The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 21, 1911, Image 1

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VOL. XXV MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JTJNE 21 AFTER THE MEN Senator Pomerene Wants the Officers e the Trusts Proscated THAT WOULD STOP THE Whether the Stars and Stripes ox the Oil Barrel and. the Tobacct Tag is the Emblem of Theil Power. In a prepared speech in the senate Thursday Senator Pomerene, of Ohio called upon the attorney general to underitake criminal prosecution of the officers of Standard Oil and Amer can Tobacco companies under the re cent decision of the supreme court of the United.States in the case of the two corporations. He did not ask for a-tion on his resolution instructing the attorne3 general to begin the suits giving way to Senator Nelson, who desired to speak on Canadian reciprocity, but be will press for a vote on it in the Immediate future. Taking up cudgels on behalf of Attorney General Wickersham, whom Mr. Pomerene had criticised, Sena tor Kenyon declared that the present head of the department of jusice.had chieved more results in his prosecu tion of trusts than any of his prede cessors. He said Mr. Wickersham did not require instructions from congress to do his duty. Senator Nelson created a diversion when, applauding Mr .WIckersham's work, he declared that the present governor of Ohio, Judson Harmon, when atorney general in President Cleveland's cabinet, had said the Sherman ,anti-trust law was a deac letter. Both Senators Pomerene and Hitchcock were immediately on their feet to reply. "That is mere imagination," said the Nebraska senator. "Mr. Harmon was the official who first .brought any life into the 7f.w.' In his speech Senator Pomerene declared that the Sherman anti-2trust law. wass fic in its authority to press such a suit against conspirators who restrain trade and, further that tie Interpretation of the statute by7he supreme court of the, United States was clear. "With these plain findings .of fact and conclusions by the court that this statute has been violated, what rea son -can be given by any sworn court official for not continuing his fight against them in order to bring them to the bar of justice?" asked Sena tor Pomerene. He added: "A decent sense of self-respect requires the government either to enforce this law or to-repeal it." The Ohio senator declared that the ruling of the supreme court must be followed up quickly -in the most vig orous fashion "or the fruits of these victories will be lost to the govern ment and to the people." The senator declared that by his resoluton It is yroposed to declare to thie department of justice in no un certain way that the congress whicb made him and clothed him with .power is cognizant of the fact that the liuw has been violated: that the court has so declared; that for 21 years no respect has been paid by those defendants to the provisions ol "judgment of congress he c-'ght to begin those criminal prosecutions and --the resolution instructs him to do so in order that the majesty of the las may be preserved." STRUCK A FERRIS WHEEL. Passengers Thrown ina Panic and Women Wanted to lump. Five dead, four missing and a nroperty loss of nearly $1,000,000 is the result of a two days' storm whict has raged intermittently in New YcT1< and vicinity. The torrential down pour has been a boon to the depletec reservoirs, ten d-sys' supply havint 'been accumulated in the watershed The lightning played a strange prank at Clason Point, on the sound, strik ing a ferris wheel. The big wheel which carried several passengers was thrown from its axis and stuc15 fast. The lightning blinded the nas senigers and there was a panic. Sev eral women ettempte<' to leap fror the wheel, but -were restrained. The passengersa3vere taken down on lad ders rigged together. Brought a Big Price. The fi'rst bale of this year's e'ttor crop sold at Hous.tan. Texas, Monday for $2.05 84 per pound, the tota total weight being 493 preinda and the price $1,015. This was the high est .price ever paid on the Houstox exchange for a bale of cotton. S Jesse Jones. who is not In the cottoi btsiness, was the successfu' bidder He says he does not know yet who he will do with the cotton. Water Famine Threatenea. The long continued dry weathe has serioesly affected the water sup ply of the city waterworks. and un less there are goodI rains within th next week or ten d-ays to freshen the springs that feed Shoaley and Chin quepin creeks. the source of the city' water supply. the water situation a Spartanburg will become a seriou question for the water commissior. ers to salve Severe Storm at Lamar. *During a heavy storm Monday aft ernoon lightning struck a barn an .stable belonging to C. N. Oates, be tween Lamar and Darlington, burn ing the building with its content! which included two fine mules. Dur ing the storm the corn and tobacc crops of a number of farmers il the same community were litera1: torn to shreds. WHERE COTTON GROWS NUMBER OF BATES PRODUCED - BY US LAST YEAR. Total for South Carolina and the Figures Given for Each of the Counties. IThe government's report on cotton production for 1910, just issued, shows that the total number of 500 pound bales ginned in South Caro lina was 1,163.501, compared with 1,099,955 in 1909. In production by counties, Marlboro leads, with 67, 343;- Anderson with 61,611, comes next, Spartanburg. thir2, with 56. 