The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 14, 1910, Image 1
MEETS DEATH
IMer Suptcitis Circinstaaces Near
Caiuikia n Tkirs4aj
COMMIH8IONKK WATSON OFFER.
El) HIOREIt POSITION.
WAS DROWNED IN POOL
Jfr*. Bookter RaitlH is the Name of
the 8tippose<l Vk-tiin and Her Hus
band and a Man Named Lewis
Neeley Has Been Arrested Charg
ed With Murdering the Woman
The State says Mrs. Bookter Mar
tin, better known as Cleo Starnes,
was drowned Thursday afternoon
between two and three o’clock, in
Hampton's pond, a few miles south
east of Columbia. The suspicious
circumstances surrounding her death
led to the arrest of Bookter Martin,
her husband, and Lewis Neeley, both
present at the time, who are held
pending the coroner's Inquest will
take place Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock.
Constable J. D. Dunnaway, who
arrived at the poird, placed Neelev
and Martin under arrest. Mabel
Blackburn, the fourth member of
the party who lives in the disorderly
hsuse run by Dallas Starnes, was net
arrested. The two men are said to
have been drinking heavily and still
were under the influence of whiskey
when arrested.
Besides Neeley, Martin an 1 the
Blackburn woman, a few small boys
were the only eye witnesses of the
tragedy. One of the boys said that
one of the men had Mrs. Bartin on
his back out in the water. In some
way, which the little fellow could
not explain, she fell off and was
drowned. It is alleged that the men
had previously threatened to drow i
one of the boys.
Mrs. Bookter Martin, the dead wo
man, is said to have led a very
checikered career previous to her
marriage to Martin, who lives eigh
teen miles out on the Camden roed
The two did not s'ay togethe- long
after they were married. Lew's
Neeley, now being held on suspicion,
was recently arrested and released
from the county jail, where h? was
held pending the Investigation of
the disappearance of Morgan Rmoak,
a lb-year-old boy of Waverley, wn >
has not been heard from June 8th,
when he left his home with Neeley
and another man, Arthur Loveu
TO RESORT TO OOURTH.
Picture Syndicate Says They Will
Protect Their Interests.
That the moving picture syndi-
oate, owning the Jeffries-Johnson
fight films, will resort to the Cour k
of the several States to detem.lne
their right to produce the pictures,
was Indicated at Philadelphia Thurs
day, when one of the best known
moving picture meu in the '•ountry,
who has a big interest in the s>n
dlcate, said that the agitation ogatrr’
the displaying of the pictures wju d
be fought. He said that too much
tncmey had [been invested by the
synd^Jcate. which represents woIvm
dlf^jetu interests, to stand by an..
see’^J^ght pictures prohibited with
out making a contest to determine
the right of city authorities to stop
the display. The pictures, It was
further announced would be placed
on public view in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia. Chicago and sev.erai
other cities on July 18.
NKVKKE STORMS.
Lives Are lyost and Damage Wrought
in Minnesota.
■Western Minnesota and easteru
South Dakota were visited Tuesday
evening by severe wind and electri
cal storms, which may .have caused
.loss of life and great damage to cit
ies and farming communities. The
storm seems to have followed a well
defined path west of Madison. Wires
are down west of this point. Re
ports indicate that one or more tor
nadoes have swept through the
storm area and a report from Wa
tertown says a circus tent was blown
down and the stage destroyed by
fire. One man was killed and sev
eral Injured.
INCUMBENT LOSES OUT.
Faison Nominated for Congress in
Third N. O. District.
Dr. John M. Faison,, of Warsaw,
Dublin county, N. C., was Wednes
day nominated for Congress by the
Democratic Convention of the 3d N.
C. district. The Convention, which^ y
wgs tmtt at Goldsboro, began Tues*
day, Hi* nomination being made on
the lilpi ballot, affer an all night
sestlohv There were five candidates
In the race, one®of tbenT'being the
present Congressman, Charles E.
Thomas, of'Newbern. Dr. Faison is
about sixty years old, and Is a prac
ticing pysician. While active in pol
itics, be has never held office.
Selected Without Knowledge of So*
licitation by National Government
to Fill Newly Created Position.
A special dispatch from Wrights-
vttte. N. C.; to The State say* K.
