Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND FARMERS EXCHANGE PLANTS. Sweet Potato Plants?Early Triumphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Nor ton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1,000. 11. H. Thomas, Earleton, Fla Sweet Potato Plants, express prepaid to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,000 at $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000, $1.65; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porto Rico yams. C. F. Whitcomb, Umatilla, Fla. For Sale?Nancy Hall and Doolj Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Ecelsior Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand. Write or wire. Southern Plant Company., W. J. Hawkins, Mgr., Plant City, Fla. Sweet Pom to Plants, Nancy Hall and Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. 1 can 1111 your orders in any quanity Give me your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under irrigation. G. D. Moore, Hawthorn. Fla. POULTRY AND EGGS. For Sale?Poland China pigs of fine breeding. Write for prices. S. J. Summers, Cameron, S. C. Wl lite Leghorns, Huff Orpingtons, White Plymouth Rocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. This ad will not appear again. S Bacon & Haywood, 205 Springfield Ave., Guyton, Ga. I will teacli you bookkeeping and the collection business. Appoint you my special representative in your own town. In your spare time. And help to make you prosperous. Write to-day for this offer. Brown's Correspondence School, Wilcoxon Building, Freeport, Illinois. Prize Winning White Indian Runner dlirW ppps 1 1 fni* 9 0 ? -<(-> O "> V" | " " ??' f f, Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 2 2 tor $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, $1.50. M B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS. llartford'H Koupc Cure? Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Enoads, Fla. For Sale?Six litters fighting bull terrier pups. $5 to $15 ca ! i. Walter Yockey, Clay Center, Kas. I buy all kinds of empty barrels and bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, 8 George St., Charleston, S. C. Wanted?Lady agents to sell sanitary toilet specialties, samples free. Address P. O. Box 101, Danville, Va. Agents?Send no money. Just say send me particulars of your big agents' offer. Trent Specialty Co., 1 Pollocksville, N. C. Pointers, setters, hounds, collies and bull terriers?Trained and untrained. State wants. Canine Farm, 1005 Union St., Greensboro, N. C. ( Personal?Ladies, when delayed or irregular use Triumph Pills; al- . ways dependable. "Relief" and particulars free. Write National Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwaukee, Wis. i Gruiiudntc of Winthrop, with one year's experience, desires grade work; best of references; moderate 1 salary. Wlnthrop graduate, Box 1 3 07, Greenwood, S. C. '< Piles can be relieved at once?-Send 15c for liberal sample, <'Lino Pile : Remedy," and be convinced. Large ' size, 50c, G for $2.50. H. M. Knight I and Co., Manufacturing Pharma- 1 cists. Lancaster, Penn. < Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early 4 marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. Fine Farn%vorth Poland China Duroc grade pigs. Two to five months. ' $1 to $8. Special prices on large orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. ^ Bennette F. Moore, Raeford, N. C. c ? } Wanted?Poplar logs, 12 in. and up, p not over 10 per cent, under 14 in. in diameter. stnn/lonl ion?ti.D * , ^v?..v.n? U IVIIQtllO, Aliiy c bo white or hickory poplar. State / how many cars can furnish, how t quick and lowest cash price f.o.b. t cars your shipping point. Address a Rlue Ridge Lumber Co., Lynchburg, e Va. Y f Romb Wrecks Mill. c The explosion of a bomb partly wrecked the Helvetia Silk Mills at Patterson, N. J., early Monday, the resulting excitement bringing bun- ii dreds of workers who have recently '? been on-strike from their beds to the t streets. o t Has Fingers Itlown Off. h John Felmon Dye, son of John ^ Dye, a negro, on McAliley brothers' plantation near Chester, while playing with a dynamite cap Monday d morning, exploded it and suffered the fi loss of three Angers on his left hand, d LAW HURTS THE SOUTH IH'llDKX OF RANKINGS SYSTKM ON COTTON STATKS. Tliis Section Is Annually Pimhod and Hied for Money Needed to Move Its Huge Cotton Crop. The burden of our defective banking system falls upon no section of the country more heavily than upon the South hocjiiico ii?o -~u ?... > x/? ?.