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EjBAD feud row Ey VmIu ia the Omk af Twa lea ia a ?| | Link (catfia Ttwa. ' HOW MAY MOT BE OYER gr'.J While People Attend Barbecne In jL Another Part of Town, Trouble 1m B \ Henewed Between Morton and P a Rtheridge I'mnHles and Two Kthii?<\thors Are Killed. ? V - Uhder request from Sheriff Brooks f\ V>f Twiggy county, a company of military left Macon, Ga., Friday night H 9.48 for Grays Station. S. B. Bthidge and his brother, Morris, are Ing dead in front of the store of Uther (Morton on the outskirts of ruye and at Morton's mother's home .1 K})o?k away he and three brothers, &jL itII, Sam aad Tom, are iield by a B posee sworn in by sheriff while I sonneetions of the Bthridges who ijere assembled in the little town for A big reunion of Confederate vetert *08 have, according to reports revived, been threatened to revenge, summarily, the killing. Sheriff . Brooks wired tor troops early in the afternoon. Two companies have left Maoan. While almost every one else was at the barbecue in another section of the little town, the two Bthridges sod a eousin. Will Kitchlns, rode up to the little store kept by Luther Morton and an Interchange of iovecttvo followed which terminated in Win Morton leaving the bouse and 'ganging Clayton Kitchlns in a fls- I fight. Tho fight waxed warm, rfe rang out, perhaps nine or ten . lowed In quick order. When the ofce cleared away, the two KthJges, who were standing between e fighters and the door of Morton's re, were lying on the ground. Half the oldcr's face was shot away and 8 brother, Morris, was drilled trough the heart. Luther Morton was standing in the oorway with a magazine shotgun a his hand, according to an eye' rP V?rt? {witness of the bioouy aura/. was a stampede of people to the scene. Sheriff Brooks entered the home ot the Mortons, while over the dead bodies of the Ethridges were beard threatoiing mutterings from their friends. Sheriff Brooks rushed his prisoners to the home of their mother, and at last reports received they were still guarded there by a posse. There has been a feud between the families for some time. Three I weeks ago shots were exchanged but oo one was hurt. Two companies, the Florida Hides and JMacon Hussars, 100 strong, all told, took the train under the peisonal eointnaad of Col. W. A. Harris. Capt. Wheeler im charge ot' the Hussars and Copt. Shurinond of the Florida Rifles. * ? TURN THKM OUT. Bryan .Hajs latriuicr Demorrats Must Be Retired. ?MiKllKhed it) his in ?l KlUlCUlcuv pu paper Friday, in reference to the meeting heid recently in Lincoln, Illinois, to protest against legislative corruption, William J. Bryan declared that the Democratic legislators, jk^jL who voted to elect William Lorimer JP to the United States Senate should l>e read out o? the Democratic party. "Any Democrat who voted for Lorimer for 'patriotic* reasons ought to be retired to private life and kept there long enough to learn what patriotism means," said Mr. Bryan. "It is almost as dangerous to have fa fool in the Legislature as a knave." "A Democratic legislator, who could be convinced that he was performing a patriotic duty in voting for Lorimer, could be persuaded to do anything desired by a lobby, pio/ Tided the same patriotic arguments ? were used. He is not fit for any reeponsible position; It is hardly safe to allow him to run at large. "Turn them out. The party cannot pause to defend those who are niiltv. or "who, if innocent, have n . aroused suspicion which can never be removed." * Gives Life for Child. W. R. Miohaelis. publisher of the Chicago Staats-Zeitung, was drownKy cd at Oquaga, N. Y., Sunday . He [ v. was out in a boat with his 8-yearold daughter, who lost her hat and in reaching out for it fell overboard. The father jumped out after the girl and catching hold of her he held her out of the water until his power failed. Parties in boats nearby got the girl to safety, but the father sank and was drowned. . ? ? L Got Him at Last. At Asheville, N. C., the Jury in the case of John 1). Allison, charged with the murder of Floyd McGhee on July 5 returned a# verdict of murder in the first degree. Allison, who is 4 0 years old, has killed four men in the last twelve years and three times , i was set free on pleas of self-de:j fense. J ' . . ? > # , MAY NOT RUN FOR KK-KIJOCTION A-S GOVKRNOR | OF tKXXKSMK^ The Resale of the Late Judiciary Klfftion Had Blasted Governor I Patterson's Hopes. While Chairman Nathan Robertson of the regular State Democratic headquarters as Nashville, Tenn.. had given out no statement Friday, the leaders of his, the Patterson faction, practically admit that the Independent judiciary ticket has carried the state by 2G,000 majority. Chairman V^trees, of the Independent faction, in an unofficial statement. said he saw no reasou for | . changing his forecast