Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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II DYING BOY in Trolley Car Springs As It Dashes On Its Way F CROWD WANTED ROPE L' to Lynch the Mo tor m an, Who Said He Kiew Nothing of the Occurrence Until Hie Attention Was Called to It by a Merry Crowd of I ' People on Their Way to the Theatre. Little Fellow Died. They do things In a hurry in New York. With the body of a live-yearold child caught up in the springs that had crushed it to death a B. It. T. car of the Lorimer street line rushed on two blocks through crowded Broadway In Williamsburg. Not one of the twenty passengers, the conductor or the raotorman was aware that an accident had occurred unu save a few children who heard the cry of terror an the little one was drawn beneath the fender, none knew of the horror. A crowd of men were crossing l-iorimer street, at Broadway, coining from the Gayety theatre during an intermission. When the car slowed down, one of the men caught sight of something beneath the body of the car. lie called to the motorman. . Even then the object was so small it did not look like a child. It was rolld up almost like a ball. The motorman did not understand, except there was something under the car. A man stooped down, looked, and gave a cry, "My God, its a child!" In an instant the crowd was around the car. The inotorman jumped from the front and the conductor from the rear. "i didn't run any one down," said the inotorman, as he looked, still incredulous, underneath the body of the car. Then he saw the child and wilted. Women passengers came out. al though they had not felt any jar of the car. A couple of men crawled beneath the car as best they could while a policeman turned In a call for an ambulance. In a few minutes a man dragged out the mangled little body. The street was black with children. A couple of little tots came up and pressed through the crowd. "It's Sammy," said one. "We seed him runned over." "Sammy who? Where was he run over?" asked one of the crowd. "He was run over at More street," said the other. More street is two blocks nearer the ferry, and the crowd begun to understand what bad happened. The clung of the ambulance drew more poisons, and from the Theatre came others, until the policeman who had sent in the call for an ambulance telephoned for the reserves. The motorman was pretesting that he had not seen any child. lie said that at More street lie had had all ho could do to prevent a collission with a wagon. The child might have been behind it, and ran over without being seen. The crowd was fast, growing uncontrollable, and cries for a rope soon went up. Those in front started to throw stones at the motorman, and demands for a lynching were freely made. Then a policeman took charge of n.ntnxn'.nn nu/1 nln/.Afl 1. I ?> > .... tuc iiiuum iniiii aiivi \t i ciV/^y 11 111111 \/n i, 11K" platform of the car. lie was warned by (he crowd to keep hack, while hoys were picking up stones in the street. When the reserves from the Clymer street station arrived the patrol wagon that brought them took back the motorman as a prisoner, with the body of the child in the bottom. At the police station the motorman was locked up on a charge of homicide. Me is Raymond Geer, of No. 4 0 Albany avenue. A minute later the father of the child came in. The little fellow was Samuel Klatz, five years old. of No. 15 More street. With a couple of other children he had been playing 'n front of the house and wandered about into busy Broadway, where he was killed. N EG RONS NOT WANT EI). Recruiting Officers Instructed Not t< Enlist Any More. A dispatch from Houstan, Texas says announcement was made there Thursday at the recruiting statior that orders have been received frorr the war department at Washingtor instructing that no negroes be ac cepted for service in the army. An nouncement was also made that al negro troops in the United Statei will lie dispatched forthwith to th< i'hiiipines. IU)V Til 10 IF KILLED Drew Revolver When Arrested am Weapon Went OH*. William McElroy, eighteen year: of age, was shot and fatally wound ed ia a struggle with a policomai Thursday at Philadelphia, Pa., wh< had arrested him for stealing brea< from a grocer's bread box. Whet apprehend red, MclOlroy drew a re volver and in the struggle the wen pon was discharged, the bullet pone tinting the boy's brain. Men who , ay they are in politic for the good of the country fom< how get the idea into their heat that they are the country. It would seem to be in accord wit the eternal litness of thing