Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HOPE IS wNE 'ha Ay of the miners &urein the Cherry Mine Are Alive TUNELS COLLAPSED In Second Vein. and Ret.cue Party Is Cut Off-Fire Endangered Lives of Explvrem-Second Party Re. cued Them--One Who E.capcd Dies-But 19 Left of 310 Men. A dispatch "om Cherry says hope that there might still be alive some of the 189 men known to be en tombed in the St. Paul coal mine was abandoned Tuesday. An exploration into what is known as the second vein. where !t was thought probably miners had barri csded themselves and managed to ezidlt on oats and corn kept tbere for mules. showed that great portions of the tunnels had collapsed. It !r thought that many men were buried under the debris and that I. the obstruction is not soon cleared away at least 100 bodies may never be recovered. Fire is stIll nagina in these tunnels: and thvse portions of the mine. in which im;>risoned miners might have found a retreat. are said to be full of the fatal black damp. The death Tuesday of one of the survivors brought to the surface last Saturday reduced to 19 the total number of those saved out of the 310 entombed by the fire a week ago Saturday. No bodies were found Tuesday. The explorers met with great ob stacles Tuesd.y. In one instanoe fre broke out in a tunnel temporari ly cutting off the escape of 25 mezi who had ventured 4.000 feet frou: the hoisting shaft. The smell ol smoke gave the warning above and fresh' men rescued the explorers. Following a telegram sent to Gov ernor Deneen by the executive board of the miners State organizatihn. ask Ing that some one man be designat ed to take charge of the mine. Minq Inspector Hector McAllister wa placed in charge of the explorinj - work. Despite the fire and the fall Ing in of tunnels, the work of clear ing the mine will be pushed nigh and day. A diary was found in the cloth Ing of Samuel D. Howard. 21 year old, whose body was found in i pocket of the mine. The diary wa begun on November 13. the day th, Are started, and covers a period o two days. describing the struggle fo life until black damp ended th weird tale. written with a pencil oi loose leaves of an account book. EXISION SHAK TOWNi. Five Building Demolished at Daz dile, Dhlnois At Danville. Illinois, a charge ( dynamite. weIghing twenty - E pounds. was exploded under th fruit and wine house of Joseph Maa , carl early Tuesday. demolishing Uv builings and doing damnage amoun1 lng to about $50.000. Buildini north and south of Mascari's stor were wrecked. Plate glass windo' in every building within thre squares were shattered. Gun cotto and bits of fuse were found nearl two blocks away. Macri charged members of tI "'Black Hand'' Society with the da namiting. but declined to say whetl er he had received their threatenin letters. Two men were seen to run fro' the vicinity of the building t'5 mninutes before the explosion. Th police have descriptions of them. The explosion shook every buil' ing and residence in the down-toy section. Hundreds of people., aronf ed from sleep. believed there ha been an earthquake. The ruit caught fire. but the flames wer quickly extinguished. No one was killed in the expioiot The police arrested Tonyv Palmisan in connection with the affair. bi released hitn after they were cot vinced he was in no way concerne< -RESCCES CHILD. Faithul Creature Drives Of Ma Brute Which Attacked Girl. A dispatch from Saluda says mad dog passing through that tow Satujday morning oreated quite commotion. After he had bitte: several dogs he was followed an killed. His movements for the 2 hours previous have been traced an It is learned that besIdes biting nutn bers of dogs. geese. turkeys and hog in the Ellis section of that count and between Saluda and the Ell! section. he bit the little 1 0-year-ol daughter of Brown Butler. The chil was out in the yard when the do ran into some geese near by. Tb child went around the house to se what was causing the commotio'Z The dog at once jumped on her too, and fastened his teeth in he face. It Is very probable her tac would have been lae-rated muel worse had not Btutier's dog run ua and, seizing the rabid dog. mad him loose his hold on the child. Butler has gone to the Columbi hospital with the ch!!d for treat mxent. XYoung Mlan. Beware. Young man, beware of the first oa'th and the first vulgar utter ance, the 5rst cigarette, the fir1 glass of wine, the first glass of beer the first mingling with evil com panions. You may think you are strong enough to Indulge in thes4 and break away from