The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 08, 1912, Image 3
UNION WILL WAIT
SCHEMES FOR FINANCING COTTON
CROP ARE REFUSED
BY THE COMMITTEE
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Resolution Asks That me Farmers
Act Individually Until U?o Warehouse)
System is 10uacted Into Raw.
??-The Pest Doing Considerable
t
Damage to Farmers.
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? ?| v vv/11' M wn JIKU IW/I.1 r? t, anil
banking of the South Carolina State
Farmers' union has made report in
which it is recommended that the
State union at this time "do not give
its endorsement of the proposed
scheme of co-operation for marketing
and financing the cotton crop, that
have been peresented, leaving each
individual to act for himself until the
plan for the State warehouse system
Is completed and enacted Into law."
Tho committee also recommended
that each county follow tne example
of tho Sumter county union of arranging
with tho local banks at once
to furnish a sufficient capital at as
low rate of interest as can he obtained
and finance their cotton until such
minimum prico as shall be recommended
by the national convention is
obtain ed.
"Wo believe such cordial relations
between tho grower and tho banks
should ho cultivated in every county
as it will greatly aid the solution of
tills problem whatever final plan is
o?'\/inuu? rwijo tilt; j kjjui i ui iiu: uuiuinittee.
The committee wits appointed
at the annual meeting of the State
union held there several days ?go.
Itobort W. Cooper is the chairman of
the committee.
At the annual meeting of the State
Farmers' union held at Columbia several
days ago E. W. Dabb? or Sumter,
and president of the union, delivered
Ills annual address, in which he pointed
out the progress made during the
year. The address of President Dabbs
is as follows:
"Jt is the custom, and a good one,
that at each annual meeting your
president shall in a more or less formal
manner givo you a r^urno of the
year's activities.
"When I assumed tno responsible
duties of this honorable position to
which you called me by your votes,
Jt was with serious doubts or my ability
to maintain the high standard of
efficiency set by my distinguished predecessors.
That I have failed In some
measure there can he no question,
for in spite of every effort that I have
' made, the fact remains that I have
been unable to leave your treasury in
as good condition as I found It. This
you will see when the report of the
executive committee is read.
"There are two reasons Tor this.
Ono Is that, though wo have organized
more new locals, wc have railed to
hold as large paid up iiimnbcrship.
The other is that by reason of the
conditions that developed in the cottin
market, it became necessary to
ware a very strenuous and expensive
campaign to reassure our people and
to try to prevent them from sacrificing
tluir cotton. It was a condition
and not a theory that confronted us.
Something had to be done.
"T am proud of the record the
Farmers' union made in the cotton
campaign, a movement which had its
humble beginning in the Sumter
county union, when it met with the
Vvisaelry local of Lee county 011 August
4. 101 1. it originated in the date!
m In at ion of a few men to leave no
6tono unturned In their efforts to help
themselves, and to secure the co-operation
of every business interest of
their county to conserve the wealth
of that county, as represented in the
value of our cotton. They had no
expectation that it would spread beyond
the confines of the two adjacent
counties of Lee and Clarendon; but
G!o" begun it could rot have been
stopped, even though such had been
our desire. All the rest has been
fvriwili *- n d dnvelnnment. recant, his
f . .. J. ? ? - tory
which nil can son: the Montgomery
convention: tlio Cotton Congress
In Columbia; tlio Ollnkhcnles' plan,
and others too numerous to mention:
t1 o $r>0,00'f,000 80-c.llled loan of Col.
Thompson's; the governor's conference
In Now Orleans; tlio Hock TTill
plan; and the call of .Tuno 10, by
your Stnto president, to tlio county
unions throughout the cotton bolt to
align ihe growers, the merchants and
tlio bankers in one >;olld phalanx in
ordor to secure for our section our
Pliaro of the notion annually puts into
the channels of American trade,
thereby materially benefiting evcr>
occupation and profess.en.
''!3 this an end worth working t ? *7
Can any ether organization bo as efective
as the Farmers' union to bring
about such results? Ts this not a
practical plan? The answer can he
nothing but yes, yes, ves
"Then in the name of common
sense, why should any one fight the
Farmers' union, as I am told it is
fought in some sections? And why
should not everv fanner worth the
name of 'farmer' be enrolled under
our banners? Echo answers, 'Why?'
