PUBLISHED THREE
Three Ken Are Wounded in a Pitched
Raitie Near Cashvilie, S. ?.
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N. G. Alverson, Tally^ Noi-ris and
"Otter's . Son Exchange Shots on
Boundary Lina of Plantations Near
Cashville In Spartanbnrg County
Wednesday Morning.. .!
The Herald says jaews .reached
Spartanburg Thursday of a battle
near Cashville Wednesday morning
between a farmer armed with a pis
i?TOl>aaid two of shis neighbors with
shotguns,. Three persons were seri
ously, though not fatally, wounded.'
There has been bad blood for sev
eral weeks between N; G. Alverson,
' a brother of Sergeant Alverson, of
the Spartanburg police department,,
and Tally Norris, who has. an ad
: joining plantation. It started in' a
dispute over a house. Further par
ticulars as to the cause of the quar-.
rel could not be learned last evening.
The quarrel became more and
more bitter, harsh words were ex
changed, threats made and when the
neighbors met Wednesday morning
they were prepared for violence.
Mr. .Alverson came to the boun
dary, line between his and' Mr. Nor
ris' plantation alone.' Mr. Norris
was accompanied, by his two sons
one named Alexander, and the name
of the other has not been ascer
tained.
From the accounts of the affair
which leaked: out Mr.- Alverson op-j
ened fire on Mr. Norris with a thir
ty--wo calibre revolver, shooting him I
in the hip. The Norrises were stand
ing on their own property, but only )
fifteen or twenty feet from Mr. Alver
son. ?
Alexander Norris, it is said," fired
i at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. .The
latter was fortunately not facing the
gun directly,. else he probably would
have been killed. As It was, the
shot struck him sidewlse, putting out
his left eye and -passing through, his
nose. 'Other shots entered his face,
and neck.
Mr., Alverson fell to, the ground]
' but managed to.-fire at;^-Alexander;1
iiahaotfng-- him-In the ?alf of"'the?Iegj
^'and breaking a bone.'
Mr. Norris* other son'then'fifed
,^at Mr; Alverson- from farther away
than Alexander: had been. The shot
struck Mr. Alverson in the Btomach.1
He returned the .fire, while still Iy-I
' ing on the ground, and sent a bullet j
) through thev other's trousers, "leg.
The' Norrises then retired. ' Mr.
. Alverson, though weak and In great j
pain from th?* loss of his eye, got
on his feet and walked a distance of j
two hundred yards back to his home.
Drs. Pcsey and Alexander were
called from (Woodruff and are at
tending to all of the injured.. Mi.
Alverson's wounds are said to be the |
most serious. All three are in bed,
but are likely to recover. No arrests
have been made.
Mr. Alverson is about fifty years
old and has ? family. Tally Norris
is about the same age. One of his
sons is said to be twenty-three' years
old and the other twenty-one.
. . The scene of the fight is about one
mile from Cashville and three miles
?from Reidville. Mr. Alverson has
. been living there for . twenty-five
: years. The Norrises removed there
about Christmas time.
. Sergeant Alverson ... visited his
brother Thursday, but found him re
| luctant to talk about the ' quarrel. 1 *
TRAINS COME TOGETHER.
Six Persons Met Death in the Terri-|
ble Crash.
In a collision between trains No.
49, the Boston and Buffalo special,
and train No. 23, on the New York
Central railroad, at Batavia today,
b\x persons were killed and 18 seri
ously injured, some of them perhaps
fatally.
The accident took place at 5:30
o'clock when train No. 49, due at the
station at 5:35 and ahead of time,
was standing in the station. Train
23, the Western express due at 5:20
o'clock, a little late, crashed into
the waiting train from the rear.
The engine of ,23 telescoped the
rear Pullman of the waiting train
and smashed into a day coach which
was next. Three bodies of passengers*
in the wreckage of the crushed sleep
er were*so mutilated as to make
identification difficult. Beneath one
of the unidentified bodies was found
a silver locket and a Masonic charm
.inscribed "Cassius C. Perrin, 9581
Mecca Temple, N. Y." *
Makes Us Shiver.
A dispatch from Reno, Nevada,
says the present snow storm is the
heaviest within memory in this ds
trlct. After a steady fall of 36 hours
there was a record depth of two feet
on the level late Friday night. A
depth of 12 feet is reported at Truc
kee and six feet at Immigrant Gap,
Cal. *
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Cheap Candy Killed.
