The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 12, 1910, Image 5
KING DEAD
.
Edward, the Serenth, of England, Passes
to His Eternal Reward
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Surrounded by Queen Alexandra and
V Members of the ltoyal Family His
Mujesty Succumbed to Attack ot j
Pneumonia Following Bronchitis.
Prince of Whales Become King.
King Edward VII, who returned
to England from a racation 10 days
ago in the best of health died at
11:45 Friday night in the presence
of his family after an illness of less
than a week, which was serious
hardly more than three days.
The Prince of Whales succeeded
to tho crown immediately, according
to the laws of the kingdom, without
official ceremony. His first official
act was to dispatch to the lord mayor
the announcement of his father's
death, in pursuance of custom. His
telegram read:
"I am deeply grieved to inform
you that my beloved father, the
king, passed away peacefully at
11.45 tonight.
(Signed) ."George."
The physicians soon afterwards issued
their official bulletin, which was
as follows: ?
"May 6, 11.50 p. m. Ills majesty,
the king, breathed his last at
11.45 tonight in th^ presence of her
majesty, Queen Alexandra, Prince
and Princess of Wales, Princess
Royal, the Duchess of Fife, Princess
Victoria and Princess Louise, the
Duchess of Argyll."
Pneumonia, following bronchitis
Is believed to have been the cause
of death, but live doctors thus far
have refused to make a statement.
Some of the king's friends are convinced
that worry over the critical
political situation which con fronted
him, with sleepless nights, aggravated
if it did not cause the fatal
Illness.
Besides the nearest relatives in
England, the Duke of Fife and the
Archbishop of Canterbury were in
the death cham'ber. The king's brother,
the Duke of Connaught, with his
family, is at Suez, hastening home
from Africa. The king's daughter,
Queen Maud of Norway, will start
for England at once.
The intelligence that the end of
King Edward's reign had come was
not a surprise at the hist. The i>eople
had been exptctlng to hear it
at any moment since the evening
bulletin was nosted at Buckingham
palace and flashed throughout the
kingdom. The capital received it
"without excitement, hut sadly, for
the kind with his own people was
unquestionably one of the most popular
rulers in tho world. They regarded
him as one of the strongest
forces making for the stability of
the peace of tho empire.
The fashionable restaurants were
Just emptying and a few groups of
3ate theatre-goers were making their
"way homeward through the rain,
-while a small crowd still hung about
the palace, when the streets were
filled suddenly with newsboys shrilly
crying: "Death of the King!" The
papers were quickly seized and tht
peojjQe discussed "the momentous
event quietly and soon dispersed.
The streets were deserted by one
o'clock. i
Within a few moments after the
death of the king the home oflice
telegrajvhed the intelligtnce to the
heads of other governments and the
diplomats and colonial offices over
the world.
Almost to the end, the King refused
to take to his bed and was sitting
up Friday in a large chair, so
the palace stories go, corroborating
tho description of him as an unruly
patient, which Dr. Ott gave at a
Vienna reviewer In the evening.
,One of th^e last utterance atrributo
the King: "Well, it is all over;
hut I think I have done my duty."
He seemed then to have reached
a full realization that his end was
fast approaching.
The queen and others of the royal
family and four doctors had been
constantly in the sick room throughout
the day. Several hours before
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Ills (16HIII, l II*-? IV I uifj n do 111 ?
" atoso condition, but he rallied slightly
between 9 and 10 o'clock, and appeared
to recognize his family. Then
ho lapsed into unconsciousness,
which ended in his passing.
Attacked by Pirates.
Moro pirates attacked a settlement
in the Celeebs, and killed a
number of traders and natives. The
pirates are now surrounded on the
Island of iManks. A Dutch cruiser
is assisting in the attack upon the
pirates. j
SUBSCI
FOUL DEN OF VICE
\
WHERE YOUNG GIliLS WERE ENTICED
AND RUINED
By a Man Who Claimed to be the
Special Representative of God on
Earth.
