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BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAy. AUGUST 27, 1908
NO. 52
HIS RECORD CLEARED.
OLI> SW KETHKAKT SAVES SOLD-
1ER BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.™
^Shooting Affray t>f Tl.r^ w.„.wt-
iiig Led to Seiisationa) Ineident in
New .England. ' r
The remarkable stoty of WilMam
Howard, who was betrayed into the
arms of the law ty- his wife, and
then saved frym imprisonment; by the"
testimony of a woman he had loved,
but given up, is still the sensation of
Southern New England The ordi
nary quiet city of New Bedford,
Mass., was the center of the sensation.
fatal shot was fired at Hazelwood
park on the evening of July 127
1905. The persistent work of the
New Bedford |K>lice failed to clear
the mystery,, which surrounded the
death bt Edward DSwhurst. Clew
after clew was taken up and aban
doned. In July, 1908, a few days
after the anniversary of the shoot
ing. his b|-ide of ten months betrayed
Howard to the police, charging him
with the killing of Dewhurst. He*
"Nstory was a sensation.
The betrayal came as the result of
a series of complications in Howard a
life. It api»ear8 that on the night
of the shooting the soldier was
walking through Hazelwood park
with a Miss Grace Slrutevant. They
were assaulted by Dewhurst. who
was riot Wnoan to either. Howard
shot him in golf-defense and he and
Miss Sturtevant vowed never to tell
the secret. Suspicion was never
directed to them Then Howard
married another woman. He felt it
a duty to keep in touch with his
former sweetheart that she might
not change her 'mind, as his marri
age was la-ing kept secret. His wife
tiecame Jealous. Howard then con
fessed the killing to her and gave
this as his reason for paying atten-
Tlpli To the I or jnar "sweetheart. Lat-
er the wife came to the conclusion
that the devotion was too real. Then
came her confession to the police.
Since tjie trial the ccoupie have been
living apart. 1
Howard was ajretsed. charged
with manslaughter and tried on the
Statement of his wife of an alleged
confession. At the hearing Miss
Sturtevant testified she had l>een
with Howard on the night of the
shooting. They were walking to
gether when a man step|>ed.in front
of them and j*oinfed a revolver into
. Howard's face. He in turn pulled
his rrtrolver and fired Just in time
as the wounded man’s revolver ex
ploded as he fell She declared How
ard fired in selfe-defense She said
they did not stop to see how hadlv
TTiP^riian was hurt and that her
soldier ffffwrt wanted to eowte into
town arid surrender at once but she
Insisted that he should'not. hTen
they agreed never to tell and the
girl kept, her pledge. Howard is now
serving a term of re-enrollment at
Fort Rodman. Mass., and declares
Miss Sturtevant Is the truest, most
honest and loyal woman he has ever
met.
RESCUE HEl^PLESS. ^
Driven Back by Flames From En
tombed Miners.
THE
—According to a dispatch from Lon
don a message from Wigin says that
after recovering the- bodies of 20
miners, victims of the territic ex
plosion in the Wigin mine Tuesday
Titght the rescuets were dilveu back
by flames early Wednesday morning.
AH Hope of rescuing any of the 65
men, -still remaining alive, has been
abandoned, but the officials oi ..he
mine are making desperate efforts
to quench the flames.
Seven of the rescue party were
brought to the surface unconscious.
The scene aroun dthe mouth of the
pit is pathetic in the extreme. Half
crazed mothers and wives maintained
all-night vigil, hoping against hope
MAKES NEW RECORD.
LUSITANIA "MAKES
■
BrfsT RUN YET.
THE
Big Cunard Turbiner Crosses the At
lantic in Four Days, Fifteen Hours
and Twenty-five Minutes.
which occurred three yeais ago. The’** 18 * fht'Ir loved ones would come to
the surface alive, but when daylight
men who
camo
near Mount Ephran, near .Camden,
N. J., Sunday.
It was at first re|K>rted that the
coroner had found that death was
caused by a bullet wound In the
breast,-but a errefni examination of
Over Five Thousand People Witness-
,. ed the Accident.
SIX CHILDREN CREMATED.
Home Burns While Men are at Work
and Women at Theatre.
Six children are dead and two oth
ers are burned so seriously that re
covery is doubtful; at the H, NN ■
Schultz ranch, between Colfax and
Pa louse. Wash., resulting from a flrie
that destroyed the home Wednesday
night. Four of the dead were chil
dren of Schultz.
