Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 22, 1909, Image 1
THE FORT MILE TIMES
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VOLUME XVIII FORT MI LL, THURSDAY, APRIL22, 1909 NO. 2
LAST ONE GONE
Gen. M. C. Butler Died In Colum
bla Wednesday Night
WAS SICK LONG TIMI
Wm a Major General in the Con
federate Army and Wait Appoint
ed to the Same Grade In the Arm]
of the United States by President
McKlnley.
Gen. M. C. Butler, the last of th<
brilliant general officers South Carolina
contributed to the Confederal
cause, died at the Knowlton Infirmary
In Columbia about 12 o'clock
Wednesday night, after an lllnesf
which extended through many weeks.
His wife and son were present when
the soul of this splendid old warrior
passed over the river to "rest under
the shade of the trees."
flnnprti 1 Butlo. ">? > **
u. WUVIUI nttO 111 tut) I 1111
year of his age. On his last birthday.
the 8th of March, he embraced
the Catholic faith, being confirmed
by Bishop Northrop. He was taken
to the Infirmary to be treated for
sciatica.
Gen. Butler's Career.
Matthew Calbraith Rut lor
born In Greenville, of illustrious parentage.
His ancestors on tho Butler
side are a race of heroes. They
were among tho pioneers of South
Carolina, and settled in the northern
part of Edgefield county. Ills great
grandfather, Capt. James Butler, was
killed fighting for his country In the
war of the Amerfuan Revolution
Ho was a descendant of the Duke
of Ormand, the great royalist lelfder
In England.
General Butler's grandfather, William
Butler, was very prominent In
|the legislative ^department *of the
State, and also served thirteen years
In Congress. His father. Dr. William
Butler, was surgeon In the
United States navy, and was a broth
er of Governor Pierce M. Butler, of
South Carolina, who fell at the bottle
of Churobusco, while leading the
famous "Palmetto regiment," and
Dr. Butler's other brother was the
distinguished Senator, Andrew Pickens
Butler.
While stationed at Newport, Tt
I.. Dr. William Butler married Miss
Jane Tweedy Perry, the sister of
Commodore Oliver Perry, of Lake
Erie fame, and of Commodore Matthew
Calbralth Perry, who was tn>
first to open our commercial relations
with Japan. All readers of
American history are familiar with
these distinguished naval heroes.
After his ntarriag* Dr. Butler re
signed from the navy and returned
to his native home in Edgefield
The mother of General Butler war
a woman of many sterling qualities
and was much beloved and admired
for her grandeur of character
and her great heauty, sincere even
to hrusqueness and truthful always
After the civil war a friend present
ed to her General Sickles, of the
United States army, saying. "Gen
ernl. Mrs. Butler Is a sister of Com
modore Perry." Very emphatically
Mrs. Butler exclaimed: "I had rath-ei
be known as the mother of Calbralth
Butler!" Here spoke the mother
the heart?the "Coripelia" of th?
nineteenth century. The mother ol
the "Gracchi" could not. have beet
prouder of her "Jewels" than wai
this pplendld woman of her nobb
sons, of whom there were five whr
"wore the grey."
General Butler was a lawyer b>
profession, and soon aner his ad
mission to the Bar married Mist
Maria Calhoun Pickens, one of th'
handsome daughters of South Caro
Una's grand old "war governors,"
Francis W. Pickens.
When tho war broke out Genera'
Butler organized a cavalry force and
entered (he field ns a captain. Gradr
by grade he was promoted, until h
attained the rank of major general
Bt the desperate battle of Brand;
Station, and the most dashing, gal
lant. and debonaire figure seen tha*
day was this youthful, knlghtl?
"Paladin" of the Army of Northern
Vlrgina, who possessed all the brilliancy
and valor of "Bold Henry of
Navarre." In that terrible fight at
Brandy Station General Butler commanded
a regiment under Gen . J.
K. B. Stuart and lost a leg, while
General Davis, who commanded the
Federals, was killed while crossing
the Rappahannock river.
It was here, at Reams's Station,
that he was promoted major genera!
One of General Butler's gallant couriers.
who was then only a youth ol
17. and by the way, was a relattvr
of the general, has said, "Had Gen
eral Butler no other war record hi?
victory at the battle of Trevlllar
Station will forever Immortallzt
him."
