The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 04, 1906, Image 1
VOL. XXIX.
BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1906.
NO. 18.
THREE KILLED.
Run Down by a Passenger Train
-at Spartaabarg,
HORRIBLE iCOIDENT.
THU SAD STOBY
01 a-Oirl Who Stuved to Toath in
Fiw York.
Taber onlostii. She
Traia Dashed Round The Curve While
^ •
The Hen Were Staudlnf oa the
! V. Track Watchiaf a Pastint
Preitht I rain and B re
Down on Them.
The Spar tat burg Jiurial says In
tha twkkilnK of an ey*, and with no
warning of their Impending fate,
throe men were hurled into eternity
on Tuetday Burning of.lftst week at
half paat eight o'cloc k wfille walklrg
down the Southern railway tracks
near" the Brawley street crossing,
being run down by train No. 36 com
ing towards the city from Atlanta.
Toe dead men are M. D. Hill, J. E.
Stone and Richard Rogers. A fourth
man with the party e ciped Injury
and fl;d in consternation from the
scene. r
Toe accident took - p'aee thirty
yards beyoLd the trestle ov< r Draw
ley street. The party of lour men
ware watering, It la pnaomed, an
.outgoing Irelghtj and heeded not the
thundering and heavy roll t.f th. f oat
mail running-bablnd time at a rapid
rate of speed toward the Spartanburg
huge engine Was on the men
before they knew of its approach, and
the probability is that none of thoee
who were killed had time >o realise
what had happened before tuey were
knocked unoonaoiius and dead, and
their bodies burled into the air wHhit
terrific speed.
The men were on the east track
coming towards tha city while the
» heavy freight waa pulling out on the
west track and while avoiding this
train they were suddenly overtaken
by the fast mail in their rear, which
shot into the party with no warning
that they oould heed, and they were
killed instantly. «
The bodies of the dead men were
horribly^ at* elated, and Hill's remains
especially, were torn and mashed be
yond ail recognition. It is supposed
that be was right In the center ol
track when struck and that tha point
of the pilot eaigbt him and hla body
waa rolled and ground under tha
heavy engine and when the first peo
pis arrived at the scene bis remains
were a mass of unreoognis ible mass of
flash and bones. There waa not a
feature or part of tha b dy that oould
be Identified by lot kirg upon It and
men who have seen mutinied corpses
say that never before have they been
called upon to witness a worse muti
lated corpse. In fact, it waa thought
that Hill's btdy waa roiled under the
t i and engine for ita whole length
remains ware found by the first
valsat the aoene of the awful
iji lying midway between the
rails.
Tha bedy of Stops waa hurled some
.twenty or thirty yards down tha track
and to the right as one approaches
the dapot, while Rogera’a remain*
were on the oppolite side, led.eating
that the latter two had been hit by
the sides of the pilot and thrown to
either side of the engine, while H i)
was caught and rolled under the heavy
— engine amHraln.
The engine whloh ran cv^r the
Htrfoken With
N*re*d Am d Aant UptU the JLat-~
ter I)t« d and Thf n Mnccam t> »d.
A d'spstch from NawYoik says a
Phils del pbla undertaker went to the
morgue and got the tody of Mary
Weeks, who was found dead at 59
Barrow street. He was acting under
instructions from the young woman’s
relatives. He tcok Uje remains to
PailadtlpMa for interment.
Tbs girl waa found kneeling by he>
bed In the basement of the Birrow
street house. She groped in her dear
fingers a broken rosary and an old
atldewed letter, describing a scene
in the basi ment room where she cam -
to her lorn ly dnd. The letter read:
‘ Spring bad ripened Into summer
and the day was'fir sp*nt when 1
again entered the happy basement. 1
found Mre H. sitting behind hr
screen, reading her B ble. She aroee
and warmed my heart by her truly
benignant smile, that threw a4%dUnc
scarcely of earth u? >n her time worn
feature^ They were only two or
three articles of furniture left in the
room. In the flrep’aoe was a pile of
old books and letters, with a broken
jewelry box c n top. * An old copy of .
