The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 25, 1913, Image 6
HUERTA'S MESSAGE
SENT TO MEXICAN CONGRESS ON
1NDEPENDANCE DAY
HAS HOPES OF PEACE
Declares the Greatest Possible
Triumph for llim is to Turn Oflice
Over to Successor AVith Country at
Peaco?Docs Not Refer to Recent
Diplomatie Kxchonges.
Ill spite of the rumors which dealt
impartially with attacks upon Americans,
an army uprising and the assassination
of the Mexican President,
the Mexican Independence Day came
and went with nothing to mar the
holiday spirit of Mexico City on
Tuesday.
Politically the great event was the
reopening of Congress and the reading
of the President's message. Put
without doubt Gen. Huerta was mov
cd less by that than by the spectacle
i of thousands of students, citizens and
soldiers doing him honor as be stood
on the balcony of the National Palace
reviewing the great parade, Ihe
feature in which public interest centered.
Gen. lluerta said the strained diplomatic
relations between Mexico and
the United States had caused the
Mexican nation to suffer unmerited
affliction and had retarded the pacification
of the country. Nevertheless
he hoped for an early solution of the
differences between the two nations
and to see Mexico and the United
States once more united in bonds of
friendship.
The Provisional President drew a
distinction between the attitude of
the government of the United States
and that of the people of that nation,
saying "the tenseness of our diplo
matic relation with the government
of the United States of America, although
luckily not with that people"
had put Mexico in a state of apprehension.
The period of six months allowed
American warships to remain in
Mexican waters by special permission
of Congress will expire next month.
In the opinion of the President a renewal
of permittion should not he
granted.
Tho message was disappointing to
many who had expected that Provisional
President Uuerta would deal
at some length with recent diplomatic
exchanges. This subject, however,
ho said, "being so delicate and the
permanent commission of Congress
being already Informed," ho passed
with a bare mention.
In his peroration 1 Inert a said:
"The Mexican Clovernmerit regards
iho pacification of the country as an
urgent necessity in order to restore
the public services to their normal
state, to re-establish the political, social
and economic equilibrium and to
* make possible a program of reforms,
which will satisfy the national aspiration.
"I will spare no effort and no sacrifice
to obtain the coveted peace and
i to guarantee fully in the coming elec
'lions the free casting the ballot. Yon
may be sure it will constitute the
?greatest possible triumph for the interim
government to surrender office
to its successor if the latter, as is
to be expected, enters upon its functions
with public peace and order an
'accomplished fact."
Of the treasury funds amounting
at the beginning of the last fiscal year
to $27,COO,000. $2-1.000.000, lie said,
bad been expended for the pacification
of the country. Of the loan of
$100,000,000 authorized in May,
French bankers took $20,000,000 at
00. Out of the Speyer & Co. bad repaid
$20,000,000, half of which was
a loan to the national treasury and
half to the monetary commission.
-For the army 0,000 horses end 2,200
mules bad been purchased during the
year. The National Cartridge factory,
be said, was turning out $200,<000
cartridges monthly.
Besides a great number of cannon
of various descriptions, machine
guns, rifles, carbines and ammunitions,
the government has contracted
abroad for ten aeroplanes, 7 7 armored
and 0 0 unarmored automobiles.
On the subject of the approaching
elections the President said be bad
promulgated the law enacted by Congress
complimentary to the electoral
law under which the government will
noia ejection in uctODer.
lie declared that the government
would continue to mako efforts to
ward tlie pacification of the countr>
within a -period relatively short. Ir
this spect he could inform Conpresi
that the situation already was domi
nated by tho government in a major
ity of States, only Sonora and Duran
go at present being totally boyoni
authority.
Tragic Ending of Parade.
At Cleveland, Ohio, just as the las
section of the Perry Centennial celc
bratlon parade was passing an imprc
vised balcony outside a restauran
Wednesday night, the balcony co]
lapsed upon the crowd on tho side
walk below, killing ono man an
seriously injuring three other me
and two little girls. Several other
In the crowd were cut and bruised.
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BANDITS' BAD MEMORY
KTorrKi> Tin-: train hit misskh 1
Till-: ROOTY.
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Could Not Hlow OfH'ii the Safe Hecniiso
They llad It tlio Dynamite
lk-himl.
Ttosidonts of HoniPBtakc,' Mont.,
are laughing over tho disco 111 fituro of
threo hold bandits, who, after holding
iip a train and preparing to dynamite
the express car safe, discovered
that the explosive had been left hehind.
