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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKU*

THE LAßE» ^ASECelebrated Dijpensary Case . <

%ibe Caorl at Colombia *o

THREE MEN ARE NAMED

Conspiracy to Defraud the State Is

the Technical Charge Made Against

the Defendants, L. W. Boykin, J.

B. Towill and W. O. Tatuni, Form-

er Dispensary Officials.

The Record says persistent argu¬

ment over the admission or rejectionof testimony of witnesses and the en¬

trance of records i$to the evidencewere the predominating features ofthe first day of the. trial in the cele¬brated "label" case, which was com¬

menced Tuesday morning in the courtof general sessions, at Columbia,Judge Wilson presiding. ' The case

Is one of the so-called dispensary"craft casc:3." Defense and prosecu¬tion stating themselves ready fortrial in the case of the State againstW. G. Tatuni, formerly dispensarycommissioner; L. W. Boykin andJohn Bell Towill, former members ofthe dispens-iry board, on the chargeof conspiracy to defraud the State,the trial commenced about 10 o'clockTuesday morping.

Up to the dinner recess, three wit¬nesses for the prosecution had beenexamined, these being Assistant Sec¬

retary of Stute W. B. Dove, Mr. Ei M.Tholnson, uecretary of the presentwinding-up commission, and Mr. S.T. Carter, chief clerk in the Statetreasurer's office. The principal mat¬ters of evidence brought out during

' the morning session of the court were

the stub book of the old dispensary(board, showing memoranda of war¬

rants drawn on the State treasury,two of which were in favor of theNivison-Welskopf company, of Cin¬cinnati, and the two vouchers corres¬

ponding from the vaults of the Statetreasury. These showed two pay¬ments of 517,808.50 each from the

dispensary commission, to the Weis-

kopf co;..p8ay.The attorneys for the defense en

tered their names with the clerk.Representing L. W. Boykin are

Messrs. Nelson, Nelson & Gettys ofColumbia, Messrs. Johnstone & Cro-mer" öf Newherry' and Mr. .R. H.Welch of Columbia. RepresentingJohn Bell Towill are Messrs. E. L.Asbill of Lexington and SolicitorGeorge B. Timmerman, a cousin ofMr. Towill. Attorneys for W. 0.Tatum are Messrs. Raysor & Sum¬mers of Orangeburg, State SenatorRobert Lide of Orangeburg, T. H.

i Tatum of Eils^ opville, J. B. McLaugh-ilin of Columbia and R. H. Welch ofColumbia. Attorneys for the defensecalled the roll of their witnesses andIt was stats-d that they would all be

present during the day. Thereuponthe defense announced itself readyfor trial.lAmong the witnesses named were:

H. G. Garrison, W. M. Shannon, A.D. Kennedy, W. B. Gordon, W. R.

Hough, John G. Richards, Jr., W. B.

Boyle, J. E. Gidden, H. H. Evans,M. 0. Damzier, Wille Jones, J. P.Matthews, W. G. Childs, C. Fitzsim-ons, Charles Ellis, G. McD. Hamp¬ton, D. S. Pope, J. J. Watson, Theo.N. DuBose, L. C. Lipscomb, William'Watson, H. B. Richardson and others.The prosecution is conducted by At¬torney General Lyon, assisted by Mr.W. F. Stevenson, Assistant AttorneyGeneral M. P. DeBruhl, Solicitor W.H. Cobb and Mr. B. L. Abney.The indictment which was read to

the jury charges that the three de¬fendants were officials of the Statedispensary, that they entered into a

conspiracy to defraud the State inthe purchase of a number of labelsfrom the Nivison-Weiskopf companyat a total expenditure of about $35,-000, defrauding the State in the sumof $22,500 in the transaction-

Mr. W. B. Dove, assistant secre¬

tary of st=.te, was the first witnessfor the State, but the defense statedthat they would admit what the wit-;.ness was to prove, that the defen¬dants were officials of the old dispen¬sary board. Messrs. Boykin andTowill were directors and Mr. Tatumcommissioner. The first real fightof the trial came when Mr. E. M.Thomson, secretary of the presentdispensary winding-up commission,was placed on the stand as the State'ssecond witness. "The prosecution de¬sired to enter as evidence a stub bookcontaining the records of warrantsdrawn by the dispensary board uponthe State treasurer. The defense ob¬jected to uhis book being entered inevidence. Arguments were made bjMr. George Johnstone for the de¬fense and Mr. Stevenson for theState. The defense claimed that theyhad a righ t to demand the checks or

warrants themselves, which they saidwould be the highest evidence andnot merely the memoranda of thesechecks.

