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The Lancaster News
LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891
VOL. 2. NO. 87. SE/WI-WEEKLY. LANCASTEtt, S. C., AUGUST 10. 1907 uoici- pii/p n=wrc ncn
Big Thing for ChesterfieldIts
Vast Granite Interests
to be Developed.
Monroe special in Charlotte
Observer: The Palmetto State
Granite Company, officered bv
citizens of Monroe and with its
business office here, has just been
chartered under the laws of South
Carolina and is capatalized at
$100,000. The company was or
ganized to develop the lar^e
bodies of granite lyin?? in the
northwestern section of Chester
PAIint.v Si (1 ?? ?.1 i 1. ?
.v. vvv? V T t v. t*iiu IV/I i ll'O
purpose it took over a large tract
of land owned by the Chester
field Land <fc Development Co.
i ^ which company is composed of
the same people practically as
those who have organized the
granite company.
Experts have declared that the
quality of granite on the tract i*
very line for building purposes
and the supply apparently inex
haustible.
The new company will contract
with the Chesterfield ?&
Lancaster Railroad to run a rpur.
track Irora the main line to (lie
quarry plant, a distance of one
mile, so the stone can be loaded
on cars at the quarry and shipped
to points south and north by
the Seaboard Air Line or Atlantic
Coast Line.
Southern Indicted in Alabama.
Marion, Ala, Aug. 7.?The
grand jury ot Perry county today
returned indictment against
the Southern Railway Company
for doing a business as a foreign
company without license. This
action was taken as a result ot
Secretary ot State Julian's ac
tion in revoking the charter of
the company.
Solicitor Thompson says the j
t prosecution will be pushed and
that other indictments may folio*
for each day the grand jury
is in session.
Negro Lynched for Usual
Crime.
Runge, Tex , Aug. 8. ? A negro
named Tom Hall, living at!
Goliad, was arrested last night!
charged with an attempted criminal
assault upon two young
whi e women Ho was placed in
tli^ ci'v iail. Earlv t?>-rlRv hio
dead body was found hanging to J
a trve in front of the jail. Several
negroes who had indicated
their displeasure were to-day ordered
to leave town.
Young Man Drowned.
Spartanburg special in the
Observer: James li bbs?, aged
20 years, white, was drowned in
a pond ?>n Mr. Hughes Means'
place, several miles from this
city yesterday. Hie young man
^ was seized with cramps and
cried out for help, but before aid
could reach him he perished in
the wyter. t
Mistook His Wife for a Burglar
and Killed Her.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 8.?Between
11:30 aiul 12 o'clock la-<t
night Mrs. Rosa Leo Krumholz
C?
was shot and killed hy her hughand,
11. B. Krumholz, in their
bed room under very peculiar
circumsi anees
Earlier in the night the couple
had been to the summer theatre
?ud on returning home and re
iri twr ?
nuaiu someone enter tlie
/
house. They went together to
search the premises for burglars
Finding that the house was all
right, they returned to their bed
room and went to sleep. After
a short time, according to a statement
made bv Krumholz, he was
awakened?the room being dark,
by another noise in the house
similar to that which had attracted
them earlier in the night- He
listened lor a few seconds and
located the noise'tover in the direction
of the bureau, lie felt
over on the opposite side of the
bed and noticed that his wife was
not there, and thought she too
had been attracted by the noise
and had probably gotten out ot
bed on the opposite side.
Krumholz says he reached un
der his pillow, secured his pistol
and tired in the direction of the
noise- Lie heard nothing, nor
I did he see anything by the flash
of the shot, hence he lay still a
few minutes. Finally he decid
ed he had better investigate anyway,
and, getting up and making
a light he threw the reflection in
the direction of the bureau where
he saw his wife lying on the
floor dying.
Mysterious Death in Chester.
Chester special in the News
and Courier : The body of Mr.
.J. T. Clack was found lying on
i the Seaboard Air Line track
n^ar the Wylie Mills early this
morning. Mr. Clack was not
lead when found, but he breathed
his last without regaining
consciousness. The coroner's
jury, with S. \1. Fortor, as forem;?r?
hrniKtlil in * " il "* 1 - ' 1
ill u >riiJHM 10 ! IIP
effect that 1 lie deceased came to
i>is death as the result of a blow
Irom Rome kind ol a blunt inatrumenfc
unknown to the ju
ry' I
Double Tragedy in Asheville--Man
Kills Landlady
and Himself.
