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Volume 16 ^ dgERAW. CHESTERFIELD COUNTyTsTI^AU^UST^, 'Number 41
IDE VOTE OF/11
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AN INTERESTING SI/MMARY OF
80UTH CAROLINA PRIMARY
OF TWO YEAflS AGO.
OF INTEREST TVTHE PEOPLE
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As Election is NearJf-There Was Difference
of Only 5,6C0 Votes Between
Featherstone and governor Blease?
Wow the First PriAary Went.
Columbia.?With thl primary elec'tion
leBS than a mon;?off and confident
claims being madw>y the ardent
supporters of the two mading candidates
for governor, it isVf some interest
to look back to thlkcampaign
of 1910 and in the light of th^lection
figures of two years ago forr^some
Idea of the chances this year, g^dge j
Jones is a new factor personall^NP A]
the primary, but the strength of Gov.
Blease and of the opposition to him
? Js pretty well known.
Mr. Blease was elected in the second
primary of 1910 by a majority of
6,645. A change of less than 2,900
votes would have defeated him. In
i Charleston his majority was smaller
than that, it was 2,745, and it was
freely charged just after that election
that at least 1,500 fraudulent
votes were casf in Charleston county.
In Richland the majority for Gov.
i Blease was over 1,000, it was 1,026*.
and a substantial change in these two
, y counties would ordinarily be sufficient
Ll to bring aljout the defeat of tM-pree- ,
w* /e^vveflfcrTTu^io Mr. BlJfloe had"
Ja the second primary the support* of '
f practically all factions in Charleston
^ ;i? .as against a .prohibitionist, whereas
this year the Grace faction, triumphant
at the recent municipal election,
\ Is opposed to him, and the anti-Grace
faction is at least not for him, so far
as any one knows. At any rate it Is
certain he will never receive in Charleston
the landslide vote he got two
years ago.
>In the second primary of 1910 Gov.
Blease received a majority of the
votes in 24 of the 43 counties, as follows:
Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson.
Bamberg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun,
Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton,
Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton,
Horry, Kershaw, Laurens, Lee, Lexington,
Newberry, Orangeburg, Pickens,
Richland. Saluda and Union.
Of these eouDties which gave Blease
a majority those giving him the largest
majorities were the following:
Aiken, 1,024: Charleston, 2,745; liorj
rv, 441: Lexington, 024: Newberry,
629; Richland, 1,026; Saluda, GDI;
Union, 490. In the other counties
which lie carried his majorities were
small.
Gov. B1 ease's opponent, Mr. Featherstone,
received a majority in the
following counties: Beaufort, Cherokee.
Chester, Chesterfield. Darlington,
Dillon. Kdgeiieid. Fairfield, Florence,
Greenville. Greenwood, Lancaster,
Murioji, Marlboro, Oconee, Spartanburg,
Sumter, Williamsburg, and
York.
Negro Killed While Clearing Wreok.
l)iilon.--!h clearing tip the wreck of
se\?tal es.rs below here a negro. William
Cooper, of Cades was killed. In i
hitching a chain of otic of the dor*
ricks to a car he failed to fasten it ;
set urely, and when the engine tighten-!
ei! (.11 it the chain flew back and broke :
his neck, at the same time taking part I
of his head cfi. His body was pre par- j
ed for burial and sent to his home, j
The same train that was wrecked went I
on down to Sellers ' on ;< :tl was
again wrecked. <" t ?r h i?g derailed.
' Traffic was M > ; '..t . :)< nine.
CJeyo . argrr 1
New' . >.?V .i'.js ' : , colored,
was i (' d jf*i! .urged willi the i
killing .'..tl'"- Morgan, colored, in 1
flie Maybertr. 1 section. Gray claims I
the killing was accidental, while oilier ;
witnesses Maim Gray was fussing with |
Morgan's brother when lie killed .Mor- j
gan.
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Columbia. ? Three ' social clubs" |
were raided by the Columbia police, i
The managers were required to give '
. bond for each.
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FROM ALL O^B THE STATE
Short Paragraphsabf State News That
Have Been Gotflkn Together With
Care by nie Editor.
