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A FOUL TRAGEDY v Band of Mask Men Lynch Two ^ i Prominent Men. j i CAUSE OF THE CRIME Was a Um Passed by the Legislature in Reference to Pishing in a Certain l*ake Near Where the Two Men Were Killed by the Ruffians. ' Col. It. Z. Taylor, aged 60 years, and Captain Quint en ltunkln. bote prominent attorneyH of Trenton, ( Tenn., were taken from Ward's Hotel 1 at Walnut I.<og, Tenn., Monday night j by masked night riders and murder- } od. Captain Rankin's body* was i found Tuesday morning riddled wi'h t bullets and hanging from a tree one ' mile from the hotel. I Efforts to locale the body of Col- < oael Taylor have betm futile thus far, but it is believed ihat he wa?* also < killed. The trouble which result- ] ed in the death of Captain Rankin 1 and the probalbe murder of Colonel ; Taylor was caused by the passage - of an Act by the Legislature regulat- ] ing llshing In iteel Foot Lake, a short distance front Walnut Log. A night rider disturbance over the same matter occurred ever a , year ago. Ever since then Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin have been in constant receipt of threaten ing letters, to which they paid little heed. Mr. Ward, the manager or the Ward House, at Walnut Log, telephoned Sid Wadell, a stock hold- j er in the West Tennessee Land Companv, stating that about 25 masked night riders came to his hotel at ( midnight last night. According to this report the night riders lined up outside the hotel, pulled out their revolvers and called Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin. The two men did not suspect troublo and came down Immediately. As the attorneys passed Into the front yard of the hotel the nlirht rta..ru covered them with revolvers. Before ' Oaptain Rankin nnd Colonel Taylor had an opportunity to retire they ' were surrounded and seized. They were put on horses behind night riders and carefully guarded. The night riders then quietly took tip their march from the hotel, turning down the road toward Reel Foot 1 I-Ake. Proceeding to the edge of 1 Reel Foot Lake the night riders pull- ^ ed out a ropo and placed the noose ' about Captain Rankin's neck. Captain Rankin was strung up from a limb on the bank of the lake for the fishing privileges of which he had contended with the night riders. The masked men then stepped 1 hack and opened fire on the swinging body, riddling it with bullets, leaving the corpse of Captain Rankin hanging on the bnnk of Reel Rake, the night riders took Colonel Taylor to another spot. Search nea?Oaptatn Rankin's body has failed to reveal a trace of the murderers. The trouble between inhabitants on the banks of Reel Foot Rake and Colonel Taylor nnd Captain Rankin organized several years ago, when the two latter men organized the West Tennessee Rand Company, bought Reel Foot Rake from nonresident property owners nnd made regulations of their own concerning fishing privileges. Colonel Taylor also secured th? passage In the Rogislature of an Act making it. a misdemeanor to fish In the lake Without paying a heavy fee. M Fearing trouble Captain Rankin nnd Colonel Taylor bad remained away from the vl unity of the lake for some tltne. Recently, however, they heard that the feeling against then had somewhat subsidised. The attorneys went to Walnut Dog Monday to aee about some legal pnpers. A man named Powell Is said ti have been forced to accompany the members. Powell had been stopping at the hotel, and when the riders called every one out and compelled them to line up, Powell, Colonel Taylor, Captain Rnnkln and the surveyor. whose name Is unknown, are said to have been taken away. Powell states, It Is said, that after killing Rankin a vote was taken regarding the dlspuosltlon to made - of Taylor. During the dispute Taylor made a dash and Jumped Into the bayou, starting to swim across It. A number of shots were fired at him. and In the confusion Powell slipped away and brought back the story of the escape or attempted escape of Taylor. R. 7. Taylor was the father of the Vanderbllt foot ball star, Hlllsman Taylor, who was married to Miss Kathorlno Taylor, the daughter of Senator Robert L. Taylor, last fall, fjaptain Rankin was a prominent lawyer of Trenton . He was captain of a military company in the SpanishAmerican war and served in the > Cuban campaign. Governor Patterson offered a reward of $10,000 for the arrest of the person or persons guilty of thj murder of Judge Taylor and Captain