The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 19, 1910, Image 6

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SOUTH GAINS Representation in Congress as the t Present Census Will Show LARGE INCREASE HERE Kach Southern State May <*ot an Ad tioual MoinDcr in tnc liowr ihhimlint Northern Republican Hcpre* scntativcs Will Oppose the Increase Strenuously. A dispatch from Washington says since estimated returns of the J 3th census, sent uo Director Durand, indicate that in many of the States of the South large gains have been made in population since the last census was made, ten years ago, Democrats are beginning already to prepare for Die fight Hint is almost certain to be made against a larger representation from that section. These partial returns indicate that in probably all of the States South of the Mason and Dixon line the increase in population since t.he last apportionment was made will lie sufficient to permit of an additional member of the lower house in each of them, while in some of the Western Ruuns Dip returns indicate that | the present number or ItepresentaTves will either be slightly reduced, or at most no additional members will be authorized. This is what will cause the trouble. The Republicans will hate to give up any of their present strength and they would hate worse to see It go Siouth, the home of the Democrats, but they will be unable to defeat a fair apportionment. Taking the rule of progression, as stated by Director Durand, a little figuring will show what each of the States should be entitled to receive in the matter of Representatives in Congress when the next apportionment is made. In 1830 the total number of members of the House was 332, in 1890 , it was 367, and in 1900 it was 391, which is the number at this time. What were the relative gains in population during each of those periods? In 1890 the population of the fortyflve States then in tho Union was 62,116,811; in 1 900 it had increas ed to 74,610,523 and at this time estimates make it arown 1 91.000.000. In other words, from 18S0 to J 590 the number of mcmneis in the House was increased by twMity-li'e and from 1 890 to 190C, thirty four. Therefore, if the population since 1900 .has increased from 74,000,000 In round numbers to 91.000,000 ? 17,000,000?there should bo approximately forty row membeis admitted. Where will they come from? Will they come as representatives of the big cities of Now Y*?*k Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Poslon, where the tide of immigration fur * ?, v, nn Vinrin c-1 rvl T1 ir or U'ill ItJJl V it. 1 O HAD UCVH kliiutiQ V/. ..... they come from the more thinly set- * tied agricultural districts of the 1 South and West? 1 T.hese are questions that Director 1 Durand admitted he was totally un- 1 able to answer intelligently at this 1 time. Immigration will figure large- ? ly in the final totals he said, and ? there is little doubt that the larger 1 cities will make big gains, hence wiP % want more representatives in Co. a gress. c Those familiar with legislative at fairs in Washington do not hesitate * to state that the Republicans in the (' present Congress, among them Representatives Bennett, of New York; 1 Crumpacker, of Ohio, and Keifer, of ' Ohio, will make every possible effort 1 to keep the Southern States from in- s creasing their Democratic member- * ship in the House when the figures v are all in and when the time for re- c apportioning the various States again comes round. Year by year the Congressmen named have made a determined fight ^ against the present number of Representatives from the South?Uuir claims being based on the theory that inasmuch as discrimination is used ( against die negroes and that in many j instances the election laws or me country south of the Mason and I)ix- * on line are such that the negroes are ' excluded that an exact representa- ^ proportion not to the total of 1 proportion not to the the total of 1 population in those States, but ac- : cording to the registered voters who ' exercise the elective privilege. Kueh attempts have not yet been 1 successful and probably never will ( be, so far as present conditions are ' concerned, but that the fight of last ! year will be renewed when the quee- ( tion of making another apportionment comes up, is already well settled. Makes Heady to Figlit. /Peru is making active preparations for war with Kcua/dor. Twenty-four thousand soldiers are quartered in ; the vicinity of Lima while ten UlOUB- ( and more are stationed near the Iron- > tier. c ? 