Florence.?Atlawic Coast Line train
So. 324, the FloJtace-FayettevIlle local
freight, over ?e (Short Cut) Fayettevllle
division,was badly wrecked
near the Marlon (fcunty Lumber Company's
plant, bettfeenPee Dee and
Sellers, and bloclfid the main line for
about ten hours.*
Greenville. ? Breenville police, in
Ihe absence of aState constable, have
been usually active in raiding blind
tigers, severa|^>arrels of beer, consigned
to John Quinn, were seized
while being transported on a wagon
through the city, ki all- it is said
records have been found where Quinn
has already received 57 barrel of
beer in the last few. mpnthr '
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ureenwuuu.? i ue oi rjrw
kine college met Mere several days
ago. The mattgr of the endowment
campaign fm^vas the chief topic of
RliMMrlllxcollent progress 1b being
made In this campaign. It was
decided to have a financial agent of
the college to make a thorough and
systematic canvasB for funds for the
endowment fund.
Anderson.?Nothing new was injected
Into the1 campaign meeting
here when the candidates for United
States senate, congressman from the
third district and solicitor -'of the
tenth circuit addressed about 300
voters in the courthouse. J. M. Daniels
and Proctor A. Bonham, candidates
for solicitor, led off, and each
was given a respectful hearing.
; Abbeville. At, a buaJness raetj'a
eating in -oitj* hal? It' was decided to
make a trip through the southern section
of Abbeville county for the purpose
of boosting Abbeville and getting
better acquainted with the people.
Mayor C. C. Gambrell presided and
appointed the several committees,
which will begin at once to plan for
the trip.
cuiumuia.? me ljvuhj\^i anv; caci^ulive
committee of Richland couunty
met in the court house and named the
manager of election. The question of
whether to hold the Columbia meeting
in the court house or theatre was
discussed and it was decided to have
it in the theatre provided each caudidate
would pay his share of the expense,
otherwise it would be in the
court house.
Chapin.?The annual temperance
picnic cf the Woman's Christian Temperance
union of Chapin will be held!
August 15 at the Methodist church, j
Among the speakers expected aro: J
.Mrs. Joseph Sprott of Marion, who is
state president of the Woman's Christian
Temperat.ee union; Rev. Waller
I. Herbert of Sumter and Rev. J. A.
Branson of St. .Matthews. In. the
evening both a musical and an oratorical
contest will he held.
Columbia. ? While in Dlythewcod
trying to trace the party or parties
v ho robbed the postoiiice at that
place, a call was scut to J. C. Mohhin
of i!ie penitentiary to take his blood-1
hounds to Hinnnut's store, about. 15,
miles from Columbia ou the Monticello
road, lo investigate a robbery
tlujio. Mr. Rohhins went and as the
result brought two negroes to Columbia
and lodged them in the state |
prison.
Newberry. ? Five thousand people :
attended ti;o Newberry College re-J
union at Little Mountain and enjoyed j
a line outing. Addresses w.ere made i
by C. .1. Itatnage, of Saluda; E. H. j
Anil, J. H. O'Neal Holloway, Dr. A. J.;
Powers and President Harms. The
address o! welcome was uy .wr. narliion,
of Chapiu. The crowd included
people from all the surrounding counties
and the occasion was one of the
most pleasant in the long history of
these annual gatherings.
Chester.?Dr. J. LafJruce Ward, director
rural sanitation, visited Chester
county, and wiiile here decided
upon Chester, Ilichburg, Fort Lawn,
Ulackstoc-k and Leeds as the points
at which dispensaries will be establishes!
for the treatment of hookworm
during tfie campaign that is to be carried
on in Chester county. Dr. L. A.
Hiser, of Leesville, who will have
charge of the campaign during the
six weeks of its progress, will arrive
in the near future. .
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOD THEBUSY MAN
M08T IMPORTANT EVENTS OP
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
i Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
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Southern.
"Not guilty!" A startled cry fell
from the quivering lips of Mrs. Daisy
Ulrich Opie Grace, when the Jury
foreman pronounced the verdict that
forever puts the woman beyond the
pale of the law on the charge of
shooting her husband, "Gene" Grace,
in their home, 29 West Eleventh
street, Atlanta, Ga., last March. The
Burnug tnuia.* ui iuc uiai v>u "U<.u
itBelf upon the prisoner, her attorneys,
the court and others. The woman,
pale and trembling, almost ran
through the streets from the car line
to the court room, where she sank,
exhausted, In her seat.
