The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 18, 1909, Image 5
.ANOTHER FLOOD
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Threatens Montgomery and Several
Other Cities
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NO FATALITIES YET
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But Residents of North Montgomery
Are Warned to Move to Places of
Safety?The Negro Quarter Is
luunuutcu?ureai^ nxina^ Has
Ileen Done to Outlying l)Lstriots.
Montgomery. Ala., March 14.?
This city is threatened with the
greatest tlood known in its history.
There is danger tonight of the city
being thrown into darkness, the waters
threatening the steam plants
of both the electric light companies
and the gas works. The residents
of north Montgomery were warned
today to move immediately and all
day the police aide^i families in getting
to places of ^afety.
Across the river from Montgomery
there is a sea of water extending as
fa r q a tho ovn no n ar?n f
vuv v V/?n A 11 u
of trees which formerly stood high
oil the banks are barely discernible.
The water is over the Louisville and
Nashville railroad tracks at the foot
of Commerce street, and the Union
Railway station is in danger of being
flooded.
From Elmore county vague reports
are being received about persons
cut off by the high water on isolated
spots only a few feet above
the flood. The United States government
boat Twining has started
on a six milo trip up the river to
rescue a party reported marooned
011 an island. Sunday the Twining
will visit the negro settlements and
other plantations along the river.
Information reached the city this
afternoon that the Tallapoose river
has broken over its retaining banks
on Lower Wetumka road and that
several plantations were flooded.
The state convict farm is completely
isolated and it is predicted that serious
trouble will be experienced
there. Roads are submerged, making
trnfbpn pxtremelv dan&rerous from
washouts.
Since noon the merchants of Wet
tumpka have been moving their
/ goods from stores and business is
JL practically suspended.
Lowlands of middle Alabama are
submerged for many mile? and while
no loss of life is reported, a great
many head of live stock are believed
to have been drowned.
The Tallapoose river, which empties
into the Alabama river nine
miles north of Montgomery, is a
raging torrent. This river sweeps
arrtnn'ri tho flnfi convict farm of the
State which is under water. The
most serioua effect of the high river
here is from the back waters which
have submerged the negro section
and are encroaching on the manufacturing
district.
In Selma the plant of the Standard
Oil Company has been abandoned
and if the predictions are verified
water will be pouring into the powei
plant of the Selma light company be
fore nightfall tomorrow.
In Gadsden the big lumber plan
of the Kyle Lumber Company is sub
merged and the damage will be con
siderable.
From Selma tonight comes a re
port that the home of a negro famil;
In King's Bend, sio^ih of that city
was swept away i nring Saturda;
night and the hu? ^#d, his wife an<
one child were drovned. The name
are not known.
WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY
Commission Appointed to Raise Moil
oy for Shaft.
Qolumbia, Mnrch 12.?Governo
Ansel has appointed the followin
commissioners to take charge of th
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fund that, is 10 oe rmscu uj ?.??
people of the Sta>? for the monumen
to the women of the Confederacy
The commission named today Is t
raise $7,500, and when this sum 1
in hand the State Is to give $7,50'
out of the treasury.
The commissioners named toda
are: Col. T. J. Moore, Moore's
Col. J. N. Brown, of Anderson; Gee
C. Irvln Walker, of Charleston; Cap!
John G. Richards, of Liberty Hill
? -Capt. Wm. E. Gonzales, of Columbia
All the members of the commlsslo
W' were Confederate soldiers or are th
sons of Confederate soldiers.
Dies of Old Age.
Des Moines, March 11.?Mrs. Rut
McPherson died here today at th
advanced age of 102 years. She wa
the oldest per^gp in Iowa and wa
born In Grayson county, Virginia, o
August 22, 1807.
SUB
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WARDENS BATTLE
WITH FISHERMEN AND FOUR
1
PERSONS ARE HURT.
Wardens' Party Arrested on Charge
of Assault Hut Released Soon |
After?None Seriously Hurt.
Augusta, Ga., March 14.?Saturday
night about 9 o'clock, Pink Williams
and Charlie Weathersbee,
game wardens of the Langley game
! preserves, Butler Weathersbee, tho
Langley constable, and a party of
fishermen who were fishing on the
preserves without the knowledge and
consent of the wardens, got Into a
fight, which ended with several of
the fishing party and one of the '
wardens' party being shot.
It is said that Pink Williams and
Charlie Weathersbee went out to
j the preserves to see that no fishing i
was being done. Upon arriving at
the pond they found the party fish- j
ing with nets. Weathersbee wished '
to have a witness for tho illegal '
fishing and sent Williams back to I
Langley to bring another man as
witness. While Williams was gone
tho party of fishermen, it is said, :
gave Weathersbee only a short time
to leave, and ho left within the given
time.
