The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, December 16, 1909, Image 1
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PUBLISHED THREE
GREAT PLANT
To Be Eroded Near Ridgeriile fcy a
Chicago Syndicate.
WEI COST MILLIONS
Will Be Used to Manufacture Nitro
genous Fertilizers From the Air.
It Is Also Said That Georgia Com
pany will Construct Power Plant
on Edisto River at Big Cost.
That a company of Georgia busi
ness men is about to build on the
Hdisto river, six miles from Ridge
ville, a hydro-eleciric plant at a coat
of $1,200,000 and that a Chicago]
syadiate purposes to erect at Ridge- J
ville or at some point near this i
water power a $10,000,000 factory I
for the manufacture of nitrogenous
fertilizer are statements contained
in a communication received by the
Ridgeville correspondent of The
News and Courier and by him sent
to that newspaper. The correspon
dent states that this communication
waB sent to him by Mr. D. G.
i,: Zeigler, who. it seems, has been the
moving spirit in the enterprise men
tioned. Here is what the Ridgeville
correspondent says:
Some time In the early spring Mr.
D. G. Zeigier. of the firm of D. G.
Zeigler & Co., engineers, of Jack
sonville, Fla., began an investiga
tion on the Edisto river, six miles
southwest of this place. Mr. Zeig
ler had located a valuable water
power at that point on the Edisto
river. There came at one time to
this place Mr. H. S. Marshall, of
Illinois, an engineer in charge of
a force. He made surveys on the
river and immediately-after his. sur
veys these lands began to change
ownership at fancy prices compared
to their former priceB. Mr. Zeigler
bought them and within a short
space of time, about two weeks,
sold them to a group of Savannah
business men, who have organized
a company to develop a hydro-elec
tric plant on the river Just 6 miles
flrom Ridgevirle, where they will
develop 23,000 commercial horse
power, electrical.
It is also learned that this de
velopment will cost about $1,200,
"000 and that the company has been
chartered in Georgia to make this
development, capitalized at $1,500,
00 0. It is said that all stock has
been subscribed for and fully paid
%xp, and that construction wiil be
gin very soon. The plant when
completed will be one of the best
? water powers in the Southern States.
This stream always affords an
abundance of water, and a head of
35 feet can b3 easily obtained. There
will never be any scarcity or short
age of water. It is stated that this
same firm of engineers is making
at present the following other wa
tre power developments:
35,000-horse power, on the Se
wanee river in Florida; 8,000-horse
power on the Allapaha river in Flor
ida; 8,000-horse power, on the Ca
noochee river, near Savannah; 17,
900-horee power, on the Satilla riv
er, near Brunswick, Ga.; 18,000
horse power, on the Flint river, near
Americu8, Ga.; 6,000-horse power,
on the Abbey creek, near Dothan,
Ala.; 3,500-horse power, on D-ble
Bridge creek, near Geneva, Ala.;
9,000-horse power, on Pea river,
near Abbey, Ala., and 8,000-furse
power on Little river, in Alabama.
The abov* make a total ievelop
ment of 136,500 electrical ho/s
power, at an estimated total cost of
twelve million dollars when complet
ed.
It is also estimated that when all
of this power is put into use it will
take the place of about four mil
lion dollars that is being spent each
year by the people in the- various
sections of the country where these
powers are situated for coal to make
steam power. This alone will be a
nice sum to be paid for the water
power, to say nothing of the other
expenses of a stoam plant. It is
said that power will be furnished
from these plants t<>r about $33 per
horse power por year.
It is stated also that Mr. D. G.
Zeigler has received from Wall
street banks offers of large Bums for
a number of the water powers which
he and his associates now control,
but that he has received a still bet
ter offer from a Chicago syndicate
These Chicago people have secured
control of a process to extract ni
trogen from the air by means of an
electric current, and they have de
cided to establish a chain of fac
tories in the South for the manufac
ture of nitrogenous fertilizer, which
is said to be cheaper and more pro
ductive for the farms than any other
fertilizer on the market.
The gentlemen above referred to
bad t^eir engineer meet Mr. Zeigler
last week in Georgia and go with
him over some of these water powers.