J. Watson Wednesday made the fol
lowing statement in answer to a
question as to an offer of a federal
appointment:
y "I really do not care to say any
thing about it, but I always try to
be frank, and since you ask the dir-
rect question, I will tell you that
it is true that on Monday last, by
one of bhe cabinet officers, without
any soliciting on my part, or even
an intimation of the possibil
ity of such a thing until I re
ceived a wire from Washington, 1
was tendered one of the most at
tractive positions in the gift of the
national government at a salary
larger than the assistant secretary
of any of the departments, larger
than any of the governors of the
States, save Tennessee and in effect
better perhaps than that of United
States senators.’*
Asked as to the position itself,
Commissioner Watson said:
"I do not feel at liberty to state
that exactly. However, the duties
would be In the nature of those of
a special representative of the Wash
ington government and of a purely
constructive and non-political car-
acter, being in execution of a re-
cpn.4ly developed determination in
the part of the government to push
with especial vigor American trade
and commerce into the furtherest
sections of the world. The duties
would be in line with those to which
I have devoted my every energy in
South Carolina, but with the world
for a field, and would carry the
man discharging them first for some
years to the Orient—China, Japan
and Mongolia—and then to South
Africa and other countries. The du
ties of the position w'ould be such
too, as to enable one to accomplish
much for the texile industry of the
South as well of the country at large
and perhaps to do a great deal on
ail matters pertaining to cotton,
which great American agricultural
iProdifet would receive, under the
policy adopted, most particular at
tention. The fullest exploitation of
American manufactured products in
world’s regions wherein they are now
unknown would be a leading line of
duty."
Asked still further about the of
fer. Mr. Watson said:
“I was totally in the dark that
was even being thought of, and
had no Intimation until a felasm-.^
came to me last week, w-hHe' 1 ! 0 was
attending “4 farmers' union meeting
nhd 1 went to Washington, where l
found that Representatives Burle
son of Texas and Lever of this State
had suggested my name In connec
tion with the position when inquir
ies were being made about congress
vs to a man equipped for the ser
vice desired. After the cabinet
meeting on Monday, last, after a very
brief interview with me, the cabi
net officially tendered the c.omMl#-
sion to mo without regard to^in-
dorsements or any thing else, and
was readly to make the appointment
t.hen and there. I was allowed a
reasonable time to consider the mat
ter, at my request, owing to its
far-reaching effect upon my own fu
ture and upon the work which L
have been devoting my every energy
n my home State."
"What are you going to do about
t?" was asked.
Mr. Watson said. "That I can not
vet tell. The offer, coming in this
'orm and being an offer of a posi
tion of grave responsibilities free
from the influence of politics, and
>eing of the same constructive char
acter as work in which I have been
engaged, is extremely altering, and
the salary makes it alluring. On
the other hand my whole soul is
'• rapped up in the work of my ow-n
State. This work is developing at
an astonishing rate, and I am nor
seeking the fruits of untiring labor
on every side. The work I have
wanted to do in South Carolina is
not yet done, but it Is on the high,
rising tide, and 1 should hate to,
abandon it. But I am a poor man
and the State pays scarcely a living
under present conditions, but then
and there are many things to be
taken into consideration, and I am
giving them the most careful con-
eideration of my life. As yet I
honestly don’t know what I will do.’*
It is learned that the salary con-
sHerably exceeds $5,000 a year with
ail expenses In addition.
BAND PLAY8 WHILE THE BOAT
18 BURNING.
Look Like a Repetition of Slocum
Excursion. — Thousands Watched
Blaalng Vessel.
The old wdoden three-decker,
Grand Republic, slater ship of the
ili-fated excursion steamer, Gen.
Slocum, caught Are Wednesday af
ternoon while passing through the
narrows in New York harbor, on
her way to that city from Far Rock-
away, and hurried full steam ahead
her whistle blowiiu; a continuous
succession of short, nervous blasts
and a plume of smoke trailing be
hind her, for the Cresent Athletic
Club pier on the Brooklyn shores
Her 245 passengers were all land
ed safely and the fire extinguished
with $2,500 damage, but there was
no little alarm in the city and on
the harbor until the full detaila were
known.
Everybody remembered how a lit
tle more than six years ago, the
Slocum, caught fire in the East riv
er, when crowded with 1,600 pleas
ure seekers, mostly women and chil
dren, and was burned to the waters
edge with 938 drowned, crushed, or
baked alive.