them at yout will, but you never made a greater mistake in all your life. .Each one is like an ogtopus. They will grad ualy wind their arms around you and death is the only thing strong enough to tear you from their dead* ly embrace .A Brase Woman. MIise Grace Witherspoon. '0 yes old. a few night~s ago. overpoweren a burglar who bad entered her home and wrenched from his grasp a pil lwslp containing $200 in jewelry uind fu' which the intruder bhd FIRE ON POSSE UNRULY BLACKS WOUND NLNE MEMBERS OF POSSE, Shooting Stirb P")ple of Town But Anger Dies Down-Onc Man Wab Arrested. Following two days of tense ex citement. with a race riot of serious ;>oportofns threaened. as a result o! th.- whoiesale wouading of a deputy sheriff's posse by drunken neroei in the eastern section of the c!t! of Union. S. C.. Sat:urday nigh. qui et again prevails. and the offcials of that town believe they have the situation in hand. The ne;roes who did the shooting J made their escape and this probabl) accounts for the fact that further dis orders were not recorded later Late Monday afternoon one of the negroes charged with the shooting J was arrested and lodged in Jal I Three !thers for whom warrants were issued have not been appre hendedI. Following repeated efforts on the party o, Deputy Sheriff A. S 31cColl :o put a stop to the noisy r.eveir-y at a negro "frolic' Saturday. he. with ii party of citizens. started for ths house occupied by the negroes. The latter opened ire with shotguns wounding nine members of the of ficers' force. including the deput sheriff, who received wounds in each leg. The others wounded were W. A Dye. two loads of shot in chest and !ace: Boyd Harris. shot in legs: Her bert Brandon. shot in face and body: H. L. Timmons. shot in lega: Ru dolph Lowe. both legs peppered with shot: Earl Bolling. shot in body: Albert Wright. body peppered with shot; Grady Reynolds. shot in head and body. One negro was found near the house seriously wounded. !t is said that be got wit.-n range of his cow panion's shots when the attack was made upon the officers. Sheriff G. G. Long was summoned and immediately went to the scene with a posse armed with repeating rifles. The negroes had fled. how ever. and the sheriff and his men directed the!: attention to a syste natic search of the negro section for the guilty ones. but without result 4.A large quantity of whiskey was found in the house occupied by the negroes. Later the wounded negro was found by the~ offeers near the house. where he had crawled after his companions fled. Dye is the most seriously wounded o fthe posse. but it is not thought his wounds will prova fatal- Eighty three shot were removed from hiF body. BABY STARVED. Left Infant Suspended in Air Hang ing by a Rope. * One of the most inhuman crimes ever perpetrated in that vicinity, was discovered the other day on the Jer i sey side of the river, opposite .M e York. Some laborers saw something 8 that looked like a bundle hanging -from a long rop.: over the edge of E the Pallasades. which, at that point. - rise more than a hundred feet above B the narrow banks Hauling up e the sixty-foot rope, they '.ought the '6 bundle to the top of the rocks. 1. e proved to be the body of a-i Irtaant a tied into an apron. A miedical exane y ination showed that the child had been tied in the apron and had bees e allowed to starve, suspended from the rope, the upper end of which Swas fastened to a tree. The authori ties are making strenuous efforts t find the inhnman perpetrator of ttI Scrime. e sWINDLER IN EASTOVEE. 1Several Persons There- Were Caught by His Game. dA dispatch from Eastover to The State says for the past few dayr ethere has been a swindler in the community. A white man has been canvassing the country under the name of agent for a certain sick tbenefit society. He would approach a person, generally a negro, and in terest him in the subject. Then he would win his point by saying, "You know Mr. T. H. Auld of Eastover. don't yout Well, he is general agent for the company in all this lower R~chland county. Now you give me $1 and I'll give you my receipt and ayou take it to Mr. Auld and he'l issue you the policy." Several persons fell for this game and now are bemoaning the loss of Stheir dollars. 