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.1 1'jT . -V> Wmm .... - f r . ,.THE UNIG&UTIMES. " ^ . ? ? VOL. LVII NO. 7. UNION, SOUTll CAROLINA, FRiDAY^rTORUARY 15, 1907. $1.00 A YEAR. 4 - " GOV. ANSEL REMOVES ? DISPENSARY BOARD DIRECTORS RAWLINSON, WYLIE AND BUCK REMOVED FROM OFFICE. This Board of Directors is Charged With Misconduct. Neglect and Incapacity?Gov. Ansel's Careful Investigation and Decision. After due consideration of the evidence submitted by the State disp?Asary board, and upon eareful investigation of the charges against the board, vioveruur /\nsei nas removed tiie directors. The following statement from ^he governor is worth reading: ' ' "I do not conceive it necessary that \ I should go into the testimony in reference to the different maters set t forth in that evidence; I could do so were it necessary. I am satisfied from ! the careful consideration that I have given to. the evidence and to the oath I have taken, taking all of these facts into consideration and giving them due weight, that it is my duty to remove from office these gentlemen; and therefore by virtue of the power vested in me by the constitution of South Carolina and the law, I do hereby remove the sfTO> J. M. Rawlinsen Joseph B. Wylie and John Black from the office of directors of the State dispensary." This is interesting reading. The charges against the directors were "misconduct, neglect and incapacity." The trip of Director Black to Peoria, 111., is cited as one of the grounds upon which the charges were based. The legislature passed a resolution unanimously suggesting to Governor Ansel the propriety of removing these men from office and having them prosecuted. This action was passed upon the recommendation of the judiciary committee. It is a source of gratification to-lovers of honesty and zenship that vovpfnnf. Carolina is thus early in his administration showing himself a fearless and conscientious man. He will have the commendation of the best citizens o South Carolina in this step he has taken. The friends of Governor Ansel expected that he would stand squarely i up to his duties, even when unpleasant and this instance goes to prove thai their expectations will not fail. ^ The following words from Governoi Ansel have the right ring: "I want to say that I have givei this matter very serious consideratior rl htHflfXTad this testimony in my hand Stq. ?F2mice and at my home and hav read it with great ca?-e and great cor sirferation. I feel the importance of th matter, and yet at the same time feel the importance of the oath that took when I assumed the office I no hold. "Public office in South Carolina a public trust; and it is the duty every officer to see to it that the la is carried out and that the law is ful carried out which governs him in t! execution of the office to which he h been elected or appointed. I think is just as much the duty of the mei bers of this board, and each one them, to know exactly what liquors j ?purchased, what prices are paid, a in everything in connection with th business that is done, and to know personally, and to know it themseh The records of the office shoudl sh fully and conclusively every tram tion that is had, evejy Ts math, wnt i?uytmng clone in c nection with the business. "As I have said, I have read 1 testimony carefully. In obedience the resolution passed by the gerv assembly, I heard arguments from gentlemen representing the respond* and also the State, on Tuesday last reference first to my authority to move these officers, and second mode of removing them if I had authority. "I have no doubt in my mind i under section 27 of article 3 of the stitution of South Carolina, I have power to remove these officers if / * causes set forth in the constitutor H , . shown to my satisfaction to exist I \ ig "The section reads as follows: I- * 1 Article 3. Officers shall be re 1 incapacity, misconduct or lect of duty, in such manner as ms provided by law, when no mode of or removal is provided in this con lion.' "Under section 556 of the cri code of South Carolina, it is s that the term of office of the said 1 'shall be for two years unless s< removed by the governor.' "1 held Tuesday when this argi ft. . V TO STUDY AMERICA'S PROGRESS China Will Have Representatives al Jamestown Exposition to Learn Lessons this Exposition Has to Teach. By J. T. Maginnis. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 14.?China, tht sleeping celestial kingdom, will have a representative at the Jamestown exposition. An official letter received at the exposition headquarters in Norfolk from Robert Bacon, assistant secretary of Statq; at Washington, says thai American Consul Ragsdale, at TienTsin, China, has been informed officially by the Chinese government that China would send representatives to the exposition. The representatives will be instructed to gather all possible information about the progress of America as shown by the exposition. Major A. M. Wheler, chief of the department of exhibits, says that Japan is to be similarly represented, and that is the custom of all the big European countries to send such representatives, quite aside from official commissions to study the American exposi tions. At St. Louis he recalled thai French, Austrian and German representatives went personally to eacf separate exhibit, buying extensivelj all manner of articles and sending them home. He was surprised at tht thoroughness with which this work was performed. In addition they obtainec all the reports of State commissioners 011 the exposition. It is expected thai merchants and manufacturers who seek part in the growing trade of the United States with China, which has beer growing since the open door policy has been applied to many additional ports will be spurred to great activity as 1 result of this latest news from tin far East. The hall of congresses: 236 feet lonj, and 160 tect wide, with wings 62 fee wide. Auditorium: 150 by 250 feet. Mining and metallurgy building: 10 by 250 feet. , Smelter: 50 by 100 feet. Manufactuers' and liberal arts pa [ ace: 280 by 550 feet. Machinery and transportation palao r 280 by 500 feet. States' exhibit palace: 300 by 5< a *eet- . , Hygenic and medical building: I' s by 250 feet. e Pure foods building: 90 by 30 feel History and historic art palace: 1 e by 129 teei. I Education building: 124 by 129 fe I Pocahontas hospital: 50 by 85 feet w Mothers' and children's building: by 100 feet. is Model school: 35 by 45 feet; mo Df school room: 25 by 32 feet. lW Iron shops, in arts and crafts villa] ly 48 by 50 feet. |ie Pottery shops, in arts and crafts as lage: 48 by 50 feet. j Copper, silver and woodwork' m_ shops, in arts and crafts village: of by 137 feet. ire Textile building, in arts and cr ntl village: 53 by 83 feet. ejr Grand piers: 2,400 feet long, from position grounds into Hampton Ro 800 feet wide, connected by cross ow 1,200 feet long at a distance of : (ac. feet from shore. Marine building: 26,000 square on- of area Palace and commerce: 11,500 sq this feetto era' was made before me that the r t*ie prescribed by law was to issue a jnts to sj,ow cauSe, and in accordance ? in this ruling of mine a rule was is re" and signed by myself and served {be these gentlemen to show cause b' me on yesterday why they shoulc be removed from office, stating that, the testimony taken before the con- committee of the general assembl; ; *be their findings would be used on *be hearing. i are heard arguments yesterday i erence to the demurrer. First, tf 'Sec. swer to the rule and the demurr mov" troduced. I overruled the denr ne8* and continued the argument un iy o'clock this day, with the rigf trial the part of the respondents to fi! stitu- rea(j affidavits that they migh proper. minal "At the hearing this morning stated fidavits were introduced. Arg board has been made before me upon tl ooner timony taken before the joint c< tee