Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CONFIRM STONE - FOR JUDGESHIP 8ENATE TO CON8IDER CHARLES B. WARREN A8 SUCCESSOR TO ATTORNEY GENERAL. Washington. ? After nearly a month's delay the senate confirmed the nomi nation of Attorney General Stone to be a Justice of the supreme court. Action was taken after further dis cussion of both the Wheeler and Own bey cases, around which the opposition centered. The action clears the way for con sideration by the Judiciary committee of the nomination of Charles B. War ren, of Michigan, to succeed Mr. Stone as attorney general. The sub-commit tee headed by Senator liorah, republi can, Idaho, has reported the nomina tion back to the whole committee without recommendation after axaml nation of the record In the sugar trust investigation conducted by Congress 12 years ago. The vote confirming the Stone nom ination was 71 to 6 with most of the friends of Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, voting for confirmation. Senators voting against ;he nomina tion were Frazier, North Dakota, and Norrls, Nebraska, republicans; lleflin, Alabama, and Trammell, Florida, dem ocrats, and Johnson and Shipstead, farmer-labor Minnesota. Senator Wheeler, himself, and his counsel, Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, withheld their votes. While voting for Mt Stone's confir mation, Senators liorah, republican, Idaho, and Jleed, democrat, Missouri, voiced a protest against the proposi tion of the federal government exer cising the right to choose the place of trial of an accused, as has been done In the case of Senator Wheeler and other citizens of Montana in an action now being pressed in the dis trict of Columbia. Ousley Heacfs Agricultural Workers. Atlanta. ? Election of officers and ad dresses on agriculture marked the closing session of a two days meeting of the Association of Southern Agri cultural Workers here. Clarence Ous ley of New Orleans, secretary and man. ager of the National Boll Weevil Control association, was elected presi dent. Other officers chosen are: Dr. An drew M. Soule, pesident of the Georgia State College of Agriculture, vice pres ldent; H. W. Barre, director of the South Carolina experiment station at Clemson college, re-elected secretary. Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the University of Tennessee, was named on the executive committee. Law Exonerates Giant Players. New York. ? Three New York Giant players ? Frankle Frisch, Ross Young and George L. Kelly ? named by Jim my O'Connell as implicated in his at tempt to bribe Heinle Sand, Philadel phia National shortstop, were exoner ated completely by Assistant District Attorney George N. Brothers, in a re port made to District Attorney Banton after the stated investigation of the scandal. The assistant district attorney con tends that O'Connell may be guilty of n violation of the penal lnw governing auch cases, by virtue of his own testi mony and the testimony of Sand. Yeast King Dies on Polo Field. Miami, Fla. ? Julius Flelshmann, millionaire philanthropist and sports man, president of the Fleischmann company, said to be the largest yeast manufacturers in the world, died sud flenly at Miami Beach, while playing polo. Death was believed to have been caused by a sudden attack of either acute heart trouble or apoplexy brought on by the violent exercise. For several years Mr. Fleischmann had been a winter visitor to Florida and ho had developed an Intense In terest In polo. Ho maintained a polo stable here and took an active part In the game despite the fact that he was! Jn his fifty-third y<>ar and weighed 200 pounds. Constitutional Convention. Carson City, Ncv.- A resolution ask ing (Congress to call a constitutional convention lo consider a modification of the prohibition amendment was adopted unanimously by the Navadu state senato. Two to Be Behrsded. Hanover, Germany.? The court ol appoals has rejected the appeal ol Hans Grans, accomplice of Frledrlch Harman, known as the "Human Vain plre," convicted of the murder of 2d persons, mostly yong men . Both men will bo beheaded shortly Thousands of Sheep Drown. Va4e, Ore. ? Jxjss estimated at about J&frO.OOO was caused by a flood at Val? and surrounding country In the Mai hour river valley and along Bully craek, when the Bully creek Irrigation irfam, 19 miles west of here gave way, releasing about 