The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 03, 1912, Image 3
CROSS DEAD LINES
FIXED BY MARTIAL LAW AND
CITIZENS ARE SHOT BY
I
SOLDIERS IN AUGUSTA
^ILuinor That Power Plant Was to l>e
Blown l-p llcsulta in Troops Being
I'laccd to Guard Property, With
Orders to hire on Anyone Crossing
Bead Line.
As the climax to the rioting In Au
gusia, ua., ana tne snooting or tnreo
cirizens late Friday Dy State militia
troops Governor Drown Friday night
issued a proclamation declaring "the
City of Augusta to bo in a state of Insurrection"
and ordering the immediate
enforcement of martial law.
Adjt. Gen. William G. O'Dear ordered
by the Governor to proceed to
Augusta at once from Atlanta and assume
charge of the situation. Another
company of militia was ordered
to Augusta from Wynesboro to reinforce
the four local companies under
CJapt. L?evy.
In the interval of the firing by the
troops on 15th street and the hour
sot for a labor meeting at the Court
House the situation appeared to have
calmed down, but intensity of feeling
over the shooting of five people Incensed
the people generally, largely
because they did not understand that
the city is under martial law.
KfTorts to Secure Adjustment.
During the day ceaseless efforts
were made by every business faction
in the cify to bring about an adjustment
of the street car strike, which
is now but an incident of the troubled
condition. The Chamber of Commerce,
the Merchants' and 'Manufactuiers'
Association, and the Cotton
'Exchange, in joint, meeting, demanded
immediate arbitration by the compony
and tho strikers, commended
Major Barrett's position of enforcing
protection of property and lives
and the measures taken to hold down
mob rule.
In re sponse to the demands of the
business interests the striking car
men have unequivocally accepted the
sugges! ion of arbitration, but the
company, in an address signed by
General Manager Iieal, flatly refused
jirbitration, declaring they have nothing
to arbitrate, and, further, that
the men who left their employ and
whom ho declares joined in tho rioting
Thursday night, havo no connection
with or further claim on the
company. He asserts that tho company
stands ready to operate all its
cars so soon as they are given sufficient
protection, which they claim as
r* h right.
Jjiko Firebrand in Tinder.
This declaration was like a firebrand
in a nile of tinder, and the en
tiro laboring element, particularly in
West End, the mill district, became
even in ore turbulent than it was
Thursday night. From 0110 end of
the city to (.he other the news has
'been spread of tlie shooting by troops
on J 5th .*f., and besides the tiiousand
or more people congregated in West
Ei d, the 700 block of Broad street,
in the lmart of the business district,
was crov ded.
During the middle of the day information
was conveyed to the authorities
that the strike sympathizers had
planned to plant a mine under the
power house hridav night. During
the afternoon a military guard was
thrown around 15th street property
of the company, where one of the
power plants is located, and a dead
line established at each end of the
property. The troops wero given In
st.ructionr, to challenge anybody attempting
to pass through the line
and stop them; to fire If the challenge
should be ignored and any effort
made to pass through the lines
after the challenge. The troops are
provided with riot cartridges and
were stationed on duty with loaded
pieces.
Citizens Shot to Death.
Robert Christie, a business man,
was driving by in an automobile, and,
f evidently did not hear the challenge
of the sentry. He had gone but a few
feet when he was shot through the
lungs, lie is at the Margaret Wright
Hospital, where he will die.
Ren F. Raker and Alfred Dorn,
also business men, attempted to
drive through 15th street a few minutes
later. A few blocks from the
power plant some one told Parker, in
whose buggy they were riding, the
soldiers were firing blank cartridges.
As he approached the power plant he
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>\ U|# UI? UUl OCy UIiU? 1 JL1A 11 lv\l I
ately after challenging, one sentry
fired, and immediately others joined
in the fire. Baker was wounded, but
will probably recover. Dorn was literally
shot to pieces and Is dead.
An unknown white boy, apparently
about 20 years old, attempted to
rush the sentry lines on a motorcycle
and one handle of his machine wan
shct off, but he was uninjured.
