The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 09, 1912, Image 3

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I HE WANTS TO FIGHT (SOUTH CAROLINA CADET CHAL| LENGES A DOCTOR. ICAUSE OF THE TROUBLE II The Doctor Criticised tlie Horsemanship of the Cadet, Who Bends Challenge, Which is Turned Over to the Commandant of the West Point Academy. The New York World correspondf ent at Highland Falls says there isn't I going to be any duel at West Point between Senior Cadet Robert McGoun Littlejohn, right tackle of the football team, boxer, wrestler and South Carolinian, and spectacled Hi young Dr. Thomas McMonamin of Highland Falls?that 1b, if the theory that it takes two to make a scrap, j holds good. Dr. McMenamin who had the te meniy 10 criticise me iioibciiimitmip of the senior cadet as an "amateurish" and for so doing received a hot letter of challenge (and promptly sent the letter with one of his own to the senior cadet's strict disciplinarian boss, Major-Gen. Barry, Superintendent of West Point), told a correspondent for The World that although fighting might be the profession of Cadet Llttlejohn, it wasn't his, the doctor's. Major-Gen. Barry would not discuss the affair and Senior Cadet Llttlejohn is standing severely on his dignity with perhaps a twitter of apprehension over what may be the official outcome of Dr. McfMenamin's action in placing his letter of chalj lengo in his superior's hands. Lit/ tlejohn is duo to bo graduated this Juno. It isn't likely, however, that J the invocation of the code duello by the Southern cadet will come to a sorious turn. Dr. 'McMenamln Is not inclined to take the affair very seriI ously. He said to the reporter for Tho World: i "Major-General Barry sent one of his aides this morning to talk over tho matter with me. I told him that ! of course the letter of cnallengo came all unexpectedly and that It would have hardly been worth noticing at all except that I am frequently called f in a professional way to West Point and have frequented social affairs f there. "The prospect of my going up there some fine day to have a young giant of a football player, boxer and wrestler give mo a poke In the eye or otherwise vent his wram over an imaginary case of wounded pride and honor did not please me. , Of course the Idea of fignting a duel In these days is too absurd to discuss The matter was really altogether trivial save as young Littlejohn magnified it by writing mo a threatening letter. "I did, however, tell Major-Gen. Barry's aide that while I did not care to press charges against the cadet, I would expect an apology from him. I think such an apology will be forthcoming. I know it should. LittleJohn is a crack athlete and something of a leader among the students, and I think you may lay his hair-trigger wrath and indignation to ?wi attack of 'swell-headedness' common to youth. "Littlejohn was riding his horse through the town last Saturday, when tho animal shied and began to dance all over the road with him. I was sitting in my motor car waiting for my brother, Dr. Frank McMenamin, who was talking with a lady on tho opposito corner. I was alarmed to soo the cadet's horse going scrambling and backing into my brother. Duo of tho animal's hind hoofs struck my brother 011 the foot, bruising him painfully. "I was naturally alarmed and shouted somewhat heatedly at the young man. I don't recall exactly what I said, but 1 guess It was some - * 11 ^ : a 1. ? tiling tC IJIO oi.iocl in ill, n 110 uiun l know how to manage a horse better that he shouldn't ride 0110. When ho got the horse under control he galloped up to my car as I was helping my brother in and shouted to me that I was to understand that I was to J mind my own business. ITo was a very angry young man undoubtedly] It is not true that ho subsequently rode into town and abused me. I Will Got Two Thousand Knch. y Six thousand dollars to bo made Immediately available for the widows or next of kin of the United States postal clerks who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster was voted by the House as an amendment to the postoflleo appropriation bill. The sum is divided so? as to give $2,000 each to the nearest relative of .T. S. March, O. S. Woody and L. Qutnn. Tilve Wire Kills Mules!. The Stale says two mules were killed yesterday on east Taylor street near tho corner of Marion as a result of a live wire breaking and dropping acroBS their backs. Dr. Manney Rice, city physician had a narrow escape, ho having stepped out of his automobile directly In front fit the wire. I . ' k^_ I REBELS WERE ROUTED MANY OF THEM KILLED IN VAIN ATTEMPT ON EPIC. ? Mexican Regulars Fought Fiercely And Showed Consummate Skill in Taking Advantage of Opportunities A dispatch from Epic. Mexico, eays ( with 2220 dead, and more than this number wounded, many of whom were unable to crawl from the field of battle. 