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__VOL. XXV MANNING, S. C.,.WEDNESDAY. 'MAY.24,1f O4 FELDER WANTED Dispensary Commiseon Of ders Him to Come and Give EvidtiC. MXY DECLINE TO COME He May Take the Position That He Will Respond to the Demand Un less the Probers Are Named by the Legislature as First Suggested by the Governor. T 3 Felder of Atlanta has been ordered by the new dispensary com mission to appear in Columbia on LMay 29 and tell what he knows of the affairs of the old State dispen sary. He has been ordered "to furnish all information in his possession in regard to any matter or matters con nected with the said State dispensary against any officer of said institution or of this State. and particularly the governor of this State-." No announcement has been maade by Mr. Felder as to whether he will come to Columbia and give the in formation desired. It may be that he will refuse totestify at this time on the round that the new dispen sary commission has no right to make the investigation requested by the governor of the State. In the event that he refuses to ap pear -before the present dispensary commission, it is likely that Mr. Fel der will withhold his information un til an investigating committee is named by the general assembly. The resolution passed by the new dispen sary commission is as follows: "Be it resolved, That this commis sion meet on the 29th day of May, A. D. 1911, and that Thomas B. Felder of the firm of Anderson, Felder Rountree & Wilson be required to ap pear before said commission on that date and furnish them with all in formation in his possession or in the possession of his firm in connection with all matters and affairs of any and all claims due or owing to or by the State of South Carolina from and to any and all person or persons, in obedience to the contract made with the late members of this commision in writing by-the said Anderson, Fel der, Rountree & Wilson. "Resolved, second that the said Thomas B. Felder at the same time be required- to furinsh all informa tion in his possession in regard to any matter or matters connected with the said State dispensary against any offender of said institu tion or of this State, and particular ly the governor of this State, the Hon. Cole L. 'Blease, in accordance with his communications heretofore made, either in person or through the press of this State, and that he also furnish any information that he has in his possession, showing any connection or any dealing in person or as agent for others that the said Hon. Cole L. Blease may have had with the Stite dispensary directors or any other persons or' persons coni nected with said institudon. "'Resolved, third. 'Ihbat a copy .f these resolutions he transmitted by registered letter through the United States mall to the said Anderson, Felder, Rountree & Wilson, and a co'py individually to Thomas B. Fel der of 'said firm." REV. GEORGE W. WALKER DEAD. President of Paine College for Twen ty-eight Years. Rev. Geo. W. Walker, D. D., presi -dent of the Paine College for Ne groes, and a widely known Methodist minister, died at Augusta, Ga., Wed nesday, aged sixty years. He was a native of Marion, S. C., and a gradu ate of Wofford College.. In 1883 when the Methodist Epis copal Church of the South d~cided to have a school in which to train negro teachers and preachers, Dr. Walker volunteered to-undertake the work and he was made president of Paine College, which position he has held ever since. The negro men at the school will be active pallbearers and the white Methodist ministers of the city will be -honorary pallbearers at the funer al. Bishop Warren A. Candler has wired that he will attend the funeral. RAVAGES OF INSECTS. Georgia Cotton Growers Think They Are a Menace. Fearing that their cotton crops may 'be seriously damaged, if not entirely ruined, by the cow pea cur culio, which has recently made its ap rpeu.rance on cotton stalks in certain, pc-'.ions of Georgia, W. H. Ward andI others of Ohoopee, Toombs county, Georgia. has forwarded to Congress man Edwards of that state, at Wash ington, a jar of the paxrasites, which have been turned over to Dr. L. 0. Howard, entomolgst of the depart ment of agriculture, for examination. These bugs have never before been known to eat cotton stalks. alwa:ys confining their destruction to the pea vine. It is .believed that, unless something is done quickly, cotton growers will suffer greatly when the parasites spread from section to sec tion. Histories Denounced. In scathing terms the historical committee of the~ United Confederate Veterans, in session at Little Rock, Ark., denounced certain histories covering the period of the Civil ~war, characterizing as "unfair and unfor tunate" the manner in which the South's attitude in the war of 1861 is set out. Th y urge a boycott of DUE TO BRIBERY LORIMER'S ELECTION DECLARED TO BE CORRUPT. Judge's Ruling in Case Charged as Unwarranted Interference