Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ije toft man and OUTljroiu III?: STMTKH WATXTHMAW. April, ISM. 'Be Just end Let eil the eskfe Tho? Almu t et be thy Country's, Thy God's and Troth a" THE TRUE SOUTHRON, EstaMlsbed June, Consolidated Auic. 3,1881. SUMTER, 8. 0M SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. Vol. XXXIV. No. 18 IID HQ! SEE TITANIC. MOOT TKMPLK BP.UF.VPI> TO HW K HI I N BOAT NK.1KHY TITANIC. i aptain Heul? -? K. fu-lng 111 l|>? I ?i-. (Ju'UmMii. I*n^?eiig?>r un Mount TVaaplV, Bxdaeee lie Saw Titanic Sink. Wh l. ship Orth-er* Say they Maw no I Jig hi*?Testimony of Crew and Paee*?nger*. Washington. April 24.?Competing In Interest with the day's testimony, la the prob? of the Titanic disaster, was the Interchange of telegrams be? tween Senator William Alden Smith, and the Acting Premier of Canada, George E. Foster. The latter told of the docking of the steamer Mount Temple at St. John's. N. F.. with passengers aboard who claimed to have sen the Titanic ?Ink It was believed the Mount Temple wsa the ship that was only ?ve miles from the White Star I.iner when she took her final plunge. Senator 8ml" has requested that the deposition* * the officers and crew of the Mouh. Temple be sent to him. In sdditlon, he sccepted the of? fer of Dr. F. C. Qultdman, of Toronto, to appear before the committee. Dr. Qultdman was one ci the passengers * who said they saw che Titanic sink. Acting Premier Foste-* ? teelgrnm. today, follows: paptaln Mount Temple reports re 11 30 A. M . ship's time, Monday. Was then afty ml'ea west and south of p> sltion sent out by Titanic. Imme? diately altered course to rsach Titanic, but did not arrive at her position un? til 4.10 A. M . when could not see Tltanlc's light. 8aw no signs of ship or hosts. Cruised sround position un I til received message from Carpathla 1 at t.44 A. U thst she had picked up SO boat loads and that Titanic had sunk Received another message at l.li A. M.. from Carpathla: no need I to stand by. ss nothing more could be done. Coder thsee circumstances, !t does not seem necessary to detain beat doe te sail Friday It eonridsred aeceasary commission could he ap? pointed to take captain's evidence. Will no doubt be examined liter by British commission " JTtSflN M i AHT1IV BPA!>. Irish Novelist. HUiortan and Mtatrsmaii Panned Away?First a Joomallst. London. April 24.?Justin Mc? Carthy novelist and historian and fur many yea s a member of parlia? ment and ardent home ruler, died to? night at Folkestone, lie hsd been 111 throughout the winter and spring. Born In 1*30. Justin McCarty wan one of the most prolific political and historical writers of the time. He was rice chairman of the Irish par? liamentary party In the house of com? mons before the rejection of Mr. Par aell by the majority when Mr. Mc? Carty was by them elected chairman. He became attached to the staff of a Liverpool paper In 1863 and entered the reporters' gallery of the home of eommona In 1*60 for The Morning Star P \ \\ HIP PPHSONALS. Heueret Teex-hx-r* Go u> Charleston for < on* entk?ii. Paxvllle. April 24.?Miss Annie Bells DuRant. a tc n h? r of the graded school, la spending this week with her parents at Elliotts. Mise llattle Me' long Is visiting rela? tives In Sumb-r Pr..f J. D. Griffith. Misses Cath? erine MclAurln and Kva May Curtis are In Charleston this week attending the teachers' association. Mfse Belv? Broadway b m < |.>.??..,| h.i srhool at Cades and Is now at home for the vacation period. A ? Curtis has returned l?> IW mlngton after spending several ?li\ at his home here. Dr. la J. Nettles spent the put week-end with hi* father. !>r N. ttles st Foreaton. J ?V Berwick of i ntnt ?r was here last week. rlsfttasj home folk. We are hearing a gn leal ibout the heroes of the Titanic. and wo would no detract In the slightest fron? their fanm or their glory, but I we leel sure that the workers on the banks of the raging Mississippi spending night and day in the fight asslnst the yrllow flood. < an show a record Ju?t as proud, (hough more humble. In a way. than those who I bowed and smiled in the feet of death snd culled up their \ rv l>< ' In heart and sout in their Kasl me menta on earth Florence Times. REASSURING FLOOD NEWS. I>YKKS HOLDING UP WELL \<;\1NST GREAT WALL OF WAT PH. Trouble Will COSJSJ at Red River land? ing. South of N'atehei?Caring for I??