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Sixty cases of homicide in 29 counties
during the months of September,
October and November of this year
is the record of this state, according
to a report of G. Croft Williams,
secretary of the state board of public
welfare. Calculating from the record
of these 29 counties, Mr. Williams estimate
that there must have been
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about 95 cases of homicide in the
state during these three months. At
this rate there would be about 380
homicides for the year.
Mr. Williams compiled this report
from the reports of the coroners of
the different counties of the state.
He wrote letters to all of them, asking
for this information, but has not
heard from 17 of them.
According to the reports of the bureau
of vital statistics, there were
183 homicides in this state in 1919,
and this report covered all of the'
counties. Mr. Williams says that it
may be easily seen that unless some |
of the citizens of the state use a
little more self control this record
will outdistance all former ones.
"There are many causes to which
this high rate of homicide may be
attributed," according to Mr. Williams,
"such as economic instability,
YOUTH TAKES OWN LIFE.
Shortage in Accounts Cause of the
Tragedy.
Greenwood, Jan. 3.?Bennie Wilson,
19 years of age and former clerk
at the Oregon hotel, shot himself to
death in room of H. J. Brinson, proprietor
of the hotel, yesterday afternoon
about 4 o'clock following an j
interview relative to the ex-clerk's
alleged shortage in his accounts. A
verdict of suicide was returned by
the coroner's jury at the inquest
which was held immediately after the
tragedy. According to evidence
brought out at the inquest, Mr. Brinson
had sent for Wilson to discuss a
settlement of the alleged shortage.
Wilson is said to have declared that
he would not make the shortage good
and wouldn't be arrested. He then
rushed to the door and shot himself
through the heart before he could
be prevented. Mr. Brinson and his
daughter, Miss Mary Frances Brin-.
son, were the only persons in the
room at the time the shooting oc-j
currfed.
Until a few weeks ago Wilson had
been clerk at the Oregon hotel for
about three years. Recently he was
discharged following exposures of
alleged shortages in his accounts. He
was apparently obsessed with the
fear of arrest, witnesses testified.
MAN DRESSED AS WOMAN.
Miss Fox, Star Golf Player, Proves to
Be William A. Donahue.
Pinehurst, Jan. 3.?A sensational j
and laughable denouement attended |
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playing of a mixed scotch six?some
match in which three well known
golfers were respectively paired with
women partners at Pinehurst today.
James C. Ward, of Kansas City,
Mo., state champion, was paired with
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O. C. Frost, of Auburndale, had Miss
Claissa Metcalf, of Providence, as a
partner. A Lucien Walker Jr., winner
of last week's midwinter tournament
played with Miss Eleanor Fox,
a tall and dashing brunette whom nobody
had seen here before and who
started the excitement by driving
about 200 yards from the first tee.
WThen the unknown Miss Fox lifted
an iron shot for another 200 yards
on the second fairway the effort shook
off her Tarn O'Shanter, her luxurious
tresses fell with it and Miss Fox
stood revealed as William E. Donahue,
winner of the midwinter qualifying
medal.
Walker and his fair partner were
promptly disqualified for conspiracy,
/nisrepresentation, failure to properly
register at the Country Club and
on several other counts and the match
broke up in disorder.
Slight Changes.
"Things are not what they used
to be," said the returned soldier as
he got up from his first meal in a
New York restaurant.
"That's one way of putting it'' said
the waiter as he picked up the nickel
tip. "Personally, I don't find much
change."?Pulitzer's Pertinent Paragraphs.
KILLINGS IN
~)NTHS IN S. C.
reaction from war and a standard of
luxury that has recently been established
and that many find themselves
unable to reach. But the main sources
of homicide are the feeling among
our people that to avenge with deatn
is the only way to satisfy one's honor,
and the prevalent? habit of carrying
pistols.
"A still more remote yet powerful
cause of homicide is the lightness
with which human life is regarded
among lis. It" our people nrmiy determined
to put down homicide, homicide
would be banished from South
Carolina. Several of our counties this
year will doubtless show a larger
number of slaying of human beings
than the city of London has in a normal
year. London's population is
about four times larger than that of
South Carolina.
