The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 08, 1913, Image 5
LONE ROBBER SHOl
BY NILLIONAIRE IN TRAIN Hi
WAS ROBBING
A VERY BOLD AFFAIB
With Drawn Pistols Daring ltandit
PaHMMl Through Coach After Ooacli
Relieving Passengers of Valuable
Shot as He Leaves the Train Dul
K scapes.
The bandly believed to be badlj
wounded who escaped from the Kan
sas City Southern Gulf Coast trair
after he had shot and seriously injured
Jesse M. Short, a millionaire
mine owner of Joplin, Mo., and rob
bed the passengers soon after the
train had left tho Grand Central sta
tion at Kansas City, Mo., about midnight
had not been captured Friday.
Bleeding from wounds he had received
in a pistol battle with Short
tho robber left a trail of blood as he
lied. This enabled the otlicers to follow
his tracks until he arrived at tlu
Blue ltiver, almost a mile from the
point where he jumped from the
train. Here the trail stopped abruptly
and his pursuers expressed the belief
that he continued his flight in u
boat.
The train was Just pulling out ol
the depot when a tall men ran out
of the darkness of the railroad yards
and climbed up the steps of the observation
car. He wore a dark handkedchief
drawn over the lower part
of his face and carried two pistols.
Oscar Allen, a negro porter, whe
saw him board the train rushed out
and ordered him away. The robbei
covered him with his pistol and said:
"I am going to put over a trick here
You sit down here and be quiet, I will
t/A?i ' '
IICI U J VI u .
After (ho train had proceeded
about throe miles the robber ordered
Allen to go ahead or him through
the train.: In the sitting room of the
observation car were W. J. Scafe ol
Neck City and E. P. Seaman of Eu
reka Springs, Ark. The robber'i
voice trembled as he demanded theii
valuables but they offered no resistance
and gave him money and jewelry
amounting to about $200.
Preceded by the frightened negro
the robber then entered the chair cai
where there were about a dozen pas
sengers, all men.
"Hold up your hands," was the
command with which the robbei
greeted*them. The passengers read
11/ complied. The bandit passei
along collecting their money and jew
olry.
The robbery of the chair car wai
accomplished within fivo minutes anc
the surprised passengers obeyed the
final injunction of the robber to si
down and remain quiet.
The Pullman car was entered next
After robbing two passengers fron
whom he secured small amounts o
money, the robber came to the bertl
occupied by Short.
"Give me your money," the robbei
demanded in a whisper as he shool
the sleeping man. When awakenet
sufficiently to realize the import o
the command, Short handed over $1,
000 and a large diamond stud. Ai
the robber turned to leave Short sciz
ed a revolver and fired through tin
curtains. The robber returned tin
fire and both men emptied their wea
pons, each shooting blindly througl
the curtain which was perforate
hv almost a dozen bullets. One bul
let struck Short's forehead, anothe
went through an arm and a thin
lodged in his knee.
Short fell back in his berth am
the robber fled toward the rear o
the train. Passengers in the othe
cars, arousoa ny the shots, follower
him. They saw him hack out of th
door of the observation car and dro
from the train, which was Just bein
brought to a stop. He left bloo
stains in the aisles and on the ca
platform ard the passengers saids h
appeared to be badly hurt. It wa
believed that two of the bullets tire
by Short struck the bandit.
C. 0J. Gizson, conductor in charg
of the train, when he heard th
shooting, seized a pistol and, accon
panied by a porter, a brakeman an
express messenger, started for th
Pullman cor. Before they coul
clear the aisles of passengers so the
could use their weapons, the robbe
had leaped from the train.
An ambulance took Short to a hoi
pital. Physicians there said whi]
his wounds wero serious, they di
not consider them fatal.
Short is one of the wealthiest mir
owners of Jasper county, operatin
zinc and lead mines in that distric
Siv von r a n im hn n/oa ? * 1
~ ^ w i?nv ** c n uo a ut i u t; l null
lng for wages.
To Annex Lower California.
