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Volume xxx. FIFTH OBSERVED I FOR JULY 4TH I ^Without Previous UudcrstandI ing Monday Became InI dependence Day I CROWD OF VISITORS m \ IU MTiilLt KtAUH 1 Parties Went to Different Resorts as Fancy DirectJ eel Them. !/' i The fourth of July came this year on Sunday. Without any previous understanding, so far as we are informed, the majority of merchants and { business men. of the town closed their places of business on Monday the 5th, > . and this was observed by most people the same as if it had been the real kh. , When-the regular afternoon train I to Myrtle lleacli left here about 1 :.??0 i u laimu quire ; nuniDer 01 excursionists who desired to spend tlie ^ evening at that delightfully 'cool place. The railroad company ran a special train hack to Conway after dark to bring back those \Vho did not ' <Tare to spend the entire night there. The large number of visitors came ' from nearly all sections of the county \ some from the branch line from Ay? nor and other stops along the route others came into Conway by private conveyance and either went to Myrtle Peach or spent several hours here and ? returned home. | 'The weather was remarkably cool in Conway last Monday night, owing | perhaps to the frequent showers of I rain. It was as cool in Conway as it was on the beach was the remark .some one made. - ?. Protracted Alerting July 12. A protracted meeting will begin at El Bethel (4 mile school) next Monda> night. July 12, and continue through the week. Service eaeh da vat S P. M, "Rev. E. 1.. McCoy will do the preachYou are urged to attend each servir?r> IW. ROY PHILLIPS, Pastor. k: Fine Egg Producer. Mr. and Mrs. L. II. Gillard of the Willow Springs neighborhood have in their flock of chickens a hen which, is remarkable for laying qualities. She lays an egg a day, and one day lasl f week heat the record by laying an eg? which was six inches in circumference a/ad more than twice as large as the Ordinary hen's egg. Legal Sales. .Land sales wore made in front ol the court house door last Monday b> sheriff J. A. Lewis as follows: Tract of <108 acres, more or less, ir ^Dog Bluff township, known as the estate of A. R. Singleton, went tc George J. Holliday the plaintiff in the case for the sum of $1675,00. A tract of 12 acres belonging to the estate of E. T. Lewis, dee'd., in Dog Bluff township went to W. C. Singleton for the sum of .$13.00. Another tract of forty acres in Little River township was advertised for ^ale, but was withdrawn from the lale at the time. Sixty-six acres in Little River township was sold under a mortiraire of W. I H. Grissptte and went to The M. B. I Thompson Co., at the highest bid of I $20.00. R One hundred acres, more or less; I was sold as the property of L. W. m ' I<|fdlam under mortgage held by the M. B. Thompson Co., and was knocked I down to that company at the highest I bid of $30.00. I One half acre in the town of ConI way was sold under a decree of fore closure against Sylvia Friarson and I was. knocked down to H. H. WoodI ward, attorney, for the sum of $26.00. I f A lot of logging equipment and ma| chinery was sold under a chattel mortI gage hold by Burroughs & Collins Co. I against W. H. Howell, and this was bid in by the holder of. the mortgage. (The "HOI C( FEAR OF TROUBLE RELIEVED BY PAGE Sinkinn nf Armoninn I oct w I a ? i vj \j n I UIIIUM b.UOi Week With Loss of American Citizens CAUSED BY EFFORTS MADE TO ESCAPE After the Armenian Had Been Warned by the German Submarine to Stop. Washington,?Latest news dispatches detailing how the British steamer Armenian, sunk by a submarine Monday with a loss of several American lives. tri?d to escape after being ordered to stop, caused officials here to believe the Gorman submarine officers conformed to international law and that the United States might have no reason to take up the subject; diplomatically. It was pointed out that the Armenian, under accepted rules, could be j . sunk for refusing to obey a warning to halt and submit to search. Ameri-I cans aboard such a ship lose protcc-1 i tion of their government when the , vessel offers resistance. Ambassador Page reported today , that the Armenian was engaged in "admiralty business." The law on the ' question of character is not clear, but 1 officials indicated it would not be a violation of American neutrality for I an unarmed transport carrying a cor go of munitions or supplies for a belligerent to sail from the United States, and that it never had been ; definitely