when patient man weds a trained nurse. TOM HARRIS HUNS The White Man Who Murdered and Robbed Mrs. Morgan Pays The Penalty for Hla Crime Which He Confessed o* the GalIowa, Friday. Tom Harris, a white man, was legally executed at GafTney on Friday for the brutal murder of Mrs. Hortensia Morgan, who lived two milee from Gaffney, last November. j He killed Mrs. Morgan by cutting her throat, after which he took $800 from her clothes. Harris narrowly escaped being lyncned at the time of his arrest and was taken to Spartanburg for safe keeping. While the sheriff was confining his hands and feet and adjusting the black cap, the comdemed man stood without a tremor. Rev. E. G. Ross, his spiritual advisor, offered u brief prayer for the soul of Harris and was followed by Harris, who asked forgiveness for shedding innocent blood and asked that his fate be a warning to all those who were present. He asked a special blessing upon Sheriff Thomas, who was going to execute him. At. 11.00 the trap was sprung and the soul of Tow Harris was launched into eternity. His neck was broken and he was pronounced dead by Dr. J. N. Nesbitt within five minutes. Harris showed no sensation of feel ing whatever and went to his death as calmly as if he were taking a stroll for pleasure. This Is the first hanging that has ever tnknn ? * - . > v>iiuiumic uuuniy A QL" UKU CASK. Girl Being Tried For Poisoning Baby Hhe Nursed. At Carmel. N. J., a peculiar phycholigical problem was presented in the trial, opening Wednesday, of Jennie Burch, aged fifteen, whose grundmother is a full-blooded Mo-i hawk Indian, who is charged with Hindering tlie three-year-old son of Herbert Wnshlp six months ago. The girl is alleged to have confessed to putting poison on a peach and then giving it to the baby because she loved it so and could not he happy. When arrained, she pleaded not guilty. She stubbonly declared her inocence. Jennie is said to have eaten half of the peach herself and been very ill. Some say the girl believed she was suspected of setting fire to the Winship barn and that she tried to kill herself and take the baby with her. It is thought the case will turn on the decision of experts. FNl'Sl Ali M AitUI AGH Sixteen Year Old Hoy Weds An Old Woman. A dispatch from Atlanta to the Augusta Chronicle says Professor J. A. Dailey, known as the boy violinist, 1 G-years-old, who for years has boon trolnir nrnnnil AHonln -- O o v?? till iiuiimn n llll UUI* ly ringlets, was married last Monday to Mrs. Mana Kitchens, a widow, with five children, one of whom is as old as the groom. His mother went to Ihe police station Wednesday to see if something could not he done to save him from his bride. She declares that ho won the mother while giving music lessons to the daughter. WANTED TO KILL II LMSEl.r I Me Was In I'rison For Killing Chit f of Police. At Fayetteville, N. C., Tom Walker, th negro who on March 2, shot 1 and killed Chief of Police Chason and Policeman Lockamy and severe, ly wounded Policman Huckinham i during a raid on Walkers house, where he conducted a blind tiger, I attempted suicide during recess of . the court by beating his head a. gainst the sharp steel bars of his cell. "They will not give me justice," . he said. He may die from concusi sion of the brain. VfiUN(iKI) TO IIEK DKATH. Put On Her Best Hobes In Which to Drown. At Cleveland, Ohio, dressing her self In her costliest apparel, Mrs Mary Peters, a widow aged 4 5 years 1 plunged over a 75 foot bluff to deatt 1 in the waters of Lake Erie, neai 1 the Clifton Club isoat house Satur day. Mrs. Peters had suffered frorr ill health for some time past and ha< 1 been In dejected spirits. She liveo 3 with her mother at 7130 Brlnsmado 3 street and the family Is well knowr on the west side. Dor HI JO TBAOEDY ON STHEET. 1 One Locomotive Engineer Kills An other and Shoots Himself. 8 On a principle street of Montgom " cry. Ala.. Win. West, a locomotive ei gincer, shot and killed Fraizier \ also an engineer, then, when abou a to Ihe arrested, fired and killed bin i- self. The hearing of West., accuse* - of stealing a diamond ring fron s- Frazior was set for Friday after nopn. i >3 One of the meanest things ahon having money is the way eyorybod [s worries for fear yon will keep o I having it. h If men weren't brutes womc a wouldn't have so much fun tamin t .iem. 