Asserting that $25,000,000 hi
been pledged for the purchase <
Lower California from the Mexicj
government by a group of Amerlcc
capitalists, W. J. iMcGimpsey, a pro
erty owner at Punta Banda, Ca
said the deal would be consummat<
soon and annexation to the Uniti
States would be agitated. He ea
the plan was considered facorably 1
the laite President Madero, but son
difficulty with the Huerta regime
feared.
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1 HUMAN BEINGS FILL GAI
HKKOIC WOKK ON MI88ISSIPP
IaKVKK WHKN HHOKKN.
?
Water is IIel<l Hack lly Human Ilod
| ios I"nt II Laborers Could Fill tli
^ Hreacli With Sacks of Fartli.
Quick work by determined farmer
t and a smalt bunch of wllltmr nntroo
who were thrown into an inclplen
k crevesse in the absence of Band bag
Thursday saved another disaste
along the turbulent Mississippi river
t The dozen negroes who lay in th
gap of the Poidras levee, holdim
back the water until sand bags coub
r be filled to take their places, riskei
their lives, but saved the day when 1
t appeared hopeless to even try to hob
the fact crumbling embankment.
) The Poidras levee, which is onl
1 3 miles south of New Orleans, begat
} to cave rapidly shortly after 5 o'clocl
Thursday morning. When the eav
ing was discovered the entire battur
in front of the Poidras store
100 feet wide and extending fron
the levee to the river bank 200 fee
^ out, had caved and a small gap ii
the lovee had gone. The alarm wa
given and within 20 minutes a scor
of negroes were brought up by
} planter who lives a few hundre
yards south of the scene. The leve
was caving rapidly when this smal
force arrived water about two inche
1 deep was pouring over the embank
, ment.
It seemed too late to prevent th
crash. A desperate chance was thk
en when two 1 2-inch boards wero pu
along the top of the broken levee am
a dozen negroes accepted the task o
holding it in place. These humai
sand bags might be taken with th
' verdy next slice of the levee but the
held on until a row of haen ftil?v
with dirt were put in place behin
the boards. Other haps were hastil
j slipped into the gap and soon a hull
dred more negroes and white mei
I were working liko ants filling sack
and carrying filod sacks to the gap.
Then without warning, the stretc
of the levee crown where the huma
sand bags lay a few moments befor
fell away to a depth of 28 feet. A sec
ond row of bags held the water bac
J and within an hour 2,000 of the dirt
tilled sacks were in place and t.h
caving was temporarily checked aiu
for the time, the levee saved.
; A (iuowixo KViL.
Irnck of Snhility in American Fain
5 ly Iiife Increasing.
p
.Family life in the United States i
j more unstable than in any country o
nation in the civilized world, a<
cording to a recent statement b
i l'rof. Charles Ellwood, of the depart
. ment of Sociology in the Universit
3 of (Missouri. According to the lates
t figures in the hands of sociologist!
it is stated 08,000 divorces wer
granted in 1900 when the populatio
j of the United States was 8.r),000,00(
f In Canada, in the same year, onl
23 divorces were granted.
In France the rate of divorces 1
r one in every 3 0 marriages; Uerman;
{ one in 44; Switzerland, one in 2'
I and England, one in 4 00. In the pas
f 20 years it is estimated divorct
have ben increasing three times i
s fast as the imputation of the Unite
States. If the rate keeps up the pr<
p portion of divorces wil be one i
e four in 1950, and one in two at tl
beginning of the Twenty-first cei
j lury, asserts rror. i^nwooa.
(j In the state of Washington the d
_ vorco rate is one in every five ma
r riages; in Oregon and Montana, or
jj in five and a half; in Texas, Arkai
sas and Kansas and Missouri, one I
A eight. In tile Eastern states the pr
f portion is much liigher, placing tl
r average rate of the nation at 01
^ divorce in every twelve marriage
e Many cities show high rates, and
p general statistics indicate that rur
K communities show a smaller propo
(j tion than cities and larger towns.
I ASKS TO BK HANGED
q ? . .
d Man Tells of Murder of Missou
e Family Years Ago.
