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Ill*: 8UMTF.lt WATCHMAN, Estasl vonsuiidated Aug. 2.181 Cbe ttbtthnun wrt Shntbton Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. Terms: t I SO per annum?In advance. Advertisements: One Square first Insertion.$1.00 Every subsequent Insertion.60 Contrscts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rate?. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects wHl be charged for. FOOl> STI FFS ACT. New law W ill be Enforced Here Af? ter May 1. Columbia. April 25.?The commer? cial food stuffs Inspection act will go into effect on May 1. All rules and regulations have been prepared by the department of agriculture. A number of the food stuff houses have ordered stamps as required by the law. The department has recently given an order for 1.800,000 stamps. Within the next month there will be a number of Inspectors appointed. ?ach and every manufacturer, Importer, jobber and agent or seller before selling in this State any con? centrated commercial food stuffs shall file for registration a statement as to the Ingredients and a sample of the food. The following is a synopsis of the law: 1. The law requires that all com? mercial feed stuffs be registered with the commissioner of agriculture, com? merce and tndutrlos, who shall fur? nish registration blanks for this pur? pose. I. The registration must show the percentage of protein, fat, fibre and carbohydrates, together with the In? gredients of which the feed Is com? pos..,! *. Where standards are establish the feeds must meet these stand? ards. V All commercial feed stuffs, as defined my the act. must have the re? quisite number of stamps attached to ? ? or the tax by weight. I. Feeds can not be adv Iterated with substances of little or no feed value, such as com cobs, peanut shells, oat hulls and chaff and rice hulls. t. Whole grains or cereals when In such damaged condition as to be unrtt for food purposes are subject to the provisions of the act. 7. Where no standard is estab ^ llshed the manufacturer may ma<e f his own guarantee, but Is required to live up to his guarantee. TOWN \ I. MOST l>KSTKOYF.I>. Ukr Cherle*. 14*., Visited b\ De structho I Ire. !.ak.- i'hiri.s |..i. April J:'..?Fan? ned by a high wind, a nre which >>r"k. i.'.t Inn- sln-rfU after I o'clock this ati reeosV s\\e| t over twenty or mor?? blocks of the city, destroying sever.il hundred buildings -nd result? ing in a property loss estimated at about $ ,..ooii.oon. Two thousand per? sons have be??n rendered homeless. !*ake Charles has a population of about 25.000 people. When It became apparent that the local Hre department could not cope with the blaze, requests for aid wa re wired to Beaumont and Orange, Tex? as, and to Jennings. La., all of which wnre within a radius of ttfty miles of Lake Charles. The Southern Pacific Railroad offered special trains to bring the volunteers from neighbor? ing <dtles. Many houses In the path of the flames were dynamited but showers of sparks were swept beyond the ?c.ip-> thus made. Igniting the buildings on the farther side. With? in a short time the wind had driven the fir" over a space of two miles in b ngth. h aving a mass of ruins in its w i k . I? \l /I II, Mil Ml I? Rssjad HwH Bay* Made flood Re? nn! Saturday. The boys from Broad street went out to 1>hI/cII Saturday and play.d the imtaetl bays, bringing their s ilp with them They won In a pretty K?me In I ? 9W9 "f II le l The fea? ture of the gsme was Rowland's pitching He pit- bed a M hit game. The Dalsell boys could not get onto his curves. Batteries For Broad Htreet?Rowland and McKay; Dal? ??II... Phillips and 1'hllllps. Trouble teaches men how much there Is In manhood.?Beecher. Ished April, 1850. 'lie Just a 1. sua BEIZE PART STEAMER'S CARGO. C aptain KiiJoIihmI From Mo\ing Cot? ton of Bankrupt Firm. Mobile. Ala., April 244.?The fii3t seizure of cotton shipped undev bills of lading issued by Knight, l'ancey & Co. the bankrupt Decatur, Ala , spot cotton house, was madt today, when Deputy Cnited States Marshal White served an injunction on Capt. Arthur Parker, of the British steam? ship Meltonlan, restraining the move? ment of 4,300 bales of cotton loaded In the steamship and consigned to Havre. France. The Injunction was issued by the United States District Court Saturday night, on the appli? cation of Attorney J. C. Rich, acting for Clarence C. Frost and W. S. Lov ell. receivers for the bankrupt cot? ton company. Latham & Co. of Havre, and the Klder-Dempster Steamship Company, owners of the steamship Meltonlan, are named In the injunction which was issued "until further orders of the Court are made in the premises." There are 2,200 bales of cotton on the wharf where the Meltonlan is berthed, waiting to be loaded on the steamer, but no attachment has been