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I * \ * t * VOLUME XXX. PARTIES CLEARED FROM GAME LAWS Were Charged With Fishing in I Inclosed Lake on Graham 4 Place HOT FIST FIGHT t FOLLOWS VERDICT o ? ^'Aluch Feeling Aroused Over : Matter in The Magistrate Court Here. ifIn the Magistrate court here last | Friday, D. H. Russ, J. W. Sparks, J. P. Graham, Sr., J. P. Graham, Jr., Ben f Cox and Lispen Lupo, were all cleared by the court of a charge of violation' of the game laws of this State. The warrant charged that the defendants violated the game laws on May 6th, by fishing in the inland waters of the State, etc. The case had been pending for some time having been put off a time or two it is said. The testimony showed that the fishing was done in a small inland lake entirely surrounded by the lands of Mr. J. P. Graham, Sr., one of the parties charged with his son in the warrant. It appears that this lake has no outlet to the river and that it takes a freshet of about three feet in height in order that the river waters m o i r fi nr inf a Kit* lnlrn 4I1WJ 4 IV/ *T ill 1>V7 til KO 1UI\Ci I Mr. Olen Stanley, it is stated was the informer in the case having telephoned the game warden, Mr. 0. Aft H rrelson at the time the fishing was done. After the trial last Friday and a verdict of not guilty had been rendered, there were some words between Mr. Stanley and Mr. Russ, one ?i ? A? 1 iL- A.? i - - ? y/L LUC IIC1.CIUIU.I1LO, U1IU LI IC LWU L 11I1LI1ed in a hand-to-hand fight on 3rd ! Avenue. The fight was fierce while it lasted and some signs were left on : each of the parties engaged. , o TRUSTEES URGED TO GALL FOR AID BLANKS To the Trustees: Trustees of special districts that get State aid or term extension are urged to employ a teacher as early as possible if you have not already done so arX* when you are in Conway on my | office days call at the office and sign your blanks for your State aid. If it is not convenient for you to come to Conway, write me giving the name of your teacher's grade of certificate and the salary which you have agreed to pay. I have the blanks and I am anxious for us to fill them out as early as possible and file them with the State SuAt. of Education in order that Horry fc applications may be among the first to be paid. Trustees nf Rural Craned Sehnnls will please notify me of the date of the opening of their school so that I can furnish you the special blank which your teachers will fill out from their registers at the close of the first month. Prompt attention to the above will fadlitate the work of this office very much. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation. ?. H. BROWN. o Rural Carrier Examination. i^The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an examination for the County of Horry, S. C., to be held at Loris on August 28, 1915, Jjp^jfill the position of rural carrier at Loris and vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from other postoffices in the above-mentioned county. The examination will be open only to male citizens who are actually domiciled in the territory of a post office in the county and who meet the other requirements set forth in Form No. 1977. This form and application blanks may he obtained from the offices mentioned above or from the United States Civil Service Commlssidt at Washington, D. C. Applications should be forwarded to the Commission at Washington at the earliest practicable dale. o FALL OF WARSAW , ? MATTER OF HOURS London, July 30?Warsaw, the third city of Russia and the goal of which the German armies have been striving since October, is at .least in the throes of abandonment. Germans, In overwhelming numbers, are almost at the gates of the Polish capital and dis patches both from the city itself and injfr Petrograd say that further resistance would be unwise. mt "HC l RUSSIANS AWAIT CRITICAL POINT Like Spider in Web Watching Attack Says War Cor' respondent \ HARDEST FIGHTING ON SOUTHERN LINE , Germans Said to be Gaining Slowly and at Tremendous Cost. London.?Telegraphing from Petrograd The Morning Post's correspondent says: "There is a marked difference in the manner in which the Russians arc dealing with the attacks on the northern and southern fronts. The lattei is the scene of hard fighting, inch b> inch, and the Germans have made nc general progress here but are making prolonged pauses over the greater poi tion of their front in order to detach reinforcemtns for the purpose ol bringing into line the backward sections. '"fliere is also fighting in tropica heat which makes even existence burdensome. The Russians have not vel been put to any severe strain and deal with the German attacks faithfully wherever they are delivered. More than two-thirds of this front, namely from the Vistula to the Viepriz, is quiescent. o THE COUNTY FAIR TO OPEN OCT, 12TH I ! > N The first moeeting- of the Horrj County!" Faf^'Association for 1915 was hehl last Monday at the Farm Demon stration Office. It was decided tc make the fair association a corporation and each of those who had al ready paid a subscription, a stockholder. The shares will he $5.00 eacl land the corporation is to ha\e a capii tal stock of $500.00. The following* officers and directors I were elected for tl/s year: D, A I Spivey, President; Paul Quattlebaum ! V.