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THE 8UMTKR WATCHMAN, Eatabll or validated Aug. 2,188 Cbt ttbtt$gm mrt) Soutbron. Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BT? 1H8TEEM PUBLISHING COMPANY fiUMTBR, & C. Terms: ILIO per annum?in advance. Advertisement*: 6W* Square first Insertion.$1.00 9*91 y aubsequent Insertion.It Contracts for three months, or I?gar will ha made at reduced rate*. AH communication* whleh sub sere* private Interests will be charged f?r a* advertise meat*. Ohttuarls* and tribute* of respects aria ho charged for. ttTtiwfUTioi ? conox. MMJHNAb Or COBOfXROB RE? PORT DISCOURAGING. fwaeailmi of the Orop IQstl mated at mm Paw Osat?Palling Off of 7.1 Per Oasat within Use Pas* Month? Worth Carolina the Only State to gain ? an Inieoane Greatest Low in Oklahoma. Mww York. August Si.?The Jour? nal of Commerce will tomorrow pub MaH Its September report on the cot taai condition It will present a dis oeteraglng outlook. Prom replies of (nearly 1,700 correspondents of an av ?arags date of August t4. a condition ?if II per cent Is obtained, which ooenparss with 71.1 last month and fe\l a year ago. The plant has. Jgaatafora. deteriorated 7.1. which haa only once been exceeded In the nine since the Journal of Commerce jial reports were inaugurated, dy. In 1002. when It fell 8.0. Other years when the loss closely ap? proached this figure were 1904, con am then falling 7 points, and 1008 when the loss was 6.5 and gssctlvety. North Carolina dur showed an improvement of I S to 70; but Other ahowed losses. South Ing 0.0 to 76.1; Oeor Plorida. 10.3 to 72.7: Ii Mississippi, 2.6 Iff**/ f?r T*raJ. ?mi; Arkansas 16.6 to 61.4: Tsneseee 7.1 to 00; Missouri 3.0 to ?1 ? snd Oklahoma, 10.3 to 63.2. The destructive work of the boil weevil, which made havoc with the crop earlier In the season in Texa.s. Arkansas and Louisiana, was cheek? ed by prolonged drought and heat; and by many correspondents these ravages are considered practically stopped. r>. rynoh i>k\b. Striche?! on Train Returning Prom Southern Bieduc?* Trip?Was Ap? parently In 0*0*1 Health Vp to This Fatal Attack. At the ITnlverstty of Pennsylvania Hospital, st Philadelphia, at 2 o'clock this morning. Samuel D. Kynor, of No. 714 Mahantongo street, died from the reoult of scute diabetes. His ill? ness and death was most unexpected as up to the latter part of last week he was apparently in the best of health. It was last Thursday while returning from Sumter. South Caro? lina, that he was stricken on the train snd upon reaching Philadelphia was at once taken to the hospital. There he received the best of medical treat ment. Dr. O. H. Boyer being sum? moned to hin bedside with some of the most eminent physicians of the country. When dissolution came, his wife and only son, Herbert D. Kynor. who Is a student at Lehlgh Univer? sity, were st h abedmde Both are now home and this even? ing via the 1:11 Philadelphia Read? Ing "flyer." Undertaker fieorge \V. <ho^ner will arrive home with the remain* which will he taken at one" to hi* late residence. Mr. Kynor was In the flfty-eigh'h yesr of his ag" He was a MtlVO ,f I ff? N'. J . and came to PottsviP about twentv rears ago. from Stock? ton, where bf u e< a colliery super? intendent. I'n ? t,? th.?t time h?> ton i 'ed an lr<>n ??!?? I.ii-mea* In New Jersey and al o bad charge of Iron ore b* >\? i:? Cuba for lbs Bethlehem Iron snd sb ei Com pan] When !??? located here be took gg coal op*rat< ing. conducting tbe Mt Hopi Co*l Company, at St flair, for I BUmbel of years. He retired from |hc OOal bust ties* about a half tlnztn years ago. About a yoai ago he Identified himself with the Sumter Pine Cypreas t'ompany. He was on his way home from a buallH Irtp Sooth |g . on ne<-tlon vltb that oogipgny, wrhen h was stricken. Bullying from th ?t at tack he seemed Improving but last night to..k a sinking spell. hi> domlM ? ?on foih-u ing, potts-, lilt, pg?i Newa. Aug. 30. Wied April. I8S0 1. LAST REPORIS WORST. RIGHT HUNDRED BODIES RE? COVERED IS MONTEREY Many Thousands Homeless?Hun? dreds Are Destitute in Watersvrept Valley of Santa Catarina. Monterey, Mex.. Aug. 30.?With 800 bodies recovered and burled in Mont? erey up to nightfall. 