The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 19, 1912, Image 3
DIDN'T NOTIFY THEM
HREE MEMBERS OF PROBE COMTMITTEE
REAL MAD
. THEY DEMAND MEETING
Messrs. IUvciin, Greer and Jeffries
Address Letter to Stevenson Demanding
that Committee Proceed
at Once With Work of Probing Into
Flection Fraud.
"Therefore, in behalf of the fair
name of the state, we call iupon you
to meet ub in Columbia, next Monday
ai noon ana oegm uus nnpui utm
work without any further delay."
Thus concludes a letter written
late Wednesday by J. D. 13ivens, J.
M. Greer and It. M. Jeffries, members
of the sub-corn in ittee of the
State Democratic Executive Committee,
which was appointed to probe
the charges of fraud in connection
with the primary. These members
of the sub-committee met in Columbia
Wednesday claiming that they
had not been oilicially notified that
the meeting had been called off by
Chairman Stevenson.
They ask Chairman Stevenson by
what authority he nullified the meet>
ing, which was fixed for Wednesday
and later called off by Mr. Stevenson
until the county papers of the
state print the club rolls, they had
been requested uy our. oievon&uu iu
do.
The three members of tho subcommittee
protested against tho action
of three members of tho subcommittee
in Charlotte in postponing
the meeting of the committee from
Wednesday, and proposed they meet
next Monday organize and lay plans
for the immediate completion of tho
wcyk. It is also suggested that the
entire committee hold sessions in the
various counties where fraud has
bee^i charged.
<*Hy the time that this is completed"
says the letter of Chairman Stov_
enson, "we will have in our possession
the cliub rolls and poll lists of all
counties of the state and additional
meetings of tho sub-committee can
be held in those countit^s where, after
an inspection of the rolls, the
committee may deem it necessary. By
tiiis method, the entire matter can
bo sifted to tho bottom in three
weeks. To wait on tHe club rolls before
beginning the work will delay
y our report indefinitely."
,,r C) ,, V, o i ?* m o n nf flir*
\ V r D I r V n ,'il U I I , VylKili JllUli vy L v
Bub-committee, postponed the meeting
of the committee till a future day
to be selecteed by the chairman,
when there will be more for the committee
as a whole to attend to.
That tho committee will either
find enough proof of fraud to warrant
the retaking of the tirst primary
or else declare Governor Please the
nominee are the two courses before
the committee as outlined by State
Chairman John Gary Evans. Mr.
Evans, speaking of tho investigation
recently held in Spartanburg,
said that he had no doubt whatever
that it would be fair and thor''
ouph, and that tho men named on the
sirb-coniniittoe would go to the bottom
of the matter.
In Mr. Evan's opinion, if sufficient
evidence of fraud is found, the state
executive committee will order the
primary which lias been held already
thrown out and the voters of the
state will be called 011 to again express
their preference fo'* goveror.
Unless sufficient grounds -.re found,
Mr. Evans, stated of course the committee
will declare Mr. Please 1I10
nominee of the party. Ho stated that
if another election is ordered P
would be in a short M mo, ee"\ inly
some day before the gen jral election
in November.
FLIES TO IIIS HEATH.
Expert Hirdrnati Attempted Flight in
Gusty Wind.
At Chicago, Aviator Paul Peek, of
Washington, D. C., holder of the
American duration flight record,
y/as killed in a fall with a biplane
Wednesday night while flying in a
gusty wind. He attempted too steep
a spiral, and when he struck the
ground the heavy engno crashed
through the wreckage, striking him
in the neck.
A gusty wind blew at Cicero field
all day and Director Andrew Drew
posted the customary warning to aviators
against going up. Peek, believing
bis small biplane would be
fast enough to carry him through the
choppy wind, went out in spite of the
caution.
At about eight hundred altitude
he started to come down in a spiral
glide. Htccause of the unusually
small span of his machine, Peek got
Into too steep a spiral ,his aeroplane
slid in toward the center of the vortex,
and he could not bring it back.
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Five Tramps Killed.
