The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 19, 1912, Image 6
THIS TEAK'S CROP
THE SECOND LAYOUT AND MOST
VALUABLE tVLR
CROWN BY THE COUNTRY
K\(*?h'?UmI in Quantity Only by INfordi
C*<>1> of l^ast Year?Value, Inrhid-j
ing LintoiK and Seed, Clost' to a
Million Dollars.?Texas Breaks Hoeordw.?Figures
by States.
The country's cotton crop this year
will amount to 6,612,335,000 pounds
of lint, txclusivo of linters, the department
of agriculture estimated
Thursday In its annual report. This
is equivalent to 13,820,000 bales of
500 pounds, gross weight, and makes
the crop this year, in point of quantity,
second only to the great record
crop of 15,692,70 1 hales, exclusive
of linters, grown last year. It is
probable that this year's crop may
rank as the most valuable ever produced.
Including linters, last year's
crop was 1 6,250,000 bales.
There was a crop of 10,60S,610
bales in 1910, which, including linters.
amounted to 12,005,688 bales:
20.004,9449 bales In 1909, which, including
linters, amounted to 10,315,382
bales: 13,241, 709 bales in 1 908,
which, Including linters, amounted to
13,587,306 bales, and 11,107,179
balcH In 1 907, which, Including linters,
amounted to 1 1,375,461 bales.
The average total production, exclusive
of linters for the five years
from 190 6 to 1910, was 1 1,847,270
bales. The value of the crop, including
seed, for the same period averaged
$775,822,000, while last year's}
record crop iB estimated to have been
worth $ 859,8 10.000, and the 1910
crop *063.1 80,000, the most valuable
ever produced.
The quantity of linter cotton last
year amounted to 278,790,000
pounds. With this aB a basis it is
estimated unofficially that linter cotton
production this year will amount
to 491,300 bales, or 23b,038.000
pounds, making the entire crop, including
linters, approximately 14,31
1,300 bales of T>00 pounds, gross
weight or G.84 7,373,000 pounds of
lint.
With an average price of 12 1-2
cents a pound, this quantity of cotton
would be worth about $855,920,000.
Approximating the value of this
year's cotton seed at $131,000,000,
the average for the past three years,
the total value of the cotton crop this
year would he about $980,920,000
Should the crop yield this amount of
jrtoney it would rank as the most valn^UJe
crop ever produced.
Th? deParttnonl- ?f agriculture's
official erfUmate of the crop last year,
made at a Corresponding date, was
14,855,000 hales. The census bureau's
report on production for tlio
year was .15,^21,701 bales.
T^a-fls this year grow the greatest
crop it ever produced, the depart
tnont s osumaro placing iue quuiiiny
nt 4,850,000 bales. North Carolina,
Fouth Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Missouri
nil produced crops greater than the
average 100 0-10.
The estimated production, exclusive
of lintors and stated in 500pound
bales, by States, with comparisons,
follow:
Virginia?Total production 21,000
bales, compared with 29,891 bales
last year and 12,004 bales, the average
1000-10. The value of the crop
last year was $1,2,80.000.
North Carolina?Toval production
87 8,000 hales, compared with 1,075,8
20 bales last year and 627 668 bales
the average 1906-1 0. The value of
t hecrop last year was $5.8,81 0,00b.
Fouth Carolina?Total production
1,1.8 4,000 bales, compared with 1,64.8,712
bales last year and 1,085,802
bales, the average 1900-10. The
value of the cr?p last year was $90,120,000.
Georgia;?1Total production 1,701,000
bales, compared with 2,76.8.627
bales last year and 1,782,1 00 hales,
the average 1906-10. The value of
the crop last year was $154,280,000.
Florida-?Total production 68,000
hales, compared with 83,388 bales
last year and 56,158 bales, the aver?
? A A 4 A \ _ 1 ^ ? i i. ^ M
ago l J*ub-i u. jne vaniw ui uiy cro[i
last year was C6,250.000.
Alabama?Total production 1,330,000
bales, compared with 1.716.5?,4
bales Inst year and 1,187,707 bales,
tbo average 19O0-.1O, The value of
the crop last year wan $9.1,100,000.
