The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 01, 1911, Image 3
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GLOOMY LEAVE TAKING
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The A^ed Kx*> President Steals Away
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in Dead of Night from the Former
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wene ui nit* rower, ihkch special
Train for Vera Cruz, Where He
Took Ship.
Porflrio Diaz, former -President of
Mexico, has benome an exile, and will
m' end his days in a strange land. He
stole away from Mexico City with
great secrecy at two o'clock Friday
morning.
Only a few devoted friends whom
he dared to trust, followed him to
athe station. He was bound for Vera
Cruz to take ship for Spain, where in
all probability he will end his days.
So carefully were the arrangements
made for the ex-President's escape
that detail could not be conflrm*
<ed until next afternoon. Secrecy was
due less to apprehension of a popular
Outburst than to a desire to reach
Vera Cruz without the fact being
w known to marauding bands along the
route.
Travel between Mexico City and
the seaport usually Is over the -Mexican
railway, a standard guagc railroad
with modern equipment. Rails
along this route, however, frequently
have been removed of late by bandits,
who were determined that Diaz, for
reasons .best knewn to themselves,
should not leave the Capital. They
mre reported to have harbored the
Idea that Dfaz would follow the precedent
of other Latin-American Pes
ident's and carry the national funds
with him.
There is another railroad to tho
foist, a narrow gauge, owned by the
< ^vernment.' Taking it for ganted
l,int Diaz would take the moe luxurious
route, the bandits have not mo~
lasted it. For this reason it was
r ?Tosen by the ex-President foir his
I trip.
Presumably De La Barra and the
offlcials, have l>een infromed, but
heir Hps are sealed on every detail.
Senor De La Barra, who was inaugurated
as Provisional President only
Friday, it is realized has not yet
bad time to bring about the reforms
<cf fr?e speech," and "liberty of the
press," which have been demanded.
^ Gen. Diaz, still feeble from his illness
and far from being a well man,
loft his home at two o'clock in the
morning. A more dreary leave taking
could hardly have been witnessed.
Pain wafTfalling and by the time the
(" -President emerged from a house,
n Novem.ber chill was in the air. Tie
was closely muffled and to aid in the
_ disguise a borrowed automobile was
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mod.
The route to the San Lazero station
had been mapped out over unfremmntn/1
rnoflo Tlv r? nronpm n ov~?d
scheme, at the last moment, police
v ere scattered along the line. At
crtain points the close friends of
the former chieftan, excluding those
^ "tfho will accompany him across the
> Mahtic, fell in behind his car.
The "Diaz Special" followed a plb
? train. The first train was occup'"d
by a detatchment of the 25th infantry.
Mr. Diaz was accompanied
bv his wife, son and a few close
k friends.
The trains ran without orders, to
prevent the rebels along the line
' picking up news of Diaz's coming
from the wires. Just when or on
what ship Gen. Diaz will sail is a
mhtter of conjecture. The French
ship Espagae was due to leave Vera
Ctuz Thursday, but may have b?en
held at the disposal of the party from
Mexico City.
A Spanish liner, the Manuel Calva,
. is scheduled to weigh anchor Satur\
day, sailing via Havana to Barcelona.
A German ship, on which the Diaz
party recently reserved staterooms,
reports that the reservations have not.
been cancelled.
1 Den. Diaz will nrobably make his
f home In Spain, probably at Mnjjrid.
S-nora Diaz was made a lady in waiting
to the Spanish Queen, and Gen.
Diaz haS been made an honorary general
in'tjie Spanish army.
JPhe inauguration of De La Tlarra
as Provisional President was a very
hHef affair, occupying but ten minutes.
To spectators it seemed as if he
had scarcely moved down Avenida
Cln'do de Mayo with his splendid escort
before he was on his way back
to the National i'aiace at tno necia or
his galloping troopers, his carriage
smothered with flowers.
Private telegrams received at Mexico
City report that Gen. Diaz arrived
at Vera Cruz Friday afternoon.
According to the advices he boarded
the'Ypiranga, a Hamburg-American
boat. The Ypiranga is due to sail
South to Coatzacoalcos Saturday..
Railroad reports received state the
pilot train was stopped by insurrectos
below Jalapa, but after learning that
it war. ^ervfcug a P^ot the ?en~
eral's train, It was permitted to proceed.