After the din and smoke of th<
battle had died away, and white
robed "Peace" crowned our once dee
olate land of the "Sunny South.'
General Butler returned to his horn*
In Kdgeflejd and resumed the prac
tlce of law. Gifted with hrllllan
intellect and wit, he was regarde<
as one of the most effective speaker
In Sonth Carolina, a State whlcl
has always been noted for her abb
logicians and orators.
In the autumn of 1876, Genera
Butler was elected United State
Senator, aad his career as statesman
SEVERAL KILLED
IN A CLASH BETWEEN CHURCH
AND STATE
In Mexico, Which Is Said to Have
*
Been St-arted by the l*riesta of
the Parish.
According to a dispatch received
at Mexico the rioting which occurred
at Valdardena, a mining camp in
r Coahuila, last Saturday night, was
more serious than at first reported.
thirty-two men being kiled and
many injured. The trouble was in}
stlgated by Father Ramon Valen
zucla, parish priest, it !h asserted,
> who lies in a hospital hovering between
life and death.
; Fourteen of the rioters were ex1
ecuted by the Government troops,
and many were imprisoned. Many
Americans reside in Velardena, as
the camp is controlled by American
capital.
The leaders of the mob, which was
well organized, avoided attacking
Americans or destroying American
property.
The fighting occurred when the
Jefe Politico of the town, an officer
correspondent to an American mayor,
attempted to stop a religious procession
headed by the village priest,
the laws of Mexico forbidding such
parades.
A thousand parlshoners followed
the priest, wishing to witness the
annual burning of Judas, and when
th? orders of the mayor became
known, the mob stoned and later
burned the house of the mayor, who
with his wife, escaped by climbing a
rear wall and seeking protection in
the American colony.
The rioters then stormed a Chinese
hotel, looting it of all liquors
and foods and terrorizing the neighborhood
during the night by their
drunken orgy. The police fired on i
the mob, many members of which
were well armed. The officers were
forced to retreat, leaving six of theii
number dead in the mam st*t?t.
Later troops arrived in a special
train and a fierce fight bet wen troops
and rioters insued, bringing the total
deaths to .12, with n number injured.
Father Valenzuela was arrested. 1
One of his followers smuggled a
knife to his cell and the priest
stabbed himself six times in a violent
attempt to commit suicide. He
is now in the prison hospital. Quiet
was restored.
KILLED HIMSELF 1
After Trying ami Failing to Shoot
a Young Lady.
After trying to Bhoot Miss Jose>hiue
AlbertR, Allan M. Fay, aged 23
years, a prominent broker, of Hoson,
Mass., shot himself through the
mouth in an alley early Wednesday
ind died while being hurried to the
hospital.
Fay had spent the evening with
diss Alberts, at her honve, leaving
somo time after midnight. He then
went to the alley at the rear of the
house and fired four shots, three
going through the young woman's
window, but none reaching Miss
Alberta.
A policeman who heard the shots
"ound Fay lying on his side in the
illeyway bleeding from a bullet
wound in the roof of his mouth.
VIlss Alberts, who is 22 years of age.
has known Fay about four years.
nd during that time has repeatedly
efused his proposals of marriage,
it is said.
was as grand as his record as soldier
ind patriot.
Handsome as Apollo, and gifted
with a charming personality, his mag
letism and loyalty h^ld his friends
with "hooks of steel."
After General Butler retired from
'he Senate he formed a law partnership
In Washington. D. C., with
two distinguished attorneys under
irm name of "Shelly, Butler & Maron."
and on the 28th of May, 1898,
'resident McKinley appointed him
najor general of the United States
irmy, and his confirmation as such
was unanimous by the Senate. Thus
we see this kingly major general of
*he Confederate cavalry, who so gallantly
led his ragged and hungry
' soldier boys on to so many victorious
battles, 3 4 years afterward n
major general in the United States
* army, and commanding an army
corps. He was appointed also on the
Cuban peace commlssifon and for
f some time attended faithfully to his
' trduous duties at Habana.
In the spring of 1908 General Rut?
ler was one of the distinguished par'
ty that visited the Arroyo Rico dis*
trlct. in the southeastern section of
the State of Chihuahua, in the far*
famed Parral mineral belt, 65 miles
- northwest of the city of Parral.
- This party comprised, among others.
