The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 12, 1909, Image 6
DENIES GUiLT
Cashier of Orr Milts an Alleged <
Defaulter.
BOOKS ARE TANGLED
11c Is l'lrtcetl I nacr /Arrest m tin*
Instance of the President of the
Mill?I ncashed Chwks and Hat
lOaten Paper Money is Pound in
the Vault.
Calhoun Harris, secretary and assistant
casli(ier of the Orr cotton
mills, located at Anderson was arrested
Tuesday morning in that city
on a warrant obtained by President
J. 1). Hammett, charging breach of
trust it being alleged that be misappropriated
$50,000 or more of the
company's funds. Harris denies over
having misappropriated one dollar of
the company's money and that everything
will be found all right when
the expert accountants get through
with auditing the hooks.
The first intimation of a shortage
came on Tuesday of last week.
About two weeks ago two accountants
of the American Audit Company
went to Anderson to audit the books*
of the niilIs, as is customary about
once a year. After working for h
few days the experts found one or
two items which did not appear correct.
On further examination it. appeared
that Mr. Harris was short in
his account $">t),000 and when his
attention was called to it he said
the showing was correct, but claimed
that it was due to clerical errors.
President ITannnett and the directors
questioned Mr. Harris closely
and were disposed to believe him,
when he insisted that tho shortage
was due to clerical errors. As the
investigation proceeded, however,
many false entries wore found and
many things appeared which did not
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picion. It was found that he not
only made false entries to make correct
balances but that he also had
been kiting checks from one bank
to another and that in many instances
he had given the mill his own,
personal checks to account for cash
which the mill should have had on
hand, had entered these chocks 011
tho books of the mill and then had
never presented these chocks to the
bank for payment.
In another instance, a batch of
personal checks from a merchant in
Anderson were found in the vault
of the mill oilice which had never
been presented to the hank for payment.
These checks bore different
dates, several years old. They had
been entered on the hooks of the
mill, showing that tho merchant
had paid his account. Tho books
show that the mill on one occasion
loaned $3,000 to Harris. A few
weeks later it appeared that tills
loan was repaid. A personal check
signed by Mr. Harris was found in
me vauu ior ine amount oi mo
loan, the dates corresponding with
the book's entries.
In addition to those checks thers
were found in the vault many parcels
and packages of money, some
in old envelopes, some in old pasteboard
boxes and some in coin
sacks. Some of the money was in
bills and had lain in the vault until
some of it had been eaten and partly
demolished by rats All of those
items will aggregate about $(>,000
to $8,000.
Mr. Harris was for years treasurer
of the First Presbyterian church.
In the vault were found a great
many envelopes which the members
of the congregation use on Sundays
in making their payments to the
church. These envelopes hear the
name of the contributor and the
amount contributed. There were
dozens of these envelopes that were
never opened, some of them dating
as far back as five vears. Thorn
has been hound one instance of
where chocks of the mill had been
used by Mr. Harris in setting the
church account fit the bank.
The experts of the auditing company
say that the accounts were In
worse shape than any they have over j
seen. Thev say that it will take
them several months to verify all :
entries. At the same time it is
known that the shortage will in no !
wise cripple the in ill, as a large snr- I
plus has been accumulated and the
stock is worth more than par. Mr.
Harris lias been secretary and assistant
cashier of the Orr mills since
their establishment. Ho received
a good salary hut has not lived extravagantly
and has not shown any
ekrns of living beyond his moans.
His hooks have been examined
repeatedly by different auditing companion,
Including the one now checking
the accounts. It appears, however,
that his accounts have been
wrong for several years and that he
has been able to cover up all indications
of crookedness from the auditors
by various means. When
asked for a statement hv a nauro.
paper man Mr. Harris said: "I just
wmt to say that If a full examination
is mad? It will bo found that I
have not misappropriated a single
dollar of the mill's money. Reyond
this I have nothing to say at this
WANT IT 10 STAY
rilAKLNSTON HUS1M0SS MKX FA- '
VOU Til 10 DIsriONSAHV.
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Thoy Boliovo It Should lw Kotaino/l
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and the lllind Timers Driven Out
of liiiNincaM.
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The Charleston Post savs at a i
meeting of a number of business men
held Tuesday at the rooms of the
Charleston Chamber of Commerce, a
resolution was unanimously passed,
urging the voters of Charleston to
support the dispensary system for
the regulation of the liquor traflic
011 August 17, in preference to the
prohibition and a committee was appointed
to use its efforts toward this
end.
