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V he men, Ldvettiser. VOL ME XX. L UR NS SO TII AROIN , EDN SD YJANUARY 13, 1914- NUMBER 25 PARDONS GRANT[DJT PAROL[D CONVICTS Over One Thousand Affect ed By One Act. WHOLESALE PARDON RECORD BROKEN 1roclanation 1ssued Saturday Re. ttores Citizenship to All of Those Wh Vtere Paroled by him During Past Four Years "During Good Be. Himlor". Thirty-five New On1es Add. ed to List. Columbia, January 9.-All convicts paroled "during good behavior" by the present Chief Executive were granted full pardons by a blanket par don issued by Governor Blease this afternoon through a proclamation filed in the ofice of R. M. McCown, Secre tary of State. It is estimated that ov er 1,000 were affected by this action, citizenship rights being restored to fully that many by. Governor Blease AWith one stroke of the pen. ' Since assuming office in January, 1911, the present Governor has exer cised clemency in 1,662 cases, over one thousand of which were paroles issued during good behavior. This procla mation issued today gives all of these unconditional pardons. The following proclamation address ed by the Governor to all Judges, sher iffs, constables and other officers of justice in the State, bears this greet ing: "Whereas, I, 'Coleman Livingston Blease, the Governor of the State of South Carolina, have heretofore grant and authoirty vested in me by the Constitution and la.ws of the State of South Carolina, have heertofore grant ed certain paroles to certain persons, at various and divers times during the years one thousand, nine hundred and eleven, one thousand, nine hundred and twelve, one thousand, nine hun dred and thirteen, and one thousand and nine hundred and fourteen, upon the condition 'during good behavior', as will be fully shown by reference to the records in the office of the gov ernor of the State of South Carolina and in the office of the. Secretary of State o the State of South Carolina, which said records will specifically give and show the name, or names, of the persons, or persons, so paroled, the. county in which he, she or they were convicted, the term of Court, the presiding Judge thereof, the name or names of said person or persons, of what offence convicted and to what. term ehtonceod, in each and every in duvidual case. "NOw, know ye, that for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving, I have thought fit to pardon and by these presents do grant a pardon to each and every person or persons so paroled by me during my term of office as the Governor of the ,State of South Carolina uring 'the S'ears 1911, 1912, 1913, 191. "This pardon is intended to apply and is granted only to such person or persons wvhose parole or paroles con tainued the one condition: 'During good behuavior',' and1 does not, nor is it in tend~ed to, grant full lpardlon to any peraon or persons who have been na voled under any other condition or conditions." An unconditional pardon wvas grant ed to W. T., Jones, the wealthy Union farmer, who was paroled only a few wveeks ago, after serving part of a life term for' murder of his wife, There 'were some other conditions attached to the parole of Jones besides that of good behavior, and it took a s:2ial pardon to free him. Later in the afternoon Governor Bllease sent across to the Secr'etary of State another list of thirty'five pa roles and commutations, bringing tihe total u'umber of eases in wvhich he has exercisedl clemency up to 1,662. in eluded in the list were John Steven son, of Fairfield, seJntenced to two years in September, 1912, on a convic ion for breach of trust. The sentence was conmmutedl to six fonths. A pa role was issued to Riley Thompson, an other Fairfield negr'o, who wes serv ing four years for manslaughter. JTohn Henry Moore, Chester, March, 1907, murder, Life sentence reduced to twenty yearsa in February, 1914; p~a roled. Jim Floyd, IlichaIa d, May, 1914, lar COUNTRY STOlE ROBIlED. Robber Located in Old House vearby and Shot whei'HIe Attempted to Get Away. A strange ,white man, giving his name as John Will Smith and his home as Waco, Tex., was shot, seri ously wounded and captured \Ved nes day morning in the Eden community, ollowing the robbery of N. A. Reaves' store the night before. le was car rined to Gray Court by his captors and from there brought to Laurens Wed nesday night by Deputy Sheriff Blake ly. Later he was transferred to the Julia Irby sanitarium where Dr. Vin cent, assisted by Drs. Hughes and Bearden, performed an operation, sov Ing up four bowel performations be sidee giving other treatment. The wounds were particularly dangerous and at one time it Was- thlought he could not survive an operation. le ,ias rested very well since the opera tion and .the