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WHAT BLEASE SAYS
VIBES AIKEN SHEBIFF TO ABBEST
THE HQTEBS.
PROMISES PROTECTION
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Declares That the Reports Indicate
That the Trouble on the South
Carolina End of Augusta-Aiken
Trolley Une is Caused by Strike
Sympathizers From Georgia.
"Reports come to me that sympathize!
s with strikers are from Georgia
side, and as they have violated
our Statute law. you should proceed
to swear out warrants and arrest
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situation would not justify me in
sending militia at heavy expense to
State," said Governor I31ease in a telegram
to Sheriff Raborn, of Aiken
County, in reply to a request from
the Sheriff for assistance. Here is
the Governor's message in full:
? "T. P. Raborn, Sheriff, Aiken
County, Aiken, S. C.?Your wire. I
would suggest to superintendent
with whom you have been conferring
not to attempt to run cars on this
side of river, as they do not carry
necessities of life or United States
mail, until people quiet down. -Reports
come to me that sympathizers
with strikers are from Georgia side,
and as they have violated our Statute
law, you should proceed to swear
out warrants and arrest them if
found in this State. Present situation
would not justify me in sending
militia at heavy expense to State. If
cars do not run and strikers begin
to injure track or destroy property, I
will see that it is protected.
"Cole L. Hlease, Governor."
The Columbia correspondent of
The News and Courier says Governor
Hlease is keeping in close touch
with the situation in the Horse Creek
Valley, and on account of ttie situation
there cancelled an engagement
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UP liciu iu njreat\ at me i vuuiebvn
Fair. The Governor will remain at
his office and keep in touch with the
situation, and is doing everything in
his power to allay trouble.
Mr. Thos. J. Cheeks of Bath, was
in the city in conference with the
Governor regarding the situation on
the South Carolina side of the river.
Mr. Cheeks was emphatic in bis
statement that the people did not
want any militia called out, and that
while they were in sympathy with, the
strikers no violence would be offered
to track or property. 1-Ie said if no
attempt was made to run cars everything
would be (|uiet, but he stated
positively that the people were
against calling out any militia.
Another Aiken ounty gentleman
who was present referred to the situation
in Augusta, when several citizens
were shot by militiament after
that city had been put under martial
law by Governor Brown, of Georgia,
and ho said that the people there
were very bitter against the action
of the Governor as a result.
Actions of the parties in North Augusta
in forcing the superintendent
to go back to Augusta and in pulling
a strike-breaker off a car that had
been run over on the South Carolina
side added interest to the strike on
the Aiken-Augusta Trolley Road. No
acts of violence are anticipated by
the South Carolina authorities, but
Governor BJease will keep in close
touch with the situation and do everything
in his power to keep down
trouble.
A dispatch from Aiken says following
the riot in North Augusta
Sunday afternoon, in which it is
stated that at least (500 persons participated
in an attack upon strikebreakers
and guards operating a car
to Belvidere, from Augusta, on-'the
Aiken division, Sheriff Raborn wired
Governor Blease for assistance, evidently
intending to suppress, through
force of armed men, the mob violence
and lawlessness now broken
forth on this side of the river and
in Aiken County, as a result of the
strike among the street car men.
t The wire was sent to Gov. Blease
Sunday night and Sheriff Raborn received
the above dispatch on Monday
morning.
The Aiken dispatch further says
that where conditions and informa.
tion warrant same, Sheriff Raborn
will certainly pursue to the letter the
course suggested by Governor Rlease
and arrest all disturbers of the peace,
unless they slip over the line into
Georaria, and even then they can
doubtless be easily secured through
the proper requisition proceedings.
WILL LOSF/ THEIK EARS
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Terrible Threats Are Made Against
Strike Breakers
Angry strikers and strike sympat-livers
along the Geogia railroad between
Atlanta and Augusta threaten
tMs morning that they will seize and
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< <>.r i IK' ears in ?11ti i ii hi ?ume*
^ L (?"ice?F they can lay hands on: and
T t they will nail their ears on the
doors ol' the railway coaches as a
warning to other strike-breakers.
r: !.e brutal plc<uresnueness of the
oat has aroused no little excitement
here, and the view is taken ar
tig railroad men that the strikers
r ' moan literally to carry it out,
i?i:ismrch as 'hov have already fired
on. stoned and beaten members of
the strike-breaking Crews.
