Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TERROR REIGNS. District of Sinaloa and Durango Overrun by Thieves. MEXICAN BRIGANDS. Murder and Robbery Spread Terror Among the People. Two ltcgi* ments of lturales Are In Pursuit And Have Killed Several Haiulit leaders. lleign of Outlawry is Without a .Modern Precedent. The mountainous sections of the states of Durango and Sinaloa, Mexico, are overrun with bands of brigands. The entire territory is in a state of terror. Brigandage has always prevailed to some entent in the mountains lying between I hiango and the Pacitic port of Mazatlan. The present outbreak of outlawry is the worst the country has known since the days following the last bloody strife, when little attempt was made at preserving law and order. The portion of the territory where the brigands are operating is 75 miles wide and more than 200 miles long. Not less than nine bands of brigands I are active in this territory and travel is absolutely dangerous. Ranchmen and peaceable settlers are terror stricken. WAR OF FXTF.RM I NATION. There are no two full regiments of rurales working in the turbulent territory, under orders from President Diaz to show no quater to the bandits when they are captured. They are engaged in a war of extermination, but with not much apparent success. Many of the brigands have been killed but others seem ready to take their places as soon as they fall. The bandits are merciless with the rurales. A few days ago they found six of the troopers sleeping and killed them before they could reach their guns. Many of the rurales were banditti at one time themselves, and, for this reason, know the ways and the bidding places of the men they are pursuing. They are relentless in the performance of their duty. BRIGANDS QUICK TO KILL. The number of murders and robberies that have been committed during the last three months will never be known. The brigands are not slow to kill, when any resistance is made to their attempts at robbery. In some instances whole families have been wiped out of existence. Encounters between the rurales and banditti are almost of daily occurrence. Several of the bandit leaders have been killed. Among others Porlfrio B. Obaso, one of the most notorious. He was overtaken and killed while planning a raid at Conitaca. In the same encounter three of his followers were killed and two 1^.. 1?i r> j- vt - i ui aicn wuuuucu. vjeraruo iNiinoz is another bold bandit leader, who was recently captured and killed. He had raided a ranch within 5o miles of Durango, carrying away $7,000 in money and valuables. DKSPERADO PROTECTS WOMAN. Juan Longorio is at the head of a band of brigands that is operating in the Cosala district. He has been working for the past three years, and has raided many ranches. One thing he will not do is allow a woman to be hurt. He will order execution of men, if they resist, but a woman can leave her premises and take all she wishes with her. Longorio has been known to leave food and supplies at the homes of poor women, which he has visited. Frequently these materials have been found to be plunder he has taken from a nearby ranch or home of a rich planter or miner. The rurales have been in pursuit, but seem to be unable to capture him. He has so worked himself into the good grace* of the women that they will protect him and his men when they are being hard pressed. WRKCK OF A It AIM i E Sonic Fifteen Persons Were Drowned by tfic Accident. The wooden lumber barge Arcadia. whicn left Manistee. Mich.. Anrl 12 for Two Rivers with a cargo ol hard wood, has undoubtedly beer lost in Lake Michigan with her cap tain and owner, Harry May, his wife and about a doxen sailors. The boat has not been heard fron definitely since leaving Manistee Wreckage has been found along tin beach from Pont Yater north to Lit tie Point Sauble, and part of it hat been identified as the cargo of tin lost craft. The Arcadia was a wooden vessel 119 feet in length, 2f> feet beam am was built in Milwaukee, Wis., ii 1 888. '1 lie Arcadia left Manistee Apr! 12. April 18 and 14 Lake Michigai was swept by such a severe storn that navigation was almost complete ly tied up. It was during this storn tnat the Arcadia was propably lost. Wreckage was sighted for milei off Ludington in the direct course t( Milwaukee immediately after th< gale, but until bulwarks bearing th? steamer's name washed ashore it wai Impossible to identify the wrecket craft .. - 'iliftntflllfrf LABOR UNIONS I Are Hot After President Roosevelt For What He Said Alxmt Mojrer, Haywood and Pettibone, Miners Who Are Charged With Murder Out in Idaho. The committee, consisting of delegates Brown, Abrahams and Henry, 1 appointed by the Now York Central Federated Union to call upon President Roosevelt in relation to the latter's attitude toward Mover, Haywood and Pettibone, instead of leaving for Washington, as expected, decided to abandon their mission. Secretary Bohm, of the C. F. u., telegraphed to the presltent, from New York Inquiring as to a convenient time at which he would receive the committee. Private secretary liooh explained that the president did not desire to see the committee personally, but suggested that the C. F. IJ. sent to him in writing anything