The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 08, 1914, Image 3
HIDDEN FUR YEARS
BtATH OF NEW YORK LAWYER
ILTLAL HIS LIFt'S SECRET
?
LIVED A ROUBLE LIFE
No Ono, Not Itch IIin Wife, Knew
That Mis AfRuity lAred in the Secluded
Hoem in the Roar of Mia
Place of Hum**'**, u Willing Prisoner
of Hit.
The Esther Gobneck of Ral/,ec's fiction,
trannplan I oil from the romantic
Parisian setting of the early Nine
teentli century, camo to life ia Montieello,
N. Ythla weok when Maltin
H. Couch whs found dead in the law
offices he had long occupied iu the
Masonic building, In tFiat city. Member*
of hie family, entering for the
tirct 1 til #? I l\a I n ti tv
which lie hud slways guarded go care
fully from Intrusion, found hidden
there a frightened, tearful woman ?
a stranger to them all. Yet this woman?Adelaide
M. Rrnnce?had lived
in that inner room for three years,
and not a soul hut her and Couoh
knew of it.
If the woman went out at all it was
late in the night, when all the village
war asleep, and if any "nighthawk"
ever chanced upon a strange
woman slipping out of the Maeonlc
building the story never readied the
village gossips. For three years she
had endured her voluntary Imprisonment
for the sake of being the secret
companion of this man, and so successfully
wns her presence there concealed
by the man himself that the
members of his own family never
even guessed it.
Dread of discovery grow with the
passing of every month, and in the
last year she had ventured out of the
office only onco until one day this
week when she ran from the building
to the office of the nearest doctor as
hor lover lay dying of heart disease
on a cot. in the office. Couch was
.1^-4 1. it. - -1 4. * - * '
ucnu wnrn 1110 uoctor nrnvea ana
when the latter looked around for
the woman she had disappeared.
The wife and daughter of the dead
man were summoned to his office.
Mrs. Couch, after giving directions
for the disposition of pie corpse, attempted
to enter the mysterious
Inner room of the office, but found
the door locked. She asked one of
the men to climb over the partition,
but as he tried it he was halted bT a
woman's voice that came from the
dark ness beyond.
"I'll come out if you don't harm
me."
There came the sound of the key
In the lock and the woman stepped
out into the office, stood for an instant.
at the foot of the cot where the
body lay, glanced at the dead mar.,
then looked up and saw his wife and
daughter. She made as if to speak,
but suddenly sank to the floor in a
swoon.
Those present looked long and
hard at the woman's faeo as they
lifted her and one or two recognized
her as one whom they had in years
nfl at cccn frortnonf 1v
w \-v, 11 11 \y\|uv;iitijr in mv;iui\yCiu;
and bo frequently viBiting Couch's
office that there had been some gossip
for a time?gossip that stopped, of
course, when the woman had apparently
disappeared from the town.
Miss Brance was revived, and the
uniquo story was told.
She gave her name as Adelaide
Brance, and her home aR Goshen, N.
Y. She said that she had known Mr.
Couch for 15 years. Ono day she had
gone to Monticello canvassing for
subscriptions to a hook. She had gone
to tho office of Mr. Couch and had
tried to sell him the hook. That was
their meeting and tho relation which
they formed began then. For years
it was a matter of an occasional visit.
Business would seem to bring her to
Monticello and sho would manage to
spend some time with the lawyer.
The visits became more and more
frequent, and more and more they
tended to stretch from a night at a
time to a week at a time. It was
three years ago that tho two decided
there was no reason why the secrecy
they had been able to maintain for a
week could not be maintained for a
year or for a lifetime.
The woman told Couch she would
como to Monticello, take up her quarters
in the inner office, and never
step out in the daylight again.
An oil stove, a table, some chaire
and iron bed were put into the inner
room. Miss Ttranco came there under
oover of darkness. Couch announced
at his homo that he had become so
crippled with rheumatism?trouble
returning to a foot from an injury he
received while running as a boy?
that It would be out of the question
for him to mount every day the long
hill leading to his home. Hereafter
he said, he would live at the office,
sleep at the office, oat at the office.
