as adenoids, are recognized by physicians as an Impediment to their mental, as well as physical, development. If a child suffers from such ailments, the school physician is to report the case to its parents or guardian. Medical inspection of school children had the hearty endorsement of South Carolina Federation of Women's clubs and the South Carolina . Medical Association. Medical inspec tion has been tried with success in tile public schools of Spartanburg ami Seneca. In a veto message, Governor Blease had certain faults to find with the construction of the bill which he claimed was indefinite as to Its provision allowing the school board to employ physicians. The remainder of the veto message was a democratic appeal to the prejudices, and it is safe, even at this early date to predict that, if Governor Blease is again a candidate fpr the office he now holds in the primary next summer, he will rehash part of this same medical Inspection veto message into "campaign thunder." And, in this connection, a casual reading of the 12 messages, special and veto, the governor has sent to the general assembly already (and the end is not yet) reveals the fact that t.ho majority of them readily lend themselves to conversion Into demagogic harangues. It is practically certain that Candidate Blease will inflict resumes of his specific messages to the general assembly upon the voters of South Carolina next summer. Of course, the House lias expunged be vilest, of these special messages, tho ono which accompanied the ve- | toed libel act, from its record, but even this will probably not prevent it being used on the "stump" by the present governor of the state of South Carolina when he goes before the people to ask them for oflico again on his "record." During the recess from last Saturday night until next Wednesday night, the exodus of members of the Legislature from Columbia has been very general for tho reason that so many of them had planned their business affairs so as to get him after Saturday when the session should have ended had not the necessity for a recess arisen. The appropriation bill will probi ably be reported back to the House and Senate by the committee of free conference Wednesday night. The members of the committee, upon whom rsts the important task of correlating tho differences of tho House and Senate on tho way the state's money shall be spent during 1912, are: Senators, W. L. Mauldin, P. L. Hardin, J. W. McCown and Representatives, R. J. Drowning, T. J. Kirkland and F. M. Cary. ? Come to lfaunt Her. Because ino gnoBt or nor nrsi dub* band camo to haunt her after lior second marriage, Mrs. Georgo W. Mann left her second husband soon after their wedding, according to Mann's testimony in his suit for divorce at Macon, Ga. Ho said ho was so touched by his wife's fears that he consented for her to leave. She had promised her husband, said Mann, not to wed again. ? ? ? ^ Ho Iticlily Deserved It, The legislature of South Carolina conferred unusual distinction upon Newton F. Walker, superintendent of tho Cedar Springs Institute, on Thursday by giving him by unanimous vote the title of "doctor of philanthropy and charity," as a recognition of the great work he has done for the deaf, dumb and blind. 4 '\ JAMES MARION SIMS I THE STATE WILL PAY TRIBUTE GI TO HER NOTED SON. Something of the Life and Work of III One of the World's Greatest Physicians and Surgeons. The General Assembly of South Carolina has provided an appropria- ro tion of $5,000 to erect a suitable ho monument to James Marion Sims, 011 Nc tho State house grounds. The amount m< it'll a ?rlvnn l?v t li? CAIlflml USHOniblV Oil Wfl tho condition that the medical pro- tw fession of South Carolina raise an ha additional $5,000, making the total pa amount available $10,000. ar It is thought that tho question or raising the fund will be brought be- w< fore the next meeting of the South to Carolina Medical Society. Tho reso- mi lution for tho appropriation was in- hi troduced in the house by Mr. Kirk- do land. in James Marion Sims was born In ch Lancaster county, South Carolina, on an January 25, 1813. Ho died in New wj York city on November 1 3, 1 883. He hi was graduated from the South Caro- an Una College in 183 2 and later studied th medicine at Charleston and Philadel- tw