Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED EN" 18' MANY KILLED <8)r"a Terrific Explosion In Larg* Grain Elevator. A BIG FIRE FOLLOWS Tbe Concussion Blew Up the Large Elevator Building, and' the Debris Immediately Took Fire and the /Whole Structure Was Destroyed,* Entailing Heavy Loss. ^-At Rlchford, Vermont, with a con cussion which- shook the entire vil lage a large grain elevator, having a capacity of 500,000 bushels, ex ploded late Wednesday, causing the ?death of seven workmen and a wo man . , The explosion blew, off the entire roof of the building, scattering tim bers in all directions, a/d almost instantly flames burst out all over the structure. Twenty-one men were employed in the' building of whom eleven are missing and undoubtedly perished. All lived in Rlchford. Mrs. John Jelifore, who was walk ing with a companion along the Canadian Pacific railway track close ? to the elevator, was burned to death and an unknown woman who was with her was burned so seriously that her life is despaired of. The elevator was owned jointly by the Canadian Pacific and Boston and Maine railroads and was occupied by. the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago. The amount of grain it contained was very large. The flames, which are supposed to have been started by spontaneous . combustion in the dry dust of the grain, spread so_quickly that the limited lire apparatus of the village was of no avail. The heat set fire to a flour shed near the elevator and the shed, to gether with 75 freight cars standing near it, was burned. T.ate Wednesday night the fire was still burning, but no other property 'was threatened. The total loss is -estimated at $400,000. POSSE HUNTS FRIEND. Negro Janitor Attempts an Assault on a White Teacher. Citizens of Greer and surrounding ?oountry are searching for a frend by the name of Atrhur Johnson, a negro, who, up to last Saturday, was ths janitor of the Greer graded school. On the afternoon named he seized a young woman teacher of the school while Bhe was practicing at the pi ano. Jackson slipped up bebind the young, woman, grabbing her about the neck and pulled her on his-breast, asking if she did not want to rest in his arms. The girl screamed loudly ' for help, and Jackson fled from the school building,, The young woman hurried to her boarding >ouse, where she told of the occurrance. j A mob was organized and the i -country was scoured all night Sat-1 urday and Sunday, but no trace of I Jackson was found. It is reported here that he went to Asheville and a party of citizens of Greer are hu:-| rying into North Carolina in search of the negro. A dispatch from Greenville says Sheriff Griffith and a party In an auto have just reached the city with the negro Johnson, wanted at Greers, for assault on a young woman music teacher in the public schoo). The Tposse has been hunting since Satur day afternoon and the capturing party came into the city with the negro in an auto at a forty-mile clip. Johnson has been taken to the penitentiary for safe keeping. FATAL FAMILY RUMPUS. Wife Left Him, Shot Her Sister and Father and Left. John W. Richardson, a young far mer living in the Lamberts Point section of Virginia. Wednesday shot and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Josephine Cromwell, his father-in law, Beverely Cromwell, and com mitted suicide after he bad killed his father-in-law's horse. Following domestic, troubles Richardson and his wife, a young daughter of Mr. Crom well, separated last Friday. Mrf. Cromwell was returning with the five-year-old son of the Richardson? to the house when Richardson rushed out with his gun and shot her twice. She fell dead. The father-in-law was approaching in a buggy when Richardson rushed into the rield. met and killed him by blowing the ?aged man's face to pieces. Richard son then killed the Cromwell horse.* and returned to his farm yard and blew out his own brains. ? Xnnboy qmfwyshrdlubgkqjmfwyp Tried to Lynch Him. At Los Angeles. Cal., there was a scene of riotous disorder in Justin's court Monday, in which several per sons were slightly injured in an at tempt to lynch Edward Martin, a negro, who, on Friday night assault ed Miss Edith Ralston, a concert singer of college grove. Martin was spirited away to Superior Judge Willsurs' court where he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life im prisonment. 