The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 14, 1911, Image 3
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CENSUS REPORT
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CtMta C(?f Hit Brikta All Pterins
Recsris ti Fi aer Years.
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DETAILED STATEMENT
Nearly Thirteen Million Bales Ginned ,
Up to the First of December, ;
'Which is the Heaviest Ginning Up '
' to That Period Ever Before Known
in the Country.
The census bureau's sixth cotton
ginning report of ,tbe season, issued
at 10 a. m. Friday, and showing the
number ef running bales, counting
round as half bales, of cotton of the
growth of 1911 ginned prior to December
1, with comparative statistics
to the corresponding date for the
past three years, is as follows:
United States: 32,814,832 bales,
' compared with 10,139,172 bales last
year, when 87.7 per cent of the entire
crop was ginned prior to December
1; 8,876,880 bales in 1909, when
88.1 per cent was ginned, and 11,008,661
bales in 1908, when 84.1 per
cent was ginned.
Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina have ginned thus far this
. year more cotton than ever before
was grown within their borders.
Every cotton growing State except
Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and
Tennessee already have ginned more
cotton than was grown in the States
last year o* the year before, according
to the census bureau's cotton report
issued today showing the ginning
prior to December 1.
To that date there had been
ginned in the United States a tota 1 of
1 2,814,832 bales, . exceeding the total
season's ginning of every year
except 1904, 1906 and 1908 and coming
within 63 7,000 bales of the total
ginned in 1904, the record year.
During the period between Novem- t
hor 14 and December 1, an average
of 107,256 bales of cotton was
ginned on every working day.
The number of round bales in.
eluded were 87,567 compared with
101.718 hales last vear. 134.393
bales In 1909, and 201,480 bales in
3908.
The number of bales of sea island
cotton included were 87,457, compared
with 66,696 bales last year,
77,591 bales in 1909, and 68,396.
"oales in 1908.
Ginning by States, with comparative
statistics and the percentage of
the total crop ginned prior to De*
comber 1 in previous years, follow:
Alabama.
Bales Per cent
ginned, of crop.
"1911.,, . . ..1,436,155 ....
1 91 0. . ... ... ... . .1,063,498 89.2
1909 917,406 88.2
1 908... . 1,175,629 88.3
Arkansas.
0 1911 ... . . 682,049 '
1 91 0 . . ... 625,226 78.3 |
1909.. .. .T. 613,939 88.0 '
YY0,4tfl YN.U
Florida.
1911. . .1. 74,018 .... ,
1 91 0 5 4,390 81.0
1909.. . ? 56,132 90.7
1 908 . . . 58,603 83.0
Georgia.
* 1911. . 2,337,770 !
1 910.. .,. .... . .1,625,573 89.7 .
1 909. . .,. . . '. . . .1,673,302 90.4
1908... .i. ... . .1,739,657 88.0 .
Juouisana.
1911... . . 313,614 .... ,
1 910. . ... 217,956 88.3 ,
1909 238,675 92.3 .
1908..,.- 394,918 84?6 {
Mississippi.
1911. ., . ., 893,288 .... ,
1910. . .... ... . ., 970,626 80.1 |
1909... .. 869,368 81.0 ,
1908.. 1,297,677 80.1 ,
North Carolina.
1911... . . . . . . 829,150
191 0 .., 615,637 81.7
1 909.. .,. .. .? .. 535,653 84.5
1908..,.. 554,346 81.1
Oklahoma.
1 91 1.,, .. ... .. ... 783,741 .... I
1910.. ... 829,387 90.2 J
1909.,, .. ... 505,584 91.5
.1 908. . . , , . . . 431,054 62;5
South Carolina.
1911. . ..... . .1,310,613 (
1910.- .1,036,889 85.6 ''
1 909... ... a ? ! 998,158 .87.8
1908.. 1,051,550 S6.5
Tennessee.
1 911... . ... ... ... 319,763 ....
1 91 0 ... .. 249,927 77.8 (
1909.. . 206,297 85.7 J
1 908.. ... 279,654 83.7
Texas. *
19 11... .... ...... . .3,745,930 .... ?
191 0. ....... . . . 2,794,1 25 94.7 1
1 909. . ....... . .2,213,144 89.6 t
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All Other States.
