Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PLEA For White Republican Party in the South. CAN SEE NO DANGER Of Negro Domination, anrl line** Proltlem in Eliniinated Politically. _— — > ; He Asserta That This Kectloil(/i IntereaUi Are, No Longer Bound 1’p in IH'inorracy. NoV-York. Dec. T.— PreBideut • irletS'Wmiitttr M. Taft, who cafllt t'» -. Now York today' tn uddresM the NoiiU (’arollnn society of this city ' waw given a tumultous ncei>tlon4o yknlght t>y ttie moiiibcrs of the organ- sat loft and- prominent men from ail ^'partB of the South it the annual din ner of the Nor*h linans at th< Hotel Aster. Hive hundred memborii and guests of the aoclety filled the brilliantly deem.Ued banquet., hall which wliH redolimt of the pines of the resinous treeq forniinR the baek- ground for more fragrant blooms which were scattered'every where ov er afnowy- linena and flag-draped walla. Intertwine^ enslgna of the State and nation were conspicuous In tho decorations of the banquet hall, and larger flags were displayed in front-of tho'hotel throughout the day and evening. v , Mr. Taft, In the aourse of an address, which was confined entire ly to the South and Its problem* urged again’that the voters of th* South should break away from the OutMved sentliri'ftt —and traditions of the Rpconstnucll^n period which accehtuated the'greater trial of the past, and the slow returns of pros perity to the South follogfng the civil strife, ns further agencies that help -to keep alive the feeling en gendered by that controversy,- and continued: Blit times' change nrtd men change with, them. In any community, how ever fixed itH thoughts or habits, and many circumstances have blessed us with thier Influence In this mat ter. The growth of the South since mm fitiuii ninrvel-tttte-—T-he*reaa- of their past political illflliat JUuLXku cast Mielr ballot*- In accordance ditions rather/with thdr economic and rea jMilltlcal beliefs. Mr. Taft declared . that nothing would give him greater pride during KTiTcOrnlnp term- in bhe -ehleL-execu live office than so to direct the policy of the national government with re spect to the Southern States n,s.t<> convince the Intelligent citizens of the iknith of the desire of his ad m In st rat on to aid them in working out aatlsfaetorily the serious proh lems before them and of bringing them and their Northern fellow citl zens closer and closendn sympathy and point of view. White Supremacy .Assured. “I am not going to rehears tie painful history of Reconstruction or what followed it. I come at one. to the present rendition of things ~stated~Trtfh~a consl II Ml lonnl and po litlcal standpoint And that fa this "The recent election has made it l robable that I shall become more or leas responsible for the policy of the next presidential administration and I Improve this opportunity to say that nothing will give me greater pride, because nothing will give me more claim to the gratitude of my fellow citlsens, If I could so direct that policy In respect to the South ern States as to convince their In telligent citizens of the desire of th? administration to aid them In work ing- out satisfactorily" tho serious prohlrms before them aftd~f>f--brlmr ufacttiring capital in 1880 waS'llOO^ 000,000; in 1890, $ fill 0,000.000; Bl 10007 $ I, I .'>0,000.000, and In 19^)8, 12.100.000.000, 'while'iKe'values of the manufacturers Increased from $4, r >0,000,000 in 1880, to $900,000,- 000 In 1890, to $1,4 7.0,000,000 In 1900, and 1V$2.600.000.000 In 1908. “The farm products In 1 880 went $t! ft 0.000,000: in IS 90, $ 7 70,000. : 000; in 190ft; $1,270,000,000, an.l 90Jt, $2,200,000,000.v The exports from the South In HiXO were $260.- 000,000 of dollars; in 1 890, $306.- 0007000; In 1900, $484,000,000, an l In 1 908, $648,000,000. "In this marvelous growth the manufacturers of the South now ex ceed the agricultural products and thus a . complete ,.change has come over the character of her Industries. The South has become rich, and only the surface Of her wealth has been scratched. Her growth has exceeded that of the rest of fhe country, and she is now In every way sharing In its prosperity.