The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 06, 1909, Image 8

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DOWN AND OUT Sultan of Turkey Deposed For His Brother CAUSED EXCITEMENT The Itoom of IliK (inns Told the IY<>|do of the Chan go?The TriM>|M nt Aikitii llaive Hevolted and KciziHl Fifty of Their t> llicors and llold Thcw. Abdul Ham Id has been deposed as Sultan of Turkey and Mehemmed Reschad Kffendi, his brother, has been proclaimed his successor. The deposition was through the regular form prescribed by the tenets of the Mohammedan faith, it is understood that Sheik IT1 Islam, the bead of the church, will issue a decree of deposition. The news of the deposition of Abdul Humid and the selection of his brother to succeed him caused great excitement throughout Constantinople. Crowds at once began to gather in the principal squares and thoroughfares and around the imperial palee of Yildi/, in anticipation of the proclamation of the new sultan. A salute of 101 guns, tired at 2:.'10 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, announced to the populace of Constantinople a change in the sultanate, it is reported that the sultan has been removed from the imperial palace of Yildi/. and conveyed across Hosphorus to a point in Asiatic Turkey. Mehetnmed Reschad Kffetidi was proclaimed sultan of Turkey at '2:110 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in succession to his brother, Abdul Humid II. 'J'ho sultan was dethroned by the national assembly whose decision on the proposal was unanimous. Fifty Turkish officers have been arrested at Hrzeroum by their troops and dispatched under escort to Trel)izond. The exact signiiicanee of this action is not clear, hut it. is feared that it means the beginning of a revolt of the provincial troops against the Young Turk officers. Disorders at Adana. The following aooeunt. of disorders at Adana has been received here by telegraph from Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, a missionary: "The entire vilayet of Adana has been visited during the past live days by a terrible massacre of Armenians, the worst ever known in the history of the district. Terror has been universal and the government has been powerless to check the disorders. Adana, the capital of the province, lias been the storm center." Ho added that the unsettled conditions and the animosity between the Turks and Armenians resulted from political activity of the latt r. An Armenian and a Turk were killed on Wednesday night and their corpses were paraded through the streets, inhuming the inhabitants. Gibbons then described how the mob assembled and shots were fired In the air. This was followed by killing. Local authorities feared to act. While Gibbons and Field Secretary Chamber of the Y. M. C. A., were in the telegraph office, where they went to summon aid of the British consul, the Moslems burst in and killed two Armenians before their ^ eyes. Gibbons and Chambers went into the next room and made representations to the Vali. Hoing afraid of his own life, that oflicial made no effort to protect them. The situation, according to Gibbons, grew worse. The Armenians, be said, withdrew to their quarter of Adana and converted their houses into fortresses, where the lighting went on for two days. Gibbons contin ued: "Adana was a hell. The bazaars were looted and set on lire. There was continuous and unceasing shooting and killing in every part of tlu town and fires raged in many quarters. "The Moslems from the neighbor hood began pouring into the city an( notwithstanding our vehement pro tests. Ail distributed arms to thos< men, alleging that they were Turkisl reservers." i ne missionary added. "On Thurs day Daniel Miner Rogers and Henr M aurer, American missionaries, wen killed tinder treacherous circuin stances. On Friday tin? Armenian yielded, and since then there ha been little murdering. "Adana is in a pitable condition The town has been pillaged and de Blroyed and there are thousands o homeless people here without mean of livelihood. it is impossible t estimate the number of killed Corpses lie scattered through th streets. Friday when I went 01 I had to pick my way between th dead to avoid stepping on them. "Saturday morning I counted do; ens of cart loads of Armenia bodies in one half hour being cai ried to the river and thrown