The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 07, 1910, Image 7
pOTED CANNON1
HpwTilhuB Oat wilted the Speaker on
B Claim far Old Debt.
I WHICH HE DEFEATED
^VjBouth Carolina Senator Talks to
^K*? .Atlanta Newspaper Men on Poll
K tics and ".loc" Cannon.?Says
B Pernor rats Played (tame Poorly.
Hj* His Fight with Wily Speaker.
"The Democrats played their game
^ poorly," said Senator Benjamin It.
^KTUlman Thursday in the first intervlew
he has given since his ill
iicss, according to the Atlanta Constitution.
He sat by an open window
at Robertson's Sanitarium, but tho
only evidence of his recent illness was
[B a slowness of enunciation and a
slightly enfeebled voice.
Hj His mind was keenly active, and
Bmuch interested in the recent "erup
lion." as he called it in Congress.
H. "They played their game poorly,"
phe repeated, "when they called for
that vote to declare the Speaker's
chair vacant. It rallied the RepubMflicans.
insurgents and all to Can^Btakon's
support, for a Republican is
first, last and always a Republican,
H and a patriot?secondarily.
H "There was no need for that
H move," the Senator continued. "CanHnoil
had been shorn of practically all
power when they took from him
the privilege of naming the com__
.? ..
H- iniiK>r ob riiii's; ana 11 me jnemH^Hprats
had lot matters stand, he
^Twould have been politically lost, i'he
^MT?^jjlt of the call for a vote restored,
Ho a measure, his piestige."
H "You do not think that Cannon
will ever regain as much power is
he held formerly, do you?"
A "No," the Senator replied, "never
w as much. A part of his power is
gone, hut he hami't slipped far
enough to break Ills neck."
WL - "What do you think will be the
eventual result?" was asked.
"He will probably retire at the
favorable opportunity," said the Scn
ator.
"Will that not, practically, be an
admittance of defeat?"
H "Well, in a meaiure," the Senator
replied, "but he is 7 4?"
"Are you and he friendly?" the
K" question was put irrelevantly, but it
HE brought a slight, humorous twinkle
Kto the Senator's eye.
W~ "Well, we are now, but I believe 1
H ani the only man that ever downel
Cannon.
H "It was about getting the Gov
eminent to pay an old debt to the
State of South Carolina. First they
tried to show that my State owed
the Government, but I got the records
for both and in the end it was
shown that the Government owed the
State. I wanted them to pay the
debt, but old Joe was opposed to
It.
"I got Allison and Hale, two of
my personal friends and leaders on
the Republican side, to insert my
claim for South Carolina in a civil
bill that came up for conference adjustment
on the 3d of March, the
last day before final adjournment.
"Cannon said that it shouldn't go
through; and I swore be d?d that
it should go through. Some of my
friends said that they would help
me to filibuster in the session which
met at 8 o'clock, and they kept the
House busy; so I sent out and got
Byron's 'Vision of Judgement.'
"Have you read it?" he interjected.
"Well it is one of the keenest
of Byron's satires, and some people
think that it is blasphemy, but 1
have always thought it a good piece
of work. I was going to read them
that.
L "But seeine that if t.he Hvil nni
\ was not passed an extra session of
Congress would have to be called to
consider the naval and civil bills,
the opposition gave in and I got the
bill pased.
"It took Cannon a long time to
get over that," interposed Mrs. Till-"
f man, a quiet, knowing little woman,
and the Senator smiled pleasantly.
"Do you think Cannon will be returned
to Congress?" was the next
question.
"He will, if he wants to be. His
people like him?probably because
he gets things for them.
'That's the reason Atlanta hugs
old Lon Livingston so closely, bei
cause he got the United States penitentiary
for it, and I do not know
I how many other things. Atlanta has a
'sweet tooth.' "
"The Cannon fight was the flr?t
thing that really Interested my hus
band since his Illness," said Mrs.
Tillman. "Just six weeks ago, do
I* you remember?" she said, turning
to her husband, "you became ill, and
I now you are getting well so quickly.
I So much more rapidly than any of
me us dared to hope."
!Mts. Tillman bad taken part in all
I the conversation and showed such
I thorough knowledge of the political
I situation that the reporter said,
I, laughingly, as the Senator and Mrs.
