The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, December 13, 1910, Image 1
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PITIABLE STORY
. He Marder ei Uajford Was Dae to Mtst
Estraordioary Caue*.
PATHOS WITH TRAGEDY
Conditions Surrounding the Harris
' Girl is Mos: Heartrending and the
Coroner's Jury Verdict Has the
Approval of All Familiar With the
Evidence Adduced at Hearing.
d correspondent of The State,
-writing from Bruuson, says distaste
ful as Is the task It Is best that the
story of the killing of J. R. Lanjford
be told and necessarily in the telling
of it there must be related the too
tragic story of Mary Harris, the
young white girl who is in the peni
tentiary at Columbia, an eye-witness
of the killing and the occasion of it.
There is no charse against her.
It is possible there may be one
brought?for by her own admission
she was - accessory after the. fact, to
the murder of Mr. Langford.
After hearing of the life and en
vironment of this poor child, one can
but recall what was traced in the
dust by the fingers of Him' who came
to save sinners: "He that Is with
out sin among ye, let him cast the
first stone."
With hardly an exception the peo
ple of this place and, indeed, all
who have heard the details of the
osse, think the coroner's jury which
ft\ed the killing of Mr Langford upon
Richard Williams, the negro now in
the penitentiary, were right In their
fending. Two other negroes have
-been arrested and released under
toad to'appear as. witnesses' when
fine trial Is held. They are Ed Rouse
and Jake Brown.
The evidence adduced at the in
?oeet In brief is: On Tuesday morn
ing Mr. Langford, who ran a hotel at
Srunson and also operated a sawmill,
left his home in a buggy, about 8
o'clock. He drove by the telegraph
office and sent a message which was
filed at 8:10.' This fixes the time
/essentially. From there he drove to-,
ward his sawmill at Bopoep, but
stopped a short - way from the cor
porate limits and the bouse of Bob
Harris,.where he talked to Mary Har
ris, ..who was .cutting *wooi In She
j/aid. He drove off a short distance,
turned out -of the road,-tied his home'
and got out of the buggy. The girl
having made a fire,, crossed the field j
and met Mr. Langford in the woods. I
? On her way she saw a buggy coming j
*p the road and recognized the oc
oapants as Ed. Bouse and Richard
Williams, ne?roea, both of whom she
smew. She did not know she was
followed by Williams, and did not
see him again, until he was standing
over Mr. Langford with a stick or
club upraised. The blow fell and
Langford's head dropped. He groaned
tut did not speak, though she called
to him. The negro upbraided her
with being unfaithful. She was
frightened and ran home. The ne
gro did not follow. She wanted to
tel! of the crome but was afraid. J
The girl talked freely when shej
did tell. Her story was ctralghtfor
ward and despite traps that were laid
her evidence was never shaken in the
least.
The story of the search for Mr.
Langford and the finding of his body
on a bng?y road in the woods has
been told.
Suspicion fell on Williams before
Mary Harris told of the par' she had
played In the tragedy. While the
search w-^s being made for Mr. Lang
ford. Williams volunteered the In
formation that he had seen him on
the new Fairfax road at an hour
when, It was shown by the evidence
of the other negro, corroborating
that of Mary Harris, that he could
not have been in sight of the road.
He did cross the road later in the
day.
Ed. Rouse testified that he was
drlvfn? to Brunson and overtook
Williams, taking him In his buggy
with him. When they got within
Bight of the Harris home, Willams,
who is a turpentine scraper, got out,
saying he had left some of his tools
in the wools and had to set them.
Rouse did not see Mr. Langford's
horse and buggy nor did he see the
girl. It is supposed that Williams
saw both. He described accurately
Mr. Langford's dress.
On this evidence the negro was
. eharged by the coroner's jury with
the crime. |
There is pathos immeasurable in
?he story of Mary Harris and though
the mind revolts from degradation
?iich as she has confessed to yet It
must be said that she is not all bad
?nd is the result of an environment
??hieb is deplorable, and a poverty of
lie direst.
Ci,e should "impute the ranlt
To a soul 1' the fud, so starved by
Stinted of warmth, It will not blow
this year
Nor recognize the orb which spring
flowers know."
