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SHOT HIMJDON maor Gayvr of New York Fired o by Former Ciy E~ployee SERIOUSLY WOUNDED The Mayor Was Standing On the Deck of an Ocean seamer Chat ting With Several Friends Who Ead Called to See Him Off on a Tnp to Europe. Miyor William J. Gaynor. of New York, uas shot in the neck and bad ly wounled Tuesday morning by Jas. ". Gaagher. a discharged employe of the city dock department. The shooting took place on the deck of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. lying at her pier In Hobo ke. N. J.. on which the mayor was on the point of sailing for a mouth's vacat.. abroad. Gallagher was a. once arrested. The bullet entered just below the right ear, passing through the mas -oid and traveling from r.ght to left and slightly downward. Gallagher evidently has a fancied grievance against Mayor Gaynor. He declared after the shooting that the mayo: r.ad deprived him of his "bread and butter.- Gallagher was mobbed and his life was threatened before the pohce could lodge him in jail. Three shots were fired at the may or. Two of them missed and the third lodged in the fleshy portion of the left side of the neck. Blood gushed ftom the wound and the frst hasty examinations led to the belief of serious and perhaps fatal conse quences. Tire mayor retained ocu sclousness and later examination by the physicians when the mayor was taken to the hospital gave a hopeful outlook. Mayor Gaynor and city officials were standing in a group about to have their pictures taken when the shooting began. Blood spurted from the wound in the neck as the mayor fell to the deck. Officer FItzgering, one of the guard of the North Ger man Lloyd line, was standing near at the time. He had in his hand a small po lice club, with which he hit the as sailant a blow on the head. felling him to the deck. The man was sels ed by officer;. In the scuffle his hat fell off. useksing the initials "H. C. G." Througho.t the strugggle the man retained a pipe in his hand. Meantime there was intense excite ment on the deck of the steamer. The Mayor's secretary, Mr. Adam son, lifted the stricken executive to his feet and with the assistance of others carried him to a state room. Later he was conveyed to the hos. pital. The revolver used by the as main was found to contain four em pty shells. As Mayor Gaynor was being borne by his friends he remarked simple: "'Say goodbye to the people." At the ~city hall it is believed that Gallagher is the man who had been aoticed loitering i city hall park for several weeks apparently trying to bee Mayor Gaynor. The attendants at the city hall, however, prevented the man raching the mayor. Mayor Gaynor's admindstration, which began on January 2, last, had been so drastic in its reforms and he had condemned so many persons and parties in such strong terms that he became the subject of many threats. In municipal offces he made many bitter enemies and a number of powerful organizations were uncompromisingly against him. Several months ago an armed vis Itor at the city hail was found try wg to approach Mayor Gaynor and he was removed. Robert Adamnson. secretary to the mayor, was .quoted as saying he feared a crank might sometime attempt to kil the mayor. Mayor Gaynor was ailng on the first vacation he had since taking offce on January 1. He has been at work from 14 to 16 hours a day and imperltively felt the need of a rest. in order to be out of reach of the affairz of his offce it was his intention to avoid all the European cities to take a jaunt through the North Sea to the coast of Norway. He expected to be absent about one month Gallagher was appointed a watch znan in the New York City Dock de partment April 7, 1903. He was discharged July 19. 1910. after hav ing been found guilty of neglect of duty and misconduct. Among his other transgressions was the fact that he had failed to punch the dial on the time clock that recorded his presence. He was also charged with using Insulting language to an in spector. Since his discharge Galla gher has been writing letters to the Mayor. RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. Three Brothers Were Killed and An othee Was Hurt. Three boys, all sons of .Tohn HA. Straignht, of Cowesett. R. I., were killed arnd a fourth boy. a brother of the otners were seriously injur ed when a, New York bound Port land express on the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad travel ing at the rate of 60 miles an hour around a sharp turp. ran into the little group. The boys' ages rang ed from 6 to 15 years. The boys were taking a short cut by the railroad and were in sight of their home when a heavy freight train came In view. They were standing on the Express track watch ing the passing of the freight train when they were struck, a curve pre venting tho engineer from seeing them in time to strop the express. Herbert Straigbr. who escaped with severe scratches. ran home with blood flowing from wounds in htn head and body and it was he whol broke the n',ws of the death of the other three boys to the mother. Fiend is Caught. A 7ong distance message from Bix ey. Miss.. Wednesday