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NEW COTTON GINNED
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SHOWS TOT AX
Vn^pn Iron Worker Arrested in New
York Same as George O’Doanell,
Who Figured in Ryaa'i Trial—His
Confessioa Leads to Arrest of
Some Others.
Dynamite outrages that riralled
the exploits if the McNamara broth
ers and Ortie McM&nigal Thursday
were confes^sd by George E. Datis,
a union iron,worker. Daris, who was
arrested at New York Thursday, was
the George O’Donnell who figured in
the trial at Indianapolis that result
ed in the conriction of Frank M.
Ryan, president of the Interaatioaal
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, and thirty-serea ef
his associates. His arrest aid
its consequenees wousd ap the work
the Federal government started nore
than two years ago, when the dyna
miting of bridges and steel frame
buildings all over the country be
came a national scandal.
All the explosions that Darla says
ho caused were touched on and tes-
11fit (1 to at the dynamiters' trial In
Indiana; i li«, but the faot that Paris |
cau'-o ! tl.t-m remained unrevoaled !
until hln.«elf toll of It Paris'
HIlfFJLL BEADY
AS AITAICEI II USX CIM-
ussniiL mu
Sialislice Frier be Sepi
25, by States With Coaaperieoe of
Last Tear's CewdlMow.
The second cotton ginning report
of the census bureau, Issued at ton
o’clock Thursday, annonnced that S,-
237,851 bales of cotton of the growth
of 1913 had been ginned pt lor to
September 25, counting round ae
half bales. To that date last year
3,005,934 bales, or 22.3 per sent, of
the entire crop, had been ginned; in
1911, to that date, S,I7«,594 bales,
or 33.8 per cent, had been ginned;
in 1908, to that date, 2,590,839
bales, or 19.8 per cent, of the entire
crop had been ginned, and in 1908,
te that date, 2,057,283 bales, or 15.8
per cent, of the crop bad been ginned.
Included in the total ginnlngs were
27,324 round bales, compared with
19,574 ronnd bales ginned to Sep-
balee in 1911, 38,023 round bales In
1919 and 48,979 round bales la 1999.
The number of bales ef sea Island
eettoa included was 19,555 bales,
eosspared with 1,951 bales last year,
11,397 bales In 1111, 13.833 bales la
1 989 and 1 1.457 balea la 1993.
Ginning* prior to September 25, by
states, with computations for last
fear and other big crop years, and
with the percentage of the entire crop
ginned to that dato in previous years,
follow :
Alabama.
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GIVES CKEMT TO SMITH
FOR ORIGINATING
OOTTOIf
FUTURE AMENDMENT.
CRAZED mi# DRUGS
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IAUISM, IBS.
COTTON CROP COMNIUM
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Hoase Approves Everything Except
Cotton Fatwres Tax, But Smith-
Lever Amendment Is Added As a
Compromise After a Warm Fight
and a Cki.se Vote.
The Democratic tariff revision bill,
flrat on the program of reforms map-
ped out when President Wilson came
late office has advanced to its last
congressional stag* and baa been
seat back to the Senate from tke
House.
Tke Democratic tariff revision bill
laft the Houee of Repreeentatlves
Taeeday night oa wbat the party
leaders hoped woald be its laet Joar
aey to the Senate. After many hours
of debate the Rouse adopted the main
conference agreeasent on the bill, 354
te 103, almost a strict party vote, and
by thla actloa gave Ita endorsement
to ererything In the measure except
the cotton futures tax.
Leaders in both Houses of rongrei
were confident Monday night tha' the
Mil. now practically com; lete. would
> a yr >■ ! i.y Pres.dent Wilson be'..re
tie .■ml of th.s week It scare. ;»
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Representative Lever Genero—ly Ae-
knowledges That Features of Meae-
uro Cause From Jam lor Semabor.
,South Carolina Ignred conspicu
ously in the lively struggle in the
House of Representatives Tuesday
night over the Clarke cotton futures
amendment to the tariff bill, for
which the lower chamber substituted
the Smith-Lever proposition. The
Democratic floor leader, Mr. Uuder-
wood, mads a statement declaring
that the first he had ever heard of
the principles embodied in the sub
stitute was when Senator Smtih, of
South Carolina, introduced last year
a bill of which they they were the
feature. Mr. Underwood announced
that he would give all of his time in
the debate over the Smlth-I>ever
amendment to Repreaentatlre A. F.
