The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 29, 1912, Image 5
GOVERNOR'S VETOES
TO BE REHASHED INTO CAMPAIGN
THUNDER LATER.
HE VETOED A GOOD MANY
Refused to Sign Medical Inspection
Act, and to Pass This Hill Over His
Veto Will Probably bo First Business
to be Taken Up by House
When legislature Meets Today.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says the South
recalled in a special session last
night, and probably one of the first
1 * * 11 will K otfA In
iningB lllti JIOUBO Will 1IUIO 1U uvv.uv
during the recess session is whetner
or not the act providing for medical
inspection of children in the public
schools by a physician employed by
the schools' hoards of trustees is to
become a law the "veto of the governor
to the contrary notwithstanding."
The act with Gov. IJlease's
veto message was returned to the
House last Saturday night and referred
to the committee on medical
affairs which is expected to report
soon after the House reconvenes.
The medical inspection act was
considered by many a decided forward
stop. It was drawn with a view
to protecting the health of children
in South Carolina's schools, helping
the boys and girls to acquire a sound
mind in a sound body. Many of the
ailments to which children are especially
subject, such as adenoids, are
recognized by physicians as an Impediment
to their mental, as well as
physical, development.
If a child suffers from such ailments,
the school physician is to report
the case to its parents or guardian.
Medical inspection of school
children had the hearty endorsement
of South Carolina Federation of Women's
clubs and the South Carolina
. Medical Association. Medical inspec
tion has been tried with success in
tile public schools of Spartanburg
ami Seneca.
In a veto message, Governor Blease
had certain faults to find with the
construction of the bill which he
claimed was indefinite as to Its provision
allowing the school board to
employ physicians. The remainder
of the veto message was a democratic
appeal to the prejudices, and it is
safe, even at this early date to predict
that, if Governor Blease is again
a candidate fpr the office he now
holds in the primary next summer,
he will rehash part of this same
medical Inspection veto message into
"campaign thunder."
And, in this connection, a casual
reading of the 12 messages, special
and veto, the governor has sent to
the general assembly already (and
the end is not yet) reveals the fact
that t.ho majority of them readily
lend themselves to conversion Into
demagogic harangues. It is practically
certain that Candidate Blease
will inflict resumes of his specific
messages to the general assembly
upon the voters of South Carolina
next summer.
Of course, the House lias expunged
be vilest, of these special messages,
tho ono which accompanied the ve- |
toed libel act, from its record, but
even this will probably not prevent
it being used on the "stump" by the
present governor of the state of South
Carolina when he goes before the
people to ask them for oflico again
on his "record."
During the recess from last Saturday
night until next Wednesday
night, the exodus of members of the
Legislature from Columbia has been
very general for tho reason that so
many of them had planned their business
affairs so as to get him after
Saturday when the session should
have ended had not the necessity for
a recess arisen.
The appropriation bill will probi
ably be reported back to the House
and Senate by the committee of free
conference Wednesday night. The
members of the committee, upon
whom rsts the important task of correlating
tho differences of tho House
and Senate on tho way the state's
money shall be spent during 1912,
are: Senators, W. L. Mauldin, P. L.
Hardin, J. W. McCown and Representatives,
R. J. Drowning, T. J. Kirkland
and F. M. Cary.
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Come to lfaunt Her.
Because ino gnoBt or nor nrsi dub*
band camo to haunt her after lior
second marriage, Mrs. Georgo W.
Mann left her second husband soon
after their wedding, according to
Mann's testimony in his suit for divorce
at Macon, Ga. Ho said ho was
so touched by his wife's fears that he
consented for her to leave. She had
promised her husband, said Mann,
not to wed again.
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^ Ho Iticlily Deserved It,
The legislature of South Carolina
conferred unusual distinction upon
Newton F. Walker, superintendent
of tho Cedar Springs Institute, on
Thursday by giving him by unanimous
vote the title of "doctor of philanthropy
and charity," as a recognition
of the great work he has done
for the deaf, dumb and blind.
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JAMES MARION SIMS I
THE STATE WILL PAY TRIBUTE GI
TO HER NOTED SON.
Something of the Life and Work of III
One of the World's Greatest Physicians
and Surgeons.
