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GAVE HIM BACK 4 Bij Kidnapped and Held Tva Mtalks Relaixd it Hit Finals. A VERY STRANGE CASE Hi* Father of the Lad Say* He Wm Restored at Brooklyn Bridge?'The Boy Says He Was Well Treated by His Captors, Who Had Four Other Children. After being held a prisoner for more than two months by a band of kidnappers, Peter, the six-year-old ob of Charles Clrlnclon, is again at his home. No. 414 Hackensack Plank Road. Union Hill, N. J. He to uninjured and is a little stouter aad taller than when his captors oorrled him away. The boy told a World reporter tkat In the house to which he was taken, either on the east side of New York or else in Brooklyn, there are four other children. He gives their aanes as Rose, who I a two years old; Troclna, who is Ave; Katie, four, and "*Nonna," a ooy of seven. Peter gays that the children retarred to the woman who cared for them as "Mamma," but the police believe them to be other children held for a reward. A determined effort will be made to locate the hevse where Peter was kept and to ran down the gang of kidnappers. Peter was returned to his father mm mysteriously as he disappeared, airtnrion was sitting In his carpet tore about 2 o'clock Monday after aoen, so be asserts, when the telephone rang and a man's voice on the other end of the wire said that If he would be at the Manhattan end of tho Brooklyn Brldre at 10 o'clock that night his son would be restored to him. He hadn't much hope, as ffwrlng the last month he says he rooeived several similar messages without result. The father declares he took up his stand at the bridge at the hour appointed. and says that from the crowd the little fellow darted to him and In o minute was in his arms. Clrlnclon Is unwilling to discuss Ac ease at length through fear that tfcs kidnappers will again molest no ueuici inn no pnia Ally masem to regain his boy. He tost the men who took the little fel* tow away, when they found that he tatld not pay the tribute demanded, totnrnod the child df their own acmr4. "Peter went away on Sept. 26," aid Cirincion, 'and I had nearly ^ en up hope of seeing him aealn. When he went to school that morntog a man gave him a penny. When aahool let out the man was waiting tor him with another man. Roth were Italians. The first man spoke to my boy, calling him "Petie," and aAlng him If he didn't want some tatdy. Then they took him off with to em. I heard at the time that they tarried him away in a pony cart, tet It was in a street car. "*After this happened I got a telephone message, and a man asked me tew much I would give to get my tey back a?ain. I told him that I ted no money and be rang off. I tried to find out where the message tune from, hut I could not." "The mans took me away on a car Md then tooked me on two trains." ttld Petle to The World reporter, and ht pointed In the direction of the Ball's Ferry cars. It Is believed that h? took the cars and then crossed fca New York from Jersey City by the Badson tube. "They tooked me to a house, a Mr red house." he said. 'The mans, they called Sam, tooked me. He was a young mans and he gave me some candy so 1 went with him. And when I got to the house they was a lady there. She was a young lady ad she had black hair and she glved me ?ome cake. It was fig cake and seme nice kind of cake with some tiling good In the middle. "And there was other children at tha house, too. There was Nonna. was a boy and we used to play barbies. He used to beat me when we played and then he'd give me he marbles back again and we'd play n over. "They let me play In the back yard, but I never runned away. They said my papa would come for me. the lady cauched me under the toVa and she giver me the strap, hat It didn't hurt. "We went to the moving picture hows, I saw some Indians and cowhoys fighting. Naw, the Indians didn't beat the cowboys. Course not, ? ? cownovs neat nie Indians. "At night I slept with the fat nans. There were three other mans So the house. They all used to go er to another house, and sometimes they sent me to Ret beer. "Last night they told me to come long with them, and I went with Sam and the other mans. We walked a long way. I was awfully