Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 01, 1909, Image 1
THE FORT iWILL TIMES I
VOLUME XV III FORT MILL, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1909 won 1
FOUND IN CREEK
The Dead Body of a fount
Woman Discovered.
A MURDER MYSTERY
The Victim Was the Wife of e
Los Angles Automobile Dealer,
Who Had hm Marriel a Year,
Found by Party of Boye oa a CraW
bins; Trip.
A dispatch from Baltimore, Md..
says practically the entire eastera
shore of Maryland was aroused aad
searching Thursday night for one
Emmit E. or John T. Roberta, wanted
in connection with the brutal
murder of Mrs. Edith May Woodlll.
wife of Gilbert Woodlll, a? automobile
dealer of Los Angeles, Cal..
whoso nude body, with the skull
crushed in from a blow, apparently
delivered troui behind; the face horribly
dlBflgured; the entire body swollen
from the effects of-Several days'
Immersion, &nd weighted with aa
Iron pot with half a dozen bricks,
was Wednesday discovered by boys
who were crabbing in Back Creek,
a tributary of the Choptank River,
not far from the home of Mrs. WoodIll's
foster father, Capt. Chas. H.
Thompsou, a few miles from Baltimore.
Roberts was with Mrs. Woodill
when sho was seen for the last
known time, and he is accused ol
having committed the murder. The
motive for the crime is at present
a mystery. The police of Baltimore
and all other cities to which Roberts
might make his way, were asked to
search for and arrest him. He U
said to be about fifty years old, flv?
feet, six inches tall, stoute, smooth
shaven, with abundant, bushy hair
and a ruddy complexiou. He limp?
and wears a brace on one leg. He
claimed to be a masazlne writer,
and general correspondent of news
^.apprs. Hp was captured at Si
Michaels. Md.. Thursday night.
Mrs. Woodlll went to naltivnre
early this mouth with the inteatio*
of spending the summer with he:
foster father. Her husband remained
only a few days, leaving, it is uw
deretood for Detroit, whence he iu
tend?*d to return to Los Angeles
From that time, Mrs. Woodlll an?.
Roberts are said to have seen much
of each other. I^ast Saturday Mrs
Wooilill went to Rastou to have some
dental work done, and it had been
arranged that Roberts should mee
her at Royal Oak end return with
her to her home. Roberts missed
the train for Royal Oak and drovt
there, met Mrs. Woodlll and drove
with hor back here to the landlur
where his launch was moored. Thej
entered the launch und Mrs. Wood
ill was not seen ngaiu alive, so fu
as has been learned.
Investigations made Indicate that
when Roberts and Mrs. Woodlll lei
here they went in the lannch to
bungalow that is being built 01
Robert's small farm, near that o:
Capt. Thompson, and that In thb
bungalow the murder was committed
There were found a bloody sheet an<
mattress and portions of a woman'*
clothes, partly burned. These bav?
been Identified as having belonge.
to Mrs. Woodlll. There were aht
found in the bungalow a pair o
corduroy trousers, in the pocket o
which were two letters. Oae, b<*
lieved to have been from Mra. Woo.;
ill and to have some connection wit'
the meeting at Royal Oak. wae date
June 16.
The room, in which these thing
were found showed evidence of
struggle having taken place. It wa
discovered that crabbers in the rive
early Tuesday morning were passeby
a vessel from which tboy saw e
apparently heavy object thrown in*the
water with a splash. It Is sun
posed that the vessel was R?ber?'
launch, nnd that it was Mrs Woo
ill's body and its weight that vv
cast Into the water. Mrs. WooJl!
is sajd to have been married
| Wood ill a1*>ut a year ago.
A dispatch from Los Angeles, Co.
says the newa of the murder of Mr.
L Edith M. Woodill, the young wlsi
I of Albert Woodill, president of thft
Woodill Automobile Company, ot
that city, created a sensation there
where both are well known. Mrs
Woodill was 20 years old. and war
formely Miss Kdlth May Thompson
a ward -of Lyman J. Gage, former
Secretary of the Treasury. now a
resident of Pan Diego.