^v> \ M\ MV/Ul II 1 n | M I I V I l ed and bled annually in the movenient of the cotton crop. In the thirteen cotton growing States, including Kentucky and excluding Missouri, there are 1461 national hanks with a combined captial stock of $159,927,43. The total value of cotton raised annually in the Southern States is about seven and a half billion dollars. When the capitalization of the Southern banks Is considered in connection with the value of the cotton crop, it is at once obvious why they must call on New York and on Europe for help when that crop is to be moved from the producer to the manufacturer. It should be mentioned in the beginning that the local cotton business is done in cash. Hence a buyer or cotton factor will arrange with his local bank to obtain funds if he wishes to purchase cotton. He gives as security his note, with warehouse, or compress, receipts, or the railroad bills of lading covering a certain number of bales of cotton. Conservative banks do not advance on this form of security more than their capital stock and surplus, and so the movement of cotton is costly and difficult. When the cotton factor but 1.000 bales and gets a loan for, say $60,0 0 0, the local banks know that within three or fonr days It will be called upon for $60,000 in currency, which must come out of its reserve or be sent to it from reserve city banks. Approximately $200,000.000 r>f piirruiipv iu ennt , ~ ~ ~ v??. . V...X J 10 ov III 11 II II II cl 1 J V into the South to help finance this crop. Who pets the profit? New York bankers and brokers. They reap in this way several million dollars a year. The South pays the bill. And, in addition, the mere cost of shipping the currency costs the country banks in the South, it is estimated, $10,000 a year, aside from the interest which must be paid for it. The first reason for this expense is the lack of actual currency. Another is the use of actual cash where credit exchanges mught be more generally used. Still another is the inelasticity of our currency system. A discount would make it possible to coin the cotton crop at once into currency. Thus the enormous wealth brought out of the soil would make for instant prosperity instead of creating financial stringency. Tt would enlarge credits, instead of crippling or hampering it. A uniform discount rate, effective only in rediscounts for banks, would tend to equalize interest rates through out the country. At present these vary from 2 2-4 and 2 per cent in rural districts. Proper reforms in our banking laws which would be uniform between banks throughout the country, so that the local banks in Mississippi could got funds at a much smaller price than is possible now. The rates throughout the country would vary somewhat, but the variation would be nothing like what it is now; and the small banks would profit equally with the farmers and merchants they serve. ? -rv- * 11 ruviHiun t > i on r nan King laws would work for the greater prosperity of the South, and would lid materially in the easy movement Tf its great staple cotton. It would make it possible for the hanks of the South to take care of the South's business. Tt would provide abundant Funds when they were needed, and tvould convert into cash at opce the South's greatest source of wealth. ? FAKE CAUSES HIOT. * 'Bloomer Girls" Baseball Team Prove to be Men. One policeman is In bruises and iwaiting new uniform and part of ( he Union League Baseball Park is a vreck as the result of a riot at a Sunday baseball game where 4,000 > mthusiasts discovered that a team of ] doomer girls were really men in dis- , juise. The team was taken to an east- ] ound train under police protection. ? ^ half hour before the storm broke , he manager of the "gtrls" aggrega- ( ion had acquired the gate receipts | tnd disappeared. The trouble startd when the "girls" centerflelder, a ( insky young blonde, threw a ball f rom deep center to the home plate, ^ atching the runner. ( j I*ntm Out His Own Kyes. "If thine eye offend thee, pluck c t it out," quoted August Stdick- f. ?nd, of Nevada, Mo., he followed ho injunction by putting out his < wn eys. Strickland is an insane pa- ( lent in the asylum there, having ? 3st his mind over religious matters. * ] Had Tooth Causes Wood Poison. j Rudolph Speich, of Raine, Miss., j led of blood poisoning contracted rom a bad tooth. He was ill four ays. c PRICES ARE RAISED! ?