Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BARELY ESCAPE re Mishaps Mark the literuiisial Aersplase Meet at Cbicaie. r ? DID NOT WANT TO GO UP i Stone Plunges into Lake and is Rescued. .Gill Miraculously Escapes Uninjured Beachy and Ward Rat~ tie Bravely and Successfully and Land in Safety. Arthur Stone, a driver of a Queen monoplane, was snatched back from death at the International aviation meet at Chicago Wednesday, after hopes for his life had been given up Howard Gill, in a baby Wright, came almost as close to his death, but escaped from the wreck of his machine, unhurt. Lincoln Beachey, after being driven far to the South and fighting his way back to the field, glided 3,000 feet in safety to the earth, after his engine had stopped suddenly. James Ward had an equally hard time to make his way back to the field from far cut over Lake Michigan, but descended in safetv. Stone's machine fell into the lake just at dusk. He leaped from the fallinc nlnno and was rescued at the point of exhaustion by a motor boat after he had supported himself in the water more than a half an hour. His machine was not recovered . That Stone was rescued was attributed largely to the insistence of his wife that he guard himself with a life preserver. In spite of the order that all flyers should wear life preservers, Stone, with others, started for their machines unguarded. Mrs. Stone ran from the hangar just before the flight and Insisted that he wait while she tied an inflated automobile tire about his shoulders. Unnerved by the deaths Tuesday of William R. Badger and St. Croix Johnstone, and deterrer by a high wind, many of the flyers protested against going -up But the judges were insistent and finally half a dozen flyers rose for a cross water race around the crib, three and a half miles out. Thomas Sopwith had completed the second lap of the race and had ,been declared winner, when a cry arose that Stone's machine had fallen into the water and that the aviator was drowned T? Annrtfl flint. Storm hail been drowned were quickly flashed to the hanigars. Almost the first to hear of disappearance was his wife, Mrs Irene Stone, who with her baby, awaited Stone's return from the race far over the bike. As Mrs Stone darted out from a group of friends, who sought to have her return to the hotel, an automobile came in from the lake front, and Mrs. Stone was assured that her husband had been picked up, alive, and merely the victim of a ducking. "I'm mighty glad I made Arthur put on that life preserver," exclaimed Mrs. Stone, her tears drying up. I'm sure it saved his life. Howard Gill, of the Wright team, promised the first feature of a Roman holiday when his machine suddenly checked as it skimmed over the ground after a perfect landing, toppled over with a terrific force. Gill was pinioned for an instant between tangled wires and the taut canvas of the baby Wright, but before the j startled spectators reached him he dug himself from the ruins. Gill really had a narrow escape. He had made a perfect landing and was skimming over the turf at a forty miles an hour speed The wheels of his machine struck a rut. The skid supports snapped and the machine toppled overhead foremost. Tleachey swept down .before the grand stand with a dead engine that had stopped with him at a height of 3,000 feet. He had had a hard fight against the wind from the southwest and almost everyone of the spectators was watching him when the propeller stopped. Instead of falling the airship began a long circular glide, so steep that one could see between the planes. The angle became sharper and sharper until the aeroplane touched the earth, rolled a few feet and the aviator stepped down, scarcely jarred by the descent. The effect of Tuesday's tragedies was manifested plainly, both on aviators and spectators. There was a noticeably smaller attendance. Even some of the free seats were unoccupied. On the field and at the hangers the flyers grouped together and presented objections to further flying. Walter Urookins expressed the feeling of others. "No individual would dare refuse to fly," he said: ^ 1 ma?m?4aHam n n on Oirf Q. " 1118 pei tsuimi ir|Mii(tniMi ao tin ui iu tor of daring and courage would be gone and he would be branded a coward. Every man here feels the loss of Badger and Johnstone, though, and none wants to go up." At the starting gun, at 3:30 o'clock when usually a dozen machines are in the air, not one had started. Finally Beachey and Ward went -up. Beachey went high up in the air and was blown far South. Ward a minute later, was blown at a lower level, oyer the lake, whence he returned with difficulty. Parmelee rose 10b feet, went half WILL STUDY THEM BRYAN HILL LEARN ALL ABOUT PARTY CANDIDATES. The Great Commoner Says When Nominnation Time Comes He Will Not Remain Silent. "I intend to devote all my time between now and the nomination to find out things about