The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, July 02, 1910, Image 1
3PCBLISBED THREE T3$
? UY?S ARE LOST
SIX BODIES RECOVF^V^
MORE
Twenty-Six \ >-?*es Along the Lick
ing River Are Swept Away and
?Great Damage Was Done.
. A dispatchrfrona Salyersvilie, Ky.,
?says six bodies were taken fiom the ]
swollen waters of the Licking river |
and fearing that, great damage has |
.teen done and'that more lives have!
?been tost as & result of a cloudburst;
fiear the headwaters of the stream, I
rescuing parties have left there for j
the mountain regions to the east.
The dead are: ?
Mrs. John Sheppard.
William Con ley.
Unidentified dead.
:A white man; aged..about 50.
Jl white boy.
- ?Telephone connection with .the j
scene of the cloud burst has been
?ut off. Jit is known that twenty-six
houses were washed away.
Eastern' Kentucky has been delug
ed with heavy rainfialte for practical
lyr a week and the storm, which is
understood to have been a clouu
burst, has put the waters of the al
ready swollen Licking, entirely out
of its banks. The; wreckage -^as ob
served floating past Salyers ille at.
daylight and the . work of "oping J
liouses and rescuing live stocl, w?sl
begun. This resulted in a short |
time'ihfrthe finding vof .fomr -bodies.
There are no cities or towns of
any size above Salyersvilie on the
Licking, but there are several moun
tain villages and the country is fair
ly well populated. The region" is'
?difficult of access and although there \
are no railroads,, wire communica
tion is carried on when: conditions
are normal.
? Six bodies have been . recovered.
They include Mr. and Mrs. Gayheart
and child. John Conley and John
Weinerman, farmers, are among
4hose -reported, .mif-sing. *
. "FAVORITE SOX" DEAD.
Sesator Daniel, of Virginia, Passes
? Away at Lynchburg.
John W. Daniel, -senior Senator |
from Virginia, and for more than j
thirty years Virginia's "favorite son," j
?died at the Lynchb?rg Sanitarium at
10.35 o'clock Wednesday night,. Iiis"
?death being due.to a recurrence of
paralysis. The immediate cause of
' his death was a cerebral hemor
rhage, sustained at noon/in the right!
portion of .his brain, involving the
fight side. This was in addition t?j
the Paralysis, of the left side, which j
was sustained last winter, while inj
Plorida tpr his health.
.The statesman's illness began with
=a slight attack of apoplexy, -n-Phila
delphia, last October, which kept
3iim from being in his sef.t at the
opening of Congress last December.
Only once since- that had he appear
?d before an audience, and that was
for an informal talk in January.
;:The end came' almost without a
struggle." indeed, the family present
could not notice the slight, struggle
which was noted by-Dr. Waugh.
I, HAMILTON: IS ELECTIIOCUTED.
He Killed an Affinity Who.Tiled to
Shake Him Off.
Angelo Hamilton, who. was con
"victed. of murdering Mrs. SaUie B.
Hlx,. at Lyhchburg, Va., June 13,
1909, was put to death in the lec
tric chair in the Virginia state peni- j
tentiary at Richmond early Friday.
Mrs. Hamilton came 'to Richmond
'with her children to intercede with
?the governor for the commutation of j
Hamilton's sentence.
The crime for which Hamilton was
?electrocuted was committed in Lyn
chbur?. Va.. June 13. 1909. Hamil
ton had been infatuated with the
?woman and she had sought to free
herself from him. On that night
Mrs. Hix went to a dance. Hamil
ton fol'owed her to the hall. On
the way home Hamilton shot her j
several timed. He was 25 year of |
.age.
j Unknown Negro Murders Texan.
'Intense excitement prevails in the
-vicinity of Mount Vernon Texas,
?as the result of the killing of Bob
Stanley, of that city; by an unknown
negro. Posses have "been searching
for the murder all night, but so far j
he has succeeded in eluding his'pur-J
: suers.
