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mmmp?- > Ild special meet THE STATE FARMER'S ONION MET IN COLOMBIA, BUSINESS TRANSACTED i ?.? fhrt Wmr<fhou?? Rill Ut DLhcuhhrd.?January 30 uFarraon<' Union ?nd *?numry 31 "Education Dmf" mt Corn Exposition I)P. IN**? Endorsed for Secretary of Agriculture. The special meeting of the State Fanners' Union was called to order Thursday afternoon at three o'clock in Columbia. President E. VV. Dabbs was in the chair. Alter prayer by the chaplain, W. E. ftodio, the president introduced Dr. S. C. Mitchell, president of the State University, who made a short address of welcome. He expressed to the union his appreciation of the presence of this body of organized farmers and stated that ho was glad to have them meeting in one of the University buildings. Ho extended to thorn a cordial invitation to bo present at as i much of the exercises of Founders' Day as thoy could spare the time to attend, particularly the reception at five p. m. and the addresses in the evening. The following officers were present: E. VV. Dabbs, president; It. F. Keller, vice-president; J. Whitner Koid, secretary; \V. E. Hodic, ebap lam; vv. Mioor, conuue.ior; it. m. Cooper, executive committee. The roll of counties was then called and the (following delegates were found to be present: Anderson?J. P. Johnson, Polzer. Barnwell? It. 10. Woodward, Wiltiston. (Chester?J. G. L. White, Chester. Chesterfield ? F. W. Hi vers, Chesterfield; Ii. C. Rivers, Ruby. Clarendon?O. A. McFaddin, Manning. (Jolleton ? Dorchester?Cyrus Minis, Harleyville; J. H. Whetseil, Bowman. Florence?R. 10. Currin, Florence; W. P. Gause, Coward. Greenville?A. B. Black, Taylors. Laurens?O. P. Goodwin, Laurens. Lee-?W. A. Sturkey, Bishopville. Lexington?T. H. Shull, Gilbert; O. W. Smith, Chapin. (Marion?The Rev. O. T. Gresham, TOulonia; Douglas Mclntyre, Marion. Newberry?Alan Johnstone, Newberry. Oconee?->T. D. Alexander, Walhalla. Orangeburg?J. II. ClalTy, Orangeburg; L. A. Carson, Holly Ilill; \V. \V. Culler, Orangeburg. Pickents?J. FR. Hendricks, Liberty. Richland?C. W. Suber, Columbia. Saluda?M. D. Miller, Prosperity; IW. E. Bodie, Wards. Spartanburg? Rnoch Lawrence, In man. Sumter?J. M. Brogdon, Sumter; J. F. Williams, Sumter. Union?L. J. (Browning, Union. i()n motion of W. A. Stuckey the ,union proceeded to take up the discussion of the warehouse bill. President. PaJ>bs called Vice-President Xellor to the chair and took the floor to present the report of the committee which had prepared the bill. The warehouse bill was then taken up and read by sections. The discussion of this was continued until six p. m., when the union adjourned to meet 9:.10 a. m. Friday. Friday Morning, i After the usual opening eerernoniea the president made several announcements. January .10 is to be known as Farmers' Union Day and January .11 as Education Pay during (the Corn Exposition. The full program for these days w*iI be announced later. J A letter Worn O. H. Stevenson, secIretary of the Corn Expositon, was /read, extending to the State Union an invitation to visit the Exposition grounds. The disctission of the warehouse /bill was then taken up and continued. It was finally decided to kiave t.ho president appoint three < I embers to bo added to tho commito to make tho changes authorized r the union and still further preiro tho bill and put it tn chape to bo troducod in tho Senate and tho :>u?e of Representatives. Tho committee now consists of esldout E. W. Dabbs of Sumter; ' tin Ij. McLaurin, Senator from irlboro; I). 'McQueen, Representaro from Marlboro; Lowndes J. 1 owning, of Union; J. If. daffy, of 1 angeburg. The following resolution offered R. E. Currin of Florence County, 1 is adopted. Wbereas, the position of Secretary Agriculture is ono in which tho )st vital interests of the South are i scorned, especially so sinco tho enuragemiont of our development in eduction and economy has recoivattention from tho department i which this official presides, and, Whereas, the South has, through s development, been the greatest < itributor to fho wealth of tlie naa, we feel that tho interests of South are worthy of every coneration by those in power in the i MUST USE GALLERIES ? VISITORS DKXIKD ADMISSION TO FLOOR OF HOUSK. At Least, Resolution Passed Friday so Provides.?Kvea "Lobbyists** Must Keep Out. How long It will last is the question. Friday the House adopted a resolution, the intent and purpose of | which is to clear the door and back Aui^ ~ m -11 