THE FORT MILL TIMES.
10TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908 NO. 50
TIED UP FAST.
. The Governor Warns Banks Not
to Pay Out the
DISPENSARY FUNDS.
- ! -
Notifies the l>ciH>?ltoriea of the Fund
Not to Honor Check* Without Production
of Collateral and Without
Chock* Iloiiig Signed by the State
Treasurer and the Commission
Chairman.
The banks holding deposits of the
State dispensary money have been
officially notified l?v the Governor
that these funds must not be paid
to any one without the nrnner nrn
duction of the collateral and without
thcc heck being signed by the chairman
of the com mission and t he-State
Treasurer. Inasmuch as the collaterals
are all in the office of the
State Treasurer, it is not likely that
the bnnks will care to violate the Instructions
of the Governor, although
the banks are also under injunction
from Judge Pritchard not to pay out
this money except by order of his
Court. At any rate, the banks appear
to be sure of keeping the money,
whatever view the take of the question
of State's rights or Federal jurisdiction.
,
The banks notified arc the following:
National l.onn and Exchange Bank,
Columbia, S. C.
Palmetto National Bnnlt. Columbia.
S. C.
The State llnnk, Columbia. S. C.
Bank of Charleston. Charleston,
6. C.
People's Loan and Exchunge
Bank, Laurens. S. C.
Bank of Orangeburg. Orangeburg,
S. C.
National Exchange Bank. Cliar'eston,
S. C.
Bank of Aiken. Aiken. S. C.
Commercial Bank, Camden, S. C.
People's Savings Bank, Abbeville,
S. C.
i no uanK or Dillon, Dillon, S. C. |
The Enterprise Bank, Charleston, 1
S. C.
Merchants' and Planters' Bunk, I
Gaffney, S. C.
Farmers and Merchants Bank,
Anderson. S. C.
Merchants and Farmers Bank,
Cheraw, S. C.
Farmers and Merchants Bunk,
Walterboro, S. C.
Commercial and Savings Bank,
1' lorence, S. C.
Bank of Hartsville, Hartsvllle, S. i
C.
Peoples Bank. Union, S. C.
Bank of Tlmmonsville, Tlmmonsville,
S. C.
City National Bank, Greenville, S.
C.
The Greenville Savings Trust Company,
Greenville, S. C.
The Lexington Savings Bank, Lexington,
S. C.
Peoples National Bank. Charleston,
S. C.
The Peoples Bank. Greenville. S.
C.
The Norwood National Bank,
Greenville, S. C.
The Bank of Camden, Camden, S.
C.
Merchants and Farmers Bank,
Spartanburg. S. C.
T.-M Vnttnn.,1 II.... 1- C* ?
not .ni I.UMUU Wdiin , ojm i i <111 uu I ^ ,
s. c.
Central National bank, Spartanburg,
S. C.
Meanwhile (he banks having (he
money on deposit have all been serv- ,
ed with an ( ier from Judge J'rlt- !
chard not to y out any dispensan 1
-money except ? i the order of tin
Federal Court. The funds scent i< i
be most seen rely tied up.
Governor Ansel also sent a lettci
to all the county dispensary boards
stating that some of them owe (ha
State dispensary commission for liquors
purchased out of the stork of j
the old State dispensary and notifying
them that these amounts must
not he paid except when called for
by the commission, and that the
cheeks must he mado payable to the
State of South Curolina and to no
one else? further, that under no circumstances
must these amounts he
paid to any receiver appointed by any 1
Court. ,
DON'T WANT TAFT.
A I.nbor l.ender Says His t'nion Will
Xot Support Him.
At Omaha, Neb., on WednesJay<
in tin* Republican Stnto t'onvontioil
the Second and Sixth Districts endorsed
Taft. "Tony" Donohue, a local
labor union lender, who was a
delegate to the second circuit district
convention, protested ngainst
the endorsement of Taft, saving he
wanted to put the union labor of
Omaha on record as opposed to him,
and added thnt If Taft was nominated
they would not support the ticket.-'
Delegates 1'unfttructed.
Pennsylvania's delegation will go
to the I>enver convention uninstructed."
was the 1 intod remark mnde by
Colonel James M. GufTey, Democratic
leader.