Mississippi?Total production 1 ,1-0.0,000
bales, compared w-ith 1,203,r?45
bales last y-oat and J,40ft,102
bales, the average 1 900-1 0. The value
of the crop last year was $00,630,090.
Tvouls^nna?1Tefal production 435,00
0 bnles, compared with 38 4,597!
bales last year and 6 2 0,481 bales,I
the average 1910-10. The valuo of
the rrop last year was $21,0.1 0,G00.
Toaas?-Total production 4,850.000
bales, compared with 4,250.427,
bales last year and 3,172,218 bales,;
the average 1900-10. The value of
the crof) last y*ar was $230,910,000.
Arkansas?Total production 854,000
bales, cempifrod with 939.392;
bales last year and 850,793 bales, the'
average 1900-10. The value of the
crop last year was $M ,000,000.
Tennessee?Total production 280,-!
PASS IT BY ALL MEANS
?
WANTS LAW ENACTED AGAINST
MIXK1) MAURI ACLV
Congressman Koddonberrf, of
1;imMakes Wttiin iii K?tor
of 1!Ln Iii 11 to that End.
Denunciation of the legal procedure,
under which '?a brown-hueU,
black-skinned, biack-llpped brutalhearted
African can walk Into an office
of the law and demand an edict
guaranteeing hia legal wedlock to a
white woman," was 0110 of rnauy sensational
features of a speech iu the
House Wednesday by Representative
Koddenberry, of Georgia, in l'avor of
a resolution he had introduced earlier
to prevent intermarriages of
whites and negroes.
Mr. Roddenberry prophesied that
the legal sanction of mixed marriages
ultimately might bring this country
to a conillct. lie declared that "no
brutality, Infamy or degradation i21
all the days of Southern slavery possessed
such villainous characteristics
and atrocious qualities as the permission
that marriage by tho laws of
this country."
The measure, a direct result ot the
recent marriage of Jack Johnson, the
negro pugliist, with a white girl, d,d
not get to a vote. In Chicago, Mr
Koddenberry said, not only Is the
"white slave" traffic carried on. but
"the white girls of this country art;
made the slaves of an African brute,
sanctioned by the laws of the State,
and solemnized by a form of the marriage
ceremony."
Mr. Roddonberry added: "We say
this Is a great country, with Its morals,
traditions, virtues and examples
deserving to he emulated and envied
by the other countries of the earth,
but we see an African with much
brutal force, with no moral character,
with no stamina, entering the]
office of a probating magistrate or
other legal officer in that city and
calling on him to issue "to me, Jack
Johnson"?a marriage license to wed
a young American woman, of our own
blood, our own color
The speaker declared that ,(in the
fellowship between the blacks and the
whites in the South, the blacks respected
the superiority of their former
masters and would commit selfdestruct
Ion before entertaining a
thought of matrimony with a-Caucus*
ian girl."
SHOOTS AT A GItEKK.
V K- W. Kistraiik of North, I/ocked
Up iu Columbia.
Tho State ways M. Sistrunk or
Georgia shot at George Papaa, a
Greek fruit vender, Tuesday night
about 9 :20 o'clock in the Metropolitan
cafe on 'Main street. Tho bu'let
went wild, and Papas took to t.i.i
heels. Mrs. Sistrunk, who was sit
ting at the table with her husoand,
snatched the pistol out of his hana,
ran across the street to the Columbia
hotel and hid it In tho bed in their
room.
All three parties were arrested by
the police. Mr. Sistrunk was charge i
with assault and battery with inten
to kill. His wife and Papas both had
the charge of disorderly conduct opposite
their names on tho police blotter.
Mrs. Sistrunk was released on a
bond of $12.75. Tho cases were
hoard yesterday before Recorder
Vernor.
Tuesday night at tho station house
(he principals gave widely varying
accounts of the afTalr. Mr. Sistrunk
said that Papas provoked him to
shoot by using unbecoming language
in the* hearing of his wife. Papas!
told the police that Mr. Si3trunk mistook
him for a waiter and ordered
something to oat. Me did not understand
what ho said and told htm so.
Then tho shooting occurred. Papas
left immediately. Tho seeno was In
the partitioned oiT half of the cafe.
