The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 23, 1903, Image 5
A Talk to Spi
By Lilian Bell.
first thing a woman shoi
T deliberate scheme of happines
all the world, what she would
own fate. Think it out luxu
possibility of achieving it 1
dream of a palace and a yac
Take your time about it. Th
iup detail. Then come on do
LmmI tive to think of the things y
something reasonable.
Now think of the way you could bos
fou trim hats? Can you darn and oral
fcf animals? Do sick birds get well uud
Or are you a business woman by i
tnd subtract without-chewing a lead pe
Were you born in thq city and into
rould you give anything on earth for a
from the city as to? bar you from going
too lonely, nor so near to other people ;
feklrt and a sun-bonnet all day?
Oh. you office women on small salar
[ ' to make both ends meet, deafened by
jdlnded by city sights! Get out into t
fend what life holds for you.?Harper's J
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What Inventioi
By John Graham Eroc
?HEAPXESS and abundf
the story of machinery
combined "with a seede:
required for human lab
to produce a bushel of 1
In 1830 to 2.2 minutes
the time of animal lat
and one-half minutes;
cost of human and a
harrowing; per bushel o
Before Whitney's invention it requi
fc> take the seed from one and one-half
do in the same ten hours more than
teles can be marketed in a season and
Ironder.
A linen sheet that once cost thirty (
tours. A steam shovel can do in eighi
, ttlfflculty in ten hours. The dirt may b
minutes that would require with a sho\
fcrnsher will perform the work of 00O m<
torn fort to every class in the communit:
rantage greater than to large sections
Bstricts. Yet the rapiu growui ol xut*
mult of the machine. I choose this in
ft is largely against such that labor has
5 y . It is seen that hundreds are thrust
re set to work. The Hoe press prints,
journals In a single hour. To gather th
per and finally to distribute the print
feeing occupation to many more than the
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Board of Trad
Ninety Per Cent, of Tr
By Will Payne.
BOUT ninety per cent,
. ^ I Y I are pure speculation, eon
fi I do not expect to reeeiv<
I This speculative trading
. r iUL 0 the most useful of the
I ? I could not possibly be ti
I 1 B a liquid asset everywhe:
n' tive business means sira
r . \ tion. You may buy a co
to advance In value, pay for it, go to t)
borrow on it the major part of the purcl
+1?a Innt1
capital oniy eilOTl^Il IU St'i uit" iuv ivaav
value. In a highly organized liquid m;
this lumber of mortgaging and borrowii
the margin. Virtually nobody would bi
and get the actual grain, inspect it,, tin
was properly insured, guard against d
' Was In store, and when he wished
who wished Just so much wheat of just
all this for him, the purchaser's part o
broker and paying down the margin wl
through fluctuations in price. This is w
Wheat its staple value.
The Board of Trade is a court, too.
are continually busy trying commercial
putes which arise in the transaction of ,
Without the Chicago Board aud th
its methods and follow its prices, the gi
to pieces, and every bushel of cereals i
have less value.?The Century.
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The Lack of ]
Some Reasons Are Ad
Iish Writer.
TT'"or? T unoil en
nii* uiiici u??%> i tvuu uv
j| K husbands at the prose
I I performer facetiously
111 forward." The gifte<
8 I I opinion that the fault
y I "were opt to specialize I
I would be likely to rot
instance, ho held that
is charming to sit ues
flciently faT-sighted to calculate that,
ber at a dinner of which she had had tl
would not extend to the gravy of the
Again, he conceived that the smartl
s man loves to flirt, but he hesitates
etages of flirtation, because he is doul
stand the strain of the costly costume*
slve etceteras with which she will cvit
Now, there Is no doubt something i
bull's-eye plump in the middle. The r
department of life, at the present mom
ard very much higher than it has ev
upon thirty years ago as a palatial am
dowdy and third-rate establishment co
which have sprung up in response to tl
nifieenee.
