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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
General.

The Lincoln, Neb., excise board has
adopted rule requiring frien0s and
relatives of habtual drunkards to fur.
niSh pictures of the bibulouS ones for
the better information of the saloon
keepers and their bartenderS The pho
tcgraphs are 10 be posted behind the
bars.
Yokohama. Japan, is now bright
with the colors Of America and ia
pan in honor of 600 American blue.
Jackets from the Asiatic fleet who are
the guests of Mayor Arahawa of YO-
kohama. The mayor gave garden
party, which was attended by fifty Of
ficers and 500 sailors. Speeches were
made by Vice Admiral Saito and a
number of other nOtables.
The wages of the trainmen in the
United States and Canada have been
increased s37.O00.000 in a year, ac'
cording TO report made to the inter.
national convention of the Brother.
hood OF Railroad Trainmen by w. F.
Lee. president of the association.
Emperor William, Empress Victoria
and Princes Victoria Louise of Ger.
many are visiting King George Of Eng.
land.
Separated by the Chicago fire in
1871, Peter Sharp and his wife, Anna
Catherine Sharp of Oakland, Cal,
were reunited in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Mrs. Sharp is now on her way TO
Pittsburg
Prince Lidj Jeassu. grandson of En-
peror Meneiik, was proclaimed emper.
of Abyssinia
With appropriate ceremonies. the
Francis Scott Key memorial statue,
erected in Baltimore, was unveiled.
Mrs. William Gilmer, a granddaughter
ot the author of the Star SpangleG
Banncr.." drew the cord releasing the
drapery.
Capt. John H. Gibbons assumed the
superintendency OF the United States
Naval academy at Annapolis, Mary
land. Capt. John NJ. Bowyer was
forced by i'll health to relinQuish the
post.
Armed with an antiQuated shotgun.
which recently disappeared from a
local hotel, waving a piece of red cal
leo. Charley Williams, a white man,
attempted TO hold up the Louisville
and Nashville pay train at Sulphur
XIV. The crew, who were armed. stop
ped the. train and started after VII
liams. Williams. dropping the gun
escaped.
1t is announced that Oklahoma City
had been selected as the meeting
place of the general conference OF the
n. z church. South. In 1914. The
committee which had the matter in
hand was notfded
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLDS NEWS EPlT0MIzED
Complete Review OF Happenings f
Greatest lntereas From All
Parts OF World.
Southern.

rhe continued progress OF the farm
ers of Georgia and Alabama is indi
Gated by the records of the Southern
Rel Telephone company for the
Month of April. During the month OF
April 66S farmers-296 in Georgia and
S72 in Alabama-instaiied telephones
in their homes and connected lines
with the Bell system. Since January
1888 farmers in Georgia and Alabama
have taken telephone service. OF
these 1,035 are in Georgia and 1,14s
In Alabama.
Macon, Ga, was chosen by the Unr
ted Confederate Veterans as the next
reunion city at the annual encamp.
mcut of the old soldiers in Little Rock,
Ark. The following officers were re.
elected: Commander-inC Chief. Gen. G..
w. Gordon, Memphis. Tenn. Depart
ment commanders: Army Of Northern
Virginia, Lieut.. Gen. C. Irvine Walker,
Charleston, S. c.; Army of Tennessee,
Lieut.. Gen. Bennett II. Young. Louis
vile, KY; Trans Mississippi Depart
nient, Lieut.. Gen X NJ. Van Zandt,
Fort Worth. Texas.
A complete surprise was sprung at
the convention of the Southern Baptist
convention in Jacksonville, Fla, when
DR.. E. C. Dargan, pastor Of the First
Baptist church of Macon. Ca, was
placed in nomination for presid ent
against Joshua Levering. who had
been proposed for reelection to that
office. ): When the votes were counted
it was found that Doctor Dargan had
been elected.
With the ships band playing the ma
tional anthem and the blueackets with
rifles at present" the United States
battleship Idaho saluted the resting
place of the old wooden United States
war sloop Mississippi of Admiral Far.
raguts fleet, riddled and sunk by the
Confederate batteries at Port Hudson.
La, on the Mississippi river, during
the Civil war The success of the voy.
age up the river to Vicksburg was as.
sured when the soundings at the
shoals near Waverly showed 62 feet
depth.
Frank R. HayGe, the bull leader,
startled the New Orleans cotton world
by bidding the market price for 100-
900 bales each of May and July cot
ton exchange quotations for any or all
the spot cotton in this city. This last
bid Mr.. Hayne shouted out to the
member who had hurried to the future
ring, was open all day. Moreover, he
announced his willingness to accept
any grade from low ordinary to fair.
Twenty minutes after Deputy Wood,
his victim, died, John Mcleod. a ne.
gro, was dragged from Emanuel coun'
ty Jail at Swainsboro, Ca, and hanged
by body of men. orderly but deter
mh.ed The body was suspended from
a tree and riddled with bullets. There
was no excitement to speak Of Hid.
den keys to the Jail were found, and
the victim quickly swung up Follow
ing the lynching. all parties disappear
cd. The coroner's inquest found that
death was caused by unknown par
ties"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Pardoned White Life-Termer.