Once a wook, with the coming ol
Sunday noon, he had walked laboriously
up the hill to the Conch home
and dined in state with Mrs. Couch
So that made it possible for him tc
live at his office, and to tako thing?
from the grocer's and butcher's tc
^ his office without arousing the gossips
of tho town to any suspicion ol
the truth.
With all the precautions it is retarded
as little short of marrelouf
KILLING ON STREET
FX>PK Kit OIK FIKEI) INTO MAN' AT
j CiARUSTON.
KridmM Sown to Show Tl?at Man
Actod ub F?r of E?M-ions Bodily
Isadora M. of Memphis,
Monday shot and killed Edward J.
Mw'dbii at Charleston, better known
iu the sporting circles ?f that place
a* "Mickey". After ex*01 ination by
the eorouar'e jury Acouta whs absolved,
on the grounds of justifiable
hou.ioido. While the verdlet practically
means acquittal, friends of
Aeonte put up $1,000 bond for his
appearance before the grand jury
next February.
The evidWire ohowetl that Policeman
Bowicl> who was standing at
Market and Meeting street Monday
morning wben ho heard four pistol
shots. Ho started down Meeting
street to investigate and met Acosta
near the Circular church. He said
that lie rskod him if lie had heard
the shots. Acosta replied, staied the
policeman, that he did the shooting,
and supposed that he had killed a
man on Chalmers street. Oflloer
Bowlck then Informed Acosta that he
was under arrest and took him to the
scene of the killing;. At they noared
Chalmers street Officer Bowiek said
that Policeman Slattery came from
aiouiiu me corner, nonnng a pistol in
hie band. He called to hit brother
officer not to fell uneasy, as he had
the man who did the shooting:.
The next witness war Officer Slnttery,
who stated that he ran to the
scene on Chalmers street from his
post on Broad street, and found Meehau
lying dead on the north aidewalk,
a abort distance from Meeting.
The body was lying face down, and
partly under it wns a pistol. lie
picked up the weapon and found that
its contents were intact. He rushed
around the corner and met Officer
Bowick and Acosta coming down the
st reet.
At the police station the prisoner's
name was taken and he was charged
with shooting and killing Meehan,
whose name was given then as Mahon,
because Acosta did not know the
man well, and the police had not
time to find any one to Identify the
body. Ho was lodged in a lobby cell
and was held there until the Inquest.
Acosta was asked at the Inquest if
he wished to make a statement, but
was told that it was not compulsory.
In a calm manner he related the details
that led up to the shooting. He
said that Meehan had followed him
to within a few steps of his boarding
place, on Chalmers street. At this
point Acosta said that Meehan asked
him for $3 0 and threatened to kill
him if he did not givo him the money.
Acosla. said that he refused to give
the money, and when Meehan whipped
his weapon out of his pocket he
hurriedly (hew his pistol out of his
right overcoat pocket, and fired four
allots. IIo said that ho believed that
his life was In danger and that If he
had not acted as ho did ho would
have either been killed or seriously
wounded. lie said that ho hated to
kill the man, hut that he was forced
to do so.
When questioned by a Juror he
said that ho met Median about the
first, of the month. IIo related that
about two or three weeks ago Meehan
followed him and on Meeting
street, near Chalmers street, demanded
at the point of pistol that he give
him $100. ITo did not give him the
money then, he said, but the next day
gave him $00. IIo was approached
again, he told the jury, and this time
gave him $20. According to his view
, of the affair Median was blackmailing
him. ITo did not propose to give
him any more money, he said, and
bought the weapon with which he
killed the man. lie also stated that
Mechan war, a drug fiend of some
kind and that he did not caro to tako
( any chances with him.
: A dispatch from Memphis says that.
