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l TOLOEE LII, >OTBER r?l ^ ^ NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1914. TWICE A WEEK, $U6 A YEAR. * HEAVY WIND STORM 1 VISITS COLUMBIA TELEPHONE AM) TELEGRAPH J POLES I)0>V\ CITY IX DARKNESS j Automobile Skids on Road After J Storm and Occupants Are Injured. Columbia, June 2S:?For two hours | this afternoon Columbia was visited j "by a heavy storm of wind, hail and i rain, accompanied by lightning and | thunder. The disturbance was the most severe of its kind to strike this section for some years. Heavy damage was suffered by public service companies, stores and residences in all pans cf che city. Plate glass windows were blown in, signs and fences were blown down. Office buildings were flooded and ventilators were torn from skylights. Te'ephone and telegraph poles were blown down and trees were mutilated, making the streets impassable in some places and filing roadways with wires. As a result the city tonight is in darkness, j At least eight hundred telephones are j out of commission. Lightning struck j in many places within the city limits and resulted in one small c:nflagration. ^ As a result of road conditions resulting from the storm an automobile, three miles out of Columbia on the Two Notch road, skidded and the machine turned over and the occupants violently thrown out. Mrs J. D. Gcldson, of Columbia, sustained a broken . arm, broken collarbou'e and fractured ribs. Miss Vickie Sauls, of Orangeburg. suffered a broken collai\>one. TWh wfirp hurried to Knowlton's hos pital. Other occupants of the car escaped with a severe shaking up. They were James Goldson, B. B. Goldson, P. C. Turner, A. D. Brownie, Miss L.innie Goldson, aU of Columbia. HITS AUGUSTA STOKE ! Failure Brings Receivership for J. B. J U'I.Ua f. 1T iiiic; a \ \f Aususta, Ga.. June 25.?J. B. White X ^ & Co.. one of the Claflin stores, was * placed in t':e hands o: a receiver today following the embarrassment in New York. F. P. Gracey. head of the store, was named receiver. A statement from Mr. Gracey is to the effect that the Augusta store has always made money, it is doing business undrr the receivership. >Y flit mire >e>vs. Special to The Herald and News. Whitmire, June 25.?Miss Lena Young returned home Saturday from k Reno, where* she has been fcr her ' health. Mr.jW. Carlisle Fridy, who recently o-raduatpri at tht- Whitmire High school, left Monday for Spartanburg, where he will attend the summer session of Wofford Fitting school. Misses Grace-and Nellie Hurt have [returned from Anderson where they hve been visiting relatives. Miss Connie Shannon spent the day j in town Wednesday Mrs. L. G. Young, of Union, was in town Monday visiting Mrs. J. B. Pitts. ^ IMiss Emmie Duncan was in town Saturday visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. G. P. Wren left Tuesday for Newberry where she will visit 'Miss Inez Darby. ^ Mrs. A. J. Holt and mother left Wednesdav for Clinton where they B& -will attend tee burial o. a relative. Miss Belle Eison, of Blairs. was in ft town Tuesday visiting Mrs. E. C. Bance. WT Mrs. E. C. Xance left Tuesday for B~Maybinton where she will spend a few V days with her sister. Mrs. D. A. Tho n- i as. Mr. Calhoun Boyd, a ca?!<it i' C'iem- | sen c e. r< V'S'itiiiir i;i~; "ijot .? r, [y>v. William Cg'ciumh ha^ rc-tnviiocl i from New York where ho h:< for sometime attending to i.is bus!