Following his visit OF several days
ago to the penitentiary, the governor
paroled Tom Godfrey, OF Spartanburg
county, white man who was serving
a life sentence for the murder OF
Tom Jones. II is claimed by the gov
ernor that Godfrey is not able to do
any work and therefore he should be
paroled Tom Godfrey was convicted
in 1905.
Early in 1905 he went to the home
OF Tom Jones in the city Of Spartan
burg. Jones was preparing to go TO
his work. Godfrey, according to the
testimony, shot him down without a
word of explanation.
The governor several weeks ago re-
fused to pardon Godfrey. He now
grants a parole during good be-
havior.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
FIVE YOUNG GIRLS
BURNED TO DEATH
A LAMP CONTAINING GASOLINE
ExPLoDEs RESULTING IN
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
PARENTS EFFORTS TO SAVE
Fatal Mistake Of Mother In Filling
Lamp With Gasoline Starts Fire
Names and Ages Of the Daughters
Who Perished.

Utica, Kan.-Five daughters OF Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Roach of this place,
ranging in ages from to 16 years,
were burned to death In a fire which
started in the Roach restaurant.
The parents were badly burned.
The mother of the young girls by mis-
take filed lamp with gasoline. Pre-
paratory to ascending stairway lead
ing to the second floor room, where
her daughters were asleep. she ap-
piled a match to the lamp. An ex-
plosion followed. the fire being COM
municated to two-gallon can OF
gasoline, sending a burst OF flame up
the narrow stairway.
The womans dress caught fire, but
the flames were extingushed by her
husband, who had been asleep in an
adjoining room. He rushed up the
burning stairs and caught his young
est daughter. years old, in his arms.
Calling to the other girls to follow
him and leap into his arms, he ran
to a rear window and jumped to the
ground, the little girl in his arms
He stood with upraised arms TO catch
the others as they Jumped, but for
some reason they failed to follow him
and a few minutes later, when an
other window was broken into, the
bedroom in which the girls were
sleeping was a mass OF flames. A
half-hour later the bodies of the five
girls were recovered.
All had died where they lay. The
dead are: Bessie, aged 16; Leah
aged IA; Ruth, aged II; Hazel, aged
8 years; Fern, aged 7 years. The
girls will be buried together in one
grave tomorrow.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Carolina Glass Company Case.

Following the refusal Of the dispen-
sary commission to return $4,000
taken over by the old commission in
Richland county, announcement has
been made by attorneys for the Car
olina Glass company that the case
would be appealed TO the United
States Supreme court, or that suit
for the above amount will be filed
against the members of the former
commission. It is expected that a
definite announcement will be made
as to what action will be taken in a
few days.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
CASE Of LOR|MER
WILL B REOPENED
rWo RESOLUTIONS IN UNITED
STATES CONGRESS PROVIDE
RENEWED INVESTIGATION.
SPEECH OF Mr.. LAF0LLETTE
Wisconsin Senator Charges Illinois
Member With Personal Knowledge
Of Corrupt Methods Employed
Elections Committee to Investigate

