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SPREAD OF REVOLT
IATT1AN NEGROES INCITING CUBAN
NEGROES TO KILL
CUBAN WHITE PEOPLE
Hard to Ascertain Exact Conditions
of the Trouble, as the Government
of the Island Republic is Reticent
' as to Its Proportions and Speak
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Ughtly of It.
A cablegram from Havana eays
while the situation arising from the
racial revolutionary movement unquestionably
is serious, and apparently
growing more dangerous, reticence
of the government renders
impossible a precise determination
of its gravity. The only thing abso?
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lueiy certain is tuai u cuuuiuuu ui
insurgency exists among the negroes
of Mantanzac, Santa Clara, and Oriente
provinces, especially in the last
named and that the government is
straining every nerve to stamp out
the rebellion, by the use of all the
military forces at its disposal.
Additional troops were rushed by
railroad to Oriente Thursday afternoon
and a force of 1,200 men was
dispatched to that province Wednesday
night. The new cruiser Cuba,
which arrived there Thursday and
was accorded, with her consort, La
Patria, a great popular demonstration
of welcome, had hardly anchored
before she received orders to take
aboard 600 infantry and artillery
and proceed to Guantanamo. Several
carloads of ammunition have
been sent to Oriente.
The secretary of the Interior, Senor
Bru, says that newspaper reports
alleging there are 2,000 insurgents
in Orients are greatly exaggerated.
The government, he added, has positive
information that the Insurgents
under General Estomez and Ivonet
do not exceed 150. In spite of this
official information, reports indicate
that Estonez and Ivonet have fully
600 armed men and mounted followers.
The American minister, Arthur M.
Beaupre, has visited Secretary of
State Sanguily to ?demanad protection
for the property of the Juragua
Iron Company, which a band under
Ivonet is reported to be deprecating.
The secretary gave assurance of protection.
While the insurrectionary
movement in Havana province apparently
has been crushed by the dispersal
of armed bands at Mariano,
mounted patrons guard all the roads
approaching the capital and all police
reserves are kept at the station
"houses.
A serious feature of the situation
in Orlente province, the center of the
negro insurrectionary movement, is
the presence of many Haytien negroes,
who recently surreptitiously
entered the province, and are reported
to be inflaming the whites in their
country, and sample of the Haytiens
In exterminating the whites in their
country, and urging the establishment
of a black republic in the eastern
end of Cuba. These Haytiens,
It is said, number several thousand.
It is rumored that several schooners
from Hayti have landed cargoes of
arms.
Unsettled conditions are rapidly
growing more serious. Now it is es
timated that over 5,000 negroes have
taken up arms in the province of Orlente
alone. Two American citizens,
Floyd Shick and Joseph Rryan,
have complained to Ross F. Holladay,
Americana consul at Santiago,
of being assaulted and robbed while
on their way to Sloboney, by a band
of armed negroes. Such outrages
aro of frequent occurrence.
Government reports say that near
Holguin, sixty-three miles northwest
of Santiago, a detachment of rural
guards dispersed a strong band of
negroes. The situation in the province
of Orient.e continues grave, the
secretary of government said, but
the movement in the other provinces
appears to lack importance. Advices
to the Stato Department confirm
press reports that negro revolutionary
movement in is much more
alarming and widespread than at
first supposed. Foreign property is
menaced. Conflicts between the rural
guards and armed negro bunds
have resulted in the killing of many
gfuardo.
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Killed Girl and Self.
At Havana, 111., William W. Brown
twenty-two years old, shot anatl killed
I1I3 sweetheart, Miss Jennie Kelly,
seventeen years old, when he mot her
on the street Friday, and then killed
himself with the same weapon.
Brown had quarreled with Miss Kelly
because she had walked with another
young man. Brown was a railroad
telegrapher.
Dream of Death Camo True.
Mrs. It. I*- Clay, of Atlanta, Ga?
dreamed a week ago that her husband
fired at her with a revolver,
after failing to effect a reconcllatlon
with her* This week her dream
lai tame true. He shot her three times
when he came to eee their boy at
f her home. ?The died shortly afterwardm
at the hospital.
WILSON WAS STRONG
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MADE GOOD SHOWING IN GOVERNOR
HARMON'S STATE.
