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? T1IK *lM1'it UVKIIMW, 1-MnhlMicd April 1850. Consolidated Aur. 3,1881. ntcijman q?u ?*Be Just ami Fear not?Le; all the ende Thon Atma't at be thy Country's, Thy (iod's and Truth's." SUMTER, 3. 0., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1913. THE TRUE SOCTITROX, Established Jiuic. i?M Vol. XXXV. No. 47. BIG FIRE IN SAVANNAH. II Wils < \lsl l>F.STIU<TH>N THAT WIIX MMN Hl n> ?> -.00,000. iMW l**** l? Sustained h> the Cen? tral < r 1 v111 w.1 \ Company ?ml Iii" Mrn lmnt?. und Miner* Com? pany. Savannah. 'Ja.. Feb. 2.?Fant black? ening heaps of smoking ashes, a quar? ter of a mile In length and -'"U yards In width, are all that remains tonight of the wharves of the Merchants A Miners* Transportation Company, whU-h binned early this morning. The fire, wleh originated near the main entrance of wharws. was discovered shortly after 1 o cl >ck. but spread ho rapidly thut posslbl.ity of Having the wharves was soon rsst. Within U-hh th'?n 30 minutes DM Merchants \- Miners' wharves wer. dostros-.i ir d the flames had spread to the Planters Hlce mill, which also burned. Dieven warehouses, owned by the Ontral of Georgia and leased to various companies were destroyed, to? gether with their contents. The entire loos will reach 11.500.000. The Central of Oeorgia railroad, owner of the wharves, is the heaviest loser, as 11 freight cars, which were uninsured. were burned with the Wharves. The wharves alone were valued at 1400.000. They will he re it at once. A strong wind was blowing wh< n the Are slatted and the flames were fanned to ury that defied all effort to stop their progress. An area com? prising about five blocks along the. river front was gutted a .d firemen de? voted their main efforts to saving ad? joining; property. Many high power tension electric wlree were carried on poles In the burned section, and the electric com? pany was forced to shut off all cur? rent. The glare of the Are gave ample light Shortly before 4 o'clock the wind veereu and the wharves of the Ocean Steamship compjoiy were threatened, but the wind changed again and this property was spared. it was day? light before the Are was actually un I der control. No Strips were burned. It Is estimated that the loss caused by Savannah's river front fire this morning will reach $1.o0?j,000. Ex? act figures can not be had for several days. The fire, which started from an un? known cause under what Is known as the city shed on the western end of the Merchants' & Miners' wharves, made a clean sw-ep of the river front from the Ogeeehee canal east to with la ISO feet of West Hroad street. The greatest loss was sustained by the Central of Georgia Hallway com? pany, which owns the Merchants' A Miners' terminals, and the Merchants' ?t Miners' company's freight that was stored on the wharves. Following is a list of the losses. Central of Georgia, owner of de? stroyed Seek a rataad at $400.000; eevered by insurance. The freight on the terminals, which was total laaBj I? valued at $200,000. The company and the consignees are both protected hf insurance. Agent U M. Krskin estimates that there were between 15a and 200 cars of freight on IS* mm hi Fourteen cars, loaded, and six empty cars, were burned. Th? v wen? on the terminal trat k Tm BQltOatl ol the cars was covered by Insurance, but the cars were uninsured. They were property of the Central of Oeorgia. The n*xt largest loser was the American Steel & Wire company, which had large warehouses on either side of the main entrance to the Mer? chants' A Miner* docks C. P. Kam Inskl. general manager of the Savan? nah branch, estimates the company s lose st between $50.000 and $71 The loft* in protected. Planter's Rice mill property, com? pletely destroyed. \slued at $20.om). This Includes the building and the machinery. OsJ] the building atai insured. Savannah Supply ..mpany lost a stock of bath tubs, wire and pipe fit? tings valued at III".000 The loss Was about half to\?r. d bv insurance. I?. J. Mahoney the manager, estimates the Ian fnnkltn Tin IIa?, a. Matal compa? ny, stock north $?:??.mOii w |?. 1,. Roberts, manager hi unable to Bfif how gaaeh Insurance . irrted, Quaker GNf Ftoilf Mllht, about l<o. barrels ol Roar, valued <t about $2.400; Insured. Oan*? Ar Co pipe, pipe fittings, ? l< . about $2.".om?, partially Ins'ired Franking Sugar Refining compai no entim ?te WllMarn C. Rohtl o S Son '" ' ? 