The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 04, 1914, Image 6

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: "r\. ^.-:T ■ ■ 1 I* HIM.., ■* -cr" V r ;. J 1 V ' \ J i I , t fem- . . ■ • - i ■ . UfE PUN REACT co ™ ■in nsms OF PEACE PROBLEM LAID BEfOIE PRESIDENT NKW YORK JOURNAL OF COM MERCE’S ESTIMATE. VAIT FDR THEIR ASSENT c.» AS the Larger Question* Have Been Sctved and the l*residente of the Tiro Countries Must Now Approve TLcm Before Smaller Questions Will be Entered Into. Plans for the pacification of Mex ico through mediation virtually have been completed. The major Issues are before President Wilson and Gen. Huerta for approval and when this Is obtained secondary questions will be taken up. A protocol covering the basic principles will be signed, the mediation conference will close, dele- gatea will return to their homes and the mediators will complete details of the undertaking In conjunction with the authorities at Washington and Mexico City. This "work may require several months. It Is expected that the re sponsibility for dealing with the Con- atitutionalist clement will be thrown upon the United States. Among the points still to be disposed of are be lieved to be the selection of persons to comprise the new provisional gov- arament and the exact manner by which It will take office in succes sion to the Huerta regime. Mediators and delegates said a pro tocol probably would be signed with in a week. Just how the transition from the present administration to a new provisional government can be effected is being given close atten tion. The intent of the American dele gates is understood to be that the new provisional executive shall not appear to have been chosen by Huer ta. If the Mexican constitution be followed literally It Is necessary that the office of minister of foreign af fairs, now vacant, shall be filled by the individual whom the mediation conference expects Gen. Huerta to turn over the reins of government. The constitution provides that in case ft a vacancy in the office of presi dent, the minister of foreign affairs shall succeed to the position. The American delegates recognize that an Irregular method of choosing a pro visional president might evoke oppo sition. The American government wishes the Huerta government to give way 'to a commission of five, or possibly Xhree. The Mexican delegates hold a commission would be unpopular, be cause the people might resent it as of foreign suggestion. They urge that a minister of foreign affairs automati cally succeed Gen. Huerta. This successor then could name as cabinet members those persons who already had been agreed upon.. Such an arrangement might be construed as permitting Gen. Huerta to choose his successor, but the fact that those who will comprise the list from which the provisional president would be elected will be named in advance and approved by the United States, In the opinion of some would prevent this impression from being widely credited. Neither the American nor Mexican delegates consider this point a stum bling block. That there should be a governing body of five Individuals Is virtually settled. On this group would devolve the responsibility of making arrangements for a general election and earning out other de tails of the program arranged. Though one of the group probably will be called provisional president and the other members of his cobl- net, there will be tacit understanding that these men will have an equal woice in the government’s operation. Questions of personnel are absorb ing the attention of all. Crop for' This Year Seems to be Slight!)! Off Conditions of the Past —Drought Hurts East. The condition of cotton on an aver age date of May 23 was 78.2 per cent., as compared with 80.5 per cent, a year ago, 76.9 In 1912 and 83.8 in 1911. Owing to continued drought In several of the states cot ton Is very late In germinating, and estimates of condition are incom plete. This Is particularly true of the Carollnas and Georgia, and to a les ser degree In Alabama and Arkansas. The comparatively low condition in Texas and Oklahoma is largely attributable to excessive rains, which have rendered conditions In large sec tions very bad. The season in Texas (s unusually late, averaging 24 days, while In Oklahoma it averages. 