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Vx EXPLOITS SOUTH Tells of This Section's Commercial Advantages. , IMPORTS INCREASING In Speech Director l>n\ve at Southern 4 n SLn VM Tllllt VVIIUIII villa ^ . - Ocoiui Frontage of Southeastern Third of Union Kxccods That of the Remainder. Nearly 100 Southern cities were represented at Atlanta Wednesday at the first annual convention of the Southern Commercial Secretaries' t association. Statistics showing the South's resources were given by G. Grosvenor Dawe of Montgomery, managing director of the Southern Commercial congress. Mr. Duwc took as nis memo me potentiul greatness of the Southern States. "Viewed from the point of coast line, It Is veil to understand that the Southern States possess an-enormous advantage over tlit; other two-thirds of the United States; for the coast line of the Southern States Is 3,007 miloR, while the coast line of the North Atlantic States is 888 miles; of the Pacific coast 1,057 miles. "The natural advantages of const line are already asserting their influence, for we are able to say that a Southern port still holds the second | position for exports among all the! ports of the United States-?New Orleans in 1000?and now a Southern | port that nine years ago was wrecked and rent by storm, the port of Galveston "We are ab'o to show you thai the exports along the gulf now ox- i eeed the exports of Philadelphia and I Pof ten by 81 per ceTP. and the.' o jual n ore than 5 0 oi: cent of t.h? to'a. which belongs to the oversha ' o\t'.k>}Z port of New Vor t. The tabl?' of exports for 190 0 and 1 9 08 show that 2 7 per cent growth in exports has taken place in New York, Philadelphia and lloston regarded together. During this same time the gulf exports increased 31 per cent. Imports Increasing. "In the matter of imports?goods I coming to America for distribution f ?you will find that while the three great ports above mentioned have in-. creased 2 7 per cent, the Southern porta have Increased 97 per cent. Is it not reasonable to claim that the Southern States, by reason of their coast line, are coming to occupy an important relation to the maritime future of the United States? "When we consider also that all this swing of commerce is taking place prior to the completion of the ' Panama canal and that the Panama canal will help to pull Southward every inter-oceanic movement, you t must realize that the Southern ports will be on the very front doorstep of the world's future commercial movements. * "We also declare that the rivers of the South, navigable, and therefore some day to be brought into co-operation with the energetic men of th?> South, are more than two to one when compared with any other portion of the United States. The national conservation commission has reported that there <*re iti -the United States navigable streams amounting t to 26,410 miles. ' How much of ttiis is in the South? Over 18,215 miles. "This enormous total does not include a single utile of the Ohio, though it benefits Southern Stated through 900 miles. Neither does this total include any portion of the Missouri river. If the Mississippi be regarded as a feeder for the gulf commerce the mileage should be 2.'.,69 1 miles. Tills leaves only 2,719 mites of navigable streams to affect the commercial prospects of the remaining two-thirds tof it ho United States. Water Power Potential. "The vast Appalachian range, the j greatest mountain range in the United States, lying within the region of plentiful rainfall, is producing at present, unharnessed, every moment of every day 5,000,000 horsepower. The day is coming when, through conservation Impulses, this water will he used to drive the wheels of Industry and of transportation throughout, the South, thus indefinitely exi tending the life of power buried now in the coal Holds of the South, f "If you look at the estimates regaiding iha iron ore life of the United States, you will see that t.ho Southern Appalachian region is oxpectod to endure 100 years after the Hake Superior region is stripped and exhausted. Yet, with all the ad (vantages belonging to tno Houmeni extremity or the Appalachians, advantages so groat, that Birmingham , sots the price for pig iron, yot at present only about 10 per cent of 'ho pig iron of the United States is made in the South. Then look at the