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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-05-21
WAS in THE SOUTH.
The Dynamiter. ROsseau, Had Bought
CI6thing in Raleigh
WAS A WELL.DRESSED STRANGER
An American, About Forty Years OF
Age, and Seemingly Well Educated
Police Working on the Case.

New York. Specialize police b.
lieve G.. Rosseau, who, it is alleged,
sent the package Of dynamite to the
steamship Umbria's pier last Saturday,
came from Raleigh, N. c., recently.
This clue was obtained from an in
scription Gu the tag on the coat OF the
would-be dynamiter, left with tailor
the day he disappeared with dyna-
mite package. The inscription bears
the name of Cross & Lineham, Raleigh,
n. C. V. Martire tailor, said Ros-
seau left two suits at his shop to be
cleaned and pressed. One was blue and
the other brown. The blue one bore
the name of Raleigh concern. Mar
tire said: 81 am satisfied that the man
who owns the blue suit is the man
described by the truckmen who took
the dynamite box from Mrs. Currie's
house to the pier. He appeared to be
about 40 years old. He talked like an
American, with slight Southern accent,
and had the air Of man OF education
and refinement. He was about feet, 8
inches in height, and had thin face.
He wore closely-cropped, dark brown
mustache and his hair was dark, al
most black. He took his hat off once
while talking to me and I noticed that
his head was slightly bald on top.
When in here he wore a dark gray
sack suit and black felt hat" Martire
says he can positively identify the
owner of the clothes il he sees him
again. Several persons who know
Rosseau declare he spoke Of being in
North Carolina long time. The police
expect to arrest him at any moment.
Bought Clothes in Raleigh.
Raleigh, Special.-Joseph Bland, a
salesman at Cross G. Lineham's, sold a
man of Rosseaus description suit Of
clothes and a stiff Stetson hat April
21st, 22nd or 23rd. The man attracted
attention by examining first Prince
Albert and remarking. I'D be a fool
to buy that when I'll be in New York
in three weeks and my tailor can make
ONE He finally bought a blue serge
suit. then came back and got an un-
finished worsted, but it is doubtful II
he returned the serge suit. Milton Vog-
Ter, of Philadelphia, was in the store
at the time and told Bland he saw the
man in Rocky Mount and came with
him on tbs .rain to Raleigh. Bland
cannot remember what name the fellow
gave, but it wasn't Rosseau.
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PROMPT Shipments Impossible.

Washington, Special.-The Depart
ment of State has just received from
the United States legation at Havana
a report which points out the trade OPP
portunities in the Cuban marke- in
manufactured cotton. The report says
Cuba has no advantage in its close
proximity to the manufacturing centres
of the Southern States, as the freight
is lower on goods exported from Eu-
rope than those exported from either
New York. Mobile or New Orleans. As
a general rule deliveries can De made
quicker from the United States than
from Europe, but during the past year
it has been almost impossible to get
goods with any promptness from the
United States and this has caused a
loss to our trade.
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL.
Progressive wlImiugtsa

The report of Mr.. James II. Chad
bourn, retiring president Of the VIZ
mington IN. c. Chamber Of Com
merce, at its fiftieth session, is note
worthy summary of good results aow-s
ing from persistent, energetic and
well-directed. efforts Of business mem
for the upbuilding of their community.
Mr.. ChadboVrn shows how the Cham
Der has general oversight OF the
business Of the port, establishing rules
governing trade and shipping; he de-
scribes the methods for keeping q
thorough record of all commodities
dealt in by the city's merchants, the
liberality of the Chamber in spending
money to promote Wilmington's inter.
ests, noting especially the prepfration
of a volume setting forth the many adj
vantages Of Wilmington and its vieinf-s
ty for manufacturing, for business and
for residence, and its interest in at-i
tracing new industries and sustaining
those already established. He said
that never before were the prospects
Of the city SO bright, and he revealed
the reason for that in his additional
statement that the merchants Of VIII
mington have more public splriy than
ever before, are more united In theIf
public efforts and present solid front
in bringing Wilmington forward as q
commercial center and as an export
observation-disclosures Record.
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Was the Naronic Blown Up ?

