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l p' SHE WAS DONE ■ —' ■ ii At Way af licreatiif Ov Snail lafatries. CAUSE MANY CHILDREN TO ©IE DURING VOYAGE. Says Preset! Taritf Dities Bars Ftrd|t Wstlei Qttit at4 Vans lie, 0: t of Col. E. J. Watson, Commls- blcatr of Agriculture. Commerce i-.:* 1 Industries, Shows Much Pro- f < m in Nearly All the Lines of y., nil Industries in the State. S '.istlca prepared by E. J. Wat- r.‘> >, “eemmissioner of agriculture, (cm recree and industries, Indicate tb.u be amount invested in industrial » .,-i prises in South Carolina during Is 1 v as $3,535,058 in excess of the i. :.r! invested for the same period i:. 1' i •>. ( !.!• of the results of the tomato Cii : is shown by an Increase of J •' SO invested in canneries. The i : Hent8 in canneries during 1911 i h $214,190 for this growing in- \ manufacture of clothing is an- d,... growing industry, and there v \ „39,500 capital invested in such i. \ i rises in 1911. The figures for U > vere $88,800. ' t \rlcal development in South C . .•M ia continued during 1011 and C . .\.)enditures for such enterprises i '■ •tents $28,930,326 for the year. 3 ;■ p c apital invested during 1910 in s! . i'ar plants was $24,155,1 47. ' t o her industry that has attracted 1 -a'ora in South Carolina is furni- U -e 'Manufacturing In some locali- t • ' the State there is an abundance 0 > i dwood timber and other suita- l ioiber usfd in the manufacture c i titure. There was $360,000'in- > i in this enterprise during 1911. ing the year there has been no r .lent by enterprising manufac- t • • in their investments for many c* ' ■ leading industries, among them 1 . 'ertilizers, flour and grist mills, f t '•■tes, carriages, bakery products t.. <i b.lck products. "‘ ii table showing value of pro- {•'p's from these industrial enter- Materiol Re<luction Urged by the President in Message Transmitted to Congress With the Long Awaited Schedule. President Taft sent to congress Wednesday the long awaited report the Payne tariff act, and with it a message recommending that the rates Owners of the Ship Fined Heavily by Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Charged with the worst case of neglect of steerage passengers on re cord under the passenger act of 1882, the owners of the British steamei; Oteric have been fined $7,800 by Act ing Secretary Cable of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor. Among the 1,242 passengers there were in the eight weeks of her voy age 58 deaths, 57 being children; the births number 14; the sexes were not properly segregated during the larger part of the time, the ventila tion of the ship was inadequate and greatly increased the mortality rate; the hospital facilities were ill-venti lated and without proper equipment, while the sanitary conditions of the .vessel were almost beyond relief. Acting Secretary Cable, after giving ample opportunity for the ship's agents to make a defense, directed that the full penalties be imposed. The case has been pending before the department since the arrival of the Oteric at Honalulu April 13 last, where the collector of customs, who acts in behalf of the bureau of navi gation, Immediately discovered the unlawful conditions. The vessel is not regularly engaged ic the steerage business, but was specially engaged to carry Portugese and Spanish immigrants through Magellan Straits io Honolulu. The ship was allowed to clear upon de positing a bond of $13,000. Owing to the great number of making He also dwells with em- deaths the grand jury, which was injphasis upon the fact that the report In Any State Than Will Be Pulled off in Tliat Commonwealth During Next Eleven Mouths. A Washington dispatch says Ohio is going to be the dark and bloody battle ground of politics for the next eleven months. In all the tumul tuous history of the politics of the Buckeye state it probably has never Tariff Board Report on Woolen before had more Important contests than the ones that will prevail until the election next November. The developments at the meeting of the Republican national committee of the tariff board on schedule K of have in 110 wa y 8f,ived to compose things in Ohio. State Chairman Wal