tired, but then they brought me home. Kaw, papa didn't find me at the ^ bridye. lle'R Just making that up." Petie says trains went past the bouse where he was kept and that fou had to go upstairs to the car*. e says there were a lot of Pallars nd Hebrews In the neighborhood. . is first request yesterday was that' sii*' irSfc & ' itfiaifeA I WOMAN CHAINED BY HKR NBGKO HUSBAND IN HIS HOME IN BOSTON, MASS. Wbn Found by tin FoMce 8h? Wm Almost Nad*, IUully Braised sad Nearly HUrrrd. ! A young white woman, aged '.i years, nearly nude and Tast*- j to a wall with a chain uer neck, her hand* ' uouiud her back and her face and body a mass of raw bruises, was found tn a room at 58 Middlesex street, tn Boston. Mass.. Wednesday night by the police when they forced their way Into the home of J. H. Taylor, a negro, against whom they had a warrant In connection with the sale of cocaine. Taylor Is said to have threatened the police with a revolver when the door was opened, but he was overpowered quickly. Entering the room, the police found the young white woman lying on a couch with a chain about her neck, fastened to the wall When asked why she was so confined, Taylor, according to the police, declared it was because she would run away If he did not chain her. He was ordered to release her. and when he did so, she rushed to an ice chest and ravenously devoureu a loaf of bread. According to the police, the girl said she was married to Taylor last September. She declared she h-*d been chained down for eight days and In that time had eaten but on :e. That was three days ago when she was given some bread and tea. MAI) MOB MAKES MISCHIEF. Objecting to "l'ay-as-You-Enter" System, Wreck Cars. At Toronto, Kan., serious rioting occurred Wednesday night, following a mass meeting called to protest against the Introduction of "pay-asyou-enter ' cara by the Toronto Street Hallway Company. The system was Installed on the principal car lines of the city two weeks ago. It caused general dissatisfaction because. It was claimed. ....f.u; tB ivu iu proriae proper cars. A mass meeting waa called for , at M&saey Hall. The call waa la- ? sued by the board of control, through r Mayor Geary. and waa Intended r merely to voice a law.ful protest r against the innovation. Many fiery s speeches were made and npon leaving j the building the audience became a f mob. r They attacked the street can. dragged off the conductors and mot- g orinen and then proceeded to wreck ^ the cars. The police reserves were v unable to control the situation, j wh'ch grew more serious every min- t ute. Mayor Geary personally ap- ( pealed to the mob. but Ills advice waa t ignored and at 11 o'clock ?he work r of destruction waa atill golct j. Twelve cars were completely r wrecked and the windows in one hundred others were smashed. Elgh- j. teen persona were injured. The c worst of the rioting appeared to be over at midnight. ESTIMATES 11.120,000 HALES. National (tinners' Association Makes Crop Estimate. The annual report of the National Glnner'8 Association, Issued at Memphis. Tenu., Tuesday, shows 10,020,000 bales of cotton ginned to Decern fl her 1 st. The total crop estimated by , uie Association Is 11,126,000 bales. j The report by States follows: llales Crop State. ginned. estimate. Alabama . . .1,050,000 1,176,000 f Arkansas . . . 610,000 694,000 ^ Florida. . . . 53,000 60.000 j Georgia. . . .1.612.000 1,757,000 Louisiana . . . 210,000 232,000 ^ Mississippi . . 948,000 1,134,000 NT. Carolina . . 608.000 684,000 Oklahoma. . . 827,000 906,000 r S. Carolina . .1,031,000 1,166,000 f Tennessee. . . 242,000 283,000 r Texas 2,770,000 2,974,000 ? Various .... 53,000 60,000 Total in.o2ft.ann ti.i26.nnn c Shot Dead at llnine. v Felix Corbin, a prominent clttzsi of Milton, Fla., and witness In th? t case of the United States again* h Sheriff Collins, of Santa Rosa couo t ty, Florida, and Sheriff Field, of Sa e vannah, Ga.. was called to v -w ? WW II door at Milton at a late hour Wed n nesday night nnd shot to death. Cor* c bin had Just finished supper with hb h rarr.lly. When Corbln opened th? l| door there was a volley of rifle anr. h pistol shots and he rell dead In hb t doorway, four shots having pen? p trated the body. n . fl Wealth llid in Stovepipe. e Bank books and bonds representing a total value of $S0,000 and belonging tr Miss Emily Williams, o whose body was found in her home * near Milford, N. J., Sunday, several P days after her death, were discov- t ered hid In a stovepipe. Miss Wll- * liams' will was also found In the f? same hiding place. he be taken to the moving picture show, just as he was taken by the woman member of the kidnapping *i gang. His request was granted. 