Speeding Caused Wreck.
According to Commissioner Caugh
man's report the Southern's fata'
f mi i? ht. wreck at Styx last Thursday
was rat-sod by rook I ess speed! np lo
pet the train through to Its dost!nation.
A few days before the accident
Knginerr Turner was warned
that the train would turn over.
Young Man Gone Wrong.
Clyde Halford. a well-known youni
man of Spartanburg, was arresteand
locked up on the charge of steal
ing a watch from a young lady. th<
guest of his sister. Halford is stii
io jail. Tho police recovered th<
watch from a local pawnbroker.
I
CHEATS THE LAW
MtnDHREIt WWTKS LAST CHAPTEJt
IN WOODILL TRAGEDY.
R?bci1 Hwmctt Kastiuai, Alias Ivai ett
K. Hobfiis, Commit* Suicide
Wipu Capture Jpvms Certain.
A dispatch from St. Michaels, Md.,
says the last tragic chapter lu a story
f crime unparalleled iu this section
of the country was written In
the half light of an early summer's
dawb Friday, when the man accused
of the heartless murder of pretty little
May Edith Thompson Woodill?
j a spectre-like form fleeing In a skiff
I from a posse of determined, relentless
pursuers?stood for a moment
lacing me men wno had cornered him
on the waters of a narrow creek,
then fired a bullet crashing Into his
heart, and fell a lifeless lump Into
the bottom of the boat, which he
hAd hoped would carry him to a
landing place where flight might be
possible.
Taking bis fate into h'a own hands
and blotting out untold the story of
the death of a girl who had moved la
the hlgheat social circles of Baltimore,
Washington and Los Angeles?
a beautiful, talented girl, who had
been a protege of Lyman J. Gage
and of Former Governor Frank
Brown of Maryland?the man known
here as Rmmett E. Roberts, but who
in reality was Robert Emmett Eastman,
a failed broker of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange of New York,
passed beyond the reach of the law
and with his going there vanished'
the hope of clearing up the motives
and baffling details of this strange
tragedy.
A letter found upon Eastman's
body, addressed to Miss Vinnle Bradcome,
care of Klaw & Erlanger,
New York, gave Eastman's Ill-sustained
excuse for the crime. Tt was
a rambling accouut of how he had
been out in a launch with a party
of men and women, all of whom had
been drinking to excess with the exception
of himself and Mrs. WoodlU.
and how one of the women in a fit
of jealous frenzy had attacked Mrs.
Woodill with a wine bottle aBd killed
her; bow the remainder of the par.'**
had taken flight, leaving bim to dlr->?!?e
of the body and how as a means
of escape from all his troubles the
writer had decided to end his life
BARON WAS A LUNATIC.
Recaptured While Engaging Rooms
at a Hotel.
A New York dispatch 6ays the
Hotel St. Regis management anticipated
a material increase in revenue
late Wednesday, when a man of disIngulsbed
appearance engaged a
?uite of eight rooms, and said that
jhe and his wife would occupy them,
'with two lady's maids and two
valets. The man described himself
u; Baron Wurz. While the vlsilog
as making the final arrangements
for the suite, an attendant from an
insane asylum on lx>ng Island arrived
and took charge of the caller, explaining
to the hotel management
j 'hat he was John Wurz, of Pittsfield,
Mass., who had escaped the
j lay before.
DROWNED IX LAKE KILLARXKY.
Via* Tourist* and Tiro Boatmen
Lost Their Lives.
A dispatch from Killarney, Ireland,
tars that a large row boat, carrying
tve American and four English tourats
and four Irish 'boatmen, was
??iu(;ru in it gtiie wuue crossing
'ower Klllarney Lake Wednesday !
fternocn. All of the tourists and
wo of the boatmen were drowned.
The victims wer?: Mrs. A. A. Hilton
nd eon. of Taeonia. Wash.; Mr. and
Irs. Longhead, of Boston: Miss M.
