Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 22, 1909, Image 4
SELF SCRIFICE
Rich Banker Suffered Death to '
Shield Daughter.
LYNCHING INTIMATE
Banker Slain by Physician With
Whom Banker'm Wife Ik Alleged to }
lluv? Keen Intimate for Many '
I
Years?The Slayer and the Bank- j
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pi-'s Wife in Jail.
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Idolization of his daughter, Golda,
17 years old, is said to have caused 1
J. II. Sayler, vice president of the
First National Hank, of Crescent
City, III., to suffer in silence the do- ,
inestlc tragedy that led to his death
Sunday night at the hands of Dr. i
\V. R. Miller, who for many months
hud paid ardent attention to the ,
banker's wife, mother of Golda Sayler.*
According to \V. R. Nightengale,
cashier of the bank of which Mr. ]
Sayler was vice president, the devoted
father determined to suffer in
silence rather than take any action
which would involve his child in
notoriety. (
"lie seemed to fear some tragic
solution of the situation," said Mr.
Nightengale. "When he left the city
during the last year or so it was
his habit to seek privacy, after which
he would reappear with a bulky envelope
containing papers.
" 'Should anything happen to me,'
he always told me, 'open this package
and follow to the letter the instructions
contained therein.'
"After each trip but the last he
destroyed the papers upon his return.
He was away a little while ago. but
when he came back he failed to follow
this practice.
"That packet, I believe, is locked ,
in his private box in the bank's
vault. Whether it will shed anything
on the tra/edy which ended
his life 1 cannot say. The corouer
has the key and will open the box
later, possibly after the funeral.
That Dr. Miller stood in real danger
of lynching Monday night is asserted
by Mr. Nightengale and many
others. More than a hundred men
thronged the streets of the usually
quiet village trying to organize an
attack on the jail. One-man with a
rope was forcibly taken to his honu
by cooler persons, whose counsel
finally prevailed. Among the lattet
was Willis Sayier, a brother of th?
slain man.
Dr. Miller's defence is that he shot
only when attacked by the banket
with a hatchet. Evidence casting a
shadow on this statement was given
at the inquest.
Sayier was slain about 10 o'clock
Sunday night. Mrs. Miller, wife oi
the doctor, had left a few days pre
viously to visit her parents at Sharon,
Pa., and Dr. Miller was taking
his tueals at the Sayier table ant.
steeping at his own home. Then
wore also at the Sayier home at the
time of the shooting, John C. Gruaden,
father of Mrs. Sayier, and Ira
Gruuden. her brother. The oldei
Grunden came recently from Aid
more, Ok la., to become an inmate o.
the Soldiers' Home at Dttuville
Gokla Sayier was sent away by hei
mother a few days ago.
Sunday evening John Grundei
went to usk Mr. Sayier, who was occupying
a rocking clialr on the lawn
to come in and play cards, they iwt
against Dr. Miller and Mrs. Sayier
His refusal, Mr. Sayier states, war
diq. to his belief that she and tIn
doctor attained success at the gunn
by a system of signals.
Grace Davis and other girls am;
uoairey lutnie stopped to chat rot
a moment with Mr. Sayler at tli<
front gat** just a few minutes befor*
lit* was slain. He was in a good hu
uior. They had left gayler abou
three minutes when they heard th>
fatal shots.
Three bullets were found in th<
banker's body and in the wall. A
fifth bullet was found embodied it
an outside wall, whereas the slayint
occurred in the house, and a fifth
empty shell tallying with the other.found
in the house was found on th*
lawn. This fact is connected by th*
State's attorney with a wound ii>
Dr. Miller's right wrist.
The doctor's explanation of his
damaged wrist t* that he was shot
by his own pistol during a struggh
with Mr. Sayler. The discovery 01
a fifth empty shell, however, has
opened tip a line of inquiry to which
the State attaches much importance
After the slioting of Sayler. Dr. Miller
was alone with the body for a
time while the others wont for as
slstance. tVhen they returned ho was
on the porch complaining of his
wounded wrist.
