Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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! BOOST IN COTTON Fifteen Cents Per Pound is Now in Sight. FARMERS URGED TO HOLD Conditions Point to Maximum Crop of Only Ten Million Bales and Fifteen Cents is Logical Price, Says President Jordan. I Fifteen-cent cotton is now the slogan of the Southern Cotton Associa tioc. The recent report of the United States department of agriculture Strongly supports the information which the association has gathered ?rOin it3 ' many correspondents throughout the south, and all of this x goes to show that the maximum crop this year will be 10.000,000 bales. . Based on these facts President Harvle Jordoa of the cotton association declares the remainder ot the crop (should not be sold for less than 1-3 cents. This he state* will put the entire crop mto the hands of the spinners at an average price of 12 cents. President Jordan says: 1 "Tha iiiion ration of Hon. Jas. N , Wilson, secretary of agriculture, in an interview published in the Washington Post on Monday that the recent condition report of 68.8, published by his department, "is accurate and trustworthy' and 'which shows that the year's crop will be in the neighborhood of only 10,000,000 bales, should knock out all the high esti} mate people, and put everybody down on the working basis of a short crop. "It is gratifying to know that Se> I? retary Wilsons estimate of the crop Horn reports, made to his department P. corresponds so nearly with that of tho Southern Cotton Association. Add the ^ v linters and city crop to our association's recent estimate of 9,441,000 f V v bales, and we have a crop in the .f- 'neighborhood of 10,000,0)0.' Secre tary Wilson's estimate forecasts the department figures for December 3, as there can be no change for the better during the next fifteen days. "As we now have the most accurate information from the two most , authentic and reliable sources that K this crop will be about 10,000,000 * - bales, inclusive of short and long staple, it is unquestionable that the ba'ance of the crop remaining in the hands of zhe planters snouict not oe *.' marketed for less than 15 cents. This -would average the crop to the spinners at about 12 cents, and that price - is not high, considering the present abnormally high prices and unprece dented demand for cotton goods. "I shall, therefore, issue at once a proclamation to the planters and hold? ers of spot cotton in the south to stand firm for 15 cen?s and follow this up with the most active campaign 5 yet undertaken by the association throughout the entire cotton belt. My recent investigation among the spinners' supplies, jobbers' scarcity A cotton goods and the now confirmed shortage of the crop from all reliable and trustworthy sources lead me to take this action, and I want the ' . . active co-operation of every one in favor of higher prices." 6 - MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATES Proposed to Be Erected in Arlington Cemetery at Washington. Plans for the raising of funds to erect*a monument in Arlington cemetery at Washington to the confederate dead are to be formulated by a joint committee from every confederate organization in the district of Columbia, at a meeting for that purpose to be held shortlv. The cost of the construction and erection will be placed at between $15,000 and $20,000, to which fund it is proposed to ask contributions from all confederate societies of the south. McCALL AGAIN ON RACK. President of New York Life Asked to Rscail Lawyer Hamilton, v John A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance company was called before the Armstrong com mlttee of insurance investigation or Monday and peremptorily ordered b> that committee to demand the returE from Europe to this country of An drew Hamilton, the lawyer who ha? charge of legislative matters for the New York Life. McCall was furthei ordered to demand an accounting from Hamilton. TROUBLE FEARED BY PALMA. Cuban Government Suspects That s Revolution is Brewing. A special dispatch from Havana says: It is believed that the govern ment fears a coup d etat, as the number of police at the palace has reitetitly been trebled and for the last two nights the policemen have been compelled to remain continuously on the palace floor. i j OHIO GOES DEMOCRATIC. i ... 