The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 24, 1910, Image 5
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VERY SICK MAN
Senator B. R. Tillman Lays at Death's
Door in Washington City.
RECOVERY DOUBTFUL
n
He is Suffering from Slight Progressive
Paralysis Due to a Leakage
Of Blood in the Brain?The Crisis Near
at Hand and Ho May Die at ,
Any Time.
A special dispatch to rno i\ews'
and Courier says Senator II. 11. Till- |
man Is laying at the Belfour hotel in
Washington in a dying condition suffering
from paralysis and hardeing
ot th? arteries leading to the heart.
He may survive several days, if the j
paralysis can he checked and kept
away from the brain, or he may succumb
at any hour. Physicians hold
out no hopo.
Less than a week ago Senator Tillman
was apparently in his usua1
health and attended to his everyday
duties in the Senate. Almost
his last olllclal act was to Introduce a
tesolution calling upon the Secretary
of the Navy for information as to
the purchase of oil, which would
probably have led to interesting developments
connected with the operations
of the Standard Oil Company
A slight attack of dizziness on last
Wednesday was at first treated light
ly, and little was thought of it until
Thursday afternoon, when ho became
suddenly ill. During the night
it was apparent that ho was a dangerously
sick man, and at once telegrams
were sont out to all memborj
of the family, summoning them at
once to Washington.
Dr. Pickford, who was called in
when Senator Tillman became ill,
had a conference with Dr. White,
superintendent of St. Elizabeth's hos
pitai, ur. w 111iu ufin^ uuu ui i ii^ j
best known nerve specialists in tho
country. Dr. Babcock of Columbia
was summoned and reachod the Senator's
bedside Saturday morning.
The dispatch says it is recognized
that the Senator is a dangerously ill
man and absolutely no hope is held
out to the members of his family.
Thoroughout the entire day members
of both houses of Congress have been
peeking information as to the Senf
ator's condition, and so frequent
were tho telephone calls that very
earlly in the morning communication
was cut off. Close friends of the
family aro giving out information to
those who call, and at the Balfour
many South Carolinians have left
cards of sympathy during the day.
Early Friday morning when the
news of Senator Tillman's serious
Illness began to be scattered about
the Capital,, a pall settled everywhere.
Knots of Senators gathered
r in different parts of tho Senate
chamber and discussed the case,
* whilo on tho House side much tho
same thing was done. House members
who did not even have a speaking
acquaintance with Senator Tillman,
expressed the greatest sympathy
for members of his family, as
frequent inquiries as to his condition
indicated.
Mrs. Tillman was the first to
reach the Senator after he became i
111. She had only heen here a short
time when he became unconscious.
During the day Senator Tillman has
been able at time to articulate a little,
but most of the day he has been
laying in a stupor, taking no notice
o! those around him. Now and then,
however, as different friends and
members of the family pressed nis
hand ho would give a slight pressure
in answer, indicating that ho understood,
but could not reply.
CONDITION IMPROVED.
?
Doctors Say it is as Favorable as Can
He Expected.
Friday and night Dr. White concluded
his diagnosis of Senator Tillman's
case with Dr. I'ickford. After
a thorough examination it is now
stated that the trouble besides the
paralysis of the right side is cerebral
hemorrhage. The blood vessel
which allowed blood to spill and
form a clot on the brain, it is now
thought, been temporarily stopped
and the Senator is somewhat improved
ovor his condition earlier in
the uight, though ho is still in a
i very precarious condition.
The latest bulletin issued states
that for four or five days perhaps It
cannot be said what the result will
be, should he survive that long. The
doctors have been successful to the
extent of restoring partial consciouness
and Senator Tillman is now
able to articulate and has just taken
nourishment *
"Hello, Doctor Babcock." These
were the first words Senator Tillman
had spoken since early Thursday
V
SIIBSGI
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GROWS BLACK COTTON
CLAIMS TO 1IAYK MAI)K A HEMAHKAHLK
DISCOYEUY.
