Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WE MOVE ON m ^ In? New Ererpruts ,ia ike Stale it Ike Past Niae ivstks REPORT BY COUNTIES Over Twenty-five Million Dollars Invested in New Concerns, the Parker Merger Included in the Total Capital, Which is a Most Excellent Showing. Twenty-five million dollars Is a very large amount of money and It is 9 approximately that much that has been pu-t into new enterprises in South Carolina during the first nine months of the year, according to the reports on file in the eillco of the secretary of state, says the State. This amount is much larger than for the same period last year. The charter fees for the o..ce this year are several thousand dollars in advance of the fees for the same period in 1910. Greenville county leads the State, 4 with $10,211,000, and Charleston comes second, with 2,122,900, and Richland county third with $1,012,800. Charleston county really led the State as $15,000,000, tho capital P stock of the Parker mill merger being included in the return from Greenville. The following shows the amounts that have been invested in the various counties of the State: Abbeville $ 25,000 A.'ken 18,0 0 0 Anderson 274,000 Bamberg 3,000 Barnwell * .. .. 140,000 Beaufort 35,000 Calhoun 115,500 Charleston 2,122,900 Cherokee ^132,000 Chester 110,000 Chesterfield 1 85,000 Clarendon 196,500 Colleton 75,000 Darlington 784,500 g Dillon 767,500 ^ Dorchester 5 0,5 0 0 i Edgefield . . 75,400 Fairfield ' 8,700 Florence 3 31,600 Georgetown 500,000 Green vV.le 16,211,500 Greenwood 75,000 . * . A tZ AAA Hampton il?,vwv Horry / 26,000 Kershaw 1 40,000 ^ Lancaster 123,000 Laurens 23 4,000 Lee 2 2,500 Lexington 11,000 Marion 91,500 Marlboro 76,500 Newberry . . 4 5 5,000 Oconee 5,000 Orangeburg 102,000 Pickens 26,000 f Richland 1,012,800 Saluda 75,000 Spartanburg 581,700 Sum-ter 624,000 Union 106,000 1 98 nnn Willi it mrtuuiK York 10 2,500 SEEKING HEAIIT BALM. 4 Austrian Ofiicer Demands $!?5,000 From American Girl. A breach of promise suit for $25,000 was filed aVainst Miss Helen McMurray of New York by Lieut. Edward Stars of the Austrian army. He alleges that Miss McMurray promised in Vienna, in 1910, to marry him and thaf thereafter he did all he could to make himself pleasing in her eyes, taking a year's leave of absence from the army and losing his 'Opportunity for . advancement, selling his racing stables and taking up the study of English. IJe also claims to have given Miss MoMurraV many of his family heirlooms, wreaths and 4 bunches of flowers, and that he purchased "at enormous cost" a civilian outfit and evening clothes. When he came to New York in July last to claim his bride she saw him but once, . ho alleges, and then only long *4 enough to discard him. BOY HANGS HIMSEIjF. Loses Tiifc While Illustrating Fate for Suspect. Harvey Spears, a 13-year-old boy, accidentally hanged himself at Summetville, Tenn., while attempting to demonstrate to his brothers how Marion Anderson, the alleged assassin of Patrolmen Purdy and Henry of Shelbyville, should be handled when captured. The boy fastened a rein about his neck, tied It to a limb and started to run. He slipped and fell with the result that the strap tightenIll ed so his younger brothers could not release him, and when his mother -w. came to the rescue the boy was dead. ? Leg Cut Off by Box Car. While standing on a passenger track at Spartanburg Junction Tuesday afternoon, watching a southbound train pull out, General Foreman J. W. Rideout, of the Southern Railway, was struck by a box car, which was backed up against him. He was dragged ten or fifteen feet and his left leg completely severed from his body. KILLED BY ENGINE UNKNOWN MAN FATALLY HURT BY LOCOMOTIVE. Died mi the Union Station at Colombia as the Train that Struck Him Pulled In. The State says unknown and apparently far from uome, a young white man; about 21 years of age, was sruck by a south-bound passenger train of the Southern railway, coming from Charlo|tte, near Chappels, Richland county, Thursday morning and was fatally Injured. Me was brought to Columbia, but death came as the train rolled into the union station. Acting in the absence of It. D. Walker, coroner, Jas. II. Fowles, magistrate investigated the case aiiu deemed and inquest unnecessary. It is alleged that the uniortunaie man was sitting on the