The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 19, 1908, Image 1
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VOL. XXXII
^HARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1908
murder mystery TRAGIC MURDER
Her Younger Sister.
SOLVED BY THE STRANGE PRE-1
SENTMENT OF A SISTER.
tor Carmack in Streets
of Nashville
SAVES CHILD’S FOOT
BY POLITICAL RIVAL
) . ... ;
By Consenting~ to Have One Hun
dred and Forty-four Inches of
Skin Remove<f* From Her Body
to be Grafted on the Little One’s
BodYjVftcr an Accident.
Charleston. Nov. 14.—The Even
ing Post says Manila Berger, foilr-
11 teen years old, the daughter of Mr.
-y Martin ^C. Berger, the well known
y ' cigar nalesman, of, 419 King stroat,
has now about recovered from the
operation which she underwent two
weeks ago to give up 144 square
inches of skin that' was grafted up-
on the flesh of her little sister,
Eleanor, the three-year-old child who
lost her right leg and a part of her
left foot through being run over
by a trolley car in King street on
the ewejiing of September 19. The
_ victim of the trolley car accident is
also improving and was on Sunday
brought home from the Riverside
Infirmary. _
For fortitude and self-sacrifice,
the act of little Miss Mamie Berger
deserves a high place among the an
nals of heroism. Aliout two weeks
ago the family physician of Mr
Berger ( announced that while the
wound on the right' limb of little
Eleanor was healing well the left
. ’oot showed a startling condition, for
hi* flesh proved unable to grow it*
Sifn again. Therefore it would b n .
nicessary to try to save-4he chim
. fron horrible suffering, and give hoi-
. as gxx! a foot as .possible by attempt
ing i very difficult surgical opera
tion-grafting skin upon the stump
. » Whout hesitation the elder sis
ter, >f the little girl, Mamie Berg
er, 'egged that she Ik* allowed
wounds were clean ones and I do"
not thinks they were the fatal ones.
‘The third bullet, which I con
ceive to be the fatal one,'; was in the
neck. The wound was one and on >-
hall Inches to the left oXthe.median,
line and one inch "below the hair
line on the neck , posteriorllv.
The bullet entered the neck and
made an exit from the mouth of tin
deceased. The bullet was foundym
the streets under his longue at the.
sxit of the wound. I think this was
the fatal wound. Two teeth wer
-aiso broken loose^
“I think there were two bullet:
fired from Carmack's gun.’
Result of Conspiracy.
Both the Coopers and Senator Car-,
crime that farmers Hvlng in the vi-J CrlHclseil in Tennosspoan «»f Which ha\e nian.v frit nds Inn and
thi
He Recently Became the Editor. .
Nashville, Tenn., N^v 9.—As a
sequel* to the recent bi* f r Democrat-
A BATTLE LOST many miners killed
A War lust Begun, Says William
Jennings Bryan,
BY AN EXPI/OSION IN A GERM W
’ MINE.
Who Carries Searchers to the Place
Where Her Brother's Body is
Buried on Neighbor's‘Farm.
Chicago, Nov. 15.—Out on a deso
late little plot of ground .two miles
north of Marengo, a girl has uncov
ered murder mystery, tb? details
of which indicate so cold-blooded a
DEMOCRATIC LEADER :
Only Forty-one Out of Nearly Four
r
Hundred Workmen Escape I lie
Awful Disaster.
Ie Is Shot Down In Husinesft See-
tion of the City by Robin (too|M‘r,
Whose Father Mr. Carmack Had
:-X~
cinity have been fascinated by the
scene.
The body of Oscar Hoganson, a
young farmer, who was living the
liPe of a hermit on -h+s^own farm,
has been dug out of the soft earth I primary for the Gubernatorial
of a chicken house on the farm of nomination in Tennessc*. the Hon
John ,N. Bedford. Ju&t a few feet Edward W^rd Carmack, former
away a bloody hatch,et was unearth- iT n |( e( j States Senator from Tenn* s*
e d- 1 r . see * was sitoi- ant i insiantlv hi "led
Bedford, like Hoganson, had been j n a street duel here this affernoon
living on his farni, hut disappeared |,y Roitin Cooper, a young attorney.,
afteh Hoganson s death. Such a Voting Ccojer was wo<ir.de.l in th*
mass of circumstantial evidence was Lhoui^er 1)y a bullet from Carmack's
discovered which pointed to him,"I o ver and is tonight under poi.te
that when he finally was found in surveillance in a local hospital. His
ElBs, Neb., he was arrested and now con( jRj on j s n0 ( serious. Carmack
is being brought b^ck to Chicago Wli g wounded three times, in the
The man was taken while on his way t be breast and the left should
to see his mothi r at Beatric, Neb. d e r.