Shakespeare’* plays lay open at "A
Mldann mer Night’s Dream
Mary Weeka was twenty five yearn
old. She came from PaiUddlpbia not
oog ago to nurasber aunt, wbo waa
the widow of Da Witt Waterman. The
old bouse, which lias withstood the
changes that have been sweeping over
lihe neighborhood, was once Mrs
Waterman’s poverty, but li had been
alienated. She still retained the priv-
lege, however, of occupying the base
ment, and there her niece took care of
fctJgggfcflfe ■ —
The young woman, however, was
sffl oted with consumption, and ah
lad been taking the open air cure be
fore she came to New York At one
time she became so weak that she had
to give up the task of nursing her aunt
and went to Bellevue Hospital for
reatment. When she regained a little
strength, however, she went back to
Barrow street and took care of the old
woman until she died, on Friday, De
cember 15
Nobody seems to know how the
young woman got along the succeed
ing week. She was too ill to work,
and It is believe! that she had almost
no m'tiey. Mrs. Forshay, j mi tress of
the bouse, which it now let out in ten
ements, went to her rooms on Sstur
day to tee how she waa getting along.
Soa aaya aha found the sick girl sit
ting on the aide of the bed trying to
ri a ring the beads of her rosary, which
bad bean broken. '
There were ny sheets or blankets
on tha bed; The girl was crying, and
'oily, shuttle rou^hcoatod terier,
waa sittlrg on the fl >or looking up Into
her face. M-«. Forshay found out tie
oth the dog and mistress were hun
rry and had nothing to eat. She ran
to her rooms and brought them some
Tod S ie says she thinks Mary
Weeks was too week to eat and gave
all the food to the d >g.
Tuesday morning an old friend of
Mr. Waterman sent for a portrait in
>il of the dead man, which sMll hung
on. the wan of the front batumml
room. When Mr. Forshay and the
messenger went to the room they
Tourd the young wpmin dead. Dr.
Conkllng, of St. Vlriceni’* hospital,
•aid tuberculosis had caused death
People in the house say that the end
was at least accelerated by privations.
The little dyg waa still in thefdark,
lonely room, I where his mistress died.
He whined from time to tfhie, hut
had not strength enough to make much
noise. ^ -
It Is said that Mrs Waterman and
If try Weeks were descendants to
Ospt. Abel Bradley, a notable of the
tton—the mall
which waa running About
section—of
two
No. 36,
hours
bthtad time Mid Is said to have been
speeding along the rails at rapid rata
of speed. The train was in ouarge of
Conductor Gordon and Eogineer Fo-
gua, and waa rounding a« curve just
when the accident took place this
morning.
The presence of tbe freight train,
whloh not only attraeted the atten
tion of the men walklrg along the
traeks hut made it well nigh impoaai
b e to hear any warning that might
have been given by the approaching
passenger, formed a combination of
circumstances whloh soaroe oould be
counteracted by any human agency
and the result waa a frightful kill
ing.
for many feat along the tracks
where the accident took place there
waa scsttored brains, blood, pieces
of flesh and clothing, making a sight
so guily thvt few cared to gas? upon
it. The bodies wen later brought
into the city and carried to Floyd’s
undertaking eetablithment on Church
street, whan the remains wen pn-
; pared for burial The awfulneaa of
V tragedy coming just at tha height
l‘the holiday season, east a gloom
pvar tha city all day.
Hill wbo waa tha wont
tha three, had on bis person, tax
i from Falser and it la pi
rfbat be bad been in the Tnllla
before eonring to the oity.
ill a son of a minister. Bet
Rogers who aborede at Whitney
i ago, and la a young man of a
eighteen to twenty yean and
1st Stxm Milk. He bad re la
the man Stone,
JUUad*.
TAKES HIS LIFE.
A Young Man From this State
Commits Suicide in
PHE CITY OF MOBILE,
Was Short ia His Accounts With the
Company for Which He Worked.
He Was Popular and His
Death Was a Shock to
His Friend*.
A
Toe
glvio ai to the cause of hls diatb, and
the people of this otty sod county are
anxiously awaiting furtbtr news
Immediately npon the raoelp of the
telegram announoirg bis death Mr G.
W. Garret of this city and M'. Hal T
Sloan of Ninety S x left for M bile to
escort the remains to this c ,un:y. u
was learned that the Masons of Mo
bile have taken charge of the‘b6dy,
Mr. Rice being a prominent member,
of that order. The bofy will probib
ijr arrive here next Sitnrday, and the
Interment will take place at Ninety-
5Ix on §poday following. Fr. para
Mods are .being male b; the Masonic
SCHOOL FIUUBES.
tbn.meo.ucurrloitb. Dm r, aiwlliui*; bt»*Sru(iit«r toT
aw, Charlotte Bradley,' was once
known as “Lady Bountiful, rf Green
wich village.” ——— ■ ■ > :
Brave Man It warded.
