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-VO.x VI NIANNING, S. C., WEDN ESDAY. MARCH , 1912N A STI0R MY SE!B 0N ERT. BLEASE WAS HITICISED IN REATED DEBITE. SOME VERY WAM TALK Several Senators Indutge in Acri monious Speech as a Utesult of the Chief Executive's Rlefsal to Make Appointments Reconmended by Senate in Accordance With Law. Clouds draped over the horizon of the senate Thursday, presaging the advent of squally wea.ther. Soon the thunder of debate echoed and the lightning of acrimonio':s reterence zig-zagged through the chamber. It was all occasioned by the governor refusing to appoint magistrates and! supervisors of registrotion in certain counties, after having been request ed so to do by the senate through resolution. Senator Wal!er was one of the* centres and he openly announced that the house should have backbone enough to impeach the governor if be -did not make the appointments. Thursday morning Senator Whar ton moved to appoint three senators from the upper house to wait on the governor and to ascertain if he had any other business for the senate. Senator Johnstone said that the sen ate was not quite ready for adjourn :ent, and suggested that the senate wait for at least on hour before it send the committee to the governor. A little later Senator Appelt re ported that the governor would leave about 1 o'clock to fulfill an import ant engagement in Blacksburg Thurs day afternoon, and that the senate should send a committee to him at once as is customary. Senator Whar ton's motion was again renewed and a committee of three. composed of, Senators Wharton, Hough and Ap pelt, was appointed and was request ed to wait on the governor to gam, if possible, the information desired. On mo:ion of Senawor Youag, the committee was requested to 'nd out from the governor if the ap'oi1n ments for Union county had been for warded to the secretary of state. The reply to the sena:e, through the committee, precipitated the war of debate that raged incessantly for tully five hours, both in open and in executive session. The governor re ported that he had the constitutional right not to appoint until 'March 15. and that he did not intend to make any announcements until that time. Senator Wharton said that when the governor first said that he would appoint those recommended by Sen ator Young he also stated that lie would appoint ali others recommend ed. Senator Wharton said that as he was not satisfied, he returned Lo the governor and asked him specifically those scheduled for appointment, and the governor replied that he had a constitutional limitation of time to make these app~ointments, and he did not intend to make them until this limit had expired, which is MIarch 15. Senator Wharton said that the governor desired to see Senator Young concerning the appointments for Union county. Senator Young complied with the request and his zecommendations were appointed. Gave Bitter Record. The sto-m signals appeared when senator Waller of Greenwood gained the !!oor, and soon a storm blast of aerinunl'ous words swept the sen ate. M3r. Waller said that the con stitution gave the senate the right to recommend the apuolntees to of-i fice and that it should vigorously and! i nio stintirg terms express its will. Senator Wailer read the following. from section 2 of the constitution: "A suilcient number of magis trates shall be appointed and comn missioned by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of sen ate, for each county, who shall hold their offices for the term of two. years and .until their suedessors are appointed and qualified." Mir. Wailer made an argument rnt the constitution makes it abso luteiy mandatory on the governor to appoint those that are recommended. He said that the "governing doc ment of thle government' would not have used the word "shall" if it had -1't mearnt that the chi executive S b'unc cnder the law to compiy with. ti'e wishes and "desires" of h dty .-cec relpresenitatives of the p+ ple. He readi several dleisiosf the supreme court to 7upport his con ten'tion. Senator Apreit: "Suppose ihe senate advises appointments, an'd he governor refuses to comin ssion. wha would you advise then to be done Senator Waller: "Well,-tu house has any ba&kbonle, itwol vote to impeach hinm." Resuming. S'enator Waller sai that he was ~rievously hut at~ he governor-s act on in iroPdiag upT) appoimn'tts fo Cenwodctn HeI hoped the senate would upho. him in the fight he was atai: oribi't the governor in "unn rot:gh shod over the -!esires as ad beer expre'sed by other se"n"tors. At this point SElor~-~'" but a 'ool would pu h -w o gether." but shouldi "5z'' >' ' He Enid 'a Tha "~V'0~ the Tnst for his rah's. The chair. aithi S -~t said that there was nio Qtu'.