*? ? BAGGING AND TIE TRUST HOLD ; UP THE FARMERS . ? ? t WILL BE LOOKED AFTER ; I Senator R. 1). Smith CJcts a Uesolu- t tioii Through the Senate Calling on the Department of Coumieiio ?.? i Investigate and Find Out the | Cause of the liaise. I The inquiry into the increase of t two cents a yard in the selling price t of juto bagging, which is to be start- f ed at once by the Department of i Commerce, as the result of Senator E. 1>. Smith's resolution in the Sen- < ate on the subject, will, it is believ- ( ed, have a very important effect. It will show that the bagging manufac- t turers, anticipating lower tariff du- ' ties, have determined to get all they * can out of the farmers of the South 1 while the getting is good. The in- ' crease of two cents a yard in the 1 price of bagging means a tax of ap- : proximately $1,800,000 in one season on the farmers of the South, and Sen- 1 ator Smith is confident that the in- 1 quiry will show that there has been no excuse for this other than the ' manufacturers had the power. 1 The following extract from the 1 Congressional Record, giving the pro- 1 erodings in the Senate while the res- '. olution was under consideration, 1 shows that some of the Republican ! senators, representing the protected interests, tried to defeat the inonirv. i but wore unable to do so, and also 1 shows that Senator Bacon and other 1 Democratic senators frankly stated 1 that Senator Smith is accepted as an 1 authority in the Senate on all mat- 1 tors pertaining to cotton. His pre- 1 sentation of the matter was so strong 1 that the resolution was finally adopt- ' ed without a dissenting vote. The extracts from the Record follow: ; Mr. Smith, of South Carolina: Mr. i President, some time in the early ; spring?about the usual time when i the prices for covering and putting in 1 marketable order the great cominer- t cial crop of the South were being con- i sidered?inquiries were coming in ! from the merchants and from differ- i ent sources throughout the South as . to just what would be the current I price or what would be the status, so ; far as any legislation is concerned. I 1 was unable to answer that, as I suppose other senators interested were i unable to answer it. ] Subsequent to that there have 1 come letters in great numbers calling 1 attention to the fact that, without j any reason, the price of this common i article, the covering of the American f cotton crop, has advanced two cents f a yard aggregating a cost to the pro- 1 ducers of cotton of $1,800,000. The f parties engaged in the manufacturing business, as I am informed from the t Department of Commerce this morn- t ing, are only fourteen in number. > Those fourteen are subsidiaries, ac- I cording to my information, to the t American Manufacturing Co., 63 Wall 1 street, New York. i I have attempted to investigate to ( find what is the reason for this rise f in price from eight cents a yard last I year on exactly the same covering, to f ten cents a yard this year, and I have been unable fn find U -...X. It. M IICI U ID III/ ^ report current that the jute crop lias t lteen short; there is no report that t there has been any excess in the cost t of labor, but at the arbitrary will of t these few parties engaged in this in- i dustry in the preparation of the arti- t ele $1,800,000 is to be added to the t cost of marketing a great interest. 1 Mr. Smoot: Mr. President, this is f rather refreshing to mo, because in t the past I have always heard the Sen- \ ntor from South Carolina say that e the reason for these extreme prices i have been the tariff. t Mr. Smith, of South Carolina: Tt is the cause, in my opinion, now. 1 Mr. Smoot: The pending bill pro- \ vides that cotton bagging shall be j free. So, I say, it is quite refresh- t ing to me to hear the Senator now j ask for reasons why there is an in- t crease in the price of cotton bagging, a Senator Smith: The Senator from t rtali well knows that those engaged n in this business have been protected v by a duty that forbade competition p and importation. Realizing the dan- e ?er which now threatens them and g knowing that they have this one p Rroke at the American people, they %\ ire holding them up to get $1,800,10 0 before they are forced by the Democratic tariff to deal fairly. (l Senator Smoot: The Senator Might to know that the few manufac- g urers of this country of cotton bagSing have not a million eight hun- g ired thousand dollars on hand, nor iny considerable portion of. Senator Smith: I suspect that is ">nn fif flir? rnoonnn ? * ..u -. i ivuuuiiii vYiijr muj w <1111 Id .. ?et it. jt Senator Smoot: All T wanted to o 'all the Senate's attention was that tl he rate on cotton bagging Is only dx-tenths of a cent a square yard, h <o\v, the Senator from South Caro- p ina rises In his seat and says the tl )rice has advanced three cents a ir >ound. w Senator Smith: That Is coirect. p( Senator Smoot: In the very face hi >f free bagging. I say to the Senator tl hat there is some other eatise for In reused prices besides the tariff, as I lav? told him in the past. Instead if being increased by American man ifactnrers dictating to the Southern dantcrs as to what they shall pay for heir cotton bagging. senator smith: All I have ??