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BAD FEUD ROW Resolu i? tk< Ptatk af Twa Met ii a Lfda Gmfia Taw*. ROW MAY NOT BE OVER While People Attend llnrbecn? ta Altotlier Part of Town, Trouble in HenewotJ IVtw?m Morton unci Ktitt-rid^f and Tito Ktherld(>c Urothm Are Killed. Under request from Sheriff llrooks of Twiggs county, a company of military left Macao, Uu? Friday night at 9.43 for Grays Station. S. K. Bthrldge and his brother, Morris, are lying dead in front of the store ot Luther iMortoa on the outskirts of Grays and at Morton's mother's home a bleek away he and three brothers. Will, Sam nod Tom, are held by a big posse rworu in by sheriff while conneoticvi of the Eth ridges who were assembled in the little town for a big reunion of Confederate veterans have, according to reports received, been threatened to revenge, summarily, the killing. Sheriff Breaks wired far troops early in the afternoon. Two companies have left Mooon While almost every one else was at the barbecue in another sectiou of the little tow a, the two Ethrldges nod a oousiu. Will Kitcbins, lode up I# the little store kept by Luther UhvhM and an interchange of invective hollowed which terminated in WIS Morton leaving the house and eegeglag Claytoa Ivitchlns in a listhr lUdbL Tho fight waxed warm. Shots rang out. perhaps nine or ten followed in quick order. W hen the smoke cleared away, the two Kthridgvti, who were standing between the lighters and the door of Morton's store, were lylug on the ground. Half of the alder's face was shot away aud hie brother. Morris, was drilled through the heart. L>utb?r Morton was standing iu wu* doorway with a magazine shotgun la hi* hand, according to an eyewitness of the hloody affray. There wan a stampede of people to the scene. Sharif Brooks entered the home of the Mortons, while over the dead bodies of the Kthridges were heard threatening mutterings from their friends. Sheriff llrooka rushed his prisoners to the home of their mother. and at last reports received they were still guarded there by a posse. There has been a feud between the families for some time. Three Wfeoks as* shots were exchanged but h one was hurt. Two oompanies, the Florida Utiles and it noon Hussars, 100 strong. all told, took the train under the petaOfkal otumand of Col. W. A. Harris. Qapt. Wheeler in charge of the Hussars and Capt. Shurmoud of the FthrMa Rifles. " TURN TI1KM OUT. Bryan Says larinicr Deroociuls Must Bo Retired. V* a stuteasmt published < bis paper Kriuay. la reference to the xaeetfag held recently iu Lincoln, Iilinois, to protest against legislative corruption. William J. Bryan declared that the Democratic legislators, who woted to elect William Lorlmer to the United States Senate should be read out of the Democratic party. "Any Democrat who voted for I.?ari*??r for 'patriotic* reasons ought ta be retired to private life an I keptttbere long enough to learn what patriotism means," said Mr. Bryan. **ft Is almost as dangerous to have a r<ool tn the legislature as a knave. ' "A Democratic legislator, who could be convinced that he was performing a patriotic duty In voting for Lsrl'Jier, could be persuaded to do anything desired by a lobby, ptowtded the same patriotic arguments were used. He la not lit for any reepousible position; it is hardly safe to allow him to run at large. "Turn them out. The party cannot pause to defend those who are <jullty, or who. If innocent, have arouaed suspicion which can never be removed." Gives Life for Child. W. R. Michaells, publisher of the Chicago Staats-Zeituug, was drowned at Oqunga. N. Y., Sunday . He waa out in a boat with his 8-yenrold daughter, who lost her hat and in reaching out for It fell overboard. The ratner jumpcu oui am-r iur and catching hold of Jut he held her out of the water until his power failed. Parties In boatx nearby pot the girl to safety, but the father sank and was drowaed. <Jot Him at Last. At Ashevllle, N. C.. the jury in the rase of John H. Allison, charged with the mnrder of Floyd McGhee on July f> returned a verdict of murder ir the first degree. Allison, who is 41 years old, has killed four men ir the last twelve years and three time! was set free on pleas of solf-de feuse MAY NOT RUN FOR ktK-F.I.RCTJON AS GOVKHXOR OK TKXXKSSHK. . The Result of the I<ate .fudiclurj Klection Had lUnstrd Governor Patterson's Hope**. While Chairman Nathan Robertson of the regular State Democratic headquarters as Nashville, Tenn.. had given out no statement Friday, the leaders erf his, the Patterson faction, practically admit that the Inr\ mi no ttrlont itiiH/*inrv t iolr itf ^?'