The meeting was held in response
to a call signed by 10. K. Marshall,
Walter Pringle, M. llornik, J. C.
Hemphill, T. It. WaritLg, W. J. Stores,
10. 11. Sparkman, James It.
Johnson and W. II. Cogswell. The
call announced that the tax rate of
the county of Charleston is now 4 1
1-2 mills, and the profits last year
from the dispensary were $1 18,000,
and the enactment of a prohibition
law for Charleston would mean increased
taxation.
With the exception of Mr. Storen
and Mr. Waring, the signers of the
call were present and among others:
Arthur I.ynah, John P. Sheppard,
W. K. Tate, C. U. Valk. IV H. Cadsden.
T. J. McCarthy, J. M. Connelloy,
John Hertz, Capt. F. 1>. Phillips,
W. M. Itird, M. Frank, Cupt. F. W.
Wagoner, 11. Poarlstino, Dr. Pockwo?(l,
Daniel P. Sinkler, It. I. Simmons,
M. O'Shaughnossy, Robert Patham,
Albert Orth and Paul Wierse.
As I ho first signer of the call, Mr.
Marshall, called tin* meeting to order
and nominated Mr. llornik to
lake the chair. Mr. llornik declined
and then on motion of Mr. Cadsden.
Mr. Marshall was made chairman of
the meeting. In taking the chair,
Mr. Marshall made a few remarks,
explaining the purpose of the call
which was later read hy C. Norwood
llastie, as secretary of the
meeting.
Mr. Marshall made a strong plea
for an honest effort, in enforcing the
law. He disclaimed making any reflection
upon the administration, but
ho thought that the time had come
for action. Business men have
changed their attitude toward the
dispensary and a satisfactory and adequate
enforcement of the law is
demanded for the best interests of
Charleston's trade with the up-country,
as well as for a community matter.
Mr. Sinkler said that lie had attended
several sessions of the legislature
and knew the sentiment of
many toward Charleston, and
thought that by consistently standing
to Charleston's attitude in the
past, the prospects were bright for
securing a license system. Mr. Sinkler
declared that personally he i?
opposed to the dispensary and prohibition
and an advocate of the license
system. lie then offered the
resolution, expressing the sense of
the mooting that tlie people should
vote for the dispensary.
STAKVKD TO DEATH.
Three Children Found Asleep lie- j
side Mother's Hody.
The woman lying on a pallet on
the lloor dead, her mouth filled
with hits of a cracker, a last effort
to sustain life and her three children,
ranging in age from two to
nine years old, asleep beside the
hody, one unconscious, was tho gruesome
picture presented when neighbors
forced their way into the tenement
apartment of Mrs. Delia Chrystie,
35 years of age, at Memphis,
Tenn., on Monday.
Mrs. Chrystie had been ill, dwellers
in the tenement state, and for
several weeks they have ministered
to her wants. Monday night when
their request for admission to the
room was unanswered they forced
an entrance.
The condition of the body indi
cated that the woman had been dead
mm nnvenii Hours. 1 Mitt, death re- I
suited from lack of nourishment was
the opinion of the police surgeoi
summoned.
Mrs. Chrystie came to Memphis
about twelve years ago from St. j
Louis. Her husband died several
| years ago. That she was a woman
of refinement, neighbors declare was
> apparent.
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time."
Those who know the chaotic coni
diflon of the accounts at the mill
office <1 o not know what to think.
It is a very strange case. Thoso
who have looked into the condition
of affairs thus far say that they
have never known or heard of anything
like it. There appears to be
a big shortage and on the other
hand there appear many old checks
and some money to decrease the
shortage. Some of the checks may
bo good. Some of the checks wero
from the government for cloth purchased
from the mill and some of
these are several years old. Harris
is about thirty-five years of age,
and stands high socially. His bond
has been fixed at |22,G00.
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HOLD UP GAME
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The Tariff t il! Discussad in the
Senate.
THE TRUSTS ON DECK
l>niiicl ( tin* Dobulo on tin*
I;i11, Charging That the Democrats
Wore lK'alt With Unfairly?llri.s
tow Refuses to Vote for the Hill,
and Huron Prepares Tuble of Votes
Beginning its consideration of the
conference report on the tariff bill
by a tedious report of that document,
the Senate dragged along during
nearly seven hours Monday without
accomplishing any important resit.