> say n reply to that is that on account of he duty existing previously the great irteries of trade through which the irticlo passed were pre-empted by hat duty, and it takes some time ;ven with a smaller duty for trade o become accustomed to the fact hat the markets of our country are pen to competition. Now with free lagging a thing that is possibly pernanent and which 1 hope will be lermanent under the long stretch of democratic rule that lies before us hey are getting ready to go out of msiness and as a last stroke under heir monopoly and under their proection they are exacting $1,800,000 rom the people who are dependent ipon them for this cover. Senator Smoot: The manufactures of cotton bagging have very little otton bagging on hand to-day. There is no question about it, and 1 o be misled, and I promise him foreign dictation in prices after the passage of tliis bill. After tliis tariff nil becomes law, the American manufacturers of cotton bagging will he wiped out of existence, and the Senator knows that that will be the case, lie has admitted that they will cease making these goods. The Southern plan'or will he the sufferer I want the Senator to remember that I predict Ibis day that the cotton planter of the South, as soon as the American manufacturer is destroyed will pay more for his cotton bagging than last year, and it will ho an advance of more than six-tenths of a cent a square yard, the present duty. Senator Smith: If this is a sample of their beneficence to the cot ion planter, ' should liU * to contribute to thoir dost ruction, which 1 have consistently done up to the present. Hut 1 want, to call attention to the fact. Mr. President, that there is sotne cause and the people who produce this article are entitled to know what that cause is. Mr. President, there are other Senators here, who have received communications like my own, and there \re Senators present who are not forgetful of the period about 1898 that we went through almost paralleling this very condition on the part of the growers of cotton throughout the South, when the price was put up arbitrarily so high as to cost the \merlcan cotton growers anywhere from thirty-five to lit fy cents per bale at the arbitrary will of those who tiave a monopoly of this article. My resolution instructs the Secretary of Commerce to investigate it If it is a natural cause, the simple aw of supply and demand that is producing this burden upon the American people, then there is nothng to be done; but, if upon investigation it is found that this is done in spite of the law we have for the reguation of this kind of oppression, it should be known. I think it is the duty of the Senate 0 pass this resolution and let the ofIcers of the government charged vith it see that the facts shall be laid icfore the Senate. If the cotton growers of this country have got to )av $1,800,000 let them pay it legitimately along the line of supply and iemand and not at the sweet will of 1 combination who wish to raise the >rlce and extract this stupendous nun from the cotton growers. Senator Lippitt: I have not the dightest objection in the world to he passage of this resolution. If he Senator from South Carolina hinks it will throw any light upon lie situation, 1 am quite ready to oin with him in having that light hrown. f simply rose to ask about he statement which he made a few ninutes ago, of which 1 am not inormed, in which he said that the facorv or factories I do not know vhioli, making this cotton bagging in onsequence of the proposed tariff iill, were now preparing to close heir industry and go out of business. Senator Smith: I did not say that, said in contemplation of taking adantage of their monopoly and the ?rotection that was thrown around hem, they were putting up the price 11 order that they might take advanage of that they had been enjoying 11 these years. I did not say that hey were about to go out of Inisiicss, because I do not believe they /ill, I believe there is a legitimate roflt in the business on the lines of ompetition. I believe there is iileitlmato profit in it that they have cen enjoying all these years or they rould not be clamoring for protection. , Senator Lippitt: Then I misunerstood the Senator. Senator Smith: I am glad the enator called it to my attention. Senator Lippitt: I understood the enator to make that assertion. Senator Smith: No, I made no 1 cV? nucorl Ir\t\ Senator T.ippitt: So far as the inulry goes I can son no objection to at all. If any light can be thrown n the situation there is no reason in le world why it should not he. Senator Smoot: Mr. President, 1 ave no objection whatever to the assage of tlie resolution, I think lat it is very proper indeed that the ivestigation should he made. I will atch with particular interest the reort when made .because wo shall ave some reason given other than lat the tariff has raised the price. 