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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
THREAT OF ~
Foreigners Get Up a Stafll'S
BugaboO
PROMISED PUNISHMENT OF CRIME
Declared That I5.Cent Cotton VIII
Be The Ruin of the United states
Scared Foreigners.

Washington, Specially Revolt
Against American Cotton. is the title
of long report just received at the
State Department from United States
Consul General Mason, at Berlin, Ger
many.
Mr.. Mason says that foremost among
the economic movements in Europe
which may have serious meaning for
important interests in America is the
present simultaneous effort of Great
Britain, France and Germany to eman-
cipate their textile industries from de.
pendence upon American cotton. The
portentous feature Of the situation Is
that there is not only in Germany, but
throughout Europe, growing feeling
of resentment against this dependence
and determination that their spinning
and weaving industries must at any
cost be emancipated from such yassal-
age by the development Of wholly new
sources of supply. The German press
charges that the American cotton mar
ket is at the mercy Of the spectators,
who drive up and own the prices to suit
their own purposes. Thus far the
movement Is in lis infancy. but its fu-
ture may be ominous for the cotton
growers of our Southern States, says
Mr.. Mason. Experiments in the East
African colonies during the last two
years have been successful. It is an
nounced that there are many square
miles of land in East Africa with soil
and climate we'll adapted for the cul-
tivation of cotton Through the Ger
han consul at Galveston arrangements
are being made to send over and edu-
cate agricultural schools and on plan
tations in Texas a number of young
Germans who before going will con-
tract to spend a number Of years as
superintendents of plantations in the
German African cotton colonies. Coolie
labor from China will be employed in
case the natives prove too incompe-
tent.
It may be many -nare before this
European crusade for colonial cotton
may be accomplished, but, says Mr..
Mason, whether we like it or not the
day will come sooner or later when
the cotton Of our Southern upiands and
valleys will no longer be king beyond
the frontiers of the United States.
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Nade Fast Time.

Ormand, Fla, Special.-Fifty miles
with four turns in forty minutes 10 40
seconds was the record made in the
Ormand-Daytona beach course Satur-
DAY by w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., in his
90-hose power machine. The event
was for the American Automobile AS
sociation championship at that dis
tance, open to all. The pace figures
out 73 IL miles an hour, the best
record ever made in America and al
most as good as any straight-away rec
ord for that distance in the world. In
this long race Mr.. Vanderbilt managed
his machine admirably.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
A TERRIBLE CRIME
Murder and Outrage in Roanoke,
Virginia
MOTHER And CHILD ARE KILLED
Young Business Man Goes Home to
Find HIS Wife and Child In Pool
of Blood.

Roanoke. Va, Special-When George
| Shields, a we'll known young business
man, reached his home in the heart OF
the city at the luncheon. hour Saturday
he found his three-year-old daughter
Mildren lying in pool Of blood on the
reception hall floor with two ugly
wounds on the head.
Following blood stains from the din
ing room to an upstairs chamber he
found his wife lying in pool OF blood
on a clothes closet floor, with her
throa. cut from ear to ear and her head
horribly hacked. Mrs. Shields manag-
ed to gasp, "A large black negro man
came through the kitchen and attacked
me in the dining reCm."
Besides this there is no clue to the
criminal. Mrs. Shields had been out
ragged after which her assailant dealt
Ter several blows on the head with a
hatctchet. fracturing the skull. dragged
her up stairs where he cut her throat
with a razor and threw her into the
closet. fastening the door on the out
side. The girl was struck to hush her
cries. The dining room floor was COW
cred with blood and showed there had
been a terrible struggle. The. doctors
entertain but slight hopes for the re-
covery of either the mother or the
child.
Ever since the discovery of the trag-
edy large crowd of citizens has been
in the vicinity of the city Jail watching
to see if the officers carry any one into
the building. At s o'clock Saturday
night the crowd numbered more than
1000 men. Mayor Cutchin has ordered
Capt. Francis, Of the Roanoke Blues
military company, to assemble his men
as precautionary measure.
BY order of the mayor all the sa-
looms were closed at o'clock.
While Judge John Woods. of the
Corporation Court. was pleading from
the jail steps with the crowd in the
streets to preserve order, some one in
the crowd hurled a beer bottle at him.
The missile barely missed its wark. At
II o'clock the crowd had dispursed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Fourteen 1en Killed.

