Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MOST BE PROBED" Every Rao on the Encampment at Aiken Will be Questioned to \ , i FIND OUT WHO DID IT ; c J i I A Soldier of the First Iteginient ( rjT (TuukhI With Throwing a Stone ' Ont of the Car Window and Hit- I I ting n Man Standing on the Side ] of the Track. I "In any event you will make a ( nn'tNi huiiu'iiing ana careiui investl- ' ration and make a full report to this office at the earliest possible moment. The most scrupulous observance of j every povision of this oder is en- ' Joined." Thus concludes W. W. I.ewis. who , is colorel of the First regiment, to Maj. M. J. Walker and the commanding oGlcce of Companies C. K, L and M of the regiment, in ordering an investigation of the alleged injury to a man near Sally from a rock thrown by one of the soldiers returning from the Aiken encampment. Col. Lewis' orders follows proclamation issued by Governor Ansel, who is commander in-chief of the National Guard of the State, n few days ngo, when the matter was reported to him. When the soldiers were returning from Aiken on August 8 a rock was thrown from one of the windows of the special bearing the troops. That day Gov. Ansel received a telegram from J. M. Hawley at Salley, stating that a member of the company on the first train from Aiken, passing through Salley that day, had injured one of Mr. Hawley's men with a rock. Got. Ansel immediately ordered an investigation and directed a telegram and later a letter, giving all the Information he had to Col. W. W. Lewis. That Col. I^wlu 1b llnfnrmlnn^ v, o ? the guilty person shall be found out t in thia matter is shown by the following letter addressed to Alaj. Walker and those commanding the four companies mentioned above: "It has been reported to me that ' when the first section of the military train bearing Second battalion and pari of the hospital corps wub at or near Sally some person on the c train threw a rock or some mlssle, t seiously wounded a" man working in j the fields. This was on the return r trip from Aiken. t ^ , "You are hereby directed at once 1 to summon before you every man be- \ longing to you several commands 8 and examine each and every one of 1 them under oath as to his knowledge t of the incident, requiring him *o \ state the facts as he knows them or any hearsay testimony that will put j light on the subject. i "In the event any man refuses to ( appenr and testify vou will at once i prefer charges against him and for- t ward them to this office. In the s event any man refuses to testify at- t ter appearing you will prefer caarges i against liim unless he refuses to tes- ? tify on the ground that Ills testi- i fuinrv ?111 ?-? * - " * * .;.u8 nni niuiimiuuLe, in wntcn cue j you will report tbat fact to this office t at once. 1 "Should you he able to obtain any evidence tending to locato the guilty party you will at once report his name and the names and addresses . of the witnesses to this office "In any event you will make a most searching investigation and make a full report to this office at the earliest possible moment. The f most scrupulous observance of every 1 provision of this order is enjoined." * A* the office of Gov. Ana*1 the 8 name of the man who was injured 1 has not been received. Secretary Lte- 8 thea has addressed a letter to Mi. e Hawley asking him to furnish the r name of the man who was struck by 1 the rock. Mr. Ilethea, in behalf of 1 Gov. Ansel, also requested more de- r tailB, as to when and where the ! the throwing 'ook place a' d au> oth- ' er information that may throw light v on the matter. In order to indlc. the guilty person in case the Invf- ' tigatlon reveals who threw th-> rock, ll the name of the person struck w.ll ? of course, bo necessary. J Thug at Work. ? Fallowing close on tho murder last Friday night In 61st street, of Chicago, of Dr. William F. Michnells, another man was fatally shot hy a robber Tuesday night, near the I scene of tne dentist's death, leading tho police to believe that a desperate thug, operating in that part of the city, committed both crimes as well 0 as several minor offenses previously 8( reported. tl ? p Stot Two Girls. (j At Anniston. Ala., crazed with tl whiskey, Leo Gilbert Tuesday shot tl and almost instantly killed Willie b Graham. As Lee Graham, a young- it er sister, was supporting the dying tl girl, she too, was shot and perhaps tl fatally injured. Gilbert was caught N three hours later while asleep in a h, local