"This campaign has been bo expensive,
and such hard work, that
could wo have foreseen its magnitude,
and the hours and days and
weeks and months of physical and
mental toil, we would never nave
mustered courage to begin. Hut with
the progrcts and the results accomplished
thus far, why such a work
does not appeal to our people, I can
only understand on tho idea the* they
ha.'Q no conception of what it an
means.* f they d d, instead of having
to pract ioo tho etricresi economy,
wo would have thousands of dollars
to enable our o<icers to Iceep Tn
touch with the world's trade, and to
beco lecturers in tho field to give our
people accurate Information of the
true conditions.
Right hero it Is proper mat T express
my thanks to t tic pre s of tlio
VOTE NOT FOR SALE
MR. QU1MI1Y REFUSES TO EXCHANGE
IT FOR FAVORS.
*ays the Governor Should Bestow
Pardons Where Merited Without
llopc of Reward.
The following card from Mr. J. W.
L Quimby, Sr., a prominent resident
of Langley, explains Itself:
l'o tho Editor of The State:
i am liuormea luai uov. mease in
1 is speech at i^angley on Friday night
jiado the statement that he had bell
icndcd me or had done me some
favor and was surprised to learn that
I was not supporting him; if I have
ever met Gov. Bleaso 1 do not remember
it, and I am sure that 1 have never
requested any favor at his hands.
lie referred to the fact that ho had
granted a pardon to Ben G. Turnor,
in whom I was interested, and in
whose behalf I appeared before Gov.
Ansel and his board of pardons; I believed
Turner was entitled to a pardon
and if Gov. Bleaso saw it in the
same light it was clearly nis duty as
the chief executive of the State to
grant it without hope of reward.
I spent much valuable time and
some money traveling around procuring
evidence and getting petitions
signed in this case, but if I had been
required to pledge my vote to either
Gov. Ansel or Gov. Bleaso or any other
man to secure the nardon it would
have been a price greater tnan I was
able to pay; for I have been taught
to believe that my vote belonged to
my country and was not my own to
barter, sell or give away.
Therefore I feel that it is my duty
always to vote for the beat men for
ollico, and in the present race for
governor it is my conscientious judgment
that Judgo .Jones is tho man,
hence I am supporting him.
J. VV. L. Qulmby Sr.
State for the generous space they
have given to our cause in the many
articles they have published, and in
many instances for editorial commendation.
"I have tried by pen and voice, in
season and out of season, to reach the
independent farmers and ^he big farmers.
I have tried to show them that
tho union is not merely tor tne poor
man, but that it offers them tho only
uvenUe through which they can protect
themselves, that Is by taking
cure of their less fortunate neighbors.
This la not a matter or charity either,
nor do I put it on the nlgbest plane,
that of service to our fellow men and
the true worship of our God, but on
the plain business proposition of selfprotection.
For the thousands of improvident
and debt-ridden farmers of
the South absolutely ux the price of
cur products and thereby the prosperity
of our section.
"Therefore have we called on the
unions, the chambers of commerce,
and the banks who are the fiscal
agents of the entire business community,
to combine our resources and
bur brains for the common defense.
This, gentlemen. Is the meaning of
our call of June 10, and I trust this
meeting will at least give a Statewide
significance to It. All other
plans will only be successful Insofar
as they emphasize the fundamental
principle.
"From .a study of these problems
for many years, I am convinced that
it is ignorance of the principles of
commerce that keeps us from successful
organization. For this reason
! have taken up the matter of stndying
'Farm Finance and MarKetlng* in
the colleges. It is a great pleasure to
report to you that at every institution
where I have been able to present
the need of this department, I
have assurances that something will
1 done, it seems to me to do me
[greatest awakening of the day. An
editorial in a great, dally newspaper
commended the late State convention
for pausing in Its politicnt work to
commend this new departure in education.
In the pressure of other
matters, it overlooked the fact that It
was the influence of the Farmers' union
that caused this action by the
State convention. Yon should know
that the resolutions adopted by the
State Democratic convention were
written by your State president and
introduced 1 u the convention by a
former State president oi the Farmers'
union.
"Whatever influence I may have in
these affairs is due to my official position
as your president, i nave always
kept to the front tho idea that
!t is not the man, but the president
of a great organization of patriots
that suggests these improvements.
"There are other matters that the
eports of the various committees will
touch upon, and it would no out or
place for me to anticipate them.