says that Bill: Walker. the rnegro assailant and1 murderer of Mrs. Gibson. at Axis.i Ala.. has been captured by six men1 CRUSHED TO DEATH TRAIN STRIKES AUTO KILLING FIVE PEOPLE. Every Per,'on in the Automobile Wa Instantly Killed by Being Terribly mruhed. Five persons were crushed to death Tuesday night when an express train on the Pennsylvania railroad strucK an autonobile at Mill Lane Crossing. on the West Jersey and Seasbore Railroad. T-he dead are: Frederick W. Feid ner a::d wife: Fritz Mergenthaler and wife: M. C. Jones. chauffeur. all of Baltimore. Mergenthaler was the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Feidner. The party had been spending a few days in Atlantic City and that after noon left for an autoniobile ride to Cape May. As they approached the tracks the express was hidden from view by a corn field and it was impossible for the chauffeur to see the train- un til he was within a few feet of the tracks. As the automobile bore down to ward the tracks. Mrs. Thomas Mc Neill, who resides close to the cross ing. sa r the rapidly approaching ex press. and waved her hand for the automobile driver to stop his car. but the man either did not see the danger or thought he could cross the tracks before the train reached hini. and dashed on to the road just as the train reached the crossing. The train struck the automobile squarely between the wheels, and threw it and all of the occupants clear of the tracks. All five of the riders were instantly kiled and bad ly cut and bruised. The bodies were quickly gathered together and a physician hurriedly summoned. but a glance at the man gled forms showed plainly no need for medical aid. So severe was the impact that pieces of the machine were driven on the piston rod. The express struck the automo bile squarely betwe:en the wheels and threw it and all the occupants clear of the tracks. All five o! the riders were instantly killed. Coroner Reeves reached the scene a few min utes after the accident occurrd. lie took charge of the five bodies and had them carried to the morgue. LOST MIS LIFE IN SURF. In an Attempt to Save Tis Wife at Tybee Iland In a heroic effort to save his young wife from drowning. Robert M. Cron enberg was swept out to sea and lost off Tybee Island Sunday afternoon. The couples were bathing in the surf when the woman inadvertently got beyond her depth. Being able 'o swim slightly she called to her husband that she was all right, but he, believing that she was about to drown, went to her assistance. He .ucceeded with the assistance of others in forcing her into shallow water, but he lost his own life in the effort. Charles Mustin and two ladies were in bathing at the time and threw a Uifeline to the strug gling couple. This was grasped by Mrs. Cronenberg, who was safely towed into the beach, but her hus band caught In a strong undertow. was sucked to his death before a boat could be launched.* TIMBER KILLS SAWYER. Colored Man Meets With Fatal Mis b'ap at Saw MilL A colored man employed at the Penn Lumber Company, at Sumter. suffered a horrible death Monday. A sharp piece of wood entered his eye with terrific force, completely pen etrating his head and causing almost instant death. Singleton held the position of sawyer at the lumber yar'd, and when hit by the timber. he was running what is know as the ":rip" saw. He was ripping the rough edge off a board, and when the edge was off the saw, in some unaccountable way. jecked it back. sending it on Its deathdealing mis sion. Singleton was rushed to the Sumter hospital, where an operation was hurriedly performed, but with out success. The patient lived but a few minutes after the operation had been completed. No inquest was held. SLAYED HIS BROTHTR. Whom He Had Mistaken for a Rob ber of Their Home. Believing he was shooting at a burglar, Ivy Land, aged 22. after midnight Mlonday morning, shot and killed his brother. Quintus Land, 20. years of age at Albany. Ga. Ivy was aroused by the screaming of a woman In the neighborhood and with his shotgun ran to her assistance. Shortly afterwards he heard another woman screaming in the direction of his own home. He ran back just in time to see his younger brother, who also had been aroused and was hur rying to investigate the cause of the trouble, leap from a window of their home. He fired, killing his brother instantly. Wire Caused Death. Mrs. A. B. Metcalf. wife of the Baptist minister at Abbeville. Ala.. was znstantly killed by lightning on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Metcalf was standing in the door of an out house when the lightnin~g struck the front end of the dwelling and followed a wire fece a distance of 100 yards to the outhouse where she was stand-1 ing. izn yTender Hearted. Rathers than press his fellow cit iz yprocess of law to pay delin :uent taxes, Daltas F. Shroff. of , Lebannon. Pa.. sent a load of rabbit shot into his body and died in:stanit ly in the chicken house in the rear >f his home. The trag-edy is unique in the history of suicides of Leban non county. collier Sunk. The naval collier Marcellus. !ies at the bottom of the ocear. in lati- (i u:de >. lonnitude 74S. having sunk n ten hours after she was struck biy he .Nrwegian fruit steamer, S. Ros- j FATAL MRCK Ptssenger Train in Calisornia Strock by a Special Engine THIRTEEN ARE KID And Thirteen Are Wounded.