Eating a iarge quantity of cheap,
colored candy, which its parents had
gotten at a bargain, the 18-months
old child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Smith, of Montgomery, Mo., became
ill and died before a physician could
be summoned. *
TIMES A WJflEK.
.^RADICAL CHANGES
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SUGv ^\Ef THE NEW S(,flO?l
<pMMENDED.
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Commission to\ j^&tate's Syst?m:
Reports to Legislature After Year
of Hard Work| . ' .?'
Three amendments to. the . consti
tution and important and far-reach
ing alterations in the present school
law are recommended in the report
inade to the general assembly. Friday
by the "commission to examine and
revise' the school law of the State
[and to recommend changes; in the
! same/' this report, with!.the accom
panying bill, constituting perhaps
the most important document yet
.presented'to the 1911-12 legislature.
"The.'.commission was created by;
joint" resolution of the general as
sembly, approved February 23, 3 910,
the suggestion', for its creation h?v?
ing'been made in the annual report]
for 1909 pf Mr. J. E. Swearingen,
State superintendent of education,
f it was directed to "carefully examine
and revise the common and high
I school laws of, the State, with power |
j to recommend any changes in the ex
isting law by bill or otherwise," and
was required to "report to the next
session of the general assembly."
In the resolution, it was specified
that the following should be mein-1
bers of the commission: "The State |
superintendent of education, the, in
spector of high schools, the president |
of. one of the State institutions of j
higher learning, one'person familiar
I with graded and common school sys
tems, and one person learned i:a the
law." Members not specifically i des
ignated were to be appointed by the
governor. As organized for worK, |
'the commission was composed .of Mr.
J. E. Swearingen, State superintend
ent of education; Mr, W. H. Hand,
State inspector of high schools;: Dr.
D. B. Johnsoh/president of Winthrop |
(College; Mr. S. H.- Edmunds, super
intendent of the Sumter city schools, j
and Mr. Mendel L. Smith, attorney.,
of C?mden. Mr. Swearingen was
chairman and <Mr. Hand the uecre-i
tary. ?
The commissioa thus summarizes
I its important recommendations.' 7
"The- commission has endeavored
to .make a practical and., progressive
report. It has sought to retain the
[ best; features of the present law and
j to avoid radical or revoIuUrinairJ
changes.' ? It -has-' 'been 'compenedi'1
thoweve'rV to recommend some im-|
portant and far-reaching alterations
in order that the new school law may
help to meet present' needs and to j
improve present conditions.
"1. An amendment to. Bectlon.2,
article II, and to section 24, article
III, of; the constitution, will remove
the obstacle that prevents many of
our. best m?n from serving as school
trustees^ Though the constitution
forbids the holding of- two. offices *
this provision has, by common con
sent, been widely disregarded. This
amendment seeks merely to--legalize
service to education when rendered
in connection with other sendee to
the State.
"2. The State superintendent of |
education is held responsible for the
acts of the State Board of Education,
and, in the opinion of the commis
sion, he should have some voice in j
selecting its members. It is, there
fore, recommended .that section 2,!
article XI, of the constitution, be|
amended so that henceforth the gov
ernor shall appoint the State board]
of education, upon the recommenda
tion of the State superintend ent.
"3. The commission recommends I
the appointment of a State board of ]
examiners for teachers in order that
Jthe* present varying standards may
be harmonized by the establishment'!
pof a uniform method in the exami
nation and graduation of applicants
to teach.
"4.. The county'board of education
Is given large powers In three Impor
tant respects: a. To levy a special i
county tax. b. To apportion public |
school funds, c. To choose from eli
gible applicants the county superin
tendent of education to serve for a|
term of four years.
. The right of all rpecial school
districts organized under special acts
of the general assembly to adopt
their own text-books has been with
drawn. The State superintendent of j
education is empowered to appoint
text-book commission, composed of I
five public school men, to act con-|
currently with the State board of ed
ucation to adopt a dual list of text
books and to prescribe unified
courses of study for all the free pub
lic schools of the State.
"6. The members of the State
board of examiners for teachers shall
serve also as division supervisors of
schools, who. under the direction of]
the State superintendent, shall audit
school accounts and perform such
other duties as may be assigned.
"7. The county superintendent of
education is to be elected by the
county board of education, in order
that restricted qualifications may be
demanded of all applicants. The
term of the county superintendent is
made four j*ears, and the minimum
salary in any county is $1.200.
