PUBLISHED TM-WEEKO "SUE CARNAGE m? ? "?" fiudiV^j Chinese ?awacrd bj the CHINA S JKS RHDKESS China Will also Demand Apology for Insult to. Flag, Aid for Destitute Families of Victims, that Guilty be Punished and Guarantees of Fu ture Protection. A dispatch from Mexico City says an indemnify of $6,000,000 will be demanded cf Mexico by the Chinese Government, for the slaughter of Chi nese subjects in Torr eon. The de mand will te backed up by a cruiser, which is already on its way.to Mexi can west coast ports. Three investigators returned from Torreon and placed in the hands of Shung Hai Sun, charge d'affalrs of the Chinese legation at Mexico City, a detailed report of the carnage. This report shows 303 Chinese were kill ed, many oi them in a most Inhuman manner, and that, besides a bank and a club house, eighty-nine places of business w?re sacked In addition to the indemnity, an apology for Insult to the Chinese flag will be demanded; also that aid be extended to destitute families of the victims,-thit the guilty be punished, and that the constitutional guaran tees of protection to Chinese lives and propeity be made egective. Of the J: 6,000,000 indemnity, $1, 000,000 Is for property damage and the remainder for the loss of lives. Commenting upon the matter Mr. Shung declared that the Chinese were killet: In a savage manner. "I am friendly, as is my nation, to the Mexican people and to the revo lutionary cause," said he, "I will first present my case to the Mexican Gov ernment for consideration, which if favorable, will settle the matter ami cably If it ie not acceptable, the de tailed reports of the killings will be? given to the world. "A qruiser has been sent by the Chinese Government to the Mexican ports to protest against the treatment of Chinese throughout the Mexican republic." "The report made by Investigators goes back to the anti-foreign excite ment starting on September 16, Mex ico's centennial anniversary, when at a public meeting at Torreon the kill ing of the Spaniards first and the Chin*, e was advocated by a speaker. It continued in part: "On May 10,1911, it was known in Torreon that the revolutionary forces would attack the city. A meeting ol the Chinese Merchants' and Laborers' | Society was he'd -ind it was agreed I that should the rebels enter the city all the Chinese would close their places of business and board up then windows, that no resistance shoulct he made. "On May 12 the rebels began sack ing the houses of the market garden ers, robbing them of their money and killing some of them. "On May 14 the rebels began the attack on the city. Early the follow ing morning the Federal forces evac uated the city of Torreon. As soon as this was discovered the mob rose and rushed about the town, shout ing "Death to Chinese'' and exciting the disorderly masses to pillage News of the evacuation reached the rebel forces and they at once entered the town without any opposition. ?IMiany of the rebels joined the mob in sacking the Chinese stores." After describing the sacking of a restaurant and store, the report con tinues: "It was at thi s time that three Chinamen were tied to horses and dragged along the streets to the plaza, where two of them were killed and the third, who was a boy, was saved by an American lady who put her arras around him and defied the mob. "After this they proceeded to Yee Hop Nan's general store, which they looted and from which they dragged thirteen Chinese out in the streets and killecT them with machetes and knives. The Shang-hal Company and the Wha ,Yka Bans, were in the same building. Several families of Chi nese lived in the upper floors, and the whole of them, twenty-five n.number were killed.. "The Chinese Clu was next attack ed and fifteen or sixteen men killed there A large number of Chinese stores throughout the city were sack ed and their owners killed. "This state of affairs continued un til a committee of the principle busi ness men, headed by the American consul, waited on the rebel command er and demanded that such outrages be stopped. "In all that slaughter there was a most extraordinary display of barbar ism and savagery. Some of the un happy Chinese, were shot first and stabbed atterwards; in other words they were first stabbed and then shot: others were cu*' up into small pieces, others beheaded, others tied to horses by their queques and dragged along the streets, while others had their arras or legs tied to different horses and were in this manner torn asunder city and each was given to a marks Others were stripped naked inside the man for a target. "A further search was made for hidden Chinese. A Miss Garcia, a Mexican young lady had hidden nine Chinese in her house. Her father ex postulated withj the mob. j The r BRYAN MD SAID TO FAVOR CUAMP CLARK FOR PRESIDENT. Speaker Assured by Nebraskan in Letter that No Scars Remain from Defeat in Wool Mpht. s The Washington correspondent of the New York World