18 days. The whole belt is about two weeks late. Conditions by States, as compiled from over 2,000 replies of special cor respondents of the New York Journal qi Commerce, bearing an average date of May 23, follows: 1914 1913 1 91^2 1911 1910 STUDENTS FIGHT GANG. N. C. . -V S. C. . . Georgia . Florida . Alabama Miss. . . La. . , Texas . Arkansas Tennesse Missouri. Oklahoma Averages. ,79.4 78.0 ,77.9 69.9 ,82.0 75.3 ,88.0 79.9 .80.7 79.6 84.1 82.3 74.7 79.0 74.0 77.3 74.0 89.3 79.3 72.4 97.6 71.8 86.0 70.6 81.7 83.5 83.1 82.4 81.3 79.5 Some Wofford Boys and "Midnight Crew" Have Feud. There ts smte expectation M fur ther developments In tEe feuT whlch has developed between the student body, of Wofford college and a gang of town boys known as the "Mid night Crew”, several of whom-jare be coming well known In the Spartan burg police court. As a result of a sanguinary en counter between several students and about a dozen of the gangsters Sat urday night, nearly one hundred of the collegians, it Is reported, scoured the city Sunday night In search of their enemies, but were unable to find them, even in their familiar haunts. The "Midnight Crew", t Is said, began the wAr by attacking lone col legians from ambush near the cam pus as the students returned to the dormitory late at night. Two of the students were insulted on East MaiU street Satufday night by members of the “Mirnlght Crew". They attack ed ’their tormentors and as a result Clarence Stiles, an alleged member of the gang, was carried to a hospital, suffering from knife wounds alleged to have been Inflicted by one of the students.- When the case was tried In police court so many conflicting accounts of the dfficulty jWere given that Mayor John F. Floyd discharged all the de fendants. CANDIDATES ROUTE ■ -T* 4 EXECUTIVE CDMHITTEE ANNOUN' CES CAMFAIfiN ITINERARIES VETERANS PARADE. 71.0 81.8 72.3 73.5 73 w 3 78.7 76.9 76.7 81.2 75.7 71.5 82.7 78.6 79.6 81.6 87.2 875.1 83.8 80.2 ,80.0 80.5 ,81.5 81.6 .75.0 82.7 ,78.0 85.3 82.1 83.3 ,84.5' 83.0 77.0 89.6 78.2 80.5 Continued rains in Texas and Ok lahoma have rendered the season so backward that a great many corre spondents refrain from making defi nite estimates on acreage. The same feeling exists among our correspond ents in the Carollnas and Georgia and to a lesser extent In some other states owing to continued drought causing retarded germination of seed. Estimates on acreage, therefore, Will be subject to revision next month, and the present estimate can only be regarded as tentative and Incomplete. The results thus far obtained sug gest an Increase of 1 per cent., made up as follows: North Carolina, 98 per cent.; South Carolina, 101.1 per cent.; Georgia, 100.6 per cent.; Florida, 103.2 per cent.; Alabama, 100.8 per cent.; Mis sissippi, 102.4 per cent.; Louisiana, 108 per cent.; Texas, 100.2 per cent.; Arkansas, 102.4 per cent.; Tennessee, 103 per cent.; Missouri, 105.5 per cent.; Oklahoma, 100 per cent. Aver age for United States, 101 per cent. NEGRESS SHOT TO DEATH. Tinimon.sville Woman Is Killed at Home of Another Negro. Chessie West, a negress, was shot Sunday morning by Hamp Goodwin. The shooting took place at Hamp Goodwin’s home near Timmonsvllle. She went there about 9 o’clock and asked Goodwin for some meat. Some words passed and Goodwin shot her with a shotgun, the load taking effect In the spinal column. There were no witnesses present except the slayer’s brother, who says he happened to visit his brother about the time of Uie quarrel and hearing the noise stopped on the front porch. The gun was fired on the Inside of the house and the woman ran out on the porch and fell dead. The slayer Is a tall one-arm negro and was last seen on a bicycle going along the railroad toward Columbia. Close Annual Reunion at Anderson With Monster Pageant. After selecting the city of Colum bia as the next meeting place and re electing all officers for another year, the business session of the State re union of Confederate Veterans at An derson came to a close early Thursday afternoon. The officers re-elected are: Gen. B. H. Teague of Aiken, division commander; Gen. if. R. Brooks of Columbia, commander of th 0 