The police wore told that Mr. Sistrunk
whs originally from North, but
was now living in Korsytho, Ca, On
he register of the Columbia hotel ho
vravo his address simply as Georgia,
nnd his Initials as R., but on tho
police blotter were N. R. W. Tho
people found the pistol when they
went to the room to arrest Mrs. Sistrunk.
May Heroine Teacher of Ijwf.
Tafl is considering an offer of the
Kent professorship at the Yale law!
school. The place has been vacant)
for several years or since tho death!
of Prof. Phelps, once American minister
to Croat Rritaln un ?Vr Cleveland.
TUo position pays $r>,?00 n
year.
the averago 19 0 ft -1 0. Tke value of
the crop last roar was $24 ,680,000.
Missouri?Total production 69,000
bales. compared with b:ilo?
Inst year and 51,4 56 bales, the average
1 006-1 0. The value of the crop
last rear wfts $5,300,000.
QkAlxinia?Total production 1,
030.000 bales, compared with 1,02?,002
bates last year and 7S3.796 bales,
Mid average 1S06-10. The value of
tb? crop last year wai $55,070,000.
Oallfornla?Total jicoductJon 9,000
bales, compared with 9,7 06 billet last
rear.
11 Other Skates-?'Total production
,? bales, compared with 7,4 2'.
bales last year and 2,750 bales, the.
averted 100C->0. Tlia raluo of tier
op In all other States, Including
SBBSMHMii^
MOVE TO NEW YORK
BULL MOOSE OPEN mav-ERS
IN THAT CITY
PLAN TO RAISE FUNDS
?\V\r
York C xlt%r Selected ?.< Peiin*ueiit
Home of the rroui**?Hive Kxm'Utlvt
Commit/**? After Haiti
Fight in OpposJiiua to l e/ kin? and
IIJj* Cioird. Who EaioiPii tlx? Move*.
New Vorli *vas selected u* the perunneui
h cud quarto; t> ol' the now Progressive
party Weducsday night aftei
x tight in which delegate* to ualionil
Progressive conference from several
States at Chicago sought to have
the headquarters located else whore.
Chief opposition to the aeleotiou 01
New York came from Colorado, Florida,
Idaho, Louisiana, Texas and Wyoming.
Hy a number of delegates to the
conference the selection of New York
was received as a victory for George
VV". Perkins and IPs friends, against
v. horn ho in o opposition hud been developed
iu the conference.
In addition to the selection of Now
York for national committee head-!
quarters It was decided to establish |
a permanent publicity bureau and a
permanent legislative bureau at
Washington.
Also the executive committee voted
to send a commission to Europe to
study the situation in England, Germany
and older countries, to get inn-1
terial and Ideas for the Washington
legislative bureau. United States
Senator Pi von r h :i t i-tti n n of the eve
cutivo committee, was empowered to
name this commission of seven members.
lie announced that he would
appoint Med 111 MeCormlck and I>r
Walter E. Weyl as two of the members.
The executive committee adopted
the principles contained in the Jane
Addams plan for the organization
and financing of the Progressive campaign.
The Addams plan was not
adopted in its entirety because it was
believed to he too large an undertaking
at this time.
For the immediate financing of
headquarters and bureaus it was decided
to ask for 100 subscriptions of
$6 00 each per annum, forty-eight
from State organizations, the rest
from individuals.
Matthews Hale, of Massachusetts,
announced he would guarantee $ 1,Afid
t\a*? vToo r tf\r* f 1 n o n 1 i\or b o a.* Arb
V V v I'M / k\/l HllUUV. 1 11^ M WI n
of the headquarters and bureau.
Chairman Dixon announced that
the national committee had put into
effect the recall In its own affairs
through a resolution presented by Mr.
Hale.
T. II. Wannainaker was named to
aucceed H. Sherwood Dunn as national
committeeman from South Carolina.
Chairman Dixon was empowered to
fake actiou in the matter of the contempt
charges made by the Idaho
Mate Supremo Court against certain
Idaho Progressives because of critic
stn of the Presidential election decision.
The Colonel declared that he had
not been asked to go to Idaho to testify
in the contempt proceedings
igalnst the owner and several editors
of the Capital City News. Whether
lie would go if asked he did not say.