. "The time Is past, and, I trust, is
past forever, when men can only be
organized by appeals to prejudice, to
class distinctions or to promises impossible
to perform. Wo must show
them that we are organized for the
greatest constructive work of the
20th century, the conservation not
alone of tho natural resources of forest
and field and mine, but for the
conservat ion of human industry, especially
in agriculture, the oldest as
ell as tlio greatest industry 011 earth,
through which and by which aTl nations
of the world aro blessed.
"To the discouraged members of
the union, let mo commend what
Jehovah said to Elijah wno had fled
| from the wicked Queen Jezebel and
had requested for himseir that he
| might die, for ho thougnt that ho
[only was left to serve the true Cod. 1
I And the Lord said: 'Yet I liavo loft <
I me 7,000 in Israel, all the knees i
[ which have not bowed unto llaal, ann I
every mouth which hath not kissed I
him.' So v/ould 1 say to this distln- <
finished and i eprosei. tat Ives assembly
or farmers: 'There aro yet many
thousands of your constituents who i
aro true to the principles of the Far- I
truro' union v ho have not, nor ever
v-Jll, 'bend the pregnant hinges of
ho knees that thrift may rollow I
fawning.'" <
GRACE COMES AGAIN
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HE CHALLENGES BLEASE TO LET
HIM TELL IT ALL.
PROMISES REVELATIONS
Says Ho Will Tell One Story Tliat
Will Nauseate the Whjte I'eople of
the State, and Will Reveal Corrupt
Dealings of Iileaso With
Southern Hallway.
Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston,
who is spending a week at Glenn
Springs Monday night challenged
Governor Colo L. Please to release
him from the confidence placed In
him while they were on friendly
terms and stated that if the Governor
would publicly state that he (Grace)
was free to tell the things he wanted
to, he would reveal facts tnat would
"nauseate the people of South Carolina".
Here is the statement in full
a* made by the Mayor of Charleston:
"I have watched with great interest
the plan of campaign developed
by Please. I find that it consists of
two main elements, notwithstanding
the many collateral uuestions that
have arisen. These elements are:
"First, he has sought to maae it
appear that ho is the exponent of
white supremacy in South Carolina.
However ludicrous this assumption is.
on the face of it, there Is one feature
of it as yet undisclosed which would
make it not only ludicrous, but highly
hypocritical. It seems to me that
a man who with such vaunted audacitj
undertook to occupy this role
should at least begin by being able to
show that he had lived a life compatible
with such claims.
"I am prepared to say, measuring
my words very carefully, that, if Mr.
Dlease will release me from the confidential
character of any communication
which he might have confided
to mo during the short term of our
more or less friendly relationship, I
shall be very glad to tell one little
story that ought to be enough to
nauseate the white people of South
Carolina. I do not think that he
would thereafter have the effrontery
at a public meeting to tell one of his
questioners that he ought to crawl
off and wait until night comes and
then go around and see his 'nigger
iiwnnl >1 on rf
"Second. The second line of his
attack on Judge Jones is that he,
Judge Jones, has occupied a corrupt
and venal relationship with great
corporations, specially with the Southen
Railroad. Again, if Mr. Blease
will release me as above set forth, I
shall be glad to tell the people of
South Caroina exactly what Blease
with his own lips told me in leference
to his corrupt connection with the
Southern Railway during and after
his last campaign, when he was
charged with certain duties and responsibilities
and the payment of certain
money corruptly, in the interest
of the Southern Railway.
"I have said that I would be glad
to bo released from the confidential
character of these communications.
As a matter of fact, it was not at the
t:me stated that they were given to
mo in confidence, but I have clothed
them with this character because
I am satisfied that unless at that time
we were on friendly terms he would
not have ventured to utter them. He
did utter them very freely and I suppose
I might be justified in repeating
them without his consent, so basely
untruthful has he been in his attitude
toward me, because of the wilful lies
he has found it necessary to invent
in order to discredit the plain proof
which I have produced in reference
to the Charleston graft situation.
"However, I shall not disclose
these things unless in a manner as
public as this he authorizes me to do
so."
Mayor Grace expressed the opinion
that Jones would win in the election
II ,vV /Ml ll 1\H D1 II IT t 1 O /\ T fl A R A1 I f \ 1*
ill: At JiiiMiiJt, 11110 wii tut?
that in the counties carried l>y Feat'iersfoiiQ
Judge Jones would Increase
(lie majority of the prohibition candidate
two years ago and in the counties
carried by Mease, bis majority
would bo smaller.