Two men were killed, three are
massing and probably dead, and thousands
of dollars damage was done as
Ihe result of an accident on a fast
freight train on the New York Central
railway, a mile east of Fort Plain
N. Y., Sunday afternoon. The victims
were beating their way on the
train which was running at a high
speed when a car truck broke.
Ballot Box StufTed.
The recount of the vote of York
county showed that 21 more votes
were cast in the Rock Hill precinct
than there were names written on
the poll list. The committee decided
to withdraw tnis number of vot 9
with the drawer blindfolded. The
result was that sixteen Jones ballots
and fivo Blease ballots wero withdrawn.
POURS MILK ON BOMB
SAVES TWENTY-SEVEN FAMILIES
IN A TENEMENT.
Flame of Fuse Within Half an Inch
of Deadly Machine When Fire Was
Extinguished.
The New York World says Antonio
Janike, a milkman, of No. 128 East
Ono Hundred and Thirtieth street,
was making his rounds before daylight
when he came to No. 231 East
Ninety.ninth street. He carried his
case of milk bottles in one hand and
a lantern in the other to guide him
up the darkened stairways of the
tenement, which houses twenty-seven
families, to the top floor, where Vincent
Piccio lives with his wife and
children.
As Antonio reached the top of the
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StUH'S IIO saw 11 n:u ouiuvtiiiu^ Oj/uvterlng
away In tho darkness. lie
lurned his lantern upon it and saw it
was tho end of a lighted fuso that
was rapidly eating its way to a percussion
cap on an infernal machine.
Antonio quickly ripped off the cover
of one of his milk bottles and
drenched tho fuse. Then he ran
downstairs and found Policeman Nau
who went to tho tenement with the
milkman and took tho bomb to the
police station .after making a thorough
examination of the premises.
He found that Piccio is tho only
Italion living thero. Piccio said he
had never received any Black Hand
letters, but the police are confident
that he has and that the person or
persons who placed tho bomb at his
door and determined to kill him,
even if in doing so tho lives of all
tho others were taken also.
Tho entire tenement was thrown
into a panic when it was discovered
that tho house had been marked for
destruction. Protestations of gratitude
wore showered upon Antonio
when the policeman told them that
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I I JltJy U WUU lllC/U II VUO tV/ in w an?> >>.
man for his quick wit in dousing the
fuse with milk, because there was
only half an inch left of the fuse
to burn.
The (Bureau of Combustibles was
notified and Inspector Eagan, three
of whose fingers were blown off when
he opened the infernal machine sent
to Judge Otto Rosalsky, examined
the bomb at the station house. It
was shaped like a dfumbbell, the
handle being about a foot long and
six inches in diameter, while the
round nobs at each end were considerably
larger.
it weighed about eight poamds,
and was filled with dynamite and
nltro-glycerine. The caps were made
of fulminate of mercury. Eagan said
that the fuse must have been about
a foot long, so as to give the person
who placed it enough time to escape
before it .went off.
"In all my experience of eighteen
years," said Eagan, "I have never
seen a more deadly bomb than this.
If it had gone off it would have destroyed
the entire building and practically
wiped out every family within
I do not think a single soul
would have escaped."
WOMEN PGAN FOR RIGHTS.
New Era Club Ik Organized at Spartanburg
Tuesday.
The New Era club was organized
by tho ladies of Spartanburg Wednesday
for the purpose of studying
the question of woman suffrage. The
members of the club are: President,
Mrs. Helen O. I lowland; vice presL
dent, Mrs. W. L. Abbott; secretary,
Miss Garland Kico; treasurer, Mrs.
E. C) .Frierson. a. w. ?mun wus appointed
chairman of the committee
on constitution and by laws.
The following names were enrolled:
M.rs. 10. O. Frierson, 'Mrs. A. W.
Smith, Miss Garland ltice, Miss Mitt
Dultant, Mrs. 11. A. Taylor, Mrs.
10. O. Frierson, 'Mrs. William Fisher,
Miss Marion lOvans, i.Miss Sarah Ilarvin.
Dr. Itos.a II. Gantt, Mrs. V. M.
