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Barnwell People.
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BARNWELL, S. C:, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, UM>2.
NO 10.
DIED TOOETHER.
A Shocking Tragedy and a Revela-
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tion in Omaho, Neb.
A PREACHER AND A MISSIONARY.
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Fonnd tn Each Other** Arm* Cold in
Death in the Preacher's Study
In Rear of the Church. •
A most shocking tragedy was enact
ed in Omaho, Nebraska, on Tuesday
night of last week. Clasped iu each
other's arms, lying on the floor of the
pastor's study in the German Baptist
Church early Wednesday, Oscar Bern-
des, janitor of the church, discovered
the dead bodies of the Rev. W. ().
Kabe, pastor, and Augusta Busch, a
missionary and assistant to the pas
tor. Death had been caused by as
phyxiation. The roopi was lilted with
gas, a jet and a burner of a small
stove being partly turned on. The
bodies were lying ua the floor, the wo
man's bead being pillowed im aumr
cushion* They evidently had lata la
that pnalllus for several twsira There
seen* to be MtUe <fc*wHt that death
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A TEXAS FIGHT.
Three Men Killed in a Shooting
Affray at OrangC’
Three men are dead as a result of a
shooting affray at Orange, Texas,
Wednesday and great excitement pre
vails in that community. The dead:
.Jeff Chenault. City Marshal Jordan,
! Tony Jones.
Bad blood is said to have existed
; bet ween Chenault and|jVill Harris, a
j well-known young man, for some
I time. Wednesday the two men met
and after a war of words Harris
' secured a double-barrelled shot-gun
J and killed Chenault. Harris ran to
i escape the lire of Chenault's brother,
I but was appreliodcd by City Marshal
Jordan, who was cli«e at hand. While
the officer was conducting young 11 ar-
; ria to Jail he was shot and killed and
his prisoner escaped. It ia not known
, who killed Jordan, altitougb there
■ were a large number of people oo the
street at the time of the tragedy.
. Will Harris was later arrested ami
! placed In jail At this luncture hta
; brother. Jiauw Harm, started tor a
near-by above, do-taring that he would
' pr* Kwrr a wvwyai
As he
MUST BE INSANE.
A Wealthy Young r oiitonian Accused
ot Committing
FIFTEEN MURDEROUS ASSAULTS.
Two of Them Resulted Fatally.' He
Ha* Been Insane, Rut Was
Released From Asylum
as Cured.
A dispatch from Boston, Mass.,
says in connection with the li> mur
derous assault cases which have occur
red in Cambridge, limoklin. and Sxn-
erville within the. last few months,
two of which resulted fatally, the
State police Wednesday arrested Alan
G.Mason, of llawton. a well known and
wealthy bualneua man. a mam her of
the piano manufacturing brio of Ma
son A Hamlin, a prominent club mem
ber and a Harvard graduate. The po
Iter auapect. fh*m evidence In thetr
hands, that Mr. Maw« baa teen In-
mlvad In nearly all the raarr referred
tm m the etrvwmatnnoea vt each have
tewi ten siadLar Mr Musjt |* a
man about 21 years of age of whom
the pawn broker bought It for 14. . A
burly colored man, evidently a com
panion of the other, had been waiting
outside the shop while the trade was
beipg made and as soon as it was com
pleted, he entered and took the money
which the proprietor passed over. Both
men then departed. _
Continuing their investigations,
the officers made startling discovery
which will have an important bearing
on the case, to the effect that the
watch of Mias Agnes McPhee of .Somer
ville, auother "Jack the Slugger'' vic
tim, had been pawned at the riame
Cambridge street shop on Oct. 3, the
day after her murder, by a white man
whose description tallied exactly with
that of the man who brought the Mor
ton watch to the pawnshop Saturday
night. The descriptions of these men
is said by the police to agree to a
| striking extent with that of the sus
pect Mason, and the pawn broker will
lie given a chance tomorrow to identi
fy him, if pumibte. as his visitor.
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COLUMBIA 8 GLASS FACTORY
THE ELECTION.
SHOT FROM THE REAR.
There Were No Great Surprises in
' the Result
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REPUBLICANS WIN THE HOUSE,
It Makes Towa of AN H lads of Hot lies
Stack Stay.
Rut the Democrats Made Rig GjiIiih
In Nearly All the Stale**. The
South Once More Solid.
The election on Tuesday, 4th in
stant, resulted In no great sui prises.