312, and Orangeburg fourth with 53,080. The crop, by counties, for 1909 and 1910, figured by 500 pound bales, follows: Counties. 1910. 1909. Abbeville ......32,069 29,896 Aiken. .... ...35,687 36,530 Anderson. ........61,641 48,2(03 Bamberg.. ... .16,800 22,329 Barnwell... . ....45,043 44,919 Beaufort. . ...... 8,993 6,803 Berkeley. . ......11,178 11,434 Calhoun (2) .......20,125 21,292 Charleston. ...10,770 9,754 Cherokee. . 14,210 11,391 Chester... . .. .26,908 20,830 Chestereld... ...26,424 22,696 Clarendon.. ......36,954 32,870 Colleton... ... .14,390 15,749 Darlington .. .. .. 40,587 43,287 Dillon- (3).. .. ..39,318 38,910 Dorchester .. .. ..13,947 10,970 Edgefield. . ... .25,034 26,203 Faireld... ... .25,143 20,522 Florer ........34,146 37,942 Georg own...... 3,413 4,012 Greenville. ... .35 281 a7,521 Greenwood.. .. ..28:959 27,439 Hampton... ......16,626 20,185 Horry.. .... .... 7,816 7,847 Kershaw... ... .21,527 20,461 Lancaster.... ...23,053 19,256 Laurens .. .. .. 39,799 30,569 Lee ..;......-.-26,877 32,169 Lexington (2). .. 21;484 19,962 Marion (3) ... .16,585 17,027 Marlboro.. ......67,343 67,17' Newberry.... ....31,289 27,012 Oconee.. .. .. ..13,850 ~12,529 Orangeburg (2).. ..53,080 58,847 ickens....... 13,780 11,077 Richland...... 14,246 15,649 Saluda.. . . ...18,282 18,729 Spartanburg ... .56,312 42,977 Sumter.... ......33,622 28,936 Union.. ........17,135 12,882 Williamsburg. .....24,264 32,327 York...... . ...39,458 32,821 WILL BE HANGED. Negro Who Killed Overseer in New bek-y Sentenced. Guilty as to the negro Sam Boozer and not guilty as to John C. Hipp, was the verdict of the jury at New berry Wednesday evening in the case against Boozer and Hipp, charged with murder in the killing by Boo zer 'to kill Gilliam. The case had ex seer, at Old Town on March 3. A motion for a new trial was made by Boozer's counsel and this motion will be .heard -by Judge Gary at Laurens next week. Boozer was sentenced to pay the death penalty on the third Friday in August. -Hipp, who is one of the' largest property owners in Newberry county, was charged with having incited Boo e-r to kill Gilliam. The case ha d ei cited intense interest and the court room has been packed during the trial. Should there be no Interference with the sentence imposed, the exe cution of Boozer will be the first legal executien in the county in fourteen years. HELP AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. s Purpose of Bill Introduced By Congressman Lever, Tuesday Representative Lever in troduced in the House of Represea tatives in Washington a bill to estab ish agricult~upal extension depart nents in connection with the agri -ultural colleges and experiment sta .ions in the several states. The bill nrovides that in order to aid in the liff usion among the people of the 'nited States useful and practical in formaton on subjects connected with giculture and hmoe economies, hero shall be established at each gicultural ccllege a department to e known as an "Extension Depart ent" and that there shall be appro riated for this purpose $15.00Q or each su-h department, condition d upon the state appropriating a *ie amount for the same purpose. Ship Gave Up for Lost. A dispatch from New York says oast towns from Delaware Break ater to Montauk Point which have een on the outlook for the missint loop Vayu since Sunday have re elved no tidings of the vessel or the ,arty of five persons on board, and 'opes for their safety have well nigh been abandoned. The sloop left Ba vonne, N. J., for .a day's cruise about ? o'clock Saturday. Collins Can't Be Found. Will Collins. the negro who killed .. P. Bouknight, in Lexington coun ty, can't be found. The officers who have been on the hunt for him ever ince the tragedy, declare that Col lins is still alive and that he will soon be captured. Others, however. assert that the negro was killed soon after he shot the white man, and that his body was thrown into the river. Quite an Old Horse. E. T. Bigelow, of Fairfield, Me.. s the owner of a horse f1 years old believed to be the oldest horse in the State. She is driven every day. d can go to Waterville. a distance f eight miles, in a little more than a hour. Her teeth would indicate her to be not more than 