- i y<r. Thaddeus W. Coleman "is now in rnion. on business. Mr. George H. Lekner and wife, of V:gu ta, Ga., arrived Thursday, and : 111 spond a few days v/itii friends. : TO REHABILITATE COMPANY { i Confidence in Its I'ltimate Solvency j (Jrows?St<itus Mot Certain. New York. June 26.?Although plans for a reorganization of the H E. Claflin company, which failed yes-! terday with liabilities of $34,000,000, j had not become definite enough for j . . . i the issuance of1 any statement touay, i confidence in the ultimate solvency oi j the company became general. ! Results of meetings oi' committees of merchandise creditors and t.ie note holding creditors were encouraging. A C. Drew, secretary o; Ue merchan- j dise creditors' committee, expressed i the hope that by immediate coopera tion the situation could be met. The : claims f t.:e merchandise creditors j amounted to about $2,000,000, accord- i ing to his estimate. This brings the : total estimated liabilities of*the failed j . . . - .. i firm to .$36,000,000. James S. Alexander, chairman o:' i the note holders' committee, announced that up to early this afternoon approximately $$,000,000 or between 2-3 and 30 per cent, of sutstand ing notes of H. B. Claflin company had been deposited, or intention of deposit had been signified. It was understood that satisfactory progress had been made in the preparation o' i plans for conserving the note holders' Jntoroet ; Confidence over the general mercantile situation was increased by the announcement that Cornelius X. Bliss, newly elected president of the Associated Merchants' company and the United Dry Goods Companies, affiliated with the Claflin interests through stock control, had been offered all the financial support that he needed. Receiverships for the string of nearly . 30 Claflin stores throughout the country which Mr. Alexander said yesterday would take place at once, had up to noon today been put into effect in only six stores. It may be several weeks before the exact financial status of the Claflin company and smaller mercantile concerns that failed with it can be established, according to one of the receivers of the company t.night. "We have to get an inventory of the stock of the H B. Claflin company and then ascertain the amounts of bills receivable," said Joseph B. L\Iariindale, who was named one of the receivers. "After getting the facts relative to that company it will be necessary to ascertain the amount of stock and the financial condition of , the outside stores. As these stores are widely scattered it will require some weeks to get the information. "I believe," he continued, "t'.iat it will be possibly .to get a condensed statement showing the affairs of the H. B. Clanin company rnucn sooner,; but even this task will require many ! days of work;' BANKERS ( LOSE MEETING. ('. .1. Shannon, ,lr? of Camden, is President?Carter Glass Speaks. The State. Charleston, June 25.?The new federal reserve banking law, a concise explanation of its purposes and how it will help business and benefit t'ne individual business man, was the; theme of a remarkably clear and in- i teresting address by Congressman i Glass, cf Virginia, this morning at the j second day's meeting of the South j Carolina Bankers' association. ^Mr. Glass is an ardent supporter of the new'banking and currency law. and is an authority on all the details of this complex propositon. He introduced the new bank bill and was instrumental in securing its passage by congress. The session this afterno n concludes t'/.e annual meeting as far as the bu -iness of the association is con r:i("l and adjournment will be ordered at that time, thcug'; bannnei tonight actu:;r.y clc^<-th ?<-stivi v. i' a. TI;; b j iet w i.\ tender* .1 the visltin?r bankers and ac : >ix a: . ! :.?v *;; a.'.-, by t';. lo . . -en for an e] :> rate .. The Sollovving officers '".ere unanii it. usly elected: President, C. .T. Sftan! non, .Jr., Camden; vice president. W. ! Simpson, Spartanburg; secretary and I treasurer, Lee 6. Roil jm lersoii; a'tor:x.', Ihwi ??!' . Oi*a?. j;.rv Hon. F. H. Domi, Favor Fc Mr. Dominick will in a f< canvas of the district for C( other candidates in the racc ation from other counties in will not only lead all the res jority in the first primary, sistant attorney general, ha legislature, and was county < and in all of the positions w so with marked ability and lawyer of