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W. BIHCKMORK, PBOPBJETOR.
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WILSON AND M'REYNOLDS LAUD
ED FOR TRUST FIGHT
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INDEPENDENTS PLEASED
Telephone Companies Not Connected
With Western Union Express Gr*?t
li! cat Ion at tho Rewtoratlon of Fair
?
Competition, Which Wa.s About to
l>o Crushed.
Attorney General McReynolds has
re ''lved many letters of commenda
tion from Independent telephone
companies congratulating him upon
his work In bringing about tho dls
oslutlon of tho Ilell telephone and
Western Union Telegraph Interests.
John H. Wright of Jamestown, N. Y.,
pn sident of tho Independent Tele
phone Association of America, in a
le'ier to tho Attorney General re
c(-l<'od recently, said:
"On behalf of the Independent tel
ephone Interests of the United States
I desire to express our appreciation
of ihe splendid manner in which you
have protected our rights under tho
law. For a long time we have felt
thit there was some adequate rem
edy against tho wrongs that were
openly perpetrated by the Hell inter
ests, which were designed eventually
to end all competition. Tho agree
ment you Lave reached indicates
most satisfactory results which con
stitute a Justification and compensa
ti. n for our long struggle for that
en 1.
"May we also, through you, ex
press to President Wilson our appre
ciation of his distinguished personal
consideration of this controversy and
the unfailing patriotism that has
characterized .his attitude through
out?"
11. G. Hubbell, president of the
Federal Telephone and Telegraph
company of Buffalo, writes:
"You have dono a wonderful work
for public good and are being pro
claimed a hero by independent tele
phone interests, which embraces in
its scope more than 400,000 security
holders." Mr. Hubbell also Invited
Mr. McReynolds to address the Inde
pendent Telephone Association of
America meeting In Chicago on Jan
uary 7.
Since the announcement of the
pinna for the reorganization of tho
Telephone Trust there has been ono
caller on the Department of Justice
In the cause of a prosecuted cora
Mno, moro than a hundred telephone
calls and scores of letters and many
telegrams seeking to learn what may
be expected In the Bul.t of the Gov
ernment against certain trusts. Mr.
McReynolds left Washington for
Kentucky last Saturday and will not
return until next week. In his ab- '
Bnnco there is no one at the depart
ment authorized to act for him In
taking up fresh proffers from trusts
which wiBh to reform. Tho Inquiries
rnd reports of negotiations and pro
tective agreements have persisted,
however, and In tho list that has been
it entloned have appeared what are
regarded at the Department as some
of the most importanf ;lts that have
been filed in many yi
Mr. McReynolds, in talking over
tho efforts of directors of tho New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road company to avoid a trust suit,
1 as made it plain that ho is not will
ing to accept offers which do not
moan a reform in accord with tho
department's own ideas.
KILLED AT II 18 DOOR.
I.eft Dead With Twenty Wounds In
Ills Body.
Mike Laporta was called to his door
in the South Sldo of tho Ital'an quar
ter of Chicago, Sunday by cries of
"Hurry, yoxir brother is dying.' A mo
ment later he was struggling with
three men who left him dead with 20
stab wounds In his body. Antonio
I^aporta, tho brother catno homo Boon
after tho pollco arrived.
He nald ho know- who had klllod
Mike, hut when questioned about tho
Identity of the assassins ho replied:
"It Is my affair, I will find them." Im
ports said tho murder was tho result
of a Sicilian feud of 20 years dura
tion. "My brother was not tho first;
ho will not bo tho Inst," Lnportji add
ed.
DANOKROU8 III HIMCHtt.
Answer to Matrimonial Ad Leads Wo
man Into Trouhlo.
Answorlng a note smuggled out of
a cottage In the Jwuth end of I, on An
geles, C'al., police womon Raturday
found Hortha Lake, the twonty-threo
year old daughter of an oyntorman
near Providence, R. I., who nalfl aho
had anawered a matrimonial adver
tlsnmont, and had been drugged and
held a prlsonor for two wroks by tho
man whom she came to inarry. The
man, Robert Olboch, a young Austra
lian, wan arrested, and an lnvoatlga
tlon la under way.
Two Brothers Are Killed.
William and Robert Russell,
? brothera, of Petros, Tonn., woro ahot
and killed early Thursday, and
needier Holmes and hla younger
brother, charged with murder, are
Imprlaoned. The Russets had testi
fied against the Holmoa In a liquor
selling casn.
? ? ?
Tried to Bell too Cheap.
When Jim Jackson offered to sell
a Greenwood horse dealer a Ann mule
for $100 Saturday he waa at once
taken Into custody. Runday the own
er, a farmer, turned up and olalmed
the mule which had been stolen from
hit plantation.