With Perogatives of Legislature. The report of the Helm senatorial committee, appointed to investigate circumstances surrounding the elec tion of William Lorimer to the Unit ed States senate was returned to the senate at Springfield, Ill., Wednes day. The most vital points are: A criticism of Judge Petit of Chi cago, for his ruling in the habeas corpus case involving Tilden, Cum mfns and Benedict, and -this expres sion: "Your committee has reached the conclusion that the election of Wil liam Lorimer -before the last general assembly would not have occurred had it not been for bribery and cor ruption." . The report says the committee went over all the testimony in the Lee O'Neill 'Brown, Pemberton, Clarke and Broderick trials and also sets forth the summoning of H. H. Kohlsaat. publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald, and, Mr. Kohisaat's disclosure of the fact that it was Clarence R. Fung, secretary of the international Harvester Company, who had told him of a conversation, which he (Funk) had with Edwin Hines, in which he is alleged to have informed Funk that he had succeed d in electing Mr. Lorimer to the United States senate at a cost to him and other unnamed persons of about $100,000. Regarding the habeas corpus de cision of Judge Petit in the cases of Tilden, Cummings and Benedict, the committee says: "Such action was an unlawful in terference on the part of a member of the judiciary with the legislative branch of the government." Inability to make % serching in vestigation when all documents alleg ed to have been in the hands of Til den. Cummings and Benedict could not be located is noted. The committee also touches on the so-called "jack-pot" episode, but de clares that so long as no person pub- I licly connected with that matter, is any longer a member of the senate, no recommendation is made. BRIDE AT EIGHTY-FOUR. Mrs. Nancy Mims and Preston Bet tison Married. A marriage of unusual interest from several standpoints occurred several miles from Barn-well at the home of Ball Mitchell Sunday, the 14th inst., when Mrs. Nancy Mims was married to Preston Bettison, Magistrate M. C. Kitchings of Willis ton performing the ceremony. The I ride has reached her 84th milestone 1 f life's journey, while 71 years have ased over the head of the groom. his is Mrs. 'Bettison's fourth matri ominal venture and the second for< the tgroom. The courtship is said to ave been very short, consisting ofi only one call from Mr. Bettison. The 1 appy couple will make their future ome in Rosemary township, this;a ounty. Fifty people witnessed thei eremony. BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS. rst Question More of an Issue Now Than for Years. William Jennings Bryan, while at oronta, Ont., on a lecture tour, said. ednesday regarding -the Standard I Oil decision: "This decision is likely o make the trust Question more of' n issue than it has been in recent years. While on the face of it the decision seems a victory for the gov ernment, it virtually amends the anti trust law by construitig it to prohibit, not all restraints of trade, but only such restraint a' the courts, after each lengthy litigation, :nay decide I to be unreasonable." It will be not iced that Bryan's views coincide losely with the opinion rendered by Justice Harlon. Want Case Responded. Declaring that Wmn. Lorimer's election to the United States Senate was brought about by bribery and orruption, and that the gravity of the situation involving the integrity and good name of Illinois and the welfare of the country demands fur ther investigating, the Illinois senate by a vote of 31 to 19, adopted a res olution asking that the United States: Senate re-open the Lorimer investi gation. Died at the Reunion. Two additional deaths among the I eterans attending the Confederate reunion at Little Rock. Ark., occur- I red Wednesday night. WV. M. Rivers' f West Point. Ga.. after hating been taken ill at the union passenger sta-. tion, died in a fe whours. W. L Galloway. of Paris, Tenn., fell from the second floor of the Peabody school building and died in a few moments. Gets Five Years. David 0. Jackson, the local negro mal carrier, of Mobile. who, when cauht with marked money stolen from mail packages, tried to commit* suicide several weeks ago, was sen tenced in the United States district! court to five years sevitude in the Atlanta Penitentiary.