Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, H . yymzm, #V 7?i ' I i t t I CAUSE RIOTT V^j'fna Even Sectiea One Repwts if Clashes Betwcca Race* * | OVER THE PRIZE FIGHT flu Negro?i in Many Places Become IrHNltiag When It Became Known ? ytdtt That Johnson Had Knocked Jeffries Out in the Great Ust Fight at Itcno, Nev., Monday, i* * ** ?? ninuhdd hot wppn whites fl un V niil V .. and 1>1 ack8 in several sections of Philadelphia Monday night following the announcement of Johnson's victory over Jeffries. At Kansas City, Mo., negroes in boasting of tight result, pulled from streets cars and riots threatened in down town streets were on Monday 5 x midnight. Extra police were on duty to prevent mobbing. One dead and one mortally wounded is the result of an attempt by four negroes to shoot up Moundo. 111., in honor of Jack Johnson's ..victory at Reno. A negro constable was killed when he attempted to arrest them. At Ldttle Rock, Ark., two negroes are reported killed by white men, one by a Rock Island conductor on his way Into the city Monday night, and the other by a white man at Second and Scott streets. At Washington several small race riots broke out at various points 011 Pennsylvania avenue Monday night following announcement of the Jeffries-Johnson fight. There were a number of arrests. No one was seriously hurt. Rioting between whites and blacks broke out in seven different points in New York City Monday night following the announcement of the result of the Jeffries-Johnson fight. One negro was dragged from a street car and badly beaten before rescued. A gang of white men in the "black and tan belt" set fire late Monday night to a negro tenement on the middle West-Side. The police and fire department were ordered out on the jump. The race reeling us very bitter against the negroes. Seventy negroee, half the number women, were arrested Monday night in the "black belt" of Baltimore for disorderly celebration of Johnsons victory. One negro was badlj' cut by another and two other negroes were assaulted and severely injured by whites in arguments over the big fight. Rioting In a negro quarter of St. Louis at Market street and Jefferson avenue followed the announcement that Jack Johnson was the victor in the Reno prize fight. The police finally clubbed back the negroes, who were blocking trafic and making threats. Minor disturbances between whites and blacks broke out at Fort Worth following the announcement of Johnson's victory ovor Jeffries Monday afternoon. The most serious was an attack by two negresses on a white woman, the latter being seriously hurt by blows on the head with beer bottles. Six negroes with broken heads, six white men locked up and one white man, Joe Chockley, with a bullet through his skull and probably t fatally wounded, is the net result of clashes at Roanoke, Va., Monday .night following the announcement that Jack Johnson had defeated Jim Jeffries. The trouble started when a negro, w.ho had just, heard the news from Reno, said: "Now I gues3 the white folks will let the negroes alone." A white man replied "no" and -tho two clashed. Police had difficulty landing the negro in jail, being compelled to draw their revolvers. Later a negro shot Chockley and escaped. In Atlanta trouble between the blacks and whites as an outgrowth ' * * R nrVl f tl_r Q CJ Of tno JCHriPH-iMniiinuii <> i.u j narrowly averted Monday night when tho police arrested half a dozen ^ whites and ono negro. The black yelled "hurrah for Johnson" on a crowded downtown street. He held a knife in his hand and in an instant several white men had struck him The police used their clubs freely after the whites had chased the negro into an alley. The streets were thronged with men of both races in a nasty humor, but the police were vigilant and say they can ^ prevent trouble. The first disorder v arose at the Grand opera house where a mixed audience heard the fight K..UaHnn road. Hater some negroes started a parade to celebrate the victory of their fellow black. This the police stopped at once. On the order of Uie police commission the mounted men, the reserves and the detective force were called out and the downtown streets patroled. ;Jk At Houston, Texas, disturbances ^1t>Voko out immediately Monday night on the announcement of the John^.son victory at Reno. Three negroes JHw ere badly hurt by white men i rill feide an hour after the tla&h of Orihe result and the police were called to quell the several minor disairbances and to break.up fist fights. 