Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f WILL SOON LEAD [ SwAw Textile Mills Will Smi Oriruk N.rtker. Milk j IN COHON CONSUMED I Commissioner Watson ' Talks Most 1 Interestingly on Industry.?Says the United States Is Exporting I $31,878,560 Worth of Cotton j Manufactures. I "Have you stopped to realize that I the United States is only sending to I export $31,878,566 worth of cotton | manufactures, while she is importing f approximately $70,000,000 worth of I cotton manufactured products "or f the use of her people." This statement is rather signifi% nt ia its nature and of peculiar in ('[ | \<jr U just now on account of the cc'.on situation in this State was L.ude recently by Commissioner Watsca. Many of the mills of South Carolina are running on short time and there is a general policy of curtailment on account of the prices in the cotton goods market and the pro-1 duet. In the past month more than a half dozen large cotton mills have been chartered in the State. I In a recent address the commisI 6loner made several very interoMI ing statements bearing 011 the ieaI lie industry in this country. I The possibilities of Southern mailf ufacture are becoming more and I more pronounced as he is revealed I by a study of the consumption of I bales of cotton in the texile plants I of this country. However, as early I as 1880, the Northern states were I operating over 10,000,000 spindles, I while the Southern States were r?inI ning but a little more than halt a I million. I It was not until 1893 that the I Southern states had increased the I number of spindles to 2,000,000, I while at that time the Northern I states were operating 13,400,000 I spindles. In 1909 our industry has I grown until we are now runniug I 10,429,000 spindles against th^ I North's 17,5 89,000, and we are usI ing today 2,554,000 bales of cotton I against the North's 2,687,000. As I early as 1890 the Northern mills w*?r? nsinxr 2.000,000 bales when we I were using but half a million. I In 1908 the North was using 165,I 000 more bales of cotton than the South. This year that lead has been reduced to 143,000, and if conditions are not materially changed during this year it is not unlikely that the South will, by the end of 1910, have overtaken the North in the matter of consumption. And remember that we are sending out of the country today $417,390,665 worth of domestic cottm, and that we are sending in cold cash to other countries for raw cotton imports the princely sum of about $14,000,000. In South Carolina our progress has been rapid, for in 1860 we had only 30,890 spindles and 525 loom-a consuming 3,978,061 pounds of cotton: in 1889 there was 82,334 spjn Idles and 1,67 6 looms, consuming I 15,610,0G5 pounds of cotton; then I pass by another decade ana South I Carolina's industry had developed r until the music of 1,431,3 4 9 spindles and 42,663 looms was being heard, consuming 230,053,807 lbs. J of cotton. | Now another nine years has elapsed, and this state today stands second in the American Union in textiles, with 3,84 6,117 spindles and 96,281 looms, consuming 327,55 1,099 pounds of cotton. Nowhere n the world has there been such a rap1 id development. Today mills in this state are consuming 769,966 bales of cotton, or practically four-fifths of the state's entire cotton crop. The texile plants of the nation are turning out about $450,000,000 in product, while in this state alone, something like $75,000,000 worth of cotton manufactured goods is now being annually produced. Of this country's cotton crop, here in the South, wo are now cons lining in our own texitiles 5,198,963 H 500-pound bales, but we are still B sending to export 8,889,7 24 bales or BL over 66 per cent of the crop, and we F are actually Importing about 175,000 k bales of long staple cotton, cotton H that we hope to be able to raise in H the very near future. Again the "Unloaded" Gun. B Helieving that a shot-gun was unB <oaded, the 6-year-old son of County B Commissioner I. D. Itarrelson, of B Funston, N. C., while playing with B three other children, in his father's B home, late Thursday, picked up the weapon, pointed it at his little sis ter, aged four, pulled the trigger, and killed the child instantly. I The "Unloaded" (Jun. I At Athens, Ga., because he did not E know It was loaded. Doc Jones, a I 6-year-old-bo, leveled a gun at his I baby sister and pulled the trigger. I The baby's head was blown comI pletely off, hurled through a door and portions were plastered on a t wall twenty feet distant. MANY WERE SHOT | AN INSANE MAN KILLS HIS FAMILY AND A FIREMAN. ' Discharged Member of San Diego Department Shoots Former