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" I 'if \ ' - ^ W CfjeraUi Cfjroniclc ^ Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, , S. C.. MARCH 4. 1915 Number iff 3 ' t . w " ar/w.c NEW YORK POLICE REVEAL BIG PLOT COZSHBACY TO KILL AND LOOT Attempt .to .Destroy .-St Patrick's Cathedral Comes as First Overt Act in Conspiracy to Murder Magnates and Seise j Money. New York, March 2.?The discovery of an anarchistic plot aiming at the assassination of Andrew Carnegie, * Cornelius Vauderbilt, John D. Rockennd his son, and other wealthy the inauguration of a reign looting in New York city ^^NMH^Rinced by the police today T After they had arrested a man in the Act of placing two bombs in St Patrick's cathedral, where several hundred persons were worshiping. Today's sensational development was the culmination of months of work by detectives in uncovering a ?conspiracy which they declare pro Jected a campaign of violence and .bloodshed without precedent in New So crefully had the police worked that*the anarchist was even allowed to light the fuse of one of the bombs wbich he carried into the cathedral. Scarcely had the bomb ignited when one of a half hundred detectives stationed in and about the church crush\ ed the sputtering fuse under bis heel and Im another moment the plotter vv href taken into custody just as he was Boy tfnder Arrest. Frank Abarno was the name given by the man who placed the bombs in the cathedral. Later Charles Carbone, an 18-year-old boy, was arrested at hla home as the actual manufacturer of the explosives. More arrests are expected. Both Abarno and Carbone late today, the .police reported, admitted their part in the conspiracy, but denied that any one else twas involved. When arraigned late itoday they were held without bail for i examination Thursday. Abarno and Carbone are said to be memoers 01 ine cresci group 01 anarchists in this city who take theii name from Graetano Bresci, assassin of King Humbert of Italy. According to the police, the plot was conceived early in February. -plan of the conspirators miscarried because a young policeman, Emelio Polignani, joined in the plot as an avowed anarchist and for several weeks kept the police informed of the movements of bis companions. Polignimi was arrested in the cathedral today with the men who placed the bomb, but this was only in accordance with the prearranged plan of his superiors. Helped Boy Explosives. Polignani had no chance to make extended reports to the police, for each one of his anarchist companions was watching the others with usupiclon. However, he did keep his chief informed of what was going on. When it was decided to place bombs in St Patrick's cathedral 'Polignani necame a pari 01 every aeiau 01 me plot, even paying his share of the cost of the explosives. Polignani was selected to accompany Abarno on the mission today. The two made their way to the cathedral at the time when worshipers were attending 7 o'clock mass. Already a large force of detectives had been scattered throughout the edifice. Two, disguised as scrub women, were working in the vestibule, another was disguised as an usher and many were sitting in different parts of the church. Arriving at the cathedral, Abarno, who had just lighted a cigar, entered without a word to his companion. When left alone Polignani gave a quick signal to the two detectives In the vestibule and the sign was passed along that the man approaching the north aisle had the bombs. Abarno slipped into a pew near the back of the church, placed a bomb under the seat and then started towards the Altar. Entering another pew, he placed his second bomb and applied the lighted cigar to the fuse. Then he started toward the rear of tl church, intending to light the oth< bomb as he passed. It was at th: moment the detectives seized him an put out the lighted fuse. District Attorney Perkins said toda that the alleged maker and placer ( bombs were liable to 25 year imprisoment and were further liabl to indictment under the Sullivan coi cealed weapon law. One Breaks Down. The two men were taken to polic headquarters where shortly they wei joined by Carbone, who had been ai reted meantime. Then the two ploi ters and Bolignanl were put throug a searching examination. Throug the clever replies of Bolignanl, wb ttDouuicu uie iuie ui a t>uieiy yiiouue. , Abarno was led Into a confession, a( cording to the police, and later Cai bone corroborated bis partner's stor; Abarno's story to tbe police was tol later by officers as follows: "1 was in this job, but never in an other. 