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VOL. XZXX.
BARNWELL, 8: 0., THUR8DAT, SEPTEMBER 21,1906.
NO.
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MIKtSA BURNED.
FlreQot to the Magazine And
An Explosion Follows.
SIX HUNDRED LOST.
The Pride of the Japanese Navy Sinks
lato the Sea. She was Tofo’s
Flagship, bat he was not on
Board When the Terrible
jj '• ‘ *
Accident Took Plaee.
A dispatch from Tokio says the
JapaneooDavy department anBoooeeo
that the battloohip Mikauhad been
dostro) td by Are and the explosion of
her magazine, causing the Ions of 590
lives, Including men of other ships,
who went to the rescue.
The fire started from an unknown,
danse at midnight on Sunday night,
September 10th. Before the tffiaers
could be r seen red, the fire reached
the aft magazine, blowing a bole In
the port aide of the vessel below the
water line and causing the ship to
sink. 't
An investigation Is now being held
to determine the oanae of tha fire.
As is well known the Mlkasa was Ad-
flagship, but he was not
the terrible accident
happened.. - ’
Tuo ship wan at anchor in Sasebo
harbor ifhen the fire started at the
base of the .mainmast at,> midnight
It spread with great rapidity, explod
ing the after magazine, an hour after
the fire had been dissevered. ^—-**■***"
The Mlkasa sank In shallow water
and It Is believed the ship can be re
paired. Rescuing parties were emit
from the various warships in the har
bor and there were heavy casualties
among them.
Various conjectures are current
to the cause
hots It tn
Great relief was felt throughout Ja
pan, whan It was. learned that Ad
miraj Togo’s)
on bbard whan
mini Togo was not outboard the ship
at the time of the firs. The disaster
has oast a gloom over tbs whole of
Japan. —•■■■—— 7
k FOOLISH HOT
Shoots Two.Young liSdtes and Then
Kills Himself.
At Frodarlok, Md., because his 16
year old sweetheart persisted in her
refusal to marry him and had dismis
sed him, Lee Weddle, 11 years of age
la dead by hil own hand, the sweet
heart, Nellie Btoheiberger, la suffer
ing from two pistol shot wound i that
may prove fatal and bar friend and
^eotnpviloo, Maud Darla, has a bullet
woncJ through her arm.
Meddle was fee aon of a prominent
builder and oontraoter of Thumout,
this scanty, at whlob place the trig
ady took plaoe last night. Mlsa Etoh-
bsrgar, wife Mia Darts and anoth-
glrl were shopping and bad reached
>ubUc square of Thurmont when
die approached and took Mia
Eiohelbarger to task for sending him
his litter of dismissal Upon her
reltofUing the sentiments she had ex
preaed-in fee letter, Weddle drew a
revolver and fired at hei*twioe.
The first of ' the bullets went
through Mia Davis’s arm and into
Mia Eiobelburger’s left shoulder; the
Second penetrating a few Incbea to
the right of fee fiat. As bis vlotlm
fell fainting bo the ground, fee boy
believing be had killed her, turned
tie weapon and sent two bullets
through his own heart, dying instant
ly. He is Jaid to have threatened
pooh an act on several occasions.
rWM.fc-
The New York American ays the
divorce suit by which Mrs. Oedlla
Lewis wss freed •from her husband,
waa instituted last Jans, and broke
all records In point of time consumed
Into trial It took Justloe Maroon
just two minutes to grant an Interlo
outcry degree. The three months
that most si epee before fee final de
grte la signed expired at midnight on
-Sunday. Mrs. Lewis was so
JOBS 60 BIGOING.
Ofloes leathers Ptmocrats Co Jd Get
If They Tr ed.
Causes of Failure to Participate. Oae
Section of the Country Where
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There la a Shortage.
The discovery made through the
personal. Investigation of Commis
sioner Greene, of fee United States
civil sendee commission, that Demo
crats as a class refrain from partici
pating in the civil, service examina
tions in the Seufe serves to explain
in a measure a point which has puzzled
the commission for a long time, name
ly, the difficulty In maintaining regie*
ten of Southern ellglbles sufficiently
large to enable the Sontherb states to
receive their proper quota in federal
appointments. This Information was
obtained by Commissioner Greene
while In Kentuoky, North Carolina
and Tennessee on tfflclal business.