crosstles, seeming asleep when passenger train No. 3 5 rounded a curve and struck him. He never regained consciousness. Ills skull was fractured and left leg brok| en. The dead man left little clue as to Ills identity. He was dressed In a pair of blue overalls with a black coat, and carried as his only baggage a small bundle of undorwear. On the Inside of his coat collar was the name "H. M. Lewis, Staunton, Va." The name was sewed on a little tag, and was evidently the firm from whom the coat was bought. The underwear was wrapped in paper marked In two places, "C. A. Carter, Smith's Turnout, S. C." Smith's Turnout is 011 the Southern railway, between Chester and Rock Hill. Judge Fowles is doing everything Smith's Turnout Thursday in hope of getting some information as to who the man was, but secured no news. On the man's coat were a few cotton linters, and the presumption is that he may have been a cotton mill operative, going to some manufacturing town in search of work. He was seen at Ridgeway 011 Wednesday, and asked an old negro the distance to Columbia. Juge Fowles is doing everything In Ma nnwnr tn identify him. He was five feet, nine Inches in height, had blue eyes and rather light hair, was clean shaven, and looks as if he parted his hair in the middle. A prominent side tooth is badly decayed, and he had at some time been operated on for appenicitis. The body is being held at the undertaking parlors of J. W. McCormick on Hampton street for identification. DODGES FANGS OF DEATH. Bronx Zoo Keeper Ducks and Cobra Strikes the Ground. The New York World says a tenfoot king cobra at the Bronx Zoo gave a performance Sunday that was entirely unlooked for by the throng gathered in front of his cage. The spectators had been attracted by the snake's hostile attitude toward a small black snake, which he was handling in the manner in which a cat teases a mouse. Keeper Charles Snyder opened the door in the rear of the cage to assist the black snake. The cobra coiled and flung himself toward Synder. The keeper ducked and the snake landed on the ground. Then there was action, enjoyed by the crowd safe in front. A snake fears a shovel or a broom. Attendants soon had one of each at work, but at that it required an hour to get the cobra back into his cage. *> + CASE SETTLED AT LAST. ? Bottom of the Maine Was Blown Inward by Explosion. Exploration of the bottom of the Maine Wednesday at Havana, Cuba, about 140 feet raft of the bow, revealed a plate Identified as forming a portion of the outer hull of the ahip on the port side near the keel and under the magazines as having been blown inward, the upper part being folded inward. This apparently could result only from an external pressure. The engineer in charge and the other officers are maintaining reticence, but the discovery is strongly confirmatory of the theory of an external explosion. One body was recovered from the boiler room. It was that of an unusally tall man. Team Demolished by Train. A team Thursday evening killed a mule and demolished a buggy belonging to M. 11. Logan, on a crossing one mile from Lynchburg. The mule upon reaching the crossing refused to go any further, and Mr.*Logan and another who was driving at the time with him, barely escaped by jumping from the buggy. The train was only delayed a few minutes, as the buggy was a complete wreck and the mule was killed intsantly. * ? They Fought. It Out. At Whitesburg, Ky., in a pistol fight between Former United States Marshall F. M. Rlair and Wash Morgan in the mountains Thursday both men were killed. Morgan was being sought by the officer on a charge of having shot and killed a policeman | in Redda, Va., a few days ago. TAFI JjJT^ HARD Demcrats Ban Jml at Mttl ti Craw gAbaat at Keaallicaas. RESULTS OF ELEC flON The Opinion in Washington is Thut the Administration Can Console Itself Hut Little by the Kctiims from the Late Election Throughout the Country. While both Republicans and Deinocrates in Washington, which includes a few senators and representatives vi'lir? li aniwin tn h? tlmrp arvi able to point out plausible grounds of comfort In Tuesday's election results, all admit that there is in tlieni but slight consolation for tlio Taft administration. Republicans here are felicitating themselves upon the General Assembly elections in New York and Now Jersey, and