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"V " LOSING MONEY Cotton Mills of the World Must Reduce Price of Cotton or RAISE PRICE OF CLOTH Agreement Proposed by Ark wright Club Itcprescuting Fourteen Millions of Seventeen Millions Spindles In New Englnnd?The SoutIter .1 und English Mills in Line, Too, A dispatch from Boston, Mass., - * saya a gigantic movement born of unroBt of long standing is in progress throughout the loading cotton textile districts of the world, looking towards a general curtailment of production during the remaining months of this year and in 1910. The principal reasons advanced for the movement are the gradual increase In the cost of raw goods markets to respond in a way which would assure continued profit to manufacturers durlug tho next 12 months. In Lancashire, England, tho ya"n spinners have been running their mills on short time for two months, and recently many other English mill owners voted to shut down two rays each week until November N. On September 13, the Arkwright Club of Boston}!- representing 13,000,000 out of 17,000,000 spindles in New England, sent out to all the cotton mills In this district, which Is second in the industry to Lancashire, forms of an agreement for signatures for curtailment. The Investigations of the executive committee of the club convinced it that 110 difficulty would be experienced in securing the signatures representing seven million spindles. TK? nrormo t l/\n on 1 lu far t ho U M U. A uc U|n/DI VAAtlU IV/I Vll\ tMtii pension of work for 224 working hours between tho date of the agreement and August 1, 1910, to become effective when no less than seven million spindles have been signed up. Reports from different sections of Now ICnglund indicate that the proposition of tho Arkwright Club is meeting with an encouraging response. Such a curtailment, however, is not llkoly to become effective in this State In the immediate future, as many of the mills that will sign an agreement will bo unable to lill present orders without steady running until well into January. The Rhode Island and Fall River manufacturers are, as a rule, willing to curtail production, providing that they are not called upon to withhold goods while outside centres continue to run in full. The ourtailmont movement is of great interest In New England, and ^ other places whore tho operatives have been refused a restoration of a Y ten per cent cut in wages made in 1908. It is suggested that if tho New Bedford manufacturers are in sympathy with the 2 0-day closing movement tho effect of a strike in that city would bo partially nullified. The curtailment has also been taken up by tho Southern cotton mill owners. The board oQ governors of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association at a -mdeting in Charlotte, N. C., adopted resolutions finer fn Y-f V? thnlr rlllllll t ll II t tllft iV/l V U VUV*? VM??V v>. W present day disparity between th v price of cotton and cotton goods procludee the possibility of tho successful operation of Southern mills. A committee was appointed to form* nlate a curtailment agreement, which every mill in the South will be urged to sign. In certain cotton producing and milling centers the claim is made that the present curtailment movement is, largely an attempt to hold down the i price of the staple. The officials of the operatives' unions In several New England cities profess to see in tho compaign an attempt to avoid an advance in wages, but the officials of tho Arkwright Olub deny that the wage question nas anyuuug to uo with their existing plans. The cotton mills of New England, Including yarn mills, employ upwardsof 200,060 hands. , Killed by Ydghtning. During a heavy thunder storm at Bethuno one night last week lightning struck the bed In which Messrs. ^ Malcolm and Duncan MeOougan, two brothers, were sleeping. Mr. Dun-| can MeOougan was instantly killod, while Mr. Malcolm MeOougan was severely shocked. These men were well-to-do farmers and lived about four miles from Bethune. Fatal Pistol Duel. In a plptol duel at Dako Butler, Fla., late Saturday afternoon, C. A. Rich and John Parker were both killed. Parker died on the train en route to a hospital for medical attention. The other man died ln' atantly. SUBSC VICTIM OF ROBBERS UNKNOWN HIGHWAYMAN CKUSH158 IN SHOWMAN'S Skull With u IHvudly Weapon and Tlien Hobs Him of AH the Mouey He Hud. A disjvatch from Washington. N. C., nays one of the boldest and most daring assaults and robberies that has ever taken place In that city was committed on- Saturday night between 12 and 1 o'clock on east Main street when Mr. C. K| Shafor, owner of several of the liarkoot carnival hnowh, which nave iwen exnumiug In that city for the past week, was waylaid on his way to his boarding house by a thug, who coming up behind struck him a powerful blowever the right eye with an old