The struggle In the house was witnessed
by John Grunden. lie declared
that Savior brought a hatche?
into the house with him Mrs. Savior
says her husband came in unarmed
and took the hatchet from
under a couch. Edward Rlantln. n s
laborer: Dietrich II. Myor, a retired
merchant, and Edward E. Meyer. 1
president of the village of Crescent :
City, assert that they examined the 1
room thoroughly right after the '
shooting, but saw no hatchet.
Mrs. Sayler is said to have he- ^
t?-aved ro concern f\?r 'ho dispo
it'on of her hu<Mn<ls hody, which T
)> v on * he flod" wher it fell, lute
bav: expressed ?.?al solicitude
over the doctor's w ojr.dcd w rist.
r?r. Miller and Mrs. Sayler arc in L
separate cells at the jail. The doc- t<
tor is hold on a chargo of murder. T
Mrs. Savior and hor father and broth- st
or aro In custody as alleged acres- o
sories. tl
Although fosy of mob violence Is ft
no longer felt. Shoriff tleikes placed k
two e*tra guards at the jatl. 1st
>% f
STEAMERS COLLIDE
USASTKK MARS L\KK VESSEL'S
MAIDEN TRIP.
Two Steel-Hulled Ships Meet on
Lak?< Superior and One of Them
Is Sent to Bottom.
A dispatch from Sault Ste Marie,
dich., says three minutes after the
iteel steamers Isaac Scott and John
3. Cowle had collided In Lake Su erior
early Monday morning, about
i mile and a half off White Fish
Point light house, the Cowle had
{one to the bottom in fifty fathoms of
water, carrying with her fourteen
members of her crew. The Scott, although
badly damaged, put back to
Sault Ste Marie, where she arrived
Monday afternoon, with part of the
irew of the Cowle.
A heavy fog was responsible for
the collision. The Scott, a new boat,
was on her maiden trip to the head
of the lakes. The Cowle was downbound,
with 8,000 tons of iron
ire in the hold.
When the crash came, for fifteen
feet the bow of the Scott penetrated
he side of the Cowle. In three minutes
the Cowle had settled to the
bottom of Lake Superior.
A line was thrown from the deck
if the Scott to the forward deck of
he Cowle and three members of the
rew escaped by this means.
The eight of the crew who were
saved jumped into the lake, some
without life preservers, and were
ticked up by the Scott and the steamr
Goodbye, which was a short d?sance
astern of the Scott when the
-oUisiou occurred.
Capt. Rogers, of the Cowle, was
me of those who were rescued.
Until Capt. Rogers returns 10 the
tort it. is impossible to tell the
lames of the men who perished with
he Cowle.
The Scott received serious injuries
In the collision, which would pr>b;b!y
have sent her to the bottom ..Iso
' she had been loaded.
The Joliu B. Cowle was 4 4.~> feet
<>ug, iiO feet beam and was owned
by the Cowle Transit Company of
Cleveland. The Cowle went into
ominiasion in 1902.
SHOOTING AKFIt.W AT Sl'MTKK.
Ktigcne Pelt Seriously Wounded by
Joe I.. Wells.
As the result of a quarrel a few
tights ago which was renewed Tueslay
morning, Joe L. Wells, who runs
t small store near the depot, shot
tttd seriously wounded Eugene I'etit
t Sumter. It seems that Wells used
onte profane language in his store
vhinh could be heard by Mrs. I'etit
it her home across the street. She
irotested to Mr. Wells, but he would
tot quit, it is alleged, and when Mr.
*etIt returned from work she told
ilm of it. He went to the store to
ee Wells and the quarrel ensued,
ruesday morning it was renewed and
Veils shot I'etit in the right breast
ust below the liver. The attending
ihvsicians are unable to state just
tow serious Mr. I'etit's wound is as
et, and Wells is being held awaiting
he results.
NK(ilK) SIKH ITS NFKltO.
iVoninti the Cause of Probably Fatal
Fight.
