Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' i 1 r i ill A f ' % ' * * In Disgust Over Sh Proceed to Mc REPORT OF GINNERS Sends Staple Tumbling Over V * % < Fifty Points?Previous Estimate is Far Exceeded. Farmers and merchants of Clay <5>unty, Ga., m/et Wednesday at Fort l Gaines and decided to burn their ' ; share of two million bales of cotton. A start was made without much ado, when a bonfire was made of the cotton on the streets of Port Gaines. It has not yet been determined where the sensational innovation' will stop. They have decided to set the pace and are moving determinedly. A large crowd paraded with wild whoops and .- .yells and much spectacular ceremony. The object of the move is to shoiw that ? the farmers are ready to sacrifice a few bales for the benefit of the masses. The excitement increased as the burning progressed. The census bureau at Washington Issued a report Wednesday giving the quantity of cotton ginned In 737 coun* ties up to Dec. 13, to have been ll,t 986,614 running bales, which is the ; equivalent of 11,848,113 commercial ? bales. The commercial bales reportf ed to the same period of 1903 amount- j' ed to 8,747,669. j( In arriving at the" number of com- j mercial bales, round bales are count- ] ed as half bales. The report to the i same date last- year covered 812 coun- j ties as against 737 this year. The re- ! - port for the present year covers the i . output of 29,567 ginneries, while 29,-[ 527 "were included in the report for i > ' , 1902. - j The product of the different states fpr this year in running bales repoft^ed to December 13 is as follows: . 4 Alabama.. .. .. .M,296,915 Arkansas 769.1S6 Florida . 75.283 'y Georgia... .'. 1,795,797 Indian Territory 433.755 Kentucky .. . ^ 1.252 y r Louisiana 870,518 j Mississippi .. .1 1,403,458 1 Missouri . / 36,444 North Carolina 657.195 Oklahoma 294,041 South Carolina 1,083.756 j y:y -. Tennessee : 271,235! w " Texas 2.982,819 j \ Virginia 14,960 1 HEAVY BREAK IN MARKET. / i At New York the cotton market | broke 30 to 35 points on the census bureau's ginners* report indicating a 0 .. - crop In excess of the government's es- j -X ^ timate. There was very heavy trading I on the decline. The bears contended that the gin-. - ners' report probably forecasted a crop of nearly 13,000,000 bales. Following the report, prices, which j bad shown weakness since the open-! ; . tag, broke sharply with January sell- j ing around 6,66, March .6.81 and May j 6.96, or a net decline of 22 to 25 ? points and a. break of practically $6 ^ a bale in two weeks' time. , The market was very active during J the afternoon, with big short interests j covering, while there was also heavy j liquidation and on every little bulge the bears seemed disposed to with-: draw their ^buying orders and sell ! mote cotton. The low figures reached In the j lump are the lowest that cotton has j * reached in nearly three years. f P' . 1 BAIL OfFERED MRS. CHADW1CK. i I Syndicate Stands Ready to Release < Woman From Jail. A syndicate for which Attorney P. |, D. Quigley of Cleveland, is spokesman, :' is said to be ready and willing to dhirnish bail in the sum of $40,000, to < procure the release of Mrs. Cassie 1 L. Chadwick, held in jail awaiting trial on tne cnarge 01 iorgery. Quigley would not give the names of the prospective bondsmen of Mrs. Chadwick, but says that they are well able to furnish any rasonable sum. i GENERAL STOESSEL INJURED. ' i Gen. Kondravitch Killed and Gen. Smiinoff Wounded at Port Arthur. An Associated Press dispatch from Tokio says: Trustworthy advices from Port Arthur confirm the report that General Kondravitch has been killed, and that General Stossel has been injured by falling from his horse. General Smiinoff is also reported wounded. i 4 i * ? * J , .V, ' cohon ? i imp in Prices Theyj ike Bonfires. EXCITEMENT AT NEW ORLEANS. - - - ? ' 1 -1 . TJTJ*V. A JN6W uneans special aajm. mm the reading of the ginners' report on i the cotton exchange Wednesday cot- j ton slumped 47 to 55 points. Extraor-; dinary excitement attended the break. The market was hammered ; with great energy. After the first excitement the mar-! ket grew quieter, though' the decline; was not arrested. January cotton j went