-Mitlitt* arid Homeless. New Orleans. Apr'I 22.?Reassuring reports concerning he levees of the aftesttftppfl river wert received at tha office of the Cnited States army engin? eers her? today from inspectors sta? tioned at all weather bureaus south of Vn kshurg. Another bard fight against Increased high waters is ahead, how? ever, and today Capt. C. O. Sherill. chief of the government engineers, be? gan concentrating hi3 forces in the vicinity of the Red River landing, about 40 miles south of Natchez, at which point the flood waters will be? gin to reenter the Mississippi. Slight falls were recorded today at nearly all Mississippi gauges, but an? other rise will begin when the crevasse waters begin to come b*~ :k to the big streams from one to three feet above the previous high record is predicted for all points south of Torras, La. The New Orleans committee's total leash funds for flood sufferers today passed the $15.000 mark. Clothing^ cocking utensi!."'. skiffs, eJU/rf'^almost equalling In v^ue^rhe amount of the cash ?uhscj4fftTons have been received by the oin'mmittee. TyiiV1' gasoline launches and skiffs are plying the flood waters. Several thousand people already have been rescued in northeastern Louisiana and removed to high points, but there are yet many more maroon? ed, some of them without food. On the Mississippi side of the river there has been even greater devasta? tion resulting from the crevasse near Reuluh. This crevasse eventually will Inundate more than 2,000,000 acres of farming lands and It is estimated not leas than 12.r<>0 persons in that terri? tory will be made homeless. Already about 3.300 have been rescued and re? moved to federal and state relief camps* The relief work among the sufferers on both sides of the river, victims of the Dogtall and Reulah crevasses, Is well organized. Msg. F. II. I^awton ef the United States army, with head? quarters at Vkksburg, is directing the work. - I KS PPS APPEAL FOR HELP. Red Cro*s So<*Ica> Urges That Cloth? ing he Sent to Unfortunates lu Flood District. Washington, April 22.?An appeal for clothing for the flcod sufferers in the Mlsstsnppi valley was today sent by the American Red Cross head? quarters here to five of Its chapters In the Middle West and South. The ap? peal will be sent to other chapters as the demands Increases. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; St. ILouts. Mo.; Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga., are cities to which the clothing appeal was sent today. 8everal Red Cross nurses will leave Kansas City, Mo., tomorrow for va? rious points in Arkansas under orders I from the Red Cross headquarters , here. I A congressional investigation of the extent of the damage done and the money needed for the repair of levees 1 on the Mississippi river and its trlbu I ities Is proposed in a resolution j which Representative Rartholdt of Missouri Introduced in the house. Citizens of Mississippi, Louisiana. Arkansas and Tennessee, members of the Arkansas and Tennessee legisla? tures and members of the chambers I of commerce of St. Louis and Chicago met here today with a view to urging I additional appropriations for repair? ing the levees on the lower Mississippi j river. They probably will be heard by the sen.it?' Committee on com meres tomorrow. FIRE THIRlsR\Y MORNING HoSsW Belonuinu to P. W. A. Bultniaii Mtgtttlj Damaged. Thursday morning, shortly after 5* o\|ock. a fir*-. probably originatim; from n spark from tin- chimney, was discovered on the rOOi of a four-room negro house on MnsTnolln street, bo* loni:lnu |0 ?. W". A. I'.ultman. Little damage was d*?ne to Ills building be? fore lh< fire w ?? extinguished by the departu.' r.t. The hOUSf w .is occupied by a nsjfjro WOm in by thS name of Buima Dlckion. Tin candidates an- getting busy? one Sbsert'Sd tlllfl morning shak Ing hands with two voters at sann Ilms. This Im dolni tho glad-hand rtunt irith neatness and dispatch. CRIME-INFESTED MEXICO, Ml ltl>l .11 AN I) ARSON OF ALMOST DAILY (KT I RRKNI Ii. Americans Return to United BUltCi Bringing More Stories of Reign Of Terror in Republic. ! San Francisco, April 24.?Murder and Arson are crimes of almost daily occurrence in the bandit Infested reg? ions of the west coast of Mexico. o - dording to American refugees who arrived here today on the Pacific mail Btaamer City of Panama. Women and children. members of families cf American planters and engineers, were taken ahoard at Mazatan. Aca I pulco, San Bias and other ports. Tbc y declared a reign of terror e> tending almost over the entire 1 coast and gave an account of capture of Acapulco by bandits after the citizens had been able tto offer only '$10.0000 of $20.000 demanded. Mrs. Leila Steele of New York, wife of a civil enginer employed on a largo plantation, who boarded the vessel at Sahna Cruz, said Amerii^H?-Wk9Ta!e!i7s~ of the Sahna Cruz district lived in daily terror of_JJjeff"hves. Mrs. Ida^-" Oerton of Texas, who boaj^i*ff~the vessel at Sahna Cruz, said anarchy prevailed near Lucretia, whence she came, and that she be Iloved many Americans were killed. "Railroad bridges ' ve been blown up." said Mrs. Gerton. "ranch houses, farms and stores are being robbed and their defenders shot. American res? idents are equally out of protection. CONTEST FOR RIIAME MEDAL. Fight ( Imsen fr<>m High School to Declaim During Commencement Exercises. 