Montgomery, Miss I,ois Montgomery,
Mrs. M. H. Gwynn, Mrs. Armstrong.
Miss Edith Porcher, Mrs. W. E. Abbott,
Mrs. Helen G. Ilowland, Mrs.
.1. M. Wilson and Mrs. II. M. Trimhall.
All meetings are to be open meetings
and all women are invited to attend,
whether members or not, for
it is through these members .only
that the earnest and serious purpose
of the club may best be explained.
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Weekly meetings win ue num uminately
in the afternoon and evening.
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WAHNS AGAINST SWIDLKHS
Many Orchard!zing Schemes Fakes,
Says the Government.
The department of agriculture in a
report soon to bo issue, will sound
a noto of warning to all interested
against orchard investment schemes
that hold o?ut promises of prolts far
in excess .of what the department
experts regard as warranted. Many
inquiries have reached the departments
regarding orange, apple and
other enterprises, where the orchardi/.ing
is to he done by proxy and in
some cases the claims of profits are
alluring in the extreme. Tt is possible
t\f t ptninin will ho
( [1 (l l nv/in\/ i %, * v>.?v. ...M
called to attention of the post of flee
department, because of the circulating
of alluring literature through
the mails.
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Tlo Washington Dispatch says:
Roosevelt winks at the trusts and
at the same time tries to hoodwink
the people." Teddy himself will hard(
ly deny this charge when the election
is over
Infant Drowns in Ills Crib.
i A three monts old baby, the son of
i Edward Harbor, of Williamsburg, X.
i Y., was drowned in his crib by water
dripping through the ceiling from a
broken pipe.
LAWYER IN TROUBLE
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CHARGED WITH MURDERING A
RICH WOMAN CLIENT
BODY SANK IN THE LAKE
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The Woman's Name Was Mrs. Szubo
and the Lawyer is liurtoii Giibson
?He is Charged With Murdering
the Woman to (it't Her Money?
Testimony Is Strong.
A dispatch from New York says all
night long Wednesday night private
letectives hung about Burton W. Gibson's
homo at Rutherford, N. J.,
while the headlights of automobiles
were turned 011 the Gibson house so
that all the exits could be watched.
Evidence nubmitted before County
Judge Iioyce, of Middle!own, upon
which a warrant charging Gibson
with murder in the first degree was
issued, was most sensational.
Dr. Schultze, coroner's physician
of New York, swore that Mrs. Szabo
was so injured before she fell into
tho water that she never breathed
alter she had sunk below the surface.
The surgeon said there were
tricks of jiu jitsu whereby Mrs. Szabo
could hao ir dieted a sharp blow in
the throat which so affected a nerve
as to close her air passage, thereby
making it impossible to breath. Dr.
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OCHUimtJ Sillti lllUl uiui u >y ao a
sign of water in the lungs and no
congestion.
Only expert kowledge was required
to do the trick, said Dr. Seliultze,
who then asked Judge ltoyce to permit
him to show how it could be
done. Quickly the surgeon pressed a
pont on the judge throat. The Judge
gasped and not long after that issued
the warrant. It was planned to arraign
Gibson botfore Judge Royce
Friday.
Gibson came to New York Thursday
morning trailed by private detectives
and a squad of newspaper
men. As he ualked through the
streets to his oflice a crowd of several
hundred people followed him. Gibson,
with a private detective, went to
his office and awaited the arrival of
Deputy Sheriff DeGraw.
Gibson said to the detectives: "I
should like very mucli'co go t3 Middletown
and surrender myself if it
can be arranged. Can not you see the
sheriff and have this thing done in
as gentlemanly a way as possible?"
The private detective said he would
talk to Deputy Sheriff DeGraw when
he arrived. The detective waited for
some time for DeGraw to appear and
then leaving Gibson in the company
of the newspaper men remarked: "I
guess I'll have to go and hunt up
DeGraw. lie seems to be lost."
Gibson issued a statement just bofore
his arrest reasserting his innocence
and insisting that there had
been no struggle, either in .the boat
or in the water. "I am not prepared,"
he said, "to believe that the report
will show that Mrs. Szabo died
of strangulation. There certainly
was 110 struggle in the water between
Mrs. Szabo and myself. When slie
came up she did not hit the boat in
such a manner that would cause her
to die of strangulation. I certainly
(lid not c111 tcii iter ny me : mio.il.
