Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HOLDUP FOILED. I Robber KiHs One Man and Is Near- H< ly Lynched BY AN ANGRY CROWD " The Robber Dangerously Wounds Two Others for No Cause But an 'J f< Uttered Threat. Woman Had ]| Thwarted Him, and He Fires on ci Her Defenders, and Mob, lied by j Woman, Fights for Revenge. ^ One of the most determined at. n tempts ever made to lynch a prisoner in the streets of New York was v witnessed in upper Second avenue, near One Hundred and Fifteenth ^ street Wednesday night, when a for- j".' eigner shot one man to death and desperately wounded two of the vie- ^ tim s brothers. The following ac- " count of the affairs we take from the ? American: Y The slayer's only motive was re- " sentment because he, with four of his countrymen, had been interfered a with when the tried to hold up and v rob a man in front of Mrs. Anna ^ Kaufmann's dry goods store at No. 2256 Second avenue. , Mrs. Kaufmann heard the cries of h the victim, who was beaten and ?; kicked by his five assailants, even l< while he protested that he had no ri money. Mrs. Kaufmann ran be- * tween the assailants and their vie- v tim. They fell sullenly back, and she n rushed the man into her store. He 5< was bleeding from cuts on the face. P Tno five Becker brothers, who keep . a large hardware store at No. 2250 u Second avenue, heard the noise of P the struggle and they came running f up just as Mrs. Kaufmann had rescued the man. She is a powerful wo- w man, and the holdup men had receiv- a ed ample evidence of her ability to ** hit hard. But they still hung about 1 and linstened while she told the Beckers of the affair. ? "It is too bad we were not here," w said Henry Becker, who did not no- P tice the men nearby. "We would ^ have punched their faces for them." "You would, eh?" exclaimed one " of the foreigners. "We ll soon fix . you," and they darted off into the 'c darkness. d The Becker's returned to their ? store, where they were joined by {; their mother. Mrs. Lena Becker, 1 their sister, Mrs. Annie Po3tlenseck. P and her hnshand Tho otronrmi had been held up had slipped away j* from Mrs. Kaufmann's store. Even ? his name was not learned. But it was not ten minutes after ^ the disappearance of the man's as- ? sail ants when all five suddenly reap- " peared in front of the Becker store, ? and, singling out Henry Becker, at- " tacked him with clubs. e The other Beckers started to aid c their brother, and the two woman p also jumped into the meiee, when n FYancis Sica, one of the five assail- c ants and the smallest of the party, suddenly whipped out a revolver and shot Henry Becker through she breast, killing him instantly. The other Becker brothers then ran to the store to get hatchets, and axes to avenge their kin, but Sica followed them, firing as he advanc- t ed. One shot struck Samuel Becker in the abdomen and he fell mortally ^ wounded. Then Sica shot Isaac Post- ct lenseck in the right ear and turned c< to flee. But he ran almost directly into the arms of Detective Higgins, who fol- 11( 1.. 1 U.. - ? A VT . . . . HI iuwcu uy iniifcuvc ivaugnton, had l)( come on the run when they heard |[ the shots half a block away. n Sica, the moment he saw the detectivea, pulled the revolver and aim- ^ ed a shot at Higgins. But the lat- rj ter knocked the weapon from his 0 i hand and. though the man fought cj fiercely, he was speedily subdued. ~ i The detectives were about to I march him into the street, where a u vast throng, including many foreign ers who had been celebrating the f( a feast of St. Rocco, were gathered, when Mrs. Becker and her daughter ^ B advanced with hatchets. p Bft "Let me cut him to pieces!" ex- gj B claimed aged Mrs. Becker, as she ^ tried to get near the prisoner. 'I will j B save the county from trying him. He ^ m shot down my son." B Advancing on the other side of the tj Bnow cowering Sica was Mrs Postle- j, ||Bneck, also armed with a hatchet. ^ PpBShe, too, cried for the blood of Sica, e, ^nnd had not policemen, who rushed pBnto the store at this point, seized jr pi^^Loth women, they would have chop- ^ | Bed the man down. ^ fl BBut the mob outside had under- c, |||jiBood. They saw the dead form of rj jgra|Bpcker on the sidewalk and there f( B Ba a rush for the store entrance, |H &ii?9Bhle hundreds took up the cry, Kill, (r i/:n Li?i" K mil .x I^^^Bden drew pocket knives as they ^ n Shod toward the narrow store en- jr gpgalaMice. But the doors were slammed a) EafcjMpiBt by the detectives and the re- f' K&j|l||Bes from the East One Hundred st gB?P?