The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, August 05, 1911, Image 1
PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL*
WHY THEY WON
liquor Forces Spent Ose Millies Dollars
to leep Texas Wet
MANY UNLAWFUL VOTES
The Prohil ition Campaigners Are
Preparing to Con tee- in Every Dis
trict.?Th ?re Were Many Surprised
In the V< ry Close Fight.?Excite
ment Mai ved the Campaign.
Statewide prohibition was lost in
the recent e ection In Texas in a con
test in wh ch the Prohibitionists
claim 30,00) fraudulent votes were
cast by um aturalized Mexicans and
negroes wh > came by their tax re
ceipts illegflly.
The '-brev ers* association which is
composed o all the brewers in Texas
and many outside the state whose
drinks are old in Texas admits hav
ing ekpend'd $1,000,000 n the fight.
The brc -ers say the funds were
distributed in newspaper advertise
ments, pay iE? the salaries and ex
penses of ; peakers, hiring halls and
music and riving the barbecues.
The "dr s" admit the "wets" car
ried the el ?ction by less than 5,000
majority I ut the election will be
contested 11 the courts.
The exj ected heavy Prohibition
vote in the larger towns failed to ma
terialize, s ad several towns counted
In the "vre" column gave majorities
the other j 'ay.
The gre .test surprise in fhf. poliv
Ical histor: of Texas during a genera
tion is D illas county. Before the
election the antl-prohlbltionlsts
claimed a majority of 8,000.
The pre aibltlonlsts wo/e willing to
concede : ,000. Unofficial returns
from evtry voting precinct In the
county ga e the prohibitionists a ma
jority of g x votes.1
All of ! he larger towns, Including
San Anto do, Fort Worth, Dallas,
Houston,. iustin, Galveston and Waco
went wet by largo majorities. South
Texas ga1 e the wets their majority
and shoved a" better ? proport Ion of
the 500,0 ?0 vot53 cast In the State.
The election was characterized by
the activ ty of thousands of women
and child-en at the polls. In many
cities ant county precincts the wo
men serv >d-free. soft.-drinks to. the
voters.
iGen. 3olquit's stump activity
In the in erests of the wets aroused
the bitte ness of his political fbes
and prob, bly cost the wets thousands
of votes.
Excitement fan high throughout
the Statt and hundreds of people
crowded about bulletin boards day
and nigtt while the counting was
going on.
. Statements from both the wet and
^dry head luarters warn election offi
cers to ; uard well the ballot boxes
as it is 1 nost certain that every vote
?will be rt ;ounted before the result of
the elect.on is known exactly.
: One oi the most significant proba
ble resul s of the election Is the po
litical d >wnfall of Senator Bailey.
The vict <ry of the wets by a small
majority is regarded as a practical
defeat at d places in the saddle a new
political element in Texas, strong
enough ;o overthrow the present
Democra tic faction. This same ele
ment Is anti-Bailey, and Is just as
strongly opposed to Gov O. B. Col
quitt.
"MO JRNFUL COMFORTERS.
Is Wha' Democratic Congress Calls
President's Advisers.
Decla ing that he desired to defend
Presidei t Taft because the latter
"had n one in his own party to
6Ey a ti'o-rd in his behalf," Repre
sentativ > Burnett, of Alabama, Dem
ocrat, s tid in the House Wednesday
that th' only trouble with the Pres
ident is being honest himself, he is
too ere Uilous."
"Xo tonest man. as T believe Mr.
Taft is, ' said Mr. Burnett, "ever had
such m jurnful comforters since the
days o) Job. I have no doubt that
his dai y prayer is that Wickersham
and Hi chcock will do as Ballinger
did."
Mr. 1 u rnett said Secretary of Agri
culture Wilson was another honest
man to fall a victim of bad advisers,
and tha t consequently the downfall of
Dr. Wi ley, who has often stood be
tween nurderers and the people, had
almost been accomplished.
framps Shy at Atlanta.
The city of Atlanta has rid itself
of tran ps. Judge Broyles, of the mu
nicipal court sentencces every tramp
found in the city to so many days
at har 1 labor. The result has been
than t:amps have given the city a!
wide b irth.
I roamed He Was Flying.
Dre; ming he was an areoplane and
was b* Ing used in an effort to lower
some of the world's records, J. H.
Hollan I. of Wayctoss, Ga., "aviated"
throug a a second story window and
broke iis anle when he landed on the
groum .
