The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 14, 1914, Image 3
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STATE CON
v WILL BE A
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SENTIMENT FAVORS
* PRIMARY REFORMS
Report** from Different County Conventions
Show the Safe-guarding of
} Primary to be Foremost in Minds
of People?-Wilson Administration
Kndorsed by Many Counties.
Reports from all over the State in
dicate that tlio Anti-Blease forces
won a sweeping victory at the county
conventions held Monday. An estimate
based on those reports puts
the number of Auti-JUoaao delegates
In the State Convention at 291 and
** the Bloase delegates at 47.
The reports form the different conventions
show that the safeguarding
oftho primary will undoubtedly bo a
prime question at the State Convention,
sixteen convetlons going on record
as favoring more adequate safeguards
angains fraud.
4 Senator Smith was elected a delegate
to the State Convention from
Ceo County. Newberry County ?.id
not give either Governor Blease cr
Fred H. Dominick a plaoe in ihe
State Convention.
In the Barnwell Convention Charles
Carroll Simms was endorsed for
d Governor because ho was a Barn ''ell
man, but failed of election to he
State Convention, vithdrawljg before
a second ballot could bo taken.
The Sumter Convention endor?8?d
mo canaiuacy ror governor or 11. I.
Manning and elected him otato executive
committeeman and delegate
to the Convention.
The TTnion Convention endorsed
4he candidacy of Lcwndes J. Brownin
for Governor and elected him a
delegate to the State Convention. It
also endorsed the candidacy for congress
of T. C. Duncan.
In the Kershaw convention M. L.
4^ Smith and J. G. Richards declined to
stand for office in the Convention.
MarLboro County did not give John
Tj. McLaurin a place in its delegation
to the Slate Convention.
Senator Smith's candidacy was endorsed
by the convention of Bamberg,
Orangeburg, Barnwell and Kershaw.
In Laurens County a resolution
to endorse the administration of
Governor Lleaso was defeated.
R. A. Cooper, candidate for Goveronr
heads the Laurens County delegation.
The Oconee Convention went on
record as being opposed to race track
^ gambling in this State.
* The Clarendon Convention adopted
resolutions praising the effort of
Congressman Whaley to promote the
drainage of the low country.
W. F. Stevenson, candidate for
Congress, was re-elected State executive
committeeman fro Chesterfield.
^ The Florence County Convention
endorsed Congressman Ragsdale.
In Barnwell, the Convention endorsed
unanimously the candidacy of
Adjt. Gen. Moore. Resolutions endorsing
the candidacy of Attorney
General Peoples and of R. M. Mlxson
for Congress were passed after a hot
fight.
JK Sentiment in favor of primary reform
is strong. In the following
counties the Conventions went on recoid
as favoring some plan of safeguarding
the primary from fraud:
Horry, Green T^eed, Oconee, Greenville,
Aiken, Fairtieid, Darlington,
Williamsburg, Chester, - Beaufort,
>ll Bamberg, Orangeburg, Calhoun, Florf*
ence, Sumter, Richland. Varying
methods of safeguarding the primary
were proposed in these different conventions.
The Richland Convention
adopted the McMahan resolution instruction
the delegates to the State
Convention to work for the restriction
of the primary to registered votj
era. In the Spartanburg Convention
a resolution instructing the delegates
to oppose restriction of the primary
was defeated, and in the Colleton
Convention the same thing occurred.
The Marlboro delegaton, it
is understood, will work for primary
reform.
Resolutions opposing further re^
- strictlon of the primary were passed
by the conventions of Lee, Jasper,
Union and Laurens counties.
The Bamberg, Calhoun, Laurens,
Fairfield and Clarendon conventions
opposed the abolition of the countyto-county
campaign.
The Wilson administration was
given the endorsement of a large
^ number of the county conventions,
the resolutions in many instances
praising especially the President's
Mexican policy and in several instances
endorsing the president's
stand in the matter of tolls exempy
tion.
L Probable Standing of Delegates.
Counties? Blease. Anti-Bbase
Abbeville 8
Aiken 8
Anderson 14
Bamberg 6
> Barnwell i 1 7
Beaufort t>
* Berkeley . 1 5
Calhoun 4
VENTION
NTI-BLEASE
PICKED UP AT SEA
TWENTY-SIX SAVED OFF BURNING
STEAMER.
