Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■ i- VOL. XXXH LAST ONE GONE I several killed THE TURKS SLAY NIGHT 0F H0RR0R CAUSES MURDER Sm. M. C. Batter Died la Colum bia Wodntaday Night WAS SICK LONG TIME [IN A CLASH BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE In Mexico, Which I* Said to 'Bave Been Started by the Priests of the Parish. Two Amorlcans in the Outbreak at Adama. ENDS IN TRAGEDY BY STEAMER sinking after WAR ON CHRISTIANS Was a Major General In the Con federate Army and Was Appoint McKinley. According to a dispatch received at Mexico the rioting which occurred 1 at Valdardena, a mining camp in ed to the Same Grade in the Army I Coahulla, last Saturday night, was of the United States by President | m ' ore serious than at first reported, thirty-two men being kiled and many injured. The trouble was In- Gen. M. C. Butler, the last of the | stlgated by Father Ramon Valen- brllllant general officers Qputh Car- zuela, parish priest, it Is asserted, ollna contributed-to the Confederate I Ugg in g hospital hovering be cause, died at the Knowlton Infirma- J twe^n life and death, ry in Colunpbia about 12 o’clock | Fourteen of the rioters were ex- Wednesday night, after an UThees T ecuted by the Government troops, Half of the City Reported Burned in an Anti-Armenian Riot and Sixty Persons Said to Have land Thefr Lives—Soldiers Join in the Looting. Two American missionaries have been killed in the anti-Armenian out break at Adama, Asiatic Turkey, ac cording to Information receivfd at Constantinople from that place by telegraph Friday after naan. , ....... .1 .At midnight neither tha American which extended through many weeks. and many were imprisoned. Many ambassador, Mr. Leishma*. nor the His wife and son were present when Americans reside In Velardena, as British en/bassy had received any the soul of this splendid old warrior the camp l8 controlled by Amer i can further news concerning the massa- passed over^tne river to rest under 1 I ere or confirmation of the reported the shade of the trees. * - J a • .1 murder of American missionaries at General Butler was in the 74th The leaders of the mob, which was Adana, year of his age. On his last birth- well organized, avoided attacking Consular telegrams received at day, the 8th of March, he embraced Americans or destroying American Constantinople report that half of ■ Gatbolla fAltb^ belng coBilmadjproperty. - Jibe town of Adana has been, hnmuri _ by Bishop Northrop, He was taken The lighting occurred when the and that tha attacks upon the Arme- to the Infirmary to be treated for Jefe Politico of the town, an officer n t an8 are extending into the vilayet, sciatica. I correspondent to an American may- They say that the British vice con- Gen. Butler's Career. or, attempted to stop a religious pro- 8U | as Mersina, Major Daughty- . Matthew Galbraith Butler was cession headed by the village priest. Wylie, who was ordered to Adana born In Greenville, of Illustrious par- the laws of Mexico forbidding such when the first advices of the mas- entage. His ancestors on the Butler parades. I sacre were received- has been wound, side are a race of heroes. They A thousand parishoners followed e d. were among the pioneers of South the priest, wishing to witness the Communication with the disturbed Carolina, and settled in the northern annual burning of Judas, and when district is interrupted, however, and part of Edgefield county. His great I the orders of the mayor became all reports received from there must grandfather, Capt. James Butler, was I known, the mob stoned and later I be taken with caution. The Porte killed fighting for his country in the I burned the house of the mayor, who declares the disturbances are sub- wwr of the Amertoan Revolution with his wife, escaped by climbing a siding. Two additional battalions He was a descendant of the Duke rear wa u an d seeking protection in have been dispatched to Adana, of Orn^and, the great royalist leader Khe American colony. I The Moslem attacks recommenced In England. I Tbe rioters then stormed a Chi-1 yesterday afternoon and continued General Butler’s grandfather, Wft-1 nese hotel, looting It of all liquors J throughout the night. Large num- Ham Butler, was very prominent in I and foods and terrorizing the neigh- Iters of Christians are said to have (the legjslaMve (department idf^the j borhood during the