Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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tf be (U'latfbman ani soutbron. PublUhed Wednesday and Saturday. ?BT? <?su | \ nm islliM, COMPANY. SUMTEH. & C. Ter in?: ? 1.10 per annum?In advance. Ad x- c r t Isenicu La: One 8quare nret Insertion.fi.OU Kvery subsequent Insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be charged for ss advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respoct will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed in 1I&0 and the True Southron Ir. lilt. The Watchman and Southron sow hai ths combined circulation and Influence cf both or the old papers, end Is manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. ?-?"W Merry Christina* ess The year l!M3 has been one <>f more than average prosperity. - i ops have been excellent, there have been neither draughts, Hoods nor pestilence In this section and we come to the Christmas season with feelings of thankf.lines* and fffttttftftf to an all wiae PresrMesjos leg Ihs nereteg and blessings we hive lOfOtVOd during the year. This should, .robed, be a hap r> ( artstasns lot ail. see Not the leant of the Hessings for which we should be Krateful at this nrHwii is tin da a n of a brighter era for the working people of the United States as th ilt of the adminis? tration of the Natlo ial government by a truly Democratic president am) con? gress) Tlo- burden of the rohber tar? iff has been lifted and the masses of of the people ai ? rt.. longer taxed for the benefit of the fa\. I few. The ?urreney BftfttOO] has been reformed and modernised In the Interest of the whole people and it will no longer be possible for the PJSJftft] trust to eft* pre** the producing classes by the manipulation of hanking systems, farmers are no longer diserlmlnat : unst and they are placed on the ? footing a* other buslnes men. I in; ion M t o CAMPAIGN. <ii> Acreage Will he Sufficient to Strpport Strong Market. little more than fifteen hundred s of inOjSCO for the Sumter to i o mi.Ket of 1914 had been ?ged up to Saturday night. It is at all unlikely thut the acreage amount to between t wo thousat. I and two thousand five hundred acres. An the establishment of the Simter tobacco warehouse and the guamni' I of a sufficient aereage are now assured ?the three solicitors who were canvassing the farming districts have been called In by Acting Chairman G A. Lemmnn. of the board of directors, for the present. After January 1st an expert tOftftft" Co planting demonstrator will be placed m the fl Id t i the II1 I to? bacco season to m. tr.a i lohne CO grow? ers It the cultivation, curing, and marketing of the weed. In the meantmn any parties who Intend to plant lohne and who have not been seen by either of the three canvanm rs are requ<. ?. | |o notify Secretary K. I. HoftFdotV of the Sum ler Chamber of Commerce of Ihs number of OjCfSl le be planted. |o? gether with the H. F. I>. route of the, parties who desire the cooperation of the demonstrator. Oft January 1st the dtfOeteffl will take up the question of the basing Ol the warehouse ami the management t ih?- name \ number of reliable and experienced warehousemen are now In correspondence with the secre? tary and some of them will be here In person ftft January 1st to make propositions to Mr. fl. \. Ia mmon. and the board of dir? I torn. The success with which the can \aa to Indie farmers to plant toba? cco has met in very gratifying. The outlook for high prices for tobacco for lhe next live yearn Oftflftg IS the con? stantly In* re iving demand Is tfe?) line. Sumter Is assured beyond an doubt of the tobie | o market and a lirnt c ans wi.rehous \ legs, possibly two \\ in hotis? ?. Mari ui-e | n OftsjS Hot ord. A license t?? nvtrry has been ISSUSd to Mr C !? Withers).n and \li^ Kssie M Owens of ftftietfi see Msftftl ftftd MeColhim's nd le ?ins innur. Thrv are selling eanl sup at half price? Adv. There was a very large cr..wd on street Monde) doing Christmes shopplag and all of the ftOfetHMl el ? l.Cpt ' IM0T< Special sale eft 1.led and to ? a bags at 1 I off for Wedncsliv. 14th pUggj rang*' from te ?????? Shaw and Collum Mer? ? .