Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ji'Vaf f* WOULD HELP THE NAVY T1IJ.MAX REPORTS HIS AlfNAPO- US MEASURE. MANY BASELY ESCAPES Tb« Eteeeh of the Gnn Wm Torn Into Mnnj Pieces and They Flew in Every Direction, One Piece Go ing Foot Hundred Feet nnd Pierc ing n Roof. The News and Courier says flags were at half-mast Friday over Fort Moultrie in recognizance of the only catastrophe of moment that haa oc curred since the establishment of the army post on Sullivan's Island. Only the half-masted flags and a sentry posted over the shattered gun re mained Thursday in mute evidence of the fact that four lives had been sacrificed and at least three men in the service seriously injured because of a single defective shot. At 9:20 Thursday night Gun No. 2, of Hattery Lord, burst when the fourth shot was fired in target prac tice. Pieces of metal from the ex ploded breech flew in every direction, menacing the safety of a score or more of army officials who were eith er operating the gun, directing its discharge or viewing the proceedings. The force of the explosion expended Itself rearward so that the projectile dropped but a short distance before the gun When the smoke and confusion had cleared away Private Alton Mcl) Haxter and Private Arthur Chrtattan lay dead and mutilated on the ground Terribly injured ('apt duy H G Hanna pitched into the arms of ('apt Harke. of the 144th company His right side practically blown away, Private Roy Dalton lay unconscious Shoulder and hand were badly lacer ated In the rase of Private Stlne- sprlng. Hospital Steward Sergt \jo- raar waa knocked down and hla right hsnd badlv torn, while Private Swag g-rty had his shoulder and band cut Py ?1;:ng me*.*! The Injured were rushed to the arrr.v fost hospital, where Dr James A Simpson the recently arrived army *urit»'.>n In charge found him self unable to cope »:th the unusual sltuatem ' hurr> cull to <'harl*n ton for tr»- i'.ca! and su r glcai aealat- ame ai«t w.th matant response of a moat generoua nature and shortly after midnight the yacht Urace clear ed from the Carolina Yacht Club with seven Charleston physician* aboard, bringing w:th them equipment uivnl uable In the emergency to be faced Deapll* the beat efforts of the med 1c«l man Private Matter died almoat Immediately an terrible were hla in Jurlea, although heroic operations were first performed Capt, Hanna waa reating fairly comfortably when the Charleston delegation left at 3 o Civ, * Thursday morning, but auff ered a relapse and auorumbed shortly a'ter 9 o clock Tha injuria* of tb« «><her» were successfully treated and they are on the road to recovery Sergt liomar however found him- •elf in a pec uliarly unenviable posi tion Wtlh Dr Slrm{>aon hardly able to oops temporarily with the more serious aspect* of the accident, he was unable to find treatment nearer than Charleston With hla hand bleeding terribly he set out In tbs lighthouse tender for thla city, under the cars of Light Keeper H 9 Svend- een The passage waa rough and dis appointing In the extreme, for when the launch landed In Charlestno It waa learned that the local physicians were alrealy on route In a body for the scene of the accident Sergt. T/omar Immediately returned, but so busy were the doctors with those whose Injuries were of & more serious nature that it was some time before he could secure proper treatment. Saturday morning the body of Oapt. Hanna was pul. aboard the Carolina Special for Louisville. Capt. Hanna was thirty-four years old and la survived by a widow. He was ap pointed In March, 1 899, and attained his captaincy in March, 1911. He had been stationed at Moultrie for the past eight months. Dalton’s body was shipped to Con way, Ky.; 'Baxter’s to Cosby, Tenn., and Christian's to Longstreet, Ohio. Two sisters of Private Haxter, who came down from Asheville, N. C., to accompany him home on a furlough to be granted at the end of the target practice, which has been temporarily suspended, left Charleston in deep grief. To investigate the matter and make a detailed report of the cause of the trouble, Major Albert G. Jen kins. commanding the Fort Moultrie post, will appoint a board of officers. It is possible that a special ordinance officer will represent the Federal authorities at the investigation. Col. F. S. Strong and Major Chas. Nugent, umpires of the practice, practice, were watching at the time of the accident. The men were firing by moonlight and tracers were being used to show the hits made. The steamer Lieut. Lee was towing the target at the time. Gunner Commander Cass with Corpl. O’Leary was in charge of Sec tion 1, and Corpl. Weston in charge of the second section. Parts of the The Senior Senator Thinks Hi* M< f ore Will Help to Prevent Shortage of Officers. Senator Tillman Friday made the following report on a bill which h* recently Introduced Increasing the number of midshipmen at the naval academy: “Act of congress' approved March 3. 