A strange pre*>ntment of the Co i Duncan B. Cooper, father of
dead man s sister, Arvilla Hoganson, rhe young man, was with l.is son
is dredited with phe discovery of dur | ng t he affray, but did not fire a
the iKidy, The girl can not explain j, hot It lg 8al(1 h( ; ^tood by wDh
the feeling which caused her to visit L )lsto i ln hand. He is detained tu-
the place^and lead the searchers to hi g ht at -police headquarters,
dig in that particular spot. She was Th e direct cause of the-k-imilg Is
certain, however^ that she had reach- a -recent series of editorials in the
«*d tlie grave of her murdered broih- a dally, paper of whic 1 !
er, and the jiggers soon verified her Mr Carmack became editor afl* r his
belief. ' defeat for the nomination fir Gov-
The work of unravelling the mys- l er nor. ' v
tery began more than a week ago. editorials fn question had
when ArVlila li gan to worry be-J been vigorous in their comment rn
cause her brother had Tailed to WTt*e Cok£jt4l Cooper and his alleg' J con-
hls weekly letter. The girl Ini me-1 n ee(fon ' with what ; Mr. Carmack
diafiely declared, that son^ aw ful termP d the “Democratic machine an :
hing had happened to him., al- j( g methods.”
though she had no information up | Colonel Cooper, who is well known
on whic^h to base sqch a lit»li<»f
rroughout the State. Cooper’s
statement is that the affail' was
merely a,street duel in which bolV
sides met an.l Imth began firing.
The friends of the Coopers claiiji
they had tried to avoid a meetinu
with Carmack, it is said, and .they
were on the way to the State capitoi
in resiKinso to a telephone messag' 1
from Governor Patttrson when th-
estphalia, fjermuny,
Nov. 12. The greatest mine tfisas-
I’rlncl-1 ter in uiam^^ears in Germany oc
curred tfIs mo?nlng n ttwe Kadbod
pics and Policies of - l>em«»cMc> I rnnt , a | K) „t three miles from this
Vn-Not m wi-Tl.e P.n.plo \\ ill U lace Ther “ wati a h,>uvy
in the mine about 4 o clock this
morning and aliijdst immediately the
niih** ttxik firi.
TheroT were 3S0 miners working
undi r the grputuP at the tirin' and
only-six .espapej wtithout injury.
Thirty-five were taken out slightiv
Isjured and 3 7 were dead when
brought to the mouth of the pit.
The remaining 302 have been given
Declares That the Party Must Fight
On or lie Dissolved—The
Yet Turn to It.
Litipoln, N *b., Nov 1 2>—“A bat
tle lost tfWwar but begun,” is the
caption of th*- first page editorial in
this week's issue of William J. Pry-
an’s W'w spap* r.
“The election of 190S fs over and
tragedy occurred and that Senator I the returns disdOkc a signal victory up for lost.
t armack had been warned and was I for our opponents, but t he (uyincij
Tlr' explosion, which was unusti
expecting trouble.
Friendsof Senator Carmack
strenuousiy claim that the killing
was the result of a conspiracy, pure
and simple; th§t he was waylaid;
that when Senator Carmack left Tin-
iennessea*—office for his boarding
house the fact was telephone from a
house near The Tennessean office and
the Coopers notified that the sonatoH form was no't orVtemporary charaet-
was on his way and to be on^th ,. r it was legislation which will b.
alert.*
It now dev'eloiis, * acciording to
friends of Mr. Cramack, that-ther*
was a third party with the Coopers
just before the shooting, a former
county official who is a close po'rso i-
al friend of both tlje Coopers and
Patterson. Friends of the dea 1
senator indi.git^ that, fhere _»U1 b*
for which our party stands, life poll- ally violent, .destroyed one of the
cies for which uur party I shafts, which had to be partly r*‘palr-
iBesenot dead a good propo I I e< ^ liefore^the .reneue work was b**
tiun Is not made bad by rejection at K ,,n - l n addition, the flames and
tine• polls; a peeded reform Is uot 9nioak l» rov< ‘ (1 a l n, os t Insurmountably
made unnecessary tiy an adverse 11^*' *‘arly efforts of the
V («e. rescuing parties.