night by their been killed. One report says that State, and also served thirteetT'years I orKy . The police fired on sixty Armenians have lost their lives In Congress. His father, Dr. Wfl-1 t^e mob, many members of which and that many houses have been loot- llam Butler, was surgeon in the we re well armed. The officers were ed and burned. United States navy, and was a broth I f orced ( 0 retreat, leaving six of their The first news of this anti-Chris- er of Governor Pierce M. Butler, 1 number deid in the nan sfttt. tian outbreak said the scene was South Carolina, who fell at the bat- 1 [ ja ter troopk arrived in a special at Mersina. but this was erroneous, tie of Churobusco, while leading the traln and a flerce flg ht betwen troops The trouble occurred at Adana, which struggling Above Waves All Night ■While Her IPassengers W r ere hi a PanUc. •T> Following a remarkable series of accidents and a tempestous voyage, the steamer Virginia, from Cincin nati, O., to Pittsburg, was finally wrecked Thursday night in the Ohio river at Wellesvllle, Ohio. The boat, the largest plying the upper Ohio, went down close to shore after striking a rock and tear ing a hole ‘three feet long In the hull. The pasengers, numbering 50, In a highly nefvous condition, as a result of minor accidents earlier in the evening, became panic-stricken wh^n the vessel met with the last aeeldeai as4 14 was with difficulty Squatter Refuse To Give Up The Lands HENATOR AND MR8. TILLMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON. ON WHICH THEY LIVE The Senator Cherishes No Delusions as to Democrats Getting Anything HER WAY TO SCHOOL Nine Tragedies Have Resulted From a Den Which Begun in Portland, Me., in 188.1 and Forgotten Until Irftndn Regan to Be of Much Value. Nine assassinations are traceable to the contention for undisputed pos session of 4 00,000 acres of land in the State of Georgia. The recent killing of Pope S. Hill, leader of the Bar association in Macon, is but another link in the chain of bloody tragedies, which takes Its beginning from the organization of a !>ody of capitalists in Portland, Me., in 1833 The Columbia Record of Friday j,, Atlant*, Georgia* LMtlte says Senator and Mrs. B. R. Tillman famous ’’Palmetto regiment,” and i dnd Ttoter8 insU 9d, hringiig the to- Dr. Butler’s other brother was the U, death3 u , 32, with a number lu- dlstingulfthed Senator. Andrew Pick- j„ red ens Butler. I Father Valenzuela was arrested. While stationed at Newport, R j Q ne followers smuggled a is about 36 miles inland from Mersi na. The early reports were declared to have been exaggerated and mes sages received later said only ten Armenians had been killed, that I.. Dr. William Butkfc married M* 8 * I knife to his cell and the priest I martial law had been proclaimed at Jane Tweedy Perry, the sister °f j 8tat)l>ed hlmaelf six times In a vio-1 Ada na, and that reinforcements of a crew of 75 men restrained them. Although handicapped by dark ness, a high wind and drenching rain, the crew managed to place the passengers safely in boats and put I to purchase lands in that State, them ashore. From here they wore The Norman Dodge Land Corn- taken scantily clad, to a~five engine pany. composed of New York men. house in Wellesvllle and later reach- h 8 no w seeking to oust squatters ed the warmth of a hotel by means f rom the territory and finds It Is up xif-a police patrel wagon. {against a lot of bogus and forged Today the passengers were sent deeds and titles. In some respects to this city by railroad. the ca»‘ resembles the Reelfoot The Virginia’s trip from Clncln- L a k P fight. In Tennessee. There the natl was without mishap t until I settlers had by right of years come Wheeling was reached early last to believe that tivey owned the lake, evening. At this point a severe Here the squatters on the land wind storm was encountered and the obtained by the Dodges’ had remain- big packet was tossed about In the I od 8n long in peace and apparent Ohio river like a small boat. It ownership that they have come to was Impossible to effect a landing bpi|p V e the land Is theirs by right at Wheeling, and the Virginia con- of possession. Consequently they re- tinued toward this city. 8 i 8 t every attempt to displace them. About 11 o'clock the steamer, nioody has been the history of the which is said to have been leaking case. badly from an earlier