Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GETS EMU WBA* GREAT BRITAIN THINKS OP BRITON'S KCRIHER. I # TENSION IS HEUEfEO WUmb aad Hit C<a>lB«C Diacnaa the MmOtmm 81 ta*tlon—Agree to Stick \ •• hotter of Peace, Althoogh Do. •■■•hied to Show Flrmneaa la ita »»*Wage With Both Side*. Britain’s pronouncement Ihroatk Sir Edward Grey that the Waited States was In no way respon* Ale for the recent execution at Jua- re« of . William S. Benton, a British •abject, and that the American gor- ' ■nment would not be asked to re sort to force as a result of the inci dent was the chief factor in the Mexl- ■» situation Tuesday. Tension, which had been felt at Washington oxer the killing of Ben ton, arose largely because it was be- Mered Great Britain might press the United States into taking the most drastic steps to obtain reparation. The British riew that the United States is not obliged to demand re paration for Great Britain lessens the tension to some extent, .although it is declared the Benton Incident has developed an intention on the part of the Americdn-gbvernment to take a ■ore aggressive attitude toward the contending fiction In Mexico, r While definite information as to the fate of Gustav Bauch, the Amerl- cltlsen supposed to have been lied by Constitutionalists, and lemente Vergara, another American reported murdered by Mexican Fed- erals, was lacking, it is certain there will be no let-up in the efforts of the American government to obtain There were few dispatches of im portance to the State department from Mexico Tuesday. Word was be- tog awaited from Gen. Carransa as to I whether he would pcmiji in bis aUi entertainment at the coun- tnde of denying the right of the Unit ed States to Inquire about a British eubjeet, which halted the expedition ef commissioners who were to exam ine Benton’s body. Carranra’s friends at Washington have been telegraph- teg the Constitutionalist chief advis ing a change in his position, but no word had been received by them up to tet* Tuesday from Nogales. That the United States again may communicate with Carranza seeking protection for foreign subjects was in timated by Secretary Bryan. Repre sentations have been made to the United States on behalf of a Span iard named Ruiz and it is likely the Amerisan’government will make in quiries ef Carranza as to him. Though there have been intimations in press dispatches that the jame answer would be given to inquiries about •paaish subjects as was given about the Benton Case, the intention of the American government to continue to act for ether nations has not been altered. .. The phases of the situation and Oarraaaa’s attitude occupied much of toe time at the cabinet meeting, dome administration official express ed the opinion that, while Carransa may net have intended to be un friendly to the United States in de fying the right of this government to •sake infutriew about foreign subjects imposed an embarrassing sit- set members agree with the pNaddent tost every peaceful means trst should 'be . tried to settle the ■exieaa question bfore there is re sort to armed intervention. There is apparent, however, a stiffening in toe American policy and a firmness which is interpreted in official cir cles as meaning an insistence on de mands hitherto made. There is every reason to believe the United States will continue to press its re quest for an examination of Benton’s body. -V I , Chester Child Burned to Death. « The child of Sam Rainey, a negro of Chester, was found dead by Its mother on her return home Tuesday qftermoen. It had fallen among the biasing wood fire and was horribly burned. . Beys Have Scrap to Church. The pastor of a church In Falls Elver, Mass, is nnrsing a broken arm, sustained to parting two boy gymna sium teams, who began fighting over a basket ball game In the church gym- Ruu Over by Fast Train. Mistaking a limited train for a freight, James J. Mullen, of Water- town, N. Y., while crossing the 8. A. L. tracks at Bran ton, Fla., Friday was struck and instantly killed. Dinner to Underwood. As a tribute to. the work pf Oscar W.'jBtorwood of Alabama, as Demo- cratuHkder in the House, President Wilson^ Will give a dinner at the Whits House on March 9. "Pay Big Tax. One Chicago man will pay an to me tax of I4S.B1MI. his aaaaal Msms hstog asarir ll.ddO.fH. 4 FIANCEE WAS HIS SISTER BROTHER WHfS.HER DOVE HOT KNOWING THKIR TIE. Ring Given Him by His Sister When i . ■ They Separated Identifies Them on Their Wedding