phia. He began the practice of modi- w< cino in 1 835. Dr. Sims resided at fo Montgomery, Ala., from 184 0 to th 1 853, where ho became known for his jo successful operations for strabismus th and clubfoot. In 184 5 he made known his hypo- o'i thesis on the cause and proper treat- th mont of trismus masceutium. The he effectiveness of the treatment was IP later demonstrated by a long series th of experiments. In the same year he ru began experiments to test a treat- th ment lie had conceived for veslco-va- ev ginal fistula, in tho course of which m ho devised the silver suture and sev- th oral instruments, the chief of which fie is tho duskbill speculum, known as pi the Sims sneculum. Mi In 1853 Dr. Sirns removed to New en York city and shortly began a move- an merit for the establishment of a lios- lie pital for tho diseases of women. A rn temporary structure was built in gi 185 5, and a charter and appropriation were granted by the legislature so in 1 857 for tho permanent institu- re tion, built in 18GG on tho pavilion pa system. of Dr. Sims went to Europe in 1 SGI in and performed the operation for he vesico-vaginal fistula in the hospitals pa of London, Paris, Edinburgh and le Dublin. In 1 862 he settled In Paris to and secured a lucrative practice. He of practiced in London from .18G4 to 18G8, and in the latter year returned pc to America. Ho was again in Paris ca in 1 870 and was surgeon-ln-chief or le an Anglo-American ambulance corps T1 that treated both French and German m soldiers after the battle of Sedan. th In 1 872 Dr. Sims was appointed a co member of the Woman's hospital of w New York, but resigned in 187 1. Among his published works are \\ "Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery" (18G5), "Treatiest on Ovariotomy" ? ( 1 873), "History of the Discovery of Anaesthesia," "The Story of My Life" (1884). A bronze statue of Dr. Sims is in Bryant park, New York city. a ?. ?, at .JUDGE JONES IN WASHINGTON. ?f m ? g Oil Personal Business, Refusing to hi Discuss Politics. Tho Washington correspondent of ?f The News and Courier says Judge Ira w Jones, who resigned the Chief Jus- ra ticesliip of the South Carolina Su- ^ prenio Court in order to run for the 1 Governorship against Governor el IMeasc in the Democratic primary, is *ii at tho Willard Hotel there, and will I'niii ! I until rPno?n ;i v n f f f*r- pl noon. Judge Jones spent a large part al of Monday at tlio Capitol and took lunch with Senator and Mrs. Tillman and Representative Legare in the Senate dining room. Among the oth- (ii or members of the delegation seen by Judge Jones during the day were Representatives Finley and Johnson. When met in Senator Tillman's otlice, \< Judge Jones refused to say anything about his visit to Washington, exeept that it was on matters of per- pj sonal business. He declined courte- ro ously ,but firmly, to discuss State pol- m ities or to say anything about his can- c\ didacy. th 1 if Would Har Jug Trade. St At Newberry the congregations of 111 Central Methodist church and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian al church Sunday adopted petitions to congress asking for the passage of fr the Kenyon-Sheppard bill, which is ('i intended to remove the protection of interstate commerce from liquor shipped into "dry" territory. Other nrfmnizntinna in Newberry have al adopted and forwarded to Washing- in ton similar petitions. This ought to M be done in all the "dry" counties, of Then there would bo some chance to CI enforce tho law. eci A Negro Kills Another Negro. M Monk Williams shot and instantly ^ killed Frank Williams Sunday after- si noon in Fork township in Anderson county. Roth are negroes. Tho sheriff and the coroner are investigating. It is said that the slayer has made th his escape across the Georgia State G line. Monk Williams recently com- st pleted a sentence for killing a negro, hi % NOTED CROOK CAUGHT " IEENWOOD OFFICERS NABBED 3 HIM LAST TUESDAY. s Pal, D. M. Checks, Was Also Arrested and the Two Noted Crooks Are Now Safely Behind the Bars. Covered with four pistols and sur1111 ded by as many officers in the ( use of a Mr. Ward, at Grendel mill i >. 1, at Greenwood, early Tuesday i irning, W. Ilritt Stanley, who Is inted for several safo robberies, j o murders and on the charge of , ving a number of wives, and his . 