'
Sheriff Rurch, of Florence, was
ailed out on Saturday night to the
ilantation of Mr. M. S. Haytiesworth
tear that town to arrest AreKtu
Ineksou for the shooting of another
legro by the name of Wright. It
ems a woman was the cause of the
hooting. For some time they had
ieen rivals for the affections of the
voman in question and when they
net on Saturday evening Jackson
inloaded a shotgun in Wright's
eg. Jackson claims that Wright
vas trying to .-hoot him when he
ook the gun from him and did the
.hooting himself. Wright is very
<erious!y wounded, and it is doubtul
if he will live, inflammation of
he wound having set in. Jackson is
iow in jail.
PARTIKS FIRF. OX NMiltOKS.
While I'laying Cards in Corn Field.
Our Was Killed.
I'M. Mariason, one of the negroes
?hot in the hack last Saturday night
by unknown parties while playing
ards in a cornfield near ltutledge.
ia.. died from the wounds Monday
uorning.
Ail inquest held by the coroner
>ver the body of the dead negro,
inils that the deceased died of
vounds inflicted by a gun in the
lands of unknown parties.
Four other negroes who were also
hot at the same time received only
light wounds and will recover.
i'cni and Itolivia May Fight.
A telegram from Valparaiso. Chile,
ays it Is believed there that war
letween Peru and Bolivia is imml
i?nt because of the disorders at Ln>hz
following the decision handed
own by Argentina in the boundary
irputes between the two countrif
The Chilean admirality said th.it
Ihile would remain neutral, but she
? preparing to send war ships for
he protection of Chilean interests.
Cave.In Kill*. One.
As a result of a cave-in in the
,one Star Lignite Company, at Como.
>n miles east of Sulphur Springs,
exas. Tuesday, one man is dead and
iu'eral others injured A numher
f miners were at. work in one of
in runs eight feet below the surice,
when ei~ht f. et of slate fell,
illing John Cadeiias and injuring
tveral, one seriously. ^ ^
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MILES AN HOUR |
O. WRIGHT MARKS AXOTHRR
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT.
Short FliKhU Will bo Made Until
Machinery is in Good Working
Order.
Orville Wright Monday evening
made a very successful flight in the
Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va..
oeaf Washington, remaining in the
air five minutes and thirty seconds,
during which time the machine at.
tained the exceptional speed of forty
miles an hour and circled the parade
grounds half a dozen times, a total
distance of about three aud a half
miles.
A strong breeze prevented the
Wright brothers from starting the
aeroplane immediately after It was
brought from the shed. While waiting
for favorable conditions, they
examined the machine carefully and
chatted with prominent persons who
had gone over from Washington to
witness the trial.
With Count von Vernstorff. German
ambassador, the Wrights talked
at length explaining the working of
the machine. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
daughter of Kx-Presldent
Roosevelt, enthusiastically examined
the aeroplane, as did Secretary of the
Navy Meyer.
When the signal finally was given
to start, the machine shot forward
and mounted gracefully into the light
breeze. Orville Wright guided the
fiver to the lower end of the large
parade ground and circled around
toward the starting point, gradually
rising higher from the ground.
Six times he rounded the course,
the machine attaining an average
speed of about forty miles an hour,
according to Mr. Wright.
After passing the crowd the sixth
time the aviator decided to make a
landing because the motor occasionally
was missing a spark. He descended
early and lighted with no
apparent jar. the machine sliding
smoothly over the ground, until It
came to a stop at a point near the
shed.
Both of the Wrights expressed
themselves as pleased with the performance.
They Intend to make only
short flights until the new bearings
have become worn down and the propelling
motor is working perfectly.
When these things have adjusted
themseives to the satisfaction of the
aviators they intend to attack their
main task, to which these minor
flights are preliminary?that of
satisfying the conditions prescribed
by the Government for the official
test.
W.WTKI) TO LYNCH WHITE MAN.
Pennsylvania Mob Sought Life of
Child's Assailant.
Only a ruse by the authorities of
Cnnonsburg and Meadowiands, near
Pittsburg, Pa., prevented the lynching
early Monday of a white man who
was arrested at midnight In connection
with an attack on I.ydla Spade,
twelve years of age, which occurred
in a berry patch close to the child's
home.
