Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i * TO RUN THEM OUT VlliltA BXPKlxS SPANIARDS FROM CAPTURED CITY, TOIUIKON. ' ? CAUSES GREAT HARDSHIP . Rebel louder Retains Ills Intense Hatred for All Spaniards, Which Feeling His Army is Relieved to Sliare?Refugees Have lMtiahle M arch to Safety Rcfore Them. Hen. Villa Sunday ordered that the six hundred Spaniards of Torreon bo deported, lie issued instructions that all trains be provided immediately and that tho exodus to K1 Paso, Texas, should begin immediately. Their property will bo confiscated temporarily at least. It is the tragedy of Chihuahua over again and is said to express the deep rooted suspicion, and even hatred, with which the native Mexican, and particularly tho peon, looks on the Spaniard. it,.-i ii.. * ' vintv tJApuiii-u nit? i 'ons irom huahua four mbnths ago, and since then repeatedly has said other Span-j lards must go out of Mexico. Ills abiding conviction that they were working as one man against the revolution found frequent expression while ho was in Juarez, when he assorted ho would execute every one that ho found in Torreon. The Spanish government was aroused, and Washington descended on the Constitutionalist chiefs with words of warning and admonition. Villa promised that Spaniards innocent of political activity should not he harmed. This was otlieial, but in talking with representatives and friends it. was said his temper frequently betrayed him into the most tragic threats. Some of those constantly associated with rebel leaders said he did not expect to find many Spaniards who would deserve his clemency. The order to leavo was received in tragic silence, followed by pas^ sionate outbursts of pleading and * lament, say persons who were present. All asserted that thew had remained neutral so far as they could, but with the military government in the hands of the Federals they were compelled at times to render such aid as was demanded. To have refused, they said, would have meant death, or at least imprisonment, ,but Villa said he was lnclin~ ed to h^liovp there was little reluctance in the aid and comfort they extended to his enemies. Ho is said to resent the fact that they did not leave the city when ho announced that it would bo well for them to do so. Mexican hatred of the Spaniard, the people say, is a tradition handed down from the days of the conquest. In Mexico the ranch overseer, the small shopkeeper, the money lender ?in short, tho butcher, tho baker ; Ad candlestick maker of Mexican life?have been a Spaniard and is alleged to have used his superior intelligence to the disadvantage of the natives. Other foreigners, it is said, are less subject to resentment. They, for the most part, it is pointed out, have been the heads of great enterprises which brought money into the country, and which were managed from afar. It is from the peon class that .Villa's army is largely recruited, and the soldiers expressed their satisfaction at tho expulsion order. It is a great hardship, it is declared, for most of the Spaniards have their homes ;pid business in the city. Mi^tyv of them were born there and von aider themselves Mexicans. In 101 f' Paso, however, tliey will find many of their countrymen, who were expelled from Chihuahua. Only Spaniards are affected by the order. All other foreigners aro free to go and come as they please, and Gen. Villa says he is anxious that they shall resume their wonted occupations. Suiday ,T. M. Uliner, with the consent of Gen. Villa, and in hiH capacity as acting American consular agent, posted notices on all American property, declaring that it must be held inviolate under penalty. The retreat of Gen. Volasco, the Federal commander, from Torreon Yecalls that of Gen. Mercado from Chihuahua. When tho latter tied to Ojinaga on the approach of Gen. Villa, the rich families and their retainels, who were said to he plainly identified as Huerta's friends, tied with him, taking with them such valuables as they could carry. A similar train followed Velasco. - At Gomez Palaclo and I.erdo, condltlons were tho same?the Cientiflcos had fled into the desert there with their women and children, to face the hardships of thirst, hunger and exposure, until a kindlier section of the country is reached in the direction of Monterey. Velasco cut tho wires behind him and It could not be learned whether Gen. Huerta had succeeded in checking the retreat or not. i?2fek r^SwrKllli Wife Instead of Hawk. ilun Johnson, a farmer living r. ar K Covington, Ky., shot and killed his youni; and pretty wife while rushing through thev house on his way to shoot a hawk that had attacked a brood of chickens. THE PARDON RECORD (aOVKKXOIt 1IAS SHOWN (liKMKNCY TO OYKH A THOI'SANI). l.ooks liiko Ho Will Carry Out His Throat to Turn All t.lio Criminals Out of the Ponltontiary. Thero have been 1,17t? convicts who have received clemency nt the hands of Gov. Colo L. Blouse since he was inaugurated for the first, time on January i 7, 1911. Of this number about three-fourths were released under paroles and the rest wore given full pardons or had their sentences commuted. These figures wore compiled Saturday morning from records in the ofllco of R. M. McCown, Secretary of State, by a correspondent of The News and Courier. With nearly 1,200 to his credit, Gov. Blense seems