The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 23, 1909, Image 6
! SHIP BOOZE BACK
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Charleston Blind Tigers is Gosdy
Watched by the Officers
THEY GIVE UP THE FIGHT
A Great Deal of Whiskey and Beer
is Being Sent Anrajr From CharlesCon,
the Tigers Doing Afraid to
Bocoive the (JooAs, as it Would
Bo Seized.
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A dispatch Xlom Charleston to
The State says three thousand and
two hundred and fifty-six quarts of
whiskey and 4,680 bottles of imported
beer were loaded Wednesday on a
steamship of the Baltimore line and
shipped back to Baltimore and immodiatc
points. The contraband had
been consigned to blind tigers here,
but never reached the consignees as
tho police patroleil the water front
day and night and the fltuff gradually
piled up on tho wharves.
The greater part of the returned
whiskey and beer was so undeniably
'contraband that the blind tigers
f . did pot even go through the form of
t attempting to O. K. the bills of lading,
but simply waited until the vigilance
of the police was relaxed. The
opportunity never came, and all parties
concerned thought that the best
plan would be to return the liquor
to tho -point It w as shipped from.
There is at present on the various
steamship wharves many times the
amount of contraband shipped out of
the city, and as the police show no
indication of relaxing their watch
along the water front, the next week
or so will undoubtedly see enormous
shipments of whiskey and especially
beer, as the latter stuff keeps only a
limited time, to their various destinations.
Certain enterprising tigers did attempt
to O. K. a limited number of
bills of lading for tho accumulated
contraband but as they were promptly
refused, the practice was discontinued.
A very limited amount of whiskey
and beer has without doubt been
spirited away in small boats to
neighboring sea islands, as the police
have to confine themselves sole.:
Y to the land, as they are without
means of extending their -activity
Co the water, but as they are on the
lookout for smuggling of this nature,
the amount spirited away is of small
moment.
Tho same steamship that carried
uiic.K. iue large consignment brought
into the city only 22 gallons of whiskey
and 10 barrels of beer, a marked
decrease In the amount imported recently.
A glance at the police blotter
shows that between September 6
end 15, local tigers forfeited ball
to the amount of $1,150, rather
than face the charge of dispensary
violation.
WILL HAVE TO WAIT.
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to Money to be llad for the Managers
of State Election.
The Florence Times says those who
?/>ld claims against the State for
the las-t election are doomed to disappointment.
It was thought that
being a special election, the managers
would be paid out of the small appropriation
made by the last legislature,
hilt there were too many eleci
tions a head of Florence county, and
the appropriation was only $600, so
that the creditors of the State in
this county will have to line up with
those in the other counties and wait
the appropriation of the next legislature
to collect their claims. The
editor of the Times went over to
Columbia to try and get this money
for the managers in Florence county.
but was'obliged to return empty!
banded. Bond issue elections and
other sj/eaial "elections have been
bold in a number of counties and that
exhausted the funds. No county in
Which special elections wero held at
the same time as the dispensary election
was held can draw money, since
ftome had to be put out, all dispensary
counties were put on the same
footing.
PLACED IN PRISON.
Preacher Accused of AtKluctlng a
Young Woman.
Hev. Wallace M. Stuckey, pastor
of the Christian Church of Williamsburg,
Kansas . and editor of
Williamsburg Star, is confined in the
county Jail on the charge of having
Abducted IiOrena Sutherland, sixteen
years of age, daughter of a wealthy
farmer of Williamsburg from her
home. The girl, originally a brufiette,
but now a blonde, also is in
Custody. She will bo returned to her
parents and be used as witness
Against the accused preacher. In i
every principal featuro the case is
like that of Kcv. Jer? Knode Cooke,
p&Mor of St. George Episcopal
Church, of Long Island, N. Y., who
toaerted his wife and children and
? fled to San Francisco with Miss Lo
^ rettc Whale? a few years ago.
TRAITORS IN CONGRESS
IlKVAN 800IIKS HOCALLKI) DEMO.
OKATtt WHO VOTKI>
With the Republican* ia Oongreea
Agafnut the Platform Adopted by
Their Own Party.