59. CAUGHT HIM AGAIN MIDDY TAKEN' TO TASK BY JUDGE PRIEST. Who Says Roosevelt's Friend and Not Him Was Standard Oil Attor ney in Missouri. In his last rejoinder to Mr. Bryan, in the debate growing out of the case of Governor Haskell, President Roosevelt responded to Mr. Bryan's challenge to "name a single official connected witn a law-defying corpo ration" who had declared or will declare that he is supporting Mr Bryan, by quoting from a St. Louis paper an interview with Judge Henry Priest, of St. Louis, who, according to the President, represented the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, the Western subsidary to the Standard Oil Company, in which he stated that ne would support Bryan. Judge Priest has taken notice of the matter in an interview in The St. Louis Republic, and his state ment illuminates a little more Mr. Roosevelt's recklessness of his own exposure when he lays about among his enemies. Juih;e Priest say's that he is not nor ha8 he ever been an official of the Wate 's-Pierce company, nor or any other oil company. In 1904, he states, his firm was retain ed by H. C. Pierce to represent his minority interest in the company m a suit instituted by the Attorney General of Missouri against the Stan dard Oil Company, as the holder of the majority interest in the Wa ters-Pierce Company. The Standard Oil interest in the suit, he states, was represented by the firm of Finkeinberg, Nagel & Kir by. While the suit was pending, says Judge Priest. President Roosevelt appointed ^ir. Finkeinberg Unit2.1 States district judge . Mr. Nagel, con tinuing as senior member of tne flry: and representing the Standard Oil's interests, is now Repuuncan nation-il committeeman for ?souri and i> engaged actively in i^e management of Judge Taft's campaign ror L..e Presidency. Senator Foraker has pointed out that Judge Taft recom mended to the President the appoin'. ment of a Standard Oil attorney ?n Ohio to the Federal bench, and Judget Priest has now shown that-the Presi dent actually appointed an oil trust representative to the benc in Mis souri,'while a suit against the com pany, which he was. defending, wis pending, and that another member of the same firm is and has been f > ? a long time prominent in Republican party affairs in Missouri. The Charleston Evening Post says for every remote affiliation with the trusts Mr. Roosevelt has attempted to show against the Democratic party there has been uncovered a hundred fold greater and closer association with the Republic .n party. Even in the case of Governor Haskell it was shown that the protection of the Standard Oil which Mr. Roosevelt cited against the Governor as proof of his control by such interests, was originally instituted by the President himself, during the territorial regime in Oklahoma. In the very nature of things it necessarily follows th2t such developments must result from an exposition of the trust situatio.i in its relation to public affairs, for the Republican party is and has been for years, and especially during the trust growing period, in almost un disputed control of the country's af fairs, aud whatever advantages arc enjoyed by these great corporations against the public interests are duo to the complacency of the party in power. This is so inevitable and so utterly beyond dispute that it Is utterly futile and fatuous for the PresideM or any other protagonist of Judge Taft to attempt to argue it otherwise, but it is peculiarly brazen in Mr. Roosevelt, who has had intimate as sociations with trust magnates and lifted laws for their benefit aud ap jKjinted their agents to high of fices, who is, in fact, surrounded with the representatives of such interests and obligated to them enormously tor financial support to his candidates But Mr. RooM^velt has wielded ab solute authority so long and has become so accustomed to have his lightest word prevail against tjo most solemn truths from other sou i c es, that he has thrown himself into the campaign melee without regard to consequences, and he can not yet understand how it is that he is cov ered with wounds. If he continues his participation in the campaign at clote range the Roosevelt legend is likely to be hacked to pieces by the enemies he is kicking up fron every bush. Quits the Party. W. C. Cronemeyer, of Mackesport, Pa., known for the past third of a century as one of the original Re publicans, has retired from the Re publican party and is allied with thn party of Eugene V. Debs. Mr. Cronemeyer was the original tin plate maker of the country, and a very close friend to the iat Presi dent McKinley. Stole Whole Family. One of the most peculiar cases of larceny "after trust" on record was revealed at Anniston, Ala., when it is alleged W C. Irwin, a white man, was arrested on a charge of stealing the whole