Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f B.iN K OI ? -A.-, Conwa Ha# largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and surj CAPITAL. STOCK. . .. SURPLUS 1.1 ABILITIES OF STOC1 SECURITY OF DEPOSH DIRB Kpbert B. Scarborough, EJ&. Buck, C^orge .J. Holiday. We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we KOBEUT B. SCARBOROUGH, I President. We continue to pay 5 pc | r 1Kb i IN A I K j/fk CON \V/ ? CAPITA I, STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS || DIIIEC J A. McDermott, John 1 ?B. G. Collins, H. L. I M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu Successor to the Bank o ? Horry County, and a pioneer Iv allied with the recent <lei Republic. Backed by the LJnit' d States Bonds, we are I tomers any reasonable accom A H. A. SPIVKY, ? Cashier. PROFESSIONAli CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Lav CONWAY, S. C. K. ?. SCAKUUOUGH CONWAY. S. C, Attorney at law. d. H. ULKKOUGHS ^hytdcian and 8ur|{AOB. . L. CONWAY. 8. C. B. WOFFOKD WAIT. Attorney at Ia> Rank of Korry Building. CONWAY, 8. C. IHE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k LIGHT RUNNING ^ .temoMf Jfyon want el ther a Vibrating Shuttle, Itotarf Shuttle or a Single Thread f Chain /Stitch| Sewing Machine write to Hi WW HOME 8EWIND MACHINE COMPAHV Orange* Mass. 88w*|ewfnsmachines are made to sell regardless at tssiity, but the New Home Is made to west a Out guaranty never runs out. ^ #?af by authorised dealers mmMf*' V tOA SALS BV B? KROUGHS A COLLINS CO., Conway, 8, O. Hanged for Murder. At Waynesboro, Ga., Calvin Johnston paid the pennlty for the murder of Harvey Jones Wednesday morning by hanging. The trap was sprung at 11:22 a. m., and he was pronounced dead in fifteen minuter from strangulation. He went to the igallows with as little emotion as he showed during his trial, and had no statement to make. ?, + Prussia's Population. Prussia has a population of 4 0.157,573. The official figures as re corded in Dec. 1, 1910, were made public today. The increase in the last five years is slightly more than that of the preceding census period. ? r HORRY, y. S, C. any bank in Horry county. More jlus of all olher batiks in ihe county. $50,000 12,500 vHOLDERS .. .. 50,000 rORS 112,500 210RS D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. * * i :ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. ). V. Richardson, will a. fkeemab Vice President Cashirv ;r cent, on yearly deposits. TXPrSfTZ? ^ *lkljak DNAL BANK | lv, s. c. a? $25,000.00 fjp 2,500.00 (l\ 125,000.00 A\ A rrous: Ik C. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, n.. ^i. ur r r\ aak nui;u, vv . u. attlebaum, D. A. Spivey. Jt; f Conway, the oldest Hank In in Eastern Carolina. Close- jL /elopment of t ho Independent Cl* Government and secured by ? prepared to extend to our cut- jjL modatfons. II. G. COLLINS, /h President. (f Til HEE CONVICTS ESCAPE. Negro Prisoners Dash for Liberty From State Farm. While working in a swamp on the State farm, in Kershaw county, throe negro convicts escaped. Two were serving life terms and the third was serving a sentence of thirteen years. \ message was sent to the penitentiary. I). J. Grifllth, the superintendent of the penitentiary, offered a reward of $50 each for the escaped prisoners. The prisoners who escaped wore: Leo Carter, Hilbert Odom and Frank \Tc.Alister. HUbert Odom was tried and conin Hornwell county, in 1904, on the chargo of burglary, and was . ntenced to life imprisonment. He is about 5 feet 4 inches high, black hair, dark-brown eyes, dark-brown complexion. He is 3.3 years old, has small mark on left cheek and has | three front upper teeth filled with gold. Lee Carter was tried and convicted at the March term of Court in Union county, on the charge of housebreak! ing and larceny, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for thirteen years. He is 27 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, black hair, dark-brown eyes and dark-brown complexion, and a low, flat nose. Frank McAlister was tried and convicted at the February term'' of Court in Williamsburg county, on uie charge of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is 30 years old, 5 feet 4 inches in height, black hair, black eyes, black complexion, has scar under left eye and two scars on back of head. LOCOMOTIVIO llOIIiHIl KXriiODHS. Klevcn Men Were Itlown Info Fragments by Concession. At Smithville, Texas, on Wednesday eleven shop employees of t.ie Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad were torn to fragments and scv1 era.I others were injured when an 'engine, under repair, exploded in the Smithville yards. The locomotive just had been run from the repair shops to be tested when the explosion occurred. O'Rourke, a machinist, at the time 1 was