First brigade; Gen. C. A. Reed of Anderson, commander of the Second brigade. ' • More than 15,000 persons witness ed the grand parade, which closed the State reunion of Confederate Vet erans. The parade was led by a cor don of police, followed by the mar shals, the First Regiment Band( the Palmetto Riflemen flag borne, by P. A. McDavld of Greenville, and four ladles, the remnant of Palmetto Riflemen (twenty in number), about 700 Confederate Veterans, the Sec ond Regiment Band, the local mili tary company, the Boy Scouts, Zion school band, trucks of the fire depart ment, decorated automobiles, veter ans in automobiles, Sons of Veterans and many decorated buggies ahd car rlages. School children to the num ber of 3,500, each carrying a Confed flag, were banked against the curb to review the parade. CLARK COMES OUT. SINKS TWO BARGES. Vatcrland Creates More Havoc as She Steams Out of Berth. MINISTER KIDNAPPED. Claims He Was Carried Around in Auto for Thirty Days. The Rev. Louis R. Palmont, prohi bition advocate, who disappeared from Weatville, 111., March 31, reit erated at St. Louis Saturday his claim that he was kidnapped and says that he knows the persons respons ible for his detention. * A big red antomohlle owned, he says, In Dan ville, will play an Important part In the minister’s story to the Jury. It was this machine in which he alleges be was carried half conscious from one hiding place to another for 50 days. Mr. Palmont was brought to St. Ixrals by the Rev. John L. Brandt of the First Christian church of St. Erf>ais, who went to Columbia as soon as he heard thgt Palmont had been foand. Palmont’s identification was made complete by Mr. Brandt, who bas knowp him for years. Before be- T.Ailifl hft hail . •debtitled by half a dozen residents of - ■ --- — ^ “ ‘f' The great steamer Vaterland which took nearly four hours to dock when she came to New lork on her maiden voyage recently, sank two coal barges as she steamed out of her berth Tues day. Backing out under her own steam, her momentum carried her across the Hudson -and she slipped In between two piers, where the cpal barges, car- rylag 600 tons of coal each, were tied. Both barges went down almost at onee; but no lives were lost. The Vaterland cut her way into the slip almost to the shore. In the back ing out the water churned by her screws snapped the lines which held two Morgan liners. These vessels crashed against the sides of the pier, damaging their rails and woodwork. ^IrMi Hone Role Passes. i rola for .Ireland practically csrtaln Monday when tbs Commons passed the meas- dim to m. *•' Bhould Make More Powder. A daval appropriation bill provides for an Increase in capacity of the government powder factory at Indian Head, Md„ so that all smokeless pow ders for the navy may’bd manufac tured there. ^ Augusta Wins enf wTiTcF"wag origi nally plaeed~for the Isle of Palms has been sent to Augusta. Like all. demagogues, Mayor Grace of Charleston, indulges In much abuse of the preoe. A SENT UP FOR LIFE. Prisoner Laughs at Way He “Put One Over" on Alienists. -* J. E. Baxter, charged with the murder of the father, mother and bro ther of his wife, and who since His arrest in Kentucky several months ago has been feigning insanity, Thur sday was convicted at Memphis, and sentenced to life Imprisonment. The jury reached the verdict without leav ing the box. Immediately after the verdict was announced, Baxter dropped his role of Insanity and laughed over the way he “put one over,” as he express ed it, on the coifamission which pass ed on his sanity. Another Convict Freed. The governor has granted a par don to J- H. Verner, xvho wgs con victed in Anderson county In Jan uary of this year of larceny and sen tenced to one year. Negro Killed at Church. During service at^ Shaw’s Creek church In Edgefleld county Shnday a negro br the name of Simmons shot .djt curry. Four Lives Loet in Fire. Four members of the family of Pktrlck O’Brien were burned to death when Are destroyed their home at Binghamton, N. Y-. Subday. WILL BEGIN ON JUNE 17 * - . ’ . O Two Parties Are to Tour the State— Candidates for Senate Begin Meet ings at St. Matthews, While State Office Candidates Will Open in Sumter. The itineraries for the senatorial and