The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 08, 1915, Image 1
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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, 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.
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RRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, F1
DNWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, JU1
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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,
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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
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; 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.
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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
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[RST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER"
LY 8, 1915.
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Fitzgerald in St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
BRYANT HEWITT IS
BEAD mii INJURY
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Ulan Injured in Accident at
Bucksport Recently Died
From Wounds.
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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.
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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.
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ATTEMPTED MURDER
AFTER DYNAMITING
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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
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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."
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LIGHTNING STRUCK
SEASHORE COTTAGE
, Endangering Lives of Several
Persons and Causing Shock
and Slight Damage
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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
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damage to the house was slight, as
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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.
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r TWKNTV-OM: AMEKICWNS
AMONG THOSE LOST
When the Armenian Went Down As
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} Target of the German
Submarine.
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, 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.
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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.