Lever.
Tke chairman of the committee on
agriculture made a clear and strong
speeek In behalf of the substitute
and took occasion to say that while
tke measure Just Introduced by Mr.
Uaderwood, and directly approved by
Freeldent Wilson, was drawn at Ms
(Mr Lerer’iO suggestion, after eon-
'eresre^ with expert* and consulta
tion with the Secretary 0 f Agricul
ture ari! ft - Postm:i«'*T L'nc'al. a
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Three White Men, Three Colored Men
ud One Colored Woman la Shot
Down by the Drug Crazed Fiends
Before They Are Cornered in a
Houee and Killed.
Two drug-crazed mulatto boys,
brothers, began a reign of murder at
Harrison, Misa., early Sunday morn
ing that ended only after three white
men, three negro men and a negro
woman Mui been .shot to death, sev
eral wounded and the two boys
lynched. The trouble started at about
two o’clock Sunday morning and con
tinued intermittently until ten
o'clock Sunday, when Walter Jones,
the elder of the two boys, who start
ed the firing, was lyncl e 1 just after
the soldiers armed. H;.< brother,
Will, had been shot by citizens earl
ier in the day. Soon afterwards per
sons who had barricaded themselves
In their homos began to emerge cau
tiously from thrlr biding plaice, and
by n .on tho town was quid. No
more trou.de is feared
I
| T: > '< ad Shor.ff i’• It Hammett,
! >f .le'-. r*<>n County, shot an be watt
i'ead.ng a po»fe to whore the ncgr'.c*
- ■ r. i Mix. form, r Conn a me 1 rank
I’P re'lv, d.ot at i.tfc hone after b
in’ < a eto a door. Ciaole I re.-
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DROPS 4.S
MONTH OF AUGUST.
With aa Average
28 Journal of
Show Ooedition to he S7.1.
The condition of cotton, aa compil
ed from nearly 1,900 replies of spe
cial correspondents of the Journal
of Commerce of New York, bearing
an average date of (September 33, ia
67.1 per cent., compared with 71.4
per cent, a month ago, or a decline of
4.3 polnte. This compares with 79.3
per cent, a year ago; 70.8 in 1911,
65.7 in 1910 and 59.6 in 1909. The
ten-year average ia 68.2 per cent.,
while the average decline for the
same period is 5.3 polnte.
Deterioration occurred in all
states, but was most severe In Louis
iana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri
and Oklahoma, all of which lost 10
points and over. Texas nearly held
its own, losing only 0.5 point. De
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York Here In the present# nf
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trlct attorney end the National Frr-c
tors' A«*ocat.on, he dlctetel and
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flee
Itav|* said lie End bo«n an Iron
worker since 1'"cc in tlie early days
he was a number of the entertain
ment committee, whose duty, he sai l,
was to assault non-union workere.
Ho E'ocan his career as a dynamiter
at Trenton. N. .1. The confession de
scribes how Davis blew up, or tried
to blow up. buildings and bridges In
various cities and towns of the Feast
It was during his preparation of
plans to destroy a new building at
Fall River, April 26, 1 90S, that Paris
first came Into communication with
Harry Jones. He says he got Jones
at Indianapolis on the telephone and
asked him for money. Jones , he
adds, sent $50. Davis asserts that
Jones was familiar with the work he
was doing.
Under the name of O’Donnell, Dav
is was arrested for the Fall River
Job and served two years in prison
After he left prison officers of the
union gave him money and he went
to his home in Coffeyville, Kan. The
arrest of the McNamaras followed
soon and on advice of President
Ryan, Davis claims he returned
East. One of his latest exploits was
dynamiting a bridge at Mount Ver
non under the direction of Frank 0.
Webb, a New York member of th*
executive committee of the union,
ow serving six years In prison.
A feature of Davis’ statement wa*
■tory of u gigantic scheme to set
off simultaneously explosions In
Omaha, San Francisco. St. Louis and
New York city, while the McNamaras
were In Jail. This was to create the
impression that the McNamara broth
ers were by no means responsible for
all the dynamiting la tha eeeatry.
