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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
SLAIN BY TROOPS
THE SOLDIERS FIRE VOLIEY IN
TO CROWDS OF PEOPLE.
Hundreds Of Whom Are Thereby
Killed and Wounded and the Rest
Flee for Life.

One hundred persons were killed
in riots which took place at Zacatec'
as in the interior of Mexico, opposits
Tampico on. Saturday night, Mexi.
can soldiers fired into a struggling
body OF rioters with disastrous re,
suits. One hundred is the lowest es'
innate of the loss of life, which may
reach 500.
The American consul at zacatecat
telegraphed the first news of. the rio,
to the Mexican consul at San. An;
tonic stating that that town was in
a state. of terror and that the loss
Of life was not less that 100. No de.
tails were given other thans that q
company Of soldiers we're ordered to
fire upon. vast crowd of rioters
which thronged the streets.
Zacatecas is the capital of the
state of Morales, and is remote from
lines Of communications. News OF
the riots did not reach the outside
world until late Sunday, althou sh
the battle took place on Saturday
night. 1t is stated that quiet has
now been restored by placing the
city under rigid military rule. The
latest reports are that the slain are
still lying in the streets, where they
fell.
Reyes to Lead the Rebels. :
A dispatch from Eagle Pass Tex
as, says Gen. Bernardo Reyes is
coming This is the whisper which
has gone with telegraphic swiftness
up and down the Rio Grande. If j,
is true, and many Mexicans assert
that it is, 1t means that the ,revolu.
tionists have at their head a man
superior in military training ITO any
ether man in Mexico, not cXen ex.
cepting President Diaz himself.
Gen. Bernardo Reyes, once bos.
ON friend TO Gen. Diaz, Is now said
to be an exile from his country. He
was sent year ago to Paris. France
on military mission" Since then
no word has come from him until
now, when the coutions words were
sent from Matamoras to Las Vacas
1t was reported among the Mexicans
that he had already taken passage
for New York, and would reach Ea'
gle Pass within ten days.
Reyes was Governor Of the Sta.e
Of Neuvo Leon, the hot-bed Of reyo'
luton in Mexico. During the late
campaign for President of Mexico
some of his admirers proposed his
name as vice president. Subsequent
events appeared to prove that Reyes
while avowing perfect amlty ano
friendship for Diaz, was riotlna
against his downfall
Then it was that the stirring
events in May 1909, occurred. Rey
.es was surrounded by troops anC
was. to all intents and purposes {
prisoner He prepared to Mexico
city. where he was sent on the for
eign mission. Adherents OF Gener
al Reyes openly assert that he i!
now foot-loose ard they claim hi
has a strong following in all part!
of the republic.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
FINE COTTON CROP
MAKES FoRTY-ONE BALES ON
10 ACRES OF LAND.
This Is the Record Made by Farni-
er in Hampton County According
to. the Report.

A correspondent writing to the
Augusta Herald from Allendale says
he went to that town for the spec
ifc purpose of inspecting the cotton
crop of Mr.. Josiah W. Walker, who
lives at Cove, a small station on the
lSouthern Railway about five miles
from Allendale. The following Is
what the correspondent says about
Mr.. Walkers cotton crop:
MIR. Walker showed me two pat
ches Of cotton with combined area
of 19 acres, off Of which he had
picked nearly two bales to the acre,
with the remaining remnant he con-
fidantly expected would make to-
tai of forty-one bales gathered from
nineteen acres. l do not hesitate
to say that I share with Mr.. Wal
ker the confidence he expressed.
/ may have seen as fine cotton,
for have seen many of the finest
specimens of intensive farming that
this stction affords, but never. saw
a field of such. luxuTiant growth
and fruitage, with every boil on the
stalk mature, open and picked.
THE cotton is planted in 6ve-foot
rows and locked in the rows. 1t
seemed to average about FIVE feet
high, and ran very regular all over
the field The ground perfectly lev
ei and free from grass. giving evil
dence of careful culture. The stalks
are full of empty burrs from bottom
to top, and no half-grown bolls Of
any consequence. Mr.. Walker says
he gathertd more than a bale at a
picking, and if he gets as much as
Eve bales additional, which he is al
most sure to do he will have forty
one bales from nineteen acres.
THE land in this vicinity Is natur-
ally very soft and pliable, being, for
the most part, a sandy loan, with
occasionally light mulatto subsoii.
1t breaks up into small clods that
readily crumble and pulverize like
ashes.
MT. Walker broke his land up
with a 24-inch plow, bedded and put
in 700 pounds to the acre of the
Southern Cotton Oil Co.'s S-3-3
made at the Allendale plant. Next
he made an application of 400 pounds
Of their Top Dream, or Al 1-2-4
and then a second application OF
400 pounds of Top Dream.
He used no nitrate of soda and no
lot manure. He ascribes the great
number Of fully matured bolls that
characterizes his cotton to the plant
food" contained in the Top Dream.
1t sets the stalk with fruit that open
before the killing frosts come, and
consequently, his cotton is now fill
ed with empty burrs from bottom
to top.
He showed me an adjacent field
where lot manure had been freely
used. 1t was very fine cotton, and
in marked contrast with the cotton
Of the surrounding country, but the
great number of half-grown bolls,
near the top that had not opened
and never would open, was most
noticeable. I examined number Of
them to sec if there was any possi-
bility of their ever opening, and in
every instance found that the ram
had soaked into them and soured.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Killed Herself,