None of the three suffered other
delays.
South Carolina leads In the census
showing, as her Increase of value
of the chief farm products.
CONEY ISLAND BURNS
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ESCAPE OF MAN-EATING LION
CAUSES A SMAIdj PANIC.
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Two Hundred Buildings Burned and
Two Thousand Persons Rendered
Homeless and Penniless.
Coney Island, the playground of
New York, suffered the worst disaster
of its history Saturday. "Dreamland,"
the largest of the amusement
parks, waa wiped out 'and about four
blocks adjoining, covered with
booths, restaurants, hotels, moving
picture theatres and resorts of varied
types, were destroyed.
The lire broke out at 2 o'clock in
the morning and was not under control
until three hours and a half later.
The loss will amount to be
twoen $2,000,000 and $3,000,000.
hi all about 200 buildings were
burned and perhaps 2,000 persons,
concessionaires and employees, were
turned into the street homeless and
penniless. No lives were lost.
The fire was discovered, a tiny
blaze, in the tarred scaffolding of
"Hell Gate," a scenic railway close
to the entrance to "Dreamland.''
Twenty minutes after a frightened
watchman had turned in three
alarms, one after another, as fast
as his thumb could press the key,
all "Dreamland," ten acres of closely
packed buildings, was one blaze. The
flames, urged by a strong wind, were
visible for nearly fifteen mileB.
f'lnflo tn "Holl fluff* " wlipro tho
fire started, was the Hostock animal
show, and nearer yet the infant incubator,
a charity nursery, in which
were six infants and their attendants.
The children were taken out in their
little glass houses and rushed out of
danger by the police. Then came the
work of taking out the animals, a
costly collection, including several
dangerous man-eaters. The animals
were in a panic. Their roaring could
be heard for many blocks above the
crackling of the flames and throbbing
of the engines.
All went well until the transfer
was nearly concluded. Then the biggest
of the lions, in panic, broke
from his bonds, smashed his way
through the barriers and leaped into
the streets, all ovked by a throng,
of spectators, lie dived straight into
the middle ol tlie throng. Consternation
seized the multitude and the
crowd rushed pell-mell in all directions
in panic. He was hunted down
and killed by polieemen. Sixty other
animals were burned to death. *
STATE UNIVERSITY CLOSES.
Commencement Exercises Begin on
Sunday, June 4.
The Graduating Class, the Faculty
and the Students of the University of
Smith fUirnlimi rennpst vonr nresence
at the commencement exercises June
4 to 7:
The program is as follows:
Sunday, June 4th?11:15 a. m.?
Sermon before the Y. M. C. A. by
Rev. C. Armond Miller, Charleston,
S. C.
8:30 p. m.?Baccalaureate Sermon
by Dr. Howard Ivee Jones, D. D.,
Charleston, S. C.
Monday, June 5th?9:00 a. m.?
Class Reunions.
8:30 p. m.?Joint Celebration of
Euphradian and Clariosophic Literary
Societies.
Tuesday, June Gth?10:00 a. m.?
Class Day Exercises.
8:30 p. m.?Commencement Address
by Lewis W. Parker, Esq.
Address to Law Graduates by Hon.
W. A. Henderson, Washington, D. C.
Wednesday. June 7th?11:00 a. m.
?Commencement Procession Forms
at Library.
11:15 a. m.?Commencement Exercises.
Conferring of Degrees.
10:00 p. m.?Commencement Ball.
BURGLAR FOUND HANGING.
Attempted to Rob New York House
and Met His Death.
As an animal might be caught in a
trap in the solitude of woodlands and
held there until it died, a human being
was found in New York rocently
?a man who attempted the burglary
of a wealthy man's home. The body
was identified as that of Joseph Tauer,
twenty-seven years old, who had
lived at No. 218 East One Hundred
and Twenty-third street. Mrs. Elias
Surut, wife of a woolen merchant,
came from her summer home at Arverne
land discovered 1n her town J
house at No. 13 8 West One Hundred
and Twenty-first street, Manhattan, j
the body of the burgler hanging from
the skylight. The lid of the skylight t
tyay across the back of his neck. '
Slowly he had strangled. Then his
body had dangled for days from the
roof of tho vacant house.
Very Vnusuul Case.