The other two were children of
W. W. Fox,•''a brother-in-lsw Thf*
men were away hsrt'vestlng and the
mothers were attending a theatiical
performance.
The two eldest Schultz girls at
tempted to rescue the children, but
lost the way to the door and were
forced to drop Jhe bames to make
thetr ’ own escape.-
The cause of the fire is a mystcr\
TIRED of life.
Well Known Insurance Man Puts an
End to It.
. At IxmlavlHe, Ky, t Alfred
borly. State Manager of the Bank
ers Life Association of De»‘ Moines.
and a well-known insurance manias
found dead in bed at his home Tues
day afternoon.. Death was cat/sed
by self inflicted pistol voilnd accord
ing to Coroners verdict. -Ijft a
note saying he had to trouble of any
kind but was simply tired of living
Trip to Last a ^ ear.
The round the world cruise of
the Atlantic fleet began frbm Hamp
ton Roads on December 16, 1»07;
went to worb Tuesday morning had
been rescued alive and they tvere all
unconscious, btk will recover.
The bodies of the 20 dead are so
horribly burned that they cannot be
identified. It is realized that after
the flames are drowned out It will
be’* many hours before a party can
l»e again sent into the mine owing to
the gases. The only cause assigned
for the explosion so far, is that a
naked lamp came in contact with a
pocket of gas iq one of the workings.
ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY.
or long, coursef to Avoid .T*™? 8h *H> earthquake shocks,
am icebergs Both the Lusitania „ kn ^ ked down u inore than a
hundred chimneys, shattered
Body of Unknown Man Found
Trunk Near Camden, N. J.
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Aftf>r a day of careful Investigation
the ' authorities have concluded that
there is small possibility of solving
the mystery surrounding the Identity
and death of the man whose body was
found in an old trunk in a ravine
the body made by Dr. W.f Cl Jphes.
failed to show any cause of depth. It
was found that no tiones were broken
and the man had not b£en shot, and
apparently he had not-been strangled.
The most important thing discovered
by the authorities wa^ a n^te or
memorandum in one of the trous
er pockets of the unknown. / This
is being carefuly dried and an effort
will be made to read it under a mag
nifying glass.
HAD FATAL FALL.
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days, and eighteen hours and forty
minutes, the steamer by her new
performance lowering her former
mark and the record by three hours
and fifteen minutes.
The Lusitania's previous best per
formance was made last November,
when the short course was still in
use. As the season advanced the
big turbiners, with the rest of the
great liners, began using the south
ern
er from icebergs
and her sister ship, the Mauretania,
tljen bewail a series of record-break
ing performances over*the long route
which continued until recently, when,
the vessels again sought the short
course for the fall and winter sea
son. ‘ ••
Tuned up by her many fast trips
in spring and summer, the Lusitania
begarf speeding for a record-break
ing run over sea immediately on
leaving Queenstown, Sunday morn
ing. Shri passed Haunt's Rock, from
which her leaving time is taken, at
11:35 that forenoon, and up to noon
had traveled at the rate of 22.91
miles kn hour, wh**"—fairly owt;}-^
however, she struck up a still smart
er pace, and In thejPext twenty-four
hours, up to noon on Monday, the
17, had logged the record total of
65ft knots, seven knots more than
the previous best record for a day's
run. made by her on Ju.y 6, last. In
doing this she had made an average
speed for the twenty-four hours of
25.66 knots. The run ending at
noon Tuesday was slightly slower,
but still a high.rate of speed—631
miles at 25 21 knots an hour.
The Lusitania did not attempt to
come up the bay. anchoring outside
the bar at 10.13 o'clock. •
At Patterson, N. J., Bonny Briggs,
the motor-cyclist and former ama
teur light-weight champion boxer,
was killed in the presence of 5,000
persons at the Clifton stadium.
Briggs came here to pace Jimmy
Moran in a twenty-mile motor pac
ed race. .- —'V ...-
After making four laps of the sau
cer track, Briggs was appearing to
slow up when the machine waboled
and crashed into the grand stand
Briggs was hurled fifty feet through
the air,, landing on the track. His
neck, one arm and leg were broken.
Briggs died before reaching the hospi
tal. j i
Briggs, was 28 years old and l>e-
gau his cycling career with Jimmy
Moran and Dutch Waltbr. He act
ed at pacemaker in this country for
limmy Michaels, tHe former En
glish champion cyclist.
