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VoL. X I. MANNING. S. C.,WEDN ES1AY. SEPTEMBE . )5 TERRIBLE WRECK. I'assenger Train on the Southern Falls Through Trestle VERY NEAR YORKVILLE. Six men it-Tpo ted Killed and Many more Seriously i i. nured crowds (o to their Assistance. A special from Chlarlotte to the State says: Passenger train No. 15. northbound, on the South Carolina and Georgia I1tension railroad. for merly the Three Cs, now operated by the Southern railway, went throughi a trestle 50 feet high over Fishing creek. three miles east of Yorkville. ahout 11.:0 &oloek Tiursday. kiin g six men and injuring 2. tive of whetu will likely die. Three of the latter are negro passengers. TilE DEAD. Engineer Brickman. Fireman Fred Rhyne. Postal Clerk Smith and three un known negroes. THE INL3'RED-WIlTE. Julius Johnson of Rock Hill. per haps fatally. W. L. Slaughter. Hickory Grove. serioiiy. Fred Poag. Laieaster. P . W. Spence. Roddeys. J. N. MeLaurin. Bethume. Mrs. J. C. IIoyd. Pressly. N. C. Mrs. H. B. Iluist. Rock Hill. B. F. Williford. Charlotte. T. C. Hicks. L.ucaster. seriously. W. 1Harry Wvlie. Jr.. Rock 11,11. R. A. Willis. Edgemoor. T. M. Stephenson. Kershaw. - Cunningham. Lancaster. 0. V. HaIl. Rock Hill. Mrs. Sadie Mcaskill. Kershaw. Two children uamed Jenkins of Rock Hill. Conductor Ed Turner. Baggagemaster Dukes. Flagman Whisonant. TIlE INJPRED-C00.OED. Billie Beard. Rock l:l. Frank Burris. Sharon. Alex Hurry. Mc&onnelsville. All the bodies have been taken out save those of the ecngineer and :ire man. 110w IT jArENE'>. The train cinsiszed of an gine and three cars. I left Rock Hill a-xut 11 o'clock wit about 40 passen gers on board. Whepn the train passed ipon the trestle the entire structure under the cars gave way.' hrling the engine and cars to the bank of the creek. about 30 feet below. R 1. Williford of Charlotte, who was slightly inj.ared. displayed rare presence of miini in belping the pas sengers. The ti~nbers of the bridge were rot ten and to this fact is ascribed the cause of the wrek. DA-ts or THE AcYE r. The State special creponden writing fo Rock Hill says: Pas sengrer'train 3o. 13. on the old Toree )s. Thursday morning broke t-rough the trest.e over Fishing creek. about u ies west of RxtmBllan: zzte engine with three cars --ned4 ft to the bed of the iittle stream. ber cthers Enziner Henry Brickrman a re Rnvne are spped to :te uner h de,.. shed engine. The pcsta& c.:erkr was killed i s -ag'e M~ ~: ws~s guied I9 e the -keu bish..ie many ladies amongst them. ' we"Z the scene and rendered :ill the a thev could to the injured. Crowds men, both whibt and colored, work( imanfully in trYing to remove t] wreck. It was dillicult to get a li of thle injureni as som were broug] here and soime taken to Iuek Hill. Th1e ladies of our town respondi promptly and went to the Parish hot and helped to prepare beds and co for the injured and also in ministe ing to the sufferers. Those taken tile Parish iotel are: Mrs. Sar Wadiron, Bessemer City, N. C., c about face and back wrenched: Mr 11. B1. liaist of Winthrop college. ci and'bruised: Harry Wylie. Jr., Ro( Hll, lace cut and shoulder bad bruised: B. P. Wiisonant. Black burg. badly injured internally; M Hieks of Lancaster, a traveling ma thigh broken and other injuries: I 11. Morrow, banker. Blacksburl thigh broken, severe injuries: N1 I Turner, conductor, badly bruist about face and eyes injured. At the residence of Dr. A. Y. Car wright is D. -. Dukes of St. George express and baggage inesseuger, wi has severe bruises on hth legs. ar two Voung imen who were on the way to Clemson college. Fred C. PN: and llazel Cunuinham ->f Lancaste both siaken up and bruised but iu seriousIV. There are several negroes in tom who were bruised and cut but not s riously. It was a fact of wonderment to: who saw the wreckage that tb trestle had not gone down before th time. as some of the timbers were ve rotten. Down ton Washington. The suffrage league of Boston. uegro