Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ii THjC SlMTF.lt WATCHMAN, Estaetl ? unvoitdttted Auk. 1,188 ?bf (Kilalrhnn unt? Southron. I* Wednesday and Saturday ?BT? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UUTKR, S. C. Terms: tl 50 per ?nnuM?In advance. Advertisements: One Square first Insertion.$1.00 Bvery subsequent Insertion.10 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private Interests will be oharged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects ?rMl be charged for. GENERAL STRIKE EFFECTIVE. LWKVTOKI IOK \KIUTK\TION I Mil I? liAST NIGHT. Headquarter*. r?.r strikers Established, i\ unter? Issued ami Stupen Syntpathetlc Strike is On?One Tttousand Workers Already Out? Public Demonstration In IMilladcI ptita. Philadelphia. Pa.. March 4.?En? couraged by messages of sympathy and offers of assistance from labor or? ganisation* In all parts of the coun? try, the union workers of many trades ceased work at midnight and Inaugu p rated what promises to be one of the greatest sympathetic strikes ever pulled off In the history of organized labor. The committee of ten say at least 75,000 organised workers, as well es many unorganised sympathizers of the street carmen, have alrady ceased W work. Promptly at midnight union orches? tras, playing In the leading hotels and cafee. picked up their Instrumentsand started for tneir homes. Union cab drivers and chauffeurs also abandoned their posts, and the ^ hotel and railroad cab and autombile service was badly crippled. The committee of ten remained In session at their headquarters all night, receiving reports from the various lo? cal union*. Rioting which began tonight In sev sy eral sections of the city, and was par? ticularly severe in the northeastern district. Is thoogM to be a forerunner of more serious trouble tomorrow, when thousands of idle men will throng the streets Many associations of employer.? P^have sent letters and tetegPMM to the officials of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and the city officials, commending the stand taken, and urging them to remain firm In their determination not to submit to the strikers' d ?mond for union recognl M ties. All policemen. fVomen and specials who have been on duty since the strike began received orders tonight to remain at their posts. The emer? gency automobiles in the city hall ? court v ir i were Increased In number rand measures taken to send a force of men to any section of the city at n moment's n.>tl< Many of these machines are driven by thHr owners, wealthy nvMi, who have volunteered for police duty, and have been sworn In by Director Clay William Drexler. aged 42 years, was shot and probably fatally Injured to? night by a policeman, who shot at a crowd that had congregated on Frankford avenue, in the SesTtSssSSt section of the city. Several cars had been stonqd by the crowd nb>ng this str-? t. andVhe po B He- guarding them ilred a v db y in the air. One of the bullets however, struck Drexler In the stomach. i'r.iwds alesl BttSOBStd gSfl in Utl downtown and nortbwestern sections of the cltv. l?l VI II IN M \\\l\<. r P It Mou/oii |?a**cd \wu3 I rtduy \fteriMM?n. Manning March 4 ? Tin- Hon. P. B. Mouzon. m?y??r of Manning, passed away at 3 S*9lock this afternoon, af? ter an extended Illness which he bor? with (>atlent fortitnd?. lie was 61 years old, and leaves surviving him, his widow and two sons. Mr. F. Mui rett Mouson. teller of the Bank o? Manning, and I'. B. Mouzon. Jr., who iwas associated with him In bu-dn<?< ? Ho was a nnilve of Klngstree. but had resided In Manning for ov r 24 years MI? administration was a decided Bjje> ..mm ir< i n. .1 ,| rv-rything t'?r the ad? vancement of Mannli.K. Hl was n promb'. nt ne r?-hant and highly BO* tcfmol f->r lb; sterling virtues H's death Is iSSStf d< pl??red by tbo en? tire community. The fuio ral S rvlees will take place at the Manning C?me tery at 10 o'clock tomorrow. < ?pportunlty Is apt to d ? >d go the man who spends all his time waiting for It. shed April, 1 H.MI 'Be Just an I. SVh POSTAL BANK BILL PASSED. - UDfATH disposed or admims. TRATION MIASlKK. Bill Provides for Receipt of Deposits i By Money Order l?ostofllees?Funds To be Pluecd In Local Hanks?Three i MemlKTM of Cabinet to Act as Trus- j tex?