Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FAIL TO WORK ^ Standpat Republicans Canmiittd Great Frauds id N<w M xico. ?:? Bur If WON'i PAY THEM ? Th? Democrats and Progressive a Jtepublica^s Elected the State Officers, the.Members of the Supreme Court and Divide Up the United States Senators Hctween Them. Despite the fact the regular or gtandpat Republican organization lias carried a majority of members of tho Kew Mexico legislature chosen two weeks ago Thursday, indications are that one Democrat and one Republican progressive will be elected senators. "Bull" An !re\vs stan Is to loso the seat for whirh he has so long struggled, and Solomon Buna, Republican boss and national committeeman, lias more prospect of an unglorious retirement from politics than lie has of being senator. This is tlie story which comes from the new Southwestern state, says a dispatch from Washington. it was brought by John Baron Berg, a former Washingtonian, who has lived for three years in New Mexico, and has just been elected as a progressive Republican to the state senate. Berg lias been a scrapper ever since lie went into the Territory, and was one of the group of progressives that bolted the machine convention at JLas Vergras last summer. The remarkable result in New Mexico is of the greatest national interest at tliis time, because it may ; determine the political complexion of the United States senate after; March 4 th, 19 12. The regular lie-j publicans always counted on two sen-j .ators from New Mexico. They conceded that the Democrats would get two from Arizona, so in all calculations the* twin Southwest states were j set down as a stan l-off. r 13ut the result of the New Mexico election was a revolution, directed1 against the reactionary AndrewsRuns-Fall Catron machine. The progressive Republicans joined with the Democrats in supporting the j Democrat state ticket, and elected nearly all of it. The biggest light was to control the supreme court, and two Democrats and one progressive Republican have been elected. * It is composed of three members. The old corrupt New Mexico gang wanted to be sure of the court because it would be their final safe guard. Losing it, they have lost the one assurance of protection in carrying out their plans for dimination of the state. "The legislature would have gone 0 ' Democratic-Progressive by at least two to one," said Mr. Berg, "but for the fearful gerrymander which saved the machine. On everything that gave opportunity for a stato-wide vote, the machine was defeated. They held back the returns, doctored 4hem as much n3 they dared, and then couldn't boat us. . "No less than 1 G1 precinct were ^ held back for ten days after the election anrl then the returns from them were all found to be overwhelmingly in favor of the machine candidates. By this sort of thing they saved nominal consent of the legislature, but they couldn't save the state ticket. McDonald, Democrat, is elected governor by about 4,000 in spite of all the fixing, "While tbe machine was holding back and plugging the returns, the Democrats and Progressives organized a legal committee, raised $1 0,000, and are now on the trail of the election crooks." Mr. Berg's explanation of the senatorial situation is most interesting. The Democrats an i progressive Ke4 publicans together come within three oi four of a majority in the legislature. This'of course cannot control. l>ut it turns out that a number of the rien whom the machine Republicans nominated anrl elected were in sympathy with tbe revolt, and arc determined to join it. As a result, the coalescence is assured, Mr. Berg says, a comfortable majority to organize the legislature and to carry out the original program and elect one Democrat and one progressive Republican to the United States senate. "New Mexico is a progressive community, as the country soon will discover," declared Mr. Berg. "The re r n wu? ci ifiniRu t,u uie g;uig a mer.u? vis at the T.as Vegas convention. The' r al people simply had no chanco there at all; the gang rode over them in a manner that male all the decent opinion of the state rise up in the protest that brought about the result Vo have seen. Now watch New Mexico; there is going to ho a carnival of \ machine-busting and boss-punishing! * when the election frauds get to the1 courts." ? Shipwrecked Sailors Saved. Six shipwrecked sailors of the ecliooner James W. Maxwell, Jr., abound from Brunswick, Ga.f to New , jjYprk reached pert Friday on the Morjfi)liner F1 Bio. They were picked ^counsetoff Cape Charles Wednesday after 