Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SECRET OUT. WHY ROOSKVKLT FIGHTS STAN. 1)ARD OIL COMPANY. It Refused to Give llim as Much . Honey as lie Itenuuuled for His i Campaign Four Years Ago. The New York World of Fridaypublished the following: Karly In the 1904 campaign th?? Standard Oil Company, us well as other trusts, railroads, banks and large corporations, received a request to contribute to the Republican oauipaign fund. This request was ignored. Henry II. Rogers being responsible for its refusal. loiter, when the second call for campaign funds was made, Mr. Oortelyou, chairman of the Republican national committee, sent word to Mr. Rogers asking for an appointment at which the existing conditions could bo explained and the financial support of Standard Oil ttocured. This appointment was made by Mr. Rogers to be kept at No. 2G Broadway, the Standard Oil I building, and Mr. Corteiyou was informed that both Mr. Rogers and John I). Archhold would be pleased v to see him. Mr. Corteiyou, finding that Mr. Rogers was not to meet him alone but that Mr. Archhold nas alone to ho present, concluded it would be safer and more discreet not to go himself. The appointment was kept by Cornelius X. Bliss, treasurer of the national committee. At this interview Mr. Rogers accused Mr. Roosevelt of ingratitude and recalled many past favors from the Standard Oil Company to Republican candidates and campaign funds. Mr. Bliss admitted that President Roosevelt might have acted harshly toward the Standard Oil, but said that while Mr. Roosevelt's first term was "constructive" his second term would be "conservative." Replying on these assurances Mr. Rogers and Mr. Archhold made a contribution of $100,000. This contribution coming to the knowledge of President Roosevelt, he wrote to Chairman Corteiyou a violent letter denouncing the Standard Oil Company and directing the return of the contribution. This let i.or is on Mr. Cortclyou's fllo, and a feopy of it is kopt by President Roosevelt for the puropse of making it public. if over the facts of this Standard Oil contribution became known. The contribution was not returned. Xot one cent was paid back. The Name was used, so far as Mr. lingers mid Mr. Arcbhnld know, in like manlier witli other contributions. Later in the campaign, when President Roosevelt bacame scared about the refill It and about the time thai he summoned Edward H. Ilarrlman to Washington and induced Mr. Ilarriman to raise $260,000 for the campaign fund, a further request was made of the Standard Oil people. A; the time of the $100,000 contribution Mr. Bliss expressed his dissatisfaction with its size and said that the amount .should he several times as great. At the time of the third request the definite sum of $21)0,000 additional was asked for. In the meantime Mr. Rogers had learned of Mr. Roosevelt's letter to r Pr\*?#o1ifAii <in/l 1 lui Hipnptlon I I V-/* ' 1 IUI J v; U C ? I I \ I V** tUVy ( 1 I V. V/Iiwil to return the first $100,u00. lie declined to Rive any more money and recalled the fact that the President's instructions to return the first contribution had not been complied witli and that Mr. Roosevelt must have known all along that tne $100000 which ho repudiated had not only been accepted but used. In view of this fact lie declined to accede to the request for a further $-50,000, or for any further sum, and denounced Mr. Roosevelt for seemingly trying on the one hand to secure contributions from tin* Standard Oil Company and on the other hand to make political capital by denouncing the company. KII/IjKI) ry rase hall. Young I .ad Meets Willi Sad Death at Georgetown. A special from Georgetown to The News and Courier says Hal rock Shackelford, sixteen years of age, son of Mr. J. R. Shackelford, and a stu dent at the Wlnynw graded school, was accidentally injured in a game of base hall Saturday afternoon, and died from the effects a few hours afterwards. .The smaller hoys were playing hall on the diamond in West Georgetown, Leslie Jones"pitching. Young Shackelford was at the hat and struck the ball, fouling it, and the ball flew up and struck him In th?j temple. It was a severe blow, but nothing was thought of it, and the young follow continued in the game and played another inning. The pain became finite severe, however, and be went home, complained of his feeling badly to members of the famll> and laid upon a sofa. Shortly afterwards he was foun;1 v . to be in an unconscious state, an* a physician was summoned. It wa$ discovered that the skull was frac tured, and before anything could