*?Democrats (>p|M>s?Hl Bill's Pas- | sage. Washington. March 5.-Dividing | practically upon party lines, the Sen? ate at the close of the third session of the legislative day of March 3. today l.^s-d fhe administration postal ?av intrs hank bill. Of the seventy-two votes cast, fifty were in favor of the bill and 22 against. All the negatives votes were cast by Democrats. Senator Chamber? lain of Oregon was the only Democrat who voted for the bill. As it goes to the House the bill au? thorizes the various money order postoffices. to accept sums of one dol? lar or more from depositors, and to deposit these sums in the local banks, where the money is to remain unless withdrawn by the President In case of war or other exigency. In case of this withdrawal, the funds are to be In? vested in government securities, but with the proviso that such securities shall n<>t draw less than 2 1-4 per cent Interest. The control of the funds is vested in a board of trustees, com? posed of the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Treasury and the At? torney General. Tho aggregate balance allowed to any depositor is $500 and no person is permitted to deposit more than $100 In any one month. The government is required to pay 2 per cent Interest and must exact not less than 2 1-4 per cent from the banks, tho extra quurter of 1 per cent being required 'for the payment of expenses and !3sses. It is calculated that such a law wculd bring much money out of hid. Ing, and result In a fund ranging all the way from $500,000,000 to one bil? lon dollars. ItAVAGIOS OF BOLL WFJjVIL. Senator Smith und Others Testify Tliat l;o>s Will Amount to About $:ir>,ooo.ooo. Washington. March 4.?That tin practical destruction of the cotton mop of the South, east of tho Mississ? ippi and partly west of It, is threat? ened by the boll weevil is the testi? mony given before the senate commit t | on agriculture today by Senator Smith, of South Carolina, who is an ? Xpert in cotton growing. Senator Smith gave the committee information and It was also given evidence from other sources calculat? ed to show the ravages of the boll weevil, making this Insect a menace to the prosperity of the South. The ' 'tement was made to the committee that one county of the South which has produced 25.000 hales of cotton w .r prodnesd only 2.000 bales. Kepr-sentative Dickson, of the 7th distriet Ol Mississippi, told the com mittee that the results of the boll weevils' r;iv;iu'fs In bis region was dis? astrous. He said it had "emasculated ? 'Mi' Industrial civilization here," and ?li it in thp last eighteen months about I IM families had left bis county as tin- result of the visit of this terrible pest He estimated that 40 per cent, "f the psopls in his district would bo distressed this year to meet their taxes. I-Ntimatea given before the commit lee as to the loss caused by the boll weevil to the cotton crop last year ranged from $20,000,000 to $35.000, 000. KTAHLKS 111 KS VI DARLINGTON. 10 vh> UseThurwlaj M^iit Imounti to s 1,200 1 larllngton, March 7. .1. a. mc Inness & Co*S livery and sales stables u are burned Thursday night at about 11 o'eloek. The stables were located on Mooney street. )u*1 off Flor? SM ?treat, In the rear of .lefford's shops and the Darlington Tin and Metal Works. There were a large number of build? ings surrounding tin stables and 11 took good work on the port of tie in.- department to prevent tin- flames from sweeping over a large area. All ? ?f the live st"<k was saved und tin 1 , ?nshitfl of feed stuff, fumlshlngj etc, and amounts to about 11*060 with no Insurance, The building ?ras owned by Mr. Jef? fordi and his lose Is probably $1,200. Pine sleepers treated with CallfOf nlii crude oil have been used on the Santa Fe Railway sine PV hruary, 11*02, with no sign of decay. Untreat? ed sleepers last not over two years. id Fear not-^Let all the ends Thon Aln 1TER. S. C., WEDN1 BALLIHGER A MR. GIFFORD P1NCHOT USES strong LANGUAGE CONCERNING HALM XfJF.lt. Members of Committee show Consid? erable Impatience With