The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 27, 1911, Image 6
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A mn FIGHT
A Tint Woman's Lore is Trying to
Batter Down Asylom Walls
VICTIM OF DARK PLOT
His Pretty Sweetheart Declares His
Incarceration in a Madhouse Is the
Work of His Business Enemies.?
(j|rl Buttling Alone to Cet Out j
and Free,
Seperated by the walls of an insane
asylum, two sweethearts are
lighting a pathetic, yet determined
battle of love at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. The girl, Miss Carrie E. Billman,
of Brookline, Mass., is fighting from
the outside. The man, Frederick W.
Savage, an inventor, of Boston, is
- fighting from within. He is confined
in the Hudson River State hospital.
Miss Billman declares that he is being
kept there through powerful financial)
interests in Boston, which
want bim out of the way.
The plucky girl is conducting her
battle single-handed. Up to a week
j. o, she says, Mr. Savage's parents
were with her, but now they have
become convinced, through covert
misrepresentations that she is employed
by the people who want Savage
held in the asylum and is really
working to keep him there.
Miss Billman and Mr. Savage met
for the first time a year ago at a
gathering in Boston. A few months
ago they became engaged. On Jan.
21 Mr. Savage was taken into custody
in his office and after being examined
by two physicians, was committed
to the Boston State hospital.
But he was a native of Racevillo.
N\ Y.. and wna transferred to
tho Poughkeepsie institution.
Two weeks ago Miss Billman arriv
ed in Poughkeepsie and engaged Attorney
George Wood to conduct her
case. She visited her fiance in the
hospital, and together they planned
" the struggle for his release.
Put a week ago Miss Billman, on
arriving at the hospital, was informed
that she could not see her fiance
because his parents had objected. She
says she has learend that they received
information from some unknown
source to the effect that she
was incincere in her efforts to free
the man she loves.
Nevertheless she is going right
Ahead." Judge Hasbrouk, in the
<3ounty court, has isued a writ of
habeas corpus directing Dr. Pilgrim,
superintendent of the hospital, to
produce Mr. Savage in court on Apri*
10. Miss Billman says that Mr. Savage
for a good many years did business
with a rubber manufacturing
concern in Boston, which finally obtained
control of his patents for making
rubber boots. They broke off
their business relations, she says, and
then the company wished to get Savage
out of the way.
GIVKS THESE A TRIAL.
The Ten Commandments of Profitable
Agriculture.
'1. Prepare a deep and thoroughly
pulverized seed-bed, well drained;
Kro?lr In tho fall tn a. rtenth of a.
10, or 12 inches, according to the
soil, with implements that will not
bring too much of the subsoil to the
surface. The fore-going depths
should bo reached gradually.
2. Use seed of the best variety,
intelligently selected and carefully
stored.
3. In cultivated crops give the
rows and the plants in the rows a
space suited to the plant, the soil
and the climate.
4. Use intensive tillage during the
growing period of the crops.
5. Secure a high content of humus
in the soil by the use if legumes,
barnyard manure, farm refuse, and
commercial fertilizers.
6. Carry out a systematic crop rotation
with a winter cover crop.
7. Accomplish more work in a day
by using more horsepower and uet
nr IninlAlYlAnta
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8. Increase the farm stock to the
extent of utilizing all the waste produets
and idle lands of the farm.
9. Produce all the food required
for tho men and animals on the farm.
10. Keep an account of each farm
product, in order to know from
which the gain or loss arises.
Dr. Seaman A. Knaapp.
EGGED THE PRIEST.
Raw Eggs Thrown nt Him While lie
Was Praying.
At Chlcage four women and two
men were arrested for pelting Kev.
Sergius Bazilevitch, priest of the
Rusian Orthodox Catholic church,
with unboiled eggs during the has
ter service. When the clergyman's
head was bowed in prayer, a shower
of eggs was directed at him from
the rear of the church. Half a dozen
broke against his face, overspreading
his vestments. The poHoe
rescued the clergyman. The
trouble is the outgrowth of a feud
between the church officers and the
congregation.
INVADE MEXICO
FOR US TO IK) SO MIGHT BRING
ON MANY COMPLICATIONS.
Congress Realizes That the Situation
Is Very Complex, and Are Working
With President Taft.
