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AROUND THE WORLD CRUISE WILL BE HADE TO SHOW NAVY'S GROWTH SINCE IT LAST SAILED The Meet That Will Make the Trip Will be Mitch Larger Than the One That Sailed Around the World During President Roosevelt's Term of Office. When the American fleet sails for the Mediterranean in January, it will be a fleet of nearly twice the muzzle energy of tho famous battle fleet sent around the world in 19 0 7 by former President Roosevelt and a fleet of half again as great tonnage. Tho schedule and ports of call remain to be worked out, and it merely has been announced that tho big fleet would tour the Mediterranean in divisions. It was the original plan, in connection with the opening of tho Panama canal, to have the fleet pass through from the Atlantic to tho Pacific about January 1, the tentative date of the opening. This practically is disarranged by tho decision to send tho fleet abroad, but it was pointed out that from the Mediterranean it is comparatively a short voyage thru the Suez canal and into tho Pacific and tho fleet could return that way, making tho nassaee thrrmirh canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The main fillips of the lino to go on tho January cruise will be the battleship Wyoming, Florida, Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Connecticut, Kansas and Idaho. Comparing these ships with the battle fleet which went around the world, they aggregate a tonnage of 204,500 as against 223,500. Navy orllicers point out that a more striking example of the advance in the navy's effective fighting power is shown by a comparison of the muzzle energy of the main batteries of the fleet with tho world girdling fleet of 1907. In round figures the muzzle energy of the battle fleet of 1 907 summed up 5,300,000-foot pounds. Tho main batteries of tho fleet, which will make the Mediterranean trip with total 9,550,000-foot pounds?almost twice as much. The battleships will bo accompanied by all the destroyers that can be spared and an accompaniment of repair and supply ships. This official announcement by Secretary Daniels makes it apparent that the ships will go fully equipped. While it is the plan now to have the ships sail about January 1, and Til a 1/ ft n ? A ' * * ' men nine uciii m uioraitar, with possibly a stop or two on the way, a schedule and plan of the ports of call has not been worked out. Those who will watch the tour of the fleet are evincing a great deal of interest as to what the schedule will provide. The Navy Department's ofllcial announcement declares the fleet will bo too large to be accomodated at any one time in many harbors to be visited and that at Gibraltar it will be divided and make a tour of the Mediterranean in divisions. Official announcement of the fleet's movement, as made at the Navy Department, declared the object was to send the fleet on a pleasure cruise to stimulate enlistment and educate officers and men. Accompanying tho announcement was a comparative statement of tho fighting strength of the fleet as against the battle fleet of 3 907 and also i'i short review of the first of the new navy to cruise in foreign waters and the cruise of the battle fleet of 1 907. Tho White squadron had four vessels. Their total tonnage was 16,220, just that of tho Connecticut, Evans' flagship in tho famous battleship cruise. The total muzzle energy of the squadron's main battery was 120,000 foot tons, that of Connecticut is 3 7 0,000. A salvo of tho squadron fired 4,900 pounds of projectiles; that of the Connecticut 7,500 pounds. The New York, launched October <3 A 1 A 1 O ...itl. on r Aft * J' ? ' ww, mm 6 I ,i>w IUI1M UlspiilCBment, 15,000 pounds and 700,000 foot tono in a salvo is nearly twice the size and fires three times the weight of metal, with six times the energy of the whole lamous "white squadron" in 1 890. The battleship fleet of 1907 was composed of 16 battleships, five auxiliaries and the second torpedo flotilla. The fleet called at Trinidad, Rio de Janeiro, Punta Arenas, Callao, Magdalena bay and arrived at San Vro ftoianA IVI o tr C 1 A A O ? * ? I vl i ? *" a ttuv*ow ?*?j a j u f l*7VOf (i !,'> iui histanco of 1 5,000 miles. Thence me fleet visited Puget sound, returned to San Francisco and sailed on July 7, via Honolulu, New Zealand. Avitralia and Manila, for Yokohama, arriving there October 1 8, 1908 after a journey of 16,000 miles and spending a week of courteous exchange of compliments. The fleet assembled at Manilla, departed thence December 1, 1908, via Ceylon, Suez and Gibraltar and anchored in Hampton Roads February 22, 1909, 12,455 miles sail from Manila, completing what is probably the greatest practice cruise in the history of navies. SCORED BY TILLMAN WIUTKS HOT LKTTEH TO ONK OF THK PROTECTED. South Carolina Senator Says Nation at Ijargo In doing to Ctet Its Sliaro or Stop Stealing. Tho Washington correspondent of The State says Senator Tillman wrote a