1. Catum. or Cotum. of Massachuetts
(town not known); the Rev.
t. Barton and sister, of Ix>ndon.
nd Miss Florence Wilkinson and
ousin, of Rretwood, Essex; Boatnan
Con Tooney and Con Rleeaon.
\'oiif of the bodies were recovered.
LIHED YOUNG WOMAN
To a Building, Over-powered and
Assaulted Her.
Little Rock, Ark., and Its suburbs
were searched Monday night for an
unidentified white man, who. It is
-harped, beat into Insensibility and
issaulted a young woman In an office
building. Miss Ray Rurkhaltor,
of Pine Bluff. Ark., student at a
local business college, sava she was
-Miira in me omrc nuuaing witn a
promise that she would be Riven
-leriral employment. She was mot
by a vounp man. who she decares,
overpowered her and assaulted her.
after she was hound and Rapped to
prevent an outcry. Her face and
neck are badly bruised, and her condition
is roRarded as serious.
Dead Man in Box Car.
At Akron, Ohio. Wednesday thr
body of a well dressed man, about
t 40 years old. was found in a bo*
1 ear with the skull crushed and pock
ets rifled. The car eame from Ham
? mond, Ind., last Thursday and th*
1 man was apparently from ChlcaRo
4 On a slip of paper in his pocket wa<
he name of J. L Olear.
FREE LUMBER
Senator Tillman Explains His
Lomber Votes
DON'T WANT IT TAXCt
*' ?????
ine wnaior f*ays uuly on Lumber
Only Helps the Lumber Trust,
Wlikh Has Bou*ht Up Ail the
Timber Lands 1h the State, and
Robs the Farmers and Others.
We present below Senator Tillman's
remarks in the United States
Senate on last Monday on the lumber
schedule, in which he explains
his position on that question. There
has been a great deal said about the
Senator voting against tree lumber
Head what he says below and you
will see that the Senator has always
been in favor ot free lumber as we
have claimed:
Mr. a&lllman?-Mr. President, before
the lumber schedule passes from
the attention of the Senate, 1 want
to make a brief statement. When
It was in the Senate before, two 01
three weeks ago, I voted for the
amendment proposed by the Senatoi
from Alabama (Mr. Johnson) to put
lumber and all building materials
on the free list. In the discussion 1
remarked that I was in favor of
free lumber. When the Senator from
North* Dakota (Mr. McCumber) offered
an amendment, which did not
give us free lumber, leaving the dut)
ou whitewood, sycamore and basswood
at 00 cents a thousand, I voted
against it, because it did not nlv?
us free lumber. The Senate adjourned
Immediately afterwards. giving
me no opportunity to vote for frev
lumber. There has been no oppor
tunity to vote for free Ntmber. Then
h:.s been no amendment proposed foi
free lumber today.
Mr. MeCumber?The Senator wil!
recall that some tltne ago I introduced
an amendment for free lum
ber. and it was defeated.
Mr. Tillman?1 was uot present
Mr. MeCumber?Oh. yes; it wa
argued here for days and theij defeated
by a very decisive vote.
Mr. Tlllmau ? If the Senator wil
look at the Record, he will see thu
be did not offer any amendment to
free lumber, but only one for "sawe
lumber not specially provided for. '
aud so forth, leaving in the bill ?f
cents a thousand on bass wood, s>ca
mote, and so forth.
Mr. MeCumber?I did not changt
that, it Is true.
Mr. Tillman?I voted against th>
McCuntber amendment. It was de
t'eated by a very decisive vote, f>5.
I think, or something like that, tr
30, or around there. I still think w?
ought to have free lumber, and i wil.
give my experience and my reason.for
that belief. I know, of course,
wo can not get it.