"An invasion of Mexico designed
for a limited and temporary purpose
might be like touching a match to a
tinder house."
Senator Bacon of Georgia, ranking
minority member of the senate
uii luioiKii rei?iiuu?, weuneeday
thus epitomized the sentiment
of leaders of both parties in
the two branches of congress.
While recognizing the gravity of
the situation in Mexico, congress is
satisfied that the president is doing
everything that can be done under
the circumstances, and nowhere is
there seen the slightest disposition
to embarrass him or his programme.
It was learned at the close of a
conference at the White House Wednesday,
at which were Senator Cullom,
chairman of the senate committee
on foreign relations, and Representative
Sulzer, chairman of the
house committee on foreign affairs,
mar, rresiaeni iait ior tne present
at least does not comtemplate sending
to congress a special message
dealing with 'Mexican affairs. The
president, however, is keeping the
leaders in both parties in congress
thoroughly acquainted with developments,
with tho result that the closest
co-operation exists between the
capitol and tho White House.
Senator Ilacon, while admitting
the situation was complex, was emphatic
in declaring that the time
for intervention not only had not arrived
but that up to the present
nothing -of serious enough importance
had occurred to warrant consideration
of the subject.
"Our troops should go into Mex
ican territory only with the direction
of congress," he said. "Armed
invasion would be an act of war and
congress alone has power to declare
war. I am entirely confident that
t hn uroolflnnt unll nnf ac/1/ii' on 5n_
'ii' j i \ . r x i - i j ( "iii inn. Ui U\/i UU All
vasion except under direction of congress.
"I regard the situation as most
delicate and embarrassing because of
the danger of becoming involved in
a deplorable conflict with the people
of another country and also because
of the importance of protecting
our people from such occurrences
as those at Agua Prieta.
"Under existing and threatened
conditions very great caution is necessary
to prevent embroiling this
government in a conflict with the
Mexican people. I do not think that
anything less than the mast extreme
necessity would justify an invasion.
The consequences would be far-reaching
in many respects and the end no
one could foresee."
Positive assurances that the Mexican
government will adopt a definite,
restructive policy along the border
and news from Douglas that the
rebel forces have evacuated Agua
Prieta did much to relieve the high
tension under which President raft
and members of his official family
have labored. The assurances from
Mexico followed demands of the
border towns must be stopped.
THE OUTLOOK IS BAD.
President Taft Will Bo Defeated at
the Polls.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says nothing
has struck him more forcibly since arriving
in Washington than the almost
entire unanimity with which the poor
chances of tho Republican party in
the 1912 campaign are acknowledged.
It is generally agreed that Mr.
Taft will bo renominated by his party
and go down with it to overwhelming
defeat at the polls. The only thing
which is regarded as giving a ray of
hope to the O. O. P. is the Mexican
situation, which maj explode at any
moment and is being nursed with
skill at the present time from an
Administration point of view. If
shots flying from Mexican soil and
winging Americans are to be taken
as cause for intervention by our armed
forces on the border, there is a
very plain possibility of the establishment
of an endless chain of intervention,
advancing link by link as our
troops occupy territory adjacent to
that of conflict in Mexico.
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Died in a lilnze.
At Asheville Mrs. ITattie Fox, a
fortune teller, and her blind husband
were suffocated Wednesday when k
store building in which they lived
was swept by fire. The flames were
started by an overturned oil stove.
* Firemen saw the woman at a window
but were unable to reach her through
the smoke before she was dead.
(Javo Fatal Blow.
At Waterbury, Conn., Tuesday William
Luke, who took part In a boxing
exhibition Monday night died. Ills
death was due, it is said, to injuries
received during his fight with Joe
Clancy, also a local man.
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The Democrats will make an effort
to carry out the last Democratic
National Platform by putting lumber
of all kinds on the free list. This
is right and we hope they will succeed.
MORE ARE SHOT
President Taft's Warning I* the Mexicans
Was Not Heeded
MANY AMERICANS BURT
Douglas, Arizona, Again Shot Up by
the Mexicans in Their Battle at
Agua l'rieta, and the Town Terrorized
by the Shower of Bullets
in tlio Streets.
