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I THAT BEAR RAID . ? I On Ike Buyers of Cotton in in Effort to Save Themseltes by , DODGING CONTRACTS President Parker, of the American * Cotton Manufacturers Association, Sets Forth Situation in Detail ftVun the Manufacturers' Standpoint and Criticizes Attorney General. "I think that it is most unfortun iuui me Rovernnieni snouKl Inintervene In the effort to protect those who have sold beyond their possession," characteristically said Mr. Lewis W. Parker, Wednesday at Greenville, when asked concerning the actiton of the governrent in oraertng an invertlgation of the al'eged pool to keep the price of cottor up. "The Southern mills do not wish tu see a decline in the price of cotton," he continued, "and the stand of the government is unfair. Apparently, it originated in Wall Street on the part of the bears, who have l?t.en selling to keep the price of cotton down, and who, by this investigation, wish to force Messrs. Hayne, Brown and others to show their hands, to find out their methods, and their supply of catton on hand and the like. Thnt part of the press dispatches which alluded to a contract of 26th of February leferred to an agreement by the Southern mills \o take care of the c< tton tendered in New York. I learned of the action of Attorney J General Wickersham on Wednesday right and sent the following telegram to Senator E. D. Smith at Washington: " 'Have just learned of action of grand jury in New York under advice of Attorney General Wickersham in reference to New York exchange. The effect of this is to assist the bears out of a dilemma In selling the market. The effort of Southern mills has been to sustain prices and to this end they have agreed to take up cotton tendered in : New York. There is nothing un- ( fair. a _ 111 ? 1 I - ? 1. _ I _ * inn wi iiiv^.u in luni 11 >; rt?tf intfii l with Hayno ana Rrown, and I urge | y-oii to protest against the use of the . government's power in forcing at this tlm?e a disclosure of their plans In the effort to make a bear raid. See Adnmson of Georgia, who understands matters.' ' "The situation is this: ns is known throughout the season the mills have had a difficult Job to get an adjustment of cotton goods to a parity with the prices of cotton. With the scarcity prevailing in cotton during the present season It is difficult to ' say what Is a fair price for the com- < modity; hut from November on I think it has been recognized that probably 15 centB bo the producer represented that fsir price. In November and ngain in January, those who were adverse to the prevailing prices of the commodity made concerted efforts to break the market by selling in large quantity, .hoping and rjpecting to be able to repurchase the cotton at lower prices. Those thus (.ailing the market have oversold themselves, and purchases have been mnde by Messrs. Hayne. Rrown and others who are simply asking those :.ho have sold to deliver that which they speculatively sold without having cotton to Roll. "Tlie Southern mills do not wish tx> see i decMnie in the price of cotton for two reasons. In the first place to a considerable extent they have purchased cotton in the belief that the'high prices prevailing during the fall and winter were n.ore or less justified by the crop out-turn. In the second place t.hey regard it exceedingly problematical what will bo the size of the crop this year, and what should be a legitimate price for cotton next fall. "On the exchange the prevailing prices for fall cotton are now approximately 12 1-2 cents: and so far as we can see these prices should prevail in t.he fall. If through tbo re'ling movement on the part of the bears the prices for fall deliveries are materially reduced, buyers of goods will fix their estimate of the value of goods on th basis of these reduced prices of futures; whereas there is every reason to believe that an abnormal demand for cotton in the fall will keep prices sustained for the spot cotton at. In all probability. above 12 1-2 cents, even though the crop be very large. Un oer iiii'se nnHuiMiiiitia iiuniiiin ii ?n i the effect of constant selling of the nrarket by liears would have a con- j atant tendency ho reduce the price of cotton the Southern Mills have agreed to take up the cotton In New York hoping to have thereby a strengthening-tendency on the cotton market. The hoars who have been . selling what they did not have are ^ now seized with a panic