SAVED BY OOKK LEGS.
Policemen's Artificial Limbs Enable
Him to Rescue the Other.
At Pittsburg, Ph., Harry Pinker
on,.a police alarm oprator, was able
o save a fellow loan's life Tuesday
light because he is a cripple, having
wo artificial legs. —' •
As Pinkerton was walking along
i street on the North Side he saw
Wllliajn Wilson writhing in agony at
the end of a trolley line feed wire
arrylng 1,500 yolts^that bad brok
en from its moorings. Wilson could
not let go of/the dangling wire he
had picked up.
Pinkertoj/ hurried to Wilson
(•aught him around the waist and
jerked him away from the wire.
Pinkerton s cork and wooden legs be
ing non-canduotors, the ‘current
Co pi d not reach the ground through
his i tiody. .
RECEIVES' TRICK MULE
of Democrats F^r Campaign.
Busy on Sjieeches.
A'j dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
saybfw. J. Bryan received Wednesday
frotfl the MJnnesdta Stat^ Agrtcultur
A dispatch from New York, say
with the best previous record for a
Trans-Atlantic voyage lowered by
more than three hours, the Cunara
turbine steamship l-uisitama arrive;,
off Sand Hook light ship at 10 o'clock
W’ednesday night, having made the
run across the Atlantic over the
short course in four days, fifteen
hours and twenty-five minutes. The
Lusitania's former record, which
was also the ocean record, was four
LIGHTNING GOES DOWN CHIMNEY
Houae-iw CthesWw-Stcuck "By an Elec
tric Bolt Thursday.
KILLED HIS FATHER.
A dispatch from Chester, says
Mr.—Tnn.i^. Faley s house on Columbia
street was struck by lightning Thurs
day Afternoon while an exciting elec
trical storm was in progress, and it
is a wonder that very serious dam-
age was not done to the building
and contents.' As it was a good-siz
ed hole w as knocked through the
outside wall of the building, while
on the front a clean aperture that
looked as if it might have been made
by a missle about the size of a base
ball, Is to be seen.
A cffnsroerahr^ ^UfTtB.v. of plast
ering was torn from the cptiiflfc in
one of the front rooms, and pictures
and ornaiftents on the mantel were
thrown far and wide, and some of
tnem broken and otherwise damag-
ed. The bolt seems to have struck
A FOUL TRAGEDY NEAR Kl'TAW*
V1LLE.
Mr. Harry Clark, Aged Sixty-Seven
* Slain and His Body Concealed lira
Thicket by .Ms Son. r
A letter from Eutawvllle to The
News and Courier, under date of
August 15, says that community was
very much shocked Friday- after
noon upon hearing of the horrible
death of Mr. Calvin W. Clark. Mr.
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WILL.MAKE APPEAL.
To Newspapers to Raise Monriy for
Or V . ‘ ' ■
Campaign Fund.
A dispatch from Chicago says
every Democratic and independent
newspapers throughout th United
States will be appealed to by-the De
mocratic national committee to adk
subscriptions for the Democratic
campaign fund Tn their newspapers.
ORDER RESTORED.
SPRINGFIELD CITIZENS TO COM
BAT MOB ELEMENT. •
First Troops Scut Away—-Law awl
■Order Being Gradually ItewtarwU •
was
one of the chimneys of the house
and divided, a s part passing down
the chimney on the outside, while
the rest of the bolt went down the
chimney. . •
EARTH IN CALIFORNIA.
Walls Cracked and Crockery Broken
by Two Sliocks.
about
forty plat,e glass windows in the
business portion of Eureka. Cal.*
broke much crockery in the houses
and"sent many iieople scurrying from
their beds into the streets, occurred
there early Tuesday. The damage
reported so far is estimated at be
tween 12,000 and $3,000.
The first and sharpest shock came
at 2;S8 a. m. It was almost as se
vere as the one felt there on April
18, 1905. At 3.06 another slighter
shock, was experienced, followed by
a third at 5:30 o’clock.
The first shock caused practically
all the damage- .-Besides shaking
had 'accompanied Jeff Clark, the
youngest son,-with the body of Mr.
tC. W. Clark in a wagojjjto a thicket
on a nearby plantationr called Brush
Pond.
