Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Tired of Life's $9 RiGh Poughkeepsie Lawyer, Feeling Homicidal Mania Creeping Upon Him, Kills Himself Rather Than Slay Somebody Else. Rather than sucenmb to a maniacal desire to kill. Colonel William L. De Lacey, one of the best known lawyers In eastern New York and liero of many civil war battles, committed suicide re cently at Poughkeepsie. The aged warrior, who, when only sixteen, became a soldier, died after he bad turned on the gas jets in his room in a local boarding bonse. For more than a week the colonel had been wandering around town say ing he would kill some one. Who bis intended victim- was he would not state. He had grieved much since his second wife died, and this is believed to have aggravated his tottering men tal condition. On a bureau in the soldier-lawyer's room the following note was found, ad dressed 'to'whom It may concern:" "What I am about to do 1 do with a full realization that it is my end. I don't quite like the way of doing it I would rather go by some other hand. For the past two years I have moral figuration. I am not an orthodox in religion or in auything else. "1 believe in a creation and a Crea tor, but who he is. what be is or .where he is I know not, and I don't believe that anybody else does. He Is too great for my bumble mind to grasp. I humbjy ask the forgiveness of those whom-it may fall upon to look after my carcass and put it out of sight beneath the ground. "There is no need of charging this to any one except myself. I alone am responsible. I owe no apology to a human being except, perhaps, to those that I may owe a dollar, and they. I think, will forgive me. "In the past few weeks I have de veloped a homicidal mania, but rather than commit homicide.I prefer suicide. So goodby." When De Lacey was a boy he worked on the Lehigh canal, in his native state of Pennsylvania. At sixteen he en tered the army. He couldn't write his name then. Piqued, he determined to FOR MORE THAN A WEEK HE HAD BEEN WANDERING AROUND TOWN SAYING HE WOULD KILL SOME ONE Ized, contemplated and fully deter mined upon this course. I had thought nature ere this would have become ex hausted, but I seem to have too much of the elements of nature. **I am like the old gambler who sim ply tired of the game and quit Life is .bnt a game, and I am tired of it aud quit so please spread the mantle of charity over me. I do this in a per fectly sane and sober moment, without knowledge or thought of where I am going. *T had uo thought of this world be fore I came into it. and I have no idea of the next Theories count naught with me. I believe in neither transmi gration, transsubstautiation nor trans study and hi six weeks could write. He was attached to the Fourth New Jersey regiment under Major General Phil Kearny. He was.in the battles of West Point; Va., "White Landing. Mechanicsvllle, Gaines Hill. Harrison Mountain, the Second Bull Run, Antietam, Freder icksburg. the Wilderness. Rappahan nock Station and other furious en counters. He was so badly injured toward the end of the struggle that he was shipped north aad spent a long time in a hos pital at Newark. He then became a printer, studied hard, founded a small newspaper and wound up his career by becoming an able lawyer. Caught Goivvict by the Feet 'Brave Daughter of an Illinois Sheriff Prevents a Third Jail Delivery by Grabbing a Prisoner. Lightning flashed, thunder roared and heavy rain pelted against the jail windows at Murpbysboro. 111., with such terrifying effect that the pretty daughter o( Sheriff Sylvester Ilausou was awakened from her slumbers. In the flash of an electric bolt the girl saw a man climbing down outside her window, and the feet of another came into view from somewhere above. Ter rified as she was by the war of the elements, the girl darted across her room, flung up the window and grab bed the legs of a man. It was a jaii delivery under cover of the terri?c storm, and the girl realized it. Cling ing to the prisoner, she screamed and held on despite the desperate efforts of the fellow to kick her away from him. The sheriff rushed up to the prison and with his revolver drove seven prisoners back to their cells. Four negroes and two white men had escaped. Zora Hanson, the sheriff's daughter. Is seventeen years old and is regarded as the pluckiest girl in the county. She has prevented two previous jail deliv eries by her quick wit and pluck, and when she saw the forms climbing past her window she knew what was tak ing place. The sudden awakening from slumber by the crashing of thunder and lighTriing shook her nerves badly, but it was all forgotten when she re alised her father's official oomueteney was at stake. She threw off the feel ing of terror In an instant' and was across the room with a bound. It was no simple feat even for a girl in such conditions to seize a desperado making his escape from captivity. The girl, tried to catch the hair of the man dis appearing down a ladder and, failing, threw her arms about the legs of .the man coming down from above. Then she set up a screaming that rose above the din of the" storm. Sheriff Hanson and his jailers bound ed from their beds. A jailer seized the man ML>s Hanson held and