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making 1 fine, rich, ' or plain food, | |Br"equally valuab andsavlng n Indispensal H For Home Da v THAT BEAR RAID Or the Buyers of Cotton in an Effort to Save Themselves by * DODGING CONTRACTS President Parker, of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, Sots Forth Situation in Detail fi'oni the Manufacturers' Staiid|K>int and Criticizes Attorney General. "I think that it is most unfortunate that tlie government should inintervene in the effort to protect those who have sold beyond their possession," characteristically said Mr. Lewis Parker, Wednesday at Greenville, when asked concerning i he action of the govern rent in oroering an investigation of the hltcged pool to keep the price of cotton up. "The Southern mills do not wish, to see a decline in the price of cotton," he continued, "and the stand of tho government is unfair. Apparently, it originated in Wall Street ?,n the part of the hears, who have b( en selling to keep the price of cotton down, and who, , by this inv/io)!irMl!/in u'leh tn fnrr-a Uprkts Ilayno, Brown and others to show their hands, to find out their metho Is, and their supply of catton on hand and the like. That part of the press dispatches which alluded to a contract of 2 6th of February jeferred to an agreement, by the Southern mills to take care of the rr tton tendered in New York. I learned of the action of Attorney General Wickersham on Wednesday j ight and sent the following telegram to Senator E. D. Smith at Wash ingf on: "'Have just learned of action of grand jury in New York under advice of Attorney General Wickersham in reference to New York exchange. 'Idie effect of this is to assist the bears out of a dilemma in selling the market. The effort of Southern mills has been to sustain prices and to this end they have agreed to take up cotton tendered in J New York. There is nothing unfair or illegal in their agreement J with Hayne ana Brown, and I urge! r you to protest against the use of the government's power in forcing at this timie a disclosure of their plans in the effort to make a bear raid. See , A damson of Georgia, who understands matters.' "The situation is this: as is known throughout tlie season the I mills have had a difficult job to got! an adjustment, of cotton goods to a j parity with the prices of cotton.. With the scarcity prevailing in cotton dur-j ins the present season it is difficult to J say what is a fair price for the comV*~Thodity; hut from November on 1 ! J think it has been recognized that probably 1 f> cents to the producer represented that fair price. In November and again in January, those who were adverse to the prevailing prices of the commodity made concerted efforts to break the market by selling in large quantity, .hoping and expecting to be able to repurchase the cotton at lower prices. Those thus I calling the market have oversold ** themselves, and purchases have been made by Messrs. Ilayne. Hrtown and others who are simply asking those j .no have sold to deliver that which they speculatively sold without having cotton to sell. "T.he Southern mills do not wish t'o see i decline in the price of ' ?11\ I lin cotton for two rCiiniMiis. ,,, first place to a considerable extent they have purchased cotton in the , belief that the high prices pr ' 'ailing during the fall and winter were n.ore or less justified by the crop out-turn. In the second place they regard it exceedingly problematical what will l>o the size of the crop this year, and what should be a legitimate price for cotton next fall. "On the exchange the prevailing prices for fall cotton are now approximately 12 1-2 cents; and so far as we can see these prices should prevail in the fall. If through the! H Isi irjCfeir ^flBH^BilidKu # M 1 N.'.jflWP jBgZMn^Mk M M PARADE OF VETERANS ONCE MORE THE OLD REBELS WILL MARCH TO MUSIC. Crand Marshal Harrison Cives Instructions as to Order of Mareh in Mobile I'a#eant. The old Confederate veterans will r j /-w ? r? (rot hni- ! n onnnnl r?t\ 11 v rt n f i r? r> nt Mobile. The official parade orders issued by General P. Harrison as grand marshal, were made public on Thursday night by his chief of staff, Harry E. Jones. This settles the issue as to the position of the carriage division that was raised by Gen. John A. Webb, of LV1 ississippi. The parade according to the official orders, will form at 10 o'clock in the morning on April 28. The order of divisions in the parade is as follows: , Order of Divisions. Escort Columns?Includes police platoon, National guard battalion and cadet organizations. Veteran Column?Including gener- ' al officers of the U. C. V., and uniformed escort. Trans-Mississippi Department. Texas division. ( Indian Territory division. ( Missouri division. < Arkansas division. Northwest division, tPacific division. , Department of Tennessee. Tennessee division. I Alabama division. I Mississippi division. Oooriria division. Louisiana division. Florida division. Kentucky division. Oklahoma division. Department of Northern Virginia. North Carolina division. I West Virginia division. Maryland division. Virginia division. South Carolina division. Forest cavalry