Fifteen Million Bales.
A Naw Orleans dispatch says Au
gust r ;port on the condition of the
cotton crop by the government fell
flat i i the cotton market. Bears
claim* 3 that the government report
pointel to a 15,000,000 bale crop. I
raS-COTl?H t?tSS
?
CROP 0*e-& *VJ ^RTEEN MJL
LION BAH& * ^ .CTED.
Government Figures Say the Condi
I t ion is (the Best in Several Years in
All States. | ~ /
The condition of the growing cot
ton crop of the United States on July
25 was 89.1 per cer.t of a normal,
compared with 88.2 per cent on June
25, 1911, 75 per ont on July 25,
last year, 71.9 per cent in 190S and
79.4 per cent the average of the past
10 years en July 25, according to the
reports of the United States depart
ment of agriculture 3 agents to the
crop reporting board announced at
noon today. Comparison conditions
by Statea follows:
State 1911. 1910. av'ge
10-yr.
Virginia. 102 80 81
N. Carolina 71 79
S. Carolina ... .. 86 70 79
Georgia.95 70 80
Florida. 94 70 82
Alabama.04 71 79
Mississippi ..... 8V 71 79
Louisiana .. .. S< 69 78
Texas.?6 82 79
Arkansas .... 94 73 79
Tennessee .... 92 76 82
Missouri.C-6 72 83
Oklahoma .... 88 87 81
California .... 99 98 ?
Reports on the growing cotton crop
of 1911 received by the Department
of Agriculture continue to indicate
that the yield thii. year will be one
of the greatest, if not the greatest in
the history of the Industry. The con
ditions of the crop on July 25, as an
nounced Wednesday was 89.1 of
a normal crop. This was 9-10 of one
per cent higher than a month ago,
and 9.7 per cent alrjve the average on
July 25 for the pan*, ten years.
Based on the average condition of
the crop on July 25 for the past ten
years and theTaverage yield per acre
for the same period, condition report
ed Wednesday if it should continue,
would indicate a final total yield of
207.25 pounds pe- acre, which upon
34,000,000 acres, the estimated final
acreage, allowing for the abandon
ment of three per .?ent of the acreage
means a total cotton'crop of 13,093,
000 bales, of 500 pounds each. This
estimate is unofficial.
"I'M SHOT, CENTRAL; HELP!"
These Are the Vords of a Dying
Man Over the Phone.
"I'm shot Central, help!" These
words coming over the telephone
were heard by an operator in the
Monroe stree*i exchange of the Chi
cago Telephone Company about mid
night Wednesday night
She then heard the sound of a
falling body and several crashes in
dicating the banging of the receiver
ag i inst the wall as it fell from the
hand of che wounded man.
She at once notified the police sta
tion that some one had been shot at
one of the two addresses where there
were two telephones on the party
line.
One of these addresses was that of
Matthew Stron's saloon and that was
the place where the call came from.
The police found John Dalzail, the
bartender, lying unconscious on the
floor near the telephone. The cash
register had been broken open and
the money taken. Dolzall probably
will die. He had been shot by the
robber.
WATER SUPPLY SHORT.
New York Runs Short on Her Usual
Water Rations.
A New Yor dispatch says that in
spite of the recent rains the amount
of water in storage along the cotton
shed and available for the city is on
ly 2,000,000 gallons. There were
80,000,000 a year ago. The loss last
week was about 2,000,000,000 gal
lons. But by means of the water
saving campaign the loss of early
summer has been reduced at the
rate of 5,000,00 gallons per day. In
June, 1910 the average daily con
sumption was 327,000,000 gallons.
In the same month this year the av
erage consumption fell to 2SG.000,
000 gallons.
Sale of Texas Oats.
"This is the usual season of the
year," said Commissioner Yvratson
! Wednesday, "when this office is lit
erally flooded with letters asking
whether Texas- oats brought from the
boll weevil territory, are prohibited
I from sale in this State." Several
J years ago the general assembly pa^s
a law prohibiting the sale of seeed
from-the weevil territory. There is
I a penalty of not less than $50 or
more than $1,000.
Fired Her at Last.
After a pursuit in which he says he
traveled 40,000 miles J. M.Abercom
j bie, of Marietta, Ga., found her in
in Stockholm, Cal.. with her compan
ion, Nolan Bkilock. He also recog
nixed his five-year-old daughter. The
runaway pair will be prosecuted.
