Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F 35AM DEAD AND INJURED iN EAST ST. L01IS MOT East St. Louis, 111., July 2.?At 11 o'clock tonight estimates of the dead in today's race riot and fire ranged >from 15 to 75 of whom two were white men. Buildings are still burning at four different points. Th.e property loss was estimated by City Attorney Fekete at- $3,000,000. Fortv inin-Twl npsrrnes. and six in .-J ? jured white men were in one hospital rand almost an equal number in another. JVast. nf ?,moke r<^ied across the sky tonight from the burning district. The flames made some of the H iown town streets as light as day and A -bow and then a yelling mob rushed f <down a street in pursuit of a negro or in search of new excitement, National Guardsmen loaded in automobile | trucks dashed after the mob. -The! ehouting died down occasionally as j bewildered, people walked up and down ti*e streets wondering wnere me iasi | outbreak occurred. The fires started atout 6 o'clockthis evening and spread rapidly. Soon i ^ flames visible for miles were shooting! i*to the sky. Hundreds of negro wo-| WF men, most of them carrying bundles' Chat held their most precious belong-j ings and leading small children, lied I across the bridge to shelter and safety j I with frieuds on the Missouri side. j i Telephone wires were cut early in I I the evening. As telegraph and tele-, | phone poles caught fire other wires , | went down. I The mobs in East St. Louis were; swelled by hundreds of people who! earl j in the evening crossed the river j |pl Jfcom St Louis, Mo. These added such, Wj^ a menace to the situation that at 8:30 Hp o'clock the bridges were closed. This V forced hundreds of residents of sub-, urban towns to stay in St. Louis for | the night. As soon as street traffic' I ended at 7 p. m., crowds walked across j | the bridge into IjSast St. Louis by the; I thousands. The moDs sol jihu a j lynching mood tonight. . One negro; was strung up on a pole but was res-: cued just in time to save his life. Sol- > diers rescued still another negro who j was being dragged through the streets, j After military rule had been proclaim- j ed, the soldiers put more vigor into ' their attempt to quell the mob. j Seventy-five white men attacked aj *io<rrrv in fromt of a dru?: store down ^vo*v ? w town and shot him twice and attempt- j i ed to draw him to a pole. The troops j "charged with fixed bayonets and thel mob scattered. "With this show of force the rioters in part quieted down. Troope stood' guard r?t all corners and kept crowds moving. At 6:30 o'clock fire broke out in the district known as the "Alley." i This fire aine periously near the bigj railroad yards of East St. Louis. At 9 o'clock four more negros were shot.; At JO o'clock it appeared as if thej "Alley" district was doomed to de-j struction. This is the third large area to be burned. The property damage! "Will reach many thousands. A Xew Set of Robbers. Rock Hill Record. F" It will doubtless come as a shock to the people of SoutH Carolina to learn that a new gang of insurance * robbers has begun business in Columf bia, succeeding tTie late notorious j . m <*> k >nAAia4iATI nil. ' Southeastern ranu ?. der the name of the South Carolina j Inspection and Rating Bureau. They are doubtless the same old robbers under a new name. This aggregation! has issued a circular letter to the various agents showing an increase an rates of nearly 50 per cent. What are the people of South Caro lina going to do about it? They were robbed for years by the former aggregation of robbers, but the people f finally revolted and drove the robbers out of the State. We hope, the people will repeat the process with this new Another Use of Kerosene An excellent remedy for mildew is: to saturate the article v.'ith kerosene. Roll it up and let it stand for 24 ; hours and then wash it in very hot j v soap suds. ' j We Do It Right . | When you need repai car try our Repair D< ly find the trouble prove our statement. baugh has charge of that means Saiisfacti I to give service. Try J. D. QUA! I Prosper i | WI NTERS* LICENSES ISSIEI) BY CLERKS Columbia. July 3.?Clerks of court ' and game wardens have authority to : Issue hunter's licenses, nothwith1 standing the vacancy in the office of : the chief game warden, according to a decision rendered by Attorney Gener' al Thomas H. Peeples, this afteri .... noon, in response to an inquiry trom noma War/Ion \T vj Qlnan n f f'har. ivjrcijLii^ ft ai uv.ii . i^ivuk, v/i. leston. Attorney General Peeples' opinion in regard to this matter ! which is of partisular importance at I this time, in view of the fact that all I licenses expired on July 1, is as fol| lows: j Columbia, July 3.' 