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TEN STILL MISSING
Two Heorjr Caubob Exploded at
'Five negroes were killed end two
other*-wer* mortally wounded on
Thursday, when the seven, taking is
sue with Deputy Sheriff Sid Cauley,
at Elliott, Miss., who was endeavor-
to take them into custody on e
minor charge, advanced on the offi
cer with farming implements as wea
pons and with the avowed Intention
of “cutting him down.”
TEXAS MOD BERKS WOILD-BK
KKGRO ASSAILANTS.
STATE BOARD RRDt'OES
r ASSESSMENTS.
MILL WRITB MAN CHARflKD WITH Miff*
TREATING A CHILD.
When Pursued By Mob, Shot Consta
ble from Ambuah.-" Surrounded In
Corn Field and Lynched.
* Sixty Per Cent. Ba
Fifty Per Cent. Basie by. JUg Ms-
Jorlty.
to a Tbs Crowd Disagreed as to Method
of His Death, and the Sheriff Got
Henry Gentry, a negro eighteen
Carrying a warrant charging the 1 years old, paid the penalty of his
at the Beginning of Pra«..i«even with assault, Cauley and two ; crlmeB murder and presumably In-
citlzens deputized to assist him, went
tice at Fortress Monroe, Vs.—
Disaster Witnessed by Wives of
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Several of the Men Rilled.
Sloven artillerymen are dead and
a number of others seriously injur
ed, including two officers, as the re-
■bit of the blowing out of. a breech
block In a twelve-inch ahore gun at
the De Rusay battery at Fort Mon
roe, Va.. during the coast artillery
practice there Thursday.
The accident happened while stu
dent officers were endeavoring to
■ink a fleet of towed targets, repre-
aentlnd an imaginary hostile fleet
proceedihg toward Washington. The
battery was under the immediate
control of Seargent Harry Hess of
the Sixty-Ninth company, U. S.
coast artillery.
The known dead are:
SEARGENT HARRY 0. HESS, of
Phoebus, Va., gun commander.
- CORPORAL CHARLES O. AD
KINS, address unknown, gun point
er.
CORPORAL ALBERT BRAD
FORD, Dorothy, Va.
PRIVATES A. J. SULLIVAN, of
Perkins, Ky.. ROTAL DUFFY of
Kenova, W. Va.; H. A. ADEY, Bran-
donvllle, W. Va.; C. W. KING; of
Dayton. Ohio; JOHN W. CHAD
WICK of Taxewell, Tenn.; ALFRED
W. SMITH of New York; JUDD K.
HOGAN of Geyer, Ohio, and JAMES
H. TURNER of Ripley. Tenn.
One private was blown Into Ches
apeake Bay with the breech block.
Lieut. Van Duaen sustained a bro
ken leg and Lieut. Hawea was in
jured about the face.
Many prominent officera §f the
army and navy, who went to Hamp
ton Roads to witness what was ex
pected to be the greatest practice of
this character that had been at
tempted anywhere, eaw the accident.
It was the more horrible for the
reason that wives and children of
several of the men killed, no danger
having been anticipated, were per
mitted to see the target practice. A
number of them witnessed the acci
dent
De Rusay battery, where the explo-
eison took place, was toasted in
about the middle of the fort and
was equipped with three twelve-inch
disappearing rifles. It was named
after Brig. Oen. G. A. DeRussy, who
to t.he home of Henry Beck, a color-
tended assault, at the stake Friday 10
ed farmer, near Elliott Thureday af-j nl * ht at Belton, Texas, while two
ternoon. As the see approched the ' others, a brother of the man lynch-
negroes ceased thtir work In the ed and a companion, charged with
field and, grabbing pitchforks, and 1 Implication, missed a like fate, only
As Its meeting in Columbia on
Wednesday the State board of equal
isation decided by a vote to 33 to 8 . ...
to assess cotton mills, cotton oil mtUa. ? erry county early Wednesday morn-
and fertilizer plants on a fifty per in « on,y by disagreement among the
' crowd as to the manner of death and
the Fiend to Jail.
The lynching of a white man,
Thomas Yarborough, was prevented
in the Sliver Street section of New-
cent, basis, instead of 60 per cent aa
formerly. This acUbn was taken
upon motion of Mr. John Shuler, of
probably the lack of a leader.