.“Tlie legislation a' ked f«»r by the £ special corps, composed of the
lieimn-ratie party in its national plat I m( ‘ n who rendered such valuable aid
permanent advantage when It is se
cured
"Does any 6ne believe that the
Xmerie in o pie v dl perman<-ntly
p.ripit secrecy as to campaign c'jj-| of ^ fl r, 'H>en I® keep the flames
tribuiiyns.? ' . • | in check.
in the terrible mine dlsasfr r at
J'outrleres, France, In March of
1906, arrived on the scene shortly
Itefore noon, but wi re unable to
enter the mins . being forced to await
the result of the determined effor'
A LAWYER SHOT
By a Saloon Keeper DacaBta, As
He Claimed,
A. 9
HE HAD RUINED HIM
Third Trial of Abraham Rurf, on
<'barge of Bribery, Brought to an
Abrupt Halt by Man Shooting the
Prosecuting Attorney In the Court
Room in the Presence of Many.
Han Francisco, Nov. 13.—Francis
.1. Henyy, a l*‘ading figure In the
prosecution of municipal corruption
in San Francisco, was shot and se
riously wounded at 4:23 o'clock to
day in Judge Igiwlor’s Court room
by Morris Haas, a Jewish saloon
keeper, who had been accepted as a
juror in a previous trial of Abraham
Ruef and afterwards removed, it
having b*i n shown in Court by
Honey that Haas was an ex-convict,
a fact not brought out In his exami
nation ^as a venireman.
The shooting of Heney occurred io
tlie presence of many persons in the
Court room during, a recess in tbs
trial of Abraham Ituef. on the trial
for the third time on the^harge of
"“Does any one. believe that tt.-c
Meatftime heart-rending scones
, , ..... .permit the will of th* \oters to h
sensational developments within the .. , , ,, , , .
{ , 1 ,, , thwarted, as it is now by the elec
next day or so regarding the af-
\mericau—people will i-ermaneutly | w, ‘fe being (■nacted at the mine w hen
the dead and wounded wi re brought
to the surface, and there* wer»- simi
fair.
through legts-
char<;fd with m( iiher.
&
'* A*-
psovde the iieceHkary skTnT She
a helthy girl, wi ighing some 170
poutds, and she was glad to do any
thin; possible to help her little Sis
ter. Accordingly, after consultation,
the thysician took the brave girl tb
the Riverside Infirmary two Weeks
ago today, and proceer> d *td remove
enoigh skin to furnish a covering
for he foot and a j>ortlon of the
left eg of Eleanor.
Tvetve strips of skin were re
mov'd from the thighs and upper
IlniD of Mamie H rger Each strip
wasslx by two Inches In dimensions,
it t*ok some two hours" to perform
the operation As the skin was Re
mov'd it was placed upon the flesh
of tie younger child, and bound into
jiostion. "
, lor a week after giving up th
skh. Mamie Berger was unable ta
lea*e the Infirmary. She suffered
greit pain, but was encouraged nv
the thought that she had donr some
thhg for her younger sister, who war
so horribly mutilated oq, the evenlne
of September 19. Today Mamie
Be*ger was at)k- to walk about a lit
tie more than for the past few da vs
ant will eventually. It Is thought,
have new skin in the place of that
gi'en up.
The physcians report that th-'
gnfting operation promises to / 1*
siecessful. Its outcome is being
vatg]i**d with keen Interest by the
ihysicians of the efty. Every other
tay the Ittle plrl has to be given
ihloroform fortlp* dressing of th*>
grafted skJfl. , * , ^Slve seems to have a
ince now . to recover from the
shock of the Injuries, although for
.-some time after Xh** accident 44 waV
noGDiought she Could survive.- Her
right leg was amputated above the
knee. The left foot was badly mash
ed.
This afternoon In tollin'? of th
incident, Mamie Berger did not seen*
to realize that she had done any
thing heroic. Her whole though 1
was on the nqed of her little sister
and possible bon* fit to follow the op
oration. She said the cutting awa.
oMier^kip did not hurt much.