Newton Clark then informed Mr_
W. B. Stroman, the man to whom he
was hired, what the little negro l>oy
had told him. Mr. Stroman came at
once to Eutawvllle and notified the
proper authorities. A party was at
once organised and a search com-
mened. This littie^iegro boy. with-
oOt hesitation, carrieS the [tarty to
a, thick dump of bushes and told
them.that they would find the Itody
In this tMckeK* When the party en
tered the thicket they saw what ap
parently was a pile of straw,but inton i
removal of .the upper layer^an
odor was detected, and uport further
removal of the straw the body was
found, with the face so badly mutil
ated that the person was scarcely re
cognisable.
Suspicion, of course, rested upon
the youngest son. Jeff Clark, and he
was brought to '"the scene imme-
dlately. Jmi he saBI- that be knew
down many chimneys and breaking
crockery, the trembler caused the
sixteen-foot statue of Minerva, on
the Court House grounds, to drop
her heavy staff.
SHOP LIFTER HANGS HERSELF.
Young Woman Commits Suicide in
New York Police Station.
WILL 1*0ST DRUNKARDS.
Richmond Police Publish Names of
Habitual Inebriates.
Every saloon in Richmond, Va.,
is to be supplied by the police depart
ment with a placard l>earlng the
names of habitual drunkards and
bearing The warning that the own
ers of the names are undeV the ban-
of the probation officer and must not
be allowed to purchase any intoxlcat-*
ing drinks. The cards will be plac
ed in conspicuous places on the walls
of the saloons, the names -being
written or printed large enough to
f»e easily read. Clerks in the depart
ment are now preparing the cards,
which will go to the printers next
week. Blank spaces will be left oa
the cards for the names of unfortu
nates w.ho may fah from grace BTte’f.
the original cards haver been print
ed.
Possibly acting on the suggestion
contained in a magazine story which
she had Just read, a young w*mau
awaiting trial on a charge of shop
lifting committed suicide in her cell
in the Jefferson Market prison New
York Friday night by hanging her
self to the transom of the door with
a rope taken from the prison cotf
The name given by the woman at
the time of her arrest was Marion
Desmond, but it la believed this is
assumed. Another theory advanced
in explanation of the woman's act
is that it was brought about through
fear of her identity being discovered
at the trial. . •
KING IN BIRD’S NEST.
Diamond Circlet is Found by Wo-
man While Walking.
Miss Anna Dodge, .of Brooklyn,
who is visiting friends in Caldwell,N.
J.. while in the woods of that vicini-
with friends, found a diamond
tv
ring valued at $350.
Her attention was drawn to a bird's
nest at the foot of a tree, and think
trig it had been wantonly thrown to
the ground by some small boy, pick
ed it up. In the nset was the ring.
It is set with four diamonds of rare
brilliancy. A jeweler says It Is worth
$350.
The nest was that of a blackbird,
and it is supposed the bird carried
the ring there.
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iuu .w.— — . Q«thnrl- from me .vynnesuiB oiai* iv
and the opinion ®f Ihe Society, the long expected trick | the candidate for
1,08 ^ ^ wll%hefl^no47fo“ht^Ie. which is to he the •'mascot " mised to give to
ui Mply "to wel<*me that will
be tendered it by the fc shipping and
fort* in New York harbor
Lightning Hit Him on Head.
At Darhfim. S C.. fhile loading
ing tobacco on Tkm^day. 18 rolle*
from "ttrere *’'**/'*"
^ ^ t £' bead, tearing a
hat akd glancing to tr*ei
fugir irtfeanariom aetei
■Mile
of .the [tarty this fall. The mule palga
waa taken out to Fairvlew, where it
was given a hearty welcome by the
candidate and his family.
.'"I am going to have a caucus of
the newspaper correspondents to se
lect a name for thll mascot of mine ”
declared Bryan, as
•Funds For Campaign.
More than $5,600 has been turned
into the Democratic national cam
paign fund up to date by William J.
nryan’s political paper, as the pro
ceeds of subscriptions sent in direct
ly to it by individuals, clubs aud
newspapers. This amount does not
Include any‘personal contributions
by Mr. Bryaiv.or receipts from the
publication of the paper over and
above the running expenses, which
president has prb-
the national cam
CLINTON MAN MISAING.
John Causley Leaves His Wife on
Train at Lauren* and Disappears.
