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SEARCHLIGHT FOR ISLAND. SIXTY.IM II iNvriU Ml \T, WITH 11AD11S OP FOLK AM? HALF Uli I , FLAN N LI). Veuvhlight < *>mpl< t. d Will Cost $15.. ?#?>?4?o\ornmcnt S?Kin to Ask for iUds on Lnrtlnn. News and Courier. rum ?r?i now rapidly ncnrlng com? pletion for tho erection, for military end naval purposes, of a 60-lnch OearrhhrM on the east end i>f Sulli? van's Island, on the site of tho once fancms Hattory Marshall. Ithls for the construction of the ? uul und the placing ol the light will he called for In the near future, according to Infor? mation from a reliable source. Major Gilbert A. Younger*. U. 8. A.. In charge of the I'nlted States engineers office here, when naked In regard to the searchlight yesterday declined to give any official continuation to the story. The searchlight will be of the typo that Is regularly In service In many parts of the United States, where there are coast defense works. It will be placed on top of a tower, or structure, approximately forty feet in height, and will be connected with machin? ery on the ground which will mani? pulate the big light. When glowing from the top of tho forty-foot structure, the searchlight will throw a beam of Intense white light for a distance of 8,000 yards, or a little more than four and one-half miles, and therefore it will be able to cover a circle with a diameter of nine miles, In making a revolution on Its vertical axis. The lighting will be done with elec? tricity, and the whole searchlight mechanism will be operated with the same power. In time of peace the big light will be in use only in practice man? oeuvre and drills. It is provided pri? marily tut an aid In detecting and re palling a night attack on trje fortifica? tions where it is stationed. The cost of erecting and buying the immense searchlight will be approxi? mately $16,000. according to esti? mates now being prepared under the auspices of the war department at Waehington. That the big ray of brilliant light, flashing miles in tho air and over land and sea, when the new plant is constructed, win prove a great mag not for the corlous goes without say? ing- No such searchlight has ever been maintained in or near Charles? ton before, as far as could bo ascer? tained yesterday. Battery Marshall, on the site of which the searchlight will be erected, had a history during the civil war, the guns there having taken a promi? nent part during the operations around Charleston In those times, but at present the spot is nothing gOOfO than a heap of sand, and Its history la known to but few persona. ?WEluFLNO INVESTIGATION OR. DFKLh. La ?Ja ml Tragedy feeooftetsj Wide? spread *?< ao.lal Chicago. Aug. 4 ?Secretary Ited A?ld has suspended the Kastland in? vestigation and announced that he is framing his report to the president. He eipects Fresident Wilson to order a sweeping Investigation of tho whole Steamship Inspection service. The work of raising the Eaatland Is ox pocted to ho completed Sunday. Oth? er steamship lines are undergoing a rigid investigation. \ot \<. m \\ killf.i). Ida <*off Fulls Luder Wheels of Wag? on. Camden. Aug. 2.?Ida Qoff. a young white man || y >-h rs Of age, wa.i thrown n mi a wagon near Blaney, In west \\ ?r. r..\ 'hl? .'ft- u.n and Ireit .nth killed. The young man In oompnn\ with others had been to a flour mill near Ulancy and when returning a gfOOm was brewing. Tho wagon wan being driven at a lively gait and the young man fell under one wheel which passed over Ml h. ad. crushing hfs akull. cau'ung Instant -bath. |(,. 'Mis a highly respected young follow, the eon of Mr. und Mrs Vincent QoJF, ond beeiden hla parents he is sur\lved by four brothers and OJM stattL Woman OCft/NTUtTBITKR Alt m vn p, WHO of ItallroiMl Man Kahed One Dol? lar Hills. t 'hsttanonira. Aug. 4- Mrs. Nancy Bennett, wife or tho commercial agen? of th?? Southern Hallway was arrested today on the charge of counterfeiting. Hho raised one dol? lar bills to fives. Ilsudll Itoh ( a>bler <>dar Itiptds. August i ? a lone bandit held up OoOtotOf I'eriin of the K i plda National lt.. nk today The bandit locked him in the vault and escaped with !. : ?? > SURE OF GREATER CHARLESTON EDITOU OF THE MANVFACTPR FJtS* RECORD Olm OPINION OF TIIAT WltTS FVTTRE. HAllrontls ami Capitalists to Take Ad\untagv of Sti|>erh Harbor Ad? vantages am < "a! Terminals. Columbia, Auk. 3.?nichard II. Ed? munds, editor of tho Manufacturers* Kccord, of