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| ^ ryx, t The Batesburg Advocate. VOL. III. BATESBURG, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1908. NO. 35. 1 GIVES AUTHORITY. Chief Justice Pope Tells Why He Made Erroneous Declaration. TELEGRAM PROM BUCHANAN TVIIIiik HIiii Koiiietliiiitc Had lloen Hone Which Had Not Itcon Done Cauiieil the Whole 'l'roubl e. To the Editor of The State: Please publish the enclosed letter received by me troui Chief Justice Pope. A. S. Douglass. Winnsboro, Sept. 24, 1903. Ncwl?erry, S. C., 23d, Sept., 1903. A. S. Douglass, Esq., Senior Member of the Winnsboro liar, Winnsboro, S. C. My Dear Sir: To allay all misconstruction of the acts of two members of the Winnsboro bur, I enclose you copies of the telegrams of J mine Ducliauun and of the letter of Joseph K. McDonald, Esq., to wit: Copy of telegram of Judge Muchanan, dated Winnsboro, Sept. 14: "lion. Y.J. Dope, Spartan bury, S. C., care T K Trimmier, Clerk of Court. "J. E. McDonald, Esq., wrote you to Newberry Saturday, saying unanimous desire of Winnsboro bar special term be held third Monday Oct. lingular be called olf. (). W. Buchanan." This telegram 1 received on the moruining of Monday, the 14th hist., before 1 heard the argument of Solicitor Thurmond. Copy of letter of Joseph E. McDonald which 1 received on the evening of the 14th instant, on my return to Saluda, N. C., on the Same day 1 received Judge liuckanan, telegram, to wit: Winnsboro, S. C., l.'l Sept., lHU.'f. "lion. Y. J. Dupe., Chief Justice Supreme Court S. C., Newbery, S. C. "Dear Judge: it has been published in the newspapers that Judge D. A. Townsend has been assigned to hold the term of court for Lexington county, commencing on the 21st instant, owing to the inability of Judge Gage, who has been and still is iudiaposed. Under the regular assignment made last December, Judge Townsend would have bieii the presiding judge, at our term for Fairtield, which also commences the 21st instant?next Monday week. The mem tiers of our ?- - - oar are uncertain in the preruisvs whether or nut our regular term win be held inasmuch as it has not been announced whether or not some one will be assigned to hold our court at the time mentioned. We have a full docket and it will lie impossible to hrve all the cases disposed of at the regular term. In this condition of uncertainty, 1 think it is the unanimous wish of our bar that in the event Judge Townsend will not be here, the regular term p'o by default, as it were, aud that we lie allowed to have a special term for four weeks, beginning the third Monday in October. Will you, therefore, kindly let me know who, if any one, will be assigned to hold our regular term?" "We would prefer the special term. "Yoursvery truly, "J. E. McDonald." I made or passed no order on the 14th insl., hut did pass an order on the 17th insl., as 1 recall the date. I may add add that both Mr. McI Donald and Judge Kuchanan desire that 1 make public the respective papers addressed by them to me. Very respectfully Your obedient servant, Y.J. Pope. The following copy of a telegram w;.tch explains itself was telegraphed The State Thursday night from "Winnsbt.ro: (Telegram to Chief Justice l'ope from J. E. McDonald. Winnsboro, S. (.., ?ept. lf>, 1 HO,'I. To Hon. Y. Pope, Sah.dn, N. C. My letter not intended to convey wish of bar for sptcial term, except in event J ubue Townsend did not hold regular term. (Signed) J. E. McDonald. k Does l'|> tor Ijil'e. Kirby Lark and Aleck Land, aged 2f> and 17, sons of respectable parents, were convicted in Greenville on Wednesday of burglary in entering the store of the Monaghan mill and stealing a lot of goods. The penalty is 1 i f imitrigtiitmniit A y?ecr Hloppinoni. James Allen (if Allegan, Mich., eloped on Sunday with Mrs. Mayme Johnson, his mother-in-law. lie was married to the daughter a year ago, but lately discovered that lie "had made a mistake in not marrying the mother." A llarNti lieoieily. because he could not persuade 1dm to abandon his wicked ways, Samuel Thompson, aged 8ii, of Norwalk, <)., shot and killed his son, Leory, aged f>l years, on Saturday night and then blew off the top of his own head with the gun. Tcxuh Cotton Crop. Chas. 1*. Lane, a chemist sent from Washington to Texas to Investigate the boll weevil, says there are in; counties in the state in which the cotton crop is almost a total failure on account of the pest. i He NU ippnd. L