TWO LAWYERS FIGHT.
in imsliipbs, iipwypnper and pfrbTT* rr
After two days it was decided to|,. irrlPS j n Tennessee and In th*
visit the farm and learn just what aout |, i ha d, u is said.’notified Mi-
had happened to Hoganson. So Carmack that the reference to him
Arvilla. accompanied by her brother, m „ S { cease. Another such editorin'
James, visited the place early one ;M ,p,. are d this morning
morning about a Week ago. Th* The men fyught, af close quarter*
Muse was found lu seemingly good L n ,i t q eri , were but few witnesses
order.- 1 he man iLclothing and be-[ wa! . j )as t 4 o'clock, in the dusk ot
Ttb
Tin* Twi> Coopers and Sharp Indict***!
in Curmaek
tion of senators
tanrr^s? -
"Does any on** believe that tr.e
trusts will be permitted perman nt’y
to exploit the masses?
"Does'any one believe that the I aftertloon * after a c6n * u,tB,,on of ,h *
coiisiinier will porm:ilupit^—fwrniH | ^—wa« docldod—that anv
lar scen**s in the town wh*fl*e the irv-
Jtrred w*'ri* trail sported through the
streets to the hospitals. ^
At 1 o'cloek tie* flr«* had mad**
great headway and later in th
tlx* tariff to be written by the privi-1 f'Hi her attempts to re sc lie th 1 * en
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. IT.—The | ] Pg ,.d of that tariff?'
grand Jury 'return* d a true bill -Does any one. believe that th<*|
against Col. D. P. Cooper and his| puPHc ^jn permanently* tolerate
longings all appeared t<T be as helt^p ffTtemoon. Th**y m**t on
might have left them, with one ex-
« ption —his three, hoxses were miss
mg. -
Inquiry was, made among the
avenue. North, directly in from of
the_Polk flats, a fashionable apart
nient house.
Mr. Carmack had just tiffed hi
neighl-ors and somebody remembered I hai t0 Mrs. Charles H. Eastman, a
having seen Hoganson walking to-1 f r } Pn d, who was passing. In a mo
wards the farm of Bedford, a dls- m ,, nt the firing began and Mrs. East-
ance of about ft jiiile, oft—the mocn j nian was a horrified witness at cios**
ing of October 29. Other’Tf< i ighbors ranK e. . * .
n membered having seen a man s 0 dose was she tha!l one of th*'
whom they sup|K>sed was Bedfdrd Coopers is said to have charge I
at Hoganson'* place in the evening, Carmack with lie^ng a coward and
hitching up one of the missing hors- hiding behind a woman. Cooper'
es. * I h** other two horses, th«*y. de- f r j en ds charg**d that Carmack firel
iar*‘il, w**n* hitched to the rear of the fir.-C sfioT, but the dead man -
he rig. As tlie man dnofe away IW1 friemlx stoutly protest t-hat his *qi
the dusk they were unaM** to make I ponent ""is the first to sboot.
i-ertain whether it actuallycwas Bed- The tragedy created the most in*
ford. A few days After this lk*dford I tense excitement throughout th
left the district. j C )ty and within a short time^ th
Miss Hoganson stood silent listen- streets . In the neighliorhood wer*
er* to the statement anil theories of I thronged.
the fanners. "1 am sati.-fled tha. The combatants were evident 1 *
the thing to do is to visit this mn' 1 close together when th" firing be
Bedford s place. st.i»* sqld. " I have gan , but the question of who fired
a feeling that we are going to settle (he first shot is in controversy. Mrs-
this thing right there." So the. sis- Chas. H. Eastman--*)! this city, and
ter and brother, togtfher with a j. m. Eastman, of-New York, we,*e
rowd of curious farnu-rs, hurried to nearby when* th ' tragedy occurred
B» dford's place. Mr. Eastman’s- hearfng in rot goo
The girl walked straight to the ; lT1 d he declared he knew but littl
ihicken house. The floor of th.* 0 f the affair. Mrs. Eastman said:
house was paved smoothly with Story' of Bystander,
round cobble stones, and to a super-1 ‘‘We were walking down 7th aye
fleial observer meant nothing. Butj n ue. in the direction of Cbjirc;
thi;* girl called attention to the fact street, and had just passed the^fn
that several stdries hacTMYdPjr taker, trance to the Polk- flats. Mr. Car
'B* and replaced. Men began work mack cam** up the street towar,
-»4ng with picks and ahovehqapd in a Lis, smiling.as h** recognized us.
on. R. J. Cooper, and Ee-Shertff
John D. Sharp, who an
jointly with the murder of Ex
-’enator E. \V Carmack, and Shar;***
is also indicti‘d.,on the charge of bg-
inz an a**i*es.-orrgbefon» th** fact.
