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m t roL. xxxii FOUND IN CREEK BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY, JALY1, 1900 Tlw Dud Body of i Yount Woman Dlscovortd. • A MURDER MYSTERY The Victim * Wm the Wife of • Loe Angeles Automobile Denier, Who Hed Iveen Marrlel n Year, Found by Party of Boy* on a Crab bing Trip. A dispatch from Baltimore, Md.. •Ays practically tentTfe^ eiaifiTfS" shore of Maryland was aroused and searching Thursday night for oue Emmit E. or John T. Roberts, want ed In connection with the brutal murder of Mrs. Edith May Woodill. wife of Gilbert Woodill, aa automo bile dealer of Los Angeles, Cal., whose nude body, with the skull crushed In from a blow, apparently delivered from behind; the face hor ribly disfigured; the entire body swol len from the effects of several days' immersion, and weighted with am iron pot with half a dozen bricks, was Wednesday discovered by boys who were crabbing in Back Creek, a tributary of the Choptank River, not far from the home of Mrs. Wood- ill's foster father, Capt. Chas. H. Thompson, a few miles from Balti more. Roberts was with Mrs. Woodill when she was seen for the last known time, and he is accused of having committed the murder. The motive for the crime is at present a mystery. The police of Baltimore and all other cities to which Roberts might make bis way, were asked to search for and arrest him. He is said to be about fifty years old, five feet, six inches tall, stoute, smooth- shaven, with abundant, bushy hair and a ruddy complexion. He limps and waars a brace on one leg. He claimed to be a magazine writer, and general correspondent of aews papers. Ho was captured at St Michaels. Md., Thursday night. Mrs. Woodill went to Baltimore early this month with the intentins of spending the summer with her foster father. Her husband remain ed only a few days, leaving, it Is uh derstood for Detroit, whence he in tended to return to Los Angeles From that time, Mrs. Woodill and Roberts are said to have seen much of each other. Last Saturday Mis Woodill went to Easton to have some dental work done, and it had beoc arranged that Roberts should meei her at Royal Oak and return with her to her home. Roberts missed the train for Royal Oak and drove there, met Mrs. Woodill and drove with her back here to the lauding where his launch was moored. The) entered the launch and Mrs. Wood ill was not seen again alive, so fur as has been learned. Investigations made indicate that when Roberts and Mrs. Woodill let here they went in the launch to * bungalow .that is being built on Robert's small farm, near that of C.ipt. Thompson, and that in thl.- bungalow the murder was committed There were found a bloody sheet anc mattress and portions of a woman's clothes, partly burned. These hav» been Identified as having belonged to Mrs. Woodill. There were ah* found in the bungalow a pair o corduroy trousers, in the pocket o which were two letters. One, be Moved to have been from Mrs. Wool ill and to have some connection will th** meeting at Royal Oak, waa date< June 16. The room. In which these thing were found showed evidence of s struggle having taken place. It wa discovered that crabbers in the rive early Tuesday morning were passe by a vessel from which they saw a* apparently heavy object thrown int. the water with a splash. It is s'M posed that the vessel was R ib*rr launch, and that it was Mrs Woo ill's body and its weight that w cast into the water. Mrs. Woodll is said to have been married r Woodill about a year ago. A dispatch from Los Angeles, Co. aays the news of the murder of M - 1 Edith M. Woodill, the young wi'< of Albert Woodill, president of tli? Woodill Automobile Company, of that city, created a sensation there, where both are well known. Mrs Woodill was 20 years old. and wa? formely Miss Edith May Thompson a ward of Lyman J.