The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, May 11, 1911, Image 1

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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL\ DO N?T LIKE IT People of Flureoce Rtsrut Ac; ten of G iv. Blease in Removing -? NEGROES FROM THERE News of Governor Blease's Order for Removal to the Penitentiary of Negro Prisoners Vnder. Death Sen tence Received with Complete Sur prise by the People of Florence. The News and, Courier correspon dent at Florence says the article in Tuesday's iS'ews and Courier sent out from Columbia headed "Rusn Negroes to Penitentiary," was a stun ner to Florence.folks, Inasmaxch as it gave out news emanating from the Governor's office that the people of that city believe was .absolutely with out foundation, for its publication, and it has caused no little harsh com ment of the Governor's action, by not only his enemies, but by some of his Florence friends and admirers. The correspondent says the story Is considered so ridiculous that Flor ence folks really take It for a State House joke of the first water. The Sheriff knew nothing of the story until It was shown him by the cor respondent in The News and Courier, and then he hurried to the postoffice, where he found the Governor s letter of the" night before awaiting him. The correspondent says: Sheriff Burch, who. by the way. has never had to carry a prisoner to the Penitentiary for safekeeping, but, on the other hand, has faced, two mobs at the risk of his life to de fend his prisoners, is mortified over the fact that the Governor has order ed these two prisoners hustled to the Penitentiary, and states that there Is absolutely no use or reason for these prisoners to be removed from the Florence prison and feels that It is a reflection on him if in sisted upon. The following letter from the Gov ernor to Sheriff Burch was received by the sheriff at eleven o'clock Tues day morning, the postmark on the envelope showing that It was mailed at Columbia, or rather stamped, May 8. 9:30 p. in. at the Columbia post office. "S"tate of South Carolina. Execu tive Chamber. Columbia. S. C, May 8. 1911.?To Mr. Thomas S. Burch, ?Sheriff Florence County, Florence, S. C.?Dear Sir: In view of the action cf the Supreme Court against the two negroes, convicted along with the negro Ham, for killing a white man and. after talking with some parties who are acquainted with the facts, I think it would be advisable for you to bring the negroes to the State Penitentiary; for if they are granted a new trial it is possible that they may be dealt with at once or cause you much trouble, so bring them on the next train and commit them to the State Penitentiary for safe keeping. Very respectfully, "Cole L. Blease, Governor." To the above letter the following, telegram was sent in reply by Sheriff j Burch. after immediate consultation J with Solicitor Walter H. Wells, of | this circuit, and State Senator Joseph j W. McCown: "Florence. S. C. May 9, 1911.-1 To Governor Cole L. Blease, Green-j vllle. S. C.?Have read article In \ The News and Courier of today. Sher-j Iff, deputy sheriff and I think no dan ger whatever. Ask to have prison ers remain here. Sheriff guarantees protection., "Walter H. Wells, Solicitor.' State Senator Joseph W. McCown wired the Governor as follows: "Florence. S. O, May 9. 1911.? To Cole L. Blease. Greenville, S. C, care Ottaray Hotel.?I think prison ers are perfectly safe in Florence Jail. j "J. W. McCown, Senator. In reply to his message to Govern or Blease. Sheriff Burch received the following telegram Tuesday night, j too late to take the prisoners to Co-; lumbia on the evening train, but he did so at four o'clock a. m. next day: "Greenville, S. C. May 9. 1911.? Thomas S. Burch, Florei.ce. S. C, Your wire. Take prisoners to Peni tentiary on first train as directed. "Cole L. Blease. Governor." RelTonnd Was Fatal. After an unsuccessful attempt to shoot a crow. John Collins, aged 82. a farmer, lies dead at his home near Hendersonville, N. C, the victim of a recoiling gun. He had killed two birds when he missed the third in vader and was hit in the chest with the butt end of his gun. After suf fering intensely for several hours he died at an early hour Tuesday morn ing. Trains Coyotes to Kill Coyotes. Two coyotes, brought up in cap tivity and with several captive gen erations behind them, but still full blood coyotes, have been trained by Charles L?beck, of Eld City. Idaho, to run down wild coyotes. The two big cats killed 20 coyotes, on recent hunting trips. Human Life Cheap. N. W. Josey, a wealthy merchant of Brewton. Wednesday shot and shot and killed