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TELL THEIR STORY ♦ DETECTIYES FIIEB ON IINLOS FROM TIE CAK MINING FOLKS TESTIFY .»— . Senators Astounded at Testimony— Lee Calvin Gives Account of How Miners Wree Shot Down from Ar mored Train—Man Who Ordered Soldiers to Fire First. A dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., says about a single battle In the coal strike on the Paint and Cabin Creek districts centered Saturday’s inquiry by the Senate committee in vestigating the coal mine strike. Almost all day the committee heard statements concerning the at tack on ITolly Grove, a strikers’ camp, from an armored train, which was run up into the strike district on February 7. The committee was astounded at the testimony of Lee Calvin, an ex- tnine guard, who was one of the men in the armored train when the strik ers’ camp was fired on.^Cisco Estep, a miner, was killed, and Mrs. Annie Hall fhjured. "There were ten or twelve men In the armored car attached to the train," said Calvin, "and when we got Just above Paint Creek Junc tion all of them began getting riflea ready They tried to give me a ri fe but I told them 1 had no shooting to do The brakeman came through the train and turned down the lights. | "He told us not to raise the win dows. but to shoot right through the windows I was leaning out of an open window and as we came up to Holly Grove 1 saw a stream of fire start out of the baggage car where the machine guns were monnted The stream kept up aa we went through Holly Grove "As we passed I saw three or four flaahe# of fire from the tents " He did not see any shots from the ten»a before the shooting began from the train I Juat heart the engine whlalle blow toot toot and the ahootlng from the ’rain began I am poai tl»e the shooting Aral began, from t he baggage car " The wltneae said that Quinn Vor ton waa on the train W hen the train had paaaed the Miners ramp at Hoi 1 v <)rr*ve be satd •Morton rame run ning back through the car and sbout- •d 'Hack ap the train and ws’H give them another round ” At thla statement Henator Martlne of New Jersey, almost leaped from bia chair ' W hat sort of s man is this man Paul Morton I mean Quinn Mor ton*" he shouted "la he an ordi nary American rttlien that he ordsr such a thing*’ The aforne^a for the coal opera tors were on the!r feet In a moment and fur a time the committee room waa in confusion "Mr Morton will be brought be fore your committee” shouted At torney Jackson "and you will see him and talk with him " "God help me then," remarked Senator Martlne. The attorneyi for the operators protested vigorously against Sena tor Marline's remarks. T’nder examination by Mr Belcher the witness said that when the train reached Mucklow, Just above Holly Grove, the men In the armored car remained there for three days, until after the last "battle of Mucklow ” The witness declared that Chesa peake and Ohio detective had slugged him In a Charleston hotel because he had quit the company. Pale-faced women and men, who showed traces of years of arduous toll digging coal from the West Vir ginia mountains told the committee their side of the controversy. It was the tale of a peaceful com munity of happy, contented people transformed Into a theatre of war, and the members of the Senate com mittee sat back, with startled glances aa witneas after witness told the story of the strike. The attorneys for the striking min ers In presenting their cases called about a dozen men and women of the hills to tell the committee of the atack on the strikers’ camp at Holly Grove. The atorneys for the mine opera tors insisted that the train was fired on from the town before the machine guns which w^re so mounted so as loose The "death special” as the minors termed It, or the "Bull Moose” train, as It was called by the operators, was described by Harry Arthur, who was employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad as a brakeman on the train. He described the steel sheet ing which encased the baggage car of the train and the two machine to give the greatest possible range through the protected doors of the cars Mrs. Annie Hall, who limped Into the committee room, told the com mittee how she had shielded her three little children from the bullets by hiding them la the chimney cor ner of her' little