determined whether belligerent cruisers on encountering such a| vessel were to treat it as a ship of war or a defenseless merchant man. The report that the German corn-; ' mander had megaphoned the Anne i nian to stop, encouraged officials to j , believe German naval officers might have been given new orders since the negotiations \v,ith iho United States . over submarine warfare began. From England, Aconmouth, Eng.,?There was 13 Americans among the 11) members of the crew who lost their lives in the ' sinking of the Leyland Line freight ' steamer Armenian by the German sub 1 marine U-38 off Trevose Head, Corn wall, on Monday. Some memebrs of t the crew were killed outright when 1 the German torpedo struck the ship. J When sunk by the German submai rine the Armenian was carrying a cargo of 1,422 mules from Newport News to Aconmouth, for use by the French armies. The vessel had a crew of 72 men and carried 90 men as * mule tenders, : / r The submarine first was sighted by the man at the wheel and though the i ship was pushed to the limit the mos. quito craft rapidly overhauled her and ( commenced shelling. The Armenian's ? efforts to keep her stern to the submarine were futile. ' o Herald Takes Blame. The article appearing in the issue of week before last relating to the In' dependence Day celebration at Adrian t last Saturday was ordered to be published twice so as to give better no tice to the people of this section and give them an opportunity to be pres 1. /N , eni. uwing to an error this article was left out of the issue of last week when it should have appeared the sec, | ond time. We are informed that some of the people interested ift the celbbra i tion blamed Mr. Kelly Tompkins for 1 this omission, thinking that he neg; looted to have the paper publish the article twice. We are glad to publish the fact that Mr. Tompkins was not to blame for he ordered us to publish 1 it twice. We intended to do this and made the arrangements accordingly and after all that, the paper went to press and the article in question got left out. We discovered the error when too late. The Herald tak^s the entire blame for this omission : nd regrets very much that it occurred. Pim: RRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, F1 DNWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, JU1 GOBBLE, K tii.- V *?.J >. *> /ii"'' '' , K I'M" t > - ' .1 . . ) . |v v I V i ^ ^ TWO ARE LYNCHED EY GEORGIA m I Negroes Suspected of Killing Farmer Shot to Death. Macon, On.?Two negroes arc known to have been shot to death by a mob near Round Oak and Wayside, l * two villages about thirty miles from; here, and authorities began a search, for others who arc missing. Telephone wires leading to the villages were cut and news of the lynchings did not become known here until j early this morning when sheriff's j deputies arrived with three negroes! who were be?ng held in connection! with the killing of Silas Turner, a! ! young farmer whose death precipitat-i led the outbreak of race feeling. | Turner went yesterday to the home , of W. If. King, a negro, near Round : Oak, to collect a bill from one of sevnvol /\f Ur\i? 1 ' * ; v im wim-i nc^i ucs wuu wi'ie inure. a j dispute resulted during which the farmer was shot with a pistol. The negroes then fled. Turner's body was found later by friends, who were searching for him. Plans were made to avenge his death and, according to the sheriff's deputies fully 500 persons composed the mob. The three negroes thought here gave their names as Will Gordon, Squire Thomas and Scott Farrar. All deny that they had any connection with Turner's death. An armed posse of about 100 farmers today continued their search of more than 24 hours for John Richey and Thomas Brooks, two negroes, believed responsible for the murder yesterday morning at Grays, in Jones county, of Silas Turner, a prominent Jones county planter. The two negroes lynched last night are now believed to have had no connection with the shooting which resulted in Turner's death. The men were Will Green and his son. i ??r . ~ will uordon, one of the negroes brought here for safekeeping is said to have confessed to the Jones county authorities that he saw the fatal shot fired, fie accuses Thomas Brooks, a negro yet at large with being the mur derer. According to Gordon's confession, Turner went to the negro's home near WEATHER For the Week Beginning Wed Issued by the U. S. We a the FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND E/ Fair weather, with normal tempo 1 four days, except that showers are coast. The weather wiil bo come uni the tenth and continue until the clos B *' [RST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER" LY 8, 1915. GOBBLE! , /*/ ! . ? I ^ t 1 j ' f, . A~-ld -^.