The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, July 05, 1910, Image 1
PUBLISHED THKEE TU
flow to Baild Up North and South Caro
Iioa Permanently.
EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS
Of Clarence Toe, Editor of the Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette; Rai
eigh, X. C, Before the South Car
olina Press Association, Glenn
Springs, S. C, June 14, 1010.
Both Carolinas need and must
have a larger proportion of white
people. . The whole. South, in .fact '
is still too sparcely settled. Our 11
Southern States, excluding Texas,
support only 167000,000 people of
both races, and only 10,000,000
white people, while:the same area in
Europe supports over 160,000,000
white people. . And it must bo re
membered that up to a "ertam point
which we shall not rekch .for cen-'
? furies yet, and other/.-things being
equal, prosperity depends upon den
sity of population. Population makes
wealth, provided that it ds-.Dormally
intelligent and efficient.
Of course, we do not want the
lowest class European' immigration.
If we can get immigration from Eng
land, Scotland,.-' Ireland, - Germany,
Holland, Svcden, etc?ca* countries
whose blood has gone to make up
our vigorous American j stock? it
would be of great help to us. We
are all of us such immigrant our
' selves or descendants! Of such jmmi-i
grants. From some countr-es oi
Southern and Eastern Europe, on the
other hand, immigration is of a de
cidedly lower order and objectionable
because of a low standard, of intelli
gence and efficiency. . ? (
On the very same principle, how
ever, * immigration of a "normal "Or
high standard of intelligence and
efficiency is desirable. ''Such -immi
gration can be had, and ought to be
{ had?in some measure, perhaps our J
English, Dutch and Irish kinsfolk
! across the sea?but chiefly from our"j
Northern and Western States. -Forj
years now hundreds of thousands of
the .jaost. enterprising and progz-es
sive farmers in the Middle West
?have ^beeh^going - into rG^nada\ '-with:
its long hard winters and bitter cli
* mate; mot, only giving up ^American
citizenship, but actually paying two
to three times as much for land. in
that inhospitable region as land of
the same fertility commands in the
. South. We ought to have brought
these men to the South. They know
our institutions,. our. language, they'
are industrious, thrifty, wideawake
and many of them' are of Southern
ancestry who should naturally come
back 'home. Let's bring them back.
If there were no other reason for
advocating such Immigration from
t the North and West, I should, favor
it as surest deliverance from our
ratee problem. The proportion of
negroes to whites is too large in ev
ery Southern State, and my hope is
: that ultimately the tides of migra
tion and immigration will equalize
population until the proportion of
negroes in no State will exceed 20
per cent. We must train the negro
?the more ignorant he is the great
er the burden on the South?but at
.best the process will be slow, and j
at present it would probably not be
too much to say that in considering
our whole population, including our
great constructive leaders and cap
tains of industry, the average negro
in the Carolinas in economic worth
and efficiency is only half as useful
?as the average white man. In other
words, in rating general average of
efficiency we should put the white
man at 100 and the negro at 50, so
that a county half white and half
negro would have an average effici
ency of 75, or a handicap of 25 per
cent, as compared with a county
with an exclusive white population
of a normal degree of efficiency.
Whether or not the digerence is
as much as I have indicated, certain
it is that the larger the proportion
of whites, the higher the average of
efficiency, the more prosperous will
be our every industry, and -the bet
ter It will be for every individual
citizen, including the negroes them
selves. There are just two great
ways to build up the Carolinas. First
and of paramount importance is ed
ucation of all our peo-.e; and I
should only supplement this by put
ting more earnest emphasis upon
practical education, education that
trains for efficiency, not education
suited to the great urban centers of
Europe and the North, .but educa
tion suited to the needs of a great,
awakening agricultural citizenship
such as ours is and must be.
And second only to education, is
immigration.
Now let us start right?not by
seeking immigrants from Southern
Europe, but by advertising our re
sources to the thrifty, enterprising
and progressive farmers of the
North and West?men of our stock
who only need an invitation tv? maltr
them come. Emerson was right
wfien he said that "every man who
comes into a city with any purchas
able talent or skill in him gives to
every man's labor in the city a new
worth," and if an ignorant negro
slave in the old days was worth %l -
000, certainly we may assume that
a thrifty and intelligent white Wes
terner, bringing not only .himself,
but In most cases substantial accum
klES A WEEK.