The General Assembly of South
Carolina has provided an appropria- ro
tion of $5,000 to erect a suitable ho
monument to James Marion Sims, 011 Nc
tho State house grounds. The amount m<
it'll a ?rlvnn l?v t li? CAIlflml USHOniblV Oil Wfl
tho condition that the medical pro- tw
fession of South Carolina raise an ha
additional $5,000, making the total pa
amount available $10,000. ar
It is thought that tho question or
raising the fund will be brought be- w<
fore the next meeting of the South to
Carolina Medical Society. Tho reso- mi
lution for tho appropriation was in- hi
troduced in the house by Mr. Kirk- do
land. in
James Marion Sims was born In ch
Lancaster county, South Carolina, on an
January 25, 1813. Ho died in New wj
York city on November 1 3, 1 883. He hi
was graduated from the South Caro- an
Una College in 183 2 and later studied th
medicine at Charleston and Philadel- tw
phia. He began the practice of modi- w<
cino in 1 835. Dr. Sims resided at fo
Montgomery, Ala., from 184 0 to th
1 853, where ho became known for his jo
successful operations for strabismus th
and clubfoot.
In 184 5 he made known his hypo- o'i
thesis on the cause and proper treat- th
mont of trismus masceutium. The he
effectiveness of the treatment was IP
later demonstrated by a long series th
of experiments. In the same year he ru
began experiments to test a treat- th
ment lie had conceived for veslco-va- ev
ginal fistula, in tho course of which m
ho devised the silver suture and sev- th
oral instruments, the chief of which fie
is tho duskbill speculum, known as pi
the Sims sneculum. Mi
In 1853 Dr. Sirns removed to New en
York city and shortly began a move- an
merit for the establishment of a lios- lie
pital for tho diseases of women. A rn
temporary structure was built in gi
185 5, and a charter and appropriation
were granted by the legislature so
in 1 857 for tho permanent institu- re
tion, built in 18GG on tho pavilion pa
system. of
Dr. Sims went to Europe in 1 SGI in
and performed the operation for he
vesico-vaginal fistula in the hospitals pa
of London, Paris, Edinburgh and le
Dublin. In 1 862 he settled In Paris to
and secured a lucrative practice. He of
practiced in London from .18G4 to
18G8, and in the latter year returned pc
to America. Ho was again in Paris ca
in 1 870 and was surgeon-ln-chief or le
an Anglo-American ambulance corps T1
that treated both French and German m
soldiers after the battle of Sedan. th
In 1 872 Dr. Sims was appointed a co
member of the Woman's hospital of w
New York, but resigned in 187 1.
Among his published works are \\
"Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery"
(18G5), "Treatiest on Ovariotomy" ?
( 1 873), "History of the Discovery of
Anaesthesia," "The Story of My
Life" (1884). A bronze statue of
Dr. Sims is in Bryant park, New
York city. a
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.JUDGE JONES IN WASHINGTON. ?f
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Oil Personal Business, Refusing to hi
Discuss Politics.
Tho Washington correspondent of ?f
The News and Courier says Judge Ira w
Jones, who resigned the Chief Jus- ra
ticesliip of the South Carolina Su- ^
prenio Court in order to run for the 1
Governorship against Governor el
IMeasc in the Democratic primary, is *ii
at tho Willard Hotel there, and will
I'niii ! I until rPno?n ;i v n f f f*r- pl
noon. Judge Jones spent a large part al
of Monday at tlio Capitol and took
lunch with Senator and Mrs. Tillman
and Representative Legare in the
Senate dining room. Among the oth- (ii
or members of the delegation seen by
Judge Jones during the day were
Representatives Finley and Johnson.
When met in Senator Tillman's otlice, \<
Judge Jones refused to say anything
about his visit to Washington, exeept
that it was on matters of per- pj
sonal business. He declined courte- ro
ously ,but firmly, to discuss State pol- m
ities or to say anything about his can- c\
didacy. th
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Would Har Jug Trade. St
At Newberry the congregations of 111
Central Methodist church and the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian al
church Sunday adopted petitions to
congress asking for the passage of fr
the Kenyon-Sheppard bill, which is ('i
intended to remove the protection of
interstate commerce from liquor
shipped into "dry" territory. Other
nrfmnizntinna in Newberry have al
adopted and forwarded to Washing- in
ton similar petitions. This ought to M
be done in all the "dry" counties, of
Then there would bo some chance to CI
enforce tho law. eci
A
Negro Kills Another Negro. M
Monk Williams shot and instantly ^
killed Frank Williams Sunday after- si
noon in Fork township in Anderson
county. Roth are negroes. Tho sheriff
and the coroner are investigating.