-Pies.; J. W. Little, Secretary; C. J i Epps, Treas; Miss Annie Derham, Su j perintendent Womens' Division; M : W. Wall, Superintendent Farmers' Di vision; S. H. Brown, Superintendeni Boys Clubs Division; C. R. Scarbor ough, P. W. Bethea, L. H. Burroughs F. G. Holliday, are also on the board The Fair will be held in the Plant ! ers Tobacco Warehouse and will oper its door on the morning of Oct. 12th and will last through the 15th. SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST NEGRO A negro employee at the Andersor mill near Conway was given a pre liminary hearing last Monday before Magistrate Chestnut on the charge of a nameless crime. The witnesses against him were two small boys, son: of Calvin Montgomery. The investi gation was adjourned by the court foi the purpose of seeing the location ane will be concluded next Saturday. The negro's friends deny that he is guilty of any such charges. a Handled Rattlesnake. While curing tobacco, one nigh last week, Mr. T. Daggett Chestnu rittO ^ Av\nrnt? litAMi ?i/\n v* /I Urt V. .1 1*1, ii^ui wii wo^v, went luuiiu ueiimu in* barn to open an air vent. As he plac eel his hand in the vent he took hole of the tail of a rattlesnake but manag ! ed to turn loose before he was bitten The snake measured about three fee , in length. Mr. Chestnut was consider 1 ably frightened by the occurrence. ? o LUGIAN JORDAN SEVERELY CU1 Early last Monday morning it is re ported that Henry Anderson and Jo< Powell went into the field in th< Maple section where Lucian Jordai was at work, and Henry Anderson cu i a gash ten inches long in the arm o , Jordan. The parties had some diffi culty on Sunday, the day before. An derson and Powell were arrested late: [ in the day "barged with assault an< battery with intent to kid o Ice Cream Supper, i There will be an Ice Cream Suppe , at Tilly Swamp School House on Fri i day evening, Aug. 6th, 1915, als< I special music will be furnisher thorughout the evening by the Nix onville string band. iion >RRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE/F CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY NONPARTISAN pw vsk*a? S'Cj i'- '< * ? $ D> ISEASE . 'Ss^ ^D*jfcyjQ ^ DO WE APPj r J You may be sure we do. The fo 4 I that we have received during the pas Herald is appreciated as a good cour 1 are willing to prove that they appre< newals and past due subscription. r This letter here re-produced is \\ 3 made good in the business world in a t treasurer of the Dixie Chemical Co., Mr. H. H. Woodward, Editor, Conway, S. C. i Dear Sir:? T am enclosing you herewith cas > extend my subscription to The Hon Your paper continues to improve tive home, yet I love to read the He ry County. With best wishes for tt t , We want to mention another letl the confederate war, and who is now i in Horry County. His letter states ' owes for the paper before the Fall, t taken it for many years and has alw without it. If we have not yet heard from > | ter without delay and send us in whi . SAYS EATING OF BEANS i CURED HIM OF PELLAGRA 5 5 That the eating of beans cured him r of pellagra is the statement of Mr. A. 1 F. Blizzard, No. 1103 South Eighth 3 street, who called at The Star Office / yesterday. He is a member of the street force of the city of Wilmington and appears to be hale and hearty. He .QflVC fV\nf Ha wtcio vc?f offn/?1ra/1 f^^ u vatuv ?v ? uu Hid UbkUV. I\CU UJ Ull" disease about six years ago and that [ he was treated by a number of Wilmington physicians without deriving s any relief. At that time little was " known of the nature of the disease. About one year ago Mr. Blizzard says he noticed in a government pub lication that eating beans would cure 1 the disease aijd that he determined to try this. Since that time he has taken no medicine nor has he been troubled with the disease. He is a native of Bladen county and is greatly interested in the campaign which it is planned to wage in that p county against the disease which is said to be rapidly spreading in that section. Mr. Blizzard wishes to recommend the bean cure as he believes it will be of great help. 3 . ? 5 A Ncwberrian found a twin tomato i in his garden a few days ago, fastened t together by a small tomato the exact f shape of a heart. j WEATHI i For the Week Beginning We Issued by the U. S. Weat r FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND ] Generally fair weather will prevJ 1 are probable in the Florida peninsu B *> IRST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER" I, AUGUST 5, 1915. EFFICIENCY. 7 j \ * * 1 . - v ? K \ ^EAXH t 8 ?J o ?Milwaukee Leader. 