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UNCtE SAM'S HAND Reaches Out For The "Bull" Cotton Operators. I FUTURES COME TUMBLING DOWN U. S. Attorney General Orders Grand Jury to investigate "Bull" Cam paign and Arrest Speculators—Cot s' ton Mills Excited. if ' - New York, Special.—The attorney general of the United Sfatro has or-- dered an inquiry into the gigantic | bull movement in cotton, with which the names of James A. Patten of Chicago, Frank B. Ilayne, William [ P. Brown of New Orleans and E\:- ' gene Scales of Texas have been popularly connected. R " Never before lias the government brought similar action against any 'pool operation in the market on either the long or the short side. Subpoenas were issued at the direc tion of Mr. Wickersham, commanding a dozen or more prominent New York cotton brokers to appear he i bore a special federal grand jury Tuesday to testify in the matter of b the "United States against Frank B. Hayne, and William P. Brown." The subppoenas demand the sub t mission to the special grand jury of | all records, papers, letters, memo randa and an agreement dated Feb ruary 'JO, last, by Hayne, Brown and (. others. The agreement, the sub poenas state, was f( r the purchase of 150$ BO bales of cotton for de livery in New York during the months k, of May and July, inclusive, at cer tain prices and under certain con ditions. The fixing of the pi ice and conditions, the government '-barges, was a violation of law. Announcement of the governments act ion . was folloved by a very ev cited break in prices on the Ne.v York cotton exchange which at one time bade fair to result in almost as great a demonstration .as that noted last January. Wall street was .tirred bv file news and it was widely discussed also in banking circles. Much m- I terest is taken in the case by the I financial districts and the sMck e\- f change, as well as by tli>' entire '•ot ) ton trade. | " Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Southern E cotton mill operrttors are ale ruled over the action instituted- in New fe York by the federal authorities against the leaders of the bull cam paign and profess to see in it a covert effort, on the part of certain New York cotton brokers to re lief from contracts with mills. I hey £ assert that the government unwilling ly is co-operating with the bears in' !• another and what they fear will move a most disastrous "raid." Many n ill ft' ' men in this section wmul congress men and 26 senators appealing to them to institute an investigation with a view tr uncovering the •'con spiracy" which they declare appears to exist. [Washington, Special. Attorney : General Wickersham hais taken up ' the cudgels against the pool in raw cotton which, it is alleged, already has resulted in an increased price of that staple and a curtailment of the output by manufacturers and con sequently loss of employment bv mill hands. In connection with the discussion |1 over the prevalent high prices of ® food and other commodities, the it- Ep, tention of the attorney general has Py been directed to the alleged existence r «f certain pools and combinations I I ' operating corners in various .om i modiiies and their effect on inter s' state commerce. I"' Methodists Agin' Prize Fights. K'/ Los Angeles, Cal., Special.—The Methodist preachers association Mon- K-. day adopted a resolution calling upon all ministerial associations of K the State to join a movement against \ prize fighting with a view that at r the next session of the legislature H a law he passed prohibiting the sjlort. r", Why "Lost and Forgotten?" Frankfort, Kv.. Special.'—Though Rr a bill appropriating $3,000 for the I H holding of farmers institutes among the negroes of Kentucky passed both |i: houses of the legislature last winter, Hi was duly signed by the speaker of H the house and the president of the K senate and is known to have had the £ approval of the governor, it is not and ir will not become a law. Through neg ! i lec.t it did not reach Governor Wil l-son -for signature and though it has [ been many days since the assembly Unadjourned, the measure has just come £ to light, having been lost and' for- EL gotten in the meantime. & World's Sunday School Convention. fiL Hagerstown, Md., Special.—Hagers- Jptown is preparing to send 500 persoui W to the World's Sunday-school Conven ffiion to be held in Washington May Ladies' Besiege Congress. E\. Washington, Special.