The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 13, 1910, Image 4
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Adair
Victim Was Bound to a Chair,
Waa Bound to a PflUr,
Om Was Tnnwd on, aod the
Was mmag Upright Stone
At ftoi fofk on fenSay Horfl*
Nathuasoo, a weU-to-do, .middle seed
real estate holder sad clothing
msixafscturer, was (band dead
the loft of his factorr. bound hand
sad foot to a chair with a half ineh
rope. He had been dead for hours
aad the raat vacant loft was filled
with escaping gas from a broken
pipe just above his bead. There
were no marks of violence.
Nnthaaaon failed to return home
the night before, and when midnight
same, his wife reported his absence
to the police. A search was Insti
tuted the following morning. Mrs
Nathanaon called up her husband’s
partner, Isaac H. Gold, and he, his
wife nnd Mrs. Nnthnhibn went dSwn
to the factory. Gold, the only per
son except Nathanson who had
key to the loft, opened the door,
rush of gmi met him. but before be
bed time to close the door again
Mrs. Nathanson saw her husband
dead in the chair. She shrieked
and fell In a faint across the thres
hold.
Minute examination showed that
the body had been thrice wound
with half Inch rope under the arms
and bound to the back of the chair
Both legs were fastened to the legs
of the chair. The right arm was
free, but the left eras bound with
two twists and so firmly knotted to
an arm of the chair that the cor
oner said he could not believe that
a man with only one free hand could
have tied the knots. The hands and
rope were both red with a snb-
' stance not blood. The chair had
been backed up against a pillar and
the loose ends of the knot that
bound the body to the frame had
been knotted again behind the pH-
:«»lar. Thus the body was bound to
Use chair and the Chair bound to the
pillar.
. On the floor were a few loose
coins. There was no money la the
pockets, which had bsen turned in
side pnt aad Nsthanaou’e key to tho
lock was also missing. His desk,
which udjolneA his psrtenr’s was
open and Uttered with torn and
crumpled papers in the wildest con
fusion. On s sample table was a
woman's fur lined kid glove, torn
and partly turned, inside out. The
safe was locked. Near It lay Na-
II hat nnd above it the gas
been broken.
kaason, so far as is known,
Ltio reason to commit suicide.
4fi yearn old nnd in the best
aad spirits. His business
he lad ample outside
_|Lhe lived happlis
•’T^TughUr.. two
UPMetts, TeBn .
to W&i
”| cellars 1
Ortticises Be
at .the White
House on the President.
A dispatch from Washington says
had the President's (laughter and
eon, Mise Helen aad Robert Taft
remained in the House gallery a
few minutes longer Wednesday, they
would have heard their father round
ly criticised by Representative Adair,
of the executive department.
Mr. Adair said the president's
salary should not have been Increas
ed to $76,000 a year, adding that a
president “with practically no ex
pense, who could not save from an
Income of $60,000 a sufficient sum
to live in ease the balance of his
life, in my judgment, does not have
sufficient business capacity to direct
the affairs of this great nation."
Attacking the president's allow
ance of $36,000 for vehicles, stables,
etc., Mr. Adair argued that this was
$30,000 too much, and he also as
serted that one-third of the $9,000
allowance for icare Ipf the White
House green house would “furnTsb
the president with all the flowers
he can possibly use."
Without depriving the president
of any of the comforts or luxuries
which properly belong to the White
House, Mr. Adair said the appropria
tions of the executive department,
which were $329,420 last year, could
be reduced at least $75,000 per year.
Mr. Adair declared that appropria
tions for all purposes cosld be re
duced at least $100,000,000 a year
without imparlng any part of the
government service. "Extravagance
and waste permeate everywhere
through the Federal servUCe," he
said, amid Democratic applause,
"and Congress has been voting away
the people’s money until we have
reached a point where the revenues
ar not sufficient to meet our enor
mous expenditures.” He asserted
that while the population had In
creased about 40 per cent since 1890,
expenditures had increased 100 per
cent.
HBR BIOHBS AND FRIENDS HAVE
DESERTED HER.
Th* Wife of Former President
vies of Guatemala, Now mi Ob
ject of Charity.
Fromms palace where she.presided
as first lady of the land to aa alms
house refuge—such la the fate which
has overtaken Senora Barrios, wife
of a former President of Guatemala.
Wilh an almost complete impair
ment of her vision, penniless, and
without means to earn n livelihood,
of Ihauw, Tot nnfffWI Mtorntglhce Barvlos knocked tor admit
tance at the Touro-Shakespeare alms
house at' New Orleans New Tear's
VIOLENCE AND ACCIDENT
Claimed Several Victims in New
York on Sunday.
Last Sunday was remarkable In
New York for the unusual number
of deaths by violence and accident
The coroners' offices handled thirty
bs, of which one was a possible
murder, one an unusual suicide by
shooting, one a death due to a crimi
nal operation, six were suicides by
gas, and three fatal accidenta.
