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he Monroe Journal MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1311. ONE DOLLAR A YEAH. VOL XVHL NO. 35. ADVISES HOLDING COTTON Mr. Fairley Says His Opinion is That Cotton Will b Worth Much More, But Debts Should Be Paid. Mr. .1. M. Fairley, the oldest cotton dealer in Monroe, and one of the best knowu in this see iou of tin State. say that farm ers ought to iiit sfllinjr cotton, txeept only those who, by do ing so would cripple his mer chant or other' debtor. He gives The Journal a rot ton letter Kent out by 1VU & Co. tf New York, which he nays expresses his views. The following extracts are made from t lie letter: "I cannot believe the farmer will ornithine to press for sale an article he cannot reproduce for the price. 1 cannot think the spinner, who has been so hungry for a profit to appear, will neg lect to accept that profit. I do not think the South can increase her acreage in RU2 because of a jxmr cereal enp. I do not think jndia, with 7 per cent less acre age and thus far linfavoring con ditions, will contribute within one-half million bales of her last year's supply: or can L'gypt at' ford her usual output. Last year's world's cotton crop was the second lartfest in history and the over surplus was a bagatelle i . .... so Kiiiiiii mat tour mourns forced curtailment was necessa ry. "This year's world's crop may lrove but hub" lancer. At to day's, or at lower levels, I think cotton an excellent investment and unless some war or estilence or panic should interfere, I ex pect to see cotton return to the 15c. level before another crop bo- gins to move, not troin any spec ulation but of it own inherent merit which the owners of the staple themselves seem least to understand. We will export nine million hub's out of this crop and yet $25.00 per bale less there J'or than Kurope would gladly send us if we had the COPRAOH TO ASK IT AND TIIK PA- TIEXCK TO WAIT FOR IT. "The value of cotton for the moment and for the next thirty days is what the spinner is wil ling to pay for it. The value after that date is what the far mer is willing to ask. The South is resHnsille for the decline the county seat has sold the crop of the county whether the farm er did or not. The spinners will take more cotton from Oct. 1st to Jan. 1st than for any three months of lustory, irrespective of price. "Cotton will again sell at 15c per pound." Coming in All Its Entirety. Downie & Wheeler's World's ltest Shows Combined will exhib it in Monroe. Friday, Oct. I'.), one day only. A gigantic amusement enterprise. A whole city of peo pie employed. The strange col ony of people, handsome horses rare wild animals and golden car avans are scheduled to arrive in 1 hearty hours of Friday morning, Oct. LI, transported upon Downie & V heeler s own new special tram of ears. ( lrciu day will he gin with a grand glittering free street parade, every morning at Khlllf o'clock a vision of Itcau T.v ami splendor, delving all com petition or comparison. The show has $50,000.00 invested in chari ots, tableau floats, musical ve eles, fanciful and historic cost nines and exjH'iisive odd things of distinctive parade use. It is now well uiiderstiMid that Downie & Wheeler's Circus Combined ear ry as many people, horses, wild nuimals and show properties as any other show travelling. The agent of Downie & Wheeler's Shows was in town, contfracting with grocers, bakers, creameries, etc., for the immense quantity of food to be delivered to the siow grounds in the early morning, There is no question but that a tremendous crowd of people will want, to see the new big Combin ed Double Circus. Its hundred! of special and extraordinary teat ures will afford a day of rare en joy men t and valuable instruction to everybody. fyraina require careful treatment. Keep oiiiat and apr' Chamberlain'i Liniment freelT. It will renmrn the anrenca and quickly mlore tin art In a healthy con- anion, for aalc t an dealeia. Death of Mrs. R. D. Crow. Mrs. Frames lee Crow, wife of Mr. I, D. Crow, died at the ho:i.e a mile cast of town at one iVloek last Thursday. She bad en sick only a short time and was a bride oi sr-n weeks, hav- nig neeii married on .ugusi n. It was at first thought she had typhoid .'ever, but an examina tion of tne blood showed that this was a mistake. Death seems to liae if suited from a complica tion of stomach trouble, Jaun- liee w as present and she was du ring her illness a great sufferer, the pain being so great that it was