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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKI TELLS OF CRIME Ose if the Djoaniters Turns States State's Evidence Against Pals WHO THEN CONFESS ALL Story of the Blowing Up of The Times Bailing and the Murder of Twenty One Men Told by One of the Men Who Planned the Most Terrible Crime. Shortly after one o'clock on. the morning of October 1, -1910, the building and plant of the Los Angeles Times were destroyed by a'terrific ex plosion of dynamite which had been placed in the basement. Flames fol lowed the explosion, and before they could be extinguished twenty-one per :Bons had lost their lives.' The Times is owned by Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, who has fought union laoor bitterly snd persistently. Detective William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective Agency,'.was employed immediately to run down tho criminals, and with his employ ment began one of [ the most; remark able detective cases known to Amer ican criminal history, in which sen sation followed sensation, .culminat ing Friday in the confession of the two McNamaras. A??ut tQe 20ta of April last James ; Barnabas McNa mara, the younger of the two broth ers, and Ortle E. McManigal of the Structural Ironworkers' Umou, were arrested as they stepped out of the Oxford Hotel in Detroit. Two days later Detective Burns, with a force of his own and city de tectives, walked into a meeting of the executive board of the Iron Work ers' Union in Indianapolis and arrest ed John Joseph McNamara. He had indictments with him, charging the pi isoner with maliciously and will fully placing explosives within the Llewellyn Iron Works of Los Ange les, and with murder and complicity in the dynamiting of the Times' Building. They were all 'taken to Los Angeles, Cal., for trial. After being brought to {rial Mc Manigal turned State's evidence and I told all about the awful" crime. "The f crime of a century"", was occupying; the attention of ^nations,; but: the ?whole world gasped when it read the confession of Ortle. McManigal,.which told the gruesome story of how' the ? ^Jives of 112 men were snuffed out and property worth $3,5DJ),000 was. de stroyed,; and how arch "plotters sat in secret conferences and passed sen tences of death. McManigal told the most amazing story of wholesale crime that a gov ernment officer has ever listened to in a careless, even nonchalant man ner. At times he.seemed to be borj&i ! by the telling. His confession in volved two others beside^ hjmself i and McNamara. These.ware^M. Av Schmidt, formerly a prominent jmem ber of the Woodworkers' Union of k Chicago, and Dave Kaplan^Vbi) was. later supposed-to have^beenjj mur?t dered to keep htm> from~"peachlng." He swore the "gang' had been im- 'i plicated in more than a dozen explo sion outrages in the previous year, .tjnat. they had been well paid for their work, and he was positive that Sec rotaiy John J. McNamara Twas the head and the brains of the conspira cy. " He admitted freely that he and Jimes E McNamara had "pulled off" the explosions in South Chicago, Mil waukee and Indianapolis. In great ?detail he gave the' carefully,laid" plans to dynamite the Times'Builuingy.biit insisted that James B. McNamara,. Schmidt and Palin did the actual work. v. :t : This confession was supplemented by another made a few days-later-Hn ; Los Angeles. For three, hours, Me-. Manigal told how he and J,. 3. McNa mara destroyed or attemptedVW''de stroy sixty-nine structures which were built or being built by members "of the National Erectors' Association. John J. McNamara was the.ca'pfain ?nd paymaster, testified the prisoner. Here is an extract from the confes sion: . 4. f "J. J. McNamara laid all the plans. He is a lawyer and knows the value of evidence. It was explained to pie by J. J. and James B. and that the clock arrangement of bombs was one that would establish a definite alibi in case we should be suspected. For ex ample, when I was sent out here to blow up the auxiliary plant of the Times and later decided to destroy tho Llewellyn works I used nitrogly cerine. I set the explosive at the side of the building at.7 o'xlock'^in. ibs evening. The alarm.clock, as I re member it, was uet for 2. Immedi ately after I had placed the explosive 1 took the S o'clock train for San I rancisco. When the alarm winde" went off and touched the connecting wires I was asleep and well on ray way to San Francisco. This plan seemed infallible to me." It was the discovery of these clocl: movements in baggage belonging to McManigal and James B<. McNamara which did more than anything else