made severai days ago, of a majority of 40,000 in the Slate for the Independents. Other Independent leaders place the majority as high as 50,000 votes. Returns irorn the outlying counties are coming in slowly, and it will be several days before the exact llgures can be given. Kast Tennessee, the Republican stronghold in Tennessee, proved the Waterloo of the regular Democratic ticket. Advices from that section are that the Republicans stood almost to a man behind the independents. Carter County, a rock ribbed Republican county, and the former home of Senator Robert L. Taylor, rolled up a majority of two thousand for the Independents. According to advices from West Tennessee, that division will show a good majority for the independents The race in Middle Tennessee is close, in favor of the independents. Wilsou county, the home of Chairman Robertson, of the regular Democratic committee, gave a majority for the independents of 475. while Chairman Vertrees, of the independents, lost this, his county, by a large I majorty. It is claimed at Nashville that the .u'arviu'ln.in? defeat of the regular judiciary ticket throughout the State | has blasted Uie hopes of Governor Patterson for re-election and some go so far as to predict that he will withdraw from the race for Governor. It is understood that in return I for the assistance lent by the Rej publicans in electing their judiciary ticket the independents will solidly i support the candidate named by the | Republicans for Governor. * ! STAKTKD THOl'DLK; KILLKD. Vouth Shot to Death After Wounding; Three Men, After a brief, but bloody running battle, in which three men were wounded, Hartey May, aged 22. was ?,* HAaih hv P.itroltnan Jacob ilUUV v V ^ v v - -r f - Gate* late Friday. May who was a .hostler, started trouble in a Main street saloon by shooting at the bartender. He missed the bartender, but shot George Cllne, farmer, through the upper portion of his chest. Going into the street, May calmly reloaded his revolver and shot Patrolman W. G. Shaw through the breast, inflicting a possible fatal wound. The youth then fled down Main street and took refuge in a private residence, where a posse, led by Patrolman Gates, found hi in. May tired iirst, slightly wounding Gates, but the latter, on his first shot pierced the young's man's jugular vein with a bullet, and the lad, clutching his revolver, sank dying to the doorstep, and died before he could be removed. * SKVKN PKKISIf IN KLWIKS. Had Not Kven Fighting Chance for Their IJves. Seven lives were lost early Saturday in a fire which destroyed a three story lodging house in a foreign section of Jamaica, L. I. The blaze started in a hallway, the only exit, and spread so rapidly that few of the inmates had an opportunity to i escape, I The lodging nou.se was uccupieu t'or the most part by poor workmen employed in the neighborhood. The owner. George Dunbeck, occupied apartments with his family on the ground tloor. He and his household escaping safely in t.heir flight clothes by climbing through the windows to the street. The dead, live men and two women, were all foreigners. They were asleep at the time and were ail suffocated b> smoke as they lay in their beds. The bla/.e was a small one and a single company of flremtn ' ' < ? A?lt.,ir?|U|l.W| Wlin OU0 Illi^ III mm*- cAiiiiKuioucM it williin a few minutes of their arrive 1. The property loss was not over $1,500. Fears >1111 Trust. Declaring that the Northern mills will put 10,000 cotton buyers in the Southern held, Hon. F. H. Hyatt sounded a note of alarm and warned the voters of Horry Friday that a cotton mill trust is like ly to place cotton where the tobacco trust has placed tobacco. SAD SEA TALE Stripper ait BrWt Are Drmri T?I ether. WHEN THEIR SHIP SANK Captain Pyne Last Seen bjr Crew Holding His Bride, but IiOHing in the Struggle With the Tempe*Sea.?Thirteen of the Survivor* Are llescued. A thrilling tragedy of the sea as described by twelve survivors of the crew of t.he sailing ship Swanhilda who reached Liverpool recently from South America. The Swanhllda, a vessel of 2,000 tous sailed from Cardiff on March 15. Captain Pyne, who had been married two days before was accompanied by his wife and the voyage was to be their honeymoon trip. Fair wiuds carried the ship under full spread of canvas through the Tropics. Then on the morning oi' May lo, the officer in charge noticed breakers ahead. Almost at the moment when he calhd the captain, the vessel strucK a rock an I began to fill rapidly. She had gone ashore on a small island ctl Staten Island, which lies near the South American coast. So quickly did the Swanhilda settle down that the port and starboard lifeboats were launched simultaneously. Hut the former boat, which contained the captuin and his wife, had scarcely touched the water when it was capsized by a great