As a reward for defending the po*t-
o
against four burglere. President
Roosevelt bas waived the civil seiv ce
regulations upon the rec mmendatlon
of Postmaster General Gortellou and
promoted S. H. Alexandir from a
laborer to a clerkship In the depart
ment. Not only has th? brave North
Oarolenlan been promoted hut to ac
centuate the honor an < ffifial state
ment was Issued which gives a full
account of the deed. The attempted
robbery took place on the night of
February 6, 1901, and the offlolal ac
o unt shows that Alexander, although
of small stature, engiged In a deeper
ate struggle with toe men, one of
whom shot him In the abdomen. Alex
ander, however, continued to fight,
and snot two men. seriously IdJ irlng
them. He called tor aaslstkroi and
was found lying weak and faint in
pool of blood. The two acoompl'cas
wbo were waiting on the outside oar
rled away tha wounded burglere to
the house in which they ware arrest
ed the same night. Two of them were
banged, February 26, 1902, while the
other two received life aentecoee.
Blew Up. “
A dispatch from Newport News,
Va., aaya while the two mat tec
schooner Emma waa oomlag into Dar
ling’s Wharf, In Hampton Creek,
Wednesday, an explosion )f the gaso
line tank of the auxiliary engine oc
curred. Oapt. A. T. Nottingham was
instantly killed. Tha explosion was of
wt&mrvmrihTo,
The boat was owned at
Bnokroe, and oaed for oj catering.
dispatch fftm Mobile, Ala., to
State says E (ward Carew R e?,
33 yean of age, a local society favor
ite and a prominent clttownar, who es
timated his frietd* Ja, Mobile by the
hundreds, c >mmlUed su clde some
it me Thursday morning in the office
of the Virgina Carolina Chemical
company, of wbioS he was the mana
ging agent. A 32 calibre Smicb &
Wesson revolver was the meaniMlect-
ed by the young man and he took hL
life deliberately,'ITteneavirg a tele
gram adv.aiog persons at N aely S x
S. Cl, r* hla snlrfide
Another letter near this gave prec
tlcally the reason for suicide. Rice
was found dead In & chair where he
was sitting when be sent the bullet
crashing through his brain. Tomple
y larles, a clerk ia the < tfi > a , was the
man to find the body. Tuts was short
ly befor< 9 Aloes Thursday morning
The police were at once notified and
DettcJves Murphy and Lvoey were In
ohay ff « of-Uftf iffija and . ff whanJ-
newspaper reporters arr.ved on the
scene.
Correspondence which was on van
lently placed by young Uloe before
taking his life gave the prooable reason
for committing suicide. Els accounts
are overdrawn and it Is beoausa if
this that-;be took hla own Ufa, al
though be did not leave any message
to that«ffeot but placed the orres
pondenoe between iffhare of the com
pany relative to bia financial status
ab a position where this oould be sur
m’sed.-After a thorough nrestlg itl< n
by the detectives aud Chief Rondeau,
the body waa taken charge of by the
Roache undertaking company. —
Just what time Edward Carew Rloe
ended hla • xtatence la the manner se
looted by him Is not known, but that
It was done some time early Thursday
morning is evidenced by the fact that
bis body wss fsst becoming rigid ana
pool of blood on the tl k r beside the
chair was thoroughly congealed. Ah
other evidence was the fact that he
had taken off his ooat and placed it on
a table where It was found to b i wet,
vbiob Indicates that Mr. Rloe enter-'
ed the office during the heavy down
pour of ra’n shortly before 6 o’clock
Tbu'sday morning The surroundings
show that the\uiolde waa a deliberate
one. *
He oould have secured financial as
slstanoe In various ways had he out
made his wants known to hts friends,
those who vUifed tne office Thun
day morning proclaimed. Not one of
nis friends wss aware that he was
’n financial trotto'e until the c rcum
star.oes of his suicide became known
Thursday morning. Tnat his suicide
was premeditated is conclusively
shown by the f flowing tel gram which
young Rloe placed e -osptcu u?ty on s
table: "Mobile, Dec 23th. 1905 Send
this to H. T^ ShmnvNlnety Six, S.
