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% . VERY SICK MAN Senator B. R. Tillman Lays at Death's Door in Washington City. RECOVERY DOUBTFUL W He Ik Suffering from Slight Progressive Paralysis Due to a Ix'akngfl Of Mood in the Hrain?ilie Crisis ' 1 i A ear at llaiul iuul lie May Die at Any Time. | ; A special dispatch to The News ' ' and Courier says Senator B. H. Till- j ' man is laying at the Belfour hotel in ! Washington in a dying condition suf- : lering from paralysis and hardeing1 ( ot the arteries leading to the heart. ( Ho may survive several days, if the paralysis cau be checked and kept ( away from the brain, or he may sue- i . cumb at any hour. Physicians hold out no hope. Less than a week ago Senator Till- , man wus apparently in his usua' , health and attended to his every- ! . cay duties in the Senate. Almost his last otlicial act was to introduce a : resolution calling upon the Secretary ! | of the Navy for information as t> the purchase of oil, which wouid ; ] probably have led to interesting de- | velopments connected with the oper- , ctions of the Standard Oil Company , A slight attack of dizziness on last . Wednesday was at first treated light j Jy, and little was thought of it un- , til Thursday afternoon, when lie be came suddenly 111. During the night ( It was apparent that he was a dan- | ( gerously sick man, and a.. once tele- ' grams were sent out to all mem bora ( of the family, summoning them at. , once to Washington. Dr. Plckford, who was called in when Senator Tillman became ill, had a conference with Dr. White, ' . superintendent of St. Elizabeth's hos- j pltal, Dr. White being one of the , beat known nerve specialists in the j country. Dr. Babcock of Columbia . was summoned and reached the Sen- , , ator's bedside Saturday morning. | t The dispatch Bays it is recognized 5 that the Senator is a dangerously ill man and absolutely no hope is held ( out to the members of his family. , Thoroughout the entire day members < of both houses of Congress have been peeking information as to the Senator's condition, and so frequent . were the telephone calls that very ? earlly in the morning communication ( was cut off. Close friends of the j ^ family are giving out information to those who call, and at the Balfour i many South Carolinians have left ' i cardB of sympathy during the day. j , Early Friday morning when the ] news of Senator Tillman's serious illness began to be scattered alxiut the Capital,, a pall settled every- ; Where. Knots of Senators gathered in different parts of the Senate chamber and discussed the case, while on the House side much the same thing was done. House mem- j bers who did not even have a speaking acquaintance with Senator Till- ' man, expressed the greatest sympa- ; thy for members of his family, as frequent Inquiries as to his condition indicated. Mrs. Tillman was the first (o reach the Senator after lie became 111 Shp hnH nnlv hprn o oluirt time when he became unconscious. During the (lay Senator Tillman has been able at time to articulate a little, but most of the day he has been laying in a stupor, taking no notice o! those around him. Now and then, however, as different friends and members of the family pressed his hand he would give a slight pressure in answer, indicating that he understood, but could not reply. CONDITION IMlMtOVKD. Doctors Say it is as Favorable as Can Do Expected. Friday and night Dr. White concluded his diagnosis of Senator Tillman's case with Dr. I'ickford. After a thorough examination it is now stated that the trouble besides the paraly. is of the right side is cerebral hemorrhage. The blood vessel which allowed blood to spill and form a clot on the brain, it Is now thought, been temporarily stopped i and the Senator is somewhat im- , proved ovor his condition earlier in i the night, though he is still in a very precarious condition. Tho latest bulletin issued states that ror Tour or Ave days perhaps it j cannot be said what the result will ho, should he survive that long. The doctors have been successful to the oxtent of restoring partial consciouness and Senator Tillman is now able to articulate and has just taken nourishment "Hello, Doctor Tlabcock." These were the first words Senator Tillman had spoken slnco early Thursday morning. He greeted thus his friend and physician