4 x Alma Kellncr Found. ( LA. special dispatch from London, i Ky., says that Alma Kellner of Ivouis- ( ville, who was kidnapped last win- f ter, was found at Gray's, Ky., with a t Gypsy fortune teller. \ / THE NEW SEED LAW RULES ADOPTED 15Yr THE OFFICIALS OF TliK STATE. ? How the Recent Act Passed by the General Assembly Will I5e Enforced. Rules and regulations for (he enforcement of the seed inspection act have been prepared t>y the coin mis sinner of agriculture and the director of the state experiment station. The following are the regulations as announced : 1. In addition to the sheep sorrel, green and yellow fox tail, yellow trefoil, chick weed, which are mentioned in section 4 of this act, the seeds of crab grass, Johnson grass, paspalum, barn yard grass, cheat, witch grass, nutgrass and other sedges, lamium, lambsquarter, prickley lettuce, dock, wild carrot, peppe** grass, wild mustard, plaintain, wild onion, spurge, spiny srda, amaranth, pigweed, lady's thumb, hogweed, ragweed button weed, evening primrose, purslane, bind weed, Canada thistle, Russian thistle aid seeds of other weeds which may be added to this list from time to time shall be classed as impurities. 2. When inert matter such as described in section 5 of this act, is present in seeds in access of 2 0 per cent the nature and amounts of such matters shall be stated on the label as specified in this act. 3. Any package of corn, cotton, oats, wheat, barley or other agricul tural seeds wliicli shall contain more | than 5 per cent of another kind or variety of agricultural or weed seed than the one specified on the label shall be considered mixed seed and shall be so labeled, giving the name and amount of each kind or variety of seel that occurs in the mixture. 4. Seeds shall be considered adulterated when they contain w^ed seeds, other agricultural seeds or any seeds or materials which would not occur in other seeds in the natural course of events. In such cases the conditions under which the seed were grown will be considered. 6. Seed shall be considered misbranded when the label as prescribed by thc-,.,2?t does not give the correct name of sf^yw^s^itained therein. 6. The trerminat.ioall seed sold in this state shall be si^F? ed in the label, as specified in section 1 of the act. in per cent. No seed shall be sold in the state which does not when placed under favorable conditions in the laboratory, germinate the per cent guaranteed on the label. 7. Seeds sold for lawn purposes shall be labeled so r;3 to show what kinds of seed occur in the mixture and the percentage bj weight and number of each. Such seed shall conform In purity and germination to the same standards set for other agricultural seeds. 8. Seed containing anthracnose of cotton, smut of corn, wheat, oats, rice, barley, blue grass or other grasses, onions or sorghum, black rot of cabbage or turnips, IMack rot of sweet potato, dry rot scab of Irish [>otato anthracnose or bacterial olight of beans, anthracnose of .vheat, oats or barley, shall be considered a communicable disease and ihall be considered impure and unfit or seeding purposes, unless preiously treated so as to kill the causil organization of such disease withiut injoring the vitality of the seed ( 9, The ol)jcct of this act is to conrol the sale of seed and prevent, the listribution of weeds and other pests hrough seeds in tliis state. It is he purpose of those in authority to nforce the law so as to secure the ?est protection with the least hardhip on any one concerned. With his purpose in view the regulations vi 11 be modified and added to as oeasion seems to demand. WOMAN SHOOTS NEGKO. .Ylien He Advanced Upon Her Slie Pulled Trigger. Mrs. Pertie Rhodes, of Granville bounty, N. C., shot and killed Joe <inton, colored, on Monday. The vomicide took place fifty miles from Durham. Before the justice, Mrs. Rhodes, member of a family com>osed of a Presbyterian minister, her mother, a sister in charge of a Texts conservatory, testified that she nad forbidden Kinton's driving across tier lands and that when she again reouKea nun ne leu nis ouggy aim same towards her. Then she loaded her shotgun and fired at him. The shooting took place 15 miles below Oxford, near the Virginia line. KIIjIjS (JIHIj he loved. Shot Her Mother aiul Attempted to Kill Himself. At Schenectady, N. Y., because Mrs. Josephine Liopiollo