i^rEi. Rice, found dead in -Affiie
Thursday morning, S goed, V rgtnia
Uifbifba Chemical Company..’ ” 4,
This told the story of • u oide and
ie following 1 tier, under date of jD.i
oember 27 oh, addressed to E A. Ta
oor, of the sales department of the
Virginia Carolina Cbem c .1 company,
at Montgomery, Ala , and signed by
the president oL the company, which
bad been sent to R oe by Mr. Tabor,
ifate tha reason for the suicide,
Uhls letter being placed In pos
Ition wi ere It oould be seen: “An
swering yours of D.cember 26th, I
lodge of this city to Inter the remains
with Masonic-bindrs.
Mr. Elward O. Rea was about 33
years of age, at d was a general favot-
I e in this city and county wlthev> ry-
one with wb m he came in contact.
Hs was g ne all / loved by the youny
people of Greenwood, and his death
comet as a dl- tnct shock to the pe< pie
f tblso ty. II i was born at Ninety
^ixandlssuiv el by two bri there,
James Hinry Rlc •, Jr., of Gr-orgetown
anl Miner L Rioe. itay tr of Ninety-
Six; a fcls er, Mre Hal T. Sloan of the
-ame place, and his father and moth
er, Mr, and Mrs JaS. Henry Rloe cf
Ninety Six.
M-. Re for a number of yeaishe'd
a reepoosih e position with the Kllsto
Pni sphate company of Ca&rleston and
•*ev red his coniction with that c >n
c rn to go into business In this citv.
hirmlrg a oor me Ion with Mr. W. P
Hall, under the firm name of Ildll &
Rice. He was closely identified wltn
the busln as Interests of G eenwcod
during tne life Of ib: concerr, and
was a general fav jrlte in soolarcircles.
He possessed s genial and whole heart
ed nature which'made for him num
bers of friends! A few years ago he
went to Mobile, Ala.,»where he ac
copte! a'poiitlon with the Virglnia-
Carollna,Chem'cvl company as' book
keeper. He was a Shriner and a
Knight of Pythias.
SAVAGERY IE MOSCOW.
Statistics Fresented t? Legislat re by
f upt. 0. B. Martin.
• /■' - v'v*-
Tbere Hm Be- n m Larger Iiereaee
♦n Nuinli r of Wtil:e I t i.IIm
Than of Colored.
In his annual report to the general
sssrmbly, Hon. O B Martin, S ate
superintendent of edutatlon, gives
interesting figures In regard to the
enrollment of pupils in ibe public
:c ols of ih? Mate,
Th re were Id the schools of the
State for the ti oal year ending Jum
30tb, 19j5, a total rf 111391 whit
cnild enand 161 272 o Jored, a grind
•otal of 302,663 Pjr thy sam? pe
rl d for the tiical year 1904 tberr
we-e -nrolled 135 527 whites and
156,568 colored, miking a grand tots)
of 292 115 This fthawf ,a gain of
5 864 wrnte c illdren and of 4,684
ooi red children.
There were 2 681 white schools and
250 negro reboots with an average
oi 52 wbi e pupils and 70 o bred to a
cuool. Toe average Lumber of white
pupils to a teacher was 38; colored, 64.
Tne wblie sch ols showed an average
o' 24 7 weeks for a srs-lou while the
ctlored schools had 15 5. T ie number
schools showed au increase of 7
white and 44 colored orer the year
preceding.
The receipt# and expend tores for
the fiscal year 1905 were as follows:
y^Ru.ipts: Poll tex, >183,901; 3
‘mill tax, T 1619 86frOTT dispensary
fund >210,971 42; ixtrs levy. >236,
109 Td; y 0tber aturces, >59 386 29; to
tal, >1 681 599 54. ’ * .
Expenditure ; . Teachers, >1 089,
28) 12; total expenditures, >1 3)4,-
629 14; balance on hand June 30,
19 4, wae >376 970
a-sjurtawgg
Bare Hints as to Horrors Rxlstlng In
theCHv. ’ f '
There are no signs yet that the end
of civil war li Mxctw Is In sight.
Revolutionists are surprising the au-
t Jonties by tbe determination which
they have constantly shown since the
fighting began A host of savsg
passions have been shown, not only by
Cossacks, but by revolutionists as
well, especially by women who are
fighting In tbe ranks of revolutionists
who have shown the greatest our
age.