MAY STOP THE WAR.
Probable That the United States May
. Take Action.
A dispatch from Washington says
InoS A/ions are not wanting of /
change of policy cn the part of X . j
government toward the Nicar^9^,
imbroglio, though in just wha^
tion the state departments*^ urn
it is impossible to say. 4r ? /itua
I tion in the unfortunate' . ^ ,,iio be
jglns to approximate Cuba in
j the days preceeding fo^* *r between
Spain and America President i
-McKinley declared it a nuisance at
our dcors.
A line seems to be drawn, north
and south in Nicaragua which neither
side?Madriz nor Estrada?can go
cross; fighting is going on continu
ously, the country is being ruined
financially and the considerable for
eign business interests are seriously
affected. Moreover, neighboring
states in Central America view with
disquietude the probability of the
strife in Nicaragua extending over
the borders into their own states.
So it is not improbable that there
will be a concerted movement on the
part of other interested governments
to force by moral suasion or, if nec
essary, by an exhibition of strenghth
the two factions in Nicaragua to stop
fighting and submit their respective
cases to the adjudication of disinter
ested friends.
CHIEF JUSTICE PULLER DEAD.
His Death Was Entirely Unexpected
As He Was in Good Health.
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller
of the United States Supreme court
died of heart failure.at his summer
-home in Sorrento, Me,, at six o'clock
Mdhday morning.
'The death of the chief justice was
entirely unexpected, as he had been
in "apparently good health lately,
and there had been no premonitory
symptoms of any kind of trouble.
Sunday, he attended church ,as us
ual,- and when he retired that night
.he 'was to all appearances in his cus
tomary health.
Death came about six o'clock Mon
day morning. His daughter, Mrs. Na
, thaniel Francis, and the Rev. Jas.
F. Freeman who was a guest of Jus
tice "F?ller at-his Sorrento cottage,
"Mainstay" ? were with the jurist
when he died.
The funeral. service will be held
at Sorrento and the interment will
be ;at 'Chicago^ The date for the
funeral has not been yet fixed. Chief
Justice. waaJn his seventh-sixth year.
ulations as well, should be^ worth
many times as much as an asset to
the State.
The last census year North Caro
lina had only 1,200,000 whit* j-e- -
pie. It shodld. have 4,000,000.
South Carolina had less than 600,
000 whites when it should have 3,
000,000?and would then be even
with its 800,000 negroes, only one
[ third as thickly settled as Massachu
setts! Consider for a moment how
much more influential our papers
would be, how much more impor
tant every institution in the State
would be, how much more varied
would be our Industrie:, how much
easier it would be to get good roads
in counties in which the white popu
lation is now too small to maintain
them, how easy it would be to
double the usefulness of our public
schools, how quickly we should
build railroads in sections which
must otherwise remain dormant and
' backward for long, long years, how
important our cities should become,
and how mich more attractive
would be country life in our thick
ly .settled communities, and how
much easier it would be to get wat
er-works and trolley lines and local
libraries and all the advantages of
twentieth rural life!
Let us take -as our watch word
"education und immigration?both
of the right sort."
In the last census year 234,062
native sons and daughters of South
Carolina were living in other States
(to say nothing of the million sons
and daughters of South Carolina
emigrants), while' South Carolina
had received from other States and
countries only 60,744 settlers.
For seventy years now our Caro
linas have been going West to build
up the new States of that empire.
Now let us welcome back their chil
dren and neighbors to help us
build two great prosperous and pop
uluous commonwealths, where the
masses of the people trained to as
high standars of e ciency as any
where in the world, shall develop a
symmatrical and well rounded civil
ization: a splendid and forceful de
mocracy of trained, intelligent and
thrifty home-owners from among
whom shall come not only a Jeffer
son and a Marshall, not only a
James J. Hill and a Thomas A. Edi
son and a Seaman A. Knapp, not on
ly men whom all the nation shall
know as leaders in industry and in
public affairs, but poets and seers,
sculptors and artists?if not a Tit
ian at least a Reynolds or a Millet,
if not a Michael Angelo at least, a
St. Gaudens or a Ward, if not a
Shakespeare at least a Browning or
a Tennyson, if not a Savonarola, at
least some great religious leader
who shall put the church Into vital
relations to modern thought and
give it a new baptism of spiritual
power?all these until our long and
tragic years of war and struggle and
rebuilding shall find their fruitage
in an outburst of achievement such
as our fathers yearned for, and it is
now our high privalige to help bring
about.