hidications are that he will recover. According to Smith's own story, lie entered the store in search of food and money, being out of employment and unable to find any. Tuesday lie loitered around Gray Court and in the evening went in the direction of Reaves' store. Some time during the night he broke into the store and sat isfied his hunger, but found no money. Finding a gun in the store he took that with him and made his way to the old house where he was later lo cated by the posse. Seeing that he was entrapped he made an effort to escape but as he rounded the corner of the house he was shot by a member of the posse. He surrendered without further resistance and admitted the robbery. Smith is apparently about 30 years of age. IHe says that he has a wife and four children in Waco. MONTHLY TEACHERS MEETING. About Forty Teachers Attended Meet. Ing in the Graded School Saturday. About forty entshusiastic 'teachers met in the city graded school Satur day for the monthly meeting of the county teachers association. The meet !ng was presided over by Prof. Wil son, president of the association. An interesting program pertaining to school work was carred out. -An interesting feature of the meet ing was the discussion of the annual county school fair which is to be held in the spring. 'Although no definite arrangernents have been announced, it is stated that the fair will be held on the seeond Friday in April, which Is the 9th of the month and the first Friday after Easter. Judging from the interest already displayed by the teachers and patrons, this year's fair will be a creditable one from every standpoint. Cotton at 8 Cents. The cotton market has been steadi ly growing stronger for the past sev eral weeks. Yesterday a few bales of good middling hi-ought as hiighi as eight cents. One of the local buyers, in sp~eaking of the cotton market in general, criticized the growvers very' severely for mixing sever-al gradles of coto'-n in the same load whlen market ing. "'o get the benefit of the best prlces, lie saidl, the cotton should be loadled in wagons accordiing to grade. Mr's. L~. G. flalle, Jr., who hiss been splendhing a few (lays in Newberry, left last weekc for' Philadelphia, wvhere she will visit Mr. and Mr's. 1B. 1. lalle for several wveeks, ceny, two years; paroled. Harry Mel ntosh,. Florence, June, 1913 murder'. Life sentence reduced to ten years. "This5 is just the beginniing," said the governor- to the newspaper' men this afternoon, He is seriously con siderling, he says; turning loose all convicts remaining in the P'enitentiar'y and on chain gangs throughout the state and in county jails. Over 2,000 pisoner's wouild be set free should lie (10 this. If the governior' "flings wide all prison' door5 in South Carolina'' it will probably be0 (1011 next 8'aturdlay afternoon. There is a general imnpres rioni that there will be a wholesale turning loose of all convicts before ha retires from offie,. lie has only t'enl (lays left of his term. "I know it is more than one a day as I promised to do wvhen I cameo into oficee," said the governor w~hen told that ho had freed neai'ly 1,700 con NEW ME31BER OF FIRM. Mr. Herbert 'T'. Taylor of Charleston to be Manager of Local Coipainy. Mr. Herbert T. Taylor of Charleston orrived in the city last week and iil be located here in the future as nman ager and vice-president of Tlhe Eigl.. Ceers and Contractors Matori'lls Vom paniy. Mr. Taylor will spend par't o hi ti:nc traveling in the interest of tho conlany but will be in Laurens the greater part of the time. hll n gincers and Contractors MlaterlIal; Coipany was organized here several months ago by the McCrady brothers, rld since its organization has done at iost encouraging business. As the name suggests they andle all kinds of building material and are the sole representatles In this section of a doz en or more of America's largest man ufacturing plants. The officers of the company are as follows: W. S. M Crady, president, Herbert T. Taylor, vice-president and manager, and Ed ward McCrady, secretary and treas uirer. For the present their oflices will be with McCrady Bros. & Cheves. Attemptel Burglary. Wednesday night someone, as yet undiscovered, attempted to effect an entrance into the store of the Brooks Hardware Company after the rcgula'r closing hourb. Iron bars protecting one of the year windows were wrench ed out of place and the window sash lijartially raised, but it is thought that the would-be intruder was frightened away by the approach of Mr. 13rooks who returned after supper to do some work upon his books. The raised window and bent bars were discovered by Mr. Brooks when he went to the rear of the store to bathe his hands. At first he was not sure whether or not he