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m SUMTEK WATCHMAN, Estabi ?i? ollnaied Aug. 2.188 Cbt (f?htclmum n? cSoiitbron. Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BT? 08TEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER. & C. I T? nata: ILIO par annum?In advance. Advertisements: One Square Ars! Insertion.$1.00 Stery subsequent Insertion.10 Contract! for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rate?. AU communication* which sub etrre private interests will be charged fee aa advertisements. Oaetaartes and tributes of respects srtn be charged for._/_ CANAL COMPLETED BY It la. altniater Ssjatres Says Great Progress hi Begast Made on the Waterway. New Tora, Aug. 11.?Advices that the Panama canal will be completed tn if it are verified by Herbert EL eVinUree. United States Minister to Panama, who has Just arrived here with his nifs and daughter on a six week's leave of absence. - "i believe that the canal will be gnashed within /our years." said Min latest Squires. "There Is no reason rbr^ny further delay. There are now f 8.000 men at work on the ca? nal and taey are pushing the work with great rapidity. The sanitary conditions of the ca? nal sons Are better than would be found In a northern section where so many men are employed." A NEW SNAKE STORY. Gets Tangled Up in a Spinning ^Vheet. Campbellville. Ky., Aug. 14.?Mie. W. C. OHder of Adalr county was at? tracted to her weaving room today by the sound of her reel and openlne, the door she was horrified to see a large snake going around with the spinning wheel. When the reptile Crawled on the wheel It started the wheel to running. The snake wat> enable to free Itself anil a nurobtMr of spectators witnessed the remarka? ble eight for nearly half a day. The snake, which was finally killed, meas? ured five feet In length. Negro Policemen In New York. While Acting Mayor McOowan. of New York, was addressing the Afri? can Methodist Episcopal Zion Church connectlonnl council Thurs? day In praise of the Tenth Cavalry, a negro regiment, at San Juan Hill, some one called out "How about col? ored men on the police force?'* The interruption was a challenge, and the \ Acting Mayor, having to say some? thing, replied. 'Certainly, if thoy pass the examinations." The Acting Mayor probably hai hJs tongue in his cheek. Had he considered what would happen In the Bowery if a ne? gro policeman undertook to arrest one of his Irish constituents? There would probably be a very lively time. ?Baltimore Sun. Tunnel Firs Saadaed. Lynchburg. Va.. Aug. 14.?At the Southern Railway tannnel tonight the general teellni: is that the nre has been subdued and probably ex? tinguished In the nine hundred feet north of Rlvermont avenue. This I* securely sealed and steam is be in? forced In through pipes from several ? * I large boiler*, and will continue for a day or so. The four hundred feet south of Rlvermont avenue Is free from fire, but Is bt.dly wrecked, while the northern section may have es? caped with slight damage. The earth has been replaced under the street railway tracks on Rlvermont avenue and car service has been resumed. Hoght'n Army Defeated. Pes. Morocco, Saturday. August 14.?The army of Boghl. the formid? able rebel nubject of the Sultan of Morocco, has been defeated by th? Imperial troop*, who captured his camp and his wives. Boghl himself escaped to the mountain*. Many of his followers are reported killed or wounded. John Hall, colored, died while at? tempting to make hin escape from the changang In Aederson. He was fired at by the giard, but the shot went wild. Hall was selxed with fear and .fell to the ground dead. St. Oeorge, Aug 10.?St Oeorg<; was visited by a very severe wind storm this afternoon As a result the local telegraph and telephone wires are down, and It I* impossible to se? cure communication with the outside or id save through the malls. lahed April, 1850. 'He Just hi 1. SUM WELL TO QUIT CIEMSOH. HOARD OF mVim ACCEPTS RESIGNATION. Will Not Retire at Oacg ? Ottfjaents to Remain In Office Vnttl Suitable Successor Can be Selected. Clemson College. Aug. lt.- The Clemson board of trustees adjourned this morning after having been In session since Thursday night. No Information as to the proceedings of the board was obtainable until ad? journment. In the matter of ihe resignation of President P. 11. Moll, ?he board accepted the resignation, but asked Dr. Meli to remain in charge until a suitable successor could be found. For the purpose of looking out for a president a committee consist? ing of Senator Tillman, Col. Allai Johnstone and Hon. Richard L Man? ning, was appointed. The committee appointed to wait on Dr. Meli earl/ this morning to confer with him as to holding on for a short while con? sisted of Senator Tillman, Messrs. $. B. Wannamaker and W. D. Evanf. Their letter to him says In part: "Fuller consideration of the en? vironment and a knowledge of your own wishes have led us to arrange for the severance of your connection with the college. We desire to have you continue in your office until such time as we may be able to secure the services of your successor. There? fore, we ask if It will be agreeable to you to preside over the college during the opening and until we can fill the vacancy In the best passible manner. 