The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 26, 1911, Image 5
THEY ARE BUSY
Aaaickiiti Pit Dj anile Uader Thai
Mi'i Trail Waa la Uae.
AFTFR GOVERNORS TOO
^ Anarchists Plot Not Only to Kill
President Taft, Hut Also tho Governors
of Three American and
Two Mexicans States Who Were
To Hold a Conference.
Anarchists seern to be getting
* busy out West. Thirty-six sticks of
dynamito was found under the Calrtan
viaduct, 20 miles north of Santa
Barbara, Cal., several hours be?fore
Pesident Taft's special tain
passed over the bridge en route to
Bos Angeles Tuesday morning. The
dynamite was found after the watchman
engaged in a revolver battle
with two men who escaped.
The dynamito was discovered at
2 o'clock that morning. The pres^
ident's train passed over tlio bridge
at 5 o'clock. The night watchman
saw two men on the bridge shortly
before 2 o'clock. They were at the
opposite end of the 1,000 foot span
J* and ran when ordeed to halt. The
watchman hurled across the bridge
firing several shots, which were returned.
After tho pair had escaped the
watchman returned to tho bridge and
began an investigation. Near the
center of tho span, lodged 011 one of
the supports of the viaduct, lie found
the .'10 sticks of dynamite with a 10foot
fuse attached to one of tho
sticks. He left the find untouched,
going immediately to Santa Barbara
and notifying the officials.
A dispatch from El Paso, Texas,
says an arrest has been made in connection,
it is alleged, with a plot
which Mexican secret service officers
declare had been formed to assassinate
the three American and two
Mexican Oovenors who are to meet1
f in that <city for a conference next
j Friday.
" When the alleged anarchist, whose
name is withheld, was arrested, ho
attempted to shoot the El Paso* dev
tective who seized him. A stubborn
fight ensued. Other suspects are bottnimr
?r?iioiht
The Mexican secret service men
claim that a band of anarchists have
gathered at El Paso and formed def*k
inite plans to murder Gov. Colquitt
of Texas and the Govenors of Arizo?na,
New Mexico, Sonoa, ^nd Chihuahua
during tlieir visit to the city. ,
Abram Gonzales, Governor of Chi- j
huahua, is said by the detectives to
be the special object of the attack.
Gonzales is a great, jovial fellow,
almost as big as President Taft. He
was Madero's Secretary of War
^ during the insurrection against Diaz,
oml hnrl bin hAndntinrt.ors at El Paso. I
He was elected Governor last Au>gust.
Ho declared that in future Mexico
was to he the land of walth for
poor men, but he has made himself
unpopular with the aristrocracy by
crushing monopolies and among certain
classes by putting down gaml>
ling.
Col. Glenn, commander at Fort
Bliss, and the police chiefs of El
Paso and Jauez, held a long conference
to-day. The Executives are
welcome here as El Paso's guests,
and will be carefully guarded.
DYNAMITERS MAKE WRECK.
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Many Buildings, Including City Hall,
Are Shaken at Spokane.
Dynamiters wrecked the ofllce of
the Sun Employment Agency on
Front Avenue Spokane. The explosion
shook scores of other buildings,
including the city hall, four
blocks away. The entire street witli4
in a block each way of the employ
ment agency was littered with broken
glass, wood and section of corrugated
iron, of which the walls of the
buildings was composed. N one
was injured although a number of
persons were in the immediate vicinity.
The damage is estimated at several
thousand dollaars.
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Homicide in Georgia Hotel.
At Cuthbert, Ga., R. IS. Baldwin, of
Montgomery, Ala., was shot and killed
by Charles W. WorrRl, a young
attorney. The tragedy occurred in
the wash room of a hotel. There
were no eye-witnesses and no altercation
was heard. Worrill declined
to discuss the affair. Baldwin was
on a business trip.
Killed by Automobile.
At Atlanta, Miss E. A. Edwards
was killed and her sister, Mrs. A. E.
Dobbs, was seriously injured Tuesday
night when they were struck by
k an automobile just as they stepped
off a street car In West End. Ed
Haynes, the chauffeur driving the
machine, was placed under arrest.