Monterey, Tex, Special.-Word has
been received from Victoria, capital
Of the State Of Tamauilaps, that IA
men were killed in mine accident
near that city. Sixteen men. it is
stated. were being hoisted out OF the
mine in huge lift after their days
work was done. and wnen near the
surface the cable broke. precipitating
all the men to the bottom Of the shaft
a distance of 1900 feet. Fourteen
were killed outright. one was serious
" injured and others are missing. All
the dead were Mexicans of the poorer
class
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Long Journey to Pay Poll Tax.

Austin, Tex, Special.-Congress'
man W. S. Burleson, from this the
tenth congressional district, arrived
here from Washington, having traVei,
ed 5000 miles to pay his poll tax OF
s175. in order that he might retain
his privilege as a voter and once
holder in the State of Texas. The Trip
was necessary because he forgot TO
nav this tax before leaving for WASH
ington. and when he tried to have IL
paid by proxy he was informed that
under the present State law he would
have to pay it in person or forfeit his
rights as a voter and oficeholder.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04

Keyn calculated upon the basis OF the
hardly
OOoOOo and similar grounds
estimated at
possibly 100000
present human
going out
comforting that
hitherto
matter containing
right that the
degree at least comparable with what
this light the subject
possibility of augmentng the estimate OF the
times its present calculated value
According the having existed for at
its continuing
million
itself biologists evoutns who
the be of the suns existence as heretofore
sufficient
the earth from the exceed
which the beginning Now however
estimate its length the
Some unexpected discovery is
things apparently unconected with it,
of
Ine But this does not lessen the
chnSeess rock but
growing
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
To Settle With Creditors.

Kansas City, Special.-Grant G. Gal
lett, the former cattle plunger, who
fed to Mexico three years ago, has
made a definite move to settle with
his creditors, whom he owes an aggre-
gate sum estimated at $1,500,000. Local
creditors have received a draft from
Gillet for a sum sufficient to pay the
expenses of a committee to go to Mex
leo and inspect his mining holdings
from the development of which he
hopes to pay his debts. The commit
tee will start for Mexico about Feb
ruary Is.
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Senator Indicted.

st. Louis, Specialize Federal
grand jury has returned an indict-
ment against Joseph Ralph Burton,
United States Senator from Kansas,
charging him on nine counts, with ac-
cepting five checks of $500, each from
the Rialto Grain & Securities Com
pany, between November %. 91O2, ana
March 26, 1903, for his alleged SER
vices in interceding with the Post
master General, chief postofice in
spector and other high postoftice OF
fcials, to induce them to render
favorable decision in matters AFFECT
ing the permission of the Rialto Com
pany to use the mails.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Thirteen Girls Poisoned.

Berlin, By Cable.-SeVen girls be-
longing to a cooking school at Darn
sta5t are dead and elk others are dy-
inc from poisoning which resulted
from partaking Of dish made OF can
red beans and meat and a medical in
oriry into the occurrence is being
made. Up to the present the iaVesti-
cation has failed to define the exact
nature of the poison.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
SOON TO VOTE ON TREATY
Opposition to Panama Canal Rapidly
Losing Ground.