In the meantime Williams, who
had been ?ent back for a witness, rohirnorl
with Hntlor WnnHiorolioo t lin
Langley constable, who is a broth- .
er of Charlie Weathersbee, and Will
Ruck and Colte Watson. Williams, 1
Weathersbee, Ruck and Watson went j
over to the party of fishermen and j
asked what had become of the other
Weathersbee. The party seemed lg- '
norant of the fact that they were
constables that had come for their
arrest, and told the officers what
they had done to Warden Weathersbee.
Upon the officers' trying to arrest
the party, the fishermen opened
fire.
The fight ended when Charlie
Weathersbee was wounded in his
left arm. Jesse Hush, one of the
fishermen, received wounds in both
legs below the knee, and a hole
through his hand. He made his escape,
and it was thought he was
dead. Later his hat was found, in
which there were 16 holes. He returned
to Langley yesterday morning.
Proctor, another fisherman, received
a shot in the head. Ripley,
also a fisherman, was shot in tho
head. The fishermen are s<aid to have
gone to Langley from Warrenville.
None were seriously hurt.
Later in the day a warrant was
sworn out by the fishing party
against Williams, Weathersbeo and
Ruck, who were charged with assault.
They were arrested and carried to
the Aiken court house. Dr. W. D.
, Wright of Langley and Superintend
, ent A. T. Smith of the same place
went to Aiken and secured their release.?The
State.
POISONING SUSPECTED.
Body of a White Farmer Has Boon
Exhumed.
Greenwood, March 12.?The body
t of Mr. Anderson, who died several
_ weeks ago, was exhumed yesterday
- and the stomach taken out and sent
to a chemist for examination.
Certain developments made the
y family suspect that his death was not
, duet to natural causes. Mr. Andery
son was a well-to-do white farmer,
i living about five mile west of town,
a lie was found dead the Friday night
* before the very cold weather in February.
He had left his house after
". dinner to go and fix a pasture fence.
He did not return, and when
searchers found him he had ben dead
several hours. The ground around
his body was torn up, indicating that
he had died after a great struggle.
r The night of his death a cat at the
K house died in a peculiar manner, and
e the next day all the other cats there
e died very peculiarly. *
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POLISH COUNT A STOKER,
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^ Nobleman Shoveling Coal on the
Battleship Georgia.
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Philadelphia, Pa., March 12.?The
i. crew of the battleship Georgia, which
recently returned to the Philadel5
phia navy yard after a trip around
i- the world, claims the distinction of
n having a real count as a stoker. Paul
ft Unrnnnl Kf.yi i*nxisulr 1 la Vila n?mo A P.
cording to his own statement, he was
disinherited by his father in Poland
while studying at Heidelberg,
h That was six years ago. He came
e to this country and settled in Milis
waukee, where, after working a
is short time, he enlisted. He speaks
n several languages and is a good musician.
SCRIBE F
THUS IT GOES
rhe FrazZted End of a Sinful
Misspent Life.
LEAF FROM THE PAST
Woman for Whom a Millionaire
Now York Hotel Keeper Shot uml
i; :ii.wi ? it 1 A *
imnn u iTuuiiiit'ut r mancior or j
Now York, Now an Outcast Living j
on Cold Charity.
New York, March 13.?Josie Mansfield,
the actress for whom Edward
S. Stokes shot down and murdered
Jim Fisk, Jr., in tho Grand Central
hotel, New York, in 1 872, has been
found living iu Watertown, S. I).,
where she has been for the last seven
years, her real identity unknown.
The woman is 7 0 years old, penniless,
and a paralytic, and is seeking entrance
to a convent. For several
months she has been living off tho
bounty of friends, and money for her
support has been raised by card parties
and subscriptions.
Thus is is that the woman who was
the cause of one of the greatest tragedies
in the hoistory of American
finance is ending her days in harrowing
obscurity, in company with
her brother, she went to Watertowif,
S. 1)., in 1 892. He built her a little
cottage and kept her until he died
two veal's Rtrn Ipavlnc lior lint lit
tie money. She used this very savingly,
hut now it is all exhausted,
and It is only the bounty of her
friends that keeps her from starving
to death. Her identity was made
known by a traveling man who recognized
he-r by the traces of the beauty
that cost Fisk his life and blasted
the career of Stokes.
Josie Mansfield made her first appearance
on the stage in California
in 1850. She was about 16 years
old, extremely lovely, but ignorant.
