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VOL. XXXII BARNWELL. S. O, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1900 NO. 15 NO POTASH TAX guilty of murder Congressman Levar Cats Com- mlttsa to Ramova Duty FROM TARIFF BILL V The Fenners of South Carolina - Will Save Over a Quarter Mil lion Dollars by the Action of the Committee fn Removing the Tax From Potash. Washington, April 8.—A special to the Columbia Record says after a week of diplomatic activity, Rep- resentative Lever of South Carolina, today won a decided victory for the farmers of his §tate and the South. Following his representations aa to the effect of the potential duty of 20 per cent on potash and potash salts, the ways and means committee to day promised Mr. Lever to remove by committee amendment the offen sive paragraph from the bill. The first step in the direction pledged by the committee was taken this iy>rnlnsi when the committee in executive session of its Republican members voted an amendment re moving the duty on all potash salts except basic slag, a variation of the standard product. Learning of this execp^Jon, Mr. Lever again called on Chairman Payne and after explain ing that basic slag, too, was an es sential part of the demand submitted in behalf of the farmers, Mr. Payne said that he thought the committee would certainly vote a supplementa ry amendment at Us meeting tomor row morning. The action of the committee Is a personal triumph for Mr. Lever and he is highly gratified at the result. The attention which Mr. Lever’s rep resentations received at the hands of the committee. Republicans, is the result of a consistently practiced pol icy of conciliation on the part of Mr. Lever as well as of the respect his energetic fights on particular questions beUore 'this ‘have ealled forth on both sides of the house. Among both Republicans and Democrats Mr. Lever has many friends, and in that way he can al ways get a hearing. After that he relies on his presentation of hie case. Mr. Lever’s activities have been unceasing —since,, telegrams reached Washington from Mr. E. J. Watson, directing his attention to the possibilities hidden away in the administrative clauses of the bill. There is one New Englander on the ways and means committee, Mr. Hill of Connecticut, and as the New Eng land soil in many localities requires practically the same kind of fer tilization needed in the South, it was not difficult for one knowing the ground as well as Mr. Lever to in terest certain Republicans in his fight. The victory of the South CarolJ- nian will mean something over a quarter of a million dollars a year to the farmers of South Carolina alone, while to the South as a whole it will mean more than |2,000,*000, In his speech recently on this subject Mr. Lever estimated the possible loss to South Carolina farmers from the enactment of this clause at over $300,000, and a telegram he re ceived from Wr. Watson this morn ing practically substantiates his es timate. The Indications now are that the Payne bill will go to the Senate ^vith potash and Its salts on the frq^ list, and it Is not thought that th^re will be much chance of the dqty being restored in the upper house. WILL SERVE HIS TIME. Brought Back and Put In the State Penitentiary. Columbia, April 7.—Sheriff Caus ey has brought to the State peniten tiary Honnr Haynes, the desperado who was arrested In Jacksonville a few days ago and brought back to this /State to serve out five years for manslaughter and 16 months on the yharge of breach of trust with fra^duleiHt Intent. Ttfe arrest of iynea is the culmination of 10 fears of evasion of the law—for Haynes, although convicted in 1899 of manslaughter, has succeeded In keeping away from the officers of the law until Sheriff Causey got on his track and located him in Jack sonville. . Haynes escaped from Monck’s Cor- KILLED ONE MAN AND TWO HKLPLEHfl WOMEN. Avery Blount, Prosperous Louisiana Business Man, Sent to the Gallows by the Jury. Amite City. La., April 7.