by the respondents and also iment attorney general." i CONGRESSMAN JOS. T. JOHNSON. t Who Once Drove Oxen Through the Streets, Before and After College Hours, Now Holds the Reins In Congress. I want to tell you a little story about a man named Johnson. I ilever ! tire telling of the men who havp suc1 ceeded against what might be failed overwhelming obstacles, and in listen. ing to the story of this South Carolina , congress man, I was interested to know that he was one of the boys who once drove oxen through the streets before and after college hours, in order to help defray his expenses at the insti. tution of learning. The men who have achieved, are often the boys who have cut wood, picked cotton or done sippf* lar labor that constitutes the bap^ of I modern life, for the man who afraid of work is not the man Wno "gets, . on in the world." / It was a splendid compliment paid' to the congressman from South tt^tirc^v lina when Senator Tillman said t$At he would likely be in congress ficrr 1 thirty years. Joseph T. Johnson, jus^ . plain Joe Johnson, is a name that sounds well in South Carolina, and hij established popularity as a congress^ man is not confined to his district lit* South Carolina. Few members of congress have ats.' ( tended its sessions more faithfully than r Mr. Johnson; it is said there has never been a session convened that found Joe Johnson missing from hfs place', is a most unusual record in these days. He was given a handsome endorse. ment in his district this faH, Despite , the demands of public life, M>c. John. son remains the same conscientious, persevering, tireless worker that he ( has always been known to be by nis . friends and neighbors of the South. Mr. Johnson is a very enthusiastic advocate of the industrial awakening ? of South Carolina, and in his.^^r-Jot ' ut living. Up r^agaaine/ 1 Charleston Bottled Up? At a mass meeting of the business men of Charleston this week, it wa? decided to make effort to remove tin j railroad discriminations, which, it i charged, exist against that city. Some thing like $4,000 was raised to carr; L on this movement, and more is to b raised if necessary. The following 1 from the State's Charleston correspor 00 dent: facts Did Bare. t. The disinclination 01 the Atlant 24 Coast Line to do anything for Charle ton \rts exposed and the facts la et. bare in the case of the Southern ra way, which has'1 J>een shown to be a 60 tively operating against the port. T reduction of through cotton rati del abolishment of the grain busine stoppage of flour shipments and dr ge: ing away of business of the port w the control of the South Carolina a vil- Georgia by the aoutnern railway w< all painfully exhibited to the meeti ers' in the statement of the mayor. 44 The discriminations against the pn to the south of Norfolk, barring V afts mington, by which Charleston suffe to an extent as high as 100 per c< ex-jin some cases, were told. The build ads, I of the barrier against the expans pier of trade was shown to be the worl< >,400 local railroad interests and not of systems across the Ohio, from wl feet letters were read expressing their sire for trade connections with uare territory, the misleading juggling rate figures, ialse promises, bare-ii __! misrepresentations of facts by the ^ ! roads, which in many cases the r< I | were forced to acknowledge anc some cases overcharges and other j criminations against the port wer ,s gone into by Mayor Rhett. upon The efforts of Charleston to se ' a correction of the troubles in the not were touched upon and the favoi * decision of the inter-state comn J?,nt commission that wrongs hao been ] V and tjce(jt jjUt thc board was unable to 1 ^IS rect them, was commented upon ic an- After the Thaw Dishers. er in jurrer f0]]0w|n8r statement was ' out at the White House Tuesd it on le and this week t see "The president has commun with Postmaster General Cortely no af- know whether it is feasible t< umentfrom the mails the papers thai tie tes- the full disgusting particulars ( >mmit' Thaw case. He.doea not know w by the it i6. feasible, but if it is, he wis done." SUPPOSED SAFE BLOWER RELEASED . M. A. King, who was Supposed to be SafelWr,. Released-Annual ye'st?rdaife^apt<>- V\. H. !F<LtfcY;?was J meetiyg and M. well ^ed o(|^ year as the year before. I lie be meetdistort heretofore had consud one H mm, but it was reduced at this, The V ' '"wU? seven, one having died at. were ma|red away during the last year!