Methods of Attorney for Secretary. Washington, March 4.?The Kallin ger-Plnohot investigation dragged slowly along through two sessions to? day. Mr. Vertrees, counsel for Secre? tary Kallinger, continued his cross examination of Gilford Pinchot. He elicited some interesting facts from the former forester, but for the mo#1 part the day was taken up large? ly with wrangles between the attor? ney and the witness and sometimes between Mr. Vertrees and counsel i'jf the other side. Mr. Pinchot complain? ed to the committee that it was diffi? cult to explain forest service matters to a man so little Informed on the sub? ject as Mr. Vertrees appeared to d\ The ni( mbers of the committee showed considerable impatience, and Senator Flint repeatedly urged coun? sel to stop wrangling and try to get down to the facts. Mr. Pinchot admitted that his first? hand knowledge of Mr. Kallinger'? acts was very limited, but he reiterat? ed that the secretary of the interior had deceived the president concerning the Cunningham coal cases and had made a statement to the president which was "obviously untrue." Mr. Vertrees at the afternoon ses? sion questioned Mr. Pinchot closely regarding the sending of forest rang? ers to agricultural colleges and brought out the fact that Mr. Pinchot was under the impression that he hxd Informed the secretary of agriculture of what he was doing, but he was not willing to swear to it. The attorney ?,oucht to show that Mr. Pinchot and Former Secretary of the Interior Gar field were in the habit of doing what they thought best, regardless of tht law. and their antagonism to Mr. Bel* linger was brought about by his Je termination to proceed wholly within the law. As soon as Mr. Pinchot took the stand Attorney Vertrees for Mr. Cal linger asked him this question: "Mr. Pinchot, please state one single fact of your own knowledge that re? flects upon Mr. Ballingers' conduct either as commissioner of the land of? fice or secretary of the interior?not hearsay, not what somebody else aal 1 or wrote?of your own knowledge." The witness hesitated at first, but later said: "The fact of my own knowledge Mr. Bellinger's letter to the president of November IT? with which be in? closed the Ronald letter. These let? ters contain misstatements which I have already shown and am prepared further to show." M?'? V'-ru eos?"You ha /e tev.il!? d here largely by Inference and jnnuen do. Now state what you personally know Mr. Kallinger said or did. Mr. Pinchot?"The letter of No? vember 15." Mr. Vertrees?"What else?" Mr. Pinchot?"1 never discussed the C unningham cases with Mr. Balling" ? r. The only knowledge I have at first hand is limited to writings that are nO( disputed.'' Mr. Pinchot said that up to the time ho sent Glavls to President Taft the relations between himself and Mr. Batltnger bad been "fairly friendly, not more than that/' He was n?>t more frlendlj because he knew Mr. Ball Inger's views as to conservation were different from his o\\ h. ,4Then yon were unfriendly'.'" "No, I dlstrueted him." "You mean distrusted his policies?" "I distrusted bis p dlcles and What he would do." Mr, Plnchol was asked to read the letter from Secretary Ballinger con? veying a letter from Iiis (Secretary Ball Inger's) law partner to President Taft. When he had concluded, Mr. Vertrees asked: "Does thai Setter indicate hostility to the general policy of conserva? tion ?" "in my Judgment, it does." "Poinl out a single statement to that effect." Mr, Plnchol said It was Impossible to make Judgment on a single state mei l. 'I be a bob- thing had to be taken together, Mr. Vertrecu spent some time with the witness as t.? the charge thai Mr, BuiIInger had deceived the presidenl regarding an opinion of the comptrol? ler of the treasury on the subject of the agreement between the forestry service and the Interior department regarding Indian kind lie brought out the fact thai a copy of the comp? troller's d< cl i"n referred to by Mr. I Baliinger had been sent to the preel I I! t is't at be thy Country's, Thy God'l anc SSDAY. MARCH 9. 