The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 18, 1910, Image 7
I WILL DR OP THEM
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*he Republican Pa:ly Is Facing One
i / ;# el the Most Critical Campaigns In
Its History This Fail, and All '
Dead Weight Are to be Removed
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^L^Fosdble.
Certain events of Friday at Bever- <
ly following incidents of the past
week or so lead inevitably to the (
Eg conclusion that a complete political
5$; toadjusment In circles close to the
President is in progress
Senator Aid rich, of Rhode Island,
led to see the President early today.
The President was gratified
that Senator Aldrich had replied to
Senator Bristow's charges regard) g
the tariff. In doing so.lt is said that
Senator from Rhode Island per-1
formed an act which fitted exactly
Into a programme which has been
framed bv party leaders close to the
; President. Although .he is not to retire
until March. 1911, the readjustment
plans which plainly are in progress,
apparently treat with the influence
Mr. Aldrich may have had
with the President as a thing of the
past
I The elimatlon of Mr. Aldrich, acf
cording to close political advisers,
| Is soon to be followed by the retirement
of Secretary Richard Ballinger
from the Cabinet. The Republican
party is facing one of the most crucial
campaigns in its history this fall
and the leaders who have been coming
more and more into the influence
with the Pdesident are arriv^
inr Haiiv to do all they can to bring
about an adjustment of the differen-1
ces within the party. j
Mr. Ballinger practically has losts
J all his personal fortune in defending
/ himself from the attacks that have I
been made upon him.
If the Secretary is to recover these
loses it is said he must assume the
lucrative practice of law which he
left in his home State to take up the
arduouos duties of head of the interior
department. !
The retirement of Mr. Ballinger is
fixed for September 15. The Con-1
gressional committee will have reported
by that time and the date is
sufficiently early to take the so-cali-1
?d Balliuger issue out of the campaign.
Ience with the President are arriv-|
is said to be directed against Speak-1
er Cannon. It is not admitted in
Beverly that Mr. Cannon will even >
} be a candidate for the Speakership.
Once it is known that President Taft
would like to see a change in the
Speakership, however, it is believed
The third move in comtemplation
be removed.
That Beverly is being made the |
headquarter** of the movement to
set the Republican House in order <s
now generally admitted. The variw
oua moves are made quietly, but eff
festively.
Reports have reached Beverly that
the recent results in Kansas and Iowa
were due largely to the activity
of Spoaker Cannon in Kansas to the
charges against Senator Aldrich and
doubt in the West as to whether he
actually intended *o retire. The sit>
uation developed in these two States
evidently has made an impression
! upon the party leaders that has stirrer
ed them to action.
Mr. Aldrich has to-day told Mr.
_ Taft of his plan to make a speech
I during the fall in one of the Western
States defending the PayneAldrich
Act as a whole, and particularly
replying to the charges made
In reference to the cotton schedule.
Senator W. Murray Crane, of Maa*ar_husetts.
has been one of the ac
five forces in the new political move-1
ment. It was he who went West to
see Secretary Ballinger and it was 11
also he who went to see Senator Al- J1
drich at Warwick, R. I., last Sunday. '
Postmaster General Frank Hitch-1,
cock, former chairman of the Nation-1'
^ a! Republican committee, has been I'
' at Beverly twice within the week.)
There have been stories in progress I'
of friction between Mr. Hitchcock '
and Senator Crane and some political I'
jealousy ?s to their influence witli |
the Administration.
Mr. Hitchcock has also been hav-1
Jng a series of conferences with New I \
York State leaders, which may have);
an important bearing upon the cam- J r
?,j paign. 1
Senator Dick, of Ohio, came to I r
Beverly Friday, but decided to await c
the arrival of Warren G. Harding, 1
the Republican nominee for Gover-Jl
or in Ohio, before calling on the JPresident.
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Although admitting that the fight j:
in Ohio is going to be a hard one, I
that the campaign must begin early I p
and be carried into every part of the b
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STARTED HERSELF
MISS W/RDLOW INDICTED FOR
MURDER, IS DEAD.