family of J. M. Humphreys, a white planter of Talladega county. It is alleged that Irwin had been livi g in seclusion with the woman and her three children in Anniston. OR?NGEBTJ] BRYAN AND TAFT! Fellow Guests at the Chicago j ; Association Dinner EXCHANGE GREETINGS In Friendly Fashion and Engage in Mutually Animated Conversation as Two Gentlemen Would Who Had Mot to Discuss Present Day Prob lems With Mutual- Friends. William J. Bryan and William H. Taft, rival candidates for the presi dency of the United States met Wednesday night .at the fourth an nual banquet of the Chicago As sociation of Commerce. The meeting is said to have been the first of its kind. Mr. Bryan, having been in Chicago all day, was the first to arrive at the banquet hall in the Auditorium hotel. Mr. Taft having delivered a speech at the opening of the Deep Waterway convention in the fore noon, went to Galesburg, 111., to de liver another address during the afternoon, and returned to Chicago tonight after the banquet was well under way. Intense interest in the meeting had been manifested since it first be came known that the two candidates were to meet in public, and every seat in the banquet hall was occu pied when the first course was served, save only a commodious chair reserv ed for Mr. Taft., At the speaker's table during the speech-making were the following: LaFayette McWilllams, H. N. Higrjin botham, John V. Farwell, Walter H Wilson (representing Mayor Busse), Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, David R. Forgan, Mr. Taft, President Reinhardt C. Hall of the chamber of commerce, Mr. Bryan, A. C. Bartlett, Governor Deneen of Illinois, J?rn G. Shedd, Charles H. Wacker, President Kav anaugh of the Deep Waterways as sociation and Don Farnsworth. An ear-splitting shout gave warn ing of the arrival of Mr. Taft. Mr. Bryan, in common with every one else; rose and looked toward the en trance. A huge frame, moving like a ship amongst a swarm of tugs, was moving slowly up the narrow aisle between two tables. Those at a dis tance occasionally-could catch a glimpse of a smiling face acknowledg ing* greetings. A policenjian 'in uni form and assistants in plain clothes aided in the progress of the distin guished guest. Mr. Bryan, who had ceased on the destruction of some sort of a chop suey masquerading under a French name, turned his head slowly as his political rival drew near, smiling slightly. The dramatic moment which had been an ticipated with such deep interest was soon over. Mr. Bryan's hand await ed that of Mr. Taft'. A single ling ering pressure, a word or so which none could overhear because of the tumult, and the Republican leader passed on to a chair at the right of Mr. Hall. The cheering continued for a minute or so after those a! the speaker's table had taken their seats. At the first moment the noise subsided Mr. Bryan, leaning to one side and smiling broadly, asked Mr. Taft if he had had a good day. This display of friendly feeling on the part of the two candidates stirred the crowd to renew cheering and words were useless in the din. Mr. Taft stroked his throat for an answer. Then Taft laughed and the applause increased. '?What is the matter with Bill? ' cried sonip in stentorian tones. "He's all right." "Who's all right?" '?Bill's all right." It took music by the orchestra and a song by the guests to restore a semblance of quiet. When talking in ordinary tones became possible the two candidates entered into an ani mated conversation, in which Presi dent Hall joined. Tho speeches oi hoth Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan were nonpartizan. This was in conformi ty with the wishes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, which is a nonpartizan organization. Besides Mr.* Taft and Mr. Bryan the speakers of the evening were A. C. Bartlett and David R. Forgan. Mr. Bartlett was the first speaker and Mr. Forgan was sandwiched be tween Mr. liryan and Mr. Taft, lit introducing Mr. Bryan, President Hall said: "As I look upon my distinguished associates I am forced to resort to the familiar protestation of the per piexed lover. 