issued against this as far as known. The Meltonlan's cargo would have been completed and the vessel clear? ed within two days. She is billed to sail Wednesday. AGAINST AXTI-OPTIOX BILL. President of New Orleans Kxeliange Denounces It. New Orleans, April 24.?Comment? ing on the Scott anti-future bill, W. J. Thompson president of the Nev. Orleans cotton exchange, tonight de? clared that the proposed legislation is not responsive to the Information supplied Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith In his report on cotton exchanges and that it will not, if en? acted, stop gambling in future con? tracts, but will, on the contrary, eliminate only the legitimate features of future trading and, in effect, le? galize "bucketshops" and other forms of wha^ hef terms "speculative ras? cality." "The direct effect of such a bill, if enacted," said Mr. Thompson, "would be to destroy the hedging process by means of which cotton buyers all ov? er the country are able to protect their transactions and supply the fer mer with a ready market; to destroy or materially curtail the buying pow? er and the number of interior mar? ls, ts. to force into speculative ven? tures or else out of business spot COt* toil buyers who do not want to spec? ulate; to substitute the lower for? eign exchange quotations for the higher and to promote a foreign SplBMff trust; and finally to depress the price of cotton to the injury of th? farmers, bankers, merchants and all who are interested in the chief trade asset of the South." Mr. Thompson sayi that all South? ern Interests should protest to their representatives la congress against the passage of the bill. SNOW STORM IX NASHVILLF. Coldest Weather for Same Date In Forty Years. Nashville, Tenn., April 24.?At tlmei approaching storm proper Ilona hurries of snow were intermit? tent bare throughout the day. The flakes were notably large, but melted aa fast as they touched the ground. At 5 o'clock this morning the gov? ernment tht rmomenter registered 34 degrees the lowest for this date shown In forty years of local official records, The thermometer was 3C it 7 o'clock tonight and the clouds had disappeared, ? heavy frost being expected, Only April Snow Known. Meto phi-. Tenn.. April 24.?For r\I hours today snow fell In M- ru]diis and the surrounding coun? try, The temperature went down to 81 degrees, Local weather records going back thirty yean show that |g the (oldest weather and the only snowfall ever known here in April. The cold wa\e extended e t oss North Mississippi. It Is not believed that vegetation, except the mom delicate varieties, will be seri? ously injured. Entire love is ? worship, and can in t be ? ngry. Leigh Hunt. Nou that Dwanna Tumbo is there. Paris will be the City of Light?and Noise New York American. Secretary Baliinger may go out of tho Cabinet, but he Will doubtless continue to do a land ofiice business. ?Dallas News. nd Fear not?Let all the *uds Thou A In 1TER. S. C., WEDNI COTTON TRADE UNEASY. a crisis PREDICTED this WEEK. Alabama Plrm'i Failure, Federal in vcstigatlon and Involved State of Bear-Bull War Complicate Mat? ters. New Orleans, April 24.?This week the cotton trade will be called upon ! to watch carefully several different . features of the season, any one of j which may have developments which ! would cause important price charges. First of all will come the Alabama spot firm failure, the Knight, Yancey & Co. affair. The trade on the week? end was rather uneasy over the chance that other firms might be in? volved seriously. The affairs of the firm probably will reach such a state in a few days as to bring to a crisis the affairs of another firm either on this side or in Europe that has been greatly weakened by its losses in spot transactions. Anxiety will be felt un? til this chance is out of the way. Next will come the Federal grand jury investigation in New York. Many important commercial organi? zations in the South as well as many prominent business men have sent requests that the motives of the in? vestigation and its origin be revealed to the public. Should this Investiga? tion come into more prominence the market will take on a nervous tone. The leading bulls exhibited great activity towards the week-end. bid? ding for large lots of nearly every trading option on the boards. This the market took to mean that the bulls felt they were strictly in the right, both from a moral and legal standard in their postion and were going to replace their passlveness with a new and more aggressive pol? icy. Last but not least in connectioo with the old crop will be the first no? tice day for May in the New York market. Many believe a huge num? ber of notices will be issued, but tho bulls are confident they will all be stopped by the bull clique. The mar? ket will hang breathless on this