General Butler, of South Carolina,
9 the Hon. Jno. K. Cowen, of Baltl
more; Admiral W. S. Schley and
t General Armstrong of Mississippi. It
J was In January, 1 894, that General
t Butler was elected president of the
i Hidalgo Placer Mining and Milling
e Company of Mexico.
After the death of his first wife.
1 General Butler married Mrs. Nan8
Die Whitman, nee Bostlck, of the old
a]Pierre Rober, family of Charleston.
THE TURKS SLAY
Two Americans in the Outbreak
at Adams.
WAR ON CHRISTIANS
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Half of the City Reported Burned
in an Anti-Armenian Riot and
Sixty Persons Said to llave Ix>st
Their Lives?Soldiers Join in the
LootingTwo
American missionaries have
been killed in the anti-Armenian out
oreaK ai Adama, Asiatic Turkey, according
to information received at
Constantinople from that place by
telegraph Friday afternoon.
At midnight neither the American
ambassador, Mr. Leishman, nor the
Hritish embassy had received any
further news concerning the massacre
or confirmation of the reported
murder of American missionaries at
Adana.
Consular telegrams received at
Constantinople report that half of
the town of Adana has been burned,
and that the attacks upon the Armenians
are extending into the vilayet.
They say that the Hritish vice consul
as Merslna, Major PaughtyWylle,
who was ordered to Adana
when th<^ first advices of the massacre
were received- has been wound,
ed.
Communication with the disturbed
district is interrupted, however, and
all reports received from there must
be taken with caution. The Porte
declares the disturbances are subsiding.
Two additional battalions
have been dispatched to Adana.
The Moslem attacks recommenced
yesterday afternoon and continued ,
throughout the night. Large numbers
of Christians are said to have
been killed. One report, says that
sixty Armenians have lost their lives
and that many houses have been looted
and burned.
The first news of this anti-Chris- |
tian outbreak said the scone was
at Mersiun lmt ?i?io
....... nnn t rruneoiis. I
The trouble occurred at Adana, which J
is about nr. miles inland from Mersi- I .
na. The early reports were declared
to have Icon exaggerated and me?aagps
received later said only ten
Armenians had been killed, that
martial law had been proclaimed at
Adana, and that reinforcements of
troops were being sent Jn from
Helrut. J
This latest intelligence refers to |
disorders that took place after the I
situation was supposed to have quiet- I
ed down.
Adana is a station of the Amerlran
board of commissioners for for- j
elgn missions with a working force I
of five missionaries and thirty-five I
native workers; an out-station of the I
Synod of the Reformed Presbyte- 1
rian church in North America, and
a Bible de|>ot, and sub-agency of the
American Bible Society.
Adana is a city of 45,000 people. I
and is the seat of Government of I
the province of the same name. The I
people are mostly Mnhamidans, but I
there are a considerable numlvr of
Christians, including Armenians and I
a small Greek community there.
The missionaries of the district
are at present at Adana for the
regular district meeting. They are
Mr. and Mrs. William Chambers, the I
Misres Webb, Miss Wallis and Miss
Borel. Mr. Christy Is at. Tarsus.
Telegrams arriving at Athens
from Merslna report sanguinary riots
at Adana as a result of a demon- I
titration against the police, who had
killed two persons thpy were trying
to arrest. A massacre then began. I
in which tlie troops are alleged to
have partielpated. Several houses 1
were burned during the disturbance I
The dispatches add that the
foreign consuls have demanded that
warships he dispatched to Merslna. *
FOURTEEN PERISH.
Hoarding House for I laborers Hunted
in San Francisco.
At San Francisco six bodies recovered
and probably eight or ten
others buried in the ruins; six Injured,
one fatally. property loss
$125,000?these are the results of
a fire Friday that desfroyed the St.
George Hotel, a lodging house foi
laborers at Howard and 8th street.
Fight other small buildings were
burned. The bodies taken to the
inontue were so charreo that identification
was impossible.
The hotel was a three-story frame
building. It was burned so rapidly
that none of the 180 guests had time
to dress. Many escaped by jumping
to the room of an adjoining workshop.
Scores clambered down the
firemen's ladders, and the fire escapes
on the building. Four jumped
to safety in a net held by the fire
fighters.
Slight Earthquake in Peru.
An earthquake shack accompanied
by subterranean rumblings was felt
at. Lima. Peru, this week. Many
buildings were damaged. No casualties
are reported.
Murdered Unpaid Cabman.