ii"ctssary t. gie anesthet ics. Physicians from Charlotte erfonned ojn'rations on last Mondav and Tuesday, which seemed to do good, but only for short time. Later blood stnn- ulciits were injected, but the pa tient was too weak for it to do anv good. The funeral was conducted on Friday morninir. and the remains buried here. Rev. Messrs. Wea ver and Kirkpatriek conducting the service. Meant if ill ami pro fuse floral offerings were laid upin the grave. Mrs. I row is well knewn and highly esteemed here, having liv ed lu re seme years prior 10 ner marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Crow had hardly begun housekeeping, j Coining at a time when life seem ed to held so much in store for her. the death of Mi's. Crow was indeed a sad event. She was a ladv of exceptionable bright mind, of great intelligence, cul ture ami retuieinent and many harms of character. She was thirty-two years of age and was a native ot .vndersoii, .. i . Mie is survived by her husband.three sisters. Mrs. John stewman and Mi-s. O. C. I.laekmon of Lancas ter. S. C. Mrs. I. D. Shipway of New York, and two brothel's. Mr. W. S. Lee of Charlotte nml Mr. A. C. Lee of (ireetiville, S. ('. She was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church, and an active worker in the Daughters of the Confederacy. The erec tion of the Confederate monu ment here was largely due to her efforts. Did They Intend to Elow Up the Gang? Captain Fletcher, superinten dent of the chain gang, has evi dence that he thinks warrants him in believing that there was a plot of certain prisoners, both white and colored, to kill the night guard of the camp, then by exploding dynamite, kill the oth er guards while they slept, and thus liberate the whole gang at once. Reeaiise he thinks llrooks Rivers and John Rosa, two trust ies who have run away, were in the plot, he has offered a reward for their rupture, though they had nearly served their time. Thev had been trusties for a year and there was no reason now that thev should have run away un less they Wcniue frightened when they found that the plot had been discovered. I aptain Hetcher thinks that these men were cm ployed, hey being trusties, and sent on errands, to buy the im plements that were to be used riles, razors and dynamite caps were found in the stockade, and two sticks of the dynamite were found hid out away from the camp. On the 22nd. (lilinore Massey, colored, made a break and es caped the guards while the gang was working on the Willoughby road west of town. The belief is that four men, two of them white ones, were to get away at this time, their idea being that the guards would follow Massey into the woods to get him back lint the guards did not do this and the plan failed. Capt.Fletch er s idea is that they were to try this plan first and should it fail they would trv the more haz ardous one. Hut after the first was tried, the thing began to leak out and the two trusties mentioned above ran away. Another man got away Friday night by breaking his chain and a big lock. That night Captain Heath's liorhe was stolen and the supimsition is that this man, John Crawford, got it and rode away. The horse was captured at ("lies terfield. ANOTHER JOHNSTOWN FLOOD DAM BREAKS AND WRECKS A TOWN. Pennsylvania Town Swept Away By Loosened Water Many Lives Lost The Rush of the Waters Through the Valley. Austin, a town of 3,200 resi dents, iu the northern part of Pennsylvania, was swept out of existence Saturday and more than 500 of the people were killed by a flood which followed the Hreakiug of Hie Hay less Pulp and Paper Co.'s dam, one mile and a half north of town. Almost 500,000,000 gallons of wa ter rushed over the place in a wall ten feet high, wrecking ev ery structure in its path. hi Austin the bursting of scores of natural gas mains as the build ings were swept away added fire to the general horror of the flood and hundreds of those imprison ed in the wreckage were burned to death. The contents of the great dam. which was filled to overflowing by heavy rains of two weeks, swept through a natural gorge in which the towns of Austin and Cost. T.o were situated. While many ;' the residents of Austin t scaped to tiie inns homering each side et the town, the warn ing giv 11 by the blasts of the HaybsK mill whistles were too brief for hundreds ot others. The catastrophe parclleb'd iu many respects the destruction by flood of Johnstown, Pa., in 1SS!. iu which over 2,000 lives were lost. The extent of the loss of life and destruction