Losing Urouno.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Charlotte, n. c., Observer says:
1T is the opinion Of the Senators
who have studied the situation very
carefully that the opposition to the
ratification of the canal treaty began
to disintegrate within the adoption OF
the Culberson composite resolution as
amended by the Republicans to IN
clude the words If not in his judg-
ment. incompatible with the pubic
interest This important resolution,
the only one that has been seriously
considered in the Democratic caucus,
was allowed TO pass without debate on
the part OF the anti-treaty Democrats.
Such a degree Of significance is at
tached to this silence on the part OF
the obstructionists that some Sen
ators who are supporting the treaty
today felt safe in predicting that Sen
ators generally would be willing to al
low the treaty to come to vote as soon
as speeches shall have been made by
Senators Clark, Clay, Mallory and
perhaps two or three others who de-
sire to speak very briefly, the first
of next week. Advocates Of the treaty
are feeling more comfortable tonight
than at any time during the past few
weeks.
mayor Eaton and Prof. Charles F.
Tomlinson today appeared before the
House cornmittee, on public buildings
and grounds in advocacy of the Win
ston public building bill, which car
ries an appropriation Of s16O,OOO. Rep
resentative w. w. Kitchin, who in
troduced the visiting gentlemen to the
committee, says that every point to
be urged in support Of the PROPOSE
ton was forcibly advanced and that
members Of the committee, serVeral OF
whom are familiar with the situation
at Winston, manifested much interest
in all that was said. Mr.. Kitchin says
he does not want to hold out any
false hopes, but that he feels this bill
will pass if any such legislation Is
enacted during the present session,
which IS doubtful. 1t will be OF in
terest to people residing in several
North Carolina cities to know that the
policy OF this Congress in relation to
appropriations for Federal buildings
was considered today by the Senate
committee on public buildings and
grounds. While no decision was reach
ed. the general sentiment seemed to
be that only such projects as now are
under way should be acted upon.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Japan Will Raise Money at Home.

Toxic, BY Cable.-The cabinet ana
elder statesmen conferred for an ex'
tended period. They discussed the
programme in the event Of hotilities.
The Japanese financiers in general are
offering very generous, assistance and
It is now fully evident that the gov
ernment will be enabled to raise an
enormous sum of money at home
without having to place dependence
upun borrowing from abroad
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Demands Vindicatlon.

Madrid, Jan. Special.-As a result
of the press and parliamentary asper-
sions cast upon him for the part he
played in the peace negotiations in
Paris between the United States and
Spain. Senator Monero Rios has de-
manded that the government submit
the State correspondence and the
documents connected with these nego-
tiations. The fulfillment Of his de-
mand will probably give rise to heat
ed debate.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Rumored designations.

London, Special.-The Daily News
Tuesday morning publishes a rumor
that further cabinet designations are
imminent, saying the officers to resign
probably are Lord Lansdowne, Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs; Lord
Londonderry, president Of the board or
education, and Gerald Balfour, pres.
dent OF the board Of trade.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
AIIAmendments Dropped.
Wonderful Head of Hair.

An extraordinary head of hair is
possessed by Mercedes Lopez, the
wife of a poor sheep-herder in San
Vincente, Mexico. Her height is five
feet. and when she stands erect her
hair trails on the ground four feet
eight inches. The hair is so thick
that she can completely hide herself
in it. She has it cut very frequently,
as it grows so quickly, enabling her to
sell large tresses to hair dealers every
three or four months.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Effort to Introduce Negro Labor.

Pittsburg, Pa, Special.-F'ires in
the Spang Chalfant Company Mills
in Etna, where a strike had been on
for several weeks, were lighted last
night, and an effort will be made to
start the plant in full in the morning
under a guard of coal and iron police.
The strikers now number 200 and they
claim an effort is being made to in
troduce negro labor into the plant.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04

III
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creature with fine capacity for loving and being
the fufmat of her best impulses she is
certainly making mistake
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dining Shes listening to the sn rustic
through the corridors of the WaldorfAsto
&! Why not?
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that will enable tie
diamond have
left unsatisfed?
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they all
with their wepadded jow resting
on he gltterng pincushion beneath
whether their
sparkling jewels which
pleased with themselves and the world
should they not be?
the solitaire.
that matter?
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Four Killed.