—Suffragist; jar moved on capital hill Tuesday and ■hsfeeented to congress a petition from ■BOO,OOO signers praying for votes foi EVENTS TOLD TERSELY. News From Everywbera Printed lo Short Paragraphs. The first quadruplets that ever went into tlie Canadian Northwest have passed Ottawa on their way to La combie, Alberta. David Grant and wife, of Wentworth, Nova Scotia, are the parents. ( Ilis majesty the king gave them a present of SSOO for each of the quadruplets, two hoys and two girls, aged eleven months, all alive and well. With the $2,000 they de cided t? go West. Jacob T. Barron of Columbia, S. C., was promoted to the position of imperial high priest arid prophet of - the imperial conclave of Shriners at the end of the session at New Orleans. During a heavy rain and hail storm at Columbus, Ua., a trout four inches in length and very much alive was picked up in the business section of the town. Prominent citizens vouch for the statement that the fish was rained from the clouds. Distinguished for having once es caped from the harem maintained by old Sultan Abdul Hamid, „ Lek Atachas, aged forty years, a comely Greek woman, was one of .1,000 im migrants who passed through Altoona, Pa. She has had a stirring life. At a meeting of Spartanburg, S. C., council, it was decided to hold Police Court in a tent during the sul try summer months. John H. Godwin's application for a pardon was refused by the Dela ware State Board of Pardons? lie is the old Addieks leader serving a penitentiary term for alleged bribery. Two llamas, a Siamese cat and a monkey, all of which Were presented to William J. Bryan by South Ameri can admirers, have arrived in New York and will be shipped to Nebraska. James 11. Hawks, vice-president and general manager of the Detriot and Mackinac Railway, has offered the National Association of Audubon So cieties the use of 1,000 acres of land on the Massachusetts coast, near Gloucester, as a game preserve. In a sermon at, Nashville, Tenn., Dr. George Bugeoa Lofton vigorously assailed what lie termed the "dam nable politics," "sqloon lawlessness," and"diabolical unpunished murders" in Nashville. He also arraigned the city's political leuders. Physicians in charge of the Pasteur institute at New Orleans may be call ed upon to provide a rattlesnake anti dote as well as a mad dog serum. A tremendous rattlesnake was kill ed as it was making its way into the institute. Gottelb von licneslear, of Missouri, is looking at the largest available houses in Ann Arbor, Mich. Though none of them seems big enough to him as yet, he has decided that Ann Arbor is the proper place in which to rear and educate his fifteen daughters and eight sons. ' "The real reason that women can't vote is because they are cowards. They lack the courage of their desires, the bravery to demand their jnst rights, and the grit to stand up ami tight until they get them," savs Dor-> otliy Dix. Three thousand Gideon Bibles will be placed in the hotels of Atlanta, according to a statement made by W. 10. Henderson, national secretary of the Gideons, while on a visit to Atlanta. It will take $1)00 to secure the supply of Bibles that are wanted for Atlanta, one being placed in each guest room at the different hotels. Veterans of the Civil War, both those who wore the blue and those who wore the gray at the battle of Gettysburg. 48 years ago, will meet again on that famous battlefield this year. The fall of ancient Greece and Rome was directly due to the tiny mosquito which introduced malaria from Egypt and Asia, according to Prof. W. M. Wheeler, of Harvard University. While excavating for the founda tion of the Geiser Manufacturing Company's new building in Waynes boro, workmen unearthed the skeleton of a man supposed to have been murdered in a Waynesboro inn nearly 100 years ago. The postoflice department ha.s or dered that all stamps, which are sold through the window in the postoftice, shall be given to the purchaser with the gummed side up. Lawyer Seth F. Crews, of Chicago, was given $">,000 by Judge Pinckney in the circuit court for advising Sarah Peterson that it would UP lognl Tor Tier Lo marry John R. Smith, a wealthy mine owner, on his deathbed. A warning of impending danger, not only to manufacturing interests, but-to the whole country, is sounded by W. C. Brown, president of the New York Central railroad,, who be lieves that the high cost of living foreshadows a national crisis. After partaking of mustard sar dines, Mrs. Timothy O'Brien, of Coal dale. Pa., aged twenty-nine years, be came suddenly ill and died shortly afterward in great agony. Robbed of their n.other by death, a pair of (ion cubs, now with the circus in Rtkdison Square Garden, have been adopted by a Dalmantiau hound, whose puppies lived only a few hours after tirtli. By a series of remarkably daring swimming dashes Everett Mason suc ceeded in reaching the farthest