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si I r \(. \I\ST LAWI.KR.
Mssrsslnc Writer Sues Raltingcr's As?
sistant \ttorne> (.encral.
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Washington. May 17.?Christopher
P. ( rnnolly, a lswyer of Montana and
New York and a well known maga
slne writer, todsy filed suit In the Su?
preme Court of the District of Co?
lumbia to recover $20,000 damages
for alleged slander from Oscar Law
ler, assistant sttorney general for tho
Interior department. The ault Is the
first of threstened legal proceedings
growing out of the Mailing.r-Pinch.>t
Inquiry. It was rumored around the
comrt today that secretary Railing r
was preparing to Invoke the law
against some of alleged traducers.
The basis of the action Is the tes?
timony alleged to have been given > \
Mr. Lawler May 17 before the Ball In -
ger-Plnehot Joint committee, wherein
Mr Lawler Is alleged to have re!
I rod to Mr. Connolly and others as
"despicable scoundrels who would
stoop to any depths of degradation."
He Is further alleged to have testified
' that a man named Connolly stood
>n the deck of the steamship Repub
r***4A*3 Just before she went down and
tramp ted ariPfP.i women and children
la sn attempt to get to the life boat."
When asked to Identify Mr. Con?
nolly. It la alleged. Mr. Lawler said,
"He la an employe of Collier's Weckh
and Is a tall, slender man, with a
short aray mustache."
This, Mr. Connolly says, described
him
Mr. Lawler Is further alleged to
have said he had considerable con?
tempt for the "Connolly connected
with the Collier's Weekly anyway and
would not put him above anything of
that kind."
* M?\ Connolly charges this connec?
tion of him on board the Republic as
false end that the accusation was
maliciously made. Mr Connolly said
later that at the time of the loss of
the Republic he was In Los Angeles,
California, many miles away from the
scene of the disaster.
(?REAT GUN KM m>TI\<.
The South ('nrotlnu Makes New
\N ..H.I K.i .,i d for Big (Hiiis.
Norfolk. Vs.. May 27.?A new
world s r.r i for big gun ahootlng,
" hl< b Incidentally emphasises the
auperl..rlt\ .f I nlted States na a I
msrkniansble. has Just been made l.\
the m?w biittlerhlp South Carolina.
Vvith her forward turr?-t 12-inch guns
she made sixteen "bulls-eye" targ*-t
hit out of IS shots in four minutes
and *.l .mk <>n the Southern drill
grounds, thirty-five miles ?>ff the Vir?
ginia Capes
Th?? r?.rd was nut le by the gun
rrews in charge of Uunto-r IMwanls,
who Is but 21 years old. Ills home is
In Roodhouse. III.
The South Carolina, commanded by
Capt. Augustus F. Fechteler, has bOOfJ
In ' ommlssion three months.
\ Wouilerful Record.
Washington. Msy 27.?That a bat?
tleship less than three months In com
' mt'?nlon. I>r<tri>l n? w In every respect
and with a fn*h . nw of officers an 1
men. should mak?> the n-cnpl at tar
get practice that the South Carolina
Is a a??UT?-e of exultation In th?? na\y
department. Not until the oaVotol
record was flashed by ('apt. I V< h
teler vIk wireless today was the fact
realised that the South Car?!hjia. had
smashed all n <-r I for a new ship.
Th?- condlt! -mm were severe, too, for
the target was much smal ?r than
was formerly used. It was a mile
awav fr??m the gunners, th?? s. ? w
^ fairly rough and th?> ship was tr.txel
Ing at a ten-knot rat?? while the
shooting was going on.
Capt. Ferhteler's report shows that
the hits per gun per minute was 1.01,
making the final merit 50.5. Tb?? ex?
traordinary fen tun was that .">" of
f>? gr?-tt 12-lnoh projectiles hit the
bullseye. Three or the four torrents
on the ship made 100 per cent of
hits; In other words. every shot
found Its mark.
What Is civilisation? I tor vc. the
power of food women.?Emerson.
? ,i April, iH&o.
