The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 29, 1910, Image 1
VOLUME XXi. , CAMDEN. 8. C.. FRIDAY, AIMUL'29.1910. NO. 15.
? TWAIN DIES
MJEDM NOME
Worn Out by Grief and Agony a
Seventy-four
DISTRESSED AT JEAN'S DEATH
GiV||Ja0 l'1"""'" Written In
Word#?r^nyiuu
I ,< rn A"Ido <'?? Humorist Hunk
Into Iwverie.
lidding, Conn.?Samuel Langhorn
Clemens, "Mark Twain," died from
angina pectoris, it was the end of
a man outworn by grief and acut?
?gony of body.
fea,tur?I,n?ny h0?i# the Kray aQUI]lne
features lay molded In the Inertia of
eath, while the pulse sank lower and
#Ut Ute at n,ght Mark
passed from Btupor Into the first na
tural sleep he had known since he
?nrn. J?" *** HOXt
chearfn? *n* ,WO,k?, Meshed, even
^-neerrul and In full possession of all
$!" J"uU'r Ho t?co(tnlfed hi.
wKfil L ra' Mr>' 0m,P Oabrllo
witsch, snoke a rational word or two,
and, feeling himself unequal to con
versation, wrote out In pencil: "Give
roe my glasses." They war* hi* (ui
J2 ?"? Lay,n? them Mlfle, he sank
first Into reverie, and later Into final
unconsciousness?dead.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was
<tnrDi 8??s F1?r_lda' Mo-. on November
30,1835. My parents," he writes,
in nis own Burlesque Autiobography,
were neither very poor nor conspic
uously honest. ? ? ? Tjje ear_
llest ancestor the Twains have any
record of was a friend of the family
by the name of Hlggius." Tho coun
ty chronicles have It that the elder
Clemens failed In business and died,
leaving his Bon the ample world to
make his fortune in.
Accordingly, Mark Twain's ac
quaintance with literature began in
putting words into type, not ideas
into words. Educated only in the
public schools, he was apprenticed
to a printer at thirteen and worked
at his trade in St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Philadelphia and New York City, un
til at eighteen he could gratify a boy
ish ambition to become cub to a Mis
_ sissippi River pilot. Both these des
perate happenings reacted profound
ly on his later life. Varied and
eventful as that life was, it might
almost be said that only two things
happened to Mark Twain?ho learned
the river and he learned to set type
His knowledge of river life, ac
quired when he was a pilot, took
form In "Tom Sawyer," "Hucklebei>
ry Finn" and "Life on the Mississip
pi," regarded abroad as hie surest
title to fame. It even suggested his
pseudonym, for "Mark Twain" is a
linesman's cry to the pilot in shallow
stages. And his familiarity with
printing turned him naturally first
Into newspaper work, then Into crea
tive writing, and finally Into the pub
lishing business, wherein, like Sir
Walter Scott, he suffered a bank
v ruptcy, disastrous to. everything but
his honor, and. like Sir Walter again,
paid off by his pen debts not of his
?wn making.
In due time Mark Twain beoame a
full fledged pilot. He tells the rest
himself In .a chapter of life on the
Mississippi.
"By and by the war came, com
merce was suspended, my occupation
was gone.
"I had to seek another livelihood.
So I became a silver miner In Ne
vada; next, a gold miner In Califor
nia; next, a reporter in San Fran
cisco; next, a special correspondent
in the Sandwich Islands; next, a rov
ing correspondent In Europe and the
East; next, an Instructional torch
bearer on the lecture platform, and.
Anally, I became a scribbler of books,
and an Immovable fixture among the
other rocks of New England/'
This was In 1872, two years after
he had married Miss Olivia L. Lang
don, of Elmlra, N. Y., who brought
him an Independent fortune. At that
time his writings were in growing de
mand, he had an assured income, his
own home, and seemed indeed & fix
ture. But in 1885 his popularity aa
an author and his acquaintance with
the mechanics of the publishing trade
?besides being a practical printer
he had been part owner of the' Buf
falo Express before his marriage?
drew him Into the firm of C. L. Web
ster & Co., publishers. The firm
brought out the memoirs qf General
Grant, and paid bis widow $350,000.
but its prosperity was Bhort Mved and
it failed with liabilities of $96,000.
