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r * VOL. XXXIII BAHITWELL. S. C., THURSDAT. SEPTEMBER 23, 1909 SHIP TRAITORS IN CONGRESS Ovkstt* BM fifers is Ckseiy Watchd by tbe Officers BRYAN SCORES SOCALLED DEMO CRATS WHO VOTED MY GIVE UP THE FIGHT With the Republicans in Congress Against the Platform Adopted bjr Their Own Party. A Or~t Dj ;, Wh,^ -a ~~is Being Sent Away From Charles ton, the Tigers Being Afraid to Receive the Goods, as it Would Be Seized. A dispatch ftom CbhrlOBton to The State says three thousand and two hundred and flfty-six quarts of whiskey and 4,680.bottles of import ed beer were loaded Wednesday on a steamship of the Baltimore line and ■hipped back to Baltimore and im mediate points. The contraband had been consigned to blind tigers here, but never reached the consignees as the police patroled the water front day and night and the stuff gradu ally piled up on the wharves. The greater part of the returned whiskey and beer 'was so unrfenia bly contraband that the blind tigers did not even go through the form of attempting to O. K. the bills of lad ing, but simply waited until the vlg- ifance of the police was relaxed. The opportunity never came, and all par- ttes concerned thought that the best plan would be to return the liquor to the point it was shipped from. There is at present on the various steamship wharves many times the amount of contraband shipped out of the City, and as the police show no Indication of relaxing their watch along the water front, the next week or so will undoubtedly see enormous shipments of whiskey and especially beer, as the latter stuff keeps only a limited time, to their various desti nations. Certain enterprising tigers did at tempt to O. K. a limited number of bills of lading for the accumulated contraband but as they were prompt ly refused, the practice was discon tinued. A very limited amount of whis key and beer has without doubt been spirited away In small boats to neighboring sea Islands, as the po lice have to confine themselves sole ly to the land, as they are without means of extending their activity to the water, but as they are on the lookout for smuggling of this nature, the amount spirited away is of small moment. The same steamship that carried back the large consignment brought into the city only 22 gallons of whis key and 10 barrels of beer, a marked decrease in the amount imported^re- cently. A glance at the police blot ter shows thqt between September 6 and 15, local tigers forfeited bail to the amount of $1,160. rather than face the charge of dispensary violation. Texas. Denouncing him who would violate a party pledge ratified by the voters of his party as an embezzler of power, Bryan outlined his views as to the tariff before a large audience Mr. Bryan’s subject was "Democ racy and the Tariff.” He emphasized necessity of Senators and Congress men being bound by platforms, say ing he would later suggest a form for such a plank. "If all of the Democrats in the Senate and House had voted against every proposed increase in the tariff, and for every proposed decrease, we might have made our fight next year upon the party's record without mak ing a specific declaration on items of schedules.” said Mr. Bryan. "But in view of the fact that Dem ocrats in both the Senate and the House differed as to the interpreta tion of the Democratic platform, and as to the rates that should be im posed under the various schedules, I believe that it is necessary for our platform to be specific and emphatic. "If we expect to secure control of Congress, we must convince the pub lic that we will, if entrusted with the power, favor material reductions. Unless our candidates for Congress can agree before the election they are not likely to agree after the election. If each Democratic can didate will state his position, the voters can eelect a representative who will give expression to their views, and I am much more anx ious that the representatives shall reflect the wishes of his constituents than I am that he shall agree with my opinion.” Mr. Bryan concluded his address with an extended argument in favor of free raw material. When asked if he would attend the reception to be given Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of La bor, on his return from abroad, Mr. Bryan said: "That depends upon the date.” When told that It was October 1, he said: "Impossible. That is our twenty- fifth wedding anniversary." GRAFTERS WILL BE CONVICTED. WILL HAVE TO WAIT. No Money to be Hail for the Man agers of State Election. the stories * A oney & n<1 - The Florence Times says those who hold claims against the State for the last election are doomed to dls- ae Mntment. It was thought that s a special election, the managers be paid out of the small a ,lon made by the last>^*« j •* ~ B n » 5- 2 ^ H <» (t ^ 2 s X ‘All throug Evidence Against Them Said to Be Very Strong. The Florence Times says the gen eral opinion in Columbia Is that something is going to happen right hard to the men charged wth graft ing in the State dispensary matters. The evidence given before the grand ury is direct, positive and apparent ly indisputable. It is said that the men on trial are worried. The prose cution feels sure that they will se cure convictions if they have a jury that anything like recognizes their responsibility. The members of t^e grand jury have let out few of Ahe things that were brought out ii^rhe evidence be fore them, and thefc^Ve shocking, so shocking that tkftwJn could not keep selves. The tak- L^ney in big slic m IN WRECK Eifht Tramci UM tad Frfteai Passen gers Are hjnred BY COLLISION OF TRAINS A Freight and Passenger Train Oome Together Near'Nashville and Fire Sweeps the Debris, Consum ing Two of the Bodies of Those Who Had Been Killed. Eight trainmen killed and 16 pas sengers Injured, two fatally per haps, Is the result of a collision be tween a passenger and a freight train Wednesday morning on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad at Pegram Station, 20 miles west of Nashville, Tenn. In the fire that followed at least two of the mangled bodies were completely con sumed. The dead: William Mogan, trav eling engineer, Nashville; Jo« Gow er, engineer on passenger train, Nashville; Jess Tarkington, engineer on freight train, Nashville; Walter Roach, messenger, Nashville; Sam Whited, fireman on freight train, Naahville; 8. B. Welp, brakeman; W. S. Stalcup, mall clerk, Martin, Tenn.; L. C. Bailey, mail clerk. Martin. Seriously Injured: Bob Bailey, fireman, Nashville, two ribs broken and left side injured; Ellis Martin, conductor on freight, Nashville, in jured on head and internally, may die. Slightly injured: Capt. T. Jobe, Burton, N. C.; William Lunsford, Peachtree, N. C ; W. L. Thomason, Peachtree, N. C.; R. W. Boyd, Al mond, N. C.; Mrs. L. M. Lee, Tul- lahoma, Tenn.; Mrs. Temple Luns ford. Murphy, N. C.; Mrs. A C. Thompeon, Murphy, N. C.; May Thomason, Murphy, N. C.; Mrs. Mary Jackson, McClellan; Mrs. John Lively, McFimmville, Tenn.; Mrs John Dunn. Cumberland Furnace. Tenn ; Mr John Dun, Cumberland Furnace, Tenn. The collision occurred about 8 o'clock and was between passenger train No. 4, westbound, and fast freight No. 51, en route to Nash ville. The wreckage at once caught fire. The baggage, mall, express and smoking cars of the passenger train and several of the freight cars were burned. But one bag of mail was saved. Through the almost su perhuman strength exerted by the passengers the three day coaches and the Pullman were pushed from the fire and saved. It Is the general Impression among passengers and the trainmen that the fault was with the passeng er crew, as an order to meet at Peg ram had been Issued, and the wreck occurred west of that station. DANGERS OF WESTERN CORN. f;* O'" - .il/ty Ecres in tWftf Sb ..ashed sway. C4ttle ranches alee suffered heavily, stock being drown •d as the herds fled from the big rsfh and were washed into the '^ >acherous streams. ivery crop In tbe State traverse by tbe storm is thought to Le de stroyed, while thousands of acres are under water. The State govern ment Is assisting the stricken citle* and It Is likely the governor wll send out an appeal to the federas government for aid. NO PRAYERS AT FUNERAL. Kajima City Man LKk*h Not Want Re marks by “Fool Preacher.” Declaring that he did not believe in the Bible, and that he did not want any "fool of a preacher" mak ing remarks over his