ORANGEE
THEN MOTHER DRINKS DEADLY
\ POISON HERSELF.
Husband Returns Home to Find Wife
and Baby Lifeless on Same Bed
and a Pathetic Note.
Haunted by the intolerable fear
that she was going insane, Mrs.
Jeanne Hodgson Catlett gave cyanide
of pottassium to her 2-months old
daughter, Jeanne, Friday afternoon
at her home in New York City, and
then swallowed a draugh of the same
poison herself. Both lay dead on the
same bed when the husband, a sup
ervising- chemist employed by the
Western Electric company, went to
his home that night.
Beside the young mother lay a
long letter to her husband. "Don't
think me cruel to the little life I've
imade," she wrote, "but rather that
I am saving her so much pain, for
bodily pain is nothing to this that is
either insanity or nervousness?only.
God knows. She would surely in
herit it. o
"Don't mourn for me. I wish I
could go on with. just you and our
love. My very life is one continu
ous thought of thankfulness for it
but my mind must be relieved. The
tension is frightful."
Evidently there were moments
when the mother yearned to spare
her daughter, for farther down she
wrote:
"If i leave our bs.^y tell her I k'.
ed her with lots of love and I am so
sorry I ever have been cross to her."
"Leave my locket on me but wear
my- wedding ring. I have loved it
so and caressed ?'no kissed it so as
the outward sign of the happiest mo
ments of my life.
Pinned to the outside bed room
door was a note to ber husband read
ing: "George, don't'come in. Let
some one else?one of the boys."
Mrs. Catlett who was born in Vir
ginia, 24 years ago, and her husband,
who is from South Carolina, met her
three years ago at Falls Church, Va.
They fell in love at first sight and
were married in April, 1909. Since
the birth of her daughter Mrs, Cat
lett has been very nervous and her
?morbidness was increased by the
fact that her little girl, named for
her, cried much of the time. *
AVIATOR KILLED.
W?chter Instantly Killed by Fall
While Practising.
The opening of the second avia
tion meeting Sunday on the histor
ic field of Bethany was marked by
a fatal accident, Aviator W?chter
being killed. W?chter was the first to
practice Sunday morning. In his
Antoinette monoplane he battled
with the gale amid the enthusiasm
of the speculators until the rain
compelled him to make a descent.
He resumed his flights in the after
noon and was flying magnificently
when suddenly an explosion was
heard. The wings of the machine
doubled up and the monoplance
dropped to the earth with lightning
speed. The aviator was killed in
stantly in full view of the spectators,
among whom were his wife and lit
tle daughter. The accident is at
tributed to the .breaking of the wire
stays. *
GIRL ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
Shot by Companion While Boating
ou tiie Canal.
Word was received at Elizabe'n
City, N. C, Friday morning of the
accidental killing of Mary, the 12
year-old daughter of Philip Bray, of
Sligo, Currituck county, on Th?rs-'
day afternoon. The girl war visit
ing at her home of her uncle, B.
Bray, at Canal Bridge. She with a
party of young people was out on the
canal in a skiff. A boy by the name
of Gray in the parly was shooting
snakes with a shotgun which acci
dentally discharged, the entire load
entering the face and body of Miss
Bray, who died in terribly agony an
hour afterwards. The young lady
was promniently connected and very
popular. *
Three Killed by Bull.
Miss Louise Duran, Louis Ruiz
and Louis Florez, were killed during
a bull fight in the San Antonio Te
zoyo .hacienda at Puebla, Mexico, on
Saturday. Ruiz was manager of the
hacienda and Florez was a cowboy.
The fight was an amateur affair,
participated in by people on the hac
ienda. Miss Duran was in immineiit
peril during one stage of the fight,
and Ruiz and Florez rushed ^o her
aid. The infuriated bull gored the
woman and the two men.
One is Killed, Many Hurt.
