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- THE FORT MILL TIMES. ] 1 ?? 7TFI TEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908 NO 20 BRYAN NOT OF 1^ Acceptance Speech Strong Plea For Government of and by fhe People. IS CHEERED BY IMMENSE CROWD THOrHANDS APPLAUD AS NOMINEE HEADS MIS SPEECH OF A ? VU'DT % V / II.' ViViiit v. i-ii i .1.1^ rv "ii\f i viii^u TO MAK TI1K CTCKKMOMKS. Lincoln. Neb. August 12.?Under the burning rays of an almost tropical sun, and in the presence of a vast assemblage, which cheered him to the echo, WiliiamJ. Hrvan to-day received from Henry I). Clayton, of Alabama, formal notification of his nominaton for the Presidency of the United States. Thrice honored by the Democratic party as its standard-bearer, ^^fljj^^iryan plainly exhibited the fflipiRiiPRIIOTPHHPHIHIiy a substantial and ttndisputed growth In the principles aud policies for which he. with a multitude of other.-* had contended. "As these principles and policies," he said, "have given me whatever political strength I possess, the action of the Convention not only renews my faith In them, but strengthens ,niy attachment for them." The ovation accorded Mr. Bryan as he rode through the streets ol Lincoln on his way to the State House, where the exercises were held, were non-partisan. It was the ( homage of the citizens of the West era city of the plains to a distill- ' guished neighbor. Almost the entire Republican Administration was represented, Governor George L. Sheldon und many State officers lending their presence both In the paradt and on the platform. Before coming to Lincoln from Fairview?four miles distant?Mr. Bryan received 1,500 visitors. T< all he extended a cordial greeting. His arrival shortly after noon at tin Hotel Lincoln, where he and John W. Kern, the Vice-Presidential can didate, were the guests of honor at a luncheon to the committee on no ttflcation, was the signal for an out burst of cheers and applause. IB was immediately surrounded by i great crowd, and was kept busy fo: some time shaking hands. Never before had Lincoln's street and buildings presented such a gal appearance. On street was a riot o color. Around the mutilated Taf hannr a crowd of curious visitor: was always clustered. With a na tional notoriety the banner was al most the first point of interest visit ed. The parade carried Mr. Bryai directly under the banner. Not an I'ntoivnrd Incident. The State House grounds were mass of humanity and Mr. Bryan' appearance on tne pint form wj> greeted with vociferous cheers am hand-clapping. The ceremony of m tlflcatlon was conducted on the nort' Kern retired to the Capitol, where and every window were jammed t? overflowing. Not a single hidden occurred to mar the proceedings The police arrangements were e\ oellent. Realizing that the regula> police foree was not sufficient to cope with the great crowd, the Adjutan General of the State, at the request of Mayor Frank Brown, ordered on' the 2nd Nebraskn regiment, and with their assistance, perfect order wm maintained. Before the notification and accept , ance speeches were delivered, Nor man K. Mack, chairman of the Be mooratic national committee, whe acted as presiding officer. called or John \V. Kern. (ho Vlco-Presldentla' nominee. to make a speech. Mr Kern responded in a few felicitousremarks, in which he Rave unstinted praise to the non-partisan character of the exercises. The speech of Mr. Itrvan concluded the ceremonies and he and Mr Kern retired to th Capitol, where t'?ev held a public reception. To-night Mr. and Mrs. Brynn entertained the members of the notiflf cation committer at a dinner at their home at "Fairview." The parte war served bv Mrr-. Ruth Bryan T.eavitt and Mirs Gra-o Bryan, daughter ot the host and the hostess; Mrs. Spongier and Mrs. T. F. Allen, niece and sister-ln-l tw respectively of the Democratic candidate. and Mrs. IFIED IOMINATION. Mil. imVAX'S SI'KKCH. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.?Upon the occasion of the formal notification of his nomination as the Democratic (Janddate for the presidency, William JenmngB Bryan spoke as follows: Mr. Clayton and the Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: I cannot accept the nomination which you officially tender, without first acknowledging my deep indebtedness to the Democratic party for the extraordinary honor which it has conferred upon me. Having twice before been a candidate for the presidency, in campaigns which end? d in defeat, a third nomination, the result of the free and voluntary act of the voters of the party, can only be explained by a substantial and undisputed growth in the principles and |K>licies for which I, with a multitude of others, have contended. As these principles and policies have given nie whatever political strength I possess, the action of the convention not only renews my faith In them, but strengthens my attachment to them. A IMutform is Binding. I shall, in the near future, prepare a more formal reply to your notification, and, in that letter of lcceptance. will deal will: the platform in detail. It is sufficient, at this time, to assure you that I am in hearty accord with the letter ind the spirit of the platform. 1 Midorse it in whole and in part, and shall, if elected, regard its declarations as binding upon me. And, I may add, a platform is binding as to what it omits as well as to what it contains. According to the Democratic idea, the people think for themselves and select officials to carry ont their wishes. The voters are 'lie soveregns; the officials are the servants, employed for a fixed time and at a stated salary to do vhat the sovereigns want done. Platforms are entirely in harmony with this Democratic idea. A platform announces the party's position >11 the questions which are at issue; 'lnit lin riffioiiil I" " *" .... in mv ill. IIIU'I IV H> use the authority vested in him to urge personal views which have not ' eon submitted to the voters for their ipproval. If one is nominated upon t platform which is not satisfactory >o him he must, if candid, either deline the nomination, or. in accepting it. propose an amended platform which in lieu of the one adopted by he convention. No such situation, however, confronts your candidate, "or the platform upon whioh I was lominated not only contains nothng from which I dissent, but it spe iflcally outlines all the remedial leg'slation which we can hope to secure luring the next four years. Republican Challenge Accepted. The distinguished statesman who eceived the Republican noniinaion for president said, in his notifi 'ation speech: "The strength of the Republican cause in the campaign at ' and is the fact that we represent lie policies essential to the reform f known abuses, to the continuance >f liberty and true prosperity, and hat we are determined, as our plat'orm unequivocally declares, to maintain them and carry them on." In the name of the Democratic arty. I accept the challenge, and harge that the Republican party is esponsllde for all the abuses which ow exist in the federal government, nd that it Is imnortant to accomplish he reforms which are imperativev needed. Further. I cannot con Ill III HIP M 'n-lllflll lllill 111*' lU'pilll'c.on platform unequ Ivor,illy deInrt's for the reforms that are dp' ssi-ry: on the contrary. 1 affirm *ir?t It openIv and notoriously <11noolnts the hopes and evpectstlorn f reformers. whether those reform rs Kenuhlicans or Ileniorrats. S< ?r did the Republican convention all short of its duty that the Hp ublirnn candidate felt it necessary o add to his platform in several ini?ortant particulars. thus relinking he leaders of the party, upon whose o-operatlon he must relv for the Miactment of remedial legislation. As I shall, in seperate speeches, liscuss the leading questions at ssue. I shall a tthis time confine myself to the paramount question. >nd to the far-reaching purposes of our party, as that purpose is set "orth In the platform. Shnll the People Rule? Our platform declares that the overshadowing issue which manifests 'tself in all the questions now under discussion. is "Shall the people rule?" No matter which way we I turn: no matter to what snliieet we -uldrosK ourselves. tho same question confronts us: Sha.i tho poople eon'rol their own government. and use that government for tho protoction tholr rights and for tho promotion of tholr welfare? or shall tho oprosoptatlves of predatory wealth prey upon a defenseless public, while tho offenders seeure immunity 'mm subservient officials whom hov raise to power hv unscrupulous netbods" This is the issue raised '>v the "known abuses" to which Mr. Taft refers. rn'tildent's Indictment Against the l'urtjr. (Coutlnuod on laat page.) KILLS HIS CHILDREN. RELIGIOUS MAMA CAUSES HORRIBLE CRIME. Slays His Son and Married Daughter, Tried to Kill His Divorced Wife And Cuts His