Whitt Brantley. a young white man, there. Several days ago Brantley threw a rock against Josey's store. It Is alleged, and Josey, j- is said, waylaid him. jam ? Mimt THAT NATION SEEKS TO THROW VP THE SPONGE. Her Game Is to Take China or Rush Into War, Be Beaten, and Repudi ate Her Debts. Japan is bending every effort to iget control of China and rule the j Orient. This statement is made by Prof. Joseph K. Goodrich, until late ly occupying the English chair in the Imperial Government college in Kyoto, 5apan. He declares that Ja pan's avowed friendship of the Unit ed States is false and that the na tion is not only; bankrupt, but is dis organized and suffering from "swell head." Prof. Goodrich has spent the last half century in the Orient and has a familiar knowlege with the complicated affairs of the Far East. "I have seen nothing in Japan's actions since 1905," says Prof. Good rich, which did not give good reason to. believe her a mischief maker. The antipathy to the United States, in spite of official statements to the contrary, has always been most out spoken; my students were disgust ingly frank in saying that it was the intention of their country to fight mine, and to" whip, too, of course, so as to get a big indemnity with which to restore the ruined fi nancial condition of Japan. "This persistent nagging of the United States, that has gone on now for five years and more, has always puzzled me, and I do not yet .3 *} what it clearly means. Can it be a cun ning device to divert the attention of the world from Japan's evil in tentions towards China. "Or is this pesteriug an evidence of Japan's desperation and on indi cation of what there is no doubt she would do, if it suited her conven ience? She knew she is hopelessly, I helplessly bankrupt; the overstrain [ of taxation began to show itself last September, when a few (of the many) j discontented people acted; and there jare not wanting other evidences of disorganization. Perhaps Japan is now deliberately laying herself cut Itention of then saying: "I am com pletely knocked out; I throw up the ' for a crushing defeat with the in , sponge, I repudiate my debts; now do what you like.' ". * if. *i ? +. ? _ .? . ? ? ?. ???? t WHAT DOES HAYNE MEAN. Offers Big Price for Entire Stock of Now Orleans Cotton. Frank B. Hayne, the well known cotton dealer, threw the New Orleans Cotton Exchange into a fever of ex citement twenty minutes before the final gong Tuesday, when he offered to purchase the entire stock of cot ton in New Orleans at 15.48 cents. Mr. Hayne jumped in the rig, push ed aside his brokers and began cry ing his bids. j "Five thousand May at 15," he said. "Fifty thousand bales at 49." Pandemonium reigned for a few minutes, and the days \ot the great Sully pool were recalled.. Again and jagain the big bull leader bellowed forth his challenge to the bears. . In I the excitement, traders appeared dazed and those who a few rajHUtes j before were offering to cell May around 15.40 were slow to accep1. the increased price. Finally, Mr. Hayne yelled. "I will take the entire stock of cotton in New Orleans at 15.48." j When the gong sounded It was es timated that he had bough' perhaps 15,000 bales. But his su( en and istartling movement had tr ?? bears j guessing and May became very ac tive. There are reports of a "corner" in New Orleans Tuesday night in May cotton, but it is believed to be un-i true. ! WOMEN TOO BUSY AT BRIDGE. Minister Says They Have Not Time to Raise Families. The Rev. J. E. Wray. pastor of the Mulberry Street church, in Macon. iGa., in a recent 3ermon, declared j that the women of the present day, !so far as his observation extends, are too busy playing bridge and going ! in society, and the men too deeply interested in making money, for them I to raise families of creditable size. .He deplored the fact that three or jfour children are now considered a I large family, and contrasting this i era with the time when 10 and 12 children In a family were common. I He said that this indicated a regreta ble decline in the standards .md mor als of civilization. The Wages of Sin. At Milwaukee. Wis., two young women. Emma Nelson and Mehel iGilmore, were shot and instantly killed and Joseph Unger was serious ly wounded in a fight at a resort there Tuesday, by Charles Yanre. a stationary engineer of Racine, who ,then killed himself. A quarrel be tween Unger and Yance pn ceded the : shooting. Summer Hotel Burned. I Fire of unknown origin early 'Wednesday morning entirely destroy led the summer hotel at Flat Rock, two miles from Hendersonvllle. The hostelry had not opened for the summer. It was erected at a cost of $20.000, and was insured for $10. 