J. P. Clarke, described as "a sleek ^ young man of US" skipped out of W (ireenvllle abruptly on Sunday mornW mg, leaving debts to the amount of something like *l,.'ioo. U THE NEW COTTON CEOP. The number ol' llalcu (>iiinc?l Hp to , August :?lm. A census report on the quantity of cotton ginned in the United States ^ from the growth of l'JO.'t up to and Including August 31 gives the following figures: ' Total commercial h it s, 17,587, including 10,001 square bales, 570 round I rules of upland crop and 20 bales of sea island crop. The total gins in op eration numbered 2,170. fn%?.A J iiii-.m; ihhiumiim were collected through a canvass of the 32.025 ginneries of the cotton States by 021 lo- j cal special agents. Only 2.1?ti ({lu* ( nerles had begun operations up to Sep- . tember I, and these had gidned but 17,">87 commercial bales, or bales as t pressed at the ginneries, equivalent to 17,202 bales, counting round bales as y half bales. This report will lie followed by four others for this season, showing the quantity ginned rsspec- ^ tively to October 18, November 18, n December 12, and a linal rebort, p which will give the quantity ginned s from the growt h of 1902. The statls- k ties by Stales follow: n Alabama, ginneries in operation c 242, total commercial bales 1,314, in- p eluding 1.218 square bales and 90 s round bales, upland crop; Arkansas, e 12 ginneries, total commercial bales a 17, all square bales; Florida, 00 gin- e n? ries, total commercial bales .">82, in- i eluding .">0 square bales, upland crop, p and 21 sea island; Georgia, 400 gin- q neries, total commercial bales 0,282, t including 5,922 square bales, 350 p ! round bales and live bales sea island: o Indian Territory, 3 ginneries, total bales 4, all square; Louisiana, 117 gin- e neries, total commercial bales 448, I comprising 443 square bales and 5 v round; Mississippi, 141 ginneries, <; total commercial bales 384, all square; 8 North Carolina, 35 ginneries, total' s commercial bales 112, all square; ii South Carolina, 254 ginneries, total v commercial bales 1,081, all square; 8 Tennessee, 1 ginnery, total cummer- ii cial, 1 square bale; Texas, 850 gin- p neries, total commercial bales 0,701, ii comprising 0,048 square bales and 113 <j round bales. Kansas, Kentucky, 1: Missuri, Oklahoma and Virginia, no I ginneries in operation. p a WEATHER AND CROPS. t c:...... .. ... V 1. . . .rwa i a a a aailll Iflll'i;!)!! I III HIT III s Columbia on Them. - S t Station Director .1. W. ltauer lias r issued the following crop report for 1 tlie week ending September 22: The week ending 8 A. M. Monday, Soptember 21, had a mean tempera- a ture of TO degrees, which is atmut 5 t degrees helow normal. The night c temperatures fell to aiiout ."?o degrees ^ in the northwestern counties during j the latter part of the week. There u was much cloudine.ss early in the a week, wtiile the closing days were gen- a orally clear. The prevailing winds c were fresh to brisk, easterly. 1 General rains occurred early in the d week. They weie comparatively light r over the western half of the .State ! a and heavy to excessive over the jo eastern half, tl.e amounts ranging I from less than an inch in the western j t to over 7 In dies i:i The eastern p ?r- ! n lion. The average for tile Mate was i s 1 3. SO inches. <i The rains relieved the diought and < put the ground in good condition for s fall ploughing, and benefitted late corn n and late cotton somewhat; also peas and sweet potatoes, and started new f growth of pastures, but interfered t with farm work, particularly haying c and rice harvest. S< me lowland rice o ! ticlds were Hooded, causing consider- s able damage to rice in slacks. 11 ice r 1 harvest made rapid progress where the c fields were in tit condition. f Late corn improved slightly after o the rains, hut the weather was toojt cool for its rapid development. Foil- k I der pulling is active in tl.e extreme I west. j ti I'remal ore ooeniiiL' or enttun ! checked by the rains and cooler f wedthur, hilt much of the open cotton | t t was Plained and some sprouted in the j t hulls, liust continues to spread in ! i | the western counties. Caterpillars t arc doiptf damape over limit<-d locali- f ties, fc'ruitin^ lias practically ceased n j and tlu te is poor prospect for a top s crop. A'a island cotton continues v dwarfedjnnd has blight in spots, and I lit is fro/tin^ slowly. Cotton picking ' wtis delayed hy the rainy weather ^ 