accident, en- Capitalists in Portland, Me., sent tered the channel here. When yet their agents into Georgia In 1833 some distance from shore the steam- and boughUdafge tracts In what are er struck an obstruction with ter- n0 w Dodge, Telfair, Laurens and irtfle force. The passengers were Montgomery counties. A deed was thrown from their berths. Baggage executed In the name of the Georgia and valuables w|ere forgotten. Lumber Company. Later the com- Afber the excited pascengers had n8n y became Indebted and In 1877 reached the salon they were quickly the lands were offered for sale by surrounded by a crew of seventy-five the Georgia legislature. George E. men and quieted. , Boats were nodge, of New York, made the pur- brought into service and hefore the chase, in the meantime nothing had steamer settled (all were eaOely hem done with the land except to ashore. j p ay the taxes Most of the passengers were from | i n the course of time the Macon southern points. TWO SUICIDES AT ONCE. Commodore Oliver Perry, of Lake Erie fame, and of Commodore Mat thew Galbraith Perry, who was tn’ first to open our commercial rela tions with Japan. All readers ol American history are familiar with these distinguished naval heroes. After his marrlag* Dr. Butler re signed from the navy and returned to his native home In Edgefield The mother of General Butler was a woman of many sterling quali ties and was much beloved and ad 'ent attempt to commit suicide. He is now In the prison hospital. Quiet was restored. KILLED HIMSELF After Trying and Failing to Shoot a Young Lad?. After trying to shoot Miss Jose- >hine Alberts, Allan M. Fay, aged 23 years, a prominent broker, of Bos- mired for her grandeur of character I on. Mass., shot himself through the _ i and her great beauty, sincere even J mouth in an alley early Wednesday I Amerlcan nil) i P Society troops were being sent jn from Beirut. This latest intelligence refers to disorders that took place after the situation was supposed to have quiet ed down. Adana is a station of the Ameri can board of commissioners for for eign missions with a working force of five missionaries and thirty-five native workers; an out-station of the Synod of the Reformed Presbyte rian church in North America, and a Bible depot, and sub-agency of the to brusqueneas and truthful always After the civil war a friend present ed to her General Sickles, of the United States army, saying, "Gen eral. Mrs. Butler is a sister of Com ind died while being hurried to the Two Young Women Cabin Mates Kill Themselves. and Brunswick railroad was con structed and the land became valua ble Mr Dodge and his fellow own ers began to realize something on their property. Deeds were forged and all sorts of schemes were worked to get the land away from them piecemeal. Dodge finally filed a suit for injunction and prevented fur ther shoals. He also turned pos- During the voyage of the Cunard Liner Lucania, which sailed from New York for Liverpool April I 8 pg 8 i on over to his brother. Norman two young women, who had occu- j a resident of Georgia, pied a second-class cabin together, At thls j un cture Luther Hall, a committed suicide by shooting. They , awypri began to sell deeds In the were Margaret Clarke, 29 years old, | name of the former owners of the Twrin Year Old CMM Dlup- pears White On r-«-. But Crumbs. were here today on their way to Washington, to which point the senator is headed so as to be on hand for the tariff debate in the senate. The senator is apparently in splendid health. “I am getting so fat that positively I am getting sad about It. Gained six or seven pounds recently eating hog and hominy down at Trenton. Weighing 200 pounds now, Clemmons Left Her Home oa High laud Avenue for the Bo«W>. vard School and Had Strangely Vanished, and She Can't be Found. In Atlanta, Ga., the strange end unaccountable disappearance of Ht> tie Louise Clemmons, 12 years old. more Is cuaslng great anxiety to her per- than I have ever weighed. But. by Lnts. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clenuno* golly, I want some roas’n ears tol. o u, v. eat, and UVe got to leave before I Wh ° ll ™ M 354 H^***"* they come inT" rSttoce 8 oVfrock Monday muralng. Asked If he could not say some- when the little girl, with the school thing rash on which a hardup news- books under arm, left home fOf the paper fellow might build a good live Boulevard Street school, she has not story, the senator smilingly nodded returned home, end her anxtoaa in the negative. ~ mother and father have learned ‘Haven’t got an Idea on State or nothing of her whereabouts, national politics,” he declared, glv- All night Monday night her parents Ing away Indolently to the balmlness apent troubled hours In notifying of the spring morning. [the police authorities, phoning to "Well, couldn’t you tell us some-1 relktives m different phita ol fW thing about how much hell you are I elt y and In visiting the hoBMO of the going to raise about the tariff?” J neighborhood In vain, restless ef- "Oh, what’s the use of biting at j forts to find some clue to the where- the grindstone? Whenever those abouts of the bright little daughter Republican rlngsters get ready to who had so suddenly and so mya* pass the tariff they will simply crack terlously disappeared, the whip and the majority will trot Little Carrie Is a favorite In tbo up and vote as the ring directs. D neighborhood. She is bright and they will consent to give us the right winsome and Is admired by all who sort of showing on German potash know her. She is her mother’s odly salts we will try to get it, hut it daughter and the mother is about is all In their hands.” to give away under the anxious Senator and Mrs. Tillman will stop strain, over in Rock Hill this evening for | Mrs. Clemmons was at first quite . r, '-m a visit to Wlnthrop college. INQUIRY TO BE RESUMED. Attorney General Lyon Says Thlnf Will bo Doing. averse to notifying the police or tho n> wspapers of her daughter's dis appearance, and it was far Into the night of Monday, after all poaaible efforts had been made, that ahe and her husband called upon the poilee to assist in the search. From the. Boulevard Street who is believed to have been a resi- tract. He was convicted of violating Adana Is a city of 45,000 people, hospital.^ and j 8 t be geat 0 f Government of Fay had spent the evening with the provincf , of the same name. The Vllss Alberts, at her home, leav ng 1 people are rn08( jy Mohamldans, hut some time after midnight. He t en tbere are a considerable number of modore Perry.” Very emphatically went to the alley at the rear of the chr)8tjjin8 )prlndtnR Arin p n i ans and Mrs. Butler exclaimed: “I had rath^i J house and fired four shots, threb a 8ma || community there, he known as the mother of Calhralth I going through the young womansl missionaries of the district Butler!" Here spoke the mother window, but none reaching Miss I, at pre8ent a , Adana for th( , the heart—the “Cormella” of thf j Mberta. regular district meeting. They are nineteenth century. The mothet ol J A policeman who heard th° shots ^j r and ^ rf! \yj||j am Chambers, th*’ the “Gracchi” could not have been j'ound Fay lying on his side in the MlaSPB Webl) Mlsa Wama and M ,ss prouder of her "Jewels” than wa* Hleyway bleeding from a bullet BorH Mr christv Is at Tarsus, this splendid woman of her nobh j wound in the roof of his mouth Telegrams arriving at Athens sons, of whom there were five wh( I \llss Alberts, who is 22 years of age, I f rom \| ers | na report sanguinary riots "wore thh grey." I has known Fay about four years, j Adana as a result of a demon- General Butler wan a lawyer b> j md during that time has repeated!) J Rt ra tion against the polic D , who had profession, and soon after his ad efused his proposals of marriage, tfdled two persons they were trying njlsslon to the Bar married Mis.' 1 t. is said. I to arrest. A massacre then began. MafTa CaHioun Pickens, one of th' I —— — I | n which the troops are alleged to handsome daughters of South Caro j was as grand as his record as soldier j bave participated. Several houses Una’s grand old “war governors, j md patriot. were burned during the disturbance. Francia W. Pickens. Handsome aa Apollo, and gifted j >p be d j 8 p a tches add that the When the war broke out Genera’ j with a charming personality, his mag- I f orp | Kn consuls have demanded that Butler organized a cavalry force and j netism and loyalty held his friends j warships he dispatched to Mersina. * entered the field as a captain. Grad< with "hooks of steel." by grade he was promoted, until h After General Butler retired from | FOURTEEN PERISH, attained the rank of major general H,e Senate he formed a law part- at the desperate battle of Brandy J lership In Washington, D. C., with . - Station, and the most dashing, gal- t,wo distinguished attorneys under lant and debonalre figure seen tha' fi rm name of “Shelly, Butler ft Mar-1 jn prandsco day was this youthful, knlghtlj t 0 n,” and on the 28th of May, 1898, “Paladin” of the Army of Northern I President McKinley appointed him j At San Francisco six bodies re- Vlrglna, who possessed all the bril- I major general of the United States j covered and probably eight or ten Haney and valor of "Bold Henry of arm y, and his confirmation a* such others buried in the ruins; six In- Navarre.” In that terrible fight at J wa8 unanimous by the Senate. Thus jured, one fatally, property loss Brandy Station General Butler com-1 we see this kingly major general of $1 25,000—these are the results of manded a regiment under Gen . J. j the Confederate cavalry, who so gal- J a fire Friday that des'royed the St. E. B. Stuart and lost a leg, while 1 i an tly led'his ragged and hungry George Hotel, a lodging house for General Davis, who commanded the so idier boys on to so many vlcto-Malters at Howard and 8th street. Federals, was killed while crossing r lous battles, 34 years afterward a Eight other small buildings the Rappahannock river. major general in the United States burned. The bodies taken to the It was here, at Reams’s Station, arm y, and commanding an army w, ' re so charrea that identi ♦ hat he was promoted major general I corps. He was appointed also on the fication was impossible. One of General "Butief'rgalTaht COOT- j Cuban peare cmrnrrtsrtMY a«4 for -TlieJioteL was a Jhree-story fran^ iers, who was then only a youth of some time attefided faithfully to his building. It was burqed so rapidly 17, and by the way, was a relative arduous dutle* at Habana. that none of the 180 h . a(1 * . me of the general, has said, "Had Gen- | n the spHhg of 1908 General But- to dress. Many escaped by jumping eral Butler no other war record his ler was one Of the distinguished par- to the room of an adjoining work- victory at the battle of Trevlllan J ty that visited the Arroyo Rico dis- shop. Scores clambered down the Station will forever immortaliie trict in the southeastern section of flremen’s ladd^rs. and thfr A™ e*- hinT’' ~ ~ — " - ’ ~ -- — tire BttRo of- Chihuahua, in the farJchP?* o? th* building. Four Jumped After the din and smoke of the famed Parral mineral belt, 66 miles| to safety in a net fire battle had died away, and white- northwest of the city of Parral. I fighters robed "Peace” crowned our once des- Thla party comprised, among others, „ .. . . Pm _, olate land of the “Sunny South,” General Butler, of South Carolina, Slight Earthquake in i r« General Butler returned to his home the Hon. Jno. K. Cowen. of Baltl- An earthquake shack accompanied in Edgefield *nd resumed tho prac- more; Admiral W. S. Schley and by subterranean rumblings was felt lice of law. Gifted with brilliant General Armstrong of Mississippi. It at Lima, Peru, this week. Mafiy intellect and Fit, he was regarded was In January, 1894, that General buildings were damaged. No casual- as one of the most effective speakers Butler was elected president of the | ties are reported In South Oirolina, a State which Hidalgo Placer Mining and Milling k*s always been noted for her able Company of Mexico. Mwrdered Unpaid Cabman. - logmans and orators. After tha death of his lint wife, Resenting a demand for hack fare, in tho autumn of 1871, General | General Butler married Mrs. Nan-1 John Burchfield shot 'Zeke Roberts dent of Brooklyn, and Annie Miller, an injunction and sentenced to five 22 years old, whose former residence year8 j n the penitentiary. Later he is not known. The motive for the ran for the legislature and In his double suicide has not been ascer- can ipaign told the people In the dis- Attorney General Lyow who has Just gotten back to Columbia after I BC hool, where Carrie had regularly extended trips tojuAugusta, Atlanta, attended and for which place she and Cincinnati, in the interest of her home Monday moreiag In the. resumpulon of the dispensary I her accustomed manner, comes .UM of the Federal Supreme Court which 1 Information that she was not seep was announced while he was In At- that school at all Monday. Sha lanta. wa * urged by her mother upon laav- ”1 guees 1 could tell you a few '“g to return home Immediately after things we have been descoverlng re-1 school closed