^H,"'ourth street station, arriving a] SH^^^fcis moment, charged the mob B Bdrawn clubs. ~ crowd gave way slowly. The jr( By" Bpera in the throng seemed the ?|| redetermined to get at and slay took a hand to hand fight Bgg^?ninutaB to c*ear a space about WBrai %&:Bpr so that the prisoner could ... 1 P! n Boh followed close on the heels (j! | nlice and when the detectivB Brefuge on a Second avenue jr I wn car, filled with women ^ ^^HBB^Rren returning from the picB^^HHflnat.or Theo McManusjat SulP^JBD|^B-lem River Park, the mob re j^^Bfl^BHnugh the police lines and fe H^HHKpon the car. The passen- m B Bput in terror and the car so B Ktoppcd while the police ? B Bthe pursuers. B Knally landed in the East he B|HH^S9fiBKi and Fourth street sta- ed |^H|[^^Hflffront of it, until nearly m* B Hmob remained. Sica's ?a 8B9BHcS^Bons> who had fled when I'v BM^HRRhbH B B - ^ ENDS HIS LIFE. I A i Preferred Death to Twenty Years in Prison. / n t 1< c Declared That He Was Innocent t of the Crime for Which He Was to . / He Punished. V C Rather than spend twenty years \ i the North Carolina penitentiary a >r kidnapping Kenneth Beasley, the ^ ttle son of State Senator Beasley, a ^ rime of which one of his last acts ^ as to declare himself guiltness, V ncKno UonmoAn v/utiun xioi a lovu onut lUIIlDCli 111 IHC lew Gladstone hjtel at Norfolk, ra., at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday after- * oon, dying eight hours later. Harrison arrived Tuesday and . 'ent directly to the hotel. He came , here from Elizabeth City, N. C.. rhere he had appeared in court to ( enew the bond on which he was at ^ berty pending the decision of the J lorth Carolina supreme court on a . lotion of a new trial in his case. His ond was raised from $3,000 to $5,- J 00 and he had no trouble in furnish- , ig it. He immediately left for Norolk, and the supreme court almost j s quickly rendered a decision ad- ' ersely to him. The Norfolk police j rere asked to arrest him, as he had hreatened suicide. Harrison made no effort to conceal , is identity here, and no trouble was J xperienced in locating hirnat the hoi\ room, and a little strategy was j esorted to get him out. A bell boy ras sent to his door by Detective 1 bright, who went to make the ar- ! est, with instructions to tell Harrijn that he was wanted at the telehone. Harrison told the boy that j e would not answer the phone, saylg that he was not to be easily trap- 1 ed by the police, , Detective Wright remained at the eot of the stairway, as the bell boy ent up to deliver the message, and (s the lad returned to report to the 1 etcctive, a pistol shot was heard in larrison's room. The door to the room was forced pen. Harrison lay across the bed rith a bullet hole in his right temle. Besides him was a nistnl Jt<> ras still alive, but an examination tiowed that there was no chance of is recovery. \ In Harrison's room was found a j ;tter signed by himself, in which he eclared that he was innocent of the 1 rime of which he was convicted and new nothing whatever about it. he exact wording of the letter, the olice have not seen fit to reveal. Harrison was convicted in Elizaeth City, N. C., February, 1905, for idnapping the young son of State enator Beasley, of Williamson, Pasuotank county. The boy disappeard while on his way to school, and as never been seen since, although score of detectives seerched for im for months. Harrison was an nemy of Senator Beasley and it was harged against him that he kidnaped the boy and that this was his lethod of revenge. He denied the harge to his dying hour. FEAR THK PKST. loll Weevils Here Wonld Be a National Calamity. Because of the relief existing in .aurens and other counties that cerlin localities are infested with the atton boll weevil the subject is learning of vital importance tor ex urus una scienusis in tnc depart- < lent of agriculture. Should it be x dmitted that this crop destroying j est had taken a hold in South Caro- j na the result could be short of a ational calamity, for the reason lat up to this time it has not been iscovered east of the Mississippi ' ver with the exception of the state E Louisianna. W. D. Hunter, in large of cotton boll weevil investiations, has prepared some interestlg information on the subject. 