The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 06, 1905, Image 1
VOL. 13.
A SHARP REPWf
By A. B. Williams to the Slanders
of Bishop Potter
ABOUT THE SOUTH.
The Editor Challenges the Slandering
j) _
New York Bishop to a Shmr of
Hand-* a* to the Moral Condi
tiou of his Diocese and
the South Generally.
Bishop Potter of New York is one
of the pet superstitions of this c untry.
He Is part of the general New
York superstition. Because New York
Is big, most of us assume that any
man who becomes prominent there
must be a very large and great man Indeed.
We persistently forget that as
many fakirs, humbugs and lightweights
rattle and swell around In
large places in New York as anywhere
else In the world. As for Blsh? p Potter,
he has said and done as many silly
things as any old genth man we know
of. A recent experience of his indicates
that ills manners are as bad as
his morals in some respects are defective,
his Judgment is bad and his
arr< gar.ee extreme. Some time ago he
undertook to discuss the divorce qu s
tlon in a New York newspaper. As we
reoollect, he iloundered around tire
subject a good deal ar d failed absolutely
to make any definite suggestion
or to indicate any coherent policy f< r
his chuicli or for h glsla* Ion. I t the
course of his somewhat flabby and chaotic
remarks, however, he said that
the absolute abolition of divorce would
not do. lie added: "We have an ex
ample of what would result from such
a measure In South Carolina, whom
the law dues not recognize It. Pro
hTblllfifc^ divorce Is merely putting
concubinage at a premium." This doea
not lnr press uh aw a high or a church
manlike view. Certainly concubinage
is not at a premium anywhere in South
Carolina.
The editor of the Columbia (S. C.)
Stale wrote Bishop Potter a very re
spectful lotter, pointing out to him
that he had done the homes and ppo
plo of the State serious Injustice, re
ferrlng him to the bishop and clergy
of his own church in that State for
evidence and asking him to make care
ful Inquiry into the facts and then
"takesuCh Bteps as equity an'! Justice
may dictate."
In reply the editor received a most
Insolent letter from Bishop Potter, Indirectly
denying that he had used the
language attributed to him and describing
the editor's letter and artiole
on the subject by Judge Benet,
enolosed with it, as ''equally unwarranted
and impertinent."
The editor of the State replied with
another respectful letter, In a pt rfect
ly proper and deferential way, taking
oil the bishop's bide. He pointed out
that the offensive paragraph had been
published prominently, that Bishop
Potter had not seen tit to make any
denial or correction of an outrageous
and shameful slander against the people
of a whole Siate and that his de
nl&l suggested in his own letter was
as evasive as discourteous. A few days
later Bishop Potter printed In the New
York Globe a brief statement en the
subject, in which he said he had no
TilfiffV tn mol/u A U ?
v'* j vv uiunt IV/ ^JV/U til V^AI Ulli d I
' /v^^& nded his slander totho pedjej
of the whole South, llo Is quoted as
saying:
"He had simply remarkid that in
view of the prevalence of mlso.< gcna
tion in the South, the 'pose' of lofty
and superior virtue on the part of its
peoplts\ any where had in it an element
equally comio and pathetic."
An accusation like this cannot b
sustained or disproved by statistics or
amd&vlts. It can be considered only
in the light of general and obvious
facts. Virtue is nut a thing of sect ions
or of couutrles. Toe good are good
and the bad are bad everywhese and
wherever human nature is, the afftc
tions and passions of men and women
stray In forbidden paths. O.ie tHny,
however, Is certain and plain. V/iat
Is that the moral fc.ne is Infinitely
oleaner and the social standards are
Infinitely higher in South Carolina
than In Bishop Potter's diocese. Cer
talnly a woman divorced tri m her husband
and married to another man in
side of twenty four hours wou'd not
be received In respectable society anywhere
In the South. Yet a woman who
did that very thin# is a leader of New
York's most exalted society. Nobody
knows the secret annals of vice; but
every observer who has met and
known the people of New York and
any Southern State knows that In the
South vastly less filth is talked and
written than in New York. The natural
and Inevitable presumption is thfct
lives In the South are very nrich
oleaner. The women whose conduot&od
conversation are so distinctly loud and
bad as to justify definite criticism Is
tabooed In every Southern State. Blsh
op jrotter cannot say tnat mat is the
case even In tlje highest ani theoretically
most exclusive society of his own
oomm unity.
It would be interesting to know
where Bishop Potter got his impres
slons of the morals of the people ol
the South and how he would go about
justifying himself tor circulating such
a oruel and Injurious charge as that
ooncublnage and miscegenation are
eneral In this part of the country.