to have beaten the mark he set for himself. At the annual conference of governors in Richmond. Ya., in the fall of 1912 Gov. Blease, in boasting of his pardon record, which was over 4 00, said that he hoped to make the number <S00 by the end of his second term. With a little less than a year of that second term gone the governor's pardoning record has reached nearly 1,200. Thero is much speculation being indulged in as to the effect the pardoning record is going to have on the governor's race for the Cnlted States Senate. lie stated after his re-election in 1912 that he was proud of his pardon record and that he considered tho people had endorsed it by relert mg mm over former chief Justice Ira R. Jones. Since that time 000 more prisoners have been freed and (hero is every indication that the pardoning record will aguin be one of the main issues in the campaign for the United States Senate this summer. Gov. Bleaso is apparently carrying out iiis declaration that he would depopulate the State penitentiary by August 1. A great many prisoners have been sent back to the county chain gangs of tho counties from which they were sentenced and others have been released under paroles and pardons. There are only 180 prisoners left in the penitentiary, of whom just 150 are men. There are in addition some 57 prisoners employed on the State farms, but it is stated that this is much less than tho number necessary to work the farms and operations will have to be greatly curtailed. ? FOl'lt AllE KIIilJM). Farmer is Held Pending Investigation of His Family's Death. Klihu Francis, a farmer of Askadelphia, Ark , was taken Into custody late Saturday and will be held pending an investigation of the killing of bis wife and three children, whose skulls were crushed presumably with an axe and their bodies burned in a fire that destroyed the dwelling on the Francis farm near Arkadelphia early that morning. Francis declares that his wife and children were killed and the house set afire by an unidentified man who escaped. He asserts that when he was awakened the man was in the room wielding an axe. Seeing his youngest child, an infant, Francis declares he ran from the house and before he could return the building was in llamos. RACE RIOT QUEERED. Firomen in Missouri Town I'lay Water on Crowds. A raco riot at Sedalia, Mo., early Sunday was quelled only after tho fire department was ordered out to aid the police and sheriff's deputy drive the combatants to their homes. Tho trouble aroso at midnight between whites and negroes at a merrygo-round. Armed with brick-bats and clubs, several hundred persons battled in tho down town district for two hours. After several arrests were made tho crowd wiiS dispersed. No one was seriously injured. Mother Saves Cripple Girl. Making rope of blankets, Mrs. P. Iloilo, of Roosevelt, Tj. T., Wednesday lowered her crippled daughter, Pansey, from a second story window of her burning home nnd saved the child's life, although badly burned herself. . Fine Stock llurned. The barn and stables of Mr. L. P. MoClellan, of McClellanvillo, with three horses, two mules, a valuable cow and much corn and hay, were destroyed by firo between 12 and 1 o'clock Saturday. ' ? Equestrienne Killed. Ella ITackett, a 19-year-old equestrienne, of New York, was almost instantly killed by a fall from a 50-foot trapeze to an improvised platform in Madison Square Garden Wednesday - -? Child Falls Through Trestle, i Louise Chapman, a three-year-old girl, last her balanco while crossing i a trestle near Lancaster and fell to , the ground thirty feet below. Sho | was not seriously hurt. felSHifyoijiirrtrT^' SAVES MANY GIRLS chnaco contr or moiials a MKANS or INFORMATION. ?. JUDGE EXPLAINS WORK Tolls of Stupendous Daring of Individual White Slave Operators, Although lie Says There Is no Direct Proof of Any <?reat Secret Organization Among These Social Vermin. Hearts are bared in the Court of Morals, Chicago, over which presides Judge William Hopkins, first aid to wronged womanhood. To the Morals court are brought the young women of the groat city who have been caught innocently and unsuspectingly in the snares men lay for them. To the judge and Mrs. Tousey, chief probation ofllcer, these young women, girls, most of them, between 1G and 20 years of age, tell the checkered which are as thrilling and as pitiful as any to be found in the yorld of fiction or on the stage in melodramas which depict the details of life in the underworld. These stories show the multitude of ways men take to wreck the lives of young women; they reveal the dastardly tricks resorted to by men to get good women into their blighting power, and thev show that most women arc anxious and willing to got out of the power of the men who have compromised them. Very few of the stories which are told in Judge Hopkins' court are given to the public, for the judge believes in shielding from publicity young women who are making brave attempts to lift themselves from the vice into which they have been unwillingly pi unged. Judgo Hopkins knows that white slavery exists in Chicago, and that no place in the city, his own court not excepted, is safe from the activities of the slavers. In fact, he lias discovered that his very court, hardly over a year old now, has been used for months by white slavers who attend