Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED EN 18i ROBBERS IN BOSTON. ELEVEN PERSONS SHOT BY TWO - MEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. They are Believed to Belong to Band of Three Robbers Who Shot Up Saloon Night Before. A dispatch from Boston says that ?eleven persons were shot Wednesday night, three of them probably fa tally, by. two desperadoes, who on being pursued by policemen and a crowd of citizens fled for two miles through, a thickly settled district of Jamacia Plain, firing madly r'. ht and left and' disappeared in the woods near Franklin Park. The men are believed to be two of the gang of three who robbed a saloon in Jamacia Plain Friday night, after killing one man and wounding two others. Herbert E. Knox, night watchman of the Forest Hills Cemetery, who was shot in the abdomen.died at Emergency Hos pital. Mrs. Delia Fallon is one of the seriously injured of the victims. She was standing in front of her home with her baby in her arms, ? when the two men, pursued by a crowd came down the street. As they passed her one of them fired and the bullet entered her head be hind her right ear. She was remov ed to the city hospital in a critical ' -condition. Edward McMahon, a Dorchester patrolman, received a bullet in the' < abdomen and will probably die. The , ?others injured are: John Nolan, shot in arm; Thomas Fleming, shot in hand; Thomas Moore, street car conductor, snot in leg; Officer Ing- , alls, bullet in leg; Officer Cox, shot in ankle; Patrick McGinn, shot In the sde: Michael Flynn, head grazzed by bullet; Patrolman Thomp son, shot in leg. It is believed that the desperadoes lay concealed in Calvary Cemetery while the police were hunting for them on account of Tuesday night's , hold-up and robbery. Being driven from their hiding place by hunger and fearing they ?would be surrounded by the police, who were searching the neighbor hood, the two men appeared on Charles street, in Jamacia Plain, at about dusk, and proceeded to "shoot up" the town. They looked like Italians and were roughly dressed. Some citizens who;'had been assisting in the hunt lor tie robbers saw the men and tried to?intercept -them, -whereupon the two began running, and with a revolver in each hand fled along Charles, South. Lee and Keys streets, firing at every person in their path. ? Throughout the residential dis trict the front porches of the houses were thick with people enjoying the evening air while the busi ness section were filled with the usual throngs. The appearance of the two desperate men shooting to each side as they ran and shouting as if crazy.caused a general stampede lor cover. Michael Flynn stopped to pick up a stone as he saw the men coming toward, him, and instantly one of them fired at him, the bullet grazing his ear; another went through his hat. As the fugitives, running along Keys street, reached Washington street, a trolley car came along. "'Hold up,-," shouted one of the men, waiving his revolver above his head. The motorman set the brakes and the conductor, Thomas Moore, jumpd off. Instantly he be came a target and a bullet entered his leg. \ Across Washington street and along Keys street the robbers fled, hundreds of men pursuing, and soon disappeared in Franklin Park, shoot ing down Officer Cox, who tried to intercept them near the park, gate. As soon as possible a cordon of po lice, heavily armed with rifles and revolvers, was thrown about the park, while thousands of citizens gathered in the vicinity. According to a small boy, who saw the men reload their weapons in a sand hill near the park early in the ?evening, each man carried three re Tolvers. Patrolmen McMahon and Thompson sighted the supposed Italians in the neighborhood of the park late in the evening and went down before their well directed fire. At 11 o'clock the chase had passed beyond the park southward. A re port was circulated that the quarry "had been seen near the corner of Morton and Canterbury streets, and a squad of police was hurried there in automobiles. * BODY CUT BY SHARK. After Several Days Searching, Body of Cadet Was Found. A dispatch from Savannah. Ga., says: Half the body of young Harry Lovett. the young Benedictine cadet, "who was mysteriously drowned while swimming off the north end of Ty b'ee on Monday has been found. The lower portion of his body with both feet eaten away washed up against the sea wall of Fort Screven early Thursday morning and has been brought to the city for burial. The remains were found by companions and friends of lad, who have been ?ceaselessly patrolling the beach since the tragedy. The condition of that portion of the body recovered seems to Indicate that it was a shark which attacked the young man while going lor a long swim. * The finding of the lacerated por tion of the body ca-t a gloom over the entire island. Men with seins are now trying to find the rest of Ix)vet? 69. FIGHT OVER RELIGION. Two Women , of Greenville Disagree Over Religious Matters. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says that before Magistrate Stradley Thursday was heard an un usual case In whicn Mrs.j?ane Chap man of Sampson village was put un der a $200 peace bond. Mrs. Chap man made an assault upon the "per son and face" *-f Mr3. Jones of the same village, the fight having occur red in consequence of a disagreement over religious matters^ Both of the parties, it appears, are of the Holi ness sect and previous to the distur bance they had attended services to gether. In summer these Holiness services are held in a teut on Park place, and for the past three nights all-night services have been held and prayers have been offered for, the city of Greenville, that it may be/saved from destruction. One of the preachers of this cult is a believer in the "gift of tongues" and in the course of a sermon Sun day night he told some remarkable incidents of the descending of this "gift" upon men. He declared that in a Georgia town at a meeting last summer a farmer was converted and became sanctified, and that-he im mediately began speaking. In an un known tongue, which afterwards turned out to be Chinese, and the man was sent as a missionary to China, walking to a seaport town and there embarking without money for the Orient. Upon his arrival he ' was puzzled to find himself conver-j sant with the people's manners and customs and could speak the langu age fluently. His advent so impress ed the people, according to the preacher's statement, that the Chin ese received him as a prophet and immediately made him their coun sellor. , This story was told just as It is given and was given by the Holiness preacher as an illustration of what may be accomplished by sanctlfica tion. The "gift of tongues" has descend ed upon several and in the congre gation now and then one may hear strange mutterings which are mean ingless to the uninitiated, but which seem to be a source of nevtr failing comfort to the devotees of this stran gest of all cults. * PLEAD NOT GUILTY. Eight Young M*m, .Suspended From West Point, Call on War Secretary. Secretary of War Wright^who re turned to Washington Friday from a trip of inspection of -the manouver camp at Chattanooga, received a call from the eight young men who, as cadets at the Military Academy at West Point, have been found guilty of hazing and sentenced to dismissal. Mr. Wright has not had time to ex amine the report which has been submitted to him. After a few minutes' informal talk with the young men, all of whom the Secretary said subsequently impressed him as bright, manly fellows, Secretary Wright said: "Now, honest, boys, tell me just what you did to get yourselves into this scrape." Cadet Rossell, an honor man of the fifth class, and a son of Lieut. Col. Wm. T. Rossell, of the engineer corps of the army, stepped forward as spokesman. He s?to* perhaps h'? had been more to blame than any of the others, but he felt that none had committed serious offences. He ex plained frankly and briefly the na ture o f their hazing of the plebes. "Bracing." Rossel!, explained, was "an exagerated form of bringing a plebe to 'attention.' " He said that all of them had been through such an experience, which, far from be ing brutal or humiliating, tended to make the right sort of men of ca dets. Secretary Wright informed ' the young men that he would give care ful atention to the report and take their cases under advisement, indi cating that, it might be several days before final disposition was reached. The Court is understood to have been unanimous on the dismissal Sentence. In the opinion of the war department officials; therefore, the Secretary must either approve the findings or set them aside al together. The law is mandatory un der the authorities to dismiss cadets guilty of hazing, and it is not dis cretionary 'with even the Secretary of War to minimize punishment. * CHOKED MAD DOG. Brave Woman Kills Dog That At j After a desperate struggle, lasting I ten minutes, Mrs. Mary E. Forrest er, of Memphis, Tenn., who weighs less than one hundred pounds, chok ed to death a powerful dog believed to be rabid, which had attacked her at her home in Buntyn avenue. The dog. a sixty-pound Shepherd, standing two feet high, the pet of the neighborhood, attacked her after he had bitten Miss Mamie Ditto, a neighbor. Mrs. Forrester turned upon the dog as he seized the hem of her skirt, and grasping him un der the head, closed her fingers tight ly about his neck. All over the porch the woman and dog fought, the animal several times nearly drag ging his captor from the porch. Fin ally, as she was becoming exhaust ed! the brute's stru .gles became feebler, and Mrs. Forrester did