The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 05, 1911, Image 5
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^i?U Oat of His Cag*, R earing Defiance,
Starts Rngn of Terror.
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IN RANKS OF THE CREW
The Big Hons) Was Bring Brought
Krow If In l<nlr to Ik* Mud? Part
I ef n* Aericnn MonnRorio, When Ho
HvrajM-d iu(i Finally Jumped Into
Stu.
'J'iufr perils ol' bringing a huge lioii
from hit lair in Idia to Now York, to
ke marie* a part ol a menagerie, is 3ot
fortfc j?jr the thrilling experience of
the ?raw of a German freight steamer,
th? Berkenf'ils, commanded by
Captain Ficdrie.il, which reached that
rHw from Calcutta a few dayB ago.
It wan while the vessel Was making
feu Bermuda thai the trouble began.
fierce winds, almost strong
nowgh to bo dignified as a hurricane,
rocked the steamer from side
to side This rolling frightened the
m>U ft n fl fomnlo rtt l lin hie cut I'll Til -
llf and 11?o former exhibited his
aiig#r by throwing his body against
tb? wooden bars which held him in
< activity. The in tori'ides between
Ixrnj# was devoted 10 roaring that,
would make the stoutest heart quail.
Tb? lion did not like to be thrown
round in his cell landing on his
head this minute and on his back the
*e*t and with a regularity which
took ail Ihe bravado out of him.
Hound to get out and sec whnt the
troubl* was Mr. Lion made a supreme
effort and pushed the bars
pen, sin<1 then started to explore.
It was just as night was beginning
to give awiy to day and objects were
none too distinct. An lOast. Indian
sailor was spied splicing a rope and
b' fore he could stir the lion was on
top of him tearing him to pieces.
I >< ath must have been instantaneous
from shock. While the lion 8to<>a
waning into the face of the dead a
group of seaman saw him and fled.
Tbe first, second and third officers
ran to their rooms and procuring revolvers
sought out the beast, sensibly
fitting a deck above him in the
IBLrTWHl OI SclKM.y. 1 III l!l" HIMJItj Wt'll'
fired which did little damage and
mad* the "on growl all the mor.?.
Three more wore tried, hut the oflicon
were ho nervouR that the shots
went wild. Then the officers went
up the rigging and reloaded.
The second officer was the first to
renew the fusillade. This one hit
the beast In the belly, throwing him
01 kin knees v\ lion he rolled over
and lay kicking for a few seconds.
Itegnm.ng his 1- et the animal ran
the length r>f tin- deck, tumbled ?veined
rolled In the scuppers; up again
and back toward the deck to which
the off: cers had returned.
binding ho could not leap upon
them he jumped into a well and ran
up a companion way, where the oflioera
etood firing. In the menntlme
the letter once more sought the riggie?.
The audacious quadruped
grinned revenge, and soon a shot, in
the head sent him stumbling along
oa unsteady legs.
Tlier he ran up to the deck, whore
safeguards do not run along the
edge, roared mightily, peeped into the
sea, and, straiglitened himself out,
jumped overboard. He undoubtedly
i made a goorl meal for the sharks folJ^~lowing
the vessel.
y The lioness never left her open
cage, and a brave ship carpenter ventured
near it and nailed up the broken
bars which let out her foolish
mate.
JAPANKSK IN CONTROL.
AiMf Officers loelnrc Thoy CouJu
Take the Pliillipiiics.
Aruiy oiuccrs recently roturnoo
from (ho Phillipines aro deeply conj)
c <'rood over cont tions in (he islands,
^ and maintain thai it was on tniormatioQ
fornish?'d by t.hoin Mint. Secretary
of War Dlokinso.i unci (Jen. Leonard
Wood based much in their recent reports
to Congress on the unpropumdnrtw
of the country for war.
Id brief, the charge is oponlv rnnde
that the Japanese aro in a'solute
control of n,o Phillipines, and that
i hey will have It I tie or no duliculty
in taking over the isands win never
^ they are ready to move.