9 -?ii * i ' 'BHBEF PAINT HIM WHITE Rcpablicart Pal a Thick Cast i Vkhevuk an Bailiagcr. ccORED BY DEMOCRATS Republicans 8aj the Secretary Hm Honewtly and Faithfully Performed Hit* Duties While the Democrat* Say lie Haa Not Keen True to the Trust He|H)Red in Him. The tiaUinRer-Plnchot investigating committee, after eleven months of work, made IU final report to both houses of the Congress Wednesday. In the opinion of seven Republican members, a majority of the committee, Secretary Hallinger "honestly and faithfully performed the duties of his high office, with an eye single to the public Interest." In the opinion of the four Democrats. Mr. Ballinger, "has not been true to the trust reposed in him as Secretary of the Interior and should be asked by the proper authorities to resign." Roth reports, together with the Independent report of Representative Madison, (Republican) also adverse to Mr. Ratlinger, were offered in the Senate by Senator Nelson. and In the House by Representative McCall. Their presentation followed a meetng of the full committee. The Democratic members, lead by Senator Fletcher, of Florida, agreed to this method of getting the reports before Congress, after their motion to substitute their own report had been ejected in the committee. Senator Fletcher first raised the loint of order that the committee had ilready approved the report that was nade public at Minneapolis. This oolnt was overruled by Chairman Melson. A motion then was made to inbstitute the Democratic report for he report agreed upon by the seven Republican members. This was voted lown ? to 5, Representative Madlton voting with the four Democrats. It was agreed by the committee ifter the majority report had been idopted. that all three should be >resented at once In each house and trinted together. Under this arrangement the dissenting reports aro riven equal standing with the maority report before the two housoe. tn order for 30,000 copies of the eport was made by the Senate. Senator Fletcher said later that teps will be taken by the Democrats o bring about action in accordance vlth the recommendation contained n their report. The recommend*ion in question characterizes Secreary Hallinger as "not deserving of Vt n ntiKli/i ? J ? Huu.? Luiinaeuco ana recom nends "that he should be requested ?y the proper authority to resign h!s ifftee as Secretary of the Interior." ! The reports were accepted In both louses without comment. The plan if action to be followed by the Dem crats has not been determined upon, >ut It Is said a resolution will be resented to carry out the recomnendatlon made for the Secretary's emovnl. Such a resolution probably v111 call uatly upon the President o discharge his Cabinet officer. The Democrats held a conference in the matter today. They characterize the majority report as "weak," chile the Republican members of the ommittee say It has fully answered ill the charges made against Balinger and has disposed of all testlnony presented during the long lenrlngs. An effort undoubtedly will be nade to put the House on record aB o its opinion of the majority report, tome of the Democratic House mem ers favor demanding consideration if the report at the first opportunity, ntlnnrl.. ..iN ii|> niL-ir uemancl with an ippcal from the decision of th*> hairman should Speaker Cannon ule them out of order. Officials of he interior department declined to uake any comment whatever on the unjority report. i "I have no comment to make on he report of the committee," said Secretary of the Interior Ballingor, vhen ask?d in regard to the findings. In caso the Speaker permits maters to take their course, It is held iy parliamentarians that a resoluion demanding a vote