The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 30, 1909, Image 3

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' GUI. K. L LEE I b Sd NortJuroers Object to Bis (nit a tke ALL TOURISTS SEE IT v _ YlrgrfaJa May Kofftw to I<et fltotaw of Lc? and Washington Hanaala V?lf?a Congress A?fpt# the Fora* er Promptly in the ttplrtt la Whieh It la Offered. A Waahlngtou dispatch to The ; Newt and Courier saya it la learned j that Immediately after tne noiiaays , Um question cf whether or not the | handsome bronze statue of Robert , B. Lee, recontly placed In Statuary Hal] at the c&pltol. la to te accepted by the government or returned to Virginia will bo settled. The mattor, it Is understood, will bo forcel to a decision. A member of the Virginia commission charged with the duty cf arranging both for the preparation of the Leo statue and for its presentation to the government on behalf of the State of Virgin'*, Wednesday stated in most emphatic terms that the Old Dominion would mot let the question be fore- | ed, neither the acceptance of the ; ?taiue, together with that of Cien. Washington, by the government. "As a member of the commlsrlon," he said, "and a citizen of Virginia, 1 will do my boot to have the statues ; both of Lee and Washington re- ! moved at once from Statuary Hall iu ] the capitol and carried to Richmond, unless congress shall agree* to accept them both, not only pleasairtly but ' tn the beet of spirit. Virginia, you j may bo sure, is not anxious to force ' congress or any other body to recog- I nlze Lee in Statuary Hall, in fact, ! I feel almost justified in saying that | the matter has gone too fur already. ! The grand old State of Virginia, and, i Indeed, the entire South, hue been ! ! Insulted by the very thought of re- ; Meeting the Lee statue. "If congress will not accept It in ; the spirit in which it is offered, j thea I feel safe in eaying that a ; plaee will be found not only for this ; Statue?the Lee statue?bnt for that; of Washington alse in the State cap- { Itol in Richmond. The people not ; only ef Virginia, but of the entire j South weuld be glad te see both j Wash last# a and I*e la the city of fllehMoad. i*ut I hope sincerely hat ae mere will be said In a way that wilt make the Virginia people feel that they would have to take ueh aotion as might some day be greatly regretted." It is learned here that there is a considerable amount ef ill feeling ^ engendered by the placing of theae statues iu the capitol. The official . < ' guides, who conduct tourist parties all through the building and see and talk with people from all over this and ether countries, form au excellent index into the general eentiiman< n>t t h a n?ftnU on various ton Ice of interest. One of these gulden asked what the tourists thought of the matter?Irrespective of who they wore or where they came from. Me replied that his buBineee had increased wonderfully since Lee was placed In the c&pltol, that many had view< ed the Confederate general and his uniform with curiosity, und that almost without exception Northern eight-seers had condemned It. The feeling Is thus seon to be quite bitter. Washington* and Lvs. A few days ago the press dispatches announced the protest of the Michigan Loyal Legion against the acceptance by congress of Gen. Robert R. Lee's statue to stand beside the statue of George Washington, the two being the contribution of Virginia to the Nation*! Hall of Fame. The incident, says the New Orleans Daily States, has served to call attention to the carioue fact that the Washlngtons and the Leea have always been closely associated In the hlstorv of Vlrninla and of the country from the Colonial days down to the bloody War Between thfl eta tee. The gallant and daahlng "Light Horse Harry" Lee was a favorite of Washington and the bean eabreur of the Continental srm> \ whose knightly deeds will ever live tn the history of the American Revolution. It appears that the day befori the protest of the Michigan Loya legion was made public the I^e< Camp of Confederate Veterans me (n Richmond, Vs., to receive a pir turn of Col. John Auruatine Waah Ington, brother of Ooorge Washing ton. Col. Washington was lieuton l not colonel and aide-de-camp to Gen / SUBS! ft; ' . t MINE EXPlUSiUN IfiUiHT ME5 K1LLHD AND Mt ^ HAVK NAUROW I8CAP& Bmww Bnra I> #?