and the burglar were in the store together, but after a hasty search, so it is stated, he was considerably relieved to find that he was alone in the store and the burglar had gone. No clues could bb 'found to aid in a search for the burglar. To Qive Free Colinie. Miss Julia Irby, proprietor of the Jrlia Irby Sanitarium, stated to a rep resentative of The Advertiser several days ago that Dr. Pryor of Chester, has consented to give one day of each week to the sanitarium here. On this day he expects to do a certain amount of work free of charge for those who are unable to pay, though he will ren der professional serices ypon trhe usual terms for those whose means jtstify it. Expresq Company Helps. L. 0. Hiers, agent for the Southern Express Company, has been instruct ed by higher ofilcial" to accept shipments for Belgian relief work free of transportation charges. The express company has gone to con siderable pains to provide an effective and quick service for this work, depots being designated at central points for the collection of suppllies. Packages from hero arc sent either to Greenville cr Charleston from whence they will be shippecd immediately to New York or whever the occasIon may dlemnand. A\'hough the expriess colmany s'ets no limit upon amount of shIpments, it does stipulate that no0 single pack age may weighu more than sixty poundls. Shipments heavier t hani sixty lpoulnds, theret'fore muist b~e diividedI up intlo smaller packages. Prohibli11ion Leaderci Coming. Rev. J. L. Harley, superintendent of the anti-saloon league in this state, will visit this city, on the fifth Sunday in this mon01th. the 31st, to begin the campiaign for state-w~'ide prohlibi !on. Ho exipects to hold a meeting 0of rep resentatives from all over tile county the following day when an organlza :101n for' a county-w~de campanign will be effected. Delegation Off to (Colunmbia, Sell. 0. P. Goodwin, Rlepresentative RI. I. lloyd and Solicitor Coolper l-ft Monday for ColumbIa to a tend t he nesslons of the General Assembhly. it is under01stood thatt Representativye lI arris, of Cl intonl, and G'oggans, of' Cross 11111, joinled them11 at Clinton and1( ame now in the capital. lion, F. P. McGowan is in Colunmbia for a few (lays this wveekc attending the sessions of the State Supreme HUNDREDS HURT IN SUBWAY ACCIDENT I'Underground Cars Stall; Passengers Panic-Strickeln. A Short-ciruiteid Cable. New York, Jain. w.-The worst acci dekLt in ten years' history of New York subway occurred during the rush h1ou1rs early today, wilell seCen 111111dred 1 passengers In two stalled trains were stricken with panic In the darkened tubes, by dense smoke and fume0s from a short-circuited cable. In the strug gle to escape Somec two hundred per Sonis were injured, one, a woman, fa tally. Others, overcome, werc rescued, unconscious, by police and firemen, while scores struggled to tile street, unnerved or hysterical, their cloth ing torn and faces blackened by smoke. The city tonight was in the throes of a transportation blockade without parallel In its history. It was not un til late in tile afternoon that a W"heel again turned in tile subway, and then only a limited local service was mnain talied. The hundreds of thousands of passengers the subway ordinarily carries Were diverted to elevated and surface lines, and when the home bound rush began tonight neither sys ten had adequate facilities. There were no subway trains running to Brooklyn and a dense mass of human ity, concentrated at Brooklyn Bridge, prolonged the rush hour period for two hours in a struggle to board trains and cars. The accident occurred between the 50th and 59th street stations, and call ed.,out virtually the entire fire and am bulance service on Manhattan Island. The two trains, an express and a lo cal, both packed, came to a stop mid way between the stations and the lights went out. A large feed cable had blown out in its conduit, some fif ty yards distant, and soon the cars were'fillied with fumes 'of burting rubber. Thin soon grew unbearable and it took little to start a panic in the darkness. The demands of some of the pas sengers that tile doors be opened were refused by the guards, it was said, Fights ensued and there soon was in progress'on both trains a desperate struggle to get out. When the first of the panic-strieken passengers reached the street the re port spread that many had been killed. Police and firemen quickly reached the scene and although it was at length established that tile reports were ex aggerated, they were busy more than three hours in the rescue work. They found in the trains many pasengers, mostly women, half asphyxiated. Oth erg had collapsed on the floor of tube. Some were brought up by ladders through manholes