The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 07, 1910, Image 3
WHAT WE NEED
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Btw to Boild Up North and Sooth Carolina
Permanently. <
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EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS;
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Of Clarence Poe, Kditor of the Pro- a
gressive Farmer and Gazette, ItalJ
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?i^h, N. C., IWoie the South Car- ''
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?)tna Press Association, Glenn
Springs, S. C., June 14, 1010. ^
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Both Carolina* need and must *
have a larger proportion of white t
people. The whole South, in fact
is still too sparcely settled. Our 11 v
Southern States, excluding Texas,
support only 16,000,000 people of a
both . races, and only 10,000,000 1
white people, while the same area In f
Europe supports over 160,000,000 J
white people. And it must be rc- "
membered that up to a certain point 9
which we shall not reach for cen- C
ttries yet, and other thiugs being a
equal, prosperity depends upon dor- t
sity of population. Population makes '
wealth, provided that it is normally 1
intelligent and efllclent. r
Of course, we do not want the t
, lowest class European immig anon.
If we can get Immigration .froin ling- 1
land, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, I
Holland, Svcden, etc?c.13 countries fi
whose blood has gone to make up c
our vigorous American stock? it
would be of great help to us. We v
are all of us such immigrao j our- t
elves or descendants of such inimi- 9
?rra.nt?. From some count r-fS ol r
o ? ? Southern
and Eastern Europe, on the I v
other hand, immigration is of a de- 1
cldedly lower order and objectionable v
because of a low standard of intelli- v
gcnce and efficiency. e
On the very same principle, how-1 ?!
ever, immigration, of a normal or I ''
high standard of Intelligence and t!
efficiency is desirable, v Such imnugiation
can be had, and ought to be 3
had?in some measure, perhaps our b
English, Dutch and Irish kinsfolk 11
across the sea?but chiefly from our
Northern and Western States. For I
years now hundreds of thousands of a
the most enterprising and progrcs- *
*ive farmers in Uie Middle West '3
have been going into Canada with 11
its long hard winters and bitter cli- ei
mate, not only giving up American li
citizenship, but actually paying two
to three times as much for land in
that inhospitable region as land of
the same fertility commands in the ?
South. We ought to have brought
these men to the South. They know u
our institutions, our language, they
are industrious, thrifty, wideawake (
and many of them are of Southern
ancestry who should naturally come el
back home. Let's bring them back.
If there were no other reason for c<
advocating such immigration from
the North and West, I should favor li
It as surest deliverance from our u
twee problem. The proportion of N
negroes to whites is too large in ev- d
cry Southern State, and my hope is b
that ultimately the tides of migra- u
tlon and immigration will equalize nr
population until the proportion of h
negroes in no State will exceed 20- w
per cent. W'e must train the negro s;
?the more ignorant he is the great- \v
er the burden on the South?but at nr
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best the process win do tmiw, unu
At present it would probably not be w
too much to say that in considering s<
our w.hole population, including our J
P great constructive leaders and cap- s<
\ tains of industry, the average negro 1;
in the Carolinas in economic worth k
And efficiency is only half as useful p
as the average white man. In other s<
words, in rating general average of ir
efficiency we should put the white if
man at 100 and the negro at .">0, so S
that a county half white and half S
MeKro would have an average effici- a
ency of 75, or a -handicap of 25 per It
oent, as compared with a countv w
with an exclusive white population r<
of a normal degree of efficiency. g
Whether or not the digerence is I'1
i as much as I have indicated, certain "
it is that the larger the proportion n
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of whites, the higher the average or "
efficiency, the more prosperous will :,i
be our every industry, and the bet- 11
ter it will he for every individual a
citizen, including the negroes themselves.
There are just two great
ways to build up the Carolinas. First
and of paramount importance is ed- w
ucaticn of all our p ; and i t'
should only supplement this by put- t!
^ ting more earnest emphasis upon ti
practical education, education that a
trains for efficiency, not education p
united to the great urban centers of n
Europe and the North, but education
suited to the needs of a groat,
Awakening agricultural citizenship
v - - to an/1 nm <tt hp n
8UVU UQ WUIO in ??u U.HMV ?... ,
And second only to education, is h
Immigration. s
Now let us start right?not by 1
seeking Immigrants from Southern e
Europe, but by advertising our resources
to the thrifty, enterprising P
and progressive farmers of the
North and West?men of our stock
who only need an invitation t, nuiii*
them come. Bmerson was right c
when he said that "every man who t
comes Into a city with any purehas- 1
able talent or skill in him gives to i
every man's labor in the city a new I
worth," aud If an ignorant negro l
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER DEAD.