* Fita He* Daaf Mkd Betovw TBrw Rail? Ftw fiiiii Btliwy. BtcEl sea *frc killed and four hundred other* hud narrow escapee 1 In aa expioeloa of gaa la Mine "A" of the Chicago and Carterevllle Coal Company ut Kerrin. 111., late Thureday. Open laini>a carried by employer* of the mine are believed to have caused the disaster. There wvre three men and a boy la this parly, ^ and all are dead. J ' The dead: W. T Pierce, mine en- ( glneer; Kuseue itarrott, assistant eu - i c glneer; Thomas 11. Williams, assist-I ant manager; unidentified boy, about 16 yearn old; Ucorge Snyder, miner; j f Balvalore Oreeoo, miner; Platro c Romeo. ial>orer; Thomaa Harbor, t rnlaer. c James Ouinney, superintendent of the mine, a nd Rol>ert Hueeton, manager, headed the first relay of res- * cuers. Despite the black damp which f (lowed Into the chambers adjoining thoee In which Pierce and hie party were killed, these men west into the workings. * After aendlng to the surface three 1 unconscious poisons, the rescuers { next found the bodies of Snyder, . Greeco and Romeo. The efforts of the rescuers to pen- ' efrste more deeply Into tha work- 1 lugs were repulsed by Increuel&g , hunks of after-damp, and they were , forced to retreat, leaving the bodies of Pierce and his companions. Fire } also began to gain headway, and it ' Is not expected that the bodies can ; 1 be removed. All efforts are beln^ < directed towards fighting the flours | . News of the disaster spread tbrougb j Herrlu. and there was a rush of 1 hysterical women aud crying children ' i to the shaft house. i Tha damage to the mlue cannot I i yet be accurately estimated. Tbe col- I llery Is one of the oldest In the sec- i tlon aad few accidents have occurred t la It. Pierce, the engineer who lost < hie Ufa, formerly was a Federal In- t specter of Government work on the | Mississippi River. * I ? ... . ? i lug lines were written by tbe Rt. i Rev. B. I). Tucker, Bishop coadjutor < of the Protectant Rpiecapal -Church t of Southern Virginia, himoelf a (oar- ! less soldier of the Confederacy. < 1 No soldier of fortuue, no seeker of; 1 self, i No lover of glory and fame. Bat simply a man who was true to i himself. The home where he dwelt and his name. ' He rode far aw ay at the call of the land, Unmindful of peril and fat?; A smile on his face aad wave of his hand i For tho children who stood at the j Robert K. Dee, and a Washington of j ' the genuine bluod and breed. It | is said that hie was about the first j man chosen by Gen. Lee for eerrlea j on bis pornonal staff, and that ho met m soldier's death fire mouths alter the beginning of the civil war in the battle of Valley Mountain, September IX. 1X61. lis was the last Washington to own and occupy i the historic homestead at Mount Ver1 uon, and In hU memory the followBftte. I He rod? by tho side of the klnglieet j knight. f And detuned It a guerdon to aha re Ills tent, and the march, or the danger and fight? To kneel by his chieftain In prayer." He lay where he fell, with the light on his face, Untouched by dishonor and shame. Defeated?yet true to the prldo of his race. The homo where he'd dwelt And his name. The tears were like dew In the eyoa of the ohlef. Who gased on the form of his friend. 1 And thought of the children at home and their grief. i oioaeom wi new ana n# eaa: He Miit, all entwined with hi? pity i and lore, ' The flower# that srew where he > fell? * And angel# who walked on the rampart# above, 5 Repeated their call, "It Is well!" I ? 