Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EfSfHf "W m HAS HO SUBSTITUTE MK POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powder mado from Royal Grapo Oroam Tartar MH ALUM.NO LME PHOSPHATE CENSURE BLEASE Organized Labor (.barges That He Deprives Wachers of Their RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW * , Child Labor Conference Hot ween Union Men and (jov. lilease Causes a Serious ISreach?lie Tells Tlicni to Ijct Women Seek Other Kinploynient If Hours Are Too Long. '"Whereas, the governor of this State has, by the exercise of his veto power, vetoed the appropriation for the purpose of employing factory in- | spectors, thereby practically nuflify-j ing the law and depriving the workers of the protection previously afforded them; I "Therefore be It resolved, That this body put itself on record as bein#? opposed to this policy of the governor and condemning any action tending to deprive the workers of their rights and the protection of just and necessary laws." This resolution condemning the action of Gov. Hlease in vetoing the appropriation for the factory inspectors, was adopted by the Columbia City Federation of Trades and will be sent to Gov. Hlease. H. J. Hardy, eecretary of the City Federation of Trades, went to 3ee , Gov. niease several days ago con- [ cernirig the factory inspection law. | Gov. Hlease, according to Mr. Hardy and Senator Weston, got mad and slapped organized labor in the face. That is the statement made. Gov. Hlease said Thursday that he knew more about the condition of I he factory people and their needs than any representative of a labor organization. Mr. Hardy said that Gov. Hlease "got hot under the collar." F. If. Weston, senator from Richland county, accompanied Mr. Hardy on his visit to Gov. Hlease for the ; purpose of introducing him. Senator Weston desired to confer with Gov.! tn aP(? if Knnio nrovision could not be made for the enforcement of the factory Inspection law. * Senator Weston and Mr. Hardy said that flov. Hlease stated that he ! would veto any measure tending to , regulate the hours of the laboring man. When Gov. Blease was asked as to the law regulating the hours of < women in stores ho is reported to have stared to Senator Weston and Mr. Hardy that the women might get out and hunt other employment. 11. J. Hardy, secretary of the City Federation of Trades, made the following statement in which he severely attacks Gov. Hlease: "On Monday T, in company with jL Senator Weston, visited the governor to ascertain his reasons for the wiping out of the factory inspection feature of the law. The governor stated that his reason for so doing was that he considered the factory inspectors absolutely worthless and a waste of the State's money. He further added that he would attend to that, feature of the law himself and in Ills own way. He further stated that he would veto any and all labor legiaI lation that might come before him I T "Where such legislation sought to lm- | i prove or alleviate the conditions of ! any man or woman over the age of 21 years. "He said that every man and woman who had attained the age of 21 was a free morgl agent and could look out for him or herself. Any man or woman who was not satisfied with their condition or the safeguards j placed around their employment or j their hours of labor could quit their j position, but they need not look to the law to help them as long as ho was In the governor's chair. "Asked as to how this might work when applied to the working women and girls who might he subjected to hardships which they might bo powerless to avoid, the governor stated that they did not have to work under those conditions as there was plenty of other work they could go to, | PLEADS NOr GUILTY . TUTEV CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF LANGFORD. ' I Some Sensational Developments Ex-1 peeled When the Case Comes to Trial at Hampton. When the court convened at Hampton Thursday morning Leitoy B. Tuten, charged with killing ol' .lames It. Langford on November 21), was arraigned and pleaded not guilty and Mint ho was not readv to come to trial. On a motion and argument o.' Maj. W. S. Tillinghait for contlnu ance 011 the ground that the leading counsel, Robert II. Welch, of Colum bia, was ill in a hospital in Charleston, Judge Prince granted a continuance until next term of court. IMr. Tuten came to Hampton Friday about 12 o'clock with a frieno and surrendered himself, while the detective, Mr. Thompson, and other deputies were searching the community in an effort to execute the bench warrant. Some sensational developments are expected to be made when this case comes to trial at the next term of court. So far the State has not revealed Its hand. When 'Mr. Tuten came into the court house Thursday morning to be arraigned he did not appear nervou? in the leant and pleaded not guilty very positively. Mr. Tuten is pos sessed of a great deal of property and has numerous relatives and friend.