Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MODE SCHOOL 1 ~ ^ 1 For Wiothrop College Is Now ai Assured aid Pleasaat Fad i - WILL COST GOOD AMOUNT President Johnson, by the Aid of Morgan, Carnegie and Other Gen- 1 tlemen, liaise Five Times the ' c Appropriation Made by the Legislature at Its Lost Session. 1 A special dispatch from Rock Hill < *?. rru ~ rii _ a . a ? " ?.v iuv Dimo Bays mo people an t over the State who are interested ] in Wiothrop college can again Bay, ] "Hurrah for President Johnson!" For he now has in possession a cer- | tiflcate representing $100,000 with \ which to build the proposed new < mo<$el school for Wlnthrop. ] It will be recalled that the legls- f lature two years ago appropriated \ $20,000 for this purpose, expressly t conditioned upon Dr. Johnson rais- t ing an additional $25,000. At that time Dr. Johnson thought that a ( $45,000 building would be ample, i But he soon drew away from these ] modest plans and made up his mind i to give the State of South Carolina { a $100,000 model school, the equal ] of any in the country in beauty of < construction and thoroughly equip- ? ped. t -With this purpose in view, he i promptly raised the $25,000 required i by the State legislature. This gave him $45,000. Then ho went to New i York and, had an interview wlt.h ( Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan and Andrew i Carnegie, the multimillionaires, Mr. Morgan gave $25,000 and Mr. > Carnegie gave $15,000?but both of c these subscriptions were conditioned i upon Dr. Johnson raising the entire r $100,000 by January 1,. 1910. ] With these two subscriptions, Dr. Johnson then had in hand and promised $85,000. He felt that he was nearing the goal. So he put forth f exirjaorainary -eirorcs?ana tms meant much, for Dr. Johnson Is the most successful "begger" in this country. His next trip was to appear before the meeting of the Pea- * body board. That body gave him $5,000. This put the fund up to j $90,000. 1 ^ Then came the real hard work, * getting that other $10,000. ' Martin Moloney of Philadelphia, * gave him $1,000. G. L. Winthrop, a member of the Peabody board, made a personal contribution of $500. Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster j sent his check for $100. That made the amount $91,600, and in the last ten days the balance ' of $8,400 was promptly subscribed 1 by friends of the Institution In va* rious parts of the State. So it is now a fact that Winthrop - % college will be able to present to the State a model school valued at $100,000, for which the State appropriated only $20,000. It is a great victory for President Johnson. ? KILLED IN FLIGHT. Leon I)o lift Grange Meets Death Under Ills Monoplane. Leon De La Grange, the French aviator, whose achievements during the past two years had won for him a high place among those who have set out to conquer the air, was instantly killed at Ilordeaux a few days ago, while making a flight in the presence of a great crowd of spectators. A strong uncertain wind prevailed, but with characteristic daring Do La Grange faced it in the same monoplane in which he made a record of 53 miles an hour at Doncaster meeting last October. He circled the aerodrome, seeming to have good control and yet at times, it heeled danegrously to the wind. On the third round, when at a height of between sixty and seventy feet, tye increased his speed. He swung wide at the turns, but at the lower end of the aerodrome he attempted to describe a sharp curve. The machine was seen to sway. The left wing was broken and the right wing immediately collapsed. Tho aeroplane came plunging to the earth and it turned half over as it fell, with the aviator, clinging to the -> seat. In this way it crashed to the ground with De La Grange beneath, the heavy motor crushing out his life. The mechanicans are at a loss to explain the exact cause of the accident. They are niarely able to say that It resulted from manoeuvring too quickly In the puffy wind. The monoplane was doubly braced at the essential points before ascending. * Killed by Auto. > At Chicago Louis B. Cone and his wife were killed Wednesday when their automobile, racing for the crossing at a high jrato of speed was struck by an Illinois Central train at Stoney Island avenue and 71st street.. Gossips multiply everything they hear by two. PALACE TO ALMS HOUSE IIKR RICHES AND FltlBNDS HAVE DESERTED 11 EH. ? rho Wife of Former President Barrias of Guatemala, Now an Object of Charity. From a palace where she presided is first lady of the land to an alms louse refuge?such is the fate which las overtaken Senora Barrios, wife if a former President of Guatemala. With an almost complete impairnent of her vision, penniless, and without means to earn a livelihood, Senora Barrios knocked for admitance at the Touro-Shakespeare alms louse at New Orleans New Year's Day. Her husband, Jose Maria Reno Barrios, was assassinated a short :ime after his accession to the Presilency. Senora Barrios then went to Europe, where she remained for loroo time. The fortune which she nherlted from her husband was dissipated through mismanagement of :hose in charge of it. At the office of the Guatemalan consul it was declared that if the wife of the former President