In New York tiie Republican candi
date for governor claims his election
by a small majority, which the De
mocrats refuse to ctmoede. The result
Is so close that there will probably be
• content. In alnxwl all cities of the
state of New York the Republican
party organ I talk ms went Ui smash br
ibe aasault of the labor vote. The
Pggkrrata win four omgreasniew in
the Bute
IVvinv packer ha* lawn elected guv
erwwr of iVnaay I *aala fag a phsrainy
• >f at least la . uuu This was (tone la
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I The Assassin Had Undoubtedly l.ain
In Ambush for Victim.
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No clew to the murderer of Gugie
I Bourquln and Fred Taylor, the old
j negro who w;is killed with the planter
j Wednesday near Savannah, as told of
' in the newspapers, has been discov-
|ered.
Officers visited the scene of the kill
ing about six milt's from Savannah,
and made every effort to gain a trace
of the murderer, but Vrithbut success,
i Buckshot holes in the back of the
| buggy iu which ikuirqln's body was
found, and In the holy itself, showed
that he had been shot from the rear,
probably by some who had lain in am
bush. The negro had Jumped from
the buggy and run on the track of the
Seaboard Air Line. He was shot down
alao, from the rear, and sometime if-
terward* a train passed over hi* body.
The conductor thought his train had
killed the man. and so reported.
Guillemaln Bourquln. one of the
sons of the murdered man, aald of the
jkttUnt: "My father had a great deal
•if trouble with pot hunters and trea-
pamrn uo his pi are, and I haw no
duutA that aumr white man slew him.
' I do not believe it was Hm work of
negnew I have a clew that 1 will
ww, and If may help at hi wav
ing Ifcta myvdeey "*
Mr. Mountain waa ouaweewd with
the <4drat tamBire <4 the (take, la
fert fcoAwg a dweewdawl ed Mae of
* rfgiaal aefllm. He waa buea la
Nataaaah la l*JT aad had weeded
three ever etaor He wsa nmaaefad
•rta (he * kutre- railnmd tal es the
•wr an ueaheev dftee U|p wae. with
the Svm <.ffihWed A Kmewaia, faw
AN EXPLOSIOr
Caueee a Frightful Diaaatar ia thd
Heart of a Crowd.
ELEVEN MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT
And Fifty Injured, Maav of thaw
Fatally. Panic and Ntampede
Fullowed. 500 Policemen
Called Out.
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By a series of expliaiont of pyrote
chnic bomba and other fl reworks Tues
day night, among the vast multitude
gathered In Madison Square In New
York City to witness the aaoeoeloo of
an airship and the display of the elec
tion returns, eleven persona were killed
outright, many being blown ala*at to
pieces and at leaot fifty Injured, away
of them fatally.
It la estimated that at laaW M.ooe
i persona thronged the square at the
i.-Tv Hh- uhtcb wereeur-
ijmded by a frightful panic la whteh
* buiMlruda were thrown down and
train pled under foot Five
the city were laalantiy i
1 the dying and tlmai
lajwwd were mwoewd tn lha
1 la kddrtkm to the
memded weee When awwy fag
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Mr. W W
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Moore waa
yean ago.
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Audeeuou H«.»
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lw happiest man In Aiuler.
at the prenent uriling la
Moore, a prominent dti-
lledmont section. Mr.
married in 197«—Just 2b
He and his wife have
lived happily together ever since, but
nochildr«ui had ever come to hlcsAhis
iiome. Mr. Moore is on the shady
side of the half century mark and his
wife Is in her 50th year. He r.ad
about made up his mind that the fates
had been unkind to him. and that he
would remain childless, but it is a
long lane that has no turning, and
l^st Thursday night his wife present
ed him with twins—a boy and a girl.
The mother and little ones are getting
along nicely, and Mr. Moore himself is
in gdod shape. These facts are given
by people of that community, and
Mr. Moore himself was in the city?
He is naturally overjoyed on account
of his gteat good fortune. "The peo
ple of t^e city of Anderson are build
ing cqttpn mills and trolley lines," he
said,“but the piedmont side of the
county Is not to be sneezed at. 1
wouldn’t swap my fortunes for all the
cotton mills and trolley lines in the
country."
Wtorm on (.old ('<*•*'.