2,000 is now the estimate of the city authorities of those who lost their lives throughout the valley of the Santa Catarina riv? er. The number of homeless, many destitute, is placed at 16.000 and 20, 000. The Santa Catarina river at Mont? erey has subsided sufficiently to per? mit a pasaage into the district lying to the south and a visit to that sec? tion by a correspondent of the Asso? ciated Press revealed an appalling condition. People who had been sav? ed from the flood of Saturday morn? ing had been without food until to I day. when on some cables a small I amount of bread and beans was got I across. The river was still running I swiftly and In order to get across It I was necessary to wade t>rough half I a mile of water so as to avoid the I strong current which would still I sweep a man from his feet. I Once on the south side of the river I evidences of the terrible destruction I wrought by the flood were to be seen I on every hand. Five blocks of the dls I trict were as though they had never I existed and in the remaining portion I of the district bodies were being tak I en from the ruins and buried by a I party of gendarmes sent across for I the purpose. At 4 o'clock 400 bodies had been I recovered and were burled on the I hillside south of San Luislto, thus, I with the same number buried yester I day, making in all 800 bodies which I hav<> been received in Monterey alone. I Thus far no Americans have been I reported lost and It is not expected I that any of them are missing, as few I of foreign families resided in the I needed district. Reports from the country up and 1 do* n the valley are meagre and hsird 1 v j t ' I to obtain, as all telegraph communi I cation has been cut off in this direc J tlon, but fiom what has been learned, I the number of dead has been placed I it 2.000 and the homeless at between l ..000 and 20.000. j Most of the people are in destitute I circumstances. Reports from down the river state I that many bodies have been recover I ed but there are many that will never I be accounted for as the Santa Catar I ina river bed is full of quicksands, I and many bodies have no duobt dis I appeared in these sands. The authorities are dotng all in I their power and the federal govern I ment has sent $50,000 in money and I provisions for the relief of the suf I ferers. Contributions have been re I calved from San Antonio and New I York city firms which have repre I eenUvos In the city. Many houses have f?llen from the I effects of the continuous rains which I have occurred in this city during the I 7 2 hours ending at noon Sunday. Dur I tng this time 21 7-8 inches of rain I fell in Monterey and up the Santa Ca I taring valley. I One of the buildings destroyed was 1 the Sun Francisco church, which was I Uli oldest building in the city, it hav? ing been built In lf>72. The barracks I of the rurales was washed away and I much military equipn ent was lost. POSTAL DEFICIT LARGEST YET. llltcttcwk Confers With President About It. Reverly. Mass.. Sept. 1.?Postmas? ter Oneral Hitchcock had an impor? tant Son fare nee with President Taft thi.-. afternoon regarding tha plans he ha formulated for cutting down ex? panses itj tha postal establishment, it" told the preeldenl that according to lha lateal estimates the postofflce department will show ? deficit for the Aecal yeai ended June io la^t of more than $20.00oo.h>. This is the larg? est deficit d" postal aervlce ever has k nown. The dalle i for the fls< al year end? ing June |S, lift, \\a:< about |f,000v ?)?'? The Increase as nearly as can be ascertained was due In part to extensions of the service, to the busi nesa depression during tin- first pan ol the fiacal year, and to cumbersome ic i expensive method-; of handling the mall and In other departm< nti ?>i postal work Three mulei and ? horse were kin ed b) lightning In Lanoaater county Sun.lav night. b sorl ?