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A DEATH PLUNGE A Young New York Lawyer Killed by Terrible Fall. EVERY BONE BROKEN The Deceased, Who Was the Young est Son of Henry Watterson, Pitch- 1 es Forward Through a Window tN His Death on a Roof One Hundred and Ten Feet Below. New York, Nov. 11-Harvey W. Watterson, a lawyer, younger son of Henry Watterson. editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, plunged to his death from the 19th floor of his office building at 37 Wall street late today. His body shot dow ward for 110 feet and landed on the roof of a 10-story building ad joining. Almost every bone was broken, the head was crushed and death was practically instantaneous. While there were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy, evidently it was en tirely accidental. Mr. Watterson's hat and overcoat were on his closed desk. Presumably he had attempted to lower the window, and either stumbled over the radiator, which was in front of the low sill, or los ing footing in some manner un known, pitched forward and dowit to death on the roof below. Mr. Watterson was 30 years ola and married. He was junior mem ber of the law firm of Wing, Russell & Watterson. Shortly before 4 o'clock Mr. Wat terson left the office library, remark ing that he was going home, and passed from the library through the office of F. R. Bagg, the managing clerk, into his private office, the door of which, closed and locked auto matically as he entered. Bagg wse the last person to see the young lawyer alive. A few minutes later the superin tendent of the building rushed in and informed Thomas Wing, senior member of the firm, that he believ ed Mr. Watterson had fallen from the window and looked down from the window. The mangled form was 'een lying on the roof below. The .,ody was removed to the Watterson home after the coroner had declared that the death of Mr. Watterson was due entirely to accident. A peculiar feature of the oase was that Mr. Watterson's watch and cigarette case in one pocket and a pipe in another pocket were not damaged by the fall. Mrs. Watterson was prostrated when informed of her husband's tragic death. Mr. Wing said that Watterson had been a member of the firm about. three years, two years after he was graduated from Columbia universit law school. He was sure he said, that death was accidentaly, sinee Watterson had no financial or do mestic troubles. Wattersonl was born and reared in Louisville, Ky. When about 21 years old he came to New York an-] edered the Columbia university law school. During the time he was a student there he taught in a night school. Shortly after becoming a member of the Wing, Russell & Watterson law firm he ran for assembly on the Tammany ticket in an upper west side district, but the district was strongly Republican and he was de zeated. MORE CORN GROWN. The Department of Agriculture 1s sues Interestig Statement. Washington, Nov. 9.-An averag2 yield., of 26.2 bushels of eorn per acre and an indicated total produc tion of 2,642,687,000 bushels of corn are preliminary estimates announced in the report of the department of - agriculture Issued today, summariz ing and five other crops. The yieldl of corn per acre in 1907 was 25.9. as finally estimated, and averageci 25.6 for ten years, while the produc tion Is compared with 2,59,320,000 'bushels finally estimated in 1907. Quality of corn is 86.9 per een eom pared with 82.8 in 1907 and 84.3 ten-year average. About 2.7 per cent or 71,124,000 bushels, is esti mated to have been in the farmers' hands on November 1, against 4.! per cent, or 130,995,000 bushels, a year ago, and a ten-year average of 4.5 per cent. The preliminary figures for im portant corn State, giving In bushels the yield per acre and total produc tion, respectively, include: Missouri, 27 and 203,634,000; Texas, 25.7 and 201,848,000;. Ken tucky, 25.2 and 84,323,000; Ten nessee, 24.8 and 74,747,000; Geor. gia, 12.5 and 56,438,800; Alabama, 14.7 and 44,835,000; Virginfa, 26 and 48,828,000; North Carolina, 13 and 50,168,000; Arkansas, 20.2 and 52,540,000. The prelIminary estImates of po tatoes, tobacco and rice, giving av erage yield per acre and comparisons wIth final estimates for 1907 and for periods of years, are as follows: Potatoes, yield 85.9 bushels. against 95.4 in 1907, and ten-year average, 88.6. Production, 274,660. 000 bushels, against 297,929,000 in 1907. Quality, 87.6 per cent, against 83.3 last year, and ten-year average of 87.6. Tobacco, yield 825.2 pounds. against 858.5 pounds in 1907, and ten-year average 797.6. Production. 