?o ried Ui<- state by 25.000 majority. Chan man Vertrees, of the Independent faction. in an unofficial statement. said he saw no reason lor changing his forecast made several days ago. of a majority of 40,000 in the State for the Independents. Other Independent leaders place the majority as high as 50.000 votes. Returns irorn the outlying counties are coining in slowly, and it will be several days before the exact figures can be given. East Tennessee, the Republican stronghold in Tennessee, proved the Waterloo of the regular Democratic ticket. Advices from that section ar?" thut the Republicans stood almost to u man benind the independents. Carter County, a rock ribbed Republican county, and the former home of Senator Robert I,. Taylor, rolled up a majority of two thousand for the Independents. According to advices from West Tennessee, that division will show u good majority for the independents The race in Middle Tennessee is close, in favor of the Independents. Wilson county, the home of Chairman Robertson, of the regular Democratic committee, gave a majority for the Independents of 4 75. while Chairman Vcrtrees. of the independents, lost :his. bis couutv. by a large inajorty. It is claimed at Nashville that the overwhelming detent of the regular judiciary ticket throughout the State has blasted t.he hopes of Governor Patte.son for re-election and some no so fa. as to nredirf Ihnl h?? will withdraw from the race for Governor. It is understood thai in return for the assistance lent by the Republicans 111 electing their judiciary ticket the independents will solidly support the candidate named b> the Republicans for Governor. k STARTED TltOl Itl.K; MI.I.KD, Voutli Sliot to Death .Alter Woundin" Three .Men. After a brief, but blooiy running battle, in whic-h three men were wouoded, Harlev May. aged 2d. was shot to death by Patrolman Jacob Gales late Friday. I May who was a hostler, started trouble in a Main street saloon by shooting at the bartender. He missed the bartender, but shot George Cline. farmer, through the upper portion ol his chest. Going into the hiroei. ,>i.?y eauvm reiouuoa ms revolver and shot Patrolman W. G. Shaw through tho breast. inflicting a possible fatal wound. Tiie yout 11 then ile.l down Main street and look refuse in a private residence, where a posse, led b> Patrolman Gates, found him. May tire 1 first. slightly woundius Gates, but the latter, on his tirst shot pierced the young's man's Jugular vein with a bullet, and the lad, clutching his revolver, sank dying to the doorstep, and died before he could be removed. SKVKX I'KKISH IN FLAMKS. Hud Not Kven Fighting t'huuce foi Their IJvrs, Seven lives were lost early Saturday in a five which destroyed a three story lodging house iu a foreign station of Jamaica. L. 1. The blaze started In a hallway, the only eAil. and spread so rapidly that few of the inmates had an opportunity to escape. The lodging house was occupied for the most part by poor workmen employed in the neighborhood. The owner, George Dunbcck. occupied apartments with his family on the ground tloor. He and his household escaping safely in t.heir night clothes by climbing through the windows to the street. The dead, tive men and two women. were all foreigners. They were asleep at the time and were ail suffocated by smoke as they lay !n their bods. The blaze was a small one and a single company of ilrem >n with one line of hose extinguished it within a few minutes ot' their arrival. The property loss was not over Sl.aOu. Fears >11iI Trust. i Dee! a ring that the Northern mills ' will put 10,000 cotton buyers in tin* t Southern field, Hon K 11 Hyatt l sounded a note of alarm and warni ed the voters of Horry Friday that i a cotton mill trust is like ly to place - c<?tton