The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 28, 1903, Image 3
About Liars.
Mr. Editor:-I bave heard of iiars
and liars, little liars and big liars,
yoong liars and old liars, black liars
and white liars. I do not believe the
man is living who never told a lie ;
not that it is anything to his credit. I
am not going to say anything about
the liars in the Jim Tillman case:
they will receive plenty of airing at
; other and better hands. I do not be?
lieve a lie is justifiable for any cause,
although I have heard people argue
that way.
It is an easy thing to lie ; it really
seems easier than the truth. There
are so many ways to lie ; in our looks,
your tone of voice, your handshake,
your conduct, your speech.
Some people speak of black lies and
white lies. I believe that in the sight
of the great God they are all black.
His word tells us that all liars shall
have their part, in the lake that burns
Ai th fire and brimstone. We hear of
hurtful and harmless lies, but they
are all hurtful, if not to the commun?
ity, to the inidvidual. You have heard
of bad, but you never heard of a good
lie. Just here my better naif with a
shake of the index finger, warns me
about the use of my pen. Gonzales
pen, she says, put him in his grave.
Am I to expect such r. fate at the
hand of the liars? My wife is a truth?
ful woman. I do not think she would
consciously, intentionally, premedi?
tatedly meet a lady at the door, pass
her arm about her, kiss her and say,
"I am so glad to see you," if she did
not mean it ; but it seems so natural
; to some of the sex to do so, so excus?
able, a part of polite manners, but
really is it right.
That everlasting pistol, but brother,
there are some things more deadly
than the pistol. The tongue, that
'* unruly member, full of deadly
poison, " that untamable tongue, that
tongue of the tale bearer and slanderer
that "secs on fire the whole cause of
nature and is set on fire of hell,9 is
more deadly than all other instruments
of torture and suffering. The lowest,
the meanest the vilest occupation is
that of the mud-slinger. The man who
lies for "mirth is not excusable, how
muchless the man who lies for mis?
chief.
But I started to speak of liars gen?
erally.
The most contemptible thing in your
community with or without legs
whether two, four or a thousand, is^
tho professional liar, especially if he
be an old man. I stopped at a station
the other day and a hoary head was
rallied by the youth of the place for
oeing a liar, and the thins: laughed at
it. An accomplishment? What an ac?
complishment. Boys, be truthful don't
lie, or you may form the habit. I
know men who have lied so much that
one could not behve them on their
oath. The truth however plain and
simple, would suffer' some disparage?
ment at their hands.
I was incited to pen these lines by a
lie I heard the other day. I have heard
smay but this one beats them aJL Per?
haps 1 ought not, but I will tell what
it was! ? hoary head declared that
the downpour of rain, at his place was
so great that the rain which fell
through tile bunghole of a barrel could
not escape, notwithstanding both
heads of the barrel were out O hoary
head, quit lying, whoever yon are, and
get ready to die. Hagood.
As a Pr?caution.
About this season of the year ; and
until the approach of the -summer
months, small-pox begins to make its
appearance in different parts of the
State. This is accounted for by -experts
of. much experince as due to the as?
sembling of large crowds who attend
circuses, state fairs and varieras other
forms of amusement. It frequently
happens that the disease prevails in !
the rural sections for some time be?
fore it is reported to the State Board
of Health ; and persons from these in- j
fected houses attend these circuses
and other crowded places of amuse?
ment carrying in their clothing: and
baggage the germs of the -disease. '
Coming as these people dp from all
over the state, and also neighboring
states, it is easy to see how wide?
spread the source of infection may be.
Successful vaccination is tte only
known protection against small-pox. .
The City Council and Board of
Health of Sumter have always endeav?
ored to keep the population of Sumter:
Taccinated as near as it is possible.
Heatlh Officer E. I, -Reardon advises
all presorayvho have not been sooeess
fully vaccinated to be vaccinated na-j
mediately as this insures protection at.
home "and abroad. This warning has
been repeated time and again, and it
?hould be heeded. The virulency of
the disease, and the death rate has in?
creased enormously in the past two
yeats.
While there is a little small-pox in
the state now, still the season ap-;
preaches when experience teaches that !
it spreads rapidly. There is norie in ;
this section of "the state, and there j
need fee none if every one will be vac?
cinated successfully.