629.634,000 pounds, against 698, 126,000 in 1907. Quality, 87.9 par cent, as against 90 a year ago, and a ten-year average of 85.8. Rice, yield 34.7 bushels, against 29.9 in 1907, and ten-year average of 30.6. ProductIon, 22,718,00 -bushels, against 18,730,000 in 1907. The woman that a man likes is the woman that makes him believe he does. The more you expect good fortune the more surprised you would be to get it Don't invest your money in a i scheme because it figures out well on < paper. A man is never sure he knows uni- 1 BAPTIST WOMEN 0 RAISE OVER THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, fhich Amount is to be Expended in the Foreign and Home Mis sion Fields. Charleston, Nov. 12.-Not content rith the large sum of $28,000 appor toned yesterday for missionary vork, the Woman's Baptist Mission ry union at its session today at the litadel Square 'Baptist ohurch adopt xd the recommendations of the ex >cutive committee, which provided 'or the raising of $32,830 during he coming year, to be apportioned as ollows: $4,330 for foreign mis ions; $11,000 for home missions; 15,000 for State missions and the um of $2,500, which will be raisea >y the Sunbeam bands and Order of Royal Ambassadors for work In this ndeavor of the missionary union. It was also decided to continue he contributions to the endowment und of the Missionary training in titute at Louisville. as well as the upport to young women's clubs, bands and the Order of Royal Am bassadors. The missionary union adopted the recommendations of the executive eommittes unanimously, being of the opinion that the union will be able to undertake and carry on successfully all that has been planned along financial lines. Greenwood was selected as the next place of meeting, the time for the convention to be determined and announeed later by the executive ommittee. Among the reports which were submitted and read was that of the committee on nominating delegates to the Woman's Missionary union auxiliary. The nominees were all declared elected as follows: At large, Mrs. Sojourner, Mrs. Wingo and Mrs. Quattlebaum; northern di vision, Mrs. J. F. Vines, Mrs. H. G. Miller. Mrs. L. M. Roper, Mrs. Cudd and Mrs. Candel; southern division, Mrs. J. A. Fizer, Mrs. Howard Jones. Mrs. Eunice Williams; eastern di vision, Mrs. J. E. MeLaurin, Mrs. J. L. Coker, Jr., and Mrs. Camelis Napier; western division, Mrs. C. B Burts. Mrs. W. J. Hatcher, Mrs. C. T. Jamison; central division, Mrs. 0 E. Scarborough, Mrs. H. J. Hortor and Miss Lilly Mobley. State missons were interestingly discussed by Dr. T. M. Bailey and Mrs. H. H. Wright, the latter rep. resenting 14 missions in south Car olian, with her headquarters al Langley. Telegrams of greeting and gooc will were ordered to be sent to Mrs C. E. Watson of the northern divis fog; Mrs. Fannie E. S. Heck, presi dent of the Southern Women's Mis sionary union; former president Mrs. J. D. Chaplin, and former mem bers of the central committee, Mrs John Stout and Mrs.'M. L. Coker. After a prayer for State missions a eollection was taken up for the work at Roek Hill. Miss Lou Tindal presented an in-. teresting statement on the work o: the Margaret home, and Miss Islh Mecenzie spoke on the trainin' school. The report of the obituari committee was received and re ferred. The representatihes of ehurch pub lications were then heard as fol lows: Dr. H. S. Thomas. of Th4 Courier; Miss A. L. Smathers, o The W. M. U.; Mrs. Fitz Landford of The Journal, and Miss Cleo At taway, of The Home Field. An interesting communication wa: neceived from Rev. Dr. C. C. Browi of Sumter, regarding assistance fo. aged ministers. The missionar: union decided to co-operate in the movement. The morning session was open'ei with a devotional exercise by Mrs. W H. Hunt. The afternoon session was opener with exercises by Mrs. Eliza Hyde and then came a mission study 11 which some interesting Chinese cu rious were exhibited among the col lections of the Sunbeams. The most interesting business a1 the afternoon session was the elec tion of officers as follows: Presi dent, Mrs. I. W. Wingo; vice presi dents, northern division, Mrs. C. E Waston; southern division, Mrs William Haynesworth; eastern di viion, Mrs. J. P. Bauknight; western division, Mrs. M. B. Clinkscales, and central division, Mrs. W. H. Mobley: corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. L. Crutchfleld; recording secretary, Mrs. J. W. Quattlebaum, treasurer, Mrs. J. N. Cudd; band] superintendent, Mrs. W. H. Hatcher. superintendent of young people'% works, Miss Eliza Hyde; superinten dent young women's auxiliary, Mrs. A. L. Crutchfield, and local executive committee, Mrs. W. B. Abbott, Mrs. Elisa Bomar, Mrs. Hannah Mont gomery, Mrs. Beverly Montgomery, Mrs. L. M. Roper, Mrs. D. A. Switzer and Mrs. W. M. Whiteside. At the session tonight Rev. Dr. T. B. Ray of Richmond, secretary of foreign missions, delivered an ad :res and the edercises were of gen sra interest. A number of the delgeates left iere tonight for their homes, but the bulk of the number will leave tomorrow after a very successful and pleasant session.* FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. rwe Trainmen KIlled in a Head-on Coullson. Woodstoek, Va., Nov. 9.