The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 11, 1914, Image 3
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ELIMINATES SELF
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HUERTA PREPARING TO RESIGN
MEXICAN PRESIDENCY.
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DETERMINATION PUBLIC
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Representatives of Mexican Dictator
Announce at Niagara Falls That
Once Assure*! of "Political Pacification"
General lluerta Will Resign
His Ofllce for Hake of Peace.
Gen. Hiierta is preparing to resign,
lie Tuesday authorized his representatives
at the mediation conference to
[ announce to the world that "neither
mistaken pride nor personal interest"
would prevent his withdrawal when
once Mexico "is politically pacified"
and the government succeeding him
is so constituted that it can count on
the support of public opinion in Mexico.
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The Mexican delegates in their formal
statement revealed that they had
been instructed from the first to inform
the mediators that Gen. Huerta's
personality would not be an obstacle
toward reaching a peaceful settlement.
They also stated that the
internal situation in Mexico was "nec0
essarily bound up with the international
questions" and that this spirit
had actuated them in coining to the
mediation conference.
The statement by the Mexicans,
prepared two days ago, but not issued
until Gen. Huerta had telegraphed
his complete approval Tuesday of
* the tentative plan for a new provisional
government, also carried the
negotiations a long step forward. The
text of the statement follows:
"In accordance with the instructions
which the Mexican delegation
has had since the beginning of the
peace negotiations its members declared
at the first full conference;
that is to say, in the presence of the
mediating plenipotentiaries and of
the delegates of the United States of
America, that President Huerta per
sonany is not an obstacle to the
reaching of a satisfactory conclusion.
"Gen. Huerta is prepared to withdraw
from the government on condiC
tion that at the time of his withdrawal
Mexico shall be politically
pacified and the government succeeding
his shall bo such as to count on
the acquiescence of the governed and
^ on the support of public opinion,
which constitute the real bases for
peace and stability in any country.
"It has been and is President
Huerta's winh to place on record that
neither mistaken pride nor personal
interest will prevent his withdrawal,
once the above named conditions are
satisfied. Tne Mexican government
accepted the mediation of the South
American powers in a frank and open
spirit and the Mexican delegation has
^ been guided and will be guided in all
its acts by perfect good faith.
"It should be unnecessary to say
that President Huerta gave the Mexican
delegation special instructions
not to consent to anything which
could hurt the sovereignty of the
. Mexican nation and to refuse a hearJ
ing in the deliberations of the conference
to anything which might be
construed as an imposition from the
outside. For their own part, the delegates
would not have accepted instructions
of a different nature on
these points; but they beg to state
that hitherto they have had no occa
Bion to refer to them, thanks to the
* exquisite tact of tlie mediation plenipotentiaries
and to the circumspection
of the American delegates.
"To treat of the interior pacification
of Mexico in the course of deliberations
on difficulties of an internation
character can not be considered
as submitting the sovereignty of the
nation to-an external influence; said
pacification is necessarily bound up
with the international questions,
"This lias been appreciated by the
1 Mexican delegation and in setting
forth the intentions of its government
in tho matter and its endeavors to
1 bring about the pacification it has
b&fen inspired by the knowledge that
without it no satisfactory conclusion
can be arrived at in tho international
I question."
Just before the statement was issued
the Mexican delegates had a
long conference witli the mediators.
Afterwards they telegraphed Gen.
Huerta to send them the names of
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him for places in the new provisional
government, which is to consist of
two* men chosen bv Huerta, two by
the Constitutional ts and a neutral
provisional presid .it selected by common
agreement of all parties.
The first, four are to compose the
cabinet, but are to bo morally obllnted
by the terms of any agreement
reached at Niagara Falls to share
equally tlio responsibility of a fair
administration which will bo expected
not only to conduct a general election,
but to make a beginning on internal
reforms.
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* New Requirement Brings Money.
It was announced Thursday that
the requirement that banks pay 2 per
cent, on government deposits had resulted
in $1,4 26,713 being paid to
the government.
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Old newspapers for sale,
FRUITER IS FIRED ON
NORWEGIAN VESSEL BRINGS
NEWS TO CHARLESTON.
Went
to San Domingo for Cargo of
Rannnnas and Was Fired Upon by
Troops of Republic.
With plates battered from rifle fire
and one forbidding hole through the
six-inch wall of her steel deck house,
the United Fruit steamer Oregon,
Capt. Juel, which arrived in Charleston
Monday with 16,600 bunches of
banannas from Port Antonio, Jamaica,
brought with her an exciting tale
of having been under heavy fire.
