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TOL. XXXVI
BARNWELL. S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21.H)1‘2
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'BHSits
SHOT HER MOTHER
♦
AIFUL MISTAKE IT GIRL ON
SLEEFING CAR
THOUGHT HER A ROBBER
PLEDGES ARE SACRED
GOVERNOR WILSON INTENDS TO
CARRY THEM OUT.
A STORT OF DEATH mmm sm T0 ““THEY MEET AGAIN wt r!
Meftnt What He Said In Hla Cam
paign Speeches About Special Priv-
Uego and Private Monopoly.
President-elect Woodrow Wilson
announced at his home in Prlncetown
MC'MANIGAL DESCRIBES MCNA
MARA’S CONFESSION.
WOMAN TO SUE STATE FOR UN
JUST INCARCERATION.
* I TO KKEP HFR FROM TELLING SR-
VALLACE BOUSE SURTIT01S IN CHETS OF W HITE SLAVERS.
DYNAMITERS INHUMAN
4 « . __ _ . 1 At U1B UUllJC All I 1 lULolUW II /
Aroused by Mother Returning to Wednesday night, in speaking of the According to Testimony the Gaa Jet
Was Broken in an Effort to Kill
Berth, Young Woman Declare* She ‘ ariff and the mon °I )ol y dueation that;
he purposed to carry out the pledges!
Feared for Saftcy of Valuables and 110 made ih htg’campaign speeches, to !
i cut special privilege out of tariff.
Pulled Revolver from Lnder Pillow schedules, prevent unfair competition
In business, and to destroy private;
monopoly.
The President-elect had been ask-
. . Firing Fatal Shot.
Mr*. J. Rappe Meyer*, wife of the
General Otis and His Entire Force
Regardless of the Loss of Innocent
Lives.
For the first time since the 21 per-
proprietor of the Rappe Hotel Green*- ed whether the big correspondence he 80ng were killed in lh( , b i owing up of
burg, Pa., was shot by her daughter, receded after h , 8 e ection contained lLe Los Ang(>le8 Time8 building. Oc-
Olady* Elizabeth Meyer*, In mistake ^ D y ln Q ulr i e B as to his attitude on the tob<ir 1( j y McNamara'* de
fer a robber in a sleeping car on * tar .! f v [ or “ 0 , n . 0p0 I ly , I jroblem8 t tailed confession to having caused the
Pennsylvania Railroad train bound _ Mo8t 0 . the let , ter8 - replied the explo8ion w | th hls motlveB for do)llg
for New York about 5:30 Wednes- °° rera %’ were of a congratulatory u and hlg commt . nU on the fact tha ‘ t
day morning. She died a short time aat “ re - T . he t re some Cabinet *ug- ma le were kUled wa8
l.ter in a Trenton, N, J., hospital. The bpt nobody t0 K ,h ‘ nk , lf lated on the witness stand In the “dy-
.hooting occurred when the train was f n .^ t ea,,ary t> , t0 ask ^'“fCons about the uamlte conspiracy - lrial Thursday at
passing Croyden, Pa., just this side Ur . ” or the monopolies. i Indianapolis.