No lew than eight own were drown
ed. three vcmefai driven asiiocc and
practically every Lghtt? «w the N<«w
bench were wmkvd iu a etunw that
CMamewcrd Tuewl.j. N«»« 4. awdcww-
tlnuad Uudughrtbt the uai The tarta
ITT ff i wHBl
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publltty In the killing atxurded to
each. Herman, win* la aald to have
fired the gun that killed bla father,
implicate* hla younger brothers
equally with himwlf, while they put
the blumc on him. The only motive
for the crime given is that the fattier,
with whom the children had lived
alone since the mother's death, had
not treated them kindly. Neighbors
of Che UtMCheii say they know of no
mistreatment on the part of the
father.
Amount ot Cotton Dinned.
A report issued 6y the census bureau
Wednesday places the quantity of the
present crop of cotton which had been
ginned up to October 18 at 5,925,872
commercial bales, which is estimated
to be a little more than DO per cent of
the entire crop.. These figures were
collected by the agents of the bqreau
and 29,314 ginneries are represented
by the returns. The following figures
represent the amount ginned in each
State by hales: Alabama 585,783
Arkansas 300,800, Florida 29,779.
Georgia 900.949, Indian Territory
201,019 Kentucky 284. Louisiana 309,
J08. Mississippi 559.120, Missouri 14,-
903, North Carolina 303,029 Okla
homa *4.099, Stulh Carolina 001,431,
TeiiBcsft* 121.190.'Texaa 1,781.797,
Virginia 5,625.
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and baa bewn a stark takc-r al Ihr Ma
win M Hamlin organ factory at Utw
bridge Mawm liaa a mother and thrvr
hruthrra. Kdwanl Falawr Mawm. Hen
ry Lowell Maaun and Ikuilel Gregory
Mawm. He is Aooualn of Jtihn Mason,
the well known actor.
Maaon was detained at the station 1
house until nearly 3 o'clock, when ho :
was taken to Cambridge where he will)
remain undersstmellance by insanity
expt'rts for a Ifme. Throughout the
examination he absolutely denied that
he knew anything about the assault
cases The police assert that four or
five witnesses declare positively that
they saw Mason in Waverly Saturday
night.
Mason’s brother says Alan is in bet
ter mental condition than he was some
time ago but he realizes that Alan is
an insane man. One fact considered
significantly by the police is the ad
mission that it has been the habit of
Alan Mason to take a car ride almost
every evening before going to bed.The
ride was taken as usual Sunoay even
ing but Mason declares he did not go
in the direction of Waverly.
Later developments in the case is
very damaging to Mason; It was
announced that the watch of Miss
Clara Marlon, Mason's last victim,
had been found in a Cambridge street I
pawnshop where It had been pawned
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• of gUm a day of 3
irrn 175 and 2UO gru
ng to the site of It
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cral water, l*eer and whiskey bottle*.
The factory's payroll amounts to
aiiout 14,000 a week. *
The plant consumes 10 tons of coal
a day, and has lieen keeping a supply
without difficulty. Three cars of
sand week are necessary. This
tomes from Killian's in this county
and is washed, screened and dried by
the Killian Fire Brick company. The
coke used in the lehrs for annealing
the ware after it Is blown is obtained
from the gas works here. Two car
loads of soda ash per week are used;
this comes from Syracuse, N. Y. The
glassmakers’ lime comes from Toledo,
(>., and the manganese, afepnic, anti
mony and other ingredients come from
various portions of the west. The
factory runs with an improved system
of gas produces, and a uniform heat
of 4,000 degress (Farenheit.) The
box shop has a capacity of 1,000 boxes
per day, but owing to th€ difficulty of
installing the electrical machinery it
has only been in operation for a few
dayB,*'TUmiBg out half its capacity.
The box Khop use* about three cars of
•4 by a young colored man. and^ lumber a week when running full
The factory now luu blown
leni, ready for delivery, at the
ry. about I2.ik*i or I.Youo bot-
■bicti win la* delivered to the
Nevada ha* probably elected a Re
>uM lean D* a Agree*.
»acn*rdlng to tiie atae of the Tbe Carlfic naul alalea are gener
ic, and giving a daily output work *ny Republican and the Republican*
the market about ll.25o The m California have elected their atate
** of good* now t«ing manufactured ; ticket and *tx of the eight repreeeuta-
»t* of cura*uoIk. Mala water, min-
Mira
nnaa Werio***!**
of Um rice to ka
he I
ttecoaery at once led tow general
rvh f**r Uii* man by the entire
we force, but with*art avail. Hut
rr devetopearnu were far more
teimaai When ibe pawa beaker ■
<4 Mi
Rliode laland ha* elected a I>enH>-|
crati** governor and two Itemucrtic
memtiera of oongrea*. This la a sur
prising result and is due to the .up
rising of labor in the cltlca of Provi
dence and I’awtuoket.'