The result of the investigation is
that they have offered to Mr. Zeig
ler and his associates all the capi
tal necessary for them to use In con
structing the various plants, an''
they will take power at a fair price
in exchange. The syndicate will
erect at or near each one of the wa
ter powers a factory for the manu
facturing of this fertilizer. It i6
stated that they will invest in the
ten manufacturing plants at least
$50,000,000, and that work will be-1
TIMES iCWEEK.
ACCUSED HER HUSBAND
POLICE FIND BLOODY CLOTHES
OWNED BY HUNTER,
Whose Wife Declares That While
a Negro Held Her He Gave Her
a Fatal Blow.
A dispatch from Savannah says
developments Monday night in the
aftermath of the tripple murder of
last Friday afternoon gave birth to
the startling theory that not a
single murderer, but two or possi
bly three were engaged in the com
mission of the terrible crimes.
County officers declare that of these
J. C. Hunter, husband of Mrs. Mag
gie Hunter, .whoso death Monday |
added a third to the number of
murdered women, is certainly one.
They declare that the chain of
evidence is complete, asserting that,
some clothing, badly stained, appar
ently spattered with blood, which
was found and belongs to Hunter,
is the final link. This clothing is is
declared, was worn by Hunter on the
day of the crimes, and a walking
cane found In the house of the mur
ders is declared to have been car
ried by Hunter on the same day.
It was declared by a physician
ati the Savannah hospital that state
ments-made during a moment of
consciousness by Mrs. Hunter early
Monday charged the crimes to her
husband, and that she was being
held by a negro man when the blows
were struck that caused her death.
The Rev. J. S. Wilder, pastor of r.
Baptist church in Savannah, stated
that Mrs. Hunter, after recognizinr
him, declared a white man had struck
the blows.
CAVE LIFE FOR CHILDREN.
With Her Clothes Aflame She Leap
? ' ed ^Through Window.
One of the greatest acts of hero
ism whim has occurred in the sec
tion of Marion, N. C, in years was
that of Mrs. John Lewis, of Vein
Mountain, who sacrificed her life
Friday afternoon to save her three
children from being burned to death.
Mrs. Lewis was standing before
the open fire place and her cloth
ing caught fire. She started to rush
for the bed in the room intending
to smotner the flames. The chil
dren who were In. the adjoining, rocm
rushed to their mother's aid. For
fear that the clothes worn by her
children would catch fire Mrs. Lewis
leaped through a window and ran
for several hundred feet before fall
ing exhausted and dying.
Her screams attracted neighbors
and when they reached the body all
clothing had been burned off except
two small pieces under ea'h arm.
Her skin was burned to a crisp and
blackened by the smoke and flames.
Blood was flowing freely from many
parts of her body.
Tender hands carried the dying
woman back to her residence, where
she expired a few hours later. Her
suffering was intense.
CORPSE HOLDS- AUTO WHEEL.
Woman's Presence of Mind Prevents
Tragedy on French Road.
Mme. Maurice, of Roanne, France,
has had the terrifying experience of
driving in a motor car with her dead
husband clutching the steering wheel
and a four-year-old baby In her lap.
She had gone for a drive with
her husband as chauffeur. Noticing
that the car was pursuing an erratic
course, she spoke to her husband,
uring him to be more pruden. There
was no response, for he was djad.
In an instant the woman realis
ed the truth. She was ignorant of
the machinism, and could not stop
the oar. But with remarkable pres
ence of mind she did the next best
thing. Lifting her baby up, she lean
ed out of the auto and dropped it on
the roadway. Then, taking the
steering wheel, she headed the au
tomobile for a ditch, into whi<h it
ran and capsized.
Mme. Maurice, who, with the
corpse of her husband, was flung
out, fortunately escaped with very,
slight injury. The baby was found
unharmed. The husband's death was
due to heart failure.
Froze Steamer's Whistle.
News comes from New York that
the weather 1b so cold tip there
that it froze up the whistle of the
Italian liner Cltta del Messina, ac
cording to the report of her cap
tain. Members of the crew, he said,
spent several hours thawing out the
whistle by burning oil soaked waste
under it, before the ship could make
its way up the harbor at New York.
gin on them at once.
