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WHITJflRE JI.IN IS SHOT AT (>RKK\WOOD ! ill Still ley Dies From Wound In* tlioted f>v W. Cal Stroud?1 n/ ' quest i> Held. t' o 1 ae Slate. 1 Greenwood. May Will Stan!-}'. h y >ung co'ton mill opera tivr was shot yes eniay raorni.i: he re by W. Cal Siroml. also a mill operative fr la ^ Vhitmir . and died ar 11 o'el >ek at * (iiv, nwood liosjii al i'r. in the ol'eei th pistol wound. Th bullet en'(red the- chin and crashed hvough to the base of the brain. From the t- siimony adduced at 'lie inquest held by Coroner Dock Owen yesteri day auernoon. it appears tha: L. P. K Stroud and Will Loveless decid d Sat:rd:;y night :o com over to CrcenPK wood from Whitmire. On their way f o the depot they met Will S anley | /:ncl persuaded him to come witn ktliem. Th >' arrived here ]about ':> o'clock in the morning and were met by \\". Cal Stroud, t: :e man who did ihe killing. They all lour went to the house of Mrs. Myrtie Brown on Pelzer street. Mrs. Brown is a young widow and had with her her sister, Miss Bessie Sexton, and Miss Daisy Hartin. all having a few weeks ago moved here from AYhitmire. Iui the testimony it was stated !:hat the young rnen had three pint.s of whiskey. Vniino- Qronlov nir-kpH im a nistol and 0 shot twice through a window and then all four young men went out and wen* up to the store of AY. H. Hughes. It was then aboui; day. A quarrel started over Stanley's having carried the pistol away from the house, one of the women having askked him not to do s>;. After a few fwords outside the s ore. a scuffle c arted and shortly afterward W. Cal Stroud shot Stanley. He was carried to the hospital and died about 11: o'clock. Stanley's father lives in Columbia and he came up yes!"erday afternoon. Stroud, w?o did the shooting, and Loveless, a witness, are bo( h j in jail. Comor Dock Owen will ^release Loveless on bond as soon as it can be arranged. All tlie^ other | ) w itnesses have been bound over. THREATEN TO DESTROY TOWX j Rebels Menace Tampico With Flaming: Ruin?Mayo to Ptiy Safe. Vera C-'uz, May 4.?The constituvjonalits at Tampico have notified >Rear Admiral Mayo, commander of the American warships s! ationed I there, that if any of his vessels attempted to enter the Panuco river the ' resfrvoir above the ?itv would be emptied and the oil* igniied. which would mean certain destruction to the town. This situation was reported by the commander or' the United Sta' es torpedo boas destroyer Jenkins, which! arrived at Vera Cruz today from Tampico. Both federals and rebels are reJ<ported to have planted mines in Tam- j jjujy nai uui F It is generalh thought here tha-. Admiral Mayo will await the capture of the ci?:y by the rebels through the slow progrc-ss of starving out the fed-! <erals. , The commander lof !rhe Jenkins said that little firing had been heard in the last three days. The rebels were re- i . ported to be bringing up the an illery i which they captured at Monterey. L Reports of federal activities in the interior, from Vera Cruz, were rei ceived here today. Gen. Gustavo Maas,; die Mexican commander, was said i ?.o have blown up the San Francisco "bridge on the narrow gauge railroad, which was the line used by Gen. j Scott in his advance on Mexico City i i g^in 1845. This report, however, was, W not received at '. he a?*my headquarters | r of Gen. iFunston, alihougli it was\ K"Own the Mexican federals had; Kiined f.he structures along the road.! W It was also reported that seci ions j V of track had been torn up. American W consuls at Frontera. Progreso, Puerto' f "Mexico and Carmen have been or- i dered to turn over their in teres's ' o; The French consuls. Twelve Americans . 3rp said to remain at JalaDa and about the same number between that Town and the is.hmus of Tehauntepec. A number of British subjects left 1 Vera Cruz f r the federal capital to^^<iay, having been reassured by news ^brought by British refugees. The price of articles of food are j m beginning to rise in consequence of B fliie small ..mount !in:;g orougnr. in/o -he city from the country districts. I VETERANS FLOCK TO JACK.SOYILLE ^ Kpecial Trains Poor Human Barden Into City?