--In a ead-on collision between two freight rains two miles north of here to. lay, on the Southern Railway, Engineer Amos Johnson, of Alex ndria, Va., an dFireman T. J. Jones, if Manassas, wg'e killed, and Dngineer D. W. Tuck and Conductor . E. Rohr, both of Strasburg, were njured, but not seriously. The rains came upon each other whih unning fast around a curve. The esponsiility has not been fixed. Child Gets Life Sentence. Savannah, Ga.. Nov. 1 0.-Solomon teilly, a negro boy of ten, and smali or his years. was today ccovicted t the Superior Court of the murder f Mrs. Walter Torrence, at Pooler, ight miles from Savannah. and 'iven a life sentence. The boy filed her with a shot gun while her ISSUES APPEAL People of Cotton Belt Urged To Hold ;Cotton. BY FARMER'S UNION New Orleans Convention Adjourns After Making Urgent Plea That Business People of the South Aid in the Movement for Better Prices for the South's Greatest Crop. New Orleans. La., Nov. 13.-With a stiring appeal to every Interest Ir a stirring appealio every interest In the South-agricultural, financial holding cotton for higher prices, the joint confere~ce committee of the National Farmers' Union and financial interests of New Orleans, adjourned today. The appeal is ad dressed to the people of the cotton belt and is as follows: "We, the joint committee of the National Farmers' Union and of the financial and commercial interests of New Orleans, realizing that oonk dence in cotton market conditions has been impaired, and the appn-l hension thereby engendered has caused more rapid marketing of cot on than has ever been known, and belie-ving that the holding of cotton at the present time will permit the healthy assimilation of temporary superabundance and restore normal conditions under which remunera tive prices may be obtamned, hereby earnestly appeal to every farmer. merchant and banker and other hold ers and owners of cotton, to hold back, so far as they can, their present hl.Idings and not se.ll unless abso lutely compelled to do so, until the price of cotton shall have reached a substantially increased figure. "We especially request all mer chants and bankers of the cotton helt to extend the obligation of the cotton grower, when called upon to do so, for a reasonable period, and to do all other things in their power to aid and encourage such growers and holders of cotton, believing, as we do, that all the business con ditions of the world, and especially of the cotton world, steadily point toward better prices than now obtain ed. "We believe that such concerted and determined action will logically, and in all probability, increase the present inadequate price paid for cotton." Committees were named to In vestigate the public ware house plan. which calls for a quasi public com mission, appointed by the State of Louisiana, to control the operation of a large ware house to be built on the river front at New Orleans. The proposed ware house is designed to hold from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 bales of cotton. SHOT BY A MADMAN. E. M. Morgan, Postmaster of Newt York, Dangerously Wounded. 'New York, Nov. 9.-Edward M. M?organ, postmaster of New Yorki city, who was wounded in the ab domen this morning by a bullet fired by E. H. B. Mackay, an eccentric English stenographer, who then conm mitted suicide, was resting well to ,night, and unless complications de .velop he will recover. Mr. Morgan probably owes his life Sto the Quick wit and bravery of his I fourteen-year-old daughter, Dorothy, -who saw Mackay draw his revolve: rand struck it with her hand. This deflected the bullet, otherwise~ the postmaster would have been fatally [wounded, for his assailant was at close range and fired four shots in all. The shooting occurred at 146d street, and only a short distance from Mr. Morgan's home. He was on his way down town at the time. An investigation of the life and record of Mackay reveals that he was of a morbid nature and a former inmate of an asylum in Worcester, Mass. That his act was premedi tated is made certain by a letter he left, but aside from a fancied griev ance against Mr. Morgan and the postoffiee authorities coneerning the handling of his mail, nothing has come to light to indicate why he should have sought to murder the postmaster. His clothing when searched gave up between thirty and forty smokeless cartridges, a heavy slingshot, a knife with a four-in blade and a clasp knife. A quantity of literature on Social ism and a slingshot similar to the one found on his body were discover ed in his room. That he was rational during work hours, howev er, was attested by the Broadway firm of lawyers by whom he was em ployed. SHOOTS HIMSELF~. Young Mill Hand at Anderson Com mits Suicide. Anderson, Nov. 9.