*1 Want Case Reopened. I Attorney General Lyon w'is Thurs day requested by the new dispensar commission to proceed with the casea against the Richland Distilling com pany for the recovery of the judg ment of approximately $700,000 found a year ago .by the o~d dispen-,1 PEACE IN SIGHT Diaz Announces Wilingness to Resign as President of Mexico. BEFORE FIRST OF JUNE De La Bara, Minister of Foreign Af fairs Will Take Charge With Mad ero Acting as Chief Adviser. Treaty of Peace Expected to Fol low Surrender of Diaz. Advices from Mexico City is to the effect that President Diaz and Vice President Corral will resign before June 1. Frantisco de la Barra, min ister of foreign relations, will be come provisional president ad in terim. Francisco I. Madero, the reolu tionary leader, will be called to the city of Mexico to act as de la Barra's chief adviser and as the greatest guarantee possible that every pledge made by the goernment will be car ried out. As viewed by the public it will be virtually a joint presidency, pending the calling of a new presidential elec tion. The cabinet will be reorganized. The minister of wa.r will be named by de la Barra. The foreign ofice will be in charge of a sub-secretary nam ed by de la Barra. Other cabinet members will be chosen by de la Bar ra and Madero actIng jointly. A new election will be called with in six months. Political amnesty will be recommended to the chamber of deputies. rhese- are the conditions upon which President Diaz will compro mise. Virtually they are admitted in high quarters to be a complete urrender to the revolutionists. The resignation of Diaz and the "joint" regency" of de la Barra and Aadero are said to constitute a Puar intee so complete that the original nsurrecto demand for 14 governors o longer needs to be considered. The ca'binet was in almost con :inual session for two days and de spite the severe illness of President Diaz. The president's entire face is nfected from an ulcerated tooth. He speaks with the greatest difficulty, ut while he is in severe pain,- his ondition is not regarded as calling or alarm at this time, despite his tdvanced age. The government's conditions were elegraphed to Judge Carabajal on Nednesday afternoon with instruc- 1 ions to submit them to Gen. Madero. I f they are accepted, which is re -arded as certain, an armistice cov oerin!g the entire republic of Mexico ill be signed. Inasmuch as the gov- t rnment believes it has made every xmncession that the revolutionists I lave requested, it is firmly believedC hat a treaty. of peace will follow. t Without abating one lot of their dmiration for the man who has nade modern Mexico, the public re eied the announcement of his in-'E ended resignation with profound sat sfaction. Since the battle of Juarez hey have realized that the presi ent's renunciation of his high office lone could bring about peace. 'Bus ness throughout the republic has uffer'ed severely and the people gen ~rally were eager for an honorable >eace. ~ervation of energy and effort its logan. Whether hard times or good times re ahead, the farmer will not be ~ ble to minimize the effect of the I ~ause you know some crooked cus omers in it? There are many such n every religious denomination, in nany secret orders, one or two black, heep in your own family. Does that fact keep you out of the ~hurch, the secret order, or cause ~ou to desert your family? Hardly. t makes you more anxious to -go in nd cure these evils, if you are worth eing called a man, and not a beast. I That same influence should bring I *ou into the Farmers' Union, witfl he divine d,etermination to help 'I our brother man-and if you help I our brother man, you cannot avoid ielping yourself, and your children I Lnd your children's children. . Some foolish people have believed ye wanted to injure the small mer- I hant, and have therefore criticised is, or refused to affiliate with us. I Tell such people that we do not - ntend to put the small merchant, or iny other, rightful business factor, >ut of commission. We want to co- 1 perate upon equal terms with the I usiness man. We need the mer hant, ude' need the banker, the nanufactui-er, the teacher, the edit'or, he preacher, other professional peo- H >le. And they all need us, as *riends, and not as suspicious out iders. The greatest drawback the Ameri- I an farmer has ever labored under 1 ias been his willingness to be swayed 1 y the man who flattered him, and ho would not tell him unpleasant, mt wholesome, truths. This day is assing! The farmer is learning to I >ick the cotton strands out of the 4 vool-where the 'politician and the >ublic man is conoerned. The quick r he completes the job, the better 1 *or his own material, moral, mental 1 tld spiritual salvation and those of lis brethren. The Farmers' Union has survived t some of the most develish schemes I ~ver devised to crush an organiza ion. With infinitely less money han any organization of our numer- 1 cal importance. we have accom >lished vast results. We are t'.rning now with increas .ng emphasis to the job of distrib iting our produets in a business way. ieretofore, many counselors have :rged and "helped" us In the matter ' f production. Now we are seeing I hat distribution, scientific and co npeatie is even more important. WHAT IT HAS DONE GREAT AND GOOD WORK DONE BY THE FARMERS' VNION. -4 President Barrett Points Out What This Grand Organization Has Done for the Farmer. To the Officers and Members of the Farmers' Union: A new epoch was