The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 15, 1909, Image 4
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LIVES ARE LOST
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And Property Damaged in Various
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BY A HEAVY STORM '
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Several Cities Arc DnmnKod l>y a (
High Wind That Swept the Middle
Western States, Which Crip- j :
pled the Telegraph Service and !
Wrecked Houses and Schools.
Detroit, Mich., April 7.?At least
eight persons lost their lives in tho i
storm that visited Detroit and Mtchi- 1
gan last night and today. Anthony 1
Kaup, a saloonkeeper, Joe Kadicli, a
barber, and Adam Felin, all of Wy- (
andotte, attempted to cross the l)e- <
emu i iver in a row noai ironi \\ yan- i
dotte to Canada this afternoon in a
fifty-miles gale to settle a wager and
till three were drowned when their .
boat capsized. Kadich bet Katip five <
dollars tluit he would not dare to
cross in the small boat and Felin was
the stakeholder.
At Jennings, in Missaukee county,
three young men, Bernard Carlson,
Charles Jackson and John Torrey,
were killed by being caught under
a wall that was blown down by the
wind at the Mitchell Brothers mill.
Eight year old Benjamin Hellmer
was killed by lightning near Irona
last night and Ray Miller was killed
at Brightwood today when he was
struck by a roof that had been blown
off.
Many Killed.
Chicago, April 7.?Reports of last
night's storm damage received here
today are that ten persons Jire known
to have been killed in Mississippi
and at least 15 were injured.
At the Terrell plantation, east of
West Point, Miss., a number of negroes
were killed.
Reports from western Tennessee
state that the storm wrecked many
small buildings.
At Wabash, Ind., Mrs. Jas. A.
Hayes and four children were pinned
down beneath the wreckage of
their home, which caught on Are.
The mother was badly burned, being
rescued, and will die. The
children were seriously hurt. The
high wind was followed by a cloud burst.
Many bridges are washed
away. A dozen houses were demolished
in Wabash. The damage will
reach several thousand dollars.
At Perua, Ind., four factories
and several school buildings, many
small structures, were wrecked by
the wind.
Several Men Missing.
Cleveland, Ohio., April 7.?The
fishing tug George Floyd, with seven
men aboard, and the sand sucker
Mary II., with nine men are missing,
and the barge Norman Kelley, with
a crew of four persons, was rescued
tonight after a desperate fight, as
a result of a fierce windstorm which
raged on Lake Erie today. The wind
blew a sixty-mile gale throughout
the day. Life savers have been unable
to do effective work.
The steel barge Kelley's crew,
three men and a woman, were picked
up after floating fifteen miles from
Kelley's Island, when the boat
broke away and /drifted to soa.
There was neither an engine nor an
oar .on the barge, so the crew was
at the mercv of the wnves.
Several small buildings wore
wrecked and buggies overturned in
Cleveland. Two men were blown
from the shore of the Lake into the
water. Loth were rescued.
Injured in New York.
New York, April 7.'?The high
gale that prevailed to the west and
north of New York city today,
causing havoc with telegraph and
telephone lines, attained its full
force here at 7:45 o'clock tonight,
when the wind reached a velocity
of 60 miles an hour. Several persons
were hurt and much damage
and discomfort resulted.
Two persons, an elderly woman
and a child, were badly hurt by
being blown off their feet and dashed
against objects in the street.
At Rochester John Veith was
killed this afternoon during a 51
mile an hour wind storm, and a
12-year-old child sustained a fractured
skull from a wMnd blown
chimney.
At isuiraio rrom three o clock until
five this afternoon the wind tore
through the streets of Buffalo at
the rate of 7 2 miles an hour. One
man was killed and many people
were Injured by parts of buildings
detached by the force of the wind
and hurled through the alK
Great Damage at Toledo.
Toledo, April 7.?Hundreds of
men out of work, thousands of dollars
damago done and many persons
slightly injured as the results
of a hurricane that visited Toledo
and vicin'ty 'today.
The wind attained a velocity of
f?9 miles an hour in this city. The
roof of the plant of the Massilon
Bridge Company, 180 by 4 0 feet was
ripped off, and hurled into a field
and 300 men were thrown out of
A vU
THESE THREE THINGS
s"o Woman Should Marry Without
Knowing Well.