And while the standard has been v:
if ia ntilv natural that, having gr<
have raised our ideal of a wife (or 1ms]
The result is that the ordinary cvci
coles of her dainty little boots In a frui
I drear.is and finds that the everyday y
does not fill the bill at all satisfactory
y We all remember the little man :
j/ hour, bobbed in and out of a little hou
the -weather was going to do. But. by
Impassible for them both to bob out
arrangement with regard to the god-lik
they do by any chance happen to mee
one or the other of them are already ir
? It must often have been observed
men and women, who are content to j
right and settle do~n and live happ:
gloriously and adorably beautiful (at t
>etray the fact that she is reading thii
I tie so very exideantes that they find t
of a cat-loving and parrot-tending old
come one has brutally described as ' tot
iiL- y. '
1
nsters.
lid do, who sits down to think out a
s, is to close lier eyes and think, out of
[ rather do if she were mistress of iier
iriously, luxuriantly, regardless of the
Then gradually come down from your
ht and a private car to the next host,
ink each dream out iu all its f;:s inatiwn
by degrees?for it is never attracou
can afford?until you have reached
t earn money, if you had a start. Can
>roider and mend lace? Arc you loud
ler your care?
nstiuct? Can you count and mulriplj
ncil and using a ream of paper";
the heritage of the hall bed-room, and
little cottage in the country, not so fai
in when the frogs at night make you
is to hinder you from wearing a shorl
ies! You poor starved souls struggling
city noises, harassed by city priceshe
suburbs, or even the country, and
3azar.
7 JS7
(i Has Done.
>ks.
ince of grain foods Is explained when
lias been told. The steam-going plow*
r and a harrow*, has reduced the time
or (in plowing, sowing and harrow ing
ivhcat on an average from 32.8 minute:
at the present time. It has reduced
or per bushel from fifty-seven to om
at tlje same time it lias reduced tin
pimal labor In plowing, seeding am
f wheat from four cents to one cent,
red the work of one person ten hour."
' pounds of cotton. The machine wil
4000 times as much. That 10.000,00(
that cloth is so cheap is no longer ?
lays* Labor can now* l>e made in screr
t minutes what one man can do witl
e unloaded from a train of cars in si:
el a day's work cf ten men. A stone
mi. Few* material blessings bring mor<
y than good roads. To none is the ad
of the relatively poor, as in country
se highways is almost exclusively tin
ore striking form of invention bocaust
raised its most angry protest,
iside, It is less easily seen that masses
folds, cuts and pastes 72,000 elglit-pag<
o mntprinls. make and deliver the raw
;ed sheets dally in twenty States musi
i machine dislodged.
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e Functions.
ansactlons Speculation.
of all the transactions on the l>oan
sisting of trades made by persons wh<
e or deliver a bushel of actual grain
is not only the most prominent, but i
board's functions. Without it then
be broad market which makes whea
re in the United States. The specula
ply the perfection of a trade orgaulza
rner lot which in your opinion is likel;
be savings bank, mortgage the lot. nn<
tase price, having Invested of your owj
ler against loss through fluctuation ii
arkot like that in grain and stocks al
lg is eliminated. You simply pay dowi
ay wheat for a rise if lie had to go on
d a storehouse to put it in. see that i
eterioration by sweating etc., while i
to sell, look around for a custome
such a sort. The Board of Trade doc
onlv in iriving *au order to :
lick will insure the broker ngninst los
hat makes the broad market that give
Its directors and various committee
oases, and hearing and settling the dis
an immense volume of business,
e several lesser exchanges which cop;
rain trade of North America would fal
aised north of the Mexican line wouli
> *
carrying
vanced by a Thoughtful Eng
ime remarks on the question as to wh
nt day seem to be what the itiueran
describes as "so backward in comin
1 writer on this subject was of th
lay with the ladies, who, he though"
in almost any direction save that whie
ider them good housewives. Thus, fo
r the intellectual and book-loving gii
;t to at dinner, but her partner is sul
if it were a case of sitting opposite t
ie ordering, her knowledge of Brownin
roast mutton:
v dressed beauty is a being with who:
about going beyond the preliniinar
jtfvil whether his kinking account wi
the luxurious lingerie, and the expoi
lently expect a husband to provide lie
in this: but it scarcely seems to bit th
eal fact of the matter is that in ever
;ont. "we are beginning: to set our stan<
or been set before. What Avas lookc
il luxurious hotel is to-day classed as
mpared iritli the colossal earn van.--eric
lie demand for greater luxury and ma:
ilsed in the matter of the creature con
>wn more exacting all round, -we shorn
mud) to a sort of unattainable degree,
ryday young -woman is Avearing out ti
tless search for the god-like hero of ht
oung man, Avith freckles and red hai
jr.
tnd -woman who. in childhood's happ
,se to let the world at lahge know avht
the nature of their mechanism, it avj
at once! Well, that is very niuen n
e hero ami the adorable heroine, who,
t, are sure to find that the affeetious <
dsplaced elsewhere,
that the dowdy and insignificant llti'
recognize themselves as such, marry a
ily ever after. But the girls who ai
his point the blushes of the "Best Girl
5 upside down as I write it!) are apt 1
bemselves settling down into the glooi
-maidhood, just because they are wh:
) beastly particular."?Modern Society.
