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THAT CAIRO MOB "Northward the 'Criminal Negro' Problem Makes Its Way." CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW The Only Novelty Was the Active Participation of Women in the Affair, a Thing That Has Never Yet Occuito<1 iu the South and Never Will. In discussing that Cairo lynching !n its editorial columns the Augusta i.'hronicle says apart from one novelhereafter to be mentioned, the r cent eNullition of mob violence ia Illinois was the same old typical American lynching. Same getting ;aad all together; same rush for the ; risoner; same slaughter of the shrieking wretch by hanging, shooting and burning; same theatrical hurrying to the spot of troops, who never get there in time, and if by some miracle they ever do so, take a vote not to shoot, as they did the other day. The only novelty was the active participation of womeu in the affair ?a thing that has never yet occurred in the South and never will. TKa ovniiafl fnr tlia lvnrhi'.lZ itSClf !s the same old excuse?distrust of the law. But the real underlying cause Is?contempt for the law. The mob Itself Is, for the time being, a lawless aggregation of madmen; no matter hew much each member of It Indivi lu.iliy may, in his calmer moments, pretend to respect the iaw, he Is an outlaw, pure and simple, when he takes the law Into his own hands as was done in Cairo. And this Is true whether it occurs in In Illinois or in Georgia or Mississippi. And, yet, it would not. be entirely fair to say that the courts, as a whole, administer justice a6 certainly and with as even a hand as they Tf Kdd Kaon pnntpndod more DUU Li 1VI. AC uuu vvvu _ _ than once, that In matters between man and man, as the ownership of property for istauce, our courts, generally are trustworthy, but that when It comes to crime, they are not altogether effective instruments for th? protection of the community. This la true only in a sense; and it is, generally speaking, true only in the sence that juries sometimes fail to j do their duty. We have seen something of this In this very community within the past few weeks, where more than one prisoner, charged with a heinous crime?and as guilty as any that ever faced a court?were summarily turned loose by the trial jury, but, surely, this fault can not be laid at the door of the court itself, when It Is seen that it is with the people, after all, that lies the right and power to enforce the law as it should be enforced. Perhaps it is, in a measure, true that If they would administer justice In the jury box more often than they do. they would not find it necessary, or, rather, possible, to administer It as members of a wild, savage mob. There Is still another thought, however, (!n connection with this Cairo lynching. It has again been proved?as it was in the Springfield riots?that human nature is pretty much the same there as in Georgia or South Carolina or Mississippi. It only needs sufficient provocation to assert itself. The Influx of a certain class of negroes into the North? we say a "certain class of negroes," because we refuse to place all negroes in the category of criminals? Is furnishing this provocation in Illinois as it has furnished it in thfl South since the war. For some years past the negro problem has been moving northward. Springfield and Cairo furnished unmistakable mile-stonea of its progress. Unfortunately the "negro problem" carries with it the problem of coping with certain forms ot crime, such as murder and rape. And it iB inevitable, perhaps?however inexcusable it may be?that the method of dealing with such crim?? is the same in the North as in the South. Yet, we would sympathize with, rather than condemn, the North fo: the problem which confornts it. Ii is a problem not of its own making; any more than the same problem wa TKarofnPD 01 ?>0UII1 S iiicltvxiig. x uciciv* ui i we refrain from referring to thisCairo affair as "another Northern outrage;" oven though we have, so often, seen similar affairs in th* South referred to as "another Southern outrage." Perhaps our kindred troubles are rapidly bringing us al! ? Kn+fof unrloratflTnlinfir on this IU CL UCUWi point; certainly, neither section has any cause to throw stones at the other in connection with it. They are both, now, simply confronted with a similar problem, or problems; the "criminal negro" problem?and the problem of putting down mob violence, without respect to provocation or persons?and at any price. Killed About Lynching. At Cairo, 111., Wednesday Henry Small, a negro shot and killed William Popo, one of the negro soldiers discharged from the United Slates army after the ^shooting up' of Brownsville, Texas. The shooting followed an argument over the lynching thfre last weeK o? Will James, the negro accused of the murder of Miss Annl? PHIev. Cotton Ginned. The regular monthly report of the National Ginners' Association showing that 8,095.000 bales of cotton have been ginned during the present season up to November 11. was Issued Thursday irom Memphis. Amount ginned U South Carolina, ?