'fend siAdlniTfleventeen hours in a small< V STORY OF THE CRIME FOR WHICH YOUNG H. C. HEATTIE WAS PUT TO DEATH. Murdoroil Ills Youiijj Wife While Riding Willi Her in nn Automobile Near Richmond. Tlio crime for which Henry Clay Reattie, Jr., was legally put to death at Richmond on last Friday morning was one of the most sensational in the criminal history of Virginia. Interest in the murder was countrywide owing to its unusual features and the swift movement of justice. On the night of July 18, last, Beattie drove his automobile into Richnion 1, carrying with him the body of his wife which had a gaping shotgun wound in the head. lie declared that a tall, bearded man had accosted him I on the Midlothian turnpike, live miles from Richmond and when he had reel nested the man to make room for him in the road the stranger without warning had fired the shot which killed Mrs. Boat tie. lie aided that lie had grappled with the man but was overpowered and that the murderer had fled, leaving the gun behind. This story of the crime was maintained by Beattie to the end. For a brief time Beat tie's story was given some degree of credence, but within a day or two suspicion began to point to him and ho was kept under the closest surveillance. Bloodhounds, taken to the scene of the crime, refused to leave the place, circling around the bloodspot on the road. Beattie, it eventually transpired, had thrown the shotgun into the tonneau of his automobile after the shooting but in passing over some railroad tracks not far from the scene it had been jolted out and was picked up later by a negress. This gun, which Ik?attio alleged had belonged to the mysterious highwayman, proved the means of sending the young man to the electric chair. .At the coroner's inquest the weapon was identified by Paul Beattie, a second cousin of young Henry, as the weapon he had purchased for Henry with money furnished by the latter. Beattie was arrested immediately after the Inquest. This was I 11 1 it 'II r. -vr. An<riiC<l 1(1 Uii *) HIT La J , (II I U VUi U^IITL A ?/ , UUC month and a day after the day of the murder, the trial was begun before .Judge Walter A. Watson, in the picturesque little Chesterfield county court house, 1G miles from Richmond. 'i'he jury was made up almost entirely of farmers, and on this fact Beattie based his claim that he had been convicted, not for the murder of his wife, but because of his relations with Beulah Blnford, a notorious young woman. lie insisted to the last that a jury composed of city men would have freed him. Beattie was defended by H. M. Smith, Jr., and ITill Carter. The nrospcution was conducted by L. O. Wendenburg and L?. M. Gregory. The trial moved swiftly, though many witnesses testified, and on September 8, after F>S minutes of consideration and prayer, the jury, in chorus instead of through its foreman, declared Beattie to bo guilty of the murder of his wife. Motion for a new trial was denied and November 2 set as the day lor the execution. On November 1 ,?> the Virginia supreme court of appeals refused to grant an appeal on a writ of error, and two days later Governor Mann, who had been appealed to for commutation or reprieve, issued a statement declaring thar. the interests of the people of Virginia demanded that Beattie should dlo ii? the electric chair. GERMS IX 111 BIOS KILL A MAX. +. Morocco Worker Believed to Ifave Been Anthrax Victim. To anthrax germs, carried to Wilmington, Del., from some foreign country in the hide of a goat, is attribute! the death of John Hurley, aged 4 9 years. Hurley worked in the storehouse of F. Blumenthal & Co., morocco manufacturers, and it i is believed the germs entered his body by way of a small cut lie had on one hand. Ho handled hundreds of hides every day and on two previous occasions he suffered from slight attacks of blood poisoning. lie worked up to quitting time and went home. Then ho complained of being unwell and went to bed. Next day he was much worse and a physician diagnosed the ease as anthrax, but could not save tbe man, who died in terrible agony. Mooted Out Swiff Justice. At Raleigh, N. C., Ross French, a Cherokee Indian, pail the death penalty Friday in the electric chair for the murder of Miss Ethel Shuler near llird Town, last September. After the girls body was found, Ross con-1 fessed he had attempted to criminally assault the girl, and that lie was struck on the head with a stone, after which he drew his knife and cut her throat. , ? .? Japanese Destroyer Founders. The Japanese destroyer ITarusame foundered off Shlma