A doctor was telling a short time
?go of a farm mother who gave her
ive-months'-old child bacon, cabuige,
sweet potatoes and corn bread
'or dinner. And yet when the child
lies?as it probably will?the
l>reaelier will probably speak of it
is "an inscrutable dispensation of
Providence," instead of a "murderours
result of ignorance." All of
which reminds us of an address by
Seaman A. Knapp, of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
delivered before the General Assembly
of North Carolina a few weeks
ngo. From the newspaper report of
the speech we quote:
"Our women are being trained for
the piano and society and not for
their job, he declared. They maiuly
tlo the purchasing for the families,
and their ignorance of what to purchase
annually costs the nation more
than two billion dollars. Few women
know how to select the proper
kind of food. Many a baby, he said,
has gone into the other world prematurely
because the mother did not
know how properly to care for it.
There are three things, Dr. Knapp
said, a girl ouKht to know:
"1. What food to purchase and
how to cook it.
"2. To make her own clothes and
those of the family.
"3. To nurse and doctor the
family.
KILLS TWO MO It 10.
Smallpox at York Mill Seems to be
Virulent Type.
Yorkvillo, April 5.?There have
been two more deaths from smallpox
here during the twenty-four hours
ending last night at 10 o'clock, making
a total of six in all. The latest
victims are a child of Kirby Pugh,
the first person to die of the disease,
and with whom it originated here,
and a negro woman, who died in the
outskirts of town and near the York
Cotton Mill village yesterday morning.
Her case was tlrst reported to
the hoard of health on last Friday
night.
There have been ten cases in all
reported so far, and six of them have
resulted fatally. Seven of the ten
cases developed in the mill village
and the other three, are traceable
directly to the same source. There
have been no new cases during the
past week, except that of the colored
woman who died today. The local
physicians have been almost overwhelmed
during the past week by
persons seeking to be vaccinated, and
it is believed that at this time there
are verv few who Iiavp nut m.wi cm.
virus applied.
WHAT CAN UK DONE
lly Devoting a Utile While Each l)ny
to Studying.
"Roys and girls think of this and
act on it. One hour a day withdrawn
from frivolous pursuits, and profitably
employed, would enable any man
of ordinary capacity to master a
complete science. One hour a day
would make an ignorant man a well
informed man in ten years.
One hour a day would earn enough
to pay for two daily and two weekly
papers, two leadings magazines and
a dozen good hooks. In an hour a
day a boy or girl could read twenty
pages thoughtfully?over several
thousand pages or eighteen large
volumes in a year. An hour a day
might make all the difference between
bare existance and useful, happy
living.
An hour a day might make?nay,
has made an unknown man a famous
one, a useless one ft benefactor
to his race. Consider, then, the
mighty possibilities of two, four,
yes, six hours a day that are, on the
average, thrown away by some of our
young men and women in their desire
for fun and diversion.
IIow is your carpet-sweper?
Sometimes all this is neded to make
a sweeper (that you think is worn
out) do good work is to have the
springs put in proper shape, or some
new ones in place of the old ones.
employment until the damage can
be repaired.
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r-tJuvsirHiiis were injured ny falling
signs, parts of roof, chimneys
and limbs of trees and many women
were Mowed over by the wind.
In small towns near Toledo considerable
damage was done. Many
houses were struck by lightning and
the occupants stunned, but there
were no reports of fatalities.
Six Injured.
T.ondon, Out., April 7.?Six persons
were Injured, one fatally, and
a financial loss of full fifty thousand
dollars was entailed by a northwest
hurricane which pased over this city
today. At the Aberdeen public
school, a tall chimney crashed
j h mil h f )'AA f ?\rloAnlnr* OAA
v.. . w.?ni? v ?* \ ? \/vi ? nii|fi tnwiiiu^ u vu
pupils, and creating a panic. Mary
Laburitis, aged 0 years, was fatally
injured, and four other pupils were
severerly hurt. The fire department
worked rapidly and succeeded In
quieting the children, who were removed
by means of ladders.
