The Watchman and Southron from Sumter, South Carolina • Page 1

and Mir -I MTtlt WATCHMAN, flfctabUshod April. lK.se Jnat and Fear all the ends Tho? A'rns at be thy Connrry's, Thy God's and Troth's" iottttyrtm Consolidated Aur. 8,1881 SUMTER, S. WEDNESDAY, 8EPTEMBER 27, 1911. THE TRUE SOlTTUItON.

Established June Vol. XXXIII. No. 9. 11 ALT Skim IHIPOLI.

mn iniiM to aiu.i.su PRoTF tToH in (m rer unaent Prepares to Meet Whether Front Socialists Within or lurk Iah From Without. Rome. Sept. Italian gov? ernment le rapidly and with deter ml neat on in tht matter of a protectorate over Tropell. Ita plo ns are no longer concealed and Ita attitude la favored by all classee ex? cept the advanced aectlone at (he Social Uta who threaten to call a general strike In the event of hosti? lities.

Although not attaching much im? portance to the threat, the govern? ment, whivh la noting with (he grest promptnees. has decided to cull to the colors 112.000 to aa to be prepared for all emerge cUe both at home and abroad. According to the Information In cfllclal circles tonight the govern still hopes to effect an smlc abre arrangemeiit with Turkey, whereby Italy will secure a lease of Tripoli under the sovereignty of Turkey, paying an annual rental. If Tu-key definitely refuses to meet thin proposal Italy will proceed with military meaeures. I The government IS prepared to any aggressive measure on the part of Turkey, such as attack upon the Itvee and properay of Italian jub jects In Turkey.

In which case, it Is understood, a naval demonstration will be made Immediately. The material difficulties of those operations bava been given, full con at deration. The of the calamitous Ahyaatnlan campaign has been called up by the government, which realtsee that the failure of the propoeed expedition would be a grave disaster. Accordingly, most utlons have been taken. The Turkish forces in Tripoli are estl saatee at a mlulmucn of 10,00 men.

'TO eope with these ftaly 'wftl send her whole fleet and an expedition ary force of 00.000 men. TROOPS SAID TO HAVE LVNDEO Italy Reported to Have Taken Overt to Secure Won't Yield. Parte, Sept. dispatch to Le Tempt from Rome glvee unconflrm ed rumors that Italian forces have landed at threy points on the coast of Tripoli. In a published interview the Turk? ish charge at Palis declares that hi has no knowledge that negotiations have been opened by Italy on tho subject of Tripoli.

He did not see how auch negotiatlona would be pos? sible. Tripoli could neither be taken from Turkey by force nor bought "If Italy has any doalre to take Tripoli from ua." said the charge, "we will defend oureelvee. and our defense will be desperate. The whole population will rise up aa one man. If Italy lande troops in Tripoli she will hod It something more than a military promenade.

We will Im? mediately expel all Italian subjects and renounce the treatise. I "If Italy attempta to land troops elsewhere we are In a position to re them I repeat, and I am speaking officially, in the first place no transaction la possible concerning the opeo or disguised ceealon of Tri? poli; secondly. If It cornea to fighting, we wl'l fight doeperately." Italvs Initiative In Tripoli awakened Inteneee Interest here, has Introducing a new and very Impor? tant fietor In the African question by reopening the Mediterranean prahlen on ar -tbor point, and thers La no tlouM that la on verge settlement of Af? rles. It la held th it th? territorial mod? whh form essence the Franca-Oerrnan agreement, will logically lead to other in which eald'a Fr.in. and Germany can participate with profit.

I MM IN I WIIM'I I I Ki finding of Italian Troop aHomo I Italian nir Constantinople. Sept. that the Italian troops dlaom barked at various In Tripoli caused alarm Tho Italian liner hound from f'onianM nopie. in arrival in Has Dafdaaelles early BMWiSg morning wan boarded bv l.iallan m- ronm-ll, or 4tored the captain If land bis within half no mania anlled let Italy without kupl? Ing the It In leported that SSSOfOJ Italien FATALLY HURT IN WRECK. hurt when at.

lanta turx? over, i Claim Mo tor man Didn't slow Down for Ex pttlfi to Die. I Atlanta. Sept. persona were Injured, four probably, fatally. In this city early tonight when an In bound Luckle street car, crowded with church-jjoers.

ran over' switch at Woodward avenu" and 1 Hill streets and turned over. Those said to be fatally Injured are: Miss Rattle Bell Lunsford. At- i lanta. G. G.

