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VOL. XXIV ANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 119 KING DEA infHismterual Reward AMR SHORT ILmeSS Surrounded by Queen Alexandra and Mensbers of the Boyal Famit His Majesty Succumbed to Attack of Paeumonia. Folowing Bronchits. Prince of Whale Become King. King Edward VII, who returned to England from a vacation 10 days ag in the best of health died at 11:45 Friday night In the presence of his family after an illness of less than a week, which was serious hardly more than three days. The Prince of Wbales succeeded to the crown immediately, according to the laws of the kingdom. without oMcIal ceremony. His first oMcial act was to dispatch to the lord may or the announcement of his father's death. In pursuance of custom. His telegram read: "I am deeply grieved to inform you that my beloved father. the king. passed away peacefully at 11.45 tonight. (Signed) ("George." The physicians soon afterwards is s=ed their ometal bulletin. which was as .Mllows: "May 6. 11.50 p. m. His majes tyr, the king, breathed his last at 11.45 tonight In the presence of her Unjesty. Queen Alexandra. Prtnce and Princess of Wales. Princess Royal, the Duchess of Fife. Princess Victoria and Princess Louise, the Duces of Argyll" Pneumonia. following bronchitis is belIeved to have been the cause of death, but the doctors thus far have refused to make a statement. Some of the king's friends are con vinced that worry over the critical poltical situation which confronted him, with sleepless nights, aggra vated If It did not cause the fatal Mmes Besides the nearest relatives in england the Duke of Mfe and the Archbishop of Canterbury- were in tUP death chantber. The king's broth er. the Duke of Connaught.with his family, Is at Suez. hastening home from Africa. The king's daughter. gaeen Maud of Norway. will start for England at once. . ffhe Intelligence that the end of King Edward's reign had come was not a surprise at the last. The peo ple had been epteting to hear it at any moment since the evening bulletin was posted at Backingham palace and flashed throughout the kingdom. The capital receiWed it without excitement, but sadly. for the kind with his own people was unquestionably one of the most pop ular rulers In the world. They re garded hin as one of the strongest frces making for the stability of the peace of the empire. The fashionabile restaurants were just .emptying and a few groups of lae theatre-goera were making their way homeward through the rain. wilea small crowd still hung about the .palace, when the streets wero Oled suddenly with newsboys shril ly crying: ''Death of the King!" The papers were quickly seized and tht peoiile discussed the momentous event quietly and soon dispersed. The streets were desereed by one o'clock. Within a few -moments after the death of the king the home offce telegraphed the intelligtnece to the hads of other governments and the diplomats and colonial offices over the wortd. Almost to the end, the King re fused to take to his bed and was sit ting up Priday -In a large chair, so the palace stories go. corroborating the description of him as an .unruly patii-t, which Dr. Ott gave at a Vienna reviewer in the evening eOne of the last utterance atrribu to the King: "Well. 1t Is all over; but I think I have done my duty." He seemed then to have reache a full realimtion that ais end was fast approar-hing., 'The queen and others of the roy al family and four doctors had been constantly In the sick room through ot the day. Several hours before his death. the king was tn- a com atose condition, but he rallied slight y between 9 and 10 o'clock. and ap peared to recognize his family. Then be lapsed Into unconsciousness. which'ended In his passing.* HUNG BY H lS. Terribe Fiendish Act of Cruelty Re The Augusta Clyronicle says last bonday morning a negro girl. 12 years old. was found hanging by her heels to a pine tree In Uancoln coun ty. The girl had been missing since Saturday two weeks ago. When discovered she was almost dead. She had been beaten terribly and showed evidences of other ill treatment. After being attended by doctors, she regained consciousness long enough to tenl who had treated her so cruelly. The names of the parties are not given, but it Is learn ed that two negro women and a ne gro man are in jail at Lincolaton. charged with the crime. Nothing is known as to how long the girl had been -banging to the tree. She had been tied up with1 wild grape vines. The throngs had cut into her flesh and bloodpoisoning has set in. She is niot exPreted to Sheriff Wright. o( LUncola count'. who was in Augusta. says that be .as 'been unable to find out the cause of