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?C M MTKI1 WATCHMAN, EMaMI of-.Med Au?. 2,188 bt Qbtthnn Rfl Sontbron. Published WcNliiceday and Saturday ?BY? TEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTER, a C. Term*: 11.10 per annum?In advance. Ad veri?mmeuta: On* 8quare first Insertion.11.00 - Bvery subsequent lneertton.10 P Contract* for three months, or toasje* will be made at reduced ratea. All communication* which sub? serve privat? Interests will be charged far aa advertisements. Obttuariaa and tributes of respects epwttl charged for. IsValfM CORN STATE. Dr. B. T. (?allouay Pays Well Deserv? ed Tribute to the Commonwealth Which H..I.I- AH Records. Washington. March 8.?Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant Industry of the department of agriculture, the foremost authority on the subject In the country, says Bjthat South Carolina is the best corn ^growing State In the Union. So the doctor told Representative Johnson a short while ago. "Other States produce more corn than South Caro? lina, It la true." says Mr. Johnson, "but what Doctor Oalloway meant was that In all the great corn con Iteats the contestants In South Caroli? na produced more corn to the acre than thase of any other State, not excepting the great corn States of the Middle West." Mr. Johnson Is himself a student of corn, and he has got some good and >ful points of late from the agri? cultural department. He says It is better In growing corn to select seeds In the locality In which the corn is grown. "Better results can be secured by using our own corn, which Is cli than could be gotten from >nt from other localities," said he. "The Mlnter com is a verv ftgstftMffMi* The Baldwin com grown in Spar? end probably In I Talon, la one of the best varieties I 9eave ever seen." Senator Money declared in the seaate yesterday that the Southern section of the country has really Just begun Its career as an agricultural section, and that he knew of lands ^whlch a few years ago were consider sJad worthless which have recently been made to yield about $35 to the acre, net planted In corn. Mae prolific. The tnnhurg c-nunfy tin cilRT.S WHIP TF.ACIir.lt. ^jihes kin*; State of Affairs In Cl?ren? don. Wilson. 8. C% March 8.?Warrants were sworn on I 'riday in Judge Rich burg's court at Koreston for Rebecca Bagnal. Angle I'.agnal and Sophia Hagnal. charging them with assult ?upon the person of Miss Mabel Flag. The warrants yesterday are the culmination of a series of episodes! in the lives of these Bagnal girls. For the past three years they attended as many different schools and this year they entered Miss Flag's school about eight miles below hero in the intee section. On Wednesday it became necessary Tor Miss Flag to crrset a little brother of the Bag nala and aa usual ihe sisters became greatly Incensed. Thursday morning they returned to school armed with ^a switch of large proportions, So ^>hla Hagnal took a position at one d.-H>r. Angle und the other, while Re? becca, who Is a muscular girl of about 17 years attacked Miss Flag with the cudgel. The school children wh.? would have gone to the assis ktan? ? of their teacher were kept out the guards at the door while there was no chance for Miss Flag to get oat. When she found the position ahe was In she saw that reslstanec was useless, so it Is said, she quiet? ly folded her hands and took the heating, which was very severe, re ?Ivlng several bruises about the face and arma. After wearing the switch to a stub the Bagnal gril turned the other end. It was then tha*. Miss Plag re. ed the s.v. er? sf wound*. Th*? affair has created somewhat if a sensation. Miss Flug being u teacher of ublllty ami prominence, gho has taught this school confirm ously f.-r fi\e wars and I* greatly b? loved by her pupils and patrons.? vJPIorence Times. Haas Butbr. convicted In Plckena )t attempting to make a criminal gs> fault, will !??? hanged April 8. The man who puts a lot of elder In |hla cellar to get hard In ESjhSg up for 'his boys something that ca t not be k- pt In barrels. lahed April, 1850. 'Be Just ai 1. SU1 I Iii WDBK CONGRESS. I'l.XRY'S PLAN TO BKCOME REAR ADMIRAL FAILS. _ j Mouse Committee Votes Against Pro? motion on (?round That He ?IM Not Proven Thnt He Discovered North Pole?Some of His Claim? Flatly Disputed by Mr. Macon. Washington. March 9.?Until Com? mander Robert E. Peary furnishes further proofs that he discovered the j North Pole, no reward will be be- i stowed upon him, as the result of a practically unanimous vote of tha subcommittee of the house commit? tee on naval affairs today A speech in oppostion to the prop? osition of honoring; Peary was made by Representative Macon (Ark.) be? fore the committee. Representative Macon declared to the committee that the explorer could not have made the distance he said he did in his dash for the pole. Mr. Macon said he was "Indignant at the thought of being callel upon as a representative of the American peo? ple to confer a high honor upon any one of Its citizens in the dark." All legislation by congress. he said, ought to be open and above board. "I confess that I am exceedingly skeptical about Mr. Peary's ever hav? ing