State campaign parties in their canvas of South Carolina have been announced by Gen. Wilie Jones, chairman of the su,b-commlttee of the State executive committee, which pre pared the itineraries. The canvass for United States sen ator opens at St. Matthews on Junp 17 and closes at Sumter om August 20. The canvass of the candidates for governor and other State ‘officers opens at Sumter on June 17 and winds up at Greenville on August 20, The first primary election takes place August 25, and the second primary September s, two weeks later. The itinerary for the senatorial campaign follows:. St. Matthews—Wednesday, June 17. OrangetJurg—Thursday, June 18. St. George, Friday, June 19. Charleston—^Saturday, June 20. Walterboro—-Monday, Jiine 22. Beaufort—Tuesday, June 23. Ridgeland—Wednesday, June 24. Hamptop—Thursday, June • Barnwell—Friday, June 26. Bamberg—Saturday, June 17. Winnsboro—Monday, June 29. Chester—Tuesday, June 30. Lancaster—Wednesday, July 1. Yorkvllle—Thursday, July 2. Gaffney—Friday, July 3. Spartanburg—Saturday, July 4. Union—Wednesday, July 8. Newberry—Friday, July 10. Greenwood—Saturday, July 11. Abbeville—Tuesday, July 14. Anderson—Wednesday, July 15. Walhalla—Thursday, July 16. Pickens—Friday, July 17. Greenville—Saturday, July 18. Laurens—Wednesday, July 22. Columbia—Thursday, July 23. Lexington—Friday, July 24. Saluda—Saturday, July 25. Edgefleld—Wednesday, July 29. Aiken—Thursday, July 30. Camden—Tuesday, August 4. Chesterfield—Wednesday, August The Jasper county chain gang has Just been reorganized with ten con victs, as a result of the recent court of general sessions, each of the con victs being able bodied men, capable of doing good work. Their sentences Tange-from life to 30 days. When the guards with the assistance of tbe deputy, went to put the men to work all of the convicts were very peaceful except the well known desperado, Marlon Brown. When ordered to step out of his cell he would not come or give any reply whatsoever. Deputy Sheriff Floyd started into the cell to bring him out when Brown-made at him with a quart bottle filled with water, attempting to strike the deputy with the bottle. Immediately the guards went to Mr. Floyd's assistance and it was necessary to beat the negro al most to unconsciousness over the head before they could do anything with him. Brown says that he never intends to work a day on the public works for Jasper county, saying that he would die first. He begged them to kill him after they had him dowm, saying that he was ready to die. He refuses to eat and It Is impossible to work him In his present condition. The county officials have a problem before them In how to work this des perate negro, which so far they have been unable to solve. 5. Thinks Presidential Term Should be Six Years. Speaker Champ Clark in an ad dress Tuesday night,to the graduates of a commercial school at-New York declared he "would Itke To have the^ president elected for six years with the provision that after that he be "eternally IndNlgible”. "As It Is now,” he sald; Xl, ‘a presi dent spends most of his first term trying to get back again. We should do away with the custom of inaugura tions, particularly on March 4. They gre merely spectacles for sightseers. Elections should be held on the last Monday in October. This should be done^not before nor later than 1920. This would give Roosevelt, Wilson and Taft an opportunity to get an other term before the one-term law went into effect.” 18. Bennettsville—Friday, August 7. Darlington—Saturday, August 8. Blshopvlllfi—Monday, August 10. Florence—Tuesday, August 11. IMllon—Wednesday, August 12. Marion—Thursday, August 13. Conway—Friday, August 14. Klngstree—^Saturday, August 15. Georgetown—Monday, August 17. Monck's Corner—Tuesday, August Manning—Wednesday, August 19. Sumter—Thursday, August 20. -The Itinerary for governor and other State officials in their canvass follows: Sumter—Wednesday, June 17. Manning—Thursday, June 18. Monck's Corner—Friday, June 19. Georgetown—Saturday, June 20. Kingstree—Tuesday, June -2th— Florence—Wednesday, June 2 4. Marlon—Thursday, June 25. Conway—Friday, June 26. •Dillon—Saturday^June 27. . Darlington—Monday, June 29. Bishopvillfe—Tuesday, Jun e 