. The State high school law is
I simplified and strengthened, and the
high school appropriation Increased
to $75,000.
"9. The State board of education
is authorized to classify under a rec
ognized nomenclature the schools
and colleges of the State.
"10. County boards of education
and school district boards of trustees
[are made! continuing bodies in order
that a majority of their members
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" BOU) YO?NG SANG
FIVE NEW YORK YOUTHS WERE
CAUGHT WITH BIG PLUNDER.
The CeUar, Where They Conducted a
^"Fence," Was FUled With Valua
ble Stuff."
Five young men, comprising the
most active gang of burglars that has
operated in New York city in yeu9,
are under arrest charged with hun
dreds of the'ts. When Deputy Police
Commissioner Flynn, with Acting
CapL Price, of the Bronx Detective
bureau, and five , detectives, raided
the den where the plunder was kept
they found $10,000 worth of plun
der. ?'? i-,
It is estimated the young fellows
have, taken goods to the vaaue 01
$25,?0fl In, the past five years..; The
prisoners are Grover Deisser,, ? .aged
17; George Straub,'16; Jesse Swain,.
17; Henry Ross, 15; and Herman
Schultz; aged 27. The first three are
charged with burglarly., Ross ann
Schultz are accused of receivinK
stolen goods.
Detectives have evidence implicat
ing other youths In the wholesale
robberies of recent months and it is
likely more arrests will follow. At
the hearing of the first five, Schultz
was accused'to teaching the boys to
steal. They swore that when they
were still innocent, five years ago, he
got them under his control, and since
that time , has been conducting a
I "fence" and profiting through the
sale of their plunder. Young Ross
[has b,een sent to the Children's Aid
Society home. ? The other members
of the band win be sent to the pen
I itentlary.
According to Acting Capt. Price,
the police have been looking for
Schultz for some time. Five yea^s
ago he was an interpreter at Ellis
Island, but was dismissed. Later he
lived fin a basement and it was there
he was caught when the raid was
made. He was alone at the time but
the police waited until the entire
gang had gathered. ?
There are over 100 bicycles, a mo
tor C3rcle, a dynamo and many sets
of valuable tools on the list of goods
stolen. In one corner was'a huge
hamper packed with, valuable silver
ware, cut ?-lass' ,clothing, whole sult3,
dresses, bolts of cloth, cigars .and
?trinkets.1 When the/loot had been
loaded in~? "patrol* wagon and taken
to.the Morrisania station it filled the
back room and part of the captain's
room.
THE BRAZTLLIAN WAY.
The Forty-Five Rebels Meet Mysteri
ous Ends.
According to (reports from Brazil
Jao Candldo, leader of the recent re
volt in the navy, and 44.other muti
neers have met sudden deaths. Can
dido succumbed to gangrene while a
prisoner, 26 of his assistants died
from sunstroke while engaged in re
pairing the fortress on Cobris island,
and 18 others were suffocated in their
cells in the prison on Villegainon is
land. ? 1
When the later of the two recent
naval revolts in Brazil was put down
three weeks ago it. was announced
that the mutinous sailors had been
sent to states remote from Rio Ja
neiro, where they were employed in
[thd construction of highways and
railroads.
Since that time comparatively lit
tle news has been gotten out of Bra
zil.- but there have been persistent
rumors of disturbances in the state
of. Para on the north coast due to
political dissatisfaction. *
may be able, at all times, to form
legal contracts.
"1. An adequate system of reports
is provided in order that school sta
tistics may be reliable.
"12. The State -superintendent of
education is required to keep a cor
rect account of all school bonds and
tax levies provided for their retire
ment.
"13. Each county superintendtnt
of education Is required to submit to
the grand jury a 1 written report
showing, by school districts, all re
ceipts and disbursements made by
him.
"14. AH alterations of whatever
kind in school district lines must be
recorded by the clerk of court. Since
the school district has been made
the unit of taxation for school pur
poses, it is absolutely necessary that
school district lines he clearly and
definitely established.
"15. The most fundamental
change recommended in the report is
the new definition of enrollment,
which bases the apportionment of
public school funds on the average
attendance of pupils. Under this
definition the teacher, the school, and
the district lose money every day a
pupil is absent, and gain every day
he is present.
"1C. An attempt Is made to estab
lish a permanent State school fund
and a permanent building fund.
