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VOI.CME LI, KCMBEB 102. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1913. TWICE A WEEE^ $U* A YlAJt CURRENCY BILL PASSES I THKOCGH UPPER HOUSE Senate Votes For Owen Measure by 54 to 34.?Measure Goes to Conference. Washington. Dec. 19.?The administration currency reform bill, pro- j "/v"n'r ? fovici ,n nf thp financial svs- ; Li 1 ^ L t. ?M L i g . r *** A ! l ^ / 1 MISS VIDA COUNTS I Prosperity, S. C. Winner of 1st Prize. \ , tern of the United States and the creation of regional reserve banks to act as stabilizing elements in tne banking and financial world, tonight pass- ! ed the-senate by a vote of 54 to 34. j. Forces that had fought together j ** J ? X f A A I ior amena:m;ui ui cue uictuuic iu i last divided when tlie final vote came, i Senator Hitchcock, who .had led *the opposition to the bill, returned to the democratic ranks and Senator Weeks, ' one of the leaders on the republican side, with five other republicans and Senator Poindexter (Progressive) . voted for the passage of the measure. Wide differences exist between the I form of the legislation passed by the . senate tonight and the bill that sev erai montns ago passea me uouse. Democratic leaders already have partly bridged these differences, however, and it was tonight predicted that the bill would be completed by a conference committee and sent to President Wilson for his signature by Monday night. Hitchcock Bill Rejected. The adoption of the administration bill, known as the "Owen bill," folIawpH unnn formal defeat, bv 44 to 41, of the Hitchcock bill, which r had been indorsed by Senator HtichF cock and the five republican mem} bers of the evenly divided senate committee that passed on the legislation. The senate previously had rejected, without a roll call, a "central bank'' bill offered as a substitute by Senator Burton. Teacher's Meeting. The next monthly meeting of the Newberry County Teacher's asocia tion will be held in the high school || building at 10.30 o'clock Saturday, January 10, 1914. The following prof gram has been aranged: Home Economics?Miss Marion Frasier, Winthrop college. Music. Round table discussion of entries, w Wm< ^%n sJ 1 MRS. M. Q. BULLOCK ] Miami, Fla. ] Contest Manager. I ? prizes and committees for first conn-; By school fair and field day.. H Sadie Goggans,it G. D. Brown, Jr. Ernest Anderson, {1 Executive Comni^ee. 11 MISS VlDA COUNTS | WINS CONTtST PIANO JIITH FRIENDLY K1VALRY MARK* EI) (LOSE CONTEST. Mrs. Ueo. W. Senn, Miss Louise Counts and Miss Kate Spence Winners of 2nd, 3d and 4tli Prizes. The contest is over. There are four very hap>y young J ladies today as a result of winning in . the great p ize contest which closed last Friday. The contest was to have closed at 12, but as all the contestants wanted i "just a few more minutes" we extended it till 3 o'clock. The entire town seemed to be contest mad during the last few hours. At 4.30 the ballot box with all its mysteries was unlocked, and the judges did themselves justice in their task of counting the votes. The names ot tne j winners were j)ot made public till,! 8.30 at the Arcade picture show. We think this has been the biggest contest ever conducted in Newberry. More prizes (twenty-one in all) greater enthusiasm, more new subscribers, and more liberality shown by merchants. Most every contestant has won at least one of these prizes, and even those who were not one of the four leaders, deserve special yiaiac iw their excellent work and fight to the finish. v Special Thanks to Merchants. 'As contest manager I use this means to again express my heart feh thanks to the following merchants for their unusual liberality in donating special weekly inducement prizes: Gilder & Weeks pharmacy gave four prizes and Robinson's ten cent store gave three. Utfiers on me nsi as givcis Wheeler & Langford furniture tyouse, Ewart-Perry shoe store, Mayes' book store, Copeiand Bros, dry goods, 0. & T. E. Salter, photographers, E. M. Lane Grocery Co., J. T. Mayes wholesale grocery company, Summer Bros. i " " j j * V: i , .Q:;:: V , , ; . * - '! MRS. R. C. BOYLSTOX Columbia, S. C. . wholesale (house, R. H. Anderson dry goods, and Rogers the jeweler, i wisn to thank the following merchants for j displaying the main prizes so nice-, ly: West