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? THE LEAD STEAL ^ ^ ' v I \ ^ifeator Brisfow Shows How the People' ) Are Plundered by the TARIFF ROBBER BARONS With the Assistance of the 'T^puoll I can I'jirty and a T'cw KPiic^ade U'lnocrais Who Vote Willi Tliem to Rains the Thieving Tariff haws Through Congress. Senator J. T. Bristow, of Kansas, one of tii Insurgent Republican , Senalo^s, in a speech at Manhattan, U' uiiu'ii.' Ti" r I rhi v ill ell t fhiiriTI'd 'iunoun, A' A I \* ? J V, w ? <> c Speaker Cannoii and the "standpat" , Congress with manipulation of the ! lead schedules of the tariff bill in support of the "smelter trust" so- ; ^.'^alled. "A duty not measuring tlie ; differences in the cost of smelting 1 at home and abroad as promised in 1 tho Republican platform, but from j $2.50 to $6 higher than the entne cost of smelting in this country was imposed on load," the Senator said. 1 "This was done not in the interest of protecting a struggling American industry, but in the interest of a monopoly controlled by the Guggei.- j helms, backed by the great Rockefei-J ler tiaaiicial Interests. "Because 1 presume to object to this sort of thing Mr. Cannon calls J me a Democrat, a demagogue, a lun- . atic and a pickpocket. Mr. Cannon, holding the ofllce of Speaker of Uie House of Representatives, second in power and dignity in this government, has been routed over Kansas j for a number of days denouncing ; the 'insurgents,' myself in particular. | Instead of indulging in vituperation, **/hw ll? \r ivM t h<? ITJIHOllH why be insisted on ignoring the plain declaration of the Republican national platform? Why did he stand by the Senate in the interest of the (Juggenheinis? "The duty on lead In ore, as the tariff bill passed the House was $30 a ton. The duty on pig lead or lead bullion was the same. The bill came to the Senate and was referred to the committee on finance, to which Mr. Aldrieh is chairman, arid was reported back with the duty on pig lead Increased from $30 to $ 4 2.o a ton, making a difference of between the lead in the ore and the lead bullion. Therefore, according to the Republican national platform and our campaign pledges, $ 1 2 a ton should measure the difference in the ?ost of smelting lead in the United States and in our competing . countries. "Edward R. Rush, general manager of the American Smelting and Refining Company, an organization which controls 90 per cent of the load smelters of the United States, testifies before the ways and means committee of the House that the en-, tire cost of reducing lead from ore i 111 - ? i' ..a 1 ?..i utr. to UlllilfMI, I I (Jill atlUdl llfS'i I < r> ed from $5.50 to $10.05 a ton. No witness before the ways and meant* com mil tee gave as the entire cost of smelting a greater figure than $ 1 a ton. i "A mcsL vigorous efforl was made in the Senate to reduce t.ho duties of the Senate hill hack to those protided in the House measure, but without effect. To protect our struggling American industries a duty, v -Jiot measuring the difference in the ^ cost of smelting at home and abroad, | * but a duty of from $2.50 to $6 a ton or more than the entire cost of smelting at home was imposed. * TIM,MAX HACK IN HAUXKSS. Allomk Meeting of Hoard of Trustee's of Clem son College. Perhaps nnany people have notnoticed the fact, but Senator Tillman ' is back in harness. He attended | . the meeting of the Clemson board of! / trustees, and while t.he reports <1 it! | ^ 4)ot say that he took an especially 1 active part, he "was there." As is well known to many of the senior .Senator's friends, he takes a great interest in Clemson College, and he was bory much worried last year j about the presidency matter. Now i that things are running all right, it j is supposed the Senator's mind is at; rest in regard to Clemson. Prisoner Attends Dance. J John II. Miller, of the defunct cotton firm of Steele, Miller & Co., of Corinth, Miss., who was arrested at Decatur, Ala., Friday, charged wit.h using the mails to defraud, was taken to Huntsville to arrange his bond. After his arrest Miller was allowed to attend a dance. He is' socially promine nt, having married i a descendent of one of Alabama's Governors. . Drown When Hoat Overturns. Harry and Alvin Wlnfield, brothers, and well-known young men, were drowned In lCrle harbor (Pa.) Sunday when their sail boat