One man was killed and many
were hurt in rioting Saturday be
tween Clericals and anti-Clericals in
the village of Centi, Spain. The
trouble arose from a strong sermon
against Premier Canalejas' religious
program, which a priest delivered at
mass. *
Shot Mother-in-Law Dead.
tAfter shooting and fatally wound
ing Mrs. A. E. Parish, his mother
in-law, C. H. McFall, at Moscow,]
Texas, Sunday beat his wife to death
with the butt of a revolver. He
then escaped. McFall Jis said to
have been drinking.
lURGr, S. C, TUESDAY. J
SHOOTS HEB HUSBAND.
Woman Fires Bullet Almost Through
His Neck.
A dispatch from Douglas, Ga.,
says news has just reached that place
of a shooting affair in the extreme
northern portion of Coffee, county,
; in which Mr. Gaines Ellis, a farmer,
1 was shot late Saturday afternoon by
?his wife with a. pistol, the bullet
taking effect in the neck and it is
said the bullet went practically en
tirely through the neck and that
Ellis is in a serious condition.
Owing to the distance of the tra
gedy from Douglas, it is impossible
to get the full details, but from the
best information obtainable, it seems
that the difficulty grew out of do
mestic troubles. It is said that Mr.
Ellis, for some time, has been on
too intimate relations with some wo
men who resided a abort distance
from his house,.that Mrs. Ellis had
learned of the^relations and had
warned Ellis to desist from such
conduct, so Sunday afternoon Ellis
ignoring' his wife's feelings about
the matter, went down to where the
women lived and his wife procured
a pistol and followed and the shoot
ing is the result. It is not known
w.hether the wife has been arrested.
AUTOMOBILE RUN.
Machines From All Over State to
Gather, at Charleston.
Automobilists from all sections of
South Carolina are preparing to move'
to Charleston for the good roads ral
ly, which is to be held at the Isle
of Palms on July 12. There will be
several delegations from the Pied
mont section of the state. Repre-,
sentatives from that section will very
likely mobilize in Columbia, and fol
low the seashort highway to Char
leston. The delegations from the
Pee Dee section may take another
rojce.
A trophy cup has been offered in'
Charleston to the automo.bile asso-|
ciation of any city in the state send
ing the largest number of machines
to the rally.
.NEGRO BOY KILLS SISTER.
Ends Dispute Over Meat by Using a
Shotgun Fatally.
On Thursday three young negroes,
Henry McMaster, aged 13 years, and
his two younger sisters, got into an
altercation about some pieces of
meat prepared for the .table, at their
home in Chester. Henry demanded
it all and then in his wrath seized a
shotgun and poured the contents of
it into the younger of his sisters,
Ella McMaster, tearing away almost
the entire left side and causing in
stant death. On the verdict of the
coroner's jury the boy was arrested
and lodged in jail in Yorkville. His
case will come before the court,
which will convene on the second
Monday in July. *
FIRMAN KILLED.
Walls of an Oil Storehouse Collapse
During Blaze.
Capt. Michael J. Lyons, of the Si.
Louis fire department, was killed
and three other firemen and a work
man were injured in a fire which de
stroyed a part of the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company's storehouse at St. Lou
is Saturday. The loss was $200,000.
Lyons was buried under falling
walls. It was several hours before
the fire was under control. The
storehouse covered two city blocks.*
Fate of Negro Unknown.
Information from Columbia, Ala.,
is to the effect that Will Thomas, a
negro under arrest for attempted
criminal assault upon a young white
girl, was taken from the village jail
last night by a mob. His fate is un
known. The Columbia . authorities
refused to divuldge the young wo
man's name.
Child Play Ends Fatally.
"While playing doctor, the 10-year
old son of W. S. Holcomb, residing
three miles from Fort Payne, De
kali.? county, Ala., Friday took down
a bottle of carbolic acid and adminis
tered a big dose to his ten-months
old sister. The baby died in a few
minutes. *
Hit By Hatted Ball.
L. R. Massengale, of Norwood. Ga.,
an attorney, son of T. E. Massengale.
a man of considerable prominence
in the cotton world, was hit on the
head by a batted ball at Harlem, a
couple of days ago, and rendered un
conscious. Fears are entertained
that he will not recover. *
Fierce Battle Expected.
A clash between whites and biacks
in Simpson county is imminent ac
cording to reports reaching Braxton,
.Miss., Friday. Posses of armed
whites are said to be scouring the
section in search of several ne^"n(;r.
while the negroes are said to be
armiug. Officers have been sent to
the scene. *
Leaps to Watery Grave.