New York. special.-Among the ef-
fects of the man who sent the Internal
machine to the Cunard Line dock, last
week, was a piece OF paper, on which
was written in French: THE destruc-
tion of the Naronic was complete. Mr.
LeBrun, who made the box, has this
moment gone to Chicago" The Mar
onic left Liverpool on the morning Of
February II, 1903, with 1000 tons Of
freight. a crew Of fifty-lve passengers
who had gone to England on the pre-.
vious trip in charge of cargo of cat
tie. She was never seen after she left
the Mersey, and to this day no word
of her fate has reached the owners OF
the line.
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Accused of Nurder.

Newport, News, Va. Special.-The
dead body Of Maggie Harris, a colored
woman, was found near here Wednes-
day. Two briiets had lodged in the
brain. The police arrested on suspicion
dr." Samuel Robertson, of Newport
News. a negro Christian Science prac.
titloner, under whose treatment the
woman has been for the past several
weeks. Robertson Is an intelligent col
ored man. well-to-do, and Jears good
reputation. He denies having had any
thing to do with the woman's death
and suggests that she committed sui
eide He was committed to jail. An In
quest will be held tomorrow.
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WHITE MAN KILLED BIZ A MOB
Insurance Agent Shot to Death al
Wilson, North Carolina.

Wilson, Special.-Perry Jones, aa
insurance agent, who came here some
time ago, was shot in his room We'd
nesday night by crowd Of citizens
who intended to run him out Of town,
and as result died at o'clock Thurs
day morning. One of the alleged at
tacking party was also wounded.
Eleven men were arrested on the
charge of participation in the crime.
The objection to Jones was because of
his alleged association with a colored
woman. Jones stated, after being
wounded, that when the men rushed
into his room he fired on them, when
he was shot. Jones came to Wilson
about two weeks ago as an insurance
agent, giving his residence as Little
Rock, Ark. He worked industrial in
surance. A few days ago he was ar
rested with a negro woman, suspicion
having fallen on him about a watch
which was stolen in Goldsboro. The
trial resulted in his acquittal After
the trial George Whitley, of Wilson,
went to Jones and told him he would
have to leave town. Whitley claimed
to be a representative of crowd of
men in Wilson who would not have q
man here who associated with negro
woman. Jones, becoming alarmed,
had Whitley arrested on peace war
rant. The trial resulted in Whitley'5
being put under 5000 peace bond.
Jones received information that he
would be attacked. He went to Mr.. ].
R. Uzzell lawyer here, and told of
his trouble. He advised him to go TO
his room and remain there until morn-
ing, when he would advise him further.
Jones was never seen again until he
was found Thursday morning in his
room, mortally wounded. Eleven men
have been placed under arrest for par
ticipating in the killing. All those ar
rested were placed in Jail.
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Conductor Attacked.

Anderson, Special.-Capt. julie An
derson, conductor on the Blue Ridge
road, had a narrow escape from being
killed by Louis Greer, negro, at Bel
ton Sunday night. Greer became in
volved in quarrel with the negro
train hand and Capt. Anderson tried to
separate them. Greer was in an ugly
humor and made vicious rake at Capt.
Anderson's throat with knife. The
knife struck Capt. Anderson under the
Jaw and made painful wound though
not a serious one. Had the knife been
sharper or the blow just little stron-
ger it would have proved fatal. The
negro fed Immediately afterward ana
was not caught.
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Wreck of the Vera Cruz.

Washington, Special.-Capt. Slamm,
Of the revenue cutter Boutwell,, which
went to the relief Of the passengers
and crew of the Vera Cruz III, which
stranded on the 18th inst, on Dry
Point Shoal, N. c., has made preli-
minary report to Captain Shoemaker,
chief Of the revenue cutter service.
Capt. Slamm says that on his arrival
at the wreck he found that the master
Of the Vera Cruz had left his vessel
with all his personal effects and IN
struments of navigation in the keeping
Of a friend and passenger" to go to
Wilmington. N. e., to secure funds
with which to pay for the transporta-
tion of the passengers to New Bedford,
Mass, the destination of his vessel. AL
of the ships papers including the pas.
senger list, were turned over to the
collector Of customs at Newbern,
whittier the passengers and crew were
taken. The vessel was practically
abandoned by her crew. AS near as
could be learned the passenger list Of
the Vera Cruz called for 240 persons,
while the keeper Of the life-saving
station is reported to have landed 49,,
exclusive of the bark's crew. This fact
together with the circumstances of the
vessel being brought from fresh water
into the dangerous harbor where she
grounded, the captain says, appears
suspicious. The vessel is imbedded in
the sand and probably will be aband :.
oned. Thirty-fve barrels OF whale oil
comprise her cargo.
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Ginning Statistics.