mid srteam point in Niagara river ever attained by a human being except in case of auicide or secident. CHILD LABOR LAW And Economic Conditions Send - Children to School. ' CAROLINA INSPECTORS REPORT Large Decrease in Number Children Employed—Mill Men Don't Want Them—Experts Needed Parents Take More Interest. Columbia, Special. The factory inspectors have up to the present time during the year 1910, completed the inspection of 76 of the textile plants of South Carolina, having thus cov ered nearly half of the .territory. They have been giving particular attention to the enforcement of the-child labor laws and incidentally have been mak ing a comparison at each mill with the conditions existing about a month later last year, which was the first year of the operation of the factory inspection law, coupled with the enforcement of the child labor laws. Commissioner Watson says there is a decrease of 39 per cent in the num ber of boys under 12 years of age and a decrease of 33 per cent in the number of girls under 12 years of age employed. There is a marked decrease in the number of children under 14 years of age and it is only those children that the child labor laws, anywhere are particularly concerned with. There has been a decided increase in the numbeT-of children between the ages of 14 and Hi employed. It is a curious fact, however, that the real increase among these larger children is shown in the statement as to the girls, there being 279 more girls of this age employed, than at the same time last.year, whereas there has been a decrease of tlie number of boys of 133. This rapidly improving condition of child labor is not a result of the enforcement of the inspection and. child labor laws alone, but. economic conditions are probably more largely responsible for it than anything.else, it is particularly noteworthy, too, that mill after mill on the reports this year, show no children under 12 years of age and i? large number of them have voluntarily notified the commissioner's office that they never expect to again employ a child under 12 years of age. There' is a strong and better sentiment also among the .parents themselves in regard to the placing of their* children in employ ment and throughout, the State, we find parents in the villages beginning to have their ambition aroused for the education of their offspring and caring moro and more for their phy sical health. v Patterson Announces Candidacy. Nashville, Tenn., Special."—Gov. Patterson has announced his candi dacy for the Democratic nomination to succeed himself.' In view of re cent political events in Tennessee and the governor's pardon of Col, Dun can B. Cooper, convicted of the Car tnack murder and sentenced to '.20 years' imprisonment, the statement of Gov. particularly inter esting. Gov. Patterson represents the anti-prohibition element of the Democrats. *- In a public letter the governor says: "Their case was appealed to the supreme court, and that tribunal di vided, three being in favor of an affirmation of the case nvainst Col. Cooper, while three were in favor of reversal as to the son, ami two were in favor of reversal as to both. "Senator Carmack, according, to the testimony, was killecT by Robin Cooper and in mv judgment any fair interpretation of it shows tlnit the killing occurred after Senator Car mack had fired two shots from pistol at the defendant. I believe the act of Robin Cooper was in his necessary self-defense, and this view was evidently shared by the majority of the court which reversed his case. On the other hand. Col. Cooper was not in any conspiracy to kill and I do not believe any of the justices so held. If he was not in a con spiracy to kill, and did not kill, where is the law or justice which will hold him guilty.of murderT Had this been an ordinary suit, tried in the ordinary way, without the settings of passion and excitement, Cot. Cooper would have been acquitted almost as a matter of course. Without impugn ing the opinions of others. 1 think it was a miscarriage of justice when he was not acquitted." New Orleans Flyer Wrecked. Memphis, Tenn., Special.—Three mail clerks are dead and tliree train men and a mail clerk injured as a result of the wreck of the through flyer from New Orleans to Chicago on the Illinois Central railroad, five \milcs north of M ; ss. Law Scares Futures Downward. New Orleans, Special.—As a re sult of a sharp break in the cotton future market here, two of the old crop mouths registered losses amount* ing to about $1 a bale. The decline was brought about by the receipt of private wires from New York stating the federal grand jury there has is sued summonses for several promi nent bull leaders, as well -as repre sentatives of a number of large cot ton brokerage houses. CONFEDERATE CHOIR TO SING "AMERICA." Program For Annual Reunion Con tains Many Interesting Features. Mobile, Ala., Special.