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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
FIENDISH HAZERS.
CIV EmpIoye at Tube Works Nearly
Roasted Alive.

The fendish joke of brutal employ
) of the Tyler Tube and Pipe comp
ny, at Washington, P.l., may result
n the death Of Henry Perry, q new
.mploye, who came from Wheeling,
". Va. Ringleaders in the having
escaped arrest by leaving town. Per-
~ is charred and blackened by ex-
terror burns. and it is feared that he
inhaled some of the flames from the
furnace over which he was suspend
ed by his tormenters.
The hazing occurred just after the
midnight lunch hour, when the men
surrounded the new hand. Perry
fought valiantly toward off his as
sailants, but several powerful men
proved too much for his single
strength. They bound him with
cords to a big iron crane and swung
him time and again over a furnace,
which the workmen do not approach
unless protected by a shield. The
cords burned and Perry fell to the
floor, right in front of the furnace.
His flesh was shrivelled from the heat
when the men pulled him away, and
he had lost consciousness. Brighten
ed by their deed, the men called q
physician.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
ENDS HIS LIFE.
He Preferred Death to Twenty
Years in Prison.
He Declared That He Was Innocent
of the Crime for Which He Was to

He Declared That He Was Innocent
of the Crime for Which He Was to
Be Punished.
Rather than spend twenty years
in the North Carolina penitentiary
for kidnapping Kenneth Beasley, the
little son of State Senator Beasley, a
crime of which one of his last acts
was to declare himself outlines,
Joshua Harrison shot himself in the
New Gladstone hotel at Norfolk,
Va, at $50 o'clock Tuesday after
noon, dying eight hours later.
Harrison arrived Tuesday and
went directly to the hotel. He came
there from Elizabeth City, N. c..
where he had appeared in court to
renew the bond on which he was at
liberty pending the decision Of the
North Carolina supreme court on a
motion of a new trial in his case. His
bond was raised from So, 900 to $5,-
900 and. he had no trouble in furnish
ing it. He Immediately left for Nor
folk, and the supreme court almost
as quickly rendered a decision ad-
versely to him. The Norfolk police
were asked to arrest him, as he had
threatened suicide.
Harrison made no effort to conceal
his identity here, and no trouble was
experienced in locating him 1.-THE no.
tel room, and a little strategy was
resorted to get him out. A bell boy
was sent to his door by Detective
Wright, who went to make the ar
rest, with instructions to tell Harri-
son that he was wanted at the tele-
phone. Harrison told the boy that
he would not answer the phone, say
ing that he was not to be easily trap
ped by the police.
Detective Wright remained at the
foot of the stairway, as the bell boy
went up to deliver the message, and
as the lad>returned to report to the
detective, a pistol shot was heard in
Harrison's room. .
The door to the room was forced
open. Harrison lay across the bed
with a bullet hole in his right tenn
pie. Besides him was q pistol. He
was still alive, but an examination
showed that there was no chance of
his recovery.
In Harrison's room was found a
letter signed by himself, in which he
declared that he was innocent Of the
crime of which he was convicted and
knew nothing whatever about it.
The exact wording of the letter, the
police have not seen fit to reveal.
Harrison was convicted in Eliza
beth City, N. c., February, 1905, for
kidnapping the young son Of State
Senator Beasley, of Williamson, Pas
quotank county. The boy disappear
ed while on his way to school, and
has never been seen since, although
a score of detectives seerched for
him for months. Harrison was an
enemy of Senator Beasley and it was
charged against him that he kidnap-
ped the boy and that this was his
method of revenge. He denied the
charge to his dying hour.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
BEAT AT HIS GAME.
A Farmer Robs a Robbcr After q
Hard Battle.