capsized. They had Just taken a picnic party safely across to the peninsula and were returning for another load of young people, when a g\ist overturned them. * PAYS PENALTY AT STAKE TEXAS MOB Bt'HXS WOI'LIMIK XFGKO ASSAILANTS. \Vlu*n Pursued IIy Shol Countable fi'om Ambush.?Surrounded in Corn Field und Lynched. Henry Gentry, a negro eighteen years old, paid the penalty of his crimes, murder and presumably intended assault, at the stake Friday 11 i ir I> t 11 t ! I,, 1 t t\ ii Tnviit u ) i i I << I't it II l^ll V I I ?v I lull I I V>Al?Q| II II I IV I II . others, a brother of the man lynch-! ed and a companion, charged with implication, missed a like fate, only i by pleadings of Sheriff Hurke and several citizens. Early Friday the negro attempted | to force an entrance into the home of Mrs. Lamb, a widow, but was friightuned away with a shot by the woman's daughter. Several hours later, while (Jontry was being searched for by a posse headed by Constable James Mitchell, the man, tiring from ambush killed the posse leader. Then the mob formed and after an all d< ' search, surrounded the fugitive in a corn field. As the mob closed in Gentry made a dash for liberty, but was brought to earth by tw? well directed bullets. A rope was quickly brought and tlie man dragged to an automobile and hurried to Helton, where several thousand frenzied men and boys awaited his coining. As the public square was reached the rope was tossed to a man on horseback and t.he negro dragged about tlie square to the pyre. The applying of a torch was the work of a moment and while several hundred shots were fired into his body, the already dying negro was incinerated. When the work of the mob was ended there, a dash was made for the city prison, with the intent of lynching the two others charged with aiding Gentry in the killing of Mitchell. Pleadings and a show of force stopped the mob before an attnmnt w.'iK made tn sit firm iIip tail 1 The crowds then dispersed and farther disorder is not anticipated. * ? ?. Al'CJUSTA liA !>Y .VMSSIXC. i Supposed to Have ?f limped Into the Sea fioin Ship. i Mrs. Marion Mayo, of Augusta. CJa., reputed to be wealthy and of social positoin, who took passage on the steamer City of Columbus from Savar na.h, v\ .is missing when , the steamer reached New York Fr:- . day. It was feared that she had been lost overboard. Captain Johnson, cf t.he City of , Columbus, said he believed Mrs. Mayo had stolen out of her state- , room (hiring the night and thrown herself into the water. He said she appeared to be nielaiie.holly and had kept to her quarters nearly till the time during the vovage. Capt. Johnson said Mrs. Mayo was an interested spectator of the burial , at sea of a negro cook and after that she went to her cabin and was not seen again. As s on as Mrs. Mayo was missel Friday her cabin was examined and all of her Mothing ( was found to be irtact. * TP.KItlMC ST(.MOI. Visits thick Hill at Night Doing Serious Damage. Not in veius -has such a terrific (storm struck Hock Hill as the one which broke over that city Thursday night about eleven o'clock. The lightning was of an awful character and (.he thunder sounded like the 1 universe was being split. The electrical display was continuous for 1 over an hour and rain fell in veritable floods. Lightning struck I .lie 1 home of .1. S. Stowe, in Woodland park, and knocked a hole in the ; side of the building large enough to crawl through. Strange to say no one was injured, nor the house burned. * ^ ^ ^ I Lost i. nd Died. A telegram announcing t.he loss of a $10,000 bet that Jim Jeffries would w?n in the prize fight with < Jack Johnson was the reason why ( Harry Michaels, secretary of the I Michaels Kurniture Company, Chie-jl ago. shot himself dead at his desk '< while his brother, a New Yorker,; awaited him at a .hotel there. Hoys Stone Hallooiis to Kartli. Ohio boys w.ho can throw stones so swift and high as to puncture bai- ! ( loons have become a serious menace < to aviation. Down came the Drifter,' with Walter .1. Collins and (leorgo ! Howard, of Cineinnnli, in its basket, 1 last week, because boys, throwing stone.; from a bnilling at Hamilton, i O., where the crowd had assembled to witness the ascent and christen-j ins: of the aerostat, struck the gas ba?g and tore a hole in it. T.he gas had escaped slowly, and the halloonists were forced to land in less