Isadoro M. Aon?fn r?P tVinf
w j'MlVV , >V 11U
, shot and killed E. J. Meehan at
Charleston, Is well known there,
where he has extensive property in!
forests. Tie resides with two daughters
and Is known as a quiet, peace,
able citizen.
Sentenced to Walk 70 Miles,
Edward Leo and John Nolan, 17I
year-old hoys of New York city, who
. ran away from home, were arrested
at Middletown, N. Y., on a charge of
illegal train riding. They were ra(
leased on their promise to walk the
. 7G miles back to their home.
I Two Horses Are Killed.
> Two young men, sons of Mr. J. S.
? Smith, living in the Carolina section,
s ten miles above Dillon, were riding
in a tournament on Friday, when
i their homes collided, killing hoth
; animals and seriously injuring both
, riders.
that this secret could have heen pro'
served with almost every moment of
fering the risk of discovery. For the
> Masonic building in Court square is
. in the heart of the village, and ton
) other lawyers havo their offices In the
i building. Only constant vigilance,
> the determination of the woman hor
self never to pass a window where she
f could be seen from the street, and
never to go to the street except when
- all the village was asleep made posi
slble the keeping of this secret.
A I KIM MYSTtliY
?
NEW YORK I^OIiK K FAOKH PCZZIJNU
MURI)KK CAKE.
?
TRUNK CONTAINS CORPSE
?
Two Meu Kent Pnsli Cart in \A hich
They Cari*y the Trunk, l>uui| ing I
It on the Kidewu.lL., \\ h lu They
Walk Off, Ostensibly to Return tor
it in a Few Minute*.
A murder mystery, which promibOR
to rival (he famous barrel murder of
a dor.en years ago, was brought to
the attention of the New York police
Monday when a boy notified them
that for half an hour ho had watched
a trunk wlfieh two meu had unloaded
from a push cart and left in the gutter
street, on the East Side. When
the trunk was opened at a polite atatton
the still warm body of a man
shout 4 0 years old, shabbily dressed
and emaciated, was found in it. The
body was later identified by Joseph
Molloy, a former room mate as that
of .John Kremen, a Russian Pole, formerly
employed in a coal mine at
Charleston, W. Va.
According to the coroner, death
had been caused by strangulation. In
forcing tbo body into the trunk, the
man's neck had been broken. Btout
ropes held the head and neck to the
knees and feet. A large bandanna
iiniiukoren 101 nan noon used an a gag
and a woman's petticoat had been
wrapped about the head.
About 1 0 o'clock Monday morning,
Joseph Cooper, an employee of a
"push cart tables" on Sheriff streer,
nearby, rented a cart to two men answering
the description given by the
boy who called the police to Pitt
Btreet. One of the men had asked
the boy to take care of the' trunk
after it was dumped into the gutter.
Cooper said one of the men was
tall and well dressed. The other
man, a little shorter and dressed in a
dark sweater and cap, wheeled the
cart, and is believed to have been
merely the employee of the well
dressed man. When the cart reached
Pitt street the tall man gave his companion
a coin and then helped him
unload the trunk. After this the man
in the sweater returned the push
cart to Its owner, while the other
asked the street urchin to watch the
trunk.
Py drawing in the net. of investigation
begun Monday when the body
was found in a trunk on the East
Ride the police aro confident the
Identity of the murderers will be positively
established. This Is the third
trunk murder mystery In four years.
The two previous mysteries have remained
unsolved.
The police also hoped Tuesday to
gather In a number of men answering
the description of the two who
dumped the trunk containing: the
body from a push cart onto the sidewalk
at the Pitt street tenement entrance.
One of tho men, evidently
the employer of bis companion, was
tall and well dressed. lie directed
the unloading of the trunk and employed
a boy of the neighborhood to
guard it, promising to return In a
few minute.s The man who pushed
the cart wore a dark sweater and cap
and is described as shorter than the
other man.
Both disappeared after disposing
of tho trunk, tho well dressed man
hurriedly, while tho other trundled
tho push cart down Pitt street and
later returned It to a cart yard in the
vicinity from which it was rented.