W Tillman started out for their usual
k afternoon walk.
B ; -"Mrs. Tillman knows almost as
B^RSunh about politics as you do. Sen
SHELL KILLS EIGHT
FATAL EXPLOSION OCCURS ON
TI1K CHARLESTON.
United States Cruiser Was Holding
Target Practice Oft* Olongapo in
Pliillippinc Waters.
The premature explosion of a 3incli-gun
on the United States cruiser
Charleston killed eight men and
injured several other this week while
the ship was in target practice off
Olontrano in the l'hillittnino IhIhihIk
Seveit of tho vlctiins wore killed instantly
while the other died on the
way to Cavite. The dead are:
'Philip McKee, master-at-arms, W.
Nanticoke, Pa.
Walter Anstedt, seaman, Trenton,
III.
Henry Heater, seaman, Smithland,
Ky.
Leo Rommele, seaman, Omaha,
Neb.
Harry Graden, seaman, Chester,
Pa.
Ross Barkman, seaman, McKinley,
Md.
Maxie Barnord, seaman, Kave-inRock,
111.
Edward Molin, private marine,
Rockford, 111.
The cause of the explosinon is not
known, but was probably due to the
premature discharge of the gun. Rear
Admiral John Hubbard, commanderin-chief
of the Asiatic lleet, has ordered
an investigation. The bodies
of the victims will be buried at Cavit<i
If ia 1/ luivi'ti t li >11 uilif... 11>?
. . vv/f * V AW awun u | licit, ? 1 1 V." 11 I 11 V.
shell cut loose it flew across the
deck and mowed down the men who
had gathered to watch the target
and cut through a steel sanchion.
LIT MO BOY KIIjIJHI).
Editor Webb's Son Dies Under the
Wheels of Trolley Car.
Little George Robert Webb, Jr.,
son of George R. Webb, editor of
the llorsecreek Valley News, was run
over and instantly killed Thursday
morning by a car on the AugustaAiken
railway. The little fellow,
who was not quite two years of age,
was presumably playing near the
trolley track, at Mr. Webb's home at
Warrenville, and ran on the track.
Mr. and Mrs. Webb and family re .ide
at Warrenville near the car line, and
Mr. Webb's printing olllce i3 facin?
the track, a platform running to
within a few feet of the road. The
have passed the old maid limit, but
morning, passing Warrenville about
nine, was going down grade just before
reaching Fox's crossing, when,
it is said, the little fellow ran from
behind the platform on to the track*
and the car, ncing t>?if a f-w feet
distant and going down lii'.I, c*?u'd
not bo stopped until the little hoy's
life bad been brushed out under the
wheels.
FATALLY 8CAL.DK L>
In Attempting to Escape from Ofllcers
Fell hi Vat.
lAlonza George, the negro man who
was fatally burned in a hot well
at the Stephens pottery, Macon, Ga.,
Saturday night while he was attempting
to make his escape from county
officers who had closed in on a skin
game, died at the Macon Hospital
Monday evening.
The negro is said to have gone to
t.he skin game along with about 15
or 20 others. The sheriff's oflico got
a notice that the game was in progress
and deputies went out on the
case. The party was flushed and
Alonzo George ran into a hot well,
which was then carrying a temperature
at about the boiling point.
The ofllcers pulled the man our
and found that scarcely a spot on his
body was not terribly burned. He
was carried to the hospital and there
he put up a plucky battle for life,
but finally succumbed to his burns.
GROWING MOKK SERIOUS.
Natives and Liherinn Troops Are Engaged
in War.
Advices received at Liverpool state
tha*. fighting continues between* the
natives and Liberian troops at Cape
Palmas, Liberia, and is growing more
serious. The Rev. Mr. Spear, a native
pastor at the mission in Cape
Palmas, has been shot and killed
and the lives of the white residents
are said to be in danger.
The hostile natives appear to be
getting the better of the troops. The
latter were sent to stop the native
trade in French territory. It was
their excesses that caused the outbreak.
The natives are said to be
anxious to have a few Englishmen
killed with the object of bringing
about intervention by Great Hritain.
The Liberian gunboat Lark, temporarily
commanded by a German of
noer, bombarded the native villages,
but did little damage. A German
gunboad arrived and itB commander
offered to bombard Hoffman Station
and pluke, but the authorities declined
assistance.
