Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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! THEY BOTH RESiGN COCHRAN AND ADAMS SEND IN RESIGNATIONS AT PRESIDENT'S REQUESTI Tillman ami Smith Still Far Apart on Successor of I>1 strict Attorney.? South Carolina Delegation Declines to Act as Arbiters.?Attorney (?eneral Away. The resignation of District Attorney E. F. Cochran, of South Carolina, has reached the Attorney General of the United States. There are no new developments so far ns can bo ascertained in the deadlock between Senators Tillman and Smith as to the appointment of a successor to Mr. Cochran. Senator Tillman recently proposed to leave to the whole South Carolina delegation the function of deciding between Thurmond and Weston, hut this suggestion was not accepted, the reply being that the delegation had turned this olllco over to the two Senators and that they should work the matter out for themselves. Doth of the senators seein determined to stand by their man and both have pleaded earnestly with the President. Senator Smith seeing him "Wednesday immediately after his arrival at the White House from NewHampshire. There is an impression that Thurmond was about to got the nomination. when the junior Senator declared himself and brought matters to a standstill, temporarily at least. The South Carolina delegation is working in behalf of W. D. Gaillard, of Charleston, who is a candidate to succeed Commissioner Putnam as the head of the lighthouse bureau of the department. Mr. Gaillard is himself in Washington. Adams Resigns as Marshal. Tn accordance with a request from Attorney General McReynolds Mr. .T. Duncan Adams, for twelve years United States marshal for South Carolina. has forwarded his resignation to the department of justice. Mr. Adams has been in Greenville with his family for the past several months and announced his resignation there Thursday morning. The resignation is to take effect whenever the President shall designate, and it is thought probable that this will bo about the 1st of October. The letter from Mr. McReynolds merely stated that "conditions have arisen which make me think it desirable to make some changes in the government offices in South Carolina, and 1 will be glad is you will forward your resignation, to take effect at such time as the President shall des ignato." Marshall Adam's torm would not have expired until March 1, 1915. Mr. Adams said Thursday that he had formed no plans for the future, but that he might probably make his home in Greenville. "Who will succeed Mr. Adams is not known here, hut it is believed that Mr. J. L. Sims, of Orangeburg has been picked. Mr. Adams' term would have expired March 1, 1915. Attorney-General McKeynolds Away. Attorney-General McUeynolds is not in Washington, and is not expected to return until next week. It is presumable, therefore, that nothing will be done by the President this week as to naming successors to District Attorney Cochran and United States Marshal Adams, both of whose resignations have heen received at the department of justice in response to official suggestions that they would bo appreciated. No change Is apparent in the status of the struggle between Senators Tillman and Smith over Mr. Cochran's successor. As it looks from r tmo the senior Senator is powerfully on the aggressive, with tho Junior Senator maintaining a determined defence. Hock Hill Lad Shot. Thursday morning about 10: HO o'clock Palmer Wilson, about fourteen years of age, shot Jesse Green, about eleven years of age, with a shotgun, shooting out one eye entirely and the other so badly that possibly he will lose his sight in case Jiis wounds do not prove fatal. Makes Fourth Victim. William A. Cureton, of Fort Lawn, Who was injured in the Hooper's creek wreck on the Lancaster & Chester railway July 30, died last Saturday night at the hospital at Chester. Mr. Cureton is tho fourth victim who lias succumbed to injuries received In tho wreck. ? ? It is most time for Felder to break out again. How tho Frank case ran in the courts of Atlanta for over a month without Folder getting in the newspapers about it is a mystery. Like all humhtigs, Felder likes the limelight. The greed of the whiskey men in throwing out boxes to put certain counties in the wet column will only hasten the day when the State will be voted dry. THIEF HAD HIS NERVE ? llOltK UAILHOAD OF $1,800 WITH A CROWD AHOIT. ? Puts Arm In Atlantic City Door ami Ciets Cash l'Yom a Counter ami Then Kscapes. A thief who had tlie daring to work while a crowd of travellers was about him got $1,S00 from the ticket otlico of the Philadelphia and Heading railroad Wednesday morning. He left no clue. The puzzled railroad officials refused to discuss the case, but a minor employee told this story: The money had been counted out from the receipts of Sunday and by the ticket agent, Chapman, to