At Chicago, while her iance, Dav-
i'd Nathan, was in the county build
ing getting a marriage license for
the wedding that was to have taken
place Tuesday, Miss Annie Neyberg,
the bride .to-be, committed suicide,
following quarrel with her pros
pective mother-in-law, who on learn
ing of the wedding plans objected.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
AUGUSTA TAKES CENSUS.
Which Shows Gain Over United
States Census Report.

The population of the city Of Au-
gusta is 1925, according to the
count taken Sunday by 800 volun-
teer enumerators, composed Of all
classes of people, including many of
the most wealthy and prominent
business men. This compares
against the official count or 37,826
sent out by the census bureau last
week, and 39.441 as the official cen
sus 10 years ago. The city's connt
shows that the federal enumeratc7s
missed 1860 people in the city, an'',
in snhstantiation Of this member
of council. acting as volunteer emu
merator, reports an entire district,
in the ward wherein he was work.
ing, which had never been visited
by the federal enumerators. Every
ward in the city shows an increase
over the federal report.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Crippcn Was Hanged.

= London dispatch says DR.. Grip
peu VAS hanged mt 9.02 o'clock We'd
nesday morning, in the yard OF the
Pentonrille prison. The morning OF
the day set for DR.. Crippen's execu'
tion afforded the gloomiest setting.
4 dense fog overhung the city and
traffic was 1T standstill.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Girf>DrinkS Poison.

After handing two unaddressed
notes to by-standers in the Buena
Visto hotel at Rome. Ga, Wednes-
day, Miss May Lancaster, aged 19, of
Early, Ga, drank an ounce of car
bolic acid and died in great agony d
few minutes late One Of the notes
read: Tell Bob goodbye The
other told OF her relations with
Bob.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
HER WORDS WERE TRUE.
Child's Premonition of Death Works
Out Tragically.

Barbara" said Mrs. Mary Beg
ensberger to her daughter Of eight
Thursday afternoon as she was dres.
sing the child at her home in New
York, II want you to be good
girl today because I had tooth to
drop out this morning and that's 9
sign somebody is going to die in
the family"
why" said Barbara, that's me;
I'm going to die.
Her mother could draw no expla.
nation from her. but while she was
playing on pier end she fell be.
tween the stringpiece and barge
and was drowned.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Plead Guilty.

At Mays Landing, N. j., Charles
Vaughn, Charles Quinn and James
Sears, leaders of a mob that tarred
and feathcred Frank Sichort, a far
mer at Mckee City, pleaded guilty
to indictments charging assault and
battery. For married man sich-
ort was too attentive to widow.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
That The Democrats Have Large
Majority in ihe House. {.
TIE RESULT PLEASING !.
There is One Socialist in the Body
and the Democrats Have Sixty
three Majority.-In the. Senate
the Insurgents Will Assist the
Democrats,