Wednesday, as then, the Are start
ed, nobody knows how, in the gal
ley just abaft the starboard paddle
wheel and spread quickly through
the wooden superstructure. There
was no panic. The women were bad
ly frightened, but the crew had no
trouble in keeping them in band,
and the children were so pleased
with the music of the band, that
they kept playing through the dash
for shore, that they never knew
their danger.
The calls for aid from the Grand
Republic brought Are boats, tugs,
steamers and a Brooklyn Are engine
to the pier and the passengers were
quickly put on shore and the fire
extinguished.
Thousands of peopl-; had gathered
along the shores to watch the blaz
ing vessel. Capt. Carmen, when the
fire was discovered, directed the en
gineer, who was sticking to his post,
in a smoke-filled engine room, to
keep up as much steam as possible
and put on full speed.
Capt. Carmen and Purser John Mr
Conaghey. by prompt attention,
quelled what seemed for a few min
utes would develop Into a panic.
Men and women began to scream for
help, but as the shores, at the point
where the .fire was discovered were
close by, the fears of the passengers
were quieted.
Life preserves were handed out to
the people as fast as they could be
taken from the racks, and for a time
it Itifclied as If many of those wno
had Rfe preserver* would jump over
board. Children were 'ost In th«
general excitement, but were rdaloi-
ed to their parents after the vessel
had docked. Capt. Carmen ordered
the band to play until told to stop.
The work of getting the people off
the boat was done quickly and with
out mishap.
J«firiefcMasM Fit hi Retires Barred
Frsa Muy Cities
ALL OYER THE NATION
Movement Started at Boston by the
The official report of Internatl-mai
Revenue Commissioner Royal E. Ca-
Ctiristian Endeavor Society an I hell will contain many surprises when
R Rapidly Spread All Over the
United States and Other Countries
on Both Sides of Ocean.
^ Had Neddie In Heart,
p t LandgraC W. Va., ‘.Mlrand*
Wa'-ks died suddenly and h^r hus-
h" ^ ,* was arrested on suspicion of
' i iff caused her death. An au-
jto.sr revealed a cambric needle
pierc'ng the woman’s heart. There
was no scar on the body to ahow
that the needle had punctured the
skin and the man waa released.
WILL USE HIS INFLUENCE.
Governor Anf>d to Itorommend Sup
pression of Pictures.
Governor Afisei has agreed to us.'
his Inuueuce to prohibit Die exhi
bition of moving pictures of the Jef
fries-Johnson fight. He has address
ed the following telegram to Wil
liam 8. Shaw, the general secretary
of the United Society of Chriatian
Endeavor. “Your wire receive' 1 . Yes,
I will join the other Governors iu
recommending piohibition of moving
pictures of Jeffries-Johnson fight. '
The following telegram had been
received by Governor Ansel from
Mr. Shaw: "Race riots and murders
in many places Collowed the an
nouncement of Johnson's victory n
prize fight. These results will be
multiplied many fold by moving pic
ture exhibitions. Will you join the
Governors in recommending the pro
hibition of the demoralizing shows
on some of our young people?”
AN AWFUL DEED.
Baby Found Uninjured.
1 A aeven-.montha-old child, was
fqt-nd In • corn field adjoining the
Detective Fatally Injured.
City Detective W. M. CoUlM of
Aiiguata, Ga.. waa fatally Injured in
a rwneway Tueaday afternoon. Mr.
•erne pf the Big Four wreck at CoUina waa In a buggy with Police-
MMdletown, Ohio, Thursday morn- man A. J. Matthewa and another
* ing. The ehlM had been there ainoe. man. The horse bolted, the buggy
It is believed, U was hurled there! was overturned and Hr. Collins
Woman Drowns Child to Thwart
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Kidnappers.
Crazed by the fear that her glx-
year-oid daughter would be kidnap
ped, Mrs. W. L. Duxton, wife of a
well to do ranchman, living 11 miles
from Cortex, Colo., drowned the
child in a wa&htub to save it from
what her unbalanced mind consid
ered & worse fate. Mrs. Luxton was
found Wednesday night by Sheriff
Gawath on the door atep of the aher-
ilTs home at Durango. She told tn
an incoherent story of a conspiracy
to kidnap her daughter and declared
she had thwarted the plotters by
holding the child's head in a tub
of e'ater until it was dead.