Mr. Zeigler is very busy at pres
ent bringing the matter to a close,
and is accepting this offer as fast
as he can consult with the various
incorporations. As each one of these
water power developments has been
chartered as a separate company, It
is necessary for him to have a meet
ing of each company and place the
matter before the stockholders, and
it will take some weekB for him to
'o this. Still, at the same time,
It Is understood that the matter will
be left to his judgment, and as he
13 inclined to accept the offer, it
means, apparently, that Ridgeville
will have very soon a ten-million
dollar fertilizer factory.
line
OBANGEBUR6
SHOT AT DEPOT
Mr. W. L. Felder, of St. Matthews, Sbot
by Express Messenger
WITHOUT PROVOCATION
While Waiting for a Train to Leave
From the Union Depot at Char
lotte-?Harry Jones, Who Did the
sShooting, Arrested and Pat in
Jail to Await Folder's Injury.
A special dispatch from Charlotte
to the Columbia Record says Mr.
W. L. Felder, a well known busi
ness man of St. Matthews, S. C,
was shot in the left arm and side
at the Southern passenger station
there Tuesday morning by Harry
Jones, an express messenger.
Mystery surrounds the affair, no
provocation or excuse for the shoot
ing being given by either Jones or
Felder. The shooting took place
at 2:30 o'clo.!k Tuesday morning,
shortly after the arrival there of
train 39, and was witnessed by two
other express messengers, who de
nied any knowledge of the affair
at first, but afterwards told about
it after they were arrested. Felder,
who is not, it Is hoped, dangerously
wounded, is in the Presbyterian hos
pital. Jones is in jail, where he will
be held for the preliminary trial.
The Record gives the following
particulars of the shooting:
The first person to reach Mr. Fel
der was Capt F. B. Fishburn of
Columbia, while Dr. A. B. Knowlton
of Columbia was also near and gavo
the wounded man prompt medical
attention. The shooting occurred at
the Charlotte union station, about
2:45 a. m. Mr. Felder, as well as
Capt. Fishburne and Dr. Knowlton,
was at the station expecting to come
' to Columbia on Southern railway
! train No. 29, due to leave Charlotte
at 3:30 a. m. While in the lunch
room Capt. Fishburne had been talk
ing with Mr. Felder, but left and
went into the combination baggage
car to He down.
Mr. Felder, it seems, walked up
to the door of the express car,
where the express messenger was
checking up his express with the
negro porter, and it is said that Mr.
Felder asked if he coulu get aboard
the car, as the passenger coachs had
not been opened and it was cold out
ride. What else passed' between
them is not known, except that Mr.
Felder stated afterwards that ho was
shot, without warning, from the ex
press car.
Capt. Fishburne waB first to reach
the wounded man, and having seen
Dr. Knowlton at the station, sum
moned him. Mr. Felder was carried
to the Stonewall hotel, at the sta
tion, until he could be taken to the
hospital, and after some delay the
ambulance arrived and he was car
ried to the Pifesbyterlan hospital.
At Mr. Felder's request, Dr. Knowl
ton remained with him. returning to
Columbia on No. 35 instead of No.
29, and reaching Columbia at 10.30
a. m. Wednesday.
Mr. Felder had been to High Point,
N. C, to place an order for furni
ture, and was on his way home. He
is a member of a prominent family
In the Orangeburg section.
Dr. A. B. Knowlton, who was with
Mr. Felder just after he was shot
at Charlotte early In the morning,
bitterly criticised the Charlotte po
lice department when he arrived in
Columbia. Ho says three officers
were notified and given all the facts
one after the other immediately
after the shooting, and after they
were finally gotten to the scene act
ed like a lot of dummie?. He could
get them to do nothing, he saym and
the most important witneeses were
about to disappear, when he ap
pealed to Attorney Shannonhouse,
who began to get results as soon
as he arrived.
Dr. Knowlton says the shooting
was most wanton and inexcusable.
Felder was thirty feet away from the
coach when fired upon, had never
been In the coach and was walking
away when fired upon. Mr. Felder,
Dr. Knowlton says, had been walk
ing up and down the cement floor
under the shed between the fruit
stand and the first track, waiting
for train 29. Ho approached a
couple of express coaches which
were coming to Columbia when No.
29 arrived and nskod a colored man
in one if It would he allowable to
come into the coafo and keep warm
till the train arrived.
Mr. Felder Bays the colored man
told him that this would be against
the rules and he weut away. Jnst
before being shot he had turned
about to watch some antics the ne
groes were doing In the coach he
had approached, when the messeng
er came to the door and ordered
him away. He says he started away
when he was fired npon.