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Another Boat leaded With Seventeen
Persons Still Missing.?Rescuers
on the Lookout.
Thirteen survivors of the British
steamer Columbian, bound from Ant- <
werp for New York, which caught |
fire Sunday night, were picked up ,
Tuesday by the Cunarder Franconia,
bound from Liverpool for Boston. 1
Another boat, containing the chief
and second second officers and 17 1
men, was still adrift. The Franconia
cruised in search of it.
The survivors suffered terribly during
their forty hours' exposure in an
open boat. Their condition was so
grave that it was impossible to get
their story until several hours after
they wore picked up.
A wireless from Halifax Wednesday
reported that the steamer Manhattan
had rescued thirteen members
of the crew of the British freighter
which was burned at sea Sunday
night. These are in addition to the
thirteen saved by the Cunard liner
Franconia, and this brings the total
of those saved to twenty-six. Nineteen
are reported still misBing.
The Columbian caught Are Sunday
when 300 miles south of Capo Race.
Capt. McDonald ordered the wireless
operator, James Drohan, to sent out
calls for assistance, but a series of
explosions put the wireless out of
commission. It soon became evident
t V) tl t flirt nrrwif nnt nnntml V.
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fire and the order to abandon ship
was given. The men left the Columbia
in two boats.
Chief Steward Matthews was in
charge of the first boat. This boat
put away from the steamer and lay
to for a time, but in the dense smoke
that surrounded the burning vessel
the other boat was not visible, and
the steward's boat finally drifted far
from the scene. Of their sufferings
and of the fate or; Chief Steward Matthews
the men could say little.
Food and sleep were matters of
first consideration and although sympathetic
passengers were ready with
offers of assistance to the shipwrecked
ones, Capt. Miller, of the Franconia
saw to it that they were first
given the required rest.
Having learned that another boat
with 19 men, probably including
Capt. McDonald, still was missing,
and supposedly adrift, Capt. Miller
ordered the Franconia turned about
on a searching cruize. No trace of .
the second boat has been obtained.
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BLAMES MEDIATORS.
Charges Them With Failure of the
Rebels to Enter Mediation.
General Carranza Tuesday at Chihuahua
declared that the mediators
f Viomooloa wawa ? ? -1 * 1 -
wiivuioviuo ITOl D UH OU11JT lOHpUll HI U 1(3
for the failure of the rebels to enter
into the mediation conference now
going on at Washington. The Constitutionalist
leader says they attempted
to name the terms upon
which the rebels could enter and as
the Constitutionalists could not agree
to an armistice with General Huerta
the condition barred them from all
entry. lie says he accepts the decision
of the mediators as final and will
not enter the conference at all.
Colleton ?1 5
Charleston 8 10
Cherokee 6
Chester 6
Chesterfield 3 3
Clarendon 5 3
Darlington 8
Dillon 2 4
Dorchester 1 3
Edgefield . 8
Fairfield 6
Florence 8
Georgetown 3 3
Greenville 14
Greenwood 8
Hampton 1 3
Horry 6
Jasper 4
Kershaw 6
Lancaster 1 5
Laureno 2 6
Lee 1 5
Lexington 8
Marion 6
Marlboro 8
Newberry 8
Oconee 6
Orangeburg 12
Pickens 2 4
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Saluda 6
Spartanburg 16 ,
Sumter 8
Union S 3
Williamsburg 8
York 10
Totals . .47 291
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Frank Gets No New Trial.
Judge Hill Wednesday afternoon
at Atlanta overruled the motion made i
by the attorneys for L?eo Frank that <
he be granted a new trial. 1
HOW THEY BROKE
VOTE WHICH CAUSED OARRANZA
TO ABANDON MEDIATION.
HUERTA FACES TWO FOES
' Mediators
Are Hoping That Constitutionalist
Loader Will See Fit to
Ke-entcr Negotiations for the Pur
pose of Establishing a Lasting and
Permanent Peace.
