SUICIDE GERM.
Several Cities Said to be Infected
With It
FIFTY ONE SUICIDES
In the Little Town of Huntington
West Virginiu, Whose People DorruM?
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fully Struggle Against the Dreadful
Infection, and Kill Themselves.
Huntington, W. Va,, is a place
which appears to be hopelessly infested
with the dreadful suicide
germ, just as other localities are so
thoroughly saturated with tuberculosis
germs that even the healthiest
persons are likely to be attacked.
Persons have declared that they felt
the suicide sense upon them and were
unable to struggle against it.
Huntington is a modern town named
after the late C, P. Huntington
and was incorporated in 1871. It is a
busy, financial prosperous place, but
some deadly influence has fallen upon
the minds and hearts of its inhabitants,
causing them to take their lives
with such frequency that Huntington
has come to be known
throughout the State as "the Suicide
City.
The suicide habit has prevailed and
increased since the city's birth, but
this year it has grown to a terrifying
climax. Fifty-one suicides have occurred
during the present year in
this city of less than 20,(X)0 people.
A large proportion of the suicides
took their lives by the agonizing
agency of carbolic acid. The only
thing to recommend this poison is
that it is easy to obtain, but as there
are several comparatively painless
forms of death available to everybody.
it seems as if the intending
suicide prefcred to suffer in dying.
Many i>ersons chose fantastic methods
of suicide, William Barnes, a
wealthy merchant, with calm deliberation
placed the sharp point of a
pair of scissors directly over his
heart and with a four-pound iron
weight drove them through that vital
organ.
John Hagerman dashed himself to
death from a five-story building because
an engagement to call on his
sweetheart had been postponed by
her for twenty-four hours.
William Calking almost severed his
head from his body with a sazor because
of some trilling financial loss.
The suicide of a colored woman
^ because her lover, a chef in one of
the hotels, weighed something like
400 pounds and had failed to wear a
dress suit on a certain occasion,
makes even death grotesque.
One of the saddest and strangest
cases in the list was that of William
Weber, a wealthy contractor, who
_ built the United States Government
Building at Huntington. Mr. Weber
and his wife made their home in
Huntington while the building was
in process of erection. About the
time it was nearly completed Mrs.
Weber, a delicate, refined and pretty
woman and a favorite in society was
heard to declare that the suicide
mania was upon her. Shortly afterward
she went to visit friends in
Texas, and the next day after her arrival
there committed suicide by
drowning herself in the Neches River.
Husband in Huntington upon
hearing of her death, killed himself.
Among the latest instances was
that of beautiful Dora Spears and
her stalwart lover, Samuel Montrose
Rittenhour. The youth had gone to
a neighboring city on a brief business
trip and through some inadvertence
failed one day to write to his
sweetheart. When he returned two
days later, it was to look upon her
britiy, destroyed by her own hand,
and waiting him a note read "If for
one day your love has failed, life's
bright light has perished, and so,
good night, sweetheart." The lover
only waited till she was luiried and
then died at the grave by taking carbolic
acid.
lizzie vance, a girl in her teens,
apparently without cause of trouble,
drank carbolic acid. She died.
William Adkins, a youth, scolded
by his parents for not attending
school, shot himself dead.
Julia Ward, married two months,
believed her husband unfaithful and
took carbolic acid. She died.
Rena Clark, twenty?without any
known reasou, ended her life by taking
an overdose of morphine.
Ella Jordan, seventeen, had a
quarrel with her sweethcu. I. Che
arank carbolic acid and died.
Bessie Bonnett. a beautiful girl of
eighteen years, the only support of
her aged mother, became weary over
the cares of life and committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid in a
dry goods store, in which she was
employed as a clerk.
Tilly Williams, a pretty girl, still
in ner teens, una ner mother that
life held no charms for her and, going
upstairs, was found an hour laI
ter a corpse.
^ Margaret Chadwick, was another
young girl who drank carbolic acid
and died.