?
'^Mrs. Tillman Is a better politician
than I am," replied the Senator,
as he walked slowly toward the outdoor
sunshine.
, ,, ;,|Y
HAPPY FOR ONE DAY
WIDOW SAW M 1ST A K K AFTKK
MARRYING MAN.
She May Seek Divorce on Ground of
Incompetency an Husband Is in
(Imrge of a Trustee.
One day of bliss was all that William
1). Ashley, formerly of New
York city, was allowed to enjoy with
his bride, Mrs. I Jessie Carye, a widow,
of Amsterdam, N. Y. They were
married last week in Jersey City and
Ashley created such a rumpus after
the wedding that his bride had to
take three bottles of whiskey from
him. The groom is past 7 0 years of
age and his bride has passed 56.
Then years ago Ashley was adjudged
incompetent to manage his estate
of $80,000, inherited from a
relative. After a time he was committed
to Illackwells Island but he
got out and sold a mortgage of $3,000
on his farm.
For some time lie has been corresponding
with the woman at Amsterdam,
she not knowing that he was in
charge of a trustee. With his $3,000
they left his home in Newburg,
N. J., and went to Jersey City, where
the ceremony was performed.
The next morning Mrs. Ashley left
for home, declaring that she realized
a mistake had been made and she
would seek divorce. Ashley did not
appear a bit sorry as he accompanied
his bride to the railroad station.
Later he called upon a lawyer and
accused the woman of desertion. It is
probable the marriage will be annulled
because the man had been declared
incompetent and could not 'niter
upon any contract oi agreement
that would stand upder the law.
HIOLD IN AN OLD MILL.
Young IViuisylvuiiiuu Tells Weird
Kidnapping Tale.
A strange tale of being kidnapped
and held prisoner in an old, abandoned
mill is told by Harry Bushy,
aged 22 years, of York, Fa. lie returned
to his home last week after
being absent for over three months.
Young Bushy disappeared mysteriously.
He says he was struck in
the head and rendered unconscious
when he went to his father's barn
one night to investigate a peculiar
noise. He was then taken to an
old mill, so his story goes, and there
locked up and fed on bread and
water. Last week, he asserts, he
was drugged and later found hi.nself,
without coat or hat, lying on
the ground near his father's barn.
Bushy can give no information
that will lead to the location of the
building. There is no mill in the
vicinity of his home where he could
have been imprisoned. The youth's
father is wealthy and it is now believed
that the kidnappers inteded
to hold him for ransom, but were
afraid to make this move. Bushy's
home is near Dillsburg, in the northern
.part of the county, not far from
the South mountains, and it is believed
that he was hidden away in a
secluded part of the hills.
YOUTHFUIj GHA N 1)M(>T 11KIt
Youiul Mother firings Distinction on
Her Family.
All the records for youthful grandmothers
have been shattered by Mrs.
Everet Parker, of Richmond, Ind.
She enjoys the distinction of being
grandmother at 2 8, before she has
passed the old maid limit. Mrs. Parker
was married at 13, and her
daughter, now Mrs. Charles Lane, of
Indianapolis, Ind., is 1 f> years old.
The child born to the latter is the
ilfth generation in the family, of
which the oldest is 90 years. "It
does seem rather odd, when I come
to consider it," laughingly exclaims
Mrs. Parker, "to think that I have
become a grandmother even before I
havo passed teh old maid limit, but
I guess it runs in our family."
Motor Car Upset.
Tn fir* o nt Ar?*^i?iifv " ? A - A
.... U.HWIIIU1IIIC ttuiuuwiiL ai
Rockport, Texas, on Monday night,
Louis Moorkens was killed and Louis
Ralley and Guy Ilenks were probably
fatally injured. Edmund Arnristong,
the fourth occupant of the cor was
uninjured. In turning a corner the
car upset, young MOorkens being
pinned underneath and mashed ?>o
badly that he died within an hour.
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A Big Fire.
In a spectacular fire of supposedly
incendiary origin, the entire Knoxvillo,
Tenn., plant of the Standard Oil
Company with the exception of one
80,000 gallon oil tank, was destroyed
Tuesday nieht. Fiftv th nnfln nrl arnl_ I
Ions of oil In seven tanks were consumed.