Diluting Certain (^leinieuls With
Water and Applying it to the
l'lant Turns the Trick.
There is a rheumatic cripple of
Savannah, Ga., that threatens to revolutionize
floral culture and eulti
vation of cotton. His name Is Dennis
Trapley, and he is now in Washington
trying to obtain a patent jii
his formula. Until he does tins no
is not willing to talk very much of
his discovery, but he makes the assertion
that lie can mix three inexpensive
and common chemicals into
a fluid, and with it produce mack
cotton at one-tenth the expanse of
dye. He also says that he h is produced
black roses, and he didves
that any flower can bo cultivated
so that its blooms will be black.
"After fifteen years of experimenting
I have discovered a process i>v
which black roses and black cotton
may be produced," Trapley says.
' The formula is inexpensive chelate*
Is which are diluted with watwr.
"I have taken an ordinary rosebush
and planted it in rica earth,
and by feeding it this chemical fluid
have produced a rose as large and as
heavy as an American beauty vd
as black as coal. The petals of this
lose have the same gloss and luste
as the A til eric vi beauty. Th i feeding
process is exactly the same as
watering a plant."
"As the first shoots of the hush
push up through the earth ai extraordinary
darkness can he notice 1.
As they grow their colors become
darker. The same is true of the
fc.il.age. The leaves of the bush are
almost black. The buds when they
appear are black.
One of the peculiarities of the
process Is that after a certain number
of applications during the first
year it can be stopped and for two
seasons the plant will bear black
ilowers. If the feeding process is
not continued in tho third year the
bush will again assume its natural
state.
"What is true of the rose is true
of all other flowers and also of cotton.
By the use of my chemical
secret 1 can produce black cotton
and it will cost littlo or nothing as
compared with black dye. One of
the features is that the chemicals
seem to have a general good effect
(.11 the plants. Those I have experimented
upon have grown to extraordinary
size and of fine fibre.
"The day my process i protected
by patent I can dispose of it for
$aOO.OOO. This proposition has been
made me."
It was in tho spring and long sum
mer evenings after lie went home
from work that Dennis would plant
roses and cultivate them. From
early boyhood he had one thought,
that of producing a black rose. At
first he tried grafting. Falling, he
began the us-j of chemicals. This
thought occurred to him after seeing
a farmer spread lime on the fields
which he was to cultivate. Dennis
believed that if the soil and lime
would produce a light sugar cane,
and light colored syrup, some chemi
cal might produce the black rose.
\ Kah f flun von ru ? cr/i aauo o
produced the first bloom of blade
:(sob, also cotton. Later he produced
other black blooms. *
It Was a Mix Up.
Five hundred persons attending
a small theatre at Pattan, Pa., Saturday
night were precipitated into
the basement of the building when
the floor collapsed during a fire. Men,
women and children wore struggling
in the debris and to add to the panic
the flreman were forced to turn
streams of water into tho basement
where the crowd was struggling to
escape the flames. No one was killed.
morning.
He greeted thus his friend and
physician Sunday afternoon. I)r.
White came in a moment later.
"Do you know who this it .senator?"
The single eye gleamed. "Dr.
White," he said.
The physicians then shut off further
efforts at speech, directing that
the patient should not exert himself.
Nevertheless the fact that speech is
returning was a source of great
gratification.
The Senator has been improving
all day. He had a good night Saturday
night and has been dozing
peacefully most of Sunday.
After the consultation Sunday afternoon
a most favorable bulletin
wit?* Kivrii uul <iii(i uie iamny Degan
to consider plans for the future.
They expect the Senator to sit up
in bod Monday.
The nbovo was sent to The State
by its Washington correspondent on
Sunday evening. *
Ml NO
RACE RIOT OVER
And Quiet Again Prevails in the City of
Cairo, Illinois.
ONE HAN WAS KILLED
The Negro Demanded by the Crowd
Convicted of Purse Snatching?