Mr. Johnston argued that to ac¬

cept these stubs as evidence of mon¬

ey paid out by the commissioner, itwould have to be proved that thememorandums so made were madeunder the authority of the board thatthe writing was the handwriting cfthe defendants. The objection was

finally overuled by Judge Wilson andthe evidence was submitted.

Several stubs were read to the juryby Mr. Sieverson showing warrantsdrawn in favor of the Weiskopf com¬

pany. Upon cross examination Mr.Thomson stated that he had come

HAZING AT CMEffiSÖN

I CADETS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED*^ FOR THE OFFENCE.V

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T». 3oard of Trustees Have Deter¬

mined to Break Up the Foolish

Custom Among the Boys.The Anderson Mail says seven

cadets have been dismissed fromClemson college for hazing. None ofthese are from Anderson county, butfrom counties in the lower sectionof the state. Their names could notbe divulged at the college, fo'\winga rule along this line adopted some

tine ago. The Mail says:^ ...

A rumor was afloat in Andersonthat nine cadets had been dismissedand that ninety others were yet to betried on the charge of hazing. Dr.Biggs, president of the college, was

reached over the telephone, and hestated that only eight had beenbrought up for hazing, and that sev¬

en of these had been dismisse-!. Thisoccurred two or three days ago.

Heretofore it has been cue omaryat Clemson for the president or some

other official to state orally to thestudent body when it assembles forthe opening of the season that hazingwill not be tolerated, the penalty forsuch offense being expulsion. Thisyear the custom was changed; eachof the boys anticipating admittancereceiving letters several days beforethe college opened .stating that allcadets guilty of hazing would be ex¬

pelled.It Is said that the hazing 'n this

incident was only that of the recruitsbeing required to sing "Casey Jones"and a few other songs for the merri¬ment of the other cadets, and thatmaybe a paddle had been called light¬ly into use. At any rate the recruitwas not injured in the slightest, andhad it not been for the fact 'hat hewas resigning in order to return tohis home, he would have probablynever reported the eight your.g men

to the officials.Dr. Riggs said that there is less

hazing at the college than ever be¬fore; that the cadets are required tosign an agreement that they will notparticipate in hazing, and that thecadets are observing the agreement.There has been a good deal of com¬

plaint about hazing at Clenson Col¬lege, and the trustees are to be con¬

gratulated on the steps they havetaken to stop it.

. FOUR DIE IN FIRE.

They Were Smothered Before Help

Could Reach Them.

At Chicago four persons were

smothered early Monday morning ina Ire said t cbr incendiary that partlydestroyed two small flat buildings at1336 South Sangamon street. Thedead lare: Harry Egalovitch, hiswife, their baby and L. Alporf, a

boarder. They lived in the third flatof a three-story rear building. Atwo-story building fronting on thestreet was also partly destroyed. Allother occupants of the buildings es¬

caped in their night clothes and itwas thought that no one had beenhurt until the firemen found the fourpersons dead. Their bodies were

scarcely scorched and it is thoughtthey were asphyxiated by smoke be¬fore the alarm of fire aroused them.Two babies were dropped from sec¬

ond floor windows unhurt.» m*-

Strung Him Up Quickly.At Kiev, Russia, Dimitri Bogroff,

the assassin of Premier Stolypin whowas condemned to death by court-martial, was hanged Monday. Be¬fore his execution the young man

as-ked that he might see a rabbi butrefused this, consolation when in¬formed that the interview must be inthe presence of officials.

Four Men Killed.At Youngstown, 0., four men were

killed and twelve hurt in an explo¬sion at the Republic Steel and Ironcompany plant. The dead are Hun¬garians. *

into the ipossession of the books onlythe day before and could not vouchfor its being the records ma-.'e underthe supervision of the board. Thejury was excused from the courtroom while arguments were heard as

to whether or not the witness couldidentify a letter which it was claim¬ed was written by Mr. Lyon to Gov¬ernor Rlease, stating that the case

against "Weiskopf in this case, wouldbe nol prossed. upon the condition ofhis telling the truth on the witnessstand.

