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CASTRO LANDS
HE LEAVES THE STEAMER AT
FORT DE FRANCE.

very NuSIl f1lillOyCu ny 11luCIlSf'L
Governments Interference With
His Plan of Visiting Venezuela.
Fort de France, Martinique, April
7.-Cipriano Castro, in a rage
against the British government and
the State department at Washington,
left the steamer G%uadeloupe at this
port today and has taken up quarters
on shore. Finding all ports in the
West Indies, excepting Fort de
France, barred against him, the pres
ent course was the only one left open
to the former Venezuelan dictator.
Senior Castro's wife will continue
on board the Guadeloupe to La
Guaira.
The American monitor Montana
came into port this morning.
The Guadeloupe, on board which
Castro and his party sailed from
France, March %, after four months
spent in Europe, came into Fort de
France late last ewing. While at
Pointe-a-Pitre of the island of Guade-
loupe, where the steamer touched
yesterday, Castro was notified by
the British consul that the British
government had decided not to per-
NIT him to disembark at Port Of
Spain, Trinidad, consequently Castro
decided to leave the Guadeloupe
here.
The decision of the British, acting
on a request from the State depart
ment at Washington not to let him
land at Trinidad, vas unoflcially
communicated to Castro a second
time this morning. He expressed
himself as annoyed and angry at this
decision, which he characterized as
a violation Of the rights Of man.
He Is furiously angry with the Amer
lean government and the French
Steamship Company. The latter re-
fused to let him continue on board
the Guadeloupe to Colon.
After expressing his annoyance at
this unexpected turn in his affairs,
Castro disclaimed the bellicose in
tention with regard to. the existing
political situation in Venezuela with
which he has been credited and he
declared that his only purpose in
returning to Venezuela was to give
his attention ito his private busi-
ness.
Castro appears still to be in Ill
health.
The steamer Gaudeloupe left here
at noon today for Port Of Spain and
Venezuelan points. She was follow
ed out of the harbor by the cruiser
Montana.
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WILL SERVE HIS TIME.
Brought Back and Put in the State
Penitentiary.

Columbia, April 7.-Sheriff Caus-
ey has brought to the State peniten-
tiary Henry Haynes, the desperate
who was arrested in Jacksonville
a few days ago and brought back
to this State to serve out five years
for manslaughter and 16 months on
the charge Of breach Of trust with
fraudulent Intent. The arrest OF
HAYNES is the elimination Of 10
years of evasion Of the law-for
Haynes, although convicted in 1899
of manslaughter, has succeeded IN
keeping away from the officers OF
the law until Sheriff Causey got on
his track and located him in jack
sonville.
Haynes escaped from Monck's Cor
ner before he could be brought to
Columbia to begin his sentence just
after he was convicted in 1899. The
guards from the p~enitentiary had
already started for Monck's Corner
to bring Haynes and a lumber OF
other prisoners here when it was
learned that Haynes had made his
a Since 1899 Haynes has been
able to keep away from the officers
of the law.
Sheriff ,Causey states that just
as soon as he came into ONCE ne
started to track Haynes and finally
was able to make the negro move
out of the State which ended IN the
arrest at Jacksonville.
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buy some corn, flour, bacon and hay.
He asked the price Of corn, $1.10;
flour, 81 per barrel; bacon, IL IL
cents per pound, and hay, s23 per
ton. He said to the merchant, Are
you going to rob me?' The merchant
told him he had robbed himself.
You did 1t by planting all the cot
ton you could last year.
"Now, brother farmers, let's look
at things square in the face and sec
that October cotton is being sold
for about 9 cents on the New York
exchange. Now, are you going to
plant another big crop when you
know that 9 cents is about the cost
Of production? Surely not. There
Is just one thing that will keep you
from delivering your cotton crop of
1909 for 9 cents, and that Is organ
lie into the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union of America,
Plant 35 per cent of your cotton crop
into food crops and you will get as
much money for an $500, 000-bale
crop as you will for a 100000
bale crop.
%. HARRIS,
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Several Men Missing.