The failure had already sucked , In,
$65,000 of Mark Twain's cash, but
he determined also to shoulder the
debts, and tb pay them off undertook
In 1895-G a lecture trip around the
world.
Mark Twain was an Inveterate
smoker and one of the most leisurely
men in the world. An oltf pressman
who was once printer's devil In an
offlce where Mark Twain was edito
rial writer tells this anecdote of his
habits of work: "One of my duties
was to sweep the room where editors
worked. Every day Mark would
give me a nickel to get away from
him. He would rather die in tha
dust than uncross his legs. One day
he gave me a nickel to dot an T in
Ms copy for him. He certainly did
enjoy life, that man did."
Yet this easy-going dawdler ac
~ quitted himself of a. prodigious deal
pt work in his life, and bound hlm
Mtf voluntarily to pay off the debts
that he could have Sischargeil with
out hurt to his good name by passing
through bankruptcy. He not
GENERAL BKLIi QUITO WAFF,
??s
General Wood Will Be ChW Wh?
He ????.ftaJ?.
iU
MaJ&r-Oeneral Leonard Wood will
?d General Bell, bat will not ??>
tho duties of Um offlce natll he
n jjjr* AjraaJi
$?CQ.
practice ai he preached. "It don't
umko no difference/' he had lluck
Fiun way, "whether you do right or
wrong, a person's conscience ain't
got no sense and just go?* for hlsa
anyway. If I had a yaller dog tfeat
didn'tknow no more than a peraon'a
conaotence did, I'd p'laon him. It
takes up more room than all the rast
of a peraon's Insldca, and yet ain't no
Rood, no how."
Business reverses were encoun
tered by Mr, Clemens about seven
years ago, when bis friend, Henry H.
Roger#, went to his ftld. His publish
ing affairs, managed by himself, nev
er wero a succeeds, and at this time
other friends came forward to reha
bilitate the author's fortunes. Ha
lectured and he wrote and again
emerged from his troubles. At this
time he orulsed with Mr. Rogers on
the tatter's yacht and was often In
his company.
With Mark Twain's lecture trip
around the world began his Interna
tional celebrity and his gradual rise
Into a figure taken in some sense to
typify the American aplrlt. From
humorlat he became the kindly but
mocking moralist and philosopher of
"Puddinhead Wilson." His literary
output became more occastonsi, and,
though written with more finesse,
more critical and less creative. His
publlo appearances grew more fre
quent, his whimsical utteranoea
gained greater currency, and a whole
literature of sneodatee about him
grew up.
Tale gave him the degree of M.
A., and later of L. H. D.. in IDOi;
the University of Missouri. hla native
iuiiuwttu with Liu. if. in 19U2,
and In 1907 the University of Oxford
with great ceremony made blm
Lltt. D.
Indeed, serious appreciation of
Mark Twain as an artist and not a
mere Jokesmlth began abroad, but
his true worth haB long been recog
nized in thiB country. "Mark Twain's
humor," said William Dean Howelis,
"will live forever. He portrays and
Interprets real types, not only with
exquisite appreciation and sympathy,
but with a fprce and truth of draw
ing that makes them permanent. He
had the true humorlBt'B tender heart
and deep seriousness. Like I?ret
Harte, with 'whom he -worked, like
the great Woat that bred him, .hla
mdst audacious sallies were terse and
Bternly grave. As a moralist, love of
humanity, hatred of sham and the
Bense of duty informed hlB most
lr(onlc and debonair preachments."
Four children wero born to Mark
Twain, of whom two, a Bon and a
(laughter, died early. One other
daughter, Jean, who had been an In
valid for life, was found dead in her
bathtub last fall ln^hef home at Red
ding. Conn. ,Her tragic death Bad
dened her father, who declined In
health from that moment. A third
daughter, Clara, la Mrs. Oasip Gabrl
lowitsch, wife of the ftlanlst, who
married her last year.
. Mark Twaln'B first book was "The
Jumping Frog." -His best known*in
thlB country was possibly "Innocents
Abroad." His surest title to fame Is
generally believed to be "Tom Saw
yer" and Its companion volume, "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
In all, his books had a sale/Of more
than-500,000 copies and were trans*
lated into six languages. Others
among the better known are ''A
Tramp Abroad." "The Prince and the
Pauper," "A Yankee at the Court of
King Arthur," "PuddJnhead Wilson"
(dramatized), "Joan of Arc," "A
Double-Barreled Detective Story" and
"Eve's Diary."
