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% VEEKLY ? \/ini at y IIULHI | AUGU * !. WProminei I "" OWNS F? 'I X Chief (J, X Cilve, V Columb I i. server. I)? > New Yorj 1 men in ni in this co a fine of ?> Carolina i Jl I laws and + \ <r himself a own pres JL . in accord Y :state. ? | Chief G jL ! son tonlg - |response the case X Mr. Be the tract Y he was h A large tra in that s< Y a disposi JL would hn chief war SY ed for th c. OI i i with Mr. Y which th - force the I nont intc who has ?<? ton ami X winter In Y Mr. I % lows: X "From Y Estill. i & hunting I'aiiRrain Y Oarnett. H- W. Ill X wald. V plac e a I % morning [Inquiry a Y jmont anc ?> vannah r K They had ' just klllf August I X and C. O : "My lr me there A> mont anc X out Heen Y would nc property X paid taxc Y would 110 & distinctly X South Ca Y license in ?* fact that X 'ioes not Y quired to ?+ for Mr. F X refuse to Y 1 not do ? . to pay tl .X. i it should Y 1 matter ol ?* their lice X "I told Y laws of S >% day a ni X AM having PI arate off in the dh t , nan proo ? ed 10 ,ia; * and Mr. \ would ha ^ bind thei ? court foi . would be ; I "Mr. V ? to pay tl > Estill. t J ways pr y y in past / ation of , J court's y Relmont, 1 for hiinsi ? , Weeks o y 9, and th % der the i X -time his V considera 1 ea<*h for $ mont and quired ea > $10.25 a 1 "These V Mr. Rein & AURUBt F' 1 for $:ui V the three ? Rave me JL , procure V Oastel of y today. ? 2 more plei t JZ, down hei y heartily ! .< firame taw j residents M had sulTe JL laws, as had been ? V About Fl x ' pI? y D. J. o ?++ . State pen X about 50 -v ? , work in t ber, he * X creased s V work. It A been part act of th (Continued on Page Four.) m.^rket e \ _ . ... liAJNL'ASTKK, ING GAME LAWS, PRESIDENT HEAR! 1ST BELMONT FINED A STRONG"! nt New Yorker Pays Surprised Preacher an Into S. C. Treasury. ' Ration of Little CI LARGE PRESERVE. THE PREACHER'S ! imp Warden Richardson Man's Accountability to t Ou Statement in Re- Subject of Sermon by Hard to Case. Herbert Jones iia Special to Charlotte Ob- Gulfport, Miss., Dec. ;c. 28.?August Belmont of dent Wilson sat in a qt c, one of the best known Presbyterian church hen iiancial and sporting circles incon8picuoU8f humble w untry and Europe, has paid v ' $3 00 to the state of South a conKrcgation of less thai for violation of the game and heard a remarkable has taken out licenses for the personal accountabllit nd friends to hunt on his dlvldual to hls Maker erves in Hampton county. The pPe8,dent and Mrs. ance with the laws of the companled by Dr Cary , _ . . . _i u , came unexpectedly, avoid "e Warden A. A Richard- that had co^llecte/at the , ht gave out a statement n t Pas8 Chrlgtlan el ht to request, with regard to and th h Rev. Dr. which ended yesterday. bert Jones was as surprise lmont owns 6.000 acres in hl congregatlon at thPe ai In Hampton county, where dl8tlngul8hed vl8itor; he unting deer, and he has a prepared service only sli inng camp for his horses gy ?olncldence he de;eIO, potion. Had he not shown that hag , been Qnp tion to obey the law he (#f thp Presldent , tye been arrested for the The Rey D t den had a warrant prepar- t, His trembling e event. n . ,, ... Muciuiy noie u prm sea as lTr Islin. Jr., on of those an(j fro j? tjle pulpit. Belmont on tho hunt at i , . . ..... 0 warden appeared to en-' 1 selected a oxt- 1,1 law. Is a son of the promi- knowing that it would b. rnatlonal yachting expert f,u .H. ',>r. ,.prfa<, raced with Sir Thomas Up- 1 resident ot the t inted others. The Islins usually ^vanted to gise all of yo helpful that would rem a Lichard'son's statement fol- \n the days to come. twelfth verse in the fourH information received from *-er ot s letter to the went to August Belmont's " 'So then every one preserve Known as the give account of himself t auga Club, seven miles from | "This principle of a< accompanied by Wardens affects all of us, for God i chardson. Jr.. and J. 11. Os- humblest man as lie d( fe arrived nt the Belmont President of the greater aout 11 o'clock Saturday earth. and. after several hours of \ "This is