The bullet entered the right slie
just un^er the arm, probably punc
tured the right lung and made Its
exit at what Is commonly known as
the breast bone. Dr. Knowlton could
not estimate Mr. FeMer's chances of
recovery before leaving Charlotte
that morning. At Mr. Felder'B re
mest Dr. Knowlton remained with
Mr. Felder until the next train,
wwhich arrived in Columbia at 10.30
a. m. ?
8. C. TJIDRSDAY. DE
SEVEN'LIVES LOST
IN A FOUR-STORY CINCINNATI
TENEMENT DEATH TRAP.
Tue House Ablaze With Eevry Oc
cupant Sleeping?Firemen Carry
Many Down Ladders Safely.
In a Are at Cincinnati that de
stroyed a tenement house shortly
before daylight on Tuesday morn
ing seven persons were killed and
30 injured.
The buildingf was a veritable death
trap. The one fire "escape was ren
dered useless by the flames and the
emergency door, supposed to lead
to safety, and ordered kept open
by the fire department, was nailed
shut.
The building is a four-story struc
ture with ?tenants on every floor
except the first. The hallways are
lighted by kerosene lamps and in
some way the lamp on the second
floor was up6et and in a very few
minutes the dry woodwork in the
hall was aflame.
The blaze shot upward, making
it impossible for the tenants of the
place to get out by way of the stairs.
Some of them jumped out of the
windows and were badly hurt.
There were fifty persons in the house
at the time.
The first firemen to reach the
scene saved several of them from
the roar of the burning building.
The captain of engine company No.
4 carried down two bodies on the
ladaor and several women were
found huddled together on the fourth
floor. Tho ?bodles taken to the
morgue were so badly burned that
identification was almost impossi
ble.
Patrolman Clark and Trinkler,
who were the first upon the scene,
picked up a blanket from in front
of the building and yelled to the
terrified people in the windows to
jump. Holding the blanket between
them, they called to a woman on
the second floor to jump into it.
As she jumped to safety the offic
ers called to a small girl who was
on the verge of dropping from <i
window on the third floor. The girl
took one look at the outstretched
blanket and jumped head first In
to. Both woman and child were
badly burned and were quickly rush
ed to the city hospital.
Two officers carried many of the
tenants to safety over the neighbor
ing roofs".
CORN YIELD AWARDED.
John R. Dingle of Clarendon County
Wins First Prize.
A dispatch from Columbia sayp
the first prize on yield In the State
corn contest has been awarded to
John R. Dingle, of Summerton, in
Clarendon county, as also the first
prize on points. His yield was 1G6.7
bushels on one acre. This is the
second State contest that haB beeo
won by a Clarendon county farmer
The total points made were 99. Toe
first prize on yield Is $175. Tea
award was made at a meeting of the
State Corn Contest, which is com
posed of Commissioner Watson,
President P. H. Meli, of Clemson Col
lege, and D. N. Barrow.
The second prize for yield and
points went to A. Bascomb Usher,
the young Marlboro lounty boy who
produced 152 1-2 bushels on one
acre. He will rece'.ve $75.
The five-acre contest was won by
J. M. Mosse of St. Matthews. The
number of bushels produced was
500.5. This prize is worth $200.
The second prize of the five-acre
contest was awarded to Thos. Tay
lor, of Richland county, who pro
duced 251 bushels. This prize is
$50.
There were 156 entires in this
year's contest, representing 36 coun
ties of the State. Many of the con
testants are boys. Of the total en
tries only fourteen compiled with
all of the requirements. Many of
the contestants failed to send in
samples of their corn.
The best ear of corn sent in the
opinion of the commission was that
of It. K. Hayes, of Marlon county,
who won second prize In last year's
contest. A close second to Mr. Hayes
in the quality of corn was sent by
Usher, of Marlboro county.
Captain Admits Hin Guilt.
Capt. Thomas Franklin, U. S. A.,
twice commended by Gen. Chaffee
and Gen. Otis for distinguish d serv
ice in China and at Manila, plead
guilty a few days to a long series
of petty embezzlements from the
mess fund of the West Point cadets,
as commissionary and treasurer of
United States Military academy, and
was sentenced by Judge Hand, in the
circuit court. In New York, to two
years and six months in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. His
rounsel gave notice that they would
apply for a writ of error and re
view.
? ? -
Negro Identified.