upon the victory of Goldsborough, Republican, over Gorman, Democrat, In.the race for governor of Maryland. All this the Democrat's discount by insisting that these particular results carry no national significance whatever except a growth in popular revulsion against machine politics. In New York, they assert, there was the oft-recurring revolt against Tammany, which follows as day the night the triumph of that organization; that there was popular objection to Tammany seeking political power and controll beyond its own Manhattan bailiwick, which it has striven to accomplish 111 tne present legislature; that in New York, as in New Jersey, at the very worst for the Democrats, the Republicans have merely regained legislature districts which they have habitually dominated. For themseleves, tlhe Democrats cite Massachusetts, where, under the leadership of Senators Lodge and Crane, with all the Federal administration forces, the Republicans made almost frenzied efforts and appeals to Bay State voters to elect their ticket and repudiate all encouragement for Democratic vitcory next year. In no state election in an off year was a national issue ever more clearly and unmistakably forced than by the Republicans in Massachusetts, when this year they thrust the salvation of the protective tariff to the front as the pararnouut issue. Foss, the Democratio candidate, met the issue squarely and defiantly, reminding voters that he was personally interested in manulacturing industries in the state and that he was not going to favor any policy of rule or ruin, but would insist upon equal opportunities for consumers and producers alike. In Massachusetts the. most desnerate artru ments were used to rally the Republicans to the support of President Taft in this election as significant of next year's result. In that state only, Democrats contend, was there in the tariff issue a campaign of real national importance, and naturally they are highly elated over the returns. Looked at in the presidential prospect, the election results are even more interesting as affecting the personal fortunes of aspirants for the White House. For President Taft the results in 'Massachusetts and in Ohio hold hitter cups to his lips; but there is nobody to be heard doubting that he will be nominated, notwithstanding the comment that his long trip through the West and his numerous speeches, widely and fully published as they ^vere, have injured, instead of helped him. The La Follette Republicans are unfeignedly pleased with the disappointment visited upon the administration and it is not doubted they will rarlnuhln thoip nrvAT*! u t/\ (y'iIii cl rnn erf li A V V At UIV v A A \ y 1 A Vf) V/ ft l>U A- V/ ^IIIAA Ul<A VlAp) VII in the Republican national convention. There is even talk among them of making an organized effort to get delegates for the Wisconsin senator in the Southern states. As to the Democratic aspirants, it Is generally conceded that if any Democrat has been hurt by the result is it Wood row Wilson in New Jersey, because of the defeat of certain members of the legislature for whom he made particularly earnest efforts. If any Democrat has been aided in his aspirations toward the highest honor it is Judson Harmon, it is conceded. The repeated successes of the Ohio Democrats since they chose Harmon for their leader, signalized again by the brilliant municipal election victories in Cleveland and Cincinnati, were common topics here and it is realized that Harmon stock is bound to grow stronger. Senator Robert L. Taylor express/\/l It 4 rv^ onl f n n r\ r\ 1 I <ir f r\ r\ xirif V> A r/?_ UU 11 I IIJLOv3 I L ao uril^llicu ? IU1 Lll V tv?~ suit in Kentucky, where he said he had helped Ollie James to "shell the woods." r Fee Entertainments. There are several fine free entainments at the Fair. The Brickett team in a wonderful aerial display of trapeze work entertain the crowd pleasantly. Then is the high dive in a net from a hight of 100 feet. At nights crowds of Jolly, laughing people battle with confetti and have a general good time. LIVED A DUAL LIFE MAN PLAYED THE JRKYL.L AND HYDE HOLE FOR YEARS. ? Ho Wan a Highly Respectable Gentlemen by Day Rut Burglar and Murderer at Night. The trial of Bertram G. Spencer, who is charged with murdering Miss Martha G. Blackstone, a Springfield, Mass., school teacher, has