no' relax her grip until he collapsed and lay still in death. tacked Her. FARMERS' UNION STATE ASSOCIATION CONVENED IN COLUMBIA. Resolutions Are Adopted Declaring Against Immigration From South era Europe and Eastern Asia. While cleaning a tank on a bath bers of the South Carolina Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union met Thursday morning at 7 ofclock In the hall of the House and several addresses were delivered. At 9 o'clock an adjournment was taken and ? ride around Columbia an special cars was enjoyed for sev sral hours, all the important places being visited. This ride was given by the City Federation of Trades. The ride was completed about noon when the Union assembled in the theatre, where a reception was tendered them by the Columbia Cham ber of Commerce.They werewelcorned by Mayor Pro Tem F. S. Earle, and this speech was responded to by Hon. J. Belton Weston, of Anderson. After the speeches the farmers re tired to the stage, where a refresh ing spread was laid in waiting, and after this was consumed cigars were passed around and jokes -and- cam paign stories were in order. At 8.30 Thursday night there was an open meeting held in the hall of the House, and the Union was ad dressed by President Barrett, presi dent of the National Union. At the morning session Mr. J. H. Paten, secretary of the Immigration Restriction League, delivered a very able ^address on "Immigration and its Relations to the South." Among the resolutions adopted were the following: Whereas, foreign immigration' is being advocated for the South; and whereas, our United States' immlgrai tion commission is investigating the attitude of the South and particular ly the atiitude of the agricultural classes; Therefore be it resolved, That the Farmers' Educational and Co-opera tive Union, of South Carolina, make known its opposition to the inducer ment, distribution and diversion of the present alien influx from South ern Europe and Eastern Asia, and urge our State and national officials, especially Congressmen and Sena tors, to prevent the Southland being made a dumping ground for foreign immigration. And be is further Resolved, That the local presidents and lecturers emphasize this ques tion, and that copies of this resolu ton be sent to the immigration com mission at Washington, D. C, to our Congressmen and the the press." Another resolution along the same line is as follows: "Resolved. By the Farmers' Edu cational and Co-operative Union of America, in and by the State Union of South Carolina, now In session, do hereby memorialize and demand that at the next session of our Gen. eral Assembly they abolish the State immigration bureau, and request that every candidate for the same declare upon the stump in the present campaign his attitude on the mater." On the subject of a State fertiliz er factory, which has been frequent ly discussed heretofore, the follow ing was adopted: "Whereas the farmers of South Carolina have paid this year $2,022. 500 more for fert'lizers than they did five years ago; therefore be it resolved: "That we request every Union man present or absent to question the candidates for the House and Senate to try to pledge them to a bill providing for the sale of the State farm and the establishment cf a guano plant in this State to furnish guanr to the farmers at a 10 per cent net profit to the Stnt -: i fac tory to be operated by th< C-. nvicts in 'he Penitentiary." lr regards to cotton compresses tne IQ, S. C. TUESDAY. J?I THE FIRST STEP. following was adopted: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this Union that our cotton ought to be he compressed at the gins and ;otton lmgging be used on such com pressed bales, and that we ask the National Union to take this matter jp and press it to speedy conclusion." Thursday night an open session was held, which was attendeJ by nany ladles and citizens who are not nembers of the Union. An address svas delivered by National President Barrett, of Georgia, who explained to some . extent the purposes and ivork of the organization and told of its rapid growth within the last few years. Mr. Barrett declared that iny differences which may have ex isted within the Union have been settled, and that the members are aow in thorough ' accord. At the conclusion of his sp?ech President Barrett was presented with a hand-, some walking cane by State Presl ient Harris on behalf of the South Carolina Union. The open'- session" vas then concluded and the Conven tion went into secret session with members of all other unions being invited to remain. A number of re presentatives of local trades unions participated in this secret session. . The officers elected by the State Union are as follows: President, B. Harris, of Pendle ton; vice president, A. J. Perritt, of Lamar; secretary and treasurer; J. W. Reed, of