Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- in ’hi: r -i , ’• r ‘ 1 « . * wr^aBsE i^. 'fi*. v •' - " fy*,. V^» — ...4**<^+>**«*' f' .1*- . VOL. XXXII1 DEAD IN MINE — | * Rescvcn U Ctrpso af tW Fwt|-0i« ' •■ / l« at BaltMi «f PH. y IIURSDAT. APRIL 28,1910! HAD DOG VICTIMS FORTY OF THEM ARE NOW ING TREATED BUKK BEAR RAIDI parade of veteraks | desert sdcmg ship BE-1 FIVE CONVICTS SEIZE ENGINE | AND GET AWAY. NEARLY ALL NEGROES “ High Rato of Speed and Was Soon | Loet. i- Wnother Coal Mine Disaster Shocks the Country and Makes Many Wid- At Columbia in the State I’astner la. | They Left- the Prison Yards at a stitute Located There, AYhich la Very Much Crowded. Over forty eaacsof Mtbtei andThPWFire life convicts, heavily armed,] Made a daring escape from the Fed eral prison, near Leavenworth, Kan., pThursday morning. It is possible •l II Effort t* Sire fteasefots ky :.a DODGING jONCE MORE THE OLD REBELS | WILL MARCH TO MUSIC. DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL THE NEXT HOUSE. Grand Marshal Harrtoou Gives In structions ss to Order of March In Mobile Pageant. Opinion in Washington as to Retire ment of Aldrich and Other Repub lican being treated in the new established State Pasteur Institute at Columbia st the University of South Carolina, owe and Orphans^—Men Were Enrj With the .approach of summer it is tombed by an Explosion Which Occurred ou Last Wednesday. A dispaflcF TTOnr Birminghsm, Als., says little hope was expressed Thursday morning that any of tho 35 or 40 members entombed in the NPuiga mine of the Birminghsm Coal and Iron company as the result of an erplosion about nine o’clock Wed nesday night will be rescued alive. When It was learned that it was impossible to gain entrance to the mine through the shaft because the cages were sprung in the passage the entrance wag sealed to prevent. If possible, the spread of fire. /\ Not one of the 41 men inrpjrieon ed in the mine is alive. This^wai the word brought to the surface on Thursday morning to the waiting and f weeping families of the victims, when, unconscious fPom the deadly gasses of the shaft, Superintendent is of the mine and a man named Bonds, an unknown, who risked tils life for those already perished, were drawn to fresu t.r. The condition of the rescuers told the story long before the men had 1 een revived. The watchers knew that If the rescuers, helmeted and protected, had so narrowly escaped death, there was no hope for the workers, who without a second’s warning bad been entombed by an explosion of gas. When Johne and Bonds, after he roic treatment, finally regained con- sclousnesa. they confirmed the grav est anticipations of the people who for hours had waited at the mouth of the abaft, to hear a word of their loved ones. "Dead—all dead,” waa the state ment of the superintendent as his Lfain began to clear from the ef fects of the poisonous gases. Before they had lost consciousness the rescuers had reached the first gallery. Even that near the shaft they saw things that made them know that only a miracle could save the men entombed. The scenes around the entrance to the mine in thf early morning hours hegxared description. In ad dition to the families of the entomb ed men, hundreds from the sur- rrunding mining districts swelled the crowds until It was with great difficulty that the work of resuce could l>e carried on. Under the direction of officials of the Birmingham eoumpany and ex pert from other mines, an attempt was first made to enter shaft No. 1, hut this was soon found impractica ble and it was sought to drive a way through shaft No. 2, which is about 300 feet from the first opening. Af ter penetrating a short distance It was found that this shaft was also wrecked by the force of the exploa- ion In No. 1. Nothing could be heard f^om the entombed men. When the first crew of rescuers reached the bottom of the shaft on Thursday morning the corpses of two miners were found. The res cuers upon returning to the surface expressed the opinion that all of th< imprisoned men were dead. tlfi.appr- feared (he number of cases will in crease and It is likely that the next Legislature will be asked to make some provision for housing jand feed ing sneh patients as finding suitable boarding houses is becoming a ser ious problem." 