Military Prisoner's Fate.
Lieut. AdoU Hofrichter, of the
. Austrian army, has been sentenced
-.to be publicly cashiered and to serve
20 years in prison for sending poison
? capsules to officers in the General
Army staff. Capt Mader died from
Tthe effects of the posion.
Young Lady Drowned.
Miss Aimee Creary, the 18?year-,|
? old daughter of H. L. Creary, was |
?drowned while bathing in surf with
a party of girl friends at Milon, Fla.,
Wednesday afternoon. Efforts of i
her companions to rescue her were
. of no avail.
Persistent Suit Causes Fatality.
Annoyed by his persistent demand
that she become his wife. Miss Rosy
Perrino. aged Jo. of Chicago. III.,
shot and perhaps fatally wounded I
Anitonio Rossi. He is in the hospi-l
tal and is expected to die.
IBS-A;-"W*EEK;
COTTON M?LLS CLOSED FRIDAY.
Will Cat Off One-Twelfth of Cotton
Goods Output.
The great curtailment movement
among the mills of the Piedmont be
gan Friday, July 1st. Mills in North
Carolina, South Carolina and Geor
gia will close down until the morn
ing of the 15th. Out of 3.CDO.0O0
ispindles 2,7500,000 have signified
that they would join in the curtail
ment which will be at least a month
in ?ir during the summer. The move
ment will mean a cutting off of from
1,000,000 to 2,000,000 pieces of
cloth or one-twelfth of the output.
Mr. August W. Smith, president
of the Woodruff mills, when asked
Thursday night about the closing
.down of the mills said: ..
"There is a loss in every pound
of cloth we are putt'in put and we
have to curtail to coyer-in part this
loss and create a demand Sor our
goods. I should say the output will
be cut down one-twelfth by che cur
tailment which will be done this
summer, and which will amount to
in all about four weeks' time."
r Mr. Jc>hn A. Law, president of the
Saxon Mills said:
"There will be the largest curtail
ment among the cotton mills of
.Spartanhurg . county ever known.
The price of manufactured goods is
put of proportion with the price of
cotton. ? A great many of the mills
will close down on the first of July
and others on" the 25th."
BRIDES ONLY FEW HOURS.
Married Two Prisoners That Had Re
ceived Death Sentences.
Two brides were made widows a
few hours after the wedding cere
monies were performed in the pen
itentiary at Vallado'id, Yucatan,
says a dispatch from Mexico City,
Mexico, when their husbands faced
a firing squad selected to execute
them in accordance with sentences
passed upon them after trial by. the
/war ;'department for7 sed':ioii*' and,
murder, the accusation growing out
of their participation in the recent
uprising at Valladolid. F.<r several
days'a number of prisoners have been
on trial. Three were sentenced to
death and executed Thursday aftci
noon; three were sentenced to fifteen
years and four were sentencd to 13
years and Jour months in prison.
Immediately after the death sen
tences .were pronounced on the three
men' charged ' with murder " two a<*k
ed permission to marry before they
.were executed. Their requests wer-?
granted by the authorities and the
young women to whom they were
engaged went to the prison at the
hour agreed upon for the marriage
ceremonies. <
CAPITALIST A SUICIDE.
Appearance of Mysterious Wife the
Cause of Tragedy.
As a sequel to the appearance of
a woman in Unibntown, Pa., reg
istered at a hotel as Mrs. Mad Ros
enberg, the man whose name she
thus used, committed suicide by fir
ing a bullet through his .head. It
was not known to his friends that
the man had married a second time,
but- fche woman declares she became
his wife in Pittsburg. Rosenberg
was worth about $100,000 and for
many years had been a principal
stockholder in the Arch Distillery
company. Early in the morning of
his death Xxe appeared on the streets
and discussed business matters with
his friends. He was 60 years of age
and had been living a retired life for
a number of years.
TAKES HIS OWX I JFK.