—Late this afternoon the Jury ia the case of Avery Blount, charged with the murder of J. O. Breland, Mrs. Bre land and Mrs. Joe Everette, brought in a verdict of guilty in the first de gree. The verdict carries the death pen alty. The accused man received the ver dict with much coolness. Judge Ellis fixed Friday of this week for the hearing on motion for a new trial. Bount, a prosperous merchant, of Tlckfaw, was Indicted on the charge of murdering "Buz” Breeland, Mrs. Breeland and the latter’s daughter, Mrs. Joe. Everette, and was tried first on the separate indictment of ‘Buz” Breeland’s killing. Oarfleld and Ben Klnchen, two brothers, In dicted for complicity In the assassi nation, are yet to be tried. The killing of the Breelands, and Mrs. Everette was oae of the most horrible crimes ever committed in the State. The tragedy occurred on the night of January 22, near Tlck faw several miles south of Amite City. Breeland and his wife were bringing their daughter, Mrs. Ever ette, from her former home in Liv ingston Parish to live with them near Tlckfaw. Mrs. Everette’s hus band had been killed by Ben Kinch- en a few days before. Breeland was shot from ambush. He was on foot, and the two women were riding In a buggy. According to Breeland s dying statement Avery Blount, accompanied by some other person, then levelled guns on Mrs. Breeland and her daughter. The latter held her young baby in her arms. The elder woman* was first shot and killed. Mrs. Everette in the meantime was beseeching the assassins to spare her baby’s life. Her supplications finally resulted in the child being taken from her arms and laid by the roadside. The mother was then shot to death. TRYING TO RILL OPIUM TRADE. New Law Prohibits Importation and Use of Drug. Washington. April 7.—One of the most Important bills passed at the last session of Congress, and whjch became effective on April 1,/was that prohibiting both the importa tion and use of opium in the United States for any purpose whatever, except for strictly medicinal purpos es. In recent years the smuggling of opium into this country has ben one of the serious cursea of the time, and all of the larger cities have expe rienced untold /trouble from such traffic, especially among the Chinese, as the records of the police tsatlons and Criminal Courts abundantly show Undet the new law, If any person Jhall fraudulen'ly or knowing'? im- nort or bring into the United States, or assist in so doing, any opium or any preparation or derivatives or shall receive, conceal, buy or sel’. or In any manner facilitate the trans portation or concealment of sale of any such opium products after thetr Importation, knowing them to have I een imported contray to law, such goods shall be forfeited and destroy ed, and the offender shall be vned In any aum not e reeding $5,0>10, nor less than $t»'t, or oy imprison ment for any time not excedlng two years, or both. The treasury department had gone over the new law carefully, and in a statement just issued by Secretary MacVeagh, Is is made plain hereafter there shall be no traffic in this pro duct H it is posibie to stop IL In issuing full directions to col lectors at the different ports, these officers are cautioned to guard close'.v against fraudulent Importations here after. In addition to this, the Staie and municipal officers have been sent copies of the new law by the treasury department with ful directions for carrying it out, and with instructions also for making arrests and push ing prosecutions when such arrests are deemed necessary. Although more smuggling of opi um Is done perhaps in San Francis co than In any other city In the United States, because o the very LIVES ARE LOST And Property Damaged in Various Section of Country BY A HEAVY STORM Several Cities Are Damaged by a High Wind That Swept the Mid dle Western States. Which Crip pled the Telegraph Service and Wrecked Houses and Schools. Detroit, Mich., April 7.—At least eight persons lost their lives In the storm that visited Detroit and Michi gan last night and today. Anthony Kaup, a saloonkeeper, Joe Kadich, a barber, and Adam Felin, all of Wy andotte, attempted to cross the De troit river In a row boat from Wyan dotte to Canada this afternoon in a fifty-miles gale to settle a wager and all three were drowned when their boat capsized. Kadich bet Kaup five dollars that he would not dare to cross in the small boat and Felin was the stakeholder. At Jennings, in Missaukee county, three young men, Bernard Carlson, Charles Jackson and John Torrey, were killed by being caught under a wall that was blown down by the wind at the Mitchell Brothers mill. Eight year old Benjamin Hellmer was killed by lightning near Irona last night and Ray Miller was killed at Brightwood today when he was struck by a roof that had been blown off. CASTRO LANDS HE LEAVES THE STEAMER AT FORT DE FRANCE. Many Killed. Chicago, April 7.