Reidville; chaplain, W. E. Bodie, of Saluda; conductor, W. E. Hopkins, of Richland; doorekeep er, A. P. Calvert, of Abbeville; ser geant-at-arms, W. P. Caskey, of Lan caster. Executive committee: Sec ond district, N. R. Parks," of Parks ville; 3d district, J. L. Keitt, of New berry; 4th district, O. P. Goodwin, of Laurens; 5th district, J. Frank Ashe, of McConnellsville; 6th dis trict, T. C. Willoughby, of Florence; 7th district, L. L. Baker, of Bishop ville. The Farmers' Union is a secret organization, the purposes of which are educational and ce-operative. The organization numbers in its membership some of the most in telligent and progressive farmers in South Carolina, and it is said that there are now about 20,000 members in this State. The Union teaches the farmer to rely on his individual efforts, and by co-operation to bet ter the condition of himseif and his rellows. The delegates who are in attendance on this Convention are displaying a deep interest in agricul tural and labor conditions, and by exchange of ideas are making them selves familiar with conditions throughout the State and the South. Many of Its members are naturally alive and influential in politics, but the Union is kept free as possible from such matters, and it is quite evident that while the organization is united to a man for its principles the individual members are exercis ing their own judgment about candi dates and political issues. * CHILI) KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Several Other Members of Spartan burg County Family Shocked. The 8-year-old daughter of W. C. Turner, a farmer residing in Spar tanburg county, near Arkwright, was instantly killed by lightning late Wednesday afternoon. The bolt stur-ned several members of the family and set fire to the house. Mr. Turner's efforts extinguished the flames. * Two Killed by Escaping Gas. Whle cleaning a tank on a bath house roof, at Port Huron, Mich., last week, Charles Thorton was kill ed by gas, as was George Moore, who tried to rescue him. * Souvenir Hunters Steal Bronze. Souvenirs hunters have taken fro:a the Boston State Mouse bronze mteal to the value of more than $1,000. * Miners Believe in Unionism. The Western Federation A Miners has reaffirmed Its faith in industral unionism. ? ,Y 28, 1908. ?Macaulay in New York World. SALES DECREASED. AUDITOR WEST'S FIGURES ON DISPENSARY SALES. Sales and Profits From Twenty-four Counties. Seventeen in the State Are Dry. Mr. W B. West, the state dispen sary auditor completed Wednesday night his statement of the sales, breakage and net profit of tae dis pensaries during the quarter, April, May and June. The statement shows a considerable decrease in the con sumption of intoxicants, as compar ed with that of the preceding quarter the figures being as follows: Sales. Jan.. Feb March.. . . $970,964.01 April, May, June.. .. 777,296.34 pecrease. ..$193,663.67 In the items of net profit there is a corresponding decrease: Profit. Jan, Feb, March.$268,941.98 April, May, June. 180,422.34 Decrease.$ 8$,519.64 These figures are from the 96 dis pensaries in the 24 dispensary coun ties. Of the dispensary counties, five have more than five dispensaries each, these being Aiken, with six, Barnwell with ten, Charleston with fourteen, Orangeburg with seven and Richland with ten. The report does not give the fi gures by individual dispensaries, be ing compiled by county totals, but it will be noted that since Augusta went dry by legislative enactment, the Aiken county dispensaries, par ticular1-' that at North Augusta, have been doing much better business The figures in the report which re fer to Aiken county are as follows: - Sales, $65,219.60; breakage $519, 75; net profit, $14,310.79. With these compare the figures for Barnwell, which has four more dispensaries. Sales, $33,605.40; breakage $466. 45; net profit $6,328.67. During the quarter Charleston county's fourteen dispensaries sold goods to the extent of $152,533.75; earning a net profit thereon of $20, 322.29. Richland's ten dispensaries sold ,$ 118,094.85 worth; earnmg profits aggregating $27,050.03 The report, which is of consider able length, but very clear and readily intelligible, goes on to give the sales, breakage and net profit by the counties through the whole list. It will be noted that the ratio of profit to sales in not regular. This condition arises from the fact that the selling price of the goods is fix ed by the several county boards and some of them collect a larger per centage of profits than others. * LIGHTNING STRIKES HOTEL. Inmates at Resort at Yade Mecum Springs, N. C, Have Narrow Escape. Lightning struck the big hotel at Vade Mecum Springs, Stokes County, N\ C, early Friday morning and started a fire which soon reduced the structure to ashes. Many of the inmates narrowly escaped with their lives and all of