The Democratic representation in.
the next house will be 227,- as,
against 163 Republicans and one So
cialist, according to the roster OF
the house, published Tuesday These
figures give the Democrats majeri-.
ty of Sc and a plurality of Ca
According to this publication, Kan
sas is the only State of any size
which has solid Republican. dele
cation. A humber however, contain
only one Democrat, among those
thus included being Iowa, Minnesota,
California and Wisconsin.
All of the Southern States haze
solid Democratic delegations, except
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee. Maryland and Virginia
have one Republican each, while
Tennessee and Kentucky have two
members oil that party apiece. Colo,
RADIO is the only Northern State rep
resented entirely by Democrats, but.
Indiana, possessing a. much larger
representation, presses close upon
it's heels with IL Democrats out of
13 members.
Illinois has. II Democrats in its
membership Of 25, Massachusetts,
four out Of a., Michigan two. out OF
IL, New Jersey seven out of 10, New
York 20 out Of 81, Ohio 16 out Of
2S and Pennsylvania nine out OF go.
Missouri's delegation consists of IS
Democrats and three Republicans.
The Nebraska delegation is evenly
divided, three and three. as is
Names two and two; Oklahoma has
two Republicans and three Demo-
Gratis; Washington is represented by
three Republicans. All of the States
having one representative only are
Republicans.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Shot nv Unknown Man.

Oda Hubbell, a farmer near Bcr-
nard, Mo-, and his wife. aged 80, and
two children, I boy and a girl, aged
4 and 6 respectively, were shot and
killed at their home Wednesday
night by an unknown person, who
set ire TO the house to conceal the:
crime.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Bridges Closed.

a big sign has been posted at the
international bridges connecting Ell
Paso. Texas, with JuareZ. Mexico,
denying any person to pass over be-
tween the hours Of midnight and
six o'clock Il. m. The acslOn was
taken at the instance of the Mexican
government.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Crushed to Death,

At Cleveland. Ohio. the wife Of
Simon Frutk:n. n tailor. his Two
small children and customer were
crushed to death by the Coliaase OF
q new concrete building. An eX-
plosion of unknown origin IS be-
lievcd TO have caused the disaster.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
They Saw Him Hung.

In the presence Of the Mortified
passenger and crew Of the train, Bob
Matthew's. a negro, charged with as
saultirg Mrs. E. Snowden. near Pen
sacola, Fla, several months ago. was
taken from the train at Gull Point
by forty masked men Wednesday
morning and lynched by the side of
the railroad tracks.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Shot Him About Rent.

AS result Of quarrel over some
rent cotton Jon their place. Matt
Hall shot and fatally wounded Jesse
Hall. The men quarrelled Wednes-
day and next morning Matt Hall en-
tered the store OF Jesse Hall at
Thompson. Ga, and emptied a load
of buckshot into the latter's lett
side.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Killed His Cousin.

In fight at Cranes sawmill near
Liberty Sam BoSgs was shot and
killed by his cousin, Henry Boggs.
They are prominently connected. The
slayer surrendered to the sheriff anG
both are reported to have BEEN
drinking.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Goes to Florence County.

Ninety-three square miles Of Will
liamsburg County, including the
prosperous town Of Lake City. has
voted almost unanimously to annex
itself to Florence County. The vote
was 452 to in favor Of the prop
osiion.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Run OYrr liz Trnin.

at Rock Hill Henry l.. Talley, a
young "hostler" on the Charleston
division. was run over by an engine
in the yard late Wednesday night
and so badly injured that he will
lose one Of his legs and perhaps an
arm.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Money in Cotton.

The will of Hugh T. Inman, who
for many years was one of the best
known cotton traders in the South.
was proOated at Atlanta Tuesday and
showed an estate valued at from So,
100000 to s5.000.000. Much Of it
was in real estate.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Man Murders Woman and Then
Kills Himself.

At Los Angeles, Cal, j. w. Wheel
er, a blacksmith sc years old, fo:.
merly of Echo Ala. last Wednesday
night murdered woman who regis
tered with him as his wife, under
the name of Mrs. May Wheeler al
an East Fifth street hotel. He then
attempted to kill himself. The cou-
pie had been in their room less than
five minutes when five shots rang
out in quick succession. Persons
In the hotel rushed into the room
and found the Woman's body on the
floor and Wheeler standing with a
wound in his head. He held a re-
volver in one hand and a knife in
the other. Before any one could in
terfere he slaslled his throat.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Thousand Drowned.

