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r WAS IN BAD FIX Yonng Pittman, Who is Imprisoned in Ricarangua. Found Starring IN A FILTHY CELL The Ntcaragunns Threaten to Kill All Foreigners.?Consul OUvnres Wires State l>epartmnet Fcelliu Against the Anwrirnns Bitter. ? Subjects Ask Protect1'*!!. Confined in a filthy cell, unfsl avo by charitable strangers, Wll liam Pittman, an American captured by the Madrlz government forces oear Hlueflelds. was found In t crowded local prison at Managua. Nicaragua, by Consul Ollvares on Thursday. The consul, who is stationed a" that point, telegraphed the state de partment that he visited Pittman, discovered the revolting conditions and through protests forced Dr Madrlz to furniBh the adventurer better prison accommodations. Pittman, whose relatives live at Cambridge, Mass., told Consul Ollvares that he left Greytown July 4. that since then Ills captors have failed to provide him with food, leaving him altogether dependent for subsistence upon charity. Pittman was starving. Olivares immediately protested, reminding Madrlz of his promise to treat Pittman with consideration, Madriz finally agreel to transfer Pittman to a larger and cleaner cell and to allow the consul to supply him with a sleeping couch and food. The consul reported that no definite action regarding Pittman had been determined on by the de facto authorities and that he, Olivares, would exert every effort to secure humane treatment for Pittman. When the United States originally learned of P'ttman's arrcBt Dr. Madrlz assured Olivares that the prisoner would be treated fairly and considerately. Constant complaints from American citizens at Matagalpa, relative to threats repeatedly made against their lives and property by agents of the htadriz government are being ict-ciTcu u) l. uuou amies consular representatives. Consul Olivares cabled to the state department that the anti-American feeling in the western part of Nicarr.guu, the section under control of the Madriz faction, is daily growing more bitter. Mr. Olivares made vigorous representations to Dr. Madriz and has reiterated to him Secretary Knox's warning that this government will hold Madriz factions strictly accountable for the security of American life and property. Iiritish and German subjects at Matagalpa have appealed to their consuls in .Managua for protection. So far 110 representations as to these have been made to the German and English home governments, or to Washington, probably because the Hritlsh and German consuls doubtless are Nicaraguan local merchants. American Consul General Eberhardt, who is detailed at large, and happens to be in Nicaragua on a tour of inspection cabled the state deliartment cornoboraiting the alarm of foreign residents over threats of Nicaraguans. He stated that the opinion at Matagalpa was that these anti-foredgn demonstrations were instigated by the Madriz faction, whose otiicials have openly threatened the Americans and other foreigners. Fell to His Death. Henry Mars, a negro convict at ' tho State penitentiary, committed ? suicide Thursday by leaping from the i main prison building. Tho negro ! sustained a fractured skull, dying on Thursday afternoon. Although it ' was not definitely established that Mars committed suicide, this is the opinion among the authorities at the penitentiary. Him I Needle in Heart. At I.andgraf, W. Va.. Miranda Weeks died suddenly and her hus- i band was arrested on suspicion of | having caused her death. An an- ( topsy revealed a cambric needle piercing the woman's heart. There , was no scar on the body to show that the needle had punctured the ( kin and the man was released. Mast Serve l.?