'Tl# well, tho' for years he has slept t 'neath the tod, Uncrowned by the lauwVi of fame, And simply a man who wn true to hlB God. The home where he'd dwelt, and hie name! * CRIBE I * ? ' t V < v BOOZE TRADE YiUUtiM f?fitt Arc Payias TWr Kcfcnc hkn*L FLOODED WITH LIQUOR rhe Ro?ae Ho?m? Flad a Picmlc la the Dry Territory of Thl* and Other Sulfa, Mad Reap a Rich Harreet of Oaeh That OooM be Better Hpret. T'V,^ kl. J??._ a i. i u*7 v/uiuui vin ontr b*)P IL1*? I WPI - | lents of the dry counties In South ; I btrollna are not to bo without their .'hrletmaa "boose." The abolition I f the dlspauaary hue seemingly not j luencfced their thirst, for every day he Columbia ofllce of the Southern express company receives and dls rlbutes a hu nil red or more packages >f whiskey to the dry counties Most of the "sperits" received ;ocues from Jacksonville, sit hough louie Is received from Richmond. The trade has Increased so much, as he holidays grow nearer, that the ihlpmenta of whiskey have overreached the capacity of the express mats and the fast freight le used in wringing the pckagos and cases here where the distribution le made try the express company to the traia* entering those parts of the State where ?u arid desei t prevails. The sensation of the peas on In sxpre&s circles came u few days ago when a tx?x car filled with pack ages >f Christmas boove was received from Jacksonvillo. The cur was split hare cud the packages conaigntd by regu sr express to the dostlnatloUB specified ob the packages. It la said that at Spartanburg ?<> nucb liquor for Christinas oonsumplion was received that the regular '.haune! at the express ollics was -logged with supplicants for packitg>e of cheer, and those wiuhlng to tend ChrlBtmas remembrances fouad it difficult to consign their gift* to .he clerks. This continued for o while until relieved by the establish cneut of special depot for packages >f whiskey, and for this alone. Even t that a visitor to the city from Spartanburg says that to get a Jug >r case, position wee at ? premium in the Hue, as is the cure when a Pig production is put on for cue night only, and everybody in town wishes to take a friend to see th* show, and tickets are scarce. The old familiar jug is sees no mors and the little brown Jug with its red seeling wax, except the Jugs are usually white, are now shipped In neat packages and the ualtiated might not know what the pretty boxes contain. On account of the variety and sonvsnient modes of transit from Jacksonville to Columbia, the majority r>f tnrll?*i>u fr\r rn?M /.?> ? ?' *v_ - ? - r ? v ?KVI i v-oi jru is VI vur U I J counties near Columbia, order their "boose" from the Florida city, although some prefer the Richmond houses. In the upper part, of the State Richmond has the Inside track and a special to The State from Richmond a few nights ujo tell* what an enormous business the Virginia whiskey houses are doing This special says: "As a distributing point for th* entire South, as well as for man} Statue of tho Middle West, Rich mond at this season has shipped probably more whiskey to dry sec tlons than whs ever sent out In th< same length of time from any cltj In the country, not excepting New York aod Chicago, which are sltuat od in territories surrounded by clt les, towns and counties that hart never been affected by the temper ance wave. This declaration la base< on statements made by leading whls key dealers and on estimates fur Dished by reproeentatlves of the ta rious express companies. "Tbe bulk of these gigantic ship merits have hoen consigned to Indl viduals in North Carolina, float] Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippl and the various dry section of Virginia. At the same time enor mom* quantities of distilled spirii have been shipped to Texas. Indiana Florida snd Illinois. "The express companies have rent ad a warehouse especially for th handling of theae (shipment?. I Is estimated that from 7,000 t 10,000 cases of whiskey ara heln seat out by the mall order house In Richmond and Manchester dallj The arorago of sontenta of aae package Is from three to Its ga Ions. This Indicates that at leaf 40,000 gallons of whiskey are shl| ped from this city each day. Tb ) whiskey establishments are workin / night and day." OW TO EIGHT S1GN0RS AUVE QBORGIA HBORHHIOMUTT UVB TO 1I1PB OLD AOS. of the 1<|liil?g of War PKww the Hoi?. Mdltor Savannah Prew. Dour Sir: A fow days ago I learned that only one member of the Secoaalon convention of South Carolina waa living. Hla name la Colonel R. A. ThorupHon, a lawyer of Walballa la that State. 