>18,000. ;! TWO LIVES ARE LOST TRAIN WRECKERS REMOVE RAILS AND WRECK TRAIN Near Denmark, Killing a Colored Fireman and a White Tramp, Who Was Stealing a Ride. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from Denmark say6 ' train wreckers are responsible for the derailment of the south bound mail train on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, which passed Denmark at 1:43 o'clock Thursday morning, the death of two men, a negro fireman and a white tramp, the injuries sustained by Engineer Poteat. the shaking up of the passengers and the destruction of the engine. The tran was in charge of Conductor Harry Butler and Engineer jfoteat. w Que going aowa gram; just before reaching a curve, two miles south of this place, Thursday morning, the engineer Baw just ahead the end of a rail turned in toward the middle of the track. Scarcely had he blown for "down brakes" when the engine reached the dislocated rail and left the track, plowing its way along the ties until it was completely wrecked. The engineer was hurled through the top of his cab for quite a distance. In his fall he sustained a broken nose and several bruises, but was not Beriously hurt. The negro fireman and a white tramp, who is supposed to have been riding on the cow catcher, were instantly killed, the body of the fireman being burned to a crisp when removed from the wreckage, and that of the tramp badly scalded. The baggage master and express messenger were bruised up, but were not seriously Injured. None of the passengers were hurt. Besides the engine, the mail, baggage and one passenger coach left the rails and were thrown across the track. The other coaches were loose from the trucks but did not leave the rails. After the wreck investigation revealed the fact that two rails had been removed, a crowbar, a large wrench and a bottle of kerosene oil, which had been used to loosen the nuts where the rails are joined, being found at the side of the track. The accident occurred not far from the camp of the Bamberg County chain gang, where bloodhounds are kept, and the dogs were soon on the scene. They immediately took up the scent and followed the trail into the corporate limits of Denmark, where it was lost. Detectives arrived on the scene Thursday and are scouring the region for clews that will lead to the detection of the guilty parties. ^ It is believed that the wreckers are the same ones that caused the wreck of the same train at Otside, just a few miles further south only ! a few months ago. The wreck Thursj day morning was more disastrous in that two lives were lost and the ! damage was greater. Conductor Butler was also in charge of the train that was wrecked on the previous occasion. The detectives who are working on the case claim to have their suspicions, but they refuse to say anything for publication. It is Intimated, however, that very probably Ttm a noneroonnfl Q Q anTTlA I IUU LUUinc r? U.O * v.w v of the officials of the road were on the train. Engineer Potest was in the wreck I between Swansea and Sweden bIx or ! seven years ago, when two passenger engines collided. SIX KILLED EX EARTH SLIDE. Without Warning Hill Caves in Upon Gang of Workmen. A dispatch from Winston-Salem, N. C., says six men were almost Instantly killed and one was seriously Injured there Tuesday morning shortly before 10 o'clock by a landsl'de of tons of dirt from the side of an abutment being constructed for the 600-foot bridge across the Salem creek valley, on the first section of the Southbound Railroad. The dead, all white men, are: Lesso Friesland of Iredell county Carnel Bullin or stones county. Carl Dortschmidt, a German. Carl Erner, a German. Franz Lledman, a German. Alfred Lippner, a German. The Injured man Is Oscar Mise of N'orfolk, Va., badly crushed but will recover. Three others were Injured very slightly. The men were excavating at the side of a great hill, working with picks and shovels nearly fifty feet below the top of the embankment when tons of earth broke en masse from the mainland and covered tnem. A few, by dint of terrific struggles, managed to extrtcte their arms from the mass, and the four-score laborers near by rushed to their assistance. But at once a second crumb-1 ling of thousands of cubic feet of earth abo^ swept the rescurers iside in the twinkling of an eye, and buried the seven victims hopelessly. It was nearly an nour Deiore mu i first dead body wa6 recov?"