attaching a safety valve. The engine was blow nto atoms, two other locomotives standing nearby wore wrecked, and the round house was partially demolished. With the bursting of the boiler a rain of pieces of the engine and portions of human bodies fell for sevnrnl hundred vnrds Ptopos r?f flesh and clothing were literally driven nto the shattered wall of the round house. In several instances identification was impossible. The exact cause of the evplosion has not been determined. Killed by a Mon. Geo. Grey, a brother of Sir Edward Grey, the British minister of foreign affairs, died during the nigh; , at the hospital to which he was re- ( moved following his encounter with , a lion last Tuesday. Mr. Grey with several companions had been stalking lions near the Athl river in Africa. The Idea. "Should you say 'Hello!' to the telephone girl if she is a widow?" j "Certainly, unless she is a* grass j widow; then you should say 'Hay, ] .there!''*?Baltimore Sun. THE EARTH CAVING IN A HOTTOM LESS HOLE APPEARS NEAR GAINESVILLE, FLA. Just How IH?o|? tlie Water in This Hole is Cannot he Estimated With Accuracy. Another "sink" on Alachua Lake, juhi across rrom me cnam oi siiiks south of the city, developed some time during Wednesday night, says the Sun, of Gainesville, Fla., and as a result the trains over the Atlantic Coast Line were annulled after the Leesburg-Jacksonville train which reached here Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. According to the Sun's account the first report that reached the Hty was brought by Conductor Frederick, who was advised of the trouble by Section Foreman Thigpen, who made the discovery early in the morning on bis way to the south end of his section. When Mr. Thigpen first discovered the new sink it was not more than 10 or 15 feet :n diameter, but it spread very rapidly during the morning hours, and by the arrival of the [ ii? sspii ff?i* t r:i 5 n it h ') U ,grown to at)out 4 0 feet, one large chunk of earth following after another in rapid succession, and the ground cracking for a space of several feet around the entire hole. At about the noon hour til 3 place presented a rather Interesting scene, for at this time the great loads of earth were rolling in at intervals, and with them the water would noil and sizzle as though it was hor, iron being struck in place. The great pool also resembled the waves of the seas for during all day it was in motion, sometimes being greater than at others, and up to last night tho earth was still falling. Reports from the place last night were to the effect that the hole had covered a distance of 125 feet running north and south, while from the east to west hanks the distance is fully 100 feet. This sink developed some 20o yards this side of the one that occurred there a few years ago, when a local freight train with many cfirs fell to the bottom of the place, but fortunately there was no water in this one, and it was easily filled in, ana is usea toaay tne same as me old roadbed. Just how deep the water in this new place is cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy, for during the forenoon a large tree that was fully 3 0 or more feet tall was in the middle of the place, and in the afternoon it had disappeared as though nothing but.a bottomless hoie was there to receive anything that came its way. There are a number of old sinks In the vicinity, but the new one is larger than any, of the others. SOOX T1IK DOG WAS DEAD. Huge Gorilla and Hull Dog buttle to the Death. A 4^ 41./N d/Nn4h ? /v imiin; iu tuu u until uctwccu n gorilla and an English bull dog, in which the gorilla was the victor, was the attraction Wednesday night with almost the entire male population of New Iberia, La., as spectators. A pen 12 feet square and S feet high was arranged for the combat with seats on all sides. The dog and "orilla were placed into the pen at 12 midnight. At 12.02.30 the dog was dead. The dog leaped at the gorilla immediately after being placed into the pen. The gorilla caught the dog just as a man catches a baseball, tbon bit quickly through the dog's skull into the brain, broke its back and tore it to pieces. ?, o. Died in a Coal .Mine. Seventeen lives were lost in the explosion that wrecked the Cokedale Mine of the Carbon Coal and Coke Company, eight miles from Prinadod. Cal., Friday night. Fifteen bodies including (hose of Assistant Superintedent F. A. Sutton and Robert Meek, rescuers, who lost their lives in the attempt to save others, have been brought to the surface. * Find Four l>oad. A tragedy grow-in? out of the inability of the head of the house to provide pronerly for his wife and two children, is the way the police sura up the discovery of four corpses in a Brooklyn home today. The victims were Frank Bernard, his wife M)d their two children.. The family were victims of aspyxiation from illuminating ras. Many Fives Lost. An entire fishing village of 253 men which has established on the iovtei :orko sound was carried out lo sk.