organization Wednesday uigl adopted resolutions declarinig: Inasmuch as Booker T. Vashin ton has gloritied the revised constit tion of the South. has minimized t1 Jim Crow case outrage. has attacke the wsidom of the fourteenth and t! teenth Lmendments to the constit tion: has deprecated she primary it oortance of the ballot. has preacht to the colored people silent submissic to int-vlerable conditions and mak, his people a by-word and laughir stock before the world. he is not a leader for the colored race and no pr i sident who recognizes him as a polit cal leader should receive the color' nt ve of the North. "Therefore. since President Roos velz has give him the chargie of a pointments of all Degroes of whatevi state in the Union. and has made hi: the nezro2' adviser as to all policit ai ecting colored Americans. in ti interests of cur race we call up( Pre.sident Rloosevelt to dispense wit Mr. Wasington as cur politic SspokeIsmen.. Escape Convict's Crime. SBu- Clark-e. a miner. was throw from a Frisco train Wednegdav afte IMO:: nea Cordova. by Je\ -an Hor a conviet wo escaoed fn--:- Jeferso wouv g a se honths agc. T whiSky boess weapons. Clarke hod on a ear plafform rai was broke by\ " :lcrs. w". cut his hands wit the brokez c'as The t-ain wa~s rir -e"ne .-rl:id and& did not stop) to les: Clg-s' coi~iton. but he is 'olieve te hv ..eert ..ei'. Ya~n Horn w: arested at Horse Crek after a de A. Marderou- Lunatic. of W~ashizgzcn Grve M. a paie \ew Cot.neri N'e. to A STRONG PAPER. ;d me Edward M. Shepard's Defence of the t St It South's Suffrage Laws. t ,d -- el AN OUTSPOKEN DEMOCRAT. ts r- - c to He Thinks the South Justified it at in Restricting t.he Suffrage t S.t in the Way that it She Does. s- The Evening Post has sent thef r. letter of inquiry, printed below, to! many prominent northern Democrats f as to their position on the question t r of negro suffrage. So far the only an- f A swers received have been from Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Edward M. Shep ard. Mr. Cleveland's letter is as fol- d lows: d To the Editor of The Evening Post: q r Sir: Your letter propounding cer- p tain questions touching negro suffrage 0 r, in the south is at hand. s t. I am n:t willing to take from my s vacation the time necessary to an- t .n swer these questions in a thorough s e- manner--even if 1 were inclined to k enter into the discussion invited by h ll your request. d is Grover Cleveland. i is Buzzard's Bay. Mass., July 21. ry This letter of ex-President Cleve- t land was sent in reply to the follow- G ing inquiry: is Dear Sir: It is frequently alleged p a in the southern press that leading t t northern Democrats are in sympathy u with the effort to disfranchise t'he ne- p gro in the south, under color of laws i unequally enforced as between whites p )e and blacks. To test the truth of this d d assertion, The Evening Post respect- g f- fully asks you to give it for publica- V i- tion your opinion upon the folowing t a- statement of facts: d In the case (18.721) cf Jackson W. e >n Giles. appellant. vs. the Board of Reg- a istrars of Montgomery County. Ala- c bama. argued before the United States i supreme court at the October term of si e- 102. it was shown that the said board R i- of registrars refused to register quali- p Sfled negroes "for no other reason than n their race or color." The brief for a e the appellant specided that "more r - than 5.000 colured persons' in Mont- c r gomery county alone are thus exclud- n Sed from the suffrage. though "quali- a S ded under the law of the State of Ala- n bama and of the United States.. b n Granting the truth of these state- 't b #ments and failing intervention by the d a r supreme court. a 1) Has congress any duty in the n premises: :3) I: the constitutional guaranties g n and penalties provided for such a case ? r- ae allowed to lapse, what others can s! 2. we count upon remain-ng in vigor: b n t3) If the negro may be deprived o e the suffrage in