^^k Mary Swanson, worried because
of the sudden departure of her sweet
^heart for another city, slash ed her
^^^Hhroat with a razor and killed her^^^^klf.
She was eighteen years of age.
^^^^ ffolly Swisher, for a similar reaended
her life. She was twentyH
Bkrgie Swisher, despondent
wedding day had been post^^^^^^^^hot
herself.
Walker, for no known rea
life; like many of the
drank carbolic acid.
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^^^^^^^^^Bhoart, and death was inwas
forty. No
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Susie Creraans quarrelled with her
lover late in the- evening, and the
next morning was found dead in her
room, having taken carbolic acid.
Stella De Volt committed Buicide
over a love affair. She was twentyfour,
and, like so many others, used
carbolic acid.
Lillian Mabley. because of a quarrel
with her lover, drank laudanum
and died,
Susie Stealy poisoned herself for
no known reason.
John Davis, a railroad man who
knew that he would have to bear the
responsibility of a railroad wreck,
shot himself and death quickly followed.
Frank Stovers, because his sweet
heart attended church with another,
ended life by shooting himself.
Jacob Hatten, a young commission
man, brooding over a downward
tendency in the market, fired a bullet
through his brain.
Reese Craigman cut his throat
while intoxicated. He lived a f w
hours only.
Fred Shannon, a youth of nineteen,
was another victim of carbolic
acid.
Frank Sullivan, fifty-two supposedly
because of failing health, drank a
poisdnous drug and died.
Howard Shober was another who
ended his life without any apparent
reason. He drank poison.
John Galleher leaped from the
wharf boat into the Ohio River and
ended his life.
Harry A. Gibson ended his existence
by firing a bullet through his
heart.
C. R. Barnett, worried over illness,
drank carbolic acid and in an hour
was dead.
William Simms, brooding over
financial trouble, sent a bullet
through his brain.
Jenk Barrett, disappointed in love,
ended his life with a pistol.
William White, failing in health,
ended his life. He used carbolic
acid.
Edward C. Christian, forty, wealthy,
apparently happy, ended his life
with carbolic acid.
Sanford Ferguson, twenty-eight,
quarrelled with his sweetheart and
then leaped down a flight of stairs.
He broke his neck.
French Barton shot himself dead.
Samuel Pinson, an aged man, living
at Le Sage, a suburb, was found
early one morning hanging to an apple
tree in his yard; his life was extinct.
He had been weak, mentally,
for some time, and during the night
had evaded the guard and self-destruction
followed.
Others in this city who have ended
their lives in the past few months
by drinking poison, are Milly Trent,
Harry Schenk, Isabel Helton. Claudius
Bronson, Mabel Stiles, Kyle Blosser
and Henry Workman.
Out of this list of suicides, there
was but one colored person. The
craze of self-destruction continues,
and Huntington is known as the suicide
city throughout the State.
An even more tragic outbread of
the suicide epidemic occurren at Des
Moines, la., because there the victims
were all girls in fortunate circumstances,
surrounded by loving
families and having apparently everything
to live for.
A great series of tragedies revealed
the existence of a suicide club among
the most highly educated and socially
prominent girls of Des Moines,
la., and the vicinity.
Eight of them committed suicide
in various places at 8 o'clock in the
mornimr nreciselv. evidentlv n nrr?
arranged hour, and many made determined
attempts at self destruo
tion which through some accident
were unsuccessful.
Miss Phoebe Rroell, aged twentytwo,
was found dead in her room by
her father. Miss Kate Farrell, aged
twenty, who had been at home ill,
died in the same way. The poison
had been sent to her by another
girl.
Mrs. Lily Milburn, aged eighteen,
took poison because it is said her
parents had coerced her into marrying.
Miss Elizabeth Fletcher, also
aged eighteen, swallowed carbolic
acid, but was revived before the
poison could kill. She expressed
bitter regret at the rescue.
