Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-10-04
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLDS NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.

The condition of cotton on an aver
age date of September %, as ascer-
tanned from the replies Of 1900 spe-
cial correspondents of the Journal OF
Commercial Buletiln, is 70.S per cent.
afiainst 1875 per cent. month ago,
or q decline of 1.S points for the pc
Rod under review. Texas Is conspic-
nous as being the only state showing
an advance, gaining AZ points. All
other states lost from to nearly 8
points. Insects are reported as in
juring, cotton.
The convention of the Sea Island
Cotton Growers, scheduled to be held
at Valdosta, Ca, was indefin. ely post
poned, owing to the absence of Mr..
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
Farmers union. Delegates who had
gathered here reported that the en-
tire crop Of sea island cotton had
opened at once, and is nearly out OF
the fields, although usually it is not
all gathered until after Christmas.
Italy has declared war on Turkey.
1t declared that the two countries
were in state of war beginning at
half after two o'clock on the after
noon Of Friday, September 2s.
Representatives of cotton buyers
and cotton exchanges of New Eng
land and the Southern and Southwest
ern states, in conference in New
York, entered in general discussion
as to the best methods of buying and
selling the staple. Methods of adjust
ing. differences which may arise be-
tween the Southern shippers and the
New England buyers are being consid-
cred, and it was stated that as soon
as some definite understanding is
reached statement would be issued.
Forcing their way into the Desha
county Jail at Dumas, Ark, between
fifty and one hundred men, members
of a mob, formed so quietly that the
authorities had not the slightest
warning. overpowered the DEPUTIES in
charge and took Charles Msipass, Sr.,
white, to water tank and hanged
him. The mob then dispersed with
-2St> demonstra None of its mem
bers is known to the authorities, ac-
,ording to their statement.
Approximately 1000 clerks and
ishopmen of the Illinois Central en-
ployed south of the Ohio river are on
strike, the number being augmented
by the walkout of 400 shopmen at
New Orleans. This was in tddition
to the 2SO clerks who went out at
first. At Memphis all the clerks went
out and were followed by the shop
men, in all about LOO men striking.
AS a result of the decision Of the
internal revenue department to en-
force the law requiring duty on all
manufactured cigars, whether consum'
ed in a factory or elsewhere. Tampa,
Florida, is again threatened with a
disastrous strike of its $4,000 cigar
makers. The effect Of the decision OF
the revenue department has been to
discontinue a practice in the Tampa
factories, which is as old as the clear
Havana cigar manufacturing business
the giving of smokers to the work
men.
L. w. Boykin and John Bell Towel
former members of the state liquor
dispensary board; W. o. Tatum, for
mer commissioner of the dispensary;
K. A. Goodman, liquor salesman, and
Dennis Weiskopf, a Cincinnati busi
ness man, were placed on trial at Co
lumbia, s. c., on charge of conspir
ing to defraud the state. The case
is what is known as the dispensar5
scandal, and has been on the docket
several years. 1t is alleged S22,oo'
graft was paid the defendants.