Dwelling In a house so open that,
as It was described by a resident
here, the birds can fly through it,
Mary Harris, herself only IS or 20
years old now, the eldest of a family
rf four girls, has had to work like a
3 eero and with negroes. Her moth
er died two years ago. and her fath
er, a simple half-witted unfortunate,
feave eloquent testimony tb?t *.h*re
Is a great deal of good in the girl.
"Don't keep Mary long," said the
1ES A WEEK. iT7^
CORN SHOW WAS fiCOD
PRESIDENT W. W. FIN LEY OF
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Congratulates South Carolin? and
Says He Wants to See Cotton De
veloped as Well as Com.
Mr. W. W. Finley, president of the
Southern railway, who is in at
tendance upon the trial of the South
ern railway merger case, at Colum
bia, has addressed the following let
ter to Commissioner E. J. Watson,
of the State department of agricul
ture, commerce and industries:
My Dear Mr. Watson: The South
Atlantic Corn exposition is the moBt
impressive thing thai: I have seen In
a lony time. It marks what I be
lieve to be the most Important de
i velopment In Southern agriculture
(since the Invention of the cotton gin
led to the growing of cotton on a
large scale.
"You and your ansociates in this
movement for raising' the standard of
Southern corn and1 increasing the
yield per acre are entitled to the
[gratitude of every man interested in
[Southern progress. I congratulate
I you most sincerely.
"Realizing that co:tou is the great
I esc asset of the South and that the
world will call upon us for Increas
ing supplies, I am intensely Inter
ested in the work which you and Mr.
Williams, aided by Intelligent grow
ers, like Mr. Keenan and Mr. Coker,
are doing to develop prolific and ear
ly-maturing varieties of long-staple
! cotton. I believe that we should not
let anything interfere with the main
tenance of our cotton production, and
that we should seek, through seed
selection and the building up of our
i soil fertility by scientific crop rota
tion, live stock growing; and the In
teligent use of commercial fertilizers,
to increase our cotton production by
increasing the yield per acre, thus
leaving room for corn and the other
crops which should be included in a
scheme of diversified farming. I am
confident that your success in this di
rection will be as marked as it has
been in the corn movement.
"Thanking you for your many
courtesies to myself and the members
of my staff since we have been in
Columbia,-I am,
,. "Yours truly,
. . "W. W. Finley,
" ~~j '--"President" ?
poor man the night she was taken
f'om home. "She has been daddy
and mammy - bnth to these girlB.
.Vventeen years I ha' worked for
Roy Tuten for wages and I are worn
out Mary's a good daughter." That
this is true there Is abundant testi
mony in Brnnson.
Bob Harris Is described not as
half-witted but as less than that. His
wife Is said to have been not much
above her husband In intelligence.
The children are intelligent, even
bright. They are small.
In Brnnson it Is said that Mary
I'.arris, in all probability, gav? ber
s*li from ?!. \' i overty and not If .in
* nywardness. She had som? neun i
lng, can read and write and i'^e
years back the children came U Sun
day school in Brunson. Mary lias
worked hard for Mr. Tuten, who
owns much of the land around nere
nid pr nproR within th? enrporafp
limits. Since she has grown to ue
targe enougn she has labored .7. the
rrtton fields with the negroes, be3n
tattled from one field to another with
I'lera in the same wa?on, ani for
some years ne?roes have been al
most her only associates. JaKo
Urown's wife has been good to her.
she said pathetically when asked 'aIiv
sl.e went to the negro's house. With
the care of her young sisters forced
upon her without the association of
sr.y white woman. Is It any wonder
this wretched and forsaken chiK
? urned to this negro woman who had
known her from her Infancy?
"She was the only one I could go
to for advice: when she told me not
to do things I followed her direc
tions," said the girl. "She was soo i
to me."
Battling against such odds, no
mother, no friends, a partly helpleesa
father who never was of full Intelli
gence and who had been whipped in
?"lib battle with poverty, herself in?
frur others to feed and clothe, can
j one greatly wonder that this child
strayed from the right path? And
v hen she had strayed where was
there one to direct her to Him who
paid to another erring woman: "Go
and sin no more. Thy sins are for
given thee?"
