Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? r " ' .e t* ' M .:/ . qfp '"*.v %v:{. HAVE A HOT TIME Sensational Scenes Are Enacted by Tw# Senators. NEARLY COME TO BLOWS Bribery Investigation in Mississippi lias Engendered Much Ka l IKood and Some of the Participants Seem to Wunt to Fight U Out in a Fisticuff. The bribery investigation or tne Mississippi Senate at Jackson is getting warm. Senators Banks and Tucker made frantic efforts to lay hands upon one another's during the Investigation late Friday, and a personal encounter between the angry, shouting men was only averted by strenuous work on the part of their fellow Senators. Tucker, who is counsel for Senator Bilbo, angered by the use of the shorter and uglier word, rushed at Banks. Banks, white wlbh anger, rushed toward Tucker. Other Senators intervened and roughly pulled the men apart. The quarrel came suddenly and unexpectedly. L.. C. Dulaney, charged by Senator Bilbo with having paid him a bribe, had been on the stand. He had denied the charge flatly, ani was being cross-examined by Senator Tucker, of counsel for Senator Bilbo. The witness was unshaken in his denial of any crookedness, but declared that Bilbo repeatedly hinted that he could be bribed, and repeated el asked for and received bottles of liquor. He declared that Representative Cowart intimated that he would not be averse to selling hi3 ote. Then came the explosion. Dulanev was asked by Tucker if Percy had not paid the erpenses of all Senatorial candidates except Vardaman. Senator Anderson, who was a candidate, arose, stern and angry. "It Is an absurd and insulting question," said Dulaney. A number of Senators we?e on their fee demanding recognition. P-84'dent Pr > T?m Pea" was pounding for order, a dozen men were shouting, and ah* ve the uproar could he hoard the trembling voice of Senator Anderson, shouting. "I resent that question; I resent the insinuation that I permitted any one to pay my expenses." From the rear of the Senate, slender Senator Banks came rushing to the front. He got the tloor and shouted; "Any man who says or insinuates that anybody paid the expenses of my friend. Congressman Byrd, is a liar, as false as hell." Senator Tucker made a rush at Banks, and Banks charged to meet him. Senators turned over tables and chairs to get between the angry solons. It looked like a personal difficulty could not be averted, but some rough handling of the two belligerent Senators ended in their being Jerked apart. After another "wrangle, the question was withdrawn. Then several Senators demanded that the newspaper men be "instrncted" not to mention either the quarrel or the wrangle between Senators Banks and Tucker. "It was stricken from the record," said President Pro Tern Dean, "and the newspapers cannot print anything not in the record, or the result of anything not In the record. Including <our little personal disagreerents." Then every one apologized. Dul*ney was excused, and when things quieted down a bit, the testimony was resumed. Several witnesses testified to Dulaney's good reputation for veracity and integrity. At the night session W. W. Mitchell, circuit clerk of Poplarville, Senator Bilbo's home, testified that lie knew Senator LMlbo's reputation for truth and veracity, and that he would not believe the Senator on oath. W. A. White, an attorney from Biloxi, told of trying out Senator Bilbo in 1908. A bill was drawn and sent by a man named Bob Moseley to Bilbo. Moseley returned and said: "Bilbo did not give me a chance to make him a proposition, he mado us one." Robert Moseley, formerly town marshal of Biloxi. said: "I went to see Bilbo, and when I explained mo dim ne look out a little book, figured a while and said, "It will cost you three hundred dollars.' I offered him a check, hut he asid he wanted money." After 'Moseley had t< stifled the Senate adjourned. * Made Tnft Mad. President Taft hns cancelled his engagement to visit Tndinnapolis on May 5. While no statement has been Issued in regard to this decision, it Is believed to he the direct result of the events at the Indiana State publican convention, where the insurgents had things their cwn way. ASSAULTED IN HER HOME ?*? V TERRIBLE STORY TOLD BY LADY OF SHAN DON. Italian Is Held to Answer Charge. Victim Kept Her Awful Secret l"n ?>?.' A?aacm? VI IfVaUl* The Columba Record says. Olindo Sceser. an Italian dressmaker employed In the establishment of N. Netzkar. on Hampton street, has been committed to the county Jail to await trial on a serious charge?the penalty upon conviction being death. It is alleged that he committed a criminal assault on a well known married woman who resides In Shandon] The assault is alleged to have been committed a mouth ago at the victim's home, where Seaser boarded but the charges brought to lUht at the preliminary hearing before Magistrate Ftowles did not become known until Wednesday. The woman said she dared not tell her husband because Sceser threatened to kill her if she mentioned the matter to any one. Her husband said that for several weeks his wife acted strangely, as though there was something of a serious