would return to Guatemala to live she would receive a pension from the government equal to the salary paid ler husband. This, it was asserted, she had refused to do. It was stated that $50 a month was paid .0 her for a considerable time by .he consulate under instructions 'rom the President of Guatemala. The Guatemalan government is iow bearing the expenses of the edu;atlon of Consuelo, daughter of Bar ios, at a school in Loudon. Mme. Barrios before her marriage was Miss Algers Benton, a native >f Virginia, but it was while living n New York that she met Gen. Bar ios and married him when she was L4 years old. ? COTTON JOURNAL SUSPENDS. stockholders Will Lose All They Had in Paper. The Southern Cotton Journal, one >f the best known trade publicaJons in the South, the official orfan of the Southern Cotton Assoclaion which was organized some four fears ago with Harvey Jordan as jresident and Richard Cheatham as ?ecretary, is no more. The paper was published in Atlanta, and the Journal of that city gives the folowing short history of its career: Harvi? Jordan was editor-in-chiof >f the Cotton Journal and Richard Cheatham was business manager. The latter was the main financial spirit and he invested quite a large sum of money in the publication. For months the paper was apparently in a prosperous condition. A large staff was employed and every effort was made to secure a big circulation. About two years ago the Cotton Journal issued $200,000 worth of stock. All of this stock was sold. It was stated in the prospectus that the Cotton Journal Publishing Company intended buying a plant and printing other publications and that it would derive a substantial profit thereby. Presses and equipment were purchased and the offices of the paper were moved from the Rrown-Ran-1 dolph building to the Andrews build ing on Marietta street. Among the publications printed was Tom Watson's Jeffersonian. The company needed money and Mr. Watson advanced it something like $7,000, taking a second mortgage on the plant. This note was due last November and was not paid. Mr. Watson took over the plant and is now operating it. With the taking over of the plant the Southern Cotton Journal was suspended. Those who subscribed to stock have nothing to show for their money except some nicely engraved certificates. The plant is valued at approximately $18,500 and Mr. Watson in taking it over has, it is stated; assumed certain outstanding obligations against It. It is understood that a majority of those who took stock in the Cotton Journal are well known farmers of the South. ? Favors Itaising of Maine. A dispatch from Washington says President Taft is heartily in favor of the plan to raise the battleship Maine from Havana harbor and suitably inter the remains of the saiiors who went down with the ship. The president has informed Representative Loud of Michigan that he desired to see tho latter's bill enacted into law, and that he stood ready to offer any sort of support to the proposition that could l>o suggested. Loud will push the measure in the house. ? A ill iiihIs Rurned. At Wedgefleld Messrs. Jas. IT. Aycock and sons sustained serious loss a few days ago by reason of a flro on their farm. One of their laree barns was burned, destroying the building completely and all of its J contents, including six mules, two cows, a lot of farming implements and a quantity of forage and grain. A QUEER MURDER In New Yerk City, Where a Tailor Was Foiad Dead in His left. IS SUFFOCATED BY CAS The Victim Was Hound to a Chair, the Chair Was Round to a Pillar, the (ias Was Turned on, and the Mun Was Sitting Upright Stone Dead. At New York on Sunday Morris Nathanson, a well-to-do, .middle aged real estate holder and clothing manufacturer, was found dead in the loft of his factory, bound hand and foot to a chair with a half inch rope. He had been dead for hours, and the vast vacant loft was filled with escaping gas from a broken pipe Just above his head. There were no marks of violence. Nathanson failed to return home the night before, and when midnight came, his wife reported his absence to the police. A search was instituted the following morning. Mrs. Nathanson called up her husband's partner, Isaac H. Gold, and he, his wife and Mrs. Nathanson went down to the factory. Gold, the only person except Nathanson who had a key to th? loft, opened the door. A rush of gas met him, but before he had time to close the door again, Mrs. Nathanson saw her husband dead in the chair. Sho shrieked and fell in a faint across the threshold. Minute examination showed that the body had been thrice wound with half inch rope under the arms, and bound to tho back of the chair. Both legs were fastened to the legs of the chair. The right arm was free, but the left was bound with two twists and so firmly knotted to an arm of tho chair that the coroner said he could not believe that a man with only one free hand could* have tied the knots. The hands and rope were both red with a substance not blood. Tho chair had been backed up against a pillar and the loose ends of tho knot that bound the body to the frame had been knotted again behind the pillar. Thus the body was bound to the chair and the chair bound to the pillar. On the floor