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RMrW)S i
}dministration of |
inal Laws a Disgrace g
to Civilization i
Villiam H. Taft, Secretary of War. '
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Mjd^ga GRIEVE for my country to say that the administration of the
- j> criminal laws in all the states (there may be one or two exI
^ ceptions) is a disgrace to our civilization. Constitutional
I EM limitations adopted in tenderness: to the defendant nave uevu
i jfek I elaborated by courts and legislatures because thought to be
S' 5 in tfle interest of liberty. Trial by jury has come to be reft
m garded as a fetich to such an extent that legislatures have
exalted the power of the jury and diminished the power of
the court in criminal cases. The function of the judge is
limited to that of moderator in a religious assembly. The law throws the
reins on the back of the jury, and the verdict becomes rather the vote of a
town meeting than the sharp, clear decision of the tribunal of justice.
The counsel for the defence, relying on the diminishing power of the
court, creates by dramatic art and by harping on the importance of unimportant
details a false atmosphere, which the judge is powerless to dispel, and
under the hypnotic inlluence of which the counsel is able to lead the jurors
to vote for a verdict tfhich after th<5 excitement has passed they are unable
to support as men.
Since 18S5 in the United States there have been 131.951 murders and homicides
and 22SG executions. In 1SS5 the number of murders was 1S08. and in
1904 S4S2. The number of executions in 1SS5 was 10$, aad in 1904 11C.
This startling increase in murders and homicides compared with executions
tells the story. As murder is increasing so are all felonies, and there
can be no doubt that they will continue to increase unless the criminal laws
IK' enforced with more certainty, uniformity and severity than they now are.
If laws could be passed either abolishing the right of criminal appeal and
leaving to the pardoning power the correction of judicial wrong, or, if appeal^
must be allowed, then if a law could be enacted by which no judgment of t
court below should be reversed except for an error which the court, alter n
reading the entire evidence, can say would have led to a different verdict,
ninety-nine reversals out of one hundred under the present system would be
avoided.
If the power of the court by statute to advise the jury to comment ami
express its opinion to the jury upon the facts in every criminal case, could
be restored, and if the state and the defendant were both deprived o? peremptory
challenges in the selection of a jury, twenty-live percent of those trials
which are now miscarriages of justice would result in the conviction oi the
guilty defendant, and that which has become a mere game in which the defendant's
counsel play with loaded dice would resume its office of a serious
judicial investigation.
Our country is disgusted by the number of lynchlngs in the north and
south. If men who commit crime were promptly arrested and convicted, there
would be no mob for the purpose of lynching. Nothing but a radical improvement
in our administration of criminal law will prevent the growth in
the number of lynchings in the United .States that bring the blush of shame
to every lover of his country.
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I Fashions are Formed
\ The Way flew Styles vr New Fads Come ^
^ Forth in Paris. ?
By Lady Violet Greville. ??????
ryfc ?u nfc i j HOSE who see tbe beautiful new confections, the marvels of
S lace, embroidery and feathers, the novei designs and the arI
5 tistic ideas, probably often wonder who sets the fashions and
III whence they come. The best, of course, originate in Paris,
S 3 fl where a regular business is made of designing. noi one
^ B person alone, not one establishment alone, but all the best
and most scientific of milliners consort and advise together,
jjimn nmi ii"m Sometimes an original idea emanates from a humble workwoman,
and after fusion in the brain and improvements and
suggestions given by the great autocrat, it emerges, Minerva-like, in full panoply,
complete and victorious. Numbers of diligent seekers, a horde of assistants,
voluminous notes, sketches, ideas, are pressed into the service. Artists
lend their willing services, contribute designs or sketches, while the sartorial
adept combines, exaggerates, alters old modes, culling, like the bee, flowers of
fancy here and there, until the bright vision of beauty is realized and the forthcoming
styles decided on. A touch here, a line there, make all the difference,
but it requires an artist's touch to assimilate thorn. Needless to say, the rivalry
ia incessant and intense, until at last a committee is formed, opinions
given, and the fashion is launched forth.
