The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 03, 1912, Image 1
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DID THEID WODK
ELECTION PROBERS FIND SOME
1UEGAL VOTES '
IN ANDERSON COUNTY
j —•—
Is That County the Investigation De
veloped Seven Hundred Duplica
tions and Three . Hundred Illegal
Votes. — Hearing In Anderson
Thursday Probably Ends the \\ ork,
A letter to The News and Courier
from Anderson says at the hearing
^eld there on Thursday by the sub
committee of the Democratic State
executive committe about the thou
sand votes cast in Anderson County
In the primary election of August 27
were questioned. Members of the
audience undertook l>y their com
ments and otherwise to give a hu
morous turn to the proceedings.
There were only about one hundred
persons present. It has been sug
gested rather freely in advance of
the meeting in Anderson that Chair
man Stevenson and his committee
would find it unhealthy to go there;
but, of course, they went, and they
are in n\> respect whatsoever the
worse for their going.
The audience, indeed as has been
stated, managed to extract a consid
erable amount of entertainment out
of the developments as they went
along, and then, too, Mr. John T.
Duncan appeared and the crowd was
permltt-d to hear his charges of Im
proper use of money in inducing a
Duncan supporter to forsake the Dun
can standard for $2 per day and
work for Judge Jones. The argu
ments that Duncan offered, as to why
the committee should pay his ex
penses there, were also edifying and
Interesting.
ADMITS HIS GUILT
VAUGHN CONFESSES HIS AWFUL
CROCKS FREELY•
PRIMARY PRODEDS
MAKES RAPID PROGRESS IN TBjEHi
INVESTIGATION /
THtJRSDAT,
STv
TROOPS ORDERED OUT AT AUGUS
TA ON ACOOl NT OR STRIKE.
He Breaks Down and Tells How He
Ruined Innocent Young Girls in
the Home.
“1 am guilty of the charges against
me. I must have been tempted by
Lhe devil. If ever a, man has repent
ed for his sins that man Is me. Ev
ery night since I resigned as super
intendent of the orphan asylum I
have prayed to my ‘Maker to forgive
me. My wife and child are living
near Greenvll^ and It Is breaking
my heart to think what my child
will have to face when she grows
older.”
Such was the confession of Thyrs-
toi. U. Vaughn, former superinten
dent of the Odd Fellows Orphan
Home near Greenville S. C., made
just before departing for South Car
olina from Baltimore with Sheriff
Poole. 7
Pathos marked every faltering ut
terance of the broken man. Tears
coursed down hls cheeks and his
frame shook with emotion. Sup
ported by the strong arm of the kind
ofbeer the prisoner talked to a group
of newspaper men for some time be
fore leaving tbe city prison.
"I regret It all, regret It all,” re
peated Vaughn in dirptbs of despair.
‘ If It could only be undone,” he
welled
Vaughn seemed to Think more of
the sorrow that has come to his wife
atid daughter than of hls own aw
ful plipht.
Since early Wednesday he has
been a changed man. He broke
down completely and has been In
a Irgh state of nervousness since.
Wednesday afternoon he voluntarily
confessed to his guilt and appeared
mere composed when he had unbur-j
d< i ed his soul
Sheriff J. Perry Poole, of Green
DUNCAN MAKLHHARGES
PAST YEAR WAS NEAR EIGBTEEN
MILLION BALES
Subcommittee J^nlshes Its Work *t
/ f
Spart&nbiirg and Greenville, in
Roth ql Which Counties Irregular
ities Were Found in Several Boxes
and Illegal Voting.
A dispatch from Greenville to The
News and Courier says productive
of but meagre results In so far as
interest to the public is concerned
were the two sessions of the sub
committee of the State Democratic
executive committee, appointed for
the purpose of investigating alleged
frauds in the recent primary election
held Wednesday morning in Spar
tanburg and that afternoon in Green
ville. Detective E. S. Reed, who is
said to be operating in this section of
the State, is in Greenville, but not
withstanding the fact that Mr. B. M.
Jeffries, of the committee, moved
lo request that Mr. Reed testify if
he had anything to tell he did not
appear before the committee; neither
was he requested to appear. Chair
man Steverson ruling that th« com
mittee Had no knowledge of Mr.
Reed or his work, and that it was
not in a position to bring witness?*
lit fore it.
The net result of the meetings
Wednesday were: Hearing reports on
the counties of the Pee Dee section
Four Companies Held in Readiness.
— Strike-Breakers Attacked and
Beaten by Mob.
Upon instructions of the governor,
the Adjutant General has issued an
order to Major Levy, of Augusta, to
order out four companies of the Na-
tionaj Guard, to be held subject to
dliect orders from Mayor Barrett.