size and energy of Birmingham tho Birmingham district, Chattanooga and other cities in Tennessee and in Alabama dependent upon Iron oro, then realize that their marvelous growth to present dimensions has come through the creation of merely 10 per cent of the pig > WANTS CENSUS JOBS HOKDKS OF APPLICATIONS FOK CENSUS SUPERVISORS And Enumerators Are Pothering Congressman?Many Democrat* Seek to Got on Pay Hull. Members of Congress from South Carolina, and elsewhere, art* having the very life dogged out of them in consequence of the hordes of applicants for census supervisors and enumerators. Months ago, when the census bill was lirst taken up for discussion by Congress, prospective applicants all over the country thought it a good time to have their names annexed to the government pay roll. Some ol them lost little time in acquainting | their respective Congressmen with this fact, and the result is that some of the members are at their wit's ends to know how to stave off more a pplicants. The Democrats throughout the country have been told that they are to ha\ e fair consideration in the selection of supervisors, and that If a certain district is represented in Congress by a Republican a supervisor of faith will be appointed, and just the opposite if the district happens to be represented by a Democrat. That does not seem to be a good plan, however, for not a few Senators have been asking whether or not they are to be eliminated in the selection of these officials. Apparently it is one time when the members of the lower house have it their way. Representative Livingston, of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on the House appropriating committee Friday stated that if the Democrats get anything good from the distribution of ofllces in the compiling of the next census they must "light for it" before the President If they were in earnest in wanting these places, because that would probably be the only way they could land them. Another Southern Congressman ? Adamson, of Georgia, said that he didn't think the Democrats would have much of a show; in fact that it would be no more reasonable to expect consideration of the President in this matter than It would be to ask him to ignore Republicans and appoint Democrats for other ofllces. Supervisors will receive straight salary, and, in addition, will bo paid at the rate of $1 for each one thousand of population in their respective districts. The work will not cover a very Iong period of time, and as the actual labor of counting the people and securing other data will devolve upon the enumerators, It will be a comparatively easy task for the supervisors. The worst worried men now are the Congressmen, who are trying to satisfy their hungry constituents. iron of the United States. Then let your Imagination run riot and picture to vourself what will b?? the development of those portions of the coun .... I. ...I ,.r I A ....r- n/.nt I I I ) >N I 1 * I I IIIM?'iUI LJ I 1 " ) 9 f" I Vrill UII J are producing 90 per cent of the pi? , iron of the I'nited States and largely giving that iron its final form. I a\ oiuble Sit uatioi.. "The Southern States as a whole possess more general accessibility to j coast line, and therefore to the ooni| merec of the world than either of tin other thirds of the I'nited States A string and a pin wheel will enable yon to prove this. Von men \s he think on commercial subjects do not need that I should detail to you the advantages that rest with a portion of the county that can he statistical and governmental proof declare that it had more coast lino, more navigable streams, more wa terpower, more minerals conveniently arranged, more agricultural range more forests, more cheap land, mori accessibility to ports than any third of the Union. "The meaning of this summing uf of Southern opportunities is this: and none but the blind will fail to see it. That there is to come a time in the history of the United States as a whole, must have the support and development of the Southern States. Ft means that' our nation will never reacn hs iuu ^n'H.np.ss It means thin, also, that an sure ro tho sun shall ripe tomorrow theia 1b to pome a period of commercial development in the South compared with which the past, growth lias boor hut the tottering footBtopa of an Infant. These are not words of boasting or