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The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1911-08-10
ARTICLE VII.

No stakeholder OF this corporation shall
ever be held liable for any Of the Indebted
ness, contracts or faults thereof, in any fur
Their sum than the unpaid balance due on
the shares Of stock owned by him.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1911-08-10
ARTICLE VI.

This charter may be amended, altered or
modified, or the corporation dissolved, by
vote Of two-thirds OF the stockholders yot-
Ing by shares at meeting convened for that
purpose after ten consecutive DAYS previ.
Gus notice given in a newspaper published in
the city of New Orleans.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1911-08-10
ARTICLE Nv.

All the corporate powers of this corpo
ration shall be vested In and exercised by a
board Of directors. consisting of three (3)
stockholders Of this corporation.
The first board of directors OF this corpo
ration shall consist of William h. Knox
Alfred W. Dunn, or any nominee appointed
by letter duly signed by him, and Hendrik
Jansen. who shall hold Office until their
successors shall have been duly elected and
qualified.
The first election Of the board OF direc
tors, consisting of three directors. as afOre
said, shall be held on the second Tuesday In
April. 1912, and thereafter, on the second
Tuesday of April OF each year the directors
shall be elected annually.
At said elections, each 800 Of stock
shall be entitled to one vote, and votes may
be given either in person or by proxy.
Notice of said election shall be given
forty (40) days prior to the meeting OF
stockholders by mailing to each known
stakeholder, TO such address as shall have
been last furnished by him to the company
or by publication inserted In one of the
New Orleans newspapers three times In
forty days previous to said election.
The said board of directors shall make
all bylaws, rules and regulations for the
government of the business and affairs OF
the company. and alter, amend and change
the same provided holders Of two-thirds In
amount Of the issued capital stock approve
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1911-08-10

ORDER OF EASTERN STAR.
sTs. JOHN CHAPTER NO. So.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
SCAMP WAS CAUGHT.
Negro Wrote Obscene Letters to La
dies and is Trapped.

Ned McGehee, a negro. was ar
rested several miles from Nashville,
Tenn, this week, on the Murfrees-
boro turnpike, and is being held be-
fore being turnd over to the Federal
officers on the charge of sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails.
1t is charged that McGehee has re-
Gently, on several occasions, sent the
most obscene letters imaginable to
two of the. most prominent ladies liv-
ing on the Murfreesboro road. in
these letters the negro Is said to
have asked the ladies to meet him at
a given place at "a set time.
In order to accomplish the arrest
of the man, decoy letters were used
with good results, these being writ
ten by some of the male relatives of
the ladies who had been so grossly
insulted. In those decoy letters an
appointment was made to meet the
negro at the place indicated by him.
The time for the meeting was this
week. The astonishment Of the fiend
when he went to fill the appointment
can be imagined upon coming face
to face with the detectives and a
number of prominent citizens of the
neighborhood.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
CROWD MENACED FIEND.
Ohio Mob Threaten Negro Who rs
Saved BY the Police.


With cries of Hang him; lynch
the BRUTE" mob Of several hundred
persons gathered in the northern
part of the city Monday and threat
ened to wreak summary vengeance
upon Havey Mickes, a negro, who Is
accused of having attacked a 16-yeaI
old white girl. The negro had been
captured by a posse that chased him
for several miles upon a hand-car.
A crcwu surrounded the jail and
made "a demonstration Of violence
but was quickly repelled by the po-
lice and deputies. News of the at
tempted assault had gained wide cur
recy, and intense excitement pre-
vailed as the members of the posse
with their prisoner in custody arriv'
ed in the police station.
This county and city authorities
anticipating an outbreak has ordered
the entire police force to the city
prison and supplementing this force
with a large number of special depu-
ties. Later Mickens was spirited to
the county jail at Canton for safe
keeping.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
TWO VERY FOOLISH MEN.
Flew Themselves up by Carelessiy
Handling Powder.

In their efforts to divide keg OF
powder in fair and square manner
Vendring Goolish was blown to at
oms and John Memenich is dying OF
terrible burns in a Pittsburg, Pa,
hospital. The men were friends and
worked together as miners near
Greenburg, Pa.
One day they were dividing a keg
of powder. They knew but one way
way to make a fair measurement.
Placing the keg on the table the men
stood before it. Goclish took out a
handful and placed it on the table
beside him. Semenich did the same.
This tedious process was continued,
until one handful remained. At a
loss how to divide it, it was finally
decided to set it off. Unthinking
Goolish touched match to it. There
was a puff and two piles of pow
der also exploded. Goolish was sent
through the roof and was killed.
Semenich was probably fatally burn
ed
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
ATTACK YOUNG WOMEN.
One Dragged to Railroad Yard and
Let in Bad Condition.