-A Del. egation of Red Men Was on the Train.-The Dliaster Occurred on a Sharp Curve.-The Smoking Car Suffered Most. Thirteen passengers were killed ard at le:ast twelve were injured ot Monday night when a passenger train bountd from San Francisco tc Santa Rosa on the Northew-stern Pa cifie rtilway was struck by a special locinotive aid caboose south of Ig. :.acio. Calicornia. M..st of those injured were riding in the smoking car. They were resi dents of Petaluma. Santa Rosa and other reariby towns. Several it is reported were dele gates to the state convention of Re Men. which meets at Santa Rosa The wreck occurred at a sharr curvei The passenger train wat traveling forty tuilt-s an hour ant the locomotive and caboose were al. so x;ing at good speed. At the office of the train dispatch, er it wa; said that one of the con. ductors had made a mistake in hi 3rders and failed to take a siding Just l-fore the collision the pas sengers were jerked forward by th4 setting of the brakes. Then then came a terrific impact and the soun< of escaping steam. The two engine cashed into each other. The bag gage car and the smoking car wen telescoped. When the dazed passengers mad their way out of the rear coache anharmed. they heard the shriek and groans of the injured. The 30 passengers in the smokinl car were caught among broken seat and splintered timbers. and thos who were not killed were unaole t help themselves. A few men made their way to th forward end of the smoking ca where the greatest damage had beei done. Efforts to open windows o remove broken timbers were fruit less Work on the rear half of th stroker uas easier. Some of the res cuers scattered to nearby houses t4 telep.hone for help. while other scught to get the injured out of thi wreck. A headless corpse was found lyinj by the side of the track. Anothe body was- found In a sitting jositioi in a wineow of the smoker. The engines met with such fore that the engine of the work train which consisted of a caboose an two light fiat cars, shunted the pa. senger engine to one side and plow ed part of the way through the bag gage car, causing the baggage ca and smoker to telescope. Relief trains were rushed fron both ends of the line to the scenm of the wreck. Some of the dead were brough to San Rafael and some to Santa Rosa. The injured were taken ii various directions, making the lis of names difficult to obtain. At mid night there were bodies still In th< n reckage. FOUND DR. COOK'S TRAIL But Does Not Think He Reached th< Highest Peak. The members of the New Yorl Heraid and Portland Oregonian par ty which attempted the ascent o: Mount McKinley returned to Seattl< last night. Their mission tailed. C E. Rusk said, because the party wa: Insufficiently provisioned. The Rusi party ascended to a height of 7.50( feet and on July 12 met the Parket Brown party, well equipped for th4 ascent. and in good spirits. Mr IRusk says he believes they will makt the top. "We took the route followed by Dr. Cook on the east side of the mountain to Ruth glacier. On the route we saw abandoned camps and much of the scenery pictured in Dr. Cook's book. That far Dr. Cook's statement~s are authentic. Further, I would not say. but I do not believe he sascended the mountain to the top.". TOO MAINY FOR HIM. Dlriven From His Ship by Hords of Mosquitoes. Driven from his ship by the at tacks of mosquito hordes at a lumber camp in the Everglade3 Monday. Capt. Graham Lowe. of the schooner Emneraid. made a 46 hour journey to Key WVest. Fla., without food or wa ter and eighte~en hours were spent in desperately clinging to the bot tom of a little "dinkey." in which the evenitful trip was made. The "dinkev'' was overturrned by a sud den squall and on se'veral occasions Capt. Lowe was nurled from the ves sel by the waves. HeI managed to reach shallow wate'r, however, right ed the ittle vessel, and completed the sixty-mile trip late Wednesday. An expedition will be sent aft'er the crew of the vessel. six negroes who refused to leave the swamp when the mosquitoes drove the captain away. HOLLY HELD FOR MURDER. ('oroner% Jury Ref uses to Allow Eond to Suspect. A special to the News and Cour er trom \\ilmington. N. C.. says J. -. Holly. proprietor of the Rock iprings Hotel. which was burned --ver'y narghts ago. and where the lead hod.' i ward Cr.": .nel a.-: ound seeral hours after the fire. vas conmitted to jail to-day by cor ~ner's j-:--. without bond. The ver lict hein.; "that th'e facts and etr .aances introduced before this ury warrant the holding w:ebout ond of J1. C. Holly for the Superior Tourt."