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SOUTH GAINS" Representation in Congress ns tke ^ Present Censns W3I Skew LARGE INCREASE HERE Each Southern Slate May Get an Adtional Member in the Lower House But Northern Republican Representatives Will Oppose the Increase Strenuously. iA dispatch from Washington says since estimated returns of the 13th census, sent to Director Durand, Indicate that in many of the States of the South large gains have been made la population since the last census was made, ten years ago. Democrats are beginning already to prepare for the fight that Is almost certain to be made against a larger representation from that section. These partial returns indicate that In probably all of the States South of the Masen and Dixon line the increase in population since the last apportionment was made will be sufficient to permit of an additional member of the lower house In each of them, while In some of the Western States the returns indicate that the present number or Representaf'ves will either be slightly reduced, or at most no additional members will be authorized. This Is what will cause the trouble. The Republicans will hate to give up any of their present strength and they would hate worse to Bee It go Stouth, the home of the Democrats, but they will be unable to defeat a fair apportionment. Taking the rule of progression, as stated by Director Durand, a little figuring will show what each of the States should be entitled to receive In the matter of Representatives in Congress when the next apportionment is made. In 1830 the total number of members of the House was 332, In 1890 It was 367, and In 1900 It was 391, which is the number at this time. What were the relative gains in population during each of those periods? In 1890 the population of the fortyfive States then in the Union was 62,116,811; in 1900 it had increased to 74,610,623 and at this time estimates make it around 91,000.000. In other words, from 1880 to JS90 the number of mcmneis in the House was increased by twMity-li?e and from 1890 to 19CG, thirty-four. TkornfrirA if t ho mini In I inn dlnpp 1900 lias increased from 74,000,000 in round numbers to 91.000,000 ? 17,000,000?there should be approximately forty new membeis admitted. Where will they conn; from? Will they come as representatives of the big cities of New Yi-k Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and HoRton, where the tide of immigration for ten years has been strong or will they come from the more thinly settled agricultural districts of the South and West? These are questions that Director Durand admitted he was totally unable to answer lntelligen'ly at this time. Immigration will figure largely In the final totals he said, and there is little doubt that the larger cities will make big gains, hence wil1 want more representatives in Congress. Those familiar with legislative affairs in Washington do not hesitate to state that the Republicans in the present Congress, among them Representatives Bennett, of New York; Crumpacker, of Ohio, and Keifer, of Ohio, will make every possible efTort to keep the Southern States from inp rpn ain c thpip TVmnrrntir mpin)u>r. ship in the House when the figures are all in and when the time for reapportioning the various States again comes round. Year by year the Congressmen named have made a determined fight against the present number of Representatives from the South?their claims being based on the theory that inasmuch as discrimination is used against the negroes and that in many instances the election laws of the country south of the Mason and Dixon line are such that the negroes are excluded that an exact representaproportion not to the total of proportion not to the the total of population In those States, but according to the registered voters wJio exercise the elective privilege. Such attempts have not yet been successful and probably never will be, so far as present conditions are concerned, but that the fight o? last year will be renewed when the question of making another apportionment comes up, is already well settled. Makes Heady to Ftfflit, /Peru is making active preparations for war with Ecuador. Twenty-four thousand soldiers are quartered in the vicinity of Lima while ten thousand more are stationed near the frontier. Alma Kcllner Found. lA special dispatch from London. Ky., says that Alma Kellner of Louisville, who wag kidnapped last winter, was f. .und at tii a> -, K y . with