the last Suit nd hunttng. found Mr. Bel- year. What has the yen 1 his party down in the Sa- *U8? To some who are i iver swamp on a deer hunt. ence. it has been the m two line deer that they had year in American history, d. The party consisted of pawned on the world's di| telmont. Morgan Belmont fcin 8ee emblazoned ; liver Islin, Jr. coronets of princes and tl iformatton that had carried Emperors, the teaching < was to the eiTect that Bel- terpretation of man's du 1 party were hunting with- The Rev. I)r. Jones di ses and had said that they today was the Presidgnl >t take out licenses, as the though his sermon was di was Mr. Belmont's and lie flections on the passing 1 >s in South Carolina. This "Methuselah lived to 1 it exempt them as our laws 0|d(" saj,j the preacher say that a non-resident of drowned in the flood, rolina is required to have a these years, vet, as lie sat order to hunt and that the parlance, he didn't knov they own land in tills state oom(1 in out of tne wet." exempt them from being re- {jen smiled. have this license. I looked i .... ., telmont to make a kick and . hpn, thP SP[ 1?' V' pay the license, but he did choir 0l,SPVPn, iftP<1, th< a. He said he was willing 8?nK: Then followed a s ie license and thought that,conclud,n* the *?rv{<,ebe paid and that it was a I The entire congregati r carelessness in not having solemn silence until the P nses. his party passed out. thim that, according to the step the preacher thanki outh Carolina, that for each their visit, on-resident minted without "it was the second gr< rocured a license was a sep. my life," he said, ense which was punishable "And what was the fli scretion of the court: that I ed the President, f to show that he had hunt- "I preached once hefo ps, his son Morgan two days Garfield." was the reply Islin one day. and that 1 The presidential pal ve to take them to Estill and away to Biloxi. 12 miles ti over to th?> next term of along the coast before t r Hampton county, which to Pass Christian. On in February. president saw four aged telmont asked to be allowed veterans in uniforms of ie fine and not be taken to bling along the road, lea >n account of his having al- on their canes, eviously paid his license "How do you do?" sail years and In consider- as lie ordered Ills car to the fact that the clerk of "Howdy," they ans books showed that August passed on withou treci Jr., had taken out a license president. i*lf and a friend. Harold H. Further along the ron f New York, on December 8nw "Benuvoir," the old at Mr. Belmont, Sr., was un- f,.rson Davis, with its mpression that at the same m.arbv. license in past years, and in The automobiles were i it Ion to accent a fine of SI no > ?? ? -* Ill 11(1 wilt'II 1 llt'y KOI UHCK, Mr. Belmont. Morgan Bel- ra|n f?.fi during the nigln 1 C. Oliver Islin. Jr.. and re- zl,. continued most of i icli to take out his license at ^ (jie cottage the Pre* license. inanv telegrams congrat i fines were promptly paid by on j,js fiftv-seventh hi tout giving me a check on took a ?hoTt nap after li telmont & Co.. of New York 8tarted for a walk late 1 to cover the three fines and noo|, n<1 hnd not Kone licenses. Mr. Belmont also ntt1f. R,r, waylaid him wl another check for $10.25 to Qf flOWers a license for Count Veil ? Manv happy returns Paris. France, who arrives sko sa|d. dr. Belmont said game was president thankee atiful than he had ever seen jv was a stmpie re. and stated that he was singl,, evidence It seem< In favor of enforcing the outside world recalled t -s. I assured him that non- of the nation's Chief Kj were not the on!y ones that was a striking contrast red at the hands of the game ,,ratlon of a yOBr ago. wl over ir,0 South Carolinians son Rtood at his hlrthpla prosecuted this year." ton Va anil(, (hp brilliai celebrating crowds, but li Ifty Convicts Already Km- u J?"?t ? much, he tol . . 