13 years omu * THE GROWING COTTON ----- - DROUGHT CONDITIONS PARTIAL LY RELIEVED. In this State Especially, Government Says Rains Have Broken Long Dry Spell. The severe drought which has pre vailed in the cotton belt was relieved in the more eastern portion, but still continues in the western, according to the weather bureau's bulletin for the week ending Tuesday. The bul letin by states is reported as fol lows: Virginia, precipitation generally deficient; Abundant sunshine. North Carolina, light rainfall; some good rains in south partially relieved by drought. South Carolina, drought broken by good rains; sunshine above norm-al. Georgia, drought relieved in east and south; serious In west; temper ature above normal; scarcity of wa ter threatened. Florida, temperature above nor mal; rains well distributed; sunshine ample. Alabama, temperature above nor mal; precipitation below, although some showers In east; sunshine am ple. Mississippi, hot and dry, excessive sunshine; insufficient showers. Louisiana, little rain in south; drought severe; sunshine and tem permture above normal. Texas, clear, dry and abnormally warm; rain much needed. Arkansas drouglit becoming seri ous; only few scattered ligbt show ers; sunshine and heat above normal. Tennessee, almost unprecedented drought in some localities; some showers east and central portion; hot sunshine Kentucky, slight relief to serious drought conditions; sll crops need rain;, heat intense; water supply unusually low. Missouri, severe drought un,brok en; excessively hot and dry. Oklahoma, scattered showers In east, remainder of State very dry; all vegetation suffering. ROBBERY ON BROADWAY. Eight Men Ride Up in Auto, Only Six Rode Away. An automobile containing eight men, pulled up in front of the Hotel Roy, on West Thirty-fifth street, near Broadway, New York, about one o'clock Thursday morning and the men all lined up before Chas. Sim mons the night clerk. -Each of them held a revolver and their leader ordered the clerk to stand back while he explored the cash drawer of the open safe. There was nothing for the clerk to do.and the intruders quickly scooped out $160 in bills.. Then the men filed out, the last one covering the clerk with his revolver until all were outside. As soon as he wass free the cler.L grabbed his own gun from a drawer and fired five shots to call the po lice., He was so quick about it that he got a response from a Broadway patrolman before the robbers could crank their automobile and get start ed. The patrolman captured the last two of the men and found in the pockets of them a roll of bills twice the size of that which the hotel clerk had lost. DYNAMITE IN LAMP. Caused Death of Two Negroes Light ing It. Dynamite and an ignition cap plac ed into the lamp used by a negro convict miner, with the evident at tempt to kill the man, caused the death of two negroes in 'a mine of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Com pany at Belle Ellen near Birming ham. Ala., Thursday morning. Both the victims were convict miners. The one whose lamp contained the explosives had just entered the mine and lighted his himp when another prisoner approached. The dynamite went off and killed ,both instantly. Who placed the explosives into the lamp is not known but it Is thought it was done by some miner who had trouble with the nerro. RESCUED IN TBME. Passengers Taken Off Ship as Flames Reach Deck. Flames menaced the lives of 65 persons on the steamer John Lowry that burned in the Ohio river op posite Smithland, Ky., early Thurs day. As the flames licked at the feet of the scores of frightened peo ple gathered on the steamer's deck, her nose was smashed into the Illi nois shore 'and all were rescued. The fire started near the boilers and was not discovered 'by the crew until it had gained such headway there was no chance of stayinlg It. A few of the 50 passengers sustained minor injuries and several of the crew of 15 were hurt The steamer was destroyed. Cotton Picker Company. The Yorkville Cotton Picker Com pany was commissioned by the Sec retary of State at Columbia Thurs day, with a capital of $4,500. The petitioners are: John Brown Neil, of Clover: H. E. Neil, of Yorkville. and W. W. Lewis, of Yorkville. The company will engage in the sale, manufacture and .buying of cotton pickers. etc. Slake Themselves Known. In the House of Representatives at Washington a bill, providing that every newspaper must print in a conspicuous place the name of the owner or owners, publisher and managing editor. wa introduced by leorsent ative -Barnhard of Indiana. ALMOST SOLVEE Unraveliog an Awful Norh Carolil Brutal Mrder mystay.' RUMOR OF CONFESSION Reported that a Negro Tells of th Tragedy and Implicates a Whit Man-The Murder of Mrs. Hill On of the Most Brutal Ever Perpt trated. The mystery surrounding the