Wilson and Sulzer Leads.
Petting in the political situation
in Wall Street, New York, still favors
Sulzer for Governor. The odds
ave: Suzlor, 2 1-2 to 1, Strauss,
even, and Hedges 1 to 2. The betting
in the presidential situation is
unchanged; Wilson 3 to 1; Taft 1
lo 3, and Roosevelt, 1 to 4. The
betting is not brisk.
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DEATH LIST SEVEN
DIIUNKBN REBELS OPENED FIRE
ON AMERICANS.
Throe Mm Lo?t Their Lives at Leon
and Four Others Were Killed at
Barraacae.
Tales of the surrender of the town
of Leon Sunday by Nicaraguan revolutionists
to American marines and
sailors, under Lieut. Col. Long, and
the loss of three American lives
through the treachery of drunken
rebels, were received at the state department
from Minister Weitsell at
Managua.
The deaths Sunday brought the total
of Americans killed by the rebels
to seven, the loss of four at Barranca
Hill, on the road to Leon, having
been previously reported. In his advices
to Minister Weitself, Rear Admiral
South&rland said he expected
peace in the republic within a montn.
The chief revolutionary bands have
been crushed, and their leaders captured
and exiled. The men killed at
Leon were: fioy G. /Morgan, Los Angeles,
Cal.; George O. B.urgess, ordinary
seaman Colorado, Stillwater,
Minn.; Marine Private John Bartels,
Cook county, 111.
Although three were reported injured
the name of only one private,
Frank Kittsmiller, could be found in
the records at Washington. Those
reported wounded, whose names do
not appear in the records, were:
Lamper, ordinary Seaman Colorado,
and Dalder trumpeter, marine, Company
D.
"The credit of this successful tei'
mination of a most critical condition,"
said Admiral Southerland in
bis report, "is principally due to the
firmness and the good judgment, ability
and tact of Lieut. Col. Long during
the month he has had charge of
the situation at that place."
When Col. Long demanded the
surrender of Leon, Dr. Espinosa,
Gen. Irias and 11 other rebel leaders
from Costa Rica applied for protection
and passports to leave the
country. This was agreed to after
the colonel had communicated with
Rear Admiral Southerland at Managua,
who secured the approval of
President Diaz. Then the surrender
of the town was announced;
Before the Americans could take
possession, however, a handful of
drunken rebels opened fire upon the
Americans, killing the .three named.
The marines and bluejackets returned
the fire and killed about r>0 revolutionists.
AI'/JI'CTA MOIt ITTACKS C \ It
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The Moi'tonmn Fatally Hurt and the
Conductor Wounded.
At Augusta Wednesday night, in a
dark spot adjoining the Schuetzenplatz,
a small crowd of men ran out
and boarded a car coming down from
Summerville. When they attempted
to capture the motorman and conductor,
strikebreakers, one of them fired
on the crowd.
Immediately a dozen or more shots
were fired and the attacking crowd
left the car. One of the injured men
fell over the back of the car upon the
v track. The other one, falling off of
the moving car, made his way into
the hallway of an adjoining 'residence
and fell. The car was stopped
nearly two blocks below the scene of
the shooting.
Roth the wounded men, strikebreakers,
were picked up by a passing
automobile and rushed to the city
hospital. They were unconscious.
Motorman Frank Kelly will die, but
Conductor Allen Brooks will probably
recover, it is rej>orted since examination
by surgeons. None of the
crowd of strike sympathizers who fired
on the two men have been arrested.
CONVICTRI) BY CAMERA.
Railroad Sleuths Use Photograph to
Enforce Anti-Hooze Rules.
Employees of the transporation department
of the Lackawanna railroad
were confounded when it became
known that the enforcement of
the rule prohibiting employees from
patronizing saloons while on or off
duty, is taking the form of photographing
violators.