Kills Four Miners.
Four miners were killed and nine
injured by am explosion in the mine
of the Standard Pocahontas coal com
pany at Shannon, Pa. Details are
lacking. The cause of the explosion
is not known.
ORANGEB
PASSES THE HOUSE
BILL REDUCING DUTY ON GOODS
MADE OP COTTON.
Measure Received Every Democratic
Vote and the Votes of Thirty In
surgent Republican Members.
Supported by all the Democrats
and by thirty Republicans, the Dem
ocratic tariff cotton bill, the third of
the big tariff revision measures,
brought forth by the Democratic
house of representatives, passed
that body early Thursday evening
by 202 to 91. The bill cuts the av
erage tariff on cotton manufactured
jgoods from 48 to 27 per cent, ad val
orem, a .1 per cent reduction in duty
that the Democratic leaders estimate
to reduce revenues by about $3,000,
000.
Not an amendment was offered to
the bill, although the Republicans
attacked it vigorously on account of
alleged increases in certain items
over the rates of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law. Scarcely had the cheers
that greeted the passage of the cot
ton revision bill subsided when Dem
ocratic Leader Underwood calling
up the free list as it passed the sen
ate a few days ago, accomplished a
stragetic move which greatly sur
prised the Republicans.
He asked for. a conference on all
the amendments to the free list bill
except that of Senator Gronna of
North Dakota putting cement on the
free list. Ho urged that the house
accept the amendment adding to it
lemons. Pacific coast Republicans
made ineffectual efforts to stop
this sudden and unexpected putting
of lemons on the free list, but toe
.amendment carried. The change
gave the house Democrats what they
claimed to be an added advantage
in dealing ?vrlth the senate in the
conference committee.
Thifrsdky n?sflit the Repub^i<fan
leaders in both liouses of congress
called in absent members from all'
parts of the country in preparation
for a threatened attempt of the
Democrats to pass the wool tariff
bill over the President's veto. The
Democratic leaders in the house have
aserted within the last 24 hours that
they have the necessary two-thirds
majority to pass the wool bill over
the president's veto and have been
doing effective missionary work In
the senate today The Republican
managers in the house insist that
they have enough votes to prevent
a two-thirds majority In support of
the wool bill. ?
BLOWS THEM TO ATOMS.
Novel Way of Geting Rid of the Cat
erpillar Pest.
Caterpillars have no terrors for
Elihu Batdorf, a quarryman, living
near Breiningsville, Pa., who discov
ered a new way to rid the trees of
his orchard of pests of all kinds. Re
cently be happened to spill a small
quantity of nitroglycerin on some
bushes near his quarry.
Shortly afterwards he heard a se
ries of short explosions coming from
that direction. He investigated and
found that as each' caterpillar de
voured a small amount of the ex
plosive he fell to the ground and
exploded with a loud report.
Batdorf was not slow to utilize
his discovery and mixing an ounce
of the explosive into four gallons of
water he began to spray his apple
trees with the mixture and in a short
time there was regular fusilade of
explosions in the orchard, sounding
like volleys of miniature musketry.
All his trees were cleared of cater
pillars and every other known tree
pest.
Slayer's Mother Faints.
Paul Giedel's mother fainted when
she heard from her own boy's lips
a confession that he had murdered
William Henry Jackson, the aged
broker. Mrs. Giedel came here from
her home in Hartford. The words
still on his lips when his mother fell
in a swoon and it was still half an
hour before she regained conscious
ness.
Opposes Increase.
Great opportunity or machine dom
ination and for the use of the "pork
barrel" will be given by the proposed
increase in the membership of the
house of representatives, according to
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin,
who Monday filed a minority report
against the reappointment lill. The
house bill is to be voted on in the
Senate Thursday.
Many Lives Were Lost.
Fifteen persons were killed In a
head-on collision late Saturday
night between a crowded excursion
train on the Bangor & Aroostok
railroad }.nd the night train from
Van D?ren to fiangor Maine. Thir
ty or forty persons are known to
have been injured, and it is thought
that several others are beneath the
wreckage.
Sleep in Lie Same Grave.
Because they were to have been
married in September the bodies of
Miss Bertie Boyles, a school teacher
and Leo Davidson, a travelling sales
man, of Clarksburg, W. Va.? who
were killed Sunday in an automobile
accident were buried in the same
grave. A double funeral was held
from the First Methodist Episcopal
church. - 1 , . i . v
URG, S. C. SATURDAY, AUGT
REPLY TO BRYAN
Verbal Broadside is Fired at the Great
Commoner By Underwood.