'How happy could 1 In; with either, were t'other dear cnarmer away.' The evolution of politics has brought to a command ing place in the eyes and regard of his countrymen a citizen of Ne braska. Mis life has been an honor able progress from the day he re ceived his degree from his alma mater to tho huur of his choice as standard bearer of one of the grc;u national parties by legions of en thusiastic countrymen. With the principles of an American he has sought and held leadership In a career of courage, fidelity and kind ness. Millions accept his captaincy, the energy of his service, the purity of his patriotism. Gentlemen, Ml. Bryan." The introduction of Mr. Taft fol lows: "In the fortunes of war we ac quired alien and subject races. Our government assumed the task of leading them to, the lofty eminence JG, S. C. FB?DAV. OCTO MADE BAD BREAK RIDICULOUS MISTAKE OP A RE PUBLICAN NEWSPAPEr.. Qnoted Alleged Utterances of " Mr. Bryan and Later Found it Had Quoted a Republican Plank. T^he people of Nebraska are having a good laugh at the expense o? Mr. Victor Rosewater, editor of the Oma ha Bee. Mr.. Rosewater is a mem ber of the Republican National Exe cutive Committee and head of the Republican bureau, and is considered the leading Republican of Nebraska. The Bee, which Is the leading Repub lican paper of the State, one day last week publisaed an "editorial criticizing an abstract 'from a sup posed speech of Mr. Bryan's on the tariff question. The words complain ed of in the editorial were;. "In all tariff legislation the true principle is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as wi.l equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with reasonable profit to American industries." The Bee stated editorially: "Nothing prettier in the catch-all line has been offered in this cam paign. The most hide-bound stand patter in the country can accept, that as satisfactory and the rankest free trader can find delight in it. The declaration means simply nothing, an attempt to legislate along that line would simply open the way to Inter minable wrllngle as to. what consti tutes *a reasonable profit,' for hair splitting on wages on the industry, price of raw materials on another, rebates or drawnacks?in a third and so on through the list of thousands of articles that are now on the tariff revision at Bryan's direction would serve only to halt Industrial and commercial progress and keep, busi ness unsettled during his term of office." The World-Herald, a Democratic paper published at Lincoln, Mr. Bry an's home city, called attention to the fact that the words Complained of by The Bee are not a part of any speech made by Mr. Bryan but are a part of the Republican' National platform, on which Mr. Taft is sup posed to be running. Then all Ne braska laughed at Mr. Rosewater's expense. Commenting on the ludlcruous mistake made by The Bee Mr. Bryan said: "Mr. NRosewater is right in mak ing fun of the language, he is right in saying that 'nothing prettier in the catch-all line has been offered in this campaign.' He is also right in saying that 'The most hide-bound stand-patter in the country can ac cept that as satisfactory and the rankest free-trader can find delight in it.' He is right again in saying that an attempt to legislate along that line would simply open the way to what constitutes a reasonable profit for hair splitting on wages on one industry, price of raw materials In another, rebates and draw-backs in a third and so on through the list of thousands of articles that are now on the tariff list." Mr. Rosewater, who had gone to Chicago, said when his attention was called to the mistake which had been made on his paper: "It is quite possible that one of my editorial writers may have made a break as charged. Personally, ! first heard of the matter after I reached Chicago today. I do not think Mr. Bryan should charge me with personal responsibility for everything that appears in my paper, any more than I should charge Mr. Bryan with everything that happened while he was engaged ii: daily journalism." PARKER AFTER TEDDY. But Roosevelt Dodges by Saying ,Hc Has Answered. "Well, it was coming to Roose velt," said ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, "and I gave it to him. Now let him reply." Judge Parker referred tu his attack on the president made in his speech at Baltimore Tuesday night when he accused the president of having been lied up with B. H. Harriman and Standard Oil inter ests in the campaign of 1004 when lie (Parker) was the Democratic cau didate for president. Roosevelt says lie had fully answered in 1904 the charge made by .Indue Parker in his speech at Baltimore, Schooners Wrecked. The schooners Lucia and Solhhid were wrecked on the coast of Mirdon during lhe storm on September 27, and all tin.' passengers and crew of the Solidad IfcfS 'one were drowned, ('apt. J. C. Heinschein and nine mem bers of the crew of the Lucia wer.? also drowned. of American civilization. For the accomplishment of this ptiropse Iii?.' president sent to the Filipinos a typ ical citizen, an