1 Dr. M ell's Letter. Dr. Meli has consented In a Utter to them as follows: "I am perfectly willing to remain in the office of president until Jan? uary 1. if necessary, in order that the board may have the largest postble time to rind a suitable man. I de? sire you to convey to them that 1 have a warm attachment for the col? lege and that my friendship for the jAsUtUllnn remains . unubuted." The report of the committee to re? vise the bv-laws was unanimously adopted. These by-laws are based upon an outline submitted to the committee by Dr. Meli upon request and as adopted they contain in a satisfactory way the three general principles contended for by Dr. Meli when he tendered Ills resignation, namely, the nomination of officers and^ members of the faculty by the president, the administration of the affairs of the college by the president without interference and the defini? tion^ the duties and authority of the commandant and the president so tnat there will be no conflict of these officers and that the commandant will have charge of discipline, military In? duction, etc. Wishes to Travel. Dr. Meli now wishes to retire from active college work and hence under the circumstances he Insisted on the acceptance of his resignation. Dr. Meli Is upwards of ?0 years old and being In position to do so he wishes to spend some years in traveling and writing in permanent form the scien? tific data accumulated in 30 years of active work- Altogether, therefore, he deemed this the best time to get out of harness. Prof. L. t Knight of Crawley, La., was elected associate profeesor of botany to succeed Dr. Shattuck, and an assistant for the preparatory class was authorised, the president to se? lect the man. No election of a director for the f gricultural department was held and the president was asked to submit a list of available and suitable men, the board to elect at a called meet? ing before college opens in the fall. A resolution was passed asking the legislature to amend the scholarship l?iw so that the Clemson faculty will ??elcct the beneficiaries and so they must take agricultural or textile courses. The age limit for entrance was raised from 16 to 17 years af? ter this year so that the students will be more mature and better prepared. A tract of 140 acres of land ad? joining the college property was pur? chased. A resolution was passed looking to the erection of a separate building for the work of the preparatory class in the future.?Special to the State. Drown* on way to Bride. Oadsden. Ala., Aug. 16.?-While b " rylng home to Join his bride of a few days. 8am Wood, a prominent young man of this county, wan drown? ed late yesterday. Wood In his hast. undertook to swim the Coosa liver a id was seized with cramps. The body has not" been recovered. ml Fear not?~Let oil the ends Thou Ahr TER. S. C. WEDN'ES MIES BEKSIIS Mil MR TAFT AXXotxcRs appoint. munt OF ltd supervisors. Wuuts Politics Excluded?Would lln\e Olli? e-liolders Keep Clear of Party Fights?Appointees From South Carolina. Beverly, Mass., Aug. 15.?In a let? ter addressed today to Secretary Na? gel of the department of commerce and labor. President Taft served no? tice that any man engaged in the taking of the census of the United States Who engaged in politics in any way will be dismissed immediately from the service. At the same time announcement was made qf the appointment of 134 additional supervisors. Outside of casting their votes the president believes that census super? visors and enumerators should keep clear of anything that savors of poli? tics, national. State or local. In his letter President Taft orders that the secretary of comemrce and labor and the director of the census embody in the regulations governing the taking of the census the rule so forcibly laid down in letter. Mr. Taft says that in appointing eensuB supervisors it has been found necessary to select men recommended by senators and congressmen In their districts. He says he realises that this method of selecting might easily be perverted to political purposes and it is to take the census out of politics, so far as the actual work \s concerned, that he has explicitly ex? pressed his desires as to the regula? tions. The census supervisors announced today were for Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississipppi, North