~ Holly had the boy's life Insured or $2.5"h. and the furniture in the uuilding insured also. Cromwell is AWKENING NEEDED PAYSAIN 1 RITES INTERESTING LY ABOUT TAXES. Says There Are Many People Who Know Nothing of What They Pay In Tariffk. Editor of The State: Is it not :assing strange. that an issue which is paramount to all oth er economic issues should be ob scured and kept in the background as the tariff has been? How man; men of even average intelligence know what a tariff is. what a revenue tariff is. what a pro tective tariff is. and what is the dif ference between a protective, and a tevenue tariff? Should we not be :shamed to admit that we do not know what taxes we pay. or under stand our national fiscal system? How mary men know that every time they purchase goods they pay taxes? But this is an indirect tax. and is not recognized or realized But it is a tax nevertheless, and a very heavy one at that, and to which State, county and municipal taxes are a mere drop in a bucket in com parison. Will the people ever throw off this incubus? No! Never, until they are educated as to what it means. Aside from Christianity, what concerns man most in this sublunary world? Ways and means of improv ing our conditions, making a good I comfortable living, and the education of our children. The shortest, quick est and most direct cut to this ;oal s what eve-y naturai man is seeking to find out and striving for every day. This is not only his natural right and privilege, but is his boun den duty. Whatever unjustly interferes with this right, whatever detracts from or impairs the means to this end. it is man's privilege. right and duty to remove, if possible. An unnecessary tax is an unnecessary burden, and unjust interfe'ence with man's God given right to improve his condition. his efforts to make a living, to edu cate his ch!ldren, his comforts, civ ilization. in fact everything which makes life worth living. The so-called protective tariff con ta. lutes mote to the high cost of living, it dtes more to retard the improvemert. and material growth of uur counry than any other factor, and perhaps more than all other - agencies combined Beyond a revenue tariff, all tar iffs are robbery. robbery of the 3 many for the few, making colossal wealth for some by taking away from others. If a dozen men have a mil Slion of bricks between them. taking any number from what each possess es, and giving them to some of the others, it does not make the aggre gate number of bricks any greater, but does reduce the aggregate nutm - er of those~ from whom they were -taken. - Mr. Lever may plaster his vote on lumber as much as he pleases, but that does not. change the effect which the duty will have on the price of lumber. He says the duty w.hich he voted for wIl not affect the price of lumber In the South. If putting a duty on lumber does not increase the price down here. c~oes not Mr. Lever know that the consumers u-ill turn away from Ca. nadian lumber and purchase in the South? In that event there would be no use of the duty. Yet he insistently says the duty will put three millions of dollars in the treas ury. To do tnis the consumers must purchase enough from Canada to make the revenue from Importation three milla.is, which they would not do if they could get it cheaper In the South. It Is estimated that to raise three millions of revenue, the consumers must pay one bundred millions more for their product than they otherwise would have to pay. Would that some abler pen would arouse the people to see the tariff as It Is, and cause them to agitate. and educate until It Is reduced to a revenue basis alone Paysan. Orangeburg, July 29th. 1910. SANK WITH A MINE. Gunner on the South Carolina Had Close Call. A Provincetown. Mass., dispatch says mining practice by the Atlantic fleet has been completed and the Ifeet has sailed out into \Massachu The mining parctice nearly resulted In a fatality when Gunner Walter. of the battleship South Carolina. be came entangled in the anchor chains of one of the mines just as it was going over hoard and was dragged down with it. For a minute and a half he was held under water until he kicked himself loose and rose to the surface. He was barely alive when pulled aboard a boat by his comnrades. WADE TO THEIR~ DEATH. Young Women Step Into Deeper Wa ter and Drown. Three young women were drown ed in the Trinity river about 1 2 miles west of Batson. Hardin county. Tex.. Sunday morning. T.hey are: Miss Mammie Logan. aged 14: Miss Em ma Kerr. aged 23: Mrs. Edgar Beav er. aged 2$. They were members of a picnic party and were wading in the river when they stepped sud denly into deep water arnd before help could reach them drowned. The bodies were recovered late that eve ning. Jury Cleared Him. "'Justif-able homnicide'' was the verdict of the coroner's jury at Col ubus. Ga., in the case of James H. Knowles. a white express emnploye.