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TWO YtRY NOTED CASES
, Famoufi Cases in Richmond, Where,
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on Purely Circumstantial Wviclence
^ Men Were Hanged, Having filled
One His Wife and the Other His
Intended Wife.
The suburbs of Richmond, so lately
the scene of the sensational Beattie
tragedy, has furnished the setting
^ for two other murders that lor melodramic
mystery equalled the now
famous Beattie ease. They were
known respectively as the Jeter Phil!
lips and the Cluverius cases, after the
men who paid the penalty for the
deeds, the law fastened upon them.
Like the Beattie case, a woman in
' most intimate relation to the accused
was the victim and in further
t analogy the evidence in both cases
was wholly; circumstantial. Here
are the brief facts:
The Phillips Case.
Early in February, 18G7, a farmer
named Drinkard discovered hidden
under a brush pile on his plantation,
~ about five miles from Richmond, the
' body of a woman, who evidently had
been dead some weelfc3. There were
marks of violence on her, notably a
bullet wound in her head. For some
months the detectives failed to idena
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i On the adjoining farm was young
overseer named Jeter Phillips. No
one knew from whence he had come
when he obtained his position the
previous year. At the time of the
<M?covery of the body lie was paying
court to a young woman in tne neTgitborhood
and rumor had it was engaged
to marry her.
in May, some months later a relative
of this young woman picked up
a letter, presumably dropped from
Phillips' pocket while on a visit to
his sweetheart, wherein the writer,
t g a woman, addressed Phillips as her
husband and stated that she was
y gel ling tired of separation and would
join him shortly.
It wot dated in January and came
from a small postoffle in a distant
county. Inquiry then developed it
that Phillips had, the previous year,
married this woman, leaving her at
hei home while he went in search of
employment, and that she had left
| there lute in Japuary to join him
r.ear Richmond.
Jn June, 18G7, more than four
1 months after the discovery of the
ibooy, hPJllips was arresteu, irieu auu
though the evidence was wholly circumstantial,
lie was convicted and
hanged at Richmond. Shortly before
the execution he confessed to the
murder, his motive being to make
0 way with his wife that he might
n arry his later sweetheart.
The Cluverius Case.
The Cluverius case was one of the
most melodramic murder cases in
Virginia's criminal annals. About
fche middle of February, 1885, some
boys strolling iajong the embankment
of an abandoned reservoir in
^ the outer suburbs of Richnond, saw
what they thought was the dress of
a woman, floating in the water.
They reported it and the next day
there was brought to light the body
of a woman in an advanced stage
of decomposition. The sudden serial
sation died down after an exhaustive
inquiry failed to disclose any woman
missing either in Richmond or
any other part of Virginia.
About that time a couple of girls
came up from Yorktown, about 4 0
miles distant. Having an hour to
wait for their train, they strolled
to the morgue to see the body of1
the unknown woman. The features
were not recognizable, but the clothing
was in a fair state of preservation.
4 % "That looks like a dress Lilian
Madison used to wear," 'commented
one." "Yes," replied the other, "but
Lillian is over in Ilath county teaching."'
However on their return to York-f
town they casually mentioned ti
to an aunt of Lillian Madison. The
aunt assured them that Lillian was
in Rath county, but, recalling that
she had not heard from her for a
couple of months, addressed a letter
to her. It was returned with a
note stating that she had left just
I after Christmas.
The aunt later positively identified
the clothing as that of her niece.
Around the old reservoir there ran
a high picket fence, and about this,
encircling the lake, there ran a graved
walk. On the path at this point
the detectives discerned evidences of
a struggle, but all obliterated by the
weather; but close examination disclosed
a watch key.
* There was nothing peculiarly dis*
tlnctive about the key. But a shrewd
detective observed that it had once
undergone some slight repairing, and
on this flimsy clue, without even remotely
suspecting anyone, the ferrets
took up the trail.
They took this key to every Jeweller
in Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk,
Lynchburg and Bristol, but not
one could identify it. The spring
had passed and the summer nearly
orer when these tireless detectives,
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GIVES GOOD ADVICE
SAYS THE COTTON FARMERS
MUST STAND AS ONE.