the south. how long a d will it be before the same argument p s wii be adduced. as M.. Das Pass o'f _ the New Y'ork bar admits that it may a . be. f.r the disfranchisement of the S' 1-: 'oreig:n-born voters in the north wi c -n r'e t' pecliar srenge rof the D~no- * sBy answering: tbese enestions~ at p - orearlies~t conven ience- you Wi. Ditor of The Evening Pos - -drs of Ene :o.lowing gentleman - s ard Olney.IDavid B. EBi. JuienHa cc. Ed ard -.She~ar. E3 .rs.2o Chi*cazo a: -a -: J-hn sce ofCw.n rom mere rnoney damages (confessed y no adequate reparation) must be riven by the people of his State or by he "legislative and politica: depart nent of the government of the United ;tates." President Roosevelt is at he head of such department: and of uis position he is amply conscious. Ie talks of a "square deal" to negro itizens. He thinks that the impor ance of their recognition justities the temoralization of the public service .t the south :y negro appointments vhich are personally offensive to nine .enths of those having business with he offices: and this, while he refuses .t the north to appoint negroes to >laces of like relative importance. It s the duty or the president to execute xisting laws. Does he think that here are laws assuring negro suffrage -ich are not, but which can be, en arced? It is his constitutional duty o recommend new laws when old laws ail. Does he recommend any such tew laws? if so. what are they? Iud why has he not recommended hem before. and why did not Presi ent McKinley recommend them? eLnd why, I wonder, were not your uessions addressed to the Republican resident or the Republican congress f Republican statesmen after an un- t atisfactory answer by the Republican upreme court? The liepublican par h as been continuously iri power Ince March, 187. and has perfectly nown the southern situation. It as neither done nor sugge.sted the oing of anything to right the wrong, wrong there he- And why not? I decline to assume with you that he supreme court was wroni! in the iles case: or that if, as you seem to nply, "Constitutional guarantee and enalties * * * are allowed to lapse." hat is to say, allowed by the refusal f courts, presidents, cingresses and ui>lic sentiment to enforce them-it s useful to enact other guaranties and enalties the emI1eacy of which equally epends upon courts. presidents. con resses. and public sentiment, and rhich. therefore, would be equally fu ile with those at present existing o also I decline to assume that 'for ign-born voters at the north t re the peculiar strength of the Dem eratic party. I prefer. however. to deal with the e astance of the topic of which you -ould provoke discussion. I believe r foundly~ ir, lemocratic self-g'overn ient: and I make no exception eainst negroes or Filipinos or any me or country which has shown any =pacity for any degree of orderly ad iinistration. I have always hated. nd I nate now more than ever. hu- a an slavery. whether of white men or t lack or yellow or brown. I abhor e suggestion recently made by a istinguished northern clergyman and pproved by a distinguished northern a e wspaper which has warmly suported res:dent Roosevelt. that a system of overnmental campulsor? labor should e imsed upn th negro s at the utb as upon an inferior race. I a, or nreonage and would have every inery of our governmentS. State ed Federa'. appiled to punish and revent it. I honor the Citizeris o. .a'raa who. asprosecutors. 3rge ad jurors have pur:hed it in that t ra.? and t.e -reat .i- rit-y -hite tizeAs thre1. h-esu.or -i n hi v-tn .'' th-lw 3-yoi , r hrersaupa h ..........tymoe mpraiv -a...*frete hite,- . :.. d ......... 3,ta.d1elgiltoe~ce u1 -~L ~ r THE COTTON SITUATION. I New York Broker Says the Farmers Can Control It. .1. 