The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 25, 1909, Image 4
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AVANT TALKS
Cearfetewa Mas Says Kdlisg Has
Raised His Life.
A PECULIAR SITUATION
Mm IK>oe Not Know How His Appeal
Stands?-l)r. lli^hnm Not Yet
Heard From?Seems to He Doubt
About Keport of the Doctor Being
in Greenville.
"Of coui*8? it worries nio. It lias
ruined my life and 1 never expect
to get over it," said W. li. Avant
at the State penitentiary, where he
is held, pending an appeal to tut
supreme court. Avant was questioned
closely as to the trugedy of Murroll's
Inlet, when ho shot and killed
Mrs. Ruth Crisp Righain, 011 a lonely
beech, while he was in company
with her husband, Dr. Q. C. Bigliam.
Both Avant and Bigliam have been
convicted for the crime and sentenced
to servo a term of three and onehalf
years each in the State prison.
The prisoner who is now being held,
until further advices are received
from tho Georgetown sheriff is very
young, hardly over 2 3, of unkempt
appearance, shoulders slightly stooped,
brownish hair, gray eyes and of
a nervous nature. The where abouts
of Dr. Bigliam, the husband of the
woman who was killed, is unknown.
Just what will be tho next move
Jn the noted case is not known. Dr.
"Bigham is at large, although recently
reported to be in Greenville. \V.
B. Avant is at tho State Prison,
though not-as a convict, a message
having been received by tho authorities
from the sheriff of Georgetown
just before he was to be mustered
in hnhl li I*vt until fm.tlw.,. in
I 11, IV I I V / I V | Ml Ml lllllll I III 1 II V I IIIstructions."
Avant firmly believes
that he will get another trial but can
not understand why the papers have
not been filed with the supreme court.
It Is stated that the time is out for
the filing of the papers and that
both men will have to go to prison.
Tho prisoner said that he was perfectly
ignorant as to just what his
attorney had done in the case and
that he thought that immediately
after Judge Watts refused a new
trial that the case would be appealed
to the supreme court.
Avant was given to understand
before the interview that it was not
necessary for him to talk unless
he wished to and that he might request
any statement he might make
not to be printed.
In his conversation, the prisoner
at times grew excited and nervous.
, Questions of general nature ho would
answer freely, but when asked directly
about certain phases of the
case he would exclaim in an excited
voice, "that I refuse to answer."
Although he was asked many questions
concerning the mysterious case,
he would give no answers that would
make a connected story. He could
not remember many of the details of
the killing.
When asked who shot Mrs. Bigham,
the prisoner said, "Yes, I shot
her." When asked why the answer '
came, "I decline to answer."
On being asked just what his
thoughts were when he discovered
that he had shot a woman, he hesitated
a moment and said, "I had no
thoughts. I was scared and nervous
and ran back to the house."
"Why did you shoot and kill Mrs.
Bigham?" was asked Avant and the
usual reply to many questions came,
"that I decline to tell you."
"Before you pulled the trigger,
what did you see on the beech was
the next question asked the prisoner,
"Something black, sitting on the
ground," was the answer.
When questioned further as to
where Dr. Bigham was when the shot
was fired, the prisoner said, "I don't
know. I was scared, he might have
been near me."
"What did you think the something
black or dark was on the
beech?" he was asked, "I will not
answer that," was the reply.
Avant stated that he was married,
and while not a warm personal friend
of Dr. Bigham that he had known
him for some time and that Mrs.
Bigham had visited his home several
times. The prisoner was a
farmer.
The killing of Mrs. Bigham was
most sensational and mysterious in
Its nature and many theories have
been advanced, but nothing of a deft
nite nature is known concerning the
crime.
Where is I)r. Bigham? is the question
that many are asking.
"From what can bo learned here
Dr. Bighnm is still at large and the
last report from him is to the effect
that he is in Greenville. Evidently
there is some misunderstanding
in connection with the affii",
Avant having been arested and s^nt
to prison and Bigham being out on
bond yet. It certainly appears to
y illegal for Avant to bo in and
ham out or vice versa, inasmuch
y were both released at the same
o and under identically the same
ditions "
^ report from Greenville, where it
\ claimed Dr. Bigham had gone
visit some of his relatives says:
Dr. G. C.-Bigham seems not to be
Greenville at present, as ho has
MAKE HEROES OF THEM
TI1K SUPREME COURT TAKKH
UNl'HKCKDKNTKD ACTION.