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She is Reported by the Jailer to
Have l>eliber*tely St raved Herself
to Death.
Miss Virginia Wardlow, one of the ,
mysterious sisters under indictment
for the murder of Mrs. Ocey W. M.
Snead, the East Orange bathtub victim,
died in the house of detention
at Newark, N. J., Friday.
Death was due, in the opinion of
physiclaus, to starvation. The fa'.e
of the aged woman in this respect
paralleled that of her alleged victim,
for doctors who examined Ocey> i
Saiead before her leath said he ailments
weie all due to lack of nourishing
food.
In the opinion of jail attendan-s,
Miss Wardlaw deliberately starved
herself to death. This has revived
rumors circulated at the time of
Ocey Snead's death, when the history
of the mysterious household was under
investigation, that a suicide i act
existed between Miss Watdlaw and
her neice.
For several weeks the woman's
condition has been growing worse,
and last Monday she was removed
from the jail to tbe house of detention.
In the cell she had occupied
war found a quantity of stale
food, which the prisoner had concealed.
At the aged woman's bedside when
she died were her sister, Mrs. Richard
Prir.gie of Chrisiansburg, Vu.,
and her i rother, the Rev. Albert
Wardlaw 01 South Carolina, who had
been called when her condition became
alarming.
But he.* other sisters, 'Mrs. Caroline
B. Martin and Mrs. Mary VV.
Snead, jointly indicted with her,
were in their ceil as she expired.
Th?y wer" sent for, but the jailer refuser
to allow them to visit the
house ot detention without the vor-.'
of a physician that 'heir sister was
at the po . f death.
What effect Virginia Wardlaw's
death will have on the fate of he'
sisters is still to be determined. S i
was the ri; n g influence of 1
strange household and pred'Ctiors
were made that Mrs. Martin and
Mrs. Snead may never be brought
10 trial. *
POUND nil. COOK'S TRAIL.
Hut Does Not Think He Reached the
Highest Peak.
The members of the New York '
Herald and Portland Oregonian party
which atteinnted t lie ascent of
Mount McKinley returned to Seattle
last night. Their mission failed, C.
E. Rusk said, because the party was
Insufficiently provisioned. The Rusk
party ascended to a height of 7,500
feet and oil July 12 met the Parker '
Drown party, well equipped for the 1
ascent, and in good spirits. Mr.
Rusk says he believes they will make
the top.
"We took the route followed by
Dr. Cook on the east side of 'he 1
mountain to Ruth glacier. On the
route we saw abandoned camps and
much of the scenery pictured in Dr.
Cook's book. That far Dr. Cook's
statements are authentic. Furthe'*,
I would not say, but I do not believe
he ascended the mountain to the
top."
HOLLY HELD FOR MURDER.
Coroner's Jury Refuses to Allow
Bond to Suspect.
A special to the News and Courier
from VVilmingtou, N. C., says J.
C. Holly, proprietor of the Rock
Springs Hotel, which was burned
sever*'' nights ago, and where the
dead body Edward Cr ?: ?sol ? . o
found several hours after the tire, 1
was committed to jail to-day by cor- 1
oner s j?.r> without bond. The ver- <
diet being "that the facts and cir- '
cumstances introduced before this
jury warrant the holding without 1
bond of .1. C. Holly for the Superior 1
Court." 1
Holly had the boy's life insured
for $2,500, and the furniture in the
ouilding insured also. Cromwell is
laid to have come from Charleston.* 1
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KH1<h1 While With Woman. (
C. W, Turner, of Paris, Kentucky, *
vas shot and killed at Hot Springs, ?
\rk.. Thursday night by J. C. Put- c
tell, a hotel proprietor. Turnell and 1
* 11 riie 11h wife were returning form a 1
noving picture show when Purnell *
opened fire, killing Turner instant- v
y. Purnell surrendered to the poice.
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Itate, Senator Dick believes the Ke- I
ublicans will win. c
"It's going to he an old fashion li
Ight and an old fashioned victory," <i
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RUNS DOWN TOTS
Twa Little Girls Killed by Passeifer
Taaia Near ffigb Peial.
THE MOTHERS ESCAPE
The Children Were Walking Along
The Ilalfroad Track Watching a
Freight Train When a Passenger
Train Caine up from Behind a
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A dispatch from High Point. N. C.,
says that city was shocked Sunday
morning when the news of the horrible
accident at Lake reached there.
telling of the killing of two small
girls by train No. 4 4. Little Vada
Cook and Hazel Myers left High
Point on train No. 11 Suuday morning
with th i* mothers to visit relatives
at Lake and after leaving the
station at Lake they were walking
>?lcng the track watching a freigut
;iain going South when 4 4 came
along running them down.
It seems that the children were up
n front of their mothers
*?nd could warned of the approach
of the tra.r which wa . reining
around a sharp curve. 'Mrs. Cool:
and Mrs. Myers returned High
Point on train 4 4 but could not
bring the bodies with them on account
of the coroner's inquest having
to be held first.
both girls were about 9 years of
age. Hazel Myers was the daughter
of ex-Policeman James Myers, living
<in Tate Street and Vada Cook is the
daughter of Mrs. Flora Cook, a widow
living on Tomlinson street. The
bodies of the children were badly
mr.ngled and from the appearance
the skulls of both were entirely
crushed on the back side where they
were hit by the engine.
The same engine that killed Ihe^-tchildren
was the one that some
months ag> vas being driven by Engineer
Sebe Perry, when he met his
death. it is reported that several
other engineers have met with severe
acidents while running the eu~iu?.
lost his lij'k in i jhi:.
While Waruing Other People of
Their Great Danger.
W. E. Itobinson, mayor of El Paso,
Teras, lost his life at 9 o'clock
Sunday morning, while endeavoring
to warn a number of firemen of imminent
danger from a tottering wall.
At the same time, Todd Ware, a lireman,
was instantly killed and \Vm.
Robinson and Dave Sullivan, aiso
firemen, were Injured, the latter perhaps
fatally. The casualities followed
a fire which broke out in the stoie
of Calisher Dry Goodsss Company
and ruined it. As the mayor approached
the building a large portion
of brick wall fell, crushing Robinson
and Ware, also knocking the
ether men down. Mrs. Robinsson witnessed
the accident. Conservative
estimates place the loss at $225,000.
BREAKS LOOSE AGAIN.
Strains of Dixie Clauses Hcybuin to
Cut the Fool.
Senator W. II. Heyburn, of Idaho,
makes a fool of himself because a
band plays Dixie. At a reception
given to Congressman T. R. llamer,
at Wallace, Idaho, last night, Col.
llamer had just finished his address
and the orchestra had started a medley
of well known airs. About the
sixth number was "Dixie." The Senator
leaped to his feet', strode across
to the musicians and cried out:
"This is a Republican meeting. We
cannot have such tunes here." The
amazed musicians stopped immediately.
The Senator strode back to
bis seat. After a moment of silence
Mayor Hanson arose and closed the 1
meeting. Such foote as Heyburn are
liable to exhibit themselves at any
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Iti ute of a Father. ]
Thomas Jarvis, a young farmer o 1
)avie county, was killed by his faia- l
>r, William Jarvis, near Advance, N*. <
Sunday. The father and son got t
nto an argument, which ended ?\ t
he elder Jarvis drawing hiss knife, c
utting his son across the abdomen, t
rom hip to hip. He then stamped t
ipon the young man as he lay bleedng
on the ground until the victim
vas fearfully inang'.ed.
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Women Challenges Twldy, I
In a speech Friday night Miss r
vate Barnard, Stale commissioner ti
f charities and corrections of Okla- 1
loma, Issued a challenge to Theo- <
lore Roosevelt to debate with her 1
L-hon J10 I'lcHa OL'lnlmtii'1 thio Poll ?
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USED MONEY FREELY
THB LUMBER TRUST LOBBY
GAVE SWELL DINNERS
To Which They Invited Members of
Congress and Others Who Favored
Duty on Lumber.
As an evidence that the lumber
trust makes a good thing of the tax
levied on that universally used arti
cle of necessity we publish below
.how the lumber lobby at
Washinton spent money last year
when the tariff law was being made.
The action of the lumber lobby in
spending big sums of money to have
the lumber tax put on shows the duty
was a protective duty and not a
revenue duty as it claimed.
Zach McGee, the wide awake
Washinton correspondent of the Columbia
State, saye it develops now
that the lumber lobby, which has
been operating with considerable
energy during the present tariff-maKing
session of congress, has been supported
most lavishly by the lumber
manufacturers.
An asscsment was made on each
sawmill in the various associations
of $1 for each $1,000 feet of daily
cut. The lumber manufacturers of
the State of Oregon and Washington
belonging to one particular association
were assessed $28,000, but so
far they have paid only $12,000, and
they are being vigorously pressed to
pay the rest.
Some of the advocates of free lumber
here are declaring that the failure
to pay the assessment is evidence
that the real pressure for protection
or lumber is not so much
from the sawmill people as from the
timber syndicates, who own most of
the st urn page.
There is plenty of money, however,
for the lobby. It is estimated
that $100,000 was raised to malutain
the special lobby here to try to
keep the present rates of $2 a thousand
on ?ough lumber and the corresponding
high rates on other
grades.
This does not include the expenses
of social delegations sent here
by lumber organizations in various
States and the expenses of individual
lumberman who have come here
for the purpose of influencing congressmen
from their own State. A
number of lobbyists have been in
and about, the capital ever since last
fall.
Some weeks ago, while the bill
was before the house, the lobbyists
gave a series of expensive dinners
at the Willard hotel, to which they
invited members of congress ond others
whom they thought whould be
in 11 lien tial.
TWENTV-NINTH MEANT DEATH.
Nine of One Family Died on Twenty,
ninth Birthday.
Frederick W. Cooper died at At1
ant a Friday, his death being remarkable
because it occured in his
twenty-ninth year.
That was the age at which his
father and eight of his father's brothers
all died. Illuess and not age
was the cause of each of these
deaths.
Recently Cooper became uneasy as
his twenty ninth year approached its
half wav mark; a presents meat
seemed to couie to him; and he said
speaking ol his thirtieth birthday
next January:
"If I can only live until then, why
I'll live to be a thousand."
A short time ago when Cooper was
taken sick with typhoid the inevitable
brooding over the fate of his
father and his uncles hastened the
progress of the disease. He died
while his near relatives were too far
away 10 r>e summoned.
His mother, .Mrs. <M. J. Cooper, is
returning from Europe on the steamer
St. Paul due in New Yark to-mormorrow,
and his sister, Miss Katherine
C. Cooper, is in Paris, Cooper
was prominent here, a member of
the Capital City Club and connected
with a large cotton firm, lie was
born in New York. * i
Lightning Itreaks Safe.
Dispatches from McFall, Ala., say
lightning played the role of s ?e
breaker there early Wednesday. It
.ore a hob1 in the roof of P. L>. Sny- ]
ier's sto"e ran down a post orotic i
?pen the safe and stole awa; At <
.he .home of Toon i n. ; at Vosnii- ]
iria, the family clock was demolish- a
m1 although the hous* w;n comparn- c
ively n a injured. * <
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Leopard Kscaprtl. . t
Nine persons were injured durns
a short spell of freedom o"joyed
>v a leopad who escaped from a me Hfteric
al Vega Portugal. The 1
tninial after mauling two womei:, 1
nade oft with a child in its paws, but a
.ropped it when the chase came i
lear. The child was scarcely injur- v
td at all. c
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BROKE UP COURT
Palice Rtterves Called by the Jadye to
Stop Hatty Mm.
THE COURT ATTACHES
Were Unable to Cope With the Situ*
at ion When Seventy Religious Fanatics
Burst Into Frenxy and Began
to Scream at the Top of rhcir
Voice and Boll About,
Atlanta had a funny experience
last Saturday when seventy frenzied
and fanatical negro members of the
religious sect known as the "Holy
Rollers," became possessed by what
they call the "Holy Ghost," in recorder's
court. The court proceedings
came to a sharp halt and for ten
minutes the police were unable to
cope with their fury.
This outburst of religious fervor
real or feigned, came during the trial
of Nelson Shorter, one of the leaders
of the sect, who had been arralnged
at the complaint of a number of residents
in the neighborhood of North
Boulevard and Irwin street, who have
neen continually disturbed for tliej
past few months by the nightly outbursts
of members of the sect, who
hold their meeting in a little church"
at the corner of Irwin and North
Boulevard.
A negro woman, rising in her
seat in the back of the court room,
commenced yelling at the top of her
voice. Instantly the court was
thrown into the wildest state of chaos.
Seventy negro fanaticss attending
the trial began to scout, screaming,
yelling, moaning, groaning, crying,
and laughing all at the same time.
They waved their arms, their bodies
swayed to and fro, and many of
them in their frenzy lay down on the
court room benches and rolled over
and over.
At the first outburst the patrolmen
in court seemed daed by the power
of the fearful din. There were only
a handful of officers in the room at
the time to control the crazed negroes.
T.he chaotic yells and shouts of the
"rollers." however, brought nr> a
squad of the evening watchmen on
the run, headed by Chief Jennings,
from the first floor.
Despite his broke shoulder the
chief, followed by his men, threw
himself upon the yelling mob.
Jerking, pushing and pulling, the
patrolmen managed after about seven
minutep to clear the court room.
The negroes did not attempt in any
way to resist the officers of the law,
but they seemed to ignore the officers,
and several of the latter bear
bruises that were inflicted by tne
wildly wav'ug arms and legs of the
negro crowd.
Some twenty of the fanatics were
finally shoved into cells by the officers,
but the fact that they were incarcerated
did not induce them to
moderate the loudness of their religious
zeal. So great was the din that
the inhabitants of Decatur street,
near police quarters, accompanied
by alarmed patrolmen from their
bents, rushed up, fearing that the
world was coming to an end.
Commits Suicide.
At Washinton John E. McLaren,
aged forty-seven, member of a real
estale firm, committed suicide today
by throwing himself from the fourth
story window of the residence of his
cousin. Dr. A. It. Shands, and A. M.
Harrison, another guest were discussing
McLaren's nervous condition
in the library below, when they were
interrupted by the thud of the latter's
body striking in a flower bed
outside the window.
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Dies at Old Age.
Turner Drowning, who had lived
in perfect health for 115 years died
to-day on a farm, six miles from
Durham, N. C. He had recollections
of the war between the United
States and Great Britain and Washington,
Adams and Jefferson. He
was born in 17 9G. *
Killed in a Wreck.
An excursion train from Bordeaux,
Prance, with 1,200 passengers running
at a speed of 50 miles an hour, i
jrashed into a freight train at Saukion
Saturday. Thirty-two persons''
>vere killed and 100 injured. Many,
>f t-he victims were school girls. Several
of the passenger cars were torn ; i
o splintetf. A misplaced switch was i
!-e cause of the accident.
ltrutal Husband's Deed.
Will Milfred, residing at East <
^ake, Ala entered his wife's room S
Friday morning before she was up <
md bent her into insensibility with a ; I
naiohinists' hammer. The woman i
vas rushed to a hospital and physi- *
dans say she cannot recover. * i
IRRY HE
FLOOD IN JAPAN
THK CITY OF TOKIO If AS WHOIJi
W Alt IKS 81BMKKGKD.
ThouHnncbi Starve m the Rivera Rise
tiuij Deplorable Sights are Seen ft!
Relief Stations.
Great floods are sweeping over
parts of Japan, and gres* damage Has
been done to life and property. Ttie
Hon jo and Kukadawa wards of Toklo
are nearly completely submerged.
Tens or thousands of persons are
homeless and starvug. of ot
three more imi>ortant embankment#
guarding Tokio has been broken.
Should the second and third dykes
break, half the capital would be submerged.
Owing to the Inundation of the
buildings of the Kukadawa gas and
e'ectric lights are failing. Thousands
of homelesss persons are now
being sheltered in the temples and
schoolhouses at which relief station#
the most deplorable sights are witnessed.
The victims of the flood are
wholly dependent upon public relief.
Thouu&ands more have been unable
to find shelter, owing to tuo insufflclency
of boats to convey them
to places of safety, and they are exposed
to the rain and hunger. Every
available boat is being employed in
the work of rescue and to convey
food whet* it i? mo<.. needed.
The question of feeding the stricken
peopi} is c-4 ? rg anpr
The vegetable < nd fisr suppf4 s are
failing and the stock of biscui-s Already
is nearly exhausted. rhe**e Is
no fear, however, for the supply of
rice. The water of the Sumida river
is almost washing the bottom of the
bridges.
The mountain flood in the neighborhood
of Karuisawa has destroyed
the Mikasa hotel. Many forol&iiem
were stopping there, but fortunately
ro fatalities have been reported 10
far.
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MANIAC SHOOTS UP UNION.
Happily He Selected the Midnight
Hour to Do It.
The Union Times says: T. B. Davis
shot up that town Tuesday night
about midnight. It seems that he became
mentally deranged, and while
in that condition got out on top of
the small ollice building which adjoins
the Mutual Dry Goods Co.'e
store and from there proceeded to
shoot up and down the street wiia
a 3 8 Winchester and also a Swift
army gur and also with a double
barrel shotgun.
He fired about twenty-five shots,
some of the balls taking effect, one
breaking a glass in G. W. Going'a
store, one striking the side of Buiris
Furniture store, one striking the^
drug sign hanging in front of the
Ft ice Drug Company, breaking several
small places of glass, three
balls struck the side of the F*ledmont
Pressing Club building, while
another struck the side of the Bobo
Undertaking building near the front.
When oliicers entered the premises
occurred by the elemented man
about 3.30 a. m. o'clock he was sit
tiug at a table writing a letter.'Mr.
T. J. Vinson was the tirst to enter
the room and he sat down and began
talking to Davis. Policeman C.
B. Gregory entered at the front and
was followed by Policeman W. D.
Dove. Policeman Giegory arrested
Davis and lodged him in jail. Preparations
are being made to take the
unfortunate man to Columbia. It
is a great thing that the occcurenee
was at night when there were no
people on the street, otherwise the
might have been a multiplied tragedy.
DUO PS DKAD AT PARK.
Ralls Lifeless Just After Crossing;
Route Plate.
Sherman K. Hoot, a bugkrr rn the
United States Marine Corps, stationed
at the Charleston Navy yard, died
this afteroon just after crossing the
home plate in a game of base ball
between the navy yard team and &
team from the army post on Sullivan's
Island. Heart failure was the
i-ause nf his ritvifh Hvstnnd^rs: htuirri
Root exclaim: "Oh my heart!" as h*
dropped to the ground. He had been
pl.ying a star game and gave in previous
sign of being ill. Root's home
Is Louisville, Ky. He had been stationed
here about three years.
Heavy Rains in Japan.
A torrential rainfall has caused
devastating floods principally ia
Shiuzuoka province, on the southern
joast. Hudreds of houses have ^
been submerged and one occupied
by students in the province of
Shiuzuoka was buried with its tenrmts
beneath a landslide.
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