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WARNING ON WHEAT SUPPLY. GOVERNMENT SAYS PRESENT ?heavy Bran omwoi h KEPT I I* WITHOUT At Prewent Rat? Expoetations Would Total I IO.U4NI.INNI HumIicI* ?in Next Harvest?May Cuum? I 'ihmI shortage Washington. March 22.?Wur that the present heavy exports IS Ku ropo of American wheat and Hour cannot be continued w ithout end-in - cerlna the wheat supplies for food and I seeding requirements at home, was contained today In the department of agriculture's A*rl< wlturul Outlook. The department's experts believe ex? hortations at the same rate as during December. January and February last til fhs coming of the new wheat crop would encroach upon normal domes tie needa Investigation has disclosed that there was on March 1 an apparent eurpb s of shout 91.000.000 bushels of wheat over the domestic require meats for food and seed that was available for export In the four months from March 1 to July 1. While the exports of wheat including flour, during thise four months last year were 81.000.000 bushels, it Is pointed out that those exports during December, anuary and February last averaged almost 33.000.000 bushels per month, end if that rate of export continued until the new crop Is avail? able it would amount to 110.000.000 bushala. The department s Investigation did aot Include Inquiries Into stocks of Soar, but the opinion Is expressed that they do not show so much reduction as wheat Stocka a factor In the sit uatlon Is that the Southern States have greatly Increased their wheat acreage, the crop of which will be marketable before July 1 and will have the effect of Increasing the available supplies between now and that date. VMVKRSITY news notes. ?.rief of Death of Dr. Haiti?Had don t Johnson to Go to State Oratorical Contest. Columbia. March 22.?In the ora? torical contest held at the University sf South Carolina this week, Haddon Johnson, a senior law student from Alken and a member of the Kuphra gt*>n Literary Society, won first place, speaking on "The Vitality of Ideals." J. 8. Mclnnes. a senior law student from Darlington and a member of the Buphradlan and of the house of representatives, won second place, using as his subject, "The New Wo? man.'* As a result of this contest Mr. Johnson will represent the University at the State Oratorical Contest to be staged In Kock Hill next month, and Mr. Mclnnes will be the alternate. Faculty and students of the Unl ?srsity were grieved to learn of the death this week of Dr. Charles Wes? ley Bain, a; Chapel Hill. \\ C. Dr. Bain was for a decade one of the clas? sic Instructors at the University, and while at Carolina had Issued from the press a number of books. Both fac? ulty and students adopted resolutions * concerning the death of Dr. Bain, and the University sent I>r. Yates Snowden to attend the funeral rites of the classic scholar. Rather unique has been the spec? tacle this week of the University stu? dents building, from tho ground up. a fence around Davis fleld. tho Uni? versity's athletic arena. The grand? stand will be erected by contract. A branch of 'The Flying Squad? ron" has been organized and offl oered at the University, and this club will cooperate with similar clubs In ths Sttae looking to State-wide pro? hibition In September. Tho club will send out orators to speak In behalf of ths prohibition movement Ths etudont kg Ig lAafJtPi thi< week resolutions asking tb u Prof, F. Hor? ton Colcock. for twent>- hi years dean of the Department of Mathe? matics, reconsider his resignation ar.d that ths board of trustees decline to accept his resignation. CLEMsos < m|(|?s |N CAM I". Cadet . Will Itcnuilit at < amp Itlgg*. Anderson, I mil Erl<la>? Many Entertainments Planned Anderson. M ir< h J J ?The c-rps of cadsts of Ctsjsjsjpg sotlcsjs, Til in number, arrived this af t ? n.n to en? camp In Anderson until I n i.e. |ftSf? noon. The cadets marched from the college to Handy Springs and Satsght a train to th? camp designated a?; "Camp Itlggs." In honor >>r the pres? ident of tho college. < ?rd?