Washington-An immediate investl-
cation OF sweeping scope of the renew
ed charges that Senator Lorimer OF IL
,inois is not entitled to his seat Is
provided for in two resolutions, Dy
Senators Dillingham; and LaFollette
Senator LaFollette called up his
resolution and made q speech ar
raigning the Illinois Senator, whom
"a charged with personal knowledge
Of the spending of money in oehali
~ his election. Both the Democrat
Ic steering committee and the ne
publiccan members OF the senate
committee on privileges and elections
discussed the charges OF corruptlon
in ths Lorimer case and Senator Dill
lingham, chairman Of the elections
committee. presented his resolution
of inquiry as substitute for the La
Toilette resolution.
The LaFollette resolution provides
for q renewed inquiry into the Le
rimer case by special committee
while the Dillingham; measure directs
tbe committee on privileges and cleo
tions to make the inquiry. Inc
Democratic senators will support the
Dillingham; resolution. 1t is likely
that the elections committee Will DO
directed to investigate through SUD-
committee to be affirmed by the sem
ate.
! Mr.. LaFollette reviewed the Lori
mer case, citing the confessions oi
bribery In the interest OF Mr.. LOTT
mer's election. 'Is there another
senator against whom such an impu'
tstion would have been made VINO
would have not risen in his seat and
demanded an inquiry" he asked
Can you conceive Of any man hold
ing such a trust as q seat IN the
senate who could sit here for weeks
iand months AFTER his title had been
impeaohed without saying some
thing?"
He said the votes OF the thirt!
Democratic senator's for Mr.. Lorime'
would stick IN the SAlnds of the, pee
pie when II wss remembered tina
the Democratic votes were under tn
| leadership os Lee O'Neal Browne
| who had 10000 strapped on his pei
SON. He said he understood that tn
senate committee had permitted al
attorzey in the case to divert 1t from
an inquiry to Mr.. Lorlmer's know
edge in the case. Page upon page o
tie testimony, he declared, shove
the closest associations between MI
Lorimer, Speaker Shutliff and LIE
O'Neal Browne, the Democratic leader
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
ov.r ooo Chimes. ma.sacreed.

Mexico City-Oficial reports reach
Ing here by couriers tell the story OF
the massacre of 206 Chinese at Tor
rson, following the rebel occupation
of that city last week Upon receipt
of the news at the Chinese legation,
the charge d-affaires Immediately
made formal representation to the
Mexican government. The three-day
battle and sacking OF the city Of Tor.
rean, is replete with incidents OF
cruelty and indicate that the rebel
leaders did not hold their men in
check.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Final Peace Agreement Signed.

Juarez, Mex-Ohcially designated
representatives of the Mexican gov
ernment and the revolutionists signed
a peace agreement at the customs
house here intended TO end the hos
tilities that have been waged in Mex
leo for the last six months.
Though covering only the princi-
pal points negotiated thus far, the
agreement practically records the
concessions by the government OF
those demands which started, on No
vomber 20, the last armed revolution
In Mexico,
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Time Extended Beef Packers

Chicago.-Judge George A. Carpen-
ter in the United States district court
granted an extension Of time to attor.
neys for the indicted beef packers to
nle briefs In the latest attempt to
void the Sherman antitrust statute
as 70 their cases.
The extension was granted after
Attorneys John s. Miller and Levy
Mayer pleaded that the Federal gu
preme court in its expected decision
in the tobacco case. might give new
light on the packers attack on the
etatute
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
FIELDER MAY NOT TESTIFY
Commission Has no Power to Bring
Atlanta Lawyer to This State.
History OF Act.

Columbia.-The new dispensary
commission has no power to make 7.
B. Fielder come to South Carolina,
and the matter is optional with him.
The law creating the dispensary COM
mission and outlining its powers does
not give it the right to Investigate
the acts OF the governor OF South
Carolina as a private citizen, and the
commission has no power to inVes-
tigate the former commission.
The governor of South Carolina
sent a message to the general as
sembly in which he charged graft
and corruption on the part OF the
members of the former commission
All OF the members Of the old COM
mission are well known in the state.
The governor was very insistent and
demanded OF the general assembly
that a commission be named to inves-
tigate the dispensary commission. The
general assembly complied with the
urgent demand of the governor ana
passed the resolution. The measure
was sent to the governor to sign. He
did not like the personnel oil the
members of the commission from the
senate and vetoed it.
The governor then dismissed the
members of the old dispensary com
mission and appointed new commits
sion. all OF the members being his
personal and political friends. One
member of the commission is F. II
Dominick of Newberry, former la"
partner of the governor.
When the governor had appointed
his commission he said the member!
would investigate the old commission
He also asked the new commission Il
investigate the charges made agains
him by T. B. Fielder. The gUyerno
was insistent and wanted his recor'
as private citizen, State senator an
governor investigated.
The investigating act has beel
vetoed by the governor. The act vii
have to come back to the general as
sembly for any action that bod.
might take. The members OF the oil
commission are desirous that the &C
be passed so that the charges pre-
ferreG by the governor mat oe inyes
tigated. They want the Charges sui
stantiated or cleared up.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Law Between wet" and "Dry" States