to 6.40, which la a decline of j about 4 cents during the last three I months. ' LOSSES UNNERVED HARRISON. I A I Barneaville, Ga., Cotton Buyer Shoots ; Himself Through the Head. J. B. Harrison, a wen known cotton ; buyer of Barnesviile, Ga.. attempted ; suicide Wednesday afternoon by j shooting himself through the head j with a 32-calibre pistol. Harrbon had been despondent for ; several days, due to heavy Josses in j cotton, having about 1,100 bales to 1 protect, and he lost about $13,000. Besides the losses sustained. Har- ; rison had considerable property and i money left, amounting to $12,000 or $15,000. j FEW GINNERS AT SHREVEPORT. : They Met to Form Branch of National Association. Besides J. A. Taylor, of Dallas, ! president of the National Ginners As j sociation, only five persons attended j the meeting in Shreveport. La.,; Wednesday, of the ginners of Arkan-' sas. Louisiana and East Texas. The meeting was called for the purpose, of organizing a branch of the main organization, and President Taylor stated that the small attendance was due to the fact that notice of the meeting was sent out late. Arkansas was not represented. East Texas was rep-1 resented by a colored gluner from Marshall. H. G. Stringfellow. of Red River parish, was appointed vice : president for Louisiana. WIFE FINDS HUSBAND'S BODY. : r ??? - j Yourg Farmer Foully Murdered Within Sight of His Home. The dead body of J. A. Parks, a! young farmer whose home is near Xeal. Ga., was found in the road, near j his home, by his wife1 Wednesday morning. He left home Tuesday morning j about 9 o'clock, and not returning by i night, his wife became uneasy and be- ' ing still absent Wednesday morning, ; she started out to search for him. i About two hundred yards fromv the ; house she came upon his body,' which ; was cold in death, he having been j murdered some time during the night, j ! BAD BLAZE IN BIRMINGHAM. l / i Fir? in Magic City "Destroys Property j to Amount of $73,000. Fire which broke out at 3 o'clock ; Wednesday morning in the Reliance i restaurant at No. 218 North Twenti-! eth street. Birmingham, Ala., destroy- ! ed six buildings in the heart of the ! business section of the city. The to- j tal loss is about $75,000. Thirty Greeks and Armenians, ! sleeping on the second floor of the Reliance restaurant, had norrow escapes. ! FOR EXPERIMENTAL STATION. ; - i Washington Couny, Mississippi, Citi- I zens Donate Land. Governor. Vardaman, of Mississippi, has received the formal donation from j citizens of Washington county of1 a tract of 200 acres of land to be j used for the agricultural experiment j station \'or the delta section, the; establishment of which was author- j ized in an act passed at the last! session of the legislature. i WHITE MAN SEVERELY FLOGGED, i ! Citizen of Chicago Comes to Grief for Insulting Women in Mississippi. A. D. Lewis, a white man whose; home Is in Chicago, was lashed in ; the woods near Natchez, Miss., I Wednesday and ordered out of the j state. Lewis was being taken to the ! county convict farm to serve a sen- j terce for insulting women on the' streets. As he was being taken to the j farm a crowd of white men took him i from the guard, stripped him and gave' him sixtv lashes then placed him on I a train and ordered him to leare the state. i JAILED FDR K1S3IN3. Young Man "Bussed" Girl at Party i Against Her Will. James Robinson, a young man, was ; sent to jail at Mobile, Ala.. Wednes- j day for thirty days for an assault. ! The offense- for which lie was commit- j t eJ was kissing a young lady at Bayou i L?.Caire, a villge near Mobile, during ; a party, against her will. I % \ ' JAPS CAPTURE MOUNTAIN After Desperate Fighting and Heavy Losses Mikado's Men Finnaily Possess Rihlung Fort. Advices from Japanese headquarters at Port Arthur state that Rihlung Fort was captured at three o'clock Thursday morning with a thousand T.no^aoa noanaltipc japauuo^ V*??UMIV?VW. Seven dynamite mines exploded at ten o'clock Wednesday and made breaches In the front wall, through which a large body of Japanese troops charged under cover of a tremendous bombardment and captured the first line of light guns. A bitter fight resulted in the capture of the fort. The garrison, numbering