Then must the clients be consulted, the actresses interested, the fine ladies
dressed. No talways, even after the greatest pains and anxiety, will a
fashion catch on. nor will that fashion suit everybody. There are modes for
the dashing, extravagant American, others for the smart English woman, and
others for the chic Parisienne, who is more exclusive and more exacting in
her taste. Fashions are born, like Venus, from the foam of the sea?from a
4 chance combination of color, an accident, a careless caprice, a momentary effect,
which strikes the artist's eye and gives him an idea. Old portraits and
picture galleries are carefully studied, with a view to new apotheoses of beauty,
until the life of a great couturier becomes the life of the true genius?struggle,
ambitios, perseverance and success.
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The Abunda Life
1 By the President of the University ?
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=* U ARE living in days of abundance," he said. "The economic
wwv conditions of the last ten years have suddenly produced a
portentously numerous class of American beings whose
wbole strength and wit are completely absorbed in devising
?' the means of spending any reasonable portion of their income.
^ ^ Their money has torn them away from the ordinary (
i I,, , J standards of home and civic life, created a new set of conditions
for them, made them its servants. They change
their abiding place with the seasons, have no home and have forgotten where
they vote.
The sudden dislodgment of life conditions produced by the rapid access
of wealth, in the case of such as allow their lives to be mastered by material
wealth, commonly results in a pitiful maladjustment of machinery to work
demanded. A man buys more villas than he can live in, more clothes than
he can wear and more yachts than he can sail; and then fills his life with
false movements in a nervous attempt to keep the machinery going.
One of the saddest features of lives pursued by wealth consists in their 1
isolation from humanity. People who maintain steam yachts and dine Frenchfully
at night and flit between Lenox and Newport and Palm Beach and Homburg
arc naturally and automatically driven into the society of the like-conditinned
and bound there. Their sons attend the same expensive academies.
their daughters are polished off at some elite schools, their sons ana aaugniers
meet together and they intermarry and interdivorce; and the caste of the
great rich emerges. 1
Sound judgment and clear prospective In the motives and movements of
human life are seldom found among these people of the caste who drag the
golden ball and chain. Abundance of goods cannot insure either to a people 1
or to an individual that quality of existence which we are justified in associat- (
ing with the motion of richness, fullness, abundance of life. A man lives abundantly
according as he opens his life to the opportunities of the world he lives
in both to be and to do. ]
We need national laws for divorce, for the oversight of insurance, for the ,
regulation of the traffic of the great national concerns. It behooves us while
holaing fast to local safeguards for local interests, to court the inspiration of
t>-~ rational life and be Americans. !
' REMOVING INK STAINS. Tearful Milk. .
Ink stains may be removed from ^ was complaining to her dairywhite
goods with lemon and salt. man some time ago about the quality 1
Cover the stam with fine salt, squeeze of his miik. "Short o* grass feed, J
the lemon jmce on it, and rub be- mum?short o' grass feed this time o'
tween the hands. A second applicar year," said the jocular milkman. '
tion will be necessary when the ink "Bless you, them cows o' mine are
is obstinate. Ink may be removed just as sorry about it as I am. I often '
successfully from colored clothes by stands and watches 'em cryin'?regu- i
oaking them il sweet milk. Mil- lar cryin', mum?because they feel as 1
dew will usually, disappear if soaked how their milk don't do 'em credit,
in soar milk, and then washed in You dcn't believe it?"
the usual manner. Chloride of lime "Oh. yes, I believe it," said the lady; \
trill also remove mildew stains, but "but I wish in future you'd see that ]
it must be well diluted carefully they don't drop their tears Into our j
'Tl* can."?The Tatler.
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SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN
Weather Conditions Given Out by the
Department Observer.