Miss Lida Golden took carbolic
acid and died immediately. At the
same hour Miss Kate Kessler killed
herself with the same poison. An
noyance over a lawsuit in which she
was charged by relatives with exercising
undue influence over an uncle,
was mentioned as a reason for her
act, but it was ridiculously inadequate.
Miss Belle Wilson rose from the
family breakfast table with the remark
that she could never lead a
good enough life, went to her room
and killed herself with the dreadful
acid. Miss Hannah Tomlinson. having
remarked that life was a hideous
failure, killed herself with the same
fluid.
Proof that these tragedies were
the icsult of a compact was found
ir. the following letter, written by
Miss Kate Farrell:
"To Dear One?I am dying. I belong
to a club. Miss is president.
We all of us take poison together.
Good-by. "Katk Farrell."
The name of the president had
been written and then scratched out
so thoroughly that no clue to this
woman's identity can be obtained.
It has been found extremely difficult
to obtain any details concerning
the orginization which resulted in
these tragedies. Many members of
it are now dead, those who failed to
carry out their suicidal attempts
oro nnuri 11 ??-* 1
u.v uimiiiiHK w ifvi-w ttiiyimiiK ana
those who may now be bound by
oath to kill themselves are silent.
Nearly all of the dead girls were
graduates of the State Normal School
or of the Iowa State University. From
an admission of Mrs. Lily Milburn,
it appears that the suicide club was
formed at the last Summer session i
of the State Normal School. It was
comDOSed of unhannv nnH
ton ted girls who had some cause of i
dissatisfaction with life which, howaver,
would appear utterly ridicu- 1
lous to a normal person. Officers 1
vere elected whose names are un- 1
tnown, and it was agreed that all the 1
nembers should kill themselves at a j
?rtain time in obedience to a decis- s
on of the whole club. \
The suicidal mania is almost entire- a
CONTEST DECIDED.
Names of Winners of Corn Contest
in State Announced.
Some Difficulty in Arriving at Decision
but Results Finally Determined.
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The South Carolina commission
appointed to judge the result of the
corn contest in this State announced
its decision Friday. The commission
was appointed last year after
a special appropriation had been
made by the general assembly for
the contest in this State, there being
a national contest also on hand,
which, by the way resulted in the
prize coming to this State.
The following statement was is
sued by the commission:
"The commission has had some
difficulty in arriving at what they
considered a just and proper distribution
of the prizes in accordance
with the announcement originally
made on the national contest on the
one hand and on the part of the
State commission on the other. However,
after thoroughly canvassing
the situation and going over all of
the data in connection with the connection
wjth the contest the commission
has determimed to award
the general prizes as follows:
"First Prize?A, J. Tindal, Manning,
$200.
"Siecond Prize?B. E. Moore, Bennettsville,
$100.
"Third Prize?T. C. Willoughby,
Florence, $50.
"Fourth Prize?W. B. Chitty,
Olar, $25.
"The above prizes are for general
results, including yield and all
other points going to make up the
total score.
"For the best work of any competitor
on the one acre of corn,
which, of course, includes the methods
of culture, the scoring has resulted
in the awarding of the folowing
prizes.
"First Prize?A. J. Tindal, Manning,
$50.
"Second Prize?B. E. Moore, Bennettsvilie,
$20.
"Third prize, divided between T.
C. Willoughby of Florence County
and J. B. Moss of Orangeburg county($10
each) $20.
"Fourth Prize?W. B. Chitty,
Olar, $10.
"In addition to the prizes the
commission has determined to award
two prizes to school children, there
having been only two entries in this
portion of the contest. The commission
has provided $25 for these
two prszes. These names will be
announced in a few days.
"In view of the above announcements
the final awards, therefore,
by the commission cover the $500
appropriated by the State for the
purpose are as follows:
"A. J. Tindal $250,, B. E. Moore
$120, T. C, Willoughby $60, W. B.
Chitty $35, J. B. Moss. $10 school
children $25.