Firing a few shots to convince
the chuckling engineer and fireman
that they were real brigands, despite
their poor memories, the men rode
off into the forests to liido their
shame.
Tho train holdup itself was of the
regular frontier order. The denouement,
however, proved tho greatest
farce ever enacted in that robber-ridden
region of pioneer days. In the
tall grass a mile and a half west of
llomestake, the bandits had deposited
half a wagonload of paraphernalia
when no one was looking. These
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pistols, but most important of all dy11am
i to.
Equipped as they thought for final
action, the men awaited tho arrival of
a limited train on tho Northern Pacific.
Torpedoes wer eplodedx at the
opportune time. When the engineer
and fireman blithely skipped down
the locomotive stop tho robbers were
there to meet them and give orders.
Within a minute the express car was
uncoupled from the rest of the train
and with tho masked bandits aboard,
the locomotives was run through the
t unnol.
Four hundred foot beyond the tunnel,
the highwayman chief commanded
the engineer to stop. The order
was obeyed and the engineer turned
to face bis "superior officer", Hy the
light of the firebox be saw the bandit
was perplexed.
"'What's the matter, boss?" lie
asked. Ignoring the inquiry, the robber
chieftain said to his confederates:
"I've forgotten the dynamite; it's
back with tho train."
"Tee hoe." twittered tho engineer.
"A fine specimen you are," said the
fireman. "We'll go hack and get if
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"Make 'om run back," s*iid one robbor.
but bis chief objected. "Everybody
in thoso rars will bo awaiting
with cannons." bo said. "Tbo job's
[off, boys." So tbo bootyloss trio
took to tboir horses and rodo disconsolately
away.
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Ah Trial Starts Ho Declares Ho Will
l>o Acquit tod.
Tho trial of William Sulzer, tbo
impeached goYcrnor of Now York,
began Monday. It was announced
that he would be tried by tho Court
of Impeachment 011 tho charges as
they stand and will not faco additional
charges. "I am going to bo
acquitted," said Governor William
Sulzer Sunday night. "I will liavo a
fair trial. I have said some hard
things about some of the Senators
and they have said some hard things
about me; but this is a trial, not a
political tight. They are both judges
and jurors and, and I believe most of
them are large enough and honest
enough to rise above any personal
feeling they may entertain toward me
because of what 1 have said about
them, and do me justice, and that is
all I want."
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TOOK 1IEK OWX TilFE.
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Woman T^envcs Nolo Bidding Farewell
to (lie World.
A dispatch from Spartanburg to
The News and Courier says when
Frank Wymbs, a paperhanger, returned
homo from work Wednesday
night, ho found his wife's bed room
door locked. 11is little children told
him their mother had entered the
room early in the afternoon, and that
they had been unable to get any response
from her since.
Mr. Wymbs forced the door open
and found his wifo lying in bed with
a sponge soaked in chloroform pressed
to her nose. She was dead. She
had written a note, bidding farewell
to the world.
It was given to Coroner John S.
Turner, but ho declined to divulge its
contents, lie said it indicated a deranged
mind.
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Has an Entire Silver Jaw Hone.
Elizabeth Nemanich, seventeen
years old, of Joliet, 111., has had n
solid silver lower Jaw put in liei
mouth, as the result of an operatior
for "phossy Jaw", contracted in f
match factory. Tho surgeons say thai
she will retain her beauty and tha
she will he able to use the metal Jav
as well as she could have used tin
original one.
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!- Corset Steel Saves Woman's Life,
i- A corset steel, which deflected i
t. bullet aimed at her heart, saved th
1- life of Mrs. Mario McDonald, of Sac
5- ramento, Cal., when A. E. Carey sho
(1 at her. Carey, as soon as he saw th
n woman fall, turned the pistol on him
s self and Inflicted a fatal wound i
his head.
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EIGHT DIE IN DUNGEON
TEXAS NFXiKOKS VIOTIM OF
TltACUC FAT10.
Arrested on Minor Charge, They
Were Cast Into Noisome Cell?InvcKtl^alion
(iolng On.
State anthorities In Texas are investigating
what is pictured as one
of the most barbarous of prison horrors
in recent times. The allegation
is made that twelve negroes, who
wore charged with being lazy at their
work in the cotton fields, were jammed
into an underground cell at the
Stato prison farm building, near
Richmond, Tex. The cell, ten feet
long, seven feet wide and seven foot
high, had metal walls and ceilings,
and only four airholes, each the size
of a quarter.