Comrades j and Then Slays Wife and Child. j Shooting himself through the head after killing three perspns, in 1 eliding his wife and child, morta'ly wounding a fourth and seriousiy wounding a fifth, Mert. S. Durham, a discharged employe of the San Diego, California, fire department, Monday ended the hunt for him. ilia death was almost instantaneous. Durham nursed a grudge against Capt. Sainpsell of the fire depart ment, under whom Jie had formerly worked as engine driver, and upon whose complaint he had been dis charged from the services for insuoordination. Durham Monday morring sent in a false alarm from the outskirts of the city, and when Cap* Sampsell and the engine crew drove up he opened lire upon his former workmen with a revolver. At the first shot Fireman Don Grant fell from his seat dead, with a bullet In the head. At the second Bhot Horseman Guy Klliott pitched to the ground with a bullet through the stomach. Durham then leveilea his revolver at Sampsell and fired twice, both bullets piercing Sampsell's lungs. Two more shots fired at other members of the crew went v/ild. Durham then drew another revolver and with it he covered his retreat as he started to run from Assistant Chief Senecador, who had driven up in answer to the fire alarm. As he disappeared in ilie darkness, Durham shouted back to the chief: "Tell my wife I am going to kill myself." The victims of the shooting were rushed to St. Joseph's hospital in one of the hose wagons. Operations were performed on Sampsell and Elliott. The surgeons say Sampsoll suffered a severe hemorrhage and the hold out no hopes of his recovery. Elliott has a chance. Within half an hour after the shooting, a score of police officers and deputy sheriffs were on the scene in automobiles and had begun a man hunt. Durham eluded the pursuers and reached home. Af'er slaying his family, the mad man ran out and escaped. During his service in the department, which terminated some time ago, he had a reputation for being quarrelsome. Firemen with whom he worked though him insane. At a hospital it was said Sampsell will die, but that there may be some hope for Elfiott. RURAL DELIVERY IN DANGER. Movement to Abolish it for me urn Star Routes. The R. F. D. News, published at Washington as the national organ of the Rural Letter Carriers' Association, sounds an alarm in these terms. "Right now preliminary plans are being made to abolish rural free delivery service and provide in its stead a daily delivery to the farmer by what is known as the star-route, or cantract system. This plan has been the subject of serious consideration by thePostmaster General for more than six or eight months past and he hopes to be able to furnish President Taft wil ample reasons for the change before the latter sends his annual message to Congress next September. It is the belief of many postal officials that President Taft will readily approve of the suggestion of the Postmaster General in the matter, and for the sake of economy, make a recommendation to Congress to enact the necessary laws 4 V>A lfnoH V PACtm Q CtnT iur tut; uuaugui /\n \/uuj * vuviumuw* General Hitchcock has consolidated the division of star-mail routes and division of rural free delivery into what will hereafter be known as the division of rural mails. This is the first step toward making the two services similar." WAR8HIPS IlEOOMK JUNK. ? Cruiser# Minneaiwli# mid Columbia Are Useless. A naval board by Rear Admiral Thomas, began the task at the Philadelphia navy yard Tuesday of passing upon the fate of three cruisers which but a few years ago were the undisputed leaders in their classes. The vessels are the armored cruiser Brooklyn and the protected cruisers Columbia and Minneapolis, built as the commerce destroyers of the navy. The three cost over $8,500,i 000, exclusive of their| armament. The Columbia and Minneapolis are . in danger of being consigned to the junk pile. The Brooklyn, Admiral Schley's flagship in the SpanishAmerican war, is in better shape and is likely to be ordered overhauled and modernized. Three Americans Killed. News was received of the assassination on July 22 in the Yaquai valley near Coccorit, Mexico, of Mrs. Jennie Shoudeler, an American wo, man, and her two sons. MOB AFTER HIM * Hash Between an Editer and a Preacher Causes Serieas Rtw. r EDITOR DRAWS HIS GUN On a Mob That Followed Him to His Home.-?