8 _ r RECIATE IT? e P V llowing letter is only one among many >t several weeks, showing that the a lty paper, and showing that it readers G ziate the paper by paying up their re- 1 a t rritten by one of Horry's sons who has i i distant state. He is secretary and t , of Nashville, Tenn. The letter follows: t c 1 h $1.00 for which I kindly ask that you v y Herald one year. c ! and while I am far away from my na- r irald and learn what is going on in Horle success of your paper, I remain j Yours very truly, I L. G. McNabb. t ber that we received from a veteran of \ r about 80 years of age. He resides } that he will gladly pay all that he J J' hat he loves to read the paper and has ^ 'ays liked it, and would not feel right a 'ou, kind reader, then look up the mat it you owe as soon as you can. ? _ .. - <: ' SIX BLAMED FOR : RIVER HORRORSi r t Chicago.?A coroner's jury returned a verdict placing the blame for the v loss of hundreds of lives by the cap- s sizing of the steamer Eastland in the v Chicago river Saturday on six men as a follows: j William H. Hull, general manager ^ i of the Chicago-St. Joseph Steamship v company, owner of the Eastland; Capt r T-Tnrrv P#>fl^vaon r?f flin TPo of lovwl T M < a M J A V/vivy I nv- 1 l \/l 1,11V/ 1 O t I ? 4 I III J U ATI. Erickson, engineer; Robert Reid, federal inspector of steamships, who o gave the Eastland license to carry 2,500 passengers July 2, J. C. Eckliff, n federal inspector of steamships; W. r K. Greenebaum, general manager of y the Indiana Transportation company, J lessee of the Eastland. The jury recommended that these ^ men be held to a grand jury for in- t dictment on charges of manslaughter. (J The jury foiind that the passengers ; were not in any way to blame for the {| capsizing of the ship. It recommends h 1 further investigation by the coroner s and other officers to determine wheth d the men named and others may be i guilty of negligence or of contribut- I , ing in any way to the cause of the r disaster. f ER FORECAST \ S dnesday, August 4th, 1915. J her Bureau, Washington. D. C. EAST GULF STATES: t c l il, except that local day showers s 1 a. Temperatures nearly normal. h t mM. * * IECKER ENDS IN j ELECTRIC CHAIR )eclaring to The Last His Innocense of The Murder unarges .ED THE WAY TO THE DEATH HOUSE )ied With Photograph of His Wife Pinned Over His Heart. All efforts to put off any longer he execution of Charles ft. Becker in >Iew York, convicted about three ears ago of complicity in the murder if Herman Rosenthal, a gambler, ild last week, and Becker gave up hope hat had sustained him in a long fight n the courts. He was put to death in he electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, )ssining, N. Y., las^t Friday morning. The former New York police lieu enant retained his composure andirotested his innocense to the last, le went to his death with a photograph of his wife pinned on his shirt ver his heart. Three shocks were ;iven before the prison physician prolounced Becker (lead at 5:55 o'clock. Becker led the way to his own exeution. He sat up all night on the dgs of his cot, calmly talking to De?uty Warden Charles H. Johnson. "I have got to face it," said Becker, and I'm going to meet it quietly and without trouble to any one." The deputy warden left Becker ibout an hour before the time set for xecution and when the priests, Fathr W. E. Cushin, the prison priest, and leather Curry, of New York, came to dminister the last rites they found he condemned man with his face restng on his hand gazing at the prison loor. The priests remained with him o the end. Leads Death March. Shortly after 5 o'clock the first of he witnesses began to assemble outside the prison walls. Quietly their lames were checked off by Deputy Varden Johnson. Then the witnesses cere led to the place of execution in he death house adjoining the old exeution chamber, where the four gunnen were put to death over a year go for killing Rosenthal. When the vinesses were seated Deputy Warden ohnson nodded to Principal Keeper rred Dorner and they left the room hrough a small wooden door that led o the death cells beyond where Beckt was praying with his spiritual addsers. Becker rose to his fee twhen he saw 'ohnson and took a crucifix from the land of the prison priest. To Father 2urry Becker gave his last message is he took his place at the head of the ittle file of men that marched to the oom of death. His message was: "I am not guiity by deed, or conipiracy, or in any other way of the leath of Rosenthal. I am sacrificed to ny friends. Bear this message to the vorld and my friends. Amen." The one time police officer hesitated is he entered the execution room. It corned to the witnesses as if he was tartled that the death chair was so lear at hand, lie looked quickly at he double row of witnesses, glanced it the floor, swept with his eyes the chitened walls of the room and then uddenly, as if coming to himself calked briskly over the rubber mat ml eniiirwl himenlf .. ?V? v\? llJtti * M. ill vnv VIVVH IV VIICllJL lehind Becker followed the prison iriests chanting the prayer of death, vhich was repeated by