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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
DE-. crum, of S. G., Lands Again.

Washington, Special. = President
Taft has nominated William D. Crum.
of South Carolina, to be minister
resident and consul general at Mon
rovia, Liberia. Crum is the negro
whose appointment by MI. Roosevelt
as collector of the port ct Charleston.
S. c., raised such a storm Of protest
in the South.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Candidates in Lexington County.

Informally marking the opening Of
the State campaign, the six candidates
for Governor, two candidates for
Congress and one candidate for Adj
jutant General addressed voters of
Lexington County, at Summerfeld
Thursday, the occasion being a church
lu rL-.i,a=
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Customs Courts First Case.

Washington, Specialize new
United States Customs Court, sitting
as a final court Of appeals, in Gus
toms cases only, Thursday took up
its first case, the determination as
to whether certains paints be assess
ed at 5 cents a pound, or 80 per
cent. ad valorem by the customs au-
thorities.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Tigers Die Hard in Sumter.

A white tiger has received a gang
sentence without alternative. W. W.
Dutton, he who had used liquor as
a trade inducement. was sentenced to
a fine of $50 or Is days on each Of
four counts, and to 30 days without
alternative on the fifth count. So
he will serve at least one month, with
the probability of tire months.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Two White Men in Trobule.

The arrest Friday Of two young
white men, John M. Wise and M. C..
Tidwell, both of Watts mills, Laurens
county, on a warrant charging them
with the murder, five months ago, of
Clarence L.. White, caused quite a
sensation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Candidates Take Notice!

Pledges for state offices and con-
gress must be filed with the state
chairman by noon Of June q. The
assessments for candidates for con-
gress are $125 each; for governor $75;
For other state Offices, $50.
The first primary will be held on
Tuesday, August 80, and the second
on Tuesday, September ID.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Three Killed by lightning.

Three negroes were killed Friday
by a bolt of Lightning, near the town
of Creston, Orangeburg. Five ne
groes were the victims of the bolt,
two of whom have recovered, though
badly bruised, while three were killed
i%ntaantly
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Fruit Shortage $40, 100000.

Richmond, Va, Speclal.-William
H. Murray, fruit expert and CORE
spondent of national repute for the
California Fruit Growers and Ship.
pers' Journal, estimates the fruit
shortage in the United States this
year as from forty to fifty million
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Found the Still, But

Revenue officers accompanied by
special constables, left Spartanburg
Friday to make a raid on a moon-
shine distillery 20 miles above the
city on the line of the Carolina,
C~linchfeld & Ohio. They found an.
S5-gallon still in operation. ''The pot
was boiling" but the moonshiners
had gone off to a cabin to get meal
to make mash.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Wheat Crop Very Good.

Washington, Special.-The govern
ment crop report shows the area
sown to spring wheat is about 49,
$4,000 acres or 1,349,000 acres ga
per cent? more than last year; the
condition on June l was 92.8 as com
pared with 95.2 on June /, 1909. The
condition Of winter wheat was 800
compared with S2.1 on May l, 1910
SO.7 on June i, 1909.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Murdered American Woman.
Como, Italy, By Cable.-The polio

Como, Italy, By Cable.-The police
are bending all their energy to solve
the mysterious murder of an Aneri-
can woman, believed to be Mrs. .Por-
ter Charlton, of New York, formerly
Mary Crittenden Scott, of San Fran
cisco, whose body was found tied in
a trunk at the bottom of Lake Como.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Mr.. Thurmond Special Judge.

j. William Thurmond Of Edgefeld,
has been appointed by Governor Ansel
as special judge to hold the summer
term of court for Aiken and Hamp-
ton counties. These counties are a
part of the second judicial district.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Cut Out Whisky for a Year.

