*ff mmm . mam ma ^N^L. fWi # hh-.^ - ^ ; -= | The Union Daily Times : ,;=j ' $ DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY EaUMiohad in 1880 C d to Tfrnoo Oc lobar 1, 1917 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY j 1 ' V ' V,' , . : ViMHf \ ? I ' VoL LXXIII No. 1638 Union. S. C., Friday AftornM^ Norembor 17, 1982 Sc Par Copy DEATH CLAIMS 1 "OLD DAN" MURPHY Dan Murphy, aged prisoner of the penitentiary, who created consider ahlo surprise early his year when he r.nnounced that he would not accept a pardon if Governor Cooper should see hi to grant executive clemency to him, but who lated asked Governor Harvey to grant him a pardon because life at .-the prison hsd become "too rough," died yesterday morning in his cell shortly after 3 o'clock from heart trouble. "Old Dan," as he was known at the prison, was perhaps ^he oldest man in the penitentiary from the point of service, having been placed there in 135)6. With his passing the prison lost a unique figure. His death was . maiden, coming before medical attention could be mmmnnoH TTo. \ ' \ over 65 year* of age. t ' . Early in the morning he had been . let out of his cell to get a drink of water and again at S o'clock he was ' let out. He complained to his cellmate, James Faulkner, of a "terrible tanning in his heart," but Faulkner did not suspect anything sferious. A few moments later Faulkner told Dan Vile feet were cold and Dan replied that "he felt peculiar," a feeling that he had never experienced before. With j a sigh Dan turned over and said. "Cod bless you, my boy," and passed 4 to the other world. ^ . Dr. R. T. Jennings, penitentiary | physician, examined the body and pro-I nounced death due to apoplexy. Cor-1 ' oner Scott was notitfe mobile and an elevator and he was delighted at the sight .on Main street. It was like a new world to Dan. When Dan was thinking of the pos-1 ??'b$i;ty of a pardon being offered him he said he was "away behind the times,? having been behind the grim walla for many years. He did not yf think he could get out in the world again and keep progredB with business. He was content to remain with his friend, Colonel Sanders. Dan was convicted of killing Robert Copes, treasurer of Orangeburg coun. ty. The evidence against him was exceptionally strong, but there were no .. eyewitnesses. Dan always said he was innocent. "Last year he expressed deep tegret that he had not taken the stand * during the trial and told his story, but it was too late. Treasurer Copes was making the rounds of the county collecting taxes ? when he was slain. Evidence at the trial showed that the gun used belonged to Dan and it was also brought ^ - out that the tracks around the scene of the killing were made by shoes worn by Dan, certain tacks in the heel pointed conclusively to this. The 1.M11 U... a 1QOR Mining oauiixu mi urn/ uf iovu. #Dan was convicted of murdev and sentenced to be hanged March 5; 1897. Governor Ellerbe granted him a respite until March 26, 1897, and on - March 25 commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On March 26, 18ir7, Dan entered the penitentiary to begin his life sentence. On September 20,1900, Dan escaped and went to the Philippine islands, [where he joined the cavalry. He re turned to |he United States and, while , E/v ,A||lili>g Georgia, became involved E'* his landlord. He was sentenced ? "jfr:* term en the Georgia chaingang E : While' at Work on the gang was Rt dhttovered by the auditor of OrangeK . burg county, a close friend of the WW wain treasurer. He was* brought back f to the penitentiary on December 18, H IP05, and there remained until he died % yesterday morning.?The State. 1 # Mi*. L. J. Hamee, regent of Fair jgp reseat chapter attended the D. A. H. B , convention in Spartanburg this week j R and was entertained at the home of, R: Mrs. E. D. Byerj. ?r1' NO AMERICANS HURT BY 'QUAKE Washington, Nov. 16.?All. Americans in the vicinity * of Valparaiso and Coquimbo were reported "safe" and "well" in advices received today )y the state department bearing upon the recent earthquake from Consul Carl F. Deichman at Valparaiso, Chile. Consul General Deichman also said Consular Agents Edwin Sals at Coluimbo and James C. Frederick at Cruz Grande, about whom inquiry lad been made, were safe and unin iured. Newspaper dispatches received at Santiago from the distressed regions vere referred to by Consul Deichman, vho said these showed Americans arriving at Coquimbo from Vallevar lad reported that employees of an American settl company at Tofo and 3ruz Crande also were in good health. Other advices from Consul Stewirt McMillan at Ar.toiagasta said here had been no. damage to American property and none had been larmed in Antofagasta or Chuqui amata. Similar reports were received from American consuls at \rica and Iquique. These said the ihock