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Jury Decides Be Cammiticd Murder la The First Degree. HE KILLED BIS WIFE His Sentence Unler Virginia's Laws Will Be Death n the Electric Chair ?Motion for :*ew Trial by Coun sel for the Dei 'ence Over-ltuled by Judge Watson, Presiding. Yesterday aft< moon the jury at B.chmon, Va., .ryjng Henry Clay Beattie for the laurder of his wife, whom the State claims he shot on a lonely road, vr? (turned the verdict that the defendant was guilty of murder in the first degree. Under the laws of Virg.nia murder in the first degree is pur ished by death, and the mode of exe :ution is electrocu tion. Counsel ft r the defense im mediately upon ai nouncement moyed for new .trial, vhich was turned down by Judge Watson. No doubt case will be carried on to the Supreme Courts. WUth all the ev dence closed which was entirely o a ciheumstantial character in the f: mous murder trial at Chesterfield, V;., of H. C. Beattie, Jr., for the murde r of his young and and beautiful wife a few months ago on a road some miles from Rich mond, all calculat '.ons were upset as to when the case 'vould end by Spec ial Prosecutor Wendenburg's an nouncement on ''hursday that he may ask the court :o re-open the case: and,admit the testimony of a man who,claims to hav^ been an eye wit ness to the traged/. Mr. Wendenbur; received the in formation which may' change the whole aspect of tt e case in a recent mail. The writer, who until a few days after .the mu 'der of Mrs. Beat tie was a farm ha ad employed on a place near the some of the crime, said that he actual .y saw young Beat tie kill his wife?s iw him knock her from the automot He with the butt of a shot gun and shoot her as she lay insensible or the ground. He wrote that BeattH had threatened him when he founu that he had wit nessed the deed i nd the following day gave him a s\it of clothes "and money w;Ith which .o get away. Though he kept quiet at first be cause he was afrcid, the man says now he does not ?want Beattie to es cape punishment and is willing to te8tify\ The Chestei field farmer men tioned in the lett r acknowledged that a man by the name used by the writer was employi d by him until a few days after, the murder, and fur ther declared it wts a fact that the farm hand was chasing; a runaway cow on the night cf the murder. In ?telling his story the alleged witness said he was lookini; for a cow when he came upon the n an and woman in an automobile on the (Midlothian turnpike some time after 10 o'clock. Beattie the accu ;ed husband says that while he and lis wife were out riding on the Midlothian turnpike, they were held up by a man, who shot at him and ki led his wife who was seated by his side in ^.the front seat of their automobile. This story was not believed, and Beattie was ar rested and put on trial for murdering his wife. The Stat j had made out a very strong case against him, based altogether on circumstantial evi dence, and now comes in this new witness, who says ii part: "I was in the piae woods on the rght hand side of the Midlothian turnpike as you gc out from Rich mond and I saw a l'ght. As I walked closer to the road 1 saw an automo ble standing almost in the middle of the road facing tcward Richmond, and there were two people in it?a man and a woman. They were both sitting in the front seat. "They were quarreling. I could hear them talking loud, so I did not show myself, but waited behind a tree about ten feet 'rom the edge of the road in the thick pine woods to hear what they said "The woman was :leading with the man. She was Baying that she wanted her love back again and she did not want the man to be cruel to her. The man answered roughly. "At one time Ihe. .rd him say, I'm "At one time I be .rd him say, 'I'm this.' Then I heard the woman say, 'How are you going to end it?' The man said somehting I could not hear man said something I could not hear you how I'm going o end it.' He got out of t ie machine and walked across the opposite side of the road from where I was and then after he had been tl ere a minute he came back with ? jmething in his hand. I could not se ? what it was in the dark. The woman was standing in the machine in iront of the lert hand seat in the frort part of the au tomobile when the :r.an came back. Both had been sitting in the front seat before he went away to the side of the road. "Just when the man came back I heard the woman scream once. Then the man who was standing in the road swung what he had in his hand and hit the woman cn the right side of the face. She fe'I from the ma chine to