The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 23, 1909, Image 4
FIGHT TOJIEATH
Sanguinary Duel of Sisters-in-Law in Chicago
Apartment House.
BOTH DIE IN STRUGGLE
Mi*. Julia Tripp aiul Mrs. Jacob
Silvers Perish in Hand-to-hand
loniiMK wnii I'isioi and mine.
They Lived in the Same House and
Had Frequently Quarrels.
Mrs. Julia Tripp and her sisterin-law,
Mrs. Jacob Silvers of New
York, are both dead as the result of
a pistol and knife duel between the
two women in Mrs. Tripp's apartments
at Fifty-sixth street and Prairie
avenue, a fashionable residence
district of Chicago. It is said Mrs.
Silvers' husband left her about three
months ago because of her peculiar
actions. Mrs. Tripp was the wife of
a superintendent of a manufacturing
firm of Chicago.
There were ten bullet wounds and
one cut on the body of Mrs. Tripp
Mrs. Silvers had a bullet wound in
the chest and several knife slashes.
Only one revolver was found in
the apartments, ,bi*t eignt empty
shells indicating that the revolver
was emptied and reload ;d during the
struggle. The furnishings o f the
apartments were in disorder and in
every room there wosa evidences of
a desperate struggle.
Mrs. Tripp was ful'y dressed but
Mrs. Silver was in her un iorc'othing.
Mrs. Silver had been staying at the
THnn hnnin fnr nhrmt n mnnlh fi n d
the two women are said to have had
frequent quarrels principally over
the division of household duties.
One strange feature of the case
Is that no one heard any shots. The
appeals for help were heard, hut
no one made any attempt to enter
the apartments until after the police
had been called.
Shortly after 3 o'clock In the
afternoon Mrs. Tripp appeared in the
hallway in the front of her apartment
screaming for help.
"I am being murdered in here!"
she shouted.
At almost the same time a woman
in a blood streaked night gown was
seen at the rear entrance of the
apartment by the janitor. "Come
quick and save me," she cried. "I
am being killed."
When the apartment was entered
blood was found on the parlor curtain,
and several pictures had been
broken and chairs overturned. In
a bed room off the parlor Mrs.
Tripp was found lying on the floor
fully dressed. Her face and waist
were covered with blood and a pool
had formed beneath her. She was
dead.
Separated from this bed rom by
portiers was another room. Mrs.
Silvers lay on the bed in this room
and her night gown and tho bed
Mloth|s were covered with >blood.
Blood was gushing from a deep cut
in her forehead. She was unconscious
and died later.
At Mrs. Silvers' right side was a
revolver and on the ffoor were a
number of empty shells. Search of
the rooms failed to disclose the knife
with which the cuts had been made.
CITY MAIISHALL KILLED
By a Blow From Young Man He
Had Put Vnder Arrest.
At Jesup, Ga., Marshal G. B. Pope,
was killed Saturday afternoon by
a blow over his heart in a desperate
struggle with Edward Tyre,
Brantly Tyre and James Tyre, prominent
young white men, whom he was
attempting to arrest.
It is not known which one of the
Tyres inflicted the fatal blow. All
? r. oo oHnmittn/l tn
WCIU a ut'nau an m.vv?i|/vvU
escape, and lodged in Wayne county
jail.
Intense feeling exists against the
young men. The officer was attempting
to arrest them on charges of
disorderly conduct.
llrantly Tyre and Jaines Tyre are
sons of County Commissioner Geo.
Tyre. Edward Tyre is their cousin.
LITTLE GIRL IS MURDERED.
Two Other Chldren Badly Wounded?No
Clue to the Crime.
A dispatch from Utica, N. Y.,
?ay& a crime for which there, at
present, appears to he no explanation,
was committed against three
Italian children there a few nights
ago.
They are Theresa Proeipo, seven
years old, who is dead, shot through
the heart; Fannie Infusino, six years
old, badly wounded in the arm, and
Freddy Infusino, two and a half
years old, shot through the bowels
and will die.