\d\t. THE CURRENCY DEBATE. COJfGRKM AM) PRESIDENT MUCK TO REsTf I KOM TE DIOUI I.AlioHs, CWltWI Hill Should be Completed und Signed hy tho Pitaldum LatC Today or Tuesday and Senate and House WIN Adjourn I'ntll January 12. Washing, a, I >ec. ft,?At 1.30 O'clock ti?s morning tho Joint 0011? fcrenco on tho administration bill agreed to .strike from the measure tb" BOnatS provision for an insurance fund to guarnntro deposits in national bank* At that time but a single point of disagreement was in dispute, till composition of the federal board. The committee agreed to strike out the senate amendment which would allow the use of the new federal re? serve notes as bank reserves. The conference agreed on an en? tirely ro w prov ision to take care of lbs Outstanding government I per cent, bonds on w aich the present cur? rency is based. They will be retired, running two years after the new sys? tem is install, d. at the rate of $1.W 000,000 a year. This amount will be taken from the present national banks by the new regional hanks in propor? tion to their capital and surplus. On one-half of their bonds regional banks will be allowed to issue currency similar tc present bank notes. The re? mainder will be retired by the sub? stitution of 1'0-year J per cent, bonds or treasury SjeM aotCO, with an agree? ment that the regional banks will re? new Ilm notes each year for 30 years. The bank reserve section as framed by the senate was accepted with but bt changes. They rOQUife the re? serve of 1H per cent. In central re? serve city banks, If, per cent, in re? serve city banks and 12 per cent, in country banks. The make-up of the federul buftrd was the last matter In dispute. The house members reluc? tantly ugreed *hat the secretary of, agriculture be removed, but insisted that the comptroller of th<? currency remain a member. An all-day conference of the Joint congressional committee on the currency pushed that meas? ure, close to completion tonight. Problems involving the reserve provisions the size and charac? ter of the federal reserve board, the redemption of 2 per cent, government bonds and the retirement of the pres? ent national currency proved trouble* st me, but the conferees finally 1 smoothed out most of tho issues be? tween house and senate. When the two branches of congress convene tomor? row, it is expected plans will be made for a long recess, beginning Tuesday. It was predicted tonight that the cur? rency bill could be completed and signed by the president late tomor? row or Tuesday and congress hai dropped all other problems in an? ticipation of the first actual rece SJ that it will have enjoyed since April 7. It is planned to halt all business until January II and allow the legis? lators to enjoy as OOmpletC as rest as will President Wilson, who will leaVS Washington for Pass Christian, lllaa., as soon an the currency bill |8 s i K n ? ? ? I. ThS currency conferees assembled early In Ihe day and at the openlni Of IM S ? tiing session had settled many controverted points. An analy? sis of the i>iii by Senator Owen and II? presentat IVS < J lass, chairman of th? ront? reea, showed II points of differ* 111 between the iwo houses, bul many of these were of a minor ehar tett i and were dlspoeod of quickly, Among the more important dc ilong of the committee today were the followinf! The minimum capital of each re* nal reserve bank was fixed at $4(t#o(##0| a compromise between the $3,ooe(goo minimum of the senate hill nd the 16,000,000 minimum of the house bill, The senate's provision for "from sight to \i" regional banks was ac? cepted by ihs house In place of the minimum of 13 Used by tho house bin. The Senate's provision thai each "member bank" must subscribe for stock ot tho regional bank In um ter? ritory aqua! le I per i ent, of the member bank's capital and surplus ws accepted by the house In replace Ht own provision that the subscrip? tion must equal 5 per cent, of the member bank's capital, The senate gaVC wny on its pro* i vision ti no class MB" dlteelor of a regional bank could be ? stock* holder In any member bank. This would permit the ihres directors who represent "agricultural, commercial . r industrial Interests" In the direc r tte ol tack regional I =erv e hank to own stock in local banks In their district. The attempt nf lh# house conferees to have the secretary of agriculture and ihe comptroller of currency on well <s the secretary of Ihe treasury