< who shot to death Ben Tillman. a ne gro. as the latter was advancing on him with. a hatchet at the Union station, following a beated contro versy. Alabama Cotton Poor. Commissioner of Agriculture Wil-c kerson. in an interview Tuesday. as- I serts that the Alabama cotton crope s at best not over 70 to 72 per i cent. of normal, and the prospect isi not good for as good an output WHAT IT MEANS Patterson's Defeat May Give Tennessee to the Republicans IN THE NEXT ELECTION But the Democrats, Though Willin; to Adopt Desperate Measures to Get Rid of Patterson and His Methods. Do Not Contemplate Ul timate Surrender of the State. There are a great many people who do not understand the political rituation in Tennessee. which ZAch McGhee makes perfectly plain in a letter to T'ie State. He says the triumph of the independent judicial ticket in the election on last Thurs day means the beginning of the end of what has come to be known as "'Pattersonsm' in Tennessee. The par; izans of Gov. Patterson have been cxiling their organization the Democratic party and hence trying to icreate the impression that the elec tion of the Patterson judges. as w-' as the election of Patterson himself in November, was necessary to the salvation e the Democratic party. The independents or antd-Patterson Democrats, on t-he contrary, have been declaring that the only salva. tion of the Democratic party and more especially of Lemo-raric prin ciples in government was the defeat of Patterson and the complete de struction of the Patterson machine. To get rid of Patterson these Dem ocrats have got to the point where they are desperate and have employ ed aesperate means. In talking one day to one of the Independent Demo cratic leade-s and campaigners in east Tennessee. I rather vaguely sug gested that rumors were afloat to the effect that the Republicans were be ing encouraged to vote with the anti Patterson men by the hope of e!ect ing a Republican governor. I did not want to come right out with it. fearing that such a thing as a deal with Republicans was of too delecate a nature for a campaign manager to admit. or even to dis cuss. "Oh. we make no bones of It.~ he declared. suddenly, as he saw how delicately I was trying to broach the subject. "We have toid the Republi cans that if they will help us defeat Patterson' judges and not put up any Repuolicans for judges we would not nominate an independent Dem ocrat for governor." If that agreement is adhered to by the Independent Democrats. there will beyond all question he a Republican governor of Tennessee next time. 1: is not at all certain. however, that there will be no In dependent Democrat nominated for governor. Those men in east Ten nessee are willing to carry out their agreement to the letter, but there is a strong :lisposition in middle and west Tennessec to nominate a Dem crat against Patterson. not Indeed with any Idea of electing him, for they, too, are willing for the Re publican to be elected, hut because they know full well that there are a large number of Democrats who wilz not under any circumstances vote for a Republican. The fear is that unless there Is another Democrat running Patterson will be able to get these votes by h's powerful appeal to partizanship. The strictly partizan Democrats, who are Democrats on prejudice rather than on priL'mple. but whose prejudices are strong also against Patterson. will have another Democrat to vote for. They bill be "assistant Repub licans," though. If voting for a Re publican for gove--nor against Pat terson cons'!tutes being a Republi can. It is a subterfuge, and these men who propose doing it admit that It is. but. ::: I have said, they are taking desperate means to get rid of Patterson. The anti-Fatterson- men had entire charge of the election machinery in this election. Heretof.'re Patterson has had -!I the machinery in his own hands The anti-Patterton men have always declared that Patterson never iairly defeated Carmack two years ago, but that he was counted In. Whethet this be true or not. there was a majority of anti-Patter son Democrats in the logislature. which ma.iority was extended by a coalition with Reputlicans into enough to r-ass the new election law over the go ar:nors veto. By this m .aw 'he leg.e u e selected the EJetir commist'oners. and anti-Pz-tterson men were ap pointed. Thle Patterson peopie an ticipated i.'Mi. .. leat and gor re:'d:y to cry fraud ',e,r, 'he electio iwhen they made a te. na' request fcr re presentati' on th~e :.recinct P a,.t.-n b'oards. This request was refused. and since ,.here were no Patterson ad.herents i e :he s'ction boarcs, am is not specially remarkable that the cry of Tr iI nurhould be set ' p by those who wt ec dsaed SOLD) IT CHEAP. Boy Swapped D~iamon'i Ring for One Small White Marlsile. What is said to be the ch'eapest price on record for a diamond ring was turned up at Atla::ta Sunday by lDetective Cowan of the locai p"!ie force. The price was one strall dia gy white marble with nicks all over it. The purchaser was a small negro boy and the seller another urchin 'f the same race for whom the police ire ::ow seairching. Ther'e is no clue .o the oriein'. owner of the ge-n ao- as to '.eav it camne Into the pi ession of tne small parry of :he irst part in the swapping transac ion. Tha value of the stone is u> ecr $104. ACommits. Suicide. At ,.shinton John E. McLaren, ged forty-seven, member of a real stare firm. committed suicide roday ythrowing himself from the fourth tory window of the nesidence of his ousin. Dr. A. R. Shands. and A. M. larrisor.. another guest were d1. ussinig .