where the tobacco trust has placed tobacco. SAD SEA TALE Skipper ai>4 Bride Art Drmed T? getker. WREN THEIR SHIP SANK Captain Pync Iatst Seen by Crew Holding HLs llridc, but liOtiing h the Stiuaul? With the TetnpesSea.?Thirteen of the Survivor? Are I'oMTied. A thrilllUK tragedy of the sea at described bv twelve survivors of thf crew of t.'ie sailing ship Swunhildr who reached Liverpool receutl) from South America. The Switiihilda. a vessel of 2.0<K tons sailed from Cardiff on March 15. Captain Pyne, who had be?r married two days before was accompanied by his wife and the voyugt was to be their honeymoon trip. Fair winds carried the ship unJi.i full spread of canvas through tin Tropics. Then on the morning 01 May lt>. the oflicer in charge noticed breakers ahead. Alnu-sl at the moment when lu calhd the captain, the vessel" struck a rock an 1 began to fill rapidly. Sat had gone ashore 011 a small island on Staten Island, which lies near lie South American coast. So quickly did the Swsnhilda settle down that the port and starboard lifeboats were launched simultaneously. Hut the former boat, which contained the captain ncd his wife had scarcely touched the wa'er whin it Wits capsized by a great breaker. The mm in the starboard boai were unable to render any h-dp. auJ they saw Captain Pyue holding hit bride in h's arms disappear beneatu tile waves. I When the thirte-n sailors surviving out of a crew of twenty-five tried to lan.l on the island they iouud the sea too rough and were compelled to put out again. The boat was at the mercy of h? sea lor some days, and they lived oil a little rain which they, collected One man vent mad and struggled -o leap overboard, and although lit* was restrained he died later from exhaustion. When they had almost abandoned hope they sighted a lighthouse oti the Argentine eoast. and wore rebcu"d by the keepers. A wireless message was sent to the mainland i and they were taken ashore hy an Argentne gunboat. The gunb? at afterwards went to Staten island to search for any men who inigh have swam ashore when the port lifeboat capsized. It discovered the bodies of four men who had died from starvation, and a survivor who had been driven insam hy the terror of his experience was found in a cave. Kventuall) the man recovereo He said that he and his comraue. lived for sometime on tins of greas* and ate shclltis-h when no more gra.-t remained. Apparently he had los his reason when he found the bod} of Captain Pyne and his bride lock ed in one another's arms washed t and fro by the waves. HKI,I> I t'KSL'KKS AT HAY. Three Itrotbers Kill Voting Man Ov er (trap (iame. Three young brothers named Alex antler, after having alaln the sun 01 a neighbor in the course of a pieni. near Kenton. Tenn.. held the pur suing crowd at bay until they mad* their escape, but were afterwards raptured by deputy sherics a .id plac el in jail :t Kenton, where they were threatened with lynching by mfui luted neighbors Sunday right. Th? Hfair grew cut of a crap mine. Hob ert Simmons, Jr.. having won .il ;lie money, mounted his horse t< ride away, when one of the Alexa. tiers, it is suid. seized the bridle another slabbed Simmons, and whei he fell to the earth the third Alex ander rushed up and beat him with a club. The picnickers rushed tc the resure, but the three AW*xandett drew revolvers and got away for tht time. F?*ar of lynching has abated Children Crushed. Three children are reported crush cd to death and three more missin; in a cave-in of an excavation tor ; building at Howard avenue anr Itroadway, Hrooklyn, Tuesday after mum. Twenty Are I turned. Twenty persons were* serious!? burred in a fire destroying the Tex .is Pacific pumping station at Sher man, Texas, and caused a gasolint tank to explode. Accidentally Drowned. "Dick" Williams, a negro ahou 21 years old, was drowned at Hope' ferry on the Saluda Sunday after noon. At a late hour that nigh his body has not been recovered. Several Drowned. At Munich, in Bavaria, nine youn men and six girls were drowned i the lake of Traun, by the eapsizin of a barge in a storm Tuesday SOME GOOD NEWS ANTI-CANNON HOUSK PRKDICTKD BY bT AND-PAT KD1TOK. "Old Dill" Ncltoa, Ovrorr of Kansas