Fhe m**n charg**d with th** crime
♦*strant’**ment l»etwe n lalsir and cap-
charged | ita | ?
"Does any one believe that the
fifteen""iDi.linns of depositors will for
wer permit tl» ir sayings to tx* Jeop-
ardized as at present?
“Hop? any on** beltpve that the yx
tomlx**^, men were vain, owing to the
ImfiossiliiJRy^of entering the galleres
At the Ham** 5 ' time an order was Is
sued to flood the mine;?
First fe|H»rts Indicated that lh<*
accident was the result of an ex
plosion of coal dust, but the state
ments of the injured men render this
Improbable and it Is not cb^ar Just
what caused it. . ...
brilx-ry^ At 6 o’clock tonight Mr
Heney,' who regained conscidusness
d will likely recover. said;^>-^
"I will live to prosecute Haas and
Ruef.''
The C*?urt had taken a recenz for
f<>n minutes and the Jury had left
the room. Heney and Ruef* attor
neys. Ach and Dozier,, had Juet re
turned from Judwi Lawlor’a chamh-
*-rs, wh**re they had been summoned
by the Judge for a conference After
the conference Ach and Dozier re
turned toAihe Court room and Heney
returned to his customary seat.
He was talking with
' J vlstor GallaghCr, who had Joat pre
vlously undergone a severe cross-
examination by Ruef’e attorneys,
ha\e been committed to jail w ijhout I j rava g a fj C) , (f, T> g uv**rnni«*nt wll!
bail. I he State will make out a K.,, on f or , V) . r unchecked?
-ir«>ng case against them. Six^ w r i*t-| "Doe.-: anv one believe Hiat our re-
when Haas rushed up out of the au
dience. Haas approached Heney.
placed a. revolver against Ur* pros*^
cutor's right cheek and fired. Heney
fell over bn the desk, blood stream
ing from the wound. Haas was im
mediately seized by by-standera anJ
thrown Into the empty Jury box,
where he was held on his back till
GKIKYKS OYER TRAGEDY.
the pollce^came.
‘‘Haas, while a venlremaa In the
nesses w, re examined bv the jurv. 1 W j.r uen^enOit consent *ol.. „ . .Wfond Ruef bribery trial, was W to
' | puimc ^ in pvTUianinujc cons* nt ° r<i|teaman \M|o sfiot ( lnl<l by A* - a aovere^ exanSlnatlon by - Heney,
while he was examined for jtiyr <^ul-
aU..*if them proriiinent people. There
is a strong feeling among a larg**
number of people that the trial will
levelop a well laid conspiracy to
ussassinatr. Carmack, as was done. *
EX-SHERIFE IS ARRESTED
— t*
Cluirgcd Midi Aiding And Alx-tting
Murder of Carmack.
a colonial 'policy with its humilia
tions and financial burdens?
‘‘There must be a party represent-]
ing tin* j) ople’s protest agains*
wrong politics and against the oo-
prfssing of uuJili**s and against the
hoppr'ession of the struggling masses
Tin* D«*ni<>cratic party must continue
its figlit or dissolve. It could not
exist as a plutocratic party.
"During the twelve years the Dem
ocratic part?* has accomplished more]
out of* power than'the Republican
cldent (^ults the Force.
ty. * He asserts that the Information
Nashville, tN ov. 12.—John J
Sharpe. ex-shej*iff of this county, was
arrest* d here today, charged with I party has accomplished In office, and
th** murder and aiding ami abetting this is a sufficient reward,for those
in the murder of Senator Carmack. who fight for a righteous cause. It
It has been understood here for would have been pleasant to have
several days that war rapt s would bo been able to reward worthy Item .-
is.-wed for the arrest of Ss-harpe and crats wfth official positions; th**y
'■is arwst today was no surprise. I are looking for * good government
if Is alleged that Sharpe was seen and they labor unselfishly for the
with Col. Cooper and Robin>CooRsr„_LprQjnotion. of good bovernment. The *
his son, shortly l>eforc* ,K the killing] will neither b? discouraged nor dis-
ind was also at the scene, of th' jniayed by defeat. They cannot
tragedy immediately after Carmack cease to lie interested for the gov-
fell to th ground. Sharp was a ernment, for indifference would only
once taken to jail.