five hundred, escaped. Rihlung fort, situated on Rihlung mountain, formed part of the inner circle of the chain of forts defending Port Arthur. Rihlung is situated about two miles from the out-, skirts of the town of Port Arthur from t which it bears due northeast. The fort just captured is a mile and a half southeast of Keekwan fort, recently captured by the Japanese. The possession of these two forts should make a most important breach in the fortifications of Port Arthur and cut off communicaion between the Golden Hill. forts and the forts of the western section of. the inner circle of fortifications. From Rihlung mountain, which is nearly opposite - 203-Metre Hill, it would appear that the Japanese fire will be able to reach anything in the harhnr and town which the Japanese heavy guns on 203-Metre Hill are unable to hit, thus making it apparently impossible for the Russian second Pacific squadron to make any use of Port Arthur even should the Japanese content themselves witn holding the strong position they now occupy. MOB AVENGES FARMER'S DEATH. Negro Lynched at Ncab Ga.f for Murder of J. A. Park. Herbert Simmons, a'negro, was lynched at Neal. Ga.. Thursday for the killing of J. A. Park, a white farmer. The negro was taken by a number of white men and hanged to the 'limb of a tree. The crime was an atrocious one. and took place on night of the 27th. At the time Mr. Park was going hoipe, and was accompanied home by negroes who lived on the farm, three in number, two left and the third continued with him, saying that he was going home,, which was beyond Mr. Park's place. Just before reaching the Park h6me Park was knocked down with a hand stick and his skull crushed. His wife was first to find the remains of her husband on the following morning, lying with his head in a pool of blood in the road where te fell. His wife notified his brothers, who at once set out in search of the negro last seen with Park, and they succeeded Thursday morning in capturing the assassin. After a coroner's jury had rendered their verdict that Pari; came to his death at the hands of Herbert Simmons. colored, the prisoner was started to Zebulon jail. Enraged citizens anticipated a legal trial by taking him from the officer and hanging him to a limb of a tree. They also riddled his body with bullets. BUREAU'S WORK NULLIFIED. Census Director Deplores Act of Ginners in Refusing to Make Reports. A Washington special says. Director of the Census North, in a letter to Representative Burleson, of Texas, made public Thursday, takes notice of the situation preseneed by the cotton statistics given out for publication Wednesday, and expresses his surprise and concern at the recent alleged movement in the southern states, "apparently approved and augmented by the cotton growers themselves," to destroy the census reports by concerted refusal of the ginners to make returns. The ginners' report is impossible without the sympathetic and whole-hearted co-operation of the ginners of the south. OGLETHORPE HONORED. New Military Post Is Named for Georgia's First Governor. A Washington dispatch says; Mr. Taft, secretary of war, has ordered that the new post established near Cloud Springs, Ga? adjacent to Chickamauga Park, he named Fort Oglethorne in honor of James E. Ogle thorpe. founder and first governor of Georgia, who settled in Savannah with 130 persons February 1, 1733, and was recognized as governor until 1752. MORE COTTON BURNED. Farmers at Ocilla Repeat the Sensational Fort Gaines Episode. Great excitement was caused in Ocilla. Ga., Saturday afternoon by the burning of cotton by citizens. As the flames leaped up the great crowd of farmers and town people surged around the bonfire, cheering and yelling. One farmer shouted: "If we can't sell it, we can burn it!" which called forth loud cheering. .... r .x ! DENIAL BY GINNERS | ? ! Claim is Made That They Did Not Report to Bureau. CENSUS MAN QUERRIED i Memphis Cotton Exchange Takes Up ? - n it..a: tna uuageit?newunon 01 wir gressman Livingston Receiv< ing Much Attontion. i. . \ j The Memphis, Tenn., cotton exchange has sent the following, tele! gram to Census Director North, at ; Washington:, "Many ginners in this district deny ! having made