Charles Wilson, who operates a
pool room In one of the local hotels,
i wa? driving through 15th street in
his automobile with his wife and
child, and says he was unconscious of
the fact that the dead lines were being
enforced. He claims not to have
heard any challenge, though he saw
on of the soldiers standing by the
driveway. His machine was fired into
the ball passing through the top.
Ho reached down to toot his horn, he
says, and another guard evidently
mistook the motion as one to reach
for a gun. Other shots were fired
and Wilson, though escaping without
injury to himself or other occupants
of the car, drove onto Broad street
with four big holes through his machine.
Itailroad Bridge Spiked.
Just before dark the West End
sympathizers spiked the long Broad
PALMETTO BULL MOOSE
MINTING IN COIiUMBIV FRIDAY
TO LAUNCH THIRD PARTY.
"Jiull Moosers" Looking to ftonth
Carolina as Land of i'rouiiW) on
Strenth of Factionalism.
The "Bull Moosg" will meet in Columbia
on Friday, Octooer 4, to organize
the Progressive party in South
^ - tloVot
VyUrUllllU, 1JUUIU 11IV civvi,U1 ui iivbvv)
which will bo placed in the field and
to consider the advisanility of nominating
a full State ticket to contest
with the Democratic nominees in the
general election in November, and to
do such other things as are necessary
to launch a full grown "Bull Moose"
movement for the Palmetto State.
B. Sherwood Dunn, of Aiken, is
acting in the capacity of "launcher"
for the new party, and is said to be
the national committeeman from this
State. He will preside over the initial
gathering here on October 4, ana
see the Roosevelt party started on Its
efforts to capture the electoral votes
o' South Carolina. Mr. Dunn Is a
warm personal friend of "T. R." and
wont to New York to have a con Terence
with National "Bull Moose"
Chairman Joseph M. Dixon and the
other dlgnatarles of the third party
efc re putting the final touches to hrs
plans. j
It is rumored here In Columbia
that the "Bull Moosers" are looking
tcwards South Carolina as a land of
great promise, and that they are
banking strong on the factionalism
which reigns within the Democratic
ra?ks. One rumor has It that the
new party hopes that the State committee
will throw out Blease and
they would then seek alliance with
him, but indications being that
Blease is going to be declared the
nominee next Tuesday the third party
will probably turn to dissatisfied
Democrats with the purpose In view
of recruiting strength from their
ranks and placing a full State and
electoral ticket in the field.
II. is accepted here that the Progressive
party will certainly name an
electoral ticket and go before the
pooplo and ask them to v&>te for Col.
itoosevclt for President. This personnel
of this ticket and also the possibility
of tho "Bull Moosers" making
overtures for alliance with some
one of the factions in the Democratic
paity, make the meeting called for
October 4 full of interest.
It Is said there that tho personnel
of tho third party will be white men,
and most of thorn hitherto unidentified
with politics in the State. The
leronie Hotel will be the headquarter.
for tho meeting of the Progressives
on October 4.
TWO A1K PILOTS KILLED.
German Military Officers Meet With
Fatal Accidents.
Near Freilburg, Saxony, two Ger-I
man military officers were killed
while flying Friday. This makes the
third double fatality in Europe within
the present month in which members
of the army flying corps were
the victims. The machine, which was
of the monoplane typo, was being piloird
by Lieut. Berger, who was carrying
Lieut. Junglians as a passenger
in a llight from Chemnitz to Berlin.
When passing over tho city the
machine suddenly plunged from a
high elevation to tho ground. The
airmen were instantly killed and the
machine smashed to bits. The cause
of the accident is not expU'no 1. *
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St;eet bridge, a double row of railway
srikos being driven on each side of
each street car rail the entire length
01' the bridge. At 8:30 a labor mass
meeting assembled at the Court
House, but labor union officials declared
they were going to permit no
sort of inflammatory speeches, but
intended to dismiss the meeting so
soon as they have urged a cessation
of violence.
The labor mass meeting was far
mcro quiet than those which preceded
it, t.he net result being adoption
of a resolution, which has been tele!graphed
to Governor Brown, demanding
immediate withdrawal of the
troops. It is as follows:
"Whereas, three of the citizens of
Augusta, while peacefully traversing
the streets of Augusta Friday afternoon,
were shot down by irresponsible
militia; be it,
"Iteeolved, That we, the people of
Augusta, In mass meeting assembled,
rrnuest of his Excellency, Governor J.