In front of the Savananh, Ga., cotton
exchange, the first bale of cotton
for the new season of 1912-13 was
sold at auction. The staple brought
311-2 cents, a new record for the first
bale for many yeajs. It graded middling
and weighed 350 pounds. The
bale was expressed to New York. The
first bale was received In Savannah
last year on July 28 and sold tot
25 T<2 C"jnts-a.,p!3T:Trd:
Satisfied that 12c is an excellent
price for cotton, even with the assured
prospects of the shortest crop locally
in several years, some farmers
in Americus, Ga., evidence a willingness
to sell at that figure. Several
hundred hales were sold through a
warehouse to American buyers for
12 cents, the cotton being good middling
to be delivered during September.
Similar lines were attempted
three years ago,
A Socialistic lecture at Tallapoosa,
Ga., by Mrs. Cates Richard OTIarc
of St. Louis. Mo., in which she attacked
the employment of children
under legal age in cotton mills, was
broken up oy tne nre department |
sprinkling the assembled crowd after |
Mayor C. E. Pearce, who is also su- J
perintendent of the largest cotton mill
at Tallapoosa, had failed in his at- j
tempt to have Mrs. O'Hare arrested, j
General.
The conquent of Mount Sir Sand- j
ford, the highest peak in the Sel- j
kirks, by Howard Palmer, secretary '
of tlu4' American Alpine Club, is an-;
nouncvd in New York City in a message
v'hicli was sent by Mr. Palmer
to the?'American Geographical society, i
The assent of the mountain, which is
11.U3-1 teei high, and is practically j
one continuous wall of ice, * as made j
one June >'4. No less than eight separate
attempts to scale Sir Sandford 1
have been made during the last half j
Deposit yc
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The Bank
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STRONGER THAN* ALL OTHER B.\
40 compoi
0 in savir
dozen years.
The n:cd( rn Rip Van Winkle lives
in Liberty, Mo. This name is Gus
B.shop. In forty-one years he never
has been outside the city, he never
has seen a telegraph instrument, never
has seen an aeroplane, never has
sen a moving picture show, never
sa wan electr.c street car, never was
inside a theater, never saw a horse
race. There are scores of buildings
in the little town that Gush Bishop
has never seen.
A fifteen million dollar corporation
for reclamation and drainage purposes
and the development of electrical
power in southwest Louisiana has
been practically formed according to
representations made to the state tax
commission by Wellborn Bradford,
representing New York interests. The
company plans to divert water from
the Red river by means of a natural
and art flcial waterway system
through the southwestern portion of
the state to supply Irrigation and
power for electrical transportation in
mill Btruuuu.
Sworn statements In New York 1
City tend to show the annual graft 1
collected by high officials from the 1
gambling houses and illegal resorts 1
has amounted within the last year to
|2,400,000, and are in the hands of <
the district attorney. The annual <
yield of $2.400,Goo protection money
was equally divided among four high I
officials of the police department, ac- i
cording to the evidence so far gath- i
ered by the newspapers. It is stated ]
that there were four separate sys- 1
terns or bureauB of graft collection, <
A tombstone toppled over in the '
cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.f
while the funeral of John D. Rockefeller,
of Tivoli, a distant relative of the I
oil king was in progress, and crushed
to death Raymond Callendfer, aged 4.
England will make no further pro j
test against United States,ships past- ,
tag through the Panama, canal free.
Because It oosiruc&TfUiV vtewcltfi
the Western mountains from the But- j
more house, George W. Vanderbilt
has ordered the demolition of a threestory
30-room residence built by Mrs.
Mitchell, sister-in-law of Marshall
Field, at a cost of 136,000.