After the Hill had been read Senator
Daniel opened the debate
Charges Had Faith.
Mr. Daniel's speech consisted in
the main of tin arraignment of the
conference committee for the exclusion
of Democratic members. Ho
derated that the country was In a
fair way to begin lynching by the
Republican conferees. Ho said a
practical fraud had been committed
ii iuu> twill, l,
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Mr. Aldrich at first gave close attention
to the words of the Virginian.
but later left the chamber.
"This country and its institutions
stand at this moment between the
gallows and the ground," declared
Mr. Daniel in commenting upon the
method of the majority. "The senate
is apparently in the control of
lynch law."
lie then referred particularly to
what he charged was bad faith in
the action of the committee in signing
the conference report without
allowing himself and his Democratic
colleagues on the committee to meet
with them and to vote upon it as
agreed to by the chairman of the
cominitee, Mr. Aldrich.
Mr. Aldrich said emphatically he
never had promised that the Democratic
conferee should have a day
with the committee. On the other
hand, Mr. Daniel was sure that such
an agreement had been made.
Denounces the Dill.
Recalling incidents of the last
national campaign, Senator Dristow
declared that President Taft, in
Kansas, had favored a revision of
the tariff downward, and he had
been elected to the Senate 011 that
issue.
The fact was, he said, that practically
no reduction had been obtained
in the tariff bill. "The tax,"
he said, "has been taken off of
hides and added to tbo solo leather
suit case that the American citizens
buy. And yet it has been advertised
that a reduction has been
made on the leather schedule for
the benefit of the American citizen."
"Apparently," said Mr. Rristow,
"the only thing considered in formulating
the cotton schedule has been
the greed of the cotton manufacturer
of New England."
"As a Republican Senator," said
Mr. Rristow, "I will not bo a party
to placing Mr. Taft in the most embarrassing
position in which it is
possible for a President to be placed.
lie has in substance appealed
to this Congress to keep faith with
the people, but in effect it is a bill
to ignore that appeal.
"I set up no standard for other
Senators. Every man should vote
as his conscience and judgment distate.
But I feel that should I support
this bill, I would be recreant
to my duty as a Senator and unfaithful
to the people who sent me here
to represent them."
Prepare Table of Votes.
Saying he believed the passage of
im? i a nix mil would only bo the
beginning of a popular discussion of
the tariff, Mr. Bacon expressed himself
as extremely anxious that there
should be no question as to the
responsibility of Senators for the
framing of that measure.
lie had prepared a collection of
every yea and nay vote taken on the
many amendments to the bill, together
with an explanation of the
method of voting in the Senate,
which he asked to have printed in
the Record. This request was granted.
The table shows the attitude of ,
the members of the two parties to j
all the questions presented.
Mr. Bacon's statement, he ex- j
plained, showed that thero had been
1117 yea and nay votes in which the
I Democrats had voted for lower and
j the Republicans for higher duties,
except that in two instances the Ro'
publicans had voted for lower du ties,
lie added a careful analysis of
the votes of the insurgents and cerI
tain Democrats who had voted with
[ the majority. J
Commit Suicide,
Two young French girls of tho
working class, aged sixteen and
eighteen, have committed suicide at
Nlco by suffocation from charcoal
fumes. After strewing tho room
with flowers and draping tho bed
with long crepe bands, they put on
white dresses, tied their hair with
ribbons, drank some white wine and
lay down. When discovered both (
girls were dead.
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FA KM KIW> KHOriJ) SUPPORT
TIiono XcwHiii'pt'rs That l-'ight Tlit'lr
Had les.
In an audience composed monstly
of the members of the Farmers'
L'uion one of the speakers recently
expressed the mutual friendship between
the farm and newspaper in
the following:
"As a rule the farmer has no
firmer friend than the country press.
The homo paper is distinctly the
farmer's own paper, supported directly
and indirectly by farmers, who
compose the backbone of the subscription
list of the printer and
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mifsvij iui wuiii. me enterprising
merchant advertises. Now, brother,
let us not forget our friends. Let
us see that our subscription is paid
a year in advance. We can do it.
"The man or the paper that fights
my battle shall have my support.