—Reports of last night’s storm damage received here today are that ten persons are know/i'. to have been killed in. Mississippi and at least 15 were Injured^ / At the Terrell plantation, ^4st of West Pointy Miss., a number of ne groes were kilted. Reports from western Tennessee state that the storm w/ecked many small buildings. At Wabash, Indy Mrs. ,Tas. A. Hayes and four children were" pin ned down beneath the wreckage of their home, which caught on fire. The mother Was badly burned, be ing rescued/ and will die. The children wt>re seriously hurt. The high win/I was followed by n cloud purst. Many brid/ges are wash'd aw'ay^/ A dozen houses were demo! Ished in Wabash. The damage will re^ch several thousafid dollars. At Perua, Ind., four factories and several school buildings, many small structures, were wrecked bj the wind. Very Much Annoyed by American Government’s Interference With His Plan of Visiting Venezuela. Fort de France, Martinique, April 7.—Uiprlapo Castro, in a rage against the British government and the State department at Washington, left the steamier Guadeloupe at this port today and has taken up quarters on shore. Finding all ports in the West Indes, excepting Fort de France, barred against him, the pres ent course was the only one leftopen to the former Venezuelan dictator. Senor Castro’s wife will continue on board the Guadeloupe to La- Gualra. The American monitor Montana came into port this morpiug. The Guadeloupe, on board which/ Castro and his party sailed from France, March 28, after four months spent in Europe, came into Fort de France late last evning. While at Pointe-a-Pitre of the island ol Guade loupe, where the steamed touched ypsterday, Castro was notified *by the British consul that the British government had decided not to per mit him to dlsembhrk at Port of Spain, Trinidad, consequently Castro decided to leave the Guadeloupe here. / The decision of the British, acting on a request from the State depart ment at Washington not to let^hini land at Trinidad, was unofficially communicated to CaslrrT a second time this morning.^ He expressed himself as anneryed and angry at this decision, which he characterized as a violation of the rights of man. He is furiously angry with the Amer ican government and the French Steamship Company. The latter re fused to let him continue on board the Guadeloupe to Colon. After expressing his annoyance at this unexpected turn in his affairs, Castro disclaimed the bellicose . in tention with regard to the existing political situation In Venezuela with which he has been credited and be declared that his only purpose in returning to Venezuela was to give his attention to his private busi ness. Castro appears still to be In 111 health. The steamer Gaudeloupe left here at noon today for Port of Spain and Venezuelan points. She was follow ed out nf the harbor by the cruiser Montana. CUT IT OUT proved a failure The Farmers Urged To Reduce The Cotton Acreage VERY GOOD ADVICE STABBS HIS WIFE. Several Men Missing. Cleveland, Ohio., April 7.—The fishing tug George Floyd, with seven men aboard, and the sand sucker Mary H., with nine men are missing, and the barge Norman Kelley, with a crew of four persons, was rescued tonight after a desperate fight, as a result of a fierce windstorm which raged on Lake Erie today. The wind blew a sixty-mile gale throughout the day. Life savers have been un able to do effective work. The steel barge Kelley’s crew three men and a woman, were picked up after floating fifteen miles from Kelley’s Island, when the boat tfroke away and jdrifted to sea. There was neither an engine nor an oar on the barge, so the .crew was at the mercy of the waves. Several small buildings w'ere wrecked and buggies overturned in Cleveland. Two men were blown from the shore of the Lake into the water. Both were rescued. Drunken Negro Teh's to Kill All His Family. Rock Hill, April 7.