'hf-i BRYANS' VIEWS. I Southern People Best Qualified to Solve Race Question. A SOUND AUGUMENT Mr. Tlrjmn Also Contends That The Californians Know Rest How To Solve the Question That lias Been Raised in Their State About The Japanese Attending the Same School With Whites. ; William Jennings Bryan has raised the race question in the South and the race question on the Pacific coast as two obstacles to radical centralization of authority in the federal government at Washington. In the second installment of his debate in The Reader Magazine with Senator Albert J. Beverldge of Indiana. Mr Bryan continues to defend the rights ot the seperate States to deal with tho questions which seriously affect thorn and he calls for extension of the federal laws on^f to supplement the State laws and not to obliterate them. Senator Bevoridge on tin other hand calls more strongly than ever for tho increase of federal power and bitterly assails the action of tho people of Snn Francisco in segregating Japanese children In their schools and declares that tho president's attitude in dealing with San Francisco promoted by his dosire "to avert a national war." Mr. Bryan, who replies to Mr. BevI ?ridge's first article, entitled "The Nation," declares that Senator Beveridge presents hadlv and without I qualification the position of the advocate's of centralization. Taking up I the Senator's argument that the people have nothing to fear from extension of federal power because the federal government is the people. Mr. Bryan presents arguments n defense of local self-government and It is here that he brings in the race question by saying: "Yes, the people of the States are the same people who act. together as parts of the union, hut when the people of a State act together on a local matter they are nearer the subject under discussion, and, therefore, can act more Intelligently. If the arguments In defense of local self-government are unsound, then the whole theory of self-government is defective. It must he assumed that the people want to do what is right upon no other theory can we have selfgovernment. It. must also he assumed that the people can act most intelligently upon that, which they best understand. That they can best understand a thing with which they deal dally is axiomatic.; and it is equally truo that they will study most those things in which they are individually interested. "Of cour e, the people are not going to injure themselves or their own interests," says the senator; hut suppose the people of one section de(!...? ?u*.. ? - ' .... . 1.11<11. n:<-.\ iiiivf no uiscerniuie interest in what, is being done in anothr section, and they are likely to study th9 question as carefully as they should? And if they attempt to act upon a question remote from them, tire they sure to act wisely? Two questions now before the country may be used for an illustration. Take the race question in the South The people of the Northern States do not come in contact with the black race as the people of the South do, and because the experiences are different. in the two sections the views of thesubject are different. If n olti en of the North moves nto the black belt he soon recognizes that ne iias a different situation to deal with from that which confronted him in the North, and his views of tlie* subject are likely to undergo quite a change. TCven a winter's stay in the South is apt to have an educational influeneC UllOU the rtttv#?n nf thn North, and ho ceases to make sweeping criticisms of the Southerners. "The race question on the Pacific coast presents another illustration. The people who come into dnily contact. with the Orientals have a fainllarlty with the subject which those can not possibly have who live in other section and who seldom see , one of the Immigrants from Asia The school question is one that enters into the life of every communitj and the people who send their chil dron to a school are more corcernec . in the welfare of that, school thar any outside people can he. They noi only have the knowledge, hut thej 1 have the deep personal interest that compels investigation of all the facto and a study of all the condition! 