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i \ t VERY SICK MAN Senator B. R. Tillman Lays at Death's Door in Washington City. RECOVERY DOUBTFUL n He is Suffering from Slight Progressive Paralysis Due to a Leakage Of Blood in the Brain?The Crisis Near at Hand and Ho May Die at , Any Time. A special dispatch to rno i\ews' and Courier says Senator II. 11. Till- | man Is laying at the Belfour hotel in Washington in a dying condition suffering from paralysis and hardeing ot th? arteries leading to the heart. He may survive several days, if the j paralysis can he checked and kept away from the brain, or he may succumb at any hour. Physicians hold out no hopo. Less than a week ago Senator Tillman was apparently in his usua1 health and attended to his everyday duties in the Senate. Almost his last olllclal act was to Introduce a tesolution calling upon the Secretary of the Navy for information as to the purchase of oil, which would probably have led to interesting developments connected with the operations of the Standard Oil Company A slight attack of dizziness on last Wednesday was at first treated light ly, and little was thought of it until Thursday afternoon, when ho became suddenly ill. During the night it was apparent that ho was a dangerously sick man, and at once telegrams were sont out to all memborj of the family, summoning them at once to Washington. Dr. Pickford, who was called in when Senator Tillman became ill, had a conference with Dr. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's hos pitai, ur. w 111iu ufin^ uuu ui i ii^ j best known nerve specialists in tho country. Dr. Babcock of Columbia was summoned and reachod the Senator's bedside Saturday morning. The dispatch says it is recognized that the Senator is a dangerously ill man and absolutely no hope is held out to the members of his family. Thoroughout the entire day members of both houses of Congress have been peeking information as to the Senf ator's condition, and so frequent were tho telephone calls that very earlly in the morning communication was cut off. Close friends of the family aro giving out information to those who call, and at the Balfour many South Carolinians have left cards of sympathy during the day. Early Friday morning when the news of Senator Tillman's serious Illness began to be scattered about the Capital,, a pall settled everywhere. Knots of Senators gathered r in different parts of tho Senate chamber and discussed the case, * whilo on tho House side much tho same thing was done. House members who did not even have a speaking acquaintance with Senator Tillman, expressed the greatest sympathy for members of his family, as frequent inquiries as to his condition indicated. Mrs. Tillman was the first to reach the Senator after he became i 111. She had only heen here a short time when he became unconscious. During the day Senator Tillman has been able at time to articulate a little, but most of the day he has been laying in a stupor, taking no notice o! those around him. Now and then, however, as different friends and members of the family pressed nis hand ho would give a slight pressure in answer, indicating that ho understood, but could not reply. CONDITION IMPROVED. ? Doctors Say it is as Favorable as Can He Expected. Friday and night Dr. White concluded his diagnosis of Senator Tillman's case with Dr. I'ickford. After a thorough examination it is now stated that the trouble besides the paralysis of the right side is cerebral hemorrhage. The blood vessel which allowed blood to spill and form a clot on the brain, it is now thought, been temporarily stopped and the Senator is somewhat improved ovor his condition earlier in the uight, though ho is still in a i very precarious condition. The latest bulletin issued states that for four or five days perhaps It cannot be said what the result will be, should he survive that long. The doctors have been successful to the extent of restoring partial consciouness and Senator Tillman is now able to articulate and has just taken nourishment * "Hello, Doctor Babcock." These were the first words Senator Tillman had spoken since early Thursday V SIIBSGI *r - - GROWS BLACK COTTON CLAIMS TO 1IAYK MAI)K A HEMAHKAHLK DISCOYEUY. Diluting Certain (^leinieuls With Water and Applying it to the l'lant Turns the Trick. There is a rheumatic cripple of Savannah, Ga., that threatens to revolutionize floral culture and eulti vation of cotton. His name Is Dennis Trapley, and he is now in Washington trying to obtain a patent jii his formula. Until he does tins no is not willing to talk very much of his discovery, but he makes the assertion that lie can mix three inexpensive and common chemicals into a fluid, and with it produce mack cotton at one-tenth the expanse of dye. He also says that he h is produced black roses, and he didves that any flower can bo cultivated so that its