ter Brown did not get what he want on wool and woolens be materially rc- ed - t0 ^ d a Presidential primary in Ohio under the auspices duced. The report shows that the existing duties on many classes of wool and wool manufacturers are pro- hioitory and greatly in excess of Uie d’fference in the cost of pfoduction here and abroad. The duties are so arrayed as to keep out of the United States entirely wools of finer quail of the state committee. It was not expected by well-informed folks that he would. It would be too much like staking everything on a single throw if the president gave sanction to th* pri mary, and if theanti-Tait forces tils, which if Imported might be used 8 h oaltl get the delegates-at-large in Ohio it would be a severe blow at td displace the cheap substitutes now employed. President Talt calls attention to these points and urges that a revision of the schedule be proceeded with at once. He characterizes the report of the tariff board as the most complete and exhaustive statement of a ditfi- cult and complicated subject ever pre- the president’s political prestige, and he probably would feel compelled to announce that he would not seek re nomination. * The refusal to Siiow the primary to be applied to delegatee-at-large in Ohio, however, (gerely means that the Taft and anti-Taft fight or a large section of it, will be transferr- sented to a legislative body. He de- _ dares it a monument to the thor- td t0 0hl0 ' State Chairman Brown, it a oughness, industry, Impartiality and accuracy of the men engaged in its 1 ) - Y 11' i-'s for 1911 as compared with t' indicate! that there has been a "by increase in the value of most ■' >* of the notable exceptions is a .'•'use in the amount of coffins and e*s manufactured in South Caro- during 1911 as compared with 0. The natural conclusion is that s condition is due to a decreased 5 ti.lity in this Slate during 1911. my rate, more favorable condi- * are known to exist. ^ 'e increase in value of fertilizer i’ eta over the previous year rep- session at the time, went on board and made an examination of the ves sel. They found the system of ventila tion insufficient; the port holes did not admit sufficient air. and notwith standing that there was an electric light plant on board, no electric fans sere provided. They reported that this lack of ventilation contributed who ranks as a highly astute and able politician, will fight to get Roosevelt delegates. It will be real fighting, too, according to all reports. The district delegates will be elect ed by popular vote, and only the del- the" tariff board egate8 at larKe 8elected ^ lhe con - vention system. The plan will be on the part of the anti-Taft men, not merely to make a stiff fight to win in a large share of the districts but even to sweep the convention for the del is a unanimous one and asserts the belief that it will convince all of the wisdom of makin permanent. The President says "the report shows that the present method of as sessing the duty on raw wool—that is. by a specific rate, the grease pound (i e. unscoured » operates to exclude * Ka *. es at ar ^ e wools of high shrinkage in scouring. AMOUNT IN EACH STATE Total N umber Bales of Cotton Gin* ned Prior to December 18 Accord ing to Report Issued Wednesday Was 18,750,682 as Compared With 10,005,443 For Last Year. Of th£ enormous cotton crop grown during 1911—estimated by the department of agriculture at 14,- 885,000 bales—there had been ginn ed prior to last Wednesday, 92.4 per cent, or 13,759,652 bales, according to the censua bureau’s report issued today. This exceeds by more than three million bales the amount ginn ed December 13, last year, and by almost the same amount the ginning of previous record years. The census bureau’s report of cot ton ginning for the seventh period of the season from December 1 to 12, in clusive, issued at 10 a. m., Thursday, shows the number of running bales ginned to the latter date from the great record-breaking cotton crop grown in 1911, with comparative gin ning statistics to the corresponding date of last year and the formers rec ord years of 1904 and 1908, as fol lows. United States, 13,759,662 bales, compared with 10, 