A dispatch from Azua Pricta. Mexico,
via Douglas, Arizona, from the
Associated Press correspondent in
the Field, says the most important
battle of the Mexican revolution was
fought here Monday between 1,600
Federals, under command of Lieut.
Col. Diaz, and 1,000 rebels, under Dal
lariro Gracia, and resulted in tiie repulse
of the Federals. The cattle,
however, was not finally decided. It
lasted from 6:30 A. M. until sundown.
At nightfall two Federal machine
guns were in possession of tne
rebels, and the Federals had a loss
or 2UU Killed and wounded, ine reDels
gave their own loss as 2 0.
From the begining of the battle,
regardless of the warning given by!
the United States to the leaders of
both foro<?s, a rain of bullets poured
into the American town of Douglas,
and when the day was over seven
non-combattants, residents of that
city, were found to have been wounded.
It was a day of terror in Douglas.
The Federals advanced in a fanshaped
battle line, with their machine
guns in the cbntre. They gave
notice of their approach with a hail
of bullets from the machine guns,
supported by a rifle fire. The insurrectos
directed their fire,at the crews
manning the machine guns. But the
fire of the Federals was so fierce that
it forced the rebels back to their
I second line of entrenchments. The
Federals advanced slowly. As they
came nearer the fire of the rebels
became more effective.
Deaving the protection of their
breastworks, they moved out into the
">pen, continuing to concentrate their
fire upon tlio machine guns. The
Federals, finding the rebel defence,
after three hours fighting, too strong
to enable them to carry tne ircncnes,
began to retreat. Presently the machine
guns were silenced. Sharpshooters
made it impossible longer
to man them. Sheer exhaustion occasionally
caused a partial lull in the
fighting.
At 11 o'clock the repulsed Federals
had reformed and again advanced
to gain the boundary line, masking
their movement with heavy rifle fire.
The machine guns were silent. The
rebels, encouraged by their success,
returned the fire eaeerly. The interval
had been employed by the rebels
in digging new trenches. The advance
guard of the Federals in this
attack consisted of fifty cavalrymen
and 300 infantry.
Behind them was a supporting party
that kept under cover of trees and
bushes. The Federals reserved their
fire, but an unceasing stream of bullets
poured from the trenches. These
striking the dry earth, made it apas
though a dust storm was raging
and for a time served to obsure the
movement.
The advancing Federals again
found the strength and determination
of the rebels too great for them.
They fell back, but in good oroei,
firing as they fled, leaving their two
machine guns in tne possession 01
the rebels. Those in Douglas wounded
are.
S. O. K. Ooll, scalp wound in the
head. Mr. Ooll had accompanied the
Associated Press correspondent to the
front earlier in the day and had fellen
hack to 4th street.
Elpidoe, Arce, Douglas, wounded
on foot.
Frank Williams. shot in bacn
while standing outside of the so-called
danger zone. Wound dangerous.
Jack Hamilton, Dounglas, wounded
in back whilo watching the battle
with 40 others on the ton of an abode
house several blocks from the boundary
line.
Jesus Alcanatara, Douglas, flesh
wound in leg.
Mrs. Larson, severery cut by shat
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teren glass or Kivcnen wmuow or a
residence.
John Keith. Dounglas, wounded In
leg while walking In the street.
More than half of Douglas was under
fire from the beginning until the
end of the battle. The United States
custom house was in the direct range
of attack and the United States
troops were forced to seek shelter.
When the battle began. Col
Shunk, commanding the United
troops to the line and took every
precaution for the safety of the citizens,
keeping them out of that part
of the city which was considered to
be most exposed. This, however, did
not avail to save Americans from inJury.
Trlod to Wreck Trnin.
For attempting to wreck an Atlantic
Coast. T,ine train, on the line
between Wayeross and Tlfton, two
negroes have been arrested at Pearson,
Ga., and are held for trial. The
negroes were getting away from the
scene of the attempted wrecking
when the authorities of Pearson were
notified. The effort* to wreck the
train proved fruitless.
BILL WILL PASS
BUT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
ARE DIVIDED.
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The ' Reciprocity Bill Causes
Trouble in Both, the Old Party
Ranks.
The Washington correspondent ol
The News and Courier says sentimprf
fa n r?f unnni mnna amnnif tinn
ua V aw UVT W UAVUW MlllVUf) VUV
Democrats in favor of tho Canadian
reciprocity treaty, but every day
brings new proof of the absolute
demoralization into which the issue
has thrown the Republicans. The
division has entered even into the
subdivisions of the G. O. P.
