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f \ r SPREAD OF REVOLT IATT1AN NEGROES INCITING CUBAN NEGROES TO KILL CUBAN WHITE PEOPLE Hard to Ascertain Exact Conditions of the Trouble, as the Government of the Island Republic is Reticent ' as to Its Proportions and Speak I Ughtly of It. A cablegram from Havana eays while the situation arising from the racial revolutionary movement unquestionably is serious, and apparently growing more dangerous, reticence of the government renders impossible a precise determination of its gravity. The only thing abso? " A ? * ? * - AS A _ 1UI^M ^ S lueiy certain is tuai u cuuuiuuu ui insurgency exists among the negroes of Mantanzac, Santa Clara, and Oriente provinces, especially in the last named and that the government is straining every nerve to stamp out the rebellion, by the use of all the military forces at its disposal. Additional troops were rushed by railroad to Oriente Thursday afternoon and a force of 1,200 men was dispatched to that province Wednesday night. The new cruiser Cuba, which arrived there Thursday and was accorded, with her consort, La Patria, a great popular demonstration of welcome, had hardly anchored before she received orders to take aboard 600 infantry and artillery and proceed to Guantanamo. Several carloads of ammunition have been sent to Oriente. The secretary of the Interior, Senor Bru, says that newspaper reports alleging there are 2,000 insurgents in Orients are greatly exaggerated. The government, he added, has positive information that the Insurgents under General Estomez and Ivonet do not exceed 150. In spite of this official information, reports indicate that Estonez and Ivonet have fully 600 armed men and mounted followers. The American minister, Arthur M. Beaupre, has visited Secretary of State Sanguily to ?demanad protection for the property of the Juragua Iron Company, which a band under Ivonet is reported to be deprecating. The secretary gave assurance of protection. While the insurrectionary movement in Havana province apparently has been crushed by the dispersal of armed bands at Mariano, mounted patrons guard all the roads approaching the capital and all police reserves are kept at the station "houses. A serious feature of the situation in Orlente province, the center of the negro insurrectionary movement, is the presence of many Haytien negroes, who recently surreptitiously entered the province, and are reported to be inflaming the whites in their country, and sample of the Haytiens In exterminating the whites in their country, and urging the establishment of a black republic in the eastern end of Cuba. These Haytiens, It is said, number several thousand. It is rumored that several schooners from Hayti have landed cargoes of arms. Unsettled conditions are rapidly growing more serious. Now it is es timated that over 5,000 negroes have taken up arms in the province of Orlente alone. Two American citizens, Floyd Shick and Joseph Rryan, have complained to Ross F. Holladay, Americana consul at Santiago, of being assaulted and robbed while on their way to Sloboney, by a band of armed negroes. Such outrages aro of frequent occurrence. Government reports say that near Holguin, sixty-three miles northwest of Santiago, a detachment of rural guards dispersed a strong band of negroes. The situation in the province of Orient.e continues grave, the secretary of government said, but the movement in the other provinces appears to lack importance. Advices to the Stato Department confirm press reports that negro revolutionary movement in is much more alarming and widespread than at first supposed. Foreign property is menaced. Conflicts between the rural guards and armed negro bunds have resulted in the killing of many gfuardo. - . ? Killed Girl and Self. At Havana, 111., William W. Brown twenty-two years old, shot anatl killed I1I3 sweetheart, Miss Jennie Kelly, seventeen years old, when he mot her on the street Friday, and then killed himself with the same weapon. Brown had quarreled with Miss Kelly because she had walked with another young man. Brown was a railroad telegrapher. Dream of Death Camo True. Mrs. It. I*- Clay, of Atlanta, Ga? dreamed a week ago that her husband fired at her with a revolver, after failing to effect a reconcllatlon with her* This week her dream lai tame true. He shot her three times when he came to eee their boy at f her home. ?The died shortly afterwardm at the hospital. WILSON WAS STRONG ? MADE GOOD SHOWING IN GOVERNOR HARMON'S STATE. Which Has Materially Strengthened His Chances for the Presidential Nomination. The Washington correspondent of The State says the splendid vote given Woodrow Wilson in Governor Harmon's home State was one of the big surprises of the pre-convention campaign. The result in Tuesday's primary contest emphasizes the fact that Governor Wilson is the only nation-wide candidate contending for the Democratic presidential nomination and makes more certain than ever his nomination at Baltimore. The contest in behalf of Governor Wilson in Ohio was made by his friends, who waged an uphill fight without campaign funds. The returns show that the New Jersey executive carried the progressive districts in the State and that while ho failed of victory, he made a remarkable showing as a vote getter in evory section of the State. 