lx done the boy died. It was an acci dent of a very unusual nature, and t ory regrettable and sad occurrence Indeed. Mr. Shackelford and his fam My havo the sympathy of all. I was a great shock to them and t< the many friends of the dead boy. NKGKOKS TKKKOH 8TKICKBN. Georgia Night Hidera (turn Churches and School Houses. A dispatch from Albany, Ga., say? there is a reign of terror among the negro inhabitants of a considerable portion of Calhoun, Baker and Miller counties, as the result of a raid by i night riders Saturday night, the I trail of the outlaws being marked by the blackened ruins of 13 negro churches and school houses. The following buildings were de stroyed: Mt. Zlon church and school house, Pleasant church and school house, Christ church and school house. Little Zlon church and school house, Belmont church, Mt. Aetna church and school house; New Salem church and school house. The night riders lirst made their appearance at a point three miles east of Kesler, where the first church was fired. They galloped away to- ' wards the east and before the glare i of the first fire had reached i 14 height another was being kindled a low nines away. rire lonowea lire and the destruction of every building to which tiio torcli was applied was complete. Hundreds of negroes went to their church Sunday to attend them, only to lind heaps of ashes where their meeting house had stood. Many of the best members of tho negro race in the three counties named belonged to the congregations of some of tho hundred churches. This is the same community where a few months ago a number of negro lodge rooms were dynamited and where several lynchings occurred, the last having taken place only a few weeks ago. IHiri m.H\\\ ICLKCTOKS XAMMIt. Capers Comes Down and l'uts Out the Ticket. A committee of tho South Carolina Republican party selected for the purpose met in Columbia Monday at the call of John C. Capers, generally looked upon as State leader, and named the nine electors for which tile few hundred members of the party will vote. According to the statement given out afterwards there was no friction at the meeting and tho white people are urged '?> vote th(? ticket "without fear of negro domination," a<s is stated by Capers. Caners also stresses the fact that the Bryan Democratic committee has three negro preachers, bishops, and 25 negro preachers urging Die election of Bryan and Kern, which statement was taken to mean that the Republicans are rather uneasy about the negro vote. The electors at largo are: L. W. C. Blalock of Goldvllle, who has been associated with the party for years, and A. C. Kaufman of Charleston, who has taken a part in the affairs of the lted Cross society. The district electors are: Isaac 11. Norris, York vi lie; George It. Mayfield, Greenville; Thomas I<\ Rrennen, Columbia; James Powell, Aiken; K. i). Melton, Columbia; T. S. Grant, Charleston, and J. A. Baxter. Georgetown. The two last named are colored. A BAKING KOBBKKY. Knocks Down a Man and Viocks llim in Vault. Concealing himself in the vault of the office of \V. I). Allen Manufacturing Company, Chicago, a thief Wednesday stole $f?00 after committing a murderous assault on Henry Gibhs, the superintendent. The robber struck Gibhs on the head with n rovnlvAr whf>n ho imonnd fho Hnn.' of tho vault to get. the money which was part of the payroll. Thrusting the superintendent into the vault and making him a prisoner by turning tho combination knob the robber leaped towaiv; tho door. The way was blocked by the company's stenographer and bookkeeper. "If you raise a hand to stop me I'll kill you both," tho thief said as he leveled the revolver. Springing over the railing the robber, who was masked, reached the door before Miss Walter or Gallaghers could attract the attention of a large force of employes who were within hearing distance. lie ran to a nearby street, where it is thought a horse and buggy were waiting for him. KILLED THE INSPECTOR. Who Had Checked Him Short in His Accounts. PostofTlce Inspector Charles Fitzgerald, of Jackson, Miss., was shoi I and killed by W. A. Sorsby, clerk in the Clinton postofllco. Fitzgerald had boon in Clinton two days checkI ing up their office, of which Mrs. 1 Cabaniss is postmistress. Sorsby * married her daughter and has been - running the office. Fitzgerald is 2 said to have checked him up short -'several hundred dollars and had i started back to his home in Jack , son. While on the way to the trai - Sorsby suddenly a^peared^! bofor t him, stuck a pistol to his side an< j fired before his victim could raishis hand. A BULLY KILLED. , The Tragic and Expected End of L a Tempestuous Life. " - a PROPHECY FULFILLED j (I t h Fho Anderson Daily Mall Had Pre- p dieted Kditorlally About Three Weeks Ago That This Would he I' I the Knd. lie Had Killed Three or t Four Men in His Time. . i< The State says news was received ' in Columbia Monday to the effect that John Mcllaha had been killed near Helton, on the Greenville conn- (| ly side. Mcdnha has been tried for ci his life in three homicide cases and is said to have been suspected in (1 another. ^ The first, report received by Th? j, State came from a passenger on the ( train from Anderson, lie had hea?