30. iJennettsvllle—Wednesday, July 1. Chesterfield—Thursday, July 2. Camden—Fr}day,,July 3. Columbia—Saturday, July 4, Lexington—Thursday, July 9. Saluda—Friday, July~10: Edgefield—Saturday, July 11. Aiken—Tuesday, July 14. Bamberg—Wednesday, July 15. Barnwell—Thursday, July 16. Barnwell—Thursday, July 16. Hampton—Friday, July 17. Beaufort—Saturday, July 18. Ridgeland—Wednesday,-Jaly 22. Walterboro—Thursday, July 23. Charleston—Friday, July 24. St. George—-Tuesday, July 28. Orangeburg—Wednesday, July 29. EQUALS SUFFRAGETTES. Negro in Jasper Jail Refuses to Eat Anything or to Work. LOSES HIS EYESIGHT STUDENT OF CHEMISTRY VICTIM OF AN EXPUSION PLUNGE TO DEATH. Passengers Drop Into Water as Steamer’s Gangplank Rreaks. The steamship Frederick VIII w T as about to start on her voyage from Hoboken, N. J., Friday when a gang plank between her main deck and. the pler^roke without warning to a score or more of passengers hurrying across. Men, women and children— visitors returning ashore and several passengers—were precipitated Into the Hudson river. A few others fell back on to the pier and were hurt. The list of victims contained two known drowned, a child missing and believed to be drowned, two other persons missing and at least ten suf fering from injuries. Men with grappling ho<iks were searching for others who might be lost as the body of three-year-old Annette Feldschau was recovered, al though she had not been reported as missing. Those In the hospital in clude a junk man known as "Junk" Peterson, who, the physicians said, went temporarily Insane after falling to rescue the Feldschau girl, daughter of a friend. The child slipped from his grasp while in the water. He was dragged upon the pier, but seeing a floating box, mistook It for the child and threw himself overboard again. Members of the ship’s crew dived from the decks and saved the lives of several persons. BAGGING IS WATERED. Senator Tillman Writes Commission er Watson About Practice. Senator Tillman has written Com missioner of Agriculture E. J. Watson advfsing him of certain reported swindles' being conducted by manu facturers of cotton bagging, and ask ing; him to take any apparent steps toward preventing the South Carolina farmers being injured. His letter sets fourth that, certain manufacturers of cotton bagging increase the weight of bagging necessary to recover a bale of lint cotton about 15 pounds by soaking it In water. He figures that this costs the farmers In the end about twenty-five cents a bale. St/ Matthews—Thursday, Jul> 30. Winnsboro—Monday, August 3. 'Chester—Tuesday, August 4. Lancaster—Wednesday, August 5. Yorkvllle—Thursday, August G. Gaffney—Friday, August 7. Spartanburg^—Saturday, August 8. Union—Tuesday, August 11. Newberry—Wednesday, August 12. Laurens—Thursday, August 13. Greenwood—Friday, August'l4. Abbeville—Saturday, August 15. Anderson—Monday, August 17. Walhalla—Tuesday, August 18. Pickens—Wednesday, August 19. Greenville—Thursday, August 20. New York Clerk Was Working at * - ' | Night and Studlng by Day .In His Eager to Learn. A mistake in the handling of a flesh filled with a concentrated solu tion of caustic potash resulted in an explosion that will probably cost Ed win Carol of Mount Vernon his sight. Carol is a night student at City Col lege in New York. The accident took place Thursday night, with the other members of the night class in advanc ed- organic chemistry, were engaged in the experimental production of synthetic indigo. The experiment requires the mix ture, under high air pressure of dye stuff with the potash solution. Just as Carol turned on the compressed , air, the rubber tube connecting the air line with the flask of potash be came kinked. Without stopping to shut off the air, Carol seized the tube in both hands and tried to straighten it out. " . Before the students working on either side of him realized what he was doing, there came a loud report, followed by shrieks of pain from Carol and a student named Ochs, working beside him. The flask had burst, throwing the burning caustic into Carol’s face and splashing it over Ochs. Dr. Prayer, director of the labora tory, and Dr. Breithut, an instructor, quickly prepared dressings and used other first aid measures while