The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 30, 1911, Image 5

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TEXT BOOK LIST Ctalracls Avulti for ScImI lub ky * Ike Macatira Iml ? FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS Some Radical Changes Made from ^ the List of Publications Now Used by the Children in Five Thousand South Carolina Public Schools, as Will He Seen. The verdict in the adoption of the school books of the State was rendered at Columbia Thursday evening. * There was a radical change in the list. (Superintendent Swearingen protested against what he terms too sweeping and unnecessary changes, but he was in a minority. The books adopted are these used in five thousand free schools in the State, but do not necessarily apply to the graded school districts that have their own adoptions. For. the past five years the State depository, R L>. Bryan Company, managers, handled $508,243 worth of school books on the list in use during the five year. The present list will result in many sales. Thursday afternoon Superintend ^ dent Swearingen had the verdict read to the assembled agents of the pul> lishers. The contracts as awarded and as read follows: Awards Announced. Text Books adopted by the State board of education for use in the free public schools from \Septembejr 1, 1911, to June 3 0, 1917: American nook Company?Hunt's Progressive Course in Spelling, Book I, Rook II, Complete; Milne's Progressive Arithmetic, Book, I, II, III; Brook's English Composition, Book I; Maury's New Elements, Maury's Complete Geo/raphies; White's Be-j ginner's History of the United States; i Pearsion's Latin Prose Composition; j Gleason's "A Term of Ovid;" Web-1 ster's Primary, Common School, High School and Academic dictionaries. I Atkinson Mentzer and Grover? ^ supplementary drawing, applied arts drawing books. I B. D. Berrry & Co.?Perry's Writ- ' ing System. Educational Publishing Company, Augsburg's Cours in Drawing. Ginn & Co.?Supplementary Readers, the Hill Readers, Fourth and Fjfth; iMiontgomery's Leading Facts of English History, Collar & Daniel's First Year Latin Supplementary Classic; Snyder's Selections from the Old Testament. D. C. Heath & Co?Woolley's Hand Book of Composition, Thompson's United States History, Well's Algebra for Secondary Schools, Part 1, Part 2 and complete; Well's new plane and solid geometry. Houghton, Mi in Company?Supplementary English Classics, to be ? selected; Supplementary Reading for sixth grade and seventh grade, to be selected from Riverside Literature I series. B. F. Johnson Publishing Company' ?Basal Graded Classics, third reader, fourth reader, fifth reader; Payno's Common Words Commonly Mispelled, Supplementary Classic, the ^ Yemassee, Supplementary Reading; j Hall's Half-Hours in Southern History. W. H. Jones?Spelling blanks. The McMillian Company?Kinard &. Wither's Grammar, Book I, Book II; Duggar's Agriculture for South-' ern schools, Bothford's Ancient History for beginners, Tarr's New Phy- j sical Geography. j Newson & Co.?Buehler's Modern English Grammar. * Rand, McNally & Co.?Supplementary, the Story of Cotton, Robinson's ; Commercial Geography, Teller & ' Brown's Business Methods. | Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co.?Caesar's Gallic War, I t.o V. Johnston & Sanford?Select Ora4 tions of Cicero, O'Ooge; Virgil's Ae* neaid, I to VI. Chas. Scrlbner's Sons?Scribner'a Supplementary English Classics, to be selected; Supplementary Reading, Mims & Payne's Southern Prose and , Poetry. ! ' < ? * - n n _ n i ^ I ' I Silver, numeric & ?ouppie- ^ mentary Stepping Stones to Lltera- , ture, first reader, second and third < reader;, White's "The Making of J South Carolina." Parker P. Simmons?American 1 History Leaflets, Record of My Reading. Southern Publishing Company? Civil Government of the United States, Civil Government of South J Carolina; Civil Government of South Carolina and the United States. 1 W. H. Wheeler & Co.?Primer, 1 basal, first reader, second reader. I World Book Company?Primer of Hygiene, Primer of Sanitation, Human Physiology. (Bids Invited on a history of modern I times and on a Latin .grammar to r r be filed with the State Superinten- 2 on or before July 7th r The most important change Is f the abandonment of Wentworth's arthmetics and the adoption of Milne arithmetics and the abandonment f of Frye's geographies and the use t of Maury's geographies. Both these 1 series are published .by the American Book Company. Thompson's United t States History was readopted. John- j son's fourth and fifth readers were \ retained and third reader added to f FELL EIGHTY FEET WORKMAN MKT DEATH WITHIN A TALL CHIMNEY. He Lost His Footing and Dropped to the Ground and Is Mashed and Broken to Pieces. Mashed to a pulp by a eighty foot I fall was the sad fate of Henry Huen. nefeld, a chimney worker, employed .