President Barrett, of the Farmers*
Union Tells of a World Wide Hear
Campaign.
IPresident C. S. Barrett of the Farmers'
Union in addressing the Southern
Cotton Growers' conference at
Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday declared
that all reports of a bumper cotton
crop are absolutely baseless. He
liaewise denounced as false any
statement to the effect that the Farmers'
Union is a combine to hold up
civilization, and before he concluded
he charged the existence of a conspiracy
to hammer down the price of
cotton. After a few introductory remarks
Mr. Barrett said in part:
"I state unequivocally that reports
government or otherwise, foreshadowing
a large cotton crop this year,
are absolutely unfounded in fact. I
can speak with authority, ror uie machinery
employed by the Farmers'
nion has ascertained that cotton conditions
in every state are different
and the crop will not come up to expectations
in volume. The man who
is looking for a bumper yield is deceiving
himself or has been deceived.
"If I correctly interpret the purpose
of this meeting it is to stand between
the farmers of the Southern
states and the loss of several million
dollars through unwise marketing
of cotton. The Farmers' union has
just concluded its annual convention
at Shawnee, Okla., and 1 am confident
that there the representatives of
more than two million farmers formed
plans that will bring to naught
any conspiracy that may exist to secure
for less than its real worth the
staple that is still the South's main
dependence." lie invited the cooperation
of every man in a movement to
bring for cotton what it is worth. Mr.
Barrett then entered into an explanation
of the mission of the Farmers'
Union.
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" w nen aiiyunc lcho .. are
in a combine to hold up civilization,"
he declared, further along,
"use my authority for announcing
that person as either a wiflul liar or a
man of absolute ignorance. I have
been informed on excellent authority
that there exists at present a conspiracy
almost worldwide to 'bear*
the price of the cotton crop. I am
not afraid that such a plot will succeed,
but if it should, the Southern
farmer, and of course the Southern
buslnes man, would be poorer by
many millions of dollars.
"Cooperation, rigid, faithful, unswerving
cooperation, will banish the
last chance of that posibility. The
Southern farmer has his fate in his
own hands. He can get exactly what
his crop is worth. We should forever
abandon the folly of disposing of
our cotton in a one-sided deal?of letting
the buyer name his price and
tamely accepting it. We deserve
nothing better of fate if we do not
stand up for our rights, if we do not
realize that the staple is worth a certain
price to the world and that the
world will pay that price if it sees
we are determined to get it."
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YOUNGEST GItANDMOTHEIt.
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Over Atlanta.
A dispatch from Jonesville, to The
State says in The News and Courier
there was an article of news from Atlanta,
Ga., of Sepember 10, with the
caption "A Grandmother At Thirty,"
a Mrs. E. W. Bender of that city, and
claiming that she is the youngest
grandmother on record. Jonesville
can beat that record by two years.
There was a woman, M's. Edith
Fowler, who lived here in Jonesville,
but died a few years ago, who became
a mother at fourteen years of age.
The child was a girl and grew
at fourteen she became the mother to
a girl child. So that Mrs. Fowler
was a grandmother at 28 years of
age. *
having been into nearly every town
and village In Virginia, at last found
Yorktown, tho home of the murdered
woman. They entered the oflice of
Cluverius, ti rising young lawyer,
and arrested him. Among his papers
thev found letters from Lillian Mad
ison, which told a pitiful tale of how
ho had won her affection and then
betrayed her.
From the purport of the letters he
had agreed to marry her and had
written her about Christmas to meet
him secretly in Richmond. Cluverlus
admitted all the letters implied,
but denied responsibility for the
death of the young woman.
He was tried for murder, and the
Jury after two hours' deliberation
found him cuilty and ho was hanged,
protesting his innocence on the gallows.
Phillips confessed, Cluverius
did not, what will Beattie do?
themselves in a small cubby-hole of
a watch-repairer's shop on a side
street of Alexandria.
The white-haired old Jeweller in
that little shop looked at the key
through his glass, then he dug up a
memorandum book, and for some
minutes pored over it. At length
he spoke: "I mended that key just
three years ago for a man who gave
his name as Thomas J. Cluverius, of
Yorktown!"