brt tal and mysterious murder of Mr. Ida Hill, at Jamestown, N. C., is sai to be on the eve of solution. It wi] be remembered that Mrs. Hill, whos family is both prominent and weaJ thy, was found dead in a room a her mother's house about two week ago with a stocking stuffed down he throat and another tied around he neck. It is rumored that a confessio: has been secured from a suspecte negro and that In this confession white man is implicated. A dispatc from High Point, N. C., which is nea the scene of the awful tragedy says: "Never before in the history of thi section have the people been so stir red. In the quiet of her mother home, a worn, heart-weary womax caused by the loss of her husband was attacked by brutal fiends, stran gled bound and left hanging to he bed.' Only a short distance away I nearby bedrooms were the chIldrei and relatives who slept on in igno rance of the awful tragedy. He aged mother is prostrated and th' other members of the family ar, broken hearted, while the entire com munity shares their grief and whis pers wonderingly ot the au:icity, a well as brutality of the crime. "The story of the tragedy is one 0 awfunes. The elegant Ragsdall house, sitting back in its grove of ce lars and magnolias, is the place of in terest. The room on the secon [oor facing the front, will ever be . ;orrow-bringing spot. Sometime du ring the early morning hours twi brutes, probably one black and on white-skinned, but both black a heart, climbed up the rose arbor ove the front porch and entered the ope window of the room occupied by Mrs [da Hill. They were seeking money rs. Hill had re'eentyl returned fron E journey and it is reported that shi was to leavev gain shortly and thes black-hearted .fellows presumed sb. had money in'her room. "Mrs. Hill was a-light sleeper an possibly was awakened when the bur iars entered her room, for a passer by on the road saw a light in he room at midnight. At any rate I appears that she was aroused ant auickly they choked her. One of.he: stockings was forced down her throa and the other tied tightly about he: eck. 'Mrs. Hill was a large woman but she was not well and the two mei ossibly did not intend murder, bu rather proposed to keep her quieted hen they took her from the bed an< with straps from her suit case the: bound her. One strap ubout he aist was tighly buckled to the low~ r rail of the bed at the foot and he ands were forced beneath this strap The other strap was tastened in aoose a~bout her throat and tied to thi 'op rail of the be and shea was 101 while they proceeded to loot th' bouse. One of them must have struck th' woman, for one eye was blackenet nd bruised and the' eyeball 'blood shot. The men were evidently de termined that Mrs Hill should nc make any outcry and thus arouse th house. They possibly did not realiz what they had done eand probabl did not know that in stifling th aroused woman's cries they ha hoked her to death. The attendin physician says that she was evident1 dead before being sti-apped to th bed. Passing dc, vnstairs to the dii ing room, the men gathered up tb family silver and tied it in tw bundles, but after all their effort were evidently frightened and mad their escape. When the awful deed was dis covered the body was still warm an lay along the side of the bed ,boun but there were no signs of a strue g~le. Evidently there was no strul z~le, for with the exception of th bruised eye there is no wound on thi body. Clad in her nmght dress andi drawn smootly to her feet. those wh found the body were impressed tha the murder must have been commii ted and the body then placed on th~ floor. It is an awful story and th' people of Jamestown are still trem1 lng 'with the excitement. Neigl bors are wondering where the sorro will fall next time. Not only James town but this entire section is deel ly Interested and the people of th county are moved as never befori Mrs. Hill was .a woman of .aharmin personality.' beloved and with a wid~ circle of intimate friends. Ti Ragsdales are easily among the ver best class and for years h'ave bee known for tneir sterling worth. Die From Acid Gas. Two farmers, Silas -and ' Warre Hicks, were asphyxiated at the bo tom of a 75 foot well, near Londo1 Ont. Both 'were dead when di covered. It was evident from ti position of the bodies that Warre was overcome first, and that h 'brother lost his life in an eattemj to save him. Corset Saved Her Life. At Patterson, N. J. a steel ribi Mrs. Annie Noonan's corset saved hi from death. Thursday. Mrs. Lizz Dorandy fired a bullet after her hu band land struck Mrs. Noonan, stan ing across the street. The steel d fected the bullet, making only sllgl KEEP THEM OUT a Insect InvAers Cst Uis Counify Mil lions Every Season. NO BARRIER IS PUT UP e Wheat, Cotton .and Other Pests, Say e the Experts, Come from Abroad e -Argentine