corps. Carriage Division. Ladies' Memorial association. Sponsors and maids for general headquarters. Sponsors and maids for departments and divisions in the order of their respective commands. Division of Sons and Daughters, , including Sons of Veterans' organization and t.heir sponsors and maids. spilinc movement on the part of the bears the prices for fall deliveries are materially reduced, buyers of , goods will fix (heir estimate of the J value of goods on the basis of these reduced prices of futures; whereas ] there is every reason to believe that an abnormal demand for cotton in the fall will keep prices sustained for the spot cotton at, in all probability, above 12 1-2 cents, even ' though the crop be very large. Under these circumstances inasmuch as the effect of constant selling of tiie market by bears would have a con- . slant tendency ho reduce the price ^ of cotton the Southern Mills have agreed to take up the cotton in New ^ York hoping to have thereby a , strengthening tendency on the cotton market. The bears who have been selling what tbey did not have are [ now seized with a panic and are ' showing t.he white feather and have , sought the assistance of the gov- J eminent in this condition of affairs. 4 I think that it is nuost unfortun i ate that tlio government snouia intervene In the effort to protect those w.ho have sold beyond their possession. It is also importunate that in ! this matter Mr. Wickershani, the ( Attorney General, under whose direr- ^ tion the inquiry in being made, should ^ he the law partner of Mr. Taft, the J counsel of the cotton exchange, and { tnat Mr. Taft, the oounsel, is the * brother of the President . It has f come to a pretty pass in the gov- ( eminent when it is no crime for a 1 set of men to sell what they don't : possess, but becomes a crime for others who are interested in the niaintainenco of prices cf the raw material act together so as to com- ( pel those who hr>'*e rMUl to deliver j 1 what they have sold." I ] MAD DOG VICTIMS FORTY OF THFLM ARK NOW BEING TREATED BREE At Columbia in (lie State Pastuir Institute Located There, Which Is Very Much Crowded. Over forty cases of rabies and nowbeing treated In the new established State Pasteur Institute at Columbia at the University of South Carolina. With the approach of summer it is feared the number of cases will increase and it is likely that the next T.PfHKlntnrn will ho asked to make some provision for housing and feeding such patients as finding suitable boarding houses is becoming a serious problem. 'Many of the patients are from very poor families. Most of the victims now receiving treatment are white children though there are a number of negroes in the list. Tiie reception room at tiie institute looks like a small kindergarten when Dr. Coward oomes in at 9:30 o'clock and rolled up his sleeves for a hard day's work. The case illustrating the greatest havoc one worthless stray dog can do is that illustrated by five victims from Charleston there for treatment. Two others bitten by the same dog were sent elsewhere for treatment, one that of a child of Mr. J. Ij. Livingston, a brother of Mr. W. F. Livingston, the Charleston and Columbia shoe dealer. This child had ? Aiit mil vyv uiucii uiu. On-? of the negro victim's of this dog had to have several stiches taken in its face to close up a wound and another negro victim had a leg chewed into so deeply to render it a cripple for life. Tho white victim of this dog Is the little four-year-old daughter of E. G. Steele, the Associated Press operator in The News and Courier office. The child is accompanied >?y its mother. The Steele child is not doing so well, and an ertra physician was called into consultation. Three white women from Chester were bitten by a pet calf which suddenly went mad. ? FINDS WATERY GItAVE. \ La(1 Drowned While Fishing in the Neuse I liver. News reached Goidshoro wooneslay of the drowning near Salem ihurch of Mr. Troy Crawford, son Df )Mr. Daniel Crawford, of the Noel Hill section. Young Crawford, who was barely 18 years of age, and Charles Williams, aged about 17, were fishing in th-e river. The hoys had just hooked a large fish and in their excitement overturned the boat, and were thrown into the swift swollen current. Two small colored boys were on the hank and threw a grape vine to Williams, hut Crawford was carried out into the middle of the stream, beyond reach and was drowned. The body was recovered next morning and carried to the home of the distressed parents. MUST LOVE IIICK. Joseph Albertson's Long Journey for 11 is Bridie. After coming 10,000 miles to claim his bride, Joseph Albertson, who is to be married at Montrose, Pa., to Beatrice Larabe, will leave on a 15,000 mile journey with her. Albertson is a district superintendent of public schools in the P.hillippines and ho and Miss Larabe have been engaged for four years. lie went to Manila soon after the engagement Some time ago he got a leave of absence and travelled the 1 0,000 miles to Montrose to wed. The honeymoon I-..!.. ..{11 l.A .-.XT/-... o i>mitu 1 0 (1 0 I I ![ ? 