1 etirly in the week, hut apain became! t | active at the close of the week. In s ) places in the eastern counties picking f I is nearly half finished, while in the I r western counties it has only be^un. j y Haying was delayed hy the rains r and some mown hay damaged. Tlie r hay crop is poor in places and is very r heavy in other sections, i'eas have < , improved. Poor stands of turnips (l have been secured. The weather was '| Ideal for strawberry plants. It was t too cool for truck to come up rapidly. ( Some oats, rye and barley have been j, shown. t Side hy Side. c The remains of .las. L. Ferrlere, (' who was connected with the otllce of I 1 the Associated l'ress in Paris and who died suddenly Sunday, and of lus wife, '' who in a lit of dist raction took her :l life soon aflerwar is, were buried side ; c by side in Ita^rn ux cemetery. The; ' I liev. 1 ?r. Turher rector of tlte Ameri- j i1 can church, otliciatcd. A number of j r newspaper men and friends of the de- 1 ceased were present. Many )>eautiful I1 Moral tributes were placed on the cas- K i kets. No relatives of cither Mr. or 1 ' Mrs. Ferriere liave l>een located. MARKET IT SLOWLY rhat Is the Advice Given tb Farmers by Mr. Jordan [N HANDLING THE COTTON CRO * lie Thinks 'fliny Should Takr A?l v*nhkKfl of thn Cotton Siiiiution and I'rotoct Th?*lr Own Interest. mm. jmrvie jnrnan, or lieorgis resident of tire Southern Cotto Growers' Protective Association, hu ssucd the following address to th armers of the cofctyn growing States The cotton producers of the Sout rave long wished to realize good price or their staple and the opportun ime has now arrived if proper judy nent is exercised in marketing tli resent maturing crop. To make uccesss of any business, a thorougl mowledge of every department cor iccted with it. and a judicious excr isc of sound judgment must be dis dayed. We have now reached th tagc in tire world's production am use of cotton where the laws of suppl; .nd demand can be lixed and regulal d upon a legitimate hasis. We ar 10 longer faced wiili an enormous sur dus as was the case each year uml lulte recently, giving tire mills am he speculators an opportunity to de ress prices by dadoing the existenc f heavy stocks 011 hand. Since the organization of the South rn Cotton Growers' association ii 000, strong efforts have I wen put for yard each year by the members am dicers of the association in eacl itate looking to the adoption of mor ystematic and business-like method: 11 selling the crop. The rapidity will vhich the great staple crop of tin iouth has been rushed on the marke n past years has been ruinous to tin iroducers. An enormous oversupph ias been created during a short perioi 1 time when no legitimate demam ias existed. In the early fall spinner lave been in the liabit of buying sup dies to last for :i0 and 00 days only Iter which they retire from the mar :et and the producers are then left ii lie hands of speculators who coiitiiiui o buy up the crop, making contract: villi mills fur future deliveries as tin laple may be needed for actual eon umption. To force the sale of ; welve-month's supply of any com aodily within the short space o hree or four months will necesgaril) lace the seller at a threat disadvant ,ge in tlie market. The great object and purpose of ou ssocialion has been to, lirst, place in o active operation a scheme by whiel orrect and reliable statistics could t* a the red regarding the yield of eacl ear's crop, and put that intormatioi nto the hands of tlie producers, man ifacturers, and the legitimate trad< s rapidly and as early in the seasui ,s possible. This is now being perfect d through the co-operation of tlx Jniled States census and agriculturu lepartment at Washington, by tlx eports of ginuers on the one hand nd the rep ?rts of fully ) odd activi orrespondents through the otlier t may safely be predicted now Llia he time is near at hand when com nercial reports, often gotten up fo: ellish purposes, will heeonie a thhq f l lie past, and wilieocerci.se but litth r no intiuence upon the crop from tin tandpoint or a statistical report com minding serious consideration. Our second great aim, equally im tortant as the tlist, is to educate tlx inducers upon the high important** f moving the crop slowly. To markei ne-tentii of the crop each month, in lead of one-fourth as lias been tlx ulc in the past. if the growers o otlon will co-operate to break up tlx resent bad system by which nearh ne-fourt.h of our cotton ciop i> con raeted for in October deliveries, ; ;iant stride in the right din ctinn wil lave been gained. The legitl natt uarket for sp ?t cotton can and i* ?s easily glutted as with any ollie arm product. Two important es?en ials are necessary to a solut ion of tliii roblem: make our fall accounts din n October, one-third, January. one Iiini, and the balance April 1st tin nllowintf year, then he^in t?? rai.