—-This evening at 8 o'clock Lawrence Boyd, a well known negro cook, while drunk, run amuck on Ratterree hill and succeed ed in almost murdering his wife, Louisa, stabbing her deeply In the shoulder. He started for their child -of three years old and cut at It. His wife’s sister grabbed at him and prevented him from cutting the baby, but received a nasty cut on the arm herself. Boyd then fled and has not been caught. CHARGED WITH MURDER. ner before he could be brought to Golnrobiato begin his sentence Ju»t large number, of Orientala tber.e..JJbe after he was convicted In 1899. The guards from the penitentiary had already started for Monck’s Corner to bring Haynes and a number of other prisoners here when It was learned ■that Haynes had made his escape. Since 1899 Haynes has been abia to keep away from the officers of the law. Sheriff ;Causey states (that Just as soon as he came into office he started to track Haynes and finally was able to make the negro move out of the State which ended in the larrest at Jackaonville. Fishermen Drowned. Naples^April 7.—By thf bursting of a dyke today at Catansaro, 22 flabermen were yvapt to sea. fovea | known and 1 drowsed. of tkev were traffic in the drug has grown to enor mous proportions In New York, Chi cago. Philadelphia. Boston and else where In the East during the last five years. Not only this, but in some instances negroes, too, have been known to become steady and regular uaera of the drug, so that now the Chinese immigrant is not the only person to feel Its harmful effects. . _ Many murders among the Chinese In different parts of the country have been directly traceable to the Illegal use of this drug, and It is believed by those who have made a caerful study of the mster that the new law wll be most beneficial In Its effects when its provisions become generally ts mandates ara carried Injured in New York. New York, April 7—The high gale that prevailed to the west and north of New York city today, causing havoc with telegraph and telephone lines, attained its full force here at. 7:45 o'clock tonight, when the wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour. Several per sons were hurt and much damage and discomfort resulted. Two persons, an elderly woman and a child, were badly hurt* by being blown off their feet and dash ed against objects in the street. At Rochester John Velth was killed this afternoon during a 51 mile an hour wind storm, and a 12-year-old child sustained a frac tured skull from a Wind blown chimney. At Buffalo from three o’clock until five this afternoon the wind tore through the streets of Buffalo at the rate of 72 miles an hour. One man was killed and many pteople w'ere injured by parts of buildings detached by the force of the wind and hurled through -the ale.--— Two Polico OflkvTS Shot Another Man to I>eath. Fitzgerald, Ga., April 7. — Indict ment* charging murder were return ed by the Irwin county grand Jury today against Chief of Police Brue- baker and Patrolman Johnson, who on Saturday night sh($t ( to death Robert Gresham, manager of a local mill, the officers stating that they w'ere after him for an alleged theft and shot him down only after he had fired shots at them in a dark alleyway. The officers are in jail without bond. Guest of Honor. New York, April 7.—United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman will be the guest of honor and one of the speakers at the annual dinner of the South Carolinians in this'eity April 22. Members of other Southern States societies and of the Southern society have been Invited to attend the dinner. Fight About Taxes. Monteleone, Calabria, April 7.— Four men were killed and many oth ers wounded in a conflict with the local Carabineers. The authorities are endeavoring to collect new taxes, which are exceedingly unpopular. oat. Great Damage at Toledo. Toledo, April 7.—Hundreds of men out of worki-thousands of dol lars damage done and many per sons slightly injured as the re sults of a hurricane that visited To- Tedo and virinUy today. - —“ The wind attained a velocity of 69 miles an hour In this city. The roof of the plant of the Massllon Bridge Company, 180 by 40 feet was ripped off, and hurled into a field and 300 men were thrown out of employment until the damage can Pedeatrains were injured by fall ing signs, parts of roof, chimneys and limbs of trees and many women were bio wed over by the wind. | la small toyns jxear Toledo con siderable damage was done/ _ Many houses were struck by lightning and the occupants stunned, hut there were no reports of fatalities. Which Would Help Out Wonder fully, If the Cotton Producers Would Only Follow it Out Gen erally Throughout the Cotton Pro- 7 (hieing Region. Columbia, April 8.