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RIOT AND BLOODSHED IN CHARLESTON POLITICS. (Continued from page 1) were fired in the committee room,'" said J. Waties Waring. He was present at the heading to represent certain challenged voters. He said that there was a heavy movement of the men in the anteroom to the committee room. He did not know who fired the shots. c;onraa oienaer, a memoer 01 tne executive committee, described the fight as follows: "I v>*as in the hall at the meeting of the executive committee when the shooting started. It started in the hallway and apparently a shot wav fired into the committee room. Immediately there was great confusion, several shots and present a fusillade of shots. Almost Immediately I saw a man named Brothers, who is known to be a Grace partisan, advancing towards Committeeman McDonald. I stood up and waved him back, saying, 'Stop.' Then there was a fusillade of shots fired and I saw one man in a window on the east side of the root., with three or four men crowding him. While this was going on I saw Chief Cantwel! come up with his pistol in his hand and fire a shot at this man's head. In the confusion I did not recognize the man. I saw no pistol in his hand. Why the man was not hit I do not know. So far as I know it missed him. While I was watching this someone struck me on the head with a club from behind. I was dazea somewhat and subsequently had to go to my home, but I just remember seeing Policeman Lafourcade come up with a pistol pointed and I grabbeo his hand and said: 'Man, for God's sake don't shoot.' I scarcely remember any more, being in somewhat a dazed condition. I went home and lay down." John J. Healy said that he was at the executive committee room, King and George streets. "I was there as a watcher," he said, "in Mayor Hyde's interest, stationed there with several others. I was standing at the door between the two rooms, when Oapt. Black ordered everybody except committeemen to get out of the front room. Rentiers came out with Maxy Goldman behind him. While O'Brien started to strike Maxy Goldman and Rentiers told him he was too small for him to strike. Then Rentiers and O'Brien started to get into an argument and Frank Hogan started to argue with him. William Wingate then caught Rentiers from the back with his arm around Rentiers' neck. I caught Wingate's arm and told him to turn Rentiers loose. When Rentiers turned around Harry Wilenski took a pistol out of Rentiers' back pocket and they all hollered, 'Arrest him' and Sergt. Quinn took him off. Then the commotion started in the door. Fosberry and Frank Hogan started to abuse me and fn the confusion Chief Cantwell took a pistol out of my pocket. I had the pistol as a deputy constable, appointed by Sheriff Martin. Says Chief Shot. "The shooting started in the door, and Chief Cantwell and Mr. Turner Logan came in with drawn guns pointing inside. I begged them not to shoot. Mr. Logan put his gun down, but Chief Cantwell fired a shot at Henry Brown, while several were holding Brown. I think Mr. Robson grabbed Chief CantwelPs hand with pistol and begged him not to shoot." He said that two hours later he was ordered under arrest by Mayor Grace and Chief Cantwell for carf-ying concealed weapons. Healy put up a cash bond of $20 and was released late last night. Joseph D. Hiott was present at the meeting of the executive committee to testify in behalf of his brother, George A. Hiott, whose vote had been challenged. "Mr. Black, the chairman," said Mr. Hiott, "asked the police department to see that everybody was put out of the room except the executive com mittee. I stepped just outside of the doorway back into the room from the executive committee room. My two brothers were with me. As I did this I saw a young man from the navy yard, named George Rentiers; two men were cursing him. One was big Wingate. They grabbed hold of him and then a policeman grabbed him Lmir i no nOPW iin/i t hair n a/1 Y?nr* t?iv nvvi? wiiu viivjr aiicotcu ivrir tiers. I never saw Rentiers rise, They carried him out of the room. A minute or so later the shooting began. The shooting was in the room. I can not say who the men were who shot, but I did see a policeman in uniform shoot. He shot four or five shots through the doorway into the committee room. After that there were so many shots that I and my brothers went out. In trying to get out some one hit me." Only city policemen were on guard at the executive committee hall or King street when the fatal shootjnp occurred. Gov. Manning had on the night before instructed Col. E. M, Blythe of Greenville, First infantry to proceed to Charleston and take charge of the several companies thai had been ordered to be in readiness for duty. Sheriff Martin had a large number of special deputies sworn in The question was raised today as tc why the militia and the special constables were not present to prevent the trouble. It was pointed out that the sheriff has no power to interfere ir municipal affairs until the local