would be necssary. Such a resolution would lave to go to some standing comnltteo for report, and as no such ommlttee would relish the responsibility thus thrust upon It, the resvution probably would be pigeonloled. The general feeling is that here would be no action on the reiort at this session, which means ot at a'l, for the report loses its orce with the expiration of the presnt Congress in March. A woman recently whipped a m..n n the main street of Mobile, Ala., Mth a horsewhip because, as she exlained to the police, the man had old her a lie. If it becomes genral for women to horsewhip men or telling them lies, the demand for orsewhlpa la going to he greatly lnreaMri Several murders have been committed In this county In the last few eeks by negroes upon negroes. CO HON GINNfcD I AH U1VKN OUT BY THE KKl'OKT ' Or THE UKN81'8 BUREAU. Aimmate to 10,130,980 BHm, of Which 1,030,480 Was Reported From South Carolina. The cotton sinning report the census bureau, issued at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, shows 10,139,986 bales, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1910 to December 1, compared with 8,876,886 for 1909, 11,008,661 for 1908 and 8,343,396 for 1907. The per cent of the last three crops ginned to December 1 was 88.1 for 1909. 811 for 1908 and 70.5 for 1907. Hound bales included this year are 101,652, compared with 134,393 for 1909, 201,480 for 1908 and 154,636 for 1907. Sea island cotton ginned for 1910 was 66,634 bales, compared with 77,591 for 1909, oS.396 for 1908 and 55.299 for 1907, and distributed as follows: Florida 23,649, Georgia 35,405 and South Carolina 7.580. Ily States the number of baleB ginned is: Alabama 1,062,628 Arkansas 625,030 Florida 54.307 Georgia 1,626,499 Louisiana 21 8.772 Mississippi 970,205 North Carolina 615,493 Oklahoma 828.842 South Carolina 1.036.480 Tennessee 249,794 Texas 2,795,330 All other Slates 56,605 MAIL OltDKli HOUSE lMt.OBLEM. Can Only Ilo Successfully Solved by the Local Merchant. After all the problem of how to successfolly meet the mall order houses rests mainly with local merchants. Of course In almost every place there are some people who will buy of mail order houses just because they have a craze for buying out of town, but the great majority of people are reasonable and fair and prefer to deal with home merchants. But they need to nave brought home to them In clear, unmistakable form the advantages which home trading gives them. As a rule this is not done as it should Le. Tae mall order firm? send to almost every home their big illustrated catalogues two or three times a year, and | those catalogues are got ud In allnr ing manner and are full of illusory bargains. Tho way for the home merchants to meet that is by keeping honest goods upon their shelves and then tell the public about them In generous, attractive advertising that catcheB the eye. As a rule they do the first all right, but their goods, however excellent, will remain on their shelves unsold unless customers are secured. RUN OVF.lt BY WAGON. Tim Robert* Kille! nt Woodruff Saturday Morning. The Spartanburg Journal says while riding on a two-horse wagon at Woodruff Saturday morning. Tim Roberts, aged 18 years old, in some manner fell from the wagon and was , run over. Both wheels of the wagon j passed over his body. The accident .OCClirred Saturdav n i c.V.. " ' o j u>But U L o U CIUCK, ' and thb voung man died of the wounds thus received. He was one of the best known young men of that j town. He was connected with one of the best known families of Woodruff. Saving a Fiend. Charged with having assaulted a 16-year-old girl at Columbus, (la., I Wednesday night as she was returning home from work, Henry Taylor, a negro, was arrested, and after being identified by the girl, was hus! tied out of the city for safe-keeping, i The girl was brutally beaten about the head and shoulders and choked, but it Is said the negro was frightoaed away before accomplishing bis fiendish Makes (loud (aiiesg. Commissioner E. J. Watson, in the opening paragraph of his 1910 report. said the nonnlaUnti t J. u.Mvtvit V> I OU U 111 Carolina has increased to over 1,-J 500,000 people. Detailed figures! prepared for