000. C. E. Roper was proprietor. 0RANGEB1 ATTACK JUAREZ Five ttnerica&s Are Killed by Boilers That Cross lo This S de REBELS ENIM JA?RFZ Contrary to Orders of Gen. Madero, 150 Insurgents Open Fire on Fed erals, Capturing Important Out-! posts, Finally Carrying Fighting into Juarez. Insubordination in the ranks of Gon. Madero's army and a lust for the fight, of which Federal conces sions^ apparently had deprived them, caused a fierce attack on Jaur ez, which ended Monday night in a careful retreat of the insurrectos af ter a day of continuous skirmishing. The 150 rebels who early Monday morning opened fire on the Federals, not only captured some of the im portant outposts, but carried the fightlug into the city. Failing reinforcemens, they retreated. The casualties of the two forces are not known, but five people on the Ameri can side of the line were killed, and at least 12 wounded. Thousands of people in El Faso, Texas, dotted roof tops or lined the river banks In direct line of fire. Col. Stetever, of the 4tb United States cavalry, protested to both armies against the fire into American ter ritory and it lessened considerably thereafter. Nearly 1,000 American troops were massed on the border, keeping crowds hack and ready to respond to any orders from Wash ington. Monday night couriers galloped back and forth in an effort to ar range an armistice, so that peace negotiations miyht be resumed. Gen. Francisco I. Madero, Jr., Is a sad and downhearted man. His efforts to prevent a general attack was suc cessful, but only after "he had been told conflicting stories as to the ac tual cause of the <-cnflict. Col. Tamaberuel, it is said, taunt ed the rebels and incensed them. Gen. Madero regrets the occurrence. The fight lasted until dark and fur nished many a thrilling sight as well as continuous terror, to many Amer icans living along the river bank, j Carrying the fl'-'hting Into Juarez, the rebels entered the city. Many Americans were among those who entered Juarez. Antonio Gacio was! standing by the side of the Associa-1 ted Press correspondent, about 20<V yards from the advancing insurrectol i ranks, and was killed. A woman sitting on a porch eral blocks within the city was lvt In the wrist and the abdomen U\ two bullets. About six o'clock Mon day night two Americans were levi ed near the Santa Fe bridge. The name .of one is supposed to be C-mp I and his home is said to be Irs Nc - ibraska, while the other'had on hit j person a memorandum reading ">t. H. Ferguson, Troop F., 3d cavalry, San Francisco." ? The names of the others killed have not been learned. Glen Cheea man, of Shreveport, T.a.: Mrs. Jos Mooreshead, Edmund Haltor? and Luis Villobas. of El Paso, were among those wounded, but not fat ~* 11-y. There was occasional Urine I Monday night Into Juarez, but Gen. Js'avarro seemed in complete com J mand. In the main rebel camp Monday confusion reigned. Orders we.'e en en for a general attack, but they wore countermanded. It was argmd by some of the rebel chiefs that since a small detachment had made such progress, it was the duty of the rest of the army to a'd I he attackers. * Gen. Madero waivere?! in a;e de cision, to stand by his piomije of Sunday night, not to a'.tlCK the city. Flaes of truce suffered grossly dur ing the battle. A rebel whi b?te one, was shot from his horse. Those j who were trying to persuade Made** ito make a general attach, it !?? sail, 'reported that the Federn1? In? tir.-,d ? on the truce-bearer, but this was ? contradicted later. j Gen. Navarro was willing durine j the day to grant an armJatPw. but | I the insurrectos ignored this. The to tal dead for the day s fighting In cluded insurrectos and Federals, is estimated at near .''.0. The wounded ; will number close to 6 0. Costly Poker Game, j A Sunday afternoon poker game I played in a hay shed caused the fire ? that swept Hangor. Maine, burnittg I nearly four hundred buildings: I causing two deaths, rendering t hous ands homeless, and deine damage es timated at four million dollar-;. One of the players threw r match on the floor and the loose hay burst In>o flames. Striking Carmen. i At Oklahoma City. Okln.. ore man was shot and four other were sllght lv injured Monday night during a fight between special police employ ed by the Oklahoma street railway .company and sympathizers with striking employees. The company has refused to meet the demands of ,the carmen for increased wages. Ragles Hurry Off Two Sheep. i Two Egyptian sheep, valued at $100 each, while out in a pasture at jAshintully farm, near Lenox. Mass.. j last week were carried off by two .American eagles. The eagles had a i ten-foot spread of wing. JRG, S. C, THURSDAY, MA" NIGHT STOPS FIGHT ADVANTAGE WITH REBELS AF TER ALL-DAY FIGHTING. ? The Opposing Forces Resting on Arms, Reaily to Resume Conflict at Daybreak. What was perhaps the fiercest battle of the Mexican revolution was fought at Jaurez, across the river from El Paso, Texas, Tuesday. That night both Federals and insurrectos are resting on their arms, ready to resume the battle at daylight. At least five ]*ersons have been killed on the American side of the border since the skirmishing began Monday and about fifteen have been wound ed, while the loss on the battlefield Is variously estimated at from 30 to 60 dead on both sides and about 75 to 100 wounded. Fifteen wounded rebels have been brought, to the American side and more are believed to bp within the town. Gen. Navarro at seven o'clock Tuesday night agreed to stop the firing while the wounded rebels were removed. Tbe Federals have ade quate medical facilities -ind are car ing for their wounded within the town. All day the battle raged, the reb els swarming through the streets of Juarez and meeting the heavy fire of the Federals with an equally vigor ous volley of musketr}'. The rebels claim the town Tuesday night. It is true that they actually control more city territory than do the Fed erals, yet the position of the Gov ernment force Is so well fortified that it is almost impregnable. The rebels forced the fighting in the face of the deadly fire of the Federal machine guns. They dared not gather in too great number for an attack on the Federals, for the Federals demonstrated many tlmet,. the accuracy of the guns. Gen. Nav arro is said to have mined most of the buildings in the city, and it is believed he Will be able to Inflict a terrible blow to the rebel fortes should they take the city. An actual view of the fighting in the streets of Juarez showed the in surrectos as more than holding their own. The sun beat fiercely on the battlefield, and a fire, started by the insurrectos, filled the streets with clouds of smoke. #The fire is still smouldering, the post office and sev eral adjoining buildings being in ruins. The light from fire gives the rebels an occasional glimpse of the Federals. The crackling of ritte? is intermittent. 'Juarez looks as if a hurricane had struck it. Wires are suspended from jagged telephone poles and the streets are filled with plaster, abode de.bris. window gjass and splinters. Many a building has a hole in it, and not a few of the characteristic abode houses of the town are without roofs. The terrorized inhabitants were under cover all day, and many were injured by the hail of bullets. The town itself is quiet, except for occa sional rifle balls. Bullets flew across the Rio Grande, to the American side, but the United States troops have kept sighteers several hundred yards from the river. WOMAN MAIL CARRIER. Has Travelled More Than Sixty-two Thousand Miles. Miss Florence S. Markham has completed twenty-two years' service for Uncle Sam carrying the mail be tween Stockbridge station and Inter laken, Mass, She makes the round trip twice a day and has travelled G2.000 miles. Miss Markham -cures for her team and handles express, baggage and freight. She has never had a vaca tion and has never missed a train. Some dnyB In winter she has had to shovel out snowdrifts ton feet deep to get through. She has been in terrific thunderstorms. When she first started Miss Mark ham received $f? a month, now she get $2r?. There have been four post masters at Interlaken In the twenty two years she has served. Miss Markham is the only child and sup port of Mr. and 'Mrs. John H. Mark ham, of Interlaken. FIVE CHILDREN BURNED. Father Was Unable to Rescue Them Through Firery Stairway. Five of the six children of San ford Davis, a farmer, residing near j Free Union, Va? were burned ro j death in a fire that destroyed the j Davis home Tuesday. Davis and his ! wife and an infant escaping. The ; dead children ranged in age from three to fifteen years. The slept in a room on the second Hoor, reached by narrow stairs. When discovered ;the fire aleady had eaten its way to ?the stairway. The frantic father at templed to reach the room from the outside, but when at the top of the ladder he was nearly overcome by 'smoke and heat. Davis called vainly \ for the children to come to him. The only responce came feebly from Estelle, aged 15. wlio cried: "Papa. I can't get out: I am nearly strang led to death. I?". Will Be Tried Very Soon. The double murderer, Ernest E. iGrirnesley, will be placed on trial in the Richland county court on May 22 j