Caro? lina, and For South Carolina, viz: First George Waterhouse; Third, William Walker Russell; Fifth, Robert LeRoy Douglas. TO SAVE GOVERNMENT MONEY. Thousand Inventors Offer Economical^ Device? for Tying Mull "to Take* Place of Twine. Washington, Aug. 15.?R.y direc? tion of Postmaster General Hitch? cock the period within which de? vices for the tying of mail packages may be received by the postofflce de? partment expired last night. The plan is to save the government up? wards of $150,000 a year. Twine is' now used exclusively In the postal service for the tying of packages of letters and it costs $225.000 a year. Approximately 1,000 devices have been submitted in the matter of mechanism, a broad range of appli OattOQi exists, embracing adoption of buttons in divers styles, bands and fasteners suggestive of garters, large { boxes with compartments, sacks with labeled pockets, rope und galzanized iron clasp resembling a horsQslylng device, metal frames, straps^and hooks and eyes. TARIFF FAVORS THE TRUSTS. An Impartial Observer of American Situation Says New Rill Discrim? inate* Against the Consumer. Paris, Aug. 15.?The Journal des Debatis, commenting on the tariff sit? uation growing out of tlie enactment of the new law In the United States, agrees that reprisals on the part of France would be useless, as the man in the street alone would pay the cost of a tariff war in increased prices. The newspaper says the new Ameri? can tariff favors the trusts by in? creasing the prices of necessities in the American market. Dr. W. p. Jacobs Retter. Waehington, Aug.* 14.?Reports from the Rev. W. P. Jacobs, who .was injured here a day or two ago by being run over, are that he is pro? cessing as well as could be expect? ed. If nothing occurs to prevent he will probably be able to go to Clin? ton within a week. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Mason, of Clinton, Dr. Jacob's daughters, arrived today and will re? main with their father until he goes home. Pellagra Epidemie. Durham. N. C, Aug. 13.?The eighth death from pellagra occurred here today. The vlct'm is Mr. D. C. Mitchell, a native of Georgia. Phy? sicians are unable to usslgn a cause for the disease. A freight train and a work train on the Atlantic Coast Line road col? lided near Florence last week. Sev? eral curs were wrecked. No one was Injured. . . is t at be thy Country's/Thy God's an ;day. august is, i EARTHQUAKE jj JAPAN. KILLED AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE AND DESTROYED 302 BUILD? INGS. A Thousand Others Damaged?Wide Area in Shiga and Gifu Prefectures Was Affected. Tokyo, Aug. IB.?Reports received today concerning the earthquake in central Japan Saturday ai'ternoon show that there were a number of fa? talities and that great damage was done to property. The number dead at present is said to be 30, though it is feared that the fatalities will be greatly increased when the outlying districts are heard from. The num? ber of persons injured is 82. Thus far 362 buildings, including many temples, are reported to have been destroyed and more than 1,000 others badly damaged. yThe shock affected a wide area in the Shiga and Gifu prefectures. The town of Ozaka in Gifu suffered terri? bly. The banks of the Hida river broke and the surrounding country was inundated. The people of that district fled to high ground and remained in the open all night. Intermittent shocks were felt throughout Saturday night and early this morning. The mountain Ibuki, a short dis? tance west of Gifu, emitted smoke in the early stages of the earthquake and then collapsed with a thunder? ous roar. The formation of the mountain was completely changed. Slight damage was done at Nagoya to the southward of Gifu, and neigh? boring villages. THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. What Thej Did, and Some Things Vises) Didn't Do. i Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 14.?Not any too many bills were passed by the State legislature during the 1909 session. Of the few bills passed many of them were of great importance to the State at large while many others of ug!