Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BUSINESS MEN KILLED IN STRIKE Augusta in the Hands of the Militia. MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED After Sex-mi Days of Disorder and Strife, Hie City of Augusta is now Quiet, A wailing Developments. Trouble over Union Labor on Street Car Line. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 27.?At 8 o'clock tonight Augusta is in a turmoil of excitement from one end to the other, and It is impossible to foretell what will happen before morning. In the interval of the firing by the troops on Fifteenth street and the hour set for a labor meeting at the court house the situation appears to have calmed down, but intensity of feeling over the shooting of five peo ple has Incensed the people gener ally, largely because they do not un derstand that the city is under mar tial law. Curing the day ceaseless efforts have been made by every . usiuess In terest. In the city to bring about an adjustment of the street car strike, which is now but au incident of the trouble. Call for Arbitration. The chamber of commerc. the Merchants' and Manufacturers' asso ciation and the cotton exchange, in Joint meeting, demanded immediate arbitration by the company and the strikers, commending Mayor Barrett's position of enforcing protection of propertv and lives and the measures taken to hold down mob rule. In response to the demands of the busi ness interests the striking carmen have unequivocally accepted the sug gestion of arbitration, but the com pany, in an address signed by General Manager Deal, flatly refuses arbitra tion, declaring It has nothing to arbi trate, and further, that the men who left its employ and, Mr. Deal declares, joined in the riot last night, have no connection with or further claim on the company. Mr. Deal asserts that the company st ids ready to operate all Its cars so soon as they are given sufficient protection, which it claims as a right. Situation More Strained. This declaration has been like a firebrand In a pile of tinder, and the portions of the city, particularly West End, the mill district, are even more turbulent than last night. From one end of the city to the other the news has been spread of tho shooting by troops on Fifteenth street, and besides the thousand or more people congregated in West End. the 700 block on Broad street, in tho heart of the business district^ J- is crowded. During the middle of the day infor mation was conveyed to the authori ties that strike sympathizers had planned to plant a mine under the power house tonight. During the af ternoon a military Miard was thrown around the Fifteenth street property of the company, where one of the power plants Is located, and a dead line was established at e. h end of the property. The troops re given instructions to challenge anybody at tempting to pass through the line and stop them; to fire if the challenge should be ignored and any effor, should bo made to pass through tho lines after the challenge. The troops are provided with riot cartridges and are stationed on drty with loaded pieces. Bnslness Man Shot. Robert Crlstie, a business man, was drlvlug u'y iii an iViitoHiobilo and, evi dently did not hear the challenge of the sentry. Tie had gone but a few feet when he was shot through the lungs. Ho is at a hospital, where ho will die. Ben. F. Baker and Alfred Dorn, also business men, attempted to drive through Fifteenth street a few min utes later. A few blocks from the power plant some one told Baker, In whoso buggy they were riding, that the soldiers were firing blank cart ridges. As he approached tho power plant he whipped up his horse. Im mediately, after challenging, one sen try fired, and others Joined In the fire. Baker was wounded, but will probably recover. Dorn was literally shot to pieces and Is dead. An unknown white boy, apparently about 20 years old, attempted to rush the sentry lines on a motorcycle and one handle of his machine was shot off but he was uninjured. Automobile lUddlcd. Charles Wilson, who operate a pool room In one of the local hotels. I i was driving through Fifteenth street in his automobile with his wife and child, and says he was unconscious of the fact that the dead lines were being enforced. He claims not to have heard any challenge, though he saw one of the sollders standing by the driveway. His machine was fired into, the ball bassing through the top. He reached down to toot his horn, he says, and other guards evidently mis took the motion as one to reach for a gun. Other shots were Hied and Wil son, though escaping without injury to himself or other occupants of the car, drove down onto Hroad street with four big holes shot through his machine. Just before dark the "West End sympathizers spiked the long Broad streets bridge, a double row of railway spikes being driven on each side of each street car rail the entire length of the bridge. Ho Settlement Yet Augusta Ga., Sept. 30?Further conferences this afternoon between representatives of the street railway and spokesmen for the strikers fail ed to reach an agreement on the question of arbitration. Reports will be made at another meeting of the city council tomorrow. The city was quiet throughout the day, but no effort was made to op erate any street cars, at the request of