The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 14, 1909, Image 3
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" 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
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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.
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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.
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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