them lost tneir per sonal effects, the management hav ing to call upon a recort several miles away to furnish wearing ap parel for them as well as food. Nc accurate estimate of the loss is ob tainable. The resort, including the famous mineral springs and a vasi tract of mountain laud, is ownec chiefly by the widow of the late J H. L. Sparks, the circus man, wh( lost his life t: ere several years ag< by blood poi oning resulting fron ?.he bite of a pot lion. DEAD MAN AT DOOR. ! Body of Negro Remained Upright 1 for Several Hours. The Savannah News says opening the door of his home at midnight Saturday Stephen Williams, colored, looked into the dead face of Baker Booker, a nergo man who died as he knocked at the door for admittance and remained standing almost up right to greet the man who answer ed his knock. William lives at Meinhard station, He was awakened during Saturday night and went to the door. A man on the outside asked for admission, but was refustu, Williams believing the man drunk. The knocking ceased for a while and Williams re turned to his bed. Afterwards it was renewed and Williams went again to the door.opened it and saws a man ap parently leaning against the door jamb. He received no answer to ques tions and a closer look into the man's face showed he was dead. The ne gro remained at Williams' door un til late Sunday morning, when Coro ner Stanley was notified and went to Meinhard. A jury was impanelled and an inquest held. It was decided that Booker died from dropsey. Booker is supposed to have walked from his home in South Carolina. He was about 40 years of age. It is believed he knew death "was ap proaching and tried to get help when he knocked at Williams' door. Coroner Stanley stated that Booker could hardly have been saved had a physician reached him at that time. * UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PICKED Dr. S. C. Mitchell, of Richmond Col lege, Chosen. *' The board of trustees of the Uni versity of South Carolina Saturday morning elected Dr. Samuel Chiles Mitchell, of Richmond College, of Richmond, Va., president or the Uni versity of South Carolina. Dr. Mit chell is recognized as one of the strongest educators in the South and the board feels it has done a good work not only for the University, but for the State, in getting Dr. Mitchell to accept the presidency of the Uni versiy. Dr. Mitchell is at present engaged in delivering a series of lectures at Brown University and at Harvard University under the exchange sys tem that has been recently instituted. The professor of history at Brown University is to be abroad as a mem ber Of the maritime commission and Dr. Mitchell has been invited to de liver the major portion of the lectur es. It is on account of this engage ment, made last winter, that Dr. Mitchell is unable to come to the University at the opening of the next session. He will spend some time here this summer and again at in tervals during the' course of next session." During the interval the University will be In charge of Prof. A. C. Moore, who is now vice presi dent of the faculty, and the board feels that during the inter-regnum the affairs of the university will be well conducted. * WANTS HIS NAME CHANGED. C. Flourney Asks Judge Hy?rick at Spnrtanburg for Relief. A dispatch from Spartanburg, says C. Flourney, promoter, of North and South Carolina, who, several weeks ago startled the financial world b' stating that he had formed a company to organize the Thermal Iron and Steel Railway Company, with a capital of $1,000,000, and proposed to build a line from Tryon to Spartanburg, appeared before Judge Hydriok Friday and asked that his name be changed {o Walter C. Flourney, stating that his former na.Tie had been injured, and he want ed to start out anew. Flourney, it will be remembered, was arrested in Greenville some time ago, and after several days' confinement was re leased. ? * TROOPS ORDERED OUT. Feeling Between Americans and Ita linns at Natalbany, La., AcuK\_ A dispatch from Natalbany, La., says a company of State troops from Jefferson Parish arrived Friday night as a protection against further out breaks of racial antagonism between Italians and Americans. The troops were ordered out by Governor Sand ers at the request of Sheriff Saal, after the dynamiting of an Italian store. George and Tony Lambia. accus ed of the murder of the American youth, Walter Simmons, have not yet been captured, a fact which has served to keep many members of the American population in a menacing frame of mind. Threats have been made that Italians will not be allow ed to return until the accused men are captured. QUITS EDITORIAL CHAIR. Mr. Bryan Resigns His Position as Editor of The Commoner. Beginning with Thursday, Mr. Bryan retires as editor of The Com moner, a signed letter in the paper announcing that his candidacy