Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BANK OF Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every aco < will justify, and we i robert b. scarborough, D President. We continue to pay 5 pe | FIRST NATIC CONWA 2? CAPITAL STOCK (?> SURPLUS PROFITS M TOTAL ASSESTS H 1?IREC AS J. A. McDermott, John C M B. G. Collins, H. L. 13 a? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qus Successor to the Bank of jiC Horry County, and a pioneer W ly allied with the recent dev Republic. Backed by tbe ( jL United States Bonds, we are p tomers any reasonable acconii (Is H. A. SP1VEY, $ Cashier. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Counceior At Ltv* CONWAY, S. 0. ft. B. SCAKBKOUGH CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. a. H. BUBKOUOHS .Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, 9. 0. B. WOFFOK1) WAIT. Attorney at flank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. 0. RE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k .LIGHT RUNNING ^ Mtfon wnn1 Hihorft Vlbra 111>hut tin, Rotftl* shuttle or n JSlntjlo Thread (CViam &t/cAj Bowing Machine write to M NEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE CQMPAW Orange, Mass* ttMTMwfnff machines nr?? made to soil rctrnrtflesal Quality, but the New Home Is made to wcafc Out guaranty never runs out. ***9 authorized dealers aa|f? rok SALS BV J BUHKOUlsit* ?v COIililNH CO., Uomvny, K. (3. Fooling With (susoliiie. At Madeira, Cal., ilold Minor, age 8 years and Horace Uussel, age 1f>, were burned to death when nixy-glll IOI1 s-amiuiu: Miiiiv wtia u ploded by matches with which the wore playing. Both boys ran thr< blocks with their clothes blazin Then they were stopped and the ii extinguished. 4 4 l)oor Knocks Farmer Against Sa' A circular saw, a gust of wind ar a barn door combined to doprb Schuyler Wiley, a farmer residli near Pottstown, Fa., of his right ar below the elbow. The wind pick* the barn door off its hinges ar hurled it upon Wiley when he w near the saw. p HORRY, y. S, C. my bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. $50,000 12,500 HOLDERS .. .. 50,000 ORS 112,500 ;iors JJ. V. KICHARDSON, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their account# solicit your business. V. Richardson, will a. frkema* Vice President. Cashieu r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK | Y, 8. C. $25,000.00 2,500.00 ff} 125,000.00 A\ rORS: JfK J. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, /f luck, W. R. Lewis, D. A\ ittlebauin, D. A. Spivey. Conway, the oldest Bank in in Eastern Carolina. Close- jk elopment of the Independent W jovernment and secured by A\ repared to extend to our cut- jL nodations. 15. G. COLLINS, /t President. f SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Profit Made by fhe Penitentiary the Past Year. The State penitentiary in the fiscal year turned into the State treasury $70,000 in cash, representing the profits of that year. The State penitentiary was established as a prison and for years was not even self-sustaining. Today it is a producer of revenue. Under former superintendents its scope developed gradually, and today it stands clear of debt and has $76,000 in bank with which *o start the year on a cash basis. The total income of the institution last year as shown in the report of the superintendent, Capt. D. J. Griffith, was $137,288.16. The op orating expenses were $75,805.07, permanent improvements $8,447.1 9, leaving a net balance of $01,483.09, to which is to be added the account due for convict hire from responsible persons, $6,5 00. The grand total of profit for the year is therefore $67,983.09, or within a few dollars of $68,000. When he was elected superintendent 12 years ago, Capt. Griffith re ceived, as the cash assets of the institution, $S3, and along with this was a floating indebtedness several thousand dollars, money due on notes to the Carolina National bank. Since that time?in addition to many physical improvements made, in addition to paying into the State treasury $160,000, in addition to paying off all floating debts?the institution has ended the year with $7G,000 cash on hand with which to begin the operations of this year on a cash basis. Despite the destruction wrought by two freshets, each of which was almost without precedent, Capt. Griffith's administration has earned in cash $236,000 and has made $125,000 in permanent improvements, approximately $360,000, or $30,00( per annum. * ? Gets a Life Term. Tn the court of general sessions a Greenville on Wednesday a negn man, Clee Harris, was convicted o murder and recommended to tin mercy of the court. Judge Gage sen fenced him to the State penltentiar for the balance of his life. Harri killed another negro, Jim Williams in Greenville on the 5th of last Nc vein her. Killed in Klot. At Ttombay, India, eighteen pei sons were killed and 2 4 other wounded during yesterday s noting As usual, tho occasion of the Muhai ram festival brought about a clas between Sunnoites and the Shialn Troops called out to restore ordc fired several volleys into the mob. !