The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 28, 1909, Image 4
OFFERED BRIBE
Congressman Grant's Story of the
Biltroore, N. C.t Affair.
MRS. REEDS DENIAL
Declares I'osUuisti^s Salt) That She !
Would l'ny More Than Others?!
Mr#. Hood Kays Grunt Told Iter
She .Must " onu? Across"?Hon.suv
tJoiuil Chttrm>i Made.
A dispatch from Asheville, N. C.t
says the recent removal of Mrs. Julia
Hood from tho llilt more postotllco
has culminated lu sensntionul charg- i
es and countor-charge?s, ith Con- j
gressnian John Grant of that district,
figuring prominently in the
melee Wednesday it was rumored
on tho streets that Mrs. Ko*mJ'h release
from the position of postmistress
ut Hiltuiore wus the result of j
charges preferred against her by a
persou or persons then unknown and
tho rumor grew to a definite statement
when Congressman Grant, questioned
by a press representative, admitted
that he had tiled the charges
which led to Mrs. Heed's removal
from the Hlltmore office.
Congressman Grant in a signed j
statement given to ttyr citizens
Thursday night. declared in sub"">
VI pc WoiiiI !rli>/( t/? hrlltp I
nim,u' - ;; j
birn to secure the ofllce for herself J
and that thiB attempt wa? made in j
the presence of his wife and daughter.
"A few days aft?*r the election,"
says the Congressman, "Mrs.
Rood came to mo at my home on
Grovo street and tried to exact from
me a promise of support which she
failed to get. but she left letters of
recommendation for me to look over.
A few days later she came to my
home and tried to bribe me in the
presence of my wife and daughter,
saying that if 1 would have her reappointed
when her commission expired,
she would pay me more money
than either of the other applicants,
and that 1 might see them and see
what they would pay lirst. 1 told
her that neither she nor any one
else could pay me for my endorsement,
and when she saw 1 resented
what she was saying and turned to
my daughter and proposed to pay
her if she would have me to appoint
him. 1 again told her that
1 could not bo bribed and my daugh
tor stated that she would have nothing
to do with the matter."
Mrs. Reed BuJd that sho would
make do statement until she had
seen Congressman Grant's charges.
She declared however that Bhe did
not attempt to bribe Mr. Grant, but
merely offered to contribute her
sharo to the Republican campaign
fund and to take stock in the party
paper at Greensboro. She allegoB
that so far from offering to bribe
the congressman he told her that
she would have "to come across for
the campaign fund, as all the other
officeholders had done."
Congressman Grant emphatically
denies that he told Mrs. Reed to
"come across."
It is said by Mrs. Reed's friends
that the facts in the political controversy
will be laid before President
Taft.
WEISKOPF AKRKBTRD
In Cincinnati uml Brought Back to
Columbiu and Bonded.
The State says Denis Weiskopf,
president of the Nivisson, Wieekopf
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, was in
Columbia Monday and gave bond fov
$10,000 to appear hero In January
to answer to the charge of conspiracy
to defraud the State, perjury
and bribery. Weiskopf 1b the head
of the concern which put through
the famouB label transaction. He
sold the State dispensary twenty-one
million labels, receiving therefor
$:{6,G77. The Investigating committee
at that time put in evidence the
claim that the State was overcharge;!
about $25,000. It Is now stated that
the attorney general haH evidenct
to show that not only were the calcu
lations correct, but that he knowi
where every dollar of the .graft wen
and that Welskopf's rake-off wa
about $7,500.
Welskopf was indicted along witl
others on the charge of conspirac
to defraud the State, and when n
did not appear here at the reoen
term of court a bench warrant wa
Issued for bin arrest. Gov. Ans(
upon this warrant niado roquisitio
upon Gov. Judeon Harmon of Ohl
for the arrest and delivery of Wei!
kopf's person to the agents of tti
State. Oov. Harmon last week, aftt
careful investigation, honored the r<
quisltion, and Weiskopf became
prisoner of the State of South Car<
Una.
I>ast Hot tie Hold.
The last bottle of whiskey In th
dispensary at Fairfax was sold Bsi
urday and Monday morning a car
was seen on the door of the dlsper
sary with a piece of black ribbon at
toe hod and on the card these word
In large letters: "Gone, never t
return."
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ORIGIN OF PELLAGRA
I>U. WATSON HAYS IT IH OAUSKD
BY KATINU HKAL MADK
?
From Fermented ('orn, From Which
Can Ik* Developed ? Toxin as
Deadly txs Htrychnine.