The number ol casualties among
the rebels has been decreased owing
to a change in their Uc les of tight
ing from bouses instead of from barrl
cades. The cistaltles now number
about 200 a day, while twenty-seven
hcu>es Is the record destroyed by ar
artillery in one day.
Two of the chief leaders of the Mos
cow revolt have bsen arrested. The
police discovered that a general upris
ing and revolt hid been planned to
take place at St Petersburg in sup
port of tbe M scow insurgents. Fol
lowing the discovery many arrests
were mide and the movement In St.
Peteisburg has been .checked tempo
rarity. ; -■* ■ ■'
Advices from Sarat II tell of one
Instate: if brutality on part of the
Cossacks In the village of Upororl. A
Cossack tffl;3r demanded that peas
antsshouli pay 250 roublts for a
horse which had been killed aooldant
ally. The peasants replied that they
wtre too poor and could cot pay the
aanuntask*^ Tjeofflctr then or
dered Oxnacks to fire on peasants,
d spite the appeal of vie ims on tl elf
kneeji that tney be »p red. Cossacks
oeg to advise that Inclosed slip shows
that the aooount of E C. Res, agent,
U overbrawn to the ex lent of >868.
75.’*
Among hts intimate friends Elward
Carew Rice was known as ' G It”
Rice, an appellation which Is not ex^ rW ben told that she was dead. Mrs
plained but indicates determination
To them this suicide was a terrible
blow and they were at s loss to ac
count for the cause. Y Ming R oe came
to Mobile about tree years ago from
Greenwood, S. C. A short time after
his arrival there he began to make
many friends and It was not loeg be
fore he wss a.favorite In tbe ranks of
this social set of Mobile. He was a very
enthusiastic member of the ManaseaS
and Atheistic dubs and also of sever
al franternal organ i ttions. He was s
very interesting conversationalist and
made friends rapidly.
TH* NEWS AT GKEEN WOOD.
A dispatch from Greenwood to the
State lays: News was received here
today of the death of Mr. Eiward C
Rloe at Mobile, Ala. I'he people of
Greenwood are immeasutaoly shocked
at the sad newt, as Mr. Rice was for
merly Identified with thk c ty and her
Interests in great degree. He was cue
of tbe city’s most prominent business
men several years ago, being a mem
her of the firm of Hall it Rloe.
dispatches state. Unt his body was
found in tos J^MLJOt^lM^rixglaiA
mutilated mm and outraged the wo
men and praotlceliy destroyed the
inure v 11 ega Muy of the victim!
were thro ad into wel ; s bf Cossacks.
The total casualties numbered twenty-
eight killed^ aud over a hundred
wounded.
AdvIoos from Moscow say tbe sltua-
tkm Is graver than ever* Hostilities
have spread to neighboring districts
and peasants are responding to ap
peals to arm themselves.
A WOMAN SPY.
Hiu
RAj-eipts fiscal year 1904; Poll tsx,
>rstrm OT^Tttnf'YtSf; fSYH! fUT* ff j’dafilbn, #BIch, cbmblhed with
dispensary. >2^6-t96vfr2;‘extra levy,
I200,868*.25; other sources. >43 534 15;
total revenue,->1,565,135 r 74, an In
crease for 19 .dr of >110,000 In round
oumbere.
It * 111. be otsirved that for the
fiscal year 19.5 the dispensary profits
are nearly as much as for tbe year
preceding when really this does not
represent the profits of the dispensary
or the calendar year running from
January to January, and fnm the
evidence brought out In tbe dispen
sary Invest'gatton the sebefti fund
may show a Jailing, lit ln. Qlsper s wy
ordflfs f or the fi oil y.ar ending June
3)tb, 1906.
following Is the enrollment .by
jountles for the year ending June 30
1OOR• M ,
nnllanikoff, a Young Xussian
n •' Lsdy pf High Tirtk,
li'aroa Many of tbe Oerman Empe
ror'* Millteiy Scerett.^Bbe la
ii- ier '-i
Caaght and Imprlaoned.