of property can not be known for several days. The property loss will surely be several million of dollars. Within an hour of the first gen ral knowledge of the calamity. special trains bearing physicians nurses and Inod supplies were tin the way to the scene.' Hundreds ot automobiles bearing rescuers also toiled over the rough ami tortuous mountain to lend aid The food supplies of the town were destroyed, and immediate aid to survivers was urgent, lluu Ireds of those who escaped were seriously injured in the collapse of their homes and the panic rush for safety. TeniiMirary hospitals were fit ted lip in near by farm houses and improvised structures fash ioned from the wreckage. The Red Cross also made preparations for immediate aid to survivors The intense heat of fire sweep ing from tlie natural gas mains made it impossible tor rescuers to visit the scene of destruction for manv hours. Loot era were among the first on the ground and Governor Tenor dispatched a laree force of state police to the town to protect the victims A dangerous situation develop ed immediately after the great wall of water had passed. Austin is piped for natural gases and the great force of the flood tore the mains from the streets. One of them, the largest pipe in town burst in the business section. A moment afterwards the gas gush eii out and iu a twinkling it had taken fire. There was no explo si oil ,but the flames leaped to i height of 20 feet or more and blown by a strong wind, was com munieated to the nearest house In ten minutes a dozen other gas pipes had burst and were pour ing their deadly inflammable flu id into the air. Men who ha rushed forward in the hope of doing some good were overcome and fell, while others were rnuglg in the flames and incinerated. The street became a glowing hell and there was no salvation for those who were caught in the death trap. Many persons, crushed and helpless ill the wrecks of build ings only partly destroyed by water, were consumed in the flames. Their shrieks could be heard by the helpless ones who. awakened from their sleep and paralyzed by the scenes about them, endeavored to save a life here and there where it seemed possible. Hut they were driven back by the deadly fumes of the gas or the heat from the buminic buildings, and after the flood had passed, they stood from the hillside, pitiful in their inability I- :n the Wosii- it e'ui amnUiC the but atuonu hihll'cll there Were wounded and dying. the scores of men who m'yi.t at other times have braved death to saved the lives of the unfort unate, there was none to dare. IKiwii at the shops ot the Uuf- falo and Susquehanna railroad history was in the makmir. The buildings were located below tin business section, on the banks of Freeman run. - and were more substantial t ha n most if the houses which had been swept a way by the flood. When the great mass of crushed and bro ken timber, representing the homes of a few minutes b-fore. came crashing down, they lodg ed against the shops. The im pact was so great that tiie butld- Uigs shivered and the walls were crushed in. The frame-work stood and formed a barrier a- gainst which tlotsam and jetsam of the flood found lodgmett. Here as elsewhere tl i.atur- al gas pipes burst and the s!,;s were iu operation, fire w;.s ji; . ly communicated to ti.t 1h'.m- gencotis mass. Mui weiv .;iic( 'ore they could 1 av ' .: machines. Some of th-':i v.m rushed to death withoir war: ing. Mil o! Hers less ;av u fortune were pmned d' ..l. 1 met horrible deaths in t':- r. p'-i-Iv kindling I'lami s. Nearby was the plai.' .-I : o Standard Lumber eoiup. i.v. Jt had on hand a large supply o! stove wood tor slupiii nt. W m n the pipes burst there the burn ing pus broke through tin build ing it was soon destroyed, lb re. too, debris had piled Iia-M and the luckless ones who had been swept down stream met death at this Miint. For hours the machine shops and the lumber plan burned. And the oder of burning 1'bsli was so strong as to drive man persors from the scene. IImw many jft-rsons died h re will nev er be Known, nut eoianii'g u:e employees of the plants Mid the persons iu the flood it vi;l not fall short id' 200. Here is where the first organ nized effort of relief was made. Maddened by the sights atmut him, one man, with tears stream ing down his cheeks, cried tor volunteers to save the lives of the men whose cries for l;t Ip be came fainter. The wreck of the Austin hardware company had been swept from it location on Main street to the