Robbers having designs against
Aaron Kent, a farmer of Troy Hills.
near Caldwell. N. j.. will please take
this warning from this tale and
leave their valuables at home when
they start out to get his.
Very late Wednesday evening
Aaron sat on the front seat of his
wagon going home singing S matches
of "Rally Round the Flag" Boys
while tDo6bins and Charlie plodded
along in front.
In Farmer Kent's undershirt poe
ket reposed a wad of 5000 in yellow
bills, the proceeds of his peach crop,
which he had sold at Newark Mar
ket'
Two masked men leaped from a
brush heap at the roadside. One
grabbed the horses bits, the other
clambered up on the wagon step
and pressed a gun to Aaron's ear.
eve want that $780," he Kissed.
"Shell her out err crook"
Farmer Kent quit the Rally
song in the centre of the stirring re-
frain. Also he dropped the lines,
ducked his head to- miss the bullet
and in the same instant caught the
road agent about the neck in the
crook of his stalwart arm and threw
him clean into the back of the wa
gon. Kent lopped over after him
and fell on top. He closed the sur:
prised highwayman's windpipe, and
then raised his head and cried:
"Scat, Dobbin!"
Dobbin leaped forward with a
bounce threw the burglar at his bit
into the roadside bushes, and then
dashed on, while Kent and the rob-
Der Tough it out in the box of the
wagon behind.
Kent was easily victor, At the
farm up in front the discomfited
robber wormed himself out of his
coat and vest, squirmed out the
back of the box and and fell with
a thud into the sand.
After stalling Dobbing Aaron
Kent examined the rear of his dou-
BILE wagon. In the discarded coat
of the burglar man he-found $3.50
in cash. The discarded vests poe,
kets yielded gold watch worth $50.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
FEAR THE PEST.
Boil Weevils Here Would Be a Ma
tional Calamity.

Because of the relief existing in
Laurens and other counties that GER
tain localities are infested with the
cotton boil weevil the subject is be-
coming of vital Importance to ex-
perts and scientists in the depart
ment of agriculture. Should it be
admitted that this crop destroying
pest had taken a hold in South Caro-
lima the result could be short of a
national calamity, for the reason
that up to this time it has not been
discovered east of the Mississippi
river with the exception of the state
of louisiana. w. D. Hunter, in
charge of cotton boil weevil investi-
cations, has prepared some interest
ing information on the subject.
The boil weevil problem still re-
mains, he says, a most important one
for the cotton industry of this cohn-
try. The insect continues to spread.
Climatic barriers have given it tenn
porary checks, but they have been
successfully over come. The predic-
ton that the pest will eventually
reach the limits. of cotton culture in
this country has repeatedly been
made, but an important considera-
ton connected with the future spread
has received less attention, largely
because it has more recently become
evident.
This consideration is that damage
in new regions is likely to be more
severe than it has been in the terri
tory infested up to this time. The
experience of the past two years has
rather tended to obscure some of the
features of the weevil problem. The
large crops produced in Texas have
given an enormous impression of the
prospects. 1t is true that very re-
markable results have been obtained
in the work of the department of
agriculture. Making due allowance
for this important work, it must be
stated that the recent large crops
are largely due rather to a combina-
ton of conditions favorable to the
growth of the plant and unfavorable
to the weevil than to a Iessened a
pacity for damage on the part of the
insect.
The work of entomology has shown
that in Texas, except in unusually
wet seasons, a full crop can easily be
produced. The possibilities of pro-
duction in a favorable season are
shown by the fact that in 1906 the
infested area produced about one
third of the total crop of the United
States; but the same success will by
no means necessarily follow in other
regions where the conditions are diff
ferent. Therefore future develop
ments must be awaited with some
solicitude.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
FATAL SNAKE BITE
Railroad Section Hand Killed by
Huge Rather.
The Unfortunate Man Died a Few
Hours After He Was Bitten by the