->t nore supplies at home and cut tin troii)*' band of the supply merchant rhich dictates the sale of the in >st ol he crop as fast as gathered. This season the producers occupy he strongest position in the re^ula ion ol prices for the crop whicli wil oon be ready for market. Supplies or the raw staple have been mori ompletely exhausted within the pasl ear that at any time within the pasl our decades. The present hi^h prices or spot cotton is due to a scarcity ol aw cotton, and a denial of tiiis fac aniiot be unloaded on this shoulders f th 1 hown, Sully "bull" clique The mills have shut down becausi hey have no cotton to spin, and lie ause they cannot tind in the tnarke uch grades as are tit for spiuniin im poses. Stocks are exhausted an* he active operation of spindles In tin ountry and in Kurope can only lie tin tertaken after the present crop be^in o move to market. This fact is clear y emphasized by the activity of mill n pushing their orders for new cottoi ,t this time. This state of atTair oiild not exist if the mill.; were trim lown simply because the orcsenl rices were higher than usual, i'lc eports are being sent broadcast ove lie the country at this time to de ress prices and to enable the mills t< et their supplies at greatly reducei ates. Aside from the exhaustion of sup iL J plies, which can be designated better as a cotton famine, the condition of the present growing crop is not such now as to forecast any hope In the l? minds of any one that a much larger yield will tie made this year than last. The boll weevil, according to advices just received, are doing great damage p to the crop in hi counties through the ? middle and southern portions of Texas while the tk>11 worm is ravaging the crop in northern Texas. East of the x Mississippi rust and shedding is seriously affecting the plants in all of tlie old States, .lust what would result fiotti a crop already three weeks late hy tiie visit of an early frost it is hard to predict. These are matters which must to a greater or less extent figure b in the futuc of the crop. Certainly . n there is no sound argument in farmers ' 1S forcing their cotton on the market f I rapidly during the next two mouths tl 1 unlesss present prices should prevail. w If a heavy rush of the staple Is made h on the markets prices will at once be,H gin to sag. and the strong present 111 position of the producers greatly ly weakened. k There are no debts due in Kept em- Ir e licr, an<l hence no necessity for rapid a marketing during tliat month. In li October if prices should go dow n ma- 111 i- teriully farmers can store their cotton, w I wi |)iu i oi jii, tiiiu gei assistance rrom ^ >- their local banks to meet maturing . e obligations if their merchants arc uiiI able to back thcin up in this light for I' lair ana better prices than have here- dt - tofore prevailed. Our cotton is worth es e ten cents per pound every year, and it ^ - should net that amount to each proI ducer. When supplies are exhausted sl I and the prices of cotton good^ are ad- *" vanning, even higher prices should 01 e rule. The old argument that farmers A should be content with eight cent cot- ti - ton is a swindle and a delusion. ni ? Kvery farmer who by the sweat of gl ills brow produces tliis great Staple is 1 fully entitled to and should receive I" i every cent that his cotton is fairly a? s worth according to its legitimate in ? value. If all the producers in each of 1 the 7f>u cotton producing counties in tc e the South would get to gether as did tl t the farmers of Troup County, this bt e State, on August 22 and pass strong in f resolutions not to sacritice their cotton ar 1 this year by early marketing at re- so 1 duccd prices, and llien stand by those pt s I resolution, Southern cotton producers fo - ! would once again begin to get on their je , | feet, and a new era of prosperity be- bt - J gin to dawn all over the South in ni i every line of business. tl 8 As the olliciul head of our Inter* State