STATE MONEY
HANKS NOW HAVING THE IMS- PKNSAHY
FUNDS.
Half Million Dollars Involved, All
of Whirl) Derision of United States
Supreme Court Ketenses.
Columbia, April G.?The monoy
which had been tied up hy tlte order
of Jttdge Pritehard has been deposited
in a number of banks throughout
the State and the State treasurer has
securities for the various amounts.
'I his money will now be turned over
to the commission for distribution
as it may see tit just as soon as tlie
formal order of the supreme court
is secured.
It will he recelled that some time
ago .Judge Pritehard ordered about
22 per cent of the money released
for the use of the commission to pay
contingent expenses. The remainder
is now divided among the various
hanks as follows:
Hank of Timmonsville .. $7,777.78
Columbia Savings Hank
and Trust Co 3 4,875.00
Hank of Orangeburg .. 10,885.00
National Exchange of
Chester 3.880.35
Hank of Aiken 27,21 2..r>0
Commercial Hank of
Camden 3.SS7.50
City National Hank of
Creonvillo 15,550.00
Lexington Savings Hank 3,887.50
People's National Hank
of Charleston 11.C62.50
People's Hank of Greenville
15.550.00
Norwood National Hank
of Greenville 19,412.50
Hank of Camden 15,550.00
National Loan and Exchange
of Columbia
(from the expense
fund) 2,564.1 4
Merchants' and Farmers'
Hank of Gheraw .... 1 8,344.59
Enterprise Hank of
Charleston 7,775.00
clia. ...- . .nog mfwyyy
Hank of Charleston .... 15,550.00
Merchants' and Farmers'
Hank of Spartanburg. 7,775.00
First National Hank of
Spartanburg 3,887.00
Central National Hank of
Spartanburg 3,887.50
Hank of Dillon 7,775.00
Merchants' and Planters'
Hank, Gaffney 7,775.00
Farmers' and Merchants'
of Anderson 3,887.50
Farmers' and Merchants'
Hank of Walterboro . 1,943.75
Commercial and Savings
Hank of Florence . . . 8,000.00
Hank of Hartsville . . . . 7,775.00
National Loan and Exchange
Hank of Columbia
1 4 5,678.33
The State Hank of Coin
ni klo n ? r\ p- /v /v
i una u/icv 5,5 /?).()()
Palmetto National Hank
of Columbia 4 6,650.00
People's Rank of Union. 7,775.00
People's Loan and Exchange
of Laurens... 3,887.50
The State treasurer has on deposit
$85,481.7 1, claims paid the dispensary
by the various counties since
the matter has been turned over to
tne State treasurer.
The total amount in banks is about
$513,832.
KILLED HIMSELF.
Hovers? of Fortune Caused the
Awful Dead.
New York, April 5.?Leaving a
letter addresed to his wife in which
he explained his act by saying that
reverse of fortune had cut down
his competence until not enough of it
was left for two, Chambers M. Cral,*,
a retired captain of the United States
army, tonight committed suicide in
his apartments by shooting.
"The time has now arrived," said
Capt. Craig in his letter, "when there
must come tho inevitable smash
which always follows living beyond
one's means. If the hard time had
not not put an end to my opportunities,
I would have gone on for a
year or more. I have made a little
money and left a little for you. I
wish you the greatest happiness, and
I wish I could remain with you;
and I am confident that matters will
lie all right with you. But there Is
not enough for two. You will realize
$75 a month some times and
other times there is $25 a month.
Cant. Crate wns? a nothm nf ni**~
, n .. ..U U immo Ul X 1 I IS"
burg and at one time owned considerable
real estate in Atlanta, CJa.,
and this city. A brother, living in
Keswick, Albermarlo county, Va., is
a retired major, U. S. A.
IlKOKER KILLED.
E. M. Gregg Meets With Peculiar Accident,
and Dentil.
Wilmington, N. C., April 5.?E.
M. Gregg, a leading merchandise
broker of Wilmington, and a member
of a prominent South Carolina family
was instantly killed on the streets
here today by the collapse of a pile
of brick and other building material,
against which he was standing while
talking with a friend. lie was 52
ANOTHER TORNADO
AHEHDEEX,' MISS., 11ADLY DAMAGED
DY ONE.
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rive Persons Met Death Under
Ruins of Hallway Station and Several
Were Injured. ?
Aberdeen, Miss., April C.?Fivo
persons are known to have been kill- (
ed, four others injured ,and still ,
others are buried under the debris
of the Illinois Central depot, which
was demolished by a tornado which
swept through the city of Abberdeen
tonight.
The dead:
W. C. .McMillan, president of the
Hank of Aberdeen.
T. C. McMillan, cotton buyer.
Three negroes unidentified.
Those known to have been injured
art;: George Franklin, telegraph operator
in the employ of the Illinois
Central Railroad, and Messrs. Ray,
King and Wieburn, aiso railroad employees.
The storm, while of short duration,
was of great velocity, and besides
demolishing the depot, damaged
a number of other buildings.
Immediately .after the storm passed
n'uci panics were nasmy formed
and the search among the wreckage
of the depot begun. At midnight
five bodies of those killed had been
recovered and four of the injured.
Several Hurt in Illinois.
Marion, 111., April G.?Many persons
were hurt and considerable
property was damaged by a tornado,
which struck this city and vicinity
today.
The storm came-from the southwest,
and was preceded and followed
by heavy rains. The monetary loss
is $ir?o.noo.
The Marion State and Trust Hank,
a number ,of offices, were partly
blown down. The African Methodist
church was also wrecked. At
Pittsburg, the Methodist church was
blown down.
NKCjSHO GIVEN IA)XG TERM
For the Outrageous Treatment of a
Wliito Woman.
Philadelphia, Pa., April G.?Twenty-five
years' Imprisonment in the
Eastern penitentiary and a $2,000
fine was the sentence imposed by
Judge Harratt here today when
(leorge Washington, a negro, was
convicted of holding Mrs. Ella Curtin,
white, a prisoner in his room
and ill treating nnd robbing her.
Mrs. Cutin went to the negro's
home to make arrangements to have
her trunks moved to a storage house.
She alleged that Washington kept
her a prisoner in his room from
March 2.r> to 29. She was rescued
by the police who had been notified
of the matter by another negro
roomer in the house. The woman,
hospital physicians testified today, is
?? payment wrecK as the result of her
experience. Several times while testifying
today to the revolting nature
of her experiences she collapsed on
the stand. The jury quickly convicted
Washington and he was given
the full penalty of the law.
PRIZES FOR NEAT YARDS.
Oraniteville Manufacturing Company
Offers Tliem.
Aiken, April f>.?What is attracting
no little comment and pleasant
discussion in this city is the action
of the Oraniteville Manufacturing
Company in offering three prizes
for the best kept yards in the little
city. The first prize is $1.r>, the second
$10 and the third prize $5.
Oraniteville is everywhere recognized
as being the prettiest, best kept
and neatest mill town in the State,
and the fact is a pride to the stockholders
of the Oraniteville mill,
best endeavors are ever directed toward
keeping the undesirable class
of people away. People with bad
character ean never find employment
in the Oraniteville mill. The prizes
will be offered at the regular meeting
of the stockholders in a few
days.
The Man That Wilis.
Poys, do you know the kind of fellow
who's just to the world's mind?
The kind the world can't lose? The
kind that folks enthuse over and
take off their hats to? Why, it's the
man-who-does. lie's the follow!
Not the fellow whose grandpa got
there; not the fellow who would if
he could; not the gentleman who's
going to some day; but the man-whodoes,
now, today. No sitting around
waiting, about him; no expecting
something to turn up. No sir! He
calls the turn and turns 'em; he
takes off his coat and doesn't care
if he starts a little sweat; he doesn't
need a big, brass-buttoned copper to
tell him to move on; he koeps the
procession humping to keep up with
with him; ho is hustle from his feet
up and from his head down; he is
not only in the push, but he is the
push?the whole thing; and say, the
way he makes things come and business
hum is a caution; the way the
world takes that fellow up and is
good to him makes your heart glad;
he's all right, he is; he greases the
wheels of progress and keeps the
world spinning round.