She became the wife of Frank Eawler,
an actor, and they went East
and lived in Boston until 1867. In
that year she obtained a divorce, and
went on the New York stage. She
could not act, being cold and emotionless.
After appearing in several
companies without success, she found
liersolf without money. She sought
an audience with Fisk. It was said
she told him she had only her beauty
to commend her, but that was
enough.
Fisk became her slave. Her skin
was fair. Her silky black hair was
arrayed in clusters about her broad
white brow. Her ears were small
i n l.i ? J iu
aim nut'iy inuiutHi, aim lriim iiiein
deponded a pair of largo gold hoops,
which gave her a gypsy attractiveness.
Her eyes were light, but luminous
gray. She flattered Fisk until
she met Stokes, when she promptly
transferred her "affection" to the
younger man.
The effect of this betrayal embittered
Fisk, all the more as he
had boasted in public of the woman.
He had given her a house in West
Twenty-third street. It was a a feast
in that place he vaingloriously declared
he held the legislature in the
hollow of his hand, and thought he
would have it change the name of
New York to Fiskville. It was then
Josie Mansfield, with her lips to his
ear, whispered:
"Why not name it after me?"
"By ?" exclaimed Fisk,
"you're beautiful enough to have this
town wear your name. But what
should it be? Josie is not dignified
enough. You ought to bo Helen?
Helen of Troy! If you were, I'd have
New York called Helena." *
GIVEN EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Inventor Wlio Killed Broker Suydam
Sentenced.
New York, March 12.?John C.
Lumsden, the young North Carolina
inventor, who was convicted of manslaughter
in the first degree on the
charge of killing Harry B. Suydam,
a broker, was today sentenced In the
counrt of general sessions to not
less than 18 years nor more than
19 years and six months In State
prison. The broker was shot and
instantly killed in his office on December
19, last, after an altercation
with Lumsden over money matters,
Lumsden claiming that the broker
owed him $1,200 on some notes.
Kills Girl and Self.
New York, March 11.?Samuel
Krobach, 26 years old, of Shady
Side, N. J., shot and killed his swotheart,
Miss Susa Pazalica, 2 2 years
old, at her home tonight. Krobacli
' then shot himself through the head
and died instantly. The girl had
1 . rofucrwl trt mnrrv him I
row to
STRONG PROTEST
MADE AGAINST VISIT OF HOOK- i
EU WASHINGTON.
Charged With Associating With (
White People North und Hiding in
Pullman Car in This State.
In a card addressed to the editor
of the Record, a prominent citizen .
of Columbia makes a strong pro- ]
test against the reception of Booker I
Washington, who is to be in Colum- i
bin on Monday on his tour through
tho Stato and through tho South, i
The gentleman who writes tho card ]
is a Confederate veteran, prominent
in political, social, religion's and fraternal
circles and highly respected
all over the State, llis card is as
follows:
Editor of Tho Record?
As a citizen of South Carolina and
as a Southerner, will it ho asking too
much of you to publish in Tho ltoc- '
ord the views not only of myself, 1
but of many thousand Southerners
in regard to Hooker Washington?
We shall speak plainly and honestly
and believe wo express tho views of :
a large majority of our people.
Hooker Washington stoppod at a
white hotel in the North and caused '
a white girl to loso her place because
she would not clean up his room.
Hooker Washington sent his son
and daughter to white schools in
the North.
Hooker Washington accepts invitations
to white people' houses in
the North, eats at their tables, sleeps
in their boils and escorts white women
to tho dining room.
Now, Mr. Editor, wo say that the
Southern people cannot accept Hook- j
tri ? ukuiiikioii h assertion mat no
(loos not want social equality. In ?
every way and In every place, he ,
not only accepts social equality, but i
forces It if he has the opportunity, I
and we believe that if Booker Washington
had the power ho would remove
every barrier that wo now have
in the South to prevent social equality
and would not hesitate to make
legal the marriage of a white girl
to a negro.
We understand even on this trip
that white men are riding, sleeping
and eating with and in the same private
car with Booker Washington
and the other negroes who are with
him. This may be error, but we
hear it is true.
Knowing those ifacts, can any '
Southern white man respect him? !
Can any Southern man trust him I
or believe him? If the facts are
true, if even a part of them are true,
do we want Booker Washington in
the South? No, for the sako of our
daughters, a thousand times, no.
SOUTHERNER.
SUPPOSED TO UK CATAMOUNT.
Animal Dashes into Town and Carries
Away a Dog.