By a vote of 6 to 7 the finance com'
mittee agreed to adversely report the |
Pujo resolution which would especial- ,
ly empower the house "money trust" j
committee to investigate national (
^anks. j
Clyde Marcellus Sims, 42 years old, ]
who disappearer from his home in
Georgia tea years ago and has been ,
hiding under the name of C- E. Van i
Wormer, was found in St. Louis, Mo., ]
and, after close questioning by detec- i
tives, admitted his Identity. His wife
has been seeking him for a long time. t
a n-nonfiiliatiou took ulace between ,
them in the office of the chief of do* c
tec fives. Sims was found through de- j
tectives employed by an insurance j
company, wh'ch had been sued for .
a $5,UU0 policy on his life, under tlie j
legal presumption that one who i3 r
missing seven years is legally dead. v
General I'ascual Orozco, comman- t
der-in-ch cf of tl:a .Mc.vcan rebels, de- ?
clares that he does not iccognize the t
United States govirninent. He made 5 ,
this remark to Thomas Edwards, the
United States consul at Juarez, who f
called at the rebel leader's quarters i t
to deliver a message from Secretary i 0
Knox. While Orozco did not receive ^
.Mr. Edwards as a representative of r
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:he United States government, be was
;lad, he said, to see Mr. Edwards and
:o receive him as an American citizen.
Orozco accepted the message
vithout comment.
Two Americans were hanged near
Jananea, Sonora, Mexico. Their bodes
were found and the incident reported
to President Madero by the
governor of Sonora. The governor
las ordered an investigation. He beieves
the two men were executed by
ebels in order to precipitate Amerf:an
intervention. The victims have
iot been identified.
The era of Taisei?"great righteousness'?has
commenced in Japan. The
sra of Meiji?"inteligent administration"?closed
with the accession of
Yoshihito. Telegrams of sympathy
aver the death of the emperor are.
pouring into Tokio. They include messages
from President Taft. The Japan
home department has Issued instructions
for one year's mourning,
but it is understood that full mourning
will be limited to fifty days to
prevent disturbance of business. The
self-restraint and dignity of the en
Lire people was a striking feature of
the first day of mourning.
No change in the Roman Catholic
shurch law relating to marriages ot
Catholics with non-Catholics in the
United States has been made by the
recent order of the pope affecting
such cases, according to Bonaventura
Cerretti, chargede'affalres of the
papal legation at Washington. Mgr.
Cerretti said that the order as explained
from Rome simply restored force
to a provision of the church governing
mixed marriages in Germany and
Hungary which bad been suspended
In the early nineteenth century. #
Clover.?-The picnic at Filbert was
attended by the smallest crowd of ata like
occasion since this place
band and was acconLed a qutt^hMLT 7
Ing. Blease failed to show up,
W/shinqrton.
Evidence of the growing anxiety of
the administration in regard to the
revolution in* Nicaragua was shown ,
when orders were issued to the gunboat
Tacoma at Guantanamo, Cuba,
to proceed forthwith to Blueflelds. She
Is due to arrive soon, and will try to
communicate with Managua, so Minister
Weitzel may keep the state department
informed of developments,
rhe gunboat Annapolis, on the west
:oast, has been getting only fragmen:ary
advices from Managua. These
lave been sufficient alarming to war ant
sending another warship.
The senate gave its approval to
aholition of the "blue tag" system
)r fast freight branch of the second
:lass mail service inaugurated by
^ostmastor General Hitchcock, agreeng
to second class provisions of the
jostoflice appropriation bill, requlrng
transportation of periodicals ia
nail cars. Senator Swansron led aa
insuccessful fight to give publishers
he option of having their publications
;o by mail or fast freight, declaring
hat the postoffice bill as presented
ras unfair to the newspapers.
The United States has again proested
to the Mexican government and
o General Orozco, leader of the revisionists,
against attacks upon the
American citizens and property in
,or thorn Mexico. Secretary Knox oficially
renewed his notive of two
lonths ago, that the United States
fill hold Mexico to strict account for
11 damages, and unofficially notified
irozco that he would be held peronally
responsible for damages to
imericans or their property.
That the Monroe doctrine express7
forbids any foreign nation acquir
ig a naval base at Magdalena bay
r otber similarly sitwated points on
tie American continent Is tho subtance
of a report made by Senator
.od.ge. Senator Lodge is chairman of
ie subcommittee to which the Magalena
matter was referred last April,
Tho house ways and means comlittee
determined to- reintroduce the
democratic cotton tariff bill, which
as passed at the last session of Conress
and vetoed by President Taft
he importance of the tariff program
as reflected in the meeting of th?
ays and means committee, all of th?
lembership being called into conferice.
When the house met, Majority
eader Underwood preseuted the
mended wool tariff measure and the
ccise tax bill passed last week by
ie Senate. He will ask that conforms
be named to take the measures. t
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