— General Clement A. Evans, eommandtr-in chief of the United Confederate vet erans, has approved the program of the general reunion of Confederate veterans to be held here April 26, 27 and 28, made public by Chairman W. K. P. Wilson of the committee on program and exercises.. The program deals exclusively with those events concerning the three days' stay in Mobile, that of the Sons of Confederate Veterans be ing separate. The cenvention of vet erans will take place Tuesday morn ing, April 26, deliberations being in the auditorium at Monroe park, Ma jor General George P. Harrison, com manding the Alabama division, as sembling the convention. Following invocation by Rev. Linn Cave, chaplain general of the Confed eration, the singing of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," by the United Confed erate choirs of America and the read ing of a poem of welcome written by H. G. Barclaj-, of Mobile, by Miss Vera Will inns, the veterans will be welcomed by Governor Braxton Bragg Comer on behalf of the State. Mayor Pat J. Lyons is to extend the wel come of the municipality, and Clar ence J. Owen, commander-in-chief of the United Sons of Confederate Vet erans, will welcome the old warriors on behalf of that organization. Great Choir to Sing. The program for the forenoon ses sion also includes a song, "The Sol dier's Dream," by Thomas H. Halli well; recitation by Miss Minnie Rossa Richardson, of Alabama; an address surrendering the convention to Gener al Clement A. Evans by General Chairman Jacob D. Bloch, followed by a response by General Evans. At the afternoon session of the first day Hon. L. B. McFarland, of Mem phis, will be the orator of the day. Throughout the sessions of the con vention the United Confederate Choirs of America will render appro priate songs. liabbi Alfred (1. Moses, of the Jewish congregation, offers in vocation upon the opening of tlje con vention on the second day, followed by the report of the committee on credentials and of the committee on history. Mrs. Emma Labretta, of Mo bile, will sing "The Last Rose of Summer." Then follows the report of the committee on Battle Abbey. In accordance with the custom that has prevailed for a number of years, the convention will suspend business at noon and take port in the exercise* jf the "Memorial Hour." At the afternoon session reports of the committees on resolutions and on monument will lie uiade and then offi cers are to be elected. Aside from the entertainment features of the re union, this will bring the delibera tions of the second day to a close. Thursday the parade of the veterans will be the one big feature. The route has been selected with the great, est care in order to make it just as light an possible upon the physical condition of the veterans. Sons of Veterans. The annual convention of the Unit ed Sons of i onfederate Veterans will be held in German Relief hall. The program has also been completed and it is very lengthy. There are a num ber of addresses of welcome and re sponses. Mayor Lyons will welcome the Sons to the city and General Clarence J. Owens will respond on be half of the organization. While veterans aud Sons of Vet erans are deliberating members of the organization known as the Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy will be in session in an other part of the city. This promises to be one of the inte.csting features of the reunion. President 0- Thompson, of Memphis, is to preside. A local committee of the Mobile County Medical association has pre pared an interesting business and en tertainment program for the Confed erate surgeons. This meeting prom ises to be one of peculiar interest and it may be of vital import, involving the integrity and perpetuity of the organization. By command of General Clement A. Evans, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, Gener al William E. Mickle. adjutant gen eral and chief of staff, has issued a general ordeV. The order concludes: '' The number of our dead has been greatly augmented during the past year by the following distinguished leaden: "Major General Robert Lowrv, brigadier general, C. S. A., and com mander Mississippi division, U.t. V.; Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of our only president; Major General Zimmerman Davis, commander South Carolina district. U. C. V.; Major Oeneral PaulA. Fusz, ex-commander northwest division, U. C. V.; Briga dier E. G. Willett, assistant quarter master general, U. C. V.; Colonel J. B. Cowan, M. D., assistant sureeon general, U. C. V.; Colonel B. IP. Esh jeman and Colonel R. E. Park, aids on staff commander-in-chief." Bis Salary for Some Farmer. Washington. Special.