Commissioner Greene lost no time In
making public the results of his In
vestigation, and now the civil servioe
commission Is doing all in Its power
to rectify this condition of affairs.
Various dauses are assigned for the
reluctance of Southern Democrats to
enter the lists for federal plums. Mr.
Greene obtained the imprenion that
the main cause wal the prevalence of
a feeling that, despite academic as
surances to the contrary, the spoils
■till belong to the vlotore, and that,
therefore, a Democrat, however good
a showing he might make in a com
petitive examination, stands but little
■how of appointment. To correct this
impression Mr. Greene has used the
columns of several newspapers of the
North to call renewed attention to the
non-partisan character of appoint
ments made under the civil servioe
act and to die the faot that the only
AIRUtm
That Reids Like the Fiction We
* Find in Story Books
manner marvellously like
URAL LIFE TABGEDI
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la the City of Rome Which Very Nearly
Parallels the Most Improbable Lit
erary Piet of the Novel,
“The Masqaerader ”
Leaf Writtea.
Not
The following remarkable story we
take from fee Now Tork American:
“Impoaalble, bat Interesting;” peo
ple said when they read “The Mas
querader,” Katherine Oedl Thurston’ 8
successful novel, In whloh two men not
related, but looking absolutely alike,
change places. And now, to Justify
her imagination, to prove that the
novelist’s dream was not only interesti
ng, but pomlble real, be baa come to
fee rescue.
In Rome fee situation feat formed
fee plot of "The Masquerader" haa
bean duplicated. A nobleman, Count
Andrtano Benioulll, finding a valet
who resembled him marvelously, em-
>loyed him as hie double. The valet,
Paolo, impersonated his master at all
sorts it social functions. He Imitated
his manners and graces to perfection;
he walked like him and talked like
ance and
himself.
The Count had grown to find Moie
ty, whloh demanded more or leas cf
his presence, an awful bore. Ha had
become as tired of It as he had of hia
wife, whom he scarcely saw. In faot,
whan he first met fee man Paolo, be
was not even living wife her.
As be marked the extraordinary res
emblanoe between himself and the
man an Idea flew Into bis bead. He
would take him In his employ and
make use of him. Now, whether
the Count had beard of "The Masque
rader" or not has not yet been unfold
ed. In fee novel a similar propoeltioa
was made like this:
“ ‘You propose,’ said Lader, that
for a consideration of money I should
trade on dummy, when you are other
wise engaged?’
“ ‘After all,’ fee other urged, 'what
I ask of you is a simple thing. Merely
to carry through my routine dutlesJjpr
a week or two occasionally. When I
find my endurance giving way—when
a respite becomes essential. The work
would be nothing, the pay anything
you like to name.’ ”
The double hesitates and fee other
urges. All objections are wavad away.
Oblloote agrees to discharge his ser
vant and his secretary, who might p s
tibly recognise a substitute. Then they
came dawn (as the Count and Paolo
must have) to the question of fee
wife."
" ‘You have entirely forgotten one
thing,’ said L„der. 'You can hardly
dismiss your wife.' -
** *My wife doesn’t count. ’
"I’m afraid I scarcely Agree. The
complication i would be efightty 1
■lightly” He paused. "The faot
of your being man led ban it. Can’t
nounoed herself es his wife, his wife
in the eyes of God and fee Church of
Roma.
Of ooune sbe would not believe so
preposterous a tale u feat fee Coun
tess could believe him to be her hus
band. How long, however, fee Coun
tess would have clung to bar belief
we may only conjecture, four In fee
mid »t of bis true wife’s insults and
fee noble lady’s teen, Paolo fen upon
his knees and confessed the part be
had played.
They say that the Coon tern looked
ss though In that moment she had
been tamed to stone. The light fad
ed out of her beautiful eyes, her Upe
oeaaed to quiver, she stood erect and,
turning to a peasant woman, begged
her pardon humbly for having for one
instance oome between bar and her
rightful husband.