The Oregon is a Norwegian steamer.
According to the story of the
chief engineer the boat, after taking
a part cargo at Port Antonio, Jamaica,
discovered that there were not
nnmiirli hnnnliAR iit flint nnrt tn fill
her. She then proceeded to Puerto
Plato, San Domingo. Anchoring off
the harbor r.t that port, the Oregon
hoisted the signal for a pilot. An
answering signal was hoisted to the
effect that tlio weather was too rough
for a pilot to get aboard the fruiter.
Bananas are perishable, and they
do not bear unnecessary delays. Moreover,
the water was quite calm. Capt.
.luel determined to try the passage
himself, and brought tlie Oregon safely
into the harbor. Ho dropped anchor,
and prepared to make arrangements
for completing the cargo of
bananas.
All was calm aboard the Oregon,
when of a sudden there came a brisk
volley of rille shots. Astounded, the
men aboard the fruiter leaped for
shelter, and they could hear the sinister
patter of bullets against the
plates as they hurried below decks to
safety. Before every one aboard the
Oregon could duck to shelter, however,
some strange things occurred.
Second Assistant Engineer Wurst
was sitting aft on a barrel head calmly
smoking his pipe. A stray bullet
knocked the pipe from his teeth and
the shock knocked the engineer from
his perch, it is stated. The barrel
on which he was sittuig was near to
the aft companionway and Eingineer
Wurst half tumbled, half fell down
mo stops ana into tne shelter or the
hold. He was not injured, nor was
any one aboard the Oregon.
Steward Sorenson was opening the
ship's ice box when the firing began.
The bullet which crashed through the
deck house also went through the
wall of te ice box and into a cake of
ice, where it was imbedded when
found after the excitement. Capt.
Juel has the bullet as a souvenir of
the occasion; it's from a .4 2 calibre
Remington. The shots were fired
while the fruiter was stern on to the
marksmen, and many of the aft plates
of the Oregon are battered in consequence.
The shots are believed to have been
fired by troops of President Bordas,
under command of Jose Puerez. It
is understood that the matter is being
taken up with the Norwegian authorities.
There were no passengers aboard
the Oregon at the time she was under
fire.
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SHOOTS TWO MEN.
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Conductor Charged With Wounds of
Sumter Policeman and Flagman.
Policeman T. P. Ward and Flagman
W. J. Thomas are in the Tourney
hospital at Sumter seriously wounded,
and Conductor L. W. Felder is in
jail, as the result of a shooting scrape
at the home of Felder early Tuesday
morning. Policeman Ward was shot
in the loft shoulder and Thomas was
shot in the left shoulder and in the
head. Felder is charged with doing
the shooting.
Conductor Felder, when seen Tuesday,
refused to make any statement,
but from what he is alleged to have
told the policeman Monday night
when he was arrested, it seems that
ho found Thomas in his homo when
he returned Monday night; that
Thomas tried to make a get-away and
Felder fired two shots at him. Policeman
Ward, hearing the shots, went
to the scene to investigate. As he
went upon the piazza, it is said, Felder*
opened fire on him through the
glass door, hitting him in the shoulder.
Both of the wounded men were
taken to the hospital and Felder was
taken to jaili The wounds, while
considered serious, are not necessarily
fatal.
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WILL NOT KMC AMP,
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Gov. BIcnsc Refuses io Allow State*
Militia to Go to August a.
Gov. Please has refused to allow
the South Carolina troops to participate
in the encampment of the Ninth
division at Augusta, Ga., assigning as
a reason that in view of the Mevtr-nn
situation lie does not think the troops
should leave the State. lie promises
that if the peace'conference results
satisfactorily he will take the matter
up for further consideration. The decision
was made known in a letter
from the goverior to the adjutant general.
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Small Boy is Browned. x \
While a group of his playmates
watched on the bank of the Chattahoochoe
river at Columbus, Qa., John
Corbett, eight years old, was drowned
TO BOOST TEDDY
PROGRESSIVES WILL TRY TO DISCREDIT
WILSON'S ACTS.
TO WORK ON PEOPLE
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Roosevlt's Recent Visit to Washing*
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ton Has Started Capital Talking? ;
The Prime Intention of Political (
Conspirators Is to Try to Put Teddy
in White House.
