The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 18, 1911, Image 7
ATTACK JUAREZ
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REBELS ENTER JAUREZ
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Contrary to Orders of Gen. Madera,
ISO Insurgents Open Fire on Federals,
Capturing Important Outposts,
Finally Carrying Fighting
Into Juarez.
Insubordination In the ranks of
Gen. Madero's army and a lust for
the fight, of which Federal concessions
apparently had deprived
them, caused a fierce attack on Jaurez,
which ended Monday night in a
careful retreat of the insurrectos after
a day of continuous skirmishing.
The 150 rebels who early Monday
morning opened fire on the Federals,
not only captured some of the important
outposts, but carried the
fighting into the city. Failing
reinforcemens, they retreated. The
casualties of the two forces are not
known, but five people on the American
side of the line were killed, and
at least 12 wounded.
Thousands of people in El Paso,
Texas, dotted roof tops or lined the
river banks in direct line of fire. Col.
Stetever, of the 4th United States
cavalry, protested to both armies
against the fire into American tero?-.h
u i*s??pnofl considerably
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thereafter. Nearly 1,000 American
troops were massed on the border,
keeping crowds .back and ready to
respond to any orders from Washington.
Monday night couriers galloped
back and forth in an effort to arrange
an armistice, so that peace
negotiations miyht be resumed. Gen.
Francisco I. Madero, Jr., is a sad
and downhearted man. His efforts
to prevent a general attack was successful,
but only after he had been
told conflicting stories as to the actual
cause of the conflict.
Col. Tamaberuel, it is said, taunted
the rebels and incensed t]iem.
Gen. Madero regrets the occurrence.
The flght lasted until dark and furnished
many a thrilling sight as well
as continuous terror, to many Americans
living along the river bank.
Carrying the fighting into Juarez,
the rebels entered the city. Many
Americans were among those who
entered Juarez. Antonio Gacio was
standing by the side of the Associated
Press correspondent, about 2 0^
yards from the advancing insurrecto
ranks, and was killed.
A woman sitting on a porch sov
eral blocks within the city was h*t
in the wrist and the abdomen by
two bullets. About six o'clock Monday
night two Americans were killed
near the Santa Fe bridge. The
name of one is supposed to be C <mp
and his home is said to bo in Nebraska,
while the other had on his
person a memorandum reading "it.
H. Ferguson, Troop F., 3d cavalry,
San Francisco."
The names of the others killed
have not been learned. Glen Chec3man,
of Shreveport, La.; Mrs. Jos.
Mooreshead, Edmund Halton and
Luis Villobas, of El Paso, were
among those wounded, but not fatally.
There was occasional firing
Monday night into Juarez, but Gen.
Navarro seemed in complete command.
In the main rebel camp Monday
confusion reigned. Orners we.e given
for a general attack, but they were
countermanded. It was argued by
some of the rebel chiefs that since a
small detachment had made such
progress, it was the duty of the rest
of the army to a'd tile attacketv
Gen. Madero walvet'ed itt rttfl decision,
to stand by his piomlse of
Sunday night, not to atticic the city.
Flags of trtlce suffered gross'/ during
the battle. A rebel whi bote
one, was shot from bis horse. Those
who were trying to per.s\iade Madco
to make a general attack, it ',s sai l,
reported that the Fedara19. hid llred
on the truce-bearer, but this was
contradicted Inter.
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State Health Officer.
Dr. J. Adams Hayne, a surgeon of
the United States army, located at
Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, a native
South Carolinian and former
resident of Greenville, early ThursJ
nr'jo nlnr>tof1 honlt.n
uay uiui HI lift ? UO Civ;v?,vu
officer and secretary of the State
board of health to succeed Dr. C.
Fred Williams. He will come to Columbia
in a few days to assume his
new work.
Costly Poker Game.
A Sunday afternoon poker game
played ,in a hay shed caused the fire
that swept Bangor, Maine, burning
nearly four hundred buildings,
causing two deaths, rendering thousands
homeless, and doing damage estimated
at four million dollars. One
of the players threw a match on ihc
J floor and the loose hay burst in?o
flames.