perhaps to convince Detective Burns that he had the right men. McMani gal said he usually got $200 in ad vance for a "job" and from $1,00 J to $5,000 after he had 'pulled it Off." His account of how thn Times Building was wrecked follqws: "James B. McNamara entered the Times Building, early in the evenlrg. and placed a suitcase containing for ty sticks of giant gelatine. This was -Y. STATE CONVENTION ASSEMBLES AT GREENWOOD. Interesting Program Prepared for Convention Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of This Week. The State Baptist Convention con venes in Greenwood this morning and continues through Friday morn ing. Quito a number of ministers and laymen from this section will at tend and the convention promises to be of great Interest. From the program it wlll.be no ticed that special periods are set for the discussion of the two leading edu cational institutions cf the denomi nation in the State, Furman Univer sity and the Greenville Female Col luge. The following Is the full pro gram for the convention: Tuesday Evening. 7:30:?Convention sermon. Organi zation. Address of welcome and re-, sponse. Wednesday Morning. 9:15?Devotional exercises. 9:30?Recognizing visitors and prstors. Reports from boards es fol lows: (Ministerial Education. Aged Ministers' Relief. Baptist Mutual Benefit Association. Connie Maxwell Orphanage. Furraan Universiay. Greenville Female College. Ander son College. Sunday School Field Secretary. Executive Board. 11:15?Southern Baptist Theologi cal Seminary. .12:15?Baptist Young People's Work. 1:00?Adjourn. Wednesday Evening. 17:3 0?Devotional exercises. 7:45?Sunday School Board. 8": 15?Foreign missions. . Thnrsday Morning. 9:15?Devotional exercises. 9:30?Aged Ministers* Relief. . 10:00?State Missions Evangelism Sunday Schools. 11:45?Home- Missions. 1:00?Adjourn. Thursday Afternoon. 3:00?Reading minutes. 3:15?Orphanage. i "3:4:3?Furman University. 4:45?Religious literature. Thursday Evening. 7:30?Devotional exercises. . 7:45-?Educational Commission. 8:15?Anderson College -8:4.5??Green vUle Female- College. Friday Morning. ,9:!5<?Devotional exercises. ' D:30?S. C. Baptist History. '?10:00?Obituaries. Reports and miscellaneous business. Reading min utes. Final adjournment. ?MANY SEE AVIATOR FALL. American Airman Dies From 200 . , . Foot Plunge at Ponce. Tod Schriver, a well-known Ameri can aviator, was killed Saturday even ing In a flight which he was making at Ponce, Porto Rico. Schriver fell from a height of 200 feet into a cane field and died within half ar. hour, while on the way to a hospital. Thou sands of spectators witnessed the ac cident. Schriver ascended over Ponce in "a bald win aeroplane and went through a number of evolutions. Ap parently he lost control of the ma chine in making a turn. The aero plane swooped to the earth and land ed with a crash, Schriver being half buried in the wreckage. ' HAVE LITTLE SYMPATHY. Only One Hundred Dollars Contribut .cd to Chinese Snfferers. >J Only one hundred dollars was re ceived ifrom the entire country in re sponse to at: American Red Cross, appeal issued a month ago for funds to aid the Chinese famine sufferers and' assist in the establishment of Red. Cross societies in China. This amount,- too Insignificant to forward, Is .being held with two hundred dol lars "collected for same purpose last summer with the hope that it will be substantially increased. placed in a blind alley where the ex plosive force would not be wasted On leaving the building he broke off a gas jet, and this accounted for the strong smell of gas which the em ployees noticed. Then be rushed to the station and was on his way to San Francisco long before the ex plosion. J. J. ordered me to go our. there and 'snoot the office of the pub lishers.1 " And so the confession ran, crime after crime being set forth in detail, the prisoner showing little emotion and expressing no sorrow. As the evidence more and more closely en meshed the two brothers the labor forces rallied stronger and stronger to their support. This one point, however, may r? made for McManigal. He was sern out, according to his confession, to dynamite the auxiliary building of the Times. He found that he could not do this without loss of life, and through some impulse gave up that iob and voluntarily assigned himself the one of dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron Works. Died From Football Injuries. Charles D. Benson, the 17-year-old left halfback of tho Newport News, Va., high school football team, who had. his, neck broken in the game against Fredericksburg College Fri day, died there that night. ORANGEBI ASTOUNDED