There be some "blind mouth3"
who condemn utterly and talk ex
' trp.vagantly. hut let it be said that It
vas not due to fear of any violence
NvOg offered that the girl was taken
to Columbia. She was as safe in
?i amp ton jail as she is behind the
vails of the penitentiary, but to pre
vent her being talked to by the raor
!"iiy curious the sheriff thought it
J-cst to send her away.
Meantime the three little sisters
and the father who has worked 17
;*ars for wages are without the girl
who "was a good daughter and both
nammy and daddy" to her mother's
children. ?
Drown in Storm.
Mail advices state that a storm,
November 20, overtook a Japanese
and Korean fishing fleet of Mekpo,
Korea, and 391 men were drowned.
Seven Japanese and G'2 Korean ves
?<-ls; rnntiinlng $3.0, were wrecked
and only two Japanese and ?3 7 Ko
rans were saved. ?
A GREAT NATION,'
Over Oat Hundred ard Ou? Million Uader
lhe Sars and Stripes.
WHAT EACH STATE HAS
i
liiere Are Nearly Ninety-Two >I'fl>??o
People in the United States Propvr
?nil Over Ten Million People In i*?e
Philippines, Porto Rico and Oi.hr*
Islands.
In the United States and all its
iCBsesBions the Stars and Strlpea pro
tect -101.100.000 souls. This enor
mous number Is the official estimate
of the United StateB bureau of cen
sus, announced today In connection
a-ith the population statistics of the
country as enumerated in the thlr
??enth decennial census.
It includes the Philippines Samoa.
Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the Pan
ima Canal Zone. Within Its borders
on the North American continent,
-?xt'nsive of Alaska, the United Stales
las a population of 31,972.266 In
habitants. During the last ten years
'he States of the Union had an ag
:regate increase In population of 15,
977,691, which amounts to 21 per
?ent over the 1900 figures.
Since the first census was taken in
1790, the country has grown twenty
live times as large, the population
?hen having been 3.929,214 slight.'y
larger than the present population of
he State of Texas. The growth of
'he country was greater than has
?>een expected by the expert statis
ticians who have closely watched
'he progress of the country's popula
tion.
Census Dlrector^Durand.says:
"The States showing the lowest
rates of increase, falling below 10
per cent, are five In the great Cen
tral section of the country, namely,
owa, Missouri. Kentucky, Indiana
ind Tennessee; the three Northern
\'ew England States and Maryland
?nd Delaware.
"The StateB showing the next high
er increase between 10 and 20 per
?ent He adjacent to those showing
the lowest rate and include, In the
Middle West, Ohio, Michigan, Wis
consin, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska
and Kansas, and on .the other .hand
a great belt of - Southern States,,
namely, Virginia, North Carolina,
,3o''ih Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
md Mississippi.
"StateB which show an Increase
from 20 to 30 per cent are, for the
most, the great manufactures
States, including Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
Vorfc. Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia, the only other States increas
'?ig between 20 and 30 per cent are
V-karsas and Texas.
"The States which show an In
crease exceeding 30 per cent are,
vph the exception of New Jersey and
Florida, all located In the West and
nake up a solid belt comprising
fully one-third of the area of the
United States. South Dakota, Colo
rado and Utah had rates of increase
hetween 30 and 50 per cent, while
S?rth Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon,
California, New Mexico and Arizona
increased between 50 and 100 per
cent, and Oklahoma, Idaho and
Washington more than 100 per cent.
' The greatest change in rate of
growth Is found in the three Pacific
?oast ctntes. and Nevada and New
Mexico, all of which grew far faster
?l.irin? the last ten years than during
the preceding period.
"The population of the Middle At
lantic States is 19.315,S92 and the
^outh Atlantic States 12.194.895.
The percentage of increases of the
-outh Atlantic States is 1C.S4.