they'wished to communicate on the Moyer-Haywood matter. In this telegram Secretary Bohm stated that some time ago lie had written a letter to the president, in which the sentiments and uesires of (he C. F. U. had been expressed and that no answer had been received. No reply lias been received to (his last telegram sent by Secretary Rohm Members of the C. F. U., who knew of the telegrams that passed between Secretaries Hahm and Leob, that the president expects his letter to the Chicago federation, to he accepted as a reply to the queries and criticisms of the C. F. U., also. In commenting upon the presidents published letter, prominent New York labor men said Thursday that he had overlooked the main point in the protest of organized labor. There would not have been the great agitation by organized labor on the Moyer-Ilaywood case, if it had not been for the lawless manner of the arrest and deportation of the accused men. Labor would have naised no protest against the arrest and trial if the constituted authorities had shown a proper respect for the legal rights of the accused at the time of their arrest. The belief of the working men of the country is that President Itosevelt and those in whom he confided shut their eyes to the known facts and not only sanctioned the kidnaping of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, but refused them the redress to which they, as citizens, were entitled. Sixty thousand members of organized labor in New York City will parade on May 4, as a public rebuke to President Roosevelt for his second atack on Moyer and Haywood. The Central Federated Union has n nnnnf n/1 tKn Inirlt oH/\n r\ P + I* r\ lbf^\t?/\%? 11 V-Vv VI lliv III VU(lllV;il Ul L11U ITUI^CI and Haywood protest conference committee, to parade and it will take part in the great demonstration. Labor meetings were held throughout the city and at all of them the action of President Roosevelt was denounced and the decision taken to parade on May 4 in lionor of Moyer and Haywood, and as a rebuke to Roosevelt. Every organization that met, instructed its delegates to the C. F. U., to present their views at the regular meeting of the union next Sunday. In nearly all the big cities of the country similar labor meetings were held, and the action of President Roosevelt denounced. Labor leaders in Boston, Chicago, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati! and Milwaukee were outspoken in their criticism of the president. A dispatch from Milwaukee states that the labor leaders there have launched a plan for setting aside a day in May when work will be suspended and a demonstration held throughout the country, as a protest agjflnst the position of the president. In Chicago a call was issued for a public meeting of protest to be held May 19 in Grant Park. AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Denounced for His Attack on Labor Leader. The declaration that President Itoosevelt is behind the Western mine owners and state authorities at Colorado and Idaho in an alleged | movement to "railroad" Moyer, Heyl ward and Pettibone, of the Western . Federation of Miners, to the gallows, was applauded vociferously Sunday by the Chicago Federation of Labor. In the most dramatic speech that lias been delivered before that body in many years Edward Morgan, a I member of the Western Federation, bitterly denounced the president. His speech was followed by "the adoption . of resolutions scoring the president I for classing Heyward with E. H. IlarC riman and other capitalists. "God forbid that it is true!" shouted Morgan, "but it almost seems that " behind the millions of Rock feller and , the Standard Oil company, behind the millions of mine owners, stands the , strong right arm of the chief executive of the nation, saying: 'Go to it. ) Fall upon your prey like vultures, . | and I will sit by and grin while you j uurirle in their blood.' i "For seventeen years the Western Federation of Miners, with their , Idood blazed the way for organized I labor in the West. Now, the mine j owners, l)acked by the state authorities, are thirsting for revenge. I can 1 see William D. Haywood, the man i who refused to he bought or to bond i the knee of suplication, forfeiting his . life on the gallows for the loyalty he i bore to his fellows lie refused to make peace, refused to clink glasses 3 with the mine owners, and now they ) have hatched this conspiricy to get 3 him by other methods. And they 3 will hang him unless the working 3 clasB of this country rise up from 1 ocean to ocean and demunds that | Justice be done." FIKHIUGS CAUGHT. Believed t<? In* Mem tiers of An Or* Kiini/(Hl Hand ill Now York. A dispatch from Hock Hill says the city lias beon much interested in the reports which came here Friday by telephone and persons coming from that section of the capture of three negroes, who, it is said, were caught red handed in uu attempt to burn the barn of a Mr. Garrison in Steel Creek, Just over the river from here. There seems to have been a regularly organized band of flrobugs at work in that community, there having been several barns burned since January 1 of tiiis year. The last was that of Mr. Frank Brwin, which was burned Monday night and entirely destroyed with