The police of Spartanburg . and
Laurens are searching for John
Causley, who disappeared in Laur
ens Thursday while enroute to
Granite Falls. N C . with his wife
Mr. and Mrs. Causley left Clinton
at Laurens. Causley left the train,
saying he wanted to step up-town,
hut he never* returned. Mrs. Caus
ley came on to Spartanburg and ap
pealed to tfie police there to aid her
in searching for her'husband. The
Spartanburg officials have been in
communication with the police of
Laurens, but no trace of the missing
man has been found.
Georgia's Convict Inquiry Ends,
Inquiry into the convict lease sys
tem of Georgia ended Wednesday.
The legislative committee, which has
been operating the probe, is now en
gaged in making up its report, which
will Ire submitted to a special ses
sion of- the Legislature called by
Governor Smith
August 25.
to assemble on
Seventy-Six' Miners Periahed.
A dispatch from Wigan. England,
gays it is now known that 76 miners
perished fri the explosion and the
fire that followed it in the Maypole
mine. Finding that'it would be im
possible to recover the bodies still
in the jiit. the fire having taken
such a firm hold, the directors de
cided to flood the mine. *
relatives
and friends on Thursday morning,
but little was thought of this until
Friday morning, when a little negro
boy informed the eldest of Mr.
Clark's sons, Newton Clark, that he
Thia plan, which was made known
by Col. Moses C. Wetmore, chairman
of the finance, committee,' is distinct
from the effort already inaugurated
by the national committee to obtain
money through financial representa
tives under the direction of the na
tional committeeman in each of the
States of the country. Col Wet-
id
“We are goffljSiJLJ*** 1 ni °ney
to run this campaign
take about that. Th eRepubllcans
know where to gel tkelrs. jut matUT
what contributions they may have
to turn back to comply with the law
Every source that we can find will
be tapped and the results of our ef
forts so far are fairly encouraging,
make appeals to editors of all De
mocratic and independent newspapers
to start aulmoription lists and to
every contributor the national com
mittee will send an acknowledgment
as a souvenir of the campaign. The
appeal Is signed by Chairman Mack.
Gov. Haskell, treasurer of the com
mittee,.and myself.”.
others were fatally Injured by the
explosion of tlfe Boston boiler at
William Reid's saw mill, near Dra-
’0> Caldwell Coupty, V €., Sunday
morning at 11 o'cclok.
The dead are:
Henry Gilbert, aged -50
nothing at all about the affair. The
house where the father and the son
were living together was then
searched, and blood stains were
found upon the "set” dining table,
and on the floor under the table.
Upon further investigation and in
quiry, it was found that Jeff Clark
had gone to his brother, Newton
Clark, early Wednesday morning,
and tried to borrow his pistol. This
Newton Clark refused to give him.
and he went to a store nearby and
bought a can of concentrated lye.
and then returned to his father's
house.
Jeff Clark prepared breakfast for
his father as usual, and when Mr.
Clark had begun to drink bis coffee
he stopped suddenly, and said:
"There's something wrong with tnis
eoffO*. for it is barely warm and my
mouth has begun to blister already."
Jeff Clark left the house then very
hurriedly,' but returned during the
day finding his father still alive.
Therefore, It was concluded that the
fatal shot or shots were fired on the
following morning.
Jeff Clark was removed from the
town Jail Friday night, and carried
on the Coast Line train to Elloree
for safe keeping, as there was some
fear of lynching. Later he was tak
en to Monck's Corner, and put in
jail, along with his mother, who is
thought to know more of the mur
der than she is willing to tell.
Mr. A W. Clark was about 67
years of age, and lived on the place
. , u , of Mr. W. B. Dantzler. Jeff Clark is
Thursday morning and changed car? . . r—
. . .r. . i .u . T~~^B»out 21 years of age, and thefe has
TWO KILLED BY EXDLOSION.
in
Saw Mill £|i K ine- Holler Bursts
North Carttlina. •
Two men lost their lives and two
Fred Jackson, aged 21.
The fatally njured:
Mm. Reid, owner of the mill.'
Hugh Reid, his son.
The dead and injured ar ewhlte
and were working at the mill when
the explosion occurred. It is said
that Gilbert, who was engineer of
the plant had the safety valve down'
and high pressure on tH* tmllr caus
ed the explosion. The holler was
thrown fifty yards, and the plant was
wrecked by the force of the explo
sion. Gilbert and Jackson were
horribly mangld. Reid and his son
in addition to receiving terrible
wounds from the flying wreckage
were badly scalded, and neither will
live. Reid is a-well-to-do citizen' and
lives sixteen miles from Taylorsville,
on the Southern Railroad.