bombast, hut they are so rious words, based upon the Incontrovertible evidence of the South'.resources and what those resource! must lead to." Tho aftertion session was spon listening to a discussion of the goo< roods movement by (Ion. Oil fforc Anderson of Atlanta and Charles 11 Iloyt, superintendent of rou<l con struct ion of the United States gov eminent. After the papers had heei concluded, Mayor Maddox Invited th members to stop at his country horn while on the automobile ride. Th members did so and discovered tha Atlanta Is not so dry as tho prohi bitlontsts would have the public be - llovo. There were cigars, punch an , what the mayor dalled "otlje - things." SLAYlR is TAKtN MKSSKHVKY TO AXSWV.K ACCUSATION IX COL'ItT. Claims He Shot Constable ami Altmun In Self IK'ffnso?Inquest Held at Huvcnol. J. VV. Messervey was arrested Wednesday at Moggett by Magistrate Cowlos and later taken to Ravenel lor the inquest, and afterward was i transferred to the Walterboro Jail Kv I lenn I v ff I X ti t*\r ti i\ r I 1 ile. I %/ J i 'V 1 ?? u uv-auv i . Ill uv elared thai ho shot in self-defense. An inquest hold at Ituvenel into the killing of Constable C. 1*. Fishburno resulted in a vodict that tho deceased cuiuo to his doath from tho result of a gunshot wound indicted by John \Y. Messervoy. Magistrate Cowlos apparently had no trouble in arresting Messervoy, whom he put in charge of his brother, and the two were coming to Kuvenel when they were met by Deputy Sheriff lluckner, who took charge of the defendant. Messervoy declared that he had shot the constable only after the latter had drawn u pistol on him, i and that he had shot Mr. Altman I after the old gentlman had raised a stick to hit hhn. At tho hospital Mr. Alt man was reported to he "about the same." He has sons in Charleston who are seeing that he Rets every attention. Solicitor l'euril'oy made a motion before Circuit Judge S. G. \V. Shipp for a special term of court to convene at Walterboro Monday, August 2, to try J. W. Messervev, who was committed to jail. charged with the killing of Constable C. Flshburne at Havenel on Tuesday evening. The order was granted and this extra term of court will be presided over by Judge Shipp. MX. It 11S IU'llNKI) TO DKATli. Aged Charlotte Singleton Meets Horrible Ik'ath. A dispatch from Charleston says, having first been suffocated by smoke and being unable to move from her bod. Charlotte Singleton, colored, sixty years of age, was burned to death at 11 o'clock Thursday morning in a one-story hut on Heinz alley, by the Ashley River. Maria Williams, a married daughter of the deceased, and Joseph Williams, a twelve-year-old son of Maria Williams, barely escaped with their lives. The flames completely destroyed the house, and its loss is estlmat,1 t T?..u.. i\-. ... ?.v i ii<; ui ih'ii u i sue iir'1 is unknown, Chariotte Singleton was most horribly burned, In fact, there remained nothing of the body but portions of the trunk and the head. Acting Coroner Bohren* held an Inquest over the remains and the Jury rendered a verdict of accidental burning. The negroes lost everything In the house. The house was on fire when they awoke, and the rapid spread of the llames made it impossible to render any aid to the old negres. The deceased had been engaged In the selling of Vegetables. The house she occupied consisted of but two rooms. i ...... itai;\ ton sai.k. i Couple Would Spare Child Hardships by Ceding Better Home. > i At New York Harry Beach, twenty. two years old, and out of employ iiu-nt, and his wife, both of whom have offered their two-weeks-old baby for kji!< for $f?00 cash. \Vh?* 11 Reach's first wife died two yours ago she loft him with two children and h<* married his present wife six months later. [ In discussing thoir offer of the now baby for sale, 1 loach and his wife , said that to keep tho child would be only to inflict their hardships upi on him, and that bv selling the hoy . they would provide him with a good home and bring prosperity to themselves. i 1 i Tit A IN l\\U,S I \TO WATKIt. Crashes Through Itridge at Pomona, Kansas?Itescuers at Work. 1 , A dispatch from Kansas City says . an Atchison, Topeka &. Hunta Fe . train. No. f?, which left Kansas City . at ! o'clock Wednesday morning for . tho West,, hut which was dotourod n hecause of high water, crashed i through ?i bridge at Pomona, Kan., OS miles southwest of that place, t Wednesday afternoon. Rescue work 1 was carried on in row boats and I skiffs. The train was one of tho honv_ le-t traveled on the main line west . of Kansas City. It was running in i tho water over its rail when the acq cident occurfed, tiie traek slipping. n 0 Senate \ uti's Sum for Mrs. Hate. t Washington, July 7, ? Following a 1- long established custom In respect tc f- its employees, the Senate Wodnesduj d voted six months' salary to the wid r ow of the late chaplain, Dr. Ed ware Everett Hale. SHOT THROUGH HEART ITALIAN ClUAll MANlFAtTl KKH KI*A1N I.