tlio court to get the names and addresses of the young women who are trying to break away from their past associations, the hounds following up tlio women in efforts to force them again into the most miserable trade in the world. i A few weeks ago, when the writer was visiting the Morals court, a young woman appeared against a slaver. This young woman, 19 years old, married, was visiting friends in Chicago. She had been shopping. Walking homo, she was suddenly dragged into the doorway of a rooming house by a young man, who whipped out. a revolver and held it to her heart, saying: "If you make a noise, if you speak a word, I'll shoot you dead on the spot." At the point of the revolver, he drove the young woman to a room. There ho forced her into white slavery, the man remaining in the room connecting to see that she obeyed his commands. She finally escaped and made a complaint. The man was arrested. In commenting on this recent case, Judge Hopkins said: " \ man stated to me in a club yesterday that he did not believe such a thing as white slavery existed in the United States. If tills is not a case of white slavery, I would like to know what could lie termed such. There may be no organized traffic in souls in tills city, i,ut there are plenty of individual cases of white slavery, which is just as had." Judging from tho stories which are told in the Morals court, there is an ever-jresent danger in Chicago to gills of all degree. Strong, unscrupulous men can steal weak girls and introduce them through force to a life of shame; human monsters can kidnap women on the streets and subject them to the most hellish tortures; wolves in sheep's clothing can entice girls from respectable dance halls, from schools, from churches and so compromise them that they, in desperation, give up to their shame; employment agencies can 'send unsuspecting women to place of low character, where they suffer attacks, and men can drug girls In saloons or cafes and make away with them without interference. The records of the Chicago Morals court state emphatically that more ttum k*' wrung inrougn tue perfidiy of men than through their own vlciousncss, that it is necessary for young girls in big cities to beware of strange men who would entertain them, that it is safer for girls to go in pairs, than alone 011 many streets, and that home is the best place on earth for the average young woman. The records of the Morals court suggest that no working girl is immune from the attacks of designing men, that school girls stand in danger of being kidnaped, and that young married women serve as well the diabolical trappers of women as do young, unmarried women, and that the desperate characters who attempt to live off the earnings of young women through enforced vice will stop at nothing in order to carry out their base designs. The records of the Court of Morals unmistakably point to the fact that girls must choose their com NOTES AND CHECKS. Affected l>y Negotiable Instruments Ii?\v Recently Parsed. Tuesday, the negotiable instruments law, a piece of uniform legislation, became operative in South Carolina. The law was passed by the general assembly March 1 and is identically the same In several paragraphs as similar laws in other states. While the provisions are of chief concern to bankers, the public is also interested in the charges. Copies of the law have been received in Charleston and bankers have been making themselves familiar with the provisions, and the following article is clipped from The According to the negotiable instruments law. unless a check is presented for payment a reasonable time after its issue the drawer is relieved of liability to the extent of the loss occasioned bv tardiness. This is considered very important. it is said that some people have a habit of holding checks, drawn in their favor, for a considerable period and that this practice is very bothersome. When checks are held back the matter of adjusting balances at the bank is at times of somo concern. The provisions of the law do not, of course, apply to notes, drafts and checks drawn before its passage. Under the new law the "three days of grace" convenience has been abolished and negotiable instruments become due and payable on the date specified. "A note payable at a bank," said a banker, "is equivalent to an order to the bank to make payment for the account of the maker. South Carolina has been the only State in the union where a bank has had to i ho clirnof m?o /if AiK^^lr \ hx) m^iKuun \ f i ti till'* rv tin transferring to the payee tlie amount stipulated in the check. A bank was without authority to withhold payment even In eases where the makers requested such action. tinder the new law 'a check of itself does not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to the credit of the drawer with the hank and the hank is not. liable to the holder unless and until it accepts or certifies the check.' T quote this part verbatim. "It is believed that the negotiable instruments law, such as the one lately enacted by the general assembly of South Carolina, will before long be adopted by call the states in the union. It is a piece of uniform legislation that is sorely wanted, and will operate to the benefit and protection of banks and individuals. Tn this State the new law applies to