City Under Strict Surveillance.
Mlth a special grand Jury voting
true bills against men who partlci-
Ip&ted In the rioting at Springfield.
IB., on last Friday and Sauroay
nights, with the coroner holding In
quests over the victims and collect
ing evidence against the rioters for
the grand Jury and with the strict
enforcement of law and order in all
parts of the city the first troops have
sent away.
1 ir len
o clock
Wednesday
morning
Chicago.
Coroner Woodruff continues tak
ing evidence at the Inquest over
Scott Brbwn, the first negro lynched.
The doors of the Inquest room are
kept locked and newspaper men are
excluded.
The funeral bf William H. Done-
Kan, the elghty-year-old negro, who
was lynched by the mob on Saturday
night, was held from St. John's hos
pital Wednesday morning. Not more
than a dozen persons attended the
service, as all of the victims of the,
family are in Chicago, where they
fled the night of the lynching.
Now that George Richardson, the
negro, has been indicted for attack-
‘ng Mrs. Earl Hallam. the state's at
torney declares he will make every
effort to try him at once. The negro
members of the Springfield fir* de
partment have i»een discharged by
Mayor Reece "for the good of the
service."
There" has been severe friction in
the fire stations ever since the riot
of Friday night anq the mayor
Thought It best to, rid the depart
FEARED BANKS; BURIED MONEY
nient of negroes and avoid trouble
among the firemen. The negroes
say they are glad to get out of-Jhe
service, as they realize that their
association with the white members
of the department Is impossible.
Many persons are being held by
the police for participation In the
Hots. According to the police. In
dictments will be returned against
each one.
Two htit\dred men, women and
children slept in the state arsenal
Tuesday night, guarded by troops.
While there was no disturbance of
any kind In any part of the city
these people have not "yet recovered
from their fright of Friday and Sat
urday nights and are afraid to remain
at their own homes during the night
All left the arsenal early Wednesday
and returned to their homes.
ArkauMes Man's Decayed Fortune
- Haved for Him by Woman.
A dispatch from Washington,
says of $10,000 in decayed green
backs sent to the treasury depart
ment for redemption by O. D. Earl,
of Morrillon, Ark, all but 25 have
been identified and a check for $9,-
975 was mailed to Mr. Early Friday.
Fearing the banks were unskfe
Mr. Earl buried his savings in an
old pail in 1 904. Recently he dug
up his treasury only to find that the
bills were so decayed that he could
not discern tnelr numbers. All
that was left of the roll was a bunch
of pa|>er resembling a package of
Iried leaves, with here and there the
torn end of a note displaying a fig
ure. Mrs A. E. Brown, the burnt
money expert of the redemption divi
sion. ^as given custody of the un
recognizable niass when Mr. Earl
forwarded what was left of his for
tune to the .treasury department.
After much tedious work she has
succceeded in identifying most of the
money. ""
been apparently no ttl feeling between
him and his' fa{her. Jeff Clark the
murderer, is a "bright mulatto, his
mother is a negress, and Clark, the
aged victim, was a white man.
It was reported by Special Con
stable B. Press Winter, who carried
the Clark woman to the Monck's
Corner jail, that a determined ef
fort was made near Eutawvllle to
lynch Jeff Clark, the crowd even go
ing to the length of putting a rope
around the accused man's nefck. Mr.
Winter also says that on the way
over Jo Monck's Corner from Eutaw-
vlHe the woman told him enough of
the crime to indicate .that young
Clark is the murderer of his father.
An effort will be m^de to secure bail
for the woman, but it is not bought
that voting Clark would be wiling to . , . , ,
leave the safety of the county jail\ w h 8t thrilling Experience of sleep-
FOHE8T FIRE SPREADING.
Fate of Scattered Rancher* I*
know*.
Ul
Forest fires on Vancouver Island
are extending In every direction, and
the latest repffta Indicate that the
settlapienta aMU threatened. In
gogsflah district, 20 square miles
ate ahlaae.
The fate of the scattered ranebera
Is unknown. The flames are ad
vancing on Coldstream and 150 In
habitants are back-firing to aave the
village. Several lumbei^campa have
been wi|>ed otll.