A dispatch from Thomasville, Ga.,
says Lucius Robinson, a negro, was
Identified by the two young daugh
ters of Mr. Jack Walker as the man
who confronted them In their home
and after holding a pistol in their
faces threatened to kill them if they
screamed. He is in jail. The ne-1
gro after frirhtening the girls fled.
CEHBER 16 1909.,
COMING SOUTH
New Land of Promise for Millions of
Capital
HER GREAT RESOURCES
Her Undeveloped Lands, Mines and
Forests Arc Attracting Enterpris
ing Men of Means and Those
Willing to Take Advantage of Her
Possibilities in Farming.
"A greater nation through a great
er South!"
This is the tocsin that the South
is sounding today from Atlantic to
Pacific .and from the southcrmost
everglades to the northern pines,
says the New York American.
Tho South wants men and mon
ey?men that her vast resources may
be given over to cultivation and
industry, and money for entrprise,
that their products may feed the
markets of the universe.
She haB produced a cotton crop
this year which will net about $1,
000,000,000.
Her grain, will fill 800,000,000
bushels.
Her total agricultural products
will foot up nearly $2,500,000,000.
She is fining 90,000,000 tons
of bituminous coal.
Her cotton mills are using nearly
3,000,000 bales of cotton a year.
She commands the sulphur trade
of the world producing nearly one
half of the whole production of
the world.
Her ports are second to New York
in their shipments.
She is spending today $20,000,
000 in new cotton mills.
Nearly a quarter million of peo
pie are swarming into her rich
country to help win for her the
success that has been so long com
ing.
Her resources are withal but
beginning to show their worth, for
she has lacked in capital and the
kind of labor necessary to bring her
soil and opportunities to their full
fruition.
She has 40 per cent of all the
timber lands in the United States,
about GS-.OOO square miles; quarries
that are rich in the most beautiful
and useful stone, marvellous ores,
and thousands of square miles of
the most fertile and greatest pro
ducing farm lands in the world.
Everywhere the railroads are
pushing colonies and building their
extensions, until five years hence It
is believed that every available mile
of her lands will bo within easy
reach of some road.
Millions of dollars are being put
into her mines; other millions are
going into her textile advantages.
Along the line of one railroad alone
450 textile mills have been erected.
Her phosphate beds are being work
ed to the fullest limit of the;, pres
ent capital. Her tobacco crops are
enormous, and In every spot touch
ed by the tide of Investment springs
forth a golden return greater than
their investors ever dreamed of.
With a population of nearly 28,
000,000, or about a third of the to
tal of the United States, she is put
ting out in agricultural product
alone the equal of all the States in
1890.
Nearly $2,000,000,000 will be
spent by the railroads during the
next ten years to add to her wealth.
Everywhere the cry is.going up for
better roads, and every State is bend
ing its efforts to make the Southern
roads the peers of those of any oth
er States.
"I do not believe that there is
any land on the face of the earth
that equals, acre for acre, the lands
of the South. It is a greater pro
ducer than the lands in the north
west, and?it is immensely cheaper
"Then, too, there la Its fairer
climate and Its oaay markets; its
cheap freights, short hauls, Immedi
ate Bales, until you hav? an Ideal
condition. Here, too, yoa have a
land well watted by qjo/H w.iters.
where artificial irrigatici may be
reduced to a mi )iinuni to produc
marvellous rout's Coai Is at h?
railroad fa;ii;*' -h hv: go j and wa
ter hauls first class.
"You have water power for tho
mills, which is cheapest; cities with
all modern things close at hand; a
wideawake population both on farm
and in city, until the situation would
seem ideal."
Here are some of the facts as t<
what may be done on Southern
lands: Peanuts have recently be
come a world staple. Virginia an .
North Carolina produced this yea.'
5,457,400 bushels of them. Georgin
melons are as famous the worin
over as the Rockyford cantaloupe
Georgia peaches are the best n the
market. Florida's oranges and cit
rus fruits are being pushed hard
by its grape fruits, which stand mor"
frost and bring better market pric
es, taken all In all, than oranges.
Of the tobacco, cotton crop, grains
and such there is no space to dilate
here?they are so much a part of
the South that a sufficient knowl
edge of them is known to every
household.
GOOD BOY FARMER
HOW BA8COMB USHER WON THE
CORN PRIZE CONTEST.
How He Prepared, His Land, Ferti
? listed His Soil, Cultivated Mid
Gather. *! His Crop.
