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FIEND RESCUED" Sheriff Hid His Negro Prisoner High Up In the Monnttins. ? ? HORRIBLE CRIME The Prisoner Is Accused of Killing Railroad Man and Mistreating Knuivvu auu luuiuci vu uia Ui 1UC V/l three weeks. A later dispatch from Raymond. 25 milce distant says Sheriff Wiseman .had safely landed Raymond in the Mercer county Jail at Princetown. Through Aliss, who is near death in a local hospital, did not positively Identify the negro as his assailant, the sheriff has little doubt of Raymond's guilt. The arrival of Capt. Samuel L. Walker with 15 militiamen Jubl after dark made it possible to Bave Raymond's life. For five hours the sherllf with 30 deputies held the negro on a special train which a mob of 1,000 men refused to let move. Upon the arrival of the first detatchcnent of militia the sheriff escaped to the mountains with his prisoner, while the mob leaders were held at the point of bayonets. Three companies of militia arrived early Tuesday from Charleston, but upon receipt of news that the prisoner had been landed in jail, orders were issued for their immediate return to their homes. MAX OUTFL1KS BIRDS. They Start Same Time as Aeroplane But Are Beaten. The first aerial race between the Mrds of nature and man's production took place in the course of the great aerial cross-country competition over in France and was easily won by man. A flock of forty-seven cartIaP nitm/xna ? o a rolrt n ooA at . ,V> p<nw>40 naa IVICOOCU Ob kJ\J uai Tuesday at the same instant that LeBlanc In his Farman bi-plane started from the mark on his fiftymile fight to Amiens. Rushing through the calm air, the bl-plane soon out-distanced the birds, and when LeBlanc reached Amiens the flock was not yet in sight, the first pigeon arriving six minutes and twenty seconds after I>eBlanc. Before the last of the flock had come In. LaGagJieux, who had started at the same time as LeBlanc, but consumed aine minutes more on the trip, arrived, beating the last pigeon by twelve minutes. Hubert Latham flew from Issyles-Molineaux in the suburbs of Parlb, to Amiens, stopping en route to take lunch with friends at Breteul. He thereby accomplished practically the last lap in the cross country race, a distance of about sixty-eight miles, but in the reverse direction. AUTOIST KILLS CHILI). Heartless Conduct of Driver Who Ran Down Utile Roy. The police of Mattewan, N. Y., are Icoking for some clue to the identity of an automobilist whom they charge with killing the 3-year-old son og George Verdi, a well-to-do farmer. The child was playing by the roadbide when the automobile whizzed by. A protecting bold caught hia clothes and he was dragged beneath the wheels, which passed over his body, killing him instantly. According to the police, the driver stopped his car, picked up the babv's bodv and throw tt nvor ? ir>u/_ fence Into a lawn beside the road. Persons in a cross s reet, too far sway to identify the automobilist, saw him stop his machine. pick something from the road and toss it asid. . They thought it was a trifling obstruction of some kind and paid no particular attention. A few moments later the baby's body was found on the lawu. FIKK AT SALUDA. RusinosH Section of tho Town 1K?stroyed by Fire. Fire Tuesday night at Saluda, N. C., a mountain resort crowded with summer visitors, destroyed entirely the general merchandise stores of Thorn & Boone and S. D. Statton, each valued at $8,000, together with a warehouse and stables worth $10, 000. Saluda has no flro protection, and hundreds of white-clad visitors watched the spectacle and bankers j and inlll presidents put in soveral hours' ha.d work passing buckets of < and Murdering His Hridc.?Sheriff Lands Prisoner Safely in Jail 25 Miles From Scene. A dispatch from Hinton, W. Va , says somewhere In the mountains between HiRton and Fayetteville, Sher 111 Wiseman and a force of deputies are moving with Thomas Raymon, a negro, who the officers believe on Sunday night attacked and robbed John Alias, a brakeman, then as O I11 i nH on/I mitrrlnrni) Vila Vtri/1 #-v f acted in a over-bought manner. The speculation is mainly professional, ""he outside public give a wide berth owing: to the prices. The new crop movement is increasing, but spinners, foreign and domestic