The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 03, 1911, Image 5
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A BRAVE LEADER
Csltatl Hearj ViNersti Says Wilis a is
^ Aasthcr S. J. Tildea.
CIVFS HIM A BIG BOOST
Quotes a Speech of the Net? Jersey
<%' Governor, in Which He Defines His
Position on Many Questions, Which
IK Is a Bugle Blast to the People of
K This Country.
k Col. Henry Watterson Is struck by
K| what appears to him as a close resemH
||*tolance between Woodrow Wilson of
H New Jersey, and that other great
jf'- leader of democracy, Samuel J.
7- Tilden. This resemblance Is remarkPi
ed on in an editorial in Colonel Watjj?
terson's newspaper, The Louisville
n Courier-Journal, which In part reads':
& "The Courier-Journal cannot think
I of Woodrow Wilson without recall#
lng Samuel J. Tilden. How much
^ alike they seem, as doctrinaire dem'
ocrats; as faithful and courageous
Q 0 <party leaders; as practical and preI
eminent ollicials; how much they
think alike, and talk alike, and write
alike. IIow Tildenosque the follow'
"It Is time that we served notice
on the men who have grown up In
the possession of privileges and
>; bounties that the existing order of
| things is to bo changed. It Is only
fair that wo warn them, for they
should have time to adjust themselves
to tho change; but the change
must come, nevertheless. And this
change is not a revolution, let it be
understood at once. It is merely a
restoration. * * That is what the
peopfo of New Jersey have meant as
m ?ncy nave iiocKea oul, ruin or some,
not to follow the Democratic party?
we have stopped thinking about parI
ties?to follow what they now know
' as the democratic Idea, the 4dea that
H the people are at last to be served.
K ? " ?p)0 yOU know what the American
B .people are waiting for gentlemen?
B ^They are wating tx> have their poliM:
k, tics .utterly simplified. They are reals'
"izing that our politics are full of se
crot conferences, that there are priB
vate arrangements, and that they do
not understand it. They warft to conI
contrate their force somewhere. They
B are l^lke an unorganized army, saying
B the thing Is wromg. Where shall wo
I congregate? How shall we organize?
K Who are the cap-tains? Where are
B> * the orders? Which is the direction.
? Where are the instruments of governI
rnent? That is what they are wait
Ing for.
" 'It is an opportunity, and it is a
terrible opportunity. Din't you know
I that some man without conscience,
K who did not care for the nation could
I. put this country into a flame? Don't
I* M you know that the people of this
I country from one end to the other
I all believe that something is wrong,
I What an opportunity It would be for
I some man without conscience, hut
I v-jth power, to spring up ana say:
P ''This is the way; follow me," and
I lead them In paths of destruction.
I How trrible it would be!
I "I am accused of being radical. If
R! m to seek to go to the root Is to be a
radical, a radical I am. After all,
j everything that flowers in beauty in
the air of heaven draw its raim^s,
i's vigor, from Its roots. Nothing
living can blossom into fruitage unl^ss,
through, nourishing stalks deep
(planted in the common soil, up from
the silent bosom of the earth, rise
the currents of life and energy. Up
from the common soil, up from the
quiet heart of the people, rise joyously
today streams of hope and determination
bound to renew the face of
the earth in glory.
"I tell you the so-called radicalism
of our time is simply the effort of
I nature to release the generous energies
of our people. This great
^ American people is at bottom just,
virtuous and hopeful; the roots of Its
i ueing ?ire in tne sou ior wnat is lovelv,
pure and of good report, and the
reed of the 'hour Is just that radicalism
that will clear away for the reala
ization of the aspdratlons of a sturdy
^ race."
Th? editorial concludes: "Assured!v,
that Is the kind of man for the
Y t'mes and the kind of man militant
democracy has long "been looking
for." *
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Stray Bullet Kills.
Mrs. R. R. Greene, who resides
north of Live Oak, Fla., was accidentally
killed last week by a rifle
hell fired by some member of the
Suwannee Rifles. Several members
of the company were out north of
the city engaged In rifle practice,
and a stnay bullet from one of their
rifles struck Mrs. Greene, who was
at her home, one mile distant, killV
Ing her instantly.