Capt. Thad Jowitt has taken the
cal! and is now assembling the men
of the four companies at the armory,
wnere they will be on duty. Any use
of the troops on the streets or on
cars will be only upon the order of
Mayor Barrett, according to a dis
patch received by The News and Cou-
riei yesterday morning at 2 a. m.
The n\ob failed to show up at the
Third Street car barn, though a squad
of policemen from the special detail
were there waiting for them, and are
still on duty at the barn. The crowd
at the power plant began to dis
perse half an hour or more ago and
at 2 o’clock only a small portion of
them were floating around in the
vlc : nity.
A strong police guard is on duty
arc und the power house and will re
main there unless removcil and ie-
placed with militia by the mayor.
o' the State, similar to those sud-
mitted Tuesday by Sub-Chairman
I. H. Bark, with substantially the
GIVEN BY THE CENSUS
dutlook WAS LEFT
fifteen cents a pound is hop
ed FOR THIS YEAR.
Slow Marketing of the Crop la Being
Urged In This State by Tboae Who
Have Given the Subject Study.
By a proper marketing of the cot-
Some Interesting Figures Issued by|^ i; price of the staple will reach 16
I certs, according to experts who have
the United State* Government in; gl4u the matter much 1hought .
Reference to the Supply and Dts-| Among the expression recently giv
er out Is one from President Dabbs
tribution of Cotton for the Year'of the State Farmers’ Union, In
which he says; “Never before cgfi I
,4%
WOMAN SUES PIGEON
CARELESSNESS.
PERFORMED OPERATION
Ending Lost August.
recall that we have had better prot-
A dispatch from Washington says of sood prices for cotbcm/
. . L . ,i Others share the opinion and some
the feautre of the census bureaus a]p forecasting a fifteen cent price
report issued Thurrday on the sup-jf or cotton. In this county the crop
ply and distribution of cotton for] Is short, as has been stated and this
tho cotton year 1912, which ended
August 31, was the Indication of
the South's growth in the cotton
spinning industry.
The amount of cotton used there
was for the first time in the history
of the Industry greater than that
is generally true throughout the
Slate. Mr. R. M. Mixson of WI1U*-
toa, S. C., urges the holding of cot
ton in the following statement:
The season is sufficiently advanced
to enable us to make k reasonably
correct estimate of yield of cotton for
used In all other states in any one] tho season of 1012-13.
yeai and the number of active spln-j My Information from every section
dies operated increased almost half of every State in the cotton belt Indl-
a million over the number operated j cates a yield from tne cotton crop
last year. |giown this year of 12,181,294 bales
The cotton growing states used 2,-jOf f»0h pounds each. The crop by
7K , .fi22 bales against 2,665,049 States is in my opinion, as follows:
PaYs in all others. The number of Bales.
For Two Years Mrs. Ginther Garries
About a Lialea Napkin a Post
Square Before She LeOras Troth,
and Then She Saes for
and Dollars Damages.
A small siztd Blease demonstra- vilU . left Wednesday afternoon with
tion also entered as a factor in re-i Vaughn and will proceed direct to
llevlng the monotony of the day. the State penitentiary at Columbia
This, howe\er. was rudely nipped in J ♦ ♦ ♦
the bud by Chairman Stevenson. The
REFUSED PAYMENT
at dUnre, however, freely and gener-
ter< d Into the proceedings.
I
<>* Account Kenderr-d by tbe Colune
Id* lUx-ortl.
o u ^ 1 y <
offering opinions, with request for
compenwatlnn, on almost any matter
in hand
Josh Ashlev and hls son in-law W Tt Columbia correspondent of
H Canfield, participated largely In Ttie \- w* and Courier sa\s Governor
the proceedings Thursday The lat- tele I, Blease itiseried In th>' ( o-
t. r. though, was denied the privilege lumbla Becord before the primary a
s’ one time of completing an P* litical advertisement, for which he
Following the adoption of a reso
lution providing for a sympathetic
strike at a monster labor meeting
held by Augusta Federation of
Ttrdes at the court house, attended
by quite 2,000 laboring men, a crowd
o.‘ union sympathizers attacked the
non-union men at the power house
at 11:30 o’clock Thursday night. A
ante result; a few Irregularities tr&1 ‘ named Cason has been badly
| shewn In Beikseloy, Marion, York beaten, and five men, who have been
Dillon and Dorchester, where It Is taken away In an automobile to be
] stated that 12.'i votes on the State |b i; t on the next train and driven from
j Mc>:et w ere placed in the county i town.
-ix and counted; the 1 disappearance I ^ * Furrow and G \\ . Peger of
of the club rolls and_ poll lists In
( rangeburg. but a statement from
County Chairman Koht. I.lde that
tl<re was apparently no fraud; re-
poits of no irregularities In Char-
le.-ton Chester, Chesterfield. Fair-
field. Kershaw, Lee, and Wllllams-
active spindles was 1 1,585,839 com
pared with 1 1,084,623 tn 1911.