Martin, J. A. Burton, P. E. j Way, Gilder & Weeks, and Newberry j Drug company. These merchants are not only liberal j but progressive. Their places of! business are up-to-date in eve1 y re- j spect and would do credit to many j towns larger than Newberry. Indeed the citizens of this town should "take off their hats'" to these people. Personally 1 like Newberry very much, both socially and in a business ivay. I find the people charming. My stay here has indeed been pleasant in I'Dcnoi-.f?iwnH T chall nlwflVs iold a warm place in my heart for :his delightful little town. Mrs. M. Q. Bullock, Contest Manager. The ( onnt. ^ Hda Counts 3,551,750 Mrs. Senn 3,247,.r>r>0 Louise 'Counts 1,944,,">00 Kate Spence 1,307,7."0 Mrs. Boyleston 1,097,000 Louise Melton.... 1.027,000 The above is the result of the vote is tabulated by the managers, Messr. VI. I,. Spearman, J. Y. McFall and F. A. Griffin. The Herald and News extends :h<mks to them for their kindness in .his matter. I STATE CAPITAL NEWS. j State Board of Education Meets to Elect County Superintendents? . Other Matters. Special to The He'ald and News. Columbia, Dec. 22.?The State board of education met in Governor Blease's office at noon today to elect county superintendents of education in Abbeville and Laurens counties, to fill vacancies caused by the resignations of the encumbents. Mr. \V. R. Bradley, ; county superintendent in Abbeville, re- j signed io accept a position in the Unit- ' eel States government service. and Mr. George L. Pitts resigned as coun- i rv sunerinteudent in Laurens so j into business. The salaries attached to the positions a'e only about $700 each, and it has been s.'ated that the :nac!e- j quacy of the salaries led to the resignations. The State board today elected Rev. J. M. Lawson to succeed Mr. Bradley, in Abbeville, and J. H. Sullivan to succeed Mr. Pitts in Laurens. State Officials Busy. This is one of the busiest, and pro- ; bablv the busiest, season of the year, i for the various State officials, who iiave . MRS. GEO. W SEXX Kinards, S. C. Winner of 2nd Prize. i been and are now engaged in getting ! j their various reports ready for the \ general asembly, which is only three j weeks off. Statistics which have been gathered i show that the past year, in agriculj ture, in manufacturing, and in educational activities, was one of the best and most prosperous years which j South Carolina has ever had. ' i Then And Now. | In looking through some old papers j ! in the governor's office, several par- ! i j don petitions were noted from New-! i # [ I berry county, and on examination .of these papers shows that petitions in the years gone by, presented to for-1 mer governors, were very much the j same as petitions presented now?and a good many people were pardoned,! too. Interesting among the Newberry ; -4.-1 1 - C n I petitions nuiea was mat in .>uaii x\. | Taylor, convicted before Judge Ernest, Gary of the murder of his wife, and j sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary. This case created g'"eat interest at the time. Petition was presented by Col. W. H. Hunt, of the Newberry bar. Governor ^Heyward granted a pardon in May, 1903. The petition was signed by a good many ot tne citizens or .nOWDerry county. among them Clerk of Court Tohn C. Goggans, County Supt. of Education Eugene S. Wests, Sheriff M. M. Buford, Probate Judge Hodges, J. D. Davenport, M. A. Carlisle, S. B. fAnil, James Mcintosh, John M. Kinard, Z. F. Wright, S. J. Derrick, W. E. Pelham, J. W. White, Xat Gist, J. H. Sum- 1 mer, C. E. Summer, Wm. F. Ewart, and other citizens of the town of New- I berry. i BELL ON POISON BOTTLE. (From the New York American.) TTVoncic! '\T!je\Tillc>n rir>rpd violinist ! 