The South is once more solid. The
Republicans carried very few congres
sional districts in this section.
An Unexpected Victory.
The Columbia State says the Demo
cratic victory in Rliode Island was al
most entirely unexpected. If the
Democratic campaign managers made
any claims of carrying that State they
were generally deemed too unimpor
tant for attention. Yet it seems that
the governor, the lieutenant governor
and the congressman are Democrats
while the lower house of the general
assembly is evenly divided between
the two parties, the senate beinjuBtlll
strongly Republican. Rhode Ifrawd
was once considered a DejifocratlA.
State but of late years has beeir
abandoned to tbe Republicans.
may be that this little vIctor^T* an
entering wedge for the Democratic
oarty In New England, where H ha*
much to regain.
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ewitimal
l pvwMni aw*, owing ta Inn Moral
A Mrtvtai rate* Umt UUppm are
iged lo pay. The find riot akewmer
1 ha Um pcuviocaa of Um Chasa*
mural ng. The bulk
1 up*wed uf In Ibl*
maooer will be purrhaotd In Mam
UrporU from variuua place* in Um
arrhlpelago *how a general condition
of poverty and famine, mulling from
the loBurrectl**). cholera and rinder
pest. The aulhoritlrw of the /amba-
lea province* have appealed for aid in
introducing American agricultural ma
chinery and In ImporUng caribaos
(water buffaloes) the rinderpest having
killed 26,18)0 of these animals this
year.
The shippers have objected to the
government importing rice, and have
offered Governor Taft a lengthy expla
nation In justification of the prohibi
tive prices prevailing for rice. They
say in effect that the Philippine crop
is always Insufficient for the home de
mand, and that the present crop in
Indo-China is a failure,tho-grain there
selling 50 per cent, higher than It did
last year. The Asiatic growers have
issued a notice that no rice will be
available between December and Feb
ruary.
The prices of hemp caused the Fili
pinos to neglect their scanty rice cul
tivation. The shippers deny that
there is a pool to control prices, and
declare that the high freight rates are
the natural result of tbe fluctuating
currency. The price is enhanced by
the long quarantine, Increased wages
and the high duty. Ttiey asgert that
the local tonnage Is Milk-lent to han
dle tbe buMioem.
Uoklen Mtreeta.
For mme lime past Um authurlUea
uf Allman la Um Cripple Creek dis
trict, which enjoy* Um dmUarUon uf
bring Um higtoeat imwporatad town
id have fagrn paving Um
l a*ck taken from Um
i n# the t^nrmnemt mine
isWad a» me
loom sari and SMn mi
«f Injnead ww
>>«wwe and IIm man
Mad wan a putMnmgl
tag efcwe tn the qn
Dud v wne f right/ally
A fora* uf fidt pu
oh the eput kh
elan* and SM aura
from Um hinpluh.
A’
of Itt
The Columbia Record my*
chueette paper* are tryiag to
why Hooker Washington »
was forced to leave Wellesley i
One paper attempt* to explain It bp
tbe fact that the Southern girls la
the college absolutely refused to nmo-
clate with her, and adds that eome of
the Northern girls "took up" with
her. There Is oo disputing about
tastes generally, so the Northern girts
are welcome to theirs In this matter;
but the truth of it is that Um
generality of Northern girls an not
much different from their SoutiMm
sisters in this respect. The faculty
of the college is acting very foUlshly
in trying to make it appear that any
thing else than race prejudice, If you
please to call it that, caused her in
jection as a student after the experi
ment had been tried for one term.
Take* Her Own lAlto.
A special dispatch from Lancaster
to The State says Miss Ida Craig, a
young lady about 2d yean of age, liv
ing about eight miles In the county,
put an end to her life by drinklaf
carbolic acid Tuesday morning about
3 o'clock. She had been nting the
ae*d lor tobtchaehe, and the suppd
tion la that after retiring for the eight
she drank the coo tents of the bottle,
which was a small use with only a
*asall quantity of the add diluted
therein Tbe
com plaining
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