That night, in her gorgeons boudoir
in the splendid Benioulll mansion in
Rome, fee countess In despair took an
overdose of laudanum. Behind her
■he left a tew lines stUlng that fee
thought of what she had done had
driven her to aulotde, and that sbe
forgive those who bad deceived her.
In real life "The Masquerader” had
become a tragedy, for whloh those
who masqueraded are to be fully re
sponsible.
B0U1D AND TORTU&IP,
Wealthy Illinois Faimera Badly
Treated by Three Bandlta.
ilm, and, even is the duel 1mpersona
tom who made "The Masquerader”
reason why Republicans are in m
large a majority in fee minor fedirsT no | i °™T Uount smends,- but
his wife as well
In "The Masquerader," fee im
personator falls In love with the wife
of hie double, aud it is Jealously 6f a
woman feat asaists In fee denouement
But In real Ufa the denouement Is a
tragedy. Reel life Is not aooommodat-
m of tb« fire. Some Mtrl Jftlto^tl«nr*SIia5oroT«to. Wi.
an ovwcbarge of dcetrtoHy. ^ocratlcparty ^ h»PPT, romantto. As a valet Paplo has been all his life
the dominant party, of course oom-
prta. tb. tote, loUlllt-ooe » • Muqamdu ,.. KKuaM MM.
offices of fee South Is feat Democrats
have steadfastly declined to take fee
examinations thereby leaving fee
eomtolmlon a list oumposed entirely of
Republicans from whloh to make fee
federal selections.
Hie average rating obtained by
competitors from Southern states is
you see that?” —.
"You mistake fee position,” said
Oblloote. ”1 tell you my wife and I
are nothing to each oth^r. Sbe goes
Iter way; I go mine. We have our
own friends, our own rooms. Marri
age,eotoal marriage, doesn’t enter fee
__ We meet occasionally at
meals, and at other people’s houses;
sometimes we go out together for fee
sake of. appearances; beyond feat
nothing. If yon take up my life no
one will trouble you lees than my wife
—I can promise that.”
So it was arranged In the novel, and
so, probably
ranged
nwatd rran Mlglir HLTlaye:
Bound, gaged and tortured by fire
by three bandits who sought to make
them reveal ttiOUldlhg plaoe of a trea
sure they thought concealed in fee
bouli, Andrew and John Fohreo, old
and wealthy farmers living nearGprlng
Lake, twelve miles north of there, are
REGENT APPEAL a FATAL WRE
Td Those Tamers Who Are Able and
Gan Hold Back
To Do So, So feat
Fortunate
Farmers May Profit by their
Oonditlaa of Base.
Now thatM muoh Interest is being
evinced In fee fixing of the minimum
pries of ootton by fee Southern Cot
ton Association during Its reoent
meeting In Asheville, North Carolina,
the following from fee pen of Hon.
Harvle Jordan wlll be read wife at
tention:
'Toe executive committee of fee
Southern Ootton Association held Its
meeting at AshevlUe, N. 0., last week,
and the question of fixing a minimum
prlde of this crop waa the matter of
greatest Interest to fee people and
country at large. The eyes of the
whole ootton world were centered on
Asheville daring fee 6fe end 1th days
of September, while the executive com
mittee was In eeeilon.
"The price finally agreed upon af
ter long and tedlous. dellberaUon was
11 cents, basis middling, at all in
terior points in the south. The con
dition of the crop up to August 26th
was found to be IS 03 per cent, as
compared wife a condition of 84 per
ooqb. for fee, same period a year ago.
The estimated yield of fee.orop as re-
^ di8patoh>o the^ Chicago Record- j^orud by over 16,000 correspondents
from all fee ootloo growing counties
this i
Of 9,688,
in bales, as
12,000,000 balsa last year,
from farmers all over tbs belt advised
a minimum prtoe ah tbs way from 10
cents to 12 1-2 cents, some figuring is
hlgb as 16 cents. But the final result
Jtltn cents, and farmers all over fee
In a serious condition and It is feared w m oe expected to stand firmly
together this fall and winter to main
tain that price. By fee determined
that fee shook and injuries may provef,
fatal to Andrew, fee elder of the two
brothers.