1 1 UUV^IO iliuo*'! A A* J u given to ^violent headaches, has devised a method of safeguarding himself against bichloride of mercury poison. He had a medicine chest stocked with fourteen bottles, one of which contains bichoride iabletes. On each of the bottles is a bell, emitting, when being shaken, one of the minor j or major tones of the chromatic scale. The mercury bottle bell emits the tone of B sharp. PRISONER MAY BE WELL KNOWN YEGG John Kerry is Said to He MoKinley.? Held at Spartanbure. Spartanburg, Dec. 20.?Suspected of j ? anr? nttonintin I ClllC* illg C11C OlUi U Uiiu to blow open the safe of Renard C. Frey at Fairforest during t^.e night of December 10, .loan Kerry, identified by a fellow prisoner as William McKinley, a notorious safe-cracker, paroled by the governor from the State peni- ! tentiary on November 27, is now held \ in the county jail as a vagrant, entered there on a warrant by Robert J. Gantt, magistrate of this city, on December 12. A warrant charging AlcKinley with burglary has been sworn out bv .Renard C. Frey, and the ac cused man will be given a prelimina'y ! hearing on the charge before Magis- j trate Gantt in the county court room j Monday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. A j strong chain of circumstantial evi- I dence connecting the man with the j crime has been secured by the officers. On the night of December 10 the store of Renard C. Frey was forcibly ente'ed through a window and an attempt was made iO blow open the safe i by nitroglycerine. Several small ar- ; j I ! 1 , ' ; : ::H MISS LOU.ISE COUNTS J Pomaria, S. C. < Winner of 3d Prize. tides, including undershirts, a coat and other wearing apparel, were stolen. When the robbery was discovered the next morning a button with a tufc. of cloth, was found beneath the open window and this was j preserved as a clue. On the night j after the robbery, December 11, J. E. j Vernon, rural policeman, and Robert j E. Miller, special officer of the Southern railway, having in custody two negroes wanted for a minor offense, \ were coming ihrougn a patch of woods near Spartanburg Junction when they saw a white man with a sack of coal starting a fire. They suspected he had been stealing coal from the Southern railway and placed him under arrest, placing him in the county jail. He gave the. name of John Kerry. On December 12 he was given a hearing before Magistrate | I Gantt and as there was no evidence j to connect him with the theft of coal, j her was sentenced to 30 days in the j county jail for vagrancy. Xegro Child Burned to Death. Sunday afternoon a little negro girl was fatally burned, the burning J taking place at about one o'clock and j ueatli /esuilin", Monday morning ut < 0.30. It v.us aaotuer case of leaving i -'1 .'Ij 5" fVrn VifMioo i v nptp cniitu eu <uuiie m uiC .. ; they can play with fire. The little! girl, Willie Mae Austin, was a daugh- i ter of Alice Austin, who cooks for Mr. Frank Johnson. She left her 1 child in the house which is on the promises of Mr. .J. D. Livingston, in the city, and there was another small child in the ooni at the time, a boy about j:>: yea is old. the girl being in he;- iDu.'th year. The mother of the I burn* caiid uays ?.hut the girl claimed i, lLj b-y '~c;t I; or c;n fire," w.icn dis-j L O > V * ^ v? liL i C a! AAA Q \ ? ti * ' ? J U L A 1 * ?i 0 | Mrs. Livingstone rendered valuable ' assistance in extinguishing the flames j and otherwise helping with her aid, ! but the child was too badly burned j1 for any help to be effective in sav- i ing life. Coroner Lindsay held no in- j quest, it being considered unnecessary, j Tete Scur: y was shot by Henry' Gilreath on Friday night near Chap- J pells. One ball entered the ear. another the cheek and another Hie hack of the neck. Gilreath was arrested by Magistrate W. R. Reed and is now in the county jail. # j I'APT. W. H. SONDLEY CRITICIZES GOV. BLEASE' / SAYS CONVICTS ARE NOW DE. MORALIZED. Untrue That Parris Was ^Picked'' on Because He Wore a Blease Button. Columbia, Dec. 20.?A sweeping denunciation of Governor Blease's actions with regard to convicts at the State penitentiary was made today by the capain of the guard at the State prison. Capt. W. H. Sondley says the con victs at the prison are now demoralized, that diccipline has been seriously affected by Governor Blease's parols and pardons and that "all the average convict seems to think that it is necessary to violate the rules, get punished and slip a letter to the governor and his parole or pardon will follow." The statement of Capt. Sondley conies by reason of the granting of a parole by Governor Blease to Raimon Parris, a Newberry prisoner, who charged that he was punished be cause he wore a Blease button. The details wer?v given in Thursday's News and have created a sansation over the State. Many of the county papers have commented on the parole. Parris was called to Governor Blease's office