The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 09, 1909, Image 4
ON BRINK OF WAR
Charge d'Affairs of Nicaraugua Given
His Passports.
SOME VERY PLAIN TALK
Zclaya, President of Nicaragua,
Hrand<kd as a Tyrant, and Will be
llekl Personally Responsible for
tin* Murder of Groce and Cannon,
Two American Citizens.
Secretary of State Knox has re
turned the passports 01 i eupe mmrigutz,
charre d'affaires of the Nicaroguan
legation, at Washington,
with a letter scathingly denouncing
the Zelaynn administration. The letter
ia definitely declared to represent
the views of President Taft, and is
about as plaln-si>oken as anything
emanating from the State department
in years.
The extraordinary feature of the
letter is thnt it seems to evince an
intention on the part of the United
States to hold President Zelaya personally
resjK)nsiblo for the alleged
torture and execution of the Americans,
Cannon and Oroce, and exhibits
the unique situation of one
government holding the Chief Executive
of another Presidency as a
common malefactor. Zelaya is
branded as a violator of solemn International
conventions, a disturber
of the national and international
peace, a tyrant whoso administration
has been a blot upon the name of
good government.
Secretary Knox virtually announces
the recommendation of the Nicaraguan
revolutionists, declares it to
ho the conviction of the United States
that the revolution represents the
sentiments of a majority of the Nicaraguan
people, and that there in
evidently no responsible Government
with which the United States can
deal. He therefore announces that
all parties will be hold accountable
for their actions as affecting the
interests of Americans and the peace
of Central America, lie further informs
Senor Rodriguez that while
he has lost his diplomatic quality,
he may still serve as an "unofficial"
channel of communication with the
faction which he is regarded as representing.
This brings the crisis as near to
the status of war as it could be
brought by executive action without
a definite declaration by both houses
of Congress, which will convene next
Monday.
Knox's letter.
Secretary Knox's letter to Senor
Rodriguez is as follows:
"Since the Washington conventions
of 1907, it is notorious that
President Zelaya has almost continuously
kept Central America in tension
or turmoil, that he has repreatedly
and flagrantly violated the provisions
of the convention, and by
i\ hnlefnl Influence nnon Honduras.
whoso neutrality the conventions
were to assure, has sought to discredit
those sacred international obligations
to the great detriment of
Costa Rica, Salvador and Guatemala,
whoso governments meanwhile
appear to have been able
patiently to Htrive for the loyal support
of the engagements so solemnly
undertaken at Washington under the
auspices of the United States and
Mexico.
"It is equally a matter of common
knowledge that under the regime
of President Zelaya, republican
institutions have ceased in Nicaragua
to exist except in name; that
public opinion and the press have
been throttled; and that prison has
been the reward of any tendency to
real patriotism. My consideration
for you personally Impels mo to
abstain from unnecessary discussion
of the painful details of a regime
which unfortunately has been a blor
upon the history of Nicaragua and
a discouragement to a group of republics
whose aspirations need only
the opportunity of free and hones*
government.
"In view of the interest of the
United States and of its relations to
the Washington conventions, appeal
against this situation has long since
been made to this government by a
majority 01 ino ueninti aiiktk-h 11
republics. There is now added the
appeal through the revolution of f
great body of the Nicaraguan poo
pie.
"Two Americans who, this gov
eminent is now convinced were of
floors connected with the revolution
ary forces, and therefore entitled t<
be dealt with according to the en
lightened practice of civilized na
tions, have been killed by direct or
tier of President Zelaya. Their ox
ecution is said to have been prr
ceded by barbarous cruelties. Th
consulate at Managua is now oflcial
ly reported to have been menneor
There is thus a sinister culmlnntio
of an administration also cbaraetei
ized by a cruelty to its own citizen
which lias, until the recent outrage
found vent in the case of this coun
try in a succession of petty anno>
ances and indignities which man
months ago made it impossible t
ask an American minister longer t
resldte at Managua. From ever
point of view it has evidently be
conic difficult for the United States
further to delay more active resopnses
to the appeals ho long made
to its duty to its citizens, to Its dignity,
to Central America nnd to civilization.
"The government of tho United
States Is convinced that tho revolution
represents the ideals nnd the
will of a majority of the Nlcaraguan
people more faithfully than
does the government of President
Zelayn, and that Its peaceublo control
is well-nigh as extensive as that
hitherto so sternly attempted by thr
government at Managua.
