The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 15, 1914, Image 5
HUIM IRUST BILL
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MEMBERS PREPARE TENTATIVE
DRAFT OF MEASURE
FQLLQ V WILSON'S IDEAS
Penalties Are Mude Individual in Accordanco
With President's Wisli?
Entire Measure lias Not lleeii Submitted
to 11 i in?Interlocking Directorates
Feature Important.
A general outline of the tentative
draft of anti-trust legislation prepared
by majority members of the
House Committee on the judiciary for
action by the full committee, subject
to a conference with President Wilaon,
became known in Washington
Friday night. While members of the
committee talked with the president
some weeks ago, the proposed bills
ao far have not the administration
stamp, and they will he discussed at
* conference between the president
and the committeemen immediately
following the president's return.
The bills, drafted after conferences
between Chairman Clayton, Representative
Carlin, of Virginia, chairman
of the trust sub-committee, and
Representatives Floyd, Arkansas, McCoy,
New Jersey, and others, cover
these three main points:
First?Tn<crlocking directorates.
Second?Trade relations and
prices.
Third?.Injunction proceedings and
damage suits by individuals.
In every case President Wilson's
idea of providing penalties for individuals,
as well as for corporations
in case of violations, has been followed.
It was decided it would bo
better to draft several bills Instead of
incorporating all anti-trust, proposals
in an omnibus measure, supplementary
to the Sherman Act. An attempt
to define combinations and
wni^iMi ac'.rs in i i'sinuiu or tratio, a^
far as possible, lias boon made in the
bills already prepared.
The bill to inhibit interlocking directorates
is regarded as the most
important of tbe tbree. It applies to
.ba n k s and trust companies and to
every industrial corporation enlaced
in interstate trado. Tbe tentative
draft of this measure provides that:
"After tbe 23rd day of December,
1014, an officer or direcor of a Fed
oral reserve bank, a branch bank,
national bank, or banking association,
or any State bank, banking association
or trust, company admitted
to membership on a Federal reserve
bank shall not he an officer or director
of any other hank, banking association
or trust company, or of any
financial corporation, institution ol
association engaged in the business
of banking.
Nor shall he engage in the banking
business individually or as a member
of a firm or association engaged in
auch business; nor shall he be an
officer or director of any other corporation.
organization or association
the principal part of whose authorized
or actual business is to buy. sell
or bold the stocks, bonds, securities
or evidences of indebtnesses of corporations,
organizations or of such
atock. bonds, securities or evidences
of indebtedness, or to negotiate
loans to corporations, organizations
or associations; nor of any other corporation.
organization or association
owning stock of or an interest in
corporation, organization or association
conducting principally such authorized
actual business.
"A director of Class A of a Federal
reserve bank may be an officer ot
director, or both an officer and a director
of one member bank." The
other two classes are prohibited in
the currency law from holding the
other offices. This part of the measure
was drafted by Representative
McCoy, and is understood to have
the approval of other judlcary members.
The effect of the industrial corportion
feature of the interlocking directorate
bill, the committeemen say
would be of the most sweeping character,
cutting out the interlocking
arrangements and enabling directorah!
nu on /I oAnt?*/\l 4 ^ ? 1
it >i \i vuimui ptinM ill <l IH r^f
army of now men, instead of keepinp
tho industrial oontrol of various line?
of activity in the hands of a few.
Under its terms no officer or director
in any industrial corporation engaged
in interstate trade would be
permitted to he any officer or director
in another industrial interstate
corporation in allied business. Manufacturers
of railroad cars, locomotives,
railroad rails and structural
steel, or men engaged in mining or
selling coal, would be barred from
becoming directors or other officers
or other emnloyees of railroads engaged
In interstate commerce. The
bill would not become effective until
two years after passage, to allow adjustment
of business arrangements.
Tho other measures would tako effect
immediately upon passage.
The measure designed to stop
agreements for regulation of prices
has drastic provisions. It is designed
to stop the fixing by wholesalers
of prices at which the manufactured
article shall be sold to tho public and
to prevent "big business' from entering
into contracts to control
COTTON GRADE PLAN
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SENATOR SMITH'S EXPERIMENTS
SECU RES RESULT.
Government Tests Show That Texas
Loses $10,000,000 on Cotton Such
as Smith Plan Proposes to Save.