-Today is Real Start, Jacksonville, F!a.. May ?"With 30-odd special frains reaching- the v:ity t ;day and tonight and with e'>'?ry regular train carrying from r'ive o! six .Njjcial ca'.s. (' nfederate veteransfrom all sections of tne S >uth are swarmin.ii the stree s o Jacksonville. ; Kvery hou-1 in town is literally packed and jammed with pc pie a.-d all priv.ite r< sid^nce when- a?-comniodaion could be secured have been fill eu. :n being estimated that ."?i?.huu per-t !:ave naclit <i the city siene .Mond.i> in niing. Jacksonville is a-flutter !>y da\ ami ;.iiaui< :>y night. thousands ^i' flags i: ating to tiit- breeze from lit1 loftv binlili -'-is. Wi.ilo strings 01 electric iguts are draped artis icaily ac:oss eve: y street :u the busin district. i-.ieetric signs and foil 11 ains sending forth great volumes of water ui winch is played different colored light end to make tile display by , night one of the most g rg-uus ever witnessed in the Sou h. Memorial .>Ieetii;g. The C mfederate Southern Memo-1 rial association met this afternoon and his evening Sons of Veterans j riffifMflllr niictipd rlieu- leimioii T. - ) morrow morning at 10 o'clock at I ^ : Camp Kirby-Smi h the tirst meeti g ' : of the Confederate veterans will be! :ield. i ? ! Tomorrow attent ion the parade of I | sponsors and maids will tak^ place, : i hundreds o:' gaily decorated auto- f mobiles being in line. The second J j parade will be on Thursday when ;he Sons of Veterans will have their, ! turn, then o.i Friday morning the ; veterans will parade through the bus iness streets of the city. Camp Kirov-Smith is situated in ; Springfield park, along lie banks of Hogan's creek, and is pronounced hv veterans to 1'> one of the most up-tJ: date hev ;ave v t seen. Bia brown i army tents have bee.: erected in the shade of weeping willows and giant oaks and under the feet of he ! old war heroes is a carpet or" nature's greenery which for years has been under the keeping of Jacksonville's! park system. j >'eed Not Walk. With over 2.">00 au onubiles owned by generous people, the veterans will : have 110 excuse for walking, for all j have truned their machi. es over to : the ccmmitee and all during ;he af- j terno:n today, great lines of private cars were a: the union station, where ' i veterans were taken aboard and dis- i ti'ibuted about the city, while many; were aken out for rides through the i husinpsi; and through the beautiful suburbs- of Jacksonville. Memphis, Te>r.n.. moved on Jacksonville today. One of the biggest delegations to reach here came from that city, headed by a brass band, gaily uniformed, and with hundreds of loyal Memphis people carrying banners in a parade from the union J / ' station to the hotel quarters. bearing; the words: "Memphis in 191.V The Oklahoma delegation reached the citv late this afternoon, also. i marching up from The station through ; ! the business streets to headquar ers. VILLA >IAKES WAY FOR HIS 0>V\ MEX 4-k. rw v O n n f?Q T.' t? i /\ n rl L' I ii r> i u in ?\ i1 a.Liz.? ^ i i irnu? , Results of Intriarues. El Paso, May ?Gen. Manuel Chao 1 has been removed as constitutionalist governor of Chihauiiau by Gen.! Francisco Villa. News of the change in executive reached the bolder to. ight. The removal, r was said, was the result of an intrigue against Villa by Chao in an effor: to have the conqueror of Torreon replaced as general in chief cf the army. Triniilori RnilvicriiJ? V) q c Kodm governor and Gen. Chao has been ordered to reD^rt at the fro .t beyond Torreon for acive service in he field. Silvestro Terrazas, who aas been secretary of State :'or Chihauhau, a close friend of Chao, also was removed and ' has been succeeded by lAugustin Labanstadt, formerly inspector of police. Chao and Terrazas, who is not connected with the rich federal family of that name, are regarded as being closely aligned wi h Gen. Carranza, while 'heir successors are friends of j Villa. Constitutionalist representatives \ j here deny that t'..e removal of Chao' | indicated a strained relati::i between 1 | Carranza and Villa, but say i: indi- : 3 ca es the relations between them are ; 1 so cl'se that not eve.1, a personal!! friendship of Carranza for Caao could ! I produce a break. j 1 Constitutionalists here assert, thai | I Ciea. (Jarranza Himself warned Cliao that unless be curbed his tongue he would find trouble. It h reported that Villa firs: selected Gen. 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