Day. A ring, made from a ten-cent piece, has prevented Frank Cameron from marrying his sister, known aa Mary Hardy. The girl la at her ranch homo, near Becklngham, Oolp., al most prostrated, and the man is brok en by grief. The revelation of their relation ship, just throe hours before the pair were to be married, was brought about purely by chance. The boy and girl, whose real names are Frank and Mary Howard, were separated in Iowa when Cameron was IT years old and his sister 9. Their parents had died. The children, were taken to an orphans’ home, but in a short time were adopted, each by a different family. Frank gave to his sister when they parted a little circlet—the rim of a dime, out of which he had cut the head. This was all he had. He told her to keep it always to remind her of him. The sister la turn gave the boy a small gold ring—a gift from her dead mother—and enjoined him to keep that also. ^ The family named Cameron that adopted the boy soon moved to Cali fornia, then back east to Illinois and finally to Canada. Frank had adopt ed the Cameron name, but he had not forgotten his sister. He went to Iowa after attaining manhood-and searched for her. But the Hardy family, whose name she had taken, also had moved a great deal. So fin ally he gave up the search and went to Colorado Where he -took up a homestead. Uy.a raj# cotouideaoerifiury Hafdy arrived In Colorado about the same time and also filed on a homestead. A number of years passed and then Frank Cameron and Mary Hardy met ft a “literary”, one of the popular try schoolhouses in the plains region Young Cameron fel in love with his pretty neighbor, and she admired him. He called often at her home, and,; finally, when he proposed mar riage, she accepted him. When Cam eron appeared, omwhat was to be the happy day, at the home of his fiancee she was dressed in her wedding gown, “Whose ring is that on your watch chain?” the girl asked. “It belonged to my little sister—” H e did not finish the answer. The girl, had run into another room. Presently she “hurried to him and placed a small silver circlet—the rim of a dime from which the head had been cut. Then the girl screamed and fell unconscious^- Friends who had ar rived to accompany them to Greeley, the county seat where they were to be married, looked on in amazement. After Miss Hardy had regained con sciousness she and her brother ex plained all to their friends. Then they embraced and parted for a time, aa the new love had not yet displaced Hie old. BLACK FIEND PUNISHED. Negro Gets Thirty Years As Remit of Attacking White Girls. Protest, threats of recall and de nunciations poured in Wednesday on Judge Willis, pf the criminal depart ment of the Superior Court, because he sentenced to thirty years’ im prisonment Charles Guyton, a young negro, convicted of highway robbery, although he only stole a white girl’s kiss. Deputations of foolish white women visited the Judge to demand that action be taken to save Guyton from, such severe punishment Telephone messages informed him that petitions were being prepared for his recall. Other women called in per son to say that steps would be taken to procure a pardon from the Gover nor. Judge Willis explained that the negro had been convicted of highway robbery. He had taken a dime from the white girl, although he gave it back after he kissed her, but be bad subjected six other young white wo men to similar treatment, besidee criminally attacking two negro girls. Execute Bold Robbery. Two youthful robbers of Louisville, tty., Tuesday night entered a jewelry •tore, drove the proprietor and hit clerk ont at pistol points and pro ceeded to sack the store of 94,000 worth of jewelry. Millionaire's Baby Burma. While playing with matches in Au gusta Wednesday, Joseph Speer, Jr., the one year old child of a northern millionaire was burned to death when he set fire to his clothes. Wreck Injures Fourteen. Fourteen Jersons were Injured and mnoh railroad property destroyed in a wreck Tuesday near Port Jenrta, N. Y., between two passenger trains. rlfor Quinine. Thos. A. Mills, mall carrier from Fort Mill Monday took a quantity of poison, mistaking it for quinine. He will recover. . . ; J.