association 1 call upon and urge re i upon every producer all over the South o' - to take a firm stand for the main ten- oi i ance of high prices this season. Wlien w - the market begins to sag clicck re- m f ceipt.s at once. Sell th3 crop slowly, tl ' and furnish the mills with such sup- te -1 plies as are needed for spinning pur- nj ; poses, and do not by usual methods hi r give to them and the speculators of the al - | country the whip handle of the siiuai : tion. We hold upon our farms today e i the key note to the situation. The i staple is yet in our possession, it is at i i wanted by millions of spindles in all e< - | parts of the world, and is demanded w ; by yet greater millions for clothing fo among the inhabitants of every civi- tr - | li/.ud nation on the globe. Consump- lo e ! t ion of cotton has outstripped produe- tc 1 tion, and a knowledge of tliis fact N ' j should maintain prices at a high level tl . ! until conditions change, which are not t? ' likflv 1.1 I'i.mo tj\ line: ...or... .......... - - J VW w ' V, vv I VU lUCVIIjr J J CI if ever again. The South possesses a | w I. monopoly of Llii>> threat stape, and >;i - ; while millions have lieen made out of j di r it hy others after it left the hands of ai Hi.- producers, the latter may now ^et " - i their reward l?v handling t(lis season's CI i i crop in accordance w ith the eondi- C> - tions surrounding it. Let there he er i called meetings of farmers in every - county, let there he prompt and deoi ! mvc action taken, lot a minimum price 8 j of not less than lOcerits per pound he j L lix. d in every local market, and then '.p lie stadfast with one another and get () rid of the yoke which lias for half a ' century howed Southern cotton pro- t| ducers under the domination of nam- j. >' itiers, speculators and foreign spin- j - iters. IIakvik Jordan, 'j ? ! l'rt sident Southern Cotton <>rowers' ' ' Protective Association." I , . as I'1rout a Steamer. y When the Algonquin reached Fort I'I' < 0'orpe, Fla., Wednesday morning ill1''1 8 was found that Finest Itixler, a pro- jV minent insurance man of Jacksonville, 3 j was missing from Itis stateroom and a - j note was found with his clothes say' itig that lie intended to jump over- m 1 hoard, lie was returning front the lr 1 j Catskills. where he had been to regain j,. his health. II. was much improved hy i t| f Itis trip and when last seen appeared p. - to he in good spirits. William Starts, ^ ; inn mi mi hi,n i- in it i ini'iui, nan i;iKcn (jj > I lie trip with liiin to nurse liiin and last saw him alive at ;"> o'clock Wedt ncsday morning. . L i A Train Koliltery. The Atlantic express on the Kail" 1 road and Navigation company's line was held up and iohl>cd at Corhett, h ? Oregon, at hi o'clock. It is reported '?< . : that Kngineer liarrett was fatally K t shot, details of the robbery are very ti r meagre, and it is not unknown tl I whettier the rolfbere secured any- p s tiling or not. Tlie train run to Itridal g; . Veil, six miles, where it was met s by an engine from tlie Dalles, bringing another engineer. I w s I s Hill Nut Mourn I<on>cs About the quickest marriage on e l on record occurred in Columbia. In a li a hearing before tlie probate court there on Saturday it came out that j r Ardilla Freeman married Wm. Manor, - who died March 21, 1?02 and was ^ > burled the next day, 22nd. On the 1 2:td Thos. Morr'i\ proposed to the n widow and she aeiVftted, and they ,s - were married the nextaltJS 24th. | Cl BLEW OUT THE GAS. [appy Bride and Qroom Had Narrow Escape from Death. HEY WENT TO SPARTANBURG [ d lOuJoy (Iii? Ifoncyiihmiii ami tlio a Uromu vvtth Ho Happy iii at He Took UrhpIIk'h for a , Candle. A special dispatch from Spartan- a urg to the Greenville News says a ^ aung married couple hailing from a le everlasting hills of North Carolina , here the candle light yet holds sway s ad nature's gas l;cs unmolested beeath the rocks and boulders, narrow ho was in command of the Union ! t irce in that battle, while he 'paid, a ( ibute to Gen. Green, an ottlcer of <j wer rank, and went out of his way f i throw a bouquet at Gov. Murphy of r ew Jersey, who was a private at j lat time. The State says "Gen. f reene's son Is the Republican police tmioissioner of Greater New York I hile Gen. McClellan's son and name- v ike is the probably Democratic can- i date for mayor of the metropolis. If r iy one rejoices over this latest j c break"' of the president it is Leader