-Sermon in Answer to Continued Kditorial Attacks Precipinted the Trouble, and Came Near Causing a Hiot. Elizabeth City, N. C., was the scene of a sensational affair on last Sunday night in which an editpr and a preacher participated. "Stand back or I will shoot to kill," weie the words said by W. O. Saunders, editor of The Independent, as ne stood in his yard with a pistol after " TKio tiring nve times m iu? an. * mo was said to have occurred Sunday night, following the close of service at Blackweil 'Memorial Baptist church when Pastor I. N. Loftin had preached upon "The Independent, the lting Around it, and W. O. Saunders." At the morning service Mr. Loftin had preached on sensational subjects dealing principally with Saunders and his paper. Many reports are in circulation and it is impossible to get accurate information. Saunders was present at both 'services. As he left church that night and started toward his home many people were on the /streets returning home. One report had it that several of Saunders' bitterest enemies followed him and when he had gotten inside the yard yelled out some threats about giving him a certain time to get out of town. Immediately five or seven shots rang out and Saunders ordered his alleged pursuers to keep back. Women and children were panic-stricken and rushed to cover, some fainting, and the greatest excitement prevailed. Some claim that Saunders was shot at by some party on the street. However, no one was hit and the police soon disperced what little crowd was left after the shoot ing. Saunders was next morning arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. O. W. Gilbert, proprietor of a big department store and brother-in-law of Loftin, was arrested on the same charge, together with some five 01 six others for following Saunders with intent to assault and disturb the peace. They were bound ovei to trial justice court Tuesday morning. The unfortunate fall-out between Saunders and Pastor Loftin is said to have come from Saunders' continued bitter attacks on Loftin 01; acount of a certain seduction case some months ago in court. A lad> of the city was brought into dispute ? 1 ^ M A rl /Mlf n Ko vni*!jp. clUU 11. uaiiuncu uunu i. w ? v,? ity of either the lady or the pastor The deacons of Blackwell Memorial sustained Pastor Loftin and expell ed the lady. Saunders went at thi.action with unheard of editorials giving Loftin unfavorable notoriet> Pastor Loftin decided to preach upon the great evil that Saunderr and his paper were to Elizabeth Cit\ and crowds gathered from every section of the city and even from ch. county to hear his arraignment Printed circulars were distributed al; over the city Saturday and the sensational subjects were the source o< much comment. Many citizens freely predicted that bloodshed or, at least trouble would result. The tin fortunate trouble is deeply deplored by all citizens and it is hoped that the law will be allowed to take its course. SECTION HANI) KILLED. Struck by Engine While Standing on End of Crosstie. Arthur Alexander, a colored section hand on the Southern Railway, was knocked down and fatally in jured by Passenger Train No. 4(1, at lirawiey street crossing in spartan burg Tuesday morning. The negro, with other hands, stepped aside to let the train pass, but stood on the end of the crosstie and did not get out of the reach of the engine. Al?xclty, where he died a few hours later. Shot the Sheriff. Sheriff Edmond Dull, of Monroe, Mich., who was shot by an unidcn titled negro near Erie, Mich , is near death in a local hospital. Dull tried to arrest the negro for robbery when the latter shot him three times. He made his escape. Shot Her Suitor. Annoyed by his persistent demand that she become his wife, Miss Rosy Perrino, aged 15, of Chicago, 111., shot and perhaps fatally wounded Antonio Rossi. He is In the hospital and is expected to die Drought Broken. A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says the rain in six weeks in that locality began Tuesday morning and Is of great benefit. The drought has damaged corn in somo places beyond repair. HAND BY THE SCHOOLS i i IMPORT OF UNION COMMITTEE ( , ON EDUCATION. j / Hi? Conimitie? Makes Many Valua- / * ble Suggestions, Which Will Be ( Heeded by the People. | The Committee on Education of ^ the State Union submitted the following report at the late meeting of the Union, which we commend to the thoughtful consideration of the people. Here is the report: We would especially urge upon I our people the importance, the vital j importance, of the common schools; the only colleges that 90 per cent, of our boys and girls will ever be able to attend. We would urge that I*,,iiHiitnml pouinment be im n?' , 4 proved; let the school house and grounds be made attractive, for little children absorb as much education from environment as from the text books; and it is a disgrace in our boasted Anglo-Saxon