There appears to he absolutely no
explanation as to why the children
were shot. The children had been
missing since 7 o'clock Sunday
evening, when they were seen talking
with an unknown man.
TELLS FARMERS TO HOLD
A 8HOHT CHOP PUTS Til KM IN
COMMAND OK SITUATION
And Thoy Should Moke the Best
Use of it by Putting Cotton iu the
Warehouses.
There is no reasonable probability
of a large cotton crop this year.
The ever increasing demand for raw
VVIWU III nr>*. U' Illl-l. R{flUUOI P um?l
have cotton. The supply being curtaUed,
as it undoubtedly will be by
this year's shortage, the increased
spindles of the world creates an increased
demand, which means logically
high prices for the South's
great staple. It is up to the cotton
growers of the South to seize this
opportunity to reap the golden harvest
that invites them to put in the
sickle. There should be no bargain-counter
sales for cotton this
fall.
1 urge every farmer to ware
house his cotton, borrow money on
his ware house receipts and pay off
his indebtedness. Money is plentiful
and there is no need for him to
rush his cotton on the market and
glut it during September, October,
November and December, as he has
so often done in the past. If no
ware house is near him it will pay
him to ship cotton to the one the
nearest at hand. Our farmers
should this fall make a supreme effort
to market their cotton gradually,
.and only at remunerative prices.
Already the spinners are counting
on buying their supply of cotton
during the first few months of the
cotton marketing season, as they
did last year, and as they have done
for many years. They expect the
bulk of the cotton to bo thrown on
the market in three or four months,
the beginning of the selling season.
This they hope farmers will do, so
as to depress the price.
Now, brother farmers, let's view
the situation from a business standpoint.
You have been told for a
long time that supply and demand
was the only thing that figured in
the pricing of the staple. I want
to say to you that the demand is
now much greater than the supply.
So it is evident that you have the
situation in your hands. We cannot
make this year, according to the best
estimates, more than eleven and a
half million bales, and this means a
starvation crop.
Statements from Cotton and Cotton
Oil News, of Dallas, Texas, are
to the effect that the boll weevil has
devastated the fields of two States,
that Louisiana and Mississippi are
suffering from pests and that reports
received at the Government bureau
of entomology at Dallas from the
"boll weevil areas" of Mississippi
and Louisiana show that an average
of 00 per cent of the cotton boll
squares are infested at present with
the weevil.
In the Baton Rouge neighborhood
Dr. Hunter, who is in charge of the
Southern field crop investigation,
says that 05 per cent of the squares
are infested, while in the vicinity
of Natchez, Miss., 00 per cent is a
fair figure. This, Dr. Hunter says,
is as bad as the worst years of the
weevil ravages in Texas. In all
sections of the Mississippi bottoms,
where the weevil is at work. Dr.
Hunter has established substations, '
iiiiu 11 is irom inese mat the reports \
mentioned above came. Regarding
the condition in Texas, at the present ]
time, Dr. Hunter said: <
"West of a line connecting Weatherford
and Austin, the dry weather <
has had the effect of practically re- I
ducing the damage incident to the i
boll weevil to nothing. Through the
central portion of the State the i
damage is considerably less than it
was last year. But at the same time
this report must not be considered
mis meaning that the cotton crop
will be better, for it will not. In
the same proportion that the dry
weather has affected the boll weevil,
it has also affected the cotton
stalks."
Texas is the hope of the past.
Not in the recollection of the oldest
inhabitants has the blighting effect
of a hot wind of the tirst three days
of last week been paralleled. That
spell has cost the South fully half
million bales of cotton. It is the
worst spotted crop, too, within the
recollection of the earliest settler.
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. m: uMHiiiK'- >o me crop ?n me aouin- I
west, and especially Texas, is little
short of a disaster, and cotton should
he selling for a high price.
I know some farmers have solo
their cotton for future delivery, and
they vAill deliver it just as fast
as they can. .lust think for a moment
what such a man has done.