was mild in 'iquique and prelumably not perceptible in Arica. Santiago said that at 6 p., h. yeserday total deaths in the devastated region numbered between 750 and 1,000 with about 1,500 injured. Property damage was estimated at about >0,000,000 pesos, nearly all being in Vallevar, Coquimbo, Copiapo, Ghanaal and vicinity. The steel company's oss at Coquimbo, the dispatch said, vas 800,000 pesos. Many thousands vere homeless and food, clothing and nedical supplies especially were very carce, Ambassador Collier said, addng that President Alessandri left Santiago yesterday for the devastated region, carrying supplies/ Subscriptions for the victims of the earthquake have been started in all parts of Chile and Argentina, the ambassador reported, resulting m the organization of a national rel^Sttotier the presidency of Ismail "refcornal, who would gurantee efficient anned to arrive in Union at 7 o'clod and there march in a body to the tab ernacle, where 100 reserved seats wil be held for them. As they march int the tabernacle the club members wll ring one of the Billy Sunday hymns. Members of the Antioch Woodrufl Walnut, Grove, Stone Station, Inmai and Pacolet clubs have teen asks to come and aid in this action of th Spartanburg club. ? Spartanbur Journal. " WEEVIL FIGHTERS I MEET TOMORROW : * . Leading farmers of the state will gather in Columbia at the call of f Governor Harvey at noon Satarday t to discuss boll weevil control and in y the hopes of arriving at some definite a plan to fight the pcfet, this plan to be o carried back to the leaders of their v respective communities. The coa- t ference will be in the state library. v More than a score of leading farmers and agricultural scientists have been invited by the chief magistrate ( and urged to be present as the con- v ference means much to the people of 1the state. Some brief aud simple v plan of war, to be waged during the a winter months, will, it is hoped, be t mapped out. 4 f While the meeting has been confin- d ed to a group of representative farm- a ers, together with the government ti experimental forces, it is believed the benefits will deach to all the l? larmers, as it is planned for each 5? person attending to disseminate the h information in his community. , p Prosperity in South Carolina hinges I on the control of the boll weevil, at 0 least for the immediate future, the a governor points out in his "letter k>t F invitation, and the need for coopera- tl tive protection by the farmers is most n urgent at this time. The governor h hopes to' gain the attention of every '? farmer in the state in the efforts to combat the weevil. u - * h Mrs. James Smith v Is Called Home V (Gaffney Ledger) '' Mrs. James W. Smith, 828 North v limestone street, died Tuesday morn- * ing after an illness of several months. Last July Mrs. Smith had r the misfortune to fall, sustaining a << fracture of the right shoulder, from v which injury she never recovered. p Her relatives and friends have been F \ery anxious about her for some time.' t Mrs. Smith died at 6:80 a. m. just t with the awaking life of a new day d she-Mint to sleep Ulce a.tfcffd chiM*rY ft just at the coming of the dawn, j Purely a most fitting time for a pure v sp?rit to take its flight heavenward. J ^ loved. She reared her own monument* in the hearta of those who knew her while in the flesh. Her life was com-, y ' rlcted if work all done and well done ii j constitutes completion; Today a bank* r of autumn flowers hides from our( i sight all that is mortal of a true and v noble woman. ! li Mrs. Smith was the daughter of v Martin and Elizabeth Bishop. She was t j born in Union county July 16th, 1849, x j and was, therefore, 73 years of age. ? :1a 1869 she was wedded to James W. j Smith, and resided near Mt. Tabor S j until 1884 when the couple moved to y (| ( affney, where they have since resid- y ' | cd. Two children were bom to this ; union, viz., Charles M. and J. Henry, e Mrs. Smith was a quiet, unassum- r i rig woman, noted principally for her s i devotion to her family and her atten-( I | tion to her home. She was a mem- It is funny the way children hear - things and the funny twist they give 3 our own wordfe. A little girl in this t city was having a tea patty and when t the cakes and hot chocolate had been placed on the table she told the. other s children she was going to say grace ii like father did and this Is what she i said: "Father, we thank The* for s rh s food and we thank Thee for * clothes and health, and, oh, Father, wte .] s i ;nrany and was considered a valued em doyee by the company. He is survived by hia wife and scvtral small children and by his paeats, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hendrick on of the city: by three brothers: W Hendrlckson of Union, R. J. Hen Irickson of Inman and H. O. Hen Irickson of