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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-12-13
PERSONAL NEWS.

Mcasra Geo. l.. Kicker. w. H. Far
ker and L.. l. rarrot went To Char
leaton Monday afternoon to attend the
annual meeting or the Grand Lodge
A. =. NJ.
Dr. u. II. Wilson haR Ronc To Char
lesion to attend u business meeting
OF the officers of Omar Temple.
Miss Grady Rumph. who has been
manager OF the Western Union rclc-
graph office for the past year. leaves
this afternoon for Charleston. where
she has accepted ~ position In the
Western Union Office.
Mr.. n. H. Tntum. OF Bishopvlllc.
waa in town Wednesday.
MIR w. H. Carson. of Summcrton.
was n visitor To- the city on Wcdncs-
day.
Miss Martha Alderman. of Alcolu.
WAS In town Wednesday.
Mrs Mary f;llcr,. ~ Wisconsin In
spending the winter with her brother.
Mr.. e., H. Mccormack. on East Liberty
street.
Mrs. j. Frank Pate ana Hon. who
have been visiting the Misses Pate on
East Liberty street. have gone to
Biahopylllc To visit before returning
home at Iirlckton. -. &.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley Bradford
have returned from their bridal trip
to Atlanta.
Capt. j. ". Atkins. OF Mayesvillc.
one Of the old-tlmc subscribers To- tho
Watchman and Southron made II
pleasant call at this Office today We
are glad To learn that the captain.
who has been u hard working man all
his life. and who w now in his 10Th
year. will he able To take u years
holiday beginning the trst of the
coming year. which he will spend In
visiting relatives and friends In many
parts of the United StalcM
MIR. Edwin Wilson. Of 81. Charles
was In the city Thursday.
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Marriage.

Mr.. Early Gcddinga and Miss Rosa
Gcddlngs. of Prlvatccr. were mar
ricd Thursday In the Office of the
County Clerk of Court H. l.. Scnrbor-
ough In tho presence OF II number Of
relatives and friends, who gathered
for the ceremony. The marriage waa
performed about noon. when the IL
ccnse was issued.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-12-13
Xni,,,i S,iggc stIOnS.

Kid gloves. $i.0o. $l.bO To $3.50;
auto gloves. $3.50 to $3.50: Stctson
two aoX ana handhcrchicfa to match,
b0c TO $500: auapcndcrs In single
boxes. 25c. soc. 76c 90. silk muf-
ilera 7bc to $500: fun dress nufflcra
at $500; umbrellas. 800 to $3.50;
bath robes $3.b0 to $7.0O: silk lined
rain coats $l2.bO To $500: gold scarf
pins and cuff buttons to match, in
ailk lined single boxes. 75c to $50.
We can please YOU In your Rift. Jo-
scph NJ. thnndlcr.--Ad
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-12-13
Clean Sweep Clothing Sale.

Mems and boya' suits and over
coats. $3.50 suits and ovcrconta $bi5.
$1,000 suits and ovcrcoats $G.7b;
$i2.50 suits and ovcrconts $S.3b'
$500 suits and ovcrcoata 5000
$50. 90 suits and ovcrconta Sl3.7b.
$22.b0 suits nnd oVcrcoata $1,000;
$500 suits and ovcrcoats $iG.C7.
Joseph NJ. Chandler. Mems aud
Roya' Outiitter. .--AdVt.
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viii acli for cash. M public ont
cry. at sumter. =. c.. ON the LIST Mon
day In January loli. alcaday. that
fine farm formerly owned by Peter
Chewing. Sr. containing AS acrca,
Including l2O acres OF fine farming
land. the balance is heavily tmb"r-
cd with unblcd long leaf pine. oak.
hickory and cypress. Thia farm liz 10
Gated In sumter County, near the
Clarendon line. flvc miles from the
town Of 'incwood. and adjoining farm
to EN-GoVcrnor John l.. Manning -
mansion. The water iA fine; hculp
good; ana fine railroad faciliticN
Purchasers to pny for papers. For
further information apply To Peter
Chewing. Summcrton, $. c.---AdW.
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Tax Return Notice.