"Mr. Tindal, as will be seen, as a
reward for his efforts and success
in placing South Carolina at the head
of the columns of the United States
for yield per acre, has beeu awarded
by the commsision one-half of
the prize money allowed by the State.
"In view of the fire which destroyed
the entire plant of The American
Agriculturist, the national contest,
which was to have been continued
over a period of five years, has been
abandoned for the year 1907 with
announcement that the five years'
period will be resumed with the season
of 1908.
"At the last session of the ceneral
assembly provision was made for
$500 in prizes for the State contest
this year to be participated in by
South Carolina farmers entered in
the national contest. In view of
of the fact that the national contest
is not running this year the comp
i i i J ii?a *i
li unci general noma trial tnis money
is not available for the State contest
under the terms of the treasury.
Consequently there will be no State
prizes offered this year. The correspondence
between the comptroller
general and myself will be made
public later so that the matter
can be thoroughly understood."
Commissioner Watson, who is the
chairman of the commission, will at
once forward to the winners of the
contest their warrant for the
several amounts due them in accordance
with the awards as announced.
No one ever dscovereil a saint by
looking in a mirror.
Give some men bread to-day and
they will expect pie tomorrow.
About all that some men are good
for is to i>ose as horrible examples.
Patience is a slow-going virtue,
but those who have it win iii a walk.
We would never suspect how good
some people are if they didn't tell
us.
ly confined to the class of collegebred
and highly cultured girls. They
are infected by a common despondency,
and a sense of the useless
ness 01 existence and of all effort.
This condition of mind is infectious
in a certain sense, as science has indicated,
and when a person suffering
from it is surrouded by others of
the same mind it becomes almost impossible
to jscape from the tendency
to self-destruction,
It is to be feared that many girls
of the well-to-do classes in Des
Moines and in Iowa generally are
afflicted by this dreadful mania.
Consequently their parents are in a
cruel state of anxiety, not knowing
at what moment their children may
end their lives. ,
No sooner was the epidemic
among the girls made known than
the men beiran to kill thpmw>ivn? in
Des Moines. Edward Surak, aged
twenty-four, hanged himself in the
laymow on his farm near the city. 1
Henry Saunders, the father of a 1
family of four, swallowed Paris ,
?reen. George Ruth hanged himlelf.
Charles Keehold mortgaged
lis body for $25 and then shot him- i
elf. 1
WHISKEY SOLD |
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During the Month of May by
County Dispensaries.
QUARTERLY REPORT.
Dispensary Auditor West Compiles
Statement Showing Sales for May
and for the First Quarter.?New
System Ilecidcdly More Profitable.
Sales Will Go Over Two Million '
Dollars in the State for the Year.
A special' from Columbia to The
News and Courier says Mr. \V. 13.
West, dispensary auditor, has compiled
a statement showing the sales
of the county dispensaries for the
month of May and also for the three
months since the county dlepeusar>
system has been in operation. The
statements made shows that over
$200,000 worth of whiskey has been
sold through the dispensaries in that
month, which will mean at this rate
the sale of about $2,500,000 of whiskey
through the dispensaries in one
year. Uuder the old dispensary system
a business of about two million
dollars per year was done, but since
that time several counties have gone
dry. The figures on file in Mr. West's
office and the statements published
and sworn to by the county boards,
however, show that the profits under
the new system, even with the small
number of dispensaries, will bo larger
than the profits of the old system.
The statement for May is as follows:
Sales in May.
Total gross sales of the dispensaries
of South Carolina for the month
of May, 1907:
Abbeville County.
Total $ 7,131.60
Aiken County.
Aiken, No. 1 $ 4,693.45
Aiken^No. 2 657.35
Aiken, No. 3 887.35
Aiken, No. 5 970.88
Sally, April 952.91
Sully, May 1,954.20
Total $ 9,163.23
Berkeley County.
Eutawville $ 1,003.50
Holly Hill 675.20
St. Stephens 772.20
Monck's Corner 687.90
Total $ 3,888.80
Beaufort County.
