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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XV., No. 12. GLEMSON WILL 1 fit TALKED OF BYTHESOLONS South. Carolina Legisla ture Did. Little on First Day of New Ses sion. (By W. H. McCAW.) COLUMBIA, S. C.—The first day of the second session of the legislature was spent most largely in renewing old and pleasant acquaintances, the house did no work, and the senate very little. Work started in earnest on the second day, when both houses attacked their calendars. There will be little delay, the last session having left plenty of business for the present session, though much of it has not thrived in cold storage, and will be wiped off the calendar with little ceremony. The flood of new bills be gan at once, the engrossing depart ment was the first to get busy,, and its clerks are already grinding out new bills. State Wide Prohibition. There seems to be no way of avoid ing a long discussion and fight on the subject Of statewide prohibition, but the representatives of those counties retaining the dispensary are satisfied that they will be able to keep them in spite of the onslaught of the prohi bitionists. That will, of course, be one of the fights of the session. It always is. A matter that is going to cause a great deal of discussion and no small fight will be the report of the com mission appointed to investigate the affairs of the state hospital for the insane. It will be shown in that re port that the legislature has given the board of regents all that they asked for in every instance, except in the matter of extensions, and those ap propriations were always made with the understanding that the amount appropriated could be made to suffice. The gross carelessness of the authori ties of the institution in many in stances are shown by the examination of witnesses, and there Is in the hands of representatives other matters of a more sensational nature that may be brought out. Avoids Sensation. The report avoids sensation, but does not seem to attempt to shield any one, though It was limited, in many respects In Its scope. It points facts and leaves the legislature to draw conclusions. It seems that there has been serious carelessness on the part of the authorities from the board of regents down, that so many of the abuses have not been corrected. The apparent disposition to make the re port appear as an arraignment of the legislature for parsimony by the board of regents and authorities of the in stitution promises to be a failure. The report persists In taking the color of a criticism of the management. Clemson College. From what can be gathered there are going to be some rocks thrown at Clemson in the matter of nepotism in the faculty. A bill is understood to be preparation forbidding kinsmen of the members of boards of trustees of state institutions being put In the faculties. It is said that there are at least a doz en such cases in Clemson college, and some of those who have been nosing around to find out what is the trou ble at Clemson have determined that it arises from the fact that so many of the faculty of the institution are kin to members of the board that no man can take the head of that insti tution and manage it, cousins and kinsmen of nearer or more remote de grees have already gotten in their story before the president can tell hfs, and he talks to prejudiced ears. That is some of the loose talk, which this correspondent does not undertake to father or stand sponsor for; it will all come out in the wash. The tem per of the legislature towards Clem son is rather critical, and has been growing more so for years. It is felt that there is something wrong with the grand Institution that ought to be gotten right for the good of the state and the salvation of the institution. Capitol Improvement. There is some hope that the legis lature may be Induced to grant a sum for the continuation of the work on the south front of the state house, as the site selected for the woman's mon ument is to be on that side, corre sponding with the Confederate monu ment on the north side. Every effort will be made to have the work contin ued, as that side of the state house is the first caught sight of by visitors coming into the state capital. There Is little promise of fights or deadlocks in any of the legislative elections, and they will probably soon be put out of the way, until that is through with real work hardly begins. Dillon county will go through like grease, there will probably be a fight on it, and a large Dillon delegation is here, but they have little to fear, their case is too plain, the baby is already born, and the christening Is the only thing left to do. ■ v ———- ♦ 4 '7- *444444444 4 ♦ 4 ♦ THE WEATHER. ♦ ♦ Conditions favor increasing ♦ 4 cloudiness for this section with ♦ 4 rain late tonight or Thursday and 4 4 warmer tonight. 