2.000 rebels, under command of Manuel Guerrero, have been completely routed by the garrison of that city, aided by the police of the local commandery. The ^attack began April 24, the rebels operating In the Hill surrounding Tepic on tho day previous ' and demanding the surrender of the ' garrison commanded by Col. Martin ( Espinonsa. Wednesday afternoon , Col. EsplnoBa replied to the messenger from tho rebel chief with a can non hall which, landing on a flat topped hill on which a number of the rebels had gathered, killed three of , them and wounded two others. At three o'clock in tho afternoon the rebels, leaving their horses in the hills and crawling the several hundred yards across the plain, attacked Tepic from the north, east and west. In the garrison were 315 cavalrymen, all dismounted, a small body of State police, mounted, and 110 from tho city's force, a total of 4 75 loyal federals. Col. Esponisa sent a part of the State police mounted on tho best horses In town to each of the three main roads to receive and return the first fire of tho rebels. Behind them were placed six squads of regulars, 50 men in each squad, one body just behind each part of cavalry. On the roof of tho cuartel throe men were operating the three pounder, throwing solid shots into the rebols as they were approaching while in each of the three mam entrance ways a rapid fire gun was planted to reinforce the cavalry ana tno foot soldiers. The steady fire of the three pounaer aia mucn effective wotk in the ranks of the approaching rebels and they were delayed until the garrison had transported abundant ammunition to all the outposts and completed all necessary preparations for the battle. Then at live o'clock the bugles in the cathedral tower sounded the call of battle. The young gunners of the federal army had the rango and the elevation rebels began to fall by ones and twos, here and there, then by squads as the assailants rose from tne furrows of the fallow field to run forward 10 yards and then to drop again into the sheltering earth. Despite the hail of destruction ranging through the ranks the rebels rushed on until they were within 200 'yards of the stone wall which hid the federals' three guns and tne waiting cavalry. Then for one instant the song of the rapid fire ceasod. Tne cavalrymen, sabres and carbines sheathed, but revolvers in hand and bridle reins hung over their necks, leaped to meet the foe. It was a short sally but it took the rebels by surprise, and many of then? fell. Then the sabres were drawn and tho mounted police quickly cut their way to the second line of rebels where they turned and amid a hail of bullets galloped to the cover of the walla. The rebels, thinking the force of the garrison had retreated Into the cuartel, followed In a lieadlon charge. Then from machine guns and rifles well concealed behind thick stone wall same a leaden rain Miat mowed dow the relxds. But 011 they camo. Fresh hands of attackers poured out of the hills and were led by Guerrerro himself. This seemed to inspire the rebels and they gainet almost, tho entrance to tho town before the hail of bullets forced tliem to drop to their faces. Then under cover of heavy firing by tho infantry, the calvalry made its way to tho cuartel, gathering up as it went the foot police in the various plazas. Once at tho cuartel tho mounted men left their horses In the protected patio, got more cartridges nd scattered themselves on the house tops to cover the oncoming infantry, still fighting aglnst the rebels on tho outskirts of tho town. The bugler then sounded retreat and tho Infantry gained the cuartel, Into this trap the rebels fell as easily as they had fallen into the first. They turned to fiec hut were prevented by those rushing up behind, StfAtirilnflr In the onon thev attemntod to reply to tho deadly volleys of the federals but panic soon finished the work the federals and the police had begun. ? Dies From High Fall. Gordian Ilosisi, the aviator, died at Berlin early Thursday of injuries received Wednesday evening at a fall from a monoplane. Ho was trying out his machine and was not more than 90 feet from the ground when pie and live stock out of danger. ? It is time that honor be done some of tho