Ash -villa special in Charlotte 1
Observer: A terrible tragedy wn j
enacto I here this morning short
ly alter 10 o'clock, when U >b '
ert Munlock, a wliito man 45
years of age, with a wife and 9? v
oral children, sho; to death Mrs. |
Laura Hay, proprietress of the
"Success Inn," a larfie ?>o r iinj:
house of this city, and then turned
the weapon 011 himself and!
sent three bullets into his heart.
The only motive that can bo assigned
for I he murderer's fearful
act wasadebtdue him by Mrs.
Kay and temporary insanity lrom
the effects of drink.
r^omestic Tragedy--North
Carolina Farmer Murders
His wife.
Seini i special in Charlotte Obterver:
R insom Godwin, a wellto-do
white farmer, 65 years old,
at his homo five mile* west of
Kenlv, a small and remote place
in Johnston county, last night
about 9 o'clock shot, and killed
his wife without, any real cau^e
lor the deed, so those who know
the family say. She was his
third wife, he haying married
her about four years ago. From
the union two children survive
the mother. Mrs. Godwin was
35 years of aire.
Shortly after the marriage ol
the couple the husband began to
drink and kept it. up till his
treatment of his wife bocame extremely
cruel. Tuesday night
he came home drunk and beat
Mrs. Godwin with a stick till she
was nearly unconscious. Last
nifcht became home again-in the
same condition. When he reached
the house he called his wife
to com? to the door and just as
she stepped info the light where
he could gefc a plain vriew of her
he shot h?r down in coid blood.
An Aged Georgia WomanOldest
Daughter is 67
Years of Age.
Quitman, Ga., Aug. 9.?A
rather remarkable case of long,
evity is that of Mrs Sarah Taylor
of Thomas county, who is
visiting her granddaughter, Mrs.
I. N. Johnson.
Mrs. Taylor is 97 years old
and is still quite active and alert,
her physical and mental powers
being preserved in a remarkable
degree. Her eyesight is good
and she devotes much of her
time to "piecing quilt*," an oc
oupation much in tavor with tl
women of the past generation.
Mrs Taylor was married in
1833, the year made memorable
by the wonderful meteoric shower
and which has always been
referred to since by all who witnessed
it as the year the stars
fell. She has a vivid and distinct
recollection of that wonderf.,1
diu.do" - - - 1
. VI* v.. VI lUCiri'.'N, aiiU ()|
i tliH fear Mini alarm of those who
believed that the end of all earthly
tilings whs at hand.
Mrs. Taylor lived with her bus
hand sixty-'.wo years, Mr. I'avlor
having dierl twelve years ago
I She had nine children, seven of
them living, the oldest being 07
years old. Sho has forty grandchildren
and fifty-nine greatgrandchildren.
She 19 probably
the o.d;-t person in Sooth Geor
oja and her { hvsical and ni nt?1
condition for one so old is Iraly
ri in irkable.
Fifty Killed and Wounded.
Berlin, Aug. 8. ? An express
train bound to Berlin Irom Hamburg
collided with n freight to
o
day, the trains being smashed
into kindling wool, with fifty
casualties resulting. Details are
lacking, hut is known that sev
eral Americans and Englishmen
were in the wreck. i
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Crazy Mother's Awful Deed I
> --Strangled Babies to Death.
Baltimore, Ml., Ati'^.S?The;
atrocious murder of her l*o ba-| ,
bi^s by an insane mother thrilled | ^
Northeast Baltimore. !
Madness which has twice cans- ,
it)
ed her to be confined to an asy- r.>]
lura this morning again took pos- v,
session of Mrs. Christine Nena- CQ
dal, aged 20 years, the wife of
" ' ai
Joseph Nenadal, a wood worker
vC
employed in a wagon factory.
With the cunning of a mind
deranged she laid her plans to put ^
her little ones to sleep?for that j
is what she believes she lias done. .
* li;
and no more. Leaving her little
4
daughter Mary, aged between 2
and 3 years, playing in the
streets, she put. the younger of tj
her children, Yarosalov, a year ^
and three months old, in its cat- ,
' di
riage and took it to a near'y
park.
Just what happened there is j j
not known. VVtien che mother
returned the little one in the
so
carriage was covered with leaves
at
and small branches, but a neighbor
noticed that its lace was
strangely pale. Mrs. Nenadal
took both children into the house
and carelu'ly closed all the doors
and windows.