yanked him into the room. Hanson and two keepers ran to the prison ward and drove the seven men waiting their turns to climb out to liberty back to their cells. The men had been pro vided with tiny saws, with which they had cut the bars of a wiudow. The same saws were used to cut the cell locks. New locks were put on the doors, and. braving the storm, the sher iff and his men started out to search for the six fugitives. Snaps Her Leg In Rather than submit to a kiss from John KeHy. a boarder, at 213 McAlpine Btreet, Philadelphia. Mrs. Delia IMe mick leaped from the window of Kel ly's second story room and broke her leg. She was taken to the University hospital, where she told her story. Ac cording to her explanation. Kelly had approached her as they both stood in a hospital dispensary and had said he Good For Everybody. Mr. Norman R. Coulter, a promin ent architect, in the Delbert Build ing, San Francisco, says: "I fully endorse all that has been said of Electric Bitters as a tonic medicine. It is for everybody. It corrects stom ach, liver and kidney disorders in a prompt and efficient manner and builds up the system." Electric Bit ters is the best spring medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter; as a blood purifier it is unequaled. 50c at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., drug store. Sidestepping a Kiss. was the brother of a former girl friend of hers. He invited her to visit the sister, she said, and she accompanied 1.1m to his room. There, she told the physicians, he locked the door and tried to kiss her. whereupon she took a flying leap through the window. Kellj did not aid in picking her up. He pack ed bis two suit cases and left the house without stopping to say goodby. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup? the cough syrup that tastes nearly as good as maple sugar aud which chil dren like to take so well. Unlike nearly all other remedies, it does not constipate, but on the other hand it acts promptly yet gently on the bow els, through which the cold is forced out of the system, and at the same time it allays inflamation. Always use Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. Sold by A. C. Dukes, A. C. Doyle k Co. TH Hi TJLMJUC? jA.I'N VJ XJSU ALVJK/JX^X. A . jl' xvjlju^l jl 5 ^j Dog Tried, Convicted, Hanged. Pennsylvania Canine Pays With His Life For Unprovoked At tack on Uttle Girl. Like a convicted felon, adjudged guilty after a fair trial, a bis half breed Newfoundland dog belonging to Hugh McLaughlin of Lelperville. Fa.. was hanged not long ago by the,neck until dead. Every effort was made to keep the matter quiet, but It grad ually leaked out. and the disclosure reveals one of the most interesting, if not dramatic, episodes relating to ani mal life. The dog. which had suddenly devel oped a vicious disposition, sprang upon five-year-old Thelraa Berger, a pretty little girl living near by. Knocking her down, it sank Its fangs into her flesh and probably would have killed her or maimed her for life but for the fact that the child's screams attracted several men. and the big brute was driven off. The child was carried home, and McLaughlin, who is em ployed iu Baldwin's Locomotive works at Eddystoue. was notified. "Was it my dog?" he asked. Then, according to an old custom on the coast of Lab rador, where dogs are hanged when It has been proved against them that they have the blood lust of a human being. McLaughlin tied the dog up in his yard. The child, still suffering from inr wounds, was the prosecutor and chief witness. She described the attack and told how the dog had leaped upon her. showing her wounds to substantiate her story. The mer, who bad rescued her corroborated her statement. Then she identified the canine culprit, who looked up at her from his leash, cower ing like a prisoner in the dock in the full realization of his offense. Next her rescuers Identified the dog. The case against the animal was made out. In the owner's mind there no longer remained a "reasonable doubt" of the dog's ffullt So he proceeded to pass sentence. It was that the dog be hanged by the neck to a tree In the yard until dead. The child prosecutor and Ler wit nesses'filed solemnly out of the yard. Half an hour afterward a noose was slipped about Jack's neck and his body drawn up on a limb. All day his body hung suspended as a warning to other dogs. Then it was cut down and bur ied. Awfol Experience In the Alps. Norwegian Mountain Climber Falls Into Crevasse In the Mer de Glace and Spends Two Terrible Hours In the Heart of an Iceberg. Cable dispatches from Europe report a hair raising experience through which Arild Nyqulst, the famous Nor wegian skee runner, recently passed while ascending the Mer de Glace, in Switzerland. Nyqulst. accompanied by two French friends and two Swiss guides, had accomplished a good 'part of the journey up the river of ice when he stepped upon a bridge of snow which gave way beneath bis the hotel for ropes, which, through some unaccountable carelessness, had been left behind. In th?