Colored Well Digger Killed.
At Anderson Van Cherry, a negro
well digger, was killed Monday
when the banks of a well he was
working in caved in, burying him
under five feet of earth. The earth
was quickly removed, but it was
too late to save his life. Evidently
he died instantly. ;
CROP IS NOT LARGE
PRICE SAYS THE COTTON YIELD
IS HXAGERATBD.
Says He Thinks thai the Cotton Producers
are Guilty of Financial
Suicide.
In a letter to Gov. Colquit, of Texas,
endorsing his call for a meeting
of the Governor of the cotton States
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to uevise some pian oy wnicn me
cotton planters can be saved the
millions of dollars they are losong
by selling their cotton at the present
low prices, Mr. Theodore H.
Price, the great cotton dealer of
New York, offers soinevaluable suggestions
and gives his views on the
cotton situations. The following extract
from Mr. Price's letter will
be read with lnteest:
"My work, in connection with the
cotton picking! machine, has, for
the past two months, taken me into
numberless cotton fields throughout
the State of Texas, and I have had
an opportunity to make a comparative
study of the crop that few men
have enloved. I do not think that
the crop is much in excess ofthat of
last year and I am more and more
impressed with the arduous and unremitting.
toil that is required to
produce cotton.
I have felt for some time that
the producers of cotton were guilty
of financial suicide in their present
competition, as to who would sell
their cotton cheapest, and I therej
fore express my sympathy with and
hearty approval of your plan to call
a meeting of the Governors of the
cotton States, with a view of considering
the situation.
Under normal conditions, I believe
that the cost of producing cotton
is 9 cents a pound. And when
we take into consideration the investment
and the hazard involved in
the planting and cultivation of cotton,
to say nothing of the picking, it
is ridiculous that the South should
sell its cotton without profit, and
at a loss if the grade be below middling,
as a great deal of this year's
crop promises to be.
"The question is not a local or
sectional one. It is true that the
price of ctton affects the entire business
structure, and the 18,000,000
of people resident in the cotton
States, but the importance of the
issue becomes natural in it3 scope,
when we remember nearly all our exports
of cotton constitute nearly our
whole balance of trade, and that it
is with cotton that we pay our debts
to Europe. If the price of the article
is depreciated our debt-paying power
is impaired.
"Although in Europe and America
the spinning industry is highly
organized, and in America, at least
our spinners are the beneficiaries of
an exceedngly high tariff, I think I
am correct in stating that the spinners
of the world would rather see
cotton selling at a stable than at an
n KnA**m ?i 11 ir 1 aiir nrinn Tf 4a nnlu
auiiui iiiauj iu u |/? iv>v, it 10 UUIJ wvcause
each spinner fears his competitor
may be able to buy cotton cheaper,
and so produce goods cheaper,
that he procrastinates in securing
his supplies at a time when the cotLon
producers of the South, through
their own fatuity, are daily depreciating
in value the results of their
painful toil.
"One pound of cotton produces
on the average live yards of cloth.
An advance of 5 cents a pound in cotton
therefore means an advance of
less than one cent a yard in the
cost of cloth. The world requires all
the cotton goods that can be made
from an American crop of 1 4,000,000
bales. In ten years it will require
the equivalent of 20,000,000 bales
of American cotton, and a cent a
yard, more or less, is a difference
that Is not appreciated by the thousand
million consumers of cotton
goods.
"On the other hand, 5 cents a
pound on a crop of 14,000,000 bales
means $3 50,000,000 annually to the
South and to the United States. It
means the difference between impoverishment
and prosperity for the
people in this section and it means
a difference of $350,000,000 anually
in the basis of our credit abroad.
"While the meeting of the Gover
nors or tne eoutnern staies inai
you have called Is a step in the right
direction, I fear it will bo wthout
effect unless at that meeting some
definte and concrete proposition is
agreed upon that will afford relief
from the present situation. The numerous
agricultural organizations of
ihelSouth have, in the past, from time
to iime met and passed resolutions
calling upon the farmers to hold
their cotton, but in every instance
the farmers have ignored these resolutions
and proceeded to sell their
cotton, so that their last state was
worse than the first.