Laad Office Agent Arrested.
_ j
Portland, Ore., Oct. 26.-The United S
States grand jury today returned an
indictmeat against Asa B. Thompson,
receiver of the land office at La
Grange, Ore. The indictment charges
Thompson with soliciting money to in?
fluence his official decision for approv?
al for homestead -applications which
have been held up for insuffi?
ciency of proof.
There are three counts in the in?
dictment, and among the witnesses
against Thompson is Charles Cunning?
ham, a well known stockman of east?
ern Oregon. It is alleged that Thomp?
son approached Cunningham and offer?
ed to have 10 homestead applications
approved in consideration of 8500.
The other counts concern the alleged
dealing with Asa Robinson, to whom
he is alleged to have offered his servi?
ces for $50 in the case of each applica?
tion.
Tbe interior department has bad
agents in this State for many months
past investigating alleged frauds in j
tb? entry of public lands, and the in?
dictment of Thompson is the first re?
sult of the investigation.
History keeps on repeating itself. A I
man named Thomas Cain killed another |
man named Charles Able in Galveston
a few nights ago. |
j& Guayaquil, Eucador, Oct. 24-The
Cotopaxi volcano has been active for
the last few days
TEN LIVES LOST SN SUBWAY.
Disastrous Cave-in of Tunnel in
New York.
Twenty Men Were at Work and
ail but Six Caught in a Terri?
ble Fall of Rock Which Fol?
lowed a Blast.
New York, Oct. 25.-Ten lives were
lost by the cave-in of the roof and
walls of the subway tunnel at 195th
street last night, and four presons were
badly injured. All of the dead and
injured were workmen and most of
them Italians. Following is a ilst of
their names : Timothy Sullivan, fore?
man; William Schnette, elctrician;
Guiseppe Barone, Stanzione Brune;
Louisl Tippoi. Injured: Juno Pasquale
Batasto Velantio, Alphonse Aramtello ;
Juno Baski.
The accident was the most disas
terous that has occurred in the con
sruction of the subway. At the point
where the cave-in occured a gang of
twenty men were at work in the tun?
nel, which is about 110 feet below the
surface.
Rufus Chun, general superintendant
of the tunnel work, said today that
$wo converging seams had appeared in
the roof of the tunnel during the day
work on Sunday. The presence of
these seams, however, was not believ?
ed to indicate any more dangerous
character of the rock than previously
had been encountered, ^although it was
found necessary to prop the roof with a
number of uprigbfeltimber braces.
The tunnel was being bored by open?
ing a perpendicular embrasure iu the
face of the bore, and blasting the sides
to the right and left of this embrasure.
Three blasts were arranged by the
drillers, the holes being charged well
toward the roof. The d rile rs then
withdrew, and the three blasts were
set off in rapid succession by electri?
city, loosening large quantities of
earth and rock. The drillers say that
about ten minutes elapse to allow the
smoke to el?ar way before Timothy
Sullivan, the foreman, and Electrician
Schnette approached, the latter to
string wires and hang lamps to light
the way. They' were followed by six?
teen worknjen. The vanguard of the
gang hand* reach de the stone when a
rumbling sound was heard. Those in j
the rear had just time to turn- and
run, when, with a deafening crash,
hundreds of tons of rock fell on the ;
men at the face of the boring. When
the roar had ceased the cries of injur?
ed wo*rknien echoed through the tun?
nel. Two negroes, in charge of a tram?
car, rushed to the opening at 200th
street and telephoned an alarm to
police headquarters Bes re ves were
immediately ordered to view the
scenes, while ambulances were sent
from several hospitals.
Charity Begins at Home:
Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis was called
the other day to see a sick woman "who
is not a member of Plymouth cfrnreb,
though she lives nearby on Columbia
Height, says The New York World.
While he was waiting in the parlor
till she was ready to receive him he
was entertained by her young daughter.
"I am greatly pleased that your
mother thought of me in her illness, '
said Dr. Hillis. " Is her own pastor
away?"
"No," replied the daughter, "oh,
no, but she was afraid she had -some?
thing contagious, and she didn't want
to run any risk."