1917. : j "Mr. V. S. Sloan, Game -Warden. ' Charleston, S. C. "Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 30th of June, in wfiicn you state that all hunters' licenses ex-' pire on July 1, and asked to be advised ; as to what authorities are authorized1 |o issue hunter's licenses in view of the fact that the office of chief game' warden is now vacant. ? < "In reply thereto, I beg to say that section 3, of an act to provide for a ' license for hunters and a penalty for failure to procure the same, 29, State,' page 233, provides as follows: 'That * these licenses shall be issued by the clerks of court, game wardens or any;, bonded agent of the chief game warden, and they shall be paid the sum x_ 1? Ki.- * oi ten cents iur e&ca hucubc ouiu u; them.' j4 "Under the terms of the above quo1 T ted section of the cat I am of the opinion that clerks of court and game wardens have authority to issue the license referred to in the above mentioned act. "Section 4 of the act referred to 1 requires all moneys collected from the 5 sale of licenses to be transmitted to * the state treasurer and by him placed t to the credit of the game protection 1 fund, and* the chief game warden is c required at the end of each year, to 1 return to each county the total amount r collected from the sale of licenses, * less the actual cost of enforcing the c laws in the county. 'jA "The question, however, of the re-,C turn to the various counties at the end' of the year of their share of the moneys in the Estate treasury to the credit of the game protection fund is merely academic at this time and if a chief game warden be appointed be-' fore the end of the year, then he will be zliithorized to transmit this mo-j ney to the various counties which are entitled to- the same. % j "The question of determining the: 1 ! r amount of the license fees and the^ fines required to enforce the game!1 laws in the varous counties and that of determining the amount to which'" each county is entitled at the end of 1 the year will, if "no other chief game " warden be appointed, be a perplexing s one, since there will be no executive E head charged with the enforcement of * the game laws in the state and respon-'; sible for a proper accounting of the r moneys arising from the sale of licen-'r i ^ ses, lines, etc., throughout the state, j "In view of these facts, clerks of courts and game wardens, issuing bun- t f ters' licenses, and persons enforcing - . r the game laws in tne various cuuuutjs, j should make every effort to keep a; * correct record of all .n^neys received! and disbursed by them in the enforce- j ment of the game la-ws in their resnec- j tive counties and report the same in ... ( itemized form to the state treasurer,: ^ when tlie moneys are forwarded him, jc to be ^placed to the credit of the game protection fund. j "Yours very truly, THOMAS H. PESPLES, I ' "Attorney General.',* i : 1 The >ew President. 11 The South Carolina Press Associa-j] tion chose an excellent man for presi- ] dent in J. L. Mime, editor or me iMigy- > < field Advertiser. He is a fine citizen, i a fearless editor and a most estimable j1 gentelman?one. of the "old blue hen'3 ;; chickens." The honor is proof pat-; ] ent of the worth of the man and his 11 i fidelity to high standards and ideals of < journalism.?Greenville News. ; < The First Time | ir work done on your spartment.1 We real- jj|i and fix it. Let us |! Mr. A. L. Beden- || ic merit. and on. Our business is us. :-. :-: :-: TLEBAUM, 1 ity, S. C. w ISSUE PERMITS FOR LIQUOR AS USUAL Columbia, July 2.?'Issue liqi.:or heretofore!." Such was the wii ? sent a number of South Carolina judge.. 