be deposited in a local bank. A rush of passengers to buy tickets for the 10 o'clock express for Philadelphia made it necessary for the agent to leave the bundle of notes a few minutes and help his two assistants in stamping and selling tickets. The bills were stacked up on tho counter on tho Arkansas avenue side of tho station. Intervening was a ticket-rack, which blocked off any view of the counter when tho ticket seller and his assistants were at the front win (lows. Tho thief must have calculated his opportunity closely, for if one of the agents had boon at the window facing Arkansas avenue the intruder would have been seen. Tho door of the office had been left open a few minutes before, and the robber evidently slipped from the crowd of several hundred jammed around tho office, opened the door a trifle seized the money with a swift motion unobserved, stuffed the notes inside his coat and then lost himself in the throng. At any rate the bundle of money was missing when Chapman returned to the counter soon after the train had pulled out. The signal tower men on the Meadows, a mile out from the station, were asked to halt and search tho train for suspicious persons. That was done without result. WILL RESION SOON. Cochran to t4>nit ns United States District Attorney. Ernest F. Cochran, for eight years district attorney for South Carolina, will tender his resignation to President Wilson in the next few days, to become effective at some time to be designated by the President. The reason given for Mr. Cochran's decision to retire is that conditions have arisen which have caused the present Arimlnlstrntlnn n ( ->?5 v. I.V/ Wiiotvici IL Ut'Miablo to make somo changes In the Federal ofllces In South Carolina, and ho does not caro to stand In tho way of tho Administration's plans. His term of oflleo does not expiro until February 10, 1914. Mr. Cochran was appointed assistant district attorney by President Harrison, and later lie was appointed district attorney by President McKinley. He served through tho administration of McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. It is his plan, after his retirement, to devote all of his time to his law practice in Anderson. Mr. Cochran probably had a larged experience in the work of the district attorney's office of South Carolina than any of his predecessors. He has made an enviable reputation and the government will lose the official services of a good servant when he retires from the offico. 11A NHS IIIMSFLF IN lloTKL. Col. Sam Tato, Prominent Railroad llnginecr, a Suicide. After writing letters to several of his personal friends at Ashevllle, X. C., Col. Sam Tate, chief of engineers of the Trans-Continental Railroad Company, and prominent in engineering circles of the country, committed suicide at an exclusive hotel at Ashevllle Wednesday. Ho hanged himself with a cord from a venetlon blind in his room. The body was discovered by an attachee of the hotel. Col. Tate was a member of a prominent Memphis family. Ho was a son of the late Sam Tate, of that city. Ho was sixty-five years of ago and is survived by a wifo and two daughters. Ho had taken an active part in the building of many railroad lines in Central America, Jamaica, Mexico and many of tho states of the Middle West. Men, like Governor Hleaso and others, who seem to be anxious for war with Mexico would soon find a bomb proof safe if war did come. Our young men, many of whom would find soldier's graves in Mexico, are too valuable to bo sacrificed for the benefit of the big American trusts doing business in that turbulent country. ? Had those people who are opposed to the sale of whiskey under an\# form in all tho counties that recently voted in the dispensary by very small majorities inaugurated a determined and relontless warfare against the social clubs and blind tigers, regardless of whom the fight involved, these counties would have rejected tho dispensary. Ill:MKT FOll COTTON MK\\ ? Southern Senators Oppose New Railroad llule. Headed by praetlclly all the senators from the cotton growing States a delegation of congressmen Tuesday called upon the interstate commerce commission in a body and demanded that relief bo afforded cotton grower from regulations recently promulgated and put into effect by railroads in the South. These regulations require that hereafter no bale of cotton shall l>e recieved for shipment without meeting tho requirements of what the railroads term a "standard" bale. They require that before a bill of lading shall be given for shipments of cotton each bale shall measure 61 inches wide, f>4 inches long, shall have six yards of bagging on it, tliis bagging to weigh not less than two pounds to tho yard and the whole to he securely fastened with not less than GOs. The ends must also bo "headed" up. Tho cotton congressmen, when they learned of what tho railroads were doing, held