Might of the twelves negroes cast
into the cell suffocated in the ight
after one of the most desperate fights
that men ever made for existence.
Four hours the cramped and imprisoned
men fought for vantage of placing
their lips to the airholes. Those
who were conquered died. One of
the four survivors was found with
his lips at a crack in the floor
through which ho succeeded in sucking
sufficient air to keep him alive.
The four survivors told Police .lustiee
Menu and the State Prison commissioners
that, until they grew too
faint, they had persistently yelled to
the guards: "Men are dying In
here!" They swore the only reply
they got was: "You'll wish you were
dead if you don't make less noise."
In the end they were silent eight
of them dead; the others too weak to
cry out or even moan. The survivors
were only semi-conscious when rescued
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kii,li:i> i;v mumcax pandits.
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Refugees I'rom Mexico Says Peons
Commit Many Crimes.
News of tho murdor of Morris P.
Hoot, American superintendent of the
101 Tigro mines at Topic, Mexico, was
.brought to San Francisco, Cal., on
Sunday by tho steamer Peru, which
had nearly 100 refugees from Mexico
aboard. The mining engineer was intercepted
by a few bandits as he was
011 his way to join employees of the
company who were preparing to defend
the mine property, lie was disarmed
and cut to pieces. Root was
fifty years old and had been in Mexico
about sixteen years.
Max T.ambert, another American
engineer, who arrived on the Peru,
was left for dead by bandits who attacked
his home in the state of Topic.
Lambert's wife and child escaned hv
crawling through a roar window and
ho remained to greet tho bandits
whoso approach was noticed when
they were a mile away. They fractured
liis skull and left him for dead.
When they departed Mrs. Lambert
returned and secured aid.
The refugees were from points
along tho west coast of Mexico and
they brought repetitions of stories of
refugees who preceded them. Western
Mexico is in a state of anarchy,
they said. Rebel chiefs do not recognize
each other and when they are
not looting and committing murder
they are lighting among themselves.
Americans from the state of Durango
asserted conditions there are beyond
description. They said tho country is
overrun with bands of drunken peons
who commit unspeakable crimes.
YANKS INVADE SOUTH.
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Chattanooga Surrenders to Blue Host
of Roseigers.
Rent upon their first peaceful invasion
of the South, thousands of
Union veterans have arrived in Chattanooga
to attend tho 4 7th annual
encampment of tho Grand Army of
tho Republic, and allied organisations.
The encampment will continue
through Saturday. Tn honor of
tho occasion Chattanooga has prepared
a great welcome. . Citizens'
committees throng the railroad stations,
welcoming tho veterans. Survivors
of tho Union army, which
caused the Confederacy to totter in
the bloody battlo at Chicamauga,
fought there fifty years ago, arc
greeted "With tho same cordiality
shown the United Confederate veterans
whose annual reunion was held
in Chattanooga last May.
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Stole for Luxuries,
Pleading guilty to assault with in
t tent to rob and saying that the desir<
L to provide luxuries for his wife am
. two small children, who stood at liii
j side, wan the cause for his downfall
t Hugo Rolling. 20 years old, a mombo
(. of the Milwaukee police force for si:
t years was sentenced to servo thrc
v years in the house of correction.
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lvilled by Automobiles.
Miles 'A. Overcast, a carpenter, o
Savannah, Ga., was struck and In
a stantly killed by an automobile c
e Assistant Fire Chief Fogarty in on
j- of the prlclpal streets of Savanna
t late Monday. The fire chief was r<
o spondlng to an alarm, when his mc
i- chine, which was being driven ?
n breakneck speed to tho fire, skidde
and struck Overcast.
THEY GET SHORT TERMS
diggs and caminetti sentenced
hv judge.
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llo Decluret* Debusing lulluence of
Saloon an<l Hoa<l-Uouso Was too
Apparent in White Slave Case.
Two years in the Federal penitentiary
on McNeil Island, Washington,
and a line of $2,000 is the sentence
imposed on Maury I. Diggs, former
State architect of California, because
of his Might to Reno with Marsha
Warrington, a Sacramento girl.
Eighteen months in the same prison
and a line of $1,500 was the penalty
given his friend and companion. F.