The detectives swiftly repaired to
VERY SAD CASE
Mystery Sarrtudlvg the Death et a
Girl Seta ta Be Cleared Dp.
CREATED A SENSATION
Two Men, One a Merchant and the
Other a Physician, Said to be Implicated
in the Gruesome and Horrible
Death of a Young Lady at
Henderson ville.
Hendersonville, the celebrated
North Carolina summer resort town,
has a first class sensation on hand.
All was excitement Sunday when it
became known that the dead body of
Miss Myrtle Hawkins, the 17-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Hawkins,
had been found floating in Lake
Osceola, about three miles from Hendersonville,
on the road to Kanuga.
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her home since Thursday morning,
week ago and a quiet, though determined
search had failed to locate her
or gain even the slightest clue. Her
mysterious disappearance had not become
generally known however, and
when word reached town that her
dead body had been found a load rusu
was made for Lake Osceola.
The scene at the lake was one calculated
to touch the hardest of
hearts. Seven little boys throwing
rocks in the water were greatly
frcightened when a dark object was
seen slowly rising to the surface and
when one of their number summoned
up courage enough to investigate,
he shrank in astonishment that the
object of his gaze was a human body
and the face that he peered into was
that of Myrtle Hawkins, one of the
best known and most popular girls
of the younger set in Hendersonville.
The knowledge of his gruesome
find was imparted to hid comrades
and they beat a hasty retreat to the
nearest house to give the alarm. A
telephone message to town informed
the parents of the dead igirl and the
coroner, and in a short while the excited
people were swarming at Lake
Osceola. All was silent as the body
was pulled into the bank and many an
eye was damp when the water-soaked
clothing was recognized as the same
dainty little dress that she had worn
a number of times on the streets of
the town, and which she wore when
last seen at 11 o'clock Thursday
morning.
The stillnes was intensified as the
beautiful head of hair, always dressed
in the latest style, now hanging
loose and tangled, came into sight,
and only heavy breathing could be
heard as the pretty face, no*v drawn
and muscles tight, was turn towards
the staring friends and her identity
established beyond a doubt. The
body was tenderly lifted from its watery
grave and placed on the soft
green turf to await the investigation
of the coroner.
The young girl was last seen alive
Thursday morning, September 7, and
Snnrtnv mornimr following, her
body, badly decomposed, almost beyond
recognition, was found in Osceola
lake, two miles from town. The
body was identified Sunday afternoon
by a brother of the dead girl, and the
only means of identification were
several gold pins and the clothing.
The coroner's jury in bringing in a
verdict decided that the cau.^e of her
death was "unknown."
It now appears that the death of
the young girl was the result of criminal
malpractice and the body must
have been concealed in the woods
near the lake until Sunday morning
where it was taken by some unknown
parties. Last Thursday week Miss
Hawkins was seen by several parties
in the company of a young man whose
name is withheld.
The unfortunate girl left home
Thursday carrying with her a long
cloak. When the body was found,
badly decomposed, it was wrapped in
this long coat. i no posi-iuuru-in c-.\amination
developed the evidences of
a criminal operation but no other
marks were found on the body. Death
may have resulted from the shock, or
from the anasthetic.
The perpetrators possibly did not
intend murder, but when the worst
happened they hid the body of the
poor girl until a more convenient
time when it was placed n the lake
in the hope that the community
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would call 11 HllK'Kie. 11 IS an uwmi
double crime and the people of the
county are determined to find the
man or men who are responsible.
It Is now firmly established that
Miss Myrtle Hawkins was murdered
and in all probability more than one
person had something: to do with the
crime. It is laid at the door of a
young merchant of Hendersonville
and a prominent physician of the
same place, and their arrest is only a
matter of time. It Is strange story
and from all appearances shockingly
sad and peculiarly atrocious.
The real story however is one of
peculiar grief. The girl died as the
result of a criminal operation and the
body was hidden away for three days
and then carried to the lake and
placed in the position in which it was
found. Her little pocket book clock
was found right at the edge of the
water and it was stopped at 9:30.
This is an incident going to show
that the body was taken to the lake
VERY STRANGE CASK.
Says He is the Victim of Some Force
He Can Not Ilesist.