gun barrel, felling him at a single blow, and very nearly killing him. Mr. Shafer was found in a semiconscious condition some time after by Mr. 11. W. Hell, manager of the local telephone exchange while on his way home, and ho immediately telephoned Dr. Joshua Taylor, who came for the wounded man in an ambulance and took him to the Washington hospital, where an operation was performed at which it was found that a largo section of the skull was crushed in. and pieces of bone resting on the brain. Dra. David and Joshua Taylor, assisted by Dr. 10. M. Drown, performed an operation at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, removing a largo amount of crushed bono, and saturating the injured and lacerated membrane. When found both pockets, of the man had been rilled and between $75 and $100 had been stolen. The patient regained consciousness the next morning, and gave a partial description of his assailant. There are slight, hopes for the recovery of the injured man. Local police are at work but there have been no arrests yet. TKXAS LAM) BOUGHT ? ? By Foreign Spinners bo Make Cotton for Themselves. A deal has just been closed whereby 250,000 acres of land have been sold to a syndicate representing British and German spinners who propose growing cotton for direct shipment to Liverpool and Berlin spinners. Agents for the syndicate hold options on more than f?0,000 acres more. While the price is not announced, the consideration is said to bo about $4,000,000. The land is situated in Webb, La Salle, Fisco and Medina counties in southwest Texas, convenient to the railroads and close to several trcrman settlements. The cultivation of the land will be mainly by German farmers. The plan is to colonize the cotton growers in small settlements in the center of sections containing about 5,000 to S.000 acres and the cotton crops will bo pledged to the spinners and shipped direct to them. This project has been considered for several years, but it is tho first time tli?* spinners actually havo bought land in the United States. Tho Farmers' Union has fought the movement for three years. The spinners declare It a stroke of economy on their part and argue that the growers who sell cotton direct to them will make bigger profits than under the present system. ia>nc; loht child Foun<l by a Dream Which the Mother I(a<l I*ust Week. Finding her daughter, who had been lost since in infant, eighteen years ago, through the medium of a dream, was the experience of Aire. II. L. Ellis, of I'ensacola, Fla., who left Saturday for Jonesboro, Tenn., to visit her long lost child. According to Mrs. Ellis, her husband died in Jonesboro shortly after her child was born, and the baby was turned over to a neighbor until the mother could come to Ponsacola and establish herself in business. Three months later Mrs. Ellis went bae.k to Jonesboro for the baby, only [ to find that her neighbor had moved to parts unknown. For live year^ she searched continuously for the child, but finally gave up in despair. About a week ago Mrs. Ellis had a dream, in which she saw her daughter hack In Jonesboro. She t r? 1 cy r r\\\ i\A f t>L>rwlu I * ?>*?? / i t n ? ?? i?11 i i iwinin Ml illdl \?n.j and received a reply that ner daughter, who had recently married, had returned with her husband to that city and did not even know that her mother was alive. Murderer Hanged. At Natchitoches, L#a.. Friday Bud Zeno, a negro, was hanged for the murder of his wife and another wo1 man in la07. filBE Nl STORM WRECKED The City of Key West, Florida, Becomes a Mass of Wreckage. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Gctlo of Cyclonic Proportion** Sav?m'|?s Koutlioa*tern Part of Florida IVnitwular, Taking a Northeasterly Ooutno and Doing Om?t Daim^o to Property. Ah a result of tho hurricane, which struck the southern coast o f Florida Monday morning. Key West is a mass of wreckage, and the damage to property is estimated at $2,000,000. MartiaJ law was proclaimed by the mayor at 0 o'clock Monday and the Key West Guards are patrolling the city. Chaos reJgtis on every hand, and few people remain in their homes, hundreds of which have either been totally wrecked or damaged. It is impossible at this hour (<> say whether there has been loss of life. II is feared that many lives have been lost along the coast. The storm reached its height at I o'clock Monday afternoon, when the wind reached an <*stlmatod velocity of one hundred miles an hour. There was a hard, steady blow from 8 a. in. to 3 p. uj., when the wind began to die down, and by -1 o'clock the centre of the hurricane had passed this point. While the hurricane Is the worst, that Key West has ever experienced the local weather observer announced that the indications are that the entire east coast of Florida will suffer terribly. Of one hundred local vessels In the harlK>r Monday morning but live