A Columbia dlspatc'J says the an
nouncement to the effect that ltas
comb Usher, the Marl-ioro county
boy who raised 152 bushels on bis
acre, had won the State prize in
the national corn contest has caused
a great deal of comment here.
Many are wondering just how he
did it. A glance at the following
will give some idea as to just how
the phenomenal yield was produc
ed:
The land on which the corn was
(produced Is in Brightaville town
ship in Marlboro county and is a
sandy loam soil. There was a sub
soil of 1? inches. The land sloped
to the southeast. The land was
first cleared In 1907 and was plant
ed in corn and peas. The same
crop was planted In 1908 and 65
bushels of corn was produced. Pri
or to tho large yield cotton seed
meal and 100 pounds of nitrate of
soua were used.
The acre was well fertilized this
year. The following being used:
200 pounds of commercial ferti
lizer, 100 pounds German kanit, 300
pounds second grade Peruvian gua
no, 900 pounds cotton seed meal
and 000 pounds nitrate soda. The
land is considered worth $75 per
acre.
On March 20 the land was brok
en. It was subsoiled with a Boy
Dixie plow. There was no barn
yard manure used.
Great care was exercised in the
selection cf seed, which is one of
the most important points about the
contest. Garrett's prolific corn seed
wore used. This seed was secured
from B. E. Moore, who won the
State prize in 1908 by producing
137 bushels on one acre and who
won third prize in the national con
test in 1908 with 125 bushels. This
corn has been used since 1900.
The seed were planted on April
1 by hand, in rows five feet apart.
There were no hills and only ouc
peck of seed was used. The seed
were carefully hand picked befcr
planting. . No time was spent in
germinating them. The cu.u. ti
commenced on April 2S, a Boy-Dixie
plow being useu. The grouua w.u.
stirred to a depth of 10 Inches. The
acre was cultivated five times on
April 28, May 17, June 16 anu
July 9. The corn was thinned by
hand, one stalk being left to the
hill, eight inches apart. Hand la
bor was used in removing the weeds.
The weeds were the rag weeds and
the morning glory, which were re
moved in one day.
On October 13 the crop was har
vested. The corn was pulled from
the stalk by hand. The stalks were
not cut and shocked. The earn
was husked by hand.
The boys corn club work was in
troduced in this State last spring.
Only five counties could be organiz
ed, Marlboro, Lee, Florence, Claren
don and Newberry. The results have
already been reported in detail from
each of these counties. Prof. Ira
W. Williams, United States Farm
Demonstration Agent; O. B. Martin
and Prof. D. N. Barrow, of Clmson
college, are now actively engaged in
stimulating the work in various lo
calities of the State. With the co
operation of the different county su
perintendents of education, the rural
school improvement associations,
-/t?te Superintendent of Education
Swearingen and Commissioner Wat
son. Active efforts will be made
to organize boy's corn clubs In every
county. Means and methods will
be discussed at the coming meet
ing of the State teachers' associa
tion, and thoae In attendance will
learn definitely of the scope of this
work for 1910.
This work has, up to the present,
been independent of the contest
conducted by the State oorn contest
commission for both boys and men.
though many of the boys participat
ing in the above contest have also
participated in the State contest.
During the coming year it is the
purpose of the commission to com
bine its efforts and prizes with the
new work that has been inaugurated
under the direction of O. B. Mar
tin.
There has been a great increase
in tho corn production iu South Czi
olina In the past several years and
the corn contest commission is of
the opinion that the work of Mr.
Usher will encourage other boya of
the State in agriculture not only in
producing corn but in all other lines
of agricultural work.
One of the members of the com
mission in speaking of the young boy
said, "Why he is a great man and
Iocs not know It. There are few
boye that havo done what he has.
His record is most enveniable. He
has demonstrated most strongly tba
the best way to farm and get re
suits Is not on paper."
One Killed. Three Hurt.
One person was killed, one fatally
injured and two others badly bruis
ed when the automobile in which
they were riding turned turtle an!
plunged In a ditch near Atlanta, Ga.,
?x few days ago. "Dare Devil'"
Jones, an amateur driver, was kill
ed and Ralph Kaplan, aa employe
of an automobile agency in Atlanta,
was most serlouBly injured.
rO CENTS PEB COPY
I DOG WAS MAD
Bit Four Persons and Caoses Great Ex
citement in Colombia
BIT OTHER DOGS ALSO
Those Bitten by the Animal, Which
Was a Fine Bird Dog, Were Mr.
