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f': m FAim IN FUME TELLS THAGIC STORY KKW GIRL 8AT8 SHE WAS KIDNAPPED CHAR FEB OP FREEDOM TO FROM MOUNTAIN HOME. CAUSE BUSINESS BOOM 7T Wilson is optimistic Greenville Jail Holds Girl Who T*- Claims Man Stole Her in Tennessee Waa Carried From State to State. President ITedjges Efforts to Bring Anti-Trust Program Throngh— When Certainty Takes Flare of Agitation Commercial Relations Will Regain Confidence. Under a "new constitution of free dom" for business, given by anti trust legislation soon to be passed by congress, President Wilson Thurs day promfsed the country the great est business boom in its history. This was the president’s final answer to opponents of trust legislation at this session of congress and to prophets of evil times, delivered with deter mined expresson and every work em phasized wth clinched fists. “We know what we are doing,” said Mr. Wilson; “we purpose to do it under the advice of men who un derstand the business of the coun try, and we know that the effect is going to be exactly what th^ effect of the currency reform was, a sense of relief ahd security.” The president spoke to a group of Virginia editors at the White House but his assurances were intended for the country. There was every indi cation that the speech was meant to be one of the most important of the administration. “I think it is appropriate, in re ceiving you,” the president said, “to say just a word or two in assistance of your Judgment about existing con ditions. You are largely responsible for the state of public opinion. You furnish the public with information and in your editorials you furnish it with the interpretation of that in formation. We are In the presence yof a business situation which is va riously Interpreted. Here in Wash- ington, through instrumentalities that are at our disposal, and through a correspondence which comes in to us from all parts of the nation, we are perhaps in a position to judge of the actual cohdltions of business bet ter than those can Judge who are at any other single point in the coun try; and I want to say to you that as a matter of fact the signs of a very strong business revival are becoming more and more evident from day to day. * \ “I want to suggest this to yoa: Business has been in a feverish and ^apprehensive condition In this coun try for more than ten years; I will not stop to point out the time at which it began to be apprehensive but during more than ten years busi ness has been the object of sharp criticism in the United States, a crit icism growing in volume and grow ing in particularity; and as a natural consequence, as the volume of criti cism has increased, business has grown more and more anxious. Bus iness men have acted as some men do who fear they will have to undergo an operation, and who are not sure that when they get on the table the operation will not be a capital opera tion. As a matter of fact, as the diagnosis has progressed, it has be come more and more evident that no capital operation was necessary; that at the most a minor operation was necessary to remove' admitted dis tempers and evils. The treatment is to be constitutional rather than sur gical, affecting habits of life and action which have been hurtful. For on STT Hands it is admitted that there are processes of business in this country which ought to be corrected, but the correction has been postpon ed and in proportion to the post ponement the fever has increased— the fever of apprehension.. “There is nothing more fatal to business than to be kept guessing from month to mqnth ,and from year to year whether something serious is going to happen to it or not. It is impossible to forecast the prospects of any line of business unless you know what the year is going to bring forth. Nothing is more unfair, noth ing has been declared by business men to be more harmful, than to keep them guessing. “The guessing went on, the air was full of interrogation points, for ten years and more. Then came an ad ministration which for the first time had a definite program of construc tive correction of admitted evil. And the administration proceeded to car^ ry out this program. Rosie May Wilson, the young white girl who was arrested Wednesday by. Deputy Sheriff Howard of GreenvljltS along with Bob Hendsley on the charge of vagrancy,- has made a full statement regarding Bob’s kidnap ping her. She has abandoned all fear of falling into th« hands of Hendsley and seems willing to make any statement necessary. She says