await-, ing an ambulance. Ochs’ burns, though painful, were found not to be severe. The ambu lance surgeon, however, after .taking one look at young Carol’s seared face hurried him in the ambualnce to the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. It was found there was but little hope o'f saving the eyes, but all pos sible remedial measures were taken, and at the hospital the young man was resting comfortably. Young Carol has been a student in the night class at-City College for five years, and expected to win his degree in applied science this year. He has been earning his education, being employed as night clerk in the General Post Office. For five years he has been attending classes until 11 o’clock, leaving college nightly to go to the post office and perform his duties there during the rest of the night. v SENATORS PLEASED. Smith and Tillman Comment on Pri mary Regulations. » When asked what Impression had been made on him by the new rules adopted for the Democratic primary by the recent State convention, Sena tor Tillman said: "I was very piqch pleased at tips action of the convention. It went farther in the direction of safeguards than I had even hoped it would go. It is all.j:igh,t to screw the cap down tight, provided it is not screwed so tight as to snap the threads; and it hair net been screwed that tight in this case. I wish the convention bad adopted my suggestion of having each ballot stamped. On the whole, how ever, I can say that I am delighted." Senator E. D. Smith, when the same question was put to him, re sponded as follows: . "I am gratified to see that the colri- vention was so unanimous and har monious and that their action In mod ifying the primary rules was by such a tremendous majority of the eonven' tion. This would indicate an over whelming sentiment In the State for modification of the existing rules gov erning the primary. Every effort should be made to acquaint every vot er with the new'rules in order that he may enroll himself and be prepared for the primary." A report says Walter Johnson Is going to jump to the Federal league next year. About that time some of tfie best hitters oKthe aforemention ed league will wish they had stayed with organize! ball. - » » »/ He Who says tlirat he has fprgiven but can not forget shows that he has forgotten how to forgive. i yis m A Full Literary, Scientific and Technical School lor Young Men Offar» tba jonng men of the South the best educational advantages, tution. This course leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science In under positive Christian influences, at the minimum expense. Founded neering, and constitutes a sound start for almost any industrial mirsn??’ if ldi * neogaiMi IK,!lit,on • n >° n « «>• bl«b-er»d. institutions Tho Colley owns 9 splendid building, of large ^n n^s .nd ofthjif^th , . n thorough equipment. Ite Faeultyof fifteen collegetrainJd .peiUl?" t « rreTMe. the ■rail UUi»rr Ceara* ki&ig t« the Degree W A B. including and tutors i. large enough to insure the amount of personal inatrnetjT? Anei.nt.nd Modem Languages, English, History, Mathematics, Social and individual attention so essential to the beet results. ^ 1,011 and Political Economy. Oratory and Natural Sciences. Also a past- The Campus life is most wholesome, and the traditions of hnnnr ^ IS™- ^ , “Orality high. ■*} hazing. Athletics a™ "end^Sd 2nd . „Yr*r»ata«r-y».r Lesne m E-kctnca laad Mechaaical Eatiartnux in seperate carefully supervised by the Faculty. Gymnasium work is cnmaLun^ buildings, with fully equipped shops and iaboratorfhs, ail necessary ap- The athletic work of Newberry College in late years has bee«frw!»»Hl * n< 1 appliances, a n«'er a separate corps of experienced instructors, among the South Carolina Colleges. The religious life is ideal a^Wn* Raa the great advantage of being connected with a regular literary insti- moral and spiritual welfare of the student is the seh^l's chief conce^ »diqlt without examination. ' Certificates from accredited high-schools admit withoi torj school department for,high-school nnder grad- ites. Next session opens September 17,1914. Tor catalogue and pStBu&f? »S3nu iMk Rev. J. Henry Harms, D. D* & Newberry, g. C. • V . - t --.r Je*—«*■ •f»