* State Bights and Democracy, “Again, the Democratic party has not preserved inviolate Its traditiona loctrines as to State rights and rith er Issues and has Tor the time adopt ed new doctrines of pOHsibily doubt ful economic truth and wisdom Southern men adhering tot ho party tnd the name find themselves, through the influence of .tnitdition now imp?: supporting a platform and candi date whose political* ffnd' eronom.ic theories they distrust. Under thes conditions there was in the last campaign and there is throughout the South among many of Its most Intelligent citizens an impatience, r nervousness and a restlessness i. voting for one tioket_and rejoicing in the success of another. “Now' l am wot one of those wh< are disposed to criticise or empha size the inconsistency of the posilioi in which these gentlemen And them selves. I believe If vTbuld be wis. .If aH who sympathize with one party rind_ its principles' wen- to vote if. ticket, but 1 can readily understan the weight and inertia *of the trq dltion and the s.m-iSi r<irisidT'YatInn that makes them h'sltatr>. I lie lievc that the mov-ement away fron st nrted Tibm polIrlcT Dias r That* In ail Southern States# It is possible, by election laws prescribing proper qualifloatiotta for the suff fage, which square with-Hte if.th amdhdment and which shall b equally administered as l«‘tween th< blkt'k and white races, to prevent entirely the^posslblllty of a dontlna tlon of So'uthern State, county or municipality governments by an Ig norant electorate, while or black It Is also true that the sooner sue laws when -adopted are applied with exact equality and Justice ( to th two rac«*s th** better for the moral tone of the StiU • and cominunitv '..concerned Negroes should be gtvPtt an opportunity equally with whites by;education and thrift to meet th.* .. j^Jilrenvuita of eligibility which shall lay down In order to secure the saf>- exorcise of the electoral frtmchi>'e. The negro should ask - foit. nothing other than an equa. chalice to qualify himself for ,tin franchise and when that Is granted by law and not denied by exeeutivf discrimination, be has nothing to complain of. “The proposal to rep.-al the ir.th amendment Is utterly impracticable and should be relegated to Uie It ml v of forgQtJkn issues. What we are considering ’ Is something practical something that means at tainal.lb progress T1 '’ci-ir.s- to me to follow. therefore, that th< re ts or ought to oe a coDiTiton around upon which we can-ftit^pfatid in reVpect. to the rac’- qiiestioii in the ootith and its po litical beatiqg.. that ‘ ikes away an> Justification .for maltitainJhg * he con tinue-i sc.ii#tjty of th > South to pre vent the so-calioli negro domination. The fear that In some way or other a.^ocla’ equality between the rare*, shall be enforced by law or brought about by political measures reallv has no foundation except In the Im agination of those who fear such a Jesuit. The federal-government has nothing to do with social equality. The war amendments do not declare In favor of social equality; all-‘that the law or constitution attemfits to secure Is equality of opportunity be fore the law and Jn the pursuit of happiness and lii the enjoyment ot life, liberty and prosperity. Social equality Is something that grows out of voluqtary concessions by the In dividuals forming society. Reasons of .Sentiment.” ** With the elimination of tho race question can we say that th^ro an removed all the reasons why the -people of the South are reluctant to give up their political solidity and divide themselves on party lints accordance with their economic Ing tjiem and their Northern fellow citizens closer and closer In sympa they and point of view. During the last decade, Ift-eOTtimon with lovers of our country, I have watched with delight and thanksgiving the bond of union between the two sections grow firmer. I pray that It may be given to the to strengthen this movp- ment, to obllteralte all sectional lines and leave nthing of differences be tween the N6rth and South save s friendly emulation for the benefit of our common country.’’ WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. TOO BIG A LIAR FOR HIM TO TACKLE^ SAYS ED ITOR LAFFAN, * * Who, In Dignified but Scorching Words, Roasts Roosevelt, Refusing to Bandy Epithets With Him. 3. Mr Laffati . rapllen to the Presi- A FATAL FIGHT ' Religious Fanatics Precipitate a Row in Kansas City. ONE HUNDRED SHOTS dent’s letter as follows; "The editor of the Sun present.! hli compliments to—Mr. -Roosevelt and acknowledges his active sensi bility In respect of the attention which Mr. Roosevelt has been good enough to pay him in his letter to the Hon. William Dudley Fuulke, of Indiana^ .. “Notwithstanding the directness of this challenge7 The edltorof thr Bun declines a controversy wiTb Mr. Roosevelt. He Is b/ no nicaup'jn- different tc tnefTi^fpRed compllmejxb discernible in .Vftt/RfKfsevelt's tirade, but Mr. Roosewlt has shown in his frequent collu/long'wlth various per sons of distliictlbn that he has an Overwhelming advantage over any respectable antagonist in hi,s, Mr. Roosevelt’s complete freedom from any sense of personal obligation in respect of the truth. -,»e editor of the Bun is ful.ly’alive to the extremi ty of the inconvenience which at taches to a personal controversy w'nTi a ifian who has shown himself cap- •tBrcd Bint In \Vhich Parly- of Saloon Keeper Shoots and Kills Three NegroftO^ Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 11.—After a brlef-'argument with a .crowd of negroes engaged In a game of bil liards at a saloon on Desota street near Beale, shortly aftpr jpidnight this morning, William Latura, a white saloon keeper of this city, shot and killed three of the negroes and wounded four others, one mor tally and the others seriously. One Fanatics, Let by "Adam God,” and Travel Ton Miles a Second by Stand ing Still. Butler, Pa., Dec. 10.—Rev. Phil lip Shredanovich, pastpr of the Greek Orthodox church here and editor of lust ness, yesterday an/nounced a dis roverF'whjch if <it works out, will put Newton Franklin and Edlsoi far In the rear. The paslor-Pdltor declares he has invented a'theanlTby which tho rotation of the earth on its axis may be taken advantage of in travel, and that by standing stlil one may go round the^world la twenty-four hours. ' Me Tias found a way, Rev. Mr. Shredanovich says, by which men. may lift themselves above the earth to a point where they 'will stand jthlle the earth, rotating from , ; -i-- “|t, la i-nrimift ttfat the Mr. 1 milk - west to east, will do their TraveTiifg . " m , — ’ , . , . . s a preferred repository TTf Tbe*tr for them. The secret Is Jealously * aide of suppression and'’perverslon of individual correspondence, an act which, In ordinary life, would, in the cognizance of any xlub'or assn elation of self-respecting gentlemen, entail his prompt erpulsion. “In saying these things wo can not disguise our chagrin and humil iation that the person wlo is ad; dressed is .also; the • President of th JJnRed States Several Policemen Engage, Re suiting in Three Deaths and PJob- ahly Four Fatal Injuries. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 8.—In the shadow of the City Hall a riot in wliich' religious fanatics and- police •men were participants, and during which a-hundred shots were.fired this afternoon resulted in the deaHi qf Policeman A. O. DalboW, probable fatal injuries to four and slight in juries to two other persons. Those probably fatally injured are John Sharp, known as "Adam G®d,’ as the preacher; Michael Mullane patrolman; Lola Pratt, 13 years old. and Patrick Clark, a police ser geant. Harry E. Stege.’a policeman aocP'TiydFgrt <M. Holt, hjijbbation of guarded by the pastor and his wife whom he credits with suggesting the idea. Rev. Mr. Shredanovleh said; “W will hoist ourselves above the earth and await the coming of the desired place, then we will lower purselvet where we desire to be. In this way we may go from America to Europe iu leas than' twelve hours. My seer-1 is how to stand super earth and not ’>e trailed by the earth's attrac tion.—v, _• confidences of the ^President. JJ W>as to blip that Mr. Roosev'lt si^nt ho,; memorable letter denying that h<i ‘was using the Federal patronage to aid Mr. Taft’s candidacy, a letter which at onc» took Us place among the most valued' incunabula of ye- ractiy.” . —_ BRYAN WAH AH RESTED. Mis Hunting Party Had Kllbsl Too Many Ducks. Galveston, Texas. D«r.. 1ft.