Driven, as he said, by the pains
conscience, a man, who gave h
( name as George Taylor, walked into
police station at St. Louis, and aski
( to be locked up for murder. Yea
y ago George Taylor escaped from tl
5 Carrilton jail on the eve of his ex
cution and officers searched for h?
s" the country over without avail, t
oilicer in chargo of the police static
d asked the visitor if ho was the man
"Certainly I am," was the rep
le "and I am tired of being at larf
g for I am a murderer. My broth
t. and I killed four of the Meeks faml
near Linens, Linn county, in 18f
He was hanged and I got away. ?
mind has been bothering me sine
You can take Trie out and hang r
now if you like."
Later the man became eonfus
in reciting his story, and will be h(
in until his idnetiy is established,
in
p- {
l.f Meat High, Butchers Quitting.
*i Meat prices have become so hi
sd at Milwaukee, Wis., and salee ha
id fallen off to such an extent that nej
by ly half the butchers in the city i
le making ready to quit the bnsine
is according to Fhnil Priebe, secretf
of the Market Butchers of America
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' NEGRO DESPERADO
' ATTEMPT ASSAULT AND KILLS
TWO OF HIS PURSERS.
e WOUNDS FOUR OF POSSE
8
h Crowd Numbering Hundreds in Hot
* Pursuit, Determined to Avenge
r I>eath of Two and Wounding of
e Four Citizens.?Lynching Nure to
* Follow.
[1 T- -II f .it- "
- iiuui iiuvuuii u mil AUCIlUillO ?ll Z
t o'closck Friday was that Henry Austin,
the negro murderer who is still
at large had presumably crossed the
y Savannah River frotn a swamp near
11 Sennell Hill and gone to the Georgia
k side: that Rural Policeman Spiven"
dor was leaving Allendale for Sen?
nell llill at the call of the sheriff
of that place with whom he is to pur11
sue the fugitive into the Georgia
t swamps; that the trail taken up by
11 the penitentiary bloodhounds Thurs8
day afternoon believed to be that of
? Austin's was not the trail of the
n wanted negro at all.
d These according to this informae
tion are the latest developments in
'1 the affair which has cost the lives
s of two well thought of South Caro"
lina citizens, the wounding of four
others and created intense exeite?
ment throughout Hampton and Barn"
well counties.
A dispatch from Hampton says after
outwitting and eluding bands of
f armed men and bloodhounds all dav
ri Thursday, tiring on one party which
? attempted to stop him in a public
y road about two o'clock that morning
and escaping, being once driven bed
yond the State border into Georgia
y and later being forced to cross back
l~ into South Carolina, Richard Henry
11 Austin, the negro who killed two men
8 and wounded four in Hampton County
the night before, was pushed back
h by his pursuers into Cooaawhatchie
11 Swamp, not a great distance from
0 Barton, late that afternoon. The
dogs had taken the trail and the ne^
gro was believed to have been locat*
ed.
e Fully one thousand men from
Barnwell and Hampton counties,
their faces showing the grim determination
to have vengeance, searched
every nook and corner of the community
in which the tragedies ocourred
for the negro. The patience
of those lllcn who linvp sonrchoil an
diligently is almost exhausted,
is The period of excitement is over,
r hut in its place is the settled and
> steadfast desire to do something for
,y revenge. This is the expressed statet
mcnt of a number of men who comy
pose the searching party.
it The blood hounds from the State
3, Penitentiary are on the grounds and
e early Thursday morning struck the
n trail of the negro, but the trail ran
). into a public highway and was lost
y the evidences being that a conveyance
was used. Whether confederis
ates or accessories furnished the cony,
veyanco is a question asked by man}
2, of those on the scene.