Prominent and Wealthy Citizen of
Charlotte Suicides,
James W. Wadswerth, one of the
wealthiest and best known citizens
of Charlotte. N. C. committed sui
cide Wednesday afternoon, at ::.;10
ociock. T.he weapon used was a ..'12
calibre Colts pistol and death re
sulted within two hours after tin
shooting. The excessive use of stim
ulants and worry over business mat
ters were given in a statement issued
by the family as the cause for the
act. A brother of Mr. Wadsworth,
took his life in a Greensboro hotel
last year.
Di*.?th from Lockjaw.
The little S-year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Landlord died
at the home of her parents in the
mill village at Lexington Sunday
evening from lockjaw. On las
Tuesday the title jirl ran a nail in
her foot, but little attention was giv
en, the parents thinking of course,
that she would soon je well. On
Saturday s?e was taken violently ill
and Sunday morning lockjaw set
in. The little one was the pride of
her parents and her death has cast
a pall of sorrow over the entire
household. Her remains were laid to
rest in the Lexington city cemetery
Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
Three Will Die on Siime Gallows.
The four negroes convicted of the
murder of Moterman S. T. Brown,
in DeKalb county Ga., on April 2:5.
.have been sentenced to hang by
Judge Roan, in the DeKalb county
jail. It is probable tiiat all will be
hung on the same gallows. The ne
groes are: Charles Julian. Jim Black
and Ed Weaver and Charley Walker.
RAN INTO CAR
INJURING FOURTEEN OR MORE
PASSENGERS.
Georgia, Southern and Florida En
gine Ran Into Passenger Train,
.Overturning Coach Near Valdosta.
Crashing into a loaded coach
a passenger train of the Georgia'
Florida railroad In the yards at Val
dosta, Ga., Wednesday a loose e
gine of the Georgia Southern and
r'lcrida railrf>r<, Jh.ei tK?J rv.icb
broke it from the r.-iT?!in!pr of the
train- and carried it 60 feet, lurnln
it over and injuring fourteen of Uie
passengers and trainmen.
The loose engine was on one of
the branches of a Y track with ch
passenger on the other.
Among tnosr :njuiel we t*
W. T. Staten, Valdosta, shoulder
and left side badly hurt, probable
internal injury.
Mrs. F. R. Daniels and litt,
daughter, badly bruised and shock
ed, little girl's face cut.
?Mrs. F. S. Martin, Madsion, Fla
side and shou'der injured.
Andrew Lettley, Pinetta,' Fla., one
shoulder and leg broken.
Mr. Whittington, Boston, Ga., ear
cut and left side.injuded.
. Conductor Lofton on passenger
train had face cut and throat slash
ed. ? .
Rev. Mr. Funk, Ohio, badly bruis
ed. .- - .'
W. M. Henderson, Ray's Mi$, Ga.
head and one whole side injured.
G. M. Boyd and Dan Thompson
both of Valdosta, were badly bruis
ed.
J. W. West, Valdosta, was cut on
the face and his side badly bruised.
W. T. Lane, Valdosta, face and
neck cut and bad bruises.
J. W. West and C. W. Sinclair
were sitting together on the side of
the coach where the engine struck.
They were thrown across the car
'and through .windows to the ground;
The coach turned over above them
but tJhey had fallen into an excava
tion and thus escaped death.
BULLETS HIT NINE.
One Principal Dead, Other Dying and
Bystanders Wounded,
One man is" dead, one is dying
and seven other persons are In hos
pitals with more or less serious
wounds as the result of a duel fought
on one of the most crowded thour
?oughfares of Cleveland, 0. The'
trouble started in a quarel between ?
Frank Viena and Antoine Mercurio
over the alleged: ill-treatment of his;,
wife by Mercurio. The two men
were standing in front of a soloun
when they drew revolvers and began:
firing at each other. A number of
persons rushed forward to seperate
them, but before the shooting could1
be stopped Viena was dead, Mercurio
fatally wounded, and seven stray'
bullets had found billets in as many
of the bystanders.