foundry plant. st STRANGER COMMITS SUICIDE. IVrtit Off to Himself and Cut Ills Throat Totally. I A man who gave his name as John Shay, went to the mill of the Wilson Lumner company, about four miles below I,ake City on the ISth ^ it July and since that time has been working for them; for the last lev.Jays he had been suffering from rhills and fever, but did not stop Ms work. Tuesay night supposedly ibout nine o'clock, he went into n small strip of woods just in me rear J it the mill yard and with a razor :ut his throat from ear to ear. From the gashes it appears that ' :he ftrst attempt was not so successful as lie desired: the sbcihuI ??ho However, severed' both the jugular J j >eln and tbe windpipe. The body was t 'ound Wednesday morning about >'clock and an inquest was held over :he body. He was given a decent tmrial by the Wilson Lumber Company. He is described as being a man ibout 5 feet 10 inches high, medium " juild, with sandy hair, slightly ball jnd of Irish desceut. There were no papers about him to lead to his dentity. RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. J Three Brothers Were Killed and An- 1 other Was Hurt. Three boys, all sons of John H. straignht, of Cowesett. It. I., were tilled and a fourth boy, a brother if the otners were seriously injur- f jd when a New York bound Portc and express on the New York, NewHaven and Hartford railroad travela ing at the rate of GO miles an hour t round a sharp turn, ran into the . little group. The boys' ages raugid from G to 15 years. The boys were taking a short cut jy tbe railroad and were in sight of heir home when a heavy freight rain came in view. They were handing on the Express track watchng the passing of the freight train vhen they were struck, a curve pre- , renting the engineer from seeing hem in time to stop the express. Herbert Straight, who escaped with , levere scratches, ran home with ilood flowing from wounds in his lead and body and It was he who a iroke the news of the death of the 'a >lher three boys to the mother. INDIAN COTTON A FAILURE. [ tl loth Staple and Yield Huvc Proven r a Disappointing. A Washington dispatch says dilTi- J :ulty is experienced by cotton grow>rs in India with both Btaple and 0 Held. Many experiments have been K nade with the object of improving a joth, reports Consul E. Haldermun /ciiwjsuu, or uombay, but thus far, u vith indifferent success. Egyptian 11 md other exotic varieties hive been ntroduced from time to time, but ho results have not been encouragng. V Under garden culture the finer sta)les have responded well, but tried n the fields, they have failed to proluce tht^ results they show in their .1 mtive soils. Future efforts will be j levoted to the improvement of the t ;taple and yield of the native cot- 0 on. A tree cotton from which great s esults were predicted a few years igo, has poven disappointing accord- ,] ng to the consul, it did very wen , n garden trials, but when tho at- ^ empt was made to grow it upon a v arge scale, failure followed. r JI IK.K RICHARDSON KILLED. 0 T Ihle Jurist Met Deatli in Automobile T Accident. '' Judge Julius C. Richardson, Judge P f tlie 2d judicial circuit, of Ala ama, is dead, and E. Winkler and lasgow Stewart, of Greenville, Ala., iro injured as the result of an au- w omobile accident Tuesday afternoon ibout fifteen miles from 'Montgomery, Ala., on tho Mobile road. The arty was going to Montgomery from -eusacoia, an<i the chauffeur was y infamiliar with the road. At a high ate of speed he drove tho car to he centre of a bridge, on which there s a steep rise. The car sprang forward, fell, crushed one wheel, skid- ^ led and then suddenly stopped, ^ hrowing Judge Richardson over the ood. lie was rushed to a Montgomry hospital in another car. He died 'uesday evening a few minutes heore the arrival of his wife. He was no of tho best known jurists in ilahama. ^ MIOVK WITH ONK HAND. ^ * gi .ightiiing Struck the Ruslihoard of in to His Ituggy. H After drlvlriir with t.? - .1 - ' - _ u?uu a if am f bronchos for forty miles on a tormy night, Alfred Villa delivered m le body of his dead brother to hlB St arents near Tuckson, Ariz., Thursny night. Whllo driving through le storm the buck board In which le two boys were riding was struck iz< y lighnlng, killing the younger boy n istantly, and paralyzing one sido of L< le other. Regaining consciousness, sh le elder boy headed the team for ly onie, driving with his unaffected of and. Several other persons were in unned during the same storm. no t. RKpJ 4 MADE BIG HAUL PllOMIXRNT MEN* AND WOMEN CAUGHT GAMBLING. riiii ?