and are showing t.he white feather and have sought the assistance of the government in this condition of af"I think that it is most unfortunate that the government should intervene in the effort to protect those who have sold beyor.d their possession. It is also unfortunate that in this matter -Mr. Wickersham, the PARADE OF VETERANS ONCE MORE THE OLD REDELY WILL MAIUyi TO MUSIC. Grand Marshal Harrison Circs Instructions as to Order of March in Mobile Pageant. The old Confederate veteians will Boon gather In annual convention at Mobile. The official parade orders Issued by General P. Harrison as grand marshal, were made public on Thursday night by his chief of staff. Harry E. Jones. This settles the isBue as to the position of the carriage division that was raised by Gen. John A. Webb, of (Mississippi. The parade according to the official orders, will form at 10 o'clock In the morning on April 28. The order of divisions in the parade is as follows: Order of Divisions. Escort Columns?Includes police platoon. National guard battalion and cadet organizations. Veteran Column?Including general officers of the U. C. V., and uniformed escort. Trans-Mississippi Department. Texas division. Indian Territory division. Missouri division. Arkansas division. Northwest division. Pacific division. Department of Tennessee. Tennessee divis'on. Alabama division. [Mississippi division. Georgia division. Louisiana division. Florida division. Kentucky division. Oklahoma division. Department of Northern Virginia. North Carolina division. West Virginia division. Maryland division. Virginia division. South Carolina division. ruieBi unvunjr uurps. Carriage Division. Radios' Memorial association. Sponsors and maids for general headquarters. Sponsors and maids for departments and divisions in the order of their respective commands. Division of Sons and Daughters. Including Sons of Veterans' organisation and t.hoir sponsors and maids. DEMOCRATS VERY .11*111 L.\XT. Over the Election of a Democrat from New York. The Democratic victory in New York made the Democrats in the House jubilant on Wednesday. Representative Francis Burton Harrison, democrat, of New York, believed it " marked the overthrow of the regime, nation wide in its extent." Representative Underwood of Alabama. democrat, declared "it was a distinct repudiation of the PayneAldric.h law and the administration." Underwood declared no other construction could l>e placed upon the Massachusetts and New York elections. Representative Norris, of Nebraska, one of the republican "insur Bents," said: "It is simply the uprising of the people against machine rule and m? ans that the people will stnnd for it no longer. It is a local matter in New York, hut similar conditions prevail throughout the country and similar results will ensue." ltKTAI.V Til Kilt SKATS. I .ever anil la'gaiV Declared Legally KIcctcd. A decision to allow Representatives Lever and Legare of South Carolina to retain their seats in the house was announced Wednesday by t.he elections committee. Counsel at the hearing sought the endorsement of the constitutionality of the South Carolina election laws hearing on the elimination of negro suffrage. The committee would not take that view, hut agreed to seat the two members because their contestants. R. II. Richardson and George Priorlean, respectively, both negroes, did ..Anoli.n .. t. < <11 linml.Ai. i%t votes. Demand* Inquiry. Col. W. T. I'.rock, assistant adjutant general, said Wednesday that he would ask for a court of inquiry for a full Investigation of the charges niade by Adjutant General Boyd, lie states that he will not enter into a newspaper controversy. Attorney General, under whose direction the inquiry is being made, should tie the law partner of Mr. Taft, the counsel of the cotton exchange, and tnat Mr. Taft, the counsel, is the brother of the President . "It has come to a pretty pass in the government when it is no crime for a set of men to sell what they don't possess, but becomes a crime for others who are interested in the maintainence of prices of the raw material act together so as to compel those who have sold *o ?* "iver what they have sold." MAD DOG VICTIMS FORTY OP THRST ARE NOW BE1NG THEATER RREE At Columbia in the State Pastuer Institute Located There, Which 1h Very Much Crowded. Over forty cases of rabies and now being treated in the new established State Pasteur Institute at Columbia at the University of South Curolina. With the approach of summer it is iearea inp numoer 01 cases will increase and it is likely that the next Legislature will be asked to make some provision for housing and feeding such patients as finding suitable boarding houses Is becoming a serious problem. 