breaker. The tnen In the starboard boat were unable to render any help, and they saw Captain Pyne holding his bride in h*s arms disappear beneath the waves. When the thirteen sailors surviving out of a crew of twenty-live tried to land on the island they found the sen too rough and were compelled to put out again. The boat was at the mercy of he sea lor some days, and they lived on a little lain which they, collected One man went mad and struggled ?.o leap overboard, and although he was restrained he died later from exhaustion. When they had almost abandonee hope they sighted a lighthouse off the Argentine coast, and wore rescued by the keepers. A wireless message was sent to the mainland and they were taken ashore by an Argentne gunboat. The gunboat afterwards went co Staten island to search for any men who migh have swam ashore when the port lifeboat capsized. It discovered the bodies of four men who had died from starvation, and a survivor who had been driven insam by the terror of his experience was found in a cave. Eventually the man recovered. He said that he and his comrades lived for sometime on tins of grease und ate shellfish when r.o more grass remained. Apparently he had los. his reason when he found the bod) of Captain Pyne and his bride lock ed in one another's arms washed to | and fro by the waves. HKLI) I imsUKRS AT BAY. | Three Brothers Kill Young >lan Over Crap Came. Three young brothers named Alex ander, after having slain the son of a neighbor in the course of a picnic near Kenton, Tenn., held the pursuing crowd at bay until they made their escape, but were afterwards captured by deputy sherics and placed in jail at Kenton, where they were threatened with lynching by infuriated neighbors Sunday night. fhe affair grew out of a crap came. Robert Simmons, Jr., having won all the money, mounted his horse to ride away, when one of tin; Alexan1 dors, it is said, seized the bridle, j another stabbed Simmons, and when he fell to the earth the third Alexander rushed up and beat him with a club. The picnickers rushed to the resuce, but the three Alexanders drew revolvers and got away for the time. Fear of lynching has abated. Children Crushed. | Three children are reported crush ed to death and throe more missing in a cave-in of an excavation for a building at Howard avenue and Broadway, Brooklyn, Tuesday after noon. Twenty Are Iturnod. Twenty persons were seriously hurned in a lire destroying the Texas Pacific pumping station at Sherman. Texas, and caused a gasoline tank to explode. Accidentally Drowned. i "Dick" Williams, a negro about LM years old, was drowned at Hope's ferry on the Saluda Sunday afternoon. At a late .hour that night his body has not been recovered. Several Drowned. At Munich, in Bavaria, nine young men and six girls were drowned In the lake of Traun, by the capsizing of a barge in a storm Tuesday. ..... SOME GOOD NEWS AXTI-CAXXON HOl'KK PKKDIOTKII BY STAND-PAT KDITOK. **dd Bill" NelMoa, Owner of Kansas City Star, Kxchanges Greeting With Taft, Col. William H. Nelson, owner of the Kansas City Star, "dropped to ' on President Taft at Purgeas Poiut Friday afternoon. On his way out to the President's cottage the colonel said he wasn't going to talk politics if he couid help himself. Subsequent reports indicated that a hearty exchange of greetings was quickly followed by an earnest discussion of recent events in the political world. President Taft and "Old 0111** Nelson, as he falilllarly refers to the Missouri editor, have been friends a long time. "What about the result in Kansas?" was the opening chorus from the newspaper group. "Oh," laughed the colonel, "my .heart is no', broken." "And Iowa?" "Well I am managing to hold up under that pretty well, too." he re plied. "What do you think of the possibilities of the next house of representatives being Democratic?" "It looks as though it would either be Democratic or Insurgent. At any rate, you can bet it will be antiCannon." "Kansas," added the Colonel, "is filled with men who either made the State or the sons of men who made it. They think progressively out there, and they act progressively. People In the Bast don't understand Kansas." "Many Republicans," continued Col. Nelson, "seem to think that the Republican party is made up of a majority of '!>. voters of this country. In thai they are wrong. The Democrats have never put up a candidate for president who ought to have won that they did not win. Take Cleveland and Tilden for example. ' "All tnis doesn't mean that you ire going to support Judson Harmon, does it?" queried a venturesome reporter. "Not against Theodore Roosevelt.' "Do you think Col. Roosevelt can 'come back'?" ?