Which Has Materially Strengthened
His Chances for the Presidential
Nomination.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says the splendid vote given
Woodrow Wilson in Governor Harmon's
home State was one of the big
surprises of the pre-convention campaign.
The result in Tuesday's primary
contest emphasizes the fact that Governor
Wilson is the only nation-wide
candidate contending for the Democratic
presidential nomination and
makes more certain than ever his
nomination at Baltimore.
The contest in behalf of Governor
Wilson in Ohio was made by his
friends, who waged an uphill fight
without campaign funds. The returns
show that the New Jersey executive
carried the progressive districts
in the State and that while ho
failed of victory, he made a remarkable
showing as a vote getter in evory
section of the State.
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1U 1.UVVU UHIUU OUDll a 1 uu iu Hithome
State of one of his strongest
rivals for the presidential nomination
was a remarkable achievement
for Governor Wilson. Little else was
discussed in Democratic circles at the
capital Wednesday and on all sides
it was admitted that Governor Wilson
is more strongly in the race as a result
of Tuesday's primary contest
than at any time since the inauguration
of the presidential nomination
campaign.
Reports received at Wilson headquarters
indicate that Governor Wilson
has carried four congressionial
districts and he may win in three
others. The Wilson campaign managers
bad figured on but one district.
It is generally admitted that the
Ohio result was more important in its
political signlficanace than any that
has been taken in the other States.
Mr. Taft's chances for renomlnation
have diminished, while it is not denied
that Governor Wilson is a more
formidable candidate than ever as the
result of the splendid run he made
in Governor Harmon's own State.
Governor Wilson is a candidate In
every State In the nation, and
wherever he has failed of victory, he
has run a strong second. In the number
of votes cast by Democrats who
have participated in presidential pre*
erence primaries, Governor Wilson
has outdistanced all of his rivals.
Mr. Clark was not a candidate in
Ohio; he is not a candidate in North
Carolina, which Is holding county
conventions this week, and he is not
a candidate in a great many of the
other Statea that are to hold primary
conventions.
Mr. Underwood likewise la only
running in spots, while Mr. Harmon
was given a clear field in Ohio. Mr.
Underwood has the right Of way for
the combination in North Carolina
and Governor Wilson is running everywhere.
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ASKS HOW RICHESON DIED.
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Condemned Murderer Calls to His
Gnnrd in Night.
At Denver, Col., on the night
Richeson was electrocuted Oscar
Cook, murderer condemned to die in
November, rose from his cot in the
county jail at midnight and hoarsely
called to his guard:
"Has that preacher Iticheson been
electrocuted yet? I can't sleep thinking
of him."
Through the night, as the guard
tramped the corridor, the condemned
man clung to the bars of his cell.
"Can't you telephone tho newspapers
and find out if he died like a
man or a cur? See if ho had to bo
carried," ne asKoa. "is 11 oasier man
to be hanged? Do you think there la
any chance of the State putting In a
chair before November?"
Cook refused to return to bed, declaring
that horrible visions filled his
dreams.
NEGRO KILLED ANOTHER.
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Trouble Started In Field and Ended
In Row That Xlglit.
Robert D"own, alias Nigger Shirt,
shot and almost instantly killed Edinborough
Lawyer Tuesday night on
the plantation of H. B .Richardson,
dr., about flvo miles west of Suinmerton.
Both parties nro negroes
employed by Mr. Richardson, Brown
being the foreman and Lawyer one of
the farm hands. The tronblo leading
up to the killing began when Brown
had some trouble In the field with
Lawyer in regard to some work.
Lawyer renewed the row that night,
when he was shot by Brown, it is
said, in self-defense. Brown surrendered
to Magistrate A. J. Richbourg.
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Life Termor Is Free*!.
Henry Gilliam, convicted at Newberry
In Feb. uary, 1903, of murder,
with recom JiendatLon to mercy and
sentenced t>> life Imprisonment In the
State pcnRmtiary, received a full
pardon from Got. Bleaee thle week.
A QUEER CUSTOM
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BOYS AND GIRLS ARE SOLD AT
PUBLIC AUCTION
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LEASED FOR THE SUMMER
The Annual "Market" Has Just Been
Held.?The Austrian Steamer Maria
Theresa Brought 125 Boys and j
80 Girls, Hanging in Ages from 11
to 16 Yurs,, Across tho Sea.