*; * •** k GAINING MEASURE DESIGNED TO STOP COTTON SPECULATION. i SMITH AUTHOR OF lilt Junior Report Favorable ou Anti-Futures BU1- Would Bar Use of Mails to Traders i ■' j ' Who Disregard Government Stand ards of Value. Senator Smith of South Carolina Thursday submitted a favorable re port of the committee on agriculture of' the Senate upon hip -bill to regu late trading to eotton futures and provide for the standardization of “uplands5 and “gulf” cottons sepa rately. The bill, which Senator Smith had drawn and which waa introduced in April last, provides that any per son, corporation, etc., engaged in in terstate commerce. In making or of fering for sale any contracts for the future delivery of cotton shall speci fy the grades contracted for in each contract, and that these grades shall be according to the government standardization. The effect of this measure will .be practically to force the exchanges to adopt the govern ment standards of cotton. A further section of the bill of Senator Smith provides that the in terstate means of communication, such aa the malls, telegraph lines and express companies, shall be denied to persons and corporations in making contract which do not conform to the first section of the bill, and makes the violation of the terms of the act a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. When the bill was considered by -the suuhuIH— HU IiiiiiihIh Senator Smith waa authorized to write the favorable report of the committee bn it Pending certain investigations which the department was making under the terms of a resolution of Senator Smith to teat the spinning values of cotton, he withheld making the report on his cotton futures bill until these tests had .been completed. Now that these teets have been fin ished and so completely prove the contention of Senator Smith that af ter all thei intrinsic values of the dif ferent grades of cotton are practical ly the same and that the main differ ence IS in the amount of waate. Sen ator Smith has prepared the detailed report which he submitted to the Senate. The report, although not very lengthy, clearly seta out the practices of the cotton exchanges of the country. Senator Smith discuss ed in a clear manner the fixed differ ence system, and shows this to be the basis of the objectionable operations of the exchanges. “This means,” the report continues, discussing the method of fixed differ ences, “that-the price of the different grades, as compared with some grade taken as a standard or comparison and universally known aa ’middling', is fixed arbitrarily by the .exchange fer a period of time. “To illustrate: -Prior to January 1, 1908, the New York exchange had divided the different grades of cot ton into 80 grades. ’Middling’ was the standard of comparison. This might be regarded aa representing zero. All of the grades below it, 15 in numjber, were considered of greeter value; all of the grades above It, 14 in number, were considered of great er value. The committee of the ex change, charged by'the exchange with the duty of fixing difference, wonld meet on a given date and de termine what wonld be the relative prices of all the grades shove and be low ’middling’ for the next three months. It will be understood that daring all of the yean preceding, the trade had recognized a difference in the value of the grades, but as a mat ter of course this difference was largely dependent upon the supply of the different gradee. “They were never uniform in their volume—one season might be open and another might be dondy and damp. During the open season there wonld be naturally a greater supply of tbs more desirable or higher grades and a lesssr supply of tbs lower or mors undsslrabls grades. The difference between them wonld be less because there were certain mills which regularly bought and us ed the* lower grades; others bought and used the higher grades. When, therefore, the supply of either on# of these two divisions was excessive, the law of supply and demand was sup posed to reflect this, bnt under the fixed difference on the exchange it did not The result was that there was attracted to New York a consid erable amount of low grade cotton which waa stored and used as stock for delivery In settlement of out standing contracts. ^”A section In the New York cotton Exchange contract provided that the seller of\a contract for delivery should sell basis middling but the seller had the privilege of delivering In settlement ftf-tkfa contract waa Mag toaa&t la Xepr York at ■ate per pound, when It waa really worth t or t cents more per pound, demoralised aad practically rained I the oetton market Instances are on| record where the quotations for fu ture contracts ‘basts middling’ quoted ‘middling’ from 17.59 to lit per 1ple