A wood fibre plant located
nearby was consumed as were four
or five cottages.
Another lllft Trust.
At Albany, N. Y., the American
Telephone and Telegraph filed with
the Secretary of State Koenig a certificate
of increase of capital stock
from $200,000,000 to $500,000,000.
This makes it next to the largest corporation
in the world, the United
States Steal Corporatlet being the
leader.
HUGE GRAB GAME
BEING TRACED TO TAFT'8 'ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Who Declares That His Partner and
Not II im Worked for the Sugar
Trust in a Legal Way.
The charge preferred on the floor
of the House last Friday by Representative
Martin, Democrat, from
Colorado, that the "former attorney
of tiie Sugar Trust is now the head
of the department of justice of the
present Auministrati )ii, " brought
forth a letter of denial from Attorney
General Wickersham, addressed
to Representative Bennett, New
York, and was read into the record
Monday.
"In order that such statement may
not gain any currency," says Mr.
Wickersham in his letter, " I should
like to state through you that I never
was attorney for the Sugar Trust
?by which 1 understand is meant
the American Sugar Refining Company
and its allied or subsidiary corporations?nor
had I any professional
or business relations to it.
"The only possible toundatlon for
such a statement lies in the fact
that one of mj partners, some three
years ago, was retained as one of
the counsel for the American Sugar
Refining Company in a single lawsuit
against it, and pursuant to such
retainer, lie assisted in the defence
of the company in that action and an
appeal taken fro ma judgment in
its favor, hut in that lawsuit I was
neither consulted nor did I render
ailV sorvire "
Mr. Martin announced that ho intended
to carry hits charges against
the department of justice to a definite
conclusion. He now has a resolution
pending for an investigation
of the acquisition of Frair lan^rf* in
the Philliplne8 by the Havemeyer interests.
Mr. Martin said in an interview
:
"The Attrney General you will observe,
carefully avoided making any
denial of the prinicpal feature of
my charges, to wit: "That his dcision
gave the Sugar Trust 55,000
acres of the Friar lands for a price
less than the Government paid for
them, and that there was 110 warrant
of law for such a decision.
"Mr. Wickersham says that hi?
jKirtner, whom I understand was
Henry W. Taft, a brother of the
President, and not he, was the attorney
for the Sugar Trust. This
form of disavowal will not carry
much weight.
"I shall continue to show by my
efforts what I b'-licve is but the be.
ginning of a gigantic grab of the
Frair lands of the Phillipines by the
Sugar Trust, all made possible by
an unwarranted decision of the Attorney
General. I shall decide upon
a further course within a day or
two."
FAMILY GOES CKAZY.
Five Stricken With Insanity in Two
Days' Time.
Insanity, the Nemesis of the Goetz
family of Belleville, 111., claimed five
victims in two days last week. Three
of them are now in an insane asylum,
while the remaining two are
in the detention ward of a hospital
under observation.
'None of the five thus stricken,
it is 8aid, can be cured. The dreadj
fill visitation is having a depressing
effect upon the other resident of the
little town of Belleville, and the i
Goetz homo is being shunned as a
pestilenc. ' (
Nothing can save the queer a Miction
of the family is talked about
th#e town and all sort of themes are
suggested. Sonio say it is the nianisfestation
of divine wrath for some
infraction. Others suggest it is hereditary,
but long dorman. All that '
is known is that each had accused
the other of dishonesty, and possibly
the accussation drove each inturn
insane. *
FIKND CHASKI) ANI) CAITtfJUT ]
? " ]
Attempted an Criminal Assault Upon i
a Woman.
1
After a chase In two States and ?
lasting more than a week, Howard
Harris, who attempted, it is charg- 1
ed, to criminally assault young Mrs.
Dutton at her home near Thomas- '
ville, Ga., March 2 1, is a prisoner, J
having been captured Tuesday morn- 1
ing 'by Sheriff Houston of Leon coun
ty, Florida, at Tallahassee. Fearing
j a lynching would be attempted if the
negro was kept at Tallahassee, he
quietly slipped away and took the '
prisoner to Live Oak. The chase for 1
the negro has been going on night <
and day since the attack on Mrs. <
Dutton and has led through swamps
principally. ]
High Winds Blow.