r itaries F. Murphy, who is backing l mgressman McClellan for the Demo- r atic n iraination." t Treasure Ship Found. t Rumors of the finding of a treasure ' iip olT Miami Fla., were contirmed 1 hursday when Capt. Jennings and s iree of the crew of the wrecking 1 hooner Osceo tiled a libel against 1 ie cargo of a sunken ship in the nited States court. With ttic assistlceof a chart in his possession, Capt. nings has been searching for this J issei from time to time for many < ?ars. it is supposed to have gone t ihore in is:{f>, loaded with ore from a ie Mexican mines. It was found in i a i'e feet of water near Miama. Its a irgo, which has only been partly ex- j C nine, has been found to consist of 1 lver ore. t c .More ItuHcalit Ira. | rnt,? X.- : ? ? - J * i iic ni aiui.ii in me interior uepart- ;i cul in connection witli tiic ad mi ills- I ation (if alhi'rs in Indian Territory j is grown to such proportions already r tat it rivals that to the postortice de- I irtmcnt. One Washington corres- I undent for a Uepuhlicau paper pre- i lets that it will surpass even that i lalodorous atTalrin magnitude and in le number and prominence of ttie ofidals who have a hand in the steals tx>ut to lie uncovered. t ( Sit Hundred Turks Killed. ( According to a telegram received i Dm Kostendil (411 miles from Soiia) i JO Turks were killed in a tight at i [otchani Sept. is. The Turkish ? roups numlier 7.000. After tlie tight | le troops, enraged at their losses, s Dialed and burned a numlier of ltul- i man villages. < Killed llliiisi'll. I J. 11. rolncmus committed suicide ith a parlor rllle at liis home in uinmerville on Wednesday. He was 5 years old old leaves a wife and sev- ' ral children. Kad health is assigned 1 s the cause. ! Waiiih a Call. , There Is a preacher In Km porta, i [an., wlio is probably listening -.harp r for a call now. lie asked the wo-11 len in his congregation on a recent unday to "please remove what they ailed their hats." i ' escaped asphyxiation at tlie Spar- J in Inn at an early hour Wednesday r turning. Hut for tlie acute nostrils li ' Ni^ht Clerk (ioodlett the coroner v litrlit I.., - 1 -> uaic nan a juu i nursu.iy, ana ^ hat seemed to all to be a honey- j, 10011 to have euded in a double L agedy. between the hours of 2 and :i Thura- c ty morning Mr. (Joodlett scented leaping gas nUjuL the hotel. He at s rst paid but little attention to the n uell, thinking it was probably issu- M ig from a broken pipe in the street a defective meter in the building. ? s time passed the gas increased and !' ie smell became more annoying. The ight clerk went out to seek the ori- ^ n of the trouble and found that the leaping gas had permeated the entire _ lllding, but as yet it had not reached lything like a dangerous stage, lie- 8 g only a bit nauseating. The clerk went to theottlce, secured w ? the room. The key worked and " ie door was opened, and upon the ;d in slumber that was fast deepeng with the gas lay the young bride id groom. They were aroused with line etTort and informed of their /l sril. There were no ceremonies aud rmalities were dispendsed with. The t was examined and was found to i turnee on full tilt. The grooin deed having blown out the gas, but K ie evidence was against him. a The couple went to the theatre and 0 turned to the hotel at about 11 . clock. Hut for the transom being >eu It is not likely that their danger ould have become known before e orbing, besides a slight headache ley were not atlected. They regis- i :red from North Carolina. Their ^ imes are withheld for fear the gold ^ ick or green goods people will get (] 'ter them. 0 c Dirty Politic*. | It is being noted that in his address a i Antietain President itoosevelt fail- (3 I even to mention Hen. McClellan. A SMOOTH PAIR CAOOHT. Une Waaa Walter am! the Other ai Ki-Convlct. More than 9130,000 stolen, busines louses in every part of the Unite* States victimized, a bank created, ; vaiter risen from poverty to alliuenc ind an exconvict again placed behin* Jie bars?these are the features ii Jie meteoric career of at least one o ,wo men now under arrest in Chicago Pustofllce inspectors made the cap aptures. Julius M. Nisson, knowr dso by a dozen other names an< Vrthur J. Hcrbst, said to have ma*ij iliases, are the prisoners. Nisson ha* onfessed but llerbst will not adinii ihat he had any part in the bi} windle. Postotilce Inspector A. K. Cieimei las complaints against the two met rom nearly 200 