CUT DOWN DELEGATES
SOUTH CAROLINA IX>SES SEVEN
WITH REPUBLICANS.
National Committee Ends Its Labors
With Compromise Reorganization
ami Adjourns.
The Republican national commit
tee has concluded Its labor for re
form In- party procedure, and launch
ed Its campaign for a reunion of
warring elements, by adop'.in,? a res
olution providing for a radical
change in the basis of representation
in national conventions which would
reduce the quota of southern states
from thirty-three to sixteen per cent,
of the convention's total.
The action of the committee, criti
cised in vigorous terms by soveral of
its members, but made unanimous
before adjournment, must bo indors
ed by states entitled to cast a ma
jority of votes in the electoral col
lege before It becomes party law.
In order that such action shall be
taken as promptly as possible the
committee appointed a subcommittee
of three, consisting of Charles B. |
Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah,
of Idaho, and Governor Hatfleld, of
West Virginia, to prepare an address
This address will bo drawn up short
ly after the Christmas holidays, and
leading members of the committee
expressed the hopo that it would bo
met by early action.
Approval by the states will insure
a call from the national committee
for the national convention of 1916
along the lines laid down. The re
organization plan adopted came as a
compromise which reflected tne views
of many committeemen that southern
representation should be reduced,
hut not brought to the vanishing
point.
According to figures submitted by
the subcommittee, the new plan
would reduce the total number of |
delegates from 1.07S, as In 1812, to
993. Under It these states would
lose delegates:
Alabama 9, Arkansas 3, Florida 4,
Georgia 10, Illinois 2, Kentucky 1,
Louisiana 7, Mississippi 8, New York
4. North Carolina 3, Pennsylvania 1,
South Carolina 7, Tennessee 3, Texas
15, Virginia 9, and Hawaii 4. The
southern states would have 164 dele
gates In all.
FREES AMERICANS.
Huerta Orders Release of Trio Ileld
in Mexican Jails.
By appealing directly to Gen. Huer
ta Friday Nelson O'Shaughnesay,
American charge d'affaires, obtained
from him almost Immediately une
quivocal consent to the release of
three Americans now In Jail, whose
liberation long has been delayed by
legal manoeuvring. The men order
ed set free by Gen. Huerta are H. J
Kidder, William Krauae and John
John Parker.
It apparently developed that Gen.
Huerta had known nothing of the
incarceration of the men or of efforts
that had been made by Mr. O'Shaugh
nesBy to procure their release. Mado
impatient by tho long series of eva
sions and excuses glvon him from
other quarters, Mr. O'Shaughnessy
risked incurring tho displeasure of
minor officials and apparently found
Huerta willing and anxious to dem
onstrate by the order for his release
his intention to maintain fair play.
Ho declared that as long as he Is
president he would not countenance
any discrimination against Americans
or any persecution of them because
of nationality.
Parker Is in Jail at San Luis
Potosl. Ho is charged with boing Im
plicated In a murder. Krauso and
Kidder are in Jail nt Mexico City.
Tho cases against tho men are not to
bo dismissed, but tho men will not bo
forced to remain In jail. Tho condi
tions of release oblige the men to
present vhemselves at tho American
embassy. ?
FIKKCKACKKK K.XPLODKS.
Allondalo I. a(l Narrowly Missed
Donth In Firing Cracker.
Tdttio Warren Reeves, tho 11-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Reeves, of Allendale, was seriously
Injured by tho explosion of a "can
non" firecracker Wednesday at his
home. An Iron pipe stuck Into the
ground was being used for holding
(ho crackers. A very largo one was
dropped Into the pipe, and discharg
ing beforo tho lit t lo follow could
move out of range, struck him In tho
lower part of tho stomach, Inflicting
a torrlblo wound. Just as tho dis
charge from a gun might have dqno.
Tho doctors say tho wound Is not
necessarily fatal, but vory serious,
requiring a number of stitches.
Fatally Wounded In ICvploslon.
Mrs. Harriet Adams, tomporsnce
leader and author, Is expected to dlo
In a hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, of
burns received Saturday afternoon In
a gas explosion at hor homo. She Is
7 5 years old. The explosion was
caused by Mrs. Adams striking a
match In a room filled with gas from
an open Jot.
Kills Tot and Self.
While seated at tho supper table'
at her home In Marshall, Ind., Sat
urday night, Mr*. Mary K. Fix, with
a butchers' knife out the throat of her
two-year-old grandson, killing him.
She then drew tho blade serosa hor
own throat. She died a few hours
'later. ?
Tragedy at fltlll.
Jordan Will wan shot, perhaps
fatally, and his wife killed outright
Thursday afternoon at a turpentine
still near Marlow, Oa. Deputy sher
iffs are In search for the supposed
murderer.
