The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 21, 1910, Image 3
CALLS FOR PEACE
* " Sraaior RcW. L. Taj lor Urges Teaoessee
Democrats to Write.
DECUNES TO SPEAK
For Goremor Patterson as I*romiMtd,
Ik'A'ttust' of Friend's Protest.
Says His A<1 vice is Rejected and J
He WJL1 Therefore Keep Out ol
the Fight.
Saying that he saw with dismay
thai the Democracy of Tennessee is
rusting madly to destruction through |
bitter dissections, Senator Robert L. I
Taylor ^Saturday at Washing-ton gave I
out a statement withdrawing his I
promise to stump the State* in the!
interest of the "regular" Judiciary I
ticket. The senator says his action I
. is taken because he can not Inflict I
his advice where it is rejected in I
advance.
Senator Taylor had agreed to I
sprwiK for Gov. Patterson and his I
jutMotary ticket. This announce-1
nu'Ot aroused a storm of protest from I
friends of the senator who said they
did not care to hear him on that sub- I
ject. |
Senator Taylor made this state-1
mcnt on the eve of leaving for a I
Western, lecture trip.
"I have seen with sorrow and dis- I
may that the Democracy of Tennes- I
see is rushing madly to destruction I
through its bitterness and dlssen-1
aioiis* and my impulse was to fly to
it and by entreaty and persuasion I
induce Democrats, if I could, to I
waive their passions and differences, I
and reunite against their old-time]
?---< T k.,K/-,r*r? r.nn J I
enemy, out i uoto
by uoftt everwhelming evidences
from hundreds of men of ali persuasions,
all over Tennessee, th*. :oy
services In that role are not wiute I,
and that, instead of accomplishing
good. L would add fuel to the fames
and widen the breach.
"I am, therefore, constrained to
withdraw my promise to canvas tbo
State, for I can not Inflict my ad (i
vice where it is rejected In a J7.ii.ea
and when I am assured it a1" do ]
harm instead of &uuu.
'*1 ma singled ut of o 11 bin )
crats in Tennessee and threatened j
with political destruction, no mat- (
ter what I do or do not do, and now j
I am ready for the sacrifice, for if
my tenure of the high office the peo- <
pie have bestowed upon me depends
upon and requires that I shall Joid <
either faction of Democrats to fight
the other I will lay it down glad v (
and retire with &i a const u-rce ,
void of any offense against my party
r my people.
"This must n~t be ta'icn as receding
in any respect from the poi
ition I have announced, for there
tan b? no safety except in organization
and in obediance to continued
authority.
(Signed "Robert L. Taylor."
PMATH TO ARMOKKI) SHIPS.
Army Mutineer Says Their Day of
Utility is Past.
At AUantic City, N. J., Glenu H. I
Curtiss tossed oranges and mimic
bombs within three feet of the decks
of the yacht John E. Mehere II
used in pLuce of a battleship during
jf the sham battle arranged Wednesday
afternoon to demonstrates the
utility of aeroplanes in coast defense.
The nioek bombs were drop-I
ped from a height of about 300 I
feet. I
Experts agreed that a fleet of aer- I
?planes armed with bombs of high I
explosives ootild wreck any battle-1
ship beforeguns could be trained on J
them. Col. William Jones, retired, I
formerly of the engineers corps, who J
is an advocate of aeroplanes for I
coast defense, stated that it was hisl
belief that the air machine had prov- I
/ ed its efficiency.
^ "The armored battleship has seen I
its last days as an engine of attack J
against a city or country guarded 1i
*by aeroplanes," he said. "Glenn I
Curtiss or any other expert aviator 1
could drop high explosives on the M
decks or down the funnels of a war- I
ship as easily as Curtiss tossed the h
? * n',thln n fpw feet of the J
ornugua ninu? ? .. ?
yacht. I believe a fleet of a score i
f air machines would absolutely <
protect any coast city. A night
light by such a fleet would not only I
probably demolish an entire fieet 1
f battleships, but could so demoralize
the crew of the attacked ves- 1
sels as to make them useless."
Curtiss also dropped oranges over 1
a fortification marked out on the
beach, making practically every shot 1
a "hit," although the trajectory was
sometimes 3 0 degrees because of the
wind and his speed. Wednesday
night ended the meet. The purses
f $6,000 each were presented to
Hrookins for breaking the altitude
record and to Curtiss for establishing
a 60 mile American record over
the sea course. Twenty-two flights
were made, during the ten days of
the meef.