A very interesting case promises to
come from the arrest of Prince Oolphin,
a negro, charging him with the
murder of George Walker, another
negro, at Aiken, about three years
ago. There are two men in the pen- I
intentiary serving sentences for this
murder. Prince Golphin was at the
time also charged with a complicity
in the murder, but he turned State's
evidence, and the charges against
him were not pressed.
I TRIAN TAKES PLUNGE
THREE MEN KILLED AND TWO
ARE FATALLY HURT.
The Accident Happened About Five
O'Clock Sunday Afternoon on the
Seaboard Railroad.
(Pinned beneath their engines in
Watkins creek, on which are piled
seventeen cars of coal, are the
bodies of Engineers Lindsay and
Green and Fireman Dooley. Two
others are perhaps fatally injured as
a result of a double-header Seaboard
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y\ir bine coai train guing inrougii a
wooden trestle between Ellenboro
and Dostic, N. C., about five o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The train was moving slowly eastbound
and had passed nearly over
the trestle when it gave way, both
engines falling a depth of forty feet
and seventeen steel coal cars piling
on the engines. The second engine,
on which were Engineer Lindsay and
Fireman Dooley, was covered up
completely and neither man has as
yet been located. A mangled hip can
be seen but it is not known to which
man it belongs.
Engineer Lindsay's poople live at
Ch-erryville, while he made his home
in Monroe. His white firemen, Roy
Dooley, also made his home in Monroe;
Dooley's people live at Wilmington.
Engineer Rod Green, on
first engine No. 704, lived at Monroe.
His remains have been taken
to an undertaker at Shelby.
Early Lewis, the colored firemen
on Mr. Green's engine, felt the tres
tie give <and jumped in time to save
his life, although he is painfully and
perhaps fatally injured about the
head and shoulder. Don Nealy, a
colored brakeman, was on the tender
-of the second engine. Ho has a
.broken back and the doctors say he
will not recover. *
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND.
Mysterious Tragedy Revealed Near
Victim's Own Home.
With bullet wounds in the face
and back and the face crushed in
with a piece of timber the body of
Mrs. David Sapp, of Quitman, (la.,
was found early Friday morning in a
sink hole, about a quarter of a mile
from hor home. She had been miss
ing since Monday afternoon. Just
before her disappearance, it is said,
neighbors heard three shots in the
Sapp home, but no one was seen
about the premises. When his wife
failed to return Monday night, Sapp
notified the police and investigation
showed a lot of blood leading to a
desolate spot, where the body was
finally located Friday. No arrests
have been made.
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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
Child of Congressman and Mrs. Regnre
Crushed to Death.
Rosa, the 5-year-old daughter of
Congressman George S. Legare, died
this morning as the result of a most
deplorable accident. Yesterday -evening
the little girl was playing at a
neighbor's house and accidentally
pulled down upon her tiny body a
shelf containing heavy plant pots and
she was pinned to the piazza floor by
the weight of the debris. Internal
injuries were caused which brought
about her death this morning. Congressman
Ldgare arrived home from
Washington to find his yiungest child
in extremis. He had known nothing
en route of her sad condition.
THEY SLID TO SAFETY.
Six Persons Were Saved by a Small
Cotton Clothes Line.
Six persons were saved from death
in a fire in a four story New York
tenement Friday ry a long slide down
a clothes line. The flames cut off the
escape of the six and they were marooned
on a balcony overlooking the
street. Flames were shooting out
about them when one of the party, a
(1-year-old boy, with a jack knife cut
down a lone niece of clothes line
which was hanging from a pulley
over his head. He tied the slender
rope to the edge of the balcony and
one by one the six slid to safety. The
boy went last. *
Fishing float Upset.
Moses Clement, aged 2 8, was
drowned and Rimer Clement and F.
M. Dietz, were rescued Saturday
night at the mouth of the Savannah
River, after a hard fight with the
water. The rescue was (made 'by the
Merchants' and Miners' Transportation
Company steamer Tuscan, in
from Philadelphia. *
Fleeced on Ship Hoard.
There were fat pickings for two
professional gamblers over -on the
Tmsitana arriving reo ntly at New
York. One passenger reported that
In four days the gamblers picked up
$1 4,000, one of their victims losing
$1,000.
Snow Falls in Manitorn.