*Gage, former Secretary of the X r *«8ury. bow resident of Sah Diego. CHEATS THE LAW MURDERER WRITES LAST CHAP TER IX WOODILL TRAGEDY. «, Robert Emmett Kastman, Alias Em- melt K. Roberts, Commits ftaictde When Capture Seems Certain. dispatch from St. Michaels, Md., aays the last tragic chapter in a story •t crime unparalleled in this sec tion of the country was written in the half light of an early summer's dawn Friday, when the man accused of the heartless murder of pretty lit tle May Edith Thompson WoodHI— a spectre-like form fleeing in a skiff from a posse of determined, relent less pursuers—stood for a moment facing the men who had cornered him on the waters of a narrow creek, then fired a bullet crashing Into his heart and fell a lifeless lump into the bottom of the boat, which he had hoped would carry him to a landing place where flight might be possible. Taking his fate Into hia own hands and blottln-g out untold the story of the death of a girl who had moved In the highest social circles of Balti more, Washington and Los Angeles— a beautiful, talented girl, who had been a protege of Lyman J. Gage and of Former Governor Frank Brown of Maryland—the man known here ae Emmett E. Roberts, but who in reality was Robert Emmett East man, a failed broker of the Consoli dated Stock Exchange of New York, passed beyond the reach of the law and with his going there vanished' the hope of clearing up the motives and baffling details of this strange tragedy. A letter found upon Eastman's body, addressed to Miss Vinnie Brad- come, care of Klaw & Erlanger, New York, gave Eastman’s ill-sus tained excuse for the crime. It was a rambling account of how he had been out in a launch with a party of men and women, all of whom had been drinking to excess with the ex ception of himself and Mrs. Woodill, and how one of the women in a fit of jealous frenzy-bad attacked Mrs Woodill with a wlf.o bottle and killed her; how the remalader of the par-v' had taken flight, leaving him to dis pose of the body and how as a means of escape from all his troubles the writer had decided to end his life BAROV WAS A LUNATIC. Recaptured While Engaging Rooms at a Hotel. A New York dispatch says the Hotel St. Regis management antici pated a material increase In revenue late Wednesday, when a man of dis tinguished appearance engaged a suite of eight rooms, and said that and his wife would occupy them, ith two lady's maids and two alets. The man described himself as Baron Wurz. While the visitor was making the final arrangements for the suite, an attendant from an insane asylum on Long Island arriv ed and took charge of the caller, ex plaining to the hotel management that he was John Wurz, of Pitts field, Mass., who had escaped the lay before. FREE LUMBER Senator Tillman Explains His Lumbor Votes DON’T WANT IT TAXED The Senator Says a Duty on Lumber Only Helps the Lumber Trust, Which liaa Bought Up All the Timber Lands In the State, and Robs the Fanners and Others. DROWNED IN LAKE KILLARNKY Nine Tourists and Two Boatmen Lost Their Lives. A dispatch from Killamey, Ireland, nays that a large row boat, carrying Ive American and four English tour- sts and four Irish boatmen, was 'wamped in a gale while crossing lower KUlarney Lake Wednesday Hternoon. All of the tourists and wo of the boatmen were drowned. The victims were: Mrs. A. A. Hilton nd son. of Tacoma, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Longhead, of Boston; Miss M I. Catum, or Cotum, of Massachu- letts (town not known); the Rev. 1. Barton and sieter, of lyoudon. nd Miss Florence Wilkinson and ouain. of Bretwood, Essex; Boat man Con Tooney and Con Bleeaon None of the bodies were recovered LURED YOUNG WOMAN To a Building, Over-powered aad Assaulted Her. Speeding Caused Wreck. According to Commissioner Caugb man's report the Southern's fatal freight wreck at Styx last Thursday wgav caused by reckless speedlng to get the train through to Its destt nation. A few days before the ac cident Engineer Turner was warned t*t tfo tu*n jo&t JL .Tr— ; t* Bright and sunny : ‘ ^ e visited a while, rhea asked for money. Little Rock, Ark., and its suburbs were searched Monday night for an unidentified white man, who, it is charged, beat into insensibility and assaulted a young woman In an of flee building. Miss Ray BurkhaHer, of Pine Bluff. Ark , student at a local business college, says she was called to the office building with s promise that' she would be given clerical employment. She was met by a young man, who she decares, overpowered her and assaulted her, after she was bound and gagged to prevent an outcry. Her face and neck are Vacfiy bruised, aad bef con ditio* is regarded as serious. >nty of Note and Letter Heads, lop* nod Spring Stationery, nil . at Tub Psoru Pbixtuy. Dead Man in Box Car. At Akron. Ohio. Wednesday the body of a well dressed man. about 40 years old. was found In a box car with the skull