*> a Hobo'ton contracting company, i which is building the huge chimney ' on Concord street in Charleston for thfc Consolidated Company's gas works. The News and Courier says the accident was a horrible one. It seems that Huennefeld and another man were at work in the chimney which is now in the course oi of construction. They were standing 'on a platform know as a "V", this platform being suspended inside the chimney. The men walked around this as they placed their bricks, and as the height of the chimney increased the "V" was pushed upwards. Inside of the chimney are iron "steps," as they are known, on which the men suport themselves. According to testimony produced at the coroner's inquest, it seems that Huen1 nefeld miscalculated the distance to one of these steps, and fell like a | plummet eighty feet to the ground i inside the chimney. He sustained fearful injuries, practically every | bone in his body being broken and i his brains dashed all over the ground. He was reached a few seconds after the fall, hut was then deaa. The man is a German, whi is said to have no friends, nor relatives in jthis country. lie was employed by j the Hoboken company which is doing ' the work, and has been in Charleston since the construction started some time ago. The nody is now at the j undertakers, and those in charge of 1 the company's work have wired to Hoboken for Instruction as to how to dispose of the body. Huennefeld was | about 4 0 years of age and was unj married. | The chimney in which Huennefeld met his death is a gigantic thing of its kind towering 200 feet above the) ground. Huennefeld, when he lost his footing, was about 80 feet from the bottom, and so great was the velocity which the body of the unfortunate man attained in its drop that it crashed clear through a twoinch plank within the chimney. ? A COLUMBIA MYSTERY. Rody of a Negro Man Found in an Unused Well. The State says Columbia has another murder mystery which will probably never be solved. Well cleaners descending in an old well in the rear of a house at 1814 Hardin street Waverly, Wednesday found the body of Edward Patterson, a negro about 4 0 years of age, who was employed by the Palmetto Ice Company as a driver until December 10 of last year when he disappeared. It was generally supposed that he had gone to Birmingham and no investigation was made at the time as to the cause of his disappearance. The well is located just back of the house. The house has not been occupied since last August. Coroner Walker made a searching investigation as to the cause of the death ana found that Patterson had been murdered. Ills head was crushed by a heavy blow. The shirtwaist of a woman covered his head. The body 1 was decomposed almost beyond recognition. An examination by a physicia^i determined the fact that the man was a negro. Coroner Walker found that the negro had about $15 0 on his person the night tnat ne was Kineu. He had been robbed. Many theories have been advanced as fco the 1110- i tive. No announcement has been i made by Coroner Walker as to when i the inquest will be held. He is I working on several theories and will ' very probably learn something of a i tangible nature. 1 Mrs. Lea Gets Hotter. : Mrs. Luke Lea, whose life was despaired of until the transfusion of blood from her husband, Senator Luke Lea, of Tennessee, on Sunday, f was decidedly better Tuesday, while i Senator Lea, greatly weakened by t the loss of blood, was able to walk ( \bout They are both in a hospital at f Washington. *. ? + t Deaths from Cholera. f Two deaths from cholera and one 1 leath at sea was announced at New c - - _ n Fork quarantine. Tne dead were ? >assengers aboard the Duca Deglia- 1 >ruzzl, arriving from Mediterranean 1 )OTt8. ? To Form Great Society. Steps tiow<ard forming a Young People's society of Baptists in all a >arts of the world. A committee of 8 15 leading ministers and the semi- 1 lary leaders were appointed to com- ' >lete the work of ofganlzation. * ? + ^ b Should Bryan take a notion to go lehing for the Democratic presldenial nomination he would be sure to and it. But he is not a candidate, d C he basal readers. Other reading of d ohnson's publications were added, a Vhite's history appears the list h or beginners. f OUK WASHINGTON LETTER. Congress has done practically nothing the past week and if the present methods are maintained, the extra session will run into the regular in December. The House has passed and put up to the