the girl's treatment, but under stands that It grew out of some con tntion over work on a farm Intht JUORTAL DEN IDED BY THE POUCE AND ITS SE CRETS MADE PUBLIC. A Young Man. Who Claimed to Be From India. Is charged With Ab ducting New York Girls. it was a strange story which De Vctive Callahan told in the New York police court Thursday in de scribing the raid on Sunday on the Mystic Temple of "Om." a young man who is entered on the police records of Pierre A. Bernard. a na tive of India. "Om" was arraigned on the charge of abduction after the detectives had found him in his luxuriously ap pointed house. where he taught phy sical culture and languages. sur rounded by a number of pupils, mostly young women. Some of his girl pupils said Bernard represented himself as a "swami" from India. -Miss - Zela Hopp. a 19-year-old milliner, who had been one of Ber nard's "students" told the police the secret signal at the door to obh rain admittance. -When I pushed open the parlor doors." Callahan. testified. "I saw Bernard. He was standing on a glass globe that was on a hair mat tress ln the center of the room. He was going through some peculiar motions and gyrations as he stood on the globe. Five girls, and sev eral men. all in bathing suits, were gathered around him trying to re peat the movements."' Miss Hopp said she went to Ber ard's place last October and con suited him about a method .f cur ng her of heart weakness. Ber nard told her she must come to the place and stay for a time. which she d. first paying him, she testified, a fee of $100. Miss Hopp told the magistrate that Bernard had a peculiar Influ ence over her and that she believed he had hypnotized her. She de ecribed things which perhaps hap pened after she went to the house and made grave charges against Bernard. Whil'e she was in the place she miet Miss Gertrude Levy, of Tacoma, Wash., another studeat". and when she got out she thought she ought to advise Miss Levy's sister. a Mrs. Hanford of Tacoma. of what -was golag on. Her letters brought Mrs. Hanford to New York and the two women complalned to the police. Bernard, was held in $15.000 bail for .nother examination. DESERTED HER CmLDREN. &d Left for Parts Unknown With Her Affinity. A supposed tragedy that had put the tongues of many in Rocky lount. N. C.. to wagging, when the report that Mrs. Whitfield. young hite woman, had drowned herself n Tar river, has resolved itse~lf into situation entirely different from -as first reported and after a thor ngh investigation by the police of :he city It was learned that the wo nan had not gone near the' river but hat first reported and after a thor he fact that she had run away from some with an "afflnity." leaving her >ur children, the oldest 12 years ld. to the care of any person into hose hands they might fall. The woman wrote Mayor Thorne. aletter stating that she was going o take her life and after mailing the same she left the city with a man who .had been paying her at ~ention heretofore.. The executive of the city placed the children under the care of a kind neighbor. while the father of the children, who resides in Nash rounty, was notified of the proceed use and told to send for the little ones. The cause of the woman's actions it is thought are dure to the fact that .her husband had practi aiy deserted her and that their domestic relations had been far from pleaant. A STRANGE ACCIDENT. Blasted Stone Falls on House Kill lng Two People. A 500-pound blast of stone from an overcharge of dynamite used in blasting at the Evans quarry. 6 msiles from Murphy. N. C.. on the L. and N. road. landed on the roof of Chas Guthre's d.welling Saturday about 1 'clock. crashiing through the light rA instantly killing Mrs. Guthrie. and her S-year-old child. The Guth ie home stands near the place of blasting and frequently through the' day large quartities of stone .have fallen upon the housetop. Mr. Guth re and wife had just finishei din ner when they entered the bed room. next door, and sat <own for a rest. he heavy mass of granite seemed4 to have kept compact in the air. t made splinters of the roof. Mr. Guthie and one of the children es caped with their lives albtough they were only a few feet from the vic Some Petty Spite. Bryan was booked to deliver an address at N'ebraska City. Neb., on Thursday night in favor of the ini tiative and referdum, but It had to be postponed, because the county com-missieners of Otoe County. two or three of whom disagreed with Bryan on the refundumn idea. refused t allow him to speak on that sub jct in the Court House. Namte is. Ryder. ~Mrs. John W. Snow of Savannah. Ga.. wh'o shot hers-elf in the side wit.i suicidal intent at the Hotel Knickerbocker. New York. Is Miss Estelle Ryder. 