written in Amer ican history when the Farmers' Un ion became a truly national organi z=ation. Other associations of far mers had preceded it. But they had fallen by the sword of partisan politics or had failed to hitch en thusiasm to the harvest-so they fell. I speak advisedly when I say that the Farmers' Union is .the first or anization in history to successfully join theory with practice, to begin the movement of weeding the poli ticians from .the innermost councils f the farmer, and to impress upon the latter that the Improvement of is lot rests not in the hands of some far-off "uplifter" or hy-by-night re former, but with himself. Today the world asks less for rhet Dric and more for results. This is a very slight summary of what we have accomplished together with a state ment of what we yet hope, with the Lid of .the Almighty and our own :urage, to accomplish: We have 1,628 warehouses, main ly for storing cotton. Mississippi eads the wanehouse movement, with t million-dollar corporation. We own and operate a large num Jer of elevators and terminal agenc es for the handling of grain. We own and operate 245 packing iouses. We own and operate dozens of iewspaipers. We own and operate coal mines. We own and operate several banks, lour mills, creameries, 'pickle fac ories, several hundred stores, an im )lement factory, a phosphate plant, , phosphate mine. We own and operate tobacco fac ories and warehouses, produce ex ,hanges, fertilizer factories, peanut warehouses,. a peanut recleaner, nany cotton grading schools, co-op wrative life and fire insurance com >ailes. Any number of other general busi iess agencies are owned or controlled >y members of the Farmers' Union. :. this connection, it must not be orgotten that the Union does not of icially own these concerns. We LTe not a close corporation. In every nstance, ownership or control rests n individual members, consorting to ether for .their own benefit. That s the true spirit of co-operation. Before this order was organized. tatistics showed that 70 -per cent. of he farmers in the South were lighted with -the curse of the mort ;age. . We have cut down the per entag-e by one-half, and our work in hat direction has hardly begun. rrhe influence of the Farmers' Un on is written upon many of the best aws put in recent years upon state nd national statute 'books. In many states we shave secured -adical increases in public school ppropriations. In many of the tates the Farmers' Union has been nstrumental in the establishment of ~gricultural colleges. Other important legislation, state .nd national, now pending, is an in lication of the resistless influence of he organization among American armers. We have made systematic anvasses of tbe various legislatures, nd of several successive sessions of ongresses. There is a new view oint in Washington toward the tmericanl farmer-and the might of he Farmers' Union, demonstrated in iections, is responsible for it. These .achievements are .the out vard sign of a great new movement n American agriculture. But they ,re not compairably important to the piit of fraternity which we have rought up) among the farmers of his nation. It is fraternity, appeal g to intelligence, that has wrought his progress. And the same force vill develop in a thousand 'unex ected directions to solve the prob ems of the American farmer.g Notable among the triumphs of he organization is that one which ias brought a social awakening mong the farmers. In many states t has brought thousands of white omen and children out of the cottonI elds into the schools and the homes -where they belong. Had it done! othing else, the existence thus far f the Farmers' Union would have een justified by this transformation, hat is merely in its beginning. I cite these facts as the basis of n argument that now is the time or every American farmer to affil ate with this organization. It has passed the stage of experi nent. It is an assured, an achiev ng, permanent institution. Every armer, however small, who joins it, ncreases his own power by the or anized might of his three million rethren. If we have saved many millions for >ur 'members .by co-operation and egisation if we have defeated sev ral congressmen who were un vorthy of office, several senators who vere untrue to pledges; if we have ~radually instilled into our people, >y gruelling, persistent labor, the loctrine of business methods in arming; if we have weeded out af he organization some of the most intprincipled scoundrels in the land, nd thereby strengthened it Have we not the right to go before he American farmer, and, on the ecord of things done, bid him in his wn interest and our interest to join '.ith S? We are entering upon a tremend >usly important era in our national The supreme court gave a decisilon irst or reap his legitimate share of he last, unless .he is organized. Do you object to the order be Lity nOnization is its keynote;. 