City StAJ, K\chnn^-s (iwtinpi L With Tafl. Col. Whliam R. Nelson, owner of ' the Kansas City Star, "dropped in * , on President Taft at IlurRess Point r nuuj ar'.ernoon. On His way out to the President's cottage the colonel i said he wasn't going fo talk politics if he couid help himself. Subsequent reports indicated that 1 a hearty exchange of greetings was { quickly followed by an earnest dtsp cussion of recent events in the political world. ' Presideid. Taft and ' Old Hill" Nel' son. as he fulililarly refers to the i Vlissouri editor, have beeu friends a . long lime. "What about the result in Kan. sas?" was the opening chortts from , (he newspaper group. I "Oh," laughed the colonel, "my . heart is no1 broken." "And iuwa?" "Well 1 am managing to hold up ; under that pretty well, too." he re, plied. "What do you thiak of the posat, hilities of the next house of representatives being Democratic?" "It looks as though It would either I be Democratic or Insurgent. At auy atet you can l?ot it will be auti, Cannon." "Kansab," added the Colonel, Ms ! filled with men who either made the Slate or the sons of men who mud*' it. They think progressively out I there, and they act progressively. . People in the Kast don't understand ! Kansas." , "Many Republicans," continued Col. Nelson, "seem to think that the Republican party is made up of a ! majority of ?ot- rs of this coun- , try. In t.hnt they are wrong. The ] Democrats have never put up a can- , did.ite for president who ought to ] have won that they did not win. Take , 'lex eland and Tilden for example. ' , "At tnis doesn't mean that yon ( ue going to support Judson Har- , :non, does it?" queried a venturesome reporter. , "Not igainst Theodore Roosevelt.' | "l?o > u think Col. Roosevelt can , 'come ba.k'?" I "Com hack?" snapped the colon- | 1. "Why he would sweep the coun- , try. Hut 1 do not think lie will run . unless he Jias to." , Col. Nelson then spoke of his | riendsbip for President Tuft. , "I?o you thing .he will he elected?" "Now, hoys." laughed the colonel. | ( you must r.ot ask me foolish quosious." v WOKM?S 8l'PPI,Y SHORT. Iniouut in Sight js 500,000 Haels Hehind. Secretary Hixster's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton uade up from special cable and telegraphic advices compares the figures >f the week ending August r?th with he same week last year and the yea I >efr?re. it shows a decrease for the .cock just closed of 119,5 IS against l decrease of 19 7,230 last year and i decrease of 12 1,151 year before 1 n.t The total visible is 1,796.062 as against 1,1!*!*.580 last week; 2.285,1 15;' last year and 1,950,307 year beer < last. Of this the total of American cotton is 951,002 against I >22.5X0 last week; 1, 729,459 Ins' ear and 1.250,261 year before last, nd of all other kin 1;. including Kg l?t. Brazil, India, etc.. 845,000 as gainst 893,000 last week; 556,000 ,;st year and 831,04 6 year before \*8l. The world's total visible supply of ofton as above shows a decrease. ompared with last week of 119,518 i decrease, compared with last year, 1 of 1 ?9.397 and a decrease. couipar-d with year before last of 160,245. 1 Of the world's visible supply of ' ?ot*on as above there is now afloat s ?nd held in Great Britain nnd conti' netal Kur.jpe 870.000 against 1,647,* 000 last year and 1,126.000 year before lost, in Bgypt 53,000 against " 7.000 last year and 75.000 jcar bc V.re last, in India 551.000 against ; 65,000 1 n?-1 year and 443,000 jreat <1 lofore last; and In the United States lj "42,000 against 318,000 last year I Hid 312.000 year before last Browns at Tyhe. ? 1.1.. --1?