It is said that the slayer has made th
his escape across the Georgia State G
line. Monk Williams recently com- st
pleted a sentence for killing a negro, hi
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NOTED CROOK CAUGHT "
IEENWOOD OFFICERS NABBED 3
HIM LAST TUESDAY.
s Pal, D. M. Checks, Was Also Arrested
and the Two Noted Crooks
Are Now Safely Behind the Bars.
Covered with four pistols and sur1111
ded by as many officers in the (
use of a Mr. Ward, at Grendel mill i
>. 1, at Greenwood, early Tuesday i
irning, W. Ilritt Stanley, who Is
inted for several safo robberies, j
o murders and on the charge of ,
ving a number of wives, and his .
1, D. M. Cheeks, were arrested and ,
e now in the county Jail. .
rm,f nffl/iora hnvn nnn of the i
I Hat HiV w MMIf V W? J
>rst criminals in tho country seems <
be a fact as the photograph of the <
in wanted for several crimes fits ,
m exactly. He is wanted in Valsta,
Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., for blow- ,
g open two safes; wanted on the }
arge of murder in North Carolina ,
id also in Georgia. There is a re- j
ird of $1,000 or $1,500 offered for
s capture which will bo divided j
nong the local ofllcers who made
e arrest. For tho past several days
o detectives have been in GreenDod
looking for him. They have (
llowed hiin over several States but
e Greenwood otlicers were on the
b and made the arrest as soon as
ey learned that he was hero.
Tuesday morning shortly after five
clock four men gathered around ;
o breakfast table at one of the
>uses in the Grendel Mill village.
/ lamplight they had begun eating
eir breakfast when four officers
shed in and covered the bunch with
eir guns. Up went tho hands of
ery man?the photograph of the
an wanted was pulled from one of
e officers pockets?he was identiid
from this and hand cuffs were
aced on him and his pal. Sheriff
cMillan and Chief of Police White !
itered the front door of the house
id Police Sergeant Elledge and Po:eman
Still came in the back?all
shing into the dining room at a
veil signal.
Stanley has been In Greenwood for
me days and at the time of his arst
he was working in the mill. His ;
il, M. D. Cheek, seems to be a kind
spy for him. He visits the city
which they stop, and as soon as
i finds that the officers are on his :
il's trail he puts him wise and they
ave. But this time his "spy" was (
0 slow, or at least the Greenwood <
fleers were too fast.
In a little note book in Stanley's
>cket was found the following: "In
se of accident write to L. E. Ilaty,
Holladay, Tenn., R. F. D. No.' 4.
:ie officers in the places where the
an is wanted have been notified of
e arrest and they will probably
mo to Greenwood for him in a short
bile.
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1 (ilj HONOR II10It GREAT SON.
oiuiiiicnt to be Erected at Columbia
to Dr. J. Marion Sims.
The general assembly has passed
bill providing for the erection of a
atute on the State House grounds
Dr. J. Marion Sims, 0110 of the
ost famous gynecologists and surions
the world has produced. The
11 from the senate, passed without
iposition in the house Wednesday
ght, provides for tho appropriation
$.">,000 for tho statue by tho State
hen an equal amount lias been
lSCd oy l UO DUUlll V^lHIUllil lUCUIkUl
ssociation.
dr. McDow, Mr. nines and Mr. Dirk
ilogi/.ed the late l)r. Sims in the
ghost terms. They declared that
3 had boon an honor to his birthace,
Lancaster county, to his State
id to the United States.
HIS CONSCIENCE lll'RT 1IIM.
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reenville Man Makes Restitution for
Stolen Iiooze.
An employee of the dispensary in
100 stole one pint of "XX" or
(XX" rye whiskey, and, to ease his
oubled conscience, which hasn't let
m rest since the deed was commitd,
ho wrote a letter to Governor
lease confessing his sin, and enosed
a $1 bill as a contribution to
o "conscience fund" for the pint of
luor which he filched from the
ate. The Governor returned the
oney to the man, telling him that
? hoped his sin had been forgiven,
id that he should put the dollar to
me good purpose. The letter came
om Greenville, the man being an
nployee of a cotton mill.
Hanging \ okis iiisiinuicc,
Death by the hand of the law voids |
1 life insurance policies of the crimal.
Tho supreme court so held
onday in the fight of the children ,
James S. McCue, former mayor of ,
larlottesville, Va., who was executl
for tho murder of his wife In 1005.
policy for $ 15,000 was carried by
cCuo in the Northwestern Mutual
ifo Insurance Company of Wiscon- <
n.