His Death Was Entirely Unexpected
Ah He Whn in Good Health.
Chief Justice Melville \V. Fuller
>f the United States Supreme court
lied of heart failure at his summer
lome in Sorrento, Me., at six o'clock
donday morning.
The death of the chief justice was
intirely unexpected, as he had been
11 apparently good 'health lately,
ind there had been no premonitory
ymptoms of any kind of trouble,
inn day he attended church us ustal,
and when he retired that night
te was to all appearances in his cusomary
health.
fx * ' ol v r* 9r* 1 Ar* Ir VI mi.
.UUillll CUUIC (I I'U kl I OIA V v,K/vn ?vr?
lay morning. His daughter, Mrs. Nahaniel
Francis, and the Rev. Jas.
<\ Freeman who was a guest of Jusice
Fuller at his Sorrento cottage,
'Mainstay" were with the Juri?
vken he died.
The funeral service will be h > ..
it Sorrento and t.hc interment will
>e at Chicago. The date for the
uneral has not been yet fixed. Chief
lustioe was in his seventh-sixth year.
lave in the old days was worth $1 >00,
certainly we may assume that
i thrifty and intelligent white Weserner,
bringing not only himself,
>ut in most casen substantia! aooumilations
as well, should be worth
nany times as much as an asset to
he State.
The last census year North Caroina
had only 1,200,00C white , e >le.
It should have 4,000.000.
Jouth Carolina had less than 600,>00
whites when it should have 3,>00,000?and
would then be even
vith its 80 0,000 negroes, only onehird
;i* thickly settled as Massachuetts!
Consider for a moment how
nuch more influential our papers
yould be, how much more imporant
every institution in the State
trould be, how much more varied
/ould be our Industrie3 how much
asier it would be to get good roads
n counties in which the white popuation
is now too small to maintain
hem, how easy it would be to
ouble the usefulness of our public
chools, how quickly we should ,
uild railroads in sections which '
lust otherwise remain dormant and
ackward for long, long years, how (
nportant our cities should become, |
nd how much more attractive ,
ould be country life in our thick- j
r settled communities, and how |
luch easier it would be to get wat
r-works and trolley lines and local
braries and all the advantages of
ventieth rural life! ,
Let us take as our watch word
education, and Immigration?both
f the right sort."
In the last census year 23 4,062
ative sons and daughters of South t
arolina were living in other States j
to say nothing of the million sons
nd daughters of SouUi Carolina j
migrants), while South Carolina
ad received from other States and
uuntries only 60,74 4 settlers.
For seventy years now our Caro- <
nas have been going West to build (
p the new States of that empire, j
ow let us welcome back their chil- ,
ren and neighbors to help us ,
uild two great prosperous and pop- |
luous commonwealths, where the (
lasses of the people trained to as (
Igk staridars of e elency as a fly- ,
'here iiv the world, shall develop a ,
vniniatrienl and well rounded civil- ,
:atiori: a splendid and fdrcefnl de- ,
lorerae.y of trained, intelligent an.) ,
irifty home-owners from among ,
-horn shall come not only a .fetter
:>n and a Marshall, not only a
amos J. flill and a Thomas A. Kdi3ii
and a Seaman A. Knapp, not onf
men whom all the nation shall
no<v as leaders in indi^stry and in
ubllc affairs, but poets and seers,
JUlptors and artists - if not a Tit111
at least a Reynolds or a Millet, 1
' not a Michael Angolo at least a s
t. Gaudens or a Ward, if not a :
hakOspeare at least a Browning or ;
Tennyson, if not a Savonarola, at (
?ast some great religious leader i
ho shall put the church into vital
dati' ns to modern thought and 1
ive it a new baptism of spiritual I
nwor all these until our long and *
agio years of war and struggle and
^building shall find their fruitage
i an outburst of achievement such
s our fathers yearned for. and it is .
ow our high privaligdl to help bring .
bout. j
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One is Killed, Many Hurt. ]
One nvan was killed and many '
ere hurt in rioting Saturday he- \
veen Clericals and anti-Clericals in i
lie village of Centi, Spain. The |
roll DM' it rust! iiiMii (i ^1* i in \j 11 i <
gainst Premier Cannlejas' religious j
rogram, whie.h a priest delivered at '
lass. *
Found in Shark.