If Mr. Mease releases Mr. Grace
from the confidential character of his
secrets, the Charleston man declares
he will have some interesting revelations
to make. But he flatly refused
to divulge the nature of this information
until tho Governor tells him
t? go ahead.
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DIED IN A MINE RIOT.
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Body Brought to His Home at Cross
Hill for Burial.
Augustus Pinson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. B. Finson of uross Hill, was
killed July 26 while trying to quell
a riot among miners near Muckler,
W. Va. Ills remains were biought
to Cross Hill Tuesday and interred
in Old Baptist cemetery, Rev. J. A
Martin omciating. Lnttie is Known
at Cross Hill of the details of the
deplorable affair. Mr. Pinson was
2 0 years of age and was in tho employ
of the Baldwin Detective agency
at Muckler. ITo was well known
there and numbered his friends as
many.
? Four
Burned to I)cutTi
Fire that destroyed tho Dan forth
house at Fairley Vt., Tuesday caused
tho death of four persons and tho
injury of two others, one probably fa- 1
tally. Miss Effie Perkins of Flushing
L. I. and Miss Florence Alber,
of Springfield, Mass., were burned to
eatli. Miss Perkins* parents Mr. and <
Mrs. C. E. Perkins, were so badly ;
Injured that they died within a short
time. i
o ? 1
Fome men would rather follow i
their own inclinations than bo load- i;
31'S. I 1
NEVER SEEN BEFORE
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STRANGE INSECT PLAYING HAVOC
WITH COTTON.
The Greenville Dally Piedmont Says
the is Different From Any Ever
Seen in that County.
Tho Groenvill? Daily Piedmont
says while tho army worm is ravaging
tho corn fields of tho county a
peculiar bug or insect, unknown to
the farmers of Greenville county, is
playing havoc with the cotton in tho
Bellevlew section, near Travelers
Rest. Messrs. A. (1. McKinney and
C. S. Poole, who own large farms in
that section, came to the city Monday
morning and inquired at tho
Hoard of Trade for information concerning
the insect.
Secretary Johnstone referred the
gentleman to Dr. W. F. Webster, the
entomologist of tho department of
agriculture. Dr. Webster could not
e found Monday morning, but Mr. K.
II. Gibson, an assistant, who has been
detained there to watch theoperatlons
of the army worm will Monday afternoon
accompany Messrs. Mckinley
and Poole to the cotton fields infected
with tho insect.
The insect which has invaded the
cotton fields in the Travelers Rest
section has never before been seen in
that community and tho farmers
there are greatly concerned, for unless
something is done immediately
t-) kill the little bug, the cotton crop
will be a failure. The insect multiplies
very rapidly and now nearly every
field in the Helleview section is
covered wun ujo uugs.
The gentlemen nt the Hoard of
Trade Monday morning were greatly
distressed. They said that cotton
was the principal crop cultivated in
their section this year and if this
crop is destroyed it will mean ruination
for nearly all people in the Belleview
section.
It will bo remembered that last
year about this time the people near
Travelers Rest lost heavily when a
hail storm destroyed big fields of
corn and cotton. This left the people
in such a condition that it was necessary
that a relief fund be raised.
Mr. McKinley said that the same condition
would bo bound to exist this
year unless something is do'ne to
check the bug. Mrs. Barnett, Mrs.
J S. Kelley, Mr. McKinley and Mr.
Poole have had cotton devastated by
the bug.
Mr. McKinley says that the bug is
different from anything that he has
ever seen. It is nothing like the
dreaded army worm nor is it like the
cotton caterpiller that visited the cott/\n
floMa r\f i li I a oniini v on/1 Q o 4 c*
j L V' U 11UIUO W 1 U1U1 V/UIUIIJ U U VI
[list year. At this time the bug is just
I a wee bit larger than a "chigger",
but it is black. Whether the bug will
|grow larger or what will become of it
I is not known.
! The bug first webs under the cotton
leaf, then it shows a white looking
object, supposed to be an egg.
This egg hatches the little black insect.
Mr. McKinley says that about
two weeks ago ho noticed something
black on the cotton leaves, but he
supposed then that it was only rust.
Me went over his field Sunday morning
and discovered that during Saturday
night something had eat all the
leaves of the cotton. Tie investigated
and discovered that it was this little
black bug, which ho had thought to
be rust.
lie notified 'Mr. Poole, who lives
nearby, and investigating found that
the same insect was eating off of Mr.