that her mother and her self lived In a two-room shanty In the mountains of Tennessee, and that about three years ago Hendsley came to her home and they got acquainted. Hendsley wanted her to lehve with him but she did not want to leave her sicV mother. One night while she was asleep, Hendsley came to ner window and through it entered her room, picked her up in his arms and carried her into the woods before ■sbeTiwoke. When she awoke she was frighten- ed and attempted to scream, but Bob put his hand over her mouth and told her i,f she made any fuss that he* would beat her to death. She lived with him for about four weeks and then mot an old friend of hers, who loaned her enough money to get home. She went home and Bob fol lowed her on the next train. When she arrived she found out that her mother had died. When Bob caught her that night he beat her until she bore' marks on her body, which she carried for months. • They have lived in the mountains and in the country for two years never going into a town for fear of arrest. A letter wa sfound Sunday that had been written to the girl since Bob’s detainment in which it is claimed he owns his guilt and asks that she be as easy on him as pos sible. He also tells her if they ques- tionel her age to give it as 18. He also says in the letter that he knows there is enough In the case to send him to the death chair. TALK TO fOTEBS / FLORENCE HEARS ALL CANDI DATES FOR GOVERNOR / ( TWO TOPICS EMPHASIZED Candidates Put Most Time on Com- ; v V •• pulsory Education and Coat fall * Swingers—Present Administration and Its Ways Are Roundly Con demned by Many. NIGHT OF TERROR. Burning Oil Tank Threatens People and Town. After a night of terror the people of Meadowlands, a little mining town near Washington, Penn., Tuesday re turned to the home they had forsak en Monday when it seemed the vil lage would be engulfed by a torrent of burning oil. Twenty-four families, rendered homeless by the fire or the dynamite used to check its progress were camped on the hills. The oil in the tank, struck by lightning Sun day night, had burned Itself out, al though great masses of black smoke still rolled up from the spot where it bad stood. The tank, containing 25,000 barrels, resisted all efforts of firemen Monday and Monday night when an explosion scattered the oil other tanks in the vicinity were threatened. Scores of workmen di verted the flaming fluid In ditches and the town was saved. “First, there \5*hs the tariff, and business shivered. But when the tariff had been passed it was found that the readjustment was possible without any serious disturbance whatever. “Then came the currency reform. You remember with what resistance, with what criticism, •with wha:Usys tematic holding back, a large body of bankers in this country met the proposals of that reform, and you .-know how, immediately after Its pas sage, they recognized its benefits and its beneficence anA how ever since the passage of that reform bankers throughout the United States have been congratulating themselves that it was possible to carry this great re form in sensible lines. program and again the same dread, the same pessimism, the same urgency that the thing should be postponed. It will not be postponed. We are the friends of business. We know what we are doing; we pur pose to do it under the advice of the country and we know that the effect is going to be exactly what the effect of the currency reform was, a sense of relief and security. “Because when the program is finished, it is finished; the terroga- tion points are rubbed off the slate; business is given its constitution of freedom and is bidden, go forward. And just so soon as it gets that leave and freedom there will be’a boom in this country such as we never have witnessed in the United States. . “I, as a friend of business and a servant of the country, would not dare stop in this program and bring on another Jong period of agitation. Agitation longer continued would be fatal to the business of this country and if this program is delayed there will come agitation with every letter in the word a capital letter. “The choice is a sober and sensi ble program now completed, or months of additional conjecture and danger. I for one could not ask this country to excuse a policy which sub jected business to The gubernatorial candidates spoke in Florence Wednesday. Lieutenant Governor C. A. Smith of Timmonsville, in Florence county, was the first candidate for governor to speak. This being Mr. Smith's home county he did not make