Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THEY NEED HELP Terrible News From China Told in Letters From That Land. PEOPLE ARE STARVIMo Famine , Described by n Minister Who Is Out There.?A rmiii'iic niory 01 Marvin^ Men and Women and Little Children.? The Crops Failed. Probably not in several years has there passed through the mails of this section of the country letters bearing more distressing news than communications which have been received by the Rev. P. D. Jenkins, pastor of fhe Piedmont Presbyterian Church, from his brother, Dr. W. F. Jenkins, who is a missionary to China, says the Greenville News. Floods last summer and fall near Suchien, China, destroyed crops and the gaunt spectre of famine is now stalking through the land. The letters received by the Rev. Mr. Jdnkins tell of the most terrible conditions which exist in the famine stricken district. The Piedmont pastor has very kindly consented to allow the publication of extracts from some of the letters he has received from his brother. They are as follows: I n ... n...?.. r v- . - mil una) IIUIII IHPIIIU II III in a Chinese house?that means in Hie cold. I have a small charcoal fire In a little furnace beside me hut that don't begin to warm a room. My bones are so near my skin the.-< days that I feel the cold more than ever and I always was a coward about it. I have on for outer clothing now a heavy overcoat lined with sheepskin with the wool on, my hat (I don't take it off except to pray or bing or sleep, and heavy wadded Chinese shoes with two pair of woolen socks to keep my feet warm. Don't pity me. I'm not suffering physically, but oh it does hurt me to. see the famine sights and hear the famine cries. I just had to buy a pair of pants the other day for a fellow. He kept coming to the inquirers' Bible class these freezing days with only one , garment on his lower limbs and that was thinner than my summer underclothes and he had no socks at all. lie had pawned everything heavier. It is freezing cold day and night and this poor follow like a raft of others has no sign of quilt at night? pawned or sold for food you know. His face is swollen from the food he has been eating?utterly indigestible stuff and not nourishing? weeds, greens, hark, ground up with a little barley or potatoes and made into thin gruel to 1111 up the stomach. He has ? little boy in the hut with 'hini clothed no better than he and his wife, carrying a baby, is out begging, gone a week now. Who knows but that she and the baby are dead on uie waysuie, starved or frozen to death. Alas, alas, the sufferings .of these noor people. A young man In the \lllage a mile from here where we have a Christian mission, starved to death the other day and an old lady near, of the same disease, lately. He was thrown out of work by hard times?begged, but few could give- no work to ho had?pawned his only thick clothing, got so weak and stiff he could not get about. 11 is sister-in-law gave him Ave cents in gold. He sent by a friend for food, ate it all at one meal and died, too much for his wasted stomach. In that same village there are 20 odd families and only three of them are now eating "dry" food, the rest are eating thin gruel made of a little coarse (lour or beans mixed with much green3 (?) really just almost any wee is, grass, etc., because gruel Alls up bet'er. And this is only December! What will things he liko In the ear1/ spring? Other villiages are better off hut they say that half the people through this section ar<- now eating gruel and much of that exceedingly thin. If it should snow and so, shut the people 01T from gathering reens (weeds) in the fields many will just have to die. Some of our Christians have already changed color, a sign of advanced starvation, have heen eating gruel some time. Christians and friends look at me with longing eyes (I gave out so much famine reliet four years ago.) They dog my stoi? to seek a private Interview to te.l me their troubles. And what can I do? Already I've given out more money than I possess of my own and besides one has to he very careful how he gives or he will he utterly swamped by crowd.