1 that are to he met." Reverting to Senator Beveridge's ' first charge which was that the pre * datory trusts were now contendinf 1 most strongly for State* rights he cause the -federal government is sr vigorously prosecuting them, Mr Bryan takes exception to the state mont. "Senator Reveridge shoulc . have said," remarks Mr. Bryan "that the representatives of preda tory wealth are advocates of Stat< rights when prosecuted by the na " tional government and advocates o i remr?inznuon wnenever inoy are at tacked by any State." I The antngtonlsts come somewha closely together when Mr. Bryan de 1 clares In favor of tlie Beveridge Idl * prohibiting the transportation of th 1 product of child labor in interstnt " commerce. Mr. Bryan admits thn "many Democrats are opposing th it J A man at New Tendon, Conn y Swallowed a piece of glass thirt n years ago, and it has jiist been r< covered by a surgeon to whom 1 complained of a pain in the should( n g j Money may talk, but a cool mi 11 it | is coltl and distant. PITCH BATTLE I Between Peasants and Soldiers and Three Hundred Killed PEOPLE IN A PANIC The Peasants Tf*r An Officers Body to PifcfB and Dance Around the Bloody Fragments to Wild Music. Numerous Villages Have Been Burned, and the Suffering is Terrible. I According to the Czernowitz correspondent of the I.okal Anzieger. I the situation in Roumanla growworse Wednesday. The number of persons killed dally Is growing enormously. Three hundred persons J have been killed in an encounter between the peasants and the military at Stareskie. There have been two bloody butties at Mastonestlr, in one of which Lieut. Jonilescuo lost ids life. The peasants tore tho body of the lieutenant to pieces and danced around the bloody remnants to wild 111 usic. Similar atrocities are reported from the districts of Dinibrovitza and DolJ, where numerous villages audi farms have been burned down. The situation in Galatz is most threatening. Grave disorders are reported to have broken out 011 the ^utntnu I King Charles at Poina and troops have been Bent to the royal domains. It is rumored that large numbers of peasant rioters have been killed In conflicts near llraila and Papulescha. It is feared that one result of the disturbances will be the neglect of tillage and a consequent dearth of wheat. next winter, with diminishing exports that will mean a financial calamity to Roumnnia. It is reported that some two hundred peasants were killed or wounded Thursday in conflicts with troops in various (list; lets of Moldavia. Indications are that peace is being slowly restored partlculnrily in the Northern Part of Moldavia. gri:i:nyi u.i: bar scokiod. lodge Talks About No Cases Being Ready Kor Trial. The court of common pleas has been in session at. Greenville since Monday and only one jury case has been tried, and that was a very small one, .luge Gary Thursday scored the members of the local bar for not having arranged the roster of cases so that the court would not have lost so much time, and said that if the attorneys did not have a case ready for trial Friday lie would adjourn court and go honie. The lawyers claim uiai t tie docket was disarranged by (lie Franklin case being coinpromised. They thinking that the trial of it would occupy two days did not arrange any other cases for Tuesday and Wednesday. ItAI IJtOADS I HOST ritlHNl) C'arnegie Says Tills of President KooscvcK. Andrew Carnegie endorses the President's attitude toward the railroads. He said: "lie is the best friend they (the railroads) have and they had better stand with him. If they do not accept his moderate measures they may be confronted by a man in the White House who will approach from an entirely different standpoint." Mr. Carnegie, Vice-President Fairhanks and others lunched witli the President Wednesday afternoon. I senator's bill, some of them because of the influence of manufactures em, ploying child labor, and some on theoretical ground," but he declares , that he can speak for a "considerable element of (ho Democratic par. ty" when lie says that the bill does not in the least trespass upon State , DKlds. i Senator Bevoridge pnd an analagy . between the State rights doctrine upheld by the South at the time of . the Civil War and the protest r against invasion of State rights! . w iiit"ii in; cieeiares is now raised by [ the great corporate Interests which \ fear the strong arm of federal I control and regulation. He says, in r part: \ "The slave holders shielded them4 selves behind 'State rights' just, the 5 unrighteous money interests?