The total supply of cotton for the
Alabama ..1,179,603
Arkansas 695,404
Florida .. .. 71,219
cotton year 1912 amounted to the] Georgia 2,124,067
unprecedented total of 17 672,294 1 y <0) ,| B ) aria 282,673
bales, of which 1,276,031 had been].Mississippi 865,742
held over from the previous year and \;ri r th Carolina 852,932
22.276 bales imported. This total j Oklahoma 803,604
supply exceeded last year by 3,699,- Couth Carolina 1,276,847
871 bales.
Of the total supply 6,637,671 bales
were used in this county, a quantity
greater than ever before and 10,681,-
768 bales, or more than 2,000,000 in
excess of previous records, were sent
aboard.
Tennessee 362,274
Texas 3573,758
Total 12,181,724
These figures are full and will
rather be over than under the crop.
Th< demand for cloth Is good and
Ea’es an- made at full figures
The number of spindles in other
New York, strikebreakers, were less than cotton growing states increased
stt.ouMy beaten. They nre now at aln ost 300 00# to 1 8,726,891
Ik lice barracks and say they are wll- Cotton Supply and Demand.
lint- to leave the city. The names 1 The supply and distribution of cot- hu n, 0 f the rrop w j|j 5* forced upon
ot tn.- others could not be ascertain- t... in the Cnited States. In running t i l( . niar k et November 1 and sold
ed | bt.ies, for the cotton year of 1912 aI a Barr |fjre
At I.- minutes to 12 the mayor or- wT.rh ended August 31, 1912, wlth| k-ow’ I* the time to market your
. : • ' A
. The New York World nya iCf*
Charles Glutber ot Newark, N. J.,
not only has lived for two year* vftk
& twelve-inch linen napkia Implant
ed in her side, bat Is waU
after her unusual experience to
angry about it and to aae for lld.ldd
damages. 4
The defendant Is Dr. Ckariss L. 1H, -
head of the sarglcal staff of St Mar
tin's Hospital of that city. He is one
of the most famous surgeons In the
country. He perfomod an operation
upon 'Mrs. Ginther in 1910 and sut
ured up his Incision, It Is alleged,
without making snre that all the
surgical dressings had been remoret
by his attendants.
To ho sure, Mrs. Ginther didn’t
kuow she waa carrying the napkin
about with her until two months ago.
Who would? UYs scarcely to be sup
posed that, knowing she was toting
about a foot length of linen, Inter
nally, she would let it remain where
tt was.
But she decided, after finding It
ar.d getting over her first feeling—
of amaxement—that she had suffer
ed 110,000 worth of serious dis
co nr fort.
It was a grave operation that was
performed upon Mrs. Ginther tn
1910. Dr. Ill was assisted by several
of tbe slater-nurses of 8t. Martin**,
who ore noted for their skill and
! carefulness The operation woe a
t success and after a few weeks la the
Calhoun. [ (l ' rt *d the fir*- d.-partm.-nt to me,. ompansona for previous year*. msi< f , tto> a , B | ow i y aa possible You
able and entertaining defence of
Anderson County, which, he aalfl.
hsd been disgraced by the newspa
pers
The committee Thursday ended its
Itinerary to reconvene next Monday
at noon, tn the State Library at Co
lumbia. The State Democratic com
mittee meets the next dav and to
that body the subcommittee will
make Ita report before adjourning
Some ■peclal work was apportioned
to Individual member* of the com
mittee. Messrs Blv.na and Jeffries
were appointed to visit Orangeburg
and Inquire into the reported mys-
teiious disappearance of the club
rolls and poll lists ft t* likely that
these gentlemen will confer with
Chairman Robert I.lde Mr Bark
was instructed to take up Greenwood
aud Mr Butler to gather up the docu
ments from Spartanburg
Quite out of the usual, the com
mittee Thursday called by name the
duplicat'-s appearing In the report of
the An J.-rson committee, allowing
persons In the audience*, to slgnlfv
their willingness to make affidavits
that there were two of such name. It ”>I'* nse A our reaper rully.
w;s rendered a bill by the Record
fo • fs 4 0. He drew a warrant on
h.s. contingent fund, sent it to the
Comptroller General .with the MB
at proved, and ordered paid. The
Comptroller General declined to pay
tbr Item in the following letter,
which he sent to the Record
"The Record Publishing Company.
Co!nmb!a, S C Gentlemen: 1 have
or. file your bill for advertisement
Inserted tn your paf>*r by the Hon.
('(-I* I, Blouse, whim has been ap
proved by him for payim-st out ofi
hls contingent fund aa Governor.
