Four persons were killed and three injured in a head-end collision on the Seaboard Air Line between northbound passenger train No. 66 and an extra freight 14 miles north of this city, at a point midway between Weddell and Blaney at 7:15 o’clock yesterday morning.

The house of representatives had quite a busy day yesterday. In the morning the bank examiner bill was passed and the Winthrop model school bill was killed.

Several weeks ago Speaker Cannon was presented with a pair of home-knit “galluses” by W. W. Russell of Anderson and the speaker has just made acknowledgement of the gift.

The dispensary investigation, or the public session thereof, will be resume in the supreme court room today at 3 o’clock.

There was a debate of some length at the night session of the senate on a bill to raise the salaries of the solicitors to $1,800.

Funeral services for H. E. Bruce were conducted at the Church of the Good Shepherd yesterday.

The county presidents of the Southern Cotton association met at their office in the Loan and Exchange bank building last night.

At a meeting of the joint assembly yesterday William E. Cameron, former governor of the state of Virginia, presented the claims of the Jamestown exposition.