1'he Senator from Ueorgla (Mr. Karon) says that these goods are made entirely in this country. There were 13,365,3 19 square yards of: them imported in 10 12. Senator Smith: Will the Senator | from Utah again stnto how many yards were imported? Senator Snioot: There were imported 13,365,3-19 square yards. Senator Smith: Is the total nnount of consumption stat(><l. | Senator Smoot: The total amount of production is stated in dollars and cents. Senator Smith: Hut the tables do not give the number of yards consumed. Senator Smoot: No. but the total amount of production Is $3,507,000. To show the Senator the values ttu>\ I place upon those Roods, I will say that I find that tho unit of value of bagging is 4.7 cents per square yard. Senator Smith: 1 merely rose to call the Senator's attention to the ( fact that there is used in this country ' for the covering of cotton alone some- ' thing like l 2 0,000,000 square yards. Senator Macon: Mr. President. 1 the Senator from t'tah seems to have 1 some doubt upon the estimate of the ' number of yards of bagging used in ( this country in the baling of cotton ' It takes about seven yards to cover a ' bale of cotton. If the Senator will 1 multiply 1 F? by that number he will get a pretty accurate estimate of the ' amount of bagging used in this conn- 1 t rv. Senator Smoot: Of course, Mr. President, what I am quoting from are the figures of the department. Senator Macon: The department ( may be wrong, but the estimate that ^ I suggest is one that no one will dispute. We know how many bales of cotton have been made in the country; we know how many yards it takes to cover a bale of cotton; and we know how much 7 times 15 would be. Senator Smoot: Met me ask the Senator then if there is not a great quantity of second-hand bagging used in tho billing of cotton. Senator Macon: I nm not mys'df engaged in the production of cotton I am simply an observer. The Sena tor from South Carolina is doubtless familiar with the matter. Senator Smoot: I will ask the Senator from South Carolina if that is not a fact. Senator Smith: There is a great deal of piece bagging, but that, piece bagging is as nothing in preparation to the other. I will state to the Senator t.hat, even the sale of that piece bagging is, through some manipulatint) r\f t ??? o ! ! -l * viwu \/i ? ur uiai i\i*i w 1 ill W nic.ll I (LIM not familiar controlled entirely by the same persons who sell the whole bagging. Just how they have obtained control I am unable to say, but I hope that the Investigation will reveal that fact. Senator Smoot: I have no sympathy with tho control, Mr. I'resi- 1 (lent, at all. I only suggested this to account for the difference between the report made by the department. and the amount used as ] stated by the Senator from South ] Carolina. I think that fully explains < tho matter, because I do know that there is a great deal of second-hand i bagging used for the covering of cot- i ton. Senator Bacon: I do not want to , delay this matter. 1 simply wish to say that 1 am going to go into the ( subject of the tariff discussion now. I have no doubt that will be very , fully discussed by those more com- , potent than myself. Really the prin- eipal object I have in saying any- < thing at all is to try to incite the Department of Justice to action in ref- , eronco to this matter and to get at ] it pretty quickly. I Senator Clallinger: Mr. President, . I desire to ask tho Senator from 1 Utah a question. If it be true that < this bagging is made in Calcutta un- 1 dor conditions such as the Senator I has detailed how does it happen that t we have not much larger importa- i tions of it ? Senator Smoot: On account of the six-tenths of one cent per square! yard under the present law; but this , bill proposes Senator Gallinger: T understand; but can our manufacturers compete with this condition in Calcutta and j he protected by the small duty now t imposed on that foreign product? Senator Smoot: That is a pretty fair duty on the square yard; in fact I think the duty amounts to nearly j 10 per cent, on this very coarse article; but so far, in the past, It has allowed our manufacturers in this ^ country to manufacture a great part of the cotton bagging that is used here. Senator Stone: Mr. President, I ( understand this resolution merely ' directs the Secretary of Commerce to make an inquiry and report. Air. Smoot: That is all. Senator stone: tf timt