With a declaration that the ,,gas"
ought to be shut o!T, Allison Stoker,
chairman for the State central coma
It tee, of Colorado, started an open
meeting, hold Wednesday while the
executive committee was in session.j
Ho came to Chicago to work, Srokor
said, but hud "heard nothing but
speeches".
Ho was Advised that the executive]
remittor vna hard at work and thut
h? results of its labor would bo taken
up at n general meeting soon.
CaHolino Is Dangrtroim.
How many perBone know what is
liable to happen when a pint of gastomporafcure
is normal the liquid will
entirely evaporate In 24 hours.
The vapor ie heavier than air and I
therefore Rinks to tho floor. Unless
distributed, it will remain for hours
a-rnl by mixing with the nlr, forms an
explosive compound seven times as
powerful an powder. One pint ol
gasoline will make two hundred ruble
feet of this compound. It is not
Necessary that a lighted match come]
in contact with It. A spark struckl
by a nail In a shoo will explode it, or
a F"is jet, or oveu the enclosed lire of
i kitchen stove.
Family Dieil in Three Weeks.
J. T. Clinkaeales, a prominent and
wealthy ? Oi Ihu Monterey hoct'on,
died early Wednesday
niornlnj from tho effects oh
pneumonia. This id tho third death
In that household from the same diwithin
throe wooVs, In addition
to tho death of a negro girl employed
as a house servant. Mr. Cllnlcscaloa
leaves no chKdren. His wife
and an adopted child died about two
weeks nro.
Snow Drives Out Wolves.
A dispatch from Steamboat Springs
Col., says heavy snows and tho cold
have driven packs of wolves out of
' 9 h - ~ ^ I m 1-* #> ??r? ho m.
I ? ' * ? * 4 v
r?d to ofTer bounties for scalps addl
i GRAND LODGE MASONS
I I
. X.4AWCS OF Ol'FlCKH.S JOLHCTKD
>j.)\T V K.Vll.
I j
nitviin^ oi \mind Lodv.e lhi?? V? i
t
Notable for Amen<Uu< in of Physical
Quwltiiowtlou OUuimo.
The 13t?tb annual mooting of tho(
Grand Lodge: of Musons of South Carolina
came to au ond at about 1:30
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, aftor
a concluding session the moat important
features of which were the
i election of officers and the dlsou.*sion
of Buch reports us had not received
consideration at the previous
sessions of the Grand JLodgo. The
present officers of tho Grand Lodge
were all re-elected, and are at* fol~j
lows: )
Grand Master, George S. Mower,J
Newberry: Deputy Grand MuHter,1
Geoigo T. Hryuu, Greenville; Senior
Grand Warden, 11. A. Cooper, Lau-j
reus; Junior Grand Warden, William'
W. Wannamaker, Orangeburg; Gran 1
Treasurer, William H. Priole?t.',j
Charleston; Grand Secretary, O.
Frank Hart, Columbia: Grand Chaplain,
the Rev. W. P. Smith, Spartanbu
rg.
The following officers were then
appointed and installed: Senior'
Grand Deacons, J. P. Duckett, of An-J
derson, and J. F. Kinney, Bennetts-!
ville; Grand Marshal. John Konnerlv.l
Columbia; Grand Pnrsuvlnnt, Julhis#
P. Cogsw?H i. unarieston ; uranu i ner,
J. A. Winkler, Charleston, Jun|
lor (Irand Deacons, S. T. P. Lancaster,
Jaullne, and L. I. Parrott, ttuniI
ter; Grand Stewards. C. K. Chreltzj
berg, Koek Hill, and A. .J. Thackston,'
Orangeburg. j
The report of the committee on
memorial to the late .Judge .James K I
Ixlar, Past CI rand Master, was proBented
by Mr. W. L. (Hare, of Orangeburg,
and was adopted by a rising
vote. The year's chronological re-'
cord was read and the death of Past
(Irand Master Tames P. Izlar prominently
mentioned.
The Grand I.odgo voted to adopt an
amendment to tho constitution doing
away with the so-called "perfect
man'' qualification to be met by candidates
for Initiation into the Order.
This is the famous physical
qualification clause which heretofore
has rebarred a man from Masonry if
bo was imperfect In body, In even
the slightest detail, such, for example.
as a missing finger or an imperfect.
lobe of the ear.