experience and at district with credit to himse of his constituents. Executive council from the congress- j ional districts, First, \Y. King vuiio- ; well, Charleston; Second, \V. E. Pro-1 thro, Williston; Third, W .T. Bailey, Greenwood; Fourth, F. C. H!;gers, Sprtanburg; Fifth, J. P. Stevens, Kers-aw; Sixth. H. W. Frazer, / Georgetown; Seventh, R. >?. Bryaht, Oi angeburg. SOI3IER SCHOOL NOTES. A Large Crowd of Teuchers From Newberry Attending Winthrop Summer School. Special to The Herald and News. Winthrop College. June 29.?The 1914 session of Winthrop college summer school opened June 1G with an enrolment of nearly 6*00. Among this number are the following Newbury county teachers: Misses Willie Mae Wise and Susie Langford, Presperity; Elbertaa Sease and Clara Brown. Little (Mountain; Iva Eaddv and Bess Muggins, Zion; Mary Wright, Ethel Hair, Elizabeth Dominick, Newberry; Ola Miller. Tabernacle; Lottye Lee Hall'acre and Mae Amick, HunterDeWalt; Julia Sotzler. Pressley; Xell | Fridy. Whitmire: Leila McTeer. Bur, ton; Elizabeth Xeel. Johnstone; Georgia Xeel. Ella Langston. Gertrude Smith, Popie Webb and Sadie Gogi gans. Prof. C. W. Riser, formerly of Xew berry county but now principal o.r tlie Anderson high school, is'here taking 1 U u t a course m the summer school. The couri-os of the summer school are varied. There ar c mrses to lit teac ers who have liau no 40 1 raining and wis a to ;-iady . urtner, ( (.' .us' to m- el the ne--d-; of ers v. : ;; 1 *. 1 had no 'raining it; u-'l'. o.Is, : < h t tii-' ?i *. f i n? i t a. .1' in. i. a Is givers th opportunity to , . :;'ii the h test and 11 '*1 iaiprowd ' methods. I Sept. George I). Brown arrived Tuesday? to attend the s ;s. ions o: the count}1, superintendent 5? cc/.ference. I'-".-; el re/ u . a/i , session, nick, Newberry's >r Congress 3w days begin his active )ngress. There are three 3, but from reliable mlormi the district. Mr. Dominick ;t, but will have a safe maMr. Dominick is now as,s served his county in the chairman for several years, hich he has filled, has done good judgment. He is a )i)itv and will reoresent the %J i. ilf and to the satisfaction __ decided that one teacher schools are a failure and that the salvation of the educational system in this State de: ponds on consolidation into three I teacher schools. Twenty-live county superintendents i and nine rural supervisors have al| ready arrived to discuss common i school problems. One of the chief advantages of ati tending the summer school is that j teachers have an excellent epportunii ty to meet t':e school officials who are ; consulted by trustees in the selection j of teachers Tor the various schools of tne state. At night the teachers are entertained with music recitals, lectures and stereopticon views along educational I I lines. j One evening next week Miss Sadie ! Goggans will give a "Xewberry party." This is anticipated with pleasure by all. Two Death In Family Within One Week. Columbia Record. 2.">th. The funeral services of Miss Lenora , uanace were neia i-.is morning <u I the home. So" Calhoun street. Rev. ' J. P. Knox, pastor of the A. R. P. ! (vurch, officiating. Ar noon the reI j mains were placed : n the C. X. & L. i train and taken to Prosperity for ini tennent fit the cemeterv of the ('anI i non Creek A. R. P. church. j Miss Wallace. 23 years of age, had ; been ili for several months. She is j survived hy her n:ot':oi\ tiiree brotii; ".? an } a sister. The family is doubly bereaved, as () reek \uo her ' I'.hor. Roberi P. \ Wallace, was buried at tli same cem' etcry. His death was d.ie t > :cart ; trouble. j !'!;?' family has resided in Goium, bi about s -.v >! < c min.s here from j 1 to. T?t ! ::y. y,r. \V: :::ice was a i ri .idc-sm-n :i: i in bis craft. I !> ;riiiu t . :r iv-b; mo in Columbia the family made many friends who j .-ymrraibiz? ;1 < ly with them in r'ze i .