home at Holly EDITOR WILL BE TRIED V INDICTED FOR SAYING IILKASE SHOT LD RE SHOT. ♦ W. O. Saunders, Who Is a Free Thinker, Did Not Like What the Governor Said at Richmond. H. F. Seawell, United States attor ney at Raleigh, N. C., has notified Governor Blease that the grand Jury has returned a-true bill of indictment against W. 0. Sanders, of Elizabeth City, N. C., for publishing and mail ing "The Down Homer,” a magazine, containing an article under the head ing: “Cole L. Blease Ought to Be Shot.” The Indictment is returna ble at Elizabeth City for trial at the Octoiber . term, 1913 W. O. Sanders is a “free thinker” editor of “The Down Homer,’’ an in dependent magazine, published at Elizabeth City. The article for which he Is indicted wae, according to a letter written by the governor’s pri vate secretary, "Incendiary In char acter and flowing with filth.” On February 14, John K. Aull, pri vate secretary to the chief executive, wrote the chief postoffee Inspector at Washington, sending him a copy of the publication containing the ob jectionable article, which reached the governor’s office through the mall on the morning of February 14. In his letter, Mr. Aull says that "The Down Homer" Is "a magazine openly ad vocating murder and anarchy.” Mr. AuU's letter to the chief post- office inspector follows: "Columbia. S C . Feb 14. 1913. “Chief Postofflce Inspector, Washing ton. D C , “Dear Sir: It Is not my desire to trespass upon your time, but I want to send you a publication called 4he 'Down Homer,’ purporting to be pub lished by W O Sanders. Elizabeth City. N C.. which reached thla office through the malls thla morning You will note the Incendiary article on page one. headed 'Please Ought to Be Shot ’ “I have sent you several other claaaes of filth, but none of them seema to have violated the postal regulations. In the opinion of your sttomeys I em sending this In ehlrh ’he filth seems to be over flowing In another diroction a mag aiine openly advocating murder and anarchy and respectful!* ,■ k for a report aa to eligibility to the malle " Rcwpert fully. "John K Aull . "Private Secretarv ” The letter of H K Seawell. f’nlted State* attorney, follows "June 1*. 1413 "Hon Cole 1. Blease. Governor. Co lumbia. S C . "Dear Sir You are edviead that on complaint from your office to the poetoffice department. I have prepar ed and sent sad the grand Jary have returned a true bill of Indictment against W O Sanders of Elizabeth ettv for publishing and mailing ’The fVown Homer’ containing an article he*d*-d 'Cole I. Blease Ought to Be Shot ' This Indictment has been transferred to Klisabeth Cltv for trial at the October term, 1913 It will not be necessary for you to be pre* ent at the trial but this ta written for your Information ' Respectfullv. "H F Seawell. 'Tntted State* Attorney " FIVE MEN DIE IN KXPLOftlON. Boilers of Steam Barge E. M. Peck Burst Destroying Vessel. At Racine. Wla., the boilers of the steam barge E M. Peck exploded Wednesday killing four members of the crew, injuring six and destroying tne vessel. In addition Bernard H. Schwenzn, the second engineer, is missing and is believed to have been drowned. Two of the crew were ao badly Injured that physicians say they can not recover. The vessel was literally torn to pieces above the water line, from the stern forv/ari to the pilot house. Threw Bomb in Crowd. At Lisbon, Portugal, several per sons were killed and a large num ber wounded Friday by the explosion of a dynamite bomb thrown from a window at a procession passing along the streets. Grove when the armored train made its appearance. She said she had been shot through the feet by a bul let, which passed through the Bible and Hymnal on her parlor table. W. B. Buzzard told the commit tee that a man with whom he was talking on a Cabin Creek train was shot from a closet on the car after an argument with a mine guard. No criminal action had ever resulted from the shooting so far as he knew. Sidney Byers, a miner, said that the people In the strike district were "terrorized by the behavior cf the j mine* guards.” who paraded ttirough the district fully armed. Ilaiph Mc Neil, of Eskdale, declared he had been mistreated by guards r.ud Har vey S. Campbell, a former special agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, said that