The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 06, 1913, Image 4
j TROOPS ARE READY
I TEN THOUSAND BEING ASSEH'
BLED IN TEXAS
t AS WARNING TO MEXICO
The Army AVill he Prepared to Go
jmo nie.xicu nt v/mu un viuwa
From President Wilson Should
Necessity for Invasion Arise During
Matter's Administration.
A Washington dispatch says military
orders Hew thick and fast Monday
in redemption of President Taft'b
promise to have an army of 10,000
men assembled at Galveston, the
most convenient port to Mexico, all
equipped for foreign service and
ready to execute any order that his
successor might choose to issue 011
the basis of conditions that will exist
after March 4.
These orders were supplementary
to those which left the war department
last weeks and were calculated
to in sure assemblage of the second
division of the reorganized army at
or in the neighborhood of Galveston.
1 The completion of the orders to
move the entire second division is
intended as further warning to Mexico
that there will be 110 departure
from the established policy of prenarorlnnss
rlnriner the remainine week
of President Taft's administration.
All plans for the possible sending
of trops into Mexico will continue
with the same minuteness of detail
which would characterize official orders
had the present acute condition
arisen in Mexico at any time earlier
in the strife which has rent that republic
since the first uprising against
Porfirio Diaz more than two years
ago. This course is based on the
ground that any cessation in the
closing days or even hours of the
Taft administration might be seized
hold of by the Mexican malcontents
as an opportunity for a strike of
Americans.
So far the State department has
given little thought to the question
of political recognition of the new
government in Mexico, desiring to
await further developments in the
situation and willing to regard it
largely by the recommendations of
Ambassador Wilson, whose course so
far, under extremely difficult and de1
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the unqualified approval of the department.
Major Gen. William H. Carter,
who commands the second division,
was ordered Monday from Chicago
to Galveston. This will be the second
time that this officer has had
the honor of commanding a complete
division of troops within the limits of
Texas, the first being in the case of
the mobilization of 1911, when the
Mexican trouble first became acute.
The fifth brigade of this division
already is moving to Galveston, as is
tne fourth field artillery, composed
of mountain batteries. The order
issued Monday will set in motion the
fourth brigade, the sixth brigade and
the sixth cavalry. Brig. Gen. ^redcrick
A. Smith commands the fifth
brigade, previously ordered to concentrate;
Col. Edwin F. Glenn of the
twenty-third infantry, will command
the fourth brigade in the illness of
Brig. Gen. Ramsey D. Potts, and Col.
Arthur Williams, of the 11th infantry,
will command the sixth brigade
in place of Brig. Gen. Clarence Edwards,
who is under orders for Phillippine
service. ,
The war department's estimate is
ill at under tnese orders tnere win do i
concentrated at Galveston between
8,000 and 9,000 infantry, about 800
cavalry and about the same number i
of field artillery, or a total of nearly ,
10,000 men.
These troops are widely scattered ]
throughout the Middle States and i
along the Mississippi River, from the ]
Gulf to Canada. During the man- .
oeuvres of 1911 it required two |
weeks' time to get some of the sol- j
diers to Texas, bnt it is believed this
period can be cut in half at present. (
Even then the whole second division j
will almost certainly bo at Galveston, j
or in the vicinity, some time before (
water transportation can be provided. ?
The four army transports, all the ,
Government owns in Eastern waters, (
can only carry a brigade at most and \
there are three brigades in this di- (
vision. It will bo necessary to char- ^
ter from ton to fifteen merchant
steamers of large size to accomodate
the remaining to brigades. The
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long list of available ships, but as it {
would cost on an average of $700 a (
day for each ship to keep them ready f
for service, the war department has (
avoided incurring any such large ^
liability. So, in all probability, it (
will remain for the next Administra- j
tion to authorize this expenditure if A
it sees fit. j
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Herbert Salt is Dropped.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch
says advices received from South '
Carolina by attorneys of C. J. Herbert *
in that city indicate that all prosecu- 1*
tion on the charges filed against him h
in the South Carolina courts alleging 1
the embezzlement of $91,0000 in se- r
curities from the Seminole Land Co. T
of Columbia have been dropped by d
attorney General Thomas Peoples ot 1
that State. n
FIRESHIPS IN SEA FIGHT
Blazing Craft Caused Much Destruction
in Naval Battles.
Nothing in the thrilling adventures
of many old sea fights appeals more
strongly to the modern imagination
than the doings of the fire ships, says
the London Globe.