for the killing of Mrs. Rosa Ressing |er and Walter Sandifer. { 11, 1911. WILL MEET SOON Southtrn Baptist CoDventicD to Bold An nual Session io Few fjajs. NUMBER SIX MILLION The Convention Will Be Numerically Larger Than Congress or the Brit" ish Parliament, but Is Advisory Only in Character, and Is Different From Most Such Bodies. Greater number than the the Bri tish parliament or the congress of the United States, the Southern Bap-! i tist convention will meet in Jack sonville, Fla., on Wednesday, May 17, with delegates present from every Southern State. The convention is made up of delegates from churches, associa tions. State conventions, missionary societies and Sunday schools. All Baptist churches are independent. Therefore the Convention has no i authority to bind the churches in its territory. Its action is advisory, not compulsory. Ministers and lay men are admited into the conven tion on the same basis without any offlcal distinction between the clergy and laymen. The convention has three boards: The foreign mission board with head quarters at Richmond, the home mis sion board, with headquarters at At lanta, and the Sunday school board with headquarters at Nashville. The work of the foreign board is to preach the gospel in foreign lands. The home mission board looks after missionary work in the home field, which includes the Southern Stales, Cuba and the Panama section. The Sunday school board is the head of (he Sunday school work, and publishes Sunday school helps, periodicals and books for use in the Sunday schools and Young People's j societies. The Southern Baptist The ? olipcical seminary, the School of the j Prophets, located at Louisville, Kv., I is also under the control of the Southern Baptist convention. According to the best available fig ures, there are about 6,280,649 Bap i Lists. Of this number 4,110,873 are j In the South, 2.218,911 of the Sou thern Baptists are white, 1,891,962 colored. In the Northern States | there are 1,190,293 Baptists. There I are 22,4X8 churches connected with jthe Southern Baptist convention. They make up the largest religi ous denomination in the South. The ! Baptists are said to have 39.5 per cent of the church membership of jthe South, the .Methodists 26.f> per I cent, Catholics 15.9 per cent, DIs jciples 5.2 per cent., Presbyterians 4.9 per cent. Episcopalians 1.7 and all others 5.9 per cent. The churches connected with this ! convention raised last year for carry ing on their work $9,474.777. Of this sum $1,336.519 was given for ! missions. The church property of the Southern Baptist convention is valued a'. $3 7.282.522. Roger Williams was not the first Baptist as some erroneously suppose. The history of the church runs back for hundreds of years before his day. John Runkun, who lived nearly an hundred years before Williams was 'born, was a Baptist. Williams was, j however, the first to become a Bap tist on American soil, and he organ ized the first American Baptist church in Providence, R. I. j The first Baptist church in the South was constituted in South Caro lina in 16S2. The first established j in North Carolina was in 1653, in j Virginia 1714, in Tennessee 1 770. In Georgia 1771. in Mississippi 1780, 'in Kentucky IW, >" Alabama 1S03, in Florida 183 8. j In 1762, when the great Baptist, persecution began in Virginia, there were only 3,000 Baptists in the whole .country. In 24 years they had In creased to 25.000. In 17110 there j were 50,000, in 1812, 1 TT..00 0: in ; 1 S 2 r?. 238.000: in 1X40. 570,000, ?and in 1853, 1,258.705. Today ; there are in the South alone 4,110, : 873. In 1814 the Baptists of the United States gave for missions $134,112. ?and had only 64 missionaries em ployed. Last year they gave $865. 585 for missions, and there were Suit missionaries on the foreign Held. In 1853 Southern Baptists raised $2 1, 000 for foreign missions. There were two foreign mission stations-?one in Africa, and one in China. In these two fields 11) mis sionaries were at work. The home missions board reported 77 mission aries at work, and 642 baptisms in the same period. Last year $460, 7X7 was raised for foreign missions in the territory of tli" Southern Baptist convention and there were 231 missionaries on the foreign field. The home board reported last y ;\r $283.436 with 1.066 missionaries at work and 188.000 baptisms. Means Cheaper Clothes. That the ways ami means commif tee will put raw wool on the free list in revising schedule "K" was declar ed to lie practically certain, and re sulted in a caucus of the Democrat ic delegation from New York, at which eighteen members declared themselves in facor of free