>rs were pub? lished on arrival for all drills, marches, ete. I'miinninUMt <'nmmini;s announces that drill will be in extend? ed order only. Many entertainment sr ? planned for the cadets. Eight I'Mt hi Inllmar) lire Munice. Ind.. March 2.' The coun? ty Infirmary was burned this sgncpjsjg One Inmat" was burned to dea'h and ee en are missing. MANY WAR CLAIMS OUTLAWED \i:\v provision in APPROPIUA? nox BtVkX Department or Justice Rules Meas? ure Cut* Off Those Harred) by Limi? tation Stature. Washington. March IS,?Claims' ag? gregating $14.000,turn many of them growing out of damage done in the South b> Federal troops durillf the War HetweHii the States will >>e thrown out of court if tho court of ciaim? sustains an Interpretation PhtCCd by the department of jtUtlOC on a provision of omnibus claims Mils passed by the last congress, /ssis' ant Attorney Oeneral Thompson i is notltwd counsel for claimants and In? terested members of congress of the department's contention and the poi.U probably will be argued before the ' court in the near future. The department basses its position I on section 6 of the new law, Which ' provides that hereafter the court cf claims shall not have jurisdiction over any claim against the United States government growing out of I property damage, use o. stores and | supplies or occupation of real estate by the military and naval forces of the United States during the Wat Met ween the States or over "any claim now barred by the provisions of any law of tho United States." According to the department's in? terpretation, thte nullifies the scefion of the judicial code under which con-' gresH has referred to the court of claims hundreds of cases for a report as to whether the statute of Hmit.i i Hons should be waived. A dec'slon will not affect any of the claims for 1 hlch applications already have been made. Ponding the court's decision, the department has ordered its Held agents to suspend investigation of ail the cubes involved. HOPE TO LESSEN LOSS. State Hoard of Health Promotes "Venial Renascence of Sanitary Mornls." The State board of health has be? gun a vigorous campaign in behalf of a "clean up and screen up day" In South Carolina on April 10. It Is hoped that this "vernal renascence of. sanitary morals" will have a lasting effect, as the plans are laid primarily against flies and mosquitoes, the erad? ication of which is based on a general condition of cleanliness. In a bulletin explaining tho object of the movement James A. Hayne, M. D.t State health-officer, writes as fol? lows to the men and women of the State: "The executive committee of the State board of health calls upon all citizens to make April 10 memorable In the annals of tho warfare on dis? ease and dirt in this State. Lost year our records show a large preventable loss of life from typhoid fever?ap? proximately 8,000 cases with probably j at least 800 deaths. Wc, therefore, (declare war upon the house fly or. as tt should be called, tho typhoid fly. ' This fly breeds only in filth and by removing tilth from our houses, back I irds. streets, stables, cow lots, hog pens, meat markets, grocery stores, we can prevent tho lly from having a place to lay Its egga, which eggs hatch Into maggots and become full fledged files In ten days' time. Let your slogan bo, clean up and screen up. Remem? ber flies in the dining room moans nurses In the sick room. Dr. Nesbitt. health officer, Wilmington. X. C, ro duced tho number of cases of typhoid fever In Washington on?*-half by one month's Intensive campaign orgamzod by him against tho lly. In organizing your forces for clean up day, do not forget to declaro war upon tho mos ;uito for the anopheles mosquito car? ries malaria and the other varieties of moOQUitOCC carry Insomnia. Irrita? tion and aggravation." AFFIRMS PADGETT VERDICT, Cnitisl States Supreme Court Ap? proves Award or $JO.O')0 to Widow ami Children. Washington, March L'2.?A $20,000, award Under the federal employers' liability law to Clara V. Padgett and her i ikht children for the death of lor husband, Lewis H Padgett, caused l.y fhlltng Into a pit In a round house at Cave.-. Lexington county, ML '.. today was approved by the su? preme court. \o EXTRA si:ssion. President Ha- No Present Intention of Summoning Congress Before Vftt Deecansjcf1. Washington March It.?Formal announeemi nl wa i m ids at the White House today thai at present President Wilson had no Intention Of calling an extra session ?