Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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umi sin?, mm. ALDK.HM \\ i;i>K.\s BECAUSE OF l .NDl I, INFLUMIS J. 1?. Parrls Swears to Musing Boon Tcudcrcd Money to Vote lor i Vi ta In Candidate? People Aroused Over Situation. Oaffney, March 7.?When the nw town council met ami wai organized laat night, the no mb? rs were elec? trified at the announcement from Al? derman ft 0 ?Wy#Uld that he VfOtlld resign as a member of the body. The resignation was acepted. aiol the council tffjffj4td Ii tltel VV. H Rojl clerk ami then adjourned until next Monday night. When asked as to his reasons as to resigning. Mr. Swoff ord said that so much pressure had been brought to bear upon hint by those wln>m he knew t<? be his tri -ml? to do things which he did not think were for the test Interests of the town that he did not think It would be best for him to remain a nuinl.tr of the body. Mr. Swiff-ril is firm In the stand which he had taken, and tllOth r election for his ward will have to be or b red. J. 1). Parrls. one of the aldermen who was reelcrted, has made an attl davit to the effect that he was ap? proached by two of the citizens of the town yesterday and offered $10?? and $100, respectively, to vote for a cer? tain candidate for chief of police. Those matters are the sole topics of conversation on the streets tod OX ard the situation h is no paralb 1 n> the history of Oaffney. sNovY hl lUXti vi n,iu i;. 1 wiMiiil Weatie i I'ssttS .ndc;sor. m I .? dnioni. AnO-ru n, M m n '. Th.s schon wa? .1 itrd by antisual weather tod iy, HnoV4 :? li in largo flakes every time1 th? son peeped out fr? BJ b tal the clouds, snow while the sun shines is not recalled as tfOff h i\ln? happen- i lefore. The snow melted as .t Ilka (.1 \KI> FOR EMBASSY. (.en. Iluerta Details Strong Force to Protect \meri? BJsli Mexico City. March 9.?A strong police guard has been detailed by the war depurtment to guard the Ameri? can embassy night and day. The or? der was Issued by Gen. Iluerta in person. o ?ji iuoOC?? TRUST. ITTflTDE OF Dil?\itTMi:\T WILL BE DETERBflNED, \cti\itirs of Metropolitan Tobaeeo < ompuny iia\?* Dean Investigated by Agent Ol (iovcrnmcnt. Waehington, March 8.?The depart-! meat of luetloee' attitude toward the Metropolitan Tobaeeo company of X? \v York, the distributing agent of producing Coiioema that made up the old "tobaeee trust." probably will be determined this week in conference here Between h. Bnowden Marshal. United States district attorney at New York. Attorney Qen. McReynoldi and a. c. Todd, assistant to the attorney general la charge of trust proeeeu? tions. Mr. Marshall has been investigating the lletropolltang1 activities, but so Tar hag made no report He is ex? pected to report in person within a day or so. Independent obacco deal? ers' charge; that the Metropolitan distribution methods maintained the monopoly of the old American To? bacco company, dissolved by the su? preme court, led to the investigation. I LWytfl here generally concede that the broad language of the supreme OOUrt'l decree may embarrass future prosecutions. Mr. Mclteyholds, who was the gov? ernment's attorney in the case against the American Tobacco company, was never satisfied with that decree, but his chief at the time. Attorney Gen Mai Wlckershaujli accepted it. Mr. McBeynolds ha^ |d a close watch ? n the disintegrated "trust" and any restraint of trade by the companies into which it was dissolved probably would be visited with prt mpt prose? cution. Evidence gathered by Attor to y General IfoReynoldi would be gOM into thoroughly before any in? formation would be accepted. UK1IELS ATTACK TORREOX. Reported That Foil em 1 Outposts Were Driven In. Juarez, March I,?Dtspstches from ChlhuahUS state that the federal out? posts around Torreon were defeated Sunday with the loss of a hundred Bit n I gd were driven into the city. Japanese Steamer Wrecked. hanghali Mart h I.?The Japanese stes/uer Hokuse Maru was sunk In a collision with the British steamer Orientini in the harbor today. It Is . i oved that all were reecued. SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO REVIEW TESTIMONY IN THEIR CASES. Twenty^threc Members <>f Bridge and iron Structural