(jibson's greatest sorrow was in
leaving his little daughter at her
home in Rutherford, N. .J. Being
separated from her, lie said, was "the
worst feature of the case."
When Deputy Sheriff DeGraw entered
tlio building where Gibson has
bis office, he met Gibson in the corridor
and seized him roughly by the
aim. Gibson protested and said ho
had been assured by the detectives
he would not be molested until noon.
DeGraw took him into his custody
not withstanding.
Til mow ACM) IX HIS FACE.
The Screams of a Dying Man Drew
Very Large Crowd.
Screams coming from a park in
Brooklyn late Wednesday night caused
a crowd of passersby to hurry to
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a secluded uencn wnere umy luuuu
a man with hands pressed to his face
moaning that a girl had thrown acid
in his face. The police arrested a
girl who gave her name as Ester
Capatan and led her to the park
bench, but the man was so badly
burned about the eyes that he could
not see her. Soon he became unconscious
and died before an ambulance
arrived. Under pressure from the
pc. 1 ico the girl said that she knew
the man as Samuel Kaplan and that
he had taken all Iter money under
faithless promises of marriage. She
declared he was one of a group of
swindlers wanted in Chicago. Although
she insisted that lie had tak_
or. the acid himself after trying to
force her to drink it, she was locked
up 011 a homicide charge,
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Dog I,cads to Master's Hody.
Led by a dog searchers found the
odv of Dominiek Gervafo, of Coal City,
ill., who had been missing five
days. lie had gone hunting. His
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til''.; rUkUl'IIUU Willi ?vti nnu i\yvi tn?
way to his master'3 body. The minor
apparently had committed suicide.
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Succumbs to His Injuries.
The State says IT. C. Steinheimer,
wlio was injured Sunday afternoon
when his motorcycle collided with
an automobile driven by \Y. T. Philiips
on north Main street, died at a
local infirmary at one o'clock Wednesday
morning.
Xo Pace Suicide Here.
The fourteenth child has been born
to the wife of Richard R. Russell,
judge of the Georgia Supreme court.
Judge Russell, In announcing the
event said he was bound to break tho
"13" hoodoo.
WILL ENFORCE LAW
girls cannot work after
TEN OVIiOCK AT NIGHT.
Commissioner Watson Says Stringent
Steps Will Ho Taken to See That
There is No Violation.
"My department intends to see
that the law prohibiting the working
of women after 10 o'clock at night
must be strictly enforced," said E. j.
Watson, commissioner of commerce,
agriculture and industries, Thursday
morning in discussing the case of
Joseph Lines.
A case was brought against Joseph
Lines, proprietor of the Columbia
Candy factory in Magistrate Eowles*
court Thursday morning, tor woraing
women after 1U o'clock at night
in violation of the state law of the
State. There were three counts
brought against Lines. He was convicted
011 one and lined $10, while
the other two were nol prossed.
The prosecution was brought by
Factory Inspector Bonner, who is
connected with the State department
of commerce, agriculture and industries.
The witness against Lines was
Miss Swancy, a former employe. 'Miss
Swancy testified that Lines required
her to work after 10 o'clock.
Lines gave as his defence that it
was not compulsory for his women
employes to work after 10 o'clock at
night, but he further testifiod that
he was ignorant of the fact that such
a law is in the statutes, lie promised
not to further violate the law.
Col. Watson further said Thursday
morning that his department will
take stringent steps to prosecuto all
violators of tho act that requires
stores employing women to have
stools for them to sit on and tho one
that forbids them working after 10
o'clock at night. The pertinent paragraphs
of the act in question follow:
"H.e it enacted by the general assembly
of the ?tate of South Carolina,
That from and after the passage
of this act the hours of labor for wo.
men employed in the mercantile establishments
in this state shall be
iimited to CO hour per week, not to
exceed 12 hours in any one day, and
that such female employes shall not
be required to work later than tho
hour of ten o'clock p. m. The enforcement
of this law is placed in
the hands of tho commissioner and
factory nspectors.