\l the news in that city and had later heard it talked ??f at Helton and Greenwood and the story in circulation there was to the effect that Mcdaha was on a spree and ha I , disturbed a meeting at a negro church and had been "shot to , pieces." "If is a sad thing." said this gentleman. "hut I never lienrU <>m?. press-ion of regret. Indeed, all persons seemed to bo relieved. It 1:4 v an awful tiling when one's neighbors ' can find pleasure in his passing 1 away." From Anderson came another ac count and from Ahheville by Ion;; distance 'phone It was stated that McGaha and one of the Asblevs bad Hone to arrest two negroes who ha i been working on McGaha's place and that in a melee which lollowed Mc- ' Gttha was killed. J The following front the Anderson y Daily Mail of a date some three ' weeks ago, indicates the esteem it. ? which the deceased was held: "Several months ago .lorn McCiaha, ' a bully, well known in this part of ' the State, shot and killed George ? Clinkscales. a negro, in Abbeville ^ county. Witnesses of the tragedy testified at the coroner's inquest the next, day that the killing was ? unprovoked, thai, il was doliherat > t murder. McGaha lied the State. "Negroes of the community told < the white people, though not at the I inquest, that, Glikscales bad told i them that he was in mortal fear of ' McGaha because he had refused to i testify .as Mctiaha wanted him to t in a certain lawsuit. < "McGaha remained in hiding for a ; good long time, but was finally cap- i lured in Georgia, through the vipt- 1 lance of the sheriff of Ahheville I county, and brought hack to Abbeville and lodged in jail. "And then powerful influence.were set to work In bis behalf. The ! witnesses who had testified at the inquest, before they had been 'seen' or 'fixed.' now told a different story. They made affidavits that the shoot- i ing was accidental. Then; was sub- . mitted what purported to he eih dy- ? ing statement of Clinkseales, in , which he said the shoot inn was an ( accident, and that he did not want his friend 'Johnnie' punished . A ( United States senator was hired as j McGaha's lawyer, a justice of the , State supreme court granted iiitn bail, , and a member of the State legist tture went on his bond. "The case came up for trial at Abbeville last week, and Mctlahu , was acquitted. The jury is not to 1 i>e censured. The jury had to go by ( the evidence, and although every member of the jury may have been ( convinced in his heart?presuming. , of course, that the jury was composed of intelligent men?that the evidence was manufactured for the oc casion, yet there was no evidence | of deliberate murder, and the jury I could do nothing hut. return a verdict of not guilty. Murder had not been proved in a manner that would warrant conviction. "The dead negro had no rich or influential friends or relatives to work for the conviction of his slayer. There wore no rich or in influential men or strong influence working for justice. That mythical figure is blind, and It often happens that she has no friends or advocates In our courts. "McGaha had killed at least two men before he killed George Clinkscales. Ho is now a free man again, free to go where lie pleases, and to quarrel with whom he pleases. Judging his future by his past record it is only a question of time until he kills somebody else, or until somebody is forced to kill him. "So far as McGaha himself Is concerned, it made little difference whether he was convicted or acquitted. He is as worthless to the Stale as & free man as lie would he as a eonvict. lint it makes a great deal of difference to tlie community In which McGaha lives, and to the liulilic at large. It will make n ?reat deal of difference in the fufure conduct of men of the McGaha class. Will they not feel, an I vlth good reason, that they can kill vith impunity .and that they can ommand influence to assure them heir liberty, which with them means 'lcense? "Tt