The amendment, as adopted, lets
1 ? ? 4 Ts .. -xk ??n J 1 /i t i O 1 Hloo f { Af? Ko T
O O W U 111(3 pu^nictli ijuaiiiiLaiiuu u?i
creept in tho ease of thono whoso defects
are such as. to render them ln-j
cnDable of learning or praticlng tho'
art of Masonry or complying lPertdlv
with all the requirements ns to
initiation ceremonies without artlfic-'
Inl aid or friendly assistance.
<;trl escapes vice trap
Tells Police How She Was Enticed to
Woman's House.
At Macon (la., MIsb Elizabeth Wilson,
a 17-year-old Atlanta girl was
taken in custoday by the Macon po-j
lice today when found in a house in,
the restricted district. The girl was
in tho company of a woman named
Hughes, who according to the story'
of the Wilson girl, enticed her te
come to Macon early thin morning
with a promise of getting her o better
position than the one oho had In
an Atlanta five and ten cent Htore.
"When I arrived here this morning,"
Bald the girl tho Hughes woman
met mo and took me to a house where
she Bald she would spend the night.
After we arrived there she tried to Induce
me to ?bo a good fellow' and
drink beer with her. When I learned
what kind of a place I was In I began
to cry. Then tho police came and
got UB."
Tho girl was held Kovoral hours and
late thiB afternoon Mayor Moore furnished
hor with transportation back
to Atlanta. Tho Hughes woman was
released.
Moot* l>?>ath I'mlor Cotton,
At Columbus, On., Hon Hammond,
a sixteen year old negro boy, was
smothered to donth In a loose bale
of notion at tho cotton mill of the
flwlft Manufacturing Company whore
ho was employed. Ho was alouo In a
small room feeding cotton into a
hopper that conveyed It to tho dye
house. Cotton ceased to come thro
tho suction plpo and persons were
sent to tho cotton room to Investigate.
They saw the negro's feet
?tliking up from a bale of loose
cotton. He was already dead
Divorce Court Crowiled
The Savanns>h Morning News anys
county divorce cases on the docko
for one t?rm of superior court is astonishing.
Thro nnestion of the moid
tal relation is one of the most puzzling
with which our sociatoglstg have
to contend. Kach year tho number of i
divorces Increases and the gromfh is
con fined to no particular race or section
and Is eomaliy as perrttlent In the
country as the city.
Covornrvr CVmnurtee Sentence.
The governor commuted the sentence
of Jane Chandler, who wm convlstod
In Chorolcoe county In March
of 1012 nn<l sentenced to throe
month*; In the county jn!l or pay ft
flue of, 5100 to n term of three!
months of ft fne ef $50.
.WERE FATALEY SHOT
.
RAILROAD STRIKERS KILL TWO
i DITtCTIVES.
FIRED UN FROM AMBUSH
Besides tlie Two Killed, IKrzeus of
Otlior Moil Were Wounded Wh * ?
tlie Striking Railroad Kmployeos
Opened Fire on the Officers and
HtrikobroAkoi'H From Ambush.
Several hundrod striking New
York, Susquehanna and other easteru
railroad employees, ambushed
under the Palisade# overlooking the
lower Hudson River, opened tire with
shotguns and rifles on a boat load of
strike-breakers landing at coal docks
at Kdgewater, N. J., Wednesday, and
in a pitched battle, which ensued,
two railroad detectives were killed
and a dozen other men were wounded.
A telegram requesting that the
State militia be called to quell the
disorder was sent to the Acting Governor
of New Jersey, by General Superintendent
Stone, of tbe Krio Hailroad.
Mr. Stone escaped a storm of
bullets fired by strikers us ho was
seeking shelter in a building.
The men killed were: Andrew J.
firaw, i>X, of Bingham ton, N. Y., captain
of detect!vos; Clarence Mallory,
40, one of draw's men.
William Hicks is in a hospital
wounded twenty-thieo times in legs,
body and thighs. Frank A. Ikown
and William A. \Srood were shot thro
the head.
The men, hiding behind rooky
cliffs and trees, waited until a scow
had discharged its cargo of men
brought to take the strikers' places.