—Wil- ln and political views? No, there are other reasons; perhaps only reasons of sentiment, but with the Southern people, who are a high strung, sen- stive and outspoken people, consid eVatlons of sentiment are frequently polltfeil or' economic character. In the fireplace. It is now nearlv 40 years sifcce the South acquired Its political solidity and the inton- elty (rf feeling by which It was main tain^’ and the ostracism and social prescription imposed on those white Southerners who did not sympathize with the necessity for such solidity could not but make lasting Impres sion and create a permanent bias that woald laturalty outlast the res- for lUf* and ought to bo encouraged and think one way to cncourag*' it is to have the South imderstand that the attitude of the North and' the Re publican party toward it is not on of hostility or criticism or opposit ion, political or otherwise^; that they believe in the maintenance of tli ir.th amendment, but that, as al rt'ady explained, they do not deem that amendment to be Inconsisten with the South's obtaining and main tnining what it regards as Its polil leal safety from’ doriiinatioii of an ignorant eleetorate; that the North yearns foe closer association with th. jSouth; tfltU its citizens deprecatv (lost rese/ve on tni‘-7suliject of poll tics which so long lias been main tained In the othtrwise delightful social relations between Southerners and Northerners as they are more -and -nor ■ frequently th r o\.’n togetli- -TT. . - , “In welcoming to a ehaiig-* of party affiliation many Southerners who havd been Democrats ve are brought face to face with a tUdicate situation which we can only meet with frankness and inspire, in 4.ur anxjety. to bring the Democratic Southerners into new polHijal rela tions we should have nni"7*an have no desl-re to pass by or ignore, the comparatively few white Southern ers who from principle has Consist- HitlV Riood for -OuT |TFm< 1 p'es TfiTbe South when it lij'ouglit them -ociil ostracism and a loss of all prestage. Nor can we sympathize with an ( ffort to exclude froiii the ftilppor’ of .Re publicanism in the South o- to read odt of the pafty'Tbiise colon I vb'jer? w ho by their dduca'inn.. gaid thrift have made themselves eligible 'o ex ercise the electoral frit’chis'*. Matters of Kdination. “We believe that the solution of the race question in I he'-Sout h lx larg: 'y a matter of indu-triaLand thorough edm ttibri. •' Some -Stnith- e-ners who have >;>o . n exp. ssian to tlieir thoughts Re in to thing that the only solution o. the nej-'i tjm s but Main Jennings Bryan* fell into the hands of a game warden yesterday, when he and three other hunters were arrested at Lake Surprise, the famouns game preserve of Hanker Moody, of Galveston, In Chambers county. Bryan, Moody and two friends were charged with having-violated the State game law by killing more than 2f> fowls each. The law .limits the number of ducka to r be kilTrr^. by one person 25 in 2 4 hours. More than 150 dead ducks teafi lied to the work of the four men up to the time the game warden ap peared Then it was sworn that Bryan had really killed but a few canvas backs. Moody and the other two Nimrods pleaded guilty and ac cepted the penal the. line being $25 each. • AN AM A IN Y ESTIG ATION. 4- Democrata Want Inquiry Into That Purchase. \Vashingtou. Dec. 7.—Democrats of the House are planning to demand ah investigation of the purchase of the Panama canal pn^perty and in conformity with this program Rep resentative Rainey, of Illinois, in- tmdoiced a resolution directing the Speaker. Lg-appoint a committee ot ‘flvd fo ’ascertain how much of -the $40,000,900 wlrfcgk appears .on tlm record to‘ have Ten paid to the French company, was really paid to tfiat company.” It is said Hiat the National Item- ocratTF committee requested Rainev to present t{je resolution, which provides that the committee shal ascertain if any'portion of the $40,-’ Oftft.ftOft was dlrectlv or indlrecth - *“ t) ; ■; f— paid to American citizens, to an American syndicate, and if any member, or Senator, profited f.y rhe transaction. , , ‘ T CTIOKED TO DEATH. Man Falls Over Dash Board and Is Killed. Spartanburg. S. C., Dee 10.-—Lu ther Thompson, aged 35 years, a well known young farmer of the In man section of the county?, was found dead In his buggy by members of his famfy. He had fallen forward, bis head harfging over the dash board and It is believed that he was strangled to death. From what can be learned It ap pears that Thompson went fo a still in North Carolina on Monday, ne- turnlng to his home late Monday night he drove Into his lot to put up his horse and buggy and being in an alleged intoxicated condition, h fell forward and his head caught over the dash board and Reft**#* he could extrirate himse’lf. he strangeld t< death. * fjcmv: were ’also hurT TSe. Trouble occurred while the streets were crowded. While the fight was In progress the participants traversed an entire IjTock. Probation Officer Holt, of the Ju venile Court, today went to Fifth anc .Main streets, to investigate a case of alleged ab^uetjon; Near that corner fie met John Sharp. i known as "Adam God,” who was exhorting iw-trowd- WithiShncft JvcaL.A-.