lower than 'spot middling’ eould be bought—-that Is, the sc* ml 'spot cot ton’ out of tho warehouss to Now York. - 1 “Therefore, the complaint of the fanners was Just and righteous. As the commissioner of commerce aad labor said in his report, there were a few who understood the nature of a contract and could possibly govern themselves so as not to susUln a se rious loss, hut the rank and file of the small farmers of the country who were dependent upon the local buyer for their prices were mercilessly fleeced. Thse local buyers, of course, would pay them for their ‘middling’ cotton according to the future quota tions of ’middling' cotton the the New York utoange. “At toe second session of the Sixty- first congress an appropriation of $38,650 was made for the establish ment of standards for the different grades of cotton. This resulted in the establishment by the government of nine official grades, vis, ‘good ordi nary,’ ’strict good ordinary,’ 'low mid dling,’ ‘dtjribt low middling,’ ’mid dling,' ’strict middling,’ ‘good mid dling,’ ’strict good middling’ and ‘middling fair.’ These grades were made with reference to the color and foreign matter of the cotton.” - The bill which this report accom panies,' after being carefully review ed by the committee on agriculture of the Senate, recommends to con gress that the mail, telegraph and all services used for the transmission of news shall be denied to any party, corporation, association or individual who does not specify the specific grade being sold and the price at terms of ths Ne4* ferk cotton ex change at his pleasure. "This resulted to an absolata de moralisation of the trade, the news being ssat abroad that middling cot- HALTED BOARD INVESTIGATING BENTON’S DEATH H STOPPED. which such specific grade is being _ sold, the date of delivery, and suchfAd conclusive, that grade or grades ai are contracted for and that the delivery shall be ac cording to the government standard izatlon. This bill would eliminate the matter complained of above—the basis contract and the fixed differ ence. Some doubt has arisen as to whether or not the federal govern ment has the power to determine the nature of any contract entered into and technically complied with, wholly within a particular State, hut there can be no doubt that the means of in terstate communication may be de nied partlee when it>la demonstrated that such contract is not in accord ance with honesty and fair dealing. It Is but fair to state that since the Introduction of the bill which this re port accompanies a very startling revelation has been made by tip de partment of agriculture, under the, term of a Senate amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill during the last session. This amendment appropriated $46,000 to test the span ning values of the different grades of cotton standardized by the govern mercial, intrinsie valtfee of the differ ent grades. — / * This has Just £een completed by the department of agriculture and samples of the resnlts are available. The result of this Investigation re veals the fact that the difference be tween the gradee from “good ordi nary” to- “mlddHng fair”, which ex tremes comprise the nine gradee standardised by the government, is practically negligible. Hence, it ap pears that no great losses would be sustained by the producera of ootton if the cotton exchangee were to be limited In their deliveries to the gov ernment standards, and'the prices of the different gradee made to conform to the spinning values of the differ ent gradee as determined by the offi cial teets above referred to. In this bill they are limited to the specific grades. k--It la the opinion of the committee that this bill should paw, according to the findings of the department of agricuRure and the testa aibove re ferred to, the evils complained of will be eliminated. It is the opinion of the committee also that the paesage of this bill will ultimately force the exchangee to accept the government standardisation and to acknowledge that the fictitious differences as they have heretofore fixed them between the several gradee are unwarranted and unreal. Negro Goto light Seatewce. In sentencing a negro rUplst e Hartford, Conn., judge said Thursday “I sentehce you to not more than $6 years and not lew than $0 years in the State penitentiary, and you may thank heaven that you live to u more or lew temperute tone. r '• ♦ ♦ Unemployed Make Jowruey. Equipped with blankets and cook ing utensils, -200 