Two employees, one a veteran who
would have been placed on the pension
list in a few years, were snapped
bj a detective while regaling themselves
in a saloon at Elmira, N. Y.,
and the picture forwarded to the division
superintendent at Scranton.
"Ts this your picture?" the superintendent
asked the employees, exhibiting
a small photograph. The men
were speechless at first but finally
admitted that they had been caught
with the goods. They were discharged
on the spot.
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NAUGHTY LITTLE GIRLS.
Ten-Year-Old Tots Charged With Cigarette
Smoking.
"Girls not over ten years old, in
some of the society homes in St.
Louis, are smoking cigarettes," said
Mrs. E. 1L Ingalis at the state con
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vi'uiioii ui me women ? inrisuaii
Temperance* union. "Not only here,
I but in other parts of the state, I have
' found them puffing cigarettes," continner
the speaker.
Mrs. Ingalls pleaded with the delegates
to use every effort in helping
enforce th law which prohibits the
sale of cigarettes or cigarette materials
to persons less than 18 years old.
Negro Ilito Was Fatal
At Stanford, Ky., Ed Elam, 21,
a farmer, is dead from the effects
of rabies, which developed a few
days after he was bitten by a negro
farm hand during a fight two weeks
ago.
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GENTEEL BURGLAR
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CHAINS GIRL TO FLOOR AND MAKE
LOVE TO HER
A WELL DRESSED ROGUE
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Raffle* in Real Life, Accompanied by
Giant Negro, Enters Residence of
W. K. Gaines, at Spartanburg Rut
Steals a Little Whiskey and Leaves
a Note.
The Spartanburg Herald says
bound and gagged by a desperate but
gentlemanly burglar, who kept her
lying helpless on the floor while he
drank whiskey, smoked cigarettes
and paid her delicate compliments?
such was the remarkable experience
of Miss Lily Gaines, pretty 18-yearold
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
E. Gaines, in their homo at No.
32 0 South Liberty street Monday afternoon.
Returning home from a shopping
trip about 5:45 o'clock,-Mrs. Gaines
found Miss Lily in the plight described
in the sittfhg room in the front of
the house. The door and rront window
of the room were locked and entrance
was obtained through a side
window. When the chains with
which the girrs wrists an? uukiud
were bound and the flour sack with
which her mouth was stopped had
been removed, Miss Lily related the
story of her experience?a story
strange as fiction.
She told how she was overcome
hile dozing on a couch by a welldressed
and seemingly, cultivated intruder,
a middle-aged white man of
striking appearance, accompanied by
giant mulatto, who seemed to stand
in great fear of the white man. She
told how the white man, leaving the
rro to guard her, ransacked the
house, and then, apparently finding
nothing to his ilking, returned to the
room to flatter her with nicely turned
bonmots on her personal appearance;
how, after amusing himself in
this fashion for perhaps a half hour,
in the meantime draining a good part
of a bottle of liquor, this Raffles in
real life ordered the negro to leave
and departed himself through the
side window five minutes later, and
just about 15 minutes before Mrs.
j Gaines returned.
I There w-ns found a note left by the
| bcrglar?almost an apology for fitsI
turbing the serenity or :?e hou- hold.
The girl, he said. '53)
I found unharmed; his pu-,,^< fn ? ,gard
to her had been Icll. but ' i*
chivalry had come to the vreruo. The
j police were notified of 'Y'ss Lfl; 's ? 1I
venture aird are making a search for
the villain, of whom they have .been
given a minute description by the
heroine of the affair.
Miss Gaines was alone in the house
When it happened. Her father w >s
a^ his work in the shop of the Spartanburg
Machinery comnanv. The
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vacant lot. Mrs. Gain*1'* had gone
shopping. Miss Lily had intended to.
accompany hor mother but decided
not to go on account of a headache.
She lay down on the lounge in the
sitting room, which is In tne front
part of the house on the ground floor,
and read a book until sne necame
drowsy.