be had ridden on the "Bull Moose” train and ha/1 been ordered to ahoot if atones were thrown at the train. "If you ahoot, shoot to kill.” was oar orders," he ■aid. FlfiHT FREE SUGAR vrra tie nniNHENT pistil DEPitTNENT AND PUG OFFICES . • — ♦ Representative of the Sugar Trust Testifies That More Than 1,500,- 000 Copies of Arguments Against Free Sugar Had Been Printed in Government Office. How the Government printing of fice and the post-office department helped in the fight against free sugar through the use of Congressional franks for sending antl-free sugar “literature” circulating throughout the land was brought out Thursday by the Senate lobby Investigators. Truman G. Palmer, Washington rep resentative of the United States beet sugar industry, on the stand the en tire day and the object of a sweeping cross-examin'ation, testified that more than 1,500,000 copies of arguments in behalf of beet sugar had been turned out by the Government print ing office, made public documents by order of Congress and had ridden on the franks of Senators and Repre sentatives to the ends of the country, postage free. "Sugar at a Glance," prepared by him, he said, had at tained a circulation of 30,000 copies under the frank of Senator Ix>dge "Report* of the Finance Committee,” by the aame Senator, had beaten the pamphlet by 80,000 coplaa. The franks of Senator Smoot, for mer Senator* Curtla and Dick and the late Representative Malby, former Repraeentatlve Picket and Repreaen- tative Martin had swelled the total to more than a million and a half The printing of aome of thla number had been paid for by the beet sugar people, the witneee aald. but the free [•oetage had saved them about |A.- 000 Mr F > almer developed that "Sagar At a Second Glance." which he intimated » aa inspired by the Fed eral Sugar Refining Company, and which waa an argument In behalf of free sugar, had also been printed as s public document and circulated under the franking privilege He did not say. nor did the committee ask why the frank w aa eo us<-] Mr Palmer aald that the beet sug ar men had spaot about |1<9 000 in thalr campaign again*! free sugar sine* 19o: About no 000 had been uaed stnc* last November, apd about fourtaen thousand of that amount since the beginning of the present aaaatba of Congress Much of If had has a apaat la "pwfctttity work" la printing. asUri** and a good sis ad sura in motion picture# Ha anld that th* beat producer* In hi* Aa soclatlon wars ******* J about five cants per ton. h* thought The last assessment wa* mads In April, bring Ing In about lit <100 and th* pre- »1ous on* In February, about |17. 000 Palmer aald that when Senator Lodge made a speech on sugsr In Ju ly. ill. the chart* subsequently uaed In "Sugar at a Glance ware on the walla of the Senate Chamber Sena tor I^>dge secured the parmlaalon of the Senate to hav* them printed aa a public document Questioned by member* of the committee, the wit ness said that after the chart* had been sent to the government print ing office and proofs in black and white had been made of them, he had discovered they were suitable for publication. He had. therefore, sent them to a private printing concern and had them prepared in a fashion he thought suitable. This he main tained. waa done with the knowledge of Senator Lodge and he considered that he was acting for ihw Senator In the matter. Members of the committee express ed surprise that any one should In any way change something authorized to be printed by the Senate. They de veloped that the permission waa se cured by Senator Lodge for printing on July 27 and that one bFlfcVeral Issue* of "Sugar at a Glance” refer red to an order of the Senate on August 1 In the same matter. The second order referred to data prepared by Truman G. Palmer and purported to be signed by Charles G. Bennett, the secretary of the Senate. Mr. Palmer said he supposed that the order had been made and that he got It In the proofs of the charts from the printing office. The Congressional Record of August 1, according to Senator Cummins, showed no such order, nor did the Journal of the Senate nor the files In Its document room. "You substituted at the govern ment printing office for the document you received from the clerk, of the Senate this privately printed copy?” said Senator Reed. "I