> Society Women, Allcf(C(l to Have lleen Gambling, I*ray Officer Not to Give Ont Names. Consternation was created at Nar ngansett Pier. R. I., Monday night n the higher society circles of this ashionable summer resort because ?f the fear that Constable John G. >css. who conducted the gambling: aid at 'he Narragansett Pier Club iunday ni sy make public the names >f the men and women prominent in lociety who were on the premises it the lime. Matrons, personally or h rou eh emissaries, have besought he officer ali day not to give out heir names. "To publish these names would :ive pain and cause unnecessary era>arrassnient." he said, "but if these teople appear in Court to answer to he summons, it will then be imlosslble to keep their names from he public, and there will be a good leal of surprise when it is learned hat prominent men and women are oncerned. And they will have a of of embarrassing questions to anwer." Constable Cross said he was being ollowed by detectives, whom he beieves to iie in the employ of the ociety people against whom his acion was taken, and he is almost In ear of his life. Although he suceederl in securing his release when irraigned in Court to answer to an issault eh irge, It was on a teehnialitv only, and he is patiently awaitng the next move against him. There were upwards of thirty soiety women in the crowd gathered ibout the romette wheels and other ;ames of chance that he asserted irere in the club house at ?he time d the action. Many of them have ried to explain, the constable says, hat they had just dropped in to the lub for lunch, after leaving the hop t the Casino. He declares that he aw 110 signs of any lunch and that he majority were gathered about he game boards when he entered. Constable Cross's arrest occurred fter he had kept solitary vigilance t the Narragansett Club, a fushionble resort, standing guard for more han nine hours following a midnight aid, which he had conducted against he club. He was placed under arest on a warrant chaiging him with ssault on an employee of the club, nd taken to police headquarters, le was immediately bailed out. but ii uie mean 11 me ne says evidences f gambling, which he alleges he was uarding disappeared, except for the rticles found in his clothes. He orered thirty men and women found t the club to appear in Court Augst 22. KILLKI) BY T11K TRUSTS. Vill Quit Tobacco Culture if Prices Remain Low. The business men of Mulllns and he farmers of Marion, Horry and lillon counties are very much dis11 rbed over the fact that the prices f leaf tobacco are so very low. hould the prices remain as they now re, it is a fact beyond a doubt that he crop will be almost, if not enirely, eliminated next year. This he farmers declare most positively rill be tbe case, especially if cotton cniains in the teens. The Fanners' Union may take hold f the matter and ask the American 'obacco Compan'y and the Imperial 'obacco Company to give better rices. It is generally believed that uese two corporation control the rices absolutely. Iloth concerns ave the nicest and costliest plants i the State at Mullins and it is oped by all that they can see their ay clear to pay a decent price for ilmcco. WHO WILL WIN THE CUI'? cry Valuable Prize for Ilest Ten Ears of Corn. A gold and silver trophy cup, valed at $1,000, will be given to the irmer in South Carolina who prouces the best ten ears of corn to e shown at the South Atlantic States orn Exposition, which is to be held i Columbia frcm Dec. ft to 8. The tp was given by the American Agculturist, one of the leadinu Aerl iltural papers of the country. I'o eep the cup one must produce the ?st ten ears of corn in tJio Staie oin year to year. The cup is of a raceful design, standing about 30 iches. During the past week le'rs have been received by President udson frcm all sections of Georgia, nrth Carolina and Florida. This locates that there will be a large unber of exhibits sent from these ates. Tender Hearted. Rathers than press his fellow cltens by process of law to pay delintent taxeB, Dallas F. ShrofT, of ;bannon. Pa., sent a load of rabbit ot into his body and died lnstantin the chicken house in the rear his home. The tragedy is unique t.hc history of suicides of Leban>u county. DEADLY WORK OF MANIAC. Shoots Down Two Strungers Without Any Cause. An awful tragedy took place at Murphy, N. C., last Saturday night