the military authorities. Three of the local companies of militia were disbanded, leaving only one company ofs soldiers on guard tonight. Pre parations have been completed for the court martial tomorrow of Cap tains Jowett and Henderson and fif teen members of the militia in con nection with the shooting of three cit izens last week. Major Claude C. Smith, of Atlanta, will act as judge advocate. DEVELOP MAIL ORDERS. Charleston Expecting to Reap Ilig Pro fits from Operation of the Neu Par cels Post Law. Charleston, Sept. 27.?The operation oi the parcels post law which becomes effective on January 1, 1913, by which packages not exceeding 11 pounds may be transported through the mall, Is expected to develop the mail order business in Charleston considerably with the location of branch houses here of some of the big mall order establishments of the country. Humors have been heard of some of the big establishments placing branch houses here which will bo the distributing I>oints for their goods for this sec tion. The rate for the packages in excess of four ounces increases as the zones or distances grow and in order to secure the best results, it will be necessary or desirable for these big mail order establishments to locate branch houses In various sec tions of the country. Otherwise the postage rates on more remote places which the firms expect to do. With the Clyde company operating a line to Charleston from New York and Boston; the Southern Steamship com pany running steamers here from Philadelphia; the Philadelphia and Gulf Steamship company operating vessels from Philadelphia and New Orleans to this port and the. Baltimore and Carolina Steamship company run ning ships here from Baltimore, Char leston was water transportation which materially supplements the railroad and also cheapens considerably freight rates which is a facto rin the estab lishment of any large shipping busi ness. The mail order houses can consequently get their goods to Char leston at greatly reduced rates and then be prepared to make all the bet ter showing in the competition of the mail order business. Metal and Seed. White Lead and White Zinc made from the Metals Lead and Zinc?are pigments. Unseed Oil is pressed out. of Flaxseed. A little Oil mixed with these pigments constitutes the 1. & M. semi-paste Paint. It's made so that by adding 3 quarts of Linseed Oil to a "-allon of L. & M. semi-paste?1% gallons of ready for use Paint is pro duced at a cost of $1.67 per gallon. Anybody can mix the Oil with the L, A M. in five minutes. It saves from $f. to $2.",. in painting a house. Call on .1 H. & M. L, Nash. Laurens; J. W. Copeland Co.. Clinton. COLONEL ROOSEVELT APPEALS TO SOUTH Trying to Make an Opening In South ern Section of the I'nlted States on Progress*? Platform* Now Orleans, Sept. 21.?It was In the interest of the south, snld Colonel Roosevelt today, that he came into the southland to make his appeal in behalf of the progressive party. "I want you to emancipate your selves." he said. "I want you to feel free to vote as your conscience In clines you to. If we win, I want you to take your share. In steering the wheels of the nation. I am less en gaged in pleading my cause than in pleading yours." Artificial political barriers had sundered the south in the past, he said, from Its own Interests. He ap pealed to those In the south who be lieved as he believed to lay aside tra dition and Join with the new party. Colonel Roosevelt spent the day In New Orleans. He rode in a parade through the old French section and the. parks and later spoke at the Win ter Garden. Tonight he left for Alabama. Many Admirers, bat Few Voters. At the Winter Garden Colonel Roosevelt was given a demonstration which continued for several mlntes. Colonel Roosevelt made a speech which differed throughout from any other of his campalga. lie said po litical conditions in the south remind ed him of a visit he made to Texas, when a loving cup was presented to him. "There were 10,000 people pres ent when the loving cup was pre sented," he said, "and the man who presented It said 'This is from Tex as, where you have more admirers and fewer voters than In any other state.' "Now I'll tell you an anecdote of Louisiana," the colonel went on. "A man of a certain club In New Orleans said to me: 'There was no more re joicing anywhere than in our club when you were elected.' I replied that tht re were no symptoms of such a feeling In the vote cast in Ix>uls iana, and he said, 'Well, of course we all voted against you but we were anxious to see you win.' Shoulder to Shoulder. "I am not willing to admit," he continued, "that you and I slymld be on opposite sides. 1 came down here to make my appeal that I may stand shooulder to shoulder with those of you who look at the great problems j which are facing the nation today as I do. "The progressive party has come to stay. We are through once and for all with the republican party. We're going to make a success of this thing, and we want your help. I want to appeal to you as friends, guides and allies. I can't help feel ing that if 1 fall to convince yon it will be my own fault, for our cause Is overwhelmingly strong. I want first to put our party on as healthy a basis in the' south as in the east or west or north, and to have it respond to your wishes because yon support it, because you are a part of it. "I come here to ask you to join with us on a footing of full equality. I ai i not trying to appeal to tin- men who are opposed to the things I am trying to do. The men I am trying to reach are those who do believe as I do, who ought to be with me, and who are artificially sundered from me. Cnnnnturnl Position. "When as president I came to deal with the problems affecting your in terests. 