I M. Prc/wn, that the State militia be
withdrawn at oneo."
Thousands Marched Through Streets.
Following the labor meeting at the
Court House at 8:30, which lasted
- -- i t- ? 1 * - * is e
lever two nours, a crowd 01 miiy
00 0 marched out on to Broad street,
declaring they wore "going to the
newer house". At the corner of 8th
street nn earnest plea was made to
; them "by one of their political loaders
! not to attack the power plant or do
any further violence, but disperse
mid go to thoir homes.
Hslf an hour later a crowd
more than half as largo congregated
four blocks further up town, in front
jet the fire houses, and again the
j same leader mounted Into an nuio!
mobile and made an impngsloned npi
p -a! to them, on the basis of a pcrj
K-onal plea, that they not attomnt rio?
i leuce but give him their promise to
| d- sparse. Hundreds at a tirae pave
I Mu promise and left. At midnight
1 the streets were clear of that c-lomcn4,
from, the mill district, which has
canoed all the trouble.
Shortly eftsr midnight the com'
pony of troops from Wynofiboro wore
' (run into the yards of tho Central
' Railway and he can to detrain. They
wore Immediately put on guard
around the power plant, and the local
troops removed by order of Majoi
1 levy, who Is commending until the
I arrival of Col. W. L. O'Leary. *
WHAT MAY BE DONE
?
CHANGE IN PRIMARY LAWS MAY
BE RECOMMENDED.
BY ELECTION PROBERS
Sub-Committee to Investigate Alleged
Frauds in Recent Primary Not
Likely to Report on Present Contest
but May Urge Certain Reforms
to Safeguard Future Primaries.
JMr. S. E. Boney, of The News and
Courier, writing to his paper from
Anderson, sums up what the sub-committee
may say in its reports to the
full committee when it meets in Columbia
to-day. He says a mass of evidence
has been placed in the hands
of the committee, covering about half
of the counties in the State. Charges
of fraud have been made in some in
stances, but in most cases there have
been simply the reports of committees
appointed by the county executive
committees as to duplications
and the voting of persons whoso
names were not on the club rolls.
Tii short, the evidenco submitted to
the sub-committee of probers is of
such a nature as to merely give an
investigating committee grounds upon
which to proceed, not to act, in
the sense of whether declaring an
election valid or void.
Roughly estimating the work of
the committee it appears that about
2,800 votes have been called into
question. This by no means indicates
that thero have been 2,800
fraudulent votes cast; but, j\ist that
many have been submitted to the
committee for investigation. This, of
course, covers only about half the
forty-four counties of tho State, and
even in those reported, only partial
investigation was made.
It is estimated that if the reports
were complete from all counties there
would be eight or ten thousand votes
questioned. Just what the committee
will do with this information in
hand in reference to the 2,800 votes
of character to be questioned, now
before it, remains to be seen.
The sub-committee, of course, has
given no indication, during or since
the meetings held in the three big
Piedmont counties, as to what its action
will be. Neither has any member
disclosed tho sentiment of those
comprising the committee. But speculation
has been quite free as to the
possible report that will be submitted
to the State Democratic committee.
From the nature of the evidence
submitted, and taking into consideration
the time necessary for legal
proceedings upon which to base a
contest, it is believed in many quarters
that the sub-committee will
scarcely undertake to make p, definite
report on the recent primary, except
as to general conditions. This correspondent,
not endowed with powers
ofprophecy, therefore, does not
undertake to forecast what the report
of the sub-committee will be.
But it is quite apparent that conditions
in reference to the conduct in
reference to the conduct of primary
elections in the State have been revealed
in such a light that the committee
is almost bound to make some
kind of recommendations looking to
changes of the rules governing the
primaries.
Whether or not there will he a majority
report and a minority report
submitted to the State executive committee
next week remains to bo seen.
Tt is well known that the committee
stands three to four Bleaso and antiI'lnnon
Cn tho ponornl nrnnnQitlnn
i.'t v/M?JVyi ju v i? v?iv/i 1-** v
of needed reforms in the primary, it
may not. bo a hazardous guess to predict
that both Rlease and Anti-Blease
members of the committee will be united.