made members of lh# organisation rommlltee lo Inaugurate ihe new ays lern und also made permanent mem her of the federal reserve board held the attention of the conference iihiou^h much of the afternoon. Tho hOUM hill Included these three federal officers as members Of the board) while the senate allowed only the secretary of the treasury to re? main on the board. House conferees insist that the ex? perience and knowledge of the comp trol er and the secretary of agricul? ture should he made a\ailal le for ?the board that is to govern the new banking system. N ? other legislation of importance will he taken up in either house of congress this week. Should the cur? rency conference report early tomor? row, it will he given the right of way in both senate and house and ad jour iment Will follow as soon as the pics dent signs the bill. Members of both houses are preparing to leave Washington for the holidays, even be? fore President Wilson writes his ap? proval on the new currency law. After a lengthy argument the house Conferees' agreed to accept the reserve I section written Into the currency bill by the senate. Under the house bill, a reserve of ?;i 1-3 per cent, of gold was required behind the federal re? serve notes which will constitute the new currency. The senate provision, agreed to In conferenooi provides for a 40 per cent gold reserve, with a tax of 1 per cent on depreciation down to 3? 1-9 per cent, and a graduated tax below that point. The senate receded from an amend? ment which would have admitted to rediscount by the regional banks ac? counts baaed on domestic shipments of merchandised The house conferees yielded to senate amendment Which will allow the secretary of the treas? ury discretion in UlC depositing of government funds in the new regional banks. A Compromise was arranged as to the forcing of one regional bank to rediscount the paper of another, by which the vote of livo members of the reserve board Will be necessary to require such discounts, The confer? ence struck out a senate amendment under which member banks could have discounted with the regional banks their own direct obligations. The house agreed to retain a house amendment providing that no mem? ber of congress shall share any di? vision of profit in the new system. The amendment providing that the secretary Of the treasury, the assist? ant secretary of the treasury and the comptroller Of the currency should be ineligible for two years after leaving the government service for any posi? tion in a member bank, also was ac? cepted. The house conferees filially suc? ceeded in securing an agreement on a provision that the new system should be instituted by an organiza? tion committee and that the secre? tary of agriculture and the comp? troller of currency should be members of that committee. The composition of the federal reserve board was stlM In dlSl UtS but the house conferees expected to be able to retain these two Officials among Its members. A senate provision allowing na? tional banks to act as trustees and SXeoutors Of estates was agreed to, and several minor changes were made In the nature of compromises. It was midnight when the commit too settled down with the composi? tion Of tho federal reserve board, the provision for the use of federal re? serve notes as reserves in member banks, the bond refunding section and the guarantee of batik deposits pro \ ksions st ill In dispute. The printing clerk of the senate was kept busy dashing backwards and forward:; in an automobile be? tween the capltol and the government printing Office where a big force of printers was awaiting the final draft of the bill and the conference report. it was apparent that the committee determined to thresh out all the dif? ferences before adjournment for the night. SACK OF MAI I. IS LOST. Gaffney, Dec. 1!>.?