BALKS THE FLAMES
WILSON DIRECTS FIRE FIGHT ON
THE GULF COAST
PUTS OUT BLAZING FIBE
While Returning From Golf Links
the President Catches Sight of
Illaze on Roof ? Sounds Alarm and
Extinguishes Fire IJefore the Local
Department Arrived.
President Wilson Friday night
found himself the hero of the gulf
coast. Word spread far and wide j
that the watchful eye of the chief
executive of the United States had
spied a blaze that threatened to de
stroy one of the handsome homes of .
the Southern shore and that he had 1
acted tho volunteer fire chief in ai
manner that long will be remember- !
ed. Thein cident created a stir In the 1
otherwise quiet life of the gulf esc-!
t i o n .
The president was returning from !
a quiet game of golf towards noon 1
and on passing through Gulfport, i
eight miles from Pass Christian,
Miss., saw a blaze on a roof of a big!
house. It was the home of John J.i
H. Neville.w ho won fame in 18 91 by j
prosecuting John L. Sullivan for a'
prize fight at Richburg, Miss., with I
Jake Kilraln.
Mrs. Neville, who was alone In the'
building, had run to tho window toj
watch the president go by, when sud- 1
denly two machines stopped and the
president himself alighted. Quick as
a Hash he darted up the front steps,
followed by I)r. Cary T. Grayson, 1'. j
S. X., the secret service men and |
chauffeurs, who had unstrapped the
fire extinguishers from their ma- J
chines and awaited the president's!
orders. Mrs. Neville was confused.]
"Don't bo alarmed," said the presi- 1
dent coolly. "Your house is afire, but
the men will put it out quickly u' you
will show them the way to tho attic."
Mrs. Neville pointed tho way up
stairs and Robinson and Fredericks,
tho chauffeurs, broke a window and
climbed out on the roof, while Jamos
Sloan and Jack Wheeler, the secret i
service guards, tore away the Bhtn
gles and helped fight the flames. Mrs.
Neville did not know how to treat her
unexpected but distinguished gue?t,
who urged her to keep calm, as there
was no danger.
"Will you come into the parlor?"
she asked.
"No, thinks," replied the presi
dent, "but you might let mo get a
bucket of water." Mrs. Neville has
tened to comply, but before it could
bo of service the firefighters on the
roof had descended with the report
that little damage had been done and
that the blaze wbb out.
"Well done," said the president
and the entire party left the house
for tho automobiles. The chief of
the local fire department was just ar
riving with his hook and ladder and
other apparatus.
"The fire's over," announced the
president, and added, with a proud
smile, "my men have just put it out."
Judgo Neville and his son came
running up at that moment and a big
crowd collected. The judge was pro
fuso in liis thanks and spoke appre
ciatively of the president's thought
ful concern for Mrs. Neville.
Tho president took no motor ride
in tho afternoon, resting after his ex
ertions at golf. Ho enjoyed the
change in the temperature and was
enthusiastic about the links which lie
along the shore of tho gulf. The
president dictated a fo wletters and
read scores of telegrams that poured
in, congratulating him on tho enact
ment of tho currency hill. Tie took
a nap during the afternoon and again
spent the evening with his family.
PARDON MILL STILL GRINDS.
?
Another Man-Killer Turned Loose l?y
Governor Illceso.
James f). Relglor, tho well known
white farmer of Alkon county, who
Rhot and killed Officer Patterson on,
tho streets of Alkon and was tried in
Juno of last year, found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to seven
years In tho penitentiary, wan Friday
afternoon paroled hy Governor Hlonso
on condition of good behavior, fiolg
ler was paroled during October to let
him go homo and try and save his
property, which was being sold under
foreclosure of mortgage. Ho is Raid
to have been worth $00,000 before
his trouble, but It. Is stated that, his
trial cost him tho larger portion of
his wealth. Ho returned to the peni
tentiary on tho 1st of December to
resume his sentence.
KITjTjINO IN HARN WKIili.
?.
Woman h Accusal of Rhootlng
Young Mnrrloil Man.
News of tho killing of Angus
Main, In tho section of Tiarnwoll
county known as Mlxson Corner,
reached Allendalo Thursday. No
pnrtloulnrs are obtainable except ho
was shot about. 10 o'clock Wodnes-|
day night, while on his way homo
from Fairfax. A woman by the namo
of Mlxson Is said to bo accused.
Main was a young marrlod man of
good standing. Ho was a farmer and
lived about seven miles from Fairfax.
Ho leaves a wife and five children.
Mania for Hotting Flro?.