Relieving the man had been captured.
hut uncertain, a large crowd
gathered about the Canonsburg jail,
after midnight early Monday morning.
A rope was thrown over a tree
and demand made for the assaulter.
Chief of Police Swan assured the
crowd no arrest had been made and
appealed to all present to1 institute
a hurried search for the criminal.
The appeal won and headed by officials.
the crowd separated into
searching parties, who scoured the
vicinity until long after daylight.
In the meantime Jos . Johnson, of
New Cumberland, West Va., who had
been arrested as a suspect, was kept
hidden in 'he jail, heavily guarded
by extra police.
'I In- 1 ilii wis serioi .j injured
I.uter. ?s r. precautionaty measure.
Johnson was taken to Washington,
Penn. He stated he wa* under the
influence of liquor Sunday.
Al TO TI'KNS TI RTLE.
Two llirniinghnm Men Injured in an
Accident.
H. C. Dee had two ribs broken and
R. C. Stout was rendered unconsciotn
when an automobile which they were
driving went over an embankment on
the Springville road, twenty miles
north of Birmingham. Ala., Monday
morning. The car turned over and
both men were caught underneath.
Mr.-. Carrie Gil is still ho.ering between
life and death as a result of
injuries sustained Saturday night
when she was struck on South 21st
street. Birmingham, Ala., by a large
touring car. Her skull was fractured.
Farmers Held for Peonage.
\V. S. Kemp and son. \V. B. Kemp,
both prominent farmers of Wilmer.
Ala., were arrested a few days ago by
Deputy I'nited States Marshal Gates,
the charge against them being holding
persons in a state of involuntary i
servitude. Four negroes. alleged |
t'iof {ni c tfor o AO eeiiv/J ^ * ?'* *
........... ?< . . mniril in UIC tllj OI I
Mobile with the defendants. This ]
is the second arrest of farmers on 1
charges of a similar nature. The ar* !
rest of the men created excitement 1
at Wilnier and at Mobile, where both <
are well knowu. i
1
Mrs. Roosevelt at Genoa.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and her
three children, who arrived at Genoa
Sunday from Naples, were met Mon- '
day morning by Miss Carom. Mrs.
Roosevelt's sister. The party spent ' '
the morning driving around Genoa, i
and left Monday afternoon for Ml v '
Carom * villa, at Porto Naurizlo. | 1
REVOLT IN PERSIA
Portions of Government Troops
Are Making Stand.
FIGHTING IN STREETS
The Nationalist Forres Filtered tho
City and the Fighting Started at
Once?The Citizens of Teheran Aro
Wildljr Jubilant Over Success of
the Nationalists.
One thousands Nationalists entered
Teheran, Persia, at five o'clock
Tuesday morning by three gates,
says a dispatch from that city. The
Cossacks occupied the central square
and surrounding streets. Fighting
started at once and vigorously proceeded
for some time. The Shah is
momentarily expected to take refuge
in a foreign legation.
The Royalist troops, particularly
the cossacks, have taken up a position
in the central square and surrounding
the streets, and it is believed
the Nationalsts will attack
their position in full forces if they
do not surrender.
Safety of foreigners does not appear
at this writing to be seriously
threatened.
Slpahdar and Sardaha, Nationalist
leaders, are in possession of the parliament
building. A body of local
Nationalist under the leadership of
young Seved have taken possession
of the residence of Saad-Ed-Wowloh.
the foreign minister. Many of the
Royalist soldiers, including a number
of cossacks, have deserted to the
Nationalists.
The populace of the city is enthusiastic
over the advent of the Nationalist
forces. They throng the streets,
wearing red badges and offering encouragement
to the revolutionary soldiers.
There was a sharp outbreak of rifle
Are Tuesday morning near the British
legation, but it did not last long
and the casualties among the Nationalists
wer? slight. The Nationalists
are in possession of the central offices
of the Persian internal telegraph
system. Indo-European telegraph
line, the outlet to London, is
still working, but with dih culty.
