Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VIIZA EXPELS SPANIARDS PROM CAPTURED CITY, TORRKON. causes oreMIMMi r Rebel Leader ReUlna Hie Intense Hatred for All Spaniards, Which Peeling His Arm/ is Beiiered to Share—Refugees Have Pitiable March to Safety Before Them. Oen. Villa Sunday ordered that the six hundred Spaniards of Torreon be deported. He issued instructions all trains be provided immediate" 1/ and that the exodus to El Paso, Texas, should begin immediately. Their property will be. confiscated temporarily at least. It is the trag edy of Chihuahua overt again and is said to express the deep rooted sus picion, and even hatred, with which the native Mexican, and particularly th# peon, looks on the Spaniard. Villa expelled the Dons from Chi huahua four months ago, and since then repeatedly has said other Span iards must go out of Mexico. His ^ abiding conviction that they were working as one man against the rev olution found frequent expression while he was in Juarez, when he as serted he would execute every one that he found in Torreon. The Span ish government was aroused, and Washington descended on the Consti tutionalist chiefs with words of warn ing and admonition. Villa promised that Spaniards in nocent of political activity should not be harmed. This was official, but in talking with representatives and friends it was said his temper fre quently betrayed him into the most tragic threats. Some of those con stantly associated with rebel leaders said he did not expect to find many Spaniards who would deserve his clemency. The order to leave was received In tragic silence, followed by pas sionate outbursts of pleading and lament, say persons who were pres ent All asserted that thew had re mained neutral so far as they could, bat with the military government in the hands of the Federals they were compelled at times to render such aid as was demanded. To have refused, they said, would have meant death, or at least impris onment but Villa said he was inclin ed to believe there was little reluc tance in the aid and comfort they ex tended to his enemies. He is said to resent the fact that they did not leave the city when he announced ythat It would be well for them to do ao. Mexican hatred of the Spaniard, the people say, is a tradition handed down from the days of the conquest. In Mexico the ranch overseer, the GOVERNOR HAS SHOWN CLEMEN. ■ J.- 1 ' CY TO OVER A THOUSAND. n V V rr inrflr * kul| s were crushed presumably with small shopkeeper, the money lender]^ and th61r bodlefl burne( j ln a fire that destroyed the dwelling on the Francis farm near Arkadelphla early that morning Francis declares that his wife and children were killed and the house set afire by an unidentified man who escaped. He asserts that when he —in Short, the butcher, th6 baker and candlestick maker of Mexican life—have been a Spaniard and is alleged to have used his superior in telllgence to the disadvantage of the natives. Other foreigners, it is said, are lees subject to resentment. They, for the most part, it is pointed out, have been the heads of great enterprises which brought money into the coun try, and which were managed from afar. It is from the peon class that Villa's army is largely recruited, and the soldiers expressed their satisfac tion at the expulsion order. It is a great hardship, it is declar ed, for most of the Spaniards have their homes and business in the city. Many of them were born there and consider themselves Mexicans. In El Paso, however, they will find many of their countrymen, who were expelled from Chihuahua. Only Spaniards are affected by the order. All other foreigners are free to go and come as they please, and Gen. Villa says he is anxious that they shall resume their wonted occupations. Sunday J. M. Ulmer, with the consent of Gen. Villa, and in hla capacity as acting Ameri can consular agent, posted notices on all American property, declaring that it must be held inviolate under pen alty. The retreat of Gen. Velasco, the Federal commander, from Torreon recalls that of Gen. Mercado from Chihuahua. When the latter fled to OJinaga on the approach of Gen. Vil la, the rich families and their re- talnels, who were said to be plainly Identified as Huerta’s friends, fled with him, taking with them such val uables as they could carry. A simi lar train followed Velasco. At Gomez Palacio and Lerdo, con ditions were the same—the Cientlfl- coe had fled into the desert there with their women and children, to face the hardships of thirst, hunger and ex posure, until a kindlier section of the eouatry is reached in the direction of Mpnierey. Velasco cut the Vires be hind him and It could not be\learned Whether Gen. Huerta had succeeded in ducking the retreat or not, Wile Instead of Hawk, t Johnson, a farmer living near ' ~ ‘ add Wiled his t. wife while rushing on his way to atfitoked a Looks Like He Will Carry Out His Threat to Turn AH the Criminals Out of the Penitentiary. There have been 1.176 convicts who have received clemency at the hands of Gov. Cole L. Blease since he was inaugurated for the first time on January 17, 1911. Of this number about three-fourths were released un der paroles and the rest were given full pardons or had their sentences commuted. These figures were com piled Saturday morning from records in the office of K. M. McCown, Secre tary of State, by a correspondent of The News and Courier.