— The inter national Institute of Agriculture, soon ,to convene at Rome, meets once J a year and rcrtfciins in session a month, and Secretary Knox has urged upon the House au appropriation of sl,. 600 as the salary of an American member of the permanent committee. The United States is entitled o five delegates to the general assembly of the institute. ..... .. • CAPITAL FACTS. Interesting News Gathered in the District of Columbia. THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Readers. "Red Cross" Sign Abused. The passage of a bill introduced by Representative Denby, of Michigan, to prevent unauthorized and indis criminate ase of the Red Cross emb lem has been urged before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by representatives of the Red Cross So ciety. * - * v ~ Miss Mabel T. Boardman and Maj. Gen. George W. Davis, U. S. A., re tired, members of the central commit tee of the Red Cross, told of the manner in which their emblem was being used. A representative of a manufacturing concern who uses the red cross as their trade mark pro tested against the passage of the bill, on the ground that their interests will be injured. It was shown that 136 individuals and firms have obtained the right from the Patent Office to use the red cross for all kinds of articles, in cluding shows, false teeth, horse remedies, and so forth. Honored a Confederate Daughter. Miss Bullock, of England, daughter of Capt. J. D. Mullock, who fitted out the Alabama, the Confederate priva teer, was guest of honor at a recep tion tendered the Daughters of the Confederacy bv the Confederate vet erans at Confederate Memorial Home. Miss Bullock is also a cousin of form er President Roosevelt. Will Lecture on African Experiences. The National • Geographic Society received a letter from Col. Roose velt, dated March 1"»," containing his promise to address the society on his African experiences. The date will be stet later. On March 14 the so ciety cabled its congratulations to the former President, and invited him to lecture in this city. "Bones on Toast" Latest Receipe. One million copies of " Uncle Jim" Wilson's cook book, issued by the Department of Agriculture, over which he presides, are ordered print ed by the House of Representatives at a cost of SIO,OOO. Representative Cooper, of Pennsylvania, brought in the resolution. One of the delicacies set forth in the government cook book is "bones on toast." A receipe & also given for making left-over roast beef taste like canvasback duck—almost. Want Panama Canal Exposition. Washington businessmen have de cided to actively enter the field and urge this city as the site for the Panama Canal exposition. This de termination was reached when * the committee of the Board of Trade ap pointed to investigate the chances of this city reported favorably and de clared the idea feasible. Woman's Complaint Against Police. Patrolman Edward Sutton is charg ed with a serious offense by a young womati named Ada Moran, of hurg, Va. Other policemen may be involved in what promises to be one of the worst scandals which his at tached to members of the Police De partment in years. The young wpman was arrested "fee ye nil nights ago and placed in a cell -off—the station house. It is said four officers were guilty of improper conduct. tfrged Decision Before Death Comes. Shivers chased up and down the spine of some of the spectators in the supreme court of the United States when Holmes Conrad, former solicitor general of the United States, called to the attention of the court the frequency of the visits of death to that venerable bench. He was asking that a case be decided by the court before more vacancies occur. Knights of Columbus Communion. Two thousand Knights of Colum biaconstituting the Washington councils of that organization, par ticipated in an event which marked the public recognition of their order by the representative of the Vatican. It was the annual communion of the order. Sergeant Williams to Wed. Sergt. J. A. Williams ha* announc ed his engagement to Miss Maud M. Kidwell, who has been employed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for seven years. The bride to-be admits twenty-seven years, and is a native of Virginia. CoL Scott's Action Endorsed. The Secretary of War states that the terms of Col. Hugh L. Scott as superintendent of the military acad emy ut West Point will not fee cut short because of the stand he took in the repression of hazing. Mr. Dick inson stated that Colonel Scott's ad ministration had been satisfactory and he had sustained him in th« haz ing cases. At the end of Colonel Scott'a term he will be succeeded by Qeu. Thomas H. Barry for four years. CHINESE MURDER Sokfiers Join Rioters And Bum Property GOYERNGR AND HIS SCN KILLED - ■■ _ .. i Famine Sufferers Loot Rica Shops— Foreign Owned Buildings Destroy ed—Missions Burned American Missionaries Take Refuge in Boats. Chang Slia, China. By Cable.