4SHOOTS DRINK-CRAZED MAN. Samuel Joyner Kills Fathee-ln-Law' in Order to Save Himself. A dispatch from Goldsboro. N. C.. says. !nnamed by liquor. Owen 1GInn. a wealthy farmer of Snow SHill. Wayne county. entere~d the home1 eor his son-In-law. Samuel Joyner. -late Monday evening and opened r -upon Joyner as the latter lay abed. Escaping the first few shots Joyner emanaged to reach his pistol and re-' turning the fire killed Ginn instantly SwIth the first bullet. Earlier in th. Sday Ginn made an attack upon his wife and shot and painfully wound ed his young son. who was making -a valiant defense of his mother, and who finall- rorsted his father. Ginn had been on a protracted debauch. Died of Rabies. Mrs. Goldea F'riedlander. of Car mel, N. J.. was bItten by a dog five weeks ago, but paid little attention! to the wound until a fow days ago. when she applied for treatment. Iti was tzien seen that she had hydro phobia, and that it was too late for treatment. She was sent to Belle rue hospital. where she died, after suffering intensely, the doctors do-' scribing the disease as hydrophobia.' Three Chidren Burned Three colored children were hurn-: ed to death at Switz- in Spartan >urg county Thursday morning. Their monther. Norah Evans. lear- I lng the ch~ldren in bied, kindleda fre in the room, where they slept1 and went a short distance to a neigh bors home, but before her return I t MNE HORRORS ( ac to Greed, Says Senator Tillzbn to Augusta Herald Rejorter 'AL[S OF OTHER THINGS hink.% the Proceeding% .Aainst the 1 Standard Oil Company Only for Effect-Thinkl. the Judges WJil Fix it %o a, Trust Will Escape 3 Seriou.% Hartu. The H1-crald of Augusta says Sena or It. R. Tilnian of South Carolina. ccompanied by Mrs. Tillman. epen* tonday morning in Augusta. while in their way to attend the golde ublii-e of Major and Mrs Harr) lammond. at Beech Island. Tibc sen ttor and Major Hammond h:ve betv riends for a long time aul he was ooking forward *o the great er.v-nt 5 Beech Island with much pleasu.c 'hIle in the city many of th.. vn;% or's friends mn-et him and exa---ed heir pleasure at his being in *u.;,vi a. When se-n by. a reporter f->c Tb. ienald Sn :Ti::.aLn w. :1 *. -ady to talk and much of hs w lealt w!th th- decision ree.-ntly m.tde. yy he Vunittd States court ji!: 2tablyv in the Szandard Oil case. * believe.'' he said. ''that the re :ent decision against the Statidaid X1i Company is like the $29.000.0ji aue. and I am going to watch which way the pieces fall before I throw up ny hat and start a hurrah. It always tppears to me that in every such de -ision of the United States court the judge fixes it so that some of their millionaire and multi-millionaire friends can slip out easily. The in vestigation of the sugar frauds is nothing new. it should have been done long ago. The law was passed te years ago and why in thp - .lidn't Roosevelt jump into them. and raise- the devil with them instead of bouting aloud and tearing his hair about what he was going to do. I am going to. and the people of this country should also watch the graft rs like a hawk. for I expect that they will find it an easy matter to slip out and go their way unpunish ed. If a nigger or a poor white man, steals a small amount of some little goods. be goes to the penitentiary. ut let a hIgh financier make off with millions of the people's money and he is presented with a chromo and hailed as a hero. -About the mine disasters. It is not for the national government to attend to the punishment of the ir regularities existing but the StateE should be held to account. The Illi nos horror in only a repetition of another result of the greed of capi talists. The clamor of the States for national aid is a bad th:ing and it is rapidly destroying the belief of the people in State government. The recent utterance of President Taft for the health of the country to be placed under national control iE all wrong, for the health of the peo pie was always intended to be regu lated by the police laws of each city or State. It would be impossible for the government to carry on this reat work successfully. The new pure food laws were fine laws and have worked remarkably well and have done much for the people.'' Gtting near home the senator stat ed that he did not know what would be done to the dispensary grafters in South Carolina. -- don't see how they can let one man go and punish another. and am watching wIth much interest the results of the future trials. Who will be the next governor of South Carolina? Why there isn't a person living who could tell. The race is going to be a stiff one and there are - number of strong men ready to take the job in Columbia.'' KiLLED A DES5PERtATE NEGRO.. Furman Turner Shot Whitman Hiar leyWhe'n Latter Threatened Him. Furman Turner. a livervman of Yorkvilie., shot and killed Whitman Harley. colorod. Monda.r night. Harley was a noted despe rado, who had a record as a crimi nal. having killed one man and shot aeveral others. The trouble arose about Harley hiring a team from Turner. The ne wro was insulting and ran his hand into his pocket and Turner. know ing the desperate nature o! the man with whom he had to deal, shot and killed him. Public sentiment gen erally regt.rds the shooting as ju.sti fiable. BUILDING TOPPLES. One Negro Killed and Five W.hite Men Uadly Injured. At wison. N. C.. on Monday atf t.