1911.., 88,741
1910 50,472 fi0.fi i
1909. . . ... . . ... 49,229 85.6 i
1908... . 56,016 70.C t
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^ Hog Cholera in Anderson. i
Hog cholera has developed on the 1
farm of James Thompson, a well
known farmer, near Anderson, Already
sixty hogs and pigs out of his
drove of ninety have died from this i
disease, and it is probable that he t
will lose the remaining thirty before 1
be can check the ravages of the dls- t
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CHASE OF BOLD THIEF
ROBBED A BTOIIE WHERE LITTLE
GIRL WAS CLERK.
After a Long Huu, One Rascal Was
Shot, Captured, But the Other
Made His Escape.
With a severe flesh wound in the
left leg, just below the knee, caused
oy a pistol Dan iroin tn? weapon 01
one of his captors, Flux Suber, a
negro, was lodged In the Lexington
jail Friday night. According to the
Btory told by the officers, Suber and
Oscar Cook, another negro, entered
the store of P. H. Stallings, th > wellknown
dry goods merchant of Brookland,
Friday afternoon about 2:3d
o'clock, and proceeded to talco possession
of the store, when they found
that only one clerk was in the store
at the time?a young girl.
While one of the negro<s was pretending
to look at some socks the
other picked up a half dozen paiis of
pants, the best quality that was In
the shop. When the negro who was
looking at the socks was told by the
young lady clerk that she could not
make the proper change to complete
the purchase, he said that was ail
right he would take t;\o pair, thus
saving her the trouble to secure the
change.
At one time the young woman, who
was very much frightened, attempted
to leave the store to report the occurrence
to the next door, hue was
met at the door by one of the negroes
who had a drawn knife. Finally,
however, the negroes rushed
out, one of them carrying the hunch
of pants, and the clerk at once reported
what hac^ happened.
Jn a very short while, it is said, a
large posse was in pursuit, and so hot
became the chase that the pants were
dropped by one of the culprits. After
a long chase across hill and dale
the men in pursuit came upon Suber,
who was commanded to halt. Instead
of stopping the fugitive is said to
have gotten faster and faster, and
|t was necessary to shoot him in the
leg to effect his capture. Cook managed
to escape.
Suber was carried back to Drooklaiul,
where his injuries were looked
after by J)r. Geiger. Suber had been
off the gang only a short while, having
completed a sentence for larceny.
For a while there was intense excitement
in the little town, and it looked
like the negroes were in danger of
being summarily dealt with for their
dastardly attempts.
USEI) UI? BY THUGS.
Man Beaten and Bobbed in the
Streets of Chicago.
A half hour spent in a West Side
f lion tnr tn Phlnti crn nirfi i 1 n tr f ai? o
l/UWU tV/ A. AAA vyillV-ClftV, TT aitiilf) 1 U1 C*
moving picture show to begin Friday
night, brought a restless audience a
performance wholly unexpected. At
the end of that time Charles O. Harding,
proprietor of the place, who, as
an usher explained to the restless
crowd, was 011 his way to the theater
with films, stagged down the
aisle.
His clothing was torn; he wore no
hat nor collar and his face and hands
were cut and bleeding. He did not
have the films.
"I could not get here any sooner,"
ho said, "and I apologize for the fact
Lhat there will be no moving pictures
tonight."
Then Harding explained that he
had been attacked by two brothers
who took his films together with two
valuable diamonds and his money, his
to<al loss amounting to about $1,4 00
besides the terrlblo beating which he
suffered.
One of the diamonds taken was in
si tight fitting ring which the bandits
threatened to get even if they
bad to cut off tho finger. One drew
ei knife and then Harding begged to
be allowed to remove tho ring.
Hot They Will Not.
John I). Rockefeller and Rev. Fred
lb. Hates, manager of Rockefeller's
iharities, were invited by Chairman
Stanley of the House to tell the trust
nvestigating committee to appear before
tho committee next Monday, if
:hey care to do so, to reply to the
diarges by the Merritt brothers of
Minnesota.
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Thieves Steal an Auto.
W. A. Putnam, a prominent citizen
>f Rarksdale, Greenwood County, had
lis automobile stolen Saturday night.
The car was a Ford Model T, five passenger,
No. 41,904, body black, fully
equipped. It is thought that tho car
vent toward Columbia as it was
raced as far as Laurens.
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Two Trainmen Killed.
Two trainmen "wore killed and
learly a scoro of persons were innjured,
two seriously Wednesday af- ;
ernoon, when Southern railway pas- ,
lenger train No. 1G, running between
Vtlanta and Brunswick, was derailed
lear Helena, Ga.