Andrew, after fee robbers had
searched fee boose and taken 8360,
managed to free himself from fed
thongs whloh bound him and started
across fee fields to secure help. The
Mies of his feet were blistered, bow-
effort prices can be foro8din^above 11
cents later on and fames should de
tormina now Jo, moye their crops
slowly and not ruth fee market. The
only way we can secure and maintain
our price Is to refute to sell for less
ably, it was discussed and ar ^ hehwi f&r ha «»>» *lis buyers comAiam
by fee flnnnt Aflrienn Bsni. r.mr.^, d S ft £n*iJ£ ? S? aiw. If cotton is thrown on m
I Aninoro Paolo, fee valet. h! “ d anyway, it will be dlfflc
whole of fee community.' It Is there
fore evident that If fee Democrats as
a class should eater fee lists of federal
appointment fee standard of ellglbles
would be raised and more Democrats
than Republicans would be appointed,
w there are more Demeorste
than Republicans in the South who
have the required quail floatlons. The
first state entitled to an appointment
at this time is Louisiana. It will take
twenty-nine appointments fr jm Lou
isiana to bring it np Into the list of
Northern states in fee order of ap
pointment. Unless a special effort
had bean made to Induce applicants
from Louisiana to oome forward and
take fee examination it would have
run further and further behind In Its
when sbe found feat sbe had permit
ted a menial to make love to bar under
fee guise of her husband.
The poor, deceived wife le dead, and
Count Benioulll bee appealed to .fee
courts of Rome to aveoge him. He
charges that his valet took advantage
of fee position he had permitted him
to occupy and caused fee death of his
noble mistress. ^
la "The Masquerader” Is Is fee mor
phine eater, John Ohilcote, who dies,
around men of distlncMoa and refine
ment, and he acquired the ways end
manners of fee great. Added to felt,
ie is, by every aooount, a man good
looking as the Count himself. They
are both tall, dark, wife olear-eut
eaturas and pronounced personalities.
The resemblance, according to every
one, is uncanny.
Of course, the Count’s .intention
when he made his bargain wife Paolo
was merely to be relieved of his tire-
some social duties. Instead of having
to make himself agreeable all fee time,
f be oould train his double to repre-
th* man whn nf Wuxi hi« ■nil wept hlgr aroi>«rly be need only be
"*2
unday. Mrs. Lewis wss so anxious
to obtain her freedom feet she in
■tructed her lawyer to have dooumant
signed immediately at fee stroke of
twelve. Sbe had made ell arrange
meats for ber wedding to Senator
WllooX Wednesday. The lawyer waa
i»»*hii» to get a Justice to execute fee
degree until Wednesday afternoon
The wedding had to be postponed,
finmh to Mrs. Lewis’ ohagrtn.
Om fietsMt Boy,
While Mine boy* were bathing In
areek near Belfast, Go., recently
wildcat suddenly darted from behind
fi pde of lumber and fastened Its teeth
in the teg of John Maboney, a boy of
abort 1* years of ago. Messrs, a L.
BkUksr and A. L. Kirkland were at
ahr hotel, same yards distent, end
W tbeS3** of the led, ■eear-
Ufifl hurried to fee
1 stffl bolding
i
■bore of appotutmenta.
As It Is, eight men and five women
pasaed fee examination for clerk, and
one woman passed for bookkeeping,
t will be observed, however, feat this
does not provide nearly enough Ollgl-
bias to give Louisiana its due share
of appointments. The state nsstin.
turn for appointments after Louisiana
is Alabama. This state will be en
titled to thirty-five appointments to
he share whloh Illinois now has. The
May examinations provided twelve
men end tlx women ellglbles for
olerks, but fell la not nearly enough
to fill its quota. Following Alabama
comes Mississippi. This stats is en
titled to have twenty-three appoint
ments to bring It abreast wife Mlnne
■bta. It famished only seven men
and three women fox fee clerkregls ..
ter and one man for the bookkeeping 1 „
register. ' .