1 The boll weevil problem still retains, he says, a most important one ir the cotton industry of this county. The insect continues to spread, limatic barriers have given it temorary checks, but they have been lccessively over come. The predicon that the pest will eventually *ach the limits of cotton culture in lis country has repeatedly been made, but an important cor.sideraon connected with the future spread as received less attention, largely ecause it has more recently become /ident. This consideration is that damage i new regions is likely to be more ;vere than it has lieen in the terri>ry infested up to this time. The >cperience of the past two years has ither tended to obscure some of the jatures of the weevil problem. The irge crops produced in Texas have iven an enormous impression of the rospects. It is true that very remarkable results have been obtained i the work of the department of l arriculture. Makino- Hno aiifturonoo l >r this important work, it must be t ated that the recent large crops c re largely due rather to a combinaon of conditions favorable to the i rowth of the plant and unfavorable c ) the weevil than to a lessened ca- ? acity for damage on the part of the j isect. r The work of entomology has shown \ lat in Texas, except in unusually , et seasons, a full crop can easily be rod need. The possibilities of pro- r uction in a favorable season are \ town by the fact that in 1906 the < ifested area produced about one- \ ?ird of the total crop of the United r !ates; but the same success will by ) means necessarily follow in other t tgions where the conditions are dif- t rent. Therefore future develop- cl ents must be awaited with some c licitude. \ " iii c t began to shoot, were being hunt- 1 [ Wednesday night by plain clothes en. At the Harlem Hospital it was t id that Samuel Becker coul(J not li e until iporning, c BEAT AT HIS GAME. j . Farmer Robs a Robber After a Hard Battle. ? Robbers having designs against Laron Kent, a farmer of Troy Hills, ear Caldwell. N. J., will please take his warning from this tale and save their valuables at home when hey start out to get his. Very late Wednesday evening Laron sat on the front seat of his ragon going home singing s natches >f "Rally Round the Flag." Boys I vhile tDobbins and Charlie plodded ilong in front. In Farmer Kent's undershirt pociet reposed a wad of $200 in yellow >ills, the proceeds of his peach crop, vhich he had sold at Newark Market* Two masked men leaped from a irush heap at the roadside. One grabbed the horses' bits, the other ilambered up on the wagon step ind pressed a gun to Aaron's ear. 'We want that $200," he hissed. 'Shell her out er crook." Farmer Kent quit the "Rally' jong in the centre of the stirring refrain. Also he dropped the lines, iucked his head to miss the bullet ind in the same instant caught the road agent about the neck in the ;rook of his stalwart arm and threw lim clean into the back of the wa?on. Kent Hooped over after him ind fell on top. He closed the surprised highwayman's windpipe, and then raised his head and cried: "Scat, Dobbin!" Dobbin leaped forward with a jounce threw the burglar at his bit nto thp roadside bushes, and then lashed on, while Kent and the robjer fough it out in the box of the vagon behind. _ Kent was easily victor. At the farm up in front the discomfited robber wormed himself out of his roat and vest, squirmed out the back of the box and and fell with i thud into the sand. After stalling Dobbing Aaron Kent examined the rear of his double wagon. In the discarded coat jf the burglar man he found $.'13.50 ncash. The discarded vest's pockets yeilded a gold watch worth $50. 