'Many of the patients are from very poor families. Most of the vic tims now receiving treatment are white children thtnigh there are a number of negroes In the list. The reception room at the institute looks like a small kindergarten when Dr. Coward comes in at 9:30 o'clock and rolled up his sleeves for a hard day’s work. The case illustrating the greatest havoc one worthless stray dog can do is that Illustrated by five victims from Charleston there for treatment. Two others bitten by the same dog were sent elsewhere for treatment, one that of a child of Mr. J. L. Livingston, a brother of Mr. W. F. Livingston, the Charleston and Ci-1- umbia shoe dealer. This child had an eye bitten out. One of the negro victim’s of this dog had to have several stlches tak en In Its face to close up a wound and another negro victim had a leg chewed Into so deeply to render It a cripple for life. The white victim of this dog Is the little four-year-old daughter of E. G. Steele, the Associated Press operator in The News and Courier office. The child is accompanied '»y Its mother. The Steele child is n )t doing so well, and an ertra physi cian was call-cd into consultation. Three white women from Chester were bitten by a pet calf which sud denly went mad. DEMOCRATS VERY JUBILANT. (Her the Election of a Democrat from New York. The Democratic victory In New York made the Democrats in the House Jubilant on Wednesday. Re presentative Francis Burton Harris on, democrat, of New York, believed It “ marked the overthrow of the regime, nation wide in its extent.” Representative Underwood of Ala bama, democrat, declared “it was a distinct repudiation of the Payne- AldrlcJi law.and the administration ” Underwood declared no other con- strnetlon could l>e placed upon the Masaachusetts and New York elec tions. ■Representative Norris, of Nebras ka, one of the republican “insur gents,” said: “it is simply the up rising of the people against machine rule and m* ans that the people will stand for it no longer. It Is a lo cal matter in New' York, hut similar oondit.ions prevail throushput the country and similar results will en sue.” FINDS WATERY GRAVE. A I>ad Drowned While Fishing in the Xense River. thal others escaped and prison offi cials are cheeking up Ihe'IOft pris oners to learn Just how many got away. As soon aa the ^acape oLthe-flYe Cotton Mnaufnctwera Association, Sets Forth Sit list!on In Detail frt>n» the Msnnfsrturers’ Standpoint and Criticizes Attorney General. “I think that It Is most unfortun- The oM Confederate veterans will —Tba racnat grants In natkmal •oon gather in saoual convention aljtlW h*s rouged the whole country to poli- Moblle. The - official parade orders Issued by General P. Harrison an grand marshal, were made publle on Thursday night by his chlfil. ot tUfL Harry E. Jones. This settles''the Is sue ss to the position of the carriage division that waa raised by Gen. John A. Webb, of iMlssisslppl. men became known, the signal whis-r 1 ' ,#P ^e government should ln-4 The parade according to the n#U tie at the prison was sounded as’a warning to farmers In the surround ing country to be on the lookout. T-bia wh.istle can be .heard tor miles and Us use caused consternation. At the same time heavily armed guards were thrown around the prison to prevent any further attempt at es cape. The first report indicated that the five men who got away had forcibly taken posesslon of a switch engine that Jiad been run into the prison yards. They had instantly pulled out at high speed. Once clear of the prison yards, the convicts deserted the engine and made a dash for the woods. The break for liberty was cleverly planned and Its execution most dar ing. Two of the convicts were at work In the carpenter shops, the others in the tailor Shop. A switch engine, had been backed into the prison yard. At the sound of the whistle the men dashed into the en closure and made towards the en gine. Levelling dummy guns at the engineer, they climbed into the cab and compelled him to reverse his en gine. 'The engine with the convicts on hoard rushed through the wept gate into the open counfry and soon was speeding towards the woods.. When a few minutes later the escape be came known, the signal whistle at the prison bellowed a warning to farmers for miles about to be on the lookout. When the engine had gone half a mile, the five men Jumped and made for the woods. Clark and Gideon seperated from the others and were captured. .