The man who shot himself chose
the marble steps of a life insurance
company, in Madison square. He
had cut every mark of identification
from his clothing except the name of
Newark, Nv J., haberdashery on
Collar, but kC v^ok pains to writ
courteous note aa t
.cwmer for the trou
cellarglo cause. „•
In Brooklyn
xmy-
Her husband, Jtosc Marla Reno
Barrios, waa assassinated a short
time after his accession to the Presi
dency. Senora Barrios then went to
Europe, where she remained for
some time. The fortune which she
Inherited from her husband waa dis
sipated through mismanagement of
those in charge of it. ~ ,
At the office of the Guatemalan
consul it was declared that if the
wife of the former President would
return to Guatemala to live she
would receive a pension from the
government equal to the salary paid
her husband. This, it was assert
ed, she had refused to do. It was
stated that $50 a month was paid
to her for a considerable time by
the consulate under Instructions
from the President of Guatemala.
The Guatemalan government is
now bearing the expenses of the edu
cation of Consuelo, daughter of Bar
rios, at a school in London.
Mme. Barrios before her marriage
was Miss Algers Benton, a native
of Virginia, but It was while living
In New York that she met Gen. Bar
rios and married him when she was
14 years old.
KILLED IN FLIGHT.
I^eon I>e I -a Grange Meets Death
I'nder His Monoplane.
Leon De La Grange, the French
aviator, whose achievements during
the past two years had won for him
a high place among those who have
set out to conquer, the air, was In
stantly killed at Bordeaux a few
days ago, while making a flight in
the presence of a great crowd of
spectators.
A strong uncertain w-lnd prevailed,
but with characteristic daring De
La Grange faced it In the same mou
oplane In which he made a record
of 53 miles an hour at Doncaster
meeting last October. He circled
the aerodrome, seeming to have good
control and yet at times. It heeled
danegrously to the wind. On the
third round, when at a height of be
tween sixty and seventy feet, hje
Increased his speed. He swung
wide at the turns, but at the lower
end of the aerodrome he attempted
to describe a sharp curve. The ma
chine was seen to away. The left
wing waa broken and the right wing
immediately eollapeeg. The atop
<|lni» camp plunging to-tbp earth
it turned half over aa It toll.
r(tk the aviator Ringing' to the
“at. In this way it era*" in ***
Dm An Met Dp mi Ml* lb
f«|b far ike Trade.
HE IS A WILLING TOOL
Of the Intereata, Which la Repre
sented by Aldrich and Cannon and
Deadplea, the Insurgent Republi
cans Who Dare Stand Up for the
ODiumon People Against the Trusts
lack MeGee. tg htaWaahlngton
letter to The State, says with the
reopening of congress Tuesday, the
Republican machine renews Its
efforts to whip the ao-cailed ''in
surgents* back into camp, and Mr.
Hitchcock, postmaster general, and
Taft’s political wire puller, is manip
ulating the whip cords.
Mr. Hitchcock Is reported to have
informed certain Republicans who
have been opposing the Cannon ma
chine in the House that they are
to be Ignored in the matter of fed
eral appointments. This, it is un
derstood, Is at the special instiga
tion of Speaker Cannon, who has
determined that the “Insurgents'’
shall be disciplined and who has se
cured the co-operation of the admin
istration.
Mr. Taft started out his career
In national politics playing the role
of fence straddler, catering to both
sides of the Republican schism, but
now he hag practically Joined hands
all round with the Cannon-Aldrich
crowd, which controls the machine.
This disappoints the progres
sive ring of the party—that is, that
wing which has been -progressing
towards Democracy and away from
the old-line Republicanism. In oth
er words, the president is with the
"stand-patters” or machine men,
and Is lending his aid in making
federal appointments to the strength
enlng of the machine.
Taft is being censured for it and
Is said to be putting his head fur
ther and further Info the noose, but
there is satisfaction in knowing ex
actly where he stands. There Is
no longer grounds for him to claim
to be with the new movement In the
party, which Is for tariff reform and
other policies which would benefit
the country at the expense of so-
called “depredator interests." The
story is told on good authority of
how a body of Republican "insiir-
gents" visited the postmaster gen
eral, where they were frankly told
that they were to be considered as
outside the fold.
W«r without quarter will be waged
between the Taft administration and
such Republican "Insurgents' In ^con
gress as are now opposing, and who
oppose In the future, the Taft leg
islative program. The battle Is not
with those tariff Insurgents, who
quietly sheathed their blade* after
defeat, but with those who have
nursed disappointment and
tlM tka*v knives publicly
patlon of eoatfnued conflict
The battle btoke sudden)
days ago. Al first it w
-hot; then a acmttertxl an
the thing spread, up"!
WHAT WILL HAPTEN
THE
Eclipses Recorded—Other
tlon Along This Lina That Will
Be Read WMh
Those who have taken tka Unis
to pursue the almanac for tha year
1910 have discovered that soma un
usual things will happan up among
the stars and that the holidays will
also run out of the ordinary chan
nel.