—President B. Harris, of/the Sortfth Carolina State Farmer^ 7 Union, has Issued the fol lowing address, which he desires that the ^ounty papers of th" State should cony: /‘‘Again I want to call your atten tion, farmers, that now Is the time to fix price on the 1 909 cotton crop. Will you make It 8 or 15 cents? It Is in your power to make It either. “I want to, If I can Impress upon you, that d'lvqrslflctVlon of your crops is the keynote of the situation. I want to urge every Southern farmer to plant at least 25 per cent of hfs cotton land In food crops,.so as to let’s see if it will pay_u* as farmers to diversify our crops. To my knowl edge, the farmer who has not been making home self-supporting has been.snapping $1 for 5 0 cents. Now .Jet’ ‘s see if this assertion is true. “The farmer who bought corn last year paid $1.10 cash for it. If he borrowed the money to buy with. It cost him $1.25, as he paid interest on the money. If he hauled it home ten miles it cost him 10 cents. It is worth 10 cents per bushel to haul corn ten miles, so his corn coet him $1.35. Now, any good, progressive farmer can make all the corn he will need on hla farm for 3 5 cents per bushel. You see he gave a dollar for what he could have raised for 3 5 cents per bushel. Are any of the Southern farmers guilty of the above? If so, -go and sin no more. “Did you buy any bacon? It Is selling now for 12 1-2 cents cash. Still swapping $1 for 60 cents. Any good farmer can raise enough for his family use or 3 cents p-r pound. Did you buy any hay? I you did you are still at the same old way of exchanging. If you bought a horse or a mule you paid from $200 to $250. You can raise one just as good for less than $100. Now, brother farmers, do not say that you can not raise corn for 3 5 cents. Try to do it. I have met more than 50 farmers this year that raised It for less than 35 cents per bushel, and as many as 15 who raised It for less than 20 cents. “The farmer who Is raising corn for 30 cents, bacon for 3 cents, rais ing his own horses and making home self-supporting has quit swapping $1 for 50 cents. The farmer who is buying is still at his old Job. While the farmer who Is buying on a Hen and mortgage on his crop is just swapping $1 for 25 cents, for the cash buyer is swapping $1 for 50 cents. He can raise It for half what he pays for it when he buys it. Brother farmer, if you are guilty of the above sin I say to you, sin no more. “Now. what price will yon have for the 1909 crop? Will you have 8 or 15 cents? Remember, it is all In your hands, and you will get what ever price yon make It. To get 15 cents you will have to diversify your crops and stop exchanging $1 for 60 cents, or you will never be able to get a remunerative prjee. Now, what Is the use of the farmers of the South to raise 12,000,000 bales of cotton and not get for it any more than they can for a 7,000,000- or 8,000,000-bale crop? Think of the enormous expense of raising the extra 5,000,000 bales to bear the market down. And who does this? It is the farmer. Think and consid er for a moment what you are doing and you will quit it. "Do you think for a moment that, the manufacturer would do any such ruinous business as^ this? No, he would stop one-half of his machinery at once and curtail his output one- half and make the same profit. Now, brother farmers, use a littl? good business judgment and common good horse sense. 1 hear some farm er say Mr. Jones Is going to cut his cotton acreage and I will just In crease mine. Sad, but this ts too true to make a Joke of. This Is just what the speculative world says you will do. The most essential thing for the farmers to do this year is to plant 3 5 per cent of cotton land in food crops ^nd live at home. “I took dinner the other day with a man who lives in the country. I eatr not say that -h*r -was a farmer, THE WILLIAMSON PLAN DID NOT WORK W ELL. Heal Testa Prove Same Amount - of Fertiliser Will Produce More Corn Without Stunting. For the benefit of all the doubting Thomases In corn culture, I ask you to publish some testa made In Fair- field county by good, conservative farmers. The men had such Implicit faith in the Williamson method that when approached on the subject of growing more corn per acre, or as much with less expense, they would reply: "Give me the Williamson plan and I will make more corn than Dr. Knapp." But many are the converts since harvesting the crop of 1908, and the year 1909 will bid a long farewell on maqy farms to Mr. Williamson While his plan of preparation (that Is, a deep seedbed well prepared) Is what we want, we do not want any more stunted corn that takes a ferti lizer bill a yard long to