1 MADE A CLOSE CALL HAD A VERY NARROW ESCAPE FROM HORRIBLE DEATH. A Show Woman Falls a Thousand Feet Before a Large Crowd, But A Escapes Death. At Asheville, N. C., Floretta For enz, a triple partehute performer as sociated with a visiting show, had a narrow escape from death Thurs day afternoon when, after accident ally cutting the wronig ptrachute rope, she fell at -a rapid rate from a height of nearly 1,000 feet. Had not her parachute caught in the stret car and electric light wires in the -heart of the city, she would ce have undoubtedly peen killed. In the m, last half of the- descent Miss Lorenz pa was virtually hanging to one cord Ui of the first parachute. co The young woman was carried in- kn to a store in a fainting condition, but 162 she was otherwise uninjured. She co later stated that she carried three str parachutes with .her and, on -reaching tr up to release the balloon wherein she ascended, accidentally cut the ropes th of -the secand and third parachute, to which, however, did not open. to The unusual weight of the two un- m opened parachutes, added to her own, of caused her to descend at a rapid rate ta and the hundreds of people who cO gathered in the centre of the city to -saw that the young woman was in otl danger of alighting on the roof of ga the postoffice. cit A sudden gust of wind, however, carried her over the network of trol- th ley and illuminating wires which ua cross and re-cross Patton avenue, th' and there were loud rries from the Sb anxious hundred when. the swinging pe ropes and then the partehute itself th caught in the wires and were firmly co! held, allowing .the thoroughly fright ened woman to descend safely. m m LABOR LEADERS UPHE W. ou cla The Supreme Court Decides Case in an Their Favor. to - of Setting aside the sentences of tim- suc prisonment imposed by the Supreme eri Court of the District of Columbia for ma alleged disobedience to a boycott in- Go junction, the Suprme Court of the I United States Wednesday held that pri Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and but Frank Morrison, president, vice pres- cor ident and secretary, respectively, of bar the American Federation of Labor, ers had been erroneously sentenced to ion jail on a charge of contempt of local hib court. The Court unanimously held that agz the only sentences that could be im- Ea posed upon the labor leaders were .bra 1i.es. 1-, s.; Loldinig. !b3 Supreme an' Court of the United States found ed that the Court of Appeals of the reg District of C31umbia and the- Su- ers preme Court of the District erred in ha' treating the contempt proceedings as com a criminal case and not a civil one.-9 The effect of holding the proceedings dea a civil one was to make jail senteneer or impossible. Hence the judicial sen tences had to be set aside. - tha pre JONES GOEpS TO PRISON wh< | - .vaD Rich Farmer of Union County Loses stra She Last Appeal. ' W. T. Jones, the -wealthy Union be~ county planter, must spend the re- Ju~ mainder of his days in the state peni- ma tentiary for killing his wife, unless t. executive clemency is extended. t The supreme curt gave a decision Wednesday ,dismissing the appeal for alli a new trial on the grounds of after- m~ discovered evidence, and Jones will me be taken to -the state penitentiary the within ten days to begin serving his all sentence. The opinion in the case is - by Robert Aldrich, acting associate oth justice. The supreme court several tio~ months ago affi.rmed the decision. so The governor several days ago re- me fused a pardon. soc W. T. Jones was tried at the Feb- ed ruary term of court in Union county the in 1908 upon an indictment charging syl bim with the murder of his wife, Ma- gin rion E. Jones, by administering to gi her or causing to be administered nec strychnine poison. He was convicted sl~ of murder with recommendation to Is mercy and was sentenced to th6 i state penitentiary for life.pr White Man to Hang. After being out one hour, the jury ha' in the case of James Jefferson, charg- ber ed with the murder of Policeman wit Marion Marchant in April last ties Thursday afternoon returned a ver-er dict of guilty, and Jefferson wts sen- rett tenced to be hanged on June 23. ers Jefferson Is a member of a prominent fo family of Columbus, Ga., and theha trial has caused intense interest. * pet hav A Very Old Horse. E. S. Richardson, of Tyler, N. H.,so drives a horse that is known to be at fine east 39 years old. It is the last horse that Dr. Gage, of Briar Hill tioI and Concord, owned, and it was given bee~ to Mr. Richardson by the doctor's I~n daughter, Mrs. Morrill, 16 years Uni ago. The horse is in fine condition who for its age. ed Goes For the Judge. The resolution censuring Circuit Judge Adelor Petit, of Chicago, who Nea arbitrarily freed Edward Tilden, Geo. pai: Benedict and William C. Cumming~s der from appearing before the Lormer W investigating committee in answer to ry a subpena, was passed by the Illinois was state senate. * sid< He as Newt Gresham saw when he first Isid< launched this ireat undertaking. piti We are working toward the idealI of making the Farmers' Union the transforming influence in American farm life. 