Men Killed by Smoke.
w'"* worn anffrtrntari hv smokf
? from a Are which started in the BosIf;
ton colliery of the Delaware & Hudson
company at Larksville. The
government rescue corps who found
fc. several overcome by the smoke saved
j* them* from what otherwise would
If have been certain death.
NIGHT STOPS FIGHT
ADVANTAGE WITH REBELS AFTER
ALL-DAY FIGHTING.
The Opposing Forces Resting on
Arms, Ready to Resume Conflict
at Daybreak.
What was perhaps the fiercest
battle of the Mexican revolution was
fought at Jaurez, across the river
from El Paso, Texas, Tuesday. That
night both Federals and insurrectos
are resting on their arms, ready to
resume the battle at daylight. At
least five persons have been killed on
the American side of the border
since the skirmishing began Monday
and about fifteen have been wounded,
while the loss on the battlefield
is variously estimated at from 3 0 to
60 dead on both sides and about 75
to 100 wounded.
Fifteen wounded rebels have been
brought to the American side and
more are believed to be within the
town. Qen. Navarro at seven o'clock
Tuesday night agreed to stop the
firing while the wounded rebels were
removed. The Federals have adequate
medical facilities and are caring
for their wounded within the
town.
All day the battle raged, the rebels
swarming through the streets of
Juarez and meeting the heavy fire of
the Federals with an equally vigorous
volley of musketry. The rebels
claim the town Tuesday night. It.
is true that they actually control
more city territory than do the Federals,
yet the position of the Government
force is so well fortified
that it is almost impregnable.
The rebels forced the fighting in
the face of the deadly fire of the
Federal machine guns. They dared
not gather in too great number for
an attack on the Federals, for the
Federals demonstrated many timcu,
the accuracy of the guns. Cten. Navarro
is said to have mined most of
the buildings in the city, and it is
believed he will be able to inflict a
terrible blow to the rebel forces
should they take the city.
An actual view of the fighting in
the streets of Juarez showed the insurrectos
as more than holding their
own. The sun beat fiercely on the
battlefield, and a fire, started by the
insurrectos, filled the streets with
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smouldering, the post office and several
adjoining buildings being in
ruins. The light from fire gives
the rebels an occasional glimpse of
the Federals. The crackling of rifles
is intermittent.
Juarez looks as if a hurricane had
struck it. Wires are suspended
from jagged telephone poles and the
streets are filled with plaster, abode
de.bris, window glass and splinters.
Many a building has a hole in it, and
not a few of the characteristic abode
houses of the town are without roofs.
The terrorized inhabitants were
under cover all day, and many were
t-i i 1 l,nil >?111 lota T]|*?
injured uy uuc; imii ui uunvia, .
town itself is quiet, except for occasional
rifle balls. Bullets flew across
the Rio Grande to the American side,
but the United States troops have
kept sighteers several hundred yards
from the river.
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DECLARES PROHIBITION FARCE.
Judge Hammond's Observations on
Georgia Liquor Law.
Discharging his petit jury Thursday
afternoon, following five acquittals
of saloonists charged with retailing
liquor, Judge Henry C. Hammond,
of the Superior Court, commenting
from thq nchch, presented
facts to show that, deBpite the prohibition
law in Georgia, the people
want the liquor, the State licenses
the dealer, juries refuse to convict
and hence the prohibition law of the
Qtntn in n faree and failure.
The most drastic law ever passed
for State-wide prohibition was enacted
In Georgia, the experiment was
tried, the State treasury felt the loss
of revenue, a gentle breeze opposed
to prohibition sprang up, the State
granted license to saloons to deal in
"beverage, drink or liquor in imitation,"
for the former alcholic drinks,
summarizes the facts he offers.
The Judge then asks what scientists
has ever discovered any drink
in "imitation" of alcholic beverages.
Concluding, the Court declared that
he expressed no personal opinion?
"such would bo out of place"?hut
that he was merely presenting a few
simple facts.
Tillman Wouldn't Return.
It developed Thursday during the
vote for a president pro tern of the
senate that Senator Tillman would
not return to Washington at all during
the present session. It has been
* * 1 uTAiil/l pnmp back
un(i(? rsiuou in a i no ttuuiu
to Washington when the senate
. was ready to act on the reeli
procity bill, but it is now learned
that he will not be there until next
i winter.
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Meeting of Leaders.