The third witness for the prosecu¬tion was Mr. S. T. Carter, chiefclerk in the office of the State treas¬urer. He identified two vouchers,drawn by the dispensary board infavor of the Nivison-Weiskopf com-

pany. These were submitted as evi-dence after some argument by theattorneys. They were signed by thelate G. H. Charles, clerk of rhe Statedispensary board, and by W. 0. Ta-tum, commissioner. They were bothfor the same amount, $17,838.50each and were dated, respectively,September 15, 1905, and October IS,1905. A number of questions were

asked Mr. Carter regarding the man¬

ner in which the former winding-upcommission, of which Dr. W. J. Mur¬ray was chairman, kept its papersand it was shown that they had no

fixed place of meeting, and that itsrecords were left in several placeswhere they were accustomed to hold-sessions.

titORANGEBURC

OLD TO THE NEWChange? in the Personnel of the Uaited

Slates Senate From Tbat

OF A FEW YEARS AGOThe Type of the Body Has Under¬

gone Great Changes, and the Old

Senate Dominated by the Old

Guard! Has Became a Thing of the

Past.

When former Senator Thomas Car¬ter of Montana died a few days agoattention was directed to the rapiditywith which the United States ischanging its personnel, says P. H.McGowan," the Washington corres¬

pondent of the Columbia State. Mr.McGowan goes on to say:

At the present rate of change itwill be only a few years until thepresent senate has been almost en¬

tirely reconstructed. Senator Car¬ter's final term in the senate was

from 1905 until 1911. But the sen¬

ate, as he knew it, is an utterly chan¬ged body.

In the first place the senate with a

few strong men of the old guard, likeAldrich and Hale and Allison haspassed out of existence. The proba¬bilities are that it will never return.A new and different type of publicmen have come upon the scene. Itwill never be possible again for a

man of the Aldrich type to hold thesenate in the hollow of his hand andvote it almost as he wants to.The old regime is gone. It began

to totter soon after Senator La Fol-lette came to the senate and startedto talk to empty seats, while his oldguard colleagues scoffed at him fromthe clerk rooms. By himself, La Follette couldn't pry the old guard loosebut it wasn't long until he got help.Now, the insurgents who believe inthe things that La Follette believesin hold the balance of power In theupper house.The house of representatives is

generally thought of as the body of

congress in which these is the mostchange, in which service is the fleet¬ing and transitory. But, as a mat¬ter of fact, it is little if any more

given to change than the senate, inthese modern days of the direct pri¬mary and the war on the memberwho is suspected of having affiliationswith any but the common people.

If one wants to gain an impressionof how the senate is changing let himpick up a congressional directory of a

few years ago and see how many ofthe men then in the senate are left.Take for instance, the directory ofthe first session of the Sixtieth con¬

gress. Examine the edition printed atat the beginning of-the year 1908That is only äbout three years and a

half ago.That nearly half of the senators

then in service should now be in theirgraves or retired from congressseems almost unbelievable. Yetsuch is the fact. Of the 92 membersof the senate 40 are no longer in thatbody. The roll of those retired bydeath or by the exigencies of politicsiu a stirring one. Look it over. Thevenerable and well-beloved Allison isdead. Nelson F. Aldrich, confrontedif not by defeat at least bv a discredited leadership In the ser-'te, is in re¬

tirement. Teller of Colorado is deadFrye of Maine is dead. Hale has re¬

tired because he saf a political storm

coming which he could not breast.Daniel of Virgina, in his day one ofthe most gallant figures that wore thegray, is dead.

So is Proctor of Vermont, one

time secretary of war. Hansbroughis retired. Burrows of Michigan was

driven out of public life by the over¬

whelming vote of his constituents infavor of a younger and more pro¬gressive man. "Uncle Steve" Elkinsof West Virgina has gone to his grave

Clay, of Georgia, one of the mostearnest men who ever sat in the sen¬

ate is no more. Foraker, because otRoosevelt, is out of office. McEnerjof Louisiana died in the harness.Thos. Collier Platt, too. is dead.Money, P.everidge, Depew, Kean.Scott, Taliaferro.all well known fig¬ures about Washington for years, andoi' influence in the senate.have beensucceeded and not of their own voli¬tion, by other men.

The magnificent Dolliver, covertedfrom regularity into zealous progres-sivism, came to a tragic end. Baileyis still in the senate, but has declar¬ed his intention to quit. McLaurinof Mississippi and Kittredge of SouthDakota both are dead, and so is Lati-mer of South Carolina.Ankeny of Washington, Fulton of

Oregon, Hopkins of Illinois. Long ofKansas, McCreary of Kentucky, Dickof Ohio, are additions to the list ofthe retired. Knox left the senate toenter the cabinet, and. gossip says,would be glad if he could throv offthe unhappy burdens of his office andonce more be. senator.