of Bristol, near Trenton. | Do you mean that the people take> Grtie K McM anigal testified the
Miss Meyers, and W, R. Cuthbeth 1 for B r ® n U' d that you will carry ronf( , 8 eion was given to him while he
60 yeaw old. of Lynchburg, Va.. ^ n tbe made In your cam- was with MrNaI f lara in the WO oJs five
were detained Wednesday by the pal,?a 8 P eech() «-- he was asked. 1 -
Trenton police, but released that " Ye *' thev cor,alnl y wlI > car-
night. It was thought at first that rled out *° far a * 1 8111 ron( 'erned "
Cuthbert was concerned in some way ln h!l campaign speeches, the Gov-
wlth the shooting as he was found e ' rno '‘often reiterated that revision of
with Miss Mevers at the side of the the tarlff ‘ ,h(Mll<1 be undertaken Im-
wounded woman a fow seconds after mpdlatP '. r !t ts hollered that this
the sound of the shot aroused the ld *' a w111 f,nd ® call for
other passengers of the car and an • xtra 84 ' 9S, ° 11 of r< ' n P rf>S8 to con-
brought the porter and conductor ,1<W ,h,> tiriff " 8 w '' 11 as °’ her s,lb -
Later he explained that he had Ject, ' hlch wt ‘ r, ‘ lB8at ‘ 8 ln th, “ cani '
been standing on the front platform P \’,* D ^ UBt closed
of the car next In the rear, and had . ^'erpor Wilson now has in hand a
run In when he heard the shot Then f,lrly comP 1 ^ 'l 9t nf 9!1 ,b e men
the police Informed him that they wh(> hava cx, ress-d th-mselves pub-
would detain him merely as a mat«- !y on the advisability of an extra sos-
rial witness Th„ Trenton pol|ce ,l,,n ’Ms known that tli- Pre.'dent-
are convinced that the shooting was el '* ct ha9 nla,5 • up h * nllnd on ,hp
an accident and that Mr Cuthbert ,ub J p ct and soon will make known
went to the aid of a person whom he l' 1 ' 19 ° r tba '
the work of tariff revision c.-ti b<* un
dertaken without a series of long in-
had reason to believe was in distress
Miss Meyers, who is about 20
years of age. was on the way to New ve9,, gat!ons
York to purchase a trousseau for
her coming wedding to J Blair Dll
There have been in\ !g 11Inns In
every Congrigg." remark'd the Gov-
lard. of Salem. Va . a druggist She , ‘ rnor ‘ 1 v< * *"idled G e probietn all
has a casket of Jewels which she was ttiy 9nd * think th'':e is a deft
tsklng to New York to have repaired of '‘ ha! °; 1 F ! ’ ^
and matche.) and when she heard her
mother enter'ng their section. aDer
Mrs Mevers had gone for a few min
While ttie Pees:
ing assidlous » Die .
extra eess'nr i:e s
nt
t is r- a I
ii * atuo;• ar.
an I 1 1 ' V
utej to tfie dressing room she took f r "tn lonk-.c u. t!:(* 'trl
her revolver from under her pillow
ind fired, ’hlnking a burglar was af
ter the gems She « as half awake at
the time Miss Mevers' bro'her and
her fiance are on the from Ss
lem Her father is also en ro«'e
from G.ruershurg to n,e« t h's daugh
ter. R* la aero
n
ou» s:ecula' lors
and fired. ’Linking a burglar was af- l' r '- n ’ ed 99 '" , ’ 1 ‘* l"
tkr the gems She w as tialf swake ^ ' • lt '•* 9 H :
nation » 1 th the vl-'t
Ham R Kin? Pe"
com m’' G-en h n f r"’u
I ten* (>n Nelson A
r*tlr*4.
ney Miss Me)ers made the following Governor W'llsoui sd!
•tatement had called i;n* x
"Mv mother and I le^t 0 ur home respects Tto- ro'revpor inn's n-
In Greenshurg Pa , to vlsP my fiance, f >rmej,hini 'h it t! e n.v: • ■ >f tcli
J Blair Dillard, for a short time th-n f; en \in<'sar.d T’i 're K:-e had ‘e • n
are bntni:
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i■ t'co’
S Of .1 lid i’n \v
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■gon and
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miles from Conover, W la , both of
them having gone to the Wisconsin
wool* on the pretext of being hunt
ers. j
Olof A Tveittnoo and Eugene L
Clan -y, San Krai.'-lHoj labor leaclers,
McManigal teatifed. were named by
McNamara as having made arrange
ments 'nr the In s Angel s explosion
and as ha\ ,ng fui nPL'd the two men
K A Schmitt and David f’uplan -
to assist in huyitig the high power
t .'roglycerlne, > i an." Scliin'. It and
t apian had been rcgul'm!' emploved
on tY:e C"a c ’ by the building trades
council of California. Tveitmoe and
Clancy ate among the Ch defen tants
now i n trial Caplan and Schmitt,
nam« d tiy McManigal. we-« indicted
ii I.os Angtl'S county with James M
McNamara on charges o' murder, but
they neV'-r have been cap' uf ed
Governin'et at-> 1 1.'s tiev" •"■* n In-
forme<l 'hat Caplin w ss VU'ed
W t . ti i.e a*k*"T M N'anrirs wky hs
twisted off a ran '■ t In tin* l)as*'me ,1 t
of The Tones bu.Miff* l"'f"re the ex-
I■'"a! '-i MMatilgal testified, McNam
ara “ 1 ' I
■ : ‘. live w I » 11 ’
cur’il I w ' n: e 1 t h. •
tv ro to Y'e11
a -e « i r ' v so n: a n v w*
e ex- 'os'on Oc-
whole bu lling
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\’ Va'Vii
a ’ a alt.
