The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 26, 1909, Image 3
"police graft
In Now York Amounts to a Million
of Dollars In
N HARD CASH PiR YEAR
General Bin^htun, Police Coiiunlasiouer
of New York, Says That He
Could Have Made ut IA'ast Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars iu His
Kirst Twelve Months iu Oflice,
"1 am asked to estimate the money
value of Kraft and blackmail in New
York each year. No one can make
such an estimate with accuracy, but
my belief is that the total is not
less than $ 100,000,000. During my
first year at the head of the police
department it would have been an
easy matter for me to have made
$000,000 in bribe money, and $1,000,0
0 0 would not have been an excessive
figure at all."
? * ' - i rn\ ,x
Thus writes u-enerai jneuuort
Bingham iu an article to be published
in the September number of the
Hampton's magazine. It is the first
public statement made by General
Bingham since his removal by Mayor
AlcClellan from the oflice of Police
Commissioner. He writes:
"The power of Tammany Hall
rests, and lias rested for forty years
upon its ability to control the po<
lice, by fair means or foul. A strong
honest, fearless Police Commission
er, supported by Police Magistrates
of ability and integrity and a niayoi
big enough to conduct his ol'.ici
without fear or favor, can sap and
utterly destroy Tammany inlluencc
in ten years or even less, provided
he is empowered to dismiss and
transfer his subordinates for cause
without recourse to the courts.
"I do not believe I am unfair in
estimating that from fifteen hundred
to two thousand mem tiers ol
tiie force are unscrupulous grafters
whose hands are always out for
easy money."
That this is known by the head
of the depart mem unci app.u euu\
ignored is because the commissionei
is only nominal head of the force
he states, while a policeman has of
lice for life. Discipline and tlu
/ question of vested interests shoulc
be kept separate, he declares. Graf
is hidden in most city ordinances, h<
says and were enacted to be brok
en so that some one could maki
money from them. lie continues:
"One day, shortly after my ar
rival at Police headquarters an ac
quaintance dropped into my otlice.
"Commissioner," he said. "Ther
is a house at No. West Thirty
third street, run very quietly. I
will be worth $10,000 a month t
you"?but the sentence was neve
finished to my knowledge.
. "As a matter of fact, the plac
had never been opened, and the ma
had been used as an agent to fee
out the department.
"A few months later I was o
fered $5,000 in cash and $500
month merely to be seen shakin
hands with the proprietor of an uj
per Broadway cafe."
General Itngham states as his hi
lief that gambling cannot be elim
natcd, hut that a reasonable la\
imposing heavy licenses and ironcla
restrictions can be enforced. Coi
v coming the Rogues' Gallery, tl
controversy over which proved h
stumbling block, bo states that it
necessary to photograph criminal
but adds that it should be settle
. by a law not drawn in the intere
of criminals.
WOMAN FINDS SNAKK IN HI0I>
Was Awakened by Keptilo Crawlii
Over Her Face.
Mrs. John McKnight of Shartle
ville, Fa., had an experience with
black snake which she is not like
to forget for some time. The fair
ly retired as usual and when Mi
McKnight had been in bed but
short time she heard a peculi
nn i vto t?nck of her nillew.
Thinking it was an insect of sor
kind she thought no more of t
matter and wont to sleep. She h
just fallen into a doze when s
felt a peculiar sensation on her fa<
4 Reaching up to her forehead s
was horrified to find a snake crav
ing over her face.
Grabbing it, with a shriek s
' hurled the reptile across the roo
a i>suiitir m1h> found the snake 1 y 1
in ?'i corner of the room and kill
it. with a cane. The snake moasi
ed three feet, four inches
length.
Shoots Young I-ndy.
At. Portsmouth, Ohio, enraged 1
cause he had been jilted, Ilai
Jiliss, 18 years old, Tuesday si
and fatally wounded Miss Min
i Clarke, 17 years old, at a crowf
street corner. When Miss Clai
refused to return a ring, Bliss dr
a revolver and shot her through
back, the bullet penetrating the ri
lung. Illlss was arrested.
After all, the light Polo may
he what you'd call polite.
GOES OVER FALLS
XIAGRA RAPIDS SWALLOW UP
ONE MORE VICTIM.
Young Man's Bravo Efforts Prove
Useless, Giant Waves Finally Overcoming,
Driving Him Under.
Niagara rapids claims ono one
more victim. A dispatch from there
says August Sparer, an eighteenyear-old
boy, a resident of Niagara
Falls, wont to his death Monday in
the whirlpool rapids after a gallant
battle with the giant waves between
the lower bridges and the pool.