1903, provide* that two midship men shall be allowed tor each aeaa- tor, representative and delegate in congress until the 30th of June, 1913, and that after that date hut one In stead of two shall be authorited. The same act provides for five midship men each year at large and one from Puerto Rico, which will continue In force after June SO, 1913. “It is recommended that the law for two midshipmen for each senator, representative and delegate in con gress be continued indefinitely and that the law for the appointment of midshipmen at large be changed to read ‘ten appointed each year at large’. “The proposed law would give the president ten appointments each year, with a possible maximum of 40 mid shipmen at large in the academy at one time, which is the same as now allowed for West Point. The pres ent law for 'five each year at large’, was construed to mean not five such appointments each year but 20 in all allowed at the academy at one time t works unsatisfactorily, because In some years one or two vacancle* oc cur. whereas in other years there are as many as seven or eight. "The capacity of the naval acad emy is sufficient without enlargement to fnrnlsh officers for the line and staff of navy and marine corps in ade quate numbers for many years to come, but If the number of appoint ments be reduced, the relative coat of educating each midshipman will in crease, while the existing shortage in the navy will grow rapidly worse There Is littb* likelihood of more graduate* from th« naval academy than the government will require “It I* most desirable that favorable action be taken at the extra a^alon In order not to delay sending out not Mirations of vsrsncle* to senators and representative* and the letter* au thorlr'.ng ran it ia'e# to r»*[>ort for the examination in Kehruary and April. 19 14 whlrh would be the rase If ar tW*n by rongreas were delajed until the regular seaalon “ TIMAS I. FELDEI AO UN IN TIE LIIEUGIT. TKAPPEO BY AN ENEMY DEATH IX A KRKK FIGHT Poar Men Have a Hhouting Match at fieri lag. < enwgla. Horace Homage la dead, his fath er. J M Homage has hla head laid open with the butt end of a shot gun and Jerry and Jim Hart ara believed to ba dying as the result of a fight that took place on a road near Her Itn. Ga The two latter operate a %aw mill and had been buying timber from the Homage* It la stated that there had been trouble about the purchase and In the morning the two Homage men. arcompanled by Mrs Homage, at tempted It Is said, to Intercept wa gon loads of lumber, belonging to th< Harts The latter went to the scene In a buggy What took place in the fight that followed la not clear, but the four men mixed It with guns, hand to hand, and with rocks, nntll the only one of the party able to stand waa Mrs. Homage, whom, it Is alleged, fired the shot that brought down Jer ry Hart She went for a doctor when the fight was over Horace Homage died three hours after the affray. fXJNFKSSED ANT) ACQUITTED. Man (iete Religion and TeUs of Mur der He Committed. At Carcassonne, France, Mlquel Vallespi, who recently returned from the Argentine Republic and gave himself iUp to the police, declaring that he wished to go to the guillotine for the murder of a woman fifteen years ago, waa given his freedom. Vallespi related his story in the as size court before a jury, and told of his struggles with his conscience, which finally led to his spiritual con version and irresistibly Impelled him to give up a prosperous position in Argentina to expiate his crime in France to satisfy the law. The Jury, without leaving the box, acquitted him amid applause. »♦ White Carriers Strike. Seven white epecial delivery mes sengers at the Washington post o. . ce resigned because they declined to serve with negroes. mutilated rifle were found a great distance away from the scene of the