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1912 2.71" 5.0
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prior to September 25, by states, fol
lows:
Florida. Georgia. S. C.
1913 4.058 6,419 78
1 91 2 1,690 1,258 108
1 9 1 1 4,381 7,405 21
1909 6.1 33 7,649 50
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Negro Slain by Mob.
A mob of citizens visited the Jail
nt Litchfield, Ky., about One o’clock
Friday morning, overpowered the
Jailer, took Joe Richardson, a negro,
from his cell and hanged him to a
tree in the public square. Richard
son was charged with assaulting an
eleven-year-old girl as she was on her
wav to a school In the country near
Litchfield Tuesday morning.
Rest Him to Death.
Blows dealt Karl Jlolst, of t'axtrm
111., an insane pstlent, seventy-sight
years old, so that he suffered six
broken ribs and later died, were the
means employed to keep Hoist in bed
at th# Kaakakaa, IIL, fttata hospital
lor the Insane according to s con-
•Eic wlmli* subb-ct 1." carried ov-
um'H.i r sc--- on of congress.
mt'on futures tax question
rests ent rely with the Senate
i eo House concurred with the Clarke
amendment put .ntj the tariff bill by
the St uaM. but ad led the Sluith-Lcr-
e; - i'mb rwood p an as another
amendment Uh’-ca the Senate will
accept this change, which h is tlm en
dorsement of the President, the whole
cotton futures plan again will have
to E>e considered in the joint eonfer-
enco committee and again reported to
both houses for action.
The cotton futures tax dominated
the day's fight in the House, although
but little time was actually given to
its consideration The history of the
compromise amendment became a
matter of record before the day end
ed. Representative Underwood said
President Wilson had given it to him.
Representative Lever added that the
basis of the plan was a bill Introduc
ed repeatedly In the Senate by Sena
tor ELlson D. Smith, of South Caro
lina: that he had asked the agricul
tural department to put the matter
Into shape for the tariff bill, and that
Postmaster C.eneral Burleson had
perfected the amendment and given
It to the President.
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1 s«• o-t«? that wtBa oaa trr>m (Pa S»
t-artmaat of az't<«ltara will ha 4a-
ta. h-I to <SaM«»r aa a44raaa la raa-
hact.oa atth tha ath bit of tba Aaalh
> ftf' liaa poultry aaaxtaUoa at Ilka
a r fa.r Mr la*var took thta aaat
' * r up atth tha dapari maa 1. at tha
r* juvat of Mr Thorapai*a prn:J»rt
u,' 1 Da poultry aaa-xlatK-a
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"fixer the Clip tal
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rid fi.« absence nf (tie usual In
in
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te"i’our-e have rendi red it Impotent
ami have transferred the power to
Mr South Japan, with practically
t! 1 e \s l i"!e f 'h 1 nese revolutionary par-
tv under huk and key in Tokio, holds
out her liand to Fngland. knowing
that tho alliance is more important
and necessary than ever ”
FUK>DS IN 1/01 ISIAN A.
Aviator KIHM.
Another French mllitsry aviator
was killed when Lieut Auguste 8ou-
lellland of the Thirteenth rifle reft-
tnrnt fell 150 feet when endeavoring
to gild# to th# ground with bis mone-
pteao U Oajd*. Morocco on
Section Aronnd Ij»ke ('iiarles Intui-
dntiHl and Crops Damaged.
Floods in southwest Liuislana
reached serious proportions Monday.
Lake Charles Monday night was in
darkness as the electric power plant
was closed because of high water;
no street cars are running, many
houses in the lower sections of the
city are flooded and rain still is fall
ing. The Southern Pacific Railroad
has annulled all trains bound for
New Orleans and three branch rail
road lines running into Lake Charles
have suspended operations The Cal
casieu River was reported higher
than ever before. Various estimates
of damage to the rice crop have been
made. Conservative calculations are
that unless the rain ceased within a
day not more than half a crop will
t>e gathered. A large percentage of
the crop Is In the fields because of
previous lack of labor.
Col—Convicted.