-New ^ fqaowing board of directors 3apt. ')l ek?ctr<k Mr. Craig Mitchell, of T. 1 jfiirlt, Capt. A., H. Foster and I F. Kf. Farr? of Union, and M cssif^lle. a Jjjfaj Littlejohn, J. J. Littlejohn, c Alflian, W. H. S. Harris, of Jonesviber $it^r the stockholders' meeting afi^p Mourned, the directors had a meeting '' And elected J. J. Littlejohn president, * |Ad \V. H. S. Harris secretary. A ggmmittee of three was apointed to Mpfcr with a committee of the same ' aramber of the J. J. Littlejohn Co., with 0 A view of the manufacturing company 11 buying the store of the J. J. Littlejohn fb. The committee consists of T. M. 0 ittlejolm, VV. H. S. Harris and E. F. ^ McWhirter. J' jjjM. A. King, the supposed yegman Who was up before United States Commissioner Wj. H. S.'Harris I day, was discharged, the evidence not 1 b??lg .sufficient to hold him for the 11 gjand jury. King seems to be a pretty f sick duck. Commissioner Harris gave 1 ain an opportunity to address the * KUtti^and give an account of himself, 1 put V waived the opportunity. He ledraed to want the matter to end as j Jpocm as quietly as possible. ' /AMrs^J. E. Colton and W. W. Colton, jCfr! W7~H7 Xtnmsmtw. -Ai^A^f? ' burg, spent Monday with his old friend ' and comrade, G. Stout Noland; old vets, will hunt each other up. It has 5 been thirteen years since these two 5 veterans saw each other. : Mr. J. K. Rush, of Midway, Tcnn., s is in our town on a business trip. Mts. Carrol H. Foster, who had been y on a two-weeks' visit to relatives in e Jonesville and Gaffney, returned to her s home in Sumter last week, i- Mr. Robert B. Smith, since dissolving partnership with Mr. I. E. Bailey, will continue the business at the same jc stand. s_ Miss Mamie Poulnot, of Charleston, j(j is the guest of Mrs. Fheo. J. Stehle. 11? Hart in Machinery. es, j ^ ? SSJ Mr. Nathan Hawkins, superintenden iv. of the Union oil mill, was caught Tues jjijlday afternoon about three o'clock ii n(j belt and small pulley. He attempts re |^? Pus^ the belt with his foot an ing!Vas snatched in by the belt. The sma bo?ne in his right leg was broken ju: ,rts jaty?ve the ankle. Dr. Maddox w; /il_ cabled in and rendered surgical ai red ^ r" Hawkins rested weAl after the me ;nt. 'c carL> and will be <,,ut in about tv ing w :eks* , . ' ,ion 7-^ : of QWfTxVrViT Monument in .lonesvill the\7 1 VOt^ 'dar Jonesville, Feb. 13.?The local ho j^T* i missionary society met with Mrs. F. Y Williams last Monday afternoon ; V the John Hames Chapter U. D. C. 1 ICCCVl ' rail 1 with Mrs. W. H. S. Harris yester >ads*! evcn'nK- ' be chapter expect to rer j* . 1 something they have been working dis \ 'or tke 'ast three years, namel) 11 \ monume"t to the Confederate sol< Yc' Union county. They hope to ''v.ie monument placed by mid-sumr curetui^ ' past 'A ~ rabie Wittekind's Second Trip. lerce 01 ... prac- The steamer Wittekind re cor- Ciii harleston on Feb. 8th, bringing ?ia id load of immigrants. There 01 j ie hundred and twenty-one p g ers aboard ,all of whom are s b^e of respectable class. One of given a farmer, is worth 60,000 marks, i ay ?f p arposes buying a farm and s ir 1 this State. The immigran icated ]- rgely Austrians, with about 1 OU, to g ? ians and a few Hungarians, o bar ?. t give > ?* t*iese PeoP,e will be sent of the ,l0r imbia and the Piedmont sec hether 1 tl ie State, and the remainder ihes it ; c\ stributed in Charleston and t I f \ it the lower portion of the J |! VOTE ON STATE DISPENSARY. How the Vote Stood In the Senate. Wise Men Thought the Fight Against Dispensary Was Useless. ^ motion.' *0 pass the Carev~othran to reading t|*fc vote n ,h? ?