the city; by two sisters >lary Hendrlckson and tfrs. Christina raylor of the city. The funeral services were held a1 nman yesterday afternoon and inter uent followed in the Cannon's Cam] Ground cemetery. Services were con iueted by the Rev. Brabson. Em .loyees of the S. C. Gas and Electri< ompany acted as pall bearers.? Spartanburg Journal. rurkiah Sultan Has Fled From Constantinople Constantinople, Nov. 17 (By the As i eclated Press).?Mohammed VI, th rurkish sulton, has fled from Con itantinople on the British warship fo Malta and declared upon embark in | hat he was not abdicating but merel; removing himself from immediat larger. The sulton on Wedneeda; wrote General Harrington, the Brit sh commander, asking protection an aid he believed his life was endan arefed. The sulton has been greatly worrie >ver his status since the Angora as iembly voted to deprive him of civi nuthority and declared hereafter th teiigions head of Islam wculd be sc iacted from the imperial household b the assembly. The bulk of his guard went over to the Nationalists and dia patches *}id he was virtualy at th mercy of the Kemalists. There hav been rumors that he had abdicated o would do so. Political motives ma bo road into the flight on British wmi thsy. The British have streflg siu lives in seeking his safety, owing t the ^ millions of Mohammedans in th Pvitish empire, many of whon| 4tBPa1 ihe right of Turkey alone to docU ?he head of the church. , Constantinople, Nor. 17 (By the Ai oociated Press),?The Kcmalists a tempted to run the interned Turkia destroyer Akissar out of the Golda Horn disguised as a merchantman The Allies frnstrated the attempt. A delegation tfoih Sumter li e: posted in Union tonight to attend t) Gipsy Smith meeting. ? f ;i CLARA PHILLIPS SEEKS NEW TR1A1 I job Angeles, C?l., Nov. 10.?Mi f Clara Phillips, convicted today < 5 second degree murder for beatir ? Mis. Alberta Meadows to death with I hammer, will seek a new trial and r that is denied, will appeal from tl . verdict, it was announced by Be i tram A. Herrington, her attorney. "There is a fatal error in the recoi and finally Clara Phillips will 1 freed," Herrington said. "I will n? i quit the fight until she is." The motion for a new trial will I t name when Mrs. Phillips is sentence , Monday. The verdict, which was , compromise one from a jury of nir men and three women, carries a pci nlty of from ten years to life impri: l or.ment. "I oxpected to be acquitted," Mr Phillips said in commenting on th verdict. "They didn't give me a fai verdict. "They didn't give me a fai i -deal. 1 am going to ask my attorne to appeal and believe with anothc tiial I can be acquitted. I don't thin i I will go to the penitentiary. But i i I have to go there I could face life i that place with the same poise I hav ' r.erc. u would not make much diffei , <*nce to me. All my hopes are crushe I anyway." The three women members of th jury voted for the death penalty unt , the final compromise of second degrt i ..mrder was reached, it was said. I , he- early balloting; there weer foe . who voted to acquit. The jury read , ?.-d an agreement late last night aftc 1 .he judge, the attorneys and coui , attaches had gone home, but the vei lict was not returned until this morr ing. According to members of tli Ijury, they did not consider the insar ity contention set up by the defense. Mrs. Peggy Caffee, the state's sta . witness, whom Mrs. Phillips testifk wielded the hammer that killed Mr > Meadows, was released from technic) , custody today. 8ince October 20, whe j the trial commenced, she had been i t a hotel near the court house in char? I ittoirtiltrir* attorney v- Ws Sleep too Little Not enough time is given to the necei f sary physical repairs which this moi . Strenuous modern pace demands, c The vitality lowered and we ai i wise would be averted. Old age is ei ! couraged and our personality afTectei It is cloimed that as a race we slec | loo little. An infant's life is near] i:!l sleep. Gradually, as the chil prows older, the hours of sleep ai shortened trv half the day or aboi eight hour.. Youth, until the age of 20 is reael cd, requires fully 10 hours' sleeep. Although nature demands les hours of sleep in summer than i winter, it has proved that eight houi of sleep is required for the averap male adult in good health. By this is meant not simply cigl hours in bed, but that amount of goo< round, restful sleep night after nigh Our power to work is intimately r Inted to our ability to sleep, and thei I is no more reliable indication of sour . health than the capacity to sleep na , urally.?Baltimore Sim. PERSONAL MENTION ? | Dr. J. T. Jeter is reported as in proving rapidly from his recent il ness. His friends hope soon to s< him out upon the streets again. Mrs. S. M. McNeel and Miss Mam Hughes of York are the guests * Mrs. Fred Garner on South street th ~ y.