"I'll give 150 marks for him!"
"I bid 175!"
"Two hundred!"
"Two hundred and ten!"
"Two hundred and twenty-five!"
The competition was keen, for the
boy was a sturdy looking lad. Despite
his poverty-stricken appearance,
he sooined to be stronger and healthier
than any of the other children.
Around him swarmed a score of peasant
farmers, scanning the child as
they would tho points of a horse.
There was little sentiment in their
demeanor. It was business. They
wore buying him, to be exact, "leasing"
the boy.
They expocted to make a "profit"
on their investment, hence they did
not want a boy who possibly would
bo ill and could not work hard. He
was "knocked down" at 240 marks or
$ GO. Tho next boy was younger, he
lacked tho robustness of the other
lad; he was pale, thin and did not
look as if he ever had had a full
meal. He went at $30.
This is not a scone from "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," but from the annual
"children's market," "little white
slave market," some or me uerman
radical papers term it, in the pretty
town of Friederichshaften In Bavaria.
Here in this quaint little town, in
eight of the Tyrolean Alps, made famous
as the place where German's big
Zeppelin airships are built, is held
tho annual sale every spring of the
poor children of the Tyrolean peasants.
Orphans, half-orphans and
children of poor peasants in the Australn
Tyrol region, who thereby proflf
a little, are turned over to the
"Tyrolean Children's Society," which
In turn leases them out for the summer
months on the German side of
the border at whatever they will
bring.
The annual market has just been
held. The Austrian steamer 'Maria
Theresa brought 125 boys and thirty
girls, ranging in ages from 11 to 18
years, across the Boden sea. They
were quartered at the Golden Wheel
Hotel, an appropriate place for this
thlldren's lottery.
More than 500 peasant farmers
from Wurtemburg, Baden, Hahenollern
and the Bavarian region along
th? Boden sea were on hand to "bid"
for these youthful wage slaves. Competition
was keen. The demand this
year was greater than the supply and
prices considerably higher than last
spring were offered for the labor of
th children for the summer. The
children had nothing to say about
their fate, whether they liked the
looks of the lessee or not. The 'market"
was held under the auspices of
tho Rev. Mr. Eaim of the Tyrolean
Children's Society, who had charge
of them for the society.
From daylight to dark and after,
the children labor, which In South
Germany, means about 17 or 18
hours daily. It is but natural that
tho lessees chief Interest is to get as
much out of them as possible. What
the fate of some of the children is
Is Indicated by the Tyrolean Grenzhoten,
a paper which has started an
agitation against tho "child market."
It says:
"The children return to their parents
and homo on October 28th, if
they do not fall a victim to the heavy
labor, long hours, intense longing for
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ratner, momer ?uu muua-iD auu outers,
(luring the summer and are buried
in the regions where they were
'leased'.
"We ask in what land or country
would tho authorities permit such a
'slave trade' to exist? That many
of these children have been leased Is
evident from the fact that the Children's
Society has a number of farmers
on its blacklist to whom they
refuse to loaso children again. But
what good does that do tho little
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ones whom tncy may nave rumeu
physically and morally?"
Tho "Morgnnpost" of Berlin also
marvels that the authorities of Bavaria,
Wurtemburg and Baden would
tolorato dealing in "little slaves."
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A Fatal Crap Came.
In a row over five cents, tho result
of a dispute In a "crap" game, Ernest
Kennedy, colored, shot and Killed
John Miller, also colored, at Crescent,
three miles from Woodruff.
Kennedy made his escape, but was
later caught noar Fountain Inn, In
Greenville County, and awaits trial
In Jail at Spartanburg.
Follows Brother In Death,
Rising from his seat In the church
whore his brother's funeral was being
held, kissing his aunt and slstor
tenderly, Samuel Brannon, a wellknown
young farmer livtng near Aoree,
Oa., walked outdoors and blew
out hila brains In the church yards.
WHAT DOES HE WANT?
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DOKB. GRACE SEEK ASSURANCE
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OF WIDE OPEN TOWN.
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B1om? Has Granted to Charleston a
Local Freedom Not Enjoyed For
llany Years.