^i. S-lzer, and a wonian and five chil firen, ranging in age from 3- to 14 years. Holt did not like the man nef Jji which the woman attempted to get mooey contributions from th crowd, and he decided that she and her male eompanions~were not proper 'person^ to have custody of young children. T^e _woman announced that sh and “Adam God" would conduct services at Poor Man s Mission to night, w hereupon,she and her Com panions started townrd the mission Officer Holt then inquired as to th»; identity of the children. The woman immediately assumed am attitude of resentment’and replied that the of ficer “had hetor atlend to his own business. V, r — . “Adam God," who w#«a-Fs a long, ^hite beard and hair, tTrreaCened the ~i GINNER’SREPORT OF COTTON GINNED TO DECEM BER ONE. of those wounded is a woman. According to statementsi of by- atanders the negroes werm-gmup- d about the tatile when Latura enter ed the saloon. As he appeared a few heated Words passed and in the next instant Latura had drawn his revolver and begun firing. Each of his bullets took effect with the result as stated. Latura, who it-is said -had been, drinking, was t a ken into custody after the. shooting. ^ MAIL CARRIER HURT Thrown From His Buggy and Per- r. • haps Fatally Injured. 11,010,804 Riles and 26,0:M l ’ m > r ies—Increase Over laist S. C. Shows 1,052,517 J total of 1 1.010,864 bales of cot- ion ginned from the growib 6f 1908' to December 1.'and 26,922 ac’.lve ginneries. agate^T^F^M—TOnles ginned a year ago were -announced In the bureau report oh cotton gin ning Tuesday. The 1907 crop was 1 1,057,822 bales, of ilftieh 75.5 was ginned to. December 1, the 1906 crop, 12,381201. with 77.2 to Do- Teffibor 1 and '905 crop, 10.,195.- 105,. halos with 82,8 to December-i. In 1906 there were 10,027,868 Spartanburg, Dec. 7.—Jesse L. Wood, a well .known loiter carrier, was .thrown from h* s buggy early Sunday morning and seriously in jured. The horse Mr. Wood was --q 908, 55,299 ’for 1907 and 41,250 and In 1905 8i689,663 bales ginned to December ’l\ The report counts round bales as half bales and ex cludes linters. It Includes ’200,818 round bales for 1908, 154.636 »for 1907 ahd 227,145 for 1908. Sea Island bales. included 68,497 for driving took- fright on east Main street. Just in—Ctgnt of the First Rrcsbyteftan church". ' He was knocked unconscious.; -"Wtifl'nTaken to .his home it w as discovered that three of his ribs had been broke t and one of.his shoulders terribly in jured. He is threatened with pneu monia. which makes his condition trebly worse.—The State. T7 PULLED FROM BURNING HOUSE Mother. Passes Children Window to Safety. Through GREAT WATER MAIN BREAKS. GOVERNMENT DYKES BREAK. r’rnv L his migra: on t/t Af' iea: to me such ft proposftlon is utterly fatuous. -Tile negro is essential tok^ the South in order that it ni.tv have proper labor. Tlr ir ancestors wer * lirought here against v*'their will. They have no country bet this. They know no flag but ours. They wish to live under it and are wil ling to die fr.r if. Thev a’-’ Ameri cans. The proposition .to increase the supply of labor in the South by ttrig’ation from Euro.te. j*. seems to me, instead of b^ing in'mical to »ht' cause of the negro,'*witl aid him. A^ the industries of the SouGi coq.:jpuo to grow in the manoloits ratio ?l- teadj- a.tivn the deui.tu 1 for labor must in rease. “Primarily an indu'ttial educa tion for the masses, higher' educa tion for the leaders oj the n-‘grd wo7 for thelY piqfessianal men, ... . , t ■»- n-nrVm aon original exlstance." Mr. tUt referred to the trials their lawyers and their teachers, will make up a system under wh'rh then Improvement, which statls' rs show- to hav»* been most noDwBi-thy in the last 40 years, will continue at the svu<" jat“. ‘ On the whole, them the he.l public rpinion of the North and the best public opinion of the Sou»h seerps.io be coming together In re spect to all tbh 'economic and politi cal questiona growing out of pres ent rgee conditions. Five Dwellings and Lumber Plant Are Swept Away. » Pine