"The idea of using incendiary
vessels for the detruction of a hostile
fleet was of great antiquity. They
are said to have been employed at
the seige of Tyre in 33 3 lB. C. and
again by the Khodians about a cen?
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tury and a half later, uy mu miglish
however, they were first used
in 1370, and two centuries later had
come to bo looked upon as a legitiing
rewarded and dreaded in much
mate naval weapon, their attacks bethe
same way as those of the torpedo
craft and submarines at the present
time.
The explosion xessels, or "infernals,"
invented by the Itallian engineer
Gianbelli, were the most formidable.
The designer procured
two vessels of about eighty tons each
and laid along their bottom a foundation
of brickwork. Upon this he
erected a marble chamber with fiveloft
walls containing 300 tons of
gunpowder, while on the top of this
champer was a 6-foot layer of gravestones
placed edgewise. A marble
roof rose over these, and upon it was
piled a quantity of round shot, chain
shot millstones, blocks of stone, iron
shod beams and anything heavy
which would cause the explosion to
take a literal effect. The effect of
this floating volcano was appaling,
for the masses of stone and slio;,
disintegrated and flyng skyward by
the explosion, fell and destroyed ail
vesels, buildings or men in the vicinity.
Three years later the Spanish armada
before Calais was attacked by
fireships prepared by the English.
Eight vessels were selected, and so
great as the haste that not even
their guns or stores were removed.
They were ignited and launched, and,
with the wind and tide in their favor,
advanced straight for the centre
of the anchored armada. Ship
foiled ship, and the cries of terror
and the crash of falling spars, and,
though the Spaniards finally succeeded
in getting to sea the fireship attack
completely disorganized and demoralized
them, and helped largely
to make the eventful Battle of
Gravellness the success it was.
The most recent, and at, the same
time one of the most interesting ffireship
exploits which ever took place,
was that carried out against the
French fleet in (Basque Roadsin 1809
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vessel, intended to destroy the boom,
behind which lay the French fleet,
was a truly awful contrivance. Cochrane
piloted the vessel and lit the
train at the last moment, and on
the evidence of the French captain,
whose ship was close by, it did its
work well, for the air was filled with
shells, grenades, and blazing debris,
while the explosion tore a huge rent
in the boom.
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GOMEZ DEPLORES TRAGEDY.
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Expresses Sorrow Over Killing of
Madero and Suarez.
Emilio Vasquez Gomez Monday
wired from his capital at Paloma?,
Mexico, to friends, expressing his sorrow
over the killing of Francisco I.
Madero and Jose Pino Saurez and
ccndemning such an act as being outside
the pale of enlightened government.
The telegram is addressed to
Melchor l.Mamacho, who was one of
Gomez's closest advisers In San Anin
/I lo no fr\ 1 1 n \xi ci
lUHiU, (lilU IO U O luiivno.
"Kindly express to iho press my
deopcst regret for the death of Senor
Francisco I. Madero and the terrible
manner in which ho mot his death.
I must deeply deplore the situation
for my c untry, my countrymen and
myself, occasioned by this seeming
unjust tragedy.
"Whilo opposed politically to iho
tate President, earnestly believing he
as not the person to preside over
ny country's destinies for prosperity
md completo union, yet I would bit:erly
opposo death in any event as a
[lunisliment for political offences.
"I believe sincerely in the law of
nvil government and the proper adninistration
thereof, and I can not,
lor do I, believe my countrymen can
iver look with favor upon military
government, which seemingly has no
*espect for human lifo nor gunranios,
and does not safeguard the na- ;
ion or give its people the protection '
mjoyed under civil government,
vhich is true democracy." <
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When Whiskey Was Costly,
Ttest old whiskey at any price now
iday is as cheap as dirt when you
some to think how it used to bo
lown in the Corncracker country,
lays the New York Press. One hunIrcd
and thirty years ago a decree
vas passed in the court at Jefferson
:ounty making the price of whiskey
M?r> a half pint. Tly the gallon it |
vent for $24 0, the lowest bargain J
>rice. And a dollar was a dollar in
hose old days in Kentucky. J
An old time philosopher once said *
'an ambassador is an honest man
ent abroad to lie for his country".
Minister Calero of Mexico must be
omething of that kind of a man, for 1
le now says that for the past ten i
nonths he has been lying to the t
Tnited States government as to con- \
itions In Mexico. Still, it is hardly \
ikely that he deceived our govern- c
lent. 11
DIAZ IS AWAITING CALL
READY TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY
IN CASE OF NEED.