—All the foreign owned buildings in Chang Sha have been destroyed by fire with the exception of the British con sulate. The buildings rented by for eigners have been looted. The Chinese officers issued a proclamation that they were unable to protect life and property, and thereupon foreigners made baste to leave the city. So far as is known,. 110 foreigner has lost his life. The governor, Hu Nan of t lie province of Wu Tehung-Siu, and his son, were killed and several other government officials fled. The riots began on April 13, when the famine sufferers looted the rice shops. The following day the disturbance became anti-foreign, this being a strong anti-foreign province. The China-Inland mission and the Nor wegian and Catholic missions were burned. The other missions were destroyed on April 15. The mis sionaries attached to the American Episcopalian missionary alliance, the United Evangelical church, and the Wesleyan and Yale mission, number ing 4i in all, took refuge in boats. They left all of their effects. The destruction of all foreign property, including the Japanese con sulate and the British warehouses fol lowed. The official buildings were destroy ed the same day, the troops joining the riotere, who numbered not less than 24,000. The British consul at Chang Sba has tnken up quarters on a steamer which is anchored about a mile from the town. The British gunboat Thistle is at luka, having failed to reach Chang Sha on account of shallow water. Ransom Fund Contributors Relieved. A bill appropriating $(51,000 for the relief of contributors to the Ellen M. Stone ransom fund has passed the Senate. Miss Stone, who was an American missionary to Turkey, was abducted by brigands in September, 1901. Continue Bleached Flour Seizures. Washington, Special. —President Taft and his Cabinet have considered the bleached flour cases and decided that the Government would continue to make seizures of this product in order to force the millers to test the matter in the courts. Hundred Miles in 91 Seconds. Playa Del Rey, Cal., Special.—The 100 miles race for a, cash prize of SI,OOO and trophy was won by Ray Harroun in the Marmon. Nikren in a Buick was second and Oldfleld in a Knox was third. The tune of 1:16.21.- 90 establishes a new tfpeedway re cord for the distance. Meat Packers' Trial April 27. Chicago, Special.—The National Packing Company and its ten sub sidiary concerns must by April . 27 plead to the indictments charging them with violating the Sherman anti-trust law. In the State of Vardaman. Meridian, Miss., Special.—After he had killed t'onner Sheriff John R. Temple and barricaded himself in the basement of the county jail here, Tom O'Neal, a negro, was shot by officers. He was then seized by a mob of 200 men, hanged to a tele graph pole and set afire. His throat was cut. North Carolina Girl Resigns. Washington. Special.—Having serv ed seventeen days as private secre tary to Mrs. Taft, mistress of the White House, Miss Mary Dandrige Spiers has resigned and will resume her duties in the War Department. Her successor has not yet been chosen. She is a native of Halifax county, North Carolina, Three Years for Robbing Trunks. Washington, Special.—Three years in the penitentiary is the sentence imposed by Justice Gould U|>on George L. Brown, the young baggage master of the Southern Railway, who admitted having robbed the trunks of passengers, on Southern routes. Comet's Lengthy TaiL Chicago, Special.—What is believ ed to be the best photograph yet ob ' tained of Halley *s comet was secured at Yerkes' observatory at Williams Bay, \\ is., Sunday. Prof. Frost view ed "the celestial wanderer for more than An hour - in-ideal . conditions two million miles of the comet's tail were visible. Road Dispute Brings Bloodshed. Lyons, Ga., Special.—Two dead, one dying and probably one or two others slightly wounded are the re sults of a Sunday afternoon battle in an feud of long stand ing, which was renewed last Sunday near Emanuel. ; The battle waa between the family of Collins and the family of Lewia, and was outcome of a dispute •ver a public road eroMtng.
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