It is expected that more that 1,00(
j Democratic leaders of the Dakota*
. Montano, Iowa, Idaho, Oregon, Min
nesota, Washington and probabl:
Michigan and Wisconsin, will atten<
1 the .big Democratic conference of th<
I Northwest, which has been called t<
I assemble In St. Paul early nex
month. I
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PASS FREE LIST
The Repablicaas Try ia Vaia la hmtti
th? New Tarif Bill
ATTEMPT FILIBUSTER
Mann Leads Desperate Nine Hour
Fight to Change Measure, but the
Democrats Vote Down Over One
Hundred Amendments as Each
Proposed and Then Pass the Bill.
Despite genuine harrying filibuster
tactics, used by the Republicans
in their "last ditch" fight in the
House against the Democrats "tree
list," the first tariff measure Qf the
House majority, passed the House
Monday night, without a single
change, by a vote of 23 6 to J 09,
the Democrats voting solidly and
mustering twenty-four Republicans
with them, says the Washington correspondent
of The News and Courier.
This came after the Democrats had
voted down or ruled out of order
more than 100 amendments, and had
shown again that the Democratic majority
was a compact and smoothly
working machine foT the enactment
of legislation.
The Republican fisht to amend the
bill began with an attempt to make
the free admission 01 mercnanoise
apply only to Imports from countries
that in turn admitted American products
free. This was followed by
efforts to have incorporated in tjb9
bill a provision that would force other
countries to give up their discrimination
against American meat, live
cattle and flour and to include piovisions
in the bill. All of the amendments
were thrown out by Chairman
Alexander and Chairman Hay, the
two presiding officers of the day, as
not permissible under the rules of
the House.
The Republican leaders, including
Ex-Speaker Cannon, Mr. Mann and
Representative Payne, former Republican
leader, roundly denounced
the Democrats for denying freedom
of debate and amendment. Mr.
Cannon declared that never in the
history of Congress had the right of
representation on the floor been so
limited; and Mr. Payne asserted that
the Democrats would be discredited
before the country for their arbitrary
exercise of power. 1
The Democrats smiled through it
all and on the motion of Mr. Underwood,
they continued to turn down
the Republican amendments. They
ruled out amendment covering free
rice, free sugar, free iron ore, free
drugs, glass and a host of other
I things. Time after time 'Mr. Mann
appealed from the decisions of the
Chair, overruling his amendments,
but in each case the Democratic majority
sustained the Chair.
After four or five hours of attempts
at amendment, the Republican
fight took on the complexity of
a filibuster. Once when denied a vote
by the chairman, Mr. Mann intimated
that the bill would not pass in a
hurry. Following that, the Republicans
repeatedly demanded rising
votes, but in the end Mr. Mann made
no attempt to delay the final vote on
the bill.
in nil tlip Rennblican leader offer
ed 83 amendments. After every
paragraph he renewed the attempt
to have clauses put in so that the
free rates would not apply to countries
charging duties against similar
American goods. The Democrats
steadfastly refused to cut off debate
or lay themselves open to the
charge of having passed the bill under
a gag rule.
Republicans declared that the
Democrats were giving away American
goods. Mr. Hllle, of Connecticut,
insisted that the bill ought to
be so amended that it would put a
lever under other nations that are
not dealing fairly with the United
States. To none of these changes,
however, would the Democrats accede.
Minority Deader Mann declared
that the Democrats had not put either
rice or rice flour on the free list,
simply because they were products
(ho Smith Chairman Underwood,
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of the ways and means committee,
replied that the reason rice had not
been made free was because the
Democrats did not know how much
revenue it would cost the Government.
"This does not complete our tariff
legislation," said Mr. Underwood.
We introduced this bill to give the
piemen ts. WeiHCbilloDem
farmers cheaper agricultural implements.
We would not go beyond
that without endangering the revenues.
We intend to take up all tarifl
rates and to adjust all of them."
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11alance of Trade.
! The world owes the United Statci
$441,000,000 for food, clothing anc
1 raw materials sold abroad. Onlj
t once has the balance of trade beer
higher in favor of this country, ac
cording to the government figures
utuMi it WM H mor<
'111(11, WHH 111 liJUU nnv.. ..
> than $.550,000,000.