officers have failed to cope with the situation. The police having failed to keei order Chairman Black telephoned the sheriff and the deputies were sent immediately. The militia arrived a fev 'V f 1 Thi Ev Stat . I will f( SO! D H i ... ? minutes afterwards and easily di persed the large crowd which hi gathered on King street. The militia remained on duty 8 last night, a strict military zone b ing maintained about the building o cupied by the executive committe All the boxes containing the votes < the recent municipal election wei stored in the building. Col. Blythe spent the night at hotel, arising early this morning take charge of the troops. He refusi to discuss the situation, declaring thi he had been sent to Charleston maintain order regardless of factio McD. H. HYDE DECLARED NOMINEE. Charleston, Oct. 16.?Tristram 1 Hyde was declared the nominee f< mayor of Charleston by a majority < 128 'votes over the incumbent, Jol f. urace, at tne conclusion tonignt 1 an eight hour sitting of the city Dem cratic executive committee, called t gether to canvass and publish the vo cast in the primary election held Tue day. The session was adjourned fro that of yesterday, which broke up a riot that involved the death of newspaper man, Sidney J. Cohen, tl shooting of four others and the clu bing of two. MOTHER! YOUR CHILD IS CROSS, FEVERISH. FROM CONSTIPA TIOl If Tongue is Coated, Breat Bad, Stomach Sour, Clean l^iver and Kowels. Give "California Syrup of Figs" once?a toaspoonful today often sav a sick child tomorrow. If your little one is out-of-sorl half-sick, isn't resting, eating and at injr naturally?look, Mother! see tongue is coated. This is a sure si} that its little stomach, liver and Ikv els are clogged with waste. Whi cross, irritable, feverish, stomach soi breath bad or has stomach-ache, di'a rhoea, sore throat, fuH of cold, gi ! a teaspoonful of "California Syrup | Figs,' 'and in a few hours all the co stipated poison, undigested food ai I sour bile gently moves out of its lit1 bowels without griping, and you ha 1 a well, playful child again. Mothers can rest easy after gi'vii this harmless "fruit laxative", b cause it never fails tfi cleanse the lit! | one's liver and bowels and sweet k the stomach and they dearly love i J pleasant taste. Full directions f , babies, children of all ages for grow ups printed on each bottle. Beware of counterfeit fig syrpj Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bott | of "California Syrup of Figs;" tih ' see that it is made by the "Califoni ( Fig Syrup Company." The pugilist never offers to fig another for fun. t Marriage is a contract and there s j lots of contract jumpers. It is easy for a woman to fool r man who thinks he is fooling her. e Greatest ent in the ;e's History \11 Carolina be in Columbia )r the Week nething Doing ay and Night FOR FULI LARVEST . COLUM S- SEVEN RUNGS ON LADDER id TO FREEDOM FOR TENANTS The one big point to emphasize ii ill conclusion is that more property e- gradually acquired, is the way t c- home-ownership. When a tenant ha !?. saved until he has good tools, goo M hogs, good cows, and work stock, h re has reached a point where he is ii land than the tenant who lacks thes' a a hundred-fold better position to ge to things?and certainly ten-fold sure jd to keep the lands after he does ge at it. In fact, for the renter who ha to nothing at all except common work n. ing tools, the seven steps on the lad der to independence would seem to be 1. A garden. 2. Poultry. T. 3. Pigs. or 4. Cows, of 5. Horses, in 6. Better machinery, of 7. Land. o- The first four are necessary fo o- self-support, for no matter how ir te dustrious a tenant may be, or ho1 s- economical in other ways, there i m absolutely no ray of hope for him i in he regularly tries to buy a livin o from a stnrfi Hp will hf> nnthincr hi he a slave working for the supply mei b- chants, with the fruits of his laboi going to them as surely as a negro profits went to his master in ant< helium days. There's a memorabl and illuminating statement in th bulletin, "Studies in Farm Tenanc N in Texas," when somebody says h as always noticed that the tenar Jl whose wife is "a butter and chicke woman' 'is the one who ultimatel I buys a farm. A demonstration agent was givin me another incident the other-day s at follows: " Iknow a renter," he sai< f.s "who had been seeing his whole ore. go every year for the store accoun ts> But in the spring of last year, being ;t- man of good character, he got if friend to endorse for him and he hoi rowed just half as much mon y au h w- had been paying for supplies under ti en time prices system, mis money, boi ,r> rowed at legal interest rates, wit ,r_ good economy enabled him to gi ve through the year, and after payin of off the debt last fall he had enoug n_ left to run him this year without boi nd rowing. Soon he is going to buy je farm.?The Progressive Farmer. ve . ? ' ' Willi's? Afew more years will s< ^ the end of the moving picture bus >e_ ness. Gillis?How so? en Willis?Lack of attendants, j^g Gillis?Nonsense. Their popularil or is increasing daily. D. Willis?Maybe; but mark my word at the rate they are going, in a fe )b years everybody will either be actin de in them or running a picture sho en and there won't be anybody left 1 (ja watch the pictures^ Wb?ever You Need General Too . Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tastele chill Tonic is equally valuable as re General Tonic because it contains tl oSH bsobussulsifs SpstHieidflUlNlN sad IRON. It setaaa the User, Driv a OSS Malaria, HtirldiSbv the blood si Builds up tha Whole System. SO cent P SOUT Harv< and I Columbia, MONDAY?Organiza of South Carolina < ing State Fair, Cor TUESDAY?Military State Militia and Terrace. WEDNESDAY?Gran Carolina by County ty Floats. Indian I THURSDAY?"Colum rade. Parade five i Resources and Busi FRIDAY?"Ladies' D Parade, Band Cone Free Acts, Foot Bal Gate Fair Grounds INFORMATION JUBILEE C BIA CHAMBI I COTTON BELT. IN TWO YEARS. I. r, Historical Contrasts Between Present '? Attitude and That of 1861. 0 8 Iii 1860, just before the War Bert ttfefen the Sections, the United States e produced a cotton crop of 3,800,000 1 bales; the third largest then on rece ord, and surpassed only in the two * preceding seasons. The price had r been 9 cents a pound; it was only t 10 cents at the end of 1860. With s the outbreak of the War Between the " Sections, in the spring of 1861, Southern ports were blockaded and the t: planters went to the front. Nobody knows how much cotton was produced in this country between then and 1865; but the price at New York, in the resultant scarcity, rose to 28 cents in 1861 to 51 in 1862, to 88 in 1863, and to $1.90 before the war was over. It was as late as 1883 'r before the price got down to 10 cents a pound again. w How curiously the circumstances of the cotton belt are reversed It. " tne present war, may be judged by K this week's government estimate on the cotton crop, and by the South's r" reception of it. between 1861 and 1865, the most urgent efforts were s made to raise cotton, run the blockade and get the enormous current e prices. Outbreak of last year's Euie ropean war found our cotton crop at y the largest recorded figure, but with ie outside markets, for both industrial and military reasons, largely blocked, n The New York price, which nearly y trebled in 1861, broke in 1914 from 14 1-2 cents a pound to 7 1-4. The K whole South joined in a nexcited dets mand to "reduce the acreage." There was carried over unsold T from last year's crop, 2,800,000 bales ?much less than the 5,000,000-bale a surplus predicted last autumn. The 8 new crop's acreage was actually reduced 15 per cent though organized ' efforts had been made for an acreage ,e 26 per cent or even 5 Oper cent less r" than in 1914. On ton of this came , bad weather in the cotton belt. Lasl Monday's government forecast of the ^ cotton yield named 10,950,000 bales 1 as against the 16,000,000 of last year This would be reduction of 31 pei a cent. The somewhat paradoxical enthusi;e asm in the South, over this bad show ing for the crop, is explained by the fact that the price of cotton rose ir consequence to 12 1-2 cents a pound the highest since the war began, comparing with 10 a month ago, and 7 3-4 in January. But how about the cotg ton trade itself? In the last "cottor year," which began, with the war, ir August, 1914, the world's consump w tion of American ootton was 14,950,^ 000 bales, or more than the crop now predicted by the department of fcgricultru, plus the "carry-over" froir lc the last crop.?New York Evening Post. u > w a The average hero worshipper spend) ?e a lot of time in front of the mirror. B M How many of the things will b< id done that you are going to do tomor a row? H CAROLIN Jubi State F S. C., October tion State Mayors' Associat Optical Association, Official P onation Parade and Queen's ! Parade and Manoeuvers by U Military Schools. Military ! ia Display Natural Kesourc r Demonstration Floats. Exh Summer Dance?Capitol Terr ibia Day," $20,000 Illustratec niles long exhibiting Columbi iness. Jubilee Dance. ay," Floral Parade, Pony P; ert?Largest Band ever seen 1, Band Concerts, Dancing eve after 5:00 P. M. Every day i ADDRESS OMMITTI LR OF COMIV Sunday School eTacher?You must prow up to be pood. Don't you want to be looked up to? Little Emmit Wayup?No; I'd rather be looked around at.?Judge. THE LARGER CIR TO VISIT THIS SEC1 WILL EX CHEJ Saturday * ^n^wgfil %* *M?f# % fee air 23-29 ion, Meeting 'arade, Open- | Ball. | . S. Regulars, : Ball?Capitol | :es of South ^ ibition Coun o ?vc. ^ 1 Trades Pa- | a's Products, \ arade, Comic I in Columbia. iry day. Free j i Gala day. 1ERCE ?????? He?What is the difference between a gown and a creation ? She?I can't give you the exact figures, but it's a rmall fortune.? Philadelphia Ledger. ST AND BEST " c u s [ION OF THE STATE HIBIT AT STER Oct. SO r / , 5TEEL-OIRDHD ARENAX OMJRE and ONE-QU ARTE A 3^\ Nfflk \ ' agenbeck Trained Wlld\ YlS Great Wallace Circus. A ?.- -h,r+. Mr* * ?