Imprison an Kx-Shorllf and Others
for Allowing a Prisoner in Their
Custody to be Lynched.
For tho first tlmo In American
history, six men aro in prison for
contempt of the Supreme Court of
the United Stntes. For the first time,
too, the Federal Government has
placed men behind tiie burs as an
outcome of the lynching of a negro.
At the United States jail in Washington,
Capt. Joseph F. Shipp, former
sheriff at Chattanooga, Tenn.; Jeremiah
Gibson, his jailer, and Luther
Williams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett
and Will. Mhvph. nf thn siinio ciI v
have begun serving terms of imprisonment
imposed a few hours before
by the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Shipp and Gibson had been found
guilty of failing to protect from a
mob Ed Johnson, whose legal execution
for rape had been stayed by
the Supremo Court until it could
review tho case. The others had
been found guilty of participation
in the lynching of a Federal prisoner.
Shipp, Williams and Nolan
were given sentences of ninety days'
imprisonment each, while Padgett,
Gibson and Mayes each received sixty
days.
As the big barred doors of tho j
jail swung open to receive the prisoners,
immediately after sentence had
been imposed, Warden McKee stood
before them,
"As least we are in the hands of
a soldier!" exclaimed ('apt. Shipp,
who had been in many a light for
the Confederacy, as he espied a G.
A. K. button on the lapel of Warden
McKee's cost. Then turning to his
live fellow prisoners, he said:
"Iloys, it will be all right."
Warden McKco has inaugurated
methods of punishment at the jail
as huinantarian as the various classes
of prisoners will allow, and lie
was prepared lor the reception of
tho six men from Tennessee.
About a year ago, during the imprisonment
of an unusually large
11 ll 111 her of women the unrdon hurt
fitted uj) a store room on the fourth
floor of the jail as quarters for female
prisoners. It was in this large
room, perhaps twenty by thirty-five
feet, that he locked the six prisoners.
In the room were beds for each
of the prisoners, while at one end
was a table upon which "trusties"
will set their meals three times a
day. A bath room, adjoining the
room, will be used by tho prisoners
exclusively. Four large circular
widows open to the south and west,
giving excellent views of the front
of the buildings. In fact, so pleasant
did the prisoners find tho quarters
that Capt. Shipp sent his attorney,
Major Clift, to the office of
the Supreme Court to withdraw a
request he had made when sentence
was imposed, to be sent to the Federal
prison at Atlanta, (la., instead
of the jail in Washington.
During the afternoon, the six men
received calls from Tennesseeans and
others. Sitting 011 his straw bed,
half reclining 011 his pillow of straw,
Capt. Shipp made this statement:
"Wo are Very well pleased with
tho treatment given us by Warden
McKee, and are delighted with the
quarters assigned us."
A few hours in jail made Gibson
reminiscent. He told his companions
that this was not the first time
he had been in prison in Washington.
"But the other time I was brought
here as a Confederate prisoner," he
said.
Wanted to liang Sooner.
At Russellville, Ala., Tom RobertHon,
who two weeks ago killed his
wife nnd his mother-in-law and dangerously
wounded his wife's father,
was found guilty of murder in the
circuit court and sentenced to be
hanged December 1 r?. "That's too
long for mo to live," exclaimed Robertson,
when the date of his execution
was announced.
It. takes more than one thief to
organize a steal trust.
not been seen within the last few
days. It is supposed by some, however,
that he is somewhere In the
county with his relatives.
"The sheriff of this county has recently
received a telegram from the
sheriff at Georgetown county telling
him not to arrest Higham, and
from this it seems that he is not
considered a fugitivo from justice."
Dr. Higham is under a bond of
$1 ,r>00 and if the papers for a new
l.r. /It .. I ...111. it./.
ii uii nuvt; not uuimi iiit'll wilh iiiu
bupromo court, it seems as If ho Ih
destined to boivc out his sentence
should he appear.
ttigham is thus described: "A
low, heavy-set man, possibly live feet
nine inches in height, dark red hair,
parted in the middle, medium low
forehead, ruddy complexion; eyes
of light brown, reddened as if by
dissipation and granulated eye lids,
lie is rather boyish in appearance,
clean shaven, and when his face is
in repose ho appears rather a mild
mannered man. In appearance he is
rather younger than his ace. 28
years "
THEY ARE DEAD
The Resent Work Halted by a Fresh Oatbreak
of fire ia Miae.