Copperedge. Griffin, Ga. Evan Harris. Atlanta. An unidentified negro.

Among the injured are: Mrs. TV. J. Sears. Miss Katie Nealey, Norimo Sears.

Marie Sears. Edward Basse mer of Atlanta; Mrs. O. G. Cop pedge.

Jennie Blake Coppedgc and Julia Coppedge of Griffin, Ga. The cause of the accident is not known, although eye witnesses al? leged that M. J. Stlthcomb, the mo-j torman of the car, did not slow up i for the turn from Woodward avenue snd Hill streets, and that as a result I the car plunged over the tracks and I crashing Into the opposite curbing, turned over on Its side. Policemen and ped-'stralns rushed to the aid of the injured, many of whom wore hurried to a local hospital for medi? cal attention.

MERRYMAKERS KILLED. Fatal Wisconsin Grade Crossing Claims More Victims. Neenah. Sept. deaths probably will result from a mha-a-mlnute train crashing into a party of Si merry young people loaded upon a hayrack here this afternoon.

A big billboard obscured from ifllgsr.lh* jsaossstlsa, as well as from the wagon. Mist and fog did the rest. Twelve persons on the hay? rack were Instantly killed, one has since died, and three out of eight others Injured are believed to be fatally hurt. Nine of the 24 persons on the wagon escaped without a scratch, and so did both The collision occurred at 3:40 a. m.

on the Chicago and Northwestern railway at a crossing here. The victims were returning from a trip to the country, where they at tendod the celebration of a wedding I anniversary. All but two men were residents of Menasha. MAYORESS APPEALS TO SU? PREME COURT. Onxter Pnxwdlngs Begun Against Obstreperous Town Council.

Tokepa. Sept. that the Hunnewell town council Men refused to confirm Mayor Ella Wilson's appointments although she presented the names of nearly every' reputable citizen of the town, includ? ing the "village schoolmaster," a Petition asking the ouster of the four eouncllmen was filed In the Kansas Supreme Court today by Attorney Dswson. The petition was drawn up by C. W.

Trlekett, special Investigator ap? pointed by Got, w. b. stubhs to straighten on Hunnewell affairs. It Is directed against F. J.

Landwer, B. Keer, J. F. Bichardson and J. O.

Kills. 1 Money ill HojTH. Mr. L. Bradford of this county states that he lias recently sold a a sow ami pur-- of his own raising Mr W.

W. Mrcut? hen of Wisi. fbf $75. The sow frsg a full blood I Esses were I' The M.ison* of Laurel.s laid th" corner stone of the new court houso county Thursday. i ham "amers bsws similarly their departure Turkish without flsssmharklnif Iheir orgoes receipts of instructions fi Ills Italian consulates.

'i be Turkish suabassador at Hows ii i hefm instructed to ask the i fjoA ernno nt for an explanation the movements of Italian soldlors. Considered Sept. Information been reestvsd hers of thu seizure of th Italian itsamer Ra? glna i i.y the Turkish au? or of the lauding of Italian troops in Tripoli, The situation, however, si sstsUfflsd serl? nun. WATSON WILL SERVE OUT TERM.1 NORTON NOT SL AT KD FOR JOB. STATUS (iov.

bijiask Exeeutlvc That Present Commissioner May Be Retained Hi Office When Term Expires in Feb? ruary PMlasa Official Work Mulllas Editor Makes No State? Deniee "Promising" Soutli Carolina to Ilflrmon in Race for Demoeraaic Nomination. Columbia, Sept. will certainly be no change in the office until the expiration of Mr. Watson's I and I doubt very much if there will be any then," said Governor I'd ease today, when asked about tho rumor that has been afloat in official circles during the last few days that Mr. James Norton, of Mullins.

would be appointed commissioner of agri? culture, commerce and Industries, to succeed Col. E. J. Wilson, who has held the office since March 1901. "i do not even know that Mr.

