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VOL. XXI. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1907. NO 35. BRUTAL MURDER Of a Prominent Citizen of Union County by a Negro. GREAT EXCITEMENT. Mr. Clarence C. 6(st Waylaid by a Negro Pullman Porter at the Sea board Airline Depot and Assassi nated.-A Posse is Hunting the Murderer Down With Several Blood Hounds. A dispatch from Carlisle in Union County to The State says Mr. Clar ence C. Gist was killed there Thurs day night near the Seaboard Air Line depot by Arthur Davis, a negro, whom Mr. Gist had arrested at the base ball grounds Thursday afternoon for boisterous conduct. While being taken to the guard house Davis made threats, saying that he would have further trouble with him. After being released on bond it seemed he hid himself near the ddpot and attacked Mr. Gist while the latter was on his way to his home. After the shooting the negro made his escape but the citi zens are Oetermined to effect his cap ture. A special to The State from Union Thursday night about ten o'clock stated that there was considerable excitement there over the dastardly assassination of Mr. Gist at Carlisle. Parties left Union for Carlisle as soon as they heard of >the crime to assist in hunting the negro down. Blopdhounds were asked to be sent from the State penitentiary, but as the first train leaving for Carlisle was over the Southern at 7:10 Fri day morning it was thought that the dogs would not get there in time to be of service. Capt. Griffith would have sent the dogs Thursday night if there had been any possible way. Hounds were secured from Mon roe, N. C. The Monroe dogs are as fine as can be secured in the South, having been in several very success ful chases. It will be remembered that these dogs were used in the cap ture of the four safe crackers near Monroe in 1902. A message from Carlisle at half past twelve Thursday night stated that no trace had been found of the negro Davis. Conditions there are reported easier. No violence has been done and it is not expected that the citizens of that town will coM mit and rash act in their excitement. Davis is a Pullman porter and has a Pullman pass on his person. Rail road and Pullman officials and con ductors all over the State have been asked to look for hii and it is be lieved that he will be caught in a few days, If not sooner. Mr. Gist was a brother of Presi dent William H. Gist of the Bank of Carlisle and a nephew of the late Gov. Gist. ne was an industrious farmer and was serving as constable for the magistrate at Carlisle when e arrested the negro Davis at .the baseball grounds. Mr. Gist was about 25 years of age. -He marmied two years ago Miss Wilbom, daughter of Mr. Stanford Wilbom, a prominent planter of ~nion county, and who was at one time county commissioner. The negro Davis is about 23 to 25 years of age; utetween 5 feet 6 .in hes and 5 feet 9 inches in height. eight about 160 pounds. He is very black and has bulging eyes, rather red. - Five hundred dollars reward Is offered for his arrest. Davis was arrested on Friday and is in jail to await trial. He was found at the house of another ne gro,~-Chalmers Dawkins, who said he had come to his house the night be fore and asked to be allowed to spend the night. As soon as the officers reached Dawkins, house he told them that Davis was In an up-stairs room, where he was found and arrested. Wade Davis. father of the murder er, George Davis. his brother, and Gorge Lyles, his brother-in-law, have also been arrested as accessor les and locked up. The elder Davis Is a bad fellow, and has been before the courts several times for selling whiskey. One or two of, the last named had pistols on - their persons when arrested. Davis claimed that the. shooting was accidental, waLtch, of course, is all a yarn. Not a word was heard about lynch ing the prisoners, every body seem ing disposed to let the law take its course. Mr. Gist was assassinated for arresting Davis at the ball ground by order of the Intendant of Carlisle. Davis was disorderly at the grounds, and the Intendant told him to be have or leave. This made the fellow mad and he became more disorderly than ever. Then Mr. Gist was order ed to arrest him, which he dian locked him up. -d In a short time Davis was turned out on bond, his father and a white man signing it. Davis then went te his father's restaurant and got a pis tol. He way laid Mr. Gist on his way home and shot him. There is nc doubt about the guilt of Davis. and be will be executed accordingly after afair trial. The man at whose.Mi Davis was arrested is a well-to-go re spectble negro. Dandshe hadsn de the officers asked him If he had seen Davis he told them where they could find him. PLOUGHED UP REMAINS Of Six Confederate' Soldiers on the Battlefield of Antietam. Frank Otto and Arthur Day plow ed nCapt. David Smith's orchard on uptietam battlefield, near Sharps bur, the bodies of six Confederate Ti exped to the air, when the cumble txos dust. Alongside on of themboes wer a sword, epaulets and bodges butons the accoutrements ofand olarg butos leg of one of the e n hadiceen aptted. A bullet asond i themskull of one of thE sodi E. Snaavely, referringofd atol containing the names of Cedat th soldiers buried, ascertainedl tha T remains were thosientf eorgia: lillgan, of