Former Dictator, Whom Madero
Forced Out of Office and Into Exile
Says He Will Answer Summons.
Porfirio Diaz, who is new in Egypt,
former dictator of Mexico, declared
Monday that he is holding himself in
readiness to respond to the call of his
country in case foreign complications
should arise out of the revolution
there. If this should not occur,
he said, he would net return to
Mexico until settled government had
been re-established there and his reappearance
on the scene where he
had held such long sway could be
made without risk of being wrongly
interpreted.
The aged Ex-President expressed
the hope that "hands off Mexico"
would continue to be the policy of
the United States. Gen. Diaz was
greatly elated at the success of his
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Provisional President, whom ho considers
quite capable of working out
the salvation of the Republic. The
Ex-President's yacht is temporarily
at this ancient gathering place of
pilgrims, whence he has made several
trips to Denderah and other noted
temples.
The Ex-President, after pleading
that his entire aloofness from the
politics of his country precluded any
criticism by him of the late President
Maderos administration, made
the following statement to the Associated
Press: "I prefer to say
nothing regarding the iauits of
Francisco Madero's rule, or the
causes of the revolution. As a political
opponent of Madero, my opinion
might be considered biased.
"Gen. Victoriano Huerta is an officer
and a gentleman who possesses
the confidence of all classes in Mexico.
Personally I have the greatest
respect for and confidence in him.
T chose him to escort me from Mexico
City to Vera Cruz when I was exiled.
I think Gen. Huerta is in a position
to maintain order until a Constitutional
Government has been definitely
re-established."
When questioned regarding the
probability of further complications
in Mexico, Gen. Diaz replied: "That
uepenas enureiy upon me energy 01
the provisional government In suppressing
pillage and brigandage.
Felix Diaz has had long experience
in the army and fully realizes the
importance of enforcing respect for
life and property."
When reports of the possibilities
of intervention by the United States
were mentioned, the former Mexican
President gravely retorted: "I and
my adherents always have been and
will remain, sincere friends of the
United States government. I can
not imagine the Onited States or others
taking actions inconsistent with
America's well known honesty of
purpose."
Gen. Diaz hopes and intends to return
to Mexico at some time. This
however, he said, "will not be until
peace has been firmly established
anu my reiui u utm uui nuvt? any
misconstruction placed upon it.
Should, however, foreign complications
arise, I will hold myself entirely
at my country's service."
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Weird Story of the Wires.
That is a weird story that a correspondent
has put on the wires
form Lafayette, Ind., to the Eastern
papers. As a narrative runs, Evans
Jones, who is beginning to recover
from a cough that has made his life
miserable for the past two years,
says the cause was nothing less than
a lizard three inches long.
Jones declared that he brought up
Hie roptille while out driving the other
day. He had a paroxysm of rouging
on the road. At the end of it he
chocked, he said, and reached down
his throat for relief. He seized the
lizard and drew it to the light of day.
The lizard seemed to be as happy
as Jones to dissolve partnership and
was wriggling away as fast as it
could when Jones decided he would
capture it and show it to his doctor,
Edgar Allen. The doctor dropped
the wriggler in alcohol.
Jones got the doctor's theory,
which was that Jones must have been
drinking at a well or spring and
taken a lizard's egg into his stomach.
The grateful warmth hatched
the lizard.
The agony of coughing that .Tones
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Bnaurpu is nscrineu 10 inn lnunn: ?:iforts
of (ho lizard to deliberate itself.
?Augusta Chronicle.
Hunting for Old Fiend.
News of a criminal assault upon
a twelve-year-old negro girl, alleged
to have been committed by an old
negro 70 years of age, on Mr. J .J. i
Hritton's place, about seven miles
south of Sumter, reached there Wednesday.
Tom McFadden, a negro who <
has served several terms on the gang i
and ten years in the penitentiary, is <
the negro alleged to have committed 1
the crime.
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Succumbs to llis Injuries.
J. R Derosier, holder of all the i
notorcyclo records from 35 to 100 j
niles, died at his homo at Spring- j
leld, Mass., Wednesday night. Ho j
vas 23 years old. Dorosier's death t
vas the result of injuries sustained <
luring a racing meet in Los Angeles ]
ast summer. 1
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GOV. 8LEASE ARRAIGNS PRISON
OFFICIALS
WAS SEVERLY BEATEN
Because Negro Convict Spoke to Governor
011 Streets, It Is Alleged He
Was Cruelly Beaten, Tortured
With.Electric Current and His Person
Hears Evidence of Hough
Handling.