Law Between wet" and DRY States
Jacksonville, Fla.-At the Baptist
convention In session here retiring
President Levering OF Baltimore re-
lated an interview he had with for
mer Speaker Cannon. Mr. Leyering
said Mr.. Cannon expressed sympathy
with the movement to check traffic
in liquor between wet" and dry"
states, but doubted II law sought by
the Baptists would stand in the SUI
prsme Court II 1t were enacted by the
Congress- The law sought was to
invest control of liquor traffic in state
governments.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Hundred Postal Banks a Week

Washington. - Postmaster General
Hitchcock, impressed by the reports
OF the successful operation of the pos
tai savings system, has decided to des'
ignate hereafter for a considerable
time 100 additional postal repositories
each week, instead of 80. as announc'
ed a month ago.
Announcement is made OF the des
ignation of so additional repositories
% OF them to be located in states
west of the Mississippi, where the
heaviest deposits heretofore have
been made,
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
S|CKLY PRISONERS
WILL Be PAROLED
SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT
BY GOVERNOR BLEAsE AFTER
VISIT TO STATE PRISON
HOSIERY MILL A MENACE
When Prison Physician certifies Con-
vict lncapacitated Permanently from
Profitable Labor for the State Pris-
oner Will be Paroled.

Columbia-Following personal In
spection Of the penitentiary, in COM
pany with Chairman Sanders of the
board of directors of that institution,
Governor Blease made the sensational
announcement that he purposes paroi-
ing all the conyicts there who were
disabled by chronic disease. They
are simply burdens on the state" the
governor said.
DR.. +. W. p Butler, the prison
physician, will in each case be asked
TO certify whether the patient is in
capacitated permanently from prof.
table labor for the state. When his
answer is in the affirmative, the pris-
oner will be paroled, except in cases
where no home can be found for
him and his realease would simply
mean his infiiction upon the county
from which he came.
Governor Blease said after his Wis
it that he would not call an imme-
date meeting Of the board OF direc-
tors, but at the meeting to be held
June Z he would urge the imme'
date cancellation of the contract by
which about 300 convicts are worked
by Capt. J. NJ. Graham in the hosiery
mill within the penitentiary walls.
This mill was recently criticised
severely by the state board OF health
as tending to breed consumption
among the prisoners. 1t was at the
suggestion of Governor Blease that
the general assembly passed resolu
ton calling upon the board Of health
to investigate the place. The Ora
ham contract has five years to run.
Reports of Governor Blease's speech
OF Jones Spring, Greenwood county
to operatives OF the Ware Shoals
cotton mills, have reached Columbia
The governor is quoted as saying
there that II the hosiery mill contract
at the penitentiary was not cancelled
he would achieve the end in view
himself by pardoning every convict
assigned to work in the mill. He
attacked the newspapers as usual.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
viii sInk M,Ine In the peep.

Washington.-Unles otherwise d.
rected by Congress all that remains
of the ill-fated battleship Maine after
1t has been raised from Havana har.
Dor and stripped of parts Of value
will be towed out to sea and sunk In
deep water.
The board of engineers engaged in
raising the vessel 80 recommended In
their report, which the war depart
ment submitted to congress. Secre-
tary Dickinson has approved the rec
onamendation and says action will
be taken accordingly"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Boys Desperate Chance.

Spartanburg That John II. Quinn,
when nine years old, deliberately
stuck his finger into the machinery
of a spinning frame on which he was
employed in the Pacolet mills and
permitted the finger TO be cut of
so that he might obtain holiday,
was the unusual defense OF the Pac-
Ulet Manufacturing company. to suit
for $4,000 damages for the loss Of
the finger, which was tried in COM
mon pleas court before Judge Watts.
The dury refused to award dam
ages.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Electricity Failed to Revive the Dead.