A dispatch from B rlin, Gsrmany,
says the setaUlonal career of a spy,
Miss Z nalda Smollanlnoff, a Ruisian
spy, baa been cut short by a sente a
of flfte*n months’ imprisonment at
Lilpslo Her case demons'rates to
what methods the European govern-
tr ents resort In order to fertet cut
each others’ military srortte
Miss SmollauiuLff was a typical
twentieth century spy, pretty, dash
ing, of high birth and good elucatlon.
in St. Petersburg Mbs Smollankff
was feUd durlrg one of two ieksons
is a society beauty. Suddenly, when
the bad atiatoed her twentieth blnh
day, her fsiher lost all his money and
oommitted tuiclde. Her mother died
bortly afterward and Miss Smolianl-
n ff was left alone In the worH with
out a cent. She became a governess.
Tne life, however, wss Irksome and
humiliating to her.
After a year of drudgery Miss SmoT
llsnlrcff met by chance a young < ffi
cer of the Uu s an bear’quirtera still,
-who had formerly been one of her ad-
m’rerasnd was genuinely dlstreswd
at her uphapplness. He suggested to
her* career which 'would enable her
to live in luxury—that she become s
spy in the service of tbe Russian gov
eminent. He promised to use his in
fluence at the war offe i to obtain em
ployment for her. , Miss Smoliaolnoff
o maented and wss shortly afterward
engaged as a spy.
She was dispatched to Germany to
learn as many military secrets as pcs
si hie. S te arrived at Berlin'provided
with cxjeptional letters of r
ev ap
pearance and manners, eni bleo ber to
aobleve a great social auooeas in the
German Capital. She appeared' to
have unlimited funds and drove s’vu
1j her carriage and pair with liveried
domestics, and maintained a gorgeoun
a. a tment in prhc ly style in tbe
most fsshiblonsble street of Berlin.
Ht r soo.al oonneotions gave ber e x
eellent opportunities. She b wife h d
rate cfflc’als an army iffluers into
telling secrets which they ought to
lave guarded as j laloualy as their own
lives.' She wss so adroit that her
SHOT TODEATH.
Two Negroes Killed lor Murder-
ins • Btrnwell Farmer.
TARV N FfiOM A HOUSI
The
ie
of
A tree loss Merger ef a White Men
Barnwell Coaaly Followed Ijr
the Si Called Lyachiag ef -
* \
N Uader Arrest
l Fw Crime.
A dlapetoh from Barnwell to The
State says on Frlday morning of
#rek It was reported there that Mr
Hayne Craddock, one of. the
prominent fr m:ri of that —
the SUte had b en foo;i y murdered.
T tbat Mr Craddock, aooom'
ptnUd by two negroes, went to the
arm of a Mr. Cirdy, who lives about
two milea from Craddock's, to collect
some money owed, him by n negro
hwwd F amt Detoaco, iiyln?^!
Corays plies. When thev raanhiul
the house Craddock Cilled DxSfS
the gate and when asked for tha
ey DeLoacb b eams enraged. Hot
words were 0passed and Craddock
caught the negro in the collar. Th*
negro fhen called to hie eon to bring
him hla gun. The boy ran out with
gun In hand and came up n Craddock
from the rear, put the gun about a
foot from bis back
1905:
19J5:
Abbeville.
White.
2,835
Uol-
oreo.
5 952
how they were being
tinued ber operations unch seed for
ur years. During this period she
aseertained plans lor the defWM Of
Germany’s eastern frontier against a
possible Russian invasion, as well u
the scheme of mobllizition If Ger-
As soon as he heard of the inm—
Magistrate U mer and his •v^itable
W. H. Carter, went to the hnn W 0 (
DeLosch and arretted both him and
hla ion. Tney were tied together shd
carried to the ht me of Craddock and
placed under lock and key in an out
house with a deputy on guard at the
door. As the news continued to
spread the friwds of Craddock earns
_ w \ a from ^ rides and feeling ran high,
th* sligtetsst f * ucb 40 •*‘•01
eing duped. She con 4t 12 0 oloet Bheriff Oreeeh re-
?‘fSKV 1 ,J L 0 “ Oarter
•sklng for help, as he famed
Gh< ked to Death.
Mre, Jennie Armstrong, wife of
James T. Armstrong, of Armstrong
and Parker, Iron minufaoiurers, of
Baltimore, Md., chiked to death
Wednesdsr while eating a piece of
meat.
witness cf her agony, but was powef
less to help, ter, and was prostrated
Andets n
a L.1M-
8 8u3
Bamberg... ...
1 467
Barnwell
2 445
Beaufort
509
Berkeley
1,825 ,
Charleston ......