< !*: a :;nle on l<n-j day nigiit. The disaster was not discovered until morning, when the village w as already out of sight. Boats have been sent to the rescue but have not yet returned. Mjmy Drown. Several coasting vessels In the Mediterranean are still missing and It is feared that they were lost during the recent storm. On the Catalonlan coast alone five barks were wrecked and 43 person* drowned. VICTUALS FOK LINERS. Great Stores |of Food Needed by Olympic uiul Titanic. Sixty thousand dollars worth of American food and drink will he placed 011 board the new ocean liners Titanic and Olympic each time those big boats dock at New York city. For meat alone $15,000 is to be paid each time either of the big sister ships comes into port. Large quantities of beef, lamb, pork, veal and mutton will bo brought from all over the country and stacked away in refrigerators that must hold onouigh to feed 3,500 people on a trans-Atlantic voyage. Wagonloads of poultry costing $5,4 0 0 are to be ridded to this array, with piles of fisli worth $2,000. Far away in the frigid depth of the. new liner's cold storage compartments $1,200 worth of ice cream is to be stored, and for cigars $2,000 will be spent. Wines and spirits costing $5,000 are set down as necessary for each shipload of passengers, together with some $2,000 worth of beer and mineral waters. If both boats are able to begin their regular trips next spring, $ I ,500,000 will be spent in New York city in a year simply to stock up their capacious larders. SXOW FILLING ri? STKIOIOTS. blanket of White Costs Transport*! tion Interests Pear. The snowstorm which struck Chicago early Sunday, filling the streets with hu,?e drifts, delaying railroad transportation and temporarily tying street car and elevated train service, passed on to the east today. The storm centre numed eastward to Indiana and the United State weather bureau tonight predicted clear weather for the Middle West tomorrow. The loss in Chicago to traction companies, telegraph and telephone companies and the city is estimated tonight at $1,000,000. Surface transportation companies, which had struggled along during the day, came almost to a standstill in the loop during the rush hours Monday night. The situation became worse Monlay night when the temperature dropped to freezing and sleet covered the drifts with ice, which can be "enioved only with difficulty. Two fatalities and numerous accidents on account of the snow and ice were reported to the police. Fruit Trees Hlooiu. Pear and peach trees in Mississippi are in full bloom, a rare sight at this time of the year. Planters report fruit trees developing fast because of the recent warm weather. It is fee**e 1 that a heavy frost will cause onsiderable damage. GAGGED AN D HOI \1>. Helpless Woman Wutclies Thieves Hob ller Home. o O n'o iy/\A n /I 1? a 11 n /I f a n f e11 n lr ti'l 1 h Via5?hvii cunt uuiiiiii in (i i i it 11 iv r> itii wire. Mrs. Kate X. Kirkpatrick witnessed the ransacking of her apartments by a burglar Wednesday at Tucanbia, Ala. She was not released until three hours later when a servant came from a neighbor on an errand. The man Mrs. Kirkpatrick describes as well dressed and of genteel appearance. When she answered his call he first made inquiry for a male member of the family. When he ascertained she was alone she explains, the n an seized and h'i'ind her, then robbed the ho so. Mc secured her purse, jewelry and oilier valuables. Mrs. Kirkpa rich. 'idler than suffering a nervous collapse, was not injured. * Hon Trust Pays Well. The expenses of a 4 0 0-acre farm in the Walla Walla valley in the state of Washington are being pain by 20D hens, the property of O. C. Parker. It is stated that after paying for all the groceries, fuel, meat and even for the threshing, the chickens had a balance of $82.(>0 to their credit in the grocery store on Jan 1. * SKKIOt'S KM VOLT. Nntives of Ponnpo Island Kill Several Germans. The steamer Zealandia, brought reports of the revolution suppressed by German warships on Ponape Island in the Carolines. The rising started from the punishment of a native workman. The German overseers took to flight and sheltered !n a Catholic mission, which the n 'tivs placed wnder siege. The defenders, nine in , number, all Germans, were killed. ( Father lehhnrd, the missionary, was killed when semkinr to leave the ( - f^-siand the road superintendents were hacked to pieces after a gallant fight at the beach, where they sought to launch a boat. ? # ? - , After Many Years. King McNamara surrendered to ] the police in New York city last i week and asked that ho he sent to ] Lexington, Ky., to he tried for a 1 murder he committed twelve years i ago . The police of Lexington found ' he was accused of killing James S. 1 Kellar in 1899. 