4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦4444444444 PLOT TO KILL KING MEL IS DISCOVERED Overthrow of Portuguese Government and Assassi nation of Prominent Of ficials Included in Plans. LISBON"—-The plot to assfisinate King Manuel and overthrow the gov ernment extended to the palace itself, involving more prominent persons than was at first believed. This was learned Wednesday in semi-official quarters; although the government is doing everything possible to keep the facts concealed. Although the palace is guarded by a small army, the king’s advisers are greatly agitated and Manuel has changed bis sleeping apartment every night since the dis covery of the plot. The plot has been shown by papers seized to be more far reaching than any of its kind uncovered in Europe in years. The ultimate object of the conspirators was the institution of a republican form of government and the driving from Portugal of the ex ecution of all the monarchical leaders. The men who engineered the assas sination of King Carlos and the crown prince were the guiding hands of the newer plot. TERRIFIC FLODfI OF SELIM ORDERS DEIiftIZLD HE CSIII MARKET July Options Dropped $3.55 a Bale. Other Months Lost Many Points. New Orleans Cotton Fell $3.80 a Bale. NEW YORK. —The cotton market became utterly demoralized for a time Wednesday afternoon under a terrific flood of selling orders. The July op tion dropped 71 points, $3.65 per bale; March lost SO points. May 69, August 62, January 67, September 39, and the October option, which has not yet been planted, 62 points. The stock exchange house which is expecting to be the subject of the stock exchange wrath for its part in the Rock Island flurry of December 27 is understood to have been respon sible for the greater part of today’s break. According to report it has been advised that it will be suspended for three years and consequently began to liquidate its holdings, stock and cotton. It carried a long line of both and the breaks in both markets today are mainly attributable to Its enorm ous unloading orders. In addition a western plunger named Bird is said to have sold 80,000 bales, while another huge sale is reported to have been made by an Atlanta, Ga., trader named Candler. The western bull crowd Is said to have held its holdings throughout all the recent breaks and to be buying more on ev ery big dip. Break Was Large Wednesday was one of the biggest breaks In cotton prices since the col lapse of the Sully campaign. New Or leans participated in the price de moralization ever more perceptibly than New York for a time, May breaking there 76 points. The volume of liquidating orders was so enormous that for a time It completely paralyz ed the machinery of the exchange and brokers surged in a frenzied mob shrieking like madmen without a pos sibility of making themselves heard. The break In the May option here, representing a drop of $8 a bale from the high price of the year Is believed to have spelled ruin for many trad ers and to have hit several ku/1 houses here. */ A second prominent New Yw brok erage firm also threw all its hold ing overboard Wednesday afternoon, It was reported, following private ad vices that It was to be suspended for three years for Its part In the Rock Island campaign. Like the first it has heavy holdings of both cot ton and stocks and all had to be sold today regardless of price. When the break got Into full swing support from the Southern bulls was suddenly withdrawn and the only de mand left to offset the tremendous sel ling flood was from shorts on a scale down. Market Rallied. Later offerings became a little less urgent and the market rallied 16 cents for May. However, in the face of good spot news from the South the general list showed a real improvement and the general condition of the market together with the absence of bull sup port suggested the probability of fur ther liquidation. New Orleans Cotton Broke. NEW ORLEANS.—The price of cot ton fell 75 points or $3.80 a bale here Wednesday. The fall came sharply Great excitement -was caused by the break, which was a reflection, ac cording to students of the market, of the situation in New York. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1910. LATHAM IN HIS AEROPLANE HAS BROKEN HEIGHT RECORDS Hubert Latham having already made many daring flights in his aero plane, recently eclipsed all pervious performances and established a new record for high flight by attaining 3,- 2SO feet or very nearly three-fourths of a mile above the earth in a con trivance heavier than air. Balloons have gone much higher of course but their weight compared with an aero plane is as nothing, without regard to the fact that being lifted by gas they present comparatively no diffi- , r- ■ . ■ *.. ■ - ■' , ' * .. ■ ’ y ... 1::'. culty in the way of balancing. Ovrllle Wright, last October reached a then unprecedented height of 1,600 feet. JANESVILLE REJECTS COMMISSION PLAN. JANESVILLE, Wis—Janesville, the first city jn Wisconsin to vote on the question of rule by com mission, defeated the plan by 395 majority. DIE HUNDRED MEM KILLED 1 BATTLE Estrada’s Army Gaining Victory. Fighting in Gen eral Wednesday. SAN JUAN DEL SUR.