eminent counselo*" and a man with the courage of his convictions. He accomplished th?J purpose of his mission, winning both the confidence of his countrymen and the love and gratitude of a nation to be. Success and honor have crowned his every effort in an act Ivo life as citizen, jurist, peace-maker and cabinet officer. Through all his career and in our insular possession he has stood for the integrity of his government and the majesty of right. Gentlemen, Mr. Taft." BER 9, 1908. DIED OF RABIES i ______ Woman Succumbed After Hours of Torture. BITTEN BY PET DOG Several Other Parties Bitten by the Same Dog, But None of Them Have Yet Been Affected Prom it?The Pasteur Treatment Failed in the Woman's Case. Mrs. Harvey M. Day, of No. 16 Cherry street, Elizabeth, N. J., died of rabies from the bite of a pet hull terrier, in spite of the fact that she had been under the Pasteur treatment for the past seven weeks. Mrs. Day had to be .restrained in a straight jacket for twenty-four hours before she died, so violently did her struggles become. All hope of saving her had been given up several days and her husband was compelled to see her die by inches before his eyes. While Mrs. Day was strapped to her lied awaiting death, her husban I sat in an adjoining room, fearing eery minute that the disease would attack him and that he, too, would have to be restrained until relieved by death. In a neighboring house Is Mrs. Samuel Doty, an intimate friend of Mrs. Day, who was also bitten by the dog. She, too, Is in a state of nervous collapse. A let ter carrier was also bitten. The dog, who was a pet in the Day home, was being led down the street by Mrs. Day a month ago, when she became entangled in his leash: Suddenly he began to show symp toms of rabies and attacked bis mis tress. Five times he sank his teeth in her arm, hurling her to the pave ment. Mrs. Doty saw the at'ack and ran to the rescue of her *-,end when the dog set upon her and bit her several times on the hands and arms. The dog then started up the street and met Mr. Day, who had heard the screams of his wife and Mrs. Doty. The animal fastened his teeth in Mr. Day's leg, and the letter car rier who happened along tried ro free Mr. Day from the mad brute when he was bitten, too. The dog was killed and showed unmistakable signs, of hydrophobia. All four victims went to New York and were treated a,t the Pasteur in stitute. It was thought all danger of rabies was over until a week ago, When Mrs. Day confided to her physic Ian J.hat she knew she was inocu lated. The letter carrier has kept at work constantly, and this has di verted his mind. He, too, is nervous, now that Mrs. Day Is dying, and the mental effect on him Is feared. GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC. Brown's Majority is About One Hundred Thousand. A special dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says reports received there Wednesday night indicate that Jos eph M. Brown was elected governor today by a majority of not less than 76.000. Not more than ten pur cent of the votes polled wore for Yancy Carter. Disfranchisement won. but not by so large a majority. J. W. Lindsey Is elected pension com missioner. In Fulton county Mr. Brawn got r* majority of 4,500 out of less than 7,000 votes. Disfranchisement car ried by a small marjority and A. J. McBride received more votes for pension commissioner than ail ihe other candidates combined. Only two counties heard from are believed to have given Carter plu ralities. These are Chattooga and Gordon, in each of which only nom inal votes were polled. The returns throughout the State are coming in slowly, but judging from the figures received Mr. Brown's majority for governor is estimated at from 7">,000 to 100,000 and the vote for Carter will not ex ceed 2r>,00U. STOOD IN WATER l'p to Her Xcck Ten Hours to Suve Child's Life. For ten hours Mrs .W. Weis, of Vrlesland, Mich., stood up to her neck in water in a cistern to save her two-year-old boy. Mrs. Weiss saw the baby, a child of a neighbor, fall Into the cistern. She instantly plunged after him, and finding lihn al ihe bottom, held hi..i above the water. She called for help, but the cistern Is ten feet deep and no one beard her. Late in the after noon she was missed and neighbors began a search, it was long after dark before one of the parly chanced to think of the cistern. Looking down into it by means of a lantern, he saw the plucky woman, stlil holding the little one above water Her voice was worn to a whisper and she was rescued in a fainting condition. She is seriously ill fron the