Sunday afternoon. Dr. White came In a moment later. "Do you know who this it .senator?" The single eye gleamed. "Dr. White," he said. The physicians then shut off further efforts at speech, directing that I V GROWS BLACK COTTON CLAIMS TO HAVE MA i)E A HEMARKAULE DISCJVERY. Diluting Certain Jheinlcals Wit!) Water and A* plying it to the 1'lant Turns .he Triek. There Is .? rheumatic cripple of SavanP' Ga? that threatens to re^lionize floral culture and cultivation of cotton. His name is Dennis Trapley, and he is now in Washington trying to obtain a patent on ills iormuia. (.iinii lie uocs mis litis not willing to talk very much of his discovery, but he makes the assertion that he can mix three inexpensive and common cl^nicals into i fluid, and with it produce oiack r:otton at one-tenth the expense of lye. He also says that he his pn>iuced black roses, and he de:la'vs that any flower can be cultivated so that its blooms will be black. "After fifteen years of experime iting 1 have discovered a process t?y which tilack roses and black cotton may bo produced," Trapley says. The formula Is inexpensive cliei.iic is which are diluted with watt r. "I have taken an ordinary rosebush and planted it in rica earth, ind by feeding it this cheml.'al fluid have produced a rose as large and as heavy as au American beauty and is black as coal. The petals of this rose have the same gloss aud lust a >s the Araericii beauty. The feeding process Is exactly the same as watering a plant." "As the first shoots of the bn.-.h push up through the earth a i ex:raordinary darkuoss can be notice 1. As they grow their colors become larker. The same Is true of the 'c ila.se. The leaves of the bush are ilmost black. The buds when they ippear are black. One of the peculiarities of the irocess is that after a certain uuniter of applications during the first cear It can be stopped and for two ieasons the plant will bear black lowers. If the feeding process Is rot continued In the third year the >ush will astniu assume its natnr.n i itate. "What Is true of the rose Is trim )f all other flowers and also of colon. Hy the use of ray chemicui lecret I can produce hlack cotton tnd It will cost little or nothing: as ompared with black dye. One of he features is that the chemicals icem to havo a general good effect .11 the plants. Those I have expermented upon have grown to extrajrdinary size and of fine fibre. "The day my process i protected , t?y patent I can dispose of it for JaOO.OOO. This proposition has been made me." It was in the spring and long sura uier evenings after he went home from work that Dennis would plant roses and cultivate them. From early boyhood lie had one thought, that of producing a hlack rose. At Prat he tried grafting. Failing, lie began the us of chemicals. This thought occurred to him after seeing j a farmer spread lime on the fields which he was to cultivate. Dennis believed that if the soil and lima would produce a light sugar cane, and light colored syrup, some chenii eal might produce the hlack ro3e. About live years ago, he says, he produced flie first hloom of hlack :cses, also cotton. Later lie proouced other hlack blooms. * cii\iu;ki> with chime. Young White Man Attempted Criminal Assault on Young laid}'. A warrant was sworn out Saturday for Hrnry Grier, a young white man at Greer, charging him with assault and battery with attempted criminal assault upon the person of a young white woman of that place. C. 1*. Sims represents the prosecution. It is alleged that sonte time ago a young white woman of Greer, who had been over to Greenville and was returning home, when she was assaulted by Grier, while in a hack driving home from the depot. It Was a Mix I'p. Five hundred persons attending a small theatre at Pattan, Pa., Saturday night were precipitated into the basement of the building when the floor collapsed during u fire. Men, women and children were struggling in the debris and to add to the panic the firemen were forced to turn streams of water into the basement where the crowd was struggling to escape the flanios. No one was killed. the patient should not exert himself. Nevertheless the fact that speech 's returning was a source of great gratification. The Senator has been Improving ali day. ITe hail a good night Sat. nrdav night and has been dozing peacefully most