Own Tliront. At Los Angeles, Cal.. driven Insane by religious mania. H. J. Dufty, sixty years of age. Friday attacked and killed his son and daughter with an axe and then cut his own throat with a razor, inflicting fatal injuries. The tragedy occurred in the extreme northwestern part of the city. Dufty lived at the home of his son. Fred ( Dufty. He had been on the verge of violent instanity. it is said, for weeks as a result of religious enthusiasm. The night before he attend- ( ed a religious meeting and worked ( himself into a frenzy. When he arose that morning he was suddenly seized with a desire to kill. Securing a sharp-hladed axe he stealthily entered the bed room of his son while the latter lay , asleep. He crept close to the side ^ of the bed and, raising the axe aloft, brought it down with terrific force across the neck of the son. The blow ( was delivered with such tremendous j force that the head of the victim ( was severed completely from the ^ body. With a mnnieal shout Dufty rushed from the house and down the street waving his bloodv weanon. Headline the house at 4T? 1 Northwest Lake avenue, where his wife H nn?l daughter resided, he opened the front door and entered. Mrs. Ada Lacom. the daughter. with her mother. was in a rear room. Proceeding a eaatiouslv to this room the murderer opened the connecting doors. Mrs. c La com stood with her hark to him. * Without a word of warning he swung ' the n\e high in the air and cleft ' head was crushed in from the blow. 1 Mrs. Dufty fled through a rear 1 door, closely pursued by the maniac, 0 striking at her with the axe. The woman succeeded in eluding him. hut not before she had received a severe gash on the elbow from the v axe swung by Dufty as he chased ^ her. n Mrs. Dufty's cries finally attract- " ed the attention of neighbors who ? came to her aid. a Dufty then walked to the street, where he drew a razor from his pock- ^ et and slashed his own throat, in- a dieting frightful injuries, from w which, however, he is likely to re- 1 cover. ' Several weeks ago Dufty went to ^ the Bvergreen Cemetery and pur- ? ch -sed a lot. explaining that he want- s ed It for himself, son and daughter. v Th eo days ago he purchased a cof fin for himself J-red Dufty, the son, was 24 years of age and unmarried. He was an i automobile machinist. The daughter lived with her husband. Ferdind Lacom. a painter, and their six-year-old daughter. Mrs. Hutty and her husband had been " di>orced. and she had gone to the ? home of her daughter to nurse her a thio-.'gh approaching confinement. 1 lb fore entering the Lacom home t Dnftv concealed his axe in a sack 11 which be carried. The old man sat 1 uervou:-iy fingering the sack wh'le the woman proceded to prepare r breakfast. Suddenly he got up. 1" drew the axe from the sack and attacked them. s Dufty not only purchased a lot in c the cemetery for the burial of his victims, but had headstones erected a for three graves. Thre plain tomb- * stones were put in place on the lot 1 at his order, bearrlng th names 1 "Henry .1 Dufty," "Fred A. Dufty" , and "Zaldalh Lacom.' The grave stones for his children jwere placed on each side of the one erected for himself. Dufty paid $<*>0 ?] for the headstones and told the salesman that he was in no great hurry to hav?? t hem erected. * I'OI.ISII PIIIKST FLKKS. 1 Hoards Steamer for lOurope After ' Warning Police. Asserting that he has been driven from city to city by persons threat- 1 ening his life until he fears that he must leave the United States, the ( Rev. Michael Servetka, a Polish priest of Newark. N. J., appealed to the police of that city for protection and fled aboard a steamer bound for Europe. He was recently assigned temporarily to the Holy Trinity Catholic church in Newark and had hardly been established there when he receceived one of the letters that have been troubling him. Father Servetka turned over to the polic three letters which he has received during the last three weeks. The first came while he was stationed in Brooklyn, and he then went to Ellzabethport. N. J., where another letter reached him. The last came to hint when he went to Newark. The priest told the Newark police that while he was stationed in Brooklyn a fw weeks ago he was attacked by two men who seized him hv the throat, and demanded Sl.OOh from him. Since he h as been in 1 Newark a little .ess than a week, fie , feels sure lie has been followed constantly. * v.. i, N DIED IN FLAMES. Fire Started by Firebugs Humeri Four-Story Teneiueut. At New York four men are dead, two others are dying and six are in a serious condition from burns in a fire, started by a fire-bug. which early Monday burned the four-story tenement house at No. 33 2 East 112th street. Thirty persons were carried down ladders by firemen amid wild scenes of panic. . j| More hen 100 escaped from the burning building in their night clothing. Pistol shots fired by persons who sought thus to summon aid added to the confusion, and thousands rushed to the scene. The fire is declared by the police ? n ,1 ? 