5034
Cherokee.
3 879
Cnester
2,180
Chestotfield
2,767
Clarendon
1,995
Colleton
3 833
Darlington
2,766
Dorchester
J^7 5
Elgefield
1,930
Fairfield......
1,768
Florence
3 156
Georgetown
1,317
Greeovlile
9 632
Grienwood
2,382
ilia pton
2 288
Horry ,.
4 520
K:rsbaw
2,2(2
Lancister
3,577
Lturens
3 297
Le6 \. *
1,893
Lexington
4 471
Marion. « --<▼?.
4,419
Marlboro
2 3:8
Newberry..
2 835
Oconee
4 4)5
Orangebu g
5 261
P-ckena. .-
4,224
Richland.......,.... *
3 6-74
Saluda ^
2 679
Spartanburg
10,419
Sumter
2,084 -
Union...
3 318
Williamstu-g.
2 774
York
4 532
4 T^uJ ' 3Q &ny Otc ime invoivjd in a war with
i.454 RUSS
5,454
2 753
4 361
3 183
3,867
8 951
1,068
4 301
1 403
4,529
2,320
3 878
1 559
4 256
5,591
3,406
2 718
4 191
4 93 i
2,554
1 262
3,091
3 064
4 853
3,006
2 322
4,1(9
3 396
4 740
la. Sne obtained sketches of im
portant fortifioatlons and copies of
weighty m litary documents. Pre
cisely how the achieved all this has
not been revealed. ^ ,
Suspicion wss first directed toward
ber by tbe su cide of s young t fl'e r
of brllllent praepecto, out of whom
Miss Smolianicff bad wormed a most
important military secret. He left a
letter giving this as the cause of his
self-destruction. The German au
thorltlee closely watched Mlss^Smoll-
aninoff from that d#y. After several
montbs they had sufficient evidence to
justify her arrest.
Tbe trial at Lelpalc wae behind
closed doors, owing to tbe nature of
the military urmri riTnumi(T It
has transpired that Miss Smollaninoff
received a salary of >15 000a year and
bad oommuoloated to Ruiala over
Q'ty 'mp rtant military secrete. Had
it b ten possible to provu this legally
she would hardly hare escaped wit|i a
smaller ^penalty than twenty years'
penal servitude. She bad ensnared
over 100 state (ffl dais and army offi
cers renArex plotted them for her pur-
our'
latrate should fnreish yon with all
men needed to protect prieoner Yon
and he will ba held respucmlhle if any-
thing happens. M
Ospt. W. w, Moore of the Bare,
well Guards and Coroner Warner left
as soon as they beard of the trouble
in bopee of persuading the mob to ire
the law take Its oouree. When that
arrived the feeling seemed to hire
abated some and tha clearer heads I*
the crowd declared that the inirnm
would receive no Injury* »Thoao mre
then return/ d to BarnwelL
that ail wss weB. m
Snerlff Creech left fmr tho Timm of
the tragedy ee soon se pw—tUf d*
met the men from BarewoU and mam
lold that there woe no danger of a
lynching. He went on, however qb.
ill he met another mao, who told him
that tbe prlaonere were botng m triad
to BarnwelL He then retraced hto
stops, coming hack to BunwoU In or
der to make ready to protest the men
when turned over to him, atm fearing
that they might try to lynch theoL
In the meantime, howerer, weifT
the departure of Ospt. Moon and
others the mob decided to
ten la their o«
deputy, who had
i.ma poeei- When she emerges from prta-
10 231 on In *5 months she will be expelled
—- 141,391 181,272
Tbe statistics as to the enrollment
by rscM In the town and country
Her husMty3*;?N*~a>. .(^em^^soboole Is. as follows: v
* Towns: .Whites, 40,838; colored,
Armstrong bad been cjd fined to her
apartment by indigestion and her
meal was carried to her room. Sbe
had been miking with her husband
while eating and a sudden cessation
In herooDveipation caused him to turn
around. He wax Stanley by a gur
gling noise. He called for aid and
began pounding her on tbe back. He
was unable, however, to dial 4ge the
meat, nor was he or any of the others
who came to bis assistance able to
force it down her throat. Dr. Craig-
hill, who was called from a few doors
away worked hard to g ve her relief
but Mre. Armstrong died In agony
before the meat could be taken out.