and reiterated a statement contained in a letter that he had been "picked" on by the guards because he wore a Blease button and registered other kicks against the penitentiary. \ Today the "storm broke in the statement of ihe captain of guard. "I have been a victim of this kind of frame-up by convicts and ex-convicts long enough. I have never been able to understand why Governor ! P^nse should take an ex-parte stateI ment of a convict to injure a man ! and a State institution when he could - ?ft? /? + + tt v\1v j gel LIJC lctuu> ailU L11C LI UC11 UJ OIllipiJ j asking,'' said Captain W. H. Sondley, ! denouncing as a "lie" the statement . : : .. : | ^ ~: m mM yM * W4 I? MISS LOUISE MELTON Newberry, S. C. of the convict named Parris wbo was paroled a few days ago following a letter the convict wrote to Governor Blease that he was being punished because he wore a Blease button. "I now think the time has come j e_-_ i. " ^ ^ ^ 1 ior me 10 speaft. out, ciuucu i Sondley. "When it comes to dis- j charging my duty as an officer of the penitentiary I try and have no pets but I must confess that I did show this man some consideration on account of being from Newberry, my native county, by making him a trusty water boy. This lasted as long as he proved worthy but when he vio'ated the rule, I called him down.'' "When he said his downfall and punishment was caused oy nis wearing a button with Gov. Blease's picture on it, a blacker lie was never uttered." C:.pt. Son die}' pointed out that t'.io ease or Parris was submitted to Col. Griffith, the superintendent be- ; fore final action was taken and the I pui :shmcnt inliicted was by the su- j per .'.iter Merit's direction. The cell in ' which Parris was placed, says Capt. j Sondley, was the man's regular cell, j "as comfortable as any other in the ; building." I The captain of the guard continued: "I had no desire to inflict any greater punishment than solitary i confinement. In the discharge of my I duty as captain of the guards I have always tried to be just and fair in administering discipline and have "never knowingly inflicted any greater punishment than I thought the case deserved."' Commending Col. D. J. Griffith, V ' \y. ? $'' '-^ "^^i. * J f;/^ 1?vlji -WiMmm &z? - ? > - " MISS KATE SPEXCE ? Newberry, S. C. Winner of 4th Prize. the superintendent of the penitenti! ary, Capt. Sondley says that "the peniI 4 /\/l /-.Tr a w Viir n rvion LtJIlUclIy is JJICSIUCU UVCi >JJ a mau who has devoted his life to the interests of South Carolina, whose word is taken wherever he is known, and whose honor and integrity stands without a blemish." V" Capt. Sondley stated that he and the governor were brought up in the same county and "up ti a few months ago have been strong personal and Apolitical friends." He added: I "Under these circumstances does it j not seem that a common decency and. justice would demand that 1 be given i hearing before the statement of a j convicted thief be taken, by whose +estimony the tfhole administration of 'he penitentiary is condemned and we ire denied the right accorded the neanest criminal of not b^ing heard in our defense." v Charging that there is now less discipline among the convicts and t!:at Governor Blease's actions have caused a demoralization at the penitentiary, the captain' of the guard concludes his statement to the pub I lie: "It seems that Governor Blease had had a pick at the penitentiary and its officers ever since he has been in the governor's office and I have never understood it, unless he is catering to the criminal element in the State. "No one knows, except those connected with the penitentiary the di?o~der and demoralization that b been caused among the convicts by his interference and attitude he hus occupied. I have been connected with the penitentiary from time to time in nnp wav or another for about 20 years and there is more disorder and less deStipline now among the con__ _____ , Elt MISS GEORGIA r.^YNOLDS Newberry, S. C. victs iliu.ii I liave ever known. "AH riio 'jvnra >P ( i.iivu ) ^een ; to think that it is necessary is to violate the rules, get punished and slip a letter to the governor and his parole or pardon will follow. "It is a sad commentary on South Carolina when the testimony of convicted criminals is taken in preference to honorable men." %