"The fact that the rate of in
creases for the country as a whole
was greater from 1 900 to 1910 than
'luring the precedin? decade was due
entirely to the added rate of growth
I In the Middle Atlantic. Mountain and
Pacific divisions. In all six of the
other divisions the increase during
the last decade was less than during
the previous one."
The following is the population by
the States:
Alabama. 2.138,093
Arizona. 204,354
Arkansas. 1,574,449 j
California.2.377,549!
Colorado. 799,024
Connecticut.1,114,756
Delaware. 202.322
District of Columbia.. .. 331.069
Florida. 751,139
Georgia. 3.609.1 21
Idaho. 325.594
Illinois...5.638.591
Indiana. 2,700,876
Iowa.2.224.771
KansnB.1.000.949
Kentucky. 2,289.905
I ouisiana. 1,006.438
Maine. 742.371
Maryland. 1.295.346
V'assachusetts. 3.336.41 6
'?Tichieran.2.810.173
Minnesota. 2,075,708
Mississippi. 1,797,1 1 4
Missouri. 3.293.335
Montana. 376,053
j Nebraska.1,192,214
Nevada. SI.975 !
\ew Hampshire. 430,572
New Jersey. 2,537.167.
New Mexico. 327,301
Npw York.9.1 13.279
.North Carolina. 2,206,287
? North Dakota. 577.056
Ohio. 4,767,121 \
Oklahoma. 1.657,155
Crcgon. 672.765
Pennsylvania. 7,665,111
8. C, TUESDAY.. L'EClfi]
t'iod* Island.. .. .. . . 642,610
South Carolina. 1;515,400
South Dakota.S 583,888
Tennessee. .. ?? 2,184,789
Texas. 8,896,542
Utah.?> .. 373,351
Vermont.' ? ? 355,956
Virginia. 2,016,612
Washington. 1.141,990
West Virginia.. 1,221,119
Wisconsin. 2,333,860
Wyoming. .. 145,966
Alaska. 64,356
Hawaii... .. 191,900
Porto Rico.1,118,012
The States in their respective ranks
according to population are:
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, Ken
tucky. Io>? a, North Carolina, Tennes
see.e, Alabama, -iilnnesotai Virginia,
.Misjissipi i, Kansas, Oklahoma, Lou
isiana, Arkansas, South i Carolina.
Dryland. West Virginia, Nebraska,
Wp^hinartrn. Porfo Rl^n. OnnnerHoiit.
CY-'oraa>, Florida, Maine, ' Oregon,
.-?outh Dakota, North Dakota, Rho.le
Islxnd, New Hampshire,' Montana,
I ah, Vermont, District of Columbia,
.?-.??v.- Mt-nlco, Idaho, Arizona, Dela
wiiie, Hnwall, Wyoming, Nevada and
Alaska.
Corrected figures Issued by the
census office today give the .State of
New York population as .9,113,614,
Increase 1,844,720, or 25.4 per cent;
Florida 752,619, Increase.224,077, or
42.4 per cent, and Maryland 1,295,
J-46, increase 107,302, or 9 per cent.
Unquestionably it will be necessary
to alter the basis of representation
".n Congress. At the present ratio of
194,000 people to each member of
the House of Representatives, the
Mouse would' contain about 474
members as agaist 392 at present. It
In ihe general bolief that this num
ber would be unwieldly. Eveu at
che rate of 220,000 as a bisls the
public assembly would contain 41S
Mi*>ml?(>ri?. uri Innren??? nf 2" *
RESCUED IIV THE POLICE.
Roy Taken From the- Kidnappers
ft,
Who Had Stolen Him.
"They told me I was in Chicago,"
aald Giusseppi Longo, 8 years old.
when the police led him to freedom
from the tenement room in New
York where he bad been locked a
prisoner by kidnappers. ,
The boy was traced by the aid of
another ch'ld whose brother is aib^
held for ransom. The police learned
that Giusseppi was a prisoner in an
East Side tenement. They searched
the corridors, listenelng' at transoms.
At the -door of a rear? ? room! they
heard a child crying. The little guide
was lifted up and peered over the
transom. "Tat's him,' be whispered
excitedly and the police broke In the
door.