1 U . afterwards, yed in < liair Factory. | Among the many mess rlfflth, superintendent of the gratulatlon received was Itentlary said yesterday that lug from King Georg convicts had been put to Britain: he chair factory. The num- "I want to offer you laid 'will be gradually in- congratulations on the is the convicts learn the of your birth and trust dore than 100 chairs have health has not suffered tiallv finished and the prod- arduous duties of the yes e mill will be placed on the It was the only cablegr arly in the year?The State, made public. S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER :i<>, 1<>K ! [saddened miners I MilN R1IRY THFIR flFiM ? ? . . UVII I I 11?111 U l?l 11/ d Con^re- 59 Bodies, Including I I Children, W lurch. Interred in Lakeside Cemetery. I THEME. LARGE CROWDS ATTEND, n His Maker, Hundreds of People From Other \t Kev. I)r. Places Attend Funeral Service. Meetings in Many Churches. 28.?Presi- Calumet, Mich., Dec. 2 8.?The laint little Western Federation of Miners buried Qf * to,lav in 'ts dead today. Fifty-nine bodies, in- I fi . eliding those of 44 children, were 1 th orshiper in carried through the streets, down a | i a hundred winding country' highway and laid in a sermon on graves in a snow-enshrouded ceme- ci y of the in- tery within sight of Lake Superior. ! nd Thousands of saddened miners form- | Hi . .. ed the escort of the funeral parties m Wilson, ac- an(j pa8Sed between other thousands I de I. O ray son, wjjG as spectators testified to the in ufi a urOWu grief that has oppressed the comlttle church munity since 72 men, women and or miles away. ? ii h t ai tuiiurfu kiiumi 111 me uoribimab ha 3 as anv of Eve pan,c ln Itallan HalL I A, -Hvni nf tho ^or hours the Sabbath calm was th virio.1 ht? broken by the tolling of bells and an ? i? Y t the sound of voices intoning burial in >ed a theme chants- In half a dozen churches \ he the nreach and the mounerB went about the th . ? ,f ' streets, passing from their homes to ' ar reached fer- the churche8' back to their homes, ht h-imi i> . after brief respites and again to the ai , ?' churches to prepare for the last sad of ? ne NNa,kecl trip to the grave sides. th Delegations of strikers began com- \Vi e said, "not {ng jnto Calumet early in the day. es b my distin. The special train of nine coaches r;i i before the brought hundreds of federationists ?f States but I from the iron mines of Negaunee and d( u something Isliplieming and every town and min- ,?1 in with you ing location in the copper country It was the sent members and friends of the U] teenth chap- union to swell the ranks of marchers p;i Romans: in the afternoon. n, of us shall Ry noon the union host was as- js to God.' sembled. Months of experience in jn countability demonstrating their numbers by cares for the parading had taught the men to form >es for the ranks quickly and with little delay w it nation on they lined up four abreast. of The supply of hearses was inad. (J, ulav of the equate and there were only 14 of ir' done for these vehicles in the van. Rehind the j; in this pres- hearses was a section of the procesost glorious s'on whicli brought tears and sobs m An era h;is from onlookers. Thirty-nine white OA ilon,nev tli ?t coffins, their size testifying to the iroiiiid the short life of the little forms within, ol tie crowns of were carried by relays of strikers, u if a new in- Four men bore each coffin and as cr ty to man " their arms grew weary or their feet id lint know slipped on the roadway, companions K .it,,,; relieved them of their burden. ni vote"to? Persons drawn to Calumet solely w O months curiousness of the spectator, P< Utrrtlllir IIMMII IM-I > uf> tuir* ruiiiill^nn \ }'ours passed them. Men turned away to " "it was prush tears from their cheeks. Wo. jl; He lived all men, especially th?? mothers in the b< / in common crowd, sobhed openly, and dozens. in v enough to unable to endure the sigh, rushed tli The Presi- from the streets taking refuge in homes nearby. Other mourners, too, tli s finished a were in evidence among the toil- tli >ir voices in hardened men. who carried the oof- fe hort prayer, fins. They bore the bodies of their companion's children and many a .. on stood in rol,*h sleeve was brushed hurriedly V resident and arross