Rankin at Reel Foot Lake. Governor Patterson was at Covington when news of the murder was received and Immediately cancelled his engagements to speak there Tuesday SENSATION IN SI'MMEUVILLE. Mr. Tuylor Attacks Mr. Delfon With ? Horsewhip. A dispatch from Summerville tolls )f a seusatioual occurrance in which Mr. W. Ii. DeHon was attacked i?y Mr. A. W. Taylor with a horsewhip m last Saturday about midday. Mr. Taylor was accompanied by two of lis sons, Robert and Clark, both of ivhom were armed with doublouirrelled shotguns and both of whom t is ulleged, stood by and are said .0 have warned bystanders not to inerfere while their father attempted .0 horsewhip Air. DeHon. Statements made by some of the larticipants in the affair and by look;rs-on differ materially as to the remit of the attempt, Mr. Taylor Maiming, it is said, to have used lis whip; while it is claimed on th j tier hand that the attempt was iractically unsuccessful. Do that as it may, there seems 10 >e 110 doubt that early in the assault Mr. DeHon seized tlio whip, 111 cl clinched with his assail an t, regained his hold 011 the whip until Mr. Taylor and himself were separated jy a gentleman, who early arrive i 111 the scene. The affair is said to he the outcome of a recent trial, in which Mr. DeHon was charged with libel an i which was non-suited In the Court if the county seat of Dorchester on Friday last, Judgo Robert Aldrich presiding. CHEAT WHITE RDACLE. some Interesting Facts Concerning This Terrible Disease. Some very remarkable facta wore brought out at the International Congress .'on Tuberculosis recently held in Washington. It was demonstrated that one-third of the human family who die between the ages of 25 and 45 years die of tuberculosis. Thus it behooves every man, woman and child to be educated a bo u the "great white plague." The convention from actual tesi, iecidod that bovine tuberculosis was transmitted to human beings by tubercle bacilli in milk from tuberculous cows. Ilere'are some facts that are not generally known: Deaths from tuberculosis in United States last year, 160,000; deaths for 115 years of yellow fever 'n United States, 100,000. Deaths from tuberculosis last four years in United States (estimated), 4 00,000; deaths during four years of Civil war in United States in action and front wounds received in action Federal 1 10,000, Confederate 95,000 ?total deaths 205,000. Comparative death rate of tuberculosis In the United States and black plague in India for 12 years ( 1 896 to 1907 ), In proportion to the population?the great plague epi riemic In India began in 1&D6: Tuberculosis in United States per 1,000 of population during tbo whole period, 23 doatna; black plague in India, 19 deatha. Death rate, tuberculosis of lungs, white and colored population, in United States, year 190G, per 1,00*) population: Whlto 106.2; colored, 235.8. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Only a Small Cotton Crop Was Raised Then. David Ramsey, M. I)., wrote * history of South Carolina covering the period from 1 670 to 1 808. The book was published at Charleston by I David Longworth for toe author in 1 809. We quote from the book about cotton as follows: "So much cotton la now made !n Carolina and Georgia that, if the whole was manufactured In the United States, it would go far in clothing a great proportion ot the inhabitants of the Union; for one laborer can raise as much of this commodity in one season as will afford the raw material for 1,500 yards of common cloth, or a sufficiency for covering 150 persons." The Greenville News figures out that the total quantity of cotton rais-; ed then was about 150,000 bales.' Reflect on the development which has taken place in the cotton industry in a single century. * THE FARCE GOES ON. Two Revenue Collectors Reprinmntied for Political Activity. A dispatch from Washington says the civil service commission Friday announced that after thorough In vestigation J. H. Forlhain, a deputy collector of internal revenue at Orangeburg, S. C., has been reprimanded and suspended without pay for fifteen days for participation in tho republican State Convention .it Columbia. Robert A. Stewart, a temporary deputy collector of Clarendon County, S. C., has boen reprimanded. R. O. Pierce, an employ to of the Marino Island navy yard, who announced his candidacy of supervisor In tho 1st district, has been discharged from tho service. Clyde Knook, a letter carrier at Independence, Kansas, who became candidate