Troops Patrol the City?Six Negroes
were Among Deputies who
Pi red on the Mob.
A dispatch from Cairo, 111., says
with three companies of militia
guarding the Court House and jail
under the dlrcet supervision of A'ljt.
Gen. Frank S. Dickson, Cairo settled
down Friday night to complete
quiet, after a strenuous twenty-four
hours. It is believed that the mob
spirit is quelled. There are many
scattered groups of men about the
[streets, but no crowd is allowed to
i congregate.
Threats were made Friday against
Sheriff Fred 1). Nellis for tho killing
of Alex Halliday and the wounding
ol four other men by deputies >u
beating back the n.ob that attacked j
the jail Thursday night in an attempt .
to lynch a negro purse snatcher, but!
the presence of soldiers preveuts
any open demonstrations.
John Pratt, the negro whom the
mob intended to lynch, was sentenced
Friday to prison for not more
than fourteen years. Lincoln Wilson
arrestd as a suspected companion
of Pratt, in the snatching of women's
purses was released. The
grand jury failed to return an indictment
against him.
Pratt's sentence was imposed ten
minutes after lie entered Court and
pleaded guilty to the indictment returned
on Thursday.
I A searching grand Jury InvostUa
rion of tho attack on the jail was
ordered by Judge Butler immediately
after the disposal of the cases
against the two negroes. Judge Butler's
instructions to the grand jury
were in substance a demand that
the rioters be brought to justice and
made to stand trial for rioting, a
felony.
"This sort of procedure must be
stopped," ho said. "There have
been five murders in Cairo since
November 11, when we had a previous
occurrence of mob violence.
These murders show that mob law
U no deterrent to crime and it is
our duty to see that mob law cea3es
to 1)0."
A stray shot fired by a member of
the mob was the dlroct cause of the
volley from the deputies guarding
the jail that laid several of its members
low, according to Sheriff Nellls's
version of the attack. "I was
standing on tho front porch of the
Court House parleying with the.mob
which was demanding that I give up
Pratt," said the Sheriff, "when some
one in the crowd fired a shot. My
deputies, watching tho parley from
a second-story window, thought that
I fired the shot as a signal, and Lh-y
fired a volley in the air.
"The mob refused to retreat and
the deputies then fired into the
crowd. My conscience is easy over
the matter. The rioters were determined
to get me unless I got
them. I did my duty by protecting
my prisoners at any price."
A dozen broken windows in the
Court House showed that shots were
tired into the building by the mob.
There were six negroes among the
fourteen armed deputies that defended
the jail with Nellis.
Mayor Parsons has ordered saloons
to remain closed until danger of further
disturbances has passed.
The 1-TnlHflnv fiitnllv Imo i-otolnn#i
i j nun ? ' i
an attorney to sue Sheriff Xollis and
the county for damages. I-Ialliday,
who was a son of former Mayor
Thomas W. Halllday, was shot in
the neck. He lay on the ground
near the Court House porch nearly
three hours before Nellls would per
in It anyone to remove him to a hospital.
He died two hours later. Nellis
replies to criticisms of his refusal
to permit an injured man to he
removed by saying that he obeyed
orders from Governor Denen to permit
no one near the building.
Samuel VVessinger is the only one
of the injured whose condition is at j
all serious. He is at St. Mary's hos-i
pital with eleven buckshot wounds
in the head. George 13. Walker,
correspondent for the Associated ;
j Press, who was shot In the leg while
j watching the affair, discovered five
shot holes in his clothes. *
Sold in New York.
Paraffin coated eggs from Europe,
nearly a million of which were imported
last week, were placed on sale
Saturday by hundreds of New York
retailers at 13 to 8 cents a dozen less
' than the price of American cold storage
eggs.
W TD
ARE MARKED MEN
XH(*1U) OKl'L'TIIOS WHO FIHK1)
ON TK OAlltO MOU.
Will lie Deult Willi by Hint Mob
mid Others us Soon lis the Trouble
is Over.