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EagleH Carry Off Two Slieep.
f Two Egyptian sheep, valued a
1 $100 each, while out in fx pasture a
0 Ashintully farm, near Lenox, Mass,
o last week were carried off by tw<
t American eagles. The eagles had i
ten-foot spread of wing.
JAPAN IS BANKRUPT
THAT NATION SEEKS TO THROW
UP THE SPONGE.
Her Game Is to Take China or Rush
Into War, Be Beaten, and RepndJ*
ate Her Debts.
Japan is bending every effort to
get control of China and rule the
Orient. This statement is made by
Prof. Joseph K. Goodrich, until lately
occupying the English chair in
the Imperial Government college in
Kyoto, Japan. He declares that Japan's
avowed friendship of the United
States is false and that the na
tion is not only bankrupt, but is disorganized
and suffering from "swellhead."
Prof. Goodrich has spent the
last half century in the Orient and
has a familiar knowlege with the
complicated affairs of the Far East.
"I have seen nothing in Japan's
actions since 1905," says Prof. Goodrich,
which did not give good reason
to believe her a mischief maker. The
antipathy to the United States, in
spite of official statements to the
contrary, has always been most outspoken;
my students were disgustingly
frank in saying that it was
the intention of their country to
fight mine, and to whip, too, of
course, so as to get a big indemnity
with which to restore the ruined financial
condition of Japan.
"This persistent nagging of the
United States, that has gone on now
for five years and more, has always
puzzled me, and I do not yet see what
it clearly means. Can it be a cunning
device to divert the attention
of the world from Japan's evil intentions
towards China.
"Or is this pestering an evidence
of Japan's desperation and on indi?
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would do, if it suited her convenience?
She knew she is hopelessly,
helplessly bankrupt; the overstrain
of taxation began to show itself last
September, when a few (of the many)
j discontented people acted; and there
are not wanting other evidences of
disorganization. Perhaps Japan is
now deliberately laying herself out
tention of then saying: "I am completely
knocked out; I throw up the
for a crushing defeat with the insponge,
I repudiate my debts; now
do what you like.'
ONE DEAD, ANOTHER DYING.
lawyer and Tinsmith Have Pistol
Duel in Jacksonville.
At Jacksonville, Fla., W. S.
Yaughan, a prominent lawyer, was
through the heart, when Johnson firsmith,
fatally injured in a pistol
fight in the former's office Thursday
afternoon. Johnson had called on
Vaughan regarding a debt and, when
he failed to settle, the shooting started.
Vaughan is supposed to have
fired five shots after being shot
through the heart, when John fired
ed four. Vaughan was found dead at
the steps of the ollice building a
few seconds after the shooting and
Johnson was was lying in the door,
fatally wounded and unconscious,
both collapsing in their efforts to
leave the room.
There was no witness to the tragedy
and the survivor has been unconscious
since the shooting and is
not expected to regain consciousness.
ALL DIEI) SAME WAY.
Sisters, Whose Husbands Were Killed
in Their Cubs.
A most remarkable story comes
from Huntington, \V. Va. A dispatch
from there says four sisters, all widows
of railroad engineers killed in
wrecks, will meet at the funeral of
Engineer Thomas Pilcher of that
city, who was killed in a wreck on
the Chesapeake and Ohio last Tuesday.
Pilcher was one of four engineers
who married four sisters, the
Misses Garner of Albermarle County,
t.v, Virginia. Each victim met his
death in his cab; each was the engineer
of a fast express train, and the
fireman of each was killed at the
same time, though no passengers
were hurt.
Moans Cheaper Clothes.
That the ways and means committee
will put raw wool on the free list
in revising schedule "K" was declar
ed to he practically certain, and re1
suited in a caucus of the Democrat
ic delegation from New York, al
which eighteen members declarer
1 themselves in facor of free raw wool
and four argued against it. Al
pledged themselves to abide by th<
decision of the full Democratic cau
cii8es.
, Human Tdfc Cheap.