A dispatch from Harrowford,
*northwestern (Manitoba, Sunday says:
Winter returned in earnest. Five
inches of snow covers the ground,
and a blinding blizzard is raging. *
MART1NE LAVES CAUCUS
in tilt with bailey over
ix>iumi:h resolution.
New Jersey Senator Unwilling to
Stand by Caucus Action In Adopting
Martine Resolution.
In Thursday's Democratic senatorial
caucus over the tMartine resolution
to refer the reinvestigation of
the Lorimer case to the committee
on privileges and elections, which
wn<a ahnrvtph hv a vnto of 9.d to d
there was a sharp tilt between Senator
Bailey, of Texas, and Senator
Martine, of New Jersey. Mr. Bailey
told Mr. Martine that if the latter
was not willing to abide by the decision
of the caucus he could leave
it, whereupon the New Jersey senator
put on his hat and left the meeting
in a rage.
The verbal encounter between
Messrs. Bailey and Martine originated
in Mr. Bailey's demand for general
support of the Martine resolution.
Bailey declared that any senators
who refused to be bound by the
caucus had no rightful place in the
party councils.
This aroused the senators who
favor the La Follette resolution providing
for an inquiry by special committee
of new senators. Mr. Bailey
contended that more than two-thirds
of the caucus favored the Martine
resolution. Mr. Martine said that he
was unwilling to be bound by a party
caucus in some cases. He also stated
that he was willing to compare his
record with that of Mr. Bailey.
Saying he would not bandy words
regarding the character of his owu
Democratic standing, Mr. Bailey in
sisted that senators were in duty
bound to abide by a two-thirds majority
of tbe caucus. Mr. Martine
finally withdrew from the caucus.
Almost every other Democratic
senator participated in the debate.
It developed that the Republicans
had agreed to abandon the Dillingham
resolution in favor of the Martine
resolution with the understanding
that any senator should be free
to offer and support amendments.
It was expected that the Lorimer
questin would come up in the open
senate, but this matter was crowded
out by other business. The prospect
now is that the Martin resolution
will be adopted without amendment.
The Farmer Feedcth All.
If it was not for the farmer and
bis farm and what he makes on it
this great cpuntry of ours would
not today be considered the richest
and greatest country on tbe planet.
Notwithstanding the fact that he is
plundered morning, noon and night
out of much of his hard earned money
by the operations of the tariff, he
still manages to make enough to feed
himself and the balance of us. Yet
he is hardly considered When it comes
to legislation. The men he sends
to represent him in Congress plucks
him for the benefit of rich constituents
who can afford to spend large
sums to intiuenoe legislation.
All of the above is fully verified
by the fact that the exports from
the United States in the fiscal year
1911 will probably exceed by about
three hundred million dollars the tlgiipoq
nf lnat voo r n n rl frnsu thf* fwn
billion dollar line. The figures of
exports of the bureau of statistics,
department of commerce
with April, show and excess of 268
million dollar over those in the corresponding
months of last year, and
for the single month of April, an excess
of 25 million dollars over April
of last year, thus indicating that the
growth in exports in 1911 will approximate
300 million dollars, and
the total exports of the year probably
exceed two billion dollars.
What are the principal causes in
this enormous growth in exports in
1911 when compared with 1910? Tt
it well known that in certain articles,
^uch as wheat, flour, cattle,
meats and others of this class, exports
of 1911 are less than those of
earlier year in the history of the
ing off in these important staples, of
which the United States has in the
past, been such a large exporter, the
total value of merchandise exported
seems likely to show a larger
growth in 1911 than shown by any
earlier years in the history of the
foreign trade. Exports of cattle in
the ton monins on<nng wun Aprn
show an actual falling off of over 2
1-2 milllom dollars In value when
compared with tho corresponding
months of 1910.
Wheat shows a falling off of about
23 million dollars In value In the
ten months in question, compared
with tho corresponding: period of the
earlier year; canned beef, fresh beef,
oleo oil, and tallow, all show a decline
in the quantity exported in the
pared with the corresponding months
ton montns ending April wnen comof
the proceeding year, yet in that
same ten months the total value of
all exports from the United States is
2OS million dollars greater than in
the corresponding months of the preceding
year. What is the cause? The
cause of so large a growth in certain
articles as to overcome the loss
in certain other articles and still
create a gain of 268 million dollars
i over the figures of last year is chiefly
the high price of cotton and the
Increased outward movement of man
HANGED ON FRIDAY
PAII> PEN A LTV FX>R ATTEMPTING
A HEINOUS CHIME.