a speech,, hut gave way to the others, expressing his sympathy for Mr. R. A. Cooper on account of the death of his wife. He asked the people to give his opponents their attention, but give him their votes. Mr. Smith received -a rousing cireur“from the crowds * ■ “I am before you this morning the most abused man in the State be cause I have exercised my right to vote for Blease for Senator cries tot G. Richards of Liberty Hill in open ing his speech, for governor. When Mr. Richards said he intended to vote for Blease for Senator cres o;’ “Sit down, sit down” vied with those of “Hurrah for Richards” from the audience, “(/oat tail swingers” came from the crowd. He scored the news papers, calling them a “contempt! ble oligarchy”. Mr. Richards grew vigorous in his denunciation of the newspapers. He again opposed com pulsory education, spying that John G. Clinkscales’ plan would drag 100 000 negroes into the schools. “Hur rah for Clinkscales” yelled one from the audience. He denounced the characterization oT him' as a coat tail swinger as false. Referring to those who hopped on him for holding on to the railroad commission he said he did not pro pose to resign, citing as example President Wilson and others. Men tioning that C. A. Smith was ..olding the office of lieutenant governor Manning as trustee of Clemson col lege, M. L. Smith as Speaker of the House and “Wofford college could not afford to dispense with John G Clinkscales,” cries of “Hurrah for Clinkscales,” and an ovation 'for Clinkscales was given by the c-owd. He said these Lad hot resigned their offices when they entered for gov ernor, and he did net propose to sign the railroad commlsslonership Cries of “Down with Gov. Blease, hurrah for Smith” were shot at Mr. Richards as he proceetjed. Charles Carroll Siikms of Barn well opened his speech for governor by pitching into the press, and when he declared he had never held pub lic office, somebody yelled “And you never will”. He expressed his friendship for Gov. Blease. and one u the audience yelled “Coat tail swinger”. Ho said the newspapers were fighting him and the crowd, he said, were not giving Richards and himself and Irby respectful attention because they were friends of Gov. EJIease and the poor men. .Mr. Simms was constantly interrupted by cries of “coat tail swingers, hurrah for Smith,” in the course of his speech. Mendel L. Smith of Camden asked the people to get together and listen to a sensiblOv discussioh of issues. When he mentfbped the great- pow ers of the governor and how he could bring about lawlesshess in abusing the power, a spectator yelled, “He’s already done it.” He saRl he knew the people would detest deihpgogery, the wiles of the cheap politicians and a discussion of sound issuesl\He made a strong argument for local trustee* he wa* going to run for governor, and they told him to go ahead and rnn and when he came back his chair would be there for him. “And I am running some,” said Mr. Clinkscales, and the crowd laughed and cheered. Mr. Cllhkscales said M. L. Smith and Manntog had. one foot oh his platform, but he alone stood flat footedly for State-wide compulsory education. "Richards fs on the»oth T er end of the string and I will not bother with a man who says he is option, compulsory education, argu ing that this was the same Demo cratic principle of local government contained in the local option on the liquor question. He gave the line-up of the candi dates for governor on.the compulsory education issue and explained his own advocacy of a local option com pulsory education law’ which would aljow each school district to vote on Ihe question. “What man will stand here on thb. floor to-day and tell me that he is opposed to submitting the question of compulsory education to the people of a school district?”’ ask ed Mr. Smith. continued agita tion and uncertainty and therefore I am sure that it is beginning to be evident that a constructive program is not oply to be proposed but com pleted, and that when it. is completed business can get and. will get what it can get in no other way—rest, re cuperation and successful adjust ment. • “It is a matter of conscience as well as a matter of large public pol icy to do what thik congress, I am now certain, is going to do—finish the program. And I don’t think it is going to take a very long time. I believe that the various elements sometimes In antagonism in the con gress of the United States are draw ing to getber antf that we shall wit- asss an early statesmanlike result for whict) we shall