the condemned nan. Two Shocks Given. "Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy n my soul," nervously spoke Becker ,s deputy wardens stepped forward nd adjusted the electrodes. Hardly a ninutc elapsed before the electrode /as applied to the right log, a slit havng been previously cut' in the trouser pg from the knee down. After the lectrode had been firmly adjusted gaintst a shaven spot on the back of ho condemned man's head the State xecutioner looked at Deputy Warden ohnson who surveyed the figure that /as still mumbling the death prayer n the chair. Johnson half turned his lead and the executioner jammed the witch. The first shock lasted a full minute nd the executioner said that it was ,850 volts and 10 amperes in strength t came while Becker was still comnending his soul to his Maker. The two prison physicians stepped orward to examine the collapsed figire supported in the death chair by he thick black leather straps. The tnd Dr. Charles Farr, the prison phyician, pressed his finger against an irtery in the neck. There was still a eeble fluttering of the heart. The physician stepped back from he rubber mat and again the electric urrent pulsed throught the body. The hock lasted seven seconds. After a lasty examination, Dr. Farr asked hat a third shock be given. This last id five seconds. An examination that 9E a i NO. 17. CASE IN COURT 9VER SHARE CROP O Joe E. Smith Claims He Was Ousted From Tobacco Pntrh MVVII EMPLOYED LAWYERS RECEIVER ORDERED Mean Time, Landlord W. P. Floyd, is Caring for Crop. Last week Judge Bowman at Darlington, S. C., signed an order, on motion of Messrs. Gasque & Page, attorneys for Joe E. Smith, providing for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of a tobacco crop. The crop in question is three acres of tobacco planted on shares by Smith for W. P. Floyd in Galivants Ferry township. The complaint in the ease was served on W. P. Floyd some days before the order providing for the receiver. In the complaint it is alleged in substance that Mr. Floyd refused to allow Mr. Smith to cure this crop in a certain barn on the premises and re ; j i . . quireci mm 10 carry it to another tobacco barn some distance away on the Currie place, and that he had been prevented from gathering and curing his crop according to the agreement of the parties. W. P. Floyd has filed his answer in the case in which he alleges that the plaintiff Smith fell out with him lately concerning the fertilizer for a potato patch, because Floyd could not furnish it, that hard language was used, and that Smith got very mad and quit the tobacco crop of his own accord. The answer also alleges that it was understood from the first that the barn on the Currie place was to he used after the croppings got so large that the barn on the place would not take care of them along with the other crops of the def nf In the meantime Mr. George J. Holliciay was appointed in the order as receiver to take charge of the crop and gather and market it and hold the proceeds subject to the order of the court. Copies of the order appointing him were served on Mr. Holliday. We are not informed whether Mr. Holliday agreed, to accept the position of receiver or not. In the meantime the defendant, Mr. W. P. Floyd is taking care of the situation* it is said by gathering and curing the tobacco in the usual way. A v FORMER HORRYITE CANDIDATE IN MISS. Mr. E. E. Todd, who emigrated from Horry to tlie State of Missouri years ago, has enjoyed success in his adopted State. Having successfully engaged in callings of private life he was elected to the position of Justice of the Peace, which is an important office in that State as we are informed, and carries with more dignity than the office of Magistrate does in South Carolina. Mr. Todd is now a candidate for the office of representative from Greene County, Miss., and the indications are that he will be elected by a largo majority. He married in Mississippi and thereby that State did him one good deed in granting him one of her fairest damsels for a life companion. Mr Todd now thinks it will do him another and elect him to the office he seeks/ <V CHEERING NEWS FOR WASHINGTON Encouraging reports reached Washington, last week, as to peace prospects in Mexico, although no indication had come that Gen. Carranza would1 yield to another request from the United States to join in peace negotiations with other Mexican leaders. Intimations have been conveyed to administration officials, however, that joint peace deliberations of all factions can be arranged under conditions acceptable to Carranza. o New Fire Well. The town authorities have just com' pleted a new fire well in the Gully section of the city. This well cost about $80.00 less than any of the othi er fire wells ever put in by the town. stethoscope was applied to the heart took several minutes followed. Three physicians among the witnesses then made an examination and Dr. Farr, at j 5:55 o'clock, quietly announced: "I pronounce this man dead."