* begging. I don't see how I can come hack hero before harvest if I cannot bear to seo tie ir distress and hear their cries. I wish I could put my head In a hole and not see or hear anything till next summer! It Is going to bo awful later and It Is bad enough now. Any money sent will awe life. I'll see to that. I have been holding a "Hlblo study class" here for a week or more and they have been coming very well but / DREAM CAME TRUE A SPARTANBURG LADY HAS THRILLING KXPERIRNCK I . Stic Dreamed That a Burglar Was* In Her Ilooir, Which She Fouml True on Awaking. Mrs. Max Henrlci, wife of the city editor of the Spartanburg Heralu, dreamed during the early hours of Monday night that burglars would enter her room before morning and a few hours Mter having this weird dream awoke to llnd that reailv and truly there stood a burglar ii. tho centre of her room. She retired Monday night as usual, but did not sleep soundly during ttie early part of the evening. Aftei experiencing such a dream she fell asleep. At 3:30 o'clock she awoke and at once noticed that her room was very cold. Looking toward the window which she had left close 1 :t was open and the outside shutters had also been thrown wide open. The inner shade was pulled down and this had been left up. She lay still for a moment and soon heard the footsteps of the midnight intruder. Creeping out of her bed on the opposite side from the robber sho could plainly see him I standing by the dresser and presentI ly he flashed his electric pocket i flash-light on the bureau and w as i ransacking this for valuables. The j brave young woman attempted to creep out of the room without being detected but just as she reached i the door and was on the point of getting into the adjoining room, where her husband was asleep, the robber Hashed hip light squarely into her face. This so frightened the young woman that she screamed at the top of her voice and wakened every one in ; the house. Her husband rushed inI tn f lm rnnm )\??f r? f *1%J?- J ...? . ...... uuv Ub una LUiif Hie burglar had jumped out of the open window onto the front porch and once gaining the street, easily made his escape. Positively no clue was left. The fright of Mrs. Henricl was awful and almost threw her into hysterics. However she soon recovered, and is now in her usual good health. It was a peculiar coincidence that Mrs. Henricl should dream of the approach of the burglar and wake up several hours later and find one standing In the centre of the room. MAIi IX)( HITFS FIVE. Kabul Animal Kutis Amuck ami Succeeds in Fseaping. A mad dog ran amuck at Anderson I on Thursday, biting two white boys and three negroes, besides several dogs. It disappeared before it could be captured. The dog started his run at Cox's Creek, just east of the city, when it attacked a negro man named Ware, who was working in the creek shoveling sand. Ware had on rubber ooots and the dog's teeth did not reach his flesh. The dog then circled through the Bailey place, attacked and severely bit another negro man. The dog then proceeded through the city, through j Calhoun street. It attacked Elmtra I Henderson, the young son of E. W. Henderson, a travelling salesman, biting him in several places. The next person attacked was a small white hoy named Duvall, in the Cox Mill <.111...... TM- _ 1 ~ . ? ...... . nit' i isi person reported bitten was a negro near the Cox Mills. The dog attacked him from behind, and it was necessary for the negro to fight the beast off. Fatal itow About KojmI. Tiailey P. Turner, a planter was shot and probably fatally wounded while driving in the roadway near Cameron, Texas, Wednesday. The shooting followed a quarrel with Ed. Tompkins, another planter as to the right of way 011 the county road. In the midst of the dispute Tompkins buggy was overturned and his leg broken. He is under arrest. ONl,Y WHITE MEN. Will lb* Appointed Notaries by Coventor Please. It is stated that Governor Please issued bis proclamation revoking the commissions ol all notaries jublic in South Carolina for the purpose of 1 eliminating the negro. After reb j ruary 10 he will refuse to '.srue a; commission to a negro as a notary j I'll III1C. Hundreds cf applications are bein g received for a commission as notary public. Tho one most important requiri ment is that tho applicant must, prove neyond a doubt that he is a white man and of good standing. It is exported that at least r>,Oftn notaries nubile will lio commissioned In South Carolina within the next several weeks. flomo just -an't walk every day to come It takes a little grain to give one leg force to walk; gruel mostly weeds and water, won't give it! Contributions to help tho starving Chinese ntay bo forwarded to the famine district by being sent to Rev. Mr. Jenkins at Piedmont, or