Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WATCHMAN. April. IBM. fltcljtnttm and ?Be Jut sad Fear not?Lei all the ends Thou Alms t at be thj Ooomrj's, Thy God'* and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established naolidated Auft. 3,1881 STJMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1911. Vol. XXXIII. No.l? CHINESE CAPITAL HKKK VHiri VA TION OF FOtU-.K.N SOLHIKHS. In Htstc of Panic Over Ma tea ret, Scheduled by for Tonight ? Double Trains I*-SThig City Taxed Capacity by Inhabitant* Would Escape Wrath of Raaperor R>moT< ? a Suicide. Oct. It.?The situation In It becoming worse. A verb prevails among the Man the Manchu wcmsn sre ?Chinese drees. Some of attempting to make their ?snail by peculiarly con* )a> (fee trains leaving the ?irawn by two engines, n they loaded, the people of thslr houssholJ bs isals are seeking say lam las and children among I revolution, the nsws Itty cried >ut against of foreign soldiers, but Mrw are fleeing to them One report fixes to fur an outbreak, but 15.#00 y snthu troops. Chinees, 1'isurss the ipital for the preeent. ?ms to be from Ik against the throne officials, which might threatened massacre Race fee ling Is be provislons still la rls ansnbor of foreigners tot saaetwenclss. Ths idbsga piled on drall, which is now under Pttcurseque m >vs- , a troeps through ths j silently after night- ! excitement among the 1 that the Em lied away and fl too old i are many such stories. They' ^ geay or may not be true. I The American legation has issue Jj orders that the women and children living along* ths Pskln-Hankow Rait-I road snd also in ths country west of ths lins ?hall go as soon ss possible to ths e >??t. W The American consul-general at Hankow, Roger 8. Qreene, reports that an Amerlcsn.. A. H. Kepler, has besn wounded In the fighting around that city. Consular reports from Msnking are pseslmlsttc. The new troops fear I *n attack by ths old troops and are ? lam ?rlrif f.?r ammunition, which th?* vlesr^y refuses to give them. They were ordered to Isave the city, but declined. Mix thousand men. of tne twentieth division at Lsu Chau. have refused to entrsln for Hankow, ln ^ Staad, they sent a memorlsl to Pe? king asking for ths Immediate grant? ing of a constitution. I Ths loan scheme, whereby Chl.ia hopes to raise msny million dollars through a Belgian and Frsnch synd'- I eats. Is considered dangerous in some [ quarters I Ths National Assembly is likely to oppass It fiercely, while foreign assls- ' ance for the government is likely to ar->uss ant I-foreign fssllng. which | up to ths preeent time has been ab? sent. A substantial advsnce on the loan within a fortnight has been ar? rested. A message from Hankow reports an artillery fight between rebels and Chinese gunhotts. Ths town of Tai Tuen Fu. In fthsn 8hl province, is reported to ha-s Joined the revolu? tion. Previous measagea from that I plaes said a rising was expected and that a run >n the banks was undsr' way. A foreign naval rsport from Hankow says that on the morning of October 17 ths Imperial troops ad? vanced and captursd Kilometrs Ten. adding thst the rebels mads very lit? tle resistance, and retired leaving many guns and a camp squlpsge. The Oovsrnmsnt's estimate of ths rebel's casualties In the Hankow battle Is MM. T?;s Government's ?ucceee Is de? s* rlb#d as being Isrgely due to the work of ths navsl squadron under Admiral Rah, which succeeded In en. finding ths rebels In the trenches. 1 resident Taft must hav.? whipped back Int ? th? Insurgents* country with ths e.tpeetntl'.n of stealing n >.?Wilmington (N. C.) Btar. Women m.iy yet do Ihe "shopping and the *'.'ing |af the family?Bir? mingham Horald SHOOTS FAMILY AS THEY SLEEP. DESPERATE DEED OF ENRAOED RAILWAY CONDUCTOP. Aftc- Killing UJri Father. In-law. Wounding Wife end Her Mother. Went Virginia Man Commits Sui slde?Breaks Into Hooee, Opening Fire on Sleeping Victim*?Catches Escaping Wife, Beate Her Until Neighbor Approaches ? Culmina? tion of Domestic Troubles. Parkersburg. W. Va.. Oct. 19.? Carrol L. James, a railroad conductor of this city, shot and killed his fath? er-in-law, William Prltchard; prob? ably fatally wounded his mothor-in law; slightly injured his wife and committed suicide today, nt Penna boro. W. Vs. James broke Into the Prltchard home and caught his victims while they slept. He made no effort to harm his four-year-old daughter, who occupied the bed with h?r moth? er and grandmother. The tragedy follows a series of sen? sational occurrences here, about six weeks sgo, when Jsmes shot Seymour Kuhn, of Fairmont. W. Va.. a fellow railroader, whom he alleged he had found with his wife at the James home. Kuhn'? Injury was slight. James brought suit for divorce and lfm. James brought a counter suit. PARAGON GETS A WATCH. At SI Howard Bennett Has Never Used Liquor, Tohseeo or Bad Lan? guage. Ludlow Castle. Maw, Oct. IS.? Howard Bennett, who this week reached the age of 11 without ever having used liquor, tobacco or pro? fane or objectionable language, has received a gold watch from a fund established for the purpose Ly a for? mer resident. 