A volley of blank catridges did not
frighten the strikebreakers, who
pushed forward toward the railroad
tracks on the coal wharf.
The men in ambush then left their
places of concealment and. firing real
bullets, attempted to swarm out upon
the wharf. They were met at the
dock gates by the private detectives,
who, unarmed except for clubs, engaged
in a hand to hand struggle.
A fusilade of shots brushed the
officers aside and they fled for safety,
except the mortally wounded, Draw
and Mallory. The strikebreakers,
under a fire of bullets fled along the
shore of the Hudson and concealed
themselves in the woods in the Palisades.
Three hundred employees, foreigners.
of the Susquehanna, which the
li5 nl /\ 17 It f? /I o/\n ? v*a1o n 11 ! f ii' or b
ui im ivaiu wavi i uu i< ui.i, < | ii ( i n a
Monday demanding a wnc-o Increase
of 5 cents an hour. Officials of the
railroad would not grant the Increase.
There was a clash not ween strikers
and detectives and ono of the latter
was slightly woundeo f>y a gunshot.
Mayor Clahan, of Edgewater, took
personal charge of the situation.
Leading a force of half a hundred
deputy sheriffs, he visited the coal
docks, prepared to give battle If the
strikers made trouble. A search of
the woods was made, hut no one carrying
arms was found.
The Identity of verno of the -non
who did file shooting is known, according
to the authorities, and The
Faigewater police force, ten men and
a posse of citizens, have begun a
search of the foreign settlement. Officials
say strikebreakers will he o it
to work.
The names of seve?-nt more injured
men were learned at the hosiptal.
William Class, Inspector of detectives
is in a critical condition, with wounds
in head and face. One oT his eyes
v. aa removed. John Lesher and John
Lewis, detectives, were shot in body
and legs.
WOMAN
GOES OV HKNCH.
Will Act mh Judge of Jut rail* f.V>ur?
In Orfoaffo,
Miss Mary M. Hartelmo, for 1X
years public guardian of Cook county,
has boon inaugurated as Chicago's
firat woman judge. Miss Hartolmo
was the choice of the "judges
of the circuit court who considered
several other women lawyers for
tho position. She will assist Judgfc
Pinckney In the juvenile court and
will direct most of her nttontlon to
girls who come under her Jurisdiction.
Thousands of yoiyig plrls carue
under her attention as public guardian,
and she is rofcrred to by them
as "Mother Tlartelmo". "My Idea of
being a judge," paid Miss Parte!me,
"Is not bo much to pass Judgment as
4 _ ! .1 ? r,. .4.. M 4 M
WO HtiUlHl lIHIUriUUiKCi).
? ?
Child SenUlorl to l>entte.
Fatally burned by falling inrte o
boiling pot of potatoes, to the tale ol
a two-year-old child of John Ilasklns,
living In Clinch county, west of
Waycress, CJa. The chMd was trying
to pot a potato orit of the pet, which
had been ut?od for makta? syrup and
lipped In h, ad first.
' ' ? e m
Knch Looked Like Rabbit.
Frederick C. Sloane and the Rev.
J. Willis Miller, both ef Nutlet, N. J.,
were hunting in the same held roeentt
ly, neither knowing the olher wa>
I there. They both spied a rabbit ?>.<
' the name time, both shot And both
| received a shot In the Mige. They
limped home together.
NEGRO KILLS A FARMER
OOOlTUtKD MCAIl A1KKN TUl Jt8I>AV
AJHTftfillNOON.
? .. ...
Mur<ifr?r Rcing Chased by Large
A
Crowd aud Is Apt to be IjjrucXaod
Uhoi Caught.
Thursday afternoon about four
o'clock, Mr. Brad Courtney, who Uvea
about live miles northeast of Aiken,
wue shot and killed by a negro laborer,
locally known as ' Shnp?\ The
shooting was doue with a 38-calibre
revolver, the bullet passing through
the wounded man's throat, lie died
ten minutes later.
His death leaves a widow aud ftv?
I children. The nogro Immediately
j made his escape and it is uuderj
stood that bloodhounds have been
i ordered out from the State Penitenj
tiary in Columbia. Odlcers have gone
I to the scene of the shooting, which
occurred on the plantation of th?
murdered man.