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A Thrifty Hank Porter.
A warrant has been sworn out by
ic Merchants and Farmers Hank of
affney, for a negro porter, who has
olen $1,20^5 from the bank. He
[is not yet been apprehended.
ONLY TWO ARE LEFT "
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MOTH Kit AND THREE CHILDREN ?
DIE IN A FEW DAYS.
V Spartanburg Family Nearly All I
Wiped Out of Existence by Complications
With Measles.
The following sad story of a Sparanburg
family is told by the Jour- c
ml of that city in its last Monday's i
ssue: . t
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Lula Buckner has joined Horace, 1
Vfaud and Mrs. Buckner. The fourth v
member of this family died last night '
it 11 o'clock after an illness of about a
,wo weeks. She lived just one week 1
ifter Horace passed away. Ruth fol- 1
lowed three days later and on last
joturwiav tnoriiiiiir the niothor died, j
3n top of this Lula followed them to 1
Lho beyond last night. *
There remains in this family now ^
tho husband almost crazed from 1
srief and sorrow; Norman, the 14- c
year-old boy, who according to physicians,
has but a little chance, and 1
who may soon join his mother and *
brother and sisters. Then there is J
Harvey, the bright, blue eyed boy, 5
who after the other members of the 'l
family are buried, will remain to
comfort his aged father in his last 1
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days on earth.
Across the street from tho Buck- ,
nor cottage, there is a married daugh- ,
ter of Mr. Huckner. She, with a very
young child, is desperately ill, and '{
much anxiety is felt for her. (
Yesterday afternoon at J. F. ,
Floyd's undertaking establishment,
tho funeral of Mrs. Buckner ana ,
Ruth was held. The father, stricken
with grief, was crazed and paced the
floor back and forth, wringing his ,
hands and refusing to be soothed. ,
The mother and Ruth in the same ,
casket were laid to rest beside the j
body of Horace, who had been buried ,
scarcely a week.
The father turned to his little
home to assist in nursing his daugh- |
ter, Lula and the son Norman. Lula |
told him yesterday that she would |
die before morning. And last night, ,
the angel of death visited the home
for the fourth time during the week (
and took away Lula. ,
Torn Mathews, tho undertaker,
went to the home early this morning,
lie found Mr. Buckner walking back
and forth in the street, knowing not ?
what to do, and the two children, the
only two remaining, kneeling at the
side of the bed where there lay the
dead body of Lula.
The funeral was held this after- \
noon at 3 o'clock, at Mr. Floyd's on
North Church street, just 2 4 hours .
alter the mother and baby had been
buried. She was buried beside Hor- ,
ace, Ruth and her mother. Is there
any wonder that Mr. Buckner, and
the remaining children are nearly insane,
after losing four loved ones
within seven short days?
FOI K KILLER WHILE ASLEEP.
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Seventh of Series of Similar Crimes
Vet Unexplained.
Ethel Love, a negress, her son and
two daughters, were killed Monday
night, in their cabin near Beaumont,
Texas, the seventh of a series of similar
crimes which have occurred
within several months in Southwestern
Louisiana and Southeastern Texas,
and in which the number of persons
killed now total 20.
In each instance the slayer, believed
tho same person, battered the <
beads of his victims with an axe as
they slept. Invariably the weapon
used has been left near the bodies,
but no other evidence has been found
which might lead to an arrest. As a
rule, the negroes killed are obscure <
residents of small settlements and i
no motive can bo assigned.
The first occurrence was at Rayne, i
La., when a mother and four children
were killed. At LaFayette the :
victims number four, next came <
Crowley, La., with a family, consist- i
ing of father, mother and one child.
LaFayette was then next with anoth- <
or family of four; then at Crowley a
woman and her throe children were
killed on January 18. On January
21 a family of five was murdered at 1
Lakh Charles. The crime Monday
night was the seventh.
WOMAN WANTS DIVORCE. j
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Husband in the Penitentiary for Try- ,
ing to Kill ller.
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Because, she alleges, her husband <
is now serving a term in the South *
Carolina Penitentiary for shooting at 5
her, Mrs. W. Frances Smoak has (
brought divorce proceedings in Chat- ;
tiam Superior Court at Savannah, da., '
against J. E. Smoak, her husband. 1
First papers were filed Monday. This 1
couple was married in 1904. She
charged, along with the more serious
allegation tliat smoaK made an assault
011 her, that he is an ha.bitual i
drunkard. The assault, sho charges, 1
occurred in September, 1910, in l
South Carolina*. A shotgun was used, ]
sho alleges, and, although sho was ;
not hit, the shot splintered the door i
facing near which she was standing.