a meeting in the rooms of the senate committee on postofflces and postroads and Senators Smith of South Carolina, Overmen and Simmons of North Carolina, Vardaman and Williams of Mississippi and practically tho entire membership from all state where cotton is grown agreed to tako the matter up with tho interstate commerce commission. An extra charge of $1 for each bale, which does not meet tho requirements of the railroads, is proposed to bo levied by them. This the congressmen believe is exorbitant and out of all reason and inasmuch as practically all shipments of cotton are of an interestate character, the commission will be asked to at once take cognizance of the situation and make the transportation companies afford whatever relief may bo necessary or proper In the premises. ENGLISH K M I.WAV DISASTER. Fifteen Killed ami Thirty Injured In Collision of Fast Trains. Fifteen persons were killed and 3 0 injured in a collision of two sections of the famous London-Scotland Express early Tuesday. Tho wreck occurred on the Midland nail way near llawes Juncition, in Westmoreland county. The second section dashed Into the rear of the first, telescoping several coaches which burst Into (lames. Many persons were trapped and If not killed outright they were burned to death'. At least thirty passengers were taken from tho wreckage suffering Injuries or burns and as many Q tl>n r> f lllocn r?n? .1 i w M VI vnv OV Hid Y U1U. The two trains had left Carlisle for London at 1:35 and 1:47 Tuesday morning, respectively, and the collision between them occurred fifty miles south of that place on a high and lonely moor. The first section of tlio train had stopped to get up steam for a sharp upgrade when the second section dashed into the rear, piling up the sleeping cars which were crowded with passengers. Almost immediately after several of the cars caught fire and many of the passengers found it impossible to get out. Rescuers from farms In the vicinity came on the scene late to save many of the passengers. Nine charred bodies were taken from the wreck and it was bellevod that several others were still among tho debris. About thirty injured nflssenporfl U'ltrn r? n cnnnlnl r ..nw. W .. V,. V 1 V V-? 11 P y\. V kCXl I I t \ I I p> to the I^eeds and Carlisle hospitals. Another disaster occurred near the same spot on December 2 0, 1910, when eight passengers lost their lives and twenty-five were Injured. ll.M'LKI) HACK TO HATTIiESHIP. Thrilling Rescue <tf Might Men of the V. S. S. Nebraska. Three petty officers and five seamen of tho battleship Nebraska narrowly escaped drowning in Hampton Roads Wednesday morning when a water spout swamped a launch in which they were making for shore. Hopes wore thrown from tho battleship and the men hauled to safety. A launch from the California was beached near Phoebus after a run before tho storm. Tho crew escaped. Tlio early report Wednesday that three officers and five sailors had been drowned was not denied until Wednesday night. ? 4 Tins Illues; She Takes Poison. Miss Naomi Wells, of Thomaston, C.a., committed suicide at West Point, Ga., Monday by drinking poison. She went to West .Joint recently to teach English in the local high school, and was to have assumed her duties Monday. A note was found in her room which said; "Just a bad case of blues." There were also a number of letters addressed, scaled and stamped on a table. The movement to utilize public school houses for the benefit of the public when not used for school purposes. is making headway fast, and It is well. To convert these buildings into social centers is a wise plan, and in the country it will do much to lessen the dull monotony which It the great bane ot rural life. I TO HASTEN TARIFF BILL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WANT TO ; PASS IT THIS WKKK. ? Iucomo Tax Bill Is to be Amended to Suit Insurgents Who Wanted it Made Higher. Democratic leaders of the Senate began a supreme effort Friday to ! complete the tariff bill and pass It be- i fore adjournment Saturday night. < A compromise on the income tax rate, representing a further conces- < <4ir>?) tn l)m "InoiifDmnt" " '1 4 ?* vv/ vi?v? mom ftUJH rtU VUVllU'S UI ' an Increase in lnrge Incomes, lias i been drafted by Senators Williams and Simmons, and, it is believed, will i bo adopted. It proposes to Increase < the "additional tax" rate on incomes i of $75,000 to $100,000 from 2 to 3 per cent, and on those ranging from l $100,000 to $500,000* from 3 to 4 i per cent. 1 Senator Kern, Democratic leader, < notified all absent Democrats to bo 1 in their seats for the rest of the < week. After conferences with Hepublican senators interested in pending amendments, Chairman Simmons < of the finance committee expressed the belief that the passage of the bill might be reached late Saturday I night. 