22 years old. daugh' ter of Chas. Ryder. a farmer, of Oss' - MANY ARE DEAD As the Resuk of n Earthqike at die ciy of Cartage, Prb Rice. A FEARFUL DISASTER A Large Part of the City Was De stroyed and Fire Hundred or More People Were Killed, and Many Hundreds More Were More or Less Injured. uA dispatch from San Juan Del Sur. Nicaragua. says a large part of Cartago. Costa Rico, was destroyed Wednesday night by a powerful seis mic movement. Details are very meagre. as the telegraph wires have been levelled between San Jose and Cartago. The operators at the latter place were killed. The dispatch says it is known that at least fire hundred persons are dead and many hundreds are in ured. Scores of buildings were thrown down. among them the Pal ace of Justice, erected by Andrew Carnegie. 1The wife and child of Dr. Bocan gra, the Guatemalnln magistrate to the Central American Arbitration Court. have been killed. Panic reigns as the earthquake continues. San Jose has also been shaken, some of the buildings being damag ed. but no deaths are reported in that city. Some persor.s were slight ly injured. Earth shocks were also felt st several points in NicaragLa. near the Costa Rican frontier. Reports reaching here state that there is much suffering and destitu tion at Cartago consequent upon the disaster. JOHN MATHIS FOUND GUILTY. Sbayer of Dr. C. W. Hickman Must Serve Life Sentence. LTohfn Mathis. a negro. was con victed of the murder of Dr. C. V. Hickman. at Augusta, Ga.. on Wed nesday. The assassination of Dr. Hickman has been a sensation in Augusta for weeks. He was one of the most prominent citizens of inat city, and a practicing physi:ian f ncte. He called at the home of .is brother, in Su mmrvtile. on 1ebru ary 2. at night. Leaving there. in his return to his residence, a short distance away. he was shot to deatn and his pockets were rifled. Among the articles stolen fro-n bis body was his watch. Two months later this negro Mathis. offered this watch in pawn. - With this clue to guide them. the police threw a conm plete chain cf circumstantial eii dence abouat !Mathis. During the trial the Court gave to the accused, as counsei. EM-Con reenn W. H. Fleming and A. L. Tranklin. a well known criminal lawyer. These attorneys by evi deuce in which no name was men oned, set it up that a "mysteriour, man~ was seen to leave the scene of he murder the night of the masa- I ilnation. The counsel held that this "mys-< Lerious" personage was the murder-| er. In this way sufficient doubt was j raised to secure from the jury thejt recommendation to mercy.|t HAD ROW ON TRAIN. | fob of Four Hundred Negroes Is Aired With Guns. The Journal says from Line Creek. Ga.. to Atlanta. the crew of Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic train had s ands full in keepingt order among 400 riotous necgro picnickers lte Monday afternoon. During the course of the lawr part of the 45-mnile ride the crew. seven men in all. faced the negroes with loaded guns. The train crew on te morning train going to the dcnic had much trouble with the same crowd of negroes. but mianage~ I to quiet it before Line Creek was rached. On the train at the start of the return trip, several rnegroo's started acrap game. which quickly resulted n a fght. Will Root, a well-knloW" character of Pittsburg. was shot ant. nnstantly killed by Will Johnson. al as The Soldier." During the melee a negro woman was shot in the le: and slightly hurt. Juhnson was cap tured after he returned to Atlanta. A negro named Burley is being heH s an accomlice. DEATH OF G. D). BELLINGER. pominent Columbia Lawyer Pass.aes to the Other Side. The Hon. G. Duncan Bellinger. formerly Attorney General of the Stte. died at 9:30 o-clock Wednes - day night at his home in Shandon. a sburb of Columbia. Gen Bellinger had been sick for some time, but fol lowing a trip to Florida. it was thought that his condition was muen imroved. However, last Sunday he as taken suddenly ill and his re coery was despaired of. Showing a slight improvement Wednesday. his condition became grave that af trnoon and death came that night. Chronic dysentery and liver trouble was the cause of his death. Agrees With Bryan. "I believe fity per cent of the sats in th'e rnited States senate ca be said to have been practeally purrhased." This statement~ was made recently by former Unite~d States Senator Win. E. Mason in an interview in Chicago urging the election of United States senators by diec rote of the people. WASED PUBLC MONEY GEN. BOYD MAKES THIS CHARGE AGAINST BROCK. And Calls for an Investigation of the Expense Account and Action of that Gentleman. A statement issued on Wednesday at Columbia by Adjutant General