-'sOt unde iscus sin snd that dbate was out of or-j THIEY 60T OFF LIH IROLSTONS PLEAD GUILTY TO AT TACK ON SPRAJDLEY. Trouble Caused by the Daughter of One of the Holstons 1-unning Away With Spradley's Son. The Holston and Spradley trouble as been partially thrashed out in the Saluda Court. On Tuesday the ase of the State vs. Grovel- Holstein, Sidney HoisLon, Albert Ho!ston, Rich ard 'Holston and A. L. Holston, all white men. charged with assault and attery with intent to kill, but against each of whom a true bill was returned for si:ple assault and ba ery on the person of B. F. Spradley Dn the night of August 2, 1911, was .sposed of by the accused pleading uilty. 'Each of the defendants entered a plea of guilty, and a Ene of $40 was mposed on each of them or the al ernative of 30 days. The fnes were romptly paid. It will be recalled :hat these men are now indicted in Aiken county on the charge of mur ler, the charge being that their con luct on the night in question caused .he death of Spradley's wife. According to the testimony of spradley at the preliminary hearing aken by Stenographer Anderson in he case just ended as to Saluda ounty, the fve defendants made an ttack upon him on the night of Aug .ist 2 last between 11 and 12 o'clock, *vhen he went over to a negro tenant .ouse in Saluda county on call of a: :egro woman, who came to his house :nd informied him that there were Ave men wanting her husband to kill lim. He states that when he got there e asked the defendants the cause of he trouble. and then it was they at acked him. He tells very graphical Y how they abbed him on the body ith pistos, cursed him and absed 1i. and how Grover Holston hit him wice wib the butt of his pistol an ow he was otherwise maltreated and ow from the bruises and wxounds eeved he w-s confined to his be or som!:e two we eks and was under ho c::~ of p':siins. This -.e is the Salatda win; of the tiempt cn the part of the Hioislonz o prev-et the tnrriage of the e.er oiston's daughtsr to Coluanbus r-dley. a full re-ort of the aFair :eing .-.-n in the papers at the 0im0. CHINN' E Wo.ZM -HAS T URBNED. he New Republic Demannis Rodrees From Holland. Chinese warships have been or !red to Java under instructions to: ,egin a bom.bardment of Batavia if be Dutch government does not pay .indenity denan:ed for the kill ng of Chinese by Dutch sldiers. I n ultimatum sent to the Dutch gov ~ranent yesterday. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, >rovisinal president, stated that a ~ttack on Java would be begun if the ndenaity were not paid within a Dr. Sun declared in his ultimiatumfl hat passports wouMd be handed to e Dutch minister, who is said to be Lt Shankhai, en route to Peking. if! he indemnity was not paid. The hree cruisers which left Shankhai re the Hai Chan, the Hai Yuhe and -Iai Sun. They were fully provisioned and quipped, under orders of Wong hung Wei, minister of war. Ad rices to the Chinese newspaper here eclare that the a~ttack on the Cai ese by Dutch soldiers was made vithout provocationl and that three hinese were killed and many others rrested. SOAPED ENGiNE BOILEE. Lhe Dasterdly Work of a Miscreant Endangers Life. It developed Thursday that some! iscreants had "seapezU" engine No. O9 on the Charleston & Western arolia railroad a: McCormicks, some time during the night and 'nocked off the handle of the blow fvalve to prevent the boiler being Irained. The engineers of the road ssue3 a staten:ent in whi.ch they in :ared that :a rmember of :the nre ens strike eo:rmitte t' MeC'rni hotd be watchedi. as "for the~ pro ?aino thteir ownlvs nt" cmrt'.'s proer-.y." The engner .o on to s,.y th!at: T'"Seemse utsa :n :he water tank, causin onigto fozm so 'y!!y as to T~i*:: .M'x S'iOT IN t-T 'efirgia IHiird Tiger (reates Sena tion '-ith ilis Gun. At TRei-isvi e, C.. in a maed rush sa!!a !!uo. W.M igrs Ir~wc' "" e'eh Ioeror asig i to stnd.fo nnmin'.nn 46'1NE AT LAST' At GENERAL ASSEMBLY UT WORK ALTER LONG SESSION. WAITINfi GAME PLAYE The Senate and the House of Repre sentatives Split on a Resolution and Then Each Body Voted to Ad journ Sine Die and Go Home After a Long