The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 05, 1905, Image 1
VOL. XVIII.
BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1905.
VALUE OF CROP.
What Cotton Is Wofih by Yield
- Per Acre. ,
vegetables in the ooast track regions,
| and ended the growing season of 1904
“The temperature averaged slight-
ij below normal, but was never cold
enough 40 afford safe opportunity tor
butchering farm hogs, have in the
western portions .where much meat
wat cured and packed.
“Plowing was delayed by drought,
but eo ugb rain fell early in the month
to stften the ground and permit
preparation of lands for wheat and
THE SELLING PEICE^
mination was slow 4 , owing to the pre
vailing cool weather, but was in the
main sitLfaotory. Wheat and oats
seeding Was not iinlshed.
“Rloe thrashing was practically fin
ished, and the yields were not as large
as the mid-summer oondLion indicat
ed that they would be.
^“Tbe yields of oorn came up to ex
pectation and gathering confirmed the
earlier promising reports. Both early
and late planted corn were equally
good.
“There were g nerally poor yields
of minor fall crops over the western
parte attributable to the long and
severe drought during September and
October; in the eastern parts where
the rainfall was more copious, the fall
orcpi were general y excellent.
"Du irg November, u during the
previous gathering season this year,
there was practically no loss Id har
vesting from bad weather, and ail
were saved in tbs very best con
dition. ”
CLXKATOLOOT FOB THB MONtffi.
Tne main temperature for Novem-
her was 41.6 degrees, which U 2 2 de
grees below normal. The highest local
mean was 57 2 degrees at Charleston;
the lowest was 46 2 degrees at Gretn
vllle. The monthly extremes were a
maximum of 80 degrees at Walballa,
on the 22nd, and a minimum of 22 de
grees at Greenville and San' u? oo the
15 th, making the State range 58 de
grees. The greeb
range was 56 degrees at Walhalla, the
least was 37 degrees at Charleston
The mean of tbs daily maximum tem
peratures was 63 6 degrees and of the
dally minimum temperatures was only
39.7 degrees, making the average dal
ly range 23 9 degrees.
Frost (first killing of the seism)—
In addition to the Hst In October: On
the IstatOheraw, DUHon. Logoff. On
the 13th at Trenton. On the 14.h at
Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Bates-
turg, Calbcui Falls, Camden, Edlato,
Effingham, Georgetown, Klngstree,
Pe nr, Pi no polls, St. Georges, St. Mat
thews, St. Stephens, Saluda, Sm'th
Mills, Summerv He, Yemassee, Yorlc-
vllle. On 15th at Beaufort, Columbia,
Conway, Society Hill, Walterboro,
Wlnnaboro.
loe—Thin ioe was quite general on
the 1st, 14tb, and 15th. £
PRECIPITATION.
The precipitation averaged 2 78 In
ohes wblob Is 0.05 below normal. Tae
greatest monthly amount waa 4.39 at
Yorkville; the least was 1.20 at Con
way. The greatest 24-bour fall was
2 06 at Stateburg on the 12th 13>h.
The average number of days with 0.01
WHATBEAT BRYAN
Some Inside History of the Cam
paign of 1896.4 '
A COERUPTION FUND
May Be Misleading as to Value. As
Importaat Distinction. The South
Carolina Weather Bnrean’s Re*
’ %a' 1
port for [November Con*
tains Startling Data.
The November report of the South
Caroltta Motion of the weather bu
re&u service, Just out, contains much
that la-of Interest to farmers and all
otters who keep up with crop condi
tions.
The m( st interesting and valuable
portion of the report Is in the nature
of a reminder, or advice, to farmers
a? to what makes the value of the
cotton crop, and this ia especially
timely Just now when there are to
many bizarre colions as to how to in
crease the price. Tue report shows
it the return On the crop to the in-
price per tale, but by tbe price
er acre, and some coir par Isons be
tween Soutb Carolina and Texis are
made which illu.*<trate tbe Vint.
The report says on f- is line:
“It Is the common opinion that
selling price of an sgrlcultutal pro
duct Is alone tbe measure of Its profit
ableness. Theoretically this Is true,
but in actual practice it is not wholly
true, and In tome Instances Is not
* even the most Important factor,
when productiveness is compared
with crop prices.