red hot lettor Monday to John I-'isler of Philadelphia, who is largely interested in the Worsted Spinners' association, in answer to one from him, in which tho South Carolina senator takes issue with the man from the Quaker State as to tho Underwood tariff bill being "radically" wrong. Mr iriolor'u lol i ow ^ ~ ~ i1 ..... . a iDiivi in ilM iuiiuws; "There arc many members of congress who know that the Wilson bill now before them Is radically wrong in a very great many respects. They know it is a deadly blow at the workshop and yet they are doing nothing to defeat it. Why? Is it the promise of political patronage? Is it the promise of committee appointments? If so, do they intend to sell out this great, free, liberty-loving people, for a 'mess of pottage'? Don't you be with them, anyhow." To this Senator Tillman replied: 'Yours of April 19 received. Are you right sure that you are correct in charging that the tariff bill now being considered by congress is 'radically wrong in a very great many respects' ? "Are you not one of those Republican protectionists who have fattened all these years at the expense of the people and have grown rich without honest work from it? Pennsylvania has had her full share of the graft and stealing wrought by the protective tariff and the rest of the country is now trying to get its share or pull you off. Better revise your viewpoint and give other people the credit of being as patriotic and wise as you are." CLOSING AT WOFFOKI). Forty in tlio Graduating Class This Year at Groat School. The 1913 Wofford commencement programme has recently been completed. Saturday, June 7, will be the opening night and the principal feature of that evening will be the annual junior debate. After the debate various medals for scholarships, essays, poems and stories will be delivered, also cups for athletic feats. The commencement sermon will be preached Sunday morning, June 8, by Bishop E. 1). Mou/.on, class of 'S9, of San Antonio, Texas. President Henry N. Snyder will deliver the baccalaureate address on Sunday evening at S.3 0. Both of these exercises will be held in Central M. E. Church. Monday, Juno 9, will be commencement day. At the morning exercises six seniors will make addresses, diplomas will bo delivered, announcements made and the annual address will bo delivered to the graduating class by Dr. John E. White, of Atlanta, tho well known author and Baptist minister. Monday afternoon, from F> to G o'clock, the class of 1913 will hold farewell exercises on the lawn In front of the main building. Immedi ft al v f a1 loiiflM"- * K ^ ~ ~ *' 11 .ui.wrrmft meat) exercises uiere will be a reception given by the facult and their wives to the friends and relatives of the senior class, in Carlisle Hall. Monday night will bo alumni night. At 8.30 Mr. 10. B. Smith, of the class of 1877, now editor of the Baltimore American, will make the annual alumni oration. At 10.30 P. M. the seniors and old Wofford men will meet in the dinning room of Carlisle Hall for the alumni banquet. ? THEY ARE SIIFT OUT. ? No Federal Offices for the New .Jersey Crowd. E. Tracy Landerman, friendly to the Wilson branch of the party in New Jersey, is expected to get the postmastershlp at East Orange though Washington Cross was endorsed by Representatives McCoy and Townsend and supported by Smith and Nugent Democrats. A similar situation exists at Atlantic City. Tho white house let it be known that John P. French is considered to bo allied with the SmithNugent peoplo and the post probably will go to supporter of Wilson, William B. Loudenslager. . Kills Husband This Time. At Calumet, Michigan, one year ago, Mrs. Anna Kusasio inflicted injuries which almost ended fatally. She was afterward committed to an asylum. Tuesday tho woman who recently discharged as cured again attacked her husband with an ax as he lay sleeping and killed him. Snow at Caesar's Head. A Creenvlllo dispatch says theree inches of snow is reported in the mountains at Caesar's Head, twentyflve miles north of that city. Mountaineers coming into the city Tuesday say the snow commenced to fall Monday afternoon at 3.3 0 o'clook, and continued until nightfall. LUMBER PLANT BURNED I)AMA(iR WILL IlKACIf HALF MILLION DOliliAHS. ? . Plant of the Atlantic Coast Lunitwr Company at Georgetown Almost Kntirely Destroyed. The plant of the Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation at Georgetown, said to be one of the largest lumber plants in tho world, having a capacity of one-halt million feet per day, was almost completely destroyed by a fire which broke out Tuesday morning at about live o'clock. Fanned by a strong wind from the north which increased as the Haines made headway it seemed that nothing in the pathway of the flames could escape, but one of the mills which was located north of where the lire commenced and another which was not directly in the direction of which the wind was blowing remain standing. Two mills, together