lumber mill. Here were buckets in abundance ami their was a little stream, still swollen, although the toiye of the flood had passed. Seizing a bucket, this unknown hero dash ed into the stream, filling it with water and calling for help ran toward a oint where it ap peared one man might be saved. Others followed his example. Hut to no purose. (ias and heat com billed to drive tin m back and t'lev eventually gave up tlu bat tle. Hut the blazing pile continued to burn through the night, the most eonspicious and must dead ly spot, in this valley of death, (iradiially the cries for l.elp and the groans of the dying men grew fainter and when the great mass of debris and the remnants of the burning buildings iiad he roine nothing more than a huge pile of glowing coals, the agoniz ing sounds ceased and that chap ter of this terrible trag t.'y was closed. Over at the paper mill, the great factory where so niuny of the people of the town found em ployment, the situation was little better. Although not so many persons were killed, some oi them were crushed beyond recog nition when a part of the factory went down before the watt r. It. too, caught fire and the s-efos to which the half pai'a!id peo ple were rapidly bec ::.ii.g ; -customed were enacted. One little girl, who e,,,i!,l r.-! have been more than fit'ecn et the most had been ci.g!;! in t'v rush. The flames were appv'eeh ing her with the rapidity onlv equalled by the rapidity of tii. flood which had made heij'I:ic'it possible. Pinned down I'leier a heavy timber one leg crus'md, it was impossible for her to free herself. No one seemed to know her name, but her cries for h. Ip to do antbiii!C but fate of their friends. REPORT OF ATT'Y VANN. Cives Record of Cases Tried in Recorder's Court for the Post Quarter. Mr. J. C. M. Yam h.is submit to! the following report to the enmity commissi. mi ami the abb r meti of Monroe: tieiitlemeu : The follow ing is a report of the eases tried in the Recorder's court during the quar ter July 1st to Ocotbcr 1st: The number of vases disposed of within the time mentioned is 155. Of these cases. G8 were cas es originally in the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, and e" would have been tried in the Su perior court, were it not for the Recorder's court. Of the 155 cases, M prosecu tions were for crimes committed in the corporate limits t.f Mon roe, and 74 for crimes commit ted outside the corporate limits The total number of defendants tried is 122; of whom 54 inv white. lo negroes, and I Chinese 145 defibdallts ale Millies Mid 17 f'Mnab s.. Tiie number of defendant con victed is 112. The numb t ' quitted is 17. Tli.' ruiiiber of de fendants against whom no vt i -dict wi's asked, or a nob' prose qui ilitefed is 17. Of tile i.bove number of cases ( w i prelim inary hearings for felonies. Iu each of the preliminary hear ings the defendant was b-.u:n,i over to the Superior Court. The total amount of fines and costs imposed is approximately $1.1:10.00. The aggregate of chain gang sentences, ami jail, is four ears ami ten months. Respectfully submitted. J. C. M. VANN, Prosecuting Attorney in Record er's Court of City of Monroe. Got Drunk on Way to His Moth er's Funeral. Wadeshoro Messenger. .Monday night about 12 o'clock Policeman Dcese ran acrosn a vounir white man on the streets who was very much under the in fluence of booze of some sort, lie arrested the man ami put him in the guard house f r the night. Tuesday morning the man, who turned out to be T. W. Smith, bad a hearing before Mayor Dun lap. Smith, who was exceeding ly penitant, told tint mayor that while at work at llb wit balls on Monday afternoon he received a telegram announcing the death, at Rock Hill, of his mother. He came to Wadeshoro Monday night with the intention of taking the train for Rock Hill, but unfortu nately for him, he Isuight some blind tiger whiskey and a bottle of Ilostettcr's Hitters before he left the Falls, the consequence being that he yielded to the temptation of drinking too much with the result that he landed in the guard house instead of going to the bedside of his. dead mother. Mayor Dunlap let Smith off with the cost and he caught the 10 o'clock train for Charlotte Tuesday morning. were not unheadeil. As in the fire iu the machine shops an un known man ros-' to tin' occasion. Running into a part of the fac tory not tbst roved by the flood, he seized an axe and returned to the sjsit where the helpless child was imprisoned he cut at the tim ber. Hut his