transactions made on and after Tuesday next, not fo transactions that have already been made." Attention has been directed to the following provisions: Paragraph 85?Every negotiable instrument is payable at the time fixed therein, without grace. When day of maturity falls upon Sunday or a holiday the instrument is payable on the next succeeding business day. Instruments falling duo on Saturday are to bo presented for payment on the next succeeding business day, except that instruments payable on demand may, at the option of the holder, bo presented for payment before 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, when that entire day is not a holiday. Paragraph 8 7?Where the instrument (either a note or an acceptance) is made payable at a bank, it is equivalent to an order to the bank to pay the same for the account of the principal debtor thereon. Paragraph 111?A waiver of protest, whether in the case of a foreign bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument, is deemed to be a waiver not only of a formal protest, but also of presentment and notice of dishonor. Paragraph 127?A bill of itself does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee available for the payment thereof, and the drawee is not liable on the bill unless and until he accepts the same. Paragraph 109?A check of itself I (loos not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to tlie credit of the drawer with the hank, and the bank is not liable to the holder, unless and until it accepts or certifies the cneck. Had an Eye Shot Out. During a general row among some negroes at church near Reno, Laurens county, ono negro had his eyes shot out at tho hands of another Sunday. Mexicans Quit War for Work. Ten Mexican federal deserters threw their rifles into the Rio Grande at Laredo, Tex., a few days ago and crossed the U. S. border to find work. Joke Causes Trouble. An April Fool advertisement told tho unemployed of Chicago that a local railway wanted men. Five hundred applied and began riotin^- when not employed. panions with care, must not be ent red to questionable restaurants by gay young men, and must not mix promiscuously in dance halls with strange men. Girls, who have much to lose and much to protect, must constantly make confidants of their parents, and parents, according to Judge Hopkins, must study carefully modern conditions of society so as to know the dangers which surround young girl in the big cities of the United States. t WORK OF VANDALS PHYSICIAN FINDS KKD CROSS PAINTED ON IIIS lM)Olt. TRf TO INTIMIDATE HIM Town of Davidson, North Carolina, (jreutly KxiitCil Over Strange Marks Which Have Appeared on Residence's Door Over Night? Owner Recently Killed a Man. Whether for purposes of intimidation or as simply an expression of ill feeling?certainly serving to recall ;one of the most distressing tragedies that ever occurred in Mecklenburg county, X. C., the residence of Mr. It. Munroe Jetton in Davidson was placarded during the early hours of Friday morning with marks and splotches of bright red paint likewise the name "Jetton" that appeared in the firm name on the window of the White-Jetton company was marked out, the erasure being done also with red paint and during the early morning hours. The marks on the Jetton residence consisted of a big cross, done in bright red on the f"ont door, with the liars as wide as a man's hand and a yard in length, and so situated and arranged as to bo visible for a block disUmit V tllmilnr PPncc onnnonml .... the floor of the porch and on each of the steps leading to the porch wore splotches of rod paint, all affording a highly gruesome spectacle. .lust who did the work is not known nor are there any clues that might lead to the guilty person or persons. There were no suggestions advanced as to who could have done all this other than zealous partisans of the late Dr. W. II. Wooten, who was killed by Mr. Jetton in his wife's bed room early in February. The suggestion was advanced that college students, eager to perpetrate an April Fool joke, might have been responsible, hut this was denied nor was there any one who believed such to he the case. The only traces left by the midnight visitors at. the Jetton home were several tracks of a man or men, evidently in stocking feet and to one side was a place where several horses had evidently stood for several minutes. Even this is doubtful, for there is no way of saying whether these horses were there the night before or tho day previous. The little village of Davidson was very much exercised about the occurrence. Some had not heard about it. but with those who had passed the Jetton residence and had seen the tell-tale marks, it was the only topic talked about. Mr. and Mrs. Jetton were not at home the night, before, for they had been spending several days with Mr. Jetton's brother, Mr. Frank Jetton, several miles in the county. Tills surreptitious work serves only to recall the distressing tragedy that occurred in the quiet little college town six weeks ago, when Mr. Jetton fired upon and killed Dr. W. H. Wooten, a leading practitioner of the community, who was in his wife's bed room: It wa? alleged at the time by the dead man's friends that the young druggist fired in a jealous rage. Mr. Jetton put up a plea of selfdefense and the Mecklenburg jury acquitted