A dispatch from Saigon, French
Indo-China, says one thousand per
sons were drowned and 400 barks
were lost during floods In the pro-
vince Of Qaungngia, In Annua.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-11-30
ARTIFICIAL EYEBALL OF GOLD
Surgical Feat That Is the Most Diff
cult Performance Known to
the Profession.

Gold, for the first time in the his
tory of ocular science, has been sub
stituted for the natural jellylike sub
stance in which an artificial eye is
ordinarily set. In an operation at the
Jefferson hospital at Philadelphia
gold was used to form the eyeball,
with the result that the glass eye
has all the appearance of real eye.
The fixed and stony stare which fol-
lows the insertion of a glass eye Is
replaced by the life and light asso-
ciated with the sparkling eye of ma
ture This surgical feat, one of the
most difficult of performance known
to the practise, Is considered by spe-
cialists as unique in the annals Of
marvellous operations.
William Senseman, a flfteen-year~
old boy of Buffalo, is the person who
is now carrying gold In his eye with
the same composure as he might car
~ that precious metal In his teeth.
Ten days ago he was playing in
the basement of his home. With a
Ratchet he struck the concrete floor
one of the bits few into his eye. The
tiny bit of cement panied his eye for
a time, but as the pain soon vanished,
the boy and his parents thought that
the particle had been naturally dis
lodged.
Unfortunately, the sight OF that eye
grew fainter and fainter. Then one
~ ho%
total blindness, had set in.
The boy and his parents came to
the Jefferson hospital. The X-ray
failed to locate the particle. Mathe-
NAUTICAL methods were then employed,
and the exact position of the bit Of
cement was determined.
Then an incision was made, so that
the magnet could be used to draw it
out. But the magnet had no attrac-
ton for the cement and that plan
failed Blood poisoning was feared,
and it was necessary to remove the
whole eye.
To this the boy and his parents OBJ
jected on the ground that a glass
eye was SO conspicuous. Thereupon
the surgeons were inspired to at
tempt the daring operation by which
the golden eyeball was set in the
empty socket. Then the glass eye,
or pupil, was fitted carefully into
the golden ball
The trained observation Of the spe-
cialist would be required to detect the
real from the false eye.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-11-30
John Henry /
- Entertains Friends
By GEORGE v. HOBART

toned the name of q place that I'd
permit him to go to.
Then the man sent the janitor after
me. told the janitor that this is a
free country, and he replied: Maybe
it is, but you can't prove it."
So we started to cut out the music
and started quarter limit game of
poker.
The players were Jim Nelson and
his wife, Charlie Payne, Fred Par
sons, Clara j., and myself
Jim Nelson thinks that when it
comes to poker he's about the warm
est little bundle of nerves that ever
tapped a Jack. To hear him talk
you'd think he wrote the game. He's
one of those tufts who whistle for
the police when they lose 80 cents and
get the frosted Tribes when they win
a dollar ninety.
Charlie Payne plays them close to
his shirt studs and always forgets to
ante. His bad memory has saved a
lot of money for him.
Fred Parsons is one of those loud
players. Every time he wins pot
he bubbles all over like a settler wa
ter going in a glass. When he loses
he hits the table and says: 'Damma-
luck! Why didn't throw away the
other card ?"
l wasn't wise to the abilities of the
others, although l had strong sus-
picion that Clara J. would put up a
regular Cherry Sister game. l had
never heard her speak of cards, and
/ was prepared to hear her ask any
minute if the king of trumps beat
four flush.
We played along for half an hour
without anything painful happening.
Clara J. handled her cards as though
they were perfect strangers to each
other and she was a trife nervous,
but she trailed along with the bunch.
For Jim Nelson they were coming
in carriages. He must have been six
dollars in, and, consequently, he was
bursting with an inward Joy.
Then came a Jackpot. which went
around three or four times, and was
finally opened by Jim. We all stayed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-11-30

