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Uta? bTWTKK WATCHMAN, Bstnbll Consolidated Aur. 2,1 ? PvMtetMd WnlnoMUy and Saturday ?BY? ?STEFN PUBLISHING COMPANY ?CMTBR, & C. fl.lt per annum?In advance. Ad?ci tlaecneuts: One Square nrat inaartlon.$1.09 ?very subaaquent Inaartlon.99 Cowtracta for three meat ha, er leajpar will be made at reduced rate?. Alt communications which sub? serve private Interests will he charged far ae advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects vrUt ae charged for. CORN, TIIK Li It K AT CROP. Products For Year Reach Sum of $8.7t0,0OO,0O0. Washington,' Aus;. 17.?Conditions so favorable as to stand absolutely alone in the world's history of agri? culture are pictured in the report of Jamee 8. Wilson to the I covering the work of the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year of 190?. ended July, 1910. made public today. It la the thirteenth annual report of the veteran secretary and appears in the forthcoming year-book of the department. "Most prosperous of all f~ the years," says Secretary Wilson, "Is the place to which 1909 Is entitled In agriculture. The yield has been bountiful with most crops, and prices have been high. Advantageously sit? uated as he is in most respects, the sat armer la leas and less generally com? pelled to dump his crops on the mar? ket at time of harvest. "He does not need to work for his hoard and clothes as he often did in the former times when prices were so lew as to be unprofitable. r "The value of the farm products ta so Incomprehenslvely large that It haa become merely a row of figures. For this year It la $1.710,090.000; the gain this year over the preceding one 1* 9tl9.000.000. "Yew years age the value of the producta of the farm was only fivej I and one-half tlmee the mere gain of thla year over 1901: It was little more than one-half of the total value of this year. The value of the pro? ducta haa nearly doubled In 10 years. "aTtevsn years of agriculture, be , ginning with a production of 94,417. ?09.940 and ending with $8,760.000. . a sum of $70.000,090.000 for the "It haa paid off mortgages, it has ibUshed banks, it has made bet? ter boffne?. It haa helped to make the farmer a ctttsen of the world. It haa ? provided him with m?*ns for Improv? ing hie soil and m?kln?; It mo e pro? ductive. "The moat striking fact In the werld's agriculture la the value of the cars crop of 1909 In this country. It M about 91.720.000.090. "This corn came up from the soil and out of the air In 120 days?014.? ?ee.te? a day from one crop, nearly enough for two dreadnoughts dailv for peace or war." Cotton la now by far the second crop In value aays Wilson, and the I yaer'e production la worth about 1 9910.099.090 to the farmer. Third In order of value la wheat, worth about $729.000.000 at the farm, and thla exceeds all previous values by a large amount Hay ta fourth, eatlmated at $695. 009.990. Oete la fifth, worth at the farm about 9400.000.000. WORK D\V FOR ORIMIANAC.KS. Will hr Observed In This state on September 21. September -1. 1910 has been gat apart as "work day" fot the Sfphtll agea In Sooth Carolina. On this day It Is expected and d?**ired that every person young and old. will de? vote the prooeeda of their salary or eerninga that day to the work of maintaining the orphan children In thla State. 1i< h person may tribute to the Institution of his prefer ence aa all of the orphanages are <??> :>?rating In an effort to get the I generally observed. It la especially h .p. I t,\ th.m that all of the Sou day eohools of every faith may unite In the good work. Boy KilhMl While Hunting. Alken August 29.?Frank Ander? son, the 12-y??ar- old son of Mr. W. W. Anderson, of Wllliston. was acci? dentally killed this morning, a few mil** from White Fond .In this conn ty, whllo out hunting. He die I few minutes aft r being shot. Sev? eral of his boy friend < wefb with him at the time, and he trag killed by his own gun. Other particular* w I r k lag shed April, ISM Be Jut ai 881. S HIGHEST SINCE THE III COTTON REACHES 20 CENTS A POUND IN NEW YORK MAR? KETS. Hull Corner Affects Old Crop Alone, New Crop Months Showing Com? paratively Small Advances.. Most Spectacular Day. New York. Aug. 29.?August cotton sold at 20 cent a pound in the New Y<?rk cotton market today on urgent demand from speculative shorts, who had posponed covering until the last minute in the hope that the Increas? ing new crop movement might break the control of the bull leaders. This price, the highest reached for cotton for any delivery since the War of Secession and exceeding by nearly 2 1-2 cents above the highest fig? ures reached in the famous bull year of 1903-'04. which until now had stood as a standard of comparison, was regarded by many as the culmi ting point of the bull movement in progress here for the last six months during a season, which, when it ends next Thursday, will go down as the most spectacular in the