explosion, the plunger ha\dng been hurled fully 4fi0 feet through the roof of G. H. Moffett’s house. While the accident was of a severity almost equal to that which killed eleven men at Monroe some years ago, it is the unanimous opinion of those who were witnesses that many must have had hairbreadth escapes from serious in jury. Col. Felder, Who Dictagraphed Oth ers, la Himself Victim of Dicta- graph—Charged With Attempting to Bribe City Employee for Record* in the Phagaa M order Case. The Mary Phagan murder case in Atlanta took a hew and decidedly in teresting turn Friday. While th* Fulton County grand jury was consid ering the evidence so far secured aa to the murder of the pretty little fourteen-year-old factory girl, there were developments tending to show the case has become entangled in a local political fight involving the war that has been waged against Chief of Police Beavers, who recently identi fied himself with the reform move ment which wiped out the segregated district in Atlanta. It is alleged the political opponents of Chief Beavers and his assistants in the police de partment, have endeavored to make the investigation of the Phagan case a factor in the fight against him. On the other hand, it is claimed the local police have resented what they regard as aspersions against them in the efforts to bring outside detectives to the city to solve the baf fling murder mystery. It is also claimed that they have endeavored to entrap Col Thomas H Felder, a local attorney, who recently raised a fund to bring a detective of inter national reputation to Atlanta to in- veetlgate the murder of the Phagan girl. Col Felder is widely known throughout the South. He waa the attorney for Charlea W. Morw*. the New York banker, when the latter obtained his release from the Fed eral Penitentiary at Atlanta The Atlanta Journal printed late Friday *hat purport* to be a stenog raphic record of a converaation be tween Col Felder and F C Febru ary. secretary to N A l^nford, local chief of detective*, w ith a third party present The conversation I* all eged to have been *••<-ure 1 by mean* of a secret telephonic device Installed In an Atlanta hotel room at the direc tion* Atlanta dereettvea The de vice I* the one made famous by the detectlee whom Col Felder employed agatnat Governor ('ole L Hleaae of South Carolina, during a controversy with that Er*out!ve Tha stenogra phic record In tha local caae was made by George M Gantry, nephew of Col W T Gentry, prealdent of tha Southern Fkeil and Cumberland Telephone companies Tha Journal further preaented a aerlea of affidavit* from Atlanta de tectives and city employees. Including February, which a*eert*that Col Fel der offered them 11.00 0 If they would place In hla hand* certain papers In tha Phagan case which h* declared the Atlanta police had manufactured, or ’ framed", and which he believed would he sufficient “to drive Heavers and I-anford from office " One 1 of the affidavits In question waa made, the detectives said, by J W Coleman, stepfather of the Pha gan girl, who denied that he had ever employed Felder to represent him In the proaecution of the case This af fidavit also declares that the "affiant Is thoroughly satisfied with the great work done by Chief of Police Heavers and Chief of Detectives I^anford,” and urges the citizens of Atlanta "to stand behind the Atlanta police de partment’’. Coleman is also a city employee, in the sanitary department. The detec tives say the papers Col Felder want ed were in the safe of the chief of detectives. They declare they told the attorney they might be prosecut ed if they abstracted them, but say he replied they could not he put in the penitentiary bo long ae “his friend Hugh Dorsey, was solicitor general”. They also declare that Felder said he could “control” the Crimitial Court Judge, (Mayor Woodward and Solicitor Dorsey. One of the affi davits asserts Felder said he could get Governor “Joe’’ Brown, or Gov ernor-elect “Jack” Slaton to release any of the men involved if an attempt were made to jail them. February and A. S. Colyar, an in vestigator, in affidavits declare Fel der denounced Chiefs Beavers and Lanford as “grafters" and said: “I can call a mass meeting to-morrow afternoon and have 1 0,000 of the best citizens In this town meet at Five Points to-morrow night and go to the station house and hang Beavers and Lanford to