The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 12, 1914, Image 3
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FICJHTESO tX)XTI\lT-» AMONG
BBbGUV SAND DUNES.
r
irks fight
Sweeping! Movements Are Expected in
Where Ku-swians Claim
East
to
Have Defeated Germans and A us-
NEW TORPEDO STATION
GOVERNMENT BUILDING SECOND
— PLANT IN PACIFIC.
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Torpedoes Now Used Travel 33 Knots
- and Carry 300 Pounds of .. an Un^
known Explosive.
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Every effort is being made to place
the nedr Pacific coast torpedo station
at Keyport, Wash., in condition to do
work similar^to that which is being
done at Newport, ft. I., at present the
only station of its kind in the coun
MURDER INCREASES
^
OVER SIX THOUSAND PERSONS
WERE KILLED IN 101». „
DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS
trlan**—Turkey’s Attack Mav Cause try - <According t0 the navy de P art
mans rurkej s Attack May l.ause the Keyport tor p e do station
Weakening of Russian Attack. should be ready for work by next
■ i ‘ 4 April.
No decision has been reached in At present if a torpedo being tried
'the battle in the West Flanders sand out on an American warship in the
dunes and the opposing forces of the orient becomes disabled in any way
Germans and allies now stand virtu- u must be sent to San Francisco and
ally as they h*' 6 stood for many] from there to Newport, R. I., for re
day j. pairs. This means a loss of four or
While the Germans keep hammer- five months. The Keyport station
ring away at the Allies around Ypres, will hft used as a trial ground for
which route they chose for their testing torpedoes,
march to the coast after they had The location, about four miles
found the road along the sea barred, from the Puget Sound navy yard at
neither side has got far. The Bel- Bremerton, Wash., is said to be al-
gians and those supporting them have most ideal, the water being deep,
found that the floods they created to with few vessels passing. The gov
‘stop the German advance are hinder-] eminent has bought a tract of eighty-
ing their own' movements, although eight acres, for the station
they have occupied some villages, in- Until a short time ago the navy
eluding Bixschoote, which has been used torpedoes of ‘"the Whiteheaii
in the possession of the Germans. type, but the modern weapon is much
Around Ypres the German offen- more powerful and has a range of five
sive, according to the Allies’ accounts, or six miles. It also carries a much
has met with no successes. In fact heavier charge of explosive^—300
it seems that all along the line there pounds,
has been merely a repetition of artil- The explosive is known to few oven
lery duels and of infantry attacks and in the havy. It is contained in what
counterattacks which sometimes sue- is known as the “war head.” which
eeed but more often do not. is screwed and bolted to the jarger
On the eastern frontier more wide section of the torpedo, the part that
'sweeping movements are being made carries the propelling apparatus
by the opposing armies. The Rus- in trials the war head is filled with
sians. from all reports, have driven water. Even then if running at full
,/A^k the German centre to the river speed it probably would drive
^^wthe in Russian Poland, have held through any ordinary steel plate. The
a German offensive movement fatal weight is over a ton, and its
Bast Prussia and are straighten- speed varies from twenty-five knots
out their line for a more vigor- a t long range to thirty-five knots at
offensive against the Austrians, a short distance
^10 have been trying to beat their By means of a gyroscope in its
left wing in Galicia. . mechanism it may be launched from
Ft is to the Allies in these regions [the stern tubes of a ship to attack an
that the British military men are | enemy almost directly ahead. The
looking, for-they declare that if the torpedo will leave the tube and start
Russians can keep up their success-1 directly astern, but when fifty yards
ful fighting against the Austrians and aw ay it will turn an angle of ninety
(’rermans, relief will come to the al- degrees and thus change its direction
'lied armies in the west because of | completely
the necessity for a withdrawal of
German army corps from France and
Belgium to protect Silesia and East
Prussia These military observers
express belief that the Turkish threat | American Minister Furnished Mnp*
against the Russian Caucasus will
weaken the Ruslan armies by with
drawal from Poland, but the Russian
authorities say they have sufficient
troops 00 the spot to deal with Tur
United States is Probably the Home
of More Homicides In Proportion
Than Any Civilazed Country—lire
Arms Cause flii.1 Per Cent of
HOW 39,MO WERE LOST
AUSTRIAN DELIVERER 80IJ)IKR8
INTO ENKMIKS HAND.