695, 443 bales last year, w’hen 92.o per cent, of the en tire crop was ginned prior to De cember 13; 11,904,269 bales in 1908, when 91.0 per cent, was ginned and Which Came Very Near Making Him Take a Journey to the Undiscover ed Country. At Sumter a man giving his name as Fulouston and his home address as Princeton, New Jersey, came near killing himself Sunday afternoon by drinking poison which he mistook for whiskey. Fulouston was at once giv en medical attention and it is report ed at the Sumter Hospital to which he was carried that he was getting on nicely and would probably be out In a day or two. It seems that Fulouston was pret ty full at the time that he drank the drug. He walked into Mearon’a Phar macy and commenced talking to a number of young men who were there at the UmS. The druggist was engaged in filling a prescription near where Fulouston was standing and set the vial containing the drug down on the counter while getting another bottle. When he turned 'back to counter the contents of the bottle were gone. Fulouston, when told that he would he dead in a, few min utes, stated that It did not matter, as It would probably be all right. It was stated afterwards that had Fulouston not been under the effects of stimu lants at the time the drug would cer tainly have killed him, as It had a powerful depressing effect upon the heart. Fulouston is a young man and la a stranger In Sumter. He waa on the street most of the day before the acci dent took place and seemed to be un der the Influence of whiskey. It waa stated at the drug store where the oc- ', - • ' - ,,i3 The Plan Proposed is to Bovs j . 7 Canvassers Beear Pledges From the cry Township in the Cotton Acreage Neat Ts ,, at, -tt k i ! , q „ oa ft i currence took place that Fulouston 111 1.L. _A *,Ai . k! probably mistook the drug for a bottle of whiskey, as the contents looked per cent, was ginned. Ginning by state, with comparative statistics Plenty of other states will have stiff fights over delegates. But none! that Ohio does, owing to the unusual circumstances of trying to beat a pres ident for re-nomination by grabbing to the large mortality during the voy-; fine quality, from the American age; when severe weather necessital-1 market and thereby lessens the range ed closing the portholes and hatches of wools available to the domestic the rate of mortality increased. manufacrurer; that the duty on The hospitals were found wholly! scoured wool of 33 cents per pound ....... . unfit for the purpose for which they! is prohibitory and operates to exclude c majority o e e ega as ron * were provided; the ventilation was the importation of clean, low priced, home " Bta, ‘: ^ecause Governor Har- poor and the space allotted to them foreign wools of inferior grades'" 1011 1 " r *'. 9 , W oi’I’O*- was too small. i whlcfi are 'nevertfietess valuable nra- ™ toT ' h * ITesidentia nomination There were 14 births on the voy- ^rlal for manufacturing and which ^ hio * in be 9tl11 U10re cloBe,,/ walch - age, but the compartments used as can not be Imported in the grease be-1 Such lying in hospitals were wholly inad-j cause of their heavy shrinkage equate in every respect, and in some wools, if imported, might be used to eral. instances It was found that even or- displace the cheap subs now in use high dinary conveniences were not provid- "To make the preceding paragraph ed for the inmates. The laws rela- a little plainer, take the instance of lives to cleanliness were violated In a a hundred pounds ol first class wool imported under the present duty which Is 11 gents a pound. That would make the duty on the hundred pounds $11. The merchantable part of the wool thus imported is the weight of the wool of this hundred manner which could not be too strongly condemned. The master of the vessel, .lames •s about $2,000,000. The can-j Findlay, attempted to explain the ex- mdustry shows an increase of al-' irting conditions by stating that 100 per cent. [about ten days after leaving Gibral- they are assessed at rates as as, or higher than, the duties paid cm the clean wools actually im ported They should be reduced and so adjusted to the rate on wool as to bear their proper proportion