He .Ihn UI
the itwn mmm.
cvrtis ai:ri:opi,am: flies
from albany to new YORK
the aerial < i. vrem >nt.
Curtis Aeroplane Files From A,buoy
To Ram York ami Wins 10,000,
New York. May 2?.?Glenn II. Cur?
tis flew from Albany to New York city
In an aeroplane today, winning tin
$10.000 prize offered by the New York
World. He covered the distance of
137 miles In two hours and 32 min
utes and came to earth as calmly and
as lightly as a pigeon. His average
speed for the distance?54.06 miles
an hour?surpasses any record ever
made by an aeroplane in long dis?
tance flights and in its entirety his
feat perhaps ellipses anything man
has ever attempted In a heavier-than
alr machine.
The start was made from Albany
at 7:03 o'clock this morning under
weather conditions as near perfect as
could be demanded. One hour and
23 minutes later he had made his
stopping place near Poughkeepsle.
where there was an hour's intermis?
sion. Resuming his Might at 9:26. he
sped southward and landed within the
boundary of Manhattan Island at
10:35. Only 100 yards north of the
point on which his craft settled,
stretched Spuyten Duyvil creek, sep?
arating Manhattan Island from the
mainland. Had he failed to cross this
his flight would have been in vain, but
as he swept over it, the prize was his.
Thence to Governor's Island his
t.t;k was bit a skim of triumph and
the concluding lap of a race already
won. ,
Paulhan's flight from London to
Manchester?186 miles?exceeded the
Curtlss feat of today in distance but
not In Speed and danger. The French?
man's average was 44.3 miles an hour
and below him lay English meadow
lands. Curtlss followed the winding
course of the historic Hudson, with
jutting headlands, wooded slopes and
treacherous palisades. He swung
high over the great bridge at Pough
<keeps-.c, dipped at times, within 50
feet of the river's broad surface and
Jockeyed like a falcon at the turns.
Only once did his craft show signs
of rebellion. This was off Storm
King, near West Point, where at n
height of nearly 1,000 feet, a treach?
erous gust struck his planes. The ma?
chine dropped like a rock for 40 feet
and tilted perilously, but Curtlss al?
ways cool, kept both his head and
his seat and by adroit manipulation
}f his levers brought renewed equili?
brium to his steed.
select camp perry team.
Highest Twenty In Columbia
To Charleston.
doing
Colurnl.i.i, May If,?Interest in mil?
itary circles is great in the rllle meet
to be held In Charleston to select the
Camp Perry team.
The SjSJsl Of the second, which
have be* n sneamped here foi the past
rook, a. d which left here yesterday
aftOTAOOn, << >ncl tided the work of tar
got pr.n te ? . It Is probable that the
highest twenty score men will be sent
to ? 'harleston.
The ...Ii,.wing are the scores of the
aru twentv men:
c.mpnny A?Sergt. Croit, 207; Pri?
vate Bauskett, 212; Private Lewis,
Nil Private Smith, 246.
C OSS pa Oy B?Private Rook. 240.
1 -mpany C?Corpl l'.larkburn, 231;
I rlvate Mobley, 120; Private Sims,
211; Lieut. Abel. BSOtabOf of State
team: Sergt Jones, member of State
t?ar?i.
Company I??Lluot. (Irant. 263;
First Ser.t. Lewis, 210; Corpl Kelly,
221; Private Splgner, 23.'; Private
Grant. ISO,
OOSapaay O?Serijt. dandy, 260.
Company H?Littet Kvans, 241.
Company I?Cond Windham. 202;
Corpl Powell, 214; (Vrpl Hudson, 217.
Company K?Capt. OlllOflptO, 27 1;
Corpl Plummer, 221.
Posa pa ay l? Ltuet Warren, mein?
? r ol Stab- team.
in any ovonti Governor Gillette win
not officiate person.iiiy in choking ? R
the Jefferles-Johnson prize tight.
Whoa S/0 think of a good man like
Pn sl b nt Tuft being a Republl. au we
? re almost persuaded that KcpuMI
intsm is mor* of u disease than It
Is i crime?Ilouston Post.