Twelve years ago. when the Dingley
bill was on its passage, 1 voted
fry f ? ?o ? ???? -
v u ft, l,ii 111 uu juinue r, ana remarked,
very much to the disgust ot
some people and the edification o!
others,*"if there was to be stealing
I want my share." I have found
out that 1 can not pet my share; thai
the conditions of the South are such
that the articles and products ol
the region which are capable of be!
log protected are so few in number
that if we were to throw arounci
everything down there a high protective
tariff, we would not get anything
like a proportionate benefit
with the New England and manufacturing
State* of this Union.
In regard to this matter of lumber
I have watched the result of th<
duty. Immediately afterwards oui
Imber lands, which had previousl>
been neglected so there were comparatively
small lumbering Industrie!
down there, began to be in demand
Men from Wisconsin and Michigan
and other northern States where
lumbering had practically denuded
the forests of timber, or were about
to finish tbem up, came into the State
and bought up very large tracts of
timber at a very small price. They
did this all over the South. Large
mills were established and the lumbering
industry began to pick up.
showing investment of capital and
a large export. At the same time
the price began to rise, a little faster.
apparently, than the industry i'.aelf.
Now, consider for a moment thai
he people of South Carolina <re
jo abotil this shape; the State being
a tri;:ngle. the upper part cutting off
HU?- the letter "A" is largely the
white section of the Sfate. Nearly
i wo-tbi'ds of the peplo. although
it is only one-third of the area. live
, there. They are consumers of la/3j
her and 'hey have no yellow p<n?*
o very little. They have been im,-.rr.ng
that lumber Lom the lowm
half of counties next to the sea anrt
that region la pecupied almost wholly
hy the uegores: that Is. the negroes
outnumber the whites In Beaufort
fount v. for Instance. 10 negroes
to 1. Colleton 7. Georgetown 7. Wil?
liamsburg 4. Sumter 6. and so on.
1 In this roast region the lumber lni
dustry has taken root and is now
very extensively rarrled on.
! I notice after three or four years
: of this introduction of lumber on
1 an extensive scale that the prlre went
5 steadily up. up, and it very soon
j t.ci'ume noised abroad I do not
SHOT TO DEATH
A GEORGIA FARMER AND II1H
WIKK ARB KILLED
Whil? at WorV iu a FtfW Iry ?
Man Who Succeed* to MikiHK Hid
Escape.
A special dispatch from Adrian,
Oa.. to the Atlanta Journal says th it
while at work in the field adjoining
their home Wednesday morning. Geo.
Howell and his wife were shot to
death by Robert Jenkins.
Jenkins used a shotgun for his
deadly work, and is said to have come
upon the couple unawares. Raising
his gun he fired one barrel at Howell,
killing him Instantly.
Hardly before she realized what
had happened, Howell's wife waa fired
upon by Jenkins with the other
oarrel. Like her husband, she waa
killed outright.
Immediately after killing the
;ouple Jenkins made his escape.
The firing of the 6hotji attracted
.he attention of neighbors and a
large crowd gathered.
Both Mr. Howell, who is o farmer,
and hi* wife, are highly respected
by their neighbors, and when they
'earned of the tragedy they were
ireatly aroused.
Within a few minutes the men of
"he neighborhood had formed a
">osse, procured bloodhounds and aro
now in pursuit of the alleged murderer.
The cause of the killing cannot be
iscertained. It is known, however
hat Howell and Jenkins had not
been on good terms for some time,
mil it is believed that the tragedy
was the result of some previous dispute.
Adrian is a small village in the
western part of Kmanuel county.
Train KJlLs Autotst.
Glenn H. Dobbs, aged 4C. of Lincoln
avenue. Collings* ood. N. J., was
instantly killed when an automobile,
which ho was driving was struck
ind demolished by an express train
in the West Jersey and Seashore
-ailroud. at Ferry avenue and City
'inc. Camden Wednesday.
(now on what foundation, that these
umber men had formed a comblna
umi urn nit?) wouia noi sou under
stch other to the consumers In the
tpper part of the State.