< * Every available guard started af ter the other three men. A half mile further on the trio was sur rounded in the woods. No shots had been fired at 11 o’clock, when the guards began to close in. It was be lieved the convicts’ only weapons were i®uns made of wood and painted in the carpenter shop. RETAIN THEIR SEATS. I^ver and lyegaiv Declared legally Elected. A decision to allow Representa tives Lever and Legare of South Car olina to retain their seats In th~ house was announced Wednesday by the elections committee. Counsel at tli- hearing sought the endorse ment of the constitutionality of the | South Carolina election laws hearing on the elimination of negro suffrage The committee would not take that view, hut agreed to seat the two members b cause their contestants, R. H. Richardson and George Prior- lean, respectively. l»oth negroes, did net receive a sufficient number of votes. WOMAN CONFESSES. Columbia Case ia Likely Never to Re Tried hi Coart. At Columbia Olindo Scesaa an Ital ian dressmaker, who has been In jail for aeveral weeks without ball charg ed with criminally assaulting the wife of a Columbia watchmaker, was Thursday released on a five hundred dollar ball by Judge Gary on an affidavit of the victim admitting that ahe had been having Illicit relations I with the defendant previous to the alleged assault. It Is likely now that the case will never be brought to trial. The woman’* affidavit creat ed a sensation. News reached Goldsboro Wedm-s-. day of the drowning near Salem church of Mr. Troy Crawford, son of Mr. Daniel Crawford, of the Noel Hill section. Young Crawford, who was barely IS years of age, ami Charles Williams, aged al>out 17. were fishing in t.V river. The boys had just hooked a large fish and in heir excitement overturned the boat, and were thrown into the swift swollen current. Two small colored loys W'"re on the hank and threw a grape vine to Williams, but Craw ford was carried out into the mid dle of the stream, beyond reach and was drowned. The body was recov ered next morning and carried to the home of the distressed parents. POISONED HER IIUSRAND. With Four Different Kinds of l>ead- ly Poisons. The trial of Mrs Pearl Armstrong, indicted in Floyd county, ind., on the eharee of killing her husband, George Armstrong, at their home in New Albany, in December last year, began Tuesday morning. Nearly 150 witn sm's have been summoned, a third of them for the defense. The State will attempt to prove that Mrs. Armstrong poisoned her husband by administering calomel, carbolic acid, rough-on-rats and strychnine in Itroken doses, witli the collection of his life insurance of J1.000 as one of the motives. Feared the Comet. Fear that Ihe approaching comet would destroy the earth, led to the auiclde of Mra. Florence Shankalnd, aged 21, at Loniavllle, Ky., Thurs day night. According to the state ments of neighbors, Mrs. Shankland. who was of a melanchoi ynature, had been specially morose since the ad vent of Halley’s comet, believing the end of the earth might take place at ' ady moment. ~ -* %-, !%■• W - “-T - - .^i- Fiend to Hang. Rodgers Merritt, tbe negro twice convicted of » erimlaa] assault, he la altered to have committed upon a young white woman In the.western psrt of Atlanta last year, was sen tenced again by Judge Rosa of the an peri or court, Tueaday morning, to banged June 3rd. Lost AH of His Money. Standing helpless, while the hoard ings of a lifetime burned, was the experience which Jesse C. Walters, a fanner, suffered at Darbun, Miss., late Thursday. Waters, who la 70 years old, did not betteve In banks and kept all his savings In his hum- Deatli of Gen. French. Gen. G. S. French, who died al Florala, Ala., was the oldest living graduate of West Point in the Con federate service. He was born In Gloucester^ N. J... in. 1 81&. and grad uated from West Point in 1 843, and ble farm house, amounting to sever-j went to Texas. He served under Demands Inquiry. *0ol. W. T. Brock, assistant adju tant general,- said Wednesday that he would aak for a court of inquiry al thousand dollars. When he reach ed his home after dicoverln'g ft in flames, he was too late to rescue anythin?. Gen. Taylor In the Mexican war and was wounded at the Rattle of Buena Vista. Returning to New Jersey ne was presented with a sword by that I State. Poisoned by Wood Alcohol. 