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BEARS CHARMED LIFE.
Bullet Passes Through His Body
Without Fatal Resiilt.
Robert Roberts, of Oak Grove, La.,
believes that he bears a charmed life.
He was the guest the other day of
his neighbor, Jacob McGahl. To cel
ebrate the occasion McGahl decided
to have fried chicken for dinner and
invited Roberts to help corral a pul
let. When the host fired a Win
chester rifle the chicken's neck was
severed and at the same time his
guess was perforated by the bullet
on the rebound. The bullet passed
entirely through Roberts' body, but
in spite of this he ate the chicken
dinner and the doctors say he wit!
get well.
ELEPHANTS ON RAMPAGE.
Charge Dwelling But Are Stopped by
Stout Maple Tree.
Angered by the efforts of train
ers to seberate them from two small
elephants; two big elephants belong
ing to a circus Friday engaged in
a wild charge down the main street
of Greely. Colo.
The elephants, which were chain
ed together crashed through a fence
into the front yard of a resident,
tearing up lawn and shrubbery: They
were making straight for Uie house,
which would in all probability have
been wrecked in the collision, when
they were brought to a stop by a
stout maple tree on either side of
which they atempted to pass.
Found in Shark.
After a long struggle several men
captured a man eating shark 36-feet
long, weighing about 1"> tons. In t.he
straits of San Del Fuca, be
tween Port Cresent and Port Angel
es, near Seattle. Wash. In the shark,
.they found pieces of bones and a
piece of kodac plate.
Young Man in Trouble.
A dispatch from Laurens to the
News and Courier says James Y.
Wallace, clerk in the pestoftie. was
take Thursday afternoon to Green
ville by Deputy Sheriff Major, to be
given a hearing before United States
Commissioner Magill on a charge of
tampering with letter mail, with no
intent.
?B?, S. CY, SATURDAY,
THE STATE CAMPAIGN 17ENIRY.
Schedule of Meetings to Be Held in
This State.
The itinerary for the campaign is
as follows:
? Winnsboro?Saturday, July 2.
Lexington?Wednesday, July 6.
Saluda?Thursday, July 7.
Edgefield?Friday, July 8.
Aikeri?Saturday, July 9.
Bamberg?Monday, July 11.
Barn well?Tuesday, July 12.
Hampton?Wednesday, July 13.
Beaufort?Thursday, July 14.
Walterboro?Friday, July 15
Charleston?Saturday, July 16.
St. George?Tuesday, July 19.
Orangeburg?Wednesday, July 20.
St. Matthews?Thursday, July 21.
Manning?Friday, July 22.
Moncks Corner?Tuesday, July 26.
Georgetown?Wednesday, July 27.
Kingstree?Friday, July 29.
Florence?Saturday, July * 30.
Dillon?Tuesday, August 2.
Marion?Wednesday, August 3.
Conway?Thursday, August 4.
Columbia?Saturday, August 6.
Union?Monday, August 8.
Spartanburg?Tuesday, August 9.
'Gaffney?Wednesday, August 10.
Greenville?Thursday, August 11.
Plckens?Friday, August 12.
Walhalla?Saturday, August 13.
Week on* to attend reunion of
Confederates and' "Red Shirts at
Spartanburg, if desired, on August
17 and 18.
Arderson?Monday, Augus* 22.
Abbeville?Wednesday, August 24.
Greenwood?Thursday, August 25.
Laurens?Friday,-August 26.
Newberry?Saturday, August 27.
AN APPRECIATION'
Of Judge Dantzler Passed By the
Anderson Bar.