the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president," Sfcid Williiam Jennings Bryan to a large audience at Columbus, Ohio. "I know all of the lead ing men of the party, those who have hindered and those who have helped it. When the time comes to name the man for the candidacy I will not be silent." Mr. Bryan was the guest of the Jefferson club of Columbus at a big rally and barbecue. Gov, Harmon had been invited to the rally but he sent word some days ago that he would be at his summer home In Michigan on vacation. Mr. Bryan refrained from mentioning the governor in any of his interviews or his speech. "I am going to give the Democratic party all the information I possess about the prospective candidates to head of the ticket," said IMT. Bryan. "I am not going to mention individuals now. The country has many available men. Recently I mentioed some of the men I believe to be tolerable as presidential candidates and I am as glad as I was then that the Democratic party is so fortunate as L ? man 9 9 IU 11 tl > t" Oiiv.il nun. Among tho men who Mr. Bryan mentioned some time ago did not include Gov. Harmon. "I intend to devote myself to driving plutocracy from the throne and put the rights of man into the seat. I shall find out everything I can of all the candidates between now and convention time and will tell all the people as I learn more and more about them. I have not a friend in the United 'States whom I would regard at the expense of my party 01 1 country." MARKKT CROP SLOWLY. The Amount of Cotton Made This Year Overestimated. Mr. W. J. Wingate, of Meigs, Ga., writes the Atlanta Constitution as follows: "I don't see the warnings in the newspapers to the farmers to hold and rtiarket the crop slowly that I commonly see at this season of the year. Even the Farmers' union people are not liafing much to say on this line. I would like very much to see The Constitution and all other leading nerspapers that are friendly to the cotton producer, fire some hot shot in that direction; for no doubt there is one of the greatest efforts being made to get the present nlniAot r? r> Hi i tl f that lias UIU jJ 1U1 a 1 111 V/OO iAVrv*??..0 been made in a long time. The bear crowd will succeed if the newspapers and farmers don't put up a long strong, hard fight for the next sixty days, because, on account ot the early maturing variety'tHt.il of the early dry spring, cotton matured an early bottom crop. But the bottom crop is practically all that is made, and this crop will only be a twelve million bale crop in spite of the government's fine condition reports. Rain has been plentiful since the latter part of June, and for the past thirty days there has been too much ht sunshine mied with the rain. Today there are great fields of cotton in this section with not a green leaf on it. If it had only continued dry through the growing seaseason there would have been a fifteen million bale crop. This no doubt, will sound very foolish to people who don't know that it takes a hard dry year to produce a heavy crop of cotton, itefei back to the year 1 004, the dryest year the cotton belt has ever known, and you will see that we produced the largest crop in our history. I trust you will vigorously handle this matter." NEGRO'S SLAYERS l \KNOWN Jury IKm't Know Who l)i<l the Brutal Burning of the Men. The authorities at Ooatsville, Pa., are having trouble in apprehending the men who burned the negro at the stake last Sunday night The coroner's jury which has been investigating the lynching of Zock Walker, the negro who shot and killed Ed Rice, rendered its veridct Wednesday nlight. Notwithstanding that more than a thousand persons were in the mob 1-.0+ aoockf\ Wnlkftr from the hos 11 .u v? U 1 ?T pital and threw his body upon the pile of hay and fence rails, which was fired by the mob, not a name is mentioned by the jurors. The verdict was that the crime was commited by persons unknown. around the field and descended. For two hours no other aviator attempted to rise. Several events had ,be?n called off, and despite the apparent success of Ward and Beachey, the pilots still expressed fear of air conditions. Then Parmelee, another of the Wrights attempted to go up again fitful gusts forced him to descend. HOT RACE WAR Blacks aal Whites Sc< Near Figktui Peiat Near Danal, Okla. POSSE HUNTING FIEND Second Murder of White Woman Within Three Days Inflames People of Durant District, and the Ne? groes Are Ordered to Leave That Section at One?. The murder of the second white woman by a black fiend in the Durant. Okla.. district within three days has inflamed the white people to such an extent that the outbreak of a long threatened race war is imminent. On Tuesday Mrs. Corder, wife of a farmer living ten miles south of Durant, was killed after being brutally .beaten by a negro. The black ran as the woman's husband, who had been led to a nearby field, came with a posse after him. After finding the dead body