says the Champ Clark boQm for 'President was boost ed to-day by assurances from William J. Bryan and William Randolph Hearst of friendly houes for success. Mr. Clark received a letter from Mr. Bryan protesting that the Ne raskan's turndown on the wool sched ule had not led to bard feelings, that anyhow Mr. Bryan was in a forgiving and even generous mood, and that Mr. Clark still was his ideal of a leader (granting of course, that Mr. Bryan was not in the running.) Mr. Bryan, it is understood, did not com mit himself to advocacy of the nomi notion of Mr. Clark, but indicated clearly that if Mr. Clark could (get away wfth the nomination Mr. Bry an not only would not put rocks on the track, but would help heave off ?those that might e * ducked by oth ers. ; ! The Speaker later was assured by Col. John Temple Graves that Mr. Hearst has a kindly feeling for him and his candidacy. Col. Graves said to the World correspondent: "Mr. Hearst and Mr. Clark served in Congress together. Mr. Clark, with that faculty for making friendB which kas become famous, made a friend of Mr. Hearst, end the friend ship has continhed. "Mr. Hearst, naturally, is not un mindful of claims, that he himself has on the Democratic party The Ideas that he has put forth and has consistently defended not only de fended but advanced?in the last fif teen years have beooue the principle of the new or progressive Demo crocy. "As Mr. Bryan hr-i admitted frank ly several times, and as Mr. Hearst has said himself, tbs presidential bee is a persistent tempter and hard to?l -get rid of. But I think I can say that of the present avowed or ten tative candidates, Mr. HearBt feels most kindly toward Speaker Champ Clark." The Missouri delegation in Son grgss learned of this development with great interest, but was compell ed to keep sllen.ce for the present. The compelling force was the fact that at the Democratic Missouri plat form convention last fail former Gov. Joseph W. Folk was indorsed for president That was done at the time, it was said, to eliminate Mr. Folk from the senatorial race, which finally was won by the present Sen ator Reed. . The Missouri delegation therefore had to content itself with silence, supplemented only by the statement that if Missouri desires Clark rather than Folk the Democrats of Missouri will find a way to express that next spring, when delegates are selected to 1 the National Convention of 1912. BROKE "UP BEER FEST. Used Strong Argument to Empha size Her Sentiments. 1 With the use of a rifle and her strong arm, Mrs Tillie McGowan, a temperance advocste, broke up a pic nic at which beer was being served near Atchison, Kansas, Friday night. ' Mrs. McGowan was passing the pic nic grounds when one of the keg par ty knowing her temperance senti ments, chidingly invited her to have a drink. She accepted a cup of the beer, intending co take it away to I use as evidence against the merryma kers. One of the men s?'d she would have to drink th* beer or give It up. She answered by picking up a stone and striking the man over the eye with it. The man grappled with her and in the struggle his face was scratched and hi;; shirt torn. Mrs. McGowan tnen secured a ri fle and chased one of the party into the Missouri river, firing a shot at him but missirj; him. Finally she let the man swim ashore and apolo gize His companions had fled. o ? ? Beaten to Death. The bodies of a man named Hill, his wife and hir: two children were found in the Hili home at Ardenwald a suburb of Portland,Oregon. The woman and children had been beat en to death with an axe. Family Has Fever. Rev. David Hucks, pastor of the 'Methodist church at Pinewood, and wife, have typhoid fever and are very sick. They have just lost their only son with the disease. He was about fourteen years of age. crowd declared he was on the side of the Chinese and shot him Five times they went to the house, de manding to know if there were any Chinamen there, but the brave Mex ican girl asked them how the could think of shelter mg an;." one when her father had just been killed She thus saved the iives of nine men. "Of the Chinese colony living in Torreon, about 300 survived the massacre. Those, however, were rob bed of all their property and left en tirely destitute and were only saved from starvation by the action of the Red Cross Society, the American consul, and the representatives of the foreign banks." ; ORANGEB GOES TO BER REST CABBIE NATION PASSES AWAYl IN A HOSPITAL. Her Hatchet Campaign Against Bar rooms in Kansas Regarded Partly Responsible for Prohibition. Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher died at Leavenworth, Kan sas, Friday night, Paresis was the cause of death. For several months Mrs. Nation had been in poor health and on January 22 she entered the local sanitarium in which she dieu, hoping there to recover from a ner vous breakdown. Mrs. Carrie Nation was born in Kentucky in 1846. Her maiden name was Carrie Moor, and as a girl it is said she was absolutely fearleBS. In her early life she married a man addicted to the use of intoxicants, which created In her an intense aver sion to the saloon. When he died she determined to devote her life to the suppression of the liquor traffic Later she'moved to Kansas and mar ried David Nation, who sympathized] with her temperance principles. Mrs. Nation's first saloon smash ing was done in the barroom of the Carey hotel in Wichita Decemer 2/, 1900. She was arrested and remain ed in jail several days before she was released on bond. On January 21, 1901, armed with her favorite weapon, a hatchet, Mrs. Nation made another raid In Wichita This time she smashed two saloons During the next three months Mre Nation surprised the saloon keepers in various towns, appearing unher aided and leaving a trail of ruined bar room fixtures wherever she went. Remarkably few saloon men useu violence in resisting Mrs. Nation al though she was attacked and badly hurt while wrecking a bar at Enter prise, Kas. By this time the State of Kansas was in a ferment. Aroused by the spirit of the dauntless woman from Kentucky, the people began to demand that all saloons be closed. Smashing parties were organized all over the state. As a result of the agitation, bills were passed by the legislature which strengthened the State prohibitory bill. Erratic as her life has been Mrs. Nation was re sponsible for the greatest temper ance awakening in Kansas. Mrs. Nation after her activities In Kansas, became a .lecturer azfd the editor nf >iv paper called the Snjaah&ri Mail. She did little smashing out side of Kansas While lecturing in New York City she created a sensa tion by appearing at a horse show in Madison Square Garden and de manding that the occupants of the Vanderbilt box contribute money for a home for drunkards' wives which she founded in Kansas City. The home was taken over by the Associat ed Charities in Kansas City. HELD UP ON COUNTRY ROAD. Young Man Attacked and Robbed by Unknown Tramp A young man named Skinner, whose home is Blshopvllle, while traveling through Newberry county selling fruit trees, was attacked Saturday at 5 o'clock a mile and a half from Goldvllle by an unknown white man supposed to be a tramp, and was badly cut in many places and is in a serious condition. The object was robbery, the stranger ta king $50 from the young man's pocket. He was caught yesterday morning not far from Goldville, hav ing evidently lost his way in trying to escape. A telegram was sent to Mr. Skinner's father, who went to Newberry and will take his son home as soon as he is able to travel. The guilty party, whose name and resi dence are not known, vas taken to Laurens and committed to jail. LINTLESS COTTON PLANT. Government Expert Claims to Have Produced It. J. J. Stranahan, superIntendant of the Cold Springs Station of the United States Department of Fish eries at Bullochville, Ga., has per fected, he says, though experiments carried on for the past four years, a practically lintless cotton plant The purpose of his experiments In this line is to secure a larger plant j bearing bolls filled with larger seed which will be much richer in oil than the regular plant. In the course] of ten years Mr. Stranahan expects: to produce a cotton plant that will yield 100 bushels of clean seed to the acre. Live Wire Kills Two Men. ?Baskin Davis and Barney Smith,! two young white men, were instantly j killed Saturday morning by comingj in contact with a live wire at thei phosphate plant, near Dunnellon, Fla. There wore GO,000 volts of electricity! in the wire, when the young man at tempted to pass under the wire, j which was about four feet from the ground. Very Foolish Girl. Lying on a cot at St. Peters Hospi tal, New Brunswick, N. J., is Mabel Brody, a 12-year-old girl of 111 Neil : son street, sufferng agony, the result of an attempt to end her life by swallowing a bichloride of mercury tablet because her mother scolded I her. URG, S. C, TUESDAY, JUNE SHOT THE GIRL Cbioamao Said She Caased Htm Mental Torture Was the Cause of His TRYING TO MURDER HER The Mystery Surrounding the Shoot ing of Miss Christine Shaw, a School Teacher at Bangor, Maine, Cleared up by the Confession of a Chinese Student, of That City. Another young woman of Banger, Maine, came near losing her life by fooling with a Chinaman. *A con fession that he had shot Miss Christ ine Shaw at Orono Saturday night was made Sunday, the police say, by T. S. Linn. He is a Chinese student, at the Uni versity of Maine, who was arrester immediately after four revolver shots, one of which took effect, had been fired at the young woman on ari Orono street car At the hospital in Bangor to whicn she was taken, it was stated that she would recover. Linn is alleged to have told the sheriff in the presence of several newspaper men that he shot Miss Shaw because she caused him "mental torture." He said he had known Miss Shaw who is a graduate of the University of Maine, and a teacher in the Orono Hi'igh school, for four years, and two years ago asked her to marry him. She refused, but they had been on friendly terms since that time. Miss Shaw had done much to as sist Linn in his work at the university and from his statement, the sheriff said, that he bad misinterpreted her kindness. RECALLS A LONG DROUGHT. Which Was Broken by Prayers Be ing Offered for Rain. The Spartanburg Journal says "sixty-six years ago there was a long continued dry spell in this State.