'Prof. Whitney, of Harvard Medi cal School, who examined the stom ach* of Daniel E. Sullivan and WU- llsm D. Perrin, two of the 13 per- aont believed to have died from the effects of drinking whiskey supposed to contain woo^dTcohol, reported Thursday having found wood alco hol in Sullivan’s stomach, but there was no evidence of poison in “Per rin’s. Kills Man Oxer Wife. At 'Lancaster, Pa., fOllowlflg 1‘ quarrel Edward J. Dolan shot and probably fatally wounded Harry F. Hinden, a furniture dealer, and then Dolan committed sulci-be. - Doland accused Hinden of having been too friendly with Mrs. Dolan, who died last December. A Fool’s Joke. At Chester, Pa., Atwood Young, a Sixth ward youth, was burned about for a full tavestlgatlou of tho charges the face and eyes by powder from ' Boyd. He a Joker’s “loaded” cigarette, and it «gt«r Into a 1 is feared he will lose the sight of fc*. 'both eyee. ■ Was Badly Hurt. At Donia, France, Louis Breguet, the Feench aviator, who has appear ed In numerous aviation contests, suffered a. fractured skull ^Tuesday from a fall while making a flight. His aeroplaie caps lied -In a strong wind at a height of €0 fbet. ^Breguet la in a very serious opn4ltloa. intervene In the effort to protect ihose who have sold beyond their possession,” characteristically said Mr. Lewis W. Parker, Wednesday at Greenrllb*, when asked concerning i he action of the governrent tn or dering an Investigation of the al leged pool to keep the price of cot ton up. “The Southern mills do not wish lo see a decline In the price Of cot ton," he continued, "and the stand of the government is unfair. Ap parently, It originated In Wull Street on the part of the bears, who have been selling to keep the price of cotton down, and who, by this In vestigation. wlfih to force Messrs. Hayne, Brown and other* to show their hands, to find out their meth ods, and their supply of catton on hand and the like. That part of the press dispatches which alluded to a contract of 26th of February : eferred to an agreement by the Southern mills to take care of the cctton tendered in New York. I learned of the action of Attorney General Wickersham on Wednesday right and sent the followiW! tele gram to Senator E. D. Smith at Washington: “ ‘Have Just learned of action of grand jury In New York under ad vice of Attorney General Wflcker- sham In reference to New York ex change. The effect of this is to, assist the beara out of a dilemma in selling the market. The effort of Southern mills has been to sustain prices and to this end they have agreed to take up cotton tendered in New York. There Is nothing un fair or Illegal in thqlr agreement with Hayne and Brown, and I urge you to protest against the use of the government's power In forcing at this tlnve a disclosure of their plans In the effort to make a bear raid. See Adamson of Georgia, who under stands matters.’ i “The situation Is this: as Is known throughout the season the mills have had a difficult Job to get an adjustment of cotton goods to a parity with the prlcea of cotion. With the scarcity prevailing In cotton dur ing the present season It Is difficult to say what ia a fair price for the com modity; hut from November on 1 ihlnk it has been recognixed that probably 15 cents Co the producer represented that fair price. In Nov ember and again in January, those who were adverse to the prevailing prices of the commodity .made con certed efforts to break the market by celling In large quantity, .hoping and xpectlng to he able to repurchase the cotton at lower prices. Those thus i ailing the market have oversold themselves, and purchases have been made by Messrs. Hayne, BPown and others who are simply asking those •oo have sold to deliver that which they speculatively sold without hav ing cotton to sell. “The Southern mills do not wish to axe i decline* in the price of cotton for two reasons. In the fUat place to a considerable extent they have purchased cotton in the nelief that the high prlcea prevail ing during the fall and winter were more or less Justified by the crop out-turn. In the second place they regard it exceedingly problematical v. hat w ill I** the size of the crop this year, and what should be a leg itimate price for cotton next fall. "On the exchange the prevailing prices for fall cotton are now ap proximately 12 1-2 cents; and so far