discovered the pole," declared Mr. Macon, "and I am going to pro? test against any honor being confer? red upon him by congress until he has established beyond a reasonable doubt that he did discover It, and it must be established In the open, and not in the dark." Mr. Macon said he wanted to di? rect attention to one "dlscr?pancy In Mr. Peary's story." This was the speed which the explorer declared he made from the time Capt. Bartlett left him until he reached te pole. Mr. Peary said that for five days he made 26.4 miles per day, but Mr. Macon said, this appeared very singular in view of the fact that the Peary party had made but 9.06 miles per day up to the time Bartlett left. "During this part of his Journey," Mr. Macon said, "no white man was with him as a witness, his only com? panions being his negro valet and four Eskimos. "He claims to have made an aver? age of 4 4 miles per day on his way back from the pole to Bartlett's camp, end 28.6 miles per day from Rartlett's camp to Cape Columbia. "The greatest speed he had made before Bartlett left him was 9.0G miles per day, so Peary must have made nearly three times as great speed after Bartlett left him as he did before, in order to reach the poh1' Mr. Macon declared that Mr. lVary's own statements showed thatl he equaled this peed but twice dur? ing the entire Journey to the pole The first day he started from land he m olc 26 ;r'ies, and on another day made 29 miles in four hours of forced march, "which Mr. Peary has told us "\as about the limit of human end iran< e." :>!r. Ma on quoted Lieut, ?nie*!*? ; ?!! C?cn. Grcelcy and others 10 sho* tut? I 10 t> 12 miles per l IV 01 slightly more, perhaps, Is considered the limit of human endurance trav? eling OYer polar seas." COTTON RKOKFRS INDICTED. I'l\e Prominent M"i Accused Of Vio? lating State's LsMS Against Opcrat iug lluckctshops. Atlanta March .X.?Charged with violating Oeorgta'i >*antl?bucketahop" law, five prominent Atlanta brokers u?t?. this afternoon indicted by the Fulton OOunty grand Jury, on bench warrants teaued f<>r their arrest, oth? er indictments are expected within the next few days. Th? men indicted are: a. v. Curran, T. n. Hutchinson, B. C? Cothran, h. k. Stanford ind M. D. Barnley. '!'1\' Indlctrm nt in each t"'s'' c harges "unlawful IpSCUlatlon in cot tOfl and grains and maintaining and operating an ones for the purpose of carrying an and engaging in the busi? ness commonly called dealing in fu? tures on margin, contrary to the laws of tbe State." a $."i00 bond was re? quired In each case. SCHOOL WILL REMAIN. Pewbodf College Won't Re Mo\ed Prora n u?di \ nie This Year. Nashville. TennM March I.?At a meeting of the trustees of the George Peabody College for Teachers today it was deolded to continue the school al the present site for another year without the summer school. The trustees would make bo statement as to the selection of a new site and a Ohaneellor for the Institution. This S( boot was recently donated $1,000, 000 from the Peabody fund. id Fear not-*-Let all the ends Thou Aln MTER. S. P., SATUB ~?n vision iot, GOV. ANSEL APPROVES ACT REL? ATIV 10 TO FUNDS COLLECTED. Act is in Effect Xext Year?Fund Will Not Accrue Until Latter Part of 1010?Text of the Lavf. I Columbia, March 8.?The firemen's I pension act, passed at the last session of the legislature, was signed yester i day by Gov. Ansel. The constitution? ality of this Act was questioned at a hearing held before Gov. Ansel sev? eral days ago. Augustine T. Smythe of Charleston appeared for the insur? ance companies and the assistant at? torney general, M. P. DeBruhl, repre? sented the State. The act declares and defines the conditions upon which foreign fire insurance corporations may engage in and carry on business in this State and provides for the dis? tribution of the funds arising from the compliance with such conditions. Insurance Commissioner McMaster said yesterday that the act would not go into effect until next year, all of the Insurance companies not yet re? porting and that a fund would not ac? crue until the latter part of 1910. At the hearing before Gov. Ansel it was claimed by the insurance com? panies that the act was the same as th<* one passed in 1906 and subse? quently declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The contention of the State was that the act complied with the constitutional requirements. The Law. The following is the act which Is now a law: "Section 1. That no foreign corpo? ration carrying on a fire Insurance business shall hereafter engage in, carry on, or do any fire insurance business in this State save and except upon compliance with th?