Dr. J. .1. Watson, of Columbia, who
was one of tho first physicians in this
country to awaken to the grave iro|
portance of pellagra, and w ho has become
widely known as an authority
j on the subject through his studies
' here and in Kuropo and his writings,
has returned from St. Louis, where
; he lectured on the disease, by especial
invitation, to the Mississippi Valley
Medical asBoclation, and exhibited
to the convention a characteristic ,
pellagrin, littl Loddie Cato, of Monet
ta.
Dr. WatBon told the 200 physicians
present that ho regards pellagra
as a most formidable ill. Unless
I checked, he says, it will be W'conil
only to tuberculosis. He has studied
its effects in America nnd Italy.
That this new, mysterious disease
which is causing n government inv(sUigatiou
all over the country, exists
in St. Louis and wherever persons
eat meal made from fermented
corn.
"With the extract of fermented
corn 1 can develop a toxin as virulent
ns strychnine," he said. "A few
drops of it will kill a Belgian hare
or guinea pig in two minutes. Cornis
one of the grandest and best cereals
Cod makes for man, but when
it is fermented it is a deadly poison
to man and beast. Unless we quit
harvesting our corn in August, when
it is green, and allow it to nurture
before cutting it, pellagra is bound
to exist. It is growing steadily and
numbering more victims.
"This lad," pointing to Loddie Cato,
"was born of healthy parents.
His father was a miller. The parents
ate only the good corn. The
children played around the mill at
Monetta, S. C., nnd ate the meal that
came from the hoppers. Much of
it was ground from fermented, green
corn. First a boy of five caught the
disease, then his sister of four.
This boy was two years old, and, as
his sister nursed him, he learned to
oat the cornmeal, too. His brother
and sister ure dead; claimed by pellagra.
'Pellagra nbounds most where fer
mented or grossly adulterated food
is eaten. There are more than 80 j
cases in the State Hospital at Peoria, i
111. Fourteen cases recently were
found among hospital patients in
Cook count v. Covernor m-noen i*
assisting the government inspectors
in maklsg an investigation."
The disease, most prevalent in
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama. Tennessee and other Southern
States where cornmeal is a great
article of diet, oxiHted there 20 or
3 0 years ebfore being properly diagnosed.
Two cases were reported in
New York and Massachusetts in
18 6 4.
It was in 1007 that Southern physicians
gained a working knowledge
of pellagra and diagnosed it properly.
Dr. Watson is one of the pioneers.
Ho made observations on patients
and animals. Dr Lavinder came
South and joined in the researches.
Dr. WatHon went to Italy, the home
of pellagra, to study it more intimately.
Pellagra was first recognized in
Spain in 1735, when it was callod
mal do rosa. It appeared in Italy
in 1750, and the peasants styled it
pell aga. In 1810 Marzarl called attention
to the relation between maize
and pellagra, and in 1 84 4 IJalardini
llr.st suggested the disease might be
duo to the Indigestion of disease
corn, which view has been contirmod
and upheld by Lombrosc.
The disease is prevalent in Houmania
and Italy; in the latter there
are more than 10,000 cases, 10 per
cent of whom are mentally Hfllicted.
Rounmania has 3 0,000 cases. The
disease prevails In Spain ana Upper
Egypt, and numerous cases are reported
in Austria, Scrvia, Bulgaria
, Africa, Mexico, South America, and
lately the United States.
1 TO MARK Til KIR CJRAVK8.
i
, Northerners to be Honored Wh<
Stood by the South.
K A lillfll'ial f rnm A llr All Dn no VT.
1. ? i V/(II /? 1 IWII Oil J O in I
y C. K. Henderson is receiving sub
*' scriptlons for a fund to erect n mon
1 ument to mark the grave of the Ke\
* 3. P. T. Fields and his wife, whoa
' remains lie in unmarked graves i
n i the cemetery of the Methodist churc
? | in that city. Tho Ilev. Fields wa
*" | for many years a resident of th
10 city. He was in Aiken during th
! reconstruction period. Coming froi
the North at this time, it was bti
natural to suppose that he woul
*' align himself wtih the llopublica
sympathizers, but instead he stoo
firmly by tho side of the white pec
pie and was a loading factor in th
io ranks of the Southern whites In '7t
I- Now his remains lie in an unmarkc
d grave. His relatives are poor an
i- unable to erect monuments to thes
t- good people, and consequently Mi
s Henderson is endeavoring to raise
o fniWMont amount to mark t.hel
grave*.