1IKAHKK \VK1'X'KKI>. [ odln Broken l'p It)- (lie Horse linnnlng Away. The State says two horses attached :o the hearse bearing the remains of Mfornrornf liiUl Ull, LUIWICli, UlTHIHC frightened near Randolph cemetery Wednesday and the results are almost too grewsome for publication, the horses were being driven slowly iown Elmwood avenue, near what is tnown as the "overhead bridge," in charge of S. L. Lopez, the colored andertaker. Near the bridge they became frightened at something and dashed igainst the walls, almost wrecking the hearse at this point and throwing iff the driver, who was run over afterwards and badly hurt. After running on down the steep hill in front of the colored cemetery the hearse turned completely over and was split in half, the coffin being thrown out and broken open. One of the horses was so badly hurt that it is not thought the animal will live and it was necessary for ?me colored men, who were passing it the time, to help put the remains sack in the wrecked coffin and carry it to the grave. There were only two carriages auth the funeral and no pall bearers, .he family having little money to :onduct the funeral. The horses are >wned by the McCartha livery stable ind one of them may have to be killid . Lopez was brought back to his indertaking establishment on Washington street and is said to be severe y oruised. SOI,l> THKIIt CHILD l'?> a Cliiiiuinuii, Who Adopts Mini As His Bon. Somewhere out on the Pacific is a ittle American boy born of white parents who has been sold to a Chinaman, who will bring him up as lis own son in the land of the Dragin. This case is said to be without larallel in the history of the United States immigration affairs. It is the Irst case of this character ever re:orded and is absolutely without irecedent. When Sing Lee, a Chinaman, >oarded the steamship Chippewa at San Francisco with his adopted son, Samuel Edwards Sing Ix?e, an Amercan boy, with only the rights and iriveliges of an alian, there ended ?o far as this port is concerned, such t storv of deliberate hcartlessness >n the part of dissolute parents that lardened immigration officials were risibly affected. At Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Sam Sdwards married Jennie Edvards in 1898. On the eighteenth lay of October, 1899, a baby boy vas born to the couple and Edwards, vho was still a drunken dissolute, ounger, with no appreciation of tome life, manifested no appreciaion nf fhn rncnAnciMliftf v> v vwpwiioiUIII VJ VVIIILII imu :ome to him. The child was healthy and large. iVhen little Sammy was three years >ld, he was sold to the Indians for a imall sum, with which the father >urchased whiskey to continue his iotuslife. For five years the little fellow lived with the Indians and vas then sold to the Chinaman. Mother, father, child and Chinanan appeared before L. A. Sloane, Jnited States commissioner and exMfldo probate judge at Wrangell, vhere the papers of adoption were nade out and signed. Just what status of the child will >c when it is of legal age is a mater which immigration officials are liscussing. Will the American m in nsent to remain a Chinese subject? Vill he be able to demand his itizenship should he care to return 0 America? The use of dog flesh as food appears r> have originated In Saxony, and It 1 in that part of the empire that the oneumptloq \b moat, noticeable. t^.' - ' *' * k>-' * ?a5L4- * - 85 < '.--* ~ liA. ? _- , -( *^; -^ ? ' '; 71s . 1 SEES THBR FATE. rhe Prohibition Movement Is I Sweeping the Country. More Than Half the Population of m the United States Is Claimed to Be Living in "Dry" Territory. Prohibition is sweeointr the eoun try. Its recent advances are throwing liquor producers and dealers into panics in many places. A member of the Liquor League, states the situation in these words: "The onward march ol prohibition in some sections of the country is advancing like a praire fire, and no hand will raise to stop it." He concludes his statement by saying that five years ago a united liquor industry might have kept back the situation, but. today, it is too late and an effort might as well be made to keep back the Hudson river with a whisk broom. More than half the nation is said to be under prohibition law. Maine, North Dakota, Kansas and Georgia have statutory prohibition rules. More than half the territory in 17 other states is dry, and in 16 remaining states little intoxicating liquor is sold. The four prohibition states have a population of 5,500,000 and it is estimated 25,000,000 others live in local prohibition territory of 33 other states. The state prohibition movement is spreading rapidly in at least 11 states, especially where local option has