After a desperate struggle with a
friend who tried to restrain him, W.
H. Titus; of Oklahoma City, Okla.,
jumped overboard from the steamer
Holland, en route from Chicago to
Holland, last Friday night and was
drowned. Titus, who was thirty
four years old, was suffering from
nervous prostration. ?
ULY 5. 1910.
THE WAGES OF SIN
OR, VERTAL AND WTFE JAILED
FOR MALPRACTICE.
One Girl Dies as a Result of It and
Another Is Found in His House
I
Very Sick.
*
A special dispatch to the Charlotte
Observer from High Point, N. C,
says one of the saddest tragedies
that ever occurred there happened
Saturday night when a young girl oy I
the name of Bessie T.homassonville
of Statesville died at the home of
Dr. W. L. Vestal on account of an
illegal operation which .had been per
formed by Dr. W. L. Vestal last
Tuesday night.
!The police were notified about the
condition of the young girl just
short time before she died and when
they arrived at the home of Dr.
Vestal they not only found the one
who is now dead, but also found
another young girl who gave her
name as May Owen from Lin wood,
and who was in a serious condition.
She had also gone through the same
operation.
Saturday night about 11 o'clock
Drs. Staton and McAnally were called
to the home of Dr. Vestal to see
Bessie Thomasson and they at once
saw that the girl was in a most crit
ical condition. They suggested to
Dr. Vestal that the patient be taken
to the hospital for treatment and
made the arrangements, but it was
soon learned that the girl was at that
time in a dying condition and that
to remove her would be only has
tening her death. At about twelve
o'clock she died after having a num
ber of Bpasms.
Before she died she made a full
confession to the physicians telling
about the operation and her treat
ment. May Owen, the other girl,
was removed to the hospital by the
policeman and her condition seems
some better, but is yet regarded as
serious.
Bessie Thomasson went there last
Statesville without the knowledge of
.her father, to receive treatment from
Dr. Vestal. She was induced to
come here by a young man named
Levy Maynard of High Point who it
is claimed is the man who got the
girl in trouble.
MOB KILLS NEGROES.
Alleged They Murdered White Far
mer in His Wagon.
Two negroes were lynched near
Charleston, Mo., Sunday afternoon
for the murder of William Fox, a
planter of Mississippi county. They
were taken from the county jail by
a large crowd of infuriated citizens,
who broke down the doors with
sledge hammers shortly after four
o'clock. The negroes were alleged
to have shot Fox in the back while
riding in his wagon about two miles
from town Saturday night.
He died after identifying his as
sailants. The negroes approached
Fox Saturday afternoon in Charles
ton, where he was trading. They
said they were working for a thresh
ing outfit near his place, and asked
permission to ride in his wagon. Be
tween 7 and 8 o'clock he started for
his home, six miles away, with the
negroes in the wagon. Two miles
from town one of them shot Fox
through the back, and both searched
his pockets. An approaching wagon
caused them to run.
Al'TO KILLS TWO.
Young Women Perish Where Twen
ty Met Death Years Ago.
.On the crossing at Valey Stream,
L. I., where twenty people were kill
ed in a tally-ho wreck some years
ago. an automobile owned by An
drew Crawford, of Riverside, N. Y.,
and containing Mr. Crawford, his
two ,daughters and chaffeur was
struck by a Long Island train Sun
day afternoon. Both young women
were killed and the chaffeur was
seriously wounded.
Mrs. Crawford had left the car
only a few minutes before the ac
cident. Mr. Crawford was tossed
with the othei occupants but es
caped with a few scratches.
Executed for Treason.
A private cablegram received at
New Orleans Saturday night from
Bluefields, Nicaragua, states that
Gen. Mattuti had been executed fol-|
lowing a trial by courtmartial. It
was charged that he betrayed the
Estrada cause. Mattuti took a prom
inent part in the battle of El Recreo
in December. In April he was ar-j
rested and charged with treason. *
Was Suicide Pack.
Supposedly the result of a suicide
pact, the bodies of N. A. Gammill
and Mrs. Beulah Marsh were found
Sunday in a boarding house conduct
ed by the man's mother at Dallas,
Texas. Mrs. Marsh was a widow and
was to have been married to Gam
mill in a short time.
Elevator OpA-ator Killed.