- meantime the two Frenchmen did their best to cheer their ill fated companion, taking off their gloves and lowering tbem to him by means of their puttees and sticks. When the guides got back and let the ropes down to Nyqulst he had just enough strength left to fasten them round his body. When his IN THIS TRYING POSITION HE REMAINED FOR TWO TERRIBLE ? HOURS. weight, precipitating the unfortunate Nowegian into a crevasse forty feet deep. Nyqulst was able by forcing his elbows against the walls of ice to keep himself from slipping into the water, many feet deep, which flowed at the crevasse's bottom. In this try ing position he remained for two terri ble hours while the guides returned to friends started to pull him up they found that oue part of the crevasse was so narrow that it was only by al most superhuman efforts that they suc ceeded in bringing Nyqulst up, more dead than alive. He has now nearly recovered from the awful experience, but he will do no more Aipine climb ing this year. Worships a Woodei\ Woman. Former Mayor of Enon, 0., Accused of Having Religious Obsession. Strange In the presence of 300 persons at the trial of the Rev. G. C. Jones of Enou, O., charged with shooting a robin to obtain dainty food for a sick child, evi dence was offered showing that former Mayor C. T. Johuson, the prosecuting witness, was a worshiper of a wooden woman at his bachelor home. Johnson is fifty-one years old. un married and lives by himself. On the / stand he acknowledged that he had carved a woman out of a log. which he worships as an emblem of purity. On oue occasion he carried the wooden woman to the town hall wrapped In the American flag and gave a public lecture ou "The Brighter Life." Johnson resigned recently because of the bitter feeling in the town. He filed the charges against the Rev. Mr. Jones. Woman's Hair Saves Two Lives. The luxuriant hair of Mrs. Gordon Kirby of Snowville, Roanoke county, Ya., saved both herself and a man who had plunged In to rescue her from drowning. Grade Kirby, the eight-year-old daughter of Mrs. Kirby, while attempt ing to get a bucket of water for her mother, who was ill in bed, fell into n mill race which runs near their home. Mrs. Kirby left her bed and jumped into the Icy stream in an effort to save the little girl. W. T. Tigleman. who was crossing a bridpe. saw their predicament and plunged into the creek to the mother's rescue. Both the woman and the man were about to be drowned when John Craft, who Is unable to swim, got a loug pole, which he succeeded In twist ing and entangling in the hair of Mrs. Kirby. He gradually drew this in and succeeded in landing Mrs. Kirby, with Tigleman cliuging to tor. Tigleman had found it beyond his strength to draw the woman to safety in the swift water. The little girl was dead when taken from the water by the neighbors who ran to the stream when they hea?d Mrs. Kirby's screams. The Lucky Quart. :? Is the one you pay for a box of Dr. ? ing"s New Life Pills. They bring you the health that's more precious hau jewels. Try them for headache, biliousness, constipation and malaria. If they disappoint you thejirice will be cheerfully refunded at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., drug store. A man's idea is that his baby has a first tooth because its daddy is so smart. To have perfect health we must have perfect digestion, and it is very important not to permit of any de lay the moment the stomach feels out of order. Take something at once that ycu know will promptly and un failingly assist digestion. There is nothing better than Kodol for dys pepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas and nervous head ache. Kodol is a natural digestant, and will digest what yon eat. Sold by A. C. Dukes, and A. C. Doyle & Co. JH.Jt.Jwl ? V'VSB HIDDEN DANGERS. Nature Gives Timely Warnings That No Ornngeburg Citizen Can Afford to Ignore. DANGER SIGNAL ,N0. 1 comes from the kidney secretions. They will warn you when the .kidneys are sick. Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin, pale ,and foamy, or a thick red, ill-smelling urine, full of sedi ment and irregular of passage. DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes from the back. Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute tell you of sick kidneys and warn you of the approach of dropsy, diahetes and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and cure them permanently. E. Starton, well known in Flor ence, S. C, says: "Doan's Kidney Pills helped my back after every thing else had failed, and after I had thought that my back was worn out. They made it stronger tfcan^it had been for five or six years and seemed to put a new backbone in me. I have had a terrible time with hack ache which was greatly aggravated by my work and at times I had to lay off for I could not work on ac count of the acute pains across my loins. I could not begin to te'l you all I have suffered. The secretions from my kidneys also bothered me. were very dark in color and con tained sediment, being also too fre quent in action and annoying me during the day and preventing my resting well at nights. I applied plasters and rubbed my back with liniments but nothing helped me un til I read anout Doan's Kidney Pills and procured a box. They were just what I needed and are the best back ache remedy I ever used. I have not had backache since I used them, the kidney secretions are all