* It is declared by responsible -iffi'
ecu of the United States army, both
in person and b\ letter, that the Japanese
deliberately sunk the great dry
dock Dewey in Subig bay, and tbui
this fact is known in oflloial circles.*
of you"K Corbett was found about a
lite below the f"i*rv
Cleaned Up Family.
At Tlaltimore Md., as a climax o
series of bit > r quarrels hot
Wm. C. Strickles and his wife the
Cornier Friday shot'and killed he
latter and his lb year-old stepdan.u tier.
Bnla Kile. Strickles, who v ?
employed as a tireman at. a pow-r
fiouse, then fired a bullot into his
own temnle.
Cold Wave Coming.
The weather bureau at Columbia'
reports that a sudden change fori
colder weather is to bo expected.
CHEAP COTTON GOODS
MARKS TIIK SITUATION UNSATISFACTORY
TO TIIK MILLS.
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ManufiM'tueis Cluic That With Price
of Cottou so High (foods Can Not
be Made Profitably.
a tr K Ji
A l\?w l oi k ui:sput<ai ouyn mc
year cloBod with the cotton goods
market steady hut quiet. Prices appear
to be linn, but they offer mills
uo margin for profit on many of the
staples, while cotton rules high. In
manufacturing circles curtailment of
production is being urged and in
mercantile houses it is felt that production
is running ahead of demand
for the time being.
The volume of export trade with
China in the last weeks of the year
reached at least 1 0.000 hales and
the market is firm on a basis of G 1-4
cents for four-yard .*?(> by 60s. The
demand for ginghams and fan y
wash fabrics of sheer construction
holds good.
Staple p hits have sold well and
are being delivered freely for the
spring trade. Plea bed sheetings are
held firm ui a basis of 9 cents for
fruit-of-the loom, hut the demand is
of a hand-to-mouth character.
Colored coCons have been sold
fairly well on the low grades, but
mill agents complain of a lack of
profit, at present prices.
The demand for plain constuctions
I * \ *i r> ho in 1 ! frli tor a n/l i n i'o now
I I I II I I \ I * I < rj ir? IIL.illM II II VI 111 I CI I I ' J
goods, silks and notions sell rather
better than other lines.
Th e cotton yarn market continues
quiet with values held fairly
steady. Of the 17.".000 pieces ot
print, cloths sold in the last week
of the yen- at. Fall River about 77,000
consisted of 1'7 in 76 by 72s for
subst itut.e count, print.
The mills in that city are carrying
comparatively small stocks and are
discussing 'he need of curtailment
when January contracts begin to ex,
pire.
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KITICM) ()V!,:i: I IFTFIvN YIOAKS.
Customs Official Makes Statement
About New Orleans Sugar Fraud.
"When he grand jury now invosi
tigating 'he sampling of sugar at
New Orleans finishes its work, it will
be found that the frauds against the
Government there have been going
on for at 'east fifteen years."
This statement wu? made Friday
by an official of the customs service,
who dec) tred all the suspected
frauds would lie found in the. sampling
of sugar and in the tests which
determine the saccharine contents
upon which the importer pays duty.
An investigation of alleged "drawback
"fraus at San Francisco is also
imminent. Tn fact, it is known
that a preliminary investigation has
rurnisned evidence which loads treasury
officials to believe that the
frauds at San Francisco will eclipse
those at New York, which the American
Sugar Refining Company recently
ordered to settle for $700,000.
Evidence collected bv the customs
service is said to show the Government
has for years zeon paying
"drawback" on Phillipine sugar,
which came into the Fnited States
duty free, was used in the preservation
of California fruit and later exported
as sugar imported from Java
on which duty had been paid.
One of the officials of the treasury
department Friday said: "The
troubles of the sugar importers have
only begun. The discoveries of the
frauds have only started." *
PEACEMAKER THE VICTIM.
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Asliovillo Citizen Receives I'orlmps
Fatal Wounds.