body. Dr. K H. Osborne, a physician, who die- in Kansas City, Kan., a few days ago, left a letter asking that Wh body be cremated and that the ashes be thrown Into the Missouri river, from the Hannibal bridge at 8t. Louis. — ; Though Osborne lived In Kaofcae City twenty years, it is declared that bis real name was Edward W. Hodgee. epd that he fpnaerjy lived In New York city. He left enough money to care for tbe queer dispo sition of hie body, and hie request wia complled with. BENT HIM TO GALLOWS. " b What of Secret BodeUee. Byl Bynum, colored, convicted of tlM murder Of John Turner, was hanged at Fort Danes. Da.. Wednes day at 11 o’clock. Bynum taade a (nil confession on tfea fallows of the crime, which was a midnight as MMlaatloa. The hanging took pined privately In Clay county |atl at tl In his dFkag statement advised negroee to May oqt aa they hid of the IsArf'Dr. IU Use May be the < HiiNe of Pella. gra in the South. The Augusta Herald very wisely sums up the matter of Western corn and Its results as a food for man and beast The Herald says it ts not in (jlrn that donger lurks, but reason for _ l»ror„, lt TELLS FARMERS TO HOLD A SHORT CROP PUTS THEM IN COMMAND OF SITUATION And They Should Make the Beet Use of It by Putting Cotton in the Warehouses. There is no reasonable probability of a large cotton* crop this year. The ever Ineroaslag. demand *o. r , *** cotton must be met. Spinners must have cotton. The supply being cur tailed, as it undoubtedly will be by this year’s shortage, , the increased spindles of the world creates an In creased demand, which means log ically high prices for the Souths great staple. It is up to the cotton growers of the South to seize this opportunity to reap the golden har vest that Invites them to put in the sickle. There should be no bar gain-counter sales for cotton this fall. - - I urge every farmer tq ware house his cotton, borrow money on his ware house receipts and pay off his Indebtednesa. Money is plenti ful and there is no. need for him to rush hla cotton on the market and glut it during September, October, November and December, as he has so often done In the past. If no ware house is near him It will pay him to ahip cotton to the one the nearest at hand. Our farmers should this fall make a syjjmne ef fort to market their cotton ■gFidual- ly. and only at remunerative prices. Already the spinners are counting on buying their supply of cotton during the first few months of the cotton marketing season, as they did last year, and as they have done for many years. They expect the bulk of the cotton to be thrown on the market in three or four months, the beginning of tbe selling season. This they hope farmers will do, so as to depress the price. Now, brother farmers, let's view the situation from a business stand point. You have been told for a long time that supply and demand was .the only thing that figured In the pricing of the staple. I want to say to you that the demand Is now much greater than the supply. So it is evident that you have the situation in your hands. We cannot make this year, according to the best estimates, more than eleven and a half million bales, and this means a starvation crop. Statements from Cotton and Cot ton Oil News, of Dallas, Texas, are to the effect that the boll weevil has devastated the fields of two States, that Louisiana and Mississippi are suffering from pests and that reports received at the Government bureau of entomology at Dallas from the boll weevil areas" of Mississippi and Louisiana show that an average of 90 per cent of the cotton boll squares are Infested at present with the weevil. In the Baton Rouge neighborhood Dr. Hunter, who is in charge of the Southern field crop Investigation, says that 95 per cent of the squares are Infested, while In the vicinity of Natchez, Miss , 90 per cent is a fair figm This, Dr. Hunter says, is as bad as the worst years of the weevil ravages in Texas In all sections of the Mississippi bottoms, where the weevil is at work. Dr Hunter has e r «4»*»l: and it is fromV mentioned^ ahov^ *o PRISON Awfa! ConditiM ■ the State Peaeterivy at ABefbeay, Pa. VERMIN INFESTS CELLS More Than Three Hundred Prisoners Are Suffering From Tuberculosis