7he minister of the village church m: de the presentation. NEW WINTHROP BUILDING*. Arts sud Sciences Hall Contract Is gj|g,t?5 end That for Training School is tftt.ll.V Rock Hill, Oct. 28.?It has Just been possible to obtain the verified figures of the two big contracts awarded this week by the Wlnthorp's building committee. For the Indus? trial arts and science building, John T. Hult of Oreensboro, N. C. sub? mitted the lowest bid, which was $49.965. For the training school, J. A. Jones of Charlotte, N. C, bid $84, 416, and was awarded the contract. .-P GAFFNEY MAN KILLS FARMER. Prejudice Against Automobile Costs Whither Hie Life. Charlotte. N. C, Oct 29.?Because he allowed his prejudice against the . t'.mobil?? to carry him to the extent of drawing a pistol on a passing csr this ovenlng. Sam Whither, a wealthy Cleveland farmer lost his life. Facing the drawn weapon in Whlther's hand and believing that he intended car? rying out his threat, Lucius Randall, a prominent Gaffney, S. C, business man. snot Whlther's twice, killing him instantly. The tragedy occurred tw miles from Shelby in Cleveland county. Randall, who is a native of Cleveland, made the trip to North Carolina today to visit relatives. On a public road he met Whither In his buggy. The latter alighted, and drawing a pistol ap? proached Randall's machine and an? nounced that he was going to kill him. Randall plead with him, but is he continued to approach, increasing his threat, Randall drew his own weapon and put two bullets in the farmer's head. He then surrendered to the nherlff. The men were not acquaint? ed. Whlther's well known antipathy to the Invasion el the automobile Is the accepted theory In accounting for his actions. MORI AMERICAN CARDINALS. Arrltbishops of Boston and New York to be Elevated. Home. Oct. 28.?The pope will CTO ate a large number of cardinals nt the consistory to be held November 27. The Mo?t Hew John If, Parley, archbishop of New Y>rk. and IhS Mest Rev. witiinm h. O'Connell, gti abtehop ??f Boston, are among tbo*? who win r??ceiv?? the red hat? nt k r Dtomads Pelconlo, epietolic delegate g| Washington, also will be elevated according te |ba announce4 BSSJH today LYNCH NEGRO IX TEXAS. Fiend Who Attacked Wtunni is Tak? en From Ofliccrs Near .Marshall, Texas. Marshall, Texas, Oct. 29.?Will Ollle, a negro charged with criminal? ly attacking a white woman five miles west of Marshall last Friday morn? ing, was taken from officers by a mob at an early hour this morning and hanged to a tree near the scene of his attempted crime. It is charged that Ollle attacked the white woman Fri? day as she was entering a field on her farm, and after choking the woman attempted to hang her and set Are to her clothing. The negro was frightened away, however, and es? caped. He was located last night in Longview by another negro, who im? mediately reported Ollie's where? abouts to Marshall officers, and he was arrested shortly after midnight last night. A mob of about 500 men intercepted the officers as they were bringing the pris? oner to Marshall this morning and lynched him. Secretary Meyer's Proposed New Navy Yard. Mr. Meyer, the Secretary of the 'Navy, does not seem to have found many things in the navy to his lik? ing. He has undertaken to make many chages, and things he has no power to change he will ask Con gross to change. He has changed the method of administration of the navy yards, and has practically abandoned a number of navy yards and naval stations, or purposes to do so. There has been much com? plaint in the South of this latter pro? ceeding. The Secretary has no pow? er to abolish a navy yard or a na? val station. But he can accomplish the same result by discontinuing all work In a yard and leaving it to a caretaker. This, we believe, he has dono In some Instances. A change will now be proposed by the Secretary more ambitious and more radical than any that has pre? ceded it. He will submit to Congress a plan to abandon the navy yards at Portsmouth, Boston and New York, and partlaly abandon that of Phil? adelphia. Then he proposes to con? struct a great navy yard on Nar raganr*tt Bay, wher it wll be free from obstruction of commerce and where there is ample space. This one yard is to be constructed upon scientific principles looking to the greatest economy