1 Pattison, for Governor, Wins by a Handsome Majority and Takes His Entire Ticket With Him. i . A special from Columbus, Ohio, j says: Jno. M. Pattison, demacrat, will I j be the next governor of Ohio and his l party associates on the state $cket j have also all been elected, accordI in^ to the indications of returns. The state officers and the legislators chosen Tuesday will serve three instead of two years, as heretofore, the constitutional amendment for biennial elections providing that the , terms of officials elected at this time shall expire on January 1, 1909, at which time the state officers and legislators chosen in November, 190S, wilVassume office. The legislature chosen in 1908 will choose a United States senator in succession to Senator Foraker. For some time there was confusion on this point, and it was widely but incorrectly asserted that the legislature just chosen would name Forakers successor. The reports to Chairman Garber from all sections of the state indicated a plurality in favor of Pattison of more than 55,000. and he said he believed that if the gains continued it might reach 60,000. Republican advices indicated that, leaving out the five large counties, the Herrick loss ??? ramainlncr oiclih'.thr^o fVilin I lit I.UV 1 VIUU1U1U5 v>4? /V W ~... ties would average 600 votes to the county, or a difference of nearly 50,- j GOO between the vote cast for Herrick [ and that fer the remainder of the re i publican ticket. The ether republicans being tliu3 about 50.000 ahead of their chief, would win if Pattison were less than 50,000 ahead of Herrick. but as the figures indicated that Pattison had considerably more than the necessary 30,000, while the difference between Herrick and the other republican candidates seemed to be narrowing slightly, it was safe to assume that the entire democratic ticket had been elected; even though the fullest report had not been received as to the vote for those officers. DOOM OF THE RAWLINGS Sounded by Georgia Supreme Court. Case of Negro is Reversed. For the murder of the Carter children near Valdosta, the supreme court of Georgia decided Wednesday T y-l Tl 1 nt Klc | lilac j. vr. na 1*111150 auu tnu ui mo sons, Milton and Jesse, must die on ] the gallows, while another son, Leoni ard, must serve a life sentence in the penitentiary. It is rather an interesting fact that in its decision the supreme court affirmed the judgment of the superior court of Lowndes county under which three of the Rawlings must die, while another mast serve a life sentence, and at the same (time reversed that court in the case of Frank Turner, colored, convicted of being an accessory before the fact in the same case, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here, it appears, is a case showing that full justice is accorded the negro which many of the northern critics of the south declare is denied. Attorney Cooper, counsel for the defendant, declares Jhat he is going to appeal the ease to the supreme court of the United States where he will ask a reversal of the supreme court of Georgia. The federal question upon which he expects to make this appeal, relates to the composition of the grand and traverse juries which deait with the case. Mr. Cooper will base bis appeal upon the exclusion from : the jury boxes of doctors, lawyers, i and other professional men. which j exclusion, he declares, denied to his clients '"due process of law," which is guaranteed under the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the j Touted States. The supreme court of Georgia, in passing on this point, holds that jury commissioners may omit from the sonable excuse from jury service, such j those whose avocations afford a rea j sonable excuse from jury service.sucn | as would be accepted by the court. i | EIGHT RAILROADS ARE SUED. Charged With Violating Law Against Rebates and Discriminations. At Milwaukee Monday United States District Attorney H. K. Butterfield aui assistant counsel, Chas H. Quarles, filed a complaint in the United States circuit court against tight railroad companies and the Pabst Brewing company, charging the various concerns with violating the j Klkins law prohibiting rebates, dis ; criminations and concessions. ? SCORE OF MlNEPS ARRESTED. I j Trouble in Whitwell, Tennessee, Has Reached an Acute Stage. i Troops, under Lieutenant Bass, j marched co the uniou miners' hall, m Whitwell, Term., Saturday, where a meeting was being held, and arrested twenty-one miners charged with com plicity in the assassination of Robertson. the non-union miner, several days ago . Excitement is intense, ao i serious trouble would not be a sur prise. KICK FROM HEARST] I " Claims Fraud in New York; Mayoralty Election. I APPEALS TO