A! I ti a Kl U f tf f A A! Vl A! AAf _
1 null 1 lia UllllJ IU 11U1U IIICII V/Utton
was made (Clear by their disregard
of the resolutions and those interested
emphasize the weakness of
the situation as thus expressed. As
a matter of fact, it is impossible for
the farmers of th South to hold
their cotton during the first two or
three months of the season and 60
per cent of the crop always comes in
sight by December 1.
"Practically all the cash and credit
resources of tho Southern States
are tied up in the planting, cultivation
and pinking of cotton, and to
withhold the crop from the market
BLOOD ON THE MOON
GOVERNOR BLKABH CHALLKNGE8
EDITOR HENRY.
The Governor Dared the Editor to
Repeat What He Said in Paper
to Hit* Face.
Governor Blease, having taken
exceptions to a reference to himself
made in the Spartanburg Journal
by the Editor, Mr. Henry, the Govenor
got wrathy and wrote Editor
Henry the following letter:
"STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Executive Chamber.
Columbia, Oct. 10, 1911.
"To the Editor of the Journal:
"A friend of mine has forwarded
me your paper or the 9th, in which
you speak of me as a villian."
"I spent part of three days in your
city last week. Why did you not
come to my face and tell me this,
instead of your cowardly action in
printing it in your paper?
"I will be in your city again at
your county fair, stopping at Argyle
Hotel. If you desire to make
make it to my face and not be a
slurring (svc) coward and strike me
in the back.
"Colo L. Blease."
To which Editor Henry replied as
follows in the Journal:
"The expression referred to is
contained in the following paragraph
:
"There is fine material in South
Carolina politics just now for a
comic opera with Cole Blease as
the villian."
Of course, Mr. Blease may take
this as he likes, but there are probably
few readers of tho Journal
dull-witted enough to think a suggestion
of the governor's fitness to
play the part of the villian in a ,coniic
opera dramatization of the present
political situation in iSoutli
Carolna, Is "speaking of him as a
villian."
^There are perhaps people who
think Mr. Blease a villian or worse,
but we have seen no newspaper that
has stated its opinion of him to this
effect. Certainly the Journal has not
done so.
We shall have to ask his excellent
excellency to accept our regrets
to his invitation to meet him at the
Argyle hotel in this city or elsewhere.
We would not intrude our
unappreciative presence or attempt
to interrupt for a moment the continuous
performance he gives whereever
he goes of his favorite burlessue,
which might he entitled, "Governing
a Great State," hut which
ho renders with a seriousness and
an importance that produces an unconscious
satire.
We are little concerned about Mr.
Blease or his acts or his talk, but
when a man as ridiculous, as comical,
as grotesque, as droll, as absurdly
vain as he is gets into the
limelight he is sure to furnish better
material for newspaper paragraphs
than for serous denunciation,
much as he would prefer the latter
style of treatment.
KILLED AS THEY SLEPT.
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Father, Mother an<l Children Slain
at Eliswoi'th, Kail
Slain as they slept Sunday night,
the bodies of Will Showman, a chaffeur,
his wife and three small children
were discovered Tuesday night
in the Showman home by a neighbor
at Ellsworth. The victims are William
Showman, 33 years old, his wife
Lester Showman, 6 years old, 1 year
old.
The Showmans lived in a small
cottage 300 or 400 yards from any
other house. The farther, mother
and baby were in one bed and the
two other children in a second bed.
Profits From Chester Truck.
J. T. 'Bass of the Baton Rouge
section of Chester County from a
three-four-acre watermelon patch
this year realized $122.55 from the
sale of watermelons, besides having
plenty to eat. Mrs. 1). 10. Bass of
the same neighborhood realized $1205
from tomatoes raised on an acre
row, besides having plenty for home
consumption.
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No Chance For Taft.