a number of stock. Mr. Garrison, who lives not far from Erwin's concluded that he would watch Tuesday night, thinking that an attempt might be made on his property next. He did so In company with a neighbor and about midnight their vigil was broken by the approach of three or more nogroe men who came creeping 011 all fours toward the barn. When the negroes were almost to the barn they were called on to halt and when they broke and ran Instead they were followed by loads of shot from the guns of Garrison and his friend. This failed to stop them, however, and Mr. Garrison and his partner chased them with hounds and captured three. They were later turned over to the sheriff of the county. There are rumors that one of the negroes has confessed. F<>lt NFGKO SCIIOOI Philadelphia (Jives One Million to Negroes of the South. One million dollars has been given to the negroes of the South for the establishment, of rudimentary schools by Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quakeress of Philadelphia. The income of the amount given is to be used sorely for assistance in the "southern United States community. country and rural schools for the great class of negroes to whom the small rural and community schools are alone available." Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee institute, and the Mollis II. Friz/ell, president of the Hampton Normal and Industrial institute, are named as trustees of the fund, but neither of the institutions they represent will share in the gift. The deed was executed Thursday and In it Booker Washington and Mollis Frizzell are empowered to appoint a board of trustees in connection with the fund. The Pennsylvania company for insurances on lives and granting annuities, of Philadelphia, will act as fiscal agent for the trustees. FOR PKOTRCTION OF BIRDS Mr. James Henry Hire Made Secretary of Audtilioii Society. Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., has been elected secretary of the State Audubon society, which the last legU.1..? .. ^ 1 A 1 1 ...111 _ A . iMHiuif I'liiiiu'ii'u, mid win at once begin an active canvass of the state appointing game wardens and other wise seeing to the enforcement of the game lsiws of the state. "The game iaws of South Carolina are practically a dead letter today," said Mr. Rice the other day. "They are violated with faithful regularity throughout the state as to all sorts of game and fish as well as to insectivorous birds which should be protected everywhere. It is true the society's intention to see that these laws are enforced regardless of how much unpopularity that course brings up on the heads of the officials of the society. Other states are getting as high tis $100,000 a year in license fees and fines, and there is no reason why this state should not get almost that much. It is also tile intention of the society to see to the protection of fish in season." SMOIvi: STACK COLLAPSED. ? Three Young Women Working in a Class Factory Killed. Three young women, employed at T. C. Wheaton & Go's factory, in Millvllle, N. J., were killed by the crushed through a room In which they were working. The dead: Lena Doughty, Lydia Thurston, Sylvia Gallagher. The velocity of the wind was estimated at t?0 miles an hour. The stack crashed through the roof of the plant and into tho grinding room occupied by several men and the three young women. All were buried under tlie debris. The crash was heard for several blocks and workmen from other parts of the plant went to the rescue. Among the rescuers were George Doughty, whose daughter was in the ruins. Her body was quickly uncovered, but life was extinct. Miss Thurston was taken out alive, but died shortly afterward. Miss Gallagher was dead when her body was found. The other employes escaped injury. DKItS IS MAD. Says the President lias a Had Mem ory or Lies. Eugene V. Debs represented the President as saying in unmistakable words that Mover and Haywood were implicated in the murder, tlms pronouncing their guilt before their i trial. Debs said: -he president is i guilty of extraordinary lapse of i memory or of deliberate falsehood. I now challenge the president, to deny ; his speech, of April 14th, as meaning r Moyer and Haywood in his charge ; more than a year ago. If he will not i name whom he meant, ho must stand : branded from his own mouth with calumny and mendacity." % NEGRO KILLED. Killed in Columbia by anEx-County Official. There Had Hcen a Quarrel Between the Two the Night Before the Killing Occurred. The Columbia Record says the shooting to death of a negro hackman named Mouo Tucker by ex Coroner William S. Green, serving at the time as a bailiff in the circuit court, in Peter Greete's fruit Store on Main street, nearly opposite the skyscraper at 10:30 Friday morning, caused much excitement about the store, and for a time it looked as if conditions were ripe for a riot, the screaming widow of the dead hackman following the undertaker's basket bearing the remains tfway from the place una a dozen or more scatter-brained white men looking for a opening to give expression to their race feeling. But Columbia people, both white and black are noted for being cool-headed and the crowd finally thinned out without any effort to