and some through ventilating apertures in tile street. Nearby theatres and stores were used as temporary hospitals. Sonic of the injured were reported in a seri ous condition tonight. Miss Ella Brady, tile only person to lose 11er life, (lied ill an ambllulance. Tile lives of several were undoubtedly savedl by3 tile use of lpulotors, physicians saidl. lInvestigations to fix tile blame for the accidlent were at on1cC ftartedl by3 District Attorney Perkins and tile pub i!c service commission. General Manager liedley, of tile Tn terbloroughl, said( tollighlt thlat 110 inl venltionl had b~een dev.Oleld to irenECIt shlort celolting and that a similar ac clident might occur at alny time. CONFlrEERATiE VIE~TR N D)EAD. J1. Andy Jonest, ofi ,Jacks Trownshlip, DIted Monlday A fter Liugering I'd. lless. JT. Andly 10ones, a hlighlly esteemled citizAen of .Jacks townshlip, dlied at Is hlome Monlday after a lonat illness. Thle body13 was inlterrell in thle lilli;I bulryting ground(, near11 Garlligonl, yes terday, a larige 1num11ber of peop!l e a tenldin~g thle ser'vices. MIr. .IOneCs was a brave (1tConfederate( sold ierIi havilng enllisted ill theO armyl be(foreP his six orflhe great battles of thea war. Since, tile war he hlas' dlevoted himisel f to his farming Interests. but givin much111 thloughlt anld timle 10to1 iulIc affairs1, he-. lng a man11 greatly3 interested in tile pirogress and1( welfare of his fellow mlan. Althoughl often urged to enter p)olitics h~e never0 sought public of fice. Ilai death is counted a distinct loss to tile contv. GETTING READY FOR ELECTION OF MAYOR Citiy Diemocratic Club will Hold lmii. portanlt Meeting Thursday to P'lan For Mayorally Elec1ilon. Date of lUlee t Mn A nnounllced. Prldent. it. I. Uabb of the City I I1emocrati' (lub has called a me It n of he voters of L utllrells for Ti - (11 at thrce o'clock. The object o titis t1hcilng is to elect offieers o the coutii.g two years and also to iake all the ieevssary prepa ra tions for the coining election of 1aorI and aldermen for the city. The election this year will be held on Tuesd ay tile 1Cth of Februariy. So far no cnijmlIda tes have anttnoneed. thrmlselves officially either for the of flee of mayor or alderman. Several however have their hand on their ;id and no doult will soon sling their bonnet In the circle. WOMEN TO USE INFIXUENC(E. Passige of Fire Hills in the Leuisla. ture of Especial Interest to Them. An interview in The Columbia Rec ord of recent date given by Dr. Jane Bruce Cuignaird will be read with peculiar interest here, Dr. Guignard being the sister of Rev. Sanders Guignard, rector of the Church of the Epiphany. The interview follows: "That there will be five bills before the legislature at its coming session, which are the particular business of every woman in the state, is the statement of Dr. Jane Bruce Guig nard, president of the Equal Suffrage league of Columbia. "Dr. Guignard refers to the compul sory education bill, the child labor bill, the medical inspection bill, the prohibition bill, and the Iowa injunc tion bill. These, she states, are the concern of every woman whether she is a suffragits or not, and she -begs that the women ")n all sections of the state, and in every walk of life, will moke an effort to learn the meaning of these bills and inform themselves as to the effects of the passing of these bills, and then use their influ ence-indirect thought it be-to help get them passed. "Dr. Guignard is herself an nrdent advocate of every one of these bills, believing that they are of vital im portance to the future welfare of the state, and although she knows as well as any one the various arguments ad vanced against them, among them the impossibility of getting them en forced, she believes with Mr. Glad stone that 'the passing of good laws makes it easier to do right.' " SCHOOLS RECEIVE STATE AID. Treasurer Young has Received Vouch. ers for School Money from Colui. bila. Supt. of Education J. H. Sullivan has furnished The Advertiser with a list of the Laurens cnytnty schools which are entitled to money out of the term extension fund which Treas. Young has just received for disti bution in tils county, Un~dler the lawv which makes provlsion for this fund, every school in the county unable to runlt on its own funds for flye mnonths and which votes a special tax of' two mnills is entit led to aidl from it. IEach school receives an amount equal to the proceeds fronm the two mili tax, providled t his tax is not over $1 I0, ihis bleing the mnaximtuf amnount al lowed. It will lie ntoted that Patton and~ IEhernezer schools divide the a nioutnt apportioned to that district, as (does Iliddles 01(1 Field and War rior' Creek. Tihe amoun111ts apportioned amtontg the schools are as follows: P'ine 1311uff.....................g 75 W\ade ----.