Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 342. rTeeUy, E.tabUshed i860; D?fljr, Janis, ?1?. ANDERSON, S. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1914. $5.00 PER ANNUM PRICE FIVE CENTS WAR DECLARED BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA GOVERNOR REI LESS THAN FIFTY PRISONERS PENITENTIARY-CLEMEN! 1,430 CONVICTS BY THE 1911-INCLUDED IN LIST 'FENCES--FIFTY-FOUR Al PAROLES CONDITIONED FROM USE OF INTOXICA! (By Associated Press.) COLUMBIA, 8. C., Nov. 26.-Gover nor Blesse .late, today, granted par dons, paroles or commutations to 701 prisoner? now serving sentences in the South Carolina -penitentiary or In the county, convict squads. There will be fewer than 60 ' prisoners left in the State- prison- herv tomorrdw. Clemency now has been extended to 1,430 prisoners .by .Ute governor since he assumed office in January, 1911. His second term as the State's chief executive will expire January 12, 1915. Included in the list of prisoners re leased by today's action were 16 serv ing life sentences for murder, 31 sen tenced to from two to.30 years im prisonment for manslaughter, and 64 serving terms for minor offenses. One man convicted of murder and sentenc ed to be electrocuted was given a commutation to five years imprison ment. Fifty-four of the number given clemency are white men. Forty-six are negroes and one an Indian. All will be released tomorrow, with, the exception of the prisoner who was given a commutation* Several of the paroles are conditioned on the recip ient's abo faining from the use of in toxicants. One of the most Interesting cases was that of. W. T. Jones, wealthy Un ion County farmer, who was sewing a life term on the charge- of killing his vrtfa by the. use of poison several years aga...J^^-j$K^t?^alw.lha. condition that if he ever takes a drink of intoxicating Mquor ot wines otv&r *^*|&^i,?**^*T^'*'BC*^ time, ho oe conv?ifJsd of<jsmltresting hiB.wife, he ls tr od returned to tho prison to serve ont, his term., <;. ttonJj Harry Dean of Spartanburg, 8. C., who was among the life tenners, es caped from the penitentiary seven years ago. ' Last Wednesday- ho re appeared at the prison >'.Uh h IB broth* er and was put to work again. He was convicted of murder in . 1904, when.he was about 18 years old.. . Absolute pardons were given to only five pf the 101 men. In four of these cases the pardon was granted . to restore citizenship, the recipients already having been released on pa role. Governor Blesse bas made, holidays, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas and-Ne-? Year's, an ce ssion for ex tending clemency to prisoners suce he- was first elected. .Xftscccaax'xx-.tcaw CONFERENCE IS DULY ORGANIZED -te? bein ? ." 1 . .v.oda ^io?"":?"""1 ' Observance of Lord's Supper First Order of the Day-Bishop "n?d PruMiag. 'J ..' . 'O' ' ? ? Bperial to Th? InUMsw*?/ SUMTER, Nov. 25.-The Methodist conference waa duly organized this morning in Sumter, Bishop Denny in the chair. The usual observance ot the sacrament of tbs Lord's Supper wa# the drat order of the day. B.:0, Watson wa? reelected secrtury with W. L. Walt and A. BL H MW, assist ants. W. E. Tumipseed Was reelected " statistical secretary with the usual number of assistants. - The two matters that promise the greatest, interest came up in prelimi nary way early la tte session. D. M. McLeod offered a resolution fixing to morrow at 10 a. rn. as the tune for the settlement of the line of division sug gesting certain lines. H. E. Turnip seed offered a substitute propos: hg an other, line. This . was followed by a SSv?7 rvM?mung a ruling er th? bish op on point ot law concerning authori ty of the annual conference to fix boundaries. This decision will be rendered tomorrow when the matter conies before the oohtorence. This in dicates that there will be an effort ta def eat di vision. Tbs board ot; manager? of the Southern Christian Advocate present > ad 1U resignation which waa accept ed without dissent Forest ]Ttre?l?i?readfag. LITTLE ROCK, Arlu Nov. 25. Forest fires costinas* to spread tn the timber landa ot Arkainiaa tonight, ac cording to aisha tehee raosteed here from all sections ot the State. Dense smoke clouds hang aver practically the entire State. Jttre In the cane brakes of Woodruff And White Coun ties has driven thousands cf deer and-, other games Into the open to slaught er. NOW LEFT IN THE STATE :Y HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO GOVERNOR SINCE JANUARY, ARE 16 SERVING LIFE SEN RE WHITE MEN-SEVERAL ON RECIPIENTS ABSTAINING *TS Special to Thc Intellutrcorr. COLUMBIA, Nov. 25.