1 The preliminary contest of the J members of the tenth grade to ascer tain which of them would speak dur tug the annual commencement exer- j clses was held aa the Calhoun school building Tuesday afternoon. There were seventeen speakers, the boys who will graduate from the high school during the coming comcenee ment exercises, a number of whom made excellent declamations. At the close of the contest, which took up the greater part of the afternoon, the judges decided upon Allen Brown. 1 Moultrle DeLorme, Robert Dougher? ty. John Moore, Robert Reaves, Rog 01 Siddall, Wilson Spann, and Ed? ward Wright as the best eight de clalmers. These eight will be the speakers at the annual commence? ment In May. Formerly all of the boys of the J tenth grade spoke at the commence- . ment exercises In the contest for the Rhame Declaimer's Medal, but dur? ing the past few years there have been so many members of the tenth grade that It has been thought best to have a preliminary contest beforehand and thin down the number of speakers, so that the exercises will not take up so much time. T. I?. A. PROGRAMME. Riirlliigloii und Post II. Have Made <irent Arrangements for Entertain? ing <?ucstM. Darlington. April 22.?The Pro? gramm?- for the State convention of of T. I'. A.i has been announced here ' as follows: 1 Thursday morning, May 2?10.30 a. m.i opening exercises. Russel Acri.f Post H, presiding; Invoca? tion by Rev. !>. M. Fulton, chaplain 1 Of Post Hi address of welcome. B. 2 C< Dennis, mayor of Darlington; ad? dress of welcome on behalf of Post H, E, If, Wtdls and Prank Pegues; response, J. C, Lnnham; business session; formal opening of the State convention by the president; invo? cation by state chaplain, Rev, H, IT. Covlngton; routine business. Thursday afternoon ? Convention attends in body memorial services. Thursday evening?Banquet for the convention by Hotel Darlington In the Darlington Ouard'i armory. s.::o o'clock. Friday morning. May ?Routine biisitn s>; . |( ctlon of officers. Afternoon session--Routine bust lie -iS. Friday night?smoker by Poet H.. o'clock, address?! by at i.;i-t two gentlemen from each post. Darlington and Pool H. have made groat arrangements for the coming convention. Ample means to house and food the largo crowd that |l ex pocted have been mole, and the town ? i whole, is looking forward with pleasure to having In their midst the knights of the grip. WATER COVERS THE FIELDS. GREAT AREA OF MADISON PAR? ISH A VERITABLE LAKE. Great Dogtail Crevasse Pours Forth Rlver'h Wrath on Low-lying Fertile Acres. _ I I? La Point, La., April 23.--Over the erstwhile fertile Balds of Madison parish, from Delhi to Mounds, a dis? tance of 4 0 miles, an Associated Press representative today traveled in a motor boat and from early morning until tonight a solid sheet of water, . as far as the eye could see in every direction, lay before him. Still the great Dogtail crevasse continues to p^ar forth Immense volumes of the Mississippi flood waters. Frm Delhi to Delta Point, opposite . Vicksburg, only one town, Thomas ville. was out of water. Except for short stretches the tracks of the i Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific rail- I road east of Delhi are under water and whole sections of the track are washed away. TonTgTit water Btan^8*-^waci^ftve io 13 feet deep over thousands of across of farm lands of more than a half dozen parishes of northeastern Louisiana on which no crop can be raised this year. Tallulah, the parish scat of Madi? son parish, is almost a hopeless sight, with water standing from four to six feet deep in every business house in town. Very few residences are beyond the flood line and the people are travers? ing the streets in skiffs and motor boats. Practically every one of the sever? al hundred homeless negroes of Tal? lulah have been removed to the re? lief camp at Millikens Bend, ten mile* north. Perhaps a conservative estimate would place the number of homeless people In northeast Louisiana at 17, 000, but In another week twice that number will be forced from their homes by the flood waters from the Dogfall and Panther Forest erevasaes on the west side of the river. By that time the waters will have reach? ed the lower sections of Concordia and Oatahoula parishes and begin their return to the Mississippi through the Red River. Many people at Tallulah. Mounds and Delta Point fear for the safety of the levee at Bedford Point, three miles south of this place, when the flood waters from the Reulah crevasse on the east elde of the river returns to the Yazoo