"Any employer of female labor in
mercantile establishments who shall
violate the provisions of this act shall
be deemed quilty of a misdemeanor
and shall be punished by a fine of
not less than ten dollars nor more
than forty dollars, or imprisonment
of not less than ten days nor exceedin
ir .10 da vs."
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WIFE OF JOHNSON KILLS SELF.
Shunned and Unhappy Because She
Married a Negro.
A dispatch from Chicago says being
shunned and unhappy because she
had married a negro, the wife of
.Jack Johnson, world's champion
heavyweight pugilist, shot herself
Wednesday nght and died Thursday
morning. She was 31 years of age
and the daughter of Mrs. David Terrv
nf Drrvnklvn. When she married
Johnson, she was the divorced wife
of Clarence Duryear, a well known
New York turfman.
During the trip to Las Vegas, N.
M., where Johnson fought Jm Flynn,
the black's wife told friends she was
very unhappy, as her former friends
avoided her because she was wedded
to a negro.
Soon after Johnson left his home
Wednesday night she called her two
maids and placing an arm aroaind
each asked that they kneel in prayer.
After she had prayed for some
time, she sent the maids into different
rooms. Hardly had they closed
the doors behind them when theh
heard a shot and rushing in found
the woman on the floor.
She had been in such a condition
or several months that, on the advice
of a doctor, Johnson had employed
two women attendants to watch her.
lie was to have taken her to Las
Vegas, N. M., for her health, and
was away getting tickets when she
shot herself. ,
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OPPOSED TO GOV. BLFASE
Next Legislature Said to lie Against
the Governor.
A dispatch from Columbia to the
Augusta Chronicle says that returns
received from all counties n South
Carolina for the first and second
primaries indicate that there will be
seventy certain supporters of the policies
of Judge Ira H. Jones in the
House to twenty-nine supporters for
tho Governor. The attitude of twenty-five
members is unknown, although
it is thouirht that there will
bo a two-thirds majority for .lonos.
la (ho Senate there are thirty certain
supporters of Judge Jones.
Twelve are for the Governor and two
are uncertain. From this it would
seem that there has not boon much
change in the General Assembly on
the factional lines.
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Gives I |> in I'Uer Gisgust.
A defeated candidate issues this
validictory: Dear voters of Colleton
I desire to thank you very kindly for
the few votes you gave me in the
first primary and will say, if my
mind does not change, 1 do not
think I will ever ho in the race
again for anything. 1 want you all
to know that I voted for Gov. Blease
and against B. U. Tillman.
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Finds Man Dead In \ct.
William Meyers, a Chicago, III.;
fisherman, hauled away at his net
which he found to he unusually heavy.
Peering into it he saw tho body
of a dead man and made a dash for
tho nearest policeman. The body was
' not identified.
FOUND MUCH FRAUD
IN TWELVE BOXES EXAMINED SO
FOR IN ANDERSON.
MANY MORE TO EXAMINE
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The Sub-Committee Files With the
County Committee n Detailed
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mUIl'IIMMIl VII (IIU HIV^OI w vIV .7
Found in the Twelve Boxes So
Fur Examined by It.
A (lispatcli from Anderson to the
Augusta Chronicle says according to
the affidavits filed with the county
executive committee Thursday by
the siub-committee the number of alleged
irregular votes cast in the recent
primary now totals about 17 0,
and 41 boxes out of 53 are yet to be
'investigated. The executive committee,
upon receiving this repoort,
continued the sub-committee, which
consists of Leon L. ltice, W. II. Canfield
and Tlios. Henry B.urris, and
stated that unlimited time would be
given for a thorough investigation.
The report of the sub-committee
mainly consisted of affidavits, and the
number of alleged irregular votes
put forward in these affidavits is 13 0.
The sub-committee some time ago
made'a report to the county execu.
tivo committee in which testimony
and affidavits were submitted alleging
aboait 40 irregular votes. Kurtz
1\ Smith .attorney for Governor
Blease, submitted several affidavits
refuting the allegations made in several
of the affidavits and in the testimony
submitted by tlie sub-committee
to tho county committee about
two weeks ago.