"In the whole of England and
Wales for 1918, 85 murders were
committed and 59 people arrested in
connection therewith were committed
for trial. Fifty-three trials resulted
during the year. Twelve of the accused
were found insane on arraignment
and were confined; 16 were
found guilty, but were adjudged insane
and confined; ten were acquitted,
and 15 were sentenced to death."
WHEN POLITENESS COSTS.
Man Drops Bottle Getting Out of
Woman's Way.
York, Jan. 1.?A York county man
stepped out of a local garage with a
half gallon bottle wrapped in paper
under his arm.
A woman passed as he started out.
In an effort to avoid running into her
he dropped Ml package and a fluid
of grayish color trickled on the cement
paving.
"Whiskey," shrieked the woman as
she started for the police station not
a great distance away.
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"Gasoline," explained me tanner
when the cops asked about it.
The day was rainy; the air was
cold and the hops couldn't determine.
Some Things Women Are Djoing.
South Amboy, N. J., has a woman
jailer.
Miss Annie M. Brown is Norfolk's
first woman lawyer.
Minnesota has more than 4,000 women
trade unionists.
Connecticut leads the nation with
five women legislators.
The intuition of women is claimed
to be greater than that of men.
Miss Sarah P. Clark has been organist
for 66 years in a Essex, England,
church.
Women voters in the new republic
of Czecho-Slovakia outnumbered the
men by liberal margin.
More than 40,000 women are employed
in industry on the Island of
Maderia.
The membership of the Young Women's
Christian Association is now
well past the 500,000 mark.
Lady Auckland Geddes, wife of the
| British ambassador in Washington, is
passionately fond of children.
In Turkestan wives can be purchased
for a box of matches and
each man can have as many wives as
he chooses.
A bill before the German Reichstag
provides that women be made eligible
to serve as judges and State attorneys.
Application for domestic work in
New York city has increased 600
per cent, over those of two months
ago.
, >Mrs. A. B. Stevenson, the woman
chess champion of Great Britain, begun
to play chess when she was 2
years of age.
Intimities of age and increasing
deafness has caused Dowager Queen
Alexandria, of Great Britain, to rorsake
society.
The leading divorce center of the
United States is now in Seattle, Wash.,
where during the last year more than
2,500 divorces were granted.
At a recent convention of the Democrats
in Germany a resolution was
passed which favbrs a woman's section
of the Foreign office.
More than 77 per cent, of the 562
firms questioned by the National Industrial
Board report satisfactory results
from the experiment in the employment
of female labor.
A special ship will be chartered
during the first week in June to carry
American war mothers to view the
battlefields and cemeteries of France
and Belgium.
CLAIM NEGROES !
ARE ILL TREATED
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REPRESENTATIVE OF ADVANCE-1
MENT SOCIETY TESTIFIES. j
Denial of Stories.
Southern Members of Congress I)e-1
elare They Are Tired
of "Hearsay/1
Washington, Dec. 20.?Representatives
of the Society for the Advancement
of Colored People asked congress
today to cut down the representation
from the south in the house
on the alleged ground that southern
election laws are so administered
as to prevent negroes from voting.
Appearing before the house commit-!
tee considering congressional reappointment,
they declared the laws of
the southern states were so worded
as to comply with the federal constitution
and the 14th and 15th
amendments but in their administration
negroes were kept from the ballot
box.
Southern members of congress denied
these statements and declared
laws were made and administered in
the south without regard to "race,
color or previous condition of servitude."
In those cases in which there
were complaints they said, the negroes
should take the alleged dis/
criminations to the courts, and not
to congress. A whole people should
not be punished, they asserted, because
perhaps, in one or two instances
there were complaints.
Representative Bee, Democrat,
Texas, declared he was "tired" of
states 'being "insulted" on "hearsay"
reports. Representative Aswell,
Democrat, Louisiana, declared no
discrimination was practiced in the
south, and Representative Larsen,
Democrat, Georgia, said 1,365 negroes
were registered in his home
town. There was no Republican
state ticket in November in Georgia,
he said.
