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. BLOODY AFFRAY > Jk. ?.. * Three Men Are Weuodtd in a Pitched Battle Near Cashville, S. C. SHOTGUNS VS. PISTOLS N. CJ. A1verso n, Tally Norrls ami J I ]juttor'n Son KxchaiiffO Shots on WoMii/liiKr I trio i\t l>l <> >#< # iollU \<>)ir I I I Cnshvlllo in Spartanburg County Wednesday M<?rn ing. Tho Herald says news reached Spartanburg Thursday of a battle near Cashvillo Wednesday morning j between a farmer armed with a pis I tol and two of his neighbors with j shotguns. Three persons were seri- j ously, though not fatally, wounded. { There has been bad blood for sev- ( weeks between N. C. Alverson, A brother of Sergeant Alverson, of the Spartanburg police department, | and Tally Morris, who has an ad- ! Joining plantation. It started in a dispute over a house. Further particulars as to tlie cause of the quarrel could not be learned last evening. The quarrel . became more and more hitter, harsh words were exchanged, threats made and when the neighbors met Wednesday morning they were prepared for violence. Mr. Alverson came to the boun dary Hue between bis and Mr. Norris' plantation alone. Mr. Norris was accompanied by his two sons one named Alexander, and the name of the other has not been ascertained. From the accounts of the affair wb'ch leaked out. Mr. Alverson opened fire on Mr. Norris with a thirty-* wo calibre revolver, shooting him in the hip. The Norrises were standing on their own. property, but only fifteen or twenty feet from Mr. Alverson. Alexander Norris, it is said, fired at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. The latter was fortunately not facing the gun directly, else ho probably would have been killed. As it was, the shot struck him sidewise, putting out his left eyo and passing through his nose. Other shots entered his face and neck. Mr. Alverson fell to the ground but managed to fire at Alexander, shooting mm in ino cair or uio iug and breaking a bone. Mr. Norris* other son then fired at Mr. Alverson from farther aw,;y than Alexander had been. The shot struck Mr. Alverson in the stomach. He returned the flro, while still lying on the ground, and sent a bullet through the other's trousers leg. The Nor rises then retired. Mr. Alverson. though weak and In great pain from t.ho loss of his eye, got on his feet and walked a distance of two hundred yards back to his home. T)rs. Posey and Alexander wero called from Woodruff and are attending to all of the injured. Mr. Alverson's wounds are said to be the most serious. All three are in bed, but are likely to recover. No arrests have been made. Mr. Alverson Is about nrty years old and has a family. Tally Morris ' is about the same a?o. One of his sons is said to be twenty-three years old and the other twenty-one. The seene of the fight is about one mile from Cashville and three miles from Iteidville. Mr. Alverson lias Mt?n living there for twenty-five Tli8 Morrises removed there about. Christmas time. Sergeant Alverson visited his brother Thursday, but found him reluctant to talk about, the quarrel. * TRAINS COMF1 TOGETHER. Six Persons Met Death in the Terrible Crn.sh. In a collision between trains No. 40, the Boston and Buffalo special, and train No. 20, on the New York CJentral railroad, at Batavia today, persons were killed and 1X seriously injured, some of them perhaps fatally. The accident took place at 5:30 mlinn Irnln Vr> 4(1 rlim nt f li r> O UlUt:n. n urn ..?? ?. . . ? , ? ?v station at, 5:35 and ahead of time, was standing in the station. Train 2$, the Western express due at 5:20 o'clock, a little late, crashed into the waiting train from the rear. The engine of 23 telescoped the j Pullman of the waiting train | sflfrd smashed inlo a day coach which wjia next. Three bodies of passengers In the wreckage of the crushed sleeper were so mutilated as to make Identification difficult. Beneath one of the unidentified bodies was found a silver locket and a Masonic charm inscribed "Cassias C. Perrin, 9581 Mecca Temple, N. Y." * ' ^pjti-Consorvationist's "America." "I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills. In fact, I need them in my business." SUBSI BOLD YOUNG GANG FIVE NEW YORK YOUTHS WERE CAUGHT WITH IIIG PLUNDER. The Cellar, Where They Conducted a "Fence,'' Wum Filled With Yulua* bio Stuff. Five young men, comprising the most active gang of burglars that has operated In New York city in yews, are under arrest charged with hundreds of the'ts. When Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn, with Acting Capt. Price, of the Bronx Detective bureau, and five detectives, raided the den where the plunder was kept they found $10,000 worth of plunder. It is estimated the young fellows have taken goods to the value oi $25,000 in the past five years. The prisoners are Grover Deisser, aged 17; George Straub, 16; Jesse Swain, 17; Henry Ross, 15; and Merman Schultz', aged 2 7. The first three are j charged with burglarly. ltoss ana Schultz are accused of receiving stolen goods. Detectives have evidence implicating other youths in the wholesale robberies of recent months and it is liUr.lv mm"! arrests