' I bop. d
sail it 11 N O v e jr tier
Aftir Being In Jnll Twnnty-Thren
Year* Sha Would Now Clear Her
Name of the Supposed Crime.
Contending that the half-brother
of her huaband, for whose murder
she *erved twenty-toree year* in
state prl*on made a deathbed confes
sion that he was the slayer, Mr*.
Charlotte Epps, now more than *lxty
year* old, 1* preparing to sue Indiana
for financial .reparation, 1
Since Mrs. Epps was paroled *lx
year* ago *ne ha* been living with
her daughter In Toledo, O. She ap
peared at Huntington, Ind., recent’y,
ic.Id the story of the dying confession
and engaged a lawyer.
Her story follow*:
“1 married John Epps In 1 882. His
mother had just died, and he and hi*
half-brother, Ed Mise, were alone.
Relatives and friends who sought hi*
money advised him not to marry my.
At all times Ed Mise, who recently
died, was pleading with jonn to deed
him all of hls property, as he (Ed*
said he was older and had better
judgment. This John refused to do .
"We had been married a few
months when om* day John went to
ut corn About 11 o'clock in the
'iiorning hn came home, saying that
he was too si-k to work, and Imme
diately went to bed. 1 cared for him
• s tenderly as anv one could have
.lone He had the b"st physicians
• i •sltile. but In a few days he died.
"I lived at the house for two
week* after his death, until Sheriff
Bowman came after me with a war
rant 'or n v arrest for poisoning my
hu-band I went wBh him and wa*
u’ In the H u nt ing 4 on Jail.
"In November my trial was held
and although I maintained my Inno-
cence. th**y f*Mjn ' tie gu’lty on crlm-
'rnl PV'derre and leutencerl me to
■ ’Don f . r Ufe Vo one suffered as 1
"d in those ’ wnt»-'hree year* »nd
•lx L’ e tror’hs In that place
' Recently I heard positively that
l 'd V'gc h d d ed an 1 that he made
X compVte confession before he died.
“c’ ng on the impulse I immed'ately
-<*)- to t(ii. cirv with a desire to
f,r> * --fw oiirge aralnst my persecu'ors
1 t *v v e *ik*T the a-'v’c,, of atfnrne v S
'1 »'il a’ least fght fo clear my
n T” » ' 1
t V a wnr-.o toll her atorv it
> • •*, r, f,,,.,!*,', 'o fr,| the msn
' •• 1 •* h , .e rtf murdered man i
1 a'' ’ r"’ h *• r ii ’ e 1
REUNION AT BAINVELL.
REDEEMED THE STATE
Thaught to llavo Been • Spy la tho
i
Employ of Chicago Law and Or-
FAILURE TO INSTALL
TEN CAUSES lip
Former Gove'rndr John C. SheppaiM,
Recalling ThrUUng Scene, of ’76, a *5 ala8t i tbe _ baad White Severs, (
der league Hunting Evidence. FIFTEEN WERE
Convinced that she was a apy In » 1 ■■■
the employ of the Chicago Law and n „
Older League, hired tp inform 1 * w,enKCr Tra,n 0l, ®
ing Forty Mile* an How
Famous Legislative Body.