At Marion, Ohio, as Miss Flora
Spicer, aged 20, and her guest Miss
Mary Rogers, aged %, Of West Mans
field were returning home from
church at 10 o'clock Sunday night
they were accosted on the street by
a man who struck both girls over the
head and, picking up Miss Spicer,
who was unconscious, carried her
away. Miss Rogers quickly summon
ed the help Of number Of men, who
searched the railroad yards, block
distant, where they found Miss Sp!-
Ger, with face bruised and clothing
torn, crawling along the tracks and
unable to speak. Her assailant es-
capped. Miss Spicer when she regain
ed her speech said the man threat
ened her with death If she screamed.
She is in a serious condition. The
entire police force is looking for her
aSSailant.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
WANTED him REMOVED.
Congregation Prays That Death VIII
Take IN Enemy.

.E.. lr.s n. - go.
We have heard Of prayers for all
sorts Of things, out the "sanctified'
negro church at Quitman, Ga, has
a new one on US. The "sanctified'
negro congregation over there is
praying for the death of Oscar Davis
and the members announce that he
will die within three months as the
answer to their petitions. Oscar is
to be removed from the earthly
scene of activity because he has been
too active in prosecuting the church;
the other day he entered a complaint
to the police that the sanctified ones
were public nuisance.
They have been holding PRO
tracted meeting" In a negro schoo.
house near Oscar Davis home fol
the past three months, and Oscar
said they cavorted and shouted sc
much he could not sleep and was sc
untitled for his duties as driver ol
a delivery wagon. The leaders of the
sect were summoned to appear Ii
mayors court, and when the hour
for the hearing arrived the cour1
was packed with negroes and there
we're several hundred in the street in
front.
A demonstration of Faith" had
been planned and the leaders start.
ed peculiar humming and sway
ing, which Was part Of the cavortine
Oscar Davis complained of. The po'
lice scattered among them and stop
ped the performance. The case vas
dismissed on the plea that the nui,
sance had been abated, and now the
sanctifed brethren want Davis
to furnish a funeral for the town and
they are praying to that end.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
FIVE MEN ARE KILLED.
In Accident That Seriously Hurts n
Man From rcitOn.

Five men were killed and two SER
iousiy injured when a travelling
crane bearing a 14-ton girder col.
lapsed Monday at new viaduct be-
ing constructed by the Western Mary,
land railroad at Salisbury Junction,
Pa. The dead: John Scott, Mckees-
port, Pa; Joseph Smith Grove City
Pa; j. r. White, Richmond, Va; c,
H. Kennedy, New River, Va; E. L.
Sanders, Dullochville, Ga.
The injured are: A. E. kluttz, ol
Salisbury, N. c., and l.. G. Garner
of Bolton, S. c., both of whom may
die. The men were all structural
iron workers and were killed or in
jured in the fail. They were In the
employ of the McClintic-Marshal
Construction Company of Pittsburg
Pa. The heavy girder was being con-
veyed to the west bank Of the Cas-
selman river when the crane toppled
and crashed to the ground
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
DIED FAR FROM HOME.
Workman fronn Germany Accidental.
ly Killed at Great Falls.

A special to the Charlotte Obser-
yer says DR.. w. w. Feunell, Of Rock
Hill, received a telephone message
to come to Great Falls at once, that
a party there was seriously hurt.
He rushed down in an automobile
and found that Lawrance Miller, one
of the Germans that the Southern
Power company has installing its
fertilizer plant at that place, had
fallen As feet into tank or vat, and
his skull was crushed and neck bro
ken and thai nothing could be done
for him. Later the unfortunate man
died. His body will be shipped to
his home.
A young German of the party that
is at Great Falls, who could scarcely
speak any English at all, accompa-
MED the body to Rock Hill, stated
that Miller was "a years of age and
had a wife and four children in Ger
many and that he carried $4,000 in
surance.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
FARMING FIGURES
MUCH INTERESTING DATA CON-
PILED BY WATSON.
In the Value of Crops Per Square Mile
- }St -.=.,,
South Carolina Ranks Second Of
All the States.