TOYING TO KILIi OPIUM TRADE.
New Law Prohibits Importation and
Use of Drug.
Washington, April 7.? One of the
most important bills passed at the
last session of Congress, and which
became effective on April 1, was
that prohibiting both the Importation
and use of opium in the United
States for any purpose whatever,
except for strictly medicinal purposes.
In recent years the smuggling of
opium into this country has ben one
of the serious curses of the time, and
all of the larger cities have experienced
untold trouble from such
traiHc, especially among the Chinese,
as the records of the police tsations
and Criminal Courts abundantly
show.
Under the new law, if any persou
shall fraudulen'ly or knowingly import
or bring into the United States,
or assist in so doing, any opium or
any preparation or derivatives or
shall receive, conceal, buy or sel\
or in any manner facilitate the transportation
or concealment of sale of
any such opium products after their
importation, knowing them to have
I een imported contray to law, such
goods shall be forfeited and destroyed,
and the offender shall be vned
in any sum not e seeding $5,000,
nor less than or by imprisonment
for any time not exceding two
years, or both.
The treasury department had gone
over the new law carefully, and in a
statement just issued by Secretary
MaeVeagh, is is made plain hereafter
there shall be no trallic in this product
if it is posible to stop it.
In issuing full directions to collectors
at the different ports, these
oflicers are cautioned to guard closelv
against fraudulent importations hereafter.
In addition to this, the State
and municipal oflicers have been sent
copies of the new law by the treasury
department with fill directions for
carrying it out. and with instructions
also for making arrests and pushing
prosecutions when such arrests
are deemed necessary.
Although more smuggling of opium
is done perhaps in San Francisco
than in any other city in the
United States, because o the very
large number of Orientals there, the
traffic in the drug has grown to enormous
proportions in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Hoston and elsewhere
in the East during the last
five years. Not only this, but in
some instances negroes, too., have
been known to become steady and
regular users of the drug, so that
now the Chinese immigrant is not
the only person to feel its harmful
effects.
Many murders among the Chinese
in different parts of the country have
been directly traceable to the illegal
use of this drug, and it is believed
by those who have made a caerful
study of the mater that the new law
wil be most beneficial in its effects
when its provisions become generally
known* and its mandates are carried
out.
LYNCHED FOK MURDER.
Strung Up and Body Then Riddled
With Bullets.
. Pensacola, Fla., April 5.?Dave
Alexander, a negro, was lynched hero
this morning for the murder of Policemai
Canton, whom the negro
liceman Canton, whom the negro
sisting arrest. While the nnii/?o oto_
tion was comparatively deserted, a
crowd of 25 men, at the point of
revolvers, took the black man from
his cell and hanged him from an
electric light pole, a half block from
the jail. As the body swayed in the
air, 4 0 bullets were fired into it by
the mob.
ST AI JUS Ills WJFR
Drunken Negro Tries to Kill All
llis Family.
Rock Hill, April 7.?This evening
at 8 o'clock Lawrence Uoyd, a well
known negro cook, while drunk, run
amuck on Ratterree hill and succeeded
in almost murdering his wife,
Louisa, stabbing her deeply in the
shoulder. He started for their
child of three years old and cut at
it. Ills wife's sister grabbed at him
and prevented him from cutting the
baby, but received a nasty cut on
the arm herself. Uoyd then tied
and has not been caught.
Two Killed by Train.
Philadelphia, April 6.?Two unidentified
men were struck and killed
today by a train on the New York
division of the Pennsylvania railroad.
The name "Jas. C. Wills," and the
inscription, "Horn in Richmond, Virginia,
December 7, 1 876," were tatooed
on the right arm of one of the
men.
finest of Honor.
i\ew York, April 7.?United States
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman will be
the guest of honor and one of the
speakers at the annual dinner of the
South Carolinians in this city April
22. Members of other Southern
States societies and of the Southern
society have been invited to attend
the dinner.
Inspect the cellar of en, and never
allow nny animal or vegetable matter
to decay there. a.l?ti2?,!K
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BADLY BROKEN
Democratic Patty Lines Are Out
Of Alinement
PROTECTIVE TARIFF ?