a THE NEW SEED LAW RULES ADOPTED BY THE OFF1 CIALS OF THE STATE. How (ho RochU Art Pmm4 by th Goaorol Assembly Will Be Hi forced. Rules and regulation* for the ec forcemeat of the seed Inspection ac have been nrenared ?v the commit sioner of agriculture and the directo of the state experiment station. Th following are the regulations as ar nounced: 1. In addition to the sheep sorre green and yellow fox tail, yello< trefoil, chickweed, which are raer tioned in section 4 of this act, th seeds of crab grass, Johnson graft paspalum, barn yard grass, chea witch graBS, nutgrass and othe sedges, lamium, lambsquarter, prick ley lettuce, dock, wild carrot, peppe grass, wild mustard, plaintain, wil op ion, spurge, spiny stda, amaranti pigweed, lady's thumb, hogweec ragweed button weed, evening prim rose, purslane, bind weed, Canad thistle, Russian thistle and Beeds o other weeds which may be added t this 11st from time to time shal be classed as impurities. 2. When inert matter such as de scribed in section 5 of this act, i present In Beeds in access of 3 0 pe cent the nature and amounts of sucl matters shall be stated on the labc as specified in this act. 3. Any package of corn, cotton oats, wheat, barley or other agricul tural seeds which shall contain mor than 5 per cent of another kind o variety of agricultural or weed seei than the one specified on the labe shall be considered mixed seed anshall be so labeled, giving the nam and amount of each kind or variet of seel that occutb in the mixture. >4 Seeds shall be considered adul terated wheR they contain we see's, other agricultural seeds o any seeds or materials which woul not occur in other seeds in the n? tural course of events. In such cat es the conditions under which th seed were grown will be conslderec 5. Seed shall be considered mil branded when the label as prescril e>d by the act does not give the coi rect name of seed contained thereii 6. The germination power of a seed sold in this state shall be sta ed in the label, as specified in se< tion 1 of the act. in per cent. N seed shall be sold in the state whic doeB not when placed under favoi able conditions In the laboratory, gei minate the per cent guaranteed o the label. 7. Seeds sold for lsu.-n nnrnAc, shall be labeled so as to sho what kinds of seed occur in th mixture and the percentage by welgt and number of each. Such seed Bha conform In purity and germinatlo to the same standards set for othr agricultural seeds. 8. Seed containing anthracnoe of cotton, smut of corn, wheat, oat< rice, barley, blue grass or othc grasses, onions or sorghum, black re of cabbage or turnips, black rot c sweet potato, dry rot scab of Iris potato anthracnose or bacteria blight of beans, anthracnose o wheat, oats or barley, shall be cor sidered a communicable disease an shall be considered impure and unfi fbr seeding purposes, unless pre viously treated so as to kill the cans al organization of such disease with out lnjoring the vitality of the see* 9. The object of this act is to con trol the sale of seed and prevent thi distribution of weeds and other pest through seeds In this state. It 1 the purpose of those in authority ti enforce the law so as to secure thi best protection with the least hard ship on any one concerned. Witl this purpose in view the regulation will be modified and ad?(ed to as oc casion seems to demand. WOMAN SHOOTS NKOKO. When lie Advanced Upon Her Sh Pulled Trigger. 'Mrs. Bertie Rhodes, of Granvill County, N. C., shot and killed Jo Klnton, colored, on Monday. Th homicide took place fifty miles fror Durham. Before the justice, Mn Rhodes, member of a family com posed of a Presbyterian minister, he brother, a sister in charge of a Tea as conservatory, testified that sk had forbidden Kinton's driving acros her lands and tha. when she agai rebuked him he left his buggy an came towards her. Then she loade her shotgun and fired at him. Th shooting took place 15 miles beloi Oxford, near the Virginia line. KILLS (lilt L III'. IX)VEIL Shot Her Mother and Attempted t Kill Himself. At Schenectady, N. Y., becaus Mrs. Josephine Liopiello refused t consent to the marriage of her 16 year-old daughter, Angelina, to Lu cane Milano, Milano pulled a revol ver from hl3 pocket and shot the glr through the temple, causing her al most Instant death, shot the mothei through the throat and ten, after i futile attempt to cut his own throat took poison. The mother and Mllan< will recover. ,i, i i i rt " CLAIMS THRONE K in Wka Says He is tke Oldest Sea fin*Edward, tke Ssveatk * AND IS THE LEGAL KING John George Guelph Tells a Strange Story in New York, Kelattng to r e the Late King of England, and One of His Karly Love Affairs. 