With three companions Sporer went
for a swim in the river, lie struck
about at once for the middle of the
jlro'iin ;iml thnn turn ml tnwnrrl the
bridges. His companions called to
him to turn l>a<'k, for the current is
very swift at that point, but ho kept
on down stream and was ca?ught
in the great sweep, the llrst break
from the smoother -waters to the
rapids.
The boy struggled for a time
against the current but to no avail.
Then, realizing that he was beyond
human help and was to be carried
through the rapid which took the
' life of Capt. Webb, and which have
1 resisted every unaided human effort
at passage, lie deliberately turned
down stream and began a grim fight
for life.
Not in all the history of the river
' has such a brave effort been witnessed.
Although but a frail boy, he
' went into the rapids swimming
strongly and hold his own until he
struck the giant wave which curls
up opposite the Old Mattery elevator.
Then he wont under and for a second
was lost to sight of the score of
people who stood on the lower arch
bridge.
Again and again he disappeared
only to reappear, each time fighting
desperately against the terrible current.
Then when within 300 yards
of the whirlpool his strength gave
out and he sank and was lost to
view.
Even then he had swum perhaps
100 yards farther than did the great
English swimmer, Capt. Webb. *
THEY WKKE SENT MACK.
I'nolo Sain Detains ft Runaway
Coii|>le From Fragile.
At New York the immigration officials
have shattered the romance of
3 nineteen-year-old Meat rice Mayer,
who left her husband of a few
months and eloped to this country
with her tirst sweetheart, Adolph
Grohman, a youth of twenty-three.
G The young couple who have a plentiful
supply of money, and whose re1
flnemont apparently verifies theii
? claims to kinship with prominent
I families at Prague, arrived in New
York on Monday. Mrs. Mayer was
? accompanied by her maid and al
II of them had first cabin passage.
They would not have been disturb
ed in their desire to land had not i
cauiegram preeeueu uieir arrival. i
was from Mrs. Mayer's husband, am
asked that tlioy be detained at Nov
)_ Yorn. A special board of inquir;
lias decided that the man and Mrs
' " Mayer and her maid must be deport
1_ ed. Before the board, Mrs. Maye
N' made an impassioned plea to be al
lowed to land.
"Adolph was my school compar
1 ion, and we have loved each ot.be
for years," she said. "We wante
to marry, but my folks objected
' I resisted as long as I could, bit
>(^ in the end they forced me into thi
objectionable marriage. I never lo\
ed my husbatid, but I do love Adolpl
After four months of marital trouble
1 decided that the only way to avoi
a life of trouble and unhappines
ijr was to run away with Adolph."
ti1 V I fc i \ II I 1.^ It' / k I > t Ik V ' I I ?
is
a According to (lie "lloly Ghost an
,y , ^
jj. i s Society.
The Holy Ghost and Us Soclel
a , .
ar whose principal base or operatloi
is at Shiloh, Me., has received a<
n0 vices that the end of the wolrd is I
pe come at 10:20 a. in., VVednesda
nd September 1.
p0 The Itev. Frank Sandford, wl
,e originated the sect and calls hin
j10 so If "Elijah," says that this w1
vl_ happen. The Holy Ghost and I
society at Shlloh is making prepar
hG tions to don the pure white robe
m pass to the housetops of their vi
lagee, and there await the dread in
ed nient.
ir- When it comes they expect to s
jn the sky fall, and the earth, moo
and sun disappear, and they thei
selves transplanted into the reali
of eternal bliss, while all others pa
, ^ into dest met ion.
berry
-jot Young Lady Drowns.
nle Miss Caroline Middleton, the s
led teen-year-old daughter of Mr. Jam
rke S. Middleton, of 610 Piedmont a'
ew nue, Atlanta, Ga., was drowned
the East Lake at the Country Club
ght the Atlanta Athletic Club Frid
morning about 11 o'clock, while
bathing with a number of young In
not friends. The family went to Atlai
from Charleston.
1 KIND LITTLE WORDS
COUKTKSY IS THE CHEAPEST >
THING IN THIS LIFE,
And it Should Ik? Practiced by All <
of Us in Our Intercourse With
Each Other.
T ! 4 ? I 1 .. I .4 l.ln.ltiAM. - .>?t,
ljillit' WUIU9 ill tv i nil iir??-o r^unvu,
A motion or a tear,
May oft relieve a heart that's broken,
J i
Or make a friend sincere.