Saved Life of Many.
With a shirt torn from his back,
Robert Cook, of DeGrac, Ohio flagged
Big Four Flyer No. 11 at Quincy
curve, probably saving the 160 passengers
from death. The Quincy
curve Is the sharpest on the Idianapolis
division and Cook, while walking
along the track discovered a broken
rail. He ripped off his shirt and running
a mile up the track flagged the
train. |
REFUSED TO ATTEND. I
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GOV. BliEASE'DID NOT GOTO 7TL- ,
BERT PICNIC. t
Old Not Want to Engage in a Verbal
Combat With Aspirants for His Of- {
flee now.
The Yorkvllle correspondent of ,
The News and Courier says the annual
Dicnic at Filbert, four miles to
the North of that city, on the Carolina
and Northwestern railway, was
pulled off Friday and a crowd estimated
at from 1,500 to 2,000, coming
from every direction, but principally
from an area of a few square
miles in the immediate vicinity, was
present.
The affair Is given each year under <
the auspices of the Filbert camp, W.
O. W., and this year the committee in (
charge extended invitations to Gov.
ernor Bleaoe, Ex-Governor John Gary
Evans, Railroad Commissioner John
G. Richards and the Hon. T. C. Ha- ,
mer, of Bennettsville, a leading
Woodman official.
The fact that Governor IRease had
accepted the Invitation was widely
advertised and a large proportion of
the crowd was made up of his friends
and admirers, but there was quite a
number present who are not the Governor's
friends. Governor Blease
failed to show up.
It is said that in a conversation
with a member of the local committee,
he stated that "under the circumstances"
he had decided not to
come. Tt is also said "that on being
asked what the "circumstances" referred
to were he hung up the receiver
and failed to talk any more.
Messrs. Evans, Richards and Hauler
made speeches. Mr. Evans is said
to have made a speech that caught
the crowd, hut made no reference to
politics, while Major Richards referred
to it incidentally, and Mr. Hamer
confined his remarks to "Woodcraft."
The Governor's friends were sorely
disappointed at his failure to meet
them, but say that, under the circumstances
they did not blame him. lie
was evidenly under the impression,
until within the past few days, that
he was invited to Filbert to participate
in a love-feast with his friends,
and not to encounter the possibility
of engaging in a verbal combat with
ne, and possibly two, aspirants to the
position ho holds, more than a year
in advance of the elction, and that
the committee treated him discourteously,
especially, if it led him to
supose at the outset that he would be
the principal attraction, and then later
invited possible aspirants to his
position. On the other hand his enemies
are saying that they had no
idea he would be on hand at Filbert i
regardless of circumstances. *
PROTEST TARIFF REDUCTION.
Mill Man Says it Will Turn the Mills
Into Soup Houses.
R. M. Miller, Jr., of Charlotte, N.
C., chairman of the tariff committee
of the American Cotton Manufacturers
Association Friday gave out the
following official statement, protesting
against the proposed reduction
in the cotton tariff schedule:
"The so-called Underwood bill on
the revision of the cotton tariff schedule
is a bill formed apparently solely
in the interest of the importer and
foreigner?wholly unfair and unjust
to us?ignoring entirely the interest
of the American cotton manufacturer
and the American laborer and if enacted
into a law will turn the cotton
mills of our country into soup
houses.
"Rased upon to-day's prices of cotton
yarns as best that I can figure, in
order that the manufacturers of this
country may meet the reductions in
the proposed schedule and to compete
with imported yarns, It will netcessitate
a cut somewhere from 25 to
50 per cent in the wages of our cotton
mill operatives. This means pauper
wages to our American labortr to
meet the pauper wages of Europe.
Will American labor stand for It?
The American cotton mianufacMrers
protest against it. *
Very Queer Case.
Ed. Turner, a farmer living near
Florence, has suffered from rabies
without being bitten by the dog that
had the disease. A dog with rabies
recently entered his yard, and Mr.
Turner killed him with a stick, which
the doig bit in the scuffle. After
wards Mr. Turner in examining the
stick, got some of the poisoned saliva
on his hand, and the hand and arm
swelled so badly that he went to the
institute in Columbia for treatment.*
Takes a Bong Sleep.