(] Lost In Hough Sea. d News has been received of tli a drowning January .1 of James Kei k- neth Raxley who was washed froi >y the deck of the battleship Virgin! ^e in a rough sea. Raxley was a co: g. swain aboard the ship, was 21 yea re old, and was a native of I-Iephziba Oa. Ills body wpv not recovered. ? v. Alleged Robbery. id Claiming that he was robbed < fe $205 while enjoying tho sights < tg Columbia, William Mclntyre, < m Irnio. S. ('., appeared in Recorder d Court against Ressio Walker ar id Jessie Johnson, colored, the two la as tor being hcid to await trial In d fault of $500 bond. WOMEN IN TRAGEDY ONE SHOOTS ANOTHER TO DEATH WITH A REVOLVER. Mrs. T. L. f{rooks, Wife of a Prominent Ijawyer, Shoots Mrs. Mury Hinforri, a Saleswoman, Fatally. Shooting with the coolness ana skill of a native horn Texan, Mrs. 1. M. Iirooks, wife of a prominent Fort Worth attorney, Tuesday afternoon fired five bullets from a .3 8 calibre re?itho hnfiv of Mrs. Maiy > Ul ? CI IIUU -.??vy Binford, department manager of a local dry goods store. All of the '?1111 ets went true, death resulting almost instantly. Both Mrs. Brooks and her husband refuse to make statements that would lead to the cause of the shooting. The shooting occurred on the second floor of the establishment, where Mrs. Binford was employed. Making her way through the lower floor, Mrs. Brooks smilingly bowed and stopped to chat with acquaintances. As sue stepped from the elevator, Mrs. Hrooks inquired for Mrs. Binford and as the latter appeared, Mrs Brooks drew an old fashioned revolver from her muff. The women grappled, Mrs. Brooks finally freeing herself and forcing the other woman against the wall. In the sen file the weapon was discharged, the bullet ploughing its way through Mrs. Bin ford's hand. With her victim at bay, Mrs. Brooks stepped backward and fired four times, each time aiming at her adversary's head. The second ball struck Mrs. Binford in the left shoulder and the third one one inch higher, and the fourth entering the base of the neck, severing the spinal vertebrae. Before the woman fell to the floor Mrs. Brooks fired again, and tills lime me ball struck Mrs. Binford behind the ear and came out through the top of her head. Shoppers witnessing the tragedy were hysterical. Making her way through the crowd, Mrs. Crooks went to the office of her husband, two blocks distant. As she handed the revolver to .Mr. Brooks she said: "I am sorry," and then fainted. The waist worn by the dead woman caught fire from the flames of the revolver's muzzle and the body was badly burned before clerks regained their presence of mind and extinguished the flames. Before securing a divorce from her husband, about two years ago, Mrs. Binford was wealthy and very popular. Mrs. Brooks and her husbanct nre also well known. Mrs. Brooks waived preliminary trial before a justice of the peace and readily furnished bond in the sum of $1 0,000 to guarantee her appearance Tuesday morning, when an examination will bo held. TAKES ISSl'E WITH HIM. Prof. Wilcox's Baby Declaration Stirs Up a Row. Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell, who predicted the other day that there would be no more babies after 2015, has awakened a rather stirring sociological discussion among New York's club women. Mrs. Clarence Burns, president of "The Little Mothers' Association," an organization supported by society women, which provides for the care of the small children of poor families, the mother of which is obliged to work, takes issue with the pedagogue and figuratively says ho is a blithering, , blooming romancer. "It is evident that Prof. Wilcox is not familiar with the conditions . among American families on the East . Side," sabl Mrs. Burns. "You see, > the average family has from five to . eleven children. But I must say that I believe that nowadays the average parent looks to quality rather than quantity. There was a time, say about twenty or thirty years ago ^ when the mother of the poor clasf thought notning of having from thirteen to fourteen children. They dc not have quite as many now, how ' over. s "I must, take exception to th< learned professor's statement and sa: that I do not believe that there wil be a dearth of children in 201 5 ( al though I have never gone into th< matter from a mathematical stand point. It's a very simple matter t< ' prove almost anything, however, b "' statistics, and I do not doubt, bu ; fti.it Prof. WilcOX i h I rJ" n right. 