telephone poles, the two corrupt grafters and thieves.” Col. Felder Friday night said he had positively declined to pay any money for the evidence mentioned In the affidavits. “I stated to them that I would in troduce a gentleman, namely, Mr. E. O. Miles, who might be Interested In securing possession of this evidence. I am informed that Mr. Miles, after meeting the party, introduced Mayor Woodward and several other gentle men, who are Interested in probing; the police department. I wiH later make a complete reply to theee affi davits. and in addition to this I will President Wilson Want* Mew on the Board Who Will Impartially Ad minister the Law. The •Waehington correspondent of The Newa and Courier aaye Sooth Carolina scores again In the semi-offi cial report that President Wilson will in . a few days nominate Charles M Galloway, secretary to Senator E. D. Smith, and clerk of the immigration Committee of the Senate, te succeed Gen. John C. Black as a member of the United States civil service com mission. At the same time the President win nominate Geo. R. Wales, of Vermont, who Is now chief exalniner of the commission, to succeed William Washburn, of New York, as a mem ber of the commission. The third mem’ber of the present civil service commission, John A. Mc- Ilhenny, of Louisiana, will be retain ed, and will become ,by seniority the president of the body. Mcllhenny is a Democrat and former Rough Rider, who was appointed by President Roosevelt. He supported Wilson in the campaign. Wales is a Republi can. The decision of the President means that he has determined to have & "rattling of dry bones” in the administration of the civil service, which has been the target of steady and effective attack by Democratic Senators ever since the new adminis tration came into power. It has been demonstrated that in spite of the supposedly non-partisan rule* of the commission, the result of its labors for a number of years past has been to give the Republicans an enormous advantage In the dlstrlbu tion of office# After having a num her of flagrant charge* brought to his attention. Prealdent Wilson made up his mind to change the personnel of the commission and give the coun try a new deal Mr Galloway I* a lawyer and former telegraph operator and new* paper man. having been ne»# edlto of the Columbia State when rhoaen by Senator Smith to be hla aecretary Hv hi* ablllt) and courtesy, he has made a great manv Influential friend* in W ashlngton, who were glad to en dorse him for the ImiKirtant position to which he la about to be api>o!nted He t* generally admitted to have high qualification* for tha office Doth of the South Carolina Senator* have urged hie appointment, and the ma Jortty af their Democratic coll have backed them up TEIIIF1C WHERE 1*4 THE FOOL KILIJCK’* He to ha I tad 1 7 Needed New York (Yty. The ('ounteaa Helen Kraalcka. who waa Mlaa Helen Montgomery of Ne York, arrived on the Atlantic Iran* t>ort Minneapolis to vlait her mother In that city recently For no other reason. *he say*, would ahe ever have returned as she hate* America and everything American. Ye*. I am American born and I’m mighty sorry to have to acknowledge It." ahe declared "American raeth oda are abominable I have been II tng In Hruaeel*. and I think It would l»a7 you New Yorker* to aend a com miltee over there to study how live The average American haa culture ’’ to no OPPOSED BY TILLMAN. Sem*tor Hay* Anderson Shall Not Postmaster. be Letter from Oeaswl General at Yoko hama Show* What Lengths Japan- ase Are Willing to Go to Support Government, Bat th* Taxes Are a Great Bnrffea. Apropos of two hueetkm* of pres ent interest to th* people of the Unit ed State* ia a communication jut re ceived from Consul General Thomas Sammons, stationed at Yokohama, on the income tax in Japan The Information from Consul Gen eral Sammons ia striking from two points of view. It indicate* the as tonishing lengths to which the people of Japan have been willing to go In supportting their Government, and. It indicates that they could not well en dure any additional financial burden at this time. Mr. Sammons says that a new in come tax law ha* been adopted in Where They Have Hundred* of Whit* Bm,4or ~*' V i? A Washington l*tt*r says a* a g^> ' eral thing, this Administration 1* nf| disposed to cater to thwonteMi voto by letting n*gro*a hold offtosa whl'* - carry authority. Th* Prsaldos