*d, ko deep was the mass of eartn wnich had crumbled down the embankment. The last ! ody was taken out at 1 o'clock. Each was easily recosnizable; the earth had crushed the breath from their bodies without b-merln* them battering them. The awful mine horror at Cherry, m., 1e only one of a long list of such tragedies, which seems to have< been caused by the carelessness of, some one. In this enlightened age such accldeotg should be made Im-j poatfbi* I CLAIMS SCALED The Dispensary Winding Up Commisoion Makes Its Final Report STATE SAVED BIG MONEY Redactions in Amounts Claimed by the Whiskey Houses, and the j Counter Claims if Collected, Will Save the State Nearly Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. Nearly a half million dollars represents the saving to the State of South Carolina by scalings from dispensary claims and over-judgments against firms doing business with the old State dispensary, according to the report of the winding up commission, which practically concluded its work Wednesday night. A history of the old State dispensary system, with that tale of graft, now a matter of general knowledge, is Included in the commission's final report. That the whiskey firms failed to comply with the laws of the State in regard to the sale of whiskey, that various devices were used to prevent competition; that the board of directors of the dispensary failed to advertise for bids; that prices were exorbitant, commissions and rebates were paid, are a few of the many charges brought and substantiated by the commission's findings. The firms that fought the State in the litigation in the Federal Courts are taxed costs amounting to $21,526. The net amount of claims considered at this sitting of the commission was $430,000. This does not include the over-judgments and the decrees formerly rendered. The original fund was $630,000. Of considerable local interest, and of much interest also throughout the State is the claim of the Carolina Glass Company's, a Columbia concern. The amount claimed to be owed this firm by the State was $23,013.75, which is completely wiped out by the commission's findings, and an over-udgment rendered for $28,419,24. The over-charges found against the concern are $51,432.99, and it was by deducting the original claim from this amount that the overjudgment is found. The commission issues a separate decree against the Carolina Glass Company, and goes into the details o f what was alleged to be a monopoly of the sale of glass to the old State dispensary. The total sales of the Carolina Glass Company to the State aggregating ol4I329.90 before the year 1906. A lor nmnnnf rAnrenentfM! in the list of over-judgments and members of the commission and Its attorneys that the rffrms will be proceeded against in the Courts to recover the various amounts charged against them. "Conscience Fund" Over $30,000. Col Felder stated that the socalled conscience fund had already reached the $50,000 mark. This is the money paid back by firms not represented in the list of claimants, but who were charged with overcharging the State. One of the largest claimants and one that came in for some scorching when the original commission met are the Anchor Distilling Company and Ullman & Co., two firms classed by the commission as one concern. An overjudgment of $30,621.55 is found against this combination, this including a proportionate share, $4.500 of the costs in the courts. William Lanalian & Sons are charged up with $23,563.46, although their claims against the State was only $5,916.54. The commission went back of the dates represented ny tHie Arm's accounts in tho claims agaiuat the State, as did the commission in a number of other cases. Fleischmann & Co. and OerBon, Seligman Company are treated as one concern, and the $70,000 claim Is reduced to $45,645.30. This company admitted overcharges in afldavits. Clark Brothers & Co., another large claimant, are. given $53,780.96 on a claim of $66-,383.71. Carolina Glnsa Claim. The commission in its special report In the claim of the Carolina Glass Company finds that "the officers of this concern entered into a conspiracy to defraud the State of South Carolina by defeating all competition in the sale of glassware needed." The commission refers to a bid of the company in September, 1902, to furnish 50 cars of glass bottles at prices ranging about 10 per cent Ln excess of the prices paid to Flaccus & Co., notwithstanding the fact that other bids were filed. That also the Flaccus contract, when purchased, waB for the purpose of stifiling competition, as all moulds of the Flaccus Company were turned over to the Carolina Glass Company and the former had no facilities for filling orders. It is also charged that at several quarterly purchases other competitive bids were suppressed, and the Carolina Glass Company was awarded contracts that after Deecraber, 1902, and until 1906, when the contract existing between tho State dispensary board and this company was cancelled this firm maintained a complete monopoly of all business for glass and raised prices from time to time much above trie rair marxet prices for the goods sold. Also that at the time of the pa68age of the concurrent resolution cancelling the unfilled portions of th? contract there were outstanding contracts at exhorbitant prices for more than 200 cars of glass bottles at an approximate value of $200,000. The commission states that, according to the testimony of one of the officers of the Glass Company, the State saved mor? than $50,000 when comparison | Is mado with prlOM paid for goods ' > ^ i > V-' . subsequently purchased. 1 It 1b also charged against this firm' I that goods were sold of the same ' quality, size and character as that sold the State dispensary In other States and In other parts of this J State from 20 to 2G per cent lower than the price paid by the State dispensary. Finding in GIxum Claim. The finding is as follows in the n case of the Carolina Glass Company: J "We therefore, find that the contracts made between the Carolina Glass Company and the board of j directors of the State dispensary are contrary to the laws of the State and against public policy, and for those reasons null and void, and that the Carolina Glass Company should not as a matter of strict law, be entitled to recover any Bum of money from the State of South Carolina on account of said contract, even if the State had no offsets against them, A whatsoever, but the commission fur- e ther finds that it should determine the matter on equitable principles and fix the matter of liability on a '' 'quantum meruit' basis and that the ? prices at which the Carolina Glass a Company sold to the State dispensary 0 the glassware manufactured by It . ranged throughout the entire period of their transactions with the State a dispensary except for the years 1906 S' and 1907, at about 10 per cent above n the fair and reasonable market price for said goods. Prices Were Reduced. "The commission finds that beginning early in the year 1906, aa the result of a legislative investigation made by a committee appointed by ^ the General Assembly of the State p of South Carolina, and tne resoiu- ? a tlon adopted by the General Assem- b bly relating especially to the con- A tracts with the Carolina Glass Company hereinbefore referred to, the I( Carolina Glass Company was forced to and did lower Its bids to prlceB e which during the year and the short 3( period of 1907, during which the [ dispensary was operated, were g substantially in accord with the fair j and reasonable market price of the goods sold during that period; but g the commission finds that during the tj years preceding 1906 the overcharges made In excess of the fair and rea- ^ sonable market prices for the goods sold was $51,432.99, which should ? be and is hereby offset against the claim in favor of the said Carolina SI Glass Company to wit: Its claim of $23,013.75, which being deducted from this amount of said overcharges w the commission finds said Carolina Glass Company to be indebted to the State of South Carolina in the sum of $28,419.24." In more than half the claims there were over judgments rendered In fa- 8< vor of the State by the commission. 