Herbert Whlttakor, a nineteen
year-old boy of Qulncy, Mass., was
held on his confession that ho had sot
flro to seven buildings within two
days. Tho youth's foster parents say
ho has had a mania for setting flros
since ho saw his father and mothor
perish In flamos that destroyod tholr
homo eight years ago.
ANXIOUS TO OBEY LAW
CORPORATIONS WOULD COX
FORM WITH LAW.
Wilson Says He Is Willing to I>o All
Ho Can, But Is Insistent That
Statute be Obeyed.
President Wilson let it bo known
Monday that some other corporations
besides the American Telephone and
Telegraph company hijd shown a dis
position to take the Initiative in re
organizations to conform with the
Sherman anti-trust law.
Department of justice officials de
clare that every day representatives
of business concerns are calling to
lep.rn what they can or can not do
under the law. While ofllcials stated
emphatically that prosecutions would
not be discontinued where they were
warranted, co-operation would bo us
ed wherever possible to secure an ob
servance of the law. It became
known that the department is at
work on plans submitted by other
corporations for friendly settlements. I
Just which ones they are was not |
divulged.
The president did not specify what
corporations he referred to, though
in lh(orinal discussion of the subject]
with calTPrs, he spoke of having some
in mind. Ho reiterated that there
seemed to be a very general disposi
tion to inquire what the law was, to i
kn&w what would be expected of "big]
business" and a desire to comply
with the spirit of the law. i
Mr. Wilson mado it clear to his!
callers that it would bo the policy of!
his administration to co-operate In
every way it legitimately could to I
brin? about a satisfactory under
staivl'nc of the law by the business
men nf t he country, and the execu
tive departments did not expect to
raise harriers against thoso who
wanted to obey the law. The presi
dent pointed out that the attorney
general would co-operate and hearti
ly desired and welcomed the impulse
on the part of business to take the
initiative.
The president indicated In his
manner of discussion that he hoped
the government had shown by exam
ple in tho American Telephone and
Telegraph settlement what might be
expected as tho future course of his
administration. lie has been confer
ring with congressional leaders on
the anM-trust subject and will read a
special message to congress after he
returns from his vacation, In which
he will point to tho necessity of a
rigid enforcement of tho Sherman
law and will endeavor to make clear
the interpretation of that statute
which tho department of justice will >
follow. Some Btatemont on the BubV'
ject may be mado when the proal-f
dent signs tho currency bill.
A note of confidence that the buB- 1
lness men of the country will co-|
operate with tho government In se
curing a compliance with the Sher
man law is expected to bo Bounded
in the president's remarks. He will
indicate tho manner In which the ad
ministration will approach tho sub
ject and express his realization of
the delicacy of the task and the nec
essity for cautious and careful treat
ment of It because of its Intimate re
lation to tho business conditions of j
tho country. I
Tho president learned from the]
conferees early Monday that a satis
factory agreement had been reached
on tho currency bill. He expressed
bis gratification that tho organiza
tion committee has been retained as
provided in tho House bill because
It gave tho president CO days to bo
loct members of tho federal reserve
board while tho organization commit
tee was making its investigations.
Tho president has been consulted on I
the telephone by tho conferees and
Indicated to them his approval of the
way tho bill had finally been complet
ed.
in'KRTA CLAIMS MILLION.
Mexican Resident. Says Ho fan Secure
That Many Soldiers.
Replying to a letter sent him by
tho correspondent of tho Frankfurter
Zeitung, a German newspaper, Pres
ident lluorta Raid that If It should bo
come necessary l,e could put Into Bor
vlro Immediately moro than 1,000,
000 nrmod men. This statement he
explained as follows:
"Without counting tho 150,000
men of tho national army, tho gov
ernment. In agreement with various
states of tho republic havo organized
nn armed forco for tho local service
of 1,800 men for each state. Also
tho government has arranged with
52.000 haclenoados (farmers) tha:
they keep ten armed workmon oac.h
for their own protection.
"Thus, then, tho government
counts upon t'io number of armed
men aggregating seven hundred nnri
some thousand without taking Into
conslderntton tho reserves, which to
tho number of 300,000, could bo or
ganized If tho peac.o of tho country
should he disturbed."
Iilllo<1 Near Former Wlfo.
Daniel do Vllllers, of Han Antonio.
Tex., was shot and klllod oarly
Thursday by Hoy L. Olovor, a
wealthy land ngont, who eamo to
Los. Angeles, Cal., two months ago
with the mother of Do Vllllers' chil
dren. Tho shooting occurred In tho
doorway of tho Olovor home, where
Do Vllllers called In an effort to see
his former wife.
Two Neiv Ilurnl llouto*.