Pineville, N. C., March 13.?As
Messrs. Tate Spencer and Alvah Culp
wni'n lunlblnnr nltintr f h n of rot loaf
" VI V/ II Ulivillf) UM/llfj VI IV OLI vt IUOL
evening, they heard the pitiful yelp
of a dog, which seemed to be in distress.
In a few minutes an animal,
with a little dog clenched between
its teeth dashed in front of them.
The boys immediately gave chase,
and a rare race they had. Over
gullies, across lots, through fields
they went, often splashing in water
over the tops of their shoes. The
wailing cries of the little dog grew
weaker and the unknown animal
kept straight on, out-distancing the
boys, who only desisted after utter
exhaustion. Lated in the night the
same animal made a disturbance on
Clay street, and another dog disapD/aII
n
I'l c?? ru, I uiu,i;iii<ui > v ii u Xlaa
boon investigating, and the general
, opinion is that the animal is a catamount
or a farm-famed santer.
PERILOUS VOYAGE ENDS.
Reaches Newport After Rough Trip
From Jacksonville.
Newport, R. I., March 15.?Short
of provisions and water, and minus
all her fore rigging, the three-masted
schooner Mystic, owned by the Gilbert
Transportation Company, of New
London, Conn., put Into Newport
harb&r a few days ago, after a disastrous
encounter with the elements
during her run from Jacksonville,
Fla. The Mystic left Jacksonville
with lumber for New Haven twentyone
days ago. Last week, when off
I Harnegat, an easterly storm, accom'
panied by snow and tremendous seas,
struck the vessel, and the fore top\
mast, flyfling Jibboom, fore staysail,
l fore rigging and fore and main gaffs
I went uvui mmni, lsuiuig mu frciiv
I the Mystic was blown one hundred
* and eighty miles off shore. *
THE I
BLACK HANDS
\GENTS KILL NKW YORK OFFICER
IN ITALY.
!)fllcer Who Him Scut Many Blackmailer*
to Prison uud ScntYold Lied
Fi^htiiiK Five Assassin*.
Rome, March 13. ? Detectlvo
Joseph Petrosino, of the Now York
[jolice force, was shot and killed in
the streets of Patronio, while there
an a mysterious case for the New
York authorities. Detective Petrosiuo,
who was one of the best
known Italian detectives in the Unit
I
otl States, had been tho terror of !
the New York Italian criminals. His
assassins are unknown, but it is believed
his death was an act of Dlack
Hand vengeance. Later reports say
he was attacked in broad daylight by
a number of men. lie bravely defended
himself with the revolver until
he fell dead, after receiving many
wounds.
It is believed the flvo assassins
have taken refuge in the mountainous
country back of the city. A
company of carabineers is searching
for them today.
Lieutenant Petroslno left his hotel
to go to the bank to cash a draft,
lie expected to leave for tho United
States within a few days. It is
known that ho had gathered the
most damaging kind of evidence
against tho blackmailers' secret so- i
ciety.
The detective walked from tho
entrance of the hotel down tho
street, then turned a corner into a
smaller side street. It was there
the assassins were waiting for him.
Apparently they had been keeping
a watch upon him ever since his arrival
in Patromo from Rome. The
detective was riddled with bullets.
Unofficial statements from the authorities
are to the effect that they
believe ho was followed to Patromo
from New York by his assassins. *
TAX ON GOFFER AND TEA
Will Cuuse Republican Congressmen
to He Rente 11.
Washington, March 13.?The proposed
tax on coffee and tea is giving
tho Republicans some concern. Some
Republicans declare that taxing of
the breakfast table would make It
Impossible for the Republicans to
carry their district In tho next election.
The National Coffee and Tea As
sociation, in a communication to tho
committee, wrote the a tax on coffee
or tea "would be unjust to the consumer,
detrimental to trade, irritating
to the masses, and finally, will
fall to produce any material revenue
to the government for nearly
two years."
"A duty of five cents upon coffee
would mean an immediate profit of
at least $0.50 per bag upon every
bag in the United States to the owners
thereof," is the claim made in
brief.
"There being nearly 4,000,000
bags at present held here by lndividI
uals, corporations, and Wall stret
[ speculative interests, such a duty
would moan a profit of $26,000,000
to the owners and holders thereof.
Tint It would not mean one do.la.'s
paid into the United States treasury."
SURGEONS MAKE MISTAKE.
Took Out Appendix for Enlargement
of Tonsils.
ITarrisburg, March 1.?..?Rosa Cohen,
an eight-year-old girl, is convalescing
in ti?o Harrisburg hospital
after having been operated on Sunday
for appendicitis by mistake.