1 r I el*' of oil WORKS MEASURE PASSED. o\i: h um oi six \ i:\rs fob PTTfJRIC PREHIDKNTB, If House's Action Is Fa\orable ami Matt? Ratify Presjiosed Amend? ment. Neither Wilson. Taft nor Koo-M'xolt will Aguin be Eligible to Nation's Highest Oflioe?Resolution Passes hy Margin of One Over Nee es^iry Two-Thirds. Washington, Feb. 1.?A constitu? tional amendment which would re? strict the president of the United States to a single term of six years and would bar Woodrow Wilson. Theo? dore Roosevelt and William H. Taft from again seeking election, was ap? proved by the Senate today by the narrow majority of one vote. After a three-day tight, in which the Progres? sives joined with many Republicans in opposing the restricted Presidential term, the Senate adopted the original Works resolution by a vote of 47 to 23 The language which it is proposed to Insert in the Constitution In place of the first pnragrnph of article two is as follows: "The executive power shall be vest? ed In a President of the United States of America. The term of President shall be six years, and no person who has held the office by election, or dis? charge^ its powers or duties, or acted as President under the legislation and laws made In pursuance thereof, shall be eligible to hold again the office by election. The President, together with a Vice President chosen for the same term, shall be elected as follows:' The resolution proposing the consti? tutional amendment goes to the House for Its approval. If ratified by a two thirds vote, it will be submitted to the Legislatures of the States and will be? come effective when three-fourths of the 48 St. it es in the Union have of? ficially approved It. The adoption of the resolution came at the close of a three-day fight in which repeated attempts were made so to change it that It would not affect past Presidents or the President In office when \ may Anally be ratified by the Stater. All these efforts failed.. Two votes taken today again indi? cated that the Senate did not care to exempt any person from the operation of the single term provision. An amendment by Senator Hitchcock that would have exfmpted past Presidents and made the new provision take ef? fect March 4, 1917, was voted down 42 to 27. and in amendment by Sena? tor Sutherland to exempt the Presi? dent in the office when the constitu? tional amendment may he ratified was defeated. 38 to 29. Mr. L. F. Montgomery and chil? dren and Mr. Oeo. McCutcheon of Wiaacky, parsed through the city Mon? day morning on their way to Colum? bia to attend the National Corn Exp ? sktlon. Tyson & Son. stables. The Savannah Electric Company suffered $2.000 in wire losses. Thlrty-tlve of Savannah's firemen, who had their eyes injured by smoke or add. are under treatment, hut it is not hetftreed that tiny of them will loaf their sight. Much of the freight burned had been discharged only a few hours be? fore tile tire. The s'.c.'ttlishlp, .->e eraaeOi ea Iti way to Jacksonville put in here and unloaded a big <-argo. All of this was lost and the waybills burned. It will be a dithVutt task to ?or lighten out the mixup. Agent Krskin of the Merchants' & Miners' Company aayi his investiga? tion failed to show how the fire start? ed Theft was hay and like material under the ihed where the lire g"t ? start. The watchman for whose safety there eras concern, sacapsdi though the fire spread se rapidly they were unable to do anything to put It out <ifter they bad discovered it. President .i C, Whitney of the Merchants' A Miners' company, who was In Jacksonville h'st night on his wav to Panamai reo bed her.- today and Inspected the loss After con? sultation with w. a Wlnburhi vice? president of ihe Central of Georgia he stated that the company would at once take steps for rebuilding the I wharves. "it will be m veral days," he laid, "before we i in mske sny accurate es? timates of the loss, to announce "ur definite plans, but ths docks will eer? talnly be rebuilt Immediately, "As soon as the tire |g completely extinguished, engineers will mike ei timatea and plans for ih< new strue I tures," mm OF KILLING FATHER. HARRY COLEMAN, IN JAIL AT UNION, DENIES CHARGE. A rrc al of Young Man Result of Ef fori <>t' OfBoera, Aided by Blood hounds. to Capture Assassin of Robert Colt-man, Aged end Well tn-i>o citizen < * I* Upper Union Coun? ty. Union. Feb. 1.?Robert Coleman. 66 yean of age, an excellent citlaen of this county living near Joneevllle, was found murdered between 7 and 6 o'clock last evening, having been' shot In the left face and neck as he sat by his fireside alone reading a newspaper. ITis son, Harry Coleman, about 26 years of age, is in jail charg ed with being the murderer, the mo? tive ascribed being the desire to come into his inheritance at once. The dead man was quite well-to-do, and. except for a son who has not bean heard of in a number of years, Hairy is his only child or heir. There was a rain yesterday and when Sheriff Fant early this morning examined the premises he found that the assassin had stood behind a clump of evergreens close to the house and fired a big charge of slugs and bul? lets Into the old man's head; the trail led to and from this point to a black? smith shop. Robert Coleman's gun had been in this shop. During the night Harry Coleman got this gun, it is said, and took it to the house of a neighbor, and when examined this morning one barred was wet and showed