Bluff, Ark,, T>or. 77—The government dyke at the fo<\tSoF Tennessee street gave way late to day and tonight the waters of the Arkansas river are f$st eating tbefr way towa>F(i/{7h e roouth of Hardings Bayou whlcgjcrosses the'ritr. To dhy five 'd^ejling houses and the warehduse of the Arkansas Padket Company, were swept aw4y and the greater portion of the (Sandy Hard wood mill was destroyed Bar- raoque streeLfor a distance, of five blocks east of Georgia street , has been eompletely destroyed and the buildings on the south side of the street arft being moved back as rap idly Jfc possible; with the-water fol- workmen. . Took Els Own Life. . Louis. Drr. 7—Charles St Louis. Dec. 7—Charles A Eckstromer, Swedish vice counsel in St. Louis, romoiijted suicide today. Eckstromer came 4 into public notice some time ago through a controversy with Federal officials which resulted in the revocation of bis exequatur by President Roosevelt. Later he was reinstated and resumed his of ficial (futiet. . V Traffic Blocked at Brooklyn Until Hole is Brldgeth ~' New York. D«*c. 7.—A good sized area in Brooklyn In the vicinity ot Washington and Johnson sBe-M* w:i> stlll wet today after last nigh»"s delugt;. caused by the breaking- of a twenty-four-inch high pressure wa ter main. * . 4 .. With a roar that could be hea.nl for blocks the water shot upward for twenty f*et, sending with it a shower' of paying stones, sprinkling everv- body within fifty . yeards. Traffic was blocked until a hole in th M street ten feet square was bridged. Police reserves and an emergence crew from the water department were cull'd out - to hold the crow a in check and prevent a panic. No one was injured. DROWNED IV PO’JJDMAC. Young Men Go to Death in Trying fo Shrait the Rapids. ■ WiisuThingtoft, flee. 6. Joseph „• 11 Panter, .aged 30. a boaanist in th* Nationftl museum, and his rompan ion, Robert Wallace, aged 16, wer drowned today while trylng-hq shoot- the v rapids at Stubblefield falls, in the Potomac river, almut 10 miles north of the rltv. The bodies have not been recovered: The young men were on a fishing fjip in a small canoe, which over turned in midstream with them, due to striking ft rock. Both were resi dents of this city. STEAMER RESCUED. Lost Her Propeller at Sea, Towed Into Port. Halifax. N. S. Dec. 7—The steamer Valentia arrived in porb'to- day towing the oil ,tank - steamer Oriflamme, which had been picked up disabled at sea The Valentia. laden with cotton, wa$ bound from Wilmingtbn, NT^E^JorBr^emFn, and the Grfflapime, with iT~carge^of oil, was bound from Philadelphia for Cette. France. The Oriflamme lost —helplessly ■» br tiiw Valentia. which answered her sig nals and went. to her assistance. Printer Kills Himself. Defuniak Springs, Fla , Dec JO - Frank E. Gfbson. of Benneltsville S. C.. a printer employed in one o' Defuniak Springs' printing offices, eommlttted suicide by cutting his throat with • razor. Doctors were summoned, but he died before med ical aid could be rendered. officer. Officer Holt w-as not armed, but stood his ground until “Adam God" struck him a heavy blow be hind the ear with a pistol, making an ugly wound. Holt then started for ‘the police station for assistance. As Holt moved away the preacher tried tp, shM*)t him. but the cart- rid gee*4ai I e#f4rtvexplode. , Officer Holt *7 us bed into the police station and announced that a band of religious fanatics, armed to tha -teeth, were at the thryshold of the station, and he warned the officers to prepare .for trouble-. The sergean, in charge ordered Patrolmen Charles Da I bow and Harry E. Siege to arrest Sharp and big .followers. Sharp anl his companions were within fifty Varda ot the police station when the officers stepped into the stree* The Sharpites gave evidence of fren zy and, with profane abuse, they served notice on all that they would preach right “under the eaves of tho*- police station and the police cannot pn vent us." M Ttie officer* <Ud not, however, ex pert serious trouble,,-and were not prepared foy the volley of bullets which met'them after they appeared on the scene. Daihow was killed instantly and a bullet passe' through Siege's arm. Other officers hearing the firing, rushed into the stre t and a general fight ensued -The- officers - I'ffr.