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$ ' ' ' , '* 'f'm I '* ' V ? WAS CARRIED OUT -4 SENATOR TILLMAN WAS REFUSED HIS RIGHTS. v ? HEADS NAVAL AFFAIRS Decl<t0pr-4or the Sake of Party Harmony Not to Make Speech He fore the Caucus as He Had Planned to Do or Take Matter to the Floor of Senate. j The steering committee of the Senate denied Senator Tillman his right to head the appropriations committee, to which he was entitled under the rules that has governed the Senate for many years. Senator Tillman was made chairman of the committee on naval affairs, which is one of the best in the Senate. The committee voted Wednesday to award the appropriations chairmanship to Senator Martin, of Virginia, giving Senator Tillman the naval affairs chairmanship. When the South Carolina Senator heard this ho "got busy", with the result that the "steering committee" agreed to reopen the matter, but the second decision was a repetition of the first. Senator Tillman decided, in the interest of harmony, to tone down the bitter speech which he had contemplated making to the caucus. He requested Senator E. D. Smith to read to the caucus a statement in which he gave restrain utterance to the feeling that he had been treated unjustly in order to advance the interests of otJhers, and expressed his regret on account of his State; but with regard to persons, the Tillman statement merely compared the records of himself and Senator Martin as to progressiveness, quoting an anti-Wilson interview credited to Senator Martin during the Baltimore Convention. Senator Martin made no reply in the caucus and would not comment after the Senate had ratified the caucus assignments, except to say that ho was gratified with the treatment which had been accorded him therein. Senator Tillman made a motion in the caucus, after his statement had been read, that his own name be substituted for that or Senator Martin as chairman of the committee on appropriations. This motion was overwhelmingly defeated, and only four Senators voting in its favor. They were: Senators Smith, of South Carolina; ^fartine, of New Jersey; Shafrofch of Colorado, and Bacon, of Georgia. In the session of the Senate which followed Senator Tillman made a motion that the caucus action be ratified and made the following explanation indicative of submission, but not of surrender: "Under the rules of the Senate, which have always obtained here, I was entitled to the chairmanship of the committee on appropriation. I asked for that, but my colleagues, in their wisdom?and I recognize that every man on the 'steering committee' that elected the membership of this committee is my friends? thought that I had better retire into the still water for a while and leave the battleships to go out into the open. I bow and cheerfully submit to that decision." To The News and Courier's correspondent, after the Senate adjourned, the senior South Carolina Senator said that he did not feel cowed at all, but wanted an impression of harmony to be made to help the party fight its battles. "I had intended," said the Senator, "to carry the fight into the Senate itself Monday, in order to put into the Record and let the people know my attitude, but in the interest of party , harmony and patriotism, T decided to make the foregoing statement on the floor of the Senate to-day instead." Besides the chairmanship of naval affairs, Senator Tillman retains the chairmanship of the committee on the five civilized tribes of Indians and is placed on the following other committees: Appropriations, expendi, tures in the navy department, forest reservation and protetion of game, mines and mining and private land claims. Senator E. D. Smith secures the chairmanship of the committee on immigration; is made ranking memI ber of the important committees on agriculturo and forestry, interstate commerce, post offices and post ' roads, manufactures and conserva' tion of national resources, and is j placed on the committee on patents, geologi^l survey and railroads. i ? i Soared the Mob Away, The mob that threatened to storm I the jail and lynch Frank Sullens, at Salem, Illinois, charged with attacking Dorothy Holt, was not In evidence Sunday. Four companies of the f National Guards remained on duty, ^ but there seemed no disposition to ; start trouble. Caused by an Explosion. At Elmira, N. Y., fire from a gasoline explosion in a garage, destroyed property worth $350,000 Friday i night. The entire business section was menaced