precipitate a clash. ' Chief Daly was 011 hand with three assistants. VT n / * * ' "ii. itiwvii iiiis neon more or less of si heavy drinker for several years. About a year ago he shot himself in the chest at his rooms over tlie Stanley china hall. He has Hhot and cut a number of negroes on more or less provocation. The trouble which ended in Tucker's death appears to have started Thursday night, according to statements credited to a Mr. A. L. Davis, who cannot be located now. Mr. Davis, who was a passenger in Tucker's hack Thursday night on Washington street, was attacked by Green with a knife after Green had slashed at the hack man. Mr. Davis had a new hat cut to pieces. But he re- J fused to appear against Green in the recorder's court and the case was dropped. In Green's store at the time of the killing was Mr. Walter Atkinson, a traveling man from Jersey City. He says that at the time Green came into the store Tucker was sitting to the counter writing out his address for him (Atkinson), that Green without a word from Tucker swore at him and shot him. Tucker stooped or staggered toward an open knife on the lloor and Green told him if he attempted to pick it up he would shoot him through the head. Tucker then staggered out of the back door of the store and fell dead in the back yard. The bullet, a 38-callbre, was cut out of Tucker's neck, having entered the leftj side and severed both the jugular vein and a large artery. The pencil with which Tucker had been writing was also in Tucker's clenched list. Peter Greeto and his son, Louis saw the killing, but say they cannot give details. After standing on the sidewalk, perhaps fivo minutes, during which Mr. Green remarked to passers-by that he told the negro that if he advanced upon him with the knife he would kill him. When two newspaper representatives arrived on the scene Green asked them to note that lie was "as cool as a cucumber." He then walked around to the sheriff's I ofllce and surrendered. lie has retained Mr. P. H. Nelson to defend him. Green will likely appply for bail in a few days. THREE FOUND DEAD l>ie.f While Asleep From Some Kind Of Poison. At Danbille, Va., tho dead bodies of John Dandridge, Adna Moode and William Spaggins, and the unconscious form of Lillie McCain, all young negroes, between 20 and 21 years of age, were found stretched out on the floor and on the bed in the servants' room of the Rev. W. H. Atwill. When after repeated knocking at the door no response was made the door was battered down. The condition of the room indicated that the party had been on a drinking and eating frolic the night before, and that the victims had died while asleep during the night from poisoning. Mystery surrounds tho case, and the police have been at work on several clues. Negroes acquainted with the dead apparently kncAv more of the cause leading to the deaths than they will divulge. They are on the lookout for the husband of one of the women who had been seperated from him. CARIUE NATION DECLINES The Offer of a Civil War Veteran to Marry Her. The New York World says Mrs. Carrie A. Nation has had a offer of marriage from a Civil War veteran, living In Virginia, and In the current issue of her newspaper, the Hatchet, she thus tells why she has declined it: "Lonely and despondent at times because ho hasn't a wife, Thomas Flanagan, of Virginia, wants to marry. And he sings his song of "Can't you see I'm lonelv? tr? Mre r<.>\ Nation. She received the letter of proposal from this ardent admirer on Friday, and wants an early answer so he can arrange his affair. "But he will receive the marble heart. Tie will get. the frigid mitt. Mrs. Nation says she is wedded to her work and that she can't wed a man. "In his letter Flanagan says he is a government pensioner at $12 a month and has $275 in the hank, together with a house and some land. His wife died some time ago, and ever since he has been lonely, and at times despondent." HEAVY DELUGE The Downpour in New Orleans Was Extreme. I A torrential rain flooded many sections of New Orleans Thursday and the heavy downpour continued all night. Water was more than a foot deep in parts of Canal street, where the big stores are located. . Water backed up in some sections over the deep glitters and covered sidewalks. St. Charles avenue, the finest street in New Orleans, was a running river for blocks, many residences being completely surrounded. The precipitation was estimated at ^ over three inches early Friday with i no relief promised until Saturday. CURES ALL SKIN TROUBLES ? __________ f Sulphur the Accepted Remedy for c < Hundred Years. Sulphur is one of the greatest i remedies nature ever gave to man. 1 Every physician knows it cures skin ] and blood troubles. Hancock's Liquid ( Sulphur enables you to get the full benefit in most convenient form. Do ( not take sulphur 'tablets' or 'wafers' ^ or powered sulphur in molasses. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is pleas- ? ant to take and perfect in its action. ( Druggists sell it. > A well known citizen of Danville, < Pa., writes: "I have had an aggra- \ ir.lt.w) ~ ? T.-l a ?