ALL HOPE IS GIVEN IIP
General Opinion Arouml the Mine
Ht Cherry, Illinois, in Which Over
Three Hundred Men Were Htirie<l
Alive Saturday, is That All Are
llryoml the Itcnrh of Aid.
Sunday there was a hope that the
four hundred miners who were entombed
in the St. Paul coal mine
near Cherry, 111., were still living,
but that hope was given up on Monday,
and it is now believed that all
of them are dead. Some of the
bodies lie buried beneath thousands
of tons of earth which caved in upon
them, and it is doubtful whether
many of the bodies can ever be recovered.
Fans employed in an effort to carry
fresh air and life down to the
imprisoned men served only to enliven
some embers which sprang
into flames. Soon the heat and
smoke became so dense that it was
necessary again to seal the mouth of
the hoisting shaft and the men down
there, whatever their condition, are
locked in as effectively as in a dungeon.
Hope swung frequently in the balance
the past day or so. Uefore
the fire broke out again, rescuers
descended four times into the shaft.
Then the rumor circnhiteii I
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throughout the crowds that the men
below had been reached and that
the reason they were not brought up
immediately was that they were
J exhausted by lack of food, and the j
smoke.
Hut the truth was far different.
The rescuers did, on one occasion,
go down throe hundred feet to the
bottom of the hoisting shaft. Then
groping their way with electric ,
lamps, and kiept alive by oxygen |
carried with them, they penetrated
150 feet into the bottom gallery.
Hut none of the miners, either dead (
or alive was found.
"Hey, are you there?" cried the
rescuers, but nothing was heard in ,
response.
It was conjectured the miners had (
crawled for safety into the recesses,
remotest from the fire, but to j
these parts the rescuers were unable
to go without reascending. Before
they could redescond, the fire had J
browen out. Gradually the crowd
about the mouth of the shaft began
to thin as hope seemed to wane.
The explorers reported they had J
walked in a vein of the mine for
150 feet from the base of the shaft
and they had found no living nor '
dead body. The atmosphere in this
| vein was considerably better than
had been expected. With the aid of
the electric lanters the searchers had
been able to see plainly.
In other veins leading from the
shaft much smoke was encountered
and nothing could be scon. After j
consultation it was determined to
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start the ventilating fan at the opposite
side of the mine to clear the
galleries of the smoke.
Some believed that, the draft might
arouse a simmering lire. Others felt
assured the lire had been smother- '
ed and that ventilation would clear
the galleries and make thetn possible
for the searchers.
In half an hour the fans were
suddenly ordered stopped. Smoke
began to pour from the main shaft. 1
It was soon learned that tire had 1
broken out afresh.
Attempts to drown it proved futile '
so that it became necessary to seal 1
the shaft. !
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C. N. CIUTTKNTON D10AI).
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He Was Pounder of Florence Orit teuton
llescue Homes. 1
A dispatch from San Francisco.
Cal., says Chas. N. Crlttonton, of
New York, widely known as the millionaire
founder of the Florence
Crlttention Hcscue Homes for gils,
died Tuesday night of pneumonia.
He was 111 less than a week. He
was 7G years old.
Mr. Crittenton founded seventythree
rescue homos in this country
and several In Japan and China,
which ho named in memory of his
daughter, Florence, at whose dying
request he entered the mission work.
Tho Woman in lllack.
The mysterious "woman in blnck"
who committed suicide Wednesday
in the Vest room of an Atlanta department
storo was identified as Miss
Willano Cotton, daughter of Mrs.
Rebecca I). Cotton. The young woman,
who died from an over-dose of
strychnine, was said to havo been
in bad health for several months and
despondent.
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Man Fatally Hurt.
At TJina, O., William Fr'cit, a
nephew of H. Clay Frick, the steel
magnate, is dying at o local hospital
as the result of falling from an
upper story of a saloon during a
struggle with a woman over a glass
of beer. * |
SUGAR FRAUD EXPOSED
FOItMKIl GOVKRNMFNT SAMPLER
IS DISCHARGED
From the Service Ikcaiwe he Tried,
Seven Years Ago, to Secure an
Investigation.