every sign of having been recently fired. The tracks in the soft mud fitted the shoes of Harry Coleman, it is said, exactly. Dogs were sent to the scene from Columbia this morning. They took up the trail and went over it. Harry Coleman was seen to climb a tree some distance away, and the dogs put on "his trail promptly treed him, it Is said. He was then taken into custody. Miss Mclntyre, of Marion, is the guest of Mrs. E. W. McCallum on Broad street. FIRE IN jjjft PARK IX THE PIXES HOTEL DE? STROVE I). Porty-Fbnr (iucsts Rush rYom Burn? ing Hu tiding. Leaving Jewelry und Personal Property Re hind. Aiken, Feh. 2.?In one of the most saOfltKlnlar fires Aiken has even seen and in which upwards of a quarter of a million dollars in property, jew elery and personal effects was destroy? ed, the Park In the Pines hotel, Aiken'? famous tourist hostelry, was burned to the ground this morning. There were many narrow escapes, and for a time, some of the guests were in Immediate danger of being cut off In the upper rooms of the three-story budding or suffocation, but all of the 44 guests came safely out of the burning building. Most of them lost everything they brought here with them. A. H. Dick, manager of the hotel, was overcome by the dense smoke when ho rushed down into the base? ment as soon as the fire was discover? ed, and except for the assistance of some of the help who followed, would have suffocated. He was dragged out. The building was a three-story frame structure, containing 177 rooms. The lire originated in a store room In the basement, directly at the fool of the elevator shaft, where about l.ooa feel of lumber had been placed preparatory to the making of cer? tain improvements on the building. About 11 o'clock this morning smoke was discovered pouring through the cracks of the floor in the lobby of the palatial hotel. Mr. Dick ran down stairs but found himself blinded and choking with smoke and Unable to make his way through the dense cloudi of it, he sank to the floor and cried feebly for assistance. Through the store room door which was opened by some "t* his assistants tongues of llameS shot and darted up the elevator shaft. Ten minutes after Mr. I ?ick was rescued, the basemen! was a fiery fur? nace and the dames were crawling sn Iftly to th? upp< r floors. a-j soon as the alarm was sounded through Ihc hotel tin- guests poured frantically from ?h?- burning building l< .\imr their personal effects behind. So dense was the smoke it was Im i ,. to stive anything except from one wing of the building in whb h the dining room wait lot ated. IKE ARMY REORGANIZATION. SWEEPING CHANGES EfYECTIVE FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH. Country Divided in Four Depart? ment*, Eastern, Central, Western and Southern, with One Army Di? vision Stationed in Each?Cavalry Division in Southern Department. Washington, Feb. 2.?Provision for the tactical organization of the United States army into three infantry divis? ions and one cavalry division is made in an order issued by direction of President Taft and made public to? night by Secretary of War Stimson. This plan of reorganization, which becomes effective February 16, includ? es the entire mobile army within the continental limits of the United States, was first dratfed by the war college division of the general staff, and was determined upon with some modifica? tions at the clo3e of a conference of general offices at the war depart? ment last month. Hitherto there has been no tactical organization higher than a regiment. There have been no brigades or divis? ions existing in time of peace. Upon the outbreak of war, when an army was needed, it was necessary to create such an army under all the stress and hurry and excitement of such an oc? casion. In order to carry out the necessary administrative work connected with the military establishment of the Unitel States, the country has been divided by the new order into four geographical departments?an East? ern, Central, Western and Southern department, with headquarters, re? spectively, at Governor's Island, Chi? cago, San Francisco and San Antonio. One army division will be situated , in each of these departments, the cavalry division being in the South? ern department, with an infantry de? partment in each of the remaining de? partments]. The Eastern and Wes? tern departments are virtually the name territorially as the present East? ern and Western divisions, while the Southern department is carved from the present Central division. A CALL TB FARMERS. GREAT CORN SHOW Will. CLOSE SATURI)A Y N IG HT. Progressive Farmers Shouid Avail Themselves of Use Opi>ortunity t? Visit the Greatest Agricultural Ex? position Ever Held in the couth? A Call from General Manager of tills Show. Columbia, Feb. 3.?We heartily ap? preciate the strong co-operation which you and other editors of the South have given in bringing the Fifth Nat? ional Corn Exposition