THE COURTS Judge Orders That Ballot Boxes Be Taken from Police?Jerome and Ivins Approve Action and i Promise Their Aid. With the granting of an order by Supreme Court Justice William J. Gaynor, in Brooklyn Wednesday ; night, compelling Police Commission- ! ei McAdoo to remove every ballot box j from' ail the precincts in Greater New York to the bureau of elections, William R. Hearst, the defeated Mu- j nicipal Ownership League candidate, ! took his first legal step in a fight to secure a recount of the votes cast on election day. The order was granted after Justice Gaynor had reviewed affidavits submitted by Mr. Hearst's attorneys, and half an hour later Colone. Alexander S. Bacon and F. W. Brown, ronrpsenMne' Mr Hearst, served the order on Commissioner McA'doo, who sent out a general order to every precinct in Greater New York, instructing the captains or other officers in charge to send tne ballot boxes straightway to the bureau of elections in Manhattan. In signing the order, Justice Gavnor said: "The police have nothing whatever to do with .the ballot boxes, and it fs most astonishing that they should have possession of them. They have no right to even touch them. The order is granted." The granting of the order came unexpectedly and caused much surprise, and with the opinion of Justice Gaynor that the police have no right to the ballot boxes, and should not ven touch them, a new aspect is placed on the case. This is the first | time such an order was ever issued, as heretofore the police have always had charge of the ballot boxes after the count had been taken at the polling places. They are removed to the station house immediately after the inspectors and clerks have counted up the ballots. Mr. Ivins, the defeated republican mayoralty candidate, was asked by Mr. Hearst to act as his counsel in the fight he will wage to be declared j mayor. Mr. Ivins refused, but said he would gladly co-operate with the attorneys who will conduct the fight ! as an associate counsel. Mr. Hearst's proposed action met with warm approval in many quartern, even among those who opposed his election, and he received many assurances of support. District Attorney Jerome expressed himself in terms of strong approval of Mr. Hearst's pro ---> J 1, ^.,14 gram ana ueciareu iuai uc wuuiu mr mediately institute a searching investigation of the alleged democratic frauds. After a secret session of the executive committee of Tammany Hall, held Wednesday afternoon, the following statement was issued: "The executive committee of the democratic organization protests against the outrageous published threat of the defeated candidate of the municipal ownership league to overthrow the will of the people, as expressed by the vote cast on election day, and directs the law committee to exert its best efforts and take such steps and institute such proceedings as will safeguard the election of George B. McClellan as mayor of New York. "We also call on the commissioner I of police and the custodian of the j ballot to preserve tht, same intact I fiom all interference by any one from j any unauthorized source." The city of New York, complete, j but unofficial, gives McClellan 3,485 i plurality over Hearst. The total vote ' was: McClellan, 228,562; Hearst, 225,- ! 166; Ivins, 137,049. BUREAU REPORT ON COTTON. i Up to November 1st, 6,438,646 Bales Had Been Ginned. The census bureau at Washington issued a bulletin Wednesday showing that up to November 1, 6,438,645 bales of cotton had been ginned in this country. Round bales are counted as half bales. Owing to the fact that no report was made on November 3. 1904, comparative statistics are not available. The last previous report for the present year, showing results to October IS last, give 490.72S bales. \ TWO SENTENCED TO HANG. ! ? Adams and Sawyer Sentenced to Die ! Die for Mutiny and Murder. Judge Purnell, in the United States court at Wilmington, X. C.. Friday, sentenced Arthur Adams and Henry Sawyer, convicted of mutiny and murder on the schooner Harry A. Berwynd, early in October, to be hanged January 26. Counsel for the prisoners are given thirty days to perfect an appeal. LrtVVJtHS MOT NEEDED. * # Pica o; Gunty Brings Trial of iMegro KuVi3fiv.r 10 (Juicx. Termination in /-vci^i'i.d s/>iiinridi uouri, i:i th? iu!ion couiny superior court, a; .iu.i.iui aiouiluy morning, jiiu \\ai.-\er, alius \vm Jbriee, me negio WiiO ussauilea Airs. Alice AiOOl'e, at L?l'oOkv\ OOU, Oil liiUlauuy, UCiOber Z-J, voluntarily pieauei gu.ity 10 tn<; ctiuige, anu juuge itoan sentence-i liim lo be liuiisea on tue morning 01 UfOeiUDOi" o, WXt. The plea ol guilty came as a suryitov i-v^ <a*i o.v\.