were a few loose coins. There was no money in the pockets, which had been turned inside out and Nathanson's key to the lock was also missing. His desk, which adjoined his partenr's was open and littered with torn and crumpled papers in the wildest confusion. On a sample table was a woman's fur lined kid glove, torn and partly turned inside out. The safe was locked. Near it lay Nathanson's hat and above it the gas lamp had been broken. Nathanson, so far as Is known, had no reason to commit suicide. He was 4 9 years old and in the best of health, and spirits. His business was solvent, he had ample outside resources, and he lived happily with his wife and daughter.. Two sons, Benjamin and John, aro in business at Fayetteville, Tenn. The police detained Gold on the strength of what the police say is a disagreement between his own story of his movements that night and that told by his wife. However, before the coroner, Gold was so frank and willing in his statements that he was released in $1,000 bail. The loft where the body was found is in Warren street, in the downtown jobbing district. FAVORED RACE SUICIDE. So His Actress Wife Ijcft Him and Seeks a Divorce. "I left my husband because he believed in race suicide," said Mrs. Marguerite Walker, a New York actress, in her suit for divorce against Clarence J. Walker, a New York business man. "We never had a quarrel during our married life," said Mrs. Walker, "but I longed for children of my own, and it made him angry when I talked about them. Otherwise ho was a good husband and treated me kindly." Judge ITouser denied Mrs. Walker an interloculatory decrco on the ground that her husband had consented to her leaving him and going to Los Angeles to live. The Walkers were married in New York July 18, 1901. Commits Suicide. Baxter E. Woolen, 27 years old, secretary of a Sunday school and prominent In church work, committed suicide at Thomasvillo, N. C., mummy morning oy nanging nimseir to his bod post. No motive for the deed is known. Man's Throat Cut. At Nashville, Tenn., Lizzie E. Crenshaw, aged twenty-eight years, severely wounded John M. Jennings, bookkeeper, cutting his throat. Jealousy was the motive. Later the woman hanged herself in a police coll TAFT LIVES TO HIGH SPENDS TOO MUCH OF THE PEOPLE'S MONEY HIMSELF. Congressman Adair Criticises Expenditures Made at .the White House on the President. A dispatch from Washington says had the President's daughter and son, Miss Helen and Robert Taft remained in the House gallery a< few minutes longer Wednesday, they would have heard their father roundly criticised by Representative Adair, of Indiana, for alleged extravagance of the executive department. Mr A/lllr nnl-l ~ 1 .1 - - A - on . nuuu omvi III*.' lUfSIlUMl L S salary should not have been Increased to $75,000 a year, adding that a president "with practically no expense, who could not save from an income of $50,000 a sufficient sum to live in ease the balance of his life, In my Judgment, does not have sufficient business capacity to direct the affairs of this great nation." Attacking the president's allowance of $35,000 for vehicles, stables, etc., Mr. Adair argued that this was $3 0,000 too much, and he also asserted that one-third of the $9,000 allowance flor scare pf the White House green house would "furnish the president with all the ilowers he can possibly use." Without depriving the president of any of the comforts or luxuries which properly belong to the White House, Mr. Adair said the appropriations of the oxecutive department, which wero $329,420 last year, could he roduced'at least $75,000 per year. Mr. Adair declared that appropriations for all purposes could ho re duced at least $100,000,000 a year without imparing any part of the government service. "Extravagance and waste permeate everywhere through the Federal servifco," he said, amid Democratic applause, "and Congress has been voting away the people's money until we have reached a point where the revenues ar not sufficient to meet our enormous expenditures." Ho asserted that while the population had increased about 40 per cent since 1890, expenditures had increased 100 per cent. ? ? VIOLENCE AND ACCIDENT Claimed Several Victims in New York on Sunday. East Sunday was remarkable In incw YorK ror tne unusual number of deaths by violence and accident The coroners' ofllces handled thirty cases, of which one was a possible murder, one an unusual suicido by shooting, one a death due to a criminal operation, six were suicides by gas, and three fatal accidents. The man who shot himself chose I the marble stops of a life insurance company, in Madison square. lie had eut every mark of identification from his clothing except the name of a Newark, N. J., haberdashery on his collar, but he took pains to write a courteous note of apology to the corner for the trouble ho was about to cause. In Brooklyn, the toll of accidental death and suicide was particularly heavy. One girl drank carbolic acid and died; a man met a similar death, through accident; a man was found dead in a snow bank; another died in a hospital after falling unconscious in the street, and still another inflicted fatal wounds on himself with a knife. Threo men committed suicide by inhaling