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Ajg. rfcfi i v ? ;
! ANOTHER VICTIM
ANOTHER HIGH FINANCIER DIES
SUDDENLY.
This Make a Total 01 Nineteen Persons
Who Hare Died as a Result
of the Recent Panic.
The death of John G. Jenkins, Sr.,
In New York, on Friday, makes a
total of nineteen persons who have
died, a maqority of them by their
OWn hanrta nu o ~ ?*
?t AVtOUIl Ul iue 1 CtTIll
financial troubles. A complete list
of the victims follows:
November 13. 1907?Nathan Westhelmer,
retired financier, sustaining
heavy losses; suicide.
November 14?Charles T. Barney,
deposed bank president: suicide.
November 15??L. N. Underwood,
Columbia professor, driven insane by
reverses, killed himself.
November 13?Nicholas M. Smith,
and Mrs. Smith, New Rochelle,
J "Man of Mystery." Smith lost all
l and was killed by his wife, who then
'committed suicide and burned her
1 home.
| November 24?Mrs. S. T. Bon'
ham. worried herself to death over
Ithe ruin of her husband, which was
I claimed to be due to the Jenkins
! failure.
November 25?Louis Straus, mine
i broker, plucked clean by the panic,
icaught in forgery, drinks poison.
November 26?Howard Maxwell,
j bank president, indicted, out on ball;
I co pun It ted suicide.
November 26?Valentine Haydnhl,
I caught in Knickerbocker Trust comI
pany crash; suicide.
November 30?George Frultman,
I diamond polisher, funds in the Borough
Bank; mortgage due; suicide.
December 5?Clara Bloodgood, actress.
funds tied up: suicide.
December 14?Worth Dallace, retired
millionaire, 75 years old. loans
tied uu: suicide.
December 2f>?Ernest Steadmnn,
lawyer and real estate man, lost all
in panic; dead in subway.
January 1, 1908?Archibald Mitchell.
young prodigal; money gone;
ends life by gas.
January 9?Charles Wadsworth
Whitney, Vanderbllt broker, worrying
over financial troubles, ended life
with bullet.
February 8?E. C. Brooks, once
wealthy speculator; lost his last penny
and committed suicide on floor
of Produce exchange.
February 21?Col. Eugene \V.
Guindon, president of the Fuller Express
company nnd Civil War veteran;
worried greatly over business
troubles and shot himself in ofllce.
February 18?Harry Rosenburg,
wealthy pawn broker, lost his savings
in bank; suicide in subway.
March 12?John fl. Jenkins. Sr.,
indicted banker; ill for several
weeks, died at his home; apoplexy
given as cause. *
TESTIMONY GIVER OCT.
Suppressed Dispensary Matter Made
Public by (Tiariuan Murray.
Chairman W. J. Murray, of the
dispensury commission Wednesday
made public the testimony taken In
regard to tue exnense and per diem
accounts of Mr. B. F. Ar,hur, one of
the members of the commission who
was appointed receiver by Judge PritQliard.
This testimony was taken in
October and was transmitted to Governor
Ansel but the governor has
taken no acton and all nformatlon in
regard to the matter has been withheld
from the press.
Mr. Arthur has not since attended
a meeting of the commission. In ?act.
ill inquiries were met with the answer
that there "Is nothing in it."
The investigation of Mr. Arthur
was mi used by a report to the commission
by its attorney, Mr. YV. F
tevenson. in which he seid.
"Voucher No. 211, the Hon. It. F.
Arthur, for March, shows 13 days'
service in March. $6f>. The record
shows that he attended meetings of
'lie board on March 12 and 13, and
le doubtless came down to sign
thecks which could not have taken
more than two days, which would
leave nine days to be accounted for
I which I don't understand, and if allowed
to stand as it will subject the
board to grave criticism, and constructive
per diem cannot be allowed
It contains items of mileage to Richmond
which should he explained fully
In th? vocher or mileage could not he
charged from Rchmond to meet the
board here.
I "Ills account for April Is for eight
days, and the record shows only one
day at a meeting, and if we allow
one day to go and come and one trip
for signing checks, allowing two days,
making four possible days for the
'month and 1 cannot approve the
voucher as it stands."