1, John George Guelph, who claims w to be eldest son of the late King Ed'* ward VII, by a marriage which Queen e Victoria made her son disavow, and St therefore the rightful ruler of the ' Hritish Empire, was seen at 106 Monr tague street in New York Tuesday, miu uBiteu wiiiu ne intended to do to gain the throne. ^ l"The prince," aB he Is still called ' by his wife and friends, although ' Edward VII, Is dead, displayed In l" answer a cablegram he had just dlBa patched to George V., at the palace '* In London. ? '"This Is the best answer as to " what my attitude will be," said he. The cablegram read: "Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A., 8 "May 6th, 1910. r "King George, London: h "Words fall to express my grief. 1 You understand my position. 1 am at the service of my country. ' "John George Guelph." "But," said the reporter, puzzled, e "how does that make your position r clear?" "You will notice," said the prince. ' "that I renounce none of my claims in that cablegram. In fact, I assert e my rights. My position in reality is y that of King of England and Emperor of the British Empire. George knows that. He will understand J what I mean. I do not lay myself at r GAeorge's disposition, as a subject ^ might be expected to do, in that laBt sentence. 1 do not offer George my ?~ services. I offer them to my coune try." ' "The matter of the prince's sue cession," said the princess, who was pressent at the interview, "is with r~ the people of Great Britain, and th* ' leading statesmen there. It is up to " them." f'But," it was pointed ou, "the cablegrnm is addressed to King George, ? London.' It that not in itself an acknowledgement that George is r" King?" r" "That means nothing," 6aid Prince n t_i._ ... . juun, except mat it was necessary to address It in that manner to in,8 sure its delivery." w The "prince" was very much broIe ken with grief, and as he told Uie 11 tale of all that he has been made to " suffer he frequently broke down and n sobbed. He wore black, even to ?.he >r necktie. And his grief seemed to D" very genuine. He is a tall, well ie built man of forty-nine, who looks 8* younger, and there is no doubt Uia'. r he bears a great facial resemblance to the English royal family. "The princess, before the prince ar^ rived, told to the reporter an outline L* of his story. The late king, she said, while Prince of Whales, niarried the daugter of an English peer who Queen Victoria disapproved and * forbade the public announcement of the marriage. "Prince John" was born. The peer's daughter was hustled out of sight and never acknowl' edged. But the marriage was never annulled. "The Prince" went to e India while very young. The'e he s learned of his parentage and was of8 fered a title if he would go to Aus0 iralia and s'.athere, nbecause e the rc^eptanc-* of the t' it, would bt at the price of his mother's good 1 name, he refused it. He demanded 8 acknowledgement for her alBO. She never received it and is now in the Holy Hand as a missionary. Neither lhe prince nor the princess would tell who she le "The Prince" Bays he had a great p many letters from the late king acknowledging him as his son. "Will you make these letters pube lie now?" he was asked, e "If I am forced to do so," he rep plied. Just what his first step will be in n the way of gaining the throne he would not say. Matters of that kind, '* so he said, cannot be done hastily, r WHITE CJIKL SAVED. e s Two Wlilte Women and Their Chlnn d e?e Husbands Arrested. d At New York, under orders from v the district attorney four habitues of Chinatown were arrested in what is described by Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss as a new white alava r?1 /vf f *"* ^ ' * u.u,v ,uul. in vu? 01 me nouses visited by detectives. Marcelle Feaure, ? a pretty 16-year-old white girl, w-hose home is at Easton, Pa., was seined and aent to the house of detention, e The arreRts, as Mr. Moss said, foiled 0 a plot to take the girl into Chinatown - after she had been lured there from - her .home for that purpose. Two - white women and thetr Chinese hus1 bands are the prisoners. Mr. Moss - said he is confident no harm has yet r come to the girl, as it was planned i to introduce her slowly to the as, pect of vice