of his wife, Corder walked five miles to Halzell, a village where were his nearest neighl>ors, and tc'.d his story. The community is sparsely settled and excitement runs high in the villages and towns. For more than a year there has been open enmity evident between the whites and blacks and it is expected that the developments of the last few days is only the beginning of a fierce war. Many minor clashes between the whites and negroes, a posse chasing a negro, at Diamond, Okla., who is said to have insulted a white woman, several hundred white men waiting the arrival of a train carrying a negro captured near Durant eomnrise the haonenings which have In the last two days sent that section to Oklahoma into a seething race quarrel, At Caddo, Okta, trouble darted as soon as it was learned that the negro who attacked Mrs. L. R. Campbell at Durant Saturday had been killed and his body burned. Mrs. Campbell, who had died from her injuries, at Sherman. Texas, D dentified the body of the negro before she was taken to Texas. The negro is said to have lived in Caddo, and there the race trouble predominates numerically. As soon as his friends heard of the death of Mrs. Campbell's assailant there was talk of organizing and seeking revenge. To forestall this the white men of Caddo formed a posse and posted signs warning all negroes to leave town before Saturday night. The negroes started to leave at once, but there is talk that they expected aid of negroes of other towns. Since .Pen al w-'oes hi'e leit tav. place but it is also said that blacks from other town are preparing to open a fight upon the white people of that section. Nothing can be learned as to the nature of the crime committed by the negro who attacked the Corder woman. Word was brought here that a negro attacked a white woman, and that a large number of men, heavily armed, are on his trail. If he is caught it is probable he will be lynched.. AJoka, Okla, was the scene of even greater excitement, for nearly all of the inhabitants are negroes. When they heard of the burning of the black, who assaulted Mrs. Campbell, the warning and clashes at Caddo and that a posse was after another negro at Daimond, they were immediately organized, and when a Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight train came through the own they covered the trainmen with guns and took charge. The conductor managed to elude his captors long enough to send a warning to Durant and Caddo. He warned the towns that the negroes were armed and bent on avenging the death of Mrs. Campbell's assailant. Immediately upon receipt of the message at Durant, as in Caddo, nearly every man in town was pressed into service and is armed awaiting the arrival of the "avengers," who should reach here within a short time. Atoka is the county seat of #??wi ohnnt tliirtv miles | AlOKH ^inuu^, aim uuvuv northwest of Durant. Caddo is between Durant and the train which is carrying the negroes, and it is there they will be met by the first armed posse. Telegrams were received at Durant supposedly bearing the signature of the conductor of the freight train which it was said had been captured by armed blacks, and hundreds of armed men met the train at Cando, to learn that there were no negroes aboard the train. Five hundred men armed themselves in Durant and propared to meet the train when It arrived there. Before its arrival, however, they learned that the Information was false, and while there was great excitement, no trouble resulted from the wild rumors. Cowliidcd by a Woman. Because, It is alleged, he circulated reports detrimental to the character of Mrs. H. G. Sherrill, wife of a well known citizen of Spencer, N. C. George L. Webb, a machinist In tho Southern railway shops there, was cowhided by Mrs. Sherrill, who immediately afterwards went to police headquarters and submitted to a charge of assault. TOOK GLOVER AWAY SHERIFF WITH HIM ELUDES WOULD BE LYNCHERS. Negro Accused of Attempted Criminal Assault, is Lodged in Charleston Jail After Exciting Flight Following advices from Govornor Blease's office, Sheriff Owens early Wednesday afternoon secretly removed from the Dorchester County #* ? 4 ? "* nnnrt?/\ o*l o_ jail UllIllUII UIUVCI , UIV UV51 y DUOpected of having attempted to commit criminal assault upon a respected white woman of St George. The sheriff attempted to reach the Governor personally, but he was in New York, and his private secretary advised that the prisoner be conveyed to the State Penitentiary for safekeeping. The sheriff's plans were executed In such a manner that practically no one knew what steps had been taken until a god while after he had spirited the suspected man away. Ho left by private conveyance, with no one accompanying him except the prisoner It is thought that it was his Intention to follow a circuitous route and board the train at some small station in the vicinity of Branchville, although repeated efforts