individuals and cor MifiiMnnn U? mm nave i.isu amount! anglng from i'25 to $J,000. All thes< lave been victimized since June 20 vhen Nisson opened an ortlee in Chi ago. In previous operations undei lllferent names the men are alleged t' lave secured at least $i:i0,000 In tin ast 11 months. This was the mode of procedure, ac ording to the inspectors: Nisson and Herbst would go to a ity and open an olllce, engaged osteiv lbly in the retailing of metal wan , ovelties, machinery or anything dilch they could secure on credit. They would operate under the name f some fir in well known to the busiess world and in ordering goods t' he value of thousand of dollars would ive commercial agency references. After the articles had been received he Inigus company would transfer tht >nslgnments to a warehouse and then hip them to New York, where they 'ere disposed of through a "fence" diich has bathed the inspectors fui lonths. When suspicion was aroused he men would llee to another city. HE FOOLED THEM. i Little Fellow Thought to he In a Well Turns Up. The Columbia State says there was reat excitement at Cayce Ttiursday, nd the people of that suburb turned ut en masse to rescue Audley Frink rom the well in the yard of his ather, Mr. L. J. Frink, the Southrn's agent at that place. Audley and Luther were playing in he >ard and the latter, hearing the mcket fall into the well, ran into the louse exclaiming that his brother had lone it. Mrs. Frink, seeing nothing >r Audley, ran to the well. Over uroe with fear that the little felloe tad fallen in, Khe ran to the station ,nd told Mr. Frink that the boy was Irowning. The work gang on extra 1321 was at he depot and they ran to the house ;ne of the negro train hands went lown into the well, the water beint ound to be over his head. Aftei nakiug thorough investigation he re Kirted that the child could not Lm bund under the water. Hy this time all the people of Cayet uid heard the shocking news, ant vhile the kind neighbors were extend ng sympathy to the father am nuttier of the little fellow, a grea -xclamatinu of joy went up, for ou1 rom under the house came Audlev Is explained that when the oldei hild, Luther, who is but 5, hean he bucket Tall Into the well where !i lad been blown by the wind, and ex ilalmcd to his mother that Audlcj lad done it, he ran under the bou* .o escape a scolding. Luther did no .ee him and reported to their mo the; he statement that Audley was it ,he well. Jumped U> HI* Death. The Charleston Post says Itober I ones, colored, jumlied from the ex 'ursion train en rout from Green villi iO Charleston Thursday afternooi ib<>ut eighteen miles out of Columbii tnd was instantly killed. Some t.w c ifter toe excursion train pulled out o Columbia Duncan llill and Jamei tosemand, who are running the ex ursion, passed through the train ant liscovered a colored man on the stepi Mating his way. The stranger w.e t->ked to come inside the coach bearing that he would be punished h< umped from the train, which wai mining at atiout forty-tive miles pe lour. His skull was crushed. 111! >ody was placed on the train an< arried to Gadsden, where it wa dentitied as that of Itotiert Jones. Negro Fireman Hilled. Hill Ware, a negro tireman on thi hrough freight from Greenville t< Columbia, Friday night fell otT th iiiglne at the trestle across Salud; iver, near Dyson, and was killed. 1 s supposed he was leaning out of tin mgine and lost his balance. Tui ngineer did not miss him until hi tad gone about four miles and hii > tea 111 began to get low. The trail was stopped and run back, but the were unable to tind the negro. Ware' home was near Ninety-Six. Prison AmmocIhiIoii. Gov. Heckham of Kentucky ha written Gov. Ileyward to appoiu delegates to the National Prison a> iociation which meeus in Louisvill I let. 3. The government has appoiu i'd Capt 1>. J. Griffith, the superinter dent of the Stare prison, and th ln>ard of directors as follows: A. H Sanders, Ilagood; M. A. Kowlam Boiling Springs; J no. G. Moble; Winnesboro. W. D, Mann, Lownde dale, and W. H. Love, McOonueUavilli A COLONY LOCATED. A Lot of French Canadians to Settle R Near Summery He. A. A PIONEER BAND HAS ARRIVED, 1 And Arn Now Knx*K?d In Build* ' ink Homes at the New Settlement, Others Will Follow Soon. f The News and Courier, of Thursday, m j" Rays Mr. L. Scott Allen, who is oon, nccted with the land and industrial department ot the Southern Railway, AH t with headquarters in Washington, 1 i? ? ? - amvt-u in unarieston Wednesday * morning and immediately afterwaids ' went up to Summerville. Wednesday * night he returned to the city and is ? located at the St John Hotel. His visit to this section Is in the interest r of a colony of French Canadians ' which Is to be established on the line * of the Southern Hallway near Summer ville, and all of this is a direct result from a visit paid by a number of French Canadians lastMuy. 