After a long struggle several men I
aptured a man eating shark 36-feet
:>ng. weighing about 15 tons, in the ,
traits of San Juan Del Fucu, beween
Port Oresent and Port Angels,
near Seattle, Wash. In the shark
hey .found pieces of bones and a
dece of kodnc plate.
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l?nvv.ver Killed in Klevator.
John William Hallahan, Jr., one
>f the most prominent members of
he Philadelphia bar, was killed la<e
rhursday night as he stepped from
i hotel elevator at Cape May, Pa.
He was caught between the car and
he floor, his neck being broken. * j
KILLS HER BABE
THEN MOTHER DRINKS DEARLY
POISON HERSELF.
Husband Returns Home to Find Wife
and linhy Lifeless on Same Red
ami a Pathetic Note.
Haunted by the Intolerable fear
that she was going Insane, Mrs.
Jeanne Hodgson Oatlett gave cyanide
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daughter, Jeanne, Friday afternoon
at her home in New York City, and
then swallowed a draugh of the same
poison herself. Both lay dead on the
same bed when the husband, a supervising
chemist employed by the
r* \stern Electric company, went to
< home that night.
Beside the young mother lay a
long letter to her husband. "Don't
think me cruel to the little life I've
made," s.he wrote, "but rather that
C am saving her so much pain, for
bodily pain is nothing to this that is
either insanity or nervousness?only
God knows. She would surely inherit
it.
"Don't mourn for me. I wish I
could go on with just you and our
love. My very life is one continuous
thought of thankfulness for it
but my mind must be relieved. The
tension is frightful."
Evidently there were moments
wJien the mother yearned to spare
her daughter, for farther down she
wrote:
"If 1 leave our rn. >y tell her I k! . ed
her with lots of love and 1 am so
sorry I ever have been cross to her."
"Leave my locket on me but wear
my wedding ring. I have loved it
so and caressed and kissed it so as
the outward sign of the happiest moments
of my life. ,
Pinned to the outside bed room
loor was a note to her husband reading;:
"George, don't come in. Let
fonie one else?one of l.he boys."
Mrs. Catlett who was born in V?r- .
ginia, lit years ago, and her husband, <
who is, from South Carolina, met hor
three years ago at Falls Church, Va. <
They fell in love at first sight and .1
were married in April, 11)09. Since
the birth of her daughter Mrs, Cat- <
left has been very nervous and her ]
morbidness was increased by the j
fact that her little girl, named for f
ier, cried much of the time. *
AVIATOI5 KILLFD.
Wachter Instantly Killed by Fall
While Practising.
The opening of the second avia.ion
meeting Sunday on the historc
field of Bethany was marked by
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1 fatal accident, Aviator Wachter
>eing killed. Wachter was the first to
practice Sunday morning. In his
Vntoinette monoplane he battled
with the gale amid the enthusiasm <
>f the speculators until the rain i
rompelled him to make a descent. 1
He resumed his flights in the after- ;
loon and was flying magnificently
when suddenly an explosion war s
leard. The wings of t.he machine
loubled up and the monoplane*
iropped to the earth with lightning s
tpeed. The aviator was killed instantly
in full view of the spectators,
imong whom were his wife and lit- \
:le daughter. The accident is attributed
to the breaking of the wire
Rays. * i
FI H.MAN* KILLHD.
Walls of an Oil Stoiclioiwo Collapse
During ltluM>.
Oapt. Michael J. Lyons, of the
Louis Are department, was killed
ind three other firemen and a worl<nnn
were injured ill a lire which destroyed
a part of the Waters-Pierce
Ml Company's storehouse at St. Lou- i
s Saturday. The loss was $200,OuO
Lyons was buried under falling
walls. It was several hours before '
the fire was under control. The
storehouse covered two city blocks.*
Throe Killed by Hull.
Miss Louise Duran, Louis Ruiz '
md Louis Florez, were killed duriry
i bull fight in the San Antonio Tecoyo
.hacienda at Puebla, Mexico. 011
Saturday. Ruiz was manager of the
liacienda and Florez was a cowboy.
Hie fight was an amateur alTaii.
>artielpnted in by people on tiie liaceuda.
Miss Duran was in imminent
lieril during one stage of the fight,
md Ruiz and Florez rushed to hei
lid. The infuriated bull gored the
woman and the two mer..
Ismps to Wntwy Crave.
A tier a aosperate struggle with a |
friend who tried to restrain him, YV.
H. Titus, of Oklahoma City, Ok la., I
Jumped overboard from the steamer 1
Holland, en route front Chicago to :
Holland, last Friday night and was
drowned. Titus, who was thirtyfour
years old, was suffering from
nervous prostration.