Ant, Mexican Boll Weevil, Hessian Fly and Gypsy 3Moth Some of Evils. Are we in danger of a foreign in vasion? No; the invaders are upon us d and doing much more damage than I an army would do. One foreign in e vader from Hesse Cassel costs the farmers in the wheat belt from $50, t 000;000 to $100,000,000 annually. s A tough-backed invader from Mex r ico is crossing the cotton belt, eating $25,000,000- worth of fibre between early July and late frost. Another invader whose original a home is stated by various experts to have been in Asia or in Mexico is r costng the United States government and a dozen states $1,300,000 to s check his annual ravages among the fruit trees. Still another alien enemy has re cently been slaying the woodland ,shades and roadside trees and doing Incalculable damage to the forest rairs of the nation. His ravages have never been estimated. Officlals.of'the Department of Agri 'culture say that fifty per cent of the r damage done by pests and parasites among the orchards and.crops of the United States is caused by foreign winged plagues that have .been al iowed to gain a foothold in the couu try Every other civilized nation guards f against the introduction of stinging a flying, creeping things that devour - the strength of vegetation. The Unit - ed States does not. There are no i statutes making such action manda i tory, and If there were there Is no machinery to put In action against y these pests. European governments a watch every efitry port carefully. t The orchardists of Europe watch every shipment of nursery stock that i is sent from the United States. Their shipments to this country arrive and are unpacked and bugs .and flying 1 things'that are death to vegetation a flutter out and make for themselves Pew homes in a new land. In a few years the department experts are hur rying to the despairing calls of the I orchardists who are making a losing - Ight against some new and extraor - dinary kind of pest that is withering r their trees. t One of the winged plagues poison I ed hundreds of people in New Eng r land last summer and fall. One man t died of the effects of what was known r as the "browntail rash," so talled be cause it was caused by the presence of millions of "brown tail moths,' t brought over from Europe years agb .by some careless shipper.- Whole i townships turned out to fight them , last year. r The gypsy moth is another tree de -vastator that is slowly being spread r all over the United States. -Both these -moths came originally from Europe. a They are ,but two of our foreign In a vaders. Five hundred tons of lead tarsenate were used in New England a last year in the stubborn fight made against these two. e The San Jose scale of infamous I memory was a terrible invader. -A - tree lover near San Jose, Cal., found - certain parasites on his orchards. t These spread to the trees of his e neighbors. In a few years the San a Jose scale was all over the United i States. It is dying out now. An e indefatigaible professor traced it here I and there over the world and finally g located its original home somewhere y in China. e He brought home with him a sack Sful of its hereditary enemies, a sort e of Chinese lady bug As soon as they 0 got acclimated they started in to in s crease and wax fat off the tremend e ous number of their old victims, the 'scale Still there are enough San -Jose scale remaining in the United d States to cost the farmer and fruit ,grower about $10,000,000 yearly. -An evil-looking bug came across - the Rio Grande near Brownsville, e Tex., in 1892. Nothing has ever e checked him since that time. He t crossed Texas, Arkansas and Okla ~homa, jumped the Mississippi In 1908 tand some day soon will have reached the Atlantic unless checked. He has cost the cotton planters nearly $125, 000,000 since he invaded Texas, and e for the last three years he has been gobbling' up the cotton bales to the ktune of $25,000,000 yearly. Alto gether he has eaten up millions 6f 'bales. The boll weevil has forty-five Sparasitic enemies, but they are too ~weak for him. gIn the East the entomologists hope to kill off the gypsy moths during the present season by introducing "moth cholera" among their Invading swarms, It is known as the "wilt" and the infected moths die of it by tens of thousands. Their bodies be come putrid and semi-liquid. An other enemy, especiall~y importeL Sfrom their old homes in Europe, will ~be turned loose among their breed 1 in-a areas soon. A particularly say 5age beetle that manages to keep .e them from becoming a pest in.South nern Europe is the imported enemy L5 Argentina ants are among the Ia )t, test of the invading pests that are *securing a foothold in :the West and South Shipments from the South Americ:an Republic brought them in n to the United States Another of rthe invading plagues is the alfalfa le weevil No one seems to know yet sjust where it came from. I- The orchardists and farmers have a- een fighting for years for a strong tt federal enactment that will help to STOLE BANKS MONEY CASHIER KILLS SELF AND AS SISTANT IN JAIL. Two Men Bring Disgrace Upon Them selves and Families by Using Bank's Funds. Luther V. Hart, cashier of the Bank of Tarboro, N. C., is dead, and E. H. 