I The girl fell asleep. It was about
4:30 o'clock, as nearly an sue can
reckon, when she was awakened by
feeling a hand on her mouth. She
looked up into the face of a man?
an unusual face, with a deep scar, as
1 cf a sabre cut on his face, and pierc'
ing blue eyes and raven black hair.
She heard a sweet and refined voice
, tell ger gently but firmly not to make
: an outcry, as he did not intend to
hurt her.
Miss TJly says she struggled furiously
and struck the man a sharp
blow in the face, making h's nose
bleed. But he overcame her and stuffed
a flour sack into her mouth and
held it in place by strapping a white
woman's belt, the property of her
' mother, around her heard. The burglar
then fastened her wrists with a
dog chain, securing it with a lock
and a piece of wire. He bound her
ankles with another chatn and laid
her on the floor in the middle of the
room. The dog chain belonged to
Miss Lily's little brothers and was
found by the burglar in the yard.
The burglar told the negro to sit
opposite the girl in a rocking chair.
"Don't you move," he said to the
burly black, "unless the girl moves.
If you do, I will shoot you." The
mulatto shivered, according to the
girl, as if in a state of terror, hut
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oaiu uut a ?ui u,
As nearly as she could follow his
movements the burglar crossed the
hall into Mrs. Gaines' bedroom, which
he proceeded to turn topsy-turvy,
pulling the drawers out of the bureau
and dumping'their contents on
the floor. He seemed to be searching
for money, but his search was futile,
as Mrs. Gaines had taken all the
money with her when she went down
town.
The burglar then went to the dining
room, where he found a bottle of
whiskey on the sideboard. Mr. Gaines
was given (he liquor for medical purposes
several days ago. The man carried
the bottle and a glass back into
the sitting room. With a sweep of
the arm he knocked the bric-a-brac
. nflf n HHIa tnhlp nnit rlrpw (t nn hp
I side the prostrate figure of the girl.
He leisurely poured out a drink,
lighted a cigarette, and leaned comfortably
hick in a chair.
In his rich musical tones he talked
to tho vou^g lady. She was unwilling
to rc^at what he said. His
h>n?rnsgo v is that of a gentleman,
she hut modesty forbade
her to make his remarks public. Suffice
it to say, she told The Herald,
that he flattered her.
It seemed an hour that he sat
there, offering her soft blandishments,
she said. The negro sat in
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LIVELY TIMES AHEAD
THERE WILL BE THREE PARTIES
IN THE EliECTION.
But the Democrat* Are Certain of
Saccees Before They Ever Go Up
st Agftinst Teddy's Forces. i
The Columbia correspondent of
the Augusta Chronicle says three
parties will participate in the general
election in South Carolina to be
held on November 5?the success of
the Democratic party always being
assured in this State. The electors
of the Democratic party have already
been named and electors pf both the
Republican and Progressive party
will be placed on the ticket. The Hepublican
party in this State is made
up almost to a man out of the negro
voters. The Progressives claim that
the new party is a white man's party
and that the negro is not welcome.
At the meeting of the Progressives
several days ago W. P. Reard of Abbeville
was named as permanent secretary.
Beard io a great friend of
Governor Blease and is editor of the
News-Scimetar, the ofllcial Blease
newspaper in South Carolina. At
least it has been and no announcement
has been made as to the change
of policy. Beard was also a constable
appointed by the governor to accompany
him on his campaign during the
summer. The people of the State are
very much interested just now in just
what the relations will be between
Blease and Beard.
Will Hoard be a Progressive and
be- continued on the pay roll of the
Democratic voters of the State for
practically all taxpayers are Democrats.
It will also be remembered,
too, that just before the executive
committee declared Blease the Democratic
nominee that Beard wrote
some articles of a semi-official nature
stating the position of the administration.
At that time Beard
showed his Bull Moose inclination
because he intimated that should
B'lease be declared not the nominee
that he would run any way and that
a full state ticket from governor
down would be placed in the field.
The Republicans and the Progressives
will not put'out a state ticket.