obscure stokers and able-bodled soamon who wont down with the Titanic. m ' ' ' ' BRINGS IN BODIES VICTIMS OF THE GREAT OCEAN TRAGEDY FOUND ? FUNERAL SHIP ARRIVES Of the Two Hundred and Forty-Seven Corpses Recovered, Only One Hundred and Ninety Are Taken to Port, the Body of Col. Jolin Jacob Astor Being One. The cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which came with 190 of the White Star liner Titanic's dead into Halifax Tuesday, flnst cast gloom over the city by her mere presence as a funeral ship, then sent a shock through those waiting here for bodies with the announcement of her commander that 07 of those reported by wireless as identified had of necessity been cast again into the sea. Yet none, not even the few here whose friends or relatives had thus been recommitted to the Atlantic, expressed any criticism of Capt. Lardner's action, believing him sincere in his explanation that lack of space on board, shortage of embalming materials and the mutilation of bodie? were solely responsible for his course. That there* was no favoritism shown in the reburlal, in that the bodies of prominent persons were not kept aboard to the exclusion of the more humble, is indicated by the White Star lino's announcement that among those bodies sunk again was that of George D. Widener, the Philadelphia capitalist. Although this appears to bo a mistake In that Mr. Wldener's son, now here, believes from Capt. Lardner's description that the body was that of his father's valet, the name Widener stands on the official list of reburied as issued by the White Star line late today. The one great hope held out to the bereaved tonight was the fact that there are stretched in the rough pine coffins in the morgo 60 bodies for which there was no claimant. Dy morning all will have been prepared for close scrutiny and persons who found only bitter disappointment in the death house today will go back tomorrow prepared to exhaust every resource before turning homeward. A majority of those cast again into the sea were members of the TItanic's crew and second and third class passengers. Eliminating Mr. Widener's name from the list there remains, so far as can be checked up from the data here, the name of only one first class passenger recommitted. He was Frederick Sutton of Philadelphia. Reginald Hale was among the second cabin passengers. Perhaps never was an ocean event so fraught with gruesome .aspects marking a closing chapter in the greatest sea disaster in history attended with more respectful silence and lack of morbid curiosity than was the docking or the Macaay-uennett today. Not half dozen of those actually concerned visited the pier proper and of the general public not more than 200. They stood in silence overlooking the terrace into the navy dock yard 3 0 yards away. They could see nothing but the upper structure of the Mackay-Bennett, tents housing the coffins and a canvas lane in which the dead were being carried to the long file of undertakers' wagons for transfer to the morgue. It was nearly 4 o'clock when the claimants of bodies began to arrive there by twos and threes. Nicholas Diddle of Philadelphia, who accompanied Vincent Astor here in a. private car, went alone to identify the body of Col. Astor, and It was the first prepared for removal to New York. The body of Isador Straus a few minutes later was turned over to Maurice Rothschild of New York, and in quick succession with little or no ceremony, the bodies of Frank D. 'Millet, the artist, H. J. Allison of Montreal, and others who wero given in charge of friends. Dy tomorrow all of those claimed will bo on their way home for burial. The slight scrutiny of the unidentified tonight led to what may mean tho identification of two of the victims. One of t.hoso whose name was not learned, said ho recognized one of the bodies as that of J. F. P. Clark, assistant purser of tho Titanic, while letters found on another body bore the name of Anhhr White. Tho letters had boon mailed from Newark, N. J. There aro only fivo women's bodies among the unidentified. As one of them appears to bo that of a Swedish woman and tho other four those of Italians, there is little hopo appar ently of recovering tlio body of Mrs. Straus. A baby girl of about two year lies among tho unclaimed and nameless. Of all the bodies picked up hers was tho only one that tho waves bore without aid of a lif? belt. Despite predictions to the contrary nearly all of the bodies bore Indications that the victims had died swiftly If not ajmoat painlessly. In many cases their features