“By far the greater part of what
tbe average farmer raises is for use
and consumption on his farm, and tbe
residue Is tbe surplus on vh ch alone
the wiling price has any effect so far
as the farmer's iioances are concerned.
Tlte case is different with tbe cotton
farmer, for the entire production of
„ this staple must be s ild, and none oan
be piofitably consumed on tbe farm,
and yet a series of comparisons would
. indicate that the selling price of cot*
ton is less Important than tbe pro-
-;. ductlveness per acre, in calculating
tbe profitableness of this crop.
“Tbe staUment that m re money
is received for a small than for a larg;
crop may true, and yet the larger
amount of money received for the
smaller crop represents a loss to th
cotton planter, in comparison with
tbe smaller amount rec -ived for tbe
larger crop This view is less com
mon, and it Is based, of course, on
the larger yield per acre of a large
crop than a small one. It may be as
sumed as an approximate fact that
tbe cost of cultivating an acre tf oit-
tou varies but little from year to
year, fat le
pound or the yield per acre, and it
may also be assumed to be constant
In the same Reality, however widely
it may vary in dilT rent loalities.
“To illustrate all of the foregoing
points, the value per acre has been
calculated for the total cotton crop of
Soutb Carolina and Trias for a num
ber of yean, selected to lepre ent the
ccndliions brkfiy stated above. In
tbe value per acre, in South Carolina,
was 114 20; In Texas, 922 50; tbe price
per pound was 11.2 cents. In 1894,
the value for Soutb Carolina was
•14.30; for Texas, $12.50; the price
per pound 6 9 cents, la 1896 the
valus* were, f> r South Carallna,
•15 90; for Texas, •10.90; the price
per pound 7 9 oenta. lo^ f898, the
• year tf greatest production for which
values are available, ibe values wire;"
lor Sloth Carolina, •! 1; for Texas,
•13 80; tbe price per pound 5.9 cents.
"The limits of this article will not
oermlt a full discussion of the weather
that prevailed, and the acresga cul
tivated, . in connection witn the
amounts realized per acre, but It can.
- be safely stated that tbe yield per
acre is the controlling factor^ In the
profitableness of raising cotton,
rather than the price per pound. A
* large yield and high price would be
& the most profitable combination, but
tbe rule of ‘supply and demand’ as
serts iteelf very quickly In such cases,
operaticg cn the variable factor, t e.,
tbe price. The conclusion Is that in
tensive farming will do more to make
cotton raising profitable than will
varying the acreage from year to year
in the tope of raising the price by
limiting production or increasing the
~ " ipneigE to supply -an-tlisting daflcl
k*al monthly concessions.
raised by a
Of Fve Million Dollars Raised by the
Trnst Magnates a Few Days Before
the Bectioa for Special Use
ia Five Doabtfal States
aad Qlven to Haana.
Thomas W. Liwson charges that
Henry H. Rogers, president of the
Amalgamated Copper Company and
one of the leaders of tbe Standard Oil
group, directed the raising of a $5 000,-
000 fund to buy five doubtful States
for William McKinley in the 1^96 elec
tion. The charge la made jn the Jan
uary Issue of Everybody’s Magazine,
tbe sale of which Mr. Rogers tried
vainly to stop by threatening criminal
libel proceedings against the Ameri
can News Company, which is tbe gen
eral distributing agent for periodicals
itf i—Mr .
Lawson makes the charge In con
nection with hla exposure of the secret
of the Bay State gas fight between J.
Elward Addicks, of Delaware, and Mr.
R vers. Lawson for Addidks had ar
range a settlement with Rogers by
Which tho latter wss to be paid ••,000,-
000 on a specific date for bis rival gas
plantain Boston and other important
believe it’s tbe sacred duty of overy I
honest American to do wbat be oan |
to save bis land from ouch a calam
ity.’ - v
VISIT TO BANUB MOORE.
Continuing, Mr. Lawson writer
“Havtr g clearly sot forth the politi
cal situation through which we should
be saved, Mr. Rogers proceeded to
mapout jmy own program. First, I
must perfect an alibi for him by going
to Foster and Braman and impress
ing them that be was absolutely out
of tbe affair, and must under no cir
cumstances be brought into It, I must
convince Addlcka to the same effect,
and in addition tell him that Mr.