Republican officers say that district
conventions will be called and that
candidates for congress will be put
out in every district. Where are the
Republican and Progressive votes
coming from? According to the rotUi'i
a l'? uin the Democratic primary
ovo 140,000 o os were en'R Tn Mie
t general election there- wo.
Republican votes cast. i is
hardly pi-cbahle that inanv Do <ocrats
will violate their oath and bolt
the pajty. Then, too, the Democratic
vote was abnormal. Will the Republicans
and the Progressives split
the 4,00ft?
silence, quaking. A livery boy came
on the porch and knocked at the
door. Getting no answer, he walked
into the hall and laid his bundle
down, then went out again. The mysterious
burglar drank heavily of the
whiskey.
'Miss Lily had an excellent opportunity
to study the man's appearance.
Me was between '3 5 and 4 0 years old.
about five feet, nine inches tall, and
weighed about 175 pounds, lie had
blue eyes, jet black hair, and a diagonal
scar about two inches long on
his right cheek.
She remembered having seen him
pass along South Liberty street and
look into the house that morning,
and also recalled having seen him on
Main street last Thursday. lie was
smooth-sliaven then, however, and
now wore a false mustache.
Me wore a neatly fitting dark blue
or black suit, a turndown collar, a
white silk necktie with a green snake
woven into the design, tan shoes and
a black derby hat.
The negro, she said, seemed to be
nearly seven feet tall. Me wore overalls,
a wooly gray cap and brand new
patent leather shoes, which squeaked
when he walked.
After a while the white man told
the negro to leave, and the latter did
so with alacrity. The burglar then
locked the front window, took the
key of the door leading from the sitting
room to the hall out of the door
and laid it on the piano, and looked
the door with a key of his own. He
examined the girl's chains to see that
they wore secure, and then left the
room through the side window,
breaking the glass.
After a while the little children returned
from their play and sat down
on the front porch. When Mrs.
Gaines came home about 5:45 o'clock
she asked her little son William
where Lily was. He answered that
he did not know. Miss Lily moaned
so lound that they heard her.
When they found the door and the
front window locked, Frances, the
little sister of Miss Idly, went around
to the side window and saw her lying
on the floor chained. Mrs. Gaines
was greatly agitated and went to the
telephone and called the police and
Mr. Gaines.
Frances came into the room
through the side window and unloosed
the chains. J. M. Crawford, a
?'?? , was called, and forced the
door open. On the table, where the
whiskey stood, was the note left by
the burglar. It was written on statinn
orv \li?a T.ilv V?r?H Knrm
using earlier in the afternoon. There
were only a dozen words, more or
less, and they were in capital letters
which as are used in print. The note
was turned over to Policeman Wallace
W. Littlejohn.
Eighteen Sailors Rescued.
Eighteen survivors of the abandon1
s^auier Panes w?re picked up off
the Florida coast Wednesday by the
naval supply ship Arethivsa, according
to a report received by wireless
at the Key West naval station. The
Panes sailed from Norfolk on September
7 for Manzanillo.
DARK IS OUTLOOK
FOR THE REPUBLICANS THROUGHOUT
THE NATION.
SURE RUIN AWAIT THEM
Only I>emocratic Over Confidence
Can Save the Grand Old Party, and
Event? of Kecent Days Have Gone
Further to Foreshadow Hout of
Tuft and Roosevelt.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says with less than a
month remaining until the presidential
election, it is apparent to any
man who is not deaf, dumb, blind
and paralyzed in addition that Woodrow
Wilson will be elected by the
largest popular majority every given
a candidate of the Democratic party.
These things have happened during
the past week to make it absolutely
certain that the Republican outfit,
bag and baggage, will leave the White
House at noon March 4; Roosevelt
reached the zenith of his popularity
when he ended his swing around the
campaign contribution committee in
Washington a few days ago; Charles
I) Hilles, Taft's man Friday, who
should hereafter be known as
Charles-claim-it-all Hilles, has made
a monkey out of his chief and has
proved himself a poor prophet by declaring
that the regular Republicans
have everything sewed up when any
one of unprejudiced mind knows that
nothing of the kind is true; Senator
Joseph M. Dixon injured the Progressive
cause by his attitude of hostility
before the campaign committee bv
crying for the "other fellow" to be
called; Bryan has done the right
thing by Wilson and again proved to
the country where he now stands,
and lastly "William Bill" Sulzel, by
being nominated for governor of New
York will make the Empire State i
solid fop Wilson and Marshall. These
are the big political events of the
past ten days, not to say anything of
the countless smaller indications, all
pointing toward a Wilson and Marshall
victors.