Statements at Cairo, 111., by four ,
negro deputy sheriffs, to a coroner's
jury, that they ft red several shots
each Thursday night when Alex
llalliday was killed while leading a
mob in attack on the county jail
resulted Saturday night in a renewal
of the anti-negro agitation.
The coroner's inquest resolved itself
Into a general quiz by tbo
jurors, who tried to learn which one
of the deputies 11 red the steel Jack
eted bullet that killed llolliday.
The negro deputies admitted llring
indiscriminately into the crowd with
shotguns and revolvers, but none of
them would admit having used a .
rille, with which it is said llolliday
was killed.
The negro deputies who bred on
t'he mob are said to he marked men,
now that their names have become
public. The killing of one white
man and the wounding of severa"
others by negroes, although legally
deputized, has brought out protests
trom even those opposed to the
mob.
Sheriff Nellts tostlbed at the inquest
that he used negro deputies
because lie could not lliul his regular
deputies, nor the local militia com panv
officers, nor white men, who
would answer his call for help.
Tears ran down the sheriff's
cheeks as he told of the frantic
efforts to bnd men to assist him is
protecting his prisoners.
George Jackson, Charles Hudson,
Henry Douglas and I. A. Head is the
negro deputies who admitted bring
into the mob. They testibed that
the leaders of the mob wore gunnv
sacks over their heads, with holes (
cut through for their eyes. (
LADY SHOT 11Y THAI* GUN.
Iltul Boon Kct By Her Husband for 1
I
Cliirk?'ii Thieves.
Walking into a trap sot by her 1
husband for chicken thieves, Mrs.
George L. Noel, who lives on the road |
between I'roKperity and Newberry,
was seriously and possibly mortally
wounded.
Mr. Noel had been missing some
chickens. He had driven stakes in ,
the ground in front of his chicken J
house, around which he had led a
cord attached to the trigger of a |
cocked shotgun, pointing to the up- ^
proach to the chicken house, so that
anyone approaching the chicken .
house would run against the cord
and discharge the gun. Mr. Neel's
wife received the load of shot in- (
tended for the thieves.
Mrs. Neel was in the yard looking
after matters before retiring for the
night, and probably did not know
or had not thought of her husband's
precautions. The load entered the
right log below the knee Joint, at
close range, boring an ugly hole.
WHAT l>lt. WIIilOY SAYS.
Poor Criminal Despised; a ltlch One
is l'ctted.
"I could give the names of many
nreji who have been convicted of
food adulteration and who are still
receivied by the highest social lights ;
of this city," said Dr. H. W. Wiley,
the government food expert.
Dr. Wiley went to New York to
testify before the Hudson county i
grand jury in connection with the
investigation of the cold storage
warehouses, but he lectured Saturday
at the College of the City of
New York. He declined to give the
names of those he referred to.
"When the poor man is convicted
of a crime lie feels disgraced,'
said Dr. Wilej. "Hut the millionaire
who endangers the heath of
the community through impure food
is still received in the highest of j
moiety and retains bis place in the (
church.
Killed by Explosion.
H. F. McCall, a prominent capital
ist, of Jennings, Fla., who was Injured
at Dashor, Ga.f two weeks ago,
when the gasoline tank on his automobile
exploded, died Wednesday.
While en route from his homo to
North Georgia an accident caused the
tank on his machine to explode. Mr.
McCall, receiving frightful burns.
llank in Illinois Kohhcd.
Early Tuesday burglars blew open
the safe of the Citizens Ilank of
Cartsworth, 111., with nitro-glycerino
and escaped with a team Hiking $8,000
in paper money and $2,000 In
silver. The night watchman was later
found bound and gagged.