annals of the cotton trade since the war. Sales Rather Small. Not a great many bales, perhaps 15.000, actually changed hands on the advance from 16.82, the closing price of last week, to 20 cents for August this morning. At 20 cents an offer from W. P. Brown, one of the bull leaders, to sell 10,000 bales checked the upward movement, and it was the general impression around the ring that this was a level fixed in the open market as a basis for settlement of the entire August interest remaining. Later, however, this view of the sit? uation was somewhat shaken by the fact that after reacting from 20 cents to 18.20 under scattered selling of a few hundred bales, August aagln ad? vanced on renewed buying by shorts, touching 19.90 in the afternoon? within 10 points of the high record. At the close, August was quoted at 19.76 bid. while new crop months, which had been very quiet all day, wer* only + to 9 points net higher. Spots Unresponsive. In the local spot markets the prices were marked up to 19.75, but the Southern spot markets showed no such gain, the greatest advance reported being 3-8, at Savannah, showing the local character of the extensive advance. No one has attempted any accu? rate figuring of the profits of the big bull leaders. W. P. Brown, Eugene Scales and Frank B. Hayne. all of whom are under Indictment charged with conspiring in restraint of trade in connection with the bull pool. James A. Patten of Chicago is in? cluded in the Indictment, but in view of his repeated announcement of retirement he was not generally considered a party to today's trans? actions. Handled Much Cotton. In all the bull leaders have han? dled spot cotton to the amount of ?00,000 bales, valued approximately at $65.000.000. But the bulk of this has been shipped abroad and just how much of it has been actually sold and how much of It may now be held on consignment at foreign points Is uncertain. Inasmuch, how? ever, as the bulls have handled con? tracts for many thousand bales in . \. ??HS of what they actually receiv < d. they have undoubtedly taken large speculative profits, no matter how their deal may turn out when their last bale of spot cotton has !>een sold. In the New York stock exchange they still own about 100, 000 bales. Humors circulated in the trade after the close of business today were that there was still a considera? ble August short Interest outstnnding, '.Oilch must be covered by noon Wednesday. At that hour trading In August is over and with it ends all business In the old crop season of 1909-'10. More High Prices Likely. For the last three or four months the bull campaign in the nM crop, al? though based chiefly on the fact that the crop grown during the summer and autumn of 1910 was 3,000,000 balsa under normal, has had the SB.rugemcnt of very unfavorabti reports from the coming crop and predictions that the world was fac? ing a future Inad?quate supply. Nat? urell] mother short supply follow? ing a year of general curtailment and procrastination in ourohaoei of both raw asatartal and Anlahod goods might noon another SSSSOIl of ex? tremely high prices and this expec? tation has undoubtodly sneouroffe i the hull tinders in their policy of carrying spot supplies forward Into the now season. l.'ttorly reports concerning the prospect have been confusing. Ow Hl Fear Bot?Lot ail Um? ?ik Thorn Ala UMTER, 8. C, WEDNEI ing to drought in the Southwest de? terioration has been reported there but weather conditions over other parts of the belt since the first of August have been considered much more favorable and some reports have shown considerable improve? ment. The next report of the gov? ernment on condition will be issued at noon next Friday and owing to the conflicting nature of recent ad? vices, opinions as to its showing vary largely. To Bull New Crop. It is understood in the trade, how? ever, that the operators who have gained such prestige on the bull side of the market will now turn their at? tention to bulling new crop months. They have issued a circular, outlining their reasons for expecting higher prices but that this1 action on their part was not unbiased was naturally suggested as any statement tending to enhance the value of the new crop would make a better market for winding up the odds and ends of the old and for disposing of the large supply of spot cotton still supposed to remain in their hands. As a preliminary to the deal which culminated in such a sensational ad? vance today, the bull leaders began taking up cotton on contracts In March. By the end of March the price had advanced to the 15 cent level. There was a period of Ir? regularity during April and many traders believed that so much cotton would be delivered to the bulls on May contracts that It would break their hold on the situation. Government Helped Bears. At thiB time proceedings instituted by the department of Justice en? couraged speculators on the short sfcde but notwithstanding