The voKh of a man may be fairly
weLl determined by the worth of the
thlogs in which he interests himself.
THE COTTON CROP
CONDITION AS llKPOltTKD 1>
EACH COUNTY".
I '
Much Hain and (.fans Causes Plain
to lie Small, Though Strong, am
Several Weeks Lute.
The Journal of Commerce, of Nev
York, one of the most reliab'e au
thorities In the country, has just is
sued the following report on cottoi
crop condition* in South d?"rlln?i
Chiefly because of excessive raim
otton will show some deterioratioc
since our last report when condlMoi
r r O / ' /.nol lilfi trrnUQ H II *
WHS I I tO VUIIOIUUI U l/?V fy > M
developed and the fields need work
Stands are irregular, some localities
reporting good, others poor. Th'
old spring has n ade the seas 1 f ?I
!y two or three weeks late an. il.<
plant is very small though general!;
strong with a continuance of rece*?
favorable weather a much better o.i?
look is expectel.
Abbeville county?Twenty days
late; wet for last 2 0 days and grab
By; plant smail and weak an 1 gei?
erally poor stand.
Aiken county?extreme sfei tSR ic
planting, drought, followed by rain:
spell, making crops very grass/.
Anderson county?plant is smal
and owing to recent rains th-.ve i'
some gra s; plant Wealthy with goo<
color.
Barnwell county?crop small, cai
not make full crop with best of sea
sons from now on; crop gia.??y an
poor stand.
Beaufort county?Cotton looking
well considering r? cent heavy rains
plant rather small, but looking
strong; ten days late.
Cherokee county?stands general
ly good; fields getting grassy on ac
count of too much rain; crop lo
days late; with two weeks of good
weather and suj.-lPne it wiP be All
right.
Chester county?the plant is small
and stands fair to good; lacks cul
tivation; fields becoming foul with
grass on account of two much rain;
have not worked crops more than
five days in two weeks; 50 days late;
temperature now normal.
Chesterfield county?25 to 35 days
late.
Darlington county?plant small
but strong; excellent stands; fields
[n good shape; seasonable rains, no!
Bxcessible; weather very favorable
now.
Fairfield county?plant unusually
small; stand fairly good; cultivation
backward owing to excessive rain;
crop full three weeks late.
Florence county?cotton is about
three weeks late, small, poor stands
and on account of rain for past two
weeks is in bud condition; grassy
and ground too wet to work.
GreenviLle county?Plant small
and weak; good stand; too much
rain; crop about twenty days late.
Greenwood county?poor stands;
two weeks late; too much rain.
Horry county?late cold spring
weather and want of sufficient moisture
have caused cotton to be backward
in growth, but stands are fairly
good.
1/orahnw r>r?imtv 1 WO WPftks late".
too much rain; lots of grass, plant
small.
Lancaster county?cotton crop i
very small for the time of year;
grassy and bad stands.
Laurens county?plant small, and
great deal of rain; everything needs
work; if we could get some dry
weather to work out the crop things
would be all right.
Newberry county?continued rain
hail, etc., have damaged cotton badly;
plant small and grassy; prospects
poor indeed; stands poor; hail ruined
several hundred acres of cotton
Orangeburg county?15 days continued
rains; little work has been
done; fields very grassy; cotton
small; three weeks late; oats badly
damaged; continues to rain.
Pickens oounty?too much rair
the past month and crop badly in
grass; needs warm sunshine to dry
it out; some very poor stands in
many places.
Ric.hland county?plant is small
and probably two weeks late, but it
is healt.hy and fairly well worked
out; good rains last week and nice
sunshine this week.
Spartanburg county?Too much
rain; plant small and weak about
two-thirds stand; poor cultivation
and the crop is late; hail has ruined
a lot of it.
Union county??too much rain;
1 II.. Mffln
gCTllUg Willi iy 111 ?v? J lutiv
plowing past two weeks.
Williamsburg county?First the
drouth, then cold winds and at present
time excessive rains have retarded
growth of plant; fields grassy.
York county?Cotton at least 2 5
days late and very grassy: still raining;
unless we .have clear weather
for two weeks some crops will not
be worked out; corn very good.
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Many Were Sent Back.