Bulkely, of Connecticut, was '.jeat-en. So was Burkett of Nebraska.Flint quit to practice law in Los

Angeles. Hemenway of Indiana was-

driven out and still flits now and thenlike a ghost of the past about the

capitol. Piles of Washington wentback to his law office, assisted by a

large number of adverse votes. War¬ner of Missouri has been sent backto retirement and so far has Frazierof Tennessee.The brilliant William Pickney

Whyte of Maryland died at over 80years. So did the young and bril-

J, S. C, THURSDAY, SEPTE1

BRYAN ANSWERS TAFT

SAYS WHEN A TRUST MAGNATE

IS PUT IN JAIL.

He Will Give Weight to the Presi¬

dent's Defence of the Decision of

the Supreme Court.

W. J. Bryan answering the chal¬lenge of President Taft made at Cher-rydale, Kan., that he produce an ex¬

ample of restraint of trade, whichwould not come within the purviewof the Supreme Court. Bryan saidon Monday night before leaving forKnoxville, Tenn., for Cincinnati:

"If President Taft would take timeto read the dissenting opinion of Jus¬tice Harlan in the case and reportof the judiciary conmittee of theSenate, filed by Senator Nelson whenthe committee refused to recommendthe amendment, which t/he SupremeCourt injected into the law, he willunderstand my view of the subject.

"I believe with Justice Harlan andthe Nelson report that the SuprmeCourt has practically nulified thecriminal clause of the anti-trust lawand will wait until the President suc¬

ceeds in putting a trust magnate inthe penitentiary before I give anyweight to the President's defense ofthe desession of the Supreme Court.

"It took four years and a half toget. a decision in the Standard Oilcase. If it takes that, long to findout whether a trust magnate can besent to the penientiary under thelaw as emasculated by the SupremeCourt, President Taft nay be able tobluff his way through another cam¬

paign on the trust question as hedid through the law, but the bluffought to deceive anybody who is real¬ly opposed to the trusts."

This was "Bryan Day" at the Ap¬palachian Exposition. The Nebrask-an arrived recently and went to theexposition grounds early in the day,where he made a tour of the variousexhibit buildings and participated inpleasures of the exposition. Thisafternoon at 4 o'clock he deliveredan address at the exposition groundsupon the theme, "The Signs ofTimes."

THE HOLSTEIN-SPRADLEY FEUD.

Sensational Affair Out of Which Grew

Charge of Murder.

The Holstein homicide case is ex¬

pected to come up for trial In Aikenthis week. An Aiken dispatch saysthe case has created more interestthan any that has been tried in thatcounty in many years. In this case

death of Mrs. Spradley, aunt of Co¬lumbus Spradley, with severely whip-six members of the Holstein family,one of the most prominent In thecounty, are charged with causing theping Mrs. Spradley's husband, BenSpradley, and of whipping young Co¬lumbus Spradley and compelling himto leave the community.

The Holsteins and a neighbor, DocCockrel, are alleged to have visitedthe home of Ben and Mrs. NettieSpradley about six weeks ago givingColumbus and Ben Spradley a soundthrashing. The excitement is said tohave caused the death of Mrs. Sprad¬ley, though this is denied by the Hol¬steins, who state they will have no

difficulty in showing that she was welland hearty after the 'affair of thatWednesday night. Ben Spradley re¬

ceived but one severe blow, but hehovered between life and death forseveral days, finally recovering. Co¬lumbus Spradley disappeared andwas not located for several days, butwhen found it was' ascertained thathe had not been seriously injured.

This unfortunate affair hingedabout the attentions of ColumbusSpradley to Miss Gussic Holstein, a

pretty and intelligent girl. When theyoung man visited a school entertain¬ment in that neighborhood some

weeks before he lost his heart to thewinsome girl, but met with the vio¬lent opposition of her relatives. Onthe day of the whipping young Sprad¬ley had gone to the home of his un¬

cle, Ben Spradley, near the Holsteinsfrom his home in Augusta.