"This approprlatloti is for contin-
g* r” fund for rewards and other pur-
p< m s This was intended to cover
disbursement* incidental to the ad
mit.istration of the Governor's office
which could not well be foreseen.
"The bill handec) me does not ap
pea’’ to '>e for any expense Incidental
to the administration of \he Gover-
not s office, but to be a [K-rsonal
charge against tbe Hon Cole L.i
Bk-ese The matter of publication
was purely personal. i.nrr its publica
tion is not authorized at the public
burg: no reports from Calhoun, j J" rt ‘ (1 l* 1 *’ . _ , .
Florence. Georgetown, Horry and ' l< v ' , ‘ r l-latit with instructions to dis-, announced in tho annual report of* meet this stay-out of th« mar-
Marlboro. deferring examination of P'‘ r se the mob with water. At the i‘i,- Census Bureau, waa: Vet policy of the spinners by staying
ih- Richland County rolls and lists ■ s^me time a report was mate to p»» The total aupply of cotton for the ()ll | () f market yourself Don't
ut t il t he committee meets in Col urn- M' re headquarters that a mob was rot' on year 19 12 was 17,673,294 dfiei a bale for sale that you can pos-
br. which will tie on Tuesday; re- 1 "'ing to the Third street car barn, - ),alea, compared with 1 3.873.42 B |Mv hold. Warehouse your cotton
f m al of the committee to disco miss " 1 » re it is understood - 1 ci-octd st rlke- j 1, B j n 1 c, 1 1 a nd 1 2.1 88,02 1 bales In and borrow money on It, if you Boot.
:1 protest of Judge Ira B. Jonea, 1 breakers are quartered A squad ot i<,»iO. 1 to pay your debit, but don’t Mil. If
ccnteste. againet Governor Blease. i I" ' K '’' ,lien have been ordered out and of this quantity the ginning* dur- tpr south will follow this policy, you
refusal to give Greenv ille County a i ur* °n their w ay to that barn now j the year amounted to 1 6,067,987 w .,1. in my opinion. Me 15 cents cot-
c I-an hill of health, an affidavit by 1 he resolution adopted at the la- c ompared with 1 2.384.249 t, in by January 1, but if you rush It
John T Duncan, who ran for Govern- ■ '‘t ’ meeting at the court house pledg- p;*'es in 1911 and 10,350,978 bale* on the market and have it sold at
or in the recent primary, charging , ' 1 ' the 16 affiliated organizations 01 j n 1910 tp^ stocks held at the be-[forced sale, you will. In my opinion
t Pc illegal use of money In behalf tb > federation of trades to a syntpa-j ^jj n | na () f the year were 1.3T5.031 , see It sell at or below il cents,
of Ira B Jones: and the decision of .thetlc strike upon the call of tbe pj.;,. H rompared with 1.040,404 bales j If this cro^ is marketed slowly
t hi* committee to meet In Anderson , b'i'der of the striking car men Lea jn jyjj an( j 1,483,685 bales In 1910 'you will. In my opinion, see an aa-
to hear a re ort of the Anderson Cornelius, a national organt/.er or
eiti/on's committee on their findings; tl <- carmen's association, after the
11 tp a t cenmtv meeting made the statement to a
Asked for Dismissal of IVotest. (newspaper man that he would call
\t the conclusion of the hearing' frr » general sympathetic strike "If
in Spartanburg Counsel F H Dom- he* f*-lt in necessary. hut, In* said,
it . k. for Governor Blease, made re- Intend to maintain tho organiza-
qt’est of the committee to dismiss the Dc 11
pectest of Judge Jones upon the
slo wing already made, that It ap-
pi a-ed that granting‘all the votes in
• iu-*K*lon there w.i* still an insuffi-
in
1 1 ! hales
!’) 1910
The total distribution of th* above
supply was as follows:
e tc tit number of vitiate the election
Vnis reqnest was dismissed for the
n i‘*-on that the* sub-committee, as
re'ed by Chairman Stevenson, Is con
s' B uted t o I n \ estigate tho on t Ire eleo-
t'on without specific regard to the
contest of any aartlcular candidate.
dev eloped that at least some one
person in the audience was aide to
identify a majority \ the voters thus
questioned Mr Ashley, who knows
Anderson County pretty thoroughly,
■was able to furnish a considerable
amount of information. When the
napie of "J. W Ashley” was railed
as appearing at two different polls,
Citizen Ashley remarked facetiously
'T am surprised that there ain’t
mere of them.” One name, John
Wesley Brown, appeared as having
voted e'ght times. When Chairman
Leon L Rice of the citizens’ com
mittee, stated that he could not
make o: 'h as to the correctness of all
the figures submitted, there was an
outburst from the Blease sympathiz
ers who largely comprised the audi
ence. »
Summed up, tho report of the com
mittee is that there appears to be
about 7 Ml duplications of votes a.nd
about 2d0 who have no legal right
Jo vote in the primary. At the Pfi
zer box it was re'porled tTiat 3IT men
whose names were not on the club
rolls were allowed to vote. It Is
found, therefore, that of Anderson’s
vete of 8,000 there are something
over 00 that are questionable. The
merits r f the allegations will be sift
ed by the committee.