Oom, tho Omnipotent, alias Peter
Coon, alias Pirre Barnard, high
priest of the Tantrik Order of Wor<
ship, was hold in $15,000 bond for
trial in the Oourt of General Sessions
fit Vow Vnrl/ nti oFl o r* or eves of u/iH 11 o_
iic TT 1 VI VU V/Mttl ftVO VI OUUU V/
tion under promise to marry.
'"I find that the charge has been
fully sustained," said Magistrate
Breen Saturday, at the close of the
preliminary hearing. "There was
not only systematic but scientific seduction.
This girl, (Gertrude Leo,)
of Seattle, one of the two complainants,
has been inveigled into a den
of iniquity for the purpose of perpetrating
a shameless outrage. She
has been murdered, I say, in every
respect, save physical murder, and I
shall not reduce the ball 1 fixed when
I first read the complaint, before the
testimony showed the dangerous
character of this man and his practices."
The testimony of Miss Leo went
into details, which made the girl's
sister, Mrs. Edward H. Miller, who
introduced her to Oom in good' faith,
believing that ho could restore her
health, weep with rage and shame
as she listened, and during crossexamination
grow so beside herself
that she made a motion to hurl a
glass of water at the head of counsel
for the defence. Court attendants
led .her from the room and she
apologized when she re-entered.
LVIiss Leo said she met Oom first on
mot Oom in Seattle on January on
January 21, 19 09, and that he induced
her to come East wit.i him
by promises to give to her free
treatment and a musical education
in return for .her services as his
stenographer. She understood that
she would lire with liis sister, in
point of fact, when she came to New
York she was quartered in a flat with
two women inmates of the Tantrik
order, one of whom was known by
one of Oom's aliases. Oom took her
down to the flattery the first day she
arrived and talked, while they looked
out over the sea, of the differences
between "simulative and real
phenomena." The ability to produce
deceptive appearances, ho said, was
a simulative phenomenon, the power
to influence the souls of others
was a real phenomenon. Me had both
I>owers.
"I am not a real man," Gertrude
Loo testified Oom told her; "I am a
god, hut I .have condescended to put
on the habit of a man that I may
perform the duties of a yogi, and
reveal true religion to the elect of
America."
'"All priests," Oom continued,
"have sacred nautch girls. In my
sacred capacity I cannot marry, hut
our nauch girls s^eve us as wives.
It is the duty of the palest to give
her all the world's host goods. She
is looked upon as sacred."
Gertrudo consented to become a
sacred nauch girl, she testified. She
jabbed a steel pen into the palm of
.her hand and wrote her name in
blood on the roster of the order.
I l>oth feared and loved him, she
swore. He made me believe he could
communicate with priests of the Order
all over the world, who would
sit in council at his command and
take away my mind if I did not obey
him. I complained but I submitted."
The girl described the rites of theOrder,
which was based, she said, on
sex worship, as they were practiced
in the large room, where, 011 the
night of the raid, the police found a
class of men and women. Further
testimony was that the Order of Tantrik
worship is widely spread in
America, and that the international
journal of the Order has several
thousand subscril>ors, who pay two
dollars each annually. Copies of
this magazine were found in the
house when it was raided. *
GAVE Ul' THE FIGIIT.
"When a .Man's Down and Out It's
Time to Quit."
At Chicago .T. Henry Hall, a carpenter,
53 years old, committed suiHHn
in bis room at a lodtrinc house
Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid.
He left a letter addressed to a follow
carpenter, which reads:
"When a man is down and out, in
a land of plenty, and cannot even get
a meal, it is time to quit. I wont last
night to the Moody church and after
the service I asked one of the ministers
for aid.
"He opened his pocketbook, as he
did his heart, and gave me 2 5 cents.
I l)OUght the acid with that 25 cents.
If you ever see him thank him for
mo. I ought to write to him to
thank him, but 1 have not the time."
USE NO'
FIFTEEN KILLED
And Fifty Injured by a Fearful Explosion
at Powder Plant
GROUND WAS STREWN
With Headless, Armless and Legless
Ikxlies, Remains of those Watching
Fire at Explosive Works Hefore
Flames Reached Main Magazine.?Munv
Huildimrs Wrecked.