-rnon. while heavy timnb.-rs were being placed on the facto:y building of the Conte-ntnea Guano Company. being erected h-'re. part of th.- stru. ture fell killing instantly B3 . It. Taylor. colored, and injuring .ceV eal others. G. 1". Bates. a white boy. is badly bru:sed, leg crushed: SpeiMt Mcet'i. white. badly bruis -d: George Farmer. s.-riously hurt: Tob~e l'lamiy and Juniu.< Woodard. adly hurt. the latt..r having a brok n leg. Nurses and doctors were uickly summoned and the injured ivel attention. NEGRO KyILLS HIS WIFE Shoots Woman Down Because She Went to a Party. At Greenwood Co'oncr Owens had als first job Monday. Hie was callNi 2on to hold an inqiuest over thej lead body of Minna Cunninghaut a 2gro woman. w ho was bho: last day by hor husbaud. Jackson Cun linnamlfl. Onl the farm of Mr. L. Hi. ;Vatt$, on the eastern edge of the ount~y. The woman lived 'everal lays after being sho?. but her l'e w'as despaired of from the th-'st. From;: he testimony it appears that Jack - omn bea naedM at h.er because 4 COTTON GINND ENSUS REPORT SHOWS MUCH LESS THAN LAST YEAR. I k'port Shows Decreae of Over I. 000.000 Bales in Products Ginned to November 11. The census report shows S.109.737 ales, counting round bales as half a,-s. ginned from the growth of 1.4k#!e to Novembter 14, compared with .59Z.SV9 for 1908. Round baies included this year re !23.15S. compar41 with 173.90S or 19.kis. sea I.land. 6,4.608 for 1909. ompared with 56.701 for 190S. The cotton ginned by States to :ovember 14. 1909. compared with hat ginned to the same date In 1908 ollows: 1909. 1908. dlabama . . 06.977 1.020.724 rkansas .. 557.677 665.232 -1orida ..... 51.635 51,497 ;eorgia . 1.559.671 1.564.037 .ouIsiana ... 17.426 341.953 aissismippi .. 731.092 1.0S6.183 orth Caroina. 406.513 414.434 )klahoma . . . 476.523 322.051 k>utb Carolina. 913.407 93S.926 Pennessee . . 1S4.451 343.493 .exa. . . .... Z. .16 . . 63.52 . oth.'r States 43.3.5 49.751 On Novenbr 14. 190S. 73.3 per :ent of the entire crop of the coun :ry had been ginned. I'L di.ribution of the sea island :otton for 1909 by State-: is: Flor la. :'1.477: Georgia. 38.912: South Carina , 6.217. The statistics In this report f)r 1 9'9 are subj-<t to ilight eorrectlons whf-n ch.-cked against the individual returns of the ;tiuners being transmitted by mall. The corrected statistics of the quantity of cotton ginned this sea on to November I are 7.017.849 bales. PHOSPHATE DEOPOSIT. Hope They Will Bring Great Riches to Branchville. Branchblilt. Nov. 26.-SpecIal: State Gologist Sloan. of Columbia. has been in Branchville the past week looking further into the bed of phosphate rock that is situated almost right in town. It will be remembered that last winter while digging a wt1l on the lands of Mrs. Murray, there was discovered a dte posit r. geological specimens and *cks that were curiosuly examined by many. They were determined then as being phosphate. but noth ing was done to determine the real worth of the bed and how rich it was. Now the geologist has made a thorough inspection of the land around where this find was made and has gone Into the thing thoroughly. He Ands that under the surface aboul ten feet there is a great bed o this deposit that he'declares is good phosphate. It is very rich and will -;>roduce. it is estimated, at les1 1.000 tons per acre and possiblya great deal more, all of It being very close to the surface. It is noi known yet how tar the depositi extend, but it is most prob able that they cover a consider "'e portion of the land. Mr. 3. J .tto owns the land where the rich est find of this rock is situated, and this land is just out side of th4 town limits. Geologist Sloan stated when ask ed as to the probi Ility of working this find, that in t~e course of fivi or ten years it could be worked vera profitably and would be a source o; much revenue to the parties own ing the land and to the town o: Branchville as well, for then ferti lizer mills could be erected here and the farmers could