HELPED TRUSTS
Herman Ridder Says President Taft Was
Led Astray by Them
TRADE WAS IMPENDING
flu* I'nited S(j?(oh and Canada,
llcttuisc of llliimler in I'aiK'r
I
Kch<kdultv?Head of Publishers'
Association Says President's Mis-1
fjiko \liiv f'linwi, Iti'fjiliiit inn
President Taft apparently was led
into a serious blunder in the closing
days of the recent session of congress
when he changed his attitude on the
print paper schedule, according to
an open letter addressed to the chief
executive and signed by Herman Kidder
of New York, president of the
American Newspaper Publishers' association*.
Mr. Kidder's letter, written some
time ago, was made public a few
days ago, following its Indorsement
by the International and Daily Press
association. Mr. Kidder's letter follows:
"To the President:
"The full text of your address at
Winona, Minn., on the tariff 1)111
passed Just come to hand. With
the utmost respect we submit that
your statement respecting the paper
schedule shows that you could not
have correctly read or understood
what the print paper paragraph contained.
as it missed the house of ren
resentalives.
"You wore apparently misled by
dcsiginiug men Into a serious blunder
when, In the closing days of the
tariff conference, they induced you
to reverse your previous attitude on
print paper, and changed your notions
of what the Mann committee
recommended and of what the house
of representatives had approved. The
Mann committee, after a 10-months
investigation marked by unusual
thoroughness, reported that a rate of
12 would cover the difference in cost
of production at home and uhroud.
~ojes Aiojntosqu posdojd ljnjp out
guarded American paper mills
against the serious conditions which
the advance by the tariff conferences
has since precipitated.
"The fixing of tho rate on print
paper at $3.86 per ton, which you
advised, has decided the Province of
Quebec to prohibit the exportation
of its pulp wood and many American
paper mills must close or move
to Canada to obtain their supplies
of raw material. The country is
now in a fair way for a trado war
with Canada, because of your apparent
failure to read correctly the Mann
committee's recommendations. We.
are threatened with an industrial disturbance
which will Involve business
interchanges with Canada amounting
to $285,000,000 p?'r annum.
"We sincerely trust that you can
find Homo method of rectifying the
mistake into which you were led.'
We fully appreciate the difficulties'
and responsibilities of your exalted
office, and we believe you are trying
to do the best you can. We know
that you must rely upon others for
your information. Wo feel that
every citizen is under obligation to
help you. Therefore, we write this
letter to you.
"Very respectfully,
"Herman Kidder,
"President, Newspaper Publishers'
Association."
WANTS !<'<tl;A l kil era \er
"C " l,va %tav,a,#
Miss Belle lknuett Voices Demand
for the Ballot.
"Women are doing prucucUly the
same work as men and they ought
to be allowed the right of suffrage
and ought to have the same privileges
in every phase of life and thought
that men have."
This was the statement made Monday
by Miss Belle Bennett of Richmond,
Ky., president of the women'3
board of home missions of the Moth'
odist Episcopal church, South, at
Savannah. This goes further than
Miss Bennett's demand that Methodist
women be given all rights of laity
in the church.
? The committee on memorial framed
a memorial to be presented to the
next general conference of the church
petitioning the granting of full rightf
' of the laity to the women of tin
- church. The question of the broadr
ening of women's lives through giv
r. ing them added responsibilities is
c easily the most talked about subjec
n before the mission board,
h ?
h Owners of Ix>mlon.
0 Some 3 4,f>00 landowners posses
the land upon which Ixmdon is sit
n
|t uated, and this area Is estimated tt
j bo worth $3,000,000,000. The valu
? of this land is now, however, iucreas
(j ing very slowly. It is calculated tha
the increases in the next twenty year
e will be about $173,000,000.
). ' * * *
(j High l'raise.
d Llshop Candler once said that hi
e would rather his boy would simpl;
r.' go into a room where I)r. Carlisle'
a1 old coot wos hung up than to b
lr un^er fniMon of many a so
called great educator.
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LUNATIC SLAYED
ASYLUM INMATE IS STRANGLED
IN LONELY FLACK.
Dead Man Attack***! Physician in
in letters to the N**wspjt|H*rH, iuu!
Ho iN Accused of tbo Murder.
I)r. A. 0. McOowon, for twenty
years h leading physician of Jackson,
La., in jail on the charge of
having murdered II. A. Judbon, of
New Orleans, an inmate of the State
asylum for the Insane here.
I iiiiunn 'c )uiil v U.' <1 u f/\nn/l in *?
lonely spot near WakeUeld, La. lie
had been strangled to death. The
insane man had been allowed to leave
the asylum the preceding day in company
with an assistant supervisor.
Judson was seen with Dr. Motioweu
later.
l)r. MoGowen in sunder Federal indictment
on the charge of mailing
objectonable letters to prominent
men and woineu. For the past five
years the postal authorities have been
puzzled by repeated mailing of these
letters and it was not until a few
months ago that secret service men
discovered evidence that Is said to
have pointed to l)r. MeGowen.