pay for half the yield. ~, Due credit has been given Mr. Williamson for having proved that the yields can be Increased, and I hope the day Is not far off when every fanner Tn the Sou 1 h wITI have al ways a seedbed ten to fifteen inches deep, well filled with humus made by growing cover crops before the corn, and when every farmer's fertilizer bill In the fall will read so many tons of high grade phosphoric acid (and if need be. some potash), but not so much 8-4-4 or 8-3-3 that he buys every year in the face of the fact that nitrogen floats In abundance around him, and can be secured by planting peas, soja beans, crimson clover and other legumes. The following are the tests re ferred to: Mr. W. J. Burley planted one acre of corn on Dr. Knapp’s plan, using the same amount of fertilizer that, he did on the Williamson plan, and secured ten bushels more per acre than he made on the William son plan. F. R McMeekln A Bro. staked off two aorta side by si le, using the same amount of fertilizer, and stat ed at the time that the Williamson acre would "skin” the Knapp acre a mile. They harvested thirty-five bushels on the Knapp acre and thirty on the Williamson aefe. Their en- t,re crop fox wages this year will be planted by the Knapp method. Mr. D. L. Stevenson tried the two methods, planting the poorer acre by the Knapp method, using the same amount of fertilizer per acre. The Knapp acre yielded thirty bushels and the Williamson acre twenty- seven. Mr. M. W. Doty, one of the larg est planters In the county, will work almost his entire corn crop on Dr. Knapp’s plan this year. W. R. ELIOTT, Local Agent of Farm Demonstration Woric, Wlnnsboro, S. C. WANT IT BACK Ths Stats May Ba Askstf Ts Pay Back a LARGE SUM OF MONEY BLACK HAND SCHEME. L- Six Injured. London, Ont., April 7.—Six per son* were injured, one fatally, amf a financial loss of full fifty thousand dollars was entailed by a northwest hurricane which pased over thlg city today. At the Aberdeen public school, a tall chimney crashed through the roof. Imprisoning 300 pupils, and creating a panic. , Mary Laburltla, aged 9 years, was fatally injured, aad four other pupils were •eveferly hurt. The fire department , worked rapidly and succeeded In f quieting the children, who were re- mowed hr means of ladders. for his dinner. did not-saliafy me in calling him a farmer^Lor everything he had on his table was bought. Out of curiosity I asked him how he cured his bacon. He said Mr. Ar mour cured It for him. I asked him what tomato he found was best for canning: He told* me his were canned In Baltimore. I asked him what kind of turnips he sowed for making salad. He told me he bought that also. Then I wanted to know what kind of cotton seed bo planted, vnd he quickly answered: T plant Toole’a and Cook's.’ “So you can readily see that he was a planter and not a real, real fanner. This Is th« kind of farming that causes 8-cent cotton. I was in a grocery store the other day and one ot these planters came in to Just u Fool Notion Cansed by Dime Novel Reading. Atlanta. Ga.. April 7.—“It was just a fool notion I got from reading dime novels,” said Daniel W. John son, Jr., the 18-year-old boy who was Jailed here last night for having attempted to extort $35,000 from Asa O. Candler, prominent banker and Georgia’s wealthiest citizen, through Black Hand methods. The young man at first told the police that he had been forced by three strangers to write letters to Mr. Candler, demanding the money He now admits that the scheme was of his own concoction. Johnson wrote the second letter Sunday, repeating his threats of death to Mr. Candler In case of his non-compliance, and then went to church and took his regular place in Mr. Candler’s Sunday school class. Commits Suicide. Richmond, Va., April T.Tte-Frank T. Glasgow. Jr., 3 8 years old, a well known resident of the city, and connected with the 1’redegar Iron works, shot himself through the head at the office of the plant today and died Instantly. Ill health re sulting In despondency was the cause. I■'Owned It By the United Government Many Y Names of the States That Re ceived the Money and What Each One Received. Washington, April g.