-The governor of South Carolina today granted par dons and -tar?les In 101 cases. Following ls a IlHt of the most not able cases: W. T. Jones, white, who was con victed at Union in February, 1909, of) the murder of his wife and sentenced to life Imprisonment in the State pen itentiary, received a parole. George Nichols, white, who was convicted in Lexington county in No vember, 1910, of the murder of Puul Williams, the young Columbian, and sentenced to life Imprisonment in the State penitentiary, received a parole on the condition that he leave the State within 24 hours .after leaving the penitent Ury. John E. Hough, white, who was convicted in Kershaw county in March, 1913, for the murder of his father-in-law and sentenced to be electrocuted; bis sentence later being commuted to life imprisonment, had his sentence reduced to five years in the State penitentiary. . J. Allen Emerson, who was convict ed st tbs February, term of .-ourt tor 1907 in Anderson county of the mur der of a Mr. Drake, and' sentenced to life Imprisonment in the State peni tentiary, and who was paroled August, 1913, on the condition that he leave the State, wss granted a. full pardon. R. A- FAchey, white, who was con victed at the spring term of court for 19J.0 in AbbeviMe county' fer statutory j criminal assault and sentenced to 19 year in the State penitentiary paroled Pecember. 1912, on certain coudUlous. paroled now during good behavior. All \ condina removed.. - ....? .. Henry Patrick, white, convicted of ?murder at tho November; 1903, term of court for Marloo/o County and sentenced to life imprisonment In the Sf.".te penitentiary and paroled Decem ber, 1913, was .given a. full pardon. . Ernest F. Grimsley. white, convicted at th? June, 2911, term of court for Richland County for murder and sen fenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary, "waa paroled. Grimsley kiiied a woman and a man ia a Columbia restaurant. Harry Dean, white, convicted at the September, 1904, term of . court for Spartanburg of murder .with recom mendation to mercy and sentenced to life Imprisonment In the State peni tentiary paroled upon the condition thai he ?eave the State and never re turn, except on the permission of the governor to visit relatives. GERMANS HAVE : ': -BEGUN aULTR?AT I ?On. the Entire Front of the Vis-] tala and Waria River?, Ac cording to Reports. -..? (By Ajeoeidted Pit?.) PETROGRAD. Nov. 25.-(vis Lon don, 11:17 p. m.)-On-the entire front of the Vistula and Warta rivera the Germans have begun a retreat* ac cording to meagre reporta from the front At some points,';lt is said, the movement resembles a rout One detachment of Germans la the recent fighting before Lodz, which, reports errivteg hera assert waa cst to pieces by the Russians, lg said to have been on the point of executing a coup, disguised as Russians. It is said that they wore caps which form part of the Caucasian r?giments* uni form. They were detected by Russian officers who noted through their field glasses slight differences in the uni form and equipment of the Germans accosvUn? to. the ctcry. Tbs Comans wc-? lust ready to turn tho Russian flank. ?Members of Mob Were Found Guilty ' (hy AtsocUtod Pian.) SPARTAN BURG, a C Nov. 26. R. W. Belcher, Robert Wilson and Horace Fiagfc. charged with rioting and assault upon the Spartanbarg county Jail on the night of August 18, ISIS, wera found guilty hera tonight Robert Ward and Jesse Wolfe, tried on the same charge, ware acquitted. Sentence will be ps ss sd on the con victed ma? Friday. The men were al leged to have been members of a mob that attenuated to take crom the officers a negro, charged with crim inal assault uron a white vornan in the