\jijl tuc counsel representing ine negro. Each or the counsel lor the defendant made a statement, in whica the story was told of the negro s confession and his determination to plead guilty. To this was added the further statement that counsel did not think it their duty to go into a trial and make the gocd woman, who was the victim of the negro's crime, humiliate herself by telling the story in court. The scene was one of the most dramatic ever witnessed in the criminal courts of Atlanta. Through it all the woman who had been the victim of the crime sat on the opposite side of a table from her assailant and near her side sat the white-haired man and husband whose home had been desecrated an.l who had been law abiding enough to help save the criminal from the hands of a mob. Judge William R. Hammond, Judge Howard Van Epps, and Judge George Hillyer, who represented the negro upon appointment by the court, told how the negro had confessed and insisted upon pleading guilty. They spoke of now t?ey agreed to pay all the expenses of getting evidence and bringing witnesses to the state for the accused; they told how they had done their full duty by their client, and how. at last, they had decided that a trial was not necessary. Then they pleaded for as much time as possible to allow the negro to prepare his soul to meet its God when he made his last plea at the higher tribunal of the final judgment. Last of all came a plea from Judge Hillyer asking that there be no private vengeance, and that when the law was executed the law alone be permitted to take such vengeance as the crime merited. In this he had reference to a promise made by Sheriff Nelms that the husband of the negro's victim should spring the trap at the execution. TnHoro Rnan snnlro to the nefiTO af ter the plea of guilty, and asked him if he had anything further to say. The prisoner merely shook hia head and replied: "Nothing." Judge Roan spoke of the terrible crime, and stated that the attorneys for the defense had done all within their power to save the defendant if he had been innocent. Later, when he pronounced the sentence of death, Judge Roan paid a tritfute to Sheriff Nelms and his officers, who had saved Walker from the hands of the mob. DUNNE MAKES ANOTHER MOVE. Chicago Mayor Has Three Plans to Secure Municipal Ownership. Another ordinance providing for steps to secure municipal ownership of the street railways in Chicago was submitted to the city council Monday night by Mayor Dunne. The ordinance was accompanied by a message to the aldermen, which gave three ways in which Mayor Dunne asserts he will be able to bring about municipal ownership. The first plan is by reaching an agreement with the traction companies by which their property would be transferred to the city, at a price to be decided upon by arbiters. The second is by condemnation of the r?ronertv of the street railway com pnnies under the provisions of the Mueller act. The third method is the one which the ifaayor has already presented as an alternative to his contract plan. It is for the construction of municipal street railway lines, which will parallel the lines of the existing companies. POLES TO STRIKE FOR FREEDOM. I Move for Autonomy Causes Financial Panic in St Petersburg The formal proclamation of martiai iaw throughout Russian Poland and the promulgation of the governments intention to suppress the Polish movement to secure autonomy almost created a panic on the course in St. Petersburg Monday, imperial fours again lalling to ?t;. Private and reliable reports from \\'arsaw say that all the parties there are joining in the nationalist movement, following the tactics of Finland for a comp-ete strike. GEORGIANS TO THE FRONT. Not of Empire State of South, But in Trans^Caucasus. The St. Petersburg correspondent ot the London Dail? Mail says that 24, 000 Georgians, armed with modern rifles, hold Georgia (in trans Caucasia? (iepsite the three important Russian forces converging thereupon and that except for runners. Georgia has been ; completely isolated for many days. ! ! IN THE Pt: ! THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROU VANDE GARDEN LOVE MAZE. Od? on Miss Warren's Estate at Walthain, Mass.. Often Thrown Open to the Public. Waltham, Mass., has acquired a new claim to fame. For this it is indebted to Miss Cornelia Warren, who has"constructed oii her estate, Cedar Hill, a love maze modelled