10,000 acre feet of fwater. It was estimated that nearly a, 000 sheep, 700 hoad of cattle, and a number of horses and dogs were frowned. Several small dAiry herds rwoni wiped out entirely, and more than 80 mllaa of fence was No loaa of life was report ? l WOMAN KILLED AND 20 INJURED IN WRECK. Memphis, Tenn. ? One , passenger was killed and about twenty other persons were Injured when the St. Louis-San Francisco passenger train No. 104, the Memphis Express, northbound, was derailed several miles north of Wiufield, Alabam, ac cording to dispatches received here. A baggage car, two day coaches and two sleepers were re ported to have left the rails and overturned. A relief train with surgeons and nurses was sent from Amory, Miss., and the injured were taken to that city for emergency treatment, but it ' was stated that most of he In jured were brought to Memphis hos pitals. A broken rail is Bald to have caused the wreck.. SIX PERSONS DIE IN FIRE: 4-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING 3URNS; ANOTHER LARGE STRUCTURE RUINED. Chicago. ? Six persons wero burned to death and half a dozen others were injured, one probably fatally, In a fire which virtually destroyed a four story brick apartment building on the South side housing 34 families. Another fire did damage estimated at several hundred thousand dollars, attacking the railway Terminal Ware house Company, a mammoth seven story structure where liquor valued at several thousand dollars was destroy ed. One family was wiped out in the j fire. Anthony Hardie. his wife and I their 19 months old daughter, Doris, perished. The other victims were Mrs. Elizabeth Prior, her daughter, Le retta 16, and Mrs. Dora Jones. While it is believed all the victims have been accounted for. firemen still searched the ruins. Several persons were carried from the burning building by students of the University of Chicago, which is nearby. Three investigations of the fire j were started, one directed by Coro ner Oscar Wolff, the second by James Dcnohue, flre attorney, and the third by the police. The flames, which had gained head way on lower flooi^ when discovered spread through the old building so rapidly that many of its tenants were forced to jump into nets to save their lives while others crawled from win dow to window to adjoining buildings j on boards placed on the sills. Vote to Suppress Vatican Embassy. Paris, ? Suppression of the French embassy to the Vatican was voted by the Chamber of Deputies, 314 to 250. It was the realization of part of the program upon which the left groups of radical Socialists wore elected May 11 and which Premier Herrlot, refus ing to accept advice from self-termed well-wishers, or bitter criticism from his avowed political opponents, car ried through with firm determination, "for the Interest of ?'rance." The Chamber's party lines stood out well defined, the majority following M Herrlot solidly. The Premier pacified the opposi tion of the Alsace Larraine deputies by giving an official understanding that a diplomatic agent would be maintained at the Vatican to repre sent the recovered provinces. The measure must be passed by the Seuate before it becomes final. Employes Get $439,000. Yonkers, N. Y. ? The Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet company, whose factories here cover two square miles, dltnributed the sum nf $439,000 to its fi,974 employes. It was the twenty eighth semi-annual bonus paid by the company since its inauguration of its profit-sharing policy in June, 1911. Baptlftt M<;et in Memphis. Memphis. Leading Ikiptlst minis ters, educators and editors from all parts of the south will attend the an nual convention of the Southern Hap tist Education association here Febru ary 3-5. Many prominent Baptists are expected to deliver addresses. The subjects announced were confined principally to problems being encoun tered by. those in charge of the church colleges. Meet Thursday, Wed Friday. Rocky Mount. N C. Introduced at 12:30 last Thursday afternoon en gaged that evening and married be ( fore 1 30 Friday afternoon is the his tory of the whirlwind romance of Vic- | tor O. Snyder, traveling man, of Kan j sns City, and Miss Elizabeth Cox, of this city, who were married last Fri day at Nashville. Mrs. Harding'* Estate Is $334, RR4. Marlon, Ohio. The estate of the late Mrs Warren (} Harding was apprals ed at $334, SS4 90 according to a state mnnt filed for probate. The hulk of Mrs Harding's wealth was In stocks and bonds. They have a value of $210,330 She had real estate holdings valued at $85,000. MoneyR In banks and building and loan associations amounted to $36, 717.32; certificates of deposits $1,1, ? 