have bought freely in the week. Houses with southwestern connections have made purchases and there has been active covering of shorts. Today's market was irregular, declining at one time on cables and liquidation, but rallying later on hot dry weather in Texas and covering ' I shorts. CAN HO LI) OUR OWN. Hawaii Cannot Approach the South in Cotton. The cotton in Hlwaii can never rival that of the South, according to Dr. E. V. Wilcox, director of the government Honolulu experiment station who is in Atlanta on a trip cf study of Southern cotton culture. Ho says that although the islands produce a fine grade of sea island co .ton, bringing from 30 to 3 5 cents per pound, there are only 20,000 acres suitable for cotton culture. But 1 ,000 acres are now under cultivation. Dr. Wilcox brought with him some seed of Cara Vonica cotton to see whether it can be grown in this soil, lie says this cotton is perenlel, bear ing each year from the same stalk, and requiring only one planting. In Hawaii, he stated, these cotton plants are pruned to prevent them from attaining a height of 10 to 12 leet. MAN LOCKED IN SAFE. \\ am Nearly Demi When the Safe Wa.s Opened. A story coines from Solma of the narrow escape of J. A. Moore, city ticket agent of the Western of Alabama rnnil Mnnro i?o?l ' ault of the station to look after some records when his assistant, as a joke, slammed the door. The combination was thrown off and the door fastened. P. I). O'Ronke, the only man who knew the combination besides Mr. Moore, was in Montgomery, and it looked as if it was going to be a tase of smothering, when some one remembered that the combination bad been written on a piece of paper end left in the oillco. This was found and nn expert called in. The safe ( was opened in about 20 minutes. ( Moore was very weak from the close confinement and could not , have lasted much longer. latborers I*>sc Mvm Several Italian laborers were kill- < cd and a large number injured by the i tollapse Tuesday of a portion oI .? r i.am of T. A. Gillespie Companv, a* r Massena, N. Y., on the big power ca- , aal. The injured were taken to a t hospital at Cornwall, Onta<*-o. a I ^ CAUSES ADVANCE I ] DRAUGHT REPORTS BOAST THE COTTON MARKET. l'iy Spell in Texas and Consequent Deterioration of Cotton Raises Price on New Crop. Texas and its dranght has been the eliief topic in the cotton trade this week. No rain worth mentioning hj?s fallen in the sections where it is needed moBt, i. e., in the central nnJ southern districts, and there is a general belief that further deterioration in the crop has taken place as temperature have beeu reported daily at many stations of from 100 to 107 degrees. The effect of these conditions has been to cause active buying and a further rise in the price of the newcrop months. August has moved up in comparison with the new crop, but interest in that month has been small. Unfavorable reports are still being received from some of the Eastern belt despite the prevalence most of the time for a fortnight of favorable weaiher conditions. The crop in some sections is still said to be "rati and late. Reports of spot conditions of the fields are numerous. Some take the ground that over three-quarters of Texas there has been considerable decline in the condition of the crop since the date for the last Goverment reports were riithered. The belief still exists among many that the total yeild ij certain to fall below twelve million bales, unless exceptionally favorable weather conditions prevail in the remainder of the growing and tiie picking season. The reports of precipitation caused active selling for both sides of the account. It is a nervous weather muiket. Over the region east of the Mississippi, the weather in the week has been favorable and reports continue to be received form not a few it marked improvtfents in the crop outlook. The spot markets at the South have been quiet. Liverpool spot transactions on most days have been small and trade news of late rather less firm. At times the market has DO NOT NEED THAT PLAN i* AKMKKM TAKK CARK OF THEIR ! OWN COTTON. National President Barrett and State President of Alabama Farmers Union Sounds Protest. Strong opposition to the proposed plan of John Hays Hammond. Daniel J. Sully and other cotton men to establish