and Tedious Session. The general aasembly has aCjourn ad sine die, after a tempestuous ses- t sion, which lasted for i2 days. The ! motion to adourn was passed by the S house Thursday afternoon at 3:35 : o'clock and by the senate an hour h ater. The regular session. which be- a an on january 9, wou'. have ended on February 17 had not the necessity or a recess session arisen. For the past two days the house;, has been playing a waiting game, o hile the senate fought for its eon-t ttutional right to have certain ap pointnients made upon its recommen- f ation by Gov. Blease. The issue of right of local self-government was a sharply drawn in the senate, which v ozed Thursday morning to rescind ts former action in setting Thursday: is the date for adjournment sine die A hen it was seen that Gov. Blease R :as determined not to make the ap ointments upon its recommendation s( s required by the law. But the house refused to agree to rolong the session and help the sen- i te in its fght for its rights. One Ihng that influenced the house to ae this step was the fact that th enate did no! act upon its concur :-nt resolution. passed during the r.s:. week of the regilar session. .hich nanted May 28 as the date for wginning a recess session in order to: :ow time for perfecting the code mi hearing the report of the dispen egating cornmirtee. both of -M.h re-sons for a recess have been posed of. :.. S:e'enson said that two weeks D 1" "ad been in ';-or of takinga vL s t~Il May. He said that he was inow of recindaing the ad ouvnrat reolution. The May re :.;l vx Lo: agreed to by the sena:e, te bers of the general as now stay-d in session for -'y two weeis in order to get mat .~s in shpne. The code had been isoe of nd was now no longer n impedi ent to ad'ourning. Mr. . said that he appreciated efat that the issue between the 3 enate and the governor was clear ut-,he riht of local self-gorern n7. and :hat in the fight on thi -sue his sympa-thy was entirely with he senate. When the house reconvened Thurs ay afternoon it refused to passa ocurrnt resolution from the senat 'roviing for taking a recess untit trh 1 9 and voted to atijourn sine ie at 3:35 o'clock. When the senate acet at 4:30 o'clock it also voted to djourn. since there was nothing else .o do. Otherwise the concurrent res ~lution fixing Friday as the date for ~djornment sine die, which the ose refused to rescind, would have rone into e'!'ect automatically Thurs lay night at maidnigat. At the morning session Thurs'iay, y a vote of 63 to 0, the house passed :he Hall concurrent resolution Exin hursday as the date for adjourn nent sine die. This was the resolu ton the house passed early last Sun lay morning and then recalled after deermined flibuster. The aye and tay vote taken Thursday morning showed that exactly a querum of the iouse was present.a Mr. Stevenson's resolution, ap ointng a committee of three to wait nGov. Elease, notify him that the orse was ready to aijour s ine die ed to ascertain whether he had any oe communications to transmit as passed. The speaker appointed r. Stevenson, Mr. Sawyer and M. embert on the committee to wait on ~ ov. liease. r. Stevenson. chairman of the ':mittee to wait on the governo. niforned the house that his excellen r had no further communication for *he house. Later the t'overnor sent na mesage saying he he.d an impor t engage:Pen: in the up!'er part f e~ State for Thursday night, and iad no further commaunication1 for ('General Assembly T:e fo~fowing concturrent resolu -vs 'eei'ved from the senate a p.m. -Te .t rsolved by the sente- the t ofre-se'n:atiivCs con :arr:n. a1 be and the samew ereby, rescindled.'': -Msl 2o him ey sat ronMy F2 nrents. nAn.e hs ah aoue hd a ad twomi~"u ' latth S er telineg each oi-er farea na were on their way homne.j! ier. Mr. Waller repied that he -as ;peaking on a question of personal irivilege on the way the chief exect: ive of the State had treatud him. le sserted that the governor had made ather appointmnots and had refused o make his, therefore he thought hat he had a right to voice his ob czions to such proceedings. He aid: "The governor has failed to .ppoint Magistrate Kerr to office, and Le has been recommended by me for he Greenwood delegation." He said hat the senate had the constitution .I right to give advise to the gov rnor, and he thought - that there hould be some way to "order" the ;overnor to make the appointments .s were recommended. Senator