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1 GREAT GAINr afc ij Capital Invested in Sooth I Carolina SINCE FIRST OF YEAR Over Kleven Million Dollare in Petitions for Charters and Commission*.?The Fees Paid the State Larger Than Ever Before.?They May Break the Record. The State says over $11,000,000 repescnts the amount invested in enterprises in South Carolina since the first of the year which is an unprecedented record for the State as to the capital used. In several instances companies wete organized and rechartered. hut the majority of the $11,000,000 represents new business. Tha records in the secretary of state's office shows that to April 1 charters were issued to companies with a capitalization of over $7,000. 000. Since April 1 several large companies have been chartered and rechartered. The Charter of the Pelzer Manufacturing company will expire at an early date and a new charter in perpetuity was secured. This concern has a capital of $1,000,000 and was chartered by the legislature in 1880 for a term of thirty years. The Pelzer Manufacturing company is n pioneer in the texlle industry in this State and is one of the most successful manufacturing concerns. Another large company to receive a (fharter since April 1 was the Santee River Cypress Lumber company of Ferguson in Orangeburg county. The company has a capital of $1,500,000. In connection with a genera^ lumber business, the company will do a general mercantile busi nees. The secretary of state has turned <over to the State treasurer the sum of $7,051.91 as charter fees received since the first of the year and up to April 1. Since April 1 over $2.600 has boon received by the secretary as charter fees which will be counted on the presnt quarter. The total amount received as charter fees from'January 1 to April 1, 1909, was $6,561.48. which is nearly I? ,000 less than for the present year. The total amount received in charter fees by the secretary of State for the year 1909 was over $20,000. Judging the increase over the first quarter of the year of 1910 and 1909, it is estimated that at least $30,000 will be secured from charter fees, which amount will be the largest in the history of the State. The number of dissolutions for the present year has b^en less than for 1909 to the present time. T.ho records in the secretary's office show that the industries that have been chartered are varied. There have been a large number of companies chartered with capital stocks. Tanging from $10,000 to SI 0 0.000. A number have been incorporated with over $1,000,000. The larg st number of companies to be chartered were in Georgetown, Charleston and Greenville. The increase in these Counties has been most marked. There has been special activity in peal estate. More than a score of large companies .have been organized in Charleston and Georgetown, and especially Georgetown, which oounty makes a tine showing for real estate companies. In Charleston real ectate values are said to have made phenomenal advances during the past few years. Property is said to have doubled in value. ' This fact is shown that at least a dozen substantia! real estate companies, hacked by the loading business men of Charleston, have been chartered during the first {hre? months of the yea'. The cap ? .1 of hegc companies average from $l? 000 to over $J00,O00. A number of smaller lni^stri?>a have tcei organized with sub3t >:l?.l capit w Included under th's might foe mentioned the large number of mer i ?e companies that have hi?n| chartered in almost every towa 'n the state. This would indicate that the mercantile business is good. Fjw dissolutions of this nature af business nave been reported. More companies have been orj.-nized during the year for tha purpose of conducting farms than ia lh" history of the State. Two companies have been organized with a cai.tt! more than $35,000. Generally a mercantile company is conducted In cenrectlon with these companies. Other corporations organizao ii elude hanks, buildings and loan associations. realty companies, telephone companies, vegetable companies. boat lines and loan companies. The organization of texile companies has been unusually active. Something new for the State has been the corporation of the two underwear factories for Greenville. Each of the companies has a capital of $50,000 and will manufacture high grade under wear. These companies are controlled by South Carolina capital. Several Knitting mills have been organized with small capitals. Money doesn't give a person virtues, hut it makes people act as if he had thein all. ' KILLED TWO MEN JEALOUSY PROBABLY CAUSES A I DOUBLE MURDfiK. Negro Man In Jealous llage Shoots $ Down Two Negro Women in a Field. Evidently In a jealous fit of rage. James Robinson shot and instantly c killed Willie Brown, about 35 yearB i old. and her mother. Fan