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UNION WILL WAIT SCHEMES FOR FINANCING COTTON CROP ARE REFUSED BY THE COMMITTEE r; _ Resolution Asks That me Farmers Act Individually Until U?o Warehouse) System is 10uacted Into Raw. ??-The Pest Doing Considerable t Damage to Farmers. TIlU r i\ III *v? * f r\r\ nn nmvlf a( Ino <. n /'. ? ?| v vv/11' M wn JIKU IW/I.1 r? t, anil banking of the South Carolina State Farmers' union has made report in which it is recommended that the State union at this time "do not give its endorsement of the proposed scheme of co-operation for marketing and financing the cotton crop, that have been peresented, leaving each individual to act for himself until the plan for the State warehouse system Is completed and enacted Into law." Tho committee also recommended that each county follow tne example of tho Sumter county union of arranging with tho local banks at once to furnish a sufficient capital at as low rate of interest as can he obtained and finance their cotton until such minimum prico as shall be recommended by the national convention is obtain ed. "Wo believe such cordial relations between tho grower and tho banks should ho cultivated in every county as it will greatly aid the solution of tills problem whatever final plan is o?'\/inuu? rwijo tilt; j kjjui i ui iiu: uuiuinittee. The committee wits appointed at the annual meeting of the State union held there several days ?go. Itobort W. Cooper is the chairman of the committee. At the annual meeting of the State Farmers' union held at Columbia several days ago E. W. Dabb? or Sumter, and president of the union, delivered Ills annual address, in which he pointed out the progress made during the year. The address of President Dabbs is as follows: "Jt is the custom, and a good one, that at each annual meeting your president shall in a more or less formal manner givo you a r^urno of the year's activities. "When I assumed tno responsible duties of this honorable position to which you called me by your votes, Jt was with serious doubts or my ability to maintain the high standard of efficiency set by my distinguished predecessors. That I have failed In some measure there can he no question, for in spite of every effort that I have ' made, the fact remains that I have been unable to leave your treasury in as good condition as I found It. This you will see when the report of the executive committee is read. "There are two reasons Tor this. Ono Is that, though wo have organized more new locals, wc have railed to hold as large paid up iiimnbcrship. The other is that by reason of the conditions that developed in the cottin market, it became necessary to ware a very strenuous and expensive campaign to reassure our people and to try to prevent them from sacrificing tluir cotton. It was a condition and not a theory that confronted us. Something had to be done. "T am proud of the record the Farmers' union made in the cotton campaign, a movement which had its humble beginning in the Sumter county union, when it met with the Vvisaelry local of Lee county 011 August 4. 101 1. it originated in the date! m In at ion of a few men to leave no 6tono unturned In their efforts to help themselves, and to secure the co-operation of every business interest of their county to conserve the wealth of that county, as represented in the value of our cotton. They had no expectation that it would spread beyond the confines of the two adjacent counties of Lee and Clarendon; but G!o" begun it could rot have been stopped, even though such had been our desire. All the rest has been fvriwili *- n d dnvelnnment. recant, his f . .. J. ? ? - tory which nil can son: the Montgomery convention: tlio Cotton Congress In Columbia; tlio Ollnkhcnles' plan, and others too numerous to mention: t1 o $r>0,00'f,000 80-c.llled loan of Col. Thompson's; the governor's conference In Now Orleans; tlio Hock TTill plan; and the call of .Tuno 10, by your Stnto president, to tlio county unions throughout the cotton bolt to align ihe growers, the merchants and tlio bankers in one >;olld phalanx in ordor to secure for our section our Pliaro of the notion annually puts into the channels of American trade, thereby materially benefiting evcr> occupation and profess.en. ''!3 this an end worth working t ? *7 Can any ether organization bo as efective as the Farmers' union to bring about such results? Ts this not a practical plan? The answer can he nothing but yes, yes, ves "Then in the name of common sense, why should any one fight the Farmers' union, as I am told it is fought in some sections? And why should not everv fanner worth the name of 'farmer' be enrolled under our banners? Echo answers, 'Why?' "This campaign has been bo expensive, and such hard work, that could wo have foreseen its magnitude, and the hours and days and weeks and months of physical and mental toil, we would never nave mustered courage to begin. Hut with the progrcts and the results accomplished thus far, why such a work does not appeal to our people, I can only understand on tho idea the* they ha.'Q no conception of what it an means.