county. The negro was afterwards tried on the charge and acquitted. OG THOU Mighty Lord, from out whose hands the natiptfs blessings flow* we praise Thee nof with crashing hands* hut humbly bowing low; , thus would we our poor voices lift: r;'; "We thank Thee for Thy love, for every good and per fect gift that cometh from above; "For harvests which have filled our bins, for rains which Thou didst give, for Thy forgetting of our sins, and teach ing us to live; "For that our country has been blest with peace, though Europe bleeds, and we, Thy children of the West, may yet relieve the needs of all those millions through whose gore the royal butchers wade, the while they drown in cannon's roar the law which Thou hast made; "We thank Thee, Lord, mat we may still reach forth a kindly hand and help to bring peace to every war-crazed land. "Lord, who didst give to men Thy peace, we ask Thee not for power to make our, str??ms pf gold increase, to make our foemen cower- hutkhat as friends of every race we may bid warfare, cease* as messenger^bkf^e^hy announce Thy gospel;Peace." V .Wv^>v- >n ^ A:?D0?V>VO a ,? MOCHAS. B. DRISCOLL. R ioi=?~51fc=51 New York Murder Mystery Is Placed For Solution A^wuUlrtaticm of Poultry Dealer tuesday Night Charactered by Coroner aa the Culmination of Greatest Conspiracy Since tho Murder o? Herman Rosenthal. DI lill niinpiiyc ULnllfl n?O?lRWD . ?..'.. .. - (By AMocUtod hm) . NEW rOBft tt?Y. MA-Thb tallon of Barnett Ba?,;cp.aracterir.ed try Coroner Feinberg as the culmina tion of tho gfe&test conspiracy since the murder of .* Herman : 'Boser^lhal, placed a real mardetmystery Jn^fea trsl. of?jj^ (Sues pomtadttaay ??rays. Che authorities declared tbit the mystery had so jinany ramiflcatlons that it took on. the aspect of a Chines? puzzle. The victim, V well-to-do independ ent poultry dealer, was lura! to his death by a decoy messsgo given him at 6 o'clock list night by a young mon who entered his. place of business in Washington Market Two shots, fired tn the street killed him. Two men darted away to a automobile, walting nearby, and made away. The car had not been localed, nor the uer identi fied. .... Coins* Over Raff's past life In a Quest for cines, detective* learned that he had been threatinved many times with violent death since be barf testified for the State in a trial that sent num bora of N?w York city's poultry trust to prison several years ago. In the relentless campaign waged by hts ene mies, fires had boon lighted, bombs' exploded, his horses poisoned, hts son attacked and his chain of stores rob bed. One of his neighbors was killed by a. gunman, in m?stalas, it was bo- \ lloved, for Raff. Raff, himself, hidr been scarred, for Ufa by an sssault made cn him. hy a thug armed with a bottle. Inspector Faurot" announced today IbAt detectives were working on the theory 'nat gunmen had been hired to murde.* Raff, a? in the Rosenthal case. Dlstr'ct Attorney Whitman's office assigned detectives to the case. Mr. Whitman declared he considered the crime ss much an attack on the law as on Raff. A revolver was found todsy near the spot whare Raff was killed. De tectives sought to trace the murderer by this wennon. Three separate sets of license numbers to the esr in which the assassins sped away have been given the police hy as many cit izens. IN BATTLE BETWEEN THE i WARTA AND VISTULA RIVERS Uti'! .T1 RUSSIANS HAVE THE UPPER HAND] . -?-W Unofficial Reports Astert Entire] German Anny Corps Has Been Broken Up. I OBJECT OF COMPANY IS TO RETIR? FROM THE MARKET AS MUCH OF THE SURPLUS OF PRESENT CROP OF COTTON AS BOSS! BUE (By NEW ORLEANS, Nor. IS.