Last Monday the 'Anderson Bar
Association passed resolutions on
the death of Judge Dantzler. After
several speeches! by members of the'
Bar and Judge Watts as to Judge
Dantzler's fine character and as to
his ability as a judge the following
resolutions were ordered by the
Court spread upon our minutes and
the Court adjo'unred until Tuesday
morning in respect of the deceased
Judge's imemory. The resolutions
were: i
"Whereas, Hon. Chas. G., Dantzler,
of the Circuit* court in this County;
state has died since the last session
of the Circuit court in this ouCnty;
and whereas, we the members of the
Anderson Bar Association desire to'
place on record our appreciation of1
his services to the state as a Judge!
and our testimony of his character
as: a man: ? S
"Therefore be it resolved: That in!
the death of Honorable Chas. G.f
Dantzler the State of South Carolina;
has lost an able and impartial jurist,;
one in, whose judicial, mind was;
combined justice, and mercy; and:
who in the discharge of his duties'
as judge was controlled by the law;
as he understood it, and by an earn-i
est desire that so far as his decisions!
could effect the result, of litigated1
cases before him, right should tri-:
umph and justice prevail.
Resolved further: That on the sev-:
eral occasions when he has presided;
as Judge at Anderson, he endear
ed himself to the members of the'
Bar by his courtesy and patience by
his genial manner and his social in
tercourse with us. He was a right
eous Judge, 'a patriotic citizen, a
genial friend, and as such we deplore
his death. To his wife and family
to whom he was deeply devoted we
extend our sympathy.
"Dated Anderson, S. C, June 27,
1910. And signed by J. E. Breaz
eal, M. L. Bonham. G. H. Geiger,
Committee.
RIOTOUS SCENES.
Police Charge Cnrlists and National
ists in Spanish Town.
A dispatch from Bilbao, Spain on
Thursday says there were further
disturbances growing out of the
strained relations between the gov
ernment of Premier Canaleias and
of the Vatican. A crowd composed
of Carlists and Nationalists Sur-,
rounded the palace of the Governor
of the province and shouted: "Down
with the Governor!"
The police were summoned and
charging the demonstrators with,
fixed bayonets, wounded a number!
of them. The capltol .has been the
scene of many civil clashes. In
1 874 it withstood a long seiue by*
the Carlists.
Auto Ditched.
Rev. E. E. Lashly and Ralph Bied
ler a hardware man from Fostoria,
O.. were instantly killed Friday, and
M. A. Stoneburier and James Mc
Connell were probably fatally in
jured when their automobile jump
ed into a ditch near Sandusky. The
steering sear got out of order and
the chauffeur lost control.
Banker Shot by Unknown Man.
J. H. Civ ens. president, ol the
Bank of Laurel Hill. Fla., and mana
ger of the Florida-Alabama Timber
combany was shot from ambush on
the night of June ."?0. as he was pro
ceeding on horseback to his home in
Laurel Hill. Two charges of buck
shot struck him in the arm and leg,
but is not likely to prove fatal.
There is no clue to thee would-bee
assassin.
j?lt a. i9i#.
BOASTS OF CRIME
YOUTHFUL BURGLARS CAUGHT
RED-HANDED.
Boys Are 17 and 18 Years Old and
Come of Respectable. Families.?
Had Kit Fnll of Tools.
Two well dressed young men, 17
and 18 years old, were caught- before
dawn Thursday, leaving one of the
prominent apartments in Washing
ton, which they admitted they en
tered for purposes of robbery.
. They were Ely B. Runyon,. who
says he is the son of Mrs. Emily E.
C. Runyon, a physician of Richmond,
Va., and Julian D. Wychard, son of
a former newspaper publisher in
North Carolina.
Each of the youthful burglars was
armed with revolvers and they had
a complete burglar's kit, including
a dark lantern. The flashing of the
dark lantern was seen by a police
man who made the arrests. A re
cent robbery'of'the home of Edward
A. Moseley, secretary of the inter
state commission, has been traced to
the boys.
When captured the boys had en
tered the office of a physician, and
finding nothing they wanted, depart
ed to discover a more lucrative field
fpr their efforts when the policeman
saw their lantern.