—One hun dred men have been killed in the bat tle between the insurgent and the government forces at Acoyapa, and the fighting is general, according to dispatches received here Wednesday. The government troops suffered by far the heavier loss. They were caught unprepared by Estrada’s army, General "Vasqnez’s sentries, spread out for forty miles, having been captured before they could give warning. General Chamorro has or dered the capture of Acoyapa, in which the Madriz troops are en trench* 8. 10 PROCEED AGAINST OWNERS OF AUGUSTA BAM THROUGH THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT South Carolina Legislators Will Visit Clemson Sat urday of Next Week. COLUMBIA, S. C.- —The most Im portant new bill introduced so far in the legislature Is one by Wade Harri son of the asylum commltee put In the house Wednesday, providing for a state board of charities of five ap pointed by the governor and to have general supervision of all penal and charitable Institutions. The secretary gets two thousand dollars a year and his assistant twelve hundred. The others must serve without pay. K. P. Smith’s anti-cigarette bill was killed In the house on the author’s motion. The house adopted the resolution by Mr. Richards, to visit Clemson Satur day of next week-.- Representatlve Rucker withdrew his bill authorizing the attorney general to proceed against the owners of the Augusta dam. He Is going after that fishway through the federal agricultu ral department. MAS. MS mil MISSIES SSI Groom is Horace E. Cole, Wealthy Chicagoan. Mar ried in Jacksonville. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--Consider able stir was created In society circles here today when It became known that Mrs. Jarvis Hunt and Horace K. Cole, wealthy Chicagoans, and both divorced were wedded here on January 7, the ceremony being performed In the county Judge's office by a deputy. Mr. and Mrs. Cole are now resid ing in the fashionable suburb of Riv erside, where Mrs. Cole today admitt ed that the ceremony had been per formed. She declined to discuss the matter further, and referred the ques tioner to Mr. Cole, but the latter could not be located In the city. ” t " ■ ' Y ,T|| i f W - • ~*'' V JjSHp ' ( s -v" • I*l t •--- • • imWilMnir in 'f'.yj-l - : sift s'' , v,.. - ! \ ! K v;-' * ■- . ! Slk Xm** - ‘ •••*• t k - . ~ fr.' - I? I V :1 --- :v Women Start Savings Bank Accounts By Pilfering From Hubbies' Trousery CHICAGO—Scores of women have started savings, accounts in the First National Bank of Englewood with money taken from the pockets of their sleeping husbands. Their impetus in this direction is said to have been given by a paragraph in a monthly publication, reading: “One woman’s method of saving money—or perhaps we should say one of a woman’s methods of saving mon- MISS 911 111 stills STATE Internal Hemorrhage De veloped Today as Result of Accident Monday Afternoon. A change for the worse in the con dition of Miss Marie O’Dowd, who was run over by an automobile owned and driven by Mr. George A. Mosher, of Troy, N. Y., Monday afternoon, was reported this morning. It had been hoped that she would be able to be re moved from the residence of her uncle on upper Broad street, whither she was taken after the accident, to her parent’s home in Summerville, but it was found that she was suffering from internal hemorrhage resulting from an internal injury and that her condition is serious. At flrst it appeared that the young lady was not severely in jured, as it takes some hours, often, for injuries of the nature of her’s to make themselves manifest. SIX MEN KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION WILKESBARRE, Pa—Six are dead and six other workmen suffering from frightful bumß as a result of an ex plosion of gas during the night in the new shaft of the Nottingham Colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company, at Plymouth. The dead: Joseph Maricko, miner. Michael Rochenski, Jr., driver; son of the above. Joseph Litz, miner. Stanley Amaohonis, laborer. David J. Roberts, engineer. The men were engaged in sinking the shaft. At a point several hun dred feet below the surface they broke into a gas feeder and the ex plosion followed. All the officials of the mining com pany, accompanied by fire bosses, hurried into the mine and early Wed nesday began work to get out the bodies, THE POET WATSON RETURNING HOME NEW YORK. —William Watson, the English pool, who came over to Amer ica and announced that his famous poem, "The Woman With the Ser pent’s Tongue,’’ was aimed at Mrs. Asquith, wife of the British premier, and her step-daughter, sailed for Eng land Wednesday on the steamship Adriatic. He made every effort to keep his departure secret, but was recognized. WOMAN TO BECOME SCIENTIFIC FARMER FT. UOTJIB, Mo.- Miss Eliza beth Moore, daughter of Mrs. Philip N. Moore, president of the National Federation of Women’s clubs and a Vassar graduate, has entered the agricultural depart ment of the University of Mis souri, at Columbia, and has an nounced her intention of becom ing an expert farmer. <y- is to go through her husband’s pockets every night while he gently slumbers. All tin* loose change she finds she deposits in the bank at in terest.” Tin* suggestion here conveyed is legal, according to several court de cisions, one judge saying: "A woman who does not go through her husband’s pockets does not lovo him.” ELOPING COUPLE REMAIN IN CHICAGO Will Probably Be Taken to Philadelphia Thurs day. Cohen Was Terri fied and Wept. CHICAGO, Til.