(for not yll money interests are unright? eour by any manner of means most . are honest, just as men are honest) r are now protecting themselves he. hind State rights. > "Slavery, under the disguise of State rights, went on declaring about - 'centralization* just as the robbers I of the people under the dsguise of ^tate rights are doing today. And finally came secession, which was s Stat" rights carried to its logical conclusion and then our great Civil war. i mosi oi ine ganant men who rougnt - and died for tlio T?ost. Cause ;inrl hotter nion never marched to batt fie honestly believed that, they - were fighting for local self-govern1 mont; when, as a matter of fact, we o now know that their lives were bee Ing sacrificed by a slave-holding ollt garcliv to save that oligarchy's prope erty in human flesh and blood." * The devil knew how to catch a big e- haul when he invented dresses thai ie fasten up the buck for the husbands sr to hook. >n Women think men are coward: if they refuse to argue with them. TWENTY-SIX DEAD. A Disastrous WrecK on Southern Pacific Near Cotton, Cat. Wrecked Coaclim Hurled In Etery Direction, and Four Were Knut*tied Into Splinter*. A disastrous wreck on the Southern Pacific occurred about one mile east of Colton, Cal., late Thursday ? afternoon when westbound train No. y from New Orleans for San Francisco, ran into an open switch. Ten of tho fourteen cars were derailed, twenty-six persons have been known to have been killed and the final list will probably total much higher. The Injured numbered about one hund red. The wrecked coaches were hurled in every direction and four were smashed Into splinters. Most of the dead were Italians front New York and New Orleans, going to San Franclsc. They occupied the smoakor and day coach. eighteen corpses wore brought to Colton Friday evening and eight additional bodies coui'l be seen underneath one of the demolished ears. This car could not be raised until a derrick was brought from Los Align I es sLvt v in Hoe u ><>?' Hut two Americans are known to have been killed, George L. tihurp of Muncie, Ind., was instantly killed. The baggagemen of the train whose name has not been ascertained, also was killed. Kngineor-Clarenoe R. Worthington and Fireman Victor Crebb were terribly gurned in the wreckage. Out , of about eighty Pullman passengers only two sustained serious injury. The three Pullman coaches and | the diner, which was on the rear of the train did not leave the track. i The Florence Roberts Theatrical | company occupied one euaeh, which 1 was hurled to the track and both ends of it crushed in by impact a- ( gainst the others. Two of the twen- ; tv-two members of the company wore } injured. ; Miss Roberts escaped unhurt. The \ escape from death of the occupants | of this car was remarkable. The > scenery and properties carried were t dost royed. There were throe tracks where the wreck occurred, which is in the open country. The people of Colton were lirst tv) 1)0 notified of the catastrophe Hundreds hurried to the scene and ?. physicians and nurses were brought from San Bernardino and Colton. ( A DARING ACT. , A Lady Held l'p and Robbed in Open Day. i A dispach from New York Fays while preparing to make a deposit Friday in the bank in Anbury Park, for Assistant Superintendent Hayes, i <m i ik' Metropolitan Li IV; Insnrum e Company whose oilleo is in tin? pnsi- i oflleo building Mrs. Percy 11. \\ ilcox, a typo-writer and clerk in Mr. Hayes' < office, was hold up and robhcd by a negro who wound a towel saturated with cloroform about her mouth. Alter a struggle in which two of hor i front teeth wer? broken, Mrs. Wilcox became unconscious. The? negro escaped with $17b. The robbery occurred in the busiest part of the day, in one of the biggest office buildings in Aslmry Park. SlIEItlEE NOT NEEDED. Eiend Attempted an Assualt With Usual Desalt. News comes of a supposed lynching last week near Hartford, Ala., Thursday afternoon as the young daughter of John Mosely, a prosperous farmer living near Hartford, was returning home, a negro attempted to catch her, but her screams attracted tiie attention of her father who was in a field nearby. The negro escaped and a messenger was sent for the sheriff and dogs. When the latter arrived on the scene he was informed that his services wero not needed, as the negro had been surrounded, and everything was quiet. WILL HAVE (?OOD TIME. Senator Iaitlnior Ciets a Good An. pointmcnt from Roosevelt. One (lay last week President Roosevelt announced the appointment of members of the immigration coinmission. which, is to investigate conditions abroad this summer for the purpose of preparing a bill to be introduced into congress next winter. The appointees are: Charles 1*. Noil, commissioner of labor; Prof. .1. W. leaks. Cornell university and William It. Wheeler, of Oakland, California. The other members of the commission are Senators Dillingham, Lodge and Datimr and Representatives Bennett, Burnett and Howell. ( AT CAI SKH 1)10 ATI I. 1 I Woman and Nephew are the Victims Of Asphyxiation. Airs. Dora Creonburg, sixty-three years old, and her nephew, Harry W. Creonburg, twenty-five years old, wore found dead in their apartments in Brooklyn Wednesday, where they had been asphyxiated