Featuring
whose victim *he had been, the po-
\Vhen South Carolina Was Re>- lic<> of Georgetown, Conn., sent to the
police of New York, Chicago, Boston 1
deemed Addresses Survivor* of and other cities Tuesday night re
quest* for the name* of women ml**-
■ing from their underworlds in au at-
* day devoted to mem- to solve the mystery of the 1
orie* of the past, the Reunion of the ! I1U i r „ d€r ., 0 K) th , e yopnK W M , T >a ,^ 1 who8e Ind ‘anna Hallway cotqmiMioa, .tlNT
body, stabbed and mutilated, wa* disastrous mv *i,^ mmil_,
survivor* of the famous Wallace ( ourK i w.igbted with a sevemy-flve Hamilton and Dayton Rallwar^at Lr^
House, in Barnwell Thursday, wa* an pound stone In a pond at Redding, vington, a suburb of IndltnaDolls at
event notable because of it* unique- nenr Georgetown Tuesday. I an earl y hour Wednesday Inm
nes* and historical significance. It Is New clew* unearthed make It ap- fifteen persona lost thebr llvaa
the first Reunion of men who com- pear certain that the uni lentifLd wo- ; sixteen others were seriously twlifrL
posed a most radical and determined man was the companion of Genevl-; ,,,1 a ., a n—
Through an Open fhrttdl
Freight Killing Fifteea and
tng Seventeen.
According to the Inspector* f«f UH
. . . The wreck wa* caused by the f*H-
On the bank of the pond was found; * re of thp ht , ad brakema £ to
. . , . companion or uenevi-j ed wag (be r08u ]f G f t ij e company**
body. In the course of history there eve Cavalierl, who wa* taken to a failure to install a block ■linal a*Z
were few such law-making bodies. In lonely wood* near Stratford, a few| u . m as tt hMd !>een order#d * 0
fact, there have seldom been such ex- 1 weeks ago. by White Slave agent*. t bn commission ^
igencie* that necessitate such asaem-.and shot to death,
blage*.
d he Wallace House, convened No- 1 a night gown perforated at the left
vember 28, 1 876, In the old Carolina shoulder, as with a knife, and stained
Hall, at Columbia, with Wm. H *Wal- at ttie bottom. The victim had been
lace, of Cnlon, as Speaker, was for slabbed under the left arm. and she
the purpose of redeeming South Car- wore the gown at the time she was
ollna from Republican carpetbag and slain. The immediate cause of death
negro rule. Thursday seven of thf was a stab aounl in the left temple,
twelve survivors of that bodv met in Thu initials, "0 C " found on a
Reunion in old Barnwell, rich in hls- b*d spread, wound around the body,
tory and tradition. It was b'-fitting, indicate that she was a companion
it was a happy thought of the Barn- "f the C.ivalierl girl, murdered at
well Fair Association, of which the Stratford, because in the latter's ef-
Hon Harry D. Calhoun Is the mov- Bets were found many articles bear
ing spirit. irg the a«me initials. The girl who
Of the events of the day. which wv.i known to have come to Stratford
Includ'd a parade of Coufelerate from Chicago with the Cavalierl girl.
\'et*-rans. an elegant address to them dropped out of sight soon after the „ ,
by r r V. commander B H Teague, latter’, murder. The police believed ^ u W.-rL. .lH
of Aiken: a barbecue, horse race*, a she tried to secret herself nearby. **
baby show and other things, was the knowing that she would suffer a fate
* loquent speech of former Governor like the other woman should the
Fohn r Sheppard, of Edgefield Time Whit'* Slavers find her. Apparently
has dealt very kindly w:th Governor st e was murdered in the room in
Nheppard. as hls comrades to-dav if- which she 1 ved. and her body borne
f' ctionately called him. He is not an to the pond, and the police think she
oi l man. despite hit 62 years These ” ay have met d-ath, possibly in New
ho carries well and there remains Nork and her Ivody carried where It
much of the fiery eloquence of o'her was found in an automobile
days On the trains almost two dav*
the switch to a siding on which *
heavy freight train had been tiiTt t*
let the rapidly running passenger*
more than an hour late, pas*.
Carl Gross, the head brakemaa, ha*
assumed blame for the disaster. H«
is under p'M-e g ar! at s hospital,
where he IPs with a broken leg.