Young l>mly l>ro\vtie<l.
Miss Aintee Creary, the 19-yearold
daughter of H. T,. Creary, was
drowned while bathing in sin f with
a party of girl friends at Milon, Fin.,
Wednesday afternoon. Kfforls of
her companions to rescue her were
of no avail.
THE WAGES OF SIN
OH. VKKTAL AM) WIFK JAILKl)
FOK MAIiPHACTRTK.
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One Girl Dies as a Result of It anil i
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Another Is Found in His House
Very Sick.
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A special dispatch to the Charlotte t
Observer from High Point, N. C.. 1
says one of the saddest tragedies '
that ever occurred there happened
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aaiuraay ingni wuen a yuuug Kin uj
the name of Bessie T.homassonville
of Statesville died at the home o?
Dr. W. L. Vestal 011 account of an
illegal operation which .had been performed
by I)r. W. L. Vestal last
Tuesday night.
The police were notified about the
condition of the young girl just
short time before she died and when
they arrived at the home of Dr.
Vestal they not ouly found t.he one
a ho is now dead, but also found
another young girl who gave her
name as May Owen from Linwood,
and who was in a serious condition,
rfhe nad also gone through the same
operation.
Saturday night about 11 o'clock
Drs. Staion and McAnally were called
to the home of Dr. Vestal to see
Bessie Thoniasson and they at once ;
saw that Die girl was in a most critical
condition. They suggested to
Dr. Vestal that the patient be taken
to the hospital for treatment and
made the arrangements, but it was
foon learned that the girl was at that
time in a dying condition and that
to remove her would be only hastening
her death. At about twelve
o'clock she died after having a number
of spasms.
I Wore s.ho died she made a full
confession to the physicians telling
about the operation and her treat
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ment. May Owen, the other girl,
was removed to the hospital by the
policeman and her condition seems ^
some better, but is yet regarded as
serious. ?
Bessie Thomasson went there last ^
>tat? sville without the knowledge, of
ier lather, to receive treatment from
Dr. Vestal. She was induced to
;ome here by a young man named
Levy Maynard of High Point who it '
s claimed is the man who got the
;irl in trouble.
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MOU KII.LS \K(iKOKS. |
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Ylleged They Murdered White Fail'- ;|
mer in Ills Wagon. t'
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Two negroes were lynched near j
Charleston, Mo., Sunday afternoon 3
'or the murder of William Fox, a *
>lanter of Mississippi county. They '
.vere taken from the county jail by 1
1 large crowd of infuriated citizens, s
who broke down the doors with
ledge hammers shortly after four a
I'clook. The negroes were alleged 1
:o have shot Fox in the back while v
iding in .his wagon about two miles ^
Tom town Saturday night.
He died after identifying his assailants.
The negroes approached
Fox Saturday afternoon in Charles- ?.
on, whore he was trading. They
?uid they were working for a threshing
outfit near his place, and asked
permission t<j ride in his wagon. Berween
7 and 8 o'clock he started for
lis home, six miles away, with the
legroes in the wagon. Two miles j
from town one of them shot Fox
hrou.sh the back, and both searched *
t's pockets. An approaching wagon ^
aused them to run.
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RllXI) l?KAI> BY TKACK.
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Supposed Young Man Was Kill- c
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(hI by Train.
Robert Wofford, aged 2.7, son of
dr. Frank Wofford, of 3witzer, Spar- %
nnbnrg county, was found dead Fri- 1
lay morning beside the C. and W. C.
t.til'o.ul track, t.hree miles east of
Woodruff. It is supposed that he
vr.s killed Thursday night by a train, s
".here was a wound on the left side v
f tiie head. The body was diseov- o
*red bv the engineer of a freight i
rain, which passed the place at 8 s
>'clock. An inquest was lioid by the 1
0 roner. * t
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Hit Iti Battel Ball. (1
R. It. Massengale, of Norwood, da.,
m attorney, son of T. F. Massengale,
1 man of considerable prominence
n the cotton world, was hit on the i
lead by a batted ball at Harlem, a i
on pie of days ago, a to! rendered tin- c
or.scions. Fears are entertained 8
hat ne will not recover. * 1
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Child Piny I'lnds Fatally. r
While playing doctor, the 10-year- 1
?ld son of W. S. Holcomb, residing
three miles from Fort Payne, Dekalb
county, Ala., Friday took down
i bottle of carbolic acid and adinfnis- i
rered a big dose to his ten-months- \
old sister. The baby died in a few t
minutes. * I
Klevator Operator Killed.