Rogers bad angrily refused to get into
tbe mix up, that I should then bold
(nyi-elf in readiness to meet John
Moore and Hanna or O borne as soon
as an appointment could be arranged.
That afternoon I got tbe word and
went tn No. 26 Broadway, and from
there Mr. Rogers and I went over to
John Moore’s offloe.
“ ‘John,’ said Mr. Rogers, ‘I am
going .to turn this matter over to you
and Lawson, and I am to have noth*
Ing further to do with it. What you
two agree to will be. satisfactory to
me, and remember, both of you, every
dollar that is paid by tbe National
Committee, but afier It’s all settled,
and if there is no slip up, I will look
to Lawson for whatever la expended.
Is It understood?’*
“We agreed that It was, and Rog
ers left us.’* •
_ Lawson tays that the John Moore
mentioned was of -tbe stock broker
age firm of Moore & Scbley. Mr.
Moore is row dead. Libwaon deacrib a
tbe Washington connections of Moore
& Scbley, saying they did business for
Senators, Congressmen and other na
tional officials wbo speculated in
stocks on their inside knowledge of
legislation.
When everything bad been arranged
ADARING RESCUE.
Br«ve Life Savers Take Twenty-
Tl
One Men from Ship.
VESSEL TOTAL LOSS,
the Lane Oil Steamer Northeasters
Pound inf to Pieces os tbe Tresch*
eross Shoals of Cepe Matte*
v
ras. Crew, After Greet
Peril, is Saved.
TH* QOfiPIL OY TH 0011
Om Scientist Worth
of Iowa.
One s’ngle scientific brain, stndy-
irg on tbs suhj iet of sotenUflo corn
raising, has earned in the last year for
the State that employs him over •10,-
000,000, and this Is only a b a gInning
, Professor P. G. Ho’.den, of the lows
In the Price of Cottoa on Ac
count of dinners Report
OF THE GOVERNMENT.
teaching about grain as a aide Istue.
for tbe- quashing of tbe receivership
The money was to be by the payment of 9300,000. Lxwspn
new issue cf Bay State
Gas stock.
Everything was running smoothly,
when B ger Foster, a well known New
Yoik lawyer, acting for a client, threw
the Bay State Gas Company into a
receivership, Dwight Braman being
appoint*! receiver. Tbe r«<y iversblp
proceedings were put through with
such a rush in the Delaware courts
that Addicks only knew of it after the
receiver bad been named.
DISASTER FACED SPECULATORS.
Unless the receiver could be dig
charged and Addicks regain posses-
alon of tbe comoany all hope of rats
mg tbe money m cessary to perfect
the settlement arranged with R gem
would have to be abandoned; the war
would be continued, and Lawson, Ad
dicks and all of tbelr following crusb-
ed. Lawson blots that Addicks & n
templated suicide when be first heard
of tbe rtgeivenhip.
Lawson says he went to seethe Bos
ton broker to learn if tbe receivership
could be ended. He asked tbs broker;
’ What’s tbe prioe?”and the latter, he
says, replied: 9150,000 for the lawyer
and hla client, wbo bad 9100 000 of
or more precipitation was 6, ranging Bay State bonds, and 9150 000 for
from 1 at Allendale to 8 at Columbia, himself and those behind him. Law-
Little Mountain, Saludawnd Trenton, son said he told tbe broker receiver
ency at high prices. If tbe supply
can be made fairly constant tbe p r ice
will remain fairly constant. Tbe
effect of the weather on tbe growing
crop la, after all, tbe main factor in
the pre fit abler tes of raising cotton.”
PROGRESS OF FARM WORK.
As to the progress of farm work
during November tbe bulletin says:
“The weather conditions through
out November were favorable ? for
gathering what crops remained In .the
fields, consisting mainly of late, scat
tering bolls of cotton, although some
fields received tbelr first picking dur
ing the month; gathering and busking
corn; picking seed peas; digging and
pitting sweet potatoes; and gathering
minor crops such as turnip, peanuts
and other root crops.
“A general killing frost, except
alcog tbe eosat where it was a heavy
frost, tn tbs I6ib, with freezing tern
peratures and thin lee over tbe upner
parts of tbe State, stopped all further
growth except of the vsry hardiest
Sleet—-Columbia,
Snow—Twenty seven stations re
ported snow on the 13 h, generally
only a trace, but amounting to 2 in
ches at Batesburg. Tbe snow melted
as it fell.