for the presidency makes it necessary for him to take such action. Coupl ed wi'h it, is the interesting state ment tha as a personal campaign contribution the profits of The Com moner over and above actual expen ses will be turned over to the De mocratic national committee. '4 ?1.50 PEB ANKUM. HIT BY LIGHTNING. THREE MEN KILLED WHILE ELE MENTS PLAY. Fierce Storm at the Famous Battle Ground of Gettysburg Results With Three Dead. A dispatch from Gettysburg, Pa., saj-s an all night search throughout Camp Hayes, where the 10,000 men of the National Guard of Pennsylvania have been in camp for a week, and which was Thursday night visited by a terrific electrical and wind storm, shows that three soldiers were struck dead by lightning, and that nearly half a hundred other persons were injured. It was probably the wild est night the historic batleground has experienced since the memorable July days of 1863. Thoso killed were: Corporal C. Milton Garber, 10th regiment, Washington. James A. Barbe, 10th regiment, Waynesb?rg. Clyde Morrison, 16th regiment, Oil City. The cots of the hospitals are fill ed with the Injured, some of whom are women and children who had been visiting the camp. The tent, which Governor Stuart had been occupying during the week's encampment, was blown down and the Governor and those who were his guests at that time, were buried under the canvass. To add to the excitement the tall iron flagstaff in front of the tents of Governor Stuart and Gen. Wiley was struck, stinging several members of the Governor's staff. Barbe was sitting in his tent with another soldier when he was envelop ed in a blue flame, following a terri fic crash, and he fell dead. The other soldier was only stunned. In each case of those killed the new army puttees furnished just be fore the men went into camp were torn from their limbs, the steel ribs Leing exposed. The storm, which had been brewing all evening, broke suddenly. 'ihe wind blew with al most cyclonic force, the rain came down in torrents and the lightning was the severest seen here in years.' For a time utter confusion riigned, but as the storm pased off the com manders of the several regiments in the 2d brigade brought about order and began a systematic search for Injured guardsmen. They were re moved to the hospital tent and given atentlon by regimental surgeons, assisted by physicians summoned from the town of Gettysburg. * CECIL RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS. Executors Give Information About Qualification of Beneficiaries.' The trustees ?! the will of the late Cecil Rhodes Friday announced for information of college authorities and intending candidates for scholar ships in the United States for the > next qualifying examination for scholars in this country under the Rhodes bequest will be held in Oc tol 3r, 1909, and the elected scholars will begin residence in Oxford in October of the same year. The ex amination will be held in each State and Territory to which scholarships are assigned, at centers to", be fixed by the local committee of selection. It should be clearly understood that this examination is not compe titive, but simply qualifying and is merely intended to give assurance,,:' that evory elected scholar is up to the standard of the first examination which the university demands of all candidates for the B. A. degree. One scholar will be chosen for each State and Territory to which scholarships 1 are assigned. Candidates must be1 unmarried, and must be citizens of the United States. Candidates are eligible who have passed their nineteenth birthday, but have not passed their twenty-fifth birthday. * ADMIRAL RO.l ESVENSKY DEAD. Commander of Russian Fleet in Bat tle of the Sea of Japan Succumbs. Vice Admiral Rojesvensky, who commanded the ill-fated Russian fleet which was annihilated by the Japanese in the Sea of Japan in May, 1905, died at Bad Nauheim, Ger many, Monday. It is believed that the heart affection resulted from in juries received by Admiral Rojesv ensky in the battle of the Sea of Ja pan. Quits Race After Accident. Col. H. G. Catrow, Republican candidate for Congress from the Third district of Ohio, has announced his withdrawal from the race be cause his automobile struck and kill ed Eugene Sullivan in Dayton, O. ? Fulfilled Her Own Prediction. To fulfill her own prediction that she would die June 2S, Mrs. Leroy Noble took strychnine and killed herself at Jamestown, N. Y., accord ing to the coroner's finding. Glass in Stomach for Eight Years. An autopsy over the rt tains ot Norman Garrison, of Salem, ?a., re vealed that he had carried a piece of glass In his stomach for the past eight years. His stomach had given him constant pain. Six Killed in S' - Ho rs. Inside of six hours six foreigners were run down by trains and killed at Buffalo, N. Y., one day last week.*