a report as to the amount j of cotton ginned from November 14 ; to'December 13. i Reliable reports from other districts indicate that the same conditions exj ist. j "In making up your report, what j per cent of cottop ginned was allowed ! those not reporting, and what per i cent of the total did not report? | Please advise." North Makes Statement. A Washington special says: Directtor North, of the census bureau ad? ' * ; mitted having received a telegram from the Memphis cotton exchange, stating that many ginners in that dis- j I rioniori having mfldp rpnorts as ! ! to the amount of cotton ginned from j November 14 to December 13. He has I ' replied as follows: "Where information was refused in j Shelby county,, the November returns j were brought forward for December ; without . estimates. # Comparatively few instances were noted throughout ! the belt where correct information ! was not available." j In discussing the matter. Director j I North said that for some unexplained ! i reason a number of ginners refused I to furnish information regarding the j j amount of cotton ginned during the j period stated, and that following the j I custom of the bureau under such cir; cumstances, the returns for the pre : ceding period were brought forward j without estimates, j Director North explained that as Memphis is in Shelby county, Tennes: see. his reply to the Memphis cotton j exchange referred especially to it. * Consider Livingston Resolution. ! The house committee on agriculture ; has been giving some attention duri ing the holidays to the resolution inj troduced by Representative Livingt ingston, of Georgia requesting that ) all the facts concerning the manner j in which, the department of agricul! ture makes up its cotton estimates be i sent to congress. While nothing definite has been de > cided on, it may be stated that the ; committee will be ready to report j next Wednesday, if Mr. Livingston j exercises his prerogative and aks far, j a report. There is intense interest in the mati ter here, as a result of the slump re: suiting from the estimate given out ?? TWiamhcii 3 UU JUf^WUiiyrvi V. Congressman Burleson,- of .Texas, j | is preparing and will introduce, as i | soon as possible after congress re- i j convenes, a bill amending the act ere-. i ating the census bureau, in such a way ! ! as to cause that bureau to gather and j publish from time to ti'me statistics | showing the amount of cotton con-! sumed by mills at home and abroad, J the amount exported and the amount j held over, By persons other than the j } producers each year. j VETS INVITE ROOSEVELT. | Alabama Confederate Camp Assures j President of Hospitable Welcome. ! Jones M. Withers camp, No. 675, j United Confederate Veterans, at Moj bile, Ala.,- has forwarded President | Roosevelt an invitation to visit Mo! bile, assuring him of a hospitable i southern welcome from all confeder* ! ate veterans and citizens at large. i | BANKERS GET INTO TROUBLE. ! President and Cashier Jailed for False Entry in Books. Cashier O. C. Lillic and President C. M. Traver, of the First national j bank of Conneaut, Ohio, were arrested i Friday afternoon on a warrant charg ! ing them with a violation of the na- j tional banking laws. The specific charge in Lillie's case f is the making of a false entry in the j books of the bank, changing the sum j of $283,605 to read $332,005. Traver ! is charged in the warant with being i an accomplice in the alleged fabn : cation. i NOTED POLITICIAN DEAD. j Inventor of Laundry Machinery and \ Round Bale Appliance Goes Hence. j Captain Hamilton Era Smith, in j vector of the laundry machinery in j general use. and of the first round j i bale cotton binding appliance, and I ! who was a member of the citizens' j | committee of New York that over- j J threw the Tweed ring, is dead in Sa- j ! Una, Kansas, at the age of 85. ( BANKERS PROFFER AID. New York Financiers Join Hands With the South to Boost Cotton Prices. An Important Move. A New York special says: Representatives of local banking interests, railroads in the south, and capitalists concerned in the condition of the cotton market, at a meeting in this city, have formulated a plan to avert dein f Vl A /trkft/>n TVtOFlrnf