Weather—Tbe average number of
clear days was 17, of partly cloudy
ones 6, and of cloudy ones 7.
Wind*—The prevailing direction of
tbe wind was from the west at 17 sta
tions, from the northwest at 10, from
the southwest at 9 from the north
east at 7,.from the north at 5, from
the east at 2, and from the southwest
at one station.
_ Hlirh Winds—High winds, reaching
velocities of 40 mites or more, at mauy
places, prevailed over the State on the
13th.
Presiient Harvle Jordan of
Southern Cotton Growers’ Protective
association Wednesday issued a call
for an interstate convention to be h< Id
at New Orleans, Jan. 24 26, 1905.
A moog the matters for cooai leration
to be acted upon are the following,
according to tbe call: “Financing
the entire spot cutton business of the
soutb; creating a bureau of statistics
for benefit of the producers; establish
ment of a cotton exchange in each
State through which cotton can be
sold direct to the manufacturen; or
gan !z alon quickly of all the cotton
producers in each cotton growing
county; reduction of cotton acreage
and use of ci mmercial fertilizers for
1905, of not Isas than 25 par cent.;
adoption of a local warehouse system
to meet tbe practical demand of both
farmers and bankers throughout the
soutb; to make New Orleans tbe lead
ing—oet4m-s>ehaaf»-i*-tlt*~4JaUe&
gaUlig
money was from Mr. Rogers, saying:
“Tne question is bow to get Rogt rct
to advance so large a sum in such a
ticklish business. He does not want
to get mixed up in a matter in which
any one man’s treachery might mean
State prison.”
Lawson then vis'sled Mr. Rogers
He says in bis article:
“Rogers refused absolutely to be a
(dirty to any payment that oould be
traced back to him. He canvassed
the sources of hszird; first, through
treachery on tbe part of Fister, Bra
man or Addicks, he m'g'it be accused
of bribing a court officer, tbe receiver:
Addicks might blackmail him by
charging him ‘with conspiracy, or
conspiracy charge might be brought
by Bay Strte st< ckholders at d be held
for tremendous damages. H* refused
to put himself into an; such trap. 1
put forward a d< z m ways to meet the
emergency, but be would have,none
of them.
ROGERS' ALLEGED PLAN.
“Finally be suggested a method
which was certainly perfect of its
kind. He began by letting me into
;be secret that the chances of a Me
Finley victory in the election the fol-
owing week looked pretty bad, and
went to Boston with Mr Rogers* at
torney and tbe directors of tbe Boston
companies. Legal transfers were to
be made in Boston immediately upon
telephone news from Wilmington of
tbe retirement of the receiver. An
other party, headed by Addicks and
including the lawyer, the receiver, s
representative of Mr. Moore and coun
sel for Mr. Rogers, left at the same
time tor Wilmington. This latte:
contingent. Lawson says, was to carry
the money. Mr. Lawson writee:
BOW THB PLAN WORKED.
Before L took the train for Bos
ton, Just after the last deed bad been
signed, I had c ms Uf a complete
understanding in the manner in which
the court proceedings tbe following
morning should be conducted. It was
understood that no one should take
another's word for anything, and con
sequently that no money should pass
until specific performance of all the
required conditions.
"Immediately on the release of tbe
receivership Foster and Braman were
to be paid their "fee,’ and they asked
that tbe 9150,000 ca^ booming to them
should be arranged in separate piles
of bills. The twj packages contain
ing Foster’s and part of Buchanan's
and Braman’a 950,000 were to be In
the cos tody of John Mooror’s repre
States; the formation of a close alll
anoe between all tbe southern agricul
tural organizations now In existence
for mutual oo-operatlon and protec
tion. These are among tbe lead'ng
matters for consideration. They are
momentoos and sonn of them involve
tremendous propositions. But none
are incapable of q lick solution and
practical realisation. Tne soutb pos
sesses the brains, tbs manhood and
the money to solve any great question
Train* la Petal Orach.
dent on the New Haven road Wednes
day night. The Boston express due
at 7 03 tn charge of Ooedoetor J. A
Daly, of Hartford, and Engineer
Charles Bahyn, of New Haven, crash
ed into an accommodation train in
the Stamford depot. George How
land, a travelling conductor, of Mount
Vernon, was killed, aid many "were
injured.
aentative and my partner, who, with
R vers’ counsel and Addicks, had been
assigned to represent the Bay State
in the court.”