—If tha MU Representative Murdock of Kanaaa has Introduced In the federal house of representatives, requiring twenty- six States, which In 1838 were loan ed $28,000,000 for Internal Improve ments, to return this money, be comes a law, the federal government will have a hard time collecting from South Carolina, which Is Mid to have received the same amount as Georgia, $1,051,422.09, In 1 836 there was a surplus of $33,000,000 In the national treasury from the tariff taxes, and a bill waa passed lending this amount to the various States then In the Union, with the understanding that it waa to be returned whenever they were called upon to do so. The apportion ment of the money waa made accord ing to representation In congreaa. When three Installments had been paid In 1839, congress repealed the act. When the repealing act was passed ( It provided that the money apportioned "remain with the States until otherwise directed by wn- gress.” While some of the States have kept the fund segregated and IpMdi it out at Interest, other States have lost track of It completely. All the Southern States lost their pait of the fund during the reconatruetloa period, and In many cases all tha records relating to It were deatroyad. New York, however, received $4,014,520.71, and has kept the amount Intact. It has been loaned out at Interest, and the amount re ceived from the investment put into the State treasury. New Jersey and Delaware are also said to have kept their part of the money segre gated. The various accounts are still ear- rled on tha hooka at tha /faakjntei treasury department, and akch saera^ tary of the treasury has had to glva a receipt for the mone/. It'is car ried as “available funds.” Mr. Murdock said recently that la simply wished congress to “other wise direct" as the bill provided ia 1839, and he is oonfdent the amount can be collected. It Is said the president aad.,$he secretary of the treasury have ap proved the plan of Mr. Murdock, and have agreed that if the bill ia pa«Md by -congress the attorney tenoral will have no trouble in settling m the old account. The largest amounts received by the States are as follows: New York $4*914,521.71 Pennsylvania 2,867,614.78 Ohio 2,007,29944 Virginia 1 2,198,427.99 Illinois ’ 477.il9.14 Georgia 1.094,422.91 South Carolina 1,061,422.99 Massachusetts 1,338,172.69 Maine 959,829.26 New Hampshire .. .. 999.0S9.7i Vermont 991,089.79 Rhode Island 888,386.89 Connecticut 764,670.99 For the last 25 years, say soma of the older members, attempts have been made to have the nation ap portion the remaining $5,990,994 between the States, but all the bills introduced"have died in the commit tee. \ The new States that ware created since the money was apportioned ara In favor of having the amounts re turned, but the States that received the benefit, especially the Southern States that lost it entirely, will fight any -attempt to force a payment, The bill has caused a good dMl of discussion among tha membership of the house, and while it li said the States should be held responsible. It is not believed the bill can paw. LYNCHED FOR MU RDM. / buy some corn, flour, bacon and hay. He asked the price of corn, $1.10; flour, $7 per barrel; bacon, 12 1-2 cents per pound, and hpy, $23 per ton. He said to the merchant, 'Are you going to rob me?’ Thdmerchant j/"”' W* xmr *« vurrertw - uiiuhii. 1 You 444-U by planting all the cot-, ton you could last year. "Now, brother farmers, let’s look at things square in the face and see that October cotton is being sold for about 9 cents on the New York exchange. Now, are you going to plahl another" biff* crop” when you know that 9 cents Is about the coat of production? Surely not. There is just one thing that will keep you from delivering your cotton crop of 1909 for 9 cents, and that is organ ize into the Farmers’ Educational ■and Co-operative Union of America. Plant 35 per cent of your cotton crop into food crops and yon will get as much money for an 9,609,9004>ale crop as you will for a 18,900,000- baie crop. “B. HARRIS. Strang Up and Body Then With Bullets. Pensacola, Fla., April 6. Dkr*' Alexander, a negro, was lynched here this morning for the murder ot Po- llcemal Canton, whom the negro jpg* tToh was comparatively deserted, a crowd of 25 men, at the potat of revolvers, took the black maa from his cell and hanged him .from aa electric light pole, a half Moot from the jail. As the body swayed la the air, 40 bullets were Ared tato it by the mob. Woman Dies of Wound. Bogalusa, La., April 7.—Mr*. Elisabeth King, aged 84 yeara, died here today from <He effects of a bul let wound Inflicted last night,)* Deputy Sheriff R. 8. was a boarder ia ; The shot which —te l we# aimed at