With a knife blade stuck in his
right lung to a depth of four inches,
and still protruding from t lie wound,
J John Davis, a well-known citizen of
j West Ashcvilie, staggered into his
I homo early Friday morning and inI
formed his wife that he had been
cut. The injured man did not know
'the knife was still embedded in his
I lung until it was pulled out by his
horrified wife. The stabbing resulted
from an affray between the young
son of Davis and a young man nawed
MeMahon, In which the father was
endeavoring to act ns peacemaker.
After the cutting, which is alleged to
have been done by McMahon, the latter
made his escape, hut later was
captured and returned to Asheville.
Davis's condition is critical. "
CI tewed Vp Money.
After a vain search for a wallet
containing $120, which he had been
carrying in his hip pocket. Frank
Hoover, a butcher of Hellevista, Pa.,
deciced as a forlorn hope to slaughter
a hog with which had been wok
mg oeiore missing me money, in
Bide the stomach of the animal he
discovered his roll of bills, chewed
into a mass with the leather of the
wallet. *
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Mail lM>und Dead.
An unknown man's body was
found Sunday morning lying beside
the South rn railway tracks near
Strnw Plains, Tenn. In his vest
pocket was found a card bearing the
address ".Tuiian Fishburne, Charleston,
S. C., 22 Ash ton street.'*
TWO MORE DIE
World Reaowiied Aviators Meet Death
Instantly by Falling
MISJUDGED CURRENTS
Moisnnt, at Now Orleans, Fails IIundrods
of'Foot and lias His Nock
Jlrokon?lloxsoy, at Ijos Angeles,
is Hashed to Karth in Aeroplane
and Crushed h.v tlio Macliino.
John 13. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey,
aviators ertraordinary, were killed
Saturday. J3oth foil out of the
treacherous air currents with their
machines -neither from a vast
height?and Moisant's remaining
minutes of life were so few as to
count as naught. Hoxsey was killed
instant ly.
Moisant met his death at 9.55 a.
m., attempting to alight in a field a
few miles from New Orleans, La.
Hoxsey, who went into the air early
in the afternoon at Los Angeles,
Cal., lay at 2:12 p. in. a crushed, lifeless
mass !n view of the thousands
| who were watching the aviation
tournament.
Thus the last day of 1910, in
bringing the total number of deaths
of aviators to thirty, capped the list
with two of the most illustrious of
those airmen who have been writing
the history of aviation in the skies
of two continents.
Moisant, a Chleagoan by birth, alter
an adventurous life in Central
America, became interest*-d in aviation
in France less than a year ago.
After soaring into public recognition
by his plucky bight, from Paris across
* I* i:..u nu i ... I..,*
I.lit* 1Ml i/iiaiiiufi u# uuimiuii,
a passenger, Moisant's fearlessness
and resourcefulness were exhibited
frequently. Finding himself without,
a machine, lie purchased one from
a friend for $10,000 and within ten
minutes, starting on -his winning
flight from Belmont Park, X. V.,
around the Statue of Liberty, winning
a prize of $ 1 0,000.
Today a sudden puff ot wind
caught him within 500 feet of the
earth, turned his machine over and
a broken neck terminated his career.
Arch Hoxsey. aftor a year of uniform
success with the Wright aeroplanes,
had gained a name for daring
and competence in the air. Only
within the week he had set a new
world's altitude record of 11,474
feet, and then ro show his contempt
for the earth, had sailed majestically
more than 4,000 feet above .Mount
Wilson. Today he ran afoul of the
same kind of boiling, treacherous
wind when some 500 feet from the
earth, and a minute later a horrified
r* WI uwi oronun/l f S ? f?1w%,-.lr ntnn
u , (i i v/uon\i 1.1 u in i i,o anuri\, Wild
rushing madly to where a broken
mass of humanity lay beneath a tori,
bit of canvas and some broken spars
Roth met death In almost the same
manner. Kach machine was headed
for the earth and suddenly seemed
to stop, hover in the air, then "turn
over on to its nose," and dive heaulong
to the earth?and to destruc
tion.