remain at anchor, the others having either gone to sea or been washed upon the boachea. The streets along the water front are a mass of wreckage. Brick as well as frame buildings throughout the city suffered alike from the fury of the heavy wind, and many miraculous escapes from death or serious injury have been i rpM U!U. Besides the BOToral scores of residences each totally wrecked or blown frotn their pillars, nine factories wore partially destroyed, including the Havana-American, Martinez, Nichols, Kuy Lopez, Manuel Lopez, Kloitas Torria, Cortez, and Wolf cigar manufacturers. No. 1 and No. 3 engine houses of the. city tiro department were destroyed, the firemen narrowly escaping, but several of the horses being killed. The top of the First National Bank was blown off, the postollice damaged and two running gears of the Government coaling station were wrecked. Every telephone and electric light polo on I)avlH street, the principal thoroughfare of the city, were blown down. Ah soon us the wind had subsided plundering began. The city police was unable to cope with the situa1 tion and the mayor decided to take stringent measures to suppress the looting, his proclamation of martial ' law n'sulting. Almost every nationality in represented anions the city's population of more than 20,000, about one-half of whom are employed in the cigar manufactories, sponge Usheries and . salvage companies. LABOKMU GMTH FAT HA LAKY. I How a Man CJots Kvon With the Big ]/c?th?T Trust. , A dispatch from KUzabeth, N. J., says that John T. (Jeorge, although employed as a common laborer in tin* . plant of the Harrington Leather Com. pany. enjoys a salary of $10,000 a - year. That was hi? salary under I contract as vice president of the com, pany until It was Isnight out by the United St.at<*e leather Company recently. The new owners asked for Mr. . George's resignation; he refused and i then came an order directing Mr. , George to don an apron and report ill the shoes for work Awn in Mr I George surprised the trust by doing that vi^ry thing, Ho came to work > in nih automobile and had l)i? chauf four call for hiru in time to take him . to lunch. I Since then Mr. George haw been keeping it up and ways that he rather , enjoys it.. He received no extraordinary privileges and inay see no visitors during working hours, but once his apron is off, Mr. George becomes I the wealthy man again and drives ? home It his automobile as be has . done for years, lie says that he will never quit. )W TO TWO OF A KIND LiOV. JOHN A. JOHNSON AND (JOV. MILKS H. McSWKKNKY. The Augusta Herald 1'oinUt Out a Great Singularity in Their Lives and Careers. In speaking of the recent death of Gov. Miles H. McSweeney the Augusta Herald savs his "death followed closely upon the death of Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota, who alHO died in a hospital. Concerning Gov. Johnson's death the papers had much to say, because ho I was a prominent figure In national politics and the prospective Democratic candidate for the presidency. Concerning ex-Governor MeSweeney's death the papers said but little. Most of the South Carolina lmjxrs gave his death brief editorial mention. In papers outside of the State his death was given as a three-line news notice and therewith dismissed. "And yet Gov. McSweoney was as great and as good a man as Gov. Johnson. Hut he was tin ex-governor when he died, and not tin active governor as Gov. Johnson. Neither was he prominent in national politics as was Gov. Johnson, nor was it his fate to be the citizen of a possible doubtful State, instead of a rockribbed Democratic State. All these things helped to bring Gov. Johnson into public notice, while the absence of these conditions prevented Gov. AleSweeney from becoming known outside of his own State. Yet it wasn't any of these things that were mentioned to his credit when Gov. Johnson died. The facts about him and nts me w men were principally mentioned toy all oulogists wore t^at ho was inmost as a governor, true to his duty and to tin* people, and that he was a self-made man who from the humblest beginning had raised himself toy his worth and efforts to the highest ollico in his State. "The same could toe said of C5ov. M (-Sweeney. Everything that was said of Cio v. Johnson along these lines applied v\ith equal truth and force to (lev. McSweeucy. His father died when he was small, leaving his family In very straitened circumstances. At a very early ago young McSwoeney was compelled to become a breadwinner. Tliis lie became, as a newsboy In Charleston, when only nine years old. He studied at night, gained an education as best toe could, drifed into newspaper work, then into polities and tonally became governor. Tim experience nf o i??l \! ,.t? '? *" ? 