to - - ....?? ?u tiiv * ia i i scope of the resolution I have no ob- i Jection to it. The Vice-President: The nuestion j is on the ado])tion of the resolution. i The resolution was agreed to with- '] out objection. r v Ciirl Rride Shoots Husband. Physicians Thursday entertain * hope for the recovery of Tom Wood, a baseball player, who was shot Sunday night by his nineteen-year-old bride, who is held under the charge * of assault with intent to murder. ^ The young woman declares that she T shot Wood because she feared he 0 would desert her. AOOPIS CHILDREN m OKLAHOMA MAN HCPLS TIT GtT ONE THOUSAND HAS THREE NUNCRER A to Indurates His Hoys and (iirls CiealiiiK Lucrative Places for Alcinbors of the Futility Who Coin* plete "Home" Course and Show a Proper Degree of Proficiency, CharloB Pago, a millionaire of Tut >a, Okla., has adopted HOO poor chilIron and hopes to increase the number to 1,000. Near the village of land Springs, a short distance from Pulsa, ho has established a "home" n the center of a tract containing '>,000 acres, lie has converted eighty icres of forest into one of the most omploto parks In the United S'ates. In the equipment of the p irk particular attention has been , aid to thu dayground for children. 10very conceivable device for tlio imusement of the little folks is to ho round. There is, in addition, a free kindergarten maintained in a largo airy room, screened in and equlppod wit 11 hammocks and cots for rest. An intorurhan railroad owned by Pag* connects the village and park with the main part of Tulsa. Kvery morning a special car takes every child who cares to go to the park and returns them to their homes in tho evening. Page, who is worth about $'.000,f>00, has announced that every hit of his property, save a hotel In Denver, will go to the Rand Springs institution as an endowment upon his death, lie allows no one to take a child from the institution, although tie 1" almost dailv besieged by childless people, many of wealth, to let <' > a have some of "bis chit Iron". His reply invariably is. "1 am able to care for 1.000 and wish 1 had that many In the home." Ho will make a place for every hoy who completes the course he has mapped out for them in some of his interests. The larger hoys work on the farm In the summer. The girls work .a number of hours each* day during tho fruit season in tho "home" cannery. Any girl who. shows a particular aptitude for any special branch of study has the privilege of going to any institution op higher learning she may select upon finishing at the Page "home". SAY MS II1S SWKMTIIKAHT. Ucorgia Hoy Has Dangerous K\|>oricnce in Kansas. Roy Camden, of Decatur, (Ja., was badly injured recently while saving bis fiance, Myrtle Thompson, of Athens, Kas., from drowning. Camden became acquainted with Miss Thompson while she was visiting in Atlanta four weeks ago. Ho went to Athens to visit her ant! look her motorboat riding on the Missouri river. The gasoline tank Bxclodod, covering both with burning oil. With arms and face seared, Camden sprang into the water with the girl and tried to swim ashore. The current was too swift, and he was carried two miles down stream, when he managed to catch a snag sticking out of thu water, to which be clung with one arm while holding the girl above water with the other. After clinging to the snag for several bours, they were seen by passengers in a Missouri Pacifio train near Dal by, Kas. Roy Lewis, a nearby 'armor was notified and rescued the wo in a row boat, and they wero carMod to Atchison. FIRST RIKF4 T VOTI'l SFNATOK. *. taron, of (leoi-gia, Fleeted I'nder Seventeenth A memliiicnt. Agustus 0. Bacon, of Atlanta, (la., las been re-elected to the 17. S. Senate by the direct votes of hia Mfcumue. mis makes him tho first -en a tor to he so elected under tho re:ently ratified seventeenth anient! nent to tho Constitution. This imondment provides that tho voters >f the several states sh&K cast direct mllots in senatorial elections. Tlie vote throughout the whole decorate was very light, owing to he fact that Senator Bacon was un>pposed. Many of the country poling places were not even opened, as he result of the election was a foro;one conclusion. Kxplodes In Pocket. A stick of dynamite in the hip >ocket of Martin Funk exploded and dew him to pieces when he fell lAiosday during a playfnl wrestling nuii' 11 wnn his brothor in a tent vhere the Funks were camping, near Jermantown, N. Y. The brother's eft hand was blown off. Dies From Bee Sting. John Pickering, of Woodbourne, 'a. died within fifteen minutes after ie been slung on the neck by a bee. )octors say that death was the result f paralysis of the heart, caused by he pain and shock.