Moisant's aeroplane was n Rleriot
monoplane, and in addition to the
heavy engine In front of the main
pianos, he had fastened a tank holding
35 gallons of gasoline. Aviation
exports believe a sudden putt' of wind
stopped his machine dead in the a>i
and the heavy weight ahead dragged
the light framework behind it. flipping
the then useless rear elevator.
From his position partly back of the
main planes, Moisant was (lipped out.
clear of the machine, and struck the
ground on his head, breaking ins
neck. He died on a Hal ear upon
'which he was being rushed to New
I Or'cans.
Horsey, likewise was returning
from a journey Into the clouds. H?%
Wits within five hundred feet of Hie
earth and cheers wore going up to
meet the conqueror ol the higher
air, when his machine seemed fo
stop, shudder and whirl over .and over
to the ground. As in the morning'.tragedy,
the rear elevator, rendered
useless when the momentum was
gone, (lipped aiound. helpless to aid
the fated machine. lloxsey vainly
endeavored to right his craft by
warping the main planes and by use
of the rudder. Vain attempts, these,
for before sutlicient momentum was
gained the frail structure was cruin
pled upon the earth, the heavy engine
being torn loose.
Only a few farmers and aids saw
ivioisant nurled to his death, but
Hoxsey's end came before the horrified
Raze of thousands who had come
out in the pleasant afternoon to
watch the birdmen darting hero and
there through the air.
The day's pleasure ended when an
announcer, sadly lifting his megaphone,
droned out the message:
"Arch Hoxsey has been killed.
There will be no more flying today."
Mrs. (\ M. Hoxsey, of Pasadena,
Cal., missed by a mere accident seeing
her son meet his death. She had
arranged to take her first areoplant
ride with her son today. Some detail
of importance in her household
detained her and word of the accident
was taken to her by Roy Knahenshue
and Thomas Jackson, of the
Wright Company.
TOLL OF THE MOBS
FIFTY - SEVEN PEOPLE WKUK
LYNCHED THE YEAH PAST.
Florida, (Joorgia, Alabama, Arkansas
and Texas IxkI in Tfiis Class of Violent
l>eatlis.
Only 5 7 lynchings were recorded
in the United States in 1910, a much
smaller number than in almost any
previous year in the last 16. In 1909
the total was 7 0 and in 190 8 it was
65. All but five of the 5 7 cases of
lynching in 1910 were of negroes,
and ten of the.^e cases were those in
which the charge against the victim
w.'ir nsKuiilt on white women or airls.
In 11 of the remaining number the
charge was attempted criminal assault.
In the five cases of white
men, four were for murder and the
other for aiding and abetting in a
lull delivery. Several of the cases
in which neurons were lynched were
based upon the murder, or alleged
murder of white women in which the
qucs'iou of assault is implied.
As in previous years, nearly all the
lynchings were in Southern states,
Florida and Georgia having ten each,
Alabama and Arkansas eight each,
Texas six. The only lynching in the
North occurred in Ohio, the victim j
being Carl Rtherington, and agent of I
the Ohio Anti-Saloon league, who|
met death at the hands of a mob in '
Newark following nis imprisonment
In jail on a charge of having murdered
a saloonkeeper while making a
raid on an alleged blind tiger. One i
man has been convicted of having
natieinnted ;n thin Ivncbing and givtn
a 20 years prison sentence.
Following is the record for t 9 1 0 t
by states: Alabama, eight negroes: ,
Arkansas, eight negroes: Florida. J
eight negroes and two whites: Cleor-,
g'a, ten negroes; Louisiana, one
white man; Mississippi, live negroes; j
Missouri, three negroes; North Carolina,
one negro: Ohio, one white
man: Oklahoma, one negro; South)
Carolina, one negro; Tennessee, two
negroes: Texas, four negroes and !
two whites
Of i lie five whiles lynched, two,
were Italians, who were lynched in
Florida. They were charged with 1
murder and with inciting the siots j
during the strike of cigarniakers in
Tampa. Another of the white viitiw's
was a Mexican ( who was shot and,
burned at the stake near the Texas
border, follow ing h'^ confession that, i
he had murdered a white woman. Of
the 5 2 negro victims, two were women.