To identify the body the police
placed it on view in a police station
and more than 4,000 residents of the
East Side?men and women?passed
by it before Mike Molloy, proprietor
of a Polish boarding house, declared
that it was that of John Kremen, a
former coal miner of Charleston, W.
Ya., but more recently employed in
Now York city by housewreckers and
as a stableman.
Aiinougn i\ioiioy was positive In
his identification several headquarters
detectives were inclined to believe
that he might have been mistaken
and that the trunk victim
probably followed a higher vocation
than that of a laborer. Molloy'a
statement was borno out in part by
the calloused hands of tho dead man
and by his stature and muscular de
velopment that such work would
mukfi nnaoililn
The trunk, which was used to dispose
of tho body, was 22 inches wide,
22 1-4 Inches high and 34 inches
long. It was manufactu-er, accordlong.
It was manufactured, accordined
It by tho Petersburg Trunk and
Pag company of Petersburg, Va. Put
for the tin corners, which were
Rlightly dented the trunk was comparatively
new. Tho tray was missing
and detectives hunted for It Tuesday.
One of tho unsolved "trunk mysteries"
was the murder of Moses
Sachs, a Jewelry peddler who was
killed June 18, 1910. Just a year beforo
tho murder of Sachs, Elsie Siegel's
body was found in a trunk in a
room occupied by hor Chinese Sunday
school pupil, Leong Loo, a Chinese
who disappeared, and was accused
by the police as her slayer.
Another unsolved trunk mystery
was the murder of Meyer Welshard,
whose body was found In a trunk on
LIKES CURRENCY BILL
J I'MOK KKNATOK IH PLKASKI?
WITH ITS SI II KM K.
The Sou til, Especially, Will Kriictit
From I'hsnh^o of the Mcwiuro Protecting
the Farmers.
Senator K. D. Smith in stopping in
Florence for a few days before going
to Washington. He in especially
proud of the work that he has accomplished,
but it is not the pride
that vaiinteth itself, but that which
rejoices in what has been accomplished
for his fellow men in the
cause in which he was enlisted.
Senator Smith says thut the people
of this country hardly realize just
what that currency bill means to the
South particularly, lie says that the
South will begin to realize the benefit
from it at once, because the changed
conditions in regard lo money will
make it seek investment, and that in
the future the currency of the country
will be based strictly on the real
wraith of the land, and It is backed
by the land itself.
There can not hereafter be any Inflation
of (he values of ihe country,
nor any contraction thereof, for tho
money which is the measure of the
value is based on and runs with tho
wealth of the country itself, he says.
In the new currency bill the very
essentials of true hanking are carried
out. Money is based 011 tho wealth
of tho people, not on tho debta of the
government, nor the amount of gold
that some individual may happen to
have, nor any set of individuals, and
money becomes really and truly a
medium of exchange rather than a
commodity controlled by a set of men
for thoir own benefit.
For the farmer the benefits may be
summed tip by saying that of the flint
time in the history of this country
the farmer and his business are recognized
in the banking law. The
farmer /and his friends were criticized
for trying to get advantage
under the new law ahead of every
one else, hut thoRe who urged such
argument were ignorant of their real
facts. Senator Smith said that lie
was lined up in the flglit for proper
aid for the development of roads
through government aid and the
viewpoint that ho and his friends had
that with the increase of the
business of the parcel post the government
must need heavier vehicles
and the roads would bo more of an
item than now. As the government
paid for the upkeep of the railroads
in part., by the hire of their cars, so
tho government could and should
contribute a aliaro for tho maintennnr>#>
nf llio vn?.lc nen'1 ^
w ft L..VJ I wnun uouvi 1U1 lliu Met till"
purpose, the people doing: their share,
and tho money of the future and resolved
to keep on In post ofTico department
coming hack to them in
support of tho roads.