will follow. At the hear!iij? of the first five, Sohultz was accused to teaching the boys to steal. They swore that when they were still innocent, five years ago, he l got them under Ms control, and since that time has been conducting a "fence" and profiting through the sale of their plunder. Young Ross has been sent to the Children's Aid I Society home. The other members! of the band will be sent to the peniton t ia ry. According to Acting Capt. Price, the police have been looking for Schnltz for some time. Five yet s ago he wis an interpreter at Fllisj Island, 1 >111 was dismissed. Later lie lived in a basement and it was there j be was caught when the raid was j made, lie was alone at the time but the police waited until the entire) gang ha 1 gathered. There aye over 1 00 bicycles, a mo: tor cycle, i djnanio and many sets of valuable tools on the list of goods stolen. 1 n one corner was a huge hamper narked with valuable silver-j , ware, cut. Muss .clothing, whole suits, dresses, bolts of cloth, cigars and trinkets. vVhen the loot had bean j loaded in a patrol wagon and taken to the Morrisania station it filled the. 'back room and part of the captain's room. I PI LLIOI) Til 10 ATOSTLK. / 'I.!........ Intin.faiui Willi " \ l>UJl. * IIM i win r i i M i \ n im * ? I Into Life" Colony. Evelyn Arthur See, self-declared "apostle of a new life" in which all beings will be perfect, is held in jail i in Chicago, 111., to answer a charge of disorderly conduct growing oul of j his "absolute life" colony. See in court refused the services of an atj torney, saving he had the counsel ot Clod, and would purify all those present in the court room. When the police raided See's quari ters they found two girls, one 10 years and the other 17, who admitted in court that they had boon living with See for several months, unchap{ eroncd. Mona Roes, the older of t no two girls, according to the plan of Sec. is to become the mother of the first, "nearly perfect" child, she herself being almost perfect, according . to the cult's teachings. The other 'girl, Mildred Bridges, was striving j to attain tiiat state of purity, she declared, that would place her on the same plane with the Roes girl. The "perfect, and hence sinless" trio will anpear in court at the time of the final hearing. See will be sent to jail, and the girls probably will be placed with some society. * ^ ( liar(Is oil Train. Bandits who are ambitious to hold up passenger trains on the Utah division of the Union Pacific will encounter the most improved rifles in the hands of men who know how to use them. Under nn order from the division superintendent each passenger train will carry an armed guard. The plan is the result of the robbery i of the Overland TJmited last week near Ogden, Utah. * Many Deer Killed. According to the report of the Department of Agriculture, 5J.500 deer wore slain in the United States during 191^. This record is little larger than that of previous years, but the ' fatalities lo hunters increased about 50 per cent. * Cheap Candy Killed. Eating a iarge quantity of cheap, colored candy, which its parents had gotten at a bargain, the 18-monthsold child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 1 Smith, of Montgomery, Mo., became 1 ill and died before a physician could j he summoned. iefl AN AWFUL TOLL Eight Thousand Babies Facing Death ia Chicago Labor War. SUFFERING PITIAB!? Tlie Striking Garment Workers Are Starving to Death in Sticking to Tiieir Cuuse?Legislature May In 1 ? -- - f rrMBt I W*i' ik Itmn. VCSll^HU" UIIU 1 I J iu fv ? inv m<vix edy for the Trouble. Eight thousand infants in Chicago face death from starvation anu disease as the result of the garment workers' strike, which for four months has dragged its length out with no prospect of settlement in sight. This is the statement of both city authorities and union sympathizers, the latter of whom are at their wits end to obtain milk for the babies in the strikers' home, many of whom are already in tho shadow of death from want. During the past week the health authorities reported more than 1 00 cases of pneumonia and diptheria among these children with a large number of deaths. With the uttei exhaustion of the milk supply?now less than a week away if charity contributions do not Increase, it is exI pected thac cold, hunger and illness will quickly end the miseries of scores of the younger children At least one of the strikers. Mrs Rose Siegeliieimer, has already died J of starvation. For the support of lwr two children with whom she lived j i?) a dingy easement, Die woman had bc<ui foraging cruets from g' ?u>.i cans. Of ' veil ^ucli a'd as was avnil..i.i,. ur.ic nimsirnvJlv 'irnornnt 1 I 011*7 ?