Of course, if question of the validity
of the renomination of Governor
Please in the recent primary is raised
there would doubtless be a division of
son timent. Notwithstanding: partisanship,
however, even the possibility of
questioning: the validity of so many
vc tes has planted firmly in the minds
of those who have attended the hearings
of the investigating: committee
that there are chances that are not
only expedient hut necessary in the
manner of holding primary elections
in this State.
Tn all probability the committee,
which has worked faithfully upon the
t?,rk assigned It, and which has
throughout evidenced a jealous carc
of the purity of elections in South
ur.ronna, will mcnnimpna inai me
Democracy of this State bestir Itaoli
now and devise some moana to safe
Kuard the primary and prevenl
frauds that may bo attempted in the
future. S. E. Poney.
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MTTINOUS Tit OOPS KILLED.
-? Two
Hundred Chinese Kebol# Shot
by Loyal Troops.
At Wi! Chan?, China, mo**? than
mutinous soldiers were mmmarii>
executed by loyal troops in corse,
qurnce of the outbreak that occurred
r.noi.? the soldiers encamped outeido
that city on Tuesday. The re
1 m an tier o" tro murnoors no<! inv
oron county rfter tVc.v had attacked
! the town and been defeated by the
loval prarrlson. Tho mutineers wore
rJl oavaV.f/non end numbered ovoi
two thousand. They had arranged
| v. lib tb3 artilleryman quartered in,
rdflo the walls to . 'oin In the mov*?
mont, but the thinners at. the crttlcn
. moment )!p?1 rr* to keep thefr promise
? ?
Three Killed lit Collision#
At Kansas Cby, Ho., three met
! were killed and eeveral hurt In t
1 head-on collision between a north
j bound Kansas City Southern pnsson
i ] c;or train and e, ewiteh cnnluo on th<
'outskirts of Kansas City. 1
THE COTTON OUTLOOK
.
FIFTEEN CENTS A FOUND IS HOPED
FCR THIS YEAH.
?
Slow Mnrve'fng of the Crop is Bfia^
Urged in This State bjr Those Who
Have Given the Subject Study.
By a proper marketing of the cottliv
price of the staple will reach 15
cents, according to experts who have
given the matter much thought.
Among the expression recently giver.
out is one from President Dabbs
of the State Farmers' Union, in
... 1. n oovo' "Movop KnfnrA can T
V? All V- 11 U U DU/ O . *1V V VA WAV* v vmm
recall that we have had better prospects
of good prices for cotton."
Others share the opinion and some
aie forecasting a fifteen cent price
for cotton. In this county the crop
is short, as has been stated and this
is generally true throughout the
State. Mr. R. M. Mixson of Williston.
S. C., urges the holding of cotton
in the following statement:
The season is sufficiently advanced
to enable us to make a reasonably
correct estimate of yield of cotton for
the season of 1912-13.
My information from every section
of every Stato in the cotton belt indicates
a yield from tne cotton crop
giown this year of 12,1 81,294 bales
of 500 pounds each. The crop by
States is in my opinion, as follows:
Bales.
Alabama 1,179,603
Arkansas 695,404
Florida 71,219
Georgia 2,124,057
Louisiana 282,578
Mississippi 865,742
North Carolina..? 852,932
Oklahoma 803,504
South Carolina 1,275,847
Tennessee 352,274
Texas 3 573,758
Total 12,181.724
These figures are full and will
rather be over than under tho crop.
The demand for cloth is good and
sales are made at full figures.
Spinners are staying out of tho
market, hoping to force the price of
cot Ion still lower, believing that tho
bulk of the crop will be forced upon
the market by November 1 and sold
at a sacrifice.
N#w is the time to market your
cotton as slowly as possible. You
must meet this stay-out of tho market
policy of the spinners by staying
out of the market yourself. Don't
offer a bale for sale that you can possibly
hold. Warehouse your cotton
and borrow money on it, if you must,
to pay your debts, but don't sell. If
the south will follow this policy, you
will, in my opinion, see 15 cents cotton
by January 1, but if you rush it
on the market and have it sold at
forced sale, you will. In my opinion
? ii ii .i i i ? ? i,
see it sen ai or ueiuw n uoiilh.