1 have made luqulrlea of the several ordinaries of Georgia and And that wo have the following mom bers of the St'CMHlon coivtuilon which met at Milledgevllle, oa January 16th, 1881, still alive: They are Ex-Oovernor Henry I). MoDaulel of Monroe, Ga., who wna a delegate from Walton county; Isaac Howen, now living at Reno. Kansas, who was u delegate from White county; Judgs Jefferson Jennings, a delegate from Clarke oounty, now living In Athens, Ga.; Judge Thomas 8. Sherman, a delegate from Upson county; Judge Jefferson Jennings, a Oa.; Mr. W. T. Day of Pickens eouuty, now living at Jasper, Ga.; Dr. 8. H. Latt.lrner, a delegate front Montgomery county, now livtag at Lumpktu, Ga.; Mr. I). Frank Gunn, a delegate from Houston county, now living st l^aVllle, On., and Samuel HarvlUe, a delegate from Bulloch county, now living at Rnal, In Bulloch county. So of the three hundred and one delegates who answered the roll call at Milledgevllle ouly eight now survive. The Ordinance of Secession was digued ou January 21, 1861, by all the members except the following, who signed a protest: James P. Simmons of Gwinnett, Thornaa M. McRuo, S. 11. I*nttlmer and Davis W. Welchsl of Montgomery county, P. M. Bird of Hall county and James Simmons of Pickens county. Fix-Governor George W. Crawford wiiH president of the couventloa. asd Albert R. Lamar was secretary. I tin Indebted to Mr. W. T. Hopkins of Ssronnnh, Oa., who furnished nie a complete lint of th? members of the convention and to the soreral ordinaries of the Stats who furnished me with the names sf those mow living. If you think this of sufficient Interest to aur readers, I would 1* glad to eeo It published. Tours truly, J. A. Brannea. * MMR4THANT KILLH MKKCHANT. An lTafsrtaiists Affair la the Town of IiMBCaNtSf. Jews? W. Rowell, of the grocery firm of Ferguson & Bowell, was shot and killed at Lancaster Christmas afternoon by A. C. Carnes, of the firm of Carnes Bros. The shooting occurred at the Heaths FClllott Company's ntshles. Bowell was shot in the left side, between the 5th and 6th ribs, just below the heart and died within half an hour of Internal hemorrhage. Carnes waa ar rested Jnat after the shooting and lodged In Jail. Those who are supposed to know anything about the tragedy aro reluctant to talk, therefore, part leu lars are hard to obtain. One report la that the trouble began In a friend ly tussle. Carnes, It is understood claim* that Bowell was chunking hlir uhen he fired the fatal shot. A searct of Bowell's person by Sheriff Hunto I revealed the fact that he had u< weapon. Bowell, who vraa a maa of re f markable physique, was 42 years o flf A U It rl a tl - ?" P ?,, ? vw ? imiuiijr x i o ff a engaged In business In Columbia ! few year? ago. Carnes la a youni man and unmarried. Ho aad Sowol are uald to have been good friends. Wild (lottoa Tree#. A teat ! to be made of the valu< of the Ibre of the cotton bearini treon which grow wild In Sonora ant Slnoloa, Mexico. Tho tree in knowi to the Mexicans ae the aldono. Th n staple of the cotton la not aa Ion, h? an that grown by tho American plant 9 er, hat there la no need of ginning l< .. Merely flaying It with a polo whll a It Is apread out on a canvaa or i, I floor will rid It of tho aeods. Th I staple la al>oat an inch long. A | ^ # ' Three Perish la Icy Water. t| Laura Currana, who had just r< o'ce^ed the prize "for the prettlei g | *lrl in the achool dlatrlct," Aim >s j Utterback, her chnra, aad Wm. Joht r. . boti, the girls' achool teacher, wei h ! drowned Saturday night aa thoy wet 1- j trying to reach their homes aft< vt! a achool aoelal, by crossing India j. J creek, near Bedford, Ind., in a ro ie boat. The boat upset and they wei g unable to reach the bank throug tho icy water. * THE H f i. a j&Jutii. .V.'i i&AU^tk ?. < !m ',* * 1 ' - J.