Was Beaten to Death.C. H. W. Johnson, mayor of Oak-

hurst, suburb of Atlanta, was beatento death with a scantling by T. W.Zuber, after the latter had been shotand mortally wounded by Johnson.Zuber was rushed into Atlanta formedical attention, and Johnson diedat his home about 15 minutes afterthe fight.

Ham and His Load of Eggs.At Newport. X. J., a passing train

Sunday frightened a horse pulling a

load of eggs and driven by Roy Ham.The horse bolted, the wagon tippedover and Ham and eggs were boththrown into the street. When Hamscrambled from among the eggs heresembled an animated omelette.

Fight Caused Death.Intense excitement while witness¬

ing an altercation between LeonCombs and John Duagherty, one arm¬

ed with brass knucks, caused WilliamNettie, aged fiO, to drop dead fromheart failure at Manor, Ga.

liant William J. Bryan of Florida.Paynter, is still in the senate, buthis tenure of office is uncertain.

Contemplative folks searching forproof of that aged saying, "Vanity ofVanities, all is vanity," will do well tostudy the mutations of roeent timein the senate of the United States.

OER'28, 1911.

STATE BANKSStatement cf Their Condition Kade by

the State Bank Examiner.

HAKES A GOOD SHOWINGThe Report Shows That the Resour¬

ces of the Two Hundred and Nine¬

ty-five State Banks Are Far in Ex¬

cess of Any Period During Last

Six Years.

State Bank Examiner B. J. Rhameissues the following report on thecondition of the banks of South Car¬olina, accompanied by these com¬ments:

"Enclosed you will find a report ofthe condition of the banks of thisState doing business on September 1,1911, which are subject to the juris¬diction of this office. I also enclosea comparative statement showing in¬crease or decrease, as the case mightbe, during the past year."The resources are larger for this

call than they ever have been in sixyears which this office has been inexistence, showing that the banks are

growing very rapidly in the amountof business which is transacted."

Statenent of the condition of the295 State and branch banks and priv¬ate banks, at. he close of businessSepember 1, 1911:

Resources.Loans and discouns. . $57,962,790.23Overdrafs _..... 575,020.421Bonds and stocks own¬

ed by the bank... 4,096,815.29Furniture and fixtures 507,707.43Banking house. 1,135.666.09Other real estate own¬

ed . 333,748.76Due from banks and

bankers . 4,455,366.29Currency . 867,282.00Gold. 100,630.50Silver and other minor

coin . 312,602.76Checks and cash items 273,599.28Exchanges for the

Clearing House .. . 42,323.96Other resources, viz . 17,778.89

Total .$70,863,331.90Liabilities.

Capital stock paid ln$ll,376.725.42Surplus fund _.. 3,683,115.561Undivided profits, less

current expenses'and taxes paid_ 2,187,577.36

Due to banks andbankers . 570,949.82

Dividends unpaid ... 19.7S3.14Individual deposits

subject to-check .. 16,305,117.53Savings deposits_ 17,246,987.45Demand certificates of

deposit . 213,033.12Time certificates of de¬

posit . 3,846,542.85Certified checks. 52,913.07Cashier's checks_ 104,938.90Notss and bills redis- .

counted . 2,1X7,277.24Bills payable, includ¬

ing certificates formoney 'borrowed . . 12,900,555.63

Other liabilities, viz . 107,814.81

Total .$70,863,331.90Call No. 23.

Resources, September1, 1911 .$70,863,331.90

Resources, September22, 1910 . 64,491,536.S4

Increase in one year .$ 6,371,795.06Increase since June 7,1911. 2,62*, .^58.46

Loans and discounts,September, 1911 ..$57,962,790.23

Loans and discounts,September, 1910... 50,453,490.43

Increase in one year .$ 7,509,297.SOIncrease since June 1,1911. 3,817,411.3S

Duo from banks, Sep¬tember, 1911 .$ 4,455,366.29

Due from banks, Sep¬tember, 1910. 5,871,499.48

Decrease in one year .$ 1,416,133.ISDecrease since June,

1911 .. .. .. .. 1,423,075.16

Cash in vault, Septem¬ber, 1911 .$ 1.280,514.26

Cash in vault, Septem¬ber, 1910 . 1,423,975.52

Decrease in one year .$ 143,461.26Decrease since June.

1911 . SI,827.59Capital stock, Septem¬

ber, 1911_.$11,376,725.42Capital stock, Septem¬

ber, 1910 . 10,124,286.40

Increase in one year.$ 1,?52,439.02Increase since June.

