Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A GREAi cVENT Bleriot Cnssts lie English Cnan ?e> S n lay IN A FLYiNo. MACHINE Sailed from Los H?riu|.uOK in Fran re and 1 winded at Dover in England, Where lie (.reatly Surprised the People by the Appearance of His Strange Craft. The sleepy seaport town of Dover, England, says a cablegram, experienced the keenest thrill known in a generation when at sunrise Sunday morning a white-winged, bird-like machine with loudly humming motor swept out from the haze obscuring the sea toward ,the distant French coast, and, circling twice above the high.' chalky cliffs of Dover, alighted on English soil. A calm Frenchman, Bleriot, a portly and red-mustached man of 37, descended iroin uiu siuiaiu, limping on a bandaged foot, which had been burned on his previous overland flight. Immediately two compatriots, who had been waiving a big French flag as a signal for the landing place, fell upon him enthusiastically, embracing him, shouting and pounding him on the back. They, with a few English soldiers and others who happened by chance to be on the scene, were the only persons to witness the finish of a most remarkable feat. Bleriot left Les Baraques, France, three miles from Calais, about 4.30 a. in. Sunday on one ?f the smallest, monoplanes ever used. He crossed the channel in a little less than a half hour, twice as swiftly as the fastest, mail steamer. His speed aver ngea more man in nines an nonr, soinotinies it approximated 00 miles. He kept'about 250 feet above t he sea level a ml lor 10 minutes, while about mid-channel, was out of sight of both coasts, and also of the French destroyer which followed hiln, with his wife and'* friertds aboard. The wind was blowing about 20 miles an hour and the seh was choppy. The aviator was swathed in a single garment of drilling, impervious' to the wind, which"covered him from the top of liia?head'to his feet, only his face showing."'' lie also wofe a cork life belt.'' An eytfwitness of the landing thus describes' it: "Very Curly hi lhc morning a wireless-'iuessa'ge was received from Calais that Bioriot intended to make the flight. Then in quick succession came the news that he had left and was fast liiakihg Dover. Like a Croat ilawk. '"Hastening to the cliff, 1 arrived there just a moment before the airship. which was Hying fast, like a gigantic hawk. Bleriot swooped overhead. glapcing from right to left, and then Ruined his machine to the east and camp to the ground in the meadow. Jt circled with consummate ease and made the landing gracefully but, even though it touchLi I \ t lio 1 U n/1 1 I ffll f 1 V it \ir o C3 pi lo-h t lu VV* V.4V IM11U I1&4IV1 J , IW M UO Oll^llli J damaged." By his achievement Sunday Bleriot won the prise of $5,000 offered by the London Daily Mail for the first flight across the English channel, and stole a inarch on his rivals, Hubert Latham and Count de Lambert, both of whom had hoped to make the attempt. Bleriot, who speaks a little English described his remarkable flight very modestly. "I arose at 3 o'clock," he said, j "an 1 went to the aeroplane shed. Finding everything in order on the trial spin. 1 decided to make fne flight. The French torpedo boat der'rover, "which was in attendance, was signaled, and it put out about four miles. Then I rose into the air and pointed directly to Dover. After ten minutes I was out of sight of land and had left the warship well behind. For a few minutes I could jiot see either coast, nor any boat. 1 tried to keep at an average height of 250 feet. 1 might easily have gone higher. This was about tho right height, 1 thought, to clear the Dover cliffs easily. "The machine dipped toward the wat r several times. Tho first ohjoc i I saw were ships off the English coast, then I observed Deal. 1 veered to the southward . toward D ,ver Castle and then saw friends fi urishing a flag in a valley suitable for landing. And Then IHvod Down. "I made two circles while lessenin j' thn miAffl nnU fhfin /li.rr.,1 -J V.J V II U I T UU VIW >Y 11 | but I came in contact with the ground sooner than I expected. Both the machine and myself were badly shaken. "A few persons quickly assembled an 1 1 was helped out, as my injured foot was painful. I am extremely glad to be here." M. Blerlot's friends took him quickly In an automobile to the old Ijord Warden hotel by the pier from whf ill mail boats depart. In the moa dime, his wife arrived on the destroyer. Hhe embraced him, weeping but they were soon sitting at breakfast, the center of a proud gathering of French people. The CHINRSK C1IIL1) SLAVES. Two Little Celestial Maidens Tell Stories of a llar<l Life. Two round chocked little Chinese maids, their almond eyes very, very wide, their straight hangs brushoj f 1 n f o rr *1 1 ?