WOLTER GUILTY OF MURDER.
Body Found at Murderer's Rooms
Partly Burned in New York City.
New York City.?Albert W. Wol
ter, eighteen years old, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
after two hours' deliberation on the
part of the Jury. Wolter killed Ruth
Wheeler, fifteen years old, in his
rooms Just thirty days .ago. For
cpeedy Justice this Is the record, not
only for the county, but for the State,
In a murder case. The prisoner
showed no signs of emotion.
The partly burned body of the girl
was found In the fireplace. She had.
been outraged and strangled.
"Poor little girl." exclaimed Mr.
Moss, the prosecutor. "Thrust In
there she was while still alive. I
hope ahe did not feel -the fire, though
she breathed It?this child who had
died because She fought for * her'
chastity/'
Mr. Mosa dangled Wolter's blood*
stained and soot-marked ahirt before
the Jury and before the eyes of Wol
ter himself. Wolter sat with an arm
flung over the back of his chair. Hla
tears of self-pity had dried. The new
parade of horrors waa without effect
on him. .2
"The man who wore the ahirt car
ried the body," declared Mr. Moss,
"and that's Wolter's shirt. Fred
Ahrena wasn't wearing Wolter's
ahirt.
"They say we have not proved
fVieT. Wh/, hare la a Jarful of ashaa
?the ashes of wood. Her olothes
were soaked with oil. Has* remains
her IRtle hand;-look at Itr It^ia
clenched and holds* a renfnant of
thla monster's hair. ? It waa a delib
erate crime by burning to hide the
other crime.
"I bag you to he resolute as we
hava bad to be. A great duty Is on
yon. pointed ont to you, step by step.
The web Is complete. The protection
of our young women; the lesson to
our young men; the vindication of
Justice demand a verdict of murder
In the first degree."
Lord Kitchener at West Point.
Field Marahal Lord Kitchener vis
ited tha Military Academy at Weat
a?
at hit own request.
ihu prone n?ki vpwaGMbrsm. ;
Pat Crowe, the kidnaper of Eddie
^tjdjihr for 1*5.000 ranaontpfcter3in
lifijnHitprKthcId up end robbed atj
Manafield. Ohio. Crowe filed com
plaint amrfnat John Snma a rwrnled
Offio/fteTormatory priaoner, who Wo*
hel d ;|n $5000 bond. ? ? ^ 1
Negro in Cohen CaMaet. -
President Gofoet of Cuba appoint- 1
ed several new mpmhom'of bie^'Owd
of them helng a negro. * j
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2000 HOMELESS IN FIRE
Over Twenty Blocks Swept In
Lake diaries, La.
llouses Dynamited, Hut FJantes Leap
<J*pM?Started in tl^r Old Opera
Houbn and liqrned Itself Out.
New Orleans, La?Lake Charles,
319 miles west of New Orleans,
which had less than 7000 population
In 1900, and is estimated now to have
2^.000, was swopt by a disastrous
Are. Two thousand persons were
homeless and tbo property loss Is es
tlma^jd at $3,000,000.
Stilting shortly after 4 o'clock p.
no. In the old opgra house In Rival
street, near Pujo, the Are spread to
adjoining buildings, burning out the
northern portion of the city's busi
ness section and then sweeping into
the residential district. As the fire
spread appeals for aid were wired to
Beaumont and Orange, Tex., and to
Jennings, La., all of which were
, within a radius of flfty miles of Lake
Charles. The Bouthern Pacific of
j tered special trains to bring the vol
unteers from neighboring cities.
Many houses in the patch of the
(lames were dynamited, but showers
of sparks wore swept beyond the gaps
thus made, igniting the buildings on
the further side. Within a Bhore
tue wiuii had driven the Are over
a space two miles in length, leaving
a masH of ruins in Its wake.
While many of tho buildings de
stroyed were merely frame cottages
scores of handsome structures also
fell prey to the flames. The City
Hall, tho handsome Calcaslon parish
courthouse, the Clair Hotel, churches,
stores and warehouses were reduced
to bare black walls and smouldering
heaps of ashes within two hours af
ter the Are started.
It was 8 o'clock at night when the
fire, which followed a northeasterly
direction from the business section,
finally reached tho outskirts of the
city, burning Itself out.