There are reciprocity and anti-reciprocity
standpatters, and reciprocity
and anti-reciprocity insurgents, and
often they get into arguments with
each other.
Tho Senate is taking things easily,
while the House works overtime; bofore
long the House will be adjourning
for three or four days at clip,
while the Senate will be in constant
action.
Democratic leaders are prepared
for an attempt by some of the Republicans,
who oppose the Canadian
reciprocity bill, to embarrass the
Democratic majority In the passage
of the bill by proposing, at? an
amendment to it, a section embodying
all of the free list that the Deinacratic
ways and means comm'tteo
has prepared as the first of the party's
tariff measures.
Opposition Republicans have
charged in the House that if the
Democrats were in earnest to have
this free list passed, they would offer
it as a part of the reciprocity bill, so
that President Taft could not find
occasion to veto it, even though it
did not meet with his approval.
Chairman Underwood, of the ways
and means committee, is apparently
proceeding on the belief that an
amendment to be talked into the free
list bill will be offered. He said
that such ah amendment would be at
once ruled out of order, as it could
not be considered "germane to tne
bill," under the House rules premitting
the offering of amendments.
An effort is to be made to wind up
the open debate on the Canadian
agreement. The bill probably win
be brought up for final consideration,
amendment and passage Thursdey.
Henry George, Jr., of New York,
in his maiden speech in the Mouse
during the reciprocity debate, proclaimed
himself a free trader and
said he had aligned himself with the
Democrats, because he believed it is
the only great party "moving toward
the light."
He endorsed the Canadian agreement
as tending toward freer trade;
and believed that eventually the United
States would have absolute free
trade with the world. His speech did
not arouse any great enthusiasm on
the Democratic side.
Representatives Howland, of Ohio;
Knopp, Wisconsin and Gillette, Massachusetts,
spoke in favor of the
agreement.
SOLI) DISEASED MEAT.
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Serious Charge Made Against Three
Aiken Men.
A sensational case is on over in
Aiken. A warrant has been sworn
out for Mr. Judson Fox, white, and
Squire Matthews and Jim Simpkins,
colored, charging them with selling
flesh that was diseased at the time
of the death of the animal.
The trial promises to create a
great deal of interest and the story
about the case is as follows: On the
fourth day of April a cow belonging
to one of the defendants died neai
Aiken from natural causes, and the
owner desiring to turn the carcas into
cash had tho colored men to dress
it and take it into the country and
sell it to tho people.
The prosecution tell a most horrible
tale that the animal was stiff in
death and that it was impossible to
bleed the animal, but anyway, it was
sold to the people, about Merritt'a
Bridge, in Aiken county, making several
of them very ill.
CRIME OF A WHITE BRUTE.
For Which His Neck Should Be
Cracked When Caught.
A dispatch from Spartanburg says
the sheriff and his deputies, assisted
by the police force and a posse of
citizens, are scouring the surrounding
country for Sam Davis, a white man,
who, tt is charged, Wednesday morning
at ten o'clock criminally assauit
ed an eight-year-old negro girl ir
that city. The alleged crime wat
committed at the home of the child'i
mother and it is said that when Davit
had accomplished his purpose he wa<
frightened away by the screams ol
the victim. A number of men, botl
white and black, gave chase, but tha'
night Davis had not been caught. H<
will be tried at the present term o
the Criminal Court, if captured.
Three Joy Riders Killed.
At Johnstown, Pa., three negroes
one a woman, were killed and five
also one a woman, were injured earl:
Tuesday in an automobile acciden
while returning from a dance. Th<
machine, running fifty miles an hour
skidded, jumped onto a pavement an<
1 ran into a telephone pole.
BANK OF
Conwa
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Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surp
i CAPITAL STOCK.. ... ,
BUKFL.U8
INABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT
DIRE(
Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
Gteorge J. Holiday,
We offer our customers every acc
will justify, and we i
ftOBEBT B. SCARBOROUGH, D
PRESIDIRT.