Cleveland, Ohio, April THE
fishing tug George Floyd, with seven
men aboard, and the sand sucker
Mary H., with nine men are missing,
and the barge Norman Kelley, with
a crew Of four persons, was rescued
tonight after a desperate fight, as
a result of a fierce windstorm which
ragged on Lake Erie today. The wind
blew a sixty-mile gale throughout
the day. Life yer have been un-
able to do effective work.
The steel barge Kelley's crew.
three men and a woman, were picked
I'D after floating fifteen miles from
Kelley's Island, when the boat
hroke away and drifted to sea.
There was neither an engine nor an
oar on the barge, so the crew was
at the mercy of the waves.
Several small, BUILDINGS were
wrecked and buggies overturned in
Cleveland. Two men were blown
from the shore of the Lake into the
water. Both were rescued.
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MANY Killed,

Chicago, April 7.-Reports Of last
nights storm damage received here
today are that ten persons are known
to have been killed in Mississippi
and at least Is were injured.
At the Terrell plantation, east OF
West Point, Miss, a number Of ne
groes were killed.
Reports from western Tennessee
state that the storm wrecked many
small buildings.
At Wabash, In0., Mrs. Jas. A.
Hayes and four children were pin
ned down beneath the wreckage OF
their home, which caught on fire.
The mother was badly burned, be-
ing rescued, and will die. The
children were seriously hurt. The
high wind was followed by a cloud
burst. Many bridges are washed
away. A dozen houses were demol-
ished in Wabash. The damage will
reach several thousand dollars.
At Perua, Ind, four factories
and several school buildings, many
small structures, were wrecked BY
the wind.
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Injured in New York.

New York, April 1.-THE high
gale that prevailed to the west and
north Of New York city today,
causing havoc with telegraph and
telephone lines, attained its full
force here at 7:45 o'clock tonight,
when the wind reached a velocity
of 60 miles an hour. Several per-
sons were hurt and much damage
and discomfort resulted.
Two persons, an elderly woman
and a child, were badly hurt by
being blown off their feet and dash
ed against objects in the street.
At Rochester John Veith was
killed this afternoon during a 81
mile an hour wind storm, and a
12-year-old child sustained a frac-
tured skull from a wind blown
chimney.
At Buffalo from three o'clock until
five this afternoon the wind tore
through the streets of Buffalo al
the rate of y miles an hour. One
man was killed and many people
yer injured by parts Of building:
detached by the force of the WIND
and hurled through the air.
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TRYING TO KILL OPIUM TRADE.
New Law Prohibits Importation and
Use of Drug.

Washington, April Zone Of the
most important bills passed at the
last session Of Congress, and which
became effective on April /, was
that prohibiting both the importa-
ton and use of opium in the United
States for any purpose whatever,
except for strictly medicinal purpos-
eS.
In recent years the smuggling of
opium into this country has ben one
of the serious curses of the time, and
all Of the larger cities have e1pe-
rienced untold trouble from such
traffic, especially among the Chinese,
as the records OF tho police tsations
and Criminal Courts abundantly
show.
Under the new law, II any person
shall frauduleAtly or knowingly i'm
port or bring into the United States,
or assist in so doing, any opium or
any preparation OF derivatives or
shall receive, conceal, buy or sell.
or in any manner facilitate the trans
p~ortation or concealment OF sale Of
any such oLi1m products after their
importation. knowing them to have
teen imported contrary to law. such
goods shall be forfeited and destroy
ed, and the offender shall be vned
in any sum not e :ecding $4,000,
nor less than ssh. Or oy lmpri.on-
ment for any time not exceeding two
years, or both.
The treasury department had gone
over the new law carefully, and In a
statement just issued by Secretary
MacVeagh, is Is made plain hereafter
| there shall be no traffic in this pro-
| duct If it Is possible to stop 1t.
In issuing full directions to co.,
lectors at the different ports, these
| officers are cautioned to guard closely
against fraudulent importations here
| after. In addition to this, the State
and municipal officers have Deen sent
copies Of the new law by the treasury
department with full directions fol-
carrying it out. and with instructions
also for making arrests and push
ing prosecutions when such arrests
are deemed necessary.
Although more smuggling of OPT
um is done perhaps in San Francis
co than in any other city in the
United States, because o the very
large number Of Orientals there, the
traffic in the drug has grown to enor'
nous proportions In New York, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Boston and else
where in the East during the las
five years. Not only this. but ii
some instances negroes, too, have
been known to become steady ant
regular users of the drug, so tina
now the Chinese immigrant is no
the only person to feel it's harmful
effects.
Many murders among the CHINESE
in different parts Of the country have
been directly traceable to the illega
use of this drug, and 1t Is believed
by those who have made a caerfu
study of the mater that the new Law
vii be most beneficial in it's efect'
when its provisions become general!
known and its mandates are carried
out.
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PROVED A FAILURE
THE WILLIAMSON PLAN DID NOT
WORK WE'LL.
Practical Tests Prove Same Amount
of Fertilizer Will Produce More
Corn Without Stunning.