Senate enough business to keep the latter body busy all summer. The President has sent his family away for the season and is doing all he can to follow them, but he cannot leave while his reciprocity bill is in such a critical condition. The Senate is not disposed to pass the bill as it came from the House, and if amended will require further consideration by the House. The House tariff bill will have to wait, and as the President is not pushing action on it, in fact looks upon it with disfavor, it wi'l go over until the regular session. The results of the workings of the Postal savings banks have been so satisfactory, that about fifty new offices will be designated in July. The larger cities will be included in the list, as manv have aDDlied to the authorities for this purpose. An experimental office will be established and if successful the system will be extended to all the large cities of the country. The present Chief Executive's family, like its predecessors, is divided in religious beliefs, which facts couses them to attend different churches. Mr. Taft is a Unitarian, while his wife ! and Helen are Episcopalians, and ! they each attend their own services I with regularity. Mrs. Taft and her daughter attend St: Johns, the most ultra fashionable and exclusive i church in the city. It is a very small church building, located just across La Fayette park from the White House, with accommodations of only a few hundred. The membership is limited to a select few with social distinction, and unless the applicant measures up to the requirements the roster is full and the seating capacity exhausted and they are advised to connect with some other church. Mrs. Roosevelt attended this church, while iMr. Roosevelt attended the Dutch Reform. One of the unique features of government is annually displayed in the memorial decoration services held in Arlington cemetery, the great national burying ground for the Union dead. On the 3 0th of May the graves of those who wore the blue are decorated with elaborate ceremony, and two weeks later the graves of 246 Confederate Soldiers buried there, are similarly decorated. These Confederates wore the gray, but many of them subsequently wore the blue and did valuable service in the Spanish War. The services In many features are similar, the G. A. R. conducting one and the Confederate veterans the other. The old custom of opening the daily sessions of the Senate and House with prayer, is maintained. TVin mlnlafap A Ar>r>nnlaa tllO mil. j ii 1i11iiioiu1 v* n v/ vv>vu|/1vu hiv |/ ?* i pit in the Unitarian church where the President attends is pastor of the Senate, and a blind minister serves the same purpose in the House. These men are elected, and as a vacancy occurs there is a great scramble for the positions as they are purely sinecures. AVANT CAUGHT IN TEXArt. He Was Going Under An Assumed Name When Found. A special dispatch from Cameron, Texas, to The News and Courier says W. 13. Avant, alias William Benjamin, was arrested th^re Tuesday by Sheriff Hooks, Avant is wanted in Georgetown ,S. C., where he was tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter. Following his con viction, the case was appealed and the sentence was afflritned. Upon hearing of the affirming of his case, . Avant, accompaned by his wife, fled , to that State about a year ago. When , arrested he was engaged in selling ? sewing machines and was located at j i Iia.i n<r Ii/mica TTi>r*n n rroet by the sheriff he admitted that he ( was Avant, and said that he would ( bjo back to South Carolina without j requisition papers. He Is about 3 5 rears of age and is of good appearance. Work for Mail's Advantage. The laws of nature by which we ' sometimes suffer are always work- ^ ng for man's advantage. We some- * imes forget that when a ship goes f lown, an earthquake occurs, or a 1 lood comes. Yet for every ship that 1 inks a thousand cross the sea In safe- s y, for every destroying flood there ire thousands of streams carrying nerchandise, irrigating lands, and perating the machinery of mills, n ind for every earthquake taking e ives there are illimitable areas of s and supporting, millions of people i< n peace and plenty. o C Bandits in Palestine. v In the wilds of Palestine hold-ups re pulled of in the most improved tyle, aecording to Dr. Ira Payne of )es Moines, who has just returned a rom a trip through Egypt and the A loly Land. He witnessed a battle A etween brigands and tourists. S u Heard Five Miles. b A dynamite explosion in the conuit of the Commonwealth Edison Jompany, at Chicago, broke the windows in buildings for several blocks t< round, causing a panic in several c