to the attention of the people, it has now been open to the public one week. The danger is that the closing day may find many Southern farmers who have failed to avail themselves of this wonderful op? portunity to study progressive princi? ples in applied agriculture, as pre? sented through a series of education? al exhibits from the Government and many Statee. Will you not join us in making a final call to the people of your section to attend during the com ing week and also urge the running of special trains. Geo. 11. Stevenson, Secretary and General Manager, BODY OF NEGRO POUND. Supposed to Have Been struck by Train. Plnewood. Jan. 29.?Sunday morn* Ing tin- d< ad body of Plenty Romeo, a negro about 60 years of age, was found beside the Atlantic Coast Line railroad near Remlnl. Upon examina? tion it was found thai his backbone and eight ribs were broken. It is thought that he was struck some time during Saturday night by some train. He \fis walking up the track when last seen to return to his home which was aboul one mile above Rimini. Magistrate a P. To,oner empan? elled a jury and held an Inquest. FOR PROHIBITION PARTY. George t??ry Ix-e of bykoduiu! Named a>- It" Cl airman. ! ?;, ,, Gary Lee l-> kesland has I been appolnh d State ehalrma n for the n itlonal prohibition party. He w ill organize t he emu . State Meet : Inga w 111 be held in t he \ arlous coun 1\i i. Ie \ - ;i m< nil" r of I h? South Carollnu conference of the M, < hodlst chur? h South WILSON GIVES FARMERS ADVICE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AT NATIOVAL CORN SHOW. Members of Agricultural Committee of House also Attemi Great Exposi? tion, Presence of Distinguished Visitor Attracting Large Ciowds. Secretary Urges Southern Farmers to Raise More Cattle and Hogs ? Alabama Presented Bust of Late Dr. Knapp as Trophy. _ Columbia, Feb. l.?The visit of 1 James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul- I ture, and the committee on agricul- j ture of the National House of Repre? sentatives, to the National Corn r ~> position was the feature of tod' ?.jJ0* . | served to attract another .ous crowd. The fact that it , Satur? day, a holiday, the public schools, also increased the attendance, many school teachers and children coming from all parts of South Carolina. The interest in agricultural dis? plays was increased by the arrival of the Illinois exhibit, which was delay? ed in transit, and of which all trace was completely lost for several days. In simple and emphatic language, talking as a farmer to farmers, Sec? retary Wilson made an address in the afternoon, in which he preached the doctrine that the salvation of the Southern farmer lay in the raising of hogs and cattle and the growing of grasses and other forage crops. "Don't sell your corn; feed it to stock," he repeated again and again, and asserted that by following his ad? vice Southern farmers could bring their soil to a high state of fertility and could maintain its fertility with a minimum use of commercial fertiliz? ers. "I realize," he said, "that if the South should turn to the raising of live stock, it would mean a smaller de? mand for the hogs and cattle of my own State of Iowa, but as a citizen of the United States. Whatever will bene? fit the agricultural interests of one section of the country will benefit the whole country." After his address Secretary Wilson was tendered a luncheon by the girls of Winthrop College. He said he did not know when he had ever enjoyed a meal so much. Shaking hands with the girls he said they simply must pay him a visit at Washington. Besides Secretary Wilson, Harry P. Atwood, of Chicago; John Lamb, of Virginia, chairman of the House com? mittee on agriculture, and Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, made ad? dresses. It was boys" day at the Exposition, but the event emphasizing the occa? sion did not take place at the Expo? sition grounds but at Craven Hall, where a banquet was given the boys' Corn Club and Girls* Tomato Club prize-winners by the city of Columbia and the Chamber of Commerce. More than 1,000 plates were laid for the banquet, which was attended by the 800 "corn boys, ' the 85 "tomato girls," Secretary Wilson and the mem? bers of the agricultural committee and numerous prominent citizens of Co? lumbia. At the bam,net address were de? livered by Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson; Representative Lamb, of Virginia; Representative Hangen of Iowa, and Representative Lever of South Carolina. Her?' the bust of the late Dr. Sea? man A. Knapp, given by the Fifth National Com Exposition to the State making the best showing in the school for prize-winners, was presented to the winning state. Alabama. Dr. Bradford Knapp presented the bust of bis late father, while L x. Duncan received it in behalf of the Stat?' of a labama. WALTER WELLS DEAD. Solicitor of Twelfth Circuit Passes Away. Florence, Feb. ?Walter