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I LABOR RESOLUTIONS
Manufacturers 5peak Cut Against
Boycotts and Lockouts.
; THEY RECOGNIZE RIGtil OF LABOR.
' Labor Commissioner Wright Adj
dresses the Convention?The Rss1
olutions.
Xcw Orleans. Special.?Interest in
I Tuesday's session of the Xational As
sociaticn of Manufacturers ccr.terea in
i the report of the resolutions comciitt
tee, which was made at noon. The labor
question immediately came to the front
' in the shape cf a resolution embodying
a declaration of principles, declaring
against boycotts and lockouts, recognizing
the right of labor to organize.
I but "without interference with the lib
! erty of employers or employe," denying
the right of unions to fix wages
and pledging the association to oppose
all legislation not in accord with the
foregoing principles. A motion to adopt
1 the resolutions brought a protest from
[ Jas. F. Tater, of Cincinnati, who dc(
manded that the resolutions be printed
and held over until tomorrow. Mr.
^ Tater was supported by Mayor Jones,
? of Toledo, and a rising vote was de?
manded. The motion to defer action
1 was lost by a heavy vote and the resolutions
were adopted. They contain the
' following declarations:
1 "1. Fair dealing is the fundamental
' and basic principle on which relations
1 between employes and employers
should rest.
'*2. The National Association of
. Banufacturers is not opposed to organ.
izations of labor as such, but it is unj
alterably opposed to boycotts, black
lists and other illegal acts of interferr
enee with the personal liberty of em?
ployer and employe.
% "3. No person should he refused
employment or in any way be discriminated
against on account of membership
o^non-membership in any labor
i organization, and there should be no
r discrimination against or interference
t with an employe who is not a member
of a labor organization by members of
such, organizations.
' 4. With due regard to contracts, it
is the right of the employe to leave his
employment whenever he sees fit and it
is the right of employer to discharge
any employe when he sees fit.
"5. Empjpyers must be free to em
ploy their work people at wages mutually
satisfactory, without interference
1 or dictation on the part of individuals
) or organizations not directly parties to
i. such contracts.
g "6. Employers must be unmolested
e and unhampered in the management
of their business and in the use of any
methods or systems of pay which arc
just and equitable.
"7. No limitation should be placed
y upon the opportunities of any person
1 to learn any trade to which he or she
i may be adapted.
a "8. This association disapproves abI
solutely of strikes and lockouts and
a favors an equitable adjustment of all
differences between employers and
employes.
1 "9. The National Association of
* Manufacturers pledges itself to oppose
r auy and all legislation not in accord
s with the foregoing declaration."
i At the morning session Carroll D.
s Wright, Commissioner of Labor, maue
s an address in the course of which he
said: "The workingman has risen from
ignorance to intelligence, and as he
s has reached intelligence he h2S become
more or less a greater complication
in industrial affairs. In his ig7
norance he did not strike; in his intel1
ligence he does strike. The next step in
J the development in his intelligence
will be that he will not strike; that he
will be able to accommodate himself to
conditions because he will understand
them better. He will be able to recognize
his rights in relation to the rights
of others and to know fully what is
9 necessary for successful production,
where he now understands only a part.
This means of course the organization,
the continuance, the perfection, of laF
bor unions. Some of the methods or
[t laoor unions are to be condemned. So
g are som eof the methods of the cape
italistic organization to be condemned,
tt but because they cannot get on toll
gether does not mean that either or
|f both should be destroyed. They must
. get on together. The great question for
employers and employes is: Will they
in conduct of their mutual affairs ex0
ceed the militant spirit, or invoke that
g peaceful consideration which leads to
the adoption of the highest elements
S of business interests?"
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11 Not Guilty of Murder.
Newport News. Va., Special.?Wilr*
liam S. Shelby, alias "Lanky Bob,"
0 Ryan, was acquitted of the charge of
' complicity in the murder of Amos Dysart
in April, 1902. by a jury in th*j
( Elizabeth City county court Tuesday.