a New York Kxchangc sent to Rev. \V. F. Jenkins. Suehlen, China, will bo good for Pa face value. CANT FOUND Tue Kjsierr.as Disappearance ?f a Young Woman in N.w Yuik. PRETTY AND RICH GIRL Family Convinced She lla?l No Dove A Hair and That She Is Alive?Everything That Money Can |)o and Drains Snidest Have Deen Done in Hunt. Seven weeks ago last Monday Dorothy H. C. Arnold, the beautiful daughter of Francis R. Arnold, a millionaire importer of perfumes in New York, and a niece of the late Kufus 11. Peckham, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, bought a novel at Hrentano's, In Fifth avenue, that city. From that moment no news of her has reached her family. She disappeared as completely as though the earth had swallowed her, and though both the Finkertons and the Central Olllce detectives have searched for her everywhere no trace has been found. Miss Arnold's aired parents, her two brothers and her sister, are heartbroken over the mystery. They have assured themselves in the most positive way that no romance attaches to the vanishing of Dorothy, and they and those whom they have consulted fear that some tragic crime lies behind the disappearance of the girl. For six weeks Mr. Arnold, who is seventy-three years old, refused to allow a general alarm to he sent out for his daughter. He hoped against hope tl.at she would announce herself to him in some way. and he told his advisers that his riches were at thnlr hr.l?in.r I f ?1. ' * II n:cl WIMIIH HUM HIT without the publicity which, he feared, might lead to unpleasant notoriety for the family. Out Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn and former Assistant DistrictAttorney Francis P. Garvan, Mr. Arnold's counsel, persuaded the aged father that the only remaining hope lay in the publication of the story of lior disappearance. They also urged the reproduction broadcast of her photograph. Mr. Arnold was brought around with difficulty. With tears in his eyes he begged Mr. Garvan to think of some other way than publicity. Money, he assured his counsel, meant nothing. He would willingly spend all he possessed in finding his child, he said. Mr. Arnold is so heartbroken over the mystery that he lias been unable to attend to his business since tbe day she left home. Mrs. Arnold, who was a Miss Samuel, is bowed with grief, for she was the last of the family to see Dorothy and speak with her. it was around 11 :*0 on the morn ing of Dec. 12 that Miss Arnold left her home, No. 108 Fast Seventyninth street. She told her mother she was going down-town to pick out an evening gown for the approat hing holidav festivities "I'll go with you," said Mrs. Arnold, hut her daughter, kissing Mrs. Arnold softly, answered: "So, mother, don't bother. If I see anything I really think I want to get I'll telephone you, and you ran come down and look it over. But you don't feel just right, and it's no use going to the trouble of coming with me. I mightn't see a thing 1 want to wear." With another kiss they parted and from that moment Mrs. Arnold has never seen her child. When I>oroth.v did not appear home for dinner the family became alarmed, for though she was twenty-five years old and a college graduate she had never absented herself from home for a single meal without letting her mother, who is somewhat of an invalid, know just where she was going to he. when she would be home and why she wished to stay out. John R. Arnold, a brother, arrived from Europe Saturday. lie knew nothing but the bare fact that his sister was missing, and inquired eagerly for details. It came out through counsel for the family this afternoon, that Mrs. Arnold had broken down under the strain and is beintr kont in wliwinn ,? t?v? !~ , .i.M.ww nii.il I I irmo out of town. Circulars reproducing three of Miss Arnold's latest photographs, and giving a minute description of her appearance, were mailed to every police, town marshal and detective agency in the United States and Canada, with the offer of a reward of $1,000 for information leading to her recovery. Sent t p For l.lfe. Utility of murder In the first degree was the verdict returned at Marshfleld, Mo., by the party in the case of Walter A. Dlpley and C.oldie Smith, charged with the murder ot Stanley K >tchel, pugilist. Sentences of life Imprisonment were recommended for ench defendant. The jury was out seven hours. Don't expect to find peace in life oy hiding from your nobrhbors. SLURS ARE FALSE ANDERSON