Experiments which were ordered
by Congress at the suggestion of Senator
E. I). Smith to determine the difference
in spinning value between the
various standard cotton grades, have
proceeded far enough to sustain the
senator's theory that this difference
is by no means so great as would be
thought from the price paid the producer
of the staple.
Out of this investigation, which is
being made by the department of
agriculture under the supervision of
its cotton expert, I)r. N. A. Cobb, results
are accruing which will be of
vital importance to the cotton growers
of the South. The experiments
have been carried on with a total of
about 1 2 0 bales, half of eastern and
half of western upland cotton, which
was put through the Danville, Va.,
mills under the regular process used
for commercial cotton.
Parallel tests were made at the
Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical
| college in South Carolina, and addi
tional chocks will ho obtained from
technical laboratories elsewhere before
a final report is published.
Enough has been learned from the
tests already accomplished to justify
the following semi-official statement
of their significance:
"It. has been shown conclusively
that much of the lower grade cotton,
for which a decidedly lower price is
paid, works into .iust as good yarn
and fabric as slightly more exnensive
grades. In the case of Texas this
year much of the cotton was hadlv
stained and weathered in the field,
but these experiments have shown
that the bleaching process used in
the mills is effective and cheap and
has no appreciable effect on the
strength of the yarn."
At a hearing before the House
committee on agriculture experts for
the department recently said that this
stained and weathered cotton in
Texas has sold for 0 or 7 cents a
pound, when it was intrinsically
1 worth 10 to 12 cents a pound, as
' demonstrated by the Danville experiments.
The total loss to the farmers
of Texas alone this year on this ac'
count, one of the experts told the
committee, will probably reach $40,1
000,000.
As an object lesson to give practi,
cnl effect to the ontoomo of the spinning
experiments the department of
agriculture will prepare fifty or more
sots of exhibits, showing the grades
of cotton handled, tho amount of
, waste In each, and the character of
the yarn produced, both before and
after bleaching. These exhibits will
ho installed at the various agricultural
colleges which are interested,
and with as many cotton exchanges
1 m care to have them on view as an
1 aid to the grower.
WTIcSO* ITKTiPS.
1
' Sends Oonfribntion for Monument to
t (list Rifles.
A check for $25 has been received
' at Anderson from President Wood'
row Wilson to ho added to tho fund
being raised for the erection of a
monument in the town park at Wllliamston,
Anderson county, to the
members of the Gist Rifles, organized
there before the war and serving in
the front rank as a part of the
Hampton Legion. One of the mem
hers of the company was Ross Ken
nedy, after the Rer. A. R. Kennedy,
5 D. D., a son of the distinguished edu1
cator, the Rer. John L. Kennedy, a
! gallant soldier, who was wounded at
the second battle of Manassas. After
' his entry into the ministry he marrled
Miss Marion Wilson, eldest
sister of the president.
Thoso who have the enterprise in
charge thought it proper to write
President Wilson of the movement.
, and ho has responded promptly with
. tho contribution of $25.
; Tho Gist Rifles was named for Oov
ernor Olst and was commanded by
> Gapt. TT. J. Smith. It contained 221
; at tho start, and pave a Rood account
i of Itself In tho struggle between tho
States. An association was formed
. soon after tho war, and meetings
. have boon hold from time to time In
, the Willlamston Park. Now, how.
ever, death has Invaded the ranks
. until there are hardly enough left to
. hold an annual meeting.
i ...
' prices of any commodity.
The measure on injunction and
damage suits would give individuals
1 as well as tho government tho right
' to start injunction proceedings for
1 any attempt at injury. Tn civil proceedings
begun by tho Federal government.
under tho Sherman haw, in
which a judgment or final or interlocutory
decree has been entered,
holding the defendants guilty of coni
duct prohibited by the Act, it would
permit Individuals claiming to be injured
by such conduct to he admitted
as a party to the suit, with the same
relief as if they bad brought an independent
suit. This would give the
Individual the benefit of the results of
a proceeding by the government.
MM AUIIM HIVn
HUlKdS <[ llj NAIil Fill I*
TO UNFIID ST AI k FA
RUIIL AUMY MfllKlllU:
llordcr Patrol Disarms the Mexican
llost, Taking Into Custody ? .-NOn
Soldiers and Si\ ( morals, and
( Ives Stiooor to I ,.">Ot) Civilians
Who Pled Prom Itebol Approach.