> i' 1 1 L /\l ?? "'? .... t. -i ? 1 * 1 - ...?v U(S?III31 vucu luifiiraus, lUCir black bands lace 1 w ill scat i<M FCk, hanging precisely down the middle of their backs, stood demurely before the New vork Children's Court Friday and swore to a story, which left little sympathy in those who heard, for the two elderly Celestial merchants who reported their children "missing' to the police on Wednesday night. For both little girls swore that they had been held against their will as household slaves, harshly treated and forced to work long hours. They were accompanied by an agent of the Children's Society, who saw them on tin? day after their disappearance from Chinatown at an Fast side parish house. The two made sworn statements which was read In Court Friday. Chin King Toy said she was sold in China for $160, brought to this country and sold again for $500 in |r?lll "SrilHfi nini-nlii nra " nv.vt. kiv/uiv Uiv/l nu I DUllf monts roads, "1 had to get lip at 7 o'clock and sometimes had to work right on until two o'clock in the morning. "1 would rather die than go back to Mott street." The others name is Moy Yum Toy. rending full investigation they are held by the Children's Society. Their story lias aroused talk of another rigid investigation in Chinatown, which has hardly settled down after the chaos and probing that followed the murder of IOlsie Slgel. * Shot Them Hoth. At Macon, Ga., on Sunday, while seated at the dinner table, Adolphus Daniels shot and killed his mother, Itachcl Broughton, and fatally slioi his stepfather, Maj. Broughton. All parties are colored. It. is said the man was abusing the boy's mother. The boy fired on his stepfather, one of the bullets striking his mother, inflicting a mortal wound. Destroyed by Howitzer. A captive baloon was sent up to an altitude of 4,000 feet on the milj itary range at Grisheim. Volleys from rides and the fire of machine ! guns were directed against the capi five without the slightest effect, but the second shell fired at It from a Howitzer totally destroyed the balloon. I mayor and other Dover officials callI cd early and welcomed M. Illeriot in the name of the city and nation as tin1 pioneer of international flight. The townspeople of Dover, who for three weeks have been on the alert for the signal announcement that one of the Hying men had started, were caught napping. A gale was blowing Saturday night jmd tin* weather forecasts promised a strong I wind and squalls in tlie morning. Hence the operators of the sirens I on the steamers, which it had been | arranged should be blown when the flyer started, were absent from their posts. Only a few persons received | the wireless warning of Bleriot's ascent. Lafontaine, a friend of the aviator, arrived from Calais at midnight. He declined a bed room with the cryptic remark that he had an appointment to meet M. Dleriot at F> o'clock. The hotel people thought the mysterious stranger was joking. Planted Preach Flag. M. LaFontaine came to the signal landing, the spot which the newspapers under whose auspices the flight was made had chosen, on the high ground back of the city, but he selected a cup-shaped depression, called the North Fall meadow, two miles east of Dover, where t ho machine would be sheltered from the wind In settling. There he planted the French flag. The sailors on the ships in the harbor were the first to discover that Hleriot was approaching. They heard the buzzing of the motor two or three minutes before they could distinguish the aeroplane. Then what looked like a big white butterfly glided over their heads, as fast as a train of cars, and with almost af much noise. It reached the cliff near the gray turrets of Dover castle swooped around twice in broad curves and disappeared. It was not long before half the population of Dover, dressing as thej went, were rushing toward Northfel meadow. Photagraphers and cinnemetographers were crestfallen because they had missed the great AVnnt for arht/if* v.?.1 ? -" - 1 ? .. ?..