Charges of cruel punishment of a
convict at the penitentiary were sent
to the Senate Wednesday night by
Governor Bleaso in the following
message:
"1 transmit to you herewith letter
received by me on the morning of
February 25, 1913.
" 'February 23, 1913.?His Excellency,
Governor iBlease, Columbia, S.
C.?Honorable Sir: Simeon Ellis,
(colored, a prisoner,) 1 understand
was talking to you yesterday (Saturday)
on the street. He was working
on the city street detail, and as yon
passed asked his guard, Corporal
Boykin, to speak to you, and Boyk'n
refused him the permission to do so,
and he spoke to you anyhow.
"'To-day le was brought up heft
re Capt. Sondley by Pi* kin and
was sentenced to the stacks, and Ellis
s;ys he was struck 45 or 59 lashes ?
ho cannot say the exact number, :iim
his back now shows the result from
his head down to his hips.
" 'I am telling you this as a matter
of information, which I think you
will he elud to know at this time, as
I am very well posted as to what
your politics are regarding such
things regarding the State penitentiary'.
Therefore, I do not hesitate
to send you this information, as I
know that you will not give the
source of your information.
" 'Yours respectfully,
(Signed) " '.Monday Morning.' "
The letter continues:
" 'Ellis was taken to the blacksmith
shop and a pair of very short
shackles put on him, and he then told
the captain and Dr. Jennings that he
was going to tell you the first chanc?
that he had been whipped for talking
to you. Then he was taken to the
shops again to hare the chain lengthened,
and while this was being
done he had a fit. He is subject to
such spells. The chains were cut off
him and he was taken to the hos
pital, where he now Is. I understand
he is in a serious condition.
" 'Hater: To still punish this poor,
ignorant, defenceless negro. Dr. Jennings
applied a strong electric battery
to him and tortured him for
more than a half hour. His screams
and cries and piteous appeals for
mercy could be heard all over the
penitentiary grounds.
"Upon receipt of this letter, Col.
Aull, my private secretary, requested
Capt. of the Guard Sondley, at the
Penitentiary, to bring this prisoner
to my office at 5 o'clock p. m. He
was brought in his prison garb,
closely shackled, with a chain around
both legs. As to his physical condition,
I leave the description of that
for Representatives C. C. Wyche,
Mitchum and Fortner, who were
present and saw the negro's back
and hips.
"This is but another instance,
which came to my ears only by accident,
and which I am giving to you
for the purpose of showing that I am
doing what I can to relieve suffering
humanity, and that I am only heeding
the demands of humanity upon
me.
"After finding that the negro had
been in the penitentiary for 13 years
for killing another negro, and feeling
suro that if I returned him to the
penitentiary as a prisoner ho would
again bo whipped, shackled and possibly
killed, I granted him a parole
during his good behavior.
"In taking this course I am satisfled
that I am not only heeding the
demands of humanity, but that I am
upholding tho letter and spirit of the
Constitution, which provides in Section
19 of Article 1, 'Nor cruel and
unusual 'punishment inflicted', and
'corporal punishment shall not he inflicted.'
"Tho letter which I have transmitted
to you says that when this negro
was tortured with 'a strong electric
battery for more than a half
hour, his screams and cries and piteous
appeals for mercy could be
heard all over tho penitentiary
grounds'; they reached my ears; they
have now reached yours. Tne demand
upon mo was not for mercy, |
but for justice, and I believe that |
justice was secured from me, so far
as in my power lay to give it. What
will you do?"
The message was referred to the
committee on penal and charitable institutions,
which will hold an immediate
investigation and report to the
present session.
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State Feeds Wild Ducks.
Thousands of wild ducks, caught
by the cold and held prisoners in 1
Sodus Day, Lake Ontario, are being
Ted by New York State. Game proLectors
notified the State Conserva:lon
Commission that the ducks were '
dying from l^ck of food and were
promptly ordered to buy grain to
teed them.
GUARDS TEXAS BORDER
THE MEXICANS HOLD AMERICANS
FOR RANSOM.
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Governor Colquitt Sends State
Troops to Brownsville With Orders
Not to Cross (Border.