Courtesy is tHe cheapest thing |
there is in this world. Because it (
is so cheap is perhaps the reason
that it is so infrequently used. it (
costs absolutely nothing, therefore
one would think it would be by the
desk or at the hand of every man
and woman in the world.
Yet the fact remains that there ,
are very few really courteous men.
So few are there that when one
does meet such an one he is surprised
and refers to him "as a
gentleman of the old school."
Because a person does not happen
to fancy a man is no reason that
he should bo discourteous with him.
Outward adornments, facial expression.
peculiar mannerisms do not destroy
manhood. "A man's a man for
all that."
Sometimes we say that a man's
real strength is shown in tho manner
in which ho expends his energy;
that his real benevolences are manifest
in the way he dispenses his
charities. Yet if you would know
what Jt m;?n really ; n<i truly is you
must study him ;is he deals courteously
or discourteously with his
brother man.
The man who is discourteous to
the man under him and servilely
cringes before his superior with
obsequious courtesy may be ;i great
worker, a splendid result-getter, but
he is not a gentleman.
A true gentleman will, if compelled
to dismiss a man from his
presence, do it with such grace and
courtesy that the sting of the dismissal
is largely removed and kindly
remembrances established in tho
mind of the dismissed man. True
courtesy gives of its substance as
freely sis the sweet-scented violet
gives of its odor, thinking not of
return, simply conscious of doiny its
duty.
Courtesy opens many doors of opportunity
where rough and ragged
manners would stand knocking vainly
demanding entrance. Courtesy is
oil upon the troubled sea of life and
saves many a good s.Vp of manh )od
from going to pieces on the barren
shores of failure and bankruptcy.
Courtesy lias won more battles in the
world than bullets. Courtesy uses
nn ennnun tn force it? nif>!isiiva?
yet courtesy wins a thousand times
whore cannon and mortars w1.: once.
In the hurry and rush of life wo
need to think more of the graces of
courtesy than we do. It would he a
' good thing if in every public school,
academy and college of the land, i
there might be established what
1 should be known as a chair of cour1
tesy. In this chair the truest and
1 most noble-hearted should teach boys
v and girls, young men and young woy
men, the value of true courtesy. I'he
' courtesy that plants a smd of selfrespect
in the underling, and which
1 makes the superior feel that tie is
in the presence of a man.
Of a great man of the olden time
it is said "his presence made bad
1 men good and good men bettor "
'* Underlying this sweet influence of
' the* man's life was good, honest cour'*
tesy. A courtesy that rose superior
IS to till environments of hate, worry,
vulgarity and trouble, jind noured
' itself in gentle libations into every
' man's heart, purifying and making
(' it sweeter and cleaner because of
its influence.
Happy, indeed, is that man to
whom courtesy is a blersed birthright.
iIe shall find that his path
In life is smoothed before his feet
1(j and that difficulties lie has dreaded
melt, at his approach.
Happy, indeed, is that man who
learns courtesy in the school of life,
y
who turns from ungentlemanly manlH
ners and habits to way of concillation
and refinement. That man slmll
to find friends waiting to do his bidy.
ding and the wheels of purpose turning
at his command.
10 Unhappy, thrice unhappy, is the
n- man who goes through life without
1! the grace of courtesy, born or acIs
quired, in his heart. His way shall
a he the way of a saw through an
s, oak hoard. He will mar, jar and
il- cut, leaving behind in his trail only
o- the reinein lira nee vof n hnrd tn^k
master who was determined to have
oo his way at nil hazards,
ii, Cultivate courtesy as one of thr
n- duo art* of life. She will make thy
us path rich and thy ways full of picas,ss
uros and peace, for courtesy rnakotl
friends for everybody who holdetl
her to his heart.
JOHN A. JAYNR.
ix10S
Drowns In Swolcn Stream.
ir0- News was received Monday of tin
In drown In#? near Shafter, Tex., Satur
of day of United States Deputy Colloc
lay tor of Customs John Donaldson an
In Immigration Inspector Robert Huidt
tdy Tho carriage in which they wer
ata crossing a swollon stream was ovei
turned.
RESCUED SAILORS
SKV1CN SNATOI1K1) FKOM 1)10 ATI I J
1IY THK lJFK SAVEKS.
Captain of Schooner l>rivt?8 His Vea- y
sol on Shore Thinking Hotel LI are
A\'jw Iiiiier'o Light.