and More Than BeventyH^M GaUsjJlAYllif JlfqD. carried there fleers Samuels, Are Now Occupied by I*rlsoners Showing Advanced Statges. Conditions at the western peniten tiary of Pennsylvania at Allegheny have been found so distressing and so intolerable as to require the Im mediate removal of all Federal pris oners whose transfer Is practicable and to demand the most serious con- elckeratiom of khe proper public authorities. This Is disclosed in tbe report of C. H. McGlasson, of the department of prison and prison ers, to the attorney general. At the direction of the attorney general, Wade Ellis, acting head of the Dgpartment of Jutotice, made known the result of the investiga^ tlon which Mr. McGlasson conduct ed following the reports published by (tHe newspapers jkevoral weeks ago, criticising the condition at the penitentiary. "The population on the 1st of this mouth was 1,3(»1,” says Mr. Ellis iu his statement. "Of this number more than half are at all times idle, and more than half are confined two in a cell. The cells are unusually small and the cots take almost the entire length of each, the room for mov ing about being a space eight feet long and eighteen inches wide. There are more than three hundred prisoners suffering from tuberculosis, and seventy-nine cells are now oc cupied by those showing advanced stages of this disease. The prison is filled with vermin of all kinds, although the (official* are making an effort to eradicate them. An un usually large number of the prison ers are of the lowest possible char acter, mentally and morttlly, arwi there is but one general mess pro vided for sll Almost universal com plaint is made about the quality of the food seV\ed, especially the meats." The attorney general does not, of course, assume that these unfortu nate conditions are known either to the Governor of Pennsylvania, or to other authorities having immedi ate control of penal Institutions in that State,’’ continued Mr. Ellis. There are twenty-one Federal pris oners confined at the western peni tentiary >of Pennsylvania. All of these who can be Immediately trans- fetmed. except -those wl*>8e terms will shortly expire, will be removed ■ 8t once to Atlanta or Leavenworth. • RUNNING DUEL IN STREET. LARGE TUBBAC PLANT CAPTUR ED IN SOUTH EDIHTO SWAMP. This is the Eighth Still That Has Been Captured in a Year by the Aiken Officers. "A dispatch says aaotbar of the "big stills” of the South EdUto river swamp is in the Aiken jail yard. by Of- Fngitlve* and Policemen Exchange Bhot*—Two Ha<« Are Pierced. A dispatch from Newport, Ky, says a running duel between fugi tives and a policeman created wild excitement there a few days ago. Detective Jeff Norton called at the hotel to arreet R. W. Leroy and Cato and "YToltey Wednesday night The still was a large one, the capacity being about 120 gallons of mash.” Mr. Samnels received information a few days ago that Kinney Mon day, a white man, was in the busi ness. The information was based, it is said, on Monday carrying molas ses from the Windsor depot. Sub- eequently Constables Samuels, Cato and Holley left Wednesday armed with search warrants for Monday’s house, which waa searched. Nothing but empty Jugs and bot tles were found. These had the fa miliar smell, but the "tussac” was nowhere to be found. A search of the premises not revealing any whis key, It was continued Into the ad jacent swamp. A path from the house was fol lowed into the swamp, and a short distance from the house the still '"ts found, still steaming after a big "stilling bee" had taken plaoe. The big basin and the worm was loaded on the buggy, while six fer menters and a “fleeck’* stand were demolished. It Is said that this still is one of the most famous of the Edlsto swamp, having, It la alleged, been In operation for 20 years. The distilled good* could not be located, but all appurtenances were destroyed. This still was found at a point that has not been raided with in a year, 16 miles from Aiken, near Pine Log bridge. Monday raised quite a fuss shout the officers' searching his hotiM», but made no resistance. This Is the eighth still that has been captured within a year's time by the Aiken county officers. Aiken Is to be congratulated upon having the diligent dispensary officers that she has. as they are a terror to the blind tiger element, and by their good works the violations of the law are kept within a small sphere. 