refused to consent to the marriage of her 16vear-old daughter, Angelina, to Lu;ane Milano, Milano pulled a revolver from his ix>cket and shot the gfrl hrough the temple, causing 4ier alnost instant death, shot the mother hrougli the throat and ten, after a utile attempt to cut .his own throat, ook poison. The mother and Milano will recover. CLAIMS THRONE A Man Who Says He is the Oldest Son of King Edward, the Seventh AND IS THE LEGAL KING John (Jcorge Guelph Tells a Strange Story in New York, Relating to the Late King of Hngland, and One of 11 is Karly Love Affairs. John George Guelph, w.ho claims to be eldest son of the late King Edward VII, by a marriage which Queen Victoria made her son disavow, and therefore the rightful ruler of the British Empire, was seen at 10G Montague street in New York Tuesday, and asked w.hat he intended to do to gain the throne. ("The prince," as he is still called by his wife and friends, although Edward VII, is dead, displayed in answer a cablegram he had just dispatched to George V., at the palace in London. '"T.his is the best answer as to what my attitude will be," said he. The cablegram read: "Brooklyn, N. Y., IT. S. A., "May Gth, 1910. "King George. London: "Words fail to express my grief. You understand my position. I am at the service of my country. "John George Guelph." "Rut," said the reporter, puzzled, "how does that make your position clear?" "You will notice," said the prince, "t.hat I renounce none of my claims in that cablegram. In fact, I assert my rights. My position in reality is that of King of England and Emperor of the British Empire. George knows that. He will understand what I mean. I do not lay myself at Gfcorge's disposition, as a subject might be expected to do, in that last sentence. I do not offer George my services. I offer them to my country." "The matter of the prince's sue cession," said the princess, who was pressent at the interview, "is witb the people of Great Britain, and leading statesmen thero 1* cablegram is addressed to King George, London.' It that not in itself an acknowledgement that George is King?" "That means nothing," said Prince John, "except that it was necessary to address it in that manner to insure its delivery." The "prince" was very much bro ken with griet, and as ne told uae tale of all that he has been made to suffer he frequently broke down and sobbed. He wore black, even to the necktie. And his grief seemed to be very genuine. He is a fall, well built man of forty-nine, who l?ok& younger, and there is no doubt that he bears a great facial resemblance to the English royal family. The princess, before the prince arrived, told to the reporter an outline of his story. The late king, she said, while Prince of Whales, married the daugter of an English peer who Queen Victoria disapproved and forbade the public announcement of the marriage. "Prince John" was born. The peer's daughter was hustled out of sight and never acknowledged. But the marriage was never annulled. "The Prince" went to India while very young. The^e he 1 learned of his parentage and was offered a title if he would go to Australia and c.p. ? there. Bu* because the rc,entanc? of the t' ie would be 1 at t?he price of his mother's good name, he refused it. He demanded acknowledgement for her also. Sim never received it and is now in the Holy Hand as a missionary. Neither ihe prince nor the princess would tell who she is. "The Prince" says he had a great many letters from the late king acknowledging him as his son. "Will you make these letters public now?" he was asked. "If I am forced to do so." he re plied. Just what his first step will he in the way of gaining the throne he would not say. Matters of that kind, so ho said, cannot he done hastily. ? WHITE (ifltli SAVED. Two White Women and Their Chinese Husbands Arrested. At New York, under orders from the district attorney four habitues of Chinatown were arrested in what is described by Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss as a new white slave plot. In one of the houses visited by detectives, Marcelle Feaure, a pretty 16-year-old white girl, whose home is at Easton, Pa., was selr.ed and sent to the house of detention. The arrests, as 'Mr. Moss said, foiled a plot to take the girl into Chinatown after she had been lured there from her .home for that purpose. Two white women and thetr Chinese husbands are the prisoners. Mr. Moss said he is confident no harm has yet