'JB Charles Williams, a negro, was a litijjV tie too vociferous in announcing the jf > outcome on a street car and a while W EYIL SPREADING ONE XKCaKO IN EVERY FOUR VSKS COCAINE. RIToiIa of Police to Stop the Illegal Sale of the Poison Have Had Lit* tie Effect. According to physicians in touch with the situation in Charleston, the cocaine habit among the negroes is spreading to an alarming extent. The drug, from all accounts, made its fihoariincfl simnntr the denizens of the under world in Charleston about twelve years ago, but at that time was used only by a comparitively small number acquainted with the peculiar inbuence which the powder exerts upon the human system. The use of the drug;, however, spread rapidly, first among the whites, then in Darktown, until now it is estimated that one negro in every four uses cocaine in one form or another. The police have at various times during the last two years attempted to stamp out the sale of cocaine, but apparently without success. Severul persons, charged with selling ihe drug without a physician's ce" tiflcate, were convicted in the Police Court and fined heavily for his violation of the city ordinance. There is at present pending in the Charleston Police Court, the case of Chas. Jones, wJiile, alias "Weatherhorn, ' charged with selling a box of cocaine to a negro woman on Market street. Very often the drug is used in the shape of a solution of the crystalline form, mixed with other injurious ingredients and injected into the system by means of a hypodermic syringe. Other habitual users take it in the form of pills. T-he devotee using the syringe method, in many cases upon examination !s found to have his arms, legs or chest covered with one mass of sores, resulting from the punctures made by the needle of the syringe. These wounds as a usual thing heal up very quickly, but very often fester and break out, owing to the unsanitary surroundings in which the cocaine fiend lives as a general rule. Cases are known in which cocaine fiends died of lockjaw and other forms of poisoning, as a direct result of festering of the hypodermic syringe pricks covering the persons of the unfortunate users of the drug. The most "popular" and simple method in vogue of taking the drug into the system is by snuffing it through the nose. The pure cocaine flakes are crushed to a powder in a mortar, and retained in this form. A small quantity of the stuff is shaken 011 the back of the hand and then inhaled through the nose. Another method consists of dissolving a small quantity of cocaine in a teaspoonsful of water, and then heating it over a match. The is swallowed. It has been pretty firmly established that indulgence in cocaine leads to physical wreckage. The users of the drug claim that a dose gives them "courage," .'sweet dreams, and a sort of exuberance of spirit. This state lasts from two to four hours, us a rule, but after that wears off quickly, leaving the victim with ail insatiable craving for more of the deadly drug. Negroes especially are very susceptible to the influence of cocaine and under its sway will commit .acts from which they would shrink under normal conditions. The illegal cocaine trade is carried on by three different sets of individuals. First, those who procure it from the large drug centers of the country in wholesale quantities; those who sell to agents; and finally the latter themselves who dispose of It to the friends. The profits of the peddler are known to he considerable. A vial of cocaine which sells at $1, is made up into as many as three dozen boxes, each containing enough of the drug for two or three small doses. The boxes sell at 25 cents each. Not content with this profit, a majority of the agents adulterate the pure cocaine flakes with other drugs and various harmless powders. Baroric acid is principally used for this purpose, as it is snow white and therefore invisible unless detected by the eye of an expert chemist. Very small boxes have recently made their appearance on the market, which arc offered for sale at a price of 15 cents. It has leaked out, however, that the fiends refuse to buy them l>ecauso of the fact that the contents are mostly ingredients other than cocaine, thereby giving the buyer none of that sensation which he craves with might and soul. ? ?. ?. Bluejackets Mi.v In. Hace riots broke out all over Norfolk Monday night and many negroes wefe injured. The trouble was caused mostly by enlisted men from the various battleships who attacked negroes wherever they met them. A Uetatchment of marines from luo quell the riot. man slashed his throat from ear to ear. The negro almost ble4 to death before ho reached the hospita' to which he was hurried. * Ai+t THE AMERICAN GIRL 1 ? O SOME REASONS WHY SIIF DOE* NOT MARRY. st ^ \S The Prince of Good Fellow* for ? ja . .Companion, but Too Self Reliant ^ 8t to Depend on Her Husband. vt fr My pen has been itching for some months to spatter off a few acculriil* vi lating thoughts on this subject. Not tr even the monopolistic ravages of 111 trust upon trust could give rise within me to such invectives as are call- l)( ed forth when 1 think of the growing unfitted ness of the average American girl for matrimony. a As companions and comrades in i pleasure-seeking the American girl 1,( may acknowledge no jieer. Jolly, ?