3?7 f>R and one outstanding note of $500. UNIVERSITY POISON PLOT BEING PROBED POISON PROBABLY INTENTION ALLY PLACED IN MEDICINE FOR COLD. Columbus, Ohio. ? Definite (race of strychnine, found in the stomach of David I. Pulsken, of Canton. Ohio. Ohio State university student, who died suddenly Sunday, strengthened the belief of university officials that sudden death of Pusken and another student in the past four days, and the violent illness of other students, was due to poison probably inten tionally placed in medicine for colds prescribed on the campus. As a result, university officials turned the official investigation of the situation over to Columbus police authorities They promptly placed every facility of the institution at the disposal of the police and pledged their heartiest co-operation. President \V. O. Thompson, after is suing a statement insisting that there was no cause for alarm, did these things: Ordered a complete chemical analy sis of all remaining medicine of the kind Issued to the students affected. Ordered that all further issuance of such medicine remaining in the college of pharmacy dispensary where it was | made up should cease. The police questioned Dean E. F ! McCampbell, of the college of medi cine, George D. Thompson, of Canton, the last student taken violently ill, and arranged to question all students in the college of pharmacy who have been on duty in the dispensary in the last two weeks. Discovery of definite traces of stry chnine in the stomach of Pusken made it certain that the poison was Involved fh at least three of the live or six more serious cases which have devel oped. But chemical tests of nearly two-thirds of the capsules issued for treatment of colds failed to reveal any i trace of the poison except in one cap- | sule. This capsule, one of a number j issued to Timothy J. McCarthy, of i Fremont, Ohio, varsity football player, I last week, was said to contain nothing '? but poison. It is believed to have j been a similar capsule which caused | McCarthy to become violently ill. Missing Girl's Body Located. 1 Los Angeles, Calif. ? Indications tlmt May and Nina Martin, aged 12 and [ eight years, respectively, who disap peared from their home here August 23 last and whose bodies were found j in a shallow brush pile grave In one of the suburbs, had been attacked and then slain, were revealed by deputy sheriffs. First examination of the bodies did not disclose any marks of violence hut Ihe clothing of both had been considerably torn and a shoe was missing from the smaller girl's foot. The bodies lay face downward, bad ly decomposed, in a hollow covered by j hastily gathered brush not far from a pit where searchers last summer dis covered the remains of men of the j pleistone age. The coroner took charge of the | hodies and at his instruction the coun- , ty autopsy surgeon will hold a post ( mortem examination to determine, if, possible, the xau?e of death. Forbes Denies Guilt. Chicago. ? Charles R. Forbes, former head of the veterans bureau, and John j W. Thompson, wealthy St. Ixmis con- ] tractor, who were sentenced to two \ years' Imprisonment and $10,000 fine for conspiracy to defraud the govern- j nient, Issued lengthy denials of their i guilt. Forbes in declaring his entire In- j nocence o fthe charges of conspiring j with Thompson to give Thompson and his associates al the veterans bureau | hospital contracts, declared he was j the victim of circumstances and would light to the last ditch. Thompson said he was incidenaliy drawn Into the maelstrom of Mortl- | mer's hate for Forbes." Ellas H. .Mortimer, the government Informer, i and one of the alleged conspirators, ' furnished the bulk of the government's testimony upon which the jury retutn* I ed a verdict of guilty. Probe Value of Puzzle#. New York Teachers' college, of Co lumbia university, will inaugurate a series of cross word puzzle teats for ail schools iti this city to determine whether the puz/lns are a mental gain or a mental loss. If the tests are con J sUlered successful, the faculty will make an effort to have a systematic! study of cross word puzzle Introduced as a regular unit in all schools. Find Head ir.