He has furnished ammunition to the
enemy to shoot hint with. He is
killing the goose that has laid the
golden egg. And the man who sells
his cotton this way is one of the
worst cotton bears on the market.
Of course, such men will be glad
for cotton not to go higher than they
have sold. So do not he scared when
you seo them delivering tTieir cotton.
It will soon be out of your
way. Let our cotton grow^-u use
good judgment, sell whenever the
price will justify, and not oefore.
The holders of spot cotton have the
| SHARKS AND TURTLES.
Passengers on HU'amor llacl Great
Target Practice.
A dispatch from New York says
there is no controversy between Capt.
Tarnow and the passengers of the
Atlas Line steamer Siberia over who
first saw a number of sleeping turtles
and a school of sharks off Capt Hatteras
a few days ago. The twenty
passengers and the officers saw them
at the same instant, according to all
reports, and some crack revolver
shots t ried ilnmuixa ?r* iim
. X. V, x? ?-. ???% ^ vv/ III VJ 11 n exeptced
visitors. A11lioukH al)out
fifty shots were fired at both turtles
and shark, there is no report of any
mortality. Some of the passengers
are certain that a 15-foot shark that
came within fifty feet of the steamer
was hit, although he showed no
signs of distress and easily got away
from the steamer when he gave himself
the jingle hell. *
TWO BLACK FIENDS SLAIN.
They Entered a Lady's Boom and
Shot and Killed Her.
News of the killing of two negroes,
following the slaying of a white
woman, was received from Bellamy,
a lumber camp 20 miles west of
Deniopolis, Ala . Two negroes,
Robert dully and John Holly, Sunday
night entered the home of a
man named Gray. Mrs. Gray was
awakened, and when she failed to
heed the order to stop screaming was
shot and killed by Gully. Gray
brained the negro with an axe, but
not before Gully had shot him in
the leg. Holly was captured later
and was made ouick work of hv n
posse of Gray's neighbors.
Religious Sentiiiient (jnaving.
The pessimists who have loudly
proclaimed that this is a godless
and churchless nation get no comfort
from the United States religious
census for 1906, just issued. Nearly
33.000,000 church members, being
3 9.1 per cent of the population, as
against a little over 22,000,000 members
representing 32.7 per cent c"
the population in 18 90 does not look
as if the American people have lost
faith in God or are living unrighteous
lives. Of course some of this
membership is "not working much
at it," as the boy said of the man
whose practice did not square with
his profession, but that has always
been the case. It is also true that
much of this membership is not regularly
attendant at church services.
Yet allowing for all this the fact remains:
lllilt I tl<>
....... i in i vMftiiMis >-f 111 linent of
the people is strong and steadily
increasing.
Killed by Train.
At Spartanburg Glover Acton, 10
years old, employe at the Spartan
mills, was struck by passenger train
No. 3 8 on the Southern railway near
the Green street crossing Saturday
afternoon at 5 o'clock and instantly
killed. His skull was crushed, his
neck broken, his left arm broken
and the wall of his left chest crushed
through. It seems that the young
man was standing on the track of
the passenger train watching a
freight going south.
Comet Whs Seen.
For the lirst time in 7 8 years
Halley's comet has been observed
with the naked eye. The observation
was made by Professor S. W.
Hurnham of Yerkes observatory, at
Lake Geneva, Wednesday and Thursday
night.
Dpportunity of their lives. I want
to urge you to ware house your cotton,
borrow money on your ware
house receipt, pay off your debts
and market the cotton, as the wotlil
needs it, and our country will be
prosperous.
The deterioration of the crop in
all of the States is of such a nature
that it is now too lato for it
to recuperate and make anything like
a full crop, no matter how favorable
the seasons nmv ~~? ? "
.j 111 um uuw ail, SO
realize you have the situation in
your own hands. I want to urge
every farmer to sow largely of wheat
and oats; for corn, flour and bacon
are now very high. They can be
raised for much less than half the
cost at which farmers are buying
today, and we have every reason to
believe they will lie higher another
year.
