The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, September 05, 1911, Image 1
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Dr??g^s, Wu & and Worms Damage ihe
Crop Very Materially,
OF PRESENT CROP
Estimated * Nearly Thirteen; Million
\ \ j
Bales.?C ndition on August 25th
Shows Gr at Falling Off Sine? the
Report of Condition of Crop Made
an July 2 >th.
A total p eduction of 12;918,200
hales of coli m as the f nal yield this
yeaj: .tojndi; ated by the Department
' of' Agrlcultii re's" official report of tn'e'
condition o! the growing crop of
' August 25, vhich the crop reporting
board, from reports from its corres
pondents 3rd agents throughout the
cotton belt, estimated Friday at 73.2
per cent of i normal.
This estinate based on a ratio of
the average yield for the past ten
years to tt < average condition of the
crop on A a ;ust 25, for the past ten
years, would mean a final yield of
181.65 pom ds per acre on the plant
ed'area of ipproximately 34,000,000
acres, allo wing for an abandoned
acreage of 1,000,000 and provided
the crop do js not decline or improve
from the date the condition was es
timated to ime of picking.
, These eitimates of production,
while- unoficial, were reckoned by
the official method adopted by tne
Department of Agriculture and used
by the crop reporting board in -Its
monthly es .imates of the final yield
o| the in: portent cereal crrtps of
the country.
Unofflcla ? advices from, thee otton
belt indicate the most important de
clines in tfc b crop were due to severe
droughts, I ot winds and worms. Re
ports indicate that heavy shedding
caused by hot weather was the chief
factor of deterioration in practically
all States, except Louisiana and Mis
sissippi, w!<ere there has been exces
sive rain. Heat'and drought very
greatly danaged cotton during the
month, especially in Texas and Okla
homa.
Since th<! date on which the condi
tion was taken?August 25?there
have been rains which greatly reliev
ed conditims and considerable" im
provement is looked for when the
October report is issued.
The coalition of the growing cot
ton crop pn August 25th was 73.2
per cent < f a normal, as compared
with 89.1 :>er cent, on July 25, 1911,
72.1 per rent on August 25, 1910,
68.7 per <;ent on August 25, 1910,
and 63.7 per cent on August 29,
1909, and 73.5 per cent, the average
of the pas: ten years on August 25,
according :.o the crop reporting board
of the bi reau of statistics of the
United St ites Department of Agri
culture, es timated from the reports
of the correspondents and agents of
the bureau
Comparsons of conditions by j
States foil )w:
Aug. July Aug. Ten
25 25 25 Year!
States. 1911 1911 1910 Av. I
Virginia. ... 96 102 82 80
N. Carolina . . 76 87 76 78
S. Carolin i . . 74 86 73 77
Georgia. ... 81 95 71 771
Florida .... 85 95 74 78
Alabama. ... 80 94 72 73
Mississipp ... 70 86 71 76
Louisiana. . . 69 84 60 70
Texas. .' . . . C8 86 69 68
Arkansas ... 78 94 78 75
Tennessee. . . SS 92 78 82
Missouri. . . . SS 96 78 S2
Oklahoma. . . 62 88 So 76
California. . .100 99 95 ?
HIGHL ST RESPECTED NEGRO.
Sells Property for Seventeen Thous
and Dollars.
A spec .al dispatch to The State
from Ror k Hill says Mayor John T.
Roddey, ias bought the Henry Toole
business >loc on East Main street for
$17,000. This is simple announce
ment, hu: behind it is a story that
should piove interesting to people all
over Sou h Carolina. Henry Toole is
a negro; at the same time he is one
of the most substantial and respecta
ble citizeis of Rock Hill?in fact, he
is one of the incornorators of the old
town of Rock Hill, for even at the
birth of he town he was a free-hold
er.
He is v barber and for 41 years he
has followed that trade until a few
months ..go, when he sold his shop.
Henry h: s been courteous and indus
trious al of his life and he holds the
esteem of every white man in Rock
Hill.
During Reconstruction days he was
connecter! with the Ku Klux Klan.
He served 42 days in the jail at Co
lumbia or participation in that af
fair and has regularly voted
the Democratic ticket s^nce then, and
has always attended th3 white Epis
copal church here. He owns a fine
plantation in York County and
another one in Lancaster, and be
sides hi:- home here he is in posses
sion of other property. He is a splen
did exai lple of what a negro can ac
complish. *
1 Toman Ran Mormans.
Two Morman church elders were
drummed out of Kamra, Iowa, by a
brigade of angry women. Mormons
delivere I proselyting speeches. The
women were incensed. *,
WEEKLY.