'Hussey, assistant cashier, is in jail charged with complicity in the misapplication of $50.100 in bank funds as sa result of a visit to the bank Wednesday morning by J. K. Doughton, state bank examiner. Hart died from a self-inflicted prb tol wound, and the exposure of Hus sey followed when bank officials and Mr. Doughton -made a hasty investi gation of the bank books. Wednesday morning Mr. Doughton called at th~e bank for the purpose of making his regular inspection in the affairs of the institution. The examination was defered until ioon, and Hart remained at his post until the regular dinner hour. Going home for dinner, he went directly to his room, and a few min utes later his wife was startled to hear. a pistol shot. Rushing to the room, she found Hart laying across the bed with a bullet hole through his head. He died two hours later with out having regained consciousness. ' The misapplication, it is -believed, will not exceed $50,000. Hart had recently been involved In numerous business transactions, and It Is be lieved a series of failures was re sponsible for his act. - .Following tie exposure, the af-airs of the bank were placed in cbarge of state officials, and they imme diately closed its doors pending fur tber investigation. The institution I eapitelized at $20,0000. Tts depos its aggregate more th-an $2;00,000. Hart was about 35 years old, and was a member of one of the most prominent families in eastern North Carolina. SUCCUMBED FROM BEATIWG. Lae of Barbarous Cruelty Told at Coroner's Inquest. Because she objected to her hue band's selling whiskey, Mrs. .Mary awter, who recently came -to Arling ton in a-remote section of Spartan burg county, from near Saluda, N. 0., was so severely beaten by him with a hickory stick -that she died from the effects of it, according to the finding of the coroner's jury, which rendered this verdict at the in quest held by Coroner .J. S. Turner Tuesday evening. "We, the jury, find according to the evidence fhat Mary Lawter cat.. to her death from a whipping at the hands of Andy Lawter, her hus band." Lawter was at once arrested and omitted to jail. As the whipping' ccurred in Polk County, N. C., the authorities of that county have been notified, and Lawter will be held here until the sheriff of Polk county comes for him. The witnesses told a tale of bar barous cruelty on the part of Lawter Ie whipped his wife several times, they said and once seized a gun and tried to kill her, ,but was restrained. M~rs. Lawter finmlly left him, saying she would live on dry bread and wa ter before she would live with her iusband and take the 'beatings such as he had ,een giving her. She went to live with her sister, Mrs. Lucy Owens, at Arlington, and it was at her home that she suddenly died Tuesday morning. ALLEGE RUIN AND DEATH. Creditors Want Receiver for the Lewis Publications. A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says declaring that ruin, destruction and death have followed in the wake f Lewis' enterprises, due to mis repreenttpns made Ito investors in his corporations and securities, credtors have filed a petiti'on In United 'States circuit court asking for a receiver for all of the proper ties of E. G. Lewis, at University City, 'Mo., and an injunction re straining the representatives of a syndicate of magazine pu,blishers from exercising authority under the ecent lagreement taking over the properties and a forelosure on alt improved property of the University Heights Realty and Development Company. The creditors declare all of the Lewis -corporations are in solvent and that their aggregate in debtedness amounts to more than $500,000. 'Costs Two Lives. One man is dead, one is missing and six others are in a serious con dition as the result of an Explosion in the distillery room of the Albany, . Y., Chemical Works, on Van Rennsselaer island Wednesday after lands. So far it has failed to pass. Just about this time in the year the first despairing wails of the wheat grower are heard. The native cinch bug and the imported Hes sian fly are tossing up for his crop. Of the two evils, the imported one is the worst. The cinch bug may be the bigger. but he cannot create the havoc that follows in the trail of the Hessian fly. The invader is a legacy of out war with George IIT. Illinois, Iowa and Indiana know of his power. On his off seasons he manages to de stroy 50,000,000 bushels of wheat. He robs the world