Jt It is known that in the neighboris
hood where the negro was last seer
is Wednesday night a negro hot sup
>d per was in progress and attempts
> were made by some of the searchen
n to procure assistance from those ii
ie attendance upon the supper but thej
steadfastly refused. This adds fue
to the fire and what may occur is no
i- known.
i*- Whenever and however Austin h
>? iuki'ii, in me eveni no hiiouki no cap
n- tured, thorc is no quoBtlon now wha
'n the disposition will bo. Nothlnt
could prevent a lynching, and fron
10 the temperament of the crowd, it ii
ie not to bo unexpected that fire wil
8- play its part.
'n One small posse of eight men trail
ed the negro toward the Savannal
r" River swamp, five miles from thi
Savannah River, they left their auto
mobile on account of a puncture am
were walking along the roadway
when their attention was attracte<
iri by some one running through the un
dergrowth in the woods.
They stepped to one side of th
of road and as Austin came out ordorei
jH him to stop. Instead, he paused bu
a a moment, opened fire on the poss
fMj and turned back into the woods. Th
rH fire was returned, and while blood o
l10 the ground Indicated that Austin ha
0_ been hit, he was not seriously wound
r> e(**
t|f, I>e(ails of the Tragedies.
an The details of the shooting ar
1( that after tho negro Austin had pre
ly, pared himself with several boxes c
r0, buck shot, shells and a gun and
er large calibre pistol with sufTlcler
11y ammunition, lie attempted to assau
if,, the wifo of a prominent farmer l
,ly tho J,uray section of tho county Wet
20. nesday. Tho lady by trickery bu<
no ceeded in getting a shot gun and ra
tho negro out of tho house at tli
od same time giving the alarm.
;](1 Mr. J. G. Folk, a near neigh ho
* hearing the alarm ran to the assis
ance of tho woman and shot at Au
tin, who barricaded himself behind
large box and Mr. Folk was unable 1
fch shoot him. Tho negro then cor
LV0 manded other negroes to harness h
fcr- mule to a wagon, which they di
*r? and he made his escape.
,8S? Tho news spread like wild Are ar
My a crowd of men from Luray overtoc
^ * the negro, who was in the road nei
the home of Mr. W. C. Bryant, In this
: county, talking with Mr. Bryant as if
nothing had happened. The negro
ran into a pond, or bay, nearby and
Mr. George Henna entered the bay
just in the rear of the negro. Mr.
Hanna was shot through the shoulder,
but was uot seriously wounded.
During the ensuing combat, Mr. Hun"na
held his ground and continued
shooting.
I)r. Moore entered, going to tho
assistance of Mr. Hanna, but tho negro
shot him, literally mangling his
right arm and inflicting serious injuries
with buckshot in his face. Notwithstanding
this, Dr. Moore recovered
his weapon, which had dropped
to the ground at the shot, and commenced
firing with his left hand at
the negro.
Mr. J. Frank Hewers, rushing in
at this time, was niet with two full
loads of buckshot from the gun of tho
man, which completely blew off the
top of the head and upper face of Mr.
Bowers. It being almost suicidal for
I)r. Moore and Mr. llatina to stay
where they were, the negro being securely
barricaded, they withdrew,
leaving 'Mr. Bower's body In the pond
In the pool of his life blood. Dr.
Moore was at once carried to Ruray,
thence to Columbia, where ho now
lingers.
This shooting occurred at about 3
o'clock. Pickets were then placed
around the pond and it was while on
picket duty that Mr. McTeer Bowers
was shot by the hidden negro.
Reinforcements from Hampton
anl Allendale having arrived, Magistrate
Edenfleld called for volunteers,
and Policeman llarter, Dr. Tlson,
John Dunbar, Mr. Iliers, all of Allendale,
and Mr. Dunning and two travelling
men from Fairfax answered
tho call, and under the leadership of
Fden field entered the bay. When
within twenty feet of the hidden negro
JuJdg-e Kdenfleld was shot thru
tho breast and stomach with buckshot,
and falling to the ground, called
out, "(Jet him boys, for he's got
me."
Mr. llarter dropped to his knees,
and with his slxteen-shot Winchester
riddled the logs and bushes, forming
the barricade of the negro, with bullets.
The negro evidently fearing to
' rise did not shoot at the searchers
more, and fearing death, the men
i withdrew out of range of Austin's
gun.