does not'require a seer or a prophet to predict that sooner orj IIKAVY LOM8 OP UFk it tiie Coal Minea of the I'niteO Stated. Accidents In coal mines of the rutted Statos during the last calndar year remitted in the death of ,125 men and injury to 5,310 mor \ ceording t<> statistics Just made ublic by the geological survey. The oath record among the coal miners tiring the year was greater by 1,033 han in 1006, and this is said to avo been the worst year In the hisory of the coal mining Industry. ,'he flguron do not represent the nil extent of the disasters, as relorts were not received f'oni ceraln States having no mine in-pecors. West Virginia reported the heaviest. death rate in 1007?12.35 per housand employees and ihis Statu lso showed the lowest production or each life lost?65,900 ?ons. New lexico stood next on the list with a eath rate of 11.45 and a production if 77,322 tons for each life lost Uahuma was third with a death iat?? >f 7.2 per thousand and a production if 02,535 toils for each life lost, .lissouri had the lowest death rate, leading the roll of honor with .05 ind 4 0 0,742 tons of coal mined for iacli life lot* . Statistics do not bear out the popilar Idea that most mine disasters osult from explosions. Of i total lumber reported during the last year 17 deaths and 343 injuries result(1 from gas and dust explosions, and >0 1 deaths and 46 injuries were aused by powder explosions. The hief cause of death among the min rs, the report explains, was due to i... r , 11 s r ... i f ' 1 in- I tilling Ml Iiuiir l UMM til! (I t.llil!. >uch disasters caused 1,122 dentlis lml 2,111 iu juries. CAMTID Mi l-' MKI\T I\<J. Vegroes of Muryluml Town llad Tilings Mixed to knil'c Tuft. There was to have heen a meetng of the colored Republican club it Hrent wood, Md., a suburb of Washington, on Wednesday nigh*, nit the mooting was not called t,. >rdor. It became known next dav hat the reason that no meeting was iad was that the president of the liih refused to call it to order, bemuse he knew that if the meeting .las had, the president of the t'liiteo States would he severely arraigned >y resolution, and Bryan would be Midorsed. It was the intention of a najoritv of the members to pass inch a .resolution, and the euairiiiau lid not want it. The meeting had leen called as a Taft and Sherman rally. When the chairman foun I hat a large number of meinhers had dgned an agreement to support a evolution condemning the presilent for his activity in the campaiga tnd advising the negroes of th< Stat" to vote for Bryan and Kern, 10 announced that the meeting had postponed. SHOT DOWN AT OIU IUTI. Drunk en .Men t'se Pistols as Services Are Kiiilnl. One of the bloodiest affairs in the history of Hast Tennessee occurred nortli of Ant bi as postolfiee Sunday, rho scene was the Baptist church, within fifty yards of which a "blind iger" has boon operated lor months. Services had closed and nearly all :1m congregation had emerged from lie church when a crowd of drunken men who had visited the "blind Jgor" began firing into the worshippers with pistols. John Bennett, J. W. McKinnoy uid lOdward Thomas were shot down it the church door and died almost Instantly. The preacher was mortally wounded. Another worshipot was also shot down in front of tin church, but is not dangerously wounded. lmiviox TO SUIC1DK. ltepuhlicau Otlicial Oould Not Tell llis Kecord. After telling some of his frlendf that ho would rather die than livr to hoar the reports which some of his political opponents were circulating about, him, W. Regan Rice, regis trar of deeds of Madison county. N C., shot himself to death in a ban in the rear of his home near Marshal at 1 I o'clock Wednesday morning Death was instantaneous. The do ceased was elected to office on th? Uepuhlican ticket two years ago. if. was 118 years old and leaves a wif< and one child, a daughter. It takes hard work to grow con ?and character. It is all right to have an aim ii life provided we don't aim too lonj without shooting. later John McGaha will kill some body else, or will force somebod to kill him. And either occurrenci will be a calamity. It will be a ca lamity for McGaha to kill a ma1 whose life is worth something, an it will he a calamity for some goo> man to ho forced to kill him. N good citizen wants to stain his hand and his soul with human blooc even in self-defense. "And when John McGaha gets int his next trouble, and kills or I killed, those who have freed hit from his latest encounter with th law will he more to blame than an; I body else. Bear that in mind." SAIL OUT OF PORT. UNIKIAL SKiHT IN T1IF IIAKIU>ll OF CI IA 111 <FSTO X. Fifteen HrlxHincrM I'iish Out to Occihi With Favorable liiccM's After Varying Stays in Port. Tito Charleston Cost says a strikingly handsome sight was afforded Monday morning: in the departure of fifteen schooners out of the harhor after a detention hy contrary winds to nearly a month. Since the hist week in August, the wind has been holding to the east and northeast I daily with the exception of Sepj t em her 1 and ti, w hen for a part jot these days it veered to the soutu and southwest. Last night the wind j the passing of the rainstorm of yes I i?