Poole's cotton. When asked if the
army worm had invaded Pelleview
section Mr. McKinley replied that it
Kr.,1 4> lw. 4- lw. 4 1> J .
nan ii ii i, anil inai in; inuii^ut iuir?
worm to be more of a fake than anything
else. lie said that he had seen
this so-called army worm for years
and years and not until this year has
there been such a "scare" raised.
To far as we have heard, this new
cotton pest has not made its appearance
in this county and we hope it
will not, hut we hope our farmers
will examine their cotton in then
fields of it does appear. Should it appear
prompt steps ought to he taken
to eradicate It. We shall watch what
is done in the Greenville case, and
report it at once, so as our rarmers
will he kept posted.
SAVED AFTER TWO YEARS.
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Two Men Looked Like Wild Animals
When Rescued.
Capt. E. Janar Mikkelsen, the Danish
Arctic explorer, and trie engineer
Iverson, who were rescued July 17
on the coast of Greenland by a Norweigan
fishing, after having spent
more than two years in that region,
looked like wild animals when their
rescuers found them. Thoy had spent
the previous winter at Bars Rock Island
and it was there that the Norwcigans
came upon them in a cabin
which they had built. The first sign
that there were human beings in that
neighborhood was a wood car with
the date 1912 cut in it, set up as a
signal which the Norwegians happened
upon. Investigation disclosed
the cabin. Tho fishermen knocked
on tho door and Mikkclson and Ivorson
rushed out nearly n&Kcd, with
guns in their hands, under tho impression
that tho knocking was caused
by beasts of prey. Mikkelsen nacr
been very ill on the long journey
to Lass Rock Island and iverson had
dragged him 100 miles en n, siedgo.
1 * L . J. A >. ... 1 .1 - 1
i' oriUiijitt ly me men nan eiiougu umniunition
to enable them at all times
Lo procure food.
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Chain Broke His Nock.
Tn cleaving up the wreck of several
?ars near Dillon Friday night a negro,
William Cooper, of Cades, was
killed. In hitching a chain of one of
the derricks to a car ho failed to fasloo
it securely, and \vh a the engine
lightened on it the chain flew back
nnd broke his nook, at the same time,
taking part of his head off.
THUGS LOST NERVE
BUT URGED BY BECKER KILLED '
ROSENTHAL LATER.
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GALLED THEM COMBS
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Two Accomplices Claim That Lieut, c
llecker Instigated tlic Plot to Slur* |
dor, Plans Being to Kill Itosentlial ^
Ton Days Before Fatal Deed Was c
I
Actually Committed.
New York Police Lieut. Charles ^
Becker, head of the "strong arm"
squad of gambling /alders, who is ,
charged with instigating the murder ^
of Herman Rosenthal, was Wednesday
night further Implicated in the
plot to get rid of the gambler, when f
"Bald Jack" Rose and "Bridge" Webber
added another chapter to their f
already amazing allegations.
They told District Attorney Whit- f]
man that Rosenthal was to have been j
killed, at the instigation of Becker,
ten days before he actually met his
fate, and that the piot failed because
tho underworld thugs selected (
to do the murder lobt their nervo at
tho last moment.
Tho district attorney spent the t
greater part of the afternoon with K
Rose and Webber, in their cells at
the West Side police station, and under
the promise of leniency which the
prosecutor has given tlieiu they talk- 1
ol freely. They gave little addition- 1
al information regarding the $2,4 00,- v
000 fond which thov alloircd lllpernl '
resorts paid for police protection in L
the city every year, but their story of (
the alleged anxiety of Lieut. Iieckoi
because of Gambler Rosenthal's
threatened exposure who amplified J
to tho district attorney, and in the :
prosecutor's opinion strengthened
his evidence against Becker.
Tho "plot that failed" was to have
been brought to its climax at the :
Garden restaurant on Blst street on
Saturday night, July G, when Rosenthal
and his wife were dining there, 1
according to the account told by Rose \
to tho district attorney as spokesman
for the two gamblers. With Rosenthal
and his wife at the time was 1
Jack Sullivan, tho newsboy, now un- 1
der arrest for alleged complicity in '
the murder.
Rose himself engineered the "Job
and brought to tho restaurant "a
fleet of thugs" who were to do the 1
actual shooting, according to Rose.