nature on her mind. Finally she told him of her accusations againt Sceser and the arrest of the man followed. The parties involved in the case are well known In Columbia. The husband of the wiomnn is employ-* ed at one of the leading stores in the c'ty. At the preliminary hearing of the case there was an incident out of the ordinary. When Sceser entered the court room in the company of n constable the husband of the woman leaped on Sceser and would have struck him several times, but for the interference of the ofilc.ed and some of the court attendants. The charge under which Sceser Is being held is not bailable, so he must necessarily remain in jail until the term of court, which convenes next month. The victim's story is that on the day of the assault Sceser came in to dinner and finding her alone, dragged her into a room and there accomplished his purpose. Sceser has continued to live in the house. * LOVK LFADS TO 1UOTS. Twenty-three Lives Have I teen Ix)nI Because of Them. Thft InvA nffnlra of Rnofof o tlful Turkish maiden, and Stefandoff, a young Ruglar, have caused much rioting on the streets of Ruszczukon-tlie-Danube and the death of 16 citizens and seven soldiers. Crowds have taken sides with the father of the bride or with the young Hulgar, who is a popular man and a bank clork, and are fighting and quarreling because the parents will not allow his daughter to live with an "infidel" Greek Catholic. Saofet is 16. Stefanoff is a widower of 30. She is a Mohametan, he is a Greek Catholic. She fell in love with hint but her father would not sanction a wedding. One night the two eloped to Stefandoff's mother, and according to an ancient Bulgarian custom this is equivalent to marriage. Furious at this the bride's father stole his daughter and placed her in jail. The l?rlde-groom gathered 2,000. stormed the Jail and carried the bride away in triumph. The soldiers were called out and stormed his house and a bloody battle followed. In its mi 1st the bride disappeared and two officers of the army were lynched on suspicion of having killed her. The whole country Is taking sides in the quarrel. COItXS LKAI> TO MtRDKK. A Man Forfeits His Life in u Quarrel on the Street. Stopping on a stranger's oorns on a crowded street car in Minneapolis, Minn., cost the life of A. B. JohnI son, a native of Montreal, Can. He was shot through the head by the offended man and died !> fore medical assistance arrived. His three assailants escaped in the rk>t that followed the shooting. The car on which the shooting occurred was crowded and when three men ent on Ihn roir jostled Mr. Johnson and in recovering his balance again he stepped on some man's foot. An altercation followed and th trio left the platform. but as they stepped to the ground one turned and fired a shot Into Johnson's forehead. < ii-l Shot by Rejected Suitor. Miss Freda Xorrence was shot and killed in San Francisco, Oal.. last week, by Nathan Pollock, a rejected suit r. She was in company with Samuel Goldbery at the time of the shooting. Novelist Held as a Smuggler. Owen Wlster, novelist and author was held up and searchel at Tueson. Ariz., on suspicion of being a smuggler of opium. He was crossing from tv>o \fcyican s'de and objected to being searched by the customs office. -1PPP ; -J /+*' SICK OF THE JOB The Opiniea Prevails in Wasbiogtta That Bill Taft is Tired HE IS UP IN THE AIR V Ap|*arentljr the President Has Hitten OIT More Than He Can Chew, and I )oes Xot Know What to Do Abont the Problem Which Confronts Him From I>ay to Day. Opinion is quite common In Washington. says Zach McGhee, In his letter to The State, with those who go in and around Mr. Taft, as it were, that our president is not only tired of his job but that he is sick and sore of the whole business. He likeB the dinners, the receptions, the garden parties and teas, and that sort of thing, and he does not mind the little intellectual exercise of getting up his speeches and messages; but the real duties of the presidency, that of being the political leader of his party and moulding the political thought of the country, he does not take to. And more than anything else, that most inalienable function of his office, the duty of being frequently and comprehensively cussed really gives him pain. This is not mere surmise or speculation; nor is it just one of those frequent rumors which coining from apparently nowhere spread about the avenues of Washington and throughout the long telegraphic tentacles into all the country with growing force until authentically denied, or until some more thrilling thrill comeg along to take its place. It is unquestionably true. A few nights ago a close friend of the president in a small body of friends made the remark. "It is a tragedy, Taft is heartbroken." * Taft does not know what to do to abate things. Here, for instance, is the Indiana situation. Hoverldge, the one Republican Senator from that State, is up for reelection. He voted against the tariff bill, and made a si>eech in Indianapolis the other day denounclncr It pnt niu refuse to Indorse it. Taft had been going about the country declaring that