1, D. M. Cheeks, were arrested and , e now in the county Jail. . rm,f nffl/iora hnvn nnn of the i I Hat HiV w MMIf V W? J >rst criminals in tho country seems < be a fact as the photograph of the < in wanted for several crimes fits , m exactly. He is wanted in Valsta, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., for blow- , g open two safes; wanted on the } arge of murder in North Carolina , id also in Georgia. There is a re- j ird of $1,000 or $1,500 offered for s capture which will bo divided j nong the local ofllcers who made e arrest. For tho past several days o detectives have been in GreenDod looking for him. They have ( llowed hiin over several States but e Greenwood otlicers were on the b and made the arrest as soon as ey learned that he was hero. Tuesday morning shortly after five clock four men gathered around ; o breakfast table at one of the >uses in the Grendel Mill village. / lamplight they had begun eating eir breakfast when four officers shed in and covered the bunch with eir guns. Up went tho hands of ery man?the photograph of the an wanted was pulled from one of e officers pockets?he was identiid from this and hand cuffs were aced on him and his pal. Sheriff cMillan and Chief of Police White ! itered the front door of the house id Police Sergeant Elledge and Po:eman Still came in the back?all shing into the dining room at a veil signal. Stanley has been In Greenwood for me days and at the time of his arst he was working in the mill. His ; il, M. D. Cheek, seems to be a kind spy for him. He visits the city which they stop, and as soon as i finds that the officers are on his : il's trail he puts him wise and they ave. But this time his "spy" was ( 0 slow, or at least the Greenwood < fleers were too fast. In a little note book in Stanley's >cket was found the following: "In se of accident write to L. E. Ilaty, Holladay, Tenn., R. F. D. No.' 4. :ie officers in the places where the an is wanted have been notified of e arrest and they will probably mo to Greenwood for him in a short bile. ? ?. 1 (ilj HONOR II10It GREAT SON. oiuiiiicnt to be Erected at Columbia to Dr. J. Marion Sims. The general assembly has passed bill providing for the erection of a atute on the State House grounds Dr. J. Marion Sims, 0110 of the ost famous gynecologists and surions the world has produced. The 11 from the senate, passed without iposition in the house Wednesday ght, provides for tho appropriation $.">,000 for tho statue by tho State hen an equal amount lias been lSCd oy l UO DUUlll V^lHIUllil lUCUIkUl ssociation. dr. McDow, Mr. nines and Mr. Dirk ilogi/.ed the late l)r. Sims in the ghost terms. They declared that 3 had boon an honor to his birthace, Lancaster county, to his State id to the United States. HIS CONSCIENCE lll'RT 1IIM. + reenville Man Makes Restitution for Stolen Iiooze. An employee of the dispensary in 100 stole one pint of "XX" or (XX" rye whiskey, and, to ease his oubled conscience, which hasn't let m rest since the deed was commitd, ho wrote a letter to Governor lease confessing his sin, and enosed a $1 bill as a contribution to o "conscience fund" for the pint of luor which he filched from the ate. The Governor returned the oney to the man, telling him that ? hoped his sin had been forgiven, id that he should put the dollar to me good purpose. The letter came om Greenville, the man being an nployee of a cotton mill. Hanging \ okis iiisiinuicc, Death by the hand of the law voids | 1 life insurance policies of the crimal. Tho supreme court so held onday in the fight of the children , James S. McCue, former mayor of , larlottesville, Va., who was executl for tho murder of his wife In 1005. policy for $ 15,000 was carried by cCuo in the Northwestern Mutual ifo Insurance Company of Wiscon- < n. + A Thrifty Hank Porter. A warrant has been sworn out by ic Merchants and Farmers Hank of affney, for a negro porter, who has olen $1,20^5 from the bank. He [is not yet been apprehended. ONLY TWO ARE LEFT " ? MOTH Kit AND THREE CHILDREN ? DIE IN A FEW DAYS. V Spartanburg Family Nearly All I Wiped Out of Existence by Complications With Measles. The following sad story of a Sparanburg family is told by the Jour- c ml of that city in its last Monday's i ssue: . t i Lula Buckner has joined Horace, 1 Vfaud