SAVED BUILDINGS.
to Guide German Gunners.
key
To Brand Whitlock, American min
ister to Belgium, is due credit for
saving the cathedral, art galleries,
churches, theatres, and public build
tngs In Antwerp during the recent
German bombardment.
When the German approached
Antwerp Mr. Whitlock asked their
commander, Gen. von der Gdltz, to
spare the historic buildings. Gen
von der Colts agreed to use his good
offices If Mr. Whitlock would pre
pare maps for the German aeroplan
Ists that they might direct the firing
Henry W. Diederieh. American con
sul general, then arranged large
maps on which were indicated points
which it was dosired should be avoid-
The shooting was so skilful that
the Place of' Justice was the only
large government building struck.
It was slightly damaged A bomb
struck the front of St. Peter's church.
The slight damage done to the city is
considered remarkable in view of the
TO HOLD COTTON BALL.
The first reports of the fighting be
tween the Russians and the Turks are
as couiicting as were the first Aus
trian and Russian accounts of the
warfare in Galicia. Each contender
claims to have invaded the other's
territory and to have defeated his
frontier armies. These fights, how
ever, probably have been only ad
vance guard affairs and it is thought
that some time may elapse before a
pitched battle takes place.
Tha Anglo-French fleet continues
to bombard the Dardanelles forts, but
the Turks say the warships have In-, . .
»o <■.»«- ■» Other p.rt.
Turkey British warships are busy.
The government, however, has order
ed that holy places shall be respect
ed by the British gunfire as long as
the Indian subjects visiting them are
not molested.
This necessity for respecting the,,. . . . ^ .
feeling of her Moslem subjects H is| three day .bombardment.
considered, may hamper Groat Brit
ain somewhat in the prosecution^of
the war against Turkey, but with her
large Moslem population it can not
be disregarded. In addition to as
surances from the Indian princes,
England has been Informed by Mos
lem leaders in the Malay states that
tlie war against Turkey will not af-
the loyalty of the Moslems to the
he result of the naval battle in
VUe Pacific between British and Get
man squadrons, details of which still
are lacking, not only is the most dis
cussed subject of the war in England,
but it is realized that the worst ac
counts, including the sinking of the
Monmouth and serious damage to the
Good Hdpe, probably are true
“It is the price of admiralty." says
the average Englishman of this and
other losses since the war commenc
ed. The balance thus far is on the
side of German but every Briton
seems confident when the main fleets
meet this discrepancy wtih Ire m
than wiped out.
It is expected that should^tfie Ger
man fortress of Tsing Xnu fall the
British and Japanese vessels engaged
there, will start ouj^ln r.n etideavor to
round up the eigm or nine German
cruisers still^ft large. . /
MUST GO OUT.
German Ouiser Must Leave Honolulu
or be Interned.
Replying to an inquiry from the
Japanese embassy, the state depart
ment announced that it had set a
limit on the stay of the German
cruiser Geier at Honolulu^where she
put in more than two weeks ago for
repairs. Unless the Geier leaves by
a specified, date, which was not made
public, slje will be Interned for the
\y»r. ’ [ '>7..
A large Japanese cruiser has been
Just outside Honolulu harbor since
shortly after the Geler’s arrival and
another Japanese battleship arrived
Tuesday. Two Japanese aviators,
joking exhibition flight, were stop-
Bn by the police. It is thought the
W&ibility of sending or receiving
signals have caused the action. ‘
Resigns From Mill Merger. 1 m m m .. .|—-v
Lewis W. Parker has resigned “'IXSvA ® SWalblTlv^. v
from the pr'esidency of the Parker
Mill merge it .which was formed sev
eral years ag<]. \
Southern Society of New York to
Entertain.
The New York World savs South
ern a<rs and southern manners will
permeate the ballroom of the \v al-
dorf-AsUria on the evening of Nov
ember 12, when the New York South-
"rn Society will lend a helping hand
to the distressed cotton sect! ins. t.’ct-
tf.n gowns will be worn inst -r.d
richer materials, and'eotton hoi>i'w;ll
be the orchids of the night. Tne men
will wear cotton gloves And cotton
dominoies will be sold at the door.
Old colored mammj.eS will be on hano
carrying huge baskets of cotton boils.
The boxes, cartings and walls will be
entirely hidden with cotton draperies.