Lawson said that Addicks had
planned a revenge upan Foster and
Braman after the payment of tbe mon
ey. Some of his political “heelers.*’
Lawson writes, bad learned of ibe pay
ment in cash that was to be made,
and had planned a scuffle on the sta
tion platform while the lawyer and
the receiver were waiting for the train
that was to take them from Wilming
ton to-New York, Liwaon doesn’t
state outright'that tbe two men were
to be roboel in the scuffli, merely
saying: ^
‘’Well, many things happen
ruth.* 1
"CAtE FULL OF MOIHHF. —-
Judge Wales was on tbe bench in
Wilmington Circuit Court room tbe
oext day, says Lawsen. All of the
parties to tbe arrangement were pres
ent and two dress suit cases were
Btaekcd up,In tbe sight of ail present.
The formal motion to dismira the re-
recelversblp was made and consented
to.
“At once,” writes Lawson, “the
two dress suit cases, each loaded with
After being Imprisoned on the
wrecked oil steamer Northeastern
nine miles off Cape Hatteras f->r 36
biurs, Capt. Wilder and bis crew of
21 men were taken, aabore at noon
Thursday by tbe crews of Kinnakeet,
Creeds Hill and Hatteras life saving
stations. >
Tbe big steamer la (xuidlrg Dia
mond shoals uoger a terrific sea and
is given up by the crew as a total
less.
In a bewllderirg fog Tuesday night
the Northeastern, on her way up the
ooast from Port Arthur, Tixas, to
New York with a cargo of crude pet
roleum, shoved her prow into tbe
deadly-sands on Hatteras and wss
fast in the dutches of the graveyard
of shipping before her orew realized
what bad happened.
This was at 11 o’dock and before
day Lad come the gale that swept
over the country from the middle
west had at'udc tbe s;a and waves
were crashing over the helpless inoess
sntly.
The force of the wind and tide threw
her on her port beam and the flood
of water extinguished her fires befo r e
her Inflammable cargo oould become
ignited. Had ibis not been tbe case,
tbe 22 men aboard the Northeastern
would bate met a horrible fate with
no possible ebanoe of escape.
When mcrolrg dawned the wreck
was sighted by the life savers and the
weather observatory at Hatteras. She
was nine miles off shore and the water
between was a seething miss of moun
talnous waves. No surf boat ever
built could have lasted one minute In
such a sea and the life guards on the
coast had to stand by helplessly and
watch the big ship being pounded by
tbe waves. During Wednesday nigbt
tbe wind diminished, but tbe temper
ature dropped about 20 degrees, add
ing to tbe suffering of the crew. This
morning at sun-up the hardy life
savers began their attempts to get
surf boat to tbe ship. Again and again
the life boats were aent bead on into
the sea, only to be caught up by
monster wave and burled back on tbe
beach. Human determination con
quered the elements after a three-hour
• raggle, and at 9 o’clock three life
boats, with their brave crews, were
safely across tbe breakers. When tbe
-ftiirfTfi" r.h» Tordf they
confronted with a problem of great
Now be is known as an agronomist
and preaches the “gospel of tbe corn”
from special oars drawn throughout
the rural districts.
Tbe farmers of Iowa once laughed
at tbe idea of a professor with such a
title teacblrg them, tbe b^st corn
growers in the world, anything about
raising orn. Now they flxk from
miles away to Helen to blm and be ia
revered an1 obeyed as bo other man
in the State.
As a result, in large part, of follow
ing hls advloe, they have railed about
one hundred million busbels more
oorn this year than In any year of this
century, and they exp-ot to add an
other one hundred million busbels to
tbelr crop next year.
Prfeosor Holden became an agrono
mist—tbat Is, so expert In grain
raising—by accident. Wnen be
taugbt sthool In Michigan be got up
ooro growing ontest among hL
pupils. Hi Induced the boys to pick
out tbe earliest, blggeet and most
perfect ears from the fields, save them
and plant from them the best and
most perfect kernels. Toe result,
aided by scientific methods of eultlva
tion, wss that tbe bovs raised more
oorn on tbelr little patches than any
body bad ever dreamed of.