Boyd. asks that Governor Ansel ap point a court of inquiry to investi gate the expense account of Col. W. T. Brock. the assistant general. that was incurred by inspecting the mil itia of the State. It is charged by Geaieral Boyd that Colonel Brock has wasted the money of the State. It is asked that Colonel Brock's other actions as an offier of the State be investigated. Both are in the race for adjutant general. General Boyd recently at tacked Colonel Grock in a statement wth reference to politics. Colonel Brock immediately asked for a court of Inquiry. Governor Ansel refused to discuss the situation. The state ment follows: To the People of South Carolina: "W. T. Brock, my assistant dur ng the past several days, has spent several hundred dollars more than was necessary In making the in spections of the State militia. 'He has wantonly wastcd the State's money, and I hereby call upon him to give proof that he spent $12 and $33.50 (for two days) for hotel bills at at any hotel In South Car >lina. "The United States has made the nspections of the State militia for the past several years. His expen ses traveling over the same route as Colonel Brock's were as follows: 1907. $140; 1908. $144; 1909. $156.62. The first year that Col aei Brock made the inspections of the State militia he spent $400. Last rear he spent $420. This year he rew out $500. His accounts on the urface appear to be in a tangled 4 onditioc. "I would like for him to explain i the matter of lending the United atates army oMcer who accompan- I ed him the sum of over $180. By what right did the State of South |arolina have to defray the eapense f a regular United States army of lcer? His itemized accounts show .bat he claimed to have ptrchased :our mileage books. I would like 'or him to show to the public of ;outh Carolina where he traveled 000 miles In making the inspec ous. "He has extravagantly spent the oney of the State and his itemized itatements of expense will not bear vestigations. "I hereby call upon Governor An el to appoint a court of inquiry to ake an investigation of the ex ense accounts and other acts Col nel Brock has committed while in e service of the State as assistant Ldjutant general. J. C. Boyd." BOY KIDNAPPTD HIMELF. arted for the West Arter Be Had Seen Moving Pictures. In New York Harry Spindle, a rssk little boy of 13. years. is be g held by the Children's Society n his own confession that he kid rapped himself, terrorized hi.4 par nts with blackhand letters, and hen w-hen they failed to procure he money be needed toget west, in rented a get-rich-quick scheme that ctted him $100 in less than a week. . string of sad little girls, his tools. nd their angry mothers. his vic- 1 ims. corroborated his story. Harry's plan, as told by himself as to find some little girl on the treet. atter her with news of how ier father had just been elected ~resident of a lodge, and then get he mother to borrow S3. $4 or 5 from the corner grocer to buy ~lowers for a surprise to father when e came home. Then Harry would ier to run to the orists with the noney. but .he never came back. With his pal. Arthur Gulden, 12 vears old. Harry left home more than Sweek ago, fired wIth an ambition o gowest, after having seen a thril ling moving picture show. COMMITS SVICID)E. t Young Man Hangs Himself for Unknown Reason. Frank Smith. a highly esteemed young man. 25 years old, ended his lire at Liberty Wednesday afternoon >y strangulation. He was a son of . .Smith. former president of the iberty cotton milis. No other cause than despondency can be as signed, as he left no message. His friends believe that despondency produced temporary insanity. Mr. Sith is of a very prominent ifnm'ly and his sad demise Is greatly de plored. He graduated from David son in 1909 and taught in Nrtth Carolina last season. He leares :a father. mother. brother and ~' ) sis Made a Quick Change. Immediately after Susie R. Har oldson was granted a divorce from er husband. Samuel Haroldson. in Muskogee superior court at Colum bus. Ga.. Thursday. she was married in the court room to Joseph Debra bant who was in waiting. license in hand. The judge who signed the di vrce decree performed the wedding ceremony Ground to Death. iRussll A. Welch. of Thomasville. Ga.. was crushed to death in the yards of the Atlantic Coast Line. at 1:3 oclock. He was in the em loy of the road. and had just thrown a switch for a train, and was walking on the track. when a switch engine struck him. lie was ground toa pulp. WHERE THE VICTES SOLD IN WHITE SLAVE TRADE ARE PROCURED. New York Trader in the Awful Bus iness Tells of the Inside Workings of the Hellish Game. .Harry Levison. a w.bite man. whi, is under arrest in New York for se'! Ing young girls into :ives of shame told the district attor.'i- Frldai tha* there are at least three *stockades'' in New York, in ea.ch of whith 0# m five to ten young gir*s. it- k-pt ready night and day fo. instaot -le livery wherever they may be wantad.. (Little effort, said Levison, is made to recruit wome i from the street. The stockades are fillel from the l'ost of young girls ra-. are t.n happy at home,, or who live narrow lives on their own earning. and long for leisure. good clothes. gaiety and fe-edom from restraint. Well-dressed women make it a business to frequent cheap restau rants, moving picture theatres, senti rnental rr.