1 Senate leaders have decided to < name seven senators on the joint conference committee that will settle i difficulties between the two houses i after the Senate passes the bill. This 1 large representation will be asked for < to provide places for Senators Sim- < tnons, Williams, Stone and Johnson i of Maine, Democrats, who have been in charge of the bill, and for three < Republicans. It is expected the < House will consent. i The latest proposals for the Income tax rates, which seemed likely of ;tuo]>iion uv ino nemocratic caucus, would establish the following total : tax, including both the "normal tax" of 1 per cent, and the "additional tax" on large incomes: One per cent. < on incomes of $2,000 to $20,000; 2 1 per cent, from $20,000 to $f>o,000; i ?. per cent, from $50,000 to $75,000; 4 per cent, from $7 5,000 to $100,- ' 000; 5 per cent, from $100,000 to < $500,000; 6 percent, from $500,000 ! to $1,00 0,000; 7 per cent, above $1,- I 000,000. 1 world) SAVE XKCiHO. I . i Woman Ask Commutation of <o*orgin Governor by Petition. For the first time in the history of the Georgia State Prison Commission a large number of well known white women have recommended executive clemency for a negro charged with tin offence against a white woman. T.lge Lane was convicted in Clinch county for assault. Tie was sentenc- ' ed to hang and unless the governor interferes will be hanged on September 10. Attorney R. G. TMokerson appeared ' before the State Prison Commission and urged that it recommend a commutation of Lane's sentence to life imprisonment. Tie said there were , grave doubts as to the guilt of Lane. ( Supporting his application, Attor- i ti v on Kni t * t ^ ~ >V J iwiaull DUUIUillCU < signed by 95 per cent, of the white < women of Homerville and 90 per i cent, of the registered voters of that j town, as well as letters from the j Judge and* Solicitor who tried the \ negro, and many county officials. A t letter written by the negro's alleged j victim, which also requests clemency t was submitted. ? , FINDS MAN AND WOMAN DEAD. ? i Murder and Suicide Apuprently, Dis- 1 < covery of Georgia Farmer. ( E. 11. Braddock, a farmer living seven miles from Milieu, Oa., heard shots Wednesday night about 9:30 o'clock at the home of a neighbor, f Mrs. Belle Newton, and hastened to t the house to investigate. Entering [ the Newton home Mr. Braddock was ( horrified to discover the dead body ] of Mrs. Newton on the floor and near- ( by the body of Rufus (Bryant, a Jen- t kins County bailiff. Both were dead, e and the supposition is that Bryant c killed the woman and then turned ( the pistol on himself. Both were in middle age. The Nations Protest. Eleven European nations have fil- ' ed formal protests against the provision of the tariff bill granting a 5 per cent, reduction of duty on merchandise imported from this country in American vessels. These countries are Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Spain, Sweden, Nor- 1 way, Denmark, Belgium and the ( Netherlands. i Two of Picnic Party Killed. Two persons were killed and four slightly injured when an interurban electric car struck a wagon carrying a picnic party at a crossing near Charlotte late Tuesday. The doad are Miss Emma Sandford, agod ID, ' and Isaac Brymar, aged 20. ? ? ? ( Robbers Tx*ie Ifcooty. While escaping In an automobile from a store, at Newberry Corners, Wli., robbers dropped a cash register containing fl,t00? STORM SWEPT COAST It K POUT SAYS FIVK HUNIUtKD If A VK PEHISIIKI). * Fearful Hurricane Relieved to Have lieft Death and Huin in North Carolina Islands. A dispatch sent out Thursday night from Raleigh, N. C., says that a hurricane swept the coast of North Carolina Wednesday. Morehead City, Beaufort, Newborn, Washington and dozens of smaller towns along the coast suffered groat loss. There is great apprehension that Ocraeoke Island in Bamilco Sound, has been storm swept. and its inhabitants drowned. Somo five hundred persons made their homes on the island. The belief Is strengthened by the reported high tide that prevailed in the lound. All telephone wires were prostrated by the storm and nothing definite had been learned regarding the fate of those who lived on Ocra"?/vV O Tel o *w1 .