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Votwl for by Some Democrats in
the House Messrs. Lever ami Ellerbc
Favor Duties oil Lumber.
Other South Carolina Members
Vote Against Schedule.
Washington, April 6.?Zack McGee
writes as follows to The State: *
To take the tariff off lumber so as *
to cheapen it for the consumers was
not made a party light today and tho
situation is so peculiar with the duties
already in the bill on what tho
I
j lumberman buys, as well as on what
all the rest of us buy, that there is
110 special significance in the votes
I in the house 011 tho various ameiul;
meats to the lumber schedules.
A large number of Southern Demflf'VJ)
t S Vftlofl !I iru inct llm .
? . ii.tv uic lUiit'iUlllU IIL
I to make rough lumber free and to
reduce the tariff on all other grades
of lumber.
Messrs. Hard wick, Howard,
Hughes, and llartlett of Georgia
stood out for free lumber. The
South Georgians, Edwards, Brantley
and Griggs, together with Col. Livingston
and Judge Adamson, voted
straight through for protection oil
lumber.
Of the South Carolinians, Messrs.
Johnston and Aiken voted out and
out for free lumber. Messrs. Finley
and Lever voted on the rising vote,
Finley for free lumber, Lever against
it, but neither voted at all when
tellers were called for. Mr. Ellerbe
voted straight through against
free lumber. Messrs. Patterson and
Legare were absent. Mr. Patterson
has not been well for several weeks.
The North Carolinians, except Mr.
Kitchen, voted straight for protection
on lumber.
The other Southern States were
similarly divided, practicaly every
man who had any lumber interests
in his district, regardless of party, '
voted in the interests of the producer
rather than the consumer.
This, of course, delighted the Re- ^
publicans, who like to have the op
portunity to taunt Democrats with
voting for protection of the producer.
Mr: Clark of Florida, who yesterday
boldly announced that he was
for protection on what his district
produced and would vote for the
Payne bill if he got that regardless
of what else the bill contained, felt
that he was vindicated today by the
act of other Democrats on the lumber
schedule and he taunted some of
those who yesterday taunted him.
Champ Clark, the minority leader,
voted straight through for free lum- M
ber in accordance with the Denver
platform.
BLACK HAND SCHEME.
Just ji Frwil VfiHon eun./>.i ' in
? - ..... X'li vuunvu uy l/IUlU
Novel Heading.
Atlanta, Ga., April 7.?"It was
just a fool notion I got from reading
dime novels," said Daniel \V. Johnson,
Jr., the 18-year-old boy who
was jailed here last night for having m
! attempted to extort $35,000 from
j Asa G. Candler, prominent banker
I and Georgia's wealthiest citizen,
through Black Hand methods.
The young man at first told the
police that he had been forced by
three strangers to write letters to
Mr. Candler, demanding the money.
He now admits that the scheme was
of his own concoction.
Johnson wrote the second letter
Sunday, repeating his throats of
death to Mr. Candler in case of his
non-compliance, and then went to
church and took his regular place
in Mr. Candler's Sunday school class.
THOUSAND CHICKSXS BURNEI).
Flames Devour Fat Fowls?Negroes
Want to Rescue.
New York, April 6.?Harlem negroes
are sad today after witnessing
the wanton destruction of 1,000 fat
chickens that were roasted to a rich
brown and then burned to a crisp ^
in a fire which destroyed property
at the foot of East 124 th street
last night. The chickens were the
property of IT. L?. Goldberg, and wero .
confined in his poultry yard. Several
negroes in the crowd excitedly >
volunteered to rescue the fowls he-'
fore death came, but they ,
were held back by the police re- 4
serves. M
,1Km't Mix Them.
Florists that flowers
when made into bouquets together
will wilt in a very short time. RojggQH
es and mignonette, for example, afro T'
so destructive to each other thnVuioy
will not last through a dinner. It
is possible that the sweet scent of
flowers was once a deadly odor
which killed other plants likely to
grow in the same soil, and thus pro- ^B
[ tected the plant giving it out.
m