The Royalists and Nationalists are
fighting in the square in front of
the offices of the company, which are
under fire.
ADMITS KILLING KMPLOYKR.
Baker's Helper I'lratN Guilty ol
Murder at Xw Orleans.
Carl Bortuna . a young German,
charged with the murder of George
Knecht, a baker, plead guilty when
arraigned Monday afternoon in the
Second City Criminal Court of New
Orleans. Knecht was killed in New
I Orleans last Thursday morning and
Bortuna. his helper, disappeared and
was arrested in Mobile Saturday
night. The State cannot accept a
plea of guilty to the charge of murder
and Itortuna was committed tc
prison to await trial by a jury.
Bortuna says that five years ago he
killed his sweetheart in Pfalse, Germany,
as a result of a suicide pact,
He had agreed to commit suicide after
killing her. but lost his nerve,
He says he served three years as a
result. Then" he came to this couutry.
Knecht charged Bortuna with being
too attentive to his wife and the
quarrel that followed resulted in the
killlug of Knecht.
FNSIGN AIKKN K1LLK1).
Officer on the North Curofinn Moots
Violent Heath.
Knsign Hugh K. Aiken, of the
United States navy, died aboard the
armored cruiser North Carolina at
Naples a few nights ago from injuries
resulting from a coal gas explosion.
He was born in New Orleans
in 1884 and entered the naval
service in 1902.
Peter Mullan, of Brooklyn, N. Y..
also was Injured slightly at the time
of the explosion.
Ensign Aiken was one of the best
known members of the foot ball team
while at the Naval Academy.
Man Chopped to Death.
Joe Pulley was chopped to death
with an axe while he lay asleep in
his home near Selma. N. C . enrly
Monday. Pulley's 12-year-old stepdaughter,
Marie Pulley, is charged
with the kilting. Pulley's threat that
he would whip the girl and dri\->
her from home, is understood to
have furnished a motive for the killing.
Pulley lived several hours af'rr
his skull had been crushed in several
places.
Heat Unprecedented.
Shipmasters of the United Fruit
Company and other lines trafficking
in the importation of fruits from Con
irai America Into New Orleans, report
that the heat of last week in
tropical waters was unprecedented.
Several ships reported temperature
:o have gone above 105 degrees. The
ttondition is said to have entailed
much suffering among sailors and
aborers in the engine rooms.
Sot en Years for Bigamist.
Christian Johnson, charged with
Mgamy by Mrs. Josephine Amelia
Trethway of Stockton. Cal., and
hought to he the notorious biganist.
Madison, vas sentenced a fen
lays ago to serve seven years itnirlbooment.
DEFERS SUICIDE
TO KAT ONE MOKK BATE OF
THE tiEORQIA FOWL.
Abbeville Muu l'lanned to Kill Himself
Before Breakfast, but Waited
Vntil After Metal.
i W. C. Hamilton, of Seville. Wilcox
j county, Ga., killed himself Sunday
' morning about 8:30 o'clock by shooti
lug himself through the head with
a pistol. He told Mrs. Fountain who
keeps house for him, that he was
going to kill himself before breakfast.
She jokingly told him not to
do that, as she was going to have
chicken for breakfast.
After breakfast Hamilton went into
his room and shut the door. Soon
afterwards a pistol shot raug out.
Mr. and Mrs. Fountain went to
the window of the room and looking 1
in found Mr. Hamilton washing his
face. He told Mr. Fountain that he
had not done anyharm. and Mr. and
Mrs. Fountain left.
In a few minutes another pistol
shot was heard in the room. Mr.
Fountain, agnlnst went to ascertain
the cause. This time lie found Mr.
Hamilton dead on the bed, with a
pistol hole through his head, the
ball passing through his head. The
pistol was clutched in his right
hand.
He leaves a wife and five children,
three boys and two girls.
A letter from his wife dated from
Griffin, Ga., was discovered at hla
side. The cause of the suicide is not
known, but it is believed to have
been domestic trouble.
For several years Hamilton had
been a resident of Cordeie, where he
| had extensive mercantile interests.