*t. S.8,,*,. ows: ^^rdflTurayden, YetepMBWi 'XiTnlriin, McGowan, TTtf, Sinkler, Smith, Sullivan, Talbert, oolc, Williams?Total 21. fc' * iNays?Black, Blease, Clifton, Earle, Iflrd, Hough, Johnson, Kelly, LartCy, < laysor, Rogers, Stackhouse, Walker, j /ells, Weston?Total 15. < Senator Christensen was paired with t enator Griffin. If Senator Griffin had ] een present ,he would have voted s nay" and Senator Christensen would avc voted "yea." Senator McKeith- ( n was paired w^'vh Senator Towns- [ nd. Had^>J^-t."che,Cicnd been present j and cheaper cei'.^avo, : l'own. sure von e wy ir ? j c ie would have voted ' / ana cje.iaor McKeithan would have voted yea." Senator Bass, who has been ill at his , ionic in Williamsburg, was not presnt. Had he been present he would , ave voted "aye." The real strength of the senate, , ounting the pairs and absentees, /ould have been aye 24, nay 17, a tnaority of seven against the State dis- , icnsary. One of the Sap??"rc._jiihn U.?' HJl"Tocal option and against ne State dispensary machine said last light that he had been told 18 months :go by wise men that the task was mpossible; 18 months from now they! vill wonder why they ever tolerated t. The two houses have now passed the )ill. The following is the correct vote n the house of representatives: Those who voted for the Careylothrgui bill are: Speaker Whaley, rev, Larrigan, v^io.j, ~v-. grove, Cothran, Courtney, C<>x, Croft, DeVore, Doar, J. B. Dodd, J. H. | Dodd, Howling, Fraser, Frost, Cause, J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Greer, Hall, Harley, Harmon, Harrison, Hemphill, Johnstone, Kellahan, Kershaw. Lawson, Legare, McArthur, 1 McKeown, McMaster, Mann, Marshall, Miller, Morrell, Nash, Nesbitt, Nichols, Nicholson, Niver, Parker, Patterson, Reaves, Richardson, kucker, Saye, Scarborough, Sellers, Shipp Kurtz P. Smith, Spiver, Thomas, Todd Vanderhost, Verner, VonKolnitz Wade, Walker, Wallace, White, Wig gins, Wimberly, Youmans?73. Those who voted against it are Messrs. Ayer, Bailey, Bcthune, Brani ley, T. S. Brice, Cannon, Carson, Cai wile, Culler. Derham, Dick, Dingh t Dixon, Douglass, Epps, Epting, Gai . ris, Gary, Glasscock. Goodwin, Gyle a Harris, Hinton, Hughes, Hydricl j Jones, Kirven, Lane, Lester, Leitne (| Little, McColl, Miley, Richards, Ro U inson, Sawyer, Scruggs, Sharp Slaughter, D. L. Smith, J. E. Smit ls Stillwell, Stubbs, Tatum, Tompkir (j Wingard, Woods, Wyche, Celdell? d Na2 t-2 Ocnu Fare on Railroa* i0 The senate killed Senator Tool bill to compel the railroads to redi the fare to two and one-half cents mc mile. Some of the senators put railroad authorities on notice tha and they did not improve the road 1 met i,y another year they would vote to day duce the fare, ili/.c for ... , , r a 1. M. Turbeville has brought su licrs Spartanburg against the Southern have way for $30,000 damage for the k ner ?' M'ss Delinda Hand at Dui about three months ago. Miss was a sister of Prof. Hand, o State university, and was a f teacher at the time of her death, ached _____ a sec- The supreme court on Wedi were | rendered its decision affirming - ,u assen- action of the circuit conn ... aid to George Hasty, conyicted of t ^ and sentenced to life impriso ' The sentence of the lower coti and he stand, and this young man, a ettling years, has before him a life im ts are tncnt. 