MADE CAUSTIC SPEECH
The Nebraskan is Denounced by the
Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee of Congress for his
Charging Underwood With Block
ing Revision of Tariff
Standing on chairs, waving hand
kerchiefs and yelling at the tops of
their voices, Democratic Representa
tives Thursday acclaimed Represen
tative Oscar W. Underwood, leader
of the house, when he fired a verbal
broadside at William Jennings Bryan
for criticising his position of an ex
tension of the tariff revision pro
gramme. It was the most remarka
ble scene in the house since the be
ginning of the extra session of Con
gress.
Excoriating the three times candi
date of the Democratic party for
presidential honors, Leader Under
wood denounced Mr. Bryan's state
ments aB false, defended his (Under
wood's) attitude as to revision of the
iron and steel tariff schedufes, and
said Bryan had placed upon every
Democratic member implications un
founded in fact. He called on his
Democratic colleagues of the ways
and means committee for corrobora
tlon of his attitude in committee
and in caucus.
Mr. Underwood was backed up In
a similarly striking speech by Repre*
sentative Kitchin (N. C.) long a de
voted friend of Mr. Bryan Mr Kit
.chin expressed surprise that any
Democrat should so malign| Mr Un
derwood and the party.
It all. came about from a publish
ed Interview, which purported 'to be
"authorized" by Mr. Bryan, declar
ing it was time Democratic Leader
Underwood was "unmasked."
"The action of Chairman Under
wood in opposing an Immediate effort
to reduce the iron and steel schedule
reveals the rsal Underwood," said the
Bryan interview. "Speaker |Clark
and other tariff reformers tried to
secure the passage of a resolution in
structing the_ ways and means com
mittee to pass a resolution including
the iron and steel schedule, but Un
derwood and Fitzgerald?the Fitz
gerald who saved Cannon in the last
congress succeeded n defeating the
resolution.
"The unmasking of Chairman Un
derwood will serve a useful purpose,"
added the interview, "if it arouses
the Democrats to an understanding
of the mistake in putting Mr. Udder
wood at the head of the committee if
he solidifies his policy of delay.
The Hqjuse. listened latently as
the whole interview was read from
the clerk's desk. Word of the an
swer that Underwood was to make
to Bryan had been passed among
Democrats and an almost full mem
bership on the |Democratic side
greeted the majority leader. Cheers
and applause that lasted for several
minutes greeted him as he rose to
speak.
As the clerk finished reading the
Biryan interview, Mr. Underwood in
calm and even tones, opened the vial
of his wrath. If Mr. Underwood's
attack was remarkable for its bitter
ness and vigor, it was not more so
than the general applause |which
greeted his sarcastic references to
the Nebraska leader and his specific
and complete denials of the charges
made by Bryan
He declared that he was interest
ed in iron and steel mills in his own
State of Alabama, and he had urged
the ways and means committee at
the beginning of the session to save
him from embarrassment by taking
up the iron and steel schedule at
once. This had not been done by the
committee, he said, because it had
determined that the textile schedules
over which there is the greatest com
plaint from the public should be the
subjects of earliest revision. His op
position in the recent case calling
for a revision of the iron and steel
schedule, he said, had been due to
the fact that it had been determined
no further tariff programme should
be worked out until it was certain
what would be done by the president.
Mr. Underwood had read the pub
lished Bryan statement, and speak
ing very deliberately said:
"Mr. Speaker, the statements con
tained in that paper are absolutely
false. If the reflections which that
article contains rested only on my
self I would not take the time of this
house to answer them. But those
statements reflect not only upon my
self, but upon Democracy in control
on this side of the capitol, and as
leader on this floor I would be untrue
to my fellow Democrats here and to
myself if I did not reply to this at
tack.
"That interview charges that there
is a difference between the speaker
of this house and myself as to legis
lation in this house. The statement
h absolutely false. We have been
together, we are together now, and I
predict that we shall be together to
the end."
Mr. Underwood had read a tele
gram from Mr. Bryan to Representa
tive James (Ky.) transmitting con
gratulations to Mr Underwood "for
his great work."
"The gentleman from Nebraska did
JST 5, 1911
BRYAN HITS BACK
CRITICISM BASED ON WASHING
TON NEWS DISPATCH.