the F fteeth eoutt ieut. E. M. Fuller, of th Herrin Carona volunteers: D. -B. Hrob.g 'of the First North Carolina: B. Rob bins, of the First McIntosh Battery A W. Spraight, of theThrNot Carolina, and W- 6. Wllingham. o Company L, Twelfth South Caroih -volunteers. VERY BAD MAN Ha Is Wanted in Two States foi His Many Crimes. An Officer From Greensboro, Ga., Came For Him, But Papers Werf Not Right. The State says William P. Lovett, who is now in jail in Bamberg, is in a bad way. Two States are after him, and between the two he may serve a long long time, in prison. The crimes of which he is accused are the das tardly kind that make men rejoice to see punishment meted in return. Those whom he offended were wo men, or, in the eyes of the law, chil dren. One of these he misled, the other two he married. R. E. Bethea, chief of police of Greensboro, Ga., r 'ved in Col umbia Sunday with requisition pa pers issued by the State of Georgia. Gov. Ansel turned the documents ov er to the attorney general, but Mr. Lyon reported that the papers had been made out improperly. Gov. An sel therefore declined to issue extra dition papers. The warrant upon which Lovett was arrested and is being held for the Georgia authorities charges him with seduction. There is a graver charge against him now, that of big amy. Into the lives of three women this man has come and brought sorrow. It is probable that before the Georgia authorities can file additional requisition papers, Lovett will have been arrested under a warrant sworn out in South Caro ina, charging him with bigamy. Mr. Bethea stated that the case Is ndeed a sad one. Lovett was a mill hand and was attentative to the old er of two daughters of Mr. Di.lard, superintendant of the mill at Greens boro, Ga. His attentions were re sented by the parents. To the sur prise of all, Lovett and a younger daughter, aged 13, were married one night. It was 'then that the older daughter, herself not 16, declared Lovett to be a seducer. Lovett left the night he was married, some time in November last. That the marriage was legal there is no doubt; it was performed by a minister who signed the legal certificate. It is the custom of the officers when they catch a fugitive to look wise and say nothing of their meth >ds of capture, but Mr. Bethea talk Pd very sensibly about the matter ind said that it was quite easy, only that it had required a little time. The :oton mills, for Lmeir own protection tnd for the sake of law and order, issue monthly circulars in which they lescribe the new hands employed. In his way Lovett was located. Mr. Bethea sent the warrant to the heif of police at Orangeburg and by he latter it was turned over to Sher .ff John H. Dukes, who investigated it once and found that this same Lov tt had been a resident of Orange ur, but after havng married In that ity had gone to Bamberg. The war rnnt was returned to Chief Bethea, who forwarded it to Sheriff Hunter f Bamberg, and the man was arrest s under the Georgia warrant so ierved. Mr. Bethea was unable to get his prisoner, as the solicitor of the cir uit n which the crime was commit ed had not submitted an atndavit to. the effect that the accused Is wanted for the crime specified. Not only can he be arrested for seciuction as charg d, but he is also guilty of abduction, tor any one marrying a child under 16 abainst the wishes of her parents is guilty of abduction under the stat DIED FOR HER HONOR. Comely Boarding House Matron Is Brutally Slain by a Boarder. Resisting an attack on her honor at her home In Lambertville, N. Y., Mrs. Frank Congilio, 45 years of age. was shot and killed while fleemng from Michael Thomas, a boarder. 35 years of age. Thomas was captured in Trenton. N. 3.. and is in the Hun terdon county jail. Mrs. Congilio was a comely matron and had been conducting a boarding house for some years. From the facts the woman was able to give before her death, it was learned that 'The had been annoyed y Thomas' attentions for some time nd that she had repeatedly repulsed im. On the day of the shooting he returned earlier from work than sual. He found Mrs. Congilio busy at her housework and once more ap roached her. She demanded that e leave the house at once. Instead 1e attempted to embrace her. She hroke away and fled to the street. homas followed, and. standing in e doorway ordered the woman tc ome back. She ran from the infur ited man. Then he drew a revolve: d fired four shots into her body al hort range. All four took effect. Mrs. Congilio died a few hours lat rr in Trenton hospital. Thomas was aatured late in the same evening In Trenton and placed in jail. WA NTHE CAMP. H ad of Georgia Republican League Issues Address to Followers. A dispatch from Atlanta. Ga.. says Chairman Blodgett of the State Re publican League, which was formed to fight the present national admin istration. issued an address to re publicans of the South, in which hc takes the administration severely tc task for the appointment to office o1 "Democrats and lukewarm republi cans," and urges that no federal of fieholder be appointed to the nexl Republican National Convention. THE BROWNSVILLE INQUIRY Witness Saw Negro Soldier Fire Intc The Cowan House. Herbert Elkins, of Brownsville testifying at the Brownsville inves tiaton at Washington said that hi sw two negro soldiers come up at alley from the barrison and fire mnt< the Cowan house. He said that others followed anm also that he saw the shooting fron the garrison which appeared to comn from the balcony of Co. B. barracks Later he said that he heard a ne gro soldier say that they would com out th next night and finish thi SOME HOT WORM r An Attempted Outrage Calls To gether an Angry Mob. FIVE PEOPLE DEAD Two Negroes Lynched, One White Man and Two Negroes Killed and Seven Other Persons Injured as a Result of an Attempt to Capture Would-be Assailant of a Widow, Near Manassas, Ga. 