While operating a freight elevator
in the candy factory of Frank Hlock, l
Atlanta. (5a., D. F. Skinner, aged i
'0, was cancht between the car and 1
thrid floor and crushed to deat.h Fri- 1
day. The young man's neck and one
of his arms were broken and the entire
body badly mangled. *
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SHOOTS HKR HUSBAND.
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Woman Flrw Bullet Almost Through
His Neck.
A dispatch from Douglas, Cia.,
says news has just reached that place
Df a shooting affair In the extreme
northern portion of Coffee, county,
in which Mr. Gaines Ellis, a farmer,
was shot late Saturday afternoon by
'lis wife with a pistol, the bullet
:aking effect in the neck and it is
>aid the bullet went practically entirely
through the neck and that
fillis is in a serious condition.
M * ? U ^ J A ' ? K A 4 M..
wwiuk iu tut? uiainate ui nit* iia;edy
from Douglas, it is impossible
o get the full details, but from the
>est information obtainable, it seems
hat the difficulty grew out of donestic
troubles. It is said that Mr.
Wilis, for some ti.ne, has been on
.00 intimate relations with some wonen
who resided a short distance
,'rom his house, that Mrs. Kills had
learned of the relations and had
warned KUis to desist from such
onduct, so Sunday afternoon Kllis
ignoring his wife's feelings about
:he matter, went down to where the
women lived and his wife procured
.1 pistol and followed and the shooting
is the result. It is not known
whether the wife has been arrested.
AITOMOHILK RUN.
Machine* From All Over State to
OAther Mt t'harloston.
Automobilists from all sections of
South Carolina are preparing to move
to Charleston for the good roads rally,
which is to be held at the Isle
i>f Palms 011 July 12. There will be
several delegations from the Piedmont
section of the state. Representatives
from that section will very
ikely mobilize in Columbia, and folow
the seushort highway to Chareston.
The delegations from the
!*ee Dee section may take another
oute.
A trophy cup has been offered in
Charleston to the automobile asso
nation or any cuy in me siaie seiuing
the largest number of machines
o the rally.
\ KG I tO HOY KIliKS SISTKK.
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Omls Dispute Over Meat by Using a i
Shotgun Fatally.
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On Thursday three young negroes, 1
lenry McMaster, aged 13 years, and
tis two younger sisters, got into an ^
dtereation al>out some pieces of |
neat prepared for the table, at their 1
Lome in Chester. Henry domaiuled .
t all and then in his wrath seized a I
hotgun and poured the contents of
t into the younger of his sisters, <
011a McMaster, tearing away almost i
he entire left side and causing in- I
tant death. On the verdict of the 1
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oroner's jury the boy was arrested t
md lodged in jail in Yorkville. His i
ase will come before the court,
vhich will convene on the second 1
rlonday In July. * i
GIHIi ACCIDKNTALLY KIUJOI).
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ll,?< K?> .. l/vn %?r>. II.. ILxkiln..
TIII/I, IIJ x ?f iiiiu
on the Canal.
Word was received at Klizabom
vity, K. C.. Friday morning of the
iccidental killing of Mary, the 12'ear-old*
daughter of Philip Bray, v>f
Jligo, Currituck county, on Thurslay
afternoon. The girl was visit ng
at her homo of her uncle, H. i\'.
tray, at Canal Bridge. She with a
>arty of young people was out on the ]
anal in a skiff. A boy by the name ,
>f G? ay In the party was *ho??tin? .
makes with a shotgun which ace - ,
lent.illy discharged, the entire 'oad |
Altering the face and body of Miss (
tray, who died in terribly agony an
lour afterwards. The young lady |
vas prominently connected and very ,
>o pular. * j
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Prominent Men Arrested. i
Resulting from the ambuscade and s
lerious wounding of J. 11. (livens,
vealt.hy banker and mill man and s
it hers of Laurel Hill, Fla., live prom* t
nent citizens of Falco, Ala., the t
cene of the trouble, were arretted 1
ate Friday and will be tried for it- <
empting to assassinate (livens and t
lis oonipanions, none of whom will ;
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Fate of Negro t nknown.