exposure, but it is thought that she will recover. Six Boys Killed. Six hoys were reported killed nr Sugar Ridge, when a freight train on the Toledo and Ohio Central Rail road crashed into a heavily -Taden excursion train returning from a fair at Bowling Green. A LARGE FAMILY THE MOTHER OP TWENTY-SIX CHIIiDREN. The Rosy-Cheeked Matron From the Isle of Wight Reaches New YorK With Ten of Them. A letter from New York says Ellis Island officials were staggered when Mrs. John Damp, a rosy-cheeked matron from the Isle of Wight, reg istered herself, her ten children, a son-in-law and five grandchildren as arriving steerage passengers on the American liner New York. The registry clerk was almost speechless when the little woman casually, albeit with a slight wistful ness, mentioned that she also had a grown-up daughter in this country and had left behind in the Isle r,f Wight two living children, who would follow her later. There we.-e tears in her eyes when she said she also had left behind the graves of thirteen other children to come to the New World. ?'Why, that means that you have had a family of twenty-six all told," gasped the clerk when he could find voice. Mrs. Damp, whose remembrance of her lost loved ones had choked her utterance for a moment, nodded si lently while her married daughter, Mrs. George Warren, who, surround ed by her own five children, stood nearby with her husband, said softly: "Yes, dur family was very large, but we were all very happy until death took away some of them." At this moment there was a di version in the. arrival of Miss Kath leen Damp, a youthful replica of her mother, who had come from New Haven to* meet the family and sta. t them right for Pittsburg, where faithful John Damp, the father, is awaiting them. As the children and grandchildren romped about'the'deck of the Ellis Island ferryboat Mrs. Damp laugh ingly said she had heard of President Roosevelt and his ideas of race sui cide, and quite agreed with him. "I have beep a very happy moth er," she declared. Several weeks ago the father came to America. He had at one time been I employed by Queen Victoria at Osborn House in the Tsle of Wight as ? hostler. When he first camej to this country he was engaged by a New York man, but now drives J a Pittsburg millionaire whose name the wife yesterday could not re member. As head coachman of his late-t employer, Damp has been able t) accumulate enough money to bring his wife, children and grandchildren to this country. They are all healthy children, and Mrs. Damp is an ex cellent example of the wholesome English housewife. The children range in age from five to thirty years. SCHOONER GOES DOWN. Raft is Picked Up With Only One Seaman Alive. Caught in the merciless grasp of one of the disastrous storms which for the past month have been sweep ing the Atlantic, battling for days against adverse winds and gigantic seas, only to succumb finally to the fury of the .elements aud punge to the bottom, is the fate of the staunch three-masted schooner Beu lah McCabe, which sailed from Mo bile on August 11 for Porto Rico. The Beaulah McCabe was commnded by Captain Bailey, and carried a crew of nine men. j A message received at Mohilo states that the Belgian steamer Tiliis arrived at Port Arthur, Texas, today and reports picking up at sea a raft having on board Alexander Sjohlm, sole survivor of the crew of the American schooner Beulah Mc Cabe, and one dead body. Sjohlm reported that his companion had died from exposure and starvation. The raft was picked up 300 miles southwest of the Bahama islands. Sjohlm, who reported that the Mc , Cabe encountered a hurricane and foundered, was in an exhausted con dition. He believed everything aud every soul ou board went down with the exception t>f himself and the dead man. FROM GAS LEAK. Four Are Dead and Several Other-; Were UncoiiMeiouM. At Waterbury, Conn., four persons were found dead in a tenement lions-,' this morning. The deaths were due to asphyxiation by Illuminating gas. All the victims are Italians. The tenement was filled with escaping gas. Tbe place where the deaths oc curred is an Italian boarding house, kept by Luciano Panloro. When the police arrived, they made their way to the first (lour of the house and there found lying on the tloor of a room four men already dead, two unconscious and three others in a semi-conscious condition. They carried tho living down stairs and out of doors aud they were revived after some effort by the officers. The medical examiner and the deputy coroner have gone to the place and are now conducting an Investigation. ? $1.50 