Bryan, the Great Commoner, made
I a groat speech Tuesday at Dallas,
Texas. Denouncing him who would
violate a party pledge ratified by the
voters of his party as an embezzler
of power. Bryan outlined his views as
to the tariff before a large audience.
Mr. Bryan's subject was "Democracy
and the Tariff." He emphasized
necessity of Senators and Congressmen
being bound by platforms, saying
he would later suggest a form
for such a plank.
"If all of the Democrats in the
Senate and House had voted against
every proposed increase in the tariff,
and for every proposed decrease, we
might have made our light next year
upon the party's record without making
a specific declaration on items
of schedules." said Mr. Bryan.
"But in view of the fact that Democrats
in both the Senate and the
I House differed as to the interprets
lion of the Democratic platform, and
as to the rates that should he imposed
under the various schedules,'
1 believe that it is necessary for our
| platform to he specific and emphatic.
"If we expect to secure control of
Congress, we mu6t convince the public
that we will, if entrusted with
the power, favor material reductions.
Unless our candidates for Congress
can agree before the election they
are not likely to agree nfter the
election. If each Democratic candidate
will state his position, the
voters can select a representative
who will give expression to their
views, and 1 am much moro anxious
that the representatives shall
reflect the wishes of his constituents
than I am that he shall agree with
my opinion."
Mr. Bryan concluded his address
with an extended argument in favor
of free raw material. When asked
if he would attend the reception to
he given Samuel Gompers, president
of tho American Federation of Labor,
on his return from abroad, Mr.
Bryan said:
"That depends upon the date."
When told that it was October 1,
he said:
"Impossible. That is our twentyfifth
wedding anniversary."
GRAFTKRvS WILL BE CONVICTED.
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nviururu iiKiiiu.il 1 ntMU MMK1 tO IIP
Very Strong.
The Florence Times says the general
opinion in Columbia is that
something Is going to happen right i
hard to the men charged wth graft- 1
ing in the State dispensary matters. (
The evidence given before the grand i
jury is direct, positive and apparent- <
ly indisputable. It is said that the
men on trial are worried. The prosecution
feels sure that they will secure
convictions if they have a jury j
that anything like recognizes their
responsibility.
The members of the grand jury
have let out few of the things that
were brought out in the evidence be- !
fore them, and they are shocking, so 1
shocking that the men could not keep *
the stories to themselves. The taking
of money and money in big slices,
is not even attempted to be denied,
the accused content themselves
with insisting that it was not bribery.
The cumborous verbage of the in
uicuntMU charging that with force
the defendants conspired to cheat
and defraud the State, has caused 1
a good deal of merriment, the liquor '
men say that they used force or com- '
pulsion, hut found the local parties '
quite in a receptive mood.
The cases may not be brought up
at the present term of court, but !
they will come up if there is time. !
The jail is full of prisoners and
those out on bond are let alone until
the jail is cleared. This may
take the graft cases over to another '
term, or to a special term.
HIIOT IIKH AUNT. ,
An Alabama Woman Arrested on
J
Charge of Murder. I
A dispatch from Brewton, Ala., 1
says Sheriff G. A. Fountain returend
from Pollard late Wednesday night
with Mrs. Will Nowling, who had shot
to death her aunt by marriage, Mrs. 1
llenry Nowling, two and a half miles
from Pollard. The latter was a sister
of Martin Idndsey, a millionaire
of Mobile. Mrs. Will Nowling claims '
self-defence. The trouble arose over 1
the efforts of Mrs. Henry Nowling
to put into the house of Mrs. Will
fowling household effects of a married
daughter. Ignoring the warning
she is alleged to have advanced on
Mrs. Will Nowllng with a bed slat,
at which juncture the latter fired,
the load of shot taking effect In the
heart of Mrs. Henry Nowllng. Mrs. (
Nowllng's father and brother reside ,
at Jay, Fla.
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Life preservers ? our cheerful i
thoughts. 1
PERISHJNWRECK
Eight Trainmen Killed and Fifteen Passengers
Are beared
BY COLLISION OF TRAINS
A Freight and Passenger Train
()orae Together Near Nashville and
Fire Sweeps the I>ebris, Consnm! %<
rr??_ n ai - % ?
k i wu ui mo iKXiies of Those
Who Had Been Killed.