1 w I u\'ii Iir\;u (IIKI iU I o? ai U <11most identically alike in their early conditions, struggles and tinal hikv e.ess. "As governors also their course was much the same. Gov. Johnson was popular with all the people because he was so fairtninded and honest, and Gov. McSwoeney was popular with the people for the same reason. In devotion to the interests of the people and sterling honesty in otl'iee, as well as in his rise to the governorship from the very humblest beginning, the story of Gov. McSweoney's life furnishes a striking parallel to Gov. Johnson's life. Yet when they died almost simultaneously about Gov. Johnson the pane rs iiimnronllv n/mliln'# ?..??? ? , V ..V./ wui\tu t naj uuif Vl^u that wan good, and Gov. MoSweeney received scarcely a word except the bare notice that he had died. The irony of fate! FI/OltlDA PHYSICIAN WOUNDKD. Mortally Shot by Miui Whom Ifo Ha<I Forc<*l to A|K>logi/o. At Hushnoll, Fla., I)r. J. L. Skipworth, one of the most prominent physicians in that section, wan shot and fatally wounded Sunday afternoon by II. J. Thomas, following? an altercation several days ago. Dr. Skipworth met Thomas and demanded an apology for alleged remarks made concering him, requiring Thomas to get on hiu knees. Thomas made the apology and as Dr. Skip worth turned to walk away, nicked up a shotgun in a drug store and tired both barrels. Dr. Skipworth was taken to Ocala, and is expected to dio before a very great while. White Woman llenlcii. At Danville, 111., the police are searching tor a negro who entered the home of Mrs. Alice White and kicked and beat her so that she probably will die. The man followed Mrs. White home, forced his way into her house, and demanded that she accompany him to a place whore, he said, they could smoke opium Lynched Mini Promptly. A, Ard, who killed a planter near Greensboro, Da., was taken out ami | lynched one day last week. Ard, | who was a negro, was caught stealing from the man he killed. THE H TRAINS COLLIDE Seventeen Persons Killed Outright and Many Others injured SOME MEN PINNED DOWN Mn^lni^r and Fireman on Freight Train Jump and Kmc4?|m' Without Injury?Wrock In Said to Havei Iloen fiiUNrd by Work Train (Yew l)|NolH7ln(? Orders. Seventeen persona were killed and ten Bovorely Injured in a collision i between (i freight train and a con-1 I Htructiou train on tho Atchison, To! peka & Santa Fo railroad near Topeka, Kansas, Saturday. The dead I are eleven Mexicans, four "section foreman and two brakeinen. The InjurtHl, all Mexicans, are at the Atchlsou, Topeka Ai, Santa Fo hospital. It Ik believed some of them are fatally injured. The work train was hacking into Topeka with llfty Mexicans riding on the Mat cars. As the train was rounding a curve tho northbound freight crashed into it. Engineer Edward Ash and Fireman Joseph Corroy on the freight, train jumped as soon as the air brakes could lie sot. Tho Mexicans were not aware of t lie danger untl' the englncmon and trainment jumped and thou it was too late for many of thorn. The engine on the freight ran over i tlie four flat cars comprising the wreck train and almost a score of men were pinned down and it was several hours before they wer? extricated. It is said the wreck was caused by the crew of tho work train disregarding orders. WILLIAMS AGAIN IN I'OWKIt. The nuts 1?". ityaai Put OfV Hoard of l>i rectors of StMilnmrd. Tho re-organization commit toe of tin? Seaboard Air Line railway, at a meeting Friday in New York with tho i>oard of directors, increased tho directorate to nineteen members Thro? directors, Thos. F. Ryan, of Now York; MaJ. J. II. Rooley, of Richmond, Vu., anil William A. (Jarrot t, of Norfolk, wore not re-elected. The following wore elected to 1111 their places and the three positions created; L. I4'. Lorce, John 11. Ramsay, John Skelton Williams, J. William Mlddendorf, Franklin C. Brown and Hennen Jennings. As at present conslltuted the board has apparently a preponderance of members friendly to John Skelton Williams between whom and Thos. F. Ryan there was a contest for control some years ago. The annual meeting of the com pany will be hold November 14 and until then, It in undorHtood, nothing will bo done toward electing a presldent to succeed W. A. Garrett, who resigned that otllce and also as general manager when ho retired from the directorate last summer. Mr. Williams was former president of the railway and Mr. Mlddendorf former vice-president. Messrs. Williams, Ramsay and Jennings were members of the committee which formulated the plan for the adjustment of the company's affairs. t ' jr." '" ' * ? INDIAN POPULATION Has IncroutMid Forty Thousand in iLofft Two Decades. The popular idea that the American Indians are decreasing in number Is dissipated by official figures, showing that today there are more than 300,000 Red Men in the United States. The increase in population of about 4 0,000 during the last two decades is attributed to tho Government's constant effort to uplift the