61 As stated these may be collected j? - ? a through the Courts. TQi. commie- ~ aion states In its findings, that the * members have made a careful investigation of the business of the old State dispensary and also all of the evidenco taken before the legle- e< lative investigation committee. handemn2 shrdshrdlhrdluhrdluuuuu "Due and formal notice,states the decree, " was given to all creditors to produce before the commission their books of account and other records and correspondence dis- ij closing the transactions between the creditors and the State dispensary, ^ and in a few instances some of the creditors complied with this demand iE and produced their books and rec- 64 ords in part at least, for the Inspec- 01 tion of the commission. The commission also heard oral n testimony and received affidavits 9 from members of whiskey concerns. Conspiracy Alleged. The commission states that sev eral of the creditors entered into a j conspiracy with members of the p boards of directors to cheat and defrand the Stato, with the assistance of some of the members of the boards, and goods were sold at a price largely in excess of the market value, the officers or agents of ^ thn rnncarna and members of the board making use of tho funds In ^ corruption and bribery. It ie also stated that many of j the claimants did not comply with the law in that: gl 1. They resorted to various devices to destroy competition. 2. The law a? to advertising for bids was so worded as to prevent competition instead of promoting it. ^ 3. That bids submitted upon ^ which awards were made, were ex- jj horbitant as to prices, with the knowledge and consent of the board. . 4. That the claimants violated the law in maintaining agents and so- ~ licitors in the State to obtain contracts for the purchase of their m n goods. 5. That in many cases no bonds were furnished on awards given. . 6. None of the claimants filed at . the time of making bids an analysis j of the liquors for sale. Only Real Values to be Paid. ^ The commission rule9 that ihe q claimants have all violated the law, but thinks that it should deal with t] petitioners upon equitable principles g, and makes such settlement as will t( be fair and Just. It therefore find? that it should compensate each clal- w mant for goods actually sold and de- g llvered to the State dispensary dor- g lng the whole course of dealings by g , paying the real value of the good< ^ after deducting from the clatmB of t, Her Wandering Boy. 1, Where Is Luke Hlgginbotbam? c If any one has Information which f( will lead to the location or condi- U ' IIOQ OI tne laa, lua ueu.i l ui au ciu.*- | a ious mother at Somerset, Ky., will tl ! bo made glad. The boy was last n heard from at Charleston more than p four months ago and since that time the mother has waited In vain for her boy to return home. * * a Many Were Hurt. s Ninety persons were Injured but f< none fatally, when Southbound pas- f ;s?enger train No. 11, on the St. Louis li and San Francisco railroad was o wrecked at Rogers, Mo., Wednesday, t' [Spreading rails caused the accident. BAY MEAN WAR wo Americans Captured and Executed by the Nicaraguans. rwo WAR SHIPS ARE SENT President Taft Greatly Incensed on Hearing the News, and Declines to Have Any Communication With the New Nlcaraguan Minister, Who Just Reached Washington. A Washington dispatch says two imerican war ships have been orderd to proceed to Nlcaraguan waters, nd President Taft has postponed ndefinltely his meeting of Isidore [aiera, the new minister from Nioragua to this country, aa the result f news received here to the effect hat two Americans, Leonard Grace nd LeRoy Cannon, captured while ervlng with the revolutionists' arly in Nicaragua, have been sontencd to death by President Zelaya'a rders, and it is believed that senence has already been carried out. Orders have been issued for the ruiser Vicksburg to proceed in all aste to Corlnto, and the gunboat esMoines will proceed at onoe to tort Limon to observe events there nd report the situation at that point y wireieaB. me ut> wu u? to tu? iwu .mericans reached the State departlent Thursday night from the Amer:an Consul at Managna, who stated lat their capture had been followd almost Immediately by a death sntence. A dispatch received Friday at the tate department is to the effect iat the men have undoubtedly been secuted. Upon this information the ecretary of State aslcM the Sec. of le Navy to order the^Wcksburg to roceed in all haste tor Oorinto for le purpose of protecting Americans nd American Interests. The DeB[oines was also ordered to proceed ) Fort