\eLaren-s nervous condition :the library below, when they were :terruptea by the thu:d of the : er's body striking in a flower bedt utaide the window. * I D MADE BIG HAUL PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN CA UGHT GAMBLING. Thirty Society Women, Alleged to Have Been Gambling. Pray Officer Not to Give Out Names. Consternation was created at Nar ragansett Pier. R. L. Monday night in the higher society circles of this fashionableN summer resort because of the fe-tr that Constable John G. Cross. who conduct.-d the gambling raid at the Narragansett Pier Club Sunda7 miy make public the names of the men and women prominent in society who were on the premises at the time. 'Mitrons, personally or through emissaries, have besought the officer %li day not to give out their names. "To publish these names would cive pain and cause unnecessary em barrassment.'' he said. "but if these people appear in Court to answer to the summons, it will then be im possible to keep their names from the public. -.nd there will be a good deal of surprise when it is learned that prominent men and women arc concerned. And they will have a lot of embarrassing questions to an swer." Constable Cross said he was being followed by detectives, whom he be lieves to Ve in the employ of the society pe-,ple against w.hom his ac tion was taken. and he Is almost in fear of his life. Although he suc ceedei in securing his release when arraigned in Court to answer to an assault chirge. it was on a techni cality only, and he is patiently await in% the next move against him. There were upwards of thirty so ciety wom-n in the crowd gathered about the rou.ette wheels and other games of chance that he asserted were in the club house at the time of the action. Many of them have tried to explain, the constable says. that they had 2ust dropped in to the club for lunch, after leaving the hop at the Casino. He declares that he saw no signs of any lunch and that the majority were gathered about the game boards when he entered. Constable Cross's arrest occurred after he had kept solitary vigilance at the Narragansett Club, a fashion able resort, standing guard for more than nine hours following a midnight raid. which he had conducted against the club. He was placed under ar rest on a warrant charging him with assault on an employee of the club. and taken to police headquarters. He was immediately bailed out, but ir the meantime he says evidences of gambling. which he alleges he was guarding disappeared, except for the artic:es found in his clothes. He or dered thirty men and women found at the club to appear in Court Aug ust 22. KILLED BY THE TRUSTS. Will Quit Tobacco Culture if Prices Remain Low. The business men of Mullns and the farmers of Miarion, Horry and Dillon counties are very much dis turbed over the fact that the prices of leaf tobacco are so very low. Should the prices rem'in as they now are, it is a fact beyond a doubt that the crop will be almost, if not en tirely. elhminated next year. This 'he farmers declare most positively will be ihe case, especially if cotton remains in the teens. The Far mers' Union may take hold of the matter and ask the American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Tobacco Company to give better prices. It is generally believed that these two corporation control the prices absolutely. Both concerns have the nicest and costliest plants in the State at 'Mullins and it is hoped by all that they can see their way clear to pay a decent price for tobacco. RECEIVES SERIOUS INJURY: To Save Spectators Aviator Risked His Life. At Ashury Park, N. J.. Walter Hlrook ins. the aviator, was badly hurt while making a landing in his aeroplane in a desperate attempt to avoid injuring a crow d of spectators. Btrookins saw his machine was like ly to strike a group of onlookers and made a quick turn. The machine turned and fell to the ground, strik ing several spectators in its descent. flroo.kins was picked up badly injured :.nd sev--ral of the sp>ectators were hurt. The machine in its rail tumn-I bled amid a crowd of watchers, most ly boys. One youngster was rushed to a hospital where it was reportedI that he 'aa<. sustained a fracture of the .skull. Six other youths were lessj4 seriously burt. : ABANIKO.\EI THEIR PLUNDER. Bandits Stop Stage, Kill the D~river s' Steal $1.500. s For the second time within a week h helt Now Vnico .\ogo!lon-Silver City t Stage was neld -: p and robbed Sun:- ' da... mnur er b-ing added to the i -rime. Jos.e' Deminguez. watchful as it a result of x.os experiences last we"s. h OpenedC~ tire on the bandits a i i th"r not hinm dead. The robbers hasiily :thered uap twelve bars Cof silver bullion. I -'te were no passengers li :n tne, coach. "''!e posse was suon bh :ia.