\/r\u iOIUllU. Damage estimated at more than $2,000,000 was done at Washington bounty by the destructive hurricane. I'ntil Wednesday night that section was cut off from communication, telegraph and telephone wires were blown down. A deluge of rain accompanied the wind. The Pamlico River overflowed its hanks, inundating a large portion of the business find manufacturing district. Many factories along the waterfront were destroyed. Shipping suffered heavy damage. No loss of life has been reported. Mailhoats from Core Sound reported that all wharves for a distance of twenty-five miles had been destroyed, sevtral houses blown down and horses drowned. No lives were reported lost. Many small craft in Beaufort harbor capsized or were smashed against wharves or the breakwater. The steamer M. M. Marks had her rudder and propeller damaged. There has been no news from the sea, the wireless station being out of commission. Driven ashore by the terrific storm that swept the Virginia and Carolina poast Tuesday and Wednesday, the six-masted schooner, Ceo. W. Wells, is a total wreck off the coast of Ilatteras. The schooner went ashore Thursday afternoon. Twenty men, two women and two babies were rescued from the schooner by life-savers from the Ilatteras, Ocracoke Inlet md Durant stations. The big ship was stripped of almost all her sails before driven tishore, and when the life-savers reached her those on board were clinging to what remained of the rigging. Only meager details of the rescue were received, but it is reported to have been the most thrilling in years. ? TRAGEDY MAY BE CLEARED. Thirty-five Men 1 turned to Dentil in Jackson Prison Fire. The origin of the fire in the convict cage at the Oakley, Miss., prison farm, in which thirty-five' men lost their lives, may be cleared if the dory told by Will White, a negro ?onvict, is proved true. White says that on the night of the fire he saw i white man run from the building ind in a few minutes tho flames burst 'orth. He said this man waited until ho flames had gained some headway ind then flred a pistol to attract attention to the fire. White escaped some time ago, but ,vas recaptured and carried to Jackion, Miss. He says ho knows the nan he believes set the cage afire, nit will divulge his name only to Superintendent Gaithers, of the pris)ii farm. (Tianco to Stand. Senator E. D. Smith has been inormed by the department of State hat an examination will be held at he State department at Washington, October 20, for secretaries in tho dipomatic service. He said that South hirolinians wishing to qualify for heso very desirable positions could lecure full Information about the exiniinations by writing to the State lepartment. r-> - - ? uiiice, 01 unarieston, has >roken loose once more. BANK Oi Oonwa HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SITU ni N'TY. MORE THAN THE COMB \LL OTHER BANKS IN THE COU CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOC1 SECURITY OF DEPOSE DIRE( ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. VI. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS ACC COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WI Robert R. Scarborough, D. President, THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. 'I'll l'HSI>.\ Y, M'lPTliMHl'iK II, 11)13. PKOFE88IONAC h. H. WOOl>V\ A?\i/ 4ttorn?7 and Councaluj A; i .. CONWAY, 8. O. fcS. U. bt'AKllKOlUi' CONWAY, 8. < Attori?*y at Cr.vt . H. BUHKOCOHH PhjalcUu aad Surgro# CONWAY. 8. C. JF. McCOIW, Denial Surfcon C OA // A Y, S. C. KIONU HAVKMJL liAlld Surrcyin^ and Drainage Rpivoy Iluildiiig (Y>n\vay. S. <1 JHE WUKlDS GREATEST SEWING MACMKI ^ RUNN^ Cffrm wnntrtthera VlbrntlngSlnittle. BhuUk: or a Single Thread [Chain <S/UcAi Boring Machine write to m RtW HOME 8EWIKQ MACHINE COMPASS Oranue, Muss. BlM*y#rwtnr machines are mnU.itosetl retrartfleaa ! mutiny, but the Kew llomo U tnade to vca< ' Out guaranty never runs out & tf authorize*! di'itlert ((* ? I v ?oa axta ** FIND THEM DEAD. 4 Neighbors Discovers liodics of Two "Women Next Door. Olivor Price, a rich farmer, twelve miles east of Waynesboro, Pa., left, his home Tuesday, staying all night with his son at Rice's Landing, where he took an early train for Pittsburgh on business. He left at homo his wife, sixty, his twelve-year-old granddaughter and Walter Thomas, a farm hand, twenty, who had lived at the Price home for the past three years. A neighbor woman went to the Price home at 10 a. m. Wednesday and found the granddaughter lying unconscious in the yard with a fractured skull, while the lifeless body of Mrs. Price was lying In her bed in ail upper room with the skull crushed in with a heavy hammer which was found lying near. ^ Tho farm hand had disappeared. Thomas was seen to ride into Millsboro on one of the Price horses about 4 a. m. and it is believed ho hoarded a train there. Sheriff White of Greene County has asked ofllcials of the surrounding country to nrro?t Thomas. ? ? ? Chase Causes Death. A sensational attempt to escape Thursday by two marines, prisoners at tlie Philadelphia navy yard, resulted in the death of Sergeant of Marines George P. Southern, who dropped dead from over-exertion. Senator Tillman has no more right to bring charges against a member of the House than Grace. * HORRY, y. S, C. [ MS OF ANY HANK IN 11 (OK K Y IJfKD CAPITAL ANl> SI K PLUS OF NTY. $50,000 12,500 KHOLDERS. . . . 50,000 rOKS 112,500 :tors W. A. JOHNSON, ' WILL A. FRF MM AN, D. V. RICHARDSON. ) OMMODATION WHICH THF.IR AOC SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. F. Rick(trd?M, Will A. Froanum, Vl<*-Pr?idart Caahtar.