'Iwo negroes lynched, one white man and two negroes dead, and se ven other persons injured is the re sult of an attempt to capture a ne gro who Monday night, attempted a criminal assault upon Mrs. Laura Moore, a widow living near Manassas, Tattnall County. The dead: John Hare, white, farmer. Sim Padgett. negro, and daughter, aged seven years. Lynched: Padgett's wife and son. Injured: W. B. Pearson, shot in stomach and amr, probabip fatally. James U. Daniel, shot in eye and may die. Dr. D. L. Kennedy, seriously. Son of Padgett, seriously. Flem Padgett, slightly. Two daughters of Pagett. Fifteen persons early Tuecday sur rounded the house of Sim Padgett, a negro whom they suspected of har boring another negro who had crim nally assaulted Mrs. Moore, and de manded to be allowed to search the house. Permission was given, but when within thirty feet of the house those inside the building opened fire on the posse, instantly killing John Hare and seriously wounding Bar ow Pearson. James Daniel and Dr. . L. Kennedy. The posse then returned the fire. *;illing Padgett and one of his daugh ers, aged ten, and wounding two ther girls, aged six and thirteen espettively, and two of Padgett's ;ons, aged twenty and twenty-two. The nesse then retired for rein forcements. The news spread rapid v and by ten o'clock five hundred irmed men were on the scene and arte'd in pursuit of the negroes, who had escaped. One of them was captured and taken before Mrs. Moore, but she failed to Identify him. The negro, however was identified as the man who shot Hare, and he was started for Reidsville jail, together with Pad gett's wife and son. On the way the officers were over taken by about seventy-five, who took the prisoners from them. The woman was told to run, and as she did so she was riddled with bullets. her son being shot to pieces where he stood. The negro who assaulted Mrs. Moore has not been captured, but it is reported that he is surrounded in a negro house, and that in all probabil ity he has been killed. Sheriff Edwards, with deputies, took all the prisoners from the jail at Reidsville and left with them to elude the mob, who, it is reported, wll attack the jail Great excitement prevails and it s feared that other trouble will oc cur. Hare was a native of Monroe, N. C.. and- leaves a widow and sev eral small children. GIRLS SHIPPED IN BOXES. Were Being Smuggled Into the Coun try From Japan. Six Japanese girls, each nailed in a high box were nearly killed by sul hur fumigation on board the steam er Canta at Victoria. The girls, said o be imported for immoral purposes, were consigned to K. Seasooken, a steerage passenger, alleged to be Taki Kaijoro, a procurer, who was deported from San Francisco two years ago. Through exchange of courtesies between British and Amer ican authorities the six women and Sesooken were brought to Port Town send, Wash., and will be sent back to Japan on the Canfa. Smallpox broke out on the Canfa during the ship's last previous trip from the Orient. and on reaching Vic toria on the present trip the entire steeraage was fumigaated. The hatches were battened down and a large quantity of sulphur was ignited below. In a short time violent and urotracted sneezing was heard in the reight compartment. The compartment was hurriedly ,peneld. officers of the ship fearing hat a pet cat was cuffering in the sulphur fumes. Their surprise was rreat when a chorus of sneezes Issued rom the heavy woc -len boxes, while frantic scratching in the cases be tokened great anxiety to escape. On opening the cases an anmond eyed girl appeared in each. Food and water supply was ingeniously pices in each box, which was fixed up like a toy room. ONE INSIDE THE OTHER. Car Starter Yongue of Columbia Has Curious Egg. ~ The Columbia Record says Mr. Jefferson S. Yongue, car starter at the street railway transfer station, was surprised, on breaking the egg beside his breakfast plate, to find that it consisted of two eggs, one inside tae other. Both were perfect l formed. This is a curiosity seldom seen. The egg came from a hen on Mr. Tongue's premises at 1017 Green street. LOST AT SEA. Two Chicago Men and a Launch Are -Missing. A cable from Valdaz, Alaska. say that W. L. and 0. K. Bail, of Chicage 1have been lost at sea in a launch. They left Valdaz a week ago foi oarhs, roand, and started withoul oa hs, rvsosor sail, expecting tc -make the run in a few hours, bul -never reached their destination. The belief at Valdaz is that the3 were driven to sea by a break in th~ launch's machinery. FELL OFF SOME. Not So Much Fertilizer Sold This Year As Last It is Thought That the Cotton Acre age in the State Has Been Reduced a Little. It is usually presumed that the amount of commercial fertillizer used