-* who own a great deal of the wealth of Hampton county. They are standing by Mr. Tuten in this trouble, as they do not believe he committed the crime. Tuten was indicted after the detective, Thompson, had been working on the case for several days. What evidence the detective lias is not made known except what Mary Harris told him at the penitentiary after she had assured the coroner's jury that Richie Williams, the negro, committed the deed. It is understood now that this negro, Richie Williams, and this white woman will tell the same tale at the trial and that some one else will corroborate the testimony. It is now said they will both testify that Tuten killed Langford while ht was in company with Mary Harris, the white girl who testified at the coroner's inquest that Richie Williams, the negro in the penitentiary, committed the deed. Williams wa. present when the crime was committed by Tuten. It is intimated that both Tuten and the deceased were on the most friendly terms with Mary Harris, and that jealousy caused the killing. There has been no motion by Tuten's attorney for bail. Mr. Tuten will be defended by the following counsel: Col. R. H. Welch, Columbia; Maj. W. S. Tillinghast, Beaufort; W. Smith, B. R. Hiers and J. W. Manuel of Hampton. Solicitor Hunter will bo assisted by Col. W. J. Thomas of Beaufort and C. B. Searson of Hampton. ? . Held for Court. ? a 1 .1 _ C A. 1, ^ < ;eor-re Aiianraon, leaner 01 1,1 ithand which held uj> Southern passenger train No. :tf>, near Gainesville, was committed to jail there by Judge Sims in default of $10,000 bail. Charles Hunted and James Hanford, other bandits, who have confessed their part in the robbery, waived the preliminary examination. Mil tire City Humeri. The city of Aux Cayes, Hayti, was almost destroyed by fire. Fanned by a strong wind from the north, they spread rapidly. There is much suffering among the inhabitants. The momentary loss is heavy. The city's population is 25,000. * Hoy Accidentally Killed. Enbhteen-year-old Denie Guinn was instantly killed while hunting Friday with his elder brother near Columbus. The lad was holding his brother's shotgun, which was discharged, the load tearing out the lad's heart. * Entire Village Dead. A telegram from Harbin reports the gruesome discovery of a Chinese village near there in which the entire population was dead from the plague. Many bodies lay in the open air and were covered with snow. though when pressed for the source of this work did not answer. fie further pave me to understand that neither T nor any other outsider need come to him with any complaint, that the man or woman affected must come to him personally or no action would bo taken. "This matter was referred to the federation on Wednesday night and the resolution was passed and or dered sent to the governor. To m\ mind this action of the chief executive in assuming the duties of otherwhere the law does not provide for such assumption is merely in keepinp with his announced policy of interpreting the statutes to his own liking regardless of law or justice. This action of the governor's will be bitterly contested by organized labor and will only serve to bind us closer together in our next election and the next man will have to prove that lie Is with the workers in more than name." , SIRES AND SONS. President Toft's mall amounts i< about 1,000 letters a day ami 4.0" newspapers and hooks. This year's Nobel prize for medlcim goes 10 Dr. Albreebt Kossel, profes.suof physiology at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Iloblnson. the new director <?: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, is a Hostoiiliui by birth. lit* was formerly director of the Museum of fine Arts in Boston. 'I he Kev. Zed II. Copp, probation of fleer of the District of Columbia, be lleves heaven lias golden streets and palaces built of pre. ions stones. Hellas prea< bed a sermon to prove that thh* belief is correct. Chancellor Koscoe C. Day of Syracuse university never follows the typewritten copies of his public speeches which he has supplied In advance to the newsnaoers. He savs he warms up to his subject after lie begins to address ?i crowd. Erich Korngokl, an Austrian bo.v composer, only thirteen years old, had his musical pantomime, "Dor Sehneeman," brought out in Vienna at the Itoyal Opera House recently with great success, and it has now been taken on by theaters in Breslau, Leipzig and Prague. M. Edmond Blanc is looked upon as the real ruler of Monaco. He pays $.rif>0,000 a year for the gambling concession he holds and thus provides the , greater part of the revenue of the j principality. In one respect M. Blanc ! Is a disappointed man. lie cannot ' gain admission to the French Jockey , club. ( I f liir a1 onil Dniioli rciff v>111oci ci11u ui uoii. Dolman Hunt spent seven years on 1 his great painting, "The Triumph of the Innocents," and then was not at all satisfied with it, while "The Shadow of Death" took liiin three years. Sir Moses Ezekiel has boon unani- | mously chosen hy the Confederate : Memorial association to model the monument to the" south's dead that is to be erected in the National cemetery i at Arlington, just outside of Washing- | ton. | Paul Johann Ludwig Ileyse, the vet- > eran poet and novelist who has just i been awarded the Nobel prize in lit erature, is probably best known to the general public through his play "Mary of Magdala" and his novel "Children of the World." Town Topics. Between burglaries and violent assaults, Indianapolis is getting to be a better town than ever to stay at home In o' nights.?Indianapolis News. t# Vn,if Vnrlf mnut nolnhrnfo Ifa thrOM hundredth birthday next year, why ' not a geographical congress to teach It something about the extent and location of the rest of the world??St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Boston police are commanded to arrest one spltter today, two tomorrow, three the next day, and so on until all the people are in jail or expectoration has stopped. llooray for Boston!? Philadelphia Inquirer. Sporting Notes. The University of Washington in Se attle is to raise .