e Brown, | all the parties being negroes, rn the Vnnlln mnrlla near Bath, in Aiken county, Tuesday morning about eight o'clock. TJie only eye-witness was a little boy. From evidence given by him at the coroner's inquest, it seems that the two women wer? hoeing cotton in a little patch near their home, when Robinson was seen to come out of the woods nearby with a riflle in one hand an-d a satchel in the other. Seeing that he was mad about something, the woman asked him what was the matter. Saying, with an oath, "don't ask me what's the matter," he raised his gun to the level of his waist and shot Willie Brown, the dugbter, the bullet entering the right side of her body just above the waist and lodging in her body. Running off ten or twelve feet, Robinson turned and shot twice at the mother, both shots taking efTect, on? in tho back and coming out tb-o'igh her right breast, and the other entering at the thigh and com- 51 ing out h&hind. Turning then, he fled to the woods, were he met Caro- t line Jeter, colored, who asked him what he bad be?m shooting at. Giving an evasive reply, he continued his flight and has not as yet been caught. The coroner held an inquest over the two bodies Tuesday afternoon, ( but from the testimony nothing was gathered as to the cause of the shoot- j ing. although from outside sources it is learned that Robinson and the younger woman had been living in f intimate terms for some time, and j he must have heard some reports that aroused his jealousy, causing him to commit the double homicide. He has been employed in the Southern Railway yaids at Augusta, (la., for the past two years, making occasional visits to his former home in Bath. The coroner's verdict laid the crime at his feet. MOZAMBIQUE DESTROYED. City on East Coast of Africa Hit by Terrific Cyclone. A terrific cyclone swept over Mozambique on the east coast of Africa early last week, killing hundreds and destroying practically the entire city. The details received are meagre, but all reports agree that the windstorm was the fiercest ever known on the African coast in many years and that the death roll will be enromous. A coast-wise steamer, carrying 400 natives, was caught in the cyclone off the harbor of Mozambique and overturned, drowning all on board. A number of small native craft were swamped with loss of life and nearly every house on the three islands in the harbor was demolished. Mozambique, 6,000 in population, was formerly the metropolis ! of the Portuguese possessions in Africa. Its harbor is world famous. * i < Colored Itoy Drowned. The State says one negro boy was ' drowned, and two others who had gone to his assistance nearly lost their lives Sunday afternoon while playing in the pool just below where the Southern Railway crosses Gill's creek, about four miles below Col- 1 umbia. The boy who lost his life was about 14 years of age. Murderer Arrested. Dispatches from Rowling Green. V>..1 I ..F - __w_ t.v ? ui me <1 i rnl ui n ill.ill w III) j answers the description of Joseph Wendling. wanted for the murder cf Alma Kellner. The police say the man talked incoherently of having blood on his hands. He had been employed as a laborer In a Howling Green mill only a week. (jetting Worse. New Jersey has 70,000 negroes without religion, said Rev. Trusty, Sunday, in an address to the conference of colored Presbyterian pastors at Patterson. N. J. He went on to say that crime and vice was on the increase among the negroes. Removed front Office. Horace T. Jones, of Portland, Ore., special agent for the land office, Jias been indefinitely suspended from service by the order of Secretary of t.he Interior Rallinger. Jones was a witness against Hallinger and in support Of the charges made by Louis R. Glavis. * Killed l?y an Auto. t /\i ijimna. i-ia., Airs, .j ti. Thompson was run down by an automobile driven by Mrs. Oscar Windhorst. The skull , of the woman was fractured aO'l she died in a few minutes. She | was struck Just after alighting from a car. Mrs. Windhorst was not ari rested. * A BIG CROP NEEDED ?BW ORLEANS PAPER ANALYZES THE SITUATION. iajrn the World Will Need More Cotton This Year Than It Ever Did Before. In a comprehensive review lately >f the cottou situation. The New Oreans Picayune argues in favor of a iarger production of the staple, declaring that while the speculative jlenient of the market is continually idvocating short crops and hl^h prices it 'will be a mistake for the Amercan farmers to alloc these arguments to militate against a l.beral planting. It takes this position, this paper, which is expert in the cotton buslIPAk Hoplnnm that th*? nrr% r\ nf tho uist year was disastrously small and he season ends with the shortest risible and invisible stocks in a long lumber of years. In the main the deas of this paper are .harmonious vith those of the farmers in