>f the senate or of con? gress before Ihe beginning of the reg? ular session next December, It was said that the president sees no prospect ? of any font In ncy nrls> Inf \n M< h e ould ca ins htm to niter his ?recent Intention, MAY EXTEND BONSAL LINE. THOUGHT THAT BRANCH WILL BE HI N PROM CHARLESTON TO SAVANNAH. Report? From Georgia City su> Con? struction Will Begin Boon?No Offi? cial Report?PwiestigtF Service Not Yet Besun on New Line. Newi aini Courier. Report! last ntgltt from Savannah Indicate thai persona In that city be? lieve the Carolina, Atlantic and Wes tern Railway It ready for construc? tion of its extension from Charleston to Savannah. As surveyed the dis? tance to Savannah from Charleston Is 71 miles, whereas the distance on the Atlantic Coast Line is llf> miles. Mr. William R. Ronsal, president of the Carolina, Atlantic and Western Rail? way, was said to be out of city last night and no statement regarding the company's programme was available. City Council, when it granted a franchise to the Ronsal line, Included permission for tracks through the up? per section of the city from a point near the old power house of the Con? solidated Company to a point on tht Ashley River. It has been taken for granted that the company secured this right with a view to extending the railroad to Savannah. As surveyed, the routo pierces the heart of the coastal truck-growing region and is practically air-line all the way. With the operation of the Chnrloston-?a ! vannah line it is believed that trains , of the Seaboard Air Line between New York City and Jacksonville will pass through Charleston. The Bonsai line has been transport? ing freight rince the 1st of February and shippers have been greatly pleas? ed with the service The date for be? ginning pasEenger service has not been announced and the manage? ment declares that it is not ready just now to say when its passenger trains between Charleston and Hamlet, N. C, a distance of 109 miles, will be I running. Passengers for Georgetown will change trains at Andrews. The Charleston Northern Railway, the North and South Carolina, the South Carolina Western and the South Carolina Western Extension make up the Carolina, Atlantic and Western. At present connection with the Sea? board Air Line is made at Hamlet, N. C, and McRee, S. C. TO PAY FOR FOOD CARGOES. ' Prize Court Awards $000,000 to Owners of Good- Detained hy Eng { Mall Ships. j _ I ???? Liondon, March IS.?The prize court j today ordered paid $600,000 on Amer? ican shipments of Hour and wheat de? tained on board the Norwegian steam? ers Alfred Nobel, Kim and Bjornst Jeri\ Rjornson, and the Swedish steamer Friedland. So far as known this is the tlrst money paid out by the prize court on American foodstuffs seized. The owners of the American steam? er Wilhelmlna's cargo are becoming discouraged over the prize court's de? lay in hearing the case. It now seems unlikely that the case will come up March 29, the date for which it was tentatively set after a previous post? ponement. A. G. Hays, attorney for W. L. Green & Co., of St. Louis, own? ers of the cargo, said tonight: "The admiralty says it is expedit? ing tho Wllheimina case. Weeks ago we offered to stipulate the facts. Sir Edward Grey, tho British foreign sec? retary, in his note of February 20, said the case would bo trie 1 'in due course.' If this is due course, prize court procedure is buncombe. It Is difficult to avoid suspecting that the case perhaps is being intentionally de? layed so that if the court ultimately decides that the foodstuffs may pro? ceed to Germany, they will have rotted in the meantime. An Ameri? can would lind it hard to choose be? tween indiscriminate discussion and regulated capture." JAPANESE SEES MR. BRYAN. Count Chlnda Refuses to State Sub? ject of Conl'erent (. Wasltlngtona March 22.?Viscount Chlnda, the Japanese ambassador, VCalled at the State department late today and conferred with Secretary Bryan for nearly an hour, Later tin- ambassador was asked whether be had talked about tho Jap? an* le-Chlnese situation. "I absolute? ly cannot discuss lb'- Situation at all." he replied. Mr. Bryan was equally as uncommunicative, Before the conference it was stated at tb.- Japanese embassy thai late :?o \ ires Indicated the prospects for an early settlement ot the negotiations between Japan and China were brlghti r, Jl'DUE ROW is DEAD. Man Who Presided ai Trial of Leo I'rank Succumbs to Cancer. New York. Match 13.