and Mrs. Buckner. The fourth v member of this family died last night ' it 11 o'clock after an illness of about a ,wo weeks. She lived just one week 1 ifter Horace passed away. Ruth fol- 1 lowed three days later and on last joturwiav tnoriiiiiir the niothor died, j 3n top of this Lula followed them to 1 Lho beyond last night. * There remains in this family now ^ tho husband almost crazed from 1 srief and sorrow; Norman, the 14- c year-old boy, who according to physicians, has but a little chance, and 1 who may soon join his mother and * brother and sisters. Then there is J Harvey, the bright, blue eyed boy, 5 who after the other members of the 'l family are buried, will remain to comfort his aged father in his last 1 ( days on earth. Across the street from tho Buck- , nor cottage, there is a married daugh- , ter of Mr. Huckner. She, with a very young child, is desperately ill, and '{ much anxiety is felt for her. ( Yesterday afternoon at J. F. , Floyd's undertaking establishment, tho funeral of Mrs. Buckner ana , Ruth was held. The father, stricken with grief, was crazed and paced the floor back and forth, wringing his , hands and refusing to be soothed. , The mother and Ruth in the same , casket were laid to rest beside the j body of Horace, who had been buried , scarcely a week. The father turned to his little home to assist in nursing his daugh- | ter, Lula and the son Norman. Lula | told him yesterday that she would | die before morning. And last night, , the angel of death visited the home for the fourth time during the week ( and took away Lula. , Torn Mathews, tho undertaker, went to the home early this morning, lie found Mr. Buckner walking back and forth in the street, knowing not ? what to do, and the two children, the only two remaining, kneeling at the side of the bed where there lay the dead body of Lula. The funeral was held this after- \ noon at 3 o'clock, at Mr. Floyd's on North Church street, just 2 4 hours . alter the mother and baby had been buried. She was buried beside Hor- , ace, Ruth and her mother. Is there any wonder that Mr. Buckner, and the remaining children are nearly insane, after losing four loved ones within seven short days? FOI K KILLER WHILE ASLEEP. o Seventh of Series of Similar Crimes Vet Unexplained. Ethel Love, a negress, her son and two daughters, were killed Monday night, in their cabin near Beaumont, Texas, the seventh of a series of similar crimes which have occurred within several months in Southwestern Louisiana and Southeastern Texas, and in which the number of persons killed now total 20. In each instance the slayer, believed tho same person, battered the < beads of his victims with an axe as they slept. Invariably the weapon used has been left near the bodies, but no other evidence has been found which might lead to an arrest. As a rule, the negroes killed are obscure < residents of small settlements and i no motive can bo assigned. The first occurrence was at Rayne, i La., when a mother and four children were killed. At LaFayette the : victims number four, next came < Crowley, La., with a family, consist- i ing of father, mother and one child. LaFayette was then next with anoth- < or family of four; then at Crowley a woman and her throe children were killed on January 18. On January 21 a family of five was murdered at 1 Lakh Charles. The crime Monday night was the seventh. WOMAN WANTS DIVORCE. j j Husband in the Penitentiary for Try- , ing to Kill ller. c Because, she alleges, her husband < is now serving a term in the South * Carolina Penitentiary for shooting at 5 her, Mrs. W. Frances Smoak has ( brought divorce proceedings in Chat- ; tiam Superior Court at Savannah, da., ' against J. E. Smoak, her husband. 1 First papers were filed Monday. This 1 couple was married in 1904. She charged, along with the more serious allegation tliat smoaK made an assault 011 her, that he is an ha.bitual i drunkard. The assault, sho charges, 1 occurred in September, 1910, in l South Carolina*. A shotgun was used, ] sho alleges, and, although sho was ; not hit, the shot splintered the door i facing near which she was standing. For this offence Smoak is now doing i time in the sister State Penitentiary, < sho avers. Mrs. Smoak wants her j maiden name of W. Frances Rice re-J] stored to her in the final decree. THREE BRAVE BANDITS ; ;teal a small fortune and escape in auto. ' Jobbers in New York Effect Daring Clean-up, Getting $25,000 in Broad Daylight. Twenty-five thousand dollars In 11 rrr?n r> v wjik Rtolfill from a taxlcab u tho heart of the New York downown business district Thursday uorning by three progressive highwaymen, who sprang into the velicle and overpowered W. F. Smith ind Frank Wardell, messengers of he East Itiver National bank, 6 80 3 road way. Both messengers were badly Inured and the robbers escaped with 1 he money?