-ing toe Ileeing bandits and the u< nounted1 .'alice also took the trail. d< rhe p.assengers found 11 of the 1l og jars lying near the road side where ty he stage coach was robbed. Evi- di e.ntly tha burden was too great for e he robb 'rs. The bar they kept is corth abj.'r $1.500. Stot Two Girls. At Anniston. Ala., crazed with ~hiskoy. Leo Gilbert Tuesday shot ~nd almnost irnstantly killed Willie r ;rahamn. As Lee Graham, a young-ti r sister. was supporting the dying t ir:. she too. was shot and perhaps le: tally injured. Gibert was caught bree hours later while asleep in a >cal foun.dry plant. Thirteen are dead and twei'e are co ~jured in the North-western Pacific be 'reek at Ignaicio. Cal., according topi ~e figu.res just furnished by the dis- Sh BROKE UP COURT 'elice Reserves Called by the Judge to Stop Hogy Rollers. THE COURT ATTACHES Were I'nable to Cope With the Situ ation When Seventy Religious Fa natics Burst Into Frenzy and k gan to Scream at the Top of iacir Voice and Roll About. Atlanta had a funny experience last Saturday when seventy frenza;ed and fanatiral negro members of tn religious sect known as the "Holy Rollers." became possessed by what they call the "Holy Ghost." in rc corder's court. T.he court proceed ings came to a sharp halt and for ten minutes the police were unable to cope with Their fury. This outburst of religious fervor real or feigned, came during the trial of Nelson Shorter. one of the leaders of the sect. who had been arrainged at the complaint of a number of res idents in the neighborhood of North Boulevard and Irwin street. who have been continuall y disturbed for the past few months by the nightly out bursts of members of the sect, who hold their meeting in a little church at the corner of Irwin and North Boulevard. . A negro woman, rising in her seat in the back of the court room. commenced yelling at the top of her voice. Instantly the court was thrown into the wildest state of cha Os. Seventy negro fanaticss attending the trial began to scout. screaming. yelling. moaning, groaning, crying. and laughing all at the same time. They waved their arms. their bodies swayed to and fro. and many of them in their frenzy lay down on the court room benches and rolled over and over. At the first outburst the patrolmen in court seemed daed by the power of the fearful din. There were only a handful of officers in the room at the time to control the crazed ne groes. The chaotic yells and shouts of the "rollers." however. brought up a squad of the evening watchmen on the run, headed by Chief Jennings. from the first floor. Despite his broke shoulder the chief. followed by his men. threw himself upon the yellirg mob. Jerking. pushiag and pulling. the patrolmen managed after about seven minutes to clear the court room. The negroes did not attempt in any way to resist the officers of the la.w. but they seemed to ignore the off cers. ard several of the latter hear bruises that were inflicted by the wildly wa" ng arms and legs of the negro crowd. Some twenty of the fanatics were finally shoved into cells by the offi cers. but the fact that they were in carcerated did not induce them to moderate the loudness of their relig ious zeail. So great was the din that the itrhabitants of Decatur street. near poiice cguarters. accompanied by alarmed pat rolmen from their beats, rushed up. fearing that the world was cominn to an end. WHO WILL WIN THE CUP? Very Valuable P~rize for Best Ten Ears of Corn. A gold and silver trophy eup, val ued at $5,.00 will be giveui to the farmer in South Carolina who pro duces the bc-st ten ears of corn to be shown at the South Atlantic States Corn Exposition. which is to be heid In Columbia frcm Dec. . to 8. The cup was given by the American Ag riculturist, one of the leading Agri cultural papers of the country. To keep the cuu one must prod.uce the best ten ears of corn In the State from year to year. The cup is of a graceful de'sign, standingt abottt 'io lnch.-s. During the past week le? ters have been received by President Hudson frc m all sections of Georgia. North Catolina and Florida. This in dicates that there will be a lare number of exhibits sent fromn these states. FAKW AI LIRES GRlL. egro Janitor Arrested for Flendish At tempts. At St. Louis Mlonday 3Mrss Lulu 'ehlhamnmers reported to the potice hat she was attacked at a pismil oint last Tuesday night by James tradield. aliats Bradford. a negro, ven she went toc anaswer what prov d to be a ''fake advertisement for n office girl. Btrad$eld e as arrested ~aturday night while- me acing Miiss ~essie U::ger. after det. ng her by sans of an advertisem nt into the uldin': where he was janitor. Ac ording to Mliss Fehlhammers. Brad eld held a pistol to her head when be recov.-redi from a faint and made er sign a statem.nt that she visited e' office building of her own free il. The statemxent was found in radfield's pockets and attac~hed to .was a lock of Miiss Fehihammer's air. Lightning llrcak% Staf. Dispatenles from M1eFa:l. .tia.. Miy ghtning played the role of s.r&. eaker there early Wedlnesday. It >re a hol-- in the roof of P. U. Sny- 1 r's sto-e ran down a poIm jr a >en the safe and tole awa' At i e .home of totn ' -.: :t,.