generil for the reason that the curtailed iroduction of the past year admitedly necessitates a larger yield for he new season, in order to meet the ictual necessities and requirements if the world. A big crop would sell not only it satisfactory but at paying prices >ec?iuse every bale of it will be leeded. With a short crop coming in top of the crop failure of last ;ear famine prices will be experienc d. but as always happens under uch conditions, profits, instead of >eing equitably distributed, will accrue to a comparatively few peoile, the balance being left to suCTer he results of disastrously smull delds, which no amount of high trice-: can make profitable. More* tver, ..nother short yield coming on op of the scarcity of the past seaion would demoralise the spinning ndustry of the world. The Picayune believes, therefore, hat there is every incentive for arimrs to repair the damage done jy the cotd weather of Apr P. an 1 .he backwardness of the season generally. Nothing is to be gained by i short crop, while a good crop is ertain to sell at paying prices. The mere planting of a large acreage loes not Insure a good crop, but the careful cultivation of a reasonable icreage does help materially to proluce the best results. It would, therefore, be ill advised to permit early discouragements Lo cause an abondu;..* r.f *ny of the normal cotton acreage as long as it Is possible to replant. While the season has been backward and there has been a notable absence of sufficient moisture, it is still early enough for these adverse conditions to change. A big cotton crop is absolutely needed, no matter what the speculators may say, and there never was a time when there was a greater certainty that a big crop would prove profitable. * STUDENT COMMITS Sl ICIDK. Whs Member of Junior (lass ami a a llright Young Man. Alfred Evelyn Clayton MacRae, a member of the junior class in the university, a son of the late S. H. MacRae, of Fayetteville, and a grandson of the late Judge James C. Mac Rae, committed suicide Friday between 12.30 and 12.45 at the home >f G. E. Donnel, Chai>el Hill. N. C.. by taking potassium cyanide. The cause of the act is not known. Going to an upper room at Mr. I>onnel'8, where he was accustomed to spending much of his time with H. V. P. Vreeland. a friend, Mr. MacRae tookfrthe fatal dose. He was discovered a few minutes latur by Mr. Donnel wJio was attracted to the room by heavy breathing. Doctors were summoned at once, but to no avail. Mr. MacRae seemed cheerful the night preceeding his death and up to within a few minutes of the deed. He even talked freely of his plans for the coming year. He was a bright student and well known on the campus. His death will be a great sorrow to his many friends. Instructive Tornado. Many houses in the village of Guthrie, W. Va., were destroyed by a tornado which passed up the Elk Valley Monday afternoon. Several perrons were injured and much live stock killed. The coal and coke railway was a heavy sufferer. A flint to the Hearties*. "The lamp-post and the common people."?Senator Cummings. The poor may starve, you do not mind. It troubles not your pampered sleep. Yet you may wake some day to find That rope is cheap. Your money moves the lawyer's jawIt huvs t.he scoundrels of our lanH But though you overthrow the law Our lamp-post stand. You men whom lust of power controls. You in n who rise on human wrecks; You have no hearts, you have no souls, ^ But you have necks ?J. J. DOOLING. FATAL FIGHT One Soldier Kills Another in a Fisticuff ?S#*'? W?4 AFTER A HOT QUARREL Artilleryman Accused of Striking Another With a Chain.?His Head J lilts Curbing and Death Ensues. The Two Soldiers Had Had a Disagreement. n ? The Charleston Evening Post says Private Fry. of Company 144, coast artillery, at Fort Moultrie, was knocked down In a light with another soldier, said to be Private Murray, and did not recover consciousness, following the contact of his head with the curbing in front of the post exchange. Murray is under arrest at the Fort and will have to stand trial for the d^ath of Fry. It appears that the two soldiers were at the post exchange, and got into an altercation over some matter or other, and Fry ia reported to have struck Murray with a chair, which brought on a fight and it was proposed to settle the difficulty outside, after the manner of the hardy soldiers. This was at about 8:45 o'clock. Outside the two soldiers squared off. for their fight, and Mur- j ray is said to have hit Fry a blow which knocked him down, and as he fell the soldier's head came in contact with the curbing, and he lost consciousness, which he did not regain. death resulting. The death of the soldier caused a profound Impression among his mates, who were astounded by the unexpected outcome of an ordinary fisticuff, such as is frequently indulged in