— With nearly 1,200 to his credit Gov. Blease seems to have beaten the mark he set for hitoselt At the an nual conference of governors in Rich raond, Va., in the fall of 1912 Gov Blease, in boasting of his pardon record, which was over 400) said that he hoped to make tho number 800 by the end of his second term. With a little less than a year of that sec ond term gone the governor’s par doning record has reached nearly 1,200. There is much speculation being indulged in as to the effect the par doning record is going to have on tho governor’s race for the United States Senate. He stated-after his re-elec tion in 1912 that he was proud of his pardon record and that he considered the people had endorsed it by reject ing him over former Chief Justice Ira B. Jones. Since that time 600 more prisoners have been freed and there is every indication that the par doning record -drill again be one of the main issues in the campaign for the United States Senate this sum mer. . Gov. Blease is apparently carrying out his declaration that he ^ould de populate the State penitentiary by August 1. A great many prisoners have been sent back to the county chain gangs of the counties from which they were sentenced and others have been released under paroles and pardons. There are only 186 pris oners left in the penitentiary, of whom Just 150 are men. There are in addition some 57 prisoners em ployed on the State farms, but it is stated that this is much less than the number necessary to work the farms and operations will have to be greatly curtailed. FOUR ARE KILLED. Farmer is Held Pending Investigation of His Family’s Death. EHhu Francis, a farmer of Aska- delphla, Ark., was taken into custody late Saturday and will be held pend ing an investigation of the killing of his wife and three children, whose was awakened the man was in the room wielding an axe. Seeing his youngest child, an Infant, Francis de clares he ran from the house and be fore he could return the building was In flames. RACE RIOT QUELLED. Firemen in Missouri Town Flay Water on Crowds. A race riot at Sedalia, Mo., early Sunday was quelled only after the fire department was ordered ou$ to aid the police and sheriff’s deputy drive the combatants to their homes. The trouble arose at midnight be tween whites and negroes at a merry- go-round. Armed with brick-bats and clubs, several hundred persons bat tled in the down town district for two hours. After several arrests were made the crowd was dispersed. No one was seriously Injured. • Mother Saves Cripple GirL Making rope of blankets, Mrs. F. Hoile, of Roosevelt; 1 L. I., Wednesday lowered her crippled daughter, Pan- sey, from a second story window^ of her burning home and saved the child’s life, although badly burned herself. Fine Stock Burned. The barn and stables of Mr. L. P. McClellan, of McClellanvlile, with three horses, two mules, a valuable cow and much corn and hay, were destroyed by fire between 12 and 1 o’clock Saturday. * Equestrienne Killed. Ella Hackett, a 19-year-old eques trienne, of New York, was almost in stantly killed by a fall from a 60-foot trapeae to an Improvised platform in Madison Square. Garden- Wednesday. Child Falls Through Trestle. Lonise Chapman, a three-year-old girl, last her balance while crossing •\treatle near Lancaster and fell to groead thirty feet below. She serloulr h*rt \ CHICAGO COURT OF MORALE A MEANS OF REFORMATION. ’ , , ' n J . - ''v\ : JUDGE EXPLAINS WORK Tells of Stupendous Daring of Indl vldual White Slave Operators, Al though He Says There is no Direct Proof of Any Great Secret Organ! zation Among These Social Vermin. Hearts are bared in the Court of Morals, Chicago, over which presides Judge William Hopkins, first aid to wronged womanhood. To the Morals court are brought the young women of the great city who have been caught innocently and unsuspectingly in the snares men lay for them. To the Judge and Mrs. Tousey, chief pro bation officer, these young women girls, most of them, between 16 and 20 years of age, tell the checkered which are aa thrilling and as pitiful as any to be found in the yorld of fiction or on the stage in melodramas which depict the details of life in the underworld. These stories show the ^nulti tude of ways men take to wreck the lives of young women; they re veal the dastardly tricks resorted to by men to get good women Into their blighting power, and they show that most women are anxious and willing to get out of the power of the men who have compromised them. Very few of the stories which are told in Judge Hopkins’ court are given to the public, for the judge believes in shielding from publicity young wo men who are making brave attempts to lift themselves from the vice into -which they- hi.ve~been unwillingly plunged. Judge Hopkins knows that white slavery exists in Chicago, and that no place in the city, hia own court not excepted, is safe from the activities of the slavers. In fact, he has discov ered that hia very court, hardly over a year old now, has been used for months by white slavers who attend the court to get the names, and ad dresses of the young women who are trying to break away from their past associations, the hounds following up the women in efforts to force them again into the moat miserable trade in the woria.