Guarding Giusseppi were two men
and In the same room with him were
two other children, a boy and a girl
whom he knew only by their first
names. The police think they also
may have been kidnapped. The two
men on guard were arrested, ad were
rive other Italians, among them a
woman.
Glusseppi's father is a well-to-da
Brooklyn business man. The elder
Longo has received two letters from
the kidnappers, the first asking for
51 0,000 and the second $15.000. The
recovery of the boy makes the thlru
in loss than a week, two oth"r Italian
youmgeters having turned up without
the aid of the police. ?
WANTED TO SEE HIS HARY.
Longing For Little One Brings Er
rant Father Hnck Home.
It was a longing to hold in his
arms his baby which he never had
seen thru brought Walter A. Hall, a
defaulting bank teller, back to New
York and prison. He surrendered
himself Friday, confessed a theft of
$44.600 from the Herald S'inare
branch of the Greenwich bank, and
was remanded for sentence.
Hall, who Is 24 years old. fled
from New York last July and wan
dered about Canada, he said, betting
on horse races. When he heard that
ja baby had arrived his longing to see
the child made his exile misery. Me
sent $500 to his wife, which she
turned over to the bank.
Later, he said, he sent $1.000 to
her, but she told the police today
that she never received the money.
When he could resist no longer the
impulse to return to see his baby, he
came back to New York. Hu'l sur
rendered $15,000 which he said wts
all he had left of the money be had
taken. ?
Sick From Rat Bite.
Bitten in the center of his fore
head by a black rat more than a week
ago, Thomas V. Dlackshear. a first
year medical student at Atlanta, Is
lying at the point of death in a local
hospital. The case is one of the
oddest known to the physicians of
Atlanta. Blackshear was bitten while
he was lying asleep. He ,and hi&
roommate killed the rodent. A hole
as large as a dollar marks the place
where the poisoned flesh was cu:
from the wound. ?
Served Him Uight.
Conductor J. P>. Stevens, who runs
between Atlanta and .\iacon on the
Southern railway shot and fatally
wounded Henry Scott, a ne.^ro. Fri
day morning, because he had insulted
his housekeeper. The housekeeper
t-~>ld him of the neero's proposals and
Capt. Stevens immediately got the
negro In his house. He denied mak
ing the insult, but when confroted by
the woman admitted his guilt and
attempted to attack her. It was then
that Capt. Stevens fired, every bullet
taking effect. ?
MBER 13 1910.
BEGAN ALL OVER
frreer of Colonel Andrews as Related by
Colon?! Aagost Koto,
SERVED WITH HAMPTON
ituilroad Service of the Southern
Railway's Famous First Vice Pres
ident Interrupted by the War,
During Which He Rendered Con
spicuous Military Service to the
Confederacy.
Seated in an arm-chair at the
Metropolitan Club In Columbia Wed
nesday night was Col. A. B. An
Irews, first vice president of the
Southern railway system. Mr. Sam
H. Hardwick and I had a little argu
ment about Col. Andrews' first rail
road experience and we went over to
Col. Andrem to have him settle the
issue. The point was decided in fa
vor of the newspaper man and, by
way of explanation.
Col. Andrews took from his trous
er pocket two well rubbed and shin
ing Mexican silver dollars. There
were two of them and they had
rubbed against each other for a long
rime, for there were perhaps no com
panion pieces. These two Mexican
dolars represented the worldly pos
sessions of Col. Andrews when he left
'he Confederate army, at the close
of the struggle, except two mules.
The mules and two unspent Mexican
dollars represented the beginnings
of his present accumulations.
But the point Is: When did Col.
Andrews begin his railroad service?
It was before the war, before 18C0.
when as a lad of seventeen he was1
<iven charge of the trains that hauled
the stone used in the construction of
the masonry on the present Blue
Ridge railroad, running from Belt on
to Walhalla, via Anderson. Col. An-!
drews' uncle had the contract to con
struct the Blue Ridge railroad?the
plneer road that was to have pierced
the mountains and provided a
through line from the coast to the
WeBt
The original contract was for com
pany to haul the stone to- be used
in the construction work, but the
deliveries" were ; so unsatisfactory
Ithat "Col. Andrews,'then a mere* lad,
was put iu charge of the train that
hauled the rock. That was hiB first
service as a superintendent of a rail
road. Later he was a real superin
tendent and he has gone the entire
gamut of railroad service?active
and actual ser/ice.