An explosion, whicih late Sunday
afternoon wrecked the plant of the
General Explosives Company of Canada,
situated a nrile from Hull, Quebec.,
and four miles from Ottowa, <
killed 15 persons and injured 5 0
others. The force of the explosion
was \terif!le. The country for miles
around was laid waste and many
small dwellings In tlhe city of Hull,
on the side nearest the scene, was
flattened to tlio grounds.
i
A baseball game was in progress
a short distanco from the powder
works, when a fire was seen in one
of the small buildings of the powder
plant, and the crowd began 'to swarm
up the 'hill to get a better view of
the blaze. i
Warning of the danger came to !
t.ho on-lookers in two minor explo- <
si oils, soon after the Are got well J
under way. A shower of sparks and (
fragments of the wrecked building
fell among the spectators, and there ^
was a scurrying out of what was con- (
sidered the danger zone. 1
Some men in the crowd, aware of *
the possibilities of the danger when ^
the main magazine was reached,
pleaded with the crowd to go still t
farther back and many of them beed- y
ed the warning. i
The baseball game broke up and r
the remainder of the spectators and
the players rushed up to join the
crowd at the fire. It was then that
the magazine exploded. There were ^
two stunning detonations. Everything
within a radius of a mile and
a half was torn and shattered. Gigantic
-trees were snapped off close
to the earth; barns and dwelling '
houses were converted into kindling t
wood and even in Ottawa, four miles
from the scene, hundred of plate j
glass windows were broken. a
The scene where the crowd from ?
the ball field stood resembled a bat- t
tlefleld. Headless, armless and leg- \
less bodies were lying about among f
scores of unconscious forms. To the j
few who retained a flicker of consciousness
it appeared as tho more I
than a hundred had been killed. 1
The terrific shock brought thous- c
ands of terror-stricken people into t
the streets of Hull. Some thought it 1
was an earthquake, while others a
cried out that Halley's comet had ?
struck the earth. i
In Ottawa, four miles from the c
scene of tihe explosion, the terror-in- 1
spired was scarcely less than at Hull f.
T.he earth trembled, buildings shook
and hundreds of windows were shat- t
rt?*roU Thr> cronf nlnnri of smoke. H
which mounted in a column over i
Hull, quickly indicated the true j
cause of the terrific shock. t
Hideau Hall, the official home of i
Earl Grey, and the buildings on i
Parliament Hill caught the full force
of the explosion, being two miles
nearer the powder plaait than the
main section of the city. Every win- j
dow in Rideau Hall was blown out
and two great stone chimneys toppled
over. The Parliament buildings
was also greatly damaged.
(Rideau Hall is still occupied by f
Earl Grey and his family. The whoie \
vice regal establishment fled panic- ^
stricken to the street. Thov weic
I f
j soon assured that there was no fur- *
! ther danger. As soon as wart urey j
I learned of Che extent of the disaster
j he ordered a detatohment of troops
sent across the river to help the authorities.
The building in which the main
explosion ocurred was built of solid
stone, Che walls being two feet thick.
Fragments of stone weighing up to
a half ton shot through the air for a
quarter of a mile, shattering frame
dwellings of workmen, which run to
within an eighth of a mile to the
factory.
In a home just north of the works
two sisters named Carrier, 18 and 19
years old, were killed while sitting
at the supper table. John lllanchfleld,
was slttLng with his wife in
the door of his home, when a frag
niont or tock snuirea out nis ure, out |
left his wife un'harmed. The head i
of a lad named Fableri was out clean J
from his l>ody. Louis McCain, a i
lal)orer, was crushed by a falling 1
fragment. A little boy and a girl, 1
found dying together, crushed be- 1
yond recognition, have not so far <
been identified. i
W TO
JAP OFFICER A HERO
LIEUTENANT TAKES ItLAME FOIl
LOSS OF SUIiMAIUXE.