The officials of the Chriatian En
deavor Society were much pleased
over the result of their movement,
started at Boston Tuesday agam.-t
the exhibition of the pictures of the
Jeffries-Johnson fight. Urgent tele
grams have been sent to all the
branch societies throughout the
world to continue the agitation.
Fort Worth, Texas. July 6.—
response to the request of Mayor
Davis, the city commiasion has pass
ed an ordinance prohibiting the ex
hibition of pictures of the Johnson
and Jeffries fight in this city.
Harrisburg, Pa., July 6.—Mayor
E. 8. Meals today issued an order
prohibiting the showing of the Reao
prize fight pictures in this city. The
mayor said that Harrisburg has
many colored people and that he
could not take auy chances ot dis
turbances.
Louisville, Ky., July 6.—Mayor
William O. Head announced today
that the exhibition of the Jeffries-
Johnson moving fight pictures would
be prohibited in Louisville. The
mayor says he tears race riots.
Portland, Me., July 6.—The exhi
bition of prize fight pictures in Maine
photographic or other reproduction
Legislature in 1897. The law reads:
"Whoever publicly exhibits any
photographic orot her reproductlvn
of a prize fight shall be pushed 0"
a fine not exseeding $500."
Mobile, Ala., July 6.^—-Mayor Ly
ons today instructed Chief of Police
Giblin to Inform all moving picture
show operators in Mobile that they
would not be permitted to preseoi
pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson
fight. Efforts to show the p'etures
will lie followed by summary closing
of the houses.
New- Orleans. July 6.—Mayor Bei-
nvan today Issued an order to the
chief of police to arrest the proprie
tor of any theatre attempting lo show
the moving pictures of the Jeffiiee-
Johnson fight and directing that the
licenses of any such theatres shall
be cancelled.
Lexington, Ky., .July 6.—Police
Judge Southgate today issued a sign
ed statement, declaring that mov
ing pictures cf the Jeffries-Johnson
fight will not he exhibited here.
'Washington, July 6.—Moving pic
tures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight
cannot be shown in this city, nor
elsewhere in the District of Colum
bia. This was the decision of the
district commissioners today.
Little' Rock, Ark., July 6.—Mayor
Duly today issued a proclamation
declaring against the exhibition of
pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight
in moving picture shows here. He
opposes it on the ground that it will
stir up race prejudice and cause
trouble among the races that would
not otherwise occur.
Milwaukee. July 6.—The exhibi
tion of the Jeffries-Johnson fight will
not be permitted in Milwaukee.
Little Rock. Ark., July 6.—-Gov
ernor Donaghey declared today that
he would prevent the exhibition
moving pictures of the Jeffries-
lohnvon ftsht anywhere in Arkan
sas. If It is in his power to do so
RlcTrinond, Vs., July 6.—Governor
Mann today stated that he will re
quest officials of every city and town
In Virginia to prohibit the showing
of the Jeffries-Johnson fight pic
tures.
Boston, Mass., July 6.—Mayor
Fitzgerald stated positively this af
ternoon that he would not allow the
Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures to be
shown in Boston.
Charlotte, N. C., July 6.—Mayor
Hawkins stated to-day that moving
pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson
fight will not be allowed to show in
Charlotte.
Richmond. Va., July 6.—Mayor
Richardson and Chief of Police
Werne emphatically declared that
they will use every means to prevent
the pictures being shown here, and
will invoke aid of the board of Ponce-
commissioners.
Spartanburg. July 6. —"Person
ally I am emphatically opposed to
allowing the Reno fight pictures to
be shown in Spartanburg. I will
prevent it if my authority permits, ’
declared Mayor J. fl. Lee to-day.
Columbia. S. C., July 6.—At a
special meeting at noon te-4ay, the '
Columbia City commission passed a
resolution forbidding the production
in this city of the Jeffries-Johnson
Fights Follow Attempt* to Wipe Out
the Traffic, Owe Officer Killed and
Five Are Wounded.
it Is offered for publication. While
exact figures are not available, it is
estimated that 2.000 Illicit stills were
raided and seized during the ps't
year, while the figures for the ye*.-
ending June 30. 1909. showed l.MO
succeaful raids . The commissioner
declares that prohibitory legislation
In the Southern states and the short
age of corn and consequent raise In
the price of legitimate corn whisk y
to $2.60 a gallon, caused the moon
shine business boom and prosper! y.