UIU1aiiAaiiULi IU LUC vv/biuu iuaiav^ prevent further burning of the crop by southern growers, and to Insure a steady price for the staple in the future. As a result of the conference,messages were sent to southern financiers interested in cotton, who were asked for their co-operation. These men included E. F. Webber, president of the Memphis cotton exchange; Colonel Harvie Jordan, of Georgia, president of the Cotton Growers' Association, and W. P. Brown, of New Orleans. The proposed plan suggests that each cotton growing section appoint certain trustees who will act in the interests of the cotton producers, and that the growers deliver, or agree :o deliver, 10 per cent of their holdings to these trustees on the conditions that this cotton shall be withdrawn from the market and shall not be sold for less than a stated price; that these trustees issue certificates to the cotton producers, expressing these conditions and the stipulation that cotton to the amount of, say 1,000,000 bales, be received before the plan becomes effective. This 10 per cent, it is argued, could be marketed at any time at the price agreed upon, and the trustees could distribute the proceeds arising from the sale to the holders of the certlfir cates. Bankers and monied interests, it is also suggested, could organize a fund, to be used in the purchase of cotton to be withdrawn from the market and held under similar conditions. \ . . EDUCATORS CLOSE MEETING. Gathering at Jacksonville Most Successful in, History of Body. The last session of the Southern Edcational Association came to a close at Jacksonville, Fla., Saturday. The ; sessions were attended well up until J the last moment, and were notable for j the large gathering of prominent edu- I ca^ors present. The following officers j were elected for the next year: Charles D. Mclver, LL. D., presi-! dent of the State Normal College^or; Women, at Greensboro, "N. C., was j named for president; John W. Aber-1 crombie, president of the University of Alabama, first vice president; Lawton B. Evans, superintendent of the pub- , lie schools of Augusta, Ga., second vice president; Dr. Charles B. Scherer,. president of Newberry college, Newberry, S. C;,- third vice president; R. J. Tighe, superintendent public schools of Asheville, N. C., secretary; j treasurer, E. H. Burns, ot Atlanta,] Ga. Resolutions passed by tfye body de- ; clare in favor of the Morrill bill for j national aid to agricultural and indub- j trial education. Local taxation for school purposes, for schol libraries and the young must be taught that mob law is savage, degrading and horrid prostitution of fundamental principles of civilization and justice. ? O&rMA* i un mnoncLL i^uiv/i &u. / * He is Charged With Others With At- \ tempting to Swindle Government | United States Senator John H. ; Mitchell, Congressman Binger Hermann and George Sorrenson, formerly a deputy sheriff of Multinomah county were jointly indicted at Portland. Oregon, Saturday by the federal grand jury. The indictment alleges that John H. Mitchell and Binger Hermann did, in January, 1.902, cbnspire together and with others, to defraud the government of the United States out of a portion of its public lands by means of j forged and false affidavits and ficti- j tious papers. ? . WILL TRY PORTO RICAN LABOR, j ? Islanders to Be Employed on Great J Isthmian Canal. A Washington dispatch says: It is j decided to experiment in the Ameri- j can zone on the isthmus of Panama j with laborers to be taken to Panama ; from Porto Rico. Secretary Taft had d conference Saturday with the president concerning the matter. At the collusion of his conference he said that he expected to have about 500 Porto Rican laborers taken' to Panama with the idea of introducing them into the canal work. CINCINNATI HONORS TAPT. ___ I War Secretary is Made Honorary Member of Chamber of Commerce. The Cincinnati chamber of com merce has given Wiiliam H. Taft, secretary of war, the rare honor of an unanimous election by its board of directors as an honorary life member. The only other instance of the ltind was the election some years ago of Senator George H. Penrleton to thf same membership. >? t ' - >- i' . , - v . v.w;*; <" -v : " - r OPEN BALLOT BOXES Is Sweeping Order of the Colorado Supreme Court . 