"I am a disgrace to myself, to my
country and my friends," said William
B, Ford when arraigned before
a magistrate for sentence on his plea
of guilty of stealing two 5-cent subway
tickets in New York. "Hut I am
not responsible. I am the victim of
some force 1 can not resist, I used to
be a decent man."
Ford graduated from the University
of Tennessee and was counsel for
the Fort Worth and Denver railroad
for 12 years. He served as a lieutenant
in the Spanish-American war, was
wounded in each of three engagements
in the Phillipines, and following
a sunstroke was honorably discharged.
His descent dated from
this time. On returning to America
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lie worKeti as a lauurer m ouw r??ncisco,
then reenlisted under the name
of Allen LeFort.
He secured a commission as lieutenant
and while stationed at Fort
Schuyler stole $2,000. He was sentenced
by courtmartial to five years
in Leavenworth prison, but was declared
insane and transferred to an
asylum. A nephew then took him to
Oklahoma, but he eluded his watchers
and came to New York. Ford
pleaded to be allowed to return to
Tennessee, but to no avail. He was
fined $500 and sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary.
WOMEX HOLDING OFFICE.
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All of Tliem Elected by Men Except
the Woman Mayor.
A political census of Kansas, just
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elective otlices in the State as follows:
Forty-five County School Superintendents.
Five County Clerks.
Five County Treasurers.
'Six District Court Clerks.
Ten Registers of Deeds.
Two Probate Judges.
One Mayor.
Total, seventy-four.
All of these women are holding
office by virtue of the votes of men
alone, except the one woman Mayor,
who was elected by both men and
women. More than 2,000 men are in
the public service in Kansas, elective
and otherwise. Women somewhere
now hlod every county office in Kansas
except Sheriff, Coroner, County
Attorney and County Commissioner.
They do not loaf around the corner
drug store, they do not play cards
during office hours, and they do not
stand any nonsense from the men.
HUNTING FOIt A FIEND.
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Kidnapped and Held a Young Lady
a Prisoner.
A hunt for a fiend has bjen under
way for the last forty-eight hours between
Snow Flake, Manitobia, and
the United States boundary following
the kidnaping of a pretty young
school teacher, Eleanor Gladys ltrice,
by a man alleged to he Henry Bill
Wilson, alias Bill Miner, of Hanna,
North Dakota.
All during Wednesday night a
posse of It0 0 armed men pursued the
fugitive through the bushes and
many shots were exchanged when
he was surrounded In dense woods.
Bloodhounds picked up the trail
five miles from the school house
where the man captured the girl
Monday afternoon and held her captive
all night.
She returned home in a dazed con
dition Tuesday night. The population
is in an infuriated state and the
score of constables directing the pursuit,
it is feared, will be unable to
protect the man if bo is captured.
CONDEMN HINI OKI) El EMS.
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Moving Picture Censors Vrge That
They He Suppressed.
The national board of censorship
of moving pictures Tuesday notified
the police of all the large cities of
the country that they had condemned
the films posed for by Keulah Kin
lord, one or the ligures in nio isoaitie
murder case at Chesterfield, Va.,
and requested the authorities to follow
the example of New York and
forbid their exhibition. In its report
the board says regarding the
pictures: "Their sole and only appeal
is to morbid curiosity. They
fail to teach any lesson except one of
sentimental toleration for the girl
who goes wrong."
Maine Keeps Out Itoo/e,
On the face of the returns from
Monday's special election the question
of the repeal of constitutional
prohibition collected and complied by
the Associated Press, Maine retains
prohibition by 3 65 votes. The first
returns received have been verified
and revised in all but seven instances.
Saturday night.
The sad fate of this young girl
ought to be a warning to all young
women as well as young men, and it
is to?be hoped that the parties who
are responsible for her death will be
caught and made to suffer for their
dastardly crime. Miss Hawkins was
the daughter of a well-to-do highly
respected people, and her tragic end
has caused great sorrow for tKOST.
FARMERS MEET
Cotloi Growers Heel to Refute tbe ies
About Size if ibe Crip
SMITH
MAKES SPEECH
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At Gathering; in Interest of Better
Prices for Cotton, ftoutli Carolinian
lloumlly PenoutiecN Gamblers and
Criticises Department for Inaccuracy
of Cotton Iteports.