The truth is that miscegenation In Its
legal sense Is impossible anywhere In
the South because It Is forbidden and
severely punishable by law. We dc
not hesitate to say that the charge
that these vices are general or even
widespread In the South is falhe, and
in making that assertion we will dc
better than Bishop Potter. We will
offer good evidence to oonvlct him ol
falsehood if he is willing to dare the
Issue. We will put on the stand the
Protestant Episcopal clergy of the
whole South, from bishops to deac3ns
They liTfe among the people and know
them and have ample opportunity foi
^^^^nowjrng their life. We may assumi
(
that some of them, at least, are men
who are not afraid to tell the truth
In any circumstances or at any cost.
For New York, we will take the combined
evidence of the clergy,the courts
and the newspapers. Like the editor of
the State, we invite Bishop Potter to
take the evidence, or join us In taking
it. If It sustains his accusations, we
will confess with shame, but frankly,
that he is right. If they contradict
him, will he be willing to couf? ss that
ho has circulated an outrageous and
infamous scandal and slander? We do
not care whether he attributes it to
Ignorance, recklessness or malice or
to a mixture of the three. If he evades
a simple and honest teat like this, he
will stand oonvlQted of having disgraced
himself by a wholesale slan
der unworthy of a gentleman and of
having brought shame and injury upon
his own church, so far as his Jurisdiction
extends.?Richmond News Leader.
BOMS PLAIN TALK
From Northerner on the Shackling
of President Davis.
To the Editor of the Publlo Ledger:
So many letters have appeared In
the newspapers lately, pro and con,
TO flrQ rr\ I n?v tHn ^
v^w?uiup( vuo uicavuucuv UI Ol'lTOHI*
dint Jefferson Davis while a eaptlve
that 1 am surprised one salient feature
has hitherto esceped comment,
and I rely upon your liberal journal
to prlut what I now desire to place
before the fair minded people of
America hearing upon the manacling
of the distinguished prisoner of war.
The Koman conqueror loaded his captive
Kings with chains (some times
of gold; but still chains) to grace his
triumph. We must go back 2,000
years or near it, to the day when the
valiant British Prince Caraotacus, in
Chains, graced a triumph In Rome.
Cleopatra only saved herself by the
asp from glorifying In chains, the
triumph of Ootavlus. But this Is ancient
hist/try. In modern times, cruel
and vindictive as were the British to
the fallen lion, Napoleon and although
! they, lu their terror of him, condemn
ed him to a living doath yet he was
[ never put In chains!
It remained for the United States
of America, through their duly const!
tutcd authorities, to do a thlhg unprecedented
in modern times, the
chaining, llko a convict, of the lead
er of a bravo cause, whose rights or
wrongs are not now In question. The
brutal treatment of the aged and Infirmed
statesmen and soldier by a
hired blacksmith (or hired sergeant,
or general?it doesn't matter which,
to my argument) was a deed which
should have brought then, and should
bring now, the blush of shame to ev
ry man north of Mason and Dixon's
line, who countenanced, or who
countenances, this outrage against
the amenities of honorable warfare,
and against the courtesy due to a
soldier, statesment and a gentleman,
and through him to a brave, though
conquered people.
Jamks P. Davidson.
Philadelphia March 22, 1906.
A llritlo ill lit* Heraull.
Hccause her husband told her he
detected her flirting with a former
admirer, Mrs. James Galllon, a brid<
of three hours, shot herself at Huntington.
W. Va., Tuesday. The c uplc
were married, and about midnight
went to the home prepared by the
groom. Galllon twitted his wife
ahout the attention paid ber during
the wedding ceremony by an old
swietneart or hers. She resented
ih'Si pleasantries, and in a lit of anger
leaped from her bed and, rushing
to a dresr.lrg case drawer, seized Gallion's
rev ?lv r. Not thinking she
was serious, Gallion w atched her as she
placed the mizzle of the weapon be
neath her heart. The bullet tore a
fearful w und in the woman's side,
and the (lash from the gun Bet tire to
tier flimsy robe. Mrs. Gallion, who
was ab >ut 20 years old, died as she
was being taken to a hospital.
Deadly Kxloalon.
Three men were killed outright and
another so badly injured that he died
a few hours later by an explosion at
the Schaghtlcoko powder mills near
Troy, N. Y., Tuesday. The men killed
were James White and Charles Colburn
of Ha zirdsville, Ojnn., and
James Sprague and Albert ll&rtlett,
the latter being new employes. The
men were at work in the oornlng mill
when the explosion occurrtd and the
cause Is not known. The bodies of
three of the victims were blown to
fragments. The fourth victim, White,
was found 300 feet away, alive but he
could not recover.
Gave Up the Fight.
t Ilenry L. Woodward, an attorney
of New York city, and Charles A
Ur< uz, a traveling salesman for the
National Supply company of Toledo,
Ohio, committed sulolde in their
rooms at the llollenden hotel at
Cleveland, Ohio, sometime during
Tuesday night of last week. The
bodies of both men were found Wednesday
afternoon. The coroner's
verdict In eaoh case gives despondency
over domast.in and himinaM
as the cause of the suicides. Both
men had used a pistol and had sent a
bullet Into their heads In almost the
same spot, death in each case being
instantaneous.