* hr. > frlien upon i -a. t SALEM SWEPT BY FLAMES Lacking Water to Fight Fire, Department is Forced to I'se Explosives. I w Salem, Mass.. June 2T>.?Nearly half the "old witch city" of Salem, rich j in historic buildings and tradition,, j was devastated tod::y and tonight by I | a fire tnat caused an estimated loss ! | of $20,000,0( 0. destroyed 1,000 buildj ings, including scores of manufactur| ing establishments. and made 10,000 | o: the 45,000 residents homeless, j The fire originated in the Korn 1 no + 1i f k >. f .1 r\r-\- r\n tllo VVDCt P f?T thp | icauici lanuij wi ?v ?^ | city at 2 o'clock this afternocn and j swept through the shoe and leather j manufacturing district, ruining every i building in a curving path two miles | long and more than a half mile wide. Burning embers, carried by a strong northwest wind, started tires in two otiier sections, the fashionable residential district adjacent to LaFayette street and a manufacturing and tene-! ! ment house district 011 the Peninsula, | bounded by Palmer's Cove, South I rivpr and the water front. Late in t-e ! ! evening brands kindled a fourth fire j \ | in the p'ant of the Salem Oil com- j ! pany in Mason street. The oil tanks blew uj^ with a terrific report and showers of sharks fell threateningly j on a part of the town that before , i had r.ot been in imminent danger, j Th;s fire, however, was checked after j \l had destroyed the oil Company's i plant and 13 houses. When the flames were believed to i be under control at 11 o'clock tonight, j ! all the historic and literary land- i marks had* escaped destruction. These j included the Peabody museum. Essex ; institute, custom house, where Xa:' thaniel Hawthrone did much of his: literary work, and "The House of t;ie i Seven Gables," made famous by the ! novelist. , Museum Probably Safe. * i At midnight the '.ire was burning on Derby street, not far from the j Peabody museum but it was thought ; j tie building and its valuable collection of curios would be saved. "The I j House of Seven Gables" also was in j the danger z:ne. j I I ~ - 7 ' j r Seven ouiiaings were ujnauuicu i and la.e tonight it looked as though , ' the fire had been checked. I Xo fatalities had been repoited up I to midnight but in the confusion it i was impossible to determine t>e casi ualties. Some ">0 injured persons were received at hospitals. Thousands o: ! homeless were camped on^Salem common tonight and the city was policed by militiamen. Lacking water to pour on the flames, buildings were dynamited by the fire fighters in an effort to check the progress of the fire. But no sooner was the march of destrueTTon i stopped in cue direction than the fight had to be renewed in another. Driven by a shifting wind the flames spread first in one direction and then in another. It was nearly 11 o'clock before the area of conflagration had (reached its limit. Starting, about 2 i o'clock this afternoon as a result of I an unexplained explosion in the fac tory of the Korn Leather company just east of historic Gallows hill, where alleged witches were hanged 200 years ago, the fire spread quickly through the shoe and leather manrfacturing district, then sbuth to the Boston & Maine railroad tracks at Jeffers n avenue and eastward to the waterfront. Late tonight fire brands carried into I the business section on the north j started a second fire at North street a little later a tank of the Standard : Oil company in the. extreme northj west of th? city w aVaze and pre:, ^ntly a third fire WuS levelling the j buildings in that vicinity, i A determined eii'or: was made tj ^too [:o fire at th & Main'*1 stati n, c'osc to the centre o:' t ie ci'y Several garages were dynamited af:?r ! ; a tower in the railroad yard liad been I ' burned. I The entire district occupied by th(>j [ Italian and Greek colonies was de- J : vas'atrl. Most of the 2.