Alfred Wallace, Mrs. Mayraat,
Alfred Wallace, Jr., and Mr. A.
H. Scats, of the State.
The State says Quail, an English
setter belnging to Alfred Wallace,
of Columbia, appears to have be
come afflicted with hydrophobia, and
has attacked several persons. Not
wishing to alarm the people of the
city unnelessarily, no statement "was
given out at the time, for it was
hoped that the dog was not affected
with rabies, and the animal was put
under lock and key awaiting (teve)
opmoDta.
The persons attacked by this dog
are Mrs. Mayrunt, mother of Mrs.
Wallace; Alfred Wallace, superin
tendent of the street railway; Alfred
Wallace, Jr., attorney at law, and
A. Hamilton Seats, of The State.
A very fine dog, the property of
Magistrate Jas. H. Powles, is known
to have been attacked, as well as
other dogs being under suspicion.
The members of Mr. Wallace's
household were attacked Sunday.
The animal was supposed at first to
have been 111 tempered on account
of having probably been poisoned
by chicken thieves who visiied the
place, corner of Senate and Hender
son streets, one night last week.
However, Dr. F. A. Coward, the
State baiieriologist, was notified aud
all wounds were cauterized and thf:
animal was locked up pending de
velopments, for if it were affected
with rabies, death would come in
five days. It would not be necessary
to administer to the persons attack
ed any Pasteur treatment within that
length of time.
Tuesday night the animal freed
itself from Its fastening and at the
corner of Senate and Barnwell street
attacked Mr. Seats as he was on
his way to supper. The dog struck
him in the chest without warning,
and as Mr. Seats fell back from the
impact, the dog fastened its teeth
in his left arm just above the elbow.
He went at once to Dr. T.. M. Du
Bose and had the wound cauterized.
Dr. Coward stated that even should'
the animal be caught and found to"
be rabid, he has at the laboratory
enough virus to treat all the persons
who have been attacked.
Quail is a white seter, female,
with liver colored spots. Every
patrolman in the idty was given her
description and Sergt Sloan saw her
at the corner of Main and Gervais
streets at 1 o'clock in the morning.
He fired one time and is satisfied
that he wounded the dog. All per
sons In the city are advised if such
a dog is killed to notify at once the
police station or Dr. A. F. Coward
so that the brain may be tested.
There was another rabid dog run
ning amuck Wednesday and created
much excitement on Main and As
sembly streets in the section from
Washington street to the postofflce.
Two officers were needed to kill it,
jthe animal refusing to dfie after
being shot and severely beaten about
the head by the first officer, who
essayed to dispatch it. The animal
Jommenced its last run on Assem
bly street and after attacking an
other dog, it was seen to be clearly
out of its sense.
Policeman Dreher therefore shot
It and when the animal fell, ho ad
vanced and after beating it vigor
ously with bis club left it for dead.
The dog recovered in a few moments
and ran into Main street, creating
much excitement on this thorough
fare until Policeman Sligh was en
countered In front of Monckton's
and the shot fired that ended its
existance.
LAYING UP TREASURE.
The Noble Gift of a Lady to the
Hnniter Poor.
We fully agree with the Sumter
Item that of all the bequests for
charitable and other purposes enu
merated in the will of Mrs. Ella
Tuomey, none showed a tiner spirit
or a kinder, tender thougbtfulness
for her needy fallow creatures than
that to provide Christmas cheer for
the poor of Sumter. The income
from the $3,000 left in trust to the
city council to be expended at Christ
mas each year for the relief uf the
poor of Sumter will brighten tho
lives of thousands and bring to them
a portion of the Christmas spirit of
which they would be destitute other
wise. There is in this gift of Mrs.
Tuomey something that appeals to
the humanity that is in as with pe
culiar force, and we feel that it is
the greatest and best of her bene
factions. In that for decade? and de
r.des to come it will bring glad
ness and joy to numberless hearts
! s?t the season of the year that the
j poor and the children of the poor
I ffol most bitterly the panes of pov
I ertv. if Mrs. Tuomey had done
I nothing else for charity, this
j thoughtful remembrance of the poor
I at Christmas time is sufficient to
' place her name on the roll of thorj
who had thought for the children
of the peor.