Harry Coleman was found guilty
of the murder of his father, Robert
D. Coleman, by a Jury at UnlM
Thnreday. He received a sea tea oe ef
Mte
•.hr ur t hft h#!» 1 fc» M *ti#*r
« D- a’h *«« tnftisntauft- us
» > * %. r. V. ILlsri rT*htx*1 for
n wfiftn h** »«w h # '»!!
r»* h** r iull frr h** r<-«r. 1 • 1 ft bel
li t In our- of hta ban It
T..1- Yft/oo tnd Mi*»’.»i>1 ; p 1 Valley
d 1 pot is ru-ar thi* Ki- nitly h"m** and
ft." ta>' n«-gr< *•* wh W*- 1 In t tint .11 T"C-
ti ti 4 ti .1 n Im 1 nrr v* 1 from
Na* * • * H; ' 1 fft» ’•••fore
and L !’• \pplt- v. conductor,
wax -landing a* *h»> «'atton talking
to \V C rt" n d. the "agman Wltb-
c-i» w arn'tig t' two tn-grues fired on
tl.'-m .".'.d both fell.
T!" boys then directed tEu-ir fire at
Claude Ureemari wlio was waiting
for n 'ruin to tnke him to his home
at Urvctte, Mi-s He was killed.
Th - neg'oes turtod to the train, flr-
it,/ into the cars. I'm-^ngers b-catne
pa r-stricken. A slyeping car fr >m
N / ’"ft standing at the sta- n
ut-• i 1 'he through train from M< m-
p! -■ to New Orleans arrived was a
target for the fire of the negroes.
Many windows were broken but no
one In the car was hurt. The two
slayers made their way to a cotton
seed house nearby. It Is believed
they then realized the wholesale kill
ing could not long continue without
opposition, and determined to make
their last stand at tbe seed house.
Frightened citizens bv this time
had telephoned for Shet iff Hammett
at Fayette. Summoning former Sher
iff Gills to accompany him, Hammett
started for Harrison on horseback,
arriving about five o’clock. A small
crowd of men were firing Into the
seed house, hut no one had ventured
to lead the posse to the place. Tak
ing a few mou with him Sheriff Ham
mett started toward the building.
Seeing thla move, It Is believed, Wal
ter Jones crept to tall grass nearby,
and as Hammett appeared the negro
fired, killing him laatantly
from tbe seed bouse brought down
Olllls.
By tbts time tbe countryside had
been aroused and farmers came pour
ing In from
pracartoua W til Jodm ftlartnO U> r .a
towards a foal abata aaarby. bat bad
("D* only a ?*w strpa • ban a bwi.«<
ended hla life A ropa was p.arei
■ round the body. It ■ as strung up to
» telegraph pole nenr the eeene and
hftcanie a target for avery oa# not
shooting at tba swad bouaa
Soon after ill was killed Wal
ter with deadly aim ptrked Tom
W.ftka a negro, off the coal rhute.
Fit tier the b»ill#*t wound or ttie fall
aould have killed him.
Not long af'er Weeks was killed
ttio epeclal train bearing the Natchea
Guardemi-n arrived and this saemt'd
to Eiave rowed ttie desperado Aa
th«y were detraining thi* crowd rush-
id ih< bi-cd hcy;so Not a shot greet
'd ’hern, and as the leaders went luto
the plare with dra r weapons they
saw Jones complete!) unnerved but
not injured. They quickly placed a
rope around his neck ami rushed him
to the coal chute.
The rope was too small and as the
negro was drawn up the rope broke
and he fell heavily to the ground.
Not a word or act of protest came
front Jones as a larger rope waa
drawn around his neck and again he
was pulled up—and the crowd looked
on as the drug-saturated body writh
ed until life was extinct.
The crowd then went to the home
of the negroes, where they found two
negro men,* and were about to lynch
them, but were dissuaded by officers.
It seems certain that the Jones ne
groes had planned details of their
murderous night, as they were well
armed and had plenty of ammunition.
Their mother said one of them had
remarked that he was going to “shoot
up" the town, but she thought he
was joking. Whether the two negroes
found there and who were arrested
knew of any plans, is not known.
As there was no evidence that
there would be more trouble after
Walter Jones was lynched tho
A shot f Natch eg Guardsmen returned
Generally the negro
aa much Incensed at tho
ers as woro tho whttoo.
indignation at tho
two bodies still wero tn tho
cool Anto mi
thoro all night
not to hold n
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