Resenting a demand for hack fare.
John Burchfleld shot Zeke Roberts
to death at Asheville, N. C... a few
days ago.
NIGHT OF HORROR
ENDS IN TRAGEDY BY STEAME1
SINKING AFTER
Struggling Above Waves All Nigh
While Her I'nssengerB Wore ii
a Panic.
Following a remnrkable series o
accidents and a tcmpestous voyage
the steamer Virginia, from Cinciu
natl, O., to Pittsburg, was finally
wrecked Thursday night in the Ohit
river at Wellesvllle, Ohio.
The boat, the largest plying the
upper Ohio, went down close tc
shore after striking a rock and tearing
a hole three feet long in the
hull. The pasengers, numbering 50,
in a highly nervous condition, as a
result of minor accidents earlier in
the* evening, became panic-stricken
when the vessel met with the last
accident and it was with difficulty
a crew of 75 men restrained them
Although handicapped by darkness,
a high wind and drenching
rain, the crew managed to place the
passengers safely in boats and put
them ashore. From here they were
taken scantily clad, to a Are engine
house In Wellesvlllo and later reached
the warmth of a hotel by means
of a police patrol wapon.
Today the passengers were 6cnt
to this city by railroad.
The Virginia's trip from Cincinnati
was without mishap until
Wheeling was reached early last
evening. At this point a severe
wind storm was encountered and the
big packet was tossed about in the
Ohio river like a small boat. It
was Impossible to effect a landing
at Wheeling, and the Virginia continued
toward this city.
About 11 o'clock the steamer,
which is said to have been leaking
badly from an earlier accident, entered
the channel here. When yet
some distance from shore the steamer
struck an obstruction with terrific
force. The passengers were
thrown from their berths. Baggage
and valuables wfero forgotten.
After the excited passengers had
reached the salon they were quickly
surrounded by n crew of seventy-five
men and quieted. Boats were
brought into service and before the
steamer settled >all were safely
ashore.
Most of the passengers were from
southern points.
TWO 8UICIDKS AT ONCE.
Two Vonug Women Cabin Mates Kill
Themselves.
During the voyage of the Cunard
Idner Lucania, which sailed from
\Vw Vnrlf fr?f T I""-. 1 * ** "
unci jiuui i r 11 i,
two young women, who had occupied
a second-class cabin together,
committed suicide by shooting. They
were Margaret Clarke. 2 9 years old,
who is believed to have been a resident
of Brooklyn, and Annie Miller,
22 years oldja*rfiose former residence
is not known. The motive for the
double suicide has not been ascertained,
and as the bodies were buried
at. sea there wili be no inquest.
Miss Clarke shot herself Thursday,
iho second day out, while in her cabin.
Her companion four days later
took her own life.
WON HIS WIFE.
By Making His Ix>coniot.ive Whistle
I'lay Tunes.
Converting his engine whistle into
a steam calliope, says the Pltsburg
Dispatch, and playing thereon such
times as "Home Sweet Home," 'In
he Sweet By and By," "Will You
Remember Me?" "Way Down on th?
Suwanee River" and many other
simple ballads of long ago, Robert
Freeman Ellington, engineer on the
Southern Railway for more than
twenty years, despite the fact that
he is still a young man, won for
himself a pretty young wife, who
first becamo attracted to him after
hearing his weirdly fantastic melodies
as he drove his iron steed
through tho stillness of the night.
ALIVE IX HE It COFFIN.
Mourning Turns to Joy When Ilnbe
Oiwns Its Eyes.
Friends and relatives gathered
last week at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Harrington, of Orange,
Tex., to attend the funeral services
over the body of their two-year-old
daughter. The child had been declared
dead, but was not. burled for
three days owing to the condition of
the mother, who was suffering from
shock.
When the services began the little
tot opened her eyes, gaped and
wanted "out of the box." She is
now on a fair way to recover from
her recent illness. Physicians who
declared the chi'd dead are at a loss
to understand the case.
Half Million Dollar Fire.
Following a long series of incendiary
fires, two extensive sections ol
Rochester, NT. Y., fell prey, this week
to flames that for several hourt
Beemed to threaten the destructlor
of the whole city. When the flrei
were finally gotten under control
with the help of a heavy rain, ovei
; 100 families, numbering nearly 60(
persons, were homeless and the prop
| erty damage exceeded $500,000.