of Sunday. After the consultation Sunday af ternoon a most favorable hnlletlr was given out and the family begat to consider plans for the future They expect the Senator to sit U| in bed Monday. The al>ove was sent to The Stat by Its Washington correspondent 01 Sunday evening. * RACE RIOT OVER And Quiet Again Prevails iu the City of Cairo. Illinois | ONE MAN WAS KILLED The Negro Demanded by the Crowd Convicted of Purse Snatching? Troops Patrol the Citj'?Six Negroes were Among Deputies wlio Fired 011 tlu* Mob. A dispatch from Cairo, 111., says with three companies of militia guarding the Court House and jail under the dircet supervfsion of A-'it. Oen. Frank S. Dickson, Cairo settled down Friday night to complete quiet, after a strenuous twenty-four hours. It is believed that the mob spirit is quelled. There are many scattered groups of men about the streets, but no crowd is allowed to congregate. Threats were made Friday against Sheriff Fred 1>. Nellis for the killing >f Alex liailiday and the wounding ol four other men by deputies in beating back the mob that attacked the jail Thursday night in an attempt to lynch a negro purse snatcher, but the presence of soldiers prevents any open demonstrations. John Pratt, the negro whom the mob intended to i.vnch, was sentenced Friday to prison for not more than fourteen years. Lincoln Wilson arrestd as a suspected companion of Pratt, in tho snatching of women's purses was released. The grand jury failed to return an indictment against him. Pratt's sentence was Imposed ten minutes after he entered Court and pleaded guilty to the indictment returned on Thursday. A searching grand Jury investlgarion of tho attack on the jail was ordered by Judge Hutler immediately after the disposal of the cases against the two negroes. Judge HutIt r's Instructions to the grand jury were in substance a demand that the rioterB be brought to justice and made to stand trial for rioting, a felony. "This sort of procedure must be stopped," he said. "There have been five murders in Cairo since November 11, when we had a previous occurrence of mob violence These murders show that moli law 1? no deterrent to crime and it is our duty to see that mob law cea3es to be." A stray shot fired by a member of the mob was the direct cause of the volley from the deputies guarding the Jail that laid several of its meinoi rs low, according to Sheriff Nellis's version of the attack. "I was standing on the front porch of ?he Court House parleying with the mob which was demanding that I give up Pratt," said the Sheriff, "when some one in the crowd fired a shot. My deputies, watching the parley from 1 a second-story window, thought that I fired the shot as a signal, and th-^y flred a volley in the air. "The mob refuseJ to retreat and the deputies then fired into the crowd. My conscience is easy over the matter. The rioters were deIt .mined to get me unless I got : them. I did my duty by protecting my prisoners at any price." A dozen broken windows in the Court House showed that shots were fired into the building by the mob. There were six negroes among the fourteen armed deputies that defended the jail with Nellis. Mayor Parsons has ordered saloons i i-i icutrtiii i-HjHfti iiiiiit uanger or rurtber disturbances has passed. The Halllday family has retained an attorney to sue Sheriff Nellis and the county for damages. Halllday, who was a son of former Mayor j Thomas XV. Halllday, was shot in i the neck. He lay on the ground rear the Court House porch nearly three hours before N'ellis would per in It anyone to remove him to a hosjital. He died two hours later. Nellis replies to criticisms of his refusal to permit an injured man to he removed by saying that ho ob?yed orders from Governor Denen to permit no one near the building. Samuel Wessinger Is the only one of the injured whose condition is at all serious, lie is at St. Mary's hospital with eleven buckshot wounds in the head. George II. Walker, correspondent for the Associated Press, who was shot in the leg while watching the affair, discovered five shot holes in his clothes. Gunk in Illinois Itolilwd. ; Early Tuesday burglars blew open !ir? cs'if,, r.f !./* r?ll c, r> ? 