-UoiHt- from sh >ot- the itig. for fear of endangering lives of innocent people. Lieutenant Clark, who had com * into the street unarmed, was sho, in the eye, and Patrolman Mullane into the police station for reinforce ments. - _ In the meantime a riot call brought .policemen from all direc tions. Thoroughly aroused, the of ficers closed In on Sharp and his fol lowers, firing as they* went. Wh a n the firing ceased “Adam God” lay fajally shot through the head and body. v It was later learned that Sharp’* male companions was Lotlls Pratt, father of the five children. Psatt was arrested uninjured. The woman and the* children fled to a house boat, in which they lived on the Missonri river. Fifty policemen fol lowed- them, and founxi "the woman had barricaded herself in the house boat. Standing on the boat with a shotgun, she shouted to the officers: "Come -on, you fiends.” The boat was only a few feet from the banx of the river and several offisfers dashed toward if. The woman .dropped her weapon, and seizing Jw’o of the,, children sprang into a boat and began to row into the middle of the river. The officers called *> her to stop, but she only plied tho oars more" vigorously. The police men fired a volley at the bosit. One shot sbrock Lola RratLJeftrhTg away the greater part of the child's face.—She died later. *** Ttfr"Tm1risn "Ttreir" rorremfered- At. the polic® station she said that she was Mrs Pratt, wife of the com panion ot "Adam God,” and mother of the wounded child. e Killed by Train. Cleveland. O.. Dec. 10—W. H. Crowninsbield, aged 40. of Boston. Mass., said to be a nephew of. Rear Admiral Crowninshield. was run dowfi and killed by a railway train here last night. * New York, Dex. -LA.--Jvn [u-csouk were dragged to safety from a burp ing tenement In Williamsburg las’ jjlght.. Mrs. Mary KHcolne, after being awakened, called for help and when two policemen respond* 1 handed her two small children through a window to safety. • Her man Zejgler and his father, aged 85, and the old man’s wfr*\ ag- v r! 8ft, were overcome- by smoke, but were rescued, as were the fa mil ' of Mftchel McD> rniott, who- wer* carried to safety after' having been found unconscious. bales and 231 bales and A FATAL PLUNGE. Ffreman Who 'Kell From Window Dies From TiTJuryT ~ y>r 1906, Today's report gives running bale? gUMieA* to Decern bey 1—and—active— gninne'ris respectively -by States as fonbws: Alabama’. 1,171,404'' bales and 3,429 ginneries. Arkansas. 17^153 bales and 2.- 073 ginneries. - Florida, 58,6-7 ginneries. , Georgia. 1.736,737 4.384 ginneries. Kansas, Kentnckv and New Mexi co, L374 bales and 5 ginneries. — 1X9 UUcft. and L-. 645 ginned s. Mississippi, 1.297.291 bales *nd— 3.422 ginneries. _ _ Missouri, 4*i,750 l^ales and 70 gin neries. . North Carolina. 554,002 bales and 2.6 81 ginneries Oklahoma, 432,077 ba'es and 973 ginneries. South Carolina. 1,052.547 bales and 3 J 84 ginneries Tenness.s* 278,679 bales and 625 ginneries. Texas, 3 200.221 bales ond 4.091 ginneries. 8.773 bale? and 9? gin neries. ‘ Th* d'st-ibntlon of *<ea isl *nd cot ton t>v Stbtc-'is: Florida 2 t .0u3: Georgia, 32,155. South' Carolina. 8.339 bales. ^ Ii.#» rnrr. fiAd —,Qf .the Macon, Ga., Der. 10. Tltonmv Fulford, the 21-year-otd Central -rf Georgia fireman, who fell from th- second story of his boarding house on Third street yesterday aft rnoon, died at the city hospital today. Fulford came In from his run feeling badly, went at once to i* ■ room, feeling feverish. H* went to open his window and fainted while in the act. While In, this condition he fell forward to the ground 35 ftno belo^r.^His skull was fractured. H** was unmarried. His home was in Amerlcus. * Coin in its 'Suicide. New York, Dec. -*7.—Leaving two letters, In one of which be said he had ‘suffe'rtd more than anybodv in the world," l.ouis Evans, of Brooklyn. A youtt^ of nineteen years, shot and instantly killed himself in a hospital where he was undergoing treatment for tuberculosis. quantity of cdten ginned this sea son to November 14 are $9,595,809 bales. * Dairy Pointers. e * Whatever wie should glv<* our rows to eat we should never neglect to pro vied them with plenty of water and pure air. * Ventilation and cleanliness ar® two matters which are going to ret an important figure in the future dairy business. It may be set down as an absolute fait that an animal In an unsound condition cannot give pure milk. * Explosion in >fagaiine. 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