Little else was discussed at Washington
Thursday but the visit of Former
Prnciilonf lJnncovolt tr\ Woohinir.
ivvvuviviv tw i? wwuiii r-?
ton Wednesday. It is recognized that
his flying trip was fraught with much
significance, the real importance of
which may bo disclosed within the
near future.
Bearing on this trip and its incidents,
the Washington Star Thursday
said:
"The existence of a conspiracy to
hoist Col. Roosevelt on a high pinnacle
of popular favor at this time
for the purpose of minimizing President
Wilson's hold upon the people
and thereby defeating, if possible, the
latter's legislative program, is alleged
by Democrats of high and low de
gree. It is recognized at the Whit.*
House and in congress, it was said
Thursday, that the hand of a master
politician, whose home most of the
time is in New York, is back of the
series of newspaper explointations of
Col. Roosevelt as the only living
American who represents popular
views 011 canal tolls and the Mexican
situation.
"According to the view prevailing
in some quarters the exploitation of
Col. Roosevelt as the people's idol is
not from friendly sources, but the attempt
is to have the Senate and
House reach the conclusion that the
people have become so disgusted with
the Wilson administration they are
turning to Col. Roosevelt.
"Undermining in this way the influence
the president has had with
congress, the conspirators are represented
as hoping to discredit the president
so thoroughly that he will lose
in the Senate on the repeal of canal
tolls, be compelled to adopt a more
virile policy on Mexico and in the
end become so unpopular in his own
party as to bring to life and power
the elements in the Democratic party
that failed in the Baltimore convention.
"With Wilson eliminated as a future
power in the party the same influences
now boosting Col. Roosevelt
would, the Wilson Democrats say,
turn upon Roosevelt and pull him
down also.
"How much Col. Roosevelt has
been impressed with the necessity for
at once beginning attacks upon the
administration as weak and vacillating
on canal tolls and on Mexico by
the influences operating against the
man in the White House prediction
does not register.
"It is known, though, that the colonel
believes the chance is here to
revive the half dead Progressive party
by again burying the Republican
party, becoming trustee of its assets
and turning the combined Republican-Progressive
parties, probably under
the name of Progressive-Republican
party, upon an enfeebled and debilitated
Democratic party, the leader
of which, they will assert, has utterly
failed to sense and hold popular
favor.
"It became known Thursday that
the colonel has decided to cast practically
the entire future of the Progressive
party upon the senatorial
election in Pennsylvania. He will begin
within a month a personal campaign
for the election of Clifford Pincliot,
his long time friend and supporter,
to the Senate. If Pinchot defeats
Senator Penrose and Representative
Palmer, President Wilson's
friend. Roosevelt will use tUnf oa
positive evidence that the country has
no confidence in either of the old parties,
and will turn his attention to
letting the rank and file of the Republican
party know that if they expect
their wishes and desires to bo
correctly interpreted they must turn
to him and his party.
"High ^officials of the administration
do not express fear of Col.
Roosevelt's being taken back into the
arms of all the voters of tho country
as tho sole human being able to satisfy
public opinion, thereby bringing
about tho dissolution of the Democratic
party and oblivion for its
present leaders."
From this it will bo seen that the
next presidential fight is on, but how
the Democrats are to ho ousted with
i m u pri J.riiL recuru or acmevemoni
remains to be seen.
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Four Lives Lost in Firo.
Four members of tho family of
Patrick O'Brien were burned to death
when firo destroyed their homo at
Binghamton, N. V., Sunday.
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Converse College Closes.
Converse college closed its year
Monday when degrees were conferred
upon 4 2 young ladies.
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Huge Sum Paid.
The distilleries of Peoria, 111., have
paid to the government since 1901 a
sum of $408,425,861.
MURDER IN LEXINGTON |
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FARMER SHOT AXI) KILLER HY
SK\ ENTEEX-YEAR-OLD. 1
Roily Found on Piazza of . Those
Present at His Death?Slayer J
Claims Self-I)efense.
Jesse Howell, a white farmer, was .
shot and instantly killed by Willie
Sharpe, a 17-year-old boy, the son of
Noah Sharpe, a well known farmer
of Lexington county, about 9 o'clock
Saturday night, the shooting having
taken place on the front porch of the
home of Tillman Bush about IS miles
from Lexington near Gaston. Bush
is a son-in-law of Noah Sharpe and a (
brother-in-law of the boy who did the
shooting. ,
When officers of the law arrived a .