^ PLEASED BY REPORT
SENATOR SMITH'S CONTENTION
CONFIRMED BY IT.
Says He Was Glad of Opportunity to
Protest Against Reckless Estimate
of the South's Great Crop.
The State says when asked for a
statement in reference to the govern
ment condition report published by
the United States department of agri
culture and the advance in the price
: of cotton, Senator Smith, who ar
rived in Columbia from Chester Fri
day night said:
"Of course it was very gratifying
to me that my contention was right.
And also to see that the telegrams
from the commissioners of agricul
ture were practically verified by the
report from the agricultural depart
ment at Washington.
' "I am glad that I had the privilege
of being in a position to protest
against the agricultural department
at Washington using its immense of
ficial1, power in such an outrageously
reckless manner.
"I believe that conditions as they
actually exist warranted a lower con
dition report. I have not had the
pleasure of meeting any of the Cali
fornia cotton growers, but :t is ludi
crous and perhaps from another
view, more tban ludicrous for that
State to be-, set down seriously in a
cotton crop condition report as being
100. It might\be interesting and en
lightening to know what the compari
son of the present crop in California
was based upon. \lt has been in only
the last two or thi;ee years that Cali
fornia has made any cotton at all. I
presume the department..scarcely sent
an agent from the East "bcrosa^ the
continent to California to estimk^
the condition of tl/e crop in Califor
nia, as compared ..with the condition
of the crop in the East. However, in
spite of all this,? it is gratifying to
suppose that the :secretary of agricul
ture took the pains this last month
of ascertaining through his own per
sonal supervision, some approxima
tion of the real condition of affairs.
"It is absurd, even now, to predict
a yield of the present crop with any
degree of accuracy, for the reason
that the deterioration is still contin
uing. In most States the fertilizer
are now exhausted. And therefore
the plant being at . its maximum in
size or fruitage has little or no
chance, under any weather condi
tions, of increasing its fruitage,'b"it
lit is subject to deterioration. There
' are limited areas in the cotton belt
where on account of the richness of
the soil, the plant may continue to
bear and a late frost might add
somewhat to the yield in the^e locali
ties. But I think I voice the opinion
of every practical cotton grower
when I say that the major part of
the cotton area where fertilizers are
used have reached the limit of any
further improvement and is Bubject
now to no change in condition ex
cept one of deterioration.
"I think the September report will
show a still further decrease In condi
tion and a consequent shrinkage in
the guesses as to the siz.c of the crop.
I take this occasion to state to all
harties interested that even were a
15,000,000 bale crop,made, he world
have need for every pound of it.
And if the value of cotton is to
be measured by the price of other
articles 15 cents a pound is little
enough in all reason." *
HARD BATTLE WITH LIONESS.
Wrist Broken and Arm Dislocated,
Man Hard Pressed.
Battling with a mountain lioness
and her two cubs, after one wrist
had been broken and his arm dislo
cated, C. C. Garnett, a timber con
tractor, of Cheyenne, Wyo., fought
with the beasts until Charles R.
Smith, his assistant, came up with a
rifle and killed the mother lion, the
two young ones escaping into the
mountains.
The fight took place in the moun
tains near Estabrook Unexpectedly
Garnett came upon the lioness, play
ing with her cubs. Before he had
time to prepare himself for the at
tack, the animal sprang at him. Her
first blow broke the wrist of Gar
nett's right hand, and the second
tore his shoulder, as well as dislo
cated his arm.
But with his left hand he manag
ed to draw his revolver and fire sev
eral shots at the angry beast. Gar
nett's assistant, Smith, was close by,
and hearing the sound of the strug
gle, ran to the rescue and killed the I
lioness. *
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
Occurs in French Aviation World
Last Saturday.
On aviator burned to death in
midair and another dashed to the
ground and killed formed two shock
ing accidents in the French world of
aviation Saturday. Louis D. Grailley,
of the eight Cuiraissers, while mak
ing an aeroplane flight near Troves,
was the aviator burned to death. The
blazing aeroplane fell with its pilot
at Rigny-La-Nonneuse, about 25
miles from Troyes, and was com
pletely incinerated. Captadn De Ca
mine, one of the most experienced
aviators in the French army fell with
his monoplane while flying at Nan
gls Saturday and was Instantly kill
ed- n \iu i *a
ORANGEB?I
FALSE DATTA ISSUED
GREAT INJUSTICE DONE THE
COTTON GiROWERS.