blooms will be black. "After fifteen years of experimenting I have discovered a process i>v which black roses and black cotton may be produced," Trapley says. ' The formula is inexpensive chelate* Is which are diluted with watwr. "I have taken an ordinary rosebush and planted it in rica earth, and by feeding it this chemical fluid have produced a rose as large and as heavy as an American beauty vd as black as coal. The petals of this lose have the same gloss and luste as the A til eric vi beauty. Th i feeding process is exactly the same as watering a plant." "As the first shoots of the hush push up through the earth ai extraordinary darkness can he notice 1. As they grow their colors become darker. The same is true of the fc.il.age. The leaves of the bush are almost black. The buds when they appear are black. One of the peculiarities of the process Is that after a certain number of applications during the first year it can be stopped and for two seasons the plant will bear black ilowers. If the feeding process is not continued in tho third year the bush will again assume its natural state. "What is true of the rose is true of all other flowers and also of cotton. By the use of my chemical secret 1 can produce black cotton and it will cost littlo or nothing as compared with black dye. One of the features is that the chemicals seem to have a general good effect (.11 the plants. Those I have experimented upon have grown to extraordinary size and of fine fibre. "The day my process i protected by patent I can dispose of it for $aOO.OOO. This proposition has been made me." It was in tho spring and long sum mer evenings after lie went home from work that Dennis would plant roses and cultivate them. From early boyhood he had one thought, that of producing a black rose. At first he tried grafting. Falling, he began the us-j of chemicals. This thought occurred to him after seeing a farmer spread lime on the fields which he was to cultivate. Dennis believed that if the soil and lime would produce a light sugar cane, and light colored syrup, some chemi cal might produce the black rose. \ Kah f flun von ru ? cr/i aauo o produced the first bloom of blade :(sob, also cotton. Later he produced other black blooms. * It Was a Mix Up. Five hundred persons attending a small theatre at Pattan, Pa., Saturday night were precipitated into the basement of the building when the floor collapsed during a fire. Men, women and children wore struggling in the debris and to add to the panic the flreman were forced to turn streams of water into tho basement where the crowd was struggling to escape the flames. No one was killed. morning. He greeted thus his friend and physician Sunday afternoon. I)r. White came in a moment later. "Do you know who this it .senator?" The single eye gleamed. "Dr. White," he said. The physicians then shut off further efforts at speech, directing that the patient should not exert himself. Nevertheless the fact that speech is returning was a source of great gratification. The Senator has been improving all day. He had a good night Saturday night and has been dozing peacefully most of Sunday. After the consultation Sunday afternoon a most favorable bulletin wit?* Kivrii uul <iii(i uie iamny Degan to consider plans for the future. They expect the Senator to sit up in bod Monday. The nbovo was sent to The State by its Washington correspondent on Sunday evening. * Ml NO RACE RIOT OVER And Quiet Again Prevails in the City of Cairo, Illinois. ONE HAN WAS KILLED The Negro Demanded by the Crowd Convicted of Purse Snatching? Troops Patrol the City?Six Negroes were Among Deputies who Pi red on the Mob. A dispatch from Cairo, 111., says with three companies of militia guarding the Court House and jail under the dlrcet supervision of A'ljt. Gen. Frank S. Dickson, Cairo settled down Friday night to complete quiet, after a strenuous twenty-four hours. It is believed that the mob spirit is quelled. There are many scattered groups of men about the [streets, but no crowd is allowed to i congregate. Threats were made Friday against Sheriff Fred 1). Nellis for tho killing of Alex Halliday and the wounding ol four other men by deputies >u beating back the n.ob that attacked j the jail Thursday night in an attempt . to lynch a negro purse snatcher, but! the presence of soldiers preveuts any open demonstrations. John Pratt, the negro whom the mob intended to lynch, was sentenced Friday to prison for not more than fourteen years. Lincoln Wilson arrestd as a suspected companion of Pratt, in the snatching of women's purses was released. The grand jury failed to return an indictment against him. Pratt's sentence was imposed ten minutes after lie entered Court and pleaded guilty to the indictment returned on Thursday. I A searching grand Jury InvostUa rion of tho attack on the jail was ordered by Judge Butler immediately after the disposal