< u Lin-y unci vvalien sc long. Among the first to arrive were two customs officers. Close to their heels were several police, and their services were needed to restrain the curio hunters, who immediately began to pull the machine to pieces for souvenirs. Many others, foreseeing that the monoplane would he treated as a historical relic, wrote their autographs thereon. The city officials conceived a happy thought, and, with Bleriot's consent, raised a tent about the machine and charged six pence admission to view it. The profits from this enterprise will go to the hospitals and the police pension fund, and tho exhibition did a big business all day. SAVED THE CITY i G.ilveston Secure Behind He; I Great Sea Wall. WATER IS HcLO BACK The Texan Seaport Weathers a Terrible Tidal Wave aiul llurrieane of Similar Porportions to One Whieli Well-nigh Destroyed tin* City Nine Years Ago. Man's strength and skill were pitted against tlie fury of the elements Wednesday and man won, when the city of CJalveston, safely entrenched behind her impregnable 17-foot sea wall, withstood, with comparatively trilling loss, a tidal wave and hurricane equal in intensity and destructive fore to the one which destroyed the city on September 8, 1900. The hurricane swept t lie entire Gulf coast with an intensity and viciousness that litis seldom been equaled in a country where destructive 1 storms are not unusual. It has its origin on the Atlantic coast and, swinging westward and southward, devastated the entire Gulf coast even as far South as Matagorda Hay. That some lives were lost and that much property was destroyed is the general belief. 'idle hurricane struck Galveston about 1 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. 'i'lie wind, attaining a velocity I _ . tu lu'itriy seventy miles an hour, whipped the treacherous waters of the Mexican Gulf into a fury of destruction. With tlie pent-up anger of ten years of hate the waves blindly assaulted the grim parapets of stone which man had builded to restrain its attacks. In vain it hurled its thousands of tons of water upon the splendid breastworks. Only a feeble burst of spray and a little water reached its objective and the beleaguered city lay calm and safe behind the wall. Outside the limits of the city, where the wall had not been reared and where the city had not been elevated, the waters had their way, but they wrecked only deserted huts and abandoned territory. In this section of the city, which is low and sparcely settled, the water rose to a height of seven feet, but the warnings of the weather bureau had been heeded and the inhabitants had removed their possessions out of the danger zone. A hurricane for East Texas was forecasted at the district weather bureau in New Orleans early Wednes (lay morning, and warnings were sent out. When wind and rain arrived several hours later they found Galveston prepared. The inhabitants of the few scattered houses in the low part of the island hud already sought safety, and the vessels that had cleared and prepared to sail were riding at anchor in the bay. The fury of the storm soon abated and the anxiety of those who entertained fears of another tidal wave were soon relieved. Small boys paddling around the Hooded streets, even before the heavy winds had died down, presented a scene which dispelled the alarm felt by the timid. So short was the duration of the storm that the Mallory Line steamer, which was booked to sail for New York shortly after noon, left on the scheduled time. Message of Greeting. The following message was issued Wednesday night: "The city of Galveston sends greetings to her sister cities, the people of the United States and of the world in that, at this hour, it has passed through a most formidable storm, manifesting in its course some of the most violent incidents of cyclonic disturbances and Its great sea wall has completely vindicated (its efii, cieney and protected the city against . dangers from the seas, leaving such insignificant damages as are incident , to all storms. "The city, its great business interests and its people have safely passed through a most severe hurricane. ; the sea wall proving a complete suc; cess. The city's great wharves and shipping interests suffered no damage and not a life was lost. 1 (Signed:) "Lewis Fisher, Mayor; F. O. Flood, President Chamber of ? Commerce; 1). Adoune, President: r Maritime Association." I Pushed from Window. Mrs. Mary Peck, who lived on the fifth lloor of a house in West Forty i nlcrVilh tf rnnl Vou' Vnrlf ?roa nlllm^ ? l( ? 