- o ' I I I II V./D1J1"" uucn. : aiiit^pcu i ur i.uii/uel. "Why he would sweep the country. Hut 1 do not think he will run unless he -has to." Col. Nelson then spoke of his friendship for President. Tuft. "Ho you thing -he will be elected?" "Now, boys," laughed the colonel, you must not ask me foolish ques:ion.s." * MOULD'S SUPPLY SHOUT. tmouiit in Stghf is 300,000 Haels Behind. Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton uade up from special cable and telegraphic advices compares the figures | of the week ending August t>lh with he same week last year and the year >eforc. It shows a decrease for the week just closed of 119,518 against \ decrease of 197,230 last year and i decrease of 121,151 year before 1 lil ^ I . The total visible is 1,796,062 as against 1,195,580 last week; 2,285,159 last year and 1,950,3 07 year be'ore last. Of this the total of American cotton is 951,062 against 1 12 2.5.8 0 last week; 1, 729,459 last ear and 1,250.261 year before last, nd of all other kinds, including Kg*pt, Brazil, India, etc., 845,000 as gainst 895,000 last week; 556,000 aat year and 831,046 year before last. The world's total visible supply of otton as above shows a decrease, rontpared with last week of 119,518 i decrease, compared with last year, of 4 89.397 and a decrease, compared with year before last of 160,245. Of t'no world's visible supply of *ot I on as above there is now afloat tnd held in Great Britain and conli| netai Europe S70.000 against 1,647,* 0 00 last year and 1,1 26,000 year before last; in Egypt 53,000 against 57,000 last year and 75,000 year before last; in India 531,000 against '63,000 last year and 4 43,000 year before last; and in the United States (MlO ;tc:iinst 5 18.000 last vear I ?nd til 2,000 year before last. * ? ? Drowns at Tybo. As his wife looked on, Robert Croninbe'g of Savannn.h was drowned at Tybee bench early Sunday morning. It was stated that he had not been married long. He walked out from the beach, while talking to his wife, stepped suddenly into a hole and was unable to regain safety. His body was recovered quickly, but all efforts to resuscitate him failed. ? Foolish Young Woman. "1 will marry him or kill myself, was the declaration of a prettj brown-eyed girl in the register 01 deeds' ofllce at Klizabeth City, N. C. that she was under arrest for trylnt I to elope. Her father took .her home FATAL MISHAP Tr?i? Strikes Larfc Aalsaskilc Tkat Wu Fall si Pesple. MACHINE DEMOLISHED Two of the Kleren Wew Killed Outright ttnd Three Were Fatuity Injured.?Most of the Injured Were Young People Going From lievssimer to Lake View. Two were killed outright, three fatally injured and two others may die a? the result of an automobile accident near West Lake, Ala., below Bessemer, Sunday afternoon. The casualties include: J. H. Roden, chauffeur, killed outright. Miss Augusta Klzer, aged sixteen years, died after reaching hospital. Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, aged 15 years, skull fractured and fatally injured. Miss Mamie Crenshaw, aged 16 years, skull fracturerd and fatally burned. Robert Black, skull fractured and fatally injured. Miss Kva Lou Crenshaw, thigh broken, internally injured, may die. Vernon Lee, arm and thigh broken, internally injured and may die. O. C. I)obbs, hand broken and body badly bruised. Two Purron brothers, 10 and 12 years old, badly bruised, not fatally hurt. W. H. Lennett, Jd.# 10 years old. badly bruised, not fatally injured. O. O. Garner was the only passenger who escaped uninjured. He jumped from the car before the engine struck it. The automobile maintains a regular passenger schedule between Bessemer and West Lake, and It was carrying eleven passengers to the lake Sunday afternoon. The machine was struck by a fast passenger train on the Southern Railway shortly after 4 o'clock, and was almost comnletelv demolished. There is a steep grade leading down to the Southern tracks just before West Lake is reached, and as the highway is iu a cut, it was im-j possible for the chauffeur to see the locomotive or for the engineer to see the automobile. hose of the automobile passengers whe escaped with injuries state that the locomotive whistle was not blown for the crossing. The front wheels of the large automobile had just run on to the railroad tracks when the engine struck it. The passenger train was running at a high rate of speed and ploughed its way through the forward end of the machine. As it was only 1 1-2 miles from Bessemer, ambulances and physicians were quickly summoned from the city. The injured were all taken to the Robinson Hospital in Bessemer. CROP SFFFKllS FROM HKAT. Cotton Ha* Not Made Much Progress buiing Week. The following cotton crop summary was published by the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn., on Monday: "Telegraphic replies from Texas correspondents at six oclock Sunlay night indicated that no rain of consequence fell in that Sttae during the week save in the Red Rvier valley. As a result the cotton crop, except