One thousand men from every cotton
growing State in Amercia met
Tuesday in Montgomery and con
fcrred to devise ways and means to
rebut the figures of the Federal cotton
report and to secure a better
price for cotton.
There were present Congressmen,
United States Senators, the commissioners
of agriculture or their representatives
from every Southern State,
together with hundreds of farmers,
bankers, business and professional
men whose homes are scattered
throughout the South.
While nothing further than organization
was effected officially, Tuesday's
meeting of the cotton growers
proved their earnestness by the appointment
of four committees to be
known as the committee on resolutions,
marketing and rinancing the
cotton crop, national legislation and
statistics, estimates and conditions of
the cotton crop.
These committees were appointed
early in the day and made fo consist
of the commissioners of agriculture
of each state, three delegates from
each State and President Garrett, of
the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative
Union.
One of the principal speakers of
the day was Senator E. I). Smith, of
South Carolina, who in scathing
terms denounced the so-called gamblers
of Wall Street, Liverpool, New
Orleans and foreign markets, and
cried that the Southern farmer must
declare his financial independence of
these people. He said the farmers
should demand a fair profit on his
cotton and ventured the assertion
that if the New England farmer had
such a monopoly crop as the cotton
crop he would demand and receive
30 cents a pound for it.
Senator Smith also made an attack
upon the accuracy of the Government
cotton report; and said that the
Southern farmer had lost enough
money because of it to establish an
insurance department; or to insure
proper figures. He declared too, that
Attorney General Wickersham wanted
to break the so-called monopoly to
boost the price of cotton but crushed
no illegal combination to force prices
down.
When Congres meets again in December,
Senator Smith said, he is goiiv<r
hi i 11 fmdnr.n n bill to reouiro the
Secretary of Agriculture to show in
his monthly rotton census, not only
the amount of cotton in the field, but
the number of bales in warehouses
and who owned these bales.
Throughout his speech, Senator
Smith was heartily cheered, and he
spoke until faces in the auditorium
could not be diestinguished. >
The Convention was called togethj
er at noon. Capt. Reuben F. Kolb,
| commissioner of agriculture for Alaj
sama, was made temporary chairman,
lie presided until Comisioner of Ag|
ricu 11ure 10. ,7. Watson, of South
Carolina, was made permanent chairman.
The Rev. C. A. Stakely opened
the Convention with a prayer.
Addresses of welcome were made
by Capt. Kolb, Lieutenant Governor
Zeed, Mr. R. B Evins, representing
Governor O'Neal, President Gunter,
of the city commission, and President
Kolin of the 'Montgomery Commercial
Club, in behalf of Alabama and the
city of Montgomery. These addresses
were responded to by State Senator
I. A. Bush, of Georgia.
The convention will bo brought
to a close Wednesday night with a
demons* ration in honor of the Hon.
Oscar \Y. Underwood, loader of the
National House of Representatives,
who will reach tins city with a party
of good roads advocates from RirniiiiRham.
It is thouRht that Senator
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi
will also be in the city by that
time.
Dual Tragedy Stirs Town.
The Town of Many, La , Friday
was the scene of a dual tragedy,
when Mrs. Holly Turner, keeper of
an eating house, was killed by her
former himhimd Clarence Turner of
Lessville in the presence of an oftlcer,
who was attempting to avert the tragedy.
Turner, after killing his wife,
shot himself dead before tho oftlcer
could reach him. The woman was
fleeing down the street when killed.
Stock Perishes in Five.
Two horses and a cow perished in
a tiro which destroyed the barn and
stables of Emanuel Taylor, a prosperous
farmer of tho Pond Pranch
section of Lexington county Tuesday
night. Two buggies, a wagon
and harness, and a lot of feed, was
also consumed.
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Gov. Please has not yet expressed
himself on the candidacy of Chief
Justice Jones for his job, but we feel
sure it surprised him.
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STARVING COLONISTS 1
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RESCUED BY STEAMER AND TAKEN
TO NEW YORK.
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Tarty of Twenty-three Picked Up in
Honduras After Un I. rgolinj; tircm
Hardship.