The child and her eleven-year-old
brother were sent to the institution
suffering with enlarged tonsils. In
some unexplained manner the girl
was given an anaesthetic and her appendix
was taken out. The surgeons
say that the appendix was somewhat
inflamed and that they did not discover
their mistake until the parents
called.
The humorous feature of the case
is the assertion that the condition
of the little girl's appendix showed
that she would have developed appendicitis
anyway and that the operation,
therefore, was a fortunute mlsj
take.
Burned to Water's Kdge.
Queenstown, Md., March 12.?The
Chesapeake bay steamboat Lovt
Point, Capt. Clarke, belonging tr
the Maryland, Delaware & Virginia
Railway Company, was burned to tin
water's edge while lying at the wharl
at Love Point at 11 o'clock las'
night. i
I0RRY H
GREAT CHANCE
For Democrats to Help Bring
About the Desired
END OF CANNONISM
A United Stand Moans the IjisI of
the Arbitrary Ilulos of Speaker
Cannon ? Will Any Democrut
I'rovo a Traitor and Stay Away
and Aid Cannon?
Washington, March 13. ? Any
Democratic member of the house of
representatives who Is not in his
seat Monday to vote for revision of
the rules "will be in disgrace," is
what the Democrats here declare
today, and the Democratic leaders
are sparing no pains or telegraph
tolls to let the absent members know
what Is at stake. The Insurgents
are united and militant, and there
Is no doubt that they have more
than the 2 4 votes necessary with all
the Democrats to put an end to the
baleful domination of Cannon.
i n?... ? ? * *
i iiu iiioiii gcitio i;uii uoi anora to
'Mnsurge" unless they qan surely
win, and they can not win unless
all tho Democrats are In their seats
Monday. It Is a frightful bugaboo
to declare that "numerous" DemoI
crats have given Mr. Cannon assurances
that in return for cortain favors
to conn* they will stay away
Monday. Champ Clark and practically
all the Democrats here are let|
ting their colleagues who are at
! home know in no uncertain terms
I that the time is at hand to show
their faith.
The Cannon crowd, Including the
speaker, "Jim" Waston, the whip,
"Jim" Sherman, the vice president,
and the president himself, are all
scared almost out of their hjmts
and are sending emissaries around
to newspaper ofllcos tonight trying
to bear the market of insurgency.
Champ Clark Is naturally nervous.
The only cool ones are the "insurgents,"
who say that now if tho
tight against Cannon, bossism and
tho house rules is not won, tho re
sponsiblllty will rest on the Democrats.
It is said all over Washington tonight
that thoro are always enough
Democrats who can bo bought off
to have a sudden spell of sickness to
insuro tho triumph of tho Republican
machine and confidence In tho
Democrats is very shaky, especially
in Southern Democrats, whoso districts
aro not so alive to tho issue
It is recalled how two years ago after
tho Domocrats and insurgents had
won tho ship subsidy fight about
three Democrats immediately disappeared
from tho house, tho Hepublican
machino crowd manoeuvred
around, secured another vote and
passed tho infamous measure which
Senator Carmack fortunately killed
by a filibuster.
Such defections of more or less
"trifling" Democrats, they aro say
ing, always occur and will occur
Monday. But since all eyes will he
watching out for such Democrats
Monday, if there are any, their districts
wil certainly know about it
the next day anil they can expect
to be driven out of the party.
The report published this afternoon
that Theodore Roosevelt and
the other editors of The Outlook,
after a conference this morning, decided
to support the insurgents, even
though President Taft is against
them, is vigorously denied by the
Cannon men, who say that authentic
denial will be given out in New York
tonight.
President Taft, "Jim" Sherman
and others who are supporting Cannon
have four new members from
Wisconsin at the White House tonight.
These Wisconsin Republicans
are born insurgents, pledged against
Cannon. The president and Vice
President "Jim" are trying to proselyte
them.
ZACH McGEE.
MANY LIVES IX)ST
Ity Part of Mountain Falling in Isle
of Jova.
Victoria, D. C., March 12.?News
of landslides burying three villages
involving the loss of a thousand
at Pendjolo, Java, was brought today
by the steamor Kmpress of Chi'
na. A part of Mount Kontjana fell?
k destroying the village of Tglboeboe?
han, and the towns of Wardengslte
and Telokbangoe. Rut one man, one
woman and tv.o children escaped to
> tell the tale. Tons of earth were
> slipping as the vessel left, c" >wi9
> were flocking to see the terilole
i sights and recover the bodies, mostj
ly burled deep below tons of eaith.
T Pestilence was feared. Dogs and
r birds were feeding on the bodies
exposed to view.
ERALD