For this offence Smoak is now doing i
time in the sister State Penitentiary, <
sho avers. Mrs. Smoak wants her j
maiden name of W. Frances Rice re-J]
stored to her in the final decree.
THREE BRAVE BANDITS ;
;teal a small fortune and
escape in auto. '
Jobbers in New York Effect Daring
Clean-up, Getting $25,000 in
Broad Daylight.
Twenty-five thousand dollars In
11 rrr?n r> v wjik Rtolfill from a taxlcab
u tho heart of the New York downown
business district Thursday
uorning by three progressive highwaymen,
who sprang into the velicle
and overpowered W. F. Smith
ind Frank Wardell, messengers of
he East Itiver National bank, 6 80
3 road way.
Both messengers were badly Inured
and the robbers escaped with 1
he money?$15,000 in $5 bills and
110,000 in $100 bills. The currency 1
vas being transported from the 1
i'roduce Exchange Bank, in the low- '
;r part of the city.
Tho taxicab had proceeded up
Broadway without mishap when, for
iomo unexplained reason, the chauf!eur
turned west on Rector street
nto Church street, skirting the side
ind rear of Trinity churchyard.
About midway of tho old cemetery
three men sprang from the church.
3no jumped on the chauffeur's seat,
:he two others got into the vehicle.
The man on tho seat pressed a revolver,
in his overcoat pocket,
against the side of the chauffeur,
Sina Martino, and commanded him
Lo drive swiftly on without making
m outcry.
Inside tho vehicle the two robbers
were belaboring tho bank messengers
Dver tho head. Smith, one of the
messengers, is 61 years old, and he
was bleeding and almost unconscious
when the taxicab readier Park place,
i few blocks north. Wardell was
badly beaten about the head, but not
seriously hurt.
At Park place, the highwaymen
Jumped from tho taxicab, bearing a
tin box, which they had wrested from
the messengers and which contained
the currency. ln>a Hash they had
sprung into a big black automobile,
which seemed to bo awaiting their
coming, and were quickly lost in the
maze of traffic.
SEVEN HUNDKE1) SWINE.
Turned IiOo.se by Wreck of Train in
New York State.
A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y.,
says a local comedy that beats "Pigs
is Pigs" took another turn to add to
its ludicrousncss. Wednesday night
a freight wreck in the western end of
the city released 700 hogs from the
cars in which they were being transported
and the pokers spread over a
large section of the town. Residents
saw a chance to lay in a winter supply
of food and corraled the pigs,
confining them in the cellars and
even parlors. Monday two men visited
the west side homes and claimed
two largo wagon loads of hogs, under
the statement that they were railroad
detectives. It has developed that the
detectives were not in the employ of
the railroad. Police are now looking
for the two wagon loads of pork.
MURDERED OLD SINNER.
Laughs on tho Gallows in (lie Very
Shadow of Death.
Refusing the offers of a minister
who labored with him all night, his
own son, a Catholic priest, and members
of the Salvation Army, J. Lawrence
Odom, a triple murderer, went
lo his death at Mobile on the gallows
early Monday. On the gallows
the condemned man when asked to
say his last prayer, answered by re(liiesting
that his 5-year-old daughter
Hazel lie brought to him to remove
the black cap from his face. He
mounted the gallows unconcernedly
and laughingly asked to see his wife.
Odom was convicted of killing
Charles Goland, Joseph Stokes and
David Gartman, the latter a lG-yearold
boy.
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GROOM III X? HIMSELF.
While His Hride Was Getting Ready
for the Wedding.
While his afllanced bride was making
ready her joyful anticipation of
aer wedding the Drooklvn police
were cutting down the body of John
Vlonerschmidt, her fiance, as it
;wung from an apple tree in a vacant
Brooklyn lot. It is believed
hat Menerschmidt, after leaving his
sweetheart on the eve of their wedling,
went immediately to the scene
his suicide. Miss Anna Speatch,
lis bride-to-be, who is in a danger>usly
hysterical condition, can give
\o reason for his suicide.
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Gives Them Good Advice.