the road and she did not make a sound. For a minute the nan stood look ing at her and then ! heard him say, 'Damn you, you're njt dead yet. I'll -a. A XPAID TOO MUCH COMMISSION WILL GIVE PUBLIC NEWS VERY SOON. That Will Be of Possible interest to Mi*. B. Felder, So Declares Mr. Dominick. "At the next meeting of the com mission there will probably be some thing to give out of particular in terest to Mr. Thos. B. Felder," said Mr. Fred H. Dominick, following a meeting of the dispensary winding-up commission, held in Columbia Tues day at about noon. Only three members of t he commis sion were present, Messrs. J. V. Wal lace, chairman; Fred H. Dominiek and E. M. Thompson. The commis sion held another session Tuesday night and then adjourned until the next meeting, which it is stated will probably be in titoe next two or three weeks. When interviewed regarding the work of the commission the three members were in 'Mr. Domlnlck's room at the Columbia Hotel. "We are still at work on the voucher mat | ter," said Mr. Wallace. "There is very little to give out ui present. ! We have been delayed by the sick ness of our accountant or we would have been further advanced in our work than we are. "However, there will probably be something of interest to the public to give out at our next meeting in a few weeks from now?something of particular interest to Mr. Thomas B. Felder," said Mr. Dominick. Some interesting figures as to money got ten by /Mm, particularly some that was overpaid, a portion of which he now has on hand and which runs in to a good many thousand dollars. After a pause Mr. Dominick add ed: "According hi the Tertia! re ports of our acountant the amounts paid for attorneys' fees by *;he form er uispensary commission exceeds the amount collected from the graft ac count by about $15,000 in round numbers. There will be something doing at our next meeting," he con cluded after a few seconds. OFFICE A PERSONAL ASSET. Notaries Public Must be Friends of the Governor. ? ?Governor Blease seems to regard public office as a personal asset. He recently wrote the following letter to Hon. G. W. Sullivan, Senator from Anderson county: State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, Sept. 2. 1911. Hon G. W. Sullivan, Williamston, S. C. Dear sir: I have received an appli cation frdm James Walter Kelly of Pelzer, S. C, requesting that I ap point him a Notary Public I notice that you signed the same. I have just had to revoke the com missions of two men at Pelzer, and unless you can personally cei tify that Mr. Kelly is a friend of mine I can not and will not commission him; and in this, I wish you would make a thorough examination, so as to make no mistake when you give your cer tificate. Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease, Governor. FIFTY KILLED IN FIGHT. Some More Fighting Going on Over Among the Mexicans. A battle is reported to have occur red between federal troops under General Morales and a force com manded by General Zapata, near Chinamoca, Marales, in Mexico. News reached the department of ae inter ior that fifty Zapatists were killed. Zapata is said to have beer, 'seen to fall from his horse. Gen. L. Zapata, who was formerly an adherent of Francisco I. Madero, is reported to have gathered several hundred men at Chinamocia tin violation of an agreement with ?Madero to disband his men. fix you.' Then he got up with a gun, which was what he had hit her with, and he shot her where she lay in the road by the front seat of the auto moble. I did not see where he shot her. I saw him throw the gun some where and he began to lift his wife's body in the front seat of the automo bile and I came out from the trees. The man turned around and saw me and he said to me 'Did you see this?' "I told him yes that I had seen It. 'Damn you what the hell are you go ing to do aliou it?' he said. I didn't say anything. Then he '-egan to threaten me. He said he ras rich and had lots of friends in Richmond and if I told on him he would have me killed somehow. He said nobody would belive my story if I appeared in court against him anyway, and I had better ge t out. He said he would give me some money and a suit of clothes if I would go away. "I told the man I would go away. Then he told me to come to Beattie's store the next day and there wou?