Mr. Bdlson may go ahead with his
scheme for a *\ lorkl ss store," but b t
him begin to try to invent something
to make a iteaographerless ottco and
his blood will be shed.?Louisville
i 'ourler-Journal.
id Feor not?Let all the ends Thon Ah
MTER, B. a, WED1S
A INTO THE FUTURE.
SOME SPECULATION ON SOUTH
CAROLINA POLITICS.
Possibility of r.limlimtion of Liquor
Question la the Approaching state
Cumpalgn?Announced (iubomater?
ial Aspirants?Other Ollioers Sought
Aftef?Interesting Races for Con
gSSOS?Matters Expected to Do
Argued on stump.
Columbia, May 29.?The most slg
ntiicant possibility of the approaching
election is the elimination of the
whiskey question. For twenty years
this has been a mooted topic in South
Carolina politics, and there are many
people in this State who now believe
that for once the whiskey question
will not be uppermost in the mlndj of
the people.
South Carolina has gone from the
saloon system to the State dispensary,
from the State dispensary to the coun?
ty dispensary, and thence to partial
prohibition. Now that there are only
six counties in the, State having coun?
ty dispensaries and these counties
may under the Carey-Cothran Act
vote out the dispensaries at any time
(01 at regulaily appointed elections)
there does not appear to be mu^h of
any liquor question before the people
of tnc State.
The Prohibitionists are contending
for a State-wide prohibition bill,
which was Ovcrwhelmirgly defeated
in the State senate last session under
the implied "let-alone" policy of the
majority.
Trore are in the Gubernatorial race
at this stage two prohibition candi?
dates and two local optionists. John
G. Richards, of Kevshaw, and C. C.
Featherstone, of Laurens, are the pro?
hibition candidates, and T. G. Mc
Leod, of BlahopvUlOi and Cole L.
Blease, of Newberry, are the local op?
tion candidates.
There is a growing sentiment in
this State to leave whiskey out of the
political arena altogether. The re?
sult would be that which is sought
under the Carey-Cothran Act, to let
each county decide for itself as to
whether it wishes whiskey sold legal?
ly or not. The broadening of the lo?
cal optionists' platforms in the ap?
proaching election is along this line.
The two local option candidates have
practically the same whiskey plank,
that is let each county say whether
it wishes license, county dispensary or
prohibition. This, it is thought, ought
to make the whiskey question only of
secondary consideration, if to be con?
sidered at all.
FrienJs of local option candidate,
T. G. A'eLeod, have been heard to
urge th it someone run with him for
l.itutenant Governor. C. A. Smith, of
Timmonsville, is the only candidate
definitely announced for Lieutenant
Governor, and It is desired by some
persons that a local optionist make
the race. too.
A much sought after Job is railroad
commissioner. Only one of the pres?
ent commissioners' term expires this
year, the chairman. It is not definite?
ly known whether he will make the
race or not. ihere have been several
candida?es for this position. Dispen?
sary Auditor West has been urged to
run; G. McD. Hampton is in the race;
K. L. Scarborough Is running; G. H.
Mahon, of Greenville, Cansler, of Tir
/.ah, and there may be others.
It is a strange situation that no op?
position has been announced to ly of
the elective officers of the State so far
except that of the Governorship. The
present state ofllclali will very prob?
ably all make the nice this summer.
The race for congress will be very
interesting, a number of candidates
having offered for the several dis?
tricts.
The foremost questions that win be
argued in the approaching race for
Governor will probably be:
l. Taxation,
I, Good roads.
:'.. Education,
?t. Liquor.
r?. Generalities.
Liquor is placed in the list, because
thors is hardly the probability that n
will be entirely < llmlnated. At trie
same time it will not be stressed so
much as formerly. There Is just ft
this time no big Question?unless it be:
the tax question- 'before the people of
the StatO, The time has 0ORI6 for
a business administration without re.
gard to political matters as rar as pot?
slble, it has been said thai Qovernoi
tnsel's administration was a good bus?
iness term.
Tin- political situation is beginning
to warnt up a bit now, as the cam*
palgn will be on next month.?I,. M.