Senator Smith said that in passing:
he would like to say that the country
now recognizes in the Democratic
party that the bitter school of the
past. 50 years has mado a lot of postgraduates
in question of legislation
just, fair and equitable, and that to
tho astonishment of the Republicans
the Democratic party has been of
ono mind, one purpose, united,
solid.
FREES FOUR MORE.
Governor Ulonso Parolei a Few More
Negro Convicts.
Governor Bleaso freed four more
convicts Wednesday afternoon, all
uuii^i jmrui^n. j ncy were: KOCKy
Colly, colored, convicted of assault
with intent to ravish at Barnwell in
March, 1010, and sentenced to eight
years on the chain gang.
William Oliver, colored, convicted
at Anderson in February,. 1 000, of
murder with recommendation to
mercy, and sentenced to lifo imprisonment
in tho State penitentiary.
Sumpter Brooks, colored, convicted
nt. Aiken in February, 1010, of murder
with recommendation to mercy
and sentenced to lifo imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
Henry Folder, colored, convicted at
Bamberg in November, 1 000, of murder
with recommendation to mercy
and sentenced to lifo imprisonment
iri tho penitentiary.
This makes the total number freed
by Governor Rlcaso 014. *
Tided to Hell too Cheap.
When Jim Jackson offered to sell
a Greenwood horse dealer a tine mule
for $100 Saturday he was at once
taken into cuRtody. Sunday tho owner,
a farmer, turned up and claimed
the mule which had been stolen from
his plantation.
Tragedy at Still.
Jordan Will was shot, perhaps
fatally, and his wife killed outright
Thursday afternoon at a turpentine
still near Marlow, Ga. Deputy sheriffs
are in search for the supposod
murderer.
Artist Kills Herself.
Mollie Chatfield, an artist, was
found doad in her studio at New
York Monday afternoon with a steel
paper cutter driven through her
heart. Apparently it was suicide.
Pier 11, East river on January 16,
1901, after the trunk had remained
there for a day.
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FLWUi LYNCHINGS
UM.Y F08TYFUUR AKF KLCI1RDHI
FUK Yi AR1913
ONE VICTIM WAS WHITE
Philadelphia I'hikm- Print* AltsU-wt
Showing That Lynching* Decreased
During the Year?Two Credited to
I
tli? North?Defense of Spartanburg
Jail in Noted.
"Only 4 4 lynching* known to be
such beyond doubt have occurred in i
the United StalvH til l your," accord-i
ins; to i. dispnu h frotu Chicago to
tho Philadelphia North American,
"and (hi* is the lowest number for
ninny years, more than 50 being re
corded last year and ns many as 25)
in some previous years. Tho decrease
in lynching in Southern states is attributed
largely to efforts made by
governors, sheriffs and prominent citizens
to prevent mob violence.
"A notable example was set on
August IS by the sheriff at Spartan
burp, S. (J. In spite of the fact that
dynamite was used, lie prevented a
mob from lynching a negro who was
accused of assaulting a while woman.
Later the negro was tried hefore
a white jury and found not
guilty.
"The record shows decided improvement
in other respects than in
numbers. So far as the newspaper
accounts show none of the victims
was burned at the stake. Nor were
any of the Ivnchinps accompanied by
the so-called race riots, which always
added to the number of victims and
intensified antagonism of the white
and black races.
"Harrison, Miss., furnished tho
nearest, approach to a 'reign of murder',
when two drug-crazed mulatto
boys, on September 2 8, ran amuck
and started a riot, in tho course of
which three white men, four negro
men and one negro woman met
death. As the two hoys met death
while resisting capture tho case can
not strictly lie classed as lynching.
"In the 44 lynehings tho victims of
all hut one wore negroes, and all but
two occurred in Southern states.
"North Dakota and Montana were
the two Northern states in which
lynehings occurred. At Ray, N. D.,
Cleve Culbortson, a white man, accused
of the murder of thrco persons,
was taken from jail and hanged.
At Mondak, Mont., in April, J.
r* n . 111 - -
v,. v oinns, u negro, wno Rhot anrl
killed tho sheriff and deputy aheriff
of tlie county, waa hanged by a mob.