province in a storm Friday and 45 of the crew of 60 perished. fjt v ^ DARING BOBBER HtWs Dp Nail Clerk en Atlailic Coast Line N ar Colombia WAS WORK OF AN EXPERT The Robber Was a White Man, and It Ik Impossible to Estimate the Amount lie Took, Rut lie Made Away With a Valuable Register Package. The Stato says a masked white man robbed the mail coach on Atlantic Coast Line train No. 55 Friday about 11:25 o'clock between the block ofiice at Royster, just south of ; Columbia and Lower street, the southern boundary of the city. The J robber held II. L. Meredith, the mail clerk, and his negro helper, 13. S. Droller, at the point of a pistol and took possession of the registered mail. Then lie pulled on the emergency brake and leaped off the train just before it reached the crossing at the corner of Whaley and Sumter streets. It is impossible to state the valuo of the registered packages gotten by the robber, but it is believed that they are worth thousands of dollars. For boldness and daring, the robbery of Atlantic Coast Line train No. 55 within a mile of the State house equals anything in the annals of train hold-ups. I When train No. 55, due in Columbia from Wilmington, N. C., at 11: JO p m. reached the block office at Koyster it was running 1 1 minutes late. .Mr. Meredith, the mail clerk, had just finished putting the registered mail packages in a pouch in readiness to carry them to the mail transfer office at the union station. J. I). Minnis, the conductor of Irain No. 55, got off to register at the block office and then signaled his train ahead. toon after the train began to move, a masked man threw open the front door of the mail car, the second from the engine, stuck a pistol in the mail clerk's face and demanded the registers. "Clive them to me," he said, "and he quick about it or your head will have a hole through it:" After he got possession of the pouch containing the registered mail, he sorted over the packages taking the most valuable ones and leaving a few which contained only merchandise, all the while backing toward the door by which he had entered. While he was preparing to make his exit, Dreher, the negro assistant to the mail clerk, moved and the robber shifted his gun on him, and demanded that he hold up his hands. Then the robber seized the cord governing the emergency brake and pulled it. In less than a minute the train, which was moving slowly, came to a stop just at the corner of Whaley a^nd Sumter streets. As soon as it began to slacken speed the masked man jumped back, slammed the door and made off. Conductor Minnis was in the third car from the engine when Mr. Meredith rushed in and told him that a masked man had held up the train ana uikoii me registered man. The train pulled on into the union station, where the robbery was communicated to the police by telephone. They in turn telephoned to the penitentiary for bloodhounds, and in less than half an hour after the affair the dogs were on the spot where the robber is supposed to have leaped off the train. They failed to strike a trail. II. I,. Meredith of Wilmington, the mail clerk, is 'positive that the masked robber who held him up is a white man. He noticed his hands and his nose and eyes, which were not. covered by the mask. The coolness and deliberation, displayed by the robber suggescs that he is an old hand at his trade. Tlis knowledge of the registered mail and the emergency brake also go to prove that he was no amateur. lie is described by those who saw him as a man of medium height, rather frail, with dark hair and probably dark eves. Conductor Minnls is positive tliat" not more than five minutes elapsed after lie signaled l is train ahead at Royster before Mr. Meredith came to him in the third coach and told him that he had been held up. Conductor Minnie and Mr .Meredith both stopped in Columnia.. + TWO MCKDIC'IS IN A WKEK. *> Negro Killed by Ihirty I'11 known in Marlboro County. Another homicide took place in i Marlboro county Thursday night, ! making two last week. The man killed was a negro by the name of Clarence Crlflln. Ho worked with the j fcoft Lumber company, twelve miles south of Bennettsville, and came from Dillon county. ITo was around the camp drinking Thursday night, shooting his pistol promiscuously , and a white man, T. 10. Carroll, was i shot, through the arm. The negro, Griffin, was shot in the neck and lived , only a few minutes. Wednesday at the Tillman lumber plant, fifteen miles south of Columbia, .Tohn Wig- j ford, a negro, shot and klllod Orby ! Miles. Wlgford is In jail. i / FINOS