with the power house and two dry kilns and a vast amount of lumber, some 10,000,000 feet, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at about onehalf million dollars, completely covered by insurance. It is quite a serious proposition to a great many people who were employed in these mills, as well as to business generally in Georgetown and vicinity, as this was the chief industry in this section, but the management has announced that the work of rebuilding will bo started at once, and that the two mills which were not burned will bo run day and night., so it is hoped that it will not turn out to he as serious as was at first anticipated. Owing to the fact that most of the pumps were put out of commission during the early stage of the Are very little could be done to check the flames. However, the plant of the Dupont Powder company, which manufactures alcohol from B&wduit was saved by heroic work on the part of the ?' nagement and employees of that pi * :. The he attracted great attention and > large crowd of nonnlo in fnri eve one who could possibly get out, tui noil out to witness it. TOOK HIS OWN IjIFK. ? Cause of Hash Deed Duo to Hast Life of Suicide. The following from a Concord, N. C., paper gives further details of the suicide of (}. VV. Allen, the former resident of Greenville, who had served a term in the South Carolina penitentiary for murder and whose daughter took her own life at her home in Greenville several months ugo. Standing in the presence of his young wife, a bride of only two months, and with ner frantically pleading for him not to do so, G. W. Allen, an employee of the Globe Tonic Company, fired a bullet into his breast in his room at the Hopkins House on East Depot street, indicting a mortal wound, from which he died an hour later. The cause of the rash deed appears to relate to the dead man's past life in South Carolina. Ho had been in Greenville only three weeks, was known only to a few people and no one with the possible exception of his business associates were familiar with his past life. Inquiries, however, reveal the fact that his career lr that State had been checkered. A former wife, it develops, is living in South Carolina and from whom it is not known whether he secured a divorce and on account of whom he shot a man in South Carolina and was sentenced to a term in prison, being pardoned in 1910 by Governor Ansel. ? DIES or SOME DIUKJ. ? Young Woman Takes Her Own Life in a Macon Hotel. An unknown woman, whose name is said to 1)0 Ethel Adams, died recently at the Macon hospital from an overdose of morphine and cocaine administered by her own hand. Since she came to Macon in February she has been stopping at tho Elberta hotel, from which place she was removed just before she died. The body has been prepared for burial and will be interred at the expense of tho county, as she left no funds or effects that would divulge her identity. She was a very attractive blonde and appeared to be about twenty years of age. Heady to Meet Death. At New York, "Happy Jack" Mulraney, recently reprieved from the death chair for sixty days on tho pleas that he allowed himself to be wrongfully convicted of the murder of "Paddy, the Priest," because he was unwilling to squeal on a pal, wrote Judge Rosalski Wednesday that he was "willing to take my medicine," and asked that proceedings in application for a new trial be abandoned. Child Choked to Death. A small colored child from this county died on a train on ita way to Charleston recently from choking. It got a nut of some kind lodged in its throat, and was on its way to Charleston for treatment. ATTACK BY FIEND MOTHER AND SON BADLY HURT IN THEIR HOME j TRIED TO MAKE ESCAPE Herman Kelly, a Negro, Was Arrested, (^barged With Striking the Wife and Young Son of Coast Line Employee With Wrench, and Crowd Wanted to Lynch llim. The Florence correspondent of The News ami Courier says an attempt, supposedly to take the life of a well known Florence lady and her son, Ferdinand, at their home, 104 East Front street, about o'clock Saturday night, was made by a negro with the use of a part of a heavy "S" wrench. Hut for their screams and prompt response of neighbors and members of the police force, both of them no doubt would have been murdered. The husband, who was at work in the A. C. L. yards, was apprised of the deed later in the evening. The story as given by Chief of I'olice H. M. Urunson, who, with Foreman Mack Worrell, of the chain gang, soon ran to earth the negro supposed to have committed the assault, is as follows: The lady, the wife of an Atlantic Coast Line trainman, and her twelveyear-old son, were alone at their home. Some one knocked at the door and upon investigation it proved to be a negro, said to be named Herman Kelly, who had been sent there to buy milk. lie did not have a vessel to t.'ike the mil* !n and he was lent a pitcher which he was to return. Later in the evening Kelly returned