The mosquitoes seem to have 'gotten
away with the federal and state offi?
cials down in Texas. It is about time
now for the theory of these insects pro?
ducing and spreading yellow fever to be
exploded. The former idea as to mos?
quitoes was that their sting was anti?
malarial-that the inoculation of poi?
son from their bite tended to prevent
yellow fever and other malarial dis?
eases; that their presence in malarial
sections was a wise and beneficent pro?
vision of nature to help man fight
against this dread disease of the
swamp lands. But science has gone
backen nature and now declares th a'
the mosquito produces these diseases.
The theory that mosquitoes couSd not
generate in swamps and stagnant water
when kerosene oil was used seems to
have been proven to be incorrect also.
The Jersey people say that they have
snore of them and larger ones w&eie
they ha^e used the oil profusely.
jurors Flipped Coins.
Chicago, Oct. 17.-A dispateb to
The Tribune from Lawrenceville, 111 ^
says:: In the Lawrence circuit court
here, a jury trying the case of the State
vs. George Ryan, charged with assault
to commit murder, could not reach a
verdict after bieng out thirty-six
hours, when one of them suggested
flipping nickels-beads to convict, tails
to acquit. Each juror put a nickle in
a hat, a shake and toss and the nickles
fell on the table, six an^ six, necessi?
tating another toss. The second trial
showed four heads and eight tails, re?
sulting in acquited. The "court accept?
ed the verdict, but did not know how
it was reached until today. The State
will get a new triai and the jurors
will be indicted.
The price of diamonds, it is said, has
advanced about 25 per cent over last
year's prices. But, then, cotton is
higher than it was last year, and the
farmer who has to buy diamonds may
come out even. But the fellow who
lias to buy both diamonds and cotton
is getting it in the neck.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 24.- The
Tennessee Iron and Metal company
filed a petition in bankruptcy today, in
which its liabilities are scheduled at
839,316, and its assets at SS. The
creditors include Cincinnati, Chicago
and other northern firms.
Dr. Gladden, an Ohio minister, says
the solution of the negro problem is* a
long ways off. This is the oipnion cf
all who have been studying the prob?
lem.
The steel trust promoters are now
washing their dirty linen in the water
squeezed out of the stocks.
London, Oct. 25.-King Edward has
I approved the appointment of Sir
I Henry Mortimer Durand, the British
ambassador at Madrid, as British am?
bassador to the United States to suc?
ceed the late Sir Michael Herbert.
1 ?> i.
I LAW AS TO COTTON FUTURE DEBTS.
j After Ten Years it is Determined
by the Federal Court That Such
Debts Must be Paid.
Special to The State.
Greenville, Oct. 25.-Two years ago
there was an interesting case relating
to cotton fntnres in the United States
circuit court, in which an action was
brought by J. H. Parker & Co., cotton
brokers of New York, against Wm. A.?
Moore of Spartanburg county, claim?
ing $4,300 as being due to the firm
upon a series of transactions in cotton
futures which were handled by them
for Mr. Moore. While the market kept
advancing the firm placed the profits
to the credit of their customer, but
when a decline took place the brokers
kept the account alive at their own
expense, sending statements to Moore
and asking for remittances to make
good the loss, to which the defendant
made HO reply, and finally the account
was closed with Moore In arrears to
the brokers in the sum of $4,300, for
which the firm sued him in the United
States circuit court.
In order to prevent judgment being
entered against him, the defendant
Moore relied upon the statute of this
State which declares null and void any
debt growing ont of speculation in
futures, where the intent of parties is
not to buy the comodity. but only to
gamble upon the fluctuations of the
market. Moore testified in accordance
with the statute, and =Judge Simon
ton held the case from the jury, ren?
dering a decision in favor of Moore.
The circuit, court of appeals reversed
this decision and ordered a new trial,
with instructions that the case be al?
lowed to reach the jury.