May A* Woll (jult,
The Washington Post believes that
the American people are in earnest
and that if the present Republican
> administration does not smash the
trusts that it will itself be smashed
at the next national eleotion. The
Columbia State says if that be true,
i the O. O. P. might as well go out of
business right now. The trusts were
; not born to die by the hand of the
party whloh gave them birth and
whloh has ever after protected its off (
spring with a Jealous aud fostering
| care. Mother and ohlld are mutually
i dependent.
1 Robbed Registered 1 setter.
> Arthur R. Whitner, a young man
1 belonging to a prominent family at
f Jacksonville, Fia., pleaded guilty in
' the federal oourt Wednesday to taking
> 9500 from a registered letter Whitner
> was employed in the Jacksonville post*
office as night registry olerk, and the
1 laroeny was committed last summer'
r He was given a sentence of one years.
> imprisonment. 1
fhf
CON
11K HEED THE Ei L.
8ome Anecdotes of the Boyhood and
College Life of
JuiIko I'rlnoo, of iho Ninth Circuit.
What a Citizen Haiti Dnrtnit a
Term of Court In Barnwell.
And now, "May It please Your
Honor." Well, those of uh who knew
him in his younger days are not surprised
that It la now "Judge Prince."
The Judge always had a judicial mind
and declared when a child that he intended
to be a lawyer. II w he conceived
that Idea so early in life 1 can't
Imagine. He was born eight miles
from a Court House, and 1 have no
Idea he was ever inddeofone before
he was seventeen years of age. But
a lawyer he Is, &ud no other man lovi s
his profession better than he.
1 know Judge Prince, I think, almost
as well as his wife does. We
wero born within a mile of each other
?the Judge and I. We played to
gether from our infauoy. We huuted
together, fished b gether, went swimming
in the same "hole," and had
our backs blistered more than once.
Together we egj ryed all tho sports of
the very live country b>y. With our
lunob baskets and the blue back speller
wc started to sohool the same day;
and, on the samo day, and from the
samo hat d, we received our diplomas
on the same platform.
Since J lidl/ft Prinno'a oldnt lnn fro fr
Judgeship l have re,"ailed many
amusing Incidents of cur boyhood
days. The future Julge had a high
sense of honor and would light for the
right, or what he ojncelved to be
right, anywhere and at any time. 1
wonder If he remembers knocking that
fellow in the face who pulled Ills pants
against the calf of his legs alter he
had stood before the blazing tire until
the cloth was hot enough to ''burn
bad?" In those days the boys wore
pantaloons, not these abominable
things called kneebrltohcs. And
what great tires we had with the lire
place extending almost across the end
of the house. We warmed our biscuits
and meat by sticking them on
sharpened sticks and holding In front
of the dre, or over red-hot coals.
Docs Prince remember pul ing his
meat out of the ashes when It si pped
off the stick? Future Judges and
teachers had to have their lunch,
ashes or no ashes. They had been
taught at home that hi ikory ashes
were good for horses, and the young
Judge argued that they might be 1
good for two-legged animals as well
I gueis they were.
In one of our tlshlng escapedes (and
I am not sure but that we ran ( IT
without permission that time, as the
stream was swollen) we were seated
on a tree that leaned over the stream 1
and not more than f< ur or five feet
above the water. Cattish were biting
ravenously and we wereratoMni/
rapidly. Suddenly something carried
the end of Prince's pole undern|ktb
the water and tugged at It vic'.ov j*. 1
The young Judge had no Idea of \ #'
rendering that pole wltliout a profit.
So he threw himself ; gainst It with
as much determination as he has ever
manifested In the defence of a olient. 1
After a brief struggle tuere appeared
above the water a shining, twisting,
struggling eel. That was our tint
eel and must be "strung" sura. So
I'rlnce drew the snake-like thing to
him and caught it In his handi, <x
pecting me to free the hook from 1 >s
mouth and string It. He had soarce
ly taken hold of the sllpp ry thing
before It liberated Itself from the hook
and began to slip ihrongn his hands.
That mt ant that In two s conds the
great prizj would be back in the
water. What did the youthful Nimrod,
the future Judge, do? Friends
and fellow citizens, he Just nail* d that
eel with his teeth, and, with the
thing wriinli.g and twisting ab u?<
Ills head and face, ran < IT that tiee
out Into the ploughed ground where
he could dlspatou him. Prlnoe said
he didn't mind holding the thing in
Ills teeth, but be didn't like the taste
it left in his mouth. But the vlo ory
was won?the eel was ours, and 1
iiiiinK m&ae a neap lighter the ilogging
we got for going to the oreek
without permission.