I ate in the day. after the wrecking
crews had completed the search for
the demdirhed passenger cars, th*
'’oronet s off’re gave out a corrected
lift of the dond as follow*:
C F. Grundhoefer, Ctnclnnattl: Ah
b<’t MBn Mrs Albert Alien, Ben
Bto le. W'lll un Sharkey, engineer on
' he
In a hurried Journey from St I.ouis
he came Thursday to be with h's
cumrsd' e. vet»-rot!» In mlllitant lev's-
Rtchard Apelqulst, a weaver, living f i(t f rlinfT
n 'he I’ortUnt road about three ,,
i, ndr»d ystds from the spot where
■ 1 e bo lv .< as found told of a m *tc-
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a r- k * ’ v
went to «•>. my brother. J Rappe n en'loned in d
Meyera. Jr . at Salem. Va . whw« be 'nv’on cone, rt. : e •!
D in ihe lumber bus'ness Tucsiay
n:gh: at 5 IV o'clock mv mother and
I took a train from SaDm. \ a . en
gaging a lower berth
"I w is awak"n"d by mv mothe-
who Itiforrr.ed me she wnn *olng to
the wnah morn an 1 while s'o> was
ab««'nt ! d"r<*'1 nT as'eep 1 w is au !
detilv awak.n'd from my sleop tiy
se^-ing th,» curtains par’ed and som«
on** rrawl'rg Into the tierth I alwa's
sD'ep wi’h a revolver under mv ; •'
low and knowing that the po-t'-r bad
se*»n n.v '.■wi''rv I pulled the revo 1 -
vsr from tinier the pillow and ft^-ed
and was horrif**! to hear mv mother
scream an i see her s’avg'-r luto th** ''.try. Did
smoker where I found h->r men who ins’ t 1
"Th"n I called for some one to get n t the plant ft r
a doctor nr. d some whisker A gentle- "ere rep:ii-", r
man c im«* forw ard whom l after mach'nes vv h n
learned was William Cu'h’>ert of * i Tie dynam
I.vnchhurg. Va . and offered hls ser
vices
' My mother and I were always on
good terms, and I considered her mv
best frieni. W'e were on our way to
New Yolk to do some shopping In an-
II a * •><> 11 o p o' mv h’-o’her D wedding (Mi from the hook A
Christmas #v# aad my own in June to b > mD ' low ^
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la'lon It was h;s first vis t to Barn- ••p tis inc'dent he saw Krld.ty night
w«ll s;nr** 1882. when he and C ait B w • it h ss eon * i need the pol iee t h a'
It Tillman spoke to a tremendous '' e b''dx wi*s th r owhi tnto the lake at
crowd at Blai kvlll*-, then carne on tl ;.t t:me. and that the crime was the
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Here and from ther,- went to Allen
dale
Gatheri'd there wire fo-mer Gov-
error 'hepp.rd. Major John W
Doltius of Barnwell Ma'or J W
t'.'ay, o' Greenville (‘apt t B Hum
ber' of [ aureus John G Gulngnar l,
' 1 ell’ gton then of Vk^n M K
B "u n ’ - ee of Barnwell and Claude
S S.wy. r of A ken It * a« an in
s- -it r seen * ■ when, in ’♦ e coutS" of
1 s add-e«s Gove-nor Sheppxrl in-
SHOOTw III N SB \ \ D TO DEATH.
Coast l ine (’ondurtor \ Irtlm
Tragedy In Tampa.
C I.l vtrgifcin. a rondue»or
t’oduced sing'v b'g six comrades, and n
' lev wre greet'd with outbursts of
'■a-s' ”ger t-sln, Indianapolis: C1«a
In'ho’t. tluafrlril man from Lo* Ab-
gel*s C*1 Horace B. Whit#, brake-
■ an on passenger train. iDdlsnmpell*
f 1. Pil"'r r. Itswnw, Teni>: Cbar r
t’l enrv, 1? Ten-S oM Jaekson
DiMt. ( henr-y. w'fe of CMflon Cb*B*y|
Jacks n. Ky: Chester Chsncy,
men: s oil son of CMfto* Cbw»*y
'• ’ n Cheney. 42 year* old.