| viii be nt the following places on
the day appointed. either in person or
by deputy. for the purpose OF taking
tax returns for fiscal year beginning
January /. 1914.
Returns this year should be made
Of all Real Estate. personal property.
copitntion road tnX. poll and DOGS.
Auditor'a Office Will be open from
january | to February 20 for taking
returns. 90 per cent penalty Will be
charged against all falling 10 make
returns.
Tindala. Tuesday, Jan. e.
privatocr. Wednesday. Jan. Z.
Levi Siding, Thursday, Jan. &.
Wcdgchcld. Friday. Jan. ..
ci0rcmont. Tucnday. Jan. -.
IlaRood. Wednesday. Jan. IA.
I;cmbcrt. ThurHdny. Jan. IL.
Dalzcll. ftiday. Jan. 10.
l'roHdon. Tuesday. Jan. 20.
Maycavillc. Wednesday. Ian. u.
oAwcgO. ThurNday. Jan. %.
shiloh. rucaday. Jan. -.
Norwood Cross Roads. Wednesday
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The Christmas Store.

Thn'a SchwnrtzR Como here.
you'll nnd 1T" 10 easy for we've got
ut Schwartz Greater Stores.
Advt.
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GIlIlIl-iIp SnIc.

ON boys. childrcn'a knee suits and
Advt.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
PRESIDENT SIGNS TARIFF BILL
1--WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED ONLY
HALF THE JOURNEY" HE SAID.
Now Urges Forward Currency Reform.
First Democratic Revision Re-
form Since 1891.
(Copyrght.)

Washington.-Surr by the
dent Wilson signed the Underwood
Simmons tariff bill at 9:09 o'clock
Friday night at the White House. Sim
ultaneously kilograms were sent to
customs collectors throughout the
country by the treasury department
putting into actual operation the first
democratic tariff revision since 1891.
A happy group of legislators, mem
bers of the cabinet and friends of the
president, encircled the president as
he slowly sat down and affixed his
signature with two gold pens. He pre-
sented to Representative Underwood
the pen that had written the word
Woodrow" and the one which had
completed his name to Senator Sim
mons, both of whom bowed their ap-
probation.
In impressive silence the president
rose and delivered in easy, natural
tones an extemporaneous speech that
brought prolonged applause.
The president declared that the jour
ney of legislative accomplishment had
only been partly completed; that a
great service had been done for the
rank and file of the country, but that
the second step in the emancipation of
business was currency reform. He
earnestly urged his colleagues to go
upon the rest OF the journey" with
fresh impulse. Gentlemen, | feel a
very peculiar pleasure" said the presi-
dent, "in what l have just done by
way of taking part in the completion
of a great piece of business. 1t is a
pleasure which is very hard to express
in words which are adequate to ex-
press the feelings; because the feeling
that l have is that we have done the
rank and file Of the people of this
country a great service. 1t is hard to
speak of these things without seeming
to go off into campaign e1oquence, but
that is not my feeling. 1t is very pro-
found, a feeling of profound gratitude,
that working with the splendid men
who have carried this thing through
with studious attention and doing JUS
tice all round, | should have had part
In serving the people of this country,
as we have been striving to serve
them ever since l can remember"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
N.w Orleans Rice Is Strong.

New Orleans.-Rough rice was
strong Monday, the highest figures yet
being reached at $4.S5 a sack. The ac-
cunpIation of receipts Of rough rice
over Sunday was somewhat large, al
though part OF it represented recent
purchases made in the country by
mills.
Receipts, 1921 sacks rough Hon
duras. Sales, 3,5O4 pockets clean Hon
duras at l 15-16T57sc.
Clean-Honduras very strong; head,
41aG47sc; straights, 3l2Q44cc;
screenings. Pause; No. ?, rs G2c.
Japan very strong; head, new 35s a
37sc, old 3G3l2c; straights, pa a
27sc; screenings, 2G24c; No. ?, ia
G2c.
Rough-Sales, 1852 sacks Honduras
at $3.75G485 per barrel OF 1G2
pounds; Japan, 858 at S2.76q4.O3.
Rice polish. $26.OOd27.0O per ton.
Rice bran, S16.50G1S.OO per ton.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
DESTITUTE REFUGEES At EAGLE PASS
Four Thousand People Estimated to
Be in Detention-Rush From
Pedras Negras.