a - -- uioju vi tin except BiemDers. under the rules State officers, Judges, former members, Senators, trustees and officers of State colleges are permitted on the floor of me House. Friday the old-time custom of permitting delegations, interested parties and perhaps "lobbyists" access to the floor was put under the ban. No women, except one, the State librarian, under the Welch resolution, will be entitled to admission to the main floor of the House. The House then went a step further and requested the Speaker not to exerciso his privilege of issuing cards of admission. Alter it was all over. Speaker Smith thanked the members for their consideration in relieving him of tho difficulty of determining who should be granted cards and who should not be. Tills is not intended to mean that the House will not want visitors, nor that it will not want audiences to hear the oratory of its gifted members?not at all. it wants audiences and wants them reuularlv. but it wants tliQin in tho galleries, and to that end, as soon as the ban was placed on visitors on the lloor of the House, a resolution was adopted authorizing the purchase ol" plenty of chairs, cushioned ones if need be, but they are to be distributed in the gallery. The real difiiculty is that the acoustics of tho House are vile and H,c members who have rear seats' can make themselves heard with difI hot'Ji}, and they want to get rid of; the groups of enthusiastic talkers, J who hold daily conferences on tho progress of tho campaign for theirj candidate for this or that otlice. If j there bo real "lobbyists", they know | pretty well how to see those they j might want to see without interrupting tho work of the House. Administration; and, Whereas, this development of tho j South agriculturally is us yet only in its infancy, and must, for the good both of this section and of tho nation, be faaterod by a department that will be in sympathy with tho work that has produced the marvellous results; Therefore, we, the members of the Farmers Union of South Carolina; representing the only organization of j the agricultural interests, believing j that we have the right, and the duty rests upon us, to urge the selection \ of such a man for the position of Sec- j rotary of Agriculture of whose interests and sympathy there is no doubt, J and that real interests rather thana politics should he consulted in this case, the more that we do see already the evidence of the. greed of tho politician and the hand of the wire puller in this matter so that we must speak unqualifiedly and positively. He it resolved, That we urge upon the newly elected President of the United States, whom we know to have tho interestst or tno farmers of the South and of tho whole country at heart, when those interests are made plain to hiny, tho appointment of the Hon. Walter II. Pago, the chief aid and support of Dr. Seaman Knapp in his work, which has been the means of securing such results in the South. We feel that in this appointment the agricultural interests of the South and of the whole country will receive the most intelligent and effective aid, because of the experience of I)r. Page in this work, and that ho will honor the people of the South in the selection of a son of North Carolina, a man whoso greatest work has been constantly and unflagging'ly devloitcd to the real problem ot the masses of the people and the development of the farm, the elevation of the farmer and the whole people of the country. We urge him as a national character, whose work has been confined to no section of the country, nor to any particular people. Tho following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the State Farmers' Union earnestly endorses the request of the State Plant Breeders' Asso- i elation made of the General Assembly to make an appropriation of $1,500 for tho furtherance of tho work of this Association, which promises so much to the development of tho agricultural industry of tho State. The following resolution was i adopted: Resolved: that the legislative com- 1 mittee of the State Farmers' Union 1 of South Carolina be instructed to 1 risk the Legislature to enact a law providing for the State of South Carolina to purchase the GafTney Lime Works at GafTney, S. and work same with State convict labor, and tc be operated so that the State shall receive a small profit from the proceeds. The State Union, without adjourn- i ing sine die, receded from business to reassemble at the call of the Stato