The Unfortunate Man Died a Few
Hours After He Was Bitten by the
Snake.
A letter from Florence to The
News and Courier says one day last
week Section Master Matthews, of
the Mount Holly section, on the
Northeastern Railroad, had his gang
Of hands at WORK cutting down
bushes on the right of way near a
swamp three miles south Of Straw
berry.
One of the hands, John Jenkins, a
negro, was cutting some small sweet
gum bushes near the stump of an
old tree. All of a sudden he felt
something strike him on the leg, and
as he looked he saw the head of a
monster rattler lying about three feet
from him.
Knowing that he had been bitten,
he rushed from the bushes and hal
lowed SNAKE" The other negroes
rushed from the bushes and to Jen-
kins' assistance. 1t was soon found
that Jenkins had been bitten on the
leg and he was placed on a hand
car and hurried to Mount Holly.
Some whiskey was procured and
poured down the negro, who in that
time, just seven minutes, was begin
ming to suffer agonies from the pois-
on. A physician was sent for from
Summerville, but it was some time
before he could reach the sick man,
and the result was that he died sew
eral hours afterward.
Mr.. Matthews, the section master,
as soon as he reached Mount Holly,
and after barring the negro's leg,
measured the place where the snake
had stuck his fangs in the leg, just
below the knee, and by actual meas
urement it showed that the two fangs
in the upper jaw measured two In
ches apart and the distance between
the upper and lower jaw, where the
fangs entered, was just 4 IA inches,
showing that it must have been 9
monstrous snake indeed to have such
a very large mouth.
In the excitement when the negro
was bitten no one had presence OF
mind, or took the time to kill the
snake, and when the party returned
the snake had moved away and could
not be found.
Where 1t lay in its bed and where
the negro stood were justs two and
one-half feet apart, showing that the
reptile was Of unusual length
or it would have been impossible tc
have struck his object 10 far away.
Where the reptile had lain in the
bushes he had made a bed some five
feet in diameter. An effort is to be
made to capture this monster reptile
by q party of snake hunters and II
secured he will be placed on exhib!
tation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
SOLD THEIR CHILD
To a Chinaman, Who Adopts Him As
His Son.

His Son.
Somewhere out on the Pacific is a
little American boy born of white
parents who has been sold to a
Chinaman, who will bring him up as
his own son in the land of the Drag
on. This case is said to be without
parallel in the history of the United
States immigration affairs. 1t is the
first case of this character ever re-
corded and is absolutely without
precedent.
When Sing Lee, a Chinaman,
boarded the steamship Chippewa at
San Francisco with his adopted son,
Samuel Edwards Sing Lee, an Amer
lean boy, with only the rights and
privileges of an allan, there ended
so far as this port is concerned, such
a story of deliberate heartlessness
on the part of dissolute parents that
hardened immigration officials were
visibly affected.
At Fort Wrangell, Alaska, Sam
Edwards married Jennie Ed
wards in 1898. On the eighteenth
day of October, 1899, a baby boy
was born to the couple and Edwards,
who was still a drunken dissolute,
lounger, with no appreciation of
home life, manifested no apprecia-
ton of the responsibility which had
come to him.
The child was healthy and large.
When little Sammy was three years
old, he was sold to the Indians for a
small sum, with which the father
purchased whiskey to continue his
riotus life. For five years the little
fellow lived with the Indians and
was then sold to the Chinaman.
Mother, father, child and China
man appeared before L. A. Sloane,
United States commissioner and ex-
officio probate judge at Wrangell,
where the papers of adoption were
made out and signed.
Just what status of the child will
be when it is of legal age is a mat
ter which immigration officials are
discussing. Will the American mln
c 'nsent to remain a Chinese subject?
Will lie be able to demand his
citizenship should he care to return
to America?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Should Keep a Scrap Book.

Every farmer should keep a scrap
book, cut out from the papers every
thing that they may wish to refer
to again and paste in the book.
Remedies for diseases Of fouls, and
animals, cooking receipts, large yields
of corn and cotton, and in fact every
thing that is worth reading a second
time should be thus preserved. In a
few years it will be a very valuable
book.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
WANTS TO GO BACK.
Senator Latimer a Candidate TO Sue
coed Himself.

coed Himself.
Senator Latimer, who has just re-
turned from Europe, announces that
he is in the ace to succeed himself
in the United States Senate.
When asked If he was afraid Of
the Clinkscales senate boom, Senator
Latimer said that it had died out in
the last few days and that he had
not the slightest fear of it whatever.
In speaking of Congressman Lever
as a possible candidate for the SEN
ate, Senator Latimer that he did not
consider Lever a force to be taken
into account, if he should enter the
race.
When asked If he thought Ex-Gov.
D. G.. Hayward would be in the SEN
atorial race, he said that MIR. Hey
ward had expressed himself to his
friends throughout the State as hav-
ing no desire to enter the race, and
that he considered him a man of
honor who would keep his word.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
THE BOIL WEEVIL
No Longer Feared by the Texas Cot
ton Growers.