(Jaffney pOStofllCC officials and employes of the South v railway at this point are anxiously wondering what became of a sack of mail .supposed to leave Gaffney last Friday night on northbound train, Xn. :b>. The Back of mail was closed up at the usual hour at the postofllce ami turned over to Ihe railroad peoplei later being hung up on the crane for northbound train No. 3u at 9.46 o'clock. The station agent saw the snck hanging on the crane only 10 minutes before the arrival of the train, but when it reached here tho Mack was gone an 1 hns not been seen or heard of since, a thorough Investigation has taken place bv I lit- p08totilCC otli cials. assisted by the railroad, but so far there has been absolutely no clue as to what became of the sack. When naked nt tie- postotflce yesterday as to win iher the suck contained nny valuables local officials said there were no registered letters or money ordern contained 111 Ihnl mail, but it is, ol course, Impossible to estimate what the loss of some of the letters may mean. HPI ? I \|, S M l ? ' headed and mesh bags nl 1-4 off for Wedn -?i 1 v. ! 24th, Prices range from llOe to 10.00, Shaw and McColltllH M-r i Co. MAY BE FAMOUS TBL" VAGRANT HELD ON CLUE AF? FORDED BY A BUTTON AS SAFE CRACKER. Klnncy, Alias McKinley, identified by Follow Prisoner as Ycggman Pa? roled by Gov. Bleasc?PostolHce in? spector Gregory sent for. Spartanburg, Doc. 20.?"John Kin-| ncy," a prisoner in the county jail, serving thirty days for vagrancy, li none other, according to the police, than William McKinley, a noted safe robber, who was one of tho one hun? dred and live convicts liberated by Gov. Cole L. Please last month in honor of Thanksgiving. Moreover, the police say, they have evidence that McKinley attempted to blow a safe within three weeks after he was freed from the penitentiary, and will bring him up to trial for the alleged prims as soon as he completes his vagrancy sentence. A warrant hay been sworn out aurainst McKinley, charging him with the attempted safe robbery, and Mag? istrate Robert J. Gantt will hold a preliminary investigation Monday af? ternoon, when, it is said, much addi? tional evidence will be disclosed. Tin1 man was found camping In woods near Spartanburg Junction b> Robert E. Miller, a special agent ol the Southern Railway. He had a sac! of coal, which he admitted having taken from the railway's coal yards, and was arrested and convicted before Magistrate Robert J. Gantt. On being taken to the county jail Klnncy, or McKinley, was hailed at an old acquaintance by another prls oner, Blmors Wright, who said th< n< w arrival was In the penitentiary a the same time that ho (Wright) wa serving a life sentence there for mur d? r. Wright, alias McKinley, was parol? ed by Gov. Blense, but after he wat liberated shot another man, and he too is back In prison again, Two days before McKinley, alia: Kinney, was arrested an attempt wat made to blow open a safe In the gen? eral store of Renard Frey, at Fait Forest, S. C, about eight miles fron. spartanburg. A charge of nitro? glycerine was exploded, but the tafi resisted the assault. The explosioi was heard by a negro in the neigh? borhood, but the robber was not S-'en. The next morning a button, with a little t?ft of cloth attached, was found under the wit1 low of Frey's store. It Is believe d to have beet, torn from the robber's clothing as he entered the building and was preserv? ed as of possible evidence. When Kinney was identified b\ Wright as McKinley, the safe rob? ber, officers examined McKinley's clothing. They found a button mis? sing, that the button found in Frey's store was identically the same as the remaining buttons on McKinleys clothes and that the cloth was tho same as the little tuft attached to the button referred to. McKinley's reputation as a profes? sional sate robber and the evidence of the. button, taken In connection with i the fact that he was arrested as a vagrant within a couple of miles of Frey's store, constitute the case against him, as at present developed. Post office inspectors have been In? vestigating the belief that McKinley may have had accomplices and that the gang may have been responsible k for other robberies In this section. Two men in the Spartanburg count} jail, charged with rol hing the safe in the postofllCO at Salud i, X. C, are not believed, however, to have had any connection with McKinley. They claim to be followers of the race track, who were "beating" their way to Charles? ton. McKinley, who at first was very vol? uble in protesting against his at re: t as a vagrant and made an able plea Saved Girl's life i "I want to tell you what wonderful b'.iefit I have re- J ceived from the use of Thedford's Black-Draught," writes J Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of C!;?ton Mills, Ky. ^ "It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, J liver and stomach troubles. I firmly believe Black-Draught J 1 saved my little girl's life. When she had the measles, J 1 they went in on her, but one good dose of Thedford's J ' Black-Draught made them break out, and she has had no J j more trouble, I shall never be without |jj Jt THEDFORD'S mm0m L?CH-DR??fiHl ' in my home." For constipation, indigestion, headache, dizzi- I I ness, malaria, chills and fever, biliousness, and all similar | l ailments, Thedford's Black-Draught has proved itself a safe, ^ I reliable, gentle and valuable remedy. ^ I If you suffer from any of these complaints, try Black- 4 I Draught It is a medicine of known merit Seventy-five J 1 years of splendid success proves its value. Good for * I young and old. For sale everywheie. Price 25 cents. $ o Magistrate Gant for hi* discharge, as since become as silent as a clam, i'he offb ers say he angrily broke his lilence, however, when tiny inform d him that Postofflce Inspector H. T. Iregory, the terror of "yeggmen," >vas coming here to look him over, rho prisoner cursed, it is said, and ex laimcd that he did not want to see Iregory. ih re is McKinley's record so far as t is know here: He entered a store in Montmoren ci, Aiken county, S, C, in 1901, and robbed the postofflce, which was lo cated In the store. Postofflce Inspec? tor H. T. Gregory got on the trail of he gang of which McKinley was be Lieved to be a member, and on Janu try 6, 1903, arrested McKinley in Co umbia. The prisoner was tried in tpril In the United states Court at Charleston and sentenced to the Fed? eral penitentiary at Atlanta for five ?ears. After his release from the Atlanta a is n he w as taken in hand by the 'outh Carolina authorities and at Mken, In July, 1907, largely on the testimony of Postofflce Inspector Iregory, was convicted of burglary mil larceny and sentenced to the SSSS?B ? mumi-MJH^itmunumnam ? BSSSSSSM ? State penitentiary for fifteen years. He had served six years when pa roled by Gov. Blosse, On being taken to the governor's office McKinley said with much earnestness, it is reported, that be intended to give up criminal ways and. lead an honest life. DIXIE CAFE ROBBED. Thief Brenks in side Door and Gets Away With Money. Sunday morning shortly before day? light a thief broke into the Dixie Cafe at the corner ol* Main and Du? gan streets and robbed the cash drawer of all funds found in it. At first it was thought that he had got? ten away with about: forty-five dol? lars, but laier the cheeks which were i i the drawer were dieovered and the sura was ascertained to be about fif? teen dollars. Sunday night the police made an arrest In the cess and Monday they Wi re awaiting- further developments. SEE sllAW .v liefOM.l'M'S-Ad in this issue. They are selling coat suits at half price. I We Pay Highest Cash Prices for. Don't give your fronts away ship direct to us by express and get your y hides of all kind< Try us with a ship * money next day. We pay highest prices for tureen and dry hides of all kinds 1 Beeswax, Tallow and old Metals, old Rubber and Fur merit now. Send for Price List. CAROLINA HIDE & JUNK CO. C1IAP.LESTON, S. C. it/ lf x'y 'tit'M> JJJ -> \ P I) Grow More Cotton to the Acre. Plant Simpkins' Prolific Seed. The earliest Cotton in the World. Ninety days from pfenning to bale, \ ei v prolific ami a good Unter, Wo sell the only genullte?Mr. Simpkllis' own seed?direct from his farm. Price SI.25 per bushel. 25 bushels at $1.15. Liberal discount if ordered before January I On everj order sent us before Jan. tst take toe off this price. Order now? the time is short. W. H. Mixson Seed Co. Charleston. Sole Distributors for South Carolina. Horses and Mules. Now is the time for you to get your pick from a car load of fine Mules and Horses. We will have in ear of the nicest Mules the latter part of this week that has come to the market in a long time. We have some? thing in them that will suit anyone wanting nice stock. Dont forget about those wagons and buggies that we are putting on the market. The best grades with the prices to .suit. Call on us. we will be glad to show you our line. W. B. Boyle Company. ? ???????ittttititiiitit***.-?--??-. -............-??.