Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-23
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.

As result Of the killing OF Mar,
shal Newberry at Jakin, Ca, the peo,
ple of that section of Early county
and those living across the river in
Alabama have become thoroughly
aroused and have been applying the
torch rather freely to negro lodge
buildings, school houses and churches.
Three negro lodges, two churches and
one school house were laid in ashes
by the mob, which is bent on reveng-
ing the death Of Marshal Newberry.
To save the farmers of the South
millions of dollars this fall and to put
the world on notice that the cotton
crop of the South has greatly deterio'
rated since the publication of the last
government report and to go on rec
ord that the total crop will not reach
15,0O0,0OO bales, as formerly estimat,
ed, a conference Of all Southern agri'
cultural commissioners, officials of the
Farmers unions and OF other agricul'
tural organizations, will meet in Mont,
gomery, Ala.
Charging that the department Of ag
riculture report Of cotton issued OF
July 25 had overestimated the crop
by 100000 bales, causing a drop OF
40 per cent. in the price OF cotton
nnd a panic in the South, Senator
Smith of South Carolina introduced
a resolution in the senate calling upon
Secretary Wilson to furnish the sen,
ate with information concerning the
condition of the cotton crop this year
and make special estimate upon 1t.
A difference of five hundred per
cent. between the express and freight
rates on articles shipped from eastern
cities to Memphis, Tenn, is made
the basis of complaint filed with
the interstate CONNER commission
by the Memphis freight bureau. The
complaint is directed against the Ad-
ans, American, United States, South
ern, Wells-Fargo and Pacific express
companies. The commission is asked
TO adjust the express rates.
The first bale of sea island cotton
received in Valdosta, Ga, this season
was grown by E. NJ. Giddens of Rays
Mill, and shipped three by express,
weighed more than four hundred
pounds, but graded low. The first bale
is ten days ahead of the first bale
last year, which was received on Au-
gust Is. Other bales are expected
within the next few days. The sta
pie in this section Of the country is
being injured by almost daily rains.
It is against the sanction of the
Smith regulation bill which controls
the sale of whiskey in the state, to
sell intoxicating liquors or beverages
on the dining cars in Alabama, &C
eording to an opinion which has been
rendered to Governor O'Neal by Atty.
Gen. Robert c. Brickell. In another
opinion the attorney general holds that
section 27 of the Smith bill forbids
connection of a bar room with pool
room.
Delegates to Kentucky's Democratic
platform committee, meeting in LOU
isyille, refused to accept Henry Wat
terson's advice and adopted the ma
jority report Of the resolutions COM
mittee, which provided for the exten-
sion Of the county until law to all
counties of the state. Watterson was
a member Of the committee. He pre-
sented the minority report, which diff
fered only as to that feature and then
moved to amend so as to leave the
states liquor laws as they stand.