Two additional froo dollvory routes
will be established January 1 froti
Hnmberg, to bo known as Routes 3
and 4. Route 3 will be twenty-two
miles long, and will servo ono hun
dred and twenty-six famlllos. Route
4 will bo twenty four miles long and
will reach ono hundrod and fifteen
families.
THEY FOUND HIM DEAD
NEGRO'S BODY DISCOVERED IN
WOODS NEAR CADES.
Had Shot Another Man in Crap Game
nnd His Wife ? Supposed to Have
Committed Suicide.
After shooting Jim Witherspoon,
near Cades several days ago during a
crap game dispute, and later sending
a bullet entirely through his wife's
body, Laurenco White, alias "Poor
Pig", a negro of Cades, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the temple. His body was found
?about two miles below Cades, where
jt had lain probably there days, with
h 3S-callbro revolver by his side.'
"Mthough bearing a serious wound, j
White's wife does not soom to suffer j
ihuch and is going about, while the
doctors look on In amazement. With
erspoon was taken to Florence for j
treatment.
For several days after shooting j
Witherspoon White evaded the ofii
Vers of the law. but returned to his!
vwife and shot her through the body. |
<he ball entering near tho stomach I
and coming out in the back. White's
wife says he then took a shot at him- '
self, but missed, made some threats,
then escaped. Since then his body
was found two miles below Cades,
near the roadside, with a bullet in his
temple. The coroner's jury gave a!
verdict of suicide.
While engaged In a crap game with
Witherspoon and others, it is said, he I
was abused, but without saying much
In reply whipped out his revolver and
shot Witherspoon near the groin, ex
amination showing tho ball embed
ded in the thigh bone. While tho
officers of tho law were on the look
out for him he went to his home, and
bis wife says he wanted her to go
with him to his hiding place in a bay
near by, and that on her refusal he
told her he would kill her there and
then. She says he shot her through
the body and then took a shot at his
own head, missed and went back to
his hiding place.
Sheriff Graham was sent for, and
with two bloodhounds and twenty
five white and colored men tho hunt
was begun. The trail was was read
ily taken and the dogs pave solemn
music, while some of tho men fol
lowed in fear and trembling through
the thick undergrowth. Soon the
trail came out tho bay to a negro
house and was lost.
Tlireo days afterward White's body
was found one milo from tho bay
near tho roadside, his head resting at
the foot of and In between two little
oak trees, a pistol ball in his temple
and powder burns on his face. Ho
"Avas begun. Tho rtaln was read
Across hla stomaoh and his pistol by
his Bide. His hat brim stfowed his
wife's statement to be correct, for
there was a bullet hole in the front
and very near the head.
SACK OF MAIL LOST.
Mysteriously Disappears From Crane
at Gaffney Depot.
C.affney post offico officials and em
ployees of the Southern Railway at
that point are anxiously wondering
what became of a sack of mall sup
posed to leave Gaffney last Friday
night on northbound train No. 30.
The sack was closed up at the usual
hour at the post ofHce and turned
over to the railroad later being
hung up on tho ernne for northbound
troin No." 30, at 9:45 o'clock. Tho
station agent saw the sack hanging
on the crano only ten minutes before
are arrival of the train, but when tho
train reached thoro the sack was gono
and has not been Been or heard of
since.
A thorough investigation has been
made by tho post office officials, as
sisted by tho railroad, but so far
there has been absolutely no clue as
to what became of the sack. When
asked whether or not It con
tained any valuables, post office offi
cials said that there were no regis
tered letters or money orders in that
mall, but It Is, of course, Impossible
to estimate what, the loss of somo of
tho letters may moan.
SMALLPOX IN SCHOOLS.
Florence Commissioners Oloso School
and Vaccinate Pupils.
A caso of smallpox was diagnosed
on one of the pupils of the Florence
graded schools Sunday. A meeting of
tho board of commissioners after con
sultation with tho president of tho
local board of health. It was ordered
that tho schools be closed until Mon
day, January G, 1914. In the mean
time all pupils of tho schools, white
and colored, will ho vaccinated. None
will bo permitted to re enter school In
January unless they have been suc
cessfully vaccinated. The school
buildings aro being fumigated by tho
board of health. The school bosrd
took this action to prevent any out
break.
Old Mnn LYemated.
Robort R. Lee, 70 years old, caro
tnker for Joseph H. Hollars, of White
I'lnlns, N. Y., was burned to death
Saturday night when tho Hollars'
place, near (Jroonsborofl N. C., was
destroyed by flro. Neighbors attempt
ed In vain to rescue Lee, but 'he
heat drove them back. ?
Madison Klwtrmut<Ml.
Nineteen days after tho murder of
F. Potyon Host, a merchant of Harn
well, Scott Madison, a negro, Mon
day morning paid tho penalty for his
crlmo by electrocution at the State
penitentiary.