$1,200 for crew equipment next spring. In England George Ilaekenschmidt, the famous Russian wrestler, is re- j ported to be worth a million. Miss May Sutton and Miss lla/.el Hotohkiss, America's two greatest i women lawn tennis players, are planning a visit to England in 1011. The major baseball league magnates have spent $087,000 for youngsters that are to be given a chance to show whether they are fast enough for the big circu'ls next year. Aerial Flights. When bis motor stops 0,000 feet up in the air the intelligent aeroplane operator knows that it is time to come back to earth.?Chicago News. Aviation is playing havoc with the language.. Hangar may be necessary and aerofan will pass, but air girl is too much.?Syracuse Post-Standard. Thirty-four aviators have met with fatal accidents during the last year. Si ill, some of them might have stepped on rusty nails If they had remained on the ground.?liinghamton publican. English Etchings. London's first lord mayor, Henry Fitz-AihvJn, held (he ofliee for twentyfour years. The English Antl-suffrnge society has Just published an appeal for a half million dollar fund to bo devoted to fighting the growing suffrage party. It is estimated that to meet the demand for the new King Ueorge postage stain]) 1,000,(MH) stamps will nave to t be printed every hour of the working day throughout next year. Short Stories. The population of the Samoa 11 Islands, according to last year's census, was 0.7.SO. Invitations have already been Issued by the executive committee for a meeting In 1011 of the International Medical association to contribute to the : suppression of war. In eighteen years, with the Increase In steam vessels and decrease in sail- i ing ships, the deaths annually duo to ' wro. Us and other casualties to ^liips I hate decreased to about one-third. i I THEY WORK WELL HINDUS ARB BEING USED IN THE COTTON FIELDS. A California Woman Claims to Have Solved tfie Labor Proposition to Her Satisfaction. Mrs. S. P. Wiles, a wealthy resident of Los Angeles, Cal., who has several thousand acres In cotton thereabouts, lias solved the labor problem to her own satisfaction by employing Hindus. She spends much nf h?r thno rm hpr nhintntinn sillier intending the work, and she suvs the Hindus do their work well and eheeifully. Mrs. Wiles has already mot with difficulties, not the least of which is the feeling of antagonism among the whites toward her Hindu cotton pickers, similar to, though not as strong as, that felt against the Chinese and Japanese. Mrs. Wiles is the only cotton raiser in the valley employing Hindus, and the result of her experiment is awaited with interest by others who are having their own troubles. Itohert E. Goepel, of Port Gibson, Miss., whose family has been raising cotton for many years on their plantation in Caliborne county, Mississippi, is at Los Angeles, arranging for the building of a cottonseed oil mill. ITe sticks to the old Southern negroes and will use them on the big plantation his family has purchased there. "Negroes on our plantation irt Claiborne county will he brought here as soon as we can begin plant in? cotton," he said. "The boll weevil has written the doom of cotton in Mississippi. The planters are moving away. 1 know of a number of planters who have bought land in Imperial Valley, Cal., and they will bring hundreds of negroes from the old plantations to work the fields. "A few years ago Caliborne county yielded 27,000 bales of cotton in a season. The last crop was only 4,500 bales. At one time the Port Gibson oil works crushed 4 0,000 tons of cotton seed a year. That has dwindled almost to nothing. The passing of cotton in parts of the South is a tragedy which the planters do not know how to meet. The negroes know cotton and cotton alone; they will not tend any other crop. The only recourse is immigration, and the planters when they emigrate will take their negro workers with them." TWELVE YEA It OLD BltlDE. With Parents Consent She Weds Boy of Eighteen. The youngest bride ever led to the altar in Cincinnati was Sarmelia Altinnari, a girl of 12, who became the bride of Frank Stone, a youth of 18. The license to wed was obtained by the parents of the children in Newport, Ky.,and the ceremony was performed by Father James McNerny, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of Cincinati. At first Clerk J. B. Bryan, of the Kentucky Court refused to issue the license because of the age of the