> conditions in this act hereafter imposed, as well as all other conditions now or here? after imposed by law. "Sec. 2. Every fire insurance com? pany, corporation or association in? corporated under the laws of any oth? er State, or of any foreign government or country, now or hereafter desiring to engage in or carry on business in this State, shall return to the insur? ance commissioner a just and true ac? count, verified by oath, that the same is a true account of all premiums re? ceived from fire insurance business done during the year ending Decem? ber 31 in any incorporated city or town of this State having or that may have, a regular organized fire depart? ment under the control of the mayor and council or Intendant and council of said city or town, and having In serviceable condition for fire duty, fire apparatus and necessary equipments belonging thereto to the value of $1, (?00 and upwards. Such returns must be made by said companies, corpora? tions or associations within 80 days after the approval of this act, and thereafter within 60 days after De? cember 31 of each year. "Sec. 3. Every fire insurance com? pany aforesaid shall, within 60 days after the approval of this act, and thereafter within 60 days after De? cember 31 of each year, deliver and pay to the State treasurer the sum of $1 upon the $100, and at that rate up? on the amount of all premiums writ? ten on fire within the limits of such incorporated cities or towns during the year ending December 31, in each preceding year, or for such portion of BUOh period as said company, corpor? ation or association shall have done business in this State. "Sec. 4. Every such company, cor? poration or association shall keep ac? curate books of account of all business done by them In tire Insurance within the limits of such incorporated cities and towns, and In case fraud or dis? honesty In said returns made by such company, eorporat* ?n or association as provided for in section 2 of act be apparent, it shall bo the duty of the Insuranee commissioner to investigate such returns and collect the amount he shall lind to be due. "Sec. Every foreign fire Insur? ance company Which .shall neglect to keep such books of account as afore? said, or shall fail or neglect to r .'port or pay over any of the money riue on premiums as afor isald, at the times end In the manner ipeclned In the preceding sections of this act, or shall be found upon examination to have .?r ide a false return of business done by them, shall for each such offense t ?rfeit $300, to be applied to the same purposes hereinafter prescribed la section 8. "Sec. C>. In case of making a de fault In payment or In cast; of failure to pay and satisfy any forfeiture ad Judged to be due i?> the provisions of this act, the insurance commissioner shall forthwith revoke the license of BUCh company, or corporation or asso? ciation, to do business In this State, and after such revocation It shall be Mt at be thy Country's, Thy God's an &DAY. MARCH 12, 1? I THE STANDARD OIL GASE. | -? TRUST LAWYERS CLAIM COMPE? TITION WAS NOT STIFLED. _ I Rockefellers' Combine Declares Com? panies it AbsOrhed Were Not Its ! Rivals in Business. Washington, March 8.?Basing its i case largely on its claim that the cor? porations merged with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey|in 1899 were non-competing at that time, and on the allegation that, the interpreta? tion given to the Sherman anti-trust law by the lower courts would strike down organized business, the Stan? dard Oil Company today filed in the Supreme Court of the United States its brief against the dissolution ofthat organization. This order of dissolution was pass? ed by the district court for the east? ern district of Missouri. Whether or not the decree of dissolution shall stand will come up on Monday for oral argument in the Suprem ? Court. Frank B. Kellogg is now in the city putting the finishing touches to the brief of the government, while Attor? ney General Wickersham is under? stood to be preparing an oral argu? ment of the case. The brief for the Standard Oil bears the names of D. T. Watson, John M. Freeman and Ernest C. Ir? win. The argument of counsel for the Standard Oil In support of the con? tention that the corporations whose stocks were exchanged in 1899 for stock In the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, were non-competitive, is based on the assertion that they were all owned at that time in the same property on and by the same people who owned the Standard Oil Com? pany of New Jersey. It is claimed the method of organ? ization in 1899 was dictated by econo? mic reasons, and that the business created by the individual defendants. John D. Rockefeller, William Kief, John O. Archbold, Oliver H. Payne, Henry M. Flagler, Charles M. Pratt and Herry H. Rogers, was a lawful one, tfte success of which, It is assert? ed, was the legitimate reward of what Is described as unusual risk, energy, skill and plenty of capital. In summing up their brief, counsel put their case this way: "This group of men has done all this: Have created property?have created wealth?have added to the wealth of our country and its taxable property; have done it with the.r own means and skill and industry; work? ed at it from 1869 to 1910; risked their fortunes in its development. And yet In 1910 a court sitting in equity struck their organization down. Not because they were doing unlawful things?but simply because they made a mistake as to the method in which they could the better hold their combined properties." unlawful for such company, corpora? tion or association to do business In this State, and after such revocation it shall be unlawful for such company, corporation