?"17. The additional expenditures
required by this report will be in
creased salaries for county superin
tendents of education, a small ap
propriation guaranteeing to each
school district one separate school
for three months for pupils of each
race, the salaries of the division su
pervisors, all of which "will Impose'
only slight expenditures above pres
ent appropriations made either by
the several counties or by the gen
eral assembly." ?
- S C., TUESDAY.
Eight Thoasaad Babies Facing Death in
Chicago Labor War.
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S?FFI? PITL4BI?
The Striking Garment Workers Are
Starring to Death in Sticking to
Their Caiise-^LegisIature May In
vestigate and Try to Devibo a Rem
edy for 4he. Trouble.
Eight thousand infants in Chicago
face death from' starvation and dis
ease as thii result of the garment
workers' strike/ which for four
months hast dragged its length out
With no prospect of settlement in
sight. Thht is the statement of both
city authorities and union sympathiz
ers, the latter of whom are at their
wits end to obtain milk for the ba
bies in the strikers' home, many of
whom are already in the shadow of
death from want.
During I be past week the health
authorities reported more1 than 100
cases of pneumonia, and diptheria
among these children with a large
number of deaths. W^th the utter
exhaustion of the milk supp'y?now
less than a week away if charity con
tributions do not increase, it is ex
pected thai; cold, hunger and illness
will quickly end the miseries of
scores of the younger children
At least one. of the strikers, Mrs
Rose Siegelheimer, has already died
of starvation. Forv the"support of her
two children with whom she lived
in a dingy nasement, the woman bad
been j foraging cruets from garbage
cans. Of fven such aid as was avail
able she was apparently Ignorant
and the poor provender she found
went Into < h*? mouths of her children.
When nature gave out the woman
fell across her miserable pallet aud
was found dying by neighbors This
was the seventh death due to the
strike.
Many cises of the samo sort are
being, reported, and. even the adult
strikers are suffering terribly. It is"
inevitable that' if aid does not couie
disease, starvation anl death- will win
the labor war and force the hungry
thousands back to toil under condi
tions to remedy which they have
given their lives . and the Jives of
their little one'sr *""'' ?
. The latest: hope for the situation
arises from the action of the Illinois
senate authorizing an investigation
of the causes of the strike and an in
quiry into what steps have been tak-'
en to bring about a settlement. The
action authorizes the presiding officer
to appoint a committee of five sena
tors to go to. Chicago and begin the
strike investigation at once. The
resolution calls for a report in 30
days. Steps leading to the adjust
ment of the strike arbitration and to
fix responsibility, with-a view to leg
islation .making arbtraton compul
sory, are contemplated in the reso
lution. *
? WAS BURGLER'S ALLY,
Telephone Employe Supplied the
Facts to Robbers.
Fred P. Hoffman, Bell telephone
employe, is in jail- at Cleveland, 0.,
in connection -with several recent
house burglaries, and has confessed
to the police that he was a spy for
a gang of thieves, whose loot has
amounted to thousands of dollars.
He told where the booty could be
found, and the police have discov
ered it.
Hoffman kep' up a card index sys
tem, which was also found in the raid
o nhis room arid those of Burt Hols
ridge and Arbel Harrison, arrested
as burglars, in which were the nameB
and full information about prospects.
Hoffman told the police he would
get information about the houses
when he installed and removed tele
phones. The index system showed
how locks were fixed, where the sil
ver was kept, size of families, their
habits and other things about them. *
WANTED WATER, GIVEN ACID.
Young Widow Confesses Giving Child
Deadly Poison.
Arrested as she claimed her trunk,
at the New York Central station Fri
day, Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow,
who says she is 23 years old, of Sche
nectady, confessed that in a swamp
near Albany last Friday afternoon
she gave her five-year-old son,
George, carbolic acid, from the ef
fects of which he died.
In explanation of her crime, the
police say, Mrs. Melber asserts that
she has been a widow four years,
during which time she has had a
struggle to care for herself and her
[ child, and that this battle for an ex
istence drove her to take her baby's
life. She is an unusually attractive
young woman, end at the end of her
examination was unnerved and weep
ing hysterically.
When she made her confession, ac
cording to the police, Mrs. Melber
said that she gave the child the acid
when he abked for a drink. *
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Four Too Many.
The Rer. Samuel E. Howard is un
der arrest in Shelblna, Mo., on charge
of bigamy. He is accused of having
five wives, three of the marriages
having been contracted since last Oc
tober. *
'AKT 17, 1931.