In performing the vast work of the navy. It is said that none of the navy yards is con? structed or arranged according to the best and most economical methods. The Norfolk Navy Yard, near Hamp? ton Roads, is to be retained and im? proved as a part of the scheme, but it will be Inferior to that on Nnr ragansett Bay. Much can be said in favor of this plan. While it may be essential to have navy yards and naval stations at certain intervals aong the line of the United States, so that one may be accessible to ships wherever those ships may be along the coast, there does not seem to be any need #or yards so close together as those at Portsmouth, Bogton. Brooklyn and Philadelphia. It la claimed that the present yards could be sold for nearly enough to buy the land and equip a new one. Hampton Roads, however, would possess many advantages over Nar raganset Bay as the seat of the principal navy yard. It is juts about midway the Atlantic Coast of tho United States and would be more ac? cessible for the navy. But its prin? cipal advantage would be in the cli? mate. Much of tho work of a navv yard, especially In shipbuilding, must of necessity eb outdoor work. For this the climate of the New England Coast is too severe during a great part of the year. On Hampton Uoads outdoor work is practicable nearly all the winter. While, as we have said, there *s much to bo urged in favor of Secre? tary Meyer's plan, he will probably encounter in Congress the united op? position of the delegations from a'l the States from which a navy yard is proposed to bp removed?New Uamp shlro, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. That opposition will be hnrd to overcome.?Baltimore Bun, IfiiZltiK ;cs a means of social enter talnmenl seems to !>?? oui of fav >r with the authorities nt Annapolis.? \v ightnffton i ferald, a Detroit suffragist wants a law passed requiring husbands to pay th*ir e/lves s salary. Why s UcW ?ben the wlv< I at read) gel s salary their husbands*? Kansas City journal. COTTON MARKET CONDITION. Market This Week Promises to Con? tinue Uncertain?Bulls Expect Ac? tive Month. New Orleans, Oct. 29.?The cotton market this week promises to be ful? ly aa uncertain as it has been of late. The main things to be considered are the spot demand, which is likely to affect the minor sellings, and crop estimates, which are thought to af? fect the broad swing of the market. The tendency recently has been to return to the large crop guesses of the earlier part of the fall, and this week it is probable that several sen? sationally bearish estimates will be made. The spot demand is an uncertain quantity, as this week the October position will have been liquidated. The recent good spot demand has been due in large measure to the scramble to fill October shipments. Bulls claim that November Is to be an active month in a spot way, in contrast to the usual dullness. If the spot demand continued the bulls will have a big advantage, as of late spots have shown a disposition to lead fu? tures. Wednesday will end the period to be considered in the next report on ginning by the census bureau, and be? fore the end of the week there will be more or leas guessing over the fig? ures, although the October report will not be published until November 8. This next report on ginning will be the most effective weapon the bears will have in the Immediate futures unles- recognized authorities on the crop come forward with very large estimates. The weather this week is likely to become less of a factor in the situa? tion than for many months past. Broadly speaking, the weather from now on can affect the quality but hardly the quantity of cotton left in the fields. For this reason the weath? er may will be less anxiously scanned. AMPLE PROOF FOR TILLMAN. Atlanta Attorney Declares He'll Shortly Satisfy Senator Concerning Governor Blosse. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 28.?Comment-j Ing on the last Tillman interview, Thomas B. Felder made this state? ment to the Augusta Chronicle's At? lanta reporter today: "If Senator Tillman only wants proof that Gov. Cole Blease is a crook in order to fight him, then he'll have that proof shortly in an overwhelming degree." KILLS NEGRO IN LAM AR STORE. Albert Wlnndham Shoots Joe Slater, Then Drives Home?Had Ar? gued Over Debt Lamar, Oct. 28.?At 5 o'clock this I afternoon Albert Wlnndham, a white man, shot and killed Joe Slater, a negro, In the store of B. S. Stokes when the store was crowded with cus? tomers. Wlnndham, who had been to Darlington today, returned on the 5 o'clock train and came into the store, where he encountered Slater. From the testimony of eye-witnesses it seems that a dispute arose about some