Indian to the level of contemporary civilization. Three sn?l on... third million dollars Is being expended by the United States annually for tho education of more than 30,000 Indian hoys and Kills. -.? Killed at til nil ory. Mr. Geo. W. Browne, a well-to-do farmer of York county, was caught in the machinery of his ginnery on Saturday and so badly Injured that he <1 itxl in a few hours. It is not known just exactly how the accident occurred, as Mr. Browne was alone at the giunery when it took place. Meet* Tragic Dentil. Meredith Gassett, aged forty, was killed near Marietta in Greenville county on Friday, by being crushed by a huge log, which he and some - others were cutting up. ORRY HI THE SEMINOLE CASE STOfWIIOLDKHH OF TIIK CAROLINA AOKNCY COMPANY 8UR. (mrlington Alleg*-*! to Have DlNHipol* ?*<! $I7,5(K> of Agency's Assets, II?m site's Changing 973,000 of Htock. A dispatch from Columbia .nays I Injunction proceedings* by tho receivers and attorneys for tho Seminole J Securities Company against tho otI fleers and directors of tho Carolina Agency Company stirs up another Huutmuon iroiii the Semlnole-Caro11 lit* Agency Company muddle. The order from Judge Menuningor requiroH the defendants to show I cause on Monday why the receiver should not he appointed and In tho ' meantime all persons are restrained j from further dissipating the assot* or proceeding any further with the Hiiits against the agency company. Ttic complaint alleges that Johu Y. (Jarlington while treasuror of th< agency company, dissipated $17,50# of the agency's assets in addition W> changing his $75,000 block of agency stock, which had not become 1?I gallv his, for $75,000 of Seminota stock, the defendants, \Y. A. Clark, Wilie Jones and T. S. Bryan, Being Seminole as well as Carolina agency directors; that the only business of the Carolina Agency Company was tlie general agency of the Borne Mn tual Insurance Company and wia | wiped out by the Borne Mutual oa? in is agency contract and that the agency company now has no income, ami la dissipating the few hundred dollars It has left in its treasury In attorney fees in a suit against j Garlington for $Uf?,000, a suit against the Rome Mutual and a cause of action against Its own ofllcers for falling to reunite a bond of Garlingtoa while he was treasurer as stipulated by the by-laws; that the agency company's ofllces have boon closed and the hooks and assets transferred Va Mr. W. A. Clark, who will probably hold the company responsible for the services lie is now rendering. Paragraph II of the complaint says that "tlie defendants, \V. A. Clark, Wilie Jones and T. H. Bryan, oin and control a majority of the stock of the said corporation and are themselves the wrongdoers as hereinbefore and hereinafter Alleged. | The title of tho proceedings Is Id. N. Chlsolm, \V. C. Kalrey, Tolson Rlckonbakor, I). W. Halgler and A. C. Watson, tis Carolina agency stockholders, against the Carolina Agenejr Company; W. A. Clark, Wilio Jones, . T. 9. Bryan, John Y. Garlington, J. Fuller Lyon, Cleorgo S. Legare, Job* It. Black, Willie Stackhouse and T A A maker. ? . NINK BITTKN BY MAD DOO Ami Taken to Pasteur Institute at Raleigh, N. C. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., says Saturday there was a regular Influx of people bitten by mad do0b. Mr. J. C. Page came in with his at* children, Kathleen, May, Annie, Jane. John and Henry, from Pender coaety. All of these were hit ten hw a little puppy, a shepherd (log. Th? name dog bit a yearling heifer a*d a little calf, both oC which worw (killecj later. Another patient Ifl ft ' ff-year-old daughter of Sidney W. Murton, of Keldsvlllo, and anotner, James Womack, of Kockingbuum. county, 3-year-old, bitten by a pnjr dog. Yet another is M. R. Baldwin of Scotland county, who was in Mb yard, a neighbor and a little child being with hlra. While loading hfcr wagon with cotton, a dog ran 1e. open-mouthed, at the child, whose father k,icked the dog away, the animal immediately biting Baldwin on the leg. He seized the dog and choked it to death. The people now under treatment, as well as thowe who have been under It, are crying death to the dogs, and one man said he Intended to use pulsion freely o? his promises. Thero are now 1? lu.rnnnc In I. 4 ... .vi.tvirsn mi u rauimm. <X)MK TO STUDY COTTON. Crt'rniano Want to 1/Oartt About tht? Fieooy Staple. With a view to Increasing the 00Vton yield of (iermnn Kaat Africa to such an extent as to make Germany independent of the cotton of tkft I United States, Bernhardt Dernberjj, i oerman Agricultural Department, has arrived at New York to study cotton culture. The Qorman minister will seek information from tho Department at Agriculture at Washington and wtth experts will make a thorough investigation in the Southern cotton bolL They will Investigate methods cm the New Orleans and New York coC' ton exchanges. iRALD