While operating a freight elevator
in the candy factory of Frank Block,
Atlanta, Ga., D. E. Skinner, aged
20, was caught between the car and
thrid floor and crushed to death Fri
day. The young man's neck and one
of his arms were broken and the en
tire body badly mangled. ?
BIG STEAMED JAMMED.
Six-Foot-Hole Made in Steamer Bal
tic iu Mid-Ocean.
With a six-foot hole in her side,
the White Star Line Baltic docket
Monday at New York while her pas
sengers hurried ashore and congrat
uated themselves on their escape
I from what might have been a fear
ful midsea sisaster
: ? ? da I tic last Thursday nigh*
jammed into the oil tank steamer
Standard from Philadelphia to Co
penhagen. The Bhock of the impack
aioused the sleeping passengers who
?hurried to the decks in grave ap
prehension. As the Baltic lay roll
ing in a swelling sea and the waters
washed into the jagged wound in
her bow, Captain Raison and his wife
went among the passengers and
quieted them.
No help was asked for by the oil
tank, which drifted off and disap
peared in the mist. A patch was
placed over the .hole in the Baltic's
bow and after a delay of more than
two hours she steamed away for
New York. A seaman was reported
missing after the accident and it
was thought that he was knocked
overboard by the impact.
AMBUSCADE BATTLE.
Prominent Banker and Two Others
Badly Wounded.
J. H. Givens, a prominent banker
and mill man, shot from ambush and
seriously wounded, Alex Givens and
B. F. Finley, shot with a Winchester
and probably fatally injured and
George T. Coxwe'll slightly wounded,
is the result of an ambuscade near
Falco, Ala., late Thursday afternoon,
according to information received at
Pensacola.
J. H. Givens was in a buggy when
he was fired upon and wounded, but
he managed to reach Falco and gave
the alarm. Bloodhounds were tak
en to the scene and took the trail,
going to a store about two miles dis
tant. A man named Olan Adair was
barricaded in the store and refused
to come out.
While the posse was preparing to
make an attack there came several
volleys from Winchesters and shot
guns from out of the darkness and
a farm house nearby, three of the
posse dropping to the ground. The
sheriff with deputies has hastened
from Laurel Hill to the scene and
arrests are expected. *
FOUND IN BOX CAR.
Charlotte Youth Rescued at Norfolk
in Famished Condition.
Almost starved to death and fam
ishing for the want of water, Thom
as Hill, a 13-year-old white boy, was
rescued from a freight car in the
yards of the Southern Railway at
Pinners Point, Va? Saturday night.
Running away from home, the uoy
went into a box car at Charly.:':, N
C, last Tuesday morning an-1 al
though it seemed as if tho la*':
breath of life lud leH )i?n when
he reached the point- he managed to
make noise enough to attract the
attention of a car inspector. Tne in
spector immediately opened tie
freight car and dragged the boy out.
The youngster was carried to a ho
tel and restoratives were applied. He
could speak but 9 few words, biit
the railroad officers learned from
him that he had had trouble with
his parents and decided to go out
upon the world alone. *
WATTERSON IN JAIL.
So? of Distinguished Journalist on
Charge of Shooting.
Ewing Watterson, the son of Col.
Henry Watterson. the well known
Louisville, Ky., editor, was arraign
ed Saturday on a charge of assault,
first degree. It is charged chat Wat
terson, who is 40 years old, shot
and wounded Michael Martin, a sa
loon keeper at Saugerties Friday.
The prisoner expected his father to
spend the Fourth with him and it
would be wrong, said his attorney
in asking for ball, to ask a man of
Col. Watterson's age to pass the day
in a jail. The request was later
withdrawn, counsel for Watterson
having decided not to make applica
tion for bail until Col. Henry Watter
son arrives from New York. *
Killed at Railway Crossing.
On the same crossing at Valley
Stream, L. I., where twenty persons
were killed in a tally ho wreck, some
years ago, an automobile owned by
Andrew Crawford of Riversale, N.
Y.. and contained Mr. Crawford, his
two daughters, Jeannette and Char
lotte, and their chaugeur, was struck
by a Long Island Railway train Sun
day afternoon. Both young women
were killed and the chauffeur was
seriously wounded. *
Lawyer Killed in Elevator.
John William Hallahan, Jr., one
of the most prominent members of
the Philadelphia bar, was killed late
Thursday night as he stepped from
a hotel elevator at Cape May, Pa.