as we can see these prices should l>r vail in the fall. If through the re'ling movement on the part of the bears the prices for fall deliveries are materially reduced, buyers of goods will fix their estimate of the value of goods on tbe basis of these reduced prices of futures; whereas there Is every reason to believe that an abnormal demand for cotton In (he fall will keep prlcea sustained for the spot cotton at, in all pflubs- TilTlty, " above* 12 1-8 cent*, even though the crop be very large. Un der these circumstances inasmuch as the effect of constant selling of *the market by hears would have a con stant tendency to reduce the price of cotton tbe Fouthern Mills have agreed to take up the cotton In New York hoping to have thereby a strengthening tendency on the cotton market. The bears who have been selling what they did not have are now seized with a panic and are showing the white feather and have clal orders, will form at 10 o'clock In the morning on April 28. The or der of divisions in the parade is aa follows: Order of DIvIsIom. Escort Columns—Includes police platoon, National guard battalion and cadet organisations. Veteran Column—Including gener al officers of the U. C. V., and uni formed escort. Trans-Mississippi Department. Texas division. Indian Territory division. Missouri division. Arkansas dlvlalon. Northwest division. (Pacific division. Department of Tennessee. Tennessee division. Alabama division. Mississippi division. Georgia division. Louisians division. Florida division. Kentucky division. Oklahoma division. Department of Northern Virginia. North Carolina division. West Virginia division. ■Maryland dlvlalon. IVIrglnla division. South Carolina division. IForeat cavalry corps. Carriage Division. Ladles' Memorial association. (Sponsors and maids for general headquarters. Sponsors and maids for dapsrt- ments and divisions In the order of their respective commands. Division of Sons and Daughters. Including Sons of Veterans’ organi zation and their sponsors and maids. ♦ ♦ FAMILY OF SUICIDES. Like His Father and Brother-In-Law Ends His life. The second suicide within a month and the third In the family, within eight months st the home of Mrs. Charles Wells, his sister, st Peters- bunv, Va., wai that of Nat. P. Inge, aged 21 years, who died early Fri day morning. Young Inge swallow ed carbolic acid late Thursday night and died after three hours of agony. On iMt&rch 23. Chari** Wells, a bfoth- er-in-law of Friday's victim, drank with fatal effect carbolic acid, while despondent over unemployment. On October 21st last Albert D. Inge, the father of Nat Inge, suicided by drowning at Danville. Vs. No rea son Is known for his self-destruc-] tlon. a belief that the doom of the re publican party Is settled and the democrats are standing to win the fight for the next congress. Various prominent leaden have spoken of the result In Massachusetts, and the vic tory In the Syracuse New York dis trict, and tbs determination of Al- drloh and other republican^ leaders to retire from public life, and the general sentiment is that there Is a hshdwrltlng on the wall which all of the political prophets can read. The following view from Zach Mc Ghee of the Stale"In Washington summarizes the sentiment as gath ered In that polltl*aL.*ent£r. Al drich and Aldridge Tof a Jolnf sub ject of great Interest' la Washington. 'The rats are leaving the ships,” Is what is beard In Democratic cir cles, sad the republicans are simply looking skk. While the retirement of ^Aldrich st the end of this con gress on the announcement of It for political effect Is being talked of the town la act further affQg by the new* from the 14th New York dis trict, where a democrat Seats the re publican boss, Aldridge, for congress. The revert* Is a* great ss that Mas sachusetts sevsral weeks ago, when ohusetts several weeks ago, when Fort was elected. Havens overcomes a majority of 10,000 and piles up a densoerstte majority of several thous and. Senator Aldrich gave ont a letter he has written the governor of Rhode Island notifying the governor and sonntry that be would not be a can didate for ro-olection to tbe senate. This is taken to moan that tbe sen ate hoes sees that hit days as bow are numbered and that he had bet ter get out. It Is suggested that (f the country again goes republican In the fall election then Mr. Aldrich