ELEVEN MEN KILLED.
tie.
KILLING IN BERKELEY'.
Judge Gandler Threw Glass at
Colonel Brewster.
- Atlaita. Nov. 12.—Judge John 8
Candler, formerly of the State su
perior court, and Col. H. P. Brew
strr, * well known local lawyer en
gage? In a persona! difficulty In th*
superior court room at the ;Pburt
ifibtse today. After some words
Jidge Candler rushed across the
rx>m and seized a glass- and threw'
*t'~fit the head of Colonel Brewster.
He missed his aim, and the glass
was shattered against- the wal
They rushed at each other, but were
separated befon; blows were passed.*
Jew. moments unearthed the body ol I was some steps a wav and there wer*
i he'missing jnan. He had been I very few pejiole on the street. M ^ ov ' ’ 1 ,
billed by a blow over his right tern | Kastman and 1 were near th* edg*
if the sidewalk and Mr. Cannae)
would have passed between us and
’he fence. He raised his hat as we
spoke. Hf" had his right hand u
and was about to make a remar 1 -
when soml^body^*said"—11 was th
-elder voice—-We’ve got you alt
right,’ or something to that effect.
I can’t say positively what the ex
act words were. It never occurred
Colored Man Slio»tt' i at White Man
^— an*l Gets ShoG—'
Moncks Corner, Nov. 12.-=—Anoth
*r homicide occurred near ML Holiv
Mr. H.
rest a
in the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. U nie that , t was anvthlnK nior .
E. Brown attempted to ft"- than a fripnd speaking. Mr. Car
n*. gro named Richard l ,ra > Limcjj raised his eyes, instantly put
•on tpd the negro attempted to kiil Qn Ms hat and rnn h|s hand bark
Brown. In fact, a bullet from Dray- I h(>n thf> Ra * me votce Baid; . Yo(1
'on's pistol passed -through Brown'.* | coward ; von arP hiding hehind a
ivcrcoat, whereupon Brown shot'and * 0 man. are you? Senator Carmack
killed Drayton. There were no wit- jumi)ed out so ag to get c]par of m ,
qesses, to this tragedy, except th and { jumped [nto a g ate wiy. -I saw
participants. Brown came, up and , hat Mr Carmack had a pistol. 1
surrendered to the sheriff. An order
for bail was granted by Judge Al
drich, and the bond wa's promptly
Tnion Piwilic Freight Train (Yasb
YVitli T«*rrirtle Results.
invite worse abuses than those from
which we now suffer. The fight
jnust tie continued, because a goo i
■government is th** richest legacy that
a parent can leave to a child.
“As for myself, let no one worry
about my future. Th<* holding nf lw . . , . ,
ollico, Is a mere incident In the life 11 18 ho ' , “ ,, ,lis "ill return •
Charleston, Nov. IS. The Even- brought out by H§ney in his question
Ing Post says, '.grieving over th** * n ruin of his business,
shooting of th** littl** girl of a fellow f ^ at °f a saloon keeper.
lM*li(***nian. Private S. M McClure, of ,laaM ln thp second Ruef trial had
the Charleston police force, has r* b p en pass*! * as a Juror. Then one day
signed from th»* department, be- * n Gourt Heney dramatically , pro-
caus** of shattered health, and wllll ‘i'tced a photograph of Haas, taken
start with his family tomorrow for I a * y ’ an Q't^ntin penitentiary. In con-
the West. H«“ will go on to Arizona, v * r * K ar l | a,l <l with cropped hair and
where h* has a broth**r, leaving his w l , l' his numl>er across his breast,
wife-and children with his father In HaaH collapsed In Court, admitting
Tennessee. '•p* h,> ha< l been a convict. He was
Private McClure/has always l,.'cn U r,nTH *^JliJj^ discharged from the
a good officer, and was held in higbN nry - y J
*>st<»<*m by his su|# riors.' Last July News of thL^jjJwdtIng spread rap-
n*» was in pursuit of a negro In th** bB. v * an d an immi'-nse crowed .gath-
upper part of the city,, and wps Pr< ‘^ * n *be corridors ot the Court
forced td shoot at the fellow Dim . h'tiliding. A large force 6T police,
Mary SalTSetf tealT hit and kjlWi b y headed by Ch-ief Blggy, surrounded
one of the bullets from the offlo r'.* I l>"iiding and kept* the* crowd
pistol.' back." A number of,men,-who weni
A father himself of small children. s, t s P f ‘Cted of beisg there to create
Policeman McClure was almost pros- ,roi| ble, were arrested,
trated with grief, and never reco\- Haas In a statement after the
ered from the shock which the d c-1 !, * loot| ng said:
plorabb* death of the little girl gave 1 am wronged man. I do not
him... He seemed to pine away, and , ’ are what become of me now. I_
1s now forced to use crutches toM* ave aacrlflct'd myself not for my
make his way about, lie leaves to-1 own honor but for the honor of
morrow morning for Arizona, where | those who *are situated like myself.
