The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 03, 1910, Image 6

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LOOK OUT FOR IT Bailey's Comet Will Begin Sweepof the Sky on the First of April WHEN IT CAN BE SEEN In flu* Morttiii" llr:i\ CMl< A llOiUl of the Sun, but Later it W ill Pass to tin4 WVslciii Heavens and l?e Seen for Several Weeks There Hefore Moving <)n Into Spare. Now that Halley's cone t is rapidly approaching the earth an 1 is soon to become an object of great popular interest, the public will desire to know the leading facts conic-ning this fumout celestial visitor, and to learn something of its eventful h'rtory. In just what part of the heavens it is at present, when and where it may be seen best, when it will be nearest the earth, and what d inger if any, is there of a collision with our globe, are some of the questions that arc naturally asked. The comet is at present in tlm constellation Pisces, about half way from the zenith down to the western horizon at dark, and about S degrees west of the planet Saturn. It is not yet visible to the naked eye, and as it is approaching the sum, it will soon be lost in his rays till about April 1, when it will reappear in the morning sky ahead of the sun. On March 21 it will be on the nnnnsttr. aide of the sun fro i lis, and on April 20 it will pass its perihelion at a distance of 5-1,000,000 miles from the sun. From that time till May 15 it will be a glorious spectacle in the morning heavens. On May IS it will pass directly between the earth and the sun, when it wlii be only 12,000,000 miles from us. As it sweeps ra.vdiy from the morning to the evening skv again, and after a few weeks it will bid us adieu for its long journey into the depths of space, not to return to us again in three-fourths of a century. As it rushes by us on May ISth it will pass directly over the disc of the sun, and a line opportunity will be afforded to test by ol rei vntion the size and character of the nucleus. If it consists of solid particles of considerable stz,:? or of denseaggregation, it will bo projected as a dark mass against t h 3 bright face of the sun, but if it Is compose 1 of gas only, or of very smai: particles, widely diffused, it will pass across tne sun as an invisible mass. It is not improbi ^ o that the earth at that time may be:-me involved in the nebulosity of its tail, but the matter composing the tail is so extremely tenuous 'hit the earth will in all probability pass through it without any Bens'.a'..? effect. The transit of the comet acoss the face of the sun will tak-a place during the night on the western hemisphere, and hence we could nor. see it any way, but astronomers on the opposite side of the earth will doubtless abscrve this phenomenon with great care. The orbit of Tlalley's comV is a very elongated ellipse, extendi ig cut into space 500,000,000 miles beyond the orbit of Neptune. At its perihelion its distance from the sun Is 54,000,000 miles, or somewhat less than the distance of the planet Venus. It makes a revolution around the sun in about 75 years, though owing to the disturbing effect of the larger planets on its motion, this period may vary one or two years. Its motion in its orbit is retrograde; that is, it moves around the sun in an opposite direction to that of the planets. Its orbit is inclined about 18 degrees to the plane of the earth's orbit, and these orbits are so related that a collision between the earth and the comet is impossible. Halle.v's comet received its name from Edmund 14alley, a distinguished English astronomer, who observed it in 1G82 and who predicted its return lr. 1759. His prediction was based upon the fact that its orbit in 1G82 was nearly identical with that of 1007 and 1531. He also found in history references to remarkable comets in 1 456, 13 01 and 10G6. As the interval between the returns of these comets was about 7.") years, he concluded that tlioy were one and the same body, and this conclusion proved to be correct. The history of IIalley's comet, a? it has been traced back through th< ages by its period of 7.7 years, i! finite eventful. In 10GG is was re garded as the forerunner of the vie tory of William of Normandy. It* size then was equal to that of tin full m'oon. In 14.7G its tail reachec from the horizon to the zenith, am the wildest excitement prevailed. Indeed, at every return of this re markable comet the nations of tin earth have