Another thing, the merchant advertising
are the ones that make it
possible for us to get a good local
paper. The man or local firm that
is too penurious to advertise and
help support the local press has no
right to the farmer's patronage.
"I promise hereafter to go to the
live advertiser and the man who
does his share in supporting the local
press, thus contributing to my
support, rather than buy of a man
who proposes to take all and give
nothing back. If farmers as a class
would support their friends, the
other fellow would soon go out of
business."
riiorciiikn ovkk precipice.
Two Young <>ii ls I land in Hand Met
Their Dentil.
A distressing accident has occurred
at L'Herniitago above
Xeuchatol, Franco, to two girls who
were nicking wild flowers from a
precipitous bank. They had joined
hands and one had climbed down a
precipice to reach the flowers, when
she lost her footing. Her companion
tried to hold her, but her weight
proved too much and both fell over
the precipice. One girl, Mile. Banwart
h, landed on her dead, on the
rocks and was immediately killed.
The other, Mile. Koenig, suffered severe
injuries.
MANY 1)110 FROM CANCER.
It Baffles Medical Scientists and is
Spreading.
One man in every thirty-two, and
one woman in every eleven die from
cancer in this country, according to
I)r. Edward Milton Foote, consult
ui? {in)siciiiu to i-ii 13 xncw xorK skin
and cancer hospital.
"I have no hesitancy In announcing
cancer the worst physical
scourge with which we have to contend
today," said Dr. Foote, in an
interview.
"Cancer is far more dreaded than
tuberculosis, for although the death
rate from cancer is not yet so steadily
on the increase, while the great
white plague has been partially conquered
by medical experimentation
and is on the decrease."
LEADING LAWRR TO PRISON.
New Orleans Attorney Forgo<l to Extent
of Over $150,000.
To begin serving a sentence of
fourteen years Robert J. Maloney,
formerly a leading lawyer of New
Orleans, will he taken to the State
penitentiary shortly.
Maloney was charged with forgeries
exrredincr $ 1 0 nan TVfo?.r
0 T a. v v ) vr V V ? ATI till J KJ k
the clients whom Maloney defrauded
petitioned the governor to let
him remain in Now Orleans, with
the hope of straightening out some
of the tangled transactions of which
they were victims. This was done.
The governor decided a few nights
ago, however, that six months was
long enough for such assistance and
ordered that the penitentiary term
be begun at once.
Saves Woman's Tiife.
At Roanoke, Va., Berth a DeTine,
a young white woman, after quarreling
with her sweetheart, shot herself
in the head, In an attempt to
commit suicide. A "rat" in her
hair saved her life, the speed of the
bullet from a ..12 calibre rovolver
being checked by that appurtenance.
When the physicians at the hospital
pulled the hair from the wound the
bullet came out with the mass of
false adornment.
Tn\ve<l Launch l>y His Teeth.
Fred T)icke, a lawyer, of Two
Rivers. Wis., fhis n, .
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lives of seven women when the gasoline
en pine on his launch exploded
by Jumping overboard and taking the
pointer in his teeth and thus towing
the craft to shallow water, where
he women jumped out and wo'e
saved.
Used His Gun.
While on their way to church
Wednesday night near Renno, T.aurens
county, Poarl Gist and Buhl]
Golden, negroes, engaged in a pistol
duel, both using Iver Johnson
"guns," with tho result that Golden
was left dead in the road with
a bullet through the heart. Gist was
lodged In jail.
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Machinery
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CIUMINATj assault.
Fiendish Crime CI 1 urged Against
Young White Man.
The Journal and Review says on
Thursday afternoon P. P. Warreu,
a white man, was committed to the
Aiken Jail on a very serious charge,
that of assaulting a young white girl
1 who lives near Wagener, in the Lybrand
section.
The assault is alleged to have
been committed on the 5th day of
. July, but only recently the young
lady's parents heard of it. Relatives
of the girl swore out a warrant
ns soon as it became known
to them and Warren was arrested
and committed to jail by Magistrate
II. B. Garvin.
Warren runs a mill, or Is employed
at a grist mill, and it is here
the assault is alleged to have been
committed one afternoon, when the
young girl went on business. The
young girl was alone there with
him at the time. The girl is only
thirteen years old, and comes of
good people.
Under a recent law this is made
a capital offense, and if Warren is
convicted it will mean that he must '
suffer the death penalty. This is
the second white man that has been
charged with this fiendish crime in
this State in the last few months.