don’t think that Is a fair ques tion,” said Palmer. -v "I want to find out about this,” said Senator Cummins. “It is a rath er serious matter to forge a signature of the secretary of the Senate to an order that never was made.” The committee finally dropped the question with the expressed determi nation to pursue It further and Inves tigate books and records of every sort to get the Information they seek. I—a tor Lodge will fcs hoard In oxplo- SAVED FROM THE CHAIR NEGRO MURDERER SAVED BY SUPREME COURT. f Given a New Trial and Because of the Absence of a Witness Is Acquit ted. A dispatch, from Florence says as a result of the rehearing of the case of the State against Harry McIntosh and John Williams, because of the admission of Freddie McIntosh’s evi dence, which the Supreme Court or dered eliminated, the case of John Williams was not pressed after the State had concluded its testimony Wednesday, and! 'Harry McIntosh alone was left to be tried for the mur der of little Andrew Jackson. The jury returned a verdict Wednesday afternoon charging Harry McIntosh as being guilty, and recommended him to mercy. It was plainly discernible W day as the case proceeded under the State’s side that the wheels of Justice were slipping and ttyt there was lit tle hope of them even getting a grain of sand to hold against th|^. would bring about the Implication of John Williams, one of the negroes that was charged with, found guilty at the first trial and sentenced to death in the electric chair, and when the last witness had been heard. In cluding the new evidence of Capt Landon C. Jones, who testified that he rode up town in the hack with Williams the night that little Andrew Jackson diasapared and that he drove a white home the solicitor could do no more than to request a nol proase in the case of John Williams Williams Foxworth one of the main State’s witnesses, had "skld- ooed" to parts unknown and has not yet been located He was at Hart- ville for a while and later at Marlon An effort was made In Court to show that for the r«*si>onslb!llty of hit ab sence Julia McIntosh, the molhar of Harr» McIntosh, had something to do However. Foiworth la gone and his binJamen will have to come aero**, tut that even will not allay the feeling of ’.hose Interested In the case AITEMPMSSAULT NE6I0 FIEND ATTiCR LADY AT DLOFTTON A SUSPECT WAS KILLED Beaufort Naval Reserves on Way to Prevent Trouble, Which May Grow — Out of Excitement Following Kill ing of Negro Who Proved to he the Wrong Man. * UNIVERSITY SEVENTY-TWO DIPLOMAS AWARDED Tba (> •• • t ’h#n pro*-—-<1#<J to pa«» aentrnra •i Mattv Vlrln’oah • hlrh • aa tha’ t •- ',r it.(>rl<u>n«-<1 tn the I'-nltent! -' ' >r hla »hoi** nat ural Ufa Wlthlr. « • niurient* a' ’er nrn taora ha ’ t>—-n pa»ae.J th- t h run** of people • bo had a*alt«Hj tl b* paaa log of sentsor* began to leav* the Court room and It was engaged In GRAND VIZIER MHOT DOWN Th# Tnrklah Mia mi by of War Is Kin- At Conataotloopl* Mahmoud Bchsf- ket Pa*ha. th* Turkish grand vltlar and mlnmter of war. waa shot and killed by a****ataa Wednesday Hla aide de ramp Ibrahim Bey. waa also kilU-d The following official account of the aasAsalnatlon has been lasuad "On leaving th* ministry of war this morning tha grand vizier enter ed a motor car with th* Intaalioa of proceeding to th* aubltm* Porte Etut the car waa obliged to stop while going through Hayazld and Divan Yolu square because th* road was torn up. Some persona in another car. whose Identity has been been ee- tabllabed, fired ten abots at the car The grand vizier, who was severely wounded, was taken back to rhe min istry of war. where he died half an hour later Lieut. Ibrahim Bey, who was accompanying Mahmoud Schef- ket Pasha, also waa hit by some of the bullets aud subsequently died.” A man named Topal Tewflk has been arrested. He had In his posses sion two revolvers and cartridges. The motor car used by the assassins was found snd the owner arrested. He has already made certain admis sions. A dispatch from BJufftoh says that town and the surrounding region is in a state of excitement, following an attempted assault by a negro upoh the wife of a prominent citizen Tues day evening. The woman was pre- Jng supper at the time, her hus- iand not having returned from work. About half past seven o’clock a negro