Twenty-eight hundred Mexican
Pedoral soldieis, six generals, 200,0
0 0 rounds of ammunition, two cannon.
lour large held pieces and 1,5 00
civilian refugees were in the custody
of the United States army border
patrol Sunday as the result of the
Pedoral evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico.
and the occupation of the Mexican
village by den. Francisco Villa's
rebel forces.
The distress of the refugees is intense.
They have scant food and no
che'.tor. Men. women, children, dogs,
chickens and cattle are packed together
in a space covering several
acres. About them are scattered all
the goods and belongings and baggage
brought in the Might from
>,iinaga.
Otlior rosults of tlio rebel successes
that place (Ion. Villa's army in undisputed
control of a vast section of
Northern Mexico are: Federal (lens.
Mercado, Castro. Orpinal. Romero.
.Vdnno and Panda are in custody of
the United States troons awaiting disposition
hv the wra depart men
Con. Pascnal Orozco and flcn. Ynez
Salazar. Federal volunteer commanders.
escaped along the border to
some point remote from Presidio.
Salazar was wounded. They were
ncoonmnnied by Gen. Carnveo and
Con. Ro.ias and three hundred cavalrymen.
Salazar and Orozco are
being watched for in the United,
States for Indictments, charging them
with violating neutrality laws.
Cop. Panda said he was certain all
the Federal troops escaped. Charges
of cowardice were made against
Orozco. Salazar and Rojas. Gen.
Mercado said these generals aban-1
donod their troops at the beginning
of the battle and thus weakened the
Federal defence.
The only generals who nult the
battlefield with honor, Gen. Mercado
said, were those who accompanied
the Federal army across the Rio
Grande. Gen. Mercado reiterated
that the Federals were compelled to
evacuate because of lack of ammunition.
Tie said his soldiers only had
an a vera fro of 7 S onrfrwtrrr?a nonti
After the confusion incidental to
evacuation the battlefield opposite
Presidio at daylight revealed a scene
of desolation. The whole swoon of
land lending to the heights of Ojinnpa
had been ploughed by the frantic
rout of the Federal army and the
caver scramble into the village by
Fen. Villa's rebels.
A cannon toppled muzzle downward.
a blood-stained sabre sticking
In the muddy river bank, rifles
thrown In heaps, the crumpled forms
among the cactus and mosquito, and
the eyes that peered here and there
from among the glazed racks were
nmong the mute suggestions of what
had gone before. Those who went
across in behalf of the Red Cross
found many wounded who for hours
had remained uneared for. Many
were traced in the trenches by their
groans. It was the belief of the
American army physicians that many
soldiers died because neither Fed
era is nor repels Had a hospital corps.
The 1,500 civilian refugees who
rushed across tho river when Oen.
Mercado went through the streets of
O.iiriaga, telling the people to flee,
suffered as much distress as the soldiers.
Scores of women camp followers
had lost their children in the
scramble and were crying piteously
in the corral provided for them on
the American side. Others were
without, sufficient clothing and all
were drenched from wading through
the river.
The scene of disorder on the
American side was almost as had as
on the Mexican. Scores of Federal
guns had been thrown into tho river
and were protruding from the mud.
Federal and rebel wounded, who had
crawled to the river hank side by
side, were wading across, aided *by
American soldiers. Mexican women
and children, who escaped from the
corral were trudging up tho mountain
road toward Marfa and had to be
brought back.
Suddenly made guardians of an
entire foreiern cnrriuon nmnnroia
t, 0?,. . .MX/'1, QVUV HIO (l,,U
all, the American border patrol considered
what was to be (lone with the
Mexican soldiers. From a military
standpoint, the situation was regarded
as being without a precedent, since
in time of peace the United States
army never has had to surround, disarm,
hold in custody and care for so
large a body of aliens. Less than
r>00 cavalrymen handled tho panic
stricken mob of almost ten times!
their number. Though many Fed
oral soldiers had loaded rifles and
well filled cartridge belts, the rounding
up and disarming was done with
out any untoward incident.
Poth Villa, the victorious robe*
leader, and Mercado, the defeated
1 Federal commander, standing on ojh
PRESIDENT IS PLEASED
MIG 1M SINKSS IIKSPONDS TO J
SIM KIT or m il 'OKMS.