The two boys said they came to
Washington Tuesday night and reg
istered at a hotel. Went out.short
ly after midnight to operate in a
fashionable section of the city. Run
yon .boasts of exploits in various
cities of the West, saying he had
been trained as a burglar by an
adept w.ho is now serving time. Wy
chard claims that he recently met
Runyon in Atlanta, where he had
lived, and traveled with him with
out knowing his occupation until the
two came to Washington. The hoys
will be given a hearing in a few
days.
A TRIE PUZZLE.
j Residents of Angusta Bothered by
Four Times.
Augusta, Ga., is the only city
in the country having four differ
ent times and all of them in use.
It is on the ninetieth meridian, and
;he railroads i Georgia use-Central''
time, while the Carolina roads--en-',
meridian or Eastern time. To' try'
to avoid confusion the city has a lo
cal time of Its own, which is half
way between the two. But what
really adds to the complicated situ-;
tion is. the fact that farmers in the
surrounding country nearby all use
"sun" time, which is different from
all the others. This last named time
is controled by the almanac that is'
in every. Southern farmer's home,'
' especially that of the colored far
mer.
A stranger has some difficult and
amusing experiences if he stops the'
average. Augusta person on streets'
and asks the hour. He is probably;
told, "It's ten o'cloek by Georgia^
railroad time, 30 minutes to ten.
city time and nine o'clock if you are
going out into Carolina." If the
person asked is a farmer the stranger,
if ?he-will wait until the-calculations
arid an astronomical observation are
niade, probably will] be 'furnished
with an answer of, "Well, I reckon
stranger, it's about nigh on to half
past nine o'clock.
HIGHWAYMEN CONVICTED.
Four Negroes to Pay Death Penalty
for Crime.
The four negroes Charles Walker,
Jim Black, Charles .Julian and Ed
Weaver, charged with the murder of
Motorman Brown, in the Druid Hills
street car hold-up at Atlanta several
weeks ago, were convicted of first
degree murder and was sentenced
to hang. Although Walker and
Weaver had made written confes
sions of their guilt and implicated
the two other negroes, they swore
on the stand in the trial court that
the confession was untrue. There is
no doubt of the guilt of all the men
that have been convicted.
Liyes With Stitched Liver.
Daniel McGowan left the Johnston
Willis hospital at Richmond, Va.,
last week wit.h three pieces of his
liver sewed together. The organ
was broken into distinct parts re
cently when he was run over by a
wagon and it was declared he could
not recover.
Struck by Lightning.
During a severe rain and thunder
storm at Johns3li Thursday afternoon
two large barns of H. Spain Toiley
were struck by lightning and burn
ed. The barns being tilled with pro
duce, which was all destroyed. A
mule and horse belonging to Mi.
Toney were also killed.
Smallpox Epidemic.
Nelson county, Virginia, has ?>
smallpox epidemic. Fully l.'O cwa'ca
are now in i|uurantine in a territory
five miles Ions and tree miles wide.
No deaths have occurred.
Insane Murderer Escapes.
Georse B. Warner, who murdered
machinery for the Louisville & Nash
ville, and was found insane, escaped
from the asylum for the insane at
Hopkinsville, Ky., Thursday night.
STATE A?fOMOBIfE LAWS.
Provide for Use of Cars on Country
Roads.?Speed Limit.
Magistrate B. F. Wilson, of An
derson, said the other day that
there were many people who owned
automobiles and who did not know
the state laws regulating them while
on the country roadB. It seems to
be the impression of most people that
they can operate their cars as fast
as they want to once out of the city
limits, but this is a mistake. Fol
lowing are a few Interesting bits of
law. from the acts of the general as
sembly.
"No person shall operate a motor
vehicle on a public highway at a
rate of speed greater than is reason
able' and proper at the time and
place, having due regard to the traf
fic and use of the highways as to the
condition or so as to endanger the
life, limb or property of any person
or in any. event at aerate greater
than fift'en miles an hour."
Upon approaching a crossing,
bridge, step descent, or a curve a
person shall have their machine un
der control and. operate it at a rate
of speed not greater than six miles
an hour, and in no greater than is
reasonable and proper, having due
regard to conditions.