Laney said that a concur ent resolution had been sent to the gernor Wednesday asking for ap ointments and he had reported to he committee that he had nothing urther to report and he saw no rea on why the senate should remain in ession longer. He then moved that he clerk of the sen2te report to the ouse that the senate was ready to djourn sine die. He later withdrew als to allow a resolttion to be intro uced. Fenators Clifton and Christensen troduced a resolution to advise the overnor that the senate consented > the appointment of certain county T cers. The resolution follows in ll1: "That the senate in session hereby dvises for appointment as' super isors of registration for: "Greenville-C. L. Verdin, J. M. erauson. P. A. McDavid. ".Nwbprry Coun:y--W. W. Riser, 0. Slig!. C. E. Wheeler. "Anderson County-E. T. Tolle )n. "eaufort County-E. M. Bostick. "Spartanburg County-E. G. Wil s. C. W. Mabry. V. W. Miller. "Union 7ounty-Gordon Williams. i:er t'bo. M. C. Gault. "Lexington Co-unty-Jas. D. Lang >rd, E. Stanmore, J. Hays. "C reenu ood-B. H. Barr, J. V. u.e, R. B. B. iflton. "And for appointment as aagis ates for: "Newberry-No. 11 township, J. J. inard. "e1aufort County-Port Royal, S. Thompson; Daufuskie, W. W. ,o u ten. "Lexington-E. H. Ad1dy. :eon. ood County--Greenwood II. Kerr: Coromaca, G. Medlin: rad"e, J. P. Guerard; Verdery, W. Purdy. "Anerson--ivy. H. W. HanXs: )d Springs, S. M. Johnson: Pen eton. T. J. Sitton; Rock Mill, J. P. udei~rson. "Spartanburg County-Spartan irg.A. H. KirbY, W. C. Harrison. . Potter and D. T. Gossett, and "That the senate consents to the Lae as supervisors of registration ud magitrates and requests that e governor appoint the same ii ac dance wit hsection 176 and 982 the civil code of 1'902, volume 1." On roll call the resolution was opted by a vote of 22 to 0, the yte being as follows: Yeas-Bates, Carlisle, Christensen. lifton, Crosson, Forrest. Green, all, Hardin, Hough, Alan John one. Laney, T. J1. Mauldin, Mc own, Muckenifuss, Rainsford, Spiv rSullivan, WX'ller, Weston, Whar in and Young-22. Nays-0. Several senators present refused to te, and it was with difficulty that; quorum was secured on this ac >unt. On motion of Senator Laney a com-! ittee was again appointed. com sed of Senators Wharton, Hough 2d Appelt. to present the resolution the governor. When the commit e returned Senator Appelt reported iat the governor would send a mes ge to the senate by his private sea 3tary. The message said that the gover-! or had no further information or~ pointments to make to the senate, ad that he had left his offce to go a an important trip. The message, a motion of Senator Clifton, was re ived as information and ordered interi in the journal. Senator Laney again moved that :e clerk of the senate be ordered to port to the house that the senate 'as ready to adjiourn sine die. Sen ror Clifton or~ered an amendment to 1s motion, sending to the chair a! ~solution rescinding the former con trrent resolution that the general sembly should adjourn yesterday.: :r. Clif:on said that it is understood ythe senator:s present that th-e body ould come back in May. This res ution resolved that the senate, whin ad 'ourned, would take a recess nil May 29. S :tor Laney's motion to lay this 'o~U:Con on the ta-ble was lost by a e of I) for andi 15 agtainst, the :3-sof ;he senate lining up as iivs: YLs--Aripelt. Pates. Forres:. rT. ogh.' '''. J Johnson. Laney. Ntvs -C -rlisie Christens"n, Clif tohit'Ae, T. J. Maubn, Mc'Corn. e'oan' ,'nd Young-15. 'Im -e'onion e"s tha ~ n adieptrid. Sn.'-o:' A'pelt '~th more Ito a.d Tronoe to -vy th-' mto~n of "e s-'r'r f'rom Clveelon on t'-e ahe h ''r'o "' o adCU' was aiby a 'v~ o ? 'o 0. S*. ii~ a1Iatt~ rh ren'r. ui.ntla ite con lla'ian ofts ttt '"'t'u to a'ijourn withmout somne am' ton ben Lkn on them. lie said TIEV ANT L TFT ;OTH C A OL INA REIPUIBLICAN! Convention Composed of Many Ne groes and a Few Whites Met il Columbia Thursday. The State Colnvention of one win; of the Repubicln party. meeting i: Columbia Thursday afternoon, en dorsed the administration of Presi dent Taft and adopted a resolution in structing the four delegates at larg to vote for Mr. Taft in the Chicag< Convention. The district convention: will be held at a later date. The Convention also asked that th district delegates go instructed foi the renomination of Taft. There was one speech delivered in the Conven. tion in the interest of Theodore