Port Royal $ 777.80
IlAOnf/^ei " "
d,D0?.?0
Yemassee 1,080.79
Rid gel and 601.00
UlufTton 564.45
Total $ 6,584.59
Barnwell County. (
Allendale * 1.979.15
Barnwell 2,512*20
Blackvllle 1,846.85 i
Fairfax 1,038.201
Sycamore 292,70
VVilliston 1,076.85
Snelling's 198.85
Total $ 8,94 4.SO
Bamberg County.
Bamberg $ 2,185.98
Denmark 1,244.8J
Olar 78 4.5r.
Ehrkardtt ^ 830.0T?
Total $ 5,145.4)
Clarendon County.
Manning v - . 3,304.40
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vuuoicr VAJUUiy.
Chester $ 7,411.00
Chesterfield County.
Chesterfield $ 1.966.J.0
Cheraw 5,121.15
Total $ 7.088.25
Colleton County.
Walterboro $ 2,073.15
Jacksonhoro 1,200.69
Dodge 510.(55
Total $ 3,793.30
Dorchester County.
Summerville $ 2,513.47
St. George's 1,47-5.10
Itldgeville. 473.69
Total $ 1,462.26
Florence County.
Florence % 7,269.45
Tinimonsville 2,429.65
Total $ 9,699.10
Fairfield County.
Winnsboro $ 2,825.22
Rldgeway 1,647.00
Total .. .. $ 4,472.22
Georgetown County.
"Beer" $ 2,581.7".
Georgetown 1 0,035.6,".
Total $12,017.41'
Hampton County.
Hampton $ 1,066.3,'.
Varnville SI7.se
Hrunson 082.05
Luray 726.to
Scotia 687.05
Total $ 4,256.55
Kershaw County.
Bethnne.L $ 1.3(5*. s:i
Camden. 3,857. l*>
Total . . . . $ 7,222.4 8
Lexington County.
Lexington. No. 1 $ 1,908.95
Gilbert, No. 2 665.90
Poak, No. 3 774.95 ]
Total $ 3,339.80 ,
Lee County. ]
Bishopvllle $ 4,131.37 [
Laurens County.
Laurens, No. 1 I 8,0'jS.lt;
Laurens, No. 2 1.071.00
Total. . . .: ? . . . . . . 8 9,166.16 -]
Orangeburg County.
Fort Motte % 862 18 g
Uranchvillo. . . ? u > ? .. 1,393.20 g
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wijt* y
Orangeburg, No. 2.. 963,15
Utrlngafon.. .. ? 786.50
'M. Matthews 2.326.50
brtBgelHirg, No. 1 6.467.35
t^tal. . y .. 513,099.38
% Richland County.
309 Main street 8 7,173.25
>fM2 Assembly street 4,287.70
" BP1 Assembly street . . 4,747.00
eIK3 Miun street.., .. . 5,539.15
x^RGerrals street.;. .. 5,911.15
V-^Siain street.., .. 5,327.95
1,1:9 Washington street. . 2,3 61.05
Lady street 2.964,80
Gervals street tvB4l.6f>
40b Main street. ^,972.75
Taylor street. 2,307.65
1,117 Blandlng street. . . . 813.50
Total $45,947.60
Sumter County.
Sumt'i", No. 1 $ 3,932.12
Sumter. No. 2 1,607.55
Mayeiville, No. 3 > 1,117.45
Total v.$11,657.12
Williamsburg County.
Kingdree... -. . . $ 2,389.20
Soraiton. 557.46
Lake City 2,303.25
Total $ 5,249.91
Charleston County.
Tota... . $15,069.91
Gra>d Total $212,04 6.72
Sales for Three Months.
The statement for three months is
as ?>llows:
T?tal gross sales of the dispensaries
of South Carolina for the
moithB of March, April uud May,
1907:
* Abbeville County.
Total $ 19,506.85
Aiken County.