until the flames were under control. L / ' > v&w-r. v- - ' i A ' % MANY PEOPLE DEAD TORNADO AND QUAKE HIT A GEORGIA COUNTY HARD Cyclone Cuts Path Twenty Miles in L?ength and Victims Are Crushed - t Beneath Demolished Homes. A special to the Atlanta Journal from Calhoun says a cycloneic storm which lasted for nearly two hours followed by earthquake shocks, distinctly felt in this place for several minutes spread death and devastanight, when it cut a swath from Curryville to Resacoa. The loss of life is now estimated at eightenn persons and the damage to property will go into the hundreds of thousands of All wire comunication Is lost and full details are not, available. Relief parties, with all available physicians, have been rushed to the storm swept sections, The priciple damage dollars. and greatest loss of life are reported in the vicinity of Curyville and Rosedale. At Rosedale fourteen persons are reported to have been killed. Among them is a child of Will Martin, Mrs. Wun Harnett and five children belonging to the Holt family. Two more Holt children are reported fatally injured. The family is said to have been practically wiped out. At Curryville the known dead are Mrs. Jasper Hlakely. Jasper Walraven and her son, Robert, are among the seriously injured. Mrs. Charles Ilerrington, of Calhoun, is also severely injured. The earthquake shock that accompained the storm was felt in many places, but the tremors in Calhoun were perhaps the most pronounced. The earthquake occurred a few minutes after eleven o'clock and houses were shaken and windows rattled. People who have fled indoors from the fury of the storm, were panicstricken when the seismic shocks were felt. There was little material damaged done at Calhoun, although the storm of wind, rain and lightining lasted for nearly two hours. The meagre reports say that practically every house was demolished in the storms path. Great damage was done at Armuchee,Qostanaula, Rosedale and Ourryville, while Resacca also felt the effects. The course of the cyclone was east from Curryville to Ressacca. ' ASKED MERCY FOR MILES. * -. Ver<lict of Guilty Returned in Aiken Murder Case. An Aiken dispatch says Harrison Miles, the negro who shot Bradford Courtney to death last December on the latter's premises, will not pay the death penalty for his crime. The arguments in the case were closed Thursday afternoon and the case was given to the jury at 5:30 o'clock. They remained out all night. After deliberating for approximately sixteen hours they returned a verdict at 9:30 Friday morning, as soon as Court convened, of "guilty with a recommendation to mercy of the Court," which carries with it the life sentence. The verdict of the jury was a distinct surprise to many persons, who expected an unqualiged verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, carrying with it death in the electric chair. The verdict has created some dissatisfaction, and the complaint is: "He was either guilty or not guilty. If the latter, his lifht should have been the forfeit; if the former, there should have been a straight acquittal?no compromise verdict." Mr. Courtney was one of the most prominent and generally esteemed citizens of Aiken county. He was a farmer, and the manner of his death A/1 n M/\n 1 1 ?\ /I i n-i\ n 1 t An n n A O I" rtlilieu ^H-iu iiiui^imuuii anu ci strong lynching sentiment. Fortunately, the sentiment was suppressed, and the advocates prevailed upon to let the law take its course. But "the course of the law" has brought numerous expressions of disapproval. ? ? JACKSONVIMiK MAN DHOWNS. Falls From Haunch, His Bride Witnessing Tragedy. H. H. Wallace, 25 years old, treasurer of a prominent life insurance company at Jacksonville, Fla., lost his life late Sunday afternoon in the St. John's River, when he fell from his launch. He, with his .bride, were out for a pleasure trip. They anchored their boat just off the city and as he started to walk around the side he slipped and fell, his body never rising to the surface again. Mrs. Wallace, hysterical, blew the boat's whistle until she saw aid coming. She was taken to South Jacksonville and later to the home of a friend. Wallace's body was recovered Sunday night almost in the same spot where he fell overboard. 