His Note Found in the Conning Tower
Wion the Vessel Was liaised
to the Surface.
Death news from the bottom
the sea, showing a degree of heroism
and self-humiliation seldom encountered
even in naval circles, is recountered
in connection, with the loss
of the Japanese submarine, No. (>,
when it foundered while maneuvering
in Hiroshima bay, all 011 board
being loss.
In the message, which was fouud
in the conning tower, Lieut. Tsu
torn?, sakuma, commanding omocr,
explained that .he alone was r^spom
iiblo for the disaster to the craft
and the death of his fellow officers
ai'd men. He tells of the desperate
struggle made by the men and then
i: jncl u.le"It
is with the deepest regret that
I write this message to describe the
loss of tli's boat, with my fellow
officers and men, due to my own
fault. I would here especially mention
that all steps have been taken to
; a'ne her, comrades aun men
working earnertly and calmly "1! the
end. I ordered tho ship to (iive
with the engine running, but, as 1
found she went down too far, I tried
to shut the valves w.hich admit the
?ea water, but unexpectedly the
shaln working these valves broke,
end I was left helpless, unable to
control the boat.
"I earnestly beseech His Majesty
:o grant me forgiveness and to suelor
the families of my comrades and
nen w.ho have lost their lives in
his perishing boat. This is my only
visli?12.30 p. m.
"It is with th-o utmost difficulty
hat I can breathe, thou&h I am sure
ve must have blown out the gasoino
entirely from the tanks. I canlot
continue any more?12.40 p. m.*
CONJURED HY HER ENEMY.
fegro Girl Thinks She Was Made to
Eat Smoke Dust.
(Leila Davis, a colored girl at Durtam,
NT. C., has been very ill under
ihe belief that she has been conjured
by 'her rival. The girl and her
>lack beau quarrelled some time ago
ind patched up a miserable peace,
sot long since the Davis girl l>egan
o complain that internally there
vore living things that bit .her. She
ound out that her rival had conured
her.
Thereupon she went for Silas
Hamilton, and old conjlire-breaker of
taleigjh, a negro with forty years'
'xperience. His diagnosis was that
he girl had eaten snake dust which
ler enemy must have "powdered up
und given her in liquid form. Dr.
Silas says that snake dust will invarably
evolve itself into live reptiles
is soon as it finds moisture in the
liinuan economy and that unless one
;ets it out quickly, ho must die.
(He has cured thousands, and he
hinks the Davis girl will recover.
The sdiako dust is made by powderng
the dried 'hide of the serpent fine.
\s a medication it is said to be somehing
fierce and the woman who administered
it evedently knew what
t would do.
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A STRANGE ACCIDENT.
tlnstcd Stone Falls on House Killing
Two People.
A 500-pound blast of stone from
in overcharge of dynamite used in
jlasting at the Evans quarry, (? males
rom Murphy, N. C., 011 the L. and
sr. road, landed on the roof of Chas.
.iithrie's dwelling Saturday about 1
>'clock, crashing through the light
oof,' instantly killing Mrs. Guthrie,
ind her 8-year-old child. The Guthio
home stands near the place of
blasting and frequently through the
lay large quantities of stone -have
alien upon the housetop. Mr. Guthie
and wife had just finished dinlor
when they entered the bed room,
lext door, and sat down for a rest.
rhe .heavy mass of granite seemed
o have kept compact in the air.
t made splinters of the roof. Mr.
juthrie and one of the children escaped
with their lives alhtougii they
vere only a few feet from the vic,ims.
*
Very Heavy ltain.
The heaviest rainfall in years fell
n Greenville for the twenty-four
lours ending at 8 o'clock 'Sunday
iiorning, eight and one-flvalf inches
being recorded by the Government
weather man. Many bridges have
been washed away in Greenville
county, and crops are badly damaged.
THE HOI
MANY ARE DEAD
Fifteen Hundred People Were Crashed to
Death at Cartago by
VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE
Citizens Caught by Hundreds and
Slain.?Thousands Panic Stricken.