Nearly 25,000 of the 1,041,570
immigrants who arrived at United
States poits d .dng tho fiv. u year
ended June 30 las*, were denied admission
by immigration officials and
were compelled to return to tilt
countries from which they came
Various reasons were assigned for
refusing to allw them remain in
this country.
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CLEM SOX COLLEGE FINANCES.
Tlie Board of Trustees Make Annua
Appropriations.
>
The annual appropriations madi
by the CleniBon College trustees foi
the conduct of the college for tht
coininz year is as follows: For Stnt?
1 work of various kinds, $85,000; foi
i normal operating expenses, $1 18,
000, for completion of new build
ings, $6,000; for insurance for ne::
five years, $14,000; for unusual ex
' penditures, $6,000. Twenty thou >
and was appropriated foi a run
- building and $S,000 for a diarj
j barn. T.his will put the diarj
work on a fine basis.
The agricuUi-ral committee of ihi
board was authorized 10 rsk th?
legislature for permission *?> estab
lish experiment stations in t.he Pec
' Dee and possibly in the sand h'l
^ sections.
3 The report of the auditing com
inlsssioiii was also received and rea i
This commission, consisting of W
f B. West, J. P. Derham, E. C. El
^ more and J. R. Haltiwanger, recent
ly made a thorough audit of the
books and accounts of the college
i for the past seven years.
The re^port sets forth that the
accounts of the college are in ever:
respect satisfactorily; that the mon
eys have beeni economirally spent ii
' accordance with orders of the board
and that all accounts are properl:
I accounted anel vouched for.
The acting president and the
j chairman of the board were autho
rized to carry into effect the pur
chase of the Lewis lands under tin
authority granted at the last legis
lature, the attorney general to ap
prove the titles.
' . TWO MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
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In Which Afx>ut Eight People Los'
Their Lives.
, Caring for the homeless aiu
I searchilng the ruins for other vie
I tiins were the tasks that confronted
t.he authorities at Campbell ton, N
I It., following last nLght's destruc
tive lire in which eight persons arc
i reported to have been killed, more
than three hundred driven from
their homes and a loss of $2,000,000
caused. All outside communication
with the little lumber town on
the north shore of New Brunswick
was cut off and it was not thought
until today that messengers began
to bring details.
Seven men were reported to have
been killed in an explosion during
the fire. The body of an infant was
recovered from the ruins of a dwelling
.house The blaze started in the
Richards company shingle mill on
the western side of town. A heavy
wind was blowing and within a short
time the fire was beyond control.
Two banks, three large lumber
mills, three churches, the inter-colonial
railway station, telegraph and
telephone offlses and other large
buildings were burned. The residential
section is also reported tc
have been destroyed.
FIXE SHOWING.
Reduction of Deficit is licing Made
by Post Oflice.
More thai] $10,000,000 reductior
in the postal deficit has been made
> in tho first nine inontns 01 tne nsca
year just ended, according to fina
returns iust received hy Postmastei
I General Hitchcock from tlie auditoj
5 of the postofftce department. Sucl
r a reduction is unprecedented in tin
? history of the department. The de
licit for the nine months was $2,
. 709,000 as against $12,832,000 ii
the same period of the proceeding
5 fiscal year.
In the third quarter of t.he past
March 31, the postal service earnec
a surplus of $ 1,363,000, the rev
i enues for the quarter amounting tc
i $T> 8,9 3 4,000 and the eqpenditures
r to $f?7,f>61,000. The later showec
Ian increase of 10 per cent over those
I of the same quarter last year, while
the former showed an increase ol
' less than four per cent.
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BHOKKX XKCK HHiHTKI).
Surgeons Save Goal Miner's Life By
Bare Operation.
By a bloodless surgical operation
Jack Bowers, a coal miner of Nelsonville,
O., was cured of a broken neck.
Four weeks ago he fell and fractured
and dislocated the vertohr ?e of ti!?
neck and was unable to move his
head though he could walk and talk.
He was unable to sleep because he
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in imminent peril of paralysis and
death. An X-ray examination revealed
to the doctors that his neck
could be restored to his normal condition
by hand manipulations. The
operation was made and an hour later
the man was talking and laughing,
with full power of sensation
and muscular movement. *
i 1 Nine Were Hurt.
Nine persons were injured wjien
, the engine of fast southbound pas
senger train No. 1, on the Alabama
I Great Southern railroad, Jumped
! the track near Toomsuba, Miss., early
Monday morning, pulling the
' mail and baggage cars and the seci
ond class passenger covd* with il
down an embankment.