St Louis, special.-A collision be-
tween passenger trains on the Buriing-
ton north of St. Charles, Mo-, is re-
norted. Several are reported dead ana
many injured. A long distance tete-
phone message from st. Charles says
four persons were killed and twelve
injured.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Radium and the Age Of the SUN
BIZ Louis WindmTel1er
By Garrett p. Serviss

NEW phase of the discussion aroused by the wonderful prop
critics has been opened by Professor George H. Dar
the Of the father of Darwins Chare
Darwin and mathematician Of great ability who invented
the tidal theory the birth of the from the earth
Professor appeals the newly discovered source
energy contained and illustrated by the continual
radiation given forth raum and other substances for
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
Simmons Makes Strong Speech.

In the Senate Wednesday, Mr.. Sim
mons or North Carolina, with lmpas-
stoned speech urged the ratification Of
the canal treaty. He felt that to refuse
to ratify the treaty would be inficting
greater wrong on Panama than had
already been inflicted on Colombia. He
appealed especially to the Republicans
not to regard Panama as partisan
question. If it were so regarded in the
Senate, he said, it would be entirely the
fault of the Republicans, since the
Democrats intended to vote individual
" as each thought best. This state
ment seemed to be received with inter-
est by the Republicans as indicating
the failure of the Democratic leaders
to held their votes together. Mr.. Sim
mons is one of the Democratic Sena-
tors mentioned a few days ago In the
Observer as intending to speak In IA
vor of the treaty. Other minority Sen
ators who at that time refused to ad-
nit that they would vote for the treaty
are expected to follow in his lead
shortly.
All Amendments Dropped.
Washington, Special.-It has been
practically determined to drop all the
amendments to the Panama treaty. AS
surances have been received that
Panama comedies that the treaty will
be interpreted as tie amendments pro-
vide in regard to the harbors. santa
ton and limitation Of the cities Of
Panama and Colon.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-02-04
The Girl Who
Marries For Money
By Nixola Greeley.Smith

necessarily unhappy though is undoubtedly the fashion,
the contemplating commercial
marriage the misery that result from it.
all depends
wives others look well at
\ head
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Ingratitude to Birds

lNgratlGuQe 10 blfdS
Some Suggestions For Their Protection
Before They Are Extern1inated
By Louis WindmueIIer
ONE 10000 specimens created for mans
s. !
hawks nosome
all tribes the insectve
valuable Ner-
minw the West, the cotton IN the
II birds were not near
X n O them until they ripen
~ gratitude for their useful
the charm Of their presence
but divers enemies that per-
ALL domestic IN
bird
crease of that 100000 of them annually Kill some
exacted for keeping watcP dog WI"
places already to the more dis
pensable small fee the privilege OF
keeping single cat
indulge the
birds
disregarded
nobody delegated to enforce
hardened the hearts
the hered tribes Women
who are for the feathers that inexoabe
extermnated The heron
their handsome
bridal pumage die These birds
Louisiana cause enormous
birds satisfied
ruthless spaton eventually Will annh
which crafty and please the friends OF
useful and deserve
These
would do Tor the proecoh
Of all the laws colaborated wv W
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-30
A Snuff Story.

Mrs. Margaret Thompson, OF Lon
don, who died many years ago, by
her will directed that in her coffin
sheuld be buried all her handker-
chiefs and sufficient OF the best
Scotch snuff to cover her body. This
she peferred to flowers, as nothing
could be more fragrant and so re-
freshlng to me as that precious pow
der Further. the six greatest snuff
takers in the parish of St. James,
Westminster, were to be her bearers.
Six old maids, each bearing in her
hand a box filled with the best
Scotch snuff to take for their refresh
ment as they walked, were to carry
the pail. Before the corpse the min
lister was to walk, carrying and par
taking of a pound Of snuff. At every
go yards large handful of snuff was
to be delivered to the bystanders,
while at the door of the tesetator's
house were to be placed for gratui-
tous distribution bushels Of the
same quality of snuff.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-30