I N. W. Josey, a wealthy merchan
r of Prewton, Wednesday shot am
i shot and killed Whitt Rrantley, i
: young white man, there. Severa
. days ago Brantley inrew a rocj
9 against Josey's store, it is alleged
and Josey, it is said, waylaid him
lirtborers Join Hobels.
t Farmers at Waelder, Texas, usual
t ly relying upon Mexican labor ca
,, get none now. During the last fe^
? days there has been a general exodu
a of Mexicans from that quarter, man
of them going to join the insurgent)
BANK OF
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Successor to the Bank of
Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent dev
Republic. Backed by the (
United States Bonds, we are p
tomers any reasonable accomjc
A H. A. SPIVBY,
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H. H. WOODWARD
lttorn?7 and Councilor At Law.
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Physician and Surgeon.
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CONWAY, S. C.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at Ba> /.
Bank of Horry Building.
CONWAY, S. C.
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At Rome. Ga., Thomas Parker, a
gttnrd on the city chain gang, was
found dead Monday morning. A
bullet hole was through his abdomen.
I * Jo .. oi l/n/\mn nrVintlinr ha \\r a a trill.
It IS IlUt IW IVnH YT IIVVIIVI liv vv ?
ed by some convict or came to his
death ,by accident. The case has
j been taken up by the coroner and
police officials.
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i. Summer Hotel Hurried.
Flro of unknown origin earl)
Wednesday morning entirely destroyI
ed the summer hotel at Flat Rock
n two miles from Hendersonvllle. Th<
(v hoetelry had not opened for th<
s summer. It was erected at a cost o
y $20,000, and was insured for $10,
3. 000. C. E. Roper was proprietor.
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DRS .115.500 I
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Will A. Freeman,
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SUICIDE THREAT HALTS POSSE. C;
I)esporat? Plan of Greenville Man
to Avoid Arrest. j
After holding at bay for nearly
two hours the county sheriff and a. r
corps of deputies, by pressing a^ainsts
his temple a cocked revolver and
threatening to blow out his grains. ^
if any member of the posse advanced
a step nearer, Robert Henton, a /'
white man, was arrested on the outskirts
of Greenville, Thursday afternoon
and lodged in the county jail..
Henton was induced to ' surrender ^
only when bond necessary for his reI
lease was shown him on the spot.. \
In answer to a call sent in about.
2..10 o'clock, the sheriff and his deputies
made a hurried departure for
the scene of trouble. It was reported
that Henton had shot his wife and.
was about to annihilate the neighborhood.
The man learned of the*
sheriff's approach and forthwith sent,
a courier to meet the wardens of
the law and inform them that if they f
attempted to arrest him, he wouldP. 4
shoot his head off.
WARTIME SHELL EXPLODES.
Heat Caused Bomb to Cut Loose Fii:
Engineer's Hands.
Walter Armstrong, a well known >. ,
I young locomotive engineer, of Jackson,
Miss., was seriously injured last
week, due to the explosion of one of
the many wartime shells which are
so promiscuously distributed over*
that section. It appears that his
fireman and a companion who were- ^
at work about an engine had gotten
hold of one of these shells and.
had been hammering at it with a.
view of studying the inside works.
Armstrong came along, and, seeing
that they were rather too close
to a fire that had been built beside
the track, picked it up and was
walking off, passing near the fire. In
some way the remnant of explosive
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matter .became ignited ana ine mien
burst in Armstrong hand. The re- |
suit was a badly shattered arm and jr
a loss of one or two fingers, and theright
leg shattered below the kneeWOMAN
MAITj CARRIER.
Has Travelled More Than Sixty-two 4
Thousand Miles.
Miss Florence S. Markham has
completed twenty-two years' service
for Uncle Sam carrying the mail between
Stockbridge station and Interlaken,
Mass. She makes the round
trip twice a day and has travelled
62,000 miles.
Miss Markham cares for her team
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freight. She has never had a vacation
and has never missed a train.
Some days in winter she has had
to shovel out snowdrifts ten feet
deep to get through. She has been
( in terrific thunderstorms.
( When she first started Miss MarkI
ham received $9 a month, now she ^
get $25. There have been four post- i
masters at Interlaken in the twentytwo
years she has served. Miss
Markham is the only child and supr
port of Mr. and 'Mrs. John H. Markham,
of Interlaken.
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5 Some people leave the substance
) or the success that would surely folf
low steadfastness of purpose that
- they may chase every alluring shadow
that comes in sight.