A Catholic convent was the most
Important 'among several hundred
buildings destroyed In the more than
twenty blocks swept by the flames.
The principal building destroyed
waH the courthouse, erected a few
years ago at a cost of several hun
dred thousand dollars. All of the
tax collector's records and part of
tho record") in the clerks' and asses
tors' offices were destroyed.
SUICIDE MYSTERY SOLVED.
Wojnnn From New York Killed Her
self nt Middle town.
, Mlddletown, N. Y.?-Mystery over
the finding of a woman's hat and
pocketbook on the hanks of tho Wall
kill River was solved when the body
of a woman was taken from tho
water. It was idontified as that of
Mrs. Annte King, No. 310 West Twen
ty-fifth street. New York City.
Mrs. King was the wife of Joseph
King, a farmer of Vanburenvllle,
Orange County. A year ago he lost
a foot and the wife took her littlo
daughter Anabel and went to New
York City to earn her living. Owing
to bad luck. It is believed, Mrs. King
was on hor way here for assistance
when she decided to end her life.
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EXCISE VIOLATIONS ARE COSTLY
$281,800 in Costs and Penalties Paid
in Six Months.
Albany, N. Y.?State Excise Com
missioner Clement reports that from
October 1, 1909, to April 1 last his
department collectqd In costs and
penalties In bond actions and cancel
lation proceedings about $284,000,
which is more than $36,000 In ex
cess of the total expenses of the de
partment In the Bame period.
"Tho effect," said Clejment, "Is
wholesome, and encourages obedience
to the law. Liquor dealers who think
are beginning to realize that they
cannot afford to violate the law. The
losses are likely to bo greater than the
profits."
KILLED IN CINCINNATI'S FIRE.
A Dozen Others Believed to Hare
Perished in the Hotel Thoma.
? Cincinnati, Ohio.-?Three persons
lost their lives and half a dozen oth
ers were believed to have perished in
a fire which destroyed the Hotel
Thoma,
Two.of tho dead were identified as
Walter O. Cameron, lawyer, and
Harry Lawrence, proofreader on a
morning newspaper. The third body
was not identified. The hotel was at
Walnnt and Sixth streets, in the re
tail district.
SIX DIE IN A FIRE.
Father of the Family Fatally Darned
Attempting Rescue.
Ponca. Neb. ? Mrs. Jerry Miner
and five children were burned to
death when their cottage, throe miles
north of here, caught fire.,
Miner saved his two-year-old baby
by throwing it out of the window.
The father made a desperate effort to
resciW the other members of the
family, and was burned so seriously
that he was not expected to lire,
First Electric Tunnel Builder Dead.
John Henry Miller, capitalist, who
coneeired the plan and constructed
the first electric tunnel in the coon*
?r, *?d Who also planned the great
Susquehanna elcctrlc power plant at
Conowingo, Md., died in Baltimore,
Md., of angina pectoris.
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CHIier Sew fork Off For China.
The arraotad cruiser New York
Railed tooir-M2ap<nn Hoftds flu W
nese waters, where it wfll take tbe
place of the crniter Charleston as
I BMkwMt Speaks to Pari*. . ^
Theodore Roosevelt mado an ad*
dress before the University at Parts,
outlining the duties of a clttien of a
WM1C.
LOSS OF $20,000,000
TO fflUIT CROPS BY FR0S1
Cold Causes Devastation In Illi
nois, Michigan and Missouri
HEAVY _ FALL IN KENTUCKY
iroN of Itonwrfcably l/ow Tunper*.
lure Kxteudu ?n Fur South hi
(larullnNi?latest Snowfall Kvrr
Recorded In Illinois.
Chicago, III.?The third killing
,Vost has unread over the West and
Vorthwest, destroying the remnant of
the fruit and berry crops. The loan
waa eatimated at $20,000,000, Mich
igan, Iowa, llllnoia, Wisconsin, In*
liana, Mlaaourl, Minnesota and Ne
braska being the chief sufferers.
Michigan lost peaches, grapes,
>ears, plums and strawberries. The
>ig loss In Illinois, Iowa and Mlaaourl
iss been apples. It had been snow
ing and freezing for forty-eight houra
>ver the entire territory.