a chain of cotton warehouses, developed Thursday at the opening session of the Alabama Farmers' Progressive Co-operative uniou at 'Montgomery, Ala. National President C .S. Barrett referred to it in his address to the convention. He said: "A meeting was called, Atlanta being selected to discuss the advisa bllity of gathering under one business organization the control of the union warehouses in Georgia. There were more than 1B0 such establishments at the time, the number being second only to those of Texas. "It was proposed to have a boss, a big man to r\in the business to have it under the control of a few men. It was proposed to the farmer to give up his rights and turn the control over to the boss. A year lat*r another meeting was held und the rlan failed to carry. "I advised that we never surrender our rights. Hold what you have. "The trouble with you farmers is jou want too much; you are never satisfied; rest awhile when you get something and enjoy it; never give up your warehouses. They refused to , in Georgia." State President W. A. Morris in an interview, declared: "The Southern farmers, realizing along what lines their best interests lie will never affiliate with such a movement. To block such a movement will be our strongest effort. Can any one suppose the Southern farmers will place the control of the cotton crop in the hands of another interest? "We are well satisfied with existing conditions as compared to what the result of the udvent of Buch a cotton institution would be. I am convinced the farmers of Alabama and the rest of the South will meet this plan with a cold shoulder. It is not their Interest or the interest < 1 hundreds of towns and cities with which they do business." More than seven .hundred delegates are present. <.X>TTON CROP BETTER. \Vith ITrust the Production Will Be Fairly Good. The Memphis Commercial Appeal publishes the following cottou crop nummary on Monday: "For three successive weeks cotton has improved in the States east of the Mississippi and its promise is now fair to good. The crop is late and would be seriously damaged by tn early frost while later than usual is needed to allow the fullest promise to be fatured. The plant v.MLhiu the past two weeks has grown very rapidly and is attaining fair size. It is setting bolls quite satisfactorily and the firm tone is decidedly more optimistic. "Such rains as fell in the past week were beneficial. They were ' local In many sections, however, and the Curolinas and parts of Georgia would be benefited by general precipitation. "Even in the earliest sections of this Eastern belt there is very little cotton that is ready to open and the movement to market will bo delayed well into September unless a , drought later on, should force premature openings. "Roll weevils are active in Louis ami ana Mississippi and are doing some more harm than was earlier anticipated. I "In Texas no rain fell except in some of the Red River counties and .he crop lost ground steadily. "Cotton is opening very rapidly in southern and southwestern counties and is being rushed to market as fast as possible by the farmers. COl KT-.MAKTIAI. ORDERED. Sergt. l'attersoii, of Barnwell Company, to be Tried. The Charleston Evening Post savs crdcrs .have lieen issued appointing Major R. Boyd Cole summary court to try Sergt. Patterson, son of Congressman Patterson of the Second . >'iiki<bsiuuhi district, on tlie charge of drunkenness, disorderly conduct ?d threatening an ofllcer. The trouLlo occurred, it is said, on tho train coming hack from the encampment ' of the Third regiment at Chicamau- ' Ka. Young Patterson is a non-comTiesioned officer of the Barnwell ' ompany. The misconduct of the t'oung man is said to have taken lace when ho was under the inllu- ' nee of liquor, but still the offence s a serious one, whatever mitigating ircumstances may exist. Under the jles of the service, the offence is f mnishable with a line of $100, or t hkrty days in jail or both, at tho t Iscretion of the court t 1 ROBBING THE INDIANS ] SENATOR GORE'S CHARGES TURN* ON THE LIGHT. ^ Many I>a.nd Robbers Waxing Rich on Nation's Wards Who Have Great Ho?lies of Land. Every Inch of land owned by Indians is looked upon as the legitimate prey of the land grabbers." This statement was made Monc ay