int. the water. In the Turkish cem< teries graves are being dug by th wholesale. The condition of th refugees Is most pitiable. Not on) are there orphans and widows b( yond number, but a great number o tables are even suffering from se rare wounds. The situation i Mama la anapeakable. TARIFF ON SULPHUR ! l)lltK(TOH llAltlHCH CALLS ATTKNTIOX TO IT i And Says It Will Hurt the Farmer if it is Allowed to Stay in the Tariff Hill. Director Harper, of the agricultural experiment station at Clemson college, lias called the attention of I commissioner watson to some other I work to be done on the lJayne tariff I l?ill, there being several paragraphs affectiug the Southern farmers. It will be recalled that after considerable lighting the Southern farmers | were enabled to got on the free list potash salts, which is a basis for all fertilizer products. Prof. Ilarper has learned that the sulphur interests of Louisiana and ! Utah tire attempting to place a duty of per ton on sulphur. This, of course, means another hardship on the farmer. Commisloner Watson had copi s of the letter made and sent to each of the senators and representatives from the State. The letter says in part. "I understand that the sulphur people of Utah and Louisiana are trying their best to get a tax of $6 per ton on sulphur. This means another hardship on the farmer. Sulphur is usod largely in this country In the manufacture of sulphuric acid. The extent to which sulphuric acid is used is enormous. There are more than 2,000,000 tons of mineral phophates dissovled by sulphuric acid. A duty on sulphur means high'r priced acid phosphate. "There is another matter that I would like to call to your attention. j Some of the acid phosphate people of this State arc using their influence ! to prevent basic, slag from remaining I t\t\ t 12..1.? i - ' I v..I .11- 1 I .-1- MM. IlilSU' MUg IS U S('( 1 largely in Europe and tlio British ; isles as a source of phosphorous and where it is used with stable manure in this country it is a valuable source of phosphorous. It is also a valuable source of plant food when used on rich bottom land that contains large amounts of organic matter. The directors of the experiment stations were largely responsible for sulphate of ammonia being put on the free list. Heretofore the duty on 1 sulphate of ammonia 1ms been $<"> per ton and the Payne hill as originally framed admitted sulphate of ammonia without duty hut the steel trust had influence enough to place a duty of $ 1 per ton on this material. "I have been conducting experiments with sulphate of ammonia in comparison with nitrate of soda as a top-dressing for cotton and 1 find that it is just as good as nitrate of soda for this purpose, provided we have favorable seasons. During a wet year sulphate of ammonia is not as available as nitrate of soda, but is is a splendid source of nitrogen and if it is admitted duty free it J will reduce the price of nitrate of soda and other ammoniated fertilizers. The cotton planters of the South are learning the value of top dressing their cotton and corn and each year the demand for nitrate of soda and other quickly available nitrogenous fertilizers increases. YV <? tnnsit oYorl nunru ulTnrt Ui li.nfo sulphate of ammonia placed on the j free list. T understand that basic slag has been eliminated from the maximum tariff in both hills and it is not likely that a duty will he placed upon it, unless great pressure is brought, hut there is considerable doubt about brimstone and sulphate I of ammonia. Please continue to fight on this proposition." FELL TO HIS DEATH. A Young Man Was Fatally Hurt in Columbia. The State says William Brewer, a ; I young man about 25 years of age . j fell from the Seaboard Air Tdm . trestle, near the corner of Lincolr .street and WhaJley avenue a fev, . | afternoons ago, and sustained in juries from which he died last night . 