- Flans for the fotmaUoh of a $10C.OOO,000 corporation to be known sa the Cot* ton Products Company were complet* cd st a meeting aero today of the exe cutive committee of the Southern tat ton Association. The corporation, lt was announced, will bogia Pastness ss soon as tba first ?1.000.000 of lt capt tal Stock ts subscribed and, will havs aa ita object the stabilizing of cot ton values, the securing of statist!ca concerning the cotton industry and the publication of ?tat?mente from time to time as to the condition of the cotton crop. Harrie Jordan, pr?sidant of the Southern Cotton Association, tonight Issaed a .detwaaus concerning tao (cprrrortJED ON FAQS JEVPN.) (By AtaodaUd Prc**.) The military party in Petrograd! conUnues to claim a Russian victory i on the battle field between the warta and Vistula rivers in Poland. This ls based on unofficial reports, which even assart that an entire German army corps has been broken up and that 48 trains. Which will accommodate 60, 000 wounded and . prisoners, have been ordered out from Warsaw. Tho German official report, on the] other hand, declares the Russian of fen ?Iv o lu ibis region nae been check ed. The latest communication from, ins Russian garie ?-al staff says fight ing near Lodz ccattm.es, but that the German forces art pressed on every side and arc making a supremo effort to cut their wo? through to tba north. The Germans also claim to have brought the Russian advance to a stop In East Prussia, and before Cracov, Ga?'ela. A Russian statement says the Russians manifestly have the upper hand near Cracow. A ?trnificaat statement regarding Russian operations comes- from Buds pest It ts admitted in the Hungar ian capital that the Russian troops again have tn rad ed - Hungary and nave reached the county ot Ung, 35 miles south or the Carpathian?, i the county of Zemplia, 60 miles south of thees mountains. According to this rvport the troops which Invaded Usg Lave been driven beek to the (PONTTNTBD ON PAGE 8*?Vs~N.> COSTLY COUNTRY RESIDENCI STROYED BY FIRE WITH 1 CEALING THE CRIME-TI NENTLY IDENTIFIED WIT LIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT TIES BELIEVE TH?. CRIME BLOOD-STAINED AXE FOI (By AiBoeUted Pr?ta.) . MIAMI, lim Nov. Sty-Two persons were killed with aa axe la a condy country residence acer bete early to day and the boase then destroyed by fire with the evident Intention of con cealing the crime. The dead ares Adam A. Bogga, a widely known Kio rila lawyer, . and Mhrlorle Bogga, his daughter. Thc attorney was forty-Hire and the young woman eighteen years old. Neighbors found the 'charred bodies In a search of the ruins of the resi dence. The skulls of beth bsd been crashed. 'While a motive for the doable mur der has not yet been established to the full satisfaction of Ute authorities, they are working on the theory that the crime was committed by burglars who were discovered Ia the boase by the lawyer ead his' daughter. The blood-stained axe used in the crime was found late today hidden under shrubbery usar the she of the barned resid? nee. An empty purse al so was found, Aa tnrestlgatloa of the RICHMOND TODAY Virginia and Nev.** Carolin? Ex pected to Stace Beet Gridiron Struggle, of Yeais. i . 2 ' -'V ' . ni h ? ?? ? ? ? ? " <BV ?*M<aU? alW} ' ATLANTA, Ga., Nor.-t5.-^Two ?leV e?s undefeated by any 'Southern foot ball team this season-Virginia and North Carolina-will meet, at Rich mon tomorrow in what is expected to be one of the best gridiron struggles cf thc year ia tho South. North Carolina baa won all its games thus far, while Virginia's only defeat was at the hands of Tsle. Both have defeated Vanderbilt, Virginia .peking* the better showing. Few crit ics, however, have rared to hazard a guess ss to the outcome of tomor row's clash. j Otho* games ettructlng much atten tion are those ''between 'Washlhgtoh and Lee and I North Carolina A.; sud M. St Norfolk; Tennessee and Ken tucky State at Knoxville; Vanderbilt and Se wane e at Nashville; and Geor gia Tech and Clemson at Atienta. AU of the opponents are traditional riv als. ' Texas will meet "Wabash at Austin in 1 the chief Intersections! gsme ' ot the day. Texas is favored to win. Other Southern gamea tomorrow In clude: Mississippi vs. Texas A and M. at j Belmont, Texas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute vs Virginia Military Institute at Roa noke, Va. ! Louisiana State vs. Tulane at Neo Orleans. Alabama ys. Mississippi A. am! M. lat Birmingham. Chattanooga vs. Cumberland at Chattanooga. Wofford vs. Newberry afc Spartan burg, S. C. Fishing Schooner Ashen. JACKSONVILLE, Fla,, Nov. 25. The American fishing schooner Alert is ashore osT'Naaaaa Taint. pa nandina, according to advices from May port received here tonight. Two wrecking tugs have been sent from Mayport to the scene. The Alert was bonn* from Gloucester, Mass., to St. Andrews Bay, Florida. She carried, a crew of .ten men. AS? Attempting to Break The Russian Force? ?Bf A-arfafd fW) PETROGRAD. Nov. 25.