1 1 ~ v, ? n f vi ? 1U 1.UVVU UHIUU OUDll a 1 uu iu Hithome State of one of his strongest rivals for the presidential nomination was a remarkable achievement for Governor Wilson. Little else was discussed in Democratic circles at the capital Wednesday and on all sides it was admitted that Governor Wilson is more strongly in the race as a result of Tuesday's primary contest than at any time since the inauguration of the presidential nomination campaign. Reports received at Wilson headquarters indicate that Governor Wilson has carried four congressionial districts and he may win in three others. The Wilson campaign managers bad figured on but one district. It is generally admitted that the Ohio result was more important in its political signlficanace than any that has been taken in the other States. Mr. Taft's chances for renomlnation have diminished, while it is not denied that Governor Wilson is a more formidable candidate than ever as the result of the splendid run he made in Governor Harmon's own State. Governor Wilson is a candidate In every State In the nation, and wherever he has failed of victory, he has run a strong second. In the number of votes cast by Democrats who have participated in presidential pre* erence primaries, Governor Wilson has outdistanced all of his rivals. Mr. Clark was not a candidate in Ohio; he is not a candidate in North Carolina, which Is holding county conventions this week, and he is not a candidate in a great many of the other Statea that are to hold primary conventions. Mr. Underwood likewise la only running in spots, while Mr. Harmon was given a clear field in Ohio. Mr. Underwood has the right Of way for the combination in North Carolina and Governor Wilson is running everywhere. ? ASKS HOW RICHESON DIED. ? Condemned Murderer Calls to His Gnnrd in Night. At Denver, Col., on the night Richeson was electrocuted Oscar Cook, murderer condemned to die in November, rose from his cot in the county jail at midnight and hoarsely called to his guard: "Has that preacher Iticheson been electrocuted yet? I can't sleep thinking of him." Through the night, as the guard tramped the corridor, the condemned man clung to the bars of his cell. "Can't you telephone tho newspapers and find out if he died like a man or a cur? See if ho had to bo carried," ne asKoa. "is 11 oasier man to be hanged? Do you think there la any chance of the State putting In a chair before November?" Cook refused to return to bed, declaring that horrible visions filled his dreams. NEGRO KILLED ANOTHER. ? Trouble Started In Field and Ended In Row That Xlglit. Robert D"own, alias Nigger Shirt, shot and almost instantly killed Edinborough Lawyer Tuesday night on the plantation of H. B .Richardson, dr., about flvo miles west of Suinmerton. Both parties nro negroes employed by Mr. Richardson, Brown being the foreman and Lawyer one of the farm hands. The tronblo leading up to the killing began when Brown had some trouble In the field with Lawyer in regard to some work. Lawyer renewed the row that night, when he was shot by Brown, it is said, in self-defense. Brown surrendered to Magistrate A. J. Richbourg. ? ? ? Life Termor Is Free*!. Henry Gilliam, convicted at Newberry In Feb. uary, 1903, of murder, with recom JiendatLon to mercy and sentenced t>> life Imprisonment In the State pcnRmtiary, received a full pardon from Got. Bleaee thle week. A QUEER CUSTOM ? BOYS AND GIRLS ARE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION a LEASED FOR THE SUMMER The Annual "Market" Has Just Been Held.?The Austrian Steamer Maria Theresa Brought 125 Boys and j 80 Girls, Hanging in Ages from 11 to 16 Yurs,, Across tho Sea. "I'll give 150 marks for him!" "I bid 175!" "Two hundred!" "Two hundred and ten!" "Two hundred and twenty-five!" The competition was keen, for the boy was a sturdy looking lad. Despite his poverty-stricken appearance, he sooined to be stronger and healthier than any of the other children. Around him swarmed a score of peasant farmers, scanning the child as they would tho points of a horse. There was little sentiment in their demeanor. It was business. They wore buying him, to be exact, "leasing" the boy. They expocted to make a "profit" on their investment, hence they did not want a boy who possibly would bo ill and could not work hard. He was "knocked down" at 240 marks or $ GO. Tho next boy was younger, he