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ghastly sight greeted the party. Ly- (
ing on his back, the upper portion of
his body extending over the edgo of j
the piazza, the head hosting on tho
ground and the other portion on the
porch, with hands raised ever his
head, with a large two-bladed barlow
handle knife slightly clasped in r,
the right hand, lay Jesse Howell. ^
The big blade of the knife was open,
but there were no signs of bloodstains
to show that the instrument '
had been used. ^
The coroner's investigation began
at daybreak. An examination of 1
No-ah Sharpo, who claimed to have
been cut by Howell revealed a short *
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cut on the left hand and slight abra- J
sion across the chest, but the shirt ^
and other clothing of the man failed
to reveal any signs of having been c
slashed with a knife.
Noah Sharpe was the next witness,
lie testified that ho had just finished
supper and had come out on the *
porch and sat down 011 a chair, when
ho observed Howell coming through
the yard. Howell, he said, came up
to where he was sitting and asked: *
"Who is this," and he replied "This (
is Noah." To this he said Howell 1
replied, 'I'll get you now," with an
oath. 1
Sharpo said that he pleaded with [
Howell to wait and "let's talk it k
over", but instead of stopping he at- fc
tempted to cut his throat with a
knife which he held in his hands, and 1
was only prevented from doing so by 1
his own efforts. A second or two 1
later, he said, Willie Sharpe appear- 1
n,i 4K^ d ^1 u? 1.1.. 1
CU III 1.1113 UUU 1 Willi lilt? gllll 111 111b 1
hand. *
Howell made one step toward Willie
and had started to make another *
when lie was shot dead by Willie ^
Sharpe. The witness said that no 1
words passed between Willie Sharpe
an*! the deceased; that his son fired
at once and Howell never spoke after 1
he was shot. Solicitor Timmerinan
directed his inquiry toward the 1
knife. i
Sharpe stated that Howell had the 1
knife in his hand at the time he fell. <
It was brought out during the exami- t
nation of the witness that Tillman 1
Hush and his wife had had trouble <
with the dead man about six weeks ]
ago, a result of which the Bush's 1
had had Howell indicted. The old <
man disclaimed any knowledge of the ]
accusation his daughter had made <
against Howell.
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IvS STILL UNSETTLED. <
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Colorado Strikers and Operators Are
Unable to Get Together.
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Settlement of the Colorado coal
strike apparently is no nearer reali- i
zation now than it was weeks ago, i
according to statements by both ]
union officials and mine operators i
Saturday. Sixty-six persons are
known to have been killed and 4 8 (
wounded in the numerous battles and ,
disorders since the miners went on (
strike September 23, 1913 <
Eighteen strikers, ten mine guards, ,
19 mine employees, two militiamen, (
three non-combatants, two women <
and 12 children lnsf tlmir
Twenty had been killed prior to April
20, the date of the battle of Ludlow, j
Forty-six were killed during that tight ,
and the next ten days, when federal ]
troops stopped the warfare. ,
The cost of the eight months' industrial
conflict is variously estimated
at from $10,000,000 to $12,000,- ]
000. The figures include $700,000 t
the State spent in maintaining State .
troops in the field until the arrival of (
the federal forces; an estimated cost <
of $f>,92.r>,000 to the union and a loss
of "several millions" claimed by operators.
At present 1,71 7 United States
troops are guarding the mine proper- }
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Found Dead on Track.
Mr. John C. Varnodoe of Ridgeville ,
was found dead on the Southern Railway
tracks about a mile east of Dorchester.
It is questioned whether .
his death was the result of foul play
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Killed by Pitched Hall.
Fro 11k Rowdier of Rockville, Conn., <
was killed Monday by being hit by a (
pitched ball in a baseball game, which i
lie completed before fooling ill effects j
from the blow. j
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Senate Favors Rig Navy. r
The Senate Tuesday voted two new j
battleships, and a third, to be con- rl
structed by funds realized from the ?
sale of the old battleships Idaho and (
Mississippi. <
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CONDITION IS BAD1
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OTTOX CHOP IN BAD FIX, SAYS
GOVERNMENT REPORT.
STATE CROP FIGURED 72
>epartment of Agriculture Places Esc
tiuiatc of Cotton Crop Now Grow- i
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ing in the South at 71.8?Two ^
Years Have Been Estimated at 1
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Per Cent. \
The condition of the cotton crop of b
no country is tho lowest since 187 L
s ith exception of 1903 and 1907, the 1
lepartment of agriculture announced 1
donday. It issues statistics showing
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he condition on May 25 as 7 4.3 per
sent, of a normal, or 7 per cent, be- 1
ow tho ten-year average.