with the pitcher ami, according to the police story, .as he handed the lady the vessel he caoght her by the arm and struck her over the head with a part of a steel "S" wrench, which is used by track forces for tightening rail bolts. The blow partially felled her and she began screaming. Tho assailant struck her again ?ind by this time her son, who had been asleep, was awakened and he ran into the yard screaming. Thinking that he had probably slain the lady, the negro ran out after the boy, felling him. Hy this time neighbors began to reach the' place and fearing he would be caught the negro, supposed to have been Kelly, ran through the hack yard and attempted to scale a high fence to the side of the premises. In doing so, however, a board broke with him and he fell heavily to the ground. As he fell his arm was caught on the end of a picket and the skin torn off. In this condition, and with blood from his victim's wounds smeared over his clothing, he made good for the time his escape. It was not long afterwards before a great crowd gathered and the police officers proceeded to run down the negro. Chief Hrunson and Officer Worrell followed a clue and shortly after midnight, at the home of Jack R1 ack, whoso wife is an aunt of Kel ly's. They arrested Kelly, who is charged as being the man who committed the doed. When arrested Kelly is said to have had the scratch on the arm which it is thought was made in the fall over the fence. The oflicers took Kelly before his victims, who identified him as being the right party. Kelly was then carried to the station house and later removed to the jail. By this time there were various rumors as to what would he done with him if the crowd could get at him. Throughout the day yesterday the deed committed was the talk of the town, and as the day grew into night squads of men who were seen talking soon gathered in a crowd. Shortly after nine o'clock it had reached some 150 or 200 men. It seemed that this gathering proposed to take summary action on Kelly; and not. only ?velly, but the Mcintosh hoys, who, it will be remembered, are in jail under the sentence of death for the murder of little Andrew Jackson last February one year ago, and who are awaiting the Supreme Court's decision, and lynch the three of them at one time. About ten o'clock a move was made and the crowd proceeded to the jail, and Jailer Bryant was called up. Upon opening the door several of the crowd called upon him to surrender the keys, which he refused to do, but which he was later forced to give up, nnd whilA VIOI/1 " ? """ 1 T. .W.v iiuiu v,?tjin*u <111 Ulimupi was made to Rain entrance to the cell room In which the cages are located, but it seems that Bryant gave up tho wrong keys and the mob failed to reach their prey. By this time a telephone message to the police station from the jail, or from some one in the neighborhood, reached tho chief, who happened to be in the central station. With Desk Sergt. Joseph F. Turbeville, he hurried to the jail, and at the same time the chief made a call for other men who were out on their beats. When the crowd saw the officers coming down upon them they quickly scattered, and only a few remained. Chief Brunson, it is said, rushed in upon the crowd with Sergt. Turbeville close at his heels and pulled some of the men back from the Jail door. This broke up the supposed at SCHOOL KIDS STRIKE THKY REMAIN AWAY FROM THEIR CRASS ROOMS. The Disturbance Was Designed as a Protest Against the Retention of Nu|?erintendent. The strike of school children at Pittsburg against S. L. lleeter, superintendent of the city's public school system, spread rapidly Tuesday and resulted in one death. A little girl was run down by a street car and killed during one of the dem(lllMt Til t lolia Beginning 'Monday when hundreds of children remained away from schools a protest against lleeter, who last Friday was acquitted by a jury of two serious charges preferred by a female domestic employed at his home, the strike gained great proportions Tuesday. In all parts of the city thousands of school children paraded the streets, tying up trallie at a number of busy points. Police reserves were called out to maintain order. Late in the afternoon when the demonstrations had ceased the Pittsburgh board of education held a meeting at which a committee of seven prominent men was asked to investigate the various alleged charges of immorality against lleeter. The committee follows. W. H. Stevenson, president of Chamber of Commerce; Valentine Baric, president Iron City Central Trades council; Bishop c. L. Whitehead of the Pittsburgh diocese; A. Leo Well, president of the Voters' League of Pittsburgh; Bishop J. R. Canvin of the Pittsburgh Roman Catholic diocese; the Rev. Geo. W. Shelton, pastor of the Second Presbyterian 1 Church; the Rev. I)r. M. J. Levy,! rabbi of Rodelih Shalom synagogue, i The unique strike caused the police , considerable inconvenience. A score of the