Roo sevelt. The four delegates at large to th( Chicago ((onvention were elected a follows: Jos. W. Tolbert. Greenwood; J. Dnnean Adams, Charleston; J. R Levy. Columbia. and W. T. Andrews Sumter. The alternates are: A. H Tohrson, Columbia: T. H. Williams Newberry; J. H. Fordham, Orange burg, and Robt. Smalls, Beaufort. All the delegates and alternates are negroes except Adams and Toi bert. Adams is United States Mar shal for South Carolina. H. L. John son. the negro recorder of deeds o the United States Government, was present at the Convention and de livered an address. The convention aVas made up of about 150 negro delegates and sev er-al white men, who are officers in the organization. They all met in a hall on Assembly street Thursday af ernoon and continued in session un Ii about 9 O'Clock that night, when the of!icials announced the result of the action. The entire afternoon was spent in s.peech-making. President Ta';t was praised and his administration indorsed in strong terms by many of the speakers. Be fore the meeting had gone far it was avident that it was a Taft meeting mn that the delegation would go to Chicago instructed for the renomina tion of the present president. One of the speakers, after a long sneech, announced that the time had come for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. The speaker was given cose attention while talking and the name of the former president who is Iekng a third term was cheered. Then somrebody defended President Taft and the applause was just as great. John G. Capers was denounced by -he delegates in a score o7 speeches. ile was accused of entering the Re pb!can party by the back door. Menbers of the organization charged that President Taft had "cut loose from Capers and that he would re ruse to recognize the delegates from the 'liilly White' party in South Car olina." In this connection it might be stated that the executive committee of the white Republican party in South Carolina has been called to :eet in Columbia on March 4 4to call a State convention. The white party will also send a delegation to the Chi cgo convention instructed for the renomination of President Taft. Which delegation will be seated is the question that vwill be decided by the national convention. further that the general assembly should remain in session until every resolution and every act he acted on and every person recommended be ppointed. On a direct question from Senator Appelt, Mr. Clifton said that he thought a proper person appointed to the position of magistrate was more important than the enaction of laws. C. A. Smith, president of the sen ate, then made a ruling that the joint resoution that had been adopted by the senate and the house could not be rescinded as the house had refused to concur with the senate. Senator Appelt then moved that the clerk of the senate notify the house tbat the senate was ready to adjourn sine die. Senator Clifton moved to lay this on the table, which was carried by a vote of 14 to 1 0. Senator Clifton again introduced a resolution to rescind the resolution o adjourn. Scnator Appelt moved to lay this on the table and his mo ton was lost by a vote of il1 for and 1Z aaainst. and the Clifton resolution w's adopted. E-enntor Clifton then introduced a reolution, the purport of which was :hut vhe~n the, scnatte adjourned it ::e ae-m;until M.;av 2S. Sen::.tor A"elt then said that 'oVein wa:s in the air tand hr v::'e- to snow v;har it was. H-I adl that the aesion of tihe senatc -:Id treact on the moeintbcrs, and 'oy'-''l bave ~'to ' anisar to h --n :oodin longer rem'aining in ses aeso Ani aid "TonoreaC '"rrt ('re'en. Ho Ih Lney. Mc. ro- nTRanesnri Strait ndr Whar. SENATLR Tt IMAN TALKS Of E'T TN Mill STiME.. TIME TO APPLY REMBY The Senator Blames the Immigration - Laws for Admitting ignorant For eign Laborers, Who Become Re-. publican Voters and Support Pro tective Tariff, for the Trouble at Lawrence, Mass. Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, made the following state ment to-day, when asked for an opinion on the developments at Law rence Mass.: "The labor agitators at Lawrence have used the strike and things that have grown out of it for the purpose of agitation. Shipping the children to New York and Phil adelphia could only have had one or two objects, to lessen the number of mouths to be fed at Lawrence or to excite the sympathy of fellow work ers in the two cities named. "The interference by the police with the last shipment of children was unfortunate in more ways than one. It was wholly unwarranted by any law I know of and an invasion of rights that are guaranted by the Constitution. Had they stopped the first batch of children from going to New York city, it would have been a blessing, for they arrived late in the evening, during a blizzard, when the thermometer was around zero, and they must have suffered greatly. "I think it unfortunate that both house of Congress have. been asked to interfere, because it appears to be I purely a. State matter. However, I recall that Massachusetts has claim ed to be 'the cradle of liberty' and 'was leader of the crusade which re sulted in the great civil war. The cond!:ions at Lawrence seems to in dicate that she has substituted in dustrial slavery for chattel slavery and a hor le of foreigners in the city, thousands of whom who cannot speak the English language, have been imported to furnish labor. They are a sad commentary on out lax im migration laws. "If the occurrences at Lawrence last week shall cause Congress to en 'orce restriction such as will keep out these ignorant and debased peo ple, the American people will look upon the strike at Lawrence as a hiessirg. ar.d it will mark a new epoch of the war between labor and capa. 'The howling of the protec ire tariff advocates for more protec-1 cna to American- lab'-r have brought a cond'ition as striking and as epoch making as the Dred Scot decision. T 'hings in this country have come to a pretty pass when the authorities of a State go so far as to prohibit peo ple from sending their own children away. "That is slavery pure and simple. But when we recollect that such peo ple as these have been naturalize-1 and turned into Republican voters to~ vote for a protective tariff, it would seem that the greed of the manu facturer had overreached itself. It is time for sane and sensible people to find just what is the trouble and apply the remedy. Cogescan stop tion and should do so, but Congress cannot legally interfere with a State's police powers. We are be tween the devil of capitalistic greed on one hand and the sea of Social ism, with the red fiag of the Jacobins, on the other. We are bouind to have some blood-letting before the disease is cured. "It seems like poetle justice that Massachusetts chickens, which did so much wrong and caused so much mis ry in the South, are now coming home to roost." FRE.EZE TO DEATH IN TEXAS. Man and Woman Die in Blizzard That Swept the State. Two persons were frozen to death ir. the blizzard whiich swept the Pan hanule. of Texas Sunday. A search-' ing party which Wednesday started out when a report reached Dallas hat Mrs. M. Joseph Sayler, wife of '. ranchman, had disappeared, re-' turned at midnight that night with her body. She had wandered 14 mies on the frozen range before she succu'mbed to the cold. Mrs. Sayler ha-d sta rted out in search of her huis -eni, k>was attending to stock. The seon death from exposure to me storm was reporred at Romiero-, Tex. M' miles west of Dalhart. The nae of the man frozen to death is n ot knownr. Ur'yan ikead1y for the Fray. In a speech at Denver, Col., Sat a-:"I "am satisiledl th:'t some on else en pl more votes then myslf Bu I.am re'::dy to enter, Upo;n a C;n 2ag ' ehalf' of : trtue l."mCrn T e- wet.'n recoensi ?er'ad and nel:;I~' to March 19. ': Senfator Young the - - ena recess until 4:30 a eruoen. After the sen-. - its sessions, the house - eit h:;d refused to COn! - msenate re~so!1:ion1. on amo n o S.'ator Aprelt the upper h'ouse the'n adjoiurned sine die. May Enter Race. Former senator JTohn L,. Mc.Luin s quoted as threateningr to enter the race for governor itn the event that Co. Ble-a vetoes the warousne hil A TERRIMLE TR4[IIY YOUNG MAN KILLED HIS SISTER AT A SOCIAL PARTY. Tom Ennis, Drunk on Blind Tiger Bcoze, Shoots Mrs. Isadore Giles, Near Sandersville, Ga. A dispatch from Sandersville, Ga., says one of the saddest tragedies that has ever occurred in Washington county was that about midnight Mon day nighf, at Deepstep, 12 miles west of Sandersville, when -Mrs. Isa dore Giles was mortally wounded by her brother Tom Ennis. She died from the wound about 4 o'clock Tues day morning. A country party was being given at the home of Mr. Isadore Giles, and a large crowd of young people from the surrounding community were participating. About 11:30 o'clock Tom Ennis, brother