Limon at top speed for the ame purpose. These vessels will e In constant communication by ireless with the State department. The brutality of the Nicaraugan overnment in ordering the execuon of these two Americans, who appened to be found in the revoluoniets army without trial of any art, la likely to result-in this Govrnment taking drastic measures to revent a repetition of it, and Presient Zelaya will be held to a strict ccountabillty Jjfr his action. At le Nicaraguan legation It was stat1 that no news of the execution of 10 two Americans had been recelvi. Nothing is known at the State deartment of the antecedents of Leonrd Gra?e, who is reported to have aen shot by order of President Zelya, but the other American, LeRoy annon, seems to have had an unsual career in Central America, ome years ago he went to Central merlca and since then his name has gured prominently in revolutions i those countries. During his car jr he has been arrested a number f times and tried for heading raids d on several occasions has nar>wly escaped a death sentence, it i alleged. A dispatch from Panama Bays passngers arriving there from Nicaigua Thursday report that a reign f terror exists throughout the poron of that country controlled by resident Zelaya. Government troopp re rounding up every persons susE>cted of sympathy with the revoluonists and executing them without ial. More than five hundred men jspected of revolutionary sympalles have been Bummarlly shot and till the bloody work continues, epidences are ransacked by Zelaya's )ldier8 in search of incriminating (ttere or evidence, and when resieince is offered the houses aro deiroyed. Women relatives of revolutionary rmpathizers have been subjected to ae most horrible indignatles and >Jirnrn^iian refugees. ar iVing on the Isthmus and in Costa ,ica declare It is time for the civized powers to forcibly Intervene ad put an end to such barbarities d atrosities. jme of the claimants certain fees nd expenses incurred by the comlission in defending recent suits. It is also ruled by the commission lat certain claimants who filed bills 1 the Federal Court asking for injnctlon againBt the commission, lnlude the firms of Garrett & Co., leischmann & Co., Wilson Distillery ompany, Gallagher & Burton, Jack Tanston Company. The bills brought by Flelschman, le Wilson Company, the Jack Cranron Company and Gallagher & Burin, were consolidated Into one aeon, into which Garrett & Co. afterard intervened, followed by the Big ?in j ? ? TT11 mon pringB jjisumng uumiiou^, u ; Co., Anchor Distilling Company, ielalr Distilling Oompany, Richards : Co. and the New York and Kenicky Company. After reviewing the victory won y the State of South Carolina, the ommisslon calls atteutlon to the ict that the fight carried to the 'nlted 8tates Court cost $21,526.17 nd considers the State damaged to hat amount. The various oompales mentioned above are assessed roportloual thiB amount. Naval Cadet Fired. The Secretary of the Navy has pprovod the recommendation of the uperlntendent of the Naval Academy Dr the dismissal of Cadet John P. [yman, of South Carolina. General naptltude, which has caused seven ther cadets to leave the Academy hit year, Is the cause of the dlamlsal of Hymtn* FINDING THE DEAD 4 FIRST BODIES BROUGHT UP FRIDAY OUT OF THE MINES. Gas Explosions Continue, Which Alarm the Rescuers and Impede Their Work of Lore. A dispatch from Cherry, 111., Bays the dark tomb of the Cherry mines has been conquered. After an allnitvVif Koffln in nlAQrlnff Vi /> aViofta UiQUb k/aviiQ i" viv?? iuq buy Duatvo of the burning mine, three bodies, the first recovered through the main shaft, were brought to the surface at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. Inspectators and geological experts, while penetrating the dismal depths, fighting the smouldering fire In the coal veins, caught Bight of < piles of other charred bodies, but their passage was hampered by Are. i At 6 o'clock Saturday morning a < group of miners and railroad men < entered the mine, working without 1 oxygen helmets, but there was no < suffering from noxious gas. Struggling through the dark tomb, < the firemen discovered In the second vein a pile of bodies, from which three were recovered. The east portion of the- gallery, where the fire originated, is badly caved in. The west portion of the gallery Lb etlll afiro, but firemen with hose got within 50 feet of the vein. Fireman O'Connor and many other firemen from