lacked tho robustness of the other lad; he was pale, thin and did not look as if he ever had had a full meal. He went at $30. This is not a scone from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but from the annual "children's market," "little white slave market," some or me uerman radical papers term it, in the pretty town of Friederichshaften In Bavaria. Here in this quaint little town, in eight of the Tyrolean Alps, made famous as the place where German's big Zeppelin airships are built, is held tho annual sale every spring of the poor children of the Tyrolean peasants. Orphans, half-orphans and children of poor peasants in the Australn Tyrol region, who thereby proflf a little, are turned over to the "Tyrolean Children's Society," which In turn leases them out for the summer months on the German side of the border at whatever they will bring. The annual market has just been held. The Austrian steamer 'Maria Theresa brought 125 boys and thirty girls, ranging in ages from 11 to 18 years, across the Boden sea. They were quartered at the Golden Wheel Hotel, an appropriate place for this thlldren's lottery. More than 500 peasant farmers from Wurtemburg, Baden, Hahenollern and the Bavarian region along th? Boden sea were on hand to "bid" for these youthful wage slaves. Competition was keen. The demand this year was greater than the supply and prices considerably higher than last spring were offered for the labor of th children for the summer. The children had nothing to say about their fate, whether they liked the looks of the lessee or not. The 'market" was held under the auspices of tho Rev. Mr. Eaim of the Tyrolean Children's Society, who had charge of them for the society. From daylight to dark and after, the children labor, which In South Germany, means about 17 or 18 hours daily. It is but natural that tho lessees chief Interest is to get as much out of them as possible. What the fate of some of the children is Is Indicated by the Tyrolean Grenzhoten, a paper which has started an agitation against tho "child market." It says: "The children return to their parents and homo on October 28th, if they do not fall a victim to the heavy labor, long hours, intense longing for * ' * ? A. ? -1 U A /I n \ a _ ratner, momer ?uu muua-iD auu outers, (luring the summer and are buried in the regions where they were 'leased'. "We ask in what land or country would tho authorities permit such a 'slave trade' to exist? That many of these children have been leased Is evident from the fact that the Children's Society has a number of farmers on its blacklist to whom they refuse to loaso children again. But what good does that do tho little * ? t -i ones whom tncy may nave rumeu physically and morally?" Tho "Morgnnpost" of Berlin also marvels that the authorities of Bavaria, Wurtemburg and Baden would tolorato dealing in "little slaves." ? ? A Fatal Crap Came. In a row over five cents, tho result of a dispute In a "crap" game, Ernest Kennedy, colored, shot and Killed John Miller, also colored, at Crescent, three miles from Woodruff. Kennedy made his escape, but was later caught noar Fountain Inn, In Greenville County, and awaits trial In Jail at Spartanburg. Follows Brother In Death, Rising from his seat In the church whore his brother's funeral was being held, kissing his aunt and slstor tenderly, Samuel Brannon, a wellknown young farmer livtng near Aoree, Oa., walked outdoors and blew out hila brains In the church yards. WHAT DOES HE WANT? ? DOKB. GRACE SEEK ASSURANCE - i OF WIDE OPEN TOWN. I B1om? Has Granted to Charleston a Local Freedom Not Enjoyed For llany Years. Mayor Grace, of Charleston, seems to feel hurt because the State Democratic Convention refused to help him rob the Democrats of Charleston of a free ballot and a fair count in the Charleston County Convention. The action of the Stato convention in seating the Barnwell delegation was the only fair thing it could do with the testimony submitted by both sldos before it, and Mayor Grace knows it. In speaking of the action of the State Convention in seating the Barnwell delegation "Common Sense," May* Grace's personal organ, says: "When one has loft the full Impact of the steam roller it is hard for the moment to be philosophical. We can speak with authority for the eighteen delegates regularly elected at our recent County Convention but unseated at Columbia, and we can say for them that such is their plight. It was simply the machine at work from beginning to the end of the Convention." n ? M 4- V\ r\ * > (Vrt/Nfl An f A QCV V> U IU IIJUll OV1JIBU lUCU gVCD UU WV/ ou; that "up to this time, although Mr. 