I would not have brought my four
of those who are* devoted to reforms
nien, five of them Japane.'ii laborers j r ,,f orin j s the essential thing. If
and the rest trainmen, were killed
R AI LK<)A I > t ASI A LTIE.S
childr**n Into the world to bear such
a brand If I had known that the fact
that I was a former convict would
become known. Heney ruined me.
That Is why I shot him.”
After thi" shooting Judge Lawlor
called the Court to order and imme-
Washington, Nov., . 12.—There | diately ordered Ruef taken Into cus-
Rvn |..,.„n<, un | ^ he »drill owes me nothing. I am I WP ro 3,764 persons" kill* d and 68,-1 tody, overruling the objection..- .of
i t).' *hVr Voii .. L'buudantly compensated for what* I 9*59 Injured in railroad ciuiuaities| Attorney Ach. Attorney Dozier ask-
Yhe other bodies were ere-1 hav? to d o. My life wi'l 1 ^ 1
in a collision of two Union Paci(■ •
freight trains late last night *tt
Borie. Wyo., and in the fire whicn
oLowe 1. Only the Ixidy of
Duacaju—one of the brakf men, and
on** can advance r**forms by holding
Office, Oien-ebe holding of office Is| For the Fiscal
jns'tifiabld. If one can,best advance
reforms as a private citizen,* then
th<* holding of office is und<*slrabl*\
Y'ear Ending the
Iiast t»f .Inn**.
ered
mated by the burning of th** cars. | no ( i )P long enough to repay the
The wreck was caused by one of
the trains getting beyond
whye running on a grade.
control
executed and Brown was rokased
The killing occurred Monday. / 1
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
turned and said: ‘For God's sake
don't shoot,' I-saw Me,. ^Carmack
wheel and fall in a heap in the gu*-
WANTS DAMAGES.
Woman Arrested for Murderess Will
Sue the Railroad.
New- York. Nov. 13.—'Mrs. Cora
people for the confidence which they
have expressed. .My gratitude to
those with whom I have labored sur
pass s language, and th** days of the
future to work In the Interest of t!he
people as I understand that Interest
ampin behalf of those reforms which
seem to me to be tho best.
"I invite the co-op<*ration»of those
w'ho approve, and 4 shall not be - de-
B. Heeren has brought suit again* 1 11 'he criticism of those who
disapprove. With an abiding faith
ter.;'
Mrs. Kastrnen said she saw th**
young man st'anding over Mr. Car
mack and that he put s,om°thlng in-
to his own oocket.
For Wrecking Train and Causing
Death of Two Men.
Spartanburg, Nov. 12.—Clarence
‘ Aknew, the negro charged with mur
der and the wreckipg of a passenger
train^Vh the Southern Railway, nra>*
Duncan, S. C., which resulted in the
killing of the engineer and fireman.,
was found guilty with recommenda
tion to mercy here today. He was
sentenced to-HI' imprisonment. H *
>... was one of the negroes whom the
mob sought to lyitfb here four week*
ago. *- .*
Colllfwiion.
Woodstock, Va., Nov.