No, Prince's college mates are not
surprised that he is Judge and they
have no fear that the honor and dig
nlty of the State will s iffer at his
hands. In college he was a hightoned
gentleman who despised little
meannesms of whatever kind and
cherished high ideals. Ills classstanding
was always first-class, and
his literary society work was superb.
Indeed, I doubt whether Wc fiord has
ever given to the world a stronger or
more persistent debater. With him,
to discuss any question with his peers
was a delight. Manning Smith used
to say that Prince would discuss with
anybody the question: Which is the
top side of a battercake? and give his
opponent ohoice of the sides.
Last year Prince was appointed
special Judge for a term of Court at
Barnwell. The Judge had two or
three bumps on his bald head, not
such as would annoy or delight phre
nologists, but harmless little things
the physicians call "wens." With
nma J- 41? * -J
ov/iug iiivuua tllO J UO{(6 WftS Bitting
one afternoon in the office of his hotel.
An ardent admirer from the country,
armed with a bottle of "Fuss X "
walked in and leaned against the
clerk's desk. When the conversation
lulled the countryman said:
"Jedge t'T
"What is it, my frlencV" responded
the Jur'ge.
"Jedge, I laks you." >
I "Weil," said the Judge, with some
embarrassment, "1 thank you for
your good opinion of me.
"Yes, Jedge, I laks you?yes, sir, I
laks your rutin's; but, Jedge, 1 want
to tell you; you air the fus Jedge 1
uver seed with horns on his head."
The members of the Bar present
enjoyed the Joke Immensely, as did
the Judge himself, but when the
Judge returned to Anderson he had
himself dehorned ? Alumnus in Southern
Qhrlstl ?n Advocate.
Ml us Mildred Le,e Dead.
Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daughter
of Qen. Robert E. Lee, died at
New Orleans Tuesday night at the
reeideuoo of Mrs. William Preiiton
Johnston, while on a visit. Her death
was due to appoplezy.
eMMHaMaanmHnaNMNMMMNPiwM
Wmt
WAY. S. C., THUR
AWFUL TRAGEDY.
A Man Shoots a Girl Five Times
and Kills Himself.
NKAR CONWAY, S. C
The Mail Wanted to Marry the Woman
and Because She Refused He
Shot Her Five Times With a
Pistol and Then Shot
Himself Also.
A special dispatch to The State
from Conway Bays one of the most awful
and sickening tragedies which has
ever oocurred within the borders of
this county took place Thursday
morning about 7 o'clock, at lloiuewood
station, on the Coast Lino railroad,
four miles north of Conway. As soon
as the news reached this place the
correspondent secured a horsa and
buggy and went out to the scene?
a peaceful looking one-roomed board
cabin, surrounded by a small clearing,
planted In English peas and strawberries,
In the midst of the pine woods.
Id the yard, almost in the spot where
he fell, lay F. O Sessions, commonly
known as "Huddle" Sessions, dead,
with a bullet through his brain by his
own hand, and on a table within the
cabin, was stretched the prostrate
form , of He'.le Sessions, a young girl
of 18 or 20 years of age, wounded In
live places by the hand of the dead man
lying outside. She and her mother,
Betsy Sessions, lived together alone In
the cabin, which is on the land of Mr.
George Bray, for whom they worked as
day lab>rers. From a'1 that can be
gathered, Sessions had been persecuting
this woman with his attention for
some time paHt, havitg threatened on
several occasions to kill her If she
would not marry him, although she
was the mother of two illegitimate
children, the your.ger of whom Is said
to be his child. It seems that there
was another man In the case, now 11 v
iug >n norma or ueorgia, wbo was
the favored lover, and who had sent
on tickets for her and her mother to
come and J >iu him; and they were to
have gone Wednesday, aud had their
trunks hauled Into Conway, but were
unable to leave on account of Rome
mistake or irregularity in the tickets.
The testimony of the mother, at the
coroner's lr.qut.8t, was that she did not
know where they were going, nor who
was furnishing tho transportation; but
that her only Idea was to get away
somewhere in order that the life of
her child might be spared. The knowl
edge of the threats made by the de
ceased were, more or less, a matter of
common information, and there are
;ome rumors to the effect that they
had oven been called to tbe attention
of the officials, who, however, had not
taken any action, thinking that the
women were unnecessarily alarmed
ovtr idle words.