have failed to disclose his whereabouts up to this time. Immediately following: the news a posse, it is understood, was immediately formed, going in different directions The only trains that the sheriff could possibly have taken do not reach here until in the neignoorhod of 7 o'clock in the evening Unless he managed to elude the posse, it is probable that he was overtaken. The sheriff also attempted to communicate with Solicitor Hilderbrand in an effort to get a special term of Court to try the negro. It was his belief that a speedy trial would be a tendency to discourage the wreaking of summary vengeance. The solicitor, however, is spending some time at Glenn Springs and could not be reached Should the sheriff be successful in his effort to get the negro within the walls of the Penitentiary, there is little doubt but that the movement to secure a special term of Court will be taken up. The bloodhounds from the county chain gang reached the scene of the crime at about 2 o'clock this morning, which was a little more than three hours after the occurence. There was some little delay, due to the fact that one of the automobiles had to be supplied with gasoline bebefore the return trip could be made. The dogs were immediately carried near the window from which the suspect leaped after having been freightened by the screams of the woman Little difficulty was had in getting the trail, which led by a circuitous route to the home of the negro, who had been previously apprehended and lodged in the county jail. After having reached the home of the negro, the dogs trailed to the jail where the negro had been previously taken. The sheriff would not open the doors of the jail for the dogs to enter because of the possibility that the negro would fall into unoffical hands and be roughly dealt with. The lady who was attacked was not seriously injured, and beyond a little nervous has about recovered The excitement has cooled down to a considerable degree. There is considerable speculation as to the prisoner and the posse. It is pretty generally believed that there will be no further effort at mob violence in the event that the sheriff is succesful in eluding the posse, which, it is understood, is now endeavoring to get the prisoner from him. The News and Courier says Glover was "'brought to Charleston from St George Wednesday and lodged for safekeeping in the Charleston County Jail. Glover was brought by Sheriff Owens, whose purpose is said to have been to avoid a lynching. From various sources the statement has come thai 500 men intended Wednesday night to break into the jail, get Glover and lynch him. When seen at the jail Glover denied that he had committed the crime A roporter for The News and Courier Interviewed Glover at the jail and found the negro very ready to tell what he alleged to bo the truth. Glover is a young man, about eighteen or twenty years old, according to his own statement. He Is dark and not rough looking. His face is not unpleasant In reply to numerous questions asked by the reporter Glover told of being brought hero about as follows: About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, he said, Sheriff Owens entered his cell and took him out, telling him that he was to be taken away from St. George. Glover said he was told by Sheriff Owens that the latter was taking him away because he was afraid that Glover might be taken out of the Jail and personal - " ? JM violence done to him Tno snenu, according to Glover," said that he could not take the latter to Columbia, because they would probably be headed off and that the ouly thing to do would be to go to Charleston. Instead of heading straight for Charleston with Glover, Sheriff Owens, the negro said, went about twelve miles outside of St. George, following various paths and then circled back, coming to the railroad at * Bird's Station, four miles east of Sta Arl BANK OF Conwa1 ? Hat largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and turpi CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS. i LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT rvT r* rr U1KE1 Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Back, Qeorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we i 80bert b. scarborough, D President. We continue to pay 5 pel fFIRST NATO 1 OONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK ? SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS ? DIRECT J. A. McDermott, John C AV B. G. Collins, H. L. H jL M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua Successor to the Bank of jL Horry County, and a pioneer fl* ly allied with the recent devi /ft Republic. Backed by the ( mi United States Bonds, we are p 2J tomers any reasonable acoonm A H. A. SPIVEY, $ Cashier. WHAT IS PELLAGRA. Is the Strange Disease Contagious or Is It Not? The disease pellagra which is becoming more and more prevalent baffles the skill of physicians and known materia