Some ricsh and racy evidence is
being brought out in the investigation
of the frauds perpetrated on the
government by the members of the
Sugar Trust, now going oil in New
York.
On Wednesday Henry C. Corsa,
who once was employed as a Govern
men t sampler at the American
Sugar Refining Company's docks in
Jersey City, has added further interesting
material to the complicated
controversy surrounding the frauds
charged to the company and various
customs officials and employees.
Corsa was discharged from the
Government service seven years ago
by reason, as he believes, of his efforts
to obtain an investigation. In
a lengthy interview he reviews the
obstacles he met, and recites experiences
similar in many respects to
those of Richard Parr and Edwin
Anderson, who are defending their
respective claims to being the original
oxposers of corruption in the customs
house.
Wilber F. Wakoman, a former appraiser,
brought Corsa's name into
the case some time ago, when he attested
to the fact of his discharging
after he had brought to the government's
attention convincing evidence
of graft, which Corsa says was successfully
pigeonholed after ho was
ousted. His efforts to obtain reinstatement
Corsti adds, were aided j
from time to time by Leslie M. Shaw. *
former Secretary of the Treasure.!
iiid other prominent men, bijt none !
;>f them, lie declares, was able to |
overcome the grip the Sugar Company
had on the New York customs >
service, or to get for him the endorsement
of George Whitehead, who I
succeeded Wakeman as appraiser.
In his interview of a few days ago
Corsa set forth that he went to
Washington to present his case to
Secretary Shaw, and the latter, he
says, after a long conference, said:
"I'll see that you are put back. 1
could demand it right new. Hut j
things are working so smoothly between
Mr. Whitehead and myself !
that 1 don't want to break in abruptly
on him with this demand."
A short time afterward, according
to Corsa, he received a letter from
Mr. Shaw stating that Shaw found
his hands to tied thut he could do
nothing. Corsa says his evidence
ugainst the Sugar Company was to
the effect that agents of the company
had offered him bribes in return
for his assistance in substituting
uigar of a low grade In samples
taken by the government for tests
upon which cargoes were appraised.
\s a part of this evidence, he turned
>ver to his superiors the money givjn
him as a bribe.
Richard Parr, who is still tvdeputy
uirveyor of the port, said that recent
investigations have shown that,
me man in every five among the
miployees in the weighers' division
if the New York customs house has
?eeu found implicated in the frauds
>r is "under suspicion of the most
lositive character."
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AS ll.\l> AS Til 10 SOI Til.
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IVItnt an Illinois Republican Paper!
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Says About bynrlUng.
Tho Springfield, III., Republican
jays if the South ever yieled up a
more- horrible story of human savigery
than comes from Cairo, 111.,
we do not recall it. Indeed, it is
impossible that any Southern community
could have done so; for how
surpass in deviltry and bloodthirstiiess
tho hanging and shooting and
burning of the victim, the soaking
of pieces of rope in his blood, the
beheading and parade of the head,
and the cutting out of the heart and
stripping it into pieces for souvenirs?
The only redeeming feature, as the
New York Evening Post observes, is
that the mob did not stick to the
color line. it butchered a white
murderer, too, or one charged with
murder. It is altogether as revolting
tin exhibition of human degradation
as the country ever saw, or as
Illinois ever saw, and Illinois has
of later been giving several exhibitions
of the kind. The case with
which the nublic authority broke
down is a particularly discreditable
feature of th? case. That spectacle
of the sheriff fleeing with the prisoner
through woods and over hills,
with tho mob in full pursuit?how
hollow is shown to be the pretension
of Cairo to a civilization worthy of
tho name! We are now to see
whether tho State of Illinois can pretend
to anything much better?
whether tho ringleaders of this
blood-hunting mob of men and women
are to escape all punishment
fitting to their capital crime, as in
the case of other Illinois mobs of
this character.
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Many Were Hurt.
Ninety persons were injured but
none fatally, when Southbound passenger
train No. 11, on the St. Louis
and San Francisco railroad was
wrecked at Rogers, Mo., Wednesday.
Spreading rails caused the accident.
THEY NEED HELP
Starvation Stalks in the Stricken Town
of Cherry.