Tlireo Killed nt. CYosslng.
Two men and ono boy worn killed
at a grade crossing at Hammonton,
N. J., Wednesday whon a Reading
Railway oxpross train struck a wag
on and demolished l<?
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
FALSE FIRE ALAR STARTS A
CHRISTMAS STAMPEDE
SEVENTY-TWO ARE DEAD
While the Children of Calumet, Mich
igan's Striking Miners Were
Arouml Hugo Christmas Tree
Some One Maliciously Shouted
"Fire", Starting the Fatal I'anlc.
On the day Christendom has set
aside as one of rejoicing over the
birth of the Savior Calumet, Mich., i
stricken to the heart by an almost
unbelievable catastrophe, stood
mourning by the side of i ad ?
the seventy-two victims, most of
them children, of the frightful panic
on Christmas Eve in the Italian Hall. |
This panic followed a false alarm j
cry of fire during the progress of a ,
Christmas tree entertainment arrang
ed for families of thee opper strikers, j
All bitterness and ill feeling that I
has existed in this strike-ridden com- j
munity for months past is wiped
away by the one great, common af
fliction. Christmas day the people)
of Calumet only saw their neighbors,!
their brothers, their sisters and their
little children staggering under ati
almost unbearable burden of distress
and grief.
A mass meeting of Calumet citi
zens was held in the afternoon to ex
press sympathy and devise ways and
means to ameliorate the suffering
and sorrow of those families on
which the hand of death had fallen.
A committee of twelvo was appoint
ed to visit each home and ascertain
what financial assistance was needed.
Funds are assured and no outside aid
will be needed.
The accident occurred Wednesday
night while several hundred miners,
and their wives looked on, the chil
dren pressed eagerly to the stage to
receive Christmas presents. At this
point a man put his head in at the
door of the hall and yelled "Fire!"
The cry was taken up by those in
the hall. Every one started for the
doors. The weaker were thrown to
the floor, and those behind tried to
climb over those ahead of them.
The stairway, and other avenues of
egress were blocked so effectually
that those inside could not get out,
and thoso without could not get In to
aid the panic-stricken crowd in the
hall. The principal exit was a nar
row stairway at the back of the hall.
When this had been cleared of the
bodies that filled It to tho top and a
quick recounting had beon made, it
was found that seventy-two corpses
had been piled up besido tho hall
building. It Is thought that a dozen
others were carried away by friends.
Tho dead were piled up beside the
-hall included 3 7 girls, 1 J) boys, nine
women and flvo men. Excited men
and women stood about (he building,
some dazed by the sudden change
from holiday festivities to tragedy,
others calling hysterically for a miss
ing child, and a few oven threatened
violence to the resetters for keeping
them back from tho long row of
bodies.
Thoro was not much work for tho
many doctors who hurried to the
sceno as soon as tho alarm was
spread, for thoso who were not kill
ed in the first rush wero held upright
and safo by the very force of the on
rush towards tho exit. Only three
Injured persons wero taken to hos
pitals. A few went home, assisted
by friends.
For many days the children of the
copper mlno strikers had waited ex
pectantly for Christmas troo exer
cises, arranged by the Woman's Aux
iliary of tho Western Federation of
Miners. Tho entertainment was set
for tlio early evening, and tho hall,
on the second floor, soon was filled to
its limit. Children selected to recite
Christmas selections and sing carols
bad finished, and tho man selected to
play tho pnrt of Santa Claus had
prepared to distribute tho presents
that, wero piled around tho tree.
Tho aisles wero filled with tho
boys and girls, when tho man thrust
bis head In at tho door of tho main
ball way and shouted "Fire!" A wo
man near tho door realizing tho Im
port of tho act, seized tho man by
tbo shoulder.) and tried to counteract
the alarm, but her efforts wero fu
tilo. Tho man wrested blmself from
(Continued on pago two.)
ber grasp and ran away and the cry
nkc;rc> stki'xcj i;i\
?
Man Found Fnder Woman's BcmI in
Ktnto of Florida.
Henry White, a young negro, was
lynched at Campvllle, Fla., at a lato
hour Friday night after ho bad been
discovered under the bed In a young
white woman's room. Several young
men wero calling on tho young wo
man when they heard a nolso in tho
bed room. Upon Investigation tho ne
gro was found. A ropo was secured
and bo was strung up near tbo house
Tho ropo broke and tbo negro fell to
tbo ground, hut ho was promptly rid
died with bullets, his body being
found early this morning.
For Cntlln Not ll?^l>elq.
Senator Ashurst told tbo Senate
Saturday that his bill for a barbod
wlro fenco along tho Mexican border
was not designed to stop Incursions
of rebels In American territory, but to
keep out Mexican cattle lnfocted with
ticks ?