Lynn, Mass.-In an effort to re-
store action into the heart OF work
man killed by an electric shock at
the plant of the General Electric COM
pany. Prof Thomon, the well-known
scientist, repeatedly sent current OF
so 900 volts through the body The
experiment. which has been known. 1t
is said, to succeed in a few cases, was
futile
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Eirst nrainane District.

Charleston.-Thc first district to be
Dreanized under the new drainage act
is launched in McClellanville. with
only preliminary legal formalities to
be gone through with to perfect the
organization. Engineer r. G. Eason
OF the United States drainage investi'
CATION department, is now making sur
verys of a tract of 1000 acres of land,
500 acres Of which only are under
cultivation He will complete his sur.
veys in weeks time.
Other districts will be formed for
the purpose OF drainage.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Monoplane Kills Minister of War.

Paris.-France paid terrible toll
for her magnificent endeavor to at
tain supremacy of the air when a
monoplane, the driver OF which had
lost control, plunged into a group OF
members OF the cabinet who had gath
cred to witness the start Of the race
from Paris to Madrid, killing the Min
lister OF war and injuring the prime
minister, his son and well-known
sportsman.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Increase Cotton Production to Acre.

Increase Cotton Production to Acre.
Atlanta.-President Finley, Of the
Southern Railway company, has
pointed out that, II the South IL to
preserve the great economic adsAnr
tags which IL enjoys IN having sub
stantial monopoly in the production
Of the cotton supply of the world.
Southsrn cotton growers must in.
crease their production so as to ksep
pace with the constantly growing de-
mand. He, is strongly of .hs opinion
that this eau be done most proftably
by inereasins the average Droduetsos
per Acre.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
President Praises Work Of Y. NJ. C. A,

Washington. - Speaking to more
than a thousand negroes here. Presi-
dent Taft congratulated the race in
Washington upon the consummation
of the movement for the erection OF
a 100000 home for colored Young
Mems Christian association. The
President paid high tribute to the
work of the Y. NJ. c. A., and praised
the generosity and broad philanthropy
of julius Rosenwald of Chicago, who
recently agreed to give $4,000 to the
Washington negro branch's building
fund.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Whole Family Killed by Street Car.

Whole Family Killed by Street Car.
Newark, O.-The family OF d. w.
Dodson of Hebron. was wiped out
when an interurban car on the Newark
division OF the Ohio Electric Railway
struck their buggy and killed Dodson,
aged 30. Mrs. Dodson of the same
age and their two little girls, aged Z
and 4. The Dodsons were riding
along the highway which flanks the
electric line, mile east Of Hebron
and were passing a car, when their
horse became frightened and plunged
across the track in front of the car
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
Strong Pardon Petition for Show Man.

Strong Pardon Petition Tor onoW md''
Lexington the largest pc
tition ever presented to governor
OF South Carolina, asking for the
pardon OF any one mana petition
bearing the signatures OF approx
mately 1900 individuals-will shortly
be presented to Governor Blease, ask
ing for full pardon for George
Nichols. who is serving a life term
in the state penitentiary for COM
plicity in the murder OF Paul A. Will
liams of Columbia, who was killed on
the Observation-Disclosures circus train
on the night of October 8, last year,
according to the statement OF G. 5.
Cunningham an attorney of Pekin,
ILL.,, who came to Lexington. seeking
such information as might be OF aid
in securing the pardon of Nichols
The chief ground upon which par
don will be sought is the fact that
Nichols health is such that he will
soon die, 1t being alleged that the
young man Is now in the first stage
of consumption, and that the confine-
ment in the penitentiary will hasten
the end.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
To orqanize Farmers in Aiken.

B. F.. Keller of Calhoun county,
deputy organizer of the South Caro-
lima State Farmers union. will work
for two weeks in Aiken county in the
interest OF the Farmers union. His
object will be to revive and strength
en- the local unions and to secure a
reorganization of the county union.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-25
DELEGATES to Prison Association.

Governor Blease has named dele
gates to the American Prison associa-
ton. which convenes at Omaha, Neb.,
on October 1919, as follows: Mr.. A.
K. Sanders, Hagood; Mr.. w. H. Glenn,
Anderson; Mr.. J. M. Smith, Smoak;
Err. j. d. Deas, Summerton; Mr.
John G. Mobley, WinnENoro. these be
Ing of the penitentiary directorate
and Col. D. ]. Griffith. the superfn
tendent of the penitentiary.
The purposes OF the American
Prison association include the inter
change Of ideas.