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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. *