Some interesting statistics on the
agricultural situation in South Caro-
lima have been prepared by Commis-
sioner Watson from the recent feder-
al census. AS has been announced
this state jumped from 21 to 13 in the
rank Of the states in agriculture.
The value of the agricultural prod
ucts Of the state increased by 2S.4
per cent. in one year. The value OF
the crops in 1910 was S140, 100000
which was an increase over 1909 of
S31,O00,000, and increase over 1906
of s63,2SS,000 and an increase OF
sSS,6S5,0O0 over 1900, all of which
show that the value Of the crops has
increased over 100 per cent. during
the past decade.
With reference to the value Of the
crops per square mile, South Carroll
ma ranked second of all states, with
s4,51S. Other states in comparison:
Illinois, s5,122; Georgia, $S,743,
Texas, s1,969.
All other Southern states show the
value of crops per square mile to be
less than $4,000.
The cotton crop of the South, &C
cording to the statistics cleaned ror
1910, went on the market for $685.
10000. The crop of 1909 was
worth sS12,O00,O00, and for 1908
s6S1,23O,0O0. It will be seen that
the cotton crop of 1910 was worth
s151,00O,000 more than 1909. There
are In the South 440,000,000 acres of
land available for cotton and only
one out Of IL acres are planted. OF
the cotton crop 10 per cent. was con-
sumed in the United States, 49 per
cent. was exported and 35 per cent,
remained in this country up to Feb
ruary, 1911.
Concerning the value per bale of
cotton, the following comparative ta-
BILE is given:
Value per bale, 1910 ....S87.l5
Value per bale, 1904. ..... 50.37
Value per bale, 1898 ........3O.22
1T is pointed out that the sum of
s604 was received for twenty bales OF
cotton in 1898, while the farmer re-
ceived S1,743 for the same number in
1910.
In South Carolina there we're In
1910 176,1S0 farms, or an increase
Of 13 per cent. over the preceding
decade. The value of the lands and
buildings increased by 162 per cent;
implements and machinery, 112 per
cent. lands, 1863; increase in labor
bill, 76 per cent. These statistics
show that there were 20,S25 farms
added. There are 64,227 owners, or
an increase of 4,S10, and Of these
farms 1887 are mortgaged. The
tenants number 1907. The in
crease in the number of tenants dur
ing the decade was 1918 and the
same proceeding decade $4,000.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
CHILD SLAIN BY WOMAN.
Shot Fired at Woman Hits and
Kills Little Negro.


A special dispatch to The State
says a horrible and pathetic tragedy
was enacted near Blacksburg Sunday
morning between the hours of II and
1 o'clock. The actors live as ten
ants on the farm of Mac Byars, four
miles from Blacksburg, on the old
Rutherford and Chester highway.
Lily Duncan, mulatto, was on her
way from the home of her step
father, Ras Franklin, to her own
house, near the home Of Ira Sar-
arms, when she was fired upon by
ratt, with two-year-old child in her
Francies Sarratt, the wife of Ira Sar-
ratt, with a shotgu.
Only one shot struck the mother,
the rest OF the load lodging in the
back of the child's head and causing
it's death Monday morning about 10
o'clock. Frances Sarratt disappear
ed and has not been apprehended
yet. Jealousy is supposed to have
been the cause of Hhe act on the part
of Frances Sarra't.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Oldest Engineer Dead.

BENJAMIN e. Roboisnn, the oldest
locomotive engineer on the Southern
Railway, and according to his broth
ers, the oldest in point of service or
anv locomotive engineer in the Unit
ed States, died in Charleston after an
illness lasting about two weeks. At
the time of his death Robinson was
72 years of age. He entered the en-
ploy of the old South Carolina Rail-
road in 1852, and has run On it ev-
er since. Mr.. Robinson was known to
many people between Columbia and
Charleston and Augusta.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
HORRORS OF FAMINE
CHINESE MADE LIKE UNTO RAW.
ENOUS BEASTS.
Little Children Are Sold into Slav-
cry. Against this Darkness, there
Stand Out Instances OF Rare Love