Up to date twelve out of tho 53
boxes have been examined. The club
rolls and the polling lists have been
carefully compared, and the affidavits
submitted deal with tho results
found in nine of the boxes examined.
The affidavits allege:
That in Ward G the names of 14
voters appear on the polling list,
which do not appear on the club roll.
That in Friendship box the names
of three voters appear on the polling
list which do not appear on tho club
roll.
That in Sandy Springs box the
names of eighteen voters appear on
the poll list that do not appear on the
club roll.
That in the Pendleton box tho
names of six voters appear on the
polling list which do not appear on
the cLub roll.
That in tho Brogon Mill box the
names of four voters appear on the
polling list which do not appear on
the club roll.
That in Five Forks box the names
of six voters appear on the polling
list which do not appear on the club
roll.
That in tho Three and Twenty box
the name of one voter appears on
the polling list which does not appear
on the club roll.
That In Flat Hock box the names
of three voters anne.ir on t he nolline
list which do not appear on the cluli
ro 11.
That in the Craytonvillo box the
names of seven voters appear on the
polling list which do not appear on
the club roll.
That in the Pelzer box the names
of thirty-four voters appear on the
polling list which do not appear 011
the 191 0 or 1 8 1 2 club rolls.
That in the Pel/or box, in addition
to the above, the names of thirty-one
\oters appear 011 the polling list that
do not ap.pear even 011 the 1910 club
roll.
That the name of J. 11. Smith ap
pears twice on the Ward G polling
list, while it. appears only once 011 the
club roll.
That in the Pelzer box the names
of M. C. Ellen burg and V. M. Ellenburg
appear on the polling lists
while I be name of Ellenbursr. without
any initials appears on the club roll,
and that it appears on the club roll
only once.
That the names of A. P. Jamioson
and J. 11. Davis appear on the Pelzer
box polling list twice while it does
not appear but once on the club roll.
The sub-committee intends to hold
frequent meetings whenever it is
deemed necessary. In the meantime
0 corps of clerks, under the supervision
of the sub-committee, will continue
to examine the club "rolls and
polling lists, arranging them In lists
alphabetical order in order to catch
repeating and other irregularities.
lOnglish Army Ollicer Kille<l.
Another double aviation fatality,
the second within a week, occurred
early Tuesday to members of the army
flying corps, when Lieut. C. A.
Pettington and Lieut. 10. llotchiss,
both of whom had just been given
commissions on probation, were killed
while flying past Wolvcrcole, Kng1
n .wl
IclilU.
Charge Vole Ihiying.
Indictments charging the buying
and selling of votes in the recent
Democratic primary for Douglas
County ollieors are expected to hand
clown shortly by the grand jury which
has quietly been pursuing an investigation
for several days at Madison,
(la. It is reported that votes
brought as much as $(10.
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Minister a Suicide.
Tim T?o\r 1, 1C Ktnnn :i lirnnilnnnf
Presbyterian minister of North Carolina
committed suicide in his home
in laimberton, by taking a drug. No
cause is known for the minister taking
his life.
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Two Men Were Killed.
Two men riding on a single motorcycle
were killed in a collision between
their machine and a ty?wntown
corner. The dead men could
not be identified .Both received fractured
skulls. , ,1.^^
FIRST CROP REP^H
AMOUNT OF COTTON GINNEfifffl^B
SKI'TFMBIOK FIKST. '
Up to That Time More Was GiAlljM/ ?jl
Than l*i? to the Same Time
The first cotton ginning report ' i
the census bureau for tlie 1912 sea-^, | M
sell, issued \veuneHuuy in iu a. r
announced that 729,926 bales of cot-'. ?j
ton of the growth of 1912 had been ;'y|
inned prior to September 1, counting '
round as half bales. To that date
last year 7 7 1,2 97 bales, or five percent
of the entire crop, had beenr V
ginned; in 19 0S, 402,229 bales o,r
2.1 per cent of the crop, and in 1906>. V 1
407,551 bales, or 3.1 ptV cent of the
crop. V'?jn!