Yarborough is charged with an
other farming toola, made for the
•deputy. Cauley, however, opened
Are with two revolvers before the
belligerents came within striking
by pleadings of Sheriff Burke and
several citixena.
Early Friday the negro attempted
to force an entrance into the home
Orangeburg, following the argument; criminal sHsault on a 7-
earlier In the day of Mr. F. Beltpn j y ® ,ir - ol<1 whlt * chlld on *• Tb *
Grier, and eeveral speeches In the 1 m » tter dld ^ beccm « P ubHc untU
distance and, before the others of of Mrs. Lamb, a widow, but was
♦he posse had regained their wita,
five of the attacking party were dead
and the remainder wounded. Thp
deputy surrendered, but was releas
ed to appear for formal hearing.
Several days ago an attempt was
made to effect the capture of the ne
groes, but the arresting officer with
drew when they employed similar
tactics to those of Thursday.
TENEMENT FIRE.
Boy Missing and 300 People Driven
Out by Flames.
One person was killed, another is
missing and three hundred tenement
dwellers were driven from their
homes In a panic, as the result of a
fire which early Thursday at New
York burned out the three upper
■tortes of an eleven story factory
building at Lewis and Rivington
streets, near the Manhattan end of
the Williamsburg bridge. The dead
frightened away with a shot by the
woman's daughter. Several hours
later, while Gentry was being sear
ched for by a posse headed by Con
stable James Mltche)!, the man, fir
ing from ambush killed the posse
leader.
Then the mob formed and after an
all day search, surrounded the fug
itive In a corn field. As the mob
closed In Gentry made a dash for
liberty, but was brought to earth by
two well directed bullets. A rope
was quickly brought and the man
dragged to an automobile and hur
ried to Belton, where several thous
and frenzied men and boys awaited
hla coming.
Aa the public square was reached
the rope was tossed to a man on
horseback and the negro dragged
about the square to the pyre. The
applying of a torch was the work of
a moment and while several hundred
shots were fired Into his body, the
already dying negro was Incinerated.
When the work of the mob was
man was Parrish Eged, a watchman, . . . , .
. . , , , ‘ ’ ended there, a dash was made for
whose burned body was found oa
the sixth floor where he had fallen
while trying to escape. An unnamed
boy. who was given permission to
spend 4he night on the roof, is be
lieved to have perished.
BOY BLED TO DEATH.
Stingaree Shoot* Barbed Spine Into
His Neck.
At West Palm Beach, Fla., death
In an almost unheard of form wait
ed for Laurence S. Baker, an eleven
year old Jacksonville lad. when he
dived from a boat while swimming
off Lake Worth. A stlngaree, a huge
flat bodied gruesome specimen
of salt water fish, was lurking Just
under the boat. One of the barbed
■pines which this fish carries on its
whip-like tall pierced the boy's neck,
cutting into the jugular vein. He
the city prison, with the intent of
lynching the two others charged
with aiding Gentry in the killing
of Mitchell. Pleadings and a show
of force stopped the mob before an
attempt was made to storm the jail.
The crowds then dispersed and fur
ther disorder is not anticipated. *
RETURNED AFTER 4<J YEARS.
rose to the surface crying for help
with, distinction i& JJMUEllU. ^d Uled. .to dqath within four min-
Btble Taken From Female Institute
by Union Captain.
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A ropy of the Bible taken from
the Atlanta Female Institute In 1864
by Capt. Paul Collieon. of North
Chemung, N. Y., was returned Fri
day to Miss Mayson, a member of
the class of '60, which presented it
to the school. The presentation was
made at the reunion of the Forty-
second Georgia infantry, known as
Die "Fightning F'orty-second.''
Some time ago Capt. Collison, who
afternoon on the matter. There was
a proposition to make the assessment
on a 40 per cent, basis, but this was
withdrawn as was the proposition to
assess the corporations on the same
basis as heretofore with the under
standing thqt on Improvements the
basis should be 60 per cent.
Mr. Grier represented the cotton
mills of the State, through the Asso
ciation, which the mills are not fully
satisfied with the 50 per cent basis,
it is realized that this was the best
that could be had. '
The most vigorous argument
against the action taken by the board
waa that of Mr. Jeremiah Smith,
of Horry, who said that the coastal
landa are assessed enough now; that
there Is much real estate that is val
ueless to the farmer on account of
awamp lands and other property that
does not produce anything, and that
the farmer is now bearing sufficient
taxes.