SPEAKS WARMLY I." DEFENSE OF PARTNER. He Declares Insinuations in Gover nor'j Message Which Refer to Fcl tier Are Absolutely Untrue. An Atlanta dispatch says C. L Anderson, law partner of Thomas H Felder. the Atlanta lawyer who ha figured quite prominently in wind ing up the old State dispensary, it Felder's absence from Atlanta, matli a statement Wednesday In referenci to the Associated Press dispatci from Columbia, in which Gov. Bleasr Is quoted as inquiring why Feide "was not prosecuted when It vai found that he was the attorney foi a liquor house and was favored wlti liquor purchases and rebates wen paid fo these purchases." Ander son sa>s: "Since the Goodman and Flelsch man compromises referred to wen also made under the advice am through the instrumentality of Mi Felder. I assume that the governor"! reference to these matters and de mand that they be inquired into, ii likewise an attempt to rellect upor Mr. Felder. "Througnout the entire course o the investigation of the South Car olina State dispensary and the dis position of the matters connecter therewith by the winding-up com mission, 1 have been closely asso elated with Mr. Felder. and am fa miliar with all t'.e facts connecter: therewith. "Mr. Felder is out of the city, and in his behalf 1 desire to say that thr charges and insinuations container! in the governor's message, which refer to Mr. Felder, are absolutely un true and without foundation in fact "If Gov. Please has been informed bv any persons that there are exist iiik iiii-iB giving iounoauon to most charges he I1H3 been wilfully misle'1 by designing persons, who probably have felt the weight of the law, growing out of their own nefarivi transactions with the State dispensary, and seek this method of revenge." WHAT lit II EVANS SAYS. Ife Talks About That Alleged Atlanta Meeting. "Yes," said II. II. Evans, of Newberry, known as "Ilub" Evans, omc chairman of the State dispensary hoard of directors, whose name wnt mentioned in Governor Blease's message to the General Assembly witii reference to a meeting in Atlanta "Eelder did send for me to come t' Atlanta." Fit is was in reply to n question about the meeting. Mr. Evans continued: "When we were !n the room together 1 said to him "Open that door, you, and let the At'orney General come in and hear ev erything I have got to say." " "Then what did you tell?" "1 told him e"en if 1 knew anything 1 would not tell it to him," and Mi I Evans concluded, with his woi Is Jusl 'a hit stronger. The former dispensary chairman while in Columhiti Wednesday ?vas shaking hands in legislative circles. He talked freely 'c newspaper representatives, as is :ii> wont. Mr. Evans said if he went on the stand there would he some "hot stuff." lie continued: "The county dispensaries are now buying the same liquor the State dispensary did, paying the same prices and higher, Yon talk about a firm turning over $ 50,000 the other day, well, then tin county dispensaries p:;y back $100,000 for that." TIMED TO SAVE ('HIED. I.ost Her Own Idle as Well as Tmti of ller Itahy. A heart-rending trasedy occurred near Elza, (!a., on last Wednesday hy which a mother and her two children lost their livee Trvinc in vilt to save the life of her 11-year-old daughter, whose clothing was caughi In the shafting of a cotton gin, Mrs .1. It. Wilkes sacrificed her own lif< and that of her six-months-old bnn\ | near 101 za, this county. The litih J girl screamed for aid as she felt her I self being drawn toward the mn chinery and her mother, who was nearby, sprang to aid lur. She, loo I was caught and the baby, which was in her arms, was hurled against th< tloor and killed instantly. The moth er and daughter soon perished aftei being torn from the shafting. Little Sufferer I'asses. The one-year-old infant of Prof A. II. MeCrackt n. of Spartanburg turned si kettle of boiling water ovei on itself several days ago and died Sunday as a result of burns. Tilt entire body of the child was covered with blisters and death put an end to tho unbearable suff' The Democrats 111 Congress ought to let the dead past bury Its dead and press on to victory. Their vote* In the last Congress should not count against any member. We believe nl Democratic Senators and Represents lives will do their duty when th< time comes. " BAND FORMED Which Will Fight For Establishment of Popular Government. WHAT THEY WANT TO DO The Progressive Republicans Orntms late Themselves into a League for the Purpose