* f they d d, instead of having to pract ioo tho etricresi economy, wo would have thousands of dollars to enable our o<icers to Iceep Tn touch with the world's trade, and to beco lecturers in tho field to give our people accurate Information of the true conditions. Right hero it Is proper mat T express my thanks to t tic pre s of tlio VOTE NOT FOR SALE MR. QU1MI1Y REFUSES TO EXCHANGE IT FOR FAVORS. *ays the Governor Should Bestow Pardons Where Merited Without llopc of Reward. The following card from Mr. J. W. L Quimby, Sr., a prominent resident of Langley, explains Itself: l'o tho Editor of The State: i am liuormea luai uov. mease in 1 is speech at i^angley on Friday night jiado the statement that he had bell icndcd me or had done me some favor and was surprised to learn that I was not supporting him; if I have ever met Gov. Bleaso 1 do not remember it, and I am sure that 1 have never requested any favor at his hands. lie referred to the fact that ho had granted a pardon to Ben G. Turnor, in whom I was interested, and in whose behalf I appeared before Gov. Ansel and his board of pardons; I believed Turner was entitled to a pardon and if Gov. Bleaso saw it in the same light it was clearly nis duty as the chief executive of the State to grant it without hope of reward. I spent much valuable time and some money traveling around procuring evidence and getting petitions signed in this case, but if I had been required to pledge my vote to either Gov. Ansel or Gov. Bleaso or any other man to secure the nardon it would have been a price greater tnan I was able to pay; for I have been taught to believe that my vote belonged to my country and was not my own to barter, sell or give away. Therefore I feel that it is my duty always to vote for the beat men for ollico, and in the present race for governor it is my conscientious judgment that Judgo .Jones is tho man, hence I am supporting him. J. VV. L. Qulmby Sr. State for the generous space they have given to our cause in the many articles they have published, and in many instances for editorial commendation. "I have tried by pen and voice, in season and out of season, to reach the independent farmers and ^he big farmers. I have tried to show them that tho union is not merely tor tne poor man, but that it offers them tho only uvenUe through which they can protect themselves, that Is by taking cure of their less fortunate neighbors. This la not a matter or charity either, nor do I put it on the nlgbest plane, that of service to our fellow men and the true worship of our God, but on the plain business proposition of selfprotection. For the thousands of improvident and debt-ridden farmers of the South absolutely ux the price of cur products and thereby the prosperity of our section. "Therefore have we called on the unions, the chambers of commerce, and the banks who are the fiscal agents of the entire business community, to combine our resources and bur brains for the common defense. This, gentlemen. Is the meaning of our call of June 10, and I trust this meeting will at least give a Statewide significance to It. All other plans will only be successful Insofar as they emphasize the fundamental principle. "From .a study of these problems for many years, I am convinced that it is ignorance of the principles of commerce that keeps us from successful organization. For this reason ! have taken up the matter of stndying 'Farm Finance and MarKetlng* in the colleges. It is a great pleasure to report to you that at every institution where I have been able to present the need of this department, I have assurances that something will 1 done, it seems to me to do me [greatest awakening of the day. An editorial in a great, dally newspaper commended the late State convention for pausing in Its politicnt work to commend this new departure in education. In the pressure of other matters, it overlooked the fact that It was the influence of the Farmers' union that caused this action by the State convention. Yon should know that the resolutions adopted by the