ton
DR.. 8. A. Knapp, special agent Of
the United States department of agri-
culture, detailed to take charge of
the fight against the Mexican boil
weevil, and stationed at Lake Charles
La, has been ordered to Washington
This change is made on the ground
that the fight against the boil weevil
is over and won, not that the destruc-
tive insect has been eliminated-for
on the contrary, it is still in evidence
in Texas, the territories and Louis
lama, and has just been discovered
in Catahoula parish, Louisiana, with
in seventeen miles of the Mississippi,
where it will undoubtedly exist next
season-but that the department of
agriculture has finally perfected the
plans by which the cotton grower
can raise just as much cotton If he
has weevils on his plantation as he
could without them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
BEATS GOLD Mine.
south's Cotton Crop Worth Near
Iy One Billion Dollars.
Worlds Product of Precial Metal Tor
a Year Would Fail to Equal Value
of This Years Cotton Crop.

Commenting on an interview pub
lished in New York with Mr.. E. 81.
Hartman, in which he refers to the
prosperity of the South and South
west on account of the cotton crop,
Mr.. Richard H. Edmonds, editor OF
The Manufacturers Record, in an
interview with The Baltimore Sun
said:
"Mr Harriman's optimism in re-
gard to the effect of the wonderful
expansion of the agricultural inter-
ests of the South is justified, but he
is far short of the reality in his state
ments as to the value of the cotton
crop. He credits Texas with q pro-
duction of cotton of 100000 bales,
worth he says at present prices,
$3.50, 00O, 900, or about $45 q bale,
whereas cotton is selling at over $50
a bale. and if to this be added the
value of at least $40 a bale, or just
500, 600, 900 more for the cotton crop
of Texas than is estimated by MI.
Hartman. Mr.. Hartman also says;
Think what that crop alone means
to the country. A $4,000, 600. 900 cot
ton crop means prosperity for the
South
TT is not a $4,000, 600, 900, but
more, nearly a 5000, 600, 900 crop,
which the South is now getting ready
to pick. Last years cotton crop
brought to the South about $780,
DOC, 900, or more, by far the largest
amount which that section ever re-
.srved in enc year for cotton and
:pttonseed.
But with cottonno bringing two
ents or three cents a pound more
han at the same time last year, it is
| ,,fe to estimate that the crop which
5 now beginning to move will bring
0 the South from $3.50, 900, 900 to
| 300, 600, 900. It is difficult to exag-
,erate the tremendous Importance
}: such an inflow of money. Europe
yill pay to this section during the
! ext twelve months between $780,
10000 and $500, 600, 900 for cotton,
r not far from So. ZOO, 900 for every
orking day of the year.
THE worlds total production Of
I'D is now at the rate Of $435, 0OO,-
30 a year. If Europe could gather
gether every ounce Of gold mined
/ earth during the next twelve
,onth and dump it into the South,
would still be from $75,000,M to
l50, 900, 600 short of paying its in
ebtedness to'the South for the raw
.tton with which to operate its
l ills"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
HEARSE
Coffin Broken Up by the Horse Run.
q. ming Away.

:, ming Away.
The State says two horses attached
to the hearse bearing the remains of
Margaret Martin, colored, became
frightened near Randolph cemetery
Wednesday and the results are al
most too grewsome for publication.
The horses were being driven slowly
down Elmwood avenue, near what is
known as the overhead bridge" in
charge of S; l.. Lopez, the colored
undertaken.
Near the bridge they became
frightened at something and dashed
against the walls, almost wrecking
the hearse at this point and throwing
off the driver, who was run over
afterwards and badly hurt. After
running on down the steep hill in
front of the colored cemetery the
hearse turned completely over and
was split in half, the coffin being
thrown out and broken open.
One of the horses was so badly
hurt that it is not thought the ami
NAL will live and it was necessary for
some colored men, who werep passing
at the time, to help put the remains
back in the wrecked coffin and carry
it to the grave.
There were only two carriages
with the funeral and no pail bearers,
the family having little money to
conduct the funeral. The horses are
owned by the McCartha livery stable
and one of them may have to be kill
ed. Lopez was brought back to his
undertaking establishment on Wash
ington street and is said to be severe.
ly bruised.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
DEATH IN A MINE.
Eleven People Killed by an Explosion
in Mexico.