for the District Court clerkship, resigned from the postal service t> avoid dismissal. * FACING A CRISIS SUA LI j Til 10 SOUTH Sl'ItltKNIilOli $130,000,000 in Cold? That Ik What She Will l>o If the Cotton Crop Is Sold ut Present Prices. The flippant way In which hoiup people speak of the present price of cotton argues that they do not fully appreciate the gravity of the situation. This is intensified when they say that the farmers have put the price of cotton too high and that it is now seeking its natural level. Such people leave the impression that they are not looking beyond their personal Interests and therefore fall to see the stream of gold that annually comes to the South from foreign countries in exchange for her cotton crop?this amounting *0 hundreds of millions of dollars, which is the mainspring to all business life and activity in the South. Cuttall tit is inflow of gold and we at once crippel every industry in the South. Augment it and at once the electric effect is seen and felt it\ every line of industry. The price of cotton is today 2 1-2 cents per pound less than it was a year ago. If this depresion of price to t/\ /w\n 1 I n tin t hrnmrltAtil t I n/x*. io * W vuiuiaiuu nil (jvifsinMii i lie nriiMi'l it will mean a loss to the South on a 1 2,000,000 bale crop of $150,000,000. a sum equal to more than ha I of the capital invested in the eott >n mills of the entire South; likewise a much greater sum than will he spent in the South this year for public education. These illustrations are given to more forcibly illustrate the enormity of the loss of the South, caused by the present depression in prices, and to endeavor to arouse a determination among our people, irrespective of vocation, that it shall not be so. For the past few years the South has been enjoying an unprecedented prosperity for the cotton crop. It seems that the cotton-buying woi Id has decreed that this age of Southern prosperity shall not longer continue. As evldenc of this there was during the summer a report sent to the cotton factory centers of tin; world stating the Southern cotton crop would approximate 16,000,000 bales and the prediction made that the price would go to eight and possibly as low as 6 cents per pound. Such a report very naturally demoralized the cotton trade and every manufacturer wanting to get in on the ground lloor was unwilling to lay up stock, and so curtailed production and liought cotton from hand to mouth .continually looking for lower prices. Another factor iu depressing the price of cotton is the closing of the Lancashire mills in Kngland. These mills aro said to represent half the spindle capacity ot that country; consequently their closing will very materially affect the price of cotton. Hold for Better Prices. Such briefly Is the situation. What are the remedies? An easy question to ask, but a fur more difficult one to answer. In my opinion, the first thing necessary is for the cotton farmers themselves to determine in all their might and manhood that they will not sell a bale of cotton at present prices except to satisfy existing obligations; and then first endeavo" to store the cotton and get advances on it to meet the necessity of the occusion. As long as sufficient cotton to meet the requirements of the mills is offered there will be no neen for them to advance prices. Therefore hold the cotton off the market until the surplus is worked oft. If the cotton mill men can not sell their goods they can not be expected to buy cotton at its full value, so the thing to do is to not offer sny cotton for sale until the trade wants it at a price that will Justify the farmer to sell. At the present prices the purely cotton farmers is making no more money on his cotton than he was ten years ago when cotton was selling at 6 cents per pound. At that time corn, meat, labor and other m.ng^ that the cotton farmer buys was selling at but little over half the prices they are now bringing. Six-cent cotton at the time multiulied inert gages on the cotton farms of tha South. Notwithstanding the few years of good prices we have had have enabled most farmers to pay oft the mortgages then incurred, a continuation of present prices and conditions will bring about a repetitio-i of those days. For that reason the manhood of the South should he against low priced cotton. It !h not yet time for the South to assume tlit role of a philanthropist and bell cotton for a price less than the Ccst ol production so as to furnish the worl i with cheap cotton goods. Do we want farm values V Increase Instead of decrease? Do we want factories of various kinds tc multiply and enlarge in the South Do we want to educate our childro-i 1 and beautify our homes, Do we wanl an air of prosperity all over this Southland of ours, with new life vigor and activity into ever 1 In < o! business, vocation and profession^ If so, let us without regard to vocation be n unit, loyal to the South and her every interest, and save tc her this $160,000,000 annually b) COTTON MKKTINti CAIjLFI). Governor Anst'l Asked to Name I>?