>i climb very plentiful in 'lie Just ai IT Ml v inllla grows on iUK Orchldi which is the tropics. id Fear uoi-~Let all the ends Thou Air BANDITS IN PENNSYLVANIA. LONE ROBBER HOLDS UP EX? PRESS TRAIN. Oets Several Thousand Dollars In Currency and 10,000 Pennies, Thinking Coppers Are Dollars. Lewlston, Pa., Aug. 31.?One of the most audacious and startling holdups of a railroad train in the Eist for years occurred in the eastern slope of the Alleghany mountains early today, when a lone highway man stopped a Pennsylvania railroad express with a dynamite cartridge and at the point of a revolver compelled the crew to carry thousands of dollars in coin and bullion from an express car to a spot in the wilderness. When the conductor of the train attempted to Interfere with the rob? ber's plans he was shot in the hand and the bold bandit succeeded In making good his escape. In the darkness, however, he mis? took a bag containing 16,000 new Lin? coln pennies for gold coin and stag? gered away with it, leaving the real gold bullion to be recovered. When the news ?f the robbery reached the railroad and express company officials they immediately ordered every available detective from the East and West to the scene in an effort to capture the audacious bandit. Bloodhounds were also put on his track, but up to a late hour to? night no trace of the man had been found. The looted train was made up of an engine, three express cars and two sleeping coaches tilled with passen? gers. At about 1:30 a. m., it was run? ning through Lewistown narrows, whena uddenly a dynamite cap ex? ploded and the engine driver brought the train to a standstill. Then he was confronted by a masked man with a gun pointed at him. "Are there an. mail cars on this train?" demanded the highwayman. "No," was the reply of the start? led engineer. The engine crew was then forced at the point of the gun to accompany the robber to the first express car. A revolver was pointed .it the messen? ger's head, and threatening to blow up the car. the robber forced the mes? senger of the two express cars and engine crew to carry all the gold.ap'1 bullion stacked in the first car to the side of the tracks. Conductor i. it. Poffenberger of Harrisburg. Pa-, who came up while this work was being accomplished, was ordered back by the bandit, who emptied one of his revolvers at him, one of the shots penetrating his hand and the others grazing his body. Despite the appearance of three passengers who had been awakened by the shooting, the robber calmly or? dered the crew back on the train and compelled them to steam away, leav? ing the bullion beside the track. It was recovered later by a posse sent on a special train. When the train was leaving he called out: "Good? bye, an good luck; I hope to see you again." It was reported tonight that in ad? dition to the missing pennies several thousand dollars in currency was missing, but the express company of? ficials refuse to announce the exact .amount of their loss. Agent Hamraaker of Lewiston sent a safe to the scene of the robbery to receive six hags of pennies on which the stals had not been broken, but which had been cut open with a sharp knife to ascertain the eontenis and abandoned by the robber in disgust. With practically every detective and officer employed by the railroad, as? sisted by special detectives employed by the Adams Hx press Company, en gaged In a anarch for the lone bandit. tiie prediction was made tonight by railroad officials that his apprehen? sion la but a few hours off. The highwayman, it is said, took $6.000 iti bullion and $200 In pennies liorn the Car and all of this Ins be< tl found along the rails but *?;'>. JUSTICE MOODY SERIOUSLY ILL Member of supreme Court Removed From Railroad Station .o in*. Home In 11 a \ tit) ill. Have; hill, Mass.. Aug. 31.? With many precautions for secrecy Asso? ciate Justice William H. Moody of tin United States Supreme Court w as re? moved In ;i police ambulance from the Bradford railroad station to hi. home here tonight, it is understoo that hi-. Condition Is serious. H?