money owed and Wlnndham drew his pistol and fired at Slater twice, killing him almost Instantly. W'.nndham went Immediately to his buggy and drove home. He had not been arrested at 8 o'clock tonight. THE CLEMSON TRUSTEES. Quarters Engaged In Columbia for Memliers of Board During State Fair. > Columbia, Oct. 30.?Proprietor Galllard of the Hotel Albert has hook? ed reservations at his house during fair week for the trustees of Clemeon college. The members of the board will come to Columbia to he with the Clemson cadet corps and to 'mingle with their friends from va? rious portions of the State ??????????? j Mr. Taft's mileage ticket is pretty nearly used up.?New York World. Socretary Wilson opposes Govern? ment aid for good roads because, once started. ?t "might lead to no? body known where." Why not put guide posts along the roads tellings where?.Kansas City Star. I -. Since the women's colleges In the United Btates have demonstrated tb.?t their pupils can master the j same ? nurses us men successfully [they have decided Lo teach women [something more useful And It'i ? [wise ' clelon.??Nash\ lie Tenner-can. JOSEPH PULITZER DEAD. THE EM) CAME SUDDENLY IN CHARLESTON HARBOR. Proprietor of New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, He Was Commanding Figure. Charleston, Oct. 29.?Joseph Pulit- j zer, proprietor of the New York World and the St, Louis Post-Dispatch and one of the most commanding figures in modern Journalism, died at 1:40; o'clock today aboard his yacht. The Liberty, in Charleston harbor. The Immediate cause of Mr. Pulitzer's death was heart failure. He had been in 111 health for several days, but until a few hours before the end none of th-.rfe around him had any suspicion of the gravity of his condition. The change for the worse came at about 2 o'clock this morning, when he suffer? ed an attack of severe pain. By day? light he appeared to be better and fell asleep shortly after 10:30 o'clock. He awoke at 1 o'clock, complained of a pain in his heart, fell Into a faint and expired at 1:40 o'clock, j Mrs. Pulitzer, who had been sert for, arrived from New York today and reached the yacht shortly before her l husband died. She was at his bed?ide when the end came, as also was his youngest son, Herbert, who has been cruising with his father during the present trip. Mr. Pulitzer's body will be taken I North at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon on a special Pullman car, special ar? rangements having been made today for the transportation of the re? mains by Traveling Passenger Ager.t T. E. Myers of the Atlantic Couat Line. The coach will be lined with black. The funeral will be held at Woodland cemetery In New York, I probably towards the end of this week, Mr. Pulitzer's son. Joseph, Is now on his way from St. Louis with his wife, and one of his daughters will come from Colorado. Ralph Pulitzer, the eldest son, Is on his way to Charleston and will meet the train en route. i _. SATURDAY A RECORD BREAKER. Probably Smallest Soles for Any Dny at This Season of the Year. The cotton sales Saturday furnish? ed what is probably a record breaker for this season of the year. Tha sales amounted to eight i,r ninf> bales of cotton, less perhaps t,hon any oth? er day at this season of the year at any time in the history of the Suniter cotton market. The day was about as rainy and bad as days ever get to be in Sumter and it was this species of weather which kept the farmers at home and made them hold in their cotton to a more auspicious occasion. During the past week much of the I cotton Which had been crowded on f the cotton platform has been cleared off and now the platform is in about its usual condition at this season of! the year, a fact that indicates that the farmers are not selling their cotton as fast since they sold sufficient to meet their notes for October 15th as they did previously to that time. It is understood that there is still a big amount of cotton in the fields which has yet to be gathered. Pick? ers are still scarce and in some places as much as seventy-five cents per hundred Is being paid them. Even at that price they are hard to get. The farmers report thai the heavy rains of Friday and Saturday did much damage to the cotton, knocking it out of the bolls and partly covering some of it with sand and dirt. Some fields are left several inches deep in water and if the weather for ibis week is fair it will be impossible t3 get pickers to pick the cotton ns they would have to wade In the water to get to the cotton. The hay crop where it was not gathered also suffered some damage, as did peas which have not yet been picked. The cotton caterpillar is reported to be continuing his depredations, but