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LIQUOR CAUSES FOUR DEATHS. Many Seriously 111 As Result of i Drinking Substitutes. Columbia, Nov. 7.?Four deaths and about twenty cases of serious illness have occurred in Columbia recently from drinking substitutes for; intoxicating liquors, according to the j local police department. Locally, the prohibition law appar-1 ' ently is a dead letter, for there have! I recently been many cases xof drunk-1 eness here, and it is an "open secret" j that it is no hard job to purchase li-i quor from illicit dealers here. Rumor j has it that it can be bought from; "blind tigers" operating in the heart j of the town. However, liquor is a; luxury here, for the market price is' $16 per quart, for an inferior grade.,' The real trouble in Columbia results from the drinking of shoepolish, bitters, extracts and doctored "monkey rum," etc., according to the police. These concoctions evidently have some powerful poison in them, as! their victims become unconscious, | foam at the mouth and sometimes! die. Recently a prominent farmer from j the lower section of Richland county | visited Columbia, where he met one of his friends who invited him to imbibe. He took two drinks of some sort of liquor with his friends, and shortly afterwards became uncon- j scious, frothed at the mouth and!< snapped like he had hydrophobia. Immediate medical aid was all that saved hi3 life. At the meeting of the South Carolina Advancement Association here Wednesday, Governor Cooper, in his speech, took a somewhat discouraged j view t>f illicit distilling. He said j that stills were being operated in every part of the State and that reports were coming to him daily of illicit distillation. He stated that he lacked ttie funds to give prompt attention to all the reports, and had to rely largely on public opinion to stop the making of liquor. The force of constables employed by the governor have been doing heroic work ^during the past several months, assisted by federal agents, in breaking up stills and arresting j offenders. It seems, however, as i soon as one still is confiscated or destroyed, two or three others arise to take its plaoe. Magazines have been delayed be* cause of printers' strike. A supply is expected this week. The Book Store. I | Wit II vil 1 I the | mei I I ting | | cre< I | will j^j^oK ADVANCE IN COTTON. It Is the Germans Who Are Putting Up the Price. Large German purchases of the better grades of American cotton, says tiie New York Times, have been one of the principal reasons for the recent sensational advance in price in southern markets, especially in Texas, where the best grades are to; to be had and where spot cotton yes-! terday (Thursday) -'sold above 40 j cents a pound for the first time since j me civil war. It was estimated by men in the cot- j ton trade yesterday that more than j 500,000 bales of choice grades had been bought by Germans or German; agents since the present cotton sea-; son began on August 1, and on this; total probably more than 250,000 j bales already have been exported. On Monday more than 30,000 bales j were shipped out of Savannah direct j to Hamburg, making the total of di-j rect shipments to German ports since! August 1 something more than 100,- i 000 bales. In addition it is believed! that 150,000 bales have been sent to' Germany by way of neutral countries,! and it is understood that much more: will be exported within a few weeks, j Germany's purchases of American | cotton according to trade authorities j have been considerably larger in the j last two months than those of any1 other foreign country except England, j On direct shipment France has tak-! en only 85,000 bales so far, while ex-| ports to England have amounted to! _ t j. t n r\ i i mi I auuui f iv.uuu uaies. ine Germans, it is said, have been buying only the better grades, and apparently are not haggling over prices, for reports! from the South say the German inter- | ests have been buying more aggres-j sively in the last few days than a month or so ago, when prices were $15 to $20 a bale lower than they are | now. | No large credits have been arrang ed here for the benefit of German j importers, so far as is known, but it is understood that some private credits have been provided and also that many American exporters have set j plans afoot to use their own credit in assisting the movement. Remittanc- | es from Germany have been coming in ! in rather large volume recently, which j is one of the reasons ascribed for the steady decline in the quotation for j reichmarks, which yesterday fell to j a new low record of about 3 1-10 cents to the mark. However, it is understood that the / :h the boll w ooking yoi face and rchants si / down on lit busines be a good i< aveafewac heat next Ji ant Whea ENDS NEGRO'S LIFE. Man Shot to Death For Wounding Officer. Lake View, Nov. 9.?At an early hour Friday night Policeman J. M. Hill was shot by a negro, Jim Miller, a few miles from town and as soon as word of the shooting became generally circulated friends of Mr. Hill organized a party and began scouring the country for the man, who was soon located in a patch of woods and shot to death. An Inquest was held Saturday morning and the jury returned a verdict that the negro came to his death from gunshot wounds at the hands of parties unknown. Miller had been resisting the officers for some time. He was wanted for military service and on learning the officers were after him, had been hiding .in the woods and dodging them every way he could. Mr. Hill learing that he was at a negro's house, near town, in company with the rural policemen and some others had gone out to the place. Mr. Hill was standing at a window while the others were guarding the door, when the negro shot him, jumped from the window and made a dash for the woods. Mr. Hill was immediately brought to town, where he received medical attention and is resting as easy as could be expected. The bullet penetrated his left side, and while his wounds are not thought to be fatal he is seriously hurt. The negro when found had two pistols on his person. More Labor Trouble. Boss?"Can't you find something to do?'' Office Boy?"Gee whiz: Am I expected to do the work and find it, x ft ?? r? x 100.' ?JDOSion jl ratisli i. ? - - - principal expedient used thus far in financing exports of cotton to Germany has been credits secured by Germans, in neutral European countries. Germany, according to reports, has been exporting raw materials and some finished goods to the Scandinavian countries and to Holland, and in return for these has received credits which have been used in the United States. The volume of business done in this way, it is said, has run to many billions of dollars and has allowed German importers to buy goods here, chiefly cotton, withoul suffering unduly on account of theii depreciated exchange. \ ree- I I 1 in i I the I I lut- I I the I | s it I I dea I I :res I. I urtP 8 1 "It is healthier to be cremated," said an English physician. 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