'Mr. Smith, who made a proposi
tion at a former meeting that 160
per cent be the basis and over whose
protest ths 60 per cent basis was
adopted, declaring-that although the
land values have been increased the
same has not been true of the prop
erty under discussion. He made an
impassioned plea that the motion of
50 per cent basis be killed. The
vote on the Shuler motion resulted.
Yeas—Ijomax, Courtney, Clink-
scales, Johnson, Verdier, Turner,
Hafner, Godfrey, Davis, Von I,ehe,
James, Gadsden. Thompson, Knight,
Cochran, Spence, McKenaie. Good
win, Alton. Dekay, McLeod. Ed
wards. Peyue. Floyd, Shuler. Bolltn,
Coleman, Vernon, McLaurln, H K.
Smith, Funk, T. L. Johnson, Evans
-33.
Nays—Guess. Reaves. Read. Kit
tles. Jeremiah. Smith, Zimmerman,
O'Dell. Adair.—8.
RENEGADE DEMOCRATS.
war, and died in 1891
The battery waa manned by the
entire enlisted strength of the Slxiy-
nlnth company, which waa about 10f>
men, distributed among the three
rifles. About 22 men were in each
firing squad and were stationed upou
the tmplaoement of the guns,
the others be lag below In the mag
azines.
Which of the three guns exploded
was not reported, but officers of the
coast artillery say that the heavy
death Hat Indicated that the explo
sion took place after the gun had
disappeared and was in a redlining
position in the pit. They point out
that had It exploded while the gun
was np, the damage would have been
comparatively slight. Explosions
of the latter character have occurred
before In the coaet artillery, but nev
er with such disastrous result*.
A report to the war department
aaya eight men were killed, two fa
tally injured and two others slightly
Injured, Thureday at the beginaing
of the coast artillery battle practice
at Fort Montoe Va.
utes after his companions had lifted 1 WH * * member of the Seventeenth
Who Voted for l/orimer Denounced
for Doing So.
Democrats from all parts of the
State of Illinois gathered at Lincoln
Wednesday night, and then It la said
through a letter which the wife of
Yarborough wrote to the mother of
the child, which led to an investi
gation.
Some of the crowd which gather
ed during the early hours of the
morning wanted to swing Yarborough
to a limb, riddle hie body with bul
lets and then cut him down and let
Jiia body be carried away by the riv
er. Others favored other modes of
sending him to the great beyond.
Magistrate Hendrix got In com
munication with Sheriff Buford, and
the aheriff with his deputy, Pope Bu
ford, was on the road within fifteen
minutes after receiving the message
and carried Yarborough to the New
berry jail
Acting on advices received as to
the feeling of the community, Sher
iff Buford got in communication
with the governor's office and It was
decided that it would be best to take
Yarborough to the State penitentiary
for safekeeping, and, this will be
done.
Yarborough is between fifty and
sixty years of age, and has his third
wife. The crime is alleged to have
happened near Yarborough's home.
In s secluded path. Yarborough was
formerly an operative In the Mollo-
hon mill. He has been living for
some time on the Spearman place,
near Silver Street. He claims that
the charge Is a result of spite work.
WHITE FIEND WANTED.
He Is Charged With Amaulting a
Young Girt.
Charged with criminally asrault-
Ing Irene Fratus, the twelve-year-old
adopted daughter of John Basford
and wife, Paul Comtmtt, a white man
of prominent family, is surrounded
In the Pinswoods. nofth of Wave-,
land, near Biloxi, Miss., by a posse
of citizens of Bay 8t. Louis, who are
bent on Combell'a capture, and may
lynch him if their search is success
ful.
Darius CombeW, brother of ths
hunted man, promised to deliver
Warning to Yowng Women to Bo*
•> '-j*,
ware of Strange Men.
’ A special to the AJews and Courier
from Rtohmond, Va., tells a gad sto
ry about a young girl from this
Bute. Ths dispatch says a young
woamn, IT years oM, aatd to be the
daughter of a oortoir planter near
Oowpens. S. C., is detained In Rich-
nond by the police and is under the
care of the Associated Charities
there, until such time ts she Is sent
for by her parents or earns enough
money to bny a ticket beck to her
home. She wishes to get back aa
soon as she can, according to her
statements. The etory the girl is
alleged to have told la a pathetic
one. According to the police, she
went to Richmond In company with
a man, whose name ths authorities
do not divulge. He was a stanger
to the young country girl, and they
met when on a train, and she was
en route to her parent's home, from
Spartanburg. She js alleged to have
been lured away by smooth and false
talk of the stranger. She saya he
proposed that the go to Richmond,
and ahe followed him, after arriving
living ae hit wife at a boarding
nouee there.