-eek. Mrs. Charles B. Counts and Mrs. F. McLure will return today fro Spartanburg, where they went to a * tend the D. A. R. convention and vis y Mrs. J. Lj Carbery. Mrs. D. M. Eave9, Mrs. J. D. Arthi f fcf-o o n ...v. AIIU IHIfl, < JUT, iJO 1 IUII, V*IIU tC|/J j rented Fair Forest chapter at the ] A. R. convention, will return to the homes today, j Mrs. Virginia Esteu has accepted _ position with I. From and has bcgi II her duties. e Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Elli Misses Alys and Sara Ellis, Capta _ and Mrs. J. W. Graham of Charle ^ ton are visitors in the city today f r.ttend the Gipsy Smith meetings t ^ right. They will spend the week-ei ,e in Greenville and return to Union f r the Sunday night service. Ellis Crosby spent several days tli . week with relatives, returning to ) ? home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesdi ^ evening. if * 1 * ' ^ The energy value of the avocat \9 or alligator pear, is more than twi that of most other fruits. The carpenter bee tunnels its w r into fallen trees and fence posts. There ere 100 islands in the Sh< to land group, 27 of which are inhabit* !n The bison is the largest quadrup n* now existing in Europe. l oaves of bread are baked in Frar (t ai d Italy up to six feet in length. ?e All men are not equal in mind, I they can be in heart. TEXAS TOWN QUIET 1 Li DESPITE THREATS *. .ridge, Texas, Nov. 17.? Breckenridge was quiet today follow * ?K ing the exodus yesterday of scores ot h Mexicans and neg:oes who left town if because of alleged threats and intimi- f dations made by a crowd of men who r- paraded through the negro and Mexi* * can sections Tuesday night. No dis- ' "d turbances or disorders have been re>? ported. City und county officials have proui- s ised the negro and Mexican residents * * all protection possible. *i v A message signed by District * Judge C. O. Hamlin and others was ? ,e sent to Governor NefT saying the sit ^ ' uation was not so bud as reports ins* dicated but suggested that one or two ^ rangers be sent to Breckenridge for ^ the "moral effect of thoir presence." ie Mayor C. H. Fulwiler also informed ^ (r Consul General Ruiz at San Antonio, p lrjthat he had promised Mexicans all ^ y j protection possible when a delegation *1 called on him following the parade ^ I11 and alleged threats. He denied re j] ports that protection had been re n! fused the Mexicans, pointing out that ^ e! Consul Ruiz's message to Governot C( r~ i Neff yesterday was "a great injus n tice" to him, in view of the steps tak- w | en to protect the Mexicans. '*! o HI San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 10.- Di ? * rect appeal to the United States gov- ^ n|eminent will be made hereafter when ,ri'he lives and pi'operty of Mexican na'"jtionals are threatened, Consul Gen- J 'r! oral Enrique Ruiz said todav. This !* 11 decision was made, Mr. Ruiz said, af r* ter repeated attempts to punish per- ? l* sons believed responsible for the mur- ^ ie dor of Mexican citizens along the & l* border had failed. "For some time the consul general of Mexico has been 0 "J receiving notices from almost every consulate In the state of Texas under ^ B| its jurisdiction advising this office of g crimes committed on Mexican citi- . >n '' zens under the most outrageous cirin eumstancfea," said Mr. Ruiz. "Most , rp i ', of th^ come from Hi- y lalgb e$b'nty, the latest of these be- ^ ing the tjrnching of Elias -Villareal j ZaZrate, at Weslaco by a group of ^ 15 men. , ^ ma f^murle 1^0?""Jefenseless citizens of Mexico under the most ab horrent circumstances, which have never been given publicity," Consul 0 e Ruiz said in a written statement. n r" "I feel sure that if the people' of j" Texas knew of the details of these r crimes, they would" raise a strong n P! protest against the perpetrators, j j 11 hey are an insult to the principles :l v of righteousness and the spirit of ? true democracy and 100 per cent Am- f j ericauism, for which this state has | always stood. i "The consul at Weslaco reports ,s that Zarute was taken by a mob and n killed after he had been taken into j j custody by the local authorities. The j ,e consul reports that Zarate was ar- j j rested because he had struck a man ^! in self defense, having been attacked ^ j by a man who was attempting to , t' beat him on the head with a club. ej "Another case of lynching reported ? ^i from Hidalgo county recently was a 1(j, Mexican citizen who had also been (arrested for some small offense. His , body, was found in the open with sev- f I eral bullet holes through it." j The local officials of the town ( i claim thev had no knowledge of the , ' . .. , .. ,. ? i. nttair until attention was caueu to v I- by the man who found the body. k> _ * Lock hart Station IC. Burned to Ground )f is i The station at