In many of the cases the lynchings
followed the arrest or conviction of
the victims on the charges made |
against them. In other eases thel
victims met death while endeavoring
to escape from pursuing posses. In
two cases the negro victims were
lynched by mobs composed of members
of their own race. In almost
every case the victim was summarily
hanged or shot without burning at
the stake, such as accompanied these
acts of summary vengeance in former
years. *
7 4 VFSNKLS LOST
And Fifty-l hree People Out of
Lost List Year.
Out of a total of G,66J persons involved
in i.lGd disasters to vessels
of nil class* within the scope of the
(Tilted Stat- s life saving service, only
fift.y-thr. o were lost, and about
seventy-four vessels were completely
destroyed, according to the annual
report of S. L. Kimball, general superintendent
of the service, for the
fiscal year which ended June d0 last.
The n?\' expenditures for maintaining
the service for the year were
in.-; . .1 > ^ rno enactment ot
! lie bill passed at I lie last session i
of Court* ; . b" the Senate providing
for retirement pay for members of
t !io life s iviiiR service and others of
the Meld service and others of the
Held service incapacitated for duty is
urged in the report
Of the !.<>)(> vessels of all kinds
whieh met with accidents, tin* life
savors rendered service to 1.0-17, valued
with their cargoes at $10,170,2110.
Other succor rendered by the
life saving service included the rescue
of 1 7 persons from drowning,
surgical aid to CO persons suffering
from gunshot wounds, broken limbs
or bruises and the recovery of 1.70
bodies of persons who had mot death
through i e or iti other ways. Nine
of this number wore suicides.
I>.\ nil mite Kx plosion.
An explosion of dynamite at the
engine house of No. Id mine of the
Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad
company, near Knsley, Ala., Friday
afternoon killed doe Oswoll, engineer,
and Will Hunter, fireman, and
an unknown negro. A second negro
was badly injured. The negro
killed had brought some frozen dynamite
from the mine tunnel to thaw
it out in the engine house
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Might Men Killed.
IOight men, two Americans and six
Italians, were killed Saturday in Id' k
Fork mine, near Mntewan, \Y. Va.
The accident happened while the victims
were ascending in an incline
mine car. A cable far above the car
snapped and live loaded cars shot
down the plane, crushing into the
'car on which the eight men were
riding.
TOOK POISON
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New York Banker Charged With Crime
Tries to K;ll Himself
WHILE GOING TO COURT
Charged With Wrecking the North- ,
ern Hank of New York, the I'Hn- '
oner CollapsL'N Hefore Reaching i
the Court Room Where he Wa? <? '
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Have Been Arraigned.
Joseph 'J. Robin, who wrecked the
Northern Rank of N e w
York while at its head, 1
attempted to kill himself again '
oil Friday. With head erect, should- f
ers, and eyes levelled at the bteerv 1
of cameras trained on him, Joseph
(i. Robin, the indicted banker, stepp-F
ed from his sister's home to face hi- \
raignment. calm In tlio knowledge
that he had swallowed a dozen taulots
of hyoscin, the subtle and deadly
alkaloid, with which Fr. Crippen kill- 1
ed liis wife. Hello 151 more. He coi
lapsed before he could be taken Into
Court, with the exclamation: I'm a '
dead man; I've taken poison tablets."
Tho case was postponed In tin
greatest excitement, a stomach pump
was hurriedly brought into play and
the sick man was carried first, to the
prison hospital, adjacent, and later to
Hellevue, where he lies in the prison
ward. No charge of attempted sin- |
cide is entered against him, and it is
thought ho will recover, although
the action of hyosein is slow, and
much will depend on h)9 vitality.