to the real rate levied on the actual wool imports. The duties on many classes of wool manufacture are prohibitory and greatly in excess of the differ- m th Carolina, as indicated by this tar there was a riot between the For- pounds after scouring. If the wooljenc-e in cost of production here and it. is rapidly assuming the posl-jtugese and Spanish male passengers, he State deserves in its ratio of resulting in a pitched batMe with i-'trial enterprises actively invest- knives, ’clubs, cleavers and pistols, nd the value of their manufac- To prevent further trouble the Por- shrinks 80 per cent, as some wools abroad. do, then the duty in such a case "This is true of tops, of yarns products. The climate of the tugese passengers were placed aft. • is particularly adapted for em- s In manufacturing lines, and would amount to $11 on twenty (with the exception of worsted yarns pounds of scoured wool This, of of a very high grade) and of low course, would be prohibitory if the and medium grade cloth of heavy while the Spanish passengers were put in the forward part of the ves- vool shrinks only 50 per cent it would be $11 on fifty pounds of wool weight. "On tops up to cents a pound -e has been no complaint as to any j sel. This resulted In the co-inlngling ( and this is near to the average of the in value, and on yarns of 65 cents of the sexes. great bulk of wools that are Imported in value, the rate Is 100 per cent T • t k hierable scarcity of intelligent desirable labor. lie statistical table as prepared by tepartment of agriculture, com- e and Industries for 1911 fol- 3. Capital Invested. HE TOOK THEM ALL IN. Pretended Dtuif and Dumb Man Im posed on Good People. with correspondingly higher rates for lower values. On cheap and medium grade cloths the existing rates fre 1910. 1911. I ry pro- Ircts . $ 1 92,905 $ 218,805 1 cs and ’''skets . . . 2,14.3,827 588,3 16 ) ( k and tile 635,750 443,853 ( r-iages and •\ agons . . . 236,800 241,000 ( ■neries . . . 82,850 214,190 < ;'.iing .... 88,800 359.500 (' n s and "''skets .... 100,000 101,850 ( fectionery 17,500 17.500 ' ’rtriclty ..24,155,1 47 28,930,326 l • -tlllzer . . 7,751,834 7,568,981 1 iu r and grist mills . 360,050 354,100 1 Milture ... 148,000 360,000 1 undry and I- ..^hine shops 521,374 591,474 Value Products. 1910. 1911. r. ' ery pro- ducts 1 582,100 $ 710,961 r. x e s and baskets .. . 565,553 692,827 r ick and tile 488,576 507,432 c irriages and wagons ... 426,539 805,000 c nnerles . . . 237,852 437,1 43 < ’othing .... 191,378 240,090 c "ins and caskets . . . 113,000 96,500 (• 'nfectionery, 21,600 24,100 y ’ectrlclty ... 2,195.638 2,603,400 i ertilizers . . . 10,099,142 12,094,734 j lour and grist mills . 719,855 589,032 r ■irnlture . . . 305,329 375,627 T 'undry and 1 .achlne shops 1,022,309 1,503,838 from Australia, which is the princi pal source of our im|x>rted wools, "These discriminations could be overcome by assessing a duty in ad’quently run to 150 per cent and on valorem terms but this method is some cheap goods to over 200 open to the objection, first that it cent. This is largely due to that increase administrative difficulties part of the duty wbici ’Some roast duck, please; 8ome! an( j tends to decrease revenue; trnslbly to compensate d sliced turkey, brown i''Ratoes.; undervaluations; and see- turer for the enhanced cost of his some coffee, and, oh, just bring ,j ia ^ as p r t(.A S advance the ad raw material due to the duty on and the percentage of the entire crop prior years to December 13 in previous follows; Alabama. Bales PC. 1911 1,651,134 00.0 1910. 1,128,470 94.7 1 908 . 1,265,953 95.0 1904 . . . . . . 1,319,711 Arkansas. 90.9 1911 . 745,667 00.0 1910 . 676,259 84.7 1908. 847,312 85.1 1904 769,388 Florida. 85.4 1911 . 82,026 00.0 1910 . ... 60,082 89.4 1908. 90.8 1904 75,713 Georgia. 86.51 1911 2,515,619 00.0 1910 1,706,81 6 94.2 1908 1,868,963 94.5 1904 1,780,792 l/ouiainaa. 91.2 1911 340,017 00.0 1910 233,347 94.6 1908 435,603 94.4 1904 . . . . . . . 872,403 Mlssiiwlppi.. 80.5 1911 . . 997,012 00.0 1910 . 1,066,216 88.0 1908 1,441,947 89.0 1904 1,415,376 North Carolina. 78.8 1911 912,556 00.0 1910 664,722 88.3 1 908' 615,736 90.1 1904 . . v 659,135 Oklahoma. 