fea? ture until It Is out of the way Tak? ing all of these factors into consider? ation, it is altogether probable that fresh trading in the old crop posi? tions will be limited in volume this week and that the transfering of commitments from the near to the later months will be much more in evidence than heretofore. Broken are urging their clients to sell their May cotton and buy July instead. < ?n July accounts they are demanding $ I <> a bale margin with the idea of discouraging interest in the old crop. It is easier to carry new crop cotton and many old crop traders will probably cross over Into the new crop. The big things that have been hap? pening in the old crop have robbed the news of much Of interest that is generally given it at this time. The week will open with reports from a wide territory that has experienced continuous cold weather over Sun? day and the course of prices will binge on whether the bears can con? tinue to deaden the effect of such re? ports by assurances that cotton is n )t being injured. The forecast of Sat? urday showed that low temepratures and considerable frost were due to visit many sections of the belt where for more than a week the tempera? tures have been too low. Bulls call? ed attention to the fact, on the week-end. that price movements are always all tin- more violent for be? ing delayed by manipulation. Should cold weather continue very far into the week, the bulls will undoubtedly attempt their first coup in the new crop months. Any Improvements In weather con? dition Will encourage bears to carry on more aggressively their campaign for a fall In the price of new crop cotton. Leading circular writers on the short side of the market claim that good weather from now until the middle of May, which would en? able farmers to chop all new cotton out, would result in a decline of at least B cent a pound On October and l December. VY< easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. The reward of one duty is the pow? er to fulfill another.-George Eliot And yet people wondered why Roosevelt avoided touching the tariff. ?Boston Transcript. There are Ahlridges outside of New York. Qov, Malcolm R. Patterson, of Tennessee, has just announced ids candidao) for re-election, lie would ?how more wisdom if be took to the woods.?New York Tribune. ifl't at be thy Country'9, Thy God's ai iSDAY. APRIL 27, 1 CAMPAIGN TO BE PUSHED. Executive Board of Y. M. C. A. De termlned to Raise Necessary Funds. A very enthusiastic meeting of the Board of Directors of the Y. M. C. A. was held Sunday afternoon in the Council chamber. It was determined to begin the campaign for subscrip? tions on Monday, May 9th, and com? plete the canvas in one week. Five teams will be put in the field, and these will be backed by a committee of thirty business men. The secretary for the two Carolinas, Mr. G. C. Huntington, has been wired for a man of experience to assist in the campaign. If he cannot be had, the work will be pushed entirely by local talent. The ladies will be asked to serve lunch to the working teams dally during the week. The workers will devote all their time to it. Their em? ployers will be asked to let them off so as to have nothing interfere with the raising of subscriptions. Only two of the board were absent yesterday afternoon. Those present were of the opinion that the amount desired could be had by putting forth the proper effort, and that effort will be put forth at once. There will be further announce? ment of this tomorrow. McKAGEN'S GOOD WORK. Caught Two Transporters of Wills key off Southern Train Saturday. Officer McKagen, who is always onto his job, landed two negro trans? porters last Saturday afternoon off the 6.20 Southern train. He was looking for them to come back by the A. C. L., but missing them there, he hustled over to the Southern train and there landed Osborn Porter and twelve gallons and three pints of booze. Sam Richardson took to his heels and made his escape. He was rounded up on Monday. however, and landed in the guard house. Officer McKagen is to be .com? mended for his diligence in hunting down" the blind tigers. Hfe Is On the job at all times, and sooner or later he will land them all. He should be given plain clothes help and he could land the fellows who go to Co? lumbia, Florence and Timmonsville, with empty satchels and bring them back full. INVESTIGATE BOTH SIDES. senator Smith to Propose Other Fea? tures of Inquiry. Washington, April 24.?Learning today that the department of justice had issued instructions to the Fed? eral authorities at Savannah to im? mediately assemble the grand jury and begin an investigation of the methods of the cotton exchange of that city, to ascertain whether or not it took any part in the alleged cot? ton pool, and, believing that similar instructions