*at i ft.)Mi!c,m e svere nevwr -cor^id ered by both branches of the general assembly. May give as the result of thv few bills passed, the investigation into the suspension of S. G. McLendon, as railroad commissioner. This un? doubtedly took up much time, but after it was all over, both branches wrestled with the near-beer tax amendment unnecessarily long and then without any action of much im? portance. The most important bills that were not passed were the bien? nial session bill and the income tax bill. Here is a summary of what the legislation did and jurt what it did not do: Approved suspension of S. G. McLendon as railroad commissioner; passed the employers' liability act which gives employes the benefit of suit even where contributory negli? gence has occurred. Passed the anti-green trading stamp bill. Passed the bill to provide for ? board of osteopathy. Allowed firemen and policemen to ride free on street cars. Increased the appropriations for nearly all the higher institutions of learning in the State. Passed the bill providing for the election of county school commission? ers. Ma-de February 12 Georgia day. Adopted a resolution appropriating $65,800 for the purchase of 87 1-2 acres of land for terminals near Chat? tanooga Passed a resolution authorizing the purchase of a new code by Judge John L. Hopkins, of Atlanta. and provided for the taxing of near-beer and making the money derived from this source in 1909 available for gen? eral purposes. The biennial sessions bill failed to be acted on by the house, the game law bill met a similar fate, while the income tax resolution was tabled after strenuous efforts to secure ac? tion. Senator McCurry's bill to increase the number of Georgia colonels was killed by the senate, the bill to pro? hibit women riding astride died for lack of breath, but the dog tax?that unusual source of merriment?was passed.?Augusta Herald. Texan Drought Broken. Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 14.? Heavy rains fell throughout the Pan? handle of Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma today, saving crops from a total loss in the most serious drought that section has experienced for years. Cotton conditions are im proved. id Truth's. THE TRU L909. New 8er MtllB CMHESE Hlit NEW YORK CHINATOWN BOILS OVER ONCE MOKE. Discovery of Murder of Bow Klin, Beautiful Chinese Woman, Fills the Quarter with Excitement. New York, Aug. 15.?Chinatown boiled over again early today on dis? covery of the murder of the most beautiful of the few Chinese women In New York, Bow Kim, 21 years old. who came here from San Francisco about a year ago with an American? ized Chinamar, Chin Len, 31 years old. It was about 2 o'clock this morn? ing, just as the usual Saturday night revelries were quieting down, that I Chin Len dashed out of a tenant I house at 17 Mott street, crying: "My woman been murdered.*' The street filled with loitering Chinamen and parties of American "sightseers," all of whom quickly recalled the sensational murder of Elsie Sigel, the missionary girl, was thrown Into excitement. The police hurried into the house under Len's drection. The murdered woman lay on the floor of a bedroom stabbed in half a dozen places. Her slender neck was ringed with bloody finger marks, indicating a struggle with her assailant. Beside her lay a hunting knife. It was evident that the woman had been dead for two or three hours. On the stairs were found traces of blood and also on the door leading to the store of Yuen Chin on the ground floor. Three Chinamen were arrested, although they denied any knowledge of the murder. Six Annerican women who declared themselves to be the wives of Chinamen were found in the house and arrested, but none would admit any knowledge of Bow Kim's death. In the murdered woman's room were found many business letter? In Chinese, but none gave a clue. Len s account of himself was that he had spent the early evening with his wife. Returning at 2 o'clock in rhe morning 1^ found the body on the floor. In touching ii lie had .-oil? ed his Luuida with blood which in turn had smeared the door and stair? way, as he hurried to the street. No formal charge has been preferred against Len, but he Is held in $5,000 bail as a "material witness." RAILROAD WRECK IN COLORADO Five killed and Twenty-four Injured on the Denver and Rio Grande. Pueblo, Col., Aug. 14.?The Denver & Rio Grande train No. ?, south? bound, and the Denver and Rio Grande train No. 1, westbound col? lided just east of Hustted, Col., be? tween Colorado Springs and Palmer Lake., this morning. Five persons are known to have been killed and 24 in? jured. Both locomotives and many of the cars in both trains were badly dam? aged. The failure of one of the crew to observe orders is believed to have caused the wreck. Atlantic City Wide Open on Sunday. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 15.?Sa? loonkeepers and proprietors of amusement places here today bade defiance to the reformers and mem? bers of the Lord's Day alliance who are trying to enforce the Sunday closing laws in this resort. Although 50 liquor dealers are under bonds following their arrest last week, practically every bar and cafe in the report was open as usual. Extra forces of bar-tenders were employed to serve what is claimed to be the greatest crowd of visitors ever gath? ered here. Tuft's Columbia Visit. Columbia, Aug. 14.?The following telegram was received from the Pres? ident's secretary today: "Hon. W. S. Reamer, Mayor, Co? lumbia, S. C.: The President will ar? rive in Columbia Monday, November S, at 10.50 a. m.. leaving 5.05 p. m. Please have committee who are to arrange for the President's enter? tainment submit as soon as possible wire detailed programme. "Fred W. Carpenter. "Secretary. "Beverly, Mass., August 14." Coiigre*uiuiu Lever Unwell. Lexington, Aug. 15.?Congresman A. F. Lever has been very much in? disposed during the past several days, having been confined to his room the greater part of the time. Jos. H. Hair, of Newberry, for many years the great representative of the Red Men of South Carolina, died at Riverside Infirmary in Char? leston last week. E SOUTHRON, Established June, !??? les?Vol. XXIX. 5? 50 PELLAGRA IN THE WEST. DR. LAVINDER DISCOVERS H)R TY CASES IN ILLINOIS ASY? LUM. Clears Up Two Mysteries?Identifica? tion of Disease Absolves Nurse of Negligence in Supposed Boiling Pa? tients to Death. Peoria, 111., Aug. 15.?Two myste? rious cases in which patients were said to have been boiled to death in 1904 and 1907, in a bath tub by careless attendants, were cleared up today with the announcement by Dr. C. H. Lavinder of the United Statea marine hospital corps that the pa? tients evidently died of pellagra. That peculiar disease, mostly due to use mouldy corn, causes the body to assume an appearance similar to one that has been scalded to death. The fact that both patients died in a bath tub full of water is said to have been a coincidence. Dr. Lavinder found 40 cases of pel? lagra in the Bartonville asylum, con? firming the diagnosis of Super'.ntend I ent Zeller and State Health Commis? sioner Egan. Dr. Zeller today Issuetl an order forbidding the use of corn at the hospital until arrangements are made for thoroughly drying all corn products used at the hospital. In 1904 a patient died in a bath tub at the hospital and the books show "boiled to death." The case created excitement throughout the State. The patient "boiled to death in 1907 was in charge of Anna New? ton, a nurse, who for alleged negli? gence was discharged. Dr. Zeller yesterday recalled this nurse ard she is preparing to renew her work. NURSE DIES OP PELIjAGRA. Lou Walcott, Graduate of Charleston 'Hospital, Succumbs to he Disease in Rock Hill. Rock Hill. Aug. 14.?Lou Walcott, colored, a trained nurse, who was a graduate of the Charleston hospital and said by the doctors of the city to have been one of the best nurses here, died on Friday of pellagra, af?j ter 8.\ H!m.<G of a ?"??r. Severe! rt'usJW of this dread disease have come tin-'" der the observation of the physicians here and some of them are respond? ing to treatment. Your correspondent's attention was* called to a case on the train between this city and Lancaster a few lays ago. The patient was a white lady 0/ this city and the disease had ta" ken such a hold on her that she had practically lost all of her flesh and her mind seemed very much affected. The physicians here are not inclined to stick to the theory that the use of corn is the cause of the dfseeXSSV- \ DANCERS THROWN IN DITCH. Horses Drawing Darlington Merry-' maker" Carriage Run Away. Darlington, Aug. 15.?While re? turning from Society Hill Friday night, where they had been in atten? dance upon a dance, a crowd of young people met with an accident1 just out of Darlington. In Ahe car? riage were two young ladies aid two* gentlemen. It eeems that the horse took fright just as they were being driven by a buggy and dashed oft so suddenly that all the inmates* were thrown in a ditch to the side oA the road. The driver of the team* held to the horses, and was drag? ged for quite a distance, when the? carriage was turned over on him. All of the young people are weif known here, and all their friends are glad that no further injuries were sustained than a few bruises anct scratches. "UNCLE TOM'' WAS SOLD THERE Kentucky Court House - ?ruck By Lightning and Wrecked. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 13?Lightning struck the Court House at Washing? ton. Mason county, in which "Uncle Tom." of "Uncle Tom's Cabin fame, was sold, and the building was de? stroyed today. The building was erected in 17 4 It was the sale of the aged negro of this place that gave Harriet Fee che*" Stowe the basis for her story. _ Military Balloon Destroyed. Paris, Aug. 16.?A military baifoco today collided with a number of SfeO" trie wires outside Paris. The wire* were short-circuited and set ffre U' the balloon, which was destroyed* r.av aeronauts escaping with difficulty. ?If your liver is sluggish and oue of tone, and you *eel dull, blh*m? constipated, take a dose of Chamt?t lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets be? night before retiring and you will f *%Hi all right in the morning. SoM Oy Vt'.. W. Sibert ?