gas, two women died likewise, while cases of persons being overcome either accidentally or in an attempt to end their lives ran more than half a dozen. SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Government Witness in Night Rider Trial Meets Death. About the time James Middleton, principal government witness in a night rider trial, set for hearing in the Federal court at Mobile a few days ago, was assassinated at his home in Baldwin county, Ala., Saturday night, unknown parties fired into the home of D. L. Comstock, plaintiff in the case. Comstock's six year-old son had a narrow escape from death. Indictments against five men recently were returned in the night rider case, growing out of the killing of sheep belonging to Cornstock. Middleton, it is said, identified the alleged night riders. Ac cording to the reports, excitement is intense In Baldwin county and posses of citizens are aiding the sheriff in the hunt for tho assassins. Hands Over Money. Dr. W. J. Murray, chairman of tho dispensary commission, Wednesday turned over to tho State Treasure the sum of $275,000. This money will go to the schools, and represents part of the amount saved by the commission. One hundred thousand dollars was held in reserve. The sum of $02,000 is now in the courts. ? Tho man who wears tho ties his wife picks out for him has the greatest contempt for the man who narts his hair the way his wife maket him. HE TALKS OUT ? Chief Forrester Pinchet Upholds Claris in His Late Severe i ATTACK ON BALLINGER Letter From the Chief of the Hu- _ re a u of Forestry to Senator l>ol? ' t j liver lteail in the Semite Causes ? I a Sensation, and Makes Friends of ( President Taft Mad. f c In an unexpected manner Ui>> Bf?l- t linger-Pinchot controversy was made r doubly Intense by the reading in the ? senate Thursday of a letter t.ddress i ed by Mr. Plnehot to Senator Dol- f | llvor, in which tho course adopted v by L. R. Cllavls with the assistance of Messrs. Prince and Shaw, of the o bureau of forestry, were warmly C approved. In this communication c the chief forester not only upheld ;i the criticism of Secretary Dalllnger, but suggested that the president c himself had been mistaken in the c facts when he removed Mr. CJlavis from the public service. 1 Mr. Pinchot's letter called Senator c Hale to his feet with a severe re- t buke to the chief forester for hav- < lug Ignored a recent order by the president directing that no subor- s dlnate officer should give informa- n tlon concerning affairs of the govern- ( ment except to his superior officers. ( The rending In the senate of Mr. I Pinchot's letter caused a sensation. He said that Messrs. Price and 1 Shaw had prepared an official report n upon their actions which he was t transmitting to the secretary of ngrl- f culture. e "This report shows that Messrs. t Price and Shaw made public certain n Information regarding the so-called c Cunningham claims for coal lands C in Alaska," said Mr. Pinchot. "The ?'* effect of tho publication was to dl- 11 rect critical public attention to the ? action of the interior department. t "It shows also that they counte- ? nanced the publication by L. It. Gla- !1 vis of certain facts concerning these t< claims after he had been dismissed from office and that In other ways f( they endeavored to direct public at- 1' tentlon to the imminent danger that n the Alaska coal fields still In gov- t eminent ownership might pass forever into private hands with little or no compensation to the public. This information, Mr. Pinchot ( adds, was of a nature proper to be made public. After saying that these officials had acted on informa il._ 4L? 1 ? lujii Liiuy iiHd concerning tne danger t of the loss of the Alaska coal Acids, Mr. PInehot continues: j "Action through the usual ofneial t channels and Anally even an appeal . to the president had resulted (because of what I believe to have been * a mistaken impression of tho facts) in eliminating from the government . service in the person of Glavis, the most vigorous defender of tho poo- . plo's interest. Furthermore, tho re. fusal of the secretary of the interior ] to assume responsibility in the cases j had left their conduct wholly In the hands of subordinates, each of whom was apparently committed in ( favor of patenting these claims." ( Price and Shaw, lie said, deliberately chose to risk their ofllclal positions rather than perimit what they believed to be the wrongful loss of public property. Having violated a rule of propriety as between the depart mens, Mr. Pinchot said they deserved a reprimand and had received one. "Price and Shaw," Mr. Pinchot said, "successfully directed publication to a national danger." "Price and Shaw conceded that what they did transgressed propriety," continued Mr. Pinchot. "Rut measured by the emergency which faced them, by the purity of their motives and the results which they accomplished, their breach of propriety sinks well-nigh to insignificance." Mr. Pinchot said ho disclaimed any intention or desire to shirk any nnrt f Vila nnm ln?lf ~ " ? V v/i ma u n ll h ^iliiIIHK; Il'fspuilBibllIty for what was done by tho two subordinates. While Mr. Pinchot's letter was be. Ing read and discussed the president's message transmitting Attor ney General Wlokersham's report up- ' on tho Balllnger-Plnchot case was lying on tho desk of the vice presl- ' dent. Upon the conclusion of the 1 discussion It was laid before the ' senate, but Mr. Wlckersham's long 1 report was not read. It was referred to the committee on public lands. 