A ... 1 1-- ffi 1 _ -.1 J ? A
/\u?ini wihciy, huim ins viuwpuini,
stuck his overcoat up on a nearby
tree, artel tins overcoat, which was afterwards
recovered for (lie use of the
bloodhounds in getting the scent, was
also seen to ho filled with bullet
holes.
No further attack was made on
(he negro at that time and the nu1
thorities in Columbia were communicated
with for dogs and men. Night
came. Fires were built by two negro
men all around this bond except on
" one side. Austin, knowing that some
negroes wore engaged in buildnig
these fires, walked boldly out to
where several white searchers were
s standing and upon being halted exI
plained that he was one of the men
! who had been building fires around
i the pond and that ho was going up to
> his house and that ho hoped they
would get the negro who had killed
two of the best white men in this
country. Ho was allowed to pass,
r but not stopping at the house indicated
and stooping and dodging for
- the woods, the men on guard knew
i then that he had escaped and inline
dlately gave chase. Austin entered a
branch, and until several hours later
was not heard from.
1 A party of eight men who had been
r sent in an automobile to Cohen's
1 Bluff to intercept the negro should
t he attempt to cross the Savannah
River at that point, when their mart
chine broke down, were returning on
- the public highway when the rattle
t of shells in a bag approaching then
3 < rlllrUMl L11 v III IU i'U III IIIcl II U I 1 <V I L
1 The response were shots from the
s man's gun. Tho party returtied the
1 Ore with probably fifty shots, but ik
negro was found, he having escapei
- in tho dark.
1 About this time tho train from Co
p lumbia bearing tho hounds arrivei
and being placed on tho trail at tlx
' last place tho negro was seen, failec
' to got tho trail. They were thei
* carried back to tho pond where tlx
first shooting had occurred and immo
diately picked up the trftil and ran i
e for several miles, but it ran into i
d public road and was lOvSt.
t Reports received at Hampton a
e about 3 o'clock Thursday afternooi
e were to tho effect that the dogs haw
n recovered the trail and were runnini
d ?n Coosawhatchio Swamp with abou
I- one thousand men following.
Judge Edonfiold was shot in Barn
well County and Mr. Bowers was sho
e in Hampton County, the county lin
running about midway through th
>f pond or hay. Each of the men wa
a shot in the county in which lie re
it sided.
't ?
j Kopemaker Slept 77 Days.
I.eon Jean, a ropemaker of Ch'ei
n bourg, France woke up to find liiir
10 self in a hospital instead of at h
home. He was further amazed who
r told ho had slept continuously fo
t
t- 7 7 days. Joan could not bo awaker
B. od on Fob. 6, and ho was sont to
a hospital by members of his farall;
to His present hoalth is good.
n- ?
Panther Kills Negro Hoy.
d, A panther, driven from its lair I
the swamps of the St. Francis basil
id near Forrest City, Ark., by the floo
>k killed a negro boy. The .body of tl
fcr youth was torn and mangled.
THE MARKET BASKET
DEMOCRATS IMSIST UPON REDUCTIONS
IN TARIFF
BREACH IN PARTY LINES
When Hepresentatlvea From Ix>ulsiiinu
and New Jersey Attack the
Hates <> & Sn^ar ami IJve Stock.?
After Four I>n%'H Drlmlr N<? I w> n t
Was Mario in Democratic Plans.
All efforts of the opposition In tho
House of Representatives at Washington
to disturb tho "market basket"
reductions in tho Democratic,
tariff bill failed in the House Thursday,
despite the fact that Republican
orators sounded warnings of ruined
industries, enforced idleness and
empty cupboards to follow the enactment
of the Underwood bill. Still
championing the bill as tho greatest
that ever has been written for tho
benefit of the people of tho country,
the Democrats were deaf to the pleas
of representatives of the beet and
cane sugar constituencies against
free sugar in three years; unmoved
by the charge that they legislated into
the hands of tho beef trust by placing
duties on live stock while freelisting
their products; determined to
rush tho passage of the bill the earliset
possible moment.