1 TOOK OFF THE DUTY OBJECT liESSON OF HOW THF TARIFF RAISES PRICES. No lU'tter Proof Needed to Show That They Are Framed for the Benefit of Trusts. In The Jeffersonion of last week Ex-Congressman T. E. Watson sajs we have at the present time, an illustration of how the removal of a tariff duty reduces the price of the commodity upon which the ducy was lnvioil Horn i c u'hat VValsnn savs about it, which you can read for yourself: "You remember the great forest fires which recently devastated so many hundred square miles in Minnesota. and other states lvin jt along the Canadian border. Tlundieds, perhaps thousands, of people were burned out of house and home. Their misfortunes, like that of the sufferers of the Sicilian earthquakes. w"s of a dramatic character which appealed to the imagination and ! aroused human sympathy. A great pry for relief went up from the sufferers?and what shape dc you suppose it took? Tt was a demand for the removal of the tariff duty upon lumber. "Of course, they wanted to rebuild their dwellings as soon as possible, also their outhouses and fences, and therefore they wanted lumber at the lowest obtainable price. Some of the very men who, in Congress, had voted in favor of the Lumber Trust and who had argued that the tariff duties were an unalloyed and bountiful blessing, used all of their influence with the Taft administration to have Canadian lumber admitted free of duty. The Administration yielded, the tariff law was set aside in so far as it related to lumber, and the citizens of those north-western states bought lumber at about half the price which you and I have to pay. "Could you want any better proof that tariffs are framed for the benefit. of the cruel trusts? Do you any longer doubt that the increase of tariff duties in the Payne-Aldrich bill, which went into effect last summer, was the true and only cause of the immediate advance in the cost of living? Can you have any further rlrmht thnt ttinsn who nrptpnd Hint tariffs aro made in the interest of labor and for the general welfare of the country, are unmitigated liars and hypocrites? "Consider the injustice of the thing; see with what favoritism our government is run. We must not begrudge the enormous benefit of cheap building material to those burnt-out unfortunates of the Northwest. Hut why shouldn't the same benefit be enjoyed by all the rest of us? What have we done that we are less entitled to have the cost-increasing tariff on lumber removed in our favor? Why should we be held down by the government while the Lumber Trust goes through our pockets. "There is not an hour in the day when somebody is not burned out; there is never a night when the alarm-bell does not strike its terror into some town or city. The number of dwellings, barns, gin-houses and other necessary buildings that go up in flames every year, far exceeds the number of homes and other buildings consumed by the forest fires of the Northwest. Therefore, when i ^ 1 I. ! 1 ?- . A. _ II.. you nine a unci s-eye view, menuiny, of (ho entire United States, you cannot fail to realize that there are hist as many unfortunate burn-outs outside the burned-over area of the Northwest, as there were within it. NV'hen you think of this and hear in mind that the Law should he no respecter of persons, and should treat us all alike, you will deeply feel tho injustice of our Government, in compelling millions of people to surrender a part of their money to the Lumber Trust to gratify its inordinate greed for gain. "If you can think up any good reason why the American saw-mills in the great lumber regions of the Northwest cannot produce lumber profitably, as cheaply as the Canadians can do It, please tell us what it is. T venture to say that the steamwhistles of some of the American saw-mills on the border, can he heard by some of the saw-mills of Canada, and vice versa. The labor supply is practically the same 011 both sides of the line. The wages paid by the Canadian mills are worth as much In Canada as those paid by the American mills are worth In this country. The lumber is cut from the same continuous forest growth. Why, then, should the Lumber Trust of the Northwest he given power to shut out Canadian lumber and to extort monopoly prices from the \moricans who have to use their pro rt lift ? "> Mostly the Lumber Trust was , f, , | .1 0;. .niablo to prevent the teninora' ^ escapo of their victims. The burned-outs were desperate; the demand which they placed upon their representatives in Congress was too passionately imperative to the resisted. The Taft. administration