>ng Term. Twenty-five years in tho State pen- i ltent.lary was the aentenc? mtmlnu. . tered by Judge Gruber at Spartan- | burg to W. N. Keunedy, the white t man who was Wednesday convicted i in general sessions court on the , charge of having committed criminal i assault upon a colored girl under t 14 y^ars of age. Mules Killed. State Senator T. Y. Williams had c a pair of valuable mules killed by f a bolt of lightning Saturday evening 1 on his plantation in Lancaster coun- u ty. The animals were hitched to t a wagon in which three negroes were c riding. The men were shocked into f a state of unconsciousness, but soon J revived. | t RED SPIDER PEST _ 1 MARKS ITS APPEARANCE IN THE COTTON FIELDS. I An AK(>nt of the Agricultural Department Tells Rest Wuy of Combating the Small Hugs. Tiie red spider has broken out on the farm of R. H. Caughman. near Lexington, and threatens to be very destructive to the cotton crop should the present wet season be followed by a continued hot and dry spell. The State says is appears from the statements of those Interested in this coiton pest that a great many sections of the State are infected and it is believed that unless its spread is checked it will become shortly as destructive as the boll weevil. The cotton affected wilts as if it were scalded and finally dies. No practical remedy has as yet been found, though there are preventive remedies which appear successful. The department of agriculture has established a laboratory at Hatesburg for a thorough study of the rel spider and H. F. Wilson in charge of the work visited Lexington and made an examination cf the Caughman field. He is positive, in his opinion, that the trouble is the red spider and, of course, he realizes the danger of its further spread. In speaking about this matter, he makes tlnse int?? "Fting ooservations; and desires *! :t 'bev sJnll receive the attention of fa.T?.er.-> all over the State: "Violets and poke weeds appear to be the plants from which the spiders spread to the cotton. I have seen a number of fields where volets in yards were badly infested with the spider before it passed to the cotton. The or:g'.nal infection began close to the violets and spread out first in a fan shaped form and then gradual!) me \\ hole Held became inrested. The same uhing Is observed in connection with poke weeds. Jersuulem oak, burkock, morning glories and garden products are food plants for the spider and should be kept away from cotton fields. The spider soems to be pretty well scattered about the State and is doing considerable damage, and threatens to do a great deal more unless some means can be found for checking it. "1 have hardly gone far enough with the work to be able to suggest a desirable remedy. However, poke weeds and violets near cotton fields should all be destroyed, and if tiio spider is only found on a few plants, these should be pulled and burned. The spider seems to be able to winter in violets and the danger lies in infestation from these sources. "Where the infestation is bad 1 have found the following mixture to be effective in killing the most of them: One pound of sulphur to three gallons of water. The suljwhur to be placed in a bucket or pan and enough water added to form a paste with the sulphur, then the remainder 1 if the water can be added. This 1 mixture can be applied with a spray 1 l>ump or with an ordinary sprinkler. 1 Care should be taken that the mix- " Lure is gotten onto the under side of 1 :he leaf. The spider propagates it- ' ?olf very rapidly and the failure to ' make a thorough spray leaves room 'or danger in the future. "The most pactical method in the way of prevention seems to be that jf crop rotation and I hope that by 'hp PIlll of tho S?>.1?nn a cixf lafnetore lystem of rotation may be worked out. Tho farmers themselves can lo a great deal towards prebenling he spread of this i>est if they will , no careful about plowing around in- j rested stalks. The spider catches on t.he harness and may be carried a ( long ways into tho field and a new colony planted. This is a very serious problem and to some extent a. new one. The department is doing the best it can and is greatly in- , terested in the work." <X>NFKS8KS TO Ml RltKK. After (Contributing Materially to the Conviction of Brother. After testifying against and con- , trihuting to the conviction of his brother, Albert Brown for the murder of Alonza Addison, on July 28, 1 1909, Henry Brown went to the Sheriff of Lee County in Tupelo, : Miss., and confessed to the killing of Addison. Both are well known farmers. Albert Brown had beentwic<| tried and oonjicted of thie murder of Addison. He was sentenced to 15 years in tho penitentiary, but sentence was suspended -w? n/l Inn- L /v ^ ? m i.uc uuK-i)iui3 or an appeal o the Supreme Court. The brother i vho confessed has been imprisoned i ind habeas corpus