millmn. predicts that Charleston will become one of tho 'great ports of the country. and pays I a hondeome tribute to the superiority of this port In a telegram to the Chamber of Commerce. A represen? tative of the paper of which he is edi? tor recently spent several days here I making an investigation of tho im 1 provements that are being made at this point, und the message from Mr. Edmonds was a sequel to the report of this representative. The telegram follows: "Hsccnt investigations have in no way Increased my opinion as to the future development and growth of Charleeton, for I have for many yearn felt assured that Charleston was des? tined to become one of the greatest shipping ports of the country. "When the Clinchfield railroad was undertaken, with a view to building a line from the west through the coal fields of Virginia to Charleston, I then felt that the dreams of the great-lead ers of Charleston, who three-quarters of a century ago looked forward to the ' building of a line from Charleston to I tho west, would find fulfilment in the near future. Tho proposed coal pier at Charleston by the Clinchneid was only an Inevitable step following the build? ing of the road, and having in view Charleston's splendid location, when the Southern railway commenced the building of Its coal pier, emphasis was added, not to Charleston's superb lo? cation, for that was not needed, but to Charleston's equipment for busi? ness. "Nature has endowed Charleston with its splendid location and superb harbur, railroads are now making available these advantages and merely preparing for tho inevitable growth which the progress of tho nation and its expanding commerce mako inevi? table. I confidently look forward to Charleston becoming one of the great ports of the country. Richard H. Edmonds, Editor Manufacturers' Record." FLORIDA CITIES STORM 1>AMAU ED. Much Loon In Tampa and St. Peters? burg from Tiiprceedcnted K?lns. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 2.?Hallway tracks were washed away, growing crops Inunduated and a great portion of the peninsula across the Hlllsbor ouich I Xf from Tampa flooded early this morning following unprecedent? ed rains which fell for 13 hours. Fif? teen Inches of rain was recorded. In St. Petersburg two houses in the fasnlonable section wer? undermined and toppled over into a small lake. Many other houses have been under? mined. Tracks of the Tampa & Gulf Coast and tho Atlantic Coast Line Hallways wero washed away In a half dozen places and all traffic on Lhe peninsula has been held up ex? cept by boat. A train on the Haines City branch of the Atlantic Coast Line rain Into a washout and several passengers were badly Injured. Tho downpour was accompanied by a terri?c thunderstorm. Property damage in St. Petersburg is estimated at fully $50,000 with damage in other sections of the coun? try running the loss up over $100,000. SITTER FROM RAINS. Hainau?* at Palm I loa eh Amounts to Thousands of Dollar*. West Palm Heach, Fla., Aug. 2.? r*eBiege which Will amount to thou? sands Of dollars has been caused in this BSetlOB by Hoods resulting from heavy rains yesterday and today. Many railway bridges have been Wiishod out. All through trains aro eblng held up. LEXINGTON WOMEN POI80NED. ? llc<s>mo HI After Eating Sausage at . *H>n Meal?Condition Still Serious. I.txlngton, Aug. I,?Three phyai < i ins from Lexington worked heroclal ly for Bevern! hours yesterday In an effort to save the lives of flvo roung women who were raftering I 1 from ptomaine poisoning, tho result Iof Inning eaten sausage put up In oil as part of the noon day lunch. The young women suffering from i the poison art* Misses Miller, ago 17 and is yearn respectively; two young glrll by the name Of Spires and Mrs. Muller Miller. All of the women are operatives In the tnis?Qotha nulls. n< i r I Islington As is the ease in many ootton mills, dinner Is sent to the mill at 12 o'eloek, One of the young grlls went to a tore in the Village gnd purc hased the ' iusngs< Mm ssked the other mem* here Bf the party lO share the pur - buna In a very short while one af? ter another became ill. COTTON CROP CONDITION. (iOVERXMENT RKPORT INDI? CATES DIG DECREASE. Whether Number of Dales Is Greater or I joss Depends on Weatlier Condi? tions. Washington, Aug. 2.?This year's cotton crop Will he approximately 1 1,970,037 equivalent 600-pound bales, compared with 16,13 1,930 bales lnst year. That estimate, unofficially