The census Office announces frsn Fe-;
ports of cotton ginners that there were
ginned Of the crop Of 1902. 11.e78, 81
running bales, equal to 10,6se. e.s4S bale6
of the 500-pound standard, OF souatfng
round bales as half-bales, le5SSs251,
vaulad at $501 ,897,1 ,134. The wake of
raw cotton exports in 1902 is gives It;
S290,651,S19, making 1t the leading ar
ticle in American exports, and the
value Of the cotton crop Of 1852 pro-
duced in the States included IN the
Louisiana purchase is given at Sf13.-
sS5,044. an amount greater BY Hsora
than s5,000.000 than the Original Hsiee
paid 10 France for the territory, with.
compound interest at per eenk
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Fire In Suffolk.

Richmond, Special-Fire which start
ed in the restaurant Of Robert Tate,
colored, in Suffolk, spread rapidly and
destroyed the offices Of the Gay Manu-
featuring Company, burned all the
buildings on q block on East Wash
ington street, some four or five, belong
ing to the Suffolk & Carolina Railway
Company, and burned four or fVe
other buildings. including Kellers
Hotel. There was little insurance. The
loss was about $4,000.
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Textile Notes.

Messrs. J. 3. McCord and 6. A. Ras-
sell of Morristown. Tenn, win estab-5
lish knitting mill.
Union Oil Co., Union Point, Ca, wiz
not operate as a cotton mill tle Sparta
Cotton Mills at Sparta, Ga, TeDofted
last week as purchased.
Middle Georgia Cotton Mills, Eaton
ton, Ga, mentioned last week as add
ing hew spindles, has completed the
installations. The new spfndles NAM
Der PIP. an increase in the Nplant'9
total to $40. Messrs. c. r. Makepeace
G Co. OF Providence, R T., were tho
engineers in charge Of the improve
ments. !:
New iberia (La.) Cotton MIN Was
sold during the week to w. Il. Burk.
as agent. It is reported he WIN puf
the mill in operation. There are six-
teen knitting machines in the plant.
producing underwear.
Walter Brown, recently Of BaIti-
more, Md, has leased Dr.. J. r. Bel
lamy's cotton mill, now idle. near En-
field. N. c. He will repeair the dam.
enlarge the building and install mas
chinery for manufacturing single ana
double yarns, ball twine. rope and
batting. -
Messrs. J. H. Price, Sam r. Sthevenx,
c. H. Stevens, E. w. Reid, ]. n. W0Ife,
A. C. Cherry, F. C. Andrews ana asgo-
ciates will organize $4,000 stock con-
pany for manufacturing cotton Dpodss
They propose equipping plaat Sk
twelve looms for producing fancy
sheeting and novelty goods. TIE plant
will be located at Magnolia, AfsR
About $25,000 has been subscribed -
the proposed 100000 cotton-mifl COM
pany at Salley, 8. c., mentioned Last
week. w. s. Peterson Is interested IN
the enterprise. and hopes to make A.
rangements for permanent organfxa~
tion. Outside capital viii be invited to
invest. A water-power is available f0r
development in this connection
Dispatches state that B. Frank Me-
bane and German capitalists haye psue
chased 1000 acres Of land at Spray. N
c., as site for the establishments Of q
cotton mill that will contain 10000
spindles and $4,000 looms. and Of -
large mill for manufacturing wooI6n
blankets. Mr.. Mebane Is well knOvn
as being largely interested In the sew
eral mills at Spray.
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Lumber Notes.