^ be some money for me. I went the next clay and he got. some money anfl bought a suit of clothes. I s ayed in South Richmond for two Ha;, s then, but I was so scared and got so ner vous that after tT?o days I took the train to this place." ORAN( Tfli CROP MUST PAY CHEAP COTTON IS DISASTROUS TO THE COUNTRY. High Prices Essential to the Growing of the Staple as Other Crops Are Just As Profitable. In an interview on the cotton sit uation, Richard H. Edmunds, Editor of the Manufacturers Reeora. is quot ed by the Boston Transcript as Baying that "a permanently high price for cotton is esentially to the best inter ests, if not to the very life of the cot ton manufacturers who are andious to see lower prices by reason of the probability of a larger crop this year would inevitably drive cotton grow ers to other pursuits, and the smaller yield next year, with consequent ab normal high prices, would bring back all the evils from which the in dustry has suffered during the last few years in which it has had to con tend with the high cost of raw ma terial and low price of finished goods. "The world must adjust itself to paying a higher price for cotton goods. The sooner it is done the better it will be for all interests and especially for the manufacturers. The time has passed when Southern far mers were compelled to raise cotton. In former years they were forced by necessity to rafse cotton, and cotton alone. Conditions have changed. Un less prices be high, that is, high as compared with former years, they can make more money doing other things. There is no moral obligation to tho world to compel them to raise cotton, though many people seem to think so. If New England could turn its cot ton mills into Bhoe factories and dou ble the profits on the investment, and pay better wages to the laborers, no body would say that New England must continue to make cotton goods because the world needs cotton goods. Now the Southern farmer can do a dozen things more profitably than to raise and sell cotton at a low price, and even 10 and 11 cents a pound may now be counted as a low price. He can do things that he could not have done a few years ago. Industrial development is affording employment for thousands who raise cotton. Urban growth is drawing tens of thousands from the country into city activities. City growth and industrial development combined are making it possible for thousands to engage in diversified farming and truck growing to supply the home I needs. "In the last ten years Industrial development in the South increased largely over one hundred per cent, while its population increased only about sixteen per cent. Thus, indus trial activity gained six or seven times as rapidly as population. The extension of railroad facilities to all parts of the South, and the ever in creasing demand in the North and West for early fruits and vegetables make It possible for a very large num ber of Southern farmers to make money in meeting these requirements than in raising cotton, even at four teen or fifteen cents a pound. The j South is now annually shipping to the North and West, of fruits and vegetables over $100,000,000 worth. "The development of transporta tion facilities throughout the South is making the extension of this in dustry possible in sections which were formerly compelled to raise cot ton. Under such conditions, the world might as well face the situa tion frankly and fully and under stand its meaning. It is much safer for manufactures to squarely face this condition than to blindly imag ine that we can again go back to low priced cotton over a long term of years. Last year the South's cotton crop, the seed included, was worth $303,000,000. If the South, by rais ing a small crop can sell it for such a figure, it is certainly not going to raise two or three billion bales more and sell it at two or three hundred! million dollars less. "Nearly three quarters of a cen tury ago a report made to the British Parliament advised the spinners of England to do all in their power to keep cotton at a low price, because,] said this report, the fanners of Amer ica would undertake to so increase their production when prices wore low as to get as much money in the aggregate as when prices were high. The English spinners have always! gone on the principle that by fore-, ' ing the prices down they would in crease the supply. Three-quarters aj j century past and even up to a fewj ' years ago that was the case. It is notj I so any longer. Conditions have ab-J Isolutely changed. Economic devel opment has made it posible for the. [South to turn its attention to other Icrops and to other activities which: 'yield a f~r larger profit than cotton, j unless cotton commands whit manu-, Ifacturcrs regard as a high price, i "if during the last few years thej 'cotton manufacturers of this conntryi had given more attention to educat ing the public to paying a higher! 