crushed and pock ets rifled. The car eame from Ham mond. Ind.. last Thursday and the man was apparently from Chicago. On a slip of paper In his pocket was the name of J. L. Clear. We present below Senator Till man’s remarks in the United States Senate on last Monday on the lum ber schedule, in which he explains his position on that question. There has been a great deal said about the Senator voting against free lumber Read what he says below and you will see that the Senator has always been In favor of free lumber as we have claimed; Mr. Tillman—Mr. President, be fore the lumber schedule pusses from the attention of the Senate, 1 want to make a brief statement. When It was in the Senate before, two or three weeks ago, I voted for the amendment proposed by the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Johnson) to put lumber and all building materials on the free list. In the discussion 1 remarked that I was in favor of free lumber. When the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. McCumber) of fered an amendment, which did not give us free lumber, leaving the duty on whitewood, sycamore and bass wood at 50 cents a thousand, I voted against it, becaute it did not give us free lumber. The Senate adjourn ed immediately afterwards, giving me no opportunity to vote for free lumber. There has been no oppor tunity to vote for free lumber. Then has been no amendment proposed foi free lumber today. Mr. McCumber—The Senator will recall that some time ago I intro duced an amendment for free lum ber, and it was defeated. Mi. Tillman—I was not present Mr. McCumber—Oh. yes; It war argued here for days and then de feated by a very decisive vote. Mr. Tillman — If the Senator will look at the Record, he will see tha he did not offer any amendment fot free lumber, but only one for "aawe^ lumber not specially provided for, and so forth, leaving In the bill 60 cents a thousand on bass wood, syca more, and so forth. Mr. McCumber—I did not change that, it Is true. Mr. Tillman—I voted against tht McCumber amendment. It was de feated by a very decisive vote, 66, I think, or something like that, to 30, or around there. I still think we ought to have free lumber, and 1 will give my experience and my reasons for that belief. I know, of course, we can not get it. Twelve years ago, when the Ding- ley bill was on its passage, I voted for a $2 tariff on lumber, and re marked, very much to the disgust of some people and the edification of others, “if there was to be stealing 1 want my share." I have found out that I can not get my share; that the conditions of the South are such that the articles and •p r0f H , cfs ol the region which are capable of he lms protected are so few In number that If we were to throw around everything down there a high pro tective tariff, we would not get any thing like a proportionate benefit with the New England and manufac turlng States of this Union. In regard to this matter of lum ber I have watched the result of the duty. Immediately afterwards out timber lands, which had previously been neglected so there were com paratively small lumbering industries down there, began to be in demand Men from Wisconsin and Michigan and other northern States where lumbering had practically denuded the forests of timber, or were about to finish them up, came into the State and bought up very large tracts of timber at a very small price. They did this all over the South. Large mills w-ore established and the lum bering industry began to pick up. showing Investment of capital and a large export. At the same time the price began to rise, a little fast er, apparently, than the industry it self. Now. consider for a moment that the people of South Carolina are In al*otil this shape; the State being a triangle, the upper part cutting off Bite the letter “A” is largelv the whits section of the State. Nearly i.yo-tbl’-ds of the peple. although it" is only one-third of the area. if*o there. They are consumers of 11/3- ber and ''hey have no yellow pLie or ’'cry little. They hav e been itn- -.rtlng that lumber Vom the lowei half of counties next to the sea, and that region is occupied almost, whol ly by the negores; that Is, the~ne- groes outnumber the whites in Beau fort county, for Instance, 10 negroes to 1, Colleton 7, Georgetown 7, Wil liamsburg 4. Sumter 6, and so on. In this roast region the lumbor in dustry