Cabinet may not b* absolutely a w In Its view of this matter, hat cornea nearer being unanimous aba the desirability of obaorring tho racial line than any other Adminis tration since the war. The colored Assistant Attorney' General of the UniUd 8tat*a, who wa* appointed by President Taft, haa been eliminated by the simple proems of abolishing his office, and the same plan Is being considered with regard to the |4,000 position of register of the treasury, now held by J. C. Na pier, of Mississippi. Thla place haa been considered tkff special plum of “the colored brother** for many years. Secretary of tha Treasury McAdoo recently referred to First Assistant Secretary John Skel ton William# the question of what to OTZLA v* Vi y L NT VI 1 Li - _ the Island Empire. Under the for- a ^°ut Napier’s place, and Mr. WU- mer law the rate on private incomes began with 2 per cent, on Incomes llama is believed to hare reported ux-Rau w„u * p*r ou incomes that lt cou,d ^ dispensed with wtth- above $150 a year, rising successive- ou * Impairing the efficiency of the . _ . •***»**{ sia I** 4 Y* a ly to 2 Vfc per cent, on income# be tween $250 and $500, to 3 per cent, on Incomes tietween $500 and $1,000, to 4 per cent, on Income# be tween $1,000 and $1,500, to .4 H be tween $1,500 and $2,500, to 6 be tween $2,500 and $5,00, to 7 Vfc be tween $5,000 and $.,500, to 9 ^ be tween $7,500 and $10,000, to 11 >4 between $10,000 and $16,000, to 14 between $25,000 and $50,000 and to 20 1-3 per cent, on all above $50.- 000! A# if the old rata were not heavy endugh. the new law provide* for a tax of 2 H per cant on all private In come* below $500 a year, for 3 H on all between that figure and $10,000, for 4*4 between $1,000 and $1,500, for 5 V* between $ 1,500 and $2,500, for 7 between $2,600 and $3,500, for •IV* between $3.50u and $5,000, for 10 between $5,000 and 17,500, for 12 !>etween 17.500 and $10,000, for fourteen between $10,000 and $15.- 000, for 16 between $15,000 and $25,000, for 1* between $36,000. and $25,000, and $25,600. for 20 between 135,000 and $60,000. *nd for 22 pjar cent on all prlvata Income* shove $50,000 On commercial Incoma* th* old law exacted 4 H per cant below $2,600 a year, where** th* saw law reduces thla tax to 40 par cant B*twa*n $2.- 500 and $5,000, howavar, commercial Income* have to pay 5 par cant., an Increase over th# former rat* Bo- tween $5,000 and $7,500 the rate Is now 0 per cant. as com pa rad to the previous rate of 5 Between $7,500 and $10,000 tha Japan*** merchant muat pay now I per cant . tnatasd of 6 \ . aa formerly Between $16,000 and $100,000 thla rat* now run# from 9 to 1 3 per cent., whan It used to run from 9% to 12*4 Tha puule I# now th* Japanese cit- Icen manage* to exist under such a burden of taxation, which would oauae the overthrow of any Occiden tal Government. That any nation atruggllng under auch a financial load would venture on war with a country like the United State* over a ques tion such aa now agitates the Pacific coast state# 1# almost Inconceivable. WOMAN STARVED TO DEATH. Fonnrt Dead in a Handsomely Fur nished Old Mansion. In a large residence at Yonkers, N. Y., occupied by herself and brother on a fashionable residence street, Ada Dunscomb, a middle aged spinster A dispatch from Washington says says Senator Tillman has held up the nomination of G. M. Anderson at Ninety-Six, and declares that he ahal ( never be confirmed. Senator Till- - - man’s opposition is based on the as- was found dead Thursday night, „ aegtion that Anderaon has always Tlctim of »tarvation, according to the been a hitter anti-Tlllmanite, said coroner - Searchers found no food In Democrats could not win and that he the houBe - A physician waa called did not vote in the general election by S ’ Duns co™b, aged 60, the wo- xt i s-i YYi a n’g* K r wVt/% As* A a u la of- service in the least. Secretary McAdoo and Secretary Willlami ar* both arn men and fully appreciate desirability of having flclal position# where they hat edence over hundreds of wbli and women employee*, to any notklag> of th* public. w An order haa bean promalgatti %|r Mr Williams requiring that th* and colored clerk* la th* department ahull not eat lunch, but that separata place* their recreation ahall b* And not * murmur ha* b*** heard agatnat this change la WaahlagtMA which Is really vary tired of th* due “•wing” which haa b**a