Of Fertilizer Will Produce More
Corn Without Stunning.
For the benefit Of all the doubling
Thomases in corn culture, I ask you
to publish some tests made in Fair
field county by good, conservative
farmers. The men had such implicit
faith in the Williamson method that
when approached on the subject of
growing more corn per acre, or as
much with less expense, they would
reply: "Give me the Williamson
plan and I will make more corn
than DR.. Knapp"
But many are the converts since
harvesting the crop Of 1908, and the
year 1909 will bid a long farewell on
many farms to Mr.. Williamson.
While his plan of preparation (that
Is, a deep seeded we'll prepared) is
what we want, we do not want any
more stunted corn that takes a ferti-
lizer bill a yard long to pay for half
the yield.
Due credit has been given Mr..
Williamson for having proved that
the yields can be increased, and l
hope the day is not far of when every
farmer In the South will have al
ways a seeded ten to fifteen inches
deep, well filled with humus made by
growing cover crops before the corn,
and when every farmers fertilizer
bill In the fall will read so many tons
of high grade phosphoric acid land
II need be, some potash, but not
so much 8-4-4 or 1913 that he buys
every year In the face Of the fact
that nitrogen floats in abundance
around him, and can be secured by
planting peas, sofa beans, crimson
clover and other legumes.
The following are the tests re-
ferred to:
Mr.. w. J. Burley planted one
acre of corn on DR.. Knapp's plan,
using the same amount of fertilizer
that he did on the Williamson plan,
and secured ten bushels more per
acre than he made on the William
son plan.
F. R. McMeekin & Bro. staked off
two acres side by 81 lie, using the
same amount of fertilizer, and stat
ed at the time that the Williamson
acre would Skin" the Knapp acre a
mile. They harvested thirty-fve
bushels on the Knapp acre and thirty
ON the Williamson acre. Their en-
tire crop for wages this year will
be planted by the Knapp method.
MI. D. L. Stevenson tried the two
methods, planting the poorer acre by
the Knapp method, using the same
amount Of fertilizer per acre. The
Knapp acre yielded thirty bushels
and the Williamson acre twenty
seven.
MI. M. w. Doty, one Of the larg-
est planters in the county, will work
almost his entire corn crop on DR..
Knapp's plan this year.
w. r. ELLIOTT,
Local Agent Of Farm Demonstration
Work, W%innsboro, s. C.
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GUILTY OF MURDER
KILLED ONE NAN AND TWO
HELPLESS WOMEN.
Avery Blount, Prosperous Louisiana
Business Man, Sent to the Gallows

Business Man, Sent to the Gallow!
by the Jury.
Amite City, La, April Lat,
this afternoon the jury in the case
of Avery Blount, charged with the
murder of J. o. Breland, Mrs. Bre'
land and Mrs. Joe Everette, brought
in a,verdict Of guilty In the first de-
gree.
The verdict carries the death pen,
atty.
The accused man received the YER
dict with much c~oolness.
Judge Ellis fixed Friday Of this
week for the hearing on motion for
a new trial.
Bount, a prosperous merchant, OF
Tickfaw, was indicted on the charge
Of numbering "Buz" Breeland. Mrs.
| Breeland and the latter's daughter,
| Mrs. Joe. Everette, and was tried
first on the separate indictment Of
"Buz" Breeland's killing. Garfield
and Ben Kinchen, two brothers, in
| dicted for completely in the assassi-
nation, are yet to be tried.
The killing Of the Breelands, and
| Mrs. Everette was one of the most
horrible crimes ever committed in
the State. The tragedy occurred on
the night of January %, near Tick
faw several miles south Of Amite
City. Breeland and his wife were
bringing their daughter. Mrs. Ever
cite, from her former home in Liv-
ingston Parish to live with them
neal Tickfaw. Mrs. E%verette's hus-
band had been killed by Ben Kinch-
en- a few days before.
Breeland was shot from ambush.
He was on foot, and the two women
were riding in a buggy. According
to Breeland's dying statement Avery
Blount, accompanied by some other
person, then levelled guns on Mrs.
Breeland and her daughter. The
latter held her young baby In her
arms. The elder woman was first
shot and killed. Mrs. Everette in
the meantime was beseeching the
assassins to spare her baby's life.
Her supplications finally resulted
in the child being taken from her
arms and laid by the roadside. The
mother was then shot to death.
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BLACK HAND SCHEME.
just a Fool Notion Caused by Dime
Novel Reading.