The text of tho mediators' note to
Cararnza, which broke off relations
between them, stated definitely that
fill the differences which contributed
toward the present situation in Mexico
bear either directly or indirectly
on the solution of tho ponding conflict
between Mexico and the United
States and that "all these differences
should bo made the subject of consideration
in tho negotiations". They
also informed Carranza that they
considered a suspension of hostilities
as indispensable to his participation
in the mediation.
Tho text of the note the mediating
envoys sent Monday to Gen. Carranza
withdrawing tho invitation for a
Constitutionalist representative to
participate in the mediation was as
follows: "We have received your
telegram in which you are kind
enough to tell us that you deem it inconvenient
for tho Constitutionalist
cause to suspend hostilities against
Gen. Iluerta on the ground that such
suspension would only accrue to the
benefit of Iluerta and in w?\ich you
declare that tho international conflict
between Mexico and the United States ]
for whoso solution you accepted our
good offices is independent of the internal
strife in that country.
"Wo consider this unexpected
statement as inconsistent with tho
idea which caused us to offer our
good offices. We think, indeed, that
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an liio UUJ1V>U11K?? WHICH KilVU CUIJLributed
toward the present situation in
Mexico bear either directly or indirectly
on the solution of the pending
conflict between Mexico and the
United States. Consequently we
think that thece difficulties should be
made the subject of consideration in
the negotiations for whoso successful
conduct we have deemed it indispensable
to suspend hostilities.
"Should you not deem it so, we
would be compelled in that case to
withdraw as inopportune our invitation
for the appointment of representatives
of Constitutionalists in
such negotiations. We beg to assure
you of our highest consideration."
This note was sent in reply to one
from Gen. Carranza outlining his refusal
to enter into an agreement to
suspend hostilities against Huerta. A.
second message has been received by
the mediators from Carranza in
which he specifically asks them to
make definite the terms and scope of
the negotiations before he proceeds
to appoint representatives. No reply
was sent to this telegram, as the attitude
of the mediators was embodied
in the note above set forth.
The mediators are proceeding with
their general plans by which they
hope to bring about a peaceful solution
of the differences between Mexico
and the United States. They consider
it essential that hostile acts be
avoided and so long as there is no resumption
of hostilities they will continue
to feel that their efforts are
tending in the direction of a peaceful
settlement.
Outside of the mediators some foreign
diplomats took the view that the
elimination of Carranza and the limitation
of negotiations to amends for
indignities toward American soliders
and marines at Tampico and Vera
Cruz would bo a step in advance.
They pointed out that President Wilson
and Secretary Bryan had stated
that troops were sent to Vera Cruz
solely to redress these indignities. If,
therefore, the mediators could furnish
a formula for this redress, there
was no reason, they declared, why
the troops should not be withdrawn
and the present crisis as between
Huerta and the United States ended.
Other diplomats familiar with European
procedure, when foreign territory
has been occupied, were doubtful
whether the troops, once at Vera
Cruz, would or could be withdrawn
until a complete settlement had been
effected.
The military situation is affected
by the diplomatic status. Carranza
is active against Huerta, while Huerta
has his hands full in watching the
United States forces in Vera Cruz.
The American forces will not advance
while hostilities are suspended, unless
attacked, but even with the
truce; Huerta is hesitating to take
his troops from Mexico City to mass
thorn against Carranza. Strategically
Huerta has the United States forces
marking time in front of him and I
the Carranaz fores in his rear.
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Federals Are Reinforced.
The Federals at Tampico were reinforced
Tuesday by fifteen hundred
well equipped soldiers. Admiral
Badger wired the navy department
that firing in the streets of the town
continued. Federal troops have obtained
some big guns.
VETERANS MEET AGAIN
CONFEDERATES GATHERED AT
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
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Many Special Trains Bring Largo
i Crowds Into the City Where a
Royal Reception Awaits Them.
With thirty-odd special trains
reaching Jacksonville, and with every
regular train carrying from Ave to
six special cars, Confederate veterans
from all sections of the South aro
swarming to their annual reunion.
Every hotel is literally packed and
jammed with people and all private
residences where accommodations
could bo secured aro filled to overflowing.