1 at 0 o'clock. The fall caused a frac j ; ture of the skull, a fractured ant . ! dislocated hip and a broken arm. ^ The injured man was removed t( , the Columbia hospital at once, bu I he was found to be fatally hurt, am . all efforts to save his life proved o y I no avail. Tie was an employe of tin B I Virginia Iron Company and was en . j gaged with a corps of workmen ii 8 I replacing the old wooden trestle s where the Seaboard tracks cross th : Atlantic Coast T.ine, with a stee , structure. It was in this work tha ne wns engaged wtien no ren in ni f death. The dead man is a native o s North Carolina and was unmarried _________________ o ] TUOLLMY KTKIKKS AUTO. e ' ,t Society Woman Futally Hurt in ai Accident. s- I At. Ponsacola, Fla., four proini n nont society women wore injurei r- Monday, one fatally, when the auto o ; mobile in which they were ridlni - was struck by an electric car. Mrs Gonzales, of Ponsacola, was fatall; 10 injured. The others hurt wore Mrs y J. M. Mulcoon, of Ponsacola, am 5- Mrs. .Luce and Mrs. Clark, of Mo bile. The automobile was struck h; a Pay Shore car running about fort; Q miles an hour. Mrs. Gonzales late died of teer Injuries. HIGH FINANCE I A Chicago Swincler Forced to Cheat Others BY HIS CREDITORS lie Says Two Men Whom He Had Swindled Hounded Him to Others so as They Could (jet j the Money Ho Swindled Tliein Out of Hack. Peter Van Vlissingon, who last winter confessed that he had forged mortgages to the extent of $1,000,000, thereby causing a great sensation in Chicago, where lie had been known for L'O years as a leading real estate man, exploded a bomb-shell in the bankruptc> court at Chicago Tuesday when he stated that his confession a few months ago was antedated by four years by a confession made privately to men who held $400,000 of his spurious papers. Van Vlissingon was brought back to Chicago from prison to t stify before Referee in Bankruptcy Frank L. Wean, who is attempting to locate the valid assets of tlie prisoner. Van Vlissingen declared that in 1004 hwas compelled to confess to Maurice Rosenfeld, at that time a director of the now defunct Chicago National bank, and llernhard Rosenborg, a real estate dealer, that the mortgage held by them and valued at $400,000 had been forged. "They discovered some irregularities in the paper in that year," said the witness, "and came to my o flic a for a conference. 1 admitted the forgeries and said. 'I would go before t lie State's attorney, toll him jus' what I have related to you gentle* men about these wholesale forger. 1 os, plead guilty and go to prison like a man.' " 'We want our money,' they said. " 'I can get it,* I told them, 'hut I must dupe others as I have duped you.' "We had another conference soon after," continued the witness. "1 proposed to settle with them. I promised to pay them from $1,000 to $5,000 a week. Altogether I paid them approximately $250,000." Further conferences were held from time to time. At one of these, Van Vlissingen said, they said, "We want our money." He replied he was getting it as fast as lie could raise it. " 'We don't want to know how you get the money,' they told me at one conference, hold in December, 1 904." Bernhardt Rosenberg had been prominent in real estate business and in Jewish social circles for many yea rs. Van Vlissingen's face was pale and his hands trembled as lie told his story. 11 is eyes were bloodshot and his lips twitched as he faced counsel and recognized former friends among the spectators. The witness stated that his forgeries had continued for 3 0 years hilt that, he did not know t 111! r?va/0 rw tent of them. "Will they aggregate $ 1,000,000?" "Surely." "And may be more?" "Yes." "Have you any property or other assets not accounted for at present?" Van Vlissingen was asked. "No, except my clothing, I had about $150 when 1 reached the prison at Joliet, but I sent that back to my wife." i "I told Rosenfeld at least 25 times and Rosenburg half as often" said Van Vlissingen, "that I could reiml burse them only through illegal business operations. , "I told them further," the witness , continued, "that I was rapidly ber coming deeper involved, that the . number of illegal transactians was I multiplying and that my legal trans. actions were falling off and almost j ceased to be profitable." Van Vlissingen said he transferred > life insurance policies aggregating t $40,000 to Rosenfeld, delivering I them to him, and further stated that f since turning them over to Rosenis feld he paid the premiums on the . policies. \ "Rosenfeld and Rosenberg, partici, ularly the former," the witness stated , "kept crowding me for money ] until 1 feared the situation would t kill me. Finally I warned Rosenfeld -j that if be did not pmsp T would nnt f duplicate more notes and that T then I. could not make