-ivis Lon don, 11:06 p. m.)-The Army Messen ger says the Germans aro making at tack after attack tn an attempt to break the Russian forces north ct Lode, but without success. The Aus tro-Gennan army is staking ali on this battle, it adds. The newspaper says that on the .Gallclan front the Russian offense ls becoming more energetic and ts re ducing the enemy to a state of im potence, OF ADAM A. HOGGS DE SVIDENT INTENTION ?F CO? IE BOGGS FAMILY IS PROMIS H EDUCATIONAL AND4 RE OF THE SOUTH--AUTHORI WAS COMMITED BY ROBBERS. UND NEAR SCENE L rn Ins has mealed wrtttiia???] ar? ticlee ef jewelry, but nothieg ef value haw b?on Ideated, than t?sale* te Baa* port the robbery theorye Mr. Bogg* Iras' atoMfflfct the ires*, dene? during; the carly part ?f last eight. His daughter waa ?i?ewdicg a social fonction scarily and Bfrs. Begff? Is visiting at Lake Kaela, ikf?t?ffr Miss Bogg? returned home sheerly after midnight The Boggs family ha? be*n protein eatly Identified with the ansi religions derclopmcnt South. Dr. William F. Beggs, lei chancellor ef the Ul gio, and a Presbyteriaa^Hflttltar, who BOW lire? la Atlanta,iWt?ktt father of the dead lawyer, dilbert ?. Bogg?, a brother. Ii a member of the faculty of the Georgia School of T*chnelegy ia Atlanta. WT. Thomas Beggs? of . Baltimore, and Lucian Begs)*, of JackROavIlle, Flan are two other brothers. The dead attorney was a graduate ot tte Val verslty of Georgia. A SILENT GUN Being Used fey Gencan Army in France, According to Eye Witaets at the Front. . . . .Cay ?wwUUrd Pr***.) LONDON, Not; silent gun is tho latest weapon to be brought for? ward by the Germen army In France, according to a narrative by Colonel B. D. Swinton. British eye-witness at . the front. The narrative dated No vember 23 was issued today by of ficial nreaa buf?fei It says: "In our center the enemy employed a silent gun which may be pneumatic or worked by some mechanical con- - trlvance. There ts no report of the dlschsrge, the projectile travels through tut air without any ot the warning by an ordinary shell, and Ute first notice of Its arrivai is the de tonation. So far the weapon-has doa? no^Oumage.v^ jMtaonen * ' tro^obeTM%^S^ yards apart. The English and Ger mans Ulk back and forth, hold shoot- > lng competitions and es^fifcyo rlulssWVKi co. Cold weather has frosio ?? dlusny ' Improving in ons sense conditionB in the trenches, the narrative nays, but the drop in the temperatures makes the men so stiff that many have to be Mftcd out of the trenches'when re- ? tleved sud others are sent froren to hospitals. "Beyond the hardship inflicted on individuals." Colonel Swinton says, , "the change in the weather chiefly has effected rubial reconnaissance and transport The free sin g makes the roads better and the clear, crisp at mosphere aids the aviator* to see the landscape more freely." The Germans In one place ?ATO us ing a 42-centimeter howitzer against the British left, lt ls said, and tho re Krt tells of the capture on Novem rc 21 of a German aeroplane bear nig. circulars calling on the Hindus to desert. Mississippi Negro And Wife Lynched --, a, f (Ey AMoei?^d Fem) BYHALIA. Wea? Nor. t$. -Fred Sullivan, a negro, and his wile, accus ed of haying set Ore . to a barn on a plantation near Dyballs, several days) ago. were hanged today by a mob which forced a deputy sheriff and als posse, who arrested the couple.. to stand Idly by while the lyn ch ins waa tn progress. . This Information was brought to Byhalla tonight by metabers ot the posse. Sullivan, lt ls stated, -wak first - hanged from ?he limb ot a tree and within a tow minutes the wowan met a < like fata. It la alleged that the' negro con fessed that ho barned the barn lu re taliation for the action pf the plant ers ia forcing him to surrender a mule which hs had purchased b?* had np* paid for, - . * .