- Detective Andrew Emanuel of Philadelphia Wednesday changed his plans and decided to keep Roberta de Janon, the $10,000,000 child Heiress and Ferdinand Cohen, the “fatherly” waiter with whom she eloped, in Chicago 24 hours longer. Emanuel, with his partner, Detec tive Scanlon, will leave at o’clock Thursday morning for Philadelphia with Cohen, who has waived extradi tion, and the girl. Cohen will go back to face charges of abduction and Miss de Janon to meet forgiveness and a loving welcome from her father, Ferd inand de Janon, and her grandfather, Robe rt Buist. Detective Emanuel changed his plans after receiving a telegram from the chief of police of Philadelphia, the contents of which he refused to disclose. It was reported, however, that tiie chief reason for the delay Is that the Philadelphia detectives have had practically no sleep for two nights and determined to rest before taking their charges back—which again will (Jill for unremiting vigilance on the part of the two officers for 24 hours. Meanwhile Miss de Janon and fox terrier “Tootsie” remain In charge of the matron at tiie Harrison street annex and Cohen is kept iri a cell at the East Chicago avenue station. Cohen is terrified and wept several times when criminal prosecution was mentioned to him, but the girl, though she 8111 l defends tin waiter, compos edly awaits the time to return to Philadelphia. She showe d emotion for the second time since her arrest when she received a telegram from her father, telling her that she was for given. She wept as she read It. CORSET STEEL SAVED PRETTY GIRL’S LIFE Popularity of “The Best Tenor on the East Side” Was Cause of Panic at Dance. NEW YORK Pretty May Travis Ih alive Wednesday because a corset steel saved her life. She was shot late Tuesday night at a dance given by an East Side club at, 565 First avenue. The bullet was deflected by the corset and inflicted a slight wound, Instead of a mortal one. The popularity of James Mitchell, “The Best Tenor on the East Side,” brought on a general fight. In which two score girls fled In panic. May Travis was taken to Bellevue hospital when the smoke cleared. BELGIAN WEAVERS CURTAIL HOURS BRUBBEBB The Belgian weaver* association in view of the crisis In the c otton Industry has decided to suspend work one d;iy in each week for three months. DAILY AND SUN DAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. OFFERED HARMON $50,000.00 NOT TO MAKE FLIGHT IN AIR FAMOUS CASE TO GO TO SOME COURT OF 0. S. Near-Beer Case of John S. Carswell on Constitution ality of “Near-Beer Tax” to Go to Highest Tribunal Immediately upon receipt of the news that the supreme court of Geor gia had sustained on Tuesday the opinion of Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the superior court, in the ease of John S. Carswell against William A. Wright, comptroller general, and the ordinary and sheriff of Richmond county, concerning the constitutional, ily of the "near-beer’’ tax, Attorney C. E. Dunbar, who represents (ho plaintiff, notified the ordinary, Judge A. R. Walton, that he would take the case to (he supreme court of the Uni ted States. This appeal will mean that the $11,600 now held by the or dinary for contested near-beer luxes cannot go into the treasury until the highest tribunal In the country has rendered a decision, in the written agreement between Mr. Dunbar and the attorney general of Georgia it was staled that the tax could not go Into the county treasury until a final de cision had been reached. The announcement concerning the "near beer” case which amounts to a test case for a large number of near beer cases will go to the supreme court will be read with hueli interest not only in Augusta, but also In Geor gia, and It might well be said through, out the country for It. Is one of the final tests of the prohibition act. HISTORY OF CASE. The history of the Carswoll caso Is one of much interest. The prohibi tion act was passed In 1908, and In 1909 Carswell was a dealer in near-beef in this city. At the January, 1909, term of the su perior court he filed a petition against the enforcement of the luw, his at torney making exceptions on consti tutional grounds. Special complaint was made against the eighth section which imposes conditional penalties upon persons engaged in business who sell other than "imitation” or “substitute” beer, wine or ale in con travention of the law. In this section the holder of the license loses his license by such vio lation, and Is forever debarred from receiving another license. The objec tion that, the law was dlscrmtnatory, Inasmuch as It applied to dealers and dljl not mention manufacturers, thus making it unconstitutional, was over ruled by the court. In Ills opinion Justice Evans stated that the plaintiff had no right to complain of the con stitutionallty of the act, Inasmuch as he had never held the license, for which it. provided before making hl» petition. In the opinion the court falls to sustain the objections of the plaintiff on any of the constitutional grounds and unanimously sustains the decision of Judge Hammond In refusing to grant ari Injunction against the enforcement of the law. The state and the county officials were represented by Attorney General Wright and Judge Henry C. Roney. Mrs. Chas. W. Morse Opens Up Business To Regain Her Husband's Lost Fortune NEW YORK.