for* allowed th* u*gro for ns. FOUND IN OOTTON Hpartaabarg Baby Loot te Kajoy* Ear*pad*. A Spartanburg Ipaclal to Th* and Courier say a O N wlf*. twoy Mr-old oaraing baby war* riding te a b Sunday aft*raooa on their 1 te Fairmont from that eRy bora** took fright and ma i th* horn* tum*d aharpiy u of tb* road. Mr. Nlehotl* w out. Th* two-year-old child east Ml *wi V of th* aid* of th* larch lag* boggy and th* horn* darted *cr*** * **ttmi ffigUL wh*r* th* baby waa deposited. Afh*ot half a mil* further down th* mod th* hom* ma tb* baggy gggflggg g tr** and Mr* Nichols Was throws *Ot sad painfully bat a*i a*ioo*ly in jured Th* mother, father sad two-yaar- old child scrambled to th«!f eventually met. In a of apprehension they th*a suited to - find the baby. In tb* cotton pntch, sitting ap on h tidy htTIMd*. and coolag. th* lltti* mite wa* —* picture if happta***. s \ AIKEN FAMILY POISONED. last November. Senator Tillman has Insisted that Representative Aiken shall name another man for the place he will do. If Senator Tillman sticks to his position Anderson will loose out. Exploeion kills Three. Seventeen hundred pounds of pow der in a mine magizine at Sackhart. Md., exploded recently, killing three men and doing damage to nearby houses estimated at thousands of dol lars. undertake to show to the people of Atlanta a condition which exists in respect to the so-called detective de partment that will be appalling to them as it was to me.” Felder said he interested himself in the Phagan case at the request of neighbors and friends of the Cole mans, parents of the murdered girl. "Mr. Coleman,” he said, “personally approved the employment.” The grand jury adjourned until Saturday for further consideration of the case against Leo M Frank, su perintendent of the pencil factory, where Mary Phagan worked, and Newt. Lee. negro night watchman there, who had been held by the cor- , oner # Jury. man’s brother, who found the woman on a couch In a room, her body clad in rag§. The Dunscomb residence has been a house of mystery to the neighbors for twelve years when the family moved there. The blinds have always been drawn. No servants were employed and no visitors have been seen at the mansion. Officials say costly old furniture is falling to pieces from neglect. Dust has accu mulated, apparently, for years. ♦ This Patient Got Well. A well known Wedgefleld physi cian, discussing the case of B. San ders Walker of Macon suprised his auditors by telling them that he had a patient a few years ago who took, through mistake, erix consecutive sev en-grain tablets of bichloride of mer cury four hours apart. The patient had a vomiting spell after taking each tablet, which Is all that saved him. One Child Haa 8«crumbed aad Th*** Others May Dte. Advice* received at Alk*n ( let* Thursday afternoon *Ute that* Mr. Matt Clark and seven children, of White Pond, are suffering from pto maine poisoning, caused by eating canned goods. Two physicians have been in con stant attendance, but despite thin fact, one child ia already dead, and three others are not expected to live. For Mr. Clark and the remaining children, the physicians still hold eome hope. The affliction* rlslted upon family during the past six days are most tragic and unusual. Just about a week ago, the father and ten of hi* children were bitten by a dog who had the rabies. The entire party was carried to Columbia for treatment and had just returned home, when this second blow fell upon them. The wife nd mother is beside herself with grief. South Carolina Plums. The president sent the following, nominations of South Carolina post masters to the -Senate Thursday: Joseph M. Poulnot, Charleston; J. F. Way, Holly Hill; 8. M. W’ard. George town: Lonla Stackey, Klngstree; P. H. Flke, Spartanburg. Nine Men Were Loot. Nine men were drowned Sunday night when a storm blew a pile-driv er and a barge ashore near Katelta, Alaska. The men were building a fish trap for the Northwestern Fieh- eries Company at the mouth of Mar tin river near Katelta. A furiou* storm started Sunday night and broke six anchors with which th* pile driver and barge were made fa*(L They were driven eighteen mile*, along the shore, where they struck on the beach. Killed by Hrother-in-law. Mile Martin, for many years of the Central of Georgia Rail! Dunlap, nine mile* from At Ga.. was shot to death afternoon by his brotber-te-tew. v