bride-elect, but the father of the girl showed him that he was obliged, under Kentucky laws, to comply with such a request from the fathers of the contracting parties. Both fathers were present when the lice nse was secured. * ? ? ? I JFK TERM KKS IWKDONKi). ? Preston Jefferson ami W. (*. Rivers Free?Petition Refused. Two life term prisoners were pardoned late Friday by Governor Blease. One was Preston Jefferson, who was convicted in Sumter county in 1888, on the charge of rape. In the petition it is stated that Jeffei son was a very young boy at the time. W. G. Rivers, the other man to receive his pardon, was convicted in Dorchester county for murder in 1 903. He is 77 years of age, and a Confederate Veteran. A pardon was refused William h. Perry, who was convicted in Orangeburg county in January, 1903, on the charge of arson. Tie was sentenced to six years in the Reformatory and six years in the State Penitentiary. 4 Changed" llis Mind. Governor Rlease Friday approved the measure incorporating the Piedmont Northern Railway with a capital stock of $5,000,000. although he had previously announced that he would veto the Act. because It gave too?much power to (he owners of the company. The company proposes to construct a network of electric lines over the Piedmont section of the State. * Three Lives la>st. A * T ? ? 1 /vi, i/i)!i<iMir?(Mi\iiit?, i^a., a uisH estimated at $500,000 was sustained Thursday when flames in the kitchen of the Nicholls Hotel spread rapid iy and almost totally destroyed the business district of the city. Three Uvea are reported lost. It is understood that the Are was started by an explosion of a gasoline stove. An international exposition of inventions will be held at St. Louis the second week in April. WIDOW'S CLAIM DISPUTED. Behold, Another Arises and Complications Follow. The St. Matthews correspondent of The News and Courier says he office of J. C. Redman, Probate Judge, Calhoun county, presented an animated scene Monday afternoon and reminded one of a miniature Chicago Divorce Court. Frank Simpson, colored, a holder of considerable valuable real estate near Gaston, died about six months aco, without a will, lie stood high among the whites and there was no evidence of the slightest ripple upon the domestic waters. Me left a snug insurance policy to 'my wife, Vic.ey Simpson." A lawyer appeared upon the scene and forbade Mr. Synimes, the insurance igent, paying the money upon the ground of a newly discovered wife by right of priority. The company unevmpathetically proceeded to pay the money as directed. The wife, cf old, then instituted legal proceeding to oust the late widow, in showy weeds, as administratrix and heiress of the old man's broad acres. The lawyers concerned in the easm are: A. H. Moss, of Orangeburg, and A. W. Hoi in an, Mann and Sta!)ler, of St. Matthews. The case was bard fought and the judge feels keenly the responsibility of being m arbiter in such affairs; lie has reserved his decision. Such cases as this is somewhat unusual in these parts, but they hob up occasionally. HAVE \ Alt HOW ESCAPE. Fire Destroys Many l>u tidings, Including Hotels. White Springs, Flu., as mall re sort city on the Suanee River, was practically destroyed by tire, whir!) started in the Baptist parsonage and spread rapidly through the business district Friday afternoon. A total of twenty-eight structures, a majority of them mercantile establishments, and including four large hotels, were destroyed before the flames burned out. A high wind was blowing all afternoon and the lire spread with such rapidity that the guests of one of the hotels were threatened and several slightly burned before they could reach a place of safety. The absence of a fire department made the town helpless. Although the Lake City department was rushed to the city by special train, it was of no help on account of the absence of a water supply. The residents and visitors of White Springs have been panicstricken all night, and it is with di" Acuity that shelter is found. Many left for adjacent cities to get accommodations. The damage is conservatively placed near $300,000. * SAV101 > HY SNOW. Woman Jumped Out of Window Hut Escaped Injury. 'Mrs. Mary Schrader's three cliil dren, George, five, Minnie, seven, and Margaret, nine, built a snow fort in the back yard of the five-slory tenement where they live, Xo. 4SX m it. 1 ('.III 11 JIVtMlUt*, 1M"? IUII\. I llt.ll mother, of whom her neighbors say. "she has been a bit out of her mind lately," jumped from the roof of the tenement, struck two clotheslines in her whirling descent and landed on the yielding roof of the snow fort. There she left the deep impression of her body and outstretched arms. Dr. Parilie of New York Hospital could not find as much as a bruise on her. Man's Head (hit Oil. The body of Willis Howell of Camp Creek, Va., was found several miles from his home in a secluded spot by searching parties that had been scouring the mountains for him. He was last seen alive two weeks ago when he left home telling his wife he was going after moonshiners. 