—Mrs. Chas. W. Morse, wife of the banker and former lee king who has just begun serving his sentence of fifteen years In the Fed eral prison in Atlanta for violating the national hanking laws, has enter ed Wall street. From it modest office at. 43 Exchange Place, fitted with fur niture from her home, Mrs. Morse will conduct a campaign to recoup her hus band's shattered fortunes, which once amounted to $25,000,000. Morse him self, In his cell, will he the guiding hand. Mrs. Morse, from the same little of fice, will conduct the fight to secure her husband's pardon. She begun ac live work Wednesday. From the flrst moment that the former magnate got Into difficulties, ETCH your trademark into the dealer’s mind and the consu mer’s memory—press it in—drill it in—hammer it in. Every added advertisement derives force from those which have gone before. Soil-in-Law of Commodore Benedict is Desirous of Making Trip, Despite This Offer. Los Angeles Meet Growing in Interest LOS ANGELES, Cal—-Clifford B. Harmon, of New York, son-in-law of Commodore E. C. Benedict, is desir ous of making another aeroplane flight Wednesday, despite the offer of Bene dict to pay him $50,000 provided he makes no ascent. Harmon has already made one trip with Glenn H. Curtis, and was so pleased with the experience that he determined to make an effort at flight alone. Aviator Willard lent him his machine, though without saying any thing about it he arranged it so that it could not rise from the ground. This was done at the request of Commo dore Benedict of New York who of fered Harmon the price of ton aero planes if he would not go up. Wil lard’s trick prevented Ilarmon from having more than a rapid run along the ground for several hundred feet. Paulhan and Curtiss. , Curtiss and Louis Paulhan will try again Wednesday afternoon to break aviation records. Paulhan won the plaudits of the immense throng with daring and spectacular flights, while the less theatrical American reaped more substantial honors. Curtiss es tablished a new world's record for speed for aeroplanes carrying a pas senger, flying 55 miles an hour with his manager, M. Fanciuli, beside him, and ho set the two other less im portant records. Paulhan eagerly prepared Wednes day to recover the laurels he lost when Curtiss broke the records for aero planes. The races so far have been thrlll ingly spectacular. Wednesday, how ever, they savored more of an inter national fight, owing to the remarkable performances of Curtiss. Paulhan was impatient Wednesday to get his car in motion and prove that all records would be smashed. This Is "San Diego Day” at Domin guez Field, ami 5,000 enthusiasts from tiie Bay of the Sun have arrived on special trains A train of 25 flat cars preceded them, carrying automobiles, with which they paraded the city tilts morning. The San Diegans have of fered a S3OO sliver cup for the craft making the best general average Wed nesday and will also give a cash prize of $1,200 and a S2OO silver cup to the first airship to fly from Los Angelos to San Diego. Hamilton Confident. Charles K. Hamilton, who made 27 flights in Kansas City, without, as lie says,"a cylinder missing,” makes the positive declaration Wednesday that he will go higher than any aviator has yet gone here and will surely “pull down” the altitude record Wed nesday afternoon. Hamilton uses a Curtiss machine and while his flights Tuesday and Monday were unsatis factory because of gasoline and engine trouble, he now says that full repairs have been made and he surely will share the popularity with which PaiiJ han and Curtiss have been favored. His machine will carry the number "13” and this he considers a good omen. President Cortlandt Field Bishop, of the Aero Club of America, who Is here to record the achievements of the various aviators, in the interests of that club, expressed regret that not one of the many local amateurs* ma chines has succeeded in flying. He had hoped, he said, for something to be developed here In the way of new and improved machines. his stanchest friend and most faith ful lieutenant has been his wlfo, who Is as keen witted as most of the mon ey chiefs. Khe will pit her astuteness against the knowledge and experi ence of the street leaders In an at tempt to duplicate her husband's re markable feat of last summer, when, out of Jail on ball, he made $8,000,000 In three months and wiped away al most the last of his debts. Mrs. Morse at first Intended to live near her husband In Atlanta, but busi ness plans would not permit this. She and Morse determined on this cam paign, with the main office In a jail. In marked contrast to the formet luxurious offices of Morse, his wlfo occupies two small rooms. Hhe Is aided by Miss Catherine Wilson, for merly his secretary.