7 V w?., ?? * \/? TT (IO UllllUI ' pushed or fell from a front window of her apartment to the street before ' daylight Tuesday morning, and at ) an hour later died in the Flower hospital. In an antemortem statei ment, Mrs. Peck said that Adam Hoffman, of Schnectady had been in her room with her, and declared that she had been pushed from the window. Sixteen Miners Killed. The fire damp exploded in a coal mine at Mansfield, Russia, Tuesday, i Sixteen are dead and many unconcious minors have been takon out. It < is not known at this time how many ' men are still in the mine. 1 TE.N LIVtS LOST MKMDEHS OF FISHING PARTY SWEPT INTO '1 VIE SKA. Tliey Were Cauglit Far Out in the Gulf of Mexico on a Fishing Pier by the Storm. Ten dead is the total number of lives lost, so fur us is known in the hurricane, which swept over the Gulf of Mexico and struck Galveston Wednesday morning and continued until after midday. While the city of Galveston was held safe against the fury of the storm by the new $2,000,000 seawall, far out in the Gulf, on Tarpon fishing pier, seven miles from the city, where the storm whipped over the jetty into the bay, ten persons were washed from the rocky promotories into the Gulf. Goats are searching the bay for the bodies. Those drowned were members of a j fishing party and employees of tlie I Tarpon Pier, marooned on the petty. Boats were sent to taeir assistance late Wednesday, and it was learned that the house in which they had Bought refuge had been washed away. While it is impossible to get an accurate list of the dead, owing to the fact that the register has always been kept at the pier, the best information obtainable is us follows: Capt. Hettison and wife, Edward Lewis, C. 11. Daly, circulation manager of the Galveston Tribune, formerly of Chicago, and four negroes. The others are unknown. Mr. Daly was a guest at the pier, and it is stated that a young man named Peatsorn. of Houston, son of a book dealer, was also among the guests. This report could not be confirmed, however. Friends in Galveston set forth a faint hope that it might have been possible that all, or a part, of the party on the pier might have secured wreckage from the pier and floated to the Bolivar shore. In view of this report tho launch I Clifton, owned by Capt. Bottison, made (he trip to Boliva r Wednesday evening, returning shortly after seven o'clock, the captain, however, reporting that no trace of the party had been found. Til 10Y AUK BOTH GONE A County Clerk niul His Stenographer Are Missing. The police in every city of the South, in addition to a number of detectives, are searching for Foy W. Dulaney, the missing Circuit Court Clerk of Washington County, Tennessee, who suddenly disappeared from his home nearly three weeks ago. Warrants have been issued for bis arrest on a charge of embezzle iiK in. n is iHMioven mat no is nearly $20,000 short as clerk. IIo left other indebtedness of probably $20,000. It is a singular coincidence that Dulaney's stenographer, a pretty black-haired girl, left Johnson City the day before he was missing, and has not been heard from since. Dulaney left a note saying he was going away to try his fortune elsewhere, and if left alone won id, if possible, pay back his shortage. Dulaney has a wife and one child here. He is believed to have gone to South America. WIIjIj I1H KKA1>Y SOON. The State Will Help Take the Census Next Year. As a result of Commissioner Watson's visit to Washington and a conference with the chief of the bureau of statistics it is very probable that the census figures for South Carolina for the year 1010 will be published at least, one year earlier than usual. It is also very likely that this State will bo the first state to announce the result of the census. Tty an agreement reached between Col. Watson and the census bureau it will be necessary for the manufacturers of the State to fill out only one schedule, thus relieving them of much work. The federal and State government will cooperate with each other in the matter of taking the census in this State Tho method of gathering agricultural statistics will lx> improved. An expert from the bureau of animal industry is now available for this State whenever needed. Fatal Crap Came. As tho result of a quarrel over tho devislon of the winnings in a gamt of cards at Lean's Camp on the Carolina, Clinclifleld and Ohio Road in Spartanburg County Saturday night, Ha be Klrby and Jim Logan, both colored, were shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Chris Sims,* also colored, who made his escape. Negro Kills Negro. A difficulty occurred in tho New Cut section of Lancaster county between two negroes, Moody Thomas und Watt Watts, in which tho former was fatally shot, dying of ills wounds Monday afternoon. Watts is in jail. The trouble was about a woman, It Is said. WORKING F Why not let you you? There is no j this than by investi REAL ESTATE. A FEW B/ Four tract* gltuntcd in Colinnbi I lo, Ih;{, loo acres, respectively. Ten tract* situated in Horry < no -too ......... ??