11 is head was completely severed from his body and only pieces of the trunk were found. Four Are Head. Four persons are dead and one dying as the result of drinking wood alcohol by mistake at Morton, X. Y. The dead are James Kelly, aged 5(1; Thomas Kelly, aged 88; Mrs. Thomas Kelly, aged 34, and Thomas Harvey, aged 40. The beverage was partaken of freely at a fami,v reunion. The liquor was flavored with peppermint. Deatli of Znch Mef JIico. Zach McGhee, Washington correspondent of the Columbia State, died there on Thursday of anemia, after an illness of six weeks. lie was a magazine contributor and the author of one book, "The Dark Corner.' He was 3 9 years of age and was once assistant superintendent of education for the State of South Carolina. Caused by Boose. At New Orleans Andrew J. Cuculieli, aged 2t>, son of a well-known commission mo-chant committed suicide at his home by inhaling gas. Ills body was found Thursday morning. Ouculich had been drinking and was despondent over business matters. ? ? The various ierman states maintain 7 0 schce's in horseshoeing, "Ith courses of iron one to six month 8. i CURBING CRIMF. SOUTH CAROLINA NOT SO TENDER WITH CRIMINALS. Many More of Them Are Convicted and Punished Than is Cenera lly Supposed. Notwithstanding the charge brought against this and other Southern States without due consideration, that convictions are rare, especially in murder cases, the reports in the office of Attorney Genera! Lyon do not bear this out by a great deal. On the other hand, convictions in murder cases are frequent in this State, and by comparison with other Southern States, South Carolina is way in the lead. As pointed out last year in this correspondence, the percentage was about 50 per cent. This year the number, i*i murder cases, has been about 4 0 p r cent. In the case of manslaughter there has been but one verdict of "not guilty," according to the record and there were 5 1 convictions in the year 1 9 1 0. There were 205 murder cases in 1910 in this State. Of this number 111 "no bills" were returned; 103 were declared to he not guilty and S3 were convicted. Tor manslaughter there were 52 cases, including one acquittal and 51 con vict ions. Thirty cases were brought for area and of this number eight convictions were luul. The convictions in cases of assault nul battery with intent to kill and aggravated assault were large. There were brought 1S1 cases and 293 were declared "guilty;" 83 "not guilty," and 100 cases were discontinued or "no bills" rendered. There was one conviction under the Cotton Tare Act of 1910. This was the case that went up to the Supreme Court from this county. Housebreaking convicted 235 out of 3 1 I. The good old practice of larceny caught 2 19 out of 276 cases and convicted them. Out of 22 cases of criminal assault 16 convictions were secured. for violations of the dispensary law, there were 4 07 cases and 2t6 convictions were had. It is dangerous to disturb religious worship in this State, for out of eight cases eight convictions were secured. ARRESTED FOR MURDER. > Two Negroes Lodged in .Tail in For Killing Two Women. Two nQgroes were brought to Orangeburg Tuesday evening and lodged in jail charged with the murder of the old woman and her niece found in a tenant house that was burned on Mr. \V. L?. DeHays' place i 11 the Providence section last week. It will be remembered that the charred remains of the two women were found in the ashes of the house, it now turns out that they were murdered and the house set on fire icn conceal the crime. We do not know what proof there is that the persons, committed the murder.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Has Voted It Out. The Circus Owners' Association lias voted that billho.-.rd advertising is no good and that its members will use the newspapers exclusively hereafter. If the billboard does not give the circus satisfaction, what value can it have for any one at all? It emphatically is an eyesore and a public nuisance in various other ways, [when the average person became able to read its end was near at hand. Don't Maine Them. Heeause the chief of the Spnrt.'nhurg lire department bathos his bull pups in the tub provided by the city for tlie firemen, a spirit of discontent exists in the local fire department. .Members of the department, alleging that the dogs are dirty, noisv and a general nuisance, hive flied a formal petition with the city council asking that they be removed. Veteran Coachman Killer. Edward Quade, for twenty-llva years coachman for the Secretary of War, was killed in a runaway accident at Washington on Thursday. He was driving Secretary Dickinson s two-year-old granddaughter, Helen Dickinson, and Miss Dunning, her governess, both of whom, together with the footman, escaped injured. Train Wreck. More than twenty passengers were injured, several seriously, in the wrecK or soumern ractnc train .\o. 10, east-bound, near Palisade, N'ev., Tuesday evening. Seven of the errs left the rails and were tumbled in a. confused mass of twisted steel and iron. ? Hock Fell on Them. At Birmingham, Ala., Frank Whatley, boss at the Songo Ore Mir. and Itiley Dumas, a colored co tractor, were instantly killed Tin day when a rock fell on them wb .o they were at the bottom of a slope.