I^umber is not a luxury. It is a
jecessity. It is one of the necessaries
of life. When I saw that the
armers, who had to build houses
nd fences and barns in the whole
ipper country, were being charged
iteadlly increasing prices for their
umber,' I began to change my opinon
as to whether I was getting my
hare of the stealing or not. It looked
like somebody not very far away
vas getting an unreasonable profit
>ut of our trees, whloh had cost them
r very small sum of money relativey.
So my opinion in regard to the
icnefits of the tariff in our State
.hanged very radically.
1 believe In the greatest good to
he greatest number; and when 1
aw that the people who use lumber,
/ractically four-fifths of them, were
mying an increased price, 1 decided
f 1 ever got a chance 1 would take
hat tariff off. That is all there is
tbout it. I do not feel that it is
ay business here to protect the Inustry
of lumber which perhaps, inrol?*
the interests of GO.OttO good
and worthy people, ae against the
' 00,000 equally good and worthy
>eople who have to use lumber, and
ve would not be saved from an ex>rbltant
price, because, I think, those
H?ople formed a combination and
greed that they would not under*ell
each other.
The only reason why we were able.
>r will be able, to get lumber at
i reasonable rate was due to th*
art that there were some old field
ine second growth left In the upper
part of the State and small
>atches. or small areas two or three
hundred acres or GOO acres, all
hrough in tho middle lower region
'hat the lumbermen had not bought
>r could not buy at tho high prlc-'S
?I mean the great lumber eompa
nies. with their railroads, and an
that sort of thing, running out into
the swsm.e The only reason wbj
the upper-country people could get
lumber at decent prices was becaust
a little one-horse sawmill, costing
$1,G00 or at most $2,000, would g<
info these little patches of pine an<!
saw the timber up and furnish th<
people this necessary, as agains'
these great combinations o
capital whi?-b had ai?sorbcd our tirn
ber.
I have felt that it was mv nrivi
lege to explain why I am apparentl;
in contradiction with myself, becaus(
I voted against the amendment of
fored by the Senator from Nortl
Dakota (Mr. McCumber >. Having
stated that I wanted free lumber
having had no chanco to get fre
lumber. 1 still am against, the amend
ment. because It did not offer fre
lumber.
That is all I want to say. 1 dii
not want, to appear to be at war w|tl
myself, nor do I say this because o
the hue and cry raised in some qnai
ters that I havo not stood on th
' Democratic platform. I am here a
a Democrat If my Democracy i
1 j no+ above fusplclon I do not wan
any certificate from any source
CROP LAST YEAR
Some Interesting Figures About
the Cotton
CROP OF THIS STATE
The Number of Hales Produced and
Aggregate Value of the Ha mo.
Acreage for the Past Year wm
Largest In History of the State.
Other Facts.
According to figures by Commissioner
Watson the 1908 cotton crop
was 1,242,012 running bales, including
Unters and sea island or, properly,
exclusive of linterB 1,215,84 8
bales, comprising 8.8 per cent of the
cotton ginned in the United Stutes.
The production exceeded that In 1807
by 02,991 bairn. South Carolina
has now fallen to fifth place, her
fourth place attained in 1907 being
taken by Alubama. It 1b estimated
by Mr. Watson that there aro 3,380
bales still uuglnned. The average
weight per bale was 4 83 pounds
against 481,2 pounds in 1907. Sea
island bales weighed on the average
351.8 pounds and llnters 470.0
pounds.
The South Carolina sea island
sold in 1908 at an average of 23.39
cents per pound, while that grown
in Georgia and Florida averaged
17.92 cents. In 1906 South Carolina's
average price was 3 6.70 cents,
and in 1907 35.5 cents, these being
the best prices since 1901. This
year it was lower than in 1902 or
in any year in the seven year yield.
The South Curollna crop was ginned
in 3,4 81 ginneries, about the average
number.
The aggregate value of the South
Carolina crop was $61,964,522,
against $72,657,817 in 1907 atul
$19,888,619 in 1906. The 1908 crop
was the most valuable in money the
State has ever had save the two
crops of 1907 and 1905.