a small area which has received rain, has been deteriorating {o' most instances as the limits of the plants endurance had been reached a week previously. In southern and western Texas any additional drought means a very small yield of cotton. Generous rains fell throughout Oklahoma and although coiton suffered severely for a few days just prior to the rain en account of high temperatures, the situation has been relieved and it is believed that the crop will very quickly recuperate. "In other sections of the belt some Improvement took place. The crop has been laid by clean and the plant has begun to form squares and has begun to bloom freely and forir squares. Grown bolls arc not num erous, however, and the crop appears to have regained only little of Its lateness. The frost date will have an important bearing on the oat. turn. "Except in Texas there is no complaint of shedding hut the plant generally has not reached the stage w.here it is to be expected. GeneraU' fair weather would help the cjrop Mississippi and the Atlantic iftat'' ? Many I tables Die. One third of the babiea ' under one year of age b this summer, according V r collected by O. H. Sumnjr f of the Iowa State boa* , Cholera Infantum, in' 5 sis, poor milk and Id* . given as causes. . "m LONG RANGE FIGHT WATSON AND HABDWICK ABlfHB 0\K ANOTHKR W?LL. Tho Latt<H Head* a Letter CtMirginf the Former With Selling Out U the IkpublkMN. At Thomson ,Cra., Thomas B. Watson and Congressman Thomas W. Hardwick Saturday fought a desperate battle but it was one of words and the verbal shrapnel was hurled a distance of one mile, Mr. Watson and his adherents gathering in the Court house and the Hardwick cohorts sweltering In a quiet grove on the outskirts of town. In spite of Mr. Watson's announced fear of assasaination the dove of peace hovered over the little town throughout the day and prospects of trouble dwindled to nothing. Both speakers were bitterly personal In their remarks. Mr. Hardwick injected the only new feature ia the controversy in the shape of a letter from Congressman Charles H. Burke of South Dakota in which be charges that Watson in the summer of 1900 conferred with bim and nm nilnunl Danii hllouna n Urtiif h Ita. Kota at the Palmer house, Chicago, in reference to aiding the Republican party in South Dakota for a financial consideration. Mr. Burke's letter said thsit bo arrangements were made with Watson for South Dakota but declared that Watson did arrange with the late Senator llanna to assist the Republican cause. Replying to the charges contained in Congressman Burke's letter, Mr. Watson made the following statement : "1 emphatically deny the who*e story, which is false in every paiticular. 1 was not in Chicago dur ing 1900, but spent the year here, at home, doing literary work. 1 was In Chicago for a short time In 190 4, after the death of Mark Hanoa, stopping while en route to Lincoln, Neb., and on the return trip east to Ne.w York, where I spoke at Cooper Union. I invite an inspection of the Palmer house register during 1900, which will prove the truth of my statement. Before he began his address Watson was asked on what he based his fears of assassination. His reply was: "I base them on the fact that Mr. Hardwick has on several oceasI *~v n t It i*4\?\ t r\n t Vr t 1 t a a no it In 4!/\ r _ man l 11 I vr CI. v v 11 "VI IVJ rv I II III r (1MU ruivi mation of these threats has beer brough t to me by friends from Washington and Lincoln couties. I thik my fears are well fouded. Mr. Hard wick, when told Mr. Watson's statement, seemed t.o enjoy it immensely and commented: "Watson Is in no greater danger of beig assassinated than 1 am, and my danger is about equal to that of the man in the moon. I am ne assassin and none of my friends murderers." Watson, it is stated, had several guards about .his home at Bights tor the past several days. SAVKI) MAX'S LIKH. Conductor on Seaboard Risks Life for Passenger. On Monday afternoon when Sea board train No. 63, which leaves Columbia foi Savannah at 5.f?0 p. m., pulled into Gaston the train entered the sidetrack to await for the Seaboards limited train No. 84, going north. A man, who then seemed to be somewhat under the influence of whiskey, stepped upon the track of the main line. Conductor Williams, w.ho was in charge of train No. 63*. seeing that the man would be crush? . , '* (Hi to death by the fast approaching train, made a rush for him and sna.* <\ chad him trom the track just in tgg?< ^ " to save his life. Had tt not beei^ ^ the brave act of Conductor Wll?\ the unfortunate man would ha^, -*?~*v his death. Many of the pas ^ > had turnod and looked aw^^ **T the conductor made a daic * s man. '* DIED AT KIXKA **I Have Just Seven * \ Vtf uir "I have jus*; live," a well * cf a saloon at P fore the tinp^ self twice.; hospital, Friday p. man i* sou ? Necfc the