1 wng obliged to treat them in a wholly unnatural manner, for there was no representative of yours who did not belong to the party that was supposed to be antagonistic to me. 1 tried my best while 'I was president to be president of the whole country, and 1 should have been ashamed of myself if the Interests of the gulf states had not bee nns dear aa those of any other states." Colonel Roosevelt gave several ex amples of the way in which he said artlvcial political barriers placed the south in an unnatural position. Al though the Panama canal was of par ticular Interest to the south, he said, the chief opposition to the ratifica tion of the treaty with Panama came from southern senators on account of the political affiliations, lie referred I to the Mississippi floods, saying that although a democratic house of rep resentatives had been in session for five months after the flood, no move had been made to prevent a repeti tion of the disaster. He said lie fa vored utilization of the Pannma canal plant for a great project of improve ment of the waterways of the Mis sissippi valley which should prevent Hoods as well as serving many other purposed. The Sugar Tariff. The action of the democrats in the bouse in voting for abolition of the tariff on sugar was cited by Qolonei Roosevelt as another example of what he meant. he said that the democratic party siooo. for free eotl') of sugar, which would compel the great majority of sugar cane and beet growers to go out of business, where as the progressives x-cre opposed both to excessive protection and to lower ing the tariff to a point which would harm producers. "If you don't agree with me on these ?matters," he continued, "then yon ought to be against me. Hut if you do believe as I do, then I want to find some way so that you and 1 can gel together and work for the common good, not merely quietly voting for up. as if you felt rather ashamed to let your brother know about it, but to come out and work for us." Hahh Not a Candidate. Referring to the article in last weeks Advertiser, taken from the News and Courier, In which Col. 0. W. Babb's name was mentioned In connection with a Hlease ticket in the general election, Col. Babb wrote the following to the News and Courier: Columbia, K. ('.. Sept. 18, 11*12. Editor News and Courier, Charleston, S. ('. Dear Sir: This morning's (Wednes day) Issue of The News and Courier publishes an article, containing, "Sin bad on possible ticket for general elec tion." In regard to my name being mentioned therein as a suggested candidate for the office of the adju tant general, will say. that I am not, nor will 1 be a candidate for any elec tive office in the coining general elec tion. Furthermore I am a supporter of General Moore for the aforesaid office and will continue to support him throughout this campaign. Very respectfully, 0. w. Babb. BS- ! Photo of Priic Calf Offered as a Priie by the International Harvester Company in Mississippi in the interest of Tick Eradication. We refer those iv/io httve htutketl with us to those who iu\ \Tli. We ?re here to nerve our pi?trot?Ht nml tiro williiiir, tit titty time, to jm/v/.no (/jo.se \v/io ueetl help or tttlvioe? Irou !??<> to tlj? ttoetor ivfieti you i?r*o you ?jr*> to the /invvtT ro .sirn/^r/iff/j ou< your Ivfrttl (iiFfiotiltiottt when you {ir*e Zu Ptimnoiul perplexity why not fgoto flit? The httnker the one mini w/io irivt'.s JiLs ?</ v/oc* ireo ii/ic/ vheorFulIy* Do YOUJU himUltiyr with US. Wrc ptty interest in Sayingm Oepttrttnent* \inke OUR Bunk YOUR Hunk Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. N, ll. DEAL, I'rt s. C. ll. ROTliR, Cashier YOUR FALL AND WiNTER Cleaning and Dyeing SHOULD BE DONE NOW. We are better equipped to render you prompt and efficient service than ever before Footer's Dye WorLs Cumberland, Md. Always Safest and Best EVER CHANGING! The march of the seasons demands a different outfit. The flimsy textures of Summer must soon &ivc place to something heavier. The arrival of Kali Goods is an nounced through the press and as the season approaches it is always a matter of concern what shall be worn. Dame Fashion has decreed for the make up for Coat Suits. Whipcords, Diagonals and serges are the proper weaves. Here is shown complete lines of these goods hoth of for eign and domestic manufacture in Black and Colors. Special value in Messaline Silks. Just opened a line of Novelty Waisting, the choicest designs and color ings we have ever shown at the price, 25cts a yard?see them. Throughout the several departments in Hosiery, Table J,incn, Underwear, Domestics and Notions. Special care has been exercised in the selection and if style, quality and price arc considered by intending buyers we venture the assertion that these goods will bear favorable comparison with any values to be found in the market. W. Q. WILSON & CO.