'Quakes Felt at Dalton. Earth tremors were felt at Dalton, Ga., Thursday night, the shocks being more severe than four others experienced in Dalton during the past six years. The 'quake came at 11 o'clock following a severe rain and wind storm. Houses were rocked from the severity of the disturbance and apprehension created. # i THIRD GREAT EVENT IN HISTORY OF AN AUGUSTA MASONIC LODGE TAFT ATTEND MEETING Third Degree Was Conferred Upon Mr. Forest Eugene Cray by High Officials at Meeting Attended by Three Hundred Masons From All /kf #V\n ITnl/kti k7l?iv^ VI t-IIV V liBV/llt The Augusta Chronicle says after attending the amplication of third degree upon Mr. Forerest Eugene Gray, of The Chronicle, at a called convocation ot the Webb Lodge No. 166, of the Masonic order, Wednesday night, which was addressed by Mr. Taft and which proved to be the greatest and mosct representative gatherings of Masons ever held numbering over 300, left Thursday for their homes in various cities and towns in South Carolina and For the third time in the history of Augusta Masonry a man great and honored by the nation has been a visitor at a meeting of the local lodges. The first occasion of a similar note was when George Washington was give a degree in Social Lodge, No. 1, 132 years ago. At tliat time, Social Lodge was in its early history and the number of iMasons present in no wise compared with the number present Wednesday night. About twenty three years after the first president of the United States was given his degree there, Marquis de Lafayette and his son took the Knights Templar degree at Social Circle Masons in talking of the meeting Wednesday night and the history of Augusta Masonry expresed them selves as oeing prouu inaeea or tne unique distinction enjoyed by the Augusta lodges and spoke of this meeting as being greater than any they ever expect to witness. Though practically every state in the Union and two foreign countries were represented at the meeting most of the visiting Masons came from cities and towns within a radius of 100 miles of Augusta. Many were compelled to remain in the city over night, but those living at Langley Graniteville, Bath and Aiken and other points on the Aiken interurban line were enabled to return during the night those visitors were compelled to leave the lodge hall before the meeting had been concluded. The early morning train on the Georgia Railway left filled with Masons who had come from stations on that road. It is estimated that twenty-five automobiles came into the city Wednesday afternoon filled with Masons coming to attend the convocation. Mr. Gray, upon whom the third degree was conferred, said yesterday afternoon that he was indeed proud to have been fortunate enough to take the degree at the time when so many distinguished visitors were present.. In telling of his experiences during the meeting he said that he was introduced to Mr. Taft after the degree had been conferred, and also a large number of men high in iMlaaonic circles. Mr. Taft congratulated him upon his desire to bo a Mason and remarked that he that he should feel proud that such an unusually large number should come from parts far and near to witness the application of the degree. Owing to the crush, Mr .Gray was unable to have Mr. Taft sign and date the apron he wore during the rites which he was very anxious to do, he says, but he hopes to secure Mr. Taft's signature at a later date and preserve the apron as a treasured remembrance of the occasion. "This convocation was not only unique in that it was attended by a record-breaking nurn.ber of brethren and in the number of the distinguished members present," said a wellknown Mason last night, "but also in that one of the oldest, if not the oldest Mason in the union was present.." "This Mason was .Mr Charles Rstes, former mayor of Augusta, who, tho' 94 years of age, is still halo, hearty, and energetic," ho said. Social Lodge was given its charter in 1781. That same year George Washington visited George Walton, an officer in the Continental army under Washington, at Augusta, and while here the nation's first chief iirn rvrvlr n /I r\fYt?AA 1 n r\ t?All II or CACi;Utl VU LUUI\ cv VICftlCC 111 11?v" ^ UUUh lodge, which was tho only ono in the state. Among the valuables of the lodge are tho quill pen, with which Washington signed his name on the apron which he woro while the degree was being conferred. < ? Four Killed in Wreck. A Union Pacific passenger train, known as the Colorado Special, ran into tho rear end of the Atlantic Express early Saturday morning, near Gothenberg, Neb., killing four and injured thirty or more, according to advices reaching there Saturday morning. ? ? Richard Olney