! He also owned and operated farming
lands near Seville, where his
palatial country home is situated.
He was for many years a wholesale
merchant of Montgomery. Ala.
Edgar S. Hamilton, of Abbeville,
county school commissioner of Wilcox
county, and Elmore Hamilton,
cashier of the Hank of Hochelle, are
sons of the deceased.
He was a prominent Mason, and
was buried from the Union Haptist
church. He was a prosperous farmer.
OLI> BARGE AFIRE.
Endangers Water Front at Providence,
Rhode Island.
A drifting barge, sending forth
' frequent explosions from her cargo
of burning oil. and a quarter of a
square mile of the harbor waters
? K1 n ? W ~ J
Inuiu^r 1 i uiii ult' :*cflllt? cnaangered
the entire waU-r front and shipping
of Providence. R. 1., Saturday.
Beginning; shortly after midnight,
the Texas Oil Company's barge. Harrison.
loaded with 135,000 gallons
. i of oil burned furiously, destroying
j the company's wharf and several of
. its buildings besides scorching sev,
eral of the craft in the harbor. The
. , danger was over at sunset Monday
I only when the oil had become exI
hausted. and the bark was burred
, to the water's edge. The loss Is
j estimated at $50,000.
Capt. Frederick May and Albert
, De Fosse, who were on the Harrison
at the time of the explosion and were
, severely injured, were reported to be
improving.
ilkk's STIXc; kii,i<s womax.
i Dies Quickly After Poison is lujected
in Iter Right Teinpie.
Killed by the sting of a bee was
; the fate of Mrs. Mary J. lluck, a
f resident of Garrison, Iowa. A hive
of bees belonging to a neighbor had
swarmed and lit on a tree on the
i Ruck premises.
Mrs. Ruck was sitting on the
porch of her residence when one of
the bees stung her on the right temple.
She called for help and was
carried into the house. Physicians
were summoned, but before they
could reach her she was dead. She
only lived about twenty minutes after
being stung.
Doctors who were called state that
it was the first instance, so far as
they knew, of death resulting so
quickly from the sting of a bee.
Saloons ("lose in Texas.
At midnight Saturday more than
a thousand saloons in Texas ceased
I operations because of the coming into
i effect of the law enacted at the re'
cent session of the State legislature
h'khihiiiik in*. saie or liquor. The
principal provision of the enactment
invalidates all liquor licenses issued
after February 'JO, 1909. limits the
number of saloons in each county
to one for every five hundred popuI
lation and bars the issuance of new
licenses except where the saloon is
conducted in (-injunction with a ho,H*
rtlnck Hand !<r|ters.
j Threats that his house would be
dynamited and that he and his family
would he killed unless $10,000
was paid to the "Hlaek Hand of
Lima," Ohio., was the substance of j
letters received recently by Henry
Deissel, of the DeisseMVemmer Man- I
ufactoring Company, a wealthy and ;
prominent man of Lima, Ohio.
Mr. Deissel turned the leters over j
to the local authorities and both po- |
lire and federal officials havo been
guarding the hotise.
Speedy THhI Given Negro.
Judge Hardy, of Wa> ne.sboro. '
Miss., holds the record for speedy j
trials in Mississppi. Will Gamblin, '
a negro, was arrested last week for
burglarizing a store at Wayne.-,boro.
Under Judge Hardy's decision, he was
indicted, tried, convicted and sent
to the penitentiary for two >cart? on
the same day. j
"we are nc
Property for i
you have an;
like to disposi
No charges t
made.
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OFFICER IN JAIL
Wyatt Ingram, >11'., of Xon Oileanv
Under Charges.
Official of Hiberuia Htiuk, Acuuocd of
Hclug Defaulter and Forger, Taken
to Prison iu Ambulance.
Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., trust officer
of the Hibernia Hank and Trust
Company of New Orleans was arrested
at his home, 184 0 State street,
in that city, shortly before 6 o'clock
Wednesday evening on the charge of
being a defaulter and forger. It
is alleged that he is between $75,000
and $100,000 short in his accounts.