The South Carolina section of the
climate and crop service of the Department
of Agriculture issues the
following official bulletin of weather
' ,,j ' f - !?? nnct
and crop conditions 101 mc
week:
The week ending: Monday, Septcmber
4th began with very cool weather
but the warmth increased to above
normal by its close, making the average
temperature for the week about
normal. The extremes were a maximum
of 1)8 degrees at Blaekville and
Florence on September 1st and 2nd
and a minimum of 50 degrees at
Greenville on August 29th and 50th.
The week was generally clear with
increasing cloudiness during the last
two days. The relative humidity
was uniformly low.
Over the greater portion of the
State there was no rain during the
week, and in places the ground is becoming
dry and the need of moisture
is indicated, esepeially in the coast
truck districts; showers were general,
though mostly light, over the western
kinlt' of the State beginning on the
- ? niiiht
of the 1st and continuing to
the close; there were also rains in
the eastern tier of counties with occassional
heavy showers.
On the whole, the weather was
favorable for general farm work, especially
for haying and saving fodder
and for picking cotton. In localities
where the sod has been too wet heretofore
it dried sufficiently to permit
gardening and plowing. Some oats
have been sown in the central counties.
Cotton continues to deteriorate on
sandy lands owing to rust and excessive
shedding, so that practically
the plants have ceased to grow or
fruit and nearly .all the top crop has
dropped off; on clay lands the conditions
are better, but rust has appeared
in places. On sandy lands
cotton opened rapidly, and picking
made rapid progress over the eastern
and central counties and will be gen
oral over the western onesttunng me
coming week. On clay lands it is just
beginning to open f?*eely. Catter pillars
continue numerous on sea-island
cotton.
Tobacco curing is finished. Rice
harvest is underway and som? has
been thrashed. Peas and sweet potatoes
arc doing well. Pastures continue
good. Strawberrie plants, being
set out. Fall track being planted
extensively in the const districts but
the soil is too dry for favorable germination.?J.
tV. Bauer, Section Director.
Colleton Prisoners Try to Break Jail.
Walterboro, Special. ? Thursday
night there came near being another
successful jail delivery here. Some
time ago six young white men from
the vicinity of Green Pond and
Young's Island were committed to
jail for breaking into and stealing
from some freight cars near Green
Pond. A report of this has already
been published, also the report of an
attempt by these six young men to
break out of jail. Their escape was
nmvatitod hv tliP timplv disCOVerV Of
the sheriff.
South Carolina Items.
President Harvie Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Association will be
in Bennettsville on September 12,
and will address the cotton growers
of Marlboro in the court house on
that day. President Smith and
Treasurer Hyatt of the State association
will also be here at the same
time. Jordan and Smith will address
a big cotton growers' rally at Maxton,
N. C., on the 9th.
H. \Y. Holloway, a special Jgent
employed by the comptroller general,
went to Leesville recently to investigate
the burning of the house >?
Henry Montz last March. As a result
two white men were arested their
names being John and William Taylor.
The prospect for a large enrollment
at the fall session of Converse
College, which begins September 20th
are very bright, and President Pell,
from the information in hand, is sure
that the number of new students will
be unusually large.
Fire broke out 3t an4 early hour
Tuesday it an outbuilding on the
f'nion oountv iK>or house farm. The
barn and stables, three mules, a lot
d? corn and a quantity of provender'
were consumed. The origin of the
fire is thought to have been accidental.
The value of the property destroyed
is estimated at $SoO. with insurance
of
Adam Wilkes, a negro man, was
brought to Spartanburg charged with
the serious crime of criminally assaulting
a colored girl. Ivy Choice,
iged eight yean His case was investigated
in vragistrate Kirby's
zourt and he was bound over to sessions
court. The evidence against
Wilkes was very damaging.
There is no longer ^ny question of
the Tennessee Normal College, of the
Baptist denomination, and its funire.
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raent of peace and friendship between
the sovereigns of the two empires and
between the subjects of Rusaia and Japan,
respect! rely.