A special from Toluca, Mexico
says: Neglect of duty on the part OF
an employee resulted in the death OF
eleven persons and injury to twelve
more Wednesday through the explo-
sion of a boiler in the Ferrer factory
at Asorradero in the Anguangueo dis
trict of the state of Michoacan.
The explosion occurred just before
noon hour and the two proprietors
and a number of wcrhmen were
clustered togethed IL The vicinity OF
the boiler doing repairs to some ma
chiuery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25

he began to shoot, were being hunt
ed Wednesday night by plain clothes
men. At the Harlem Hospital it was
said that Samuel Becker could not
live until morning.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
The Florence Times Is told by a

gentleman, who, while not connected
with the railroad, is in a position to
know many things about it, that the
Coast Line has no watered stock. That
the objections made 10 the railroads
in general through the country, which
have worked tie watered stock, or
Hartman scheme. taxing the people
tc pay their stocks and bonds, cannot
be urged against the Coast Line.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25

The use Of dog flesh as food appears
to have originated IN Saxony, and it
Is in that part Of the empire that the
consumption is most noticeable.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
.cPneumonia,s Deadly Work

had so seriously affected my right
lung" writes Mrs Fannie Common of
Rural Route 1. Georgetown, Tenn,
that I coughed continually night and
DAY and the neighbors' prediction-con-
umption-seemed inevitable. until my
husband brought home a bottle of Dr.
Kings New Discovery, which in my
case proved TO be the only REAL
cough cure and restorer of weak,
sore lungs" When all other remedies
utterly fail. you may win in the battle
against lung AMI throat troubles with
New Discovery, the REAL cure. Guar
anteed by 2. c. NJ. I. Drug Dept. SOC
and SlOO Trial bottle free.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
Unitarian.

First UuitariOn STANDARDIZATION. Rev
Frank Fay Eddy. Services at Unitarion
nail, 1SS Second East street: Morning SER
vice at IL O'Clock, sermon by the pastor
on Sons Of Father Time: music Inv
Cm-y quartet; Sunday school at l2:I5 D.
M \. +. 7. meets at 7:50 p. IN. in the
lower hail; Unity circle meets Tuesday at
80 D. m. Sale and supper on Friday.
Sale opens at p. m, supper at $50; So
cal in the evening
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
Baptist.

First Baptist.-Second South and Second
West streets. Rev. d. A. Brown, pastor
Preaching at II a. m. and p. m Young
mems Bible class at 10 a. m Fred l.,
Evans. leader. Sunday school at l2:3D
Horace Tucker. superintendent B. Y
= l. at Z p m George Evans. leader
Topic. Lessons from the Patriarcbs -
Special meetings all this week at 3 =. m.
and p m, led by the noted singing
evangelist Professor B. P. Stout. of Phil
adelphia. A cordial invitation is extended
TO all to come
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

East Side Baptist-Corner Savantl,
East and Third South, Rev. s A. Hav-
worth, pastor Divine service at II a. m.
an1 p m, with preaching by the pas
Tor Ihere will be special music at botD
SSTNiGes- including solos and anthems
DR. W J. Davis will render a Solo in ~.
evening. The Sunday school meets At
-2;I5 j. m; Christian Endeavor at Z.
proyer meeting Wednesday evening. All
are invited
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

Calvary Baptist Church-474 East Sec
ond South street. John H. Allen. pastor
services as follows: Preaching at II a.
m and p m; Sunday school at 12:3o N
m. Mrs NJ. J. Atkinson. superintendent.
n Y. +. l. at p. m; subject of morning
discourse, Astounding Grace: evening
subject How God Commendeth Ills
love TO Us. All are cordially invited to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
CONGREGATIONAL.

First Congregational Church-Corner Of
lrst South and Fourth East streets. Ser
vices at ii a m, sermon by the pastor.
Elmer /. Goshen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
Lutheran.

First German Evangelical Lutheran ST
Johns Church-Seventh South and
State. William J. LankOw, pastor. Sun
day school at $50 a. m; service at 1850
a, m.
Our Savior's English Evangelical Ill
theran ChurCh-454 South Fourth East.
William j. Lalkow. pastor. residence $50
East Seventh South Divine Service at
80 p. m. Everybody welcome
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
New Thought.

Spiritual New Thought Society-In X.
O. b. hall, 26l Main street at s .. m Sun
day. Lecture by DR.. r. II. Poulton. Ad-
mission free.