Professor Holden worked on his
system until it was perfected. His
fame spread, and the Funk brothers,
who own a 25 000 acre farm In Illi
nois, offered him a b'g salary to run
it. H« planted 20,000 acres of corn
year for tieir, land added to tbelr
yield more than one hundred thous
and busbels tbe first year. The State
of Iowa thought he was a good thing
Prices tbe Lowest la Three Years, fl
Report, as (Uvea Oat by tbs C safes
Yield of
fTblrtcca
tbir Year.
In s
danger and diffloulty. The sea, while
it bad ubslded to some extent, waa
still In an angry mood and the little
life boats were being tossed like cockle
sheila about the helpless mass of
steel. Lines were finally strung be
tween tbe boats and tbe Northeastern
and every man was taken from tbe
vessel In safety. It was fvsr six hours
before the fint of the b <ats reached
shore again. The almost exhausted
orew was eared for by tbe Hatteras
life savers. No statement could be se
cured from Capt. Wilder Wednesday
night, owing to tbe fact tbat tbe
coast -wires were broken shortly after
tbe barest facts concerning the rescue
were obtained.
Tbe vessel, It Is said, will be a total
toss;
Tbe Northeastern is s steel ocean
steamship, built In Chicago In 1901,
and is owned by C. Counsel man of
Cincinnati. The Northeastern sailed
for Port Arthur, December?; from
New York, arrived on the^lTth jmd
sailed tbe same day. ^
Dr. Riehardaon Keatjrn*.
A dispatch from Spartanbtrg says
Rev. W. R. Richardson, D. D v , has
severed his connection as editor with
and engaged him to occupy the chair
of agronomy to the Iowa Agricultural
College, In Ames. The chair was
created especially for him.
Profeesor Holden made tbe farmers
believe after s time that be knew
more shout oorn raising than they
did. He travelled all over tbe State
In special trains, last spring and win
ter, making “tall end” speeches and
getting better crowds than any Vice-
Presidential candidate saw later lo
tbe season. He told the farmers how
to select their seed oorn, how to plant
and cultivate It, and on what sort of
ground to plant different sorts of oorn
and how to handle It under different
conditions.
The results are read in the erop re
ports on Iowa’s corn yield this year.
The average crop of Iowa corn tor
1904 is forty bushels to the acre.
For nine years it has been 27 1-2
bushels. This year’a crop will aggre
gate 350,000,000 bpshtls, about 126,-
000,000 more titan last year’s ysld.
Tbe crop Is worth about 930,000,000
more than a year ago, and Professor
Holden la universally credited with a
third Interest In the extra yield.
Burned to Death,
persons lost their lives
▲ dispatch from New York says the
cotton market broke 30 to 35 points
oa the census bureau's ginnsrs’ report ~
indicating a crop in exeats of tbs gov*
ernment’s estimate. There was very
heavy trading on tbe decline. The
bears contend that the glnners* report
probably forecasted a crop of nearly
13,000,000 bales. Following tbs re
port prices, wblob bad shown weak*
oess since tbe opening, broke sharply,
with January selling around •.••,
March 6 81 and May 6 96, or a net de
cline of 22 to 25 points and a break of
practically 96 a , bale In two weeks'
timv The market.was vsry aetivs
during Wednesday afternoon with big
short Interests covering while there
was also heavy liquidation and so -
every little bu’gs tbs bears assassd
disposed to withdraw their buying
orders and sell more cotton. The low
figures reached In the Mump are the
lowest that cotton has reached in
nearly three yean.
THE OIXNKBS’ REPORTS.
The census bureau Wednesday Is
sued s report giving the quantity tf
ootton ginned in 737 counties up to
December It last to have bean 11,
986,614 running bales, which Is the
equivalent of 11,848 111 eommerotal
Tne oommereial bake reported
to tbe same period for IMS amoontsd
to 8.747,669.
In arriving at tlft namber of
meroial bales, round bales are
ed half balsa.
Tbe report to the
year covered 812 counties as
737 this year. Tbe report tor tho
present year corns the output tf
29,527 ginneries, while 29,827
inc'uded Ip the report for IMS. Tbs
product of tbs different states tot this
year, In running bales, reported to
DMember 13, is as follows:
Alabaaaa ..^.1,298.918
Arkansas ; ...... 7M.1M
FioridaH ■
Georgia
Indian Territory..