In short; the committee In charge,'
up of most of the best known
uthern people in New York, is go
ing to transplant the South for one
evening. v
Cause
Deaths.
Murder is on the Increase in the
United States, accord ng to statistics
compiled by Frederick L. Hoffman
for The Spectator, an insurance publi
cation. He says that homicides were
never so frequent in this country as
they are at the present time, and that
the proportion of women to men vic
tims is one to four.
■ Mr, Hoffman found that about 6,-
500 persons met death by murder last
year, and that this was the largest
number of homicides since reliable
statistics became available in 1884,
with the exception of the panic year
of 1907. In that year the rate went
up to 8.8 for every 100,000 ot the
population, while in 1913 the rate
was 8.7 per 100,000.
The figures gathered by Mr. Hoff
man were meant for the use of insur
ance companies. He made no partic
ular effort, he said, to determine how
many of the deaths could be classed
as “justifiable homicides,” and how
many resulted from abnormal mental
conditions on the part of the slayers
He said: “The insurance companies
have to pay just the sanie whether
the homicide in any given case was
justifiable or not.
Mr. Hoffman found that the vital
statistics and criminal records for the
United States as a whole were very
badly kept. •
“There are no general statistics as
to crime,” he said, “which are not
morA misleading that they are In
forming. There are no general sta
tistics for the country as a whole
which afford insight into the question
of whether any given crime was com
mitted by a normal or an abnormal
person. And. moreover, there are
abundant reasons for believing that
some violent deaths are returned in
coroners’ reports as accidents because
of the reluctance on the part of the
jurors to establish felonious crime.”
Mr. Hoffman prepared with special
care the homicide records of the thir
ty-most populous American cities,
‘both for a thirty-year period ending
with 1912 and for the year 1913
TTere is the way they rate In the
order of their comparative freedom
from murders for the ten years end
ed in 1912: Milwaukee, Newark.
Rochester, Minneapolis, Hartford,
Haffalo. Reading. Penn.; Philadel
phia, Baltimore. Brooklyn, Boston.
Dayton. Pittsburgh. Prov.dence, Man
hattan and the Bronx. Cleveland,
Spokane. Washington. D. C.: Seattle,
Chicago. Cincinnati, San Francisco,
St. Ixiuis, Lousvllle, Nashville, At
lanta. New Orleans. Savannah. Char
leston, S. C.; Memphis. Tenn.
The homicide* in Memphis which
attained the highest rate amounted
to 58.3 per 100,000 of the population
for the ten years’ average. For last
year the homicides amounted to 68
per 100,000. in Milwaukee, the city
at the other extreme of the list, there
were only 2.2 murders for each 100,-
000 of the population, and the In
crease for last year was 1.2 per 100,-
000. Charleston. S. C., lowered its
record last year from 30.6 to 30.1 per
100,000, while Louisville. San Fran
cisco. Seattle. Washington, D. C.;
Providence, R. I., and Reading, Pena:,
also showed slight decreased. ^
In all of the other cities there were
increases. In Manhattan and tho
Bronx there were 1,4"3 murders from
1903 to 1912, making a rate of about
midway in the IHt of principal cities,
of 5.7 per HLfrTOOO. The gaih for last
year was^Ki per 100.000
Remarkable Htory Credits Railroad
Manager' With Dispatching Troop
S' . j „
Trains Into Russia.
The "following details of the trea
son of the Austrian railroad man
ager at Lemberg, whose execution
was reported,by cable some time ago,
are contained in a private letter re
ceived in New* York from a corre
spondent, in Galicia:
“When at the beginning of August
hostilities between Russia and Aus
tria-Hungary were announced, the
DESCRIBESEA FIGHT
HOSTILE SQUADRONS MEET EACH
OTHER UNEXPECTEDLY. -
CATCHES THREE ROBBERS
-**W-
BRIDGE KEEPER HOLDS THEM
' WITH UNLOADED RIFL88.
FOUGHT IN HEAVY GALE
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German Fleet Heads English Fleet
A
From Neutral Shore and in Rising
Seas Destroy treading Ships—Brit
ish Flag Ship Could Not Use Dig
Guns fo# Storm.