The second trial took place on Wed?
nesday, and resulted in a verdict for
the plaintiffs, the sum of $2,250 being
awarded to them against the estate of
W. A. Moore, who has died since the
suit began. The testimony taken at
the former hearing was submitted to
the jury, to which very little was add?
ed, though interesting points of law
were discussed by attorneys on both
sides. Judge Simonton instructed the
juey that Moore could not take advan?
tage of his own wrong to have the
contracts declared null and void under
the statute, even though he never had
any intention of actual delivery un?
less it was shown that the plantiffs
were cognizant of such intention on
the part of Moore and were equally
guilty of disregarding the law of this
State. ! i
Messrs. C. P. Sanders, of Spartan?
burg and Thos. P. Cothran of this
city represented the plaintiffs, with
Stanyarne Wilson of Spartanburg and
A. H. Bean of this city appearing for
the defendant.
TRAIN WRECKER CONVICTED
OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE.
Jury Out Only Five Minutes.
Staunton, Va., Oct. 27.-In the Au?
gusta county court here today John
Kennedy, alias Crawford, charged
with wrecking a Norfolk and Western
passenger train near Greenville, Va.,
last December, and with the murder
of Engineer Bailey of Roanoke, who lost
his life in the wreck, was convicted
of murder in the first degree, the jury
being oct five minutes. Sentence will
be imposed at a later day in the term.
Kennedy stated some time ago that he
was certain he would hang and at?
tempted to break jail twice. He plead?
ed guilty to the charge. He is 19 years
old and intelligent. His accomplice,
James Bailey, will be tried tomorrow, !
and the trial of Mrs. Ellen Bailey, the ?
aged motner of James Bailey, who!
Kennedy claims planned the wreck, j
will be tried next.
It is not surprising that any self- ]
respecting -man should be quick to!
clear himself of the suspicion of hav- :
ag been a member of the jury that ;
disgraced itself in the late mock trial;
at Lexington, hence Mr. Marshall;
Shealy, of Irmo, Lexington county,
writes The ?tate as follows: "Please!
allow me space to inform my friends '??
in Columbia and the public generally !
that I am not the Marshall Shealy
of the Tillman jury and I have no
sympathy with that verdict,"
The State board of health of Ohio
has, says The State, opened its bat?
teries on the toy pistol. Statistics
presented to the board show that the
last Fourth of July 600 persons were
killed, 100 made blind, 1,000 injured
through this agency. The toy pistol
has, within a short time, been more
destructive to human life than all the
great guns of the great navies in a
generation. The gunner wiio will dis?
mount that terrible engine of destruc?
tion from popular favor will do human?
ity a great service. It is clear that
either the toy pistol or the Fourth
of July should go.
On Tuesday night a negro by the
name of Johnson stolejja bale of cotton
from Mr. R. M. Aman of Heriots X
Roads, but failed to get away with it
as his wagon broke down on the road
and he was forced to abandon it at
Riley Jenkins' house where it was
found the next day. Johnson has been
arrested and an investigation is being
made to ascertain whether or not
Jenkins was an accessory to the theft.
There has been less back lot] gamb?
ling this year ; among the negroes than
usual, owing to the vigilance of the
police. Every fall the professional
negro gamblers reap a rich harvest by
fleecing the country negroes who come
to town, sell their cotton and fall into
their hands. These vagrant gamblers
who should all be on the chain gang,
lie in wait for the country negroes
with money, fill them full of "blue
steel'' and rob them of their year's
earnings. The police bave done well
to keep the gamblers in check, but they
would do better if they could send
them all to the chain gang.
OUTLOOK FOR PEACE
BETTER IN Fi EAST.
Japanese Minister Says Negotia?
tions Progress.
Some Speculation on Outcome.
Tokio, Japan, Oct. 26.-Baron de
Rosen, the Russian minister, and
Foreign Minister Kornur resumed
their conferences today. The Japanese
cabinet also held another session.
Premier Katsura, in an interview
today, said he deeply regretted the
sensational reports circulated in
Europe which, be added, were un?
founded.
Referring to the diplomatic situation
the premier remarked :
"The Japanese government pursues
its negotiations in ^strict accordance
with the spirit of toe Anglo-Japanese
alliance, which aims at the preserva?
tion of peace and the status quo. It
is only fair to presume that Russia is
actuated by the same peaceful spirit in
which the dual alliance is extended in
the far east. I therefore fail to see
why the present negotiations should
not lead to mutually satisfactory re?
sults. In any case, nothing in the
present situation warrants any alarm."
Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 26.-It is
reported that the result of the elder
statesmen's conference on Saturday
last was^o confirm Japan's intention
to press Russia for a definite conclu?
sion of the negotiations.
The Corean government has protest?
ed against the Russian fortification of
Yongampho, on the Yalu river.
Paris, ' Oct. 26.-The foreign of?ice
has been advised that the Russian
foreign minister, Count Lamsdorff,
expects to arrive in Paris tomorrow
and remain here until Saturday, con?
ferring fully with Foreign Minister
Delcasse on questions relating to the
east and far east. Much importance
is being attached by the officials here
to the meeting. During the present
strained relations between Japan and
Russia the understanding has prevail?
ed here that the Franco-Russian alli?
ance had the same operation in the far
east as in Europe, but the extent of
French sympathy in support of Russia
would depend on who was the ag?
gressor. . %
An American official conversant
with the "French policy pointed out
today that the Franco-Russian and
British-Japanese alliances operate
strongly to prevent an outbreak of
hostilities between Japan and Russia.
Each agreement contemplates support
when the ally is attacted.
Therefore, Russia and Japan defer
taking action, not wishing, by being
the aggressor, to sacrifice the benefit
of the alliance.
Schwab and his Methods.
Serious charges are made against
Charles M. Schwab, late president of
the Steel Trust, by Daniel Leroy
Dresser, who claims ti^at he deliber?
ately planned to wreck the Shipbuild?
ing Trust, involving enormous loss to
investors. The revelations which have
come forth daily have been startling,
and they give the public a concrete
idea of the methods adopted by these
kings of finance in their efforts to
form great combinations. After draw?
ing from the confiding public nearly
twice the value of his Bethlehem Steel
Works, Schwab, according to Dresser,
proceeded undeT power of his mortgage
to get possession of all the other
plants of the shipbuilding company
itself. "Dummy directo rs,n who re?
present nothing, were produced in
court by counsel for the creditors, and
further proof of the Schwab scheming
was given. These fake directors did
not even know where the plants in
which they wree financially interested,
were located, nor could they tell from
whom they had received blocks of
stock. They did not pay for it, and
they were merely the tools of a man
who sought great power and wealth by
fleecing the army of investors, willing
to put faith in a venture because of
his past record which appeared to be
honest.
This Dresser version of Schwab,
however, is not in accord with what
the public has been familiar. Unless
he was anxious for unlimited control,
or was determined to even old scores
with his business enemies, it is diffi?
cult to understand why he should have
resorted to dishonesty. If he was not
the prime mover himself the tstimony
is sufficiently clear to indicate that he
was cognizant of every crooked step,
and it is openly charged that he was a
willing party to underhanded practice,
the purpose of which was to send the
shipbuilding concern into bankruptcy,
so that all the profits and benefits
would accrue to Schwab.-Greenville,
(3. C. ) News.
Negroes Want Bishop of Their
Own Race.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 26.-The bishops
of dioceses in the Southern States,
who have been attending the Pan
American Conference of Bishops of the
Episcopal Church, conferred today
with a delegation of negro rectors and
laymen regarding the question of a
negro bishop in the United States.
Bishop Dudley, formerly of Richmond,
Va., who has devoted much time to the
race question, presided. The negroes
earnestly urged the proposition for a
bishop. The meeting was executive and
no statement was given out, one bishop
stating, however, that the solution of
the question "is a long way o!T."
1 BRUTAL MURDER *
l? BENNETTSVILLE.
Henry Patrick Shoots and Guts his
Wife to Death.
Crazed by Drink, the Infuriated
Husband Accuses his Wife of
Unfaithfulness and Then Kills
Her.
Bennettsville, Oct. 27.- A ghastly
sight met the gaze of those who went
to the home of Henry Patrick, a three
room cottage in the southwestern por?
tion of town near the cotton mill this
morning. On the floor face down?
ward in a pool of her own blood, lay
the dead body of Mrs. Mary Ellen
Patrick with a gunshot wound just
under her left ear and six gashes made
with a knife or razor, across her
throat. In another room was part of
a bed soaked in blood and two little
children, a boy of two and a girl of
six, seeming not to realize that their
mother had been murdered by their
father. There is but one known eye?
witness to the tragedy-that is the
girl, little Annie May. Her story told
at the coroner's inquest today is as
follows : I was in bed with mamma
asleep and was waked up by the fuss.