by gas. A pet cat, which was found dead in the kitchen, had disconnected a rubber tube, apparently in play, through which gas was carried to a gas stove. Close Call. An east bound Denver and Tile 5 Grande passenger train left the trae^ 30 miles west of Antlnio, Cub, Frl day night and 35 passengers had ( j miraculous escape from death. A1 * I the passengers were hurt, but non< seriously. FIRE PUMP FAILS And the Town of Newberry Suffers From Big Fire THE LOSS IS HEAVY The Damuge 1* Fntlmatcd to be Over Two Hundred Thousand Dollar*. IjmrciiH Flrt' Department Went to the ilea cue Defore Ileing Aske<I. .Many Stores and Dwell lag Houses Hurried, ? Newberry was hard hit by the fire fiend on last Friday morning. Ten stores, twenty-two residences and i wo chinches were completely destroyed and tnany other bulldinga were damaged by the lire and water. A break down in one oi i no pu pa ?l the resovolr made the light against the Haines a hard one, as they had jalned good headway when the pressure in its full strength was turned u alter the break at the pump-house was repaired. The exact extent of the damage is not yet known, but Insurance agents who are investigating the loss, ostlnato It at from $185,000 to $-10,000. The fire started in the three-story 'rinnn of i.,, 11.1 1 1 oivikt iii11uiiik uccupieu i>y i.iio 111 fii 1 tilr? store of U. C. WillluiuR. riif alarm wan turned in at 11:45 >'elock and the fire department responded quickly. The water pressure tit first was ex ellent, and the fight looked as if it wore won, when the pressure sudlenly went down, because of the breaking of a pump at the reservoir. Fhe Humes spread rapidly and the llremen fought the (lames with great nerve, but were handicapped by weak pressure. The mayors of Columbia, Laurens, 'llnton, Charleston, (Jreenville and Spartanburg were telegraphed to lend help if needed, but with (lie ihl of the Laurens department, who lad left Laurens, before the mayor eceived the message, the Haines vere conquered. The following are he losses: ItesidencoH I turned. J. A. West tenant, $2,000. J. K. Todd. $.1,000. S. J. Wooten. Col. O. I.. Shumpert,, $5,000, inin ranee, $1,000. S. I\ Hoozer, (). L. Shumpert, $2,)00. J. E. Norwood, $2,000, insurance 11,000. H. M. Dennis, owner, $2,000. \V. II. Day. vacant. 4 2.00 0. W. II. Day, occupied by J. P. 4healy, $2,000. IS. II. Leslie, $3,000. Ait'X Singleton, $1,000. J. A. Linton, vacant, $3,000. II. II. Kinard, occupied by Miss Holland, $7,000, insurance, $1,000. (I. F. bonK, $4,000, insurance $2,950. B. L. Jones, owned by J. A. Simpson, $2,000. Dr. Van Smith, $3,000. 11. I\ Coggans, $3,000. Mrs. F. I-', Bleasc, $4,000, insurance $1,000. Presbyterian Parsonage, Itev. J. L. Williamson, $2,000, insurance, $ 1,000 Aveileigh Presbpterlan Church $9000, insurance $4,700. Seeder Church $1,000, insurance, yr $ 1 ,000. Jjjfr Cottage belonging to Col. O. fx; Schuinpert $1,000. Three cottages belonging to HVmiy? Kinard $1,000. Two negro cottages of B. F. Goggans, $4 00. Barn and stables of L. W. Floyd, $500. F. N. Martin's barn and cottages $1,000. Dr. J. M. Kibler, outhouses only, $200. A. Crane Jones, outhouses, $.r>00. S. B. Aull, damage, $500. Stores Burned. Cromer & Met5raw, grocers, owned by Copeland Bros. Paul Johnston, owned by Copeland Bros. Vacant store owned by Copeland Bros., $5,000. K. C. Williams, furniture, building owned by it. Herman Wright, $2,500 Shelley & Summer, double brick, two story building owned by It. C. Williams, $0,000. Shelly & Summer carried a stock about $12,000. N' E. C. Sonnenbery, baker, owned by himself, $1,200. J. 11. McCullough, drugs, two story frame owned by himself $2,000. A. C. Thomason, grocery owned by M. I,. Gantt, $2,000. Racket Store, Ray Wattfe, building owned by Geo. S. Mower. The liivlngBton-lxjminlek Company, building owned by Geo. S. Mower, double store, $2,500 damage. Salter Art Gallery, Salter Art and Variety Store owned by 11. E. Todd, Anderson, $2,000. Hotel Frederick, $1,000 damage. V A ST TRAIN WRECK 151 >. File of Ii'om oi the Track Said to He The Cause. A west bound Louisville and Nashville train wjis wmeheil linlf n west, of Thomnaton Thursday afternoon, caused, it is alleged, by iron piled on the track. The engineer was instantly klled and the baggage master and ono passenger injured. The entire train left the track. It will require twenty-four hours to clear the track. | When a man buys a porous plaster >' at a cut rate store he is apt to get i J stuck on his bargain. JI Most men measure the standard of Q their own goodness by the badness | of their neighbors.