9.—In
Dr. McPheters Glasgow, who ar
rived at the scene soon after the
tragedy occurred, said tonight: _
, J‘‘There were three bullets in th *
head-on collision between tw 9 freight ^. of Mr C armack. One entered
trains two miles north of here to- on the left side ail^u^ two and on**
day, on the Southern Rail way Jihalfr hithe&'gelow the left nipple
Engineer Amps Johnson v of AXWand Just a short distartce below the
andria. Va., an dFireman T. J. Jones, heart and remained a shorf distance
qf Manassas. w*v*e killed, and from the right side, under the skin,
Engineer D. W. Tuck and Conductor crossing the median line of the an-
G. E. Rohr, both of Strasburg, wer** atomy.
Injured, hut not seriously* . The ‘‘Another bullet enter the left
trains came upon each other whll- shoulder and lodged about four and
running fatt around a curve. The [ one-half laches below the right nlp-
reaponsibillty has not been fixed, pie. under the akin. Both of these
the New York Central railroad, ask
ing $3,060 damages, because, as she
aliee* s, she was mistaken for Mrs.
Belle Gunness, th* Laporte. Ind , |
murderess, and taken from the train
from Utica last summer.
in th** triumph of the truth and an
unfaltering confidence in the right
eousness of our cause, I speak this
word of encouragement to those who
call themstdxea friends. I shall keep
step with them and march on. The
098 injured, a decrease of l,* *-
from the preceding quarter. The 13
passengers kilted in ■traj.n. accideuts
during the quarter* la^the smatle^F
ever reported in the quarterly n c-
ord. The. i^ollissiotSs during the
quarter numbered 820 and derail
ments 1,310 of which 130 collisions
and 198 derailments affected passen
ger trains. *
Her mother, it is said, who was | measure of our workyoannot be taken OFFICIAL Y'OTK OF VIRGINIA
for a similar amount for altegcd lb |TieYb" W*^fe^Violi vindicate ’usAff
dignities to which she was submit- we contribute, as I l.elleve we 1are
ed. ' contributing, to a cause that is
Mrs." Heerenv who-Bves in Brook founded in justice, our efforts will
lyn, declares that she suffered such | weigh In the final victory.”
a shock that neither she nor "her
mother has conjpletely recovered. '| FalK Fifty-five Feet.
Monro**, La., Nov. 12.—A man
Shoots Hi's .Own Brother. [named Bell-, whose, feat is known as
Warrenton, Va., Nov. 12.—-De-1 “the lean* for life,'' and consists of
finding biniself'aud his wjfe in his ] swinging on a rope through a shet
home, as he alleges, against^a mid [of flame, fell from a 55-foot derrick
niiht attftek made by his own broth- at the Parish fair here today, and
er, Henry Spinks shot and killed is, believed to have been fatally in-
W ill lam Spinks at Hopwell, twenty jured. Hia hpme is in Marlon,
miles north pf here yesterday. •lOhio. •
Hryan’s Majority Over All Nearly
Twenty-nine Thousand.
.Richmond, Va., Nov. 12.—Official
returns complete for Virginia from
the presidential election show the
popular vote to.have .been: Bryan,
82.948; Taft, 52.979;. Cbafln, 1,054
Debs* 254; Watson, 106; Hlsgen,
52. Gilhaus. 25; total? y 1 £7,555
Bryan's plurality, 30,369. majojlty,
28,853. The total vote in 1904 was
131,583. Parker's plurality was 22.
773, a net loss of 2,404 to the Demo
cratic ticket. - ^
1
the carotold artery, and at another
point the arteries were not rupt
ured; •
WORK OF THTG8.
*
Four Persons Found Unconscious in
Chattanooga Streets.
7* 7;'-
y CbAftanooga, Tenn., November 8.
During last hJgTTC fouFpersona who
foundMLnconsclpus in the streets of
this city. One of a
negro, died soon after being found.
B. L. Owens, a white farmer, was
picked tip on Pine streht, with his
head cut open. When-..he regained
consciousness he said that a negro
had struck him and robbed him ot
$4 0. An unknown young white
man, well dressed, was picked an
on Whiteside atreet, and ap to a
late hour he had not regained con
sciousness. The last victim was a
nggro woman, who was found wttjj
la ghastly cat In the centre of
* 1 forehead.
In the United St4t**s during the fiscal <?d—that th.* witness, Gallagher, also
year ended June 30th. last, accord- be taken Into custody, but the Court \
mg to an announcement of the Inte*- declined to Issue the order. The
State Commerce Commission today Judge then adjourned Court until
This Is a decrease of 1.236 lit the Monday.
number of killed and 3,279 injured. Close examination of the wound
as compared with the previous year, showed that thr? bullet entered
In the three month** ended June through the right cheek and lodged
30th there we^e.59.1 kffh'd^and 13 -1 under the left ear. It barely missed
is -