of Mrs. Giles. came into the house drunk; in -fact he had been drunk during the entire evening. Mrs. Giles noticed his condition and, getting him to one side, began reprimanding him for his misbehav ior. Without warning, Ennis whip ped out his revolver and fired, the bullet striking Mrs. Giles just under her chin and passing through the wind-pipe. After shooting his sister Ennis be came absolutely infuriated and would have killed others of the party but for the fact that he was overpowered by some of the men present and tak en out and away. Mrs. Giles lived until about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, when she died. She was 30 years old, and is survived by her husband and six mall children, the eldest being eight years old. Ennis, who is about 20 years old, is the son of Mr. Ransom Ennis, who is highly esteemed in Washington and Baldwin county, where he for nerly lived. Inquiry at the sheriff's office de velops the fact that no warrant has been issued for young Ennis and no arrest has been made. Late Tuesday afternoon he was at the home of his father, at Deepstep. The young man was drunk on blind tiger whiskey. No liquor is sold leg ally in any part of Georgia, but those who want the vile stuff finds no dif fculty in gett:ig it from the blind igers that sell it. MULES KILLED BY WIRE. A Farmer Lost Two Animals and Was Shocked Himself. W. 13. Keenan, a Cherokee farmer, :ho lives in the Midway section of he county, suffered the misfortune to lose two mules Monday mornng, the animals being killed by a broken electric wire. Mr. Keenan was en 'oute to Geffney, bringing a load of ood. He had alighted from the agon and was walking behind. When a,bout three miles from Gaff ey, at the point where the main ower lines of the Dravo Power com any cross the public road, he saw me of the mules rear up as though rightened and fall heavily to the round. The other mule acted in he same manner. Mr. Keenan ran tc them and attempted to get one f them up, but when he touched the nimal he was almost knocked ofr is feet. It was then that he dis overed the fallen wire. It is pron ble that the power company will re ~mburse him for the mules. RYING TO FOOL THE FARMERS. fise in Price Effort to Offset Reduc tion Plan. E. 3. Watson, commissioner of ag iculture of South Carolina, and pres dent of the Southern Cotton con ress, today addressed a letter to the overnors and commissioners of agri ulture of the cotton states of the outh, in which he charged that the ncrease in the price of cotton is erely an effort to make the farmers lant more cotton. He appeals to the armers of the south to push the ork of securing a reduction of acre ge through the "Rock Hill plan." Substantial actual reduction is and ust be the basis of protection to the outhern producer the coming year," said the commissioner. GIVE BEAUTIFUL HOME. Senator Edmunds Makes a Gift to Episcopalians. Former United States Senator eorge F. Edmunds, who was for o:any years a winter resident of Aik en. has tendered the Episcopal dio ese of South Carolina his beautiful resident in Aiken for the use of the ioeein any. way they may see fit o utili'zP it, and it has been proposed that :h' diocese establish a college a me the Edmunds home for this urose. The Episcopal church has on such institution in South Caro a. and it is understood that a moveent is now being started in his direction. Two Attempits to Murder Minister. Investigation is being made Wed resday of a second su mosed atttim or. the lire of Rev. J1. Frank Norris, of the First ptist church. of Fort Worth. Accordintz :o the s!to:V toll by Rev. Norris an f -g E. White, who was nc om:::oyvin himl to his t,.ir: sai;m 'tore himself free and mayi..1mo e g some one rd two sots through the vindiow oth sor's study as he sat at his d.r!:. A week later his church was burned. Rev. Norris had been ac~ ive :n the enforcement of the Sun. day 1~ MYANY WANT. FOOD GAUNT FAMINE SPREADS AMONG THE POOR Of TRIPOLI PICK UP AND EAT CORN Thousands of Women and Children in the War Zone are Slowly Starv ing to Death, While Their Fathers, Husbands and Brothers are Fight. ing the Invading Italians. A cablegram from Azizia, Tripoli, says famine has followed on the heels of war in the north of the prov ince of Tripoli. It is famine of the cruelist kind, for its victims are al nost all women and children.. The adult males of the population are one and all at war with Italy. They draw