Forecaster Cox reported a mini
mum temperature of twenty-soven
ind a maximum of thirty-olght.
The situation was designated by
Mr. Cox as one of the most Berloua in
its sxperisnov, The uutjr chnncea for
i supply of fruit that he could foresee
wero in the Colorado districts and
;hose west of Colorado, with a possi
ble chance that some fruit In Mis
louri will be saved by smudging.
"80 far as the fruit is concerned It
will be a serious and perhaps a total
083 from hero west," he explained.
'The cold la going into Ohio to com
plete the ruin which is general north
>f Central Illinois and as far south
is Kentucky and Tennessee. The
Ireeze extended westward and north
vestward up through the Dakotas and
lown through Iowa, Missouri, Kansas
ind Oklahoma to the foothills of the
Rockies. The fruit suffered much
!rom the first freeze, and this one
will finish killing what had not been
tilled already."
Only once for the entlro month of
\prll for any previous year on record
ias the tomperaiure been so cold, and
;hat was on April 1, 1899, when the
nercury dropped to nineteen de
crees.
The snowfall InCentral Illinois was
.hree inches, according to the Weath
er Bureau. Never before has there
)een more than a trace of buow re
:orded after April 15 in that region.
Reports from the entire Northwest
.ndlcAte that barley, oats, rye and
;orn were badly damaged, but the
loll still is in lino condition, and it
S not too late for reseedlng.
The loss to fruit in Michigan is
?Btlmated at half a crop by William
Sschrich, a Milwaukee''nurseryman.
Tree fruits will suffer heavily, but
strawberries and other ground fruits
ire protected by snow.
Snow fell lightly all day at Burling.
:on, Iowa.
Killing Frosts in Ohio.'
Cleveland, Ohio.?"Killing frosts"
were reported from the principal
points in Ohio. "It is impossible to
jstimate the damage to the crops,"
oaid Forecaster Kenealy. 7'The area
>f low temperature extended down to
the Carolines and .throughout the
Middle West."
The blight was severe on small
'rults and early vegetables. Orapes
suffered heavily and there was con
siderable mortality among young
poultry. ^
Frost Damages Crops.
Glasgow, Ky.?Frost did conslder
ibla damage here, the extent of
r<rhich is not known. A heavy snow
{ell here.
Frost* in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, Okla.?A' light
!ro8t prevailed in the lowlands of
Oklahoma. Fruit has been damaged
throughout the eastern and southern
parts of the State.
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HEARST INDORSES TAFT.
lalla at the White Hoom and Then
Issues a Remarkable Statement.
Washington, D. C.?William Ran
dolph Hearst, former aspirant for the
Democratic nomination for the Presi
dency, issued a remarkable statement
over his own signature, In which he
unqualifiedly Indorses Mr. Taft. In
doing so ho also criticises in severest
:erms the Administration of President
Roosevelt, and, in so many words,
warns the American Nation against a
renewal of the political domination
of tho former President.
Hearst called at the White House
and spent a half hour with the Presi
dent In the executive office. Upon
leaving, Hearst said he had called
merely to pay his respect* to Mr. Taft,
whom he said ho admired. Later he
Issued his indorsement of the Taft
Administration, saying that Taft 1*
doing what Roosevelt should have
done.
~ Bond Dealer Arrested.
Abraham White, who made mil
lions on a "shoestring" in various
city and Government bond deals, was
locked up in New York Cltjr charged
ylth swindling an old "L" road pen
sioner out of fCOO. ?
Forged Pictures Mold Here.
Paris art critics pronounce eighty
: i^er cent, of the so-called Rembrandti
In America are copies or forgyt?;
~ awwr AHW> fill' " f
General Estenoz, leader of ttie ne*
*ro party In C*ba, and aJkim-th&u
of hts associate* w*ft arretted. Pres
ident Gomes regard* the moremenl
as seditious.
Marfc Twain
U More than SOtO persona *!ew?d
the body of Mark Twain after the
funeral settle* in the Brick Preaby
teflan Church, N?w York City. TIm
burial occurred at Blmira. H. T.
GOVERNOR HUGHES
, -y- ?
Of New York Appointed As
sociate Justice
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(I. S. SUPREME COURT BENCH.
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News Had Been Kept SecrtV? Presi
dent Taft Pleased?People in Wash
ing ton City Satisfied ? Succeeds
? Justice Brewer.