As neither mother nor daughter
have ever been lawfully married, their
ho use bore a very unsavory reputation
In the o mm unity and no one would
have regretted their departure had
they gotten away on Wednesday. Just
before the hour of the tragedy, the
mother went to the home of Mr. Ilray
to borrow a pitchfork for her day's
work and after she left the house Sts
sons, who must have hern concealed
In tbe woods, awaiting just such an
pportunlty, went up to the cabin,
entered, caught the girl, who tried to
run, pulled her out on the little piazza
and held her with his left hand while
ne pulled his revolver of 38 calibre and
emptied every chamber Into her body
at arm's length. After releasing her,
she staggered a few steps and fell in
uiu yarn, wnere sue was found, with
her two small children crying over
her, by those who tirst arrived upon
the scene. He then deliberately unbreached
his pistol, reloaded all the
chambers, and, placing the muzzle
Ju*t behind his right temple, fired the
shot whioh penetrated the brain, c m
lng out on the other side of the head,
j ist above the left ear. The woman
*as wounded in both arms, they being
broken between the elbow and should
er, once Just below the lef , breast, and
twice Just beljw the right breast. She
was attended by Dr. II ke Burioughs,
the coroner, and Dr. Josephs. Dusenburry,
both of Co.)way, and was still
alive at 1 o'clock, though there is no
chance whatever of her reoovory.
A Jury was cmpanoled, before
whom a number of witnesses, were ex
amlned, both as to the actual facts of
the tragedy and also as to the causes
and events leading up to it. The
shots were heard by. several, all of
whom testified to the fact that they
immediately surmised what bad hap
pened upon bearing the firing. The
verdiot of the Jury was that the de
ceased came to his death by means of
A. nldtnl viinnil Inrtl.ifa/) '
? r ttv/uiiu tun ivtvu vjy liiILlfH'll .
The W( man w&h conscious when the
d ctors reached her, and was able to
make a statement concerning the
shooting. Upon her suggestion a
search was made in the pockets of the
deceased which revealed a note he
had wiitten, making disposition of
what little money he had, and provid
ing for the payment of certain small
debts; and which showed, beyond all
question of a doubt, that he went to
the house with the fully formed purpise
of killing both her and himself.
In her statement the woman declared
that Se slons had on former
oocaaions threatened not only to kill
her, but also to make an end of bis
own life, and that she had seen notes
which he had written in such expectation.
He said in the note he left that!
he had stood her lies Just as long as
he oould; and it was brought out in
the testimony that some time ago he
had met her in the publio road, and,
at the point of a pistol, forced from
her a promise of marriage under
threat of immediate death?a promise
which she had no Intention of carry
ing out
The scene was certainly a pathetic
and bizarre one, with the body of the
deceased lying on some boards, his
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SDAY, APRIL 0,19
face .shelter d from the burning nun
by an improvised shelter of pine to: s;
a few foe' away thequlllaupon wbtoh
she had been laid; on the o her side of
the house the tlrf around the black
Iron washpot fr m w? loh water was
being carried to the ph\siuians dress
Ing the wound-; the Jury bearing the
testimony seated upon the w(/odpile,
surrounded by the u ual crowd of gaping,
staring spectators, many of
whom had gone out from Con way in
hu gles and on wheels; add to this
'he repeated moan of the mother.
"Oh, I just wanted to get away to
save her life."
WILL UIVJ6 U8 TROUBLE.
What an Englishman Says About the
Victorious Japanese.
"Even if Japan be victorious In Its
conillct with Russia, I can see nothing
ahead of the masses of people of thai
race but a 1 ffig period of tribulation,"
said Mr. F. llawdon, of London, Eng
land, who Is at the New Wlllard and
who has 11 v d In Japan for many yerus
says The Washington Post.
"It must not be supposed that beoausc
the Japanese have displayed ex
traordlnary military prowess that they
enjoy good economic conditions, or
that there has been any great Improve
tnent in the status of the common people
since the abolition of the feudal
system, some thirty-live years ago.
The masses still subsist on meals cost
ing from 2 to 5 cents, and the man
over there who is able to eat a 60ccnt
dinner is a grandee of the tirst
magnitude. Any very great change
for the better Is impossible In a country
that has only 148,000 square miles,
and a population of at least 45,000,000.
Add to this that there is only
II per cent of arable laud in Japan,
and it is obvious that for the multitude
there Is no escape from the grinding
poverty and from long hours of
poorly paid toil. Modern methods
copied irom ine mist Have brought to 1
Japan many newly established Indus
tries, but the poor people who cruwd
their factories work for wages that 1
the meanest laborer in England or the 1
United States would scorn. 1
"Now with the Increasing hardships
that the war entails, thousands cf Japanese
after its olose will wish to better
their oonditlon by coming to the <
United States, and 1 have not the
slightest doubt but that they are going (
to orove a source of trouble to your
people if some legislation of a restrictive
character is not adopted. Wher- I
ever they come they will work for 1
smaller wages than Americans or any '
other white men, and this will beget i
an agitation such as was had in California
against th^Chinese, and prob- I
ably result in the same exclusion."
Died for Others.