Eight trainmen killed and 15 passengers
injured, two fatally perhaps,
is the result of a collision between
a passenger and a freight
train Wednesday morning on the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
railroad at Pegram Station, 20 miles
west of Nashville, Tenn. In the fire
that followed at least two of the
mangled bodies were completely consumed.
The dead: William Mogan, traveling
engineer, Nashville; Joe Cower,
engineer on passenger train,
Nashville; Jess Tarklngton, engineer
on freight train, Nashville; Walter
Koach, messenger, Nashville; Sam
Whited, fireman on freight train,
Nashville; S. B. Welp, brakeman; W.
S. Stalcup, mail clerk, Martin,
Tenn.; L. C. Bailey, mall clerk,
Martin.
Seriously injured: Bob Bailey,
fireman, Nashville, two ribs broken
and left side injured; Ellis Martin,
conductor on freight, Nashville, injured
on head and internally, may
die.
Slightly injured: Capt. T. Jobe,
Burton, N. C.; William Lunsford,
Peachtree, N. C.; W. L. Thomason,
Peachtree, N. C.; R. W. Boyd, Almond,
N. C.; Mrs. L. M. Lee, Tullahoma,
Tenn.; Mrs. Temple Lunsford,
Murphy, N. C.; Mrs. A. C.
Thompson, Murphy, N. C.; May
Thomason, Murphy, N. C.; Mrs. Mary
J. Jackson, McClellan; Mrs. John
Lively, McFimmville, Tenn.; Mrs.
John Dunn, Cumberland Furnace,
Tenn.; Mr. John Dun, Cumberland
Furnace, Tenn.
The collision occurred about 8
o'clock and was between passenger
train No. 4, westbound, and fast
freight No. f> 1, en route to Nashville.
The wreckage at once caught
tire. The baggage, mail, express
and smoking cars of the passenger
train and several of the freight cars
were burned. But one bag of mail
was saved. Through the almost superhuman
strength exerted by the
passengers the three day coaches
and tha Pull m mi n?.?.v.?4 c? ?
?^ n v,i c i/usuru ii mil
the fire and saved.
It Is the general Impression
among passengers and the trainmen
that the fault was with the passenger
crew, as an order to meet at Pegram
had been issued, and the wreck
occurred west of that station.
RUNNING IHJEL IN STREET.
Fugitives and Policemen Exchange
Shots?Two Hats Are Pierced.
A dispatch from Newport, Ky.,
*ays a running duel between fugitives
and a policeman created wild
jxcitement there a few days ago.
Detective Jeff Norton called at
the hotel to arrest R. W. Leroy and
Isaac Brewer on the rhnren
aining fourteen-year-old Florence
Gray. The men fled after Leroy
had fired three shots from a revolver.
One bullet grazed tho head of Detective
Jeff Morton. Another pierced
the hats of Tony Gastright and
lames Taylor, spectators. Another
slipped the ear of Chris Albert, the
sity jailor.
A policeman joined In the pursuit,
and a running battle ensued for
several blocks.
llengal Tiger a Suicide.
The hunt along the water front
[>f Marseilles, France, for the Royal
Bengal tigress that escaped from a
steamer in the harbor on Tuesday
came to a dramatic end when the
animal, mortally wounded and with
hlood streaming from her head and
flanks, fled from her mob of pursuers
and with enormous bounds
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gnuiuu mo w?ter rroni. 'rnon she
sprang into the sea and was drowned.
Players Were Poisoned.
Johnny Dobbs. manager of the
Chattanooga team, says that the
members of his team were poisoned
Wednesday while playing in Augusta,
All the men who drank from a bucket
of water are ill. Two, who did not
drink of the water, escaped. Meek, '
the star catcher, is confined to his
bed with a doctor in attendance. It
is not known how the poison got
Into the water or what was the nature
of it.
Pitched Ball Proves Fatal.