Jacksonville is aflutter by day and
aflame by night, thousands of flags
floating to tho breeze from the lofty
buildings, while strings of electric
lights aro draped artistically across
every street in the business district.
Electrc signs and fountains, sending
forth great volumes of water, on
which is played different colored electric
lights, tend to make tho display
by night one of the most gorgeous
ever witnessed in tho South.
The Confederate Southern Memorial
association met Tuesday afternoon,
and Tuesday evening the Sons
of Veterans ollicially opened the Reunion.
Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock at Camp Kirby-Smith the first
meeting of tho Confederate veterans
was opened.
Wednesday afternoon the parade
of sponsors and maids took place,
hundreds of gaily decorated automobiles
being in line. Tho second
parade will bo on Thursday, when
the Sons of Veterans will have their
turn, then on Friday morning the
veterans will march through the business
streets of the city.
Camp Kirby->Smith is situated in
Springfield park, along the banks of
Hogan's Creek, and is pronounced by
veterans to bo ono of the most upto-date
places they have yet seen.
Rig brown army tents have been
erected under the shado of weeping
willows and giant oaks, and under
the feet of the old war heroes is a
carpet of nature's greenery which for
years has been under the keeping of
Jacksonville's park system.
With over 2,500 registered automobiles
the veterans will have no
excuse for walking, for all have turned
their machines over to the committee
and all during the afternoon
great lines of private cars were at the
union station, whore veterans were
taken aboard and distributed about
the city, while many wore taken out
for rides through the business districts
and through the beautiful suburbs
of Jacksonville.
Memphis, Tenn., moved to Jacksonville.
In other works, one of the
biggest delegations to come, came
from that progressive city, headed by
a brass band, gaily uniformed, and
with hundreds of loyal citizens carrying
banners in a parade from the
union station to the hotel headquarters,
bearing the words: "Memphis
in 1915."
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REBELS FORCE CONTRIBUTIONS.
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W'iin 1 i I. . *
<i vfuuij 1M.X11UUUI nno lU'iiisf l<>
Contribute wo Mistreated.
Letters from Guadalajara say many
of the better class residents of Durango
have been subjected to brutal
treatment by the revolutionists under
Valizto Con Contreras and Domingo
Arrietta. These leaders have been
short of funds with which to pay
their followers and have been making
forced loans from wealthier people of
the city. In case residents refuse to
contribute to the support of the revolutionists,
or through circumstances
are unable to pay, they are immediately
seized and placed in con finemen,
refused food and drink until
such time as their friends or relatives
1 produce the requested amount of
money.
Other victims are compelled to
walk barefoot over the magay anad
nopal covered hills. If this treatment
fails to yield the desired contribution
their families are forced from their
homes and obliged to seek refuge in
the neighboring mountains, while
their houses are ransacked and everything
of value confiscated.
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HUBRTA CHEERED.
Fear Is Felt For Americans and All
Other Foreigners.
A dispatch from Mexico City conveyed
to this country through the
medium of a code dispatch to London
says that Iluerta was vociferously
cheered by Mexicanss generally on
Tuesday. Anti-American demonstrations
are being renewed and although
no actual violence has taken placo
it is feared that Americans or other
foreigners may be attacked. These
demonstrations started Monday night
and continuod Tuesday.
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Minister Commits Suicide.
Because President Huerta refused
to accept his resignation Querido
Mohono, minister of Commerce and
Industry is reported to have committed
suicide in the Mexican capital
Friday. The news was received
by a Spanish newspaper at Vera Cruz,
but has not yet been officially confirmed.
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MEET IN CANADA \
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MEDIATION CONFERENCE WILL
MEET AT NIAGARA FALLS.
WILL TRY TO SETTLE IT
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Envoys Deride on Time and Place of
Meeting?Envoys to Proceed With e
a Chance of Inducing General Car- ?