GOMPERS PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN FED ERATION OF LABOR. Says He Has Been Deceived But is Not Apprehensive as to Effect of Development on Labor. "I am astounded, I am astound ed. My credulity has been imposed upon. It is a bolt out of a clear sky " The exclamations were those of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, when advised of the pleas of guilty in the McNamara case. Mr. Gompers was on his way from Washington when he was' awakened at a New-Jersey station by an Asso ciated Press reporter. He went to the rear of the car and read careful ly the account of the sensational de velopments of the Los Angeles dyna miting case. The labor leader was visibly moved as he read how the men in whose defense he had spoken and worked so untiringly had admitted their guilt. Tears came into his eyes and The hand that held the pages shook. He said nothing, however, until he had finished the story and then he broke forth with his exclamations of astonishment and indignation. "If this is all true my credulity has been imposed upon," he declared. "I as astonished at this news. We have haci the gravest assurances given to us by every one connected with the trial, either directly, or indirectly, that these men were innocent." Asked if he would have anything to say about the prisoners personally, he replied: "No, I "shan't add to the misery by condemnation of them." "What effect do you imagine this will have on labor unions? 'i To this inquiry Mr. Gompers up held his fingers and ejaculated: "None!" Referring to the explosion Mr. Gompers continued: "We have discouraged acts like those. We have patriotic and peace loving men, and we have only a wish to call out the best elements in hu man nature. Those two men must have been crazy. It is an act that 1 condemn with all the force that is In me." Asked again if be believed that developments would injure the cause of labor, tears came into Mr. Gomp ers eyes as he answered: "They are not going to do it any gC'Oa, but I want to repeat that the cause of labor has been imposed up on both by supposed friends and en emies. The men of labor were led to believe that the McNamara boys were innocent and they acted on that be lief. I received letters from them myself protesting their Innocence, and it was only in September that I visited them in their cells in the Los Angeles jail when they abked me to deliver a message to the labor inter ests of the country that they were innocent men. "The cause af labor can not win by such methods as these men pursued. Damage to property and destruction of life we have denounced and done all in our power to prevent. Such methods as these we have got to stamp out. "This unexpected self-conviction is nothing more or less than a failure of twu individuals to live up to the high principles of organized labor and can not reflect just condemnation upon the CKiise as a whole." Asked what action the American Federation of Labor might take, Mr. Gompers said the news was too re cent for him to make any prediction. "The American Federation of Lab or only closed its annual meeting Thursday," he added. "As to a pos sible si>ecial meeting it is too early to say." CAR DYNAMITED. Motorman and Dispatcher Hurt, But Passengers Escaped Injuries. At Birmingham, Ala., on Frida? an interurban car on the South Ens jey line was blown up by ciynamitt at Ensley Highland station shortly after 7 o'clock. Motorman JohnsoL was seriously injured and Dispatcher Parsons was cut about the face b} flying glass. Conductor J. D. Let and the passengers escaped unin jured. Feeling against tho local tractlor. company has been aroused by sign ing last Saturday by the city com missioners of a new contract with the company affecting street car rates transfers and the prices of electricity The chief seat of objection has beer, around Wylam, a place near Ensley where transfers are not allowed un der the new arrangement. Took His First Ride. He's 43 years old, has lived within one mile of Newberry all his life, had never ridden on a train before, had never seen a skyscraper or street car and had never boon to Columbia. This Is the case of S. D. Price, who went to take his wife to a hospital to have an operation performed. Killing Over an Overcoat. At Jackson, Miss., Samuel E. Hicks, a clerk, is dead, and W. H. Mallett Is under arrest, charged with the killing of Hicks, the outcome of an argument as to the owenership of an overcoat. The shooting occurred late Friday In a, local hotel. JRG, S. C, TUESDAY, DECE PLEAD EMLTY James B. McNamara Cufesscs to Blow ing Up the Times Building. ?m " BOLT FROM A CLEAR SKY T Eeaonshrdu etaon snrdlu cmfwyp The Explosion at Loa Angeles, Cal., Which Destroyed The Times Build ing and Killed Twenty-One of the Paper's Employees, is at Last Cleared Up. James B. McNamara pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree in Judge Walter Bordwell's court at Los An geles, Cal., Friday. A summary of *he day's happenings included many sensational incidents. James B. Mc Namara pleaded guilty . to having placed a dynamite bomb under the Los Angeles Times building in Octo ter, 1910, and caused the death of 21 persons. ?