We continue to pay 5 pei
fFIRST NATK
OONWA
^ CAPITAL STOCK
flj SURPLUS PROFITS
fo TOTAL ASSESTS
t DIRECT
J. A. McDermott, John C
^ B. G. Codlins, H. L. E
j|| M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua
/A Successor to the Bank of
it Horry County, and a pioneer
vlJ iy allied with the recent dev
fly Republic. Backed by the (
mI United States Bonds, we are n
TO tomera any reasonable accomn
* H. A. SI'IVKY,
f Cashier.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
U. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At Lai,
CONWAY, 8. O.
R. B. SCAltBKOUGH
CONWAY, 8. C,
Attorney at Law.
H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Burgeoa.
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CONWAY, 8. C.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at I
Bank of Horry Building.
CONWAY, 8. C.
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f Lieut. Walter H. Rodnef of the
i United States cavalry, stationed at
i Augur barracks, In the department
5 of Mindanao, P. I., was murdered
f by a Moro Juruamcntado, who, crazed
with religious passion, ran amuck
thirsting for blood of a Christian.
The assassin belongs to the Mohammedan
sect of Juruamentados who
,f have taken the inviolable oath to
yr shed the blood of a Christian. They
t knew no fear, believing the perforb
mance of what they consider their
, religious duty, if resulting in then
i own death, will be rewarded with
(years of age.
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y. S, C.
ny bank in Horry counlr. More
lus of all olher banks in the county.
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HOLDERS .... 60,000
OR9 ..119,600
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W. A, JOJ1I10OU,
Will A. Freeman.
ommodation which their accounts
solicit your business.
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Viok President. Cleans
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luck, W. R. Lewis, D. Jk
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Conway, the oldest Rank 1b
in Eastern Carolina. Clone- JZf
elopment of tho Independent ^
government and secured by 4k
repared to extend to our cubuodationg.
B. C. COLLINS, A
PrMident. f
DEAD BIRDS COST BT
THE PEOPLE PAY FOR LOSS lit
CHOP PEST KATEH8.
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Cotton, Corn and Garden Affected,
and Hiving Cost Hise as Insects
Spread.
While Easter bonnets are parading
the plumage of birds that check ciop
pest, losses to food and cloth products
in the last year that amount to
over $10 for every person in the
United States have been reported ai
chiefly due to the destruction of these
feathered insect eaters.
According to statistics just gathered
by the government biological
survey at Washington, ofllcers of the
Notianal Association of Audubon societies
declare that the cost of living
has been raised to cover a 01111011
dollar loss in agricultural produce
from the inroads of insects and rodents
that would be largely wiped
out if their natural bird foes were
protected from the feather men,
market butchers and pot hunters.
Every year that such commercial ;
interests are allowed to thin the
ranks of the insect eating species
Higher prices must be paid by the untimate
consumer for vegetables, fruit,
cotton cloth and many other necessary
staples, It Is predicted.
On last year's cotton crop alone
a loss of between $25,000,000 ana
$30,000,000 is shown to be borne by
every one who buys a bit of cotton
goods, principally because birds that
destroy this pest are being killed.
While Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi,
Missouri, Alabama and Arkansas
are now impregnated with this costly
crop plague, ornithologists report
that bird life is becoming wasted
throughout the whole cotton belt that
the boll weevil may soon spread ov- ?
er every plantation with little oppo- J
sition from the natural forces that *
help to hold it in check.
Every dollar's worth of such damage
that the bird guards could prevent,
it is pointed out, must come
In pennies from the pockets of tn^
American people.
Almost every article of food except
meat has been found to come to
the consumer today with an added
cost to cover many millions of dollars
of loss that the government ex
perts have proved is largely due to
the increasing lack of insect-eating
birds to drive away the pests that
are spreading over the fields.
Such staples as corn are now ~
known to fall short of a supply that
means lower prices, in some measure,
on account of the depletion of the
wild birds and the consequent increase
in their noxious insect prey.
If the orchards, fields, gardens and
plantations of America were not being
guarded by fewer and fewer of
these insect eaters each year, the records
show, their yield would he increased
and the price of their products
lowered.
"Though the Easter season is saddened
by the sight of would bird
feathers on bonnets, there is this
years a plain economic reason for revolt
at this show in the findings of
the government experts of the department
of agriculture," said T.
Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the National
Association of Audubon so[
cieties. i