Senator Smith Declares that if New
England Yankees Had Cotton They
Would Systematize.
A dispatch from Chester to The
State says a crowd numbering about
500, the majority of ther. farmers
gathered in Henry's woods at 11
o'clock Friday morning for the big
farmers' rally. Much to the regret
of those present E. W. Dabbs, presi
dent of the State Farmers' union was
unable to be on hand, and United
States Senator E. D. Smith was the
only speaker.
J. G. L. White, president of the
Chester County Farmers' union, pre
sided and seated upon the etand were
Senator P. L. Hardin and Col. T. J.
Cunningham. Mr White, in an in
teresting talk, in which he charged
his hearers to exercise greater vigi
lance In endeavoring to obtain a bet
ter price for cotton, introduced the
speaker of the day
Senator Smith began by referring
to previous visits to Shester and the
rapid passing of time since he en
listed in the warfare for better prices
for cotton. He ridiculed the "Back
to the Farm" movement as the con
ception of fellows who are too lazy
to work and want the prices of the
commodities of life reduced.
He then proceeded to show that the
South i3 the only place in the world
exactly suited for the growing of cot
ton of the kind that the world re
quires, and said the total lack of
business system is the only reason
why the farmers do n^t obtain a liv
ing price for their product. He told
-oj, how the merchant and the horse
dea??r__sell their goods at a price
which ittttlujieB payment of every
necessary expeltrse plus a profit, and
said the farmer sfrcrtjjji adopt a simi
lar plan. If the Newl*fiflgJand Yan
kees had the marketing of thV_ cotton
crop, he declared, prices would soon
soar to thirty and fifty cents.
The Brussels conference of spin
ners, Senator Smith declared, was a
deliberate effort to lower the price
of cotton by an agreement to cut
down the output of the spinning
mills. This was followed by the is
suing of false bulletins from the of
fice of the Secretary of Agriculture.
He told of his visit to Secretary Wil
son and the latters disclaimer of any
attempt to bear the cotton market,
also his promise that such t> report
should not be issued again. This was
followed, however, a month later by
another report of similar tenor, the
effect being to lower cotton $20 a
bale.
Senator Smith told of what sena
tors from, the northwest did when it
was proposed to bring wheat in du
ty free from Canada. They rose as
one man and fought the proposition,
yet when a combine of forces beat
down the price of the South's princi
pal commodity the North sits by su
pinely, he said. Men had come to
him, he said, asking him to let up in
his fight on Secretary Wilson on ac
count of the secretary's age. He re
alized this, he said, but his people's
happiness and comfort meant more to
him than the aged secretary's per
sonal reputation. *
FLOODED MANY HOUSES.
Heaviest Downpour of the Year
Comes at Wrong Time.
The News and Courier says with
buildings unroofed by the hurri
cane, the heavy rain of early Satur
day morning did serious damage in
every section of Charleston. In dwell
ings and stores the water poured
through the unprotected roofs, flood
ing offices, store rooms, bed rooms,
pantries, parlors, and kitchens and
causing v. property loss which will
piobably run into thousands. The
wholesale houses on East Bay street
suffered heavily as well as many of
the large retail houses on King
street. In private residences damage
to household goods was extensive.
From midnight Friday night until S
o'clock Saturday morning 2:4 S
inches of rain fell. This is said to be
the heaviest rainfall of the year
within the space of eight hours.
LAST YEAR'S COTTON CROP.
Amounted to a Little Over Twelve
Million Bales.
Secretary Hester of the New Or
leans Cotton Exchange makes the to
tal commercial cotton crop of the Un
ited States for the season of 1910
11, which ended Friday, 12,120,095
bales.
The items in the crop are:
Port receipts S.S3S.037; overland
to mills, 973,492; Southern consump
tion 2,363.010, a total of 12,175.145
from which must be substracted 55,
050 bales consumed at ports or ship
ped from ports to Southern mills.
The crop being gathered will not
he any larger than last year's is the
opinion of many.
Merchant Caught in Own Trap.