Kentucky
Louisians...,
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Three persons lost their lives In a
fire which totally destroyed the farm
.residence of Obas. McMillan at the
bead of Conesus Lake, N. Y., on
Thursday.
The dead:
Charles McMillan.
Lottie McMillan, his sister.
Frank C. McMillan.
Luts McMillan, another sister,
escaped. The cause of the fire has
not been explained.
Tbe McMillan's were among tbe
promt aent families of L* flagstone
county. Tne tbree McMillans lost
tbelr lives tn an attempt to save the
bouse from destruction. Aioused by
the crackling of the flames the family
fl:d from tbe boupe In their night
tnfrawoke a farmhand
occupied a house a few roads away:
Be arrived on the soene Just in time
l to see Charles, Frank and Lottie ru-h
into tbe burning building with palls
of water. Lula McMillan and Mary
Dprnan, rservant, WMb fesfcfilnai by ] one wanted to see him. He waa an-
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L NEW ORLEANS FEELS IT.
▲ dispatch frem New Orleans says
with tbe reading of the ginners* report
on tbs ootton exchange
ootton slumped 47 to 86 points,
triordinary excitement attended the
break. The market was hammerad
with great energy. After the first
excitement tbe market grew quieter
though tbe decline was not arrested.
January ootton went to 6.40, which
is a decline of about four cents daring
tbs lest three months.
Mardered la a Clab Room.
Travis Johnson, a wall known dti*
sen, was foully murdered Wednesday
in rooms at the Arlington olub, bis
bead being nearly severed from bis
either a knife or ai
arrested almost! mmediately after the
assassination and obarged with the
crime. Tbs victim was st breakfast
when he received a telephone
tg,return to the dub rooms,
that the latest canvass of the States Currency, were allpped to Braman and The Southern Christian Advocate and
showed that unless Bometblog radical
were done Bryan would surely win
Hanna had called Into consultation
half a dozen of the blggiat financiers
n Wall street, and. it was decided to
/urn , at lelat five of tbe doubtful
States. To do this a fund of 05,000,-
000 bad been raised under Rogers’
direction, to be turned over to Mark
Hanna and McKinley’s cousin, 0<-
horiiA, through John Moore, tbe Wall
street broker, wbo wss acting'as R g-
ers’ representative in collecting the
money.
“it wculd be legitimate for tbe
National Committee to pay out money
to carry Delaware, and he (Rogers)
would, arrange It tbat the coin to sat
Isfy Braman and Foster should. come
through this channel. Thus he would
be completely protected.
’Lawson,'said Mr. B gars, look
ing at me with deadly serlousneas, bis
which threatens her prosperity. —hroioe charged with conviction, . ‘H
Bryan’s elected there will be snob a
panic in this country as the world has
aoei- never seen, and with his money ideas
and the crazy beaded radicals he will
call to Washington to Administer tho
nation’s affairs business will surely
be destroyed and the working people
suffer untold misery. You know
all hate to do. what Uncle Mark says
Is necessary, but It’s a csss of some of
os sacrificing something for the coun
try’s good. Bryan’s" election would
set our oooatey book a century, and I searching for
Fester. In the bustle Braman and
Tustef, each with blfi booty fled.”
They bad.arranged for a special
train to carry them out of Wilming
ton, and In this wily. Lawson says,
the plans of the Addicks men were
defeated. Lawson says be learned
tbat tho two men had planned to
make a big coup In Bay State Gas, but j
ie got into tbe market first, sanding
the prion up from
then causing slump when they got
aboard at the high price.
In a separate article Lawson again
attacks tbe life Insurance companies,
and to npsst the charge that be waa
actuated by their refusal to Insure
him, prints a fao-smlle of a 01,000,000
bond policy which he bold In the
Equitable Life and on wbloh be pays
a yearly premium of 0144 220. This
policy expires on August 22,1912,
when Mr. Lawson is to receive £1,
360.009; - ■■ ■
Rilled the B >y.