TWO GUILTY AND ACQUITS ONK IN THE KANSAS T.UUiING CASE. The Judge Sentences Four Confessed Assailants of (he Young' School Teacher to Jail. At Lincoln Centre, Kansas, two of the three men charged with complicity in the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, a school teacher, John Schmidt and Sherrlll Clark Friday were found guilty of assault and battery by a jury in Judge Grover's court, while A. N. Siinms, tlie third defendant, was acquitted. The jury was out nearly 1*0 hours. Earlier in the day the court imposed sentences as one year each in jail, the extreme penalty, 011 Everett G. Clark, Jay Fit/water, Watson Scranton and Edward Ricord, confess?.! assailants of Miss Chamberlain. The four confessed before 1 li0 present trial began. The court ruled that the men must pay the cost of the prosecution. Ricord already was in jail, having been surrendered by his bondsmen 7 7 days ago. Roth the convicted and ithe confessed assailants took their I cases calmly. The four who confessed expressed themselves as glad that the long period of waiting was J over. None of the men who confessed offered any reason why ho should not be sentence:!. The court made no comment on the crime. The aged father of Jay Fit/water, a preacher, widely known in this part of Kansas, saw his son arraigned. He is greatly downcast over the hoy's sentence, but has 110 harsh feelings against the otiicerM for enforcing the law. "it was a shocking crime," he said. 'I so expressed myself before I knew my son was implicated." The most surprising feature of the verdict to those who have followed the case closely was the conviction of Schmidt. He is a quiet little farmer, against. wnom, il was uiougiu i?y an, tlio State made a weak case. Mrs. Simms, who lias been a constant court attendant remained with the two convicted men until after court adjourned. Her husband, highly elated over his acquittal, smiled broadly and congratulated his attorneys. Mary Chamberlain was not present. It was said she, too, thought a verdict impossible and left town for Beverly. Rlcord is the barber who decoyed the girl to the place when she was tarred. Simms was acquitted, according to one of the jurors, by reason of the slight evidence against him. TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION. ? Thirty-three Men Killed and Seventyfive Wounded. Thirty-three workers are known to have been killed and upward of 100 injured by a boiler explosion which occurred Friday at the oil cake mills of J. Bibby & Sons, at Liverpool, England. The force of the explosion was so terrific that the roof of the great mill was blown off while the walls split and crumbled. An outburst of flame followed on the instant. Nearly 4 00 workers were engaged in the building at the time. The bodies of those in or near the boiler room were horribly mangled, some of them being thrown into the streets together with bricks and debris. Men could be seen at the windows with fire raging behind them, frantically appealing for rescue. Fire ladders were quickly at the scene and many of the men were saved. The scorched clothing and burned hair of those brought down told of the tor riblo ordeal through which they had gone. Many of those who wore taken to the hospital are suffering from shocking injuries. Some of them have lost, legs or arms and others are fearfully burned. ? KIDNAPPKH, CJA!NS FISIOFDOM. 4. Claims Was Held For Seven Years in "Large Town." A boy, giving his name ns Loo Carpenter and claiming to have been kidnapped seven years ago, and to have been kept imprisoned in a walled yard until Thursday, arrived at llarboursvlllo, Ky., Monday, lie was unable to give the name of the man who had kidnapped him, or the name of the place where lie lived, but said it was a large town in Virginia. The hoys says he was 011 his way 10 school from his home, two miles from La Follettc, Tt 1111., wnon I10 was grabbed by a large man. who forced him to accompany him to Corbin, Ky., an 1 from there into Virginia. At the time ho was taken away his mother, Mrs. Martha Carpenter, was living. Ho has never heard from her since. ? ? ? fatal Wreck of Train. Two persons were killed anrl several seriously Injured at Scotlan 1, Ga., early Friday morning when the Southbound Southern railway passenger train No. 14 en route to Jacksonville, smashed into a "dead" north hound train. The dead are: Engineer Brantley, of tho north bound train, and an unknown express messenger. KEEP IT SANE Dr. Schurmap, cf Cared!, Says the Siith ii Hope of the Nation IN A NDTABLE SPEECH I j The President of