31. Ayer, a New York cotton Jroker, recently presented his views on ,he remarks of Secretary Wilson and ,en. Butler. lie says: "We will all have to recognize that tatements can be made under misap rehension and that men as well quipped both intellectually and in ,he matter of information as Messrs. Sutler and Wilson. can occasionally )e mistaken. Mr. Wilson seems to jave been unfortunate in the use of ,erms. 1y inf -rence, he characterizes Ls gamblers' the men who are credited vith having put the price of cotton gp. If they are gamblers, then, every hopkeeper and every merchant on arth who buys anything with a view ,o selling it for an advance on the >urchase price is a gambler. Cotton s bringing only what manufacturers vill pay for it. Mr. Wilson's 'gam lers' can name any price they please, t they can compel no one to buy. Vhile this is so, it is generally bought, and perhaps must be ad itted, that existing conditions have irought about such manipulative actics as have caused prices of cotton or future mouths to reach a higher vel than they would have touched In he absence of such manipulation. ,ut even in this, the suggestion holds ,od that ro one can be male to buy .t a higher price than he thinks he an afford to pay. "The high level reached has acted s a check on the consumptior: of the upply of ootton in existence, and this as resulted, as Mr. Wilson says, in he closing of many mills and the hortening of time by many others, tc., but as has been pointed out, if very known bale of cotton had been n the hands of the manufacturers nd all of it bad been consumed, this ondition would have necessarily pre ailed some time during the seasr,n ust closing. It is, therefore, clear hat the so-called corner in cotton annot be held responsible for the in onvenience and hardship Imposed on moployes by the cl'osing of the far onies. "The amount of available cotton hat has been or can be marketed rom the -past crop and old supplies t prices ab~ove Si cents is ';rornpara ively small. and taking into consid ration the price at which the greater art of the old crop has been sold, the etual average paid for it by manufac urers would not exceed a price at bich it could :e consumed at sore rotit. Of cour-. the spot prices of da: could rnever have been paid for 11 the old crop without ruin to the actories unless there had been a cor esponding increase in prices of the 2anufactured products. Hence. it )21ows that unless the prices of such roducts carn Iaterially be advanced uring the comirng year. the quota ions of today cannot profitably be id for the cr~ming crop. --Mr. },utier takes occasion to call tiention to the quotatiorns of a cer ain date. Fangirg around 0l'cents for hat on t'ha day ev'ery panter in the .ahr ;cd ae s-2id trse cotvun he xprA(ta tr., prrduce at th'ose prics 70 rbs ildto 80 jso it isi his o& agN NO. th~e sal> Of every 'r.aie O CL;; "'ade o;. the ezcharnge presup Or. ra:, is efr d zni densed i ". jr. a 'sa..- ca>n.At 1* efier7Ad r*huts.e.r~iicen, r . Fo HJORRBLE AFFAIR. Son of Former Mayor Kills Wife's Friend and Himself. HE LOVED HIS VICTIM MADLY. Hle ImploredI Her, in fili WiI;'c' l'renence, to lsC:ave Hier If uMIhantI nume I-'c Wiila laur. Townsend Eldson, sont of farmer mayor of New York, Franklin Edson, in his apartments at .9 West Ninety second street, New York, Wednesday shot and instantly killed Mrs. Fannie Pullen (,f G72 West End avenue and then shot and killed himself. The murder and suicide appear to have been premeditated and followed a dramatic scene in which Edson called upon Mrs. Pullen. a close ant honored friend of his wife and family, to dte sert her husband and children ard fly with him to another State. Mrs. l'ul len, a very handsome woman, is said to have been the daughter of a United States naval ollleer. The louble tragedy brought to the surface the fact that E'sorn, who was 'cornptroller" of St. Michael's l'r'tes tant Episcopal church, had beert sus pected of nisappropriatirig funds be longing to the parish, ani exp. rt ac rouritants are at work on his accounts. It was declarr-d by those relat'd with the family that Edson was firancially distressed because of Wall Street speculations. Whatev.:r may