One senator during the testimony
of William Pickens, field secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, insisted
on getting into the discussion
and was finally told by Representative
Siegel, Republican, New York,
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CONGRESS AC
BILL FOR 14
Washington, Jan. 3.?Veto by.
President Wilson today of the farmers'
relief bill to revive the war finance
corporation was followed almost
immediately by a vote of 53 to 5
in the senate to make the bill law
despite executive disapproval. The
house will take up tie measure tomorrow,
and predictions were general
that it would duplicate the senate's
action and thus place the bill on
the statute books.
President Wilson in a lengthy veto
message declared he withheld his approval
of the bill because the war
finance corporation was a war credit
agency, not desirable or needed, in
peace times. He said that it "would
exert no beneficial influence on the
situation . . . would raise false hopes
among the very people who would
expect most, and would be hurtful to
the natural and orderly processes of.
business and finance."
The legislation, the president also
said, would result in additional credit
burdens, and the government, he continued,
should not "be called upon
further to finance private business at
public expense."1 Referring to widespread
demand for abolishment of
war agencies and removal of governmental
influence from business,
the president said he had "sympathy
with the view," and added that "the
nation should resume its usual methods."
Upon reading the veto message
in the senate, Senator Underwood,
Alabama, Democratic leader, urged
its immediate consideration, for
which unanimous consent was secured
by Chairman Gronna of the agriculture
committee, which reported the
bill. Senator Underwood followed
with the only address made, declaring
that financial distress now was greater
than during the war and that he
felt confident of wise administration
of the proposed law that would cause
"no undue strain on the treasury."
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MADERO'S DEATH
NOW EXPLAINED
SUICIDE OF CARDENAS CLEARS
UP DEATHS.
In Charge of Guard.
Unusual Report Rendered to Authorities
That Prisoners Had
Tried to Escape.
Guatemala City, Dec. 13 ?The
suicide of the former Mexican general,
Francisco Cardenas, in the central
plaza if this city on November
27, is believed here to have ended all
doubt as to who was the real slayer
of the Mexican persident, Francisco
I. Madero. Cardenas had told the
Associated Press correspondent that
he commanded the guard by whom
Madero was shot but did not explain
why he ordered the shooting.
Madero,v with the vice president,
Pino Suarez, was shot to death on
the night of February 22, 1913, while
being conveyed under a guard of
armed soldiers from his place of imprisonment
in the national palace
to the penitentiary in Mexico City.
The usual report was rendered to the
authorities that the prisoners had
tried to make their escape and that
the soldiers, in order to prevent
them getting away, were obliged to
shoot them.
Cardenas in Guatemala.
Not long after the event, Francisci
Cardenas appeared in Guatemala.
Within a very short time he
was arrested and imprisoned by orders
of Estrada Cabrera, the president
then of this country. It is not clear
just on what ground Cabrera ordered
the imprisonment of Cardenas. The
government of Cabrera was not on
particularly friendly relations with
that nf Pa.rra.nza_ who had succeeded
General Huerta as president of 'Mexico.
It is thought that the Guatemalan
president was aware that Cardenas
was wanted by the Carranza government
and purposed turning him
over to the Mexican authorities in exchange
for certain Guatemalans in
Mexico who might be conspiring
against Cabrera's government. However
this may be, no exchange was
made and Cardenas was kept a prisoner
for nearly seven years.
During the revolution of last April,
when the dictator, Cabrera, was
IAIN PASSES
yAR FINANCE
On the senate roll call 29 Democrats
were joined by 24 Republicans
in overriding the veto.
Supporting the president's opposition
were two Democrats, Senator
Gerry, Rhode Island, and Thomas,
Colorado, and three Republicans, Elkins
and Sutherland, West Virginia,
and Keyes, of New Hampshire. Senators
Glass, Democrat, Virginia, and
Edge, Republican, New Jersey, voted
against overriding the veto, but withdrew
their votes on account of having
pairs. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
Republican, was paired, but
announced that he would have voteti
to sustain the veto.