01' probate tolay by Assistant Attorney General Claud N. Snapp, -n lesponse to inquiries as to whether they should continue to issue permits for the medicinial quart per month, in view of the fact that the federal law became operative yesterday. As has several times been pointed out. the federal law does not affect Smith Parnlina frn? thf? rpn.snr that the quart-a-month act permits shipments only for medicinal, secramental, or scientific purposes, which are allowed by the federal statute; and under the South Carolina law the sick may continue to get their liquor and to alleviate their suffering. The Insurance Imposition. Yorkville Enauirer. Now comes the information through Commissioner McMaster that insurance rates are to be increased and it is about as expected. John L. McLaurin got <creatly reduced rates on cotton vv ears ago. rhe insurance people <i ed and tried :o put him out of bus*. ~ le fought 3ack and ran the Soutne .?cern Tariff issociation out of the state. He thied :o follow that up with a state insurince system that would make proper-' :y owners of South Carolina inde -rcXiUCilL VI LUC IIIOUIUULC ti UOL. ] lowever, the 'insurance people >rought pressure on the powers that )e and the plan failed. The insurance people, or quite a lumber of them, withdrew from the itate. In accordance v;ith a time-tesed procedure, they left enough com- , >anies L: the state to take care of such ndividuals as promised to become langerous in case they could not get nsurance. These were annoyed as to ates and conditions; but care was ta:en not to aggravate tliem to the point >f actual rebellion. Indeed some vere baited sufficiently to keep them luiet. j At the last ssesion of tlie general issembly it was not a great deal of rouble to have the insurance laws reused to suit the notion of the companies. In some respects these laws )iit the people more at the mercy of he insurance companies than hereofore. Now we au told that rates are to; >e increased and the public will not >e wrong if it asumes that from now >n the insurance companies will treat t just as they please. ' j The only remedy for the situation1 -* '? ?' ? ^A?? fViof rj-il 1 (ri'ro thf> ?Hie UU1> XCU1CUJ Wat nui v?? , )eople a fair deal in ^insurance?is itate control and operation of the bu-. ;iness. But that is not likely. The >eople at interest ade too trusting and o easily deceived, and amongst viiose vhose duty it is to stand for the < ights of the public?their friends and i leighbors?there are too many . vho prefer to serve big business. Having by hook and crook, licked ? he people of South Carolina to a razzle, of course the insurance ioiks iow have no other idea than to make he people of South Carolina pay. j ^ Hogs and tfore Hogs. Washington,' July 2.? The praise )f the hog as a meat producing an-j mimal to raise for meat and money,"; : 14 on onnaol tnrl 3 V fft I'griCUltUiC 1U| cm. a^i/vvt'i v^v.^. , :armers to raise hogs, hogs and still, nore hogs as the quickest and surest! vay of increasing the nation's meat: supply. ingseiggzkgbeg 'bodai "The hog is the most important j minial to raise for meat and oney,"j ;he statement says. '*He requires less I labor, less equipment, less capital, J makes greater gains per 100 pounds; 3t' concentrates and reproduces him-! ~ " A- ?? J J? Tl 11-m K OI> sen rasier <tuu m calci uumubi than any other domestic animal. As: i consumer of by-products the hog; has no rival. No other animal equals the lard hog in its fat-storing tend-* encv. There is 110 animal which pro-i duces more meat and more profit! than the hog. "Very nearly nO per cent of the i value in dollars and cents in the meatj and meat products slaughtered in the; flio Sfates pactviug IHJHO^ wjl mv, ? is derived from the hog. Three-! fourths of the world's international trade in pork and pork products originates in the rmted States in nor-' mal times, and the war greatly has increased this proportion.'' The statement then points out" that there was decrease of 313.000 hogs at the end of 1916 compared with the ii?nrinilc VGQV <3 11 /I 3 fUl ? * <-Tf V." P. G\ |/i C V 1WUO vui , . N? . _ pect To continue to provide moat to foreign peoples as well as our own people, every farmer must put forth the best effort to produce more hogs." m THE HERALD AND NEWS ONE 1 FEAR FOR ONLY SI.50. / UIAINGASO AM) H UK tJlTSTlON Columbia, July 4.?That the Stat<: law requires an absolute separation ol sexes and races on all county chain gangs, except, in Kershaw county, hut that the county supervisor is not required to receive white convicts sentenced in municipal courts in the county, if the conditions are such with regard to his chain gang that he cannot