cal? culated, Is based on the government's condition report, issued today, and. of? ficial figures of acreages and normal yield. Whether the crop Will be greater or less depends upon growing condi? tions from now until picking time. The condition of the growing cotton crop of the United States on July 26 was 75.3 per cent, of a normal, the * United States department of agricul? ture's crop reporting board announced i at noon today in its third condition report of the season. That condition compares with 80.3 per cent, on June 25 this year, 76.4 per cent, on July 25 last year, 79.6 per cent. In 1913 and 78.5 per cent, the average condition on July 25 for the last ten years. The area planted to cotton and un? der cultivation on June 26 this year, as previously reported, was 31,635,000 acres, a decrease of 6,871,000 acres or 15.7 per cent, from that under cul? tivation on June 25 last year. A con? dition of 100 per cent, of a normaj on July 25 would be equivalent to a yield I of 241.3 pounds of cotton to the acre, the bureau of crop estimates has an? nounced. Weather conditions generally have been favorable to the crop through? out the month except In Texas where there was a lacK or ram. Tho report for South Carolina shows that the crop deteriorated from 76 per cent, on June 26 to 72 per cent, on July 25. On July 25, 1914, the condition per? centage in South Carolina was 79; in 1913 was 75 per cent, and the 10 year average was 78 per cent. This shows South Carolina defi? cient this year very perceptibly. In a statement the crop reporting board explained the unusually heavy decline, which was five points during July, as follows: "The extremely wet weather that continued through much of June and early July in most of tho cotton belt left the plant rank and sappy, With development of surface roots ra-ther than a tap root and foul with grass and weeds; therefore peculiarly sus? ceptible to damage from the exces? sively dry weather that followed and continued up to July 25, the date to which the report relates. Cool nights during a part of the period and dry winds late in the month Increased the damage. "The effect of the lack of the usual quantity and quality of commercial fertilizer in the sections where nor? mally used has become apparent now that the plant has reached the fruit? ing stage, being most marked In the sandy sections. "The boll weevil in the older lnfect od sections is not complained of as much as usual, but in newly infected regions it Is doing considerable dim age. "A condition of 76.8 on July 25 fore? casts a crop slightly under 12,000,000 bales. Final results will probably be more or less than this forecast, ac? cording, as crop conditions hereafter aro better or worse than average." ALLIACNE WITH JAPAN. Russian Minister Hints at Closer He? ia t ions Hot ween Countries, London, Aug. 2.?Foreign Minister Rasonoff's speech at the opening of the Russian duma yesterday, as re? ceived hero tonight, hinted at a closer alliance between Japan and Russia. Tho llnal section of tho speech, as telegraphed, quoted the minister as saying the press of both countries has been discussing the advantage of a close political union and that th?ser vice rendered the entente allies by Japan had "created an atmosphere in which solid political ties between na? tions aro formed." I "Ten years have gone by," the min? ister aaid, "since tho treaty of Ports? mouth proved that peaceful noighbor liness between Russia and Japan was possible and reciprocally advantage? ous. Our relations of alliance .with Japan today should be forerunners of still closer alliance." , The statement was received by members Of the duma with cheers. DEADLOCK IN HAITI. United States Marines Keep Peace In Port-au-Prince. Port ?au? Prince, Aug. 3.?only the presence of United states marines and machine guns mounted in the Directs prevents on outbreak here. The country is still without a presi? dent. Incitement Is high and con? gress is deadlocked. The Connecti? cut battleship is expected today or tomorrow, With additional marines. 