1 put those bombs in ther< I have been told that Archbteho Corrigan and Archbishop Hughes an other big men in the church (wei I bulged under the floor of which put the bomba and It was my bop that the explosion would open the! graves. I am a printer, j "About Ave years ago I began t study anarchy. That I decided, wa the proper means of settling th wrongs of the poor. This was a tei rible winter for the poor. Our grou decided to open a campaign again* the Catholic and Protestant churche* then to terrorize and perhaps destro the homes of Rockefeller, Carnegl and some of the Vanderbiltu an< finally, when we had the city terroi ized, to invade the banks at the. hea of an army of the poor and help, out elves tp the hoards .of the rich. T "We IreKn St!VafirfcFs batbaSJri to the 'place to start because it 1 the biggest Catholic church and 01 demonstration there would attract t 'much attention. Carbone was Belec ed to make the bombs . and bong] the material up town." J "'You helped him make them' bnarled Polignanl. I "I helped some," admitted Abarn | Abarno insisted that he had no pa in the bomb explosions of last fa [ in St Patrick's cathedral and in froi sot St Alphonsus' church. It wi after these occured that Police Con missioner Wood decided to make , determined effort to run those dow responsible for bon^b ^outrages, ft | selected Polignanl to join the anarcl 1st camp. | "The police had decided that tb Bresci group of anarchists was tb most dangerous in the city and Polij nani joined them. So well did he a< his part that he was considered one ( its most fearless members. He picke Abarno and Carbone as the most dat gerous spirits in the group, r ANARCHISTS HELD UNDE1 HEAVY BOND New York, March 3.?Thp gran jury found indictments late toda against Frank Abarho and Charlc Carbone, the anarchists, arrested ye: terday accused of having plotted t explode two dynamite bombs in S Patrich's cathedral while several hui ? 1,* rrh UTfU \VWlMil|fpciO aw rnuoo, xu two men were arraigned and held i $25,000 bail each for pleading Friday, The maximum penalty for the crim charged is 25 years in prison. Although Carbone, took no actui part in the placing of the bombs i the cathedral, it was charged that li did most of the work in manufa< turning them. Abnrno is accused ( having carried the bombs into th church and having lighted the fuse ( one of them. When the men were arraigned Ca: bone said through an interpreter tin he knew nothing of the bomb plo did not make the bomb and ws entirely innocent Last night the itolii announced that both Carbone an Arliono had confessed to plotting t explode the bouibs in the cathedra us an initial move in the inaugui"! tlon of a series of outrages in wide wealthy men were to l>e killed jui hanks were t<^be looted. "What was in your head when yo planned the bomb?" asked the pr< siding judge today of Abarno. The conditioln of society leaves tl only thing to lie done, the frightenin of the rich," replied Abarno. "Tt bomb was needed to make a chanj 16 INVITATION TO SCHOOLS ;r OF CHESTEBFEIL1 is ' id Extended on Behalf of the Jcftcrso ,y High School and the Citizens >f of Jefferson. s' . [e The following letter has been aeu to all the schools in Chesterflel county: In behalf of the Faculty, Trusteei ,e and people of Jefferson, I wish to ex _e tend to you a cordial invitation t p_ your school to participate in a decle t_ matlon contest here to be held in th h Auditorium of the high school at 8.3 h o'clock, Wednesday night, March 17tt o 1915. r Any bona fide pupil of any school i the county will be eligible to ente p_ the contest Each school will be al