'price for cotton good.'?, instead of j j spending their time, as they have| done, in seeking to put down thej price of the raw material, th3 situa tion would have been far more fav orable to them. Persistently claim-j ling as most of them do, that prices of the raw material were too high, they convinced the buyers that cot-! ton goods ought to decline in price, I and therefore the price of the fin-1 ished article continued low, while economic conditions forced an ad vance in tie price of raw material. | }EBURG, S. C, SATURDAY, GOES FOR TAFT Camming?, a Progressive Senator, Op pised to His Renomination. HE GIVES HiS REASONS For Opposing the President, Who, e He Suys Is Sot in Smypathy "With the Progressive Element of the Re publican Party, But Is a Supporter of the Standpatters. Senator A. B. Cummins in a sign ed statement given out at Chicago on Wednesday declares his opposition to the nomination of President Taft. Af ter a discussion of the main issues in the Taft administration, which are presented chronologically, the Iowa senator summarizes his opposition in these terms: ? "My general conclusion is, there fore, that in every struggle which has taken place since Mr. Taft became president upon-vital things his allies and supporters have been the sena tors and members of the house who are known from one border of the country to the other as reactionaries, or stand-patters, and not progres sives. "If the voters of the Republican party believe that the old leadership should be perpetuated they can find no letter nominee than Mr. Taft. I don't believe it ought to be continu ed, and therefore, without any per sonal disparagement of the president, I am hoping that a progressive Re publican will be nominated and elect ed next year." First in the bill of particulars is the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and of which Mr. Cummings says: "Mr. Taft's associates in the mak ing of this tariff law, which he de clared to be the best ever passed, were Mr. Aldrich and his followers In the senate; Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalzell, Mr. Cannon and their followers }n the house. It seems to me 1 am jus tified in the conclusion that he did not take 'the progressive view' with respect to this measure. "It's hard for me to think of the Canadian bill as progressive, believ ing as I do that its passage was the result of an understanding between the president and the eminent reac tionaries?Penrose of Pennsylvania, and Lodge of Massachusetts?that they would see it through the senate if all other tariff bills reducting du ties should be vetoed." After damning the peace treaties with faint praise. Senator Cummins takes up the woolen and the free list bills, of which he says: "I haven't heard of any progres sive rejoicing over the vetoes which killed them. They were both pre pared with the greatest care and in the full light of advanced informa tion, and both amply justified by the standard of protection. "I predict that these bills gave the president the only chance he will aave to sign acts of congress reduc ing the iniquitious duties of the Payn?-Aldrich law, but preserving the system of protection. In waiting for his tariff report he lest an op portunity which Democrats will not give him again." Passing to a consideration of the interstate commerce law, the Iowan declares that if the bill had passed as insisted upon by the president 'the work of nearly a quarter of a century would 'have been swept away and we would have taken a step back ward in the regulation of our rail ways. Many naris of the committee bill were so bad ihat. they found no de fenders and such efforts as were made to defend the administration bill were led by Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Flkins." I.Mr. Cummins further avers that President Tat't is 'out of harmony with those who were recognized be fore his advent,into ohV'. as the best exponents of the conservation pol icy." And taking up the Canadian reci procity bill he says: "It Is a false pretense from besinning to end," and "will not reduce tilie cost of living or enlarge our markets for manufactur es in Canada." ORDERS RIOTERS BEHEADED. Drastic Measures Being Taken in One Chinese Province. The disaffection in Mongolia, where the princes and religious Iliads are uniting against the Chinese develop ment schemes, seems now to be trac ?a!?'e to ih<' Tibians. The p'inees, it is s-aia, have appealed to Tibet for prorec'.ion. Regarding the situation in Sziechuan province, where the peo ple have