Stand Out Instances OF Rare Love.
The Chinese famine continIes un-
abated, and the sole hope nf life for
tens of thousands of people is that
in some unexplained manner they
may be able to prolons their lives
until the scanty harvests in the fam
inc stricken districts mature.
There has been assistance, but 1t
is simply a drop in the bucket, and
anew tells of the Indifference OF
mankind TO the sutfe:inss of those
who are not of kin, or out Of sight.
The Chinese governmen: has ex-
pended three-quarters OF a million
dollars, and the Foreign and Chinese
Relief association a quarter of a
ri lion.
Iiunger and despair have made de-
mons of thousands. While IN the
larger towns some pretense Is made
to Gecently inter those who die from
hunger, it The rural districts all de-
cency has been cast aside.
The dead are piled high in fields,
and hundreds attempt to appease
their hunger by deyouring parts OF
the decomposing bodies. IN conse-
quence, frightful diseases of many
kinds are rampant.
At every approach Of relief train,
either on a railroad or on highway,
Is made occasion for tremendous
rush, in which many are relentlessly
trampled under foot and crushed to
death.
A horrible indication Of the ex-
tremity Of the people Is afforded by
the large number Of little boys and
girls who are sold into slavery by
their parents, the price being few
ounces of bread or a handful OF
grains Of wheat.
But "a better side is not wanting
In the district of Mengehen, where
the famine possibly is at its height,
an appealing story of love in face of
starvation Is going the ROUNDS.
An old man, his two sons and their
wives were living together. when the
famine came upon them. AS last
their want was such that they scarce
had strength to crawl about.
AS a last expedient the young wife
of one of the sons proposed that she
be sold into slavery. A family coun-
sci was called, the aged and half
starved father presiding.
"You must sell me-" said the girl
to the old father, head of the house.
But her sister-in-law interfered. You
have three children" she said, while
7 have none. 1t is I who Will be
the sacdifice. Then when better times
come my husband can get himself
another wife and live happily"
But the old father decided that
neither should be sold, and one by
one the family died.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Auto Turned Turtle.

At Admission, Ala, ]. D. Dill, bak-
er, was killed, Mrs. Mary DILL Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Dill and Charles
Dill, Jr., probably fatally injured
Monday night, when an automobile
in which they were riding turned
turtle. The accident occurred when
an attempt was made to avoid D
collision with another automobile. .,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Man Seriously Cut.

At Greenville on Monday morning
C. F. Mccall, boss spinner at the
brandon cotton mill, was seriously
cut with a knife by E. F. Pittman.
The trouble took place about $3.50
o'clock when Mccall was approached
nv Pittman in the spinning room of
the mill in reference to Mrs. Pitt
mans connection with the mill.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
WOULD HANG THEM
.....' A. p. .4 ~ -.r
LYNCHING is AVERTED By AR
RIVAL OF OFFICERS.
Negro Man and His Wife Saved from
.EC
Angry Crowd by Intervention Of
Cooler Heads.

Cooler Heads.
A special dispatch to The State
from Anderson says the lynching Of
negro man and his wife in the
Meals creek of Anderson county was
narrowly averted Tuesday by cool
heads and the prompt arrival of off.
GERS on the scene, H. P. McDaniels
wealthy farmer, reprimanded his
negro tenant, T. C. Williams, for cu'
ting down some pine saplings.'
The negro resented the reprimand
and made an attack on Mr.. McDan'
iels, hitting him between the shoul.
der blades with a large rock. One
of the shoulder blades was fractured
and his spinal column was injured
The news of the attack spread rapidly
through the county, and within M
hour large throng had gathered'
at the McDaniels home, many comm
from a distance in automobiles. ;.
A warrant :gainst the negro,
charging assault and battery wi: IT.
tent to kill, was secured from 'Masis'
trate Martin, and Deputy Richard
Smith, arrested the negro, who Offer
ed no resistance. Because the nesro's
wife attempted to help him by bring
ing out shotgun, she was also ar
rested. 90.
Imediately after the arrests were
effected Deputy Sheriff Van Mar
tin and Constable Tom Davis arriv-
ed in an automobile, picked up the
prisoners and rushed them to the
county Jail. The mob had greatly
increased in numbers and violence
to the negroes was expected. Col.
D. A. Geer and others held the crowd
back, and prevailed upon them to
allow the law to take its course.
Mr.. McDaniels Is peaceable man
and one of the best citizens In An
derson county. His condition Is SER
ious, partial paralysis having set in.
He is about SO years old, and has
taken IAN active work in the school
and church in his community. Great
indignation over the brutal attack
has been expressed by the people.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Death of Rev. DR.. Shuck.