The man left Friday night, telN
Ing the girl to come to Petersburg,
but the landlady became suspicions
and called in a policeman, and the,
girl was taken to the police station,
where arrangements were ifiade for
'her care. There is no charge against
the glnl. but the officers are search
ing for the man, who will be charg
ed with an ugly offense when found.
The girl is pretty and unsophisticat
ed. and has evidently been Imposed
upon.
THREE CHILDREN BURNED.
Locks Her Chlldrea la Hosue With
Fatal Results.
A negro dwelling on the plan
tation of Mr. J. E. Prlvett. in the
3ack Swamp section, about six miles
north of Florence, was destroyed hy
fire about 16 o'clock Monday night,
in which three children lost their
lives and another waa so badly burn
ed that it will probably die. Mitt
Kely, the mother of the children,
locked them up In her house and
went to church, leaving them in the
charge of the oldest girl, about 8
years old. Not long sfter ths wo
man left, ths house was seen to be
on fire and assistance waa given,
but before anything could be done
the three children were roasted
alive. The oldest child managed
to get out of the house and being
frightened, ran to a neighbor for as-
sistance, forgetting about the other
four in ths house, oe# of which es
caped. after considerable effort, in
« horribly burned condition.
..
SUICIDE OR
Family Clafas
Ing.—Possible Fraud
and Fear of Disgrace
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Theory for ffaietde.—Dead
Associates Not
,, .A&fjL
him from the water.
WOMEN TYPIST NOT WANTED.
Mother and Babe Burned.
Trapped In bed with her week-old
baby, Mrs. Grade Wilson, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., was burned to death
Thursday afternooh when fire de
stroyed the old Thdyard block at the
corner of South Division street and
Fourth avenue. A nurse, Mrs. Amel
ia Heoney, who tried to rescue the
mother and babe, received burns
which proved fatal an hour later, and
the babe is dying la the hospital.
Succumbs to Pellagra.
At Columbia. Allen C. Wyae, aged
twenty-nine,, a graduate of the Uni
versity of South Caroline in 1901.
editor of the Southern Furniture
Journal of High Point, N. C.. died
early Wednesday morning at tt^e Co
lumbia hospital of Pellagra.
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Twentieth Child.
The twentieth baby has been born
Into the family ef Mr. and Mrs. Max
im Mareonlller, of Menominee, Wis.
Tbs father is Bfi end the mother 46.
and both ere healthy and prosper
ous.
Thaw <3ets < ‘«U'Mfc.
Tin el distribution of ths bslsncs
of ths estate of William Thaw wgs
fade in the Orphans court la Pltts-
burg, last week. Harry K. Thaw re
ceived 111,899.21 as hts share.
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. Knife Draws Lightning.
f An electric current attracted by s
Government Prefers Men, Who Will
Obey Orders.
Women stenographers apparently
are no longer wanted in the Govern
ment service. This announcement
was made Wednesday at the civil
service commission in an effort to
put a stop to a steadily increasing
flood of letters from women through
out the country who seek informa
tion about an examination for sten
ographers to be had next Tuesday
in all Wie State and Territories. Tnls
examination is for the purpose of
recruiting only men stenographers
and. typistp, the demand for whom
the civil service commission has been
unable to meet. Practically all the
various departments of the Govern
ment are seeking to replace women
stenogrphers with men, on the plea
that the latter are more amenable to
discipline.
An Engine Bulked.
A loaded passenger train on the
Georzla and Florida railroad spent
last night In the woods, three miles
north of Valdosta. Ga., because the
engine balked. An official In his pri
vate car wag on the train and kept
the passengers supplied with food.
The engine began moving about sun
rise.
Damages by Forest Fires.
General reports from all parts of-
British Colufbla confirmed by dla-
i- - --Hfr r
patched to Premier McBride. Land
Minister Ellison and other officials at
the capital, place the aggregate loss
of the present week by forest fires at
not less than 81,000,000, with ful
ly half million more will be lost In
the enforced suspension of affected
industries.