Taking fee remaining Soathem
states in fee order in which they are
entitled to receive appointments, they
are Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, Ken
tuoky, Tennessee, MlsMurl, South
Carolina and North Carolina. These
states are each entitled to from fif
teen to twenty appointments to bring
up their quotas, and male stenograph
en will have an especially good
obanoe of early appointment. Friends
of the South in Washington hope that
the present efforts of fee civil service
commission will result similarly to fee
movement inaugurated by President
Harrison, which resulted in Mine 200
Southern appointments In fee federal
service. j
gun only
r bis teg.
He
his duties, leaving both to fee care
and attention of his double, John
Yoder, fee good, clever hero.
The novelist herself seems to realize
that fee poaelbllltj of fee extraordi
nary resemblance upon whloh she
bases her apparently fanciful plot, Is
going to bo much doubted and ques*-
loned, for she refers to It in the open-
ng chapter In this fashion: "By that
im too mild for real life end yet be
long to no other sphere, the two faces
were Identical, feature for feature. It
seemed to safe man feat he looked
not at fee face of another, but at his
own faoe reflected in a flawless looking
glass."
Then, again, John Chlloote brings
up fee subject of identity In a convex
aatlou wife Lady Astrupp.
Oblloote picked up a book that lay
te'iweeu them.
"Other men’s shoesl.’ he read. ‘A
noval, of course?’ " ,
"She Smiled. ’Of course. Such s
fantastic story. Two men change
ante wife work to make up. - The SP
plications want above 800. Of ooune
nearly 200 had jn be refused. Sons
are reporting who have never put In
applications. Dr. Mali can do noth
but
tog, of ooune,
fee next train.
send then back on
▲bout a dozen have
they
to
Chlteota zoos and walked book
the mantlepieoe. -
Changing Identities?’ he said,
wife a touch of Interest.
Tee; one man Is an artist, tbs
other a millionaire; one wants to know
what fame Is like, fee other wants to
know how It feels to be really, sinfully
rich. So they exchange experience for
a month.” She laughed.
"Chlloote laughed as well. But how?
he asked.
'Oh, I tpld you fee idea was ab
surd. Fancy two poop’s m muoh alike
feat neither their friends nor their
servants see any difference! Such
thing oouldo’t be, oould it? There are
Likenesses, but not freak liken
like feat.’ ”
The novelist plainly foresees that
the possibility of such s resemblance
ss sbe makes the basis of bar plot
going to be questioned by the great
mass of ber public. Yet In Rome real
life upholds her most fanciful Imagin
ings.
Hie Count Adriano Benioulll Is. of
an old and respected family. He him
■elf la a bit coeentrie, but none fee
less a nobleman who tote always mov
ed in the highest social circles.
He owns vast estates on whloh he
entertained handMmely. He had, until
the tragedy whloh set all Borne talk
ing in horrified whispers, a charming
wife whom he neglected shamefully.
During her life fete was said to be one
of bis eoowtrioittee. Another was his
Gets • Good Job.
Former Judge Alton' B. Parker will
succeed ProfesMr Collins as chief
counsel for the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
■it Company \t an annual salary of
8100,000, according to an announce
ment Thursday. Professor Collins has
retired, end the firm of Collins &
Sheehan, whleh has acted for years In
an advteory capacity to fee company,
will be known as Sheehan A Parker.
William F. Sheehan was one of Par
ker’s strongest supporters In the re
oent presidential campaign.
Oleneon Crowded.
There am over sofirtodente at
nu—ewi already," and they ^oontlnui
Ovor 260 of feqee ore “• 8 MjaohhyjiI OoUaotlag and repelrtng ag-tRTmlB, to
are oldstud- dent looks. lowed by tb
If you hid asked In Rome
months ago about the Count Benioulll
and his wile, you would have beard
feeae things and not much else. They
eeemfid eomrnonfdro enough m
doubtless they were until one day fee
Count looked upm Antinoro Paalo and
bored occasionally. So be supplied
Paolo liberally wife good clothes and
plenty of money. He gave him all
he luxuries be dreamed of; he set him
In one of his own palaces, where he
oould play master at his pleasure. He
played it charmingly.