Mayor Grace, of Charleston, seems
to feel hurt because the State Democratic
Convention refused to help him
rob the Democrats of Charleston of a
free ballot and a fair count in the
Charleston County Convention. The
action of the Stato convention in
seating the Barnwell delegation was
the only fair thing it could do with
the testimony submitted by both sldos
before it, and Mayor Grace knows it.
In speaking of the action of the
State Convention in seating the Barnwell
delegation "Common Sense,"
May* Grace's personal organ, says:
"When one has loft the full Impact
of the steam roller it is hard for the
moment to be philosophical. We can
speak with authority for the eighteen
delegates regularly elected at our
recent County Convention but unseated
at Columbia, and we can say
for them that such is their plight.
It was simply the machine at work
from beginning to the end of the
Convention."
n ? M 4- V\ r\ * > (Vrt/Nfl An f A QCV
V> U IU IIJUll OV1JIBU lUCU gVCD UU WV/ ou;
that "up to this time, although Mr.
'Grace's Intimate friends have known
that ho has had no Intention whatever
of supporting Governor Dlease
in the coming election, he has for
good and sufficient reasons not seen
lit to make any public virtue of that
fact. He has been sincere In this
attitude, not because he never has
had or ever could have any honest
admiration for Governor Blease;
but because as bad as Blease Is, ho
has nevertheless granted to Charleston
a degree of local freedom, which
she has not enjoyed for many years.
Th6 only thing which has made Grace
utterly shrink from a proper appreciation
of this great boon to his constituency
Is his knowledge that It Is
a freedom purchased for money.
"Mr. Grace has hoped that he
would get assurances from the Jones
people that they would tolerate certain
local freedom in Charleston,
without being paid for such toleration,
lacking which he has refrained
from throwing whatever influence he
might have in favor of Judge Jones.
Such assurances have not been forthcoming.
If he were little enough to
be governed in any matter by mere
personal resentment, the action of
the Jones steam-roller would be
enough to make him wait no longer
but however bitter and distasteful It
| might he, ne wouia turn ugaiu iu
Blease. Such, however, 1b Impossible.
He still hopes that Judge Jones
and his leaders, In that broad spirit
| of toleration which he well knows
has once again taken possession of
South Carolina with reference to
Charleston, will see fit to regard the
peculiar conditions in Charleston and
promise relief therefrom."
ONLY BROKE FIVE TOES.
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; Burglar Fell Three Stories and Was
Not Much Hurt.
At New York, George Miller,
charged with burglary, was taken
captive by the police Friday morning,
after a long chase in the course of
which he suffered five broken toes
and a fractured nose. According to
the police report, the alleged burglar
was seen breaking Into an uptown
store. Two policemen gave chase and
the nimble Miller led them a long
run "p and down the stairs of a series
of apartment houses In the vicinity.
In a final effort to shake off pursuit,
ho leaped from the roof of an
eight-story apartment, gripping in
one hand a telephone wire which led
to tho third story of tho next block.
11 o slipped down safely, but at the
end of the wire was stopped by a
blank wall. Miller paused a moment,
then attempted a flying leap to a
firo escape ton feet below. lie missed
and fell three stories. The policemen
found him lying in the court
yard.
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PLATFORM OF A DELEGATE
Tliinks Delegation Should Carry Out
People's Wish.
Discussing the result of the State
Convention, Mr. R. I. Manning, of
Sumter, who was elected a delegate
at largo to tho National Democratic
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uonvouiion, wmio m uiiuuiuiu uu
Monday, said:
"Tho result of tho Stat? convention
should be satlfactory to Gov.
Wilson and his friends. It amounted
to Instructions for him. While
not Instructing In words, there was
evidenco of a vory strong sentiment
for him and delegates to tho national
convention would not represent
faithfully tho views of those who
sent them there if they fail to work
earnestly for Gov. Wilson's nomination.
I shall vote and work for Woodrow
Wilson's nomination not only becvause
I yish to represent truly thoso
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Governor Bleaso pays Col L. M.
Green very handsomely for his services
as & detective as will be seen
by the report published on the first
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President.
We continue to pay 5 pt
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THAT THE TRUSTS OWN TAFT
AND ROOSEVELT IS A
WELL VENTILATED FACT
According to the Testimony of President
Tuft, ltoosevelt Wus the Pet
of liig 1 Justness When lie Was
Presldont and According to Roosevelt
Taft is Now.