will come back in which case he would continue the boes. The case of Mr. Hale Is slightly different in that Mr. Hale confronts dsfrst any way. 8om* have been whispering about the* capitol that we may ex pect to hear from LoAfe of Massa chusetts, whose reelection is by no means certain. i W im - H - A— w__—-afcr noprag ne dcvs.wwh Th*t the Tariff Low is tbe CfrU* of tile High Prices sad the Action of the Govermept the Cotton rinses. Senator Smith Wednesday turned loose his dogs of war on the sttor- ner general for proeeeutlng tbe cot ton men, Brown, Hayne, Scales and fibers, says Zacb McGhee, la bis Washington letter to tbs Columbia State. ■ _ -■— The Immediate question ap was whether or not tbe senate should vote' 165,000 dor ftirthir Ipnitlffh tlon of the high price# of Iks aseug- sariee of life. Senator Smith said tnat he had been In fnvor of this investigation at first, but that now the thing had taken inch a peculiar turn that he believed no good aonld 1 be accomplished. This broaght hUt into taunedlate conflict with Aldrleh aii there waa little tilt .'Do I understand,” asked Mr. Al- k® .v-r •rvj mm (X) I AIRED BISHOP ARRESTED. Charged With Amount Kmbexaiing of Money. Small Bishop Wesley J. Gaines, colored, of Atlanta, Ga.. who Is holding the annual New Jersey conference of the A. M. E. Church at Camden, N. J., was arrested Thursday charged with embezzlement. It Is alleged that he diverted to his own use one hundred and fifty dollars that should have been appropriated to a superanuated minister fund. The warrant was ob tained by Rev. J. H. Morgan, form erly secretary of the conference. Gaines was held in one thousand dol lars bail for a hearing before a jus tice of the peace. The bishop says he is allowed $500 for expenses and $150 for legitimate needs. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. Grand Lodge Held Meeting la Col umbia This Week. A great deal of Interest was man ifested la the election of officers to •ervs th* order during the next two years, the election resulting ss fol lows: J. Atwyn Ball, Charleston. »u- preme past grand dictator; James O. Ladd, Summerville, grand dictator; D. A. Spivey, Conway, grand vice dic tator; M. W. Culp, Union, grand as sistant dictator; L. N. Zesly, Col umbia, grand reporter; N. W. Trump, Columbia, grand treasurer; J. J. Vernon, Wellford; L: D. Harrell, Cheraw; Sol Blank, Chsrlestou, grand trustees. C. P. Quattlebaum, of Conway, was elected the repre sentative to tht supreme lodge for a term of four years and R. A. Oil- phant of Union ss alternate. The following standing committees were appointed: Laws and supervision—J. W. Todd, W. L. Glaze. J. W. Moore. Finance—J. D. Kelly, R. A. Oli- phant, P. K. McCully. Credentials—J. J. Vernon, L. D. Harrell, Sol Blank. The offlces-elected were u Installed by Past Supreme Dictator Jdhn C. Sheppard. After the passage of a resolution extending the thanks of t^e grand lodge to Palmetto lodge No. 6, 1. O. O. F., for the use of the hall, the convention adjourned to meet la Union on the third Wednes day In April, 1912. MUST LOVE HER. Joeeph Albertson’s Long Journey for Hi* Bride. After coming 10,000 mile* to claim his bride. Joseph Albertson, who is to be married,st Montrose, Pa., to Beatrice Larabe, will leave on a 15,- 000 mile Journey wRh her. Albert son Is a district superintendent of public schools in the Phllllppln?* and he and Miss Larabe have been en gaged for four years. He went to 'Manila soon after tbe engagement. Some time ago be got a leave of ab sence and travelled the 10,000 miles to Montrose to ured. The honeymoon trip will be over a route 15,000 miles long. CLAIMS MANY VICTIMS. ? | Over Twenty-Two Thousand Hurt by Railroads. >A large Increase in the number of casualties of American railroads is shown by the report for the quar ter ending December 31. 1909, as compared with the corresponding quartsr of the previous ye*r. A bul letin issued Thursday by the inter state commerce comknieeioa shows drich, "that the senator was in favor cf this investigation at first but that now the attorney general Is investi gating the wrong trust?” That seemed to put Mr. ftmttfc in to a hole, for while the contention has been for lower prices, burs was a South Carolina senator coming oat In favor of higher prices. Bat Mr. Smith in turn »nt Mr. AMrleb.intn a bole. Mr. Aldrich aaid that be wanted an Investigation to i er tbs tariff was tbs eiaM of tbs high cost of living. - '’W “Does not tbs senator bellsvo that th* tariff is the csoss of tho high prices?” asked Mr. Smith. t “I believe that th* tariff esusas prosperity.” replied Mr. Aldrich, “But you also have said that pros perity causes high prices, hav* yon not?” said Mr. Smith. (Mr. Aldrich admitted that. “Prosperity causes high prices, had the tariff causss prosperity," laid, Mr. Smith. Unfortunately tbe gravel fell fnfil£51| here, the time being up. Bat l|f. .