The jury wan out only ten minutes.
i Sholhv indirfpfl at fhp laot tp-ni i.f
s the court with H. J. Pritchard, a Phoebus
saloon-keeper in whose place it
v was alleged Dysart was murdered for
^ the purpose of robbing him cf a sum c?
money won at cards in the house
ic earlier in the evening. Pritehard's at>i
torney asked for nolle prosequi when
r the verdict in the Shelby case was returned.
It way denied and Pritchard
y will be placed on trial tomo: row.
[I Mill Tied Up.
,c Fitchburg. Mass., Special?The pow11
er was not started at the Parkhill Cotton
Mills here Wednesday, on account
,f of the strike of the weavers and loom
"j, fixers in Mill C, the weavers in Mills
.e A and B having been out since the
[ > middle of last month. In all 1,200 cot:o
ton mill employes are now out of
m work. The weavers of Mill C objected
!t' to doing work left unfinished In the
I otner mills by tn? original strikers.
SUPPRESSING THE BOXERS.
Meads of the Criminals Are Cut Oil
and Exposed to Public View.
Washington, Special.?Minister Con- i
gcr reports from Pepin, under March |
12. that an attempt has been made i:i |
the district of Yu Tien, about 1,700 j
miles west of Peitin, to reorganize the j
Boxer movement, but was promptly j
suppress l by the rnergetic action of j
the Vieoroj. the ir.ir.o::s Yuan Ship-Ki. I
who stood like a rock against the j
Boxers in 1D00. Several soldiers lost j
their live r in the attempt to arrest toe j
criminals. Several of the c.iminals
were kilic.l and ten others wcreajres'.ud
who are to- he 1 chcaded and their heads
exposed. Mr. Conger says only such
prernpe end sr. ere measures will prevent
similar organisations in other localities.
and it. is hoped and believed
Your.n Phih-Ki will continue as ho has
begun. The native official report on the
upr'sing is as fellows:
The Tung Chon Yungping brigade.
General Linn Tlang. and the district
magistrate of Y;?. Tien. Cheng Chin, report:
"In the matter of Boxers drilling at
Liu-Hu-T&o. in the district of Yu-Ticn,
we sent petty officer.1: to make thorough
search and on the 2Cth of the first
moon (February 23rd. *933). they arrested
Ling Chiang and other men and
women. 10 in all. who were practicing
Bexer arts and who now as!: for orders
as to cow w? shall deal with them."
"To this reply we received n.3 follows:
Tho contents of the report have
been carefully noted. Proclamations
hnvj been issued strictly forbidding
anv revival of the disturbances of
'900. which were originated by the
3,-xcrs. but Tuan Lun-Chiang and his
paty. having no regard for the lav;
assembled a lot cf peopla to form a
band of Doxcrs and drilled them In the
dead of nieht. When they were being
searched by the civil officers they dared
to resist arrc-jt and killed and
wounded several soldiers. Thereupon
seven cf them wore killed, men and women.
and their head 3 exposed as a
warning. Ten others, men and women,
were"arrested and their swords, spears,
flags, cbarms and pledges, all preofc. of
their evilceslgns. wore brought to light
I shall depute Trotai Chang Hai-Luan,
cf the military secretary, of the regular [
force, io proceed at once with all haste
and make a thorough investigation and
deal with the matter areording to Ihe
regulations already in force. As to the
ten men and women in custody, let
them be carefully tried and afterwards
beheaded and let their heads be sent
to the place cf their rebellion and suspended
as a warning of all and a testimony
to the rigor of the law. We shall
expect also that some plan to devised
to secure the remainder of the band.
Let every exertion be made to root it
out as to prevent further trouble. Forward
this with all haste."
Thp nroelmnaticn of Viceroy of Yuan
Chih-Kai, shows clearly the rigor of
the measures taken by him to stamp
out the Boxer movement. These persons
are to be beheaded: Those dealing
in magic spells to befool the people;
those practicing evil teachings and evil
arts; those banded together to commit
violent crimes; soldiers in sympathy
with Boxer societies.