1,000 ORPHANS LEFT
Acts of Heroism Performed by
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Entombed Men in Trying to Save ]
the IjJvos of Others?Mayor of (
the Town Appeals for .Aid from ^
Outside Sources. i
According to dispatches there are ,
1,000 orphans in Cherry, 111., as a
result of the terrible mine explosion,
and unless food in large quantities 1
is rushed into the town many will
be hungry. "We will need aid and *
plenty of it," said Mayor Connelly, 1
"and it must be forthcoming prompt- c
1 y, or there will be great suffer- 1
ing among the destitute families of (
the miners. While wo do not like *
to ask for outside assistance, this
town is too small to handle the situ- ?
at Ion alone. Most or our citizens
are miners, and the majority of them
are down in the mine, in all probability
dead. We are doing everytiling
possible to handle the propo- a
sition, tint it is too big for us."
I)r. Howe, in charge of the relief n
work, said that the need of food, a
clothing and money is great, and ('
that the citizens hope tho people of v
Chicago and other places will assist
in relieving the situation. Before 11
anything else, we will need food and v
lots of it. Those poor women and
children will begin to face hunger u
very soon and then the situation will a
be terrible. Kven now there is but
little food in town. The only hotel
has run short and the stores have
been sold out. Then the question }
of clothes for women and the ehil- s
dreii may turn out to be a big one. '
When you realize that there are I,- v
ot)0 orphans in the town, then the 0
magnitude of the situation can be n
seen. They will need clothes and
need them badly." *
From the miners, who were rescued
on Saturday, it was learned that '
a not nor act of heroism was perform- 11
od by one ot' the men in the shaft
below?a man who is in all proba- '
bility dead at the present time. He
was Walter Waite, an assistant fore- ?
men in the second vein. h
"When we not in the elevator, the 0
first time," said Isaac Kemulti, one h
of the men who was fortunate
enough to reach the surface in the
first cage-load. "Waite was standing Cl
near. He refused to come up in d
that load, but said he would stay K
down and give the other follows a c
chance. 1 know Mr. Flood tried to e
pull him into tin* cage, but he re- P
fused to come. ^
" 'Let me stay where I am,' said n
he, 'there are a lot of other fellows ^
who ought to got out of here. Hurry
tip that cage and get them. I'll
try and do what 1 can down hero.
Maybe it ain't as bad as it. seems."
"When I asked about him after
the second load had come up nobody
knew anything about him. It
looks like he was overcome by smoke r
and died down in the shaft. He did ii
not have to, because he could have ol
climbed In the? cage the first time if la
he hud wanted to." Ix
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LANTKltN C'AUSKS FIHK. {,
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Negro Attacked Night Watchman
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at Amcriciis, (In.
A loss of fifty thousand dollars *
resulted from a fire at Americus,
Ga., Thursday night, caused by an ,
unknown negro attacking Night
Watchman Leo McMichael. of the
A morions Construction Company, and
knocking the latter's lantern over
\vith a club. Shavings were ignited
by the fire from the lantern and the
extensive lumber yards and variety ?
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works of the company were destroyed.
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For a time fire threatened do- ^
struotion of a considerable portion
of the city. Before being chocked 1
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the flames had covered an area of (
six acres. Among the other build- .
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ings burned were nil unused cold j
storage plant owned l?y S. It. Sims
and valued at $11,000 and six small
dwellings with contents.
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T1IIUTKKN ITALIANS ARRESTED. c<
Band of Alleged Counterfeiters Are K
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Caught in New York. ii
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By the arrest, of thirteen Italians t|
Monday, United States secret service j,
men and the Italian squad of the j,
New York police, think thoy have (1(
rounded up the leaders of a band
which has trafficked for at least a
venr in n Inrwn amnunt r\(
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feit money made in Palermo, Italy,
and circulated in America.
The prisoners, who were takon in n
raids upon several Italian shops and 11
homes in Harlem, include Gulsseppe ?
Morello, in whose lodging were found
seven alleged "black hand" lottors
written by him to merchants in New
Orleans and returned, tho police believe,
by merchants who met tho demands
for money. p
Pasquale Vasi, another of the men, v
had in his possession 1,200 counter- o
feit two-dollar bills. e
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WILL ENTER THE MINE
CNABLK LONGER TO KNDVKK
C1UKS OF THK BERKAVKD
M*te Inspector* Will Go Down the
Shaft and Find Out About the >
M?n Down There.