State Democratic convention were written by your State president and introduced 1 u the convention by a former State president oi the Farmers' union. "Whatever influence I may have in these affairs is due to my official position as your president, i nave always kept to the front tho idea that !t is not the man, but the president of a great organization of patriots that suggests these improvements. "There are other matters that the eports of the various committees will touch upon, and it would no out or place for me to anticipate them. . "The time Is past, and, I trust, is past forever, when men can only be organized by appeals to prejudice, to class distinctions or to promises impossible to perform. Wo must show them that we are organized for the greatest constructive work of the 20th century, the conservation not alone of tho natural resources of forest and field and mine, but for the conservat ion of human industry, especially in agriculture, the oldest as ell as tlio greatest industry 011 earth, through which and by which aTl nations of the world aro blessed. "To the discouraged members of the union, let mo commend what Jehovah said to Elijah wno had fled | from the wicked Queen Jezebel and had requested for himseir that he | might die, for ho thougnt that ho [only was left to serve the true Cod. 1 I And the Lord said: 'Yet I liavo loft < I me 7,000 in Israel, all the knees i [ which have not bowed unto llaal, ann I every mouth which hath not kissed I him.' So v/ould 1 say to this distln- < finished and i eprosei. tat Ives assembly or farmers: 'There aro yet many thousands of your constituents who i aro true to the principles of the Far- I truro' union v ho have not, nor ever v-Jll, 'bend the pregnant hinges of ho knees that thrift may rollow I fawning.'" < GRACE COMES AGAIN ? HE CHALLENGES BLEASE TO LET HIM TELL IT ALL. PROMISES REVELATIONS Says Ho Will Tell One Story Tliat Will Nauseate the Whjte I'eople of the State, and Will Reveal Corrupt Dealings of Iileaso With Southern Hallway. Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston, who is spending a week at Glenn Springs Monday night challenged Governor Colo L. Please to release him from the confidence placed In him while they were on friendly terms and stated that if the Governor would publicly state that he (Grace) was free to tell the things he wanted to, he would reveal facts tnat would "nauseate the people of South Carolina". Here is the statement in full a* made by the Mayor of Charleston: "I have watched with great interest the plan of campaign developed by Please. I find that it consists of two main elements, notwithstanding the many collateral uuestions that have arisen. These elements are: "First, he has sought to maae it appear that ho is the exponent of white supremacy in South Carolina. However ludicrous this assumption is. on the face of it, there Is one feature of it as yet undisclosed which would make it not only ludicrous, but highly hypocritical. It seems to me that a man who with such vaunted audacitj undertook to occupy this role should at least begin by being able to show that he had lived a life compatible with such claims. "I am prepared to say, measuring my words very carefully, that, if Mr. Dlease will release me from the confidential character of any communication which he might have confided to mo during the short term of our more or less friendly relationship, I shall be very glad to tell one little story that ought to be enough to nauseate the white people of South Carolina. I do not think that he would thereafter have the effrontery at a public meeting to tell one of his questioners that he ought to crawl off and wait until night comes and then go around and see his 'nigger iiwnnl >1 on rf "Second. The second line of his attack on Judge Jones is that he, Judge Jones, has occupied a corrupt and venal relationship with great corporations, specially with the Southen Railroad. Again, if Mr. Blease will release me as above set forth, I shall be glad to tell the people of South Caroina exactly what Blease with his own lips told me in leference to his corrupt connection with the Southern Railway during and after his last campaign, when he was charged with certain duties and responsibilities and the payment of certain money corruptly, in the interest of the Southern Railway. "I have said that I would be glad to bo released from the confidential character of these communications. As a matter of fact, it was not at the t:me stated that they were given to mo in confidence, but I have clothed them with this character