unemployed men started for Washington from Sen Francisco, Cal., Friday to petition to Congress for work. Negro Steals Mail Sack. A negro-.pt Joliet, 111., admitted to jRjMMBaaUc£wtoi - ♦ ♦ ♦ ■ Water The water tank of the Southern railway was shake* down si Folvtlle, Ga., by the earthquake ef Thursday FACTS AIE DENIED 0. S. THEY STEAL -f NEW YORK CHAUmUB * OF THIEVING SYNWOA1 Tells 'V Are el Leedsr, am Saturday Declines to Answer Americas Dip lomatic Inquiries as to Benton’s Deetii On Sunday He Refases to Allow Board to Examine Body. Gen. Carransa Saturday declined to furnish' the State department at Washington information regarding the killing at Juares of' the Britlsn Subject, William S. Benton. The revolutionary leaders say that the death of Benton, a Briton, should be takep QP through the diplomatic channel* of his country. The fact that England has recognised the Huerta central government waa not mentioned in the reply, hut occasion ed much speculation among those familiar with the situation. All correspondence on the Mexican side of the matter was, given to the Associated Frew, with the statement of Senor Fabela that the Benton case was being investigated for the infor mation of Gfcn. Carranza, or perhaps in case England should request the data. This, it waa pointed out, ^.ould put England in the position of either actually recognizing the constitution alist party in spite of the previous recognition of Huerta, or being un able to obtain Information regarding the Welfare of its subjects in terri tory controlled by the insurgents. . In the meantime, information has reached W Anton was un armed and waa shot to death in Vil la’s office, pistol bullets through the stomach ending his life. Benton car ried no arms when he approached Villa’s office in Juares; he spent two hours waiting for the interview that ended in his death, walking back and forth in front of the office bnllding; he waa shot through the stomach af ter he entered the office and received other wounds afterwards, althea^h the first was mortal. On Saturday it was not known ex actly when the committee, appointed to investigate the killing ot.Benton, wonld begin Us works. Its start de pended, it waa said at Washington Saturday, on the availability of the special train which Villa promised to provide for the transportation of the party. Secretary Garrison early In the day authorized Gen. Scott, In command of the post at El Paso, to detail two army surgeons to make a medical examination of the body; and Acting Secretary Moore, of the State department, said it had been Ttft to the collector of customs and and “Fenced” on e Scale TfeM to Nation-wide to Be Week. The. existence of a country-wide syndicate of. eutomobtls thieves aad “fences*’, with headquarters 1* Mew York. New Orleans. Boetoon, Ghtango and Philadelphia, was revealed a tow days ago to a confession meAs to Judge Swann end Assistant Dletitoi- Attorney Deeul, in New York city, by Charles Rndy, an accnsed chauf feur. Rudy admits be made theu- sands of dollars blithe toet yeer ae director of a gang of thieves and receiver of the they stole. Rudy’s story has resalt ed in the errest of Frederick H. Goodman and Felix Leopold. An Important part of Rudy’s con fession deals with his relations with automobile Insurance companies. Rudy declares many of Umi thefts were made as a result of a tacit un derstanding with the inauraaee ad justers. They agreed to buy bade all insured machines he stole “and ask-. So questions”, ; t-—_— ~7‘—^ . . According to figures given to Jadga Swann, 268 antomobllee, valued st over $500,000, were stolen %y the gang In 1913. Of these 1*1 Were sold to insurance companies. Ninety per cent of the rest were shipped to other cities in exchange for onto Int er sold in New York. . -~ Rudy asserts that when ein were stolen they were run to garagee to various parts of New York elty. He Insists there is not a garage to the metropolis in which barbae not at some ttm# '1tod‘''iuch cars instorage. After a time the can are altered as much aa possible and then reeold. Where it la deemed too risky to make •ale in New York city they are shipped tb other placet and dtofseed of. The scheme is followed to ether cities. Rudy asserts that insuraaee ad-, justers were eager for busifiees with auto thieves. These adjusters weald calLRudy several time# a day and ask If he had any cars. If aot Rady would summon his accompliesA to* them what can to steal and how to steel them. Then the