Washington, Special. ? President
Taft Monday issued the following
statement: "The President by letter
of April 22 tendered tin* appointment
to the supreme bench to succeed Jus
tice Brewer to Governor Charles E.
Hughes of New York, By lettor of
April 24, Goyernor Hughes accopted.
In the President '? letter to Governor
Hughes he told him that a* the Su
preme Court would .adjourn its hear
ings this week the person appointed
would not be called upon to discharge
any judicial functions until the open
ing of the Gctober term on the sec
ond Monday in Gctober, and that
therefore if Governor Hughes could
accept he might continue to discharge
his duties as Governor until his quali
fications on the day of the opening
of the court in October next. This
was a material factor in Governor
Hughes' ucceptonee. ..Accordingly, if
the nomination is confirmed, as there
is every reason to lisKeve it will be,
Governor Hughes' qualification will
not take place until October.
"1 am very much delighted to se
cure Governor Hughes for the bench.
He is a man of wide experience and
marked ability and it is a might)
valuable thing to have on the great
bench of the Supreme Court a man
of affairs. Governor Hughes is forty
eight. years of age, I think, and even
if( he should retire at seventy, he
will have had twenty-two years of
Holid usefulness on the bench."
^the-offer and acceptance comes as
a surprise to the nation. The nego
tiations have been carefully guurded.
The appointment of Governor
Hughes was received throughout
Washington with the greatest satis
faction.
King Cotton Cause of It All.
.Washington, Special.?No alarm in
being caused in tho Department of
Justice by the stirring tales fro*a New
York of tho possible' disastrous re
sults of the investigation of the cot
ton pools. They are attributed to a
press bureau.
Berlin, By Cable.?The cotton fail
ure in Alabama has caused anxiety,
and consternation in Bremen banking
and commercial circles. Bremen
houses will suffer heavily, though per
haps not to the extent as those in
Liverpool and Havre.
Liverpool, By Cable.?Tho direc
tors of the Cotton Association ex
presses the belief that if there are
no more bills of ladpig frauds by
American shippers and no further
shortages in the shipments now en
route, Liverjiool Arms will be able to
weather the $2,000,(^00 loss resulting
from the Knight, Yancey & Co., fail
ure in Decatur, Ala.
Atlanta, Special.?Agents for a
dozen foreign cotton houses in At
lanta all agree that under the present
system of doing business in cotton,
great losses ar? possible and even
easy. .
The local cotton men are inclined
to rejoice at the news that Liverpool
cotton brokers are the heavy losers
They say that tho Liverpool men,
counting on receiving from America
cotton bought at a very low figure,
have shipped back to America large
quantities of cotton at an advancing
Erioe to break the American market.
f the Liverpool men have been de
ceived by forged bills of lading, the
looal men claim the shortage of cot
ton in England will cause the shut
down, of mills there.
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Southern Increases Pay Boll.
Washington, Special.?Increase? of
311-2 cents a day have been granted
by the Southern Railway to its 1,
200 carmen. The yearly Bum of the
increased wages aggregates $113,400.
The Southern also allows increases
in pay to its machinists, which will
be substantially the same as the men
asked for and practically the same
as are being demanded by the ma
chinists' unions of other railroads.
Mew Orleans Market Nervous.
New Orleans, Special.?With the
more or lefes goneral understanding in
the cotton future market at the close
8atnnlay that the weather would
prove a big factor in the market t^is
week, futures opened hero Monday
14 to 34 above last week's oloae and
exhibited a marked tendency to seek
high levels from the very start.
Another Leave for Peary.
Washington, Special.?Robert R
Peary, tha arctic explorer, has been
granted si* months' leave of absence
by the Navy Department, wf'h per
mission to go abroad
Fonr Atlanta Highwajaen O&afht.
Atlanta, Chu, Special.?In a mo
Monday Con
leietima of the thtee negro highway
men who Saturday night held iy> and
robbed a etreet' ear. to in Atlanta ?u
borb, identified one of the aegrote
caught in the police dragnet a* prob
ably one ot tbe gnilty taiow
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SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS
Th# Cream of Newt Items Gathered
From All Orer South Quollu
ajad Boilod Down.
The Inspectors and Commissioners.