get their ferti lizing material at first cost and with out having to have it shipped in ti them. OAUSES FATAL AFFRAY. Refusal of Young Woman to Dane Wilth Young Man. When the daughter of Sitron Nel son refused to dance with Wese> McKenzie at a soc~al affair nea given in her own home at Barnwell a town in a remote section of Bald win county .Ala.. Saturday night. bloody duel followed. Two men arn dead. four injured, and four are un der arrest on the charge of murder. The dead are: Bert Pierce. beaten to death and: head crushed. Mack McKenrzie, shot through th4 heart. John FaIm". two brothers of the dead Pierce boy, and one of the Mc Kenzie brothers were wounded. According to the story told by of~ fcers investigatig the case. WVesley McKlnzie approached Miss Nelsot and asked her to dance with him. She is said to have refused cin the ground that he was drinking, and he then began cursing in her pres. ence. A general fight followed with the above result. BURNS TO D)EATH. While Playing in the Barn Little~ Boy Sets It on Fire. A distressing accident occurred at Monbo. Catawber county. N. C.. Sun day about noon when a little~ son of Mr. .Jacob Oren was burned to death in the barn on his father's prem ises. Mr. Oron's famnily are' employ ed in the' cotton mnill of the Monbo Manufacturing Compan~y and live on the :and of the company. Sunday about the hour named the little boy. who wa~ just 4 years old, got hold of some matches and went to a smnall barn on the premise. It is zsup posed he struck t he tmatches, any. way when the barn was found to be o'n fire the b~uilding was so enveloped1 in ames that the boy could not b" reached. ils charred remnains were found in the ashes of the build ing. Succumbs to tar~vation. WhIle on his way to the Salva lon Army headquarters in Now iorks to get ai Thankegiving dinner. John Deey bomielsss andI friend 'ass. collapse and a few hours lerAr iied from s'arvation. Before ex iring Devery told the hospital doc ors that he had had scarcely a nouthful of food In a weekc and his~ -acate-d condition tended to con DD A HERO Democratic Leader Dies Trying to Save GrandsoS From Fire. GOES TO DREADFUL END With the Lad in His Arms the Con gresman and Child Fall Through Floor as House in Kansas City Burns to Ground-Veterau of Lower House.I Congressman David A. DeArmond. one of the oldest and most proni ent Democratic members of con gress. and nis grandson Waddi, aged six, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the DeArmiond home at Butler. Mo.. early Tuesday. The other members of the family escaped and It Is believed that nonel were hurt. Neither the body of Congressman DeArmond nor that of his grandson are yet recovered. It is believed that they were inciner ated. Bones found are believ-d to be those of the congreFsnan. Other occupants in the house who escaped were Mrs. DeArmond and their son and daughter. The fire. the cause of which is un known. started at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. The DeArmond home Is iltuated across the street from that of his son. James A. DeArmond. Jam.-s started to rush In the burn ing home of his father in an at tempt to save the latter. tut was re strained by the younger members of the family and neighbors. The DeArmond home was two sto ries in height and when it started it burned fiercely. Mrs. DeArmond. the wife of the congressman. escap ed in her night clothes unhurt. but fainted as soon as she reached the ground. When she was revived later, she became hyvterical and it was some time before she could tell what had happend. She occupied a room on the first floor. while the congress man and his grandson were on the second floor. She had the first in timation of the fire when she heard the grandson cry out the alarm. She was only barely a'2-.- to es cape with her own life. not hav;: a moment to attempt to r--scue the others. The house was of woo le construction. By the time she reach --d the yard the building was wrap ped in dames. Fifteen minutes lat er it was in ashes. Mrs. DeArmond heard no call from her husband. Whether he was smothered in bed and burned before he could leave the room. or made an attempt to save his life. probably will never be known. Mrs. Harry Clark. tho congrssman's married daughter. and the house servant. whc were sleeping or the frst floor. wert among the others to escape. In Congressman DeArmond's deatd the Democrats lose one of their leaders on the floor of the house He was a member of that body to: the past 19 years. a man with a whd' education .and wide