already driven out the open dram shops in large sections. These; states include Oklahoma, where the prohibition constitutional amendment is voted on Sept. 17; Delaware, and three political divisions of which vote separately on license or no license Nov. 5; North Carolina, Florida and Mississippi, where state prohibition campaigns are under way, led or warmly endorsee! by the governors themselves. Popular movements for statutory or constitutional state prohibition in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska. In addition to this, it is said that Arkansas, Kentue'ky, Nebraska. South Dakota, New Hampshire and Vermont may aelopt state prohibition Dolicy within the near future. A Kitrnifipanf cfrour ? v.r>'<i<vuui.uvinn 11U1U VI1IW UUIIl^'S 111 the shape of a dispatch from Cedar Point, where, at a recent gathering of political leaders, 72 out of 86 members of the Ohio legislature there present, declared informally for ultimate state prohibition and immediate county option. Montana, Nevada, Utah. Washington, Tennessee, Arizona and New Mexico are "wet." They have license with little or no restrictions. California, Idaho, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia, have license with restrictions, different in each state. All observe a Sunday closing law. Local option laws have been passed in Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts. Nebraska, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, and many of their towns, townships and counties have become "dry" by popular vote, in the states classed as "dry" more than half the counties and cities have not more than one saloon, and they have become "dry" through the expression of the voters at the poles, though not through a local option law. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. THE HOLIi AVEEVIL T^mrnf I... * ? ^ ? - ? v in i u u/ mr it* aiis t ton Growers. Dr. S. A. Knapp, special agent of the United States department of agriculture, detailed to take charge of the fight against the Mexican boll weevil, and stationed at Lake Charles La., lias been ordered to Washington This change is made on the ground that the fight against the boll weevil is over and won, not that the destructive insect has been eliminated?for on the contrary, it is still in evidence in Texas, the territories and Louisianna, and has just been discovered in Catahoula parish, I>ouislana, within seventeen miles of the Mississippi, where it will undoubtedly exist next sonson?but that the department of agriculture has finally perfected the plans by which the cotton grower can raise just as much cotton if he has weevils on his plantation as he could without them. WANTS TO GO BACK. Senator Latimer n Candidate to Succeed Himself. Senator Latimer, who has just returned from Europe, announces that he is in the race to succeed himself in the United States Senate. When asked if he was afraid of the Clinkscales senate boom. Senator Latimer said that it had died out in the last few days and that he had not the slightest fear of it whatever. In speaking of Congressman Lever as a possible candidate for the senate, Senator Latimer that he did not consider Lever a force to be taken into account, if he should enter the race. Whon asked if he thought Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward would be in the senatorial race, he said that Mr. Heyward had expressed himself to his friends throughout the State as having no desire to enter the race, and that he considered him a man of honor who would keep his word. Thk Florence Times Is told by a gentleman, who, while not connected with the railroad, is in a position to know many things about It, that the Coast Tdne has no watered stock. That the objections made to the railroads in general through the country, which have worked the watered stock, or Harrlman scheme, taxing the people tc pay their stocks and bonds, cannot be urged against the Coast Line. THE FRANKUN CASE Has Been Appealed to the State Supreme Court This Will Postpone the Execution of| tlie Murderer for A Short Time Only. The Columbia Record says Judge Brawley's recent decision, holding unconstitutional the state labor contract law. will fleurc lareelv In thp nr^n ment before the supreme court on the appeal, taken by the defense, from the action of