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Three Killed in "Wreck.
At Kent, Ohio, three were killed <
i,nd four injured in a collision be- '
ween two Erie railroad freight trains
n the fog. The dead are: Conducors
William Seardon, Vance Keller <
ind Engineer IfcCleskie.
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HO W IT WAS DONE
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Story of (he Cm aaJ Fioal Captare (
lhe lafrnaas Droanifcrs
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CLEVER PIECE OF WORK
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Detective McLaren Relates How McManigal
and J. 11. McNamara, the
Dynamite Fiends, Were Run Down
ThIiiI anil n Cam.
fession of Guilt.
Malcolmn McLaren, the detective
who arrested J. B. iMcNamara and
Ortie McManigal, tells of the evidence
and circumstances which led up to
the arrest of McManigal with McNamara,
on the journey from Detroit to
thoughtfulness of James B. McNaMara,
on the journey from Detroit to
Chicago, gave the detectives ground
for persuading McManigal to confess.
"About the 7th or 8th of April
last," McLaren said, "I picked up
McManigal in his home in Chicago.
He had just arrived from Springfield,
Mass., where, he said, he had blown
up the municipal tower. He had
stopped in Indianapolis and, he said,'
obtained $400 from J. J. McNamara
for the Springfield job and the one at
Milwaukee.
"We shadowed him the next day
as he went down with his wife to the
Hibernia Bank. Our officers happened
to be right across the street,
and I told Burns if he wanted to get
a good look at McManigal then was
his chance. So Burns went out and
got a good look at him. McManigal
then went to the headquarters of the
Iron Workers' Union, and finally
home.
"We trailed McManigal and his
wife the next day again as they
walked with their children, lookipg
into shop windows. I had been in
McManigal's neighborhood for several
days and was afraid his children,
who had seen me, might recognize
me and call their father's attention
to me. I saw McManigal buy a pair
of shoos, which he is now wearing,
and I remember he was amazed after
I arrested him when I told him the
size of the shoes he had on, how
much he paid for them and who was
with him when he bought them.
("McManigal left home carrying a
suit case and I took a train with him
to Toledo, keeping well away from
his sight. When we arrived in Toledo
James B. McNamara was waiting
for McManigal at the station and they
sat down in the station for a talk.
McManigal pulled out a map, which
I saw was of Detroit as I passed
them. They traced It over with a
lead pencil, but finally went to the
(Meyerhoff Hotel. J. B. registered as
P. Caldwell and McManigal as G.
Foster.
"I hatj received instructions to arrest
J. B. as soon as I had located
him, so I called up Chicago on the
long distance telenhone for instrnc
tions and got Raymond Burns on the
other end. ITe told me to call In
a half hour, and in the meantime got
into communication over the telephone
with his father, who was in'
Boston. Raymon Burns came on
from Chicago with Detectives Biddinger
and Reed.
"We stopped at a hotel on the opposite
side of tho street, but as the
police in Toledo were not In sympathy
with us \\;e were afraid to risk
an arrest there and determined* to
follow them to the next place.
"Tho next morning McManigal left
the hotel with J. B. McNamara. McManigal
had a suitcase and at the
mi<ilidii .1. ii. koc a sinan grip irom
tlie check stand. They bought tickets
for Detroit. The police there were
our friends and we felt happy as wo
hoarded a train that morning for Detroit.
McManigal and McNamara sat
five, seats ahead of us in the same day
coach.
"We reached Detroit at noon and
then went to a hotel. We decided to
make the arrests there. We did so
and took them to the depot, buying
tickets for Chicago.
"J. 11. kept shouting about being
'kidnapped,' and finally attracted the
attention of some police officers, so
we all had to go hack to the police
station. The rest of the afternoon we
worked hard, trying to get them
fiway, and finally McManigal, who had
his money in Chicago, persuaded McNamara
they would he better off in
his homo town and J. D. signed a
waiver to proceeds in Detroit.
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U U ICll Kill lliu U Hi. Wl iV|ll 11 J. J
in a drawing room. Several baseball
magnates were on the train and they
knew the detectives with U3. Naturally
we had to tell them who wo
had. We said they were 'a couple of
yeggs' whom we had taken for safekeeping.
"Later on James resented that remark,
and said that to us that ho
had never blown up a safe or robbed
one in his life, and that every dollar
had been paid to him by the man
'up-stairs.' No got a bit talkative
and said: 'I'm another Vincent Altman.