the spoken and written utterances Of
prominent men there who are urging
it, are all brought here and publish
ed in the native newspapers and are
being made the text for editorials in
sisting that the Filipino people are
now ready to become an independent
nation. The effect Of all this is dis
tinctly injurious. Its tendency is to
restore influence of the old insurrec-
ton leaders and make them active in
preaching the old propaganda. This
in turn has the effect of demoralizing
and weak ening the most conservative
and thoughtful Filipinos, who fear
that if they speak out as they really
think they would be considered the
enemies of the people and lose their
prestige with them. Those of the
more prominent and best educated,
and who naturally have their ambi-
tions. are inclined to join in the gen.
Saluda, September 27.--The Saluda
school opened yesterday morning un-
der the most protitious auspices. The
attendance was larger than any pre-
vious year at the beginning of ses-
sion. Many of the patrons of the
school were present to witness the
opening.
Saluda is now a cotton market in
reality. Arrangements have been
made for a wagon transfer to a rail-
road free of cost to the buyer, the cit
liens by public subscription paying
all expenses of hauling. Railroad
prices are being paid and business is
looking up rapidly.
This town within recent months
enjoyed excellent telephonic conl-
nunication both with Newberry and
Johnston. The Newberry line still
continues to give good service, but
the line to Johnston, since the South
Carolina Telephone company gained
control, is miserable farce.
Promise after promise has been
made to improve the service but as
yet nothing has been done. So great
is the complaint now that the town
and county authorities are talking of
annuling the license heretofore grant
ed. Augusta cotton quotations are
now only possible by way of Newber-
ry. Interested citizens here will at
once put in a line to Johnston un-
less the S. C. Telephone company
rapidly improves its service.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-30
STRANGE TERRITORY.
Of Mammoth Bears and Big Eagles
Are the Aleutian Islands.

The simple announcement that
Mrs. Annie Vessey, OF Kadiak, Alas
ka. had returned to her home after a
visit to Seattle, as reported in the so
cietv columns OF the newspapers,
meant little to the average reader,
but the visit itself meant much to
Mrs. Vessey, for it was the first time
she had been outside Alaska. Never
before had she ridden on street car,
seen a locomotive, been. within a
theatre or witnessed the complex life
of a city. All was new and strange
to her. Her go years were spent en-
tire1y on Kadiak Island and the is
lands OF the Aleutian group. Mrs.
Vessey's father, a descendant OF the
ancient house of Russia, went to
Alaska in 1860. and lived there contin-
uously in the Russian settlements Of
the Aleutians. Mrs. Vessey speaks
Russian as we'll as English and sew
eral Indian tongues. and her trip to
Seattle was as interpreter for the par
ty of Aleutian islanders that went to
the St. Louis exposition recently
While here the interpreter. with her
baby I year old, was the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Sandley. The baby
Mrs. Vessey dresses in suits made
of squirrel skins, such as the natives
wear.
Just before leaving Alaska Mrs.
Vessey's mother shot a mammoth
bear and forwarded the head to the
Smithsonial institute at Washington,
D. c. For the specimen the direc-
tors of the big scientific museum? sent
its slayer $500. In the skull were
found imbedded number Of old-rime
Russian handmade bullets. carried no
one knows how long by the Alaska
bear after victorious meetings with
his natural enemies. In the Aleutiar
islands the natives have 50 long been
under the Russian influence that the
Greek church is thoroughly establish
ed and all its festivals and rites are
observed most faithfully The ma
tives are numerous.
Eagles grow to an enormous size
on Kadiak and other islands, and the
government pays a bounty on each
one killed, for they carry off the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-30

sheep and are destructive in many
ways.
Th long days of the summer sea-
son makes the grass grow abundant,
and it grows to a height of five feet,
while berries also grow plentifully
and entirely without cultivation. On
account OF the numerous wild flowers
there are many kinds Of bugs and
insects, rare species of butterflies and
bees. Mrs. Vessey's father makes a
good income. Cattle do we'll. but
must be fed heavily because of the
long and severe winters. Some mill
ing is done. The climate as whole
is most healthful.