Union With (Xh*> hut Preshletn Rynn Must Serve Sentences, Washington, March 9.?Former President Ryan, of the Bridge and Btruetural Iron Workers' Union and twenty-three other members of the union who were convicted in dyna? mite conspiracy cases exhausted their bust legal resource ( today when the Supreme Court of the United Stales declined to review the testimony. MAX FATALLY WOUNDED. Grndy Giiftin Shoots Slieuly Dennett Near the County Seat of Collcton County. Walterboro. March 8.?Grady Grif? fin, a member of one of the most prominent families in Collcton coun? ty and assistant to the chief of po j lice of the town of Walterboro, shot and fatally wounded Shealy Bennett, who lives near town, last night at 1 o'clock. The shooting appears lo have been in self-defense from the account! of the witnesses of the af? fair. When the shooting occurn d, it ap? pears that Mr. Bennett was attempt? ing to take from Mr. Gritlin the pis ti 1, whlchi Mr, Hennet alleged be? longed to him. It appeared that Mr. lei ? bought to use a knife, and ire several gashes i'i the cloth? ing of Mr. Orlffln. Doctors attending Mr. Bennett say that there is little hope for his re i ovt ry. live bullets entering his body, some of which punctured the abdo ?. .?nd lungs. Immediately after the shooting, Mr. Urlllln surrendered to the proper officers, Mr. Griffin is the son of the late Senntor Orlffln of tin;, county and ins family connections are many. Mr. Uennett is married and has sev :..] children. THREE DEAD IN FIRE. Others fatally injured When riuild ings are Destroyed by Flames. Clarksburg. W. Va , March 9.? Three are dead and three are fatally injured as a result of a tire wh h de? stroyed the LoUl building and gut t< d the ten story Union National building on West Main street early this morning. CLUB HOUSE BOWED. FATAL FIRE IN ST. Lois CLUB HOUSE. Missouri Athletic Club Burned. Ninety Guests Were Asleep in Thlf Rooms When Fire Started. Few Escape Uninjured. St. Louis, March 9.?Five men wer*' killed In jumping; from the upper floors and several others are believed to have been burned to death and many injured in a fire today that de? stroyed the Missouri Athletic Club, one of the finest Institutions of Us kind in the United States. Boatmens Hank, adjacent to the club was de? stroyed. It Is believed that ninety men were in the club when the fire started. The property loss is $400,on". The know dead are John Hockey, of Chicago, treasurer of the Ford Man? ufacturing Co.; C. F. Bossier, man? ager Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co., James Riley of St. Louis, and two un? identified. The lire is believed to have started in the main dining room in the third floor. The third, fourth and fifth floors were abalze before the tin t alarm was given at 1.60 o'clock and nearly all the guests had retired, i ardly a person escaped uninjured. Four more bodies were recovered from the Missouri club ruins at noon today. Nineteen Men Missing. At 11 o'clock nineteen occupants of the Club were still missing. All of them are prominent business men. Guest were sleeping on the fifth and sixth doors. The seventh fioor was used as a gymnasium. ?KILL THE GREASERS." Laredo, Texas. Excited Over Murder of Vorgnra. Laredo, Texas, March 5.?open threats to "Kill the greasers" were heard on the streets today, following the discovery that Clement Vergara, the American ranchman was murder? ed by Mexican federals. He was to ndishly tortured before he was killed. The authorities warned all Mexicans to keep off the streets. It is belie* . d here that the men who de? livered the bodly at the border were A merit ans. though the only clue 's B shovel l"ft Jit the grave. Several of those who have tobacco bids report that the young plants were apparently uninjured by the re? cent severe cold. CLAIM NEW EVIDENCE. FRANK'S LAWYERS TELL OF PLANS TO SAVE CLIENT. Advance Theory that Mysterious ''Mar? der Notes'' Were Written In <he Factory Basement. Atlanta, Ga., March 8.?Evidence which attorneys for Leo M. Frank, s< ntenced to be hanged April 17 for the murder here of Mary Phagan, a factory girl, in Apirl Of last year, claim has placed the case in an en? tirely new light, was made public here today. Frank's lawyers today