"The driver "of a motor vehicle
shall .give notice by blowing a horn,
bell or othrwise bo as not to fright
en the animals and to use precau
tions to insure the safety of persons
and property. It is also necessary
to bring the car to a stop if it is seen
that the horses are frightened.
"It is necessary to st?p the car at
a signal from one who is in the high
way and who ? is; driving ? wild ani
mal; The raising of a hand "may be
considered a signal to stop."It is al
so necesB?ry ' to remain stationary
until such an animal could be re
moved: ' It is necessary for an au
tomobilst to give the right of way
to the driver of a horse or a mule
and he shall go to the right of he
road. '
"Violators of these acts shall be
fined'frbm ten to one hundred dolars
or'imprisoned not more than thirty
days.'"
Before operating a car in any
county it is n'ece'sary to secure from
the clerk of court a certificate saying
which is numbered and this number
must be placed on the back of the
car. The owner's address and a
'brief description of the car must be
given. The registration fee is $1.
Ten days are allowed an owner in
which to. register'his car; ..
j ORDERS AGAINST CLUHS. I
Temporary Injunction Issued Agu-'i*;'
Thiec in Columbia.
. :At oClubfa Judge DeVore in the
circuit court recently granted thrpe
orders on motion of Attorney Gen
eral Lyon, requiring th?2e social
clubs in the city to show cause be
fore him on July 1 why' they should
hot be perpetually restrained from
the sale of spirituous liq'or--. The
o*ders were granted upoi? f.f*' -avi;s
made that liquors had been pUrchfS
ed at the three places in violence 01
the dispensary law.
Those against whom the orders
are directed are the Savoy club, sit
uated at 1219 1-2 Taylor street, of.
which P. W. Bessim|eT and Heyward
B. Smith are named as In charge, and
J. L. Shull as the property owner;,
the Jackson Hub, at 914 Gervais
street, L. E. Levin and Everland be
ing named as in charge, and S. L..
Sweeney as the property owner; and
the third order being directed against
G. H. Geiger, Harry Lehman and
W?lliam T. Thompson for violation
of the dispensary law at 912 Ger
vais street, G. H. Geiger being also
the owner of the premises.
Unless an adequate defense is
made to the orders granted
a perpetual injunction restraining
the use of the premises for the ille
gal purposes charged will be passed
by the court.
Anti-Prizefight (.ill.
The Georgia senate Friday morn
ing reconsidered its action Wednes
day in passing the anti-prize fight
bill and amended' it so as to pro
hibit all boxing contests to which
admission fees are charged and in
which contestants are paid for their
services. It was put up to a vote
and passed. The bill now goes to
the house.
Gave Bachelor Her Baby.
Pretending that she had left her
pocketbook in the waiting mom in
Manhattan, X. Y.. a young woman
asked Martin Stearns, a Brooklyn
bachelor, to hold her baby while she
hurried back to get the purse. An
hour and a half later he was still
holding the baby for the woman
failed to return.
Treasurer Hvts Ten Years.
Prison doors closed on John B.
Lombard, of Kraminglon. Muss, last
week, for a period of not less than
tun nor more than fifteen years. He
confessed to having forged town
notes to the amount of $:'.00.000 in
the past ten years, while serving as
town treasurer. He is 60 years of
Coflin Waited Fifteen Wars.
The last wish of Hilary Roberts,
a manufacturer of Savannah, Ga..
was fulfilled last week when he was
buried in a coffin made by himself
1.") years ago. He was 77 years of
TWO CENTS PEK COPY
ASSESSORS FIX VALUES
STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
TO MEET SOON.
Matter of Placing. All Property od
Basis of True Valuation WiU Be
Discussed.
It is anticipated that Comptroller
General Jones will announce soon,
the date for the meeting of the State
board of equalization. The meeting
is held during the summer, usually,
in the month of June or July, and
the work of the board is to act up
on the findings of the county boards
and to take any action on tax ques
tions that is deemed necessary.