Telegrffph ancf telephone messages
state that the eastern aide of Bow
en Island is a mass of fire . In one
settlement 80 souls were scattered
almut the section which has been
swept by the flames, but It la im
possible to ascertain their fate.
BLOW FROM BOTTLE FATAL.
RATTLER IN GIRL’S BED.
Timely. Discovery by Her Brother
Saved Her life.
, Miss Mildred Crawford, a beauti
ful 16-year-old girl living near Staun
ton, Va., had the novel and some-
an iinense rattlesnake a
to Ta«e probable vtlence "outside.Pf* wi,h . .
even if bail would be granted. ' /!P* ht or ,w ' 0 ag0 '
Her brother entered -h^r room and
a three-font rattler colled on
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE
Murderer Adjudged Insane.
At Pensacola. Fla, a lunacy com-
mission Wednesday adjudged Clifford
niamaik Touart tnaane. Touart ia the man
he led the animal 'who shot and killed bis wife B*#
Ten Reported filled. .
At Grafton. W. Va., Ten persons
are reported to have been killed and
many others injured Wednesday
when a passenger train on the Pen-
nsboro and Harrisvllle Railroad, be
aring excursionists from the Richie
County Fair, one mile from Penns*
tKiraf broke down.
Killed in Runuwuy at Pickens. J
Pickeps was saddened Wednes
day* evening by the death of J. E.
Harria. He waa out driving and hit
horse ran against a telephone post,
.thrnwtu* hint out and breaking his
Since nack.He died suddenly.He wka rn effi-
Home of Mine Ross Dynamited by
Strikers.
At Birmingham, Ala., the home
of homas Dugan, a mine boss of the
Tennessee. Coal and Iron -company 5 ,
#1 Pratt City, was dynamited at
10:45 Wednesday morning. The
explosion practically demolished the
front ^pHion of the house. Two of
Dugan's daughters were rendered
unconscious, but are not seriously
hurt. The other members of the
family escaped unhurt.
A'liout 1 o'clock dynamite was
thYown on the porch of Andy Davis,
a negro non-union minow* ut the
occupants were noL ipjurwftc«—^
Walker Finalay and A. J. Jones,
negro strike miners, were arrested
charged with the otitrage. For a
time it was feared a lynching would
»bou! • U-B fcr » h»l'*r “ThW M.rro.'re,aH. but tbf duputlt* dluputthud
found
the bed by ihe side of the young
lady, bqt soon succeeded in rescuing
his sister from the dangerous pre
dicament without disturbing the rat
tler. and now the girl wears the
snake skin around her waist as
l»elt.
- CHAFIN' NOTIFIED.
Made a Short Speech Saying That
He Would Accept.
A dispatch from Chicago, says
meeting at which Eugene W. Chafinof
Chicago was formerly notified of his
nomination as the prohib.GOn candi
date.: for president was held Tuesday-
evening. The notification address „ „ ^
was made by the secretary of the the wife of a Prominent farmer
Tw o Anderson Negroes Quarrel and
a Killing Results.
A peculiar homicide occurred at
Anderson Friday when Floyd Tuck
er was killed by Harvey Thompson,
both colored. Thompson was em
ployed at the plant of the Anderson
Ice Company. Tucker visited the
plant to get a load of ice. . The two
became engaged ?n $ controversy
because one of the blocks of ice they
were loading fell on Tucker's foot.
Tucker cursed Thompson severely,
so it wap said at the coroner's in
quest. whereupon Thompson clinch
ed him.. They were separated; but
got together a few minutes later.
Tucker had an iron rod in his hands
and dealt Thompson two or three
blows. Thompson had* a coca-cola
bottle in his hkhd and rapped Tuck
er over tfie Head three time*, the
third strike shattering the bottle to
pieces. Tucker arose from the
ground where he was knocked by
Thompson and-got in his wagon to
drive off Soon after getting in the
wagon he became unconscious and
was hurried to a drugstore tor at
tention. He died two hour* iater"
without regaining consciousness.
Thompson is in the county Jail. *
Aged L»dy Commits Suicide.
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temperance committee of the Presby-.lHanson.- Fl^. committed suicide
terian church of America. Follow- Tuesday at
ing. the notification. Chafln delivered ter awoke
his speech of acceptance. In which morning, end found
he outlined the policies for. which sing from the room. PWlMp*-
make the cam- was found tn a well, wltk
broken.--
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Mrs. Peter Phillips, 60 years old.
r mT-
i prohibitionists, will
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