1 PIGKEHJTGIERSIU. JOHN 1?. CUDAHY CUTS UP JERE P. LILLIS. Son of MJlHonaire Alleged to Have Round Financier and Assaulted Ilim ?Pot Under Bond. Kansas City, March 6.?Finding Jeiv P. Lillls, a local banker, in his home when he arrived unexpectedly at an early hour today John P. Cudahy, a wealthy packer, and son of Michael Cudahy, the millionaire, is alleged to have committed an assault upon the man, which led to his arrest for dis? turbing the peace. He was released on $100 bond. Lillis is in St. Mary's hospital. His condition is said to be critical. Cuts, said to have been inflicted with a knife, are on his face, legs and arms. The cuts have been made In criss-cross fashion. If he recovers he will be dis? figured for life, it is averred by physi? cians. Before cutting Lillls, Cudahy Is said to have bound him with a strong rop< One of Cudahy's chauffeurs was pres? ent. Neighbors heard Lillis' screams end groaning in the Cuday home and call? ed the police. Ten minutes later Policeman Under? wood hurried to the Cudahy home, which is in a fashionable residence section of the city. The front door was open. Stepping into the hall he heard screams coming from a parlor. Then came groans and cries for mercy. Underwood found that three men were In the room, which was brilliantly lighted. Pros? trate on the floor lay Lillls, half nude and bound with a rope. His lower limbs were bare. His few remaining clothes were bloody. Above him stood Cudahy. He was in correct evening dress, except that he wore no coat His sleeves were rolled up. Blood was on his hands. At his side stood his chauffeur. None of the men noticed Under? wood. Lillis groaned and tugged fee? bly at the cords that bound him. "Don't do it, Jack, please don't do it," he pleaded. Rushing over to the trio, Underwood addressed Cudahy. "What does this mean?" he queried "He's ruined my home. He's ruin? ed my home,' said Cudahy. turning to the officer and making no attempt at resistance. After seeing- that Lillls had been started to a hospital, the policeman took Cudahy to the police station. The packer gave a cash bond and was re? leased. From the beginning to the end of the affair Mrs. Cudahy was not in evi? dence. Attempts to reach her today proved futile. Cudahy's attorneys ad? mit the general facts In the case, but are unwilling to go into details. Since Cudahy's marriage to Miss Edna Cowin, who was a society belle of Omaha, on December 2S, 1899, the! family has been prominent here. On the day of the marriage Cudahy's father made him manager of his Kan? sas City packing Interests. After a three months' honeymoon, which in? cluded trips on special trains and the occupancy of a palace in Italy, the couple returned here and purchased one ">f the finest homes In the city The city readily received them. The Cudahys have five children. Lillis is a bachelor 4 7 years old. He is manager of the Western Exchange Bank .and prominent socially. Often he has been seen In elnb rooms In Cudahy's company. Showing the result of his progress of grinding and polishing steel plates far smoother than has hern hitherto possible, Johansson. Swedish engineer, has given the Paris Academy of Sci? ences a remarkable demonstration of the molecular attraction between bodies in contact. The slightest mi? croscopic unevenness is sufficient to prevent molecular adhesion. Electro magnetic Influences being proven to be absent, one steel plate was placed on top of another, and then the pull of even heavy weights failed to sepa rate them. The space between the two plates was found to be less than 1 .2,500,000 of an inch. dent. "There Is nothing to show the pres. Ident read the decision," declared Mr. Pinchot, "and the unavoidable infer? ence is that Mr. ?allinger deceived the president because the president said in Ids letter to Mr. Ballnger <m Sep tember>13: 'Your declination to carry out the contract was made necessary by a ruling of the comptroller.' " The witmss contended that the de clslon sent to the president did not cover the cooperative agreement as to Indian land. ? Adjournment was taken until to morrow. I Truth's." THE TRUJ 310. New 8er KNAPP ON COTTON PRODUOTIGH GOVERMENT OFFICIAL TALKS OF GREAT INDUSTRY. Points of Interest and Value Noted concerning South'! staple?Hint* as to the World's Supply and " Prices Should he Rege1 ^ C *U ton States to P~" Washington, :..