- i - v - ii in win- luuicii on. rioivr" Croninbe'a of Savannn.h was drown i*d at Tybee beach early Sunday - moriinj;. It was stated that tie had I not been married Ion,*. Me walked -mt *rom the beach, white talking to hi- wife, stenped suddenly into a i hole and was unable to regain safet | ty. H,.s body was recovered quickly. s i hut all ? ltor". to resuscitate hi) i . failed. t Ftxilisli Young Woman. I will marry him or kill myself. ' was the declaration of a pretty g hrown-eyed girl in thi- register of II deeds' office at Klizabe'h City. N. C K th .t she was under arrest for Irylni; 'to elope. Her father took -lier home. FATAL MISHAP Trait Strikes Large AotecefeiJe Tkat Was Foil if Petfie. MACHINE DEMOLISHED Two of the Kleren Wri* KllW-d Outright and Three Were Fatally Injurt d.?Most of the InI Jured Were Young People Ooing From litttftimer to Lake View. Two were killed outright, three i fatally injured and two others may 1 die as the result of an automobile accident near West I>ake, Ala., belowBessemer, Sunday afternoon. The casualties Include: J. H. Roden, chaufTeur, killed outright. Miss Augusta Kizer, aged s!xUm?u years, died after reaching hospital. Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, aged 15 years, skull fractured and fatally injured. Miss Mamie Crenshaw, a?ed 16 years, skull fracturerd and fatally burned. Robert Black, skull fractured and fatally injured. Miss Kva Lou Crenshaw, thigh broken, internally Injured, may die. Vernon Lee, arm and thigh broken, internally injured and may die. ' G. C. Dobbs, hand broken and body badly bruised. Two Fa iron brothers, 10 and 12 years old. badly bruised, not fatally hurt. W. H. Lennett, .Id.. 10 years old. badly bruised, not fatally injured. 1 G. O. Garner was the only pas- 1 senger who escaped uninjured. He jumped from the car before the en- 1 glue struck it. ' The automobile maintains a reg- 1 ular passenger schedule between I Bessemer and West Lake, and it was ' carrying eleven passengers to the lake Sunday afternoon. The machine ' was struck by a fast passenger train ' >n the Southern Railway shortly af- 1 :er 4 o'clock, and was almost coin- * ;>letely demolished. i ntM-e is a Sleep (trade leading 4 lown to the Southern tracks just hefore West Lake is reached, and as 1 :he highway is in a cut. it was imxtssible for the chauffeur to see the locomotive or for the engineer to ' ier the automobile. hose of the 1 lutomohile passengers who escaped 1 ivith injuries state that the locomo- 1 Live whistle was not ulown for the ' Tossing The front wheels of the large au- 1 loniobiln bad just run on to the rail- ' road tracks when the engine struck It. The passenger train was run- * ning at a high rate of speed and ' ploughed its way through the for- ' ward end of the machine ! As it was only 1 1-L' miles from ' Hessemer. ambulances and physicians were quickly summoned from I .he city. The injured were all taken to the Itohinson Hospital in Hessemer. CHOP Si'FKKIUS K1UVM HKAT. Cotton Hie Not >lndc Much Progress During Week.. The following cotton oroo sum mary was published by the Com me te.iul Appeal of Memphis. Tenn., on Monday: "Telejci aphic replies front Texas correspondents at six oclock Sunlay night indicated that no rain of consequence fell in that Sitae during the week save in the It"d Kvier valley. As a result the cotton crop, except a small area which has received rain, has been deteriorating; <ir most instances as the limits 01 the plants endurance had been reached a week previously. in souUiern and western Texas any additional drought means a very small yield ol cotton. Generous rains fell throuphout Oklahoma and although cot'on suffered severely for a few days just prior to the rain on account of high temperatures, the situation has been relieved aud it is lielioved that the crop will veiy quickly recuperate. "In other sections of the belt some improvement took place. The crop has been la'd by clean and the plant nas ht'Kir to form squares and has begun to bloom freely and forir squares. Grown bolls are not numerous, however, and the crop appears to have regained only little of itt lateness. The frost date will hav an important bearing on the out turn. "K\?p; in Texas there Is no complaint of shedding but the plant generally has not reached the stage wJiere It is to be expected. Generally fair weat.her would help the crop in Mississippi and the Atlantic States.' Many Itabies l?ie. One third of the babies in Iowa under one year of age have died ;his summer, according to statistics "olb*oted by G. II Summer, secretary t the Iowa State board of health, tholera infantum, infantile paralysis. poor milk and Improper care are aiven as causes. LONG RANGE FIGHT WATSON AND HAHDWICK Afll'SB v ONK ANOTHKP WVr.L Tltf Uttfi Rea<l?, a