Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ICE IS FRO) •f Firmrs D clan Vkat CtftM i. fink r. rka. IAMES FIFTEEN CENTS A* the Minimam Price at Which the /• Staple Should be Sold.—Ad vines Holding Cotton l mil That Price is Paid for it—Farmctn Have the Whip in Their Hand. At Montgomery, Ala., on Wednes day, five hundred farmers and as many bankers, congressmen, United States senators and business men, repreeeintlng every cotton growing State In America, declared In conven* tion that the farmers' cotton Is worth 15 cents a pound and resolved that the farmer should hold his cotton for t price. The resolution followed A committee report that the crop in would not exceed . 12,500,- bales. For inair-ing the crop of this year, ion was adopted to {he «f- that the farmer should deposit .feHTcotton in « warehouse and use his receipts as collateral until he could 11 his cotton at not less than 15 nts. Thera was also a resolution rging that the several State legisla- ures should provide for a system f bonded warehouses. Declaring that organization among and 'cooperat|dn among ie bankers and financiers tion of the problem, the resolved /itself into a organization to be known ,ern Cotton congress and to meet In Atlanta at the feet THE COTTON MUST STAND AS ONE. n. A |L _i Barrett, of the Union Tells of n World Wide Bear the farmei them wit was the conyen perm a ^ as the adjour call o com mi .Carolf president, E. J. Watson, sr of ai agriculture of South in hg in Montgomery is to by a similar convention them State, to be called mmlssloner of agriculture ate. By these conventions in of the congress is to be and reinforced by further d securing a better price C tl m T «r< bam! Kr Geon Jorlty li sentatlvea means col ience. It was haps made t the congress ot cotton at 1 man Heflin wan 15 or 14 cents, minimum. Cong his speech, declar the speakers at the oon- ere Senator E. D. Smith, Carolina, who received the the congress for his at- ress toward the gorern- report; Congressman J in. of ^.bama; Con- enry D. qjfyton, of Ala* >Dudley MTHughes, con- the Third district of W. Underwood, ma- if the house of Repre- an of the ways and sat in the aad- Smlth who per- h which decided naming the price ats, for Congress- to make the price 14 cents as the n Clsyton, in is belief that In ten years’ time, tNk world would be using 25,000,000^r 30,000,000 bales of American cothgp. A resolution reported to the con vention from the commltree on leg islation aroused prolonged discussion and heated debate. This resolution /provided for the establishment of State bonded firehouses where cot- ton could be stored aud held and re ceipts Issued which would be honored the same as currency, not only In this country, but abroad. It was a good resolution, all ad mitted, but the majority tH®*ght that such a resolution should have fecelv- ed more consideration. . JT ~ Congressman HemiaM^’Cleyton, of the Third Alabama wiiRrict, stated that the resolution* was too big a thing to settle right away and asked Campaign. (President C. 8. Barrett of the Far mers’ Union in addressing the South ern Cotton Growers' conference at Montgomery, Ala., Wedaesday declar ed that all reports of a bumper cot ton crop are abfolutely baseless. He liaewtse denounced , ** false any statement to the effect that the Far mers’ Union is a combine to hold up civilisation, and before he concluded he charged the existence of a con spiracy to hammer down the price of cotton. After a few Introductory re marks Mr. Barrett said in part: I state unequivocally that reports government or otherwise, foreshad owing a large cotton crop this year, are absolutely unfounded in fact. I can speak stith authority, for the ma chinery employed by the Farmers’ union has ascertained that cotton con ditions in every state are different and the crop will not come up to ex pectations in Volume. 'The man who looking for a bumper yield is de lving himself or has been deceived. If I correctly interpret the pur pose of this meeting It is to stand be tween the farmers of the Southern states and the loss of several million dollars through unwise marketing of cotton. The Farmers’ union has just concluded its annual convention at Shawnee, Okla., and I am confi dent that there the representatives of more than two million farmers form ed plans that will, bring to naught any conspiracy that may exist to se cure for less than its real worth the staple that is still the South’s mhln dependence.’’ He Invited the cooper ation of every maa4a.4Ljpovement to bring for cotton what it ts worth. Mr. Barrett then entered Into an explana tion of the mission of the Farmers' Union. “When anyone tells you that we are la a combine to hold up civiliza tion,” he declared, further along, “use my authority for announcing that person as either a wiflul liar or a man of absolute Ignorance. I have been Informed on excellent authori ty that there exists at present a con spiracy almost worldwide to ‘behr’ the price of the cotton crop. I am not afraid that such a plot will suc ceed, but if it should, tAie Southern farmer, and of course {he Southern buslnes man, would be ~ poorer by many millions of dollars. “Cooperation, rigid, faithful, un swerving cooperation, will banish the last chance of that posiblllty. The Southern farmer has his fate in his own hands. He can get exactly what his crop Is worth. We should forev er abandon the folly of disposing of cur cotton In a one-sided deal—of let ting the buyer name his price and tamely accepting It. We deserve nothing better of fate if we do not stand up for our rights, if we do not realize that the staple is worth a cer tain price to the world and that the world will pay that price if it sees we are determined to get It.’’ Grl StM !• I# Giarfd Op The Fiend Was Immediately ed to Life Imprisonment In the Two Men, One a Merchan ^ and the Other a Physician, Said to t Impli cated la the Grneeome ble Death of Hendersonville. Hendersonville, State Prison. North Carolina summer resort has a first class sensation on All was excitement Sunday wh became known that the dead boi Miss iMyrtle Hawkins, the 17-y daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hi kins, had been found floating in Late Osceola, abont three tniles from Hem* under suspicion all day and in the dersonrille, on the road to Kanuga. The girl had been absent frofet arrest. her home since Thursday morning, week ago and a quiet, though deter* mined search had failed to locate.MC or gain even the slightest efue mysterious disappearance had not be come generally known however, and' John, otherwise known as “Dog skin” Johnson, Wednesday 'night confessed to the abduction and mur der of little Auvnte Lemberger, the ■even-year-old child, whose body was found In Lake Monono last Saturday, near Madison, Wls. He was immediately sentenced by Judge Anthony Donovan to life Im prisonment. A few minutes after Uarda Johnson was taken in an au tomobile by Sheriff Andrew Brown to the State prison at Waupun. It had been feared that Johnson might bn lynched. He was arrested Saturday on sus picion, bnt after being questioned he was released. The officers had him on Purely Circumstantial Evidence Men Were Hanged, Haring Killed One His Wife and the Other His Intended Wife. evening once more placed him un- Althougb the police strongly sus- pected Johnson of knowing some thing about the crime they could not igufftffp^^^ On «*• strength of their suspicion, how- he was taken into Court Tues- when Word reached town that bif day, pleaded not guilty and was plac HUNTING FOR A FIEND. Kidnapped and Held a Young Lady a Prisoner. that it be laid a^le temporarily. On oi&e a vote of the convention it was laid aaide. It was the coftito n > U8 of opln- nsei ion of the convei^tiod that only mat ters relating to thfi^resent crop and aiding the far: time should be Among the ters taken up the report of t , lation. This ed that a de established 1 rection of ment and th mlsrioner o up with his question of At certain figures nre t 1 ‘IState, and th< crop condition! all the States them the same’ ment each ye The governme Icised at the alleged and ginning repo: ion of the com! no longer should ernment for the make them out at £a«Mnl«toQ*r Carolina and South Carolina J^a their tgtas de smwfrtM' at this special np. ant mat- contention was tee sn 4egls- tee recommend t of statistics be State under di- ultural depart ggricnltural com- rn State take legislature the ment. sach year, the Ptoptled by each ^ an average of as, etc., of and publish the -govern- A hunt for a fiend has bden under way for the last forty-eight hours be tween Snow Flake, Manltobla, and the United States boundary following the kidnaping of a pretty young school teacher, Eleanor Gladys Brice, by a man alleged to be Henry BUI Wilson, alias Bdll Miner, of Hanna, North Dakota. All during Wednesday night a posse of 300 armed men pursued the fugitive through the bushes and many ahots were exchanged when <? was surrounded ’.n dense woods. Bloodhounds -picked up the trail five miles from the school house where the man captured the girl Monday afternoon and held her cap tive all night. She returned home in a dazed con (Mtion Tuesday night. The popula tion is in an Infuriated state and the srors of constables directing the pur suit, it Is feared* will be unable to protect the man if be ts captured. severely crit- sessioa for ijeatte&te the opln- the South i, on the gov- jrts, but Fourteen Drowned. Fourteen men were drowned in the sinking of the schooner Whisper, off the Nicaragnan cogst, accordlhg to cables received from Port VlteQ- The schooner, commanded by Capt. Wlngton'Hall of Philadelphia, carri ed a cargo of mahogany, which ranght fire and an explosion of galo- iine sent It to the bottom with all on beard*,. - - - of South of the of the agrieul- it’s seen him. “The whble thing Is a farce.’Vte declared with.much indignation, “and