than 12 hours after starting. ^ Teddy's promise to make a sueech for Heveriflge In Indiana is said to have made the standpat Republicans of that State very mad. COTTON BIGGEST ITEM CX>P1'K11, OIL, WHKAT HOLD SECOND ItANK. IJurpaii of Statistics Issues Statement of Tilings Sent Abroad During f iscal Year Just Closed. Cotton, copper, illuminating oil, wheat?these articles in the order named formed the most articles exported final tne United States dur ing ihe fiscal year just closed. The value of the cotton exported was $450,000.000 of the copper $S .1,50 0,000; of the illuminating oil, $02,500,000, and of the wheat $4 7,000,000. Other articles of export ranked in value as follows: Flour, lard, tobacco, lumber, upper leather, corn, bitiminous coal and lubricating oil. In nearly all of the articles of natural production there was a marked decline in the exports of 10 10 us compared with previous years, wnile In certain manufacturers the figures for the year are larger than for any previous year and the total for all manufacturers probably will exceed that of any earlier year. The bureau of statistics, which has given out these figures, has not yet completed the total value of tne manufaclurers exported. The falling off is most marked in i corn, wheat, flour and meats, wheal i falling fioni $161,00 0,000 in I Sit2. t.he high year, to $47,000,000 in 1010; corn from $85,000,000 in 1900 to $25.000,000 in 1910; flour from $75,000,000 in 1893 to $40,5 00,000 in 1910; lard from $60,000,000 in 1906 to $43,000,000 in 19 10; bacon from $46,000,000 in 1898 to $ 18,500,000 in 1910; fresli beef from $32,000,000 in 1901 to $7,750,000 in 19 10, and catile from $42,000,000 in 1904 to $12,000,009 last yer.r. * -? . SAFKTY FAILKI) TO Ol'FICATi;. * ( '<k|l lilllV' / II4J ikO 4 M V % . IM III V/l w/,|( | O \ VMM MILIUM 11 7* HI .11 * tillery Accident. To the failure of a safety mcclian if in u to operate when a sadden and powerful pull was given by an artilleryman in attaching the lanyard, is now laid the responsibility for the accident which cost the live* ;>f eleven men at Fort Monroe, Va. luring the battle practice Thursday, duch is the conclusion of (ten. Crosier chief of ordinance, U. S. A, who attended the practice and who has been in touch with the inquiry made by the investigating board. Never before in the history of the army had the service failed to work. The possibility of its occurrence was lemoustrated, however, by Gen. Crosier himself shortly after the nccilent, by a test made of all guns which participated in the practice. In another gun in the ill-fated Deft ussey battery, the service was found defective when Gen. Croziei tpplied unusual force, siuh as was never deemed necessary infests ami jxaininat ions. / u o l nuiui r i (i f * a< i iiini i lilt-" w u i j vn as pronounced by the officers to cm i in properj condition. In April a roast artillery officer on inspection duty reported that its pcrmnuire explosion was beyond tlie range of possibility. Steps will bo taken at once to improve the device. * II.VS ATTACK 101) GKOKG1A. ?/ . .? Hugs Have Attacked Coilon and Arc Thought to be Weevils. A peculiar variety of bugs have wicugbt much damage to the field of cotton owned by (}. T. Anthony I near Washington, t*a. T.ho tact was discovered Wednesday and speeinv". s sent to lion. T. G. Hudson, commissioner of agriculture in Atlanta. Parties who have seen the insect and noticed the damage to the boll:-' and squares on the cotton, declare them to he the genuine boll weevii. which has proved such an enemy to the cotton planters of Texas and other western states. Hank Clerk Cone. Minor Winchester, collection clerk of the Citizens' First National bank ;>f Albany, Ga., for several years past, disappeared from his homo at that place Friday of last week and 'ill offcirta li\r li'inLr r\ITi < ! -l.t u > m\ friends to ascertain his whereaboijs have been fruitless. ISull ( it it Among Planks. While placing the lending part ii ! i local talont. "VVihl West" play at st no 111uIT. near Muskogee, Ok'a. Friday night, .Jacob Winkler wai shot and instantly killed by lOverett : Olden, also a member of t.he cast I A ball cartridge which had becomf mixed with fho blanks was responsi- i bio for the tragedy. * I l*ri/e Fighting Kilted. Prize lighting in Los Angeles is j at an end. Without a dissenting j vote in the city council