Governor Ansel a short ! while before fixed the population a few thousand over that amount. The census figures given out Wednesdiy make this State's population 1,515,400. Another Warning. Mrs. Mll'e Easley. wife of G. A. Easley, a farmer five miles front Mobile, Ala., died Monday niRht from the effects of burns received while trying to light a fire wPh a can of kerosene. The oil touched a live coai and the can exploded. She was almost oooVed from her wnl?t down. Ifow foolish it Is to worry ourseland others with what cannot be remedied, or to make ourselves miserable because we cannot always have what wo want. GRAND SUCCESS! The Cera Exposition at Celiakia Made a Great Skewing far ike SOUTH'S CORN PRODUCT Big Agricultural Fair Process a Great , Success-?Surprise at the Wonder- I ful Possibilities of Corn-Growing in the Southern Bt?tc??lioy and j Girl ConteHUnt? A?* Given Prize*. , The South Atlantic StateB Corn Exposition, held in Columbia, murks an epoch in the history of the South. Never has there been bo much *iue corn brought together south of the ' Ohio and west of the Mississippi ' river. It is not a pleasure event, but 1h educational. The farmers of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia were shown, in a concrete form, that the great, boasted corn belt of the West has at last moved South. Tho Exposition stands for more and better corn, which means more live stock and hogB. and consequently. bread and meat, fur the millons of people in the South. The Exposlt'on showed what can he done on the broad acres of the South. It shows that the broad acres of the 'South are more adapted to the culture of corn than the plains of the West. The Exposition was the climax of the 160,000,000 bushels increase in the corn production of the South. The Exposition shows, most especially. ! that the boys of the South have become great farmers, and that they are capable of teaching their fathers new methods. It shows that at last the farmer has adopted Intelligent methods and is not following the trail left by cotton. The Exposition *' was a great success, and It is only " a nucleus of what is to be next year, ' and in the years to come. The Exposition was a success from every standpoint. There was a large attendance of farmers from the three States taking part and by Colum- \ blans. who are Interested In the up- ? building of the State along material * lines. All were surprined at tho , large number of exhibits and the fine ^ corn. There are over 700 individual The executive committee of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, meeting Wednesday, discussed plans l> for & great Southern com show for next year. The plan will be con- 11 aunrmated. Even lower rate* will be secured over all of the railroads, and there will be many festivities in connection with the Exposition. President Herbert, of the Chamber of Commerce, Is very enthusiastic and will lend every effort to see that Columbia's part In the success of the next Exposition is carried out. There were two Important and educational speeches made Wednesday at the Exposition. The first speech was by 0. B. Martin, assistant to T)r. Seaman A. Knapp, of the United States farm demonstration work. He told of the work of the Boys' Corn '' Clubs In the South and of the wonderful results that have been ob- ^ talned in this State. He praised the ^ press for the assistance In bringing 11 about the great wave of agitation for B corn production in the South. ,J The next speaker was Ira W. Williams, State agent of the United States for farm demonstration work. He also gave credit to the press for the assistance rendered the movement and especially thanked the business men of this and other States, who have so liberally contributed prlr.es for the Corn Exposition. Wednesday nlirht thprn ?? _ ^ ...w, v , 4 v> auui csot n iiy Commissioner Watfcon and L. O. Ceniib. in charge of the noya' Corn Clul) work in North Carolina. The prizes for the boyB* corn show, hei.i t *p connoc <n wlh the Corn Exposition were awarded Wednesday. The prizoB apa ' vato several hundred dol'ars. The sh.vr was held under the direction of Ira W. Williams, State agent for the I'nlted States farm demonstration