It seems that whenever Mr. Arthur
came from Union to Columbia to
sign checks be charged tip three days,
! although he was not engaged more
; than fifteen minutes in signing the
! checks. On one oocaison he charged
j mileage from Richmond, Va.
S|Hitl the Day.
Miss May Harris Armor of Georgia
is trying to earn fame as the Mother
Shlpton of Pennsylvania. 8he is up
ithero prophesying that in ten years
not a drop of liquor will be manttjfactufed
in the Untied States^
TALKS TO WOMEN
President Roosevelt In an Address
Condemns Race Suicide.
EXALTS MOTHERHOOD
He Rays the Mother is the One Supreme
Asset of the Nut ion, niul
That He Abhors the Man Who
Mistreats Women, Most Especial"
ly the Women of His Own House*
noiu.
The White House was the scene
Tuesday of the formal opening of
the first nternailonal congress on the
welfare of the coild, which is being
held under the auspices of the National
Mothers' congress. The 200
delegates representing all the States
and territories and a dozen or more
of the leading countries of the world
were received at the White House at
2.20 o'clock that afternoon when
President Itoosevelt delivered an address
to them in which he declared
that he placed the society ahead of
the Civil War veterans, because he
said in the final analysis, it is the
mother only who is a better citizen
than the soldier who fights for his
country.
The president said 1 part: ,
"Tho successful raoiher, the mother
who does her part in rearing sad
training aright the boys and > '
who are be the men and wor < n (
the next generation, is of greater use
to tne community and occtr <: ;, did
she only realize it, a ; .ore notable
as well as a more important position
than any successful man in it.
"Nothing in life that is really
worth having comes save at the cost
of effort. No life of self-Indulgence
of mere vapid pleasure can possibly,
even in one point of pleasure itself,
yield so ample a reward as conies to
the mother at the cost of self-denial,
of effort, of suffering child-birth, of
the long, slow, patient, trying work
of briucintr tin the ?.-rrt-.?
No system ">f education, no system of
moral training can be right unless
it is bused fundamentally upon the
recognition of seeing that the girl is
trained to understand the supreme
dignity, the supreme usefulness of
motherhood. Unless the average
woman is a good mother, unless she
hears a sufficient number of children
so thai the race shall increase and
not decrease, unless she brings up
these children in soul and mind and
body?unless this is true of the average
woman, no brilliancy of
genius, no material prosperity,
no triumphs of science and
industry, will avail to save the
race from ruin and death. The
mother Is the one supreme asset of
national life; she is more important
by far thun the successful statesman
or business man. artist or scientist:
"I abhor and condemn the man
who is brutal, thoughtless, careless,
selfish with women, and especially
with the women of his own household.
The birth pangs make all men
the debtors of all women. I abhor
and condemn the man who fails to
recognize all his obligations to the
woman who does her duty. But the
woman who shirks her duty as wife
and mother is just as heartily to
be condemned. We despise her as
we despise and condemn the soldier
who flinches in battle.
"Because we so admire the good
woman, the unselfish woman, the
farsighted woman, we have scant patience
with her unworthy sister who
fears to <lo her duty: exactly as. for
the very reason that, we respect a
man who does his duty honestly and
fairly. All honor to the man or woman
who does duty, who renders service.
and we can only honor him or
her if the weight of our condemnation
is felt, hy those who flinch front
their duty.
"1 want to ask your assistance for
two or three matters that are not
immediately connected with the life
in the family itself, hut that are of
vita! consequence to the children. In
the first place. In the school, that the
school work he made practical r.r
possible. For the boys I want to see
training provided that shall train
them toward, and not away from,
their life work; that will train them
toward the farm or the shop, not
away from it. With the girl, see that
It is not made a matter of mirth that
the girl who goes to college comes
out unprepared to do any of the ordinary
duties of womanhood.
"As regards our public school, especially
I want to put in a special
word in behalf of the right kind of
play grounds. No school Is a good
school if it has not a good play
ground. Help (he children to play,
and remember that you can often
help them most by leaving them entirely
alone.
"You can not have good citizens,
good men and good women of the
next generation if the boys and girls
are worked In factories to the stunting
of their moral, mental and physical
growth. Wherever the national
government can reach. It should
do away with the evils of child
labor, and I trust this will he done;
but much must be done by the actions
of the several State legislatures;
land do, each of you. in your several
States, all that you can to secure the
1 enactment, and then the enforco/
| SOME PLAIN TALK.