has taken root and is now very extensively carried on. I notice after three or four years of this Introduction of lumber on an extensive acale that the price went steadily up. up. and It very Boon became noised abroad. I do not SHOT TO DEATH A GEORGIA FARMER AND 1IIH WIFE ARB KILLED While at Work In a Field by a Man Who Hnccwhi In Making Hie Escape. A special dispatch from Adrian, Ga., to the Atlanta Journal says that while, at work In the flel d »d.J? ln ! n * their home Wednesday morning, Geo. Howell and his wife were shot to death by Robert Jenkins. Jenkins used a shotgun for his deadly work, and Is said to have come upon the couple unawares. Raising his gun he fired one barrel at How ell, killing him Instantly. Hardly before she realized what had happened, Howell's wife waa fir ed upon by Jenkine with the other barrel. Like her husband, she was killed outright. Immediately after killing the couple Jenkins made his escape. The firing of the shots attracted the attention of neighbors and a largo crowd gathered. Both Mr. Howell, who ia a farmer, and his wife, are highly respected by their neighbors, and when they learned of the tragedy they were greatly aroused. Within a few minutes the men of the neighborhood had formed a posse, procured bloodhounds and are now in pursuit of the alleged mur derer. The cause of the killing cannot be ascertained. It Is known, however that Howell and Jenkins had not been on good terms for some time, and it is believed that the tragedy was the result of some previous dis pute. Adrian is a small village in the western part of Emanuel county. Train Kills Autoist. Glenn H. Dobbs, aged 46, of Lin coln avenue, Collingswood, N. J., was instantly killed when an automobile, which he was driving was struck and demolished by an express train on the Weat Jersey and Seashore railroad, at Ferry avenue and City lino. Camden Wednesday. CROP LAST YEAR Some Interesting Figures About ^ the Cotton CROP OF THIS STATE enow on what foundation, that these umber men had formed a comblna- lon and they would not sell under >ach other to th*. consumers In the ipper part of the State. Lumber is not a luxury. It Is a lecesslty. It is one of the neces saries of life. When I saw that the farmers, who had to build houses ind fences and barns in the whole upper country, were being charged steadily increasing prices for their lumber, I began to change my opin ion as to whether I was getting my share of the stealing or not. U look ed like somebody not very far away was getting an unreasonable profit out of our trees, which had cost them a very small sum of money relative ly. So my opinion in regard to the benefits of the tariff In our State changed very radically. I believe in the greatest good to he greatest number; and when 1 .aw that the people who use lumber, practically four-fifths of them, were paying an increased price, 1 decided • f 1 ever got a chance I would take hat tariff off. That is all there is ibout it. 1 do not feel that it is my business here to protect the In- lustry of lumber which perhaps, in voice the interests of 50,000 good and worthy people, aa against the 500,000 equally good and worthy people who hav e to use lumber, and we would not be saved from an ex orbitant price, because, I think, those people formed a combination and igrced that they would not under sell each other. The only reason why we were able or will be able, to get lumber at i reasonable rate was due to the fact that there were some old field »ine second growth left in the up per part of the State and small patches, or small areas, two or three hundred acres or 500 acres, all through in the middle lower region that the lumbermen had not bought or could not buy at the high prices —I mean the great lumber compa nies. with their railroads, and an that sort of thing, running out into the swam,i' The only reason why the upper-country p “ople could g lumber at decent prices waa because a little one-horse sawmill, costing Jl.oOO or at most $2,000, would go into these little patches of pine and saw the timber up and furnish the people this necessary, as against these great combinations of capital which 'had absorbed our tim ber. I have fflt tttkt'lt was my privi lege to explain why I am apparently In contradiction with myself, because l voted against the amendment of fered by the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. McCumber). Having