raw wool, and four argued against it. All pledged themselves to abide by the decision of the full Democratic cau cuses. WILL TALK (IF UNION METHODISTS TO CONSIDER OR GAN IC FEDERATION. Commissioners from Three Great Branches of the Greatest Protes tant Denomination Meet to Confer. For the purpose of considering plans for the federation of three great branches of Methodism, the Methodist Protestant Church', the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, j a substitute committee of a joint commission representing the three denominations met at Chattonooga, Tenn., Monday. The joint commission consits of |27 members, each church being rep ; resented by nine commissioners, and its first session will be held on Wed I nesday to receive and act on the j report of the substitute committee. The federation movement wa6 be gun at the general conference of the : Methodist Episcopal Church, South, I at Memphis, in 1 894, when the com j mission representing that denoiuina j tion was created. Later similar com-; I missions were appointed by the two ?other churches and the three held a 'meeting at Baltimore in December, ; 1010. j At that time a substitute commit-1 j tee of three from each commission ; was appointed to inquire Into the' ranees of the alienation of the three \ branches of Methodism and, to form i elate and present a plan for unifica j tion. This committee met at Cincinnati , early in the present year and agreed ! upon a tentative plan of federation, : which will be submitted to the joint 'commission at its meeting. The ! meetings of the substitute commit tee and of the commissions are be hind closed doors. i Among the prominent men taking part in this conference are: 1 'Methodist Church, South?Bishops j A. W. Wilson, of Baltimore, and E. B. Hoss, of Nashville; Collins Denny of Nashville; Dr. W. J. Young, of ; Danville. Va.; F. M. Thomas, of Louisville; C. jr. Bishop, of Wichita j Falls; R. S. Hyer. of Dallas, Texas., ?and W. B. Stubbs, of Savannah i Methodist Episcopal Church?Bish ; op Early Cranston, of Washington, 1.1. A. Patten, of Chattanooga; R. W. 'Miller and J. M. Waiden, of Cincin nati, and L. B. Wilson, of Philadel phia. i Methodist Protestant?Dr. T. H. ! Lewis, of Westminister, Md.; L. M. Jennings, of Pittsburg; R. S. Harris. of Henderson, N. C, and J. J. Barge, j of Atlanta. WARTIME SHELL EXPLODES. ! * Heat Caused Bomb to Cat Loose In! Engineer's Hands. Walter Armstrong, f well known young locomotive engineer, of Jack son, Miss., was seriously injured last week, due to the explosion of one of I the many wartime shells which are so promlscionsly distributed over j that section. It appears that his j fireman and a companion who were at work about an engine had got ten hold of one of these shells and had been hammering at it with a view of studying the inside works. Armstrong came along, and, see-j Ing that they were rather too close! to a fire that had been built beside the track, picked it up an?, was I walking off, passing near the fire. In I some way the remnant of explosive matter became ignited and the shell j I hurst in Armstrong hand. The re-j j suit was a badly shattered arm and' ja loss of one or two fingers, and the i right leg shattered below the knee. ALL DIED SAME WAY. j Sisters, Whose Husbands Were Kill ed in Their Cabs. ! A most remarkable story comes from Huntington. W. Va. A dispatch ; from there says four sisters, all wid ows of railroad engineers killed in; [wrecks, will meet at the funeral of j (Engineer Thomas Pllcber of that city, who was killed in a wreck on j the Chesapeake and Ohio last Tues day. Pilcher was one of four en gineers who married four sisters, the Misses (hinter of Albermnrle County, ty, Virginia. Each victim met his death in his cab: each was the engi neer of a fast express train, and the fireman of each was killed at the same time, though no passengers were hurt. Ilal.im e of Tratte. Tbc world owes the I'nited States $4 1 1,000,000 !' r food, clothing and raw materials sold abroad. Only mice has the lit;lance of trade been higher in favor of this country, ac cording to the government figures. That was in I fu>8 when it was more than JfifiO.OOO.. Hushed to Columbia. Two negroes have been rushed to the penitentiary from Florence by the order of fiov. BI ease. Alex Wei den and William Burroughs, under sentence of death for the killing of E. M. Move, a Florence county far mer, are the men. Laborers Join Heitels. Farmers at Waelder. Texas, usual ly relying upon .Mexican labor can get none now. During the last few days there has been a general exodus of Mexicans from that quarter, many of them going to join the insurgents. TWO CENTS PER COPY. PASS FREE IM The R publicans Try in Vain to Amend the New Tariff Bill -?