-, There was moisture enough in the land to bring up corn and mature wheat. But from the 1st of May un til some time In the fall there was not vcnough tain to tirtxddy the small streams. Creeks the size of Chin capin and even langer ceased to run. Many farmers did not pretend to ] gather corn, for they made none to gather. That fall and even in the late summer hundred of wagons were driven to coves and rivers of North Carolina and loaded with corn and brought back to this state. At first, if we are not mistaken, it was bought for 37 cents a bushel. Then it began to rise by degrees and soon reached fifty and perhaps sev enty-five cents. "There were two small churches or meeting houses in Spartanburg then, having been built in 1839. The people of the village and county uni ted in a call for a prayer meeting for rain Quite a number came n from the country They met in the Meth dist church and they were much humbled by the long drought. They prayed long and earnestly for rain. "Those who came in from the country did not get home before clouds, much larger than a man's hand, rolled up and a bountiful shower came down. There was no more lack of rain that fall. Seed time came and the ground was in fine condition for sowing wheat, which made a good yield the follow ing spring. Those attending that meeting certainly believed that their prayers were answered and never did people take a wetting more joy fully than they that one." EIGHT NEGROES KILLED. By Two White Men Whom They Had Murderously Attacked Eight negroes were killed at La branche, La, Friday night as a re sult of an attack by a gang of rail road section negroes upon Foreman Boutwell; of an: Illinois Centra, bridge force and Conductor Green Story of a work train, according to reports reaching here. The negroes conspired to kill Boutwell and when the attack was made the latter is said to have shot three of the negroes dead. Conduc tor Story, it is said, came up and to gether he and Boutwell killed five more negroes. The negroes attacked Boutwell with rocks, whereas the two white men used modern revol vers. The negroes attacked Mr. Boutwell and knocked him down with a shovel. As Boutwell fell he drew his revolv er and his steady aim brought death to three of the blacks. Attracted by the shots Story ran up, armed with two revolvers, and after the fusilade of shots was over eight negroes lay dead n the ground. First Bales New Cotton. "Two first bales of cotton" are racing to secure the honors on the Houstan, Texas, cotton exchange. The exchange was advised Saturday that one bale started from Riveria and another was started for the Exchange from San Benito, and was the first bale produced in that section. This is fully eleven days earlier than the first bale last season. 13, 1911. ANOTHER MONSTER TALES ABOUT SERPENTS THAT SWTVI THE SALT SEAS. Steward of the Celtic Tells of the Strange Thing He Saw Skipping Over ihe Deck. The White Star Liner Celtic, from Liverpool to New York, lately passed the very latest sea serpents. This fact, it should be stated, is not enter ed in the log. It was confided to the ultramarine reporters 'by a steward, who was perfectly willing to furnish a description. Robert Hillard, the actor, was willing under duress u provide corroboratlon. This sea serpent?witnesses differ as to its length?was sighted holding a whiskered, calflike head 10 feet above water. Behind, where the ear ought to have been, were two winies extending outward about ten feet, thus giving the saurian monster the appearance of an aeroplane skimming over the sea. The steward, in fact, described it as a monoplane sea ser pent. Anyway, it was seen off the Cul tlc's starboard bow in the early morn ing, and the early rising, steward, who spotted it, instead of carrying the news forward to the ridge, ran to the rooms under his care and beg ged those within to come on deck and see it He says be caught Mr. Hil Iiard, who does not deny it, but .begs that it be not printed, because he dis likes notoriety. The serpent, according to both, was either pursuing a school of whales or keeping company with the school to keep from being lonesome. This last theory is the steward's who said moreover, that It turned a pair o* lange mournful green eyes upon those on the vessel's deck in a way to "touch your heart, Bir.' Then it rassed on its monoplanic way, dipping up and down, just like that, but i