-es and the bargain counters to single out such cases. and. frst winning attention with an vitation to dinner. then describe :he ease and pleasures of the altai netive they propose. The girl delivered to the stock ade. it then become the business of the proprietor to place his merhan dise. It was in this end of the ;raffc,. Levison told the district at torney, that he was a specialist. 'the business was to find a house where the girl was wanted. The house paid ,he stocate-keeper a lump sum and owed Levison a ten per cent. com nission on the girl's earnings. He and others like him kept in ,ouch with the charges, he said, and aften transferred them from house to house. He had little to do with vecruiting. That was almost wholly n the hands of women. who ro-in.1 it asier to get a hearing. Levison and hers arreste-d with him for en ;aging in this -hellish business, will poon be tried and it Is hoped he will get what he richly deserves, a ong term in prison. DEAD MAN CAME TO LIFE. ind the Mourners Are Frightened Nearly to Death. Near Carthage. N. C.. Uncle Virgil ones. t typicaL " 'fore de war" dar :ey who was recognized at a pa riarch among the negroes of the urrounding. died. Following the 1 ustom prevailing among the negroes n the country. especially, a big rowd sat up with the old fellow's ody all Sunday night. They went put his body in the coffic Monday orning. the room being crowd6d rith negroes. mourners and others. me hundred and fifty or more in ail meing in the .house and waiting in e yard. Suddenly as one of the watchers ~et to reach flor the body. indicat g to his aides to lay hold and help tt It. t-be old fellow's eyes operned. is withered arm went out and up warning pose and a veritable oice from the dead exclaimed in eplchral tones that struck terror o the heart of every negro specta or. "No yet!" It Is said that there was never more complete stampedie known. nstead of being ove~rjoy:ed at t.tie anifestatonl of returning life for the old pavtriach, whose dtparture hey were mourning, the affrightr~d ~creams were heard for miles about, he negroes piled out of the place hrough every conceivable crevice leme leaping right urp through the oof of the low cabin. c'arryinlg t'.e oards off as they forced their way .t was asserted in a letter from a. 'nt reputable citit.en that it is oor ai that some of those negroes have ot stopped running yet. The letter id not say what the extent of the 'esuscitation of the old negro was r whether he Is still living.* B-RNED) WITH THE HoU-SE. koung M1an Refused to Jump fromi Window and Is Lost. At Hickory. N. C.. Mr. Clarence ~eabch. a 20-year-Old youth, was rurned to dtath Friday night in a second story room of his father's huse. The boy went home at 11 inclock and at 12.10 the alarm was turned in. The old man went to he window and cried to his son. who was screaming for he!9. TO It was only about fourteen feet to the ground. but the young man seem ed to be dazed. He went hack Into he room and not long after his agonized parent saw him, fall to his knees and the flames blotted out any fourther vision. A man climbed on an improvised scafforld to the window a little later, but was too The charred and unrecognuizable remains were found in the ashes. Young Seaboth went home' at 11 -lock. and, as ha sanokes it is sup posed that he may have dronped a spark or left a lamp too near some nfiamable material. The city i shocked over the holocaust andl there is a general awakening to th e importance of fire escapes. '* Attacked by Pirates. Moro pirat.es attackw-i a settlep mnent in the Celeebs. and killed a number of traders and natives. The pirates are now surrounded on the sland of r.11nks. A Dutch cruiser is assistin:: inthe at tack upon them.* Fifteen Year Old Boy Hung. At De Land. Fla.. Irving H-anchett. the 15-year-o-ld Connecticut boy, con victed of the brutal murder of Clevie Tedder, a 13-year-old girl, on Feb ...-ry19 wa hngred Friday. * MANY ARE DAD Fifteen Hundred People Were Crushed to Death at Cartage by VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE ritizens Caught by Hundreds and San.