<K0 person & . o hones in thai district were i;.o:-ed l ;-."rari!y at the V. M. C A., the H ate armory, police stations | and other public buihiinirs. j All rail.oads leading out of the j city wore row.ied with refugees on oot. in i bil i all scr FAST TIME MAKE BY FIREMEN (iood Records at Florence Tournament?Newberry Wins in Hund Heel Ila.e. The State. I?l AA Tim A O", T ? f V* rt rtA i. i inivx, .j unc hi Lllc Nation wagon i?nd hose contst toduy. Greenwood won in the splendid time of 31 seconds. Newberry gave an exhibition, getting water -in 29 2-5. The reccrds were as follows: Chester, 34; Greenwood, 31; Marion, 31 2-5; La.urens, 35; Darlington, 34; Florence No. 2, 33; Hartsville, 341-2. Bishopville, Sumter, Abbeville, Bennettsville, Florence,No. 1 and George* town, no connection. y \ The following is the result of the hand reel and grab reel-race; Hand nose reel races, 100 yards?Sumter, 19; Columbia, 18 3-5; Newberry, 19 2-5; Georgetown, 20; Kingstree, 22 2-5. Columbia won first money ot $75 and Sumter won second for $50. /The grab reel races were as follows: Sumter, 21; Columbia, 18; Newberry, , 17 4-5. Newberry won first, $50, and Columbia second, $25. In the foot races, Paul Troutihan of l Newberry won first, $15; time 11 seconds; Kreps of Columbia was second, $10, time 12. V Columbia was the big winner of the meet, the boys from the capital city getting away with $360 in prizes. The Florence baseball team won the baseball game this afternoon, the score being Sumter 5, Florence 7. The feature of the game was the pitching of Wilson for Florence. conveyances. Many carried all t'cey had saved of t'.:eir household possessions wrapped in sheets and shawls over their shoulders. Fire Spreads Quickly. Following the explosion in the factory of the Korn Leather company th? nre quiCKiy jumyeu iu auj<-'i.ii"5 erty. More than 20 factory buildings and scores of dwellings and small stores were quickly destroyed. Dur^ ing panic among employes, in the Korn factory fallowing the explosion one person was seriously hurt. The first spreal of the fire was 0.1 the west side of the city at the foot of Gallow^ hill. Territory about two miles long and more than hali! a mile i wide, fr m Proctor and Boston streets , in tiie north, to Jefferson avenue on the south, was devastated, in this ais ! trict are Proctor, Pope, Broad, Haw| tiorne, Win:l>rop, Mt. Verncn, Endi? ( cott and Peabody streets, on which I nearly all the structures were destroyed. In the meantime falling embers started fires in South Salem and the more exclusive residential part of the city. All the available fir.* fighting apparatus was in the historic Gallows? hill section, where it had t-espond^A 10 a general alarm and 'South Salem was left unprotected. spreads mere io?. For several hours the fire in this district was confined So a small area, but as evening approached the flames spread in all directions destroying scores of residences in the district, including many handsome homes on the most fashionable thoroughfares in Salem. The city orphan asylum, sheltering loO persons, was destroyed. All the children were saved. ( The Salem hospital was the next ~ r A prey of tue names, raueuo ?ac mmoved on stretchers. There was no apparatus here to cbeck the flames, which licked up scares of tenements and high wooden apartment houses. St. Joseph's church and the adjoining school and convent buildings male ready fuel for the fiames. At the start the water pressure was low and when t'.ie fight had become d sperate a gieat water m?.in broke, : 'ui .'riiig the firemen very helpless Meantime calls for assistance had een sent to nearby citi s and an l < nor:no-..s quaiKltv of apparatus rei . , t j sponaea. i Tire Manchester (X. tlEL) eagine^n<i< rto..k to pump waUr from t'ne c an. Hosron. Lyn and other cities sent apparatus and details of police. But the combined < ftorts of the greatest aggregation or' Hre fighting machines over s en l/ere were futi.'e and v/] -:i darkness foil dynamite was