in Chinatown before the ) sale for fear she would become disgusted and run away. I 9 FOUND NOT GUILTY JURY AOQU1T8 THE MAN A MOB WANTED TO LYNCH. Carried From Greeavill? to Spartambarf( to Escape the Mob That Were Olammorlnn for His Ufa. Jesse Fuller, charged with the murder of J. E. Llddell on Christmas eve, at Greenville, was declared not guilty by tue jury charged with his ease after deliberations of two hours Monday night at Greenville. Trial of the case was begun Monday morn ing and went to the Jury shortly after six o'clock Monday night. The principal witness for the state was W. O. Stover, who claimed that Fuller confessed to .him shortly after the murder. It was on his allegation that Fuller was arrested and lodged in jail on Christmas day Fuller gave a satisfactory account of his whereabouts on Christmas eve, which was corroborated by Joe Barker, who claimed to have been with him. The acquittal is the subject of much comment on the streets of Greenville for it was only by the strategy of tho sheriff's office that Fuller was not lynched when implicated by Stover. A mob formed in front of the court house demanding his life, but he was spirited away and carried to Spartanburg, where he was kept in jail for several weeks. The murder of Liddell was one of the most brutal ever enacted in the city of Greenville and raised feeling to a high pitch. Several persons are still under suspicion. SHOOTING SCKAl'K ON 8TKK*r One Man Is Killed and Two Others Are Wounded. Because they r?t?.'ntei hi? attentions to their sis ei, Edward and Herbert Mercer engaged in a pist il duel on the Vrvs of C >rd--l'.e. Monday with Qrady Sn?:?ir:ov'. The latter and William Benton, a bystander, were probably fatally wounded and Edward Mercer was slightly wounded In the shoulder. Following the visit of Sneilgrove to Miss Mercer Sunday afternoon the brothers made such strenuous o'c jections that Snellgrove was forced to make a hurried escape by means of a second story window. Sunday nijaht Snellgrove and the girl's father discussed the affair and it was thought that there would be no further trouble, but as soon as the younger men m?t. on the street Monday revolvers were brought into play. CHEIU1KKK MAN DROWNED. Efforts of Companions Failed to Save the Unfortunate. Information has just reached Gaffney to the effect that C. Lipscomb, J. R. Graham and George Thomason were seining in a pond on Thicketty Creek Tuesday. Lipscomb could not swim and claimed the pond was not beyond his depth. Recent high water washed a deep hole where they went beyond depth. Lipscomb and Thomason both went down, and Graham. in trying to save Lipscomb, narrowly escaped drowning, ns Lipscomb in a frenzy pulled him under. Seeing he could not save him, Graham managed to catch an overhanging limb and get out, where he was joined by Thompson, in exhausted state, he claiming that Lipscomb and Graham. struggling, sent him to the bottom. Lipscomb's body was recovered after a searth of three hours. SHOOTS NEIGHBORS GUESTS. | Suspicion of Theft of His Whiskey Causes the Attack. Armed with a repeating shotgun. Arch Brown, aged 37 years, Monday afternoon opened fire upon assembled guests at the home of a neighbor, four miles from Staunton, Va., killing two persons and wounding two otberB. one of whom may die. Perry Hoy, and a boy, named Higgs. eight years old, are dead. Abe Hoy, brother of Perry Hoy, was probably fatally shot and the other shot was the father of the Higgs boy. .Browns wholesale shooting was a result of his anger having heen aroused by the belief that Abe Hoy had stolen some whiskey with which .-ivn ii iino ciiu uaifii 10 mm. iiro wn went to St&unton after the shooting and surrendered to the jailer. MEET DEATH ON TRACK. Run r<own by Coast Line Train at Rocky Mount, X. C, Roy Gainey and \Vi!l>er Devault. two young men, were killed at Rocky Mount, N. C.. late Saturday night by an Atlantic Coast Line train. These young men left Clinton recently to seek employment and were working in a cotton mill at Rocky 'Mount. They met death in avoiding one train at a crossing by stepping onto another track, when th?y were run down by an incoming train, which t.hey did not h-ar on account of the rumble of the first train. Their parents live in Clinton and were appraised of the sad news. , THE COTTON TARE ACT ' SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IT AT EARLY DATE. * A Dectiloa That Will Be of Great Intercut to tlie Farmers of the State. The