8" According to Prof. Wilcox ther "r will bo no babies left In the Unite States after 2015, and if we wan any we will have to bring them fror abroad, the same as we now impor ie Parisian gowns and other finery. i- ? m Crushed by Concrete. a At Norfolk, Va., caught under te K~ tons of concrete, with the collapse tc r8 day of the cable house, on the roc of a six-story building, Wm. A.-John son, aged 35, and James A. Morrii aged 3 2, carpenters, were instant! killed. Roth men leave families. nf of val between the two primaries th of press of the State made a strenuou 's fight upon Please, attacking his re< ?d ord as a legislator, attorney, an t- even as a private citizen. Ever Q- daily and all but two weekly newspi pera were aligned against him. . . * WILL NOT DOWN. \ White and Negro Children in the Same | School Cause* Trouble. DEMAND IT BE CHANGED + How Ho^au by a White Girl Refusing to Dance With a Negro Hoy, and tile Teacher Compelling Her to Do So Against the Wishes of the Girl's Father. The New York World says because two or three little girls at recess gathered around 12-year-old Heat rice Ohapmann and chanted "Oh, for shame! You danced with a negro!" the village of Flushing is excitedly discussing the color question, and a movement was started Thursday to segregate the negro children in the public schools. There are : 500 colored children among the 7,000 pupils in old Flushing. In the folk dances and games in school colored children have danced with white children ever since dancing was tauylit in the schools, and no parent ever thought of objecting l>/Mr d o ?i r> i ii if with lO a lliue lomieu ijkjj w?i>v>..n .. a white girl or a white boy dancing* with a colored girl until Wednesday, when some of her companions in the Lincoln School poked fun at little Beatrice. She went home and told her father, Charles R. Chapman. Ho told his daughter to tell the teacher that thereafter she was not to dance with colored children. She says the teacher answered: "Oh, it's too bad about you." "I have nothing against the colored race and I believe that it should be educated," said Mr. Chapman, "but I think that the two races should be educated seperately for the good of both. Discussion of the reason does no good to any one. I do not blame the young teacher who told my daughter to dance with 1.3-yearold Charlie Davis. She was following the rules of the Board of Education, I suppose. But the board should do something to remedy the condition. I would suggest separate class room for colored and white children, especially after eight years | of age. I did not give publicity to I the matter. A friend of mine, T. J. ! Burnett, heard of it and brought it up in the meeting of the Flushing Association. It caused a sensation." The Flushing Association appointed a committee consisting of A. R. Sholes, William B. Parsons, Richmond Weed, John D. Vandewater and T. Jefferson Burnett to investigate and take it up with the Board of 1 i _ truncal ion. Mr. Sholes, the Chairman, a veteran of the civil war, born in Rhode Island, and who lived in the ?outh thirty years after the close of the war, said: "There is no doubt that it would ho a good thing to send the five or six hundred children to colored public schools if it could be done. We have some very good colored people hero and the public scl ools are as much theirs as they are curs' but it would he to their own good to he educated in schools where there would he no race feeling to detract their attention from study. They would have as good schools as the white so hi Id ren. "With our constantly growing population it seems best to avoid race Reeling as much as possible, and this would he done, it seems to me, hv following tlie action of Jamaica and establishing seperate schools." The matter was discusserl thoroughly m most Flushing nomes and will be taken up in some of the women's clubs. Mrs. Heard, wife of Dan Beard, the naturalist and au1 thor, said: "It is a difficult, problem. Years ' ago, before Flushing became a part . of Greater New York, the colored 5 children were segregated, and this same Tdncoln School, which my bus) hand named, then in the old build - ing, was a colored school and liar colored teachers in some instances * They were very good teachers, too { "The thing to do is to seperatt 1 the races and give good schools t< - each. Then there will not occur thes< e annoyances and both races will b< - benefited by their school life." o Little Beatrice Chapman said: " y do not dislike Charlie Davis, the col t ored boy. I have nothing a gains s him. He was never rude to mo o to any one else that f know of. fin e I didn't want to be singled out b d the girls as a laughing stock be t cause of it. At first I told the teach n or that I had a pain in my side an< - * ? A 1 1- A. i V. ? t didn't, want to