10 DIET EPWORTH PAT1EHTS ORPHANS TO HAVE SERVICE OF UNITED STATES SURGEON. Agreement Reached Whereby Federal Public Health Officials Will Treat Orphans Affected with Pellagra. Columbia, Aug. 3.?The acceptance by the executive committee of the Epworth orphanage of the "proposition to have members of the United States public health service use the orphan? age as a demonstration of the eradi? cation of pellagra by dieting has in turn been accepted by government au? thorities, according to a letter from Joseph Goldberger, M. D., surgeon In charge of pellagra investigations, to W, J. Murray, chairman of the board of directors of the Epworth orphan? age and chairman of the Columbia committee, consisting of himself, T. B. Stackhouse and H. A. Taylor. The work, said Dr. Goldberger, will begin on or about September 1, the plan having met with the approval of Ru? pert Blue, M. D., surgeon general, and 1 officials of the treasury department. The proposal by Dr. Goldberger tol Dr. Murray was first made July 22, | following a verbal consultation. The contract is as follows: ( "1. The United States public health service to provide a physician who will have local charge of the. work. He will prescribe the diet that is to be provided the inmates of the or? phanage; he will also serve as the or? phanage physician in cases of ordi? nary illness, giving, without cost to the institution, the medical advice and care that the inmates may need. "2. The United States public health service to provide, without cost to the orphanage, all of such animal food as may be prescribed in the diet? namely, milk, eggs, cheese, fish, fowl and other fresh and smoked meats, but not including butter. "3. The United States public health service to furnish, without cost to the orphanage, the service should they be found desirable or necessary in the supervision of the diet and the proper feeding of the children of a trained nurse, 4. The United States public health service will expect the board of man? agers, superintendent and other offi? cers and employes of the institution to cooperate to the full extent of their power. "5. The United States public health service will expect that the institution will provide a" its own cost and in sufficient quantities all of the vege table-fooc component of the diet, namely, thj cereal and starchy foods, the ordinary vegetables and greens, fresh or dried peas and beans and fresh or dried fruits (dried apples, peaches, prunes). '6. The United States public health service will expect that the orphanage will employ a competent and efficient cook, in order that the diet shall be properly and appetizingly prepared and served and the food economically utilized. ? "7. The United States public health service will expect that the orphan? age will mako provision for the con? servation from day to day of the fresh foods, milk, eggs and meat. "8. The United States public health service will expect the orphanage to provide suitable furnished rooms and meals for the nurse, should one be employed as per section 3 above. "9. The United States public health service will expect the orphanage to provide a suitable room with ordinary table and chairs to serve as an office for the medical officer. "10. The United States public health service will expect the orphanage to restrict the vacation periods granted the children so that no inmato will he absent for a longer continuous period than seven days In any quarter. "11. The United States public health service would expect to continue the demonstration for a period of not leas than one or two years. It Is to be understood, however, that neither party to tho understanding binds It? self to continue the demonstration should it prove, for any reason, un? satisfactory or impracticable to con? tinue It." TO CLEMSON COLLEGE. special Railway Rates for Summer School. Clemson College, Aug. 4.?The rail? roads have agreed to give special rates from points in South Carolina to Clemson college to those who are intending to attend the summer school to be at Clemson August 9 to Septem? ber 4. Persons who are coming to the college to attend tho summer school should ask for these reduced rates when buying their tickets. The tickets will be on sale August 7, 8 and 9, ami will be good on trains leaving on those days. The return tickets will not expiro until Septem? ber 0. Tin* prospects are for a large en? rollment In the four summer school courses that Clemson coileooj|la offer? ing. These courses aro for > fnuTfcera1 rural school teachers, rural ministers and corn club members. JAIL INSPECTION BEGUN. STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS STARTS IN? VESTIGATION. Assistant Secretary A. D. Oilphant Making Tour or State, Visiting Jails Poorhouse? and Chain Gangs? Sumter First Co inty Visited. From The Daily Item, Aug. 4. The State Board