- BP "?and to be helpless during the trans i? r from tiu? train to the ambulance Although Justice Moody's Illness wat announced official!) as a caae o rheumatism and gout. local physl clans, who have known him for yean* 11 ilevc it to be more ?erioua. is't at be Ihf Country's, Tliy God's ani v RFr- 4MBER 4. BUMPER COTTON CHOP. SOUTH PRODUCED NEARLY FOURTEEN MILLION BALES. The Crop of 1908 Was the Greatest Ever Grown by More Than Quarter Of a Million Bales?Hester's Fig? ures Made Public. New Orleans, Aug. 31.?Statistics showing that more cotton was hand? led during the commercial year end? ing at midnight tonight than ever be? fore and that all records had been broken in the amount of cotton con? sumed by Southern mills was the fea? tures of the annual crop statement of I Secretary Hester of the New Orleans cotton exchange. The document forms the preliminary report of Secretary Hester's annual review of the com? mercial year. The count of tho commercial crop showed it to be the largest on record. 13.825.4S7 bales. The previous larg? est commercial crop was 13,505,586. marketed in 1904-06. Last season's total was only 11,671,960. The very large total for this year'" crop was a surprise to the trade, in? cluding both the bulls and the bears, and if the figures had been issued while trading was going on it is prob? able that they would have had a de? pressing effect on prices. The most Important feature In the report next to the size of the crop ll ?elf was the statement on the amount of cotton consumed by Southern mills during the season which closed to? day. Here all the records were again broken, the total being 2.559,873 bales. This point was regarded by the bulls as being even of more impor? tance than the size of the crop Itself. It was taken as official confirmation of the many stories of the great ex? pansion of cotton manufacturing in the South. The figures compared with 2.193,000 last season and 2.439,000 two seasons ago. In the point of port receipts an? other record was broken. Net re? ceipts at all ports of the season were put at 10.062.845 bales against only 8.579.842 last year and 9,919,555 two yeaee ago. ., V ^ Liverpool will have the first chance to trade on the report. Tonight the trad., is about equally divided in opin? ion over the effect of the total, bulls claiming the bearishncss of the big ( rop is more than offset by the bull? ishness of the big consumption in Bplte of the claims o;* the bears that it i.. a decidedly bearish document. COTTON MARKET WEAK. Bullish Crop Advices Soon Lost In lliience?Close Was Barely Steady. New York, Aug. 31.?An early ad? vance in today's cotton market on bullish private condition reports was not maintained, the market weaken? ing later and closing barely steady at a net decline of 3 to 8 points, under realizing and moderate selling en? couraged by the theory that a low September bureau had been discount? ed. The opening was steady, at an advance of 4 to 6 points on the firm c ables. The market improved early on bull? ish private condition figures. This advance carried December contracts up to 12.50 and as outside demand seemed to become less active at the higher level, local longs turned for profits for over the government re? port, which is due at noon on Thurs? day. During the middle of the day thtse offerings were pretty well ab? sorbed around the closing prices of last night, owing to the further pel* vate condition figures showing a marked deterioration, as compared with last month, but later offering! became heavier and tin- market closed at about the lowest. KecelptS at the ports today 21,547. Bg'iinst 7,201 last week, and 17.!? ,T, last >ear. For the week 60,000 bales, .!iMdi>t 34,709 last week, and 70.332 la*l venr. Today's receipts at New Orlcnnn 2,604 Lb lea, against 13,422 lust )car, Cotton .