little damage is suffered from his visll now for what cotton he i* feasting upon would he killed by the frost in a few weeks, Tilliunii and Bleage, Close students of the situation can seo very plainly all the same that there is s breach between the two for? mer friends and thai B1eas< Is ven likely to be a candidate for Tillman's seat, regardlesi of whether 'be lat? ter is s candidate for reele< tion or not it is no! regard or personal af? fection for Tlllmnn thm Is holding him back, bul fear lesl Tillman might mustei up some of his old time fire und force and come r>u1 vie I tor. < !ht stei Repoi t< r i LITTLE GIRLS STIR UP A G. SENSATION. Rocky Mount's Recent Sensation Had No Foundation in Fact, But Lynch? ing Was Narrowly Averted. Several days ago a very sensation *? aJ al story of an assault on two little * girls at Rocky Mount was told in ths papers, and the man who was suspec? ted was arrested, and he was identi? fied by the girls, one of them\l years old and the other 10. Nothing has been said of the matter lately, it was left like the sensational stories In the paper, right where *t was the most sensational. The mob was after the negro an'* was uncertain whether the she. ,uld protect him or not. The stt.y comes to the Times from a Rocky Mount man that the whole story was a fake gotten up by the two girls to create an excitement. The sheriff was suspicious of the story when It was told by the chil? dren but the mob believed it and thought that they were doing their""' duty by their families and the race in trying to lynch the negro. tl la understood that the children had been hearing and reading sensa? tional stories throughout the country which have been very frequent in the papers recently and they thought that they would get up a senaation on their own account, so they made up the tale and only the fact that the sheriff wae a level headed man saved that sec? tion of the country an outbreak of lawlessness. The sheriff got the story from the children after some persuasion.? Florence Times. TYLER DIES IN ORANGEBPRG. Negro Shot at Springfield Succumbs to Wounds After Operation. Orangeburg, Oct. 28.?Wade Tyler, the negro who was ohot while in the custody of Sheriff Salley at Spring4 field Thursday night, when tho sheriff attempted to save him i'rera an infu? riated,.mob, died about 3 o'clock last night from the effect of his wound. Tyler was brought to this city by automobile and placed in the county jail. Later he was taken to a house on Rowe street, where ar operation was performed by Drs. SViecut, Low man. Green and Heaner, in attempt to save the prisoner's life. Thursday a warrant was sworn out against Wade Tyler, charging him with aiding Arthur Bowen 'n effecting his escape after Bowen had attempt? ed criminal assault on a young wo? man near Springfield. Tyler was ar? rested that day in Springfield. After he had been apprehended, his wife attempted to shoot an officer. The arrest of Tyler increased the anger of the mob, and violence was threatened while Tyler was in the town guardhouse. Sheriff Salley was notified and asked to hurry to Spring? field to arrange to carry Tyler to a place of greater safety. The sheriff and assistants arrived by automobile a little later, and the negro had been taken from the guardhouse and was being placed in an automobile, when some unknown person in the mob shot him in the back. The Tomato Clnbs. Although this has been an unfavor? able year for tomatoes, the "tomato girls" will make a most creditable ex? hibit at the State fair. The interest they have taken in the work speaks well for the country. Every girl who learns to do one thing well is better prepared to learn to do other things. ,In all our homes incentive genius is needed. This is what Miss Marie Cro mer of Aiken. the originator of the "tomato club" Idea. had. To her the credit is due. All who heard her speak before the convention of women's clubs in Columbia last year will re? number her talk and all who heard her have been interested ever since in the "tomato clubs" of South Carolina. Miss Cromer now holds a position with the T'nited States government. She overlooks the work done in the numerous tomato clubs ail wet* the country and win supervise the exhibit to he held at the fair this year.? Columbia Record. As SOJUad Sy, I Of the Richland < ounty chain gang' was being taken fron, camp, near Killian to the place of work for tho day early Wednesday morning Perry Henry Haltiwanger, a T.egro. In trying to escape was shot and killed by -T. R, Thompson, one of the guards. The coroner's Jury re tumed a verdict at the inquest that th? n gro "came I ? his death at the h i "ds of .T. R, Thompson, w hile |n I disci :?? of nis duty.*'