1911 . 1 63.921.91

Surplus and profits.September, 1911 ..$ 5.S70.692.92

Surplus and profits,September, 191 0 .. 5,401,654.53

Increase in one year .$ 469.03S.39Decrease since June,

1911 . 3 59,61 3.3."

Individual deposits,September. 1911 .. $37,S29,532.92

Individual deposits,September, 1 91 0 .. 3 6,502,313.1 0

Increase in one year .$ 1,327,219.82Decrease since June,

.1911 ....:. . . 2.959.56S.5S

SM PLAIN TALKBRISTOW AND FISHER CLASH IN

PRESENCE OF TAFT.

Discussion as to Who Are Progres¬sives Maries the Close of a Non

Partizan Celebration.

Near the close of what had been a

non-partizan celebration of the 30thanniversary of the birth of Kansasas a State at Hutchinson on Tuesdaywith President Taft as the principalspeaker, a political incident flared upand gave a thrill to the thousands ofKansans who packed the grandstanda.t the State fair grounds.

Walter L. Fisher, secretary of theinterior in President Taft's cabinet,just back from Alaska, made a three-minute speech in which he said some

things about the difference between"real progressives of the middle ofthe road like Mr. Taft," and "hypo¬critical, demagogic progressives whooppose every practical progressivepolicy put forth."

Senator Joseph L. Bristow, rankingsecond only to Senator La Follette ofWisconsin among the progressives ofthe senate, followed Secretary Fish¬er and quickly caught up his chal¬lenge.We in Kansas/' he said, "are al¬

ways willing to grant that the otherfellow is honest in hie views and we

expect, him to grant that we are hon¬est in ours. I want to say to Pre-President Taft in this State, therenow, that in vvorking out the prob¬lems that confront us, we of Kansaswill have our part and have our say,to the end that there shall be justiceto all and special privilege to none."

Both Mr. Fisher anH Senator Bris¬tow were applauded. The throngseemed to appreciate the verbal pas¬sage at arms and the virtual servingof notice by the junior Kansas sena¬tor that while he was participatingtreely and gladly in the welcome toPresident Taft in tris State, therewould be no let up in the factionalfight as sooa as the chief executiveleft the borders of the common¬wealth.The president himself had made

little reference to politics. His ref¬erence was purely historical. Mr.Taft was introduced by Go v. Stubbs,who led iim the cheering tbat followedMr. Taft's introduction. When thePresident had concluded Gov. Mann,of Virginia, made a .brief address.

Queer Case for Divorce.Mrs. Henry Schutz, of St. Paul,

Minn., on the ground that her hus¬band said he was a widower withthree children before the marriage,whereas after the knot had been tied,Mrs. Schulz was "shocked and sur¬

prised, although fond of children, tolearn he had ten, ranging in agefrom one to fifteen years." *

Blease's Pardon Record.Gov. Blease granted a parole Fri¬

day to Wess Williams, who wa*' con¬

victed in Newberry county in 1908,and sentenced to ten years in thepenitentiary on the charge of man¬

slaughter. Since assuming office ofgovernor has extended clemency in23 3 cases, as follows: Paroles, 124;pardons, 109. *

Negro Crushed by Train.Sam Drayton, a negro, had his life

crushed out of him by Charleston &Western Carolina train No. 42 be¬tween Allendale and Fairfax. It isthought that liquor was the cause ofhis being on the track since a num¬

ber of bottles with their contentspartly gone were in evidence.

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Drunken Negroes Drown.Three negro men were drowned in

a lake near Charlotte, N. C. All wereunder the influence of liquor andwhile one did the rowing the othersamused themselves by standing upii. the tiny craft and rocking it.Finally it capsized.

Naval Officer Killed.Ensign Haller Belt, commanding

the gunboat Tatanga, was killed byhostile natives at Yacans islands, in

Phllllpine. Several sailors were se¬

verely injured. The details have notreached the Navy Department.

They Ran Him Down.Bill S;:ber, who killed James Bauk-

knipht ,was run down by blood-hcunds and captured at his mother'shouse Monday night. He is said tobe a bad negro.

Bills payable and re¬

discounts, Septem¬ber, 101 1 .$10,087,832,87

Bills payable and re¬

discounts, Septem¬ber, 1910 . 11,080,119.25

Increase in one year .$ 3,401,713,62Increase since June.