Alteu, No. 1 $ 16,840.30
Alien. No. 2 2,008.84
Alien, No: 3 1.590.38
Sa.?ey, No. 4 2,4 82.20
Wegener, No. 5 3,089.93
To al . . $ 26,011.05
llamberg County.
Denmark 3.4 00.4 9
JlNuberg 5.559.71
Oltr 2.236.00
.Ehrhardt 2.2S9.55
Tot. ill $ 13,485.75
Uurnwell County.
Alendule 3,821.05
lUrnwell 5,900.86
Hackville 4,263.00
Fairfax 3,169*0
S.'camore 7 4 5.75
\Yillfstou 2,706.70
Snelllng8 198.85
Total $ 20,895.81
Beau fort County.
I'ort Royal $ 1.4 07.02Beaufort
5,^5-2.3 5
{eniassee 1/841.79
Rid gel and.. .. .. . . 1,220.85
31utTton 1,121.45
Total $ 11,443.46
Berkeley County.
Eutuwville $ 1,003.50
Holly Hill 675.20
St. Stephen's 772.20
j Moucks Corner 637.90
Total 3,088.80
Clarendon County.
Manning $ 11,022.75
Total % 11,022.75
Chester County.
Chester $ 22,218.38
Total % 22,218.38
Chesterfield County.
Cheraw $ 11,944.45
Chesterfield 3,97 4.80
Total $ 15,919.25
Colleton County.
Walter born $ 5,251.85
Jack son boro 3,774.14
Lodge 1,287.35
Total $ 10,313.14
Dorchester County.
Stimmerville % 7,534.95
St. George 4,703.40
Ridgevllle 1,311.69
Total S 13,550.0 4
Florence County.
Florence $ 19,341.25
Timmonsville 7,087.45
Total $ 26,428.70
Fairfield Pfinnlv
Winnsboro $ 7.7G0.46
Rldgeway 4,236.56
Total $ 11,997.02
Georgetown County.
Georgetown, No. 1 .. ..$ 28,470.75
Georgetown, beer, No.2.. 4,375.85
Total $ 32,846.00
Hampton County.
Hampton $ 1,669.25
Varnville 1,044.55
Brunson 1,390.35
Luray 1,026.65
Scotrb 787.15
Total $ 5,914.95
Kershaw County.
Camden $ 19,100.45
Bethuuc 4,412.88
1'otal $ 23,513.33
Laurens County.
Laurens, No.l $ 18,608.91
Laurens, No. 2, beer.. .. 1,841.00
Total $ 20,449.97
Lee County.
Bishopville $ 10,661.08
Total.*. $ 10,661.08 '
Lexington County.
Lexington, No. 1 $ 4,112.00 1
Gilbert. No. 2 1,796.15
Peak. No. 3 1,838.60
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Total $ 7,746.75 1
Orangeburg County. <
Port Motte $ 2,416.62 I
Hranchvlllc 5,823.45 <
Orangeburg, No. 2 . . . . 2,021.58 1
Mvingston 2,630.24 1
4t. Matthews 8,237.64
Orangeburg, No. 1 .. .. 21,074.84 1
fOlloree 3,611.34 (
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Total $ 45,765.71
Richland County.
Total, all dispensaries ..$127,480.90 ^
Sumter County
lumter. No. 1 $ 28,808.60 '
lumter, No. 2 3,449,10 *
PREACHER COW^H
After He Received
gation With
Enra|ed
Him
Neoer to
Rev. Frank Hawle^T*^01" of the
most prominent Church and one of
the mini6c*o> or rtilton Ky., was
horsewhipped by W. W. Meadows a
leading capitalists and foremost citizens
of that city, and lifter being
flogged until he was prostrated, was
sent from the city under threats of
death should he return.
' The shocking affair, which has created
the most profound sensation in
the history of Fulton, is an after
math to the suit for divorce filed by
Mrs. Meadows, a few days ago, her
allegations of cruelty and aversion
on the part of her husband being
generally construed as being a direct
result of her much-talked of association
with young Hawley.