1 1 * * nuu lliv lilt; UKtlBllUI IU lliive IH'eil of incendiary origin, and is one of several fatal fires in the neighborhood. Vincenso Sausto, four of which children were hurled to death, bared his head and in a loud voice took an oath, of vengence against those responsible for the fire. His oath included the declaration that he would Jevote his life to the task. It was declared by Assistant Fire Marshal David Kelly that the fire svas of undoubted incendiary origin. The fire is one of a number of fa:nl tires thnt have recently terrorized he nelghhborhood. Two months igo thirteen persons were burned to leath in a fire in the tenement louse in 109th street neaiby. A17TO BURSTS; TWO KILLED. dan and Daughter and His Wife and Motlicr-in-Law Killed. Mrs Mary Rowden, 6.r? years old. ind Mrs. Rose Ileckwlth, 4,'i years >f age, were instantly killed and rederick Reckwith, 45 years old, terhaps fatally injured and Bessie leckwith. 10 years old. his daughter, iadly bruised and burned by the exilcsion of an automobile at the foot if Stlckey Hill, about eight miles rom Painesville Ohio, Monday. Mr. Beckwith, ^accompanied by lis mother-in-law, wife and daughter. ias on his way from their home at Vindsor, Ohio, and was running the nachlne at a rate of about eight niles an hour when it exploded. The ccupants of the car were hurled in II directions. A* I I *> I\U wuril, Wliu w ith UII I. lit" rout seat with Heckwith, was found bout forty-five feet in front of the frock, while Heckwith landed about he same distance to the right. Mrs. leek with was hurled twenty-five eet In the air. Hessie Heckwith was hrown fifteen feet and sustained evere bruises. An ambulance coneyed the injured to the city. ASSAULTS WHITK WOMAN. renible Hctailiat ion for Lynching of Nprto ltapist at Pensacoln. Mrs. Ed Moclalr, residing four niles from Pensacola, Fla., was asaulted by an unknown negro Friday Lfternoon. "This is how we pay mck for lynching Ed Shaw." said he negro as he overpowered the wonan and choked her into insensibiity. When Mrs. Mociair recovered uiough to let the neighbors know ler plight the county officials were lotified and a sheriff's possee was tarted immediately upon the track >f the assailant. In Pensacola a rowd was gathered about the jail iwaiting the r eturn of the officers, deanwhile excitement Is at white leat, following so closely upon the ynching of the negro Shaw, two veeks ago. TRAIN GOBS INTO CHASM. rhree Men Killed us n ICesiilt of i? Washout. An ? twi KAU.lW nf n nmehont on tlw, Fonapah and Tidewater, near Shoslione, California. Monday night, a [>ass?-nger train plunged into a chasm and three men wore killed. The lead: Engineer Hamilton, Fireman Hroadwell, \V. E. Moore, a passenger supposed to ho from Georgia. Shortly before the train arrived at Shoshone, a clondlmrst washed r>nt a hundred feet of track. The train dashed into the cut, the locomotive turning over and the baggage and other cars rolled on their sides, but the sleeping car remained on the track. MILL HOI LEU EXPLODES. Manager, Engineer and Two Firemen at Gold Mine Hurt. About half-past 8 o'clock Thursday morning both boilers at the gold mill at the Haile Gold Mine, three miles from Kershaw. exploded, seriously injuring Capt. E. A. Thles. the manager of the mine; E. P Truesdale. engineer, and two firemen, whose names are unknown. Mr. Thles was passing through the mill on his daily tour of inspection, and It was not known that he was hurt, until several minutes after the explosion, when he was found under a pile of debries. His condition, and that of Mr. Truesdale, Is critical. The others are only slightly hurt, or nol seriously. PERILOUS SITUATION. HUNG BY HIS TKKTH HALF HOUR IN AIR. Coney Island Slack Wire Performer Finally Rescued From Peril With Life Net. The New York Times savs the durk thunder clouds