asserted that they are in possession of positive proof that the mysterious "murder notes," which figured so prominently in the trial of the young factory superintendent, were written in the basement Of the factory where they were found near the body of the murdered girl, and not In Frank's of? fice, as claimed by the prosecution. James Conley, a negro sweeper Rt the factory and chief witness against [?"rank, testified that he wrote the notes at the instance of the convict? ed man and at his dictation. Conley said on the witness stand that Frank took an order pad from the desk and banding it to the negro, told him to write the notes thereon. This, Con ley testified, he did. It now is claimed by the defense that examination of the "murder notes" shows that they were written on an order blank which had been used nearly four years before the murder, by a former master mechanic ki the pencil factory who left that institution in Hi 12. The signature of this man, H* F. Becker, it is asserted, appears in carbon tracery on the pa? per, together with the almost ob? literated record of the orders serial number. Frank's lawyers say they have traced this order and Identified in support of their contention that the notes were written in th< factory basement, they pointed out that Becker's office on a different floor from Frank's was cleaned out when he left the factory and all pa? pers taken to the basement. It would be highly unlikely, they asserted, that Frank would have had an old, soiled and discarded order pad on his desk. Another point which, it was claim? ed, supported this theory was that the order blanks In use at the factory at the time of the murder bore the date line "191-'1 while that on which the murder notes were written was dated "190-" While Frank s attorneys would not tonight disclose the exact nature of FEDERALS REPORTED ROUTED. REBELS ADVANCE ON FOREIGN OIL FIELDS. Warships EUulied to Scene to Protect Foreign Interests?May Land if Oil Wells are TlireaU iied?Rebels May Capture Tampico. Washington, March 9.?The utter rout of the federals near Tampico and the advance of the rebels upon the foreign oil fields in that vicin.ty was reported to the navy department today by Hear Rdmiral Fletcher. The war? ships Connecticut and Minnesota, accompanied by the hospital ship Solace, were rushed to Tampico to I rotect foreign interests should the r< 1 els capture Tamipco. It is ex? pected that Admiral Fletcher will end marines ashore snould foreign ;j:1 wells be threatened. t FIGHT AT TAMPICO CON? TINUES. federals FaP" Hack and Rebels Ad? vance to Attack City. Vera Cruz, March 9.?Fighting be? tween federals and rebels ca ntinued today, according to wireless from Tampico. The federals fell back into the city and an attack upon the city pn per Is imminent. Foreign war? ships are in the harbor ready to take refugees aboard. - ? WASHINGTON LESS ALARMED. Dispatch IYom Gov. Colquitt Allays Excitement Over Mexican Situation. Washington, March 9.?Alarm over the Mexican situation subsided today when a dispatch was received from Gov. Colquitt, of Texas, stating he ' had recovered the body of Clements vergara. He reported that rangers went to the Texas boundary where the body was delivered to them. They d d not cross into Mexican territory. Gov. Colquitt does not know who rought the body to the border. There has been marked activity in real estate operations since the first of th^ year and several deals of con? siderable magnitude are rumored to l <? under way, but those said to be Interested will not give out any in? form." t ion. . the grounds upon which they intend to base their extraordinary motion for a new trial, it was intimated that to? day's disclosures probably would bear directly upon their plans. OPENING OF THE HIS is an invitation to every lover of good music to stop in at any time and hear the music they like played in the way they like by the famous Victrola. Ladies are especially invited and are requested to make their appointments read: "Meet Me at the Victrola Place." This is to be the password. We will soon have a young lady in attendance to dem? onstrate the machines. Ask About Our Easy Payment Plan. J5he SUMTER VICTROLA CO., 26 N. Main St. Next Door to the Lyric