river. Tonight the backwater from the Dogtail crevasse is flooding the plan? tation of Col. F. L. Maxwell, near here, where f?,500 acres are under CUtlvatlon and 300 acres of cotton, al? ready up. has been Inundated. Last night's report of a 10-foot rise In the Bartholomew river proved / to be unfounded and the excitement of the people at Monroe and In that vicinity has been greatly relieved. The Ouachlta river was slowly receding at Monroe tonight and the people of that section are more hopeful of the early passing of the flood's crest. SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PEN. Pathetic Scene at Close of Palmer Belcher Trial. Greenville, April 22.?At twilight In the Cnited States District Court sentence was pronounced upon aged J. B. Palmer, his daughter, Lou Belcher, who has passed the fiftieth milestone of life's pathway, and Charles B. Palmer, his son, 4f? years of age. Father and son are to labor for two years and five years respec? tively, in the 1'nited States peniten tary at Atlanta. c,a., while the daugh? ter Is to serve six years in the State prison of Kansas, at Lansing. The sentencing of the old man and his two children this afternoon was ene of the most pathetic episodes ever enacted In a court at Greenville. There was scarcely a dry eye among those an ho lingered in the room, and it was with tears in hli voice thai Judge Smith pronounced sentence upon i hem. The sentence brought out cue fact that had been hinted at lure since tiie parties were indicted last fall, vis. that tin Government would not have taken ? hand In the case had not Governor Blease Interferred with the sentence of the Court at Walhalla and commuted the sentences of Charlei B. Palmer and Lou Belcher, In a itate ment to ih.> court, District Attorney Cochran admitted thai had not ;he sent* nces of the prisoners been dls turhed the Government would not ha?" taken the step that it did. TLN8AS LE/EES BREAK. TWO BREAKS CAUSED BY RUSH FROM DOGTAIL. Ferriday Must Expect Same Fete, While Yidulia May Share Diet* Troubles. Natchez, Miss., April 2 4.?The Ten eas river levees al Clayton and near Goltman, In Conccrdia parish, Louis? iana, broke today under the Stream from the Dogtail (1a.) crevasse. Clay? ton, a town of 200 persons, is under three feet of water tonight, and by tomorrow the tow a of Ferriday will be flooded. Backwater may reach Vidalia, across the river from Natchez. Miss. Twenty-dve hundred acres s/U) be flooded by water coming through the break near Goltman. Special trains are being operated to Ferriday to remove the inhabitants and mov? able property. Three negroes were drowned today seven miles east of Gilbert, La. PLAN TO AID ALLEXS. r Attempt to Smuggle Weapons in Jail Defeated. Hlllevllle, Va.. April 23.?Desperate but futile efforts were made late to? day, according to detectives,'to smug? gle weapons to six members of the Al? len clan in jail. Earlier in the day they had pleaded not guilty to indict? ments charging them with five mur? ders in Carroll county court house on March 14, and their trials were set for April 30 at Wytheville, In an ad? jacent county. The prisoners will be taken there during the night and strict precaution will be taken during their transfer to guard s.gainst any attempt at a rescue. On the pretense of being Intoxi? cated Wesley Smith attracted atten? tion around the jail and was locked up. In an altercation with Detective H. H. Lueas, Smith drew a dagger but the detective knocked him uncon? scious Smith is said to be a friend of the Aliens and his plan is said to have been to get into a cell adjacent to Floyd Allen to communicate with him. The application of the defense for n change of venue was not opposed by the prosecution and Jcd;;e Staples granted it. To all Indictments the six defend? ants pleaded not guilty. Their attor? neys announced a severance of the cases and the commonwealth will try Floyd Allen first and probably hi? sons, Claude and Victor, next, then his nephew. Friel Allen. Sidna Ed? wards and Byrd Marion. WILL CALL FOR MAY BIDS. Penitentiary Board Rejects Offer* to Furnish Fleetrle Chair. Columbia, April 23.?The board Of directors of the state Penitentiary re jeeted all bids before them for in? stallation of the olecteric chair an will call for new bids at their next meeting on May 8, according to a statement tonight by Chairman San? ders, following the adjournment ol the board. There were two contrac ts bef >re the board, but they were both rejected and the board desires to get the chah at as cheap a price as North Caro? lina got hers. The board will likely let the contract for the electric chair at their meeting on May 8. The chah will be installed and in readiness by the time for the first electrocution, which is June 21, according to