of a million tons of flour, or enough to make 2,000, 000000 loaves of bread; enoug'. ,read to feed every man, woman and child In the United States for over WILL PUMP SLOWLY UNCOVERING OF MAhINE WIU BE VERY GRADUAL Mud and Silt Wl be Cleared From Various Decks, as the Water Re cedes. Army engineer offleers at Havana estimate that it will be at least two months after work begins .on pup ing out the water in the coffera. about the battleship Maine In Havana harbor, before an expert opinion can be formed as to whether it was an ii side or outside explosion that sank the vessel. About four feet of water has 'been pumped out of the coffer dam already, but work has now been stopped until the government officials arrive, probably about June 15. With the water over the wreck lower ed four feet, the top and sides -of the wreck's afterdeck are beginning to come into view and the sighting hood of the after-turret on the port side was just awash. The greater part of the afterdeck Is now cleanly -visible under the water, showing the co fused masses of wreckage covered with marine growths. The forward part of the ship upon which the great er force of the explosion was exerted is still submerged. - When pumping begins in earnest the !first stage of the unwatering pro cess will only lower the water enough to expose the top deck. This prob ably will loom up as a bank of mud as the water In the harbor Is very muddy and the vessel has been "col lecting" deposits for 13 years. When the upper deck is out of the water, the work of clearing away the mud and examining the deck will keep the officers busy at least -three or four. days. The examination of the deck will of course be made with the greatest care. In making an inven tory of what Is found the officers must be in a position to swear that they were actually there when the mudwas cleared away. For this rea son, If for no other other, It will be necessary to exclude outsiders. When work on. the upper deck is ompleted there will be more pump ng and more :mud- until the water s lowered to the deck'fbelow. In spection of this deck will then be un dertaken without undue haste. It is believed -that. the. -lower down the water goes the more difficult will be the work of clearing the mud away. The problem of Inspection also will be made more. difficult as the succes sive stages of pumping out piogress as daiylight will not penetrate Into the hull. of the vessel and work will . have to be done with artificial light. What can 'be saved of the Maine and what it is most expedient to do s with 'the vessel can only be well de eterminjI when she is exposed to t view. Many envgneer officers' fear 5he can never 'be floated and will have to be taken apart in sections If it is decided to save her at all. Other of r icars believe she will break and fall.. o pieces when the -unwateing of: the. cofferdam gets under way. fhe ,army officers in charge of the work do not expect to satisfy every ne with their work or to get through without obstacles of any sort. There already is criticism from those who do not appreciate the task of ' the army officers are undertaking and, vho believe they are wasting time and money because they do not do r everything with a rush. The officers expect more criticism when the pumping out !begins, as. their work will not be done for the benefit of he ~gallery, but for the :government b the United States. DiMIGR&N~TS IGN~ORANT. I Do Not Know Essentials of Our Nat ional Government.t At New Orleans Tuesday sixty ap plicants for entrance into this coun try-Italians, Rusians, Turks and al most every other nationality--anx iius to swear allegiance to Uncle Sam, appeared before the board of naturilization. Some of the candi dates naively admitted that they were anarchists and polygamists; that they had never heard of the constitution of the United States; thaf they did not know how a congressman gets his job and a few other things that a well-regulated citizen is inclined to profess knowledge of. One of the applicants declarea that New Orleans was the capital of the United States and that there was on ly one house of congress and that the president occupied that. He confess ed, however, that he was intimately acquainted with the constitution. A former citizen of Turkey stated there were 371 houses in Congress andC that a congressman serves as long as] he lives. Acquitted of Murder. {. W. ,McMillanl, Southern railwayt freight agent at Aiken was Wednes day acquitted of killing Joe Miller, a negro whom he killed at his board inig house several weeks ago, shoot ing the negro as he was fleeing.1 The jury did not move from their We Don't Blame Him. At Burling~on, N. J., Joseph Mil ler quit the bench in a choe factory following receipt of the news that he is sole heir to a fortune exceedin'g $250,000, left 'by Mmne. Monchezi, a