** A few weeks ago, when the writer was visiting the Morals court, a young woman appeared against a slaver. This young woman. 19 years old, married, was visiting friends in Chicago. She had been shopping. Walking home, she was suddenly dragged into the doorway of a room ing house by a young man, who whip ped out a revolver and held It to her heart, saying: “If you make a noise, if you speak a word, I’ll shoot you dead on the spot.” At the point of the revolver, he drove the young woman to a room. There he forced her into white slav ery, the man remaining in the room connecting to see that she obeyed his commands. She finally escaped and made a complaint. The man was ar rested. In commenting on this re cent case, Judge Hopkins said A man stated to me in a club yes terday that he did not .believe such a thing aa white slavery existed in the United States. If this is not a case of white slavery, I would like to know what could be termed such There may be no organized traffic in spuis in this city, but there are plenty of iudlvidual cases of white slavery, which is Just as bad.*’ Judging from the stories which are told in the Morals court, there js an ever-jresent danger In Chicago to girls of all degree. Strong, unscrup ulous men can steal weak girls and introduce them through force to a life of shame; human monsters can kidnap women on the streets and sub- ect them to the most hellish tor tures; wolves in sheep's clothing can. entice girls from respectable dance halls, from schools, from churches and ao compromise them that they, in desperation, give up to their shame; employment agencies ..can send unsuspecting women to place* of low character, where they suffer attacks, and men can drug girls in saloons or. cafes and make away., with them without interference. The records of the Chicago Morals court state emphatically that more girls go wrong through the per- fidiy of men than through their own viciousness, that it is necessary for young girls in big cities to be ware of strange men who would en tertain them, that it la safer for girls to go in pairs, than alone on many streets, and that home is the best place on earth for the average young woman. The records of the Morals court suggest that no working girl is immune from the attacks of design ing men, that school girls stand in danger of being kidnaped, and that young married women serve as well the diabolical trappers of Women as do young, unmarried women,’ and that the desperate characters who at tempt to live off the earnings of young women through ehforced vice will stop at nothing.in order to carry out their base designs. The records of (he Court of Morals unmistakably point to tho Affected by Negotiable Instramenta Law. Recently Passed. Tuesday, the negotiable instru ments law, a piece of uniform legisla tion, became operative in South Caro lina. The law was passed by the gen eral assembly March 4 and la Identi cally the same in several paragraphs as sfmflar laws in other states. While the provisions are of chief concern to bankers, the public is also Interested in the charges. Copies of the law have been received in ^Charleston and bankers have been making themselves familiar with the provisions, and the following article is clipped from The According to the negotiable instru ments law, unless a check is present ed for payment a reasonable time after its issue the drawer is relieved of liability to the extent of the loss occasioned by tardiness. This is con sidered very important, r If is* said that some people have a habit of holding checks, drawn in their favor, for a considerable period and that thia practice la very bothersome. When checks are held back the mat ter of adjusting balances at the bank is at times of some concern. The pro visions of the law do not, of course, apply to notes, drafts and checks drawn before its passage. Under the new law the “three days of grace” convenience has been abol ished and negotiable instruments be come due and payable on the date specified. “A note payable at a bank,” said a banker, “is equivalent to an order to the bank to make payment for the account of the maker. South Carolina has been the only State in the union where a bank has had to consider the signature of a check as transferring to the paryee the amount stipulated in the check. A bank was without authority to withhold pay ment'even in cases where the makers requested such action. Under the new law ‘a check of Itself does not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to the credit of the PHYSICIAN FINDS RED CROSS PAINTED ON HIS DOOR. V • ■ • * - —ft' » ’ TRY TO HIM Town of Davidson, a North Carolina, Greatly Excited Over Strange Marks Whiclu. Have Appeared on Over Night— Residence’s Door drawer with the bank and the bank is not liable to the holder unless and until it accepts or certifies the check.’ I quote this part verbatim.. “It Is believed that the negotiable Instruments law, such as the one late ly enacted by the general assembly of South Carolina, will before long be adopted by all the states In the union It is a piece of uniform legislation thgt is sorely wanted, and will oper ate to the benefit and protection of banks and individuals. In this State the new law applies to transactions made on and ^ftet Tuesday pext, not to transactions that have already been made.” Attention has been directed to the following provisions: Paragraph lB5—Every negotiable instrument is payable at the time fixed therein, without grace. When day of maturity falls upon Sunday or a holiday the instrument is payable on the next succeeding business day. Instruments falling due ou Saturday are to be presented for payment on the next succeeding business day, ex cept that instruments payable on de mand may, at the option of the hold er, be presented for payment before 12 o’clock noon on Saturday, when that entire day is not a holiday. Paragraph 87—Where the instru ment (either a note or an acceptance) is made payable at a bank, it is equivalent to an order to the bank to pay the same for the account of the principal debtor thereon. Paragraph 111—A waiver of pro test, whether in the case of a foreign hill of exchange or other negotiable instrument, is deemed to be a waives not only of a formal protest, but also of presentment and notice of dishon or. Paragraph 127—A bill of itself does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee available for the payment thereof, and the drawee is not liable on the bill unless and until he accepts the same. Paragraph 169s—A check of itself does not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to the credit of the drawer with the bgxdc, and the bank la not liable to the rablder, un less and until it accepts or certifies the check. Owner Recently Killed a Man. , *•'. i 1 » Whether for purposes of intimida tion or as simply an expression of ill feeling—certainly serving to recall one of the most distressing tragedies that ever occurred in Mecklenburg county, N. C., the residence of Mr. R. Munroe Jetton in Davidson was placarded during the early hours of Friday morning with marks and splotches of bright red paint likewise the name “Jetton” that appeared in the flrnt name on the window of the White-Jetton company was marked out, the erasure being done also with red paint and during the early morn ing hours. ' . , /. The marks on the Jetton residence consisted of a big cross, done in bright red on the front door, with’the bars as wide as a TnainrTTand and a yard in length, and so situated and arranged as to be visible for a block distant. A similar cross appeared on the floor of the porch and on each-of- Had mn Eye Shot Oat. During a general row among some negroes at church near Reno, Laurens county, one negro had his eyes shot out at the hands of another Sunday. Mexicans Quit War for Work. Ten i Mexican federal deserters threw their rifles into the Rio Grande at Laredo, Tex., a few days ago and crossed the U. S. border to find work. Joke Causes Trouble. An April Fool advertisement told the unemployed of Chicago that a ocal railway wanted men. Five hun dred applied and began rioting'when not employed. other than zealous partisans of the late Dr. W. H. Wooten, who waa killed by Mr. Jetton In his wife’s bed room early in February. The suggestion was advanced that college students, eager to perpetrate ah April Fool joke, might have been respon sible, but this waa denied nor waa there any one who believed auch to be the case. The only traces left by the mid night visitors at the Jetton home were several tracks of a man or men, evidently in stocking feet and to one aide waa a place where several horses had evidently stood for several min utes. Even this is doubtful, for there is no way of saying whether these horses were there the night before or the day previous. The little village of Davidson was very much exercised about the occur rence. Some had not heard about it, but with those who. had passed the Jetton residence and had seen the tell-tale marks, it Was the only topic talked about. Mr. and Mrs. Jetton were not at home the night before, for they had been spending several days with Mr. Jetton’s brother, Mr. Frank Jetton, several miles in the county. This surreptitious work serves only to recall the distressing tragedy that occurred in the quiet little college town six weeks ago, when Mr. Jetton fired upon and killed Dr. W. H. Wooten, a leading practitioner of the community, who waa in his wife’s bed room: It was alleged at the time by the dead man’s friends that the young druggist fired in a Jealous rage. Mr. Jetton put up a plea of self- defense and the Mecklenburg Jury acquitted him. Since the trial, how ever, there has been much feeling displayed and according to some of the best posted men in the commun ity, it has been growing sharper and sharper. It is thought that this work was committed by friends of the dead man in an effort to harass Mr. Jetton, to remind him of the past, is not to induce him to move elsewhere. Experts of the department of agrl enlture estimate that the annual lose from hog cholera in the United States is 175,000,000., They regard the eradication aa one of the most serious problems that faces the bu reau of animal industry, for the loss caused by it approximately as great aa that from all other animal diseases combined.' - . —- 4 The loss from hogs killed outright by cholera in 1912 : was estimated at $60,000,000. The loss to the hog in dustry indirectly resulting from the disease was about $15,000,000 more,. The cholera Is most common In the corn states