is an indication of the size of the cot ton crop, or rather of the acreage planted in cotton, and if this is true the acreage this year i' likely to be found much smaller than last year. but still a great deal larger than in 1905 and 1904. It was in these two years that the efforts to reduce acreage were made through the Southern Cotton Associa tion, but last year the acreage went up again in a kind of reaction from the campaign of the year before, and now it seems to have taken a turn again. The amount of fertillizer sold is determined by the amount of tax paid into the State treasury. The tax is 25 cents per ton on all fertillizer sold in South Carolina, the money going to Clemson College, where under the law the fertillizer is analyzed. To date the amount of tax paid this year is $132,310.01 and up to the same date In 1906 the amount of tax was $143,889.14, which is $11.579.13 more than last year. The amount of tax paid this year represents over five hundred thous and tons-529,240 ton to be exact while the amount of tax to this time last year represented 575,556 tons. The total amount of the tax last year was $167,157.89, which is the largest amount ever paid in on this 1 tax. The tax year.ends June 30, ac cording to the books of Clemson Col lege. From the books of the State Treas urer the following figures as to the amount of the tax in the last seven years are taken: 1900.. .......-.. ..$75,21434 1901.. 8..... .84,073.43 1902.. ............ 81,744.94 2 1903.. 9...... ..98,909.80 t 1904...... ........118,974.15 1905.. ......-.--...130,439.08 E 1906.. ... ....167,157.89 1 1707 to date..... ....132,310.01 t From the last report of the Clem- t son College for 1906, it is stated that r "the inspection tax amounted to I $164,996.82, and from this was de- c ducted for unused tags redeemed$6,- r 642.79, leaving a net amount re- t eived from the inspection tax of s $158,350.03, which. added to the bal ance on hand together with the in- C ome from other sources amounts to c $224,093.07." 1 From this amount is deducted the c expenses of analysis. The report ex- v plains that the apparent discrepancy F between the tag tax figures as found t In the college report is due to the - ifference in the fiscal years. How- t ever, most of the fertilizer is sold in t he spring, so that the difference is ot very great. NOTED SCIENTIST DEAD. ;entenced Once to be Hanged, Lived and Became Famous. Dr. Frank L. James. a noted scient d Lest, who was once sentenced to be 3 hanged, died a natural death at his s home in St. Louis. Once an enemy of the federal gov- y mnent, he was afterward its chief c xert in the investigation of the embalmed beef" scandal during the a ~panish-Aerican war. For his ser- s vices at the inquiry in Chicago he e teceived $50 a day from the same t power that once tried to hang him-. b As scientific editor of the National v Druggist and associate editor of the b ~Iedical Brief, St. Louis publications, E Dr. James made his name known to t physicians and chemists all over the t world during the 30 years of his res- s dence there. When the Civil War began he was 1 young student of chemistry in Mo- ! bile, Ala.' He invented submarine t mines, which were planted in Mobile r bay to blow up Federal gunboats. f They were so effective that a price e was set on James' head. He was cap-f tured and taken to New Orleans. c where Gen. B. F. Butler condemned c him to death. t Through the aid of friends he, es caped from the New Orleans jail ai week before the date set for his hang ing and went to Japan. Seven years later he returned to America, but the death sentence was never carried out. His death was due to erysipelas. A bug flew into his left eye ten years ago, blinding him. Physicians at the Bethesda Hospital, where he died. believe that this may have been the indirect cause of his death. TOO MUCH PIE. 'Frisco Woman's Husband Made Her Eat it Three Times a Day. Punkin pie three times a day for a diet, sup~plented by salmon, when .qhe did not like either and preferred 'triped bass and soups, led Mrs. Flanor Doe Stetson to sue her weal thy husband. J. B. Stetson. president >f a San Francisco railroad company, for divorce. He not only made her eat things she didn't like, but sub jected her to all kinds of slights. Mrs. Stetson said she had to eat her Christmas dinner alone, while her husband dined with his daugh ers, and that she was never invited to social affairs given by the latter. WVhen he sold a pair of horses and broughams belonging to her, he re fused to give her the money and she said that the only way she could get what was coming to her was to take it out in board. MAD)E HIM LEAVE. New Way of Getting Rid of Objec tionable Minister. Following a sensational driving rom his home Wednesday night of Rev. 0. James. pastor of the Congre gational church at Dragot, Mass., the town is badly split into factions for and against the minister. The Rev. James recently took the parish and proceeded roundly to de nounce present day evils, wit bout regard to the persons he might hit. He paid no heed to the resulting storm of protest. The congregation demanded his resignation immediately but he said the latter part of June would suit him. Wednesday night a large party of the town's people gathered and forced him to leave town, accom nanying his departure