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Farmers Fed Milk to Hogs.
ftat'.'er than sell their milk for
two tnd two and a quarter cents a
quart, farmers la northern Ney Jer
sey counties are feeding it to their
hogs. They say the prevailing price
is three-fourths of s cent lese than
it costf to produce the milk.
New York Volunteers, announced
through his home paper he would
gladly return the Bible to the proper
person. Miss Mayson, who is s sis
ter of Rev. J. S. Mayson, founder of
the Atlanta institute, was located
by a local paper, and arrangements
made for the presentation
Com bell to the posse If thev would
and vigorously denounced 4be actios , u pretest him free, einlenee MAY HAVE BEEN MURDER.
of those Democratic members of the
FLAMES RAGING.
Officers of Steamer Dolphin Tell of
Great Conflagration.
Officers of the steamer Dolphin,
which arrived from Skagway. Alas
ka, at Seattle. Wash., Friday, tell of
tremendous forest fires, a hundred
square miles In extent, which they
judged to be twenty-flve miles in
shcre from the Straight of Georgia,
north of Howe sound. “This was
the biggest forest Are 1 have ever
seen," said First Officer Deneen. "We
were nearest to It on Wednesday of-
ternoon. The air was perfectly still
and tremendous clouds of smoke
roae In the form of a cauliflower,
narrow at the base and gradually
spreading all over the heavens. Along
the horizon was a broad streak of
flames. I judged the flanmes to be
several hundred feet high."
State Legislature who deserted their
party's choice for United States Sen
ator and cast their votes for Wm.
Lorimer. The resolutions also com
mend the twenty-four members of
the Legislature who demonstrated
their loyalty In upholding the honor
of the Democratic party by their un
wavering adherence to the primary
nominee of thteir party for United
States Senate. The resolutions con
cluded with an Invitation to honest
and patriotic men "to come to the
rescue of ths State and drive from
power the present Republican oligar
chy, and thereby restore good gov
ernment to ths people." "
leaders of ths posse agreed, but lat
er Combell had not been delivered.
The crime which Oombell Is alleg
ed to have committed occurred a
month ago. but not until Thuraday
did the child Inform her foster par
ents of what Is alleged to have oc
curred. Hearing of her confession,
Combell. it is said, fled to the for
ests.
LIGHTNING STRIKES AIRSHIP.
LOST LIFE IN SURF.
MUST QUIT COUNTRY.
Wife Transferred for $1.
A document has bwa filed In the
Onendago County court At Syracuse.
N. Y:. whereby Frederick A. Joss,
That's the Germnn Relief and Mer
man's Not AUowed.
Herr DalwitJ, Prussian minister
of the interior, upon recommenda
tion of the political police, says a
Berlin dispatch, has signed order*
for t£e expulsion of twenty-one Mor
mon missionaries, fost of whom are
Americana or Englismen and they
will be conducted to the frontier.
The missionaries had assembled from
various parts of Germany at the Mor
mon headquarters on the East 'Bide
to meet Superintendent McKay, an
American usually resident in Swit-
serland. They were bolding a ser
vice when an agent of the political
polie# who was seated In the aud
ience. rose and dstclated ths gather
ing dissolved. •
Heroic Effort* of Young Ladle* Fail
ed to Save Him.
At Atlantic City, N. J., Daniel Gal
lagher, aged 28, a janitor at the
Foster home for children, in Long-
port, was drowned Wednesday while
bathing in the surf near the home,
despite the efforts of a number of
young women nurses from the In
stitution who formed a human chain
anl tried to effect his rescue. The
nurse* were on the beach with their
charges when “Gallagher, who was
some distance out In the water, cried
for help. No other men were near,
and grasping each others hands sev
eral of the young women rushed
through the surf toward the strug
gling bather. A strong undertow,
however^ quickly carried the drown
ing man out to sea One of the
young women was swept off her feet
but was rescued by her companions
While Flying Along High Up With
One Man Aboard.
While he was taking a cross Coun
try flight Wednesday, near Barcelo
na, Spain, Aviator Ehrmann's aero
plane was struct by lightning and
fell blazing to the ground. The
aviator escaped uniajured, which is
regarded as almost miraculous.