A speedy example should be made
of one of lite fiends and then possibly
such crimes by whito men
would stop.
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CIGAltHTTH IS AN OUTLAW.
Smokers Buy at High Prices During
Last flours.
The cigarette is an outlaw in Minnesota.
The new State law prohibiting
the sale has gone into effect, |
and it is now illegal to put them
on the market.
At Minneapolis the cigarette mar- J
ket assumed a good purchase in the
rlnRtnP' hmira Ttin
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and was unsettled as the stock market
after a flurry in Wall street.
Early in the evening there was a
shortage in popular brands at some
cigar stores and clerks sent up J
prices.
Reports came in from other sections
of the city that a fresh supply I
had arrived, which caused a rush to
theso stores. The prices were kept
at top notch. At least a million ,
cigaretts were sold in Minneapolis
during the day. Nearly very store
in the city had sold almost its entire
supply before the end came.
CAUSED INDIGNATION.
Citizens yof Mississippi Town Deny I
Preacher's Story.
Indignation was caused at Ethel,
Miss., a few days ago by a dispatch
from Cincinnati quoting the Rev.
Frank It. English as saying that ho
was threatened with mob violence
and driven out of Ethel without anything
to oat when he came to take
the presidency of Itust University at
Holly Springs.
Leading citizens of Ethel admit
that Mr. Ensrlish tr?wi
w . VUIU IU ICIIVO
I town because he was seen shaking
I hands with negroes and acting faI
miliarly towards them, which they
| believed would excite the blacks and
stir up race strife.
They say, however, that no mob
was formed and that no throats
were made. They say Mr. English
became frightened when told that
it would be better for him to leave.
Short Meter Sermons.
Selfishness is the seed and sin is
the harvest.
Think only of yourself and others
will forget you.The
empty bead is easily wrinkled
into furrows that look like deep
thought.
A small life often takes all its
time waiting for a chance at a big
I job.
Gambling has taught many a
young man how lie couldn't make I
money.
Iti is better to bo regarded as a
prude than tr?
.wv us a menial garbage
can.
The man who makes himself great
is greater than the man who Is
horn great.
Cynicism is a pain due to attempting
to ent all life's fruits too early
in tho season. |
1 Tho prayer that rises in the heart
always works a way to tho feet and
the fingers.
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Fairview IIon.se, Clyde, X. C.?Fine
view, good water, good table.
Kates $6 and up per week. No
consumptives. I)r. F M. Davis.
Wedding Invitations and announcements.
Finest quality. Correct
styles. Samples free. James H.
DeLooff, Dept. 6, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Work for yourself?Learn how to
make raised letter signs; used
everywhere; big wages made by
anyone. Full instructions sent
for 2 5 cents. Wm. W a mock, Beoville,
Texas. Box 328.
Teuoliers?Write for free booklet,
"A Plan," showing how wo ?
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you got a hotter position. Thousands
excellent vacancies open,
paying $3 0 to $150 monthly.
Schools supplied with teachers.
Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia,
South Carolina.
Make Your Own Will?Without the
aid of a lawyer. You don't need
one. A will is necessary to protect
your family and relatives. Forms
and hook of instruction, any State,
one dollars. Send for free literature
telling you all about It. Moffetts'
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CHEAT PLAGUE OF MOTHS.
Thousands of Them Swarm Hotels
in New York.
What appeared to be a heavy
snow storm was really mylards of
small white moths which again visit|
ed New York Monday night.
I Again the little pests swarmed
i into the brightly lighted hotels and
! restaurants and clouded the streot
lamps, but this timo they were accompanied
by millions of large
brown moths, some of them flvo
inches from tip to tip, and as these
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I miLioroa about the lights they lookeil
like bats.
A strange feature of these visitations
which this summer are worse
than ever before, and which the entomologists
are trying to fathom, is
what becomes of the moths at the
break of day. With the first ray of
daylight they disappear, but no one
has found where they go.
Two Hoys Drown.
While in bathing with several other
young boys tit, a point seven mile9
from Kingslands eio ?- ^
in me St.
I Mary's river, two white boys, Isaac
Carlton and Uoy Haddock, each
fifteen years of ago, were drowned.
It. was stated that the lads were seen
struggling together and It Is thought
one was endeavoring to save the life
of the other. The bodies were recovered.
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And we think we aro safe in saying,
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