Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOUR MEN DEAD 00"^ *r At a Result of Ike Erplosioo of a Gun at Nary Proving Grounds. HAY HAPPEN ANY TIME . ? lAemtrnnut Artlior C. Caflfee and Tlwe# Other Mem hers of tiie Gun Crew Were InMtAittljr Killed or Mortally Wounded and Another Ww Koriotudy In j mod. By 4ho premature explosion of a *-4iu:h gun, at the Indian Head, Md., Fcaving grounds of the navy, four aen are dead, Including Lieut. Arthur C. Caffee, who was in charge ml the gun, and one man, a negro, seriously injured, The hreoch lock t the gun, wh lch was being tested, | Mew backward into the crew which wag firing the gun. The explosion (probably was due to a bent or foul-I ?d ftring pin, which projected beyond tiie face of the breech plug of tho gun. The dead In addition to LieutenMit Caffee, are: J. L. Brown, battery foreman, in tantiy killed J. J. Leary, ordnance man, fatelly injured, died later. Nelson Jackson, colored, battery attendant, fattally injured and died shortly afterward. Sydney Dyson, colored, a member f the gun crew, was seriously injured. Tbn ordnance bureau lias oraer*d a board of inquiry to develop details of tbe accident, the only witnesses to which, so far as can be earned, were John C. Coleman and t vdney Dyson, both colored. Tbe gun, which was a new one ronj the navy yard gun factory and neing tested for the first time, had already been fired twice. The accident occurred during 'the third T'?iind, just as tho breech was being < losed. Lieutenant Arthur Gill Caffee was rtorn in Missouri and was attached ?o the stag of Rear Admiral Shroeder on tho Atlantic fleet battleship 'Connecticut before ho was assigned to duty at Indian Head as jnnpeotor of ordnance. He entered th? Naval Academy in 1900. The assistants who were killed and injured wero all civilians and lived In 'the neighborhood of tho proving grounds. 4 0 miles below Washingcm. Tbe naval ordnance bureau has boon trying for a long time to find wme safety device applicable to guns of this calibre, but so far without success, and if tho gun captain falls to obey 'the rule to pass his hand over tho breech lock before it ;? closed to detect any improper projection of the firing pin, then just *nch an accident as occurred Saturday mviy happen any time, i/i is said. 1 1 " " ^twllnnrilv jg Every precnum-m wjumo...... ?aken to protect the firing crews from the failure of a new gun under (est. It is required that after loadma the gun the crew shall retire to * bomb-proof In its rear and illscharge the piece by electricity. The "rouble in this case lay in the fact that the gun was discharged before tiia crew had finished loading it. The brass shell, containing the powder and the projectile, had been ^ inserted in the piece and the breech blocks had swung ito on its hinge, f%txt before the heavy threads had interlocked, the projecting firing pin struck the primer on tho bead of the shell and exploded tho charge, wtoick blew backwards, 'tearing off ike breech block and killing or fatally wounding the crew. The employers' liability art will come into play in this case and the famines or aopi'iuu'iu jmrt?u?? ?o m*.vltiflio^ of the explosion will receive th* equivalent of one year's pay. <?? All Hut. One \ Sixteen students of Mississippi col- , i lege, ranging from pallid-complexloned and frail bodied boys to picture* of health, formed a volunteer , hookworm poison squad at Clinton. Miss., and havo been tested for the >' (liseaHe All but one showed signs of Infection. ? They Did Not Vote. \ ( The New York Globe presents coiupartitive figures which throw an in r foresting light on the recent political , f overturn in the Kmpire State. Tiio , figures show that many Republicans ( refrained from voting In the late ] election I * , , Pint Killed lllm. (>? a wager that he could drink ? pint of whiskey at one gulp Wll- ? Ham Andrews, of Kast Liverpool. O., 1 won the 60 cent stake hut lost his tofe. He collapsed immediately after be swallowed the liquor. < PARIS DRAWS KINGS ACTRESSES AUK A CHIEF DELIGHT OF THE ROYALTY. 1 Tuxes Wrung From Poor Peasants and Workiugmen Are Kquandeml in Maintaining Former Gutter Children. i Every king in Europe, with a few exceptions, upends a good deal of his time in Paris, squandering in the French capital the revenues wrung from poor peasant;* and worklngmen, on favorites, who live in luxurious ,1 ti !? I,, p..11 blnua surrounuiK^s. i~<ti is m i??n v?t uui^? in exile and kings in disguise. Every prominent uctress in the grout , city boasts of a king, a grand duke or a prince among her admirers. Strange to say most of the sirens ; who tempt 'the royalty or Europe, i were children of cabmen, peasants , of working people of the poorest class, and even of slum dwellers. Thus Paris brings the kings of Eu ' rope as slaves to the feet of her gutter children. She tempts them with ruinous delights, and teaciiea other nations how to get rid of thorn. Five years ago Motiua Delza was earning a woek as a milliner's girl In Paris, working till her lingers ' ached and walked home in the rain and snow and other kinds of weather to save the three cents omnibus 1 fare. Today she owns lire automobiles and has become the connoisseur of the most exquisite luxuries and no ouMny Is too extravagant for her. She is much admired by Alphonso, King of Spain. lit was through her suggestion that Alphonso introduced King Alan- 1 uel, of Portugal, to Gaby Deslys. a-muhtm- i?f n drunken cabman and a washerwoman. She received iittle care, played about the street with other gttfter children and learn ed tiie Parisian argot in all its rich suggestions. It is sr. ul she conl(1 converse in a manner I hat wodld make the average cab driver blush and gasp for 1 breath. Mor career on the stage began as a singer and dancer but her rise was rapid. Que theatrical manager dec ares she had remarkable business ability and keenness at a bargain. Perhaps the ex-King of Portugal can now add some observations t'? the same effect. 'I'he eagerness of his imperial 1 scapegrace, 'the Grand Puke of Boris of Russia, to keep Aretta Porgere in high estate in Paris was one of ' -the cauvea of the Russo-Japanese war iu w.iich 200,000 men lost their lives. V hen the war was raging : Grand Dtikes pocketed the funds .subscribed for wounded , soldiers and perhaps large sums were spent on it he Parisian actress. Lueile Lantelme, particularly admired by the King of Greece, came near causing a rebellion in the empire of King George, but the king ' only laughed at tho folly of nls peo- J plo and drew an additional $2uO,()Oo from the treasury and spent part of I it for a necklace for his lady in Par- J is. Hoop-* of ot her women are kept i ' in splendor by as many of high es tate in Kuropo, with Paris as the ' center for their activities and alien- | tiona. * PISAGKUK O.Y CORN CROP. ?_+ Ketleral K.stimalo Gives Pess Than , > 1 listimate of Stale.. i1 The t nited State Department of I i . Agriculture and Commissioner Wat-i son have disagreed as to the corn I , crop of South Carolina, or at least ( their stu. istics have. j< ', A recent estimate ot the national 1 department of agriculture places tho { f<>rn crop of South Carolina at 44,- \ 7:5.1,000 bushels. The estimate of Oommiaslonoi i? Watson pi ?ces the crop at 411,7 10,000 bushels. Tho difference in estimates is liable to cause considerable correspondence. On two previous occasions Mr. Watson has challenged the fig1" urea of r.ho national department of agriculture as to the corn crop of tliis State. if is the intention of the commissioner of this Sfate to chalteng' Oic "crude" manner that 't has been adopted by the national department in collecting its statistics for his State on agriculture. A sta meat recently issued hv Mr. Scnman \. Knapp of the farm <lo lino n sirs 'on , gives statistics us to t'o corn crop for all of the States <? the South ami shows that within one year's time the corn pro- 1 1 intion >-f the nine Southern Sfntos ( tins bet increased by 1 f>x,2iM ,000 bushels The increase has b? en j brought about as a result of the j farm dt tons'!ration work The average yield in South Car- P illna., according to the bulletin, ? was 18 bushels, as compared with ? 16.7 1? ?h?ls for last yenr. The I ?vertigo or ten years In South Car- t >11 lift was 11.6. t r DEATH TO MANY ? One Hundred People Are Reported Killed io Riots in Mexico. WAS A DAY OF RIOTING I'MWDgm Airivin# at Mexico City Kclate Stories of Dreadful Clash lU'twwn Authorities and Anti-Heelectiouist* at Puobla. ? Began When Police Interfered. Ona hiinrlrnd nOTHOnS illCludillK the chief of police, were killed ia riots at Puebla, Mexico, ou Friday, nccording to the statements of passengers arriving at Mexico City Friday night from that city. The stories, told hy passengers, are to the effect that the trouble be?an Friday morning, when a number of policemen, headed by tnn idiief, attempted to break in a meeting of snti-re-eloctionists, which was being held in a large hall. As Chief of Police Miguel Cabrera and his men advanced towards the hudldlng, a door was opened by a woman, who shot and killed the chief. A tight then ensued between the police and the occupants. A bomb was thrown from one of the windows in the midst of the policemen and ruralos, the latter having been called to assist the city officers. The bomb exploded, killing many. The causalities occurred in the course of fighting, which -took place in the street. So far as known, there were no Americans killed. The passengers further asserted that from morning until the time they left Puebla, in the afternoon, there was continuous rioting and while the antl-ro-electionlsts had been dislodged from the building, fears were entertained that the disorders were by no means at an end. From official sources in Mexico City Friday night, it was learned tiiat the 17th ba'talion left there lato Friday for Puebla, by special train, and that other trains were in readiness to transport additional troops to the scene of the riot if deemed necessary. It was officially Btated there Ffiday night thai men had hern killed in Puebla. Details of the Anti-Diaz conspiracy. alleged to have been promoted by Francisco I. Madero. now a fugitive from Mexico, and which lias resulted within the past two days in the arrest of several co-conspirators in that city and elsewhere, came to Iiyhit Friady, indicating that Sunday, November I'd. was the date fixed for fi general uprising against tht existing Government. The conspirators appeared to nave extended their operation to the States of Vera Cruz, Hidalgo, Coahuila, Sun Duispotosl, Nuevo Ix'on. Puebla. Jalisco, Guanajuato, Yucatan and Zacatacas. To the author It.ies In all these States orders h ive been seiK to put down with vigor any attempt at disturbance. Circulars, which appear to have been sent out by Matero or bis amenta, from San Antonio, Texas, ro variouh persons in that cky, outline ais campaign and announce Medero is Constitutional President of Mexico. Among other statements contained in the manifesto were the following: "I, Francisco I. Madero, wilt place myself at the head of a revolutionaiy party against the Government of Mexico Between the 20th and ftO'.h >f November I shall lead my follow-j _?rs against the Government of Mex- 1 co " * MLKTS HM/tTH !\ SVISI IV . small Boy Fall Into Boiling Kettle! of Molasses. Boiled to death In Syrup was the! manner of death suffered by the ! wo year old son of George Swht , i white man at Metcalfe, late F;*i-J lay The child, walking backwards, I ell into the kettle of syrup, which | vas carried by two men, and was ubwmrgcd His mother's arms were aimed iii an efforts to rescue the i my | Kouiid House Burned. At Nashua. N. 11 , seventy ft c kousnnd dollars worth of locottio- I ves were destroyed by fire io fnc < Boston and Maine railroad round; iouso Saturday The Art? was c;ius d liy "an explosion of a tank. genertinp RHS. --- m + + ' ?? ? IikIiiiiin Smallpox Victim* Niutey-throw Indians on the Ara>ahoo resorvat ton, have died from mall pox within four day8. Tho dio-j ane is manifested It) its most ina-1 iRnnnt form Officers in charge of he reservation are fighting vainly o IihH the nw?!p of th?' pest I huoe * > OFFERED $100,000 TO VOTE AGAINST ANTI-RACE . TRACK RETTING BILKS. Startling StaUMunnt Made by New York State Senator Before legislative Graft Committee. One hundred thousand dollars t.o vote against the anti-race track hotting bills. In 1908, wan offered to State Senator Eugene M. Travis, of j Brooklyn, so he swore on tlio stand | Friday, testifying before the legislative graft committee. A mysterious little man, whose name he does not recall, made the offer In the lobby of the Senate, ho said, In behalf of former Senator Frank J. Gardner. And Gardner, ho added, confirmed it in a sul)8? eut telephone cenversa-' tion. (Gardner is now under indictment, | charged with having attempted similarly, though with a lesser amount, J to inlluenca Otto G. Foelker, of Brooklyn, now a Congressman, but then a State Senator. Foelker veiled for the bill, as did Travis, and U j was passed, notwithstanding th?* jfrantlc efforts of the race track in-1 (crests and the alleged use of a fund, which previous testimony lias placed at $500,000. | Travis' testimony and the committee's efforts to subpoena James K. Koene and Harry Payne Whitney,! millionaires whoso hobby is bursal racing, were the most interesting ncvelopinerits of Friday's bearing, resumed after an adjournment on October 22. TtTorts to find Messrs Keen and Whitney, who have been mentioned in previous testimony hb havin? been present, at a conference at Delmonilco's at which the alleged corruption fund was raised, and the committee is anxious to examine them, hnve thus far been witho it success. Travis'*; story Friday added two new names to the list of Senators] 'approached." The amount offered him, lie explained, was to ho paid in j two installments, $25,000 down and $75,000 after his vote had been cast, j "Did you ever hear of any other Senator being approached?" lie whs asked. "Yea, i took lunch with Senator Fuller und Senator Carpenter one day, and they told me they had been approached. Senator Gates also toM nio lie had been called on the teleI ohone." "Would you know the man who approach!-d you if you saw him again?" "Yea, 1 think so." * ukvisic whoIjK sriucnrijc I Senator (aire '!'<*12n What Democratic I Congressmen Should Do. Senator T. P. Gore, of Oklahoma, In an interview at Chicago, Friday, said that at the coming session of Congress the Democrats should revise the whole schedule and also [the tariff on pulp wood and print paper. Ho ascribed Democratic success at the recent election to dissatisfaction over the Payne-Aid rich tariff law and the high cost of living. "A lower tariff," said the Senator. "would increase our revenue. During exile' the Democrats have had ample opportunity to do deep thinking, hut wo must not. as Kip ling says, "become drunk with power " ? H ACKS OI/ASII IN KUAN OK. White and Colored American Sailors j lu Oonllict?-One tread. A dispute hot ween wht ? and colored bluejackets, of (lie American squadron nndoj Admiral Vroeland t ridns night. developed into an uatv tight, in which revolvers and knives were used. The gendarmes arrested a sailor from the Kansas, who is charged with having stabbed a man from the Kouiaana, In the abdomen. One negro was sent to a hospital In a serious condition from stab wounds, while another negro was wounded on the head. Tin authorities are arranging for stronger police patrols to present further disturbance. * j One More (iocs In. Contra. ) to expectation California. V. i 11 XCiid Ollt Dt* iihm i ;ti io roit^lVHK. The co oplo'lon of the official count of (ho ft'. ? district showt. that Jurt^e t K M; I im . <1 moorat, has a plurality of 12 i vote* over \Y. Ft Coy'ObritftiL, Republ . . a. incumbent. ' ICn , .ehri u:!it received t plurnllf> two years ago i?f 6,f?93. Uciiilly Samples. a nunim-r or poopie at v ences, N C.. nrc victims of an apparent poison caused by using advertising j pack ages handed out on the streets j there I it s' week by n gouts of n patent medicine house. THE HI POLICE BAFFLED CORPSE SEALED IN TRUNK FOR OVER EIGHT YEARS. The Victim in Probably a Woman, On Account of the Hmnllnet** of Bones. Pending an inquest planned for Friday on the body which was found in an hermetically aealed trunk In . 1 1 ? t ? II1U H'l 1UI U1 U M uoi i u II - |UU1 <.u street apartment house. the authorities were not inclined to theorlee on who the victim of the mysterious murder might be. TCven the sex of the victim was not known, the live or more years during which the body is known to have reposed in its hiding place, having reduced it to a skeleton almost | bare of tiesh. From outward indications, however, the authorities are)1 of tiie b< lief that the body is that j of a woman, the smallnosa of the i1 bones chiefly leading them to that concl usion. The body?discovered by Philip Meagher, when ho was preparing to 1 move after eight years' residence in the house and opened the nog-I looted trunk?was taken to thy , morgue Kriday. It was l'onnd it had! been jammed in the trunk and stir-j rounded with quantities of plaster of Paris and paper. A zinc tank inside the trunk fitted perfectly. The newspapers were dated from February IS to April 17, 1902. The only clue is the name of "YV. Lewis," which appears on the outside of the trunk. Lewis waa a hoarder in the Meagher family up to about six years ago. lie told Meagh- t or on going away that he would j leave 'the trunk and call for It some t i:ue. At the morgue, Coroner's Physician Leban, and Prof. John McAllister, of lU'llev.ue, made an examination of the body and found it to be that of a man. The surgeons declare 1 that the victim was placed in the J trunk while still alive and death resulted from asphyxiation. The condition of a portion of the right lung, which still remained, indicated this * i "I'OKTLAND WANTKI >. South Carolina Will Hoard Mini for Ten Years linger. Governor Ansel has made requlstion upon Governor Grown of Georgia at the request of Sheriff White: of Spartanburg for "Portland Nod," j alias James Johnson, whoso term of burglary in the Federal penitentiary i at Atlanta will shortly expire and j who is wanted in this State to serve] a ten year sent mice for house break-] ing and larceny. "Portland Ned, ' "Detroit Nibs, Pox as Dutch," Jason Johnson and (Jus Del'ord were all sentenced at Spartanburg in 19u7 to serve 10 years each for cracking of ICnoreo Manufacturing company s safe, from which they got $8,817. coun chop mi: \slli:d. J. II. Caldwell Make 85 Unsticks l?) I Dynamite Method. j" J li. Caldwell, the Spartanburg. J farmer who sprang into fame by dv- ^ Inumit.ing his corn land, raised on i his acre of dynamited land Sfi.'xi i bushels of corn. These are the llg- ', 1 1 ! arcs given out Friday night by ; ( Messrs. John Wood and John M . | Nicholis. who as a commit toe. weigh- , , ed and meaHured Mr. Caldwell 81] corn. Kvory ear of corn was pull- j g ed, shucked and weighed in the pros- || ence of the committee. Mr. CaSd- i well has entered the State corn con- ) test ?j, KOH'l'Vdd \ K RU'FUS III'KMil). j[ HorMts Valued at $:h>,ooo IVrKh tn ? CI re a! Wichita, Kan. Forty-live race horses, valued it $30,000. were burned at Wichita, I Kan., Sundry tn the stables of the}' Wichita, an ! Smith western Fair \*soriation. The horses were being wintered there after a racing sea-, 1 son on the iair circuits or Kansas and Oklahoma Toe stables, which were fully d<stro>*'d were valued .it $11!,000, half injured. A further j1 loss of $ 10,00c was doe to the burn ins of racing carts harness and other accessories. The origin of the fire has not !>? < ri ascertained. ? ~ Five Children Plod. Five children tiled on the steamer J C.arpathiri during that vessels voy. a/o Prom Trieste. The Carnathla was hold at quarant ine at Now York for transfer from the steerage of children, all 111 with contaR- s ions diseases. They were sent to i t Hoffman Island for treatment The I 1 bodies of the children who died t?n i I route were buried at sea 1 LODGE ON TRIAL Foss Demands That the Senator Withdraw from Senatorial Race. OR DEFEND POSITION Tlie Governor Elect in a Published HUtrment Say* the He-KIectian mi H<?naUtr IxMlge Would be Repudiation of the People's Victory in the Ijiist Election. Governor-elect Kugene N. Fosa, of Massachusetts. has issued a bUlWment, says a dispatch from Boston, in which he demands that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the field for re-election. In the event of a refusal Mr. Koss declares lie will go into every section of the Commonwealth in a campaign to dofeat t.iie Senator. Mr. Loss h statement in part follows: "In the name of the majority of the soverlgn people on the Coimnanwealth of Massachusetts 1 demand Lha Henry (jabot Lodge surrender his seat in the United States Senate, by withdrawing from his contest for re-eleeion. "His election to the Senate would ho a repudiation of the great victory of the people at the last election. Ho was on trial as much, if not more, than Governor Draper, and if he had been the candidate my majority would have been double what it was. "The issues on which the fight was made, on which I was elected, were honest tariff revision downward, lower duties on the necessaries of life, free raw materials, an untaxed food supply with Canada and more democracy in our form of government. /"We all know where Senator TvOdge stands on these issues arid where he has stood all the**? years. To re-elect him would be a step backward, and Massachusetts h-ia niti-Ai- l.xint,,,,] t .. ..... II, 1... ~ I. lino m 1 \;i n .11 IH'II, 11' ? (li l\ IIIU'H* ward. "J shall never sign his credentials except at the end of a campaign, which will make the last one look like an afternoon tea party. "He must surrender or tight. H? must defend his position before the people. The people of Massachusetts will not permit him longer to manipulate the Legislature. I am ready, and if he does not retire will be on the stump in every seotlon of the State, and we will find out where the people stand. Senator Lodge t? not in touch with the uc >v order of things, with the progressive spirit of the times. He do ?s not represent the people, the men and women iu the ordinary walks of life.'" ? ? ??/: % i ir T/ \ \> v + 9 m * .*? < w ? ? > * ? \ >C"> ! ( \ \ kili Morsi'm Pull n \\ it?ii Over Korfy < buses i f Dynamite. The two thousand Inhabitants of the little village of Roselle Park. N. J., have good cause for eelebratabraling Thanks -i ving Day thU year. That the inhabitants wn nil alive Saturday is little short of n miracle in the opinion of most of them. A junlt man's horse which rti.it away on Main street Friday night plunged through the fence enclosing a freight yard and pulled hie heavy wagon right over forty cases 3f dynamite which were being un loaded by a contracting firm. The ?xplosion of the stuff would have blown the town to pieces. The wheels of the wagon struck the >o\es and knocked several or them ttio splinters scattering '\c content* who .?a w what l;t( runaway was headed scampered 11 all directions, expecting each nomcnt would he their last ? ? .Mayor Drops Dead. V T. Kershaw, the mayor of Timne.isvllle, dropped dead in his home Saturday about noon from on fkt; ch of acute Indisbestion No was with Mm at the time and ime afterwards In a visitor. Mr h'lsliaw, who was about do year* >.gt * had been mayor of the town or eight or ten years He leave# to tin mediate family ?? ? - ? ?- ' ???Homicide In Pickens. Friday afternoon about o'clock, .ear Liberty. Henry Hoggo shot and ;tlled Sam Hoggs. Hoth were about years old and 11 Is said ware Irinkiu.v;. The) u re prominently ( nn^cttxl Triiinnl to Stool. Thr police of flrock ton, Mass.. aiv? coking two men who profit through hefts commit fed by a trained dog la removes clothes and furs frofri i'hI yards and carries them away *|j liii owners.