"There is now added the fact. a.k
oiiiciH i ty rcponca irom more iniu;
one quarter, that there are alreadj
indications of a rising in the Wcs
tern pro\ I noes In favor of a Prcel
dential candidate intimately nsso
ciated with the old regime.
"It is easy to sec new element1
tending toward a condition of An
archy which leaves, at a given time
no definite responsible source t'
which the government of the T.'nit
ed States could look for reparation
for tho killing of Messrs. Cannon
and Groce, or indeed, for the protection
which must be assured Ameri
can citizens and American interests
in Nicaragua.
"In these circumstances tho President
no longer feels for the government
of Presideut Zelaya that
respect and confidence which would
make it appropriate hereafter to
maintain with it regular diplomatic
| relations, implying the will and the
ability to respect and assume what
is due from one State to another.
"The government of Nicaragua,
which you have hitherto represented
is hereby notified, as will be also
the leaders of the revolution, that
the government of the United State*
will hold strictly accountable for the
protection of American life and propm*l
t* tlwi fn of i /\rt u /In f ?^ S n cent i</il
? ti.' i v iii; tuvi iviin vi v: i ?i v vu in v. w 111 i w i
of the eastern and western portions
of the Republic of Nicaragua.
"As for the reparation found due,
after careful consideration, for the
killing of Messrs. Groce and Cannon,
the government of the United States
would be loath to impose upon the
innocent people of Nicaragua too
heavy burden of expiating the acts
of a regime forced upon them, or to
exact from a succeeding government,
if it have quite different policies,
the imposition of such a burden.
Into the questions of' ultimate reparation
there must enter the ques-.
tion of the existance at Managua of
a government capablo of responding
to demands. There must enter
also the question how far it is possible
to reach those actually responsible
and those who perpetrated the
tortures reported to have preceded
the execution. If these be verified;
n nH t hn M luicf inn U'hnthor f Kn i^j\rnrn^
? ??** V I1U tjnv vJVIV/ll " II' I liv i I IIV. * V I U
ment bo one outirely disassociated
from tho present Intolerable conditions
and worthy to be trusted to
make impossible a recurrence of such
acts, In which c ifo the ^resident, as
a friend of your country, as ho Is
also of the other republics, of Central
America, irltht be disposed to
have indemnity considered to what
was reasonably due the relatives ol
th edeceased and punity only in
so far as the punishment might fall
where real'y due.
"In put'Sci'OC of this poli v In.
government o* the United St tics wl'l
mporarl'* \vi* ihold its dem md for
reparation, in the meanwhile i. ikinv
such steps as it deems wise anrl
proper to protect American Inter
ests.
"To insure the future protecti >1
of legitimate American Interests, i>
consideration of the interests of tin
majority of the Central American re
publics, and in the hope of niak'n.j
more effective and friendly ofticei
exerted under the Washington con
volitions, the government of th<
United States reserves for furtliei
consideration at the proper time tin
question of stipulating also tha
the constitutional government o
Nicaragua obligate itself by conven
tion, for the benefit of all tho govern
ments concerned, as a guarantee fo
its future loyal support of the Wash
ington conventions and their peace
ful and progressive alms.
"From the foregoing it will In
apparent to you that your ofliee o
charge d'affairs is at nil end.
have the honor to enclose your pass
' ports, for use In case you desire t<
1 leave this country. 1 would add a
I the same time that, although you
1 diplomatic quality is terminated,
shall be happy to receive you, as
i shall be happy to receive the reprt
' sentative of the revolution, each a
i the unofficial channel of communi
- cation between the government c
the United States and the do fact
- authorities to whom I look for th
t/v?i ^ C A. - 1- i *
i/iuv \ nun i?i j\ uit'iicuu iiivn'si
- ponding tho establishment in Nlct
d rngun of a government with whlc
- tlio United States ran maintain Jii
- lomatic relations."
Shoots Chirk en Thief.
0 Mrs. Jones, of Chicago. whos
I- chicken coop had been looted sevc
1 times recently, a few nights afa
n answered the call of a burglar alari
that she had had placed in the coc
s to detect further depredations an
*, with a revolver shot a negro whoi
i- she saw by the light of the moc
- crouching near the chicken coc
y door. Neighbors, aroused by tl
o shot, ran to the coop and found tl
o man <b ad. with a bullet wound i
y his head. A revolver, a "jimmy
land a gunny sack lay bc-Bidc him.