Monday in* ! atructed the city attorney to prepare j an ordinance to prevent boxing exhibitions and sparring contests The ordinance will he presented at the next meeting of t.he council and its passage is virtually certain. ANOTHER COTTON PICKER. % . Said to Pick Open Cotton Without Green Bolls. % \ Patents have been recently issued to Crawford Eliot on a cotton picker or .harvester which he has perfected as the result of nearly seven years constant effort. The basic patent granted covers forty different claims. The machine lias been tested for two years in the cotton fields, and with it one man and team of mul^s will do the work of forty hand pickers. Only the ripe cotton Is picked, and this is done without injury to the green cotton or ttie blooms. The principle of the machine is a double row of bristle brushes about one and one-half inches in diameter and fourteen inches long, spinning rapidly in such a manner that the revolving brushes are introduced in- j to the plants close to the ground and drawn up in a vertical line through the plants, the brushes penetrating the bushes from both sides of the row. The ripe cotton adheres to the brushes, while the rest of ttie plant is no! in any way affected, the brushes travelling to a receptacle where they are stripped of the cotton and the operation is repeated. It is said that t.he machine has been thoroughly tested and demonstrated that it will do the work of a quarter of the cost of hand labor, which means a saving of $150,000.-! u00 a year to the cotton growers. The invention, which has been pur- . chased by t.he National Cotton Har- J vester Company of Chicago, 111. . means much to the growth and ex-' pansion of the cotton Industry, and J it will undoubtedly add immensely to the annual wealth of all the col ton growing state. * Hit MHOS IX)XO HINT KM>S. Man M ho Swindled Her After Their Wedding Cmler Arrest. Dr. Henry B. Keeler, said to have been formerly a dentist in New York ity. is under arrest in Detroit, Mich., ' charged with having swindled a Brooklyn ( N. Y.) woman out of $13,500 after marrying her. In his company when a'Tested was a wman who nosed us liis siter. Two years ago, J Many when arrested was a woman, said to be bis sister. Two years ago. it is said, the doctor met Mrs. VVilhelmina Lynch at Ocean Grove "lid made love to her. lie told her he had a fabulous fortune in Mexican land properties and soon mar- < ried her. ; Soon after the wedding lie tcld his bride that he was in trouble wif.h the Federal authorities over his .Mex- 1 iean land and that it would take considerable money to straighten the matter out. So the doctor, with his bride mid his 'sister" went to a Manhattan bank to get $13,500 of the I bri. e s money. T.he doctor and the 1 woman who poses as his sister went < into the hank, while Ihe bride wait-! ed outride in an automobile. The i doctor "ml the woman with him went. 1 out another door and the bride nev- 1 er got hack cl' ihem again until lie arrest. * KILLK1) I OH INS \10\ DV. Found Load on a File of Fodder in Mis Stable. 11. F. Zneharay, aged 50, a miser, was found nunrdered on a pile of J older in a stable 011 his premises hi Fie suburbs of Roanoke, Ya., on Moirlav. Two pis'.ol bullets were found in the head. The police are ouking for Mack Yaden, a negro suspected of the crime. The purpose .f <bo killing was dolbery, and it is. believe 1 the slayer vol a bis sum1 f money. Morn than $600 in enr. am y was found sewed in secret pockefs in a second i air of Irons-i m s wor i by Zac.haray. An Kii^nx1 Hulked. A loaded pas orncr train on the Georgia and Florida railroad spent! Ias( eight in the woods, three miles north <f Vnldosfa, Oa., Incanse the: j 1 engine balked. An oflieial in his pri- j vote car was on the train and kept i 1 i i lie passengers supplied with food.: Phe engine began moving anout snn-] rise. ? Giving Them Away. Thin hie even to give away the fine , Flberta peaches with which the peach frees are loaded, and unable to ship . 