There has never been a more start
ling aerial exhibition than that
which Ehrmann's unwillingly afford
ed and those who witnessed it could
hardly believe their eyes when the
airman emerged from the singed
framework, none the worse for his
experience. Ehrmann was sailing
along at a moderate height when he
got in the path of a sky bolt. In
stantly the aeroplane was enveloped
in flames, its canvas winds shrivel
ed up and clinging to the skeleton of
hts craft. Erhmana came down with
a thud.
Prisoner Attends Dance.
John H. Miller, of ths defunct
cotton Urns of Steels, Miller & Co..
of Corinth, Miss., who was arrested
at Decatur. Ala.. Friday, charged
with using the mails to defraud, was
taken to Huntsville to arrange his
Killed One, Wounded Another.
Peter Lander, colored, aged about
aix, shot and Instantly killed bia
brother. John, aged 9. at the home
of Jonas McCullough, at Chester, on
Thursday afternoon, and perhaps fa
tally wounded John McCullough, al
so about 9 years of age. The young
er Lander boy was playing with a
gun. which was discharged, The load
tore off the left side of John len
der’s deed and wounded McCul lough
in the same manner, though not so
seriously., Tbs schooting was acci
dental.
HUNG TO A LIMB.
Explosion in Quarry.
Five men, ell foreigners, known
hy numbers, were killed In the quar
ry of the Nazareth, Pa.. Postland
a business man. transfers his wife bond. Xtfer bis arrest Miller was j Cement company by tba premature
to Harry W. Rogers, a bookkeeper, *Uow*d to attend a dance. He is' explosion of s charge of dynamite.
And Riddled With Bullets for At
tacking Ladles.
Ending a two days pursuit, a mob
during last night took Evan Bnb-
erts, a negro, from Constable C.
Riggs, in a, lower part of Sytvanio
county, Ga., strung ths negro up to
ths limb of an oak tree end poured
at least 500 bullets Into his body.
Th* negro attacked two white wo
men who were driving along a lone
ly roa,d Saturday afternoon In a bus;-
gy The hoys* became frightened
end ran away end took the women
out of danger, though ths negro pur
sued them with a pistol. Constable
Riggs captured Roberts and hid kim
from tbs mob for twelve hour*
Short work was mad* of th* Usgn
when his hiding place was found.
Irs G. Ravn, president of
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville
Railroad (th* Mo non Rosts,) died
of a bullet wound, at his summer
residence in Wlnnetka. fifteen miles
north of Chicago, early Wednesday
morning. * ""wn. - .
Members of Mr. Rawn’s family^,
say he was killed by a burglar. The % Zrfsl
police are working on a theory that
Mr. Rawn killed himself. As a ha**«
la of their suislds theory, the polls*
advance the following reasons:
They point to ths fast that Mr.
Rawn was operating vice president
of the Illinois Central Railroad at ~
ths time fraudulent car repair con
tracts were pat through and that
recently he was drawn Into the Il
linois Central graft investlgatioa as *
a chief witness.
They saw that the action of Mr. "
Kawn'a relatives in refusing to aid
the Chicago detective department to
search for the alleged murderer Is
suspicious.
They declare that there exists a,
lack of convincing evidence that an.
intruder had actually been In the
Rawn residence.
Mrs. Rawn, wife of the dead mas; *
R. G. Coburn, his son-in-law; Mrs.
Coburn and two children, and three
maids wars In th* house when ths
tragedy occurred. »
Mrs. Rawn says that her husband
was aroused from sleep at half past
one o’clock In the morning by n
noise on the first fipor of the resi
dence. She says Mr. Raws picked
up s revolver* in his room on ths
second floor and started down-stairs
and waa down In the hall when two
•hots were fired. A minutes search
of the front hall and adjolaiag rooms
of th* residence, however, dhow but
one bullet, that fired from the re
volver of Mr. Rawn and which ap
parently had passed through Mr.
Rawn's body Just bokow the heart.
Coroner Peter Hoffman took per
sonal charge of the investigation In
to the death. He refused to sag ,
whether he thought the case w«a one
of murder or suicide. He stated,
however, that powder marks had
been foaad on Mr. Rows'* night
gown, indicating that ths bullet
which killed Mr. Rawn was fired at
close raag*.
Friends and business associates ef
toe dead man aay lhat-
Pcculier Appeerasce of Corpse Lead*
Coroner to Hold Inquest.
Because of suspicious circumstan
ces surrounding the death of B. A.