-?.?- ? John J. McNamara, secretary tioasurer of the Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, brother of James B., did not .enter plea at this time to the indictment similarly entered against him for The Times explosion, but when he is ar ranged next Tuesday it is virtually ceriain proceedings against him for this charge will be dismissed, as the Slate admits it has no evidence con necting John J. McNamara directly v. itb this particular disaster. John J., however, pleaded guilty to the charge of having caused the ex plosion of the Llwellyn Iron Works, In which no fatalities occurred. District Attorney John D. Fred ericks will recommend life imprison ment for James B., and ten years for John J., but Judge Walter Bordwell alone can fix the sentence. Ortle E. McManigal, who con fessed to having actually blown up the Llwellyn Iron >works there in December, 1910, at the direction of John J. McNamara, will be brought to trial,, but it is expected the State will recommend a light sentence be cause he turned State's evidence. The scene in the court room Fri day was one of protracted tension. Sensation followed sensation with such rapidity that the gaping crowd hardly realized what happened in those few minutes of formal pro cedure. In less than twenty minutes the b'g case was disposed or, but for hours previously there had been a feeling that something startling would develop, and so closely guard ed was information that spectators ? ere prepared for anything except the thing presented. It was not thought, that after the vigorous battle waged thus far, one side would lay down its arms so will irgly, so freely and even so happily? for both prisoners smiled, chewed gum and appeared as they nave on other days, confidently unconcerned. Even the district attorney was not sure until just before noon that the end was in sight. There were to be developments in the court room, he told his associates, and all brought their wives and fr.ends. In the crowd were detec tives for both sides, many women, and even a.baby that emitted a whine almost simultaneously witn the an nouncement of the pleas of guilty of John McNamara. A mass of heads leaned forward expectantly as the hour fo rthe reconvening of court approached. Waiting was a squad of newspaper men who had waded to no avail through a maze of possibilities Fri day to determine the reason for the s.idden halting of the morning's pro ceedings. Three little boxes conceal ing telegraphic wires were prepared for the developments, and less than two seconds after the word "guilty" left the mouth of each defendant the news was being flashed across the land. Seated with district Attorney Fred ericks was his entire staff. Facing him was Clarence S. Darrow and three associate counsel for tho de fendants. James B. McNamara at first took a seat to one side, as usual, with two deputies, but soon Attorney Scott beckoned to him. The two iTitii sat together for a few minutes, and Scott's arm was about the pris oner's neck and he counseled cour age for the supreme crisis. It was James B. McNamara who balked at entering into an arrange ment to plead guilty if It might af fect his brother. He was willing to sacrifice himself, but he wanted his brother to go free. The attorneys, however, convinced him that, the bet ter course was for both to plead guilty and take their chances on a merciful sentence. Word tha' John J. McNamara was coming caused the frst ripple of ex citement. He had not visited the court room since October 11, when the trial was begun, and the cases of the McNamaras were severed. When he entered it was generally realized that the case had reached a climax. Tho bailiff rapped louder than usual when Judge Wordwell mounted the bench. Instant silence fell. Tho "people versus McNamara," remarked the court, and Attorney Le Comte Davis of the defense rose. "In this case." he declared, "after long consideration, we have con cluded to withdraw the plea of not guilty and have the defendant enter a plea, of guilty; and the like course i MBER 5, 1911. we intepd to pursue with reference to