The time at which Robin took the
drug is approxiately fixed by the testimony
of Dr. Austin Flint, retained
for Robin by William Travers .lerome.
his counsel; Dr. Louise Robinovitch,
his sister, and two detective,
from the district attorney's ofllce:
who rode with him from his sister's
house to the Criminal Couvi building
Dr. Flint told the Court that as nearly
as he eouid judge from the symp
Loms, the poison had been in Robin's |
system about three-quarters 011 an |
hour when he collapsed.
The two detectives wore positive '
their prisoner swallowed nothing on
the way to Court. Dr. Roblnovitcb
said her brother was In the habit of |
taking hyosein in small doses, to I
counteract the effects of morphine
which he used to deaden the stabbing
pains by which gall stones make
themselves known. She kept the drug
in her house and she thought her
brother swallowed twelve tablets. At
Rellevue the examining surgeons estimated
that Robin had taken about
one-tenth of a grain.
Robin seemed in good health Saturday
morning, better than at an>
time since his troubles commenced.
The first sign of illnese was when he
staggered, on stopping from his automobile
to the Criminal Court building.
In the elevator ho weakened so
ranidlv that the dotentives had to
lift him to n couch. There he sunk
into unconsciousness and was not revived
until the stomach pump had
i been worked vigorously. Its prompt
| use undoubtedly saved his life.
Outside the corridors of the Criminal
Court building fairly hummed
with excitement, but in the Court of
Coneral Sessions itself Judge Crnin
was transacting business as usual
when Win. T. Jerome stepped rapidly
down the aisle.
"Your Honor." he began, hurried
ly. "I am lie re in the Kobin case. It
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<1 )J ] It' fl I 5-j I IIU4 Ull:" Ut'lt'llUillll Uilrt UtKCll :
;i drug. 11c> cannot bo stimulated j
An ambulance has boon called and )
surgeons are now pumping out liir I
stomach. The circumstances are un- j
a \ oiuable."
On information that the prisoner I
could not possibly bo arraigned, tin j
case was postponed until tile receipt I
of further advices to Robin's ootid1
t ion.
Ifyosoin is described in the text j
books as an alkaloid of henbane and )'
in its action a cerebral and spina i
sondative. Cases are recorded in 1
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which a dozen tablets of 1 -1?;">t b gain |
applied to the membranes of the eyes j(
havo produced several general toxic
sy in ptonis.
Robin's frustrated attempt leaves '
the question of his insanity still op
en.
There was no further development
in connection with either the Xoth
ern Hank of New York or the Wash- '
ington Savings Hank, both of wkicti
are in the hands of the State banking
department, but the State department
of insurance took over the affairs
of the Title and GuaranteeCompany,
of Rochester, N. Y., and a
largo force of accountants are at i
work on the ledgers of the many in '
tewoven concerns which Rohin pro j
mo ted. *
High l?iving at law Cost.
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i m? ,>rw ut'i i v vmisi'i'vit says: tvir. ,
H. K. Mills butchered two hops oil *
Thursday, that weighed 510 and 520 M
pounds. They were the Poland China j
breed and were 18 months old. lie
raised them from pigs, and they did
not cost him half as much as if he i (
had bought them from Tennessee f
The solution of the high cost of liv- 1
ing is that farmers raise their own 1
hog and hominy, and enough besides (
to sell to their neighbors, the town I
people. More and more of thorn are 1 i
doing this year by year. f
MOVED ENTIRE TOWN
LACED ON WHKKLS AND HAUIJHl)
ACROSS PRAIRIE.
A'itli Rank Open, Meals Svpvc|J In
Hotel and Clerks Working in
Courthouse.
Lamro, S. I)., has been put nn
wheels and moved to Winner, where,
is the result of a bitter county seat
war and agieement between the two
towns, It has consolidated with Winner
and as a town ceased wholly to
sxist.
Largo store buildings with their
valuable contents were moved intact.