1911 . 5,994,814.72

Number of banks, September,1911. 290

Number of banks, September,1910 . 264

Increase in one year. 25Increase since June, 1911 .... 4

New Banks.Four new banks have commenced

business since June 1911:EutawvlUe.Bank of Eutawville.Florence Palmetto Bank and

Trust Company.Johnston.Branch, Bank of Wes¬

tern Carolina, Aiken.Willington.Branch, Bank of Mc-

Cormick.

TWO CENTS PER COPY.

TALK IT OVERResult of the Canadian Election Being

Diseased Pro and Coo.-?

WILL IT HELP OR HURTThat Is What the Old Politicians Are

Trying to Figure Out, the Old

Guard Republicans Being Inclined

to the Belief That It AVill Heal the

Party Breach. jA Washington dispatch says the

question which is agitating the lead¬ers of political parties and factionsis how their fortunes in the approach^ing national campaign will be affect¬edly Thursday's defeat of the Laur-ier government and Canadian reci¬procity. It is evident the replieswould be as varied in character, aswere the political views of the fac-»tions which fought over the question'during the special session of con¬gress.

Official Washington closely follow¬ed the returns from Canada Thursdaynight but remained silent regardingthe outcome. Huntington Wilson,acting secretary of the state depart¬ment, declined to make any state¬ment, and th»:re was no other highofficial in a position to discuss thesituation. The unofficial view wasthat as Canada had rejected theagreement there was nothing for theadministration to do but "make thebest of the matter."That the rejection of the Canadian

agreement will have a strong bear¬ing upon the campaign of PresidentTaft is not doubted. Some of tbe"Old Guard" Republicans who sup¬ported the agreement "against theirbetter judgment" are saying its de¬feat will strengthen the Taft admin¬istration by removing the. only issueon which there was any disagreementwith the president.

Most of the insurgent Republicanawere opposed to the agreement andthey believe their position has beenmade much stronger. There was noone in Washington to spoak even fawformally for Xhe Democrats. A maj¬ority of that party in botn senateand house voted for the enactmentand without their votes the Taft pro¬gramme for the special session wouldhave failed.Some of the friends of the Canadi¬

an agreement do not hesitate tocharge the Canadian defeat of theLaurier government to the "annexa¬tion bogy." One of the excuses forthis issue was suggested by a speechof Champ Clark, of Missouri, now

speaker of the house, which he deliv¬ered in favor of the agreement dur¬ing the last session of the Sixty-first congress, when the agreementwas passed by the house and held upby the senate. Mr. Clark was mak¬ing a plea for a wider market and ingiving his reasons for supporting theCanadian agreement said:

"I am for It because I hope to seethe day when the American flag willfloat over every square foot of theBritish North American possessionclear to the North Pole. They are

people of our blood; they speak our

language; their Institutions are muchlike ours. They are trained in thedifficult art of self-government. Myjudgment is that if the treaty of1854 had never been abrogated thechances of a consolidation of thesecountries would have been muchgreater than they are now.'"The Canadian press or at least no

small padt of it, accepted Mr. Clark'sstatement as a confession that thereal motive of the United States was

to promote annexation. In vain Mr.Clark explained that the remark was

"semi-jocular," although representinghis ;>ersonal desire. The chance re¬

mark was one of the chief argumentsof Canadian opponents of the agree¬ment.

Added importance to Mr. Clark'sremarks was given when he was laterelected speaker, and as such becamethe leader of his party. Many per¬sons, because of these circumstances,were attributing the politic.il down¬fall of the premier of the Canadiangovernment to the speaker of theAmerican house of reprsntatlves.

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Rich Newsboy is Dead.William B. Greenburg, the richest

newsboy in St. Louis, was burledMonday. His death was caused bypneumonia. From poverty Green¬

burg rose to be a< landlord at hisdeath was the owner of a $112,000apartment building and the news¬

stand which he established after sell¬ing papers on the streets for almost23 years.

Fight Too Many.Tcsterfying that a man never gets

too old to have affinities and charg¬ing that her husband, Charles W.Adams, who is sixty, had oi.ie duringtheir married life, .Mrs. Jennie M.Adams was granted a divorce in thecourt at Kansas City on Saturday.bhe refused to accept more than $30a month alimony.

Three Men Were Killed.At Louisville, Ky , an avc.lanche of

bricks from upper walls ot a burn¬ing six-story building, in the Mainstreet wholesalo district, crashedthrough three floors of an adjoiningbuilding, killing three firemen andinjuring two others.