"Wo aro going down into that
mine today. We will conquer it or
It will conquer us. Unless we succeed,
we will never como out alive."
The cry of the widows and orphans
at the mouth of the fatal mine
it Cherry, 111., Thursday morning,
'Open the shaft, open the shaft."
irousod State Mine Inspector Taylor.
'I JC\ t 1 It?f*n Iwv 1 Al ^ , a.
^vv men uc stti'rnici'u 10 reclaim
Tom the mine the entombed dead iL"
locessary," he said.
Under the supervision of mine Inspector,
hazardous efforts will be
nade to satisfy the frenzied cries
>f the bereaved widows and orphans.
They will be bravlug the
langers of deadly poisons, noxious
;ases, explosives and the probability
of a collapse of the fire-charred
galleries. Preliminary explorations
>y experts showed encouruging conlitions
and they determined to take
ulvantage of the low temperature
it the bottom of the emergency
haft. *'
It was decided to reinforce the
ir shaft by the erection of scaffolds,
.ttaching a hoisting apparatus an 1
xplore as far as human endurance
k'ould permit. It is projiosed to lower
wo men, armored with oxygen hellets,
and penetrate the galleries toward
the main shaft.
Investigation revealed less smoke
nd gas at the bottom of the shaft
ml a decrease in temperature. Mintig
inspectors from many States on
lie scene give the opinion that the
re is still raging, their conviction
eing that the mine must be kept
ealed. The Illinois inspectors, reaIzing
the fury that such action
,'ould arouse among the afflicted
itizens. insisted that n lnat k?.
lade to roach th^ dead. The temerature
at the main shaft is now
09.
"There is no halting now," said
nspector Taylor, preparing for the
nal ordeal of the great disaster.
We are going to fight that mine,
f successful, we will be able to re- .
over the bodies; if not," here the
Id man who has served his lifetime
eneath the earth, waved his hand,
mphasizing the fate that might face
im and his colleagues. J
All is in readiness for the descent
ito the air shaft. The improvised
age is completed. The doctors have
eclared that the rescuers are in
ood physical condition. A large
rowd is assembled about the mine,
xpectant and almost frantic women
redominating. The temperature
'as taken in both shafts and showed
0 material changes from the ourr
morning readings. ^
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STAXI) BY (XITTOX CROP.
resident of Southern Says World
Will ('ull for 20,000,000 Bales.
President Finley of the Southern
ailway, addressing a largo gathcrig
of folk from the countryside
f Salisburg, X. Wednesday, ind
iter speaking at a banquet of me
oard of trade, expressed the cojnvleon
that in no area of equal extent
1 the world is the agricultural out*
?ok brighter than in the southern
tates, and urged hi farmers not to
eglect the cultivation of cotton. / $
"We may well look forward to n
mo in the not far distant future," .jgaSj
lid Mr. Finley, "when the world
ill call on the American cotton ^
lanters for 20,000,000 bales every
3ar."
Mr. Finley said he did not view
ith any alarm the tendency of
jung people to leave the farm, but
lid lie believed the increased at aetlons
of farm life would soon
irn the tide in the other direction.
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"In viewing the figures," said Mr.
inley, "It is not to be wondered
wit those responsible for the manfoment
of the railways of the South, '
ieing the agricultural advance golg
hand in hand with the indus ial
development, should have faith
i their territory and should be strivlg
to the utmost to Increase the i
irrying capacity of their lines so
s to be able to properly handle the
\crease in trafiic which is sure to
)mo."
Mr. Finley did not counsel the
rowing of cotton to nnori?n?
, ^ VMN/ MV'plCVl Ul ^
ther crops, biU-v#Ingested that an
lcrease in prt^luction to keep pace
'ith the demand of the world and
Hat it be accomplished* by more
itense cultivation and by the growig
of a varied of other crops with
otton, to the profit of the farmer.
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Hanged for Murder.
At Canton, Oa., Friday J. B. Ket">g,
a negro, was hanged for the
lurder of J. C. Lander son, a whito
lan, last September. In a speech
nthe scaffold Kellog warned mem- A.
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cia ui inn race against gambling
nd drinking. *
Found lx*?d.
At Champagne, 111., Thursday
T?f. Willfred Wheeler of tho Uniorsitiwof
Illinois was- found dond
n the Campus grounds with an
mpty noleon bottle nearby. *
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