<irch 3.?"What I have to say to you is simply plain talk to commonsense people about matters that interest them. I have noit come here to give you encourage? ment unless the facts substantiate it. I have simply come to tell you the plain truth about cotton production." With these words, Dr. Seaman K. Krapp, special agent in charge of farmers' co-operative demonstration work, bureau of plant industry, re? calls the remarks he made in Green? ville, Miss., a short time ago on the subject of cotton, the greatest of all cash crops. "In the general cotton situation,'' Dr. Knapp said, "you have some things to your advantage, not only here but throughout this Southern country. Seventy per cent of the cot? ton of the world is produced in the cotton States of the United states. The two great necessities of world as products o fthe soil are food and clothing. It is seldom in human his? tory, if ever before, that one nation has had a monopoly of either of these great interests. Such is your peculiar fortune to-day that you produce 70 per cent of the material that largely clothes the world, and clothing is just as essential as the food supply. "Look for a moment at the increas? ing demand for cottoon. If you will note carefully you will observe that it has doubled once in about twenty two years. We may estimate 13,000. 000 bales as a minimum supply on the part of the United States for the world's clothing at the present time; then turn back twenty-two years and we shall find that a little more than 6,0000,000 bales were sufficient; twenty-two years prior to that 3,000. 000 bales filled the demand, and twenty-two years before that 1.300 000 bales met the exigencies of the trade. If we pursue the same line for the future, in 1932 it will require 26, 000,000 bales and in 1954 it will be necessary for us to produce 52,000, 000 bales of cotton to meet the de? mands of commerce. i "Here is one of the most wonderful opportunities of wealth that has been known within the historic period. Our lands and climate are exceedingly well adapted to the production of the fleecy staple, and the intelligence of the farmers of the South and their long experience with cotton have equipped them to do the work and to do it, and do it well. Besides that, our commercial interests are founded on the cotton staple, and it is a tre? mendous affair to undertake to change the coditions of a great State or of several States. "The reasons for the increased de? mand for cotton are manifold. Each person wears more clothing than ie used to, and he requires better clo? thing. Another reason is that cotton is more universally worn. Classes of cotton that combine with wool in broadcloth have been found, so that cotton is used not only in the making of all cotton clothes, but .also in asso? ciation with silk and wool. Another reason, is the force of civilization. Th" railroads, the telegraph, and the fast steameis are fast bringing all parts of the world into close connection and sympathy, and millions that never rc quired clothing before are clothed to? day, and that clothing is made of cot ton. "I have sometimes heard it said that this is tin1 only country that can produce cotton. This if not true. Oth? er countries can produce it, and pro? duce it profitably. For certain pur? poses tin y produce better cotton in Burope than we do, so much so that wo are Importing a good many bales every yi nr. "Tin re are some things that are tending to prevent our holding our own in cotton production. One is the tendency to put the price of cotton so high thai it v\iii force pro? duction In other countries. Once they have learned the art and secured com? mercial adjustment it will be dlfficut to win back our former supremacy in cotton. The planter i* entitled to a just compensation for the production of cotton, but if the price is forced to a point above what the world can af? ford to pay for its clothing it will re? coil on the planler. If it were not for the boll weevil I believe we should now be making 20.000,000 bales of cotton annually. Not that the