we should no longer rely’on the g ernment for a correct report.” Congreesman Henry D. Clayton of Alabama stated that the did a whole lot of things o( Value dead body bad been found a mad ruau was made for Lake Osceola. The scene st the Inks was one cal culated to touch -the hardest of hearts. Seven little boys throwing rocks in the water were greatly freHghtened when a dark object was seen slowly rising to the surface and when one of their number summon ed up courage enough to investigate, he shrank in astonishment that the object of his gaze was a human body and the face that be peered into was that of Myrtle Hawkins, one of the best knows and most popular girls of the younger set in Hendersonville. The knowledge of his gruesome find was imparted to his comrades and they beat a hasty retreat to the nearest house to give the alarm. A telephone message to town informed the parents of the dead girl and the coroner, and in a short while the ex cited people were swarming at Lake Osceola. All was silent as the body was pulled into the bank and many an eye was damp when the water-soaked clothing was recognized as the same dainty little dress that she had worn a number of times on the streets of the town, and Which she wore when last seen at 11 o’clock Thursday morning. The stlllnes was Intensified as the beautiful head of hair, always dress ed in the latest style, now hanging loose and tangled, came into sight, and only heavy breathing could be heard as the pretty face, now drawn and muscles tight, was turn towards the staring friends and her identity established beyond a doubt. The body was tenderly lifted from its wa tery grave and placed on the soft green turf to await the investigation of the coroner. The young girl was last seen alive Thursday morular, September 7, and on Sunday morning following, her body, badly decomposed, almost be yond recognition, was found in Osce ola lake, two miles from town. The body was identified Sunday afternoon by a brother of the dead girl, and the only means of identification were several gold pins and the clothing. The coroner’a jury In bringing In a verdict decided that the cause of her death was “unknown.” it now appears that the death of the young girl was the result of crim inal malpractice and the body must have been concealed in the woods near the lake until Sunday morning where it was taken by some unknown parties. Last Thursday week Miss Hawkins was seen by several parties in the company of a young man whose name is withheld The unfortunate girl left home Thursday carrying with her a long cloak. When the body was found, badly decomposed, It was wrapped In this long coat. The post-mortem ex amination developed the evidences of a criminal operation but no other marks were found on the body. Death may have resulted from the shock, or from the anasthetic. The perpetrators possibly did not Intend murder, bnt when the worst happened they hid the body of. ike poor girl until a more convenient time when it was placed in the lake 4n the hope that the community would call it suicide. It is an awful double crime and the people of the county are determined to find the man or men who are responsible. It U now firmly established that Miss Myrtle Hawkins was murdered and in all probability more than one person had something to do with the crime. It Is laid at the door of a young merchant of Hendersonville and a prominent physician of the same place, and their arrest is only a matter of time. It ts strange story and from all appearances shockingly sad and peculiarly atrocious. The real story howevar U one of peculiar grief. The girl died as the result of e criminal operation and the e# under a 510,000 bond, the pre- ry examination being set for her 25. The prisoner was taken back to his cell. He was piOialy frightened. Toward evening Turnkey John Foye was called by Johnson and told he wished to make a confession. Chief of Police Shaughneesy was in formed and sent for District Attor ney K. N. Nelson, the county prose cutor; Cheif of police and other offl cials Soon gathered about the Court Hote^t where the prisoner, before Donov^i, confessed to the crimel Johnson said the deed was the re sult of a sudden Impulse. He had watched through the window the lit tle girl and her sister undress at bed time oa numerous occasions and on the fateful night, shortly after the children hud fallen asleep he raised the sash and snatched little Annie from the bed, dragged her through the window and struck he* uncons clous so there would be no outcry. He then took her to the railroad bridge and after beating ber until life was extluot threw the body into Lake Monona. The suburbs of Richmond, so late ly the scene of the sensatioual Beat- tie tragedy, has furnished the setting for two other murders that lor mek>- dramic mystery equalled the now famous Beattie case. They were known respectively as the Jeter Phil lips and the Cluverins cases, after the men who