comply with this law. and that the municipality would be required to pay necessary jail fees if its prisoner, under such circumstances, is held in the county jail, is the effect of au opinion rendered today by A;f stant Attorney General Claude N. Saj>p in response to an inquiry from the mayor of W'nitmire, in Newberry county. The correspondence develops the iact that there are at present no white convicts on the chain gangs of Newberry county, and that if the prisoner an question were acceptea bv the county that it would be necessary to provide a separate chain gang for him, the cost of whicl would of course, be prohibitive. Assistant Attorney General Sapp wrote Intendant Atchison, of Whitmire, as follows: "Mr. William J. Atchison, Intendant, Wbitmire, S. C. "Dear Sir: Your letter of tlie 2ni inst. to the Hon. Richard I. Manning, governor, has been forwarded to this office with the request that we advise you on the questions therein raised. "You state that a white man bas seen convicted of la-rceny in your court and sentenced to the county chain gang for a term of 30 days and that the supervisor of Newberry county has refused to accept this prisoner on the ground that he cannot provide for the separation of the races as required by law, and as there are no other white convicts on the chain gang the cost of providing for the separation of this one white prisoner would be prohibitive. "Sheriff Blease in his letter to you, which is enclosed with the communi-; cation to the governor, states that this ? -? ^ .! >. /v f r* prisoner nets uecu iu Newberry county jail and that the county will not pay the jail fees of prisoners sent to jail by order of a mayor or intendant's court, and you ask to be advised whether or not there is any law requiring the separation of the races-ol chain gangs. 'in reply thereo I beg to ml vise that Seceion 704 of the Code of Laws of 1912, Vol. II, provides among other things that a Reparation of the sexes * t-? ?4 ? 11 4i?vt A/N Ahci/ymrZi/1 2.HQ races UC ill mi Limes uuoci tvuj except in the penitentiary and on the state farms and in Kershaw county. This provision requires a separation o fthe races on all county chaingangs, except Kershaw county. "I know of no law requiring a county supervisor to receive white convicts sentenced in a municipal court 1 J: t: ^^ An li tne coiiuiuuus cA^uug v?n gang of his county are such that he cannot comply with the state law re-i quiring the separation of the races,! and if the pysoner in question has been committed to the county jail for Newberry county the town of Whitmire would be required to pay the necessary jail fees during his dentention there. "Yours very truly. "CLAUD N. SAPP, "Assistant Attorney General." Supervisor Sample knew the law and acted accordingly. I MANY GREAT ME> DIED POOR j Burn's Last Hours Were Tortored With Thought of Paltry Debt He Could Jiot Pay. It was old Sam Johnson of dictionary' fame?was it not??who once wore boots so full of holes that they freely admitted the pebbles! Burns died with hardly a copper in the house, his last hours tortured with the thought of a paltry debt he could not pay, while among the musical geniuses who have suffered most severely at the hands of Dame Fortune a conspicuous place must be accorded to Mozart and Havden, both of whom at one period of their lives were on the verge of starvation. Though in their early manhood Welor>/i nicr^pii wpre both grave lllXfelA'U CXllVi. w lv handicapped by debt, neither of these great men ever suffered anything like tlie privations aliat President Lincoln and President Garfield did. Most men can at least declare there were- four walls around them when they were born into the world, but even this poor Lincoln naruzy could boast. General Grant is known in history, of course, as- the commander-in-chief of the Northern armies in the civil war and eventually as president of the United States, but it may not be equally widely known that, in spite of the great offices he so ably filled, he died with hardly a copper in his possession. f Make This Business SUPERIOR AN ABSOLUT] Have done more pIsp to rrialrp this it is today. If you desire Pror Courteous Servic ? ? ? Safety, you shoult OPEN A CHECKING Exchang "The Bank of mwmmmtmmmmmmmmm?mmmmMammmmmmmmmmmmmmn* RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION | ? 