He was caught between the car and
the floor, his neck being broken. *
Boy Commits Suicide.
Leaving a note reading: "This is
the way I want to go; with my shoes
on." Bennie Burch, young son of Mr.
B. W. Burch, of Helena, Ga., drank
carbolic acid Sunday and was found
dying in a vacant house. He died
that night.
?WO CENTS PEK COP Y
GRASS A MENACE
Excessive Rainfall Has Rendered Culti
vation Impossible
OVER THE COTTON BELT
With Fields Soaked in all the States
but Two, and Crops Threatened
by Boll Weevil in Several States,*"
the Situation Indicates a Cotton
Famine This Fall.
The Memphis, Tenn., Commercial
Appeal says: "Owing to excessive
rainfall east of the Mississippi river
and in Arkansas and Louisiana culti
vation over a large area was sus
pended during the week and grass
has become a menace. For the best
development of the crop dry, warm
weather is imperative. In Oklahoma
and Texas moderate to light rains
relieved an incipient drought.
"The crop in those two States is
late and small b.ut has begun to
grow very rapidly and aside from
its lacy of size there is no complaint,
fields being in an excellent state of
cultivation. Heavier and more gen?
era! rains, however, would be very
helpful. In Louisiana, Arkansas and
Mississippi boll weevils are becom
ing more numerous and in the for
mer State are reported as already at
work on the cotton."
The New Orleans report says the
cotton market this week, opened a
day later than usual, will be called
upon first of all to discount what
promised to be, when the market
closed for the week last Friday night
important weather disappointments.
The forecast was for more rain in
the eastern part of the cotton belt,
where tbo much rain had already
done much damage. If the rains
continue until Tuesday morning they
will overshadow in importance all
other features of the market.
The report on condition last week
showed just how important.the wea
ther is getting to be. It is time now
that the crop should be making fast
and anything in the weather that
prevents normal development of the
plant, thereby threatening the yield,
will have an immediate and marked
effect on prices, all the more marked
because of the semi-famine condi
tion of supplies of raw cotton. Un
less manipulation out afresh in the
July position it promises to be a
typical weather market this week.
The semi-famine conditions are
expected to have their effect among
mills in earnest before long, and of
late there have been signs that mills
were about to start closing down in
earnest shortly, as they have to do
in every season like the present.
iThe rumor was spread about last
week that 58 mills had agreed to
shut down four weeks during July
and August and the trade will be
waiting for confirmation of this re
port this week.
Developments of this sort may
have the effect of offseting to some
extent the bullish features of the
market.
The boll weevil situation will come
in for its share of attention, for
those who have made a study of the
conditions in Louisiana, Mississippi
and Arkansas, say that the first
brood this season of the pest is in
cubating in young boil and that it
is only a question of time .before this
brood makes its appearance by the
miUions and stirs up a new complaint
among farmers, with consequent
alarming telegrams and letters to
the main speculative centres of the
cotton world.
The extent of boll weevil depreda
tions will determine in a great meas
ure the yield of lint in the three
States named and during more than
one period this season boll weevil
reports will have much to do in
shaping speculative opinion.
The July deal in New York may
show activity and at all times the
trade will look for tenders from ac
tual shorts who as yet have made no
very great effort to cover. Sooner
or later sensational trading is bound
to take place in the July position
and operators in all three markets
of the world will be extremely ner
vous until the trading takes place.
FOUND DEAD BY TRACK.
Supposed that Young Man Was Kill
ed by Train.
Robert Wofford, aged 2">, son of
Mr. Frank Woffoivi, of Switzer. Spar
tanburg county, was found dead Fri
day morning beside the C. and W. C.
Railroad track, three miles east of
Woodruff. It is supposed that he
was killed Thursday night by a train.
There was a wound on the left side
of the head. The body was discov
ered by the engineer of a freight
train, which passed the place at S
o'clock. An inquest was held by the
coroner. *
Prominent. Men Arrested.
Resulting from the ambuscade and
serious wounding of J. H. Givens,
wealthy banker and mill man and
others of Laurel Hill, Fla., five prom
inent citizens of Falco, Ala..'the
scene of the trouble, were arrested
late Friday and will be tried for at
tempting to assassinate Givens and
hi3 companions, none of whom will
die. a