Troyo, the Great Costa lliean Poet,
Among the Dead.?People Pinned
Under Timbers Died Horribly.
The terrible earthquake at Cartago,
Costa Rico, was more destru- i
ptiva t n n of il rot i*rvt\A??tn/l V. o ?
vii v v limn c?i ill r*u i 1 it u. 1 iiv
list of dead now numbers not less
than 1,5 00. The city was destroyed ]
by an earthquake which lasted four ]
seconds. '<
It was a tremendous movement
wJhich followed a few minor shocks,
during the day. It occurred at seven ]
o'clock Wednesday evening. No one <
had time to run out of the houses, ;
which fell crushing to the streets.
Had the great shock come during
the sleeping hours hardly any could
have escaped. The railroad and telegraph
lines were broken and the
electric light wires fell, leaving the
city in darkness.
Thousands ran panic-stricken in
all directions, in an effort to save
t4iems?lves. Every house was totally
destroyed, including four churches
and the palace of the American
peace court, the gift of Andrew Car- '
negie. 1
Some Americans are reported to
have been killed, but identification,
even by the records, is at present im- (
possible. The foreign colonies set
about at once to organize rescue .
movements and worked strenuously 1
to save t.hose who were pinned down i
by the wreckage.
No medical aid could be obtained *
and the survivors suffered greatly "
from the lack of food and water. v
Many died, suffering terribly. Entiro
families have been wiped out.
Rafael Angel Troyo, the Costa Rican
poet, whoso works are known in
I many countries, is among the dead. 5
Tht college of the Sllesian priests
| fell wJiile the priests and children
j were at prayer. Two priests and
toft nh ilrl rnn u'orn I; i 11 Arl
iv it v/ii tivi i vu fi vi v * * ? v v*
The earthquake, which brought almost
total drakness and great clouds
of dust from the falling buildings,
was followed by a roaring which
came apparently from deep down in
the eart.h and for six hours the disdurty>ance
continued. JNo greater
disaster has occurred in the history
of Costa Rica and perhaps in all
Central America.
President Gonzales Viqiez and
President-elect Rieharde Jiruinez are
personally in charge of the rescue
work, but there is little hope that
those under the ruins can escape.
Some days must elapse before the
rea!\ situation can .bo determined.
The monetary losses reach into the
millions. Help is needed badly and
must be prompt, if good is to come of
it. Thousands are homeless and
without food. Fires that broke out
immediately after the destruction of
the town added to the horror of the
situation and heavy rains that have
fallen since have made the conditions
almost unbearable oven for those escaping.
'
Hundreds of survivors are camped
around the ruins of their homes
which they refuse to leave. Some
reports place the wounded at sev- I
eral thousand. Nearly all Costa Rica
is afflicted as more or less damage
has boon caused by earthquakes at
San Jose and other points. f
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HAD HOW OX TKAIX. ^
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Mob of Four Hundred Negroes Is '
1
Awed With ( uns. . . (
The Journal says from Line Creek,
v
Ga., to Atlanta, the crew of Atlanta, c
Birmingham and Atlantic train had
its hands full in keeping order j,
among 400 riotous iregro picnickers (
late (Monday afternoon. ^
During the course of the larger v
part of the 45-mile ride the crew,
seven men in all, faced the negroes
with loaded guns. The train crew
on thH> morning train going to the
picnic had much trouble with the v
same crowd of negroes, but manage i 8
to quiet it before Line Creek was c
reached. ^
On the train at the start of the r
return trip, several negroes started ^
a crap game, which quickly resulted *
in a fiirht. Will Root, a well-known
character of Pittsburg, was shot and
instantly killed by Will Johnson, alias
"The Soldier." During the melee t
a negro woman was shot in the lei? r
and slightly hurt. Juhnson was cap- ]
tured after .he returned to Atlanta. 1
A negro named Burley Is being held 1
as an accomplice. |1
m HER
WHERE THE VICTIMS
SOLD IX WHITE SLAVE TRAINS
ARE PROCURED.