president. * m : AN HEIRESS STOLtN YOUNG LADY IS BOLDLY TAKEN FROM HER HOME JOUBNED IN A TAXICAB Hold Kidnapers Almost Succeed in Daring Plan, Hut is Foiled by the i Driver, Who Heads the Automobile for the Police Station, and Kidnapers Are Arrested. ; Facing a sentence of life imprisonment at Alletitown, Pa., for the attempted kidnaping of an heiress to millions, Samuel Sinclair Jr., and It. Walter Star Jr., have put forward a novel plea for their defense. Sinclair, the principal in the bold plot, 1 insists that the alleged kidnaping of 1 Miss Anna A. Stockel, the daughter ' of a retired millionaire business man \ of that city, was not a kidnaping at ' all, but an elopement plot which was 1 to result in him marrying the pretty * society girl. The indignant denial 1 entered by Miss Steckel against this ' story is blandly explained by Sinclair who says that the girl got ^ "cold feet" and is now trying to 1 place him in prison to save herself. 1 "Elopement, nothing!" declares ' the aged father of the girl. "I saw ( my daughter being dragged out of her own home .by these two men, 1 and when I protested the only an- ?' swer I received was ro 'shut up'. I 1 am too old to have offered any vio- i lent objection to the kidnaping, but 1 I will spend half my money to have < them properly punished.' iThe attempted kidnaping of Miss 1 Steckel was one of the boldest crimes i of its sort the east has record of for i a number of years. Sho was return- < it.tr tit i liti i1 <i t i ti 1 linniii r\ f lint' f'i ti. I 111^ IV/ lUV/ I'Ullllllll IIWIIIl/ ? II VI I lit 11 * er from a shopping trip, and whun 1 she turned in at the gate noticed a taxicab standing by the curb, but thought nothing of it. She opened the front door and stepped into the vestibule when she was grabbed ,by Sinclair and Star. Thinking the whole affair a joke at first, for sho knew the two young men, sho began laughing, but the mirth turned to shrieks when she found herself being dragged down the walk toward the waiting cab. When, she screamed for help, one of the men placed his nand over her mouth, and thus gagged she was thrust into the waiting automobile. The chauffeur, who told the police that his cab had been engaged "for a wedding,'' became suspicious at the actions of the men, and when i the men followed the girl into the j car and told him to drive on, he do- i termined to turn the entire party over to the police. lie drove at ? break-neck speed, and, in turning a corner, crashed into a monument, f disabling the car and badly shaking ) up the occupants. Hefore any one \ could recover, a policeman had tak- ^ en charge of the two men and the ^ girl, who was found on the floor of ' the wrecked taxi, her arms pinioned and a blanket thrown over her. The two young men in the case are members of promment Philadel- ( phia families. Sinclair, the leader in the alleged kidnaping, had been a suitor of Miss Steckofs for months, but his love making had bean discouraged by the young lady and his 1 presence in the house barred by her ' father. Star declares he knew nothing of any kidnaping, but believed s he was to help in an elopement. The pretty victim in the case was ( handled so roughly by the men in attempting to keep her quiet, that she ^ is still in bed. She constantly asks tor a guard to protect iter, now that , the two men in the case have been set at liberty 011 bail, declaring that ^ she fears Sinclair will make another attempt to get her or do her bodily ! injury. ?^ SLAUGHTER OF LEPERS. ? Chinese Officials Shoot and Rum Rand of Outcasts. Thirty-nine lepers recently were put to death in an atrocious manner by order cf the provincial authorities of NauV'ng, province of Hwang Pi. J Tr.j cuffVurc* from the dread disease first were shot and the ntheir bodies wo"i furred in a huge trench. A Catholic mission had sought permission to build at its own expense a J sion to build at its own expense a lazaretto for the lepers, and the provincial authorities, pretending to consent, dug a pit, in which was > placed wood, soaked with keposene. c At the -nolnt of the havonrvt the tcnera r then were driven into tho pit and t Rhot and the pyre was lighted and a their bodies burned *n tho presence ? of a large crowd. The authorities t offered rewards for the discovery of I other lepers and this resulted in the i shooting of one more man afflicted ' with the disease. * ? p Two Killed in Auto. i At St. Louis Russell Havis Clove- .1 land, secretary to Mrs. Rrltton, own- t or of the