G. W. Hinshaw of Winston, ". c.
has purchased, probably for develop
ment. 1000 acres of timber land near
Wilkesboro.
The Blue Ridge Lumber Co. "a
Greensboro, N. c.. has completed a..
ganization with G. e. HoltoR. ptegf-
dent. The company has capital O.
$4,000, and has begun the erection o.
a saw-mill plant.
b. e. Cogplll and associates a.
Boydton. Va, have purchased and Win
operate sawmill and timber lands =
T. & F. B. Roberts.
R. NJ. Smith of Parkersburg. W..
Va, has purchased the Exceisi0f
Lumber Co.'s property near Efkin1,
and will operate the milling plant
The Licking Coal & Lumber Co. ~
Ashland, Ky..;. has purchased ab0ut
5000 acres Of coal and timber lane3
in Morgan county, and win begin de1
velopments at once.
The shipments of lumber and tfY1
ber from the port Of Pensacoia for the
month OF April were unusually. neaRy-s
The total shipment amounted to 81,
100000 feet, of which 11,670,0 ,0o0 feee
was lumber and 20.391, ,00e feet tim.
ber. besides $4,000 miscellaneous.
1t is stated rnar Messrs. romeroy
Bros. & Co. of Hagerstown. Nd VIII
rebuild their rim and spoke fnctnry
burned at less OF $4,000. II
y
The Southern Development CO..
92O-21 Colonial Building. Boatns
Mass. is arranging to establish q Dsanf,
at Lakeview, n. c., for the MaaufaS1
ture Of cypress and juniper shinsf
The Atlantic Shook & Lsmber
cf Norfolk, Va, started up ic s
last week in order to experfnenHSi,n
tne machinery. There Is constqe ao1s
work to be done yet before Ae piars ,ar
Is comnlctc and re.dJ for osefa :"
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r1urdered H,r Child,

Petersburg, Va. Special.-Mrs. Jas
per F. Gwaltney. 17-year-old wife
Ind mother, crazed R jealousy, today
killed her nine-months-old infant with
morphine and then attempted suicide
oy the same means. The attempt failed,
md she was arrested by the police and
is in Jail awaiting the result OF the
coroner's inquest. The tragedy is the
work of gossips who told Mrs. Gwait-
ney that her husband had been seen
walking with a former sweetheart.
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Injunction Against Strikers.

Springfield. ILL.,. Special.-An injunc-
ton restraining Z. E. Clarke and 200
striking switchmen. yardmen and other
employees of the Mobile &; Ohio Rail.
road from interfering with the opera
ton of the road by stopping trains,
picketing yards, or assembling in large
numbers or in any other manner in
terfering, was granted to the road by
Judge Humphrey in the United States
Circuit Court here Wednesday.
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Greenvllle Veterans.

Greenville, Speclal.-Camp William
Beattie, Sons of Veterans, has elected
the following officers to serve the en-
suing year: D. C. Durham, commander;
w. c. Cothran, vice commander; ). ).
McSwain, secretary and treasurer; f.
NJ. Blythe, adjutant Messrs. D. c. Dur
ham. W. C. Cothran, John H. Earle, j.
J. McSwain, Perry Beattie and Jos. A.
Mccullough were elected delegates to
the reunion in Columbia, and Com
mander Durham was authorized to ap-
point alternates.
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Chester Edmands Shot.

Wilmington, Special.-A Serious
shooting ARRAY is reported from Chad
hourn Wednesday. Two well-to-do
farmers. Chester Edmonds and man
named Reid, met in the street and as a
result of an old feud about stock run
ming at large. Reid fired upcn Ed
roads, the bullet entering his BODY
and inflicting perhaps fatal wound.
Reid boarded i train after the shoot
irg. but was arrested. He claims self
defence. saying Edmonds and his
broth.- were beating him at the time
with 4 piece Of i:cl.
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Engineer and Fireman Killed.

Washington Court House, Ohio,
Special.-The Cincinnati & Pittsbarg
Express, on the Midland division Of the
Baltimore C 20 Southwestern, was
wrecked 5 miles east of Washington
Court House. Two persons were killed
and several seriously injured. The
killed are: Engineer John May, New
ark. Ohio; and Fireman ]. A. Leigh
ton, Newark, Ohio. The accident was
caused by spreading rails.
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PRODUCE MARKET.
Judge Campbell Bounced.