According to Mr. Watson, of actual
rotton linters the total value
tor 1908 was $52,329,430, representing
553.762.491 poundH of upland
worth $51,167,654, 4,967,190 pounds
of sea island, worth $1,1 61,826.
Of cottonseed there were 531,659
pound*, worth $9.630.042. the largest
valuo since 1001 with the exception
of the 1907 crop.
The acreage was the largest ir
the history of the State?2,545,000.
the next largest being 2,031.87 5 in
1904. Since 1 904 more thun 2.000,000
acres have been regularly planted
in cotton.
Anderson, wt'h 63.183 bales, continues
to be the chief producing coun'y.
huving assumed the lead when
Calhoun was cut front Orangeburg.
Spartanburg, Marlboro, York, Marion
and Greenville, Darlington at' Sinner
are the other chief producers.
The stocks on band iu South Carolina
on March 1 amounted to 427,763
bales, of which 220,429 were In
the hands of the manufacturers and
126,280 in independent warehouses,
including compresses. The rest was
iu the hands of transportation companies.
The mills of the State are consuming
793,396 bales of cotton annually,
turning out product worth about
$ 7 7,000,000.
The yield per acre in 1908 in tbe
State was 219 pounds, versus a 10year
average of 189.
It is estimated that the acreage 1
planted this year ( 1909) is 2.498,000
against 2,040,000 in 1908, bul
the feal ucreuge is probably about
the same as last year.
Cotton on.March 1, 1908, wa^
bringing on the average in South
Carolina 9.2 cents while at the same
date the preceding year it was bringing
the average price of 11 cents.
Mr. Watson in making the estimate
It .. i, ?K * .
ncaa inaui'i1 liif.* uniu w jus QlUlCUJtiU.
"lu making the 1908 estimate for
the Association of Southern Commissioners
of Agriculture as early as
November 24 1 used the figures furnished
by each Southern commissioner.
while mentioning the fact (hat
1 it conditions after that date remained
the same as to the picking aud
1 ginning as the average for the pre'
ceding four seasons we ought to have
a crop of at least 13,334,15? bales.
Assuming that the conditions gave
every estimate on the date named
! at 12,551,086 running bales, exclu'
sive of llnters, or including linters,
' at practically 13,000,000 bales?to
* be exact 12.807.212 baled. The
' actual crop exclusive of linters with
everything accounted for was 13,086.005
bales, under which our November
estimate fell 53 4.010 bales.
This difference is almost exactly ac1
counted for by the underestimates
r? . -
- turnisned tne committor from the
four States of Georgia, Texas, Ar1
kansas and Alabama, which wo wish"
ed to but did not fool authorized to
' raise. Had wo done so wo would
P havo struck tho final crop alrnosi
to a bale."
o
[j African Lion Get* Hunter,
h Henry C. Williams, a member ol
f the hunting party of T. S. St. Lull
- and George McMillan, was brought
e to Naivashe. British East Africa, i
t few days ago. mortally wounded bj
s a lion. The encounter with the Hot
it. occurred in the Sotlk district, neai
^ here the Roosevelt party will bunt
MINERS KILLED
SEVENTEEN OF THEM LOST
1
THEIR LIVES IX A >flXH
In Pennsylvania by the Explosion
of Gt!< Dae to Ignition Froai a |
Miner's Lamp.
As the result of an explosion of
gas in mine No. 4. of the Lackawanna
Coal and Coke Company
shortly after 7 o'clock Wednesday
morning seventeen miners were killed
and sixteen Injured. With the exception
of one. those killed were
foreigners. With few exceptions
those injured were Americans . It
was stated that all the injured prob- t
ably would recover.
Superintendent Johnson stated
that while the mine has ulways been
regarded as non-guseous, the explo- c
sion was due to the ignition of h a
pocket of gas by the open lamp of c
a miner. j
Tae mlno has only been opreatln^
two days each week. Tuesday and
Friday. Those in the mln? I f1
tered tho shaft for their dally nl- u
lowance of coal for family use. t
Grouped about the slope entrance j
of the mine Ju8t before tho explosion
were several Italians.