which preceded Tuesday's storm were just beginning to come up into the sky, driven by a steadily increasing wind, when j "The Flying Howard," the professional title of Hilly Howard, acrobat, trapezist and strong-jawed man, who appears at Dreamland, Coney Island, started his "slide for life" hanging by his teeth to a leather I tliong attached to a pully running over a slack wire stretching from the top of the Dreamland tower down to the il(thtiinno? ? ? - ..nu,uviini uwii me Shoot the Chutes platform. Many thousands feet beneath him a crowd of nearly 4,000,mostof them women and children, stood gazing upward, where but a moment before Howard and his wife had completed a trapeze act on a wire just below the one to which the athlete then hung. At a signal Howard sprang from the platform far up on the tower, and, with arms extended, shot out and downward, clinging only by his teeth, at a pace which grew swifter with every foot. The wire sagged beneath his weight, until presently the expanse between Howard's swaying llgure and the end of the wire had assumed an almost horizontal position. The wire had been strung too loose. The watching crowds saw Howard's pace_ slacken perceptibly, each instant growing slower, until at last the whirling figure, buffeted by the wind then blowing with almost a hurricane's fury, stopped and Howard, clinging by his teeth, revolved slowly round and round above the heads of the crowd. The storm broke almost at the same moment, but the downpour of rain, the vivid flashes of lightning, and the rumble of thunder could not drive the crowd to cover. All stood gazing up at the uthlete, who was signalling desperately with his hands. His face was upturned to the rain: with his teeth he clutched the leather strap, and it was impossible for him to shout for help or give directions for aiding him Mrs. Howard had been watching her husband, and the spectacle of him swinging helpless above her head overcame the woman. With a cry, "He will be killed," she fainted, and men in the crowd carried her into the Emergency hospital, where Dr. Smith attended her. Other women promptly followed Mrs. Howard's example and there was intense excitement. Meantime other performers and employes of the park were shooting encouragement to Howard, although at a loss for a method of aiding him. Howard tried hard to haul himself to the wire by his hands. The strap to which he clung by his teeth was just long enough to prevent his getting his hands upon the wire. The strap itself was soaked by rain and quickly became so slippery that to clutch it in his hands only relieved the strain on his jaws a trifle, while to draw himself up to the wire by it proved impossible, his hands slipping back each time he instructed more than the slightest weight to their grip. Then some one raised the shout: "Get a life net!" The cry was taken up through the crowd and Howard waved his hand, apparently to signltv that he could hold on a few minutes more. Already men had started toward the quarters of the fire show in Surf avenue, and when they returned there came with them John Green, foreman of the show, with half a dozen employes carrying one of the life nets used in their exhibition. Tho men took their positions and Grene, waiting until Howard's swaying form hung for an instant almost perpendicularly over the net, shouetd the worrd. Howard opened his clenched teeth. A gasp arose from the crowd. Hefore they could inhale -another brejith. the athlete was safe in the net and | a dozen hands were assisting him out of it to the ground. The crowd was forced back and he was hurried to the Emergency hospital, exhausted and almost overcome by the experience he had undergone. Howard hung by his teeth for nearly half an hour. killing at a rot* st a. Former North Augusta Officer Shot Dead by a Policeman. At. Augusta. Ga.. Edwin C. Turner, aged about forty-four years, formerly employed as town marshal of North Augusta, was shot and instantly killed Tuesday night on Upper Market street by Patrolman M. O. Matthews. He claimed self-defence and was exonerated by the coroner's jury, who rendered it. as "their belief that he fired six shots in self-defence, four of which took effect." ^ . . V.V' 111)1 LEIt BURSTS; RIGHT KILLEI Death and Destruction Wrought h Explosion in Boiling Mill. A dispatch from York, Pa, say eight men were killed, nearly a scor of others more or less serously in Jurd and thousands of dollars