risen against the railroad projects. Sheng-Haunsa-Huai, who is the strong man in the Peking Gov ernment, ordered n s'-ire of decapi tations of the ringleaders of the riots. Killed by Automobile. Running at a high speed in an auto, which struck a telephone pole, Glonn Elkin was killed and three other members of the party were ser iously injured at Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday. The speculators who were creiited with being responsible for these high er prices did not create these condi tions. They only took advantage of the situation." SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. TO FLY ACROSS OCEAN VANIMAN TO MAKE fflS START DURING OCTOBER. His Airship Will Be Larger and Far More Powerful Than That of Well man's.?No Equilibrator. Arrival at Atlantic City, N. J., last week of the huge silk envelope, that is to form the sustaining power of a big dirigible in a daring attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Mel van Vaniman at the helm, has again given the seaside resort the airship "bug." The balloon is 268 feet long, 20 feet longer than the one in which Wellman started for Europe and which was lost before he had trav eled many miles. It has a gross lifting power of 26,000 pounds. It is made of 2,200 pieces of tough fabric. The gas bag is of the cigar shape with an extreme diameter of 4D feet. Vaniman expects to sail some time before the middle of October, but the exact date and the course to be taken are problematical, depending entirely on weather conditions. The path of the big flying machine will be in a general way that taken by the steamships but the buffeting of the adverse winds and storms may cause a change at any time during the flight. The game little Englishman speaks of the trip as a little "voyage" and does not seem to realize its magni tude and the possibilities should he successfully accomplish the deed he and Walter Wellman tried last Octo ber. Not that he is not confident and anxious to make a get away, for he continually puzzles himself over the smallest details to make sure that everything is in shipshape. He eats, sleeps and drinks aeronautics. He said this week: "I'm sure it can be done if con ditions are only what I want. We will take every precaution My trip with Wellman has helped me to guard against the greatest dangers. i.My ship will be larger, that is long er, but not so wide as was the Amer ica. The engines will be twice as powerful as those on the America, of driving us at wonderful speed. With the new shaped envelope, and a faster engine we will be ready to take advantage of favorable condi tions and make great headway and when things are against us will have the power to put up a better flight. "No there will be no equilibrator on my ship. Instead I have discov ered another device that will keep the vessel on an even keel. By use of this the weight of the airship will be lessened when we get within dan gerous proximity of the water and increased should we start to soar to undersired heights." * DANCED SEVEN ROURS. Man and Girl Friend Test Their En durance on Floor. At St. Paul, Minn., after dancing for seven hours, A. F. Scott, a bar ber, took his lady partner to a re freshment stand at Dreamland, in that city, Tuesday night and toppled over dead as he was about to drink a glass of soda water. Miss Mamie Webb, Scott's partner, stood' by his side as he toppled to the floor. It was In the spirit of fun that they had promised to try out each other's en durance. They started to dancing as soon as the pavilion opened at six o'clock and kept at it constnatly save for the 3 0 seconds' wait of the orchestra until one o'clock, a. m., when Scott exhausted, decided to give up the struggle. The pair walked over to the refreshment stand, or dered soda, and as Scott wis about to raise the glass to his lips he fell in a swoon. He was dead when by | slanders started to assist him to his feet. FAMINE HORROR IN CHINA. ? Red Cross Aid for Flood Sufferers Will Be Asked. The enormity and horror of the I famine situation confronting China, caused by the Tang-Tse Kiang River flood, was officially reported to the State department at Washington by American Consul General Wilder, at Shanghai, and the question of ten dering Red Cross aid is under con sideration. The entire territory between ITan kcw and Shanghai, a distance of about six hundred miles, lias been overflowed. Cities and towns are un : der water, many dwellings being en tirely submerged. Conditions among i the people are distressing, and a i famine threatens them. Unless the tide of the Yang-Tse