, , . , ..... 1 A wireless cry from the British
latter s plan of campaign covered the cruiser Gla8g0 w—Intercepted by the
movement of several army corps con
posing the left wing, to the north of
Cracow, with objective of Lublin and
Warsaw, in command of Gen. pankl.
The operations of the right wing,
confided to Gen. Auffenberg, comprls-
German victors—was the last word
received from Read Admiral Cra-
dock’s squadron after the engage
ment off the Chilean coast Sunday.
The Germans saw the Monmouth
sink and heard an explosion on board
ed the holding the line of railroad, ^ Good H that th aent
Cracow-Lemberg-Czernowitz. an ad- the cripple(i flag8hl to the bottoin .
vance to the frontier the invasion o An tbat ni ht cruiser
Russian territory, and the capture of Nurnberg wrche<i the 8<ia8 un8UC ,
x ar . saW L .. , 1. cessfully for the Good Hope. They
“Lemberg, the main railway cen- )cked u - a radiogram dlre cted to the
ter. became the destination of hun- fl hlp b the G1 a ow . There wa8
. v r cist 1 sS « n m m rt 4 wi rev vx ! •
dreds of trains, soldiers, ammunition,
no reply.
and suppl es, from th * re bp lJ dia '| There were about 650 men on the
tributed at points designated. RegH Monmoutb when she di8 appeared be^
ments, artillery parks, divisions, and neatb tbe waveg Admlra , cradock
corps were billed to Lembeyg and had 900 men wltb hlm on tbe Good
heir arrival was duly reported to H Whether the Glasgow and the
headquar ers Thence. onWartf to traa8port Otranto, which fled with
he frontier, further reports became h V 8urvived i8 not known . Th *
fragmentary, and often were not 1
whereabouts of the German cruisers
Leipsig and Bremen also remains in
doubt.
Further details of the battle be
came known from statements made
by Germans officers. They commend-
1 ,1 ed the bravery of the Britishers in
•An .nvestigaUon was ord^ered. and| the uneven coiubat and lntimated that
an effort to save lives would have
been made if ime weather had
mitted. ~ —
The engagement was fought in the
teeth of the norther that assumed
made at all, so that Gen. Auffenberg
remained entirely in the dark as to
the position of his troops. They
were traced as far as Lemberg, but
beyond there they had gone astray
nobody could tell where, or how.
officers of the general's staff were
detailed for that purpose. They trav
eled in army automobiles to Lemberg,
where, by accident, they overtook
Gen. R , also in his car. and pre-
per-
ceding his command that was to come m hurrlcane proportions. Small
along in trams 4b 4,, 48 booked to £ £ the 8ea -rw«
Lemberg for garrison duty. [
“Together they drove to the rail
road station to question the chief
manager and head of the transporta
tion service en the Leraberg-Czerno-
witz line, who was also a Privy Coun
cillor.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE GAINS.
Suffragettes Win Rattles In States of
Nevada and Montana.
Women now have full suffrage in
ten states, according to latest re
turns which, apparently, gave the
franchise to women in Nevada and
Montana. Suxrage amendments wer
leading by 1,327 in Montana and by
3,500 in Nevada.
In addition, women have the right
to vote for certain officers in twenty-
one other states. In Illinois they
may vote for all statuory offices, in
cluding presidenial electors. Tht
eleven woman suffrage states, with
the time of granting the franchise,
are:
Idaho 196, Wyoming 1890, Colo
rado 1893, Utah 1896,* Washington
1910, California 1912, Arizona .1912,.
Kansas 1912, Oregon if 12, Nevada'
1914, Montana 1914.
Elect New President.
Eulallo Guitterrez has been named
provisional president of Mexico for a
period of twenty days by the conven
tion at Aguas Calientes.
The extra session of the genetal 1
assembly recently concluded at Co-
laitfbla amounted to $68,916.20.