Papa was cursing mamma about a note
she wrote to Raleigh Stewart. Kit
Cox told him about the note ; he cursed
Kit and told her if she didn't get out
he would cut her brains out and Kit
went out. Mamma was sitting up in
bed. She told papa to take that gun
away and he shot her. She fell dows
on the bed and got blood 0:1 my arm.
He told her,"Damn you and Raleigh
Stewart too. " He was cursing every
kind of way and was standing np by
the bed. After he shot her he pulled
her out of the bed and dragged her
into another room. Papa and I went
to a negro house on Mr. Capel's place.
After he shot Mamma papa told him
if he didn't get up and make a fire for
his little girl to warm he would shoot
his old house down. The negro
brought papa home and put him in the
porch and he went to sleep. I tried
to go to sleep but couldn't and Mr.
Carpenter came and carried me to
his house. Raleigh was here when
pa came home last night. Mamma was
writing a letter to Raleigh and gave it
to him herself. Pa told him if he
didn't get away from here he would
shoot his guts out."
Patrick is a well known character
here. He has been living until about
two months ago on Matheson street,
near the depot. He was for a long
time empolyed by the Marlboro Whole?
sale grocery. He is a strong, robust
man, weighing about 200. His wife
weighed little more than half of that.
Mrs. Patrick was a daughter of John
Sanders, an old and well known citi?
zen of Bennettsville. Your corres?
pondent saw Patrick in the jail this
afternoon and asked him if' he had
anything to say for publication. He
said he was very sorry the accident
occurred, but that it was purely an
accident. "I was loading my gun," he
said, "and it went off. Mrs. Cox was
there when it occurred, and I thin?
Raleigh Stewart was there too. Sheriff
Green ha3 my knife and there is no
blood on it" i
FUR?RER PROBING
IN POST?L FRAUDS,
The New York Postoffice Next to
be investigated.
Other Large Offices to Follow.
Washington, Oct. 26.-A special in?
vestigation of the New York postoffice
will be begun in a few days by inspec?
tors working under the direction of
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow. There will be a thorough
overhauling of all the affairs of that
offic and matters in every department
of the office will be thoroughly probed.
It is stated that no charges are on
file regarding the New York office,
but the facts established by the in?
spectors when the lines of the general
investigations led to that office on a
number of subjects, long ago persuad?
ed the investigating authorities of the
desirability of a general and detailed
probing into the affairs of Postmaster
Van Cott's office. There have been j
many reports of laxity of administra-1
tion and extravagance and all these !.
will be looked into.
Postmaster General Payne tonight '.
said that the investigation of the New .
York office had been contemplated for :
a long time and that the only reason '.
it has not taken place before new was j
the inability to spare any of the men ,
who have Leen ferreting the frauds
under the general inquiry. He sug- r
gested that other large offices would be j
investigated. ]
English Mills Resume. 1
Liverpool, Oct. 2G.-The newly <
arrived American cotton is being lush- >
ed to the mills as rapidly as possible. j
Full time is being resumed gradually
throughout Lancashire, where there
has been immense distress since $,
August, when the mills reduced their \
time of work to four days per week, j
All the mills in the Ashton-Under- c
Lyne district resume full time today. 1 c
GREAT ACTIVITY
ON COTTON MARKET
Much Excitement on Opening and
Prices go Soaring.
Transactions Broke all Previous
Records.
New York, Oct. 2G.-There was great
excitement and activity at the open?
ing of the cotton'market today.. More
or less general frosts have been report?
ed in the cotton belt over Saturday
and Sunday and with Liverpool this
morning exhibiting great firmness
there was a scarcity of shorts here that
started prices some 20 to 43 points
higher. October closing Saturday at
9.96, sold up to 10.40 on the call,
while December touched 10.28 ; January
10.25; March, 10.20. This enormous
gain natujgj^v.attracted heavy realiz?
ing and afteirtfie call prices were de?
pressed several points on the more
active positions. The activity continu?
ed all the morning and fluctuations
were irregular and violent. Generally
speaking, the tone was firm. From
the highest point early thnre was a re?
action before midday of from 25 points
on October, llalT points on the other
positions. Notwithstandng the heavy
estimates for tomorrow's receipts,
short covering continued in volume
and the market regained most of its
losses with prices in the early after?
noon 25 to 35 points higher than Satur?
day.