It took $30,000 to clear him,
and I've got hundreds of thousands
of dollars and the American Federation
of Labor back of me. Clarence
S. Darrow will bo my attorney. They
did not convict Altman, and they never
can convict me. You fellows don't
want me for no safe blowing. Yon
ANNUAL CORN SHOW
OPENS NEXT MONDAY MOItNING
IN CITY OF COLUMBIA.
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The Great Agricultural Exposition
Promises to Attract Large Crowds
to the Capital City.
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The second South Atlantic Stages
Corn exposition, the greatest agricultural
show to be held in the South,
will open In Columbia Monday when
farmers from North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia will compete
for prizes aggregating $8,000 in valnn
fr?r th? hpst nnrn shown.
The exhibit from the Clemson college
agricultural experiment station
arrived Thursday in a special car and
is being set up in Craven hall. The
exhibits from the experiment stations
of Georgia and North Carolina will
arrive later in the week.
All of the ofllcials of the exposition,
including the corn Judges, several
being of the best known agriculturalists
In the country will arrive
in Columbia within a few days.
A special feature of the exposition
this year will be the corn judging
school and the contest to be held between
teams from Clemson college
and the Agricultural and Mechanical
college of North Carolina. Handsome
trophy cups will be awarded
to the winners of the contest.
Special railroad rates have been
secured from all points in the abovenamed
States and it is expected that
several thousand farmers and business
men will attend.
The State department of agriculture
will have an excellent exhibit
of long staple cotton. There will
also be an exhibit from the labora
tory of the feedstuffs department
showing how corn is examined to
determine food value, acidity, and
protein.
The exhibits are arriving daily and
are being placed in Craven hall. An
artist has been secured to decorate
the hall for the show.
Several, hundred boys, members of
the Boys' Corn clubs ,wilL attend the
exposition.
Friday of next week will be Boys'
Corn club day. An address will be
delivered by Bradford Knapp,* head
of the United States farm demonstration
work. There will be several
hundred exhibits by the boys.
A special car has been secured to
bring the exhibits of the Boys' Corn
clubs down at the Atlantic show to
Columbia. There will be several
hundred exhibits by the Georgia
boys.
want me for that job in Los Angeles.'
Here McManigal reached ont from
the top berth and grabbed McNamara
by the hair, saying: 'Say, fellow, do
you know what you are talking
about?'
" 'I know what I m talking about,
you pin-head,' J. B. answered, and
McManigal dropped back, with the
remark, "All right, if you do, go
ahead.'
"iMcManigal had nothing moro to
say. Along towards midnight J. B.
took a different tack.
" 'All you fellows,' he said to us,
'have your price; now what is it?'
"Riddinger told him it would take
a great deal, as there were a lot of
us.
"J. B. finally offered $3 0,0 00 if wo
would let him off before reaching
Chicago, and give him thirty-six
hours to reach the 'man up-stairs' of
whom he had spoken
" 'Remember, I've got a lot of
backing,' he added, 'and if you fellows
don't come across we'll get you,
and you and you,' and he pointed to
each of us threateningly.
"After we reached Chicago Burns
talked with McManigal and J. B. separately
and 1 'tipped the chief that
McManigal was the moro likely of
the two to 'give up,' as he had a
family, whereas, J. B. didn't. Burns
talked t.o McManigal all tho afternoon,
giving him details of how we
had trailed his movements.
*4 T lio/l ?i 1 /\ fv toll' itr 1 i h TVf ont n*n 1
x iuivi ct iuii^ inirv ? tin iu^Auaiu^ui
(hen and told him that I had soon
him say good-byo to his wife and
children. I described how ho had
kissed them and informed him that
there was a good chance that he
would never see them again as a free
man, and that it was his duty to save
them.
"That night McManigal sent for
Mr. Burns, and in the presence of a
secretary gave a long statement. That
was how the confession was made,
and of course, the real details of it
have never boon published. Wo had
intended to have him tell it 011 the
stand at the trial, but now tho Fed
oral Government can use it.
' I have been with him every night
sfneo last April and brought him to
Los Angeles. I have talked a great
(leal with him. lie is reckless, but
never would hurt anybody He was
on the inside of all that happened
and learned from J. P. how the
whole thing was p'anr.ed "
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Man Found in tlic Woods.