-run- d Ia. the far~iily eleck -va ':em~a- r I although the hous-~ wu i.mnpara-f ely uaunjured.'t Struck Deep Water. A passe::ger train traveling near e ck Hill Wtednesday reached a Ic oded stream which covered the ack so high that the fire was ex-1 f iguished in the engine. causing it , n go ''dead"' for a considerablel sth of tinme.I Heavy Rains in Japan. | T A tnrrential ra'infall .has caus~ed N vastating floods principaly in iT inzuoka protince. on th'- southern to ast. Hudreds of houses have a: en submerged and one occu- sI -1 by .stuud.tts in the p'rovinc'e of .1 iuzuoka was buried with .:s ten- w FLOOD IN JAPAN THE CITY OF TOEJO HAS WHOLE WARDS SUB31ERGED. Thowands Starve as the Rivers Rise ail Deplorable Sights are %een at Relief Stations. Great floods are sweeping over parts of Japan. and great damage hias been done to life and property. rn?e Horjo and Fukadawa wards of Tokio, are nearly completely submerged.. Tens of thousands of persons aie homeless and starvi.:r. O- (f ne three more important embankments guarding Tokio has been broken. Should the second and third dykes break. half the capital would be sub merged. Owing to the inundation of the buildings of the Fukadawa gas and electric lights are failing. Thous ands of homelesss persons are now being sheltered in the temples and schoolhouses at which relief stationa. the most deplorable sights are wit nessed. The victims of the flood are wholly dependent upon public relief. Thouusands more have been un able to find shelter. owing to th-' an suffliency of boats to convey them to places of safety, and they are ex posed to the rain and hunger. Ecery available boat is being employee in the worlk of rescue and to conny food wher' it is mor. needed. The questi''n of feeding the strick ens peopi- is ,: '-r anpr ..oa.ao Tne vegetsi4e tad fisr suppl':s are failing and the stock of biscu:-. asI ready is nearly exhausted. The-* Is no fear. however, for the supply of rice. The water of the Sumida river is almost washing the bottom oi the bridges. The mountain flood in the neigh borhood of Karuisawa has destroyed the Mikasa hotel. Many fori:.ers were stopping there, but fortunately no fatalities have been reported so far. INDIX COTTON A FAILURE. Both Staple and Yield Have Proven Disappointing. A Washington dispatch says diffi culty is experienced by cotton g.-. ers in IJndia with both staple and yield. Many experiments have been made with the object of improving both. reports Consul E. Halderman Dennison. of Bombay. but thas far, with indifferent success. Egyptian and other exotic varieties have been introduced from time to time. but the results have not been encourag ing. Under garden culture the finer sta pies have responded well, but tried in t he fields, they have failed to pro duce the results they show in their native soils. Future efForts will be devoted to the improvement of the staple and yield of the native cot ton. A tree cotton from which great results were predicted a few years ago. has poven disappointing accord ing to the consul. It did very weal in garden trials, but when the st tempt was made to grow it upon a large scale, failure followed. STRANGER 00MMITS SUICIDE. Went Off to Himself and Cut HIs Throat Totally. A man who gave his name as John Shay. went to the mill of the WVil son Lumoner company, about four miles below Lake City on the 18th of July and since that time has been working for them; for the last few days he had been suffering from chills and fever. but did not stop :his work. Tuesay night supposedly about nine o'clock. he went Into a small strip of woods just in Lne rear of the mill yard and with a razor cut his throat from ear to ear. From tee gashes it appears that the first attempt was not so success ful as he desired: the second one. however. severed both the jugular vein and the windpipe. The body was found Wednesday mourninag ab.out 9 o'clock an~d an inequest wat held over t.%aa body. He. was given a decent buiria: by the Wilson Lumber Coma pany. He is described as being a man about 5 feet to) inches high, medium build, with sandy hatir, slightly bakit and of Irish descent. There were no papers about him to lead to his identity. DROVE WITH ONE HAND. igistning~ Struck the IRaabawd or His Baggy. After i~rlving with one hand a team of bronchos for forty miles on a stormy ,ight. Alfred Villa delivered the body of his dead brother to his parents naear Tuckson. Ariz.. Thurs day night. While drivirg through the storn: the buck board in which the two bo~ys were riding was struck >y~ lighning. killing the younger boy insta:ntly, and paralyzing one side of he ether. Regaining consciousness, he eider boy headed the team for tomie, driving with his unaffected land. Several cther persons were ;tu::ned during th'e same storm. MAtKF, HIGHES'T F.LIGHT. >Ian lheache, Altitude of Over Six Thousand Feet. twas officially announced at Lonak. totland. Friday that J. Armstrong )rexel, t!o-- American aviator. Thuns ay nic'ht attained a world's altitude ecord by rising 6.750J feet. Drexers ight wets the sensation of the avia :nn meeting. Ascernding at i o lock in thec eveninr. he '-hot up in > a bank of cloud,. and disappear d from the gaze of the anxious rowd. ie landed about two hours tier. near a farmhouse twelve miles -omi Lanark. A large crowd wit ess.ed the ascension. A Fatal Bath. Fred Tuliar. shortstop of the lytneville baseball club in the nrcherast Arkansas league. died bursday :ticht in a Mempi. hro.1i I. After playing a ten inning garae August 1. Tuliar took a cold ower bath...A.....mintrs later was stricken with paralysis and a broughit to thts place fo:- t:eat