Weils, solicitor of the Twelfth circuit for two terms, recently reelected for the thud, died this morning at '.?.'h* o'clock from pmnmonia. Last summer Mr. Wells' health fail? ed and he was not able to appear at more than two campaign meetings but was re-elected by an overwhelm? ing vote. Later In was stricken with something like paralysis while at? tending court In Dillon and he never fully recovered from the effects A i. w days ago he was attacked b> penumonin, and little hope had been held out bj the physicians for hit re ? overy. w.r.t. r Wells was born in C lun; iu Ml years ago of Marion county parent? age and most of his youth was spent I in i hat ? ount). A NEW BREED OF COTTON. GEORGIA STATE DEPARTMENT OP ENTOMOLOGY' HAS ORIG? INAL PLAN. Crom Between Egyptian and Dbdsl Cotton Secures Blend of Long staple Which IIa>msi? Disease and Attacks of Boll WeeviL Atlanta, Jan. 30.?The Georgia State Department of Entomology has an? nounced tb discovery and develop? ment of ain of cotton that will mee* ,$rv weevil conditions by com* P vv ?y early maturity; that will . v c black root or wilt diseases, and . nich at present prevailing prices, will bring around 20 cents a pound on the market. This strain of cotton, developed as the result of experiment made by State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham, to meet peculiar Georgia conditions, premises to be one of the most valua? ble varieties in the world. While Georgia might have met the advance of the boll weevil with early maturing varieties, practically every I one of these known was subject to at? tack by the wilt disease. It was neces? sary, therefore, to get a strain which would meet both conditions. This Mr. Wei sham has done by crossing Egypt? ian staple with Dixie, an early ma? turing American variety, and the re? sult is an intermediate long staple which matures comparatively early, resisting the black root and has a strong, fine long staple making it of far more than even the highest grades of short staple cotton. The beauty about the new variety is that it will grow almost anywhere in the cotton belt, while the regular long staple, known as Sea Island, is confined to a narrow and limited area near the seacoast. This new strain also meets boll weevil conditions as to Sea Island cotton which would not otherwise have escaped boll weevil destruction. The department has only one acre of the variety this year; consequently the quantity of seed will be limited. It will be distributed free of cost to planters in the 25 counties in the southwestern section of the State where cotton clubs have already been organised, composed of the moct pro? gressive planters, to co-operate with the State department of entomo? logy in the fight on the boll weevil* which is expectfd to enter the State from Alabama in 19 13. Mr. Worsham figures that ultimate? ly this new variety vrill be distributed over the entire cotton belt and will result bo-h in resistance to disease and pest, and the development of a more valuable grade of staple. Thousands of pounds of seed from plants resistant to the wilt disease have been distributed throughout the State free of cost by the department; hundreds of farmers* institutes have been held to explain the work, and in February the next tier of 25 counties in south Georgia, just east of those where the work has already been done, w ill be organized to meet boll weevil conditions. In this and other ways th?- State department of entomology is now savinu to the farmers of Georgia $25,000.000 to $30,000,000 each year, by developing and furnishing infor? mation BS to easy and inexpensive methods Of controlling plant pests and diseases. Only In this way has It been possi? ble t<? develop perfect fruits in Geor? gia, and pests no longer prevent the making of crops because of the ex? pense in controlling them. Mr. Worsham'S red spider bulletin in colors has attracted attention all over the country, and has been of ma? terial value In many other States. It is furnished free to Sil applicants whether Georgians or not. The red spider attacks cotton and all kinds of vegetation particular!) in green? houses, and Dr. Worsham's experi? ments have made it possible to con? trol it without material difficulty and at small cost. He now has ready for the press a similar bulletin on the mole cricket, brought here from Puerto Rico, and which has Iveen doing extensive damage in the BOttth> esatern section. Bleeted pre?I U nt ? f the Southern Conservation congress which met in Atlanta ?n P.'10. Dr. Worsham has since been honored by appointment ?'is chairman of the executive commit? tee of the National Conservation com* gross, en account of his interest in and efforts iu behalf of conservation particularly along agricultural and horttculural lines, not only In Oeor gin lot throughout the South v i t ..nie. Hellet! ha? been ippolnf ? . d assistant heal! h >ffii ? i bj Dl I Ashleigh M ood