Declines. In a letter to President Wilson reaching the White House Saturday Richard Olney of Boston, declined the offer of Ambassadorship to Groat Britain. He declared himself too old to accept the position. > A *? . ' MURDERS A YOUNG LADY ( ? SHOT TO DEATH BY A MAN WHO KILLS HIMSELF. \ - Double Tragedy Fo'lows After the Young Lady Defuses to Make Up With Him. At Macon, Ga.f when W. P. Mize, a travelling man of Sylvester, Ga., angered at his sweetheart, snatched the engagement ring from her finger and threw it into the street, Miss Cinnie Hall, of Gordon, Ga., told him that he might go his way. That was Thursday. iMize made his last attempt at a re conciliation Sunday morning when he called the girl from the breakfast table at her boarding house. She turned to leave him in the hall, when he pulled out his revolver and shot her four time. Then, while other boarders were making record time seeking barricades, he sent two bullets through his own heart and an other through his left shoulder. As the girl lay 011 the floor Mize crawled over to her and kissed her twice, then fell back unconscious. Even then the dying girl made an ineffectual, half-conscious effort to repulse him. Mize died 011 the way to t.lie hospital without regaining consciousness. The girl died Sunday afternoon. Geo. Raymond, another travelling man, stated after the shooting that he had been with Mize Saturday night when he burned all the letters he had ever written to the girl; that he was despondent then and never went to bed. Mize went to Georgia two years ago from Springfield, L. I. \ BOTH GET GOOD PEACES. ? Tillman and Smith Head Ini|>ortant Committees. Senator Tillman's selection to head the naval affairs committee will no doubt be a distinct pleasure to many cities, where iyivy yards are located. He has always been a friend of the Charleston station, even though he was not chairman of this committee, and now that he will head it, he is in even a better place still to safeguard its interests. Immediately after the formal action taken Senator Tillman had his secretary, J. B. Knight, sworn in as clerk, and his assistant secretary, Granville Wyche, as assistant clerk. It is thus seen that he means to lose no time in getting to work. He will pro.bably move his committee room within the next few days. Senator Tillman's other assignments are as follows: Appropriations, expenditures in the navy department, Five Civilized tribes of Indians, forest reservation and protection of game, mines and mining and private land claims. Senator E. D. Smith will head immigration, and just here he should be of great benefit to the South. He also got agriculture and forestry, conservation of national resources, geological survey, interstate commerce, manufacturing, patents, post offices and post roads and railroads. As chairman of immigration and also a member of agriculture and forestry, there is much good work for him to do. Charles M. Galloway, wiio has been Senator Smith's secretary since ?.lit; stiiiiiiur iMUtMcti luii^rehs, win ut;come clerk to the committee 011 immigration. 1 ? ? FACTORIES ARE DEMOLISHED. * Two People Killed and Much Property is Destroyed. A dispatch from Columbus, Ga., says a cyclone at 3:30 o'clock Thursday morning demolished No. 3 plant of the Eagle and Phoenix Cotton Mills. The Hamburger Cotton Mills and Swift Mills, the Harvey lumber plant of D. Rohtschild company, and many smaller business places are reported wrecked and it is reported two persons have been killed. Half a hundred houses were swept down in Girard, Ala. Much livestock was killed. The plant of the Muscogee Cotton mills was terribly wrecked and machinery worth many thousands flooded and practically ruined. It is announced that there can be 110 street car service. The loss from (ho storm is estimated at $275,000, partially covered by insurance. The losses follow: Swift mills, $100,000; Eagle and Phoenix, mills,. $22,000;. Harvey Lumber plant, $40,000; Sol Loeb Grocery company, $50,000; dry goods block, upper Broad street, $20,000; Empire Stable company, $10,000; houses in Girard, $20,000. ? Ruin Records Broken. Reports from all sections of south Alabama and Mississippi indicate that, the rainfall of the last four days has broke the record of many years. In mobile the precipitation from Saturday night to 7 o'clock Thursday totalled 6.43 inches, but reports indicate that it was much heavier in the interior. ? 