The low condition of the crop, it 1
vas said, was duo largely to exees- (
;ivo rains and exceptionally cool
lights in central and northeastern '
Texas, eastern and southern Oklaloma,
and southwestern Arkansas, (
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vliich brought the condition percentigo
in those states down to Co, C8 1
ind 7 9, respectively. In Texas many (
armors were obliged to replant sev- (
;ral times.
No estimate of the acreage plant- 1
;d to cotton will be made by the de- 5
lartment until July 1. Unofficial es- 1
imates of the acreage have placed it *
Tom 3.5 per cent, decrease to 1 per 1
:ent. increase.
In a detailed review of the condi- '
ions in the cotton states the depart- '
nent makes favorable report on the
progress of the crop in the heavy prolucing
sections of Mississippi and
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Georgia, Artansas
and Alabama. In Texas, says
he statement, "cotton is making one
>f the poorest starts witnessed in
many years.!'
The Mississippi crop is probably
:en or 1 2 days late and there is some
jomplaint of weevils, but "taking the '
State as a whole," the department 1
;ays, "conditions are excellent."
In parts of Oklahoma, the department
says, tho crop will average as
iiuch as three weeks late, while too
much rain in lower sections has presented
cultivation. In semi-arid regions,
however, tho crop is declared
:o he in excellent condition.
While tho crop is declared to be
ten days to two weeks late in Alabama,
general conditions of cultivation
are regarded as excellent. Cool
weather has retarded growth somewhat
and weevils are resulting in the 1
southwestern portions of the State.
By far the most, promising conditions
to be found in Texas are in the
lorthwest where "rains have given
the best asset of moisture in six or <
sight years". In the greater part of
the State, however, excessive rainfall
has retarded planting and cool weath- (
3r has caused poor germination.
Much replanting has been necessary, i
Rains have ceased in the other parts <
t)f the State and great activity is reported.
Sunshine for a week or ten
lays the crop can bo well cleaned."
The early planted cotton in Georgia,
"consisting of probably 80 per
sent, of the total acreage," is report- ,
3d in good condition. "A small portion
of the crop is not up and will ,
not come up until it rains," adds the
report. The Georgia crop is esti- ,
mated to be about a week late.
In North Carolina the crop is about
two weeks late, duo to dry, cool
weather. The early planted cotton,
however, is reported as in almost perfect
condition."
Dry weather is held responsible for
he backwardness of the crop in South
Carolina, where "probably 2 0 per
?ent." is reported as not up to a
stand. Drv \viml? lmvn tm/mctjitotn.i
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much replanting, and rain if? needed
to germinate the late planted seed.
'The cotton standing is in almost
perfect condition," says the report.
Louisiana conditions are declared
to be "too wet or too dry, but generally
the crop is satisfactory." Some
late planted seed is not up and the j
:rop averages two weeks late. i
"Southwestern Arkansas," says the
report, "has had entirely too much
rain. The fields in that section are
foul with grass and weeds, and a por- ,
tion of the crop still is implanted. In
the heavy producing sections -of the ,
3tato conditions are favorable."
In Tennessee only about threefourths
of tlio crop is up, and "the
plant is perhaps only half as large as
it should bo at this time. It lacks 1
trlgor, the color being rather poor."
Some sections of Florida have suf- '
fared poor stands on account of dry 1
Aeather but plants arc well cultivat- *
3d.
Comparisons of conditions on May <
25, by States, follow:
10-vr. ]
19 11 1013 1012 10 1 L-aver. 1
Virginia . 83 8.1 89 0,?> SO 1
S\ C. . . .70 76 87 ?3 S3
3. C. . . .72 08 83 8 0 7 0
icorgia. .80 GO 7 1 02 80
Florida. .82 S3 7T> 07 8 4
Alabama .85 75 71 01 80
diss. , . .87 81 72 80 79
Louisiana 82 81 60 91 7S
rexas. . .65 84 86 8S 81
Vrkansas 70 85 73 S7 SO
rennessee 80 87 74 83z 82
Missouri .86 00 74 86 83
)klahoma 68 87 78 87 84
3ftl. . . .100 96 96 9!? ,
MOB ATTACKS AUTOISTS
HUES TO AVENGE DEATH OF LITTLE
NEW YOItK GIHTj.
ilrl Rushed Itefor? Astonished Driver
Suddenly With No Possible Chance
of Escape.