-pot closed quh t, 10 points decline; middling uplands 12.80; mid? dling gulf 13.06; sabs 800 bales. Futures opened steady anil cloaed ban i\ steady. Standard Oil Dividend. New York, Sept. l.?six dollars a bail1, as usual, will be paid in dlvl dends by the standard oil Company this month for the current quarter, on the :is:{.:'s:i shares of stock out tandlng this will moan a disburse? ment of 65,800,298 for the quarter, it tin- December dh dend is the usual $10 a sahre, makini $l<> a Bhare for the year, the company will disburse almost 840,000,000 for the year 1909, The regular September divi? dend has been $6 for several years. out I) d Truth'*." THE TRTJ < 909 New 8 JAPAN AND CHINA. TWO COUNTRIES COMPROMISE MANCHURIAN DISPUTE. Will Sign Seven Articles Relating; to Concessions to Japan and Three to China. Peking, Aug. 31.?China and Ja? pan today concluded their negotia? tions on the general Manchurian ques? tion;! that have been in uispute for some time paat. The two countries will sign an agreement of 10 articles under the terms of which China agrees first, not to construct the Hish mlntum-Fakumen railroad without consulting Japan; second, in the event that the Kirln railroad be extended to the Korea border, half the capital required will be borrowed from Ja? pan; third, Japan is given the right to work the mines in the Fushun and Yental districts; fourth, Japan will construct the extension of the Yin how railroad; fifth, there shall be joint exploitation of the mines in the sone reached by the Manchurian and Antung-Mukden railroad lines; sixth, China agrees to open four trade marts in the Chientao district between Ko? rea and Manchuria; the Koreans liv? ing therein shall be under the juris? diction of Japan, while those residing outside the marts shall be under the jurisdiction of China except that Ja? pan shall have the right to hold court in cases calling for the infliction oi the death penalty; seventh, China agrees that Japan move the statior, of the South Manchurian railroad tc Mukden. Japan agrees, first, to recognize Chinese sovereignty in the Chientac district; second that the terminus ol the Hishmintun railroad be moved to the city of Mukden, and third, tc indemnify the owners of the Fushuii and Yentai mines, the amount of the indemnities to be determined later. INSCRIPTIONS ARE WANTED. ( hair.mm C. Irvine Walker A-ks Men Of State to Suggest Suitable Word* For Memorial to be Erected on Cupitol Ground*. r h ? ?? Columbia. Sept. 1.?What do the men of South Carolina owe to the women of the Confederacy? Th* funds for a memorial to be erected on the capltol grounds have beer raised. Sculptor F. Wellington Uuck stuhl is now designing the monumeni and the design has been declared oik Of the most artistic ever prepared. On the monument just in front of the State house, erected by the women ol South Carolina to the soldiers whe died for the "Lost Cause." are tw< beautiful inscriptions. These recite the valor and heroism of those "who true to the instincts of their birth have glorified a fallen cause by the simple manhood of their lives and their patient suffering." "and in the1 dark hours of imprisonment, in the hopelessness of the hospital, in the short, sharp agony of the field, found hope in the belief that at home they would not be forgotten." These were some of the words in? scribed by the women of South Car? olina on the monument to the sol? diers. It is now necessary for the men of the State to send to the commission In charge of the work of erecting a monument to the women of the Con? federacy suitable inscriptions for the tribute to their self-sacrifice and de? votion. The following has been issued: South Carolina Commission for the Monument to the Women >f the Confederacy, Columbia. S. C., Aug. H, 1909, To the Men of South Carolina: Two inscriptions will be required for the two large panels of the ped? estal of the South Carolina monumeni to the women of the Confederacy. These Inscriptions are designed to "declare to the world what these wo? men of the South did to deserve this honoring." Bach must contain fro*n 00 to SO words, preferably 60. The men ol* our State are cordially invited to suggest appropriate word* Ing for these inscriptions. Those deem? ed most suitable by the com miss will be used. Suggestions should be Kent to Capt. Wm. B. Gonzales, se ??? tary and treasurer, Columbia, before November 1, 1909. c. IRVINE WALKER, < Chairman; .1. T. MOORE, e\ a. REED, J. Q. RICHARDS, .HI WM. E. OONZALES. Sec. Treas. it is believed by the Turks that geraniums wer?' originally Bwall3ws, and that their existence was changed i>y their touching the robe of Ma? homet. V0% E SOUTHRON, Established Jane, IHM eries?Vol. XXX. 3 ?. 