MAY MEAN WAR
WAH SHIPS AM) MAKINES SENT
TO T1IH STOKM CKXTHK.
The Real' Admiral, PIae?*<l in Comi
inand, Will llavn Enough Men to
Out|M>int Zeluya's Army.
Naval forces of the United States
are being moved forward to both
; coasts of Contrail America for the
i purpose of protecting American life
and property in Nicaragua by force
of aini8, if the necessity arises.
With tiie departure late Thursday
from Philadelphia of the troopship
Prairie, with 7 00 marines aboard
for the isthmus of Panama, and if
it ho so decreed, for Nicaragua, and
with the sailing Crom Magdalena
bay of the protected cruiser Albany
and the gunboat Yorktoxvn for Cor-!
i into on the Pacific coast of Nicara- J
i gua, the war like activity of the
navy department was becoming maniflest
on both oceans that wash the
Nicaragua shores.
Hesides, the cruiser I)es Moines
and Tacoma and the gunboat Marietta
are lying off Port IJiuou, Costa
Rica, ready f<?r any call upon them
and the guns of the little gunboat
Vicksburg are pointed towards the
customs house and town of Corinto.
The gunboat Princeton is endeavoring
to make her way from the Bremerton
navy yard, Washington, to Corinto
also.
In addition the transport Buffalo,
according to what is said to be the
plan of the officials responsible, will
sail from Panama for Corinto, with
probably as many as 1,199 marines
aboard, soon after the Praire, which
left Philadelphia a few days ago,
with about 7u0 marines, arrives at
Colon.
On the Albany are about 280 blue
jackets and on the Vicksburg, Yorktown
and Princeton, about 150 each.
These, together with the marines,
would make an army equal to any
organiation reported to be serving
under Zelaya.
At the same time, the United
States will have a formidable force
within striking distance of the Atlantic
coast in case of danger to
American lives or property in that
section of Nicaragua.
At Port Limon, Costa Rica, are
anchored the cruisers l)es Moines
and Tacoma, each with 280 men
aboard, and the gunboat Marietta,
with 150 men.
TO WHOM IT MAY COXCKKX.
(iu'at Valley, N. VM Widow Wants
a Husband.
Mrs. Anna Hrown, widow, of Croat
Valley, N. Y., wants a husband, according
to a message found 011 the
under side of a wooden fop to a
basket of grapes bought by Mrs. P.
( V. lluhhard, 82f> North Pennsylvania
street, Indianapolis, Ind. The
widow desires a husband who must
( be "nice," wealthy and have a happy
disposition. She also wants him
to have dark complexion and wants
him for the remainder of her life.
The messairo had been writ Ion
1 with a lead pencil and follows:
"If Home nice young man should
| purchase this basket of grapes,
please write at once to the address
below and let me know what condition
the grapes were in. They
1 are nice grapes, packed by a very
k nice young grass widow, thirty-two
i years old, well to do, who would
" like to renew married life, but 1 am
' very particular.
* "I prefer a man of dark complex*
ion, medium size, and of a good dis
position, who is wealthy.
r "I live in a nice little town, own
a nice home, but am very lonesome,
1 and am in hopes that this will help
1 mo in securing a partner for life.
"If any one should buy this has
" ket who is already married, or who
r does not care to be, please hand this
message to a nice young man who
" does, and oblige, Mrs. Ann Brown.
"Great. Valley, N. Y.
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f COOK SAW TliK rOIJO.
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' Or Klso How Did Ho Know Water
o
t Surrounded It?
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j Maurice Conned, observer at the
j weather bureau at San Jose, Cal.,
and the survivor of the Greedy polar
H expedition, defends Dr. Frederick A.
I_ Cook from the recent attack of Walter
Wellman. Mr. Connell declared:
G "Wellman tells us that no could
0 manufacture a latitude observation
H at any time. Certainly that is not
j. very convincing. But Cook could
h not well manufacture a time obsorvatlon
or a longitude observation,
neither could ho manufacture the
magnetic variations nor above all
could he state whether tho north
poie was on iana or sea unless lie
>e had boon there."
u If anything is needed to affirm
ro Cook'a claim that ho reached the
m pole, Peary's narrative of his jour,p
ney confirms It.