Inn'oH turn ranroaanfotlvAQ nno hn jr.l T"",w" ? ? * ".nd one girl. Two gold medals will be awardet y one to the beet declamer among tb ^ boys, and one to the best declame p among the girls. These medals hav 4 been offered by the good citizens c .e Jefferson. j The principals and the teacher o l6> teachers accompanying them will b ir entertained In the hospitable home here. 0 In orde?,to have programs print? s for the occasion, I have placed Frldaj e March 12tb, as the limit of time t r. send to me he "names of the dc P clamers, and the teacher or teacheri who will come with them. ^ I hope that each of you will give u y your hearty cooperation in makln ,e this a success, and in trying really t uplift the schools in our county 1; r. this particular respect. 4 If possible, I shall have Prof. Yi .. H. Hand over with, us as one of th judge* and who I ?g.ure will bav j. something good ht stor^ fcr us. Vil^ llWb fci k cooperation, and assuring iou that shall be glad to answer any oth< Questions that may occur to any < !0 ' you, I am, Yours very truly, R. F. ULMER. v, Principal Jefferson High School. Mr. Halcott P. Green, of Columbii rt has been appointed by Governor Mai jj ning as special Judge to hold tl lt Courts of General Session and Con l8 mon Pleas for York County comment lug the second Monday- of April. a n The Chronicle is $1 a year, le ? ? l( le * Deposit yc - The Bank l? Chera J STRONGER THAN ALL OTHEi I 4 Qb " j \^y in oavn ie * u u ie in conditions. I did not want to injui s- the i>eople in the cathedral, but tl >f rich must be frightened into knowii ie the condition of the ])oor." ?f AJtarnu and Carbone tonight d clajred they were "framed-up" by the r- su.pjMised eomrads, Detective Pol it yanni. who was known to them i t, tfrunk Ha I do. The detective, they a us serted. was the brains of the coi e spiracy. d "We would not have ventured in! o the scheme if it were not for tl J, urging of Haldo." said Abarno. "\\ a- were the tools of the police anxioi h t<? make a showing." id ? ,u 3,130 Years of War. e- The Temps, of Paris, commentir on the idea that war can be abolishe le! points out that from 1493 B. C. to j iK L). 1S61 there were 227 years of peat ie and 3,130 years of war?one year t ;c peace to 15 of war.?New York Worl . GAPT JAS GRAHAM . SENT TO THIS STATE detailed by war department >t I d' / ? Natal Militia to Take Cruise and Target Practice in July o r i- , e Columbia, March 2.?Capt James M. 0 GrahaijS of the 19th United States ?. infantry, who has been detailed by l " s I he way department for service with n, he SoUth Carolina National Guards, r -j, ^ now Stationed with his regiment i *- OalvMton. Texas, and will probably . reach iSouth Carolina in about a 1. month. $He Is a native of. Massachusetts, agd was appointed to the army T from CjjkMfornfa in 1898 as a second e lieutenant, being promoted to be first ' dleuteaAfr in 1899 and to be a captain In 1903^He graduated from the army r school fibe in 1908 and from the Army e Staff-63pge in 1908. He is 39 years 8 of age (and has a splendid record in the. &$ny. Capt Graham succeeds d Lieut Mtees G. Boswell, now with the r> New Jphfry milita. ? WlT department has called the h atteAiWnf the Adjutant General'3 of' flee. that any unexpended ba)5P'J$b4Sf the appropriation for the s navolJjjj^Uta must be turned into the ?' ThJShuth Carolina naval milita a mi1ita ?f the- Dl8iTict of dubE^a will go on board a ship r at IfJHij^toadH on July. 3 for a e fr^nj^^^^^w^klpng the coast and t 11 \ >r NevK*s\y and Pennnlvania will go on ayruise at the same time. The annual inspection of the militia are about half completed. Adjt Gen. Moor? is inspecting the Columbia companiei to-day in-1 to-mornrv. The inspections will wind up at Fort Mill a- on March 26 and there will bo genernl 1_ interest in the results or ine inspec10 tions. It is understood that companies 1_ found deficient will be mustered out of service and that plans for making the South Carolina National Guard efficient and effective will be put into effect following the inspection^. )ur money in of Cheraw W, S. C. \ BANKS