The
heavy weather militated against the
larger ships and tbe Good Hope
found her guns almost useless be
cause of the ship s roll
The German China fleet, the cruls
ers Scharnhorst, Ghelsenau and the
They were talking to him when |‘ s ' urn * >er H' bad rejoined the Leipzig
the head train dispatcher entered and an d Bremen, which had been detach'
advised his chief that trains 46, 47, ^ patrol the coast north of Val
and 48 had entered blocks 1, 2, and | P ara * # o- The unit proceeded south
^ (one, two and three kilometers ward, apparently well aware of the
distant from the depot), and Inquired rendezvous of the British eff Concep-
whether they should be routed for- c l° n Bay. At the same time the Mon
ward. the same as previous trains, pnooth and Glasgow, accompanied by
The manager replied: th « transport OtrwRo, were moving
“Certainly and hurry them; here I nor tb to meet the flagship Good Hope,
are staff officers making inquiries " evidently unaware of the proximity of
Oen. R——— asked to have the]the Germans. They met off Coronet,
train number repeated. It was 6 o'clock Sunday night
“ ‘Have you the telegraphic orders] when the Germana sighted the three
to send the trains beyond Lemberg.' British ships. The latter attempted
he questioned. y to alter their course, evidenly In-
“'Certainly: I’ll go and get them.‘ tending to approach the coast and
was the reply. gain territorial waters, and so avot
“ ‘No, do not trouble yourself, Mr. an unequal match. The Germans,
Councillor,’ said the General. ‘Be however, headed, them off.
good enough to send for them.' At] At tbe mom ent the German guns
the same time the General motioned ^vere trained the Good Hope was seen
his aide, who happened to wear comtnjC at
full speed. Through good
mufti, to accompany the nre**renKer. 8aanianRb i p abe managed t 0 j 0 | n the
“The two proceeded to the rail-] otber British ships. The Britishers
road telegraph office, but there w *tre] bad coine about and the two sqnad-
po orders there as to trains , | roni nalPd southward in parallel
or 48. The operator volunteered the unes ^vith tho Germans nearer the
remark, ‘The dispatch orders may coas t.
possibly be in the lower office, downl —. * . .. ., , ,, .
these steps’ There the Captain ini O radaa » y tbe two lines dre
mufti discovered route orders for 46,. , ... ...
47, 48 to go direct to the Russian “ au , "ImHUneously let go their
frontier, and that the telegraph wires h™ 1 ™ 8 - ,n ‘ h K “ n ’' at th . e , Good Hopp
The urban rate for last year was
0 4/per 100,000 of population In ex-
ss of the urban rate for 1812, while
the 1912 rate showed an increase of
nearly 100 per cent, over the rate
which prevailed from 1890 to 1900.
Tn 1 905 the first marked increase
since 1 884 began. The rate for that
year increased to 6.7 per 100,000. In
1906 it reached 7.9 per HXO.OOO, and
in 1907 it reached 8.8 per 100,000,
the largest total yet recorded |
The falling off which began in 1908
brought the record for that year
down to 8.1 per 100,000, while in
1900 it dropped still lower, to 7.6 per
100,000. In 1910 the rate climbed to
8.3 per 100,000, In 1911 It mounted
to 8.4 per 100,000, and remained
practically stationary In 1912, after
which it jumped to 8.7 per 100,000.
The lowest record scored was in 1890,
when the rate was. 4.2 per 100,000.
“Accepting the present returns as
accurate," said Mr. Hoffman, “it may
Safely be maintained that the position
of the United StatejJLn' the matter of
violent deaths is decidedly deplor
able. Every international comparison
proves that the homicide rate of the
.United States is probably the highest
for any civilized country in the world.
“Of the victims of murder, the
largest number were between 20 and
29 years of age, while the next larg
est number were between 30 and 40
years of age. Of all the homicides
recorded since 1902, 62.1 per cent,
were by fire arms, 15.9 by knives or
sharp instruments, and 22 per cent,
by poison, strangulation, or other
means.’’
Mr. Hoffman found that the homi
cide rate of New York. 5.5 from 1D07-
1911, was six times - that of London,
nearly three times that of Berlin and
60 per.cent, greater than that of
Paris. He urges that statistics be
carefully prepared as to the kind of
weapons used, so that laws mav be
passed to limit the possession of the
most dangerous weapons and drugs.
Bulgarian Reserves Out.
Bulgaria is said to have called out
her second lin > of reserves.
led to Russian army headquarters.
The arrivals of Austrian troop trains
and all the Austrian movements had
been telegraphed to the enemy. The
trains were sent into ambushed poet
tions and virtually kidnapped by the
Russians.
“The arrest of all of the railroad
employees followed quickly, from
train dispatchers to general manager.
A military court was constituted. It
was revealed that all the railroad of
ficials were in the pay of Russia.
Train 46, opportunely coming in, the
railroad men were marched out into
the yard and forced to dig holes.