<5v t -A7 -NC* w, ' ' ? 1 ? 111 in i i wwf >1 Fitzgerald in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. BRYANT HEWITT IS BEAD mii INJURY I Ulan Injured in Accident at Bucksport Recently Died From Wounds. ! About a fortnight ago, Mr. Bryant He\vclt,van employee in the shingle and lumber plants of the Richardson Cypress Lumber & Shingle Co., at Uucksport, was severely injured in tho! head by a piece of falling* timber. The force was at work tearing* out a timber slide used for hauling logs up out of the water. The piece of timber fell unexpectedly and striking Mr. Hewett on the head, made a serious ! wound from which he never recovered, lie suffered from his injuries until Tuesday of last week when he died, j He is survived by a wife. o Wheeler Gowans Caught. Wheeler Gowans, colored, who was recently committed to the county gang to serve a sentence of six years for forgery, and escaped therefrom after serving a few days; was again caught and placed back at labor last! week. After making his escape he remained in hiding for several weeks and eluded the officers who were looking for him. Last Thursday morning JL N. Sessions walked up to Wheeler's house and looked in to find Wheeler talcing a nap. A negro girl who saw j the officer coming ran into the house' to warn him but was too late. It is! believed that Gowans is the man who I entered the various residences in Con-j way recently and made ofT with money and other articles that were missing next morning as detailed in a recent issue of this paper. The constable found on him when taken a I small nickeled ticket punch but nothing else. At last accounts he had not! succeeded in /aiding the owner of the punch. Round Oak, seeking to collect a debt. The negro was not there. Brooks and two other negroes, according to Gordon nlotted In Hll AT?- Tuvhai. returned. Mr. Turner returned again in a few moments and while he attempted to enter another room. Brooks, it is said, shot him in the back of the head, killing Turner instantly. FORECAST ; inesday. July 7th, 1915 >r Bureau, Washington. D. C. 1ST GULF STATES: ratures, will prevail during the next probable on the south Atlantic j settled, with probably showers after e of the week. tmXi. ATTEMPTED MURDER AFTER DYNAMITING & .. Two Bullets Fired at J. P. Morgan But Not Fatal SET BOMB WHICH TORE UP CAPITOL Then Went to Glen Cove Where Attempt Was Made on Financier's Life. Glon Cove. N. Y., July 3.?J. P Morgan, head of the banking house o1 J. P. Morgan & Company, was shot twice today at his country home, neai here, by Frank Holt, a native American, a former student and inslructoi at Cornell University, who was t( have become the head of the depart ment of French in the South western Methodist University at Dallas, Tex as, next fall. Both shots took effect in the re gion. of the hip. A statement issued by specialists at his bedside, to niehl slnlod thnr thorn \v?u-n lift nn. favorable symptoms and that Mr Morgan was resting* easily. holt was over-powered by Morgai and Ilenry Kiske, the butler in th< .Morgan household, who grappled witl him in the hall-way. 111 tended No Harm, he was locked up in jail here am from his cell issued a written state ment saying* that he had intended n( harm to Mr. Morgan, but had conn to (lion Cove to persuade the hankei to stop the shipment abroad of muni' tions of war from this country. H< went into the Morgan homo, ho said with a pistol in his hand, a stick oi dynamite in his pocket- intending tc remain there till Mr. Morgan "die something." Frank Holt, who shot J. P. Morgai today, is the man who set the boml that exploded in the Capital at Wash ington last night. In a statement U Justice Luvster and Thomas Tunney head of the bomb squad of the detective bureau. Holt confessed setting the bomb and described it. As a missle of terror it was said to be unique in the annals of the New York police department. "I made this bomb," Holt is quotet as having said in his confession, "witl three sticks of dynamite, some matel heads and a bottle of sulphuric acid.' "Pretty slick," commented Tanncj "I don't see how you did it." 'Well you see," Holt answered, "1 had experimented on it before. Nol once, you know, but many times. 