of the cases against the two negroes. Judge Butler's instructions to the grand jury were in substance a demand that the rioters be brought to justice and made to stand trial for rioting, a felony. "This sort of procedure must be stopped," ho said. "There have been five murders in Cairo since November 11, when we had a previous occurrence of mob violence. These murders show that mob law U no deterrent to crime and it is our duty to see that mob law cea3es to 1)0." A stray shot fired by a member of the mob was the dlroct cause of the volley from the deputies guarding the jail that laid several of its members low, according to Sheriff Nellls's version of the attack. "I was standing on tho front porch of the Court House parleying with the.mob which was demanding that I give up Pratt," said the Sheriff, "when some one in the crowd fired a shot. My deputies, watching tho parley from a second-story window, thought that I fired the shot as a signal, and Lh-y fired a volley in the air. "The mob refused to retreat and the deputies then fired into the crowd. My conscience is easy over the matter. The rioters were determined to get me unless I got them. I did my duty by protecting my prisoners at any price." A dozen broken windows in the Court House showed that shots were tired into the building by the mob. There were six negroes among the fourteen armed deputies that defended the jail with Nellis. Mayor Parsons has ordered saloons to remain closed until danger of further disturbances has passed. The 1-TnlHflnv fiitnllv Imo i-otolnn#i i j nun ? ' i an attorney to sue Sheriff Xollis and the county for damages. I-Ialliday, who was a son of former Mayor Thomas W. Halllday, was shot in the neck. He lay on the ground near the Court House porch nearly three hours before Nellls would per in It anyone to remove him to a hospital. He died two hours later. Nellis replies to criticisms of his refusal to permit an injured man to he removed by saying that he obeyed orders from Governor Denen to permit no one near the building. Samuel VVessinger is the only one of the injured whose condition is at j all serious. He is at St. Mary's hos-i pital with eleven buckshot wounds in the head. George 13. Walker, correspondent for the Associated ; j Press, who was shot In the leg while j watching the affair, discovered five shot holes in his clothes. * Sold in New York. Paraffin coated eggs from Europe, nearly a million of which were imported last week, were placed on sale Saturday by hundreds of New York retailers at 13 to 8 cents a dozen less ' than the price of American cold storage eggs. W TD ARE MARKED MEN XH(*1U) OKl'L'TIIOS WHO FIHK1) ON TK OAlltO MOU. Will lie Deult Willi by Hint Mob mid Others us Soon lis the Trouble is Over. Statements at Cairo, 111., by four , negro deputy sheriffs, to a coroner's jury, that they ft red several shots each Thursday night when Alex llalliday was killed while leading a mob in attack on the county jail resulted Saturday night in a renewal of the anti-negro agitation. The coroner's inquest resolved itself Into a general quiz by tbo jurors, who tried to learn which one of the deputies 11 red the steel Jack eted bullet that killed llolliday. The negro deputies admitted llring indiscriminately into the crowd with shotguns and revolvers, but none of them would admit having used a . rille, with which it is said llolliday was killed. The negro deputies who bred on t'he mob are said to he marked men, now that their names have become public. The killing of one white man and the wounding of severa" others by negroes, although legally deputized, has brought out protests trom even those opposed to the mob. Sheriff Nellts tostlbed at the inquest that he used negro deputies because lie could not lliul his regular deputies, nor the local militia com panv officers, nor white men, who would answer his call for help. Tears ran down the sheriff's cheeks as he told of the frantic efforts to bnd men to assist him is protecting his prisoners. George Jackson, Charles Hudson, Henry Douglas and I. A. Head is the negro deputies who admitted bring into the mob. They testibed that the leaders of the mob wore gunnv sacks over their heads, with holes ( cut through for their eyes. ( LADY SHOT 11Y THAI* GUN. Iltul Boon Kct By Her Husband for 1 I Cliirk?'ii Thieves. Walking into a trap sot by her 1 husband for chicken thieves, Mrs. George L. Noel, who lives on the road | between I'roKperity and Newberry, was seriously and possibly mortally wounded. Mr. Noel had been missing some chickens. He had driven stakes in , the ground in front of his chicken J house, around which he had led a cord attached to the trigger of a | cocked shotgun, pointing to the up- ^ proach to the chicken house, so that anyone approaching the chicken . house would run against the cord and discharge the gun. Mr. Neel's wife received the load of shot