has long been tempest-tossed on a troubled sea. therefore it was thought c;ood politics to let the Lumber Trust release its prey for a littlo while, leaving it to make up for lost time later on when the people are FOUNDjnVHALE Forty Foot Mammal Seen Floating Near Cole's Island Dead. MONSTER WAS LANDED Two Young Ladies First Discovered the Dig Fish Floating in the Ocean. Was Hauled Ashore and Will Hoil Down the lllubber and Preserve the Frame. The News and Courier says Capt. W. R. Hernandez and members c his fnmilv Kiieroedpd in landinsr forty-foot whale on the beach at Cole's Island, near Stono, Sunday afternoon. The monster, which was quite dead, was seen floating around the inlet near Capt Hernandez's homo Sunday afternoon. Immediately the captain got busy, and with the assistance of members of his family the immense carcass was landed Sunday afternoon, after working all Saturday night and most of the Sanhath. How the monster came to ho in these parts is not known, and the cause of his death is as much a mystery as his presence. The whale was first seen by Phoeb i ? t c. ,1 ^ ,./A <111(1 1\ (" 11 It? rid imnutsfc. i iii\> wci t? walking on the beach Sunday afternoon. when they noticed a great, bulky object floating about in the inlet. Being unable to make out what it was, they hastened to the house and notified their father. Master Charles Hernandez put his yacht in order in all haste and carried his father out on the water to investigate. Capt. Hernandez soon discovered that he had a whale in his hands, which is about as unwieldly a' proposition as having an elephant on one's hands. As soon as he learned that the big fish was quite dead Capt. Hernandez set about getting it ashore. Secured with strong ropes, the whale was towed by the little yacht as far as possibR toward the beach. Reaching a point where they con In not drag it with the aid of the tide, Capt. Herandez put the hlock ana tackle system into operation. The rope was carried around a pine tree nearby and the captain, son and his two daughters began to "haul in." It was a difficult proposition, even with so many on the rope to budge the fish. It was not until high tide Sunday that they succeeded in dragging their catch up far enough to be left high and dry at ebb tide. It was suggested to Capt. Heran dez that he bring the whale to the city and have it exhibited, as the one which was caught in the harbor some thirty years ago was exhibited at Pregnall's ship yard. Capt. Hernandez had a conference with Mr. S. J. Pregnall, proprietor of the ship yarn, and they agreed that it would not pay to bring the whale to the city, for by the time it arrived it wouiu be in a stage of decomposition, which would he dangerous to the health of the whole community. It will he remembered that some time in the SO's a 4 5-foot whale was caught in the harbor at Charleston. The skeleton of this whale is now the property of the Charleston Museum. Prof. Rea, head of the Museum, when asked if he did not think the skeleton of the present whale would he a splendid addition to the Museum, said that the skeleton of a whale took up so much room that it was almost impossible to allow space lor two specimens, unless they were or different types, lie said that it took more than a month to clean the skeleton and put it in condition to be exhibited, lie said that he was very anxious to sot the exact measurements of the whale at Cole's Island and all the particulars about it possible. 111111(101' of llonts. Capt. Wt. It. Hernandez, as his name shows, is of Spanish descent, lie came to Charleston from Greenville county when he was quite a small boy. It was not long after his arrival that a big whale was caught in the harbor and later exhibited at Pregnall's ship yard. Capt. Hernandez is a builder of boats. He says that he has had very little experience as a whaler, but when the occasion arises he is fully prepared to land the biggest fish that "floats.'' When asked how about landing the biggest one that swims, he replied that he would he willing to tackle the proposition?only he would prefer them floating. The carcass of the whale at Cole's Island has been ernawed but verv little by sharks and other scavengers of the sea, showing that it has not long been dead. Capt. Hernandez states that the flesh is perfectly sound, and that so far there is no perceptible odor. not looking. "lint haven't you been asking yourself, lly what right does the Government suspend the tariff law for a single hour in response to any kind of appeal? It has no such authority?it is a violation of oaths of ofllce. If they acn suspend one law, they can suspend them all. When Government is operated after that fashion, it is not one of Law, but of personal whim. Under such a system, nobody and no business is safe."