Winds of almost hurricanic vio
uucuuipaiucd uy neavy rain 1
and snow Tuesday cut off Denver, '
Col., from tho rest of the world. 1
Over the entire region west of Kan- 1
sas City to the Pacific coast and from , c
Sante Fe, N. M., Into central Wyom- c
ing the storm raged, paralysing tel- c
egraphlc communication and serious- i
ly delaying traffic. Allies of tele- t
graph poles are down. 1
A DARING ROBBERY
EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLliAHS
IN ST AMI'S
Taken from the Vault of the I'ostottiee
at Richmond, VaM by Expert
Robbers.
Combining the skill of exports with
the simplest of methods, thieves Sunday
night, or earlv Mnndnv mnrninor
robbed the vault in the ollice of the
cashier at the Richmond Postoftlce
of stamps estimated to be worth
about $85,000, and incidentally carried
off $160 in cash belonging to
the pay roll fund.
.For audacity, the feat was almost
without parallel, certainly in that
part of the country. The parties could
hardly have chosen a more public
place in which to operate. They were
within less than fifteen feet of one
of the main thoroughfares of the
city, which is at all hours of the
the night brightly lighted, while the
room in which the robbery was accomplished
was lighted Sunday night.
Large windows open on the street,
and no movement could well be made
within the room without observation
by passers-by.
To avoid this publicity in part,
the robbers shifted one of the two
book cases obliquely across in front
of the safe. In this way the man
operating the drill could work without
being clearly seen. The drill
was first applied to the outer door
of the vault, which was pierced with
ease apparently, and the interior
mechanism of the interior was pried
away.
The same operation was then per
formed upon the inner door and the
booty was within the grasp of the
looters. No dynamite was used. One
of the amazing things about the job
was its magnitude.
Box after box of stamps was removed
from the vault. One man
could not possibly have carried all
away, nor could half a dozen men.
The probabilities are that some sort
of vehicle was used to bear off the
booty.
Secret Service men front Washington,
under the direction of District
Inspector Harrison have been on the
case, assisted by the police, and it
is understood that there is a clue,
which may lead to an arrest or several
arrests at an early hour. This
involves an individual, an alleged
travelling man for a New York novelty
house, who has been traced to
one of the local hotelB.
MURDERED THREE PEOPLE.
Father and His Two Children Slain
by Assassin.
Alexander Lindhahl, a wealthy
farmer; his daughter, 10 years old;
and his son, 8 years old; were mysteriously
murdered Monday night
while riding in a motor boat on the j
Republican river, near Concardia,
Kansas. Their bodies were found
Tuesday, the childern in the boat
and the father a few feet away,'
amid some brush. He evidently had
gone to tight the assailant, and in
an effort to save the children's lives,
was himself killed. The three bodies
hud been clubbed repeatedly af
ter the victims had been shot several
times.
Hidden behind the pile of brush
the assassin had shot at the victims
as they were about to step ashore.
Tuesday afternoon John Nordmark
was arrested on suspicion of have
done the killing. It is said Nordmark
quarreled with Lindhahl last
week.
MOTH Kit CLEARS POOLltOOM.
Proprietor llad Allowed Her Sons to
llang Around.
Enraged because her two sons had
been allowed to loiter about the
place and asserting that one of them
had lost most of his earnings there
In games of chance, Mrs. Lena Fineberg
of Trenton, N. J., went to the
poolroom of Julius Gillinski and
cleaned out the resort with a cue.
When Gillinski and his friends attemnted
to nsonno tVw? wi'i".
. ? V..V niuwn UU1II"
barded them with billard balls and
3everal of the men were badly cut
about their faces. The breaking of
the windows and mirrows followed.
Mrs. Fineberg then grabbed her
boys by the collar and took them
home.
She declares that she will repeat
the raid with increased severity if
CJillinski does not keep the boys from
the resort. Oillinski dare not prosecute,
for it is against tho law to allow
boys under 16 years of age in
poolrooms.
Shot Little Girl.
Arthur Shumate and Martin Long,
white men arrested for shooting the
12-year-old daughter of Charles
Kinder in the Thompson Valley, were
odged in jail at Charlotte Wedneslay.