money to pay him. "I said I feared the end was near, that I did not intend to go to prison, and?well, he knew what I ? meant." Here the witness wept, hut when the referee suggested that the hearing he adjourned, Van Vlissingen (j protested: "I want to get. through. I can stand the strain. Go on." A recess, however, was ordered. , Rosenberg and Rosen fold have 011y gaged an attorney and refused to | discuss they sensational testimon All inquiries they referred to their counsel, Leasing Rosenthal. y As a rule, the man who boasts that r he has never made an -enemy doesn't amount to much. GETS HIS REWARDS ? AXOTHKIt "TAFT DKMOC'RAT" IS KKM KM 1 IK It H I > FOR ^ His Good Work in llclinlf of the Republican Party I Miring the laist Flection. = Zack McGee, writing to The State from Washington says .James T. Williams, Jr., of Greenville, was named Monday by the President to be one II of ti?e three civil service commissioners. He puts down his residence at "Lincolnton." The salary is $4,000. Here is the story: "Jiinmle" Williams hit this town some seven or eight years ago as a typewriter and assistant to on*> of the Wash .i.Kiwit correspondents. Being a bright young man and alive to his opportunities he has steadily risen 11 ever since. From one suit of clothes S< with the vanishing point of the m "breeches" somewhere in the vicini- ol ty of the ankles and a string tie d< hanging down on his bosom, lie has T steadily advanced in the satorial ii scale, till the "breeches" have been pi converted into "trousers" and his haberdashery has become one of the IJ fashionable institutions of Washing- ai ton. It takes four valets, it is said, li to keep his wardrobe. tl He soon got a position with the tl Associated Press and brting assigned ni to the State, war and navy depart- pi ments it soon developed that he could ti shake hands high in air and how ,-j down before "your excellency" most s eflletently. Having a fairly good s< head for news and being able to write ^ well, he became a valued reporter of e] the Associated Press. Three years j] ago he was made the Washington cor- e respondent of the Boston Transcript. < < .Timtnie kept growing. and the band-shake went steadily up with him. By the time T arrived here, \\ three years after him, he was saying n, "pnrst" and "arfter." for "past" and () "after" and when T asked him one day how to spell "collards" lie said he had never heard of such things. .. In due season he became a Republican and last year was made one . of the secretaries to the Taft propaC( gandist bureau, prior to the Cliicago convention. After Taft's noniina- | tion he stayed with the Republican sj campaign committee and is said to ' have done valuable service for the . Republicans. Any way. Mr. Taft felt n under obligations to him and has given him a job in the administration. a EXCITEMENT AT MAYESYILCE P n Caused l),v the Attack of a Negro on ii o a White Man. Si Wednesday night a serious clash a between white and colored people 1 e of Mavesville over in Sumter conntv. was narrowly averted, but the n counsel of tin* cooler heads prevail- ? ed, and <iui?*t was restored. Mr. John Cunningham, who is em- s ployed hv tlie Linson Lumber Com- *, pany, reprimanded one of the negro hands. Lindsay Conyers, for careless work, and hot words followed. As Mr. Cunningham turned away, the negro struck him a hlow on the L head with a scantling, laying open the sealj) to the bone, and render- _ ing him unconscious. The negro then took refuge in a jj nearby cabin, and when an oflieer tj attempted to arrest him, resisted, and drew a Colt's automatic pistol. a Fortunately he did not understand the safety catch, and he was overpowered and taken to the guard f( house. Considerable excitement prevailed, and there was talk of lynch- t( ing. n This, however, quieted down, and ? Sheriff ISpperson was notified. l)ep- ^ uty Sheriff Sykes went to Mayesville Q immediately and brought the prls- ^ oner to jail without trouble. ti K1U.NI> 11Y lM'UGLAU. a t: Assistant Postmaster of Lenox, Cn., a Shot Down. ti While searching for noero 1 l> men who nad in succession robbed s the postoffice, a bank, a dry goods p store and a drug store at 1 enox, Hi., n Monday morning, Assistante Post- 0 master Clifford Rutherford of that a place was shot twice t.hrough the 11 head and was Instantly killed by Marshal T.ewis, one of