----..... ......... ...S. .\erna.--.-.-..................-13 Lisbon.......... ................7. W\adsworth -...................100 Vlinton City ..--...... .......... 0 Odell.---..-........... ........00 Woodr~ow Wilsotn................100I ~Lurenls Citly................... Ott Long iltranch..... ................1 .lusgrove..... ..................00 Lantigston .......... ...,.........Si Santdy' Sprinltts .................... 1(1 Oaikv ille.........................g .lt. h'leasat.......... ..........100 ll(eed(y Grtov'e...................... \it. Olive..... .............. ....in IPatton11 an I11 hern eer..........100 I tiddles O11ld'ieldl and( Wartriotr Crteek ................... .... Cecntr'al.......... ................. ITotal .............. .........81.5 MILITIA I8DISBAND[D BY GOY[NROR BL[A8[ Another Hligh-Handed Act Added to Record. RE-ORGANIZATION IS EXPECTED. .Adjuntant Genlerall MIore. Says the Gov,. ernor's Aetion is satisfitetory to Ii i ile (Goi crnor-Eletet MIan. ning Makes No Comment. Coumbia, Jan. ii.-The entire Na-. tional Guaird of South Carolina was lisbanded this afternoon through a proctliaIatIon issiued by Governor Cole L. Ullease, the Commnder--it-tif. Te reasons assigned by him are dif ferences with Secretary of War L. M. Garrison, Secretary of the Navy Dan leis, Adjt. Gen. W. W. Moore and his opposition to the Dick law, whereby the militia were brought under con trol of the United States governmInet. The three regiments of infantry, coast artillery, naval militia and every sin gle member and unit of the militia is mustered out of service by this order. The order Is made effective mime diately. Adit. Gen. Moore knew nothing of the order until The News and Cour ier's representative told him of It over the telephone -at his home, where he had gone for lunch. "I was not sur prised at his action in this matter," said the Adjutant General. "It is on ly in keeping with his attitude towards my administration of the past two years. if he got any satisfaction out of the act I am satisfied it would meet with the approval of the majority of the officers of the organized militia. It is perfectly satisactory to me. I have no doubt but that a thorough re organization of the National Guard would be beneficial to it." Governor-elest Riliard I. Manning was informed of the action of Gov ernor Blease over the long distance ielephone at his home in Sumter, but, of course, had no comment to make mder the circumstances and in the ibsence of any copy of the order. The matter will come before Governor \fanning for action when he assumes Alice one week from tomorrow. That there is no need for alarm ov )r this action of Governor Blease is iolnted out here in well informed cir Ales, for he has only one week left in office, and Governor Manning, should lie so desire can reinstate the militia through a proclamation. Of ourse, as is evident, this leaves the tate without military protection for :lme week, but as was also emphasized here this afternoon, this is no cause for alarm, for not a militia company ias been called out for a long time. The disbandment of the militia' cre ated a great deal of interest In Co i~mbia. The order w'as made public by the Governor at 3 o'clock this af ter'noon and it was late before it got geneiral cIrculation. Tlhere avere sev eral telephone inquiries of The News Pnd Courier llu reau as to just what liilhad bec done by the Governor. Thle procalmnation dlisbandling the National Guard follows: "State of South (Cartollina, Exeu tivye (Chamber--rolanmation by llis E'x cellency, C'olematn Livingston 1 tiase, Governor and~ (Conmmander-in-Cie if in andh ov'er the State auforesaid: ''To the People of the Slate of South Carolina, by the Grace of God Feree andI indep~endent. National Guard, St ate of Siu thI Carol ina: "'Whereas, differences have a risen between the Seeiretarty of War (of tho United States of Amerien, anid the Sec tretary oIf the Navy of tihe Uinited States 0f Amteiiu, and tihe Adjutant and in spector General eltartmnat of tho State of Soth Carolina, and his Ex cel leney, (of tihe State of' Sou iith aro lina, whlo is also ('onmaner-inl-Chief' of tile miilitry7 anid navatil fore('s of tihe said Slate of' South Ii a relna; and, "Whre ifferenc iles hav~e arisetn between''t thme A\djutant andit iispeilor Genmeral anid 1i0' (onumWninig obl(eIrs stateI, which'i havet Cauised seriouis breachies of! iipiln iii n sa id dinparit mnen t anid inucht iscord;ii ad, "'Wherr as the present Govpmrnor of t he State of Soulth C'aroliui is of' the opilnien thit. It wouldl lbe tiuair' antd onjust otn his lpart to turni over to lia Suiccessor ini offCic the militia of the~ (ti tninned oni ane he-iI'