Jackson, a farmer of Cedar Creex
township, near Fayetteville, N. C.,
reported to th* Coronet since the
event, July 10, a coroner'a inquest
was held Tuesday in order to ascer
tain the nature of Jackson’s death.
Evidence was produced that Jackson
seven months ago married a widow.
Parker, whose children atrenously
objected to the marriage; thet one
son, Grover Parker, who recently es
caped from the county chal&gang
made threats against hts stepfather,
who died suddenly, without apparent
cause, last Sunday during the pros-
enc* at home of another stepson,
who left Immediately thereafter.
Suspicions of foul play were aroused
by the peculiar appearance of the
corpse.
SOLDIER SHOOTS NEGRO.
Shooting Ascribed to Strong Racial
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Feeling That Had developed.
The authorities aFFort Myer. near
Washington, are aiding the Washing
ton police In an effort to apprehend
a soldier, presumably of the post,
who Monday*4tght shot a negro on
the.bridge leading from Georgetown
to the fort. The negro. Wm. D.
Smith, is in the hospital in a dying
condition. Apparenatly the stack
upon th* negro, waa unprovoked. The
soldier, who was anknown to the
negroe’a two companions, first struck
the victim with his fiat and thfp
fired unon him aa he lay prostrate.
Then the soldier fled. The shooting
is ascribed to strong racial feeling
that baa developed among some of
the eoldiers at the fort.
Child Drowsed la Tab.
Hazel Best, twenty-on# moath's
old was drowned in sNrster tab'at
Rank Clerk Gone.
Minor Winchester, collection clerk
of the Citizens’ First National hank
of Albany, Ga., for several years
past, disappeared from bia home at
that place Friday of lest week and
all efforts by bank officials and
friends to ascertain his whersabo
have been fruitless.
terse batcher knife In the bands of lor ths sum pf |1. Rogers has been zocially pronilnent, having married) This is th* same quarry In which j his parents bom# Tuesday. Tbs
Mrs. Joseph Hhsr. of Princeton. N. a roomer In‘the Joss horn# for sev- a descendant of on# of Alabama's, eeven men w*r# killed in a similar .child was playtng-ebout the tub and
Hhsr, of Princeton. N. • roomer In the Joss horn* for
woman unconscioue. emi Years. _ . I
manner a few weeks ago..
I osoaeato wmm ysm^ias^-' to is vs uv sum 1
lost its balance and fell in.
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Shot His Men. j
Asked to return n borrowed
Tump Ellison, returning at daylight
drunk, from drinking and gambling
all night. Monday shot
Will Moor*, to Mewhea
near th* Lenregis county Jtn*. Both
parties are /
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looking badly /for severs! weeks
Some eUrUMsted Mr. Rawn's worried. .
expression to the Investigation of the
conspiracy by which the Hllaote*
Central claims It was mulched out
of hundreds of thousands ot dollars.
This is now going on to court.
On two successive days last week
Mr. Rawn begged tor and secured a
postponement of his examination as
a witness on th* piss that his wife'
was 111.
HI* sxamlnatloa was scheduled in'
be taken up agato next Tuesday.
Mr. Raws left the HUnols Central
Railroad In November, 19*9. and be
came president of the Monon. Early,
this Spring to* Illinois Central fraud
came to itgkt. Though th* investi
gation ta not in such ahap# that any.
criminal reaponaibillty for th* frauds
Js fixed. It is dedaned that th* rep
utation of some persona involved'
would be ruined and their fnturo,
practically blotted out.
At the first hearing before Master
in Chancery Thome* J. Taylor, Jr...
Mr. Raws testified that ths ear re
pair contracts all cam* under his
aupervialon. He admitted that he.
was responsible for farming oat
cars to the various repair
DRUG USED UPON GI
By Aa Unknown Intruder
Home at Ni
Fanny May Pryor,
year-old daughter of Ov'en W.
a prominent resident of Mobile,
died early Wednesday from the
fects of chloroform administered
th* child Tuesday^ night by an
known intruder wt
nuking his sartps.
Th# girl wai found in an
■clous condition by her
a room thsFwss almost s(
th* effect/ of the drag. A
wearing i black shirt and Mack
trousers/was seen is Jump the
•best
bia
Th# /*n traac*
window. ..
stion by
► summom
not been
was chloroformed can not bo
'plained. Th* girt wig '
■rtf,;
her Uttte
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Mrs. -
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