all hare abundant reason to be thankful.” speak. He said it was a new busi ness for him to bo mixed up with politicians, but that he was having n jo’lly time. Mr. Clinkscales joked various candidates. The crowd laughed at each hit. Then he launch ed into a discussion of- compulsory education, which he said was the big issue. He said he had been paid a great compliment by Richards when the latter said Wofford college coaid nojL dispense ,wit£ his services. He said Richards bad told him he had not resigned and he said he bed told his for he is too far behind the times,” said Mr. Clinkscales. He showed that the State had the ri£ht to make people send- their children to school and he said there was plenty of eTjutpraent for the children. He made a, strong and effective plea for the 40,000 white children who are shut out of schools in South Carolina, making a strong point that all the county superintendents of ed ucation in the State favored compul sory education. Hp stated that J. Walter Doar, who fought compul sory education in the legislature, told him he got converted to it after he became county superintendent of education in Georgetown, because of the facts he found. He pleaded with the crowd to help unlock the prison fiours and' let in the 4h,000-,white-^ children to school. Mr. Clinkscales was Applauded” and presented with Shivers when he finished. . John T. Duncan of Columbia said the people had heard jokers, coat swingers and some who had tail worn the fence out trying to find out where they were. He said some had one plank, and some two, and he had invited all to get on his plat form, his proposal of a commission to consider all matters. He again dis cussed what he called the "system”. He denounced the talk about poor men being deprived of voting under the new rules as “rot”. He said there were 257,000 fraudulent votes two years ago, and because a new enroll ment had been provided “Gov. Blease had his bunch are raising a howl be cause their crowd can’t vote but one f»ow_” . * W. C. Irby of Laurens was the next candidate for governor. He said he was no “coat tail swinger”, but was standing on his own feet. He told of his opposition to the personal en rollment required of voters under the new primary rules. He said he was still a dispensary man and said he believed the people ought to be given good liquor. He told of his opposition to the sale of the asylum property in Columbia, and of his fight against the immigratloh bureau which was finally abolished. Richard I. Manning of» Sumter closed the speaking for governor He came forward amid applause and began his work by complimenting Florence county. In speaking of his deprecating of persqnal abuse and personalities, Mr. Manning said he believed the audience would agree with him that some of the campaign in the past had been a disgrace and he called for a discussion of Issues and not men. He said the people were looking to the future and he told of the educational, industrial agricultural and other constructive issues of the campaign. Mr. Manning was cheered when he said he would enforce the law and not single out any locality. He was applauded when promised to curtail the use of the pardoning power If elected. CBASH IN HUD All STORM HITS BALLOON AEROPLANE EGPLODES DIRIGI- FOUR RACERS ABOVE EARTH EN COUNTER LIGHTNING. BLE IN MANOEUVRES. Captain of St Louis Tell* of Exci' NINE OFFICERS KILLED Moment In Clouds and a 4 MJ1« Above Huge Forests. nttar The. Jour.baboons.. whiclUeft Eort- ' ReaI Kesniw lans, Ore., a week ago in a race un in Death of All in the Air-^Mimlc Attack of Aeroplane While Hover ing Over Huge Dirigible at Great High Has Fearful Result. . , Nine burned and mutilated bodies, KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY. Doctor Says Ignorance is the Great Cause of Disease. Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Baltimore, speaking before the sec tion of surgery of the American Med ical associtian in convention at At lantic City, N. J., Wednesday, declar ed the appalling mortality in cancer chiefly is due to ignorance and fear of operation.' • - , There are 20,000,000 school chil dren in this country and 1,000,000 of them have tuberculosis,” was the statement of Dr, Mary Lanham qf Highlands, N. C., in her piea for perioot^ examination of young stu dents, delivered before the section of preventive\ medicine and public health. Generally speaking every child in the tJnitied States by the time it reaches maturity is infected with tuberculosis. “The true pre vention of tuberculosis