of Charities and Corrections began today in Sumter its inspections of jails, chaingangs and poorhouses. A. D. Oliphant, assist? ant secretary of the board, visited the county Jail this morning and was shown through the building by Jailer D. W, Owens. After he has had a talk with Sheriff Bradford about conditions he found in the Jail, Mr. Oliphant will make hie report to the State Board of Charities and Correc? tions. Besides making visits to the penal and charitable institutions in Sumter county, the ? representative of the State Board will gather statistics about tho number of inmates and the cost of maintenance of the jails, poorhouses and chaingangs. The Sumter county committee of visitors, appointed by Dr. George B. Cromer, chairman of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, is com? posed of Mr. J. F. Glenn, chairman; tho Rev. J. P. Marion and. Mrs. H. W. Beall. Mr. Oliphant will meet with the committee this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock in the office of Mr. Glenn. Before leaving Sumter, the repre? sentative of the State Board of Char? ities and Corrections will visit the poorhouse and the cbaingang camp. The latter is now about 10 miles from the city. The State Board o>* Charities and Corrections intends to cooperate in its work closely with the county officials in chareg of institutions over which it has visltorial and advisory powers. The board will also seek to interest local agencies in the jnty penal and charitable institutions. Its local com? mittee of visitors, will aid the board greatly in keeping in close touch with the county officials and, inspecting the jail, poorhouse and chaingang fre? quently. CHAINGANG INSPECTED. State Board of Charities and Correc? tions Work of Investigation of Pen? al Institutions Today. From The Daily Item, Aug. 5. The State Board of Charities and Corrections continued today its in? spection of penal and charitable in? stitutions in Sumter. Supervisor P. M. Pitts carried A. D. Oliphant, the assistant secretary of the Boards, who is making the inspections in Sumter, out to the county chaingang camp this morning. The camp is 10 miles from Sumter on the Pocallo-Manning road at Brier branch, across which Mt. Pitts is building a bridge and causeway. Thirty-six negro convicts, eight of whom are "trusties," are now on the Sumter county chaingang in charge of Captain J. H. Holland and Guards Geo. W. McManus ancfc J. L?. Nunnemaker. This afternoon the agent of the State Board of Charities and Corec tions will go to Inspect the Sumter county almshouso with Supervisor Pitts a. d Mr. J. F. Glenn, chairman of the Sumter committee of visitors for the State Board of Charities and Corrections. Mr. Oliphant said this morning that he was convinced that Sumter county needed a new Jail badly and that he bad found a number of, citizens of Sumter who were of this opinion. He 'believes that if all the citizens of Sum? ter were aware of the overcrowded condition of the present Jail, for which Sheriff Bradford and Jailer Owens are in nowise to blame, the demand for 8. new county prison would be unani? mous. Structural defects in the present county Jail added to its over? crowded condition, in the opinion of -the a^ent of the Stato Board of Char [itles and Corrections, make it unlit for human habitation. Mr. Oliphant declared that he was glad to find that white men and ne? groes were not required to work to? gether on tho Sumter county chain? gang and that Supervisor Pitts was opposed to the idea. The State Board of Charatles and Corrections intends to discourage the practice of working white men and negroes together on the same chaingang, wherever it finds that it is being done, as the Board does not believe that the involuntary association of the white men and ne? groes m the chaingang is of benettt to either race. The attitude of the Sumter county officials toward tho hetteTmeYit work undertaken by the State Board of Charatles and Corrections pleased the representative of tho Board, "I founa all of the Sumter county and city olllcials whom I asked for in? formation wanted by the Hoard will? ing to give it to me and very much in? terested in the work of the .toard," Mr.i Uiphtwit said toda>y {.^j;lbJnk that tho State Hoard of Cht?rUtet 'and Corectioqs and the official* of ftumler will be able to co-operate closely in 10 ASSESS BANKS. WORK OF COMMISSION TO CON* TIN FE PENDING COURT'S DE- , CISION. Chief Justice Gar; Stays Injunction mid Writ of Mandamus by Judge Watts. . *?' ?.