were calm and with the exception of those who had ( \ ? I FLAG GALLED DIRTY RAG KED BAN NEK OF ANARCKY DISPLACED OLD GLORY. Stars and Stripes Torn Down and Trampled Under Foot at Meeting of Socialists and Workers* Union. The Stars and Stripes were torn down and trampled under foot and a red flag substituted during a fierce fight at a May Day meeting of the Socialist party and affiliated unions in Union Square Park, New York, late Wednesday. That a serious pan-1 ic did not ensue Is believed to have been due to the fact that thousands of persons on the outskirts of the crowd did not know what the troublo was. Responsibility for the tearing down of the flag is disclaimed by the Socialists, who assert that members of the Industrial Workers of the World committed the act. The Socialist representatives on the platj form appear to have done their best to protect the national colors. The troublo started at the conclusion of a parade of 8,000 men and women, who gathered in the park for speech-making. Red banners, the emblems of Socialism, already adorned the speakers' platform and the band was playing the "Marseillaise" when the Stars and Stripes were carried to the stand as the first speaker was about to be introduced. Instantly there was the wildest excitement. "Take that dirty rag down," went up a cry from the crowd. But those on the platform held their ground and some with cooler heads tried to quiet the tumult that had broken out. "Wo don't recognize that flag," cried a man in front as he tried to reach the platform. That cry was taken up by others, a number of whom fought their way to the platform. Those on the platform tried to protect the flag and a fist fight resulted, in which a lone policeman was the only officer who figured. His club knocked three men down. Sevoral men were tossed bodily over the platform rail Into the crowd. Bloody faces were numerous. The big American flag was finally torn down and hurled to the ground. Miss Caroline Dexter, a member of the Socialist party, a tall muscular woman, elbowed her way to where the fallen banner lay. "Men like you ought to bo shot," she cried as she gathered up the flag. She met no resistance and carried the flag home with her. Wltn nothing but red banners to decorato the platform the meeting proceeded, but the programme as arranged by the Socialist party had to bo given up and the speakers were mostly from among the ranks of the Industrial Workers of the World. STUCKEY KIDDED HIMSELF. J. A. DuLose is Released From the County .lail. The State says J. A. DuBose of Bishopvillo, who was arrested Sunday night in connection with the death of his friend, J. D. Stuckey, who was found dead with his throat cut in a local sanitarium on Main street, was reloased Tuesday by Coroner Walker. Coroner Walker said that he would very probably hold an Inquest but that he had not decided upon the dato. Coroner Walker gave the opinion that "Mr. Stuckey comI If ? TA i * 11 aoa tire ct o IIUIIL?J<1 BU1CIUCT. ill 1 , ?i juoo n no c*?? rested Sunday night, and placed In the Richland county Jail because the knife with which it is supposed Mr. Stuckey's throat was cut was found in his (DuBose) room on Lady street. peon severely Injured they were remarkably free from the stamp of horror or suffering. All were in a remarkablo state of preservation. Relics of the Titanic dotted the soa over an area of 30 miles square, Capt. Larnder said. Door, windows and chairs by the score were found lloating, but to none of them were bodies lashed. In several Instances there were groups of bodies numbering 50 or more, bwt none was lashed together. Col. Astor was found standing almost, erect in his lifebelt. Small boats were lowered by the Mackay-Bonnett wherever a group of bodies was sighted and into these the dead were piled three or four at a time. Hauled on board the cable ship, each was numbered'with a large canvas tag and the valuable and papers wero placed in a canvas sack similarly numbered. Capt. Larnder said ho buried so many corpses at sea simply because all could not, bo accommodated. Tie said none of the passenger corpses was buried except perhaps in the case a . t <** * i . i nu. ^ t ? ^ or tno vviuoner vuiet. 