The Rev. Mr. Hawley went to Fulton
some two years ago from Charlotte,
N. C., and becoming at once a
most popular member of society
through his attractive personality,
was accepted as a welcome factor in
religious work of all kinds. No
breath of gossip was associated with
his name until the denouement of a
fortnight ago when Meadows publicly
denounced him in the Meadow's
hotel as a wrecker of his. Meadow's,
home, and ordered him from his
hostelry and forbade him his roof.
The suit for divorce by Mrs. Meadows
followed at once and Hawley
left town.
When it became known Monday
that the preacher would return home
on the midnight train Meadows together
with a few of his friends, all
most prominent citizens of the city
quietly met the train, overtook Hawley
as he stepped from the station
platform, and. securinc- his wrists
with handcuffs, led him to a vacant
lot near the depot, where he Was
stripped.
With three buggy whips he was
(logged, but despite the terrible agony
he uttered no* whimper of pain,
but again and again declared his entire
innpcfence of any harm. With
tears streaming down his cheeks,
Meadows applied the lash and upbraided
the minister bitterly but the
latter displayed the most calm nerve,
and told his tormentor that though
he blamed him not for his actions,
he was committing a terrible mistake.
The tragic ordeal over, Hawley
was placed in a carriage and driven
to Pierce, Tenn., three miles from
the city, and there he was placed on
an outgoing passenger train. He was
made to swear that he would never
return to Fulton. The statement of
Meadows was issued in The Daily
Leader, and in his statement. he
pleaded justification of his act, on
grounds of the unwritten law. No
arrests have followed.
Frank Morton Hawley is of fine
family, and an earnest young minister.
Much sympathy is accorded him.
and Meadows' act was construed by
many to be hasty. Nothing has ever
in the history of the little city caused
such a shock to society as the whipping.
The affair is on every tongue
there-today."
A woman always likes to have the
telephone ling when she has company.
Mayesvllle, No. 3 3,556.77
Total $ 35,814.47
Williamsburg County.
Kingstree $ 3.550.58
Lake City 3,034.55
Scran ton 010.40
Total $ 7,504.59
Charleston County.
Cnarleston, No. 2 $ 4,474.00
Charleston, No. 3 4,727.75
Charleston, No. 4 5,132.25
Charleston, No. 5 5,171.75
Charleston, No. 7 3,.>90.95
Charleston, No. 8 2,720.90
Charleston, No. 9 5,589.60
Charleston, No. 10 .. .. 4,304.20
Charleston, No. 1 1 .. .. 4,477.44
Charleston, No. 1 7 .. .. 4,843.55
Charleston, No. 18 .. .. 4,529.60
Total $ 49,567.99
Total (for State).. ..$573,147.95
J. H.
I HOST TI.MH TO <iKT W KIX.
%ii i?..: " ? ' -*
in iiisiim \ ilil IM' I >11V (II (Hit Or
tin- System Now.
flight, now is the best season of
the year to get rid of the blood, liver
and kidney affections that, have been
troubling you. You need building
up in order to stand the strain of
the hot weather of summer. l.et
Rheumatism, Sciatica, Gout Catarrh,
Indigestion or Constipation run
through these months and they become
chronic, and hang on for years.
A regular course of llheumucide
taken at the present time will thoroughly
cleanse the blood, tone up the
stomach, set the liver and kidneys to
doing their normal work again, and
will build up the entire system.
While it is the most wonderful
blood purifier, in the world, yet Illiemacide
is a purely vegetable preparation
that operates through entirely
natural methods. It has been tested
In the delicate stomach of a baby i
without the slightest harhr.