begun. The killing took place on March 31, 1910, but the trial has been delayed in order that the prisoner might bo watched by alienists, for the de fense will be insanity of a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" type. Spencer has admitted to the police that he was responsible for a series of hold-ups and robberies, which for nearly two years kept the city almost panicstricken. He was known among his acquaintances as an honest, hardworking young married man. About three years age, while employed as a railroad man, Spencer fell in love with an attractive young woman from a highly respected family and not long afterward thoy were married and went to housekeeping. A baby was born, and the couple were to all outward appearances happy and devoted. Yet during all this time Spencer, according to his statement to the police, was terrorizing the city by bold robberies. Most of these were committed in the early evening, so that by 8 o'clock he might be at home with his little family. On the night of March 31, 1010, Miss Blackstone was visiting at the home of Miss Harriet Dow when a man entered and shot both women. Miss Blackstone was killed, but Miss Dow was only slightly injured. After the police had exhaused every effort to run down the murderer and had about lost hope, a locket which had been found in the yard of a home robbed several months before was turned over to them. The locket bore the initials "B. G. S." and by a coincidence the only name in the Springfield directory with these initials was Bertram G. Spencer. Pictures in the locket were identified as of his wife and a relative. Spencer was arrested. He admitted, the police say, every crime laid at his door and told a remarkable story of his dual personality. KILL GIRL IN JEALOUS RAGK. Enraged Because She Accepted Attentions From Another. Crazed by jealousy, Ed J. Brazell? a white cotton mill operative, fortytwo years old, shot and killed Carrie Relle Duncan, a sixteen-year-old girl, in the presence of Brazell's sick wife, Thursday morning. Before the man Could reload the single barreled shotgun and turn the weapon on himself, his wife, though weak and feverish from illness, wrestled with him and prevented him from accomplishing his purpose. Officers soon arrived and placed Brazell under arrest. Brazell and his wife and the dead girl and her family lived in the same tenement house. He was enamored with the girl and was insanely jeal-l [ ous because of her alleged acceptance | of attentions from another man. While the Duncan girl was in the room with the wife and just after she prepared breakfast for the Brazells, the husband seized a gun and blew the girl's brains out. The wife is prostrated and Brazell refuses to talk, although letters found in his pocket stated that he loved the girl, was jealous of other men and that he intended to kill her and end his own life. TRAGEDIES OX THIRTEENTH. ? Two Suicides and Murder Occur at Hopkinsvillc, Numerous tragedies marked the passing of the night of the 13th in Hopkinsville, Ky. Mamie Williams, a pretty girl who went there from Beechwood, killed herself. Calvin Allen, aged 45, killed himself by swallowing laudanum. Millie Moore was fatally shot by George Sanders, said to have been an^idmirer whose attentions she did not seriously regard. Tom Young and John Winn, residents of the outlying country, plunged over a rock quarry bluff. Ymimr was instiintlv killod and Winn is dying. * ? Rejected Suitor Kills Three. At Vienna, Austria, Dr. Robert Holzknecht von Hort of the ministry of justice and his son and daughter were shot and killed Friday night by a man named iMatkovic, formerly an employee of tho ministry, lie was a tutor to the von Hort family and was enamored of tho girl, who had refused to receive his attentions. In this she was supported by her father. * ? Killed in Wreck of Train. Engineer W. A. Kinney was killed, Fireman Ed Townes, colored, seriously injured, and the mail clerks and passengers were badly shaken up when Southern railway train No.37. from Washington to New Orleans, was derailed between Renaja and Reidsville, about 20 miles north of Greensboro, N. C. This is one of the finest trains In the South. SAME OLD GAME Trast Pcaple Usiag the Usial T *ctici la Beat Deamratic Parly. BUSINESS DEPRESSION Being Sprung to Frighten Voters of the Country Into a State of Mind r*\? a iiriii % a ._ i n^K i,i.. .. i i).,i "J Illll ? 