1 knew just what I was doing and jusl how to do it. T really didn't take anj chances, for all my observations hat been chocked up ami I knew when th< bomb would go off, almost to the minute. 1 knew how much time I had so I hung around while the acid was eating its way through the cork, pulled out my watch and said to myp/,1[f that it oiJ?"ht to hr? o-aJno' nvottv 1 ? i v ub*4 v vv ^ v i* * soon. And sure enough, it did gt pretty soon. Then T hurried away." Set Ho nib at 1 O'clock. According to Holt's confession h( went to Washington, from New Yorl< yesterday, arriving there about noon He wen to the Capital and set the bomb at 4 o'clock. Tie had timed the blast at midnight. After setting the explosive be strolled about Washington for several hours. In the evening he went to the Union station a few blocks from the Capital, and waited for the noise of the explosion. "I had two or three sticks of dynamite left over that I didn't need 011 the Washington job," he explained "so I brought them along to Glen Cove and intended to use them here if I had to." "Why did you want to blow up the Capitol?" Captain Tunney asked. "Well," Holt replied, "I thought that was a good way to bring the at tention of the American people to the terrible murders being committed ir Kui'ope. But what do you want to asl> me that for? I explained the whole thing in my letter to the editor of the Washington Times. I understand my letter was printed today." sr?3 ;3 $ NO. IS. LIGHTNING STRUCK SEASHORE COTTAGE , Endangering Lives of Several Persons and Causing Shock and Slight Damage ,v . * m 'J*' ' ONE YOUNG MAN ^ U. ' UNCONSCIOUS FOR HOUR ) Lightning Bolt Knocked Out a Column on Porch of Dusenbury Cottage Lightining plays pranks in this f county at times, l ast Thursday aft ternoon late, at the cottage of Mr. * C. B. Dusenbury, at Mrytle Beach, the latest manifestation took place. Mr. C. Ik Dusenbury, Mrs. Sallie Shasv and ' Mr. Frank Clark were all on the porch . when the heavy thunder cloud that Is . stiil remembered swept over this section of the country. Lightning struck one of the columns of the porch tcar| ing it loose and knocking it down. All throe persons were terribly shocked. Mr. Clark remained unconscious for an hour according to tho news 1 reaching' this point that night. The % damage to the house was slight, as 1 the building did not ignite. The Dusen'oury cottage is situate several I doors down the strand from the board walk. It is among the nicest cottages at the beach. Other members of the family were present at the cottage at the time it was struck but these cscaned unharmed. % o r TWKNTV-OM: AMEKICWNS AMONG THOSE LOST When the Armenian Went Down As 1 } Target of the German Submarine. ) , Washington, July 1.?The Leyland - Line steamship Armenian was "en; gaged on admiralty business" when - she was sunk by a German submarine 4 off the Cornwall coast two days ago. J Ambassador Pago at London reported to the state department today he had 1 been so informed by British admiralty i officials: i Consul Armstrong at Bristol, who ' sent first word of the destruction of r the steamer yeserday, reported to Ambassador Page today that 21 of the I 29 men lost with the Armenian were t Americans. He gave no additional [ names although previous lists includ t cd only 20 Americans. r The ambassador's dispatch gave no I further details on which the state de > partment could base consideration of the case. He said that as the Arme, nian carried no passengers, presum5 ably all Americans who perished were I members of the crew. g ty It was pointed, out hero, however, 7 that Americans sef!:i'ng cheap trans> portation frequently travel on such ships as passengers although they are signed on the ship's roll as members 4 of the crew. : The department expected further . dispatches from Ambassador Page ' and Consular Armstrong giving res ports of survivors to show . whether ' the ship was duly warned by the German submarine commander and ; those aboard her given an opportunity ' to escape. I Officials r?f tlm cfnnmBllin ^Ainr\nnii> v? mvv nmouij/ vv/uipaiijr have stated that the Armenian was not under charter to the British adi miralty, but was sailing merely as a , merchantman carrying contraband. [ o Sale at Daisy. Last Thursday the small stock of ; goods of J. W. Carter, at Daisy, S. C., was sold out at public auction under a ' chattel mortgage held by the Ameni can National Bank, of Wilmington, N. : C. Although the sale had been thor1 oughly advertised, there were only about two dozen people present. The ' goods were sold in parcels and went off very low.