- Jar. Aiken A gruesome find was made by the Aiken state highway crew In the discovery of n human head sealed In a large earthen Jar near Storm Branch, close to Sycamore Bottom. I. F, Kubanks, road foreman, and his force were scouring clay to fill up holes In the road when one of the workmens shovels struck the jar which was about two feet In circum ference, and tightly ^sealed with an earthen cover. When the Jar was broken, the head, which contained hair and teeth, crumbled from exposure. TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK DURING GALE. Belfast. ? Four persona were kill ed and ten Injured when during a fierce gale a train was blown from the rails while crossing the Owen Garrow claduct. Late advices said the cars were leaning precariously against the viaduct. Only one passenger on the train escaped injury. Two of the four persons killed were Philip Boyle, lighthouse keep er on lonely Arranmoor Island, and his wife. They were taking home their son, a pi:tient in the London derry infirmary. The son escaped serious injury and was returned to the infirmary. OFFICER KILLS ALLEGED AGENT DEAD MAN SAID TO HAVE AT TEMPTED TO SHOOT UP HO TEL BEFORE DYING. Horrin, III. ? Another pistol fight stirred Herrin and when the smoke had cleared away it was found that a man representing himself as an officer seeking to arrest a klansnian had heen ! shot to death In the Lymar hotel by Policeman Rufus W hit son after the al- | leged ofTicer had wounded Policeman Sim Stephens and terrorized hotel employes. The latest affray came I while Sheriff Galligan was seeking mar- | tial law in Herrin. The dead man had given his name as Joseph Phillips and also as John son, and one said that he came from Springfield, Illinois. He was accom panied by two unidentified men, when he was slain, who escaped. Phillips wore a cap that belonged to Sheriff Galligan of Williamson county, and it was said he had called to the latter several times lately. Sheriff Galighan. who had gone to the hospital to confer with General Mack about the need of troops here, said Phillips had called frequently but did not divulge any particular business. The shooting came on the heels of the slaying of S. Glenn Young and Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who shot each other to death in the lobby of the European hotel a few days ago. As : soon as their funerals had been held and a coroner's Jury had returned a verdict that they killed each other, Sheriff Galligan requested troops be returned to Herrin to prevent a ser ious outbreak This requqjit was un der consideration when Phillips ap peared in Horrin with two companions and began a searcty for Glenn Fowler, a close friend of Young's. Phillips had made his presence known Satur day night by trying to induce the nu merous newspaper reporters here to holp him find Rohb Lizenby, a police man, averring that Lizenby had been slain by klansmen. Lizenby, who firod in the Young shooting, had tak en refuge In the Herrin jail when trouble had broken out between the Herrin chief of police and the klan. Phillips charged that Lizenby had been taken from the jail and killed. The reporters refused to Join in the search, as they said they were con vinced that Phillips and his com panions had been drinking. Phillips ' then went tc( the hotel lobby and telephoned to Glenn Fowler to come to the hotel and be arrested. He told Fowler that he was an officer named Johnson and had brought a warrant from Springfield for his arrest. Fow ler refusel to go and hung up the re ceiver. Two Die in Train Wreck. Mexico City. ? The engineer and fire man were killed and IS persons injur ed when a passenger train from Mexi co City bound for Vera Cruz was de railed ear Jalapa. The accident is said to have been due to the train's high speed while turning a sharp curve. Several of the cars ieft the track and tore down telegraph poles. Shoots Son to Death. Pittsburgh ? Albert J Tllles shot1 and killed Ills son, Albert. Jr . 