1. ~ ? ICortsworth, 111., with nitro-glycerlne and escaped with a team taking $8,. ooo in paper money and $'2,000 in , silver. The night watchman was later found l?ound and gagged. j Sold in New York. i Paraffin routed eggs from Europe . nearly a million of which were im ;> ported last week, were placed on sai< Saturday hy hundreds of New Yorl e retailers at 3 to 8 cents a dozen les n than the price of American cold stor age eggs. ARE MARKED MEN NEGRO DEPUTIES WHO F1RE1> OX TE CAIRO MOB. Will Be Dealt With by tliut Mob uml Others as Soon us the Trouble is Over. Statements at Cairo, 111., by four negro deputy sheriffs, to a coroner's jury, that they fired several shot* each Thursday night when Alex llalllday was killed while leading n mob in attack on the county jail resulted Saturday night in a renewal of the anti-negro agitation. The coroner's inquest resolved Itself into a general quiz by the jurors, who tried to learn which one of the deputies fired the steel jack eted bullet that killed Holliday. The negro deputies admitted firing indiscriminately iuto the crowd with shotguns and revolvers, but none of them would admit having used a rille, with which it is said Holliday was killed. The negro deputies who fired on t'he mob are said to l>e marked men, now that their names have become public. The killing of one white man and the wounding of seversothers by negroes, although legally deputized, has brought out protests from even those opposed to the mob. Sheriff Nellis testified at the inquest that be used negro deputies because ho could not find his regular deputies, nor the local militia company officers, nor white men, who would answer his call for help. Tears ran down the sheriffs cheeks as he told of the frantic efforts to find men to assist him in protecting his prisoners. George Jackson, Charles Hudson, Henry Douglas and I. A. Head is the negro deputies who admitted firing into the molt. They testified that the leaders of the mob wore gunny sacks over their heads, with holes cut through for their eyes. IiADY SHOT BY THAI* GUN. Had Been Set By Her llustmnd for Chicken Thieves. Walking into a trap set by her husband for chicken thieves, Mrs. George L. Ne?1, who lives ou the road between Prosperity and Newberry, was seriously and possibly mortally wounded. Mr. Neel had been missing some chickens. He had driveu stakes in the ground in front of his chicken house, around which he had led a cord attached to the trigger of a cocked shotgun, pointing to the approach to the chicken house, so that anyone approaching the chicken house would run agaiust the cord and discharge the gun. Mr. Neel's wife received the load of 6hot intended for the thieves. Mrs. Neel was in the yard looking after matters before retiring for the night, and probably did not know or had not thought of her husband's precautions. The load entered the right leg below the knee joint, at close range, boring an ugly hole. ? ? ? WHAT l>lt. WIIjKY SAYS. Poor Criminal Despised; a Rich One is Petted. "T could give the names of many men who have been convicted of food adulteration and who are still receivied by the highest social lights of this city," said I?r. H. W. Wiley, .he government food expert. Dr. Wiley went to New York to t Oat i Pv )o?f<\rn t hn 1 I urloot. " * grand jury in connection with the investigation of the cold storage warehouses, hut he lectured Saturday at the College of the City of New York, lie declined to give the names of those he referred to. "When the poor man is convicted of a crime lie feels disgraced,' said Dr. Wllej. "Hut the millionaire who endangers the heath of the community through Impure food is still received in the highest of society and retains his place in the church. FULL IN llOIMNtt TAK. frightful Fate of Young Frank Hook in Florida. At Jacksonville, Fla., Frank Hook, a young white man, was horribly burned, about noon Wednesday, and ."11 chance for his recovery has been given up. The young man was alone in his father's paint shop, when he was seized with a fit, falling back into a pot of boiling tar, being horribly burned about the lower porion of his body. When found he was unconscious. lie was hurried to a local hospital in the police ambulance, where medical attention was rendered. Blew Wrong Safe. Tuesday burglars blew open the , safe of J. A. Busch's store, at Reeves, . I.a., and secured about forty dollars * In an adjacent store, the safe con< talning more than a thousand dol 3 lars, had been left