Discontinuing his subscription to
The Independent because "It has
to be too much of a Taft stand-pat
journal for me," a Toledo man
writes: "Taft stands no show for reelection
in Ohio, or anywhere else
for that matter, and he should have
n/? oo 1m rlnna nr\t flnanrvn
11U ^ U J/J'UI I y ao 11^ UUVK) UVV UVMV1 TV/
it."
when it is ready to be sold would
be to disarrange the entire credit
machinery of this section. If, therefore,
your convention shall only have
what I may describe as a conversational
result, it had, in my opinion,
better not be held.
"It seems to me, however, that
a practical, definite and workable
plan can be formulated at your proposed
meeting, which, if carefully
worked out, will afford great relief.
If the cotton world realizes that the
Southern States are seriously bent
upon helping themselves, the decline
in cotton will be stopped."
In our next issue we will give a
plan suggested by Mr. Price for financing
the cotton crop.
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DON'T WANT TAP!
Progressive Wiig tf the Repahlicaa
Parly Declares Fer La Ftlltttte
SAY HE IS LOGICAL MAN
Two Hundred Members of tlie Insurgent
Party Meet in Convention
in Chicago to Outline Plans For
Campaign to Defeat President
Taft in the Convention.
The two hundred progressive Republicans
in their first national conference
at Chicago on Monady indorsed
Senator Robert M. La Fol
lette of Wisconsin for president and
declared in favor ot a direct primary
as a means for the expression
of a presidential choice.
The indorsement came in the
shape of resolutions framed in part
by James It. Garfield, former secretary
of the interior, who, it was
held by the delegates, appeared as
expressing the views of Theodore
Roosevelt and who it was feared
who oppose a declaration in favor
of any individual. Mr. La Follette's
indorsement went through without
a hitch, however.
A resolution followed a day of
La Follette enthusiasm in which his
name was cheered repeatedly when ii
was mentioned by a dozen speakers.
Contrary to expectation, the conference
was concluded in one day,
most of the delegates left the city,
and the progressive programme
outlined for tomorrow will be devoted
to support of State and local
candidates and conditions.
The resolutions were framed by a
subcommittee of five and were revised
by Mr. Garfield and Congressman
Irwine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin.
John E. Little of North Carolina
was a member of the subcommittee.
The resolution read:
"The progressive movement is a
struggle to wrest the control ot
government in the State and the
nation from th representatives of
special privilege and restore them
to the control of the people. The
issue is the same in all the State,
though the problem may be pre
sented in different ways.
"In the national field, the control
of government by special privilege
is evidenced by the influence
and power of the reactionary lead*ers
in both parties in checking of
preventing the enactment of progressive
policies pledged by the Republican
party. ,
"The present condition of uncertainty
in business in intolerable and
destructive of industrial prosperity.
It is worse than idle to leave a
question of whether great business
enterprises are legal or not merely
to judicial determination. Industrial
corporations should by affirmative
legislative enactment he given defi
a _i a. t ? t-i-i. l. i.
nue ruies 01 conduct uy wmcii uusiness
shall be made safe and stable
while- at the same time the interests
of the public should be fully
safeguarded. We seek constructive
fegisl^ition not destructive litigation.
"We favor the ascertainment of
the choice of Republican voters as
to candidate for president by a direct
primary vote, held in each
State pursuant to the statue, and
where no such statue we urge that
the Republican State committee
provide that the people be given the
right to express their choice for
president.
"Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin
years ago found conditions
in his State not unlike those of the
nation today. Under his leadership
all opposition was overcome and
there was enacted in Wisconsin a
system of laws that stand as models
for legislation in all States of the
Union.
"The record of Senator La Folletto
in State and nation makes
him a logical candidate for president
of the United States. Jlis
character, his courage, his record
couage, his record of constructive
legislation and admisistative ability
meet the requirements for leadersship
such as present conditions demand.
"This conference indorses him as
a candidate for the Republican
nomination for president, and urges
that in all States orgaizations be
formed to promote his nomination."
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and 'Nebraska
sent the biggest delegations
out side of Illinois and the indorsement
of the Wisconsin man became
appaent early in the day. Senator
fllnnn of Minnesota made the kev
note speech.
"I believe," he said, "this great
upiising that is making itself felt
from ocean to ocean will lose its
force in internal discord unless we
take a symbol around which to rally.