After sleeping almost continuously
for 105 days, Miss Hazel Schmidt,
of Vandalia, 111., the 18-y:yar-old girl
whose strange case has puzzled physicians
for weeks, was awakened for
five hours Saturday and ate three
meals. She said she felt no ill effects
from her slumber. Attendng physicians
say the girl's trance is broken
and that she soon will be herself
again. *
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Killed In Boiler Explosion,
Miss Tine Blackwelder Is dead and
I her father, brother and sister are se|
riously Injured, as the result of a
j boiler explosion at the father's saw
, mill in Cabarrus County, N. C., Friday.
MILL MEN KICK
Tirif Flu Prspssed by Dotcnts u
Csttu Gssds Stirs Tits Up
OPPOSE LOWER DUTIES
The American Cotton Manufacturers
Association Lays a Statement of
Its Views Before the Chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee of
the House.
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i lie piano ul tin; nuiuuuiaio in tut?
house to materially reduce the tariff
on cotton products has raised a howl
from one end of the country to the
other from manufacturers who see
ruin staring them in the face. The
manufacturers ask among other
things why the cotton industry is
selected for tariff revision among the
first when its products have advanced
least of all the great commodities
during the past ten years.
In order to understand thoroughly
the position the manufacturers
take, the tariff committee of the
American Cotton Manufacturers' association
has j-ust placed the followin."'
statement before Chairman Underwood
of the ways and Means committee
of the house:
We are opposed to any revision
that will increase the percentage of
importations to total United States
cotton manufactures jthat now exists.
In figuring percentages of importations
on manufactures we call attention
to the fact that importations
under the cotton manufactures
schedule were 17 1-4 per cent, of
the total cotton manufactures for
the year 1910, including laces and
other such luxuries that are as yet
not made in great quantities in this
country, although it is interesting
to note that the manufacture of
laces in the United states increased
in value from $.3,500,000 in 1900 to
nearly $10,0^0,000 in 1910.
We belieye that any way It may
be considered that the present importation
are sufficient to protect
the consumer by regulating prices,
for there is no monopoly or restraint
of trade, but on the contrary, the
keenest competition among cotton
manufacturers of the United States.
States.
We dc not believe that anything
more regulative of prices can be secured,
however much importations
may be increased, for American manufacturers
are already down to cost,
and without radical cutting of
wages, which it is not believed would
or could be effected the chief result of
legislating more foreign goods into
this country would only transfer that
work to foreigners, for the importers
do not usually undersell a local market
except enough to bring in their
goods.
We believe that the cotton schedule
bears its share of the customs
revenue for the support of the government,
and that there is no call
for increasing the amount collected
under it.
We are opposed to revision without
adequate data.
We offer our assistance in obtaining
such data.
We are in favor of such revision as
will protect all clasiflcations under
the schedule primarily in proportion
to their labor eosts, and are especun..
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miiy in wivui ui ?j111 jiiuiu<iiioii ui nit
schedule.
We are opposed to any revision
that does not take into account difference
in other conditions as well
as labor costs, particularly on account
of Southern mill conditions.
We are opposed to reductions of
duty on machinery and other items
entering into the cost of mills, except
such as will keep them on a
parity with our own industry as to
labor and other costs at home and
abroad. We do not want our property
depreciated, nor do we want
broadly to injure other industries to
help our own. Let eac'hi case rest
on its merits and benefit equally.
We are opposed to personal hearings;
too often it has been alleged
that unfair advantage has been taken
that way in making the tariffs of the
past.
We are in favor of publicity and
record, and of the freest and most
open discussion and consideration of
eveythng relating to tariff making.
We demand that the data upon
which revision is based be made public
and a matter of record except
with such concealment of names that
good faith dictates with those furntolilnnr
rloto Tf nilhllpUv fa ffrtnd frtr
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other things, and wo believe it is, it
certainly is desirable in such vitally
important matter as the tariff.
We also demand a definite statement
as to just what it is intended
by its makers that the revision shall
accomplish.
What measure of protection is it
intended to accord to American manufacturers,
equality in labor cost only,
equality In cost of production, or
what?