PEB ANWOM. SENATOR SMITH Favors Mammoth Convention ta Demand Better Prices. HOW GROWERS LOSE The Senator Tldnks the Southern Grower Should Get the Benefit of the Thirty Pound Tore, and the I Meeting Adopted Resolutions to. That Effect. A dispatch from Bennettsville to The State says Senator-elect E. D. Smith came to Bennettsville Monday at the invitation of the farmers in this section and} made an enthusiastic address in the court house Monday afternoon. The immediate reason for asking hm to be here was the disagreement between the local cot ton buyers, and farmers in regari to the deduction for tare on cotton..' the buyers having, since the 1st of October, been operating under a rule which makes deduction of 50 cents for each bale of cotton having more than seven yards of bagging on the bale. Senator-elect Smith discussed the cotton situation in a broad way, ad vocating a "mammoth convention** for the purpose of demanding higher prices and holding the cotton from the market, advocated the storing fax warehouses, referred to work that has been done along this line in Florence and Columbia. He stated that Liverpool makes a deduction for tare of 6 per cent on the gross, or 3 0 pounds tare for each 500-pound bale of cotton and that in fixing the price this 30-pound tare is consid ered, as well as every other item of expense in connection. He then stated that if the Southern farmer did not get the benefit of the 30-pound tare and put 30 pounds tare on each bale it would be the fault of. the Southern **<*rmer and he should not blame one elre for it. He Illustrated ti e point i_ ? follows: Suppose for every bale' of cotton there is a deduction of five pounds for sand. Suppose Mr. Farmer picks his cotton* prepares it: for ginning and knows there is no sand in it. He then stated that Mr. Farmer would be a fool if he did hot stop long enough to put five, pounds of sand in it. < Senator Smith stated that his ser vices were at the disposal of the cot ton growers and in all probability he would make a trip West Jmmedi-? ately. He referred to the fact that at compresses and before the cot ton is prepared for exporting the ex porter patches up all holes wher? the samples have been taken from the bale, .puts on more bagging and gets the advantage of the 30 pounds o?_ tare. He spoke of the complaint made by the European spinner when in. this country recently of the con dition in which the Southern cotton was received in Europe. He said that the merchant in o?enng his goods for sale had adder to his goods the price of the freight, box ing and for wrapping and other ex penses, that the buyer pays for ail these things: That it was only just and right that the buyer of cotto'i should also pay for that in which the cotton is wrapped . He discussed the effect of the gov ernment reports on cotton and stated that since the government gives de finite information as to the produc tion, ginning and other facts in con nection with the cotton that It should go further and give government sta tistics and have regular monthly in ventories as to the number of bales and weight in every warehouse and in buyers' and exporters' hands. His idea was that the present in formation is very t>eneficial to the buyer and exporter in as much as the farmer s hand is exposed to the buy er and exporter, whereas the buyer's and exporter's hand is unknown to the farmer. At the conclusion of his address the following resolutions were passed: "Whereas, tue amount deducted from the gross weight of all cotton for tare is 6 per cent, or 3 0 pounds for each 500-pound bale, we, the farmers of Marlboro, hereby pledge ourselves to put the 30 pounds tare on each bale of cotton we produce and prepare for market." PEOPLE HELP HASKELL. They Gave Him '1 hree Thousand Dol lurs to Fight With. A dispatch from Guthrie, Okla., says that Governor C. N. Haskell of that. State has so far received $3,000 In response to his appeal to the people of Oklahoma for funds with which to fight President Roosevelt, W. R. Hearst and others. Th*J dispatch further says that an agent of the Interior department was In Guthrie last week looking up tho records of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, and also the records in the libel suit recently brought by Gover nor Haskell against Omer K. Bens diet, editor of the Oklahoma City Times. War in the Fast. Bulgaria declared her Indepen dence of Turkey Tuesday and Prince Ferdinand declared himself czar. Turkey and Bulgaria are assembling armies on their respective frontiers, but the other nations will do all they can to preserve peace.