Article 2.?His majesty, the Emperor
of Russia, recognizes the preponderant
interest from political, military and
economical points of view of Japan in
the empire of Korea and stipulates
that Russia will not oppose any measures
for its government, protection or
control that Japan will deem necessary
to take in Korea in conjunction with
the Korean government, but Russian
said a few words which one had only
to hear to know that they came from
his heart. He began by saying that he
wished, on behalf of Mr. Witte. Russia's
first plenipotentiary, and in his
own name, to say a few words.
ROSEN'S EARNEST WORDS.
"We have just signed," continued the
ambassador, "an act which will have
forever a place in the annals of history.
As negotiators on behalf of. the
empire of Russia, as well as the empire
of Japan, we may with tranquil conscience
say that we have done all that
was in our power in order to bring
about the peace for which the whole
' vilized world was longing. We earnestly
hope that friendly relations between
the two empires will henceforth
be firmly established and we trust thai
his excellency. Baron Komura, as Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and one of the
leading statesmen of his country, will
apply to the strengthening of these relations,
the wide experience and wise
statesmanship he so conspicuously displayed
during these negotiations, which
have now been so auspiciously concluded."
BARON KOMURA'S RESPONSE.
Baron Komura replied that he shared
entirely the views of Baron de Rosen.
The Treaty of Portsmouth which they
had just signed, he said, was in the
interest of humanity and civilization
and he was happy to believe that it
would bring about a firm, lasting peice
between the two neighboring empires.
He begged to assure the Russian plenipotentiaries
that it would be his daty
as well as his pleasure to do everything
in his power to make the treaty in fact
what it professes to be in words?a
treaty of peace and amity.
Portsmouth, N. H., Special.?The
peace opens with a preamble reciting
that his majesty, the Emperor and autocrat
of all the Russians, and his majesty,
the Emperor of Japan, desiring:
to close the war now subsisting between
them and having appointed their
respective plenipotentiaries and fur-!
nished them with full powers, which
were found to be in form, have come to
an agreement on a treaty of peace and
arranged as. follows:
Article 1 stipulates for the establish-1
Caucasus in Wild Panic.
Ba By Cable.?Troop3 under the
directs, ^ of the Governor are acting
with the utmost vigor, but they have
not succeeded in restoring order, althought
there is rather less firing.
Armed rioters attacked the oil works
in the suburb of Balakhan, and after
a hot fiiL'ht set fire to them. Tartarbands
are scouring the country, murdering
and pillaging. The country is in
a state of wild panic, and houses and
farms are bAing abandoned.
The Inland Waterway.
Washington, Special.?The engineering
board, designated by the Secretary
of War to make a new survey of the
proposed inland waterway, will visit
Norfolk and North Carolina points
in October for the purpose of holding
hearings, so that the best opinions
of the people with reference to selection
of a route can be secured. This
information was obtained by Representative
Small, who called at the War
Department and conferred with Col.
Smith Leach, the president of this
board,
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Last Act !n The War I
Curtain Gc
HISTORICAL PAPER'S CONTENTS!
llr. Witte Signed First ar.d When All
Had Done So Baroir Rosen and Baron
Komura Exchanged Compliments
For the Two Misssions?
Russian Mission Attends Thanhsgiving
Service at Christ Episcopal
Church?Rulers to Sign Ccr.ics
Within 50 Days.
Portsmouth, N. H., Special.?The
treaty of Portsmouth was signed shortly
before 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
in the conference loom of the navy
general store at the navy yard. The
firing of a national salute of 19 guns
was the signal which told the people
of Portsmouth. Kittery and Newcastle
that the peace of Portsmouth was an
accomplished fact, and the church bells
in the three towns were soon pealing
forthaa joyful refrain.
For 47 minutes those outside the
coherence room anxiously awaited the
signal. Suddenly an orderly dashed
to the entrance of the peace building,
and waved his hand to the gunner a
few feet away and the opening shot of
the salute rang out on the clear air of
the soft September afternoon, proclaiming
peace between Russia and Japan.
WITTE GRASPS KOMURA'S HAND.