*!('gates From tlie State. President Harvey Jordan, of th-j Southern Cotton Association, has written Governor Ansel requesting that the Governor appoint delegates from every county of South Carolina to the Cotton Conference, which Mr. Jordan has called to meet In Memphis on November 10, ll and 12.1 Governor Ansei la also urged to attend the Conference In person. There will be a conference of the j snmo kind in Columbia during next week at the call of President B. Hnr-| rls, of the Farmers' Union. Mr. Joi-' dan's letter is uh follows: ( Augusta, Ua., Oct. 21, 190S. I Ills Excellency, Governor of South Carolina.?Dear Sir: In response t.? requests from all parts of the South l am calling a mammoth Cotton Conference of farmers, ginners, bankers, merchants and allied business interests to meet at Memphis, November 10, 11, 12, 1 908, for the purpose of securing general concert of action throughout tne cjouth along business lines to advance the price of cotton at least ten cents per pound. You are undoubtedly interested in a movement of this kind, and i 11/ r, ii 1.1 I .. 1_ ?i._ - /.t^? . "wum (~,i*7ini/ i vjiuu: i in* uuil'i:u i appointment by yon of delegate from the various counties in your State to attend tills Conference, and I further extend to you a most cordial invitation to be present yourself and take part in the deliberations of the Conference. I would be pleased to have a lis; of your appointees so that proper1 literature can bo sent them, giving Information and particulars of the Conference. United concert of action will stem the tide of low prices and do much to check the present serious situation in the South and advance price*. Hours truly, ) 1A It V10 it tOIti).1 USES KOH OLD IWI'ERS. Some Tilings They Cnn lie I'used For With Profit. To fill cracks in wooden floors put one-half pound newspapers in thre? quarts water and soak three days, j then add one tablespoonful powdere 1 alum and one quart wheat flour; stir and boil until like calke dough; cool and till cracks. It will harden like cement. I To All rat holes use the uliove re- i cipe, out add, when cool, a liberal allowance of red pepper. To make rat proof Doors for henhouses use the above, mixing in one! quart of sand and gravel. To dry shoes, fill with crumpled newspapers, renewing as the paper absorbs the moisture. To clean and polish windows, mirrors, etc., dip papers in cold tea. To clean carpets, wet a newspaper with ammonia and water; squeeze, tear into bits, throw on the floor and sweep from wall to the opposite side. To keep fire all night in a range stove or grate, lay a folded newspaper on the coal. In the morning the paper ashes will bo removed more easily than coal ashes, maintaining the price 01 couou at a remunerative figure so that prosperity may continue to smile on our people. Let not the farmers be fooled another year by the s'v* n songs of those who I<-11 them the world will take at good prices ell the cotton they can produce; hut rather let them first see that their crops are so diversified as to insure each farmer a sufficiency of corn, meat, and ' other productions necessary for his home consumption. I)o mat and the cotton crop will no longer prove to ??e a mill stone dragging us uown into penury and want, i In this endeavor for better pilots let the merchant, the banker, the manufacturer and the professional man strike hands with the fanner, i for they, too, are unwilling to fee tho South deprived of the rnilllouK of dollars so necessary for her i growth and development. The nows, paper men, too, these giants of Influence and inolders of public opln i ion, can do the farmers of the South , a world of good if they will wage a battle for better prices for cotton i encouraging the fanners to hold cotton. Hold cotton! Hold cotton!, for hotter prices. If these people ' would enter Into the fight for better prices for cotton with only one fourth the enthusiasm they