< full of spirit, daring to recklessness, al she accepts no lead but her own. st She is the prince of good fellows. "The glad hand of comradeship is gaily extended. She is even becoming as expert as ourselves In origi- ^ natin.g a multitdue of barely-conventional things that we have always mysteriously referred to as "doings." Hut, to marry her, I respectfully decline. The very self-reliance up- p< on which she prides herself, would w also proves the undoing of the ^ house. What man cares to acknowledge the existence of any initiative other than his own within the four w walls of his home. The co-operative 01 spirit unfolds itself gloriously in theory but in practice you eventually * find the co-operation solely between the right and left hand of one pev- ai son. The human system is so con- ( stituted, that lacking the power to j* dominate, it become vitally necessary to be dominated. In business ? t iir/A t'nvfnsi Ktrlvinc tnwjirrl siinrem acy will ill time, resolve themselves into a first and second. You ask why this may not be so ^ in matrimony. Because these opposing forces cun only be settled on a ^ business .basis, inasmuch as they are propelled by the lower brutish ra characteristics, largely selfishness, and must be governed by cold mat- re ter-fact law. And this, in itself, m' kills the sentiment necessary to ma- ? trimony. lo And the American girl, rapidiy tu becoming obessed with the idea of her supremacy, or at least equality, CQ with despised man, is making of her self a practically impossible matri- w< monial factor, in that her indepen- 10 deuce is creating in herself an el- ce enient. of opposition that carries no 111 necessary quality or characteristic for the true home life and motherhood. The sweet dependency upon nT' the man so prominent a few decades ' c ago is rapidly giving away to self- 10 reliance in the feminine sex that 111 forecasts nothing but an increasing u clash of wills in a bond so close as 1 that of matrimony. a This spirit of growing indepen- u dence is a harsh discordant note to infuse into the home atmosphere. As in any corporation or combination of ca persons for an ultimate result, there 111 must be a guiding force, so the mat- 111 rimonial combination must have its pilot. And among my "gentle," friends I fail to place a single one who would not believe herself com- u potent to be the guiding force, and 1,1 who would not take it upon herself tu I r to assume as mucli or power as *>ae " might be allowed. ei Under these conditions no law of 111 human nature could be invoked to prevent friction. And where then 1,1 would be the honor, obedience and u love 011 which matrimony has rested from time immemorial? And even could the possibility of friction be 111 eliminated the ascendancy of this in- r{i dependent do-for-niyself-or-not-at-all spirit is largely responsible for the growing familiarity of the modern M American girl with the opposite sex. It is true that this familiarity, unthought of thirty years ago, does not sc necessarily become a question of !il morals, but it does endanger and of- K1 ten kill, the respect that every true 1,1 man accords a woman. And with t0 this loss of respect bonds of any w sort, matrimonial or otherwise, are 'u impossible. Dodging the issue with theory and ca proverb as we may, yet the necessi- 81 ty of one ruling power in the .home ai still remains. Cast your eyes among your friends. You will find ai happiness where there is a court of tr last resort. Where this is not the yc case I challenge you to show perfect harmony, a harmony devoid of pet- w ty frictions rife in modern matrimon- 'u ial tangles. And petty quarrels, or ai at least quarrels with a petty origin, ^ are undermining the entire institu- 'n tion of matrimony. Cold hard statistics prove it. One out of every ar twelve marriages ends in divorce. PC flrv whv a)\rtitl/1 flin 111 n n nuirrv Wi when the modren American girl is fo constantly training herself, or de- wi yeloping if you will, along lines that yc increase the probability of friction, in and lack harmony in t.he home? ni We might question: What really is the definition of home to the ci< average American girl? Surely not th the home of our grandparents, nor gr even of our mothers, as I recall pe them. To me they were real homes, pr where the track of a muddy foot or di a purloined ginger cookie met their ni Waterloo on the bottom of father's di slippor. only to be afterwards envel- in oped in the sweet caresses of mother j ai DARING DEED SAVES PLANT. 