1 It will be recalled that early In the spring a party right from the manu' facturing districts of Massachusetts visited Charleston under the chaperonage of Mr. Allen, and inspected the ! lands here and at Summerville. They seemed much pleased with conditions ' and prospects and indicated that they would consider the advisability of bringing a large number of their country men, French Canadians, then ! working in the mills, to the Sunny South, where they could once more engage in agricultural pursuits as they desired. The first of the colonists have ar' rived, the contingent numbe lng two families, 10 persons In all. The site of the colony is about a mile and a half out of town and Civil Engineer Hale of the Southern railway put Ids services at trie disposal of the colonists in running the lines for the fences and houses. The contingent is just in advance corps of the many people 1 who will arrive here next month and in November from Canada and New England. The Southern railway land agents have arranged to bring large numbers ' of Canadians south, to settle at various points in South Carolina and the Summerville colouy will be one of the t largest and most encouraging. Land . Agent Scott Allen of the Southern , has the particular coloay in charge, I accompanying the pioneers, and will r be here for several days assisting them !. In.their settlement. The Canadians r are all a tine class of people and their arrival in Jsiimm<?rvil1o mo?nu O t,l? j thing for the town and vicinity. The Canadians will engage extensively in t, farming and raising cattle. They will build their own schools and churches and the colony will be a settlement of some proportions and Importance. A FIENDISH CRIME. A Rukkt Blown Up With Dynamite and a Man Killed. One of the most fiendish and bloodthirsty murders and robberies In the history of Washington county, Pa., occurred Friday afternoon on the Middletown road, about 15 miles from Washington Pa. Samuel T. Fergu son of the Ferguson Construction ? company of Pittsburg, was instautly a killed and his secretary, Charles Mart tin of Cincinnati, was fatally injured. r The two men were driving along 1 the road In a buggy, carrying $3,600 in cash with which to pay oiT some of their men employed on construction work along the line of the Wabash t railroad, when suddenly an explosion . of dynamite In the roadway literally i ? tore the rig to pieces, killing Fcrgu- j i son outright and throwing Martin 200 j i feet, tearing his left arm almost from e the socket. It has tieen learned that flfl r two men supposed to be Poles placed s the dynamite in the road for the . purpose of killing Paymaster Fer- 9 1 guson and had arranged to explode it H s by means of an electric battery. The 9 ? satchel containing the money is miss- I w* ? Two suspects are under arrest in the 4 camp of the construction company ,^l r near the village, hut the farmers of 4 the section, who are scouring tl e 1 county for traces of the murderer*;, h believe they have one of them n. abandoned coal mine at>out a mile and a half northeast of Mlddletown. (JonvlcieU Twice. e Curtis .Jett was convicted at Cyn15 tblana, Ky.. on Tuesday of the mur12 der of Town Marshal Thomas Cock rill 1 at Jackson, Ky., in duly, 1902, and A 1 the jury tixed the penalty at death. - lie, with White, was recently cou^ victcd of the murder of Attorney Marcum and sentenced to the peniteu- XRH 4 i tiary for life. y A Kat HIiii.l I'lgor. s wane iiampion sewers, king or the Columbia Mind tigers, is in trouble. The constables on Wednesday found a lot of booze that he stored in the barn ^ of Alderman Collins, without the I alderman's consent. Among the stun | j. were 400 pints of corn liquor, .00 e half pin Us of peach and honey and 200 it half pints of rye. ) *? KicKMe Officers captured one hundred half pints of whiskey at the Sealstard ? depot In Greenwood on Monday. It Pi had been shipped in a crate, as If it !*- were eggs, to a restaurant keeper named D. K. Hoi ton. 4