experience,a fuent speaker and had become one of the principal resources of th< Democratic party in debating na tional questions. He will long be remembered to his brilliant oratory and especial!: for his power of sarcasm and capac ity for invective, He was conspicu ous as a party fighter. He was in clined to be pugnacious. This quali ty was once the means of gettini him into an altercation with Johr Sharp Williams. then leader of th< house. He was an aspirant for the lead e ship oft the house until the recog niton of Champ Clark by the minorl DEATH FOR FEEBLE .IHNDED). Humanitarians Startled by Letter o the Mayor. The mayor of Flymouth. England has caused a sensation by sending th following letter to Sir Edward Brad ford, chairman of a meeting to con ider the care of the feeble minded: "We are wasting millions on the erection of expensive buildings it the most salubrious neighborhoods on the maintenance of an enormiou: oficial stf and on providing good food to help live those who hayt not and never will have one glearr of Intelligence. This is called hu malty. "'dedics! science has made suci strides that It is possible to submii these idiots to painless ..-ath and release them from the purgatory o1 non-Intelligence. Spend the monei now wasted In such profligacy o: schemes such as maternity institu tons and creches and a dfern dawn will arse-. SEn&vS OF TRAGED)IES. Man Shoots His Wife and self and Fiend a SUICIde. Oscar Osborn and his wit.- are i a hospital probably fatal:y woundedl as a result of shots flre:l by Osborn Tuesday night at his wife- and himn self in the main street of Richmtond. Ky. Robert Hendrick. a boo.n comn panion of Osborn, lt-arn'ing t.f the tragedy committe-d su.e:de- bv stal bng himse-lf. .Mrs. Osbore.. whot hadl livd apar. from her husba;nd for two months. came to :own Tuesday from her country estate to do tome shopping. Osbor:. who is wealthy. me: her and after a few wordt dred the two shots. Kflkd His' Orand-father. Because he bad bee-n punishdi fo'r soe minor off.nse. ly his graznd father. W. S. Carringtonl. a notary public. WVill Carrington. 17 y-ears od. shot and ki:led the former at the family home near Franklin. Ga.. Tuesday night. The boy tied alter the killirng, but was captured. Large inheritance Taxe The inh~ritan-e taxes on the - ate of John Kennedy Stewart. the' millionaire banker. who died r.cent ly. laving nearly half his $,.'C. 000 estate to put:!lc institutions and~ ociie's. will net the State of New MUST DIE FOR CRIME I ITTLE 'lUST PAY FOR SIX LIVES WITH HIS ONE. Virginia Murderer Convicted for Cold-blooded Killing of Whole Family at Hurley. Va. Deiared guilty by a jury of mur de-r i:: the rst degree and ientenc ed to b. electrocuted in Cichmond. January 7. was the outcome of the trial a: Gumdy. Va.. Saturday of Howard Lite. who was charged with tho sex;uple murder of Mrs., Bu-tty R. Justis. Georw.' Meadows.I his wife. and three children. The jury rendered i's verdict Saturday morn!ng after having been out all n:!ht. The murder occurred at Hurley. Buchanan county. and the bodies of the victims were burned. The crime for which Little was found guilty was a particularly atro cious one. The only motive which now can be conceived by the au thorities is that of robbery. They helev*' Little sought to obtain the money which he thought was in the house. amounting to $1.300. and that murder and arson followed, but since the crime was committed none of :he mcney has be-n found. Feel ing against the prisoner ran to such an extent that an extra guard was placed around the jail to prevent violence. STOLE HALF POUND BLTTER And Sent to the Penitentiary for Seven Years. Miss Lillie Sutton of Ocean Springs. Miss.. who was sentenced izt. spring to serve a term of seven years !n the Mississippi State peni tentlary by Circuit Judge W. H., Hardy. on an indictment for bur glary. the theft of a half-pound of b,:tter and five eggs from the resi dence of Fred Abbley. voluntarily gave herself up a few days ago to Sheriff McLeod. Miss Sutton. tbrouh the instrumentality of the King's Daughters, was released on bond. which she furnished by selling her p:cperty and putting up the money as collateral, and has been liing at .Merrill with relatives pend ing the appeal of her case to the sup'rem court, which tribunal af firned her sentence a few days ago S.LIY PLAT COT'ON IN HAWAII. Negotiation, for Purchabe of an Is land Are in Progress The establishment of a ootton plantation in Hawaii is among the possq!bilities of the near future. Ne gotiat!ons