Long Island lifo savers, after a
dx hours' battle, added another vie- t
ory against the tea to their long list I
>f remarkable rescues Tuesday, when
hey brought safely to land the cap- |
ain and crew ?seven souls in all? t
rom the three-masted schooner Ar- (
ington, of Boston, which went t
i - li i 11'i? n:i i'l i' T 111 v!i 1 !i v 11111 ? 11 i 11 ir iii I h . . .
* ,tv m v' vm. ij . ... ntwi limn vitv. i
lriving rain and fog off Long Hcai h, t
>11 the South shore of Long Island. <
The eighth member of the crew, i
Madden l'ierson, a Swede, put off
from the schooner on a raft a line, ,
but was swept out to sea and lost |
sight of. It is believed that he per- <
ished.
The rescue from the schooner .
was witnessed by cheering guests of
the Nassau Hotel at Long lieaeh and
by hundreds of cottagers. The hotel
was indirectly responsible for the
vessel's plight, for Capt. Ira Smith,
after having lost his hearings, mistook
the glimmering lights in. the
l?t ?' 11 r? i n i*a for f kin 131 \ /if n 1 i ti /11* t it 111 i < i
OI i IIVI u i i: IWI i Iivmv: w i ii iiii\ i tit 111 l v l
ocean, and thus misled ran aground.
The schooner, heavily laden with
Authentic, hound from New York
for Mayport, K)a . struck a sand bar.
Pounded by a heavy sea while a
terrific easterly gale was blowing,
she began to yield immodiat dy. '1 he
captain and crow climbed out on the
bowsprit. The life stivers reached
the scene soon after daylight.
They worked frantically, but in
vain trying to shoot a line to tin1
wreck. The high wind and seas
made made this mpossible, but alter
six futile attempts they succeeded in
getting a surf boat through the
breakers to the lee of the wreck ami
the rescue of the imperilled sailors
followed.
Aside from a broken ankle sustained
by the cabin boy and the snffoi'inir
i n ri 111 >11 f tn r>v tins-u rn which
all sustained, no one was seriously
injured.' The Arlington will be a
total loss.
HULK'S OF TKACJHHY.
Fifteen Skeletons Are Found in Fvcavation.
Tn Washington fifteen skeletons
lying together in such a position as
to indicate hasty burial and three
Knglish copper coins bearing the
date 1720, found with them during
the excavating for the United States
Medical School Hospital near the
banks of the Potomac, brings to
limn, u is neneved, some Indian or
piratical tragedy of early American
days.
As authentic history sheds no illuminating
ray 011 the case, the finger
of suspicion wavers in its pointing
looking first toward the rem man,
who stole silently along the wooded
Potomac hanks a century and a half
ago, then to a mythical pirate crew
which is believed to have made its
rendezvous in the upper Potomac,
and lastly to a mutiny-infested cave
trading vessel.
Put the bopvj? may remain forever
as silent as when they were in their
grave. *
SLAiM'ioi) IIKIC r.vor,.
I'cnnisc lie Saul Slie Sent lliin I nNeenly
Post Cards.
As an expense for slapping his
wife's face, William Schonck, of
Cincinnati, O, said that he was the
victim of "postal card mania," and
that his wife had sent the cards to
him. Judge Hoffman, of the Police
court, dismissed t ho case and told
the wife not to send her husband any
more postal cards. The; husband presented
several cards to the court.
On one was written, "All in, down
and out;" another showed a handsome
young woman, with outstretchml
(i I'tnu n n /I nn/lornon t h t iw? * ??t.
' ?? ui mo, (i mi 11 111 i v i n * en ii i in; )?i?ture,
was printed the words, "I don't
care it' he never comes hack."
Another had written on if, "Come
in; the water is fine."
Mow it Hurt...
One of the private cables received
by a New York cotton dealer from
Liverpool on Monday said that "the
South was an anxious seller of spot
cotton at present prices and that
daily offerings were large." This
was given as a reason why prices
! would he lower as soon as the contracts
sold by the farmers were due.
The fact that cotton advances in
price in the face of these outstanding
contracts shows how strong it is
1 If it was not for these contracts th?
1 demand for spot cotton would hi
much greater, and there is no telling
where the price would go. Hut thos<
outstanding contracts, which man;
farmers have sold, will keep buyer
c off the market, unless they can bu;
- cotton at a lower figure than thi
sold in those contracts. They hop
d in the meantime that cotton wll
). decline in price.
e
p- When a fellow is a regular haj
seed, It sooms bound to crop out.
I ,
TALKS HARD SLNSE
gENATOIt TILLMAN SHOWS l l?