They heard the sentence and their
bodies fill tbe graves.
“About 30,000 of the pick of Aus
trian soldiers had been delivered to
the enemy by treachery. The plan
for the right wing had to be aban
doned and Lemberg evacuated. Rus
sia took possession of more than
three-fifths of Galicia and all of Buk-
owina. Cossacks threatened Cracow,
entered Hungary, and endangered
Dankl’s forward move. —
“A cable mess&ge a few' days since
reported that Gen. Brudermann, a
former commandant of Lembert, had
been cashiered and ordered to appear
at a court-martial for trial on the
charge of high treason.”
WAR 18 DECLARED.
Turk's Ambassadors Leave and Eng
land and France Declare War.
Turkey has definitely broken off
diplomatic relations with Great Brit
ain, France, Russia and Servia. Her
diplomatic representatives in the cap
itals of these countries, acting on or
ders from the porte, Wednesday de
manded and received their passports.
The French government Thursday
night declared that “a state af war
exists between France and Turkey,”
according to the Bordeaux corre
spondent of the Havas agency. It
was officially announced in London
Thursday that a state of war exists
between Great Britain and Turkey.
Turkey (‘laims Justification.
According to a Berlin dispatch the
Russian Black Sea fleet was trying to
separate the Turkish fleet and^ that
the action of the Turks was Justifi
able.
Mexican Rebel* Fighting.
—rghifog mirTiTaarTfruHW *t
Magdalena. Mexico, between 400 VI1-
lista troops and 350 mien under Gen
Hill, Carranza’s leader.
For several minutes the German
shots fell short and tbe Good Hope
had such a roll she could not reply.
The smaller cruisers were far out of
range.
Then the sea fighters drew In hekf-
CFt When the two units werfc but
6,000 yards apart the Good Mope
fired her two 9-lnch guns. 8he still
was unable to use her eight 0-lnch
guns, which on the gun deck were so
near the water line that the vessel
rolled until they were almost awash.
A terrible broadside from the Scharn
horst and Gnclsenau crippled the
British flagship and her engines stop
ped.
The Monmouth made a dash to
cover the Good Hope, but the Ger
mans Immediately brought into ac
tion all the guns of their five vessels.
There were directed first against the
Monmouth, Glasgow and Otranto.
The Otranto, &a<Uy damaged, escaped
In the gathering ^darkness. Soon
afterwards she was followed by the
Glasgow, which also had been put out
of action, but continued apparently
seaworthy.
The five German ships continued
thelc attack on the Monmouth and
the Good Hope, find a Jew minutes
later the former sank. By this time
only 4,500 yards separated the fight
ers. - -
The Good Hope, badly damaged,
hung on until an explosion occurred
on board her. She withdrew to the
westeward at 7:30 o’clock. As she
disappeared 'flames were seen on
board her. Whether the fire was
stripped or she went tft the bottom Is
not known,*-but the flames dropped
down and she was not seen again.
The Nurnberg searched until day
break for the wounded ship, when
she had been lost, with all her crew.
Contrary to first reports, the Glas
gow did not reach' Coronel or Talca-
huano, nor did the Otranto find a
Chilean port. < The German fleet, with
the exception of the Leipzig and
Bremen, put in and sailed again. If
they had any word of the Leipzig and
Brement they did not make it known.
Three Men Rob Five Negroes on Rntt-
way Bridge Near Colombia, But
Are Captured. ’
Two white 'boys, John Driggers
and Frank Cooper, and a negro man.
John Franklin, armed with pistols,
shortly before noon Thursday held
up five negroes on the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens trestle, at the
r clty'timltk ot Columbia and robbed
them of what, cash was on their per
sons. _ -
With their booty their proceeded
up Broad River road, but when cross
ing Broad River bridge were met by
Melton Lorick, the white keeper/ who
held them at the point of a shotgun
until deputies arrived from Columbia
and took them in charge. The pris
oners in the sheriff’s office, after tbe
money had been found on them and
the pistols taken from their persons,
confessed to £he crime. It Is claimed.