Thera will.be tour esllfcsei this
year, two of the sun snd two of th-
moon. This section will pot re
ceive the full benefits of these oc
casions. A total eclipse of the sun
will occur May 9, Invisible to the
United States, but visible to Aus
tralia and adjacent oceans. A total
eclipse of the moon is scheduled for
May 23-24. This will be visible to
North and South America, the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, and in
part to southwestern Europe, the
western portions of Africa and the
extreme eastern part of Australia.
On November 1-2 will be pre
sented a partial eclipse of the sun,
invisible to the United States. This
will be visible to the greater part
of Alaska, the northeastern portion
of Asia and the northern Pacific
ocean. A total eclipse of the moon
will be a disappearing stunt on tap
for November 15. This will be visi
ble to Europe and Africa and In
part to North and South America
and southwestern Asia.
The new almanac tells of many
things that will be Interesting
Washington's birthday, the first le
gal holiday after New Year’s, fall*
on Tuesday; Easter is March 27;
July 4 on Monday; Thankaglving
Day Is November 2 4, and Christmas
Day falls on Sunday, and what a
wail from the little ones for the
noise of celebration Incident to the
visit of Santa Claus will have to be
subdued. Labor Day is September
5th.
Not a single "Friday the 13th"
will occur in 1910 and the euper-
stltlous ones will have an easy time
this year. Numerous narrow escapee
will be recorded, for many Thursdays
and Saturdays have 13 as the date
Easter Sunday Is March 27. Oother
Church days for the year are:
Epiphany, January 6; Septuageelma.
January 23; Segagesima, January
30; Quinquageslma, February 8;
Ash Wednesday, February 9; Palm
Sunday, March 20; Low Sunday.
April 3; Ascension Day, May 6;
Whitsunday, May 15; Trinity Sun
day, May 22.
ANOTHER BUZZARD.
(V>ld Wave Again Itam peat la the
Eastern States.
A cold wave swooped down atvta
the east from the extreme £
rannelyest shortly after midnight
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Southern State* £$u pply Gompan
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COLUMBIA. S. O.
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A Feather in Out Cap
In our system of curling and dyeing foal hors. Bat
we hava many other feathers to dur m§» . We "excel
la cleaning and dyeing Gloves, Lat * Curtains, all kinds
of dress goods, nnd even Oarneto^ #e never lijnre
the finest fabrics. Oar work It tto' tost. Oar fries
““derate, A gosta 1 wtu bring ttoUL
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M Society Street,
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Pointed Paragraphs.
The man who wears the ties his
wife picks out for him has the
greatest contempt for the man who
parts his hair the way his wife makes
him.
Next to weddings and funerals a
woman gets the most satisfaction
out of religion.
It’s imagination that makes peo
ple believe they are having Dm when
they are Just being plain fools.
Gossips multiply everything they
hear by two.
One man’s hobby may be another
man’s nightmare.
People who are superstitious about
luck are seldom lucky.
Compliments should be thoroughly
Fletcheriaed before they are swal
lowed.
Observe a married woman close
ly and you will see a wistful look
In her eyes.
Some people’s morals are like
their best clothing—only worn on
extraordinary occasions.
A woman dislikes being jealous
almost as much as she like mak
ing some other woman jealous.
CLASSIFIED C0LUMH
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free box. Prof. Wm. Dulln, Ne
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Red Polled Ototle- Berkshire Hogw
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The Latest Books—Send for our 1st
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Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C.
Pecan Trees—Budded and grafted
from choice varieties. Lowest
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Tobacco Grower*—Splendid oppor
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Tullahoma, Tean.
Commits Suicide.
Baxter E. Woolen, 27 years old,
secretary of a Sunday school and
prominent In church work, commit
ted suicide at Thomasville, N. C.,
Monday morning by hanging himself
to his bed post. No motive for the
deed it known.
Salesmen—Best commission offer os
earth. New, all retailers, sam
ples. . Cost pocket "Very Profits-
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Oar Jaauary Book List is just olf
the press; contains reviews of all!
the latest books. Send for copy
Sims' Book Store, Orangeburg,
8. C.
THE NEW FERTILIZER.
A discovery of far-reaching Impor
tance to the farmers of.the Sooth la
the new fertilizer which has been
perfected on one of the islands near
Charleston. 8. C. It has long been
know* that lime is an essential food
tor plants of all kinda and that they
cannot live when it has been exhaust
ed from the soil. It has also been
known that old worn-out lands are
extremely deficient in lime, and that
sour, badly-drained lands have their
time is a for mthat la not usable by
growing crops.
Fnjiree-* *»
For Sale—Milch cow* Jersey’s, grade
Jeraeya and Holsteins. All of the
beat breeding. Registered jersey
male calves. M. H. Sams, Jones-
vllle, 8. C.
Fan ted to Buy—Hide*. Furs, Wool,
beeswax, tallow, scrap Iron, oow
peas. Writ* for prices. Craw
ford Oo., 698-610 Reynold St..
Augusta, Ga.
low prices ou
rebuilt sad Meond-hand machines
all kind*, for fail trad*. Writ*
for price list. General Supply
Company, D*pt. O, Augusta, Ga.
Pesaata—Our
penny pennnt machines are the
greatest money getter* knoM;
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