A dispatch from Austin, Tex., says
Governor O. B. Colquitt at midnight
Monday ordered four companies of
Texas State militia to proceed to
Brownsville with ftll haste, when it
was reported to him that Americans
had been arrested and held for ransom
at the Mexican town of Matamoras,
across the boundary from
B-rownsville, when they refused to
contribute money to the officials in
charge of Matamoras.
The Governor also sent this message
to Capt. Head, in command of
the Brownsville company of the Texas
National Guard: "Notify Mexican
commander at Matamoras, who
is demanding money, that if he
harms a single Texan his life will be
demanded as a forfeit."
Information reached Governor Colquitt
Monday night that demands
have been made upon Americans at
Matamoras, Mexican, for money, and
that the United States consul, Jesse
H. Johnson, at that point, has asked
Capt. Head, commanding the Brownsville
company of the Texas National
Gu%rd, to cross the international
boundary and protect the American
consulate and foreign interests at
Matamoras.
Governor Colquitt refused to sancHr?n
Oin prnsslnc nf flifi hnrrlpr hv tllfi
Brownsville military company. The
Governor telegraphed Capt. Head as
follows: "Do not cross river unless
you receive orders to do so. Request
American consul and Americans
to come to Brownsville."
American residents of iMatamoras,
Mexico, were warned by United
States Consul Jesse Johnson to cross
the boundary into Brownsvillo when
ho was informed that Americans
would be required to subscribe toward
maintaining the government of
Matamoras. Demands, it is said,
were made that the subscriptions be
forthcoming Monday night. It is reporter
that Mr. Johnson's life had
been threatened, and another report,
unconfirmed, however, was that he
had been arrested.
Early in the night Mr. Johnson
appealed to Capt. Head, of the
Brownsville company of the State
National Guard, for protection for
the consulate and the foreign residents
of Matamoras. Governor Colquitt,
who was advised of the situation,
instructed Capt. Head net
to attempt to cross the border, but to
suggest that all Americans leave Matamoras.
Mr. Johnson immediately
issued the warning, but refused to
tuit his post. Guards at the ferry
and the international bridge crossing
the Rio Grande have been increased
MEXICANS FLEE TO HAVANA.
They Made a Lucky Escape From
Mexico City Last Week.
Three fugitive Mexican deputies,
Adrian Aguiro Benavides, a nephew
of the late President, Francisco Madero,
Cepero Rendon and Victor
Maya, arrived at Havana Monday on
the steamship Esperanza from Vera
Cruz. According to their story they
fled from the Mexican Capital to escape
the application of "Ley de
Fuga," or shooting of prisoners who
attempt to escape. The three men
boarded a train at Mexico City bound
for Vera Cruz as soon as they learned
that their arrest had been ordered.
Senor Benavides in an interview
said: "Democracy has received a
mortal hlow in Mexico. We see black
days ahead for our fatherland."
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Enter Damage Suit.
The Dorchester Eagle says: "Joseph
Murray, Esq., and his wife have
entered suit, through their attorney,
Jol. R. Lon Weeks, against the Southern
Dell Telephone Co., for damages
in tho result of alleged misconduct
on the part of one of the operators
during a conversation between Mr.
Murray and Mrs. Murray before they
were married, tho conversation being
between St. George and Columbia."
It is said a man at Branchcille broke
in on tho conversation, and refused
to desist when requested.
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An Old Man Gets in the Way and is
flit on the Temple.
At Ncwburg, N. Y., William Frances,
seventy-four years old, one of
the oldest English carpet weavers ill
Frances lived at West Newburg, and
that section, died from paralysis,
was on his way home. Schoolboys
had formed opposing armies of soldiers
and were fighting with snowballs.
As he approached, a snowball
that had passed its mark struck him
on the temple. The blow caused
an internal hemorrhage, which was
followed by the fatal paralytic stroke.
It is thought a stone was hidden in
(ho snowball. The authorities aro
investigating.
Defended His Mother.
After he'd knocked his mother-inlaw
on a hot stove, and terrorized
other members of the family with an
army sword, Gilbert M. Lchue, formerly
a sergeant in the army, was
shot and killed at Louisville, Ky.,
Monday by Ben Beach, the woman's
son. Beach was arrested on a charge
of murder.
Hundreds of Chinese Killed.
Hundreds of inhabitants of the
province of Fu Kien, China, have
been killed during the past week or
so while offering armed resistance
to the government troops engaged in
destroying poppy-plants.
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