otherwise holding its head erect. Be hind it appeared at Intervals a dark green body moving through the wa ter with a wlggly motion. The report of the steward, with its accompanying corroboratlon by Mr. Hllliard, moved the veteran, Samuel A. Wood, dean of the ultramarines, to 6ome enthusiasm. Sea serpent stories, said Mr. Wood, are rare at this port nowadays, but in the old days the men on sailing vessels saw many of them. "Forty years ago,"1 began Mr. Wood, "I wrote many of those stories but. as steam has replaced sail and romance departed from the seas, the sea serpents have evidently moved away from the steamship tracks> "It is now, I think, ten years ago since the Great Tabasco serpent wa. reported in the Bay of Campeche by the truthful mate of a schooner. This one was dark brown, and made a noise like a Gatling gun. It is about the same length of time ago since the captain of steamship American coming from Antwerp, reported one fifty feet Ion? tht swam like an eel It had green whiskers. "A strange looking monster ten fathoms long was reported by the skipper of the blue nose bark How ard D. Copp. The most authentic sea serpent sighting was made by the French liner Lorraine about three years aj?o. Her skipper gave the latitude and longitude where the monster was sighted and the pursuer wrote a description of for the French newspapers. This one was a drab col or, and appeared' to be accompanied by a water spout. As the vessel ap proached the spout was seen to be a mass of water thrown up by the ser pent's fore fins. Mr. Wood recalled that this last serpent was seen early in the morn ing Searching his memory still further he remarked that from his ex perience, sea serpents had usually! made their appearance early in the I forning; in fact, usually the morning j after, in which respect they had something in common with the pink ! elephant. WOULD TAKE XO RISKS. Yeggmen Blindfold Boy While They Pillage a Safe. A dispatch from Newport, Ter.n., says that at an early hour Friday I mornin: the boat w3s drowned, and many, as they fell, were crushed under ithe animals. Two passengers, however, found the cattle a godsend and rode ashore on the backs of bullocks. Pour passengers refused to leave the ship, one of them, a brother of the French charge d'affairs here, be ing picked up after floating for twtdye hpurs upon a spar to which he clung when the vessel gave its final lurch The second engineer, QPerlvanchl! and a Cuban manufacturer, Greijorie, unable to swim, declared thai: they would not crowd the already heavily taxed lifeboats. When there was not a woman or child left on the nh;p and another human being could be carried in lifeboats, they calmly light ed dgarettes and smoked un"il the Taboga settled. The body of neither has been found. According to statements made, ; there were but three life preservers on the craft. The story of indignation in Panama resulted in the arrest of the two officers mentioned immediate ly after they reached Panama City. Most of the victims' were members of prominent families in the inter ior. LOSE THEIR LIVES. Four Persons Drown Trying to Save a Little Child. Four persons, a woman, two boys and a girl lost their lives in an effort to save the life of a little 5-year-old girl, who had ventured out to far while wading in Bowie river, two miles north of Halliesbur?v Pa., Fri day. The dead: Mrs. B. C. Tanner, wife of B. C# Tanner.macbinist in the Misssslppi Central railroad shops. Ernest Tanner, aged 12. Henry Tanner, aged Iii, sons of I Mrs. Tanner. Annie Coursey, 7 years old daugh ter of J. B. Coursey, a merchant. The party was attending a plcnio given .by a Sunday school and left the grounds to no in wading in the river. The water was shallow where they went in, but Pe?rl Coursey, a sister of the drowned girl, stepped into deep water and was about :o drown when Mrs Tanner and t'ne other victims made a desperate effort to reach her. They were swept from their feet by the swift cunrent and drowned. The little girl whose life they had tried to save was rescued. The bodies of all the victims were recovered. ? Accidentally Killed. Information was received Tuesday of the horrible and violent death of Mr. Grady Lane, son of Mr. Henry Lane, of Early Branch, Hampton I county, a bright young man. who j had not yet reached his majority. It seems that he had just returned to his work at the Cummlngs mills at '?'lehtig from breakfast, was caught by the belting or shafting, and d.nsh i ed to his death. Further par?culars I are lacking. Made Serious Mistake. At Gentry, W. Va., Marion Adkins, saw John Wilkins walking Sunday night with Miss Louisa Berry, who he was soon to marry, and thinking Miss Berry was his wife, whom he suspect ed of meeting another man, Adkins shot and killed Wilkins instantly, .the shot almost tearing the victim's head from his body. LMiss Berry is in a serious condition from shock. Ad kins is under arrest, charged with murder. _i