Information from Columbia, Ala.,
s to the effect that Will Thomas, a
icgro under arrest for attemptc.i ^
riminal assault upon a young white v
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.til, i?tiYt*u uuui nitr vuiiiftt- Jitii 1
ast night by a mob. His fate is un- f
mown. The Columbia authorities }
efused to divuldge the young wo- (
nan's name. ,
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In same Murderer Kscuikm, ,
George H. Warner, who murdered <
naehinery for the Louisville & Nash- <
riile. and was found insane, escaped I
'rom the asylum for the insane at I
rlopkinsville, Ky., Thursday night.
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Was Suicide Pack.
Supposedly tlie result of a suicide
pact, the bodies of N. A. Gammill
iind Mrs. Heulah Marsh were found
Sunday in a boarding house conducted
by the man's mother at Dallas,
Texas. Mrs. Marsh was a widow and
was to have been married to Gammill
in a short time.
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CRASS A MENACE
Excessive Rainfall Has Reidcred CsW atiaa
Impossible
OVER THE COHON BELT
With Fields Soaked in all the States
hut Two, and Crops Threatened
by Hon HmU in Stiwe*,
the Situution Indicates a Cotton
Fumine This Fall.
The Memphis, Tenn., CommercialAppeal
says: "Owing to excessive
rainfall east of the Mississippi river
and in Arkansas and Louisiana cultivation
over a large area was suspended
during the week and grass
has become a menace. For the best
development of the crop dry, warm
weather is imperative. Iu Oklahoma
and Texas moderate to light rains
relieved an incipient drought.
"The crop In those two States 1*
late and small but has begun to
grow very rapidly and aside from
its lacy of siac there is no complaint,
fields being In an excellent state of
cultivation. Heavier and more general
rains, however, would be very
helpful. In Louisiana. Arkansas and
Mississippi boll weevils axe becoming
more numerous and in the former
State are reported as already at
work on the cotton."
The New Orleans report says the
cotton market this week, opened a
day later than usual, will be called
upon first of all to discount what
promised to be, when the market
closed for the week last Friday night
important weather disappointments.
The forecast was for more rain in
the eastern part of the cotton belt,
whore too much rain had already
done much damage. If the rains
continue until Tuesday morning they
will overshadow in importance all
other leatures of the market.
The report 011 condition last week
showed just how important the weather
is getting to be. It is time now
that the crop should be making fast
and anything in the weather that
prevents normal development of the
plant, thereby threatening the yield,
will have an immediate and marked
effect on prices, all the more marked
because of the semi-famine condition
of supplies of raw cotton. Unless
manipulation out afresh in the
July position it promises to be a
typical weather market this week.
The semi-famine conditions are
expected to have their effect among
mills in earnest before long, and of
late there have been signs that mills
were about to start closing down in
earnest shortly, as they have to do
in every season like the present.
The rumor was spread about last
week that 58 mills had agreed to
shut down four weeks during July
and August- and the trade will he
waiting for continuation of this report
this week.
Developments of this sort may
have the effect of offseting to some
extent t.he bullish features of the
market.
The boll weevil situation will corue
hi tor its share . of attention, for
those who have made a study of the
conditions in Louisiana, Mississippi
and Arkansas, say that the first
brood this season of the pest is incubating
in young boll and that it
is only a question of time before this
brood makes its appearance by the
millions and stirs up a new complaint
among farmers. with consequent
alarming telegrams and letters to
the main speculative centres of the
cotton world.
The extent of boll weevil depredations
will determine in a great measure
the yield of lint in the three
States named and during more than
>ne period this season boll weevil
reports will have much to do in
shaping speculative opinion.
The July deal in New York may
ihow activity and at all times the
trade will look for tenders front acual
shorts who as yet have made no
>'orv great effort to cover. Sooner
>r later sensational trading is bound
o take place in the July position
utd operators in all three markets
)f the world will be extremely ner
,'ous iimii me irau.ng uikcs piace.
Found Baby in Basket.
Like Moses of old, a young baby
ivas found near Moreauville, La.,
Sunday night floating in a protected
Ail low basket among the rushes
ilong the banks of a bayou. In the
>laee of a ruler's daughter, a merchant
of Moreauville overhauled the
lnusual craft and unsentimentally
summoned the sheriff to make an investigation
in search of the miscreant
parents. In addition to the
child the basket contained a bottle
of milk, a one dolar bill and a
flask of whiskey.
Young Man in Trouble,
A dispatch from Laurens to the
News and Courier says James Y.
Wallace, clerk in the postottle. was
take Thursday afternoon to Greenville
by Deputy Sheriff Major, to be
given a hearing before Cnited States
Commissioner Magill on a charge of
tampering with letter mall, with no
intent.
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