87.9 1911 . . .* 858,822 00.0 19l0 868,561 94.4 1908 71.8 1904 . 702,980 Mouth Carolina. 88.3 1911 1.423.295 00.0 1910 1,107,556 91.5 APPEAR BEFORE GOV. BLEAAE. trlington and Young in Oonvict Garb Ask for Pardon. Wearing the garb of a convict. The executive committee Southern Cotton coi been In eeMion nt New several days considering question, adjourned Thursday after deciding upon n plan to a reduction in the cotton the South to the extent of cent next year and taking secure the uniform plan In all the cotton growing I The plan adopted la a of the socalled "Rock Hill thet J » r W«k was proposed to tke tee by J. G. Anderson of Rock 8. C., and provtdee for ed pledgee from State and county the "declaration* adopted. It is ! fica!!y crated that tke "doea not wish to do anything may be in violation of the anti-trust law.” , The State organisations are to call upon bankers and buaineas men to assist the farmers in securing cient organisation expenses. Sneh States organisation, handed by o ra* perintendent, is to appoint tees in each county and, In township committees are to be i ized. Paid canvassers are to . ployed to secure slgnafMiree of ers to the pledgee to ehrtail The form of pledge seed by Farmers’ anion waa approved and adopted as the form to be employed in this work. The reports on acreage redaction from the virions Stats superintend ents are to be filed with E. J. Wat son, president of the congress, nt Co lumbia, g. C., by March 1, 1111, and. after the figures are compiled, they will be published throughout the South. ;ood meal. You know I am hungry (1 tired." The State says this order was drolled out to a waiter on a dining car entering Columbia Tuesday night from Charleston by a young man. The waiter complied with the order Some passengers strolled in from the day coaches to get something to eat, and they found this young man eaitng and chatting and they were astounded, for they had just contrib uted to what they thought to be a worthy cause. The young man in question had just made a round of the train, pretending to be deaf and dumb. He had collected over $7 from the unsuspecting ones. The passen gers were indignant and protested. An officer was called when Columbia was reached. Being questioned by the officer the young man said that his name was Henry Hymens, and that he called Methphis his home. He declared that he had boarded the train at Wests, near Charleston, where the race track, is being constructed, and that he was a follower of the races. He waa not arrested. valorem rate increases the duty per pound at the time when the con sumer most needs relief and the pro ducer can best stand comi>etition; wool. As a matter of fact this com- pensatory duty for numerous classes of goods is much in excess of the amount needed for strict compensa- State penitentiary or. the charge of breach of trust, Thursday appeared before the governor of Bonth Caro lina and made argument for a par don. When he had completed Me argu* ment the governor told him that he would have been acquitted had he related the same story on the witnei stand. James Stobo Young, former secretary and treasurer of the com pany, under sentence of one year, was also present at the bearing. He had nothing to say, leaving the argu ment to Garllngton. Both prisoner! attired in the prison clothes were carried under guard In a landeau from the State penitentiary to the governor's office Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. They wore citizens overcoats and hats. The hearing consumed more than one hour, and at the conclusion the gov ernor said that he would take the tes timony presented under advisement. Argument for pardon was also made by Christie Benet of Columbia and ’Albert Todd of Laurens, attor neys for the defendants. All of the details of the transactions on which the two prisoners were convicted were explained to the governor by Garllngton. He made a apeclal plea for Young, his kinsman. -VlG while if prices decline the duty is de- tion. creased at the time when the con-; "On the other hnnd the findings sumer ts least burdened by the price show that the duties which run to and the producer most needs protec- such high advalorem