the negroco. who had tak -n refuge in the rail.vny station. Lewis' accomplice was caught, hut n T.ewis escaped and was later trailed ' down by dogs at Adel, and was tak- * en toward the Nashville, Oa., jail. The negro confessed and begged not 1 to he taken back to T.enox. A hun- r dred friends of Rutherford went to ' Adel late Monday afternoon with the intention of intercepting the sheriff. ( Tt is admitted that a lynching is * imminent. Indignation over the f murder is deen and if tlm sPorifr PoOu to reach a substantial jail the probabilities are that his prisoner will be hanRed. Rutherford, while seeking the robbers, put his head in the door of the depot room and struck a match. At that instant two shots rang out and he dropped to the floor. It Is just as well to put off till j tomorrow the worries of today. Southern States fywC. rVIechjner: ry Plumbing im ynai 'iirif r COL.U M I THE UNION PLAN ()\V THE FARMER? EXPECT TO CONTKOL PRICES. 'arehouses Must Ho Had, and the Jjocal I'nions Must Cot Together for Protection. The presidents of tho county nlons of the Farmers' Union of auth Carolina met Friday night in ass meeting in the hall of tho house r representatives at Columbia, and id i berated until nearly midnight, he session was executive, none berg permitted to enter without the assword. President P. Harris, of the State nlon, called the meting to order nd read the call, as heretofore pubshed. President C. S. Barrett, of le National Farmers' Union, was len introduced, and he spoke for lore than two hours, outlining the lan for the formation of a corporaon designed to amalgamate the vaous warehouse associations in the tate of South Carolina into one asrelation, similar to the ones in floor ia and Mississippi, and perhaps othr States, the ultimate puropse berg the absorption of all the smallr coroprations into one gigantic arporation which shall control the at ton industry. Tho purpose in detail with rela on to this plan may best and most ccuratoly be stated in the language f the proposed by-laws, as follows: "When said corporation shall ae uire bv purchase, or exchange ol s stock, tho warehouse and othei ssets of existing or future ware ouse companies, thus merging am: onsolidating such other warehouse ampanies into the Union Consolidat (1 Warehouse Company, then the oh toekhohlers who shall thus becom-' lockholders* in this corporation shal ave the privilege of appointing three f such ohl stockholders, who shal et as a local governing committee; nd such committee shall have the ower of recommending, a suitable erson, a stockholeler, as warehouse lan fe>r such newly acquired ware ouse, anel the hoard of directors f this corporation shall, in the ah ence of specific disqualifying causes ppoint such warehouseman so nom lated by the said local governing ommittee. to manage such ware ouse; and in all other substantia tatters concerning the local affairs f such warehouses, the board of eli ectors shall y especial heed tc n<h advice's and recommendations ol ue h h)cal governing committee, whe hall continue stockholders in this orporation, to the enel that as fat s may he practicable the formet tockholders of the locality where uch merged warehouse or ware ouses may be situated, may have controlling voice, by way of recmmendation, etc., in the local affairs nd management of such local wareouses, Never*heless, this corporaon shall at all times, have and retin the supervision and control ol 11 warehouses that it may thus acuire by merger, purchase or otherdse, and all warehousemen of sucli armor individual warehouse com anies shall at all times be subject a the direction and control of this IflmKOllnn .,.,.1 /i i>wi <111v/11, ciiiii miujt'ci to (iism 1 S9cii nd now ones appointed in his, oi lieir, stoad, at the sound discretion f the oHicors and directors theref." This corporation proposes to main lin a soiling agency whose duties nd functions are described also ii he by-laws as follows: "The president, secretary-treasure] nd chairman of said board of direc nrs, shall likewise constitute a sell ng agency, or committee for th< urpose of selling the cotton of tin tockholders who may desire said cor oration to do so, direct to the spin ers, or other acceptable buyers, eith r in the United States or abroad nd thereby eliminate the middle nan as far as practicable, in the of ort to bring