Charles Pinrkney, second baseman
of the Dayton, Oh*o, baseball team,
who was hit on the head with a
pitched ball in Tuesday's game with
3rand Rapids, died in the hospital
it noon Thursday. He suffered a?
fracture of the skull.
SEIZED A BIG STILL
LABOR TUS8AC PLANT CAPTURKD
LN SOUTH KMSTO SWAMP.
This is the Eighth Still Tlrnt Has
Been Captured in a Year by the
Aiken Officers.
A dispatch Hays another of the
"big stills" of the South Edlsto river
swaffil) is in the Aiken Jail yard,
having been carried there by Officers
Samuels, Cato and Holley
Wednesday night.
The still was a large one, the
i <ii>.i< 11 y uviug uoout IKu gallons of
"mash."
Mr. Samuels received Information
a few days ago that Kinney Monday,
a white man, was iu the business.
The Information was based, it
is said, on Monday carrying molasses
from the Wind.-or depot. Subsequently
Constables Samuels, Cato
and Ilolley left Wednesday armed
with search warrants for Monday's
house, which was searched.
Nothing but empty Jugs and bottles
were found. These had the familiar
smell, but the "tussac" was
nowhere to be found. A search of
I the premises not revealing any whiskey,
it was continued into the adjacent
swamp.
A path from the house was followed
into the swamp, and a short
distance from the house the still
was found, still steaming after a big
"stilling bee" had taken place.
The big basin and the worm was
loaded on the buggy, while six fermenters
and a "fleeck" stand were
demolished. It Is said that this still
is one of the moat famous of the
Edisto swamp, having, it is alleged,
been in operation for 20 years. |
The distilled goods could not be
located, but all appurtenances were
destroyed. This still was found at
a point that has not been raided with- |
in a year, 16 miles from Aiken, near
Pine Log bridge. Monday raised
quite a fuss about the officers'
searching his house, but made no
resistance. I
This is the eighth still that has
been captured within a year's time
by the Aiken county officers. Aiken
is to be congratulated upon having
the diligent dispensary officers that
she has, as they are a terror to tho
blind tiger element, and by their
good works the violations of the law
are kept within a small sphere.
WANTS NEGROES TO VOTE.
Tuft CViticises I>aw Debarring Them
I
From Voting. j
President Trtfi- ?
- ? W Ulan Otjllllll'iy it 110
uneqtiivically placed himself on rec-1
ord, in a letter to a Washington
newspaper as being opposed to suffrage
restriction as being manifestly
intended to discriminate against the
negro race. In answer to a letter
asking his opinion concerning the
franchise amendment to the Mary-!
land constitution which is proposed
by the Democratic party in Maryland}
the president says: "It is deliberately
drawn to impose educational and ,
other qualifications for the suffrage'
upon negroes and to exempt everybody
else from such qualifications.
This is gross injustice and is a violation
of the spirit of the 15th amendment.
It ought to be voted down by
every one, whether Democrat or Republican,
who is in favor of a square
deal."
The Tobacco Crop.
The second monthly report on the
tobacco situation was made by Commissioner
Watson Thursday under'
the new act. It is for August showlng
total sale of 15,265,29.1 pounds,'
which brought $1,125,704.38. The
figures indicate a crop for the year
at least two and a half million
pounds. Mullins is the leading market,
Lake City second, Darlington
third, Timmonsville fourth, and Florence
fifth.
Will Wear Gray.
Before long the inmates of the
Confederate Home at Columbia, will
wear uniforms of Confederate grey,
thanks to the devoted efforts of Mrs.
J. W. Bunch, of that city, who has
raised by subscription about $800
for the purpose.
Three Hurt In Motor.
At Syracuse, N. Y., in a collision
between an automobile and a trol
loy car Thursday afternoon, Mrs.
James McKay, of Scranton, sustained
a fractured skull and Mr. and Mrs.
Timothy Oonklin, of Troy, Pa., were
probably fatally injured. ,
It was In this very cotta
from Birmingham, Ala.,
died of Fever. They had I
son's Tonic cured them c
\ ' k '. y. (\
The two phyatclans here had 8 very obetli
were Italians and lived on a creek CO yai
months standing, their temperature ranglnf
thing in vain. I persuaded them to let me
ed matter and let the medicine go out In a p
feet In all three oases was Immediate and pe
was no recurrence of the Fever.