stated that I wanted free lumber, haYtnfiT bad no chance to get Tree lumber. I still am against the amend ment. because It did not offer free lumber. That Is all I want to say. I did not want to appear to be at war with myself, nor do I aay this because of the hue and cry raised in some quar ters that I have not stood on the Democratic platform. I am here ai % Democrat. If my Democracy Is not above suspicion I do not want any certificate from any source J ' _ The Number of Bales Produced and Aggregate Value of the Same. ■"Acreage for the Part Year =wur Largest in History of the State. Other Facte. According to figures by Commis sioner Watson the 1908 cotton crop was 1,242,012 running bales, includ ing linters and sea island or, proper ly, exclusive of linters 1,216,848 bales, comprising 8.8 per cent of the cotton ginned in the United Htates. The production exceeded that in 1907 by 62,991 bales. South Carolina has now fallen to fifth place, her fourth place attained in 1907 being taken by Alabama. It is estimate by Mr. Watson that there are 3,3 bales still unginned. The average weight per bale was 483 pounds against 481,2 pounds in 1907. Sea' island bales weighed on the average 351.8 pounds and linters 470.6 pounds. The South Carolina sea island sold in 1908 at an average of 23.39 cents per pound, while that grown in Georgia and Florida averaged 17.92 cents. In 1906 South Caroli na’s average price was 3 6.70 cents, and in 1907 35.5 cents, these being the best prices since 1901. This year it was lower than in 1902 or in any year in the seven year yield. The South Carolina crop was ginned in 3,481 ginneries, about the aver age number. The aggregate value of the South Carolina crop was $61,964,522, against $72,657,817 in 1907 and $49,888,619 in 1906. The 1908 crop was the most valuable in money the State has ever had save the two crops of 1907 and 1905. According to Mr. Watson, of act ual cotton linters the total value for 1908 was $52,329,430, represent ing 663.762,491 pounds of upland worth $61,167,664. 4,967,190 pounds of sea Island, worth $1,1 61,826. Of cottonseed there were 621,669 pounds, worth $9,635,042, the larg est value since 1901 with the ex ception of the 1 907 crop. The acreage wss the largest In the history of the State—2,645,000. he next largest Ixdng 2.631,875 iu 904 Since 1904 more than 2,000,- 000 acret have been regularly planted in cotton. Anderson. wi*h 63,1 83 bales, con tinues to be the chief producing coun having assumed the lead when Calhoun was cut from Orangeburg. Spartanburg, Marlboro, York, Marion and Greenville, Darlington aa' Sum- r arc the other chief producer 1 *. The stocks on hand in South Car olina on March 1 amounted to 421,- 763 bales, of which 220,429 were in the hands of the manufacturers and 1 26,285 in independent warehouses, including compresses. The rest was in the hands of transportation com panies. The mills of the State are consum ing 793,396 bales of cotton annually, turning out product worth about $77,000,000. The yield per acre In 1908 In the State was 219 pounds, versus a 10- ycar average of 189. It is estimated that the acreage planted this year ( 1909) is 2,498,- 000 against 2,545,000 in 1908, but the real acreage is probably about the same as last year. Cottou on March 1, 1908, was bringing on the average in South Carolina 9.2 cents while at the same date the preceding year It was bring ing the average price of 11 cents. Mr. Watson in making the estimate has issued the following statement; MINERS KILLED WANTS IT •#*11 SEVENTEEN OF THEM LOST THEIR LIVES LN A MINE Stnator Tillman Against Lumbar Treat ~ |» PewMflTMl* by the Kxploaloa at Gas Dm to Ignltkm Prom a I FAVORS FREE Miner's Lamp. —— Ae the result of an explosion of gas In mine No. 4, of the Lacka wanna Coal and Coke Company ehortly after-? o'clock Wednesday morning seventeen miners were killed and sixteen Injured. With the ex ception of one, those killed were foreigners. With few exceptions those injured were Americans . It In All Building Material, end fen VoG-* to Put AH Lumber on the Free Lfrt^-Benntor TflUnan Issue With Senator Aldrich and 1 -s’ Talks Out Plainly. Senator Tillman took occaolon in was stated that all the injured prob-Ji^ United States Senate on Wednen* ably would recover. .. , 0 , I day to define his poeltion on the Itun* Superintendent Johnson stated that while