The price of moonshine whiskey
in Virginia is quoted at $1.25 and
purchasers and consumers say it is
superior stuff. One revenue officer
was killed and five were wounded
during the last 90 days. Kentucky
popularly supposed to be the moon
shiners paradise, is not included in
the moonshine belt, although some
Illicit distilling goes on in that state.
Deputy Collector Anderson lost his
life by being ambushed. He anj
one of his deputies were shot down
witho a chance for their lives in
a fair fight. The deputy was wound
ed, but (scaped. Three moonshiners
were captured and received sentences
of twenty to thirty years. Collector
Dunlap, of the Eastern district of
Tennessee, risked his life within two
weeks after he had received his com
mission. It is seldom that revenue
collectors take part in a raid but
Dunlap had formerly been the Uait-
ed States marshal for that d'lUrlct.
and when he located a still, through
his agents, he organized afaid an J
headed it himself. vV u.
The party charged the atiji in' tVe
face of a broadside from tfie mood-
shiners. Dunlap sustalMd a.minor
wound hut did not fallj Wfinr the
moonshiners saw thstr-l
were not to be stopped
ed their surrender, and
al>out to handcuff the leader when
the man drew a weapon and star f o';
to ligh; again Dunlap clinch*-1 «i:h
him in a rough and tumble struggle.
In which they rolled down the moun
tain side. Dunlap was severely in
jured in addition to the gunehoi
wound he had sustained, but he got
his man. There were six persons at
that still, four men and two women.
One of the most spectacular en
counters which the Federal officers
have had with moonshiners in recent
years was the raid headed by Agent
Sams In North Carolina three weeks
ago. A pitched battle took place,
In which over 4fM) shots were ex
changed, but no one was seriously
Injured, and the moonshiners surren
dered after a long Beige. Moonshin
ers realize that arrest and convic
tion pv*a«\ long terms of imprison
ment. Consequently they rarely sub
mit to arrest without * fight and
shoot to kill. Many of them feel
that they are justified In killing the
officers. Local sentiment is Invar
iably with the moonshiners. Still
10,010 stills were captured during
the last eight years.
(i
*the otP.co.s
i. tto* signcl-
d I was
Frank A. Reynold* Disappears In •
Gave-ln of the Earth and U 8wep<
Into River. „
'While talking to William Okaea,
a fellow employe, Frank A. Rey
nolds, an oiler fa too Big Four
yards, suddenly disappeared in a
cave-in of earth snd despite efforts
of railroad employea, two companies
of the fire department and the life
saving crew, was carried into the
Ohio and drowned.
Reynolds and Oakes, the fr Tl
with his oil can in hand, wnm
ing in the yards at Preston sr f
when the cave-ln occured. L*
was precipitated into one >f
large sewers that empties in the
Ohio, scarcely two blocks away.
Oakes., who narrowly escaped, ran
quickly and gave the alarm, return
ing in a short time with a long
piece of hose.
This he threw Into the sewer, and
although he could not see Reynolds,
a vigorous tugging on the hose not
ified the reacurera that the man waa
still alive. The men above the
ground were preparing for a hearty
pull, when there was a further cave-
ln followed by muffled cry from Rey
nolds. A detachment of the fire de
partment arrived on the scene, but
•he continued falling of the ground
made any attempt to rescue hazard
ous.
The life saving crew made a rush
trip up stream from Fourth street,
and after watching the sewer pour
its muddy volume for a few minutes,
detected a stream of oil, showing
that the man's oil can waa empty
ing.
Despite the crumbling of the
earth, which increased the opening
to 20 feet In width, the fire depart
ment and a large party continued
teelr efforts and were rewarded
about noon by finding the dead body
of the other. It was taken out at
the cave-in. Many trains of the Big
Four snd Chesapeake and Ohio pass
over the sever dally and a freight
had Just passed, whea Reynolds sank
to death.
TOOK CARBOLIC
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lu Letters She Wrote 8he Gave
a Reason for Her
tality of Her Hi
ed Revolver from Her
Alleged Proteetios.
lh npilaaw,
! h"l<
the] condfuctc
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Chicago on Friday Mrs. Henry
STABS HIS WIFE.
White Man in August* Kills Her
With Sharp Razor.