suddenly appeared and attacked the woman, who wrenched herself free and ran from the house. She hastened to the home of a neighbor and gave the alarm and a posse was quickly in pursuit of the black, who is described by his Intend ed victim as being about 30 years old, over six feet in height and of a dark ginger-cake color. A negro answer ing the description was arrested Wed nesday morning In Ridgeland by the chief of police, and is being held there. . A negro named Jackson, answering the description of the assailant, was killed in Bluffton Wednesday, when he realated arreat, and the negfloea ar# threatening reprisals It i* bo- lleved there that Jackaon is the negro who attacked the woman. Governor Blease has been naked to .'*1' out th* Beaufort militia for th* protection of the citizen* of Bluffton Part!#* from Ridgeland are has tening to Bluffton in automobiles to aid in controlling the situation, which la beginning to look ugly Acting on '(Jovemor Rleeee's order*, th* Bean fort Naval Reserves are under arm* in readinaoa to proceed to Bluffton at a moment* notice Sheriff Whit# ■ nd the commander of the troops are keeping In touch with Blufftoo thru Sheriff Porter at Ridgeland The negro William Jackaon. who was shot and Instantly killed by Btat# I^etectlve V? F Hammond whan he remitted arreat Wedneaday. has daclarad by tha woman upon whom th* criminal assault was attempted os being the wrong negro and sot the one who mad* th* attempt. Sheriff V O. D White, of Bean fort County, has loft with a laoacb fell of oitra dap a Has to rood Portoe. of J sopor, I* already in Bluffton roodorlag oil pooslhlo ao- Ing for th# aogro, hot It oo* aa If ho has mod* good his Th* bod w*#th*r still eoatlauoo wihch makes th* eoarch oxtromoly hard on tha men A lata dispatch from tha aeon* of tha crime Friday afternoon stated that tha search was boiag kept op, but that there waa quiet in the com munity The Beaufort company la on hand to prevent further iron ble. INDIFFERENCE OF PARENTS. I/eaps to Death From Porch. Richard Emory Davis, for - thirty- five years a member of the Savannah police force, Monday leaped from the second story porch of the Savannah hospital, dying an hour later from Injuries sustained In the fall. His skull was crushed. He was a native of Hampton County, South Carolina, and a veteran of the civil war. Coldest Day for Florida. A dispatch from Jacksonville says Wednesday was the coldest June day in Florida in forty years, or since the weather bureau was established at tha^ place. It Is down to 52 and the damp and chill has started grate and furnace fires to going again. nation If he desires to appear. Mr. Palmer became indignant at Senator Reed’s efforts to find out everything done by the beet men In Washington. "I don’t think business men are barred from the city of Washington,” he added. "There is nothing dis reputable In talking to Senators and Congressmen. They don’t live In glass houses. I have been free to try to convert them and prevent the ruin which I believe will result from the passage of the bill in Congress.” Mr. Palmer’s InveetlfaUoa will continue. The committee subpoe- noed A. O. Robinson, of Weeklegtoa. Fiend Pay* the Penalty. At Washington Nathaniel Green, negro who criminally assaulted white woman within sight of the cap- itol, on Christmas night, went to his death on the scaffold Monday, the first man to pay the death penalty for such a crime in the District of Colum bia Almost in a state of collapse, Green was assisted to the gallows and was dead in ten minutes. China Indorsee Peace Plan. China Monday became the four teenth nation to endorse Secretary Bryan’s peace plan. Minister Chang called upon the Secretary and told him that his government accepted .the Idea in principle afijl wqald like to consider the details. *' * Thirty-fonr In the Literary meat, Thirty-Two In Law and Ms am Pervaded by a tlnsa of sain— at the knowledge that the beloved Dr. S. C. Mitchell wag retiring from the presidency, the commencement exer cises of the University of Sovth Car olina came to a close Wednesday morning with the conferring of de grees and the delivery of seventy- three diplomas to the graduates of the several departments, the largest in the history of the University. A tender and touching farewell by Dr. Mitchell, who retires from