ii\ which two men lost their lives and another was seriously wounded and may die. According to the meagre reports received, Lex Battles of Murphy, while under the influence of liquor, walked into t.he Jenkins hotel and without warninar. nnonoil fire on a group of young men, who were congregated there. Benjamin Hyde, ot Cadiz, Ky., was shot and almost instantly killed, and J. J. Simpson, of Kogersville, Tenn.. was shot through the body and died on Monday about four o'clock. Hugh Johnson, of Marble, N. C.. wJio was shot and r.miously wounded, has a chance to recover, but his wounds are said to be dangerous. Hyde, who was studying for the ministry, and J. J. Simpson, were spending their vacations in Murphy. Battles was arrested and Is now in jail. FAKE AD LIKES tilth. Xegro Janitor Arrested for Fiendish Attempts. At St. Louis Monday Mrss Lulu Fehlhammers reported to the police that she was attacked at a pistol point last Tuesday night by James Bradfleld, alias Bradford, a negro, when she went to answer what proved to lie a "fake" advertisement foi an office girl. Bradfleld was arrested Saturday night while menacing Miss Ressie Utiger, after decoying her li> means of an advertisement into the building where he was janitor. According to Miss Fehlhammers, Bradfleld held a pistol to her head wher, she recovered from a faint and made her sign a statement that she visited the office building of her own free will. The statement was found in Bradfleld'e pockets and attached to it was a lock of Miss Fehlhammer'B hair. RECEIVES SERIOUS INJURY To Save Spectators Aviator Risked Ills Life. At Asbury Park, N. J., Walter Itrookins, the aviator, was badly hurt while making a landing in his aeroplane in a desperate attempt to avoid injuring a crowd of spectators. Itrookins &aw Jiis machine was likely to strike a group of onlookers and made a quick turn. The machine turned and fell to the ground, striking several spectators in its descent. Brookins was picked up badly injured and several of the spectators were hurt. The machine in its fall tumbled amid a crowd of watchers, mostly boys. One youngster was rushed in a nospitai wnere it was reported that he had sustained a fracture of the skull. Six other youths were less seriously hurt. ABANDON HI) THEIR PLUNDER. Bandits Stop Stage, Kill the Driver ind Steal $1,500. For the second time within a week the New Mexico Mogollon-Silver City Stage whs held up and robbed Sun day, murler lining added to the crime. Jose. Deminguez, watchful as a result of his experiences last week, opened tire ou the bandits ai I they shot him dead. The robbers hastily gathered up twelve barB of silver bullion. I bote were no passengers in the conch. 'rhe posse was soon chasing the fleeing bandits and the mounted . ulice also took the trail. The pass'-ngers found 11 of the 12 bars lying near the road side where the stage eoach was robbed. Evidently thv burden was too great for the robbirs. The bar they kept is worth about $1,500. SOLI) IT CHEAP. Boy Swapped Diamond King for One Small White Marble*. What Is said to be the cheapest price on record for a diamond ring was turned up at Atlanta Sunday by Detective Cowan of the loca police force. The price was one small dingy white marble wibh nicks all over it. The purchaser was a small negro boy and the seller another urchin of the same race for whom the police are now searching. There is no clue 10 the origin\I owner of the gem nor as to \e>v it came into the pissession of the small party of the first part in the swapping transaction. Th3 value of the stone Is aider $100. Wire Caused l>catli. Mrs. A. B. Metcalf, wife of the Bnptist minister at Abbeville, Ala., was instantly killed by lightning on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Metcalf w?a standing in the door of an out house when the lightning struck the front end of the dwelling and followed a wire fece a distance of 100 yards to the outhouse where she was standing. Good l'i ires for Cotton. At Camilla, Ga., $50,000 was paid 1 l.Monday for 600 bales of cotton from the Rush plantation. This was all from the 1900 crop. At I.oesburg a farmer sold one bale of new crop cotton for $93. . NATURE CURE FOR MANY ILLS. German Resort Provides Barefoot Walks, and Sun and Air Baths. Deep among tbe hills of a locality which shall be nameless, surrounded by shady trees, bright with innumerable wild flowers, a number of airy chalets In sunny enclosures have been erected. It is said to be the first nature cure establishment on the tier man lines to be ope' ed in this couu try apart from sanatoria. Here one revels in air, sun and water baths and tne simple, hygienic cures which of late years have attracted so manv nconle .ihi?