\ FOI L MANXKIt. Wife Does Not Hear lteport Hut I>iscwvcrs F'utal Wound When litis* i I bund's Cloth An* Removed. A dispatch from New York says ' what was at tlrst thought to have been a Fourth of July casualty, the.1 police now believe \\as a successful plot to murder. Joseph Fagano, a cigar manufacturer, was shot through tlw heart by a ritle ball as he was about to climb into bis 1 > *il in a I roar room on the third floor of his home at 2118 Chrystie street. His wife diil not hear tie* report of a ; shot and it was not until his clothing was removed that the bullet wound was discovered. The first police on the scene attributed tie- death to a bullet fired by persons cele- , brating the holiday, as there was i much shooting immediately after | midnight. Later, however, Mis. Pagano do clared that the life of her husband had been threatened because of troubles among certain Italian secret societies. Then the police investigated further and found that Pagano nan been snot by a rifle ami not by ;i pistol. A number of detectives were pi ned on the case, and before daylight four men were found on the roof ot a building across the street. They . were hiding behind a light .-haft, and were arrested. In a room occupied by two of the men on the fourth I floor of the building was found a ri- j lie which had been discharged recently. The location of the wound on I'agano's body and the course of j the bullet Indicated that the shot j had been lired from this building I across the area way. At the police station the four I prisoners refused to malte a statement. Accepting the theory that l'agano was murdered, the police believe that his assassins planned to kill him on the Fourth of July so that their shot would have been ; drowned in the noise of the general celebration. CIIKECOK 1'IK C1T1ZKN UU.I.KO. S. Siirratt Falls From I'oetieo and lir<Miks His Xcck. A special from Guffney s.'ivs: As a result of falling from a portico early Wednesday morning, Mr. Samuel Q. Sarratt, on#' of C'heroRee county's most prominent citizens, Ims d#'ud at his home two miles north of Oaffney with a broken neck. It is very hard to determine at what hour it. took place, as .Mr. Sarratt was in the habit of sleeping on the portico of the second story, and when the family arose early Wednesday morning he was found on the door steps with his neck brok#Mi. However, the body was stiil warm when found, not long after 7 o'clock. Mr. Sarratt was very widely known all o\er the county, having many prominent connections and being universally respected. II#- was about <>0 years old. havinir iivi*d in ttuii Hoot ion practically all his lifo, cngaged In f;<rminK- Ho is survived hy live ohildron, Messrs. J. K. S.'irratt, Morris SaiTutt and John Sarratt, Mrs. ,lo?* Humphries and Mrs. \\ ado H u mephries, all of that county Tho interment took place Thursday aftornoon at Providence church cemetery. PHOWNED AT HOCIHTV Mil.I.. Lad Mot Death in Waters of Kvans' .fontl. Monday Morning ahout 1 1 o'clock Douglas, colored, aged lf>, was drownod In the water below the Hood gates of ICvans mill pond near Society Ilill, S. C. Jesso and a companion attempted to swim up st ream from the bath houses to the tlood gates above where tin* water is over ten feet In depth. When ahout 'Jf> feet from the bunk nl>r?v.? lnu-n out, "I can't make it," and sunk and rose three, times anil went to the bottom. Search for the body was .made until a gig was stuck into the left leg, above the ankle, and the body was recovered. There was sadness on the faces of a very large crowd and great grief and lamentation among his relatives and friends, many of whom had toiled and wa'ted through the long hours of the day and night. AUK F<HM> (il l LTV. Two