'hem away on account of the scare- [ ity of cars, orehardlsts at A morions, j Gn. are ploughing the peaches under J the ground, to he nped for fertilize i ^ zing purposes. Kvozy one was in- ! vited to come and take as many of the peaches as they are wanted. * Drove Htiggy in Water. Harry Smith, a prominent business 111n Mi's itessio ItUo'd ? wtdnw :i m 1 I > her infant hahy were drowned in IvaiuUi I reservoir, five miles out from ' benisou. Texas. Sunday afternoon nt 1 4.30 o'clock. No one saw the aoei- 1 dent and it is thought they drove into the reservoir to water their horse, supposing it to he shallow. T.hev fell into sixteen foot of water. The horse was also drowned. * L It is said the gate receipts for the prim fight last Monday were about $27^.000. It seems to be an industry fit at pays a few people. KILLED IN CLINTON SLAYKK AMKGKS VICTIM HI*IN' KI> II1S HOMK. \ ?1? AfTrny Said to Ih> Culmination of Long Standing Trouble.?Slayer Taken to I am reus Jail. One of tlie most sensational killings that has ever occurred in Clin toil happened Saturday, when \V. T. Gregory, a resident of the Lydia C'Jtton mills village, siiot and instantly killed Cal Kurr. who for the past few months has been living at the Clinton Mill village. The shooting, it is said, is the final result of trouble that has been brewing for some time between these two parties. Gregory claims that Kurr had ruined .his home. Up to about four months ago Kurr was living about Lydia, when, it is said, he was forced to leave 011 account of this trouble. At about 1.50 o'clock Saturday afternoon Gregory was standing just in front of the store of T. C. Summerell & Brothers, when Cal Kurr, leaving the Bee Hive Racket Store, whic.h is just across the street, and riot seeing Gregory, came directly towards him. Upon perceiving Kurr, it is said Hurt Gregory, without passing any words whatever at once drew bis gun and began firing, the second shot striking Kurr in the hip, causing him to fall. Kurr drew his pistol as quickly as possible and fired three shots, all of which missed except one, whic.h passed through Gregory's right hand, between the third and fourth fingers. * XKW MOTOR CAR That Will be Tested by the Southern Has Oonie. The first gas-electric car for local traffic to be used by the Southern railway experimentally on the Greenville-Anderson run reached Spartanburg on Friday. Several hundred people gate red at the depot there to see it when it arrived. The motor car was switched r,i to No. 4 1 and carried to Greenville where it will be used between Greenville and Anderson. It was in charge of A. II. Fleet, mechanical engineer for the Southern. Mr. Fleet said his car would carry gasoline sullicient for a trip of 20 0 miles. It seats fort y-six passengers. High officials of the Southern met in Columbia Friday to fix the schedule of the new cars. Those participating in the conference are Assistant Passenger Agent Meek, of Atlanta. Assistant General Passenger Agent Pegram, of Charleston, Superintendent Williams, of the Columbia division and General Manager Anderson. of tbe Rlue llidge road. If this service proves satisfactory In the Greenville territory it will be extended to other parts >f em system, where the local traffic is heavy. They will certainly prove a great convenience to the traveling public. v ?l.\ PAX MS 10 STIC.\A! Kit SINKS. Of '2IH Passengers all hut Forty Are Still Missing. The Tetsurel Main, plying between Kobe and Dairen, sank Saturday night off Ohindo, Korea. The steamer had 24(5 passengers al)oard, of whom forty were saved. The ethers are missing. Warships have been sent *o the reseue. Direct reports from Ohindo state that two of the Tet.surei's life boats landed forty passengers, who tell of harrowing scenes when the befogged vessel struck. Six life boats were launched and filled with passengers. There was 110 panic, and everything was carried off in the most orderly manner. The captain and the majority of the crew were unable to leave the steamer. Six first-class pnssengcifl were saved, including \V. Cunningham, the Mritish vice consul at Osakik. as well as thirteen second-class passengers. * They Die From Heat. Men and animals are succumbing to tbo intense heat in the vicinity of Calexieo, on the intense heat in the t'ale.xico, 011 the border of Mexico. Kigbt men and as many mutes attached to a cane camp are said to have died since Saturday. There have been numerous prostrations be skies. I'sed Sheep llone. At New Orleans the hone of a sheep was tunisforcd to the arm of I n patient at the Charity hospital; Thursday nlgnt. The forearm of the patient undergoing the novel operation had boon shattered hy the discharge of a shot gun. The opet-' ntIon was pronounced successful. f'armors l'Vd Milk to Hogs. Kather than sell their milk for, two an I two and a quarter cents a (mart, farmers in northern Ney Jersey counties are feeding it to their; hogs. They say the prevailing price is three-fourths of a cent loss than i it costs to produce the milk. . !f?V. '.V*. a .'isis/i'i; ' ? M\.