for the purchase of I-na! sland for that purpose. inavolving the expenditure of $350.000. are now in progress between 3. T. McCroseon and Frank Thompson and the owner of the property. W. G. Orwin Dr. E. V. WIlcox, director of the United States agricultural department sta tion at Honalula, who has studied the soil and climate of the island, has stated that he believes it to be well suited for the cultivation of cot ~ton. "HOT SUPPER" KILLING BEGINS. Negro Slays Another Near' Wellford jin Spartanburg. Wiii Brown, colored, was shot and killed by Ed Fowler. colored. Thurs day night at a Baptist church known as "The Corner." near Weliford, Spartanburg county. Fowler gave himself up and is in jail. The trouble occurred at a "'hot supper.' and followed a difficulty between the two negroes. -The shotgun Fowler used is said to have been picked up by him in jthe corner of the room where it had been placed by a negro who had been hunting during the day. ~ HOOKWOIGI CAUSES DIVORCE. Woman Recites the Fauults of Her IHusband and is Given Decree. A dispatch from San Francisc says Judge Graham has divorced Anita Coover fronm David Coovet. The "hookworm" was the cause. My~ h utband w:is dull, stupid, lazy. lan guid and slow." said Mrs. Coover. "lie miust have been a victim of the hookgwormu." said the court. Mrs. Coove'r expr'-te some doubt as to this diagnosIs, but Judge Graham stuck to h:2 opinion and granted the decree. Ilanana Skin.s and Caelessness. The I orry li':rald says: "The hai o tgt!es hoyrs, and grown op ppi. for that muatter. in throw. inirnana hulls and other trash on th sidewalks along Main street is a -prehensaibte one and if not put a stop o by the city fathers by im po ' .: a .-acy lin.- upon those con .ietd of such practic.. will soonet or la:- he: the cause of a serious ! not ftacident. We do not tb. i.ve :':- th' :wn-ons who do these :in;: ' .0then: with any criminal it -: er' throughu a spirit of mtis b-. i:. is ratthe'r the result of enho;:. .dns.;. and we believe that as soon~ as the attent!c~n of the pub ic i calb-'t :o this matter th.' dan u.re.,.s p.ractice' wvil b.- stopped. To See the Wind. Seeing :he wind is a rare but easy .:. Th'. object wherewith it may e seen is a common saw. On any !owy dav-the wind being, say, in th ..orth-hold your saw with the: .u on~ g. one to the east, the. c*t.-r to he nec't. Take the saw as -.o 'w ~ere going to cut the air upwrd iw lt the teeth. whIch are n' -op. :-:. oer till the flat part Saw at an an:;le of 45 de .... .::th hexizon. You wil ca ..ethewin. Lookingt along ,.t.-ho: t-a. :.aW you wil! see e wind pour over them as plain!y on- ma :.re'ate pou"ing ove Fatal Accident. A n.-izhbor w'.oman caring for the 1. er..-wileyof Mrs. Frank fei,' f 8,i:g>mry. 11:.. sprinkled h. eIl wi:b powdiered tartnc BAKING POWDER Absolute&y Puwre - Make the finesto =osd dell elous biscIt "nead. pastry conveys tofood themostheal affl Of fruit properties A BASEIE TEAC EBLE IN THE PENITENTIARY WHILE Told on Confederate Leaders by the he- i A S chant Marine League The Good Mrs. Fanney Careon is DENOUNCED BY WATSON D-i^ -* P*- ---' A most interesting and remarkable The League in Is Erorts t Loot case in many respects is that of Mrs. the l'ublic Tre.ury Tor the nene- Fanny Carson. the Spartanburg fit -of the Shipping Trust Slnders woman who has spent'15 years ef a. life sentence in the penitentiary for Jefferson Davis, Robert T-mbs and the murder , with her paramour, of Other Leaders. her husband. whose throat was cut In his Wee-kly Jeffersonian Mr. with a razor in most revolting cir Thomas E. Watson vigorously re- cumstanees, and whose petition for fute a upardon is now being renewed after ea foul falsehood that is being being refused by three governors who circulated by the Merchant Marine had strong counter petitions before League. in its effort to loot the na- them asking that Mrs. Carson be not tional tre.asury for the beneft of the pardoned. sipping trust. To cover the truth. The Columbia Record ays her lawyers have spent much of Mrs. that the high protection tariff caused Carson's memory in a 15 years losing the decline of our merchant marine. nzht to secure her a pardon. but a monstrously false charge is made It now looks as if her own conduct against Jeff Davis. Toombs and other may aucceed in a short time In free- - leaders. The Jeffersonian says: Ing her from prison. The zeal she On page 15 of the American Fag is displaying in her Bible class work for September. 