1 no umjui iij of thoso sunk wero unidentified members of the crew. There wero throe funerals aboard ship. \ ? Colorado Instructs for Clark. The Colorado State Democratic convention today adopted a resolution instructing Colorado's ten delegates to the national Democratic convention support Champ Clark until such time as he no longer was a candidate or until released by Mm. i SHOT WOMAN DOWN HE MURDERS HIS WIFE AS SHE PLEADS FOR MERCY ACT (IF A CRUEL BRUTE Both (lie Man and Woman Were at I the Home of the Woman's Mother to See Their Child, Custody of 1 Whom Had Heen Granted Wife by Judge Shi pp. < Magistrate J. P. Oibrfon, of Ben- ' nettsville, acting coroner, held an ( inquest over the body of Lecy Quick Tuesday night, and after taking testimony the jury returned a verdict 1 that the deceased came to her death , from the effects of a gunshot wound, the gun being in the hands of Elijah Quick. Elijah Quick and his wife separat ed about the first of January. They 1 were then living south of Bennettsville. Sho took the child, then about ' 18 months old, to live with her at McColl and began to work in the cotton mill. Elijah Quick went to McColl and got possession of the child. The mother began habeas corpus proceedings and it was decreed by Judge Shipp that the mother should have the custody of the child for four years, the father in the meantime to have the privilege of seeing the child at any and all reasonable hours, and the father also to have the right at the expiration of four years to apply for the custody of the child. Judge Shipp stating at the same time that he trusted that this arrangement would bring about a reconciliation r* k uoKn n /I and fn l>\ UVU IUU 11 UDUlllUi (lliu ?1 ilt. It seems that Elijah Quick had moved into Adamsville Township, about eight or nine miles northeast of Benntttsville, and that ho was at the home of the mother of his wife, with whom the child was then staying. The only eye-witness, Mrs. Frances Pate, the mother of the deceased woman, said: "She came here this morning before 11 o'clock. I had the child and she came to see the baby. About 5 o'clock this afternoon sho started to go home. Elijah begged her to stay and not go back. She told him that they had had trouble and if she stayed that the same old trouble would happen again, and that she thought that she had better go. I heard them talking. I was in another room. I thought from what I heard that he was getting his gun. I went in the room and asked him what he meant. My daughter was on her knees begging him not to kill her; said that sho would stay. While on her knees he shot her in the left hand. She screamed and ran out into the yard. I walked out in the yard. I was going part of the way with her. Elijah fired the second time. Tin nnt another Hhell in Mm Kun. He walked on the ground and was near enough to touch her with the gun. She fell Instantly, did not speak, died at once." It seems that Quick then left the house and started down the road and was met by Messrs. W. C. Adams and R. J. Adams. Mr. R. J. Adams stated that Quick told him that he had killed his wife; said sho would not stay with him, and he had rather be dead than be without her. Quick is in jail here. ? ? KILLING IN CALHOUN. Accused Man Says the Shooting Was an Accident. St. Matthews, May 3.?Special; Today at, noon, Sheriff Hast and his deputy, (). F. Murph, came in from the Fall Branch section with a prisoner, Marion Key, as a passenger in their big automobile. It appears that Marion Key and Mason Wallace, both colored, left Key's house after dark to visit in the neighborhood. Key's parlor riilo was taken along. At ten o'clock last night tbo death of Wallace was reported to the coroner, J. ' \V. Spigener, who held an inquest this morning. A neighbor near by testified that the two passed along, laughing and talking, and tired the ritle once before reaching the house. Soon after Key returned and requested that they go with him at once "across the branch," whore Wallace had shot himself, but didn't think he was "quite dead." Key's testimony f h\/niAof iroe of ll lot (it iiiv tui{ut:ot >* ouinvo iiu-v vumuLiing, but ho protested that they were the best of friends, and saluted each other as "coz." About the only evidence against the theory of a selfinflicted wound, in an accidental manner, was the fact that there were 110 powder burns about the body or clothing. The jury experimented with tho same ride, which Kay this morning near tho body along tho lonely roadside, aud found that a handkerchief was not only powderburned, but eel on tiro at -a distance commensurate with that In case the : gun had been In Wallace's hands. Tho Jury's verdict was that Wallace , came to his death by a gunshot wound, but. whether by his owu hand 11 or tbat or anotuor was unKnown to .them, and muat bo determined In a | Court of Justice, * / r r PLEASES GOV. BLEASE SAYS HE HAS RECEIVED GOOD NEWS FROM THE