Chicago, fighting tb< i underground flames, emerged from the main shaft declaring that they believed that the fire would be extinguished before many hours. They saw many piles of human bodies burled in the wreckage of the gallery running from the main shaft * - ^1- - -I- ? ?A?tT 10 lOje uir rem. Aiiujr aiou ?n uvuies lying In heaps in the west vein where the fire is still raging. Mine Inspector Taylor, who Thursday declared that he would enter the mine or die in the attempt, spent the night in the mine, and gave a gruesome account of the piles of human bodies sighted, but impossible to reach. Inspector Taylor sent workmen into the mine to repair the east vein, the approach timbers having burned. ' i Another body of volunteers was sent later today into the mines. Or the second trip of the cage, four < other bodies, one that of a boy, were brought to the surface. An i ambulance, guarded by militiamen, i was followed by crowds to the town I hall, a temporary morgue. I Here scores of grief-stricken, sob- | bing widows sought to identify the bodies as their own husbands, but the condition of the bodiee rendered Identification difficult. Crowds of grief-etricken men, women and children formed a great circle about the bodies brought from | the mines. Many turned away, un- ! able to bear the cries of the bereaved wives and mothers. Three bodiee were identified: Richard Buckles, a stable boy; Louis Gibbs, George Mc- . Mullen. The condition of the bodies I recovered Indicates that the men dted from suffocation the first day of imprisonment. MANY DESERTIONS Di ARMY. Annual Report Shows That 4,998 Men Deserted Past Fiscal Year. Continued extensive desertions in , the United States army during the last fiscal year forms the leading feature of the annual report of Ad Jutant General Ainsworth. Aftei showing that 4,993 men desertec ( from the enlisted force of the regu lar army, General Ainsworth concludes that only a strict enforcement of severe penalties will diminish ma- , terially the practice of taking . "French leave" of the soldiers. I He regards as rather alarming the fact that the number of desertions during the last fiscal year was greater than In the preceding 12 months Of the whole number of enlisted men 4.97 per'cent deserted during the . 1 a 1 ? ?. I. J1 *Ua A innc l&Bl DBCQl year, wunv iuu uvoviuvur of the preceding year amounted tr 4.59 per cent. General Ainsworth says the abolition of the canteen. . the monotony of garrlsion life, the j increasing amount of work and study c demanded of a soldier, and the ease . with which remunerative employment can be obtained in civil life { in these prosperous times are causes t of the evils mentioned. The percentage of desertions j among the white troops is about ten j times greater than among the col- c ored men in the service. Of the men j who deserted during the year, 1,- t 013 were apprehended and 315 sur- ( rendered. c t Roiuarkaole Murder Story. g A remarkable murder story was v revealed at Washington, D. C., Thursday following the confession of t Mary Batson Howard, a negress. \ that she killed her 8-year-old daugh- tor because the man she loved threat- g ened to leave her unless the child t was sent away. Her description ui r the crime iB gruesome. Under the } pretense of taking the child to the \ woods for a romp, ehe lured her to i a secluded spot, wher# she slashed ' her throat with a razor. \ i Coald Not Deliver Cotton. Shannon & Hope, of Sharon, In York county, a large mercantile firm of that place, It is stated that the i Arm on the strength of buying con- j tracts with neighboring farmers, sold ] sevoral hundred bales of cotton for ' fall delivery and that the farmer? ] with whom the contraots were mad-> i refused to bring in the cotton, hence- i the firm's loss and the present ao | tion. i Paid Damages. J. H. Ellis, who sued J. N. Garth for $10,000 damages for Injuries received in an automobile accident, was awarded $4,800 In Webstar City. Ifl~ "T 1 A MANLYSPEECH lohn Mitchell Says Dramatically That He ' Endorses Boycott. 