in- ( tended for the thieves. Mrs. Neel was in the yard looking after matters before retiring for the night, and probably did not know or had not thought of her husband's precautions. The load entered the right log below the knee Joint, at close range, boring an ugly hole. WHAT l>lt. WIIilOY SAYS. Poor Criminal Despised; a ltlch One is l'ctted. "I could give the names of many nreji who have been convicted of food adulteration and who are still receivied by the highest social lights ; of this city," said Dr. H. W. Wiley, the government food expert. Dr. Wiley went to New York to testify before the Hudson county i grand jury in connection with the investigation of the cold storage warehouses, but he lectured Saturday at the College of the City of New York. He declined to give the names of those he referred to. "When the poor man is convicted of a crime lie feels disgraced,' said Dr. Wilej. "Hut the millionaire who endangers the heath of the community through impure food is still received in the highest of j moiety and retains bis place in the ( church. Killed by Explosion. H. F. McCall, a prominent capital ist, of Jennings, Fla., who was Injured at Dashor, Ga.f two weeks ago, when the gasoline tank on his automobile exploded, died Wednesday. While en route from his homo to North Georgia an accident caused the tank on his machine to explode. Mr. McCall, receiving frightful burns. llank in Illinois Kohhcd. Early Tuesday burglars blew open the safe of the Citizens Ilank of Cartsworth, 111., with nitro-glycerino and escaped with a team Hiking $8,000 in paper money and $2,000 In silver. The night watchman was later found bound and gagged. GOOD ADVICE President Barrett, of the Farmers' Union, Issues an Address HE URGES THE FARMER To Prod Their Congressmen and \(?L <> Tl. ? V/ a IIV III 1 l?r lilt* ttlUVKf hilj Iiif4 that the Latter'* Slowness is Partly Fault of tho Farmers Themselves, ami Their Friends, President Charles S. Harrott, of tnf Farmer's union, lias written a letter to the officers and members in which lie declares that "the slowness of the low-makers to respond to our requests is almost as much the fault of the farmer as of the lawmakers." Says Mr. Itarrett: To the Officers and Members of the Farmer's Union: in obtaining measures of direct interest to our members, the slowness of the lawmakers to respond to our requests almost as much the fault of the farmer as of the lawmaker. Many of the leading congressmen told us, in substance, after some little conversation: "Why didn't you come up before, face to face, and get in behind us? of course,, we understand we made the farmer's prom ises, and wo expect you to call on us to redeem them." That's the milk in the cocoanut, with theee and with every congressman. brethren, don't lot us forget! And the only way you can keep them from forgetting you, is not to forget them! I have watched "interest" after "interest" work here through Its representatives, and it came to me forcibly, that not a one of them, nor all of them combined and then I doubled, is so powerful as the farmers of this country. Hut all of the power in creation wculd not forward the flight, unless you keep in behind your congressman and refuse to let him develop a poor memory. Hardly a farmer in tho organization, or out of it for that matter, who does not remember bow the congressman, when a candidate told itiin of his undying love, and how he promised this and that and just asked to be given a chance to get this ind that. How many of you have sent this promising brother gentle reminders, from time to time, in the shape of a genial little letter, inquiring after liis health, telling him you remembered how much he loved you, and sking him when he expects to get busy securing some of those tilings be used to talk, about? Mighty few of you, I reckon. Most if you recover from the excitement :>f a political campaign like getting over the measles, then straightway proceed to forget about the necessity of keeping in touch with tho man who holds your commission in congiess. Then when another candidate [Dines along frothing at the mouth like a wild bull and toll you how you have been betrayed, ,you vote him in and the other fellow out ? and then get busy, go out and dig potatoes, chop cotton, patch the barn V# W \ C Al* oAlWAthln /? ? ' 4 . v.w. wi duiiiciiiin.j5 t-isu, tiuu iorgei Mr. No. Two. That practice, more than any other one factor, explains the failure of the American farmer to secure the services at the hands of the congressmen. You are the mightiest in this land today. Up here, they are all afraid of you, and with good cause. Collectively, you make the power of Taft or Roosevelt or Aldrich or Cannon look like thirty cents. The thing to do, Is to realize that power hy not forgetting your congressman. Another, thing, we are hero rignt now for the purpose of fixing up things and keeping you posted. We fire going to do that .from time to time, in the most complete manner. Stenographic minutes are being kept of every conference, trained and faithful members are lining up and investigating congressmen, weighsng promise against preformance, and burning the midnight oil in your interest. Rut, in the meantime, don't forger, that forgetful congressman, and do not let him forget you. Write him a sweet, questioning and gentle little love letter. Charles S. Barrett. Washington, I). 