of the West and South. The two other chief animal diseases are cattle tuberculosis and Texas fever. Statistics upon the annual losses from these two diseases never have been gathered by the department of agriculture. Texas fever and cattle tuberculosis do not cause anything like the number of deaths as does cholera, but the loss to the cattle In dustry through Illness, interference with reproduction and making cattle Unfit for marketing Is heavy. The losses run Into many millions of dol lars a year. KILLS LITTIiE BOY. the steps leading to the porch were splotches of red paint, all affording a highly gruesome spectacle. Jusf who did the work Is not known nor are there any clues that might lead to the guilty person or persons. There were no suggestions advanc- „ t ed as.to .who could have done aU thle Pf adl ^‘ n hl * *'-***'■ Bradley saved While Firing at Each Other Two Meu Cause Lad’s Death. n a difficulty Saturday afternoon betVeen R. E. Briscoe and Ben Brad ley, both of St. Stephens, Briscoe, it is eald.Jn attempting to shoot Brad ley, fired the gun and killed the lit tle son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Jaudon instantly. The little fellow received the whole load of shot intended Xoc FIND HEADLESS BODY. Kentucky County is Scene of Grue some Aftermath of Robbery. The body of a man, supposed to have been John King, of Jenkins, Ky., was found Saturday near Glenmor- gan, a mining town in the vicinity of Wise. Va. The man..had been mur dered, robbed and decapitated. Hia pockets were turned inside out and a suitcase, found near the body had been cut open and rifled. The body apparently had been in the woods for several weeks. The man had been shot in the back and his head had been cut off. panions with care, must not be 4n- ticed to questionable restaurants by gay young men, mid must not mix .promiscuously in dance halls with strange men. Girls, who have much to lose and much to protect, must constantly mak« confidants of their parents, and parents, according to Judge Hopkins, must study carefully modern conditions of society so as to know the dangers which surround young girl In tho big cities m gW of the foet that girls must choose their com- United States. Fatal “April Fool” Candy. “April Fool Candy,” which was found to have been flavored With poisonous berries, is likely to cause the death of two children of Quincy, Mass. Sight Restored After 10 Years. After 19 years total blindness, Harry W. Smith, a Civil war veteran; has sight restored to one eye by oper ation in Atlantic City, N. J., Wednes day. \Ftremaa Fatally Burned. A. C. Page, captain of the Troy, Ala., lire department was burned to death Monday whoa ho entered a buiMlag la a search for a child. himself by catching hold of the muz zle of the gun. He lost almost the entire hand, it being shot away by the same load that killed the child. The boy was about seven years of age and a fine little fellow. Excitement was very high, but violence waa pre vented by cooler heads. CHILDREN ARE POISONED. One Cherokee Child Dies From Eat- . ing Polk Root. Three children of Columbus Wad dell, who lives in the Goucher neigh borhood, about six miles from Gaff ney, were posoned Saturday after noon from eating polk root. The children were seven, five and three years old, and the three-year-old child died that night. Dr. J. G. Pittman, who was called to see them, says that the other two will recover. It seems that the children were in the field where their father was plowing, and seeing the polk roots thought they were potatoes and ate them with thc- above result. HOMICIDE NEAR LEXINGTON. School Closing Exercise Results Ik Fatal Duel Between Men. Levi Rish, a farmer and trustee of the district school, 20 miles from Lexington, known as Smith’s branch school house, -was killed in a gun fight between himself and James Clark and Elliott Gant on Saturday night. The three cornered duel fol lowed a quarrel which was supposed to have arisen at a school celebra tion. Rish and the other men met later and shots were fired. Rish fell with several bullet wounds in his body and expired immediately, v Takes Blood Revenge. T^H. Musgrove, wealthy planter of Blythevllle, Ark., was shot and killed Thursday by John Walker, a sixteen year old boy, whose father he had slain fifteen years ago. Releases Fifteen. Gov. Blease Thursday night guant- ed freedom to fifteen convicts on va rious chain gangs throughout the State. In the batch waa one white- man, who received a pardon to re store citizenship. Put Crew Into Irons. Twelve sailors of the Italian bark, Gaspon, were put in irona at Gulf port, Mias., Wednesday. They muti nied in an effort to get money for a shore leave. Negro Stabs Colored Woman. Leila Smalls of Florence, a aegxaaa, was stabbed Saturday by Fred Mel ton, another negro. She was rushed to the hospital in a dying condition. Charged With Serious Crime. An unknown negro from Wahser township in Marlon county was jailed Saturday morning on the charge of criminal assault upon a girl Shoots Stepmotliqr. Failing to find his wife at the house of hi* stepmother, Mrs. fill a Disma, of New York, Qeorge Dts'ma shot and killed her Saturday. V Y Indians Go on .Warpath. Yaqul Indian raiders went on a foraging expedition around Douglas City, Arts., Wednesday, and killed Otto Mdaltar, a <