or association to do busi? ness in this State. "Sec. 7. That the State treasurer shall pay over the amount collected upon the premiums on business done in each city or town from the foreign insurance companies, corporations or associations doing business within the cities or towns, having or that may hereafter have a regular organised Are department as aforesaid In section 2 of this act, to the treasurer of such city or town: Provided, That all money so collected from the foreign Insurance companies, corporations or associations doing business within the said cities or towns, shall be set apart and used by such cities and towns solely and entirely for the objects and purposes of this act. "Sec. <S. All money collected and received under the provisions of this act shall be held In trust and used as a fund for tbe purpose of render? ing more efficacious and efficient th? fire departments of said cities or towns, by using the same under such rules as may be adopted by the city or town council for the creation, maintenance, support and encourage? ment of a skilful and efficient fire de? partment. "Sec. 9. The clerk of any Incorpor? ated city or town accepting the bene? fits of this act by ordinance as requir? ed her- in shall, on or before the 31st day of October of each year, make and nie with the Insurance commis? sioner, Iiis certificate, Btatlng timt tin* existence of stub department, the number of steam, hand or other en? gines, book and ladder trucks and bis carts In actual use. the number of orgalnsed companies, and the sys? tem of water supply in use for such department, together with such other facts as the Insurance commissioner d Truth's." THE TRU1 no. New 8er j COL WILSON'S VIEWS. PRESIDENT OF NORTHWESTERN R. EL FOR MUNICIPAL PROGRESS. I I - City Council Has Taken Little Interest In Municipal Affairs, Consequently ' Sumter Hits Not Kept Pace With j Other Towns?Col. Wilson Hopes to See New Council Elected. The Item man had the pleasure of interviewing Col. Thomas Wilson, President of the Northwestern Rail? road, yesterday and of getting an ex? pression from him on municipal af? fairs in general. Col. Wilson is al? ways alive to the best interest of Sum? ter, and what he has to say about city affairs will be read with a great deal of interest. He said: "I regret very much to see so little interest taken in the city of Sumter by the present City Council. Our side? walks and streets, to put it mildly, are a disgrace to a city of the size of Sumter. Now, if you will visit other towns, some very much smaller than Sumter, and see the condition of their sidewalks and streets?that they are better than ours?it will make a citi? zen of Sumter feel ashamed, i "Take Florence for an example. They have miles of nice concrete sidewalks; and even Klngstree, a I town about one-third the size of Sum? ter, has her streets and sidewalks in I much better condition than ours. They have beautiful sidewalks all I over their beautiful little town. I "In some cases in our city the prop I erty owners practically have the side I walks fenced in. Take Calhoun street j where it intersects Main as an ex I ample. The sidewalk is not more I than two feet wide. Many other I streets are In the same, or worse con I dition. j "The present Council have made I considerable improvement on some of j the streets by substituting clay for I sand, but there is still a great deal of I improvement necessary to be made, j Broad street is a very narrow street, I and has a very heavy traffic, being I one of the main thoroughfares to the I country. About three years ago I saw I the Importance of widening this street J and took the question up with Mr. I Boyle, the Mayor. The Mayor, Mr. j Rowland and myself obtained the I signatures of most of the property I owners on Broad street granting the J city an additional width of ten feet I on each side of the street free of I charge. Before Major Seale retired I from the office of County Supervisor I he stated to me that if the City Coun I cil would authorize the widening of j Broad street he would gladly under I take the work before his term of office I expired, as the city had considerable I work to its credit from city convicts j put upon the chaingang. He would j have done the work with the convicts. I "I communicated this information j to Mayor Boyle, but Major Seale was I never authorized to do the work. I I have written seevrai letters, addressed I to the Mayor on this subject, none of which had any attention, though Mr. j Boyle informed me that he had laid I them befor Council. I "Our present Mayor and members of our present City Council are good j men and gentlemen whom I know I personally, and have a very high re I gard for, but I would now be glad to j see a good Mayor and a new Board of Aldermen selected from our young and progressive men who would take Hn interest In public affairs and work for the interest and upbuilding of the city. i "I would suggest the names of a few gentlemen who I think would make good Aldermen, who are pro? gressive men and successful, having made a success of their own affairs: Messrs. C. G. Rowland. Geo. D. Shore. H. J. McLaurln, Jr., I. A. Ryttenberg. G. A. Lemmon, J. P. Booth, F. C. Manning. W. H. Scale, Neill O'Don nell, J. H. Levy, Dr. J. A. Mood, and many others whom I might mention. "I would be glad to see the Cham? ber of Commerce at its next meeting take up the question and suggest a body of good men to be voted for at the coming primary to serve the city as a Board of Aldermen for the next two years. "I don't think that any good citi? zen should decline at this time to serve the city. I am particularly anx? ious to see the city of Sumter improv > and build up and will do all in my power to help the city in every way possible. I hope to see our city at an early date have an attractive bo? unty require on a blank to be furnish? ed by him. if the certificate required by tins action la n?