* u.i .. |/f v?. v-.. ... -, , and tho poor provender she found ! went into ,1t? mouths of hot* children. When nature gavo out the v imaii j fell across imr miserable pal'.vs and j was found eying by neighbors This: was the seventh death due to the strike. Many cases of the same sort are being reported, and even tho adult strikers are suffering terribly. Ii Is inevitable linit if aid does not come disease. starvation anl death will win the labor war and force the hungry thousands back to toil under condi-J tions to remedy which they have given their lives and the lives of their little ones. The latest, hope for the situation arises from the action of the Illinois seriate authorizing an investigation of the causes of the strike and an inquiry into what steps have been taken to bring about a settlement. Tho action authorizes the presiding oflieer' to appoint a committee of five senators to go to Chicago and begin the strike investigation at once. The resolution calls for a report in liO days. ?teps leading to the adjust? 1 " ^ ' h ^ a. t rt ?*1\5 f I o?wl f a 1111? ii i, (ii i m_; ?i iii\c ni uui miun uhm i ?.? fix responsibility, with a view to legislation making arbtraton compulsory, are contemplated in the resolution. * wis i;nu;m:irs am,v. Telephone lOnipIoyc Supplied the i Knrls to Bobbers. Fred P. Hoffman, Pell telephone) omplovo, is in jail at Cleveland, ().. ! in connection with several recent house burglaries, and has confessed to the police that he was a spy for a gang of thieves, whose loot has amounted to thousands of dollars, lie told where the booty could bo found, and the police have discovered it. Hoffman hep* up a card index system, which was also found in the raid > nhis room and those of Burt Holsridge and Arbel Harrison, arrested as burglars, in which were the names and full information anont prospects. Hoffman told the police ho would et Information about the houses when ho installed and removed tolo- j phones. The index system showed how locks were fixed, where the silver was kept, size of families, their habits and other things about them. * Robbed of Savings. An old gentleman by the namo of Red ford was robbed by throe negroes, near Seneca, Tuesday night. It is rumored that he carried several handled dollars, the savings of a lifetime, and wns on his way to his son's homo when the robbery occurred. The victim carried the money in a small hand nag. When the negroes approached they wanted whiskey, hut after taking his bag and cutting it open they took the money instead. * His Vow Job. A ^ /wv*wl ii/>l or tr h r\ A njlll l" I f " K inm uumim iui n nu recently embraced religion, was railed upon lo take up the Sunday morning offering. He did very well until he came to a boy. "Young man," he id aternly, "you will have ta pay half faro." OW TO SEE CAROLINA SOIL MANY FROM THE WEST WOULD LIKE TO LOCATE HKKK. South Carolina Should Inaugurate) a Publicity Campaign to Inform Them. Farm land in South Carolina is attracting the serious attention of | farmers and investors in the North and Northwest. The State department of agriculture is daily receiving letters from substantial firms and farmers who ask for specific lnfor-| mation as to the landa for sale in ' tiii? Ktjif* nnd thi? information is I given by the State department of agriculture. The actual business transaction is always left by the department to the owners. Those enquirers should be followed up by an agent who could present the advantages of the State in person. Most of these enquiries came from Americans, and they are the very kind of settlers we want and should try to get. Several thousand of sueh settlers would be a great benefit to the State, and with the proper effort they can be brought here. Commissioner Watson has received several letters that are of interest concerning land in South Carolina. The letters are from substantial farmers and business men. It, is very probable that a measure will be introduced in the general assembly during the present week calling for an appropriation to supplement a fund to be contributed by the larger railway systems of the State, the Southern railway, the At lanlie Coast Lino and the Seaboard Air Line, as suggested bv The State, for the proper exploitation of the resources of South Carolina. The State could not ^pend ;i small amount of money to better purpose just at this time, and the general assembly should givo such a t>ill favorable considerat ion. The following letters, received by Commissioner Watson, will, therefore. be of particular interest: "About seven years ago 1 became interested with some friends in the Canadian Northwest (I am a Canadian by birth), nnd started a campaign through the Central ana Northwestern States to induce people to go out to that, country and we wore very successful In locating hundreds on the Canadian prairies. On a recent visit to that country 1 found many were dissatisfied with their locations. The summer season is so very short that the variety of crops is very limited and always In danger of being caught with frosts, as was the case the past summer in many places. "On comparing the possibilities of that country with those of your State, four times as many farmers. I believe, could have been located in it in the same time as in the Canal ian Northwest, as none of them would have to sacrifice their nationn 1 i < v rui *1 itc nflvniUno'pg Si nnp mv return from the West T hive decided to interest myself in locating some of those dissatisfied Northwestern! farmers. Tn some part of the South of this