'Quake Shocks Recorded. Violent earthquake shocks, apparently originating within 1,500 miles of Washington, were recorded early Friday on the seismograph at Georgetown Pniversity. The vibrations began at 4.04 o'clock and continued until 5.22. DEATH LIST GROWS STORM KILLS MANY PEOPLE AND DESTROYS PROPERTY SWEPT OVER URGE AREA ? Many Sections of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas Visited by a Disaster Not Yet Heard From, and the l>eath List May Grow Still Longer. Indications from late reports are that more than 90 people were killed,scores severely injured and great property loss sustained in the disastrous electrical tornado which swept parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas Thursday afternoon and night. Eighty odd deaths have been reported and the total loss of life prob ably will be increased when the wire communication is restored in remote sections devasted by cyclone. The damage to property cannot be estimated, but probably will have to be computed in millions. Twenty-nine persons aro reported to have perished in Georgia and damage to property is roughly estimated at $1,000,000. Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, bore the brunt of the storm in that, stats, where eleven persons are reported t/i have been killed. The other fatalities, in Georgia were nine at Tucker, four at Eaglesville, three at Clarkston and two at Columbus. Late reports from Tennessee have increased the death toll in that state to twenty-three persons. Six perished at Middleton, four at South Berlin three at Huron, two each at Culleok.i and Lexington, and one each at Lees burg, Rally Hill and Bryant Station. Many sections swept by the storm have not been heard from. The 1 oss of life in Alabama is estimated at thirteen, although several persons still are reported missing. Five negroes were killed near Decatur, three persons perished at Caller and two each at Ilokes jllu'.f, Gaynesville and Duke. Advices from Louisiannn and Missippi contain advices of no additional deaths, seven having been previously reported in each state The greatest damage to property the destruction of building* and houses in the sections of the States where deaths were reported. Telephone and telegraphic comunication has be^n restored to most of the larger towns and all of the cities in the storm swept territory. ESCAPES DEATH UY MIRACLE. Steel Rocket Hlown Into Fragments Hut Man Escaped. At New York a steel rocket containing Rodman Law, the "human fly", in which ho intended to be shot A,o00 feet into the air, descending by a parachute, exploded Friday afternoon when S00 pounds of powder behind it was tired. Law was hurled 2 5 feet from his seat in the rocket but was unhurt. Protected by padding and a helmet, Law crawled into the rocket with his parachute and gave the order to fire. The fuse was light and sputtered for 3 0 seconds. There was a terrific report. Hundreds of spectators saw the rocket burst into fragments. Law was hurled violently to the ground. His hair and eyebrows were burned off. For ten seconds he was unconscious. Then he got up and looked. "Darn that thing," he exclaimed, "I thought I was going ub." Panic spread among the spectators after the explosion. It seemed inconceivable that Law could have escaped IJOIllg IMU \\ II IU Ulltt ItllU atSVOIilt WUmen became hysterical. 11 is miraculous escape was explained by the fact that the head of the rocket, on which he stood shoulder high in a hollow extension, was made of an extra thickness of steel. The rest of the rocket, six feet in length and two and a half feet in diameter, was blown to atoms. Law walked unassisted to a nearby house to have his burns dressed. woffokd collfoh chow-duo. ? Over Five Hundred Hoys Now in College and School. An article in the Southern Christian Advocate says the catalogue of Wofford College and Wofford College Fitting School for 1912-13 are just from the press. They show a total enrollment of 504?308 in college and 19G in the Fitting school. The resources, equipment, and teaching forces of both institutions have been taxed to the utmost to meet the demands coming with so large an enrollment. One thing seems certain, Wofford must either increase its resources in dormitory facilities and teaching force or else limit the number of its students. Every county in the State is represented at Wofford except Reaufort. ? ? Two Fatally Hurt. At Rheims, France, two sergeants of the army aviation corps were fatally injured Thursday in a collision between two machines in midair. t \ V r GIRL OF TEN A