CAUSES MURDER
Squatter Refuse To Give Up The
Lands
- ON WHICH THEY LIVE
f
Nino Tragedies Have Resulted From
n I)cn Which Megan in l'ortlnnd,
f
> Me., in 183tt and Forgotten Until
liands Megan to lie of Much
? Vnlue.
Nine assassinations are traceable
, to the contention for undisputed possession
of 4 00,000 a<*res of land in
the State of O'orgia. The recent
killing of Pope S. 11111. leader of the
Rar association in Macon, is but
another link in tho chain of bloody
iraKi'tiit'B, wnich takes Its beginning
from the organization of a body of
capitalists in Portland, Mo., in 1833
to purchase lands in that State.
The Norman Dodge Land Company,
composed of New York men.
Is now seeking to oust. squatters
from the territory and finds it is up
against a lot of bogus and forged
deeds and titles. In some respects
the case resembles the Reelfoot
Lake fight, in Tennessee. There the
settlers had by right of years come
to believe that th'ey owned the lake.
Here the squatters on the land
ohtalned by the Dodges' had remained
so long in peace and apparent
ownership that they have come to
believe the land is theirs by right
of possession. Consequently they resist
every attempt to displace them.
Bloody has been the history of the '
case.
Capitalists in Portland. Me., sent 1
their agents into Georgia in 1833 1
and bought large tracts in what are
now Dodge, Telfair, Laurens and
Montgomery counties. A deed was
executed in the name of the Georgia Lumber
Company. Later the enmnany
became indebted and in 1877
the lands were offered for sale by
the Georgia legislature. George E
Dodge, of New York, made the pur- <
chase. In the meantime nothing had
be?n done with the land except to i
pay the taxes. ,
In the course of time the Macon i
and Brunswick railroad was con- |
strueted and the land became valuable.
Mr. Dodge and his fellow own- |
ors began to realize something on ,
their property. Deeds were forged ;
and all sorts of schemes were worked ]
to get the land away from them ,
piecemeal. Dodge finally filed a suit (
for injunction and prevented fur- (
ther steals. Tie also turned possession
over to his brother, Norman ,
Dodge, a resident of Georgia.
At this juncture Uuther Hall, a
lawyer, began to sell deeds In th* J
name of the former owners of the^
tract. He was convicted of violating
an injunction and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary. Hater he
ran for the legislature and in his
campaign told the people in the disputed
land to "meet Mr. Dodge's
agents with shotguns and leave thier
carcasses for the buzzards to pick
or cram them down gopher holes."
This happened in 1890.
About the same time the murder
of Col. John Forsyth, the resident
Dodge ngent, was murdered. ' No less
than six deaths, three or four of
them by violence, have followed the
trial of the case. There have been
nine assassinations in Telfair county
within the last 25 years, and these
have been traceable, it is said, directly
or Indirectly to the Dodge
land case, the end of which is still
far from sight.
Pope Hill and Nat Harris have
looked afher many of the cases, and
it was to look into some of them that
Mr. Hill left Macon so recently on
his fatal trip to McRae. "Murder
will out, and I have no fear Hill's
assassin will escape," said Col. Nat
Harris, the partner of the murdered
man.
MARItlKS STKPMOTHKR.
Young Man Weds the Widow of His
Father.
Tt has just been learned that the
d-eparture last February from Cornell
University of Harrv C Deckwifb
twenty-six years of age, and enrolled
as a special student In architecture,
was for the purpose of urging his
suit for the hand of his step-mother,
Mrs Eleanor Beckwith, thirty-six
years of age, and now a resident of
Chicago. Friends of young Reckwith
today heard that he had been
successful in this end and that a
marriage ceremony had been performed
last Saturday in Chicago.
Reckwith's father died seven or
eight years ago.
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KILLED IN STREET BY ALTO.
i
Man Run Down as He Gets Off. Car.
Four People Hurt.
At Memphis Peter Sullivan was
j killed and four other persons in1
jured late Wednesday night when an
, J automobile ran down Mr. Sullivan as
( he was alighting from a street car.
i Of the injured occupants of the au,
j tomobile who were thrown to the
j ground by the sudden stopping of (
) the machine, was Thomas Phetan,
- a prominent business man, Is the
| most seriously hurt.
GOES BACK TO WORK
SKNATOR ANI> MRS. TILLMAN
GOES TO WASHINGTON.