-'Aili&aSiJkii'iS MADE BIG HAUL E.ip'oyee of Louisville Bank Accused of Gigantic Robbery. GAMBLED IN rUTU^ES August Itopke, Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Trust Company l?elievcd to ItdiMade Away With Kntire Surplus of Institution.? Was a Heavy Speculator. August Kopke, assistant secretary and bookkeeper of the Fidelity Trust Company, one of the soundest financial institutions in Louisville. Ky., is believed to have made away wiin $1,140,000, the entire surplus of the concern, according to a statement made late Saturday afternoon by J. W. Harr, president of the company. Hope is in the county jail, where he has been for ten days, unable to furnish the sum of $25,000. Kopke was a heavy speculator and loss large sums, it is said, on Wall street and the Chicago beard of trade. Mr. Barr's announcement was made after a special meeting of the stockholders held late Saturday afternoon. Mr. Harr also said that the stockholders were told that the capital stock of the concern was Intanct, but that the entire surplus was gone as a result of the defalcations. KOKillT MAI) COW. Farmer llad Narrow Kscape front Death in Tennessee. Coolness, courage and the ability to handle a bi'i stick saved the iit'e j of John Godwin wiien he was atI tacked by a mad cow on a tract of land near LaOrange, Tenn. Godwin, with several other me?, was I preparing to drive a herd 15f cattle into a new pasture. With a companion .he had dismounted and j together they were trying to get a young cow started with the herd. Suddenly she turned on them, charging straight at Godwin. So sudden and close was the attack that be had no time to turn and the row's horn caug.ht his clothing. She flung birn high in the air. Fortune favored Godwin to the extent that lie alighted on a big stick, just as the animal turned for a counter charge. As the cow- came at full speed Godwin picked up the club and dealt a blow which knocked one horn from its socket. This force swerved Uie cow enough out of her course to prevent her striking him, hut it did not lessen her desire for his death. .Just as quickly as she could turn she charged again, anl again Godwin dealt her another blow which knocked t.he oilier horn entirely off. Again she wheeled and charged, and this time Godwin's club landed so hard across her nose that the hones were broken. The cow then gave up the fight and was made to join the main .herd. While this struggle for life was in progress Godwin's companion was safely tip a sapling. He had established the Fayette county record for speed in climbing when the first charge was made. * ? aftkh 4? ykaka. i'.iltl<> Taken Female liiwtitiila bj I'nion Captain. A copy of the Bible take* from the Atlanta Female Institute in 1X64 by Capt. Paul Collison, of North Chemung, N. Y.t was returned Friday to Miss May son, a member of the class of '60, which presented it to the school. The presentation was made at the reunion of t.he Fortysecond Georgia infantry, known as t.he "Fightning Forty-second." Some time ago Capt. Collison, who was a mem her of the Seventeenth New York Volunteers, announced through his home paper he would gladly return the Bible to the proper person. Miss Mayson, who is a sister of Rev. J. S. Mayson, founder of the Atlanta institute, was located by a local paper, and arrangements made for the presentation. * lOlks in Chicago. What is said to be the biggest annual reunion in the history of the Renevolent and Protective Order of Flks got fully under \>ay Monday at Chicago with hundreds of additional delegates still arriving hourly. Shot a Game Warden, Mrs. Frank St rout is in jail in opnnguciu, in., on enanye 01 Killing Deputy State (tame Warden John O'Connor. She declares she has no regrets for the murder for the man made objectionable advances to her. Wife Transfeired for $1. A document has been filed in the Onendago County court at Syracuse, X. Y., whereby Frederick A. Joss, a business man, transfers his wife to Harry W. Rogers, a bookkeeper, for the sum of $1. Rogers has been , a roomer in the Joss home for several years -."M