1
TAI'T'S DLSKiN ON I S.
Say* Ho is Trying to Ochuiuh the
I'lDpIo of (tic South With Fair j
I'rtmiiws uiul Offices.
S? tiiilnt Tilltnt.u spoke to nearly t
hree thousand puoplo at Fountain
Inn, tireonvlllo county, on Inst
rhurvday His audience was comKistil
largely of farmers, and gave
he Senator close attention ami frojuent
applause. lie seems, to be in
inc health and spoke with his o!.!
iitie eloi|uence and power. He rupured
I tie crowd, as he usu all\ does, I
kVith Ins hard sense and outspoken .
ut teranees.
The Senator diseussed compulsory ,
>d uc.ition and other live topic, or, as
he put it after arriving at (Ireenville,
"took a kind of general sub- (
Jeet." and said just what he felt like j
saying
Among other things Senator Tillman
expressed his opinion on the result
ot the recent dispensary ebe
tion throughout the Slat** and sail
that he was giud to see that the
State was going "dry" and hoped
that the remaining counties which
now are wet would soon vote cut
Lite dispensary. The State an 1
News and Courier had educated the
people of the State to such a heigh*,
he said, that they are now ready to
vote the dispensary out in nearly
all tIte counties.
"Let all-dt ink water out of the
same gourd." said Senator rillman
"01 whiskey out of the same hottie,"
ami he added, laughingly. "It
doesn't matter which "
In speaking of the illations (f
President Ta ft with Southern people.
Senator Tillman said that I'r?evident
Tiit't was trying to dehiiueli the
people of the South with fair prom
ises and oflices. lie read over to
the gathering the Republican patty's
platform or planks of it, and
said that Taft's purpose was to seduce
enough white men in the South
to organize a respectable Uepubli
can party, bringing the negroes in
as a balance of power.
Missouri and Kentucky were already
in tlic doutdful column and
West Virginia was gone. All that
was necessary to monopolize the negro
in South Carol in si was to
have enough white men bought off
and to register the negroes that aro
capable of being registered. "Therefore,"
Senator Tillman said, "anything
along the line of increasing
the number of negroes who can read
and write and who could, therefore,
ho'eligible to register was the
height ot folly in his judgment."
If the white children conid be
sent to school by st compulsory law
without the colored children going
also, Tillman said, he would favor
such an enactment, but the 15th
amendment expressly prohibits any!
citizen on account of race, color,
etc. The negroes would benefit by
the compulsory law and the white
man would have to pay the taxes
for tb#' negro's education.
Senator Tillman arrived in flreenville
i nthe afternoon and wont immediately
to the house of his niece,
Mrs. Kasor, on Kuncombo street,
where he spent the night. He left
I early the following morning for
I Richland. in the neighborhood of
I Seneca, where he attended a big basI
ket pienie and made an address to
! t he gat tiering t here.
DOING \ GOOD WORK.
j The State Laboratory t'opnlar With
the Doctors.
The Columbia Record says numbers
o! physicians from all parts of
j ?he State, are beginning to lake ad
[vantage of the recently-opened state
bacteriological lalmratory. I>r. F.
\. (toward, the physician in charge,
is kept busy making examinations.
I Two hundred and fifty specimens of
sputum, blood and fetal matter have
been examined since the llrst of July.
Two suspected eases of rallies
are now undergoing treatment., and
I two patients have been but recently
i dismissed. Six animals have been
examined for rabies. On some days
Dr. Coward makes as many as I (?
bacteriological examination*-, which
is a hard day's work for one man.
The latest addition to the laboratory
apparatus is a cool biological
i incubator, which lowers the temperature
to 20 degrees Centrigrade. It
|is used in making gelatine cultures
of germs. Oelatine makes a splendid
mi nit' iiit-diuin ior hut, or
' account of I lie fad that It melts at a
r' low temperature, it must he kepi
very cold. The germs thrive as wel
at a low temporal lire as they do at f
higher. The cold makes no differ
once to them.
Killed Near Willislon.
V I
M | Dan (iaiuo8 was shot ami Instant);
Y killed by another negro, named Pet
t or Green. near Willlston Saturda
night. The men were playing, who
II Green pulled out a pistol, saying, "
believe I will shoot you." Gallic
said, "Well shoot," lie did so, wit
| deadly effect. Ft seems that it Wi>
an unprovokod murder.