Eagle Pass, TeX.-Fully four thou
sand people are in the refugee deten-
ton camp just outside of Eagle Pass.
The camp covers an area a half mile
in diameter on an open plain with
scarcely bush to offer shade Some
of the people have carts, wagons or
buggies to camp under, but the great
multitude have not even a parasol to
protect them from the burning sun.
Women and children comprise fully
five-siXths of the pitiable multitude.
, Every day steady stream has pour
ed over the international bridge in
every imaginable kind of vehicle, but
the great majority trudged along with
all their household goods piled upon
their shoulders, all fleeing wildly from
dangers they could not name Nearly
all of them will be returned by the i'm
migration officers as soon as their
status is ascertained, the intention be-
ing to admit only such as have means
and persons whose lives are in danger
from the federals.
About noon Tuesday the federals
could be discerned in the distance
from points of vantage, and the roofs
of high buildings and the hill tops
became crowded with people watching
the advancing column that entered the
city a little after l o'clock
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
THE TRIAL OF GOVERNOR SULzER
Witnesses Give Some Racy Testi-
mony in the SuIzer Impeach-
ment Hearing.

Albany, ~ Y.-Governor William
SulZer recently attempted TO negotiate
a bargain with Charles F. Murphy,
Tammany Hall leader, to have his i'm
parchment trial called off"-so Allan
A. Ryan, son OF the New York finan-
cier and traction magnate, testified at
the trial Tuesday.
If Murphy was willing to get his
following to vote that the assembly
had no right to impeach him." the gov
ernor, according to Ryan, was willing
to do whatever was right"
This testimony preceded the calling
of Louis a. Sarecky, the governors
neSseS.
Sarecky, youth of q years, Shout
dered the blame for the omission of
unreported contributions from the gov
ernOr's campaign statement, confessed
he had initiated the governors sigma
ture to deceive a bank, and admitted
that he, an alien, born in Russia and
never naturaIized, had been promoted
from the position of governors stenog-
rapher to the head of the deportation
bureau with the state hospital COM
mission.
Ryan'S story of the governors al
legged effort to make peace with the
leader of Tammany Hall was his sec
ond recital of an attempt on the part
of the governor to obtain political in
fluence to stop the trial Ryan testi-
fled Tuesday that Sulzer had asked
him to try to persuade United States
Senator Elihu Root to get the New
York State republican chairman, VIII
liam Barnes, Jr., to influence the re-
publican members of the court of i'm
parchment to vote the Impeachment
trial illegal.
The latter testimony Immediately
was stricken out by vote of 80 to g..
but, on motion of Elon r. Brown, the
senate republican leader, the court, in
executive session, recOnsidered its &C
ton and by a vote of Al to IA decided
to admit the testimony and open the
door for the remainder of the young
financier's story. Ryan took the stand
Immediately after the secret session.
He said that Sulzer had asked him to
obtain Delaney Nicoll, attorney for
the elder Ryan, as a "go-between" in
the proposed negotiations with the
Tammany leader. This request the
governor made, the witness said, on
the same day that he asked him to in
tercede with Senator Root, week be-
fore the impeachment trial began and
in the governors New York office.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
MAN ADMITS KILLING FOURTEEN PERSONS
Mysterious Spencer Confesses to That
Number, and Says They Were
Slain for Their Money.

Chicago U.-Alrs. Mildred ReXroat.
dancing teacher, who was shot to
death at Wheaton. H.. week ago,
was the victim Of a modern Bluebeard,
who, according 20 his own confession,
ha0 killed thirteen others in as many
years. Henry Spencer arrested in a
room near the south side levee dis
trict, Sunday confessed that he not
only killed Mrs. ReXroat, but that he
had slain fourteen persons.
He was positively identified as the
mysterious Mr. Spencer. with whom
Mrs. ReXroat left Chicago on the night
She was killed. Mrs. Retreats blood
stained rattan suit case was found in
his room. as was also the revolver
with which he said he had killed her.
The police, while i'm doubt as to the
full truth of Speucer's story. are con-
tident they have found a wholesale
murderer ana that il viii be proved
he killed at least several of those
whose deaths he described in a long
confession
Spencer's confession was so start
ling that it probably would have re-
ceived no credence had not the bloody
suit case and the revolver confirmed
at least part of his statement.
All his murders except one. he de-
clared, had been for the purpose of
robbery. The two policemen. Pencil
and Devine. Who were shot to death
twelve years ago. he said. he and a
companion killed to escape being ar
rested.
Il intended 10 kill Mrs. \. J. SEQ
field, proprieress of the rooming
house where | have been living" he
said. If l hadn't been arrested at
just this time, | would have killed
her"
Following is the list of killings
Spencer related to Chief of Detectives
Halpin:
One man and woman, about four
teen years ago.
Policemen Pencil and. Devine.
twelve years ago.
First wife, killed near West Point,
n. Y.
Two girls at Pawpaw Lake, Mich,
last August.
One girl at Lake Delevan, Wis, last
summer.
One woman at Belle Island. Mich,
last summer.
One man shot in Chicago this fall
One old man shot in a south side
park two months ago.
One woman shot and burned on the
northwest side of Chicago late last
summer.
One woman killed near the Cook
County Hospital a few days ago.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
THE FALL OF SANTA RO ALA
REBELS DEFEATED BY FEDERALS
IN MARLBOROUGH BATTLE.
Marching Against Rebels-ln-
dams Giving Trouble.