--Thousands Panic Stricken. Troyo, the Gveat Costa Rican Poet. Among the Dead.-People Pinned Under Timbers Died Horribly. The terrible earthquake at Car tago. Costa Rico. was more destru ctive than at first reported. The list of dead now numbers not less than 1.500. The city was destroyed by an earthquake which lasted four seconds. -It was a tremendous movement which followed a few minor shocks. during the day. It occurred at seven O'clock Wednesday evening. No one had time to run out of the houses. which tell crush4ng to the streets. Had %be great shock come during the sleeping hours hardly any could have escaped. The railroad and tel egraph lines were broken and the electric light wires fell, leaving the city in darknes. Thousands ran panic-stricken In all d!rect'ons. in an effort to save themselves. Every house was total ly destroyed, Including four churches and the palace of the American peace court, the gift of Andrew Car negie. Some Americans are reported to have been killed. but Identincation. even by the records, Is at present Im possible. The foreign colonies set about at once to organize rescue movements and worked strenuously to save those who ware pinned down by the wreckage. No medical aid could be obtained and the survivors suffered greatly rom the lack of food and water. Zany died, suffering terribly. En tire famllies have been wiped out. Rafael Angel Troyo. the Costa Rican oet, whose works are known in any countries, Is among the dead. Tht college of the ibeslan priests !ell while the priests and children were at prayer. Two 'priests and en children were killed. The earthquake, which brought al nost total drakness and great clouds )f dust from the falling buildings. was followed by a roaring which -ame apparently from deep down in -he earth and for six hours the dis Iiance continued. ;No greater lisaster has occurred in the history )f Costa Rica and perhaps in all ;en'tral America. President Gonzales V!qiez and resident-elect Richarde Jiminez are ersonally in charge of the rescue work, but there is little hope that hose under the rijns can escape. Some days must elapse before the| eag situation can .be tietermined. he monetary -losses reach into the| millions. Help is needed badly and aust -be prompt, if good is to come of . Thousands are homelIess and rithout food. Fires that broke out mmedately after the destruction of be town~added to t'he horror of the tuation and heavy rains that have ~allen since havn made the conditlons lmost unbearable even for those es aping. Hundreds of survivors are camped round the ruins of their homes hich they refuse to leave. Some eports place the wounded at sev-I ral thousand. Nearly all Costa Rica alcted as moire or less damage as been caused by earthquakes at an Jose and other points.* WILL SOON HANG. ben Who Committed Murder Near Atlanta Confesses. Charles WValker, one of the three I aegroes arrested in connection with he murder of Motorman S. T. Brown nd the desperate assault upon Con luctor W. H. Bryson. made a full :onfesson to the police on Saturday norning. He implicated Jim Black wd Ed Weaver as .his associates in Lhe crime. All three negroes are now in cus rody and it is not utrlikely that all bhree will be hung on th.e same ga! lows. WThen thie confession was made. Weaver had not yet been ar ested, but detectives in an auto obile, made a hurried trip to th'e grading camp where the man was nployd and secured him. W: iker, thi *..,ner negro invol'; in the crime, was Identified sev.-.ral days ago 'by COnd'uctor B~ryson as ne of his assailants. W'ill Johr:-I son, another negro of whom a partial identification was made by Conduc tor. -has proved an alibi and has been rleased from custody. The police feel assured that they have the guilty parties. I CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT. State Senator Clifton Clasih--s With Magistrate.j State Senator John H. Clift'on. of Suster County. Is under $2.500 bond. on an appeal to the st:;."me court, following a ruling >> r tempt by a magistrate in nis hom'e county. The fine for contemp' was $5 and the cause was the alle; -A conduct of the Senat'2r in arguing a case before the magistrate. * l' | Made Big Haul. At Charleston on Friday the dis pe'nsa-ry constables captured three barrels of half pints and 50 quarts of whiskey, hidden among a lot of meat in the market. The constables also captured about 30 gallons of liquor at a farm house in suburbs of the city, making a total of about 100 gallons which the fore has pick edt up in two day:sL THAT COTTON POOL SENATOR SIMMONS ARR.AIGNS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Which. He Said, Had Only Under taken to Prosecute che