country, where the clim He conditions are more favorable for agriculture. This is mv reason for writing you at this time. I believe wth proper faithful works thousands of successful farmers fro'ii the northwest of Canada and this country could he easily induced to locate in your State. Many of them could sell their lands now in their possession at good profits and purchase land at much lover prices in the 9outh. "If you have any pronosition you could make me, I would like to know It, and if you have not, if you can give me the name of some large corporation who might take up a campaign of this kind, I shall thank you. "I don't want a land speoulaton scheme, but a real settler campaign. Though I am the treasurer and have boon for more than If) years of (Me above company which spends more than $1,500,000 annually on advertising In daily newspapers and magazines for various corporations, yot in the business of locating practical farmers I find the most successful way is to moot tliem face to face and demonstrate Lo and give them actual facts and figures. "This is a most auspicious season to talk to the Northwestern farmer about the torn forts and opportunities of a home in the South. If yo i are interested In my proposition I tvouid be ideas-d to bear from you The other letter rend as follower "W'll von kindly furnish me with what tii format Jon you can that would enable iih> ?o s-cmc. a lorum tr.vC o. swamp land, from 10,00 0 to 1 00,000 acres, that could he drained and < up in small tat **v with tne -dea of hit selling s .-ne tc a list of buyers which T have. Also price on dlfferem lands per acre including timber land. Would like the best map of your State and whatever other Information you can gve me, and any expense on same I will pay." THE H EXPORT OF COTTON SOMJB INTEHESTING STATISTICS ON COTTON. Practically Two-Tliird? of the Crop Sent Abroad, Worth Over Half Bil lion Dollars. The highest, record ever made in the United States was achieved in 1910 when $03 0,000,000 worth of the product was sent to foreign lands. This new record exceoded by more than $00,000,000 the previous best year in the value of cotton exported, according to the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. The quantity exported, however, ' was materially less than in certain { earlier years, having Veen but 3,04 1,- 1 000,000 pounds, against 4,374,000,- ' ooo in 1908, when the value was but $4 3 9,000,000. Tho average export ' price in 1910 was 14 1-2 cents per ' pound, against practically 10 cents in 1 1908, the high record year for quan- * tity, the average export price in 1910 having be-n higher than in any years ' since 1 87 4. December, 19 10, also ' shows the 1 Ighest monthly record. 1 the total ralue of cotton exports in that month being, in round terms. $1 03,000,000, while no earlier month ' ever reached the $100,000,000 lino. The average export price in December was 1 1.S cents per pound, while in the months of July and August the average was 15 cents per pound. This $r20.O0O.ooo worth of raw cotton exported represents approximately two-thirds of the production of the country, a comparison of the figures of production and exportation for a long term of years showing that about one?hird of the crop is usually retained for domestic use: and this suggests a valuation of approximately $8 00,000,00 0 for the total raw j cotton product of the year represented by these export, figures. To this, however, must he added the value of the cotton seed, of which the exportal ions in the form of oil amounted to nearly $13,000,000 and those of oil cake about $1 0,000,000, while of course large quantities of both were consumed in the United Stales. The countries to which this 530 I m'llion dollars' worth of cotton ex| ported in 1910 wont, stated in order of magnitude of their purchases, are: The United Kingdom, approximately 243 million dollars; (ternianv, 110 million; France, 62 million; Italy, 28 million; Spain, 16 million; Can a'^n, 10 1-2 million: and Japan, 0 1-2 million: these figures being based necessarily on estimates for the month of December. The United States is by far tho world's largest producer of cotton. An estimate of the cotton production of the world for the season of 10 1011 supplied to the bureau of statistics is: For tbe United States, 10,1 55.000 bales of 500 pounds; India, 4,180,000 bales: China, 1,200,000 bales; Egypt, 970,000 bales; Russia (Asiatic provinces), 7 08,000 nales; miscellaneous, including Brazil, Peru, Persia, Turkey and other countries, 0ir>,0f)0, making his estimate of the total world crop for tbe season 1 909-1 0 1 8,0 4 9,000 bales This estimate places China third in rank among the world's cotton producers with an annual production of 1,200,000 bales, most of which is i manufactured into yarns and cloth | by hand machines, while 200,000 j I hales are now annually exported to! Japan. Of the cotton crop of India! .he estimates that slightly less than one-half is exported. Of tho Egyptian cotton, practically all is exported, going chiefly to Europe and tho United States, its long staple and! silky lustre rendering it, especially valuable for use In con junction with the shorter stapled cotton of other parts of the world. The value of raw cotton Imported ! Into the United States during thej year 1910 was,In round terms, about $15,000,000, of which $10,000,000 worth came direct from Egypt. $2,000.000 from the United Kingdom, presumably also chiefly from Egypt, nearly $1,000,000 from Peru, and $750,000 from China. Meantime the value of cotton manufactures exported during the year was, in round terms, $35,000,000, ; and of tbe cotton manufactures imj ported, $00,000,000, of which more than one-half was In tho form of laces, edgings, embroideries and oth* ' - i - ..If 1 ? C * I,. 