Atlanta, Ca, April TIT was
just a fool notion I got from reading
dime novels" said Daniel W. John
son, Jr., tho ~1S-year-old boy who
was Jailed here last night for having
attempted to extort $4,000 from
Asa G.. Gambler, prominent banker
and Georgia's wealthiest citizen,
through Black Hand methods.
The young man at first told the
police that he had been forced by
three strangers to write letters to
MI. Gambler, demanding the money,
He now admits that the scheme was
of his own connection.
Johnson wrote the second letter
Sunday, repeating his threats of
death to Mr.. Gambler in case of his
noncompliance, and then went to
church and took his regular place
in Mr.. Gamblers Sunday school class.
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Great Damage at Toledo.

Toledo, April Hundreds of
men out of work. thousands of dol
lars damage done and many per-
sons slightly injured as the re-
suits of a hurricane that visited To-
ledo and vicinity today.
The wind attained a velocity OF
50 miles an hour in this city. The
roof of the plant Of the Massilon
Bridge Company, $50 by 40 feet was
ripped off, and hurled into a field
and 300 men were thrown out OF
employment until the damage can
be repaired.
Pedestrians were injured by fall
Ing signs, parts Of roof, chimneys
and limbs Of trees and many women
were bowed over by the wind.
In small towns near Toledo con
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Want IT BACK
The State May Be Asked To Pay
Back a
LARGE sum OF MONEY

Loaned 1t By the United States
Government Many Years Ago.
Names Of the States That Re-
ceived the Money and What Each
One Received.
Washington, April S.-If the bill
Representative Murdoch of Kansas
has introduced in the federal house
of representatives, requiring twenty
six States, which in 1886 were loan
ed $2S,O00,0 0 for internal improve
ments, to return this money, be-
comes a law, the federal government
will have a hard time collecting
from South Carolina, which is said
to have received the same amount
as Georgia, $1,051,422.09.
In 1886 there was a surplus of
$33 100000 in the national treasury
from the tariff taxes, and a bill was
passed lending this amount to the
various States then in the Union,
with the understanding that it was
to be returned whenever they were
called upon to do so. The apportion-
ment of the money was made accord
ing to representation in congress-.
When three installments had been
paid in 1889, congress repealed the
act. When the repeating act was
passed. it provided that the money
apportioned remain with the States
until otherwise directed by con-
gress."
While some of the States have
kept the fund segregated and loaned
it out at interest, other States have
lost track Of it completely. All the
Southern States lost their part of
the fund during the reconstruction
period, and in many cases all the
records relating to 1t were destroyed.
New York, however, received
$4,014,520.71, and has kept the
amount intact. 1t has been loaned
out at interest, and the amount re-
ceived from the investment put into
the State treasury. New Jersey
and Delaware are also said to have
kept their part of the money segre-
gated.
The various accounts are still car
ried on the books at the national
treasury department, and each secre-
tary of the treasury has had to give
a receipt for the money. 1t is car
ried as available funds"
Mr.. Murdoch said recently that he
simply wished congress to "other-
wise direct" as the bill provided in
1899, and he is confident the amount
can be collected.
1t is said the president and the
secretary of the treasury have ap-
proved the plan of Mr.. Murdoch, and
have agreed that If the bill Is passed
by congress the attorney general
will have no trouble in settling up
the old account.
The largest amounts received by
the States are as follows:
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And Property Damaged in Various
Section of Country
BY A HEAVY STORM
Several Cities Are Damaged by a
High Wind That Swept the Mid
die Western States, Which Grip
pied the Telegraph Service and
Wrecked Houses and Schools.