The old adage that honest men get
their dues when rogues fall out is
being verified by the testimony President
Taft and Colonel Roosevelt is
offering against each other in their
mad scramble for the Republican
nomination for the Presidency, to
which neither of them should have
ever been elected If what they say of
each other Is true.
A dispatch from Washington says
since President Taft and former President
Roosevelt entered upon their
wild scramble to obtain delegates to
the next Republican convention, the
people have come into the possession
of the following information, which
they never knew before; except as it
came to them through unproven
charges or unverified rumors:
That George W. Perkins, organizer
of the Harvester trust and member
of the board of directors of the
Steel truBt, was "highly pleased"
with the present administration's
methods of prosecuting the trusts.
That he contributed most liberally to
the Taft campaign fund out of his
money and money of the trusts ho
managed in his campaign for the
Presidency.
That there is a close political al
lianace between Mr. Perkins and Theodore
Roosevelt, as evidenced by the
fact that Perkins, in a sworn statement
to the Secretary of State of New
York admits he sent $15,000 to help
Roosevelt in the primary election in
New York City this spring thus revealing
that the big Interests would
be perfectly satisfied to have either
Taft or Roosevelt President.
That Mr. Taft, in the present campaign,
and Mr. Roosevelt, in his campaign
of 1908, made free and unrestricted
use of Federal officeholders
to obtain the nomination from one of
the country to the other. It was a
common practice with both of them
to place the offices in the hands of
those who would not fail to round up
the delegates on their side at the convention.
That Mr. Roosevelt, while constantly
writing messages and giving
out interviews, while he was President,
all professing the deepest hatred
of trusts and illegal corporations
secretly and clandestinely suppressed
a report showing that the Harvester
trust was an illegal combination
in restraint of trade, and later ordered
that a contemplated suit against
that trust bo dropped "until ho gave
the word to start it," which word he
never gave.
That Mr. Roosevelt was so frightened
by the possibility of tariff agitation
during his more than seven
years of offico that in all his messages
and official papers ho never made any
mention of tariff except to say, once,
that he would discuss it in a future
message, which statement ho withdrew
from tho message before it
reached Congress. That Roosevelt Is
still a standpatter on the tariff.
That 'Mr. Roosevelt's trip to Africa
was paid for by Andrew Carnogie, tho
greatest beneficiary of a Republican
high tariff that ever lived. Carnegie
made millions of dollars out of the
deal when Roosevelt gave tho Steel
Trust permission to gamble with the
Tennessee Iron Company. It has also
been brought out that Roosevelt was
on most intlmaio political relations
with J. P. Morgan and other "malefactors
of great wealth."
If the present scramble for delegates
continues a while longer it may
safely bo said that both Mr. Taft and
Mr. Roosovolt, at tho present rate,
will thoroughly demonstrate that
neither of them Is fit to be President,
but ought to bo in some penal institution.
Bryan made the same charges
against both of they that they are
now making against each other when
he ran against Taft,
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MCGHO DISTINCTIVE KILLED.
Attempt to Arrest Lewis Little R<y
Suited in Death.
A negdo detective, Sam Washfng-"
ton, was killed at New Sumter Friday
night. New Sumter is the village
around the C. M Betts company
lumber plant, about four miles east
of Sumter Another negro, L. J*
Jefferson, was shot and dangerously
wounded; Lewis Little, tho negro,
who did the shooting, escaped.Washington
had been working up *
blind tiger cases and had a warrant
for tho arrest of Little. lie went to
Little's houso Friday night about 9
o'clock and arrested him. When
they reached the door Little shot thedetective,
tho ball passing entirely
through his body, so that death was; I
almost Instantaneous. Little shot' >
Jefferson in the back and threatened
the negro hack driver who had
brought them off. lie then made off.
.
Thousands Got nations.
Out of approximately 70,000 persons
who havo been driven from tholr
homos by the Mississippi Itivor floods,
the United States army relief corps i?
dispensing rations dally to nearly
140,000 people and such of the others
as need assistance are being cared
for by local relief coronitttees.
It takes a good deal of the hard
earned money of the wool hat boys .
In the shape of* taxes to pay a man
twenty dollars per day to travel over
the State and havo a good time. That .
sort of a job beats ploughing all
hollow