Tho first break from tho solid
front of tho majority came, however,
when Louisiana Democrats, led by
Ropresont.at.ivo Rroussard, appealed
to Mr. Mann, Republican leader, for
a share of time in which to speak
against the sugar schedule, and when
Representative Kinkcad, a New Jersey
Democrat, uttered a prediction
that the senate would strike out the
ways and means committee's 10 per
cent, rates on live stock.
When Renresen tat i ve Slnnn nf NJo
braska introduced an amendment to
increase the rate on cattle from 10 to
1 f> per cent., after a 2f? per cent,
amendment by Mr. Fordney of Michigan
had been reject d, Mr. Kinkcad
declared that he believed that the
ways and means committee had kept
the platform pledge to the people
when they had reduced live stock
rates to 10 per cent, but he felt that
the committee should have placed
live stock on the free list along with
meats.
"I believe and hope," said Mr. Kin-1
kead, "that when it comes back to us
from the senate the duty will be cut
off and that every Democrat on this
door will support it."
This aroused prolonged applause
from the Republicans, who earlier
were stirred to enthusiastic cheers
when Mr. Rroussard declared that
the sugar rates proposed by his party
would redound only to the benefit of
the sugar trust. The test vote on sugar
came on an amendment offered
by Mr. JMann to strike out the provision
placing sugar on the free list
1 In three years. It was lost, 88 to
186. Representative Hardwick of
Oeorgia defended the rates for the
majority, describing America's sugar
industry as of the "hothouse" variety,
unable to stand on its own feet
and exacting excessive taxes from the
people to support it. Representative
Mann opposed the rates, and Representative
Underwood closed the de1
bate.
1 "No man is so ignorant that he
1 does not know," said Mr. Mann, "that
the price of sugar in this country
1 ?t.r.niu mn i n inn v. i
n viuvt ?/* : i w v iv/ 4* viz }/i*i i nil. Ill^Ilt'S
than it is wore it not for the beet su1
gar supply produced in this country,
and yet you intend to strike down
this industry in the United States.
"Make the most of your opportu}
ity, the country is ready to say your
* tariff legislation is a failure, and the
first opportunity the people have will
- bo the last opportunity you will
1 have."
3 Representative Underwood analyz1
ed the sugar rates in the proposed
i bill, described the Iyouisiana cano in3
dustry as one that could not survive
- and asserted that the rates in the
t bill would not affect the beet sugar
i industry. "Meet sugar in this country
can be produced on an equality
t with European rivals with no post
sibility of competition within a reae
sonable zone," he said. "What the
? Western beet sugar people seek is tc
t tax the American people in order tc
bring their beet sugar to the Atlan.
tic seaboard and drive out all compet
tition. It is simply a question ol
e freight rates."
e The Japanese question was touch
s ed upon during the debate on the
wood schedule, several members pre
dieting that reductions on shingles
and other wood products would turr
the lumber camps of the West lntf
Oriental labor camps. Representa
" tlVO Falconer (Progressive) of Wash
l" ington, alluded to the Democrats ai
"Hlndu-Ohinese-Japanese lovers" am
n told them "your Democratic secre
,r tary of state Is coming back from Cal
l" ifornia to tell your Democratic presl
a dent some facts about Oriental labo
that ho does not know."
Tho aprlcultural schedule precipi
tated prolonged dlscusssion thougl
Mr. Underwood held It down wltl
In frequent motions to cut off debate 01
n, successive paragraphs. Amendment
d, were offered to Increase the rates o
ie cattle, sheep, hogs, wheat, oats an
* other grains and nearly every othe
Si
VAST MAJORITY PURE
MOST MEN AND WOMEN LEAD
WHOLESOME LIVES
Every I'eraon Should lie Trained For
Some Definite Work in Life To E?cape
Want.