SEE CAROLINA SOIL
MANY FROM THE WEST WOULD
' LIKE TO LOCATE HERE.
South Carolina Should Inaugurate a
Publicity Campaign to inform
Them.
Farm land in South Carolina is at
tracting the serious attention of
farmers and investors in the North
and Northwest. ? The State, depart
ment of agriculture is daily receiving
letters from substantial firms and
farmers who ask for specific infor
mation as to the lands for sale in
this State, and this information is
given by the State departme.'i;. of
agriculture. The actual business
transaction is always left by the de
partment .to the owners.
Those enquirers should be fol
lowed up by an agent, who could
present the advantages of the State
in person. Most of these enquiries
came from Americans, and they are
the. very kind of settlers we want
and should try to get. Several thou
sand of such settlers would be a
great benefit to the State, and with
the proper effort they can be brought
here. Commissioner Watson has re
ceived several letters that are of in
terest; concerning land in South Car
olina. The letters are from substan
tial farmers and business men.
It is very probable that a measure
will be'introduced in the general as
sembly' during the present week
calling for an appropriation to sup
plement a fund to be contributed by
the larger railway systems of the
State, the Southern railway, the- At
lantic Coast Line and the Seaboard
Air Line, as suggested by The State,
for the proper exploitation of the re
sources of: South Carolina. The State'
could not spend a small amount of
money to better purpose just at this
time, and the general assembly
should give such a bill favorable con
sideration. .
The following letters, received by
Commissioner Watson,: will, there
fore, be of particular interest:
' "About seven years ago I became
interested with some friends in the
Canadian Northwest (I am a Ca
nadian by birth), and started a cam
paign through the Central ana
Northwestern States to induce peo
ple to go out to that country and we
were very successful in locating hun
dreds-on the Canadian prairies. On
(a recent-.visit to that country I found,
many Vere; dissatisfied with their lo-.
cations. The summer season is so
very short that the variety of crops
is very limited and always in danger
of being caught, with frosts, as was
the case the past summer in many
places. '
"On comparing the possibilities of
that country with those of your
State, four times as many farmers,
I believe, could have been located in
it in the same time as In the Ca
nalian Northwest, as none of them
would have to sacrifice their nation
ality and its advantages. Since my
return from the West I have decided
to interest myself in locating some
of those dissatisfied Northwestern
farmers. In some part of the South
of this country, where the climate
conditions are more favorable for ag
riculture. This is my reason for
writing you at this time. I believe
wth proper faithful works thousands
of successful farmers from the north
west of Canada and this country
could be easily induced to locate in
your State. Many of them could sell
their lands now in their possession
at good profits and purchase land at
much lower prices in the South.
"If you have any proposition you
could make me, I would like to know
it, and if you have not, if you can
give me the name of some large cor
poration who might take up a cam
paign of this kind, I shall thank you.
"I don't want a land speculaton
scheme, but a real settler campaign.
Though I am the treasurer and have
been for more than 15 years of the
above company which spends more
?than $1,500,000 annually'on adver
tising in dally newspapers and maga
zines for various corporations, yet in
the business of locating practical
farmers I find the most successful
way is to meet tbem face to face and
demonstrate to and give them actual
facts and figures.
"This is a most auspicious season
to talk to the Northwestern farmer
about the comforts and opportunities
of a home in the South. If yo i are
Interested in my proposition I would
be pleased to hear from you ".
The other letter read as follow;:
"Will you kindly furnish me with
what information you can that would
enable me to s-ourc a large tr.-.ct o.
swamp land, from 10.000 to 1 00,000
acres, that could be drained and cvi
up in small uw^z with the Idea of
my selling s L-ne to a list ur buyers
which T have. Also price on ?:iiTfr^n
lands per acre including timber lam1.
Would like the best map of your
State and whatever other informa
tion you can gve me, and any ex
pense on same I will pay."
Many Deer Killed.
According to the report of the De
partment, of Agriculture, 57.500 deer
were slain in the United States dur
ing 1910. This record is little larger
than that of previous years, but the
fatalities to hunters increased about
50 per cent. *
Hoggish Freak.
The latest freak In the pig line has
turned up at Pawnee, Okla. It Is a
little pig with .'our ears and eight
legs, and apparently is going to live
to put them all to uBe. ?
EXPORT OF COTTON
SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS
ON COTTON.