ousin, who died intestate In New York a few .weeki ego. -- Must Have License. To diminish the danger that exists in the operation of motor boats by inexperienced persons, the navy de rtnent has planned to secure fed eral legislation requiring every own er to take an examination and car ry a license REVISE UAIIf emcrafic Bils to That lid WiR t Be Defeated in the &nte COALMON IS RFORM )r Being Formed Between the Didi. ocrats and the Progressive Bepib licans to Revise the Wool Cto and Steel Schedule at the Pres Session of Congress. The Washington correspondentV he 'Atlanta Constitutio& says Ddie ratic tariff legislation 'will not e oomed to defeat in the upper braud if congress at this session, as 1i6 een generally feared. A coalition .between Demoocrats.iiid rogressilve Republicans in the seil s rapidly taking shape, and -iwill esult in the passage of bills :for he revision of the woolen, cotton nd the iron and steel sche'dules. This news became known b .d as the oceasion for jubilation. Senator La Follette of'Wisconsip. s taking the lead in these negotla ions, and eleven progressives 1ie ,greed to co-operate with the D i crats In the end of securing tuHi eductions. So the work of a I6 g Lard summer will not be fruitles ['he admihistration counts . nough votea to force throngh n dian recprocity, with, the Bt mendment to the wood pulp li rint paper provision - eijna ['his will be done by the votes- if )eiocrats and regular RepnblicS.l When It comes to the adoptionz'f he free list, the progressive R'e - ians wvi!) nsist upon several amen ents, but if an agreement can. eached on these, the bill.will be S'i osted as an amendment to the C - dian reciprocity pact. Eleven of the thirteen progreu ave reached the conclusion that rould be the part of discretion to t a passing tariff bills-whirh will ef o reduction In existing scedules. The Underwood bill for the re )n of the woolen schedtle is, In 2ain, satisfactory to them. But t rl Insist that the cotton schedulW evised also. Then here Is a strong feeling uM he part of the progressives that ti uties on steel and Iron schedie hould be materially cut. They -Mr emlnq up the program of their owin nd wish to know the-extent-iof the - evision that is :ontemplat before amitting themselves tos t"stznbtn Ingsshedule. - There are now 41 Democrats Iti tb. enate, 37 regular Republicans, and 3 who are on occasions insurgents." D measures and policies proposed by he regulars. This was the number bst demanded recognition from the ommittee on committees as a sepa ate organization in the Republican anks. As a majority of the senate is4S, It nly requires five of the progressives a vote with the Democrats to con rol -that body. f eleven progressives ote with the Democrats there will be ix more than a majority of the sen. ,te. But It is probable that the two )emratic senators from Louina ril not be In accord with thefr breth en on the -bills for revision of the va ions schedules. This would cut'the ajority to four, which is a bai~e orking majority but will be effec EATE OF REV. DAVID HEUCKS. eloved Minister Soonf Follows Son to the Grave. A dispatch from Pinewood says he Rev. David Hucks, Methodist minister at that place, died Wednes-. .ay morning about '9 o'clock after an iness of six weeks, from typhoid. ever. His fifteen-year-old son, Ben ie, proceeded him to the grave by' ly five days. Mrs. Hucks has also een very sick with fever, but Is now onsidered out of danger. This Is, adeed, a sad home, and i~rs. Hucks Las the prayers and sympathy -of he entire community in her bereave lent. Out of a family of. ten, only irs. Hucks 'and her little daizghter, ary Ethel, are left. All have passen o the other world. DYNAMIT~E EXPLODES. n a Box Car Kiling Four N~egroes Working There. Four negroes met death In a series f peculiar accidents at Atlanta, 'hursday. -Sam Whitlock ,was killed hen he accidentally struck sir ticks of dynamite in an old railroad york car -which he was sweeping t. The dynamite had been left here many months, it was stated. Washington -Kendricks was engaged n a scuffle with another negro nam d Quit Wooley on the eighth floor f the new Third National bank uilding, fell, or w-as pushed into the, ~levator shaft and was dead when ound at the ,bottom. Wooley was ar ested. Joe Arnold and his brother, Will, negro farmers, were drowned while engaged in cleaning out a small lake near Lakewood. Neither could swim. Faces Bigamy Charge. A diF atch from Laurens says Ed Hu-tto, white man was brought back from Union several days ago by Deputy W. H. Worthy and lodged in the county jail on the charge of big amy. The warrant was sworn OUt by the alleged wife number two, who was a Miss Armenta Wix and who works in the Laurens mill. Hutto is said to have a wife now living In. Augusta, who has agreed to come here to testif against him.