* - ? ?tuu V/tiou ui ri('/it?IU(l IDT over 2 0 r years. I have used seven 50-cent hot- \ ties of the Liquid and one jar of your > Hancock's Li<|iii<l Sulphur Ointment, and now I feel as though 1 had a t brand new pair of hands. It has t cured me and I am certain it will * cure anyone if they persist In using 1 Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, accord- 1 lng to directions. 'Butler Edgar.' s TIIE BATTLE IS ON < t Between President Hoosevclt and Senator Foraker. ' 21 Senator. Charles Dick, old time friend and colleague of Senator Foraker, has gone to Ohio to personally conduct the tight of the Foraker against the Taft forces. It is a move that might, have been expected, in fact was expected 2is a development of the campaign. The interest lies however in the fcict that Senator Dick has made the flat announcement that the Ohio Republican machine is against Roosevelt, Rooseveltism and any Roosevelt candidate. Thus the issue is squarely made, and it will he a finish fight for neither the President nor Senator Foraker are in the habit of giving quarter. ? Outsiders may look on with interest and gain considerable instructions therefrom. It is the first serious and open split in the republican ranks, and the question that will be settled for the rest of the campaign will be whether or not the president's personality and popularity in his own party will avail against one of the most effective machines in one of the worse in lie nine rumen states. Eighty-Year Old Woman Cured. Had Suffered Tortures From Rheumatism for 20 Years. No matter how long you have been sick, 110 matter how discouraged you arfe from having tried so many remedies in vain, there is at last hope of a complete cure for you. The new scientific remedy RHEUMACIDE has cured hundreds of cases of Rheumatism, Sciatioa, Gout, Catarrh, Indigestion, Constipation, Liver and Kidney Trouble, La Grippe and Contagious Blood Poison, after all other remidies have failed. RHEUMACIDE cured James Ivenealy and J. F. Eline, of Baltimore, of terrible cases of Rheumatism, after all the specialists at the famous Johns Hopkins Hospital had failed. RHEUMACIDE cured W. R. Hughes of Atkins, Va., after noted New York doctors had failed. Here is a case of a woman eighty years old who was cured by Rheumacide after she had suffered for twenty years: High Point, N. C., July 19. "After suffering for about 2o years with Inflammatory Rheumatism I was induced to try a bottle of Rheumacide. After taking one bottle I have felt five years younger. I am now eighty years of age, and wish to testify that 1 believe Rheumacide is the best remedy for Rheumatism. And I heartily recommend ' it to all who are suffering with any of the forms of this dread disease. "Very truly, Mrs. Mary E. Welborn," Your druggists sells and recommends RHEUM ACIDE. BANDIT SPREADS TERROR Held Up Men at Road House and Bobbed Them. The region around DuRois, Wyn., is being terrorized by Ethel Burrows, a girl bandit, aged 1 8 years. She had committed a number of successful hold-ups, some of them in broad daylight, and has obtalntd large sums of money. Recently she appeared at a roadhouse, made four men hold up their ll niirlu on/1 /i/,ti,i./.ll?.l tl>- ?" " 1 1 -- .......... V UIIIIIOIICU Hit? III 11II IUUU lO I give hor the contents "of the cash drawer. Then she rode away on a swift horse. She robbed a ranchman | of $50 at his ranch honse and then "touched" a number of travelers. I We Have One 25 Horse Power Talbott, sen cently been overhauled. This Engine he a great bargain for anyone who is gine. 1 We are headquarters for anyth plies and prompt attention will be gh trusted to our care. Write us when and be sure to get our prices before Colombia Supply Co., FOUGHT 'HARD ro Keep From Being Hung for Killing a Man. iud to Be Dragged to Tito Gallows and lie Was Executed By Main Force. Bob Watts, a young white man, vho was hung at Guntersville, Ala., Phursday, was hanged undor tragic ilrcumstances. He had become poa;eased of a knife and resisted to the md. Ammonia was thrown into his sell and he was thiifi overcome and I ragged to the scaffold by force, -oughing and moaning piteously. Beng asked for a statement he persistently protested his innosence, but did tot attempt to throw suspicion on inyone else. The drop fell at 8:20 j'clock. Watts was convicted of the murder >f Perd Winkles, an old Confederate ioldier, who was killed in the fall of L 904. Winkles had just drawn his pen lion money amounting to $:i0 from lie state and was on route home vhen the discharge of ?*i gun, follow;d by screams, was heard. Friends vho hastened to the place found Wincles lying in the road mortally vounded. The dying man said that iVatts had shot and robbed him. Watts was convicted and sentenced o hang, but an appeal was taken to he supreme court which affirmed the lenience. Meanwhile AVatts, who hud >oen taken to the larmingham Jail or safe keeping, was'pronounced inlane and sent to the insane asylum, further reprieves followed until six lifferent dates had been fixed for ttie execution. Itecently Watts was declared sane igain and Governor Cromer refused o grant another reprieve. Watts all ilong asserted his innosence. Why you should consult a specialist1 HY M4S. - 7' "Mahomet wont to tho mountain' for obvious reasons and ho waa a wise man. 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