>t filed with the In? surance commissioner on or before October III. In any year, town or vil? lage so failing to Hie such certificate shall bo deemed to have waived and r< linqulshed Its rights for such year to the appropriation provided for." ? SOTJ1T v ^bll&hed June, 1?M - v^ I' ^ XXXI. So. 5. RIOT IN PHILADELPHIA. ALLEGED STRIKE. BREAKERS WOUND SIX IX PHILA? DELPHIA. Hosiery Plants Will Shut Down in Ef? fort to Enforce Applications for Reinstatement?Labor Leaders Con? fident. Philadelphia, March 8.?Six per? sons, including a young girl, were wounded tonight by bullets fired by a party of alleged strike-breakers, who rode wildly up and down Frank? fort avenue in a trolley car and shot into the crowds that lined the side? walks. After one of the most uneventful days since the beginning of the strike, the stoning of cars was renewed to? night along Frankfort avenue, the principal thoroughfare in the mill district in the northeast. A stone thrown by one of the crowd injured a strike-breaking mo* torman. Infuriated at this, a crowd of about 15 of his comrades took out a car, all the windows of which they broke with their clubs. As the car loaded with armed strike-breakers sped down Frankfort avenue, bullets were rained at the jeering crowd. Policeman Bragg of the Frankfort district, who was standing on the sidewalk, received a bullet In his hel? met, about an inch above his head. Helen May, aged 14 years was struck in the leg by a bullet. John Maloney, aged 18 years and Michael Osborne, aged 24 years, were also shot in the legs, and Frank Bromiley, aged 23, received a bullet in his foot. Those wounded were re? moved to the Frankfort hospital. Two other Injured were taken to their homes. After reaching Allegeny avenue, the car was switched to the northbound track by its crew and the dash back to the barn began. So swiftly was it driven that before the crowd realized that it was coming back it had sped past them and into the barn again. The shooting of inoffensive by? standers worked the crowd to a high pitch of excitement and as other cars came down the street, the mob pro? ceeded to wreck them, in several in? stances leaving only the trucks on the rails. About a dozen arrests were made. Both the policemen and labor lead? ers busied themselves all day prepar? ing statistics to support their widely divergent claims of the strength of the sympathetic strike. The labor leaders, after receiving re? ports from the secretaries of many local unions, reiterated their claim of 125.000 on strike and say that many additional recruits will leave work to? morrow. Director of Public Safety Clay, on the other hand, stated to? night that a recanvass of the city's in? dustries made today shows that while 1.900 workers walked out today, 2,600 strikers returned to work. Leading manufacturers of hosiery met today and decided to close down their plants, employing 20,000 work? ers, until Monday. The employers stated that 500 "boarders," who are in the sympathetic strike, made this step necessary. KILLS STATE-WIDE BILL. Richmond, Va., March 8.?The ghost of State-wide prohibition was finally laid, so far at lea: t as the pres? ent general assembly is concerned, In the house of delegates today, when the Myers bill was defeated by a vote of 49 to 4 5. The senate disposed of the matter a day or two ago by de f< ating the Strobe enabling act, which involved the same proposition. tel. better sidewalks, better streets, and general inmprovement in all lines." The Item man asked the Colonel what he thought of the proposition to pave Main street. His reply was that he is very much In favor of pav Ing Main street with vitrified brick, having paid close attention to the str ets of Jacksonville and Tampa, Pia., which are paved with vitrified brick. He also stated that he had ob? tained from both these cities state? ments as to the cost per yard for the paving and had sent these estimates to City Council. He said further: "It would appear to me that if the city cannot afford to pave all of Main str< ef with vitrified brick at one time. It w >uid be economy to pave one or two blocks at a time as their income can afford. In this way they would soon have the entire street in good condition." He said further: "The Sumter Item is In a position to do a great deal of good for the city of Sumter, if its edi? tor would come out boldly, without fear or favor, and criticise where he deems It proper to do so."