-?Judge Roan. of Atlanta, died early today at the Polycllnlc Hospital as the result of an operation for cancer, SUNDAY'S PHILADELPHIA CAM? PAIGN BREAKS ALL REC? ORDS. B0|000 at Farewell Services?Audience Goes Wild?Sawdust, Tinpans, Hunting and Hags Carried off as Souvenir*. Philadelphia, March 21.?The big? gest, single day in the biggest revial tho country has ever known was Billy Sunday's farewell to Philadelphia. Four times today the Evangelist preached to audiencea that overflow ed the tabernacle, some 00,000 being the day's total. Four times he called for converts and reaped a total of I, 858 for the day. This number repre? sents the actual number who signed convert's cards, though it represents onlj a portion of those who came down and shook his hand. The number of converts for the 5 f weeks of the campaign totals 41,72 4. So far as results go, tho country has never seen anything like it. It not only beats Billy Sunday's record, but that of every modern evangelist. So much for the ligures. The tab? ernacle forgot them today. The workers forgot, to count in the whirl and hubdub of the farewells, the ova? tions and greetings that these 60,000 persons heaped upon the little revival? ist who arrived here some 80 days ago. Four audiences went wild at his first appearance and four audiences stubbornly refused to leave the tab? ernacle until the ovungeliat himself left tho platform. Eleven weeks had wound him around their hearts until the hearts bled when he was torn away. Men and women pulled down signs from the tabernacle posts and car? ried them away. They scooped up big handfuls of sadwust from the shadow of the pulpit, tilled their pock? ets and their handkerchiefs with it and carried It home. They took the tinpans which have gathered the tab? ernacle offerings; they tore the bunt? ing and flags from about the rostrum, the flower from the pulpit. They car? ried away everything loose that could serve as a memento of the campaign. Tonight while 1,800 men in the choir sang "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," 1,000 ushers, doorkeep? ers, policemen, firemen and others who have worked in the tabernacle day and night since January 3 Hied past the evangelist like trail-hiiters and gripped his hand until it was swollen and knotted at the joints. At the four services they piled some $2,000 into the collection pans, thinking it was their final gift to Bil? ly Sunday. Tho committee had an? nounced that the day's offering would go to him personally, but the revival? ist would not have it so. "Every cent you give today," ho , said, "go^s to tho poor of Philadel j phia." And so the committee ac ! quiesced. Pefore he left tho city, however, the committee turned over to the evangelist a draft for $51,136.85, the result of the. free-will offering which Philadelphia gave to Billy Sunday. It is the largest offering he has recehed In any city. There came tonight to bid him farewell representatives of 400 churches of the city and a representa tivo of the city itself to thank him. The Rev. Dr. Georgo H. Bickley, vice chairman of the Sunday campaign committee, speaking for the churches which invited Sunday here, said he had "brought a crisis to tho cit, ?.nd to the State." Cyrus D. Foss, Jr., secretary to 'Mayor Blankenburg, spoke for olilclal ; Philadelphia. "Philadelphia is today a different ! city from Philadelphia of last Decem j her," he told the evangelist. As a token of his own appreciation, Mr. ? F?n .said he would "hit the trail" with ! the other converts, and ho did. At the Close of the meeting he marched down ! the aisle, took Mr. Sunday's hand and ; sat on the front benches with the ' penitents. GOVERNOR OFFERS APOLOGY. /atpata t hief in Mexico Seeking As? sassins of John MeManus. Washington, March 23.?The mili? tary governor of Mexico for Zapata has apologized to the United states government through the Brazilian minister for the killing uf John Me? Manus, an American citizen, by Zapa? ta soldiers, Search is being made for the assassins. Tu Extend Mall Scrvkw on C. A. A W. Hartsville, March 22. a movement has been put on loot to secure exten? sion oi mail service over the (\ a. ?V \v. railway from Florence to Poison. The matter is in course of Investiga? tion, your correspondent is informed by T. P. McEcod, postmaster, who visited the headquarters of the rail? way mail service, Charleston, li 1 Uiys that a mail car Will be put on \os. 1 and 4, between McBec