Then came the war and Col. An
drews, as he is now called?and he
Is a real colonel, and not one by
post-war service?entered the 1st
North Carolina cavalry as a lieuten
ant. Hi; served In the Hampton Cav
alry, and with distinction and cour
age. He was In the stress of many
of the serious engagements with
Wade Hampton, and the last time he
saw Hampton that distinguished
chieftain remarked to him: "An
drews, I am going to write sometalng
that I hope will give full credit to
your North Carolina men in my com
mand, for I do not think you have
ever gotten full justice In recorded
history." Unfortunately that prom
ise was unfulfilled, for Gen. Hamp
ton died about two weeks later.
With his two dollars and mules
Col. Andrews went to work. He saw
the destruction that had been
wrought and it occurred to him thai
there would be money and service In
rebuilding bridges?railroad bridges.
He borrowed money and got the job
of reconstructing the bridges on the
old Raleigh and Gaston railroad. He
remained with the Raleigh and Gas
ton road for ten years, during which
time he was its superintendent.
Then he went with what was for
merly the Richmond and Danville
jroad; perhaps his devotion to this
j system Is accentuated by the fact that
jCol. Andrews' wife is the daughter
of Col. Johnson, who T/as the first
president of the Charlotte and Au
gusta railroad. Thirty-five years ago
Col. AndrewB entered the service of
the nucleus of the present great
Southern railway system. It has been
largely due to his constructive gen
ius, his capacity for work and his
knowledge of men that the weakling
mads here and there have been
brought together until today the ays
tern aggregates over 8,000 miles.
When Samuel Spencer and his
predecessors were gathering in weak
roads, pulling them out of bankrupt
courts and whipping the lines Into
shape Col. Andrews was his right
hand and his safety check. Col. An
drew j then as now was first vice
president of the system. He kept
unceasingly at work to make the
Southern railway a great system and
he as persistently kept In the back
ground. When Mr. Spencer was
killed he showed the same keen spirit
of co-operation towards a younger
man. President W. W. Finley. recog
nizing In him a man of abundant
ability and energy.
Col. Andrews was severely wound
ed in the war. Several years ago the
physicians told him his "boilers
would not stand full pressure," but
it is even now dlillcult to keep him
from doing too much work.
Of course he Is Interested In the
pending "merger* litigation, for it j
was he and Col. B. L. Abney whoi
handled the transaction by which the |
Southern railway took the properties]
"out of the wet" and undertook to,
develop them, and thereby the Stale.
???ZE THE CAUSE |
FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY OC
CURS NEAR HARTSVILLE. j
1 ?a Fight Commenced in a Negro*? |
House Where the Belligerents Had
G"ne to Buy Whiskey.
A terrible tragedy was enacted
B.Hir Hartsville about twelve o'clock ,
en Sunday, In which E. D. Boseman.
a f.Diiier about 65 years old. was shot
to 1eath an I his son, Otto Boseman.
Hired 12, badly if not fatally wounded
by Coy Blackman, a youth of 22
yiNiVfc. Blackman made his escape.
Ti-f shooting began in the house of
Ciceio Byd, a negro, who liveB on
Ihr? plantation of S. W. Byrd, a prom
inont farmer, living abet five mibe
v/ebt of Hartsvllle. The two young
rcon had gone to the house, suppos
edly to buy something to drink, a^i
a quairel arcae over the ownersh.p
of a pistol, which was in Blackman's
possession, but which the younger
nofiemf.n claimed belonged to him.
lie remanded that the weapon .be
siten him and advanced on Black
mail brandishing a bear bottle.
?Mr"'?man Bred, the ball taking ef
f ??;', but not making a eeriou3 wound.