Practically Two-Thirds of the . Crop
Sent Abroad, Worth Over Half Bil
lion Dollars.
'The highest record ever made in
the United States was achieved in
1910 when $530,000,000 worth of
the product was sent -to foreign
j lands. This new record exceeded
by more than $60,000,000 the previ
ous f best' year in the value of cotton
exported, according to the bureau of
statistics of the department of. com
merce' and labor.
i . The quantity exported, however,
was materially less than in certain
I earlier years, having been but 3,641,
000,000 pounds, against 4,374,000,
000/in 1908, when the value was but
$439,000,000. The average export
price in 1910 was 14 1-2 cents per
pound, against practically 10 cents in
1908; the high record year for quan
tity, the average export price in 1910
having be^n higher than in any years
since 1874.. December, 1910, also
shows the 1 Ighest monthly record,
the total value of cotton exports in
that month being, In round terms,
$103,000,000, while no earlier month
ever reached the $100,000,000 line.
The average export price in Decem
ber was 14.8 cents per pound, while
in the months of July and August
the average was 15 cents per pound.
1 This $630,000,000 worth of raw
cotton exported represents approxi
mately two-thirds .of the production
of the country, a comparison of the
figures of production and exportation
for a long term of years showing that
about one-third of the crop Is usually
retained for domestic use; and this
suggests a valuation of approximate
ly $800,000,000 for the total raw
cotton product of the year represent
ed by these export figures. To this,
however, must be added the value
of the cotton, seed, of which the ex
portations m the form of oil amount
ed to nearly $13,000,000 and. those
of oil cake about $10,000,000, while
of course large quantities of both
were consumed In the United States.
The countries to which this 530
million dollars' worth of cotton ex
ported in 1910 .went, stated In orrler
of magnitude of their purchases, are:
The United .Kingdom, approximately
243 million dollars; Germany, 140.
.million;',. France, J 62 .mjliipni^^taly,
28 million; Spain, ll> million; Can
ada, 10 1-2 million; and Japan, 9 1-2
million; these figures being based
necessarily on estimates for the
month of December. .
The United States is by far the
world's largest producer lof cotton.
An estimate of the cotton .production
of the world for the season of 1910
II supplied to the bureau of statis
tics is: For the United States, 10,
155,000 bales of 500 pounds; India,
4,186,000 bales; China, 1,200,000
bales; Egypt, 970,000 bales; Russia
(Asiatic provinces), 768,000 bales;
miscellaneous, Including Brazil, Peru,
"Persta, Turkey and other countries,
645,000, making his estimate of the
total world crop for the season
1909-10 18,049,000 bales, of which
10,155,000 were produced in the
United States.
This estimate places China third
in rank among the world's cotton
producers with an annual production
of 1,200,000 bales, most of which is
manufactured Into yarns and cloth
by hand machines, while 200,000
bales are now annually exported to
Japan. Of the cotton crop of India
he estimates that slightly less than
one-half is exported. Of the Egypt
Ian cotton, practically all is export
ed, going chiefly to Europe and the
United States, Its long staple and
silky'lustre rendering it especially
valuable for use in conjunction with
the shorter stapled cotton of other
parts of the world.
The value of raw cotton Imported
Into the United States during the
year 1910 was,in round terms, about
$15,000,000, of which $10,000,000
worth came direct from Egypt, $2,
000,000 from the United Kingdom,
presumably also chiefly from Egypt,
nearly $1,000,000 from Peru, and
$750,000 from China.
Meantime the value of cotton man
ufactures exported during the year
was, in round terms, $35,000,000,
and of the cotton manufactures im
ported, $60,000,000, of which more
than one-half was in the form of
laces, edgings, embroideries and oth
er high grade manufactures of this
character.
Comparing the total value of the
cotton exported in 1910 with that of
earlier years, the figures of the bu
reau of statistics run as follows:
191 0.$5.10.000,000
1909.462,000,000
1 908. 439.000,000
1 907.-170,000,000
1 906 . 413,000,000
Prior to 1906 the total had never
reached the $100.000,000 mark,
though the quantity exported in
1910, which was 3,641.000,000
pounds, was less than in any year
since 1904; these figures in all cases
being for calendar years. *
Guards on Train.
Bandits who are ambit:. ~ .o hold
up passenger trains on the Utah di
vision of the Union Pacific will en
counter the most improved rifles in
the hands of men who know how to
use them. Under an order from the
division superintendent each passen
ger train will carry an armed guard.