Drew Camtnctta, for like offence by
Judge Von Fleet at San Francisco,
Cal. Caminetti eloped with Marsha
Warrington's friend, Lola Norris,
Diggs and Caminetti seemed un- j
concerned when sentence was pronounced.
A few minutes later they
laughed and chatted with the news-l
paper men over their Might. The
mother and brother of Comlnotti and
the wife and father of Diggs were in |
Court. 'I'he two parents of the prisoners
listened with bowed heads to
Judge Van Fleet's words. Mrs.]
Diggs stared blankly at the judge, I
giving no sign that she realized what
his words meant.
"This was a crime of opportunity,"'
M..L1 T..d T.M A. 1 I
?i ii?if.;i' \ <111 1' It'i'l, III pilSSlUg SCiltencd.
"I moan that the laxity of social
conditions and the lack of parental
control made it possible. T wish
to say that all through this case there
!s the evidence that drink had its par-,
aly/.ing Influence on the morals and
the minds of these men and thej
voting girls with whom they went on
that trip to Reno. The terrible, debasing
influence of tho saloon and
the road house is too disgustingly ap-1
parent, and T make the observation
here that society must pay the price
for permitting the existence of these
highly objectionable places."
Diggs was convicted on four counts
and Cominetti on one. It was charged
that the prisoners, both married
men, transported Marsha Warrington
and Lola Norris from Sacramento,
Cal., to Reno, Nov., for immoral purposes.
The four were arrested in
Reno March 11. Diggs and Caminetti
were indicted April 12. Prosecution
lagged, but the case jumped into national
notoriety when .Tohn L. McNab,
United States district attorney,
resigned, saying in an open letter to
President Wilson that political influence
was being brought on the
attorney general to prevent tho cases
coming to trial. The President accepted
McNab's resignation in a brief
unf o ronrlmnntllncr li \ Kt^ 9
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discipline. Tho trials began with
special prosecutors August 5.
Till KV MS TOOK Til KIR TIME.
Stopped to Melt Down Silverware
They llad Stolen.
In Now York more than $250,000
worth of jewelry and silverware wero
stolon from residences on East Soyenty-ninth
street, known as "Millionaire's
ltow", "between July 16 and
September 4, according to an announcement
made Thursday by an
insurance company. All tho victims
of tho robberies were out of town on
summer vacations. The thieves entered
the Wallach residence through
a skylight in the roof and cleaned out
tho house in a leisurely and painstaking
fashion. In one of tho bed
rooms they established a small smelting
furnace, in which they melted
down the silverwaro to convenient
ingots. They left tho improvised furnace
behind them.
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Corpse Sits Vp in Rod.
Laid out and ready for tho undertaker,
"Aunt Harriet" Law, an aged
negress, of Georgetown, Del., astonished
l\er family by sitting up In bed
and asking what all tho fuss was
about. Medical attendance was obtained,
as soon as tho negroes recovered
from their fright, and the
old lady was kept alive until lato that
night, when slio really died.
Took Ills Own Tiifo.
At Augusta, C!a., Thomas W. Bearden,
aged f.2 years, representing n
supply company of Columbia, S. C.
, committed suicide early Wednesday
in a rooming bouse by Inhaling gas
. The body was found in the batl
I room. The door was closed and th<
window was down.
Tiittlo flirl Killed.
Tdzzio Matthews, the flve-year-oh
3 daughter of Wade TT. Matthews, i
\ farmer near Florence, died Thurs
3 day night from an accidental gun
shot wound inflicted while the glr
r and her twelve-year-old brother wer
k plating with a gun.
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Two Scalded to Death.
Two men were scalded to deat
and hundreds were imperilled whe
f a steam receiver exploded in the hi
L_ plant of the W. A. Clark Wire Con
,f pany at Bayway, N. J., on Monday.
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h Negro Hold for Old Killing.
5- Tvem Sanders was arrested in Pir
i- Bluffs, Ark., charged with havin
it killed a negro seven years ago. H
d has been taken to Hazelhurst, Miss
where the crime was committed.
BLOWS UP HIS FAMILY |
CALLS Til KM INTO A ltOOM AND ;
LOOK& THE DOOR.
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After Remarking That They Would
All Die Ttogother Hurls ail Explosive
on the Moor.
At Hloomlngton, Intl., Mack Hurst,
a stono mason, dynamited Ids house
Friday, killing himself and one
daughter and fatally injuring two
other daughters, in addition to demolishing
the house. Mrs. Hurst, in
a remarkable manner, escaped injury.