The International Association <>1"
Factory Inspectors and tint Interna
tional Association of Labor Commis
sioners will meet in Columbia on Au
gust 25 and lit). Over 500 delegates
will be in attendance fn?n all States
in this country and several foreign
countries will be represented, It has
been finally get tied that the two asso
ciations will convene in Henderson
ville, N. C., on the afternoon of Au
gust 22. There will be a session of
two days of the associations at that
place. The associations will then be
conveyed to Columbia for the re
maainder of the session. A special
train will be secured for the dele
gates.
Preparations are being made to en
tertain the two associations at a ban
quet to be held in Gr??uviU? during
the week of August 22. The textile
plant* of the Piedmont will be in
spected.
Old Rates Restored on Ootton.
South,Carolina cotton shipper* are
affected by an opinion handed down
bv the Inter-oUie commerce commis
sion Saturday in the caae of Alexan
der Sprunt & Son, of Wilmington, N.
G., against the Seaboard Air Line
Railway.
Finding that many of its through
rates on cotton to Wilmington, N.
C? exceeded the sum of the local
rates from the territory of Colum
bia, S. C., the defendant mad* a
general readjustment involving Hub*
Mtantial increases from North and
Ola, S. C., among other points. With
in six weeks the former rates, which
had been in effect for many years,
were restored. ?
Citadel Cadets at Greenwood.
Preparations are being made for
the encampment of the Citadel cadets
which is to be held at (Jreenwood
from June 1 to June 12. The en
campment will be the Inrgest ever
held by the school. There will be
218 boys to attend. It has been de
cided by the adjutant general to use
the band of the Citadel during the
coming summer for the encampment
of the First and Second Regiments
in place of a civilian band.
The Oreat Electric Railway.
Definite announcement is mode nt
Greenville that immediately upon
completion of the preliminary sur
veys of the Anderson-Greenville
Spartanburg electric railroad,' the
corps of engineers under Maj, Lee
will make surveys. between Helton
and Abbeville and between?BeUon
and Greonwood with a view of ex*
tending the company's great trolley
system to one or the other of those
places.
Governor Invited to New York.
Gov. Ansel has received an urgent
invitation to attend a banquet in
New York city on May 5, when the
International Exposition which is to
be held in that city in 1913 will be
formally launched. There will be
over GOO attend the banquet. Thie
banquet will be given by Mayor Gay
noi; of New York.
Congressman's Son Left Train.
Barnwell Aiken, the 17-year-old son
of Congressman Wyatt Aiken,, of
Abbeville, ' disappeared from the
sleeper of the train whilo with his
father and secretary he waB traveling
to Washington. The disappearance
occurred Thursday morning while the
train was at Richmond.
Mad Dogs Bite Many.
Over forty victims of worthless
eurs are being treated in the newly
established State paateur-institute
at the University of South Carolina
under the direction of Dr. A. Coward,
who is thereby made one of the hard
est worked physician* in Columbia.
Ool. Armstrong Going to Klngetree.
Col. James Armstrong has accept
ed an invitation by the Daughters
of the Confederacy to deliver the ad
dress at the unveiling of the Confed
erate monument at Kinstree.
Aiken Wants Encampment.
An invitation has been extended
both the 1st and 2d regiments to
encamp at Aiken this summer. ?
Southern Loses $13,600.
A verdict for $13,500 has been
awarded by the supreme court ^jp the
case of W. J. Shelton against the
Southern rtilway.
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It was claimed by Shelton that the
waa seriously and permanently in
jured when a passenger train of the
Southern railway jumped the track at
Clyburn's crossing about five miles
from the town of Camden. The
wreck oocurred on February 26, 1006.
Sheltoii had purehaaed a ticket from
Cheraw to Camden. He asked the
York county court for a verdict of
$50,000 but only $13,500 waa given.
South Carolina Banks Prosperous.
The buBUmrpt the Stnt* ?n in a
prosperous condition ax)d a compara
tive statement by filUes L. Wilson,
14 new banks have commonest bust
nsss in South fisroltak sines .No
vember*- 16, lOOfc.Lfhe resourees of
the 250 b*nU of the State on Msreh
24 was *01,182?10.72. This ahSws
sn increase ofjpg* $9,000,000 in tbs
SNOW SWEPT SOUTH
Young Cotton Ruined And
Fruit Badly Damaged
A SCARCITY OF COTTON SEED
7 j If*'I ?