Charleston, W. Va, Specially a
unanimous vote the county commits
sioners of Kanakha County voted to
reject all applications for saloon
licenses in Charleston and Kanawaha
County for mi year, beginning July
LIST.
Following this action 1,50O men:
women and children, who had attend
ed the session Of the Court, march.
ed from the Court House, singing:
1sNearer My God to Thee
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Cannot Float in Polluted Water.

Washington, Special.-In a decision
issued by the Department of Agri-
culture, it was announced that the
floating Of oysters would be permitted
by the department if-the water IN
which the floating was done was OF
the same saline content as the water
in which the oysters were grown.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
. Parr an Honest Man.

New York, Special.-Richard Parr,
special agent of the Treasury De-
partment, the man who ferreted out
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany's frauds. will come into a for
tune from the government for his
work. He may get 100000
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Taft, s75,Ooo-Kaiser, s4,s75,OOo.

Berlin, By Cable.-In the face of a
violent attack by the Socialist mem
bers, the Prussion Diet passed on
first reading the Government bill to
increase the Kaiser's yearly allow
ance from $4,OOO,OOO to &,S75,O 900.
Only the six Socialist members voted
against the measure.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Marking Graves at Gettysburg

Gettysburg. Pa, Special.-Fifty-
nine handsome granite monuments
with bronze tablets are being placed
on the Confederate avenues to take
The places of the iron battlefield
markers, which have hitherto marked
the position Of the Southern brigades
ut Gettysburg.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
A Town That is Booming.

At Ruby, an up-to-date drugstore
is being discussed which means that
one will be erected at al early date.
Another Enterprises that Of the To-
cation of the gigantic lumber plant
of the we'll know firm of Godfrey
Maynard company Of Cheraw, which
means an up-lift to the town in many
ways.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Cupid Kidnaps Corps of Teachers.

0uFxc @o11F1 S71Fo " 1e1o1c11s
The only case on record where
Cupid invaded a school and captured
the entire teaching force with the
exception of the superintendent, who
is already married, occurred at
Westminster.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Negroes as C%ensusTakers.

Of the $4,000 generators employ
ed in gathering Ipulation statistics
for the thirteenthPensus, 1,605 we're
negroes. Of thesl1,295 were in the
Southern States. Secretary Nagel
says he has not card a complaint
about their work.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Monster Rally For Woodnea.

The Woodmen of Cherokee are pre-
pairing to have a moaster rally at
Gaffncy on July 4.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Governor Investigating Two Murders

Two cases of almost like nature
have come officially before Governor
Ansel recently, and are nov being in
vestigated, in part, by the prosecu-
ton.
The first in Lexington County is
the case where a magistrate is .charg-
ed with not holding an inquest over
the body Of a negro alleged to have
beer killed by a white a
The other is a case in Edgefeld,
where a coroner apparently did not do
his duty with regard to an inquest
over a negro, also said to have been
killed by a white man.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Brains Beat Out Against Rocks.

An unknown white man, in trying
to jump from Southern train No. 80
north of Toccoa, Ga, was killed. His
brains were beaten out by the rocks
in q cut as the porter held his legs
to keep him from jumping out of
the train window.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
CAPITAL c
Interesting News Gathered in
the District of Columbia.
THE AMERICAN CONGRESS-.
Personal Incidents and Important
Happenings of National Import
Published for the Pleasure and In
formation of Newspaper Readers.
Hard on old Employees.

Hard on Old Employees.
R%etrenchment is a governmental
%watchword today and many veteran
employees in the departments are
reaching the end Of their official ten
ure.
The only conclusion possible for
them, according to departmental
heads, is thirty days notice, with the
customary leave Of absence.
Grown gray in the service and too
old to secure employment in other
spheres, the cases Of many of the
discharged clerks, men and women,
are pathetic and pitiable in the e1-
treme. Soldiers and widows and
children of soldiers are among those
who are feeling the fall of the Of
fetal ak.
Two hundred more dismissals are
impending in the Treasury, but most
of this number, it is said, will be
provided for by transfer.
Moved by the distress occasioned
by this retrenchment policy, the force
Of the administration promises to be
behind the bill for q civil service
retirement fund onlthe contributory
basis. Secretary MacVeagh favors it
earnestly and President Taft may urge
it's passage in a special message to
Congress.
Much depends upon the attitude of
the great army Of government clerks.
If they give such aSbill their united
support, it can be passed-possibly
at this session.
There is absolutely no chance of
Congress creating asciyl pension list.
It will be a contributory retirement
fund, which will in the end entail
no expense on the government, or
nothing.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
INTERESTING STATE NEWS
Column of Current Events Caught
in Every County From Coast to
Mountain CAP.
Larger Revenue for Clemson.