There was little diminution in acti?
vity or excitement during the ?after?
noon and the transactions for the day
broke all previous records, nearly a
million and a half bales according to
estimate. The market was finally steady,
26 to 34 points net higher, this repre?
senting a reaction from the best of 18
points on October, and of 1 to 7 points
on later positions. All the months
alter than January sold at new high
prices for the season.
Liverpool, Oct. 26.-There was con?
siderable excitement on the Liverpool
cotton exchange today on rumors that
destructive frosts in the American cot?
ton belt probably would result in the
next cotton crop not exceeding 11,000, -
000 ^ales. Prices jumped several
poin ts and anticipations of a ' ' squeeze' '
next summer were expresser'.
ADMIRAL BOWLES BES18HS.
Leaves Naval Service to 90 With
Shipbuilding Concern.
Washington, Oct.-26.-Rear Admirai
Francis T. Bowles, chief of the bureau
of construction and repair of the navy
department, today tendered his resig?
nation as an officer in the United
States navy to the president and it
was accepted to take effect Oct. 31.
Constructor W. L. Capps, now on
duty at the New York navy yard, has
been selected by the president for the,
vacancy.
Admiral Bowles is leaving the navall
service to accept the presidency of a
private shipbuilding company in
Massachusetts. He called on the presi?
dent today accompanied by Secretary
Moody and verbally tendered his re?
signation.
Secretary Moody in announcing the
resignation of Admiral Bowles said it.
was received with profound regret, not
only by himself, but by the president
Congo Free State Urged to Raise
Cotton.
Antwerp, Oct. 25.-The Belgian
Cotton Association has petitioned the.
government of the Congo Free State,
in view of present crisis in trade, to
begin immediately the cultivation of
cotton in its territory, in order thn%
. to replace the importation of cotton
into Belgium from America ami
England.
Accidentally Killed Herself,
Special to The State.
Anderson, Oct. 26.-Laddie McCur
ley, a 12-year-old girl, was accidentally
killed.at the Orr mill this afternoon.
She was going down one of the alleys
between the rows of machinery and
stumbled over a boy's feet which were
stretched out in the alley. She fell
and an open knife in ber apron pocket
pierced her heart and killed her almost
instantly.
More Competition Found in Cotton.
Rome, Oct. 17.-The minister of
agriculture finished his investigations
into the possibilities of the new cotton
yielding plant, discovered in Ery
threa, Africa. Same is classed by
botanists as Hibiscus maeranthus and
grows wild. The cotton from the first
crop is declared to be most satisfac?
tory. Orders have been sent to the
governor of the African colonies io
plant great tracts of territory with the
Hibiscus.
The acquittal of John G. Wham for
the murder of Lafayette Ramage, in
Laurens county, calis attention to the
horrible consequences that are likely
to follow any demonstration of lawless?
ness. When the first news of the crime
reached the town of Laurens there
was much indignation and posses were
organized, scores of leading citizens
volunteering their assistance to the
sheriff. Feeling that it would be best
to go away until the excitement had
subsided. Wham left the county, but
later he surrendered. He has been
tried for his life and it is said that
the jury was composed cf excellent
md intelligent men.
We have no criticism of the verdict,
rhe evidence was submitted to the
;onrt and after deliberating for twenty
lours the jury declared that the slayer
*vas not guilty. In view of this, the
?ecord of Laurens for law and order
?tands out as a splendid example to be
followed by other communities. But
'ventually patience may cease to be a
irtue, when so much crime goes un
ivenged.-Greneville News.
Yellow fever seems to be making
:reat headway in Texas. Science which
>oasts that it has made Cuba, that
jest hole of yellow fever, a healthy
ountry, has failed to protect the people
if San Antonio and other Texas towns.