The president's message also was
read in the house. Representatives
Mondell, Wyoming, Republican leader,
announced later that it would be
taken up tomorrow at the opening of
the house, but without any definite
arrangement for a veto. Advocates
of the bill, however, expressed confidence
that the house also would vote
to enact the bill despite the veto.
The house passed the bill by a vote
of 212 to 81, or much more than the
necessary two-thirds majority. Many
of the negative votes were cast by
Republicans.
Before the president's message
reached the senate today, Senator
Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, a
leading advocate of the legislation,
criticised Secretary Houston, declaring
that the treasury head, according
to newspaper reports, had advised
presidential disapproval of the bill
without indicating such opposition
when Mr. Houston was before congressional
committees.
Senator Edge issued a statement
tonight, declaring that the president's
arguments against the bill were
"absolutely unanswerable." By ^suing
bonds the finance corporation,
Senator Edge said, would "adversely
affect the present financial -and eco(Continued
on page 6, column 5.)
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TOM WA TSOf
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Atlanta, Jan. 1.?Thomas E. Watson,
United States Senator-elect from
Georgia, announces in a copyrighted
statement to be published in the Atlanta
Constitution Sunday that at the
extra session of the Sixty-seventh
congress he will introduce a bill to
make Liberty and Victory bonds and
other government war paper legal
tender.
Mr. Watson has announced plans
for introducing bills to force-the federal
reserve and farm loan banks to
lend money directly to individuals
and to require the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue the unissued greenback
authorized by a bill signed by
President Lincoln. The total of these
authorized but unissued greenbacks,
according to the Senator-elect, is
$102,000,000.
Discussing the plan to make legal
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credit certificates, with savings
overthrown, Cardenas was taken
from the penitentiary and brought
into this city under a guard of
troops. Colonel Belteton pointed him
out to the Associated Press correspondent
as the man who had killed
Madero.
Cardenas was a man of medium
height, robust in appearance 'with a
round, bulletlike head, thin black
mustache and thin black hair parted
in riglets over his forehead. Questioned
as to the killing of Madero, he
dismissed the subject with the simple
statement that he was in command
of the guard that did the killing. He
offered no explanation why he had
commanded the guard to shoot the
prisoners, but was more intent on relating
his own misadventures, stating
that he had been in prison nearly
eight years, more than two years of
which had been in solitary confinement.
If this part of his statement
is correct, he must have fled from
Mexico shortly aftei* the murders
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was still in power.
Given Official Position.
When the change of government in
Guatemala last April, Cardenas was
set free and given an important official
position in the penitentiary
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with a chance to make good, but it
is said that he accepted money for
granting certain prohibited privileges
to prisoners. He lost his position
in the penitentiary and was accused
of paying too much attention
to the wife of a political prisoner.
When the husband of the woman
was also released from the penitentiary,
he was stabbed by a man who
said Cardenas had paid him to do the
stabbing, Cardenas was arrested and
imprisoned, but was released on
bail.
Recently a request came from the
proper authorities in Mexico requesting
that he be held by the authorities
here until papers could be forwarded
for his extradition on the
Madero murder charge, it being explained
that direct testimony had
been obtained showing him to have
been the man directly responsible
for the deed. Through some blundering
of the police department, Cardenas
was permitted to make his escape
from the city but was eventually
located in some woods a few
hpvnnfl in thp district nf LaS
Vacas. On the night of November 26
he was captured.
It is stated by the lieutenant who
commanded the soldiers that Cardenas
offered him $25,000 for himself
and $1,000 for each of his soldiers
to be set at liberty. The offer
being refused, Cardenas asked permission
to rest whereupon he wrote
in a memorandum book which he
carried, a few lines addressed to the
woman with whom he had been living,
giving her his money and jewels
and requesting her to bury his body
in event of his death.
The soldiers brought Cardenas to
the Central plaza of the city, where
Cardenas suddenly drew a small revolver
wrapped in a handkerchief)
and shot at one of the soldiers, only
wounding him slightly. As the other
soldiers closed in on him, he placed
the muzzle of his pistol in his mouth,
fired twice and fell to the grqjind
mortally wounded. He was conveyed
to the general hospital where he
soon died.