lOtels. The detonation was heard tl Ive miles. There were no casualties. E A TINY MlBGtT FOUND MAY BE THE SMALLEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. Colored Girl, Two and a Half Years Old, Weighs Only Eight Pounds Is Only 10 Inches in Heigrt. About nineteen inches in height, two and a half years old, weighing exactly eight paunds, and particularly strong and bright fofr a child of her age, Frankie May Fordham, a little negress, living with her parents at No. 7 Heyward's Court, is believed to be about the smallest person in the world, with perhaps one or two exceptions, says the Charleston News and Courier. The News and Courier goes on to say: The child is a veritable marvel. She was born in February 1009 .being the fourth child of Henry and Kate Fordh^m, the husband being a navy yard employee. The first three children, who were born away from Charleston as the family has been here only about a year, are hearty and full sized; but it is the baby that is the wonder of the family. The child is not a deformity, but is probably one of t hemost perfectly formed negro children in the city. Nothing was known generally of the midget's existence until Wednesday as efforts were made by the parents to keep the fact of her diminutive size secret, as they feared kidnapping; but a reporter, having re-1 ceived a mysterious "tip" in the form of an unsigned pencil-written letter, visited the house Wednesday night and marvelled at many things he saw. Tie was met by the husband at the front door of the house, wrich is a neat two-story affair, and was ushered into the bed room, where the I %v* /iHt AM 1* ?? A 1 11A.A1- -1-1 1- 1- - ? 1 1 juuiiivi 11<tu nit; iiitiu giri 111 ner ingnt gown, just ready to put her to bed. As the reporter entered the room, the child, catching sight of the fatlu ex, exclaimed in a sweet and childish voice, with perfect enunciation: "Hello, Papa." The reporter glanced to see who it was talking and really had trouble 1 in locating the owner of the voice, in locating the owner if the voice, finally espying the tiny tot on the floor. She was playing around in high glee at the prospect of staying up a few minutes later than her reg- ' ular bed-time, and danced and sung ' at a great rate; showing unusual pre- j cocity for a child of her age. Her J eyes which are dark brown, are exceptionally clear and piercing, and . her hair is silky and rather long, ab- j solutely unlike a negro's. Yet she is very dark, and had many of the racial craracteristics. The child weighed five pounds at ' birth, and gained three pounds dur- | ing tne nrst six inontns -or her life. | Since that time she has not taken on an ounce, and several well known doctors who have examined her, according to the parents, have stated that she will never Jgain [another inch in height or another three pounds in weight. Her parents have reconciled themselves to this, and lavish their affection on the little girl, who is ctrtain to make a friend of everyone she meets. She dances prettily, looks intelligent and talks fluently, being able to string words together into short sentences already. The parents state that they have already received many offers from vaudeville and side show managers, some having already offered as high as fifty dollars a week and transportation for the mother under a five year contract. All these offers the parents have turned down, hoping for the! ultimate! development of their little one to her full 3taturo, although they have now become almost certain that their hone is vain rhe father and mother now soem to think that they will keep and educate the child until it reaches the age :>f seven or eight years at least, be- 1 fore thinking of any vaudeville de- 1 jarture. 1 ? Falls Twenty-Fight Stories. The financial district of New York witnessed a gruesome accident at <\ ts business hour Friday afternoon ? vhen Wm. Anderson, a stone cutter, ell from the twenty-eighth floor of he Bankers' Trust company bulking. The body which was horribly ( nangled, lay in front of the Wall j treet tntrance of the stock exchange. ^ t Fatal Train Wreck. ( Budd Cleveland and Charles Den- t lis, engineers, were killed and sev- j ral other trainmen and passengers eriously injured in a head-on collison, which occurred shortly after 4 'clock Wednesday afternoon at Mill !reek, on the Tennessee Central Rail- t my. ^ s Tillman Has Scholarship. r Senator B. R. Tillman has heen ^ uthorized by Superintendent H. O. lurfee, of Marion Institute, Marion, Ja., to recommend a worthy boy in outh Carolina for a scholarship, val- ] ed at $100. Senator Tillman would f e glad to consider applications . i ? ? t Man Falls Twenty-eight Stories. r At New York on last Saturday afernoon William Anderson, a stone utter, fell from the 28th story of t tie Bankers trust company building, d [is body was horribly mangled. t A TRAIL OF BLOOD. Desperado Spares No Man Who Was In His Way. William R. Kldd, railroad conductor, dead; Samuel Melton, deputy sheriff, seriously wounded; Edgar McGill, rancher, wounded; Reuben Scott, watchman, three flngetfs shot away; Robert Oley, constable, wounded?these are the known victims of Hugh Whitney, an outlaw. Added to the Identified sufferers, there may be others whose fate has yet to be learned It is rumored that the bandit has killed his former partvt ?? f n n M( \ A n ?