Up to the moment of signing the
treaty, no word had broken the silence
of the conference room. Throwing his
pen aside. Mr. Witte, without a word,
reached across the table and grapsed
Baron Komura's hand. His conferees
followed and the Russian and Japanese
delegates remained for a moment In
silence, their right hands tightly clasped
across the conference table. The
war was over?Russia and Japan were
once more friends.
This simple ceremony rang through
and deeply impressed the attaches and
secretaries of the two missions, who,
with the invited witnesses, had formed
a large circle around the delegates sitting
at tha table.
Baron de Rosen was the first to break
the silence. Rising from his seat, the
anAassador, looking at Baron Komura
anS Mr. Takahira straight in the eye,
subjects and Russian enterprises are
to enjoy the same status as the subjects
and enterprises, of other countries.
Article 3.?It is mutually agreed that
the territory of Manchuria be simultaneously
evacuated by both Russian
and Japanese troops. Both countries
are concerned in this exacuation, their
situations being absolutely identical.
All rights acquired by private persons
and companies shall remain intact.
Article 4.?The rights possessed by
I conformity with the lease by Russia of
Port Author and Dalny. together with
the lands and waters adjacent, shall
pass over in their entirety to Japan.
! but the properties and the rights of
| Russians subjects are 10 be safeguard
I ed and resnected.
Article 5.?The governments of Rus[
sia and Japan engage themselves reciprocally
not to put any obstacles to the
general measures (Which shall be alike
for all nations) that China may take
for the development of the commerce
and industry of Manchuria.
Article 6.?The Manchurian Railwayshall
be operated jointly between Russia
and Japan at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse.
The two branch lines shall be operated
only for commercial and industrial pur'
poses. In view of Russia keeping her
I branch line with all rights acquired by
! her convention with China for the con!
slruetion of that Railway, Japan acI
quires the mines in qpnnection with
j such branch line which falls to her
However, the rights of private pparties
or private enterprises are to be respected.
Both parties to this jtreaty remain
absolutely frree to undertake what they
deem fit sn ex-proprlated ground.
Article 7.?Russia and Japan engage
, themselves to make a conjunction of
J the two branch lines which they own
at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse.
Article 8.?It is agreed that the
i branch lines of the Manchuria Railj
way shall be worked with a view to
, assure commercial traffic between
' them without obstruction.
Article 9.?Russia cedes to Japan
j the southern part of Sakhalin Island
I as far north as the fiftieth degree of
j north latitude, together with the isj
lands depending thereon. The right
of free navigation is assured in the
bays of La Perouse and Tartare.
Article 10.?This article recites the
situation of the Russian subjects on
j the southern part cf Sakhalin Island
and stipulates that Russian colonists
, there shall be free and shall have the
right to remain without changing
their nationality. Per contra, the
Japanese government shall have the
| right to force Russian convicts to
| leave the territory which is ceded to
her.
Article 11.?Russia engages herself
to make an agreement with Japan
giving to Japanese subjects the right
to fish in Russian territorial waters of
I the Sea of Japan, the coast of Okhotsk
and Behring Sea.
Article 12.?The two high contract;
ing parties engage themselves to re,
new the commercial treaty existing
between the two governments prior
j to the war, in all its vigor, with slight
I modifications in details and with a
most favored nation clause,
i Article 13.?Russia and Japan recipj
rocally engage to restitute their prisi
oners of war on paying the real cost
; of keeping the same, such claim for
i cost to be supported by documents,
j Article 14.?This peace treaty shallj
be drawn up in two languages, French
j and English, the French text being evi
idcnce for tho Russians and the Eng,
lish text for the Japanese. In case
j of difficulty of interpretation, the
j French document to be final evidence.
I Article 15.?The ratification of this
i treaty shall oe countersigned by the
sovereigns of the two States within
fifty days after its signature. The
French and American embassies shall
be intermediaries between the Japanese
and Russian governments to announce
by telegraph the ratification of
the treaty.