Ranks, with their cash in the vaults,
were put on wheels and made the
trip across the prairie while tahe
lerks continued to work and money
was received and paid out ot cub1
oninra
Without disturbing the official* the
[ ouiitv court bouse \va.< hitched to
two of the largest traction engines
?ver built, and it was dragged from
hitrnio to Winner, where it was placed
on a foundation peviously prepared
for it. 'rhe Larmo hotel, drawn
l>y 7 2 teams of horses, made the trip
without so much as ceasing business
a single meal.
The court house, a big two story
frame building, was the first to ne
moved, since It was necessary that
the big house he put in place before
smaller houses blocked the way. The
big traction engines were hitched to
it, and across the prairie it went, the
big engines putting and snorting like
Mogul locomotive?. The distance was
throe miles, and this was covered In
just two hours. So evenly was the
'job" carried on that clerks, writing
at their desks were undisturbed.
After the court, house and jail were
nioveu resiueiu es wvm uvtu i'i ifRnlar
flocks. When nightfall overtook
;i house which was hp'iig moved (lie
structure wa~ left h> me "oadside
for the night and the family occupied
it is usual.
Then the movers began on the
business houses, and store aider store
was taken to Winner without
being interfered with. Itanke were
removed without the money being
locked up, and deposits were received
and checks paid without a halt.
The big school house was taken
over for the day, only half a day being
lost by the students. Although
the men in charge of the engines
offered to take house, teachers, children
and all, the authorities did not
care to risk the collapse of the building
when it was occupied by so many
eh i Id ron.
The cost of moving varied from
$50 for a dwelling to $50,1 for a
store filled with goods. It cost nearly
$1,000 to take the court house
to the new town and put it in the
position it now occupies.
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PLANTERS Sl'FFHR UIIKATIjY.
Six Million Dollars is t.lie Annual
Damages to IVach Cirowers*
The fearful ravages of pests on agriculture,
entailing many millions of
dollars' loss, are outlined in a statement
which Acting Chief Powell, of
y*<? bureau of plant industry, has
submitted to the TTouse committee on
agriculture in connection with the
agricultural bill which the commtt.ee
reported Monday.
Mr. Powell says that through the
use of a sulphur spray, the Eastern
peach business has been made stable
for the tirst time. Ho says that the
estimated loss annually from brown
rot on peaches is $5,000,000 and
from peach scab $1,000,000, virtually
all of which loss might he saved
by proper spraying of orchards.
1 Mister rust on white pine is estimated
to cause losses of $1.00$,000
annually and other plants show he ivy
losses from diseases and insets.
Investigation of the cotton industry
in Egypt lias indicated thai the
mixing of Hindu cotton with the
Hgptian cotton has entailed a loss of
:pio.ono,000 a year and that strains
?f the 10 yptian cotton can lie bred in
the Egyptian cotton can be bred in
i lie lTnited States which will not
-diuw the conditions that cause these
mormons losses in Egypt. *
rmo\c!ii:u acts i i.acman.
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[ en bs Handkerchief anil Wants
Train ol' Wreck.
The moment he emerged from the
lay coach where he was riding at
Ma,scot, Tonn., late Friday afternoon,
ue\. J. A. Hay lor. pastor of the
Sta'e Street Methodist Church,
south, of Hristol, and formerly of
t'hat tnnooga. instantly grabbed a
handkerchief and ran a half mile up
he track to flag an> other trains
hat might be coming. Mr. Baylor,
who is one of the most prominent,
ninisters in the Holston conference.
a;?s forwerly n locomotive engineer
uul this was his lirst impulse. He
Ails injured in a. passenger wreck
iome years ago while railroading
uul before entering the ministry. *
bind Body of Baby.
While searching for the body of
7ornelius Corbet t. who was drownul
in an heroic attempt to save tho
ifc of a vonng woman w ho had faien
from a ferry boat crossing the
Chattahoochee River. searchers
'oun(1 the body of a baby. The body
ens lying in a shallow pool of water
uul was weighted down.