>:ni walks for miles barefoot over the grass, drinking in the tresb air and li.r sunlight. It is customary to undress and take an air bath on arrival, so one discards their dusty traveling clothes, and finds that running up and down, in the long grass, was quite invigorating and not unbearably cold. The g.ow that conies soon after is adequate reward foi any discomfort For those who want a water bath there are let imo the ground several cement troughs, but so bracing is ine air that many are refreshed without recourse to water, and, indeed, it is argued that a man is not a water animal. The an bath and rub finished one dresses again, hut in loose, light garments, without a starched collar and without shoes or stockings. Hare feet, it must he understood, are at all times the invariable rule. cooked so that til* true flavor is room, where, though ample and varied, flesh food is entirely excluded from the diet. Fruits, nuts, cereals and vegetables are provided?the last being carefully brought out and the valuable food Dinner is served in a large dining salts retained in the process. Fggs and honey, whole meal bread and home-made butter, milk and lemonade are among the other things provided. Two kinds of sun baths are prescribed. One is the natural sun bath, which simply consists of exposing the body to the sun in the inclosures; the other is the cure sun bath, in which the sun's rays are concentrated in a glass roofed inclosure. The latter is claimed to be equal to the Turkish bath in the usual re | spects, and has the advantage of pure air nn<l the life giving proper ties of the sunlight. It is custoinarj to wrap oneself closely in a blanket after taking the suu bath to facilitate perspiration. The barefoot wulking is considered must important and on the greensward?the nearest village x is twe miles away?one can enjoy most de lightful rambles. Clay compresses ar eone of the features of the cure. The effect of wet clay in drawing impurities from th< body is said to be great indeed. It is said to be magical in Its power of rei.eviug pain and for the treatment of BKin troubles. After umner an air bath is quickly followed by bed in one of the open air chalets, as it Is essential to be up early in the morning. A nearly bath In the air or the open air water bath begins the day. Afterward one runs about in the open air and takes physical exercises till he is dry and glowing with re action from the sparkling morning air. At 8 o'clock one is almost sorrj to have to dress for breakfast, though the appetite Is fierce. After breakfast a long barefooted walk in the sun. On returning it Is time to take another air bath before lunch. Lunch comes at 1 o'clock, and after that a long siesta, followed by tennis, croquet and walks till dinner time. Any person with some ground and a high fence could pursue this simple course. | Ice a Luxury in England. Why are we so far behind other countries in tue use of ice? In the Inked States in the hot season ice is regarded as one of the necessities of life. In towns the Ice merchant delivers a largo block every day as regularly as the milkman brings milk or the baker bread. All perishable foods are put on ice as a matter of course, and an American housewife would be bitterly ashamed if her but ter were to appear at table in such a state that it had to be helped with a spoon. All manner of delicious dishes and beverages, ice creams, frappes, sundaes, are concocted with Ice or frozen milk as a principal ingredient. And not merely in the hot weather but throughout tho year Americans con sume Iced water in fabulous quanti ties. It is believed by some that this may be one of the causes of the American tendency to dyspepsia. But it has been observed that English people who have spent a year or two in the United States always regret the Ice creams and the iced water. It has been stated, too, that the large con sumption of sugar in the various elal wi it?t* lieu oeverages is partly responsible for the relatively small con sumption of liquor among Americans, since sugar, as some dietary experts believe, discourages the taste for fermented drink.?London News. London buys glacier ice from Norway, and much of it has to be shipped 20 miles down to the coast. Now a Now Yorker has se< ured an ice concession from the Chilian government and is planning to mine an ice moiin tain which stands in an Inlet to the straits of MnKclan, and sell the ice to the cities in the Aigentine. T" ' ' <**r" '} ' . IRON ORE DUTY Senator Tillman Giies His Reasons 'or Voting for the Tax i I MAKFS IT VFRVP'AIH a a T u 11 1 I i^nill That the Tux on !r?