Yields to Dentil.
Slimmer A. Cunningham, aged 70.
author. Journalist, publisher, former
Confederate and since 1803 editor
and proprietor of Tbo Confederate
Veteran, died at Nashville Saturday
night at (?:30 o'clock. ?
FIGHT FOR THE FARMER
LEVER GETS HOI SK TO ACCEPT
S E \ A TE AMENDMENT.
Action Guarantees That the Amond
nient Scoured in Senate by Senator
Smith Will Heroine I J* w.
Representatives Lever and Crisp
came strongly to tho rescue of tie
farmers Saturday In the House when
Mr. Lever, after agreement with Mr.
Crisp, moved to instruct the House
conferees to agree to those Senate
amendments to tho currency bill
which provided that notes, drafts and
bills drawn or issued for agricultural
purposes having a maturity not ex
ceeding six months, may be discoynt
ed and extending tho provisions or
the bill in reference to loans on farm
lands from one to five years*.
Messrs. Lever and Crisp both,
fought hard for the provisions in th
House bill but w<?re defeated, but
they took advantage of the parlia
mentary situation Saturday to fovc<
the House to agree with them with ::
view of placing the papi-r of t'??
farmer on the same foot:n^r wit)
paper Issued from any other source
and at the same time putting a lon?e:
limit upon loans upon farm land
The action of tho South Carolina a.-"'
Georgia congressmen Saturday mn'r.> s
certain that tho farmers of the coun
try will be as fully protected in th>
currency bill as will other people.
Tho point raised by them proved to
bo tho vital proposition considered hy
the House and to their efforts and un
derstanding of the parliamentary sit
uation tho victory of the fanners is
duo.
It was extremely graHfy'nlr to S
ator Smith of South Carolina, w
had made tho fl^ht in the Smate !*<<?
the extension of loans to farnnu
that even though the House d'snurce '
to most of tho Senate amendmi nts it
mado an exception with regard to
two, and Instructed the eonfere, * te
vote for his particular amendment.
This action guarantees their ret en
tion in tho bill.
Senator Smith said S:\lurdav
night: "In view of Ihe aciion of tie
Senate and House it has at last 'rotv.e'
to pass that the farmers are beinc
heard and their rights respected ;v
they slioutVl he. It is not. a question]
as to whether or not it is convenien'
for legislators to so frame logi>latien
as to lncludo the Cannot s, it H a
(litestion of a fundamental duty that
of all those engaged In the different
industries of this country the fanner.
should havo extended to them every !
encouragement and aid that can he]
given them legitimately.
- "The farmers have a right to de
mand it, and they aro now getting in
a position where they can demand it.
They rightly havo iho first claim to
financial legislation, for the entire
world is first dependent upon them.
Tho two features of this bill, allow
ing tholr notesT bills and drafts to be
subject to rediscount for reserve
money, and the admitting of real
estate as a collateral in tho national
banks, place them in a position where
with tho same economy and thrift
that characterize most of them, they
can realize a profit at tho end of the
year as others do and not disappoint
ment as they have been accustomed
to."
ADOPT I1Y1 CMOS' SC III.MK,
i
House Oonimitteo A gives to South
Carolinian's IMnn.
The pood roads conunittoo of (ho
House, after conducting hearings for
several weeks, has appointed a sub
committee to draft and report the bill
embodying tho views of the commit
tee. The subcommittee lias boon in
structed by tho whole committee, to
include in tho first section tho plan
similar to that introduced by Repre
sentative Byrnes of South Carolina,
providing for co-operation between
tho federal government and tho
states In tho building and mainte
nance of roads and to have Section
contain practically the provisions of
tho Shackloford bill of last Fusion.
Section 3 will provide that tho states
may elect under which section th'-y
shall receive federal aid. Mr. Hyrnos
says that, an appropriation of $'.'0,
000,000 will be asked for.
* Wreck Injures Nineteen.
Nineteen persons wero Injured,
four seriously, in tho wreck of Texas
& Pacific, passenger train No. ?, , west
bound, r,0 miles oast of '1 Paso, Tex,,
Saturday. Doctors find ?urges wont
on a relief train nnd tho injured
carried to El Pnso. *
i TURNS HIM LOOSE
I SPARTANBURG MURDERER GETS
A PARDON IN FULL
| KILLED MARRIED WOMAN
Was Tried fur lli* Crime and Al
though Keprcscnted by I /earned
I.c^al Talent lie Hecelved Death
Sememe. Which Was Later Com
muted hy (iincrniir Mease.