'l o that end we ask the was co-operation of the wealthiest and the Ani most poverty stricken farmer. tryj CHAS. S. BARRETT. can nion Ciy, Ga. May 15. 1911.. had LUMBER TRUST e G rverment Will Suk to Destroy the Aileged Conspiracy KONG THE TIMBER MEN - tion Begun in New York Federal Court First Brought Under Inter pretation of Sherman Law in Stan dard Oil Decision.-"Unreason able" Restraint of Trade Charge'd. In the first Federal anti-trust pro adings brought under the Sher in Standard Oil decision, .the de- I rtment of justice filed suit in the Lited States Court against various astituent organizations, which are own as the "Lumber Trust," al ing the presence of a widespread aspiracy, "unreasonably" -to re ain the lumber trade in this coun It Is. stated that the suit may be 3 first of a series planned by At- I -ney General Wickersham looking the breaking up of alleged agree mnts among the retailers of many the commodities of life to main a high prioes, to force all ultimate isumers to 'buy from retailers and t blacklist wholesalers who sell to 2 ier than members of the retail or izations in the various States and I ies. Ten trade organizations and more n one hundred and fifty individ [s are named as defendants in t suft. It alleges violation of the t erman antitrust law, and seeks a I manent injunction in restraining defendants from continuing the 1 siracy charged. rhe elaborate system of black- t iling, attributed to the alleged I ispirators, copies of circulars sent by the various organizations, 3 ssying the consumers as "proper' I I "improper" trade, extracts from >orts, the threatening "short shift" I dealers daring to violate the rules I the organization, and branding I :h offenders as "poachers," "mav Aks," "scalpers," and illegiti- I tes," are fully set forth in the b ernment's petition. t 0 d [t is alleged that not onTy have t vate consumers been -blacklisted, s that many of the great industrial r Lcerns have been put under the N i by the lumber dealers. The Gov- E ham's long planned test suit to - al allegations and interesting ex- r its. p [he suit is directed specifically J Linst retail organizations in the a ,tern States, but the trial will em .e methods adopted by retailers I wholesalers throughout the Unit States In general, the- case is arded as Attorney General Wick ham's long lanned test suit to -e the Courts determine how far abinations of retailers may go to vent the ultimate consumer from A ling directly with t-he wholesaler 3 producer. - rhe Government -takes the position ti t any agresments or acts which 'B vent a, consumer from .buying n ere he chooses, or to his best ad- i: tage, are in "unreasonable" re- e: int of trade, and violates -the a rman law. .d o attack on the middleman has n a intended, the department of n ite holding -that there is legiti te' business opportunity for him. f the Government's contention in B Scase is sustained, there is prom- 3 of a sweeping attack upon similar si ~ged conspiracies as to other com- T ities in daily use. The depart- IV at of justice regards the case as I most important in principle of I the anti-trust suits under taken. i' he Government alleges, among er things, that although the Na- d al Wholesale Lumber Dealers' as- T1 ition is not named. by agree- G ats with it, the Eastern States As- 'V iation has organized and circulat- ta black lists which have affected s] lumber trade in New York, Penn ania, North Carolina, West Vir ia Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vir a, South Carolina, Louisiana, Con- TI ticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, rgia, 'Missouri, Alabama, Rhode ind, California, Mississippi, the trict of Columbia, the Canadian t: vinces of Quebec, Ontorio, Nova ce tia and British Columbia. 1 t is also charged that as a result a the alleged blacklists, wholsalers g. -e been directed not to sell lum- ii to retail dealers who have dealt h consumers in wholesale quanti- e and that in the case of wholesal who have dealt with consumers in e Lil quantities, the organized retail- t: were directed not to .buy lumber m them; that the retailers who -e sold wholesale lots or have com ad outside their allotted territory -e been posted to the trade as d ~achers," or "scalpefs" and, in ie instances, -have been heavily ti d or cxpelled-. c 'The result of this illegal opera 1," says the Government, "has d n to close the door to the nufacturer in all parts 'of the ted States, and to drive the lesaler, out of -i territory cover by a member of the trust." * Auto Kills Negro. hile speedingt to t-he hospital in S y Orleans with James Lavin, -a 11 ater who had fallen from a lad- 3' ,an automobile ambulance late s: dnesday ran over and killed Hen- r Sims, a negro boy. The~ negrol ;skating and darted toward the ewalk in front of the ambulance. was placed in the ambulance be the painter but died in the hos Amateur Aviator Killed. I L V. Hardlee, an ameteur aviator, n killed at Domingeuz field at Los " ;eles, Cal., a Wednesday whileI ing out an aeroplane. Hardlee b e here recently from Ohio and t I ma sea.l successfu flights. a SENATORS AND CONuV6SS3, SAYS HE IS THE MAN. Wilson is Strong With Bryan, Al. though -He Once Bolted the Tick et With Bryan On It. The correspondent of the Spartan burg Herald says thA enrrespondent n Washington of one of the leading papers of the south claims to have nade a poll of the Democrats in Con ;ress for his paper on presidential references, with special references ;o Woodrow Wilson. His findings are summed up as fol ows: That Woodrow Wilson has the sup ,ort of about four in every five mem >ers he has interviewed. That he is especially strong in the south. . That while Northern people regard iim as a northern or eastern man Lnd in general have little knowledge >f his southern.origin and relation ihi'ps, the southern people all look pon him as a southern man and are reatiy attached to him on this ac ount. That in the south generally Wil on is regarded as even more of a outherner than Champ Clark. Mis ouri is regarded as a border or wes ern state. Wilson gets the full Ldvantage of being a Virginian. That hamp Clark's boom has decidedly 'eoeded in the month since Congress net and the Wilson movement has rrespondently gained. That since the graft revelations In he Ohio legislature the Harmon sen iment has waned even faster than fore. Commenting on the result of the ioll a Washington newspaper Wed tesday say, "General confirmation of his view is unavoidable wherever one aingles among public men In-Wash ngton. Republicans generally think Vilson will -be nominated by the )emocrats, but many of them -can [idly talk Bryan, hoping that Bryan may yet be named and believing that ryau would be the best man for the tepublicans. "Mr. Wilson's western trip Is being olowed with the utmost Interest, ecause it is expected to develop more efluite signs of -the sentiment of hat section, which has always most turdily stood by Bryan. Thus far epresentatives has indicated that Vllson looks good to the old-time Iryan followers. Mioreover, Mr. Bryan himself is ported very well pleased with the erson and the performance of the ersey governor albeit Wilson has not record of regularity in suppdrt of tran. WOULD HEAR BLEASE. efused Holiday and Mill Workers Take it Anyhow. The workers.in the Ware:Shoals [anfaleturing Company, located at Fare Shoals, 'have given the manage ient notice that they do not sintend a work Thursday when Governor lease speaks at Ware Shoals . The ill workers had asked for a holiday i order to hear the speech by Gov rnor Blease, but the mill manage ient refused to shut down for the ay. Then the mill workers gave otice of 'their intention to leave the ill for the day. The men are quoted as saying: We are going to hear Governor lease. The :mill will have to do ithout us." Governor Bl'ease peaks Thursday at Ware Shoals. he president of the Ware Shoals [anufacturing Company is B. D. .ejlgel, of the Reigels who own the .egal Sack Company, of Jersey City, . J. The mill is located near the Salu a River. There will be given a picnic hursday and on this occasion the .overnor will speak. A telegram ednesday afternoon indicates that vo mills will close Thursday for the ,eaking at Ware Shoals.. SICK CO)NVICTS TO BE FREE. hese Prisoners Are a Great Burden to the State Following a ersonal inspection of ie penitentiary Friday morning, in >mpany with Chairman Sanders, of ie board of directors, Gov. Blease inounced it as his intention to set 'ee all prisoners disable by chronic I health. This will remove from the big pris~ n many cont.'icts. some serving li'e entences. The Governor, will, in ch case, require a certificate from ie prison physician as to the fact l disability. He said such convicts ere a burden to the State. The Governor also said he would ot call a special sessioa cf the [rectors. but at their meeting on une 7, would urge them to cancel ie hosiery mill contract. If this tn not be done legally, other efforts Lay be made to have the mill con rmned by the health authorities on nitary grounds. * Salutes an Old WarshiD. With the ship's band playing the ational air and the blue jackets ith rifies at "present," the United ates battleship Idaho Thursday sa ited the resting place of the old ooden United States war sloop Mis sippi, of Admiral Farragut's fleet, ddled and sunk by the Confederate .nd batteries at Port Hudson on the :ississippi river during the civil Bold Masked Robbers. At Los Angeles, Lack Doyle's tloon, famous as a training camp r prize fighters was hield up Wed esday night by two masked robbers. he robbers stood seven men, includ g a constable, against a wall, rob ed and then locked their victims in ie ar yard which is surrounded by fence Thandits eaped. 