the circuit court at Orangeburg, which found Pink Franklin, colored. Indicted with his wife. Sad Franklin, for the murder, July 29, of Constable Henry Valentine, and sentenced him to be hanged October 25. John Adams, colored, lawyer of-the Columbia bar and professor in Allen university, was the leading counsel for the defense at the trial In Orangeburg and it was he who brough up the Brawley decision, doing so in one of his motions for a continuance, all of which the court overruled. Adams and Moorer raised three constitutional objections?two based on the federal constitution and one on the state constitution?and also moved to quash the indictment, on the ground of irregularity in keeping the coroner'B records. One ]>oint raised was that the franchise clause in the state constitution Is in violation with the act of congress of January 15, 1868, which provided that after reconstruction the< stages should remain in -the union with their franchise requirements unchanged. The main motion for a continuance. however, was upon tho alleged Irregularities in keeping the coroner's records. It was discovered during the trial that the testimony given at the Inquest. had not been kept in a public office at the court house, although the law requires, specifically, that the original record must be filed with the clerk of court within ten days, and must be copied into a book, called the book of inquests, which Is required to be kept in the coroner's office at the court house. Adams inade nn affidavit that he nan searcnen lor toe record and It could not be found; also that on the eve of the trial he had an Interview with the coroner and that official admitted the hook of Inquests and the original record were both in his residence In the country. In all his motions to quash the Indlctfhent and for postponement, Adams was overruled by the court. After sentence had been passed, he served upon Solicitor Hildebrand notice that the case would be appcald to the state supreme court. There is a possibility that if the highest tribunal in this state should affirm the Judgment of the lower court, and the defendant and his friends can raise sufficient funds, the case may be carried to the supreme court of the United States, upon the constitutional obections raised. The case involves some exceedingly delicate points. The state's whole I cheme for the registration of electors is questioned, and for the first time Judge Brawley's recent decision, which threw consternation into the ranks of the planters, by taking away the state labor contract law and leaving them, no hold upon their laborers. is used as a defense In the courts. There Is no dodging the fact that, were the case not complicated by the fact that it is based upon the killing of a white man by a negro, the courts would have little trouble in arriving at a decision. The question the attorneys for the defenso are by implication asking is, will the supreme court decide the matter upon the con stitution, or will they he guided wholly hy expediency? The defense also is confident, that the supreme court must either hold that the warrant, which Constable Valentine was killed in trying to serve, was invalid, and that Franklin, was, therefore, justifiable in killing one who tried unlawfully to arrest him under it, or must disregard and defy the decision of the United States Court, Judge Brawley presiding, which held that the labor contract law, under which the warrant was issued, was unconstitutional. It is, therefore, one of the possibilities of this most delicate and troublesome case, that there may develop in South Carolina shortly a condition analogous to that which has lately agitated other states; a direct clash and a resulting dendlock between the state and federal courts. Undoubtedly the federal authorities will be heard from in case the state courts attempt to set at naught the decision of Judge Rrawley. The Record is unofficially hut reliably informed that the representatives in South Carolina of the United States government already have their eyes upon this case and will keep themselves posted upon its successive developments, with the purpose of remaining quiesent and allowing the state courts to handle the case in + /Mim nrmr l/\? net V>otr r\ rv Mini wii tt uj , r?v? n 'ii fs no mcj