-niiij ami ine c(iiiunK oi I in* high pressure from tin* \v?'st, mid bright and early tills morning the sails were raised .and the long detainee fleet raised anehors and started down the hay. It was a beautiful sight, rarely seen in Charleston or any South Atlantic harbor, tor this number of vessels are not often cleared and made ready to sail together. In some eases two or three abreast and at times strung out in single column, it seemed as if some armada of centuries ago, before steam displaced canvas to tin; methods ol propulsion of ships of war, was ding to attack an enemy. Slowly at lirst, and then at a fastc* | gait, the tied moved down the ha bor and the sight was viewed with much interest and pleasure. In some cases until the vessels became as so many little black specks against the horizon. The vessels which sailed were ail bound for New York with cargoes of lumber. Nine of the vessels were cleared with cargoes here an I the remaining six were from th" southward, having put into Charleston for a harbor, made necessary by the easterly winds. The Lottia Itussolls, one of the vessels which sailed, essayed the task the lirst j | part of the month and after having j remained tit sea ofT Charleston j thirteen days, unable to make any | progress, and being as u painted ship upon a painted ocean, returned j to port. She will have better luck j t his t inic. The anxiety of the Meet to g< t. to sea was evidenced in the departure of so many vessels in the face of 'the knowledge of the existence of a [tropical storm off Cuba. The advices that the storm was curving ;tii<i \vnin<i proimmy 1101 come in inis direction was not received until the Meet had loft port.. Tho masters I won4 taking no more chances on boI ing shut, up in port. The fleet, which sailed today was made up of the following Schooners: Judge Pennewell, lOdgar C. Ross, Massachusetts; Thomas Winsinoro', Marry Prescott, Victor C. Records, (Jeorge May, Thomas l?\ Pollard, Warren Adams, John If. Manning, Joel Cook, Lottie Russell and Paul 1 II. Dudley. IISII CATCII ICS IHVKH , Pscapcd by Hacking Tentacles and Ih?dy During Fight. Wrapped in the tentacles of a giant devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver employed by the Coast Wroek, ing Company, of San Francisco, jCal., fought for his 1 if?* in the hoi 1 of the wrecked steamer Pomona I Lund was at work some time before . he was aware of the presence of I t ho ilovil fl^li A tHsint UiiilncUi fnii r inches in diameter gripped one lot?. Another circled his thigh. The diver began to chop frantically at the rubber-like bonds and at the same time signalled to the ^ barge above that he wished to ascend. Unable to free himself In time, two more tentacies twined about his neck. * With only his left arm Tree, ho ? hacked at the tentacles until they wer? partially crippled but he was being drawn toward the deadly beak % when he saw the outline of the devil fish's body. Plunging suddenly toward it, he drove his knife with all ills force into the head, ' repeating the blow until lie had slashed it into sections. Lund then cut himself free and ! was brought to tile surface in a 5 fainting condition. sMOTiii;m:i> in folding iiioi>s. Oiic Tragedy Occurs in Ilrookiyn mid One in Chicago* 1 , Ignorant of the fact that her tw ?rnonih-old child, George, was asleep 1 under the cover, .Mrs. Mary Storti, / of Brooklyn, closed up a folding bed u in a darkened room, and the little - one was smothered to death befoie i his mother realized what had hapil pcned. When she learned of tier fail tal error she became frantic and is o now prostrated. s At Chicago Edward Kozlowaki I, was accidentally sinottiered to death In a folding bed. The child was o placed In the bed and covered with Ik a blanket. A short time later th< n mother entered the room and founc' i? that the hod had been closed. She /- opened It to find the child smotherci t-? death. i SCHOOL TEACHERS TIIKIIt IM'TIKH ANI) RKSPONKIHI LIT IKS AUK (iUKAT. Some I'atrons Still Itcllevc TYiut Teachers Should Keep School Krom Sun to Sun. News and Notions says there if. doubtless no other profession so commonly used aw stepping stone to enable many to enter a profession usually considered more -retnunort.lve and exaltetl than teaching. I'cluipH society itself m partly re sponsilde for permitting this Intrusion, but tl>e intrusion is being made, whether fostered hy society or not. What a common occurrence it is to see a young man "keep school" law or medicine, or a young lady "keep school" to earn money for her wedding trousenw. Society, pat rons and often trustees are unable to distinguish between the tcac.hr who scientifically trains and devolopes till the God-given physical and mental powers of the ctohl In rank, teaching should he classed sis ;? profession next to the tnlril.i try, or perhaps co-ordlnato with II for the teacher details with the mind while it is in a plastic condition and very capable of being molded Then, too, the teacher, by means of daily association and personal contact wltn the child, is able, in a manner, to guide and assist the mind of the child in character-building He helps th?* child's mind to do right-thinking and right-act i ng. Many people have erroneous Ideas about, teaching, yet almost every patron Knows just precisely what it behooves tin4 teacher to do at all times. I low common i.ls the idea thai tho t earlier sits in an easy-chair in the shade for a few hours in the day and coins, money with very little effort. Ueally, the true teacher ir.. and must always he, the most diligent pupil in the school, regardless of hln preparation for an experience In teaching, The teacher's work is not conlined to a few hours in the day but begins v itll tile opening of school and ends with tin; clmlng. JllHt an i he body hungers and thirsts daily for the various food wulistiiiicoh, so necessary to sustain life, so tho mind hungers and tliirsts daily for the food necessary for mental growth and development. This mental food must be supplied daily by tho toucher if wo proceed in accordance with the laws of nature. Some patrons still brieve that teachers should keep children io school from sun to sun. They forget, that thorp Is a difference between manual labor and mental labor. Keeping a child iu school from sun to sun chains his body to a seat; but it fails to keep Ids mind at work Though ids body is in school; bin mind is most likely elsewhere. The mind receives instruction otdy while in a receptive attitude. Teachers may rush children mechanically through hooks, hut thoy cannot rush or force the contents of any book through the child's mind. Perhaps tlrt: < I reeks realized the Immense responsibility of the teacher better than many others; for they employed pedagogues to attend the children to and from school and very carefully direct and guide tho child in character-building and virtuous living. This left tho teacher froo to impart what we term book learn 1 iiK.'* for want of a bettor term. The modern teacher has the work of teacher ami pedagogue. Still his profession is regarded as a trlval one by many; when skillful experienced teachers look Into the faces of old pupils of theirs and see their own thoughts, ideas and habits reflected, as it. were, In a mirror, we think they have just cause to think of shirking duty and shuddering at the erroneous amount of responsibility. * VISITS SCKMO Ol llOKItOlt. ( on ovpomh'iit Desi-rilx'M Situation Li the District of Hyderabad. A correspondent of a newspaper who has reached Hyderabad, India, the capital of the flooded district, describes that city as a vast gray*. Streets and bazaars have been transferred to a grewsome mass of stone and mud and decomposed flesh. It it impossible accurately to estimate tho death roll in the stricken region, the correspondent declares, but some noiltrAd ??nl it OO liil'll ?t? Fv ft (iiiil iiu i.i * * n )mi \ t v in; ii M mm w v f v v Six hundred corpse s were taken out of the mud. Funeral pyres are buruning day and night, he damage is estimated at 2,000,000 roubles. MHIOTS TKKltllllilO F/iTK. lu the lire That I turned Down Ufa Residence. Will Mull was roasted to doath In the flames that burned Ills residence Wednesday mornng, near Morganton, N. C. Ed Mull, a cousin who was with him at the time, narrowly escaped a like fate. Tho do> ceased and his counsin went into i the house and after building a fir? 5 yont to sleep. Ed Mull was awakenl ed by the roof of tho house falling * in and made his escape, but hlH coua1 in. who did not awake, was burned to a crisp.