The gridiron is about the hottest
place these frosty days.
The small universities are coming
to the front, at least under the new
football rules.
Michigan disposed of its most for
mfdable rival in Notre Dame without
single injury
Under the new rules it has become
an important factor to have the ends
big, powerful men.
QuaI1hcat1on for entrance to some of
the big universities seems to be a di-
ploma from prairie football coach.
How about an official announcer for
football games? We need it to tell
us about all substitutions and penal
ties.
Coach Stage of the Maroons foot
ball squad is optimistic, it is said
When the Maroons win Stage is a pes
simist.
If a college football player escapes
the fierce scrimmage of team prac-
tise with the freshmen without injury
he is lucky. 1t is the ambition of
every freshman to butt the regulars
clear off the field.
Gilchrist, who played with Missouri
against Kansas last year is playing an
end on the navy team at Annapolis.
Gilchrist has started in each game to
date and Is considered one of the
hardest players in the academy.
The new football rules are to re-
main intact, according to the reports
from Boston, because the list of killed
and injured has been reduced astonish-
ingly. That's a good thing. Now, If
the game could be made a little more
interesting.
The left end position seems to be
the hoodoo on the Yale team. VIII
liam Coates is the latest candidate for
that position to be put out of commits
sion, wrenching his knee. Walter
Camp, Jr., was disabled at the same
position and the other day Fitzpatrick
was hurt.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-11-30

Clara ]. and had taken possession
Of our cute little dent In the middle
OF an imposing stone pile with Pull
man car moniker, and for two weeks
we roamed among the furniture stores
measuring chairs and things to see If
they were small enough to go in the
fiat.
Finally, however, the toy home was
ready, and we moved in
Clara Us delight was boundless
when mamma and papa and Tacks
came up that first evening and took
dinner with us.
It's true we all had to sit edge-on
at the table and get our meat cut in
the kitchen so as to avoid hitting each
other on the funny bone, but the idea
was good, nevertheless.
Surely it makes a chaps heart swell
up and beat faster when he realizes
that for the first time in his life he's
paying house rent for himself and a
good mans daughter, even If the
house isn't any bigger than a minute.
Our first experiment in the kitchen
was a colored lady named Malvina.
She cooked entirely by hand, and
talked by machinery
AS a conversationalist she was a
faster tongue trotter than the janitor,
although his assortment of words
would probably get him the decision
on points.
Malvina was inclined to be stout,
and every time it was her cue to come
In and wait on the table got up and
left the room, so that she could move
about without injuring our guests.
In the first round Malvina spilled
a bowl of hot soup over fathers cow
lick, which showed a pretty anxiety
on her part to make his visit mem
orable one.
Papa expressed a desire to swear,
80 1 led him out to the kitchen, put
his head in the dumbwaiter shaft, and
told him to cut loose.
He fractured the walls and stopped
every clock in the house, but it made
him feel better.
During the third round Malvina
came in with the lamb chops, slipped
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-11-30

In, and after the draw 1t was just be-
ginning to look cheerful, when Clara
]. said eagerly, "Oh, John, do skies
beat fulls? 2"
Everybody present dipped up a tit
ter, and the poor girl looked ready
to faint
"Sure!" 1 said, just to bring her
back to earth, and the game went on.
Jim bet his quarter and Charlie
Payne raised him. Clara J. was next,
and she hoisted them both, to my
painful surprise.
The rest of US dropped out, and so
did Charlie on the next lap.
1t was Jim and Clara ]. for 1t, and
had to sit there and watch her being
dragged to the shambles, powerless
to help her.
Every time Jim said his little
speech she was back at him with a
raise.
l could see whole months house
hold expenses travelling home in
Jim's pocket.
During those few terrible moments
I'll bet Mrs. Jim bought two new hats
and tailor made with the spells her
robber husband was going to haul In.
1t was cruel.
/ tried to give Clara J. the bugle
to cease firing, but she never once
looked In my direction
Jim had nearly all mis- chips In and
Clara ]. had reached over and
touched my stack for handful.
The pot looked as big as a bunch
of Christmas money, and began to
see visions of deputy sheriffs running
of with our furniture.
Jim was breathing hard, and
fancied l could almost hear him say
ing over and over to himself, .'This
is sin and hate to do it, but / need
the money"
Presently, when all his chips were
in, he repented and called Clara J.
AS he did so he threw a king full
of bullets down on the table, and with
an apologize smile proceeded to pull
In the gate receipts.
Clara J. said very cooIly, Won't
you walk slowly, Mr.. Nelson?" and
with that she spread her hand out on