Lockhart Junction ' j was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night about 1 o'clock. The office t and also freight depot, with contents, burned. It is not known how the fire ( originated, but it is thought that it ] was occasioned by fire from the colir orcd waiting room stove falling to ^ the floor. ir TODAY'S COTTON MARKET a - ,n Open 2:00 p. m. December 25.52 25.43 |8 January 25.35 25.41 {? March 25.35 25.36 May 25.16 25.25 T..1 n a n n c% a AA to JW.y Z4.BZ 6*. c. Local market 26 ^c id ' 1 or Gipay Smith to Preach At Glenn Springs lis ^ l'8 Gipsy Smith will preach in the Pres8y byterian church at Glenn Spring Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Many of the citizens of Glenn to, Springs have been attending the meetce ings at the tabernacle and Sunday a large delegation was present. n> Agrees to Give Half His li' Earnings For Fire Yoars *** Redwood, Calif., Nov. 17.-John' Swanscn today agreed to give half hist ** earnings for fire years to the widow | of Jamee Bolt, who was killed byj ait Swaneon's automobile. The manslaughter charge was then dismissed. ? BIGHAM APPEAL BEFORE COURT The appeal of Edmund D. Bigham, unvicted murderer of hia brother, L. >miley Bigham, will in all probability m? argued before the supreme court hortly after 10 o'clock this morning V. Lw King, chief counsel for Bigham. irrived yesterday and he announced nut he expected Solicitor Lonnie M. usque to call the case this morning. Bigham has already been before the upreme court three times, once under n application for habeas corpus, once n a regular appeal from the death ontenco against him and once under motion of Solicitor Gasque to disi?bf his appeal from the refusal of lircuit Judge S. W. G. Shipp to grant new trial. Today will be the fourth ime the case has been before the ourt. When Bigham was refused a new rial by the court and was carried to "lorence to be resentenced he moved !>r a new trial. Judge Shipp refused 3 grant the motion and he appealed, his is the appeal that will be argued bis morning. I^ast September Solicijr Gasque moved to dismiss the apeul undei Rule 30, claiming that it curtained no merit, but the court d*ied the motion of the solicitor and rill hear the appeal on its merits. Bigham is charged with the murdei t his brother, L. Smiley Bigham; his (other, Mrs. L. S. Bigham; his sister, Ira. Margie Black; and his sister's ivo adopted children, Leo and John IcCrecken. He has never been tried ot the alleged murder of the last urned four. He was convicted of the turder of his brother and sentenced > die in the electric chair in April, 921. but has been appealing ever ince. The appeal today is based largely n a plea of after-discovered evidence, onsisting mainly of alloged letters I Smiley Bigham that Of ere found irteh the murders. According to these Utera Smiley, writing to Edmund, declared that he was going to kill all he family and then "end it all." The ettew mvm type written and when Big. iam moved for a new trial before udge Shipp on the strength of these otters the judge denied the motion. -The State- ^ Services For Colored People \ Gipsy Smith will preach to the colred people of Union oounty Sunday ftemoon at 3:30 o'clock at the taber. acle and reports from the various ections of the county are that enormous crowds will attend. The services last Sunday were well ttended but were not advertised sufciently, but this Sunday?look for he crowd. Lord Curzon Goes to Paris ! inriing certain grounds for gratifica.ion. All recognize the outcome means i return to party government. One prohibitionist and one Communist ' ere elected. ? ' 1 Dver Five Hundred Killed by Earthquake , w:: Santiago, Nov. 17 (By the Associated Press).?Revised figures prepared by the minister of the interior fix the dead in Saturday's earthquake nl fi4H TKic ici /n r? itndnr tka ao?*1?a?< reports. The list of injured is incomplete-, but shows 837, with "innumerable" others in Vallenar and Chanera I. Three hundred and thirty-threw of the dead nre in Vailenar. Three more shocks were felt yesterday at Copiapo. Dr. Outx Cornea to Union Dr. W. H. Outz of Greenwood ban \UlA\ Btcepted a position with the Union Drug Store and will begin his duties ' < as prescription man on Monday morning. Dr. Outz comes very highly rec- rJ r in mended both as ;t man and a fine pharmacist. .. Cotton Seed Crushed t' C' Washington, Nov. 17.?(Cotton seed : crushed during the three months ending October 31 aggregated 971,382 jf tons, compared with 1,011,566 during V I : _ > -? mc penoa uwt year, so UM Onsus Bureau announced. ..'JfcfiflKj Miss Elizabeth Jeter and Mrs. M. i S T Jeter passed through Union today t on their way to see Laurens and Un- { ion high school teams play gootbalt i on the Laurens field. Miss Lizsie Greer of Foute 2 was djtf in Union last evening to attend the meeting.