FllOM SENATOR TILLMAN ON THE
TARIFF IN THE SENATE.
Said Present Needs of the Republican
Party for Campaign Funds Care
for Trusts Necessary.
Senator Frye'B joint resolution to
provide for the transportation by
American ships only of material for
use Tn the construction of the Panama
canal, which w:ir hrnnpht nn 111
the senate Tuesday by unanimous
consent, was the subject of an animated
debate on various phases of
th work of providing material for the
canal.
Mr. Frye stated that five million
barrels of cement are to be used In
the constructon of the canal and said
that under the law American ships
cannot compete for transportation
service, as British ships cost 33 1-3
per cent, less for both construction
and for their operatiou. His resolution
was to give the trade to American
ships, regardless of the dilference
in cost. He submitted statistics
showing that there were 10 times as
much tonnage of Ameican vessels as
was necessary to ship the cement
needed.
An amendment by Senator Foster
of Louisiana providing that the restriction
should not apply to the Gulf
ports or any part of the United States
from which vessels of the United
States could not be secured for the
trade, was accepted by Mr. Frye.
Senators Fulton, of Oregon, nnd
I Macon, of Georgia, sought to have
the amendment extended to the
northern Pacific and southern Atlantic
coasts, respectively, but were unsuccessful.
Mr. Lodge .commenting on the propriety
of securing cement on the isthmus.
said it would cost 11.000,000
to erect plant there for that purpose.
Mr. Culberson said there was need
of protecting the United States from
extortion by the monopolies that
would he benefited by the resolution.
Mr. Hacon thought the resolution
should not leave the direction to the
president to determine that American
ships should be given this business
when their charges were not extor- 1
tionate nor unreasonable. He want
ed the restriction mandatory so that 1
every bidder could know what he 1
would meet in the way of transportation.
Mr. Tllman, declaring against buying
cement in the United State's at
greater cost than elsewhere, called !
Mr. Uodpo to his feet with the statement
that if he wanted free cement '
he should apply the same principle to 1
lumber and and other material used
on the canal or In this country.
"I would like powerful well to 1
have that done." retorted Mr. Till- '
man, "as 1 represent a pood many
farmers who would be benefited by 1
cheap supplies."
Mr. Tllman added that the need ]
for campaign funds made it necessary
to look after the interests of the 1
shipping trust.
The resolution was then laid aside
until later.
FIREBUGS LYNCHER.
Foul* of Tlieni Tilkl'll Prnm nil Ofll
cer and Hanged.
Dave Poe, Tom Ranston and two
fenkins brothers, all negroes, were
lynched at Vancleave, Miss., by a
mob of 30 men Tuesday night. The
men were in the custody of Deputy
Sheriff Evans of Jackson county en
route to jail when the mob overtook
them.
A series of incendiary warehouse
(Ires, causing losses in foodstuffs and
other supplies, incensed the people of
the vicinity. The four negroes confessed
their guilt when the mob took
(hem from the deputy and all four
were hanged to limbs of trees by
the side of the road where their bodies
were found the next morning.
ment. of laws, that shall put a stop
to the employment of children of
tender age in doing what only grown
people should do.
"Do not forget that love is what
the home is based on; but do not
.lo children, don't do grown people,
the dreadful injustice?through a
love that is merely one form of weakness?of
failing to make the child,
or 1 might add, the man. behave itself
or himself. A marriage should
be a partership where each of the
two partes has his or her rights,
where each should be more careful
to uo nis or ner amy, man to exact
duty from the partner, tmt each
must In justice to the other partner
no less than to himself or herself,
exact the performance of duty by
the other partner. ( Applause.) l,et
each of you do his or her duty first
hut do not lose your self respect by
suhmittng to wrong.
Th^ first session of the congress
was held at the Metropolitan Methodist
Episcopal church at John Marthai!
place and C street. Elmer E.
Mi own. United States commissioner
of education, who was appointed by
President Rosevelt as the official
representative of the United States,
spoke 011 "Children in the United
States."
I
BRYAN WILL WIN.