equivalents are tion. i prohibitory since the goods are not [imported, but that the prices of do- Another Method. "Another method of meeting the[mestic fabrics are not raised by the difficulty of taxing the grease pound [full ffmount of duty. On a set of is to assess a specific duty on grease' one yard samples of 16 English fab- wool in terms of its scoured content.' rics, which are completely excluded This obviates the- chief evil of the; by the present tariff rates, it was present system, namely, the discrim-1 found' the total foreign value was inatlon due to different shrinkages'$41.84; the duties which would have and thereby tends greatly to equalize j been assessed had these fabrics been the duty. The board reports that this ( imported $76.90; the foreign value method is feasible in practice and j plus the amount of the duty $ 118.74; could be administered without ^reat ior a nominal duty of 183 per cent, exepsne. The scoured content qf the In fact, however, practical identical wool is the basis on which timers of! fabrics of domestic make sold at the wool make their calculation^, and a same at $69.75, showing an en- duty of this kind wrfhld fit the hanced price over the foreign market usages of the trade. Onq/ effect of, value of\but 67 per cent, this method of assessment would be "Although these duties do not in- 93.3 91.0 00.0 84.0 90.6 84.7 00.0 96.6 92.9 96.4 that, regardless of the there w'ould be an Inc •^te of duty, rease In the crease prices of domestic goods by anything like their full amount, it is CAUSED EXCITEMENT. supply and variety of w/bol by making none the less true that such prohibi- available to the Aqterican market I tive duties elitninate the possibility Thousand Hotel Guests Into a Panic. Are Sensation in Winchester. At Winchester a social sensation ' as created there Thursday when the l and jury returned an Indictment egainst Postmaster John O. White, a 1 'ding Republican politician anM one t f the wealthiest men in the town. At China nearly a thousand hotel guessts were routed in a panic Tues day morning by a fire which totally destroyed the board of trade building on South LaSalle street. Alarm was felt for guests in Kalzerhof, New Vic toria and Stafford hotels, all of them nesur enough to be touched by flames from the burning structure. Scoree of men and women appeared in hotel lobbies half'Wad, many dragging trunks or carry ault cases. The ' v arcing him with cruelly beating his ('aaghtor.JMfij, agod 19 Iran. Jhwflre department eatlmatea the damage (Irt baa left home. . 1st 9900,000. wools of both low and fine quality now excluded. "The report shows in detail the difficulties involved In attempting to state in categorical terms the cost cf wool production and the great dff- ferenclea In cost as between different regions and different types of wool. It Is found, however, that taking all varieties In account, the average cost in the chief competing country by an amount somewhat less than the pres ent duty. "The report shows that duties on oils, wool wastes and shoddy, which are adjusted to the rate of 33 cents .at. the same measure that the duty on secured wool k prohibitory. of foreign 1 competition, even In time of scarcity; that they form a tempta tion to monopoly and conspiracies to control domestic prices; that they are much in excess of the difference in cost of production here and abroad, and that they should he reduced to a point which accords with this prln clple. "The findings of the board show that In this Industry the actual man ufacturing cost, aside from the ques tion of the prlc eof materials, is much higher in this country than It Is abroad; that in the making of yarn and cloth the domestic woolen or 1 908 1,134,183 1 904 1,085,725 Tennessee. 191 1 360,454 1 910 269,670 1 908 302,627 1904 271,181 Texas. 1 91 1 3,860,386 1910 2,849,259 1 908 3,368,874 1904 2,953,067 Other States. 191 1 102,664 1910.. 