MARVEL ? HER TELEPATHIC GIFTS OBSERVED BY PSYCH LOOIST8. She Describe Hidden Articles, Names People ami Their Pets on First Sight. Startling the country with her strange powers of mind reading, Beulah Miller, aged ten years, has brought to her feet in the humble home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Miller in Warren, R. I., the greatest psychological experts of the country. They have conducted investigations and tests, and Prof. Huge Munsterberg, head of the Harvard department of pyschology, and Prof. James Hyslop, president of the American Society for Psychical Research, are now making an analysis of the case. Neither will make a statement, though each admits the girl is the marvel of the age. Recently a credited party of investigators visited the Miller home to put the marvel to a test. She an- t swered every question correctly to the amazement of those who were sceptical as to her ability. She named the type of ring a man was wearing. Then as a further test held in his hand inside his pocket. She named it as a quarter and gave the date of the coin. Then sho named the number of spots on cards and called the face cards as they were shuffled to the top in a full (leek. She told the names of persons in tho room, some of whom she had never seen, and named their pets at home. Judge Mason, of Warren, was one of the party. He wrote on a pad turned it face downward and asked tho girl to tell what he had written. She was allowed to touch the pad and immediately swelled the words. The child may bo taken to Cambridge, Mass., to undergo a series of tests at Harvard, but if her parents are unwilling to allow this, Prof. Munster.berg states he will send a group of experts to Warren. He declares the child is perfectly normal, which makes her strange physic ability all the more wonderful. ? ? ? TEXAS LEADS IX CROPS. ? South Carolina Ranks lTp Well Among the States. Illinois has again yielded to Texas the honor of being premier crop producing state of the Union, Iowa holding her position as third, while Ohio has lost to Missouri the honor of fourth plaoe, the department of agripnltiiro nnnnnn^nrl Qiir?Ha\r Onplnir 1912 Texas produced $4 07,1 60,000 in twelve crops reported quantitatively by the Government?corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, llax seed, rice, potatoes, hay, tobacco and lint cotton. The enormous cotton crop easily gave Texas a big lead over the second largest crop producing state, Illinois, whose aggregate production was valued at $2S9,326,000. Iowa's crop value aggregated $284,395,000, Missouri's $196,968,000 and Ohio's $190, 718,000. In the second five the states ranked: Kansas $ 1 S2,363,000, Pennsylvania $176,250,000, Minnesota $160,615,000, Georgia $ 159,762,000, North Dakota $155,1 10,000. The total value of these crops produced during 1912 throughout the country was $4,695,161,000, compared with $4,592,33S,000 in 1911 and $4,496,647,000 in 1910. In addition to the ten leading states the following produced more than $100,000,000 In the principal crops: Indiana, New York, Nebraska, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Michigan, Kentucky, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and California. South Dakota produced $99,660,000. STKAIj OK DO WORSE. ? Pitiable Story of a Young Woman Arrested in Atlanta. Declaring mat sue was forced to steal out of sheer desperation, and that though she was garbed in a silk and velvet, dress of the latest fashion, she actually did not have a nickel to buy something to eat with, Edna Johnson, an unusually pretty girl, who says she comes from Kansas City, broke down in the Atlanta Police court Friday afternoon and pleaded guilty to a shoplifting charge. After spending a sleepless night in a cell at police headquarters, she was in a hysterical condition and wept pitifully. She said that she was penniless and starving and that, unable to untain work, she preferred theft to the only other alternative. Sentence lias been suspended in her case, and tho police are making an effort to get into communication with her family. The girl shows every evidence of education and refinement. ? Killed Man at Station. G. P. Goddard, of Stone Mountain, Ga., died early Friday morning in an Atlanta hospital from a bullet wound inflicted by EltonT. Darden in the union station Thursday night. Darden emptied his pistol at his victim In the waiting room, causing a panic. After his arrest, Darden accused Goddard of having broken up his home.