If That Dispatch Reported Under
wood Wrong Bryan Will With
draw His Criticism.
A Chicago dispatch 3ays William
J. Bryan replied to the criticism of
Representative Underwood, made in
the house Thursday, by declaring
that the statements which Mr. Un
derwood criticised were based on a
Washington dispatch which aprear
ed in an Omaha paper.
"If that report Is incorrect," said
Mr. Bryan, "I take it for granted
that Mr. Underwood will read the re
port before the house and deny it."
"If the report is correct, I have
nothing to withdraw. If It is eron
eous I shall withdraw my criicism of
Mr. Underwood so far as it is based
on his action In that particular case.
"Whatever the outcome in this in
stance, I do not withdraw my criti
cism of Mr. Underwood on other oc
casions and I intend to take early
opportunity to give him some other
things to discuss.
"Yes, I read the report of Mr. Un
derwood's speech in the morning pa
pers," said Mr. Bryan. "The criti
cism to-which he refers is contained
in an editorial which I wrote myself."
"The report on which the editorial
was based," continued Mr. Bryan,
"appeared last week, after the House
caucus of July 15.,
"I am not sure of the exact date,
but it was not earlier than Wednes
day of last week and not later than
Saturday. The dispatch from Wash
ington said that Speaker Clark of
fered a resolution?a modification or
a substitute for a resolution?In
structing the ways and means com
mittee to proceed with the prepara
tidn of "ther bills. The dispatch
stated that Mr. Clark was supported
by a number of members, but that
Mr. Underwood and Mr. Fitzgerald
led a fight against the resolution and
defeated It.
""The report also quoted Congress
man Kitchin as insisting upon in
troducing a bill reducing the tariff
upon iron and steel, and quotes Mr.
Kitchfn as calling attention to Mr.
Underwood's holdings in the steel
company and -as expressing the fear
that in case of failure to proceed with
the reduction of the tariff on iron
and steel, such failure might be at
tributed to Mr. Underwood's inter
ests in the business. My editorial
was based on this published re
port.
Mr. Bryan was in the city between
trains and is now on his way to Iowa.
not think I was trying to protection
lze the Democratic party then," said
Underwood "It was not until I dif
fered with him on the wool schedule
that he changed his mind."
"The gentleman who has Issued
that statement, William Jennings
Bryan, of Nebraska," said Mr. Un
derwood, "charges that the chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee, standing in the interest of a
protective tariff, has led this house
into lines that were unworthy of any
Democrat in the land.
"I know this is false, Mr. Speaker,
you know it is false, so do the Demo
crats of this side of the house. But
we must let the country know it Is
false. The gentleman from Nebraska
says that my leadership of this side
of the house could not stand in the
open. There is uot a Democratic
member here that does not know"
that if I misrepresented for one mo
ment the Democracy of this house
in bearing my commission, I would
send my resignation to the speaker's
desk."
Both Mr. Underwood and Mr.
Kithchin were greeted with deaijn
ing cheers. Speaker Clark repeated
ly pounding his gavel to restore or
der.
Mr. Kitchin confirmed Mr. Under
wood's statements in every respect,
and declared that Mr Biryan had
launched his criticism without hav
ing any specific information as to
what the committee had done.
"Mr. Underwood stated the facts
clearly to the caucus," said Mr. Kit
chin. "He did state before the com
j mittee at the beginning of the ses
sion that he was inteiested in the
I steel and iron business and it would
I relieve him of embarrassment if the
I committee would take up that sched
ule and get rid of it at once But it
was the judgment of the committee
that the most iniquitious schedule
tha* had ever been put on the stat
ute books the woolen schedule ought
first to be revised.
Mr. Kitchin referred to Mr. Un
derwood's frank statement about his
iron company's holdings and said he
bad expected that mtgJit be made "an
occasion by our opponents to slander
and libel the Alabaman and the po
sition of his Democratic house, but I
never dreamed that any Democrat in
this country would attempt to malign
IMhr Underwood or the Democratic
party.
i.Mr. Bryan is not responsible."
said Mr. Kitchin, amid great laugh
ter from the Republicans, "/or he
was not in our caucus; he must have
gotten his information from some
body and he was the most badly in
formed man in the world."
Six Persons Bit.
A dispatch from Spartanburg says
six persons who were bitten by a
mad dog at that place Wednesday
left the same day for Columbia to
be treated.