wort of property damaged by the explc sion of a boiler in the York Rolllni Mill late Monday afternoon. The deud: John Clency, York Benjamin Bremer. Harry Searchrist Paoll Puci. Alfred Struck, Johi Slossmati, Harry Feger. all of Colum bin. Pa; Edward filler. Marietta Pa. The boiler, which was located ii the centre of the mill, explodet | wthout a moment's warning. A rescue party was quickly or ganized and search for the bodiei was Instituted. Ambulances from New York llos pital wore hurried to the scene, bui owing to the number of dead ami injured, delivery wagons and othei conveyances were pressed into servict in order that the injured might, b< rushed to the hosptal. While the injured were being looked after, the bodies of the dead were being carried from the ruins of the building. A majority of those killed had their heads and limbs torn from their bodies, and were so badly mangled that Identity was almost an impossibility. The mill had been closed down for about a week, and two score of men were engaged in making repairs to an engine. The men were working close to the boiler and when the explosion occurred not one of them was able to make his escape. The shock was so terrific that it demolished a large portion of the mill and sent heavy nieces of twisted iron and metal in all directions. The plant of Ilroomal, Schmidt & Staecv Company, located near the scene of the explosion, was badly damaged and a horse which was standing 3 00 yards distant from the mill was Instantly killed. Rox cars on the railroad siding, adjoining the mill, were t*rn to splinters and several persons near the building were slightly injured by flying debris. The shock was felt over the entire city. The head of the holler, about four feet square, was hurled nearly a block. The injured are all expected to rennvi?r LOCKJAW FROM 11 LOW. .Main Comos to Hospital And <'ain't Tailk?Might Xot Recover. PhiH|> Tnlly, 2 4 years old, entered the receiving oflice of the llellevue Hospital of New York, Friday night and by motions indicated that he was suffering severe pain about his head and Jaws. He appeared unable to speak and his jaws were locked partly open. Dr. I..eRoy Smith questioned the man with a pencil and paper, the latter answered questions. He said that he attended a dance at New Dorp, Staten Island, about two weeks ago. He was attacked by two thugs, he wrote, and was struck over the eye with a blunt instrument that indicted a lacerated wound. He left the dance hall and went home without medical treatment. Hr. Smith said the man was suffering from tetanus and that a germ of the disease had developed in the wound recived in the dance hall. The physicians succeeded in feeding Tnlly by an artificial process. Small hope is entertained for his recovery. The police are seeking his assailants. * AMItl'SllKI) AND .MTRDKRHD. Hotel Keeper Kvidently Was Keeping Appoint mi nt as Letter Indicates. A dispatch from New York Thursday says: Ambushed in a lonely spot known as the "murderer's field" on Lincoln road, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, t'ietro Barilla, a well-to-do hotel keeper of Woodhaven. was attacked by a number of men. , Barilla is thought to have gone to the place to keep an appointment as a letter was found on his person, seemingly written in blood. Barilla rode to the scene on a bicycle and carried a magazine revolver. which he nearly emptied In his desperate defense. Persons nearby heard the shots and rushing to the place, saw th< iner fleeing across the fields. Bart 11 c* I (I II lid (K'itu. FOUR CHICAGOANS DROWNED. Pleasure Launch Overturned by tin Waves nf Passing Steamer. At KMhourn, Wis., by the capslz ing of a pleasure launch on the Wis consin River Friday afternoon fou Chicagoans wore drowned as follows Miss Mabel Ward, Mrs. W. G Heath and son, E. G. Pfeiffer. The launch, containing nine per sons, was returning from a tri through the Pells. When near th wharf the boat got. into the waves o a passing steamer and capsized. Th accident was seen by many peopl on the pier and rescue at once wa attempted with boats and launchoi but four had sunk before aid arri\ ed. t ? I : - *** .2 a BIG CROPS PREDICTED y .i LATEST GOVERNMENT REPORT 8 VERY OPTIM16TIC. e i- ?? 