Thur' day’s proceedings were ham
pered by inability to secure a sten-
ographe-. It was stated there that
the ye ung women stenographers
were reluctant about undertaking
the tas’G Delay was occasioned by
discussion of the method of proced
ure. A’torney F. H. Dominick again
called f ir a ruling as to the specific
scope of the investigation, and Mr.
•K. P. Smith asked a ruling as to
whether or not the burden of prov
ing duplication or repeating in vot
ing was with the investigators or the
men whose names appeared twice.
Chairman Stevenson declared that
the committee with the use of the
poll lists and club rolls would be
able to unravel the tangles. It was
declared that all the apparent dupli
cates who could not be Identified by
the audience should be published and
affidavits secured, either establishing
or disproving the voter’s right of bal
lot.
A Urge part of th* day was con
sumed in the call of names and the
side comments,
ed his opinion quite frequently as to
whether or not the man was a good
cKizen. “He’s all right, he’s a Blease
man” was the frequent remark.
Mr. John T. Duncan appeared and
Y>y Indulgence of the committee re-
"A W Jones.
"Comp’roller General.”
At 12 3b Thursday morning M.iy-
o- Thomas Barrett called Gov Brown
t \ long distance phone and asked fo'
a. 11 ■’ , rte order 'or .v * , a.
W I !’ I purpose of 1 e ’l ,. 8 \
.*i;*-',» i > i n martial la-v
Just before 6 o'clock Wednegi lav
afternoon one of the cars oit the i elf
line was attacked by a in i v on l-lf-
te* ath street and the conducm* a
man by the name of Kelly one o'
the corn-
w ns si*,
Kplnnera are staying out of the' . ..
market, hoping to force the price of hospital Mrs. Ginther waa able ta
fotion still lower, believing that the r *** urn 10 her home at Nof 66 C®t-
tage place In better health thaa ska
has been for years.
She was perfectly well aatll Ik*
latter part of last July, whan aa ap
parently trifling eruption appeared
upon her skin, close to the scar left
by the Inelalon through which the
oj eration had been performed.
She did not pay very such atten
tion to thla until oae day she saw
a bit of lint protruding from the
end of tbe old Ineiatoe. She palled
this out and was surprised heyoad
belief when it grew to aa lack, twa
inches, four laches sad finally eight
Inches In length.
Then the was afraid to po aay
further with the llaea, aad harried
back to 8t. Mania’s waere'ehe shew
ed the strange eoaveatr to Dr. IU.
He used the knife again sad with
drew tbe rest of the aapktn. It wan
Intact, even to the red emt
^sundry mark.
Mrs Ginther recovered
■hock and pain of the
tior within a few days. Bet she felt
that she had gone through maeh
uunecessary inconvenience, and aa
■be sued.
It la not chargod in her coaplalat
that Dr. Hi personally was rsepoa
tIMe for the napkin being Mwod ap
Rhln the woman’s *rda, but elaea
in 1911 and 1.483,585 balea in 1910. you
Ths net Import* amounted to] rending market, until 16 cents is
'*.2 7 6 bales, compared with 23 1 1 reached Use bualneM judgment In
1911 and 1 5 1,395 bale* mmketing your cotton; the crop la
• tu.rt. I*eIow a supply for the apln-
illt* for the next 12 month*; there la
no use In making your Iomss still
MANY LIVES ARE LOST.
(Beat Damage Wrought in Japan by
Terrific Storm.
and report its findmgs to the State the m<*n brought lu re by
Icx.TUtivH commit'.*«• I't.ny in the past few davs-
In rcplv to the request of Mr. bn.sly beaten. Twenty me i ui-re nr-
Do.ninirk, Counsel Robert \V. Shand r.rted and taken to police tr.n.irka.
Vr Judge Jones, stated that Judge Prior to that a conductor was he-
n. s, through his attorneys, would labored on May avenue by a crowd
!ak< the evidence as submitted to' 01 ' women.
the committee, compile the figures] ■ —
and If it was found that there waa an 1 right would be taken awa,’ by a
3 to* amount of cotton consumed in'greater by »arrlflrlng your cotton.
M e Fnlted Plates during the year] The following I* {’resident Dabbs’s
* nr 5.367.67 1 bales compared with ‘ letier to the farmer* «f the State:
4 704,978 bale* In 1911 and 4,798,-, 1 <' tbe Farmer* of South Carolina:
9 53 bales In 1910 | Never before that 1 can recall have
Ot tht* amount the quantity con- »e had better proepecta ot good
anmed in cotton growing stare* wan ;u Ices for cotton. Btity day* ago
’ 7I2T22 bales, compared with 2.-'cotton sold at 13 1-2 rente at Inter-; .