because I am satisfied that unless at that time we were on friendly terms he would not have ventured to utter them. He did utter them very freely and I suppose I might be justified in repeating them without his consent, so basely untruthful has he been in his attitude toward me, because of the wilful lies he has found it necessary to invent in order to discredit the plain proof which I have produced in reference to the Charleston graft situation. "However, I shall not disclose these things unless in a manner as public as this he authorizes me to do so." Mayor Grace expressed the opinion that Jones would win in the election II ,vV /Ml ll 1\H D1 II IT t 1 O /\ T fl A R A1 I f \ 1* ill: At JiiiMiiJt, 11110 wii tut? that in the counties carried l>y Feat'iersfoiiQ Judge Jones would Increase (lie majority of the prohibition candidate two years ago and in the counties carried by Mease, bis majority would bo smaller. If Mr. Mease releases Mr. Grace from the confidential character of his secrets, the Charleston man declares he will have some interesting revelations to make. But he flatly refused to divulge the nature of this information until tho Governor tells him t? go ahead. ? ? ? DIED IN A MINE RIOT. ? Body Brought to His Home at Cross Hill for Burial. Augustus Pinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Finson of uross Hill, was killed July 26 while trying to quell a riot among miners near Muckler, W. Va. Ills remains were biought to Cross Hill Tuesday and interred in Old Baptist cemetery, Rev. J. A Martin omciating. Lnttie is Known at Cross Hill of the details of the deplorable affair. Mr. Pinson was 2 0 years of age and was in tho employ of the Baldwin Detective agency at Muckler. ITo was well known there and numbered his friends as many. ? Four Burned to I)cutTi Fire that destroyed tho Dan forth house at Fairley Vt., Tuesday caused tho death of four persons and tho injury of two others, one probably fa- 1 tally. Miss Effie Perkins of Flushing L. I. and Miss Florence Alber, of Springfield, Mass., were burned to eatli. Miss Perkins* parents Mr. and < Mrs. C. E. Perkins, were so badly ; Injured that they died within a short time. i o ? 1 Fome men would rather follow i their own inclinations than bo load- i; 31'S. I 1 NEVER SEEN BEFORE ? STRANGE INSECT PLAYING HAVOC WITH COTTON. The Greenville Dally Piedmont Says the is Different From Any Ever Seen in that County. Tho Groenvill? Daily Piedmont says while tho army worm is ravaging tho corn fields of tho county a peculiar bug or insect, unknown to the farmers of Greenville county, is playing havoc with the cotton in tho Bellevlew section, near Travelers Rest. Messrs. A. (1. McKinney and C. S. Poole, who own large farms in that section, came to the city Monday morning and inquired at tho Hoard of Trade for information concerning the insect. Secretary Johnstone referred the gentleman to Dr. W. F. Webster, the entomologist of tho department of agriculture. Dr. Webster could not e found Monday morning, but Mr. K. II. Gibson, an assistant, who has been detained there to watch theoperatlons of the army worm will Monday afternoon accompany Messrs. Mckinley and Poole to the cotton fields infected with tho insect. The insect which has invaded the cotton fields in the Travelers Rest section has never before been seen in that community and tho farmers there are greatly concerned, for unless something is done immediately t-) kill the little bug, the cotton crop will be a failure. The insect multiplies very rapidly and now nearly every field in the Helleview section is covered wun ujo uugs. The gentlemen nt the Hoard of Trade Monday morning were greatly distressed. They said that cotton was the principal crop cultivated in their section this year and if this crop is destroyed it will mean ruination for nearly all people in the Belleview section. It will bo remembered that last year about this time the people near Travelers Rest lost heavily when a hail storm destroyed big fields of corn and cotton. This left the people in such a condition that it was necessary that a relief fund be raised. Mr. McKinley said that the same condition would bo bound to exist this year unless something is do'ne to check the bug. Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. J S. Kelley, Mr. McKinley and Mr. Poole have had cotton devastated by the bug. Mr. McKinley says that the bug is different from anything that he has ever seen. It is nothing like the dreaded army worm nor is it like the cotton caterpiller that visited the cott/\n floMa r\f i li I a oniini v on/1 Q o 4 c* j L V' U 11UIUO W 1 U1U1 V/UIUIIJ U U VI [list year. At this time the bug is just I a wee bit larger than a "chigger", but it is black. Whether the bug will |grow larger or what will become of it I is not known. ! The bug first webs under the cotton leaf, then it shows a white looking object, supposed to be an egg. This egg hatches the little black insect. Mr. McKinley says that about two weeks ago ho noticed something black on the cotton leaves, but he supposed then that it was only rust. Me went over his field Sunday morning and discovered that during Saturday night something had eat all the leaves of the cotton. Tie investigated and discovered that it was this little black bug, which ho had thought to be rust. lie notified 'Mr. Poole, who lives nearby, and investigating found that the same insect was eating off of Mr. Poole's cotton. When asked if the army worm had invaded Pelleview section Mr. McKinley replied that it Kr.,1 4> lw. 4- lw. 4 1> J . nan ii ii i, anil inai in; inuii^ut iuir? worm to be more of a fake than anything else. lie said that he had seen this so-called army worm for years and years and not until this year has there been such a "scare" raised. To far as we have heard, this new cotton pest has not made its appearance in this county and we hope it will not, hut we hope our farmers will examine their cotton in then fields of it does appear. Should it appear prompt steps ought to he taken to eradicate It. We shall watch what is done in the Greenville case, and report it at once, so as our rarmers will he kept posted. SAVED AFTER TWO YEARS. +. Two Men Looked Like Wild Animals When Rescued. Capt. E. Janar Mikkelsen, the Danish Arctic explorer, and trie engineer Iverson, who were rescued July 17 on the coast of Greenland by a Norweigan fishing, after having spent more than two years in that region, looked like wild animals when their rescuers found them. Thoy had spent the previous winter at Bars Rock Island and it was there that the Norwcigans came upon them in a cabin which they had built. The first sign that there were human beings in that neighborhood was a wood car with the date 1912 cut in it, set up as a signal which the Norwegians happened upon. Investigation disclosed the cabin. Tho fishermen knocked on tho door and Mikkclson and Ivorson rushed out nearly n&Kcd, with guns in their hands, under tho impression that tho knocking was caused by beasts of prey. Mikkelsen nacr been very ill on the long journey to Lass Rock Island and iverson had dragged him 100 miles en n, siedgo. 1 * L . J. A >. ... 1 .1 - 1 i' oriUiijitt ly me men nan eiiougu umniunition to enable them at all times Lo procure food. ?. <? Chain Broke His Nock. Tn cleaving up the wreck of several ?ars near Dillon Friday night a negro, William Cooper, of Cades, was killed. In hitching a chain of one of the derricks to a car ho failed to fasloo it securely, and \vh a the engine lightened on it the chain flew back nnd broke his nook, at the same time, taking part of his head off. THUGS LOST NERVE BUT URGED BY BECKER KILLED ' ROSENTHAL LATER. ' GALLED THEM COMBS - Two Accomplices Claim That Lieut, c llecker Instigated tlic Plot to Slur* | dor, Plans Being to Kill Itosentlial ^ Ton Days Before Fatal Deed Was c I Actually Committed. New York Police Lieut. Charles ^ Becker, head of the "strong arm" squad of gambling /alders, who is , charged with instigating the murder ^ of Herman Rosenthal, was Wednesday night further Implicated in the plot to get rid of the gambler, when f "Bald Jack" Rose and "Bridge" Webber added another chapter to their f already amazing allegations. They told District Attorney Whit- f] man that Rosenthal was to have been j killed, at the instigation of Becker, ten days before he actually met his fate, and that the piot failed because tho underworld thugs selected ( to do the murder lobt their nervo at tho last moment. Tho district attorney spent the t greater part of the afternoon with K Rose and Webber, in their cells at the West Side police station, and under the promise of leniency which the prosecutor has given tlieiu they talk- 1 ol freely. They gave little addition- 1 al information regarding the $2,4 00,- v 000 fond which thov alloircd lllpernl ' resorts paid for police protection in L the city every year, but their story of ( the alleged anxiety of Lieut. Iieckoi because of Gambler Rosenthal's threatened exposure who amplified J to tho district attorney, and in the : prosecutor's opinion strengthened his evidence against Becker. Tho "plot that failed" was to have been brought to its climax