« ' Aldrich was made to admit as. no Republican h%4 before admHkki the tariff Is tbe cause of high Senator Smith In his apsech do*' dared that the department b had allowed tbe beef tract, the trust, the ones who had cornehsd the wheat of the country patting* ap tbe pries of bread to go on wttboat prosecution, but that now when tho farmers of tbe South by n natural monopoly and by a shortage of the | crop were getting a high price for their cotton, the department of Jos tle* was singling out this staple as a subject for prosecution. “I venture the assertion.” he de clared, “that Brown. Hayne, Seales, Patten, and the others do not bold 5,000 bales of cotton. Bnt cotton speculators tn New York have sold hundreds of thousand* of bales v which they have never had, and now when they try to buy them at a low er price than the figure at which they sold, the farmers of the South, either have not the ootton or will not sell at the figures offered. Thee* men supposed that the South would do as she has always done, put their cotton on the market st whatever price they could get tor It.” 4 Several times In his apesch. Mr. Smith referred to tha sMftloPC in New York and Massachusetts sad reminded the Republicans that tbs verdict was going against them. He said it was on account of Jnct such behavior as that of which torney general was now guilty,' in singling out the South for attack In stead of enforcing the law against the other combines. He admitted, with considerable emphasis, that ho had tried to organlzs the Southern farmers into a combination. “Per* haps you bad better investigate bo,” he declared. t * . .v KILLS AN INTRUDER. An Intoxicated Moo Tries to 1 Another** Rome. - L. C. Manning, a well known Iness nmn of Phllemn, 1 an TUertass tn the number of per-{G*- wa* shoLand killed, at. sons killed of SOl and In the num- 1 her of Injured of 5.645, as compared with the correeponding quarter of 1908. The total number of personal killed was 1,099 and the total nqfp- her injured 23.491. ” ~ Orid Wader ts WeeL — ^Temperature, ranging from 2T to 38 degrees above zero, accompanied by Interntltteat flurries of snow were sought the sntstanc* of the gov-j reported from Mfasouri. Ksasss snd Colder weather Eight Voters Shot. ■ .At Port Da Fraace. MarUnla.tuv. ernment In thin condition of af fairs. “I think that It is most unfortun ate that the government should in tervene in the effort to protect those who have sold beyond their poaaes sjon. It Is also unfortunate that In this matter Mr. Wfckeraham, the Attorney General, under whoa* direc- Nebraska Tuesday, la predicted. brother of tbe President . It has come to a pretty pass in the gov ernment when It ts no crime for 9 set of men to sail what they dealt but becomes a crime for _ others who ars hitoraitsd In tin tlon tha Inquiry is being made, gbovld j uatntalnenos of prloen of thd he th# lav partner ofi Mr. Taft, th* counsel of the cotton exchange, and tnat Mr. TagL the counsel, to the material act together aO as to pa! those who have gold to nr hat they have asld. •> •*,, serious disorders have occurred at several points as th* result of the excitement attending the elections. During the dlsturbance^on Thursday night eight voters were shot. Bus iness bonsss In th* interior hav* been closed. station Wednesday night, by Jottto -- Wilkinson. Manning spent the dffjpr^ at Albany and It Is explained, httt^- been drinkinfi. He took the wroaMT train and went to Walker’s static*, instead of PhUama. He to get into several houses aa tried to force an ftofraaco Into klnson’s home, wl TJflTfftt’Tfhwr Fears are , , Lawlessness of natives, which be gan at Ghaag-gha. Chit a, la ivpnrtfcJ Adviesi auto that riofff — fOng-SUtg. th* ' City, Far. W Yb* Dells, carrying a crow which sailed from last Sunday, arges. It toga i day. morning, tut The | iMSs &■ "C