with tooting horns and ieers. A TAINTED FORTUNE. Texas Farmer Getting Rich by Growing Bermuda Onions. This Year's Crop Is Estimated at 1,500 Car Loads and the Profits to Growers Amount to $1,000,000. What Texas considered an experi ment four years ago bids fair in the space of four years more to be the principle industry of the state, out side of cotton growing. This is nothing more or less than growing Bermuda onions, and for the quali ty and quantit: of this product the Lone Star state bids fair to soon ex cel the group of islands in the Aaan tic that these onions have made fam >us. The state is now busly engaged in harvesting the annual crop of _' nuda onions, and this season's out put, which is expected to be on cars >ound for the north by Tune 1. will e about 37,500,000 pounds. or about 1,$00 car loads. Considering that his produce sells for between two ind a half and three cents a pound. .he value of this new industry to hose engaged in It is apparent. Four years ago the ground now sed for growing onions, was consid red useless and could be bought for 0 cents or $1 an acre. Today it )rings from $150 to $200 an acre, .nd Is cheap at this price consider ng that tne profits of onion growing un from $300 to $700 per acre a eason, the average yield of an acre er season is about 20.000 jounds. he element in tae soil of Texas ,ve the onions a peculia flavor, and hey are said to excel even those rown on the Bermuda islands. The planting season is in October, rhich is a de,.ghtful time of the ear along the Rio Grande border, :he season for irrigating and culti ating is during the winter months vhen there is just enough coolness in he air to make working out of doors pleasure. The harvesting time is n the spring when all nature is bloom. By June 1 the crop is out of he way. That leaves June, July, August *nd September to the onion planter a which to follow his own Inclina ions as to pleasure or some other usiness. Most of the men who have iade comfortable fortunes in rais g onions spend the vacation period f four months at some Northern esort. By doing this they escape he enervating heat of this region in umer. The healthgiving properties of the nion are well known. The people f Laredo eat onions as the apple )ver eats apples. Any day here hildren can be seen running around its a big onion in one hand and a iece of bread in the other. _Ley te first a bte of bread. The combi ation is delicious. Laredo is one of e healthiest towns in Texas and e onions is said to be tue principal muse of it. TERRORIZED BY YEGGMEN. ne Killed and Several Injured at Hornell, N. Y. Hornell, N. Y., was terrorized Fri y morning by a gang of yeggmen. right Watchman Henry was fatally hot, Night Watchman Kelly badly eaten and others injured. Three eggmen were arrested after two fthe gang nad been shot. The robbers first appeared at a rocery where they blew open the tfe. A private residence was next tered, where articles af value were ken. A woman next door put her ead out of a window when shots ere fired at her, flying glass cutting er. The gang next broke into the teuben silk mills. Being apprised y Night Watchman Kelly, they eaat him into insensibility. They cured no plunder there. At the street railways offices they rere confronted by Night Watchman a'dy, who was shot fatally. By his time the town was aroused. The obbers jumped on a morning reight, police and posse following on witch engine. One robber jumped rom the train into the river and was aptured by the police, after a swim f 100 yards. At Caninseto,where e police met them. two were ounded with buckshot before giv g up. REMARKABLE FORTITUDE Man Watches A Surgeon Cutting Off Both His Legs. Seldom has the nerve of man been mut to such a severe test as in the ase of Patrick Greely, and rarely ias man displayed such remarkable 'ortitude on the operating table as id Greely at the Methodist hospital, hursday at Philadelphia. With eyes wide open and totally in ifferent to the terrible pain he must tave suffered, Greely stoically watch d the surgeon amputate both legs, e at the hip and the other just bove the knee. When the operation was over, reely thanked the surgeon and at endants. He assured them that he vould be all right in a few days, and he went to sleep. He awoke later efreshed and coniident of being out f the hospital soon. EAR SEVERED BY HAZERS student Disfigured Because lie Had Worn Sideburns. Captured by Freshman of the Corthwesternl university, Chicago, Charles Sanderson, a student of the Corthwetern Preparatorn school, was hazed for wearing sideburns, and ow he is minus a portion of his left ear and his face s disfigured by cuts. The professore of both schools are trying to learn the identity of t1ae hazers, who will be dismissed. Sanderson v as dragged from an entertaiment hall to a secluded spot on the campus and there choked anai his hands and feet held while fresh men wielded the razor. When they saw that they had cut their victim the fled. NOTED INDIAN BAL)1T DEAD Apache Kid's Skull Rests in Physi cian's Laborator. "Apache Kid," the notorious In dian bandit, has been slain and. his skull now rests in a laboratory of a Chicago physician. It is said that the mounted skull of the outlaw will be presented to Yale University with the suggestion tha ancanium and submit a report. CROP LAST YEAR. Cotton Figures Compiled by the National Census Bureau. THE BANNER COUNTY In This State is Orangeburg, Which Is About the Third Cotton Pro ducing County in the Cotton Belt. The Total Crop Is Put Down at 13,303,263 Bales, Which Is a Bumper Crop. The census burt.