down-turned faces, the eyes tt the door- of which were concealed hv peaked j ed them for oaPs- drawn far forward. Fifty ' singers chanted hymns in the wake Ei of those carrying the children's cof- ] ' honor oi pns Most of these men were Eng- ! lish miners, who had learned in j st . mqulr- fornwell to chant Christmas carols in the streets and years ago brought fa re 1 resident njrj custom to the copper coutitry. Today, however, they did not ()I rty motored s|nK songs of a new life horn. "Jesus o. further east ]^OVPr 0f My Soul," "Rock of Ages," ' urning hack !lIuf "Nearer My God to Thee," came the way the from throats thick with emotion, but j.. Confederate j^e harmonies were full and rich. grey, hob. u1P singers turned into Illne : nlng heavily street, which led to the cemetery vv road, the open ranks of marchers 1 Mr. Wilson wheeled into line. Ishpheming and j, slow up. Xegaunee men came first, followed | wered, hut j)V ? brass hand of the members of n agnizing the tbe copper miners' union. The cemetery is in two sections. id the party on(> Is consecrated to the dead of the ... home of Jef- 'oman Catholic faith, the other to !n tiny ofllee tbose belonging to Protestant denominations. In the former three , covered with trenches had been excavated and in (1, for a heavy these 2T> bodies were laid. ,,, 1 and n driz- On the Protestant side of the , he morning, burial place two la'ge graves re- f. ddent found celved 28 bodies. The other six ulating him were laid in familv nlots. Onlv brief rthday. He addresses worn delivered in the comeincheon and terv. En gene A. McNally, a local ol In the after- attorney, eulogized the dead in Eng- 0] far when a usj, and George Strezich of St. I,onis. ai th a bouquet Frank Altonen of Negaunee, and y other federation leaders delivered ad- ,,, of the day," dresses in Austrian, Finnish and w Croatan. pi 1 her warm- MeN'ally made only passing refer- rf tribute?the pure to the deportation of President Ml, that the p. II. Moyer of the federation, pre- (jj he birthday dieting that his absence, wnether terncecutive. It porary or permanent would result irf to the cele- the development of leadership as ef- jn ?en Mr. Wil- fective as his. All the speakers ee at Staun- termed the victims of the Christmas ? nt glamor of Kve catastrophe martyrs to the cause in le appreclat. of unionism. They argued that had to rl his friends the managers not refused to recognize st the union, the industrial warfare ty ages of con- would have been settled months ago to the follow- and there would have been no need st ;e of Great for the celebration In Italian Hall. ee , Nine of those who were killed have dc mu oin ooro ?w? * ?K ? ? u nj n.iiwic nut wren LTiaiiT-ta. r ?iin;in UJltl r?* anniversary bands who left the copper country to fii . that your seek work In Arizona and Montana ui I from your have not arrived In Calumet, hut It ir." is expected that Tuesday will see the b? am that was last of the funerals. Four were held is yesterday. The coroner's inquest pc *. ?? f 5. " $1.50 lGINS probe of igreatest CAUSE OF DISASTER! HIST! i i itnesses Say Man Wore Button Record of 191.1 .ike Citizens' Alliance Badge In F IE CORNORER'S INQUEST. $5,000,000,000 torney Hilton Says Identity of Mis- Long Line of I) creant Who Started Rush is of <lleinen in Po Paramount Importance. | vantngi Calumet, Mich., Dec. 29.?Two out Washington, ] a score or more of witnesses testi- , dollars' worth ol d before a cornoer's jury today that dollars of cash e man who caused the Christmas year in spite of re disaster in Itlian Hall here wore setbacks?is tin white button like the badge of the 1 million America tizen's Alliance. Immediately after I The United Si journment on the hearing O. N. j year of husband Uton, the Western Federation of i 000,00U worth iuer'8 attorney, stated that futher $2,896,000,000 ivelopment of tuis feature of the in- cereals alone; the vestibule of Italian Hall for an i worth of anlmi The union lawyers did not comment' tered and anima i the fact that the president anil of the 1913 cr ilf a dozen members of