.h"> !\it. the convicted murderer
? i p.M-i Hoi ' ?' r , a white man. who
? i- I '.or.ed Monday by the gov
arrived in Spartanburg; Mon
!.:? ? . ;,t :.i. i i s at tlte homo of hl8
? . !'.? v met at the train by
. ?in r a " I brother, Jack Hates,
?* ' ?? : ..%?> b ? ? < a untiring iu their ef
? ? >5 to 'v.\e a pardon granted, and
.!>??! ? - v. i ? at one time a polico
?? "i - i ?:> ".r. inif:;. He was con*
? ? ! a ;i ;i d sentenced to
1 a; ; 1 ? : > ? r many delays his sen
? ?? -a. commuted to life impris
? ? n ?.jit coventor, who
. ? : ? \..n a lull pardon. Mrs.
' - i ;i.;, ] ' v; years, wife of
J. K. 1 * ? ? : i = ? t ? . a farmer living near
i ' ut was shot at and instantly
? by .loo P.a'es. a former polico
? er. but at tho time of the crimo a
o-' :bo , chainunng, on Sun
: ,y r;o!"i m.', \uuust 1009, at
' 1 : " t a: t' o h. me of W. H. fox, 10S
u ;?>?< ' .
M ?:< ?> Ci\ . the eiuht-year-old
<'o\. who was stand
t: ? w it 't I j < ? r little baby sister in
a: ::"- v a! <> shot by Hates and
? w <e tided. Hates was caught
?i t'.e t.'.liwa;. <>f the bouse by Mr.
v 1" ' ? o !?.<? i .uhl jzet away and
; 1 . . 1 1 ;:r il tin* police officers ar
!\ ? h ? *? I oeUman. Cudd, (lash
v..! Croi at rived and took charge
t es. who \v;i ?< carried at once to
|'!;o ( tuutv jail and turned over to
:T W '? i'e.
When t T ? < * case against Hales was
in t!.o ?.'??noral sessions court
'? r 0( ;<?!?<?!*, ! :?e:i. he wiu^ represent
? ! v b i ,, Miw^fa nd it was one
, the b.a.nb'.-t fonrht legal battles
\. .? waged in the Spartanburg
. "'Mty court room. Tho principle
' ;'t "? > for Halt ?? was a idea of in
iui'v. l!e was convicted nnd sen
1 < : ? ? 1 1 o h an appeal to the au
pr>*;ne court was made without buc
< and af:<~r two years confinement
in t lie county Jail the governor com
muted his sentence from death to life
imprisonment. Tho pardon restores
| his citizenship.
The Spartanburg Journal tells tbo
fallowing rtnry of the tragedy for
wh'eh notes wan convicted:
Docia Hoiter, until a few weeks
previous to the shooting, was Docla
Moore. She lived with .Too Bates at
his hoi;n' at No. 100 Thompson street
as his housek coper and alleged para
nmiir. She had lived with him for
about two years. when a month pre
vious s'.p l"ft him and married J. R.
I'olt'-"-. Since tho marriage it wai
thought that Hates was crazed with
jealousy. It is said that just 'before
she left him. the Moore woman sold
a con- Hates had and a number of
household articles. For this Rates
had a v nmnt sworn out for her ar
rr.ef. but before the rase bad been
ta'.'-'u up the woman was dead.
Mr. and Mrs. I loiter were coming
to Mr. C i < \ ' s louse to spend the day.
1 As ti y ri' ip d t he house. Hates was
in tl.e rend, so was Mr. Cox and his
, ron Wi'liam. I' it"S said to Mrs.
I'f-itcr that lie would put "them to
; ?' e had", and followed them to Cox's
I hoi; e. Wl.in Mr.-, P.oifer got. out
i of 'lie hu: "".' Hates followed her to
ward the lieu Suddenly ho loft
' !?< r and ? a-c d around to tho front
' ef t'ie h'd'diri". He entered tho front
I ? Mr?. I'.oJter entered tho back
I
Mr i. !',..1for too'; hold of the hand
.of ](:?''? >-:? M-y<<nr-oh| Mamie Cox
land \ ;i = in the n't of placing a ring
mi !' r r 'i ? uh'ii l'.atos fired upon
l'"r from ill |<mr of the back porch.
'I'll v. shots entered Mrs. Bolter's
body on ti:" h -ft sid", one ball broke
i i r :iito i t throe nlnees, tho other
!i;'t f"t< : (d her r i rli t temple. Rho
? 'I'd a'rpo- t instantlv and as sbo foil
- in- ? ? ? < ' ; ? i r i ? ? I : "Oli! my Cod." Tbo
hill that broke Mrs. Bolter's arm is
?Hjil'o.-ed to have entered tho body of
tilth- Mamie Cot. dangerously
wounding her.
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