at the : Garden restaurant on Blst street on Saturday night, July G, when Rosenthal and his wife were dining there, 1 according to the account told by Rose \ to tho district attorney as spokesman for the two gamblers. With Rosenthal and his wife at the time was 1 Jack Sullivan, tho newsboy, now un- 1 der arrest for alleged complicity in ' the murder. Rose himself engineered the "Job and brought to tho restaurant "a fleet of thugs" who were to do the 1 actual shooting, according to Rose. Two of the hired assassins were "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty" Louis, who are wanted by the police as two of the men who actually snot Rosenthal ten days later in front of the Hotel Metropole. Ilecker at that time was down-town, Rose said, waiting for the murder plot to bo consummated. "Becker had talked with me every day," Rose said. "lie kept saying to me, 'why don't you kill this fellow off?' Rosenthal would have been killed off that night if tho bunch had not lost their nerve. They got the notion after they reached tho restaurant that a detective was onto them. After giving up tho assassination we went to 'Bridgie' Webber's place and tliero wo met Becker, lie denounced us all up and down. "'You are a lot of cowards,' he ; said. 'I'll have to do It myself.' " i Rosenthal, it was recalled by the district attorney, when lie hoard the j story, had but a, few days before this ? made his first complaint against Rocker, charging thar the police lieu- t tenant was partner in his gambling ] house. 1 Although Recker, still in the ] Tombs, has thus far refused to make t any statement further than that he i is innocent and that his plight Is j the result of a "frame up" on the part of his enemies in the gambling fraternity, Rose predicted to the (lis- ( trict attorney that trie police lleuten- i ant eventually would break down. c The district attorney expressed * confidence that if Hecker would talk c frankly his evidenco would opon the t door to the larger phase of the Ros- > enthal case; namely, the general ex- < tent of the police graft system, in ? which Rose has declared several high noliee officials nn> Involved ( So far Mr. Whitman has obtained i little real evidence against the men < mentioned by Rose as heads of the i "four graft bureaus", through which i Hose alleged that about $600,000 1 each was collected as vice protection i money and distributed. -The district < attorney Is not relying solely upon t Rose's story. Ho expects to call up before the grand jury scores of wit nossos who may have knowledge o' graft relations between the gamble* } and the police. Hridglo Webber told tbo district attorney that his awn payment to Ilecker for police protection of his gambling house was $200 a month, 1 but that this rate was a small one ? compare d with the sums levied upon 1 larger establishments. Ho and Rose both said that In Manhattan alone there were probably a j* hundred gambling house paying tri- j buto to the police and that the total of $2,4o0,000 paid annually was a iu\?ir.at?on t fi <vti pa \\7 aKoai? I V/Vf U I HvUf U 11^ il I TV vu l/t ft I UV/|dentally said that Becker was present * when liie money was produced which L went to thugs hired to kill Rosen- T thai. Soon after tho murder, he said, c Beeker met Rose and Webber in front ( of tho Murray Hill baths and said: "Xcw, Brldgle, you will have to pive tliem boys some money to pet 1 out of town. I'll fix it up with, you later." T Wot her said that ho then handed 1 $T,nno tn large bills to Rose, who lat- ^ er transferred If '.o Sam R'henps, and | oa that afternoon Schema pave it t-) * "Gyp, tho Blood," and "Lofty" Louis in front of tiio Murray Baths. In roi robration ot this assertion of Webber's. the district attorney lias the i n ones of two witnesses, one a wo- 1 man, wno, he said, would testify that i they saw Webber and Ttose talking i to Becker in front of the Murray Hill i baths shortly after tho murder, i WOUNDED IN SCUFFLE SENSATIONAL DEVKLORMKN1 IS TIIE GRACE TRIAL. ? ? Hra. Grace Claims that Grace WaL Choking Her and the Vistol Weafc OH During Row. The Grace trial In Atlanta ba? tak n a sensational turn. Eugene BL. J race was shot In a scuffle with bz* vile in their room during a quarrel >ver a sale of Mrs. Grace's property., itcording to Attorney Branch, who >utlined the defense's case in a statan#?nt f r i iiirv. He said Grace tried to shoot hi? rife after choking her and during tho icul'tle which followed the weapon hscharged and he was shot. He said Irace made her leave homo because in did not think he was badly hurt