youthful marchers were detain-' cd at the various police stations until I their parents could he notified. One little girl was run over and killed by a street car during th excitement occasioned by one of the parades. ('has. McCool, aged 35, was arrested in front of a school building and charged with disorderly conduct. He is alleged to have been seen attempting to prevent children from entering school. William Slater, aged 67, was taken into custody, charged with inciting a riot. Slater and several women attacked two otllcers who were breaking up banners carried by children inscribed "Kick Heeter Out". ^Banners of all descriptions, some of them inflammatory, are in evidence all over tho city. At a number of points during the day lleeter was hanged and burned in efllgy. ? SMITH STARTS TO WORK. Active in Hehulf of Applicants for Federal Jobs. The Washington correspondent of The State says South Carollans who are waiting for federal places and in whose behalf Senator Smith is working will be glad to know that the latter Tuesday started out immediately after breakfast, while the senate was not in session, and visited a number of the departments rrom which these appointments are expected' to come. When Senator Smith saw the secre tary of the navy, the attorney general and other department heads, he said that just at this particular time he did not care to say anything about these matters for publication except that he was much encouraged and believed that at least one good South Carolina appointment might be announced when the senate meets today. Congressman Ragedale took Senator Tillman to see his first game of baseball on Wednesday afternoon in Washington. We have no idea the Senator will become an enthusiastic fan. tempt at violence and it was only a few moments before the crowd dispersed, but not before being ordered by the chief to do so. The mother and son are badly injured, but are getting along fairly well, although both of them are very nervous over their experience. Robbery is supposed to have been the motive for the deed. BANK Of Coriwa; HAS LARGEST CAPITAL. AND SURI COUNTY. MORE THAN TI1K COMB1 ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COU> CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS m vimlitles of stock SECURITY OF DEPOSE DIREC ROR.ERT R. SCARBOROUGH. i\f. L. ZIICK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOCC COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert IK Scarborough, I), i President. WE CONTINUE TO PAY G PER CE* THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. I THURSDAY, AP1MP . 191S. } rHOFM881QWAX. OABDfc ?. M. WOODWARD Attoraay a ad Councilor At CONWAY, 8. C. LI ^ * IHIlk, , I y - . n, u. bv/ihoivu t u v f CONVV A):, 8. 1 Attorney at Lew. I | i M. 11. ftUJHKOLOHM /byildaii and Huigeoia j CONWAY, 8. C. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. s ItKNI*] KAVENKL Land Surveying and Drain uk? Spivey KuildJng Conway, 8. C. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k LIGHT RUNNING ^ CVyoa want el thera Vlbrntlng Shuttle, Kotaflf Shuttle or a Single Thread {Chain &ilcA| ' Be wing Machine write to ( M ?W HOME 8EWINB MACHINE COMPAW Orange. Mass* Mtooytewtnar machines ?rr made to ?ctl rerttrfleaaflf ?p*htr but the New Home U made Co weao. On* guaranty never run* out ? An* ON authorized dealers ?dNM *oa salt a* WILL FILL THE BILL. Editor Flke Will Laml Spartanburg Job. Congressman Joseph T. Johnson announced at Spartanburg Wednesday afternoon after a day of conference with friends concerning the post ofilce situation in Spartanburg that he would appoint his former secretary, P. II. Fike. Mr. Fike is at present city editor of the Spartanburg Herald and is one of the best known newspaper men in the State. Hike's appointment will go far toward healing many of the wounds that have been made by the bitter controversy over the matter that has been engendered during the last few weeks. Mr. Fike is a native of T.aureus county, a graduate of Wofford college and has bees in newspaper work for more than fifteen years. His appointment is accepted in Spartanburg situation. Foolish Fnglisli Women. Suffragette "arson squads" almost succeeded in burning down the railway station at Aberdeen, Scotland, Friday night. A canister of gun powder, oil-soaked rags and a burning candle, the customarv wonnnna of the "squads", were discovered on the timely appearance of the patrol now guarding the station. ? The gambling dens of this city should be broken up if wo want to save our young men. ' HORRY, y. S, C. M,US OF ANY .BANK IN HORltY NED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF JTY. ' $50,(>00 12,500 iHOLDEits.. .. 50,o(H) rr; rons 112,500 ;tors \V. A. JOHNSON, f "WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. >MMODATION WHICH THEIR ACSOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. i V. liichardHon, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Cashier. 4T. ON YEARLY DEPOSITS.