At New York iireman Samuel LUlie |
was killed and several other lileman |
were injured by a cave-in In the sub
way at the One-hundred and Sixty- |
eight street station, which was burn- |
ed Thursday. Lllile and four others
had been sent into the tunnel to wet j
down the smouldering embers of the ,
tire when a portion of the roof fell and
crushed Ltllte. The others were only
slightly hurt. Lillie lost his life in i
saving the life of one of his co npunllinn
Hnl.h T.llllo a >1 /-I a lU.n.... ?
?W?? UUV4 U UK ill IU 11 nil'
e1 Cavanaugh, who were working side
by side, saw the cave in as Is started. (
Both were dlreotly underneath the
falling mass and both would have been |
crushed had not Llllle thrown his
who's weight against hii companion,
pushing Cavanaugh out of the wa>
Just as the mass fell. Llllle wasoruah
ed to death In an instant.
Will l>o Uiiod Work.
Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., was Wednes
day chosen as clerk of the South Car
olina Historical commissioner after a
competitive examination, in which a
number entered This office was creat
ed at the last session of the legislature
and provides a salary of 91,0U0 a year
At the last meeting of the commission
on account of the number of applicants
it was decided to place the mat
ter on a competitive basis and Mr ,
Salley was chosen after a careful ex
aminatlon of the pupers. Mr. Salley
has been for some time the historical
editor of the News and Courier and is
well known throughout the state, his 1
ability being unquestioned.
Georgia Kail road h Merged,
Announcement was officially made
In Waycross that the Wadley and
Mount Vernon railroad, the Douglas,
Augusta & Oulf railroad and the
Ocilla, P.ne Bloom & Valdosta railroads
had passed Into new hands and
that the management will be changed
in a short time. The purchasers of
the roads are J. E. Wadley, J. S.
Bailey and G. G. Parker, all of Way
oross, and they have associated with
them wealthy parties from Augusta,
Douglas and other points along the i
lines. It is stated that the new own
ers will at once proceed to build a line
from Augusta, Ga., and connect with
some point on the Gulf of Mexico.
Picture Agent Shot.
A special from Newton, Miss., says:
W. P. Smith, a travelling representative
of a portrait company, was shot
and Instantly killed by Ray Tucker,
a contractor and builder. The tragedy
occurred In the outskirts of the town
Tm ker was driving when he met the
plotuie agent and asserts that Smith
was attempting to draw a revolver
when he (Tucker) flred. A difficult)
had aris n between Smith and Tucker
over a picture the latter had ordereo
from the agent and whloh Tucker re
fused to accept on the ground that it
was unsatlafantnrv TSintar <> -
A UVnVt TTCMJ Of 1
rested. Smith lived at Meridian
Miss.
Indicted for KmbczzW-ment.
William D. Hall, former postmaster
at Orarge Park, Fla., 14 miles from
Jacksonville, was indicted by the federal
grand Jury Wednesday for embezzlement.
He was charged with being
short in his accounts to the government.
It also developed last week
that he was short in his accounts as
treasurer of the oity of Orange Park.
Harder and Huiolde.
At Marshall, 111., William J. Cruse,
shot and killed his brotiier-ln-law,
Frank Livix, and then committed sul
oide. The wife of Cruse had obtained
a dlvoroe, charging cruelty. Cruse
claimed that the Livix family influenced
his wife to leave him.
(mil)
>05.
| UNDER ARREST.
J. Morgan Smith and Wife Found
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
Thev Arc Indicted Jointly In New York
With Nan Patterson, Who Is
Charged With the Murder of a
Gambler by the Name of
Caesar Young.
Accused of conspiracy to commit
murder, J. Morgan Smith and wife
were arrested In Cincinnati, O do,
rhursdy on telegraphic request from
I) strict Attorney Jerome of New
York city. Nan Patterson, the actress
who has been twice put on trial
for the murder of Caesar Young In
New York, is charged in the same
connection, new Indictments to this
elTect having beeu found in New Y< rk
Thursday. For a long time the authorities
had been unable to locate
Smith aud his wife, the couple having
left New York a few months after
the murder and before the beginning
of the recent mistrial of Nan Pattersou
in which Smith's testimony was
considered almost vital to the prosecution,
Several wcr ks ago a New York detective
mot Smith in Montreal,
uanana, ana rrom that time until the
arrests this (lliacr lias awaited a
favorable time fur making the arrest
He fo lowed the couple, part of the
time as traveling companion over half
of the continent, having made friends
with Smith, who knew him to be a
detective but believed that the offl
B.?r was after some other person. Detroit,
Cleveland and a number of
Cana lian cities were visited. Finally
Smith wait to Nashville and L>uis
ville in the hope of securing a position
with some of the bookmakers in those
ilties, leaving his wife in Cleveland.