after the famous maze ati Hampton Court, said to have been designed by Henry II. as a bower for Fair Rosamond. The maze is a common feature of PLAN* OF LOVE MAZE. English estates, but is little known in this country, and Miss AVarren's is an object of great interest to people of AA'altham and its vicinity. Miss AA'arren permits the public to have access to the maze at reasonable hours, and hundreds visit it every week. No records of the number of visitors have been kept, except on Sundays, when G329 people have been recorded. The maze is composed of hedges of arbor vitae about five feet ten inches in height, and set so close together that only one person at a time can pass between them. The effect is extremely bewildering, and any one who ventures into the Iabyrinthian paths soon feels as if he were lost in a great forest. In fact, many people have been lost in the maze, and after wandering for hours in a vain attempt either to reach the centre or to return to the entrance, have been obliged to call for aid to release them from their predicament. Those who have been fortunate enough to unravel the mystery and reach the centre find there two artificial ponds, one above the other. On the bank of the lower pond a Japanese stork bids the successful adventurer welcome. The stork is the firstt prize, and few have set eyes upon him. The majority LOVE MAZE OF MISS WARREN'S I have to content themselves with the consolation prize, a seat in the little I nook just outside the centre, where , Miss Warren has prepared a consolation bench, on which the weary may rest and ponder over their failure to solve the puzzle. Near the entrance of the maze is a tower surmounted by a summer house. Seated in this one can overlook the entire maze and get abundant amusement from the bewilderment of the . people in the maze. Miss Warren often entertains her friends by taking them to this eyrie on the days when the place is open to the public. The maze is twenty-two feet in Iteal Mad. Mr. Spriggins is somewhat remark: able for his grandiloquence of language, which renders him socially an object to he sought by those who are moL-rt morrv nt the ecceil lUUiiiivu i" ? tricities of genius. "Spriggins," said one of these, "you are a foo!!' "Sir," said Spriggins. with great dignity. "I seldom pretend to extend gratuitous advice to gentlemen, but permit me to observe, sir, that a reitera* rBLie EYE. I UH. FORMERLY MISS COXSUELO RBILT. width, and the shortest way from the entrance to the centre is 049 feet, or 'JgM eighteen-hundredths of a mile. But even if tbey are fortunate, most peo- ' pie travel ten times that distance be-. v j&ffi fore reaching the goal of their endeavors.?New York Times. '/ligjH QUEER FRUIT, THIS. ;J9| The Northern tourist in rural Georgh is likely to be treated to uncommoi .'JjM sights and experiences, and one of the sjfl oddest is the strange trees, of which the accompanying illustration shows a very fair sample. Seen from the roadside the tree apparently grows > with luxuriant foliage for about ten oj? 1 feet, and above that its slender trunk :<|| and leafless limbs rise for twenty or A GEOBGIA GOUBD TBEE. V; thirty feet. What seems to be a rich* ~^I8. and ripening crop of gigantic golden ? apples pendant from the branches. ? i But closer scrutiny reveals the fact > that the curious tree with its tempting growth is a fake. The superstructure of the leafy tree is a "dead one," and . the pseudo fruit, which is nothing more or less than dried gourds, is tied > ESTATE AT WALTHAM, MASS. i on its branches. The Georgia farmer has learned that the best chance hia ">^|B 1 chickens have of growing into lives ?> ja of usefulness is to keep hawks away from them: and tliere is nothing that 1 will keep as close watch on hawks as bee martins. Furthermore, bee mar- | tins are nowhere so thoroughly at home as when nesting in a nice, roomy gourd 1 in a treetop.?Philadelphia Record. ; The use of cocaine has become quite / ^|1 | common among the negroes in South- * I ern towns and cities. They derive exhiliration and stimulation by sniffing it, but in a year or two they are phys- ^ ical and mental wrecks. I tion of the sentiment you have just ut- ^ ' I tered miirht not Drove conducive to a ' -IfM ] convalescent state of your personal individuality." Spriggins was evidently roused.? Chicago Journal Experts calculate that Irish bogs are capable of turning out 50,000,000 tons of fuel a year for a thousand years. Stockholm has the largest death rate from the use of alcohol of any city in the world.