-? ...? ? ?? mn/ u? i ? m ru es run};<' Several tracts in Orangeburg Co 1'ariu of t(0 acres situated in 1 * i Carolina Sal WE SELL YOUII PllOPKir ORANOEBl Southern States . BUY FRO rVI-3ch^nery 4 **' ^ .' 4>vi^iK? JA*> ^CcVuXi Plumbing *'a* *.*!**,' < A fe.^()?}t^.ir v^f *!V*5 COLUMB NATIVE OF THIS STATE. Andrew Jackson Says S<> and He Is' 1 Supposed (o Know. To the Editor of The State: 1 read recently a statement that ^ the question of President Jackson's native State was still, and would perhaps ever remain unsettled. Today 1 read in an old magazine I found in my father's library, styled ] The Examiner and Journal of Politi-i cal v Economy, printed in Philadel- j pltiia, dated Wednesday, May 2 8, 1 834, a proclamation issued by An- . drew Jackson, president of the Unit- y ed States, addressed to the citizens of the State of South Carolina, reasoning with them on the rights of a State to nulify the act of congress, which the state had recently passed, . in which proclamation he uses these words: "Eellow Itlzens of my native . State, let me not only admonish you as the first magistrate of our com- f moil country, not to incur the penalli?>e r?f t Iwa 1 ?,t '' *-.1 n 43 1,4"? WLV" I It seems to me that Jackson tints speaks of South Carolina as his na! 1 i \?> State and there should be no ^ further controversy about the question. R. W. Simpson. (11 \li(.i:i) WITH DlOritAl'DING. A Man Arrested in Charleston On Such a Charge. Joe Andrews of No. 624 King St., ? Charleston, doing business under the name of the Carolina Produce and Commission house, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon on a warrant sworn out by PostoIIlce Inspector Smith, charging fradulent use of the mails. On account of the absence of material witnesses the preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner "Young was deferred until next week. Andrews is an Italian, lie is charged with soliciting and re coiving consignments of fruit and vegetables and not making returns. He denies that he meant to defraud his creditors and correspondents, among whom are several parties in Orangeburg and other places In this and adjoining states. A MCHDKlt M.YSTKKY. i Woman Slain While Husband bays Helpless in Hed. The Hot Springs, Ark., murder mystery is still unsolved, although twenty suspects have boon arrested. The victim, Mrs. Amos P. Dorrence, wife of a wealthy coal dealer of * Montana, was shot and killed in lior room at the Parker Hotel ThnrarlAv - - t wliilo her invalid husband lay help- j less in bed. lie is still unable to throw any light, on the crime. Friday night the police found a coat c and hat which they believed belonged to the murderer on the doorsteps R of the house adjoining the hotel. A New York man identified them as his own, saying they were stolen from him the night of the murder. He was detained a short lime and ^ then released. Stung by ltee.s. Two young ladies of Fair Forest In Spartanburg County were fearfully stung by bees Wednesday. The young ladies went to the rescue of a calf that had overturned a bee gum, and ^ the bees made for the girls by vim n thousands. The calf was so badlv i! stung that it swelled to the size of 1' an ox. |i f OR MONEY! money work for better way to do * ng in SOUTHERN lRGAINS/ ik County, N. O., containing 75, Priced $2 to $15 j>er acre. 'ounty, S. (/., containing from from $5 up to $24) per acre. maty of from 75 to 154) acres. ckcnn County, S. C. A bargain. les Agency, IV?x<> SALE, NO PAY. JRQ, S. C. ?I l?l n > HIMMHW'i ? Supply Goj/P A N > 11 i? IA. S. C. CLASSIFIED COLUMN" I'olmcco Habit Cun'd or no Cost? Harmless homo treatment. NicKo House, Wichita, Kansas. \ good worm powder for horses and mules. Safe and effective. Sent postpaid on receipt of 25c. T. E. Waunamaker, Choraw, S. C. Pairvievr House, Clyde, N. C.?Fine view, good water, good table. Kates $0 and up per week. No ? consumptives. Dr. F. M. Davis. IVedding Invito!ions and announcements. Finest quality. Correct styles. 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