'P HONKS ON SOl'THKKN FARMS.
' Nineteen Cities Helped Huild Rural
Lines Last Year.
Ill the last year nineteen cities in
1 the South, through their chambers of
commerce or through some organi1
zation of the merchants and busir
ness men, have taken practical steps
to induce farmers to build telephone
lines and connect with their towns.
Funds have been raised to assist
the farmer in a financial way and.
according to Progress, the result has
' been even more successful and grat'
ifying than was expected. Farmers
' are now selling their cotton and other
produce by telephone at higher
; prices than they formerly obtained
J when they first drove to town and
ran the risk of finding conditions uiiJ
favorable.
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Ttu, plan unaer wnicn iarmers secure
universal telephone service and
connection with the comprehensive
Hell system contemplates that a
group of farmers band together in
a co-operativte organization, build
the line and purchase the equipment
1 This requires a small cash expendi3
ture, but t.he farmers own the telephones,
wires and other material.
The line is connected with .he
f Bell system, a flat charge being made
for service. This monthly charge is
1 very low and when divided among
' the farmers on the line is seldom
' more than 50 cents a month. The
fact that all the telephones are on
3 the line is an advantage rather than
an objection in rural districts. It
enables a farmer in an emergency
to call every one of his neighbors to
his assistance without loss of time
DIS1WTCI1KK ADMITS KlUlOlt.
Conflicting Orders Caused Wreck on
t C. H. and I). Koiul.
That conflicting orders giving
j two trains the right of way caused
the wreck on July 4 at Middleton
I was admitted at the coroner's in
quest at Hamilton, Ohio Monday by
' Albert J. Smith, train dispatcher of
} the Cincinnatti, Hamilton, and I)ay5
ton railway. After trainmen and
1 operators had told Coroner Burnett
of the orders they had received that
day, and that official had declared
1 his belief that Smjth was to blame
for the twenty-one deaths, the lat
ter took the stand.
1 "We were rushed with trains that
day," he said. "I sent the Big
Four passenger train on from Day
tr?n tn Cincinnatti. Then after they
1 started I figured I could save time
in getting the freight to Dayton, so
! T tried to send an order to Carlisle
to have the Dig Four stop at Poast
Town and let the freight pass.
"When I reached Carlisle by wire
I learned that the passenger train
had passed there going like wildfire.
Then, to prevent trouble, I sent
word to Middletown to "bust" the
f order allowing the freight to proceed
to Dayton.
1 "If the freight had been 011 the
siding at Middletown when they received
this order the wreck would
not have occurred.
. THKY MAI)K GALLANT FIGHT.
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Fire in the Hold of a big Steamer 011
1 the High Seas.
*
Blackened and charred, her decks
I warped by a six day's fire, which
r raged beneath them, the British
' tramp steamer St. Nicholas of Liver1
pool sailed through the Golden Gate
from which port she sailed May 3
. with a general cargo of 5,000 tons
1 Puget Sound ports,
r When 1,3 00 miles off the South
Ameriqan coast he,r commander,
I Capt. George Aitken, June 23, dis[
covered smoke pouring down from
. the ventilators, and when a hatch
) was opened it was discovered that
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- t IIO f'MI'KU 111 1 lie aiinnn uv.? i\ >. no ?
\ seething mass of tire. Chief OAi;
cer Dickson, Second Officer Mar,
riott and Third Officer Chavner volf
unteered to go below with the hose
passed along by the crew.
With their mout.hs and nostrils
covered by cloth the volunteers were
alternately lowered. All that day
, and the following night the Aght
to save the ship continued. Karly
on the morning of June 2 4 the Are
in the shelter deck was seemingly
stamped out. At nine o'clock in the
' morning Are was reported in lower
.hold No. 2. Two hundred tons of
their merchandise were overboard
i Mayor Threatened.
An echo of the recent Reno Aght
i was the receipt Sunday by Mayor
i John T. Moore, of a letter threatening
his life because of his action
in prohibiting the exhibition at Macon
of the moving pictures of the
- Aght. The letter, which is believed
t to have been writen by a negro was
postmaked Atlanta. The letter will
a 1 A " 4 1' A o 1 n !?
DC llirnea over to tut; puaiai (i iiiuui ?I
tics.
Struck I)ca<l by Ilolt.