soon subsides it is believed that con ditions will become 'ar worse. Old Man Will Live. Jimmie Walker, a Shawn o Indian, lus years old. will live despite the facl that he lost a leg i:i a railroad accident at Tulsa. Okla.. on Monday night, according to a statement of his physicians. Walker wan once chief of his clan. Stranded Steamer Saved. The steamer Lexicon, which was driven ashore at the mouth of the Edisto River, in the hurricane of last week has been floated by tugs and is now in a safe position. She had not taken any water and is not be lieved to be seriously damaged. POEM * OOSENS NOOSE OREGON GOVERNOR TOUCHED C BY STANTON'S VERSUS. The Warden Arranges Dramatic Cli max to Announce That tho Gover nor Had Commuted Sentence. Affected by reading the newspa per poem, "They've Hanged Bill Jones," by Frank L. Stanton of the Atlanta Constitution, Gov. West, of Oregon Tuesday saved esse P. Webb from the gallows by commuting his sentence to life imprisonement. The Governor himself says the poem mov ed him to exercise clemency although Webb's daughter, eighteen years old, foas pleaded with the Governor for months to give her father's life' and has striven in every way to save him. The announcement that Webb would not be hanged was made most theatrically under the stage manage ment of the Warden of the State pen itentiary. Webb was convicted of killing W\ A. Johnson, whose body was found in a trunk in the Union Passenger Station there. Noon Tues day was the time fixed for his execu tion. Five minutes before 12 all the con victs in the penitentiary were marched into the main dining room and Webb was ordered to stand at the head of the long central table. When, commutation of his sentence was proclaimed discipline disappear ed, cheers for Gov. West echoed from the walls and reverberated down the corridors. Although Webb, alone of the prisoners, may have known that his life was saved, he seemed much affected. ROAD IMPROVEMENT TRAIN. Southern Railway Helping Good Roads (Movement. The special "Road Improvement Train" being operated by the South ern Railway, the Augusta Southern Railroad and affiliated lines in co operation with the United States of fice of public roads, will commence its tour of South Carolina and Geor gia September 4. It will spend prac tically a month in South Carolina making exhibitions at points along the Southern Railway, and on Sep tember 29th will enter Georgia to visit points along the Augusta South ern Railroad. The "Road Improvement Train" is being sent out by the Southern Rail way to further the rflovement for bet ter wagon roads throughout the South and at the same time to give practical information to farmers; and road officials as to building of roads and their repair. The schedule for the South Carolina and Georgia points so far as arranged is as fol lows: Sept. 4, Monday?Blacksburg, 10 a. m.; Gaffney, 2 p. m. Sept. 5, Tuesday?Spartanburg, 10 a. rn. Sept. 6, Wednesday?Greenville, 9:3 0 a. m.; Easley, 2 p. m. Sept. 7, Thursday?Calhoun, 10 a. m., Walhalla, 2:30 p. in. Sept. 8, Friday?Seneca, 9:30 a. m.; Pendleton, 2 p. m. Sept. 9, Saturday?Anderson, 10 a. m.; Belton, 3 p. m. Sept. 11, Monday?Abbeville, 10 a. m.; Greenwood 2 p. m. Sept. 12, Tuesday?Newberry, 10 a. m.; Prosperity, 2 p, m. Sept. 13, Wednesday?Union, 10 a. m.; Columbia. 3:30 p. m. Sept. 14, Thursday?Winnsboro, 10 a. m. Sept. 15, Friday?Chester, 10 a. m. Sept. IG, Saturday?Rock Hill, 10 a. m.; York vi lie, 2 n. m. Sept. IS, ".Monday?Lancaster 10 a. m.; Camden, 3 p. m. Sein. 19, Tuesday?Sumter, 1:30 p ra. Sept. 20, Wednesday?Orangeburg 9:30 a. in.: St. Matthews, 2 p. in. Sept 21, Thursday?Bamberg, 9: 30 a. m.; Denmark, 2 p. in. Sept. 22, Friday?Barnwell, 10 a. m.; Allendale, 2 p. m. Sept. 2:;, Saturday?St. George. 9:30 a. m.; Summerville, 2 p. m. Sept. 25, .Monday?Charleston, 10 a in. Sept. 2fi, Aiken, 10 a. m.: lidge field, 2:30 p. ra. Sept. 27, Wednesday?Uatesburg, 10:30 a. m. Sept. 2S, Thursday?Lexington, 10 a. m. Sept. 29. Friday?Ifephzibah, Ga., 9:30 a. in.; Wrens, 1 p. m.. Gibson, 4 p. in. Sept. 3 0, Saturday?Sandersville, Ca., 9:30 a. m.; Warthen, I p. m.; Mitchell. 