G. in News and Courier.
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ms't at be thy Country's, 'niy God's nm
IE8DAY. JUNE 1. It*.
REPRESENTING GIDEXO'S RANI).
Ms*. Armour Spoke Before the Rnrnea
Class at Baptist Chnrch Yesterday
Afternoon*
Mr. S. B. Armour, a well known
! traveling man, spoke before the Par- j
I aca class at the First Baptist church
I yesterday afternoon, telling some?
thing of the organization of traveling
men, known as Gideon's Band, whose
aim it is to put a Bible in every room
in every hotel in this country. Mr.
Armour told of the organization and
of its commendable work. He did not
take up the matter of pulting in the
Bibles here as he was refused the
privilege by the manager of the ho?
tel, who stated that he would be
ridiculed by the traveling men if he
did so. He was to have spoken at the
First Baptist church at night and the
Presbyterian church in the morning,
but after the refusal of the hotel keep
r to permit the putting of the Bibles
In he called the engagements off.
The manager of the hotel was seen
1 y a reporter this morning and asked
about it. He said that he did refuse
to let the Bibles go in the rooms as
be wanted to see what the other ho?
tels in the country are doing before he
acted. He does not want to be the
only one to have them in. He also
said: "The town is getting too
good, any way. It will soon be so a
man can not take a drink in his own
room without being accused of sell?
ing booze. There are too many
hobbys this day and time."
He says that he asked Mr. Armour
where the Bibles had been put in, and
was told in Columbia, and some other
places, but Mr. Armour did not give
the names of the hotels allowing them
to go in.
NEGRO SAVES WHITE LAB.
Performed Heroic Act In Face of
Great Danger.
Spartanburg, May 28.?Reynolds
Smith, the 10-year-old son of Elmore
Smith, of this city, owes his life to
Boyce Lindsay, a 16-year-old negro
delivery boy. The negro displayed
great nerve and presence of mind.
Young Smith was riding a bicycle
and did not see three empty boxcars
which had been cut loose from
the remainder of the train, and were
running at a pretty fast clip around
a curve. The engine was going the
other way and the cars were making
practically no noise. Reynolds Smith
when in the very centre of the track
saw the cars and lo^t all control of
himself, he was so frightened. He
fell on the track and could not get
out of the way before the cars would
have hit him.
At this time, according to what eye
witnesses say, the cars were ten feet
away. Boyce Lindsay was standing
nearby with flour and sugar on his
shoulders, when he realized the seri
ousness of the situation. His b?rde
was thrown aside and he went to the
assistance of the white boy. Just in
the nick of time he reached him an
pulled the youth from the tracks,
second later the cars would have kill
ed him, for they were not three feet
away. The bicycle was torn to pieces
Several other persons were standing
nearby and none but the negro mad(
any attempt to save the lad.
Mr. Smith and his son feel deepl
grateful to the negro, who himself
can never realize what a heroic deed
he performed. A movement is on foot
here to get a Carnegie medal for this
boy.
COMMENCEMENT AT
FIELD.
WEDGE.
Mr. C, Capers Smith the Orator of the
Occasion.
The commencement exercises at
Wedgefleld last Friday night were
very interesting. There was but one
graduate, Miss Lessie strange.
The following programme was ren?
dered :
"Crowning the May Queen"?Pri?
mary and Immediate Deptments.
Song?"i 'arollna"? lly School.
Recital on?iPalestine"?M Iss l tutl
('ain.
Recitation ? " New Pl< tun s"?Mis
Ja nette Thomas.
Essey?Gen. Francis Marlon?Mis?
I,f \ in Strange.
Recitation?Emily Gelger's Ride
Marshall Bird,
Song?"Spring"-?Scho< d.
Recitation?"Aunl Katruah's Visit'
Miss Lena Strange.
Address?C. Capers Smith, Esq.
Presentation of Robert Sims Ay
< o. k Medal?F, Elliott Thomas.
Presentation of Diplomas?Bupt. Z
I?. i 'ain.
I Bong?"G.l Night" ?School.