The plan is the result of the robbery
of the Overland Limited last week
near Ogden, Utah. *
?WO CENTS PEBi COPY
A Hob Attacks the Jiil and takes Ost
Negroes and Kills Them.
TWO HUNG AND ONE SK?T
One Under Sentence of Death for
Wife Marder, Awaiting Setting , of
Date of Execution?Two Others
Charged With Assaulting White
Girls But Not Yet Trie*.
?Storming the Shelby county jail at
Shelbyville, Ky., on Sunday morning,
a nrob composed of less than 100
men seized and lynched thn;e ne
groes, two of whom were charged
with assaulting white girls and a.
third sentenced to hang for the mur
der, of his wife and held in jail un
til the day for his execution could be
set. ,
The three were lynched in differ-:
eht places, and what first seemed'to
have been a single lynching was
found to have ben a triple one only
with the finding of the three bodies.
The body of Eugene Marshall, sen
tenced to hang for the murder, of his
wife, whoni he had beheaded, was
found hanging to a bridge over the
Eminence Pike, only a short distemce
from the jail.
Jim West, employed a3 a< chauf
feur at Shelbyville for several
months and who, it if? said, had been
seen throwing kisses at white girls,
and who was charged with assault
ing the daughter of a Shelby county
farmer, was one of the' victims. He,
too, was hanged to the. bridge.
Wade Patterson, the third negro
lynched, was also, charged with; as
saulting a white woman. Pr.tterson
attempted to escape from the mob
and was shot and his body thrown
into a creek.
The mob which attacked *h.e jail
went about its work quietly and few
persons knew of the triple lynching
until the bodies were found several
hours later.
I ? (Few of the mob were masked. The
jail lock was smashed with s> sledge '
hammer and there was little difficul
ty in getting to the/prisoners./
According to. Deputy Jafler Horn
! back, . Jailer Edward Thompson hid :
[ the jail keys when the mob appeared
? ah?r^TatSfr'"when' 'fhe'"mcib",became~'
J more insistent, Hornback let the men
Into the jail office.
j "They , said there were three ne
groes here they were going to get
jor else blow up the jail," Hornbach
said. "They kept yelling for the
dynamite, while/ some oil the mob
[Started to beat on the cell locks with
a sledge hammer. About twelve men
had their guns pointed at me, de-i
manding the keys, but I insisted I
did not know where they were. Fin
ally, at 3.25, they broke open the
cell door and took out West, Mar
shall and Patterson."
PULLED THE APOSTLE.
Chicago Police Interfere With "Abso
lute Life" Colony.
Evelyn Arthur See, self-declared
"apostle of a new life" in which all
?beings will be perfect, Is held in jail
in Chicago, 111., to answer a charge
of disorderly conduct grc ig out of
his "absolute life" colony. See In
court refused the services of an at
torney, saying he had the counsel ot
God, and would purify all those pres
ent in the court room.
When the police raided See's quar
ters they found two girls, one .19
years and the other 17, who admitted
in court that they had been living
with See for several months, unchap
eroned. Mona Rees, the older of the
two girls, according to the plan of
See, is to become the mother of the
first "nearly perfect" child, she her
self being almost perfect, according
to the cult's teachings. The other
girl, Mildred Bridges, was striving
to attain that state of purity, she de
clared, that would place her on the
same plane with the Rees girl.
The "perfect, and hence sinless"
trio will appear in court at the time
of the final hearing. See will be sent
to jail, and the girls probably will
be placed with some society. ?
Robbed of Savings.
An old gentleman by the name of
Bedford was robbed by three negroes,
near Seneca, Tuesday night. It is
rumored that he carried several hun
dred dollars, the savings of a life
time, and was on his way to his
son's home when .tfcgg^Sebbery oc
curred. The victim .-?ffied the mon
ey in a small hand uag. When the
negroes approached they wanted
whiskey, but after taking his bag
and cutting it open they took the
money instead. *
Adrift on Ice Floe.
Eighty-five fishermen were car
ried out into the Caspian sea on an
ice floe Tuesday. A steamer was re
quisitioned at Baku and sent to the
rescue of the men, but the chances
that any of the number will escape
death Is poor.
His New Job.
A San Francisco conductor who
recently embraced religion, was,
called upon to take up the Sunday
morning offering. He did very well
until he came to a boy. "Young
man," he said sternly, "you will have
to pay half fare."