dance, i uiuiikiu ui? * a polite way to get out of it. Bu she made mo. I think it would b much nicer if white children dance n together and colored children togeth >_' er." if (_ Man Severed His Own Arm. 5, To save his life, Charles Deaton, y farmer of Champaign county, ()., cv off hia arm with a pocket knife. H - had been caught in a corn shreddc e j and his companions found they wer ia! unable to release Hio arm w'.thoi > I taking the machine apart. Knowin d J that he would bleed to death befov y j this could o** done, Deaton askel f< t.'a liocket Knife and coolly amputate ? the imprisoned member. BRYAN FOR CLARK. HIS CLOSE FIU33NI) MAKES SIGNIFICAN' A ^WECH. Ho Warns Democrats That Bryan Is Still a Power in the Party and Still a Factor. A Washington dispatch says Democratic senators and representJt'.vos who attended the Jackson day banquet in Baltimore were discussing with unusual interest Thursday the significance of a warning note which came from former Representativi Theodore Bell, of California, recognized as the representative of W?1.1 T lllllll .It'll II list) IM.MUI. Mr. Bell did not attempt to start a Bryan boom; in fact, lie eliminated the Nebraskan from any further consideration as the Democratic niniineo either in 1912 or any succeeding presidential year. "Fate undoubtedly has decreed," he said, "that Mr. Bryan shall not be nominated a fourth time and that be shall never be elected president of the United States." But Mr. Bell warned his hearers that if they were seeking a harmony which might bring about future Democratic success, they must not continue a policy which omitted Mr. Bryan from consideration as a loader in the party councils. Mr. Bell declared that the affections of millions still were centered on Bryan | and tint hi.; views must dp given me most serious conslderal on. Previous to his references to Mr. Bryan, Mr. Pell had taken ov, slon to pay a h'gn tribute to Champ Clark J as a man ?u whom the middle and the far west hid implicit confidence He did not so so far .is to name Mr. Clark for the presidency, but by inference his meaning was clear an I there are many presidential watchers in Washington who regard tin incident as the lining up of the Bryan < lenient in the party behind Mr Clark, as against Governor Harmon, Governor Wilson, or any of the others who have been mentioned fp" the Democratic leadership. Another factor to which "attention has been called is that Champ Clark is like Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, by birth a southernor He was horn in Anderson county, Ky. Like Wilson, he was also a college president before entering poli tics. PRESIDENT FIXLKV APPROVES. lie Wants Columbia to Have National Corn Show. Editor Gonzales, of The State, writes ns follows to his paper from Washington: W. W. Einley, president of the Southern Railway, earnestly approves the effort of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce to bring the next national corn exposition to Columbia. "The spirit of enterprise manifested by the people of South Carolina in corn, growing and of Columbia in roach in? out after this exInosition is splendid. It is encourag ing. We must keep up this sort, of thing. I \vfiiit. to help." Unfortunately for Columbia and South Carolina 'lie laws stand in the way of free ears or free tickets for a party of Columbia boosters to get. to lumbus, Ohio, but the Chamber of Commerce can be assured of a contribution to the cause from President Fin ley. And it will be made whether the campaign is conducted by mail, wire or a movement in force on Co1 u mbus. Will Columbia do the rest? Til MY 1)1 V11 > Id I > Til Kilt LOOT. Robbers Had .Money Spread Out on Hod and Chairs. i The tale or a negro penman in n Hot Springs, Ark., hotel of greal piles of money lying about a room } led to the arrest of Charles H. Ever . ett, charged with having securer . $1,800 from the People's Savings I hank of Seattle, and for whom detec tives had been searching through < half dozen States. Four men occu ^ pied a room, according to the negro ^ and when he was summoned to brinj ^ them liquid refreshments he sav 3 huge stacks of bills distributed or t/ho bed and chairs. When the polic< j arrived Hie men had disappeared . but memorandums were found show I jng that various -'roups of figures, ii r the aggregate $280,000, had been di l vlded into four parts. Circular v brought bank detectives here pos haste and the arrest of Everett, win _ had engaged the hotel apartments rJ lOIIOWOU. t ? t Takes a Fatal Leap. e At St. Louis II. K. Whitmore, age (1 68, leaped from a window In th i- eighth story of the Marquette Ilotf to tho pavement below, killing him self instantly. Despondency over hi continued illness and the death c a his wife is given as the causo to ,t tho act. Whit more was a member c e one of the wealthiest and best know .r St. Louis families. e Four People Killed. g At Niobrara, Neb., an exploslo e of the gas lighling plant occurred { ?