The news went abroad that the
Count Benioulll lad Improved Im
mensely. He was -far less taciturn,
ar less domineering than formerly.
The Countess heard these things. She
ad not laid eyes upon her husband
for mouths, but she oould not believe
them true. She sighed, however, and
wished they were, for in her heart of
hearts she loved her husband. —
At last at some ball she met Paolo
masquerading as fee Count. Sne bad
sever looked more lovely, she had
never been more grade uv The sup
posed Count smiled upon her wife
new adoration, and fee jpoor woman
trembled and glowed wife joy. It
seemed to her the. love of her girlhood
returning to her.
All that evening the man whom
she took to be her Husband Was at her
tide, assiduous in his attentions, whis
pering such compliments as.she had
not heard since first he wooed her.
After this there followed days of
happiness, suoh days as the hero and
heroine of "The Masquerader" passed,
while fee secret of John Loder’s, Iden
tity was still hidden. To the Conn-
tress Benioulll the valet waa the hus
band of her youth. All Rome'feld in
amazement of fee reconciliation be
tween the eccentric Count andHtls
charming Titiinhalred wife. -V* "*
And, wonder of wonders, the
Count’s eccentricities had grown
fewer In fee years of feelr separation.
He seemed to be a considerate, nor
mal, healthy person, whoee greatest
desire was to advance her happiness.
She made fee most of the present and
decided to refer as little as possible to
the bitter, unhappay past.
One day, while her love dream wss
at Its height, the Countess end her
supposed Count drove over to Rimini
to make an excursion into fee won
derful oaves that are there. When
any reference was made to the past
lay until after daylight. Finally he
revived and made his way to a cheese
factory, where he gave the alarm, but
the bandlta had gained a start of sev
eral hours and oould not be found.
The bandits appeared Tuesday night
and when refused admittance battered
in the door and overpowered the eld
men after a brief struggle. They
ssarobed fee house, and finding only
8360, concluded that a larger sum was
concealed Mmewhere. They beat and
choked their victims and finally ap
plied lighted papers to fee role of their
feet to mace them tell where the sap-
posed treature was hidden.
After half an hour of exoruolatlng
torture John Fohren fainted from pain
and the robbers left. John was unoon
■clous when assistance arrived, but re
vived and Is In a less serious condition
than hls elder brother.
FOIOOI IM OUR FOOD.
*4 -
■aw thit fee man, though of humble
origin, waa educated and la nDeear-
with its unhappiness she said, like the
heroine of ’The Masquerader," "I
don’t want explanations. I want to
—to enjoy the moment without hav
ing things analyzed or smoothered
away. Can’t yon understand? Can’t
you eee that I’m wonderfully, terribly
happy—to have you—as you are?”
Paolo ML~
the Oodnt’s clothes, fol-
the Count’s servants, with
his arms about the exquisite Countess
BankmllL He knew that they loved
end be forgot all else hntil suddenly
aeoream of rage called him to the
realities ofhfs.
A woman stood to hls pathway,
wife tfas memos to truth In her voles,
him tor toe
Kills Dogs, limb bits and Other Ani
mals In Export Test.
To demonstrate the effect of Im
pure foods on fee human system,
Professor Eugene Girard, one of fee
chief chemists of fee International
Stewards Association, whloh Is In
session at fee Hotel Rndolf, Atlantic
City, startled fee delegates and a
large numhar of fee outsiders by
■bowing the effects of a remarkable
eiperiment he has been making
on anlmtis fed wife impurities found
tn T3bd Mid throughout the country.
Prof Girard had on hand a collec
tion of rabbits, gulnas pigs and dogs.
Professor Girard extracted the color
ing matter used In breadstuffs and
fed a healthy New Foundland dog
from day to day on this substance,
mixing It wife bis food. To day fee
dog is thin and emaciated and It will
have to be killed on Thursday.