for the day and readily cently on which you could build consented. Her accustomed obedl- a powerful good story.” said Mr. « n c« Id this respect makes her dla- Lyon, smiling In answer to a ques- 8 PPc*rance all the more of a myste- tlon from one of his newspaper call- T Y to her parents and the snapenae ers, “hut I am hardly, at liberty to the more terrible. At first her do that at this time. I do not know I failure to return did not excite Stty myself just what the State’s pro- tears, but the coming of night wlth- gram is now, as I have not yet had I ou t the child’s appearance brought a conference with our attorneys here, j w tth it fear and anxiety. Mrs, Gtese- and as the Governor has not yei mons Immediately telephoned to tha filled the two vacancies on the wind- homes of relatives over the city ‘Ing-up commission but It Will be safe I where the child had often visited to say that the music will start up j on *y 'earn that she had not been now in a few weeks.” 9een - The telher waa notified at Mr. Lyon was much “put out” at h > 8 P lace of business, 96 Ivy street. the recent spread-eagle story that | and ^ucch began. \ The only trace of Carrie yet learn- l nd 1 K a l! h !,n I 0d K i ! S ^ e I'!„ b .l r !‘ I puted land !°/' n,eet . tlon about Mr. Felder’s law Arm’s U 1 8,nce her disappearance^ that ed at sea there will be no inquest, agents with shotguns and leave thler Miss Clarke shot herself Thursday, carcasses for the buzzards to pick ihe second day out, while In her cab-1 or rranv them down gopher hnl^s.” in. Her companion four days later This happened in 1 890. took her own life. | A bout the same time the murder of Col. John Forsyth, the resident alleged big fee of $200,000 in the [ dispensary case. lie is satisfied that the Atlanta firm Is In no way to blame. Of course, Mr. Lyon Is de lighted with the Supreme Court's WON HIS WIFE. Dodge agent, was murdered. No less decision, hut Its general drift was than six deaths, three or four of | not a surprise to him. He had ex- she was seen walking down street, neu the Interaction of with Mitchell street, Monday about .12 o'clock. She was alone, and yet her mother £fthnot believe hdf to' be lost, because, although young, she knew the streets of the city well and often run errands to many potato By Making Hi s Locomotive Whistle | them by violence, have followed the | Passed^lmself a8 e ^° r " n t d h e e n, d ^ l8 '|J ) C n I , n (h e city alone. This causes Mrs. Play Tunes. Converting his engine whistle into a steam calliope, says the Pitsburg Dispatch, and playing thereon such tunes as “Home Sweet Home,” ‘In the Sweet By and By,” “Will You came out. NIGHT RIDER8 BRING TERROR. trial of the case. Then'’ have been nine assassinations in Telfair coun ty within the last 25 years, and these have been traceable, it is said, di rectly or indirectly to the Dodge land case, the end of which Is still far from sight. „ , . i Pone Hill and Nat Harris have SuwanTmver” and" many ""tier many of the cases, and “Night riders” are terrorizing it was to look into some of them that j and ownerg and tenants in the vicin Clemmons to believe trat her daugh ter Is being held and not lost, aa ahe cannot see why the child would not return home if she could, because Threaten to Play Havoc if Planters 8he kn ° W “ t , h ® W&T ' T ^* n '' to ®’ 1 Carrie had often expressed a fond- Don’t Heed. many simple ballads of long ago, Robert Freeman Ellington, engineer on the Southern Railway for more than twenty years, despite the fact that be is still 8 young man, won for himself a pretty young wife, who first became attracted to him after | man hearing his weirdly fantastic melo dies as he drove his iron steed through the stillness of the night. ness for going to Lakewood to gath er the flowers there and Mr*. Clem mons Is strongly tempered to bellevd ,, , .that she went to Lakewood and baa Mr. Hill left Macon so recently on ity of Hardman's Ferry, Indiana. 