St. Louis Nationals, and i William Walters of St. Ltuis, presi- f dent of tho Novelty Company, wore f killed in an automobile accident Fri- r day when their machine struck a 1 water plug. * I MISS BROWN WAS SICK ABSENCE OF THE YOUNG TEACHER EXPLAINED. Kb# VI.si ted Friends at Jonefcrille During Holidays, Was Taken 111 and Unable to Return. A letter from Hartsrille says ther* was no mystery or sensation at all. i? appears about the absence er socalled disappearance of Miss Scotta Rrown, of Kershaw, who teaches the Flinn's Crossroads school near Hartsvillo, and who did not report back for duty at the expiration of I ha Chrlutmaa hnllda va If haa hoan LHV V/M ? IUVUIMU Ul A V AAIAKF WVVU j raattor of much distress and mortification to the you?K tady that any public comment was made about it it all. Miss Brown's statement of Lhe matter is as follows: She left her home in Kershaw on Lhe 31st of December to go via Camion to visit a friend, Miss Haley, at McBeo, until the opening of her 3chool on the 6th of January. While in Camden between trains she mot a friend and college mate. Miss Turner, of Hamlet, who was then on her nay to Jonesvillo to visit a married piste r, Mrs. W. F. Jenkins. Miss Fui'ner persuaded her to accompany lier t? J< nesville for a few d \ys' risit rMei which she inte i?le 1 t? go o McHee, as planned, and thence to Hartsville in time for her opening ?xercisos at school. On January 2 Miss Brown was taken seriously sick at Jonesville, md was in bed. constantly attended L?y a physician until the 10th. Immediately on being taken sick she >vrote to the trustees advising them if the fact and warning them that die might not get back in time. This ettor has never come, however, and t was in consequence of no word 'roni her and her not appearing for luty that the trustees made inquiry ibout her and the thing given pubicity. On getting better Miss Brown wir^d an assistant to say she was bet.er, but still unable to come, and to ?arry things along at the school a pew days longer, unconscious of the 'act that her first Tetter had been est. On her recovery she went to IJnrtsville immediately and was sur)rised and mortified to find that her unavoidable illness and detention vad been made into a sensation, of vhich she had not known a word mtil her arrival at Hartsvillo. rhese aro the facts in the case, with lames and dates which may be easily mbstanttated. In answer to a wire Miss Brown ?ent to Jonesville for confirmation if her illness and detention thero, the following telegram is self-explanatory: deceived at 9:40. Jonesville, S. C., 1t>. diss Scottn Brown, Tlartsvllle, S. 0. Your message delayed. 'Miss 5cotta A. Brown was visiting at my mine and was sick in bed from January 2 until January 10. Unable to ?o to her school. The letter she vrote to trustees was mailed. * W. F. Jenkins. IjITTIiK CHILD'S BODY FOUND. dmttooga River Gives up its Road and Solves Mystery. A dispatch from Walhalla says the nystery of tho disappearance of the little four-year-old child from tho c,ine Mountain, Co., section has been lolved. Last Monday week the little body was washed to the banks of the Chattooga river, and it was discovered by people in that section, who, hough having given up active search or tho child, were still alert for any due that might lead to its finding, f. C. Powell, of tho Russell section, was in Walhalla Tuesday, and reported the facts as above given. The jody, it is said, was in a fair state >f preservation, though it is now Jiree weeks since the. child disappeared. While the mystery of the whore11 vouts of the child is cfeared up, still t is causo for wonder and speculaion as to how the little one got ino the river, as tho Chattooga is hereon two and two and a half miles, it its nearest point from the home pf the child's father, John Owens. WINNSHOKO MAN OFFICIATES. +. dev. Oliver Johnson Acts as Chap lain of the Senate. Rev. Oliver Johnson, pastor of the Nsflociftte Reformed Presbyterian hurrh at Winnsboro, officiated as haplain Thursday in tho senato of ho United Statos. The invitation vas extended at the suggestion of Senator Tillman and carried with it he privileges of the floor for the day. t was in tho early days of hifi ea err in Washington when Senator Hitman was familiarly known as Pitchfork Ron" and was popularly uipposed to be somewhat savage and mtained that he introduced Dr. lohnson to friends on the floor of he senate as a specimen of a "civilzed" South Carolinian and elicited rom Mr. Chandler, then