civilization that we should let our children be shut up in unsanitary, uncomfortable school .houses for several hours each school day. We would urge that our text books and teaching give more attention to Agriculture and domestic economy, at the same time demanding that the preparatory work be as thorough as for any of the so-called learned professions. We commend the boys' corn clubs and the girls' tomato and poultry clubs, and wish to see one of each in every neighborhood, with a central club in eaoh county. For we realize that the v ay to keep the young people on the farms is to make farming profitable and the homes attractive. We feel that the Clemson Extension Work which ?s taking the college to the grown up farmers is duo to the friendly discussions in previous meetings of the State union, and we can not too strongly urge upon our people that they attend 1 these meetings with minds open to conviction, and with a determination to nroflt by the information brought to their very doors. The U. S. Demonstration Work, the U. S. Farm Management Work, the Corn Breeders' Association, the South Carolina Live Stock Association, the Department of Agriculture and Industries, and the five or six agricultural societies, some of them with a hundred years of achievement to their credit, all have our hearty approval. And our people who are ?*ot making use of ?ori e of hhese agencies for their betterment are standing in their own light. We commend the Audubon Society and the untiring efforts of Mr. Jas. Henry Rico for V i d an*' r *me tection, and urge our people to inform themselves of the great importance of conservation of the iiiaecdestroying birds. In this connection we indorse the resolutions of Surn ter County Union asking our Legislature for a gun license tax, the fund to be used for game and bird protection. In conclusion, some of these matLei s may not seem to come proper ly under th6 head of a report Lorn the Committee 011 Education, but we respectfully submit that they are an subjects upon whie.h our people nee I ' Snformation; that the information these various agencies can, and do give, is of an educational nature, and that the greatest bar to the progress of the Union and the development of our unrivaled natural resources of climate and soil, is Ignorance; and if the Union does not stand for Education of the best kind, front the child up to the grandfather, education in self-help and neighborly co-operation, it does not stand To inyt.hing. And tho handwriting .*n the wall is so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, can not fail lread it. We are weighed in the balances and found wanting. ? ?> ltKXKKSKS THE JUDGE. Can't Seize Whiskey Intended for Personal Use. Attorney General Lyon has given an opinion in w4iich he holds that whiskey lor private or personal use 1 can not be seized by any officer. This decision is directly opposite to the ruling by Judge iMemmlnger, given in his charge to the jury in Sumter 1 Pniintv when he declared that whis Key for personal use was liable to be seized. Tne ruling by the Attorney ! (Jenoral was given on the request of J. L. Cllllis, a Magistrate of Rembert in wihch several questions were asked concerning the seizure of whiskies. Who is right, Memtnimger or Lyon? Dined Hebels. Mrs. Mary Weaver, of Dover, Pa., the woman who had the distinction of having fed three Southern generals 4 7 years ago, when part of the Southern army bivoucaced near her home, is dead. She was 73 years old. Six Men KHUmI. Six men were killed and fourteen injured, several of them fatally, in one of the worst torpedo boat disasters on record, according to navy reports Thursday. The accident occurred at Kronstadt, Russia. f FIRST NATIO E CONWAY F CAPITAL STOCK B SURPLUS PROFITS ^ TOTAL ASSERTS ? DIRECT 9S J. A. (McDermott, John C. tfk B. G. Collins, II. L. Bn i M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua fli Successor to the Bank of jXf Horry County, and a pioneer W ly allied with the recent devc ij| Republic. Backed by the G A United States Bonds, we are pi ?P towers any reAonable acconm A H. A. SITVKY, 9 Oaebier. BANK OF Conwa1 i Has largest capital and surplus of a * '? -L l:--J ?:?