boll weevil reduces the crop so much, but it does so reduce among planters the. confidence that . rop can be made E SOUTHRON, Established Jane, lgM ies-Tol. XXXI. %lo. 4. THE CRIME COMMITTED BY WEALTHY CITIZEN. Deputv ''herlff Dunn in Fatally Shot? ^ of (governor and a State *iiV"iX Are Both Seriously Wound? ed. Scotland Neck. N. C, March 4.? State Senator L. C. Travis and Repre? sentative A. P. Kitchin, brother of Gov. W. W. Kitchin and Congressman Claude Kitchin of the Second Nor*h Carolina district and Deputy Sheriff C. W. Dunn, all of Halifax county, were shot down on the main street of 'he town this afternon by E. E. Powell, a wealthy and prominent citizen. Travil I and Kitchin are seriously and Dunn fatally wounded, j Details of the shooting are meagre. I According to the best information ob I tainable. Powell met his three victims, I He approached Sena'o?* Travis, it is I said, and asked him his reason for not I replying to a letter he had written him. j Representative Kitchin thinking I that Powell was out of humor, plac I ed his hand gently on his shoulder I and uttered words intended to placate j him. Without further words, it is al I leged, Powell drew a pistol and shot 1 Kitchin down, and in quick succession I fired on Travis and Dunn, both vlc I tims falling to the ground. Powell I then walked to his store, j No effort was made to arrest him, I and tonight he surrendered to an offl I cer and was taken to the coun:y jail I at Halifax. j The bullet, which struck Kitchin at I close range, entered the face below I the eye and was later taken out below I the earby surgeons. The ball which J struck Travis knocked out several I teeth and split his tongue. Dunn was hit below the left shoulder blade, the J bullet ranging upward. I Both Travis and Kitchin are amopg I the prominent citizens of the State j and Powell is a wealthy property I owner. j Alter midnight it is learned that j neither Kitchin an^ Travis was fatally I wounded. A brother of Mr. Kitchin I one of the wounded men, gave the I information. He stated further that j the mysterious letter on which the I shooting hinged, was written to Travis I regard ng a court case in which Kit I chin had defended Powell's 18-year I <>id son. and i> which Travis had not I replied. j Mr. Travis had nothing whatever to J do with the case and the presumption I is that Powell looked upon Mr. Kitch I in's friendly endeavor to pacify him j either as an attack or an effort to pre j vent him from carrying out his de I tdgns upon Senator Travis. The letter j in question was written a year ago. Officer Dunn, who was removed to I a hospital, is in a critical condition. YOUXG GRASS WIDOW .fAILED. Kate Parhain Will Be Tried at The Next Term of Court. Bpartanburg, March 4.?Mrs. Kate Parham. the young grass widow who was bound over to court Monday morning on the charge of abducting from her home Miss Ethel Johnson, the 16_year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson, was today com? mitted to jail in default of a $200 bond, L. P. Bpton, the well known real es? tate man, went on Mrs. Parham'.s bond, but today hQ withdrew. Mrs. Parham will be tried at the coming t rm of court. Another very important witness for the State has returned to Spartanburg, and has been I hound over. R. A. RKJHEY IS CONVICTED. Pound Guilty of Assault, Sentenced lo Fourteen Yeans. Abbeville, March 4.?In the case of R. A. Rlchey, tried for criminal as? sault on the person of a young white girl, the jury returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy. He was sentenced to serve 14 years in the State Penitentiary. Mr. Riehe) went into a convulsion, to which he is subject, immediately after being sentenced. Editor of Christian Herald Dead. New York. March 6.?Dr. Lewis Klopsch, editor of the Christian Her? ald and known the world over for his philanthropies, died early this morn? ing, following an operation on Friday for an intestinal obstruction. that fewer acres are planted." l>r. Knapp, after tilling how the country may rid Itself of the weevil, says: "I'nfurl a banner on every farm house and emblazon on it: 'We do not surrender to an invading army. We light.' "