State Supreme Court has been , asked to pass upon the constitutionality of the Cotton Tare Act, which was enacted at the last session of the Legislature. A warrant has been sworn out against W. G. Mullins, a cotton buyer of Columbia charging him with violation of the Act. It is thought that this is purely a t<>st case. The suit is of vital importance ( to all cotton farmers. The act is , as follows. "Section 1. That from and after the approval of this Act it shall be ( nnlo u*f i.l f~- - - = ?? .i*r. iui iwi unj (ivibuii, iinil or corporation engaged in the business of buying cotton in thiB State aB ( principal or agent to deduct any sum j for bagging and tieB for the weight | or price of any bale of cotton when the weight of the bagging and tics does not exceed 6 per cent, of the i gross weight of such bale of cotton. | In the event that the weight of the j bagging and teis exceeds sixty per ; cent of the gross weight of such bales j of cotton only the excess over the j said 6 per cent may be deducted. i "Section 2. For each and every ( violation of this Act the offender < shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and i shall be fined in the sum of not less i than $5 nor more than $25. or im- i prisonment not less than ten days l nor more than thirty days. Provided, this Act shall not apply to what i in trade is known as round bales | and bales of cottou which weigh Icbs < than 300 pounds." The act was ap- < proved on February 25, of this year. ] lit is claimed that $1,800,000 is i the amount involved in the test case \ that will be brought before the Su- < preme Court Monday on habeas cor- , pus proceedings, in connection with , the alleged violation of the Cotton ] Tare Act, which makes this caBe assume tremendous proportions in this j State. Heretofore the amount of | tare allowed on cotton was 20 pounds 1 to the bale. But under the enactment of 1910 the 6 per cent that j would be allowed, if the Act is de- i clared constitutional, wonld mean 30 pounds to each 500-pound bale, a difference of 10 pounds to the bale. | The Columbia correspondent of ( The News and Courier wants to know who will pay this difference? Why the 'armers have been charged tare all the time. A tare of six pounds per hundred on all American cotton is deducted in Liverpool when , the price of our cotton is fixed, and of course the farmer loses this. Now If a Klurnf I " -I~ 1 1-_ - " .4 ? uujci <11 VyViiuuium fVllUl'tlB Ull ten more pounds for tare the farmer , is being robbed of just ten pounds of cotton, as the six pounds tare on ( each hundred pounds of his cotton t has already been deducted when the ] price is fixed in Liverpool, where the | price of our cotton is always fixed that being the market in which wV sell the surplus of our cotton cop. This is an old question, and it. ( should be familiar to all farmers and cotton buyers. Should a farmer put as much as 4SO pounds lint cotton in a bale and put on that bale only 20 pound of bagging and t ties he is giving away ten pounds of , lint cotton, as he is eredited by the ^ Liverpool fixers of the price of our cotton with only 4 70 pounds of lint c cotton in all bales weighing 500 pounds. The farmer is not paid for the bagging and ties, as many sup- c pose. For every hundred pounds s of cotton he sells six pounds is de- s ducted to pay for the bagging and n ties he puts on it. c On what ground any buyer should ? deduct ten pounds of cotton from a bale of five hundred pounds or any 1 other weight bale is a mystery to r us. It would be a clean steal of i just that much cotton from the farm- 1 er, unless there is a defect in the 1 packing of the bale in some way. The farmer who puts more than 47 0 i")unus 01 cotton in a ,r?0() pound bah' is simply giving away the excess he j puts in over that amount. The haggling and tleB should make up the thirty pounds needed to make the bale weigh 500 pounds We are satisfied that the supreme court will uphold the act as it simply protects the farmer in his Just rights. The ten cent tare that is involved in this decisioi amounts to over a million dollars, and we know of no reason why the farmers should be buncoed out of It. It is understood that the test case is brought by a large Columbia firm of cotton dealers, M. C. Heath & Co., and W. G. Mulllns hns been arrested on a warrant sworn out charging him with violating the Tare Act. The case will come up Monday in the Supreme Court. Ck?inmitte<l Suicide. a..*-j ?