111 .UllKl' 1 lll'lll 1' l-Hl IU 1 III In u rower an Administration Which Will Cut Tariff Duties. The Washington correspondent of the Greenville Daily Piedmont says the trust game of bringing out the old Dogey Man called "Business Depression"?who always is kept right up in the front part of the stage when ever an election approaches? is being played again. From Wall street comes the cry that Democratic investigations, and Supreme court decisions, and the cry for low tariff, and a dozen other such calamities are constantly threatening business. The purpose of the wails, it is becoming more and more apparent, is to gradually frighten the voters of the country into a state of mind that will make them fear to put in power an aldministration which will cut the high tariff duties. The trusts pretend to be greatly wrought up over recent suits against some of ther number. They pretend, for instance, to be in a panic because of the suit against the steel trust, and are trying to make the country believe such activities as these against Dig Business will re suit In a general industrial depression. And while they are sending oui these alarms they know that the suit against the steel trust will amount to nothing as long as a Itepublican administration is in power to prosecute it Similar suits were tiled against the beef trust by a Hepublican attorney general eight years ago, and that suit hasn't, progressed an inch since it was tiled, notwithstanding that it has been held up dozens of times as a. "horrible example" of the way the politicians were disturbing business. If the suit against the steel trust were prosecuted with all reasonable despatch it would require two or three years to get it before the Supreme court, hence the cry that this suit "alarms business" becomes rediculous. The real reason business is alarmed, if it is true that business is alarmed?which is a question that is open to argument?is the fear of inose ousinesB men wno operate on a moderate scale that the money trust is getting a grip on the industrial situation which no political party will be able to break. These small business men are apprehensive only in the degree that they fear the money trust controlled by Morgan will make some move to discipline those who are crying for a low tariff, and for some relief from the abnormally high cost of living. The Morgan crowd is stand pat Hepublican to the core, and regardlesi of what Wall street talks about now, there is little doubt that what it is thinking about is the possibility of a tariff cut by the Democrats. To forestall this menace the billionaires are stirring up the old cry of "danger to business," and getting ready to make their usual attempt to coerce another Stand Hat Republican victory a year from now. The tariff is still the issue on which the two parties must fight it out next year. Knowing this, Wall street is already laying plans and since the only weapon these money barons know how to use, since they have neither facts nor justice to aid them, is the threat of slack business. Their present wails simply are practice stunts to get the old bogey in working order for the coming campaign. ? Jl'IKJK SHKDK ON COTTON. ? Tells Jury to Investigate Conditions f 'f I I .. i 11 < > I ill IV I't'ico. Judge Emory Spoor's charge to the Federal grand jury Wednesday at Savannah was featured by his reference to the present low price of cotton and the probable forces that are alleged to be at work holding the price down. He read a newspaper interview with the Attorney General of the United SUites, touching upon a possible prosecution by the government of cotton "bears" holding the price of cotton so low. The judge charged that it would be the duty of the grand jury to investigate such conditions, if any are found in the southern district of Georgia, lie said that it would not be necessary for any instructions to he received from the Attorney General before that body could proceed in this district. Train Kills Cotton Importer. At New York on Thursday Louis Siogbert, a woalthy cotton importer and a member of the firm of Seigbert Brothers & Co. fell between the cars of the New York Central Express, at High Bridge Station and was killed.