3'.' v 4 v 7 bale* in 1911 and 2.292.333 lor point* All of a sudden ’’without WM ,n °' tl,w operation. M
I.ales In 1910 and the quantity con-, r!'me or teaton” the market broke
sumed In al! other state* was 2.655.-; ami R continued to go down nntli
<M<« bale*, rompared with 2,376.491 ' •'» 1*- cent* wa* renewed In the lo- '
ha’es In 1911 and 2.506 620 bale* rn 1 ’1 markets Not having the desired
11 q efi.et of stampeding the farmers like
■t has in the past, we *ee it steadily
going up F.ach day the •’wieeacrea”
s..y it will break to-morrow. Kach
d. v thev say Liverpool should come
The exports of cotton during the
yen; nmouM.d to 10,681.71*8 bales,
compared with 7.781,414 bile* It,
Dll and 6.339,028 bale* In 1910.
number of so-called;
.* typhoon swept over Japan the
night of September 22. There was'
los; of life and heavy damage to
property and shipping. A torpedo
boht and the destroyers Tachlbana
and Fubuki wee^ sung in las B*y.,
Toklo has been completely isolat
ed since September 22. The typhoon
can led down all the telegraph lines.
Even yet details are meager. The
most disastrous effects of the storm
were felt along the south coast. At
Yokohama the Frenqh armored crui
ser Duplex dragged her anchors and
went ashore. She was pulled off,
lu wever, the following cay".
At Shlmonaseki a Russion mail
boat foundered. The casualties are
unoknown. The losses to shipping
have been very serious. The Japa
nese battleship Satsuma and the ten-
de,- Manshu wero dismasted. Four
destroyers and five torpedo boats
were driven ashore. There was a
heavy loss of life at Nagoya, capital
of the prefecture of Atchl, Island of
Hondo, where a school and other
buildings collapsed.
h* .efficient
Daudulcnt votes to change tho re
sult of the election, then they would
withdraw their protest, not other-
v isi*.
Mr Shand took occasion to explain] f, ':L except
Judge Jones's position In the matter,
that he was unable to carry on a
complete investigation of alleged
'frauds and that as some of hi"
friends and supporters we”? about
to raise a fund for that purpose the
executive committee moved to act
on account of tho numerous com-
t'. i:ii’s made to it. look up tbe «o'k
cf lip < btieation and that Ju Jg? lobes
was merely abiding the finding.* of
the investigating committee.
Duncan Makes Dharge'.
Mr. John T. Duncan invited the
committee to closely Investigate con
ditions in Anderson, Greenville,
Greenwood Orangeburg and Rich
land, charging the use of moneytand
m.lawful betting on the eleetioii bv
Jones men. In Greenvillt, on char
ges that the Jbnes headquarters was
a scene of ‘‘flagrant breachers of the
criminal law and our election laws
in the matter of betting on the elec.-i
Judgment at this time.”
Mr. Avery Patton w is sworn that
tifG-rnoon and testified to the state
ments contained in the report made
Tuesday. Nothing new was brought
the intimation. In the
form of a question from Mr. Domi-
r-i-ek that there had two hua-di;
dred questionable votes in the Bun-
eombee street box. It was stated
that there appeared 3 47 duplicate
n;,mes in the Central box at Spartan
burg, aqd-that 158 names were of
persons absolutely unknown.
In reply to cross examination from
Stocks of cotton on hand on au- °r po’nt*. Each day
gust 3 1 amounted to 1,623,865 bales,’*• • * 'he report that Mancheater con-
compared with 1,375,031 bales in 'Inues to buy at higher prices than
151 1 and 1 040,040 in 1910. | can be paid on this aide. What doe*
Of the stock* on hand manufactur- *' a ^ mean?
ers in cotton-growing statea field ^ mean* anything. It means that
24 1 704 bales, compared with in\,- lr, '"°n * s In demand; tkat organlza-
1 i , bales In 1911 and 1 21,3 40 bales 1* 'flHn* or that mere 1* fear
In 1910 and manufacture™ L.
other Htatea held 629,T»89 baloa, corn- hankers nond put fo pull
pat ed with 441.077 halo* In 1911 and T-Mier and we will .see 1 5-cent cot-
'41 : .883 haTes in 19Tt: - , U n. for two-thirds of this crop. It
la blamed for the qaMr aeddeat.
Tb* record-chart of tea operation,
examined at St. Maftla’a, shows that
the nurses reported thwy had removed
every drewlng placed In the locta*
Ion. Phyalclena said that probably
no permanent barm hod been dom to
Mr*. Ginther by the premaco of tho
h'.< piece of linen.