come to the girl, as it was planned to introduce her slowly to the aspect of vice in Chinatown before the sale for fear she would become disgusted and run away. FOUND NOT GUILTY ?. JURY ACQUITS THE MAN A M015 WANTED TO LYNCH. Carried From Greenville to Spartanburg to Escape tlio Mob That Were Clanunoring for Ills Life. Jesse Fuller, charged with the murder of J. E. Liddell on Christmas eve, at Greenville, was declared not guilty by the jury charged with his case after deliberations of two hours Monday night at Greenville. Trial of the ease was begun Monday morning and went to the jury shortly after six o'clock Monday night. The principal witness for the state wns \V. (). Stover, who claimed that Fuller confessed to .him shortly after the mur.'er. It was on his allegation that Fuller was arrested and lodged in jail on Christmas day Fuller gave a satisfactory account of his whereabouts on Christmas eve, which was corroborated by Joe Barker, who claimed to have been with him. The acquittal is tne subject of much comment on the streets of I Greenville for it was only by the strategy of the sheriff's office that Puller was not lync.hed when implicated by Stover. A mob formed in front of the court house demanding his life, but he was spirited away and carried to Spartanburg, where he was kept in jail for several weeks. The murder of Liddell was one of the most brutal ever enacted in the city of Greenville and raised feeling to a high pitc.h. Several persons are still under suspicion. SHOOTING SCKAI'K ON STKK^ I' One Man Is Killed and Two Others Are Wounded. Because they r?v?inte.i atfontions to their sis ei, F/v-vard and Herbert Mercer ?'.ngagVi in a pist >1 duel on the v r vs ^C)ii-l!e, G Monday with Qra 'y Sn?:*tr! ov. The iatter and WV'am Benton, a bvf^tander, rvobably fatally wound^^j^Td Edward Meicer was sli^'^j^^wounded in the shoulder. flfiflyrTlowing the visit of Snellgrove P^o Miss Mercer Sunday afternoon the brothers made such strenuous ob jections that Snellgrove was forced to make a hurried escape by means of a second story window. Sunday night Snellgrove and the i girl's father discussed the affair and 1 it was thought that there would be i no further trouble, but as soon as j t.he younger men met on the street Monday revolvers were brought into play. CHKHOKEK MAN DROWNED. Efforts of Companions Failed to Save the Unfortunate. Information has iust reached Gaffney to the effect that C. Lipscomb, J. It. Graham and George T.homason ? i 1 av w /I rP\a I y?lr t \r WGrG Seilllllg 1" it |)Uliu w II i iiivnviij Creek Tuesday. Lipscomb could not swim and claimed the pond was not beyond his 'depth. Recent high wafer washed a deep hole where they went beyond depth. Lipscomb and Thoniason both went down, and Graham, in trying to save Lipscomb, narrowly escaped drowning, as Lipscomb in a frenzy pulled him under. Seeing he could not save him, Gra.ham managed to catch an overhanging limb and get out, where he was joined by Thompson, in exhausted state, he claiming that Lipscomb and Graham, struggling, sent him to the bottom. Lipscomb's body was recovered after a searth of three hours. SHOOTS XHIGIIIiOItS GUKSTS. +. Suspicion of Tlieft of His Whiskey Causes the Attack. Armed with a reneatinc shotgun. I Arch 'Brown, aged 3 7 years, Monday afternoon opened fire upon assembled guests at the home of a neighbor, four miles from Staunton, Va., killing two persons and wounding two others, one of whom may die. Perry Hoy, and a boy, named Higgs, eight years old, are dead. Abe Hoy, brother of Perry Hoy, was probably fatally shot and the other shot was the father of the Higgs boy. .Browns wholesale shooting was a result of his anger having been aroused by the belief that Abe Hoy had stolen some w.hiskey with which Brown has entrusted to him. Brown went to St&unton after the shooting and surrendered to the jailer. MEET DEATH ON TRACK. Run Down by Coast Line Train at Hooky Mount, X. C, Roy Gainey and Wither Dcvault, two young men, were killed at Rocky M11r< M P lntn SnfnrdflV night bv an Atlantic Coast Line train. T.hese young men loft. Clinton recently to seek employment and were working in a cotton mill at Rocky 'Mount. They met death In avoiding one train at a crossing by stopping onto another track, when tlmy wore run down by an incoming train, which t.bey did not hear on account of the rumble of the first train. Their parents live In Clinton and were appraised of the sad news. , THEY LAND HARD ? Balloon Fell Like Plummet of Lead to the Earth With Two Men BOTH ARE BADLY HURT The During Voyagers Descended in a Desolate, Isolated Kegion, Demote from Telegraph, After Making a Flight of Four Hundred THE COTTON TARE ACT SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IT AT EARLY DATE. A I>eoinJoii That Will R? of Groat Interest to the Farmers of the State. The State Supreme Court has been asked to pass upon the constitutionality of the Cotton Tare Act, which was enacted at the last session of the Legislature. A warrant has b; en sworn out against W. G. Mullins, a cotton buyer of Columbia charging hiin with violation of the Act. It is thought thai this is purely a toat case. The suit is of vital importance j to all cotton farmers. The act is as follows. "Section 3. That from and after the approval of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying cotton in this State as principal or agent to deduct any sum for bagging and ties for the weight or price of any bale of cotton when the weight of the bagging and ties does not exceed G per cent, of the gross weight of such bale of cotton. In the event that the weight of the bagging and teis exceeds sixty per cent of the gross weight of such bales of cotton only the excess over the said G per cent may be deducted. "Section 2. For each and every violation of this Act the offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and snail ne mi <i 111 me sum 01 not than $5 nor more than $25, or imprisonment not less i.han ten days nor more than thirty days. Provided, this Act shall not apply to what in trade is known as round bales and bales of cotton which weigh less than 300 pounds." The act was approved on February 25, of this year. Jt is claimed that $1,800,000 is the amount involved in the test case that will be brought before the Supreme Court Monday on habeas cor' pus proceedings, JLn connection with the alleged violation of the Cotton Tare Act, which makes this case assume tremendous proportions in this State. Heretofore the amount of tare allowed on cotton was 2 0 pounds to the bale. Put under the enact ment of 1910 the 6 per cent that would be allowed, if the Act is declared constitutional, would mean 3 0 pounds to each 50 0-pound bale, a difference of 10 pounds to the bale. T.he Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier wants to know who will pay this difference? Why the farmers have been charged tare all the time. A tare of six pounds per hundred on all American cotton is deducted in Liverpool when the price of our cotton is fixed, and of course the farmer loees this. Now if a buyer in Columbia knocks off ten more pounds for tare the farmer is being robbed of just ten pounds of cotton, as the six pounds tare on each hundred pounds of his cotton has already been deducted when the price is fixed in Liverpool, where the price of our cotton is always fixed, that being t.he market in which wt, sell the surplus of our cotton crop. This is an old question, and R should be familiar to all farmers and cotton buyers. Should a farmer put as much as 4SO pounds lint cotton in a bale and put on that bale only 20 pound of bagging and ties he is giving away ten pounds of lint cotton, as he is credited by the Liverpool fixers of the price of our cotton with only 4 70 pounds of lint 1 cotton in all bales weighing 500 * rnl a i_ X J ,| pounds. me ranker is noi paui iui the bagging and ties, as many sup- 1 pose. For every hundred pounds of cotton he sells six pounds is de- ' ducted to pay for the bagging and ; ties he puts on it. 1 On what ground any buyer should '< deduct ten pounds of cotton from a bale of five hundred pounds or any other weight bale is a mystery to us. It would be a clean steal of just that much cotton from the farmer, unless there is a defect in the packing of the bale in some way. The farmer who puts more than 4 70 pounds of cotton in a 500 pound bale is simply giving away the excess he puts in over that amount. The baggimg and ties should make up the thirty pounds needed to make the bale weigh 500 pounds We are satisfied that the supreme court will uphold the act as it simply protects the farmer in his just rights. The ten cent tare that is involved in this decisioi amounts to over a million dollars, and we know of no reason w.hy the farmers should bo buncoed out of it. It Is understood that the test case is brought by a large Columbia firm of cotton dealers, M, C. Heath & Co.,* and \V. G. Mulling