proceedings will i >e instituted to secure the release of i he convicted man. < ^ ^ ^ I Many Peaches Is>st. At Fort Valley. Ga.. it was stated >n Friday that thirty carloads of leaches has been dumjed into the < 'lint river eight miles from there, i is a result of the failure to move 1 he crop quickly. Kighty thousand i rates were waiting there and it is I eared that thoy will be a dead loss, j Uready growers have loss $100,000 < ecause of the lack of ice cars. i CL.KVKK RUSK. IJjr Engineer Prevents Robbery <?f His Train. ? Cleverness on the part of the engineer prevented three youthful and apparently Inexperienced bandits from robbing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Southwestern "flyer" near Larimore, 15 miles from St.l.ouis early Sunday. Three men were arrested Inter as suspects and placed in jail pending investigation. Engineer Quinn through a ruse prevented the looting of the baggage car and the passenger coaches. The bandits compe'led the engineer Him me nreniuo hi me point 01 refolvers to descent from the cab and go with them to the baggage car to assist in uncoupling it The enginemen in the darkness managed to glide away from the bandits and made for the cab. The bandits opened fire on them. Scrambling into the cab the engineer threw the throttle wide open and dashed away with the train. The three men, armed and masked, used a red lantern to halt the train. TOWN'S IN PKIUL. Forest Fires Sweeping ('ountry With Heavy Damage. A sepcial from White Fish. Mont., says that town is in the center of forest fires which are sweeping the mountainsides, licking up logging and tie camps and threatening the town itself. While it is not felt that the city is in immediate dinger, all precautions hape been taken, the water works thoroughly tested and the fire hose made ready for instant use. So fur as is known there is no loss of life. Rain appears to lie the only thing that oan save this part of Flathead Valley from terrible loss. A dispatch from Kalishpeil reports three other fires burning in the valley. WHKAT SHKD FIRKI). Hy a Dig Holt of Lightning Which Killed Four Men. Four men were instantly killed, three others seriously hurt and a large shed containing wheat set on tire by lightning during a storm at one o'clock Thursady afternoon. The dead are William llaldrlck, two Whitten brothers, and a man named Scott. The injured are two Malone brothers, anl a man named Phillips. The storm and fire occurred on Buck Key place, eight mil?? west of Florence, Ala. The men were farm hands employed bv F. M Perry. TOOK KMFF, FKOM N'EtiKO. Attacked in Iler Home by Hlnck, She ( eta Hotter of Him. At Rodney, near Corsicana, Texas Tuesday, a negro entered the home of Hub Bailey, a merchant and bran dishing a knife, threatened a criminal assault upon Mrs. Bailey, a bride of three months, who grappled with him, securing the weapon and forcing the negro to take flight. ' Posses caught the negro in Richland creek bottom, and after he was identified, he was hanged to a tree nearby. The body was found and cut down. * HAYK FIFTFFN CillLHllKN. ljov. Gilchrist Suggests that Parents Be Pensioned. Mr. and Mrs. T. Barberi, of Pen tacola. Fla., received from Governor [Jilchrist recently a handsome spoon benring the seal of the State of Florida. Married 19 vears airo. the wife is now only 37 years old, but Mr. and Mrs. Barber! are the parents of lli children. Six of the children are twins. Governor Gilchrist suggests that the legislature pass an act allowing the parents a pension. They certainly deserve It. Killed by Fall. The body of .1. W. Scruggs, nho died Wednesday night froni the effects of a fall from the third stor> of his boarding house in Augusta was taken to Iditohel, Ga., for burial Nothing is known as to the caust of the accident. He retired earl} and about two o'clock next morning < a policeman stumbled over bis bod} i lying on the pavement. 