1 The United States Civil Servce Commission has announced an examination for the County of Newberry,1 South Carolina, to be held at Clin-, ton and Newberry, on July 28, 1917, | to fill the position of rural carrier at, Whitmire, and vacancies that may! later occur on rural routes from oth-i er postoffices in the above-mentioned j cuuni}. i lie eAituiiiiiiwuii win ue u?j- j en only to male citizens who are actually domiciled in the territory of ' a postoffice in the county and who meet , the other requirements set forth in Form No. 1977. This form and application blanks may he obtained from; the offices mentioned above or from j theU. S. Civil'Service Commission.at ' Washington, D. C. Application should j * . " ^? ' 1 be forwarded to the- Commi-ssion at ! ' 7Z-- < I 'Washintgon at the earliest practica I ble date. i I The vacancy for which'this exam- j 'ination is announced is caus-j ed by the enlistment ... of the carrier formerly emp/jyed on the route. Upon his honorabe discharge i from the military service of the Gov-j ernment lie will be entitled to rein-: statement' to his former position as j carrier on this route in accordance! with the statute approved July 28, 1916. which is as follows: "Any postal employee who has en* i ; __ ; Used fi Rx^cYWAlways has g\ ri|*i pf Medicine is on i dies. All over tl L t hWuSmZ BIll?n?aesJ lth.bdBBH !!! ? Co """Wr . CoKtirraea I ? p N?Etf |Dyspepsia 1 ISFiSliSBBl Red Ci |\f- " 1 Purely vegetab B'ij" a5tA3tsor thiuvn| form; may be i | T PR'C? 25* j The genuineRec KJ ? ('JWjRorvDrofiGji ( ASH BKOS I I Wv > N4v?41^*(kT|9 I XfrH . pla I 25 Cents a box, \ , or poiitp ^ ian^BMBnam I Students j Enlist For Colles Newberry College offers cours logy, Bible, French, Spanish, < Religion, Economics, Latin, G and History. It offers a course in Military 1 (with credit. It prepares for Law, Med Tea-Jung and Business. General Wood says: '"The w young men TO FINISH THEI Secretary. Bakef says: "We M food; third, EDUCATED MEN Write for catalogue and desci S College. Session begins Septem 1 President J. Hen i H Newberj Bank Your [ ? Home. I SERVICE | !D E SAFETY j than anything the Strong Bank npt, Efficient and :e and Absolute iACCOUNT TODAY e Bank the People" I tered the military service of the United States or who shall hereafter enter it shall, upon being honorably discharged therefrom, be permitted to resume his position in the postal department which he left to enter such service." However, auy person appointed to this position may, in the discretion of the Postoffice Department, be assigned to other parts of the postal service; or transferred to otner branches of the classified service for which he is eligible. ; It Was Too Bad. . / What we call hard luck is to be at Press Association with a number of good looking girls and' have a maVried twin brother along.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. r We Were All .There. _ ^ We hope when the Bell is sounded' tMs morning on the Banks "of theYamasee, Aull will be there and the Sparks of wit will fly thick and fast until the final' ending with the Bailor* Friday night.?Gaffnev Ledger. ALFALFA GROWN just as profitably in Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama, as in the West if you lime your land with LADCO GROUND LIMESTONE. Costs a trifle. Insures good stand and vigorous growth of alfalfa, vetch, clovers and grain. Write for delivered price, valuable booklet and reports. Attractive proposition to merchant* and farmer agents. LADD LIME & STONE COMPANY. . M6 HEALEY BUILDING, ATLANTA; QA? or Twenty Years | [yen satisfaction. Red Cross Lirer r\f th a ennn/i ahlo al/l.tim* r?m A. le South it has relieved sufferers from i . Llrer Complaint lie Kheuraatie Paiu a Sick Heailackea Soar Stomach ross Liver Medicine le: does not sicken. Sold in powder jsed dry or easily made into liquid, i Cross Liver Medicine is made only br )lli'G CO., inc., Jacksonville, Fla. , at druKKUts and In general Mtorea,, < >ai<l from th* manufacturers. Attention! I je in September 9 es in Chemistry, Physics, Bio German, English, Philosophy, B reek, Electricity, Mathematics B draining, three hours a week. icine, Theology. Engineering, ar promises to be long. Urge I U L-nTTPiTTHV " jlv vix jl -.i . need first, munitions; second, H riptive literature of Newberry I iber 20tli. iry Harms, D, D., I ry, S. C. B f