and Pol lon as soon as regular passenger train service is established .all the wa> through between these points, VILLAGE SWEPT jj SHOW. ; FIFTY KILLED AND MAW WOUNDED IN MINING TOWN. ? Snow Carries Away Hunk Houses anil I Tramway at Howe Sound. I?. C. Vancouver, B. C, March 22.?Fifty miners were killed and as many mure Injured today by a snow (slide which1, swept away several hunk houses at B. <\. according to a dispatch re? ceived here. Besides the hunk houses, the Britannia mine at Howe Sound, part of tho aerial tramway of the mine was carried away. Tho mine level is on the mountain ' side, nearly 5,000 feet above the shore Of tho sound. Tho tramway destroyed extended from tho mine to the beach, j Boon after reports of the avalanche were received here a steamer with physicians and nurses left for Howe [Sound. Details are lacking. The Britannia is a coal mine em- , ploying more than 1,000 men. The slide swept away a bunk house containing 15 men, n cook house con-' Itaining ten men and several private i ; houses in which were a number of ] women and children. Several men who were going off i .the night shift at midnight were killed also. At last reports rescuers were work? ing on the pile of debris, but few bodies had been found. Fifteen of the injured were being brought to Van? couver tonight by steamer. Owing to lack of communication jwith Howe Sound, except by steamer, j details are not available. FRVE CASE DEMANDS. _ American Government Gathers Data to Hack up Call for Reparation for Sinking. Washington, March 22.?State de? partment officials have gathered vir? tually all data preparatory to request? ing Germany to make reparation for ! the inking of the American ship Wil? liam 1?. Frye by the Prinz Eitel Fried? rich. No word has been received from the Herlin government concerning the case, it is sain, and the note setting forth the views of the Washington government probably will be sent within a few days. The papers, signed by the Frye's owners before the vessel left Seattle, reached tho state depart? ment late today. It is undedstood they bear out published reports that the cargo was consigned to order at Queenstown. Ireland, and do not show any subsequent sale to an English firm. The American complaint will he that there was no proof that tho foodstuffs were destined to the belligerent forces of Great Britain. Tho general belief is ! that the German government will j make reparation and that the incident will be closed shortly. REBUKED BY MR. RED Fl ELD. Government Employee Reminded There is Dignity in Toil. Washington March 22.?Secretary Redfield, of the department of com? merce, has mildly rebuked an employ? ee of his department who is said to have complained recently that he was required to do work beneath his posi? tion. "I r.o not know what the kind of work can be which is bouci th any man's position," the secretary wrote the employee in passing on his case. 'I think there is no work of which I know or have heard that is beneath my dignity to do, and I am glad to say that I have done the plainest and hardest, and what Is some times mis? takenly called the most menial work and am ready to do it again if there I is occasion for it.'" DENVER SINKS AT SEA. American Liner Lost Ott Return Trip From Europe. New York, March 24.?Tho pas? sengers and crow of the Mallory liner Denver Which was abandoned at sea thirteen hundred miles east of New Kork, in a sinking condition, were rescin d by Atlantic transport liner Manhattan, which answered the "Sos" call when the Denver, return? ing from Bremen, where she had tak , on a cargo of cotton from New York, sprung a leak and began t>> sink I rapidly. The passengers were th;' crews of the American steamships sunk In Kuropean waters. The Huer IMcgantlc Is also bringing ;? port oi the I crew, it is reported that the Dcn vor collided with another ship. Advantage of silos. Pays the Greenville News: "Good silo.