the mine has always been b * r «cbedule by voting to »nt htf regarded as non-gaseous, the explo- classes of lumber on *he free lint, slon wa* due to the Ignition of a I and thus moke building motorist an pocket of gas by the open lamp of | cheap „ possible to the eoMUMT. He emphasized his opposition to tho a miner. The mine has only been opreatlng two days each week, Tuesday and Friday. Those in the mine had en tered the shaft for their dally al lowance of coal for family use. Grouped about the slope entrance of the mine just before the explo sion were several Italians. When the terrible subterranean upheaval of rock and gas spouted skyward, these Italians were caught. Terribly burned and mkimed they ruahed about the settlement crying for aid. The first man to reach the surface was A. L. Johnson, son of the super intendent. He Is one of the few very seriously injured. Superintendent Johnson called for volunteers to enter the mine. In the volunteer ranks stood several women. These were ordered back. With wet handkerchiefs tied over their faces the first squad of the relief party started down the shaft. Of the eight who started four came back with their senses. The others, overcome with black damp, were pull ed to surface with ropes. A second and a third party entered only to be driven back by tne deadly gases, hissing aud shoutiug in the lower levels. Oxygen, sent by the Cambria Steel Works, aided tho searchers, and with safety helmets, a fourth rescue party succeeded in bringing twelve bodies to the surface. Late In the afternoon five more bodies were recovered. lumber trust by voting Wednesday for an out and out free lumber ached* ule. In his letter from Waabiagtog to The State Zach McGee, ia spoak* Ing of Senator Tillman's vote for free lumber aays: - • ; ; “He voted some weeks ago agaiast the McCumber amendmeat to pat lumber on the free list. Following the statement he made several day* thereafter that he did this because the McCumber amendment did not Include all classes of lumber, he on the floor of the eenate Wednesday that he had been awaU- ing an opportunity to vote for free lumber when all grades of lumber should be Included. He voted Wednesday for an out and ont free lumber schedule. "This leaves Messrs. Lever and Ellerbe, the two house members, wfeh voted for the $1 duty oa lumber, alone in the South Carolina delega tion. They will make no statement for publication at this time, bat they say they are willing to face their constituents on the subject at thi proper time. ‘When tht Dingly bill pagaed. Senator Tillman voted for M duty on rough lumber, stating at that time that If there was to be any Mealing he wanted his share. This ysar he baa announced that he haa given ap They were found huddled together “V t9U * A m ik ^ i in the lower left heading, where | they had djed In an evident effort to reach the main shaft. BACK TO LIFE AGAIN. he does not get bla share, body else gets It, and he soys la this case they are the big lumber eyadl* cates whose owners for the moet part live In some other Statee." A press dispatch says the ferat vote on the lumber schedule In tha Medical Record Tells of Some Expert-1 g^nate Wednesday was on an amend- ment by Senator McCumber propoa* Ing the rate of $1 per 1,000 on Forty-five persons who have died I sawed lumber Instead of the 91.10 de recently form the basis of a most elded upon by the finance committee, remarkable report on bringing the Th« committee was sustained, 44 to dead back to life, according to the 32. New York Medical Record. Of the From the beginning of the *eo» theory of manipulating the heart by slon there haa been a decided contest the hand, seventeen patients were re- over the lumber rate, and one of Ruscitated, nine with complete recov-1 the hardest fights made by the North- ery. The remaining eight died after western senator has been for free a short time. j lumber. In the house the reformers Forty of the cases treated are said I succeeded In reducing the Diugley to have been due to the anaesthetic I law rate from $2 to f 1. administered. The report says that Insisting that the differential* on In each Instance Immediately after planed or finished lumber provided death ensued, or not more than five by the finance committee were 4HI*~ minutes afterward, the chest was j necessarily high. Mr. McCumber of- opened and the heart waa given a fered an amendment reducing them direct application of manual massage. 