SIMON IN IXILE
PRESIDENT OF HATI SAVES HIS
NECK BY FLIGHT.
His Daughter Shot and Six of his
Party Are Killed as the Deposed
Executive Embarks.
Revolution in Haiti has triumphed
once more, and a few weeks of peace
may be enjoyed, while preparations
are being made for the next revolu
tion. President Antoine Simon left
the Capital Wednesday and took ref
uge on board the Haytien qruiser
Seventeenth Decembre, formerry the
yacht American. With him are his
wife and a number of his followers.
On all sides Port on Prince, the
capital, and at which place President
Simon went on board the steamer is
invested by followers of Gen. Firmin,
one of the revolutionary leaders. The
city itself Is in the hands of a com
mittee of safety and there is no gen
eral disorder.
The departure of the aged Presi
dent was not without disorder, how
ever, for as he was embarking at the
wharf there was a riot demonstra
tion, in which the Ex-President's
chamberlain Deputy Prin, of Jeremie,
and five other persons were killed,
and Clementina Simon, his daughter,
and six other persons were slightly
wounded.
President Simon left the palace at
fcur o'clock that afternoon, after he
had been informed that one wing of
the revolutionary army, commanded
by. Gen. Peralle, had denied his re
quest for three days In which to se
cure the safety of the city.
The general Informed the French
and British ministers who went out
to parley with him, that owing to
recent summary executions by Slm
o-'s order, the President must leave
tne Capital immediately or otherwise
he would attack the city without
delay.
The ministers, who went to Croix
Des Bouquets on a similar errand,
found the rebel commander there,
Gen. Ducaste, igirant the truce, pro
vided a committee of safety was ap
pointed. In view of the attitude of
Gen. Paralle, it was deemed best,
by the President, to leave the city at
once.
When the Presidential party had
boarded the schooner, it ran out into
the harbor alongside the Seventh Dec
embre, on which they took refuge.
Among the party was Gen. Monplasir,
minister of war, and Minister of che
Interior Sylvain. 1
Antione Simon assumed the Presi
dency of Hayti December 17, 1908,
afte. Nord Alexis had been deposed.
MORE CONVICTS GO FREE.
Five Paroles are Granted by Gov.
ernor Blease.
Five convicts were paroled Wed
nesday by Governor Blease, as fol
lows: Otis Hilton, white, sentenced
by Judge DeVore at Chester, in April
1910, to life imprisonment upon con
viction of murder with recommenda
tion to mercy; parole conditioned up
on Hilton's abstention from intoxi
cant's. James Love, sentenced by
Judge Ernest Gary, at Spartanburg,
in December 1904, to life imprison
ment, on conviction of murder, with
recommendation to mercy. Mellle
Bolton, white, sentenced by Judge Al
drich at Marlon, in February 1911,
to one year on chain gang, for lar
ceny. Sam Williams, colored, sen
tenced by the late Judge D. A. Town
send, at Camden, in September, 1900
to 20 years imprisonment, on con
viction of manslaughter. Young
Springfield, white, sentenced, by
Jude Robert Aldrlch at Greenville,
in September 1909, to two years at
hard labor, upon conviction'of man
slaughter.
Says Dorothy Arnold Lives.
Dorothy Arnold is not dead; she is
abroad and her parents have gone
there to look for her. That is all
can be said definitely now." Mrs.
Griffith, companion to Mrs. Rufus W.
Peckham, Dorothy's aunt, is quoted
t? this effect in a dispatch to the
New York World from Biddeford
Pool, Me.
Plunge From Train.
Frank McGee, alias Clark, under
arrest on perjury charge, made dar
ing escape, while in charge of a sher
iff on a swiftly moving train near Sal
lisaw, Ola. iThe officer turned his
back for a moment, and the prisoner
dashed through a window of the car
and escaped.
Dangerous Business.
Although the climbing season in
the Alps has only begun 29 tourists
have been Jo'llod and an unknown
number injured. If this rate contin
ues until the close of the senson on
September 15 the death record will
be the heaviest on record.
Drunks Come High.
Hereafter it will cost $25 and
costs or sixty days on the streets of
Cedartown. Ga., for a plain drunk.
The mayor and city council believe
it is thoir duty to stop drinking
and the sale of blind tiger whiskey.
Bit Off His Ear.