medica. "In a recent review given this disease, South Carolina is reported to have nearly twice as many cases any of the other States. This may, or may not be true; at any rate it Is certainly on the Increase and Is a much dreaded disease. "Some of the physicians of the country are treating pellagra with the arsenical compound discovered by the German Scientist, Dr. Erlich, which has aroused such interest in the medical world?the socalled GOG. The result so far has not demonstrated conclusively the efficacy of his remedy but when prescribed in the early stages of the disease an improvement is noted in the patient. "Neither has there been any satisfactory explanation as to the cause of pellagra. A recent theory is that corn whiskey distilled from spoiled corn is a prolific source of the disease, another, and one which is most generally accepted is that it is communicated by flies. This calls for more carefullness in keeping clear of flies. "The majority of physicans are uncertain as to whether or not pellagra is a contagious or infectious disease. Johns Hopkins believes that it is certainly infectious If not contagious. However, undertakers have made up their minds that it is communicable, and they are now taking care to handle the bodies of those dying from pellagra with rubber gloves. "One of the principal reasons for believeing pellagra to be contagious is that several cases have been known to break out in the same family; in-1 deed it is seldom that it confines itself to one person in the family or neighborhood. "Wo have recently read a letter from Johns Hopkins in which the statement is made that they believe that Dr. Rabcoek, of Columbia knows as much about pellagra as any one in America." j George. There ho took the train nrui brought his prisoner to this city. Glover then Raid that he was not a native of St. George, but was originally from Williston. He had been living in St. George less than a year having gone there last winter and married there in January. Asked where the house of the lady who is the victim of the r/. line is situated in reference to his own, Glover answered that the lady's house was about half a mlie from his own and that it was on the other side of the center of the town Telling the story of his arrest, Glover said that he was in bed late * ?1 - ? J 1% w Ci A tlf A If _ Tuesday nigni anu mtu no w?o nnanened ,by a knock at the door. He went to the door and found the police there and was told to put on his clothes and go with them. He says 1 ho obeyed without any delay At that time, he said he did not know what 1 they wanted him for and they did ' not tell him. It was only when he way to the city, according to his story ' that Sheriff Owens told him the charge against him, which, he says, astonished him very much. The latest news about Governor Blease is that he will run for Gover'nor next year. HORRY, jr. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. * |60|000 ? 12*600 HOLDERS .. .. 60,000 OR8 . < *112(600 ;tors D. V. Richardson. W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ;>mmodation which their accounts lolicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. fbeemab Vice President. Cashier r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BAN K | Y, 8. O. X 126,000.00 T . 2,600.00 fljji 125,000.00 ilk rORS: ? I. Splvey, D. T. McNeill, , uck, W. R. Lewis, D. AA ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. Conway, the oldest Bank In Qk In Eastern Carolina. Closeelopment of the Independent jovernmeut and secured by repared to extend to our cut- jLl Qodations. B. G. COLLINS, A President. ? , 1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney *nd Councelor At Law. CONWAY; 8. a H A B* SCARBROUGH CONWAY, 8. G. Attorney at Law. 4 H. H. BURKOUGHA Physician and Surgeon,. CONWAY, S. O. B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La/t Bank ol Horry Building. ; j CONWAY, tL O. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHMfi ffvoo want el ther a Vibrating Shuttle. RoUuB Shuttle or a Single Thread fChainAttUch\ / Bowing Machine write to ' MICW HOME SEWINO MACHINE COMPASt Orange, Mass* Mfenysewfnr machine* are wade to sell i umBearf tpality.but the New Home la made to waafc ' Oar guaranty never runs out. AsM If authorised dealers mmtjkj 1 pom. sals wt 1 BURROUGHS A OOLLXPC8 OO^ Conway, S. C. Girl Dies of Wound. The little negro girl who was ohot at Kershaw two weeks ago by B. CJl ri rt f/\r/t ? r>n! > *?/"> >?nn n'li a woo IHl ^UIVl U) U IIV.^A \J Alicia* VI I' V TT U? shooting at another negro, died Saturday. An inquest was held by Coroner King. Stradford was arrested and brought to jail the day after the shooting. ' Town Marshall Shot Two hundred armed men, with track dogs, are scouring the woods across the Chattahoochee River, In Florida, in searching for Charles West, a negro, who shot and killed Marshall Newberry, of Donaldsvllle, Qa.v while resisting arrest for wlfebeatlng.