nd feared he would bo disgraced If it ;ot out that he had been shot in a 'nigger row" with his wire. At tho opening of court, th? deenso submitted a list of fourteen vitnesses to bo called. Mrs. Grace ippeared pale aud nervous. Grace lad arrived in tho court house,, eady to bo carried inio the room the? ninute the accused, liis wife, was. :alled to the stand. Attorney Brasueh hen addressed the Jury, outlining the lefense's case. He said they expect>d to sliow that "every tiuo of hate's case was rotten." "The State's theory that Grace wis (hot during the night or early in the? norning is utterly untrue. We will >rove that ho was shot after eleven j'clock in the morning and that lio vas not doped when shot. We will >rove that he got up that morning: md wrote a check and that he talked ?ver the phone as late as ten o'clock. "It was redieulous to say that Mrs. riraco married Grace and tried to get rid of him for his money. Sho had given him between $ 15,000 and $20,300 in a year and he was going to Philadelphia to sell her property to ice t money for himself when tho shooting occurred. "We are going to show tlio whola miserable fatta. The truth is that Grace wanted to got his wife out of town first. Mrs. Grace suspected that he had an engagement with another woman. She accused him of it and saiu she was going to tako the power of attorney she had given him to sell tier property from Grace, when he hogan to scuffle with her to keep her from taking tho document, lie be:gux swearing and threatened to kill lier. grabbing up his revolver. Mrs. Grace grabbed Grace's hand in an effort to protect herself. In the scuffle tha revolver was discharged and Grace wvas shot. Grace did not think he was badly hurt and made his wife leasee he house without calling a physician,, lie said he was afraid of the disgracco that would follow if it came out that. 1. ^ \ .1 t ..1.^1 1 .. ^ ft 4 ! ..M ^ tie iuiu ut'un buui in a mggur row with his wife. So he mailo his wifo promise that she would say nothing, about it." EMPEROlt OF JAPAN PASSES. ? His Son Becomes the Huler of the Japanese Nation. Mutsuhito, for 4 1 years emperor of Japan, died at 12:43 o'cloctc Monday morning at Tokio. Yoslunito, Havu no Miya reigns under tno rormula provided by tlie legislation promulgated by Mutsuhito, "The king hi Jea.il; long live the king." Muts.uliito, who was the one hunlred and twenty-first emperor of Japan, passed gently away. lie had been unconscious for many hours, irior to his death and the empress, :lie crown prince and the most promncnt oilicials of the household and. government were at the bedside. At the end upwards of 2 0,000 subjects silently paid their last homager butslde the palace gates. It was a narvclous scene when messengers iiiietly mingled with the crowds and scattered and posted announcements, if the emperor's death. Deep euto.ion swept tho multitude, but there* ,vas 110 evidence of exciteme nt, Tins.billy sound was a long drawn sigH >or rov;. Within tho palace tho death wit*' communicated to tho waiting impor? al princes and notabilities wherenp311, without delay, the accession ceremonies were begun at tho imperial lanctuary at one o'clock. The Crown .Mince, Yoshihito was bom August ) 1, 1 8 70 lie was made heir-apparent August 31, 1887, ana proclaimul crown prince November r>, 1883. - -?--? ? HAM I* TON l)I-k\ IKS CHAUCJE. lailrond Commissioner Says Ho Can Kefuto It. "The charge in the allegation that received any money from the Southn Railway through Governor Dloascr s false. 1 can refute this charge at he proper time in tho proper way, have no further statement to make , it this time," was the statement cheated by Railroad Commissioner Mc- j "Hi'llo Ilampton Wednesday morning; . iumj usicea it ne una any commoiu to mko on the chargo of Mayor Grace* hat Governor Blease had told htreu j hat two years ago ho acted as "wot j mrso" for Mr. Hampton and paid his* 1 expenses for running for railroad I lommissionor out of Southern Kali- I vay money furnished him, and with I vouchers. Mr. Hampton said ho pre- I 'erred to wait for Governor Blcase'fr I tnswer to tho Graco charges before I v.aklng any further statement. Mr, I lampton is a son of the late Gen, I kVado Hampton. Ho was elected a ncmber cf the raliio.id commission fl svo yc u s o for at rm x y v.o a, fl jLittlo (kill Killed. I Mary T.ce Adams, flvo years old? H vas killed and L. A. Taylor, a little* I soy, v/as bidly hurt when an o\< mule they were driving ran away nil a from Adel, f.'a., Tuesday. Thfl* rule was twoiuy-uhie years old ancX lever had run av.ay before. I