They Are Wratefnl*
At a special meeting of the Confed
crate veteranacimp at N itches, Misa,
33 899..
C untry: White, 160,553; colored,
127.373.
Aierage attendance > f whites in
town, 27 6J9; In coubtry, 65 026
Average attendance of colored ohll
dren in town, 21,684; .n the country,
86,116.
The vast disparity between enroll ,
mtint and average attendance suggestr),
that It might he advisable to have
school f mis apportioned upon an en
rollment based on aversg: attendance
rafther tKan upon tha number of
names on the soboil teachers’ books
This would prevent any padding of
tbe rolls.
been
the prevlous ntgbt and that
went off a "few stops" to rdelre hla.
, JHI __ toll, the mob broke tbe tocS *5
11^4 trim Germany and prohibited from spirited the negroes away, tne
a tables never seeing tbexn alive again
A search was Instituted at once end a
sequel of the broken leek wee soon
found on the hm-
about 200 yaids from tbe pabbo toed
crossing at Rsye. Tbsre lay tbe *mb*
gled aid mutilated bodice of old mae
Frank DdLreob and bis son Jobe, se
they bad bsen shot down and their
bodies riddled with bullets from nta.
tils and shotguns.
Coroner Warner held the Inquest,
the jury being composed of serea
white and live negroes. The verdict
was tbs one usual lo snob osssa. 1 a.
That the deceased mm to their
deaths from gunshot i
wounds In the hands of parries
known to the jury.”
5,804
2 799
6,8'3
5 353
3,438
3 542
6.093
ever again entering the ejuntry. Ger*
man milltrey authorities regard ber
as the most dangerous and successful
spy of recent times.
A 11 jngh Time
A despatch from Gllveston, Texas,
says without food o? water and with
out scarcely enough , air to sustain
life, Odkl Joseph Kuhlcck, a young
Germ>a stowaway, 16 yean cf age,
after Mderinf^lhfftocrlbable tortures
for a period of nearly 10 days, was
rescued from bis perilous poiltloo la
s narrow space between sacks of oof
fee In the lower hold of the Mallory
steamer Comal at 11 o’clock Tnuraday
morning. He was Immediately con
vejtd to the John Scaly hospital
where medical attention was given
him. His chances for recovery are
oonqtderad good. He says bis home
js atrSOS Columbia avenue, Jamato
LI. --
pr
Barnett to Dentb.
To be burned so that there wss
nothing to Identify him but button
on trie cloths was the fate of Dennie
Bradley, aged 97 yean In * fire on
a committee of Confederate veterans Stanton Street; Trenton, N. J., on
.y-T-i— 11 Iff " " ' —l■ll■■l^ln«ll■ - ■■I.IMIMMI i,.
Old- at Oddfellow’* Birthday.
Mfflriori company at Mo-
n whose employ be wss el,
Urns of his death. Mo
of the camp was appointed to draft
reso utlont thanking President Rjoee-
valt for his reoc mmendstlon for the
nation to taks care of Confederate
graves and for the aopplntment of
Tte General WillT.Martt£aConf<
major gepeml of etvAlkr, as
terrof^atoher
Christmas Day. Bradley had a room
in an old barn. He was formerly
well off, but lost hla fortune In tbe
panto of 1891. Slops tben bs has
Uvsd as be oould. Christmas he wss
ilbp reel]
tt sad wai
thpl bs
John Wade of Sumner, la., wbo has
the distinction of being the oldest
member of the order of Oddfellows
living, C2lebratod his S7th blrthda
Wednesday. He became a member o'
the order In 1743, when the organisa
tion was only a few yean old. Mr.
Wade Is a saddler by profession, but
has devoted himself to farming for
many yean.
DreOgir Blows Vpt - ~f-r
A dynamite cartridge, which fatted
to explode when Hesktorsoo's Pji
N.H., was Mown up
Woata It DrapDMt
President Roosevelt'sattootk* he*,
ing been called to a dispatch from
Baker City. Oregon, totbe rffsatthaa
a subscription was about to bs slnrtai
for wedding presents for Miss am*.
Tbe president stated u»> whttsbs
deeply appreciated tbe eridscss sf
good, will be hoped nothing of tbe
kind would be onderlsksn. In toes
be wished particularly that tbe reT
posed cjlleotton or^
be made. , ■ '
The British bark "J
OeptateC
et sound,
ibOwCt
tmbers
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