64,485 1908 63,956 1904 56,006 bor to offset the higher wages paid In this country. The findings show that the cost of turning wool Into yarn In this country Is about double that In the leading competing country, and that the cost of turning yarn into cloth Is somewhat more than double. Under the protective policy a great industry, Involving the welfare of hundreds of thousands of people, has been established despite these hand! caps. "In recommending revision and reduction, I, therefore, urge that ac tion be taken with these facts in mind, to the end that an imporUnt and established industry may not be jeopardized. FIRST IN TWENTY YEARS. Two Negroes Hanged at Lancaster for Killing Negroes. A dispatch from Lancaster to The State says when Wade Hood and Hen ry Kee, negroes, were hanged Thurs day morning a precedent was estab lished In Lancaster county and In South Carolina. For the first time In fanners’ rallies, intended to afi this movement, be held am 25 next at fveryj cotton belt, to he followed cb ary 27 by county rallies nt tke oua county seats. Already. It waa staUd, fltate county organisations are actively work In Texas, Alabama and Mia slppl to secure a reduction la eotfcft acreage, and great anrosea w ported by the delegates from States. R. D. Bowen of Park, Tewj ed attention to n report published la The Farmers' Union Journal §t Ar lington, Tex., over tke slgaatnre off officers ot tke Texas tttte naira, charging that the figures on the federal agricultural baaed ik estimate of the cotton are dktorted, to the great injury ot the cotton planters. Thk statement charged that 1,110,000 bake ot eot- ton are virtually counted twice by Ike government In making up tke mate of the season’s crop, Gov. Noel of Mississippi that thk waa a very seriOM and should immediately to the attention of Secretary Wi at Washington. THINK THEY HAVE BANDEH. Men Arrested la Kavanmah Said 10 be - JBi Train Robbers. J A Washington letter to The State says it is understood there that postoffice department thinks two men now held at Sava and Eckestrom—for robbing lantlc Coaat Line train at ■■ ' the State’s history a legal execution j ville, 8. C., last week and was held,on a day other than Friday. Convicted of murder at the October term of court of " general session. Judge W. C. Watts sentensed both ne groes Friday, December 9. The gov ernor granted a reprieve of 1 days, thus causing the execution to be held Thursday. It was the first time In 21 years that an execution has been held in Lancaster county. Hood was hanged for the murder of Walter Dunlap, and Kee for the murder of Sam Dye in the month of August of last near. ( . PAIR OF YOUNG FOOLS. Scratch Causes Death. At Sheffield, Ala., a scratch with a razor with which hs had shaved week ago has caused the death of W, L. Noecker, a prominent citizen of this city. Blood pokonlag eet In which resulted in hk death Thursday. Seventeen Year Old Boy and Thirteen Year Old Girl Wed. After pleading In vain with hk sweetheart’s father to permit them to wed, Kindred Hartt, seventeen, met little Miss Loutma Bates, a school girl, barely thirteen, at midnight, and the couple eloped afoot from Sergent, with a considerable amount istered mall mattar. ara • the business and thftf vine holdup k only one of While the department WHY what Information it hag ject. it is believed that Sharp, chief a good knowledge of the train crooks and robbers now ply ing their trade in thk country, f satisfied that Hill and the men responsible for Line holdup. A daring ccntly occurred Is now believed that strom were Implicated In 40-^ BITTEN BY SMALL - T—- ' ■ Chester Man k At Chester Mr. proprietor of the 1 Ky. After traveling all night sad ts In bed, next day over muddy soggy mountain 'salt of being Vs., days ago Mach Sleet and Bala. The Piedmont section of the State waa swept Thursday by sleet sad on scoured wool, are prohibitory tn^borsted manufacturer has in general rain with a low temperature, making the day the meet disagreeable ot the winter la that Mrtieii. fe-v np advantage from the form of aope- rior machinery or more effideat la- \ \ roads they reached Appalachk, the nearest railroad station, five mike away, where they a train for Bristol, Tenn., seventy tfittes. Arriving at Brktoa, the cou ple were married by Squire Bur roughs, “the marrying parson.” Wed nesday a fast express will carry them to Appalachia, where they will hike but 1 the mountefiSr te art the of a 4. .» ' - * y: j-'. /J ifsVhrmM