of Enforcing Their 1 Ideals About Reforms Tb.?t Are e B Needed in the Government. t Organization of the Republican 5 Progressive league by progressive , Republican senators, representatives. governors and others?an organlza3 tion which will fight for the estabp lishinent of popular government? announced at Washington on Monday. Plans of the new league, which have been tinder way since the assembling of coneress, were conj eluded at a meeting Saturday night, at which a declaration of principles was signed, a contention adoptetd and the following officers were elected : * 'President, Senator Jonathan Bourne. Jr., Oregon. ^ First vice president. Representative George V". Norris, Nebraska. Second vice president. Gov. Chas. I S. Osborne, Michigan. Treasurer, Charles R. Crane, Chicago. Executive committee. Senator I Moses E. Clapp. Minnesota; Senator Jos T. Bristow. Kansas; Represent aI five F. 11. Hubbard, Iowa: Representative Irvine L. I.enroot, Wisconsin: I Representative-elect Win. L. Kent. California: Gilford Pinchot, Pennsylvania; George I,. Record, New Jersey, and the president, vice presl' dent and the treasurer, members ex ofilclo. The declaration of principles I signed by nine Republican United States aerators, the governors of six Republican States, 1.1 members of the house and others, is as follows: "Wo\ the undersigned, associate ourselves together as the National Progressive Republican league. "The objeei of the lenenn is promotion of popular government and progressive legislation. "Popular government in America lias been thwarted and progressive legislation strangled by the special interests which control caucuses, del. egates, conventions and party organ, izations, and, through control of the . machinery of government, dictate , nominations and platforms, elect ad. ministrations, legislators, represonta, tives in congress and United States senators and control cabinet officers. , "Under existing conditions legislaL tion in the public interests has been . bathed and defeated. This is evi, denced bv the long struggle to secure laws but partially effective for the . control of railway rates and services, . the revision of the tariff in the interest of the producer and consumer. [ statutes dealing with trusts and comI binations based on sound economic principles as apnlied to modern industrial and commercial conditions . a wise, comprehensive and impartial l reconstruction of the banVing and monetary laws, the conservation nr , con 1, oil, mis, timber, waft r powers ; and other natural resources belonging to the people, and for the ena* t., inent of all lecislation solely for the common good. "Just in proportion ns popular ;nv; rrnnient lias in certain States superceded the delegate convention system and the people have assumed . control of the machinery of govern, n.ent. has government become responsive to the popular will and progressive legislation been secured. "The Progressive Republican league believes that popular government is fundamental to all other questions. To this end it advocates: "The election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. "Direct primaries for the nominaI tion of all elective officials. "The direct election of delegates - to national conventions with oppor-1 i tunity for the voter to express his 1 choice t'or president and vice presii dent. "Amendment, to State const itu tions providing for the initiative, i r< ferendum and recall. "A thorough, general corrupt prae tices act. "The league will cooperate with ] progressives In the several States , and wherever nceeptable will render j assistance in promoting the organiza tion of Stale leagues. "Whenever requested by any pro Kresslve State league or by progressive leaders in State legislatures, the National Progressive Republican league will aid in the preparation of appropriate bills and resolutions and , will furnish speakers and literature . in .iiipport of legislation on the prop* I osltioiis enumerated in the five 1111111( bored paragraphs set forth In the I foregoing declaration of principles.' Tho names signed to the declaration include the leading progressive Republicans and many private persons prominent in the party. Hume old Tale. t Six men were fatally Injured In an I explosion Wednesday In the llughs. town No. I ft colliery of the Pennsylj vanla Coal Company at PUUton, Pa. Tho mine is on tire. \ WILL STOP SUIT THE SKX \TK VOTES TO ABANDON MEHGER APPEAL. Case Tried in Itichluiul