If this croft is marketed slowly
you will, in my opinion, see an ascending
market, until 15 cents is
reached. Use business judgment in
marketing your cotton; the crop is
short, below a supply for the spindles
for the next 12 months; there is
no use in making your losses still
greater by sacrificing your cotton.
The following is President Dabbs's
letter to tlio farmers of the State:
To the Farmers of South Carolina:
Never before that I can recall have
we had better prospects of good
prices for cotton. Sixty days ago
cotton sold at 13 1-2 cents at interior
points. All of a sudden/'without
, rhjme or reason" the market broke
and it continued to go down until
10 1-2 cents was reacned in the local
markets. Not having the desired
, effect of stampeding the farmers like
It has in the past, we see it steadily
going up. Each day the "wiseacres"
say it will break to-morrow. Each
| day they say Liverpool should come
( down si* or seven points. Each day
sees the report that Manchester continues
to buy at higher prices than
can be paid on thiB side. What does
, it all mean?
If It means anything, it means that
cotton is In demand; that organiza.
tier, is telling or that mere is fear
? of It; that the farmers, the merchants
and the bankers need Dut to pull toi
gether and wo will see 15-cent cot.
ten for two-thirds of this crop. It
, also means that they are working together
more slowly and the price Is
, ycurs.
j We rejoice in the activity displayed
In organizing chambers of commerce
in the towns and cities of the
| South. We rejoice in such "boosters
' trips" as Richmond just pulled off,
1 and as Sumter will pull off in a few
' months. We rejoice at the hopeful
letters from tho various counties of
J South Carolina that loo* to thorough
organizations of the Farmers' Union
J in them. Yes, we will organize.
" When each county has its strong
Farmers' Union, and each town its
aggressive chamber of commerce all
working In harmony then we will
see a State farmers union and a State
el:amber of commerce building a
t greater South Carolina.
E. D. Dabbs,
President S. C. F. U.
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Mohhcd Ilini in (ho Street.
At Lima, Porn, former President
I Yi'gunto Leguia was mobbed by a
- :'iiiious crowd late Wednesday night,
v Tr'lo proceeding to bis privato resi>
dei.ce from the Presidential palace,
I vhjcb had Just been roaen over by
> fle new President, Guillermo Billtng3
lurst. The demonstrators shouted:
"You should go to jail and not
1 borne," and obliged the Ex-President
- to take refuge in the Unversity Club.
1 Twenty Men Were Drowned.
A ?! earner with 150 saw mill workro'fl
abroad was rammed by a gunboat
er> the Dylna River, near Archi
crgol, Russia, Monday. The steamer
\ tank in ten minutes and most of the
- tmeeengors Jumped Into the water.
- Thirty-five of them swam ashore,
si Twenty are known to have been
di owned while many are missing.
YEARS CHASE ENDS
ONE OF THE MEN WHO ROBBED
CANADA BANK HELD
THEFT WAS FOX 320.000
Helped Beat Up Chicago Policeman.
?His Wife Also Arrested In St.
Ix>uis Who Posed as Cripple Mute.
?Arrest of Woman Was Key to
Situation.
A year's chase following the $3 2 0,000
bank robbery in New Minister,
B. C., ended In St. Louis In the arrest
of J. C. Adams, who was declared
Friday to be wanted as ono of the
robbers.
Tho arrest of his supposed wife,
known to the police as Jeanotto Little,
in Edwardsville, 111., early Friday
completed tho task of tho local
police and private detectives who had
been holding Adams since his arrest
eaily Wednesday morning. Adams,
.ic Is also known as Walter Stacey,
was declared by the detectives to be
one of the two men who beat Police
Lieutenant Burns in a Chicago saloon
when he tried, single-handed, to capture
them on tho night of September
19.
When Adams was arrested by the
St. Ix>uis police he was entered on
the books under the namo of Stacey
and a charge of murder was placed
against him. It was explained that
ha was a suspect in a local case.
In the meantime his pnotograpn
taken a few hours after his arrest
was sent to Chicago. There it was
identified Thursday as the picture of
one of Lieut. Burns' two assailants.