the fact that more than 300,000 bales were brought here for delivery In May, the bulls took everything offered and by the end of May contracts were still holding around the 15-cent level, after having bold at nearly 16 cents for May in the middle of the month. During June not much cotton was delivered but in July the bulls re? ceived over 200,000 bales. Thus for this month It is estimated they have received between 75.000 and 80,000 bales. This cotton has been shipped out of New York almost as fast as it has been brought here and accord? ing to official figures today there re? mains available in the New York1 stock only 111,990 bales. Opinion as to whether the bulls will extend their operations into the a new crop months are conflicting. Some think that the old crop cam? paign will be carried through Sep? tember at any rate, but as the new crop season opens on next Thursday and the new crop cotton is now moving rapidly from the Southwest, the weight of the new maturing crop must be figured upon. WAYLAID AND ROBBED. T. B. Higgins of Fasley Will Prob? ably Die as Results of His Injuries. Greenville, Aug. 26.?Word reach? ed here tonight from Easley of the holding up of T. B. Higgins, day operator for the Southern railway at that point and organizer for the Order of Railway Telegraphers. It is understood that Mr. Higfc.nj had a considerable sum of money on his person, and from meagre accounts received he was roughly treated by his assailant whom he identified as a negro. Several of the operator's teeth were knocked out and he lost one of his eyes, It is said. Mr. Higgins was in Cornelius, a small town across the Georgia line, and had Just organized the Order of Railway Telegraphers at that place. He was on his way to the station when he was held up by the highway? man and robbed. A posse is now hunting the negro and several of Mr. Higgins' brothers from Easley have gone to assist in the search. He is a native^ of Easley and is a married man with*four chil? dren. It was reported at 11 o'clock that Higgins is In a dying condition. His wife has been summoned. FIRES SHOTS IN CHAPEL, Former lYnnelM an Friar Indulged In KoNolver Practice During Ves? pers in naatlllra Rome, Aug. l'S.?a former Fran? ciscan friar named Beltramini cre? ated a panic in the basilica of the Vatican during vespers this evening i y firing three shots from a revolver Into the ?lr. The worshipper^ fled from the church and the scrrlces were suspen led, Keltramlnl, who was arrested, said thai ha desired to attract attention With B \lew of securing reinstate men! to the pri< sthood. u'l at b* thy Country's, Thy God's u 3DAY, AUGUST 31, 19K LEPROSY MAY BE CURED. Three Surgeons of United States Ser? vice Grow Germs in Pure Culture Outside Human Body. Washington, Aug. 29.?Leprosy, the unconquered scourge of ages, is making what is believed to be its last stand against science. From Molokal, the Coral Island prison for the plague stricken In the Hawaiian group, a few words have been flashed half way around the world to Wash? ington telling of an achievement ac? corded second place only to the dis sovery of lepra bacillus in 1899. Three surgeons of the United States public health and marine hospital service, after months of toil, have grown lepra bacilli in pure culture outside the human body and in tiny glass tubes in the laboratory the loath? some germs are now growing In their third generation. Four times the scientists have tak? en the infection from the body of a leper and artifically propagated the bacillus on beef broth, egg or the ameoba of the intestines of a guinea pig. The work of Dr. Moses R. Clegg, who declared less than a year ago at Manilla that he had found that the bacillus could be cultivated outside the human body, is verified and extended. Clegg has been rush? ed from the Manilla scientific sta? tion to Molokal to assist in the ex? periment. This achievement of the scientists of the government's leprosy investi? gation station is the first step in the production of vaccine or a serum for the cure or prevention of leprosy. Precisely the same ground was cov? ered by the men who evolved the diphtheria antitoxin and the serum for tetanus. Dr. Donald H. Currie, director of the station, Dr. Walter R. Brinker hoff and Dr. H. T. Hollmann are the men who have grown the cultures. After four months' careful work, in which they had labored to grow the lepra bacillus in the ameoba of pond water, guinea pig intestines and other low forms of animal life, they were about to give up" defeated. Some of the tubes containing the specimens were about to be destroyed when one of the men determined to make a last Inspection of the cultures in a forlorn hope. The discovery spurred the investigators to new ef? forts and back over the blazed trail they had covered so often they work? ed again. Currie obtained a pure culture which means he has eliminated the amoeba and the cholera bacillus and now has the lepra