him. Since the trial, however, there has been much feeling displayed and according to some of the hest posted men in the community, it has been growing sharper and sharper. It is thought that this work was committed by friends of the dead man In an effort to harass Mr. Jetton, to remind him of the past, is not to induce him to move elsewhere. < FIND HEADLESS BODY. Kentucky County is Scene of Ciruesoine Aftermath of Robbery. The body of a man, supposed to have been John Kin*?, of Jenkins, Ky., was found Saturday near Glenmorgan, a mining town in tho vicinity of Wise, Va. The man had been murdered, robbed and decapitated. His pockets were turned inside out and a SIllfPflKO fftlinrl noor ~ .1.. i - ? ? nuui mu u uii y null been cut open and rifled. The body apparently had been in the woods for several weeks. The man had been shot In the back and his head had been cut off. > ? Fatal "April Fool" Candy. "April Fool Candy," which was found to have been flavored with poisonous berries, is likely to cause the death of two children of Quincy, Mass. Sight Restored After It) Years. After 10 years total blindness, Harry W. Smith, a Civil war vetoran, has sight restored to one eye by operation in Atlantic City, N. J., Wednesday. Fireman Fatally Bnrood. A. C. Page, captain of the Troy, Ala., fire department was burned to death Monday when iie entered a building In a search for a child. i > a i'-j t THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY S. C. i Published Every Thursday. IHI HSDAY, APRIL 10, 1014. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. II. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. CONWAY, S. C. 11. II. SCARBOROUGH. Attorney at Law. CONWAY, S. C. H. II. BURROUGHS, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. W. K. McCORD. Dental Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. RENE HAYENEL, I>and Surveying and Drainage. Spivey Ilullding, Conway, S. O. i t FIGHT HOG CHOLERA. j/ ?.? * \ Annual Drain on Animal Industry a Keroius Menaee. Exports of the department of agri ulture estimate that the annual loss from hog cholera in the United States is $7a,000,000. They regard the eradication as one of the most, serious problems that faces the bureau of animal industry, for the loss caused by it approximately as great as that from all other animal diseases combined. The loss from hogs killed outright by cholera in 10 12 was estimated at $00,000,000. The loss to the hog in mueiry inuirecuy resumng iTom the disease was about $1 5,000,000 more. The cholera is most common in the corn states of the West and South. The two other chief animhi diseases are cattle tuberculosis and Texas fever. Statistics upon the annual losses from theso two diseases never have been gathered by the department of agriculture. Texas 'ever and cattle tuberculosis do not cause anything like the number of deaths as does ' cholera, hut the loss to the cattle in- . dustry through illness, interference with reproduction and making cattle unfit for marketing is heavy. The losses run into many millions of dollars a year. f ^ ^ ^ j KILLS LITTLE BOY. ? While Firing at Each Other Two Men Cause Lad's Death. In a difficulty Saturday afternoon between R. E. Briscoe and Ben Bradley, both of St. Stephens, Briscoe, it is said, in attempting to shoot Bradley, fired the gun and killed the little son of Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Jaudon instantly. The little fellow received the whole load of shot intended for Bradley in his .breast. Bradley saved himself by catching hold of the muzzle of the gun. lie lost almost the entire hand, it being shot away by the same load that killed the child. The boy was about seven years of ago n fi 1 D * t - ' 1 ' ... Hue 111liu ieuow. excitement was very high, but violence was prevented by cooler heads. CHILDREN ARE POISONED. ? One Cherokee Child Dies From Eating Polk Root. Three children of Columbus Waddell, who lives in the Gouchcr neighborhood, about six miles from Gaffney, wero posoned Saturday afternoon from eating polk root. The children were seven, flvo and three years old, and the three-year-old child died that night. Dr. J. G. Pittman, who was called to see them, says that the other two will recover. It seems that the children were in the field where their father was plowing, and seeing the polk roots thought they wero potatoes and ate them with tho above result. T..Ir/.o I?1 * " xunui) IUUUII ncvon^C. T. H. Musgrove, wealthy planter of Rlythevllle, Ark., was shot and killed Thursday by John Walker, a sixteen year old boy, whoso father ho had slain fifteen years ago. ? . Releases Fifteen. CJOV Til An on Tlinvo'lo" ? j .. i. . * uuioucijf liigiix ^rtlIIt" ed freedom to fifteen convicts on various chain gangs throughout the State. In the hatch was one white man, who received a pardon to restore citizenship. Put Crew Into Irons. Twelve sailors of the Italian hark. Gaspon, were put in irons at Gulfport, Miss., Wednesday. They mutinied in an effort to gel money for a shore leave. Shoots Stepmother. Failing to find his wife at the s house of his stepmother, Mrs. Ella % Disma, of New York, George Disma I shot and killed her Saturday. Indians Go on Warpath. Yaqul Indian raiders went on a foraging expedition around Douglas City, Ariz., Wednesday, and killed Otto Mueller, a German citizen. $