Jiave been the pre cise cause .of thr tragedy, rnerrhers of the Edson family irisi-st that the rnan was insane. Tuere are many indica tions that Edson was madly In 1,ve with Irs. Pullen. On the body of the man was found the following letter: "Mrs. Pullen: Darling, trust John implicity. Hle will always be a go-be tween and faithful. I know himr thoroughly. He will tell you where I am waiting for you, to see your sweet face once more before I go. I arm go ing far, far away, but will die true to you. No matter how long I live I shall lead a new life, and an honest one, and if I can ever comen back to you with my past cleaned up. I will. deare:st. Oh, my God, let ane we and speak toi you once more. I cannot go until y'ou do. I hope and pray that you put in troday s (Sept.) personal. Any way I answered it in tomorrow s. I hope you see it. I cannot sleep. I can orily pray and pray that you will come to me once more. u rely you will after all you have e'res to me in the past 1(0 years. You do !o-e me, darling; I know you dpo. (omme to me once score, darling, if only to say gtodrye. I shall wait here until you cee rne, no matter how long.. John will tell you my hotel name. Ask lerk for me. The following persona;" was pub lished in a morning ri:wspaper W :' tsdav: --B.Leal- %rjthirag fr: arswer to baa ea g'tA ytorue: worried ab:,ut mru: :;en~d w'ord t'Aay: just as true to the foe~ig apear:d W'-dnzsday --Iwv-I arn .oya. anid tru:e: carn ~r ~lIsee yo:: -rust .John: la wll us.1 you wihere I arn': with lo;ne T.eeare balle-;ed to ba tbae two perOrai6 ::::crr" In L':. Pey:--s ra .t. Mr4ads eburl:1: who kn~ew thec eari trana-.:.i is - A;t th~e r.Gost ::ro Qiraa: reidjons eX i~md:-at:*r Edy n n Mr . Pliend , she as.he aid E-00: ~.~'i ad just, :s EIlson tirel Lihe sliot whlleli ell del his owti life. Mlrs. IECdsori fell ti the floor lri :a 'tiit. (;ironer J:eks ni, after snaking : tihoroigh exatmiiat.ioni of Li l Iouse, said LIat, tLie evilttice showed LI h:Lt the miurder atnd sileile were preiiell talted, that lie had foitiil eLters aiid other p:pers ii 'clson's p oissessiot which sliowed that he had a love at. fair. Si r. Pullen, the Itishanud of Lhe incr. lered wariaii who Is a vesLrytiaii ol St. Michael's cliturch, miad, a stl:0e" merit tionight in which lie hrtiidei Ilsort as a del'aulter and forger atil said that he hiad stolti trum tie futid: of St,. Milclael's cliurci. lie also die clared that Idsou soi had atkewipted to kill Mrs. IAlsozi but missed anr killed M rs. 'ullen by error. Mr. l'ulien's staterieit was rio1 borie out by Coroner's 19:yslelar (illarloi, who found powder rnarko on the rleail wonai's face, shownl'r that the pistol must have been hek very close. )r. Cyrus Idson, a brother of the suicide, said Liat the Intimatleris 01 improper iclatLions betweui his b~roth er anid M rs. l'uller were absolutely false. HimI1 brohlier, ho said, had re. cently heeui actlng very stratigely arid had adtitted that he was irivolved It fi an:al 11 ilitcu ltI.les. Ills family, ir. Edsorn said, had be :r'rne so alarmed over his mental cil, dition tIiat arrarigerrehts had beern madie to hiave him exarni.,ed by arm :lieiisit. Ti' shrotiing, Dr. i i:oi Afec~larr:el, was undoubterdly c',nnruitted in a ru mr>:ni,< of imanalacal !reruzy. ADJUTANT GENERAL FROST isur ssltis liIk ItiorS or tie Stt. 'rrEoN tAi t ie War IJ-rnrrment. (;n. Frost has forwarded to the war department his report of the rllita of the State for the year VaO:l up to the 1st of September. The re port deals with the riot calls, with the encarriprnemst, and coricude with reemtnmeridatiors as to future encamp merits. There were bift four calls for the s:rviees of troops to suppre s riots, at Miorsck' Corue:r ost Mare 1'Th, at beaufort on April 12id, at fhrcter on May 4th. arid at Norway onf July 4th, in all of which 'sc the troops re yriuded prornptly and prevented trou ble. Thie account of the various encamp rnents in then fo!i',wed with a detail ed report from