The Columbia Light, a colored
man's paper published by colored
men, gives this good advice: "Negro
farmers should adopt the Rock llill
plan and not plant a big cotton acreage
this year. Neither should they
use so much guano. They should
follow their white neighbors and
plant less cotton, but more homo produets.
Give more time to live stock,
grain, truck farming and in fact prepare
to live independent of cotton.
Buy less big mules and fine buggies."
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SWEPT BY FUMES
HOUSTON DAMAGED TO AMOUNT
OF SEVEN MILLIONS
FIRE HALT AT BAYOU
name Driven by High Winds and
Hundreds of Families Driven Into
Hitter Cold.?Fire Moved so Swiftly
That For Many Persons Flight
Was Hacc For Life.
Driven before one of the coldest
Texas "northers" of the winter, fire
?arly Wednesday burned a huge Irregular
strip throught the eastern
residential and manufacturing section
f Houston. It swept across million
dollar plants and flimsy frame structure
with equal ease, until fully five
million dollars damage had been
done.
Although no lives were lost, more
than a score of persons were injured,
while thousands were driven from
their homes and suffered the sting
of the freezing temperature. The
burned area by daylight was a milo
and a half long and from a city
block to a quarter of a mile in width.
Buffalo bayou, a narrow coffee colored
stream, was tlie scene of the battle
royal, against the flames. Ilere,
after the fire had swept on. with,
scarcely a semblance of control, four
hours, the firemen made a desperate
stand and although the fire leaped
the bayou at places, the conIlagratiou
was checked.
The fire started in a two-story
frame structure near Hardy and Opelousas
streets and spread to a feed
store. Then it jumped simultaneously
to three more frame boarding
houses and the roar of the flames oil
a 35-mile northwest wind began to bo
ominous. The Star and Crescent
hotel, a brick structure, next caught.
Vrr?in t n t moment the lire seemed
beyond control. Driving ahead with
frightful rapidity, it swayed from side
to side and tongues of sparks sometimes
seemed to roach out three
blocks ahead, all the time eating
steadily toward the more thickly populated
section of the city across Buffalo
bayou.
At times the bolts of flame would
become detached, lighting on houses*
perhaps two blocks distant and tiring
them. A score of times women had
just timo to seize their babies and
dash madly to the streets.
With hundreds it was a race for
life and these made no effort to save
property. As the flames advanced a
perfect army of night-clothes clad
men, women and children formed
and dashed on and on, being driven
from one place of refuge to another
by the progress of the flames. Cool
heads, finally realizing the danger*
assumed charge of the situation and
in a short time compelled refugees,
to go to the rear of the destructive
flames.
WANTS TO S.W i] Til 10 PARTY.
Chandler Suggests That Taft and
Teddy Withdraw,
The suggestion that both President
Taft and Former President Roosevelt
should decline to bo candidates for
reelection this year, in the interests
of uniting the Republican party, is
made by Former United States Senator
William F. Chandler, of Concord,
X. II., in an open letter to the Republicans
of New Hampshire, made public
Monday night. Mr. Cliantler expresses
the opinion that the Republican
party is divided between Taft and
Roosevelt and so long as the split
lasts is certain of defeat. Mr. Chandler
declares that, while ho personally
favors Senator La Follette, ho
would surrender his preference for
some one like Charles 10. Tughes, Albert
13. Cummins, Charles \V. Fairbanks
or Gov. Hira.111 Johnson of California.
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WAS WRECKED AT SEA.
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Steamer Took Famished Men From
the Stranded Ship.
The British steamer Cuban, which
arrived at Liverpool Sunday night
from Now Orleans brought into port
nine of the crew of the British ship
Fine which was wrecked in a heavy
storm at sea. The Erne was bound
from Boston, February 1, from Buenos
Aires. The Cuban passed her on
February S in latitude 40 north, longtit
tide 5 0 west, and rescued those of
the crew who had managed to keep
themselves alive. Si\ of tho crew
were drowned while the master of tho
Erne, Capt. Fickett, his wife, tho second
mate and a passenger, are missi'
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wreck afloat.
Passed Over \'eto.
The Legislature last week passed
by an almost unanimous vote over
Governor Please s veto, the bill pay- r
lug Magistrato Kerr his salary. Mr J
Kerr, who is an old Confederate ve t/
oran, was recommended by t.he
Greenville delegation, but was turned
down by Gov. Please and a yo?ng
lawyer at Greenwood named 1 /a bis
place. Mr. Kerr did not suppor'Jt Governor
Please in the election* while
the young lawyer did. J
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