Wilson Kefuses to Address Missisl.cu'i^laimc
Pccnuso He is
PiT'cnipicd Willi Trust Message.
president Wilson Friday expressed
his gratification that business in
'ho country was adjusting: itself not
only to changes brou lit about by re riM
legislation but to the spirit of
'he times generally. In the course of
n info'inal sneecli to a committee
f'-om the Mississipni legislature,
which had called on him at bis residence.
the president said that this
hace of public affairs was upper
mi?t in his mind.
Tho committee had oomo to invite^
Mr W'lson to address tho legislature
of thoir state. but tho president told
them ho was too dooplj ahsorhod in
''is message on anti-trust reform to
'oavo earlier than Ids scheduled time
or to tarry on routo to Washington
1 audatorv resolutions that had
hoon passed by thoir legislature wore
road to tho president by tho committee.
Mr. Wilson, nf or smilingly
totting his callers that they had o\toltod
him too highly, explained that
ho had come South for a eomnloto
ro?-"t that ho had hoon hononttod
"rontlv and was going back to Wash-j
inpton both phvsieallv and mentally!
pronarod for a period of hard work.
tto referred to tariff and currency
reform as having hoon accomplished
hv congross through slntn'v "sawing
"'oo't" and going ahead with an outlined
program. Tho thing that
nleased him most, lie said, was the
I war iho httsiness interests of the
country seemed to ho acting. Mo
?u'idp no reference to the recent dissolution
agreement of the American
I Telephone and Telegraph comnnny
or the withdrawal of the Monran
| poni^anv from many of its directorships.
V>nt those who hoard the president
went away with the impression
hat ho had these things in mind.
The president said lie expected to
read his anti-trust message to conrro?s
as soon as possible after his re
n*"n to \V"shimrton. He remarked
hat he could pot overstay his vacation
In the South, as he expected to
confer with Democratic leaders In
cor cress as soon as he arrived at the
canltal.
The meeting with the committee
was pr'vate. Represent at Ive Harrison.
who accompanied the visitors,
?mld the president's speech was significant
in his attitude toward hip
business, that the chief executive
seemed to have a disposition to work
out the trust, question in a peaceful
constructive wav and In the spirit of
common counsel.
heed as incendiary.
Aiken County Negro is Accused of
Hurning a Itnrn.
Monday night Sheriff Howard of
Aiken county received a telephone
message telling him that a barn belonging
to Samuel Thomas, who lives
about 12 miles from Aiken, had been
burned and that It was thought to
have been sot on fire. Early Tuesday
morning Rural Policeman Samuels
and Robinson were dispatched
to the scene, with instructions to
make a thorough Investigation. Pollcemans
Samuels and Robinson returned
late Tuesday afternoon with
John Henry Williams, a nocrn. who
is charged with tho burning.
A shoe ht> had on when captured
corresponded exactly with tho track
which led away from the barn to the
place where he was captured. He
protests his Innocence. Ho had been
whipped by parties to whom the barn
belonged about two years ago. He
left and came back about a month
ago.
poslte banks of tho Rio Orando, discussed
the incidents in Mexican history
in which they had just taken a
part. Gen. Villa sat triumphantly in
the little adobe palace on the Plaza
in Ojinaga. Gen. Mercado sat in the
camp of tho American border patrol.
"It was hopeless," said Gen. Merrado.
"We could not have resisted a
charge by the rebels. It would have
been a massacre. I ordered the
evacuation and flight to safety across
tho river on grounds of humanity.
"Tho loyalty of the government
forces was unquestioned. There was
no indication of a general desertion.
When I saw there was no hope I had
to command the soldiers to Ipuva t
ehose to places the lives of my men
!t\ the care of the United States rather
than to risk them to the rebels.
We are grateful for our hospital
asylum here."
(Jen Villa said: "The credit for
his victory is due to Gen. Torlbio
Ortega. We knew the Federals only
had a limited supply of ammunition.
Our tactics were to exhaust that supply.
Gen. Ortega started an attack
to draw the Federal fire. He succeeded
well.
"For a whole week the Federal
garrison kept firing hack at us with
Mttle effect. We did not go near
enough to endanger our men. Then
" e withdrew for six days to obtnin
more ammunition. Our renewed at'sck
settled the conflict. The Federals
were exhausted and the flight
to the United States began Just as
we planned."
THIS YEAK AHIAB
MASON'S ClMlHNtilNNINGSTOPS
THAT IIF 1912
13 MILLIONS UINNFD
(iovcniiiMMil l'Nthnnte Plans <?innings
at 1 d,:idd,07 I Kales, Which
is About inn.(MM) Kales More I
Than for the Same Period in Pre-j
ceding Crop?This State's Share.