* 'w - > THEY OWNED UP rt'&i SENSATIONAL TRIAL HAD AN ABRUPT ENDING. ? Centre, Kanmu, Plead Guilty to m * A. _ tftfl .1 I1A_. A _ m Lcaire, ansaH, ricau uiuy 10 J ar> Tarring Girl Teacher. * * * Pleas of guilty were suddenly announced in the circuit court at Lincoln Centre, Kansas, on Thursday, by three of the prominent citizens accused in connection with the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, the Shady Bend school teacher. These announced pleas of guilty: Everett G. Clark, president of a Shady end milling company; Watson Scranton, Shady Bend farmer; Jay Fitzwater, Shady* Bend farmer. A Hood of affidavits was let loose in court at the beginning of the hearing of an application by Everett (J. Clark, the wealthy miller of Shady Send, for a change of venue in the case, in which lie with eight other men are charged with "assault and battery" in oonnection with the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain last August. Miss Chamberlain was incourt, accompanied by her mother and brother. Since Miss Chamberlain was decoyed to a lonely spot on a country road, seized by band c-f a dozen or more men, her clothing torn off and her body coated with tar, she has remained in close retirement in her home in the little Shady Rend community, where she taught school and where it is said her popularly with the men caused jealous wives ami sweethearts to inllict on her the torture which created a storm of indignation throughout the State. Another confession of glint >n the tar party case came on Thursday when Edward Ricord, a barber, admitted he decoyed Miss Mary Chamberlain, a school teacher, to a point near Shady Ilend, where she was "tarred" on Aug. 7. He went before .Judge (lover and entered a plea of guilty. Sentence was suspended until after the trial of the other accused men. R'cord has been in jail for the last three months, awaiting action on an appeal of a justice court sentence of one year for complicity in the attack on Miss Chamberlain. He was the first man arrested in connection with the "tar party" case. It is alleged ho received $5 for his part in the affair. According to Miss Chamberlain she accompanied Ricord on the night of the attack under the impression that he was taking her to a dance. Ricord expects leniency as the result of his confession. ^ ^ ^ V FAILURE CAUSES SUICIDE. ? Discouraged Over Ilis Loss Young Man Kills Himself. Rather than have his aged father and two sisters, living a short, distance from Chillicothe, Mo , realizo that ho had been unable to "make good" on an apple proposition after he had been given several thousand dollars to buy a crop in this section of the country, Emery Rail, son of a wealthy farmer, became discouraged and committed suicide in an abandoned icehouse a short distance from the city. Rail had trouble with his father three months ago and was told he would have to get out and make a living for himself. The elder Rail gave his son $10,000, the hulk of which was spent in apple speculat inn * SEEDLESS LEMON DISCOVERED. The ritima Tluile of Many llotniiists Reached. A dispatch from San Ilernado, Cal. says (he seedless lemon, to produce which botanical experts had unsuccessfully labored for many years, has been discovered, it was announced Friday. The bud wood, from which (he trees now bearing seedless lemons have been grown, came from a sample labeled "citron of commerce." The original wood came from Italy, but according to the department of agriculture a search of the groves of (he old world failed to reveal any trees which boar seedless lemons. Tho fruit i?rnwrs 1>pHava that th > phurui' ter of the fruit has changed through budding. * ... Killed and Hurt by Train. Near Gainesville, Ga., Fred Black aged 2 0, was instantly killed and Hoe Crane was seriously injured at Oakwood Thursday, when a Southern railway passenger train ran dowu a wagon they were driving. Their two horses also were killed. Will l>o Great Work. At Chicago on Thursday W. J. Bryan announced that ho was going into iwilitir'c: with rnrtAWAfl viirnr hut that he would keep away from the wordly angle of i>olitlcal machination and devote himself to cultivating a religious factor in the striving for office.* John Duncan for Governor. Mr. John T. Duncan of Columbia, announces his candidacy for the governorship. Tho announcement is made in Saturday's issue of Mr. Duncan's newspaper, "The Reporter."