1 or n 1 g n grano iiihiiiiiik i iituh ui mio character. Comparing the total value of the cotton exported in 1010 with that of earlier years, the figures of the bu; reau of statistics run as follows: 1 0 1 0 $50 0,000,000 100 0 4 02.000,000 1 00 8 4 0 0.000,0 0 0 1 007 470,000,000 . 1000 4 1 3,000,000 j Prior to 1000 the total had never reached the $4 00,000,000 mark, though the quantity exported In 1010, which was 3,641,000,000 pounds, was less than in any year ; since 1004; these figures In all cases being for onlendar years. * j DRRY HE LYNCH THREE { Hob Attacks the Jail and takes Oat Negroes and Kills Then. rwo HUNG AND ONE SHOT )no lender Sentence of Death for Wife Murder, Awaiting Setting of DuCe of Execution?Two Others Ch urged With Assaulting White (?irls Hut Not Yet Tried. Storming the Shelby county jail at Shelbyville, Ky., on Sunday morning, * mob composed of less than 100 men seized and lynched three negroes, two of whom were charged with assaulting white girls and a third sentenced to hang for the murler of his wife and held in jail until the day for his execution could i>e let. The throe were lynched in different places, and what first seemed to have been a single lynching was found to have ben a triple one only with the finding of the three bodies. The body of Eugene Marshall, sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife, whom he had beheaded, was found hanging to a bridge over the Imminence Pike, only a short distance from the jail. Jim West, employed as a chauffeur at Shelby ville for several monies and who, if is said, bad been seen throwing kisses at white girls, and who was charged with assaulting the daughter of a Shelby county farmer, was one of the victims. He, too, was hanged to the bridge. Wade Patteison, the third negro lynched, was also charged with assaulting a white woman. Patterson attempted to escape from the mob and was shot and his body thrown into a creek. The mob which attacked the jail went about its work quietly and few persons knew of the triple lynching until tho bodies were found several hours later. Few of tho mob were masked. The jail lock was smashed with a sledge Hammer and there was little difficulty in getting to the prisoners. According to Deputy Jailer Hornback, Jailer Hdward Thompson hid 1 III* Jtlll Kt'VJS WIH'II I IIC I1IUIF il [1) it/ii I ru and later, when the ntoh became more insistent, llornback let the men into the jail office. "They said there were throe negroes here they were going to get or else blow up the jail," llornback said. "They kept yelling for the dynamite, while some of (he mob started to beat on the cell locks with a sledge hammer. About twelve men had their guns pointed at me. demanding the keys, hut I insisted I did not know where they were. Finally, at 3.2.r>, they broke open the cell door and took out West, Marshall and Patterson." WAX T101 > WATKIt. GIVEN ACII). Young Widow Confesses Giving; Child Deadly Poison. Arrested as she claimed her trunk, at the New York Central station Friday, Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow, who says she is 23 years old, of Schenectady, confessed that in a swamp near Albany last Friday afternoon she gave her five-year-old son, George, carbolic acid, from the effects of which he died. In explanation of her crime, the police say, Mrs. Melber asserts that she has been a widow four years, during which time she has had a struggle to care for herself and her child, and that this battle for an existence drove her to take her baby's life. She is an unusually attractive young woman, and at the end of her examination was unnerved and weeping hysterically. When she made her confession, according to the police, Mrs. Melber said that she gave the child the acid when ho asked for a drink. * Adrift on loo Floe. Eighty-five fishermen were carried out into the Caspian sea on an lee tloe Tuesday. A steamer was re quisitioned at Maku and sent to the rescue of I he men, but the chances that any of the number will escape death is poor. Stone Man Dead. His body virtually turned into stone, William Kearheller, died in a hospital in Chester, Pa., this week. From head to foot his body was almost as hard as a rock. Only on his head was the flesh of normal softness, yet he could eat and smoke. * Holdish Freak. The latest freak in the pic: line has turned up it Pawnee, Okla. It is a little pis: with 'our ears ani eight legs, and appaimitly is going to live to put them all to use. * RflLO