$15,000 in $5 bills and 110,000 in $100 bills. The currency 1 vas being transported from the 1 i'roduce Exchange Bank, in the low- ' ;r part of the city. Tho taxicab had proceeded up Broadway without mishap when, for iomo unexplained reason, the chauf!eur turned west on Rector street nto Church street, skirting the side ind rear of Trinity churchyard. About midway of tho old cemetery three men sprang from the church. 3no jumped on the chauffeur's seat, :he two others got into the vehicle. The man on tho seat pressed a revolver, in his overcoat pocket, against the side of the chauffeur, Sina Martino, and commanded him Lo drive swiftly on without making m outcry. Inside tho vehicle the two robbers were belaboring tho bank messengers Dver tho head. Smith, one of the messengers, is 61 years old, and he was bleeding and almost unconscious when the taxicab readier Park place, i few blocks north. Wardell was badly beaten about the head, but not seriously hurt. At Park place, the highwaymen Jumped from tho taxicab, bearing a tin box, which they had wrested from the messengers and which contained the currency. ln>a Hash they had sprung into a big black automobile, which seemed to bo awaiting their coming, and were quickly lost in the maze of traffic. SEVEN HUNDKE1) SWINE. Turned IiOo.se by Wreck of Train in New York State. A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., says a local comedy that beats "Pigs is Pigs" took another turn to add to its ludicrousncss. Wednesday night a freight wreck in the western end of the city released 700 hogs from the cars in which they were being transported and the pokers spread over a large section of the town. Residents saw a chance to lay in a winter supply of food and corraled the pigs, confining them in the cellars and even parlors. Monday two men visited the west side homes and claimed two largo wagon loads of hogs, under the statement that they were railroad detectives. It has developed that the detectives were not in the employ of the railroad. Police are now looking for the two wagon loads of pork. MURDERED OLD SINNER. Laughs on tho Gallows in (lie Very Shadow of Death. Refusing the offers of a minister who labored with him all night, his own son, a Catholic priest, and members of the Salvation Army, J. Lawrence Odom, a triple murderer, went lo his death at Mobile on the gallows early Monday. On the gallows the condemned man when asked to say his last prayer, answered by re(liiesting that his 5-year-old daughter Hazel lie brought to him to remove the black cap from his face. He mounted the gallows unconcernedly and laughingly asked to see his wife. Odom was convicted of killing Charles Goland, Joseph Stokes and David Gartman, the latter a lG-yearold boy. ? ? ^ GROOM III X? HIMSELF. While His Hride Was Getting Ready for the Wedding. While his afllanced bride was making ready her joyful anticipation of aer wedding the Drooklvn police were cutting down the body of John Vlonerschmidt, her fiance, as it ;wung from an apple tree in a vacant Brooklyn lot. It is believed hat Menerschmidt, after leaving his sweetheart on the eve of their wedling, went immediately to the scene his suicide. Miss Anna Speatch, lis bride-to-be, who is in a danger>usly hysterical condition, can give \o reason for his suicide. ? Gives Them Good Advice. The Columbia Light, a colored man's paper published by colored men, gives this good advice: "Negro farmers should adopt the Rock llill plan and not plant a big cotton acreage this year. Neither should they use so much guano. They should follow their white neighbors and plant less cotton, but more homo produets. Give more time to live stock, grain, truck farming and in fact prepare to live independent of cotton. Buy less big mules and fine