111 IW WVC1 ?l | long. ?. ? ? WOM AX COX CI0SSI0S. Columbia Case is Likely Never to He Tried in Court. At Columbia Olindo Scessa an 11a 1 an dressmaker, who lias boon in jail 'or several weeks without bail charged with criminally assaulting the ,vifp of a Columbia watchmaker, was Thursday released on a five hundred lollar bail by Judge Gary on an lfiidavit of the victim admitting that .ho had been having illicit relations vitb the defendant previous to the illeged assault. It is likely now thai he case will never be brought to rial. The woman's affidavit created a sensation. ? Lost All of IIis Money. Standing helpless, while the hoard- < ugs of a lifetime burned, was the < 'xperienee which .lesse C. Walters, a : armor, suffered at Darbun, Miss., < ate Thursday. Waters, who is 7 0 rears old, did not believe in banks tnd kept all his savings in his .humdo farm house, amounting to severil thousand dollars. When he reached his home after dicovering it in , lames, he was too late to rescue tny thing. , ? . Arbitration Agreed l'|M>n. Arbitration of the wage demand ^f the train men and conductors of lie Now York Central lines west of Buffalo were agreed upon Saturday. ( DESERT SINKING SHIP DEMOCRATS WILL. CONTROL THE NEXT HOUSE. Opinion in Washington as to Retirement of Aldrich and Other Republican Leaders. The recent events in national politics has roused the whole country to a belief that the doom of the republican party is settled and the democrats are standing to win Uie fight for the next congress. Various prominent leaders have spoken of the I'ncnlt ! n M loon^ti ncotle n fl tli<? v i < _ tory In the Syracuse New York district, and the determination of Aldrich and other republican leaders to retire from public life, and the general sentiment is that there is a handwriting on the wall which all of the political prophets can read. The following view from Zacli McGhee of the State in Washington Bunuinarizes the sentiment as gathered in that political center. Aldrich and Aldridge for a joint subject of great interest in Washington. "The rats are leaving the ships," is what is heard in Democratic circles. and the republicans are simply looking sick. While the retirement of Aldrich at I4ie end of this congress on the announcement of it for political effect is being talked of the town Is set further agog by the news from the 3 4th New York district, where a democrat heats the republican boss, Aldridge, for congress. The reverse is as great as that Massachusetts several weeks ago, when cnnsetis several wet-K? wum Foss was elected. Havens overcomes a majority of 10,000 and piles up a democratic majority of several thousand. Senator Aid rich gave out a letter he has written the governor of Rhode Island notifying the governor and country that he would not he a candidate for re-election to the senate. This is taken to mean that the senate boss sees that his days as boss are numbered and that he had better get out. It is suggested that if the country again goes republican in the fall election then Mr. Aldrich will come back in which case he would continue the boss. The case of iMr. Hale is slightly different, in that Mr. Hale confronts defeat anyway. Some have been whispering about the capitol that we may expect to hear from Lodive of Massachusetts, whose reelection is by no means certain. THEY HA!) A HOT TIME. General How in Which Two Persons Are Killed. One man killed outright, another dying, still another seriously injured and a woman In a precarious condition is the net result of a quarrel started in a boarding house in Welch, W. Va., presided over by the woman victim. John Jones, a former boarder, had been warned several times by Mrs. Cleek to stay away from her home. Shortly after noon Tuesday he appeared at the house and an altercation ensued. A. T. Taylor, a boarder, sided with Mrs. Cleek, and this infuriated Jones, who grasping a dinner hell, pounded Taylor over the head with it. Mrs. Cleek immediately procurred a revolver and shot Jones, killing him Instantly. Shortly afterward, Jones's son, Lewis, entered the boarding house, and hit Mrs. Cleek with a huge stone, fracturing her skull. Taylor then secured the weapon used by Mrs. Cleek and shot young Jones above the heart, and the local .hospital physicians say he cannot recover. ,T. P. Jones, a. relative of the dead man, then interfered and was shot through the arm and shoulder by Taylor, who then disappeared. ?*. A SMIIIMS OF TItACFDIFS. Several Fancied at Hinghanipton on the Same Day. An unusual series of tragedies were recorded at Pinghampton, N. j i Y., for the twenty-four hours ending ; Monday evening. Dominic Fritz, of Corhcttsville, a suburb, died from the effects of a bullet wound in bis head. He was shot by his own 1 8-months-old child, i who had been playing with an old. revolver, supposed to ho unloaded. Charles Lowes, a wealthy fanner, ? hanged himself in his barn, despon- 1 dent over inability to obtain farm < laborers at any but prohibitive rates. i The dead body of an unknown I man about 2f> venrs of aye, well < dressed and carrying several bun- < :1 rod dollars in money was found on n railroad bridge crossing the Snsnuiohanna river. He had evidently been struck and killed by a train. ? Feared the Comet. ^ Fear that the