% i V? /> * /? ( n tt M /I /\ M I itvi in vi imv auu tiivi v in uiiuuitfirmed report from Blackfoot, Idaho, that he shot and killed a boy to secure possession of a frcBh horse the lad was riding The bandit's trail of blood extends half way across eastern Idaho. A whole region has been terrorized by his deeds. Posses are out from every town and the governbr of the 'State is considering a plan for calling out a portion of the Idaho National Guard. Blood hounds have taken up his trail at times, but a more formidable pursuit is that begun Tuesday by a band of Blackroot Indians, who unite with the instinct of hounds the sagacity of the scout. I Whitney is the "short man" of an attempted saloon hold up at Monlda, Mont., on Friday. lie shot the officer who had him in custody and fatally wounded the Oregon Short Line conductor, assisting the officer. McGill was shot because of the horse i which the bandit needed; Scott because he was guarding a bridge, and Oley because he was a member of a pursuing party. ? MEXICAN HOY LYNCHED. Whittling a Stick Caused the Death of Several People. The whittling of a stick led to the killing of Charles Zeitung a garage owner, and the subsequent lynching of a Mexican youth at Thorndale, Texas, Tuesday night. Whether the boy was ft citizen of the United States or of Mexico is not known. The Mexican, a lad of about 18, whose name has not been ascertained, was sitting on the sidewalk, in front of Zeitung's garage early Monday night, industriously wheilding a pocket knife and making a pile of shavings. Zeitung protested against the littering up of the entrance to his place of business and ordered the youth to stop. This, according to bystanders, angered the Mexican and he stabbed Zeitung in the heart. The youth was arrested and lodged in jail. Soon after nightfall a mob of about 100 men surrounded the jail and secured the Mexican with little difficulty. Some of the lynching party went for ropes, but others in the crowd were impatient and held up a truck farmer who was drivng a load of watermelons to market. The team was unhitched and the four trace chains fastened together. One end of the chain was fastened about the neck of the youth and another boy climbed a telephone pole, throwing the free end over a limb. The Mexican was hoisted about six feet from the ground and was quickly strangled to death. PASS THE WOOL BILL. Twenty-Four Republicans Vote With the Democrats. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 221 to 100 Tuesday passed the Underwood wool tariff revision bill providing for a reduction of the duty on wool and manufactures or wool. Twenty-four Republicans voted wtih the Democrats for the passage of the measure, and one Democrat, Representative Francis of Ohio, voted against it. Many amendments wore offered and voted down, the only one being a slight change in phrase- i ology. Almost five hours were spent i by the house in debate under the five-minute rule. The bill prescribes ] that it shall be in effect January 1 < next, hut it is not believed that the i bill will pass the senate at this ses- j don. t ? 1 Main Witness Dead. c Cicero Bird, the main witness for < :he State in the case against Coyt c JJackman, charged with murder, that i: was to he tried Tuesday at Darling- ^ on, was found dead at his home and c li a ViAiian In nahna If la ail nn aoa/i C 1 ft V3 IIV/ UOV Alt UHIIV o. 1 t AM \? V hat lightning struck the house killng Rird and burning his home. 1 1 Bolt Kills Roy and Mule. t Dick Tisdale, a negro boy about 16 * 'ears of ago, was killed Monday af- 1 ernoon by a stroke of lightning 1 vhile ploughing in Shannontown, a c tuburb situated south of Sumter. The nule that Tisdale was ploughing vas torn to pieces by the lightning. m 0 0 a Brother Bell, of the Cherokee News ays "they say that the water is so ow down about Orangeburg that the lsh are climbing the trees." We e lave had one or two good rains in d he last ten days and the fish have all b eturned to the river. s g