Boosters of Cotton Prices. In a speech delivered in the Sen ate Wednesday Senator Simmons. of North Carolina. attacked the meth ods of the department of justice in the matter of its prosecution of the cotton pool. He did not complain because of the suits, but because the cotton producers and spinners had been Inovlved in the matter. Complaining of partiality in the enforcement of the Sherman anti trust law. Mr. Simmons said that in undertaking to prosecute the bulls and not the bears, the depart ment had undertaken only a partial prosecution. He said that the pro ceeding amounted to a usurpation of authority. Senator Simmons made bitter complaint against a course which he said had had the effect of placing the real cotton men in the light of speculators when the efforts had been In exactly the opposite direc tion. "If the cotton spinners of the :ountry will co-operate In the same line which the cotton spinners of the South are pursumng. all the ex changes of the country will be on a spot basis instead of a paper basis," he said. He contended that contracts for future sales of cotton should be for a real and not a sham delivery." The Attorney General's attitude toward the price of cotton was sharply criticiced. He said that of ficial .had attacked prices rwot be cause of the pool. but tecause he considered them a national evil. "He has the whole matter wrorg: prices are not abnormally high," said Mr. Simmons. they are certain ly not above the level of prices fx ed by the tariff and in the interect of monopoly." He said there had been no protest from the Attorney General when the bears had squeez ed $15 out of the price of cotton. He contended that the high prices of the present day were due to short Cops and other natural causes. He aid p-.ices were not high enough, and he thought they would go high Dr. "And tne A torney General can tot prevent t. .t. whatever proceed ings he may ,nstitute in the inter ests of foreign buyers." he added. 'Mr. Simmons refused to concede this Government the right to Inter fere with the purpose of affecting the price of the staple. "It is as startling as it is unpatriotic and it' Is as unpatriotic as it is untenable." he declared. speaking of the Attor ney General's course. As our chief rticle of export, he declared, that the price of cotton should be kept p. He said that while the South lways would -be the first to receive he benefit of any increase the whole ~ountry would profit. EPLORES CHRISTIAN DIVISIONS isop Anderso'n Urges Unity in Engelization. "Enough energy and money are rasted by rival railway and over apping of the different denomina Lons in America to preach the Gos-. pel to the entire world. We must pet together and stop this waste.'' hus spoke Bishop Charles P. An erson, of Chicago. before the 'Men 5s 'atonal MissIonary Congress in that ~ity Wednesday. "'Our divisions are unchristianlike nd unstanmsmanlike. the speaker1 ontinued. "They are unchristian. ror Christlike Christians cannot be ept apart. A reunited church pos ssessed with faith and zeal would e irresistible. It could evangetize the world in a generation. Let us pend our lives and money unifying the church and in universalizing the ospel of Christ." ANOTEHIR GEORGIA KILLING. ne Prominent Farmer Shoots Another About Oatar. A special to the Augusta Herald from Milledgeville says Edward Na pier. one of the most prominent armers and business men of this section. living 12 miles from that city, was shot and killed by William eason. at an early hour Thursday orning. Mr. Napier. who is an ex tensive farmer, sold Deason a quan tity of oats last fall, about which the dispute arose and Napier went o Deason's home to collect the bill and a quarrel resulted. Both men used pistols. according to the re port, and Information at hand. Dea son is in a dying condition. Na pier is a member of a prominent amily and well known over the state. Furniture Factory Burned. T:he Ramseur furniture factory'. ocated at Ran' seur. N. C.. was en tirely burned by fire Thursday. th* fire originated in the dry kiln. The loss is about $80.000O with insurance f $25,000. This is one of the larg st woodworking plants in the State ad was operated by Mr. E. C. Wat is, as secretary and treasurer, who had been very successful in manag ing the business. Elephant Kills Trainer. One circus cmploye was killed and another fatally injured as the result of an outbreak of an elephant at Marieta. Ohio. Monday. Samuel Montgomery. an animal trainer, was traped by tLbe infuriated beast and fatally hurt. Win. Evans took re-| fuge on top of a wagon but fell fromj it during the excitement, suffering a chushed skull. He died.a few min-| DEALT DEATH Aid Demdio te h iesuof WITHOUT A W