How much relative increase or decrease,
is intended in importations,
which means how much more or less
competition is it intended to impose
upon us?
If more competition, how are we
expected to meet it?
If we are expected to cut labor,
how is tha* labor to be compensated
for the reduction and what can It1
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PEOPLE WILL DECIDE
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RECIPROCITY QUESTION TO BE
VOTED ON BY THEM.
The Fate of tht New Measure Depends
Upon Complexion of New
Parliament Soon to be Elected.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Ontario,
says the eleventh Parliament of Canada
passed out of existence Saturday
and upon the political complexion a
new one, to be elected September 21,
will depend the fate of the reciprocity
agreement 'between the United
States and Canada.
Premier Laurier decided to ask
for an immediate dissolution, at a
meeting of his cabinet Saturday afternoon,
and at once notified Earl
Grey the Governor General.
Practically every member has left
the Capital and the campaign on the
reciprocity issue will be begun all
over the Dominion.
The announcement of the dissolution
came as a great surprise, as
few persons expected it before next
week, if at all. The new Parliament
will be summoned to meet October
11, and supply bills will be voted
at once.
It is generally agreed that the two
month's campaign before the country
will be vigorous, and even bitter.
Reciprocity will be the sole issue,
although the conservatives in Quebec
may sdek to inject the naval issue
into the campaign.
The anti-annexation cry has been
raised by the Conservatives in all
parts of the country. Sir Wilfred
Laurier and his ministers will take
the stump and conduct platform campaigns
in all provinces.
The Parliament just dissolved had
a membership of 133 Liberals, 85
Conservatives and 3 Independents,
giving the Government a working
majorty of over 4 0. The absence of
a closure rule, however, made it impossible
for the majority to force a
vote against a filibuster.
Should the present Liberal Government
be returned with anything
like a working majority, it will mean
that a vote can be aken on he reciprocity
resolution, and that the trade
cifci winen win ftu lino eueci,. J\
Conservative victory at the polls
means the passage of the Daurier government
and the permanent killing
of the reciprocity pact. *
EATEN RY AN A IRRIGATOR.
Watch of Missing Girl Found in the
Reptile's Stomach.
A dispatch from Forsyth, Ga., says
the finding of a valuable watch and
chain in the stomach of a large alligator
that died in a pond near there
Monday night is believed to solve the
mystery of the disappearance of 12year-old
Janet Thompson from the
home of her parents at Island Grove,
Fla., two years ago. The alligator
was captured near Island Grove
some weeks after the girl disappeared
and was brought to Forsyth by J.
YT. Jackson. The little girl has never
been heard from since she disappeared.
When last seen she was standing
on the banks of the lake near
where Jackson captured the alligator,
and was wearing at the time a gold
watch with her initials engraved on
the back. The same inititals are on
the back of the watch found inside
the dead alligator. It is believed by
Jackson and others that while the
girl was playing on the bank of the
lake the alligator came upon the
bank and devoured. The parents of
the girl have been notified and the
watch will be returned to them. *
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nilll K III IIIV 1TIIKI.
The body of Gus Padgett was
found in Forbes Lake near Renzl,
Miss., after the water had been
drained off. Padgett was drowned
after making a dive, Lis head sticking
in the mud so far that he could
not extricate himself. *
Only One Survivor.
The steamer John Irwin struck a
rock and sank off Beaver harbor Tues
day. Willie McLeod was washed ashore
on a hatch, 90 miles of here.
He is helived to be the only survivor
of a dozen men in the crew.
dcflnitelv expect in lesser cost of livinp
to offset the cut?
What amount of revenue is the
new tariff on cotton manufactures expected
to yield.
What reduction Is expected, if any,
in the cost of articles of cotton manufacture
to the consumer at retail
stores?
We ask consideration of the above
in the spirit in which it is offered.
We intend no reflection; we merely
ask to have our way pointed out
by those who make the way.