*' * *' * ? ? *? v 1 i Columbia, Aug. 6.?Eugene B. Gary, chief justice of the supreme court, signed two orders yesterday which wil lallow the State tax com? mission to continue its work of assess? ing the banks of South Carolina. The commission will proceed with its work, until the matter is finally determined! jby the full supreme court, j The orders of Chief Justice Gary [stay the injunction and the writ of mandamus orders signed several days ago at Uiurens by R. C. Watts, assos ciate justice. The orders stay the proceedings in the case of the Peoples* National bank of Greenville "in behalf of its self and all other banks in this State" and the National I?an and Exchange bank of Greenwood and W. J. Bailey against the tax commission. Both cases will be argued at . the November term of the supreme court. The order in the Greenwood case is as follows, issued by Judge Gary* "It appearing unto the court that the defendants herein have glyen due notice of appeal and that the return has been duly filed with the cleric of the supreme court, from an order heretofore passed by his honor, R. t G, Watts, associate justice of the su? preme court, on the 26th day of July. 1915, and which has been duly filed in the office of the clerk of the'( su? preme court and the writ of manda? mus issued, or to be issued thereun? der, now upon motion of Thomas flb Peeples, attorney general, and Fred H. Dominick, assistant attorney gen? eral, attorneys for the defendants^ . "It is ordered that all proceedings in the matter be stayed until the furs ther order of this court. a . "And it is further ordered, That the operation and effect of all the said order or orders Issued in said pro* ceedings by his honor. Judge Watts, and the writ or writs of mandamus issued or to be issued under said or? der or orders be, and the same are hereby, suspended during the pend? ency of the appeal herein,'' The following order was signed by Judge Gary in the Greenville bank; case: "It appearing unto the court that the defendants herein have given due notice of appeal and that the return has been duly filed with the clerk of the supreme court from an order heretofore passed by his honor, R. C. Watts, associate justice of the su Iireme court, on the 26th day of July, ipi\>, and which has been duly filed, lh the office of clerk of court for Hichland county and the writ of in? junction issued or to be issued there? under, now upon motion of Thos. H, Peoples, attorney general, and Fred H. Dominick, assistant attorney general, attorneys for the defendants, "It Is ordered that all proceedings ip the matter be stayed until the fur? ther order of this court, "j "And it is further ordered. That the operation and effect of all the said order or orders of injunction, is t I.1-- v sjued in said proceedings by his honor. Judge Watts, and the writ or yrr^itn of injunction issued or to be issued under said order or orders be, .^agd. the same are hereby, ssupended dur? ing the pendency of the appeal here in." The above orders were signed yes--, terday morning at Abbeville by CJjiief Justice Gary. A. W. Jones, chairman, of the tax commission, and Fred H.. Dominick, assistant attorney general, made the trip -to Abbeville to secure the orders. ?. "We will start at the place where we left off before the order of Judge Wutts was signed," said J. P. Derham, member of the tax commission. "We are the tax commission and we are going on with the people's fight. That is all that I care to say Just now," said Chairman Jones of. the commission. >. 4 REPORT FROM BANKS. \ Reserve Institutions Show Earning Power. . Washington, Aug. 4.?The first re? port on operations of the 12 federal reserve banks, made public tonight, shows that the system earned 1918, 588 from November 16, 1914, to June 30, last, while expenses were $894, 117. Only five of the 12?Richmond, Atlanta, Dalls, New York and Chi? cago?earned more than they spent. The Richmond bank made the best showing, with net earnings of 7.5 per cent, on the capital invested. St. Louia made tho poorest, with expenses 5.4 per cent, greater than earnings. the work of improving conditions that surround the criminal, delinquent and pauper classes in this county." The assistant secretary of the Stato Board of jCharttifs and. Corrections will go fwmof rnw* morning to Bishop vllle where he, will ?mM??r*? th* iH?o county jail, chaingang and almshouse.