Included in the total glnnings were
C,134 round bales, compared with 7,7
09 round bales last year to Septem
ber 1; 1 0.976 round bales in 1910* V
and 1 1,5 87 round bales in 1909.
The number of bales of Sea Is-"
land cotton included was 213, compared
with 546 bales for 1911 ,218
bales for 1910 and 1,2 3 6 bales for
1909.
Ginnigs prior to September 1st by
States with comparisons for last year
and other big crop years, follow:
Alabama.
1912 12,798
1 91 1 40,501
1 90S 26,298
1 906 24,3 12
Florida.
..1912 1,769
1911 3,796
1 908 2,5241
906 1,898
Georgia.
1 912 33,984.
1 91 1 134,431
1 ftOS 64.693
1 HOG 25^29S
Mississippi.
1912 56
1 911 1,8651
908 4,330
1 906 9,690
North Carolina.
1912 67
191 1 1,245
1908 101
1906 3 2
South Carolina.
191 2 4,524
1 9 I 1 1 9,3 64
190 8 9,399
1906 3,240
JUM1*K1> FROM TKNTH FliOOIt.
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Man Accused of Theft Commits Most
Horrible Suicide.
At Dayton, Ohio, Ira Willoughby
jumped from a window on the tenth*
tloor of the Iteibold office building,
shortly after midnight Wednesday
morning when accused of the theft
, of valuable willow plumes from an.
office in tlie building. The body was
crushed into an almost unreoognizaniass.
Willoughby was being escort*
. ed to the elevator when suddenly he
broke away from the officers and
, dashed down the hall and leaped
through a window. The owner of
\ the building stated he had not intended
to prosecute the case, but
, that ho permitted the arrest simply
i to scare Willoughby.
WHITE MAN IS FOUND DEAD.
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Attempt at Identification Proves a
Complete Failure.
s A Timmonsvillo dispatch says a'
white man was found dead by the
' railroad track Wednesday morning,
one-half mile from Cartersville. The1
men of Cartersville have put forth:
every effort, to identify him. He had
nothing about his person to give the.
slightest clue to his identity except
the clothes that he wore were bought
:i t Cnker A>. Comnunv's in Hnrtsvillo
It. is supposed he fell from train 55
and died instantly. He is six feet
tall, sandy hair, sharp features antli
weighs about 155 pounds. Has oiv
dark gray suit. He will bo buried
here at eleven o'clock Thursday unless
he is identified.
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Women to l'ut Out a Ticket,
A Republican ticket composed^ entirely
of women candidates will bo
placed in the field in Idaho this fall
against the regular Republican and
Progressive tickets. The women announced
that they had become disgusted
with wrangling, and decided
to place a ticket of their own before
the people.
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Rat Attacks Sleeping (*irl.
Cries of his two little sisters, Mary
and Anna, aged five and seven years,
of Nanticoke, Pa., summoned an older
brother to their bedside. He found
them bleeding profusely from wounds
on the face and arms and fighting
desperately tho attacks of a large
rat, wheh was gnawing their llosh.
Wife <?ot Very Tired Soon.
At A t 1 'i n o \! ro li* P li?lr no t*?l ^1?
* v * ,Vl MVKUl ifl I O, I i . V ' . IVll rv I'll I I I \ ' l\ >
a pretty girl who lias been married
only one week, rues her childhood
romance and already wants divorce.
She was Miss Tholma Reese. She
says she was worried Into marrying
her husband by his assiduous at tent
ions.
Makes Race For Sheriff
Complete returns in the Greenville
primary show Hendrix Rector
is leading J. R. Gilreath in the race
for sherig by 1 6 votes Official tabulation
and recount of returns may
change the result, as some of the
boxes are believed to have been ineo
r r e c 11 y rep o r ted.
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Another Very Close Race.
The Sheriff's race in Colleton
county was very close on Tuesday,
The vote stood \?. G. Owens, 1,170
and \V. R. Fox 1,176, a difference of
-only three votes in favor of Owens*