0., Feb. 15. Old Postmaster Dead. Simeon W. A. Stevens, who was appointed postmaster at Gardner, Mass., hy President Franklin Pierce in 1854 and had received successive appointments ever since, is d?vl at his home in South Gardner. He was ninety one years old. RRY HE! i :r; itiikd L . ?4l WIFE RUNS AWAY FIIOM IIKit HUSBAND WITH ANOTIIKK WOMAN'S HUSBAND Mr*. No well Leaves Her Home to Toko Up With W. K. Mj*Nseni?ergt a Traveling Salesman. Tho Charlotte Observer, of Saturday, says: "Mr. Arthur Nowell of Greensboro, an operator in the Western Union telegraph ofiico of that city, came to Charlotte Thursday night on No. 35 in quest of his wifo who has eloped with Mr. W. E. Masaenberg, a traveling representative ?> I till1 A m urUii t\ f y ? IV.OII l l/UI>V,liU ^ 111 p il II y . I'nfortunately ho was a little late, the couple having left over tho Seahoard at 5 o'clock headed for Wilmington. Mr. NowelJ was ace >niianied by Deputy Sheriff Vealnetly and they have sent numerous telegrams with the hope of intercepting the couple before they re i m Wilmington or certainly after they arrive. "The information which reached Charlotte came In tho form of a telegram to Sheriff W. 11. Wa.lace who was asked to arrest Massenberg and the wife of Mr. Nowell. They were said to be In Charlotte at a hoarding house and stopping under an assumed name. Sheriff Wallace was not able, however, to obtain tho parties as they had gone before he received the message or shortly after. at least. They had stopped at Mrs. Gooding's on West Trade street. "Mr. Nowell discovered that Masseiiberg and his wife were in Charlotte through a telegram sent by the former to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Bain of Greensboro, and as soon as Nowell, who was an employe of tho telegraph ofllce of Greensboro, discovered that the message was for Mrs Bain, he got In touch with the olflcers of Greensboro and the deputy sheriff agreed to accompany him to Charlotte and make the arrest. "From all accounts Mrs. Nowell joined Massenherg in Raleigh MonI t!:i v if > a i ? s . .,..v, ,???o niviu Ti?M mg ii*t parents, Col. and Mrs. John Nichols. I Accompanied by hor small child and her sister, Mrs. Bain, Mrs. Newell I left for High Point, where they stopped for a short time before coming on to Charlotte. "Massenberg is rather prominent and is from Henderson where hl3 father Is the proprietor of a hotel. He is a representative of the American Tobacco Company and is well known among the traveling men. He was seen in Charlotte Thursday by a number of his acquaintances who thought nothing of his presence there. He is said to reside in Statesville and to be a man of family." DUAL TKAOEDY AT T1IEATKR. Orchestra Manager and Violinist Kill One Another. Fatally wounded by two bullets Hred by Aloph Cassau, a violinist, Louis It. Osterdorff, manager of tho Fmpire Theatre Orchestra, Thursday night overpowered his assailant, wrestled tin; revolver from him, and ,'ired three bullets through Cassau's head, killing him instantly at tho stage entrance of the Empire Theatre tit Indianapolis, Ind. Ostendorff died in a hospital later. The shooting occurred just as the curtain rose foi the night performance, and the audience was kept in ignorance until the show was over. Cassau's attack upon Ostendorff is said to have been the result of a quarrel Wednesday night with the manager. The Empire Theatre is a b BISHOP IS IX JAIL. Pastor "Iloly Church of the Living God," in the Toils. Denounced as a menace to society and an impostor, Jonas Samuel Sturdevant, the negro bishop, of the "Holy Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth," waa 1 sentenced at Baltimore Friday to i jail for three years. He was convicted of having assaulted and beaten Mrs. Rose Demard, one of hla white "disciples." She testified that she was influenced by him to leave | her husband and children in BrookI lyn to follow the negro, under whose spell she lived eight months. She told a revolting story of her life in the quarters of the white women over whom the negro had mastery. Italians I'se Knife. Italians bent 011 murder created terror in the resident district of Chicago Sunday night. At one place 1 Joe Sera was a tacked by three Italians and probably fatally stabbed. In another section of the city J. P. ftehmitz and Peter Hubert were set upon by two Italians, who, after ali.i * * . otuuuins meir victims, fled. iALD