hotter llMcglBn the J'ormcf With Selling Out t? tha Republicans. At Thomson .Ga., Thomas K. Watson and Congressman Thomas W. Hard wick Saturday fought a desperate battle but it was or.e off words and the verbal shrapnel was hurled a distance of one mile, Mr. Watson and his adherents gathering In the Court house and the Hardwick cohorts BWeltortnw In " Krove or. the outskirts of town. In spite of Mr. Watson's announced tear of assassination the dove of peace hovered over the little town throughout the day and prospects of trouble dwindled to nothing. Both sponkers were bitterly personal in their remarks. Mr. Hardwick Injected the only new feature in the controversy in the shape of a letter from Congressman Charles H. Burke of South Dakota in which he charges that Watson in the summer of 1 900 conferred with him and prominent Republicans o South Dakota at the Palmer house. Chicago, in reference to aiding the Republican party In South Dakota f#r a financial consideration. Mr. Burke's letter said that ?o arrangements were made with Watson for South Dakota but declared that Watson did arrange with the late Senator Hannu to assist the Republican cause Replying to the charges aontatned Iu Congressman Burke's letter. Mr. Watson made the following statement: "I emphatically deny the whole story, which is false in every pa?licular. 1 was not in Chlcaga dur Ing 1900. but spent the year here, at home, doing literary work, i was III Chil'.ICO Inr 1 ahnrt 1~ i ?. <v I _ ? _ - ?- ? v> V Viuir IU 1 JV1, ?fter the death ot' Mark Manna, stopping while en route to Lincoln, Neb., ind on the return trip east to New Vork. where I spoke at Cooper l*nton. I invite an inspection > tho Palmer house register duriag 1900. tvhich will prove the truth of my itatement. Before he bcgau his address Watton was asked on w.hnl he based his fears of assassination. His reply *'as: "I has" them on the fact that VIr. Hardwirk has on several oeasons threatened to kill me aad Inforuation of these threats has beer trough t to me by friends from Washington and Lincoln entitles. 1 hik my fears are well fouded Mr. Hard wick, when told Mr. Watson's statement, seemed to enjoy I immensely and commented: "Watson is in no greater danger >f beig assassinated than 1 am. and my danger is about equal to that of the man in the moon. I am a* assassin and none of my friends indersrs." Watson, it is stated, had several guards about -his home at Bights for the past several days. HAYKIl MAX'S 1.1I B Conductor Se*lx>;???l Risks liiff for Puss*i?a?r. On Monday afternoon when Seaboard treir. No. 63, which leaves Columbia foi Savannah at .*>.u *. m., pulled into Gaston the train entered the sidetrack to uwuit tor. <hv Seaboards limited train No. 84, going north. A man, who then seemed to l*: somewhat under the influence of whiskey, stepped upon the rack of the main line. Conductor Williams, w.ho was in charge of train No. 63, seeing that the man would he crushed to death by the fast approaching tralu. math a rush for him and snatched hint !rom the track just in time to save his life. Had it not been Tor the brave act of Conductor Williams the unfortunate man would have m"t his death. Many of Lho passengers had turned and looked away whea the conductor made a dash for the man. D1KD AT FIXKI) IT MB. "I Have .lust Seven Minutes to lave" the Mun Wrote. "1 have just seven minutes ? livo " ?.n - .? t>?mi uresseu man wrote in n saloon at Durham, N'. and before the time had expired, shot himself twice. He was hurried to a hospital, where physicians said on Friday night that he would die. Tho man is said to be Aquilla Powell, a son of K. K. Powell, of Scotland Neck, who recently was convicted of the murder of Chief of Police Dunn and the wounding; of State Senator Kdward Travis and Paul Kitchin, a brother of the Cover nor. It Is believed that worry over his father's position prompted the young man to attempt 10 take his life. Fought the OIHotn. One negro is dead, one is dying and two others have bullet wounds as a result of a battle with nthce. ; on the outskirts of Petham. Ca., Tuesday afternoon. It was reported to the officers that a dozen negr >es were gambling ie a house th?* e 'iid the ^