Teddy says he has never promised v o support Taft. Of course not, Ted- t ly Is too busy now supporting Teddy t o think of anyone else. a GETS HARD BLOW # Piwlcr CraVi'st tdaieil a fast ky Ike Oriel Sales Ctnbiie. ORDERED TO DISSOLVE The I>upont Company Charged With Violating Sherman Law by Comblnii g to Restrain Trade and Monopolizing Powder and Explosive Business and Ordered to Quit. The United States circuit court for the district of Delaware Wednesday handed down a decision declaring that the alleged powder trust, which ie dominated by the E. I. Dupont do Nemours company, is a combination in restraint of interstate commerce in powder and other explosives in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman anti-trust law; that it attempted to monopolize and monopolized a part of such commerce in violation of section 2 of the same law, and decreeing that the combination shall be pn inln^H from rnntljinln!* Ehio vjiI-i^ tion and that it shall be dissolved. The action against the powder trust wae begun by the government in 1907 and was directed against 43 corporate and individual defendants. The suit lis to 15 of the defendants was dismissed because some of the concerns are out of existence or it was not srown that they were parties to the combination. The court in an interlocutory decree fixed October 16th as the date to hear both sides in the action as to the nature of the injunction to be granted and consider a "plan for dissolving said combination, which shall be submitted by the petitioner and the defendant or any of them, to the end that this court may ascertain and determine upon a plan or method for such discussion, which will not deprive the defendants of the onnortunitv to recreate out of the elements now composing said combination a new condition which shall be honestly in harmony with and not repugnant to the law." This follows to some extent the degrees issued by the United States supreme court in tho (Standard Oil and the tobacco cases. There are 13 corporate and 15 individual defendants declared to bo in the illegal combination. A majority of the individual defendants are members of the Dupont family, all of whom except Edmond O. Duckner, are each director of one of the Dupont companies. The corporate defendants are: Tho Hazard Powder company, Laflin & Itand Powder company, Eastern Dynamite company, Fairmont Powder Company, International Smokeless Powder and Chemical company, Judson Dynamite and Powder company; Delaware Securieites company, Delaware Investment company, California Investment company, E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. of Pennsylvania, Dupont Indernational Powder Company, E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder company, E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. The only member of the Dupont family mentioned in the suit who is not included among1 the found to boviolating the law is Henry Dupont, one of the United States senators from Delaware. The decision written by Judge WIliam >M. Danny and concurred in oy Judge George Gray and Joseph Buffing, goes into the history of interstate commerce in gunpowder and other explosives back as far as 1872, when the government charged the first trade agreement of manufacturers was entered into. The court reviewed the evidence in the case and found when the suit has begun that the Duponts had acquire dcontrol of 1 002 controlled in the United States the trade in several varieties of powrler. The court also found that the Dupont company of 1002 and the I0ast~ ern Dynamite company controlled by he Duponts had acquired eontro lof jixty-four different corporations be;ween April, 1 004, and September, 1007, and caused them to be dissolved. The court summarized the numerous companies controlled by the md the Dupont company organzed in 1008, and then discusses vhether the combination it found to ixist was obnoxious to the provisions >f the Sherman anti-trust act. The court finds that tho case in land is obnoxious to the anti-trust aw and then takes up the nature of he final decree it shall issue. On his the court Is guided largely by he action taken by the supreme court n the Standard Oil and Tobacco ases. "To stop the business of the com ination immediately," the court sayo 'might be attended with very diastrous consequences.' ? Buckshot Greet Serenade rs. A party of country folk that gathred early Tuesday under the winlows of J. Walter Force, a young ridegroom in the village of Livington, N. J., with the Intention of ;iving the bridal couple chivaree* /ere welcomed with buckshot. Water Livenguth, a serenader, felt morally wounded and Hugh Porter wan eriously wounded.