has been arrested on a warrant sworn out charging him with violating the Tare Act. Tbe case will come up Monday in the Supreme Court. Committed Suicide. Seated in front of a mirrow in his room, David Belinsky shot himself in the head. He was employed in Buffalo, N. Y., but a note gives his place of residence as Boston, \(n?n luaooi King George V, who succeeds his father to the throne of England, is 1 said to ho a good man in the relations of life. { Miles, lOiidiiring Many Hardships. Aftor a thrilling: flight of four hundred miles, during which they ascended to an altitude of 20,COO feet and encountered two snowstorms, A. Holland Forbes, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, vice president of the Aero Club of America and Y. C. Yates, of rsew iorK, iohi comroi 01 men uailoon, the Viking, Tuesday afternoon and descended with such precipitation that both aeromalits were badly bruised and the balloon partially wrecked. The balloon came to earth near Center, Ky., a hamlet about 20 miles from Horse Cave, and dropped the final one hundred feet of space like a stone. The escape of t.he balloonists from instant death was little short of miraculous. A representative of the Associated Press visited the injured balioonists at the farm of Tilden Boston, where they were removed after alighting, and found both men suffering from severe bruises and sprains, but not seriously injured. Althoug.h confined to their beds they expect to be able to travel within two or three days "We left Quincy, 111., at 6.56 o'clock Monday evening," said Mr. Forbes. "We were hoping to strike favorable air currents from the west that might give us a chance at the long distance re CUIIZ. V> C WBIU Cell 1 It'll 111 H. MtJIlllcircle, however, passing over parts of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky. Tuesday morning we encountered intense cold and a severe snow storm at an altitude of 16,000 feet. On Tuesday afternoon, at an altitude of 1 6,000 feet, we ran into anot.her snow storm. Shortly afterwards we shot up Vo 20,000 feet. From that, time on the cold was so intense that we became benumbed and half stupid and gradually lost power to control the balloon. I cannot tell what the altitude was but just before we made our final drop, an effort to Vet out gas by the valve bad not succeeded in bringing us to the ground as fast as we desired. Finally, I decided to use the rip cord before we lost consciousness entirely. In some manner, yet unexplained the cord did its work entirely too well and ripped the bag almost from top to bottom. Tho . descent was terrific, and I judge for the last hundred feet there was very little gas left in the balloon, as it fell like a stone." AUTO FOUND IN AULKV. Suspected to be the Machine that Killed Woman. An automobile with bloodstains on the wheels found abandoned in an alley at Chicago Thursday is believed to be tho machine which caused the death of (Mrs. Albert Uehr on Monday night. Mrs. iBehr, and her husband, a carpenter, were about to cross tho sirt?et wnea me car is said to .navo swerved into Mrs. Ilehr, who was almost decapitated. The chauffeur did not stop, it is reported, and disappeared quickly into Lincoln park. A police captain whose son is believed to have been one of the five men in the car, is active in conducting the investigation. Three saloonkeepers and the driver are said to have been the other occupants. A FANATIC CALLICD DOWN. lie Said That No Virtuous Woman Would Attend Dance. It. L. Page, Jr., who edits a weekly paper at Quitman, Mass., several days since had a scathing editorial upon a dance of prominent society folk there, in which he called the dancing "public bugging," and intimated that no virtuous woman would indulge in such practices. Page has been out of the city for several days. He returned Wednesday morning, was met by a group of prominent citizens, forced to eat a clipping of the editorial, and was then taken in charge by a constantly increasing crowd. Page managed to escape his assailants and started to running, apparently making good his escape, although manv threats h Hfl hoon mo/!* v ?/v>vn IUUV4U as to what his fate would be. Ends His Life. J. '\f. Powers, a w.hite man who has been running a merry-go-round near Ten Mile Hill for the past few months, and who recently opened a freak animal show in Charleston, committed suicide Monday afternoon by "draining a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid.