The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 19, 1911, Image 7
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Three Men Are Weuodtd in a Pitched
Battle Near Cashville, S. C.
SHOTGUNS VS. PISTOLS
N. CJ. A1verso n, Tally Norrls ami J
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]juttor'n Son KxchaiiffO Shots on
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Cnshvlllo in Spartanburg County
Wednesday M<?rn ing.
Tho Herald says news reached
Spartanburg Thursday of a battle
near Cashvillo Wednesday morning j
between a farmer armed with a pis
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tol and two of his neighbors with j
shotguns. Three persons were seri- j
ously, though not fatally, wounded. {
There has been bad blood for sev- (
weeks between N. C. Alverson,
A brother of Sergeant Alverson, of
the Spartanburg police department, |
and Tally Morris, who has an ad- !
Joining plantation. It started in a
dispute over a house. Further particulars
as to tlie cause of the quarrel
could not be learned last evening.
The quarrel . became more and
more hitter, harsh words were exchanged,
threats made and when the
neighbors met Wednesday morning
they were prepared for violence.
Mr. Alverson came to the boun
dary Hue between bis and Mr. Norris'
plantation alone. Mr. Norris
was accompanied by his two sons one
named Alexander, and the name
of the other has not been ascertained.
From the accounts of the affair
wb'ch leaked out. Mr. Alverson opened
fire on Mr. Norris with a thirty-*
wo calibre revolver, shooting him
in the hip. The Norrises were standing
on their own. property, but only
fifteen or twenty feet from Mr. Alverson.
Alexander Norris, it is said, fired
at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. The
latter was fortunately not facing the
gun directly, else ho probably would
have been killed. As it was, the
shot struck him sidewise, putting out
his left eyo and passing through his
nose. Other shots entered his face
and neck.
Mr. Alverson fell to the ground
but managed to fire at Alexander,
shooting mm in ino cair or uio iug
and breaking a bone.
Mr. Norris* other son then fired
at Mr. Alverson from farther aw,;y
than Alexander had been. The shot
struck Mr. Alverson in the stomach.
He returned the flro, while still lying
on the ground, and sent a bullet
through the other's trousers leg.
The Nor rises then retired. Mr.
Alverson. though weak and In great
pain from t.ho loss of his eye, got
on his feet and walked a distance of
two hundred yards back to his home.
T)rs. Posey and Alexander wero
called from Woodruff and are attending
to all of the injured. Mr.
Alverson's wounds are said to be the
most serious. All three are in bed,
but are likely to recover. No arrests
have been made.
Mr. Alverson Is about nrty years
old and has a family. Tally Morris
' is about the same a?o. One of his
sons is said to be twenty-three years
old and the other twenty-one.
The seene of the fight is about one
mile from Cashville and three miles
from Iteidville. Mr. Alverson lias
Mt?n living there for twenty-five
Tli8 Morrises removed there
about. Christmas time.
Sergeant Alverson visited his
brother Thursday, but found him reluctant
to talk about, the quarrel. *
TRAINS COMF1 TOGETHER.
Six Persons Met Death in the Terrible
Crn.sh.
In a collision between trains No.
40, the Boston and Buffalo special,
and train No. 20, on the New York
CJentral railroad, at Batavia today,
persons were killed and 1X seriously
injured, some of them perhaps
fatally.
The accident took place at 5:30
mlinn Irnln Vr> 4(1 rlim nt f li r>
O UlUt:n. n urn ..?? ?. . . ? , ? ?v
station at, 5:35 and ahead of time,
was standing in the station. Train
2$, the Western express due at 5:20
o'clock, a little late, crashed into
the waiting train from the rear.
The engine of 23 telescoped the
j Pullman of the waiting train
| sflfrd smashed inlo a day coach which
wjia next. Three bodies of passengers
In the wreckage of the crushed sleeper
were so mutilated as to make
Identification difficult. Beneath one
of the unidentified bodies was found
a silver locket and a Masonic charm
inscribed "Cassias C. Perrin, 9581
Mecca Temple, N. Y." *
' ^pjti-Consorvationist's "America."
"I love thy rocks and rills, thy
woods and templed hills. In fact, I
need them in my business."
SUBSI
BOLD YOUNG GANG
FIVE NEW YORK YOUTHS WERE
CAUGHT WITH IIIG PLUNDER.
The Cellar, Where They Conducted a
"Fence,'' Wum Filled With Yulua*
bio Stuff.
Five young men, comprising the
most active gang of burglars that has
operated In New York city in yews,
are under arrest charged with hundreds
of the'ts. When Deputy Police
Commissioner Flynn, with Acting
Capt. Price, of the Bronx Detective
bureau, and five detectives, raided
the den where the plunder was kept
they found $10,000 worth of plunder.
It is estimated the young fellows
have taken goods to the value oi
$25,000 in the past five years. The
prisoners are Grover Deisser, aged
17; George Straub, 16; Jesse Swain,
17; Henry Ross, 15; and Merman
Schultz', aged 2 7. The first three are j
charged with burglarly. ltoss ana
Schultz are accused of receiving
stolen goods.
Detectives have evidence implicating
other youths in the wholesale
robberies of recent months and it is
liUr.lv mm"! arrests will follow. At
the hear!iij? of the first five, Sohultz
was accused to teaching the boys to
steal. They swore that when they
were still innocent, five years ago, he
l got them under Ms control, and since
that time has been conducting a
"fence" and profiting through the
sale of their plunder. Young Ross
has been sent to the Children's Aid I
Society home. The other members!
of the band will be sent to the peniton
t ia ry.
According to Acting Capt. Price,
the police have been looking for
Schnltz for some time. Five yet s
ago he wis an interpreter at Fllisj
Island, 1 >111 was dismissed. Later lie
lived in a basement and it was there j
be was caught when the raid was j
made, lie was alone at the time but
the police waited until the entire)
gang ha 1 gathered.
There aye over 1 00 bicycles, a mo:
tor cycle, i djnanio and many sets
of valuable tools on the list of goods
stolen. 1 n one corner was a huge
hamper narked with valuable silver-j
, ware, cut. Muss .clothing, whole suits,
dresses, bolts of cloth, cigars and
trinkets. vVhen the loot had bean
j loaded in a patrol wagon and taken
to the Morrisania station it filled the.
'back room and part of the captain's
room. I
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Into Life" Colony.
Evelyn Arthur See, self-declared
"apostle of a new life" in which all
beings will be perfect, is held in jail
i in Chicago, 111., to answer a charge
of disorderly conduct growing oul of
j his "absolute life" colony. See in
court refused the services of an atj
torney, saving he had the counsel ot
Clod, and would purify all those present
in the court room.
When the police raided See's quari
ters they found two girls, one 10
years and the other 17, who admitted
in court that they had boon living
with See for several months, unchap{
eroncd. Mona Roes, the older of t no
two girls, according to the plan of
Sec. is to become the mother of the
first, "nearly perfect" child, she herself
being almost perfect, according
. to the cult's teachings. The other
'girl, Mildred Bridges, was striving
j to attain tiiat state of purity, she declared,
that would place her on the
same plane with the Roes girl.
The "perfect, and hence sinless"
trio will anpear in court at the time
of the final hearing. See will be sent
to jail, and the girls probably will
be placed with some society. *
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( liar(Is oil Train.
Bandits who are ambitious to hold
up passenger trains on the Utah division
of the Union Pacific will encounter
the most improved rifles in
the hands of men who know how to
use them. Under nn order from the
division superintendent each passenger
train will carry an armed guard.
The plan is the result of the robbery
i of the Overland TJmited last week
near Ogden, Utah. *
Many Deer Killed.
According to the report of the Department
of Agriculture, 5J.500 deer
wore slain in the United States during
191^. This record is little larger
than that of previous years, but the
' fatalities lo hunters increased about
50 per cent. *
Cheap Candy Killed.
Eating a iarge quantity of cheap,
colored candy, which its parents had
gotten at a bargain, the 18-monthsold
child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
1 Smith, of Montgomery, Mo., became
1 ill and died before a physician could
j he summoned.
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AN AWFUL TOLL
Eight Thousand Babies Facing Death ia
Chicago Labor War.
SUFFERING PITIAB!?
Tlie Striking Garment Workers Are
Starving to Death in Sticking to
Tiieir Cuuse?Legislature May In
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VCSll^HU" UIIU 1 I J iu fv ? inv m<vix
edy for the Trouble.
Eight thousand infants in Chicago
face death from starvation anu disease
as the result of the garment
workers' strike, which for four
months has dragged its length out
with no prospect of settlement in
sight. This is the statement of both
city authorities and union sympathizers,
the latter of whom are at their
wits end to obtain milk for the babies
in the strikers' home, many of
whom are already in tho shadow of
death from want.
During the past week the health
authorities reported more than 1 00
cases of pneumonia and diptheria
among these children with a large
number of deaths. With the uttei
exhaustion of the milk supply?now
less than a week away if charity contributions
do not Increase, it is exI
pected thac cold, hunger and illness
will quickly end the miseries of
scores of the younger children
At least one of the strikers. Mrs
Rose Siegeliieimer, has already died J
of starvation. For the support of lwr
two children with whom she lived j
i?) a dingy easement, Die woman had
bc<ui foraging cruets from g' ?u>.i
cans. Of ' veil ^ucli a'd as was avnil..i.i,.
ur.ic nimsirnvJlv 'irnornnt 1
I 011*7 ?* u.i .. |/f v?. v-.. ... -, ,
and tho poor provender she found !
went into ,1t? mouths of hot* children.
When nature gavo out the v imaii j
fell across imr miserable pal'.vs and j
was found eying by neighbors This:
was the seventh death due to the
strike.
Many cases of the same sort are
being reported, and even tho adult
strikers are suffering terribly. Ii Is
inevitable linit if aid does not come
disease. starvation anl death will win
the labor war and force the hungry
thousands back to toil under condi-J
tions to remedy which they have
given their lives and the lives of
their little ones.
The latest, hope for the situation
arises from the action of the Illinois
seriate authorizing an investigation
of the causes of the strike and an inquiry
into what steps have been taken
to bring about a settlement. Tho
action authorizes the presiding oflieer'
to appoint a committee of five senators
to go to Chicago and begin the
strike investigation at once. The
resolution calls for a report in liO
days. ?teps leading to the adjust?
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fix responsibility, with a view to legislation
making arbtraton compulsory,
are contemplated in the resolution.
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wis i;nu;m:irs am,v.
Telephone lOnipIoyc Supplied the i
Knrls to Bobbers.
Fred P. Hoffman, Pell telephone)
omplovo, is in jail at Cleveland, ().. !
in connection with several recent
house burglaries, and has confessed
to the police that he was a spy for
a gang of thieves, whose loot has
amounted to thousands of dollars,
lie told where the booty could bo
found, and the police have discovered
it.
Hoffman hep* up a card index system,
which was also found in the raid
> nhis room and those of Burt Holsridge
and Arbel Harrison, arrested
as burglars, in which were the names
and full information anont prospects.
Hoffman told the police ho would
et Information about the houses
when ho installed and removed tolo- j
phones. The index system showed
how locks were fixed, where the silver
was kept, size of families, their
habits and other things about them. *
Robbed of Savings.
An old gentleman by the namo of
Red ford was robbed by throe negroes,
near Seneca, Tuesday night. It is
rumored that he carried several handled
dollars, the savings of a lifetime,
and wns on his way to his
son's homo when the robbery occurred.
The victim carried the money
in a small hand nag. When the
negroes approached they wanted
whiskey, hut after taking his bag
and cutting it open they took the
money instead. *
His Vow Job.
A ^ /wv*wl ii/>l or tr h r\
A njlll l" I f " K inm uumim iui n nu
recently embraced religion, was
railed upon lo take up the Sunday
morning offering. He did very well
until he came to a boy. "Young
man," he id aternly, "you will have
ta pay half faro."
OW TO
SEE CAROLINA SOIL
MANY FROM THE WEST WOULD
LIKE TO LOCATE HKKK.
South Carolina Should Inaugurate) a
Publicity Campaign to Inform
Them.
Farm land in South Carolina is attracting
the serious attention of |
farmers and investors in the North
and Northwest. The State department
of agriculture is daily receiving
letters from substantial firms and
farmers who ask for specific lnfor-|
mation as to the landa for sale in '
tiii? Ktjif* nnd thi? information is I
given by the State department of
agriculture. The actual business
transaction is always left by the department
to the owners.
Those enquirers should be followed
up by an agent who could
present the advantages of the State
in person. Most of these enquiries
came from Americans, and they are
the very kind of settlers we want
and should try to get. Several thousand
of sueh settlers would be a
great benefit to the State, and with
the proper effort they can be brought
here. Commissioner Watson has received
several letters that are of interest
concerning land in South Carolina.
The letters are from substantial
farmers and business men.
It, is very probable that a measure
will be introduced in the general assembly
during the present week
calling for an appropriation to supplement
a fund to be contributed by
the larger railway systems of the
State, the Southern railway, the At
lanlie Coast Lino and the Seaboard
Air Line, as suggested bv The State,
for the proper exploitation of the resources
of South Carolina. The State
could not ^pend ;i small amount of
money to better purpose just at this
time, and the general assembly
should givo such a t>ill favorable considerat
ion.
The following letters, received by
Commissioner Watson, will, therefore.
be of particular interest:
"About seven years ago 1 became
interested with some friends in the
Canadian Northwest (I am a Canadian
by birth), nnd started a campaign
through the Central ana
Northwestern States to induce people
to go out to that, country and we
wore very successful In locating hundreds
on the Canadian prairies. On
a recent visit to that country 1 found
many were dissatisfied with their locations.
The summer season is so
very short that the variety of crops
is very limited and always In danger
of being caught with frosts, as was
the case the past summer in many
places.
"On comparing the possibilities of
that country with those of your
State, four times as many farmers.
I believe, could have been located in
it in the same time as in the Canal
ian Northwest, as none of them
would have to sacrifice their nationn
1 i < v rui *1 itc nflvniUno'pg Si nnp mv
return from the West T hive decided
to interest myself in locating some
of those dissatisfied Northwestern!
farmers. Tn some part of the South
of this country, where the clim He
conditions are more favorable for agriculture.
This is mv reason for
writing you at this time. I believe
wth proper faithful works thousands
of successful farmers fro'ii the northwest
of Canada and this country
could he easily induced to locate in
your State. Many of them could sell
their lands now in their possession
at good profits and purchase land at
much lover prices in the 9outh.
"If you have any pronosition you
could make me, I would like to know
It, and if you have not, if you can
give me the name of some large corporation
who might take up a campaign
of this kind, I shall thank you.
"I don't want a land speoulaton
scheme, but a real settler campaign.
Though I am the treasurer and have
boon for more than If) years of (Me
above company which spends more
than $1,500,000 annually on advertising
In daily newspapers and magazines
for various corporations, yot in
the business of locating practical
farmers I find the most successful
way is to moot tliem face to face and
demonstrate Lo and give them actual
facts and figures.
"This is a most auspicious season
to talk to the Northwestern farmer
about the torn forts and opportunities
of a home in the South. If yo i are
interested In my proposition I tvouid
be ideas-d to bear from you
The other letter rend as follower
"W'll von kindly furnish me with
what tii format Jon you can that would
enable iih> ?o s-cmc. a lorum tr.vC o.
swamp land, from 10,00 0 to 1 00,000
acres, that could he drained and <
up in small tat **v with tne -dea of
hit selling s .-ne tc a list of buyers
which T have. Also price on dlfferem
lands per acre including timber land.
Would like the best map of your
State and whatever other Information
you can gve me, and any expense
on same I will pay."
THE H
EXPORT OF COTTON
SOMJB INTEHESTING STATISTICS
ON COTTON.
Practically Two-Tliird? of the Crop
Sent Abroad, Worth Over Half Bil
lion Dollars.
The highest, record ever made in
the United States was achieved in
1910 when $03 0,000,000 worth of
the product was sent to foreign
lands. This new record exceoded
by more than $00,000,000 the previous
best year in the value of cotton
exported, according to the bureau of
statistics of the department of commerce
and labor.
The quantity exported, however, '
was materially less than in certain {
earlier years, having Veen but 3,04 1,- 1
000,000 pounds, against 4,374,000,- '
ooo in 1908, when the value was but
$4 3 9,000,000. Tho average export '
price in 1910 was 14 1-2 cents per '
pound, against practically 10 cents in 1
1908, the high record year for quan- *
tity, the average export price in 1910
having be-n higher than in any years '
since 1 87 4. December, 19 10, also '
shows the 1 Ighest monthly record. 1
the total ralue of cotton exports in
that month being, in round terms.
$1 03,000,000, while no earlier month '
ever reached the $100,000,000 lino.
The average export price in December
was 1 1.S cents per pound, while
in the months of July and August
the average was 15 cents per pound.
This $r20.O0O.ooo worth of raw
cotton exported represents approximately
two-thirds of the production
of the country, a comparison of the
figures of production and exportation
for a long term of years showing that
about one?hird of the crop is usually
retained for domestic use: and this
suggests a valuation of approximately
$8 00,000,00 0 for the total raw j
cotton product of the year represented
by these export, figures. To this,
however, must he added the value
of the cotton seed, of which the exportal
ions in the form of oil amounted
to nearly $13,000,000 and those
of oil cake about $1 0,000,000, while
of course large quantities of both
were consumed in the United Stales.
The countries to which this 530
I m'llion dollars' worth of cotton ex|
ported in 1910 wont, stated in order
of magnitude of their purchases, are:
The United Kingdom, approximately
243 million dollars; (ternianv, 110
million; France, 62 million; Italy,
28 million; Spain, 16 million; Can
a'^n, 10 1-2 million: and Japan, 0 1-2
million: these figures being based
necessarily on estimates for the
month of December.
The United States is by far tho
world's largest producer of cotton.
An estimate of the cotton production
of the world for the season of 10 1011
supplied to the bureau of statistics
is: For tbe United States, 10,1
55.000 bales of 500 pounds; India,
4,180,000 bales: China, 1,200,000
bales; Egypt, 970,000 bales; Russia
(Asiatic provinces), 7 08,000 nales;
miscellaneous, including Brazil, Peru,
Persia, Turkey and other countries,
0ir>,0f)0, making his estimate of the
total world crop for tbe season
1 909-1 0 1 8,0 4 9,000 bales
This estimate places China third
in rank among the world's cotton
producers with an annual production
of 1,200,000 bales, most of which is i
manufactured into yarns and cloth
| by hand machines, while 200,000 j
I hales are now annually exported to!
Japan. Of the cotton crop of India!
.he estimates that slightly less than
one-half is exported. Of tho Egyptian
cotton, practically all is exported,
going chiefly to Europe and tho
United States, its long staple and!
silky lustre rendering it, especially
valuable for use In con junction with
the shorter stapled cotton of other
parts of the world.
The value of raw cotton Imported !
Into the United States during thej
year 1910 was,In round terms, about
$15,000,000, of which $10,000,000
worth came direct from Egypt. $2,000.000
from the United Kingdom,
presumably also chiefly from Egypt,
nearly $1,000,000 from Peru, and
$750,000 from China.
Meantime the value of cotton manufactures
exported during the year
was, in round terms, $35,000,000,
; and of tbe cotton manufactures imj
ported, $00,000,000, of which more
than one-half was In tho form of
laces, edgings, embroideries and oth*
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or n 1 g n grano iiihiiiiiik i iituh ui mio
character.
Comparing the total value of the
cotton exported in 1010 with that of
earlier years, the figures of the bu;
reau of statistics run as follows:
1 0 1 0 $50 0,000,000
100 0 4 02.000,000
1 00 8 4 0 0.000,0 0 0
1 007 470,000,000
. 1000 4 1 3,000,000
j Prior to 1000 the total had never
reached the $4 00,000,000 mark,
though the quantity exported In
1010, which was 3,641,000,000
pounds, was less than in any year ;
since 1004; these figures In all cases
being for onlendar years. * j
DRRY HE
LYNCH THREE
{ Hob Attacks the Jail and takes Oat
Negroes and Kills Then.
rwo HUNG AND ONE SHOT
)no lender Sentence of Death for
Wife Murder, Awaiting Setting of
DuCe of Execution?Two Others
Ch urged With Assaulting White
(?irls Hut Not Yet Tried.
Storming the Shelby county jail at
Shelbyville, Ky., on Sunday morning,
* mob composed of less than 100
men seized and lynched three negroes,
two of whom were charged
with assaulting white girls and a
third sentenced to hang for the murler
of his wife and held in jail until
the day for his execution could i>e
let.
The throe were lynched in different
places, and what first seemed to
have been a single lynching was
found to have ben a triple one only
with the finding of the three bodies.
The body of Eugene Marshall, sentenced
to hang for the murder of his
wife, whom he had beheaded, was
found hanging to a bridge over the
Imminence Pike, only a short distance
from the jail.
Jim West, employed as a chauffeur
at Shelby ville for several
monies and who, if is said, bad been
seen throwing kisses at white girls,
and who was charged with assaulting
the daughter of a Shelby county
farmer, was one of the victims. He,
too, was hanged to the bridge.
Wade Patteison, the third negro
lynched, was also charged with assaulting
a white woman. Patterson
attempted to escape from the mob
and was shot and his body thrown
into a creek.
The mob which attacked the jail
went about its work quietly and few
persons knew of the triple lynching
until tho bodies were found several
hours later.
Few of tho mob were masked. The
jail lock was smashed with a sledge
Hammer and there was little difficulty
in getting to the prisoners.
According to Deputy Jailer Hornback,
Jailer Hdward Thompson hid
1 III* Jtlll Kt'VJS WIH'II I IIC I1IUIF il [1) it/ii I ru
and later, when the ntoh became
more insistent, llornback let the men
into the jail office.
"They said there were throe negroes
here they were going to get
or else blow up the jail," llornback
said. "They kept yelling for the
dynamite, while some of (he mob
started to beat on the cell locks with
a sledge hammer. About twelve men
had their guns pointed at me. demanding
the keys, hut I insisted I
did not know where they were. Finally,
at 3.2.r>, they broke open the
cell door and took out West, Marshall
and Patterson."
WAX T101 > WATKIt. GIVEN ACII).
Young Widow Confesses Giving; Child
Deadly Poison.
Arrested as she claimed her trunk,
at the New York Central station Friday,
Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow,
who says she is 23 years old, of Schenectady,
confessed that in a swamp
near Albany last Friday afternoon
she gave her five-year-old son,
George, carbolic acid, from the effects
of which he died.
In explanation of her crime, the
police say, Mrs. Melber asserts that
she has been a widow four years,
during which time she has had a
struggle to care for herself and her
child, and that this battle for an existence
drove her to take her baby's
life. She is an unusually attractive
young woman, and at the end of her
examination was unnerved and weeping
hysterically.
When she made her confession, according
to the police, Mrs. Melber
said that she gave the child the acid
when ho asked for a drink. *
Adrift on loo Floe.
Eighty-five fishermen were carried
out into the Caspian sea on an
lee tloe Tuesday. A steamer was re
quisitioned at Maku and sent to the
rescue of I he men, but the chances
that any of the number will escape
death is poor.
Stone Man Dead.
His body virtually turned into
stone, William Kearheller, died in a
hospital in Chester, Pa., this week.
From head to foot his body was almost
as hard as a rock. Only on his
head was the flesh of normal softness,
yet he could eat and smoke. *
Holdish Freak.
The latest freak in the pic: line has
turned up it Pawnee, Okla. It is a
little pis: with 'our ears ani eight
legs, and appaimitly is going to live
to put them all to use. *
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