carelessly open -1 It was just as carelessly passed b; the burglars. GOOD ADVICE * i President Barrett, of the Fanners' Union, Issues an Address HE URGES THE FARMER To P;x>d Their Congressman and Make Them Toe the Mark, Saying that the Latter's Slowness is Partly Fault of the Farmers Themselves, ami Their Friends. president Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmer's union, has written a letter to tho officers and members in which he declares that "the slowness of the low-makers to respond to our requests Is almost as much the fault of the farmer as of the lawmakers." Says Mr. Ham tt: To the Officers and Members of the Farmer's Union: In obtaining measures of direct Interest to our members, the slowness of the lawmakers to respond to our equests is almost as much the fault of the farmer as of the lawmaker. Many of the leading congressmen told us, in substance, after some little conversation: "Why didn't you come up before, face to face, and g.-t in behind us? of course., we understand we made the farmer's prom ises, and we expect you to call on us to redeem them." That's the milk in th-i cocoanut. with theee and with ewry congress man. Brethren, don't let us forget! And the only way you can keep them from forgetting you, is not to forget them! ? I have watched "interest" after "interest" work here through its representatives, and it came to me forcibly, that not a one of them, nor all of them combined and then doubled, is so powerful as the farmers of this country. But all of the power iu creation wculd not forward the fight, unless you keep In behind your congressman and refuse to let him develop a poor memory. Hardly a farmer In the organization, or out of It for that matter, who does not remember how the congressman, when a candidate told film of his undyiug love, and how he promised this and that and just asked to l?e given a chance to get this and that. How many of you have sent this promising brother gentle reminders, from time to time, in the shape of a genial little letter, inquiring after his health, telling him you remembered how much he loved you, and .asking him when he expects to get busy securing some of those things he used to talk about? Mighty few of you, 1 reckon. Most of you recover from the excitement of a political campaign like, getting over the measles, then straightway proceed to forget about the necessity of keeping in touch with the man who holds your commission In congt ess. Then when another candidate comes along frothing at the mouth like a wild bull and tell you how you have been betrayed, .you vote him in and the other fellow out? and then get busy, go out and dig potatoes, chop cotton, patcli the barn roof or something else, and forget Mr. No. Two. That practice, more than any oth er one factor, explains the failure of the American farmer to secure the services at the hands of the congressmen. You are the mightiest in this land today. Up here, they are all afraid of you. and with good cause. Collectively, you make the power of Taft or Roosevelt or Aldrich or Cannon look like thirty cents. The thing to do, is to realize that power by not forgetting your congressman. Another, thing, we are hero rigni now for the purpose of fixing up things and keeping you posted. We are going to do that .from time to time, in the most complete manner. Stenographic minutes are being kept of every conference, trained and faithful members are lining up and investigating congressmen, weigh:ng promise against preformance, and burning the midnight oil in your interest. Rut, in the meantime, don't forget that forgetful congressman, and Jo not let him forget you. Write him a sweet, questioning and gentle little love letter. Charles S. Rarrett. Washington. I). ('.. Feb. 1 * Old Postmaster Rend. Simeon W. A. Stevens, who was appointed postmaster at Gardner Mass., by President Franklin Pierce in 1 Re4 and had received successive appointments ever since, is J?vl at nis norno In bouth Gardner. He was ninety one years old. Daring I Jobbers. At Pittsburg, Pa., while crowds , docked from the theatre next door, a highwayman entered the store of - Dr. J. E. Grown in the business sec tion of the east end Wednesday night, . held up the druggist with a revolver / and robbed the cash register of all it contained, $115. WIFE RUNS AWAY FROM HER HUSBAND WITH