O. F. Cooper, a merchant In Blue
Mountain City, Ala., may lose a leg
as a result of being shot by a gun
he set as a trap for burglars at his
store. He forgot the trap on enter
ing the store on the morning of the
accident and received the full dis
charge of birdshot just above the
knee. ?
IG, S. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEM.
ARE IN BAD FIX
Scn.b Carolina CoUqd Mills Face a
Very Serions Problem
SHADOW OF THE WEEVIL
Certain Kinds of Cotton Used by
Some of the Mills in this State Can
. Not be Had Because of the Quar
antine Against the Section Where
it is Raised.
The State says the cotton manu
factures of South Carolina are fac
ing a serious situation as the result
of the announcement that the boll
weevil cotton quarantine will be
strictly enforced after Sept. 10. It Is
said that the stock of raw cotton of
many of the textile plants in the
State is verd low, and that a majoritl
of the mills will depend on shipments
that were to come from the boll wee
vil territory.
It is the intention of the State en
tomologist to enforce strictly to the
letter the act against the shipment of
cotton into this State from the boll
weevil territory after September. In
the event the law is enforced, it is
said th?.t many of the mills may have
to close operation
y As already announced, Ellison A.
Smyth, the president of the Cotton
Manufactures' association of South
Carolina has requested a conference
with the State entomologist and the
commissioner of agriculture to dis
cuss the situation.
The following letter asking for in
formation on the situation has been
received at the State department of
agriculture from a weir known cot
ton firm of Greenville.
"We have taken notice of the state
ment in the papers recently Issued by
Mr Conradl, State entomologist, in
, Regard to nhipping cotton from the
b?? weevil infected districts into
Soutlr- Carolina and note that the
State wHJL quarantine against such
points active/r -.beginning Sept. ten.
"We have addressed Mr. Conrad!
asking that he advise iis" what terri
tory the State considers weevil in
fected. We have also asked thaiv&e
advise us where we could procure a
map showing the, infected territory.
We are very desirous of working in
harmony with the State authorities
in this matter, and as we bring a
great deal of cotton from Alabama
and Mississippi into the State, we do
not wish to conflict in any manner.
"Mr. Conardi is at present out of
the State, and we are unable to learn
when he will return. If you can give
us the Information Requested of him,
we will greatly appreciate it."
The situation in which the textile
industry in South Carolina finds it
self as a result of the cotton quar
antine has arisen a little earlier than
was expected, according to the State
commissioner of agriculture Mr. Wat
son said that just exactly this situa
tion has been expected for some years
by the department and at Asheville
in June, at at several places since,
notably at Darlington on Friday last,
he called particular attention of man-j
.ufactures and growers to the necess
ity and sound business sense of rais
ing upland staple such as the Colum
bia, Keenan, Hartsville, Coker and
Webber, for consumption in our
home mills in place of Mississippi cot
ton which' is now being brought in to)
the extent of upward of 400,000 bal
es out of the total of about 765,000
bales now aannually consumed in the!
South Carolina mills.
The attention of T^ewis w. Parker
and of the Textile Manufactures' as
sociation, he said, has bee.n directed
to this particular and uneconomic
condition of affairs for the past two
years, and this and the knowledge
that the spreading of the boll weevil
over the Mississippi delta would un
der the. law close the source of sup-'
ply, has been the reason for the vig
orous campaign that has been pushed
particularly for this year, with a view
tc getting the farmer to raise his cot-]
ton from selected seed furnished him|
and to sell it directly to the mills.
The knowledge that this cotton
would arise has been at the back of a
vigorous effort along this line and
the commissioner adds, the knowl-i
edge that the boll weevil is hasten
ing at the rate of 75 miles a year
towards South Carolina, has caused
him to endeavor to shape the agri
cultural development policy in this
State to the end that the people
would be in a state of unprepared
ness to receive the first onslaught of
the weevil on the $9S,000,000 cot
ton crop instead of being found in a
state of unpreparedness, as were
many of the people in the Southeast
ern' portion of the belt. For five years
the campaign has been waged for di
versification, giving other money
crops and something to eat to take
the place of the money which is re
ceived for the cotton when cotton
alone is relied upon.
Enlarge ExjKisition.
A result of the passage of a resolu
tion in the house of representaiives
authorizing* the President of the
United States to invite foreign coun
tries to participate in the Panama
California International Expositibn
at San DJego, is the determination
to enlarge the physical dimensions of
in Balboa park. The determination
was made by the directors.