the Women's , 1899; more thai uxiliary of the Federation, swore 1909 and subst at they saw no insignia on the man | 1912. Of all t id that union members who stood j mated that 52 the vestibule of Itlian Hall for an on farms and tl >ur before the panic started, said animal product e alarm came from within the hall On that basis tli id no person wearing such a button mated at $5,84 id passed them. In the opinion of , PRODUCTIC uthony Lucas, prosecuting attorney 1 Despite a rec< Houghton County, who conducted' although the ie examination of witnesses, facts jias fsliion an ell established today were that an nu'mj,pr of fari :citahle member of the audience JH,r ront sj,K.,'. ] ised the cry, that there was no .,ro estimated t 'tual tire in the hall and th,it the the countrv' jors were ojien and the stairway agricU|ture. in ear when the panic started. subject made p "All we want is a finding based take the view on facts developed at the inquest," ]fvjnjr wju rf?sul t?l\Ir nil#..., "Til,, 1.1. iscreant who started the mad rush , ""wpvor dc of paramount importance and we duction on fan tend to do what we can to clear up consumer s ,js ? not follow that Testimony concerning the button duction would i as given at the hcgining and end '.'10 r:,s'1 i,ir the afternoon session of the in- raP'ta farm iest. prices paid by Jolin Burcar, who gave his age as an? lower, say >, and ssiid he had lost a sister in Had the loc; te disaster, told of seeing a man otiualled or ex< uffled to his eye is a fur-collared duction it seen ,-en-oat. enter tiie hall. cash income pel "He hollared 'Fire* and then ran J)pf'n greater a it," said the boy. "I ran out too. '<>ss ,aan 'n e had an Alliance button on his doubtful whetln >at." snmer would hi Another witness, Mrs. John II. rPta" prices ar oski, said she was 20 feet from the a ProsP?ct of 1 an, who wore a dark blue coat, on ar'' s'mv ,0 dec hich was a white button. "It look- production. 1 like an Alliance button," she said. The long lii >ut I was too far away to read it." middlemen bett On or two witnesses said there fo'isumer id been some confusion in the hall tal{0 advantage ?fore the panic started but women to n r,'r,a'n ox'{ charge of the celebration denied VOLUME I' lis. "Corn value* Almost all witnesses agreed that comprised 2 8 ji le first alarm came from a man and of all crops, altl iat it was taken up at once in dif- under the recoi reiu parts 01 tne nail. crops, with va> order In which HEATHER TO BE ihU't? GENERALLY FAIR toVscro * nir Weather Promised in Practical- $<16,000,000; s ly All Parts of tlic Country Kast 000,000; sugar ?? ' the Itockv Mountains. Louisiana can si ... , . . ' _ ,, $26,000,000; ri Washington. Deo. 28? Generally spp(j $21000.00 ir weather is predicted for the next buckwheat $10, w days In parts of the country Kast "V O'lnnfity tlie Rocky Mountains and over the 'lttction the rer luthern plateau region. Rains are by wheat, rye. i cpeoted in the Southeastern stiites P,tg?>r and the t id probably snows In the Middle At- s,tgnr. Ibe ntie and New Kngland states, up- barley cotton r Ohio Valley and lower Lake re- exceeded twice ion. The weekly bulletin of the . ] 'H> 1 ?ie i eather bureau issued tonight says: 's high. A net "A disturbance of moderate in. value Is mad< nsitv central Sunday morning over cereals, and se ouisiana with advance Nortelieast cottonseed ard and cause rains Monday in the s' oi DUtheastern states and cloudy !|cnor estimate eather and probably snows Monday potatoes, li ud Tuesday in the Middle Atlantic , ''' iU1'. ' " ud New Kngland states, the upper has the est mat bio Valley and the lower Lake re- :m ' " ion. With this exception the weath- ,s! estnn t r will lie fair during the next sev- SUKi" " ral days in practically all parts of "airy prodi ie country Kast of the Rocky Moun- J\,n,'''t ?