FL Paso, Tex.-After the evacuation
Of Santa Rosalia Saturday the COM
bined rebel forces of Pancho Villa,
Tomas Urbina and Manuel Chao, num-
bering 1000, scattered to the hills,
according TO a brief dispatch received
by Colonel Juan n. Vasquez, federal
commander, in JuareZ Sunday.
Mexico City.-Government officials
regard the federal successes the past
week as a death blow" to the or
ganized revolution in the north. The
defeat of the rebels at Santa ROsalia
appears to be confirmed. Advices
from General Samuel +. Mercado, mil
itary governor of the State of Chihua-
hua, to the department of the interior
describes the result as rout of the
enemy
The town was recaptured, according
to the governor, who added: THE vic
tory is of great importance because
the trains by which the enemy ex-
peCted the return to the south have
been captured, as have large amounts
CT war material"
Several thousand men were said to
+ have been engaged at Santa Rosalia.
This victory, together with the &C.
cur4tion by General Mas of Sabinas
c. is march to Piedras Negras has
ally encouraged war department
{ .cials.
General Trucy ALBERT, with 1000
men marching to the relief of Tor
reon, has reached MADEIRA, about 100
miles east of TorreOn, but is making
slow Roadway owing to the necessity
of repairing the railroad. Conditions
at Torreon have greatly improved and
it is reported the rebels practically
have abandoned that district.
General Felipe Alvarez is said to be
preparing an expedition to march on
Durango, which for months has been
in the possession of the rebels.
Teziutlan, in the State OF Puebla,
still is besieged by Indians, but for
eigners and noncombatants have been
able 10 leave the town, reaching
Puebla City 'ender federal escort.
Raiding, pillaging and burning OF
ranches continue in various parts OF
Puebla and MOrelos. The efforts OF
the rebels in San Luis Potosi, Goa
hula and Nuevo Leon are confined
to the cutting of railroads and the
raiding of small towns.
Federico Gamboa, nominee of the
Catholic party for the presidency;
Manuel Calero, liberal candidate, and
the followingers of General Felix Diaz
are pushing the work of organization
for the elections on October 26. The
bin for the postponehent of the cleo
tons, however, is due to come before
the chamber of deputies this week.
The question of the constitutional
ity of the measure is said to have
created a division of the committee
to which it was referred recently upon
its Introduction in the chamber. In
political circles the defeat of the
measure is regarded as likely.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
Aeroplane Sweeps People From House

Rochester, N. Y.-Miss Ruth Hill
dreth, daughter of w. E. Hildreth of
New York City, was killed, and her sis
ter, Dorothy Hildreth, was perhaps
MORALLY injured Tuesday in Ham
mondsport when Lincoln Beachy lost
control of a 100-horse power aeroplane
and it swept number of spectators
off roof from which they were watch
ing Beachys exhibition flight. Ruth
Hildreth fell upon an automobile. Her
skull was fractured. Among the slight
ly hurt were Lieutenant S. s. Richard
son and Lieutenant Bellinger of the
United States aviation corps, who es-
capped with minor cuts and bruises.
Beachy sprained an arm and an ankle.
His machine was wrecked
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
WATER AND FIRE DESTROY NOME
MOST NORTHERLY CITY IN THE
WORLD is WIPED OUT.
A Million and a Half Is Estimate Of
Loss and Much Suffering
is Reported.