Major 11. J Drew V to number of men atteriding and ex. pes:e. The report shows that the Firt, reginment had in camp 40 oif tcrs, arid ne-rn; the Second regiment aiZ: the' Turds4,. All of thee were oriducted In a most creditatie man rr. The :enthu4st- oiver Militia rer ice is due. he tbinis, to the recent Dick military law, which Is con ider ed the bt ever paw&ed 5e rern rnresri. howeve.r, that the appripria tions for c'ampuient pur)' w1i .re dojub i'ed ra'zt year in, order that the men migrst have twO weis iS a <:n ciantrat'd e-amp. tpo!r t im nttr cif targetr2G prrs ,e th': ad jutarit geraera: suggtests$ thiat te: go versinrerat hold Zftinual troh y ':'nsa:t at haianta~h 'ir 5Oome othber fmd h ho4peS viorgar&/>e rise trum ins this Stam soon, rTrgt pratlee ha b'es negieed i rs &Such Carolina, In u i'ew ofthe fact tet u drifis 2 year are r..ow. re-;uired by1 t* war << patrrtand4 that ear::s <xim pLany '%i ge aoet elfAi fr'i the St~ at a re'y~m5'ed e that th* grsvern' pay~ '-.i ma.n el per drjil with Uifn - ; a.'enr-. Trhis Wfil e~rlad~e 1t.e miltia y 'xIn armo(r~5 Wnhiu ar -al neAed,'., tggezitol 'is ?a. -~A5 A RECORI BREAKER Hester's Annual Report Shows Un expectedly Large Consumption of COTTON BY SOUTHERN MILLS. tGreat. u,-itain'. -rainenL~ ncreaseod Nearly Two II unalral Tiotia anel liale. Iborinag 0.10 P'ant Cot ton Waor. The totakl: of Secretary liester's an'iual report of the PutGIl crop of ti: united Shat.e were prounlgated Sept. 1. They elbow recipta of cotton at all (Jiltei States ports fur the year 7,724,104, against 7,c79,290 last year; overland to northern mills and Canada 1,083:,383i~, against 1,lO03,953; southern constiamption taken direct from the linterior of the cotton belt 1,920,072, against 1,i8957,437 Making the cotton crop of tII: Uteted States for 1902-03 amount to 1u,727,559 bales, against 1U,W80,Il80 last year and 10,381,422 the year before. Colonel fIlster has moade his uhual Investigatlon Into the errnuzmption of the soutls and has re eelisved reports by niail and telegraph from every mill corsumiing cotton in t,:e eottn growing states, including woolen uiliia triat have used cotton, and the resits show a total of 2, 00<,721), but of this 80,057 were taken tron ports and included in port receipts. ''tian shows that the mills of the iuutt: have used up 2,758 bales more than during 1901-02 and 379,798 more than during 1900-1901, a rnmost re warkabe suiwirig in face of recent trade coditionis, supposed to have .K been brought about by the abnormal di!?erece between values of the raw ,material and the manufactured article. Coylonel Jlester's full repo ill be ispsued Friday or the day after a wll contain interesting and valuable showing the consumption of the soth by states, the takings and C fn8#1D Lion of northern mills and the w f corsumptiou of A merican cotto, n will also glv the crop by states and facts in relation to the continuane of the remarkable 1ncrease in the spind' les of southern milli, In addition to th, toitabi of the crop and sothern unsuunption as above, Q010e IeSta _. also gave oat the actual crop of the state of Texas, whi1ch amounted to ,C;,e25 bales, against 2,902,X49; of. Indian Territ0ry, which amounted to 41,4', a;gaing 19,694 and of Oldk* hWma, which amonte d thi year to 18,32Z again4 1Z,2 last yoar, me also gave the exporAt for the yeaz r f(ollow: To (eat 1rita1 2 , agaiwit Zp3f5,47, a decrease of 154," 9$9, an Increase of ;9,7IA, to tiniental Kurea port ,3,1 ~againat 28 4 an inrease of i ' : f7 again 122 ,:1, an In. e f10% ws t1 U total eXzpozts foreign, ink inig ritlsh North Ame fre an30 -9' . ja:es 3172,~ 5Le stated that$ Japan and C i :eli'ed of th 9 er<) 32p uJe .s agaJie 1'243, a AYFAIRS AT CLZXS0X, The SkOaPke jxadn4 MM M yS on si )A u. W,. Sip20, washe~ ';5~a ?it Col~ MS3~~i t ~a~ of an an A.'t, myth si meg mdoftgt@ of Cleew o@ge hd sdulrned h Amerite M Wmw ih~ 10. 44ou.e X sm it 1, he here at 1a Vt v~'.wiio the9% ng& 'at-iA . ;. 001 'AI ofi ### :' ~-, aan