28 LIVES LOST AT SEA. nt« exclu val mated v„.* wfth , pvH . convicts; total ;>_,*.uued In money and labor for road work; total amount expended for equip ment of machinery and stock; aver age total cost per mile for build ing roads; average total coat pef mile for maintenance of roadways when once built. Total estimated amount expended by county for roads in last decade up to 1 909. "General summary (please give a concise general statement of the road work done In your county prior to and also under your direction).' att. ***»[ tie' -Ul ‘M U Jgj OI WdTTDr. Jam., u •Ing a wholesale truth. We *1 f ‘ n 8,1 ^ v,t ’- with many level a couplo of w<>«ks he A . S r v '* VT ' U 8eoatol < y«>: , ' , r'» _ Opnoj I'M gocYrnor of Mouth * s „ ( , R ’ ‘f), Tina jias the power to suai-end'** 10 "’ a ' ho deems i WONT GIVE UP THE “RATS.’ School Girls at Brooklyn Decide to Disobey Obnoxious Order. Two thouaaud girls attending the Kraunus High School at Brooklyn. N: ¥., hav> held a niasH ineetiDg at which they decided to ignore ah edict issued by tbe assietaht prin cipal. prohibiting the wearing of "rats" and puffs in their hair. Tbe order to discontinue the use of such aids to feminine adornment created such consternation that the girls held. g mass meeting a: school hours anil agreed th new rale would not be obe; that ell girl* who #o desln continue the wearing of rats, sod bare the suppCrl of the girl students. Tbe school faculty baa taken a determined stand in 4be matter, and It Is expected that a clash will re sult between tbe pupils and the test* tag staff. ranteed bv De«?on to return to New York an liner for the isthmus. Mr. Cherry reports great prog In the work of conttruction and he says that it is the general impres sion down there that the canal will be completed in about five years. The worli on the locks has been be gun and Is being actively prosecut ed Mr. Cherry is a graduate of Clem- son col leg-?. He graduated In civil engineering a little over three years ago and almost immediately after wards he stood an examination and secured a position with the govern ment. HKY CYCLE IS PREDICTED. Jersey Scientist Hays Any One Soon He Able to Fly Around. Will all Ptmd Pytag to Her Room. A dispatch from Jackson villa. Fla., say*, with bar throat nut. Mrs. Mahal A: Beaucham. of Boston, was fonnd flying In hor room Inrtba Ara- fo% hotel Tuesday morning by her prtVatn phynletaa. Or. Baker, of New York, who oacuptod the room across A dispatch x from New Brunswick X. J\, says at a meeting of the New Jersey fctate Microscopical Society, held at Rutgers College. Prof. Julius Nelson. State biologist, in a lecture on aerial navigation, prophesied that within a few years any one would be able to ascend and decend in the air without tho aid of aeroplanes or liar. loach lues r but by tb d »*-« of at be termed a skyeytile. ' “Why not manufacture wings eomothing on the order of tftoee on birds and have them controlled by the leg musclee of the human tw- Ittg?.’’ asked Prof. Nelson. "Bclen- tlsta have been giving this much thought and I prophesy that withta a short time people will be able to go Into tbe air any time they want to.* Just take the wing* out of your pocket and ascend. When yon cdtne down, told thex up and put them in your pocket'” ,,, < i, i •-r~- ,fi .. . »Junds SALL .he a d»*«frc IJ. vJIXf the buyers j *}oin hands with domes- (4'vV* an< l Eufopean buyers to ,..ake additional deductions at their discretion, the executive committee of the Farmers’ Union of South Carolina urges the necessity of set- tlnx in motion the forces that will legally maintain the rights of the planter, allowing a tare for the act ual weight of baggingmand ties on each bale of cotton, r* We further urge that this matter be taken up by the national union, w hich meets early in September, and such action be taken by that body as is necessary to protect the Inter ests of the planter. We deem the action of the cot ton buyers of Columbia, S. C., as threatening In its character and de trimental In its purpose