at Sulphur. Okl., by a member of the committee appointed by the Mouse of Representatives to investigate Indian land contracts. Besides the charges of Senator Icie that he was offered $a0,000 1 bribe to "boost" bite McMurray con- i trccts in Congress, the committee i is inquiring unto Indian land conditions. "Some of the land-grabbers' ' acl ernes certainly should be called ' to the attention of Congress," said a I committeeman. "One man, we have s .earned, has become rich. He kept 1 a list of Indians who owned allott- i ed lands. Whenever an Iddian i died he rushed into court, had a i guardian appointed with the connivance of the guardian, demanded ? hat the land be sold under a ridi- ! eeluously low valuation, for a few t hundred dollars. He has bought 1 whole sections of land. This man, ' who is only one of many, started l with no capital, now owns 10,000 1 cries. for which he paid the Indians t an adequate compensation. As there i aic in Oklahoma something like 20, jOO.OOO acres oflndian 1 ands, is i seems absolutely imperative that t Congress take prompt steps to pre- < vent land-grabbing." \ land-grabbing." i More detnils of J. F. McMur- ' ray's alleged activity at Washington < to promote his 10 per cent attorney < tees contracts in the sale of $30,000,- I 000 worth of Indian Lands, were re- l ihtcd before the Congressional in- i . astignting committee to-day. W. < It. Johnson, former United States at- 1 corney, testified that an indictment ' against McMurray and others in ? .005, charging "padding" of a $300,- 1 t.CO expense account, which <McMur- 1 lay's firm had filed against the Indians in prosecuting citi/enship 1 c-?fcee. had been dismissed by the At- 1 tcney General. 1 At the time the indictments were < being investigated, Cecil A. Lyon. < nation el Republican committeeman i for Texas, was in Washington. Mr. 1 Ijon previously had testified he had uiged the Attorney General to in- < wMiguie me muiciinents, but be de- ' elares he never asked that they be 1 dismissed. The indictments later ^ were ordered dismissed. Mr. Lyon then became interested with McMur- < ray in what are known as the old tubal contracts, and talked with 1 President Roosevelt in'repard to them < Jit. Johnson testified that of 5,000 i indictments returned during hie J <*rm of oflice, only one?that ; r.gainst McMurray, was dismissed. < "After the McMurray indictments ? were returned 1 was called to Wash- t 'ngton. I took all the papers there 1 After nine days, Assistant Attorney t f.eneral Russell told nie the indict .rents were to be investigated. I aire met M*. Lyon. He said he had t been summoned to Washington by f telegraph. When I got back home f 1 was told that the indictment * against McMurary had been dismiss- ' tu." t 1 PA11TY CA.MI'AKiX ItOOK. t a c Two South Ca'olinii Congressmen Are Qtiotod In It. f ? The Congressional campaign book i of the Democrats for the present ;i year made its appearance from the < Headquarters or the committee in i Washington Tuesday. Incorporated c in the complication are speeches , made in the iionse by the following | Southern members: Aiken and Fin- j ley, of South Carolina; Kitchen, Small and Sen. Simmons, of North y Carolina; Adamson, Hardwick and ? Senator Bacon, of Georgia. Most of r bhe speeches are against the tariff end "Cannonism." No Congress- | man's speech who was not straight v on these two subjects could find a place in this book. The book is Is- ^ sued for the benefit of Democratic campaign speakers. I PLAYING WITH SNAKK. Baby Saved from Bite ?>f Battler by Its Mother. When Mrs. Jus. Oxalll, of Blue f Vent, Cal.t went into her hack yard t lo look for her baby she found the nfant playing with a rattle snake, which was coiled up and hipsing and attling. Bach time the child stoop- 1 lmI over to pick up the reptile it b would stick out its tongue and rattle, 11 of which served merely to delight a ue baby. The mother drew the child n "v-v, }<?fer d'spatching the snake o ?. > yt, measured three feet n .nd had four rattles and a button. e lump the Track. Ono man was killed and thlrtyour persons were injured when the tender of Missouri Pacific passenger ti lain No. 209 jumped t.he traek 1 1 CI r.iles north of Nevada, Mo., Monday. f< MEET ONCE MORE V the Old Heroes Who Followed the Stirs snd