New York Trader In the Awful Business
Tells of the Inside Workings
of tike Hellish Game.
Harry Levison, a white man. who
Is under arrest in New York for selling
young girls into lives o? shame
told the district attorney Friday I hat
t V* ** ^ I " - ? A A I- ? - -1 '*
mnc <mv ni ifasi mree siocxaues'
in New York, in each of whic-h f,<m
five to ten yo in;; girls ni ? k-pt
ready night and day for instant delivery
wherever they may he wanted.
Little effort, said Levison, is
made to recruit wome 1 from the
street. The stockades are tllle 1 from
the host of young girls vao me t.utiappy
at home, or who live narrow
lives on their own earnings, and
ong for leisure, good clothes, gaiety
ind freedom from restraint.
Well-dressed women make it a
business to frequent cheap restaurants,
moving picture theatres, sentimental
matinees and the bargain
so lintel's to single out such cases,
and, lirst winning attention with an
invitation to dinner, then describe
the ease and pleasures of the altuna
tive the? nronosp.
The girl delivered to the stockade,
it then become the business of
the proprietor to place his merchandise.
It was in this end of iho
traffic, Levison told Uio district attorney,
that he was a specialist. 'I he
business was to find a house where
the girl was wanted. The house paid
the stocate-keeper a lump sum and
allowed Levison a ten per cent, commission
on the girl's earnings.
Ho and others like him kept in
ouch with the charges, he said, and
jften transferred them from house
o house. He had little to do with
ecruiting. That was almost wholly
n the hands of women, who found it
easier to got a hearing. Levison and
>thers arrested with him for engaging
in this heliivsh business, will ?
loon be tried and it is hoped ho
vill get what he richly deserves, a
ong term in prison.
WILL SOON HANG.
leu Who Committed Murder Near
Atlanta Oonfesses.
Charles YVTalker, one of the three
tegroee arrested in connection with
he murder of Motorman S. T. Brown
n<l tin* itpan^Piitfi liivr.n Pnn.
lucbor W. H. Bryson, made a full
onfession to the police on Saturday
no ruing. He implicated Jim Black
>u(i Bd Weaver as his associates in
he crime.
All three negroes are now in cusody
and it is not unlikely that all
hree will be hung 011 the same galows.
When bhje confession was
nade, Weaver had not yet been arested,
but detectives in an autonobile,
made a hurried trip to Uie
grading camp where the man wa'
mvployed and secured him.
W; Iker, th 1 "tner negro involve 1
11 the crime, was identified several
lays ago by Conductor Bryson as
>no of his assailants. Will Johnson,
another negro of whom a partial
dentitlcation was made by Conducor,
has proved an alibi and has been
eleased from custody. The police
eel assured that they have the guilty
mrties. 1
DEATH OF ?. 1). BELLINGER.
Vonvinent Columbia Lawyer Passes
to the Other Side.
The Hon. Or. Duncan Bellinger,
ormerly Attorney General of the
State, died at 9:30 o'clock Wedneslay
night at his .home in Shandon, a
iuburb of Columbia. Gen Bellinger
lad been sick for some time, hut folowing
a trip to Florida, it was
bought that his condition was much
mproved. However, last Sunday he
vas taken suddenly ill and his reovory
was despaired of. Showing
1 slight improvement Wednesday,
lis condition became grave that afernoon
and death came that night,
yhronlc dysentery and liver trouble
vas the cause of his death.
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Abduction Charged.
T>. Barra, a telephone lineman,
vho bras a wife and children in Virginia,
has been jailed in Columbia
barged with abducting Miss Ruby
rlcGinnis, who has been missing six
nonths. SJ10 is a daughter of John
dcGinnis, who signed the warrant.
Jarra denies his guilt.
Meet Horrible Death.
Answering to the call of duty,
hree of Macon's best firemen met
i -horrible death at an early hour
Friday morning, being killed outfight,
when the tire on the city's
new auto engine exploded on th?
way to a fire.
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