to the farm er, and we urge wise and determined resentment on the part of our plant ers to any such action. A. J. A. Perritt, President. — B_ r. Htgie Farmers' Union. Lamar, S. C., Aug. 18, 150T. ~~ The following statement was is sued by J. Whltner Reed, secretary- treasurer of the South Carolina State Farmer*’ Union: The attention of the county and loefti union? tl called to tbe above agreement of 6olumbtl cotton buywa regarding bagging and ties in ex cess of 21 pounds, and what Presi dent Perritt says relatives thereto: Evidently some action should be take! by the countg sod local unions respecting the matiih as to ill prob ability cotton buyen throughout tbe State hive entereu into i ilmtlir agreement. If so, and nothing Is done to counteract ttaeif action. It means a loss- to the farmera of the State: The buyers, it will be observ ed . claim that they most protect themselves against the action ot the apinnera, foreign and domestic, who deduct 90 ppends tore, nod y*L It has been stated that cotton Graphic Story of Marine Disaster Reaches Mobile. A graphic story of s marine dis aster, which cost the lives of 29 persons, when the steamer Nicholas Castanls, en route from Havana to Cienfuegos, foundered off the coast of the Isle of Pines on the night of August 23, last, reached Mobile a few days ago. Meagre news of the disaster was given by the Associated Press August 31. The crew numbered twenty-seven officers and sailors. Eighteen human bodies have been recovered. The missing eleven are believed to have become the victims of sharks. All the bodies recovered were in a ter- rtttfq decomposed state and Identifl- on was Impossible A’government commission, after aminatlon. reported that the 1m- diate cause of the wreck waa the Itaneous explosion of the steam- ttery of boilers, combined with t contusion of the steamer Nwiks BOTH DIE DPSTRUGO! M M Mr*. JuliM Tripp upfl Silvers Parisfc to Combat With Pistol They Lived fiT Hed Frequently Qnarrela. Mrs. Julia Tripp and her sister- in-law. Mrs. Jacob Silvers of New York, are both dead as the result of ■ pistol and knife duel between the X two women in Mrs. Tripp's a pert ments at Fifty-sixth street and Pr»l- rie avenue, a fashionable residence district of Chicago. It Js said Mi's. Silvers’ husband left her a boat three montha ago because of her peculiar actions. Mrs. Tripp uttiTBs wile el a superintendent of a manufacturing firm of Chicago. There were ten bullet wonade and cne cut on the body of Mra. Trtppi Mrs. Silvers had a bullet wonad la the chest and several kalfa slash" es. Only one revolver was found la the apartments, but wight empty shells indicating that the revolver was emptied and reloaded dyriaf the aruggle. The furnishings o f tho apartments were in disorder and to every room there wee* evidences of a desperate straggle. Mrs. Tripp was fully dressed hat Mrs. Silver was in her nsder^ethtog. Mrs. Silver had been staying at the Tripp home for about a month, aad the two women are said te have had frequent quarrels priadpilly aeer the division of household datieo. One strange feature of the case Is that no one heard any shots. Tho appeals for help werexheard* hat no one made any attei the apartments until after th* peHe* had been called. Shortly after 3 o’clock la th* afternoon Mra. Tripp appeared (a the hallway In the front of her apart- ment screaming for help. "I am being murdered In her*!” she shouted. At almost the same time a woman In a blood streaked Bight gowa^raa seen at the rear entraoc* 4 of the apartment by the janitor. “Com* quick and aave me,” she cried. ”1 am being killed ” 1 When the apartment waa entered blood was found on the parlor cer tain, and several pictures had heea y broken and chain ovortaraed. Ip/ a bed room off the parlor Tripp was found lying on the fully dressed. Her face aad were covered with blood aad had formed beneath her. dead. Separated from this bed i portion wae another toom. Sllven lay on the and her night «lotb£s ‘worn Blood was In her ft scloua and died later. At Mrs. Silvers’ right side was h revolver and on the Moot wen a number of empty thelit. Search of the rooms failed to dtadow the knife with w hich the cots had placid nr miBo*.' Preacher Accused