11 Trust Employee Braves Horribh IH'aCh to Shut Valve. While firemen poured powerfu reams of water upon him, W. A *eaver, superintendent of the At ntic Refining plant, Pittsburg, Pa. ished daringly through flame and noke early Thursday and shut t live which prevented fire spreading om a burning still of benzine tc eat tanks of oil nearby. In the clnity over 3b.000 barrels of peoleum in various stages of refineon t were stored. Two thousand perms called from their beds by the ii'li, cneereci ine superintendent as ; came scorched from the burning ill. What would likely have been catastrophe similar to that at Sheran several years ago when 2 01 jople were seriously injured in a t so line explosion was prevented id the loss confined to the benzine ill. AN AWFl'L I)KED. 'otnan Drowns (Tiild to Thwar Kidnappers. Crazed by the fear that her six sar-old daughter would be kidnap iid, Mrs. W. L. Duxton, wife of j ell to do ranchman, living 11 mile; om Cortex, Colo., drowned thi lild in a wa&htub to save it fron hat her unbalanced mind consid red a worse fate. Mrs. Luxton wa )und Wednesday night by Sherif awath on the door step of the sher f's home at Durango. She told ii a incoherent story of a conspiracy i kidnap her daughter and declare( le had thwarted the plotters l>: siding the child's head in a tul ! wafer until it was dead. ? Shot All Dogs in Sight. a. u. unmore, wnne ceieuranu* le Fourth of July at Pacolet Monly, decided that he had to shoot all e dogs in sight. One of the dogs ?eing from the shots fired at him, n into an old gentleman named ffenwer and upset him with the suit that his leg was broken. Elore was arrested and placed in jail. ve, while father looked on with a inkle in his eve. And now? Typical of today is a ntest recently conducted by a dl-known magazine, in which opinns were requested as to the nessary annual income on which a an might attempt matrimony, irely it was not any increased cost living that sent the average fige soaring up to over $2,4 00 a year, it the increase of afew cents in the ast of beef?but the demand of odern -feminine American for a tiirl in the circle outside of home, e luxuries of society and the stray from the pivotal center of nne, the cradle. This butterfly existence, even :ien it touches the individual but ocsionally, is undoubtedly underining the necessarily strict code of orals set by our ancestors. Hut en more demoralizing is woman* creasing assumption of man's inipendence. The self-reliance on hic.h she prides herself brings hoi to contact with the harsher feuires of life and strikes deep at the ihutes of a butterfly existence evy day circles farther and farthei orality hitherto fostered by the ve' unsophistication she is now seek i.g to overcome. This, combiner i tli increasing luxury in little lings, is gradually pushing dowi le scale the former higli-niindec oral code existant in the Ameri m woman. Rome and Paris trav ed this course until the tottorinf alls collapsed for lack of mora ipport. The parallel may not In entical, hut the similarity is there We love you, girls, for your win one wiles and gay camradeshlp. Ii ,ct you are more slipping iutc ooves hitherto occupied by oui other chums. We love you for 11 day, but it makes us doubt when e ask ourselves whether such at j will make a much better job ol lildren. Could you, dear Amerin girls, uphold still, as youi 'andparents before, the probity id morality of the home? Your independence, your self-reliice, your worldly outlook, all atact and lend to the piquancy of nir dear selves?until the man liens to think of gathering it all ithin the sacred portals of hie itne to lx, the mother and guardi1 of his succeeding generation, ien yo.i lose?for you have nothg to offer. Your independence aiid self-relilce most assuredly will not tend tc irfect harmony in the home; your orldly outlook, like it as we may r ourselves, Is not the atmosphere s require for our children. In fact iu are becoming more of a comrade pleasure-seeking and less of a other every day. The entire superstructure of soety rests upon the home, and as e foundation of