strength gave out and meantime a crowd had gaih ered. There was nit more than a dozen men among tlieiu, but when a volunteer showed signs of weakning another sprung for ward, snatched the axe from his band ami attached tin- timber with vigor. Meantime 1h" fin was approaching. Tie- heat ran him away. Another took his place and th-y say that he was a doctor who hrd no! scern his family since the flood bad start ed a few hours before. lie saw at a tlaiicc 1 1 1 : fire would be np.'ii t'e-m lefoie t'n could remove the timber. Care fully he looked at the gul. Then with calm pn eision he leveled the axe at the ln-lpl-ss victim. A stroke or two t'mn it was ov er. The leg was s'Ve-td. Will ing hands caught up tli poor girl and carried her to the hpi tal on the hill. She may die from the shock. KEEP COTTON OFF MARKET. Speaker Sent by National Union Advises Farmers to Do Every thing' Possible to Hold Their Cotton Cottcn Seed Also Far Too Low. Mr. .1. K. Walker of Mecklen burg county, sent out by the Na tional Farmers' I'uion. made a speech in the court house yes terday regarding the critical sit uation that the South is now in w ith respect to the declining price of cotton. Only a few js-rsons heard the speech, owing to the fact that it hud not been ad vertised. He said that the im mediate thing to do was to keep cotton off the market, ami to refuse to sell seed at the pres ent price, which is only about half their worth. Mr. Walker is something of a student and he speaks quite broadly on the many questions that he discuss es. He spent twenty yearn in the navy, having graduated at Annapolis in 1!)5, and during the time saw much of the world. He became a lieutenant commander, and also did a good deal of spe cial service, especially in the tropics. He spoke of visiting the lands of Kgypt and India that are so much talked of as possible cotton producers, but thought that conditions there were such that they could nev er be great producers. In Kgypt. the laud is too high in price to be devoted to it and the same is true in India, for there the imp utation is mi dense that the soil must be devoted to the produc tion of food crops. Mr. Walker had a sun stroke in the Island of (iua in and was forced to re turn home, lie is now living on the farm in Mecklenburg. Touching the holding of cot ton and the price of seed he said : "The question now facing the South, which is by far the moat important to the people in gen eral, not only the farmers, but all who arc interested iu the ma terial welfare of the South, is that of obtaining a price for cotton commensurate with it-s cost of production, ami there seems to be only one means of counteracting the influences that have combined to take the crop at a price ruinous to the south ern interests. This means is for farmers, merchants and bankers to combine iu an immediate ef fort to keep the cotton off the market. The unprecedented maturity of the crop is to date bringing into sight a visible supply of cotton greatly in excess of normal or natural conditions and is being used by the hears to hammer the prices down. We must not let our cotton go for less than it has cost to pro duce it, for if we do there will follow ruin to many a farmer and merchant. The loss to the South and to the trade of the country to let Europe have its seven or eight milliou bales at this suicidal price means much to the whole country. Then let the appeal go to all, hold your cotton ami show that we mean business ' and that we are not afraid of the bears. So let ev eryone hold his cotton and u just price will be obtained. What is Kit iil of cotton is even more to be said of cotton seed and let no man sell his seed for less than its fertilizer ami feed ing value. It is worth double the present market price and can be used at home unless that price can be received. This principle is be ing urged all over the South and all arc urged to assist." Dr. (. C. McMiinnaway of the city of Charlotte has brought suit against the Independent Fire Co. of Monroe for payment for a merry-go-round outfit, which the company secured from him sev eral years ago. Mr. J. C. Sikes went up yesterday to represent the company in the suit in the Suptrior court at Charloit- and took about a doen members of the fire company as witnesses. I bit. the case was not called as expected and they went back today. The company claims that the (dd flying jenny Wouldn't wotk nml was useless. They took it down to Waxhaw and hit it there, and there it passed r.way of del epitude.