their rations and receive their am munition, and even their horses must not go short. Food for the soldier and his mount has been doled out by the Turks for the beginning of the war. But Arab women are fighting for the grains that fall from the horses' nosebags, and babies that should be plump and brown are bony and yel low, with skin the hue of dried parchment stretched over rickety frameworks of bones. This must have been going on for weeks, for the starving people who have come with in the last few days to Azizia are the, mothers and wives and children of the men from that belt of cases that fringes the coast from Zauara east ward nearly to the town of Tripoli itself. The Italian massacres of October, and the casual shell fire from prowl ing cruisers, which have made a tar get of every mud-but visible among the palnis drove these poor wretches from their homes early during the war. Those in the neighborhood of Zouara were gathered together by or der of Musa Mebernet, the military commander of the district, and hous ed in the stone fortress in the oasis of Rigdalin, but it seems that hun dreds from the scattered villages further east fled in disorganized crowds into the desert, and subsist ing on roots and rats and lizards, have ma-le their pitiful way at last to the new headquarters of the'Turk ish troops at Azizia. "What do you want the barley for -to sell it?" a woian was asked. "For my children to eat, Sidi," was the incredible reply. "I did not believe her; and when she began to lament the little store of grain which the' horse had made her spill, I simply told her to go away, or I would fetch the sentry," said an eye-witness. "Afterward I was sorry. For on the very next day I saw a woman crouched on the round near where some sacks of rain had been, and she -was picking up grain by grain with ner fingers. " To. whom will you sell it?" I sked. 'I shall eat it,' she replied. urely you can not live on horse's food? And she answered that she nd her children had eaten nothing lse for many a day. Gradually I found out that even those women, ho. with their children, have come o hang on the outskirts of the army, re in a state of half-starvation. They hemselves say, 'We must eat little, est our fighting men go short.' "As for those who wander to and fro in the desert, shelterlessk nearly aked, and with bones starting hrough their skin, how they live on, ay after day, only those who know he endurance of the Arab race eaz uderstand." During the last day or so erowds f them have gathered round the hite building which marks the head uarters here at Azizia. It was the eath of a pack camel that brought hem. Hitherto, save for a few bony hildren begging for scraps in the market place and for the furtive, hrouded women gleaning the crumbs hat fall from the table of the four footed beasts of burden, the famine tricken wanderers have hidden their isery rather than parded it. It was not until the death of a amel that they flocked in great force o beg for food. The camel, blunder ng in the night time about the court ard, had snapped its ungainly leg cross a wagon wheel. It filled the ight with hideous groats, and was illed to put it out of pain. The ews spread through the desert hol ows, where the fugitive women and hildren hide, as the news of a cam l's death always spreads among the ungry wastes of Africa. They flocked to Azizia, a ghastly rew of scarcecrows. There were ithered hags of 16 and 17 that hould have been graceful maidens, ad some of them carried cn their backs-the most dreadful sight of ill-stunted, lethargic :gnomes that might have bee~n the sundred shriv elledi bodies of little apes. Like the :horus of "The Trngedy of Want." they sat in a patien:t scmni-circle be ore th'e archway of the courtyard. y htv di:1 not need any pleading other y noir looks. The dead camel was cut up and distributed among hem. ceT(r'ees anut Mixed Schools. - meing of negroes at Chicago aondaty nigh't speakers urged that the~ negroes should form a political organza'icn for the protection of the rce. Th' meetin~g was called as a result o' the action. of the Hyde PrkI Proectivet Association in asktng 'or thec segrec~aionl of white and ne ro pupils. in the' p':blic schiools. Little Girl Wa's Killed. The worst wind and rainstorm that the Greenville v :inity has ex perienced in years passed over there on Wednesday. At Travelers' Rest, R'th Watson. seven years old, was irledb ajialline tree.