1 Senator Nelson, chairman of the committee on public lands, has called a meeting of his committee for 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning to consider the several resolutions re lating to the Investigation of the Ralllnger-Plnchot controversy. ? ? To Issue More Honda. The Seaboard Air Line railway has made application in Atlanta, Oa., to the State Railroad Commission for permission to Issue $1,380,000 of bonds. The money will bo used i for new equipment. i ? i What converts a woman she has i a grudge against another is not to 1 be able to decide what It is. * HEAD WILL FALL IKCAl'HE HE DEFENDS THE IN* TEltESTS OF THE i'UBLlC. Mnchot Han Committed the Unpar> donahlo Sin in Tuft's Estimation ami Must Go. Late Thursday afternoon, after ending the newspaper reports of tho Ively tilt caused in the senate by he reading of a letter addressed to leuator Dolllver as chairman of tho enate committee on agriculture, by >lrroril rinchot, in which the chief orester vigorously upheld the subirdinates in his ofllce for the aid hey gave Louis it. Glavis, in the oports he ma<i)o public attacking Secretary of the Interior Hallinger, 'resident Taft sent out a hurry call or such members of his cabinet as vere within reach. Secretary of State Knox, Secretary f the Treasury MacVeagh, Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary ?f Agriculture Wilson soon put in m appearance. It was said that Forester Pinhot's conduct in sending an official onimunicatlon to the chairman of i congressional committee was freey discussed, although none of the tuhinet officers who participated in he conference would discuss their all to the White llouso in any way. President Taft some time ago isued an order that no subordinate in iny government department should lisclose any information to congress xcept through the head of the department. Mr. Pinchot, in his letter, virtual y upholds Glavis and describes him is "the most vigorous defender of he peoplo's interest," despite tho act that President Taft had declard Glavis unfit longer to remain in he public service. This direct slap t the president and the further delaratlon by Mr. Pinchot that the Cunningham coal lands really were bout to go to fraudulent claimants intil Glavis and the forestry bureau fllcials took a hand in the fight. hus Impugning the intention of high the in Is of the interior department re said to have aroused Mr. Tuft 0 keen resentment. The president is said to have felt or some time that Mr. Pinchot has een "defying the lightning." Some ction as to Mr. Plnchot's course in he letter incident is not unexpected. ANOTHKH HIJZZAHD. kdd Wave Again Rampant in the Kastem States. A cold wave swooped down upon he east from the extreme northvest shortly after midnight Tuesday. U1 along the Atlantic seaboard in he north the mercury dropped fast, n New York falling from 3 2 decrees at midnight to 12 at 9 a. m. Then it was still going down. Two 1 oaths had been reported at that .inio. Suffering in New York was Intense. Seventeen woman and 3 2t? men and a child, all homeless, took refuge in the municipal lodging house, where one man died on his irrival and another collapsed and is in a critical condition. Every other charitablo dormitory in the city was thronged, and early Tuesday relief work was taken up in all parts of tho city. The situation was made worse by sharp winds blowing with the force of a gale. Tuesday's rain turned most of the snow left over from the recent blizzard into slush, and then the cold and wind came along in time to turn the water into ice. Scores of miles of the city's streets bore tilt; SlgllB OI ICO. KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Orain Elevator at Buffalo Shattered With Fatal Results. At Buffalo, N. Y., three men were killed and nine were frightfully burned in an explosion and flro, which destroyed the plant of the Buffalo Ceroal Company Tuesday night, causing $7F>,000 damage. The explosion occurred in the yellow corn mill. A concrete and brick elevator, 140 feet high, adjoining it was shattered by the explosion and fell through the roof of the mill. Of the twelve men employed in the elevator not one escaped Injury. The r>vi"vl Aol/\r? 1 " U?1 l??* J * - % c.\i>iw.iit<u ? dfuevcd 10 nave dgoh caused by spontaneous combustion in grain dust. At the hospital it was Bald that eight of the injured men have but slight chances for recovery. Heavy Divorce Record. For every eleven marriage licenses issued in Philadelphia last year one suit for divorce was filed. This is not only an increase in tho number of dlvorco suits, but also a slik'ht increase in the percentage of suits to the number of marriages. In the general course of court procedure about 95 per cent of the suits filed nro granted. Hui'glars Shot. While attempting to forco an entrace into the home of C. M. Donald at Lexington, Ga., on Tuesday night, Jim Nelson and Harley Smith wero shot and probably fatally wounded.