? ^
The Senator OirrlslHH No Delusions
as to Itemocrat.s Getting Anything
But Crumbs.
The Columbia Record of Friday
says Senator and Mrs. B. R. Tillman
were here today on their way to
Washington, to which point the
senator Is headed so as to be on
hand for the tnriff debate in the
senate. The senator is apparently
in splendid health.
"I am getting so fat that positively
I am getting sad about it. Gained
six or seven pounds recently eating
hog and hominy down at Trenton.
Weighing 200 pounds now. more
than I have ever weighed. Hut, by
golly, I want tome roas'n ears to
ent, and I've got to leave before
they come in."
Asked if he could not say something
rash on which a hardup newspaper
fellow might build a good live
story, the senator smilingly nodded
in the negative.
"Haven't got an idea on State or
national politics," he declared, giving
away indolently to the balminess i
of the spring morning.
"Well, couldn't you tell us some- I
thing about how much hell you are <
going to raise about the tariff?" 1
"Oh, what's the use of biting at I
the grindstone? Whenever those *
Republican ringsters get ready to t
pass the tariff they will simply crack t
the whip and the majority will trot
up and vote as the ring directs. I> t
they will consent to give us the rigtit \
sort of showing on German potash *
salts we will try to get it, but it t
Is all In their hands." t
Senator and Mrs. Tillman will stop s
over in Roek Hill this evening for
a visit to Winthrop col'.ego. * a
r
INQUIRY TO IIK RKSl'MKD. a
i]
Attorney General Lyon Says Things
Will be Doing.
Attorney General t yon who has
iust gotten back to Columbia after K
extended trips to Augusta, Atlanta. n
ind Cincinnati, in the interest of ''
the resumption of the dispensary h
>f the Federal Supreme Court which '
was announced while he wa? in At- a
anta. v
"I guees I could tell you a few '
hings we have been descovering re- 8
;ently on which you could build c
i powerful good story," said Mr. e
Lyon, smiling In answer to a ques- a
tion from one of his newspaper call- r
?rs, "hut I am hardly at liberty to a
iu uiai at, mis urae. 1 do not know 1
myself just what tho Stato's pro- f
?rain Is now, as I have not yet had 0
i conference with our attorneys hero, v
and as the Governor has not yet. "
filled the two vacancies on the wind- '
Ing-up commission but it will be safe v
to say that the music will start up 0
now in a few weeks."
Mr. Lyon was much "put out" at '
the reoent spread-eagle story that H
appeared In The Atlanta Constitution
about Mr. Felder's law firm's
alleged big--fee of $200,000 iu the
dispensary caso. He is satisfied that
the Atlanta firm is in no way to
blame. Of course, Mr. Lyon Is delighted
with the Supreme Court's
decision, but its general drift was
not a surprise to him. He had expressed
himself as confident of victory
some time before the decision
came out.
NIGHT RIDERS BRING TERROR.
Threaten to Piny Havoc if Planters
Don't Heed.
"Night riders" are terrorizing
land owners and tenants in the vicinity
of Harriman's Ferry, Indiana.
William Schrolucke, owner of 700
acres in that neighborhood, reported
that twenty men on horseback visited
all his tenants and informed them
that if they paid a greater rent than
one-third of the crop raised, their
crops would be mowed down before
they became ripe. Thomas Taylor,
a wealthy land owner, received by
mail a package containing powder
and matches, with a note of warning
of what he might expect if he insisted
on a one-half crop rental.
ROTH PASSED AWAY. 1
Only Two Hours Between Heath of 1
Man and Wife.
The News and Courier says news
was received in Laurens Thursday 1
morning of the death yesterday of
Mr. and Mrs. Rrown Whitniire at
their home at Young's Cross Roads,
about three miles southeast of Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitniire were \
both ill with pneumonia, and early
yesterday morning Mr. Whitmlre
pased away. A few hours later Mrs.
Whitmlre died. Each was about 50
years of age. The burial service of |
the couple will be held today at
Hurricane Church.
Rejected IiOver Tried Murder.
Roland Matlack. 20 years of age.
Is under arrest In Trenton. N. J.,
charged with attempting to kill his
rival. Roland Chadwick. of Philadelphia,
and Miss Margaret Summers,
a girl of 19 and his former sweetheart.
He tried twice to flre into
their face but the gun failed to go
off.