-T. A. Sims, aged thirty years, a weaver in the Brogon Mill, committed suicide in a patch of woods near the mills just outside the city timits this afternoon by firing a 32-calibre pistol ball in his right temple. Death re sulted 25 minutes after the shot was fired. Sims moved to Anderson from Fort Mill some four years ag,. Two years ago he married Miss Mes sie Finlayson, daughter of Robert Finalyson, of the Anderson Mills, and his family troubles have been many. It is sai<4 that he dranic considerably at times and that on account of his intemperance his wife has left him several times. She left him last week and he had been in toxicated for several days, so it is said. He has not worked for four weeks, and it is supposed that re morse set in. and caused the awful act. At four o'clock some persons were attracted to the woods by a pistol shot. They found Sims sitting against an oaik tree, with a bullet hole in his right temple. He was gasping for breath, and was uncon scious. A doctor was hastily calledI who ministered to him, but his life could not be saved. The bullet lodged in the skull over the right eye, and the brains were scattered VOTES HELD BACK SUSPICION OF FRAUD IN OHIO AND INDIANA. Count in Various Congressional Dis tricts Also Held Up for an Un reasonable Time. Washington, Nov. 10.-For some reason or other the returns from the various congressional district have been coming in exceedingly in complete, and from some doughtfuI districts they have not come in at all; so that with all the tables be ing published In various newspapers purporting to show the exact membership of the Sixty-first con gress, there is no really reliable in formation at hand even now, over a week after the election. Dispatches from Washington and New York have been enumerating laahn and Hays, Republican mem bers from California, re-elected for instance. Mr. Kahn's secretary here has received a telegram from Kahn himself saying that both he and Hays have been defeated. Yet not one single dispatch from California has announced the result. There is an impression here that the returns have been held back to be fixed. There are several instances of holding back returns in Indian%, Ohio and other State which were doubtful, but where the electio'1 machinery was in the hands of Re publicans, which are suspicious. There are those hereabouts famil iar with methods in those States when the G. O. P. has a bar'l of money who express a serious doubt as to Indiana's giving Marshall, the Democratic candidate for governor, a plurality of 10,000 and Taft a plurality of 15,000. Indiana is a notoriously corrupt State politically, and the Republicans poured several hundred thousand dollars into it during the elosing days of the election, and yet it has not been fully determined whethei they bought up the voters them. selves or some of the election man agers. And it is the same as to other States. A Republican newspaper man from Ohio said to me the other day that it was his belief that the Ohio re turns were held back because the the Republican leaders were asham ed of Taft's small majority and that they would announce them at a time when they would not attract so much attention. It is still a matter of some considerable doubt throughout the country whethe: Taft's majority in Ohio was 75,00( or 25,000. And some doubt whether Taft carried Ohio at all, legitimately ZACK McGEE, In Coumbia State. CHARLESTON VOTE. The Old City Gave Her Vote to th' Democracy. Charleston, Nov. 11.-The vote e. Charleston county in the recent elec tion was officially tabulated yester day by the Federal and State board: of election, each board resolving itself Into a body of canvassers. The tabulation of the Federal re turns showed the following figures: For Congress: The Hon. George S. Logare, 1,808 votes; Prioleau 217., Presidential electors: Democrat ic, 1,814; Republican, Baxter, 342; Grant, 334; Powell, 344; all othen: 347. SocialIst, 26; Independent There was no opposition to the Democratic State and county tickets SHOOTING AFFRAY. An Innocent Bystander is Seriously Shot in Foot. Newberry, Nov. 9.--This town ha! had another shooting scrape. I1 took place on the carnival grounds one night last week. It seems that :Mr. Mitchell Wright and Mr. Tom Burley had some differences, which resulted in Mr. Burley striking Mr. Wright over the head with a police man's billy, and Mr. Wright shot at Mr. Burley three or tour times with a pistol. Fortunately, though. there was a large crowd on tnle grounds, only one stray bullet struck any of the people who were around, .Mr. Boyd Jacobs being painfully, though not seriously, wounded in the foot. One of the shots took ef feet is Mr. Burley's shoulder, infiet ing a painful wound, and Mr. Wright has a severe gash on the top of his head, inflicted by the billy in the hands of Mr Burley. COLUMBIA FOUNDRY BURNED. Part of Plant ot Gibbes Machinery Company Destroyed. Columbia, Nov. 9.