Cornell University Makes nil Address in Atlanta, in Whieh lie Touched on Polities, the Currency, Socialism a'Hl Other Matters of Interest. Dr. Jacob G. Scliurnian, president of Cornell University, and one of the most notable figures in the education- j al world, was in Atlanta for a short j time Thursday, being tendered a luncheon at the University Club by the looal alumni of Cornell. In a 1 speech following tlie luncheon l)r. Schurman uttered a significant warning in regard to the spread of socialism in America and predicted that the conservatism of the South would; work the country's salvation. Governor John M. Slatou introduced the guest of honor as one who had "demonstrated his ability to till the role of the modern college president, politician, financier, literal ist and gentleman." Dr. Scliurnian be gan by telling of his attendance at the Bankers' Convention in New Orleans, where he delivered a speech, but shortly afterward delved into politics, speaking warmly of his fellow-college president, Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University. "I have been in every section of the United States during the 1 ast few months and have had opportunity to study the political situation thoroughly," said he. 'It seems to me that political conditions arc undergoing a radical change?that we are returning to the discarded theories and ideas of 2,00 0 years ago. Socialism is gaining in every section of the union, save in the south. In the east several socialists are in legisla !ivr hnllw. Tn tlin wftst erkPt-iiiuf ors are at tlie head of many municipalities. The north is undergoing the same fever of unrest. . "In the South alone have I found that same spirit of conservative progressivoness which marked the spiVit animating the founders of oar country. The South will be the salvation of our country, for from it wi;l spread the right kind of conservatism, bringing back the erring sections to a realization of their mistake. The South is the home of conservatism, and sticks close to the old landmarks as hewed out by the fathers in the early days of the Republic. "While in New Orleans I had occasion to speak 011 currency problems "in the United States, and this, it seems to me, is a question as important as the spread of any particular* party or belief. The currency of the' United States is a relic of barbarism. It is founded 011 bonds instead of 011 assets, which can be quickly realized upon. During times of financial stress each bank hoards everj penny possible, letting every other institution go to smash rather than itse.f risk financial disaster. "I strongly advocate an elastic currency, such as that possessed by France, England and Germany for in those countries when money is needed it is sent to the places where the congestion occurs. When things grow ciu11, n is wnnurawn and sent to other places where it is needed. Mere, the banks holding the money, contin tie to hold it, regardless of circumstances. A country cannot attain a proper development under such conditions." Dr. Schurman lias been connected with Cornell University for twentvfh'G years, and during that time has been signally honored several times y presidents of the United Sratos, being head of the first Philippine commission, as well as holding places in 1 a number of other influential bodies. As an author he is well-known in the English-speaking countries, while as professor of mental and moral philosophy at Cornell lie has gained a wonderful rcputafIon. A member of the IMii Hebi Kappa fraternity lie was educated 'n London and Edinburgh, receiving his degree as master of arts and doctor of soionco from the University of Edinburgh in 1878. 1m addition to this, ho studied in lloidolburg, Herlin and ftottengeii, Cormany, and in Italy. ITi.litrt.irttl ?, -?..r II. v UIUIU Dill * it i > i-i ?j i ty ill II l v? I l t'U I 11 L" dogroo of doctor of laws upon him in 1882, and ho is honorary follow of iho University College, of London. -*.