CiiiikIcii Men Scnlciircd to Servo Thirty Days or- Pay $100. A. L. and C. P. Lindsay Wednesday woro found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated na? , turn at Camden. The sentence way $100 or 30 days. This ease, which ' has created a great deal of talk, grew - out of an attack on R. I. Lane, f I traveling man, at the Hotel Camden the house Kept by the Lindsays. six coated WHKN TIIKlll IIO.MK IS DKSTIIOYKI> HY FIIIK. An Old Confederate Viivran and Five fhilddeti >1eet Horrible Death at Dtuivllli*. A dispatch from Danville, Va., says as the result of a mysterious lire, which totally destroyed the home of S. 10. llainlott at South Uoston I early Monday morning. live of their I ehildren ami II A Strange, aged 7 I, w ?*iburned to death, and another child, aged lour ycaiH, seriously | injured. Mr. and Mrs. Ilnmh tt scaped without Injury. The victims of tHo frightful affair arc: M. A. I Strung*1, Vcruic llainlett, aged 14 years; Heatrko Ilumlett, age seven years; Violet Ilumlett, ok*' >six years; Cecil Hr.'nlett, three years; Henry Hamlctt, age IX months. Mr. Hamlett, who Is employed with ! a planing mill at South lloston, resided in a two-story fiame building on tin; west side of the eify, near j the Norfolk and Western Kail way. I The lire was discovered at about 11 | o'clock Monday morning I>y neigh- I bora. At this hour th> occupants! of the hou.-e' had not been aroused, and the building was almost com-! nletelv -11 \ t li 11 n>i t in a 11I1..C i>,.. (.I-.. I miming the wonu on the south side of 11\ st ruct.ilre. 'I he resid?'ne? v..is threatening to fall in at almost an> minute, when Mr. Hamleit and his wife Were aroused. The} were on I the north side of the house, and their four-year-old ehlld was in the saute room The\ c-awled mi1 of the window on the front porch and drop ped the child to the ground. I loth of the child's a run wort broken hy the fall. The bahy was also slightly hnrued and its lace laeerated. Mr. and Mrs. Hanilett reached the ground in safety. All of the occupants of 'he building we te sleeping on the second story, and those who met death were on the south side of the house. When the lire was discovered it was impossible to save any of the children or Mr. Strange, all of whom it is thought had been burned to death by this time. Mr. Strange was a Confederate Veteran of Halifax county, and was in South Huston to attend the Fourth of July c.elebra| tIon. The building collapsed and fell a few minutes after Mr. Humlett and i his wife escaped. The six bodies of the victims of the tire w?ro burn , ed to a crisp, the remains an un- | ! recognizable mass of bones being taken from the debris. rOIJiOWKl) I I N'KHALS. i For Forty N ears Mau Itus Strange C *iist<>in. Daniel J. Gallagher, who. for fori ty years, has had no apparent, busiI n*'Bs except to follow funerals in t h" lower West Side section of New York, has been sent to an Institution for the blind. He was stricken shortly after the funeral a few days ago of Floreiioo 1). Sullivan. (ialhigher was known as "Johnny Lookup" because an eye aflliction ; which compelled him to tilt his In at' . backward so that he could see. When .about twenty years old he darted to j follow fun?nals, attending the err',oh in the ehurch<"-?. ami tin-:, run lulu.' alongside the In :d is in a d'"f l trot, leaving them only ^ hen ' h y 1 M-Jiehed t he ferry He was one of the many who lived oiT tin* bounty of "lUg Tim' Sullivan, and now that Sullivan is in iOurope, "Johnny T.ookup" had :o j seek an institution when he became t(daily I?1 ind. TK.VMI' SW IiS IWSSIiNGInltS. I'bigs ltio (.ramie Train and Wains Engineer of Had Itoadbcd. The lives of more than 200 perHons on a westbound ltio Grand" train leaving Canon City, Col., were j saved Wednesday by an unknown . tramp, who was left unrewarded. The train had Just passed Swallows, a little station two miles east of Canon City and was going at a forty-mile an hour gait when it. was (lagged. The tramp called the engineer's attention to a serious under; mining of the tracks just below. The roadbed was found to bo In :l (1}) n L'ernnti r?r??wl 11 l<??. f#?t- ...n.... .. X. ?... WW*. VI ? Viv/ll IV. I I U W 111 I l''n .which the passengers walked along for that distance while the train felt its way along and got, past the danger 'spot. In the excitement the hero was forgotten. (i.