Two of the hired assassins were "Gyp
the Blood" and "Lefty" Louis, who
are wanted by the police as two of
the men who actually snot Rosenthal
ten days later in front of the Hotel
Metropole. Ilecker at that time was
down-town, Rose said, waiting for
the murder plot to bo consummated.
"Becker had talked with me every
day," Rose said. "lie kept saying to
me, 'why don't you kill this fellow
off?' Rosenthal would have been
killed off that night if tho bunch had
not lost their nerve. They got the
notion after they reached tho restaurant
that a detective was onto them.
After giving up tho assassination we
went to 'Bridgie' Webber's place and
tliero wo met Becker, lie denounced
us all up and down.
"'You are a lot of cowards,' he ;
said. 'I'll have to do It myself.' " i
Rosenthal, it was recalled by the
district attorney, when lie hoard the j
story, had but a, few days before this ?
made his first complaint against
Rocker, charging thar the police lieu- t
tenant was partner in his gambling ]
house. 1
Although Recker, still in the ]
Tombs, has thus far refused to make t
any statement further than that he i
is innocent and that his plight Is j
the result of a "frame up" on the
part of his enemies in the gambling
fraternity, Rose predicted to the (lis- (
trict attorney that trie police lleuten- i
ant eventually would break down. c
The district attorney expressed *
confidence that if Hecker would talk c
frankly his evidenco would opon the t
door to the larger phase of the Ros- >
enthal case; namely, the general ex- <
tent of the police graft system, in ?
which Rose has declared several high
noliee officials nn> Involved (
So far Mr. Whitman has obtained i
little real evidence against the men <
mentioned by Rose as heads of the i
"four graft bureaus", through which i
Hose alleged that about $600,000 1
each was collected as vice protection i
money and distributed. -The district <
attorney Is not relying solely upon t
Rose's story. Ho expects to call up
before the grand jury scores of wit
nossos who may have knowledge o'
graft relations between the gamble* }
and the police.
Hridglo Webber told tbo district
attorney that his awn payment to
Ilecker for police protection of his
gambling house was $200 a month, 1
but that this rate was a small one ?
compare d with the sums levied upon 1
larger establishments.
Ho and Rose both said that In Manhattan
alone there were probably a j*
hundred gambling house paying tri- j
buto to the police and that the total
of $2,4o0,000 paid annually was a
iu\?ir.at?on t fi <vti pa \\7 aKoai?
I V/Vf U I HvUf U 11^ il I TV vu l/t ft I UV/|dentally
said that Becker was present *
when liie money was produced which L
went to thugs hired to kill Rosen- T
thai. Soon after tho murder, he said, c
Beeker met Rose and Webber in front (
of tho Murray Hill baths and said:
"Xcw, Brldgle, you will have to
pive tliem boys some money to pet 1
out of town. I'll fix it up with, you
later." T
Wot her said that ho then handed 1
$T,nno tn large bills to Rose, who lat- ^
er transferred If '.o Sam R'henps, and |
oa that afternoon Schema pave it t-) *
"Gyp, tho Blood," and "Lofty" Louis
in front of tiio Murray Baths. In
roi robration ot this assertion of Webber's.
the district attorney lias the i
n ones of two witnesses, one a wo- 1
man, wno, he said, would testify that i
they saw Webber and Ttose talking i
to Becker in front of the Murray Hill i
baths shortly after tho murder, i
WOUNDED IN SCUFFLE
SENSATIONAL DEVKLORMKN1 IS
TIIE GRACE TRIAL.
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Hra. Grace Claims that Grace WaL
Choking Her and the Vistol Weafc
OH During Row.
The Grace trial In Atlanta ba? tak n
a sensational turn. Eugene BL.
J race was shot In a scuffle with bz*
vile in their room during a quarrel
>ver a sale of Mrs. Grace's property.,
itcording to Attorney Branch, who
>utlined the defense's case in a statan#?nt
f r i iiirv.
He said Grace tried to shoot hi?
rife after choking her and during tho
icul'tle which followed the weapon
hscharged and he was shot. He said
Irace made her leave homo because
in did not think he was badly hurt
nd feared he would bo disgraced If it
;ot out that he had been shot in a
'nigger row" with his wire.
At tho opening of court, th? deenso
submitted a list of fourteen
vitnesses to bo called. Mrs. Grace
ippeared pale aud nervous. Grace
lad arrived in tho court house,,
eady to bo carried inio the room the?
ninute the accused, liis wife, was.