'Grace's Intimate friends have known that ho has had no Intention whatever of supporting Governor Dlease in the coming election, he has for good and sufficient reasons not seen lit to make any public virtue of that fact. He has been sincere In this attitude, not because he never has had or ever could have any honest admiration for Governor Blease; but because as bad as Blease Is, ho has nevertheless granted to Charleston a degree of local freedom, which she has not enjoyed for many years. Th6 only thing which has made Grace utterly shrink from a proper appreciation of this great boon to his constituency Is his knowledge that It Is a freedom purchased for money. "Mr. Grace has hoped that he would get assurances from the Jones people that they would tolerate certain local freedom in Charleston, without being paid for such toleration, lacking which he has refrained from throwing whatever influence he might have in favor of Judge Jones. Such assurances have not been forthcoming. If he were little enough to be governed in any matter by mere personal resentment, the action of the Jones steam-roller would be enough to make him wait no longer but however bitter and distasteful It | might he, ne wouia turn ugaiu iu Blease. Such, however, 1b Impossible. He still hopes that Judge Jones and his leaders, In that broad spirit | of toleration which he well knows has once again taken possession of South Carolina with reference to Charleston, will see fit to regard the peculiar conditions in Charleston and promise relief therefrom." ONLY BROKE FIVE TOES. ? ; Burglar Fell Three Stories and Was Not Much Hurt. At New York, George Miller, charged with burglary, was taken captive by the police Friday morning, after a long chase in the course of which he suffered five broken toes and a fractured nose. According to the police report, the alleged burglar was seen breaking Into an uptown store. Two policemen gave chase and the nimble Miller led them a long run "p and down the stairs of a series of apartment houses In the vicinity. In a final effort to shake off pursuit, ho leaped from the roof of an eight-story apartment, gripping in one hand a telephone wire which led to tho third story of tho next block. 11 o slipped down safely, but at the end of the wire was stopped by a blank wall. Miller paused a moment, then attempted a flying leap to a firo escape ton feet below. lie missed and fell three stories. The policemen found him lying in the court yard. ? ? PLATFORM OF A DELEGATE Tliinks Delegation Should Carry Out People's Wish. Discussing the result of the State Convention, Mr. R. I. Manning, of Sumter, who was elected a delegate at largo to tho National Democratic ^ * ?i- tt - i ? i.t^ ^ M uonvouiion, wmio m uiiuuiuiu uu Monday, said: "Tho result of tho Stat? convention should be satlfactory to Gov. Wilson and his friends. It amounted to Instructions for him. While not Instructing In words, there was evidenco of a vory strong sentiment for him and delegates to tho national convention would not represent faithfully tho views of those who sent them there if they fail to work earnestly for Gov. Wilson's nomination. I shall vote and work for Woodrow Wilson's nomination not only becvause I yish to represent truly thoso ? e Governor Bleaso pays Col L. M. Green very handsomely for his services as & detective as will be seen by the report published on the first - . ... BANK Oi Conwa Hat largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and sur] CAPITAL STOCK.., .4 SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOOl SECURITY OF BBP08I1 DIRE* jbert B. Scarborough, . L. Buck, Jeorg? J. Holiday, We^offer our customers every ac< will justify, and we BOBEHT B. SCARBOROUGH, I President. We continue to pay 5 pt BOTH IN SAME BOAT THAT THE TRUSTS OWN TAFT AND ROOSEVELT IS A WELL VENTILATED FACT According to the Testimony of President Tuft, ltoosevelt Wus the Pet of liig 1 Justness When lie Was Presldont and According to Roosevelt Taft is Now. The old adage that honest men get their dues when rogues fall out is being verified by the testimony President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt is offering against each other in their mad scramble for the Republican nomination for the Presidency, to which neither of them should have ever been elected If what they say of each other Is true. A dispatch from Washington says since President Taft and former President Roosevelt entered upon their wild scramble to obtain delegates to the next Republican convention, the people have come into the possession of the following information, which they never knew before; except as it came to them through unproven charges or unverified rumors: That George W. Perkins, organizer of the Harvester trust and member of the board of directors of the Steel truBt, was "highly pleased" with the present administration's methods of prosecuting the trusts. That he contributed most liberally to the Taft campaign fund out of his money and money of the trusts ho managed in his campaign for the Presidency. That there is a close