a skyscraper is 'actually undermined while the up?r stories receive many a coat ol lint, so is the hearth becoming istcovered, while the possible other faultlessly arranges the *apo of her own gown before the irrow of worldly independence auc ubition. , < ; . - - t>r-, . - / STILLS WERE RAIDED 5 #? NEW LAWS CREATE DEMAND ON 1 CHEAP WHISKEY. ^ Fights Follow Attempts to Wi)>c Out 1 the Traflk, One Officer Killed and i I Five Are Wounded. > j The official report of International ^ Revenue Commissioner Royal E. Ca * bell will contain many surprises when it is offered for publication. While * exact figures are not available, it is 5 estimated that 2,000 illicit stills were : raided and seized during the pan: 1 year, while the figures for the ye<?.* ending June 8 0, 1 9 09, showed 1,7-10 1 succesful raids. The commissioner t! 1 declares that prohibitory legislation w ' in the Southern states and the shoi\- p age of corn and consequent raise in the price cf legitimate corn whisky e to $2.50 a gallon, caused the moon- c shine business bootn and prosperi >. p The price of moonshine whiskey h t in Virginia is quoted at $1.25 and p purchasers and consumers say it is p superior stuff. One revenue officer t was killed and five were wounded 0 during the last 90 days. Kentucky popularly supposed to be the moon- }) * shiners paradise, is not included in a s the moonshine belt, although some j Q illicit distilling goes on in that state, i Deputy Collector Anderson lost his j life by being ambushed. He an .1 $ one of his deputies were shot down [ without a chance for their lives in v a fair fight. The deputy was wound- v ^ ed, but escaped. Three moonshiners were captured and received sentences j ^ of twenty to thirty years. Collector v Dunlap, of the lOastorn district of t Tennessee, risked his life within two r j . _ ' . .... weeks alter lie naa received nis eoi(.i- \} mission. .It is seldom that revenue v collectors take part in a raid bu* t] Dunlap had formerly been the I 'nit- (j ? e:l States marshal for that di Uriel, ^ and when he located a still, through 0 ' his agents, he organized a raid and 1 headed it himself. n The party charged the still in the c face of a broadside from the moon- n 1 shiners. Dunlap sustained a minor ^ wound but did no* fall. Wh ?n the 7 moonshiners saw that ilie officers a were not to be stopped, they signal- ^ ed their surrender, and Dunlip was w about to handcuff the leader when f, the man drew a weapon and startc', h to light again Dunlap cHncdnwith him in a rough and tumble struggle, a in which they rolled down the nioun- h tain side. Dunlap was severely in- w jured in addition to the guns-hot H wound he had sustained, but he got his n)an. There were six persons at that still, four men and two women. One of the most spectacular en1 counters which the Federal officers have had with moonshiners in recent years was the raid headed by Agent > Sams in North Carolina three weeks ago. A pitched battle took place, t] in which over 4 00 shots were ex- ^ changed, but 110 one was seriously 1 injured, and the moonshiners surren- ^ dered after a long seige. Moonshin- ^ ers realize t.hat arrest and con Viction mean long terms of imprisonment. Consequently t.hey rarely sub- ^ ? mit to arrest without a tight and ^ shoot to kill. Many of them feel ^ 1 that they are justified in killing the ^ T / ?,>?, 1 onntinionl is invjir lal?ly with the moonshiners. Still ^ J 10,010 stills were captured during the last eight years. ' ST A IIS HIS WITH. ' White Man in Augusta Kills ller 1 With Sharp Razor. ^ I Tom Dosmuke, a white man, w-ho . lives out on the Savannah road, sev eral miles from Augusta, Ga., cut f i the brachial artery in the left arm ^ of his wife last night with a razor o and she bled to death shortly after- ( . wards. Desinuke was arrested af- j i tor the crime by a county officer and , did not offer any resistance. The . crime was a horrible one and t.here ( r seems to be no motive for it. DesL s l muke was drunk at the time. ; Wh<(n the officer went to Desp muke's house to arrest him, l)es. muke met him at the door, attired . ') . in only one garment, a top shirt, , which was stained with blood. The only witness to the crime was Desmuke's little daughter. Sdie said her mother was sitting in the back 11 > door when her father suddenly rushed up to her and stabbed her with I a razor. , + + e Negro Slioote Conductor. I, A\.' uoi An 1) Ahnvto a f t hn t I % \ UK' H V/Uitu UVtUl iVV L'Vi V K? VI ^ . Iron Mountain Railroad demanded o fare of Rnos Stetson, a negro, near li Tallalah, La., Monday afternoon, the tl , latter, shot