It would have been better, according
to well known political leaders
there, had Roosevelt not appeared
before the campaign investigating
committee, and his cause would not
-angered if he had kept Senator
Dixon > the stand. The latter bur*
the Ptmressive movement more than
anytlii' ' else that has happened
since P osevelt threw his hat iw Mie
ring at 'Biicago and declared that he
would ' ve tne presidential nomination
if ;? could be gotten regularly, if
not he would have it anyhow. Dixor's
at'itude, when before the committee.
convinced not only the committee
members .but spectators as
well that there was much that he
knew bit. would not tell, but altogether
'ms demeanor was so overbearing
tb ?' the committee was glad to
let liiei go and be done with him.
acce'v1 eg to what the campaign money
probers say. If anything at all
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testimony,it was io send Roosevelt
and Taft further apart and cement
the Democrats.
Where Charles Dewey Tlilies gets
the inspiration to food President Taft
re-election dope is more than the average
politician there or anywhere
else is able to understand. During
the last few days the big chief has
been taking extra large quantities of
Dr. liilles cure-all stuff and the
strange part about it is that the doctor
is really making Taft believe he
is going to be re-elected.
Even the very close friends of the
president admit that under present
circumstances he stands third in the
presidential line-up, and they see
with clear vision that while the total
raft-Roosevelt vote at the election
next month must come from one
source alone?the Republican vote?
and that there are two men to split
it?Wilson, on the other hand, has
the entire solid Democracy behind
him. Any man who can not see that
proposition must, indeed, be blind,
and all do see it, apparently, but Mr.
raft himself. Ililles is making him
believe he is really to be re-elected.
The truth about the matter is that
the G. O. P. is slated for rout before
the year 1 0 1 It has gone far into history.
Ask the real thinking men in
the party whose perspective is clear
and whose vision is keen. They will
tell you that the handwriting on the
wall clearly spells Wilson and Marshall
and Democratic victory and that
probably only one thing can defeat
the Democrats?overconfidonce?and
thnt lr?ndinfr to in ft i ITornn^i u ?wt
apathy in some sections of the country.
With the O. O. P. split as it never
has been before and dashing itself
to fragments with every incoming
wave, to say nothing of the influence
working for Wilson and Marshall ?
with all the big and little Democrats
pulling for victory?the demise of
the G. O. P. is near at hand.
UKR HUSIUND A MULATTO.
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Woman Makes a Startling Discovery
Four Years After Marriage,
Mrs. Annie Wilsoi^ of Washingten,
an applicant to the Juvenile
court for an order requiring her husband
to support, their two children,
declares in her plea that she has just
made the discovery that for four
years she has been married to a negro.
The discovery was not made until
the man's mother came to visit them
for the first time and revealed Wilson's
race. Ho had explained his
color to his wifo before their marriage
by saying he was of Indian descent.
The marriage occurred in
Hoston four years ago. Mrs. Wjlson
will apply for a divorce. i
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PARTY NEEDS MONEY
WANTS OP THE DEMOCRACY ARK
VERY PRE8SIN6.
Situation Becomes Urgent and the
Finance Committee Makes Appeal
to South Carolina.
To the Democrats of South Carolina:
The chairman of the finance committee
for South Carolina for the national
Democratic committee received
th? following telegram from Henry
Morgenthau, chairman of the general
finance committee of tne Democratic
national committee:
"National committee must have
funds this week. Send us for your
State by Saturday or Monday at least
$3,000. Communicate with your
finance committee and other prominent
Democrats and see, if possible,
that your collections equal this
amount. The situation is urgent and
we depend upon you."