3 THE SOOTH HOW LEADS. SOUTH NOW SPINS MORE COT TAN THAN NORTH. Centre of Cotton Manu factoring Moves to a Section Where Cotton is Grown?Dixie Coming Into Her Own. New Orleans, La., Sept. 1.?For the second consecutive year Southern mills have consumed more cotton than the Northern mills, according to Secretary Hester's report on the con? sumption of American cotton, made i public on the floor of the New Or? leans cotton exchange, at the close of business, today. Southern mills, \ to the close of the commercial ye* ending August 31. 100?, consumed 560,000 h*les. against 2,500.000 bales consume i in the North. Waen the Hester report a year showed that the Southern mills for the first time gone ahead of th< of the North by a narrow margin, was generally attributed to unfav< able commercial conditions hai had a more serious effect on the Nj England mills than on those of t' South. The figures created considtfral stir among cotton men for such suits were hardly expected, altl It had been reported for f*ome tl that Southern mills were inci their spindles at a faster rate Northern mills and that the slon of cotton manufacturing In South was on a scale seldom kn< in any industry. For years the t}\ here have been claiming that centre of the cotton "manufactu;i industry of the world was fast nti ing from Lancashire to the Ur! States and that eventually the ceai would be established in the St Secretary Hester's statement this ternoon was taken as e<nflfmatloi the bulls of their predictions, f The t. >tal consumption of Ajjtftl cotton by the world w.-is Pj^wph: 116.000 bales. ih< largi-st #n^e. larger by l.OfM.0"" ales..than ' year, and larger by "05,000 *, than the largest com known before, which ago. Consumption ners was put at 8.056.0lT!f baleST The total consumption of Amerf-' can cotton last year was 12,112,000 bales, while two years ago it was 12, 611,000. The total visible and in? visible supply of cotton was - put at 1,062,000 bales, against- 2,412,000 a year ago and 2,b32.000 two* years ago. Mill stock? in the United States were estimated at 4S0.00O- bales,, against 100,000 a year ago and for? elgn mills stocks were estimated at 1.100,000 bales, against. I,li3,000 g year ago. ? ? 1 It was announced that Ellison's fig? ures on mill stocks for last year have been corrected from 1.1?3.000 to 1. 350.000 bales. HAS PELLAGRA A GERM Durham Doctors Begin Experiments To Find Germ of Disease. Durham, N. C, Aug. 31.--Alarmed by the number of cases of pellagra which have developed in this city, lo? cal physicians today began experi? ments to locate the origin of the dis? ease. Six deaths from pellagra have occurred in this section. An examination of the- blood of i# powerful negro who has the disease in moat aggravated form revealed .? distinct organism and specimens were sent to Richmond and to Johns Hop? kins for more careful analysts; [f a germ is found as physicians here are inclined to believe, tome ani? mal will be inoculated Mid a cam? paign against pellagra on--thfc gem theory will be waged. ? The theory thai the dlaeaae has its sort gta in con* has been abandoned by the local med? ical profession, but a fierce .. war again-1 the Importation Of Western corn is being conducted. I>r. IfcCampbell <>f the State-hospi? tal has written a paper -treating with 12 cases of pellagrous .ansaaity and* death. Three-fourths el ? 01m case* were among women, which t? urr usual, it is said, as tin disease oceurv more frequently among -nun. None of the cases which have developed irr this section has bei n traceable gg corn-bread. One victim was a board? ing bonsekf. pt r. but none of the boarders contrac ted the disease. HAMPTON CONSTABLE A St'KTDf*. Hampton, Sept, l.? Mr. J. E. Bef ger, magistrate's constable here, com? mitted suicide at 11 o'clock la-?* night by shooting himself in the haae) over the right ear with a 32-calibve pistol. Domestic unhapplnees and al? coholism are assigned as the causes* of the act. He was about 36 year* w$ age, and leaves a wife and five ?.h? di an.