a senator rom New Hampshire, the pleasant ejoinder that Senator Tillman was limself beginning to show signs of )Ccoming "civilized". LAST DAYSJN JAIi AN OLD HAN TALKS PITIFULLY 0 HIS OVN CASE WANT TO PAY FOR CRIMI Ho Hays His Hands Are Stained Wit] the Rlood of His Oldest Son Whon He Slew, and He Wants to Suffe for the Crime That He Has Com n% It# ^wl illlilCU* An Atlanta dispatch says "Uncl< Hob" Davis, bent and oroken, hair ai white as the driven snow, .but hii bands stained crimson with the blooc of his son Hewlett, has taken hii place in "murderer's" row", at th< convict camp near Milledgeville, Ga Ho went through Atlanta on hii way from his home in the peacefu valley of Mill creek Wednesday morning. There were no shacklei on his arms nor feet. "Uncle 'Hob' is 75 years old, and carries one o Sherman's bullets in his legs. H< wouldn't run away if he had i chance. His hands are stained wit! the blood of his son, Hewlett, hii first born, and he owes a debt to Goc # and fellow man. "Only punishment can wipe aw a: my sin," Uncle Hob says. "I iuus first square myself with man am then I'll get right with the Lord.'' "Uncle Hob" killed a thing he lov ed. It was a clear case of self-de fense, but "Uncle Hob" did not trj to evade the law. It was on Decern her 11. lie was killing hogs whei ins son Hewlett came through tin gate. The old man ordered (he boj away from the premises. Then his heart softened, and he asked him t( go on into the house. The son pick ed up a stick, and the old man flee into the house and went where Ik had his shotgun handy. When Ik came out on the porch, the son wai there. He raised the stick. Ther< was a sharp report. The son fel over dead. "Uncle Hob" had trouble with hii wife. They had lived happily on th< farm in the Mill creek valley. Sin left to go to the homo of her sor and grandchildren. That was wha started the trouble. It put murdoi in the heart of the old man. A least, that is the way he explains tin tragic occurrences. "I would heap rattier it be I," he said. "I loved the boy and I lovec his children. 1 didn't mean to kil him. When I aimed the gun, it waf at his feet. I jest wanted ter keei him from me. My hands are stainec with blood and I want to pay foi what 1 have done. There is nothing here for me." "Uncle Hob" will probably spent the balance of his days behind tin prison walls at Milledgeville. Judge Kite sentenced him to serve five years for manslaughter. Five years is longer than "Uncle Hob" evei hopes to live. The prospect of dying behind the walls has no terror foi him. "1 hope I'il live to pay the debt,' he says. "Uncle Hob'' was granted a ne* trial by Judge Augustus Flte, ir Whitfield county, and his attorney Georgo C. Glenn, believes that Ik would have been acquitted on tin second trial. "The blood is 011 my handB," Un cle Hob said, as ho was led unshackled to prison. Ho believes that by serving time ho can wash away the blood. He wants to be alone, in confinement. "Uncle Hob" asked that the for nullities of the law be set aside, aiu that George C. Glenn, bis attorney be allowed to take him to prison. He leaves a wife and ten children with whom he lived in his mountair borne. Ho wants to servo out his sentence like a man and return some day to the hills of dear old Whit fluid. "Uncle Hob" followed Loo aiu Jackson through during the stirrinc days of the sixties. There is not a man nor woman ir the country who is not willing to dc all tlrey can for "Uncle Hob" but h( won't let them interfere. "My hnads are stained,*' lie says "Sorrow and tears alone can maki them white." 4 MAX WALKS OX HOT IRON. . . To Prove Ho Immortal Trle<l tc Rat Some Hot Metal. Declaring that he had come to the world after a regeneration and that he was Infallible and immortal, William Prios, a steel worker of Cambria City, Pa., tried to prove his asn<-rtlon unit othnr p-nsnol flnlms to n crowd of follow workmen. Shouting In an inipassioned voice that nothing could harm him, Fries, minus shoes and socks, deliberately ran over several hot masses of pigiron. Although he declared that he felt no pain it was evident that he was suffering intensely. The jibes of the workmen angered Fries and he snatched up n red hot rod and tried to force it down his throat. The other men, however, interfered. When a policeman was called, Fries bit him on the no6#. THE CORN CLUB BOYS . . MANY OP THRM WILL SPEND F WEEK IN WASHINGTON. . All Star Bo/ Farmers From AH Parte n of the Country to Visit the Nation* al Capitol. A