John Neal, a mill hand of Rock
Hill, who was found helpless and almost
unconscious in tho woods near
the (Manchester Mill Thursday and
was taken to tho Fennell Infirmary,
is still in a precarious condition. It
la said that two white men were
Neal's assailants and that they left
the country at once.
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RUN THEM OUT
4 love Against the Proaeters ef Meet
at Celanbia ia the Coorti.
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ASKED TO STOP RACING
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Chief Justice Jones Issues Order Requiring
the Racing Association and
the State Fair Society to Show
Cause Why a Permanent Injunc
uon snouid Aot is? granted.
A rule to show cause why a permanent
injunction should not be
granted agaiust the Columbia Racing
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Association and the State Agricultural
Society, on the grounds of maintaining
a public nuisance, was signed
in Columbia Friday afternoon by
Chief Justice Jones, and was made
returnable next Wednesday morning,
December 13, before the Supreme
Court, at 10 o'clock.
The order was issued on motion of
Attorney Geiieral Lyon. This is the
Association now holding a racing
meet in Columbia at the State Fair
grounds. The signing of the order
did not become generally known until
after the issuing of the regular
edition of the Columbia Record,
which carried the following story of
the occurrence:
"Upon motion of Attorney General
Lyon, Chief Justice Jones has grants\
A n ri nil In ?* t L V\ t ? ? ?
tin in mvi i n iiih iin" v,ui u 111 uia ruining
Association and the South Carolina
Agricultural and Machanical Society,
and sundry individuals connected
with the racing meet on the
State Fair grounds, to show causo
why an injunction should not he
issued against them, collectiyely and
severally, for maintaining a common
nuisance in connection with the races.
The allegations presented hy the Attorney
General set up ,upon affidavits
of responsible parties, that betting
and gambling is carried on, on a
large scale, in connection with tho
races.
"The order is not a temporary injunction
and does not have the effect
of restraining the conduct of the
races at this time. The. order is returnable
before tho Supremo Court
on next Wednesday, December 13,
1911, at 10 a. m. It Is understood
that among those making aflldavits
upon which tho action of tho Attorney
General iar based are Messrs.
James A. ttoyt, editor and general
manager of the Daily Record; McDavid
Horton, managing editor, and
J. E. 'Brunsori, reporter for the same
n n rt n r" w pnvnrl ,r tt/ititi/m.* txt t
, av. uu ivi 1/ iivi uui r* < >i.
Ashburn and others.
"If thefdnjunction should bo granted
by the Court the order will put a
stop~ to the rhce meet at Columbia
and also very probably prevent the
establishment of the permanent race
meet at Charleston, scheduled to begin
nc&t month."
Attorney Genoral Lyon, when seen
this afternoon by the representative
of Tho News and Courier, had no
statement to make and tho petition
and affidavits in tho matter were not
available for inspection.
Tho Columbia Racing Association
officers are: A. N. Elrod, manager;
Hart Dernham, racing secretary, with
E. Hall, assistant; P. A. Rrady, presiding
judge; Harvey White, paddock
judge; C. E. Duhaim, chief of
detectives, and Charles J. Lynch, local
promoter. It is stated that the
rule to show cause will be served
on all these and also on tho bookmakers
and layers.
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A POOH OLD FOOL.
Japanese Man Killed Himself for
Delaying, the Mikado.
Giving his lifo as atonement because
the Emperor of Japan was
forced to spend an hour in a common
waiting room, Moji Shijiro Schmidzu,
a train ' superintendent, threw himself
under a train, according to advices
brought by tho steamer Awa
Maru.
Sliimidzu was in charge of tho
arrangements for the emperor's journey
from Kyushu, where he witnessed
the big army maneuvers and
the imperial train was detainel as a
result of the derailment of a carriage
due to a misplaced switch.
Smimidzu left a letter saying ho
considered it his duty to give his life
to pay for tho emperor's embarrassment.
The emperor was much distressed
when the incident was reported
to him.
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Chili! Dins hVoi.i 11..
IT. J. Patrick, his wife and child
wore badly burned at their homo in
Charleston Sunday morning. Mrs.
Patrick was kindling a fire with kerosene
when the flames ignited her
dress, and the child and tlie husband
received his burns in trying to put
out the fire. The child died Monday.
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Dies of Acute Pellagra.