among the fighters of the various companies. Private Murray was plaoed under arrest after the fight x arxi is in a serious predicament. H?. was terribly shocked by the result of what at first promised to be only a trifling matter. Little or no official information of the affair could be gotten from Fort Moultrie Thursday, but the story was curr'iu on suuivan a island, and' Fry's death gave rise to general discussion of the trouble. Murray, the soldier under arrest, is of the same company as Fry was. and is well known in Charleston, whore he appeared in the guise of a clever and aggressive prize fighter, meeting Billy Yeager In the local ring for three hard battles, before the Nonpareil Club. It Is said that Murray did not wi&h to fight Fry. At the hospital on the island it was thought that strangulation had as much to do with Fry's death as did the blow on .his head, for before he fell he also received a blowto the stomach that caused him to vomit. DEATH OF AN OI.l) I1KKO. Served on the Merrimar in Battle With the Monitor. The Rev. A. A. Jones, aged 6? years, ?ne of the oldest active members of the Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died at Norfolk, Va., Monday, following a stroke of paralysis. At the time of the Hampton Roads engagement between the Virginia and Monitor Mr. Jones was on the Virginia and wan in one of Che last two lH>ats that left the Virginia when she was subsequently blown up by her own men off Craney Island. Causes Serious Sic kness. "Watch the fly as he stands on the lump of sugar, industriously wiping his feet. He is wiping off the dlsea germs;* rubbing them on the sugar that you are going to eat, leaving the polaou for you to swallow. There is special danger when flies drop into such fluid as milk. This forms an ideal culture material for the bacillus. A few germs washed from the body of one fly may develop into millions within a few hours, and the person wJio drinks such milk will receive large dose1*of bacilli, which may later cause serious sickness." Plucky Woman. Unmindful of a revolver, which he leveled at her. Freda Dolinsky, a girl of 20. tackled a burglar in her ^ parents' home, in New York City on Sunday and floored him with a seltzer bottle. She followed this by breaking a tumbler on the burglar's head, stunning him. then sat on him ^ until help arrived. Drank Carbolic Acid. Albert Hetts. aged about 67, deI spondent ov- r his inability to secure employment in Greenville, committed I suicide Tuesday morning by taking a dose of carbolic acid, lie left a note explaining his reasons for taking bis own life and biding his friends and relatives good-bye. Two Hoys Drown. While bathing in Hillsborough rivi er, near Tampa, Fla., Sunday morning Victor Fabler, aged 19, and .his , brother. Henry Fabler, 16 years old, were drowned. Victor was teaching his younger brother to swim wheu the accident occurred. | ' NO MOHK MOSgVITOES. Experts Find a Fish That Destroys Their Lan?a?. Experts in the employ of the united suites government declare I that If Northern people will cultivate! three type* ol fish known as "top minnows/" si.nusn and goldfish, the mosquito pe*>t will be a thing of the past within a few years. Prof. William P. Seal declares New York will be rid of the bad Anopheles if her people will cultivate the 'Gambusia Aftlnus" and the Hebranda Formosa.' Both of these species are' known as "top minnows" because they are in the habit of being near the surface and feeding there. Both are to be found in vast numbers in the South in the shallow margins of lakes, ponds and streams in the tide water regions. They are also to be found in shallow ditches and surface drains, even where the water is but a fraction of an inch deep. They find their way to the remotest possible breeding places of the mosquito and eat the mosquito larve by the million. Prof. Seal also advises Northerens to cultivate gold fish and two hmall kinds of sun fish, know as the "roach" and the "shiner/ which live among plants. The goldfish is lazy, but eats immense numbers of mosquito larvae. But it is cannibalistic The top min lows are foragers, always on thr -nove in search for food, skimming over the tops of plants with restless energy. World's I Greatest Internal and Ex tana] Pain mm Remedy For Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lame Back. Stiff Joint* and Muscles. Sore Throaty Cold*. Strains, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises. Colic. Cramps. Toothache and all Nerve. Bone and Muscle Aches and Pains. The genuine has Noah's Ark on every package. 25c.. 50c. and $ 1.00 by all dealers in medicine everywhere. Sample by mmilfrm Weak Kenedy Cs.. Iltkasad. Vs. ssd lastoa. Msss. ItohlHHl of Her (iosltiis. A gander pre-empted the first gosUn hatched by a h? n owned by Victor P. 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