"The States in which lynchings occurred
and the numlier in each were
aa follows: Alabama 2, Arkansas 1,
Florida 4, Georgia 8, Kentucky 1,
Louisiana 4. Mississippi .8, Montana
1, North Carolina 1, North Dakota 1,
South Carolina 1, Tennessee 2, Texas
C. There was at least one lynching
for every month in tho year, August,
the hottest month, loading, with
eight.
"Double lynchings occurred at
Dlancliard, La., Cornelia, Ga., and
Pauls Valley, Okla. At Houston,
Miss., two negroos were lynched a
day apart, being accused of complicity
In tho aamo crime. At Drew,
Miss., a negro was lynched by members
of his own raco after ho had
shot and killed two negro women and
two negro men.
"Aa in previous years, murders of
white persons and crimes or alleged
crimes against white women caused
most of the summary executions. The
murders were in tho big majority,
and cases in which attacks on women
were charged showed a decrease.
"Nineteen of tho victims of tho 4 4
lynchings were accused of the murder
of white men. Four were charged
with murdering white girls or
vTuiucu. Aimmpiea criminal assault
is on record as responsible for nine
of tho lynchings. Two negroes were
lynched for frightening white women,
one for Insulting a white woman,
and another for being found
concealed under tho bed in a woman's
room. Two negroes were lynched
for shooting or assaulting white
men, one for robbery and shooting,
one for assisting a negro murderer
to escape, and another for horse
stealing. Tn one caso the crime
charged was not stated."
? ?
Clave Drug by Mistake.
A drug administered by their
mother as medicine was tho cause ol
tho deaths Saturday of Harry and
I.aura Tlfer, respectively 30 and 38
years old, of Altoona, Pa., and of twe
younger children and tho mother her
self two weeks ago.
Rebels Repulsed.
After four days of fighting the Mexican
federal garrison at tho seaport
of Tampieo reinforced by the arriva
of gunboats with troops, amunitior
and dynamite Sunday drove the at
tacking Constitutionalists out oi
of their guns.
Clogged by Dead Rody.
V* hen his car refused to respond tc
full current at an early hour Thursday
morning Motorman H. A. Strong
of Tampa, Fla., was horrified, on ex
amlnation, to find the mangled re
mains of a human being clogging th<
running gear.
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HOW COUNTIES GINNED
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Ki;< <>iu> or Iff LRU IN STATK HT
(X) IN T1F11I TO l>K<\ li*.
.
fltHto'n Tirtal 1.277.M1?Oriungolnirg
I<?R(U With 74.4UK n&lRn anil HjuiriMilmrc
Hwond With Oft,01-1.
Ths table l-vlow gives the cotton
K*1 ti?i*?<! pHor to December 18, crops
of I 9 13 and 1912, in do nth Carolina.