Mile. Adrienne Baland, known as
the leading "ace" of the French airwomen,
will make a tour of South
America, representing her country as
aerial missionary.
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stamps and all government obligation
paper issued during and since the
World War as a remedy for what he
claims is an existing "domestic
crisis," Mr. Watson declared such action
would have an electrifying effeet
upon American business life, On
passage of such legislation, Mr.
Watson declared, "all apprehension -4
of a panic would as quickly disappear."
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iRegarding the nation's financial
system, Mr. Watson said he would introduce
bills to make it mandatory
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under penalty, for the regional banks
to lend direot to farmers on annroved
securities at an interest rate not over
5 per cent., to repeal that section of
the Farm Loan Bank Act requiring a
group of ten signatories to a loan and
insertion of a mandatory clause compelling
such banks to lend to an individual
applicant upon approved security
without the requirement of additional
obligators.
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GET BEHIXD THE ORCHARD.
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Prune, Spray, Cultivate, and Plant,
Says County Agent.
When planning the orchard, there >
is one thing that farmers should bear
in mind. The orchard requires attention
and should receive such, else ty
all trees and vines put out will soon ,
go like thousands of others have gone
over the state, and all the farmers
get from their labor and money put
into the trees is a case of disappointment.
We urge you to give the trees
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a fair trial and see the results. The
methods of caring for an orchard are
indeed simple and inexpensive and
if any farmer in the state who is not
thoroughly familiar with the methods
will get in touch with the county
agent or drop him a card and ask '
for this information it will be gladly
gven. The profits will greatly exceed
the expense.
The work to be done this winter can *
be summed up as follows:
1. Select the site for an orchard,
which should be on an elevated section,
not a high hill; but simply as
the farmers would spdak of it, a lit- "
tie knoll. This gives good air and y
lessens the danger of frost.
2. Prepare the soil thoroughly before
setting the trees. Break deep
and follow with a cutaway in order
to get the soil as fine as possible. It
is better to do this from three to four
weeks before the trees are set out.
3. When setting the trees, if the soil
is not in a good state of fertility, it
will be well to haul in a little woods
earth to place about the roots. If
this cannot be secured, get a little
barnyard manure thoroughly incorporated
with the soil, that is placed .
around the roots. This will enable
the trees to grow faster the following
spring.
. 4. Be sure to trim off all roots
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from the nursery row. Cut trees off
just back of the bruise, leaving a
smooth cut. This enables them to- /
heal quicker and also lessens the danger
of diseases. Also trim off all
small branches and in case of peaches
cut them off 15 to 18 inches above
v.
the ground, apples should be cut off
two feet above the ground.
5. Be sure to dig the holes in
which the trees are placed deep
enough to allow trees to be about
two inches deeper in the soil than
t they were in the nursery row and
wide enough to allow all roots to
spread out full length.
6. Give the trees the proper distance.
The following distances do
well for home orchards: Peaches, 18
feet each way; apples, 30 feet each
way; pears same as the apples; plums,
and cherries, 20 feet each way;
blackberries and dewberries, make
rows five feet wide and set three feet
in drills; dewberries are often planted
4 x 4, and grapes 8x8.
7. The following varieties are recommended
for home orchards: Apples:
Red June, horse, early, harvest,
Staymen, winesap, shockley,
Ben Davis and Mrs. Bryan; pears:
Keiffer, LeConte, Bartlett and Sekel;
plums: Wild goose, climax and
abundance; cherries: Earle Richmond;
peach: Mayflower, Greensboro,
red bird, Riley Belle, Carman, Elberta,
Old Mixon Free, Crowther's Late;
blackberries: Lucretia; grapes:
Moore's early, Lutie, Delaware, Niagara.
Concord and Brighton. )
The outline given above is all that
is necessary to get the home orchard
started. Let's have an orchard on
every farm and raise our fruits as
well as other things to eat.'
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