I The additional articles are agreed to
I as follows:
I Article One.?The evacuation of
! Manchuria by both armies shall be
f completed within eighteen months
I from the signing of the treaty, beginI
ning with the retirement of troops of
; the first line. At the expiration of the
[ eighteen months the two parties will
| only be able to leave as guards of
| the railway fifteen soldiers per kilometre.
Article Two.?The boundary which
limits the parts owned respectively'by
Russia and Japan in the Sakhalin Is;
land shall be definitely marked off on
I the spot by a special limitographic
| commission.
Dr. Rice Named.
Columbia. S. C., Special.?The exe
cutive committee 01 me wiuuium
Theological seminary hag been In session
here all day in an effort to elect
a president of the institution. They
did this indirectly only, having recommended
to the trustees that Dr. Theron
H. Rice, of Atlanta, be given a position.
He was leader in the movement
to have the seminary moved from Columbia
and consolidated with the
I Clarksville university into a big Presj
byterian university at Atlanta.
Public Printer Ousted.
Washington, Special.?Public Printer
F. W. Palmer practically has been
ousted from office. It was learned authoritatively
that President Roosevelt
has demanded Mr. Palmer's resignation
to take effect on the 15th instant.
The demand of the President for Mr.
Palmer's resignation was due primarily
to the latter's action in trying to
force Oscar J. Ricketts and L. C. Hay
out of the Government Printing Office.
Mr. Palmer asked for the resignation of
Rocketts and Hay on the ground that
they had been insubordinate.
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PALMETTO AFFAIRS'
Many Newsy Items Gathered From
all Sections.
Dispensary Investigation.
Sumter, Special.?The special committee
to investigate the dispensary
took up the work here last week. The
dispenser at this point was supposed
to ho :i model of accuracy and hones
ty, but it developed that his administration
ins been far from perfect.
The testimony went ^o show that the
law lias not been carried out in man}'
particulars. Thai feature requiring
the use of the request blanks has been
entirely neglected and there seems to
have been more or less 4'graft" in the
selling of bottles and cases, amounting
to some $500 to $600 per year.
While the committee failed to unearth
anything positively startling,
enough was brought out to show that
the institution has been conducted
without proper regard to the law, and
this in the face of the fact that both
the county board and the State board
have been notified that such was the
ease. On Thursday afternoon the
committee tok a recess.
An Atrocious Crime.
Johnston, Special.?Jim Padgett, a
mulatto, was arrested by Chief of
Police Derrick as the former was attempting
to leave the city on the early
train. Padgett is charged with
an asault on a young white girl who
lives near here. The assault occurred
on last Monday and Padgett has
ben in hiding since. After the arrest
he was immediately carried to Edgefield
and it is reported will be carried
to Columbia. The crime is a very
atricious one. The girl belong? to a
highly respected family. Expressions
of lynching are freely indulged
in, and Padgett would sr.ifer violence
if oportunity offered. It is said he
made a similar attempt on another
victim a few years ago.
Escaped From the Gang.
Laurens, Special.?Joe Harris, a
two-year convict, broke his chains
wihle at the camp alone Tuesday aftenoon
and, taking one of the mules
belonging to the county, made his escape
from the county chaingang. He
was sick and had been left at the
camp, which is located about five
miles northeast of the city, securely
chained, as the guard thought. He
was captured six miles below town by
Messrs. Milam and Morris of Lisbon.
He had traveled about 12 or 14 miles
and when captured had divested himself
of his shackles. He had also
abandoned the mule and was evidently
making his way back to Greenville
or Edgefield, whence he came a little
over a year ago. After escaping Tuesday
he broke into a negro woman's
house and stole a quantity of meat
and canned fruits, etc.
Charged. With Bigamy.
Anderson, Special.?Will Rowland,
a mill operative, has been lodged in
jail on a charge of bigamy. Both of
his aleged wives are living in this
county, and it was upon a warrant
taken out by his second mother-in-law
that he was arrested at Toccoa, Ga.,
and brought back to this city. He will
probably be tried for bis offense at
the approaching term of the sessions
court.