GOOD ADVICE
President Barrett, of the Farmers' Union,
Issues an Address
HE URGES THE FARMER
To Prod Their Congressmen and
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V/ a IIV III 1 l?r lilt* ttlUVKf hilj Iiif4
that the Latter'* Slowness is
Partly Fault of tho Farmers Themselves,
ami Their Friends,
President Charles S. Harrott, of
tnf Farmer's union, lias written a
letter to the officers and members
in which lie declares that "the slowness
of the low-makers to respond
to our requests is almost as much
the fault of the farmer as of the
lawmakers." Says Mr. Itarrett:
To the Officers and Members of the
Farmer's Union:
in obtaining measures of direct interest
to our members, the slowness
of the lawmakers to respond to our
requests almost as much the fault
of the farmer as of the lawmaker.
Many of the leading congressmen
told us, in substance, after some
little conversation: "Why didn't you
come up before, face to face, and
get in behind us? of course,, we understand
we made the farmer's prom
ises, and wo expect you to call on
us to redeem them."
That's the milk in the cocoanut,
with theee and with every congressman.
brethren, don't lot us forget! And
the only way you can keep them
from forgetting you, is not to forget
them!
I have watched "interest" after
"interest" work here through Its
representatives, and it came to me
forcibly, that not a one of them,
nor all of them combined and then I
doubled, is so powerful as the farmers
of this country.
Hut all of the power in creation
wculd not forward the flight, unless
you keep in behind your congressman
and refuse to let him develop a
poor memory.
Hardly a farmer in tho organization,
or out of it for that matter,
who does not remember bow the
congressman, when a candidate told
itiin of his undying love, and how he
promised this and that and just asked
to be given a chance to get this
ind that.
How many of you have sent this
promising brother gentle reminders,
from time to time, in the shape of a
genial little letter, inquiring after
liis health, telling him you remembered
how much he loved you, and
sking him when he expects to get
busy securing some of those tilings
be used to talk, about?
Mighty few of you, I reckon. Most
if you recover from the excitement
:>f a political campaign like getting
over the measles, then straightway
proceed to forget about the necessity
of keeping in touch with tho man
who holds your commission in congiess.
Then when another candidate
[Dines along frothing at the mouth
like a wild bull and toll you how
you have been betrayed, ,you vote
him in and the other fellow out ?
and then get busy, go out and dig
potatoes, chop cotton, patch the barn
V# W \ C Al* oAlWAthln /? ? ' 4
. v.w. wi duiiiciiiin.j5 t-isu, tiuu iorgei
Mr. No. Two.
That practice, more than any other
one factor, explains the failure of
the American farmer to secure the
services at the hands of the congressmen.
You are the mightiest in this land
today. Up here, they are all afraid
of you, and with good cause. Collectively,
you make the power of Taft
or Roosevelt or Aldrich or Cannon
look like thirty cents.
The thing to do, Is to realize that
power hy not forgetting your congressman.
Another, thing, we are hero rignt
now for the purpose of fixing up
things and keeping you posted. We
fire going to do that .from time to
time, in the most complete manner.
Stenographic minutes are being kept
of every conference, trained and
faithful members are lining up and
investigating congressmen, weighsng
promise against preformance,
and burning the midnight oil in your
interest.
Rut, in the meantime, don't forger,
that forgetful congressman, and do
not let him forget you.
Write him a sweet, questioning
and gentle little love letter.
Charles S. Barrett.
Washington, I). 0., Feb. 15.
Old Postmaster Dead.
Simeon W. A. Stevens, who was
appointed postmaster at Gardner,
Mass., hy President Franklin Pierce
in 1854 and had received successive
appointments ever since, is d?vl at
his home in South Gardner. He was
ninety one years old.
RRY HE!
i :r; itiikd L . ?4l
WIFE RUNS AWAY
FIIOM IIKit HUSBAND WITH ANOTIIKK
WOMAN'S HUSBAND
Mr*. No well Leaves Her Home to
Toko Up With W. K. Mj*Nseni?ergt
a Traveling Salesman.