50 feet be ; low his bed room window. i l Mercy for the Merciless. Guilty with a recommendation to 1 mercy was the verdict returned Wed- 1 nesday afternoon in the case of \V. 1 \\ Kennedy, a white man, at Spartanburg, charged with criminal assault on a colored girl, under the age of 14 years. The Jury remained t >ut more than an- hour. It is t**e t lisoretion of the court to give ft oin \ j to 4 0 years' imprisonment. I Down on Cones. t The ice cream cone is the latest 1 jbject of attack under the pure food ( regulations of the Federal Government. Thursday United States Marshall Henklll with a forco of deputies visited a pier at New York and i seized 18 crates, containing six bun- i irod boxes of the corrugated conical 1 receptacles for ice cream. t LESSONS IN FARMING 4K1UES OF FA KM E ItH INSTITUTES - AUK PLANNED. July and August Will b-* (iiral Months For the Tillers of the Soil ?The Parties and Schedule. During July and August farmers' institutes under the auspices of Clemson college will be held in the various counties of the State. The members of the Clemson college staff who will travel throughout the State in the interest of the institutes will be divided into three parties, these parties being as follows. First Party?D. N. Barrow, A. F. Conradi, T. F. Keltt and T. F. Jackson. Second Party?Prof. \Y. R. Perkins, Prof. L. A. Niven of VVinthrop and Dr. B. Barnette. Third J arty?Prof. J. N. Harper, Prof. C. C. Newman, and C. L. Goodrich of the United States department of agriculture. The Institute at Gray Court will last two days, at Jonesville three days and at Fountain Inn five days, will include besides regular work for the men, some domestic science work for the women, to be given by instruct' rs from Winthrop college. Following Is the itenerary of the pa rties: First Party. -McClellansville?July 11 and 12. Horse Penn?July 13. Peniel?July 14. Cross Swamp?July 15. Fhrardt?July 16. Georgetown?July 18 and 19. I'regnos School?July 20. Scranton?July 21. Turl?eville?July 2 2. Pine wood?July 23. Dorchester County t point not determined)?July 25 and 26. Elloree?July 2 7. Jamison?July 28. Providence?July 29 and 3 0. Cameron?August 1. Bethel School?August 2. Fair Lawn School?August 3. Richland County (point not determined)? August 4. Wilkensville?August 5. Cherokee?August 6. Coleraine?August 8. Cross Keys?August 9. Jonesville?August 10, 11 and 12. Fountain Inn?Augusst 15 to 19. Second Party. Allendale--July 16. illusion?.iuiy is. Kstelle?July 19. Cray's Point?July 20. ShiloJi School?July 21. Point Not Settled?July 22. l^eesville?July 23. Richland Church?July 25. Young's Grove?July 2 6. Torn Keitt's?July 27. J. C. Courtney's?July 2 8. Troy?July 29. Hodges?July 30. Apt Harmon Springs August 1. Antreville?August 2. Wardsworth?August 3. Woodruff?August 4. Gray Court? August 5 and 6. Liberty?August 9. Haucusville?A ugust 10. Comeross School?August 11. Townville August 12. Rock Mills?August 15. Helton?August 16. Willlamston? August 17. Maulden?August 19. Third Party. General Sumter July 25 Not Decided? July 2?". llishopville July 2<. St. Charles?July 28. Orange Hill- -July 29. Mount Coghan?July 30. Jefferson? August 1. I'nion School?August 2. Hethune?August 3. Elgin?August 4. Van Wyck?August 5. Secrist Farm? August 6. Gold Hill Academy?August 8. Pleasant valley- August 9. Stevens' School?August 10. Green Drier August 11. Dillon?August 12. Marion ? August 13. Sandy Plain School August 15. Mulling?August 16. Fork?August 17. Meriwether?August 19. Killed by Lightning. Two University of Illinois students were killed by lightning on the summit of Mount Pisgah recently. The young men started to ascend the mountain) in the morning. When :hey did not return that night a search party was organized. Their todies were found under a Wig pine :ree that had been shattered by the Dolt. More Xew Cotton Mills. The State seems to he on the eve >f a revival of mill construction. On :?n of the announcement for tWr* ilrtnt called the Connemara Mills, at Laurens, and the establishment of i $100,000 mill on the Clinchfleld il>ove Spartanburg, cornea the news he Newberry is to have another hig otton factory. Invite Senator Tillman. The board of commissioners of lullivan's Island have extended an nvitation to Senator Tillman and lis family to visit the Island to h**. be guest of the commission. EVANS GETS WARM i CAMPAIGN MKK.TINC* KXMVK.NKlt 11Y SMAI.L Sl'AT. C. G. Ih'ndrrson falls K\ans Down, Whereupon lie I'Hers Strong l?anftnage. 