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ranza to Reconsider His Refusal 1
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J and Enter Conference.. r
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i uv> IIIICD K3V?HIII AUHM ICilll HI1 VOJ8 |
who have undertaken by diplomacy f
to settlo Mexico's civil strife as well
as her national difficulties announce 1 f
Tuesday night that the tlrst formal j
conference with the different parties j
interested in Mexico would be held v
at Niagara Falls, Out., Canada, on
May 18. Secretary Brym made the ^
announcement for the three diplo- *
mats in a brief statement which read
as follows:
"The mediators have notified the (
different parties that Ntavnru Falls. (
Canada, has been selected as the t
place where the mediators will con- (
fer with .representatives of the dif- \
ferent parties interested in the med- j
iatlon and that the 18th of May has t
been fixed as the dato of the confer- (
enco to begin." i
The language of tho declaration i
attracted attention, for although tho
envoys had in a noto earlier said tl ey <
would withdraw their invitation for i
a Carranza representative, unless an 1
armistice between tho constitutional- 1
ists and Iluerta forces were arrang- '
ed, no specific parties to tho negotiations
were named in the state de- i
p a rt m en t announcement.
It later was learned authoritivelv :
that tho reason for this was due to
tho fact that a further effort was being
made to induce Gon. Carranza to 1
send a representative without seeking
to limit his agent to discuss of any
particular subjects. The American
government has not chosen its representatives.
President Wil3on and
Secretary Bryan and Lane discussed :
many names Tuesday. Tliey aro
seeking to get men of training in
diplomatic affairs. 1
A a vnf Uinrn lino Vww-vw* n.? ? 1
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basis of negotiations, neither the
United States nor<Huerta having set 1
forth their demands. It was learned
from a high administration official
that in all likelihood the United
States would not confine itself now to
a mere settlement of the incidents at
Tampico, but would aim to bring
about a solution of the whole Mexican
problem.
The disposition of Gen. Carranza
to eliminate himself from the negotiations,
if it should include a discussion
of Mexico's internal problems,
has not mot with the favor of administration
officials but they do not
think this decision is final.
Niagara Falls, Ont., was finally selected
as a place to hold the mediation
conferences because it is neutral
territory, yet in close proximity to
the United States. T?ie fact that
Niagara Falls is on the extreme border
of Canada, and is known more
as a scenic resort than as a political
centre, will remove, in the opinion of
many officials, any impression that
the negotiations are to take placo
on Canadian territory for diplomatic
reason 8.
At the war department it became
clear that no advance at Vora Cruz
was intended unless to repeal attack.
hut it wna known fV?r?f o ,i,.n,,;?,.
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courso of action had been outlined
in the event of a resumption of bos- ,
tilities at Vera Cruz and tho extension
of tho campaign towards
Mexico City. In that event Maj. (
Gen. Leonard Wood will be in su- ,
preme command with Gen. Funston ,
directing tho advance beyond Vera
Cruz, and Gen. Charles D. Bailey, of ,
the artillery, assuming command of ,
the base at Vera Cruz. This arrange- ,
ment, however, is wholly in the line ,
of prepardness and signifies no pros- j
ent purpose of being put into opera- ,
tlon.
Congress, after a period of silence
again was the sceno of a discussion
of Mexico. In tho Senate, Senator
Lippitt of Rhode Island, introduced '
a resolution calling on President Wilson
for information as to published
reports that it was tho administration's
purposo to aid Gen. Villa to <
secure tho presidency. During a brief I
but spirited discussion Senator Lodge i
read from a London paper a scath- i
ing denunciation of Villa. The res- <
olutlon went over. i
President Wilson and cabinet hold 1
the regular Tuesday meeting, but i
it was announced afterwards that i
only routine work had been consider- 1
ed. Secretary Bryan remained after <
I the cabinet meeting:, however, and I
it was understood he wont over with 1
the president tho entire status of the '
mediation negotiations and particu- <
larly the names of American dele- i
gates. The mediators discussed, 1
among other things, the throe Huerta
delegates now named, the United
States delegates and the cutting ott
Of CaiTauuft. *
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O'Shaughnessy Arrives. j
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, former U. t
S. charge do affaires at Mexico City t
arrived in New Orleans Tuesday. I
rwo WHITE MEN KILLED
l'ORK (OIXTY IS 8(^;NK OF I>RPLOKABLtE
TRAGEDY.
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[Vo Men Are Brained by Home Mftde
Bat as They Approach AIIejceA
Still.