are givi ing to tho politics of the country it i would be but a short while before > prices would be far above those of . today. Tho Farmers Alliance, tho Farm ers' Union, the Southern Cotton As' sociatinn should all join their forces 1 in endeavoring to withhold cotton from tho markets until a much bet tor price is offered. Let these or! ganizations suggest days for the farmers to meet at their respective , meeting places, and take action. i Without unity of purpose and unity - of action wo can not hope to accom? plish anything. Hut let not the con, ditions wo aro striving for bo brought r about by the lawless night rider, out ' by orderly methods and by sane people who have a vital interest in i Southern life, and Southern progress. The time ia at hand to take action. T. B. PARKER. ti Mv Ol ( nil ^ a CAPITAL MOCK M HI U S LIABILITY OF M0( Kl?<?1 DFRS KECPRI I Y TO DKIOSITOKS 1)1 KB Robert H. K-erlx rough, H L Buck. Oeoige J. Holiday, We injitiDve t? j f> jxj cent nitt r* it youraceouiit ftORKKT B. HCAHBoHOtRUI, H I'HKHIIiKN T. BANK OF CON W A '? ? TOTAL ASSKTH Illltl * l?. T. McNeill, J. A. Mcl) II. < '. CoiitllH, >1. W. Collins, A "SavInRC Baal? has recently been atitutlon. Inquire for terniR and rnt< We wish to thank the public for tl and cordially solicit tlieir future busl D A. SPIVEY.V.P. < ihpi & I Ilv rwwj^rj ? ** /mm '"? fMi?n ^ ALL S?T UP RCAOV Tt> AUN K| Please send me Illustrated Catalog No. I FAIRBANKS, MORSE OO.NSl'l, <X)MMIT8 8U1CIDH. Kills 11iniseif in His Compartment* in (icrinuii Train. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, snys when the Hamburg Burlin oxpress arrived at Ludwigelut Bunduy morning the hotly of a man shot through the right temple was found in one of the compartments whi'h he had occupied alone. Tht; body wuh identified hy papeis on his person as that of Silas C. MacFarland. of Iowa. American con Bill general at large for the European district. It 1b evident that Con kuI MacFarlnnd committed sulclde. MrH. MacFarlnnd wan unable to give any reason, except that her hiiHband was greatly worriod of late. DEATH ROLL OKOWK. Five Hundred People, Horses and t.i hLit 1,. Cattle Drowned. A dispatch from Manila says the death roll of the storm In Cagayan valley October 1.1th, grows heavily ub reportH come In. Constable Arv, at Taburgo, reports live hundred persons were drowned there and all houses destroyed or damaged. Damage to tobacco is estimated at several million pesos. In the province of Abra a heavy loss of life and great damage to property in reported. It is known 209 people were drowned, and It is said other lives were lost. A hundred horses and cattle were drowned. Cnoiera has appeared in three towns of Abra province. * Hums, bruises and scratches, big and little cuts or in fact anything requiring a salve, are best and quickest soothed and healed by DrWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Halve. The best salve for piles. He sure you get DeWitt's. KolTl by Conway Drug Co. rp V, ?in (1 nrfi ?>n /-v C I I I* ? I/I/\ Tnr?n w i nc i an wjijn ui i 1 i/rv n. aiuu, are now under the control of the General Government. DeWltt's Little Early Hlsers, tho famous Jittlo liver pills. They are small, sure, safe pills. Bold by Conway Drug Co. The man who is always trying to get something for nothing gets mighty littU) satisfaction in the long run. At any time when your stomach is not In good condition, you shonld take Kodol, because Kodol digests all the food you eat, and it supplies health and strength for tho stomach in thUt way. You take Kodol Jusl for a little while when you have slight attacks of Indigestion, and you take it Just a little longer in order to get relief from severe attacks ol Indigestion or Nervous Dyspepsia Try Kodol today. Bold by Conwaj Drug Co. A spoony lover does not alwayi win by making stirring remarks. t s IIOKliY. y. S, C. $ .wooo 10 MX) i 50 000 1)0 000 J'lOKS W. R. I.cm in, V\'. A. Jobnaon, V ill A 3* rctxnav. t en )?nrh ct< j < 8.18. 11 ci v n JicL Brc'K, WJIJ. A. NIEKMUI, VKK Piiksident. C'AHnna. CONWAY \Y, S. O K .VI.II'IODII $250,000.00. rents cimnott, Jno. C. Hplroj, CI I1. Qiiattleliuuin, II. A. Spivvy, organized in connection with our InL?a In this department. loir liberal patronage In the pant, Ineaa. & Cashier. .. jl.-JK.3U4. v ' V* ^.^.Jack 01 AH Tnt.r, \ ?*2iW GASOLINE I;N(iINn * , K&?\ HGLLAliD FEED MILL J tT \\ TIiIh ir. tho only <<ntf>: tli:i? vlJ ^ *~V" m vA .'r1"'"'! 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