0 i AROUSES ENTHUSIASM He Rightfully Declares That No Concern Haa a Property Right to His Patronage, and Charges That , a ' Washington is Watching Proceedings of the Convention. Endorsing a report of the committee on boycott, John Mitchell, one of the three officers of the American Federation" of Labor, who are under sentence for contempt of court, made a dramatic speech to the convention of that organization now In session at Toronto, at W'edneaday's session. He declared that aa Car as he was concerned, regardless of consequences he intended, while it liberty to declare for the rights guaranteed him by the organic laws }f his country. The report which drew forth Mitchell's speech, and wh[ich was adopted by the convention among Dther things declared: - r; "We say that when our cause is just and every other remedy has been employed wlthqut result, boycott; we say that when the employer has determined to exploit not only xdult male labor, but our women and children, and our resources and our ippeal to his fairness, and his con- 1 science .will not sway him, boycott; we say that when labor has been oppressed, browbeaten and tryannlzad, boycott; we say that when social and political conditions become so bad that ordinary remedial measures are fruitless, boycott, and finally we say, we have a right to boycott and we propose to exercise that right. In the application of this right of boycott, to paraphrase the president (Gompers)-, we propose to strive on and on." The convention bfoke into loud cheering for Mitchell as he conclud ad, and there were 'cries for "Morrision." The secrecy did not respond. President Gompers was absent. Mr. Mitchell said he realized that 3very statement made by those on :he convention floor, especially by :hose who on next Monday will have :o deliver themselves to the courts, s being closely scrutinized. "I want the Deonle of the United States to know m* position," he said. "I shall not speak defiantly; jut be the consequences what they *111, I shall not surrender any right guaranteed to me by the constltu;lon of our country. I am not iure low much mental and physical sufering will be necessary to make me submit, but if I know myself, not iny ^mount of suffering will persuade me that I have not the right ;o spend my money where I please )r thAt I have not the right to write nd speak as I please, being responsible under the law for my acts. "Whether the boycott be a beneIt or a detriment each man must ecide where he will bestow his atronage. I maintain that my pat onage is my own and no merchant las a property right to it. "I understand that cognizance 16 jeing taken at Washington of the ltterances of men on the floor of .his convention, and I want clearly o state my position. I propose in .he future, as I have in- the past, ro exercise the Tights secured to ne by the fathers of my country, >.nd I propose, if I am sent to jail, o decalre again when I come out ;bat I iball not for myself purchase iny product of the Buck's Stove & Range Co. "I repeat that so far as I am concerned, and let the consequence be vhat they will, I intend while at .'iberty to d/eclare fo rthe rights guaranteed to me by the organic laws >f my country. I am proud of beng an American." Mr. Mitchell said he had grown ip as an American with a stepmother so poor that she could not buy )read, and related how he had crept >ut of bed at night to get his father's soldier coat to keep him warm. "But I want to see the word American stand for all the sentiment hat Is symbolized by the flag of our :ountry," he continued. "I want eal liberty. I don't believe in the lberty enunciated by some of our :ourts that men and women should ' * * ' 1 * - ? ?^AfMaAlvna 1&V6 ttlG rigflt TO worn, cucwotn o death. I don't believe in the liberty enunciated by Judge Tuthdll >f Chicago, who declared unconstiutional the 10-hour law for women, md by that aot compelled them to vork 14 hours a day." Mr. Mitchell said he believed the jresent proceedings would bring lome to the people the necessity ?f working in concert. "Is the time ;oing to come on our continent when he badge of faithfulness to labor nuBt be the branl of Imprisonment?" le 6aid in conclusion. "Surely I lop? not. I hope that the governnent may be bo conducted that no citizen may feel that he has not >een given justice and an equal right vlth every other citizen." The Woman In Black. The mysterious "woman in black" ivho commltte-1 suicide Wednesday In the rest room of an Atlanta department store was llentlfled as Miss tVlllano Cotton, daughter of Mrs. Rebecca D. Cotton. The yoong woman. who died from an over-dose of strychnine, was said to have been In bad health for cewal monthf and despondent. Out In Omaha some one presented Senntor Aldrlch a pair of leather breechcs a fow days ago. They will come in handy for him as the leader of the "boleit band of buccaneers that ?ver sot together."