- --? ? Die l-'rom Uvposuve at Sen. Blown upon the rocks of Monunlcotuck point off tho Connecticut coast, Monday, tho twj-maste I ' ehoonor Henry II. Williams poun 1d to pieces, and tho wife and child of rapt. Otto Bauer died from exposure. Ca.pt. Bauer an 1 one member of tho crew were rescued in an exhausted condition. ? . They Wore All Saved. A message received at the offices of; tlio Hamburg-American line in New York Thurs lay said that the Ward liner Segurancft, with all of the passengers of Prinz Joachim, which went aground, arrived at Nassau at 3 p. 1 m. Wm. J. Bryan, his wife and grandson are among tho passengers. FIEND IN A SWAMP WILL BE LYNOHEI) WHEN HE IB CAUGHT BY THE MOB. . - Negro Attempts to Assault a Thirteen Year Old White Girl and Shoots a Pursuer. A dispatch from Hampton says Dave Rivers, a negro fiend, aitempted to criminally assault a thirteen-yearold white girl, the daughter ot a farmer living about three miles from that town, about half-past one o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The young girl was choked and her clothes torn into shreds. It j seems as if the girl's lather, who runs I a small commissary for his farm, | near his house, was away from the house, 111 u field about three hundred ! yards from the store, when the attempt at assault took place. The I mother was not at the house at the time. It seems that the negro Rivers went to the house an 1 asked to buy some shells for his shotgun, out of the store. The young girl went into the commissary and sold the man the shells, some candy and several other small articles. Then it was, she says, that ho choked and attempted to assault her, but the screams of the terrorized victim brought her father running. The negro became frightened and escaped I from the furious father into a bay near the farm. The alarm soon spread. Two deputy sheriffs, two niagistrates, several constables and j about one hundred men started in nursuit ni the nee.ro. whn. it is claimed, has been located in a bay near the scene of the crime. Just after sundown, '.VIr. J. Reid Fitts, one of the party who was searching for the negro in* the bay, in which they hail located him, suddenly came upon Dave Rivers and was shot by him with a shotgun loaded with bird shot, the wound inflicted being in the right side, and it is not thought to be dangerous. The negro was about seven feet away from Mr. Fitts when the shot was fired through a clump of bushes. Mr. Fitts is a prominent business man of Hampton, and this unfortunate turn to the already horrible crime is deeply deplored. A farmer living on the adjoining plantation furnished the information that a negro answering the description of Rivers, with a gun, had passed through his yard and had gone into the bay, where lie is now thought ta he. The country round about is stirroJ up over the attompte t assault, and the faces of the men around the seeno of the crime wear a determined look. If the negro is caught it is the opinion of neonle here that he will never see a jail. The family of the girl who was attacked is widely connected and well known throughout this country. ? ? i WAVES CAST IT HODY. Confesses Murder to Escape Eyes of Man lie Slew. The body of Alvin Fogarty, washed along before a strong wind over Lake .Michigan, drifted five miles, and was cast up by the waves before the door of the man at Eseanabia, Mich., now hold as his slayer. Frightened by the unexpected appearance of tho corpse, Alvin Lin.Iquist went to tiro sheriff and asked to he arrested on a charge of murder, lie told of killing Fogarty 011 October IS, an.l said: "Fogarty, though dead, followed me five miles along the lake, and I found him staring at my hut with accusing eyes when 1 went to fish today. It was too much for me. 1 want to confess and get away from those eyes." Two men who were held 011 suspicion were released. , ? EAUOK MEX AND HEAliST. ? ?> .Some Abuse Dim While Others Warmly Defended Dim. William Randolph Hearst was bran 'od as an enemy of organized labor in the convention of the AmerN can Federation ot Labor at Atlanta on Monday by Charles H. Mover of the Western Federation of Minors. Against this attack, James M. Lynch, president of the International Typographical union, arose to tin4 defense of Mr. Hearst, declaring that ho was the largest employer of union labor on this continent outside of the United States government and that ho should not he condemned, even inferentially, without an investigation of charges made against hi in, ? ? ? ? Log Cut OiV by Gov Car. While stan ling on a passenger track at Spartanburg Junction Tuesday afternoon, watching a southbound train pull out, General Foreman J. W. Hideout., of the Southern Railway, was struck by a box car, which was backed up against him, I l.N woO ,1 ivtro.l t rv v ^ f t/\/, ?\ a4 I II VI I Vi IV I & 1 / | 111111.11 I ri'l and his left log completely severed from his body. _ Throe Die in Hotel Fire, At Nassau, N. IT., three men dlod In a tire In the Denton hotel near tho union station Tuesday. They inhaled smoke. Another man is In a serious 011:?ition from smoke poisoning. Th* flames burned out the interior of th# hotel. I i ? ;