-The foundry of the Gibbes Machinery Company was practically destroyed by fire this evening shortly after 6 o'clock i ne origin of the fire is unknown, as the workmen had all left the build ing at 5 o'clock. President A. M. Gibbes, of the company, stated tonight that he could not at this time give an esti mate of the loss. The property is well insured and the principal loEss will be the interruption of business by reason of the destruction of the patterns in the foundry, this being a husy season in the machinery trade and the compuany doing an ext mnsive business. Cotton Seed Meal for Milk. There is no Question but that co:: ton seed meal grows in popularity as its intrinsic value becomes known. There Is no foodstuff known that will place the same amount of feat on cattle within so short a time as -otton seed mea)1 combined with cotton seed hulls, and th's fact is recognized wheresoever this feed is used. When fed to dairy cows, or by the family that has but a sing'e cow, its use increases the quantity of milk, improves the color, and the cream therefrom mak-es richer and better butter, but while the ration of hulls need not be li-nited ot all, that of meal should not be more. than one-half the quantity ?ed for fattening purposes. * The first time a woman marries she calculates her future In sentiment: the second time she estimates it in WILL REMAIN OPEN WINTHROP FEVER SITUATION IS NOT ALARMING. College Authorities and State Health Officials Go Over the Situation. An Official Statement. Rock Hill, Nov. 10.-On Novem ber 4 the State health officer was notified by the acting president of Winthrop college that there had been an outbreak of typhoid fever in that institution. At the same time the matter was reported to the local health authorities and they, togeth er with the oollege physicians and the State health offier, immediately began investigations. Assuming drinking water and milk to be the two most fruitful sources for the spread of the disease, it was deemed wise to eliminate these sources at the earliest possible mo ment. An arrangement was made with the city authorities to procure from them city water. Milk ani butter produced at the college dairy were eliminated from. the diet of the students. A minute and thorough investi gation was then carried on to see if in any way the infection might come from other sources. This investi gation not pointing conclusively to any specific source, the health of ficer reported the findings to the chairman of the State board o: health, who called a meeting of the board on November 9 at Winthrop college for the purpose of studying the situation and of advising the authorities want policy to pursue under existing conditions. The board, accompanied by Dr. J. R. Miller, a representative of the local board, the college physicians, Dr. Boyd and Dr. Crawford, Dr. 1. W. Babcock of the State health of nee made a :sanitary survey of the water supply, a thorough investiga tion of the dairy, eollege bulldings and grounds. After this investiga tion the board, in session with the gentlemen mentioned, discussed the phase of the situation and made the following statement: "After a study and discussion of the evidence collected from the inves tigation made, this body d -s not feel that the situation is alarming. While no specific source of infection can be definitely decided upon, it is the opinion of the body that since the inauguration of the precaution ary measurer which are now being rigidly enforced the epidemic will die out as soon as the period of in eubation has passed." GETS THE CASH. Stalvey's First Wife Gets Money in Atlanta Bank. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier says news has been received there of the action of the presiding judge in the Atlanta county court in grant ing a .decree, -giving the entirse sun of money deposited in an Atlanta bank by George M. Stalvey to Mrs. Elizabeth Stalvey, his allege:] first wife. Mrs. Stalvey contended that this sum of mo~ey--about $700-was earned while she and Stalvey were living together as husband and wife and that she earned a portion oi the money, which had been deposited in his name, and she instituted prc ceedings to recover a portion of the money as being hers and also asked the court for alimony, and this. ac counts for the fact that she recovers the' whole amount. Notice was given that the case would be appealed. She was rep resented in, this action by Lamar Hill, Esq., of Atlanta. It will be recalled that Stalvey was recently convicted in the. Aiken court of big amy, having married Miss tEtta Lightfoot, of Orangeburg, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stalvey alleging that she was his rightful wife. STANDARD OIL WINS OUT. Seems to Have Bought Courts .-n Well as Election. Chicago, Nov. 1 0.