IN COUNTY COMBINED inded quarterly * dr> lgo va^j^ax L.e ALAS, HOW TRUE. ,e Everj- town hus a liar or two, a lg smart Alec, some pretty girls, more loafers than it needs, a woman that tattles, an old fogy the town would he ir better off without, men who stand on l_ (he street corners and make remarks w about women, the man who laughs s. the idiotic laugh every time he says n. anything. Scores of men with the caboose of their trousers worn smooth as glass, men who can tell you just ,e how the foreign war question ought e to bo settled, foretell the weather and ls | how to run other people's business all I of whom have probably made dismal failures of their own. Names Game Warden. ig Gov. Manning has appointed T. A. d, hurley, of Richland county, as a game 'warden for South Carolina. * I af Jojb Printing at right prices at The d. Chronicle office I > I VLMAIAIAI/MA1A1A1A1AIA1AI/VIAIA1AIA1A1AIAIA1AIA OBSFRVATIONS BY OUB MAN ABOUT TOV ^vTVK'lv1vTVrvTVr>TVIVlVI\/rvTvTN/fVIVl>/rwlVIVT\/l If I were in the retail business this town, or any other town, I'd no every customer as they came in, whenever a child entered, that c would have my earliest possible at tion. There's a pretty strong him this for someone, and, for his < good, we hope he gets it. A local sportsman tells us he v hunting last week?hired a livery shot away a dollar's worth of amm tion, wasted a day's time, and all got was?back, then his wife t twenty five cents and 10 minute* t and boubght a couple of squirrels supr>er. Young man: Take that hat of your right ear and balance it squai on your head. YOur. acquaintances like it better?as you will, youn after you get used to it. If we were some of the bush men in this town we feel sure rid our place of loafers. No u we think, means harm by "Joaiii but he is injuring bis loafing pi nevertheless. Women do not like g( into a place filled with men, and pecially If all of them are smok as is generally the case. The b ness man does not like loafing, e though he may not have the coui to say so. He appreciates a visit v anyone, whether they buy of htm not?but there's a big difference tween visiting and loafing. V>V . . . - ? ui Every time we hear anyone Mrak! the ix)stmaster we always /eel s< that the public cannot come tc a fixation of bis thousand and one i yies. And he's "raked" mare or every -lay. ' ! The "general delivery" window imagine, is the nightmare .of e1 /\?>a n?U/\ Una tiatmr tc tlUMUUTHCr. \/ne nuu uuo uctvi v* the trouble tc give the matter a 1 thought may think it strange to told their is no mail for them, v he says no without taking time look to see." The probabilities that l:e, or she, has looked thrc that box fifty times since the last i came in. Parents, unthoughledly mit their children to call for i and when this is done, the child abuse the privilege. Take a fa with three or four children in scl Many times each one will call their mail at the geueral'delivery dow?and not half an hour apart. I stilt cases, the i>erson waiting on window well knows there is no mai the family in question and he, or is not going to look through the in such cases. Often, too, chil loose inail. They should not be for it when it is possible to get i in any other way. Older i?ersons, too, sometimes sinuate the postmaster or clerk is courteous, even hinting that they t they have mall, or at least ca understand why it Isn't there for t Mail accumulates fast, and we sure the postmaster and employees Kind to see it leave the postoflie quickly as possible after receipt We dont think we should car be "postmaster." 