political al lianace between Mr. Perkins and Theodore Roosevelt, as evidenced by the fact that Perkins, in a sworn statement to the Secretary of State of New York admits he sent $15,000 to help Roosevelt in the primary election in New York City this spring thus revealing that the big Interests would be perfectly satisfied to have either Taft or Roosevelt President. That Mr. Taft, in the present campaign, and Mr. Roosevelt, in his campaign of 1908, made free and unrestricted use of Federal officeholders to obtain the nomination from one of the country to the other. It was a common practice with both of them to place the offices in the hands of those who would not fail to round up the delegates on their side at the convention. That Mr. Roosevelt, while constantly writing messages and giving out interviews, while he was President, all professing the deepest hatred of trusts and illegal corporations secretly and clandestinely suppressed a report showing that the Harvester trust was an illegal combination in restraint of trade, and later ordered that a contemplated suit against that trust bo dropped "until ho gave the word to start it," which word he never gave. That Mr. Roosevelt was so frightened by the possibility of tariff agitation during his more than seven years of offico that in all his messages and official papers ho never made any mention of tariff except to say, once, that he would discuss it in a future message, which statement ho withdrew from tho message before it reached Congress. That Roosevelt Is still a standpatter on the tariff. That 'Mr. Roosevelt's trip to Africa was paid for by Andrew Carnogie, tho greatest beneficiary of a Republican high tariff that ever lived. Carnegie made millions of dollars out of the deal when Roosevelt gave tho Steel Trust permission to gamble with the Tennessee Iron Company. It has also been brought out that Roosevelt was on most intlmaio political relations with J. P. Morgan and other "malefactors of great wealth." If the present scramble for delegates continues a while longer it may safely bo said that both Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosovolt, at tho present rate, will thoroughly demonstrate that neither of them Is fit to be President, but ought to bo in some penal institution. Bryan made the same charges against both of they that they are now making against each other when he ran against Taft, < HORRY, y. S, C. any bank in Horry county. Mom plus of all other banks in the county. ..' J .1.1 ) . * .* 12?M0' ^HOLDERS .. R0.000 rORfl , CTORS ARDSON1, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. :ommodation which their account* solicit your business. ). V. Richardson, will a. freema* vloe prehidlnt. .CASHIERar cent, on yearly deposits. FRoraB^NATc^irs, H. FL WOODWARD Attorney and Conaoelor At Law. CONWAY; S. O. B, B. BGAXtDJROUGH CONWAY. H. CAttorney at Law. L iJ J. . ., ] ? HL tt. BtTKKOl'OfUB Pbjfl?l?n and Surgeon CONWAY, S. O. B. WOFFOHD WAIT. AMoratr it L^a * v* ? Bank mt Harry I)uildli|. CONWAY, S. O. IUANB KAVBNKL Land BarYflyiog Md Dratauic? Nplray Building Conway, A. O. IE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN8 UktWM ttm wait el there Vlbratla* BhntUeJ? (ft HBlDtUe or stilnele Thread [Ch?l*?moifjk ewlnc Maohlne write to '' M m HOME SIWIM MA6HINI WHFUT Orange, Maaa, MMmeheaKMaei ere aide to sett rorwdflo#' tMihr, bat the Hew Hssm b asede to waaa. Oer rssnntr sever hmh set * |Mi t(9 atherbed Owte? MQpfr.') MIMIIV -J' BUlt?OUfeHb * <ULLINW 00? " Uotway, B. C. ^ MCGHO DISTINCTIVE KILLED. Attempt to Arrest Lewis Little R<y Suited in Death. A negdo detective, Sam Washfng-" ton, was killed at New Sumter Friday night. New Sumter is the village around the C. M Betts company lumber plant, about four miles east of Sumter Another negro, L. J* Jefferson, was shot and dangerously wounded; Lewis Little, tho negro, who did the shooting, escaped.Washington had been working up * blind tiger cases and had a warrant for tho arrest of Little. lie went to Little's houso Friday night about 9 o'clock and arrested him. When they reached the door Little shot thedetective, tho ball passing entirely through his body, so that death was; I almost Instantaneous. Little shot' > Jefferson in the back and threatened the negro hack driver who had brought them off. lie then made off. . Thousands Got nations. Out of approximately 70,000 persons who havo been driven from tholr homos by the Mississippi Itivor floods, the United States army relief corps i? dispensing rations dally to nearly 140,000 people and such of the others as need assistance are being cared for by local relief coronitttees. It takes a good deal of the hard earned money of the wool hat boys . In the shape of* taxes to pay a man twenty dollars per day to travel over the State and havo a good time. That . sort of a job beats ploughing all hollow