19u9. we find the' at the penitentiary has favorbly Im headline: I y essed a number of influential peo "Destructlin of Marine Planned." ple, and her petition for pardon Then the League "historian" pro- come this time the best fortied ceeds to relate how Jefferson Davis since her lawyers have been knocking and other Southern !eadsrs. antici- at the governor's door in the l pating secession and war. conspired years. with British agen:s to destroy the Mrs. Caon's case recalls two American Marine strikingly similar cases of' pardon The L-ague hts the astounding ef- occurring in recent years. One was frontery to charge this treason on that of Ezelle Thackston of Green Jefferson Davis. when he was a mem- vile. who killed a negro girl he ber of the Cabinet of President Pierce. The League declares thathoeatrehdkildapm this "plot' of the Southern leadersnetwiem ,alonthrdlgt "was not perfected in 15l5." but dsrc.Taktn wsproe that these !ong-beaded, evi! minded Southerners kept on scheming aadplydgetzaInriiosm conspiring againrt the merchant ma-trsathpeiniry Sila rine-having in view, reways. seces-otecaewshtofougHy sion and civil war. The League. of Hys h cnemncnitdo course. mentions Robert Toombs asth mudrohiwfewowa one of the arch-conspirators,. adndpicpal nterpr The name of Davis and Toombsofteanwingepr.Cral are used for a sinister purpose. Those o e ok h aehnigo names are as unpopular in the East. Iteatetct fant lee North and West. as the names of ~hv ensge yHy~wf Stanton and Shierman are at the ~igsewsgigt omtsi South.dd.HwaagrtSudysho It is almost Impossible to dealwokrbfethdahohiwf. patiently with lies of the sort one lzallogtilnemryi If Rber 3. ey. o Atanta iAlewh dayse ago Thegroural the snd . A Tomns ofCharott.aN e een iing saprith ats Crsowns C..andGeo Vb J~usn. r..0~homenty, pbihe hdld a sto a edtril Grenvile.S. ..havth tre dvotri. TMacs ron's pardon. Souhen boo inthir 'ns.thy T afteasht serie. CaHe' faor dis of te Lag':. I is he oweterma the e.iteJntar. Stilsoan meaest l'stater~t o olserother ofase oldst tad osifyugHoyt up abadmeaure~thseciona p Ha es th cne mot aonactdo udlce. tec. orer eitc wfe hriws TheLeaue irtr~l sas t th par dopcatealy no threepot Nort. "obl~ nd taitrs o t f thea haditing exrt. Carva'slet rif inorde tht scesson ofh caew of r. Cars caseforein yon ~uce.'. lr~tcth taiff di nth andutentitofbge arnoealog driv theA~u'icanIgfrom the wihate beetines WyHaes' infCe seas Soth* n el lie Jffe sayingbla 18he watoin 1 to1 comma srl Davi. Reen Davi an Robrtcimes nHe wapaetntia y schoto Toonbs id t. ow I th nae worke efoe hpan det oI het aife of urepatioi~m r.i' Actheme Hiosevl clongl this. Cinamrely.Sh hntds ewlhbutisfo the iHanea-Cannon-ry murh.hILfe commontreasry, sresewa af ecameto p ern peir guowi cmirung.ta hsvcosadl iedi h eemnto olv fonl nD Tmso f harovoted N. hi rot fpio.Ee C. no r eo.n i W. e Bru . thJr..iee hra rpeobjc Grville St.i h C.. hae the true caiycislul o aan h Souhen btS~lod intevenin theamo uiheti rsnI o il. den ouethean othamocraicndenr acbtt aeur oit ofrthe ee. t sdlen llest, aeth riia. hseed upactad toasrea withre sec.onal haebenrej-.ad ilbemr The Leagued virttia~ly says to the scr yhrpro. Sou at formeh'-a plot withasritis agents to d-sto the rchwant ma-RRE ~M rnvtrUi a in ordr tat ecesio Hig succet-d Pr~otctientarailwadid n ot e aePoal eihdi driv fstheiU Ameian tlag frorte Adipch fo Toi.Ja. ses South.:" tn raehevyslosiof lfeffefeare Davi. toRu.en TDavis. and Robrt Toombsdid f it. No in therg~ gnmdye g i olmnea nua ofhe patuiotism. r..i :h te hewo eraos~rvne.r e r cht ine i:h knowunohavepeishdmhilt22 Howk amazntht thisn vndcDous nd es r nome nth ok po! lan detii'r :ul have provoked Evr' ttmt sben md istrto oftrn the plo. nat. tlhenn toimee hm utter ae when scsso was n en ain~s etndut a. 'The Slouth' d At'!che mcai arty re in~r.' t s adde and fulAy detl sipd exethan t o I';: 'etuain te .\'feo. a h otnsofant on I~vis oposd onec.-a:ion d.onr to St dyintednhehcetbsd vey wart. A th.-~ that er wels ro. nn oiiino rnln inore.-'s~ C abith t h wsen-d a.whha en msig fo itrnge 1-nion an n Amepra.~n He sn Fia.AwudI h whpannin. and: maJu ot' waou e tlgcue oln obedt not elive, t:z t Noth oul d eath acoding ago. The orn. The nc~ thounhyopublisheina stroNgrth.ttrip. advocating Mrs. Carson'srpardon bedeh~~' tat wod r ~ h e aTesn Mr. Clarsn' favo vaul th SC~h one of the olest and most inlusti-l Is ne a sh.~eftl tunmembter of the Suth uCarolIinon pla onthepi~u~ ni r";d~cs terene d rmel compltcr ofThe "hus ofc e " ian Avcaean owpesdnto La-e-cleg.-r.W-sn' lt TherIs eth :-t 'l'.it ~e anTd Irite orl musther pardo-aon