It is declared that Ingram's defalcations
have extended over a period
of 15 months.
Ingram was said to be too ill w hen
the arresting officers reached his
home to accompany them to the police
station, but District Attorney
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?kMu**io, u^/uu uviikh dunlin uiiiV/aiuu
with insisted that the accused be
brought to prison without delay. Ho
was carried to police headquarters in
an ambulance.
It was reported that Ingram had
made an attempt at self-destruction
late Wednesday, but this is without
confirmation. It is believed rather
that the strain under which he had
labored and the recent excessive
heat resulted in his partial collapse.
The trust officer is said to have
confessed to Vice President Tool of
the Hibernia bank that his defalcation
would approximate $100,000. It
is stated that a check for $5,000, on
which Ingram forged tho signature
of a prominent business man of New
Orleans, led to the disclosure of the
embezzlements and forgeries now
charged against him.
Ingram for a number of years has
stood high in business and social circles
of New Orleans. He is a prominent
club man and has been a leading
member of commercial organizations.
He married six month ago.
He is a native of Henderson county,
Kentucky, and is '.14 years old. He
has been a resident of New Orleans
about 6 years. His family connections
in Kentucky, Maryland and other
Southern States are prominent.
Officers of the Hibernia bank state
that the loss is not sufficient to affect
the institution In the slightest.
It Is regarded as one of the largest
and strongest banks in the South.
TO HELP PKiHT WHITE PLAGUE.
Bill Posters and Poster Printers Join
Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign.
The National Association of Bill
in Convention at Atlanta, (ia., to donate
to the anti-tuberculotis fight
$1,200,000 worth of publicity. This
means that all over the United States
and Canada they will give not only
space upon bill boards, but the labor
of posting as well, to hints and cautions
to those who have or may be
exposed to the white plague. On the
heels of this generous offer, the Poster
Printers' Association donated
1200,000 worth of work upon paper
to be printed for the campaign.
The officers of the Association say
they have assurance that the railroads
and expre-s companies will carry
free all the paper for the work,
and that the allied printing trades
will be asked to do the printing
f ree.
WOMAN AM) CHILI* MISSING.
Wife and Son of St. Stephen's .Man
Gone Since Saturday.
Mrs. E. M. Rhodes, wife of A. J.
Rhodes, of St. Stephen's, mysteriously
disappeared from her home on
last Saturday night, and no clue an
to her whereabouts has as yet been
obtained. Her little son, Jennings,
aged about 12 years, is also missing.
Since Sunday all efforts on the part
of her husband and others to locate
them have failed.
Many a man wrecks his ship because
he spends all the time in the
bold with his freight.
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TRIPP LK KILLING BY NKGRO.
North Carolina Black Slays Wife.
Bix>th*i-in-I.aw ?ud Himself.
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A special to fh? Star of Wilmington,
N. C., from Burlaw, N. C., says
that early Tuesday Walter Williams.
colored. 3 5 years old. living near
that place, shot and killed HenryHayes.
his brother-in-law, his wife.
Mary Williams and then himself.
Williams and his wife had not
lived happily and three weeks ago
agreed on a peaceful separation after
dividing their personal effects, the
latter leaving for Georgetown, S. C.
He returned Sunday, however, and
attempted a reconciliation, and upon
its failure Tuesday morning, tanked
up on a so-called prohibition beverage
and repaired to a brick yard,
where his brother-in-law was at work
and fired upon him, killing him instantly.
Then going to the home of
his wife he shot her to death through
the right breast. Reloading his gun
he emptied the contents of both barrels
Into himself, dying two hour9
later.
Williams charged his brother-inlaw
with undue interference in hla
domestic affairs.
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House. Wichita, Kanaaa.
A rxxkI worm powder for horses and
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Wannantaker, Cheraw, S. C.
Falrviflw House, Clyde, N. C.?Fine
view, pood water. Rood table.
Rates $G and up per week. No
consumptives. I)r. F. M. Davis.
Wedding Invitations and announcements.
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styles. Samples free. James H.
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