"iSenator La Follette is in himself
a platform that represents the
progressive spirit."
A national organization built on
the lines of the usual political organization
was outlined. The plan
Included the naming at a later date
of State, county, and prqpinct committees
and officials.
Popular subscriptions to finance
the campaigns came as a suggestion
from Rudolph Spreckles of
California which was adopted by
AU1U5 IN IHfc Si Alt
KKPOIITS SHOW OVER FIVK
THOUSAND MACHINES.
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The Greatest Number Are Owned
in the Counties Having Improved
Highways.
The State says that automobiles
and good roads go hand in hand is
shown by reports that have been received
at the State department of
agriculture from the various counties
of the State
The greatest number of miles of
tninrnvpri hiehwav are found in the
counties hjjlvljixg the largest number
of automobiles.
Tho reports from thirty-seven
counties show that 5,355 automobiles
have been registered since
1906. The reports show that from
July 15, 1910, to September 1,
1911, there were 1,868 automobiles
registered in the State.
Greenville county leads the State
in the number of automobiles, there
being 419 in that county. The following
shows in the number of automobiles
in each county of the ,
State:
Abbeville 109
Aiken 128
Anderson 357
Ham berg 54
Barnwell 9S
Beaufort 27
Calhoun 55
Charleston 3 80
Cherokee 8 6
Chester lis
Chesterfield 109
Clarendon 181
Colleton 20
Darington 211
Billion 98
Dorchester 19
Fairfield 30
Florence 241
Georgetown 4 1
Greenville b!9
Greenwood 23 6
Hampton . . .. 3 1
Horry 19
Kershaw 7 7
Lancaster 5 9
Laurens 127
Lexington 118
Marion 142
Marlboro 879
Orangeburg 219
Pickens 82
Richland . . 32 2
Saluda 26
Spartanburg 30 8
Sumter 308
Union 60
Williamsburg 5 0
Total 5,3 5 5
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THE 1>KAI)IjY HOT SUPPERS.
Oiio Xooi'o Shut. ilikI Olio Slashed in
Newberry County.
In the St. Phillips section six
miles from Newberry, there was a
ne^gTO hot supper with the usual accompaniments
on Saturday night.
Monroe Leitzsey was shot just under
the eye with a pistol by James
Wilson. While Dr. Dunn was looking
for the ball Leitzsey coughed it
up. it had gone through the roof
of the mouth and dropped into the
throat. Wilson died.
Ten minutes after he had dressed
Leitzsey's wound, the same physician
was called on to sew up two
gaping knife wounds for Bennie
Jones, negro, who had been slashed
by Will Baxter ad Jack DeWalt at
another "hot" supper, on John
Wicker's plantation, near Colony,
four miles from town.
Gambling and blind tiger liquor
played prominent parts in both
performances. Warrants are out for
several parties?for selling liquor,
carrying pistols and gambling.
She Shuld Have Job.
Mrs. J. S. Bueresteiner, of Valdosta,
Ga., has written to T. G.
Hudson, state commissioner of agriculture,
to say that if he will
pay her 25 cents an acre for the
work, she will kill all the boll weevils
in creation. She has a secret formula,
she says, which is sure death
to the pests.
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Hunting Negro Murderer.
Offlpflrs nro koji rrii i n ir for n nrvirrn
Ashbury .Tones, alias Ashbury Mariney,
who is wanted by Sheriff Lyon
of Abbeville county for the murder
of bis wife which occurred Monday
night. Mariney, it is charged; used
a razor, cutting her from ear to ear.
death resulting instantly.
White Fiend Attacks Child.
J. K. Jones, a white married man,
is under arrest in Rocky Mc?ant,
charged with attacking Athel Rice,
a thirteen-year-old girl, while she
was returning home from school.
the finance committee.
"Tlio nAnnlo miiftt. ho mndA to nn
derstand that this is their fight,"
telegaphed Mr. Speckles.
"Let the average citizen's dollar
tako the place of corporations and
you have an organization that will
bo free."