The fact that Clemson College is
this year to receive a larger revenue
on the fertilizer tax, amounting TO
about $4,000, has caused speculation
in some quarters as to the DISPOSE
ton of this fund.
According to present plans, the
money will in all likelihood be spent
somewhat in the following manner:
For an additional tract of land just
purchased from the Lewis estate,
$4,000; for the founding of a de-
partment of animal industry, about
$4,000, and for the erection of a
dairy building, about $4,000.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Jobs for Any q. S Citizen.

JoDS 1of ANY y. ClLl1en.
Uncle Sam is looking for afew
"swiftieso in the departmental SER
vice.
Circulars for an examination for
messenger boys, departmental ser
VICE. have been issued. The ex-
animation will be held July II, 1910.
Applicants must be between the
ages of sixteen and eighteen years.
They will be given three hours to
show how we'll they have mastered
spelling, arithmetic, letter-writing,
penmanship, and copy work.
All applications must be made out
on the required form and filed before
July IL at the Civil Service Com
mission office.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Prohibit Commercial Use Red Gross

Washington, Special.-A Senate
bill prohibiting the use of the insignia
of the Red Cross by unauthorized per-
sons was passed by the Senate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Our Washerwoman Can Clean Ours.

OuI 6SuGl WOllont 0ah S3Ooo So4o'
Secretary MacVeagh has given an
order for the purchase Of a machine
to laundry United States notes, which
it is estimated when put into use
at all the Subtreasuries, will save the
government $l,OO0,OOo a year. Ex-
periments in washing and ironing
notes have been conducted for some
time at the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing. These convinced the officials
that the method wasta practical one,
the estimate being made that so per
cent of the issues could be retained
and the life Of bill doubled. All
germs have been destroyed by anti
septic solutions. The first machine
will cost $1,000 and will be installed
in the Treasury Department building.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Valuable Porous Plaster.

The Treasury Department officials
will receive from Middletown, N. Y,
a porous plaster, for which they will
be asked to issue 3 $50 bill. 1t is
probably the most valuable porous
plaster in existence today, for stuck
fast to the business side Of it is a
$50 bill.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Machinery Knock Out Employees.

Machinery Knock Out Employees.
Machines are beng installed at the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
which eliminates be need of sending
paper money to tie Treasury Build
ing to receive the government sea.
Director Ralph gently per Zee I'd a
machine which sirplifes t. ar.nting
process. Fifteen of IL Achines
were ordered, an! will .,olve the
transfer to otherposilions of more
than a hundred employees.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Why, Certainly Mt.

A decision of tie treasury depart
ment that the gsernment has no
right to pay navabficers or attaches
mileage when the come home on
leave of absence, lis aroused a storm
of disapproval in laval circles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
To Extend Second Glass PRIVILEGE.

Washington, Special. = Periodicals
of benevolent or fratcrnal societies
and institutions of learning, support
ed in whole or in part by public tax
alton, trades unions, and professional,
literary, historical !or scientific So
%cieties, are to be admitted to the mails
as s~ecoud-class matter according to
the terms of a bill passed by the
House.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
Gets Of "Third Degree Committee.