work. Approximately 4 00 boys, from thirty ' ountles, sent exhibits. Agricultural libraries were awarded to Aiken. Parnwell and Clarendon counties for the beat exhibits. L. L. Baker was in charge of the boys' corn show. Prizes aggregating $10,000 were awarded Wednesday night for the best corn exhibited from North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia. The prize for the best single ear of corn was won by E. Goodwin, of Apex. N. C.; best ten ears, by J. C. T.ewis. of Reedy Branch, N. C. Best individual display and best 50 ears, by A. D. Hudson, of Newberry, S. C. Prizes for the largest yields were awarded to Jerry H. Moore. 1 ft venr? of ace, of Winona, S. C., who pro- | dured 228 bushels and 3 perks on | one acre, and to Miss Hannah Plowden. 15 years of age, who produced i 120 hushels of corn on one acre. i Quality and not quantity of corn pi was considered by the Judges, in C making the awards. i r* ? | A For an ex-Repub'ican, Foss If bi preaching some pretty good Demo- , gi cratlc doctrine in Massachusetts. A woman Is'nt necessarily wise be- an cause she can fool a fool man. b< \ 4t*ti?tka by OrctBTill* Lr*diiM|Hjfl^^^^B^^H According to the returns the Lhe population of the [3tnle sf Carolina is 1,615 400, aa eonparJHB^HH *ith 1.340.316 in 1900, and 149 in 1890. The increaao Iroi^^^H 1900 to 1910, therefore, is .176,*84^^^^BH jr 13.1 per ceut, as compared utth in increase for the prvceeillBR #b* :ade of 189,167, or 16.4 per cent. l'opululiou l>>- (Vn utu*. County. 1910. 1900. \bbcville 34.80 1 33,4901 ^H| \ikon 4 1.84 t 39,032 \nderson 69,56 4 66,721 lam berg 18.54 1 17,290 V larnwell 34.209 36,604 ? > _ - .. m ? ?- " "? icnoiuri. . . . . 3U,of>.? 35,496 Berkeley 23.487 SO,454 1 Calhoun 10,83 1 ....?? \ Charleston 88,59 1 38,004 Cherokee 26,179 21,359 Chester 29,425 28,614 Chesterfield .. ..26.30 1 20,401 Clarendon 32,188 28,184 Colleton 35,390 83,452 larlington 36,027 12,381 llllon 22,615 . . .. lorchester 17,891 16,294 Cdgefield 2a.281 25,471 "airfield 29,442 29,425 'lorcnce 35,671 28,474 leorgetown 22,270 22,846 Jreenville 68,377 63,490 .reenwood 34,225 28,343 lampion 25,126 23,738 lorry 26,995 23,364 t (erahaw 27,094 24,694 1 Lancaster 26,650 24,311 .aurens 41,550 37,382 .ee.. 25.318 -exlngton 32,010 27,264 larion 20,596 35,181 larlboro 31,189 27,639 Jewbcrry 34,586 30,182 Veonee 27,337 23,634 irangeburg .. ..55,893 59,668 MrkenB 25,143 18.376 llchland .. .. ..56,143 46,689 laluda 20,943 18,944 ipartnnburg .. ..83.365 66,e69 lurnter 38,472 61,297 In Ion 29,911 26,691 IMUIamsburg. . ..37.626 81,686 'ork 47,718 41,434 Former Cen*ia Report*. Following 1b the popn)?tl?e *C outh Carolina as shown by tbe F?4ral census taken at each dccad# ram the beginning of tb? Oovoralent of the United Stales; 1790. ... . . 249,073 . . . 1800 345.591 88.7 1810 416.115 20.1 1820 502,741 21.1 1830 681.186 16.8 1840 694,398 2.2 1850 668.507 12.4 1860 703,708 6.2 1870 705.706 0.2 1880 995,577 41, 1890 1.151.149 14. 1900 1.340,316 13.6 1910 1,615,400 13. liCKMallvf Apportionment. The following statement, carefully repared by Senator Bide of Orange>urg County, shows the loses and ains in members of the l.? gielaturo y some of the counties in the State nder the apportionment of rcpreeutatlves in the State legislature nder the new census: Free* nt. New. Abbeville 3 S Aiken 4 3 (Anderson 5 6 Bamberg 2 2 Barnwell 3 3 Beaufort 3 2 Berkeley 3 2 Calhoun 1 1 Charleston 8 7 Cherokee .* 2 2 Chester 3 2 Chesterftell 2 2 Clarendon 3 2 Colleton 3 3 Darlington ..3 3 D'llon 1 2 Dorchester 1 1 Edgefield 2 2 Ufl-1 J ~ 1- uuueiu ..3 2 iFlorence 3 3 Georgetown 2 2 Greenville & S Greenwood 3 3 Hampton 2 2 Horry 2 2 Kershaw 2 2 Lancaster 2 2 Laurens 3 S Lee 2 2 Lexington 3 | Marion 2 2 Marlboro 3 3 Newberry 3 9 Oconee 2 2 Orangeburg 4 K Pickens 2 2 nichland .4 5 Spartanburg ft 7 Sumter 3 3 Union 2 2 Williamsburg 3 3 York 4 4 U> the above the counties of Aiki, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, hoster an?' Fairfield each lose a ypresentatlve, while the counties of nderson. Dillon, Greenville, Orangeurg, Rhhlan 1 and Spartanburg iach lin one. The weli-bred person will never ako light of sacru U themes uor will o speak disparingly of a woman. t A