~i ?A inin inc cumuiucu tapuai auu juip CAPITAL STOCK BURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SIOCURITY OF DEPOSIT( DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we i 80bsbt b. scarborough, d President. We continue to pay 5 pei PROFESSIONAL CARDS. B. H. WOODWARD Attoraej ib4 OoutMlor At Law CONWAY, . o. & A 90ARBR0U0B OOKWAY, 0. C. Att?nMf at Law* m. BL tVBBOnm fMTWAT, I. (X a WMTOM WAR. AKuwy At L*> ^ fkik of Horry RuildlBf. CONWAY, I. O. WE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE MSmlnilC NESEOnr r -Mar ijrv ^ m m A \ % tfroa want either* Vibrating Bhuttle, Rotary Shuttle or * Mingle Thread [Chmin mUcAJ Sewing Machine write to TNt NEW Hem CEWINC MACHINE COMPART Orange, Mass. |f?r ewtna Machine* are made to tell regardlew Of futUir, hat the Mow Heiao it mado to wea* Our vaaraatr never runt out. eld hy aalhtrlted doalen ealfi rea aauk aur J yjrrorass a coij^ks own OMway, S. OL Died Front Fall. At. Pittsburg, N. C., Nan Scurlock, \ negro girl 1(5 years of age, found a snake In the yard and ran to the barn for a pitchfork to kill It with but when she started up a ladder leading to the loft she fell over and died Instantly. The Boston Transcript says the Democrats have no affirmative' program or any coherence of purpose. How about tariff reform, turn the rascals out, and economy instead of the present extravagance in national expenditures. These are some of the reforms the Democrats have agreed 01. g. ^ v>! '3M P9999 C i-f 7 7^B ^L>jHH ?NAL BANK |?jn ?. # #. * ,. M09.00 A 125,t?t.#0 A ? , Spirey, D. T. McNeil!, A uck, W. R. Lewis, O. JL -.Jf ttlebaum, D. A. Spiyey. ^ ' .& Conway, tbe oldest Bank in X! rj| in Eastern Carolina. Close- W dopment of the Independent ^ *5 foyernment and secured toy ML to *3 repared to extend to anr cua- JK ,W iodationa. ^ B. G. GOLIJN8, A President. ? HORRY, = r. S. C. I ny bank in Horry countv. More J lus of all other banks in the county. Jtjftj ' '' Ann Jr $6o,aaa ii,eat HOLDERS . . . . 60,#0* )rs ni.&ao ;iors D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. t > =>mmodation which their accounts , solicit your business. . V. Richardson, ?iu a. frkbmab Vick Phesidknt. Cashibb r cent. on yearly deposits. 11 ' ?yjj| FIRED ItOM It HMSHLF. Iloiismun IJIew Himself l'l? in OrK?i'L ? dcr to Get Money. A special Friday from Hid so way, Va., says Detective Joseph Funk,1 of the Baldwin Detective Agency, of Roanoke, who has been investigating the dynamite explosion whch caused the death of Mayor A. H. Bousman of iiidgeway on the night of Sunday, * | July 24, is satisfied that he has solved the mystery. His inquiries have convinced him that the case was a peculiarly horrible one of self-destruction. He has so reported to the town council of Ridgeway and the report has been accepted officially and is universally believed to be correct even by Mr. LJousnians closest friends. Mr. Bousman was deeply in debt and the belief now is that the mortification ol failure, financial ruin, and the dread of poverty for his family which he maintained always comfortably and in good style drove him to desperate means to save himself at the cost of mutilation, of being a cripple the rest of his days and of deadly rial*- of his own life. He held an accident insurance policy for $6.000, and had recently taken out two life policies, one for $1,000 and another for $2,000 for which ho gave his note. A paper hag found wrapped about some dynamite in bushes near the mayor's home the day following the explosion was identified as one lie got at a store the day of his deaths?^ , He had recently experimented with r** dynamite. It is believed he lay on his lawn at night touched the fuse of a stick of dynamite with his lighted cigar, balanced it on his less and % awaited results. There was no hole i in tlie ground under the tree and I it is claimed that ooth legs could not have been blown off at the same point unless the dynamite had fallen directly across the limbs. WATCHMAN KILLED. \ Was little in Coming to Work ami ^ Quarrel Resulted. Late Thursday afternoon, at about 7.30 o'clock, H. F. Hawkins shot and almost instantly killed L. L. MacLemore, at the Mills Mill on the outskirts of Greenville, S. C. There W firo tliroft ohn?o A""-' 1 ? v. ? niiui a in I'd, two oy tne (load man and one by Hawkins. Hawkins went at once to Greenville and surrendered. It is said that the killj ing resulted from a disputue between the two men on the late ar- T rival at the mill of MacLemore, who is night watchman, and who is said | to have been drinking. Hawkins had been sent o duty because of Uie deceased's tardiness, and was acting in MacLemore's place when the shooting occurred. | Congressman C. F. Scott of Kansas was one of the few sympathizers with Senator Heybnrn in his objections to the admission of the Lee statue to Statuary Hall. Congressman Scott has been* defeated by an | 'insurgent" because he was a "stand patter." After making the above statement, The State, says "it is therefore a matter of gratification in these parts that he was a 'standpatter' and is now a fall-downer.'' ilk. ,h ' %. |t ??