'Many of the patients are from very poor families. Most of the victims now receiving treatment are white children though there are a number of negroes in the list. The reception room at t.he institute looks like a small kindergarten when l)r. Coward comes in at 9:30 o'clock and rolled up his sleeves for a hard day's work. The case illustrating the ereatest havoc one worthless stray dog can do is that illustrated by five victims from Charleston there for treatment. Two others bitten by the same dog were sent elsewhere for treatment, one that of a child of Mr. J. L. Livingston, a brother of Mr. W. F. Livingston, the Charleston and C? 1umhia shoe dealer. This child hr.J an eye bitten out. One of the negro victim's of this dog had to have several stiches taken in its face to close up a wound and another negro victim had a leg chewed into so deeply to render it a cripple for life. The white victim of this dog Is the little four-year-old daughter of E. C,. Steele, the Associated Press operator in The News and Courier office. The child is accompanied by its mother. The Steele child is n it. doing so well, and an ertra physician was calked into consultation. Three white women from Chester were bitten by a pet calf which suddenly went mad. FINDS WATKHY CittAVE. A Ln<l Drowned While Fishing In the Xeuse lUvcr. News reached Ooldsboro Wednesday of the drowning near Salem church of Mr. Troy Crawford, son of (Mr. Daniel Crawford, of the Noel tun section. ioung t rawioni, wr.o was barely 18 years of age. and Charles Williams, ngeri about 17, were fishing in the river. The boys had just hooked a large fish and in their excitement overturned the boat, and were thrown Into the Bwlft swollen current. Two small colored boys were on the bank and threw a grape vine to Williams, but Crawford was carried out into the middle of the stream, beyond reach and was drowned. The body was recovered next morning and carried to the home of the distressed parents. MIST LOVK HER. Joseph Albertson's I>oiig Journey for 11 is flride. After coming 10,000 miles to claim his bride, Joseph Albertson, who is to be married at Montrose, Pa., to Heatrice I.arabe, will leave on a 1F>,oOO mile journey with her. Albertson is a district superintendent of public schools in the Philippines ana he and Miss'Larabe have been engaged for four years. He went to I.Manila soon after the engagement Some time ago he got a leave of abaence and travelled the 10.000 miles to Montrose to wed. The honeymoon li i|i win ntr uvur a ruuic 1 .),uvu uiiitrs long. WOM A N C<>N FESSBS. Columbia Case Is Likely Never to lie Tried in Court. At Columbia Olindo Scessa an Italian dressmaker, who has been in jail for several weeks without hail charged with criminally assaulting the wife of a Columbia watchmaker, was Thursday released on a five hundred dollar ball by Judge Gary on an affidavit of the victim admitting thai s,ho had been having illicit relations with the defendant previous to the alleged assault. It is likely now that the case will n ver be brought to trial. The woman's affidavit created a sensation. Lost All of His Money. Standing helpless, while the hoardings of a lifetime burned, was the experience which Jesse C. Walters, a farmer, suffered at Parbun, Miss., hi to Thursday. Waters, who is 70 years old. <li;l not l> Hove in banks and kept all his savings In his Jhuml>lo farm house, amounting to several thousand dollars. When he reaehed his home after dicoverlng it in flames, he was too late to rescue anything. Arbitration A greed I'pon. Arbitration of the wage demand of the train men and conductors of the New York Central lines west of Ruffalo were agreed upon Saturday. DESERT SINKING SHIP DEMOCRATS WILD WNTROh THK NEXT HOUSE. Opinion in Washington as to Retirement of Ahlrirh and Other Republican iA'aders. The recent events in national politics has roused the whole country to a belief that the doom of the republican party is settled and the democrats are standing to win the fight for the next congress. Various prominent leaders have spoken of the result in Massachusetts, and the victory in the Syracuse New York district. and the determination of Aldrich and other republican leaders t n rpt I r? fri.m nn)?Un 1? f** ??