Chester To Vote On the Dispensary.
Chester, Special.?This county is to
be canvassed early and thoroughly
for the purpose of securing signatures
to petitions asking for an election
at as early a day as may be deemed
best on the question of "dispensary"
or "no dispensary." A com?
_i? ? if ?
mmee 01 one liom cacti oa iuv ci^in
townships has the matter in charge.
That committee is composed as follows:
L. D. Childs, Geo. W. Byers,
H. T. Boyd, W. S. Durham, T. B.
McKeown, J. M. Hollis and J. M.
Boulware.
Palmetto Items.
Postmaster Wilson says Florence
will soon have free delivery, in fact
before she hardly knows it if receipts
keep runing up. The receipts for
July were $250 more this year than
they were for the same month last
year.
The Union county dispensary and
all the stock on hand in the same has
been placed in the hands of the sheriff
of the county.
The secretary of state last week issued
a commission to the Williamsburg
Live Stock Company, capitalized
at at $25,000. The corporators
are Hugh McCutchcn, C. M. Hinds,
W. I. NLxon and others.
A commission was irrucd to the
Barnwell Fanners' Warehouse Com*
* 1 * - 1 - A. AO AAA rpt. ^
pany, capitalized ai au*; wiporators
are: Frank H. Creech, Geo.
W. Peacock, Willis J. Duncan, W. II.
i Richardson and Sam Hciford.
How to Know Bugs.
At the seventeenth annual meeting
of the Association of Economic Entomologists,
held recently in Philadelphia,
the society recommended the
general adoption of a uniform nomenclature
for certain insects, these
names being the ones internationally
current among scientists. These insects.
among scientists. There inr
forth be known as follows:
American cockroach, Periplaneta
americana L; bedbug, Klinophilos
lectularia L-; boll-weevil, Anthronomus
grandls^Boh: carpet moth, Trlcophaga
tapctzella L; gypsy-moth,
Porthetria dispar L; house-fly, Musca
domestica L: San Jose scale, Aspidiotus
perniciosus Comst; silkworm,
Bombyx mori L; tomato-worm,
Phlegethontius sexta Job.
f ith these names in mind, it is
claimed that any bug on the scientists'
list? may be readily recognized.
J ?Harper's Weekly.
EARTHV'AKF: S^H
DiilcrSances Discinciive aad Sd^HjBH
373 REPORTED BEAD IN TITSOTO ^
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Shock Ecfore Daylight is Said to
Have Completely Destroyed 18 Villages
and Wrought Widspread Loss
of Life and Property in the Southern
Extremity of the Pennisrla. i
Rome, By Cable.?All Italy is suf- j^gL
fering from terrible depressldb because
of the news from the South,
where one of the worst earthquaka^HHgfl
ever experienced occurred Friday.
though the earthquake was felt ajjr
er Calabria and to a v-oUfcffFTxtent
In Sicily, the worst ne^^ame from *
Pizzo?and Monteleone and from fhe
eighteen villages, which are said to 1
have been completely destroyed. According
to the latest news received, Jit
370 persons have been killed nr.u a i'
great number injured. It is ?as yet
impossible to even estimate the prop- J*
erty losses.
The shock was felt at 2.55 o'clock ; 3
Friday morning. It lasted for eighteen
seconds at Cataniaro and soon 3
thereafter was felt at Messina, Rem- -w!j|
gino, Monteleone, Martlrano, Stefaconi,
Picpio, Triparll, Zmararo, Cessaniti,
Naida, Olivani and other points. '}
Scenes of Indescribable terror en-. . |
sued. Women, aroused from their
sleep, rushed half clothed into the
streets, screaming with fear, carrying
their babies and dragging along their^""'"'""
other children, and calling for help
on the madonna and the saintc. The
men escaped into the open with their
families, all calling on their favorite
saints for protection. The cafes were
taken by assault by the strangely
garbed crowd, but as daylight broke
without a repetition of the earthquake
the crowd gradually melted away until
by 8 o'clock the streets had al- i
most assumed their normal appeal*
ance except In the ruined villages, A
where the inhabitants had no homes to
go to. The general confusion
added to by dreadful cries from the jBA
jails, where the prisoners were be- 9^H
side themselves with fright and in HH
some cases mutinied, but fortunately.
all the prisoners were kept within
bounds.