that tariff bill was the best tariff bill the country ever had. He had an engagement to go to Indiana the first of May, and he expected to make such a speech there. Hut now in the light of this Beveridge business what is he to do? If he goe3 he will surely spll| the Republican party wider and wider, r.ot only in Indiana but in other States. Hi? going there to make such a speech as he has been making elesewhere would as surely be the death kuell to lleveridge and the whole Republican party in Indiana as anything could possibly be. And yet, and yet, it looks like cowardise to stay away. On the morning aftt r Reveridge's triumph, the president announced that he would not go to Indiana. Th.? papers published this announcement together with the significance of it, being that the president could not go into Indiana and praise the taritr without affronting. Beveridge and the whole Indiana convention. But when Mr. Taft saw the papers the next day he had it again announced that lie had decided to forego his visit to Indiana not on account of Beveridge or the action of the Convention ot Indianapolis, but because he had to be back in Washington on May 6. And what did he have to be back there for? Now what do you suppose'.' Why, to a garden party. The regular Republican lenders have been doing all they coul'l to persuade the president again to change his mind and go to Indiana, and it is by no means certain that lie will not change his mind. He Is noted for hejng aide to change his mind. These r gular Republicans want hint to go, as strange as that may seem, for the very purpose which they know his going will accomplish, namely, to make sure that Indiana will gj Democratic. They want to g>"t rid of Reveridge. and his kind, and they would rather see a Democratic house elected in the November elections that a house composed of a majority of Democrats and insurgents. If the insur gents have more strength in the next house than they have in this, and such men as Beveridge are returned, the Cannon organization will be completely broken up, the insurgents will go in with the Democrats and get up another tariff bill, which tlie country is demanding, and Mr. Taft will have more reason for joining forces with the insurgents. Roosevelt will be back then and In full eruption, and Mr. Taft will no doubt be easily shifted ofT of the stand-pat reservation, especially since Roosevelt is believed to sympathize at heart with the insurgent cause. Such a house .it is true, will get up a tariff bill, but it would be more radical than any the Insurgents would stand for, and the senate wouldd surely kill it. whereas with the President and Roosevelt both back of the Insurgent Democratic 1 bill, the Senate might be forced to VV f., l'.. H-"*' ** * EIGHT KILLED EXPLOSION CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS BY A 9 Workmen on a Working Crew, Wlio Accidentally Exploited Nearly a Ton of Dynamite. Eight men are dead, three badly injured and one miBsing as a result of a premature explosion in a deep cui on tne Santa Fe cut oft liue 22 miles northwest of Coleman, Tex., Sunday afternoon, at 2:33 o'clock. The dead, so far as known, are: R. C. Pryor, Fort Worth; C. H. Blalock, Kentucky; Pat Ward, Paris j Texas; <.\L L. Ilurgis. Coleman; Ed. Arlington, Fort Worth; Jack Reagan, , Texas; two Mexicans. , A. T. Warren, foreman of the blasting crew, is missing and he was 1 In the Immediate neighborhood of 1 the terrific explosion and it believ- < ed that his body was blown to atoms. Eighteen hundred pounds of dynamite touched off prematurely sent , men and debris hundreds of feet into the air. The terrible accident 1 occurred at a point two miles from Novlte on the road the Santa Fe is building from Coleman to Lubbeck. The men were working in a detp cut, right at the brink of Jim Ned Creek. Only blasting work is done on Sunday and most of the workmen, numbering more than two hundred. were in camp two hundred yards distant from the mine. The wornmen were just finishing the midday meal and only 14 had re- 1 turned to the cut when the explosion occurred. A special train was at once die- 1 patched to Coleman for surgical aid and all the dead and injured were brought into Coleman Mondu.v night. The bodies are mutilated almost be- 1 yond recognition. The cut is 3 4 feet deep and required the removal of 110,000 yards ' of solid rock. It is thought that one of the workmen in tamping a charge struck a dynamite cap which touch- ' ed off the 1800 pounds of dynamite, j HANGED AT PICKENS. Pays the Penalty for Attempted As- ' snult on Ijiuly. i Huss Rutler, colored, was handed j at Pickens Friday for attempting to i commit an assault on a white lady < some months ago. The day before * he was hung he made a full confession. His neck was broken by the ( fall and doath was almost instantan- | eous. There was a big crowd In , town and around the jail during the , hanging. Everyone seems to be satisfied that justice has been done. It ^ will be remembered that he attempt- , ed a criminal assault on a young lady one year ago, by slipping in her | window at night. The lady had , whooping cough, and