%wl !*-> general sentiment is that there is a handwriting on the wall which ill of the political prophets can read. The following view from Zach McGhee of the State in Washington summarizes the sentiment as gathered In that iiolitical center. Aldrich and Aldridge for a joint subject of great interest in Washington "The rats are leaving^the ships." is what is heard in Democratic circles. and the republicans are siniplv looking sick. While the retiremenl of Aldrieh at the end of this congress on the announcement of it fni political effect is being talked ol the town is s^t further agog by tli? news from the 34th New York dis trict, where a democrat beats the republican boss. Aldridge. for congress Tlie reverse is as great as that Mas sachusetts several weeks ago, wher chusetts sewral weeks ago. wher Fuss was elected. Havens overcomes a majority of 10.000 and piles up e democratic majority of several thous and. Senator Aldrieh gave out a lettei he has written the governor of Ithodt Island notifying the governor and country that he would not be a candidate for re-election to the senate This is taken to mean that the senate boss sees that his days as boss are numbered and that he had better get out. It is suggested that it the country again goes republican in the fall election then Mr. Aldrieh will come back in which case lie would continue the boss. The case of Mr. Hale is slightly different in that Mr. Hale confronts def at anyway. Some have been whispering about the capitol that we may expect to hear from Lodiee of Massachusetts. whose reelection is by no means certain. THEY HAD A HOT TIME. General How in Which Two Persons Are Killed. One man killed outright, another dying, still another seriously injured and a woman in a precarious condition is the net result of a quarrel started In a boarding house in Welch. \V. Va., presided over by the woman victim. John Jones, a former boarder, had l?een warned several times by Mrs, Cleek to stay away from her home. Shortly after noon Tuesday he appeared at the house and an altercation ensued. A. T. Taylor, a boarder, sided with Mrs. Cleek, and this Infuriated Jones, who grasping a din ner bell, pounded Taylor over till head with it. Mrs. Cleek immediate ly procurred a revolver and shoi Jones, killing him tnstantly. Shortly afterward, Jones's son I.ewis. entered the boarding house and hit Mrs. Cleek with a hug< stone, fracturing her skull. Tayloi then secured the weapon, used, b: Mrs. Cleek and shot young Jonei above the heart, and the local hos pltal physicians say he cannot re cover. J. P. Jones, a relative of th< dead man. then interfered and wai shot through the arm and shoulde by Taylor, who then disappeared. A KKKIFS OF TltAOKDIKS. Several Unacted at Itingliumpton 01 the Same Day. An unusual series of tragediei w* re recorded at Ringhnmpton, N Y., for the twenty-four hours ending Monday evening. Dominic Fritz, of Corhettsville. si suburb, died from the effects of s bullet wound in his bead. He was shot by his own 1 8-nionths-old child who had been playing with an old revolver, supposed to be unloaded. Charles I.nwcs. a wnnlthv farmer hanged himself in his barn, despondent. over inability to obtain farm laborers at any but prohibitive rates. The dead l>ody of an unknown man .alxnit 2."? years of ace. w 11 dressed and carrying several hundred dollars in money was found on a railroad bridge crossing the Susquehanna river. lie had evidently been struck and killed by a train. Feared the Comet. Fear that the approaching come' would destroy the earth, led to the suicide of Mrs. Florence Shankalnd nged 21, at Louisville, Ky., Thu^s day night. According to the state meats of neighbors, Mrs. Shankland who was of a melatichol ynature. ba< been specially morose since the aJ vent of Halley's comet, helb ving thi end of the earth might tak? " ace a any moment. BEAT HIM UP BADLY ( TALK OF WOK THAT IS TOLD BV 1 i <A MICHIGAN MAN. ? tlaims to Il? art Odd Fellow and ! Was Whipped for Fraternizing With Colored BrethiVn. A highly sensational story of assault and battery and ill treatment 1 alleged to have taken place along the i , road between Land rum and Tryon ? on Monday was told by \V. C. Black- t i man, an electrical workman, who ] willingly unburdened .his tale of woe to Patrolman Lominac of Ashville. N. C . * ... 