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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'
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"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.
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THEY ARE SIIFT OUT.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DIES or SOME DIUKJ.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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V. liichardHon, Will A. Freeman,
Vice-President Cashier.
4T. ON YEARLY DEPOSITS.