New York Sun Says Democrats
Will Carry That
STATE IN NOVEMBER
Over Any Candidate the Republicans
May Name.?A Washington Correspondent
Says Well Informed
Politicians Not Only Agree With
This View, But Look Confidently
for Bryan to Be President.
! Ralph Smith, the Washington correspondent
of the Atlanta Journal,
says Democrats have been out of
power for so long anil (ho party has
mot with bucii overwhelming defeat
in national elections of recent years
that ordinarily, it would seem extremely
hazardous to predict a Democratic
victory at the coming presidential
election. But there are in
Washington today many of the best
posted politicians in the country?
men who have had long experience
and who have made a study of conditions?who
confidently predict the 1
election of Mr. Bryan next fall over !
any candidate the Republicans may '
nominate at Chicago, and these men '
are not enthusiastic Bryanites, nor '
on the died-in-the-wool Democrats. '
Many of them are old line Republicans,
men who have never voted any
thing but the Republican ticket.
The New York Sun. anti-adminis- 1
tration. auti-anything-opposed-to-spe- 1
eial-interests, in its leading editorial '
of Tuesday, March fi, declared that 1
William Howard Taft cannot be elec- '
ted president, even if he is nominat- 1
ed by the Republicans at Chicago, :
which it doubts. This interesting 1
statement is made even more so by
the further declaration that either
William J. Bryan or William R '
Hearst, if nominated by the Dere.o- f
crats at Denver, can carry New York 1
state over any candidate the Repnb- 1
lican party may put up. 1
The past inconsistences ot The 11
Sun. toketlier with its well-known 1
pro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol- 1
icy, to say nothing of its bitter an- I
tagonlsm of President Roosevelt, and *'
ills policies," has tended to weaaen d
the declaration, but the editorial has i
just the same attracted much attcn- <i
lion and caused widespread comment t
among politicians in Washington.
Among other things, the editorial i
says: I
"If Mr. Taft were to secure the t
Republican nomination, a contin- c
gency which has been effectively pro- d
rided against, he could not he elect- v
?d. The Democratic candidate, wheth- o
?r Hearst or Rryan, would win." d
"Speaking of our own state (New v
Vork) we record our conviction," >
continues the editorial, "that no Re- u
publican candidate, and we particu- i
larly include Mr. Roosevelt himself, t
can carry it against Rryan, Hearst, c
si* any other Democrat that may be v
placed in nomination at Denver, I
There are mighty and revolutionary <]
changes operating in the political
landscape." i
The editorial offers an opportunity v
lo discuss, briefly, the chances of 1
Democratic success at the next elec- s
lion. Regardless of the Sun's sin- 1
rerity, there are in Washington a \
number of people, supposedly well i
posted, who share the belief that sue- I
[ ,tuc will nnrnh tmnti IHa *
tho Democratic party at the next election,
and they all concede the nomination
of Bryan by acclamation at
Denver.
The Sun is probably the first to
come forward with the claim that the
Democrats will carry New York, and
this statement is attributed more to
dislike for Mr. Roosevelt than to a
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party is in
power, and, as a young statesman
from Georgia often says, "a panic is
upon the people." Whether there
be a panic in reality makes little difference,
the fact is that hundreds of
thousands of men are out of work,
particularly in the more populous
states of the east and the middle
west. It makes no difference whether
the Republican party is responsible
for the hard times, the great mass
of people believe such to be the case,
and there are many who have heretofore
voted the Republican ticket f
who believe that a change would do ,
them good and benefit the country.
No class of persons study politics
more closely than the Washington
correspondents, and it Is surprising
to note the growing belief among
tliese men that Bryan will he elected,
regardless of- whom the Rebublicans
nominate. Some of the oldest
and best informed writets in the pai- 1
lery- Republicans, representing great
Republican papers?freely confess
that the chance^ of Democratic success
look much, brighter today than
do the Republican chances.
New Yorkers look upon the Sun's
editorial declaration with varying
views, but they all agree that it Is
quite significant. The concldung paragrap
h, especially, has impressed
them, and this paragraph predicts
[that New York state will go Democratic.
The last sentence, "There are
mighty and revolutionary changes
! operating lu the political landscape,"
ils regarded as a particularly slgnlfl'cant
hint. "The mighty and revolu
KILLED HER FRIEND.
A YOlTiG LADY FROM SAVANNA!
KILLED IN BOSTON, MASS.