fairer prices, and a ess expense to the owners of cot on. "Such selling agency must jirepar ind submit to the board of direc Mm, m iiieir approval, a systemati >lan of operations amply protectinj he owners of cotton, nnd clearly dc Ining the powers, duties and com nlsslons of this corporation as sell iik agent, or trustee, etc., etc. "Such selling agency shall requir laily reports from the different ware lousemen during the cotton sellin leason, of all cotton deposited wit Tlie American All-Wrought Tlip Split Steel Pulleys. * "V ITANDAltu ? # |M^_?? H Supply Company / Supplies jMHjl ..flHiHi tun ?.? ^^Supglles xw Bl A, S C mi i -1 . _ \ j naid warehouse for sale, showing | marks, weights, grades, names of owners, etc., of such cotton, and shall l keep a separate set of hooks, records i and accounts of the business of sucli selling agency. "Such selling agency shall account and make just settlement with all owners of such cotton iwi mediately upon the consummation J of aale." * WIIiHON MAY KKHP PLACR '? ' If Fight ?>u CasHolI for Postmaster Goes On. I t A dispatch from Washington t? the Columbia Record says there is | little chance of the appointment of I any Democrat to the Florence posti mastership. Unless tho South Car?' ( lina senators stop fiehting the Republican. Cassell. it is likely the negro Wilson will keep the place. 1 Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania. ' j chairman of the postofhee commit! , tee. is willing to see Wilson ousted, but is unwilling to see Cassell, the ' son of a friend, the former ropresen' tative from Pennsylvania, lose the " job. Tie thinks the removal of the ' negro ought to satisfy the Caro" linians and make them leave the road open to a white Republican, especially as no Democrat's name has been presented in opposition. Killed by Flower Bow A dispatch from Jordan City. C,a.. ? i says while frolicking with his youthful playmate Sunday afternoon, Willie Taylor, six years old, was instant" I ly killed, a flower box falling upon 1 him from a window of the kinder, garten buildings. * I bLAl>5INtlJ UULUMN ' Why don't yon work for I'nclo Sain? j Civil Service Manual, which prepares you fir the examination, j Three volumes (with maps), $3. express prepaid. Sims' Hook. Store, Orangeburg, S. C. * - Telegraph easily learned at home, by mail, easy work, good wages; * write today; particulars free. Hagwell Telegraph College, At, lanta, C?a. ; OKlKNTAVi Hl'G COMPANY. - 1101 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md. 1 We make you handsome and dur* able Hugs from your old wornout - carpet, any size to fit a room or hall. > Let us send you a price list; just a I write for one. * ) ? We sell your property?no matter u wheiv located. It cost you nothing if we do not make sale. P. O. * Box I, Orangeburg, S. C. i Teachers and school officials can got on request, our 1 909 booklet ex? plaining our methods of assisting teachers to secure positions and supplying schools with teachers. * i Interstate Teachers' Bureau, At' | lanta, Ga. Wanted?City school principal at $75 t 1 and several grade teachers at?$40. * Other 11 r tm n n"1'" "? * ...,-,^..1 ..aim iur experienced teachers. Address South Carolina Teachers' Agency, Heath Springs, S. C. r>Oc for a pair of self-sharpening, 7-inch, tension steel spring shears. Cut anything from tissue paper to tough blanket with ease. Cooper ' Novelty Co., Box 54, Orangeburg, 1 S. C. p For Sale?One Am. 15-horsepower steam engine; practically good as new; can be seen running. Ada dress J. E. Johnson. Supt. Neely 1 Mfg. Co., Yorkville, S. C. . ('lay Pens for Sale?$1.25 per bushel. Raeford Hardware Co., Rae lord, IN. C. t WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT MUSIC? Don't say, "Can't afford an Organ or e 1 IMano. We will make you able, granting ^ c from one to three years to pay for gr one. I We supply the Sweet Tono?1, l)ur able Organs and Pianos, at the low est prices consistent with quality. Write at once for Catafogue, e Prices and Terms, to the Old Es tablislied g MA LONE MUSIC HOUSE, h Columbia, S. C. Pulley That All Want. WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK. irry a large stock of Wood Pulleys ig, Hangers, Belting and anything else ight wish in this line. When you are market, write us COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY. Columbia, S. v t