1 i The man's tale was backed up by 1 concrete evidence. The skin on the . back was broken on an average of ( every inch, and .he was covered with welts and bruises. \Blackman told the ofTicer that .he was an Odd Fellow and came to the ' south from Michigan. He had been in Landman for a short while, and Sunday night attended a ne0ro meeting. where he sa'" that the preacher was wearing what purported to be an Old Fellow Insignia?the three ' links. Blackman. also wore the three liinks and the negro preacher re cognized him and spoke to hitn call ing him "brother" and invited him T to the pulpit. Blackman said he i accepted, and thought little of the incident until after the service, when - ugly words were hurled at him by . some of the white men. Monday, he says, a committee of i three or four white men visited him, i taking violent exception to his ap' parent acceptance of equality with i the negroes. They wanted to know - how long he expected to remain in town, and when he replied until the " next train, they told him this was s too long and he was given thirty I minutes' notice to leave. Packing his electrical tools in his grip, he . set out towards Tryon on the dirt road. i Blackman, continuing his tale to the officer, said that he was followed by two ijie.n, who heat him with sticks. As. he approached farm 1 houses the npQn would drop hack, ' but catch ui) spon after he passed a 1 house. He fiki that he finally threw j his grips down at a turn of the road and dodged into the rover of some trees. Jihf out all day and went i to Tryon uhdo'r rover of darkness. , He says that his persecutors detected liis presene*;. He said d messenger came to his room and said someone wanted to see him about electrical work, but he, smelling a mouse, dodged out of the hoarding house, and caught the next train for Asheville. Blackmnn said that all he had i uone mat tnoy could take otTense | I to was that he associated with a , I n^gro. He asked the officers to as- j slat .him in securing his grips. He ( knows the names of his assailants. , so it is said, and has given these to , the officers and efforts may he made , to institute prosecutions. He undressed and showed the officers his frightful injuries. FALLS INTO TilF SKA. ' M. Kougier, Frencli Aviator, IL?s a ? Narrow Kscape. ( At Nice, France, iM. Rougier, the French aeronaut, had a narrow escape from death Tuesday, when his aeroplane in which tie was making a ? flight, fell into the sea. Rougier r , was rescued ;a.yd is suffering from f ' slight injnrit*s which he received. a Where the machine fell the water was 70 feet deep. The aeronaut said .'that for some unknown reason the 1 rudder failed !sfnd the machine drop?! ped like a stone, it struck the wat< r R with great fo,rc? and sank. Rougier r became entangled in a stav hut dis entagled it anil rose to the surface. His head li-it> a5cross piece cutting it sligihtly. lie managed to k-op himself adopt ujdil- taken into a boat. 1 COIAJUKDIUSIIOP AltlCi;sTi:i>. (1iarj;?l Willi. Kinliez/.liiig Small Amount of Money. ? llishop Wesley J. Gaines, colored, ^ of Atlanta. f!a? w.ho is holding the , ' annual New Jersey eonferemv of the ; A. M. R. Church at Camden, N. J., , was arrested Thursday charged with I embezzlement. It is alleged that he [ diverted to, his own use one hundred and fifty dollars that should have .been appropriated to a superanuated i minister fund. The warrant was ob talned by Rev. J. H. Morgan, forini ' erly ' srirretiirV, of the conference. I Gaines was held in one thousand dol lacs hall /or*.fv.hearing before a jusi tie' of the'peace. The bishop says . .ho is allowed $f>00 for expenses and - $150 foj legitimate needs. Death of Gen. French. Gen. G. S. French, who died al 1 Florala. Ala., was the oldest living > graduate of West Point in the Ci>n. federate service. He was horn in - Gloucester. N. J., in ISIS, and grnd-! uated from West Point in lS I.'l. and , went to Texas. He served under 1 Gen. Taylor in the Mexican war and - was wounded at t.he battle of Bu"na e Vista. Returning to New Jersey ne t was presented with a sword by that State. ' ' V ? NEW COTTON PEST INTERESTING INFORMATION KEI> SPIDERS. In Dry Seasons Ills ltavages Itecomo Serious and He Needs Careful Watching by Cotton IMantetX. A correspondent of The State writing from Ratesburg call attention to ;l new cotton noot tt'tiloti v.- ? 