J. J. iMcNamara, in the case of the people against him, wherein he is charged with having destroyed the Llewellyn Iron works." Mr. Fredericks?"Mr. J. B. McNa ma|ra, will you stand up, please?" The defendant arcse. Mr. Fredericks?"Mr. J. B. McNa mara, you have heietofore been ar raigned on this indictment, number 6.H39, and have entered your plea thereto of not guilty. Do you wish to withdraw that plea of not guilty?" . The defendant?"Yen, sir." Mr. Fredericks?"The prisoner an swered yes. J. B. McNamara, you have heretofore been arraigned on this indictment as stated before and you have withdrawn your plea of not guilty heretofore entered. Do you wish now to plead at this time?" Mr. Davis?"At this time, yes, sir." Mr. Fredericks?"To this indict ment, number 6,939, charging you with the crime of murder, do you plead guilty or not guilty?" The defendant?"Guilty." i Mr. Fredericks?"Guilty, your honor. Do the court and counsel for I he defense wish to take up the other case?" The court?"I will dispose of this matter and the time for sentence. The court appoints the time for pro nouncing judgment in this case as 10 o'clock on Tuesday, the 5th day of December, 1911. Mr. Frederick?"J. J. McNamara, Y.vll you stand, up, please?" He arose. Mr. Fredericks?"J. J. McNamara, you have heretofore been arraigned on Indictment number 6,955, in which you are charged with the crime of exploding, or attempting to, dynamite, nitroglycerine, etc., in the buildings, or near the buildings ad jacent to the Llewlyn Iron works. You have been arraigned on that in dictment and entered your plea of not guilty. Do you now wish to with draw that plea of not guilty?" The defendant?"I do." . Mr. Frederick?"Do you wish now at this time to plead to the indict ment?" The defendant?"I do." Mr. Fredericks?"J. J. McNamara, you have heretofore been arraigned in indictment number 6,995. This Is the time agreed upon for you to plead to the same. Do you wish to plead guilty or not guilty " The defendant?"Guilty." Mr. Fredericks?"Guilty, your honor." The court?"Well, I will appoint the time for pronouncing the judg ment in thi3 case as 10 o'clock a. .m., December 5, 1911, which is next Tuesday." There was a rush for the inclosure where the attorneys sat when around the district attorney to congratulate him upon the way he worked up his case. He smiled in return?not a smile of exultation, but relief. "I don't want a pound of flesh," he explained. "I look at this from two view points. As a lawyer I wanted these men to plead guilty because they were guilty?because the evidence we gathered showed them guilty be yond any doubt. But as a man, I want to say that if 1 can recommend a less severe punishment than death or be merciful any way and at the same time rid union labor of its de oire to use violence to obtain its ends, I want to do that thing. GOVERNMENT JS DEMORALIZED. Tlmgs Loot Banks and Shops at Will in Canton, China. News from China says in the towns and settlements along the river the most deplorable outrages are fre quently occurring. Even in Canton the military regime has proved itself wholly insufficient. For several days a; med hands of robbers and hood lums have gone about Canton, loot ing shops and houses. Friday five rufflians, bristling with revolvers, walked boldly into a bank in a southern suburb and got away with $5,000 in cash. About the same time a band of seven armed natives blustered into the open market and boidly plundered two prominent shops, before the eyes of hundreds of panic-stricken on-lookers. They secured several hundred dol lars in money and then walked off. The local police, disarmed, watched ? he spectacle helplessly. Street fight ing goes on continuously in all parts ?of Canton and those killed or injured Included many innocent bystanders. SEVENTY YEARS SENTENCE. Man Given a Long Prison Term For Trying to Kill. At Vienna, Austria, Njcgus, the Daimatian who fired four shots at Herr Mochenburger, minister of jus tice, during the session of the Austri an reichsratb on October r>, was sen fnced tc 70 years' hard labor. The trial lasted two days. N'jegus had pro cured admission to the public gallery of the lower house of the reichsratb on October 5 during a debate on the severity of some sentences imposed on rioters who had protested against the high cost of food. lie fired de liberately at the ministerial bench where Herr Mochenburger and Count Stnrgkh were seated but the bullets did not strike any ono. Old Lady Burned to J)eath. At Waleka, Fla., Mrs. Mattie Bor ing, 81 years of age, was burned to death at her home Sunday night. iMTE. Boring was sitting by an open fireplace when her