Nor? ton is an applicant for the position," said Governor Blease. "He was in my office a few days ago, but merely shook hands with me, and the office was not mentioned at that time. i really know nothing whatever of the newspaper accounts which have been sent out about the appointment of Mr. Norton to the office. Mr.

Wat? son has been doing very good work in his present position, and i do not know that there will be any change at all. so far as i can tell at present, when Mr. Watson's term expires." Governor. Blease said also that he had thought of offering this position to Mr. John G.

but that the latter had been appointed railroad commissioner, and he had not done so. Referring to a paragraph which has been going the rounds of the Northern press, and which has been copied In this State, that he had had a conference with a party of sup? porters of Governor Harmon tor the Preeldency, while attending the Red Men's Council In Cleveland, and that he "waa ready to promise that South Carolina will support the Ohio Gov? ernor." Governor Blevje said charac? teristically that this was "one of the biggest liea" he had ever seen In a newspaper. He wished it to be stat? ed, he said, that he had no confer? ence whatever with supporters of Harmon in Cincinnati. and, of course, that he did not promise South Carolina for Harmon. i "i am supporting Harmon for the Presidency, however" said Governor Blease, "and will do all in my power to carry the State for him, even If it should hurt me in my race here." AVIATORS READY FOR FTKIiD.

Four Women Entered In the Inter? national Meet at Garden City. New York, Sept. thirty flve aviators, among them four wo? men, tuning up their machines and making short test flights, all was ready today for tho International aviation meet scheduled to start at; 3 o'clock this afuernoon, with a pas songer-carrying race between mono pianos and continue for nine days at Garden City. The management anno, i cod today $75,000 in prizes 1h to be llatlibutsd that the Wright Brothers, who claim controlling patent on airships, had He tnsed the meet at tho last moment and WOtlld send aviators to take part In the contest This reassured many Of the av'aters who feared suits. The aerial postal Service to duly authorized by the United Btatoa Postofllcs Department was to bo in? augurated this afternoon from the Held, a regular branch postoffice manned bj clerks has i.q sstabilsh? and the department has tslgned I new postmark stamp which Will be placed on letter, This reads that ii is a aerial service" from "Aerial station.

No. 1, Garden City, Capt Paul w. Pooh proposes to two Sights daily, carrying about 10,000 letters sach day. He will take them from the Held to some or to Governor's lei and, from where the aerial mall win be transferred to the regular postal routes and forwarded to ita dlstina Ion. Cotton receipts Saturday amountei 11 balea making a total of 2,1211 the week, Tio first game of football In th s- ite mis seaeon waa played Charleston Saturday between tin Citadel and the Navy "afechantoe.1 The gerat was a scoreless TROOPS GALLED OUT.

SPARTANBURG STRIKE ASSUMES 8ERIOC8 ASPECT, Rowdy Element Creates Disorder on Streets and Greater Trouble Fear? Bleaae Orders Three Mil itia Companies to Spartanburg to Maintain Order. Spartanburg, Sept. up? on request of J. B. Lee, mayor of Spartanburg, the governor yesterday ordered the Greenville, Spartanburg and Clifton military companies to stand in readiness to QUell any fur? ther demonstrations in connection1 v.ith the strike of the street car men in Spartanburg.

The companies are under arms and may be ordered to Spartanburg to keep order. An attempt Will be made to operate the cars. The Laurens company may be call? ed out. O. W.

Babb. assistant adjutant generali last night was ordered by the governor to proceed to Spartan? burg. Fe left Columbia at 11.50. Ws W. Moore, adjutant general, Is somewhere in the lower section of the State and could not be reached last night Col.

Babb will hold a conference this morning with officials of the street railway company of Spartanburg and Mayor Lee and will Issue a call for the Greenville, Spartanburg and Clifton companies If necessary. MaJ. E. M. Blythe of GreenvHle, commanding the first bat talllon of the First infantry, has been ordered to Spartanburg and will par? ticipate in the conference this morn? ing.

OAMBLED WITH NEGRO. James F. Bouknight Killed In New berry County Saturday. Newberry, Sept. Suber the negro who shot and killed James F.