IBER 5, 1911.
WENT FOR THEM
WHIPPED FOUR MEN" FOR IN
SULTING HIS DAUGHTER.
Accusing Them of Attempt to
"Mash" the Young i Lady, Aged
Congressman Used His Fist.
Representative Charles D. Carter
of Oklahoma, created a sensation in
the heart of the smart shopping cen
tre at Washington Friday by assault
ing four clerks, one of them whom
he alleged, Insulted his 18-year-old
daughter, Miss Italy Carter, who was
with her father on a shopping expe
dition.
Having dealt summarily with the
four clerks, Representative Carter,
who is 76 years old, sent his daugh
ter home in an automobile and pro
ceeded to the nearest police station,
where he explained the incident
which led up to the trouble.
He was not detained and considers
the incident closed unless the four
clerks demand an investigation.
Rep rest itatlve Carter assailed
the first clerk, Joseph Josephson,
with his fists and when three of
the young man's companion's came
to their friend's aid the Oklahoma
congressman brought his walking
stick into play and wielded it vig
orously until he was master of the
field.
According to Mr. Carter, his
daughter described to Josephson a
certain kind of a coat which she
wished to purchase. He declares the
clerk thought Miss Carter was unat
tended and sought to engage her in
conversation.
"Continuing his advances, which
were followed by repulses," said Mr.
Carter, "the young man became In
sulting. When I politely asked the
clerk the cause of the trouble, he
became infuriated and said uncom
plimentary things about my daugh
ter, I told her to accompany me from
the store, and as we reached the door
he called me several names. I re
turned and preferred to strike him,
when he started towards me. I then
gave him as good a licking as my
long experience on the plains and as
a boxer would permit. I then start
ed, to leave when three of his as
sistants took up the fight. I was
plainly outnumbered but I struck
righ tand left with my sane and .fi
nally routed the bunch."
'a?EAD BOY COMES BACK.
I To the Great ifc^ of Another Boy in
Jail for Killing Him.
A dispatch from Sparenburg to
The State says John Webb^ *.he eigh
teen-year-old boy who has ixeen a
prisoner In the county jail for^sev
eral days, charged with the murder
of Archie Brown, was released !?.Uis
morning when it became known that"
Thursday night Brown unexpectedly
turned up in his home alive.
Brown said that on August 22,
when he disappeared, he was sudden
ly seized with the wanderlust and
without notifying his family went
off on a pleasure trip. He said that
since that he had visited Columbia,
Savannah and Athens, Ga.
When last seen before his disap
pearance Brown was walking along
the Pacolet river with Webb during
the dinner period. Both were em
ployed at the Pacolet mill, where
Brown's dinner pail was found. Webb
is said to have been somewhat of a
tramp, and little was known about
him at Pacolet.
It was reported that he had con
fided to a comapnion that he intend
ed to rob Brown. The rumor was
started that he killed and robbed
Brown and had thrown his body into
the river. A warrant was sworn out
asalnst Webb, charging him with
murder, and he was committed to
jail.
For several days 50 men dragged
the Pacolet river for Brown's body.
If he had not turned up the mill
pond would have been drawn today j
in the search for his body. *
A SCHOONER WRECKED.
Eleven Lives Arc Believed to Have
Been Iiost in Her.
The New? and Courier says a por
tion of the stern of a vessel bearing
the name ".Margaret A. May," was
picked up after the storm by Capt.
Hernandez on the beach of Cole's
Island. It is feared that this is all
that is left to tell the tale of the big
Philadelphia schooner which sailed
from Charleston on the 23rd of Au
gust, homeward bound, with a cargo
of lumber from the Burton Lumber
I Company. Capt. George L. Jarvis,
I Master of the 'Margaret May and his
j crew of eight men, are thought to
! have been drowned. It is under
stood that Capt. Jarvis bad as his
guests on the trip his two brothers,
which would make eleven souls lost
?in the wreck of the schooner. It is
not known at what point the vessel
was probably wrecked.
Soy Estimate Too High.
"According to the Farmers' union
reports received at this oflice," said
J Whitner Reid, secretary oi the
State Fanners' union, "we can not
but think that the government esti
mate of the condition of the cotton
crop is erroneous, so far as South
Carolina is concerned. We do not
leel warranted in placing the esti
mate higher than 69 per cent., ac
cording to reports received by us. *
MAY FLY TO PACIFIC
ATWOOD PLANS TO TRY FOR A
PRIZE OF $30,000.