At Chicago while K'met n
years of age, balanced a bottle on bis I
head, William 'Dougherty, wbo had
been boasting of bis prowess as a
marksman, It is alleged, attempted
to enu'au William Tell by shooting
the bottle. At Urn second shot Hunt!
fall to tDe floor with s ballet between
his eves and died almost Instantly.
has received an appointment from
Bishop Duncan as pastor cf tbe Fir.a
Methodist oburob at Pulaski, Tenn
He will leave In the near futurp for
his new field of labor. It la not defi
nitely known *ho will succeed Dr.
Richardson as s The Advocate editor.
It is currently reported that for tbe
present tbe editorial work will be
done by one of the following gentle-
Snyder of Wofford
college, Pastor E. O Waison ofUen-
tral Methodist church, or Rev. W. A.
Rogers, D. D. Tbe departure of Dr.
Richardson and his family will be a
matter of genuine regret throughout
city. As editor of Tbe Advocate and
as pastor of Central Metboilst church
In years past, Dr. Richardson had
made many friends, Irrespective of
creeds, who held him in high esteem.
Whipped While Men.
A. D. Lewis, a white man, 33 years
Dougherty
escaped
or him.
and tbs police are
whipped In the woods near Natchez,
Wednesday, and orders! out of
the State. Lewis was being taken to
the county convict farm to serve a
sentence tor insulting women on tbe
streets. While under arrest, a crowd
of six white men took him from the
guard, carried blm to the woods tbree
miles from town, stripped him and
gave him 00 lashes across tbe back,
then placed him on a train add order
ed him to leave tbs State.
main force from following the others.
Tbe obarred bodies of the victims
were found In tbe ruins. It is sup
posed the third body is still In the
dtbris. -
A B*<1 Man. ’
At Thomas, Ga., after killing his
mother-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Parrish,
making a desperate attempt to kill
hi| 18-year-old wife and shooting
himself twice with a Winchester rifle
Wednesday. J. B Birrow is lying in
tbe city hospital Thursday night in a
pr« carious condition closely g a tied
by officers. Birrow is an engineer on
the Atlantic Ooast Line. He is 38
years v>ld aad "bad been married but
two years/ His wife was 20 years bis
Junior. Domestic Infelicity Is glvsn as
the cause of tbe tragedy. The verdict
of the coroner's Jury does not my
whether murder wss committed or
the killing was accidental.
Tried to JEaeape.
While a train carrying 130 oonvicta
in tbe employ of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Rtiiway company was going
from Mins No. 3 to tbe prison, Will
Filler a negro ooovlct, exploded
stick of dynamite In one of t
coaches with a view of effecting a
wholesale release. J. Dawkins, a cdo-
vict from Henry county, was killed.
Guard Pickett lost a leg end an arm.
Geo. Delaney, one of tbs trainmen
was hurt, ind several
slightly injured. Dqring tbe slam
pede guards from the other can rush
ed forward and prevented tbe recaps
of any tf tbe oonvicta. Tbe explo
sion blew oat the md tf tba ouaota.
oompanted into the room by Griffliii,
who was seen a few minutes there
after leaving tbe place by a rear en
trance. Feeling against the prisoner
is intense and a quick trial la de
manded. Tbe motive tor tbe crime
was probably robbery, as nearly 8200
was taken from the murdered man.
v The Unloaded Pistol.
A dispatch from Holly Hill to Tbe
State mys Jim Russell, tbe 14-year*
old eon of Mr. T. S. Russell, wbo re
sides near Holly Hill, accidentally
shot himself Thursday morning with
the proverbial “unloaded pistol.” In
taking bis father's old pistol, which
was believed to be unloaded,
frbm 'a burea¥''drttirer It em nod*
dentally discharged, the ball pawing
through his band and entering his lag
J ist above tbe knee. The ball waa
not taken out but tbe boy la reeling
quietly Thursday night. The wounds
are not thought to be serious, bat
will be some time la heeling.
He Was Lynched. *'
A special from Neal, Ga., wyt
Herbert Simmons, a negro, waa
lynched there Thursday for tbe killing
of X A.TSlt.A white
the oommuulty’s bast known
_ _sr The negro wss token Hum
offljsrs by infuriated dtiaeos while bb>
log carried to the Z bulon Jan
after being strung upon a
With
was murdered on the :
Deo. 27, bis skull betof
with a large stick. *~
diet was that be came to I
lbs beads tf Herbert I