Better get a bottle today and start
to get well. Rheuinaclde has cured i
hundreds of stubborn cases after all
itlier remedies, noted physicians and
even the great Johns Hopkins llos- <
[>ital have failed. Hhoiimacidc lias 1
aured thousands of cases and we J
>elieve it will cure you. Your drug
;lsts sells it. J
Rhctimacide "gets at joints front (
he inside" and "makes you well all *
>ver." '
A Catalog
o mv of our customers for the ask in
;>lumbng or hardware business, and
?age catalogue which will he found vt
trices on anything In the supply line.
Columbia Supply c
^^^Honerh killed.
in Pennsylvaniit
Mine.
Wk\ were killed outright
^^^^^Kners seriously injured in
^^^H^osicns of mine gas in the
No. 1 mine at Briceburg
T on Wednesday. The explosion
Bus caused by the carelessness of &
WAfti* frnn^ni* wU/\ V*?? - J
?.w> uvuuvi, miu, uy leaving CI uuor
open, allowed gas to accumulate in
the workings.
One man was injured as a result of
this explosion. The second explosion,
which resulted in the death of seven
men and the injury of another resulted
from the ignition of the deadly
fire damp which accumulated after
the first explosion.
Of the eight men who were working
in the main gangway at the time
of the second explosion, seven were
instantly killed, One man is so bad ly
mangled, it is impossible to identify
the body.
News of the explosion spread rapidly
through the village of Pittsburg,
a mining hamlet just north of
Scranton, and hundreds of wives,
chrildren and other relatives of those
who are employed in the mine hurried
to the scene.
So badly disfigured were the remains
of those who were killed that
identification nt- thr. fir*.*. ? >? ?
?iiv iuuc niu iiM|niasiblc,
and the wildest excitement
prevailed. Harsh measures had to
t>e pursued by the mine officials to
keep the crowds back and hundreds
followed the ambulance to undertaking:
establishments.
About 1.500 men work in the mine,
but as no account was kept by those
who had come out before the explosion
occurred, it is impossible to determine
until the rescuing party returns
if the death list is complete.
SULPHUR BRINGS HEALTH.
Purities tlic Blood and Clears up the
Complex ion.
All of us need to take Sulphur at ^
this season. Nothing like it to purify
the blood, clear up the complexion
and remove "that tired feeling." But
the only way to take it is in liquid
form. HANCOCKS LIQUID SULPHUR
taken internally is the best
Spring tonic. Applied externally
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur quickly
cures Eczema. Tetter, and all Skin
Diseases. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur
Ointment, removes Pimples, Blackheads
and Sores, and gives a beautiful
soft, velvety skin. Your druggist
sells it. It cured Edward W. Herring,
of Frederick, Md., of n had case
of Eczema, and he writes: "My face
is as smooth as an infants."
AU-ahouL-Sulphur booklet free. If
you write llancock Liquid Sulphur
Co., Baltimore.
Wise ami Otherwise."
A dollar sign is the uiost popular
trade mark.
Those people who are too good to
live are all dead.
It isn't always the cheerful man
who does the most cheering.
If t wasn't for the mistakes thoy
make some men would never bo
heard of.
Many a woman's new store teeth
are responsible for the stnilo that
won't come off.
Many of our fond hopes arc inflated
with hot air.
Why yon should
consult
a specialist
BY
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for obvious retsons and ho was a wise
man.
Hut it is not necessary for you to
remove to the oitv to receive intelligent
treatment for chronic or nervous
disorders, by a capable, experienced
s ecialist in those deep^ Boated
troubles of long standiuf, that so often
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Our long experience of upwards of
twente years enables us to diagnose
correctly, and cure, where other physicians,
less experienced, have triated
the case, without success, foi an entirely
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I invite all sufferers from deep seated,
long standing troubles of Heart,
Head, 1 tings, Stomach, Bowels, Nerves,
< r diteases peculiar to either sex,
. a lanu learn wnat wo have
d?no for others himilnrly afilcted, and
what we can do for them.
There is no cha-ge for this consults^
tion, and it is worth your time and effort
whether you decide to begin treatment
or r.ot.
it is I r cheaper to write to a competent
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