Tom Desmuke, a white man, who
lives out on the Savannah road, sev
eral miles from Augusta, Ga., cut
the brachial artery in the left arm
of his wife last night with a razor
and ahe bled to death shortly after
wards. Desmuke waa arrested af
ter the crime by a county officer and
did not offer any resistance. The
crime was a horrible one and there
seems to be no motivb for it. Des
muke was drunk at the time.
Whsfn the officer went to Des-
muke's house to arrest him, ' Des
muke met him at the door, attired
in only one garment, a top shirt,
which was stained with blood. The
only witness to the crime was Des-
mukes little daughter. She saM
her mother was sitting In the back
door when her father suddenly rush
ed up to her and stabbed her with
a razor* «
Woman Poisoned Husband,
Mrs. C. E. Dunn, who was placed
in the pariah jail at Tallulah, La.,
Wednesday, Is the first white wo
man ever imprisoned tn that parish.
She Is charged Jointly with Dr. T.
W. Loper, an optician, of adminis
tering poiaon to her husband vrlth
intent to murder. She was arrest
ed in Alabama while visiting rela
tives
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by the colUMoa.
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j throw* violently against a tree.
Ttyree Thieves Injured.
While Col. H. P. Bope, vice pres
ident of the Carnegie Steel company,
was attending a baaeball game in
Forbes field, Pittsburg, three auto
mobile thieves stole his touring car.
They were getting away until they
collided with • smokestack in a
street and the car turned turtle.
John -Miller apd A. G. Luca*, will
die and Charela Haya is aenously
result of the attempt-
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>D#rr.
prize fight pictures.
Savannah, Ga.. July 6.—Mayor
George W. Tledeman stated to-day
that under no circumstances would
he permit the showing of the Jeff-
riet-Jehnson prixe fight pictures in
Savannah.
The Savannah people, both white
and colored hgve shown very little
feeling over the result of the fight,
and the mayor does not propose to
permit au appeal to race prajudice
through tha preaentation of the pic
tures of tha battla.
Atlanta, Oa.. July «—*y practi
cally unamftnoos vote the Atlanta
city council to-day paased an ordin
ance prohibiting the production here
of moving pictures of prize fights,
the penalty for violation being $o(>0
fine, thirty days’ imprisonment and
the forfeiture of tbe offending thea
tre’s license.
Capetown, July 6.— There Is a
widespread ^demand here (or the
prohibition in South Africa of the
Bioscope pictures of the Jeffries-
Johnson fight, owing to ttaetr effect
oh the natives. Sign* already are
evident among them of excitement
00 account of the victory of the a#-
. "~y~ u r~ '*
fro.
RURAL UAKRIKK8 MEET.
They Had » Rig Time at the Mate
Uoaventkm.
With the election of officers, au
address by Fourth Assistant Post
master General DeGraw. an address
by Congressman Finley, a good roads
discussion, under the auspices 6t
the Columbia Record’s good roads
tourists, nad the transaction of rout
ine business, the Btate Rural Letter
Carriers’ Association of South Caro
lina held a busy session Tueada)
morning, reaching final ajouraaaeat
shortly after one o'clock thsd after
noon, with the siuglug of "God Be
With You Till We Meet Again.’’ The
session has been one of pleasure and
profit, and has been by far the heat
in the history of the Association,
from *te point of *D*o4*u»> and
from point of Interest and antfiua 1 *
issm shown in the organization. Tbe
visitors were made to feel at home
In Newberry, and they have gone to
their homes ethusiaatlc Id praise of
Newberry's hospitality. .
Florence waa selected aa tbe next
meeting place. President Thus. E.
Wicker, Secretary Paul K. Crosby
and Treasury Arthur W. Hill were
unanimously reelected. Mr. E. W.
Cromer was unanimously elected vice
president.
As delegates to the next annual
convention of tne national associa
tion, which meets at Little Rock in
September, tbe convention elected
Mias Florence E. Livingston, Mess
rs. Paul K. Crosby, Stanley A. Burch
and F. C. DeVoe, Mias Livingston
"headed the ticket.”
goaded to desperation bp
alleged brutality sad uafaithful- ^
her husband, a atroot cart: '
conductor, shot sad fatally wouaded
tha latter sad their three-year-old
daughter, and then killed bersolf by
taking carbolic acid. Mrs, J|«lsaw
borrowed a revolver from bar fath
er alleging that tho-needed H for
protection when her husband work
ed at night. Than she wrote letters
to her parents, her mother-in-law
apd to the public.