Tho Charlotte Observer, of Saturday,
says: "Mr. Arthur Nowell of
Greensboro, an operator in the Western
Union telegraph ofiico of that
city, came to Charlotte Thursday
night on No. 35 in quest of his wifo
who has eloped with Mr. W. E. Masaenberg,
a traveling representative
?> I till1 A m urUii t\ f y ?
IV.OII l l/UI>V,liU ^ 111 p il II y .
I'nfortunately ho was a little late,
the couple having left over tho Seahoard
at 5 o'clock headed for Wilmington.
Mr. NowelJ was ace >niianied
by Deputy Sheriff Vealnetly
and they have sent numerous telegrams
with the hope of intercepting
the couple before they re i m Wilmington
or certainly after they arrive.
"The information which reached
Charlotte came In tho form of a
telegram to Sheriff W. 11. Wa.lace
who was asked to arrest Massenberg
and the wife of Mr. Nowell. They
were said to be In Charlotte at a
hoarding house and stopping under
an assumed name. Sheriff Wallace
was not able, however, to obtain tho
parties as they had gone before he
received the message or shortly after.
at least. They had stopped at
Mrs. Gooding's on West Trade street.
"Mr. Nowell discovered that Masseiiberg
and his wife were in Charlotte
through a telegram sent by the
former to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Bain
of Greensboro, and as soon as Nowell,
who was an employe of tho
telegraph ofllce of Greensboro, discovered
that the message was for Mrs
Bain, he got In touch with the olflcers
of Greensboro and the deputy
sheriff agreed to accompany him to
Charlotte and make the arrest.
"From all accounts Mrs. Nowell
joined Massenherg in Raleigh MonI
t!:i v if > a i ?
s . .,..v, ,???o niviu Ti?M mg ii*t parents,
Col. and Mrs. John Nichols.
I Accompanied by hor small child and
her sister, Mrs. Bain, Mrs. Newell
I left for High Point, where they stopped
for a short time before coming
on to Charlotte.
"Massenberg is rather prominent
and is from Henderson where hl3
father Is the proprietor of a hotel.
He is a representative of the American
Tobacco Company and is well
known among the traveling men. He
was seen in Charlotte Thursday by a
number of his acquaintances who
thought nothing of his presence
there. He is said to reside in Statesville
and to be a man of family."
DUAL TKAOEDY AT T1IEATKR.
Orchestra Manager and Violinist Kill
One Another.
Fatally wounded by two bullets
Hred by Aloph Cassau, a violinist,
Louis It. Osterdorff, manager of tho
Fmpire Theatre Orchestra, Thursday
night overpowered his assailant,
wrestled tin; revolver from him, and
,'ired three bullets through Cassau's
head, killing him instantly at tho
stage entrance of the Empire Theatre
tit Indianapolis, Ind. Ostendorff
died in a hospital later. The shooting
occurred just as the curtain rose
foi the night performance, and the
audience was kept in ignorance until
the show was over. Cassau's attack
upon Ostendorff is said to have been
the result of a quarrel Wednesday
night with the manager. The Empire
Theatre is a b
BISHOP IS IX JAIL.
Pastor "Iloly Church of the Living
God," in the Toils.
Denounced as a menace to society
and an impostor, Jonas Samuel Sturdevant,
the negro bishop, of the
"Holy Church of the Living God, the
Pillar and Ground of Truth," waa
1 sentenced at Baltimore Friday to
i jail for three years. He was convicted
of having assaulted and beaten
Mrs. Rose Demard, one of hla
white "disciples." She testified that
she was influenced by him to leave
| her husband and children in BrookI
lyn to follow the negro, under whose
spell she lived eight months. She
told a revolting story of her life in
the quarters of the white women
over whom the negro had mastery.
Italians I'se Knife.
Italians bent 011 murder created
terror in the resident district of Chicago
Sunday night. At one place
1 Joe Sera was a tacked by three Italians
and probably fatally stabbed. In
another section of the city J. P.
ftehmitz and Peter Hubert were set
upon by two Italians, who, after
ali.i * *
. otuuuins meir victims, fled.
iALD