11 Average Condition on Auguitt 1 Wm IK 1! I*er Cent Better Than a Year Ago. The Washington correspondent of ii The News and Courier says unless - all signs fail the people of the United ? States will this year see the biggest j crops in the country's history. The I year has been free from prolonged droughts and the rainfall has been " almost normal with few flood oerinds In the groat grain growing States of the West the crops have been made I and housed, and in some parts of I the South King Cotton is coming . again into power. , The latest report of the depart, nient of agriculture is optimstlc with regard to this year's products and is as follows: On August 1 cfop conditions in , the United States were in the aggregate somewhat better (2 per cent) j than a year ago, but slightly ( 1 per cent) below a ten-year average condition on that date. Of the crops that are above the average may be , mentioned winter wheat, hay, cotton and tobacco. Corn, barley, rye, , buckwheat, apples and flux 'are slightly below the average; potatoes above 5 per cent below nnd oats nearly 10 per cent below the average. The conditions vary, however, in he different sections of the United , States. In the North Atlantic States general conditions are slightly hotter ( 1 per cent) than a year ago, and slightly below ( 2 per cent ) than the tenvear average condition on August 1. Corn, wheat and apples are slightly to moderately above the average condition, while hay, potatoes, oats, rye, buckwheat and barley are below; the deficiency in condition of potatoes is about 10 per cent, and of hay about 4 per cent. In the North Central States, which are east of tile Mississippi River, genera 1 crop conditions are about 1 per cent below a year ago aud about 4 per cent below the average. Corn is about 7 per cent below, oats ii per cent below, potatoes 4 per cent below, apples 20 per cent below and tobacco G per cent beiow the average. Hay is good, being about 10 per cent above the average; wheat, rye and grapes are slightly above, ami peaches are about aO per cent above the average. In the North Central States, west oi iiu* Mississippi River, crop conditions in the aggregate arc* practically the same as the ten-year average and nearly :t per cent better than a year ago. Hay alone of the Important crops is materially above (14 per cent) the average; rye is slightly better and peaches about 4 0 per cent better than the average. Practically all the f t her important crops show a more or 'ess lower condition than the ; vcr's corn being au ?it 2 per cent, wheat 2 to 3 per c?nt oats ? per c?nt. t?rley 3 per cent and apV p. r i?nt, rer.pe tl,' . n ?. TI.e cor e- m of po .h* *c? is i?o >llt the average. In the South Atlantic States crop conditions are favorable, being about 4 per rent better than a year ago and nearly 5 per cent above the average Rice and potatoes are the only ones of the Important crops which are below their ten-year averages. The relative betterment of the other important crops above their average Is. cotton f> per cent, corn 3 per cent, hay 10 per cent, wheat 4 per cut, tobacco 0 per cent, sweet potatoes nearly 1 per cent, apples 25 per cent, peaches 4 0 per cent and oats 4 per cent. In the South Central States, also, conditions are favoruble, being about 5 per cent better than a year ago nnd 2 per cent better than the average. Cotton, the most Important crop, has the same condition ns the ton-venr iivtM'.lirc Purn 1? 3 nor rt?nf above tho average, hay 8 per cent, wheat per cent, tobacco 5 per cent, sweet potatoes, oats and rice, each I per cent, and peaches 1ft per cent. ' respectively, above theTr average condition. Apples are 12 per cent 1 below, and potatoes, sorghum and sugar cane are each slightly below the average condition. In the far Western States condi' Hons are not so favorable, being 5 per cent below a year ago ant , nearly F? per cent below the ten-year average condition. Nearly all the important crops are below the average. Peaches, however, are about IT, per cent better and grapes slightly * better. The approximate extent of deficiency in the condition of other crops is, hay 8 per cent, wheat ft per . cent, barley 8 per cent, oats 4 per - cont. potatoes r? per cent and apples r 1 per cent. Shot His Mother by Accident. A dispatch from Spartanburg, - says Pete Jackson, colored, Rhot P Jane Jackson, his mother, on North p Dean street Sunday afternoon, whilo f cleaning a pistol. The hall passed e through Jackfcon's left, hand, and ? struck his mother, entering the s stomach. The wound is thought to be serious. Jackson has been arrested and is In jail pending devel* opments.