adjustors would offer a reward for the Melee car and take it off the hands of Che thieves. Rudy dedans this plan Whs followed to advertise the wtodees ef having can insured, and to make money for himself and the adjustors. _ the United States district attorney at ment, so as to^ascertain thie real, com- ^ * >a8 ° to Be * ect two representatives of the State department Sunday great surprise was occa sioned at Juares, Mexico, where the Benton investigating committee was prevented from proceeding to Chi huahua to examine the slain Benton’s body by rebel order. ‘ Col. Fidel Avila,. military commander, declined to permit them to board the regular passenger train which waa waiting. Whether the inddent means delay or the permanent prohibition of the mission could not be learned. The Mystery thrown around the occur rence led to many apparently exag gerated rumors. Persistent Inquiry at Juares and In El Paso failed to estob- lisb anything but the one fact that the commissioners,were refused ports on the Mexican side end re turned to El Paso. No official to Juares baa authority to take aucb ac tion aa waa taken in this case. Only two persons In Northern Mexico have the power—Venustiano Carranza and Gen. Francisco Villa. The order surprised the commis sioners. Villa at Chihuahua repeat edly has expressed his desire to has ten the inquiry, and hia offer of a spe- clal train to take the commission from Juares to Chihuahua, where Benton’s body is said to be buried, waa formally accepted by Marion Letcher, the American consul there. George C. Carothers, agent of tho State department In many of tho deal ings with Villa, detoyed bis departure for Chihuahua. Villa Demands Huge Louis Terrazas, Mexican refugee, Thursday appealed to tho United States Consul at El Paso, saying that Francisco Villa wonld kill his unleaa 600,000 pesos wore paid Im mediately. Woman Arrested to Man’s Clothes. The Charleston police Thursday ar rested a man, supposedly, but leter discovered that “he” waa a woman. She waa charged with drunkenness, bnt gave bail and dlsapi Covers Clerk and Gets-His ▲ well dressed stranger walked the police Thnrsday that he apd anllnio the office Atlanta accomplice stole n mall sack ccmtalh- and covered the clerk teta. Baby Borns to When Its cradle caught fire from a stove nearby the baby of Charles Lou th, of loWu City.-la., ten months old. wee burned to deatl ROBBERY UNSOLVED. « it Express Mystery of 1 Still Defies Southern Detectives. Although five months hay# passed since $71,900 was stolen tram a port able safe In transit from New York to Savannah, the mysterious express robbery is no nearer solution than the day-it was discovered, when the seta was opened. News that the moaoy was missing was telegraphed to sMelalq of the company a day or two before It leaked out on September It laai It was the signal for a small anaff ef detectives, officials and special agenda to go to Savannah and solve the theft. They worked several days aad nights there and sent a voluminous report to higher officials to New York. 1 H Every employe, who had an oppor tunity to steal the monew waa part under surveillance. A suspletoabl would have resulted to an none has ever been made. Every aae- ploye is still working for the com pany. It la the belief of i Southern Exprees company that i er or later the thief win Mike a falW step and his arrest will follow. OaaA- denee that the mystery, will be spivwi is expressed by them. 'i w CASH DRAWER ROBRHD. Ticket Agent at Cheater ] conscious by Un* Tho boldest robbery Chester for some years occurred day afternoon at the Seaboard AM Lino depot, when Mr. A. Pat WttoOfc, day ticket agent, waa knocked down, it Is said, by two strange white men, who then rifled the cash drawer ef $261,80 and fled. The robbery was committed just after the departure at a passenger train, after the had left the station and Mr. Witoea was preparing to crow the street to the freight depot. One of tho men la described by Mr. Wilson as being about 5 feat, t tochsa to height, and heavy aot, while hto companion was taller. Thdy are ha* lleved to bo strangers. Mr. Wflaaa was knoeked unconscious witk same blunt Instrument, and lay to that con dition for half an hour, or more. Up* on coming to his senses ha waa able Jo give only n partial description of bis assailants, aa ha was knocked down Jnst as ha opened wwgrtfartojT to , :JO Dragged Drugged by burglars, whs broke into his boms near Silver Creak, f George Lillie, ft years old, 1