18. at Ingram, a suburb, and then shot him self through the head. The father was taken to a hospital in a serious condition. Till^s and his son were alone in a room on the second floor of their homo when the shooting oc curred. Bandits Get $19,000. Mexico City. Arthur Wesley, pay master of the transcontinental oil I company, was ridded of $19,000 on the Tampico aviation field. Six masked ' bandits attacked him as he was leav ing a motor car with the pay roll to I board an airplane for the oil camp. ! Five of 'he bandits escaped in boats. Tho sixth was found half submerged in a nearby samp. The money wfts not recovered. Trend of Stock Prices Coutinue. New York The main trend of prices still Is upward an the stock market enters upon tho second month of?tho year. Most of the oil and Routh western railroad shares are at their highest prices since 1921. or longer The average of 20 leading Industrial shares which fluctuated within a range of 4 36 points during January showed a net gain of 1.41 points for the month while tho average of 20 learlng rails which moved within a radius of 3 points was only 0.15 polns abov? that at the beginning of last month. WALKS FROM JAIL AFTER SENTENCE WILLIAM COUSSINS ESCAPES IN NEW YORK; MEMBER OF CON FIDENCE GANG. New York ? William Cousins, allow ed member of the Johnny Ilumer gang of confidence man operating largely in Florida, escaped from the detention pen in the off:c?? of the United States marshal here soon after having been sentenced in fedaral court to three and a half years in Atlanta penitentiary. His escape was accomplished when five marshals entered the detention pen to subdue a rebellious prisoner. The door was left open and Coussins walk ed out. A short time earlier he had pleaded guilty to using the mails to defraud. He was alleged to have got } 15.000 in a confidence game at Orlando. Fla. Postoffice Inspector Herbert Graham said Coussins' real name was Krick Cohn. The Johnny Ilumer gang, the Inspector said, fleeces merchants by means of a wire tapping scheme. Its members are reputed to have made more than $600,000 by their recent operat ions. According to Inspector Graham. Coussins h,a?._.a long criminal record and has served time In San Quentin prison and in the Michigan city prison. He is under Indictment at Dayton. Ohio, for swindling A. A. Kihk of Ark port. N. Y., out of 132.000. There Is another indictment against him in Or lando, Fla. As Coussins is an alien. Judge Wins low ordered him deported after he had served the sentence at Atlanta Child Seven A ttemp*-4^urder. Los Angeles. ? Seven-year-old Alsn Thompson was under obsorvat ion at the psychopathic ward of the gener al hospital after an alleged attempt to kill members of the family where she was hoarding. The child is accused of mixing tyit paste and acid from a radio battery and attempting to induce severaT*-jw*1<sons to eat it. When they refused she attacked Maxine Platte, aged six, and slashed her wrists with a safety razor blade. Officers said that the child admitted the charge and that she explained, "1 guess 1 did iot because I am so mean." Alsa is said to have told police that she killed her twin sisters with ground glass two years ago while liv ing In Dauphin, Mantioba, Canada, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rus sell Thompson. Investigators were inclined to view skpetieally that angle of the child's purpored confession. but admitted themselves puzzled by the fact that she is unusually precocious, having reached the eighth grade in school while still of a kindergarten age. Sea Island Cotton Passes Out. Washington. ? Discontinuance of the official standards of the United States for sea island cotton was announced by Secretary Gore of the department of agriculture. Lack of demand for the standards and scarcity of cotton from which to make copies were the reasons given. Because of the boll weevil, the state ment said, virtually no sea island is grown in this country although for many yer.rs regarded as the best pro duced. The cotton formerly grown in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia. In 1923 a crop of only 785 bales was reported and none was reported In 1921 Cotton breeders of the depart* ment of agriculture are undertaking developments of quicker fruiting of sea island in the hope that it may be grown profitably despite the boll weevil Fire Leaves Families Homeless. Portsmouth, Va Light families were made homeless and more than 500 school children were endangered at the St. Matthew's apartment house at. 814-16 Green street The building and contents were dest royed Of the lfi apartments In the