will be issued for inves? tigations at Charleston and elsewhere in the South, Senator Smith, of South Carolina, announced today that upon the assembling of the senate tomor? row he would introduce a resolution calling upon the Attorney General of the United States to investigate other features of tho matter. It is proposed to have the depart? ment of justice, since it has begun to probe the alleged pool, to also ascer? tain who sold cotton to those said to have formed the pool, what methods were employed to sell a commodity which was not possesssed, and who is responsible for this feature of the investigations now attracting the at? tention of the entire cotton world. It is not only fair but right. Senator Smith said, in event the people in Savannah and elsewhere in the South entered into a pool or combination, to know immediately who sold these parties, and how they were able to sell something they did not have, for the reason that there are not now probably more than 160,000 bales of cotton In the country all told. Senator Smith will demand the ful? lest Investigation and it is almost cer? tain that bis resolution will cause n big stir In the financial world. He Is determine 1. he says, to have the go^ - eminent Investigate all sides of the question since it has begun to use the probe on the alleged pool. An engineer who deliberately ran his train Into the one ahead declares thai the Lord bad directed him to do so. Evidently another case of misread orders.-?Philadelphia Led? ger. Th ) sheriff has rounded up 6S delinquent tax payers and collected $440.f.7. There are still others who will be found. ad Truth's. 910. THE I1U New SerJ ! KILLED BY NEGROES' BULLETS. I -_ ! MOTORMAN AND CONDUCTOR SHOT DOWN IN ATLANTA. Conductor W. H, Bryson, Fatally Shot But Still Alive, is Native of Laurens County, South Carolina? Attacked and Robbed by Negro Highwayman at Lonely Spot In Atlanta Suburb. Atlanta, Ga., Aprii 23.?At the end of the Druid Hills street car line?a lonely spot in the outlying section ot one of Atlanta's residential suburbs, three negro highwaymen tonight shot and instantly killed Motorman S. T. Brown, and, after robbing Con? ductor W. H. Bryson of $35, fatally shot him in the back and made their escape into the nearby woods. Twenty minutes later the crime was discovered and Atlanta's entire police reserve was rushed to the scene. There were no passengers on the car. The car had just reached the end of the line and the motorman was reversing his trolley when the attack came from the negroes, who had concealed themselves behind a clump of bushes. Motorman Brown was shot down as he started to re-enter his car, and with revolvers levelled at the con? ductor's head, he was ordered to throw up his hand:?. On complying one of the men relieved him of all the cash he had on his person and then he was told to "hit the grit." He wa?> fc'iot in the back by one of the men after he had run about fifty yards and fell in his tracks. Two shots penetrated his liver. The in? jured conductor was rushed to a hos? pital, where it was stated that there was no possible chance of his re? covery. The dead motorman and injured conductor were found by Motorman Tinsley and Conductor Royster, who were in charge of the car which reached the end of the line, just 20 minutes later. The county bloodhounds were rushed to scene of the hold-up and immediately took a trail which led in the direction of a construction camp, where a number of negroes are employed on grading work. The (?amp was placed under a heavy guard, and early tomorrow every ne? gro in the camp will be forced to submit to a thorough examination at the hands of the officers. Fifty police officers continued to scour the woods tonight in the vicin? ity iif the hold-up and several ne? groes were placed under arrest, though without any convincing evi? dence as to their guilt. Brown was 36 years of age and leaves a wife and four children. Bry? son is about the same age and mar? ried. Bryson is a native of Laurens County, South Carolina, and has a brother living at Rockmart, Ga. Bryson Partially Identifies Negro Bandit. Atlanta, Ga.. April 24.?a mo? ment of consciousness today, Con? ductor AV. H. Bryson, one of the two victims of the three negro highway? men who last night held up and rob? bed a street car in an Atlanta sub? urb, identified one of the negroes caught in the police drag-net as probably one of the guilty trio. This negro and four others who are held on suspicion are tonight prisoners. All kinds of rumors have gained currency and the officers found it necssary to prohibit negroes visiting the neighborhood where the crime occurred. There were even expres? sions of disapproval from the crowd at the presence of the few negro chauffeurs who piloted automobiles to the scene. Chief of Police Jennings