When the terrible subterranean
upheaval of rock and gas spouted t
skyward, these Italians were caught, j
Terribly burned and maimed they
ruBhed about tho settlement crying
for aid.
The first man to reach the surface 1
was A. L. Johnson, son of the Huper- i
iutendent. He is one of the few very ^
seriously iujured. v
Superintendent Johnson called for t
volunteers to enter the mine. In j
the volunteer ranks stood several s
women. These were ordered back. ^
With wet handkerchiefs tied over |
their faces the first squad of the
relief party started down the shaft, j
Of the eight who started four came v
back with their senses. The others,
overcome with black damp, were pull- '
ed to Burface with ropes.
A second and a third party entered
only to be driven bark by the deadly
gases, biasing and shouting in the
lower levels. ^
Oxygen, sent by the Cambria Steel 5
Works, aided the searchers. i.nd with
safety helmets. ? fourth rescue party
succeeded in bringing twelve bodies (
to tho surface. Late in tho afternoon ^
flvn more bodies were recovered. (
They were found huddled together ^
In the lower left heading. where ^
they had died In an evident effort to
reach the main shaft.
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BACK TO LIFE AGAIN.
V
Medical Rocoid Tell.s of Some Expert- s
ments. 11
li
P'orty-five persons who have died s
recently form tho basis of a most c
remarkable report on bringing the 1
dead back to life, according to the 3
New York Medical Record. Of the
theory of manipulating the heart by ?
the hand, seventeen patients were re- c
suscltated, nine with complete recov- t
ery. The remaining eight died after v
a short time. 1
Forty of the cases treated are said s
to hnve been due to the anaesthetic ]
administered. The report says that
In each Instance Immediately after j
death csQSued, or not more than five t
minutes afterward, tho chest was r
opened and the heart was given a f
direct application of manual massage, j
"After the chest cavity has been
opened, the hand is forced in and ]
the heart Is grasped, and pushing
toward the interior thoracic walls, ?
according to tho Medical Record. t
"and the ventricles are squeezed r
rhythemically at about normal beats. f
Sometimes fifteen minutes elapse be- (
fore any response is obtained. During
all tho time assistants should |
bo busy with artificial respiration. |
saline and adrenalin infusions,
tongue traction, Intubulation or ,
trachneotomy and elevation of pelvis
and legs."
EXPENSIVE VACATION.
A Young Ranker and Family Spends
a Big Sum,
A, Toon, a banker at Merida, Yucatan.
Mexico, and his wife and seven
children have arrived in New York,
after having spent $100,000 on a
year's vacation in Europe. Mr. Teon
said that he had had a prosperous
time in his business and appropriated
$100,000 for "a good timo" for
his family and himself, and that
when the money was gone they came
back.
Tboy will visit Chicago, St. Louis
and New Orleans, on their way homo.
STORE HOURS AT FLORENCE.
Merchant Agree Upon Scheme for
, Early Closing.
' Florence merchants have introduced
an innovation. Under an agree-!
trnnt. now being generally signed by
them, they will not rloso their establishments
at R o'clock in the at'terf
uoon during the summer months, but
, instead will keep open as late as
t ordinarily, and on Wednesdays will
, close up at 2 p. m. It is said the
. clerks like this plan better, as it
j gives them the whole afternoon off
r a tlrno they can put to some pleasant
i rse.
A1 JL.JL I
WANTS IT FREE I
Senator Tillman Against the I
Lumber Trust. I
FAVORS FREE TRADE I
In VJl Building Material, and 80 I
Votes to Put All Lumber oa ib? I
Free List?Senator Till inn u Taken 1
Ihsuo With Senator Aldlich and Jj
Talks Out Plainly. I
Senator Tillman took occasion la I
he United States Senate on Wedaes- I
lay to define his position on the lum- I
?er schedule by votlnR to put all 1
lasses of lumber on *he free list, I
nd thus make building material aa I
heap as possible to the consumer. I
le emphasized his opposition to ?k?
umber trust by voting Wednesday
or an out and out free lumber schedile.