No trace can be fonnd of the guard
who left the asylum with Judson,
who was considered a harmless lunatic.
While residing in New Orleans
he sent many letters to the
newspapers criticising men and matter
and one object of his attack was
Dr. MeGowen.
bundIigers
OIIAHGKI) WITH KILLING TillMAYOK
OF NHWl*OKT.
S. J. Sander* and His Brother Ar?
rost4>d in Newport, N. C.t for Assassination
of Fearless Officials.
At Beaufort, N. C., the grand jury
Mondny brought in a bill of murder
against 3. J. Banders, who had been
arested for the death of H. Z. Newberry
of Newport, N. C.. who was I
shot to death Saturday night at th(
door of his home there. 4udg<
Guion ordered the sheriff to summon
200 talesmen in order to get a Jury.j
The case is set for Friday at 10
a. m.
Sanders is looked in the Carter
county jail, while his brother, 15.
F. Sanders, also is under arrest, helo
as an accessory. The prisoners were
carried to lleaufort by Sheriff Hancock,
after a coroner's jury at New,
port had returned a verdict that
Mayor Newberry's death resuiteo
i from gunshot wounds inflicted by
S. J. Sanders and that his brothei
also was implicated in the shooting.
The assassination of Mayor Newberry
was the direct outcome, it is
unl.l v.f -a
ouki, vi niv ^iwnwuuuu Ol D11II (1
tiger" cases. The mayor recently
had had several persona arrested for
Illegally selling whiskey and four
of the men, including the two Sanders
brothers, were bound over for
court at lieaufort next Monday. It
is alleged threats huve been made
against the mayor's life and after his
assassination Saturday night suspicion
was directed to the Banders
brot hers.
Great excitement prevailed in Newport
after the tragedy occurred Saturday
night. Requests for bloodhounds
were sent to Tarboro and the
road in front of the major's home
was roped off in hope that the dogs
might be able to reacrily pick up the
scent and lead tho authorities to the
mi_ i - - * -
artOMMsiun. i ne ueau man a wire wan
111 in bed at the time of the murder
and his little daughter Htood by his
side when he was shot.
Word of the shooting was sent lb
Beaufort and County Solicitor A hernethy,
accompanied by Sheriff Hancock,
and a coroner's Jury, went tc
Newport in n special tralu. Upoi
arrival of the train at Newport the
Sanders brothers were arrested an<:
later the coroner's Jury ordered then
hold.
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MKN KILLKI).
Explosion of Holler I'loy.s Havoc ii
' a Sawmill.
?
Seven employes wore killed am
three other persons were severol
i injured when a holler at the plan
i of the Oriftln sawmill company, nea
W1 Dorado, Ark., exploded late Mon
day.
The steam register, it is deolai
8 ed, failed to indicate the overpret
sure, the explosion, which could b
heard for scvoral miles, following
0 wrecking a large section of the plan
G The doad: Lewis Andrews, Wai
" ren Barnes, John Joffries, Edwar
1 Carter, James Petit, unidentifle
8 white man, Mekkins, colored.
Mrs. J. C. Heed, wife of the supci
Intenclent of the mill, and two whit
men whose names could not be ascei
e tained were injured. The latter tw
y aro believed to be fatally hurt,
s Mrs. Heed was in her homo som
o distance from the mill when the e>
plosion occurred, a brick penetrat
ing the wall and striking her.
f Bank of
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T Capital Stock
!XS l>4'pOHit?
/h Total Assets
2? DIRKt
/|\ J. A. Mcnermott, ?
T. McNeill, B. G. <
tlebaum, llul. L. 1
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/|\ The oldest Hank in I lor
A olitia. Associated with, (he r,
/4V past decade. Our. jxilicj
r the "independent Republic."
fij to our customers every . nuts
/L\ tent with sound banking. We
<fs aIh, firms and corporations.
fl). A. SPIVKY,
V ice- Presi dent.
tt ?i\K OF
Ciiiiwu
JAP IT A L STOCK
WHPLl 8
UAhlLITY OF STOCKHOLDERS
4ECTHI i Y TO DEPOSITORS
I) IRIX
Robert B. Scarborough.
H. L. Buck,
<eor^c ,1. Holiday,
W (oiitune t< j a> . p? r cant inter*
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THE WORLDS 8REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE j
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lfvnfl want ntfhora VllirallnirHlinllUi Itnlkr*
fehutlieor xi HlugrVo Thrca<i ( Chain Mitch]
Sowing Machine write to
THI NEW HON! SEWIN8 MACHINE COMPANY
Orange, Mass.