- the Hubbard House. Tho dead are d Mike Kindall, Annie Duseka, Kei neth Kindall, R. F. Crosby. ~ t GAVE UP WIFE SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR nff IX)VE HE LIVES DYING. Gave Her Up to Her Former Sweetheart mid He Goes to the Hospital to Die. His great net of self-sacrifice accomplished by giving up the English wife lie loved to the man she loved* Kunisan Inoniata, the son of a I u rl 111 n IT weaitny <iiipuiiuau ui ? -?j t> in the charity hospital at Vicksburg, Miss., of a broken heart and a wasting disease, .vhlle his former wife and tlie man she married are, by tender attention, trying to make his. last hours easier. With the stoicism of the oriental, he suffers and says nothing, but behind his suffering lies a strange romance. Almost a decade ago Helen A. Hunt, whose father was mayor of a., small town near London, England, and well-to-do, loved a young Eng- ^ lishman named James Gibson. A quarrel with her sweetheart caused the girl to come to America. Eight years ago she found herself in Boston penniless. While working in the store of M. Yamataro there she met 1 1 l .1 L I noma t a. jug .japanese lovou nui and his Ron tie ways won Miss Hunt. They were married and went to New Or lea ns. The girl fell ill and Inomata worked night and day to make enough money to pay doctors' hills and hospital foes. His own health became undermined and he became despondent. Some months ago, while Inomata and l is wife were in faekson, Miss., on business, sho met Gibson, he, too, having come to \meriea. On sight of him the girl declared sho still loved him and Gibson swore that he had loved her always. After days of silent anguish, Mrs. hiomata confessed to her husband that she loved Gibson. Tho Japanese listened with stoical silence to tho Oory and abruptly left his wife to think it over. On his return to their boarding house in Now Orleans, Inomata said to his wife: 'I am failing in health. You go to 'ackson, bring suit for divorce and f ill not oppose it. I will say noih i n g. Then go and marry this Englishman 3'ou love." The girl followed his advice. On December 6, accompanied by the man who had been her husband, and the man who had been her by-gone sweetheart, the woman came to Vicksburg. Here she and Gibson were marr'ed. That night Inomata, Hie Ruskin of Japan, went to the hospital to die. * MORE ROCRLE TRACK LAII). On Southern System Ret ween Wasli? ington and Atlanta. The Southern Railway company will secure an addition of practically ten miles to the double track on its main line between Washington and Atlanta by the construction o( a second track just authorized south of Franklin Junction, V'a. The ntw track will bo connected with iho stcond track nioady laid to NVhrai^, which has .cvo?* been used. When ihe new s'rei'M is completed the five miles of single track between ! lanklin Junction and Sycamore w II 1 o operated as c gauntlet under absolute block, Inns giving all the pro- / tective feat ures of double tt\i?k, t * no train will be permitted to enter/ either end of the gauntlet while another is on it. The 2S-iuile stretch of double track extending1 from Montview to Sycamore will bo increased to * .50mile st re toll by tills a^d't.ion and Ihe complelfon of Ihe 12 miles f'om Mont view to Monroe through Lynchburg, which is just going into ser1 viee. The eons*ruction of the second track just authorized in connec1 tion with the double track now in j use will add materially to the facilities for hat riling traffic over this k s important, line. The completion of the Lynchburg 1 improvement gives I lie Southern 220 miles of double track out of'the dis' rinoe f IS miles bet ween Washing1 ton and Whittle will bring the total 1 of double track on this important 1 highway of commerce to 240 miles. r Itnilroadcr, Sliot 1 Times, Sues. ;1 Charles Stein, a railroad employe, who was mistaken as a member of H the gang thai-robbed the Hurlingtoif^w I limited at Prescott, Wis., has sued ' () that city for $25,000, or $163.50 for each of the 163 shots fired Into nis ?? ... ^ , f , body, no win recover rrom ma injuries. ? (j Tiiqnor Caused Killings. e TJquor caused 258 out of 630 homjj lcldes in Alabama during the last two years, according to the report s of the attorney general this week. (f During the previous two years liquor ,r had caused 348 out of 656 kill,f ings. ' * n * m llrothers Wed Three Sisters. Three brothers, John, Henry and Bert Peck, and three sisters, Nellie, n Zoo and Anile Walker, wore the ^ bridegrooms and brides at a triple wedding, which took place at the home of the bride's parents, at Araapahow, Okla, this week. *