James McCord is in the hospital at
Homestead. Pa., with his right ear
gone. There is no chance of a graft
ing operation, because William La
mone, who bit off the ear, swallowed
it. Then he fled and the police are
still looking for him.
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LIVE AND SAFE
Miner Eoteabtd Three Days is Rescued
by His Brave Comrades.
NEVER WITHOUT HOPE
Threw Himself Into the Arms of His
Rescuers.?Wept While Multitude
Cheered Down the Shaft.?Relates
His Experience Par Below the
Earth's Surface.
Joseph Clary, a miner, imprisoned
by a cave-in at the White Oak mine
near Joplin, Mo., since last Sunday
morning was reached by rescuers on
Wednesday morning. He was alive
and well.
When the last spades' full of earth
were removed by workmen in the
shaft and they dropped through into
the drift, Clary threw himself into
the arms of his rescuers and wept
while the shouts of thousands cheer
ed at the mouths of the mine echoed
down the shaft.
A glare of light flashed in on the
entombed Clary, and he' looked upon
his fellow being after a period in
darkness which, through reckoned by
him to be something over four days,
was exactly three days and forty-five
minutes. Clary's imprisonment had
severely weakened him, but shouts
from the mouth of the shaft, sounds
from the outer world and gushes of
fresh air gave heart and strength to
him.
At first he had little to say save tut
breathe bis thanks. A physician was
lowered and he administered stim
ulants. Clary was hoisted to the
surface and set foot on top of earth
ten minutes after he was found.
Spectators were kept away from
him. His father and brothers and
physician hurried him away to the
Clary home nearby to his mother,
who weakened by the strain of her
lontg, Virgil, lay ill. The physician
urged Clary not to talk until he had
gained strength.
Clary is twenty-three years old,
the son of a pioneer mine operator
who bas directed the rescue work
without rest since his son's imprison
ment. Relays of workers began dig
ging the shaft on Sunday, and have
worked night and day since.
The first three attempts to drill a'
small hole to admit air and nourish
ment failed to locate young Clary,
but the fourth was successful. It
was found that Clary was in immi
nent danger of drowning from water
rising in the drift. D?ngern In the
shaft redoubled their efforts and the
drift was reached hours earlier than
expected.
As Clary told of his long vlgfNn
absolute darkness, fraughl: now with -
hope, now with bitter disappointment,
but never with despair, be interrupted
tue conversation now and then to re
ceive supplies of food lowered
through the five-inch shifty .which,
after three hole3 were bored in vain,
finally reached the drift where he
was held a prisoner.
The suspense he suffered is indi
cated in part of his story e.s told
over the telephone. He said: "I
tried to count the strokes of the
drill and was able to gauge time a
little .by the pounding oft toe bit.
Hours passed until I L^ard the drill
cutting into the hard /ground, but I
could not locate the sound in the
darkness.
"Soon the drill stopped. I knew
they bad fissed the drift as time
passed and 1 could hear no sound. I
could picture them making new cal
culations. I was not surprised when
I heard the drilling of the first hole.
All the time the water was rising a
little higher, but I was not worried.
T was hungry, but I tried to keep
them from thinking about anything
to eat. It was hard to keep from
thinking about it however, and I
drank a lot of water from the djii't.
"After a while I felt a draft of
fresh air and I knew the drill had
rut into the drift, but in the dark
ness I could not locate it. I called
with all my might, but could not
make myself heard. It was madden
ing.
"Then when I heard the drilling
again in a new- location I was dis
couraged for the first time, but not
for a minute did I give up hope.
Ii was just the same thing over and
over again for the next few hours.
I grew ravenously hungry all the
time, but tried to forget it. I busied
myself as much as possible until the
fourth drill hole penetrated *he roof
I of the drift. It took me a long time
to locate the hole."
Extra Pay Stopped.
! T'psetting a practice of more than
i thirty years, the Senate and House
conferees Wednesday agreed to elim
inate an anpropriation of an extra
month's salary to the employees of
I the Capital. This saves the Oov'ern
j ment $140,000. ' '
Killed by Lightning.
At Carthage, N. C. Wednesday, a
stroke of lightning instantly killed
young Earl Tyson, son of a leading
business man of tlsat place, and one
of the most popular young men of
that town and section.
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Killed Little Sister.
' At Valdosta, Ga., three year old
EMba Mitchell was killed when a
shotgun, supposed to be unloaded,
was discharged by her brother, Wal
ter Mitchell, Jr. _ ^jjg