buggies." u SWEPT BY FUMES HOUSTON DAMAGED TO AMOUNT OF SEVEN MILLIONS FIRE HALT AT BAYOU name Driven by High Winds and Hundreds of Families Driven Into Hitter Cold.?Fire Moved so Swiftly That For Many Persons Flight Was Hacc For Life. Driven before one of the coldest Texas "northers" of the winter, fire ?arly Wednesday burned a huge Irregular strip throught the eastern residential and manufacturing section f Houston. It swept across million dollar plants and flimsy frame structure with equal ease, until fully five million dollars damage had been done. Although no lives were lost, more than a score of persons were injured, while thousands were driven from their homes and suffered the sting of the freezing temperature. The burned area by daylight was a milo and a half long and from a city block to a quarter of a mile in width. Buffalo bayou, a narrow coffee colored stream, was tlie scene of the battle royal, against the flames. Ilere, after the fire had swept on. with, scarcely a semblance of control, four hours, the firemen made a desperate stand and although the fire leaped the bayou at places, the conIlagratiou was checked. The fire started in a two-story frame structure near Hardy and Opelousas streets and spread to a feed store. Then it jumped simultaneously to three more frame boarding houses and the roar of the flames oil a 35-mile northwest wind began to bo ominous. The Star and Crescent hotel, a brick structure, next caught. Vrr?in t n t moment the lire seemed beyond control. Driving ahead with frightful rapidity, it swayed from side to side and tongues of sparks sometimes seemed to roach out three blocks ahead, all the time eating steadily toward the more thickly populated section of the city across Buffalo bayou. At times the bolts of flame would become detached, lighting on houses* perhaps two blocks distant and tiring them. A score of times women had just timo to seize their babies and dash madly to the streets. With hundreds it was a race for life and these made no effort to save property. As the flames advanced a perfect army of night-clothes clad men, women and children formed and dashed on and on, being driven from one place of refuge to another by the progress of the flames. Cool heads, finally realizing the danger* assumed charge of the situation and in a short time compelled refugees, to go to the rear of the destructive flames. WANTS TO S.W i] Til 10 PARTY. Chandler Suggests That Taft and Teddy Withdraw, The suggestion that both President Taft and Former President Roosevelt should decline to bo candidates for reelection this year, in the interests of uniting the Republican party, is made by Former United States Senator William F. Chandler, of Concord, X. II., in an open letter to the Republicans of New Hampshire, made public Monday night. Mr. Cliantler expresses the opinion that the Republican party is divided between Taft and Roosevelt and so long as the split lasts is certain of defeat. Mr. Chandler declares that, while ho personally favors Senator La Follette, ho would surrender his preference for some one like Charles 10. Tughes, Albert 13. Cummins, Charles \V. Fairbanks or Gov. Hira.111 Johnson of California. , WAS WRECKED AT SEA. ? Steamer Took Famished Men From the Stranded Ship. The British steamer Cuban, which arrived at Liverpool Sunday night from Now Orleans brought into port nine of the crew of the British ship Fine which was wrecked in a heavy storm at sea. The Erne was bound from Boston, February 1, from Buenos Aires. The Cuban passed her on February S in latitude 40 north, longtit tide 5 0 west, and rescued those of the crew who had managed to keep themselves alive. Si\ of tho crew were drowned while the master of tho Erne, Capt. Fickett, his wife, tho second mate and a passenger, are missi' t\ .v Mn 1i> no?uY/\ u oa ii (V t )l A I ? nil hv; n no uvv v?iv wreck afloat. Passed Over \'eto. The Legislature last week passed by an almost unanimous vote over Governor Please s veto, the bill pay- r lug Magistrato Kerr his salary. Mr J Kerr, who is an old Confederate ve t/ oran, was recommended by t.he Greenville delegation, but was turned down by Gov. Please and a yo?ng lawyer at Greenwood named 1 /a bis place. Mr. Kerr did not suppor'Jt Governor Please in the election* while the young lawyer did. J r /