Heavy fines r.nd penalties arc imposed
on householders who furnish'
quarters for Eoxer meetings; on Boxers
themselves and on tbose who tail
to expose Boxers to arrest. Altai s
propagating evil teachings are to be
destroyed and a reward of 200 taels is"
offered to any one delivering up bound
any Boxer. Smaller rewards ore offered
for information on which arrests
can be made. The magistrates are to
be impeached for failure to prosecute
any Boxers.
Pokin, Special.?Chen Cbuen Hsunn
has been appointed viceroy of Kwr.ng
Tung and Kwang Si provinces, and Hsi
Liang has been made viceroy of
Szcheun province. Both are strong
men and probably will suppress the rebellion.
Panama Assembly Adjourns.
Panama. Special.?The Assembly of
the Department of Panama has ended
its session. Among other important
matters which were settled wa3 the
placing of a duty of 25 per cent, on all
merchandise Imported to the isthmus,
and the approval of a contract for the
lighting of Colon, made with the Colon
PAmnttTIV This
HiIUL'LI IU i:iuuiuiauu^ vv/u*|/m.v.
company was organized in West Virginia.
The contract with it was made
in 1898. but was suspended a year
later by the governor of the department
when the revolution broke out.
River Continues to Fall.
New Orleans, Special.?The river
continues to fall here, registering 19.7
feet. If the present rate of decline
continues for a week all the temporary
levees along the commercial front will
*" rru" ?Uumolifl wpnt
I disappear. IIIC nuirv ill 11 j tuti.iw I
along successfully except for a deep
hole, which some difficulty will be
found in crossing.
Strike Declared Off.
Pittsburg. Special.?The strike of the
i painters and decorators, which has
j been on in the Pittsburg district for
| nearly two months, was partically
J settled Sunday, at a mass-meeting. The
i men agreed to accept $3.40 for a day's
I work cf S hours, and pay their own car
fare to and from work. Last year they
leceived $3.20 and had their car fare
paid. This year they demanded $3.60
j and car fare. The compromise proj
posed by the masters was agreed to
1 4Y\ck ann 1 n. r?nm -
j with tne proviso mm.
J mittce should endeavor at another conference
with the masters to secure
street car fare and some modification
of working rules.
News in Paragraphs.
The German admiralty proposes to
increase the standard of marksmanship
\ with naval guns of light calibre, and
j at the same time provide a reserve of
I seamen trained in laying and aiming
J a gun by offering increased pay to
I those who, after receiving a special
| training in gunnery, re-engaged at the
I end of their three years' compulsory
j service for a similar period. Such men
! in the home fleet will receive $150 ad:
ditional at the end of theip additional
three years' service.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL "
Industrial Miscellany.*
On April 2 the Manufacturers'
Record announced that the Mecklenburg
Cotton Mills c' Charlotte, N. C.,
was to to organized for the erection
of a plant. Permanent organization
has baen effected during the week, and
it is stated that a $100,000 mill will
be built for the manufacture of lowgrade
cotton and waste. Wm. Coleman
has been elected presiacm; r.. >*. i
Thomas, vice-president, and R. L.
Tate, secretary-treasurer. Messrs. Cole
man and Thomas, Robert R. Ray, John
M. Morehead, B. D. Heath and S. B.
Alexander, Jr., are the directors.
Last week reference wr.s made to
statements emanating from Rome. Ga..
that the Massachusetts Mills in Georgia
at Lindale. near Rome, was to build *
another $500,000 mill. The Manufacturers'
Record has been authoritatively
informed that there Is no truth in the
report, as further additions are not
contemplated at this time.
Three Methodist colleges of southwest
Virginia, namely: Emory and
Henry College for males; Sullins College
and Martha Washington College
for young ladies, will be consolidated
when the coming school year opens.
Dr. R. G. Waterhouse, of Emory and
Henry, will be president of the combine.
The Iowa Indians who live near
Stroud. O. T.. number among their
most valued possessions a scalp quit
five feet square, \Vhieh Is supposed to
be "good medicine" for all diseases.
The scalps of which it is composed
were taken by the ancestors of the
Iowas 150 years ago.
The People's Furniture Co., cf
Little Rock, has been incorporated
with" a capital stock or $i,ouu. me
incorporators are F. B. Osborne, T. P.
Murray, E. E. Murray and others.
The planing mill plant of Martin
Wlegrand. of Washington, D. C.. was
partially destroyed by Are last week,
in\\)lving a loss cf $3,000, which is ,
covered by insurance.