In these aha declared that aha hag
been a good and faithfni wrtfa, bat
that Mulaaw spent his spars time
with other womep and of tan bet
her.
Mulaaw Is alleged to have jbean - \
with another woman until 4 o’clock
Thursday morning, when he return
ed to his horn#. According to the
police he began abusing bis wife, °
seizing her by tbe hair sad kicking ’
her.
8he then drew tha revolver and
ahot-bim in tha abdomen. He fell
to the floor and aha sent another
bullet Into hie back. She went to
her bedroom and fired a ballet into
the body of her little daughter.
Satisfied that both were dead aha
completed the traged by takiag poia
on That ahe klsaed her child after
taking the poiaon Hu shown by tha
marks on the child’s face. ‘
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DARING DEED HAVES PLANT.
Oil True! Employee Braves Horrible
Death to Shat Valve.
While firemen poured powerful
streams of water upon him. W. A.
Weaver, •uperiateadeat of the At* *
Untie Refining giant. Pittsburg, Pa.,
dashed daringly through flame aai
smoke early Thursday and shut a
valve which prevented fire spreading
from a burning still of booslno to
great tanka of oil nearby. In th# C
vicinity over 30,000 barrels of pe-
trotenm in various stages of
moat were stored. Two thousand per
sona called from their beds by the
peril, cheered the superintendent aa
he came scorched from the
still. What weald likely have
a catittropne
idaa several years ago whea SO#
people were seriously iajorod lh *
gasoline explosion was prevented
and the Iota confined to the benzine
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Blind Runaway Horn
repast* into Hysterics.
A blind horse, frightened by the
explosion of a cannon, at Vincennes.
Tnd.. early Wednesday, ran sway*
threw Its driver. Wayne Bunting,
out of the buggy, faulty injuring
him, plunged through a window at
the home of Mrs. Anna Drugger aad f
fell on a bed, where Mrs. Dugger
and her daughter were seriously
bruised gad both warp shocked tot*
hysteria before the men of
neighborhood attracted by the c
and tbe screams of the
could drag tbe frantic horse
the house.
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NEGRO BURIED ALIVE.
WENT OVER VERGE.
Smothered in Pile of Dirt aa He Lay
Asleep.
Smothered by a pile of dirt aa
•he lay asleep in the bottom of a
construction car, was the fate of 13-
year-old McKinley Myers, a negro
boy. who was employed to carry wa
ter to one of the laborers’ camps.
The trainman were of eonrse not
aware of hia presence in the ear,
the hqy having crawled into the oar
and fallen asleep while off daty~»nd
a huge pile of dirt was thrown la
upon him. It was not nntil the car
•had made Its run, a disUnce of about
two miles, to the fill-in of tbe Belem
viaduct and the dirt waa dumped
into tbe fill that the dead body waa
discovered. ••*
Automobile Plunged fro
to Check.
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Aa a result of an auto
from a bridge Into Sau Pedro
15 feet below, at Sen Antonio.
Wednesday, one person is dead and
four injured, two probably fotelty.
The machine turned turtle as it fo$t
into the water. The deed ore: Mies
Dot Miller, buried under the wreck;
body Bad to be chopped out with
an axe. Probably fatally injured:
Dorothy Miller and Ettte Leherir ^^ '
Fred Burns and Jim Johnson. “
latter tha chauffeur, were
injured. -
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_ Thfevee Loot diurch.
The Second Baptist church In Suf-
field. Conn., was entered by^thievea
last week, who stole a solid silver
communion set. as well as a pewter
service used in Revolutionary days.
The latter waa very valuable. The
pipe organ and piano wars damaged low Us bed
beyong repair.
Nothing la known as to
of the accident. He
and about two o’clock neat
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Carry Out Huiride Poet.
Supposedly the result of a sui
cide pact tha bodlss of N. A. Gam-
mill and Mrs. Beulah Marsh were
found Sunday in a boarding 1
conducted by the man's mothot.
Mrs: Marsh wga a widow and we*
hava been married to OkmaglU ig
stent**
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Killed by FaH.
Tha body of J. W.
Wedueadaji aight
of a fan from IheJ
of Ms boardtl
was taken to MSefcoi.
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a policeman
lying on the
fid f
1 window.
Courtesy.
WhUs driving in his
on the rood near Ointar
Lewis D. Lotus, a wealthy
to
a ill
automobilo
Henry
Jones firow a
and j