10very public dinner shows us u more i ample who will insist uixm et with their knives. We hear l a man say this week he had not v. ritteu his mother a li for more than a year?had not heard from her in that length of I The speaker was a man past J years old, so his mother, you see, has reached that age where at best, seems empty to her. How can a man lie so unuiim If they knew what their silence m to their mothers we do not believe t I re would be such men It would be to assume mat in an suen c mother" wrote the last letter lias passed between them. An-1 I receiving no answer to that one, wrote again and then again. The son who has grown to man now has children of his own hat liiue erase all memories or at leas affections for the home of his c hood. But not so with the mc x I6i6fc| who is still in that home. Time has .r ' but increases her love for the children now scattered here and there. Her . _ x t many years have taught her that v jj. making worldly goods our goal in life ,4 ( ' * Is a mistake. The voices of her children would now mean more to her than ? i in any wealth. Those sons, then who tice have been negligent, and Who may not ' ' >v and be able to visit their childhood hornet^ hild can at" least write. There is abso-.. .. ten- lutely no excuse for not doing so. ... t in if the reader be one who. has not own written home for a year, let him send mother a letter, now. , . The instance that prompted us to rent write this is not new, of course. 1 rjg have known men, as you probably' *' uni_ have, who claimed they had not he written home for many years. All 00k such might well make a firm resoluhne tion, right now, and stick to it after for making it?resolve to let not another month of her life pass without your dear old mother receiving a cheerful, r 0f loving letter from you. rely win MANNING NAMES ASYLUM - REGENTS Gov. Richard I. Manning yesterday ' *,' appointed the board of regents of the' ie.su State Hospital for the Insane. The we regents were named in accordance " lau, with the reorganization act which was x passed at the last session of the genace, were announced by the governor after ^ )ing givin the matter considerable thanght es- <and attention. ingi The new board will be composed of U8i. the following members: wen J*' E. Slrrlne of Greenville^ R. B. agp Scarborough of Conway, C. Fred WI1rlth lianas, M. D., of Columbia, S. C. Baker, i or D., of Sumter 3. W. Seagars of Lee. . , be county. , Under the terms of the act one regent was appointed for. the superintendent win be appointed by the governor. The place la now yor held by T. J. Strait, M. D., of Lan- ' less ca8ter* ' we ADDITIONAL LOCALS. rery . iken Mrs* Gillian Preslar, who has been ' ittle visiting at Tatum, S. C., has returned. * -' i be hen Mr. B. K, Wyslnger, of Bennettsvllle, ..to spent several days In the city this are week. ?uh ii mall Mrs. John Gray has resigned aa per. head operator in the telephone office Qil and Miss Aliene Barentine, of Darlingjren ton, has taken her place. mily lool. Mr. Jack Seawell has moved to one ^ lor of the Agerton cottages on Church win- street I" ; m ' J tha Mr. W. J. Maynard has moved to the 1 1 for old McLean residence, corner Market she and Huger streets, mail dren Mr. G. W. Duvall is having some sent extensive repairs made on his reel- ' It in dence. **? in- Mr. M. B. Smith is having the cotdis tage on Market street, that was occuhink pied by Mr. S. M. Finklea when it nnot was badly burned, repaired, hem. Dannin P.rnlirh Visited heP ACU1 IT AI o. A VUUAU V* ? , ^ i are brother, Mr. J. L. Grant, at Morven, e as n. C., this week. e to Miss Ariminta Holcomb, who has been visiting in Camden, has returned. *** few $1 a year for The Chronicle-r-that'all "r . iting . h'.> ' -.v Mr. J. C. Craig, bookkeeper at the Cheraw Wholesale Grocery for severthat al months, died at his home on Market etter street, Monday night last after a very even 'short illness. The scaue of death was tine, pneumonia. The remains were taken 'ortv his home in Lancaster on Wedneswill day for interment ; life WHISKEY GOOD FOR DEAD MEN ifnl? Jackson, Miss., March 1.?Tb.j eans Mississippi supreme court today upheld here the constitutionality of the May-Motsafe Lewis law enacted at the last session uses, of the legislature prohibiting the keep that ing of intoxicants in social clubs, in then, its decision the court quoted tho folshe lowing: "Whiskey is a good thing in its hood place. There is nothing like it for prv5 let serving a man when he is dead. If t all you want to keep a dead man, put him hiM- in whiskey, if you want to kill a live >ther man, put whiskey in him." ?. i