Iu his letter from Washington
o The State Zach McGoe, in t?pe?kng
of Senutor Tillman's vote for
rve lumber says:
"He voted some weeks ago against
he McCumlier amendment to put
umber on the free list. Following
he statement he made several days I
hereafter that he did this because I
he McCumber amendment did not
uclude all clauses of lumber, he I
tuted on the floor of the senate
Vednesday that he had been awaitug
an opportunity to vote for free
umber when all grades of lumber
hould be included. He voted
Vednesday for an out and out free
umber schedule.
"This leaves Messrs. Lever and
lllerbe. the two house members, who
oted for the $1 duty on lumber,
lone in the South Carolina delega~
ion. They will make no statement
or publication at this time, but they
ay they are willing to face their
onstituents on the subject at the
roper time.
"When the Pingly bill passed,
lenator Tillman voted for 92 duty
n rough lumber, stating at that ttm*
lint If there was to bo any stealing
ic wanted his share. This year h"
as anuounced that he has given up
hat doctrine, as he has found that.
ie does not get. his share. Soineody
else gets it. nnd he says in this
a.?e they are the big lumber syndiates
whose owners for the most part
ive in some other States."
A press dispatch sav3 the first
oto on ttao lumber schedule In the
enute Wednesday was on an araendacnt
by Senator MoCuiuber propoeng
the rate of $1 per 1,000 ou
awed lumber instead of the $1.G0 d?
ided upon by the finance committee.,
'he committee was sustained, 4 4 to
2
From the beginning of the pes- ,
ion there has been a decided contest
iver tlin liimlif 1
- -*- uuu una 01
he hardest fights made by the Northpostern
senator has been for free
umber. In the house the reformers
ucceeded in reducing the Dlngloy
aw rate from $2 to fl.
Insisting that the differentials on
tlaned or finished lumber provided
>y the finance committee were unlecessarlly
high. Mr. McCumber ofered
an amendment reducing them
13 1-3 per cent and reducing the
luty on sawed lumber to $1.20 per
[,000 feet.
Mr. A Id rich had road a letter from
i Vermont sawmill owner showing
hat the mills charged four times as
nuch to tongue and groove and plane
i board on four sides as to piano tt
>n ono side.
Jumping quickly to hiH feet, Sensor
Tillman denied that such difference
of cost could exist.
"Anyl?ody who has ever been In a
law mill," ho declared, "knows that."
He vociferously cliided the Rhode
Island senator, who. he Insisted, was
"the whole senate," for not promptly
passing the tariff bill.
As Mr. Aldrich protested that ho
wished to vote as soon as possible the
South Carolina senator npologlzed for
taking up any time in debate, added:
"When the senator makes a statement
like that I can not ait hero like
an asa as if I agreed with It when
I know it is not true."
Mr. MeCumber's amendment was
rejected 30 to 49.
The vote was then taken on the
main proposition, the finance committee
amendment placing a duty of
*l.r.O on sawed lumber with differentials
on finished lumber. The committee
won. r?0 to 28.
Rv amendments offered by Mr. Aidrich
and adopted, the duty on clap
hoards was lncreasod from $1 to
f 1.50 per 1.000; on laths from 20 to
25 cents per 1.00ft and on shingles
from 30 to 7ft cents.
The entire schedulo relating to
doow and manufacturers of wood was
then agreed to.
Mutiny Leader Killed.
AdrofdJng #o news received at
Manilla Lieut. Noble, with a company
of the Twenty-third constabulary, on
June 13. struck part of the Davao
mutineers and killed Sergt. Acadenila.
leader of the mutiny. In the
ensuing fight. Sergt.. Hewson. of the
American forces, who killed the routiner's
chief. w,1s wounded during
a skirml-b