-u of the depart ment of commerce and labor has just issued a bulletin (No. 76) giv ing the production of cotton by states and territories, with per cent of qual ity produced in each, forms of the total crop, and rank according to the quantity produced from 1902 to 1906 Including linters and counting round as half bales, the crop of 1906 is 13,305,265 bales, compared with 10,725,602 for 1905 and 13,697,310 for 1904. The 1906 crop for Texas exceeds all previous records 4,281, 824 bales, or 31.5 per cent of the country's production. The next lar gest contributor is Georgia, with 1, 6-26,824 bales, or 12 per cent. Mis sissippi ranks third, Alabama fourth and South Carolina seventh. The states of Florida, Georgia, North Car olina, South Carolina and Virginia each produced less cotton in 1906 than in 1905, the combined loss amounted to 338,762 bales. South Carolina produced in 1906, In pounds, 447,565,601; in 1905, 547,999,716. The sea-island crop of 1906, con sisting of 57,550 bales, or 22,281,889 pounds, is the smallest production ince 1892, when the crop was but 45.,418 bales. The production of Sea-island cot on in this country, s confined at pre ent to fourteen counties in Florida, 24 in Georgia and 4 in South Caro ina, or a total of 42 counties. South Carolina has 23,902 acres in Sea-island cotton. .The failure of this staple in Texas shows that it can nly be grown to advantage in cer ain places in South Carolina, Florida ind Georgia. The increased demand or superior staples in recent years s developing better upland varieties y seed selection and more careful ultivation. The average price per ound for upland cotton this season Is 10.01 cents, while the sea-island arieties sold from 11 to 30 cents. tates showing largest per cent of 1 ater power for cotton mills are ( lorida, 19 per cent; Alabama, 12; 3 eorgia, North Carolina and South arolina, each ten. South Carolina produced by coun es as follows, in bales in 1906: bbeville.. ........ ..32,925 iken.. ............23,018 ] nderson.. ........ ..50,791 Bamberg.. ............16,186 Barnwell.. ..-........31,031 Beaufort.. ............ 6,041 1 Berkeley.. ............12,224 harleston.. .. ............7,636 ~herokee.. .. .........12,466 hester.. .. ...... .....23,013 ~hesterfield.. ........ ,. ..14,994 ~larendon.. ...... .....21,696 ~olleton.. .... .........11,324i arlngton.. .... .......24,13i orchester.. .. ..........8313 dgefield.. .... .-.--.-.-22,205 arfield.. .. .... ..-.-.-.23578 lorenoe.. .. .... ..--.-.-22,574 ~eorgetown.. .. ...........1,334 ~reenvlle.. ...... .....30,881 ~reenwood........--.-...28,641 -lampton.. ............11,343 orry............--.--.-- 0,997 ershaw.. .... .........15,042 ancaster... .. . ...-.-..19,880 aurens.. .. ...... .....36,874 ee .. ........... .... ..19,628 exington............- 17,144 faron.. .... ..-.-.--.-.-..33,565 farlboro.. .. ....--.-.-.-.40,821 ewberry..............34,793 conee.. .. ...-.--.--.-.11,876 rangeburg.. .. . .....-. .. 60,319 ickens............--..-- 13,501 ichland .. .. .. ..-.-.-..10.549 aluda.. .... .--.-.-.-.-.19,218 partanburg.. .. .. .. ..--.48,328 umter......... --....22,645 nion.. ....--.--.--.--.-.15,436 Villiamsburg .. .. . ... ...15,463 ork........ ..--.....34,778 Every county in South Carolina roduces the staple of cotton. George own being the lowest with only 1,344 bales. New Mexico, appears in the list of states and territories, In the produc tion of cotton in 1906, for the first time. It shows a production of near y 100,000 pounds. It Is ahead of ansas and is expected to pass Vir ginia soon. The average crop for the past five ears is 11,790,558 bales. Of the total production in .1906, the territory west of the Mississippi ontributed 7, 233,210 bales, or 53.2 per cent, while the states east con tributed 6,362,288 bales or 46.8 per ent, showing that the country west f the Mississippi has passed that east of the Mississippi, nowithstand ug the ravages of the boll-weavil in parts of Texas. The production of Texas, 38.2 per ent of the total for the country, ompared with 30.5 per cent in 1905, . gain of 7.7 per cent.. The production of 918,537 bales in klahoma and IndIan territory gives the new state a respectable rank mong the cotton producing states, beng larger than North Carolina and Tennessee combined. YOUNG GIRL MISSING. Parents of Bonnie May Fowler Are Very Much Worried. It s thought at Greenville that 18 ear-old May Fowler of Woodside Mill. two miles from that city, is robably a victim of kidnapers or as met a fate equally as distressing. She wore short dresses and is un usu~lly small for her age. Sunday morninig the girl boarded a car go ing to Sunday school and has not been seen 'by her parents since. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fowler, believe that she has been kidnapped or that she has been enticed away by some one. The police have .begun work on the case without a clew to lead them in any direction. Some of the more superstitious people in the city have discovered a connection between the disappearence of the child and the print of a huge black hand found on the pavement In front of a residence n a fashionable street. MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY. Three Men Die. Terrible Experi ences of Shooting. Party. Caught in a Mountain Storm and Af ter Great Suffering Die From Ex posure. The London Mail says a "hunting foray" on the range of mountains in the northern part of County Antrim has been attended with the loss of three lives. Five young men, the sons of farm ers, set out from their homes, about Parkmore, early on Tuesday after noon, and met at a prearranged ren dezvous at the foot of Collin moun tain, which rises 1,700 feet above the Glens of Antrim. Ascending about half way, they became so engrossed in the day's sport that they did not notice a thick 1 cloudy mantle creeping down the mountain side, and soon they became enveloyed. With numerous ravines around, and night approaching, they became wildly alarmed. wandered about for a few hours, and lost their bearings. One of the party, Kielty, seeing, I as he thought, a light in the distance, C and thinking it denoted the small I farmstead of aman named Courtney, C whom he knew, went off, with one of his companions, White, in that di rection to obtain guidance. They t were not seen again alive. 9 The other three, Miller, Smith and v Connolly, remained behind together, the last having become exhausted and c ill. Out of the darkness they heard t the voice of Kielty shouting, "Pat's t own," and understood that Patrick v White had probably fallen into a bog-hole or down a ravine; but Kiel ty did not return. t: They suffered so greatly from cold fi luring the night that Smith volun- t] Leered to attempt to reach Courtney's o iouse and bring assistance. Scarcely S able to crawl, Smith eventually w reached the farmhouse, but fell in 5ensible before he could deliver his t] message. With hot fomentations and such s4 >ther rough and ready treatment as c ;he cottage allowed, he revived after tI i few hours and told his startling d ftry. UX Meanwhile Connolly bad died in :he darkness of the mountain side. His sole companion, Miller, realizing hat he could be of no further assis- ai jance to his comrade, marked the oi >lace where his dead body. lay, and si th the approach of dawn he also ti !rawled away. With many rests, he tU 'eached Courtney's farm. bi Courtney himself, having previous- E y learned some of the circumstanc ic s, had set out at break of day down s ;he mountain to the nearest village 8 >ostoffice, Martinstown, and tele- N craphed to Connolly's father. When h, le returned Miller and Smith had ,ufficiently revived, and the three PI went off to find the body of young t wnnolly, which they carried on an tz mprovised stretcher to the village. Meantime the elder Connolly had d rganized a search party of a dozen r< :riends. When the old man learned l, :hat his son's body had been already p, ecovered he and his friends remov- w s the remains to his home. c A large body of police and civilans ti ent up the mountain seeking for e Eielty and White. Their bodies were" round late in the afternoon in a b ~treamn which the melting snow and d ieavy rains had swollen to a ranging c torrent. WANTED A DRINK. Runaway Horse Went Into an Au- I: C gusta Saloon-.r The Augusta Herald says wild C ommotion reigned supreme for as few moments Thursday morning at 9 ,, 'clock out on Campbell street, near he Union depot. A frieghtened horse n dashed madly along the street with c nothig attached to. him in the way h of a vehicle, but the harness straps g, were hanging. Just as he reached Cashin's bar h nd restaurant, the horse veered a from his course and in a twinlklig rushed into the bar, putting to flightd all who stood anywhere near the t >ath he might pursue. He paused as s: they reached for the tempting drink, ti then fled, forgetting everything in their flight for safety-.t However, the wild career of the horse was stopped when he reachedr the rear end of the saloon. He was d arrested by parties in the neighbor-e hood before he had time to order his drink and an unwelcome customer t was led back to the shelter of the stable from whence he had escaped, while being "hitched up" to a buggy.p CRUEL PARENTS. Half Witted Girl Confined in Smoke L House Like a Brute. One hundred infuriated neighborsa rescued Ethiel Heffiey, a half witted girl about 17 years of age, from a smoke house in which she had been onfined for several weeks by her par ents, who resihie on a farm near Ber lin Somerset county, Pa. The smoke house prison in which the girl was kept, was six by, eight feet in size, with but one window. which had been painted over to pre vent the girl from being observed by strangers who might be about the S premises. . When food was given the prisoner, a it was thrown in upon the floor. Thet rescuing party was composed of thet most prominent citizens of Berlin.s George Heffiey, the father, was ar-c rested and gave ball. FOR NOT HAVING TAX TAGS. ~ Proceedings Against John Wohltmanl Company by Inspector. The Charleston Post says attach ment proceedings were filed Thurs day in the office of the clerk of court] and placed into the hands of the sher if for service against John Wohlt man Company on 125 sacks of cot ton seed meal, which P. W. Mayor, ins~ector of fertilizers at Charleston alleged were exposed