(The ? most important resolutions
that CEme before the board last year
was that affecting the assessing of
property at full value. This reso
lution, introduced by Jeremiah
Smith, of Horry, was defeated by a
vote of 28 to 8. '
As this is the year for the reas
sessment and as the county board
have been busy with the. tax' ques
tion . in the several counties of the
State, the meeting of the board this
year is of special interest. It is
thought that the tax question will
receive more than ordinary consid
eration. The tax question has been
brought into the campaign very forc
ibly this year.
The Taxable Property.
As shown by the comptroller gen
eral's report for the year 1910 the
following is the amount of taxable
property in South Carolina:
Total value of real
estate .. .. .. . $136,438,358
Vaiue of personal
iproperty.. .: .. 92,684.198
Railroad property_ 271,106,302
State tax, 5%mills.. 1,423,308
For county purposes,
taxes;. ........ 960,664
State Board of Assessors
The State Board of assessors, con
sisting of State officials, assesses
railroad and like property.
The Southern Express company
property in South Carolina last pear
was assessed 'at a valuation df $277.
557. The total value of the Pull
man cars operated in this State was
$140,292; the total valuation of tel
ephone and telegraph companies
was placed as follows.
Western Union,^ $522,427; Alf?
natic Postal Telegraph-Cable com
pany. '.$108",6J3;'V American ' Tele
phone and Telegraph Company of
South Carolina, $205,750; Southern
Bell Telephone company, $571,848;
local companies, $125,665.
The actual value of cotton mills
as fixed by the State board was $51.
260,505. The actual value of cot
ton oil mills was placed at $2,853,
4i8;'
? fThe assessments for fertilizer
plants was placed at $3,164,477.
The value of railway property was
fixed at a little over $44,000.000.
BLOWS UP SIXTEEN.
Five Men are KiUed and Eleven Arc
Injured in Minnesota.
.Five men were killed and 11 in
jured, two of them probably fatally,
by an explosion, which .first wrecked
and then set fire to thet saloon of
Edward Bushay, five miles of Minne
apolis, Minn.,' on the Anoka road.
Edward Bushay, proprietor of the
place, and George Miller were bo
badly burned that they will die. The
explosion of a gas tank in the base
ment blew the roof from the build
i n u. and fire started immediately. la
half an hour the building was a.
mass of burning wreckage. Ernest
Osterchild. a porter, rescued both.
Bushay and Miller from death in the
fire.
DESPERADO CAPTURED.
Shot Three Members of Posse Whirl*
Sought to Ari'ost Him.
Olan Adair, who while barricad
ed in the store of John VV. Davis,
near Falco, Ala., Thursday nizht,
shot three members of a posse after
him, was captured later without any
trouble and is held at Falco.
.1. Ii. Givan. who was fired upon
from ambush Thursday night, for
which alleged offense Adair was
sought, is not seriously injured, nor
is either Alex Givan, brother of .the
other Givan; B. F. Finley and Geo.
Coggswell, the others wounded by
Adair in Jiis atembt to avoid arresL .
Big Steamer Ablaze.
The Merchant and Miners' steam
ship, which left P^iiladelphi ? Thurs
day afternoon for Boston, returned
there Friday, with a serious fire in
her forehold. The eighty passengers
were safely landed. They Jmced
and amused themselves lighthearted
ly en the return trip, unaware of
the dangerous fire below them and
believing thai disarranged machin
ery had caused the steamer to put
back.
Used Hoy as Shield.
Officers are searching for John
Clark, ased IS, and Mack McGowan,
who fought a duel near Hazlehurst,
Ga. McGowan was armed with a
knife and Clark with a pistol. As
Clark fired his pistol, it is charged,
McGowan grasped Dudley Brown, a
1-year-old boy, who was a specta
tor, and held him between .himself
and Clark. Brown was shot in the
breast and is reported dying.