Bbckman retreated to the yard
and was followed by the youncer
Boseman and his father, who had
come to the ne?ro's bouse also. In
the yard Blackman resumed firing,
h.s first ball striking the elder Mr
Uoseman in the heart, killing him in
stantly. He then shot the youne
man and seriously wounded him. The
physician wno was called says that
it will be Impossible to tell whether
Lhe wound will be fatal until efter
au operation.
lhe two youn? men, Otto Bose
man-nan and Blackman were once
companions and had formerly worked
to ? ether at Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
It is .:jderstood that they had a fight
onue before and the trouble today
?.robably resulted from a renewal of
the old quarrel in a ?lightly different
fc rm. An Inquest over the body of
t!ie elder Boseman revealed the facts
.ibuve stated.
FOl*ND DEAD IN ROOM.
Expert Telephone Engineer Dies Sud
denly at Hotel.
C. E. Stihson of Buffalo, N. Y.,
the telephone engineer, who was re
cently employed by the Spartanburg
chamber of commerce to appraise the
plant of the Southern Bell Telephone
company, with a view to testifying
before the State railroad commission
In a comp'aint against the company,
was found dead in bed at the Hotel
Finch Friday.
Dr. Defoix Wilson said that death
was due to alcoholism. Mr. Stinson
called Dr. Wilson yesterday. He was
highly nervoU8 but Dr. Wilson found
nothing alarming in his condition
and left, after prescribing a sedative.
John Wood, secretary of the cham
ber of commerce, will leave for Buf
falo with the body tomorrow morn
ing. As a result of Mr. Stlnson's
death the plans of the chamber of
commerce with reference to the tele
phone situation will temporarily be
held In abeyance. "
Talks War in Japan.
That Japan must prepare for war
with the United States Is the next of
an nrtlcle published by the Tokio
Nippon. Japan must ask herself,'
says the Nippon; "what object an ele
ment of United States citizens have
In view when they advocate the ex
penditure of enormous sums on fur
nishing the Tacific with a big fleet, of
creating a powerful army on the Pa
cific slope, of building a huge canal
j depot and naval station in Hawaii
and of fortifying the Philippines.
Hawaii and Panama." *
Past Century Mark.
With a salute of 100 guns Friday
afternoon, Augusta honored the hun
dredth birthday anniversary of Mr
Jonathan Miller, the father-in-law of
State Treasurer Pope Brown, and
next to the oldest person in the city
Despite his hundred years the old
gentleman is In good health, though
his sight has failed of recent years
Friday afternoon he was tendered a
public reception at the home of Hon
Henry Hammond, judge of the su
perior court circuit. ?
Preacher Suspended.
At the South Carolina conference
of the Methodist church Saturday at
Charleston, the committee on the in
v. est.iration Into the domestic affairs
c; Rev. R. H. Mills of Rock Hill
made Its report, finding that the evi
dence sustained the epeclfications and
the recommendation of the commit
tee that Mr. Mills be suspended for
? period of one year was adopted
t*3 an unanimous vote.
Sent Back Home.
Eleven hundred, arriving at San
Francisco, on the steamer Manchuria,
will be deported under a medical in
spector's order. The Hindus are af
flicted with the hook-worm. Immi
gration authorities say they are de
porting many recent arrivals because
of the existence of hook-worm dis
???? nmnne th?m *
At that time Col. Andrews went over
the entire system and saw what wae
ahead, and is abundantly satisfied
with his prophecy that South Caro
lina had not tbon open the dawn of
the great industrial future that was
ibead. August Kohn. *
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j MUTINY ENDED
F?o Hoednd Mutineers Wire Kilkd er
Wound* d in a Battle.
!
MANY OTHERS KILLED
ll'e Land Batteries, Two Warships
uud Seiend Torpedo- Destroyers
Took a Part in the Bombardment,
Which Lusted One Entire Even
ing.
. The Brazillian mutiny seems to he
;ver. A despatch from Rio Janeiro
-a<*B the government troops are. again
:n control of the garrison on Cobra
island, ?od the second mutiny of the
?wal forces ha6 ended with'a heavy
aau. Ity list, which will probably pis- r
?vat furtiier risings for some time..?