Oil Mills to the Eesoue?Faraaer*
Will Replant Orop?Fruit Injured
Everywhere Except Florid*?Oottoa
Futures Oo Jumping.
Atlanta, (Ja., Special.?With mil
lions of acres of youug cottou destroy*
ed by the uol<l weather which Monday
overspread the entire cotton belt with
the unusual April accompniment in
many suctions of snow and sleet, the
South has suffered its most disastrous
financial set-back ^rhaps since the
civil war. Besides cotton, young veg
etation of every description suffered
from the freezing temperatures and
fruit wan wore or less damaged in
every Southern Btate except Florida.
At Columbus, Us., one cotton aeed
oil mill announces that their
entire supply was at the cointriand of
tho plantera and would be sold for
$1 per bushel. Monday a carload of
sued was shipped from that point to
the Mississippi delta and many tele
grams were received frflm all sections
of the South nuking for an allotment
of aeed supplies.
Atlanta, Ga.? Special.?For the
Urst time in the history of Atlanta an
April snow fell early Monday. A cold
mid-winter rain turned into snow.
Birmingham, Ala., Special.?A snow
and sleet storm struck North Ala
bama Sunday night and Monday
morning and according to the weather
bureau in Birmingham, extreme cold
weather is general throughout thla
section of the State.
All the fruit, most of the vegeta
bles and a large per cent of the cotton .
will be killed. Cotton seed is high
and scarce, ahd it will be difficult to ,
find enough for replanting. The
money loss will be enormous.
A special from Adamsville, Ky., re
ports a snow fall of six inches there
Sunday night. * ' ^ 7
Augusta, Ga., Special-^The cotton
crop in this vicinity has not been
damaged by the cold weather so far
and even a freezing temperature or"
heavy frost would do but little harm.
Jackson, Miss., Special.?Accord
ing to reports received here from
more than 20 counties the cold wave
has played havoe with the young cot
ton crop and wrought irreparable in
jury to early corn.
Kansas City, Special.?A snow ?
storm ,remarkable for the eeaaon of
the year, prevailed ail over Missonri,
Northeastern Arkansas and Eastern
Arkansas and Iowa.
New Orleans, La., Special?Frost
generally throughout Louisiana and
sleet as far south as Tangilhasoa par
ish were reported. Ice formed on
small streams in Louisiana as
south as the central portion of the
State.
New York, Special.?Reports of .
disastrous weather in Southern States
cause great .excitement on New York
Cotton Exchange: Rumors are cir
culated that the bull campaign will be
carried on to the end of the current
season as was the case in the season
of 1002-03 after Sully's big deal.
Not a sufficient supply of seed can be
had to replant damaged erop. October
cotton sold at 12J94 or 57 points above
the closing pricf of last Saturday.
A. M. E. Church Raises $200,000.
Washington, Special.?pearly $200,- ,
000, was raised for the work of the
African Methodist tfpiaeopel Church *
in the flseal year just ended; accord*
ing to a report made to the financial
board at their session here.
Young Roosevelt a Day Laborer.
Hartford, Conn., Special.?Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., will leave his work in
the carpet factory at Thompsonville,
on June 1 to prepare for his marriage
to Miss Eleanbr Alexander in New
York city on June 20. Young Roose
velt is now doing executive work in
the main offlee of the factory. Fol
io wing'his marriage be will become
district manager of the company at
its San Francisco headquarters.
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Negroes' Intentions Peaceful.
Havana, By Cable.?The govern
ment's denials of race troubles were
rendered - absurd Saturday ?- night.
whenr^Qen." Kstfcu** the colored
agitator, and many other negroes
were arrested for sedition. The gov
ernment's dispatch of troop Jito: the
provinces is disconcerting the
of the negro.leaders, and it fri?
ed Kstenoi^^rho visited Mjfr'ffifrckfton,
the American ^ninister, and iqijtwM
ed to him^hia peaceful t^tcnUonR,
simply organising for the purpose of
winning st the polls in order to se
cure proper recuauiliuu/ .--ffi*
"Biffin mru PiMtoMf,
Washington, 8j
Bill' U a
Jute*
nndtlrasMLlJ
?*nt $12 a month in
hit lerviee* u a private tidier inl a A
u?o union,, aw r
After th? war William F. Ob*^/ M I
hi. t y