lies in finding out the danger in time to overcome it.” Cigarette Causes Fatal Explosion. Five men are dead and ten are in the hospitals of Columbus, Ohio, as TjwlLh” answered John G. Clink^ a result of an explosion of gas among laborers engaged in laying pipes, one of whom was smoking a cigarette. scales, “Probably if we had had it in- ef fect for a few years you would not,” retorted Mr. Smith, at which the crowd laughed' and applauded. Cheers and cries of “the next gov ernor of South Carolina” greeted. . . Aike».A4i*ust*~-r»rt*w*. John-G. fMtnkamtes Wheirie toW'W ^ M **» , ** MJ August*-nw**** Segregation on Electric Cars. The railroad commission has or dered that the last three seats on the be reserved for negroes, is for six months. — ♦ ♦ *>..— The.older Big Firm Goes to Wall. .Owing $?.0,000,000 which it could not pay at this time the H. B. Claflin stores of r New York went to the wall Thursday with assets totalling over $40,000,000. l ^ . „♦ ♦ ♦ Eight Eight miners -Kifledr- the splintered fragments of an aero plane and the charred remnants of a big digirible balloon, are the mute records of one of the most sensa tional disasters .which has occurred since man learned to fly. The catas trophe, which resulted in the death of all concerned, nine officers and men, followed a mimic atta&k by the aeroplane on the dirigible at a great height during the Austrian manoeuv- ers ^and served to shpw, more than any previous-accidents to flying ma chines have done, the horrors that would be likely to attend aerial war fare. The dirigible mftiTary.J-balloon Koertling early Saturday left Ris chamend, 11 miles from Vienna manned by Capt. Johann Hauswirth in command, Lieut. Ernst Hofstetter, Lieut. Bruer, Lieut. Haldinger, Cor poral Hadima, Corporal Weber and Engineer Kammerer. At the elapse of half an hour a military biplane with Lieut. Flatz and Lie^t. Hoosta aboard, started In pursuit. It was the intention of Captain Hauswirth to take photographs of the movements of troops below and then to join the manoeuvers. At the same time he was to keep out of range of any of the mosquito craft which might seek to attack him. The news had gone abroad that something in the nature o£ a sha’m aerial fight would take place, and at Koenigsberg, the scene of the en gagement, a big crotfd had gathered. Very quickly the smaller, but much speedier craft, overtook the big air ship, and tlhen the spectators witness ed a thrilling sight. As might a wasp bent on attack ing some clumsy enemy, the aero plane circled several times around the balloon, now darting close to her and then away, always apparently steering off just in time to avoid an actual collision. Meanwhile the balloon continued to rise until it was about 1,300 feet from the ground. The aeroplane, at a still greater height, manoeuvered until It appeared to be nearly over the airship. Then It began Its des cent. It was the evident intention of the pilot -of the aeroplane to take up a position directly above the dirg- ible, within striking distance, but ow ing either to a fatal miscalculation of distance or spee£, the nose of the biplane struck the envelope of the airship and ripped it wide open. A tremendous explosion followed, the balloon bursting into flames, which enveloped the biplane, and in a moment the wreckage began to drop crashing at length like lead to the slope of a hill. Almost at the sairfe moment the wife of Lieut. Hof stetter, who had been married only a month, arrived in a motor car. The envelope of the balloon still was burning when it struck the ground. Lieut: Flatz, when extricat ed from the wreckage of the aero plane, showed faint signs of life, but almost immetWately he expired. All the others were killed.- Military officers who witnessed the disaster said that the manoeuvers had been undertaken with instruc tions to carry out as far as possible actual war conditions in which an aeroplane was attacking a dirigible, the latter trying to repel the assault^ The occupants of both craft had been ordered to -conduct themselves as they would in actual combat. According to some experts, the catastrophe seemingly was caused by the aeroplane being caught in the eddies from the balloon. They attri bute the accident td a species of whirlwind caused by the alrship’e propeller which drew in the sjnatler machine. Simms I .eaves Campaign Party, Just as. he arose to speak at Sum ter Charles Carrqll Simms was hand ed a telegram announcing the death of his sister, and for that reason he is temporarily absent from the cam paign party. ^ * I Police Inspector Shot. "When Police Inspector Norton of Boston attempted to arrest Lawrence a^wwpwrrrifar^bTTmi^'r' §5t-. urday he was* shot "and desperately wounded. - . Family Fight Fatal. Wesjey McCoy of Winston Salem, N. C., was shot Tuesday following a row with his wife. He had returned to his home, where they fought for the possession of a revolver. ■w Gets Rabies From Kiss. rer the auspices of the Aero Club of America, encountered severe thun- der storms when thousands of feet above the earth and the pilots and their aids figured in some remark able experiences. The Kansas City III landed safely 78 miles from Port land. • She descended Just before en countering clouds. The Uncle Sam was struck three times by lightning and landed in a peach orchard near Oregon City just as a hot stroke hit a peach tree and set it on fire. The Springfield escaped the lightning but was driven to earth by mixed cur rents of air. The Million Population Club balloon, of St. Louis, was the lightning and its pilot and his aide were caught in the top of a pine tree nearly 100 feet from the ground. Their'silkW bag was split when 3.,500 feet; above the sur- laee-s«f the earth. _:.Xi XT’ : 'K> Capt. John Berry of St. Louis was pilot of the Million Population bal loon. In telling of his experience Berry says: “We were up about 3,500 feet when we were caught between two thunderstorms. Lightning flashed, between the clouds at every angle We were shaken several times and decided to descend when another bolt seemed to tear the big bag apart.^, The next instant the lower end the balloon was sagging in the b^ ket. “I grabbed my knife and told my aide to get ready to jump when we struck. The balloon came down like a bird with wigs broken. I kept cut ting and when finally we landed in a tree I had cut just enough to allow us to get out. It was the worst ex perience I ever had.” Capt. H- E. Honeywell of St. Louis, pilot of the Uncle Sam, was on his one hundred and ninety-fifth flight and the experience he had in the heavy electrical storm was his first. He dropped to the 500-foot level and tried to go bqlow the storm, but was caught In a cross vortex and drawn under a canopy of clouds from which lightning flashed toward the Uncle Sam. Fire flew from all sides of the balloon car before she was landed and then lightning followed her from the sky and struck within 40 feet of the point of landing. KILLED IN FLORENCE. Woman From Alleged Disreputable House Charged With Murder, Joseph I. Schaas, a well known young man, was shot to death at Florence Thursday afternoon shortly after five o'clock. Ruth Wilson, a white woman, was immediately ar rested by the police, charged with having fired the fatal shot. Schaas was shot three times in the head and death must have been almost instan taneous. The wounds, were made with pistol bullets. The pistol was found in the-room where the tragedy occurred with three empty shells. The Wilson woman told the police that Schass fired the shots with sui cidal intent. Schaas came from Charlotte, N. C., some months ag and opehed up a billiard and parlor in West Evans street, near city hall,' and seethed to be doing well. Some mphths ago the red light district was run out to McDemons Hill. Later the grand jury present ed the district and they were given sixtydays to shut tip shop. . They did so only to return to their old haunts n North Florence. Thursday after noon’s tragedy will no doubt result in further action being taken against the disreputable houses. LAST WORD TO HAITI. European Powers Issue Ultimatum to Smaller Republic. News has reached Washington from unofficial sources that France and Germany have warned Haiti that her custom houses will be seized un less arrangements are made to meet the outstanding Haitien finapeial ob ligations. —Secretary-Bryan said no notice that such a step was contem*- plated had come to the United States from the European” powers, tiut re ports of the serious situation in the island republic, torn w ithin " by revo lution and besieged by creditors from wkithout, were the subject of a long ing. What the attitude ofifhe Unit ed’States might be was rot indicated. To Give Out Correspondence. Secretary Bryan has announced that the Aiherican-Japanese corre spondence on the California land question will be published .sir eously in both countries Fridd . Model. Man Dies at M2. W.-R. HBidman of Sedalia, Mo., who never tasted liquor, cussed, smoked or chewed died Thursday alter his first Illness, of three days duration, at the ace of 82. v -