bacillus propagat? ing itself. The others have been grown through to ten generations. Aside from the hopes of evolving a serum or a vaccine for a prevention or a cure of the scourge, scientists hope the Investigators may find a leproslne which, like tubercullne, would detect the disease in its first stages. TO HOLD RALLY FOR McLEOD. Friends of Lee County Man Plan Big Mass Meeting Today?Prominent Speakers . Charleston, Aug. 28.?Efforts are being made to have a large and rep? resentative meeting tomorrow night in the interest of Thos G McLeod, candidates for governon. Two prelim? inary meetings have been held at the Hibernian hall, first of the com? mittee, then of friends generally, and now a mass meeting is proposed, to be held at the German Artillery hall, Prominent speakers will attend and address the voters and It is expected that Mr. McLeod will himself make a speech. NEGRO FUGITIVE FATALLY SHOT Charles Davis, Hunted for Uxori cide, shot Near Denmark. Denmark, Aug. 27.?Charles Davis, the negro who shot to death one Lucy Dwight, near the town of Bow? man in Orangeburg county on Aug? ust the 15th was located near Den? mark on the plantation of Col. S. O, Mayfield by Mgasltrate S. G. Ray, several days ago, and plans were perfected to make the capture to? day. When the negro came up to the plantation residence for a settlement, at tile appointed time. the magis? trate was on hand, but when the ne? uro caught sight of the officer he made a dash for the woods receiv? ing a gunshot wound in the back, which did not stop him. He was closely followed and captuerd. He was found to be wounded In the left shoulder, the hall g"in^ through the lungs; he was rushed to Dr. Mat? thew's drug store, where he was cx amlned by the doctor, who pronounc? ed the wound fatal, id Truth s. THE TRljj 0. ESTRADA IX POWER. ? New Dictator of Nicaragua Inaugu? rates Itcign by Incarcerating Nu? merous Prominent People. Managua, Aug. 29.?Juan J. Es? trada, provisional president, arrived j in the capital tonight. Arm in arm with Gen. Chamorro and accompanied by 15,000 persons, all cheering madly, the new president marched to the palace. His reception was unprece dentedly cordial. Shortly afterward a new cabinet, of which the members are prominent conservatives who enjoy public confi? dence, was appointed. It follows: Secretary of State, \Thomas Martinez; minister of war, Gen. Thomas Macis; minister of finance, Martin Bernard; minister of public works, Fernandina Soloraza; minister of interior, Aldof Diaz. Numerous arrests of prominent j persons charged with conspiracy have j been made. The police endeavored to serve a warrant on Manuel Coronel Marius, a prominent Liberal congressman and journalist, but as they approached to hand him the document he placed the barrel of his revolver in his mouth and killed himself. MONTENEGRO NOW A KINGDOM. Country Formally Elevated to That Status With King Nicholas I as Its Ruler. Cettinge, Aug. 28.?Montenegro to? day was formally elevated to the status of a kingdom, with King Nich? olas I as its ruler. The members of parliament assem? bled In parliament house, where the Te Deum was sung and proclamations were sent through the country an? nouncing the event. King Nicholas received various deputations and told them that Montenegro would devote herself solely to the advancement of culture.-* IN PROHIBITION TERRITORY. Liquor and Gambling Cauees Killing at Negro Church. Newberry, Aug. 29.?Rowdyism and rioting characterized several of the negro church gatherings in New berry County on Sunday and at Mount Olive Church at Klnards, one negro lost his life and two others were seriously and possibly fatally wounded. At Enoree Church, near the Union county line, there were also considerable disturbances. Liquor and gambling seem to have been the moving cause of the trouble. CAMPAIGN EXPENSE BILLS. What It Cost Candidates to Make Respective Races. Columbia, Aug. 29.?Up to tonight it cost the State candidates 915,000 to run for office, that amount repre? senting the aggregate of the expense account filed for the first campaign. Late today the following were fil ed: John E. Swearingen $77.27; John T. Duncan $278.97; J. M. Richardson $947.50; F. H. Hyatt $1.603.65; J. O Patterson $1.076.50; C. L. Blease $686.50. Up to this afternoon the following were filed. R. M. McCown $55.90; George S. Legare $538.40; A. W. Jones $91.50; R. H. Jennings $54.43; J. F. Byrnes $806; J. E. Ellerbe $405.75; G. W. Brown $364.17; P. A. Hodges $476. 05; C. C. Featherstone $420.58; O. C. Scarborough $604.25; G. McD Hamp? ton $545.84 ; A. F. Lever $270.95; D. E. Finley $518.87; W. W. Moore $639.50; Chas Xewnham $485.15; James Cansler $225.75; T. B. Butler $595.58; Chas A. Smith $313.86; E. Walker Duvall $286.20; J. H. Lesesne $357.05; J. T. Johnson $130.39; John G. Richards, Jr.. $355.81; J. F. Lyon $147.56; T. G. McLeod $646.65; B. B. Evans $209.25; W. W. Hay $206.64. It was somewhat of a campaign joke when James Cansler was alleged to have charged up one bath in his expense account in the memorable campaign in which he secured so many votes. This year Mr. Cansler makes the following entry on his ex? pense account, filed today: "Baths 2\, seven included in board bill, seven free and seven paid, $1.75." There is also the following Item in Mr. Ca osier's expense account: "Lemon? ade 10 cents." Killed by A. C. L. Train. Florence, August. 