Isreal White, a negro, and a mule
i were killed by lightning about five
o'clock on Thursday afternoon while
i plowing in a field two miles from
I Manning. There were several hands
plowing in the same field when a
i cloud came up. The others took out
their mules and went to the house,
t but Isreal plowed on and' jha was
killed.
DENIES ALL CHARGES
THE AIKEN CAMPAIGN MEETING
A LIVELY ONE.
Lyon Cltfd tl?o Hecojds to Prove
Evans' Stories False.?Other Ciui*
dirintes Warmed l"p.
A sensation was sprung at the
campaign meeting at Aiken on Saturday
when Chairman Henderson,
fnllnwinc the snorrh of .Mr. H. H. Kv
ans. arcse and declared that Attorney
General Lyon did not employ
him to appear before the United
States Supreme Court, the South
Carolina Congressman employing an
attorney. Mr. Henderson said that
Mr. Lyon's argument before this
higto court was good and that he
was an able lawyer.
Mr. Evans then arose and attempted
to speak. He was cheered
and hissed.
"Let him speak," requested Mr.
Lyon, but Mr. Evans sat down.
"If there is anv person in this
audience," said Mr. Lyon, "who is
so simple or foonsn as to beneve a
single thing Harney tells you, he
will go and laugh at you."
Mr. Lyon received an ovation, as
he told the large audience that Mr.
Evans does not believe his fairy tales
himself. With tfie brief time allowed
to him, Mr. Evans took up one by
one the charges made by Mr. Evans.
He proved by the State treasurer,
the clerk of Richland county court,
the Comptroller General, the chairman
of the dispensary winding-up
commission and others the falsity of
the charges.
"And yet," declared Mr. Lyon,
"Harney has the gall to stand up and
toll you that Lyon misused your
money. T.he merger case is on the
Richland county, docket, set for
iriai tnis fan.
Mr. Lyon said he employed a detective
to root out a crowd of grafters.
"And I came near getting Harney's
Cousin Hub Evans. Would
Harney prosecute his Cousin Huh?
I don't think so." Here Mr. Lyon
took up his opponent's record and
declared that his most important
case in the Supreme Court was concerning
a "pointer pup." "And he
lost that." He has had nine cases
in all, and has lost seven, losing
several of these because he did not
know how to draw his pleadings.
Mr. Lyon declared amid great applause
that outside his own word
Mr. Evans couldn't prove a single
charge that he has made.
Mr. Evans made practically the
same charges of incompetentcy and
extravagance that he .has made heretofore.
A few persons in the audience
shouted encouragement as he
spoke.
"Gve it to him, Evans!" they
cried. When Mr. Evans concluded
a part of the crowd cheered and a
few hissed.
JVlr. Lypn had a bundle of affidavits,
which he referred to briefly
proving by them that every state*ment
made by .his opponent was
false.
Another mild sensation was sprung
when Capt. W. \V. Moore, candidate
for adjutant general, replied to alleged
insinuations made by his opponent,
Capt. Richardson. He drew
the record of the adjutant general
to show that Richardson's men had
been, guilty of insubordination. Capt.
Richardson had taken him to task
in regard to his stay at the Cidadel,
alleging that his opponent had left
the impression that he was a graduate.
This was Richardson's home
town and he received much applause.
IX NO HURRY
President Taft Defers Consideration
of Supreme Court Vacancies.
At Reverly, Mass., President Taft
announced that he would not give
serious consideration to filling vacancies
in the United States Supreme
Court until the fall. As to
calling an extra session of the Senate,
in October, to confirm appointees
to the Supreme Court and thus
facilitate the rehearing of the Stand
ard Oil and Tobacco corporation tax
cases, the President has not definitely
made up his mind.
Mr. Taft will not officially announce
the new chief justice of the
tribunal until he is ready to send in
his nomination to the Senate. In
case Governor Hughes is elected to
the chief justiceship, as now seems
likely, it will be .necosarily in a
new nomination. (
T.he President has offered to Pros- (
ident Hadley, of Yale, the chairmanship
of the commission authorized,
by Congress to investigate the
subject of railroad stock and bonds
and to recommend a plan for bringing
the issue of the securities under
the supervision of the Inter-State
commerce commission. If President
Hartley accept, the President
will consult with him regarding the
other members of the commission.
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What An Owl Old.