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m They Were All Saved.
?n A dispatch from Ducktown, Tenn.,
>p says the eight men who wore imic
prisoned in the London mine as a
ie result of a shaft fire were brought
n to the surface. Not one was physi"
cally disabled following the entombi
ment.
NEGRO BURNED ALIVE
TIIK AWFl'L WORK OF AN K\ltAOKI)
MOB OVKH IN OA.
A Colored Preacher Who Fatally
Shot a White Man is Cremated
With Lightwoori.
A dispatch from Cochran, CJa.,
tells of the awful work of a mob
of enraged citizens of that section.
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shot and fatajly injured Will 1).
Booth, two ml lea from Cochran late
Wednesday afternoon was capture 1
by a mob of enraged citizens five
miles from Cochran Wednesday night
at 10 o'clock and burned ut a stake,
more than u carload of lightwood,
it is stated, being heaped about the
body.
Booth is a well known business
man of Hawkinsville and was en
route to Cochran in an automobile
when the shooting occurred. lie'
drove tip behind Harvard, who was
in front of him in a wagon.
Harvard charged that Booth's machine
frightened his mule. He drew
a pistol after a few words and ilred
upon Booth, three shots taking effect.
Booth returned the lire and
it was learned after the negro was
captured that he carried two bullets,
but neither struck vital spots and
he easily made his escape.
lie was found in a barn throe
miles from the place where the shooting
occurred.
Booth was carried to Cochran immediately
after the shootin?. Surgeons
gave out the statement that
there was little hope for his recovery.
lie has a wife and several
children.
Ofllcers from Hawkinsvillo in automobiles
and carrying track hounds
went immediately to the scene of
the shooting, but a party of enraged
citizens was quickly formed and
trailed the n?-gro on horseback to
his hiding place.
llo showed light, but was suffering
fo severely from the effects of
his injuries until he could offer
l?ut little resistance. He freely admitted
the shooting and stated It
justiiied his action by the fact tha*
Booth's automobile frightened his
mules.
Harvard was Riven an opportunity
to pray, after which he was securely
bound with chains to un improvised
stake. The fuel was piled
high above his head and the torch
applied. The roaring of the flames
prevented sound being audible, if any
escaped the man's lips.
NKGItO BREACHKK WANTED.
Greenwood Sheriff Ix>oking for One
on Charge of Fraud.
A Greenwood dispatch says a negro
preacher, giving the name of
William McKinney, Is wanted there
by ollicials and five well known negroes
on a rather serious charge
of cheating and defrauding. McKinney
went to Greenwood several
weeks ago and represented himself
to a number of negroes as Government
contractor, who had iust fin.
ished ;t large job somewhere at a
profit to himself of $20,000. II"
liked Greenwood, he said, and proponed
to get up a big rmgro store!
on the co-operative ylun. Ho wanted
most of the stock himself, but he
proposed to the five well known
colored men above referred to, to
let them in on the ground lloor and
graciously received from their anxious
hands twenty-five dollars each
towards organization expenses.
McKiuney has gone .and the duped
ones want to see McKJnney in Jail.
One of the live has been to Lancaster.
where McKlnney hailed from,
and reports that he found a wife
and child, deserted, there, and heard
McKinney had another wife in Sumtor.
He also reported that McKinney
duped a number of old negroes
in and around Lancaster several
years ago by representing h.mself
as a Government agent who had the
disposal of a large sum of money
in the national treasury for former
slaves. He collected a dollar each
and skipped.
He is described as being 4 7 years
old, height five feet, ten; weight
about 200 pounds, chocolate color,
mustache, two upper teeth gold
crowned; hair slightly tinged with
gray; wore a square cut, black coat
and light trousers; had double case
gold watch and pearl handle knife,
which lie displayed frequently.
Terrible Fxploslon.
With a roar heard twenty-five
miles away, the nltro-Glyeerlne Mag
t azine of the Marietta Torpedo Coini
pauy, at Cameron, W. V., exploded
I \\r ..a ~.. tv - -.t ? --
?* unurmiuy. I lie Oil RnOOlOT Wll?
i blown to pieces. Window glasses
; In flvo hundred houses were shattered,
chimneys toppled over and
i walls cracked. The cause of the ex
plosion is unknown.
Another Mine Trouble.