nv/c conflict with the federal authority, but of stepping In at. once, should the prerogatives and the dignity of the United States tribunals of justice be Impugned or attacked. DEATH IN A MINK. Eleven I'eople Killed by an Explosion in Mexico. A special from Toluca, Mexico, says: Neglect of duty on the part of an employee resulted in the death of eleven persons and injury to twelve more Wednesday through the explosion of a lioiler in the Ferrer factory at Asorradero in the Anguangueo district of the state of Michoacan The explosion occurred Just before noon hour and the two proprietors and a number of " cVrrerv were clustered togethed in vicinity of the boiler doing repairs to some machinery. |HE } gggsifi ^ r" / % /*. FATAL SNAKE BITE Railroad Section Hand Killed by a Huge Rattler. The l*n fort una to Man Died n Few Hours After He Was Bitten by the Snake. A letter from Florence to The News and Courier says one day last week Section Master Matthews, of the Mount Holly section, on the Northeastern Railroad, had his gang of hntiHn of ? ?? ? ..v "Wl H I'lllllUg uown bushes on the right of way near a swamp three miles south of Strawberry. One of the hands, John Jehkins, a negro, was cutting* some small sweet gum bushes near the stump of an old tree. All of a sudden he felt something strike him on the leg. and as he looked he saw the head of a monster rattler lying about three feet from him. ' Knowing that he had been bitten, he rushed from the bushes and hallowed "snake." The other negroes rushed from the bushes and to Jenkins' assistance. It was soon found that Jenkins had been bitten on the leg and he was placed on a hand car and hurried to Mount Holly. Some whiskey was procured and poured down the negro, who in that time, just seven minutes, was beginning to suffer agonies from the poison. A physician was sent for from Summerville, but it was some time , before he could reach the sick man, and the result was that he died several hours afterward. Mr. Matthews, the section master, as soon as he reached Mount Holly, and after baring the negro's leg, measured the place where the snake had stuck his fangs in the leg, just below the knee, and by actual measurement it showed that the two fangs in the upper jaw measured two inches apart and the distance between the upper and lower jaw, where the fangs entered, was just 4 1-4 inches, showing that It must have been a monstrous snake Indeed to have such a very large mouth. In the exxcitement when the negro was bitten no one had presence of mind, or took the time to kill the snake, and when the party returned the snake had moved away and could not he found. Whom I# lou In Ho Kotl ???wl the negro stood wore justs two and one-half feet apart, showing that th< reptile was of unusual length or it would have been Impossible tc have struck his object so far away. Where the reptile had lain in the bushes he had made a bed some five feet in diameter. An effort is to be made to capture this monster reptile by u party of snake hunters and il secured he will be placed on exhibl tation. THE DEMOCRATS WIN. They Carry Everything in the State of Oklahoma. Returns from Thursday's election in Oklahoma Indicate that the constitution was adopted 3 to 1, (hat prohibition was carried by at least 30,000 and that the whole democratic state ticket, headed by Charles W. Haskell, of Muskogee, was elected by 20,000 plurality. In the congressional election, the democrates seem to have chosen four of the five representatives, according to the returns received. The candi nates elected are: r lrst district, rormer delegate to congress Hird S. McGnire, republican; second district, E. h. Fulton, democrat, defeating exTerritorial Governor T. R. Ferguson; third, James Davenport, democrat; fourth, C. D. Carter, democrat; fifth, Scott Ferris, democrat. The legislature is democratic by a large majority and will elect as United Stales senators, Robert L. Owen, a Cherokee Indian, and T. P. Gore, a blind orator. They were nominated by primaries in June. Should Keep a Scrap Itook. Every farmer should keep a scrap book, cut out from the papers everything that they may wish to refer to again and paste in the book. Remedies for diseases of fouls, and animals, cooking receipts,large yields of corn and cotton, and in fact