Ky , died at
ill 'wo year old danghtw
G’C’on Ch'nev d'ed at
D'<’ Burg, flrenisn os pa*-
s* t et r train
The te s, nrer train, So. 16. froa
r rr " ■' I ' * ('h lex go. wm tnor* thsa ■"
*" nr |x».. xnd at ths flm# of tbo
1 exd r n < o'h ion waa ruanlng oaoro
' h an forty mil-t an hour. Tb#
••'f. -’- til h. m g'vrn s elwor trarlL
T ’ ''h he and Ids f reman war* faww*
of de > 1 tp 'he mh of their en gins
AM of t b p passengers fnaa4
»*-*■ in 'he smoker and day
►''•h wr-e l-emedlsfely behind
the *' 11, ‘' reinfo-ced mxll car. Both
s. • g. - rx-s were of wood and
pi-! • i y <le r*to itshed Th# Jnjnmi
x n v cs• 8 -< P(*'ned n
1 on a 1 •
ti C e I'.impa S*ra*nt* b-anrh of
’li- ,c t Hast l.ine was shot an 1
lb d at 3 t'l o clock Tuesday sfter-
in by Lis wife.
M■ s I lvingston stated that her '^ b . r8 ." nt V
xpi'lsuse hv the large crowd gather- husband came home under the in-
r 1 shou' 'he tT'urt House fi'.i<n<e r f pqttor ard abused her aM
F • ! 1' w In g 'he forn:a! ex err is- s on d *y Khe savs She sought safety in ,r * r '"'7 r ;' 9 thers.
the puhl c s unre » ;> S sn 1 n form xl re- he- room, wh.-re he forced the door *’' 4 ''"G d rd The bodle* ** fi
1 ’ ' n 't what Is now grown as tv,,, tijinmncd hating hr fored the door ,b ''' i ro ight frono the
B'ciwn House row owtie.) hv Mrs it J r on.'tir tuoii h»#t ng h-T She weye conv ved to > he morgue t
! et a I'hv'os of that ci'v It is of in s* lre| a pistol, siny stated which wxs aw3:, Iden''" * .’.Ion. Pasaanger*
was the !•< h s h p pocke* and shot him She
axes
nr X r V
Th» tn’ured wee* reaaov
re* tenre* and lst#r 1*1
o no’e that 'hls h"US'
Tv
at
• • d ''! x nev,
ns fro-u h «
x-’i -s of 11 e
Phone I’levywits Rolitcry.
o-l ,
i r
■a 1 u
( ’ o
Tve't-
A t elop!: 1 me /•
Monument for "Hilly" Hugh.
A noted Chicago sculptor is wort
•ntr <n plans for th- $25,000 rnonn
nient to hr^crected In honor of "l.o-
ly" Hugh, the Gary newsboy who st*<-
rifleed ills life for that of a ,trl he 11 1
nov know The structure w 1! ,e ,i 1
whit » ns'ble, 20 fe**t squi'e at i. '-,
has,-, w ’th aymbollc figu r es r ( » T ,.-. «< : ;
|pg Lev Tr'*'b. c ’fren < ' t h an i < l’tv-j
Itv, rt the corners FDph'r .f' wM'j
b,> a fteuri renresentlnr Htria nly.
< 'ver was b' nvn
: if - (a 1? 1 v i Tl e sot
h" I" r-1 N a' ional !
Bank nt ('oJ.r-v l'o, lt.,1 a’ 1 w as
tl e means pi p*event ■ e the th of
I ta ry tlio/s it's of <i Ml i* s Tip *-d:iy
n’ght 'Dne la-g*' < 1 O''- s were b! r.v n ,
away, an 1 o w Ing ac'■ ss to <\
wlom Mis Th'-o loro the
••phone opera'c-. answer**.i ti.c sag
nal. No v dee c 'inc. lor siie h
1 .x second exphsi ti sir! gave the »
I a 1 xrm. Three th <••.«■» (.-.cape i with 1
1 $2,000
t i
«t
■ - n .
u'
I ilipinos Honor Wilson.