looked upon it with awe Its first recorded appoanencfe waf 130 II. C., when it was supposed t< herald the birth of Mlthridates. g& At this return the conditions wi' he very favorable for a magniflreni view of tliis historical celestial vlsi | tor, and the Impressions made upot the minds of thoso who behold It wi?! ii ITTil remain throughout life. LOYAL TO BRYAN AM) DON'T IMIOPOSK TO SKK HIM SMKLVKI) NOW. Dromoters of a Washington Banquet Accused hy Indiana Democrats of Trying to Do This, The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says as a counter agitation to that which actuates the "amity" feast, which a number of Democrats of prominence in the District of Columbia are arranging for Jefferson Day, to lie giv 011 ill Washington, a banquet is sclmd iiloded for tlio same date and timoj at Indianapolis. Arrangements for the Indiana attraction are well tinder way, and so far Governor Marshall, of that State, and former Governor lloke Smith have been listed to appear among the chief speakers. The local dinner was intended to include the national Democracy an ' incidentally a gathering of Democratic Presidential possibilities. The Indianapolis affair is a bolt out of what otherwise seemed to be a clear sky. It is learned that prominent Indian \ Democrats are dissatisfied with the sanction given by Norman 10. Mack, chairman of the national commitD ?, to the Washington dinner. 'I hose Democrats assert that the dinner is a scheme of the "conservatists ' or "reactionari s" to capture the organization from Pryan and his !Pu:i limits. It is to offset this move that the Indianapolis dinner is to be given. One of tho moving spirits in the counter demonstration in John M. Kern, the recent candidate for vicePresident. It is lie who is gathering in the speakers, big and medium, from different sections of the country. It is also probable that wh 11 the dinner does come off Mr. Kern will be responsible for some pertinent. oratory himself. In a recent interview the former vice-Presidential candidate predicted a complete reorganization of political parties in the near future, forcasting a situation in which the Pryan partisans would gather under tho banner of Sonalnr ? Pn 111 111 i 11 o I and Lafollette, and Domocrats of the variety of Senators Bailey and Daniel would become co-workers of Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon. Inquiries among the Democratic members of the Indiana delegation at the Capitol brought forth the relily that none of them were lining up on either side. "The fact of the | matter is." remarked one of the Representatives, "we are not exhibiting any great interest in either dinner at this time." SUICIDE AT COLUMBIA. Young Man Kills llinisei' in House of Ill-Repute. Leaving-a note sa/:.'<g: "1 love a Spanish girl, She Dasu'i love mf. 1 would rather be doa 1 tlrxn alive," .T \V Padgett, Jr., Wednesday afternoon committed suicide in a house of ill-fame in Columbia. Padgett entered a room in this house about 1 ! o'clock in the morning and when a woman entered the room in the afternoon, he was strangling and gasping for breath. Physicians were summoned but it was too late to save the life that was almost gone. Using opium and morphine, and a half-pint of one star whiskey, the dose taken was enough to kill, and in spite of the efforts of two physicians Padgett died about 5:30 o'clock. "The Spanish Girl" referred to in the note left, is an inmate of the house. Padgett was 2"? years of age, and lives at Lykesland, nine miles above Columbia. ??. FIKNDIKII ACT OF A IlKl'TK. An Old Man Assaulted a Utile Three Year Old Child. At Dallas, Texas, Allen Brooks, a negro. f>S yeras old, was arrested late Wednesday, carged with assaulting Mary M.Jtuvens, a white girl, 3 years old. The child was found n the barn in a critical condition. The negro was arrested in the basement of another house, where he wsa looked in. The negro was safely lodged in the county jail. According to the statement of the authorities, the assault occurred in the second story of the barn in the rear of the Havens home, at the corner of Pearl street and Ross avenue, the centre of ono of the most fashionable residential districts in the city. Brooks was employed at 1 the Ravens home, and the officers say he. lured the baby girl into the barn and carried her into the loft. ? ^ ^ _ | Shot by His Dog. j At Albany, Ga., Paul II. .Ton?a was accidentally shot Saturday and may lose