right, I can sleep all night without having to get up and my back is stronger than it has been for a number of years." i. Plenty more proof like this from [ofangeburg people. Call at J. G. Wannamaker's drug store and ask what customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-Milburn Co.T Buffalo, New. York, sole agent for United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and- take no other. Eveh a tooth ache can become a great pleasure if it's th enight you would have to go to a church Ieiture if you didn't have it. KodOl for Dyspepsia has helped thousands of people who have had stomach trouble. This is what one man says of it: "E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, III, Gentlemen: In 1897 I had a disease of the stomach and bowels. I could not digest anything I ate and in the spring of 1902 I bought a bottle of KODOL and the benefit I received from that bottle all the gold in Georgia could not buy. I still use a little occasion ally as I find it a fine blood purifier find a good tonic. May yen live long and prosper. Yours very truly, 0. N. Cornell. Roding, Ga., Aug, 27 IH0? " A. C. Dukes, and A. C. Doyle & Co. A man's hoonr can be pawned, but it can't be redeemed. ' Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new Laxative, stimulates, but does not irritate. It is the best Laxative. Guaranteed \>r your money back. A. C. Dukes. A woman worries over chapped knees as if every body knew it. A tickling cough, from any cause, Is quickly stopped by Dr. Shoops Cough Cure. And it is so thoroughly harmless and safe, that Dr. Shoop tells mothers everywhere to give it without hesitation, even to ^ery young babies. Tne wholesome green leaves and tender stems of a lung healing mountain shrub, furnish the curative properties to Dr. Shoop's, Cough Cure. It calms the cough, and heals the sore and sensitive bron chial membranes. No opium, chloro form, nothing harsh used to injure or suppress. Simply a resinous plant extract, that helps to heal aching lungs. The Spandiards call this shrub which the doctor uses, "The Sacred Herb." Always demand Dr. Shbop's Cough Cure. Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. It takes a dyspeptic to appreciate the motives of reformers. ?fr ?a? o * THE PEOPLE S BANK ORAXGEBURG, S- C. "A Bank For All The People." CAPITAL STOCK.$30,000.00 SURPLUS . l. 20,000.00 STOCKHOLDERS LIABI LITY. ..30,000.00 PROTECTION TO DE POSITORS .$80,000.00 D. O. Herbert.President B. F. Jiuckenfuss. . . .Vice-President H. C. Waiuiamafcor.Cashier W. Mm Richardson.. .. Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS. W. C. Crnm A. M. Salley Abial Lathrop W. It. Glaze G. L. Salley Robt. E. Copes D. O. Herbert B. F. Muckenfuss H. C. Wannamaker. Interest paid in Savings Department. ft * <0> O o ceg WHICH IS MORE URGENT? FIRE INSURANCE. Important? You fully, realize it. You would not allow your house to remain uninsured overnight. Your house may never burn. Com paratively few buildings ever do. If your house does burn, your prop erty is destroyed, but you can still provide for your loved ones. Your ncome remains unaffected, your earn ing capacity unimpaired. LIFE INSURANCE. Important? Oh yes, you intend ro Insure after awhile when "a little better able to do so." You will surely die.' All men do. You are more likely to die within a week or a year, than your house is to burn. If your house is not insured at all, or for an insufficient amount. YOU CARRY THE RISK. Death destroys at once and Irre vocably, in whole or in part the in come that provided for the daily wants of those you love, the income that was counted on to feed and clothe and educate your chldren. If your life is not Insured at all, or for an insufficient amount, Your Wife and Babies Carry the Risk. Your friend has had his home in-' Your frend has had his life In sured these 30 years and is now an sured these 30 years, and has had Qld man He ip fortunate ln iavlng no fire. He has been fortunate in lived, and he has something now to *t i. .l L i: ... _ * show for the money paid out. His that though he has nothing now to cogh yalue affords a cor:1,ortable 8Up. show for the money paid out. port for his own declining years. WHICH IS MORE URGENT? 18 E. Russell St., Orangeburg, S. 0. Agent for SOUTHEASTERN LIFE INSURANCE CO., Spartanburg, S. O. BEAUTY AND CLEANESS are essentially the characteristics of our brass and metal beds. For summer use there is none to be compared with them. Like All Our Furniture, these beds have been built right in every detail. We can rcommeud them because we know their_good qualities. And the price ought to recommend them to you. So inexpensive are they that you can furnish every bedroom in your house without feeling yourself extravagant. Also everything in the Hardware line, Stoves and Ranges &c. Orangeburg Hardware & Furniture Co. Now is the Time To buy your Farnrra Implements. I have a-complete line of Plows, Plow Stocks, Back Bands, Leather & Cotton Collars Plantation Bridles, Farm, Church and School Bells, Shovels, Anvils, Forges, Poultry Netting, Woven Wire Fences, Lard Presses & Meat Cutters. And in fact everything that is used on the farm. Prices are right. Give me a call J.W. Smoak Phone No 1. Orangeburg, S. C