The mutineers, who composed a- -
aa;ia)ion of the marine corps, nun> ,
??Ted , bout 600 men. Of these aou .
a . either killed or wounded Satur:
lay. The others were taken pris
?ueis by the destroyers while at
'.etuptln? to escape from the island
n 'he night.
Two hundred citizens were either ?
>.Hied .or wounded while watching ?
he bombardment from streets or ?
leng the waterfront. Many govern
ment buildings were damaged, in
?kding the treasury, the foreign of
Ve and the departments of public
?orks and telegraphs.
Two land batteries, two warships -
tad several destroyers took part in
the bombardment and twice In the
?cgavement an armistice was allowed .
for the removal of the dead end .
nouded. Firing ceased entirely late
in the evenlng^.but no actual eor
tender of the rebels occurred, the
ir-mma:aders -of the government
'rrces deeming it the wiser coarse .
to await the coming of day. .1
The destroyers however, were eto
uoned within easy range of tho Sa
in d so as to prevent the escape ef.
Ointineers. Toward midnight sev
*ral boats put out and men coukJ be
>ee swimming, evidently .with, the to
entlon of reaching ..the mainland...
Tie destroyers took them prisoners. ?
' The chamber of deputies met.
ilscusa the subject of a special sea- \
?Ion. The government believes it has
fhe situation well in-hand, for aside
'rom 81 fey malcontets the army and.
uBvy are loyal. Strict censorship'
\f< being maintained, but conditio?
??ithin the city are normal.
The scout ship Rio Grande do Sul
died the first shot In the revolt, turn-,
?ng her guns on the city. The heavy
Pombsirdment by both land batteries
ird warships cau?ed a panic In Rio
Janeiro in the early hours of Sator
?lay and frightened and wounded"
p-ople fled in all directions.
.\rcording to the newspapers the
ca-'Loii leading to the second .revolt.
trivial, most of the demands,
Made by the men In the last mutiny
t?a?','ng been granted by the govern
ment. ' ?*
CHRISTIANS BUTCHERED.
General MaKsacre in a Turkish Toww
by Bedouins.
A telegram from Jerusalem Bta'es
that Bedouins have massacred the
j urkish garrison at Kcrak, a town In
the Turkish vilayet of .Syria, and
killed more than 100 Christian in
habitants of the place In revenge for
the execution of a Bedouin chief.
The Bedouins, the dispatch adds, now
hold the fortress, in the 'vicinity of
which, there has been desultory fight
ing cetween the tribesmen and the
government troope for the past year
and a half.
Kerak, formerly the capital of
Moab, has a population of 8,000, of
whom 6,000 are Moslems. The town
is the last on the road [rom Damae- ,
cub to Mecca, where the Christians
may reside. It stands on the moun
tains of Moab and may be seen from
Jerusalem, 50 miles away.
There are no American mission
aries there, the only missionary sta
tion "oeing that of the British church
missionary society for Africa and the
East. This Is a branch of tho organ
ization at Es-Sult, and is composed
of one missionary, bi? wife and one
native worker. *
K,''led on Railway.
iW. D. ^crogginger, a carpenter
irom Anderson, was run over and fa
telly Injured by an Olympia street
car Saturday night at 8:20 o'ciTfk
on the dark stretch of track behind
'?arper's row, just north of the fair
grounds In Columbia. Both of bis
legs were cut off a little above the
?..?.Itles. He died at the Columbia
hcspital at 11:30 o'clock.
[ Made Chief Justice,
i Associate Juntlce Edward Douglas
jV'hlte has been appointed Chief Ju:i
:tice of the United States Supreme
?Court by President Taft. It is aaid
I that Judge Lamar, of Augusta, Ga.,
another Democrat, will be appointed
i'ii Associate Justice of tho same
' Court.
Leaped Into Hot Metal.
At Barncb^llle, Ohio, In plain sight
oi fifty fellow workmen, Charles
tlandall, a molder helper, leaped into
a cupola of white hot metal at a
L'rrndrv. The man*6 flesh was en
tirely consumed and only the bones
were recovered.