-, will save millions of dollars which are now lost. We are not rich enough to throw millions away annually. The cost of the silos would be comparatively small.' If the farmers of the South will build silos, they would soon experience the advantage e>f growing something to IUI them from bottom to top. -Wil? mington Star. THE CHINA-JAPAN SITUATION. CinXA ACCEPTS lOlH OF JA? PANS STIPl LATIONS. Fifth Point, Proposed by Republican Diplomat, Accepted l>y Mikado's Representative. Poking, March 2D.?Five articles bearing on the Japaneso demands upon Chine were agreed to hy the Chinese? foreign minister. Lu Chong Haian, and Eki Hioki, the Japanese minister, at a conference at the Jap? anese legation today. The Japanese minister recently was injured by a fall from a horse, and for this rea? son the meeting was transferred to the legation. All the articles concern Man? churia. China agreed to the follow? ing stipulations: I. The Japanese government's con? sent shall be obtained before a loan is made with a third power involving the pledging of local taxes in south Manchuria. t 2. The Japanese government's con rent shall be obtained whenever per ; mission is granted to a subject of a power for the building of a railway In south Manchuria. 3. If thj Chinese government in south Manchuria employs advisers <>r instructors for political, financial or military purposes, the Japanese government shall first be consulted. 4. The transfer of the Kirin Chang Chun railway to Japanese control for 99 years. The fifth article was proposed by China and provides for the con? tinuance of such treaties as are not .affected by the present treaty. The Japanese have conceded the I point of a separate discussion resard 1 ing east Mongolia and south Man ' churia which w ere combined in their list of demands. In the Manchuria group the immigration and land own* , ership clauses have not been settled, i but delinite progress has been made. J This is the case also with vespect to ! the mining clause. The Japanese government has def? initely withdrawn what is known as ("article 3 of the fifth group," namely, \ the demand for a joint police admin? istration of important places through ' out China, and also has indicated its willingness, it is announced, to vvith draw one or two other articles from ^this socalled general group. The Chinese government has re j ceived edvices confirming the report that 600 additional Japanese troops ! have arrived at Tsina, making a total Of 2,000. Boycott! on Japanese goods are re I I ported from several places in the 'south where it is considered that the j Chinese are mostly likely to get be? yond the government's control. A Shanghai dispatch says there was ? rioting within the foreign settlement there Monday night. Japanese thea? tres and shops were stoned. The for? eign police were called out and made fome arrests. . t NO STREET SHOWS FAIR WEEK. Council W ill Not License Competition With State Fair Association Tills Fall. _ - I Columbia, March 24.?No street I shows and carnivals will be allowed ! on the streets of Columbia during I j fair week of this year, according to 1 tho terms of a motion passed by city 1 council yesterday, after a presentation . of the matter by representatives of , the fair association and the Columbia ! Chamber ot Commerce. Plans for other means of entertainment will bo considered in the near future. It is I estimated that tlu revenue to the city I by the abolition of street shows will be reduced about $750. Mayor Grif? tith was the only councilman to vote Dgainst the motion. I?. P. Elird. secretary of the State fair association, said that the fair was .essentially educational and that ! though lust year a splendid agricul I lural exhibit was shown, the fair as I sociation experienced a deficit of sev eral thousand dollars, due largely to the small revenue from concessions. (The fair association has agreed that with the street shows abolished the gates will be opened free to all after 5.30 o'clock each afternoon and that it least three free acts will be shown. Mr. Bflrd said that without municipal competition in street shows tho fair association could guarantee "good" shows on the midway. John W. Lillard, chairman of the ?.-aid of directors of the Chamber of Commerce, said that the board was Opposed to street shows on the grounds that they made Columbia ? "small country town." that the> created filth end "rowdyism." and that they t< ok away much money from Co* lumbia without adequate return, lie said thai the chamber of Commerce and the fair association had several plans in view for other means of en? tertainment for fair visitors, Department Store llurncd. Ran Antonio, March 24.?The Del kowitz department Store was burned today with n loss of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.