stated to? night that every precaution had been taken against manifestation of a riot spirit, "although we have not the slightest apprehension that there will be trouble." he added. DISTRICT CONFERENCE. Simiter District Conference Meet With Sumter Church Wednesday. The District Conference of the Sumter District will meet with the Sumter Methodist church beginning on next Wednesday morning. The opening se mon will be preached bv Rev. r. Ii. Bhuler, after which the conference will be called to order Rev. Waddy T. Duncan, presiding elder, Will preside. Quite a number of delegates will be here from all over the district. The craze spreads. The (Jovernor of Tennessee has pardoned several murderers, and now the Governor of Minnesota has even pardoned a poet. ?Brooklyn Standard Union. tort E SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM es?Vol. XXXI. No. 18. DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETINGS. The Four City Clubs Met Yesterday and lte <*anlzed. All four elu> ^ ,ie City of Sumter met Frida- -moon and reor? ganized by sy ng officers and dele? gates to ,unty convention. Ward ^ -President, R. L Man? ning; w President, Edgar Skinner; Seer * R. J. Bland; Member of co 4* executive committee, H. Lee ? /ough. .egates to county convention? I. Manning, H. C. Haynsworth, T. B. Fr?ser, L. W. Jenkins, R. J. Bland, Edgar Skinner, E. C. Hayns? worth, H. L. Scarborough, B. D. Mit? chell, W. R. Wells, A. L. White, Wil? liam Shaw, N. A. Spann. The delegation was authorized to fill any vacancies. The following al? ternates were elected, however: E. T. Windham, George F. Epperson, R. C. Richardson, William Bultman, J. H, Darr. Ward Two?President, Joe War? ren; vice president, A. A. Manning; secretary, R. D. Epps; member of executive committee, J. H. Clifton. Delegates?R. D. Lee, J. H. Clifton, A. A. Manning, R. D. Epps, Geo. D. Levy, C. L. Cuttino, George Warren, Joe Warren, E. F. Miller, H. G. Osteen, L. D. Jennings, R. B. Belser, J. V. Wilson. The delegation will fill all vacancies. Ward Three?President, C. M. Hurst; secretary, S. F. Parrott; mem? ber of executive committee, W. M. Graham. Delegates?W. M. Graham, C. E. Stubbs, H. A. Moses, Junius Parrott, H. C. Cuttino, C. M. Hurst, W. S. Dinkins, S. F. Parrott. H. C. Cuttino was made chairman of the delega? tion. The chairman of the delegation and the secretary were appointed to revise the roll, and that the president and secretary arrange for the man? ager and a place for the primary election. Ward Four?President, J. D. Wild? er; vice president, G. A. Broan; sec? retary, Charley Thames. ? Delegates?J. D. WTllder, W. Percl val Smith, Geo. W. Dick, Charles Thames, G. A. Brown, E. L Reardon. J. W. McKiever, Thomas V. #Walsh, P. P. Finn, G. E. Richardson,. Democratic Club Meetings. Manchester?J. K. Kolb, president; T. H. Osteen, secretary; M. E. Rivers, executive committeeman. Delegates are: M. H. White, C. M. Coulter, J. B. Osteen, M. E. Rivers. Privateer Club?The club met Sat? urday morning and re-organize i for the campaign by electing the follow? ing officers: President, J. M. Jackson; vice president, G. A. Nettles; member ex? ecutive committee, W. O. Cain, sec? retary and treasurer, S. A Marvin; delegates to county convention- W. E. Kolb, W. O. Cain, J. M. Jackson, S. A. Harvin. Mayesville?E. B. ltuldrow, presi rt< at; J. B. Warren, vice president; R. J. Mayes. secretary; R. B. Muld row, executive committeemaa Delegates: Joseph Ifuldrow W. S. Cliandler, E. B. Muldrow, J B. War? ren. TO BE READY IN THREE MONTHS Sumter Gas Plant Delayed by Slow Shipments of Material. In about ten days or two weeks the mains for the gas plant will be? gin to go down. The main will come from the plant up Hauser to the de? pot, from there up South Harvin to East Liberty, thence to Main. From there four and six inch piping will go all over town. It will take about three months to complete the laying of the mains after it is begun. The work on the plant is about completed. All that is needed is a sheet iron top. The work at present Is being delayed by the failure to get the drip pots, which were ordered from Lynchburg, Va. These could have been made in Sumter at less price than they cost in Yirginia and without the present delay. The completion of the plant will be a great convenience to the public. Real Estate Transfer.-. W. n. Epperson, sheriff, In re York Jones to R. I>. Lee, I. C. Strauss. D. 1>. Moise, executors of the will of Ma? rion Moise, tax deed to 94 acres in Concord township for $18.50. W. II. Epperson, sheriff, in re Wil? son George, to R. D. Lee, I. C. Strauss and l>. D. Ifolae, executors of will of Marion Moise, tax deed to oner lot in Sumter for $14.87. Black Hand trailing the Colonel, eh? Pshaw! Shaking the Black Hand will be holiday sport for the Colonel!?Washington Herald.