> inor! tins and over the Southern plateau KR,RS "I"1 ,my 1 ,pjon value of more t "The next disturbance of inipor- jT'i'V,?oja Janice to cross the country will appear ni:i , ii the North Pacific coast Monday m,r $.?!.' ' ",ui r Tuesday attended by high winds AVKRAtiK ad rains and cross the great Central "The prices alleys about Thursday and the Kast- average about *n states Friday. This disturbance than a year a ill cause local snows in the North- higher than tv n states. Another disturbance will total values ai sach the North Pacific coast about cent higher tha hursday and prevail over the Mid- P"r cent highei le West near the end of the week. "The value c his disturbance will he attended by ?f domestic pri neral rains and snows and he fol- year 1913 was wed by decidedly colder weather." amount which equalled. The trade in agricv to the casualties of the tragedy is favor of the exp i convene tomorrow. According to products by $2 atements of investigators for coun- "The quantit officials, witnesses will he produced and its productt i show that the cry of "fire" which 964,000,00ft po arted the panic came from near the is exceeded by nter of the hall instead of from the preceding 22 ye >or way, as the first accounts had it. ceptlons, by th< ?arch for the man who shouted the of these years, st false alarm has thus far been "The census ^successful. It was intimated, how- in 1909 the tc 'er, that clues to his identity were wages paid to f dng worked out and that an arrest 611,287. This something more than a remote cost in 1899. f issibility. are indicated sii PKli YEAK. yUN )RY OP CROPS is $10,000,000,000 'rod nets, ( ASH INCOME. Ustributors and Midsition to Take Ad. * of .Market. Dec. 29.?Ton billion ijiuuucis, nve dm lion income?a bumper ' droughts and other i 1913 record of six n farms. tateB' most successful Iry produced $6,100,of crops, of which were represented by and f 3,650,000,000 lis sold and slaughil products. The value ops is twice that of i $1,000,000,000 over antially greater than the crops it is estlper cent will remain lat 20 per cent of the ion also will remain, le cash income is esti7.000,000. )N HAS FALLEN. 3rd year of crop valu ? record of production d the fact that the nis has increased 11 1910, until there now o be 6,600.000 farms mo <i " a discussion of the ublic today, does not that a lower cost of It. sirable increased proms may appear from standpoint, it does such increased proresult in any increase ome per farm or per population, or that consumers won! 1 he s the report, at production in 1913 ceded the 1912 proas probable that the farm would not have nd might have been 12 but it is extremely ?r the cost to the conive been less, because e raised promptly on under production but line if there is overle of distributors and Veen the farmer and are in a position to of the market and But control it. rXDKR RECORD. a fit ti c^nnnnnn ier rent of the value lough the volume was rd. Other prineipal ties, are given In the thev come. Cotton hay $707,000,000; pest crop ever raised ? $010,000,000; oats potatoes $228,000,122,000,000; barley weet potatoes $43,heets $34,000,000; ugar $26,000,000; rvo ce $22,000,000; flax0; hops $15,000,000; 000,000. of estimated proord has been broken rice, sugar beets, beet otal of beet and cane remaining crops, oats, and nops have been in production. r?f the crops of 101.1 v record in estimated > by the total of all parately by corn, cottobacco and sugar nee has there been a >d value for oats, rye, lav, hops and the total le sugar. Only twice ed value of wheat and le sugar. Only twice ed value of wheat and ceil exceeded, icts of 1013 are estib than $814,000,000. s have an estimated nan *:? i x.uuu.ooo. oduction of 1913, estl100,000 pounds, was in. MUCH HIGHER, of 14 principal crops 20.2 per cent higher go and 4.0 per cent t'O years ago. Their 'erage about 3.8 per n a year ago and 7.6 than two years ago. if agricultural exports nduction in the fiscal 3 $1,123,021,469, an before has not been so.called balance of iltural products is in >orts of domestic farm 96,000,000. ;y of exports of beef i in 1913 amounted to unds, a quantity that the average for the ars and with three exs exports of each ono reports indicate that >tal amount of farm arm labor was $651,is almost double the Jonsiderable Increases ace 1909." > i