Five negroes, Lewis Jackson, O’Dell,
Keyser, Nels Keyser, Gus Keyser and
Essie Jackson, all farm hands em
ployed on the plantation of Represen
tative-elect J. 8. Huffman, In the
Dutch fork, were crossing the. Co
lumbia, Newberry and Laurens tres
tle at the edge of the city limits of
Columbia when they were confronted
by three armed men, who, at the
point of pistols, compelled them to
turn over what cash they had and
submit to being searched.
The negroes reported the hold-up
and Rural'Policeman Koon, first get
ting v the report, telephoned the de
scription and news of the robbery
ahead. The highwaymen were mak
ing up the Broad River road. Mr.
Melton Lorick, the keeper of the
Broad River bridge, secured a shot
gun. and not daunted by the fact that
he had no shells, determined to at-t
tempt to check the robbers if they
came in sight.
Soon he saw them about to cross
the bridge and, stepping boldly for
ward, pointed his empty gun at them,
and commanded “Hands up.” The
highwaymen raised their hands, and
Mr. Lorick held them until the offi
cers arrived. The prisoners offered
him $35 and their pistols If he would
lower his gun, but he warned them
to stand or else they would abide the
consequences.
Three 3 2-calibre pistols, two of
them Colts and one a Smith ft Wee-
son, all loaded to the hilt, aa eleetrie
searchlight, cartridgce and aa Iroa
chisel were found on them, ftome
money was found and after they were
taken to the penitentiary another
search revealed more money, the total
amount recovered being $36.66.
which they had taken from their vic
tims on the treetle ta amounts of
$2.60 or D9I*-
Two of the alleged self-cornfeoeed
highwaymen are whits. One John
Driggers, about 16 yean Of age, was
said at ths sheriff's office to have been
paroled from the State reformatory
at Florence about a year ago. Tho
other, Frank Cooper, la about 16.
Both are residents of Columbia.
The third member of the gang te a
negro named John Franklla, alias
William Feeeinger. He Is about 36
yean old and of a enrly dtapoettlo'
He told the shorlff that he was it
leased from the city chain gang on 1
last Saturday and at one time eervr
on the chain gang la Florida. H_
claimed also to bo from Alabama.
The officers consider him a had char
acter.
Officers are inclined to the opinion
tbat the throe hod started out for a
regular robbing game, and tbat the
bhld-up on the treetle wzs Just thd
JreftnDtng of their plans. Inveetiga
to-
Koath Poland Ravaged. ,
The Inhabitants of South Poland
are facing , 'starvation, due to tbe de
struction of their property by thq
Russians and Germans in their fight
ing In the district.
81 x Men Burned to Dewth.
Trina’Tffg-^h^H ' 6Ve»t tHfofifctt 4 TWEtnrSfihigF 5
four-story lodging house in New York
Thursday six men were burned to
death.
tions 2M now m*4s j)pd out
If they hare been connected with
any of the rObberiee tn Colombia, t
FIND MANY CHANGES. ^
Champ Clark and Joe Cannon M
Meet Under New Conditions.
Many changes in the organization
of the national Honse of Representa
tives will be made when Champ Clark
and "Uncle Joe” Cannon once more
face each other across the centre
aisle at the beginning of the next
congress. The dwindling of the Dem
ocratic majority, which will drop
after the close of the regular session
from 140 to 23, will necessitate a
general shifting of the working order
of the House.
With their slender majority the
Democrats while able to re-elect
speaker Clark and retain control of
the committees, will be forced tc
maintain an almost perfect organlza
tion. Even with a fall attendance it
the House, a shift of twelve votes
would throw the control to the
minority side.
STOLE ,1,421 PENNIES.
Small Negro Boy Rohe Lancaster Poet
Office of Coppers.
The post office of Stonesboro In
Lancaster county was hropen into last
Wednesday night and robbed of
$27.41 by Dunbar Havins, a negro
boy about 16 years of age. When on
Thursday the fact of the theft became
known-. Sheriff Hunter 'went to
Stonesboro and sood obtained from
the negro youth upon whom isuspi-
cion seemed to attach a full confes
sion of his guilt. The boy stated that
he gained entrance .to the building by
putting his hand through the "cat (
hole” at the bottom of the door and
with a stick pushed up the bar which
fastened the door. A part of the
$27.41 taken by the boy were/1,241
1-cent pieces. , "^7
By a
California for Lignor.
majorltf of 200,000 Call-^
An amendment accepted prohibits tha^
submission of the qne«tl6n until tight
years barr pa—rL