1 p. m. Free lectures and demonstrations showing th<> importance of good roads and how to build them and keep them in repair at the smallest necessary cost will be conducted at each by two road building experts of the [Jnited States department of ag riculture, .Missis L. C. Boykin and II. Fairbanks, assisted by a rep resentative of the land and indus trial department of the Southern Railway. Two coaches of the train are filled with exhibits, pictures and working models, and the lectures are illustrated with stereoptican views. At great expense the Southern Rail way and affiliated lines are handling this train without cost to the govern ment in order that the people along its lines may have the opportunity to receive the valuable information as to road building which it affords. TWO CENTS PER COPY. BEAT ANY CROP Last Year's Cotton Brought More Mcney Tbao That of Any Year. GREAT COTTON VALUES Secretary Hester Shows Splendid Money Value of 1010 Crop Over 1908-00 Crop, Although the Latter was 1,700,000 Bales Greater.?R?J timates for this Year's Crop. "No American cotton crop, ever grown has sold for as much as the one just marketed, the total valU'B, including the seed, having been $1, 030,000,000." The remarkable statement is con tained in the detailed statistics of last season's cotton crop issued re cently by Col. Henry G. Hester, se% retary of the iNew Orleans Cotton Ex change. Withi 1,700,000 bales less than con tained in the bumper crop of 1908-09, the crop just marketed netted the South $254,000,000 more. The 13, 511,000 bale crop of 1906-07 brought $222,000,000 less than the past sea son's crop. As a whole, the crop averaged within a shade of strict middling, and the farmer was paid an average oil 16.04 cents per pound or $76.60 per bale. [Regarding the consumption of cot ton and the mill situation generally in this country, the report says: "In the United States, the mills NortJhi and South have consumed nearly as much as last year, in addi-. tion to which they have limported the greatest quantity of foreign cotton, ever brought to this country in any one season. - Thus far the use of ;fcireign cotton in tblis optfntry is small compared with the total con sumption, but its increase is signi ficant. A continued interesting feature Is the widening of difference between quantity of American coljton con sumed North and South; the expen ses of the latter have Increased to 103,000 bales. Concerning the North, a heavy curtailment of pro duction was quite good during the latter moments of the season, "The complaint has been that when cotton strengthened, good did not agree. "The situation recently has improv ed, and there is an underlying, im pression that matters will readjust! themselves on a more satisfactory basis in the near future." Secretary Hester puts the 1910-11' crop at 12,120,095 bales, an increase over that of 1909-10 of 1,510,427, and a decrease under Unat of 1908-09 of 1,705,362. The increase in Texas over last year was in round numbers, 582,000 bales; in the group of "other Gulf States," embracing Louisiana, Mis sissippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis souri, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Ariz ona, California and New Mexico, it was 704,000, and in the group of Atlantic States, including North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flovida, Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia, 224,000. iMr. Hester's report is given as fol lows in thousands of bales: Alabama, 1209, against 1,078 last year. Arkansas, S46, against 718 last year. Florida, 68, against 66 last year. Georgia, 1,853, against 1,927 last year. Louisiana. 273, against 282 last year. ?Mississippi, 1,23 9, against 1,121 last year. Oklahoma, 724, against 566 iast year. ?North Carolina, 794, against 676 last year. South Carolina, 1,231, against 1, i 84 last year. Tennessee, 424, against 316 last year. Texas, 3,259, against 2,676 last year. Total crop bales, 12,210, against 10,610 last year. The consumption of American cot ton of all kinds he puts at 4,678,000 bales, against 4,665,000 last year. He puts the world's consumption American cotton at 12,034,000 bales, an increase over last year of 260,000 and a decrease I he year before of 1.12:1.000 bales. In the South Mr. Hester makes the consumption 22,313 bales over last year and 196,257 under Uive year be fore last. Bitten by Mad Dog. A yellow cur, supposed to he rabid, created a sensation in two of the mill village about (Ireenville Thursday, morniHi? by attacking and biting four little children and two dogs. The dog was surrounded by a crowd of men and boys and stoned to death, af ter it was decapitated and ita head was sent to Columbia for exami nation. Eighty-One Drowned. A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says, the Chilean steamer. Tucapel, has been wrecked and is a total loss. Eighty-one persons were drowired. The steamer Tucapel was eagaged in trading on the west coast of -South Amercia. She was 1912 tons, and wa3 commanded by Captain Mar row.