GSCS vi INIu UeSIee C0Wm1Ctee.
AT his own request Senator Curtis
was relieved from service as chairman
of the special committee recently ap-
pointed to investigate the practice
Of the police knawnsas the s'third de-
gree" Senator Brandegee was desig-
mated to fill tie vacancy. In an
nouncing the GLANCE the Vioe-Presi-
dent spoke of ;he third degree as
''the thirty-third degree" and raised
a laugh at his own expense.
Laundry Business in the District.
Washingtoa's annual laundry bill
amounts to S796OO0.
Director Durara of the Census Bu-
reau, has compiled figures to show
that seventeen lalndries of the Dis
trict take in NOR. than three-quarters
of q million weary for cleaning col
lars, ahirts, cuffs, dresses and sundry
other wearing APPAREL.
The figures, which show that $780,
600 is invested il the laundry bust
ness and more tha 100000 paid out
annually by the fms for salaries and
other expenses. The statistics were
gathered from thI first laundry cen
sus, taken last var, and just COM
pleted.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15

Listen Fer Cannon.
Washington. Srccial.-Josepl: g..
Cannon has decided to make al eS-
tensiyc speaking toaT III The campaign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24
Trouble at Belmont Park

The promoters OF the international avi-
alton Meet al Belmont Park. New York
are in trouble over the disinclination OF
some of the competitors TO fly over the
prescribed course for the chief ize, the
Bennett cup for the highest speed. Sew
eral Of TIE foreign aviaJrs have declared
the course To he Il dangerous one owing
10 the fact that the machines must go
VeriloUslY near houses, railway tracks
wires and other distractions, which, in
the event OF a fall, would almost surely
cou Sc, too. i so sharp that it is feared
that a high power machine, holding close
- the course. could not make il without
imminent risk of disaster. To avoid this
danger IL would be necessary, ii has been
estimated. TO fly distance fully one third
peal to the Aero Club of France has been
filed and the result is anxiously awaited,
for If a formal protest is entered the race
IS invalidated as an international event.
1t seems st ange that the conditions at
the Belmont Park course were not suf-
fciently settled in advance of the meet
TO prevent any such complication. II
has beeh known for months that the
races would be held at this point and the
physical conditions must have been well
known TO all contemplating participation.
However. the trouble suggests that those
charged with the choice of a meetine
place ran serious risk when they de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24
The Colonel and the Judge.

Did the colonel really call Judge Ander-
son a jackass and crook? Or has some
body Joined the .4naniaS Club by the
automatic process now SO familiar to the
American public? If the colonel did call
the Judge jackass and a crook. is ne
guilty of contempt OF court? Or Is he
merely exercising the inalienable privilege
of the American citizen to speak his mind
on any subject in any terms he may
choose? Again, is the judge Il jackasS and
a crock? Who can say better, perhaps
than the colonel? Who has better right
to classify mankind swiftly and compre-
hensively? Is it contempt of court to
Nken d jurist to the long eared friend
o. man? What is there. save per-
haps in the name, that Is dis
tas- eful about the patient beast OF
burden to which folks instinctively ob-
iect as a comparison? Is there a graveI
oh 5ect;on TO the word crook? Does ii
mean something criminal, as the colonel
often n;inates in his speeches? Or has
IL come 10 be careless term of reproach
a swi tly chosen Characterization OF
unCersi ability? And. finally, who is going
TO prove that the colonel did call the
judge a jackass and a crook? Has he not
declined 10 discuss the question? Car
any one pry his teeth apart for speech
when lie clinches them in one of his rare
but significant silences? These are some
of the things the American public would
like to know, and who is going TO in
form it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24