- t>rc Docs Not Increase (' ?*rice of any Article .'woe Out of Iron to Consumer wtul That the Steel Trust I'ajs tho Duty. In answer to a letter from Mr. W. C. Smith, of Wiliison, S. C-. asking him to explain why he voted for a duty on Iron ore. Senator Tillman replied last year as follows: "Your letter of May 27th, has remained unanswered simply because I have been overwhelmed with work here, and have spent several days in South Carolina, looking after matters at Clemson, and lost ono day as I returned by reason of a railroad wreck. "1 have never printed anything: about my vote on iron ore, and wilt very gladly give you an explanation lirect. I notice that my old enemies are making a great howl about, my votes up here, while many oth ars who have not been enemies are yelping in chorus, simply because they are iguorai t of conditions. The trouble with many editors iu South Carolina, is they take and read the Associated Press dispatches, which are colored in behalf of the Republican party, and are garbled and condense, au give no adequate conception oT tilings as they really happen. "The facts in regard to iron or? are simply these: There is overwhelming evidence that there are no inlepeudent steel or iron producers. The Steel Trust hab absolute conrol and enjoys a monopoly of tho iron and steel business in this counry. The so-called independent concerns are dominated and controlled by it, though not all owned by it. Steel Trusts fixes prices aud tiro "There are immense, well-nigh inexhaustible deposits ot iron ore in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, anil the Steel Trust controls ini'uese deposits in those States. It tlso controls, or some of its subsi.lary companies do, large deposits in Cuba. It was brought out in the debate, that some of the Eastern companies have contracts with tho Cuban mine owners, to import not less than a million tons a year of Cuban ore, and I don't think it worth while to let this come in free when it would make uo difference whatever to the consumers of iron and steel as to the price we would pay for these articles. I believe that the American producers of iron and steel (that is the Stec! Trust mainly), can compete with England, (Jermany and France in tho markets of t.he world, and that the whole scheme of protection of manufactured steel is a bare taced robbery of the American people. No one but an idiot will increase the price of anything manufactured of iron, to tho American nmiMti mar If "... * >-> ---? ..v.. .1 iic uiiiu leuum the tariff on manufactured iron wo ould got cheaper prices, but under xisting circumstances the tariff law oars out tho European competitor,, .vho is already handicapped by having the ocean freights to pay, and .air people are charged the cost of production in Europe, plus the freight, plus the tariff, anil tliis is lie source of Carnegie's millions. \ssuring you of my high nppreciaI tion of your friendship in the past, ind hoping to continue to merit your onfidence, and support, I am, sin erely yours. It. it. Tillinao. KXIMOSION IN KACTOItY. Of Corn Products Itefining Company Kills Two. Two men are dead and seven aro badly hurt as the result of an explosion on the sixth floor of the corn house of the Corn Products company it tiranite City, 111., at five o'clock Tuesday afternoon. T.he sixth floor was completely wrecked and it was ilmost half an hour before the men ould be taken out. tu - j * -- ?iiw uuau aro jotin Malo, Oranlfo City, and an unidentified man. The explosion was caused, it is believed, by spontaneous combustion, due to large amount of dust floating about the corn house. Vlght Forest Fires. The forest service has called on tho War Department for aid to fight tiio forest fires in Montana, (leu. Leonird Wood, ehief of staff of Uie aeiny, has directed that a battalion of tho Fourteenth Infantry, in maneuvers at Amenutn Dako Camp, Ore., bo ordered immediately to Missoula, Montana, for the work. Thirteen killed. I hirteen aro dead and twolvo aro i jured in the North-western Pacific wreck at ignaiclo, Cal., according to the figures Just furnished by tho dispatcher's office.