'A mild sensation In the meeting of the State campaign, at Walterboro Friday, was the spat between Far j II. Evans and Mr. C. G. Hend rrson. Master of Colleton County, when the former mad" reference *o the H*;u L). S. Henderson's connection w :ii the Pink Franklin case, recently heard in Washington, and in whicu Mr. Evans charged incompetency on the part of Attorney Geneva' I.yon to compete with a neg lawyer <f Orangeburg. Mr. C. G. H*?-wierson is a brother of the Hon. 1). S. Henderson. of Aiken, and Jhe endeavored to set Mr. Evans right ?>q the matter of the Slate being put to expense by reason of I). S. Hende ;-?n's assistance to the Attorney-Genera'. When Mr. Evans stated that Mr. Lyon was unable to cope with a "nigger lawyer" on a little constitutional question and had to hire Dan Henderson to assist him. Mr. Henderson arose and said, "Didn't my brother settle that matter at Aiken the other day? The State did not pay hint one cent to assist in this case. He was paid by the Congressman from this State." Answering with considerable emphasis, Mr. Evans said: "Well, Jim Patterson told me at Harnwell that he didn't pay him so then who did?' to which Mr. Henderson did not reply. Looking straight at Mr. Henderson. the speaker forcefully and unequivocally denounced I). S. Henderson for his unfairness in making a speech at the Aiken meeting, in connection with this affair, and not giving him an opportunity to reply, it seems that Mr. 1). S. Henderson acted as county chuirman at the Aiken meeting and when M.r Evans made reference to the Franklin case stated his position and connection in the case, especially as regard the fees paid. This act on the part of a chairman Mr. Evans denounced as cowardly in the extreme. Another matter of some little interest was the statement by Mr. Evans that he "intended to make the newspapers punnsn ins statements or make them go down as detainers. However, Mr. Kvans had considerably less to say about the newspapers than at Beaufort. His address, devoted almost entirely to an "exposure" of Mr. Lyon's record, was received with loud applause. Lyon Ounes Back. At the Charleston meeting there was a Hue illustration given by Mr. Lyon with reference to the attitude of Barney Evans as to the injunction law. He told how Barney Evans tried to en'oin his landlord in Saluda ' county to keep from paying his office rent. This caused much laughter. Mr. Lyon said that the time had 1 come when he must speak plainly. ' lie declared that all the charges made by Evans were false. He tin derstood that Barney Evans had been ' attacking the newspapers of me State. 1 IK: though that the press had been very kind to Barney for not printing a record of his past life. When the ' attorney general left the stand there. 1 was wild applause and from all sec- ' tions of the .hall came cries of "Lyon." 1 There was a crowd small in mini- 1 her present, which was inclined ?o 1 cheer for Barney Evans. There were : some hisses and howls. The Evans : crowd worked hard and untiringly ! to create a sentiment for his candi- 1 ciaey. Evans made his usual charges ' whic.h fell lightly on the ears of his ' listeners with the exception of the ' Miiuii uvans crowd. ("HACKKit CAl'SKS I I KK. Kxjdoded Among Straw in I tarn Willi Soi*i?US KcSllltS. A fire which will amount to approximately $300,000 destroyed 60 buildings, made 3 0 families homeless and wiped out the business and residential section of Menton, Columbia county. Pa., occurred Monday. An exploding firecracker thrown in among the straw in the barn of (?eo. (Vossley was the cause of the fire. The fire broke out at about three o'clock in the afternoon and it was not until late that night that after aid had arrived, that the fiumes were got under control. I'sed Sheep I tone. At New Orleans the bone of a ant'f|i was irausiereu ui me arm 01 a patient at the Charily hospital Thursday night. The forearm of the patient undergoing the novel op- | eration Jiad been shattered by the t discharge of a shot gun. The oper- j ation was pronounced successful. , ? 1 Sold for n Song. t The naval yacht Hornet, a steel j vessel of 425 tons, built for Henry t M. Flagler and purchased by the government for $117,500 at the outset of the Spanish war, will be sold t to Nathan S. Stern of New Orleans t for $5,100. Jt - J CRASH TO DEATH Five German Aeronauts Fall a Thousand Feet to a Horrible Fate. A BALLOON COLLAPSES The Accidental K\pl<i?ion of a DiliKihle Air SI lip's Benzine Tunk Wrecks the (ills ling and tile Colli* psoil llnlloon iiikI TI*os?