1 Troth'*," THE TRI
LO New 8eri
FIRST COTTON REPORT. "
ACREAGE INCREASE FOR SOUTH
IS 3.3 PER CENT.
The Memphis ComnierclaI*AppeaJ*i
Report! Say That Crop Compares
Favorably With Last Year's.
Memphis, Term., May 29.?The
Commercial-Appeal will publish to?
morrow its first cotton crop report of
the season. The report in part fol?
lows:
Reports from correspondents of
The Commercial-Appeal under date
of May 25 show that the acreage
planted to cotton this spring exceeds
that planted in 1909 about 3.3 per
cent. It is estimated that 88 per cent
of the total area had come up ^o a
stand on this date, planting exc^r*
in isolated instances being completed.
The cold weather of late April ne?
cessitated considerable replanting in
the Atlantic States, Alabama, and
Louisiana, but this has been complet?
ed and most of the cotton is up, al?
though in these States there are a
few complaints of irregular stands.
Although lacking a few days of be?
ing as far advanced, the crop and
field conditions compare favorably
with last year and with an average.
The acreage report by States, with
the percentage of the cotton that .has
come up, is as follows:
North Carolina, increase 2 per cent;
cotton up 91 per cent.
South Carolina?Increase 2 per
cent; cotton up 95 per cent.
Georgia?Increase 1 per cent; cot?
ton up 90 per cent.
Alabama?Acreage unchanged; cot?
ton up 90 per cent.
Mississippi?Decrease 3 1-2 per
cent; cotton up 94 per cent.
Tennessee?Increase 4 per cent;
cotton up 80 per cent.
Arkansas?Increase 5 per cent; cot?
ton up 85 per cent.
Louisiana?Increase 2 per cent;
cotton up 84 per cent.
Oklahoma?Increase 15 per cent;
cotton up 75 per cent.
Texas?Increase 6 per cent; cotton
up 90 per cent.
TO HEAR COTTON TARE CASE.
Matter Exi>ectcd to Come Before
Court This Week.
Columbia, May 29.?Involving near?
ly $2,000,000 and of equal interest to
farmers, merchants, cotton buyers
and men engaged in all lines of busi?
ness in South Carolina, is the case
which will probably be heard Awing
the week before Judge DeVore. in the
matter of ihc Cotton Tare Ac: ol
1910.
At the recent meeeting of lhe
American Cotton Association, he'd In
Charlotte, V C, the matter came up
for discussion, and it was mentioned
there# that the result of the decision
of the South Carolina courts will be
awaited with interest. The Supreme
Court Justices recently refused to
hear the case, and referred it to the
Circuit Court. It will eventually come
up before the Supreme Court on ap?
peal, it is thought.
The Cotton Tare Act of 1910 pro?
vides that six per cent shall be de?
ducted for tare on cotton. The amount
heretofore deducted has been 20
pounds, which is the standard in oth?
er States. Upon habeas corpus pro?
ceedings, a local cotton buyer having
been arrested, technically) the case
comes before the courts.
Cotton men say that the loss to the
farmers would bo nearly $2,000,000
should the Act hold, because it would
in the end be the farmers who would
lose th< additional tare In the lower
price that might be paid in this State,
as othei States have the 20-pound
rale.
SUICIDE OF KERSHAW MAX.
Suffering Prom Terrible Disease. .Mr.
George Knight Kills Himself.
Kershaw, May 28.?Mr. George
Knight, of Pageland, killed himself
yesterday morning about 12 o'clock.
Mr. Knight h oi suffered for about two
years with a cancer. Yesterday his
pain became so intense that he re?
solved to put an end to all. His wife
thinking thai he was unable t> leave
bis bed, left him and went to din?
ner. Mr. Knight took advantage of
Iv r absence and committed the fatal
leed r '>o\ e nam< d.
Mr. Knight is surv iv ed by a wife and
lb children, four boys and two girls.
He Is said t?? have lived an exemplary
'bristIan life and was much beloved
l>y a host of friends and relatives.
Great pleasures are much less fre
luent than great pains.?Hume.