The Ritter Lumber Co., of Saginaw,
N. C., will establish a branch mill at
Jolmscn City, Tenn.. instead of Elizabethton,
a3 first intended.
The Eau Claire-St. Louis Lumber
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $400,000.
Textile Notes.
H. B. Nea! of McDonough, Ga., was
mentioned last week as organizing *
company to build cotton mill at
Neals, Ga. He contemplates develop- i
ing 10,000 horse-power at Neals Shoals I
and building an electric plant to transmit
said power. A million-dollar cotton
mill is contemplated :n connection
with these developments. Surveys are
now being made of the property. W. T. ,
Whatley of Newnan, Ga., is engineer
in charge. ,
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, Atlanta,
Ga., has purchased all the machin- i
* 1 "A AAA-oninrllo 51 rl
ery required iur no ov.vw?
dition announced last week as to be
built. Messrs. W. B. Smith Whaley &
Co. of Boston, Mass.. and Columbia, S. j
C.t are the engineers-architects in
charge of the improvement, which will ,
cost, as mentioned last week, from ,
$250,C00 to $300,000. Bids on the construction
of the buildings will be
wanted in two week3.
Morton Manufcaturing Co. will be <
organized to build the cotton mill reported
last week as proposed at Clover, ]
S. C. W. E. Morton will be chosen president
and general manager; William P. j
Smith, secretary, and M. L. Smith, |
treasurer. Messrs. E. W. Prcssly, H. L. j
Wright. W. E. Morton. M. L. Smith and ,
W. B. Smith will be the directors. Fur- ,
ther details are now under consider- 3
ation.
Messrs. John Ramsay and Thomas E.
Gore of Paterson, N. J., have made a
proposition to the business men of
Clarksburg. Va., for the establishment '
of a silk mill in the latter city. It is
proposed to form a local company, with i
capital stock of $150,000. Mr. Ramsay 1
is president, and Mr. Gore, secretary,
of the Ramsay & Gore Manufacturing ]
Co., which has a $50,000 silk mill at i
Paterson.
David Armstrong-of Columbia, N. C.,
contemplates establisning a mill for
the production of knit goods. He invites
prices on the necessary machin- !
cry and on water-power equipment to i
suit. i
Liberty (S. C.) Cotton Mills will increase
capital from $75,000 to $175,000.
Doubtless this action will be followed
by an enlargement of the plant. Company
now has 5000 ring spindles and 1
170 looms.
It is rumored at Huntsville. Ala.,,
that the Madison Spinnings Co. will
increase capital from $100,000 to $200,000
and double its plant 7,200 spindles.
A report to this effect was current
several months ago, but authoritative
statement did not follow.
Klots Throwing Co. of Carbondale, i
Pa., New York office at 487 Broadway, j
is having plans prepared by L. C. Holden,
1133 Broadway, New York, for its
silk mill, previously reported as to be >
located at Cumberland, Md. Arthur ,
Cowsi.U of Washington, D. C., has con- ?
*" * A - 1< ' 1 '1 ' M Or Kilt f |10
I ran 10 erect me uunuiug, um, ?.??.
machinery has not been contracted for.
A 600-horse-povnr steam plant will be
required. '
A. K. Clark of Augusta, Ga., states 1
that there is no truth in the report,
mentioned last week, that he will
build a cotton factory at Jackson, Miss. J
American Net & Twine Co.. Auniston,
Ala., contemplates increasing its
capacity to a considerable extent this .
year. A new engine-house and a mois- r ;
tening department will be contracted ;
for at once. ? 1
Messrs. John Blood & Co.. Seventh
and Somerset streets, Philadelphia, 1
Pa., contemplate building a knitting |
mill at Cordele, Ga. They are now cor- ,
responding with the Board of Trade
relative to the enterprise. They operate
750 hosiery machines at their home <
plant. i
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contemplate building a branch mill at
Charlotte, N. C.
Knoxville (Tenn.) Wollen Mills has
let contract for a new pressing equipment.
This is a ?600,000 company.
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Matters of General Interest 1?
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Down In D'xie.
A tornado Tuesday morning killed 10
JJ'JI 3UU.1 III AlilU2Iiia.
Fire in the Beaumont oil field. Texas
caused loss estimated at $1,090,000.
Representatives of the city Chambers
o 1 Commerce at Richmond formed a
State Eoard of Trade.