The preliminary total* for the State
wa* in ml o public by the bureau of the
census at Washington. The correotcmI
total and the amounts for the different
counties for the crops of 1913
mid 1912 are furnlahcd for publication
in the local paper*. The quantities
are given In running hales,
counting round as half bales. LI titers
are not included:
19 I 8 1912
Abbeville .... 30.833 27,20ft
Aiken 4 4,622 34,27 1
Anderson . . . 66,4r>2 4 9,7 81
Hamburg . . . 26,866 18,905
Harnwell . . . 53,560 40,326
Beaufort . . , 6.94 9 4,9 1 6
Berkeley . . . 12,8 In 10,352
Calhoun . . . 24,340 19,096
Charleston . . 13,637 9,270
| Cherokee . . . 1 6,637 1 3,321
| Chester .... 29,864 29,986
Chesterfield . . 27,026 29,354
Clarendon. . . SS.37 1 32,854
Colleton . . . 1 8,1 08 1 3,805
Darlington . . 3 4,32 6 3 8,5 3 6
Dillon .... 32,891 36,709
Dorcheater . . 15,922 1 2,371
Kdgeflold . . . 80,8 19 26,051
Fairfield . . . 23,690 24,909
Florence . . . 4 1.0 8 4 36,3 18
Georgetown . . 8,4 6 2 2,9 9 7
Greenville. . . 33,7 1 7 29,81 1
Greenwood . . 28,8 5 5 2 3,133
Hampton . . . IS,097 13,408
Horry .... 9,012 8.878
Jasper . . . . 6,9 9 9 4,5 8 8
Kershaw . . . 2 1,858 24,837
Lancaster ... 21.9 1 5 24,302
Laurena . . . 40,213 33,957
Lee 3 4.968 31,966
Lexington . . . 24,322 20,774
Marion .... 1 6,855 1 7,624
Marlboro . . . 47,940 62,518
Newberry , . . 35,7 9 8 3 1,7 56
Oconee .... 1 8,292 1 2,694
Orangeburg . . 74,493 55,404
Pickens .... 1 6,4 1 8 1 1,206
Richland . . . 2 1,553 1 9,881
Saluda . . . . 23,691 2 2,4 91
Spartanburg. . 65,044 53,1 57
Sumter .... 38,423 33,020
Union .... 19,117 16,797
Williamsburg . 24,1 4 8 22,1 85
York 3 7,1 6 6 3 8,601
Total 1,277,64 1 1,128,850
COTTON BIOKI) STATISTICS.
+.
Figures Given Out by Census Bureau
for This Season.
Statistics of tho cotton seed products
industry for tho present cotton
season, announced by the census bureau
Thursday, show 289,1 18 running
bales of linters had been obtained
and 2, 2 0 1,270 tons of cotton seed
had been crushed from tho crop of
1913 prior to December 1. The number
of cotton seed oil mills and other
delinting establishments activo during
tlxo period prior to December was
850.
Tho number of activo establishments,
tons of cotton seed crushed
and running bales of linters obtained
prior to Deccm.be? 1, by states, follow
:
EstablishStat.es
ments Seed Linters
Alabama ... 81 192,199 23,fir,3
Arkansas ... 43 1 1 7,932 15.299
Florida .... 4 13,80fi 1,397
Ooorgia . . . .1 52 375,881 46,896
Louisiana ... 32 7 1,581 9,348
Mississippi. . . C9 195,700 23,076
Missouri . . . 4 1 3,7 4 9 1,6 4 9
N. C 62 1 09,862 11,762
Oklahoma . . . 58 1 36,649 20,966
S. C 98 172,8G5 1 9,108
Tennessee . . . 23 99,218 12,513
Texas' . . . .220 677,593 101,436
All other states 5 20,94 1 2.005
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FIIllX llACKIOK K.XI'LODFS.
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Allendale Tiiul Narrowly Missed
Death in Firing Cracker.
i
Tdttle Warren Reeves, the 11-year'
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
i Reeves, of Allendale, was seriously
? injured by tlio explosion of a "cannon"
firecracker Wednesday at his
home. An iron pipo stuck into the
ground was being used for holding
tho crackers. A very largo one waa
? dropped into tho pipo, and dischargI
(ntr ?-??
i ??t> uuiui u uio ill I it? ItJllOW COllld
i rnovo out of range, struck him In tho
) lowor part of tho stomach, Inflicting
. a terrlblo wound, Just as the discharge
from a gun might hare done.
Tho doctors say tho wound is not
necessarily fatal, but very serious
. requiring a number of stitches.
t
I Auto Huns Down Couple.
i While crossing Rroadway at Sixty.
fifth street in New York early Frif
day, Richard Lee, a Rrooklyn merchant,
and his wlfo were run down
by an automobile. Roth were rendered
unconscious and Mrs. Leo died
while being taken tr? ? hospital.
Tried to Lynch Ilim.
An effort was made by a mob of
. armed citizens at Chestertown, Md.,
3 Saturday night to enter the jail and
lynch Norman Mabel. *