Police revolvers were drawn Sunlay
afternoon to disperse an angry
nob which sought to avenge th?
leath of eleven-year-old Teresa Marucci
of New York ,killed by an autol.obile
driven by Wm. Necker, a New
fersey undertaker, whose small son
vas with him. Police investigation
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V4V41V1J Vi WVyt 111 HUM turn I UT1
1 river was in no way to blame Tor
he accident, the child suddenly runling
into the path of the car.
Hefore the Neekers could ascertain
he injuries of tlie girl, men and wonen.
mostly Italians, swarmed from
lie tenement houses, and a dozen
lien, armed with any object that
anie to their hands, charged upon
lie automobilists, shouting threats to
till.
They ran into hallways, only to be
1 riven out hv tenants. They were
>oing surrounded when the elder
S'ocker, almost exhausted, saw tlio
ipen door of Dominick Scocozza's un.lertaklng
shop at 207 1 First avenue.
"Clet in there, Will," he shouted to
lis son, and led the way into the
store. Scocozza sent the two men fo
the rear, bolted the front door and
stood guard with a club. Within a
few seconds several hundred people
besieged the shop, brandishing strips
3f wood or with stones in their hands,
and shouting to Scocozza that unless
he opened tlie door they would storm
the place.
While the undertaker was parleying
with the crowd, Policeman McN'amnra
forced his way through tho
mob. With his club he made a clearing
in front of the door and ordered,
tho refugees to telephone to police
headquarters for help. When a dozen
street reserves reached the store the
crowd had forced McNaniara to a wail
and was about to break in the doors.
Drawing clubs and revolvers the
police formed a Hying wedge and
drove back the crowd. The Neekers,
surrounded by policemen, wero led a
half block to their car, where the
crowd again charged and wero again
driven off. Part of the crowd followed
the auto and reserves to the
police station. A part remained,
about the dead child.
Y ET EH A X S PARADE.
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Close Annual Reunion at Anderson
With Monster Pageant.
After selecting tlio city of Columbia
as the next meeting place and reelecting
all ofllcers for another year,
the business session of the State reunion
of Confederate Veterans at Anderson
came to a close early Thursday
afternoon. , The ofllcers re-elected
are: Gen. B. H. Teaguo of Aiken>
division commander; Gen. U. Rl
Brooks of Columbia, commander of
thc First brigade; Gen. C. A. Reed of
Anderson, commander of the Second
brigade.
More than 15,00 0 persons witnessed
tho grand parade, which closed
the State reunion of Confederate Veterans.
The parade was led by a cordon
of police, followed by the marshals,
the First Regiment Band( the
Palmetto Riflemen flag borne by V.
A. McDavid of Greenville, and four
ladies, the remnant of PalmettoRiflemen
(twenty in number), about
700 Confederate Veterans, the Second
Regiment Band, the local military
company, the Boy Scouts, Ziort
school band, trucks of the fire department.,
decorated automobiles, voter
ans in automobiles. Sons of Veterans
ami many decorated buggies and carriages.
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Automobile (Joes Over Hank.
Samuel I.ong and a child of Ridvmond,
W. Va., were killed when
automobile in which they wore rating
went over a high embankment.
Sun day.
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Aviator Dies in Ocean.
Oustave ITamel, a young Englishman,
attempted to cross tho English
channel in an aeroplane Sunday, but
fell In the water. No trace of him
can bo found.
Kobbers (Jagged wKi.v.
Nine robbers early Tuesday bo met
and gagged six employees of the
l.awroncc Ice Cream company In Chicago,
escaping with between. $2,000
and $3,000.
For purposes of comparison, tho?
condition of tho cotton crop in tl\w
Fnitecl States monthly and the estimated
yield por aero in pounds of
lint for the past 10 years aro given
below:
May June July Aug Sept
-o Z o 2 o 25 2 &
1^13 . . .70.1 SI.8 70.G 68.2 64.1
1012 . . .78.0 80.4 76.5 74.8 09. ft
101 1 . . .87.8 88.2. 89.1 73.2 7 1.1
1010 . . .82.0 80.7 75,5 72.1 65.9?
1009 . . .81.1 74.6 71.0 63.7 5S.:"v
1008 . . .70.7 81.2 83.0 76.t 69.7
1007 . . .70.5 72.0 75.0 72.7 67,7
1906 . . .84.6 83.3 82.0 77.3 71.ft
1005 . . .77.2 77.0 74.9 72.1 71.5
1004 . . .83.0 83.0 91.6 84.1 7f>.?
\ver.. . .80.4 60.7 80.0 73.4 68.G