Two heads of families, four wemon
and seventeen children, survivors of
a party of twenty-eight which left
Polk County, Fla., and south (leorgia,
some time ago to try their fortunes
near Ceiba, Honduras, were rescued
from fever, pestilence and starvation
and carried to New York by a United
Fruit steamer.
They were found penniless at Ceiba,
where a small collection \yas taken
up to feed the almost famished
colonists. Five of their number had
died of fever in Honduras.
Those landed at New York wero
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lee and five children,
aged 2 to 17, one aged 15, ill
with fever; 'Mrs. Matt Tucker and
seven children, aged 2 months to 22
years, all of Tifton, Ga.; William R.
Brown and five children, aged 2 to
9 years;; Mrs. Sophia Lindsey, aged
09, her daughter, Mrs. Alice Bailey,
aged 31, and baby aged 2, from Florida.
Mrs. Lindsey and Mrs. Bailey, both
ill with fever, were sent to the hosLpital.
Eighteen members of the colony
were down with fever at ono
time, said Brown, and they had practically
nothing when the char.ee camo
to get away. 'People ought to bo
careful about going to a strango
country.
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NEGRO KILLED AT NORWAY.
Marion Evans Shoots Charley Millions
After a Game.
Word was brought to this eity yesterday
of the killing of Charley Millions
by Marion Evans, both negroes.
The tragedy occurred near Norway.
It seems that a crowd of negroes
gambled all Saturday night and that
Sunday morning the two above named
got in a difficulty about a deck, of *
cards. As a result of which difficulty
was shot in the arm and he
then crawled under the house.
When Evans started to leave the
house ho was followed by Milhous.
Evans turned around and told Milhous
not to follow, but this chid not
stop the follower, and Evans shot,
killing Milhous instantly.
All of the participants were fined
$50.00 in Norway for gambling, thus
swelling the treasury of that town
considerably. Evans was brought to
jthis city yesterday morning and it
is said that he is a brother to tho
negro that was lynched some years
ago for the killing of Mr. Phillips.
?Orangeburg Times and Democrat.
HOLD COTTON SEED.
President Dabbs Thinks Prices Offered
Are Ituinous.
"At prices that have prevailed weshould
use them for fertilizer rather'
than sell."
This statement is made by rreshdent
10. W. Dabbs, of the State Panniers'
union, in urging the farmers?
to hold cotton seed for a higher priceHe
says in a letter sont out to they
local unions that in the light for a
higher price for cotton that the farmers
have overlooked the ruittiooa
prices offered for cotton seed.
The following letter has been sent
out by President Dabbs to the local
unions:
"In our work for the price of COtt^n
hn vn nverlitnkeil the niilionff
prices that have been offered for cot*
ton seed. At prices that have pre*
vailed we should use them for fertilizer
rather than sell. I have been
informed, and believe it to be reliable,
that the market for cottonseed
oil and by products, and tho
price of meal, would warrant $?8 to
$80 per ton for seed.
"Take care of your seed. Pick
and gin your cotton dry. Store tho
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ZStH'll III mild I l |' i n |'i w\ vivvi
from the weather and do not sell any
seed till the market advances considerably."
IMitor Killed Ml it or.
Krnesto Mendoza, editor of K\
Com baton, made good lhe name of
bis paper by killing' Kndo'fo Fernandez
editor of the Guinea do Humbou
llo'h papers are pub'ished weekly at
Gaines, about 14 miles proin Havana.
The men met In a street of that town
and Fernando/ attacked Mendoza
with a cane. The latter drew his revolver
and shot Fernandez.
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Fourteen Drowned.
Fourteen men were drowned In
the sinking of the schooner Whisper,
off tho Niearaguan coast, according
to cables received from Port Idmon.
The schooner, commanded by Capt.
Winston Hall of Philadelphia, carried
a cargo of mahogany, wh?ieh
caught tire and an explosion of gaioline
sent it to the bottom with all on
board.
Have a Hot Time.
Nine persons wero killed and more
than twice that number wounded
when Iteyists and Maderlsta clashed
Saturday in Tuxtla Chico, a village
in the State of Chiapas, near tho
southern boundary of Mexico, according
to reports received at the President's
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