A bill was offered in the Virginia
Senate providing for a State Board of
Arbitration to settle labor disputes. 4
Operators and miners, in session at
Hunting. W. Va., are unable to agree
on a scale, and a widespread strike is
threatened.
Conductor Montgomery Thompson,
who had been with" the Baltimore and
Ohio for 42 years, was killed near Martinsburg.
West Virginia.
The West Virginia commission which
has a $50,000 appropriation, met at
Charleston to make plans for the exhibit
at the St. Louis Exposition.
After being out only 10 minutes, the
jury at Newport News acquitted Policeman
W. S, Shelby, of Washington,
charged with the Dyaart murder.
The Manufacturers' Association, at
New Orleans, passed resolutions condemning
organized labor, and listened
to addresses by Commissioner of Labor
Carroll D. Wright.
At The National Capital.
The new Chinese Minister paid hjs
respects to Secretary May. ' \
Target practice has developed weakness
in the gun supports of the new
battleship Maine.
Russia has specifically promised to
maintain an open door for American
trade in Manchuria.
R. B. Crc-ecy, who served during the
Spanish-American war. on the Panther,
is among those designated by the Sectetaf-y
of the Navy for examination for
appointment to second lieutenants of
the marine corps.
At The North.
Rabbi Gustav Gottkeil died in New
York city.
The Pennsylvania Legislature completed
its business and will adjourn today.
The investigation into "broodling"
charges, at Jefferson City and St. Louia
Is being vigrously pressed.
One of the worst storms in years has
been prevailing along the New Jersey
Delaware and New York coasts.
Directors of the company which controls
the New York "L" road refused to
grant the demand of the trainmen ani^
a strike is expected.
The steamer John H. Stari.i, the nonarrival
of which at New Haven bad
caused much anxiety, was located in
Huntington bay, Long Island.
The police of New York failed to
Identify the body of the murdered man
found in a barrel on the street Tuesday
morning or to get any clue as to the
perpetrators. '.j
An Indianapolis. Prosecutor Rucktflshaus
announced that the second trial
l.1 Dr. J. C. Alexander, demonstrator
pf Physicians and Surgeons, charged
with connection with grave robbing,
tiaa been postponed indefinitely. ^4 s
Jt*. A. vviaener, tee rniianeipnip capitalist.
has offered to the city his entire
art collection providing, an art
museum is erected at the Greene street
entrance to Fairmont Park. Mr. Widmer
says that the collection of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilstach will be offered.
From Across The Sta.
A congress of the Latin peoples was
opened in Rome.
President Loubet arrived at Algiers
and was given a notable international
welcome.
The Albanian soldier who shot the
Russian Consul at Mitrovitza wa3 sentenced
to death.
.Q. convention under the auspices of
the Ulster Farmers and Landlords' Union
criticised the Irish Land bill.
a PonstantinoDle diSDatch says: "M.
Stcherbina, the Russian consul at Mitrcvitze,
who was shot by an Albanian,
sentinel there recently, Is dead.
The army and navy officers charged
with smuggling goods Into Porto Rico
will not be prosecuted. They will pay
fines equal to double the amount.of
duty.
Miscellaneous flatters.
An international anti-alcohol congress
began in Berlin.
Emperor William is described as now
expresaing warm admiration tor
French Socialist leaders.
Artiiicial ice is sola ey tno govuni- '
mcnt in Manila to all persons in the
military service at 50 cents per 100
pounds.
A London dispatch says: "Miss Ellen
Thorneyeroft Fowler, the author, wast
married last week, to A. L. Feikin, at
rotenhall.
Ensign Hussner. of the German Navy
will be court-martialed for killing an
irtilleryman who failed to salute him
properly.
The German Government begun an
investigation cf the arrest3 of nativesunder
American protection on Ruk Is
lana, in tnt di uuu^,
An alleged plot to kill Gencral'TWo
who commanded United States troops
in the Philippines, has been revealed by
in examination of papers captured
from toe Filipinos.
It is claimed by those in a position
to know that the Irish Land Bill in
the English Parliament will become
i law.
A Yorkville, S. C., special to the
Charlotte. N. C. Observer, says: In
the case of Samuel McCravpn, charged
with the murder of Thomas GDouglass,
of Charlotte, at Fort Mill,
on November 30th, last, the jury today
returned a verdict of manslaughter.
Sentence was suspended pending
the hearing of a motion for a nev
trial.
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