_ m . - " treat eu in iroiu or a mirrow in his room, David Belinsky shot himself In the head. He was employed In Buffalo, N. Y., but a note gives his place of residence as Boston, ll Mass. r g ^ + r King George V, who succeeds his f father to the throne of England, is {" said to he a good man in the rela- l) tions of life. c rHEY LAND HARD lillooa Fell Like Plummet of Lead U tke Earth Witb Tw0 Men BOTH ARE BADLY HURT riie DarinK VojrnRerR Dfvamiikd la a De?)laU\ Isolated IlrRion, Itemote from Telegraph, After Making n Flight of Four Hundred Miles, Fndiiring Many Hardships. After a thrilling flight of four hundred miles, during which they ascended to an altitude of 120.600 feet and encountered two snowstorms. A. Holland Forlx>s of ltrtar?,~ ... .MOV|/vi i, VV/Unectlcut. vice president of the Aero Club of America and Y. C. Yates, of New York, lost control of their balloon. the Viking, Tuesday afternoo* and descended with such precipitation that both aeromauts were badlybruised and the balloon partially wrecked. The balloon came to earth near Center. Ky., a hamlet about 20 miles from Horse Cave, and dropped the linal one hundred feet of space like i stone. The escape of t.he balloonIsts from instant death was little short of miraculous. A representaive of the Associated Press visited '.he injured balloonists at the farm jf Tilden Itoston, where they were removed after alighting, and found aoth men suffering from severe ruises and sprains, but not seriousy injured. Although confined to their beds hey expect to be able to travel within two or three days "We left juincv, HI., at 6.55 o'clock Monday ^veiling," said Mr. Forbes. "We were iioping to strike favorable air currents from the west that might give us a chance at the long distance re:ord. We were carried in a semicircle, however, passing over parts af Illinois. Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky. Tuesday morning we encountered Intense cold and a severe snow storm at an altitude of 16.000 feet. On Tuesday afternoon, at an altitude of 16,000 feet, we ran Into another snow storm. Shortly afterwards wo shot up to 20,000 feet. From that time on the cold was so intense that we became benumbed and half stupid and gradually lost power to control the balloon. I cannot tell what the altitude was but just before we made our final drop, an x-ffort to k>t out gae by the valve had not succeeded in bringing us to the ground as fast as wo desired. Finally, I decided to ubo the rip cord before we lost consciousness entirely. In some manner, yet unexplained the cord did its work entirely too well and ripped the bag almost from top to bottom. The descent was terrific, and I judge for ? ? --? -i .ooi. uuuurcii it;ei iihtp wan very little gas left in the balloon, as it fell like a stone." Al'TO FX)I'M) IN ALLKV. Suspected to be the Machine that Killed Woman. An automobile with bloodstains on he wheels found abandoned in an illey at Chicago Thursday is beieved to l?e the machi"' which caus:d the death of .Mrs. Albert Itehr on donday night. Mrs. iBehr, and her husband, a arjienter, were about to cross the itreet when the car is said to have iwerve?d into Mrs. Ibhr, who was ilmost decapitated. The chaufTeur lid not 6top, it is reported, and disippeared quickly into Lincoln park. A police captain whose son is beieved to have been one of the five nen in the car, is active in conducing the investigation. Three saloonceepers and the driver are said to lave been the other occupants. A FANATIC CAIiliKI) DOWN. If Said That No Virtuous Woman Would Attend Dance. R. L. Page, Jr., who edits a weeky paper at Quitman, Mass., several lays since had a scathing editorial ipon a dance of prominent society 'oik there, in whieh he called the lancing "public hugging," and intinated that no virtuous woman would ndulge in such practices. Page has >een out of the city for several days, le returned Wednesday morning, vas met by a group of prominent itizens, forced to eat a clipping of he editorial, and was then taken in narge by a constantly increasing rowd. Page managed to escape his issailants and started to running, ap>arently making good his escape, alhough many threats had heen made is to what his fat** would be. ^ Finds ills Life. J. 'Vf. Powers, a w^iite man who las been running a merry-go-round icar Ten Mile Hill for the past few nonths, and who recently opened a reak animal show in Charleston, ouiniitted suicide Monday afternoon y draining a two-ounce bottle of arbolic acid.