The finance committee ordered a
popular subscription in each State ;
and rocommended the appointment
of five men to outline means of ap- 1
pealing to the public. i
Resolutions regretting the death '
of Justice Harlan were adopted. i
BLtASfc fVK SENATE
HIS FRIENDS THINK HB WILL
OPPOSE TILLMAN.
May Drop Out of the Gubernatorial
Race aiul Reach Out for the
Senator's Scalp.
A dispatch rrom Columbia to the
Greenwood Journal says friends of
Governor lilease, who have had
talks with him since his return from
the political junket through the
Piedmont section of the state, say
that, while not committing himself,
he is thinking strongly of entering
the race for the United States Senate
against ?. R. Tillman and Col.
Jasper Talbert,, of Parksville.
The people are watching the situation
with interest and the next
public speaking or .gathering, may
bring forth something of interest.
It is said that the governor is very
much peeved because of the statements
made by Senator Tillman in
his letter to "Hose" Crews.
The entire situation has been
brought about as a result of the exclusive
interview secured by a staff
representative 01 i ne unronicie ana
printed in all of the South Carolina
papers.
Although vhreo months away,
there is much speculation here as
to what the next general assembly
will l>rin.T forth. All of the politicians
who have been accustomed to
ask for ofiice two years in this stato
are keeping still with their tongues
awaiting the verdict of the lawmakers
on many questions that
might come up.
The present outlook in this stato
is that there will be no other candidates
to enter tho race for governor
except Ira II. Jones, who is to
leave the supreme bench on January
1>, and the present governor.
Should the present governor retire
from the race and go seeking
senatorial honors, then there would
likely be a number of candidates
for the place.
Among those who might run
would be John G. Richards, Jr.,
Thos. G. McLeod, Richard I. Manning
and Howard H. Carlisle.
With the mixed up condition the
indications are that the ne.xt campaign
in South Carolina will bo one
of tho most strenuous ia the history
of the state.
From the present outlook it
seems as if the whiskey question
will be eliminated. With that
question out of the way the issue
would be men.
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Rattle Fought Wednesday Along the
Water Front of Hankow.
A general engagement between the
Chinese revolutionary army and the
imperial forces was precipitated oil
the water front at Ilankow, China,
Wednesday by the attempt of Admiral
Sah Chen Ping to land a largo
body of troops for the reinforcement
of Gen. Chang Piao. Chang Piao,
who although offieally dismissed by
the Pekin government, still retains
his command, was entrenched with
several hundred of the old provincial
army in the native city close to
the foreign concessions. It was just
day break when Admiral Sah ordered
his cruisers to disembaik their
soldiers near Chang Piao's position.
The revolutions on the Wu Chang
fortifications immediately shot lire
with their artillery. The gunboats
in the river replied with a rain of
shells and diverted the attention of
the Wu Chang artillerymen, effectually
covering the landing. Scattered
bodies of revolutionists on both sides
of the river joined in the fighting
and by mid-forenoon it was estimated
that 2,00 imperial troops and nearly
10,000 rebels were engaged. TI19
warships used up a largo quanity of
ammunition, but the effectiveness of
their fire was hampered by the fear
of endangering the foreign concessions.
All tho foreign warships in
the river sent ashore marines to protect
foeeign interests.
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Wilson Would Heat Taft.
The New York corresponrent with
the Taft party writing from California
says: "Mr. Hoyne, who is president
of the State senate, expressed
the belief that Taft could
carry the State provided Wood
row Wilson, who made a very successful
trip there some months ago,
and is looked upon as having the
support of Bryan, were not his opponent."
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Burned His Three Victims.
Gov. Kitchiu, of North Carolina,
has offered a reward for Will Mclntyre,
wanted in Rutherford county
for a most notable series of crimes.
He operated a blockade distilery,
and now it is believed that he committed
threo murders for the purpose
of robbery, and burned the bodies of
his victims in the furnace of his distillery.
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1*air of Young Foolish Girls.
Tho lure of the stage led two
young girls to run away from WilkeoIlarre,
Pa., according to the police
of Jersey City, who Tuesday night
arrested them there with a young
man who, they say, had offered to
serve as their pilot in a theatrical