'M MOST CHAOTIC SITUATION Whol? Course of Election Is to (Mr Fully Investigated?Question as | to Who is Governor of th# State ( *"vj Yet to Be Settled. A Denver, Col., dispatch, says!: Stretching its hand so as to cast shadow oyer every man and woman J in any way implicated in election ,^|j frauds of the city and county of Den? y ^ ver on or before or after Novemwar S, the supreme court Friday ordered' ; y a an investigation so sweeping in lta }||fl scope that every phase of the election ; V\.'| may be scrutinized and everytiifil^^gv^ that bears in any way upon the ?isc- ^ tlon may be made known by judicial ' V^t| Alva Adams, democratic candidate y^ |S for governor, who appeared from tfca : r ygj returns to have been elected, but wbo;.||V haa declared that he does not want the office If tainted by fraud, asked the court to open every Denver bjUIot box, but the order of the cspurt goea beyond the mere examination of the ballots, and provides for an inreati* gation of the registration lists, and -v-i y-JfcSSB ail briefs and election matters. , --jiM Attorney Samuel W. Bedfor&f Adams, and Attorney H, % Heracj*.~W& for the republicans, asked, the court *\j ;flj to make its order of such breadth that the court need not stop at anything In the Investigation. The court aaid^irli^B that was What K meant to do> and hastructed the lawyers to agree upon the wording of the order and preaeft. it to the court for approval Tuesdijjv 'J As there are 204 ballot boxes, r'|B evident that several months- will consumed In the examination of thoir contents by the two handwriting ,<nt perts to bo appointed for this ffijM It is expected that the supre^^OsOT court will be asked to make an placing special watchers -at the coiif^f-JIH house to guard the registration^ books until such time as the Invegt&ii^V'-P. A. Williams, chairman of the i&f. I|B pu-hli-can committee, has published > J|8 the following statement over his , -||H "Our investigation into the Conduct of the recent election in Denver, haircr3|B developed the fact ,that ,appr6xtffert^,.^3H 20.000 fraudulent votes were^dast counted for Alva Adams in this cttk; iJaaS There is now no. reasonable "doubt ->^3?fl that Governor Peabody and the republican state ticket was fairly . elected on November 8, by the of a large majority of the legal TOtwi^^H What effect, if any, the'court's tion will have upon the coarse bf ?jl '>||j0 legislature in respect to . canvassing; the vote for governor and determining whether Peabody or Adams is entt* * "; tied to the seat, has not become ap- ; ;|jl parent. Chief Justice Gabbert particularly stated the court's tovefiigmn^B will not interfere with any investigar^ ^IgB tion that may be set on foot byGovernor Peabody expressed hlmJ^^B self as follow3 regarding the .?xnfg ^ "I am more than pleased, that supreme court has decided to every ballot box in Denver, and'my only regret is that every box in th* state is not to be opened. A poink 'Jfc* favor of the opening of the boxes the supreme court is that it takes' the - *JpM matter away from politics. ;',v$g?B '"There is confidence among thd public in what the supreme court does, and when the highest jlbunal to the state is through counting the votes in Denver it will settle beyond que* ^ jB tion who Is elected. I consider the da- - 3 clsion of the court an eminently wise YOUNG WOMAN SHOOTS MVAu i?|3 Kiss at a Danco Precipitates a Fatal ' Tragedy. M Florence Mitchell shot and killed Ella Swisher early Sunday morning ;||fl during a dance at a road house near Logansport, Ind. Both are young wo- t">J men belonging to respectable ftanir Miss Swisher had danced repeatedly with one C. L. Morgan, and as she vi?| left the dance kissed him. | As she did so, Miss Mitchell drew''-SgMj a revolver and fired three times at her, one shot penetrating the heart. J * REPUDIATE PRESENTMENT.; ; - 'Mm Nw Turn Taken in Case Against op Talbot -M Dispatches from Huntington, Psu. state that some of the Huntingdon ytsj signers to the presentment against e Bishop Talbot have repudiated the 1 presentment, and say that it waSvnev- -'-v^aE er their intention to sign a paper of . the character that has appeared in. -vVyf$M the press.