ANOTHElt WOMAN'S HUSBAND Mrs. Nowell Leaves Her Home to Take Up With W. E. Massenberg, a Traveling Sulesuuin. The Charlotte Observer, of Saturday, says: "Mr. Arthur Nowell of Greensboro, an operator in the Western Union telegraph olllce of that city, canto to Charlotte Thursday night on No. 35 In quest of his wi'e who has eloped with Mr. W. E. Massenberg, a traveling representative of the American Tobacco Company. Unfortunately he was a little late, the couple having left over the Seaboard at 0 o'clock headed for Wilmington. Mr. Nowell was ae?: >ml unied by Deputy Sheriff Veatueily and they have sent numerous telegrams with the hope oi iHereepting the couple before they reo.i Wilmingtou or certainly after they airrive. "The information which reached Charlotte came in tho form of a t r:i ni to SlioflfF \\* u'~ * _ .V/ W..V III M . 11. >v d.inco who w:is asked to arrest Masseuberg and the wife of Mr. Nowell. They were said to be in Charlotte at a hoarding house and stopping under an assumed name. Sheriff Wallace was not able, however, to obtain tho parties as they had gone before he received the message or shortly after. at least. They had stopped at Mrs. Gooding's on West Trade street. "Mr. Nowell discovered that Massenberg and his wife were in Charlotte through a telegram sent by tho former to his sister-in-law. Mrs. Bain of Greensboro, and as soon as Nowell, who was an employe of tho telegraph office of Greensl>oro, discovert d that the message was for Mrs Haiti, he got in touch with "10 officers of Greensboro and the ,'jputy sheriff agreed to accompany him to Charlotte and make the arrest. "From all accounts Mrs. Nowell joined Mnssonberg in Unleigh Monday. She was there visiting her parents, Col. and Mrs. John Nichols. Accompanied by her small child and her sister. Mrs. Bain, Mrs. Newell loft for High Point, where they stopped for a short, time before coming on to Charlotte. "Masseuberg is rather prominent and is from Henderson where hla father is the proprietor of a hotel. He is a representative of the American Tobacco Company and is well known among the traveling men. He was seen in Charlotte Thursday by a number of his acquaintances who thought nothing of his presence there. He is said to reside in Ktatesvillo and to be a man of family." DUAL TltA(?KI?Y AT THEATRE. Orchestra Manager and Violinist Kill One Another. Fatally wounded by two bullets fired by Alopb Cassau, a violinist, Louis It. Ostordorff, manager of tho Fmplre Theatre Orchestra, Thursday . night overpowered his assailant, wrestled the revolver from him, and tired three bullets through Cassau's head, killing him instantly at the stage entrance of the Empire Theatre at Indianapolis, Ind. Ostendorff died in a hospital later. The shooting occurred just as the curtain rose foi the night performance, and tho audience was kept in ignorance until the show was over. Cassau's attack i.pon Ostendorff is said to have been the result of a quarrel Wednesday night with the manager. The Empire Theatre is a b BISMOI" IS IN J A IB. Pastor "Holy Church of the Living Cod." in tho Toils. Denounced as a menace to society and an impostor, Jonas Samuel Sturdnvntit the n..in-<> Kivj l,i.f ??.? "Holy Church of the Living Clod, the Pillar and Ground of Truth," was sentenced at Maltinrore Friday to jail for three years. He was convicted of having assaulted and beaten Mrs. Hose Demard, one of his white "disciples." She testified that she was influenced by him to leave her husband and children in IJrooklyn to fellow the negro, under whose sp? 11 she lived eight months. She told a revolting story of her life in the quarters of the white women over whom the negro had mastery. lUilluns t'se Unite. Tf'lli'intz An intir/loe J terror in th?- resident district of Chicago Sunday night. At one place Joe Sera was ataoked l?y three Italians and probably fatally stabbed. In another section of the city J. P. Sehmitz and Peter Hubert were set upon by two Italians, who, after stabbing their victims, fled. Killed by Explosion. H. F. McCall, a prominent capitalist, of Jennings, Fla., who was in| ,11 red at Dasher. Ga., two weeks ago, '.when the gasoline tank on his auJ tomobile explo led, died Wednesday. While en route from his home to I North Georgia an accident caused the tank on his machine to explode. Mr. McCall, receiving frightful burns.