We beg leave to have it borne in
mind that our Industry directly concerns
2,000,000 people, and indirectly
many more; that we are not simply
manufacturers and employes asking
protection for our property and our
labor, bht we are consumers, and that
we are citizens most of whom voted
for the party proposing this revision
and who expected not only that any
revisions would be made with as
much prudence as would be exercised
in private business matters, but also
that they would be conduoted with all
the publicity that was (generally promlshed
among other reforms. *
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THE COTTON BILL
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Cemes Up ia the Beise til it Distasted
by the Represeatatifes.
AN IMPORTANT MEASURE
Underwood Figures Saving to People
of 200 Millions Annually.?Payne
Presents Minority Report and Urges
Delay Until TariiT Board Makes
Report in December.
Debate on the Democratic cotton
schedule revision bill was begun in
the House Friday by Representative \
Underwood, of Alabama, the chairman
of the ways and means comnvittee,
which prepared the bill. No
date was fixed for closing debate on
the measure, although it is believed
it will end Wednesday, with a vote on
the day following.
The minority report was presented
by Representative Payne, of New
York, leading minority member of the
ways and means committee. It expresses
opposition to the bill because
it does not furnish protective duties
for a groat American industry, and it
is frankly admitted that It is not intended
to do so. The report says:
"There is no demand for such legislation
at this time, but, on the contrary
the country appreciates tlie
sound reasoning that asks postponement
of the revision of the cotton
schedule until after the report of the i
tariff board has been received."
Mr. Underwood said that the cotton
schedule revision proposed by
the bill would save American consumers
$200,000,000 a year. He denied
that labor would be injured in
the least by the proposed tariff reductions.
"Tine oniy Dasis on wnicn me liupublican
party has stayed In power,"
he declared, has been a false appeal
to the laborers of the country, making
them believe they were receiving
more wages because of a protective
tariff than they would otherwise receive."
He insisted that the duties levied
under Republican tariff had amounted
to from 100 to 300 per cent of the
labor cost of the goods, and that the
Jaboring man /had received a very
small percentage of the above duty.
The charge had been made that Mr.
Underwood said the Democratic revision
was a radical measure.
"I am anxious," he continued, "if
we have the power to do so, to reduce
every schedule in the tariff bill
to a strictly revenue basis. But in
reaching that point, I am not disposed
to be radical. If we enact this bill
I do not think we ought hastily or
unduly agitate the country again
\vith constant revisions."
Three rool calls were necessary
during the afternoon to keep a quorum
in the House. Only two others
spoke on the bill, Representative
Roberts, of Nevada, against, and
Representative Bath rick, of Ohio, for
it. Mr. Roberts urged awaiting reports
from the tariff board.
"When the Democrats are not discussing
free trade on the floor," said
Mr. Roberts, "they are sitting in the
Democratic cloak room wearing imported
pants, smoking imported cigars
and lighting them with imported
matches." Then holding aloft a
small box of foreign made matches,
he added:
"And evertime one of them strikes
nn imported match on the seat of his
imported pants, he strikes a blow at
the American working man."
Mr. Pathrick, attacking the Attorney
General dn the course of his
speech, declared that the law must
h upheld when a man steals a loaf
of bread, but when igreat criminals
have been convicted before the Sur
preme Court, our Attorney General
sits supinely by and says he will wait
until some convenient time to institute
proceedings for the enforcement
of the law."
Representative Austin, of Tennessee
came to the defence of the Attorney
General, claiming that official
was doing his full duty. Debate on ,
the bill was resumed Saturday. *
The Wages of Sin.
C. A. Manker, sixty-five years old, '
arose from his 'flop" in a water front
lodging house at San Francisco Sat- <
urday and surprised the proprietor
by declaring "I am a fugitive banker
from Pearl, 111. I embezzled $45,000
fom the Rank of Pearl, wrecked j
the institution and escaped. I am
starving and I want to give myself 1
up, I have been hunted since 1908."*
Protect a Fiend.
A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says
fearinjg an attempt to take John Kellv.
need 24. from the countv _1a.il. with
a view to avenging the confessed asssult
of Audra Martin, two-year-old
daughter of'Mrs. H. T. Martin. Sheriff
David Ferguson called In all "his
deputies and armed them with riot
guns. Kelly was arrested at Cleveland.
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After Three Years.