3A13 113 DAW Mr. Parker Denounces the Neiheds of the New York Cotten Excag. SPEAKS VERY PLANY Has Argument With the President of the Exchange Who Was Pres ent, But the Manufacturers Asso ciation Agrees With Mr. Parker and Adopts Condemnatory Resoin tion. The feature of the first day's see sion of the American Cotton Manu facturers' association, which met on Thursday at Richmond, Va., was a a heated discussion In the afternoon between Arthur Marsh, president of the New York cotton exchange, _and Lewis W. Parker of Greenville, chair man of the committee on relations with cotton -exchanges. The occa sion was the repprt of tlyrcommittee and the result- was practically. an -,-.-* open rupture of the strained rela tions which have existed for some time between the association and the. exchanges. Pr. Parker's assertion that the New York cotton exchange caters to spec ulators rather than to the. needs of legitimate business, and that the prices of cotton have .been manipulat ed by memabers of the exchange, to the great detriment of both spin ners and producers, was cheered to the echo by the convention. Mr Marsh warmly defended the exchange and pointd out that it was an- asso ciation of merchants triding In cot ton, with rules in the interest of the merchants rather than in that of the manufact-urer or the producer. The convention decided with Mr. Parker, adopting the report of the committee unanimously and continu Ing the committee for -frther, con ference with representatives -of the exchanges and withjInstructions- that if relief is not given It shall. seek a remedy through Igislative channe. The gi-t of .e committee's report si as follows: "Manufacturers'-association should have no fight against -cotton exchan ges If those exchanges truy neflect conditions of spot cotton. On the contrary, an exchange, if legitimately managed and regulated, and if the prices rulnLig- thereon are truly rep sutative of ,spot rvalues. - Is and. $hould be of 'decided advantage to cotton manufacturers, as also to pro ducers, but if, on the contrary, the prices reflected on the exchanges are merely the result of speculation foi or against .the value.-.of the contlod-. ity, or if those prices are'only, re Iective ot the speculative actions of one element as against another element, then the exchange becomes a serious disadvantage to the manu factumers and to producers and ceases to be a legitimate body. "The two ' principal exchanges 'in -the United States are the New Or-* leans and New York cotton exchan ges. Under the rules of .the New Orleans exchange the prices ruling thereon are in much closer- relation to. the prices of spot cotton th~an -as a rule there are the prices -of con- - tracts on the New York cotton- ex change. "By reason of the rules of the New - York cotton ?xchange, it is seldom that the prices of contracts on that exchange are on a parity with spot cotton or truly representative of the price of spot cotton in the com munity of production plus the car riage charge to market. "At times the prices of contracts are much above the prices of sro: cotton. At other times they are much below. "Your committee Is forced to con clude that a majority of the members of the New York cotton exchange are more impressed with the view that it is to their interest to cater to spec ulators than to -make of their body a legitimate exchange reflective of the true value of the comnmodity In which they deal. "Your committee recom-mends that this association once more express Its 'earnest hope that the cotton ex changes, andj particularly tjh~e New York exchange, will rectify - their rules so as to make a true and prop er relation between contract prices and spot cotton; that if these rules be not so properly regulated as to make this relation, that your commit- @ tee be authorized in the name of the association to present such memorials to the legislative bodies as may lead to a proper regulation by them of the cotton exchanges." STREETS STREWN WITH DEAD. Sanguinary Battle Fought at Cuaut la, Near Cuernavaca. A sanguinary battle was fought Friday at Cuautla, Mexico, between the federal garrison under Col Mun guia and a force of rebels command ed by Col. Zapata. Fugitives state that the streets of Cuautla are strewn with dead and wounded. A commission left Friday night for Cuautla carrying the news of the armistice, which it is hoped will put an end to the fighting. Gen. Fugr oa is leading 3,000 rebel troops from Igualaga presumably en route for Cuernavaca. Cuernavaca is the capital of the State of Morelos and is forty miles south of Mexico City. Cauatla is a town of about 8,000 in Morelas. * He Died a Hero. After savring eleven lives in a gas explosion and fire in a building op posite the Detroit, Mich., central po lice station, Police Lieutenant Henry Walpole staggered to the street early Thursday morning and fell dead, suf fated hy smoke.