-The govern ment's petition for a rehearing of the case in which the United States circuit court of appeals reversed the trial court in finding the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, $29,240,001 for alleged rebating, was denied in the court of appeals today. - It is authoratively stated that the government will now attempt to bring the whole matter before the Supreme Court on a writ certiorari. The government in its petition for a rehearing intimated that if the opinion of the judges of the appelate court, Grousscup, Seaman asd Baken were allowed to stand it would nul lify nearly every shred of rate ra flormatory legisltion accomplisbhed by the Roosevelt administration. TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Work Train on New England Road Collides With Freight. Deep River, Conn, Nov. 10. - Two men were killed outright, two others fatally injured and a half dozen severely hurt when a work train, with Italian section hands aboard, crashed into the rear of a freight train standing on the main track of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in front of the station here this afternoon. There were twenty-eight Itlalans on the work train and all suffered in juries. The dead are .L rank A. Furlong. of New London, a brakeman, and one of the Italian section hands. Shot Young Man. Troy, Ala., Niov. 9.--News was received here today of the serious wounding of WV. WV. White, near Banks, yesterday evening by Mr. Wadley, a farmer. White eloped with Miss Maud Wadley yesterday. the couple coming to Troy to secure a license and marry. After the cer emony the couple started home and were met on the road by the father of the girl, who emptied the contenl of a shotgun into the bridegroon . White will recover. A woman will do a lot of cheeky things to improrea her complexion. ELEVEN DEATHS Pay For the Errors of Careless C Railroad Employees. Pr SOME HEROIC WORK Surviving Passengers Prevent th' Cremation of Victims of a Terrible he and Fatal Collission on the New We Orleans and Northwestern Railway M Tracks at Little Woods- Al New Orleans, Nov. 11.-It was a Cc heavy price in human flesh and blood N that paid for the errors of railroad employes when a Great Northern ex- de press crashed into the rear of a New m Orleans & Northeastern local passen m ger train shortly before 9 o'clock this morning at Little Woods, a small sta- i tion on the Lake Pontchartrain, 12 m miles north of this city. Eleven dead and many more in- u jured, some of them fatally, is the g record of the wreck, which was at- o; tended by unusually gruesome scenes tc in the fog-bound swamps. To add to ii the horror of the situation the work ' of the surviving passengers prevent- w ed the cremation of those pinned e: down in the debris. a Between Slidell and New Orleans g the Great Northern trains run over u the tracks of the New Orleans & o Northeastern. A local train of the a Northeastern from Hattiesburg, due t' to arrive in New Orleans at 8:30 a. m., is followed by a fast Great is Northern train from Covington. i1 scheduled to reach here at 8:40 a. m. b This morning the Northeastern v train was late and the difference s of 20 minutes between the running e of the trains was considerably re duced. When Engineer Blackman of the Great Northern train took the North eastern tracks at Slidell, he says, he was given the usual right of way signal and proceeded toward New Orleans at a 45-mile an hour clip. I As the station at Little Woods was Q approached he discovered the North- t eastern local, which suddenly loom- s ed up out of the fog. C Fireman McCarty leaped from the t engine, but Blackman applied 'his t brakes and remained at the throttle s while the , ponderous locomlotive ploughed its way through the train i ahead, leaving .behind it death and ? destruction. Blackman crawled out t practically unscathed, while his fire man sustained painful injuries in his leap.1 No one in the Great Northern ex- I press was seriously hurt, but those I aboard the Northeastern train were f not so fortunate. The nose of the big express engine tore Its way en tirely through the two rear coache. of the local and the crash of split ting timber was followed by the groans of those pinned down in th-e wreckage. A little golden-haIred boy waved his hands piteously above his head, unable to extricate himself from the wreckage. A socre or more of men: some of them stained wIth their own t blood, made heroic effort to rescuei the child, but in vain. This child was Willie Attaway, 3-year-old son of Mrs. Alphonse Attaway of Slidell. His little body was taken out of the wreck several hours later, horribly mutilated, and placed beside ~those of others whose lives were sacri ficed in the catastrophe. SENATOR TILLMAN SHOCKED. Carmack Was Knightly and Noble Hearted Gentleman. Trenton, Nov. 10.