29.?Miss Pho ente Bailey, an aged maiden lady of tie- Mars Bluff section, was struck and instantly killed yesterday morn? ing by the engine of Train No. SO, tlie North bound through express on the Atl intic Coast Line, as the train appro,i< bed the station at Mars Bluff. DECISION STIRS STRIKERS. JUSTICE GOFF'S RUUXNG PROVES FIREBRAND IN NEW YORK. Demand for "Closed Shop" is De? clared a Conspiracy In Restraint of Trade ? Sixty Thousand Cloak makers Parade Streets, Carrying Banners and Shouting. New York, Aug. 27.?Parades of protest broke out all over the East Side this morning on receipt of the news that Justice Goff had ruled In the State Supreme Court today that a strike which demands the "closed shop" is a conspiracy in restraint of trade. Bands of the 60,000 cloak makers now on strike marched though the streets, one of them to the City Hall, carrying banners and American flags and shouting "closed shops" at every step. There was no violence, but apparently the decision had greatly stirred the strikers. Justice Goffs decision granted an injunction to a member of the Man ufacterers' Protective Association in restraint of acts of violence, threats, picketing and partrolling by strikers. "The primary purpose of this strike/' reads his finding, "is not to better the condition of the workingmen, but to deprive other men of the oppor? tunity of their rights to work." He supports his ruling with a recent de? cision of the State Court of Appeals against the Thompson-Starrett Com? pany, the large building corporation, which he cites as follows: "The Court of Appeals has held that it is against the policy of the State for employers who control practical? ly the whole trade of a community to combine for the purpose of compel? ling workmen} to join a particular j union as a condition of employment. If the rule thus laid down be law, and it must be accepted as such? be? ing the latest expression of the Court of Appeals, it must be applicable to .workmen as well as employers. It would be repugnant to reason to hold that it applies to one and not the other. If a combination of one [to refuse employment except on con? dition of joining a union be against public policy, a combination of the other to cause refusal of employ? ment except on condition of joining a union is alike against public policy." Justice Goff then cites one of the articles of the compromise presented by representatives of the union to the ma no fact u *s as follows: "The associ on (of manufactur? ers) shall obligate each of its mem? bers to employ union men as long as the union shall be able to furnish union men who can do the work properly. Within two weeks the non-union men shall join the union." I This clause, he continues, which shows the purpose animating the strike as interpreted by the Court, is clearly unlawful and he passes to the conduct of the strike. "If the unions" he stated, "have not formally direct? ed a systematic course of aggression by criminal acts, the members of the unions, acting in concert, conrdved at and morally supported such acts on the part of many of their members in pursuance of a common object." A final vote on the tentative agree? ment reached yesterday between the strikers and the manufacturers will not be reached until late tonight. General opinion inclines to the be? lief that the terms will be accepted, although there is much complaint that they are not more favorable to the strikers. Gompers Criticises Decision. Washington, Aug. 27.?Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was greatly stir? red by the decision of Justice Goff. Mr. Gompers said: "Justice Goff quotes an unjust decision in support of his own. and that is supposed to he good law. The unions of labor will live despite injunctions and decis? ions which evade constitutionally guaranteed rights and human liberty. Without the unions there is no pos? sibility for protection to the workers against the tyranny of the absolute autocratic way of organized capital." CAMPAIGN EXPENSES. Candidates Filing Statements Show? ing What it Cost Them to Run. Columbia, Aug. 29.?Of campaign expenses filed this afternoon, L*. F. Burns, candidate for congressman leads with *n06. Total amount so far is $y,757. Messrs. Hyatt, Blease and Duncan have not yet filed their expense accounts, Of the guberna? torial candidates Mr. Richards swears to I35B.81, llcLeed to M4I.S8 and Mr. Featherstone $4i!0.r?s. Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but fear is tyrant.?Pas? cal.