clothing caught fire, and, .being very feeble, was un able to call for help. MIR CRUEL DEEDS WOUNDED MEN ABE CRUCIFIED AND BURIED ALIVE. Dreadful Barbarities Practiced on Italians by Turks and Arabs in Tripoli War. Stories of almost incredible bar barities practiced by Arabs and Turks are related in dispatches received at the Itaiian embassy at Washington. In a dispatph received Saturday from Rome the Italian minister of foreign affairs describes alleged atrocities practiced on the Italian wounded, which includes crucifixion and burial alive. Women, it is said, take part in the perpetration of the cruelties. ;The dispatch, which is signed by Signor San Guliano, minister of for eign affairs, follows: '"Near the mosque of Hani, where the medical post of the Twenty-sev enth battalion of 'Barsaglieri had been located, and in its vicinity 28 bodies of our soldiers were found. They were horribly mutilated, cruci fied, with their throats cut open, im raied, torn to pieces and dismem bered. Among them there was the body of a surgeon lieutenant. "In the Arab cemetery, near the place where the fourth company of Bersagrierl was located, seven bodies were discovered. They had been in teved alive with their heads out of the earth. The body of one of these shows that they had been terribly tortured. "It showed many shots and dagger wounds; the eyes had been pulled out and threaded and the eyelids sewn to the eyebrows. His body shows ter rible spasmodic contractions. Anoth er one had one arm out of the earth from which the had had been cut off. The body of a Bersagierl had been torn to pieces. "A captains cap has been f^und. Its owner was identified by Corporal Pasqul, Who escaped miraculously af ter remaining over four hours In a ditch. He testified that among the ferocious horde were Turks and wo women. The military engineering corps took photographs. "It is reported that tonight (No vember 9) in the Arab cemetery in the interior of the city the bedy of an Italian gunner was found with many dagger wounds. The murder ers were many, and amongst them tnere. was a local policeman .W5apUA>, who is now under arrest. From oth er sources It is reported that the murder was committed by the afore said Zaptie, with the passivo assist ance of other Zapties, who concealed the crime." The dispatch also confirms the withdrawal of the Italian troops from Henni. This," It is said, was neces sary because the Turks had polluted the wells. -?P? CROP THAT PAYS WELL. What An Aiken Young Women Did With Small Tomato Patch. The Columbia Record says Editor Hugh Long, in the Wagener Edisto News, wrotes with proper 7/ride con cerning the tomato production record made by Miss Deborah Terrick of Ridge Spring, who seens to have passed the mark set last year by an other Aiken County girl, Mis.!i Katie Gunter. Miss Derrick had one-tenth of an acre plante.I in tomatoes. From this small plot, of ground she gathered large quantities of tomatoes for household consumption, either raw, or in the form of catsup, pickles and preserves; and, besides this, from the same "patch" she garnered choice tomatoes enough to fill 873 cans. These cans.of tomatoes cost, her 7 cents each and sell readily at 12 1-2 cents. She estimates her profit from this "patch" on canned tomatoes alone, at $48, which Is at the rate of $480 per acre, very much more than staple crops ever yield. Miss Gunter's ag gregate production of canned toma toes was 630 cans, from one-tenth acre. ROTH ARE Tl ltXEl) LOOSE. Jury Sets Old Man and Woman Free of Murder Charge. Charged with the murder of Wil liam A. Abbott, a young printer, in Spartanburg in September, 1S79, Richard Abernathy, the aged chair maker of Rlacksburg, was found not guilty at 10 o'clock Friday night, af ter the jury had been out four hours and after a trial which consumed the whole day in general sessions court. Mrs. Dora Abernathy wife of Richard's cousin, and aIlej,M acces sory of tho murder, because of whoso illicit relations with Abbott, accord ing to the State, the printer was slain, was also found not guilty, the vim diet being directed by Judge Er nest Gary In her case earlier In the day. Foot'uill Player Succumbs. Chas. N. Bensen, the 17-year-old left half back of the local high school football team, who had his nock brok en in the game against Fredericks burg College Friday, died at Newport News, Va., Sunday. \ Chester County Killing. \ . Oscar Fulse was shot and killed Saturday evening at Adam Pressley's store, seven miles north or Chester, by Paul Wilks. -"'Both" parties are .white and of more- oc less promi nence. TWO CENTS PER COPY. GIVES THE PLAN fte Ddails of (he Offer