His Recent Trip from St. Louis to
New York City Inspired th?! Dar
ing Aviator to Plan Greuter One.
Harry N. Atwood, who has just
broken all world's aviation records
with his 1,265 mile trip frcm f*t.
Louis, Mo., to New York city, lias bo
gun preparations for a flighL across
the American continent for the $50,
000 Hearst prize. Atwood announc
es he will be ready to begin his trip
?about Oct. 1 and that he will cross
the United States in 25 days.
He will use the same biplane with
which he made his sensational flights
last month and will travel light, car
rying only a suit case. At present
he is working on a schedule which
must include a start at New York
city or Boston, one stop in Chicago
and may end in San Francisco or
Los Angeles, Cal. Atwood is ambi
tious to write his name in history as
the first aviator to span the States.
The conditions governing the
Hearst flight, aside from proving a
maximum time of 30 days and re
quiring a stop at Chicago, permit the
flier to choose his own route and
schedule. Contestants may start eith
er from New York or Boston and
finish at San Francisco or Los Angel
es Any self-propelled heavier than
air flying machine may be employed
and any person in the world may
compete. The aviator may descend
to earth as frequently as he chooses
and make any necessary repairs upon
his aeroplane, but he may not change
machines enroute.
If Atwood succeeds in crossing the
continent, it will be one of the great
est human triumphs the world has
known. His reception at New York
by hundreds of thousands of cheering
people will be overshadowed by tho
greeting he will receive as the first
man to actually fly across the 3,000
miles of the American 'continent.
"I have never faced a more inter
esting prospect than this flight to
the Pacific offers," says Atwood. "I
am anxious to get started. Even if
I should fail, the efforts will be
worth while."
Atwood did not experience a sin
gle accident until the next to last
day of his recent flight, when a ring
in his engine worked loose. Repairs
were quickly made, and he was ready
tc take to the ?ir again within a few
hours. His career from Chicago to
the eastward was frequently threat
ened by strong breezes from the
Great Lakes, but at no time did his
propeller fail to keep him in the
course. *
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
I .^fln^of a New York Millionare Com-.
?""-NJOQits^ Suicide^-"'^>>
New York's financial district was
thrown into a panic when Arthur
Veit, the 22-year-old son of R. C.
Veit, a millionare head of the light
erage department of the Standard
Oil company shot and killed himself
on the street in front of the Produce
Exchange bulding.
Young Veit worked in the foreign
department of the oil trust. Friday
morning he went into the lighterage
department and then walked out of
the rear entrance of the oil com
pany's building and down New street
to Beaver where he stood for a min
ute as though trying to make up his
mind.
Suddenly he drew a revolver and
pressing it tightly against his left
breast, fired a shot into his heart.
He dropped dead in his tracks. At
his farther s office nothing could be
learned as to the cause of the sui
cide. *
DRIVEN TO HIS DEATH.
Frisbie, Aviator, Killed by Fall at I
Norton, Kas.
J. J. Frisbie, the Curtiss aviator,
was killed at Norton, Kan., by a fall
on Saturday. He had been giving ex
hibition flights at the fair for sev
eral days. Friday his machine acted
badly and he had a fall of about 40
feet, but ln.yond bruises and a shak
ing up he was not injured. He an
nounced he would not take the air
Friday afternoon, but when tho spec
tators shouted "faker," and would
not listen to explanations, Frisbie
announced that rather than have the
big crowd go away from the park, he
was willing to do his best. He as
cended with the. results stated above.)
Hiis machine was not safe.
GIVES GOOD ADVICE.
Little Girl Tells Man to Trust in God
and Be a Man.
A special dispatch to the Stale
says S. H. Rush and J. L. Ruist of
that place were passengers on the
steamer Apache, which made such a
narrow escape from a watery grave
during the storm. They were re
turning from New York. Mr. Rush
f>ays a little 10-year old girl on the
ship was very consoling and sympa
thetic to him. He was very nervous
and making public demonstrations
of his feelings. The little girl was
sitting in her father's lap and reach
ed over and put her hands on his
shoulder, saying, "Trust in God and
be a man."
TWO CENTS PER COPY.
BOAT RUN DOWN
A Small Launch Containing a Party of
Eight Strock by a Barge.