G Nearly Two Hundred Workers Are Buried Alive In an Alabana Mine. There Is Very Little Hope that Any of the Unfortunate People Escaped Death and Are Alive. . Forty-five white men, and between 130 and 145 negroes, are entomb ed in No. No. 3 coal mine at Palos, - Ala., as a result of an explosion oc curring Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Palos is forty miles west of BOrmingham. and 'the mines are owned by the Palos Coal and Coke Company controlled by Drenuen Brothers, of Birmingham. State aMne Inspector James Hill house, who is on the scene think all of the men in the mine are dead. Two bodies were found early Thurs day night, but It is expected that few of them can be recovered before morning. The flames reaching from the ex plosion shot Into the air from' the mouth of the slope for two hundred feet, and the shock was felt for miles around. Timbers from the slope were hurled several hundred feet from the mine's mouth, and rocks fro'm the roof of the slope caved in and made access to the mouth very dificult. The fan machinery was badly damaged, but air is. being pumped Into the mine In the hope that some of the men are still live. Local rescuers at Palcs began at once to do what they could. but re lief work was not started In earnest until the special train from Birm Ingham arrived In Palos, shortly after four o'clock. This special train carried State Mine Inspector James Rhouse. J. J. Rutledge. Govern ment expert, In charge of the geolo cical station at Knoxville, Tenn., who happened to be In the district lestigating the recent disaster at Kulga; eight physicians and sur- - geons, four undertakers and a num ber of special helpers. The hospital relief car of the Ten xessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Com any, was also taken. This car con ained helmets and all of the other iecessary paraphernalia for entering aseous mines. The first rescuers who went into be mine after the explosion, were >ercome by fire-damp and had to >e carried out. M. Rutlege was Lmong the first to enter, and after working his way 1,400 feet down the flope, found a second right entry :ave-in. The two bodies recovered were In the main slope. (James Gousby; a mail carrier, was tilled thirty feet f(rom the mouth of ~he slope, and his body was hurled ~hrty feet. It was judged from this hat the force of' the explosion was ~uch that none of the men on the nner side could possibly be alive. There are a number of mining amps within two or three milea. of he Palos mine, and within a short' ime after the explosion a great rown had gathered about the Ill ated slope. Hiundreds of women and children - were around the mine, wringing heir hands and crying piteously. ,The Palos mines have been work ~d for a number of years. and the nris were extensive. The only, :ope that some of Arhe en have es aped and are still alive lies in the >ossibility that they were. far enough tway from the explosion to have nssed its force. It is thought that :he explosion was caused by the ac :umnulatlon of gas in some of the old tandoned entries, which are rarely risited. - The Palos Coal and Cokce Comt pany is owned entirely by the Dren lens, of Birmingham. The mines iave a capacity of over 600 tons ad have done an enormous busi less for the past two or three years, working night and day. The comt pany was one of the few In the dis trict which has always signed up with the miners' union, and they have always~ worked union miners nly. T.he mines are in what Is known is the Warrior basin, and are with-. in two miles of Flat Top and the Bessie mines, two of the largest and nost valuable mines In the district.. The disaster is regarded as espe :-ially distressln.g as coming so soon fter the Mulga explosion. Thursday April 21, In which 41 men lost their lives. The Red Cross and other re lef work for the widows and or phans at iulga has not yet been compteted. Two Government ex perts, J. J. Rutledge and George F. Rice. have been In the district since the 'Mulga explosion. investigatlig its cause and both of them have gonL out to Palos. The Boyd-Brock Row. The Boyd-Brock row continues to excite a certain measure of interest at the State House. Thursday Adjt. Gen. Boyd sent Col. Brock a com munication stating that his resigna tion would be accepted. Col. Brockc declares that he will not act upon this request, and he does not con sider that Cen. Boyd Is qualified to make it. holding that such a re quest should come from the Govern or, and for cause. Meet Horrible Death. Answering to the call of duty, three of Macon's bert firemen met a .horrible death at an early hour Friday morning, being killed out right, when the tire on the city's new auto engine exploded on the