Many sewing machines are made to sell regardless of
quality, hut the New Home is made to wear.
Our guaranty never runs out.
old by authorised dealers only.
ro* SAL* BT
BUliHOUlilta * CLANS CO.,
Conway. R. C.
t'KOFHMHIGMAL ( AKIN
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Con nee lor At La*
CONWAY, 8. O.
O. K. ST. AMAN'D.
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Conway, M. C
U. B. SCABBBOrGH
CONWAY, S. O.
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CONWAY. S. O.
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Launch l*nrty Missing.
" The launch Sarah L., Ave days oul
( of Walker, Minn., 1h believed to hav<
( gone down with all on board or
Iveich Lake In the fitorm which swept
the lake. A government boat ha*
e been sent out to look for tho wreckago
or dead bodies. 4
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0 Neutrals think to tread on eggf
c. and break none.?German.
L- Everything new is beautiful.?Italian.
Conway f
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100,0004?0 fl)
250.9A0.0O jfjS
LTTOH8 J?
ino. C. Spivey, D. /|^
Collins, C. P. Quat- iL
[*uck, D. A. 8pivey.
ry iiml a pioneer in Katftern Car- fk\
npifl progreMH of our County for Ak
f ha* been for the upbuilding of 5c
With (his in view we extern! W
oiuihle HM-oinmodatlou eoosis- /lS
solicit the Accounts of IkUvIUu* /n
t
HAL. L. buck,
Caahfor. ^
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' hokky,
y. C.
$ 50 000
10 000
50 ooo
110 000
;iors
W. R. Lewis,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman,
on ytnrh deposits, Miclvt holic
L niH'K, VIM. A FBEFMAS
VICE I'BFSIDF.NT. .C A^pibu
j KII)NAI*I*KI> (>IHL RKTURNWD.
I iXLvstoriouNly Is-ft. No>ar llomo of I lor
I
Father.
Jennie Ix>pez, the four and n half
year old ^ 1 r 1 who was believed to
have been kidnapped while at play
in front of her home in Wast Thirtyninth
Ktreet, New York, on Septexuber
7 last, was mysteriously returned
to the vicinity of her home before
daylight Tuesday.
A policeman found the chil^J alone *
in the darkened street two blocks
from the tenement occupied .by her
parents. A long towel was wrapjK'd
several times about the child's head,
either to mullie her cries or conceal
her identity. ?
Since the girl was stolen her father,
who iH a prosperous fruit dealer,
had received numerous letters demanding
large sums of money and
threatening to injure or kill the child
if - - *
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SHOOTING AT FESTIVAL.
Jim Price Fatally Wound<xl by .(?
Scott. Padgett.
At an lee cream festival given Saturday
evening at Beroa, near Snaoaka.
in the upper part of Colleton county,
Jim Price vuis shot and perhaps
fatally wounded by J. Scott Padgett.
Price la Haid to have b??eu drinking
and It Is alleged was boisterous and
profane in Padgett's Btore before
ho in e ladles. Padgett told him to
be quiet, saying ho would have to
put him out. Price replied that he
would have to and cursed Padgett,
and, it is reported, drew his pistol,
Padgett took his from the shelf and
shot, the ball striking in the corner
of the right eye, lodging in tho back
of the neck. Price is reported to
be fatally wounded. Padgett hasnot
been arrested. A few yours ago
! Price was tried for mourder on the
1 charge of killing Willie Redisty. He
is out on ball now the jury having
| reported a mistrial.
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RUNS OVER (X)1U*SK
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Of a Man Who Had Roen Murdered
Short Time Before.
j Near Jelico, Tenn., Monday morning
a Southern railway svUlch engine
' passed over the body of Klbort Oil i
bert, decapitating it. The crow of
the engine believe that Gilbert had
been murdered and his body placed
upon the rails only a few minutes
before he was struck by the engincv
Tho engineer, who stopped his engine
within 20 feet after passing
over the body, learned that Gilbert
less than 3 0 minutes before had been
seen in a heated argument with a
companion near where tho body was
found.
?
Invited to Tuko Flight,
A dispatch from Savannah, Oa.,
says an invitation will t>o extended
to President Taft and Governor
Brown of Georgia to make a flight
in an airship while they are there
November T>. Two airships will be
t in Savannah for racing purposes at
? the Savannah fall festival. It is
1 planned to attach tin; airships to
t each other by rigid bars to glvo thexn
? double the lifting power of ono and
to guard as far as possible against
1 any mishap.
* Don't imagine that you won't
need oars in a gasoline launch to got
back home, especially on tho big
! lakes.