everything that is worth reading a second time should be thus preserved. In a few years it will be a very valuable book. jsjHanjp jnoX nopuain "paa j -IP 8u|jap.io uaqM'D S 'uoisaiauqG ! aap'rtjxaiv 39 ?9 "sdoj.i | puw 'KJXJW 4,?0 V "otqj.W 'I *13 qz dnog ujqs JRVI 8.uos|ia\ *a(MJ *a)S|88n.ip Xq paeiiiHjmiS ptm p|og <wnf) s,uos|i \\ qj|M pajna ejn "sdntirk nnn saidmi.T 'iiiotat 'nnr ajnqunsV ||.i.?'nv 'KM'I MONJLl i i Welsh Neck HAIITSVIL1 The 14th session will Literary, Music, Art, Expression a: graduates of our leading colleges an phasized In every department. Healj with electric lights, hot and cold hi naces. Best Christian Influences. M logue. Robt, W. Durref t OLI FFORD UNION, SOUT A home School of high grade, lal normal course for those preparii Music. Only a limited number of pi given to each. Healthful Mountain Address. Itev. B. A Cata lo; o any of our customers for the ask I plttmhng or hardware business, am page catalogue which will be found < price* on anything in the supply line. COLUMBIA SUPPLY* ^ " s4pJ"- w* '' Viii' BEATS GOLD MINE. South's Cotton Crop Worth Nearly One Billion Dollars. World's Product of Precial Metal for n Year Would Pail to Kqual Value of This Year's Cotton Crop. | Commenting on an interview published in New York with Mr. E. H. Harriman, in which he refers to the prosperity of the South and Southwest on account of the cotton crop. Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of The Manufacturer's Record, in an interview with The Baltimore Sun, said: "Mr Harrimar.'8 optimism in regard to the effect of the wonderful expansion of the agricultural interests of the South is justified, but he is far short of the reality in his statements as to the value of the cotton crop. He credits Texas with a production of cotton of 4,000,000 bales, worth he says at present prices, $180,000,000, or about $45 a bale, whereas cotton is selling at over $60 a bale, and if to this be added the ? r _ X 1 i. AHA l ? vtti ut; ui UL ieasi $iu a Dale, or just $100,000,000 more for the cotton crop of Texas than is estimated by Mr. Harriman. Mr. Harriman also says; "'Think what that crop alone means to the country. A $0000,000.000 cotton crop means prosi>erity for the South.' "It is not a $0000,000,000, but more, nearly a $900,000,000 crop w:hich the South is now getting ready to pick. Last year's cotton crop brought to the South about $K00,000.000, or more, by far the largest amount which that section ever received in one year for cotton and cottonseed. "But with cotton now bringing two ents or three cents a pound more ban at the same time last year, it is <afe to estimate that the crop which s now beginning to move will bring o the South from $850,000,000 to >900,000,000. It is difficult to exaggerate the tremendous importance ?*' such an inflow of money. Europe . ill pay to this section during the iext twelve months between $500,90.0(H) and $000,000,000 for cotton, r not far from $2,000,000 for every orking day of the year. "The world's total production of >ld is now at the rate of $105,000,>0 a vear. If Eurone eonld irnfhnr ^ether every ounce of gold mined n earth during the next twelve mnth and dump it into the South, would still be from $77,000,000 to no,000,000 short of paying its inibtedness to the Sout h for the raw tton with which to~ operate its ills." FIENDISH HAZEItS. "W Employe at Tulw \\ ??rks Nearly 1 toasted Alive. The fiendish joke of brutal employ's of the Tyler Tube and Pipe compny, at Washington, Pa., may result i the death of Henry lVrrv, a new nploye, who came fro n Wheeling, V. Va. Ringleaders i:i the hazing scaped arrest by leaving town. Pery is charred and blackened by exterior burns, and it is feared that he inhaled some of the flam ?s from the furnace over which he w.is suspended by his tormenters. The hazing occurred just after the midnight lunch hour, when the men surrounded the new hand. Perry fought valiantly toward off his assailants, but several powerful men proved too much for his single strength. They bound him with cords to a big iron crane and swung him time and again over a furnace, which the workmen do not approach unless protected by a shield. The cords burned and Perry fell to the floor, right in front of the furnace. 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