The Murder Was Committed l>y Another
Youuk Lady, Suffering from
Melancholia, Due to Overwork.
Suffering from melancholia, due tc
overwork. Miss Ruth Chamberlin
Weed, of Philadelphia, shot and killed
Miss Elizabeth liailey Hardee, ol
No. 214 Gwinneth street. East Savannah,
Georgia, and then committed
suicide at the Laurens School for
Girls in the Fenway district. The
bodies of the two women were found
by Mrs. Page, the matron of the
school. The Laurens School was established
last fall by Miss Hardee
and Miss Weed. On October 1, the
day school opened. Miss Weed broke
down as a result of overwork and as
a result was committed to a sanitarium
to be treated for nervous prostration.
* "r^iuj iiikiit .miss ween escaped
from the sanitarium and made her
way to the school. She appeared to
lie badly deranged mentally. A
fruitless attempt was made to communicate
with the authorities of the
sanitarium, and at length Miss iiar:iee
succeeded in getting Miss Weed
to go to bed In Miss Hardee's chamber
on the third floor of the school
building.
Iloth women were awakened by
Mrs. Page and notified that they must
?et up if they were to catch the 7.f>0
rain, on which Miss Weed was to lie
aken to West Newton. M*rs. Page
eft them and a few moments later
he shooting occurred. Mrs. Page
hinks the mention of returning to
the sanitarium must have excited
aid angered Miss Weed and induced
he shooting.
From the nature of the wounds
Medical Examiner Stedman decided
hat Miss Weed had committed suiclle
by shooting herself through the
ight temple after having shot Miss
lardee through the base of the brain,
loth women were about :t2 years old
uid they had been intimate since
heir graduation from Wellesley Colego.
Miss Hardee received her dlilomu
in 1894, while Miss Weed revived
hers a year later Miss Harlee
was an instructor of matliematcs
in Wellesley in 1899 and 1900,
mil last year taught school in Vernont.
Miss Weed also had been teaching
n various sections of the county,
mst summer the two women decided
o open a boarding school for girls
?n Audubon road, in the Fenway
listrict, October 1, the day upon
irhch the 1,aureus School. as thov enII
d It, was opened. Miss Weed broke
lown as a result of overwork aud
ras taken to a sanitarium in West
fewton, where she had since been
inder treatment. While at tiie santa"ium
Miss Weed had been subject
o severe attacks of melancholia. Esaping
the other night, she made her
ray to Laurens School, where Miss
lardee volunteered to care for her
luring the night.
Miss Weed behaved in a ^culiar
nan nor. according to the teachers,
vandering aimlessly about theschool
milding and occasionally making a
trange or incoherent remark. At
ength Miss Hardee persuaded Miss
,Yeed to retire, and the demented wouan
followed her to her own cham>er
on the third floor of the school.
Yhen Mrs. Page. the matron of the
ichool, went to Miss Hardee's room
he next morning she was shocked to
lid both women dead.
The pupils at the school, about -10
n number, are the daughters of
veal thy parents from all sections of
he country.
Miss Hardee, in addition to school
vork, had taken n great interest in
lettlement work in the city, and especially
among the Itlians in the
lorth end. During her college careet
die was prominent, in many branches
ind extremely popular. Miss Weed's
work since leaving college has been
onflned almost entirely to teaching.
While in the sanitarium at West
Newton she was frequently subject
o extreme paroxysms of weeping,
4ut never appeared to hear any anlnosity
to any of her friends.
Negro killed.
At Chicago a quarrel that started
In a crowded street car Thursday
night ended in the killing of John
li. Mapp, a colored man, by James
McDonald, who was accidentally
jostled by the negro.
Six Chinamen Killed.
Six Chinese dead, two others badly
injured and one building destroyed
was the result of a fire n China
town, at 1st and Oak streets, In
Marvville, Cal., Thursday. The fire
is believed to have been the work of
an Incendiary.
Fatal Fire Damp.
At Dartmound, Prussia, five men
were killed In the Lukas mine, as
the result of an explosion of fire
damp. Thirty miners were entombed
but they were resuced by their
comrades after several hours of
heroic work. *
tionary chanfies" are taken to mean
a determination in certain quarters
to accept Bryan, or Hearst, if need
be, In preference to either Roosevelt
or raft.