for sale and did not bear the proper inspection tax tags. The penalty for this offence is $3 a sack, making the sum alleged d ue eState 8875. CORPSE FOUND. A Horrible Crime Discovered In New York City. HIDDEN IN A TRUNK Noman Had Police to Open Trunk Left by Two Lodgers, Who Had Left Without Paying Their Rent, and the Badly Decomposed Body of a Greek Minister is Found Within. Rev. Father Kaspar, of the Armen an Apostolic. Church, of Hoboken, T. J., was murdered in the city of ;ew Yory some time last week. - The iody was found Sunday in a trunk, vhich had been left as security for heir room rent by two Greeks, who hree weeks ago engaged a furnished oom of Mrs. Henry Sherer, who oc upied the third floor of a tenement t 333 West Thirty-seventh street. The body was in a kneeling pos ure with the head bound against the :nees by a heavy strap that passed ver the back of the neck and was uckled under the shins. The mur ered man must have been about 60 ears of age. He weighed probably 60 pounds, and was about 5 feet 4 iches in height. A flowing beard ielve inches long was streaked with ray, but the long and bushy hair as black. An undershirt of balbriggan and a ff on the right wrist were all the ody wore, but on top of it had been trown three coats of clerical cut, a rhite laundered shirt, two pairs of lack lace shoes, a soft felt hat, two man collars and a detatched cuff. The police think it is possible that ie body was shipped by express -om Chicago and the authorities of iat city have been asked to follow 2e clew, based on a meal ticket, al > found in the trunk. This ticket as issued by a restaurant at 1,222 alstead street, West Pullman, Chic o, and written in ink across It was te firm name "S. Ermoylan Broth 's." Through the word "brothers" ,veral red ink Ines were drawn. Be Luse of the condition of' the body, e manner of death was not imme ately apparent. Following an au psy at the mogue two men were ar ste on suspician. Mrs. Sherer told the coroner that en the two men engaged the room her home called themselves John id Paul Sarkis, each about 35 years age. John was dark and -smooth aven and the woman understood at he conducted a restaurant in the nderloin. The other resembled his other, but wore a mustache. 'The en ..ad been visited, she said, by a an wearing a clerical garb, who oked not unlike the -murdered, man.. ie thought that this man called at o'clock last Wednesday morning. D one in the tenement that day ?ard any unusual noises. Last Wednesday afternoon an ex -ess wagon brought to the house the unk which later, was found to con ,in the body. One of the lodgers, fth the aid of a young~ man, who ove the express, carried the trunk ith considerable difficulty to the rom. That night Mrs. Sherer asked 3r roomers for the rent due. They inted to the trunk and said it ould be found to contain ample se irity for what they owed. Later ie men said that the trunk deliver I to them was not theirs, but that a istake had been made. The next morning the roomers left efore Mrs. Sherer was up. The next ay unpleasant odors were detected ,mng from the room and. to-day, rs. Sherer appealed to the police' nid the trunk was forced open. The oy was removed to the morgue nid the police began a minute exm lation of its hiding place. It was a leaply built affair and showed iarks of hard usage. Inside the aver was printed a name that look like Guiseppe Sarkis. On the out ide of the chest was the name,"Er iovian." The autopsy developed that the eck and an arm had been broken. oroners Physician Lehane declared owever, that death was due to suf cation. The nternal organs were igested and Dr. Lehane gave it as Is opinion that the maii was thrust ito the trunk while alive, and the ver of the air tight trunk held own until death ensued. The condi on of the organs were found to be milar to those in cases of asphyzia on. A dspatch from Chicago says at ie est Pullman address on Hal ead street, the Armenians kept a staurant until five, months ago un er the name of S. Ermeylan Broth -s. The Chicago police Sunday ight learned that on February 7, a unk said to answer the description that found in the New York board g house was shipped from West ullman by express to Sarkis Ermey ,n, 426 West Fortieth street, New ork city. It was shipped by a man ho gave -is name as K. Keneslam. ewis B. McDonald, agent for the dams Express Company at West ulmani saidthat Kenesianm told him lat the trunk contained silks valued t$200. Search was begun at once >r Kenesiam. BABY BUR2NED IN CRADLE. [other Charges an Unknown Enemy With Setting It On Fire. Frantic with grief over the burn ig to death of her 18-months-Old an while she was absent at a groc ry store, Mrs. John Pavett, of Chic go, accuses an unknown enemy of te crime. When she returned from e store she found the baby, which he had left asleep In its crib, envel ped in flames. Mrs. Paavett declared that a trange man had been watching her Lome for moie than a month. The olice think that a burglar dropped match or the lighted end .of a igarette into the cradle. GREAT STORM IN CAROLINES acifie .Island Said to Have Been Swept by Hlurricane A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W aurricane and tidal wave swept o r the Caroline Islands on April 3. [mmese damage was done to prop arty and 200 persons are reported rild.