\S KM'LOSIOX KILLS NINK. Miners SulV(?cate in I'lt at Tolhrville, Near Trinidad, Colo. Nino men were killed Tuesday hy an explosion of gas In tho Cedar i 11 111 Coal & Coke Company mlno at Tollervllle, near Trinidad, Colo. All * hut one were foreigners, i The men were descending In ttu r cage. The explosion partly wrecker i the shaft and those who were not In , stantly killod woro suffocated by gas All of tho bodies have been recovered TARIFF BILL Ten Republicans Vote Against the Measure. PASSED BY SENATE ( losing Srnx-s \fl( r the L?oi?^ ITame Indeed, Hxiept for ('unfix.. vrrsj lletween Senator Aldrlch mid th?? Insurgent llepiihlu ;?ns. Vote Was l."? to 1(1. The fa riff full passed the Somfe just after ! I o'eloek Thursday by a vote of Ir? to I Itepublleaus vo fnk in the negative were Heverid^'\ ol u<ii<hi1<i , hi i?iuw, in.uisus, nrown, Nebraska; llurkett, Nebraska; d.tpp, Minnesota; (Crawford. South I>akota; Cummins, Iowa, DoltWcr, Iowa; L,iKollette, Wis^'oiisim ; Nelson, Minnesota. Mi Nnery, of l.ouitdana, win th? only l)cmocrat recorded in (to- allirma' i vo. Am it passed the Senate the pill contains almost 100 paragraphs. 1'lu* Senate made XIO amendments to t.]j? I louse provision, many of which wore adopted Thursday. The closing scenes in the Senate chamber wore tame indeed. Mr. !>.?Kol let Le's thl'ce-hour speech was earnest, hut not espccialv animated, ile had a slini audience. Senator* remained in their seats only when r?*(|Uiro?i to he t her,) to voto. '['hi' results of tho vote on the Ml) had boon long discussed. There v/ae no doubt of Its passage by tho u.uaJ 1111;iri<*?> committee majority. following sovoral hours of monotonous discussion of tho gonera! features of tho tariff bill, tho closing hours were characterized by a spirit. od controversy between Senator . AJdrich on tin* one hand and a number of tho insurgent Senators on tho othor as to tho standing of Republican Senators who might cast fhoir votos against, the bill. The bill boing put on Its passage, w:us passed. Upon motion of Mr. Aldrich, the Vice President announced the Senate confereeH as follows: Senators Aldrich, Harrows, TVt?rosot Halo, Cullotn, Kopublicans; and | Daniel, Money and llailey, D?n?o~ I crats. Aii KMITKP TO IUI.L HIMStlfJ'. ; Motliri' Si?i<-i<t?' ('noses Miiii to Try <4> laid llis Own Life. \ f V.. VI- Vnrli II..I >'>>. 0,.S. ... I ;i prisoner in the Kast. I0l;;hty-eitf hth street station because the police fear In* will kill himself if he is not rest rained Aftor visiting fho grave of her husband, his mother, Mrs. Krarmes Schmidt, roturnod home and committed suicide by turning on f he Kas. When I forman was told of his mother's death ho tried repeatedly to throw himself from the fourth story window of their flat and after a struj^h- to- wan arretted. (.IIOIU.IA TOWN MAKSIIAl, HIUJl. I i Acmscd of Xssjiiiltiiij* a Woman ?>f (lis T<>\\ii. At .It-KMp, (Ja., Town Marshal T. I M. Thomas is 'onflruMt in the county Jjiii! on a charge of criminal assault, upon ;i woman, who sworn out the warrant for his arrest. A preliminary trial has boon s*'t for July III. It is allowed that Thomas, on t ho pretext of havitiK a warrant for their arrest , took the woman and her sister from th'*ir home and, accompanim] by another man, took them in a biij*Ky a short distance in the country and forced them to submit to uiti s of a most revolting nature. Oil I *1 I.11.' I ' I I , . d II > I < \\'T?I >V? I' I . | ('often lvm Has Kriiclioil I'ihr (Vont y, M is?<i A dispatch from Now Orleans, La., says a report that the boll weevil in its flight eastward, has reached Pike county, Miss., and that several specimens were found near Magnolia. that State, is contained in the Picayune's weekly summary of cot( ton crop conditions In Mississippi I mid Louisiana. Tho peat appears to have gal nod an early start this seasun in tho infested territory, and cases are cited where planters are abandoning weevil-ridden cotton ami plowing op the plant. Prof. Ordway l)e?<l. Prof. John Morse Ordway. op to three years ago professor of metal lorgy at Tulano university, Now Or leans, died at his homo In Saogus, 1 Mass., Monday, aged 8t> years. > Tillman to tlio Woodmen. I At St. Louis Monday United States - Senator Tillman was the principal speaker at tho national conference . of the Modern Woodmen of America. 1