Other coloring matter that Pro
fessor Girard Fed to guinea plge and
rabbits killed fee animals In a short
time- The tissues and every organ
was found to be polslened and dis
colored. i,
Profesox Girard stated that the
adulterations in the foods sold to- day
axe having the same iff jot on thous
ands of persons.
There Is e big exhibit of pure and
and Impure foods Id the grotto of the
Hotel Rudolf, an4 Profeeeor Girard
expiates the methods used In onaly
zing the various products. The Stow
ards’ Association bis become oo
strong tSft many corporations dealing
in food staffs make no attempt to
plaee their goods on the market un
less they are first subjected to an
anaylsls by its chemists.
Victim of Fowl Play.
J- B. Hawkins, who was found in a
mangled and nneonslous condition
Calhoun ten days ago and who was
later Indentlfled is a still operator of
Greenville, S, 0., has surprised fee
physleansby living and though hls
tongue cannot be controlled, he wat
able to let Sheriff GUreafe understand
that hls condition waa due to fool
Wont Accident of the KM h
New York’s History.
BAN IN OPEN SWITCH.
market
ult to
oroe prices up until much later tn
the season. Let those who are able
and can hold back do eo, and thereby
help those, who are forced to sell to
meet feelr maturing debts and obliga
tions wife fee supply merchants and
guano dealers. Bankers will be glad
o advance from 8 and 9 cents a pound
on ootton In storage and fens twist In
financing fee situation. We are np
against a bard fight, but It will be
easier to get 11 oente for a small orop
than 10 cents for a 13,000,000 bale
orop. ■ _ _ : —J
STAND BY YOtra GUNS,
We axe now well entrenched, wife
plenty of ammunition In the shape of
corn and meat, our banks
r, fee enemy lain retreat, and
: f we don’t whip this fight and force
fee prloe of cotton to above 11 certs,
then the farmers of the south ou^tt
to have a guardian appointed to look
after their business intereqte. The
mills of the world have taken a orop
of 13,600,000 bales of Amerioen oot
ton during the last twelve months, at
an average prloe of 9 oente per pound.
There will be no oheok in consumption
during fee next twelve months. Toe
price of ootton goods In very high and
;olng still higher. Hie wboti ffivIT-
zad world le in a prosperous condition
and It le unreeaocable to say-feat fee
farmers should not this searon receive
an average of 11 oente per pound for a
orop of ootton now estimated to be un
der ten million bales. All you have
got to do is to stand pat for your
)riee, refuse to sell under 11 oente end
he market will soon advance to feat
Igure. If arach cotton is offered on
der 11 cents, as a matter of owns,
fee market can be deprssesd and held
down.
Twelve Persoas KOM art Thirty le.
jered. Retpossibilltj for the Trag
edy NetYst Fixed The Meter-
■us ■ Fugitive art Otesr -
Traisaes Arrested. *
The death list of the accident on
the Ninth avenue elevated railroad in
New York Monday, when a ear crowd
ed with early morning workers on
their way down town, pitched bead-
long into the street, stands at IS.
Three men are la hospitals wife frac
tured skulls. One of feeae, who aa
yet remains unidentified at Ropeevtit
hospital, Is unconscious and not ex
pected to live. More than two seore
persons were injured, many of fesm
seriously.- v
The cause of the accident end fee
Immediate responsibility remain to be
settled. The mortorman of the wreak,
ed train Ian fugitive, while a switob-
man, conductor and four guards are
under arrest. The switchman is
charged wife manslaughter and the
trainman are hold ee wMnesasa. What-
fee
of the overhead railroads
York, oame when a southbound train
on fee Ninth avenue line was ewltetaed
off to the Sixth avenue line at fen-
Fifty third street Junction.-
The motormtn, expecting a clear
track on tht direct line of Ninth
avenue, or disregarding the waning
signal feat fee switch was open,
rushed his train along at a high rota
of speed. The first ear swung around
the right angle carve, holding to fee
rails because of the
befedid. Then the strain be
came too great. The Maples broke,
fee second ear was whirled ‘
a too great.
second ear was whirled about al
most sod for and and, to tha honor o<
those who looked on
pitched into the street.
