Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-02
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of the National Ginners' association,
issued here today, indicates a condl-
tion of 12.9 per cent for cotton up To
July %. This. the report says, with
average weather conditions, would
seem to indicate a yield of from H.
900, 900 to 11,50O,000 bales. The report
by states follows: Alabama, 61; Ar
kansas, 20; Florida, ~: Georgia, Ga;
Louisiana. 64; Mississippi, 6S; North
Carolina, 73; oklahoma, SO; South
Carolina, 6S; Tennessee, -, Texas. rs;
average I2.9.
- The Memphis Commercial Appeal
of Yesterday, published the following
summary of the cotton situation: THE
cotton crop deteriorated during the
week i'm Texas and Oklahoma by rea-
son of drought but improved elsewhere
on an absence of rain. The situation
in Texas and Oklahoma in fast becOm-
ing serious. some shedding being re-
ported in the dry east places. Tenn
peratures were very high at times
which makes the lack of moisture more
acute. A good rain Immediately would
help the crop wonderfully, hut its
grU-"th and fruiting has already been
arrested. The fields east of the Mis-
sissippi are now nearly clean and the
cotton will be laid by in a fairly good
cleaning some of them has, however
been severe and the plant has not Yet
recuperated and drought continued for
long will work great damage. During
the coming week moderate temperature
would be helpful. Without late au-
tumn reports indicate a very moderate
out-turn in the valley and Atlantic
states"
Atlanta, Ga, July 80: Few in the
big crowd which witnessed today's au-
tOmobile races at the speedway here
knew that two hours before the meet
began one life had been sacrificed to
high speed on the track. AS the pis-
tol cracked for the first event, the
body of r. B. Dial, of Atlanta, was
quietly carried from the grounds. Dial
was a mechanician and his car a Ma
rion, while on a practice spin, became
unmanageable. ripping up over 100 feet
of the inside fence on the first turn of
the track and then turning two COM
plete somersaults. The car landed 40
feet from the track and midway be-
tween the machine and the speedway
was found the unconscious mechani-
clan. one side of his head crushed. No
one was near enough to see exactly
how he met death. He lived twelve
minutes after the accident The races
were run without an accident, both
amateur and professional drivers
participating. The programme called
for fifteen events. but darkness cut
them off at eleven. All the entrants
were local cars.
- Boston. July %: Having for its
purpose the revolutioniZing of the cot
ton industry of the United States, a
conference was held today at the home
of John Hays Hammond at Glouces-
ter. at which there were present be-
sides Mr. Hammond, Daniel Sully, the
New York operator, and Scot Delgeish
of Cairo. Egypt, the representative or
the Hirsch syndicate of London.
Briefly, the idea is to establish ware
houses in all parts of the cotton pro-
ducing district of this country as well
as in the manufacturing centres for
storing the cotton crop, so that instead
of selling IL from hand to mouth, as
has been the practice heretofore, 1t
will be marketed through the entire
year when desirable. 1t is believed
that economies will be effected in the
marketing of cotton, which will re-
suit in the saving of not less than
$4,000. 900 annually. The General
Cotton Securities company, OF which
Mr.. Hammond is president, and Mr.
Sully is vice president and general
manager, is TO be the organization
through which this economy is to be
effected. The Hirsch syndicate, 1t Is
understood. has already underwritten
the project.
DIR. II. II. Crippen, the alleged muir
derer of his wife, who was Belle Ell
more, and who disappeared from Lon
don with Clare Leneve about the time
the body of the murdered woman was
found in the cellar of the house they
occupied. was arrested on board the
Canadian Pacific Inch Montrose at
Father Point, Quebec, Sunday. lmme-
diately after the discovery of the mur-
der and the disappearance of Crippen,
the news was telegraphed throughout
the world and wireless messages were
sent to all the steamers then on the
high seas. In reply to the wireless
messages. Scotland Yard was notified
by the captain of the MOntrOSe that he
had on his vessel a suspicious man
passing as a clergyman, who was ac-
cOmpanied by an effeminate looking
young person. dressed as a man, but
who was probably a disguised woman.
So impressed were the Scotland Yard
police that they sent a detective to
America on a faster vessel. and he ar
rived at Fathers Point in advance of
the MOntrOSe. In the meantime, the
suspect and his companion were not
made any wiser as to the situation.
There were scores of newspaper men
and others on hand when the Montrose
came up the st. Lawrence river in fog
Sunday, and before going OFF to meet
the vessel, the detective disguised him.
self as a pilot. He feared that the doc
tor might commit suicide. The doctor
was found standing against the rail of
the vessel. This detective hailed him
with, Il want you Crippen." The color
left the fellows face and he came near
cOllapsng. His first coherent words
afterward were: Il am glad the sus-
penSe is over" The young woman also
collapsed. She was taken to a separ-
ate state room and clothed as befitted
her sex. DR.. Crippen has not made
any confession. The pair will he at
once taken back to London.
- Palestine, Texas, July 81: At
least fifteen, and it may be twenty ne
groes, all of them probably unarmed,
were hunted down and killed by a
mob numbering perhaps 200 or 300
men in the Slocum and Denison
Springs neighborhOod of Palestine last
night and yesterday. according to the
statement of Sheriff Black, who re-
turned early this morning after a
twenty-fOur- hour absence in that dis
trict. The sheriff told of a fierce man.
hunt in the woods, OF riddled bodies
found on lonely roads and of the ter
rOr almost indescribable among the
inhabitants in the southeastern part
of Anderson county. II found great
excitement prevailing throughout that
section of the country" said Sheriff
Black. Men were going about and
killing negroes as fast as they could
find them and so far as l have been
able to ascertain, without any real
cause. These negroes have never done
anything that l could discover. We
found eleven dead bodies, but from
what l have heard the dead must
number fifteen or twenty. We came
across four bodies in one house.
don't know how many there were in
the mob, but l think there must have
been two or three hundred altogether.
l sent two detectives out through the
county to collect all the arms they
could find i'm the houses of the negroes.
They made a thorough search, but
found only nine little single harreled
ShotgunS | believe the main trouble