The man arrested as Adams or
Stacey is believed by the local Bertillion
experts to bo George West,
reputed leader in the Canadian bank
robbery. The detectives said they
know him only as Adams or Stacey.
AH requests for interviews with
the prisoners were deniod.
At the time of the man's arrest the
detectives could have arrested his
woman companion who was walking
ahead of him. Thep hoped that by
leaving her at liberty longer they
v.ould catch another of the gang, so
she was not molested but kept under
surveillance until sho left the city
Thursday evening on an interurban
car.
A man met her at Gillespie, 111.,
and the two got off at Edwardsville
and went to a hotel. There they
were arrested but according to the
detectives the man was found to be
not the one wanted and was released.
Jeannette Little, or "(Mrs. Stacey,"
as she registered her name at a rooming
house, told her landlady that she
was a cripple, and at time walked
with the aid of crutches. At other
times she discarded the crutches.
In Adams' or Stacey's clothes a lotter
was found which related that the
bearer was deaf and dumb. The police
said that the crutches and the
deaf and dumb letter wero used as
subterfuges in obtaining admittance
to banks where prospects for a robbery
were good.
Detectives said the arrest of the
woman was the key to the situation.1
She was located by Assistant Chief
Schuetler, of Chicago, and a privato
detective in Elkhart, Ind., where sho
disguised herself as a member of a
religious order and pretended to be
lame. When sho left Elkhart four
men trailed her to St. Louis and to a
rooming house where a man met her.
When they emerged the man was arrested
and the woman allowed to "esrjtr.fl"
to Edwardsville. *
One of the two Canadian bank robbers
who escaped from the Sidias saloon
at Chicago after beating Lieut.
Bernard J. Burns into insensibility,
was arrested Thursday night in St.
Louis by Chicago detectives, according
to a report received by Assistant
Chief of Police Schuetler Friday.
The man arrested is described as
th^ "short robber". The woman was
located on the South side in Chicago,
according to Schuetler, and was permitted
to learn that dotectives were
searching for her. She boarded a
train and went to a town outside Chicago
where she purchased a ticket for
St. Louis.
In their anxiety to prevent the man
from escaping again tho detectives
are said to have closed about him,
paying no attention to the woman
who threw away her crutches and es
capcd.
JILTED MAN SHOOTS SELF.
The Girl Says She Will Marry Him
If Ho Gets Well.
"If he gets well I will marry him,"
was the declaration made by Miss
Grace McKinnon as she sat by the
side of Preston Arthur, who attempted
to kill himself at her home Tuesday
night at Athens, Ga.
"I had the grit to do it and I have
the grit to get well," assorted the
young man who has a pistol bullot
wound through his body.
Arthur and Oerdino Phelps, rivals
for the hand of Miss McKinnon, asked
her to choose between them Tuesday
night. She chose Phelps. Ar
thur left her homo only to return a
! row minutes later and Pond a bunot
j through his body. IIo fell a short
I distnnco from tho front door on the
McKInnon homo. It is believed that
ho has a chance to recover.
? ? ?
Policemen Were Kloctrocuted.
At Philadelphia one policeman was
hilled, another rendered unconscious
| and a number of others were less
|seriously shocked whilo attempting to
report from call boxes in Wost Pliila
delphia late Saturday when the police
telephone wire became heavily
charged with elctriclty from a feed
wire.
i
MOB VIOLENCE REIGNS ?
TROOPS ORDERED OUT AT AUGU6TA
ON ACOOUNT OR STRIKE.
?
Four Companies Held in Readiness.
?- Strike-Breakers Attacked and
Beaten by Mob.
Upon instructions of the gorernor,
the Adjutant General has issued an
t , . U.. U. T Alfir i t <v
order out four companies of the National
Guard, to be held subject to
diiect orders from Mayor Barrett.
Capt. Thad Jowitt has taken the
call and is now assembling the men
of the four companies at the armory,
wnere they will be on duty. Any use
of the troops 011 the streets or on
cars will bo only upon the order of
Mayor Barrett, according to a dispatch
received by The News and Couriei
yesterday morning at 2 a. m.