*^A Ajil -i - \uj?& f.'Uu JiidiJ DAGOS FIGHT Battle Setweea die Trteps ef Maya ai4 Estraie is Wktcfc THE FORMER WHIPPED !% MmU of Thl* lUtUe hUa Ihr Itowolatktalata to Mouraiu ?u Top, mm! May Mmui the Itowafall of Madrls, Who Hue Just Been Klextod IVeeUlent by Zelaya. A Washington dispatch says Zelayu'a troops wore routed by the Nlcaragunn revolutionists today in a force buttle at Kauio lusting sow era) hour*. (lea. Estrada, in command of the revolutionary army la reported to hare been successful all along the line. The first announcement of tk? aim. eM of the Kstrada arms cam* Id a cablegram to l)r. Castrlllo. the representative Id Washington of the provisional government. It was signed "DIas." Dlas Is secretary of state of the provisional government. The cablegram said: "<k>mplete victory is ours. Zelaya's troops are In retreat." lister Tuesday evening the state department gave out the following message from Consul Moffat from Colon. "Rstrada foroee at Tatumbla and Recroo, near Kama, commended by Den. Meua at the former places, and Oeneruls Chmuorro. Nattutl and Forno Dlas, at the lattor place partial ly routed and defeated the forces of Zela.va after desperate tight Ing of several hours. The Zelayaa forces were commanded by (.en. (lonzulos A great many were killed, the number being unknown; 100 wore wounded and 160 prisoners wene taken by the revolutionists. The Zclayan troops at Kecreo have decupled what has been considered a strong position. Hstrada Is confident of defeating the enemy when h# renews the attack later and of forcing their surrender." The clash between the two armies was not unexpected. For days the troops have been lying practically Idle in their trenches around Kama., skirmishing only marred the peace that brooded over 4Vv?t aectloa. Katrsda played a waiting game in the hope that the Zelayan cumojauriers woald take the Initiative and attempt the capture of his position, which was reported to be very strong. None of the officials of the state department would discuss the reported victory of Ketrada. It Is known, however, that the news was not unwelcome. Had the Zalayan army wot over Estrada, this govern-' ment would have been in a somewhat emharrasalag position, having as poused openly the mum of the provisional government. In Central America diplomatic circles the word brought joy, aad there wan a general celebration. The diplomats joia in the prediction that this victory is the "beginning of the end" of Zelayaism and that the next step will be to force the ( retirement of President Madrlr., on the ground that he is a tool of Zelaya Hud not the real choice of the country. ATTACK* FAMILY. , Kills Wife and Child aad Woand* Threw Other Children. i p Suddenly becoming violently la' sane, 0. C. Cheuvront, a ranchman, of Fresno, Cul., Wednesday killed * his wife and one child, wounded t three ether children and ended his 4 life under the wheels of a railroad * traia. E Mrs. Cbeuvroat was preparing I breakfast when her husband entered the kitchen with a hatchet. Withoot a word he split her skull with one blow. He then entered the bedn room whore hie children lay asleep, K In rapid sueoenflion he struck with ^ the haothen George, 14 year* old; Olasde, 12; Gladys, 19, and Nellie -> an Infant. Claude in dead and Oladl K ys la dying. The others will recov> or. As Chsuvront left the house, C t. M. MoOlutig, a stepson 19 years old e mot him on the porch. The manlst a struck st his stepson's head. Kvad e Ing the blow, the young man struck bis stepfather heavily on the jaw. Tha blow seemed to break the mac spell and the hand that held th< y. hatchet fell to his aids. Wlthou it speaking, he extended Its handb a to McClung and ran to the rallroac i- track where he threw himself undo e a panning train and was ground ti e pieces. 