a band and part of an arm > as the result. lie was riding to a hunting field in an automiblle, when j bis dog pressed the trigger of a shot } gun with Its paw, sending the load into bis master's arm. , ? ? ? r Horse Broke Window. A horse jumped through a plate j glass window of a store at Clio, S. I 0. Several show cases were broken and the horse was badly cut. THEIR EXILE ENDED Till?: modoc indians ake allowed to <;o to okkcox. Forty Years A^o They Murdered Cien. Can by and Dev. Eleu/.er Thomas, a Commissioner. The Modoc Indians In Oklahoma are going home?not to the lava beds in California, whence they were taken to the Quapaw Indian reservation nearly forty years ago, but to the Klamath reservation of tli Modocs in Oregon, where they will i get lands in exchange for their allotments in Oklahoma. It is a peeularity of the .Modoc that ho desires to die on the spot where he was born. The Modocs' have been i homesick ever since they went to Oklahoma, and their return to the northwest is the result of their constant appeal to the authorities at Washington. The removal of the Modocs to Oklahoma followed their defeat after their bloody campaign against government troops in the lava beds, where they were commanded by Cap. tain Jack. They assassinated and butchered all but two of the peact commission sent to them by the secretary of. war. When the Modocs reached Oklahoma there were 3!> ' men, r> 1 women and (10 children, j 1 many of whom were sorely wounded. | Among them were such notable M leaders as Scarfaccd Charley, Steamboat Frank and Shacknasty Jim. M Their arrival in Baxter Springs >s j 1 well remembered by old citizens. Age and disease have cut. down the Mo- 1 docs until only sixty remain. Nearly : all their old leaders have died. 1 In going to the Klamath country, ' from which they lied when they ent 0 1*0/1 till* lflfl luwl O 1(1 /"*?? 1 * I V.x . v V? t.nv 1(4*11 MVUO III V>(Uin;| 111(1, (hose Modocs will ho among the Klamath Modocs, whom thoy thorough- ly hate and despise because of the arroganaoo of the Klamath hand. The Oklahoma Modocs wore moved from California to Oregon, only to have their Oregon kinsmen say to them: "You can stay here, hut it is our country. Your horses can eat the grass, but it is our grass. You can catch fish, but they are our fish." This was more than Captain Jack and his people could hear, and they stole away and returned to'their old j haunts in California. When the federal government tried to make them go hack to Oregon the Modocs began fighting, and sought refuge in the inaccessible lava beds. The commission established camp about two miles from the retreat of the Modocs in the lava beds and midway was pitched a tent at which the council should be held. Xo sooner had the commissioners assembled in the tent than they found that death was at hand. Captain Jack suddenly shot General Canby, adviser of the commissioners. Canby's throat was cut and his uniform stolen . The Uev. Eleazer Thomas, a commissioner, also was slain and his body robbed and mutilated. Two of the commissioners escaped. The United States government then put a large body of troops in tlm field and the Modocs were pursued night and day, until they surrendered October 2, 1872. Captain Jack, Black Jim, Boston Charley, and Schronchin Jim were banged at Fort Klamath, Oregon, for the murder of Canby and Thomas. Soon afterward the California Modocs were taken to lmUnn Tovrlt/irv boahdkk was bkatpx. Upturned from Hospital and Killed llis Assailant. The robbing of the postofllce safe at Ualcigh, X. C., in December, 1008, led to tbe killing in New York on Thursday of John Leonard, who h.'id i been sentenced to the federal prison fit Atlanta for a safe blowing joii. Leonard's young wife obtained his release from prison three months ago on an alibi and they came to Brooklyn and opened a boarding house. Thomas Barnes, boarder, angered Leonard two weeks ago by referring to him as an ex-convict and Leonard gave him such a thrashing that l e was not able to leave the hospital until Wednesday night. Barnes called at the Leonard home early Thursday morning and when Leonard appeared at the door he shot him dead. Should Be Punished. During the recent race conference in Columbia a colored man who called himself Dr. J. S. Murray, of Philadelphia, took part, and seemed to have made a terrible mash on some of the colored women who were in attendance. Murray finally drifted down to