building, eight wero occupied The entire Portsmouth fire department was called to fight the (Ire which fdr a tlm * threatened to spread to the schol oand other buildings close by. Seek Girl Smokers For Fire. Chicago. Two young women, rep resented as addicted to the use of clg arettes, were sought to be finest ioned In connection with the apartment house fire whi'h caused woven deaths In the University of Chicago dis':\'t last, week According to witnesses, they were seen in a nearby hotel short after the fire, the only ones among a group of refugees from the building who were fully clothed Atlanta Slayer Given Life Term. Atlanta, < i i. -Claude A Itoark, who several w -ks ago shot and killed Miss Vena M .ore, as she was at work in a local Western Union office, was sen tenced to life Imprisonment after a consent verdict had been taken in Fill ton superior court. No intimation that such a step would bo taken had been given previously by either state or defense attorney* and only a few minutes before Roark expressed the opinion he would be found guilty and given the death sen ten** Sick (or Ten Years Gained 60 Pounds by UseofPE-RU-NA Read This Mr. John Wick No matter how long you have been sick or how much you have suffered, you must not give up hope. Mr. John Wick, of Mono monee l'alls, Wisconsin, did not and is a well man today. In Sep tember, 1918, he wrote : "I have been a user of Pe-ru-na for near ly twenty years. I had catarrh of the stomach for ten years. Noth ing did me any good. I grew worse until a friend advised me to try Pe-ru-na. While using the first bottle, I felt I had found the right medicine. I am entirely cured. My weight was down to 135 pounds and now I weigh 195 pounds. I have used very litt4o medicine for the last ten years." The condition known as catarrh al is not confined to the nose and throat. It may be found wherever there are mucous membrances and is responsible for a multitude of troubles. Coughs and colds arc catarrhal as well as stomach and bowel disorders. Do as John Wick did. Keep Pe ru-na in the house. It stimulates digestion, aids in throwing off the poisonous secretions, cnriches the blood, increases the resistance to disease and promotes good health generally. Insist upon having genuine Pe ruana in either tablet or liquid form. Your dealer has it. Quick Rtlitl I A pleaiant effective ? VTup, k 35c and 60c iUcs ^ And externally, uie PISO'S . Throat and Cbetl W Salve. 35c Some Kiaser "Klslo says tluit I'm the first man who has ever kissed her." "You hie hooh, why I've kissed her a hundred times," "Well, the statement still stands."-? Dirge. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relict B ELL-ANS i 25$ AND 75$ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Not "Or," but "And" ! A university president was cotnphrin . Ing about tlie worship ? < f wealth that has seemed to characterize our time. "A young man," he sal'l, "asked me which was the moco estimable, riches or brains. * 1 "'{'.rains,' said I, 'of course, but It j sometimes seems as if in these times the only way for a man to convince i people he has bra.n; is to tret riches!'" /""> -facts about IT ba< bo*n proven conpln?lvel? lhat mneh of th? ?i?ff??rlnir, pnin and dr??d ?*p?rl enc*d during rrprrtanr u. ? ? well *? ?t ehild-birlh in entfrHy unmicaiiary. An eminent phyiileinn, I)r. J. H. TIolm?l, expert In thU science, flrit produced the nut r?m?ly "Mother'a Friend," | which aldf the mimclca I ?nd tlaauea to rxpund mor? during the cnnitnnt readjuatmeht, month after ' month, rlirht up to the cl|max of rhild-birth. Mother'* Friend" la ap piled externally. Thren generation* or expectant mother* have n a e d It. | "Pal na dlaappeared In two dar? after unlnir 'Mother'* Friend,' " wrltea a tiaer. "I owe mr Ufa to 'Moth er' ? Friend,'" declare*) ?lioth?T. "Molh?r'? Frler>d" a? otir moth?m and trr?ndn?oth*r? did, *t?rt today and *T.~ perlenc* thn wonderful comfort It will glva tool, FRF.K nOOKI.RT WHU Tlr?dfl?ld Regulator Co., II* Atlanta, (J*., for /r?? booVlnt jrlvlnir many faeta ava xi expectant mothar ahoutd know. "Mothar'a Frland" U sold at all good drug atoraa ? avarvwhara. Have you RHEUMATISM Lumbago or Gout? T*k* RnKlIM ACIDR to unrnm tb?cao?? ?nit drlvA thn potion f roan th? irium. "Mlt liuni OR TUB IKBIDI rirm ihiuiitiiii ok tki ornin" At All OrogftUta Ju. Bkfly A Sm, WUkuU DIiMUImi R?IHmnf?, Md.