WAS THIS FRAUD OR NOT?
Associated Press Acronat of tho
Greeavllle Meeting*
The Associated Pres* account ot
In nB oM'; that the farmer., the merchants tU fr, " d lnT f t, *‘ ,6d . V
,n " ! nnd the bankers need p„t‘fo pull to-1 pv,d€nre tiding to indicate that
Independent warehotiBe* in cotton- ;x s ' J that they are working to-
growing states on August 31 held ne'lmr more slowly and the price i.
445,555 hales, compared with 349,- ^ ( " rs "
e72 hales In 1911 and 1 55,871 bales| n the activity di.play-
tn 1910 and Independent warenouse*, P ' 1 in pt’K-inlzIng chamber, of com-
In all other state, held 1 08,925 bales.'™’™ ,n ‘ h « town, ami cltie. of the
South. We rejoice In such ‘booster.
. ,. h 7f .Q y, *i 1 e r tn 1911 O' ""t- * vo rejoice in *ucn ooo.ier.
Vr. Dominick. Mr. Patton stated that ^ n , I ,a r r J d q , J'J , 3 ’' ° Drips” as Richmond ju.t pulled off.
hi* citizens’ committee made R V
charges of fraud, but reported estimateif at ! 98 09'’ bales l n ‘ 0D ths. We rejoice at the hopeful
dll ton* as it found them. He declar-1 P 1 jres 18 RSt . ! ° aat ® d a a letters from the varlou. counUe. of
ed it as bis opinion that of tho throo, c( ’^^^ ^ J 4 : 00 °,i ‘ 8 ln 11 j South Carolina that look to thorough
managers of the Central box, Mr. i and_ 200,000 haYe.Jn^ ! organizations of the Farmer.’ Union
Poole was a Blease supporter and
Messrs. McGhee and Davis were
Jones men.
The trend of counsel's questions,
was to show that the machinery atj' n 1 ^ •L
The number of active cotton .pin- . ,, v ... .
dies in the United States was 30,132,- ^ hl tt. 0 ^"^'
730, compared with 29,522 597 spin- k.. "
* * • loi-t _ _ j no Aft9 arvlnel Yob ‘ ^ ^YOTR tv flj OH» &Q(i P&CI1 tOWIl itLfl
d'es in 1911 and 28,266, 06- B P lndIes j at p roSR j- Vfi chamber of commerce all
working in harmony then we will
Spartanburg was entirely In the] 0f thl8 - n I t ’ mb ” r t tho f e I ope y atP<1 ^ see a State farmers tiriion and a State
fraud wa. practiced in Greenrilla
County in the Democratic primary of
An front M,- waa plaee*
.ub-commlttee of the south Carolina
Democratic State committee at a
hi let session held WOaneaday after
noon In the Court House.
A local committee wnich had beoh
err.ducting an Investigation In
Greenville County reported that rop-
etltlon. of name, on polling lists hod
been found in 340 Instances and that
the name, were repeated anywhero
from one to five times each. Thla
the committee
Drowned in Congaree Swamp.
Thomas Dawson the 17-year-old
st^q of a prominent tvicnland County
farmer, was drowned Wednesday
night in the Congaree Swamp, while
ert Being a creek tweive miles below
Columbia. Hls body was recovered
by a companion and carried to
Lykesland, several mll^s away.
hands of Jones men. Mr. Dominick 1 colfo11 K r0W ' ln K states during the year rl _ fimber Qf cornmerce building
again called for sneclfic charaes andj‘ WCR 11.585,839 spindles, compared g|(a ^ er 3 0U (b Carolina.
E; D. Dabbs,
President S. C. F. U.
again called for specific charges and. __
... , Mr. Shand stated that hls complla-i w '^ 11,084,623 kpltidteS operated In
tioi and the use of money to pur-|Uon of the figures in the hands of thoRP R tates in 1911 and 1 0 494,1 1 2
chase votes.” He cites G. Heyward | the committee, would constitute the spindles In 1910; and those operated
Mahon as manager of the head-quar- charges upon which Judge Jones ' n other states were 18,726,891
ters and says that a Mr. Whitmire,''"'onld base his contest, provided they ; 8 I lil ‘01 p s. compared with 18, 43.,9i4
assistant to the conductor on the proved sufficient. The scope of the R P :ridles ° pe !'? t r^ n 'Pr! h0Be , B i? t08 ! n ,, r ^ rOT1 * a i... vr...
Southern Railway, Columbia and ; conimlttt « work was thereby some- 111,1 and 17,772,7o0 spindles in r ' nts "reck by Finding N^ass of
YOUNG GIRL SAYES A TRAIN.