- t ATTEMPT FILIBUSTER .Mann Leads Desperate Nine Hour Fight to Change Measure, but tho Democrats Vote Down Over One Hundred Amendments as Ln.ii Proposed and Then Pass the Bill. Despite genuine harrying filibus ter tactics, used by the Republicans in their "last ditch" fight in the House against the Democrats "free list," the firstf.tariff measure of the House majorit?. passed the House Monday night/.-without a single change, by a vote of 236 :o 100. the Democrats voting solidly aiidj mustering twenty-four Republicans with them, Bays the Washington cor respondent of The News and Courier. This came after the Democrats had voted down or ruled out of order more than 100 amendments, and had shown again that the Democratic ma iority was a compact and smoothly working machine for the enactment of legislation. The Republican fi-ht to amend the bill began with an attempt to make the free admission of merchandise apply only to imports from countries I that in turn admitted American pro ducts free. This was followed by efforts to have Incorporated in the bill a provision that would force oth er countries to give up their discrim ination against American meat, Jive cattle and flour and to include pio visions in the bill. All of the amend ments were thrown out by Obair?ian Alexander and Chairman Hay, the two presiding officers of the day, as not permissible under the ruleb of the House. The Republican leaders, including Rx-Speaker Cannon, Mr, Mann and I Representative Payne, former Re ; publican leader, roundly denounced iihe Democrats for denying freedom jof debate and amendment. Mr. (Cannon declared that never in the history of Congress.had the right of [representation on the floor been'so limited; and .Mr. Payne asserted that j the Democrats would be discredited before the country for their arbi trary exercise of power. The Democrats smiled through it all and on the motion of Mr Under wood, they continued to turn down the Republican amendments. They ruled out amendment covering free rice, free sugar, free iron ore, free drugs, glass and a host of other things. Time after time tMr. Mann appealed from the decisions of the Chair, overruling his amendments, but in each case the Democratic ma jority sustained the Chair. After four or five hours of at tempts at amendment, the Republi can fight took on the complexity of a filibuster. Once when denied a vote by the chairman, Mr. Mann intimat ed that the bill would not pass in a hurry. Following that, the Republi cans repeatedly demanded rising votes, but in the end Mr. Mann made no attempt to delay the final vote on the bill. In all. the Republican leader offer ed S3 amendments. After every t)ara."raph he renewed the attempt: to have clauses put in so that the free rates would not apply to coun tries charging duties against simi lar American goods. The Democrats steadfastly refused to cut off de bate or by themselves open to the charge of having passed the bill un der a gag rule. Republicans declared that the Democrats were ghing away Amer ican goods. Mr. Hille, of Connecti cut. Insisted that the bill ought to be so amended that it would put a lever under other nations that are not dealing fairly with the United States. To none of those changes, however, would the Democrats ac cede. Minority header Mann declared that the Democrats had not put eith er rice or rice flour on the free list, simply because they were products of the South. Chairman Underwood, of the ways and means committee,' replied that the reason rice had not been made free was because the Democrats did not know how ruucn revenue it would cost the Govern ment. '?This does not complete our tar iff legislation." said Mr. Fnderwood. We introduced this bill t-o give the pk meats. WeiBCbilloDem farmers cheaper agricultural imple ments. We would not go beyond that without endangering the reven ues. We intend to take tip all tariff rates and to adjust ail of them." Served Him Right. At Terre Haute. Ind., Frank Huff, janitor of the Cirst Methodist church, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court to a charge of attacking four little girls, mid was sentenced to life Imprison ment in the State prison in Micbigan City. Huff is 54 years old. married and has a family. Meeting of leaders. It is expected that more that 1,000 Democratic leaders of the Dakotas, Montano, Iowa, Idaho, Oregon, Min nesota, Washington and probably Michigan and Wisconsin, will attend the big Democratic conference of the Northwest, which has been called to assemble in St. Paul early next month.