Let us begin now to dlversfy our I
crops for 1910. Make home selfsupporting
and self-sustaining, and
our country will grow rich. I want
to urgo upon every farmer to study
the conditions of the cotton crop in
all the cotton belt States, and I am
sure he will not dump his .cotton on
the market as he has done in the
past.
Just a word about cotton seed.
Remember the supply this year will
be short and the demand great for
cotton seefl products. When you
sell your seed, be sure to make arrangements
for the prico of meal
and hulls, or you will be caught in
a trap. You probably havo used
good judgment in growing your
crop, and it behooves you now to
use better judgment in selling.
B. Harris.
Ex-President State Farmers' Union.
Pendleton, S. C.
SHORT COTTON CROP
SILLY SAYS IT IS THE WORST I
IN FORTY YEARS.
He Thinks the Production Will Be
Two Million Hales I>ess Than the
Requirements.
"The condition of the cotton crop
over the entire South is very bad,
I think the worst that it has been in
the past twenty-three years, and I
might further state in the past forty
years, yet with two or three years
of bad cot ton crops and hiph prices,
the farmers will be in the best condition
that they have ever been,"
said Dan J. Sully, the "Cotton King,"
in an interview given out in Columbia
on Friday.
The Columbia correspondent of
i no .News and Courier says Mr. Sully
wont to Columbia for the purpose
of conferring with Conunisioner
Watson concerning the more intelligent
marketing ot the cotton crop.
Data and statistics were secured from
the commissioner in reference to
lOuropean grading, questions involved
in exportation and baling.
A further conference will be held
on September 2 8 in Washington,
when John Hays Hammond and
other prominent men will bo present.
When seen. Mr. Sully talked very
freely, discussing the general conditions
of th" cotton in the South and
the work that his agents were accomplishing
toward the materialization
of a plan for a more intelligent
way of marketing the South s greatest
product.
When asked what the price of cotton
would he, he said: "Oh, that
depends on certain conditions, but it
will be very high, for the consumer
will want about thirteen million bales
of cotton, and the yield will be only
about eleven million bales, produced
on about thirty-two million acres of
la nd."
He stated that he had a number
of agents at work in the West, and
that the crop was very poor there
on account of the excessive heat and
lack of rains.
"1 notice in traveling through
Georgia and South Carolina," said
Mr. Sully, "that the farmers are
planting more corn than ever, and
out of Augusta I saw some corn that
would rival a picture I saw in one
of the magazines the other day of
some two-story corn from Kansas,
and in inv opinion the corn crop
will bring good prices this year."
"Mr. Sully." said one of the newspaper
men. "do you not believe that
with a short cotton crop, the farmers
will he in better condition than
at the present?" "Why, of course,'
replied the Cotton King, "prices tiro
hound to go up and should the farmers
of the South get fifteen and sixteen
cents for their cotton for the
next two or three years, they would
he kings among us."
A very high compliment was paid
to Commissioner Watson. A question
concerning the cotton crop in
South Carolina was asked the com- i
missionor by one of the reporters, i
and Mr. Sully, placing his hand on i
the commissioner's arm, said: "This t
man's work is being recognized all i
over the world." 1
Mr. L. A. Green, of Greenville, the i
inventor of the new cotton grader, 1
?r?o n, > iMior wnn Mr. Sully. Mr. 1
Green gave a very interesting ac- i
count of what prompted him to in- t
vent the grader. He stated" that {
about fifteen years ago he was en- 1
gaged in the cotton buying business j
at Greer, one of the best known cot- <
ton markets in the Piedmont sec- t
tion of the State, and that the house 1
for which he worked frequently call- I
ed him down on account of his grad- j
ing. He stated that these occur- |
ranees put him to thinking, and he j
decided that there was a better wav
of grading cotton, so he set to work
to invent an instrument for the pur*- ]
pose. *
Will Write About Red Shirts.