a St ' - ment by the board. TEACHERS GO TO CHARLESTON. Number of Them Left for Annual Convention of Teacher- Thursday. A number of the teachers from the eity schools left on Thursday for Charleston to attend the 4?th annual session of the St:ite Teachers' AWOCla tlon. Most of the teachers who at? tended wer.? from the city schools. Among those to from here werfe Prof. s. h. Edmunds, Rupertntendent of city schools, who will read 1 paper :it the meeting on 'The school Su perlntendency, in Dignity end True Worth ;?' Mr. 11. W. Scott Mietet Grace Bundle. Edna T?bln, Hallt? Nelson, k. Wright, Ruth Harrington, and Miss Bessie McLean president o the Elementary association, of th< ? itv ichools; Mr. and Mrs. IT W Real! of Mayesvllle, the former whom will deliver an address on "Ag riculture In the Schools.: Prof. j. p. Dukes of Btehopville, Mies Loufi R >td of St. Charles. GREAT WHITE PLAGUE. n ?. ROUT/. WORKING POM TCBElUTLOMs LEAG1 i . Ri pi??seutntftvc Goca to Matter and t h&rlestoti This Week for Conger* cnce> and Study. II. C. lloutzahn, traveling represen tative of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tubercu? losis, will visit Bumter next Thurs? day, going to Charleston on Friday for a stay of several days. Mr. Rout zahn Will probably "it Columbia, Greenville and Spa g before he leaves South Ca Mr. Routzah* .1 charge of an anti-tubercub fblt in Columbia four years *sjP d made this his headquar ' some time. This is Mr. lb 1 second tour of South Caro1 q .he interest of the anti tub *o i crusade. He wants to se Cf . hand knowledge of condi? tio nd to advance some of the ne. a* developments in the tubercu? losis campaign. Mr. Routzahn is anxious to hold group conferences with those who are Interested in the work he is doing. Local leaders are invited to arrange for such group conference* as may seem desirable *nd practicable. Every effort will be made to have these con? ferences deal with local matters in the most practical fashion. "Mass meetings" and general public gath? erings are particularly "undesirable." The plans should include only smaller gatherings of interested or personally invited people who ought to be inter? ested. A half dozen people who are leaders in the community will mean more than as many hundred in a gen? eral audience. Provision should be made for special conference with those who are "behind the scenes." ' A few talks to schools and colleges I can be given and gladly. Further announcement will be made about Mr. Routzahn's plans for the work in South Carolina. MAM* OUTRAGES IX MEXICO. Stories of Brigandage and of Murder? ing of Americans Come From Southern Republic. Galveston, Tex., April 23.?Stories of brigandage rampant the murder ing of Americans, indignities to American women and the boycott of American goods in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, were related in detail tonight to A. J. Rosenthal, -special deputy collector of custom?, by a band of refugees who arrived today from Mexico aboard the steamer Texas. The information secured by Mr. Ros? enthal will be forwarded to Washing? ton. Madison H. Ish, a former attorney of Omaha, Neb., and at one time quartermaster in the United States army, with the rank of captain, acted as leader of the Americans in their flight to the United States. Mr. Ish will proceed to Fort Cook to ?fter his services to the army, he says. The refugees are vigorous in their denunciation of the ICaderO govern? ment and assert that little pretense is made to piotect American lives and interests. Upon leaving Savana Cruz the party tiled claims aggregating $80,000 against the Mexican government with Lewis W. Haskell. American consul. TOTAL INSURANCE tr> MILLION. Titanic Disaster Censes Greatest In surance Loss Known. New York April 23.?Insurance men estimate 'hit the total losses to bo pan! by the various life, accident and marine < ompettlei as the res iH of the sinking <-f the Titanic will reach approximately $15.000.000. Two-thirds of this will fall upon the marin?? insurance companies. Sev ? ral classes of business ha\e been hard hit. All the marine insurance was carried abroedi but the risk u distributed lively in this country by means <?f what the ineurOB I men call "reinsurance,*' that is. the com? pany isftiing the policy reinsures) a part of its risk in other omp .nies. The Inenraece Field. ? trade jour? nal published here, mill that *no Where In the annals of insurance Is there ;t parallel for the los? ,,f in? sured life and property occasion* 1 by the sinking of the Titanic.' The Journal makes the following esti? mates of th,> total loss: LlfO insurance.$2.15i.V000.0rt Accident Insurance.. .. 2 2U.ooo.oo Marine insurance 1 ship 1 . 5,000.000.00 Marine insurance (cargo"? 5.000.000.00 Totals.$14.406.000.00