Roberts down. The con- ft , ductor is probably mortally wounded ai , He was rushed to the railroad hospi- I) , tal at Magee, Ark. Stetson jumped h from the train and he is being search- m , ed by a large crowd of armed a citizens. That he will bo lync.hed c< if captured seems certain. tl ! IMiysioian Accused of lligamy. i A warrant charging bigamy was . sworn (Ait at noon Tuesday against o ' Dr. J. M. Sigman, a well known Sa- L ; vannah physician, at the instance e: ? of Rebecca Pigg. a trained nurse, n . who alleges that having married her l> > in Charleston, Dr. Sigman is guilty u I of bigamy because of his marriage to a woman in Blooiningdale. c r MEETS DEATH nder Suspicions Circumstances Near Celnmbia Thursday. ^ f WAS DROWNED IN POOL Irs. ttookter Martin is the Name of (he Supposed Victim ami Her Hu? band and a Man Named Lewi* Neeley lias Hern Arrested Charged With Murdering the Woman. The State says Mrs. Bookter Marin, Better known as Cleo Starnes, ,*os drowned Thursday afternoon etween two and three o'clock, ill iampton's pond, a few miles southast of Columbia. The suspicious ircumstances surrounding- her deaf-b sd to the arrest of Bookter Martin, er husband, and Lewis Neeley. both resent at the time, who are held ending the coroners in?tuest will ake place Sunday afternoon at three /clock. Constable J. D. Dunnaway, who arrived at the pond, placed Neolov ind Martin under arrest.- Mabel Hack burn, the fourth member of he party who lives in the disorderly louse run by Dallas Starnes, was not trrested. The two men are -said to lave been drinking heavily .and still vcre under the influence of whiskey vhen arrested. Besides Neeley, Martin*, an I the Mackburn woman, a few small bo: s vere the only eye witnesses of the ragedy. One of the boys said that >ne of the men had Mrs. Dartin on lis back, out in the water. In some vay, which the little fellow could tot explain, she fell offa-iui was rowned. It is alleged that the men ad previously threatened, to drowi lie of the boys. . .. Mrs. Bookter Martin, the dead woian, is said to have led a very hecikered career previous to her carriage to Martin, who lives etghBen miles out on the Camden road, he two did not stay together long fter they were married. Lew's leeley, now being held on suspicion, as recently arrested and --released i 1 i.. ! .n v. \ rum me uouiuy jau, wner? u ? was ehl pending the investigation of rte disappearance of Morgan Sin oak, 15-year-old boy of Waverley, wn> as not been heard from June Stb, hen he left his home with Neeley nd another, man, Arthur. Los eit TWO ENGINEMEX KILLED, oconiotive Struck Cow and IMiiikm) f % Tliem Under Engine. The Seaboard Air Line passenger *ain number 55, from Jacksonville ) Cedar Key, was wrecked *at Mar?tta, Fla., Monday afternoon and as result engineer George L. Granger nd fireman Will Johnson are dead, be accident was caused by the enine hitting a cow. The engine urned over, pinning the ehgitieer nd fireman underneath. One pasenger was hurled over the seat and njured internally. He is *at the ospital, but will recover. "The fact hat there were no more injured is ccounted for by the fact that the rain had slowed down when it was eon that it would strike the cow. CI! I LI) It EX DROWN ED. I Property Damage of Over Fifty Thousand Dollars. A Lexington, Ky., dispatch says liree negro children were drowned nd damage to the extent of* $50,000 r more was done in Winchester and Hark counties by a cloudburst Monlay morning. Residences and busi ess structures wore flooded.in Winhester and boats and rafts used 0 rescue families. In Lho country everal farm houses were washed off heir foundations by the sudden rise f the streams. Three negro, children ,ere drowned in Poyntertown, a suurb of Winchester. . .? ? ? r-~. LANDS IX HKIJU . Hind Hutiaway Horse Frightens Oc cupunts into Hysterics. A blind horse, frightened . by the vplosion of a cannon, at. Vincennes, nd., early Wednesday, ran away, irow its driver, Wayne Bunting, ut. of the buggy, fatally injuring 1 111. plunged through a window of 10 home of Mrs. Anna Drugger and dl on a bed, where Mrs. Dagger nd her daughter were seriously raised and both were shocked into ysteria before the men of the eighborhood attracted by the crash nd the screams of the women. ml<l drag the frantic horse out of le house. Forces Auto Courtesy. While driving in his automobile 11 the road near Ginter Park, Va., ewis I). Gar us, a wealthy tot^accoist, ssayed to pass Henry Jones, a faricr. whose horse became frightened y th machine. Larus . stopped .'hen Jones drew a revolve^. The wa3 ie(j past an(j t^e incident ' losed.