the presl- lency to accept that of the 'Medical College of Virginia, left its Impress on the heart of every one of the larga audience which gathered for thg final exercises. A masterly address on "The Ques tion Which Confronts the Gradnatas n South Carolina.” by Mr. Walter H. lunt, of Newberry, was a rare treat for the students and audience. Mr. Hunt is a pleasing and attractive speaker and he handled the subject Wednesday morning ia hie own in- mitable way. Announcements of the retiring of Dr. 8. C. Mitchell from the presidency and of the selection of Tof. A. C. Moore, the dean of the faculty, aa acting president, were re ceived with Interest. The degree of LL. D. waa confer- '•ed by the board on Prof. Charles W. Blaln, formerly a member of the fac ulty snd now of North Carolina. The year brought to a close Wednesday hss literally been the mart sueoeesfel In the history of tho Univoreity tram the standpoint of atteadaaoo. IIS having been In atteadanoe dertag tha year, and 70 new students matricu lating dating that time, breaking all prevloes records Under tho wise and able leadership of Prseidnot Mit chell th* University has heee brought up to g high gtandnrd and there Is gee sine regret that ho la going to leave the State. A largely attended sad megnlftemt ball Wednesday night In the Uaiver- alty gymnasium brought tho com mencement of 1I1S to an sal. An nouncements of the medal wt—ere and th* conferring of medals to tho winners showed that W H Rrott won th# Pope medal. LAoyd L Smith the M I O. A medal, and Marlon A. Wright tho B. C. 1. O. A. model Tho following member* of claes dshvred gddr*ag Jam** Allaa Jr, “Th* M the Fairies.” Brood us Mitchell. “Whit Poet of H. R. Maa as Cl Uses.’ A. C. •evoaty-throo rred and dl| Master of Arts wan four. Bachelor of Arts was twenty-six. Bachelor of Bdooeo u on four. Baehalor of Laws waa thirty-two. Civil this department. They Hhook) Know Where Their Chil dren Are at Night. A committee appointed by the mayor of an eastern city to consider and report what Is most needed in that city to better moral conditions gave aa their verdict that one of th* greatest needs Is better home life and more thorough supervision of their children by parents. Probably that same need is realised in every plsce. The American love of free dom is right but it must not be al lowed to degenerate into license and Indifference. Yet that is too often the case in American home life. Not enough vigilance is exercised over the child. Parents take for granted that of which they should make sure. Children are too often allowed to be out at night into unreasonable hours, and It is taken as a matter of eonree and no question* are asked to where they have been or what company they have kept. This criminal compla cency i* responsible for the down ward career of hosts of girls and the degenerate lives of hosts of boys. YEOGMAN Walks Quietly Away Tidal Is Walter Foster, alias Clauds Foster, wanted in Columbus, Miss., for safe- blowing, quietly walked from tho United State* Court room duria# hla prolftnfaary hearing at Btmtmghoa, Ala., Monday afternoon gad has not been soon since. He had bean ta Jail several weeks and was resisting ex tradition. While Judge Watts was writing at his desk the prisoner stop ped to th* lavatory snd disappeared, though the room was fall of people and several detectives were fa th* corridors waiting to testify against him. DATES FOR ENCAMPMENT. Governor Blease hits Mayor Grace hard. If tha Governor has got hla story right Charleston aaeds a now Aiken, Anderson, and Named for Encampments. 1 U-* ■ v A committee consisting of the col onels of the three regiments of State troops met Tuesday In Columbia and decided on the following dates for tha encampment of the Bute militia: Third regiment, Aiken, July 17 to 26. First regiment, Anderson, July 21 to 30. Second regiment, State camp, July 29 to August 7. This action by the committee was sent to the governor for his consid eration and will have to be approved by him before being permanently agreed upon. Boys Were Almost Frozen. George Ashe, Perry Ashe snd An drew Sherrod, white boys, who are tramping from Yorkvllle to Brevard, N. C.. arrived at Spartanburg Wed nesday night, nearly froase. Altho they were clad in khaki whit#.- Spartanburg hsary offer of tha pettee la lot