Bars to Victory oo 1 ] MANY BATTLE FIELDS I Ire Given a Warm Welcome in th*. City of Spartanhrug?Twenty-five 1 Hundred of These (oil liuit Men , (JrM't Kacli Other Oneo More and 1 1 Talk Over Their Battle*. i 1 In writing of the Confederate reunion at Spartanburg, which com- ; menced on Inst Wednesday, the cor ? respondent of the State says: Gen ' Daniel Morgan looked down todaj . from hi6 statue which stands in Spar- \ tanhurg's principal square and saw < thousands of the descendants of the same men who followsd him to vie- 1 iory at Cowpens?men who, both in 1 war and in peace, have fought for >outh Carolina and for liberty and riRht. The annual reunion of the Confed- i irate veterans and of the Red Shirt Men of '7 6 opened here today, and here are more people in Spartannig than were ever there before. Twenty-live hundred veterans, a 1 housand Red Shirt men and num- 1 >ers of both Sons and Daughters of ' lie Confederacy are in attendenca ipon the reunion. Opening exercises were held Wed- * :esday morning in the Harris thea- 1 er. which, though a large building, otild not hold the crowd which wanted to listen to the eloquence of 1 he speakers. On the stage, backed v jv flags of the Confederacy, sat the sponsors, maids and matrons of hon- \ ?r and the officers of the Veterans. ' Red Shirt men and Sons. The en- 1 .ire first floor was filled with the 1 roterans. many of them clad in their 4 jrny uniforms, and the names ol Lee. of Jackson and of Hampton had est none of their charm to this aniionce, while "Dixie" brought forth ] :he "rebel yell" in all its youUiful k 'gor. The address of welcome to the veterans, delivered by Capt. Charles Petty, was responded to by Gen. B. ' M. league, commanding the South * CFnrolina division U. C. V The a<l- ' :Iress to the Sons of Veterans was made by H. B. Carlisle, and to the 1 [ted Shirt men by Col. T. .1. Moore, I \. L. Gaston of Chester, commander ~1 the Sons, responded in their be>alf, while this duty was performed 1 For the Bed Shirt men by W. L. 1 Mauldin formerly lieutenent Gov- ( The prinJii (cab-RssideMpba taeee ' rnor of South Carolina. # C The principal speaker was CM. I*. R. Brooks of Columbia who, with s eloquent tongue, urged unoti all the luty of erecting memorials in bronze >nd marble in memo, v of the brave i.-eds done by the* bov of '61 both ( *n the field of battle and upon that itill harder field which followed the lefeat of the Confederacy. Col. 'rooks' address, was pleasing to the udience. which applauded him to f he echo. ^ Gov. Ansel was introduced to ihe udience, and his appear?. .<; ? railed orth tumultuous applause. After c idjournment the old soldie-s and risitors went to the court house 1 :quare where a barbecue was served hem. Whole flocks of sheep were utchered to make this holiday no. r o make mention of the the other ^ attle. \ In the afternoon on Kirby hill. outn Church street, was laid with \ itting ceremony the conerst ji: . of i inonunnient which is to rise a- a , t eautiful memorial to the Confeder i?e soldiers of Spartanhnrg. A p-it f the shaft will .be made from a roken column of South Carolina's itate . apitol which some years ago 1 ras presented to the city of Spartan- 1 urg and brought here from Colum- r da. f Capt. John W. Carlisle made the 6 trineipal speech and the cornerstone J v .i? laid by Mrs. Charles Petty. To- ^ .ight the veterans went to the big ^ editor hi in of Converse college and leard Polk Miller of Virginia tell var time stories. Ki t! Shirts of every character, size ( ind description were seen there. C one wore fhejn with suspenders on f he outside and the others with sus- ? .cders out of sight or without them, t i oung and old of the sterner were 1 arbed in these blood-colored gar- ' aents. They looked warm and they ' vere, as one of the wearers said. c Tho sponsors this year are the uettiest ever, of course, but then hey always are. T l.eopnrd i Nino persons wero Injured dur- h .g a short spell of freedom e**Joyed t y a leopad who escaped from a me- ti ngerio at Vega Portugal. The d nimal after mauling two womer, \ lade oft with a child in its paws, but s< ropped it when the chase came ear. The child was scarcely injurd at all. n Brought a Itig 1*1*104*. p In line with his recent announce- d lent that he would retire from ac- r; ve speculation .las A. Patten's seat w n the New York Exchange w;u? so'-j |j ,r $70,000 Thursday. o< r<e . * ' ' 2SP! ' ffij THE TARIFF STEAL. 