He was unsuc:essful and came to
Cincinnati, where his wife met him on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Smith said she had relatives
In Covington, Ky., and she went with
tier 1 us band to that city Wednesday
to call on these people, who, li jwever,
refus d to see the visitors and after
wards declared that there was no reationshlp
between them. Returning
to Cincinnati, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
registered at the Grand hotel as II
H. Banning and wife. The d? t otive
riad k pt in telegraphic communication
with New York and had deferred
in arrest until it w.is possible to take
ooth husband and wife, their separation
soon after reaching the United
States on returning from Canada having
caused the delay. Wednesday
night the detective wired to District
Aifcornev .T?r, imfo
"Smith and Julia arc at the Grand
lotel. Wire Instructions."
In reply the district attorney
Thursday telegraphed:
' Arrest Smkb and wife as fugitives
from Justice."
The district attorney also sent the
following:
New York, March 30.
Paul Mllllken, Chief of Police, Cincinnati.
Arrest and hold for extradition J.
Morgan Smith, wanted in New York
n a charge of criminal conspiracy.
Smith will be found at the Grand
iiotel, Fourth street, Cincinnati,
where Detective Aiken may also be
found. Oillcer Q linn leaves today to
s.abllsh Identity and procure requisition
papers. The governor's warrant
will follow as boon as it is possible to
procure It.
W. Tkavkrs Jeiiomk,
D.s.rlct Attorney.
The arrest was quietly made and
dmith and wife were taken to police
Headquarters, where they made no atBjmpt
to deny or oonceal their Identity
although both denied any guilt In
connection with the cas . They
showed signs of nervousness and worry,
but both husband and wife expressed
an Intention to return to New York
without requisition. The couple
stated that ihoy had expected to go
to New York although they had not
anticipated doing so under arrest.
The detective who has been following
Smith says that Smith went under
many aliases in different cities before
registering In Cincinnati as II. II.
Banning. At Hamilton, Out., Smith
called himself Bush, at Montreal be
was known as Adams, at Detroit it
was Collins and In Cleveland Hoblns)n.
Before being locked up, Smith was
SPHrnhi>H In hla nnnlrof ? -1
Ail itiu puvnou TTCltJ 1UUUU
an (Id watch, some pocket pieces and
12 85 in cash. In his breast p cket
were found two envelopes sealed.
When Lieut. IL>ppe took the envelopes,
Smith made frantlo efforts to
get them back but the two envelopes
were retained by the police.
A dispatch from New York says the
grand jury in that city Thursday
nanded down indictments against J.
Morgan Smith. Julia Smith. hl? wife
and Nan Patterson, charging them
jointly with conspiracy. 'Itae indictmi
nts are bated upon a letter alleged
to have be n written by Julia Smith
to Cie. er Young in which, it la alleg
ed, was & threu and a demand fo
money for the Patterson girl.
Th s acth n r,y tiie grand jury fob
1 iwed a hearing at th? criminal court
building, at wmoh several wltne.-a. s,
Including the widow of Caosar Youug
tnd Mrs. Young's brothr-lnlaw.
Wm. Luce, were examined by Assistant
District Attorney Band, w >o
conducted the recent trial of Nan Pat-1
terson, charged with Caesar Young's
murder, which resulted in a disagree
mcnt bv the jury
Tne arrest of Smith and his wife ai
Cincinnati, according to the New York
authorities, will have an imp rtant
bearing upon the new trial of the Patterson
giri on the obarge of murder
set for April 10. at, a previous trial
an attempt was male to prove tn&
the revolver with which Y>>ung was
shot was pu o .as' d by Smith and a
- oman the day before the tragedy oo
ourred.
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Divided Ammg the Different fchools
of the ?tate.
Dcficinnoiofl in Couiitlcu M?iln it??
and Itemftimlrr Divided Ac- j
ourdlnK to Knrollmnnt.
Comptroller General Jones has made
an allotment of $110,000 of dispensary
profits to the public schools of
tho State. The allotment was mad*
after tluding out the deficiency lu
each county. This deficiency represented
the amount each school in the
county fell short of $75 In some
counties the 3 mill school tax produced
revenue sufll lent to pay each
school $75, which amount Is calculat
ed to run a school three months.
It ri quired $9,552 53 to make up
these deficiencies and the remainder
of the profits recently declared by the
dispensary were divided among all of
the c >uutles. Cnesterfield's county
superintendent of education having
failed to respond with the data nec
essary, that county was not Included
in the distribution but the amount
will he made up at subsequent distributions.