News of the trouble did not reach
Aiken uutll six o'clock Thursday evening*
and the details of the affair
are exceptionally meagre. The pro)
vocations or difficulties resulting in
j the shooting are not known, nor can
I thoy do ascertained at tnib time. Mr.
Courtney waa a rnrddle-aged man,
! known all over the county and one of
i Its nioBt prominent citizens and kuc|
eeaaful farmors. lie in a brother r?f
Mr. K. Ij. Courtney, of Aiken.
It Is further reported that a larva
1 body of men have left Aiken In uuloj
mobiles, buggies and other convey!
ances, going to the scene of the
shooting to aid In the chase after the
j negro Whether tN^ negro will bo
summarily dealt with In the event
i that he Is caught Is purely specu i|
live, and takes the form of noth'-ng
1 more substantial than mere rumor.
' However, the communit/ is very
I much aroused over the shooting.
Possemnn Shot by Mistake,
Irvin T. Jones, director of t.bo
bank of Wagoner, one of the possei
men, was shot and dangerously
wounded by Chief of Police Howard
about ulno o'clock. Jones will pvobI
ably recover. In a clump of woods
I just outside of Aiken, Howard was
1 hiding, on tho watch for Miles. Seeing
a man approaching in a crouchj
ing position, Howard drew his pistol
and ordered the man to stop. loues,
! also mistaking Howard for the negro
; fugltivo, and bo Moving the suppos- >
ed negro was about to shoot him, r
throw up his rifle and fired. Th?
shot wont wild and Howard fired on
Jones, tho bullet passing through a
bank book In Jones pocket, and deflecting
into his stomach. Howard
assisted in an operation on Jones. i?
1 which tho bullet was removed.
WOMAN IS* EXECUTED
- .
liY TflK RU1XSAHIA2V GOVKItN
MEXT FOK THKASON.
?
I Her JLoto for Voting Turkish Oflirrr
IxmI to Her Destruction &inl His
Also.
A Bulgarian woman's love led her
, to betray her country and brought
upon her swift retribution. A woman
of high social standing, wife of
a Bulgarian staff officer, was found
( guilty of betraying the H>u!guAun
i mobilization plans to the Turks, and
i was shot. A few years ago, when
she was still a young girl, she fell ia
! love with a dashing young officer attached
to tho Turkish legation. Her
I parents, however, would not hear of
' their marriage, and when the young
! officer was recalled to Constantino*
j plo the girl reluctantly married a
Bulgarian olHcer. Some time later
the Turkish ofl'.cer returned, charged
with a special mission, and t.h?
friendship between tho two w.'ia renewed.
Finally, It Is asserted, t) a
Turk asked her to run away wt?h
him. "I huvo been ordered by my
superiors," he said, "to obtain the
Bulgarian mobilization plans. If I
do not succeed I shall be relegwtod
to pom? distant command In Asia
Minor, and w,o shall have no chance
of seeing ono another."
The woman pointed out that thoy
were both too poor to think of olopi
log, and told him to bo patient. A
few days later she handed him a bun>
die of documents containing the I>ulgarlan
army war plans. Sho had tatit
en them from her husband's desk,
r. ? > ,1 t)in Turblalt nflipor (rt ulirv.
I UHU vwm tuv ri I IVI.II. WM*vva w jr.
} tograpb them and to giro tlio oi^k
' inn Is back to nor. When the wnf
, broke out th? Turkish officer was
i captured in one of the first engagements
and tho papers were found on
hirn, revealing tho who1.? affair. Mo
was tried by court mart ial and shot.
Tho young Bulgarian Ionian, though
ho wlfo of an officer, was not spared,
and, having been found guilty by (
; a special court, was also shot. Her
husband, determined to wip? out tho <
; dishonor on his name, was one of the
1 first In the storming line at Kirk KU- ,
f isse, and fell rfddled with Turkish |
bullets.
? I
Jsmps to Ufa Dfath, I
Brnest Woo^ds, fireman, Jumped I;
and VftS killed while Fred TouhV 1
nor, engineer stayed At his post and J5
escaped doafh, whoa the train from P
St. Albans, which they were driving, t
collided with an onglno in the Grand .R
Trunk yards at St. Atkans, ttanada.