Hurst is believed to have been insaife.
The dead:
Mack Hurst, fifty years old.
Maud Hurst, sixteen years old.
Fatally hurt:
Fannie Hurst, thirteen years old,
one leg blown off and body mangled,
almost 1111 recognizable.
Elizabeth Hurst, six years old,
body mangled.
Hut little is known of the tragedy
beyond the results. Mrs. Hurst, who
escaped injury, how, she says site
does not know, says that the man
awoke the family at two o'clock Friday
morning and told them till to
gather in his bedroom. After they
had till entered, he closed and locked
the door and spoke only these few
words: "We will jill die together."
Then be picked up a stick of dynamite
which was lying on the floor
near him and threw it under the bed.
There was ti deafening roar and Mrs.
Ihwst remembered nothing more un
til she came to consciousness at the
home of a neighbor nearly an hour
later.
The noise of the explosion awoke
the whole city. Police and firemen
hastened to the scene and at once began
a search of the ruins. The bodies
of I hirst and his dead daughter
were found in a mass of debris at the
rear of the homo.
The other two daughters were in
another part of the ruins. Potli were
unconscious and it was some time liefore
they were revived. Neither was
able to tell anything of the occurrence.
The shock of the explosion wrecked
the house and was felt in the
whole immediate neighborhood. Every
pane of gloss for a block around
was broken and other minor damage
done to homes in the immediate vicinity.
Hurst, who was a stone mason but
who had not been working for some
time, had been acting strangely of
late and an inquisitorial body had declared
him insane.
It was not thought, however, that
his Insanity was of a violent kind anil
no preparations for his eutody had
been made. It is supposed that he j
suddenly become worse and wnuo in
a frenzy committed the act.
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CFJTjKBKATR 11A HI I jR.
Celebrities to be at King's Mountain
in October.
Secretary of State William J.
Bryan, Governor Hooper, Tennessee;
Governor Craig, of North Carolina,
and probably Secretary of the Navy
Joseplnis Daniels will speak at the
celebration of tho ono hundred and
thirty-third anniversary of tho battle
of King's Mountain on October 7.
While tho celebration takes place on
the North Carolina side tho battlefield
is in York county, S. C., and for
that reason tho Palemtto state is
looking forward with interest to tho
celebration of this strugglo on October
7.
Secretary Bryan and Governors
Craig and Hooper have already accepted
invitations to bo present and
make addresses. Secretary Joseph us
Daniels, himself a native of North
Carolina, will bo in attendance, if
possible.
Overdose of Morphine.
Wallace Webb, aged 5 0, a travelling
salesman of Atlanta, was found
dead n his bed Tuesday at a hotel in
Millon, Ga. A coroner's jury held he
came to his death from an overdose
of morphine, which he took to relieve
kidney trouble.
Spartanburg is to bo congratulated,
on tho election of Profesor C. B. Wal-j
I I ler. of Wofford Cnllece as nnn nf hr>ri
( commissioners under the commission
? form of government. TTo is a man of
. great ability and will do his city
i great service.
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A SCIENTIST BKI/IFAl<kS.
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Foremost Britain Avows Belief in
Future Fife.
A presidential address before the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science seldom has been
awaited with such eagerness on the
part of the general public as that delivered
last week by Sir Oliver Joseph
Lodge. The leading scientists of
the world were in the audience, Including
Mine. Curie, the co-discover
or with her husband or radium, aiul
fifty other great foreign savants.
Usually such addresses are too
scientific and abtruse to appeal to
popular taste, but it was known that
Sir Oliver was to deal with the mystery
of after life and the question of
the persistence of personality after
death, and in avowing his belief In
such after life, the speaker went further
than any scientist yet had gone
toward answering a question so profoundly
Interesting to the mass of
mankind. The address was listened
to with impressive silence, broken
only by the murmur of half-suppressed
laughter or little outbursts of applause.
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Waited Long Time.
Tt. S. Hall, seventy years of ago, a
retired farmer of Breckenbridge, Me.,
and Mrs. L. H. Carr, sixty-four years
old, of Ilartsville, Ind., who were engaged
to wed fifty years ago, obtained
a marriage licence at Kansas City
Saturday.
Drops to Death.
An aviator named Vlaicu, who recently
designed an aeroplane which
ho christened the "Mad Fly", fell
during a test Saturday and was killed.
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