Court Reccntly iiml Hosultcd in Verdict for ^ Southom Hallway. The State senate voted Thursday night to abandon the merger appeal by a vote of 21 to 17. The resolution adopted directs the Attorney General of the State to abandon tho appeal in the famous "Southern merger" case. The suit was tried In tho Courts of Richland county and resulted in a verdict for the Southern, thereby validating the lease of certain lines in 1S99 and in 1902. The following was the direct vote on the resolution of Senator Carlisle: Yeas Ackerman, Appall* A Dates, Black, Carlisle, Epps, Forrest, Ginn, Green, Hardin, Johnson, Lide, J Manning. William L. Muuldin, Me- fl Cown, Sinkler, Stewart, Stucky, \Val- A ker, Wharton?21. Nays?Christ- H ensen. Clifton, Croft, Crosson, Earle, Hough, Johnson, Laney. Lawson, fBs Mars, T. J. Mauldin, Muckenfuss, A Hainsford. Spivey, Strait, Sullivan. V Young?17. I The senate had previously refused > to strike out the resolving words of the bill bv a vote of 17 to 20. Senator Francis H. Weston, of Richland, was excused from voting, S| s be took part In the trial el' the "merger" case in the Circuit Court, ^Hj being one of the Southern's attornevs. -P,* Senator Sinkler, of Charleston, spoke in favor of and voted for Sen- 'jjfi ator Carlisle's resolution. Senator Croft, of Aiken, was the ^ only senator in the territories fre- 1 Iquently referred to in the "merger** 1 trial who voted against the resoluj tion. Sen >r T.eGrnnd Walker, of Georgetown, speaking in the senate tonight on the merger resolution, made his characteristic. ringing speech, and claimed tho attention of inn entire body. Senator Walker s id if constitutional oatlis arc vio1 tod by voting for the resolution t'10 decision of Judge Shipp would seconded by the legislative body, lie thought the matter affected the future of the State and its upbuilding. The question means not the establishment of a new policy, but the approval of an old policy. lie referred to the legislative enactment. Tne breaking of the merger would he a repudiation of contract. The eontract was he" .veen the legislature Jiy and the Southern. The loss of the ^ merger case stands as a vindication of the Legislature in the Merger Act. "It means," declared the senator from (Georgetown, "that we stand by our contracts." Senator Walker advanced the proposition that every time the railroad commission ordered an improvement the "merger"' h use was being approved. A properly equipped railway would benefit and this would he accomplished by abandoning the appeal. The Legislature wished to vindicate its own position when it ordered the merger tested in the Courts. , > t WMlHhKSS TLLLS Of ISAITLK. uiny Iv l; I < < 1 and Wounded Xcar ''t'ilm is IC<*(><>i*l?*<I. That Commandant Guerrero and thirty soldiers were killed and fifty others wounded in a battle, whielt lasted two hours near Ceiha, Honduras, was information contained in scraps of a m -ssaae picked up by the local wireless station at 1 l o'clock Thursday ni*-rl t. The revolutionists in the department of l?t i'ase, Honduras, under the leadership of ten. Soto, were routed by Government troops yesterday, aecoiding to dispatches received Tlmrsi'.iv by Consul General l'lloa, of Honduras, at New Orleans. i No details ?>f the battle, wliieii occurred near the Salvadorean border, were given. Gen. l'lloa expressed the belief that Gen. Cuitterex, viee president end commanding general of Government troops in t ? tioll, would shortly strike i tellin blow against the re'. Is cotnin.tilde 1 hv G< n. I.ee Christmas. 1!" expects the two armies to meet in the vicinity of San Pedro Still.i, bout J.*, ntiies south of Puerto Cortcz. i:i >pe?l on One Horse. Itoth ri ling astride on one horse from their home near Nuekols, Ky., Mary Hllen Tlchenor, aged 11>. daughter of Magistrate Coleman Ticltnor. and her boy lover, William Wells. IS, were arrested Wednesday in inidflght on their way to Louisville to be wed. The fugitives were caught by ofllcers who had been warned by the girl's father of the g} elopement. ' Will Itohiiihl ill Onoo. A i1lH|nitrh from I'unoron to Tho Sfsto hiivs il is iinilcrslood I hut (loo. I'linor, who lost his new dwollltiK oy tin- 11 Wl-ok .'iso, will t : 11< o Hlo|>H t'? rohiilhl :it (hire. Al'.hoiish ho hml no In iiiriin-o, lio ? :im d *:'tio or $."'.li() worth of mntoriiil from tho horning huihllti this, with Hovi-rul hundred (lollnrs sonorously contributed hy Ills friends, wilt help hltn rotiBlderably.