1 ? rvw, t? *nv u uc najB uil3 icq ui red a keen appetite for tbe cotton plant. This enemy is the "tetranychus gloveri," commonly known is the "red spider." He is a spider by virtue of the fact that he has four pair of legs, instead of three, and would not be considered such in the :omtnon acceptance of the term. Ho Is rather a "mite," and his presence would hardly be noticed except for the effect that his rapacious appetite has on growing vegetation. iL. O. Howard, who is chief entomologist in the bureau of entomology, which is a branch of the I'niled States department of agriculture ha? made two recent trips to South Carolina in the study of the "red spider." At present H. T. Wilson, who is connected with the bureau, has headquarters at Ratesburg and is devoting practically his entire time to a study of the pest. And to means of its eradification. In his study of pests he has traveled over most of cotton States, devoting much time to those along the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Wilson states that the red spider is found in practically every portion of the cotton belt. In somo sections the spider is scarce, but in others it is becoming quite prevalent. It begins early in the yea?", probably living on other vegetation till the cotton is up. Rut little darnage, however, is usually apparent, until July or August, unless tiro weather is v ry dry. It usually works on the underside of the leaf. The egg from which it come is described as a "minute translucent pearl-like object," found only by close observation, and then only to the initiated. The egg is hatched In four or live days when t.he mite immediately is busy helping to bull the market, although it takes from it) lio 14 days before it can claim maturity. The distribution of the milo Is effected in several ways. It is not much for .walking, ami flying is an impossibility, so he has been observed traveling over iho ountry riding insects. The grasshopper seems to be its favorite steed. If t.he oonvenionce of ins cholco i? ...LI IIVT'HH- III II >1II i III (] H I IIT 11 ICH rnnnot lie ietorrnined fer !n the season when it is ton late to accomplish much. The first fllens should lie reported to Mr. Wilson, who will lie able to Rive valuable advice, and, if circumstances justify, will make a personal visit to the infected field. Fiend to Hang. Rodgers Mcrritt, the negro twice convicted of a criminal assault, ho is allowed to have committed upon a young white woman in the western part of Atlanta last year, was sentcrced again by Judge Roan of tho seoerior court, Tuesday morning, to bo hanged Juno 3rd. 3low in arriving it will pot 011 tho first vehicle coming along, unless it happens to he a water wagon. It. is adverse to water, and has never been known to thrive in rainy weathsr. Tt will get on the clothes of laborers and then get back on the cotton further down the row. Th8 ciiief method of combating the mite is by proper culture rotation of crops, deep ploughing in fall and winter, the destruction of all vegetation after crop is gathered, and keeping down weeds and grass ill the spring. Powdered sulphur is used to destroy the mite, and sprays of sulpher and lime, or of sulpher and lye are also used. There are other mixtures that are more or less effective, but those containing sulphur have been found to be the b st. In determining tho attack of thered spider, or "rust mite," as he Is sometimes called, attention is callel to the facts from Mr. Howard's, circular on the subject. "The earlier attacks of the mlto are quite characteristic; the leaves presenting on the upper side near the base a scarlet appearance, which, occurring at first between the Inrgr ribs, gradually sprea's over tho leaf as the mites multiply, then dies out an 1 is replaced by a dirty yellow, the leaf Anally shriveling and falling to the around. Larger ami iFim-i n'incs f.'ii w nit? enon 01 mo attack bcfop- younger leaves." Of bis trips to South Carolina during 1901 and 190.r? Mr. Howard han the following observation: "In reveral instances it was noticed that frem a point on the margin of a field where there were growing largo poke-berry plants the infestation by tin? r< .1 spider had spread Over 14 fan shaped area of t.he adjoining cotton. At that time of the year (July ami August) these weeds, as well as the eoekleburr showed the effect of the red spider's work." It will Ik well for the cotton growers. especially in this section, to keep a sharp lookout f >r the first indications of t.he spider. Its appearance is not hard to detect, nor is if. any eonsid* rable trouble to control In favorable weather: but permitted to multiply it will attack 1 org areas,