A d;spdt< h from Mxmlla says an
ti rti'"'*'* demor s'rat Ion was h'-ld
M' ti'lav in c* '• hr.xtion of th*' elec’ton
of VV.iodsow W.lsjn lo the prt;s : d''n-
‘ v "f the Cl ! ’ r<1 States Tell thoUS-
vi 1 Fti.plnos paraded and 2't.eoo
Fs’hered on tl.*' a-*a boulevard Pun**-
ta Th.«>se parM< pa’ing in the p.xr-
•' d ** carried hinn'TS hra r ing the
words "lintnrd ate Independence"
Mo! ’ lo* Sp'-erheS 1)0TO Otl t Ills SU l)J''Ct
Kmtllo A u.Mai.do ti e former Insur
gent leml. r mad,, hls f’rst public ap-
p'-arano" • n-e the 1 nsurrec*ion.
” "P'' « PX-
\ O'l CO')' 1
i w :i n * i <1 r-n 'he
w . s ' 1 p h 1 p
newr was an v-
Mother KHI'hI I’ahy.
Guilty of second degree man-'
ilauehter offer a trial on a charge of Mouse al
neglecting her infant tintll It died of No Invitation
M,"M *> I |> ••'Ml
r ■ t £ 1! 'he m or r * \
i *"• I!.- * '1 T* -
!* iv• ir**tor ;■ n ‘ 11 r •
•h t g '<> f ar fo- Tv.'tnioe was a
■ I'd '■ (■*' 1 of Vavn - V.Gir’hv’, and In
' Tv* itmoe « as ’tie ni.xvor of ?an
i’■ cisco D* said S’chmi’t had a
«i t enn* *o si t o'f hoe n« nv rhemTa 's,
b bo had IcT’t'd '-o-ti a f r ie’i 1
o' Tv'r’Bmo' '« 'it' when he iM'-
'■'ib'ar 1 > showed them l''e a'a-rn
c'oek scheme th. y all decided it was
Wilson D.vit cl to Uhi'e House.
Pi' i d' n’ Taft intimated to {.'ien Is
Was.’::tirton 'I'uia.,l.ay th it tie
would like to pi.t((r’ain President- best
*.>ct an<i Mrs Wilson at th" White "I asked h ; m why he went af’er
some time before Ma’ch 4. The T'r""s H" answered Tveitmr*
h is been sent to the Fil'd ’"it him on to if.
Starvation, when a year old. wxs the T e* uTn’-elcct and nr* time set fori 1 hen he fold i:.» about how dififi-
verdict brought against Henrietta ‘Fie visit, hut 'ho President expressed 'It was out ‘hire rn Tviv expio-
Yson. age 21. by a lury at Mlneola. h Bn self as being desl'ious of enter- fives: how they t'ec'dei 8 * l-.st to ret
N. Y.. Tuesday night. The e|ri’ 8 telnlng his sucuehaor before he as- a launch and hnv nitmchcerine of V.
grandfather was the state's rhtef wtf-'samies ofneo
Woman I anner Best of AH.
\ -'•( '(-i of ra sing tcef has b-aen
established at Eaton Ranlds. MTh .
’o Miss France* Van Busk rk. th-*
oc'e-s'or and owner o' the finest farm
tr. this "ei.lon. This week she sold
to a local mrst firm there a thre-e-
var-old heifer from her herd that
we!pned 1,2'0 nounils, and for wh'ch
s’ • received >85 Ab the highest pr'c«*
r v cr raid for s s!''g'e head of fhree-
\esr-old beef stoc^ in Exten Count!
ness, testifying that Ms granddaugh
ter neglected the child to attend the
moving picture shows.
Rank Robbed.
Five yeegmen early Tuesday drna-
mlted the Bank of Orhelafa. at Ochel-
: <*r cent.- sTenr'h f'em a powder
cor-nanr. on th.* reprem^tatloa that
it was to 1 he uvpd fo- Mowing up
H<trse Saved I.ives.