J. K. Wells, aged 22, and Pink
^over, aged 37. both white, were killd
in a fight with J. Ed Turner and
ds son, Thad E. Turner, at the borne
?f Jim Mack, colored n.hnnt
nlles from King's Mountan battle
;round, in York county, Tuesday
light at about 11:30 o'clock. Both
ho dead men were brained with a
lome made baseball bat about three
eet long, made of cedar. They are
aid to have been engaged in man tincturing
and selling illicit whiskey,
loth the Turners aro In jail, havng
surrendered to the York county
lierlff early Wednesday morning.
None of the witnesses examined
estitied as to actually having seen
ho killing, and several who were
jresent seemed to know little or
lothing about, it. From such as
ould be obtained it seems that the
ieplorable affair was duo to the fact
hat Wells and Dover were both more
>r less under tho influence of whfstey.
It is said they had previously
isserted that they proposed to kill
:he next officers of the law who unlertook
to interfere with their business
or arrested them, and that they
mistook the Turners for officers.
Tho Turners aro farmers and lfve
i>n the public road about eight miles
above Yorkville. After a heavy rain
fall in that section on Tuesday they
decided to go fishing, and drove to
the home of Jim Mack, and left their
buggy there and went to the creek
near by to fish. They returned to the
house a short time before the killing
and found Dover and Wells, who mistook
them for officers, and are said
to have drawn pistols on Ed Turner
and ordered him to hold up his hands.
Mack testified that four shots were
fired, and stated that Turner bred
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... .v v> nun uiai nit; uiuer parties lirt^
twice, but stated that he was mot
near enough to see the movements nf
[ill i in; I'iii nt/Oi /viiG the SaCCviSg
was over it was discovered that both
Welle and Dover had been brained
mid were practically dead, and that
Dover had been shot in the right leg
below the knee
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KlhlilNU IN <UtKBNWO??~
Young Men (Jet Into D*fllcalty and
One hs Shot.
Will Stanley, a young eetten uiW
operative, was shot at Greenwood
Sunday morning by W. Ca! Stroud,
also a mill operative from WhKmioe.
and died at 11 o'cloek. The bisHet
entered the chin and trashed through
the base of the brain.
From the testimony adduced at the
inquest, held by Coroner Dock Owen
Sunday afternoon, it appears that L.
P. Stroud and Will Loveless decided
Saturday night to come over
Greenwood from Whitmlre. On their
way to the depot they met will Stanley
and persuaded him to come with
them. They arrived at Greenwood
about 3 o'clock in the morning and
were met by W. Cal Stroud, the wai?
who did the killing. They all four
went to the house of Mrs. Myrtle
Drown, on Pelxel street. Mrs. Brown
is a young widow, and had with her
her sister, Miss Bessie Sexton, and
Miss Daisy Dartin, all having a few
weeks ago moved there from Whitmire.
In the testimony it was stated that
the young men had thrco pints (
whiskey and that young Stanley pick^
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eu up a pisioi and shot twice through
a window, and then all four young
men went out and went to the store
of W. II. Hughes. It was then about
daylight. A quarrel, it is said, started
over Stanley's having carried the
pistol away from the house, one uf
the women having asked him not
do so. After a few words outside the
store a scuffle started, and shortly
afterwards, it is alleged, W. Cat
Stroud shot Stanley, as above described.
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BEING ItEIN FORCED.
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Mexicans at Vera (Yin Are Gaining
Strength Every Day.
A dispatch from Vera Cruz Tuesday
says that tlenoral Funston continued
tho strengthening of his lines
In order to bo prepared for any attack
of tho Federals who aro increasing
in strength before him.
Sailors on board tho battleships aro
being held ready for service if there
;iid is necessary to the army. It is
reported that the Federals are being
materially strengthened by the receipt
of several pieces of heavy artillery
which is being sent to them
from the interior. Those are being
iised by General Maas on his most
idvanced positions. Several tbousind
nioro troops have joined General
Vfaas since Monday night.
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Toddy Heard iRVom.
A dispatch from Para, Brazil,
Thursday announced that Roosevelt
von't run for president on the Republican
ticket in 1916, but may on*
he Progressive. He declares he will I
ake an active part in the fall campaigns.