when he put his hands on her she waked up and { began to cough. That scared him and he jumped out of the window, and she recognized his as he went out of the window. The moon was shining brightly. Butler lived on her father's plantation. PECLIilAJt MALADY. I >>uly Lays in a State of Coma for Over Four Months. the prominent homes in Iloise, Idateh prominent homes in Iloise, Idaho, 'Mrs. Stewart, wife of Chief Justice George C. Stewart, of the Idaho Supreme court, swooned suddenly and fell. From that day until the present (Mrs. Stewart has remained in a condition horde-ring on coma and all efforts to arouse her have failed. Her symptoms resemble paralysis, but she is not paralyzed. Experts suirunoned from Spokane, Wash , Portland, Ore., and Salt Lake City, Utah, have sought to arouse the woman but none has succeeded. Twice she has attempted to speak but was not successful. The only sign of life is a twitching of the eyelids. Quits Pulpit for Politics. The Kev. W. I^ethrop Meaker, pasI nr a t th/v D ,T- ' * ' , ..... v. i..o ucicic r ii av uiiuairan church, in Roston. Mass., has left his pulpit and will seek election to congress in the Cape Cod district. * The election of United States Senators by the people has the most unanimous sanction of the National House of Representatives, but you can l>et your sweet life that the tools of the trusts in the Senate are not going to vote themselves out of a Job, as long as tney can help it. Adding 11 p long columns of figures may4have been too prosaic for the genius of those Pittsburg bankers who were caught bribing the aldermen of that city, hut making chair seats and other useful articles while serving terms in prison will be more prosaic still. People ne/cr know when they are well off. pass it. What is Taft going to do? The Ixird only knows, and Taft would give his right arm if He would but tell him. SiSj'fr?4tL ?> ^ ifeiitj MUST MAKE TRlf Old Gaard Makes Taft Recall His Dedi nation It Go to Indiana TO FIGHT INSURGENTS Altirlch, Crane and a Few Other Standpatters Think That the l*resident Should Toe the Mark. Have so Informed Him, and so He Will Go to Uoveridge's State. The Old Guard, Murray Crane, senator from Massachusetts; Senator Aldrich and a few others?have decided that President Taft shall go to Indianapolis to make a speech. The president decided that he will keep '.he engagement, despite his previous cancellation of it. The president does not waut to go. He wants to shorten his coming Western trip, according to a statement from the white house. The observers of the politics of Washington, however, charge that Mr. Taft does not want to go to Indianapolis because an issue has been presented in Indianapolis which will not permit of a middle course. President Taft would rather not fight republicans, but the Old Guard and the receivership told him differently. The Old Guard wants Beverldge and every other insurgent fought and fought unto death. For that reason the Old Guard will prevail on President Taft to go to Indianapolis in spite of Beveridge and the Indiana republican platform. .When President Taft cancelled his engagement to appear in Indianapolis on May 5 he did so forty-eight hours after he had definitely promised in a telephone talk with former Vice-President Fairbanks. In view of the Indiana republican platform and the speech of Senator Beveridge a motive has been found for Mr. Taft's sudden decision not to go to Indianapolis. Political wislom was accredited to Mr. Taft when he cancelled the date. It was said that he could not go out to Indianapolis and ignore the Beveridge ipeech. It would not be good policy strategy for a republican president to to out and make a speech to help iefeat a republican senator was the conclusion. This roseate view of the matter was withheld from white house until evening. Then the Old Guard got husy. It told Mr. Taft what it wanted. The advice of the Old Guard was :"Fish or cut bait." One of the first bits of news the president got after his Indianapolis visit was called ofT came from the Hoosier capital. It was a telegram from the Commercial Club, the board of trade, the Columbia dub, tlu Marion Club and other organization*, asking him to change his mind and visit them Senator John Kean of New Jersey found out that he will have trouble being re-elected. The legislature which will elect a senator is choosen in November. Already Gov. J. Frank1 { n TV nrt I a o nun/lMo*o ? ????? ? *?? > ui l >o o vnuuiuacc, auu irpui is from Now Jersey are that he will make a brave try for Senator Keau's seat, i Senator Kean is Senator Aldrich's right hand man. It is his duty tc sit in the senate chamber and guide legislation through. He seldom docs anything on the floor except to "object." The privilege of objecting is the highest in the senate. The objection of a single senator prevents final consideration of any measure Senator Kean does Senator Aldrich's objecting. Want < i r I I la bios. Girls are in demand in Georgia Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama, according tc Dr. W. F. Summerall, superintendent of Grady Hospital of Atlanta. I)r Summerall had