Bouknight at Blairs yesterday aft? ernoon and for whom two posses were scouring both sides of the river in that Vicinity last night, this afternoon surrendered to the authorities cn the Falrrleld side. He was woundod in four places, having been shot it is presumed, in the encounter with Bouknight which cost Bouknight his life. There is no further material infor? mation concerning the killing except the statement by William Blair, the young constable of his father, Mag? istrate This young man says that he was called on yesterday af? ternoon by James Bouknight with the request that he go with him and stop some negroes from gambling In Bougnight'8 blacksmith shop, where they had gathered while- he was gone to dinner; that they went there together, Bouknight entering the door with a drawn pistol; that as he entered he was shot throe times, in the stomach and both legs, and came crawling out or. his all-fours, saying he was nearly killed; that while he was giving bis attention to the dying man the negroes escaped and ran up the river. Other reports are that Bouk knlght and the negroes had been gambling and that after being "broke" In the game he and Bill Suber had a tight, In Which he shot twice at Suber.

one shot hitting him In the lejr, and that Suber then shot him. A PEACEMAKER STABBED. Varn Perhaps Fatally Wonnded by Negro Who Escaped After Being Shot. Branchvllle, Sept. act? ing as peacemaker In a difficulty be tween two negroes afternoon.

Fletcher Varn, a white man. was probably fatally stabbed by one of the blacks named Will Bhuler. Varn the negro, but the latter made his Marriage License Record. Sunday morning Clerk of Court l. Parrott was called upon to go down to his office to grant Robert Montgomery and Ludle McGee, of Oswego, a marriage license.

Afte writing out tho license for them was asked to perform the ceremony as well, Hie couple being man and wife before they lofl his office, once tu ide nut the return to him self. Al v. Mit. hell and Victori a Du Kant of called on the eoun clerk this morning to securi a marriage "prescription" ss ttu groom called it license was writ ton out for the couple nod they stat ed thi it was their Intention to ge married tonight. SOUTH CAROLINA TAKES POS? SESSION COR UNCLE SAM, Commander Wni.

A. Moffa.it. U. S. Performed Legal Requirements on Recent Dispoction Trip.

Washington. Sept. I er William A. Moffett United States navy, a South Carolinian, has just performed an historic act and in! consequence the territorial posses- I sions of the United States are just a little larger today than they wero last week. Quietly, unostentatiously and with tho simplest of ceremonies, another island, lying near tho California coast and little known even to Amer? ican citizens, was added to the do? minion of this country a few days ago, according to dispatches received at the navy department The island was annexed by Com? mander Moffett, inspector of tho Eighteenth lighthouse district, dur 1 ing his last inspection trip.

Commander Moffett performed all the legal requirements of taking pos? session of the little Island, which is i designated on the sailing charts as' Bishop Rock. In the name of the United States. The navy department was immediately notified. The Is? land is a small one. Its sole deni? zens are herds of seals and sealions.

lit is close to Cortez Bank, about 110 miles from Point Loma, It is south of the east and west line which di i vides the United States and Mexico, but the Mexican government never has claimed it I Mr. Moffett's friends will read of i his latest achievements with interest. NEW JURIES DRAWN. First Jury Drawn From Recently Prepared Boxes. Following the throwing out of the jury lists, which had beea made last winter, on the ground that they had not been legally made up, new jury boxes were made up and Saturday the first Juries were drawn from these new boxes.

As the grand jury' was drawn from the boxes which were alleged to have been made up illegally a new grand jury was drawn, the result being that the following men were placed on the grand jury for the remainder of the year. The first five men on the list are the members of the grand jury who were held over from last year. Grand Jury: A. It. Flowers.

E. P. McNeill, A. M. Broughton, T.

V. Walsh, H. L. Witherspoon, 1 S. M.

Coulter, E. T. Brailsford, W. J. smfford.

W. B. Goodman. Marlon Myers, S. P.

Jenkins, C. W. Chandler, W. B. Boyle.

E. LeGrand, "rf I B. O. Cantey, IT. T.

Edens, P. S. Finn. The members of the petit Jury fo tirst week of the fall term court are: ir. B.

Dickerson. I G. J. Myers, i W. C.