> In It Hurled to Heath. Falling through space a distance of nearly 1,000 feet. Oscar Krbsloeh. noted aeronaut and inventor, winner of the international balloon race held at St. I?uis. Mo., in 1907. and one of the most promising of (lerman erperlentmers In aerial rtight. and four companions, were dashed to death in a field near Opladen Prussia, Wednesday. The others killed were: llerr Toelle, a manufacturer of Bartueu; Kngineers Poehhoeppe and Kranx and Motorman Splcke. Only peasants saw the tragic tending of the llight of the dirigible balloon Krbsloeh, which, after a series of accidents since its construction a year ago, had recently been refitted for passenger service. They had observed the balloon a short time hefore us it swung gracefully in the air. Soon it disappeared in th*> fog. and shortly a loud explosion was heard and a crumbled mass fell like a plummet to the earth. So terrific was the force of the fall that the gondola was smashed to splinters, the motor buried deep in the sod. while the five men were crushed aud torn almost beyond recognition. Experto who examined the wreckn ep /\ r*< > 1 u e/v/1 I* ?? * .* - ? ? ' ? ' * ..,v llllll lilt? llfr-UZUie IAI1K had bursted. The rubt?er envelope had been torn to shreds and the bow collapsed. Nearby was found a sad memento of the disastrous trip. It was a leaf from the notebook of Engineer Hoeppe, making a Bhort record of the Journey. There were only a few records: "Departed Hall 9.04; ascend air 9.10; thick fog northward. Can not see earth; sun breaks through; heavy fbg beneath us. Elevating planes sloped downwards; altitude 280 metres (910 feet) at 9.14." This is the sole record of the last voyage of Erbsloeh. the details of which can not be learned owing to the death of all the occupants of the car. Peasants near the scene of "the catastrophe say that they heard the propellers working. They ^ fired revolvers in order to indicate to the aeronauts, then hidden in the fog, that they wore in the neighborhood of houses. Then the explosion occurred and they saw the broken mass hurling downward. The ErbsloeJi has had a dubious career. The first time it ascended it crashed into a clump of trees and its occupants narrowly escaped injury. The balloon, which was one af the non-rigid type, had just been made over, preparatory to the es tablishment of a passenger service between Klberfeld and nearby points. There wei e few eye-witnesses of the accident. According to these, the start was well made. The Erbsloeh rose gracefully, pushing it? way through the fo-' to heights ?*?mated at 300 yards. At this altitude a series of evolutions were be;un. To the onlookers the airship ippeared to obey her helm perfectly Suddenly there was a loud report and it the moment the fore part of the vessel crumpled up and the gondoas was twisted about until appeared is tho standing on one end. As the ;as escaped from the forward compartment the prow swayed downward. For a flash the airship fluttered like a wounded bird and then 'ell swiftly to the earth. Erbsloeh and his companions wero tilled the second they struck the ground. Their heads were battered n and every lintnb was broken .The todies of the victims were removed o a morgue. That of Erbsloeh would not have been recognized had t been alone. It was pierced through the breast by a piece of wreck. Tho >yos of the engineer were gouged >ut. The hands of all five were ttclity clutched as though they had held iesperately to the car as it shot. lownward. Their shoes were t???-r? from their feet. The death of Erbsloeh and his tow, with the destruction of the balloon from which much had been toped following closely upon the wreck od the German ship, Deuchsand, has caused a gloom in aviuiou circles. Votes for Income Tax. The Georgia Legislature votes for nrome tax. After debating the queslon for nearly a week "the lower ) ^ touse of the general assembly Wed- \ J lesday passed the income tax resoltiion by a vote of 125 to 4f>. Fouroen members present did not vote. \. similar resolution was adopted by ho senate. Helieving that Teddy is the only white man in the country who can Whip Johnson, the Andorson Mail hinks It is up to Teddy to do it.