The eighth cotton ginning report
of the census bureau for the season,
issued at 1 0 o'clock Friday morning,
announced that 1 1,111,074 hales of
cotton, counting round as half hales,
of the growth of I!) 1II had been ginned
prior to January 1, to which
date during the past seven years the
ginning averaged 0.1.1 per cent, of
the en tiro crop. Last year to January
1 there had been ginned 12,I
0 0 7, 10.7 hales, or 0.7.7 per cent, of
Ihe entire crop: 11.117,002 hales, or
0 2.1 per cent, in 1011, and 1 2,1 0.7,208
hales, or 0.7.1 per cent, in 1008.
Included in the ginnings were
10 1.20.7 round hales, compared with
77,000 hales last year, 00,227 hales
in 1011, 100,202 bales in 10 10, and
1 11,0 10 hales in 1000.
The number of sea island cotton
bales included were 7 4.120. compared
with 07,2.77 bales last year, 10.7,0SS
hales in 1011, 80,0 11 bales in
1OO0. and SO,.728 bales in 1 008.
Winnings prior to January 1 by
states, with comparisons for last
year nnd othor big crop years and
tho percentage of the entire crop
ginned prior to that date in those
years, follow:
Alabama.
Year. Clinnings. P.C
1 r? I 3 1 ,4 6 7,9 4 3 ....
19 12 1,289,227 9 7.1
191 1 1.??1 S. r? 1 0 9a.r,
1 9 0 S 1,202,22.8 97.8
Arkansas.
1 9 1 2 922,289 ....
1912 722,118 9 2.0
1911 7 8 0,229 80.6
1 908 9 1 0,422 91.4
Florida.
1 91 3 65,269 ....
1 91 2 56,04 2 95.3
1 91 1 86,421 91.5
1 908 66,855 94.7
Cieorgla.
1 9 1 3 2,276,477 ....
1 9 1 2 1,756,824 96.9
1 91 1 2,623,91 7 93.9
1 908. 1,930,783 97.7
Louisiana.
1913 41 0,086 ....
1 91 2 3 66,402 97.8
1911 352,503 02. 0
1008 453,2 1 0 07. t
Mississippi.
1 0 1 3 1,1 4 3,007 ....
1012 03 0.41 5 03.2
1 011 1,047,200 80.0
1 908 1,522,160 93.0
North Carolina,
1 9 13 750,604 ....
1912 857,1 89 94.0
1 91 1 075,223 80.0
1908 6 4 7,505 94.7
Oklahoma.
1 01 3 804,4 57 ....
1 01 2 047,452 04.3
1 01 1 000,400 88.0
1 90 8 5 2 5,610 95.1
South Carolina.
1 013 1,342,988
1 01 2 1,1 73,210 05.8
1 01 1 1,508,753 80.2
1908 1,176,220 96.7
Tennessee.
1 91 3 3 5 4,549 ....
1912 a 248,503 92.9
1 01 1 381,281 88.7
1 908 31 7,010 94.9
TV xits.
1 91 3 3,608,080 ....
1 91 2 4,401,740 90.0
1 91 1 3,020,059 95.0
1 008 3,480,007 96.1
Other States.
1 01 3 1 07,105 ....
1 01 2 82,257 01.3
1 01 1 1 1 0,208 70.1
1 008 67,777 92.7
The pinnitiRs of sea island cotton,
prior to January 1, by states, follow:
Years. Fla. C.a. So. Car.
1 0 1 3 .. ..25,1 00 41,708 7,3 80
1 01 2 .. ..21,085 30,543 6,620
1 91 1 .. ..38,001 03,000 4,708
1009 .. ..2 7.5 3 2 4 9.9 4 4 1 2.1 sr.
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INJURIES PROVE FATAL.
i Little Laurens Roy Fearfully Scalded
i>y Falling in Pot.
Ar the result of scalds and burns
received three days ago. Jack Dendy,
aged 7, eldest child of Joseph J.
Dendy, a prominent farmer and busll
noss man of Laurens county, died
Sunday night at thp family home.
I While warming himself before a flro
under a pot In the yard, the lad accidentally
fell into the vessel of boiling
water and was terribly scalded
from his neck to the waist line.
Five l?io When House Falls.