Tvey. J. E. Norton. I R.

F. DesChamps. T. IS, Hudson. W.

It. WellS. Furtnan Oxendlno. w. Johnson.

.1. M. Reasonover. D. M.

Campbell. C. Eide. C. w.

w. a. Player. B. Cooper.

F. A. Wood. I J. A.

Boykln, I Noah Benenhaley. I Henry Spann. Murr' B. w. Locklear.

R. Chandler. W. T. McLeod.

Wilson, K. Crosswell, S. W. Ihimph. iv Louellen, Peter Gallagher, Jr.

B. Bradford, w. Boyle, s. Moore, J. 11.

Scarborough, C. B. Mason, Root ArdK J. E. San IN THE POLICE COURT Matt) Bicyclists Arrested and Pined For Riding on sidewalks at For btddea Places, There were quite a number of per? sons in the Recorder's Court Satur? day morning to answer to the charge of riding bicycles on forbidden side? walks.

It seems that the police are hot after the persor have been in the habit of the city ordinance on abject and oc? casionally a those who are not chron" violators of the or dtnance Th 0 1 tried were: viing bicycles on the aide at forbidden places: T. S. F. A. Lynam, L.

C. McCollough, Hill. Willie Rhame, Harry Bur kett, Roland McCollum. Mark Reynolds. e.

P. Shuler, Eugene Mc? Collum, e. K. Friar, M. R.

Rivers, each. S. G. Diggs, riding bicycle on the sidewalk at a forbidden placs, $2.00. Limm Murpyh, assault and bat? tery, $10 or 20 days.

John Smith, petit larceny and pub? lic drunkenness, $15 on the first charge and $10 on the second. Boozer and Rosa Dozier, creating a disturbance. Rosa was dismissed and Boozer was fined $10 or 20 days. The police are still hot after the bicyclists who ride their wheels on forbidden sidewalks. Monday when there were complaints made about I the condition of the streets, the Re 1 corder stated that the condition of the streets did not warrant the bicy? clists in ridding on the sidewalk, I which was clearly against the ordi ance.

Those arrested and fined for rid lug on the sidewalks of forbidden streets, were: Mack Peterson, Robert Har? rison, Robert Cantey, J. A. Hayna? worth, T. C. Reid, Theodore Flem? ing, $2.00 each.

H. L. Tisdale, for riding a bicycle a forbidden sidewalk- waa repre? sented by Mark Reynolds, as counsel, who asked for a Jury to try the case. It was postponed until 6 P. M.

Mary Dickey, assault and creating a disturbance, was fined $15 for as? sault and discharged for creating a disturbance. J. A- Schwerin, for riding a bicycle at night without a light, was fined $2.00. He gave notice of an appeal. Isaac Jackson was up for cursing and assault and battery, but the charge was withdrawn and he got off with a fine of $2.50.

John McDonald, riding a bicycle at night without a light. $2.00. BURNED DELAYS TRAIX. Train No. 51 From Charleston Stop? ped Near Manning by Burned Trestle.

There were a number of passen? gers at the station this morning who had to wait a long time before train number 52, which runs between Charleston and Greenville, arrived, for a trestle had been burned near Manning and it was some time be? fore it could be replaced so that the train could pass I It was not known here how tho trestle had caught, but it was sup? posed to have caught from sparks left in the ashes which had been out by some passing engine. The train hed the city shortly after noon. Real Estate Transfers. I The following transfers of real 'estate have been left In the office of the county clerk to be recorded. QeO.

Rlcker to Jas. C. Bryan, 80 seres souahweet of city, Emma Dingle to a. j. Btubba, lot on Bumter street.

I Annie B. Handle to William P. Hammett, lot In county, $50. Annie E. Handle to Julia Ham no tt.

lot In counay, $50. One of those arrested for riding on the sldews it forbidden paid on the street Saturday that he would not mind paying bis if he knew that it went towards bet? tering the condition of the but instead of that he understood thai it went tow irds the maintenance of the policemen who stood on the corner and arreeted htm for bis of? fense. Ho did not think this wae just. Cotton another slump Monday the local mark? tu ins only 10 cents for beet grades. Cotton seed eold at a ton..