TRAGIC AFFAIR
Young Afouan Shiots a Yaung
Man Who She Says
rftAD RUINEO HER LFE
I'ho shooting Took IMnco in tlio
A^t'nCs Oiliro of tlio Out nil oY
(jeorgiu Ituilroiul in Augusta, tin ,
\\ Iiere tin* Voting Man W as Km*
ployed.
I). Richard Watson, cashier in the
igent's oHlce or the Central of Onr
sl,i railroad, at Augusia, Ca., was
shot and duiiMvously wounded at
I 1:30 o Hock Wednesday l?y Miss
Clvira Todd, a young v.ouian twonlynne
years of age, for whom Watson
is said to have foimerly had an altachment.
Watson was removed t?>
tho City Hospital, suffering from a
wound in the left chest just below
the collar bone, a flesh wound in
tl*v*? throat and a broken leg between
the hip and the knee, all of
the wounds being intlicleJ with a
3 2-calibre revolver.
In describing the tragic affair
the Augusta Chronicle says tragic
and thrilling as the scene enacted
at the olllee of the agent of the Coniral
railroad at the corner of Washington
and Calhoun streets, when
a (all, dark-haired and youthful looking
woman, dnesod in deep black,
entered the placo hurriedly. She
had a handbag suspended from her
waist while in her right hand wa?
an umbrella. As she reached the
i."tiding of tlte steps she threw down
her umbrella without closing it vol
c .?.red the loll. Watson workel In
the first office to the right of the
doer and calmly, yet wtih wondoful
iWiftnoss which took all of the occupant
s completely by surprise, the
woman swept into the mom. V/.;;j.oii
was standing behind u railing
and was waiting on a customer and
his face was towards the door that
Miss Todd entered.
The first shot went wild and likevise
did the next two. L. \V. liar.
oweu m iwl II \1 / C. 1. -l. -
i v? <iim ii. m. v.din-ii, wii<? wore
in the office with Watson, ran out
through a small Kate while Walso")
tried to hide behind the door of an
lion safe in the office. Seeing tlio
Kate thrown open, the frenzied woman
took advantage of lrer chance
to get on the Inside and she rushed
in. While Watson was lying hehind
the Iron safe door the woman
wtood above him and fired three
shots, all of which took effect. She
tried to shoot again, hut was prevented
by Detective Hall, who lioaiing
the shooting and was close by
ran to the place. As Miss To<M
i
stepped upon the ground, after being
arrested by the detective, she
is quoted as saying, "I did my duty.
i (tin giao i nave none 11 and l woud
do it all over again if TieoesBary. '
Detective Hall says that the woman
had been around the Central
Railroad office for several days ami
that two days ago she stayed no;it
tho place from r? o'clock In the ;*f~
ternoon until 8:30 at night, ituill
says that on this occasion Watfeoo
knew she was trying to s"0. him
and he jumped out of a window am!
ran home. Detective Hall says alsr*
that Tuesday she was at the office
and wlnm Watson jumped out of ;?
window, trying to elude her she
gave chase tint was unable to catch
him.' *>n another occasion, according
to the difoclve, Miss Todd called
Watson to the window of his office
and brandishing a long knife declared
that she intended to have him
I n,any lor and < nr <i him
... . II . III. I llll I
says that tin* woman told him Watson
had boon faithless, after ruining
hor life and that after repeated
promises had refused to marry hoi.
Mi.-s Todd claims to have ruofc
Watson seven years ago at an entertainment.
She chlims also thai
at the time she formed an attach'
ment for him which has continued
ever since; that she was assured
by Watson time and time again that
i I ho loved her and would marry hor
when his financial c'lrcuras>tano<>9
would permit of it; that he had ruin
ea ncr character and continued for
: years to protest his devotion, yet
| he would never consent to marry tier,
lain' v i ?. n finally he is said to h wo
I ir'ornn..t her that he lid not co.rr
, to go with her longer, she was h
|
I 1 crazed woman ami shot hini. From
his cot in the City Hospital Watsou
Hated most eraphaticelf" that
i ho did not ruin Miss Todd and that
I 1 he hoped the public would withhold
i opinion until he was completely rer
i i covered when ho won hi make n
l I statement for himself.
j
i Heat Kills Weevils.
Reports from many sections of
Texsas indicate that the extreme
heat of the past few clays had not
njured cotton in the southern portion
y of the state, hut has practically exI
terminated the boll weevil so that
y ' the late c rop will be Improved rather
n than injured. Meat has caused the
I | weevil to fall off on the fcromul by
s thousands. ' ,'
h |
ts I One-sided people seldom side with
a ob?