A little later she went for a ^
friend, Mrs. Victoria Vala, and Q?
rl II
asked her to assist in dressing (ji
the children. Returning the two
women entered the dining room
of the Nenadal home and there
lying upon]the table, Mrs. Vala
was horrified to find the naked "
bodies of the two children, both 111
of them having been strangled at
by their mother. P'
The mother, when the police ^ ;
were summoned, fondled the lit ^
tie bodies and gave them up only
when forced to do so. Her OI
one concern now seems lobe lest Jl
cue cnutiren he awakened. She 1,1
repeatedly asks to have them
brought to her, so she may guard a
their slumbers.
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Fatal Runaway in Texas.
Houston, Tex , Au^. 8.?While
m
returning from prayer meeting
last night near Lonview. a team
driven by R (lib on became
S Li
f iahtened and scattered the ock
i
cupants along the roadwav, Olde
TA
Gibson, a boy asleep in the wairon
was thrown out and kill<d.
i Stl
ltev. J. M. Spivey, a Baptist
rtC
; preacher, was injured internally
I " 0(|
and three others were badly
, m
hurt.
Oil
Another Death from Light- "
I P?
ng- l?v
I , ' sp
During a thunderstorm late :
loaiuriay aiiernoon a colored.
i girl, daughter of I) ivid Crowder,
who lives neap White Store, was }
gi<
j struck and killed by ligh'ning
! She was in the ot. h nl finished er
milking and wa standing near a K
corner p-st waiting to part the "
cow and call. The lightning ''(
Ss
I struck the barn and ran down ^
the post where the girl was j,;t
i standing.?Marshville N. (J., Mi
' Home.
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Lrmy Officer Sentenced for
Insulting Note to Mother
of Enlisted Man.
Washington. I). 0 , Aug. S ?
c ur!martial *,vhich recently
tnvene 1 a? Fort Mour >e, Va ,
und First Lout. George A. F.
rutnbo, 12 ii United States (Jalilry.
no' fzu l'y ??f the c'-artre of
induct unb c nn n? an officer
ltd 11 ffwlillomuii !?..? ?
?.. uui guuiy oi
induct to too prejudice of good
tier and military discipline in
riling the following letter to
is. Nettie Sims, in reference to
3r son, an enlisted man, who
id served under him:
Mrs. Sims, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Dear Madam: It gives me
eat pleasure to inform you,
at your son, Esrl Sims, who is
>out the most worthless scotin el
that I ever saw, is a deserter
om the United Slates army.
I sincerely hope to see him beind
the bars for at least two
ars. Hoping this will be a
mree oi condolence to you, I
n?
Vrery respectfully,
Geo. A. F. Trumbo, %
1st Lieut. 12?b U. S. Calvary,
Commanding Co. E."
The sentence of the court was
atTrumboshould b'^ reprimand1
by the reviewing authorities
id be confined to the limits of
e station at which he may be
rving for two months.
News in Brief.
The Good UoadBConventionheld
Spartanburg this week was well
tended by citizens from various
irts of the State. Gov. Ansel,
-esuleiii Smith of the Cotton
ssociation and others made adesses.
All the speakers dwelt
? the necessity of the counties
lilding good roads. ... A hotel
an in riltsburg was killed aud
s twin broth-?r fatally shot by
Polish priest Thursday. . . .The
miocraiic State executive coinit
tee ot Mississippi has declared
)hn Sharp Williams the party's
Muinte lor the U. 8. Senate,
s niajoiity over Gov. Vardaan
being (>48... .T. S. WingId
shot and hilled lus wife
liursday in Roanoke, Va., and
licided. . . . Four persons were
lied and several injured in a
ilroad wreck near Dal ton, Ga.,
lursday.... Lexiugton, this
ate, had a big lire Thursday,
veral buildings being destroy ..
. . S. 1). Jones, colored post
aster at IJeaufort, S. (J., is
arged with embezzlement and
akiug lalse returns. . . . Four
irsons in >i rarri
_ - ?? N/? w It 14
or an 1 ground to death by ?
ecial tminin Now Jersey.
Advertised Letters.
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' Brown, Antor Boll, Altaretta
)ok, Lizzie DicLon, John Km-on,
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imball, A iee Morgan. I). t\iewain,
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ivo Show, Oaov Thompson,
,liel Trueadel, Walter Webb,
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