St. Matthews, where ho married an intelligent, rospectai bio young colored woman, whom he robbed and deserted. Snob scoundrels aR Murray deserve the severest punishment. We hope ho will be caught. ? Vardaninn Defeated. The two houseq of the Mississippi legislature met Thursday and unanimously elected Leroy Percy of Greenville United States Senator, succeeding the late Senator McLaurin. The new senator's term expires SUED BY THE STATE KK II LAM) RISTILMIK Y COM. : PAW MIST COl'UKI VP. , ft Half .Million Dollar Claim Made Against (lie Cor|H?ration by the Slate of South Carolina. I The State ot' South Carolina has | given notice of suit for $500,000 i against the owners of tho Richland I Distillery company, and $29,000 ' against the owners of the Carolina 1 Class company. IT ml. r tin- act recently passed by the general assembly, ibis action means tbat neither one of thes con- ( corns can dispose of any property in this state until the final settlement ' of the issues. The dispensary commission was to 1 have met Wednesday, hut only three ' members were pros nt, and no state- 4 niont was given out. Dr. Murray and Messrs. Patton and Wood were in c Columbia Wednesday afternoon. The suits were filed with Lho clerk of court of Richland county. 'Col. T. I'. Feld*r of Atlanta who c has boon assisting the commission 1 in ferreting out graft, stated that he had read with interest an editorial in The State last fall in which ar- ' tide it was inquired why the glass r company had been pushed so much 0 more vigorously than the Hichlaud Distillery Company. i; "This Richland Distillery company ' lias been our pet," he declared, "and a ivo were saving the best for the last. 1 The revelations we will make in his case will amaze the people of c South Carolina who were not in- ? formed of the net work of power and s influence of this corporation." t ^ t b KDISTO HIVKIt PKO.JKCT. * c b Nothing Can lie Dono IntiJ the Money is Voted. In speaking of the "bjdisto River .... # . .. . l rroject, urn cjnariesion livening " Post says: "Capt. 10. M. Adams, corps of engineers, U. S. A., in charge of the river and harbor work in South Car- C olina, will take up tho matter of d the proposed survey of the Edisto 1 river and connecting canal with the 1 Ashley, slirotening the distance by s water to Charleston as soon as the s river and harbor bill passes. i "Some impatience has been shown 1 by certain parties in Orangeburg at j the progress in the matter, but as a t matter of fact until the bill is pass- t ed and the funds become available, c nothing can be done to carry out i tho proposed improvements. When t the bill is passed Capt. Adams will t probably be glad to make an appoint- s meat for a hearing on the matter a and will do his part in hastening the i work to completion." .i c HIT IIISIIAM) IX 1'IX. , t And Then Discovers That Ho Had '(! Committed Suicide. 1 At New York when Mrs. Peter Smith, wife of a longshoreman, looked behind the door of her dimly lighted kitchen last Friday night after returning from a neighbor's, she saw the huge form of her husband. Peter, pressed close to the wall in an evident attempt to conceal him- g self. Being somewhat of a practical ^ joker herself, Mrs. Smith seized a broom and playfully whacked her uusuanu s duck ana snins. lie made ? no outcry ami she stopped in amaze- ^ ment. Then her eyes widened for i( slie saw that her husbands feet were ^ not touching the floor and that he e was swinging to and fro. Smith, s who was thirty-four, had hanged | himself to a gas-pipe, using an old ^ cloth trunk strap. lie was out of v a job and despondent. * , * v SHOOTS IMtll.Mll.K OK KCJYPT I - s Student <?F Nationalist Tarty Inflicts Superficial Wounds. At Cairo Boutros Pacha Ohali, the } Egyptian minister of foreign affairs, was shot Saturday by a student, who was arrested after the shooting. The student shot five times, three of the bullets lodging in the premier's body. Two of them, however, inflicted only ( superficial wounds. The bullets were ' extracted, and it is practically cer f tain that the premier will recover. I The crime was entirely of a political f nature, the would-be assassin claims 1 fo be a Nationalist. He declared 1 that his motive was the desire to 1 avenge various acts of the govern- 1 ment, which the Nationalists attri- ! butc personally to Boustrns Bhali. Ilurt in Bargain Sale. At New Orleans Mrs. Mary Bon- : chon, who was hurt in a bargain