Richmond. Special.-Final action in
the case of Judge Clarence J. Camp
bell, of Amherst county, who horse
whipped Rev. Dr. Crawford, who was
at the time head Of the State Anti
Saloon League, was taken, so far as
the General Assembly is concerned.
the House of Delegates agreeing to the
Senate amendments to the resolution
rmoving the Judge from the bench.
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MARKET QUOTATIONS.
COTTON MARKET,

ese figures represent prices paid
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Of D. R. Elkin, lineman for the South
crn Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company, still remains deep mys-
tery. 1t was reported that the young
man had been located in Richmond.
Va. letter having been received in
Greenville to that effect from the Sis
tcr Of the man who had disappeared.
Coroner Black, of Greenville. however,
las received a letter from the mother
Cf Elkin. stating that the report that
her son had been found in Richmond
was untrue.
4 swarm of bees in Earnwell county
settled on a mules ears while he was
ploughing In a field on Monday. In re-
sisting their efforts to make swarm
ing place of his ears he angered them
and they stung him to death.
Gov. Hayward has granted respite
of thirty days to Judson Beck, negro,
VINO was convicted of murder at the
recent term Of court in Barnwell and
sentenced to be hanged. An appeal il
tde case is pending in the Supreme
Court.
Georgia Nay Parker, a little girl
living il Bam5e-g, was poisoned last
week by druggists clerk, who, in
filing q prescription, gave the child
corrosive subliaat instead Of calomel.
Spartaabusg is to have new $4,000
furniture factory.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

pect; but it will do no harm to put up breastworks in time. There has been some objection to paying the bill of an expert whose business it is to keep out insane foreigners, but personally we should regret to see the end of this amiable official. Recent arrivals occu- py much more than fair share of the asylums as wellasof the prisons. The immigration laws are none too strict, and their enforcement might well be more severe. If the Pennsylvania mine-owners were unable to meet the American laborer's advance in require ments by employing masses of the poorest and most ignorant excretion of Europe, their problems would be solved with fewer firearms. The head of the manufacturers association de- clares the muscle trust" as he calls the unions, a national menace. A muscle trust is precisely what the un- ions have not been. They have been rather trusts for light and leading, for the protectionof intelligence and ideals. Manufacturers have worked against factory legislation, the unions have worked for it. Capital often seeks to import large masses of depraved for eigners, labor favors a slower and more careful importation. If the test of power in this country ever becomes one of muscle instead of right or brains, the misfortune will be largely due to the greed of capital.-Collier's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
SLOW

John L. RiegIer of Philadelphia has written thus to Pension Commissioner Ware: q would ask you 10 please re- move my name from list of applicants for pension. am working at my trade now and making a living. I am im- proving right along and do not wish to be burden to the government. and don't think will ever be in need of a pension"
 Philadelphia is called slow. and MT. Reigle- is evidence that she isn't mis- called. He is away behind the times. If he was up to date he wouldn't deliber- ately throw away his chance of getting a pension, and instead of feeling that he will never be in need of a pension he would be feeling that his need of a pen sion is large and pressing, and certain to grow more so. He is evidently what we used to call honest, and it is evident that he doesn't know that it is not now considered dishonest to get what can be got out os a benevolent government without much regard to the way of get ting it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

the nature of the work. These wages" says the Philadelphia Manufacturer. ''are not princely incomes. but they will clothe comfortably. feed fairly well and keep a roof over the head Of the single worker or the family group. The sum of $SG0 year is probably three to five times as much money as the families of the same class in the mountain villages or on farms see in any five years. The mill workers have better houses to live in than those they left behind them in the hills inhabit, and the mill hands have better food and clothing. All of which is to say that employment in the cotton trade of the South is distinct rise for the employees in all physical aspects, and We dare say it is also a better condition morally and education ally than one finds among the poor white people of the Carolinas. Georgia and Alabama
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

The late President Williams of the famous Chemical Bank of New York began his career as a clerk in that in- stitution sixty years ago, and had been its president a quarter of a century. Meanwhile, he had seen the stock of the bank advance from $100 to $4,5OO share and yielding annual dividends of $50. Somebody once asked him what he considered the first essential of suc- cess and he answered, '"The fear of God.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

Uncle Toms Cabin is still read. Ar thur E. Bostwick, chief of the circulat- Ing department of the New York Pub lie Library, writes to the Evening Post; .In view of the recent exclusion of Uncle Tern's Cabin from the school library lists and an allusion to it in one of the daily papers as a 'once-read' book, it may be interesting to state that we have in the various branches of the Public Library no less than 295 cop ies, all of which are in constant circu- lation."