The first tndleation _
sidewalk bad of theaotident was a
loud rumbhiif-akMg fee overhead
structure. Looking up feey saw a
■bower cf sparks, then followed sprin
ters and the sound of splitting tim
bers. Suddenly the outer gaud roll
of fee railroad structure gave way, a-
■eon of bodies were hurled through
space, and with a deafening oroOb, the
oar fell to the street. For an instant
It stood fairly oo and, then fee stdee
give way se If feey wen mtde of
pasteboard, belching out a mass of
These passenger! who hod not
jumped from
befoge the
into i mass at the forward eod of the
oar. As the injured men art women
wen struggling to free feemeelveo,
the heavy front trucks of fee third oar
on fee train fell almost in their
midst, aa to# oar i jslf Jui
off; the elevated strooturo
wedged egalnst a building at
southeast comer of Ninth avwusi
third street.
age crowds wen eoon on the m
end the first work of tha hastily si
moned polloe reservaa wa« dlieotte
clearing a way for the iSsotiir:
cue of toe passenger
the wreckage. A1
-||| Hrtbatten
end the Injured art
rted away wife all
alarms of fin
to fee scene- K l
ploy instead of a railway asolfienk
■i^ A Dendly Stroke-
Four K men wen killed, six wen
seriously burned and a dozen more
wen stunned by lightning whloh
wreaked a crowded poultry exhibition
tent at the county fair at Indlapola,
Iowa on Thursday, The lightning
struck the tent pole, splitting In two
art tearing the sides of the tent Into
ida. Hi
ThJhtthN;W8fS kiflrt*
'
OTII KB ORGANIZATION WILL HKLF
The ootton agent of the
Educational and Oo-Operative Union
of Texas waa present with us at Ashe
ville and took part In the secret
slims of the executive committee. He
oame as the representative of the un
ion and assisted In fixing the prloe at
11 oente, stating feat such a prloe
would bo acceptable to the 300,000
members of tbs union. We' oan npw
depend upon the effective coopera
tion of all the members of fee onion,
as the new president of toe union,
Mr. Calvin, of Paris, Tax., has writ
ten mo encouraging oo operation to
more completely win out In fee fight
ahead. We also have pledged the ac
tive co-operation of the membership
of the American Society of Equity
and the Farmers’ Alliance of North
Carolina In enforcing the demand for
fee minimum price of II oooto. This
makes the position of the producers
almost impregnable, and wife all at
these powerful farmers’ organizations
working In harmony for mutual pro
tection, I feel safo In saying that the
fight oan and wHl be easily whipped.
There will be no misunderstanding
among these organizations this sea
son on this matter. We will all work
la harmony togefeWi and a knowledge
of feat fart ought to be m^et an-
ooaraglng. If the Formers’ uhTdo
wanted one prMHmd’thaN. 0. A".,'an
other, there would be difficulty ahead,
but both organfrations are now to
gether and will work together to win
oat on the price agreed open.
Sell but little ertton ~
and October. Give
to itThiuft preecn
oan be done In six
can easily dlrtolc terms art wlnsn-
tingutshed and 1
chopping oat til
The taik'waa not an easy'one fog v r
fee heavy ear la famhc had almost *
completely buried pedestrians In lit
wreckage* At least one was kHled
outright In this way, while Police
man Henry Attkena, who was stand
ing directly under the elevated Mart-
tore, !■ sinny feOM
Id Jared. Eight per*
when taken out of the wreck art
died later at hospitals. The
bad not time to make arrest
tenting themselves wife
miscreants as heavily as they sc
Coroner Soholer oiflered the
df all those (aimed lately
Search, was at once made
tormarCPasl Kelley, wbe sceuMS
position on fee elevotrt “ " ^
months ago. Hu same t!
St. Louis. Kelley ooulfl not
art at s late hour Maadov i
still missing, although III was said
had spent fee afternoon a* tha"
of a friend.
The switchman in fee tower it
Nlneth avenue art Fifty-third etreet,
Cornelius A. Jackson, was first
ed. Then Oonduotor J. W,
and Guards Hmofey
MoDavttt, W. L. Berry
were taken Into
llmlnary
all the men
Two
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