The mob failed to show up at the
Third Street car barn, though a squad
of policemen from the special detail
wero there waiting for them, and are
still on duty at the barn, The crowd
at thn nowor 11 hint hecnn to tlifl
perse half an hour or more ago and
at 2 o'clock only a small portion of
them were floating around in the
vicinity.
A strong police guard is on duty
arc und the power house and will remain
there unless removed and replaced
with militia by the mayor..
Following the adoption of a resolution
providing for a sympathetic
strike at a monster labor meeting
held by Augusta Federation of
Tir.des at the court house, attended
by quite 2,000 laboring men, a crowd
of union sympathizers attacked the
non-union men at the power house
at 11:30 o'clock Thursday night. A
man named Cason has been badly
beaten, and five men, who have been
taken away in an automobile to be
put on the next train and driven from
town.
S. I. Furrow and Q. W. Peger of
New York, strikebreakers, were less
setlously beaten. They nre now at
police barracks and say they are willing
to leave the city. The names
of tno others could not be ascertained.
At 15 minutes to 1 2 the mayor ordered
the firo department to tno
power plant with instructions to disperse
the mob with water. At the
same time a report was mate to police
headquarters that a iuod was
moving to the Third street car barn,
where it is understood 20-odd strikehrnnknra
n ro nnnrtnrad A onnnii r\%
policemen have been ordered out and
are on their way to that barn now.
The resolution adopted at the label
meeting at the court house pledged
the 16 afliliated organizations or
the federation of trades to a sympathetic
strike upon the call of tti?
leader of the striking car men. Lea
Cornelius, a national organiser ot
the carmen's association, after the
meeting made the statement to a
newspaper man that ho would call
for a. general sympathetic strike "If
ho felt in necessary," but, he said,
"we intend to maintain the organization."
At 12:.10 Thursday morning IvTayor
Thomas Barrett called (low Brown
Ly long distance phone and asked for
a." imn * ?''at.e order for *.:i.e .. o. ,.n,
w.*'i I1 i purpose of le;lu Jg Ati.'
c cr martial law.
Just before 6 o'clock Wednesday
aftprnoon one of the cars on the belt
line was attacked by a mt) on Firtofiith
k! rppt ji nd flip pnn.l nnrn- >
man by the name of Kelly "-one* of
the men brought here by the company
in the past few days- was soilously
beaten. Twenty men were urrested
and taken to police bat racks.
Prior to that a conductor was belabored
on May avenue by a crowd
of women.
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SAW MAN IiEAP INTO NIAGARA.
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Tlie Man Is Believed to bo Frank I.
Parker, of Buffalo, N. T.
Workmen on the Canadian side of
the river at Niagara Falls reported
that they soon a man vault tho rail
just above the brink below the falls
and fall among the rocks, two hundred
feet below. Shortly after, the
police picked up a derby hat, business
cards and insurance papers, bearing
the name of "Frank I. Parker, Buffalo,
N. Y."
Parker, who was a captain in tho
74th regiment, New York State
Guard, had been in poor health for
several months. Ho has been miasing
since Wednesday.
Search also is being made for trace
of Mrs. George Fitch, of Windsor,
Conn., whoso husband believes sho
was the woman a section gang reported
tliey had seen leap into the
whirlpool rapids on the Canadian
side Wednesday afternoon. Mr.
Fitch, who is hero, says his wife
wrcte him from Buffalo that she intended
to die In this way. She hnd
been in bad health for several,
months *
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Complete Aeroplane Armada.
The first review over held of a
complete aeroplane armada took
place at Villacoubly, near Paris.
Seventy-two French army flying machinos,
with their full complement*
of pilots and observers and tho attached
park of motor trucks bearing
si pplies therefor passed in review bofcrt
the French minister of war. Alendro
Millderand.
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Died From Mosquito IMto.
At Columbus O., Mrs. Wm. F.
Drown, a society woman of that city,
died after several months illness with
malarial fever caused by a mosquito
bite, according to physicians.
Minor Killed in "Safo" Mine.
A few hours after mine experts
had declared the mine non-gaseous,
one man was killed and two others
seriously Injured by an explosion of
gas in a mine at Carol, Pa.