sale, wants damages. She says In her petition that she was carried off her feet and "her body walked upon by the crowd." She seeks to recover from the firm which conducted the sale the sum of $5,000 >jr her alleged injuries. Several Killed. It is reported that two magazines have exploded in tho Bremen oil ' field In Ohio and that several pee- < pie were killed, BIG DAMAGE SUIT MKS. MAKCIA SILYKIt IS Sl'IX(J Till: SOl'TllHltX KOAI). \llcgiiig that She Was Arrested and Searched Illegally by an Employee of the Hallway. Mrs. Marcia Silver of Augusta, Lhrough her attorneys, c. II. and It. S. Cohen, Saturday 111 oil a suit .?i mo ooui norr. llailroad for damages. Sho a!l?ges n her petition that si e was illegill.v arrested hy an employee of the oad at Iiranehville, S. C. It is alleged in the petition that Mrs. Silver was on her way from Charleston to Augusta and at iranchville, a lady stated that she ind lost $10. The night watchman 'or the road charged .Mrs. Silver's ittlo boy with having the money j ind seaehod him and later searched Mrs. Silver's suit case. She alleged that she was subjectid to much mbarrassment and that die has been damaged to the exeat of $r?,ooo, and the suit against tie railway Ikis been brought to reover that amount. It will bo tried to doubt in tin1 t'nited States court t Charleston or Columbia. This case has been fully reported n this paper before, and it will lie einembered that the money supposd to have been lost was at last ound in the satchel of the young ady who thought she had lost it 'lie ladv was a young school teacher nd was also passing through the own of Iiranehville. Sometime ago she published a p.rd in this paper giving her side f the unfortunate affair, in which he admitted substantially the facts s S'H forth in Mrs. Silver's petition ut denied that any one had accused hat lady of stealing the money. The ase is an interesting one and will e watched with interest. KVIi ItADl.Y IX.JIKUIK -oilrig Spartanburg (jlrl May Tx>s? Member From Snowball Hurt. The Spartanburg Journal says Catherine Johnson, aged 10 years, laughter of Z. G. Johnson, a salesnan at the Carolina Cash Company, nay lose one of her eyes as the re1111 of being struck with a snowball everal weeks ago. The injured eye s in a serious condition, several lemorrhages having followed the inurv. The little girl is now being reated by a physician who fears that he child may lose the sight of the >ye. The little girl was snowballng with a number of her friends luring the snow several weeks ago, iml was hit in the eye with a hard nowball. She suffered intense pain it first but soon recovered and no nore attention was paid to the inury until a few days ago when the ye became very much inflamed and iled profusely. Becoming alarmed he parents of the girl took her to in eye specialist, who, after a careul examination, declared the eye o be in a very serious condition. I>1:1: \ M ru'sis ininrvn *sos Mis Revolver to Fell Imaginary Pursuer. "I'll got you, shouted 11 o win an 11. leybert, aged eighty as he slept in lie ollice chair of Redick's livery table at Ilutler, Pa. "I'll get you," he kept repeating nd drawing a heavy revolver from lis pock? t he began firing. Two billets struck the ollice wall aiul as a hirt hit his own head, Seybert rolld from the chair and awoke from a leep to find himself on the floor deeding. At the first shot John hrnrad, a stable hand, lied out of a window. Seybert says he was dreamng that he was pursued by a man yho wanted to kill him and that he ired In self defense. His wound is crious. COl(MIS I P TWO PINS. >ufVers Pains for a Year llefore (letting Relief. Since last spring, Sid Smith of tuby lias had sudden, acute attacks if agonizing pains. Some days ago, u one of these attacks he became i uiddenly nauseated, and vomited two | dns, one of which had a fleshy ?rowth around it; the head of the other was worn nearly in two near Hie point. Mr. Smith had no intention of using his internal anatomy as a pin cushion, but was forced to do so for nearly a year because of a little thoughtlessness on the part of Mrs. Smith, who in fixing some berries in a dish accidentally dropped several pins in it. Leaves the Penitentiary. \V. B. Avant was released from the penitentiary Tuesday, his bond being signed by I). W. Avant and Lewis A. Parson. Tic left Columbia for his home at once. * Stamp Out White Slaves. Secretary Nagel is submitting estimates to Congress declares