paid the penalty for the deeds, the law fastened upou them. Like the Beattie case, a woman In most intimate relation to the accus ed was the victim and in further analogy the evidence in both was wholly circumstantial. Hers are the brief facta: -- . The Phillips Case. Early in February, 1857. a farmer named Drlnkard discovered bidden under a brush pile on his plantation, about five miles from Richmond, the body of a woman, who evidently had been dead some weeks. There were marks of violence cm her, notably a bulkjt wound in her head. For eoma months the detect!vee failed to iden tify her. On the adjoining farm waa ftunf overseer named Jeter Phlltlpa. % No one knew from whence he had come when he obtained his position tte previous year. At the time of the (IWovery of the body he wee paying court to a young woman in tae netga* borhood and rumcr had it was en- gai.'d :o marry her. In May,' some months later a rel ative of this young woman pleied up a letter, presumably dropped from Phillips’ pocket hrhile on a visit to his sweetheart, wherein the writer, a woman, addressed Phillips as her busbar J and stated that she wi ho: ting tired of separation and would :olh him shurtry. ^ *^ - * - - • '~V Two heads of families, four women and seven tees children, survivors of a party of twenty-eight which left Folk County, Fla., and south Georgia, some time ago to try their fortunes near Ceiba, Honduras, were rescued from fever, pestilence and starvation and carried to New York by a United Fruit steamer. . .• „ _! They were found penalises at Cei ba, where a small collection was tak en op to feed the almost famished colonists. Five of thetg number had died of fever In Honduras. Those landed at New York were Mr. aad Mrs. C. W. Lee and five chil dren. aged 2 to 17, oab acod II, 111 with lover; Odra. Matt Tucker and 2 months to SS seven children, aged years, all of Ttfton, Go.; William R. Brown and five children, aged 2 to • years;; Mrs. Sophia Lindsey, aged It, her daughter, Mrs. Alice Battey, aged 21, and baby aged 2, from Flor ida. — Mrs. Lindsey and Mrs. Bailey, both ill with fever, were seat to tte pltal. Eighteen members of the col ony were down with fever at time, said Brown, and they had prac tically nothing when the chance came to get away. People ought to be careful about going to a strange country. / At uteri Stolypia. was attacked lag a gala performaace at Thursday night He was twice by his entered his hand and lodging in the apian, ported that the premier's wm mortal. ent in the theatre at premier's assailant This Is aot the first attorn against tte Hfo of Premie* When Governor of Sdrator, iUHoo thrown while Soys . He la the He Cm Not n am a disgrace to myself, to my HAD W IN BOX. Negro Wanted the Biff Case Burned. ntrusted to the It wsi dated in January |hd la a distant from a small postoffle county. Inquiry then developed It that Phillips had, the prefioue year, married this woman, leaving her at. her home while he went la search of employment, and that she had left thoro late In January to joia rear Richmond. in lune, 1887, more than tour A large box wee carried to the Sac- remento, Cal., crematory by a negro garbage hauler with the request that It be burned. Tte crematory au thorities became suepleious and upon opening the box found the skeleton of a woman. The box had been garbage hauler by the local manager of the Wells-Fargo Express Company. According to officials of that company the tmx had been conaigigd to a Mrs. J. T. Wilson, of that efty, by A. K. Brown, of Waco, Texan Mrs. Wil son has been dead for sometime. Lo cal officials are awaiting naws of the shipping of the box from Waco to de termine whether the body hhd been lawfully exhumed. A dispatch from Waco, TeuagrUays the body of a 'Mrs. Wilson, whe died here, was sent seven years ago to an other Mrs. Wilson at Sacramento, Cal., and remained In the freight da- pot of the Southern Pacific, MlM Wil son, of Sacramento, having refused to receive it or pay chargee. months after the discovery of the iMHiy, hPHlips was arrested, tried aad though the evidence waa wholly cir cumstantial, he waa convlctad sod hanged at Richmond. Shortly before the execution he confessed to. tte n.urder, his motive being to make •way with his wife that he might n arry^hia later sweetheart. it* YOUNGEST GRAXDM Joncsville Claims That Over Atlanta. to/ which the State could that hf, too, believed the ^ m stated that be knew It thatj that men employed la figured oa the cotton and porta who had never «f cotton or who lives, to ho In n A dispatch from Jonesville, to IWb State says In The News and Courier there was an article of news from At lanta, Ga., of Sepember 10, with the caption “A Grandmother At Thirty, a Mrs. E. W. Bender of that city, and claiming that she is the youngest grandmother on record. Jonesville can beat that record by two years. There was a woman, M*«. Edith Fowler, who lived herein Jonesville, but died a few years