1 faI | en lnto th e lake and ia drowsed, his fajal Jrip to McRae. “Murder I yy|||| am Schrolucke, owner of 700 “Of course, that’s looking at It will out, and I have no fear Hill s I acreg | n (bat neighborhood, reported on the dark side,” said Mr*. Clem- assassin wsill escape.” said Col. Nat j that twenty men on horseback visit- monB t 0 a journal representative* Harris, the partner of the murder-1 pd a || his tenants and Informed them “but I am nevertheless trying to see that if they paid a greater rent than the bright side, If there Is any bright one-third of the crop raised, their gjde.” MARRIES STEPMOTHER. (crops would be mowed down before | When the little girl left home fof they became ripe. Thomas Taylor, ALIVE IN HER COFFIN. Mourning Turns to Joy When Babe Opens Its Eyes. -— Young Man Weds tin* Widow of His a wealthy land owner, received by mail a package containing powder Father. and matches, with a note of warning It has just been learned that the of wha t «*P ect lf ^ ln8l8t * Aeparture last February from Cor-1 « d on a one-half crop rental, nell University of Harry C. Beckwith, I „ . , twenty-fix vt>a c , of tttte. and enrolled 1 PASSED AWAY. Friends and relatives gathered a> a sl)edal student In architecture, last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tex., to attend the funeral services over the body of their two-year-old | years of agPi and now a resident of Chicago. Friends of young Beck- was for the purpose of urging his j Only Two Hours Between Death of Man and Wife. . school Monday morning the wore • dotte4 bine musHn dreea, . with A darker bine border. Oft her heed iM wore a small tan cap; on her hair was a rather large bine ribbon bow. She wore button shoes and a atgnet ring on which were engraved the letters C. L. C. — , —• Her father Is a plumber, working at 96 Ivy strtet. c - j C. C. Harrington, of Orange, | 8U | t y or tbe band of his step-mother, Mrs. Eleanor Beckwith, thlrty-^lx CANT EXPLAIN SUICIDE. daughter. The child had been de clared dead, but was not hurled for j w j(b today heard that he had been three days owing to the condition of | BUCCe8B f u i' | n this end and that a the mother^ who wairstTfrertTiX shock. When the services began the lit tle tot opened her eyes, gaped and wanted "out of the box.” She Is now on a fair way to recover from her recent illness. Physicians who declared the chHd dead are at'a~'16ss' to understand the case. marring?" ceremonjr 1181 'hern formed last Saturday in Chicago. Beckwiths father died seven or eight years ago. Batter •looted Ur hlf Oftiw I StmtM j nle Whitman, n«o Bottick, of tho old to deftth at Asheville, N. C... ft few i Jtebert {tadl? of Charleiton. day* ago. Half Million Dollar Fire. Following a long series of incen diary fires, tjr* extensive sections of Rochester. N'-Y., fell prey, this week, to flames that for several hours seemed to threaten the destruction of the whole city. When the fires were finaHy gotten nnder control, with the help of a heavy rain, over 100 families, numbering nearly <00 persona, were homeless and the prop- The News and Courier says news was received in Laurens Thursday morning of the death yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Brown Whitmire at their ~Some'at TbungT Crqw Jtoadsr about three miles southeast of Clin ton. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmire Were both 111 with paeumonia, and early yesterday morning Mr. Whitmire pased away. A few hours later Mrs. Whitmire,died. .Each_was about 50 Man Run Down as He Gets Off Car. | years of age. The burial service of the couple will be held today at Four People Hurt. Hurricane Church i i At Memphis Peter Sullivan was killed and four other persons in jured late Wednesday night when an KILLED IN STREET BY AUTO. Rejected Lover Tried Murder. Roland Matlack, 20 years of age automobile ran down Mr. Sullivan as I is under arrest In Trenton. N. J. he was alighting from a street car. charged with attempting to kill his Of the Injured occupants of the au- rival, Roland Chadwick, of Phila- tomobile who were thrown to the | delphia, and Miss Margaret Summon, ground "by the sudden stopping of a girl of 19 and his former tweet Former New York Broker Htwef Himself Over CUE. j American w1»o ebmttttted lulclde b? throwing himself from • dig at Tor- regeveta, Italy, last Tuesday and t who was at first thought to hft^ “t Mr Phonon,’* of Seattle, waa if * foreign exchgjige broker to Wftll street. About a year ago., up his buslneee and begna to In Southern Europe and Africa. Hia cousin here, Morris StetthdmeG waa at a loaa to axplaty Ludwig, he aald, wftg he left here and money. erty damage y ... $800,000. the machine, was Thomas Phetan, a prominent bftsineaa man, ia the moat seriously hurt. - . - * Jt ' heart. He tried their face but the off. to fire into failed to Iv’. /