Nome, Alaska.-NOme has almost
been destroyed by a storm. All the
south side of Front street is gone. The
sand pit is gone. Two miles OF terri
tory next TO the sea vas devastated
The storm Monday night began
beating in from Boring Sea and was
the worst ever known at Nome Men
icy water 10 save their household et-
fects. The electric light plant was
wrecked and telephone service cut OFF
The loss is estimated at a million and
a half dollars. There viii be much
suffering and outside help will be re
qured. Winter is at hand and it will
be impossible to get supplies needed
The steamships Victoria and CorWin,
which were lying in the roads, ran to
sea and escaped damage. All the
small boats on the beach were destroy
ed. Five hundred houses have been
demolished and more are falling.
Nome, the famous gold camp, on
Boring Sea, the most nOrtherly city in
the world, was built on sandy beach.
In front OF the town there is anchor
age for ships, but steamers do not
make landing. CargOes and passen-
gers are landed at an aerial tramway
station in deep water. The principal
part of the town, which a dozen years
ago had a population OF 10000, is on
the east side of Snake River, with a
finger extending to the west along a
narrow sand pit.
The sand pit was rich in gold dust
and the early settlers built their
cabins there. OF late years the sands
have been worked out and little except
dredging operations, which require
large capital, is being done II has
been estimated that the dredges have
enough ground in sight to operate fifty
years more Nome has produced more
than S35, 100000 in gold dust Some
years the yield has been as high as
$8,000000. This year the production
will not exceed 100000, owing to
lack of water
The summer population of Nome is
about 1000, and in winter 1000 re-
main, the others going out on steam
ships that leave late in October. One
steamship is yet to leave Seattle for
Nome
1t will be possible to send revenue
cutters to Nome to deliver supplies
and take away needy persons who
wish to leave.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
IRON WORKER TELLSOF DYNAMTTING EXPLOITS
His Story of Blowing Up of Bridges
and Buildings Results in Arrest
of Union Official.

New YOrk.-Dynamite outrages that
rivaled the exploits of the Mcnamara
brothers and Ortie E. McManigal were
confessed to Friday by George E.
Davis, a union iron worker. Davis,
who was arrested Friday, was the
George O'Donnell who figured in the
trial in Indianapolis that resulted in
the conviction of Frank NJ. Ryan, pres
ident of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, and thirty-seven of his assistants.
His arrest and confession rounded out
the work the federal government start
ed more than two years ago when the
dynamiting of bridges and steel frame
buildings all over the country became
national scandal,
All the explosions that Davis says
he caused were touched on and testi-
fled at the dynamiters' trial in In
dianapolis, but the fact that Davis
caused them remained unraveled until
he himself told of it,
Davis confession resulted in the ar
rest at Indianapolis of Harry Jones,
secretary-treasurer of the Iron Work
ers' Union. His confession supplants
the evidence presented at the India
napolis trial and makes fresh charges
against some of the men,, then con-
victed and now in. prison. Some of
his revelations concern President
Ryan, who is now out on bail pending
appeal from a prison sentence of
seven years.
Davis says he was the man chosen
to kill Walter Drew, attorney for the
National Erectors Association, in De-
cember, 1911, after Drew was charged
with kidnapping John J. Mcnamara. It
was suggested also that he try to
get" William ]. Burns, the detective,
employed by Drew. and his assistants
to unearth the dynamite conspiracy.
The price on Drew's head at that time,
Davis said. was $4,000.
Il told Them" his confession con-
yinues. that | didn't want to mix up
in such business"
Davis consented to return TO India
napolis without extradition. His bail
was fixed at $4,000.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
Neqro Murderer Transferred.

reveport.-Frank Caesar, negro,
who few weeks ago assassinated Ma
poleon Mcbride, young lumberman
of Jonesboro, La, and cousin of the
sheriff of Jackson parish, because the
white man reprimanded him for i'm
pudence, and who was rushed to
Shreveport to prevent lynching, has
been transferred to Winn parish for
speedy trial.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
Imprisoned Miner Rescued.

Centralia, Pa.-Thomas Toshesky,
prisoner since Friday of last week in
an abandoned chamber of the Cont
mental mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company, walked into the air a free
and comparatively well man at % min
utes to 8 o'clock Saturday morning.
He was taken to his home in Cen
tralia, three miles away from his un-
derground prison, and at once put to
bed, apparently none the worse for his
remarkable experience.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-10-11
Fire in Steamship Hero.

New Orleans.-The steamship Hero
Of the Wolvin line, which had loaded
out for Vera Cruz with creosote, ties,
cotton, $4,000 feet Of lumber and agri-
cultural implements, was discovered
afire Saturday in the hold aft, and II
was necessary to pull the ship out in
the stream to prevent it from burning
the wharf. The firemen fought the
flames all night A fleet of tugs pre-
vented the ship from listing. Dam.
age will possibly be $25,000