dispatch from Washington says h I details were comDleted Saturday by the department of agriculture offl0 cials for the entertainment of the "all star" crop-growing boys from the South and 'North who will spend - all next week in Wasnlngton. The program includes a visit to President Taft, the receipt or diplomas from the Secretary of Agriculture, visits to the government departments 9 and probable appearance before the 3 agricultural committee of the House 1 of Representatives. s In charge of Prof. O. B. Martin, 3 assistant in the office of the farmers' * co-operative demonstration work. 19 * boys from Southern States will be en1 tertained. They are: f Alabama?J. P. Leach, Union 3 Grove, and Willie Atcnison, McCalla. Arkansas?Lester Garrard, Magf nolia, Robert Cunnally, Mona, and ^ Horace Calhoun, Scott. * Florida?Walter Miller, Raker. i ni - n.i nn... virui ^ia >> auui 111 lu^ro, L/an * son, and Byron Bolton, Zeigler. 1 Louisiana?John M. Cobb, Vowells Mill. y Mississippi ? Carious Reddock, t Summerland. 1 North Carolina?George E. West, Kinston, and Herbert Allen, Pungo. Oklahoma?Elston Coleman, New kirk and Urn est Worthy. y South Carolina?Ernest M. Joye, - Venters, and Edgar S. iBurry, Taylor, i Tennessee ? Herbert McKibbon, 3 Cullecka. y Texas?Earl Davis, Grapeland. s Virginia?Frank G. Brockman, ) Amherst. Twenty-three Northern boys will 1 be entertained at the same time. Ex3 cellent records in crop growing were 3 turned in by the boys. In Mississippi * 4 2 produced more than 100 bushels 3 of corn to the acre; in Alabama, 1 130; in South Carolina, 75; in North Carolina, 75, and in Georgia, 66. a The corn crop of the twelve Southern 5 States in 1912 was more than 200,3 000,000 bushels greater than in ! 1 909, when the late I>r. S. A. Knapp t started the systematic plan of orr ganlzing and encouraging the boys t of tho South in corn growing. 5 ( IiOVK WINS OVER VOWS. 3 * Priest Places Love for Woman Above 1 ) Churchly Duties. | Lovo won in a long bout with a , priest's vow of celibacy when the Rev. Father Daniel J. Gallagher, as' sistant rector of the Cathedral of the Assumption, in Louisville, Ky., and ' Miss Florence Layer, a pretty train* ed nurse of the same city, were unit> ed in marriage in St. Louis by tae > rector of an Episcopal church. For * two years the priest was torn by a cinflict with his breast, weighing ' bis churchly duties and nis vows of celibacy against his love for a woman. The love for tho woman won and they are now in Seattle, where they expect to make their future r home. 1 Father Gallagher had been eon' nected with tho Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville for about six years. Two years ago he first met Miss Layer when she was persuaded to embrace Catholicism. Tho young woman went to Father Gallagher for Instruction. Their acquaintance be5 came friendship, then rove. Father 5 Gallagher fought his battle alone. m ? i. r\ J i wcj uii>s utiiurii v.uriMimuH mitUH " his first, call at tho Layer homo, declared his love, gave Miss Layer an ' engagement ring and departed. Miss Layer admitted she loved tho ? priest, but was devout "In her adopt1 ed faith. She did not want him to * make the sacrifice, for she knew that 5 he would have to give up his church. " She consented, however, after being told by Father Ciallagher that he had I already gone so far that he could no ' Ijonger ibo assistant rector at the cathedral whether she married him 1 or not. } Miss Layer and her lover then left ? for St. Ivouis, where they were united in marriage by a clergyman of . the Protestant Episcopal church. > (Mrs. Layer was one of the witnesses 1 of the ceremony, and declares that her daughter and the former priest declare they are satisfied they have chosen wisely and that they will be > happy. ? TITANIC HORRORS RKTOWL / i Claims Amounting to Over Five Million Dollars Flle<l. Ct At*i aq /\ f /Ion i K onffnrin/f o r* A VJlV/i |V-X> Ul ou IIVI lllf) (111 VI JIUI " i manent physical injuria; accounts ; of utter financial destitution and re; citals of loss of costly gems and i incos and gowns are to bo found act forth In the normal phrasing of tho i law in tho 2 79 claims thus far filed with the United States commissioner Gilchrist at New York for damages duo to the Titanic disaster. Tho . total amount is $f>,r>00,000. IVath claims constitute tho larger part of , this sum. Then follow claims for loss of baggage and personal effects. Many European countries and most States of the Union are represented.