SEVEN PERSONS DROWN
Lone Survivor in Serious Condition,
Unable to Explain Cause of Colli
sion?Bodies not Recovered After
Diligent Search?Sympathy for
Widows and Children of Victims.
Preparations foi the celebration off
Labor Day at Tolido, Ohio, were giv
en a check wher me citizens stopped
work and expressed their deep sym
pathy and many lent their aid in the
search for the seven bodies of city
officials and employees who met a
tragic death by drowning early Sat
urday morning, when their little
launch, a 35 foot craft, was rammed
by/the barge, Phillip Minch, hurll^,;
seven of the occupants to a watery
grave.
The drowned are: Harry Batch,
city councilman- James Wister, sup
erintendent of water-works; Thomas
Purcell, master mechanic at the wa
ter-works plants; Fred Shane, secre
tary of service Director Wells; Wil
liam Blatt, water-works inspector:'
William Corroll, book-keeper at wa
ter-works plant, and Rudolph Yun
ker.
The accident occurred about 1:3"0
O'clock Saturday morning, but word
-was not received of it in the city un
til more than two hours later. Pro
fessional divers, policemen with grap
lingi hooks and local rivertnen have,
searched the waters of the bay alt
day but in vain.
Of the party of eight men, who left
town for Kelly's Island, only onfe
was saved. The party was swamped
near Maumee Bay. What they werfe
doing never will be known.
Mayer, the engineer, who was be
low looking after the engine was the)
only one of the party to escape.
Mayer declares he did not hear any
signals sounded from the barge.
In seven homes the widows and
children of the dead men are being
cared for by relatives and sympa
thetic neighbors. Michaei Mayer, en
gineer and part owner of the launch
Nemo, is practically a physical wreck
at 'his home after his terrible exper
ience in the water, following the col
lision. Though he fought desperate
ly for his life and only was rescued
an hour after the collision, Mayer
remained sufficiently rational until
the -miiddle of the day to tell what
had occurred.
"I did not see my companions for
'half an hour after we lei't the Down
Town dock on our way out," said
?Mayer. "I was attending; the engine
and the boat was near us when I
was knocked down by the force df
the cotHslmrr??--^^avy door of a
closet fell oven me arufHiTTT nedme Yo
the floor. I was stunned for a'time.
Water began rushing into the engine
room and soon it was up to my neck.
I tried several ways to get out and
soon the launch parted in the mid
dle.
"I did not see my companions when
the collision occurred. I heard some
cries and think it wat> the victims
snouting as a warnirg to the giant
iteel barge."
Capt. D. B. Cummings, of the
'Minch, and First Officer F. B. Cum
mins, his brother were on the bridge;:
August Swan was at the wheel and
Abner Busier was look-out. These
men declared they sighted the launch
about fifteen minutes before the col
lision. They declared warning and
pashm signals wore given, but no
reply was received.
HANGED FOR BRUTAL CHIME.
Bays Death Penalty for ."Murder at
Sylvester, Go.
At Sylvester, Ga.. Friday William
Rose paid the death penalty for the
murder of William Bailey in 1909.
He was hanged at the jail there while
a crowd estimated at 500 people sur
rounded the building.
After a long visit from a clergyman
Rouse walked to the scaffold unas
sisted and without a quiver. In a
brief talk to inmates of the jail and
officers he stated that he was prepar
ed to meet his judge.
The crime for which Rouse was
banged is one of the most brutal in
the State's criminal annals. Accord
ing to the State's evidence Rouse at
tacked Bailey after a quarrel while
thel atter was unarmed. After wound
ing his victim, who fell prostrate on
the Moor. Rouse is said to have sev
ered Bailey's jugular vein and wind
pipe with a knife.
Rouse then placed a pistol in Bail
ey's right, hand, overlooking the fad,
?that Bailey's right arm had been shat
tered by a bullet. Having made
sure of Bailey's death, Rouse sat a
bove the body and drank a bottle o:.'
whiskey while he sani? "Bill Bailey
Won't Come Home. "
? ? ?
Hunter Kills 28 Rattlesnakes.
While out hunting Cleo Johnson,
of Wrfghtsville, broke the record on
rattlesnakes. The doss with which
he was hunting treed and when ha
found them, they had 28 rattlesnakeB
cornered. There was; one monster
snake, fully grown, a:ad 27 younger
ones, which nearly filled a ten-pound
lard can when they were all killed
and placed in the receptacle. | *