Gave Out Btatment Claiming that
Whiskey Was the Cause of His Attempted
Crime.
Paying the death penalty to which
he was sentenced on March 26th, for
attempting to criminally assault a
well known white lady of Spartanburg
on February 26th, Gary Gist,
colored, was Friday hanged in the
Spartanburg County Jail by Sheriff
W. J. White, assisted by Sheriff Poole
of Greenville, Sheriff Owens of Laurens.
and Sheriff Thomas of Cherokee.
Gist ate heartily Thursday night.
He read tho 9th and 10th chapters
in the book of St. Mark. lie aros^
early Friday morning and told Jailer
Wilson, who carried him his last
meal, that he was ready to meet his
God. No other person saw him Friday,
except the lb^v. It. S. Truesdale,
pastor Central Methodist Church, and
the Rev. J. S. Earlo, a colored minister,
who offered prayer and spiritual
com fort.
A great morbid crowd gathered in
front of the jail, but few were adinited.
The death trap was sprung at
11.15, after Gist had stepped on it
without a quiver. Passing by the
Rev. Mr. Truesdale, in the corrider of
tne jail, the pastor said to him: "God
I less you, Gary." "lie will, and I am
ready to go," the negro replied, ana
the black cap covered his face. His
f< et were bound and his hands cuffed.
The trap fell. In 11 minutes
physicians pronounced him deal. His
bedy was given to his parents fur
burial.
Before dying G.st gave out the following
statement to the press:
"Whiskey brought me to this. I got
my whiskey from Ed Johnson; T used
a pint between 12 and 1 o'clock on
that day, and didn't know anything
until I came to the jail. Tell mother
to meet me in Heaven, and all my
relatives to be good. Tell all the
young men, both colored and white,
that my death should be a warning
to them. And that it is best to live
good lives. Good?bye, God bless everybody."
A wire was received from Governor
Blease at ten o'clock stating that as
the young lady upon whose person
the attempt was made refused to sign
the petition for an extension of time
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IIlclT. 11(3 CUlllU nui luvyiisivt vjiuk u
mother and father were both too sick
to see him. Gist, it is remembered,
entered the home of a white woman
and pushing her over and also throwing
her one-year-old Infant to the
floor, was prevented from accomplishing
his purpose only by her
screams, which brought assistance.
He was captured, after an exciting
chase, and placed in the county jail,
where he has since been confined.
Killed by Deputies.
Charles Young,, a desperado, was
killed. Young's wife was probably
fatally wounded, and Deputy Sheriff
Woodruff was seriously wounded in
a pitched battle yesterday between
the Youngs and Deputies Woodruff
and Drown in the dountains of Alleghany
county, N. C. *
Two in Two by Auto.
Near Richmond, Va., Austin Miller,
a mechanician, was killed Sunday
while testing an automobile on
the Drook road. A tire burst, and
Miller las hurled against a cedar tree
with such force that his body was
torn almost in two at the waist. *
OfTloer Sliot to Death.
Constable W. L. Stagg, of Bessener,
Ala, was found shot to death in
the woods near that place Friday. It
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tho crimo* Numbers of cigarette
stubs were found near the body.
Preaclior Fatally lhirned.
The Rev, J. If. Hastie, a Raptist
minister aged 00, was burned to
death toarly Friday morning at Talladega
Springs, Ala., when bo went
back into his burning homo to recover
some money left in a trunk.
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ufaeturers.
Exports of cotton for the ten
months ending with April show alone
an increase of 143 million dollars
over the corresponding months of
last y-?ar, the total value of cotton
exported in the ten months ending
a i\?.fi hnfncr r?.t 0 million dollars, as
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against 40(? million <lollars of last
year. The average export price per
pound during the ton months ending
April was higher than the average
in any full fiscal year during the last
quarter of a century. Corn also shows
a gain, the value of exports in the
ten months ending with April being
nearly 28 millon dollars, against a
little more than 21 million in the
same months of last year, while meat
and diary products show an increase
of about four million dollars in 1911
over the 1910 period. The chief
cause of the largo increase in 1911
over 1910 are found in the larpe exportation
and high price of cotton,
and the large exportation of manufactures
of all kinds.