Senator Tillman is working up a
pamphlet on the famous "Red
Shirts." Senator Tillman was among
I the leaders of the band of brave
Carolinians, who took such an important
part in reclaiming Carolina
from the carpetbaggers and black
rule immediately after the war. No
doubt the senator will compile an
excellent work and some interesting
Carolina history will be recorded In
Uia nomnhlo*
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Dead in llis Huggy.
Mr. J. Warren Tilakely, one of (he
most substantial citizens of Laurens
county, was found dead in his buggy
late Tuesday afternoon, the news of
which spread rapidly over the city
and county and caused many expressions
of regret. Heath was in all
probability due to heart failure, as he
was well when he left home. He was
73 years of age.
Wlifto Men Convicted.
At Columbia in the circuit court,
Lonnie Hall and John White on trial
for the murder of Eber Ashford,
were convicted of manslaughter.
White was given twelve years and
Hall ten years. Hall broke down and
cried..
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ILL HEALTH THE CAUSE
BANKER, HEAD OF UNION TRUST
t*)., KILLS HIMSELF.
John W. Castles, One of the Most
Prominent Men in New York,
(.hits His Own Throat
John W. Castles, president of the
Union Trust Company, of New York
city, capitalized at $1,000,000, a
director in other well known corporations,
and prominent in club
and social life in New York and
the South, cut his throat from ear
to ear in the Grand Union Hotel
Monday afternoon and was found
dead stretched across a bed. He
had been in ill health for some time,
and his suicide is ascribed solely to
a nervous breakdown and not to
iinancial troubles.
His body was discovered about 9
o'clock Monday night by his brother,
Burton S. Castles, who, having become
alarmed at Mr. Castle's failure
to return home from the bank, began
a search through the hotels of
the city. Arriving at the Grand
Union, at 42d street and Parke avenue,
he found that Mr. Castles had
registered there under his own name
it 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon,
ind had gone immediately to the
room assigned to him on the second
floor. As his body was found cold
indications are that he ended his
ife soon after closing the door be
tiind him. The body, dressed only 1 *
n the under garments, wa9 lying
lcross the bed in the room, while on
i table nearby was a bloody razor,
with which he ended his life. Exlmination
showed that he had severed
both the windpipe and the caroid
artery, but notwithstanding this
lad made his way to the bed before
tie expired. The position of the ra',or
leads to the belief that he stood
before a mirror while slashing his
throat.
On a dresser near the bed there
was an eight ounce bottle, unlabelled,
but containing a pungent acid.
Whether he had taken any of this
before cutting his throat had not
been ascertained at last reports.
a pnysician was summoned hastily
after the body was found, but the
banker was beyond aid. The police
and coroner were then notified and
an investigation begun.
According to his friends, Mr. Castles
was broken in health by overwork,
and had had little connection
with the Union Trust Company since
assuming the presidency of the in-!
stitution on January 1, last.
Not long ago Mr. Castles' condition
became so serious that he was
sent to a sanitarium at Kerhonkson,
N. Y., in Ulster county, where he
remained for three months under
treatment.
Mr. Castles' widow and two children
are in the Adirondacks. She
was notified of her husband's death.
Coming orieinnllv f rem tHft I
w ^ . . viil VI1V> UUUtllt
where ho was well known In Texas
and Louisiana, Mr. Castles moved to
Now Yrok to assume the presidency
of the Guaranty Trust Company several
years ago. Rut in the latter
part of last year he resigned this
position and on the opening of the
new year stepped in as head of the
Union Trust Company.
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Attack French Post in China.
A dispatch from Saigon, French
Cochin, China, says a band of pirates
under the command of Carinth, son
of Dethan, recently attacked the
French post at Bayon. Three members
of the French force were killed
and seven, including Captain Fontaine,
were wounded. The pirates
were repulsed with the loss of ten
men killed.
It's not unjust to say that justifiable
justice is just the thing. -A