of New York ?aaktrs to Co!ton Farmers. PLAN TO AID THE SOUTH Representative of New York Syndi cate, in Statement. Outlines Terms of Proposition After Conference in Augusta with Commissioner Wot* son and Farmers' Union Officials. A conference was held here this afternoon by President C. S. Barrett, j of the National Farmers' Uu?on; E. J. Watson, commissioner of agricul ture for South Carolina; J. Whitnor I Keid, secretary-treasurer of the South Carolina State Farmers' Union, and Coi. J. G. Anderson, of Rock Hlrh' S. C, and W. H. Stayton, the finan cial representative of the syndicate in New York, which has arranged to . assist the cotton holding movement in the South by the loan of $50,000, GUO, secured by the cotton in various warehouses throughout the South. . The conference lasted throughout the entire afternoon and resulted In the specific announcement of the plans of the syndicate. Following the conference, Mr. Stayton Issued a statement, detailing the syndicate's plan, as followii: "I came here as the representative of the syndicate which recently made, propositions to .finance a movement to enable the planter to get a fair price for the remainder of thin year's cotton crop. At my request Commis-^ sioner E. J. Watson, of South Caro-". lina; Mr. Barrett, president' of the National Farmers' Union, and iMr.'' Reid, secretary-treasurer of the South Carolina farmers'' Union, met here for a conference, in order that t might get information concerning the handling of cotton and other practical points, and in order also that I mlgfit. learn the desires of the planters and the sort of financing proposition that; would best suit thera. "I am going to t?te until Monday to think these matters over and shall in the meantime communicate with my principals and Monday I will be ready to give out a more definite statement?:'? cite&i~;~' " "In a general way, my people are ready to advance 350,000,000'to sup port a plan, the outlines of which are as follows: " 'No. 1. The cotton owner will deliver his cotton to the usual, cot ton buyer in his. locality, who will buy: the cotton and take title to It im mediately. " 'No. 2. ' The owner will'receive $25 per bale in cash on account and will also receive a negotiable certifi cate setting forth the interest, which the owner has in whatever price may thereafter be received for the cot ton. " 'No. 3. The cotton owner may at any time prior to January 1, 1913, name a date vhen he wants to finally fix the price he Is to receive, and on that date that he so names settlement will be made on the basis of pre vailing quotations for that date. " 'No. 4. On this settlement the fanner will be allowed the price his cotton is worth on the date named and from this sum will be deducted the $25 already advanced to him (no interest will be charged) and ah;o $1, as the cost of grading, stor age, insurance, etc., together with a sum equal to one-quarter of the rise in price, which will be the syn dicate's compensation for its ser vices.' "In other words, if the price does not go up the syndicate gets nothing except $1 for grading, storing, insur ance, etc., and if the price is ad vanced through this movement then the syndicate gets one-quarter of the advance and the cotton owner the other three-quarters. "Of course, it is not possible for my principals to deal direct with ov ery individual farmer and it it*, there fore, proposed that in each State there shall be a committee of three of the leading citizens of tho State, who will act as the trustees for all of 'he farmers in their State, and will see that the farmers' interests are piotected. "For example, it will be the duty of tnese trustees to see that the neces sary banking arrangements are made, so that the unpaid part of the purchase price is fully secured. At the present price the farmer would receive $2." per bale in cash and there wiil be still due him $15 to $20. This n oney must be deposited in local banks, or some arrangements satis factory to the trustees must be made in each Stat3,.?so that this $15 or ?20 is absolutely secured to the farm er in order that his certificate or re ceipt may have a real value and bo something on which he can borrow money. "P,y Monday I will be ready, I think, to suggest other plans which y.-ill be satisfactory to us and may better suit the planters." Boat's Boiler Burst. At Pittsburg, Pa., with a concus sion that broke hundreds of win dows in the city the boiler3 of the towboat Diamond, on the Ohio River, exploded Sunday;-kHling the-eaptato. and four of the crew, and injuring five other3,'twd of whom are-* flying. The boat lies at the bottom <& the. Ohio.