earnest in their partisanship and their
support. 1t takes the edge off his provin-
cialism thus to witness the proof, from
day to day and week to week, that base
ball is upheld by an immense army Of
citizens scattered through several states
The real rooter. the thirty-second degree
fan, who would rather see ball game
than eat, who takes his teams losses as
a personal grievance and regards their
Victories triumph in which he indi-
vidually participates, does not wholly
switch his interest from this sport to
other matters when the season closes. He
sustains himself throughout the long,
dreary winter with recollections of IA
nous battles fought on the diamond dur
ing the season just closed and by hopes
OF the future for perhaps unfortunate
club He exists through the dull days
that stretch from the close of one season
to the opening of another by watching
for the winter meetings of the magnates
and the tokens of trades between man
ayers. He is forever trusting to turn
of fortune that will at last give his city
what he regards as the greatest honor II
can enjoy, that of floating pennant over
the grandstand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24

termined to pass by all the other cities
that were anxious 10 entertain the avn
ators. in favor of New York, with its
Sc ious congestion 1t looks as II all
other considerations were sacrificed to
that of keeping the meet close to New
York Potomac Park. the use of which
could undoubtedly have been easily OBJ
tanned from the government, won afford
an ideal aviation course. with abundant
space for al maneuvers and no danger
Gus conditions adjacent to imperil the
lives of competitors. With the smooth
land and the water surfaces in combina-
ton the risk would have been reduced TO
the lowest possible point.
Apparently the line consideration in
the choice of Belmont Park was to obtain
place where the competitions could be
screened from public view. in order TO
Increase the admission paying attendance.
There might have been some difficulty at
Potomac Park on this score, but it may
not be doubted that the races would have
been attended by a sufficient number of
paying spectators TO defray all expenses.
In Belmont Park it has been necessary
to erect high canvas screens to prevent
the occupants of neaib by houses from en-
joying the spectacle. A legal representa-
tive of these househoIders has now served
notice, in retaliation for the privation,
that measures will be adopted to stop
the aviators from passing over the prop
critics OF the screened-off public Thus
the choice OF Belmont Park has resulted
in diSgruntlement not only among the
aviators but among the neighbors SUCH
series of competitions should have been
conducted on truly International plane,
fees
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24
The Senate.

Both the majority and the minority
leaders of the present Senate are booked
for retirement March 1. Mr.. Aldrch ad-
heres to his decision, and Mr.. Moneys
successor as senator has been chosen
With the tariff. the currency and con-
servat;on all pressing-three questions of
the highest importanCe-the l.cXt Senate
will go into action under new captains
These men will be selected by caucus
And when the two caucuses meet it Will
not be to- decide only as to those two
places, but others. Something of a gen
e. al shake-up may take place on both
sides of the chamber. Death has lately
removed several senators of prominence,
and next months elections are expected
to make some changes.
The republicans will have the harder
job. They will still be responsible for
legislation. and therefore cha. ged with
the initiative. And a successor to as COM
petent and experienced a man as Mr..
Aldrich-not to mention successors in
committee work to Mr.. Hale, Mr.. Bur-
rows and others-will not be found simply
by looking around. Many considerations
will enter into the matter.
But the democratic job will be by no
means light one. \ democratic House
will increase the Importance of the minor
ity's course in the Senate, and call for
the strongest possible committee assign
nents there. Especially will the minority
leader have occasion to watch the corners
with the keerest eyes He must CO.
operate in making the record for the
presidential campaign; and the better
qualified he is as debater, tactician and
parliamentarian for work in the emer-
gency the greater will be his party's
gain.
Mr.. Culberson. who was forced a year
ago by poor health to surrender the
minority leadership, is himself again, and
will be on deck in December. While lead
ing his party he acquitted himself We'll
and naturally, now that he has recovered
his strength. there is suggestion that he
be called back to his old post. How he
feels on the subject is not known. And
| the names Of Mr.. Bailey, Mr.. Bacon, Mr..
Rayner. Mr.. Martin and Mr.. Simmons
also are mentioned.
go to a southern man. The north viii
certainly have representation on the dem
ocratic side after March 4, but expert
ence will be demanded, and the expert
ence will be confined to the southern con-
tingent No new member, however able
or thoroughly in accord with his partys
present policies. could take the helm and
steer the ship satisfactorily at such a
time in strange waters.