Troops, engineers and doctors havo
been hurried to the scenes of the disaster
to assist in the work of rescue
and salvage. The Ministry of the Interior
sent |4,000 for the relief of the
destitute, and the Minister of Piblic i
Works left for Calabria in the evening. j
Public Printer Palmer Dismissed. "
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Special.?President
Roosevelt took summary action in jS
the case of Frank W. Palmer,Publio
Printer and head of the Government ."IB
Printing 0..ce at Washington.
Last Monday the President directed
Mr. Palmer to send him his resignation -jd
to take effect on the 18th instant At
the same time he directed him not to
I take any further action in the case of M
Oscar J. Ricketts, foreman of printing, <|S
and L. C. Hay, a division forman, in
j the Government Printing Office, - JB.
whose resignations Mr. Palmer had rennncfoH
In direct disobedience of the Presi- ]
dent's instructions, Mr. Palmer on the
5th instant, notified Ricketts and Hay
that the time which they might hare
in which to answer his charges would iH
be extended until Saturday, the 9th in^..s ^
stant. As this was a violation of tfie
President's specific instructions, and as . 3a
the case ? Ricketts and Hay had been
placed fa tu? hands of the Keep commission
for investigation, the President
felt it was time to take positive
action regarding Mr. Palmer. He there A
fore removed him from office by telegraph
and directed him to turn oyer , *1
the Government Printing Office to *
Foreman Ricketts, whom he has design v
nated as acting Public Printer.
Asheville Slayer Arrested.
Asheville, N. C., Special.?Floyd EL.
James was arrested Tuesday afternoon
at 1:30 o'clock by Patrolman James on
a warrant charging him with the murder
of James Dougherty, last Sunday
night, August 27. Mr. James was placed
under arrest while at work, a short
distance from his residence, and
brought to the city hall. He was in
conference with attorneys relating to
the conduct of his case and at the conclusion
of this conference a preliminary
hearing will be had. When ar- ,J
rested Mr. James declared that he was
an innocent man and that he regretted
the arrest more on his wife's account
than on his own.
* - -i tt..?i
stranded v e^ei aigutsu.
Norfolk, Va., Special.?The steamer
Aragon, lumber laden from Georgetown,
S. C-, to New York via Norfolk,
which stranded two miles south of 4
False Cape, on the Virginia coast. The
Aragon and the lumber-laden barge >?
Saxon, which went ashore with the
steamer but was subsequently floated,
arrived here this afternoon apparently
uninjured.
Atlanta Patient Dead.
Atlanta, Special. ? Atlanta's only
yellow fever case resulted fatally
shortly after noon Tuesday. The paT
n Pariit>jflra U'hn flrpivpd
from Pensacola last Friday and who
was sent to the detention hospi^^-'-'
several miles from the city, died afi^H
an attack of yellow fever of a pro-^
nounced type. No other cases have
reached here and none Is expected
with the vigorous precautions that
have been taken to exclude even sus- .
picious cases from outside points.
Shot by State Senator.
Charleston, S. C., Special.?A special
from Saluda, S. C., says that Joe Ben
Coleman, a well-known citizen of that ^
town, was shot and it is believed fa-1?
tally injured, by State Senator E. S. W
Biease. The encounter was on the main
street and Coleman received four
wounds. Biease surrendered- to- the
Sheriff. No further particulars are
known here. Mr. Biease is a brother
to Senator Cole L. Biease, who figures
so prominently in the dispensary investigation.
One Is Senator of Newberry
end the other Senator from Saluda,
adjoining counties. , - ^