of •ngebufg county will i,*netlon Is w/v.ncr the p • i Orangeburg county are going to bu, about $4,000 worth of whiskey eac.i day until tbe dispensaries close. Williamsburg county is another instance. The stock on hand in that county is worth over $29,000. Will all of that amount be sold by No vember IS is the question, and should It not, then what will be tbe result? The remainder of the stock will have to be sold at about 60 pet cent of its value. Barnwell also has a large stock on hand to be sold. Found Dying in Her Room. At Jacksonville. Fla,, with her throat cut, Mra. Mabel A. Beaucham, of Boston, was found dying In her room in the Aragon hotel a few days ago by her private physician, who occupied the room across the hall. endeavor to make the farmer pay for it by deducting as taro all In excess of 21 pounds, although the foreign buyer allows 30 pounds. As s matter of fact the home buyer suf fers no loss for excess weight of bag ging over 21 pounds, or be-would not put additional bagging on com pressed cotton, thus doing wbat be would not allow tbe farmer without penalty who claims that be has the linchoupt When the charge* .j, the form-r bonrd Gov. ordered the members to appe* fore him and show cause wh ^g“y should not be removed from office. On the day sot for tho hearing only two of tbe m**mbers. Messrs Lime- house and Dorr, were present. Mr. Rumph having previously resigned. The appointment of the new board was made by the governor on the recommendation of the Dorchester delegation. of a NEAR HTARVATION. !ig«., -u retofui- kj it unflinchingly. sdeaHng Ms nothing of th* crime. Later Ae fared fSOO reward for the of the murderer. The quai+ei between the Royen and th* McMahons Is asM tw haw started over the deeire of senior Mrs. McMahon to give pari of her property to Van Royen. P*^* McMahon was friendly with tit* Ravens. This caused James Mahon to dislike her. Lady at Luuos Roughly Handle* by right to use bagging sod tlos up to Epidemic Strikes School L Forty students of, the Georgia Military academy nber Atlanta rushed to that etty a few days •ga.jtn the tet* inert*— tfrn the ign.w: Sidled g short tito* n Ter tag fromagUlaeinwhlch htl begging at the ^ r i k.cd th* ftfbool Ig epldrigic forgi- tateaded flog ttrafn ghipmuo* tbe buyer uses at the compress with out toss. Tbe farm4B’’s contention Is that he should not bo made to pay a price for coin plying with the stand ard of we^bt for bagging and ties fixed by tbe foretfb spinners. If the buyer wishes to rsbsls cotton tor shipment to foreign ports, that is his sffsir, not thd farmer’s. ^ It Is requested that the county and local Unions Consider this mat- tor and take some ecUoft in regard to asms, •ttkerregular meeting or «» * < tor the W!,.. President of Greut Northern Has NEGRO ATTACKS WHITE WOMAN. Another Trying Experience. Louis W*. Hill, president of the Great Northern railroad, has under gone a second trying experience, be ing compelled to live four days sole ly upon elk meat. While automobll- Ing from Helena. Mont., to Great Falls. Mont., he was mistaken for s Tramp. when bis maehine broke down, and he was compelled to sleep in a bsyiTaek. a farmer refusing him lodging. Hill, who waa visiting the propos ed Glacier National Park with * photographer and others, got imp arted from the party. He met a escort him out. Neither had any food, but found an abandoned camp and secured some bread. The hunter hilled efl elk. and for four days this waa their sole ration. Finally they reached Belton, where HiU was picked up and carried to Libbey. Moat — ♦ e » : • Died to Co«o« Seed. ’>* At $ o'clock Tuesday night et lAnee, 8. C., Mrs. Mitchsli.-of that town, was called to the door of her house, and. upon opening It, was struck in the head with a hsavy stick. 6be grappled with her assailant, who choked hif and baadisd ly before she was sMe to toor. her self loose. She _ assailant, who the saw made off to she Tbe Sheriff of ty arrived o* Train it. se scoured the cdunt late bouTi had not been captured. It to npfispsd that the ther .MI* wsa Williamsburg t painful to the r-sr William FUMa. of Goldesbftq. jg^jggfeeutly smothered to 4 bjt cotton seed to which he failing on him and Uttl* fellow, t old. Avant,