--The corre spondent of The News and Courier carried Senator Tillman the news of the sudden and tragic death of hisc former colleague, Senator Carmack. of Tennessee, today. He was very much surprised and shocked and said that Mr. Carmack was a knightl; and noble-hearted gentleman, and that the South can ill spare such 2 men at this time. "His taking off in such a way and for such a cause is deplorable, nay, horible," sai-1 Senator Tillman, "and without know-r ing anything about the facts the t newspaper reports would indicate a that he was assassinated, being shot ~ from behind and any one who knew him would feel absolutely certain that he was not running. Altogeth- tl er it is a lamentable affair." Cotton Seed Meal as Fertilizer. Although cotton seed meal con tains considerable percentages of nr phosphate acid and potash, a large e proportion of which has been shown to be readily available to plants, ift is chiefly used as a source of nitrogen in fertilizers. Storer states the "experience has shown that cotton seed meal is usually as good as fer tilizer as regards Its nitrogen as either dried fish or flesh scrap, pro vided the land is not too dry." Cot ton seed meal has given excellent re sults, especially in the Southern States, as a fertilizer for sugar cane, cotton and corn. It has also been successfully substituted for barnyard i manure in the culture of tobacco. jj While cotton seed meal, as the above facts show, has high value i! when applied directly as a fertilizer. a more rational practice in many cases is to feed the meals to animals and apply the resulting manure to the soil. From 80 to 90 per rent of the fertilizing materials of the meal will thus be recovered in the manure. and additional benefit will be se cure.d in the production of meat, K milk. etc.--Farmers' Bulletin, U. S. Dept. Agriculture. * BOLD ROBBERESS BAFFLED. Forced Woman to Go for Money But Is Overpowered. Denver, Col., Nov. 9.-A woman giving her name as Mrs. H. C. Zones t this afternoon compelled Mr. Genevieve Chandler Phipps, divorcedI wife of Lawrence Phipps, a Pittsbur' millionaire, to take her in an auto mobile to a bank to get $10.000 that she demanded of Mrs. Phipps, whom she threatened to blow to pieces ith dynamite. At the bank Mrs. Cones was overpowvered by special ,OTTON CONGRESS A NVENED AT MEMPHIS ON LAST TUESDAY. to ________ a esident of Southern Cotton Grow- t; ers' Association Makes Strong Plea for Better Prices. f Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 10.-The I uthern Cotton conference began t re today. Gov. M. R. Patterson 5 Ilcomed the delegates. The re - onses were made by E. S. Gay of c :ntgomery and Harvie Jordan of :lanta. president of the Southern >tton Growers' association. Gov. )el of Mississippi also spoke. !Lrvie Jordan was made permanent airman. In an interview Mr. Jor Ln said the meeting would be the ost important conference of cotton en ever held. Mr. Jordan said that it was indeed sting that it should be assembled this the largest interior cotton arket in the world. "We have assembled," he contin ?d, "to safeguard and protect the reat staple crop of the South from ie artificial and depressing influence federated interests which operate > the detriment of every business terest in this section of America. Ve face a serious condition and 'hether we will arise equal to the iergency and protect our interests s men of brain and business sa acity or indifferently accept the sit ation and parade before the world ur voluntary weakness, is the issue hich presents itself to this conven ion." Mr. Jordan said that raw cotton s the only great staple commodity : the world today which is selling elow the cost of production, not rithstanding the fact that it repre ents one of the world's greatest ne essitles. "That this great staple should ver sell at a priee to the cotton mowers of less than 10, cents per ound Is a reflection upon the man tood and intelligemee of the South rn people. "If the cotton growers, bankers, erchants and allied business Inter sts of the South will determine that he price of cotton must and sha'i o back to 10 cents before the month if November passes, that price will >e protected, the financial future of he South will be saved and not a pindle In the world will be injured." Mr. Jordan' condemned "night rid ng" and urged that the convention ,ive its attention to the boll weevil nenace. He also recommended the ormation of a chain of warehouses herefrom redeipts could be issue . hich would be acepted as collateral 'or short time loans by the leading inancial institutions In this country tnd in Europe. Bishop Gaynor of the Episcopal Iiocese of Tennessee also spoke. WANTS D)AMAiGES. Woman Arrested for Murderess Will Sue the Railroad. New York, Nov. 13.--Mrs. Cora 3. Heeren has brought suit again::t he New York Central railroad, ask ng $3,000 damages, because, as she tleges, she was mistakcen for Mrs. elle Gunness, the Laporte, mI., nurderess, a'nd taken from the train rom Utica last summer. Her mother, it is said, who was 'ith her at the time, has filed suit or a similar amount for allieged in Lignities to which she was submit id. Mrs. Heeren, who lives In Brook yn, declares that she suffered such Sshock that neither she nor her nother has completely recovered.