Rev. L. H. Shuck, D. D., pastor of
Cheraw Baptist church, died Sunday
afternoon. DR.. Shuck was known
throughout the State, he having Ia
bored in the ministry for Sd years
in the Carolinas, Kentucky, Missouri
and Virginia. The interment took
place at BarnWell.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Rescured from Tug.

The Marblehead, Ohio, life Saw
saving Station reported to the de-
partment service at washington that
the life saving crew had rescued al
midnight Sunday eight men from the
ting Luther while that vessel was
sinking in Lake Erie near Gull Is
land reef. ,.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
The Earth Trembled.

Two earthquake shocks were felt
early Monday morning in the town
of Keoskemet, Hungary. A panic
followed, the inhabitants rushing out
into the streets and assembling in the
squares. Hundreds of chimneys were
overturned and the town hall and
other buildings more or less dam
nsed
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Traffic in White Girls Broken Up By The
90. -.--.----.sE !
Government officials.
TALES OF HORROR told
Three of the Infamous Gang Have
Been Tried, Convicted and Sent to
Federal Prison, Willis Several
More of the Gang are Yet to be
Tried.

The operations of an organized
gang of white slave dealers, compos-
ed of men and women, who have car
ried on the traffic all over the North
west, are believed now to have finally
been broken up. J. H. Anderson, a
United States marshall of Salt Lake
City, Utah, has taken three members
of the gang as prisoners to the Fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
They are May Brow, who must
serve a term of five and one-half
years; Herbert Gould, seven and one
half years, and William Siegel, four
years. They were sentenced by
Judge Page Norris Of Duluth, Mimi,
sitting at Salt Lake City. Two more
members of the gang have been con-
victed and are awaiting sentence.
One of these, Roscoe Morrison,
took a girl from Salt Lake under
promise of marriage and forced her
into a life of shame at La Grande,
Ore. After two weeks search, in
which the girl was moved from place
to place by her abductors, the federal
officers located her and arrested
Morrison.
All of the girls Morrison has talk
en- are young American girls, and for
eleven years according to his own
admission, he has not done a days
work, but has lived from the earn
igs of the young women and by gamb-
ling. 1t is said the women have con-
tributed as much as $500 a month to
him. His part of the com mbination
was to go from town to town collect
ing the money and locating and pro-
curing young women.
The officers say he had sixteen girls
located at Los Angeles, San Francis
co, CAL, Portland, Ore, Spokane, Sc
attle, and Walla Walla, Wash, Butte,
Mont, Boise and Pocatello, Ind, Re-
no and Ely, New, and Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah.
The Brown woman was found gun
ty of inducing a.l15-year-old girl to
leave her home in Salt Lake City and
enter into an immoral life. Mrs.
/ Brown was the tool of Herbert Gould,
who drifted into the West from Ohio
five years ago and since has lived on
an income from the traffic.
During the trip to the prison tMrs.
Brown was in great fear of her life,
saying; that Gould had threatened 10
kill her because of the nature of her
testimony at their trial.
Siegel deserted his wife and child
ten days old at Denver to go with a
woman to Ogden. There he forced
her to live an immoral life ard give
to him her earnings.
The federal officers on the Pacific
coast and in the Rocky mountain
States are operating in a way to
break up the slave traffic in that Sec
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
HEAVY REWARD OFFERED.
For the Negro Who Killed the Ashe
vile Policeman.

A dispatch from Asheville, N. c.,
saws the death of Patrolman 'McCon-
nell, which occurred Friday after
noon, the increase of the reward to
approximately $1,000 and the en-
ployment of expert detectives, has
given impetus to the search for John
Huff, the negro who shot McConneli,
while the former was under arrest for
stealing cattle. Posses are securing
the mountains in every direction, fol-
lowing up clues, while officers Of ad-
joining counties are lending every ef-
fort in the search which up to late
Tuesday night had proven of no
avail. Nothing definite has been
heard of Huff since he was located
and gave officers the slip near Green
Vile Thursday night last week.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
From Bite of Crab.

Miss Maybelle Scheririshea, age IA,
of New Orleans, may lose her left
arm because Of the bite of crab. She
was "pinched" on the hand by the
crab last week and the wound became
infected. Physicians are making
eeorts to save her arm.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-13
Fatal Boiler Explosion.

At Sulina, Roumania, as an at
tempt was being made to re-fioat the
stranded river steamer Queensbor-
cugh Monday. the boiler exploded,
killing twelve persons and wound
ing tour others.