Detroit, Mich, April AT least
eight persons lost their lives in the
storm that visited Detroit and Michi-
gan last night and today. Anthony
| Kaup, a saloonkeeper, Joe Kadich, a
barber, and Adam Felin, all of Wy
andotte, attempted to cross the De-
troit river in a row boat from Wyan-
dotte to Canada this afternoon in a
ffty-miles gale to settle a wager and
all three were drowned when their
boat capsized. Kadich bet Kaup five
dollars that he would not dare to
cross in the small boat and Felin was
the stakeholder.
At Jennings, in Missaukee county,
three young men, Bernard Carlson,
Charles Jackson and John Torrey,
were killed by being caught under
a wall that was blown down by the
wind at the Mitchell Brothers mill.
Eight year old Benjamin Hellmer
was killed by lightning near 1rona
last night and Ray Miller was killed
at Brightwood today when he was
struck by a roof that had been blown
off.
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LYNCHED FOR MURDER.
Strung Up and Body Then Riddled
With Bullets.

Pensacola, Fla, April 5.-Dave
Alexander, a negro, was lynched here
this morning for the murder of Po-
licemai Canton, whom the negro
liceman Canton, whom the negro
sisting arrest. While the police sta
ton was comparatively deserted, a
crowd of rs men, at the point of
revolvers, took the black man from
his cell and hanged him from an
electric light pole, a half block from
the Jail. AS the body swayed In the
air, 40 bullets were fired into 1t by
the mob.
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siderable damage was done. Many
houses were struck by lightning and
the occupants stunned, but there
were no reports of fatalities.
Six Injured.

London, Ont, April six per-
sons we're injured, one fatally, and
a financial loss of full fifty thousand
dollars was entailed by a northwest
hurricane which passed over this city
today. At the Aberdeen public
school, a tall chimney crashed
through the roof. imprisoning 800
pupils, and creating a panic. Mary
Laburitis, aged 9 years, was fatally
injured, and four other pupils were
severely hurt. The fire department
worked rapidly and succeeded IN
uuieting the children, who were re-
moved by means Of ladders.
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NO POTASH TAX
Congressman Lever Gets Com.
mittee to Remove Duty
FROM TARIFF BILL

The Farmers Of South Carolina
Will Save Over a Quarter Mil
lion Dollars by the Action Of the
Committee in Removing the Tax
From Potash.
Washington, April S.-A special
to the Columbia Record says after
a week of diplomatic activity, Rep
resentative Lever of South Carolina,
today won a decided victory for the
farmers Of his State and the South.
Following his representations as to
the effect of the potential duty of 20
per cent on potash and potash salts.
the ways and committee to-
day promised Mr.. Lever to remoVe
by committee amendment the often
sive paragraph from the bill.
The first step in the direction
pledged by the committee was taken
this morning when the committee IN
executive session of its Republican
members voted an amendment re-
moving the duty on all potash salts
except basic Stag, a variation OF the
standard product. Learning of this
exception, Mr.. Lever again called on
Chairman Payne and after explain
ing that basic Stag, too, was an es-
sential part of the demand submitted
in behalf of the farmers, Mr.. Payne
said that he thought the committee
would certainly vote a supplemental
nv amendment at it's meeting tomor-
ROY morning.
The action of the committee Is a
personal triumph for Mr.. Lever n
he Is highly gratifed at the result.
The attention which Mr.. Levers rep
reservations received at the hands or
the committee, Republicans, is the
result Of a consistently practiced pol
icy Of Cancellation on the part Of
Mr.. Lever as we'll as of the respect
his energetic fights on particular
questions before this have called
forth on both sides Of the house.
Among both Republicans and
Democrats Mr.. Lever has many
friends, and in that way he can al
ways get a hearing. After that he
relies on his presentation Of his
case. Mr.. Levers activities have
been %unceasing since kilograms
reached Washington from Mr.. E. j.
Watson, directing his attention to
the possibilities hidden away in the
administrative clauses of the bill.
There is one New E%nglander on the
ways and means committee, Mr.. Hill
of Connecticut, and as the New Eng
land soil in many localities requires
practically the same kind Of fer
~tilization needed in the South, it
was not difficult for one knowing the
ground as well as Mr.. Lever to in
terest certain Republicans in his
fight.
The victory Of the South Carroll
MAN will mean something over a
quarter OF a million dollars a year
to the farmers of South Carolina
alone, while to the South as a whole
it will mean more than ~S2,000.O00,
In his speech recently IN this subject
Mr.. Lever estimated the possible loss
to South Carolina farmers from the
enactment of this clause at over
$4,000 and a telegram he re-
ceived from Wr. Watson this morn
ing practically substantiates his es-
innate.
The indications now are that the
Payne bill will go to the Senate with
potash and it's salts on the free list.
and it is not thought that there will
be much chance of the duty being
restored in the upper house.