Long i? charged with having
lone the shooting and claims as a '
lefense that he was shooting at a
abbit and the bullet glanced and hit <
he Kinder child. The girl was shot 1
n the head while in her home. 1
MANY PERISH
Three Hundred Dancers are Burned ti
Death at a Village Ball.
THE ONE EXIT BARRED
While the Dance Was at Its Height,
Women's Dresses Became Ignite*!,
ami the Flames Spread so ltnpidly
. that a Panic Prevented Opening
of the Only Way of Exit.
The Hungarian village of Oekoerit
and adjacent ;J'icts have b?e.t
M town into m)'i"i rg by a tcrri >le
disaster, which occurred at the
former place Monday night, and
which resulted in the death of between
three hundred and four hundred
persons, and the serious injury
of nine hundred others.
A public ball was announced to
be held at the. hotel of the villagefl
a coach house had been fitted up as
a ball room. It was a great barnlike
structure, decorated with tinderdry
June branches left from a previous
entertainment to which were
added for the occassion other decorations
and Chinese lanterns.
The festivity attracted pleasurestckers
from the wLoIo surrourttlLig
country, ard the building was s'
backed just before the ball com
i iiiencuu uiai mc single floor which
afforded entrance and exit was nailed
up to prevent tho admittance of the
scores who clammored outside.
'While the dancing was in full
swing a pine branch caught fire and
fell to the lloor. It blazed furiously,
and almost instantly the dresses of
several of the women burst into
flames, which spread with astonishing
rapidity.
A panic ensued, the revellers losing
their heads completely. Many
of them with flames shooting out
from their garments, rushed towards
the barred exit, where a surging mass
was jammed together. \Yomen and
men fell and were trampled under
foot. Those in front vainly endeavored
to tear open the door, but were
crushed helplessly by the pressure
of the crowd behind them. The
roaring and crackling of the flames
mingled with the despairing shrieks
of the doomed throng.
Soon the roof crashed in, the blazing
wreckage falling upon the helpless
victims so that many of them
who hitherto had escaped the flames
were struck down by beams or buried
under the wreckage. The scene
was horrifying.
!When the door was finally broken
some few persons escaped, but most
to those collapsed before they got
far. Inside there were heaps of
charred corpses and heartrending
screams and groans still were audible
from the smoking piles. A '
detatchment of troops were ordered
to the scene to clear the wreckage
and help bury the dead.
The official estimate as given
states that 200 persons perished, but
it id )iollnirn/l U.n? *1- 1 - ' *
uiai me ioihi (loath roll
will prove much larger, as many persons
have not been accounted for.
SENATOR TILLMAN IMPROVING.
He Is Recoming Interested in Polities
Once More. ^
A dispatch from Atlanta says as
evidence that Senator Tillman is regaining
his faculties, he discussed
politics for an hour Thursday, at the
sanitarium where he has bee'n a patient,
since coming from his homo
in Trenton, S. C. llis theme was the
recent "eruption," as he termed it,
in the House. "The Democrats played
their game poorly," said the Senator,
"when they called for that vote
to declare the Speaker's Chair vacant.
Cannon hid been shorn of practically
all power when the took
from him the privilege of naming the
committee on rules, and if the Democrats
had let matters stand, he
would have been politically lost. The
result of the call for the veto
_ .VVV VV
declare the Chair vacant, restored
In a measure, his prestige."
Senator Tillman believes that Connon
will retire from the Speakership
at the first favorable opportunity."
He beieves that Cannon will have r
no trouble in securing re-election to >
Congress if he asks for antohor
term. Senator and Mrs. Tillman daily
take a long walk.
Mysterious Killing.
At Eloralia, Ala., Tuesday night
James Garrett, agent for the L. and
N. railroad, was shot and killed by
Charles Burgess, a ell known citizen.
Burgess, who is under arrest,
declines to discuss the tragedy. The ^
two families have been, on intimaf*
terms.
_ ... u ai>?anlV\I JT11 III ?
In a confession made by George
W. Coleman, the young man charged
with embezlement from the National
City Bank of Cambridge, Mass,
he admitted that he took a hundred
%nd eighty thousand dollars and that
practically every cent was lost "trylag
to break a faro bank" in New