approaching comet j would destroy the earth, led to tho , suicide of Mrs. Florence Shankalnd, aged 21, at Louisville, Ky.. Thursday night. According to the statements of neighbors, Mrs. FUiankland, who was of a molanchol ynature, .had been specially morose since the advent of 11 alley's comet, believing the end o* the earth might take place at any moment. BANK OF Conwa ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, r\ t u1: .1 o. AJUiiuay, We continue to jay 5 per cent interei it youraceount ROBERT n. SCARBOROUGH, H i'RES IDF NT. " i I. i | FIRST NATI( ? <X>WYl\ ^ CAPITA!, STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS . . A TOTAL ASS EST S t rireo j. a. iM/cDermott, john ( ?13. G. Coil li ns, H. L. I M. Hurroughs, C. P. Qui Successor to (ho Hank ol I jaw Horry County, and a pioneer * 3 ly allied with the recent dev Republic. Hacked by the jfiL United States Honds, we are \ tomers any reasonable acconiu ?11. A. vSPIVEV, Cashier. A Tost and a Prophecy. To the grand Ola Party of today, "One woe upon another's heel doth tread, so fast they come." .lust a few weeks after the Fourteenth district of Massachusetts ilun/g off Hepublican traditions old as Plyinounth Rock itself and elected Eugene N. Foss, a Democrat and a free trader bo Congress, the county of Monroe, in New ork Tuesday swung into the Democratic column by a change of more than sixteen thousand votes. George \V. Aldridge. who until last Tuesday, had ruled the country as# aristocrically and securely as ever 1 old Abdul Ilamid ruled his harem, j backed by a well-oiled machine and I all t.he boodle he wanted, was beaten to a frazzle by James S. Havens, a Democrat, who took the field only seventeen days ago. The hitter's pluralty was five thousand, nine hundred votes. rrViinfrQ hilinmipiiintr i 11 a hurrv ill * ? *"nv' ** ^ it o ? v the country's politics today. Hut tlvey are (lie outcome of long years during which popular intelligence and conscience have been awakening. The grc:it chr nge has been silently moving like a glacier. It is now ready to rush like an avalanche. It took the s ed planted by William Jennings Hryan fourteen years ago sometime to germinate, but the harvest is being gathered at last. It is particularly significant, says bhe Atlanta Journal that both Fosc and Mr. Havens won largely on the tariff issue. And they both won in communities that rely for business chiefly on manufacturers. Monroe county presents a specially interest,inig test of how the people of the nation at large have come to feel and to think. Rochester, its principal city, abounds in factories. T.he outlying territory is studded with farms. Thus the laboring man and the farmer were called upon to register their opinions the present tariff and of Republican methods. In their action, the thought of t.he whole country is reflected and the will of the whole country presaged. If there was ever an unalloyed specimen of Cannonism and Republicanism stand-pat ism, it is C.eorgo Washington Aldriedge, erstwhile boss of LMonroe county, New York. He has held in .his four and fifty y ars of life almost every political ofllce > within tho power of his machine. In behalf of special interests he has I been as shrewdly calculating as AIdrich and toward every progressive movement .he has been as defiant as ' Uncle Joe. Tie is not simply a chip off of the old block; he is an old block all to himself. in the campaign ho ran on a general proclamation indorsing the Republican regime, national and local. llabens, on the contrary, stood for n tariff reduction on wool and wool on goods and a removal of the duties on hides, lumber and iron ore tuul independence of machine domi-i nation. Ret ween these two the people of a great representative American community have chosen. That choice is a test and a prophecy. Now a mTM? ha* killed \ j Pittsburg Rohemian editor. We I < make strict laws about sale of pois-| 1 r>Tis, with which a man is likely to < Injure only himself, hut allow all to 1 have deadly shooting irons for wholesale murder. ? Professional ball players must get up some enthusiasm if they want the warm support of the follows who hold reserves on the bleachers. Ambling around with only the pay envelope in sight won't pass muster with them. ' HORRY, y. S, C. I $ 50 OOf lootf 50 0Q> 110 00* MORS w. r. lewis, w. a. johnson, will a p'reeman. t-t on year]} deposits, ma we folicl buck, will a. friem as i ice l'rfsident. cabiiikb 3NAL BANKIL | $25,000.00 ? 2,500.00 M 125,000.00 toils: 2? o..n t M.A'.,iii /lV opiw.y, l/. 1. .?u .unii, (r|(l ituck, W. II. Lewis, I). Eittlebaura, I>. A. Spivey. rP f Conway, t.he oldest Hank in ||W in Eastern Carolina. 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They do not want a man in that political machine sho?> without a good strong string tied to him. Kightv thousand gxtats frozen to loath in Texas by the recent cold wave. That leaves the population >1 the state about 2,290.000 wo believe. ^ After his long practice in operating the steam roller. Undo 'Joe Can* non's automobile must seem quite speedy to him. \Vi< kersham says the courts won't permit monopoly. The trusts have rot the earth, but they can't feneo ' * l&i OTfclBftn