CLUBS. ( ? ' But the Published Returns from Dif. . ferent Parts of the State Were in IPavnr f\t JnnPfi. The Columbia correspondent of :ho News and Courier says Governor Blease, in conversation Monday morning on the result of the Demojratic club meetings, expressed hlmjelf as pleased with the results. H? said that ho had received good news md that ho would be a delegate to die State Convention from Newberry County and a delegation friendly to biin would come along. He said that reports from clubs friendly to him, which hadn't appeared in the papers, brought good news and he talks confirently of tho outcome. Charleston County seems to be for Jones. Out of twelve delegates elected by tho Alcaln. The Fork and Harmony clubs ten are for Jones, one is for the Governor and one is doubtful. Summerton hjas already reported a solid delegation for Judge Jones, and it seems from reports that Governor Blease fared equally as bad throughout the county. In '.Manning the Farmer's Platform Club, a club organized In the early nineties, and composed of Tilmanites, with a delegation of twenty-three to the County Convention, gave Judge Jones seventeen, * Please five and one in doubt. The other two Manning clubs, Clarendon and Manning, gave Judge Jones seven and six, respectively, while Governor Please got none. One significant fact was the defeat of Senator Appelt as a delegate from the Farmers' Platform Club. Senator Appelt is a strong supporter of the Governor. A motion In the Dillon Club that the chair appoint a committee of five to name delegates to the county convention, coming from Dr. J. H. Hauler, a pronounced friend of Judge Jones was a challenge to the other side and Mr. William Murchison a staunch supporter of Governor Please declaring that this motion being an attempt to override the prerogative cf the individual member of the meeting, moved that Dr. llamer's motion be tabled. This at once became the issue between the opposing factions and as the vote on Mr. Murchison's motion to tabio would aflix a correct idea of the situation it was awaited with intonso interest. The result was as gratifying to the friends of Judge Jones as it was disappointing to those of Governor Blease. Mr. Murchison'a motion to table was lost by an overwhelming vote. The chair appointed on this committee three for Jones and two for Blease, the delegation named by it to go to the convention, 2 3 to 7 in favor of Judge Jones. The Laurens Club, Darlington County, don't want Blease or Jones for Governor. The Gubernatorial contest, or the Presidential contest, was not discussed in the meeting, but the sentiment doosn't seem to be in favor or neither candidate for Governor. A majority expressed themselves as wanting the third man to enter the contest for Governor. The club was opposed to sending instructed delegates to the State Convention for any special Presidential candidate, although the sentiment seemed to be in favor of Wilson, if Biryan cannot be nominated. The Conway Demcratic Club met. with something over eighty members present. L. II. Burroughs was elected chairman and J. N. Jenrette secretary of tBo club. Twenty delegates were chosen for the county conventtion which meets on May 6. There were in evidence two tickets at the meeting representing nioro or less 'Bleaseism" and "anti-Bleaseism." The latter were in the majority and elected every delegate to the county convention. This is the only report from Horry County in Columbia. It, is reported that Lowndes J. Browning was defeated as a delegate to the Union County Convention and a straight Rlease ticket selected. Mr. Browning is a eanidate for delegnte-at-largo to Baltimore. in Anderson the Jones delegates are in the majority, as it is the case in Edgefield, where an estimate gives the Jones forces 85 out of 00 delegates elected. None of tho clubs reporting yesterday instructed for any presidential candidates, but tho Edgefield delegates are believed to bo favorable to tho New Jersey governor. An interesting sidelight was the action of tho McColl club, which adopted a resolution urging that restrictions bo placed around voting In the primaries. - ' ? ? 4 , ? Very Foolish Young Girl, Mary Reynolds, an Illinois Central ticket agent at Chicago, who told tho I j>ollco a story of being held up and I robbed of a hundred and fifty dol- I lara by two men in the station Tues- I day night, Wednesday confessed she I concocted the story and had given the I money to her sweetheart. I In tho club primaries Judgo Jones' county stood by him solidly. The I Lancfceeter Mow? ?ay?: I