At Houlder, Col., an owl wrecked
the plant of the Central Colorado
Power company and plunged the city
into darkness. The bird hooked a
claw about negative and positive
wires, causing a short circuit and '
burning out the plant.
WliAl IS IHfc LAW
?
AHOIT KEEPING OH STORING LIQt'OK
PRIVATELY.
T?vo Circuit Court Judy's Differ am
to Interpretation of the CareyCothran
Act.
At the recent term of sessions
com i at Sumter, several cases were
tried involving violation of the prohibition
law. In the course of his
charge to the jury in one of these
trials, Judge Meniminser charged
the law as it is, and as a result
there .has been much said of his
eh a rge.
He charged that it is unlawful,
"Jin#! ii m?rnr?n who has it in his
possession becomes guilty or receiving
and accepting and keeping that
liquor in his possession and storing
it, no matter how small a quantity
it may be and no matter for what
pupose he may have it."
He also charged that, "any man
who has !t in his possession, whether
for personal use or otherwise, of
a quantity of liquor, no matter hom
small it may be, that it is subject to
seizure and be subject to prosecution
for the receipt, acceptance and keeping
it in his possession."
The Walterboro Press and Standard
says th't charge Is in direct
keeping with the words of the CareyCot
bran Act, which says: "It shall
be unlawful for any person, linn corporation
or association within this
State to manufacture, sell, barter,
exchange, receive, accept, give away
to induce trade, deliver, store, keep
in possession in this State, furnisn
at public places or otherwise dispose
of any spiritous, malt, vinous or other
liquors or beverages." This is
the law, and it is believed by able
jurists in the State, among Miem
several of the Walterboro bar, to be
a good law that will stand the test
of the Supreme Court.
On the contrary, Judge Wilson,
who has just concluded a term of
court at Walterboro, in one of the
liquor cases tried, took occasion to
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CIHir^ti 111V jury nwu trio ian
mitted any person to keep liquor in
his posession "for personal use," and
t.hat it was no violation of law to
have it in possession if intended for
personal use. We confess we do
not see where he can find any peg
in the Carey-Cothran law on which
to .hang such a conclusion as this.
The custom in Walterboro has
been, says the Press and Standard,
to seize the liquor as soon as the
express agent delivers it to the consignee,
especially if there are any
suspicious circumstances surrounding
it. There were several such
cases that .had been appealed to the
circuit court, but Judge Wilson was
seemingly afraid to tackle them, and
had them all continued. It may be
that he saw the decision of Judge
Memminger and did not wish to
charge the jury so directly in opposition
to the charge of this able jurist
till he had had time to study the
question very carefully. *
UOMH.Utl) CHIXKSK PIKATKS.
Pirates In Turn Capture Portuguese
Military Post.
A Portuguese gunboat company
?? 111. A 11^.1 ^ ,r
operating wuu mn)[is n t-uucBuuj
bombarded the pirate settlement 011
the island of Golowan. destroying the
houses and killing many natives. The
Chnese retaliated by storming and
capturing the Portuguese military
post. Portuguese re-en foreements
were sent to the scene from Macio.
The island of Golowan is near Macao
and its ownership is a matter
of dispute between the Chinese and
Portuguese. A party of Chinese students
had been captured by the pirates
and the governor of Macio sent
an expedition to effect their rescue.
The pirates resisted and were reinforced
ivy the Chinese from the interior.
The latter were armed with
modern weapons and smokeless powder.
111 all two thousand persons were
engaged in the rioting. Many of
the Chinese were killed, w.hile the
Portuguese lost a coporal killed and
a large number wounded. Subsequently
the Portuguese gunboat and
a force of artillery was sent to bomhard
the island.
I toys Itadly I turned.
Determination to witness a local
baseball game caused the young sons
of Robert Cameron to narrowly escape
death by electrocution at Americas.
Ga., Thursday afternoon. The
lads climbed an electric light pole
in t.he neighborhood of the baseball
park, grasped a heavily charged wire
and were held writhing and screaming,
until rescued by neighbors. Both
were severely burned.
Abbeville Lady Browned.
In attempting to climb a bridge
abutment, from a leaky boat, which
was in danger of sinking, Mrst Elizabeth
Link, of Abeville, S. C... fell
into the Harrington river, at Harrington,
R. I., and was drowhed. '
She had been visiting there at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Frederick'
Hufck. She was thirty years old and
the wife of Fre'derttk" C. Link, a'
travling salesman.