two babies to give away, and said he received more than sixty requests, the majority of them preferring a baby girl* iMost of the requests came by special delivery and registered letter, few using the ordinary mails. No More Tins in Washington. The House of Representatives Is considering a bill which will make it a misdemeanor to give or receive a tip in the District of Columbia. An offense will be punishable by a fine of $500. Horse in n Street Car. A runaway horse jumped through the rear entrance of a street car al Fourth and Main streets, injuring ? dozen passengers. The horse vat so tightly wedged into th^ car tha' the wreckage had to be cut away. If is be true, as stated by the gov ernment experts, that population has increased faster than eatable ani nialp. we had f?etter begin to stud] the Chinaman and his rat diet. The authorities of Egypt felt whet Tendy got safoly out of their conn try. like a teamster who had gottei his receipt for the safe delivery of i load of dynamite. , > MONEY AND UQUOR SAID TO HAVE FLOWED FREELY IN DILLON ELECTION. Citizens Tell of Rocky Acts Said to Have Occurred and Asks If Election is Impaired. Fraud by the use of liquor and money- in securing votes in the re' cent election held in the new county , of Dillon is charged in a letter received Saturday by Attorney General Lyon from citizens of that co iuiy. TV - 1-44 i utj toner says: "We have just had our first election in Dillon county and while we had hoped that it would be a clean one, I regret to say that it was one of the dirtiest I know of and there are a few things that came up that I would like to hove you advise me on. "I have b?.en reliably informed that at several of the precincts, both liquor and money were used freely. In fact, I have understood that at one of the precincts, two parties were arrested and have made sworn affidavits that they were given liquor and money. "One of the parties states that he knows of several voters treated as he was. I have understood further that men were carried to the polls so drunk that it was necessary for them to be bodily supported. "Would not a condition like this not only lay the parties liable to prosecution, but throw out the poll? "Another case brought to my attention is this, one of the cotton mills here has a voting precinct and the voters are controlled entirely oy the president and superintendent. In fact I have understood and am free to say that I believe It; that if the operatives refused to vote as the president and superintendent directs, they are promptly dismissed. "The same precinct counted the votes with closed doors and would not make known the result, until certain other results had been announced. "These are conditions that exishere and If it is possible to aot only throw out these polls that were so rotten, but bring the guilty parties to justice, I shall be glad to have you advise the course of proceedure." Attorney General Lyou has takea the contents of the letter under consideration and will ;> timmimK investigation. CONDUCTOK HALKKD KOUllKltS. He Knocked One Down and the Other Promptly Fled. An unsuccessful attempt was made early Friday morning to hold up tho Pioneer Limited on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, between Tomah and Oakdale, Wis. Tho robbery was frustrated through the courage of Conductor Shumway. , As the conductor stepped from tho l buffet car on to the platform of the . sleeper, two masked men sprang up i from the edge of the platform and I thrusting revolvers into his face, dei manded that he throw up his hands. Shumway promptly struck one of the ( men down with his lantern and as , passengers began to crowd to the ? door of the buffet car the two highs wayraen leaped from the train and . fled. Shot after shot was lired after i them, but presumably without effect, . as when the train was brought to a i stop and search was made by a hastily formed posse ao trace could be i found on the men. Mistaken for Burglar. At Harrisburg, Pa., Mrs. Catherine Bomgardner, wife of a well known 1 plumer, was shot by her husband, ' John W. Bomgardner, in mistake for a burglar at their home early Thursday morning. She uied in a ft w hours. Hammer Blows Cause lteath. Striking her finger with a ham, mer, Mrs. George McConus, of Girardvllle. Pa., suffered sev<TO injury last week. Another bluw on the same finger this week so shocked her ( system that she died. * All the people, except the fellows investigating the matter as grand 1 Jurors or members of congress, \ know all about the cost of living without investiga"nr it. While issuing that cook book 'he 1 agricultural department should have gone further and told whether to 1 plant garden truck on the full or the decrease of the moon. ' Canada seems to have come to the conclusion that it is hotter to do * business with I'ncle Sam next door * nt a little inconvenience than to run - around the globe se< king a custo>' mer. Teddy does not want to be coni sidered a king. 3u*h a j'-b would not suit bini. He wants something i more strenuous than the modern a Vtnelv function cf setting the clothing rly'e to be wc.r- Vy the duv.?.