Owing to the fine contribution of
$1,80 0 received from Charleston,
through rienry W. Conner of the
South Carolina finance committee, it
is possible to comply with Mr. iMorgenthau's
call. But. what will be the
condition next weeK ana tne wees
following when tho needs of the national
committee will be at least as*
great and when there will not be a
Charleston mine to be worked?
That question may be answered
satisfactorily by those counties that
have not begun to give financial support
to the Democratic cause. When
the children of a graded school tn
Greenwood county has given more to
Democracy than is represented by the
counties with 3,000 Democratic voters;
when not one of 21 counties has
contributed as much as $100; when
little Dorchester has given more
than Greenville and Cherokee combined
and as much as Spartanburg,
it is readily seen that there is room
for tremendous additions to the fund
without placing a strain upon either
financial capacity party spirit.
Hundreds of "nrominent Democrats"
have been communicated with
personally; some have responded,
many have not. Time is now very
limited, and the situation as described
by Chairman Morgenthau is here
given to the public for such action as
it may inspire.
William E. Gonzales.
Chairman Finance Committee for
South Carolina.
Columbia, October 0.
BANK BOBBER CAUGHT.
Vol ice Seize Fair in $320,000 Canadinn
Bunk Theft.
A year's chase following the theft
of $320,000 from a branch of the
Montreal bank, in Westminster, B. C.,
lias ended ia St. Louis in the arrest
of Frank West, one of the leaders of
the gang, and a woman supposed to
be his wife, but who is known to the
public as Jeanett Little. She was
captured in Edwardsville, Tnd. The
pair are being held for the Canadian
authorities, though the Chicago po
nee uesiro ineni ior me aEsauit wiicl
intent to kill Police Lent. Hums.
The arrest of West was brought,
about by detectives following a woman,
who was traced from Chicago'
after the Hums assault through Indiana
to St. Louis. There she secured
quarters in a cheap lodging house.
West joined her there and they left
immediately. He was arrested while
walking a square behind the woman.
\\ hen she was unable to locate her
companion, sl??j tied and was taken in
Edwardsville.
Following the assaailt on Lieut.
Hums, the police of Chicago picked
up a book of accounts indicating that
the gang has spent as much as $2,0
00. The book also gives clews to
the identity of the rest of the gang,
including one member who has $140,000
in Canadian money. It is known
now that the gang visited Chicago
to exchange Canadian bills and was
giving a per cent, for the exchange.
SHOTS FIltHO AT CKfcW. .? '* ^ ^
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Augusta Street Car Attacked, hut Nobody
Hurt.
A dispatch from Augusta says that
between 8 and 9 o'clock Monday
night a car on the Ionte Sano belt,
of the city linos, was signalled to
stop on Gwinnett, near 5th street.
When it came to a standstill the trolley
was snatched from the wire and
the lights put out. Immediately the
motorman and conductor, strike
breakers, jumped from the car and
tit teen or twenty shots were fired at
them as they ran. Investigation by
a special detail of policemen, who
were rushed to the scene in automoKll??
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unrn, iitio uui ueveiopea injure to
anybody, but the car remained on the
line a couple of hours.
HE-WED AFTER MANY YEARS.
Mas Divorced Twenty-Nine Ycar?
ami Drifted Apart.
That their last days may be spent * k
together, Alexander C. Toncray, 7i>
years of age, and his divorced wife.
7 3, have remarried after having been
separated 2 9 years. Their second
honey-moon will be spent in Califor,
na, near Los Angeles, where Toncray
owns an orange grove. The reunion
was brought about by a letter to Toncray,
then in Chicago, from his
daughter, in New York city. The information
that his former wife was
ill brought him to St. Louis, Mo., to
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ner oeusiae. A reconciliation followed
and they were remarried.
Their first wedding was at Clarksville,
Mo., in 1859.
Nearly Fifty Were Killed.
A dispatch from Tamplca, Mexico, J
says the charred bodies of 22 victims
of Wednesday night's warehouse ex- i
plosion have been recovered. Fiv*
i hundred kegs of powder exploded. |