The toval enrollment In the State
as reported is 288,363; and the amount
each pupil will receive from this distribution
will be 34 1-2 cents. The
deficiency money was divided as follows
among the 26 counties reporting
that the 3 mill school tax did not afford
$75 for each and all of the
sohools lr these counties:
Abbeville, $297.85; Alker, $76 30;
IUmberg, $91.04; Iiarnwell, $32;
Cherokee, $132 68; Clarendon, $74 82;
Colleton, $491 09: Edgefield, $460 24;
Florence, $64 63;Georgetown $267 78;
Ureenvllle, $91 84; Hampton, $434;
Horry, $2,094; Kershaw, $128; Lancaster,
$739 80; Laurens, $170 70;
Lee, $115 90; Lexington, $282 20;
Marion, $212; Marlboro, $150 13; Oconee,
$082 10; Orangeburg, $210; Pick
ens, $140,10; Saluda, $1,109; Spartanburg,
$19 15; Williamsburg, $949
Tee following table gives in the
first oolumn the names of the oounties,
In the second the number of pupils
enrolled In the public schools of each,
and In third amount of money eacn
received from the fundsof $100,023 08
left after deficiencies had been made
up:
Abbeville 8,995 $3,120.17
Aiken 8,414 2,918.03
Anderson 13,321 4,020.70
Bamberg 4,287 1,487.00
Barnwell 7,083 2,450.93
Beaufort 4.033 1,398 95
Berkeley 5,452 1,891 17
Charleston 13,378 4,040.52
Cherokee 4,491 1,557 82
Chester 0,318 2,191.57
Clarendon 0,227 2,100.00
Colleton 5,807 2,035.13
Darlington 5 851 2,029 58
Dorchester 2,984 1,035.08
Edgefleld 0,117 2,121 85
Fairfield 7,330 2,544 09
Florence 0 518 2,200 95
Georgetown 3.360 1,104.12
Greenville 12 338 4,297.78
Greenwood 7,394 2,604 80
Hampton 6,035 1,740 63
Horry 0,138 2,129 13
Kershaw 4,079 1,023 04
Lancaster 0 529 2,204 70
Laurens 8,007 2 777 45
Lee 4 611 1,604.70
uuxington 0,711 2,348. 70 )
Marlon 8,411 2,917.69'
Marlboro 6,782 2,005.64
Newberry 6 989 2 424 33
Oconee 6 694 2,113 87
Orangeburg ,14,425 5,003 70
Pickens 6 279 1,831.10
Richland 8 873 3,077 86
Saluda 5,361 1,859 60
Spartanburg. >....15 311 5,311.04
Sumter 7,128 2,472 54
Union 6 290 2 181.86
Williamsburg 0,765 2,346 62
York io 21 fi a Ria
The (lift Accepted.
A Boston dispatch lasthe American
b ?ard of oommlsd e** of foreign
mm! ins announces tl . tits rudential
o- mmlttee h&a accepts. c.. report of
the tiub committee recomm* tiding ac
eptanoe of tlie gift of $100,000 by
J ihn D. Rickefeller, but tinal action
<Q the matter had been postponed two
weeks. Liter prudential committee
ep<>rtod that it had decided to accept
the Rockefeller gift.
He Tried 'Km.
Col. Watterson is telling the readers
of the Courier-Journal very inter-sting
stories of life In Europe. The
Colonel feels c nil lent that the reports
about persons making big winnings
at Munte Carlo are baseless
yarns. The gentlemen conducting
'he gambling establishment are, he
lays, eutlrely too wise to permit anything
of that sort. The State says
the Colonel speaks as one possessing
the authority of experience.
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Conway Market
Fresh Meats and Sausago
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Orders are takon and
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Geo. L. Marsh,
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Dlfd in His Boat.
At Charleston Karl Maass, a German
ship carpenter, was found dead
In his boat with his head hanging over
the gunw&el In the water Wednesday
morning at tho foot of Plnokney
street. It is supposed that he died of
heart disease or apoplexy. He had
not long gone down to the wharf and
entered his little gasoline launch of
his own build when he waa found
dead. He had been oumplatning of
his heart and it is thought that perhaps
the exertion proved too great a
strain, causing bis death. He has been
In this country only two years. He
wes devoted to the water and hit
companions were almost entirely seamen.
Kxploslou in the Subway.
A severe explosion, followed by an
outbreak of Are, wtiiou defied all the
efforts of the firemen to oompletely
extinguish it, occurred Wednesday In
an unfinished section of the subway
at Broadway and One Hundred and
Sixty-seventh street, New York. The
road at that point Is 125 feet below
the surface. The explosion followed
a collision between an empty train
Which h?.'I hpftn run '-- "*
.uu vuu i*i ucjruna
the terminal switch and a flat ear,
on which were 14 Italian laborer*.
No one was Injured
Veteran Of Garibaldi's Army.
Col. BVederiok DtFuniak, capitalist
arid distinguished citizen, died at hie
residence in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday.
Col. DeFuniak was born in R >me,
Italy, 66 years ago and was a veteran
of Garibaldi's army. He was for a long
time chief engineer of the Louisville
& Nashville railroad and has been
connected with railroad building in
many parts of the country. He was a
member of tbe New York Yaohteinb,
of the Oid Southern Yaoht elub and
of the Philadelphia Yacht olub.
Tub war in the fiast teems to te
about over, with Russia ooming out
second best It is predicted that peeoe
will be oonoluded in six weeks.