Greenville division, can tell about: w1ia1 more clearly defined,
these illegal practices. 'Mr. Steven-] I" short, It is a Court of Inquiry
1911.
These statistics
are In runnmg
Rock on Track.
Miss Beulah Chandler, 18, prevent-
read his affidavit regarding charges
of improper use of money in this
county. His witness from Pelzer,
one W. A. Lee, <Jid not appear. The
committee, upon motion of Mr. Jef
fries, decided that it was incumbent
upon John T. Duncan tfi sMure some
affidavits in support or hls charges.
'Mr. Duncan was generous in his ot
ter* to "accomodate” the investiga
ting committee but consumed con
siderable time in his contention that
the committee should pay bis expens-
er in coming here Thursday. The
Mr. Ashley express- gentlemen of tbe committee, however,
appeared rather unanimous in the
opinion that John T. Duncan, if he
chose to enter charges, - should see
them through, so action in reference
to financing Mr. Dunean s complaints
was deferred.
son called for both Messrs. Mahon'fil 0 the methods and praltices of the hales. Including linters, except Tor _
ard Whitmire, but neither could be ' p cent primary, and whether or not foreign cotton which has been re- m the wrecking of Norfolk & Wes-
for.nd. No one seemed to know the] there Is a contest by any candidate 1 duced to equivalent 500-pound bales. t f . rn Passenger train No. 1 when she
Mr. W’hitmire. Some little merri- or candidates is left with those In-] The statistics of cotton consumed disiovered tons of rock on the track
ment was created by the reading of
Mr. Duncan’s affidavit.
Mr. Jeffries after the examination
on the stand of Mr. Avery Patton
of the Greenvillf Citizens’ Committee
moved to give Greenville a clean bill
of health as to the election. The
motion was ruled premature by the
chairman, who stated two reasdns
for the ruling: first, "because the
report of this committee could not
b*' prepared until the committee ha*
f.t.’.ahed its work anu wo could not
give any county a clean b'.'.’. of health
until the entire report waa made;
and second, because, the attorneys
forested. The Greenville session of up'r-dles, and stocks held at mills ana at a curve near Bleeford, W. V.,
the committee was brief and quiet,; in warehouses shown in this report. Wednesday. She was walking near
no large crowd having assembled. [ w*ere collected by canvassers of the tfi.? spot and heard the train ap-
Moving on to Anderson, the commit- mills and of the warehouses, hut the’preaching. She took off her apron
tee will adjourn to meet in Columbia, stocks in 1912 shown under the clas-’ ra* down the track ana flagged the
and nish its work prior to a meeting slfaction “Elsewhere” were arrived train which ran up to and touched
of the State Democratic executive at by deduction, this quantity being*tbe side of rock. Passengers cheer-
committee, which has been called by^lie difference between the total sup- ed her and t6ok up a large collection
Chairman John Gary Evans for Tues- ply and the sum of the quantities ex-] for her. ‘ Norfolk & Western officials
3 40 men voted anywhere froth t#o
or five times each in tne primary,
The committee further reported
that it had been unable to Identify
128 names on the polling list ot on
box in the city. Votes to the Bom
ber of 752 were cast in this boo.
Their testimony will be offered later
day, when final action relative to ported consumed, and that held^by
the election is expected.
Body Riddled With Bullets.
The body of Sam Johnson, a negro,
who was taken from deputies at
Grand Cane, La-, late Wednesday
fr* Governor Blease we:o reswlng 1 night by fifty masked men, was found
manufacturers and warehouses.
Beats Wife and Suicide*.
At Marietta, Ga., after beating his
wife over the head with a baseball
bat Hope Irwin, son of R. C. Irwin.
of the State comptroller’s office, stood
the right to attack any county until I late Wednesday swinging from a tree before a mirror In hls bed room early
tb# hearings were dostl and. that| twenty miles from Oreea Cane. 1 | Wednesday and killed himself
took her name and sne will be^Te-
watded by them also.
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Forced to Swallow Poison.
Miss Lottie Ward, 15 years old,
who lives at the home of Samnel
Farmer, of Wheeling Junction, W.
Va. was seized by unidentified men
near her home Wednesday and held
| while poison was admmist red.
Mobbed Him in the
At Lima, Peru, former Prestdeht 1 >:
Augusto Leguia waa mobbed by
furious crowd late Wednesday
while proceeding to hls private
deuce from the Presidential
which had just been taken
the new President, Guillermo
hurst. The demonstrators i
“You should go to jail
home,” and obliged the Ex
to take refuge In the Unv<
Were Killed in
Theodore N. MoK:
pairer, and his da
were found dead W
Knelly probably
tent on the outsl
Kan., where they
for thtf daughter’s health,
had been shot,/4nd their
tured. Robbery is
been tbs motive.
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