ago, who became a mother at fourteen y^ars of age. The child was a girl and grew at fourteen she became the mother to a girl child. So that Mrs. Fowler was a grandmother at 25 years of age. hit body waa bidden away for three days and then curled to the lake placed la the jkftition to "hksh tt whs found. Her tittle was found right at ther^ge of the ter ayffo wai_ stopped at • Thla in an Incident the body waa taken to the lake caught lata of te n warning to fit Maine Keeps Out Boose. On the face of the returns from Monday’s special election the ques tion of the repeal of constitutional prohibition collected and oompiled by the Associated Press, Maine retains prohibition by 865 votog ./The first returns received have been verified and revised in all but sene ce*. V Lieut William holder of the Ne# police squad, was fatally injured at the state fair Wednesday when his horse reared and fell bn him. *The CVnverfus Cnee. The Cluverlua case was one of the most melodramic murder cases to Virginia's criminal annals. About the middle Of February, 1885, seme boys strolling Wong the eogbrnuh ment of an abandoned reservoir in the outer suburbs of Rlchnond, saw what they thought was the drees of a woman, floating in the water. They reported It and the next day there was brought to light the body of a woman in an advanced stage of decomposition. The sudden sea sation died down after an exhaustive inquiry failed to disclose any wo man missing either In Richmond or any other part ot Virginia. About that time a couple of girls came up from Yorktown, about 40 miles distant. Having an |iour wait for their train, they strolled to the morgue- to see the body of unknown woman. The features ere not recognizable, but the cloth ing was in a fair state of ikon. V’That looks like a dress Ltlton Madison need to wear,” 'commented one./“Yes.” replied the other, “but an is over in Bath county teach- However on their return to York town they casually mentioi to an aunt of LtUian Mad anpteMeared them in Bath county, but, recalltog that had not heard tram ter for a [street of couple ^f months, addressed a let* The tor to h|r. It was returned with n note ntoijng that she had left Just after Christmas. - • The aatat later positively Identi fied the clothing as that of ter nteee.' Around tte old reservoir there ran a high picket fence, and abont thin, encircling the lake, there ran n grnv- “ the path at tWe point discerned evidences of nil obliterated by examination dip- key. • > n. log peculiarly key. Butgehrserd that 4 had repairing, and te« te- wRhont kJLl eeptton at eons ver* killed «* number wounded. VERY 8TRANGM GAME. B. Ford when arraigned before a magistrate for sentence on hie plea of guilty of way tlckote to Now York. “Bnt I am not rospontiblo. I am tho rietii some force I can not resist, f a* be n decent man.” Ford graduated ftedHii ty of Tennessee and ufee counsel for the Fort Worth and Denver railroad for It years. He served ee n ant in thO-SpMlSh'-Aniericen war, wounded la sate •T'S&Si menu la the Phillipinee, ~ tog a sunstroke was honorably Charged. Htt descent dated from thla time. On returning to he worked ns a laborer In cleoo, then of Allen LeFort. Mb bred n and white Ucbuyler stole M-teiyL™™ tenced by eeurtmartial to »ve years in Leavenworth prison, hut was de clared Insane and transferred to an asylum. A nephew then took him to Oklahoma, hut he eludbd bis wateh- to New York, ^ be allowed to return to but to no avail. He was and sentenced to one year penitentiary.' ♦ * WOMEN HOLDING OFFICE. All of Them Elected by Men Except the Women Mayor. |A political census of Kansu, Jut completed, shows women are holding elective effloee in the Mate as fot- lows: Forty-five County School Super!n- tendenu. .. < Five County Clerks. Flue County Treasurers. \ • Six District Court Clerks. Tea Registers of Deeds. Two Probate Jpdgee. One Mayor. Total, seventy-four. V . AU of these women fro holding office by virtu of the votes of men alone, except the one woman Mayor, who wes elected by both men and women. More than *,060 men nre to tbe public service In Kansas, elective and othenriee. W< now hlol every county office tn Kan sag oxoept Sheriff, Oojrfiasr. County Attorney and County Commissioner 4*1 At prioed that tew should ate than sell.” This dent E. W. to hold cotton i He says la a local mem have Son9 ti drug store, thay do not play cards isob. Tbe during office hoars, and they do not out hgr ts to ho to sho* Urc the parties Who be >le for her death will made to saffer for their crime. Miss Hawklu waa hter of w we** ’ people, agjd ter closed a There tlnetive al sets took np 1 They took ter In anyone, the for- i conld had ,, jg... L ton ite that aM Uummllmw In Am looked ot tke key _ his glate, then he dag kp a t memorandum book, and for aonm it. At tennth ‘T- M«b! L :*ite tef ~ ~ i 6 be three year*- ago his urns a Clnverim, * end arrested I they found tetters isos, which told a j he hfd won ter betrayed v