Three men and two girls are supposed
to be in the ruins of a building
tbit eollapsed at South Tlend, Ind.,
0*t?r6ty.
PLAN TO MEET ATTACK
FEDERALS SAY EACH DAY GIVBH
THEM STRENGTH.
They Await Villa's Rebol Troops
Which Are Supposed to ho Gathering
for the Attack.
Returning Thursday to Ojinaga
from a roeonnoitoring trip, flen. Pa?cual
Orozco, commander of federal
volunteers, said ho had encountered
only tho outposts of the rebel army.
The rebels wore believed to be concentrating
under personal direction
of flon. Francisco Villa, to present a
solid front when they again maroh
on Ojinaga.
All nine generals who remain In
the trenches at Ojinaga, with tho
1,000 Huerta soldiers, said every
hour of delay gave them opportunity
to prepare resistance and (Jen. Villa
would have to increase tho rebel
force greatly to repeat tho six day's
battle of last week, when the rebels
came within 4 00 yards of the Ojinaga
trenches without being a bio to take
t hem.
(Jen. Francisco Castro, commander
of the federal regular army, said he
was confident his army never would
lie beaten by Villa. He said he was
well aware that tho impending conflict
was of momentous importance
to tho Huerta regime. It would settle.
he said, a question whether the
Mexico City government was to maintain
its authority in the north or
whether the "lawless rebels which go
bv the natne of constitutionalists :irt?
to have full sway."
The federal commnndor said his
soldiers bad endured hardships, bad
gone without food for days, rapped
and footsore, they bad marrbod over
Ibo waterless desert as a token of
tbeir loyalty and be did not believe
tbey would run at the sound of battle.
"Well never retreat, but all of us
will die right bero in Ojinaga If our
ammunition gives out," said (Jen.
Castro, himself garbed in a torn and
dusty uniform as evldenco of tbe rerent
fighting.
Reports have reached Federal
headquarters that since tbeir withdrawal
from the battle Monday the
rebels had not only been strengthened
by reinforcements from Chihuahua
but they also had obtained
quantities of ammunition. The federal
army has only what ammunition'
was left after tbe battle and has no
means of replenishing its stores.
A story of the death of Col. Cuilly,
relative of tbe rich Terrawia family,
who Joined the federal army as a
volunteer, was told today by a priest.
Tbe priest said Cuilly, accidentally
shot by his men in last Sunday's ontragement,
bad requested when dying
that the rumor of his shooting be
kept from tbe rebels, as they might
consider tbe federals bad become excited.
FEW MOKE MADE Fit EE.
Please Pardons One and Paroles Several
Other Criminals,
Among those who received exectv*
tive clemency on the first of the year
were:
J. Caesar Watts, white, convicted
at the October, 1911, term of court
for Lancaster county, of murder,
with recommendation to mercy, and
sentenced to life imprisonment in the
Stato penitentiary. Granted a full
md free pardon.
TTenry Patrick, white, convicted at
tho November, 1903, term of court
for Marlboro county, of murder, with
recommendation to mercy, and sentenced
to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary. Paroled upon the
condition that he remain sober.
Harvey Jackson, white, convicted
at tho April, 1 900, term of court for
Chesterfield county, of murder, with
recommendation to mercy, and sentenced
to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary. Paroled during
good behavior.
William Praswell, white, convicted
In Richland, September, 1913, of
highway robbery and larceny, and
sentenced to three years. Paroled
during good behavior.
Hollle Leslie, colored, convicted in
Abbeville in 1911, of murder, with
recommendation to mercy, and sentenced
to life imprisonment. Paroled
during good behavior.
Ludie Heard, colored, convicted In
Greenville September, 1910, of assault
and battery with intent to kill,
and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
Paroled during good behavior.
Oerellct Is Sunk.
Tho part of tho Oklahoma which
remained nfloat after tho disaster
and menaced navigation, was sunk
Wednesday by tho revenue cutter
Senaca. It took fifteen explosive
shells, fired from six-pound guns, to
send the derelict to the bottom.
Cotton Is Humeri.
Four hundred bales of cotton were
destroyed and 20ft wero damaged In a
flro which destroyed tho Northwestern
compress at Howie, Texas, Sunday.
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Kllleri by Train.
Mrs. Fllza Kennory, of Ridgeway,
was struck and killed by a Southern
train Thursday She Is supposed to
hare been walking down the track.