Tho drought is still with us, but
the heat wave has passed on, which
makes the dry weather more endurable.
MANY GO FREE
Giferitr Blease Graits Parties It Ftm
teei Diseased Ctaricts
NAMES OF LUCKY ONES
As a Result of the Governor's Re*
cent Visit to the Penitentiary,
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rjicvru g riNunm nunmnK wiiu
Chronic Ailments and One of Advanced
Age (aiven Liiberty.
Fourten prisoners left the State
Penitentiary on Monday. Of the
fourteen men released by o?
Governor Please twelve are given the
freedom upon the endorsement of the
prison physician and the captain of
the guard at the Penitentiary, following
Governor Blease's personal
visit to the prison when he saw
these prisoners' condition.
One other prisoner leaves also as
a result of Governor Blease's visit,
and the fourteenth go as the result of
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u imuriiig in tut? ouiuruu^, it utJing
simply a coincidence that he wilt
be released at the same time that
the other prisoners go. According to
the certificates eleven of the paroled
prisoners are suffering with chonic
illness 'and one gets his certificate
because of advanced age.
There are nine life prisoners who
will receive paroles. They are: John
Hall, Orangeburg, burglary; Joe
Gaddy, colored, Horry, murder;
Frank Murray, colored, Berkeley,
murder; Daisy Cicero, colored, Fairfield,
murder; Green Brown, colored,
Chester, murder; v a've* Perkins,
Greenville, murder Hugh Campbell,
Greenville, murder; James Carter,
colored, iMarion, rape. Arthur Whitener,
colored, Chester, murder.
At the time Governor Blease went
to inspect the hosiery mill a number
of prisoners angering with chronic
illness were brought before him and
he stated at the time that he would
release those who have a home to go
to and whose cases would receive
the endorsement of the captain of
the guard and of the prison physician.
Some of those who left the prison
had to ho carried from the very door
of their cells in the hospital building.
One of the prisoners, an old
negro, is blind; two others are suffering
from locomotor ataxia, which
disease renders them helpless; another
fell from the third tier of the
cell building and had one side paralyzed;
he glided on his cheek bone
and was saved from death in the
fall, but has never been able to use
one side since the morning he
dropped from the dizzy height; two
of the prisoners that leave have tuberculosis
of the stomach.
One woman is in the list of prisoners.
She was sent up from Fairleld
County for murder in 1901, having
been, therefore, In the penitentiary
fo ten years. She has asthma and
for ten years. She has asthma and
TROUBLE FOR UNCLE SAM.
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iktv tlu.Hi \n v/ui t m > v hvhi^u v
Monroe Doctrine.
At Nashville, Tenn., Judge John
W. Judd, who was sent to Porto Rico
to investigate the laws and conditions .
in the islands by the war department,
made a sensational speech before the
Tennessee Bar Association Friday, in
which he urged this nation drop the
Phillippines and adhere of the Monroe
doctrine as it is understood.
A prepared paper on "Porto Rico
and the Porto Ricans," was to have
been read to the Convention by
Judge Judd, but he stated that he
could not read it, as the authorities
at Washington had asked him not to
give it to the public, asserting it
would cause embarrasing diplomatic
relations with other countries.
Judge Judd expressed the opinion
that if the Monroe doctrine was adhered
to as construed by President
Roosevelt, it would eventually bring
rhe United States into troubles not
dreamed of today. *
Want to (Shut Down.
A dispatch from Manchester, "England.
says the master spinners com
mittee decided to request the users
of American cotton to stop using that
product during the whole of the year
ami also to ask that a vote be tfaken
on the question of organized short
time working periods at mi^ls until
the end of the present cotton season.
England's Population.
Provisional figures returned by the
census officers give the population of
England and Wales this year as 3 6,075,269
compared with 32,527,843
in 1901. While most of the cities
and counties show an increase there
are many cases, particularly in
Wales where there has been an actual
decrease.
Two Pie in the Surf.
Mrs. William Shields and Mrs.
John D. Cannon, members of prominent
families of Palatka, Fla., were
drowned while bathing in the surf at
South Beach Thursday. The ladies
were among the large crowd to the
beach today on the Red Men's an*
nual excursion.