:alled to the stand. Attorney Brasueh
hen addressed the Jury, outlining the
lefense's case. He said they expect>d
to sliow that "every tiuo of
hate's case was rotten."
"The State's theory that Grace wis
(hot during the night or early in the?
norning is utterly untrue. We will
>rove that ho was shot after eleven
j'clock in the morning and that lio
vas not doped when shot. We will
>rove that he got up that morning:
md wrote a check and that he talked
?ver the phone as late as ten o'clock.
"It was redieulous to say that Mrs.
riraco married Grace and tried to get
rid of him for his money. Sho had
given him between $ 15,000 and $20,300
in a year and he was going to
Philadelphia to sell her property to
ice t money for himself when tho
shooting occurred.
"We are going to show tlio whola
miserable fatta. The truth is that
Grace wanted to got his wife out of
town first. Mrs. Grace suspected that
he had an engagement with another
woman. She accused him of it and
saiu she was going to tako the power
of attorney she had given him to sell
tier property from Grace, when he hogan
to scuffle with her to keep her
from taking tho document, lie be:gux
swearing and threatened to kill lier.
grabbing up his revolver. Mrs. Grace
grabbed Grace's hand in an effort to
protect herself. In the scuffle tha revolver
was discharged and Grace wvas
shot. Grace did not think he was
badly hurt and made his wife leasee
he house without calling a physician,,
lie said he was afraid of the disgracco
that would follow if it came out that.
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tie iuiu ut'un buui in a mggur row
with his wife. So he mailo his wifo
promise that she would say nothing,
about it."
EMPEROlt OF JAPAN PASSES.
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His Son Becomes the Huler of the
Japanese Nation.
Mutsuhito, for 4 1 years emperor of
Japan, died at 12:43 o'cloctc Monday
morning at Tokio. Yoslunito, Havu
no Miya reigns under tno rormula
provided by tlie legislation promulgated
by Mutsuhito, "The king hi
Jea.il; long live the king."
Muts.uliito, who was the one hunlred
and twenty-first emperor of Japan,
passed gently away. lie had
been unconscious for many hours,
irior to his death and the empress,
:lie crown prince and the most promncnt
oilicials of the household and.
government were at the bedside.
At the end upwards of 2 0,000 subjects
silently paid their last homager
butslde the palace gates. It was a
narvclous scene when messengers
iiiietly mingled with the crowds and
scattered and posted announcements,
if the emperor's death. Deep euto.ion
swept tho multitude, but there*
,vas 110 evidence of exciteme nt, Tins.billy
sound was a long drawn sigH
>or rov;.
Within tho palace tho death wit*'
communicated to tho waiting impor?
al princes and notabilities wherenp311,
without delay, the accession ceremonies
were begun at tho imperial
lanctuary at one o'clock. The Crown
.Mince, Yoshihito was bom August
) 1, 1 8 70 lie was made heir-apparent
August 31, 1887, ana proclaimul
crown prince November r>, 1883.
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HAM I* TON l)I-k\ IKS CHAUCJE.
lailrond Commissioner Says Ho Can
Kefuto It.
"The charge in the allegation that
received any money from the Southn
Railway through Governor Dloascr
s false. 1 can refute this charge at
he proper time in tho proper way,
have no further statement to make ,
it this time," was the statement cheated
by Railroad Commissioner Mc- j
"Hi'llo Ilampton Wednesday morning;
. iumj usicea it ne una any commoiu to
mko on the chargo of Mayor Grace*
hat Governor Blease had told htreu j
hat two years ago ho acted as "wot j
mrso" for Mr. Hampton and paid his* 1
expenses for running for railroad I
lommissionor out of Southern Kali- I
vay money furnished him, and with I
vouchers. Mr. Hampton said ho pre- I
'erred to wait for Governor Blcase'fr I
tnswer to tho Graco charges before I
v.aklng any further statement. Mr, I
lampton is a son of the late Gen, I
kVado Hampton. Ho was elected a
ncmber cf the raliio.id commission fl
svo yc u s o for at rm x y v.o a, fl
jLittlo (kill Killed. I
Mary T.ce Adams, flvo years old? H
vas killed and L. A. Taylor, a little* I
soy, v/as bidly hurt when an o\<
mule they were driving ran away
nil a from Adel, f.'a., Tuesday. Thfl*
rule was twoiuy-uhie years old ancX
lever had run av.ay before. I