The va?t majority of men and women,
no mater how humble their
means and how hard their privations,
are wholesome and pure in life and
deserve to be named among those
who do the nation honor, in the opinion
of Secretary Red field, head of the
Department of Commerce. He declares
that records of hia department
which is at the head of every national
Investigation of the white slave
traffic. Indirnio thilt a n Inminlanfflt
wage is not of Itself a temptation to
wrong-doing, but la only one of the
conditions which Rive bad causes a
chance to do evil work.
Secretary Kedfleld aserts that the
United States must now bend every
effort to creatlnR now conditions
which will tend to strengthen the environments
which let the forces that
lift up have play, and destroy the
conditions under which the forces
which drag down work.
Commenting on his own experiences,
Secretary Kedfleld asserts that
a young woman recently called at his
oilice and asked for work. In answer
to a question as to what she could
do she replied "nothing." "There
was a place where the downward
drag had a good chance," comments
Secretary Uedlleld. "Neither her
brain nor her hand had been trained
to do' practical work."
The Department of Commerce is
now urging every mother who knows
the path of danger she herself trod
to make the paths of boys and girls
of the present ago safer by giving
them training in some vocational
work so th.it they may not get out into
life and find it. a blind alley and
llnaly be led to a position where they
must face a condition of moral overstrain
to win a livelihood.
Secretary Kedfleld insists that lack
of virtue is not a mathematical equation,
and that it is uot a cose of so
few dollars and so much vice, or so
much money and so little vice. He
declares that an insufficient wage is
not in itself a cause of misdoing, but
one of the causes which give a chance
for bad cause*) to do evil work.
Low wages are cited as keeping
girls constantly distresed and lacking
the normal things that a girl ought
to want and cannot got. It is this
cotidiion which frequently loads to a
fall, and it is named hy the secretary
as our of the conditions that must be
eradicated hy modern society if
progress is to he made in the fight
against immorality. *
MAN ALMOST KILLED.
His I'oweful Antagonist Uses Wrench
on His Head.
Henry Counts, aged about 2 1,,
was severely beaten over the head
lato Monday afternoon with a "monkey"
wrench wielded hy "Doc" Dixon,
a powerful white man of (ireonwood.
Counts was knocked unconscious,
and is in a precarious condition,
though not necessarily fatally injured.
Dixon is in Jail charged with
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
From the stories of the witnesses
to tho affair, it seems that Monday
afternoon Counts was driving Dixon's
automobile, accompanied hy tho
driver. In some way tho machine
was run Into an obstacle and damaged.
In the dispute which ensued as
to who should pay the damage, "Doc"
Dixon, who is a much more powerful
man than young Counts, become enraged,
seized a "monkey" wrench
it, rendering him unconscious. Medical
attention >vas given the injured
man, and he gained consciousness
Tuesday morning. Dixon was locked
in the jail.
Henry Counts comes from a prominent
family of Laurens, and has
been working in an automobile shop
in (ireenwood for some time. He is
well liked. "Doc" Dixon, a man of
nhnnt r?v<*orn fArmorlv ran a Knt/?K_
er shop in Greenwood, but lately has
been unconnected with any business.*
Greens Fatal to Woman.
s Poison dock in a dish of greens
i caused the death of Mrs. iMartha
i Campbell, at Council Grove, Kan.
. The woman picked the greens, and
. not knowing tho dock was poisonous,
[ cooked it. * '
. item in the bill, but all were rejected,
s On this schedule tho session again
- went far into tho night, though tho
i opposition gave evidence of having
i largely spent Its force.
> Thursday there wore indications
t 'i t T?Ol\iihlip<in Inn (lorn urnul.l
It iii?v j w |Ati I' U\?VI O " UU IV4 IIW
undertake to delay the passage of the
a hill much longer. Representative
1 Moore of Pennsylvania, who has been
- active in offering minority amend
ments, voiced this view. He said the
- Republicans would not atempt to fllr
ibuster, and that they had been
"hammering away at the Underwood
- bill for four days without making a
h single dent in it." The fact that many
h who claim that their business is afn
fected are asking the Republicans to
a hasten matters in order that they
n may "readjust their affairs" is said to
d be partly responsible for the minor*
r lty attitude.