1 >r ? ,n Explosion in Colliery, w An explosion occurred In a cos re mine near MeAlester, Okla., a fei h 4avs and it Is reported tha many miners are hurt. IORRY HI WHITE HAN LYNCHED HAD K1IJJ0D ANOTHJBR MAN AO * v 1 ' '*? i ' .7 WOUNDMD IdS W1FM. (Mlmii Bv? Tnfidy tb Vtagteto Folltww) by Hugtag of the CMal* Ml by Angry Mob. A dispatch from Horly, Va.. *>? following the killing here on Chrtataiai Kve of Samuel linker and Ike aerloua wounding of hia wife and ten children by the former'a eaoaay, Henry Pennington, a mob of one ban* (1 red citizen* late Chrlntmaa night took Pennington from an improvised Jail, where he had been incarcerated under heavy truard uiul IiauvoH him to a steam pipe. Pennington, who had been drink ing. picked a quarrel with Maker and nhot him while the latter was oa his way to Sunday-school Chrlntrnas tree with hiu wife, hia two children and a friend, Wyatt Meadows. Seeing that he hud killed Maker. Pennington started to run away. Mrs. Maker called after Pennington and iruplor* ^ ed him to help her take tire body home. The ruse worked and Pounlngtoa went hack to the spot where his rte11 in lay dead. Ment upon avenging the dead, Mrs. Maker grabbed PenClayton's pistol from his pocket and shot twice at him. Her aim waa bad but ahe succeeded in wounding kirn in the hand and thigh. Pennington recovered posesslon of the pistol and then nhot the woman and attempted to kill Meadows, who was running away, It is alleged, and tbe two call drea. Pennington then fled, bnt was anr rounded by u posse on the outskirts of the town later In the night. IK waa captured after an exchange of shots with the officers, who badly wounded him. Itelng to weak ta stand the Journey to the Qrunrfy Jail which ia 1 5 rnllen distant, ove moun | talnous country. Pennington was locked up In the constable's house, but about one o'clock Christmas afternoon It wan thought udvinabto te remove him to a boarding boa**, where he was put under a strong Drna rri Feeling against Pennington ran hrlgh. find many covert tk rents of & lynching were heard during the day At midnight a bund of about oi? hundred clttzeus wan quletJy orfM laed, the guurd wan overpowered and Pennington wan taken to the engine room of a lumber mill, nearby, and Imaged to ntenm pipe. The body wau riddled with bullet*, and waa tbea left hanging until nlae o'oleek Sunday morning whoa it waa eat dowa. Wan Bra tally Murdered. A dlnpatr.h from Jefferson, N. C-.. aye that it han l**en learned that the man Twterniaa who wan at Unit reported to have been found dead by the Hide of the road waa not dead when found, but died noon afterward It ban also been learned that be wae brutally murdered In a drunken row. there appearing wounds and other evidence of violence on the body of the deceased. No one, however, seems to know junt how he was murdered, or by whom. Identity Itevealed. Margaret Marshall Is the name ef the young woman who 1h In a crltleal condition In a hospital at Norfolk, Va., us the result of an attempt at suicide, was connected with the staff oi loe notion Herald for a year and a half, flhe it 22 yearn old and a native of New Hampshire. Bh* wat graduated from Toft* college 1* 1 907. A few mouth* ago the left Huston and joined the staff of a New York paper. She has written several nut ten/.I tie stories * Killed In I'rfwsce of Wife. Charlie Wilkes, a youig farmer of the Tyty district of Moultrie conaty. Oa., wan shot and killed Friday mora. In * in ths presence of bis wife, by John Lott, a neighbor, according to | a message to the sheriff. Bad blood had exleted between the two men for some time past and Friday Lot! ' went to the Wllkea' home, called klra out and shot him down with pftoto!. Fatal Row over a Bool (,'amr. At Birmingham on lAst Thursday t a dispute ova a pool game re* u I tod in l^nther Rmlth, the 16 year old eoa 1 of B. L. Smith, a 'Frisco railroad con' dnctor shooting H. I/. Martin, tower t watchman of tbe terminal throe ? times. Tbe bullets entered the ati domen, Inflicting mortal woundo. The r t>oy walked to the county jail and o surrendered. w Driven to Death. | Hather than face six children 1 Christmas without present*. Mm. v Sarah Knnls committed suicide bj >t asphyxiation at Philadelphia Wednesday. ERALD * /