It. Marcus Boirriss, at ono time
Probate Judgo of Anderson County,
a prominent banker and farmer, died
at his home in Anderson after suffering
three days with an acute attack
of pellagra. Mr. Rurriss was one of
the best known citizens of the county
and during his lifetime amassed considerable
wealth.
ENDORSES TILLMAN
ELLERDEE PROMISES HIS SUPPORT
TO THE SENATOR.
The Congressman Also Declares for
Blease and (Jives His Views About
Tilings Generally.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says a very
interesting episode of Senator Tills>
man s return to Washington was a
call paid upon him at his office by
Representative J. Edwin Ellerbee, of
the 6th South Carolina district.
Mr. Ellerbee came to pay his respects
to the Senator and to tell him
that, in spite of the fact that he had
suffered injustice from the Senator
in several matters, Including the Gibraltar
letter, he was heartily in
favor of the Senator's re-election.
Mr. Ellerbee declared that nearly
all of the votes of the 6th district
would be cast for Senator Tillman,
and remarked jocularly that he (Mr.
Ellerbee) would challenge the few
that might be cast otherwise.
As to the statement of Mr. Ellerbee
that the Senator had done him
an injustice, the Senator sab! that it
was untrue. Mr. Ellerbee insisted
that he could provo its truth.
Among other things, the Representative
of tho 6th district asserted
that, within his recollection, South
Carolina had only two Governors,
and that they were Governor Tillman
and Governor Blease.
TJlPSO two K-Jinl Mr T?!1 lnrhoo wnr*?
tho only ones tlint had always been
"fools enough to do what they
thought right."
Mr. Ellerbbo said that ho believed
that in the event of Senator Tillman's
death, Governor Rleare would
appoint Representative Lever Senator;
and Mr. Ellerbbe also declared
that he himself would support. Rlease
against Smith for tho other seat
when the time came.
Another matter, which M;\ Ellerbeo
approached in his visit to Senator
Tillman was tho Representative's de?ffe
that tho South Carolina delegation'to
the next National Democratic
Convention should go uninstructed.
Mr. Ellerbee, who is a strong advocato
of Champ Clark's nomination,
asked the Senator if he did not agree
pi at tho delegation should be untnstructed.
Senator Tillman replied that he
did not run tho State, and that this
matter could best be left with the
people of South Carolina, and that
whatever they "wished would be satisfactory
to him.
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"TYPHOID MAHY" SUES. j
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Asks $50,000 for Being Shut Up as
Gorm Carrier. I
One of the most novel actions ever
brought against New York City haa
boon begun in behalf of Mary Wallon,
better known as "Typhoid Mary," for
$50,000 for alleged false imprisonment
on North Brother Island by direction
of the health department.
"Typhoid Mary" has been referred
to as a, regular germ carrier of typhoid
although she never suffered
from that disease herself. The caso
was in the courts some time ago and
the woman finally secured her freedom.
According to the records of the
health department, says a New York
special the woman was a living cul
turo of typhoid fever bacilli. She
was formerly employed as cook in
the families of many persons prominent
in society."
The records of"the department allege
that at least. 28 typhoid casts followed
in Mary's wake. Her attornen
questions the right of the city to
imprison her or others as alleged
germ carries "on the word of some
medical man."
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Very Big Tater for Tuft.
Rev. J. B. Brazell, a Baptist minister
of Pooler, near Savannah,
shipped to President Taft as a Christmas
gift, a giant sweet potato
weighing 35 pounds and three feet,
ten inches in circumference, which
he raided on his farm. The express
charges were $3.25, but the parson
did not seem to mind the expenses.
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Lynching in Oklahoma.
At Valdiant, Okla., a mob forced
an entrance to the jail, secured a
young negro, who refused to give Ma
name, and hanged him to a tree at
the Fair grounds, near the town. The
negro was arrested on the charge oP
assaulting the twelve-year-old daughter
of Lee Saunders.
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Physician Commits Suicide.
At Philadelphia Dr. Sydney Buffington,
a nephew of Judge Buflington,
of the United States court of
appeals, and a member of a family
prominent in the western section of
the state, committed suicide Wednesday
by shooting himself through!
the head.
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Scliooner la Abandoned.
Tho five masted schooner Nathan*
iel T. Palmer, bound for Portland,
Mai no, from Norfolk, has been abandoned
at sea ono hundred miles east
of Permuda. The crew of tho schooner
was rescued by tho steamer Lord
Ormolde, which arrived at Baltimore
Wednesday. I J