15 Bel About namcs 127 P<-'rs?ns wl aboard the steamer, Larchmori to ?" it sank in Block Island sound tion of night, are 97 persons ar will be missing. Those rescued were hrough- a fearful condition that many State. have since died. M t f-V> FLAGMAN JAILED t ON GRAVE CtURGt IS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OE COLLISION Engineer oii^^r^g Jed In a Engineer recently of bis city* but formerly of ^*awnell, N. artd'Tiis fireman, Stvler Dean, colored, 6T'^?TrnVly-feixJ'Hvere killed in a yjfcr-end collision at Johnston yesterray. Extra freight train No. 263 was 1111 into by extra through freight train ^o. 344 in the Southern railway yards it Johnston early yesterday morning. Engineer J. E. Stewart and Conduc;or Black and a negro brakeman by :he name of West Goodwin were inu. \a caboose, supply car and and an \?.ere destroyed by fire, badly damaged, and two box cars Vk considerably torn a new locomoti\^?lc accident, the main line tra ^ *he wreck was up as a result of t<^ Flagman The entire cause o - ~ 'be ver~ due to the wilful neglcC^OfJered at P. W. Mooring, according to t an<^ diet of the coroner's jury rent^JjBSWB^^-1?" Johnston yesterday afternoon, \ a ^ arriyc is now held in the county jail *\vori/gSMWS** ' ' developments. It, 11 ^ . ^^r-nr-en on duty over 32 hours at the inquest that the crew of train when the collision occurred. When the news of the wreck reached the city early yesterday morning a wrecking train carrying a crew of workmen left the union station about 4 o'clock with Cnairnian B. L. Caughman, of the State railroad commission and several of the division officials aboard. On investigating the cause of the wreck it was learned that the train No. 263, original No. 45, going south, from the cotton seed oTl Whif,"WnCf? (it was run into by train No. 344,also I going south and in charge of Conductor i G. C. Black and Engineer J. E. Stewart. The two trains were running on schedule time, and when Conductor j Wright of train No. 263 stopped his j train on the main line to take on the box cars he sent Flagman Mooring out to flag the extra through freight No. 344. which was due shortly, and it is - alleged and announced in the coroner's verdict that it was through the iaUure * of Flagman Mooring to give train No3S*t*( mJL 344 proper warning that the catastrophe occurred. The collision took place on * ' a sharp curve and Engineer Stewart "Idid not see the danger until it was , too late. - I Engineer Norton, who was killed in r" j the accident, was in the conductor's s> cab of the train standing on the main line when the collision took place. He ' - VT _ r,jhad been on the engine 01 train i>o. 263 making his initial run in company e' with Engineer Latimer and had left the engine to take a rest when the ,s< through freight dashed into a cab in which he was sleeping, killing him in: stantly and burning his body beyond 1 recognition. When Engineer Stewart of train Xo. . , T* -the danger he jumped from ics his cab anaVS^. ^ ar-J?Uurhtuce ly injured. The fireman, Sevief TJWfc, per however, evidently did not see the the danger in time and his body was found t if in a car box under a pile of guano >cds sacks with his head badly mashed. He 1 re- is supposed to have been killed outi right. West Goodwin, the negro brake* * 1 it I man who was injurcci, susuim... .. ^ -n fracture of one of his leg*, while Enil ' gineer Stewart and Conductor Mack iUinjr art" on]y slightly injured, items Yesterday afternoon while superinHand ten^'n8 the work of removing the f thcJwrec'<- Foreman Winters of the wreck hool train and a resident of this city, was struck in the forehead by a link which flew out of a hoisting chain and received injuries which will probably tesday prove fatal. The engine of the wreck' the jng train was moving the wrecked ene case gine of train No. 344 by means of a nurder large chain when one of the links partnment. e(|t wjth the result that a link struck rt will Mr. Winters in the heVi. The injured ged 21 tnan was brought to the city late yesprison terday afternoon and was placed tn the hands of a physician. At a late that he hour last nignt u to were was still in an unconscious condition it. when and little hopes are entertained for his Monday recovery. e known The work of removing the debris was in such concluded yesterday afternoon and all of them train last night passed through.?The Sute. y - 1