* Why Joyner Left Home. "Are you ready to receive the ob igation?" asked the Most Upri'ght upreme Hocus-Pocus of the Order f Hoot Owls, says Judge. "I am," said the candidate firmly. "Then take a sip of this prussic cid, place your right -hand in this ot of boiling lead, rest your left and upon this revolving buzz-saw, lose your eyes and repeat after Eearly next morning shreds of oyner's clothing were found upon e bushes and trees all alon-g the' oad to Pottsville, thirty miles dis ant, and at Scrabbletown, sixty iles away, he was reported stili eaded west. * A man can get awful morbid over e political depravity of the country he doesn't like the coffee his wife ves him. - Fortune is sometimes fickle, but isfortune is always sincere. The" only bakingp< ioyal Grape Crea officially approve a wholesome, hig STherc is greater deception Is the sale a OOKKEEPER CHLOROFOR3IED. nd the Office He Was In Set on Fire. Greenville, Nov. 10.-A most mys 'rious thing happened in this city half-past 11 o'clock last night. ,t that hour fire was discovered in ie office of William Goldsmith, Jr, sal estate agent in the Palmetto uilding on Main street. As the remen entered the' room a man was )und lying on the floor with his ead wrapped. He was hastily re ioved, and it was found that he was Ir. T. E. McCullough, Mr. Gold mith's bookkeeper. He says that as he entered the ffice from a closet about 11 o'clock, ome one threw a rag over his hea.l .nd that was the last he knew until Le came to in the police station. ['he rag was chloroformed and it s very plain that the work was that >f robbers. The flames were extin ;uished with a little damage. Mr. McCullough was down posting iis books, and they were all out on he shelves, and the safe was open. Mr. McCullough's keys were taken rom his pocket, and thus far, the police have not been able to find them. The whole case is shrouded in mystery, but the general opinion is that robbers had chloroformed Mr. McCullough. How the fire originated is a mystery. PATRICK WANTS TO DIE. Slayer of Rice Didn't Like Commu tation of Sentence. New York, November S.-To ar gue before the United State Su preme Court a motion to advance the appeal to that Court in the case of Albert T. Patrick, convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice in this city eight years ago, William L. McDonald, attorney for Patrick, left tonight for Washington. The motion is expected to .come up before the Supreme Court to morrow when Patrick's counsel says, he will further ask the Suprme Court. for. a writ of habeas corpus for the production of Patrick' in Washing- - ton in order that he may argue' his case himself. Patrick's appeal is ' to declare 11 legal the commutation granted him by Governor Higgins .whereby his. sentence to die 'in the electric chair was changed to -imprisonment for life. Patrick made the point that life imprisonment was ~ a much ose verer sentence than that which con demned him to- die. (XOMITS SUICIDE Because Bryan Failed to be Elected President. Raleigh, Nov. 10.-H. L. Smith, joint station agent for the Norfolk and Southern and., Raleigh and Southport railroad, at Varina; twenty miles from Raleigh, committed'sin cide this morning by discharging both loads of a double-barrel shot gun into his head. Je had a. stIng attached to ~the trigger to shoot. He left a note that he was per fectly sane, had contemiplated suicide for some time but- could not bring himself to the point -until now.. It is reported that he, was despon-' dent over Bryan's defeat. He was 23 years old. He -had been at the station eight months. NEGRO BOY FOUND DEAD. Ghastly Find Made in. Greenwood Oil Mill Seed Warehouse. Greenwood, Nov. 10.-Special: Arthur Warner, a young negro boy, was found dead, yesterday 4n- the big seed warehouse of'the Greenwood Oil Mills here. His neck was. broken. by the fall, though foul playf Is not suspected. Rather It Is thought that his neck was broken by a fall, irhich he evidently had wbile crawling in the house: hunting a place to sleep. He fell into. a deep seed ph,. and this was probably the cause of his broken neck. He was seen around the oil mill at midnight Sat urday night. "TAX ON JUTE BA.GGING UNJUST" Cotton Exchange Says it is 'Burden' on Cotton Industry. New Orleans, La., November- 9. The New Orleans Cotton' Exchange today passed resolutions calling upion Congress to reduce the present tar if On jute' bagging used for balling cotton. "This tax is a direct burden; on cotton raising industry of the South for the benefit of a few manu facturers- who are thus enabled to thrive at the expense of the most importanr. class of agriculturist in this country," declares the resolu tion. >wder made from m of Tartar, the 1 ingredient for h=cfass powder baking powders tilan ever before. Cs rain of getting Dayal.