Write te THE JOHNSON'S CHILL 4
Southern States
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Machines
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FIXED THE JURIES
SENSATIONAL CHARGES MADE IN
A CHICAGO COURT.
Great Kxcitement Caused by Ilench
Warrants Ileing Issued for Those
Accused of Manipulating Panels.
I At Chicago bench warrants were
issued Saturday by Judge Jesse A.
Baldwin of the circuit court for
John J. Holland, member and secretary
of the Cook county jury commission,
Nicholas A. Martin, secretary
of Alderman Kenna of the First
ward, and Willis J. Kayburn, a real
estate man. The charge against the
throe is that they conspired to draw
names of grand jurors in a manner
other than that required by law.
I Coming in the midst of the trial
of Inspector McCann for alleged
grafting, the news of the action based
on alleged tampering wtih the jury
lists caused great excitement in
legal and political circles.
I In criminal court circles the action
was regarded as the forerunner
of a wholesale exposure of alleged
conspiracies which may have affected
the drawing of other grand and petit
, juries.
I Because of the sensational nature
of the charges against Inspector McCann,
who is accused of accepting
"hush money" from disorderly hous
1 es In his district, especial care wa^
exercised, it was believed, in drawing
the grand jury which Indicted
hiin and in selecting the members of
, the petit jury now engaged in deciding
on his guilt of innocence.
! Commenting on the issuance of
the warrants and the cause of the
action, State Attorney Wayman said:
| ' "We propose to throw the light
on the darkest hole in Cook county
and clean out the jury commissioners'
room, which is rotton."
Under the State law the names
of prospective grand jurors are selected
at random from a sealed box
containing the names of 1,500 citizens
who have been examined for
jury service by the jury commissioners
and their fitness certified. A
similar method is prescribed for
petit jury lists.
The three accused men are alleged
to have substitued other names
for those drawn in the regular manner.
The defense scored a victory
in the McCann trial when the court
overruled an attempt by State's Attorney
Wayman tto Introduce evidence
that McCann had spent large
sums of money since he became in
specior and that ho bought a 640
aero farm In Texas last October.
McCann'R testimony was completed
Saturday afternoon and court adjourned.
Accidentally Killed Himself.
At Nashville, Tenn., while cleaning
a 4 4-calibre target pistol, Orville E.
Stocked, Jr., an insurance agent, accidentally
shot himself through tho
hear in the apartments of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Orville E. Stockell,
Sr., a few days ago. His sister,
Mrs. Echarls of Louisville, Ky., who
was standing near him at the time,
had only turned her head to speak
to her father when the fatal shot
was fired.
Killed by Corelessness.
Berry Williams, the 17-year-old
son of Mrs. Mary Williams of Townville,
Anderson county, met a tragic
death Saturday when a gun he was
placing against a stump was acci
aeniaiiy discharged. The load of ,
shot entered his side and death followed
4 0 minutes later. Williams
had been hunting and had stopped
to converse with a friend when the
accident occurred. j
The steeple climber says he seems
to be a sort of bellboy.
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ge In Brookside, 15 miles
that three Italians nearly
been sick 3 months. Johnlulckly?read
letter below:
llrookslde, Ala., May 4,190t
iate cases ot continued Malarial Fever. All
da from my store. Those cases were of three
r from 100 to km. Th? b A J 4 ? ? ?
. ..v uuvwin unu vri?u every*
try Johnson's Tonic. I removed all the printlain
bottle as a regular prescription. The efrmanont
They recovered rapidly and there
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Judge in Shooting Scrape.
At Huntsville, Ala., Judge Betta
and J. H. Ballentlne engaged in a
pistol duel on Saturday in the
streets, each receiving a minor
wound. The two men passed heated
words Saturday morning and were
separated by bystanders before blows
were passed. Each armed himself
later and when they met on the
street both drew revolvers and began
firing, emptying their revolvers
at each other at close range.
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le Glanr Screw Plates I
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