1 kmator Itristow s< <?r?-s Aklrlch and I Old Han Joe. At the old Salem chautaqua In IIInois. Senator Joseph L. Bristow. of Kansas, delivered a denunciation of Senator Aldrich, whom he charge*! vith the manipulation of the tariff 'or the enrichment of himself, his inn finrl a nnmlv?i* "f ^1 ? '-1 ? ..umtrci VI I1IB lllCIlllh Among the names Bristow link?d with that of Aldrich were Senator iuggenheim and Paul Morton, forner Secretary of the Navy. Bristow S attacked the entire "staudpat" eleinent in the Republican party, and ,'eclared the people would demand a Jotter explanation from Aldrich regarding his connection with the alleged trust than that of last Friday. In his arrangements of the organisation. in Congress. Bristow declared that under the domination of Jannon in the House and Aldrich n the Senate the pledges made in Republican platforms are flagrantly violated and duties fixed not to :ontrbute to the welfare of the \merican people, but to fill the >ockcts of greedy, remorseless finau ia! speculators. SOLDIKKS FIGHT. lexns Militiaman Kills Two Private* With Pistol. At Abbott, Texas. Saturday, P. M. "irmin, a member of Battery A. Texts National Guard, shot and instant y killed A. B. Puckett and O. L.. A illiams. first cities privates of 'ho lospital corps. Firmin used a reolver, one of his victims being shot wice and the other receiving one inllet. Firmin and .his brother. Burl Firnin, also a member of Battery A. vere placed in jail. Firmin is said o have been absent from his command without leave when the shooing occurred. The troops were en oute home from Leon Springs, havr.g been attending maneuvers foe teveral days. WORK OK A F1KND. \ "ires on a Boy Who Was Hiding Mule to His Work. A 13-year-old negro boy, named riobert Lang, son of Mack Lang, redding on Highwater place, near VkllOSta. fin.. WHS sortmislw ' ? lie head by a passenger on an e* ursion train from Florida to Atlana on the Georgia Southern road on rhursday afternoon. Efforts to catch \ he guilty party at Tiftou and Cor- J lele failed. The boy was riding a V nule to his work when shot. Part \ f his brains oozed from the wound \ ind physicians state that he will V lie. It is not known whether the ihooting was intentional or the reult of an accident. WHIRLED TO HIS DEATH. aught in Machinery Every Hone in Hmly ltmken. Scott llainmaker, superintendent >1 the Pipe Mill, of the Susquehanna Iron and Steel Company, met a .orrihle death in the mill at Colum>ia. Pa., Thursday. The protruding key of a knuckle r a belt caught the tail of his coat >nd he was drawn into the belt and vhirled around by the shaft, which vas making 1.200 revolutions a ninute. Three feet away was an ir n trough and with every revolution is legs struck it. Ills feet later . u.c iinnou up hiiriy ifei away. Helow was another shaft, against ihieh his arms and thighs hit with rvery revolution. Every bone in his ?ody was broken. Swireliiug for Murilt'rcr. Posses of armed citizens and po'cemen are skirmishing the swamps icar North Merger), N. J., searching or Bertrand Pond, who is wanted or tlie killing of Mrs. Mary IJmcJiiez in the presence of her sixear-old son. The police charge Pond dlled the woman because she reected his attentions. Killed Herself. At Atlanta, CJa., Miss Emma Lee ?ampbell, aged 2T>, of Edgemont, N. ., who was a student at a business ollege, died Monday at a hosoiU.l s a result of poison taken with suiidal intent. She explained to her andlady, shortly after she had tak ui he poison, the reason for her act vas that she had a quarrel with one if her teachers. Caii'l Strangles |hij{. With her hare hands Miss Maude larbour, a young woman of Washngton, I). C.t Tuesday strangled a lirgo dog, apparently mad, which a'aoked her. The animal's body was aken to the bureau of animal inustry to be examined for rabbles, liss Barbour received a slight cratch on the arm. ' W t^uit the Bare. ^ Rev. Coke D. Mann, who was Tuning against I). Wyatt Aiken for ongress in t.he sixth congressional Istrict, has withdrawn from the ace. This leaves the field to Aiken, ho is one of the two South Catena Congressmen quoted in the Demcratlc Campaign Book.