Eight men were imprisoned in a
cave-in and fire Tuesday in one ol
i the several copper mines of tin
Tennessee Copper Company at Copper
Hill, Tenn. Pour oxygen helmets,
two tanks of oxygen and other
mine rescue paraphernalia were
Rent from Knoxvlllc to the mine by
a special train.
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Farmer Kills Himself.
1 John M. Folk, living about eight!
miles from Columbia, committed
' suicide Tuesday morning with a
shotgun. Ho was about fifty years
old, and leaves a wife and two children.
There is no known cause.
Ho was apparently in good health
l and financial circumstances. His
father was one of the wealthiest
* farmers of Newberry.
It is rather difficult to mako light
of one's affliction, when it happens
to be too much flesh.
In the house of the bran is n
brown study.
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150,000.00 A
250,000.00 /k
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no. C. Spivey, D.
Collins, C. P. Quat- juL
iuck, D. A. Spivey.
y and a pioneer in Eastern Car- jn
ipid proRirsH of our County for
' luui been for the upbuilding of
Willi this in view wo extend W
>imhio accommodation cons is- rl\
solicit the accounts of individu- /j\
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Cashier. ^ ^
HOKRY,
y. S, C.
$ 60 000
10 000
60 ooa
110000
riORS
W. R. lxjwis,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A Freeman.
toil year)) deposits, Mdvct-olicL
BUCK, Vi ILL A FRKKMaN
k'icE I'rksiiiknt. .Cashier
HMf.hN VKAKS,
Mr. and Mrs. Harnett Spyer IWidc*
They Don't Like Divorce
Fifteen years ago Harnett Si yet
and Mrs. Phoebe Spy or decided that
matrimony did not agree with them,
and so they took on a decree ot
divorce in the St. Louis, Mo., courts.
Now Mr. Spyer and Mrs. Spyer decides
that divorce disagree wi'tj
them much Jess than matrimony, so
they were married again a few
days ago at the Spyer homo in Hay
Twenty-second street and Crops) avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Spyer is now a very wealthy manufacturer
and he is sixty-eight years
old. His bride is sixty-four and ^
she told reporters that she hod never
believed that either sho or Mr.
Spyer believed divorce in their interest.
"Away down in my h>'art I could
not have believed it," she said, "nncT
to prove it, why I never ever asked
those St. Louis courts to give mtr
back mv maiden name."
S< K 'I KT Y DRUKN K HATING.
Ik?\ing Ik>ut Held for Uh> Muter- ' r
tainment of "Four Hundred."
Another chapter has been added
to the psycho-pathological history of
New York's "Society," a record of
deplorable, physical, mental and ethical
degeneracy and decay. This
time it was not a clog or monkey
dinner or on evening entertainment
with nude women as the principal
feature, but a series of genuine
boxing bouts with actual knockouts,
which was arranged by one
member of the "Selec-t" for the edification
of a party of guests also
belonging tq the "Four Hundred.'"
W h :? t m 'l Ir v. , V I ? ?
even more disgraceful
is the fact that the host,
on this occasion, was a woman nnd
that the pugilistic entertainment was
given at her country seat on Long
Island, whore a house party was in
progress.
Youthful Ikmk Robber.
At St. Louis Tom Gallagher,
thirteen years old, was captured
after a wagon load of policemen surrounded
the Lafayette hank Monday.
He confessed that he, with
another boy, planned to rob the
bank. The other boy, acting as
lookout, fled when the patrol wagon
appeared. Gallagher was captured
coming down a fire escape.
Tragedy Follows Ilance.
At'tn. 1.IIH ""
...w,. miiiiiK wuna.m Walls and
probably fatally Hhootlng Hal Ho.land,
white returning from a daac',
j Pickett Collum surrendered to theI
police and was placed In the county
jail at Dalton, (ia., Monday. Col- ^
lum declarefl that the trouble grew
out of a misunderstanding of his
invitation by a young woman whom
he asked to dance with htm
Kilted in K una way.
I Herman Glogowski, a pioneer citizen
of Tampa, Fla., was killed there
j Friday morning w?i*rn o ??
...... imiefiy jm
I which he and N. L. Meyer, of Philadelphia,
collided with a truck and
was overturned. The horso had
been frightened by another truck
and was moving rapidly at the time.
Mr. (llokowski's skull was crushed.
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As the circus horse said, when
mounted by the expert rider, "That's#
a good one on me."
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