that the expenditure of $100,000 for stamping out the whtlo slave traffic would bo money well spent. V J SOME NEW ACTS~ Signed by the Governor and Will Become Operative at Once TITLE OF THOSE SIGNED Many Hills Passed oil by the (iov crnor in the Fast Few Days, and Several of General Interest Aproved by Mini and Given llis Signalnre. ' * Governor Ansel lias been busy signing up Acts passed at the recent session of tk-o? General Aessmbly. Among the Acts signed was the Asylum resolution providing for a commission to purchase lands for the State Hospital for the Insane. To amend an Act entitled "An Act for the establishment of a new school district in the county of York to be known as the Itock Hill school district, and to authorize the levy and collection of a local tax therein, approved December 19tli, A. 1)., 1887," by prescribing the manner of electing trustees, their powers and duties and term of otllee. To declare the unlawful sale, barter, exchange, storage and keeping in possession of alcholie liquors, a common nuisance. To provide for a commission to examine and revise the school law of the State and to recommend any changes in same. To authorize the settlement of the shortage in the county treasurer's ollice of Edgetleld county. To make the issuance of a false certificate by a bank oflicer a misdemeanor and to prescribe the punishment thereof. To provide for the examination and registration of trained nurses. To authorize municipal corporations containing five thousand inhabitants to establish or permit tho establishment of slaughter pens beyond their corporate limits, and to prescribe regulations in regard thereto. To provide for the manufacture [ and sale of certain alcohol within I this State. To provide for holding Cou'ts in the Fourth judicial circuit. To amend the law relating 10 magistrates and their constables, their powers, duties, jurisdiction, salaries, etc. To create* a commission 'o purchase lands for the use of the State Hospital for the lnj?a? and erect buildings thereon ar 1 provide means therefor. I To establish a public service commission to tlx and establish In all * cities in this State rates and charges for the supply of water, gas or oiec tricity furnished by any firm, person or corporation to such city, and the inhabitants thereof, and to prescribe penalties. in relation to the Courts of tho 2d, 2>d, and 5th judicial circuits and to iix the times for holding the same. To encourage and aid in the construction of adequate public school buildings in tho respective counties of this state, and to make an appropriation for same. Ratifying the sixteenth amendment of tho Constitution of tlie Unit- . ed States of America. To amend Section 14 of an Act * entitled "An Act to establish Dillon county," approved February 5, 1910, relative to the trial of cases. To fix the times for holding the Courts of the 8th judicial circuit. To provide for the payment of Ernest Moore as special Judge for the 6th judicial circuit for the fall term of 1909. To provide for t)io transfer and annexation of a certain portion of Herkeley county to Orangeburg county, and to alter the county lines of said counties to conform thereto. To appropriate $<*>0,000 to the public schools of South Carolina. To direct the State Trouieo' to hold funds turned over to him by the dispensary commissi" i. To further provide for winding up of the affairs of the State dispellsa ry. For the regulation and control of fraternal benefit associations. To protect benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporations ^ in the use of their nani93 and oinI blenis and providing penalties for violation thereof. Providing that collectors of premiums, dues, assessments for any fraternal insurance or association .w..p whether foreign or within this State, and now or hereafter operating within this State, shall he deemed agents of such society, order or association. To provide penalties for violation of the insurance laws of this State. ^ To regulate insuranco corporations claiming a lien upon the property of the insured to establish upon trial solvency and that protection had been had and received. Many Escape Jail. C. A. Conlin, wanted in San Francisco on a charge of grand larceny, escaped from \ho county prison at Hot Springs, Ark., Wednesday night at the same time releasing 16 other ^ prisoners. Conlin is believed to have left the City in a automobile. A posse hag taken up the chase.