A body found Tuesday on Bridge
Island in the Chattahoochee river,
near Columbus, Ga., has been Identified
through a scar on the arm and
a filled tooth as that of Tucker pavfdson,
a young white man who had
been missing three years. *
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WOOL BILL NOW'
INSURGENTS AND DEMOCRATS
UNITE ON COMPROMISE.
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It Worries President Taft Who Will
Probably Veto Any Measure Now
'Passed.
Wool legislation has displaced
reciprocity at the White House. Not
since the extra session begun has the
political situation been as tense In
executive circles as it was Friday.
The Democratic-Insurgent coalition
has given the administration a great
shock if it does nothing else.
This shock was all the more painful
for the reason that no longer ago
than Wednesday Senators Smoot and
Crane, senatorial advisers of the president,
brought Mr. Taft the .glad tidings
that there would be no wool bill,
that adjournment would come about
August 10, and that there was rejoicing
In all the regular Republican
ranks. But there was a miscalculation,
and this has cast a gloom over
administration circles. From information
which has come to the White
House there will bo a wool bill reported
out of conference which will
pass both bodies. That means that
the president will have either to sign
it or to veto it.
The story which comes to the executive
oflices is that the Democrats
agreed to suport the La Folletto compromise
in the senate Thursday, provided
the Insurgent Senators in the
senate would later support a conference
report which could be passed
in the house.
This arrangement, the story continues,
gives both parties to the coalition
some glory. La Follette and his
followers can claim the credit before
the country for proposing the compromise
measure, the measure which
made a bill possible, while the Democrats
can claim the credit for furnishing
the final measure.
The best information at the White
House tins morning is tnat tne president
will stick to his announced intention
of votoing any tariff revision
legislation sent to him in advance of
the tariff board's report. He called
the extra session to consider reciprocity.
He wanted no other tariff bills
passed.
A number of Republican callers at
the White House this morning told
the president that he would loose
nothing with the country by vetoing
any wool bill that reached him during
the tntiro session.
will pass otheb bills.
Senator LaFollettc Tells What Will
Be Done Soon.
"Tell the people of Georgia," says
a Washington special to the Atlanta
Journal, "that Thursday's vote on the
wool bill in the senate clearly demonstrated
that Governor Smith's vote
will not bo needed for the passage
oi tariff legislation at this session of
congress," said Senator LaFollette,
the insurgent leader, Saturday night,
following the passage of the compromise
wool bill.
"Moreover, Gov. Hoke Smth's vote
won't bo needed to put the farmers*
free list bill through the senate,'*
added Mr. LaFollette.
"We will join the Democrats in
voting for that measure, and will
put the matter squarely up to the
President, you may rest assured, and
may inform the farmers of Georgia
that more than enough progressive
Republicans will vote for the free
list bill to make its passage certain,
if all of the Democrats stand up as
they did on the wool bill."
Senator LaFollette's statement
concerning the attitude of tho Insurgents
with reference to the farmers'
free list bill is tho first positive
intimation tJlmt has come from
the insurgent camp concerning this
all important measure. Its significance
is not to bo underestimated. *
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Killed Man in Her Room.
At Macon, Ga., Eva Goodwyn, a
19-year-old girl from Tampa, Fla.,
stabbed and hilled Clarence C. Peavy,
of Cordele, Ga., a bar tender, after a
quarrel in the girl's room at her
boardng house about 5 o'clock this
morning. She says that he attacked
her first. She is now in jail and will
be tried in November on the charge
of murder.
Mashed by Train.
Mr. C. C. Rurkhalter one of the
prominent citizens and planters of the
western section of Edgefield county
Thursday met with a railroad accident
that resulted in his death. The
accident occurred at Parksvllle, on
the Charleston and Western Carolina
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Blind Old Sinner.
Isadore Gladstone, 80 years old
and blind, convicted of running a nillicit
distillery in White street, Hartford,
Conn., and sentenced in March
to six months in jail, was set free by
a direct order from President Taft.
Gladstone has run the distillery for
12 years. *
Kills Father and Son.
At Shaw, Mdss., C. J. Miller Friday
shot and killed George Hudspeth and
his son, Edward Hudspeth. Trouble
bad been brewing between them for j
some days. The Hudepeths are from
Indianna. * I