33 1-3 per cent and reducing tba After the chest cavity haa been duty on sawed lumber to fl.Ji P«r opened, the hand Is forced in and i,000 feet. the heart Is grasped, and pushing Mr. Aldrich had read a letter from toward the Interior thoracic walla, a Vermont aawmlll owner showing according to the Medical Record, that the mills charged four tlmee ns “and the ventricles are squeezed muc h to tongue and groove and plane rhythemleally at about normal beats. a board on four aides aa to plane It Sometimes fifteen minutes elapse be-1 on one aide. fore any response la obtained. Dur-1 Jumping quickly to his feet. Sens ing all the time assistants should tor Tillman denied that such dlf- be busy with artificial respiration. [ ere nce of coat could exist saline and adrenalin infusions, “Anybody who haa ever been In a tongue traction, intubulation or L aw m in ( " he declared, “knows tknt” trachaeotomy and elevation of pel-] He vociferously chided the Rhode EXPENSIVE VACATION. "In making the 1908 estimate for vis and legs tho Asbociation of Southern Commis- sioners of Agriculture as early as November 2 4 I used the figures furn ished by each Southern commission or, while mentioning the fact that if conditions after that date remain ed the same as to the picking and ginning aa the average for the pre ceding four seasons we ought to have a crop of at least 13,334,157 bales. Assuming that the conditions gave every estimate on the date named at 1 2,551,086 running bales, exclu sive of linters, or including linters, at practically 13,000,000 bales—to be exact 12,897,212 baled. The actual crop exclusive of linters with everything accounted for was 13.- 086.005 bales, under which our No vember estimate fell 534,919 bales. This difference U almost exactly ac counted for by the underest 1 mates furnished the committee from the four States of Georgia, Texas. Ar- kans-as and Alabama, which we wish-. ed to but did not feel authorJjejJ,. ' ®'* r * * raise. Had we done so we wotjld hav® struck the final crop almost to a bale.” Island senator, who, he Insisted, waa "the whole senate.” for not promptly passing the tariff bill. As Mr. Aldrich protested that h* A Young Banker and Family Spends | wished to vote as for South Carolina senator apologtiod tor African Lion Gets Hunter. Henry C. Williams, a member of the hunting party of T. 8. 8L Luis and George McMillan, was brought to Naivashe. British East Africa, a few days ago, mortally wounded by a Big Sum. A, Teon, a banker at Merida, Yuca tan, Mexico, and his wife and seven children have arrived In New York, after having spent $100,000 on a year's vacation in Europe. Mr. Teon said that he had had a prosperous time In his business and appropriat ed $100,000 for “a good time” for his family and himself, and that when the money waa gone they came back. They will visit Chicago, 8t. Louis and New Orleans, on their way home. STORE HOURS AT FLORENCE. Merchant Agree Upon Scheme for „ Florence o^erchanti have Introduc ed an Innovailon. Under-an agree ment now being-generally signed by them, they will net close their es tablishments at 6 o’clock in the after noon during tl^e summer months, hut Instead ..will keep open as late as ordinarily, and on Wednesdays will close up at 2 p. m. It Is said the clerks like this plan .better, as It gives them the whole' afternoon off taking up any timein debate, added: “When the senator makes a *tate- ment like that I can not alt her* like an asa a« If I agreed with it when, I know it Is not true.’* Mr. McCumber’s amendment was rejected 30 to 49. The vote was then taken on the main proposition, the finance com mittee amendment placing a duty of $1.50 on sawed lumber wltkdlfferoo- tials on finished lumber- The com mittee won, §fe 4* fefec- - By ftm^ndnooU otter**! by !!?• AM* rich ^ 'STasSr 25 cent* fior 1.090 and off aktnihn from SO to 70 cento. The entire schedule relating to doow and manufacturer* of wood waa then agreed tft. a lion. The encounter with the Hon occurred In the Sotlk district, near » ^ey can put to some pleos- where the Roosevelt party will hunt. | Mutiny Lender KSIed. Affording *0 new* wnelved ni Manilla Lieut. Noble, with n eoi of thd Twenty-third Juno IS. etruek part of the mutineers and kHlod aflO, leader of the ensuing fight. Bergt. American force*, wh tineer’a chief, wan a skirmish. *