SHOT HIS RIVAL
i
Because He Walked Home With a
Young Lady and Then
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
>
i At Marion a Young Man Walks Into
Cotton Mill, Slioot and DungoroDV"
ly Wounds Another Young Man
and on Hl.s Way lloino Cuts Bullet
Through His drain.?Community
Terribly Sliocknl.
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A dispatch to The News aud Courier
says the cotton mill village lu the
eastern surburbs of Marion was terribly
shocked by a double tragedy,
which occurred Friday morning as
a result of which one man is dead
and another dangerously wounded.
At about 8 o'clock Luther Hewitt,
a young man who had been up until
a few days ago, an employee in the
mill, waiked into the mill, where Arthur
Stephens was at work, and after
saying only a few words to him fired
at him ut a distance of aboat one or
two steps, the bull taking effect in
lis neck, passing to the right of
his windpipe. Stephens immediately
ran. but was shot again at a distance
of a few steps, this ball hitting him
tt the back just over the left shoulder.
causing him to fall.
Hewitt, evidently thinking that he
had killed the man turned deliberately
and walked out of the mill and
toward his father's house, but when
within a short distance of his home,
turned the pistol and tired at IiIb own
head, but missed the first time. The
second attempt, however, waB successful.
lie held the pistol to his
right temple aud fired, killing himself
instantly.
I)r. Z. G. Smith was hastily summoned,
and reached the wounded
man within a few minutes, and flndInth
that neither of the balls could
lie easily located, he decided to take
his patient to the hospital in Florence,
where he hopes that with the
use of an X-ray machine, the balls
may lie located, extracted and the
man's life saved.
The train from Wilmington to
Florence was at the stution at the
time he examination of Mr. Hewitt
wnu lioitt cr nin/lrt "?-?^ J
"v.i.f, >u?uvi uiiu vuuuutkur
J on ob kindly consented to hold the
train for ton minutes until the
wounded man could be placed upon
It, and this was done within that
time, Dr. Smith accompanying him
to the hospital.
The alleged cause of the trouble
Is said to be that young Stephens
walked home from a party Inst night
with a young lady to whom the deceased
was very much attached. Hut
the general Impression among the
friends of both parties is that. Hewitt's
mind must have been unbalanced,
although he had not shown any
previous symptoms of mentnl derangement.
Neither of these young men Is
married, both of them living in the
mill village with their parents. The
deceased was a son of Mr. W. D.
Hewitt the night watchman at the
mill, and Arthur Stephens is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. .1. B. Stephens. Both
of the families are natives of Marlon
County and have a great many
friends, who are inexpressibly griev
I by the *1 .; y.
MILLS SHUTTING DOWN.
Thousands of Opcrallrrt Are Affoct*
t'd by the Curtailment.
Thousands of employees 01- New
England Mills and factories went on
a short time Lasts following soveral
months of depression. In some places
report-: come or several factories resuming
worn arter the shut down or
Increasing their running time. ?
The Hargraves Parker mills in
Fall River went on a four days u
week basis. The Fisher Manufacturing
Company's cotton mills, at
Fisherville, Mass., employing 700
hands, were shut down until Monday.
The Gahot mills, at Brunswick.
Me., with 8 00 hands, went on a
schedule of four days a week.
Cotton mills in several towns owned
by B. B. and R. Knight, and employing
six thousand operatives, went
on a three quarters time schedule.
The Putnam Manufacturing Company's
mills went on three and a half
time schedule and the Nightingale
and Powhattan mills, of Putnam,
Conn., have reduced to four days a
week, affecting 700 hands.
The Edwards cotton mills, at Augusta.
Maine, emnloving 1.000 hands.
adopted a half schedule, and the
VVhltln machine shops, at Whltlnvl'.le,
Mass.. making cotton mill machinery,
with 1,800 men, reduced
time to forty-flve hours a week.
Curtailment of production Is also
approved by the Chlcopee cotton
. mills, of Chlcopee Falls. 1,300 hands.
the Dwlght mills, of Chlcopee, 50t
1 operatives, Salmon Falls mills, Salmon
Falls, N. H., 700 operatives,
Naumbeag cotton mll?s, of Salem,
1,500 hands, and other concerns.