CAN'T BE FOUND 1
Twelve Year Old Child Disappears
While On
HER WAY TO SCHOOL
In Atlanta, (Jwirgin, Little Carrie
Cloiuiuons I/eft Her Home on
Highland Avenue for tlie Iloulevn.nl
School iiiul Has Strangely
Vanished, and She Can't he Found.
In Atlanta, Ga., the strange and
unaccountable disappearance of little
Louise Clemmons, 12 years old,
is cuaslng great, anxiety to her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clemmons,
who llveB as 354 Highland avenue.
Since 8 o'clock Monday mornings
when the little girl, with the school
books under arm, left home for the'
Boulevard Street school, she has not
returned home, and her anxious
mother and father have learned
nothing of her whereabouts.
All night Monday night her parents
spent troubled hours In notifying
the police authorities, phoning to
relatives In different parts of tho
Mty and in visiting the homes of the
nrlghborhood in vain, restless ef'orts
to find some clue to the whereibouts
of the bright little daughter
vho had so suddenly and so myseriously
disappeared.
Little Carrie is a favorite in the
neighborhood. She is bright and
vinsome and is admired by all who
mow her. She Is her mother's only
laughter and the mother is about
o give away under the anxious
train.
Mrs. Clemmons was at. first quite
.verse to notifying the police or the
tewspapers of her daughter's dls- .
ppearance. and It was far into the
light of Monday, after all possible
fforls had been made, that she and
ler husband called upon tho police
o assist In the search.
From the Boulevard Street
ehool, where Carrie had regularly
t.tended and for which place she
p'ft her home Monday morning In
icr accustomed manner, comes the
nformation that she was not seen
t that school at all Monday. She
.'as urged by her mother upon leavng
to return home immediately after
ehool closed for the day and readily
onsented. Her accustomed obcdlnee
in this respect makes her disppearance
all the more of a mystey
to her parents and the suspense
11 the more terrible. At first her
allure to return did not excite any
ears, hut the coming of night withiut
the child's appearance brought
vith It fear and anxiety. Mrs. Clemnons
immediately telephoned to the
ionics of relatives over the city
vhere the child had often visited
mly to learn that she had not been
icon. The father was notified at
lis place of business, 96 Ivy street,
inii the search began.
i iif uuiy irace or rjarrie yet learn(1
since her disappearance is that
he was s<'en walking down Broad
treet, near the Intersection of Broad
vlth Mitchell street, Monday about
2 o'clock. She was alone, and yet
ier moTher cannot believe her to
>e'lost, because, although young, she
mew the streets of the city well and
>ften run errands to many points
n the city alone. This causes Mrs,
'lenimons to believe trat her daugher
is being held and not lost, as she
annot see why the child would not
eturn home if she could, because
,he knows the way. Then, too,
'arrio had often expressed a fondiess
for going to Lak#wood to gather
the flowers there and Mrs. Clemnons
is strongly tempered to belnwHtf^.
hat shra went to Lakewpo^ and has
alien Into the lake and Is drowned.
"Of course, that's looking at it /
>n the dark side." said Mrs. Clem- '
nons to a Journal representative, i
but I am nevertheless trying to see 1
he bright side, if there is any bright I
tide." A
When the little girl left home for I
tchool Monday morning she wore a
lotted blue muslin dress, with a |?j
larker bine border. On her head she
vore a small tan cap; on her hair
vas a rather large blue ribbon bow. ^
^he wore button shoes and a signet,
ring on which were engraved the
otters C. L. C.
Tier father is a plumber, working
it 9 6 Ivy street.
CAN'T EXPLAIN SUICIDE.
former New York Broker Threw
Himself Over CHIT.
Ludwig Stetthelmer, the young
American who committed suicide by
thrnwinrr himself from n cliff nf Tor
regeveta. Italy, last Tuesday and
who was at first thought to bo#T
McPherson," of Seattle, was former- *
ly a foreign exchange broker In Wall f
street. About a year ago ho favn
up his business and began totfhv^l
in Southern Europe and Africa.
cousin here, Morris Stettheimeri
at a loss to explain the fuJqldfc.
T.udwig. he gald, was cheerful whon
be left here and had considerable
money.
Prominent Artist a
111 health led John Wolst,
ly a prosperous New Yorif iifflst,
to commit suicide by polsOd at Loa
Angelep this week.