JE SOCTHP.ON, Established June, I8M
ies-Vol. XXXI. ?o 2S
j $2,500 jOB \*y^iM.
STATE SEX ' . r ?LSTLAW CON
i I I.SS1> V* .ING AMOUNT.
Jolui B? vk is Indicted?Startling
Developments Follow United States
; Senator's Speech in Rapid Succes
i slon.
Springfield, 111., May 28.?Within a
few hours after United States Senator
William Lorimer had delivered a
speech at Washington today denying
that his election was brought about
by bribery, State Senator John Brod
erick, a leading Chicago Democrat,
was indicted on a bribery charge by
the grand jury here.
Broderick's indictment was the di?
rect result of a confession made to
I the grand jury by State Senator D. W.
I Holstlaw, of Iuka, 111., who says Brod
erick paid him $2,500 to vote for
Lorimer for senator. A capias was
ordered at once for Broderick and a
bench warrant issued for his arrest.
The unexpected turn in the Lorimer
scandal was an offshoot of State's At?
torney Burke's investigation of alleg?
ed graft In a legislature furniture
deal. Senator Holstlaw, who was a
delegate to the Baptist convention in
Lallimore and had just returned
home when arrested, had been indict?
ed OS a perjury charge in connection
With the furniture contract, and upon
advice cf his lawyers, when offered
immunity, agreed to make a confes?
sion.
Then he told the grand jury that he
had received $2,500 for his vote for
Lorimer, $700 as his share of a legis?
lative "jackpot" and promise of $1,
500 as his share of the State House
furniture deal.
Senator Holstlaw's confession re?
garding the furniture deal was corro?
borated before the grand jury by Ot?
to Freier, who, at agent for the Ford
Johnson Furniture Company, of
Chicago obtained the furniture con?
tract.
Senator Holstlaw, in his confession,
said the Lorimer bribe money was
handed to him by State Senator Brod
erick. Holstlaw Is said to have con?
fessed on advice of his attorney, after
being indicted yesterday on a charge
of perjury in connection with the fur?
niture transaction. He was promised
immunity and returned immediately
after his confession to his home at
Iuka.
Senator Holstlaw had already ad?
mitted that he had been promised $1,
500 in connection with the letting of
the contract for desks and chairs in
the assembly hall, which contract has
been under investigation by the grand
jury.
Senator Holstlaw also stated that
Broderick gave him $700 without any
explanation except the statement "that
it was coming to him." Holstlaw said
be supposed this money was from the
KO-called legislative "j ck-pot."
Rio U rick Makes iVnia?.
Chicago, Mat 2S.?Subsequent to
the confession of Representative Ohas.
A. White, and while the lnv< itlgatlon
which resulted in the Indictment of
Minority Leader Lee O'Neill Browne
was occupying State's Attorney Way
man, State Senator John Broderick
was queatloned and emphatically de?
nied all knowldege of bribery In con?
nection with the Lorimer election.
Broderick also asserted that he
kmw nothing of any legislative jack?
pot or its distribution.
TRESTLES NEARLY COMPLETED.
A. C. Ii. Bridge* Over Santce and Sn
vannah Swamp Being Rushed.
The trestles now in course of con
structlon over the Santee River and
Savannah River swamp, on the At?
lantic Coast Line Railway, will, it is
stated, be completed by the middle of
August and the first part of Septem?
ber, respectively. The trestle over
the Pee-Dee River was finished some
time ago by the Coast Line engineers
and is now in lull operation. The
three trestb s are claimed to represent
an outlay of a.b.ait a million and one
halt dollars on the part of the Atlan
tic *'oast Line Rail vay.
The masonry en the Pee-Dee and
Savannah swamp trestles has all been
completed and the construction forces
are now busy in putting in the last
of the steel girders. Both bridges are
much larger than the Santee trestle,
being about three miles in length
each. When completed the big
bridges will allow the heaviest trains
to thunder across them at top speed
and thus do away with the delay ex?
perienced formerly by slowing down
in negotiating the old wooden trestles.
Neu s and Courier.