Th e shrill n- ighing of one of their 10 arrange for buying the ex-
horses probably saved the family of ' 1 b ^^ 0 ■
V^^ O. Anderson. h"lng burned to
death early Wednesday morning in
their home nenr Fu'phur. a village a
A TVcullwr Accident. i
A most peculiar accident occurred
near Millidgcville, Ga , when Shack
Beeves, a negro, lest hls life while
( ut opossum hunting. When Reeve*
f ,ailed to crorif. home, a party wefit
• ft to search for him, and found him
underneath a tree, ('end. Me had evi
dently fallen from the tree, as ms
neck was found Jo h« h-oken. The
opossum w- s still in the tree, waiting
for hls pursuer to leave. i
1 • xd aar'e s of Gen Kt'p.x’rlck. of
'l*'miii’» armr <>n the man'el
T'.vd In th*. recppfon r<(ri-p ar.' the
t <‘T p-1 tit * of the " T an * *■ e ncoit n-
dr«! " mute ev dence 'o-dav of lui-
urtat nr con forts to which he
t’ea'ed himself This little rt*c*;i-
•t on informal and not schednlei,
was t’e trea' of 'he dxv ai'hourh the
r*'cppt|((n Thuraday nigh: wxs marked
h’ unhntindcd hospitaiitv. and (be af-
t. -s*. n ere sumeil w'th unxtiat'd at-
ten'ton to th" dlst in r u'“hed gu(-stv
At the reception Thursday morn
ing good rhe<>r prevailed. It was a
happy ga’lieritig and tnose who have
made hlslorv in Soutii Carolina re-
velled in the glories of backwar!
glances through the corridors of time,
dow n wh < !i they have come wi'h
honor to thems**lvps and their po«-
t'Tltv Old stories w<*re tnhi. no* the
threadbare anecdo'es of the ch-onT
yarn spinner, but tales of real ocmjr-
• nee* Much love and humor was
ad<i d to the occasion bv the pres
ence nf Cot Alfred Aldrich, an hon
ored son of Barnwell To bis disGn- Orangeburg
gushed father, Judge A P. Allrich, nublirnnt
Governor Sheppard Thursday paid a 1 pc-keLS I)
magnificent tribute. A toast was it a tes
drunk Thursday morn*ng proposed Spartanburg
hv Governor Sheppard, "Here's to ^
the world: we came In it all naked
and hare, we go through it in toll
and care, we go out of it. no one ev- || can j
er known* where, but a thoroughbred
here Is s thoroughbred there." To
this sentiment each survivor and
each guest responded with a will
The absent ones Were: Capt. Chas.
Petty, of Spartanburg; Wm. Hood, of
fired four tines, all of the bulle’s
t king * ffect In bis breast hhs was
plactd limit r arrest pending a
I " n.arv h* anng
pre
were not Iniu-ed and thoas la
re an rx-s continued thHr Joaraay.
Irf'.erfrtr* for the Rtats railway
»• sIm«i
ter Robert Jon's
Edg. field W S Allen. J C Rhep-
I ar 1, Janos Calhoun. T. E Jen-
n.ri’s H A Shaw
Grenville J V Donald. 1 Thos
Austtn, J. W. Gray, J. L. Westmore
land.
Horry
Cooper
I ancaster—John
Lilakeney
l.a..r> ms J B Humtrert, J W.
Wat's D W Andreeon
I.exlnglon —S. Leaphsrt, G. Mul-
D. Drran, John
P Erwin. J.
cc.mm'sslon we-e on the
'mn>ed 1 afelr and began sn exkaaathr*
invi stigatier*
| Albert Seed, of Ix)ulsg11l«, oa« 9t
th* passengers, told of Ws remark-
ahh* escxpe "i was awaka. 44 aa!4
Feed "I felt chilly and was pat
on my overeat when suddenly I
a crash and the next thing
1 was slt’lrg bewtde the wreeka4 _____
1 c< uid h* ar men and woraea erytaf \ (j
for help with the help of oihera ! !
found an axe and chopped a kola tl
th** side of the car. FiraaNB sooa
arrlvd and b« gan carrying
borll'H." '
Th<> sound of the collision arom
the ne giihnrhood Many honaaa wan*
as. ’ sai«
ts pattlf -.
ly I bsar4
I kasw t
lei.
M rh ti J G Blue, James McRea 'brown o’en and the Injured earrtag
R 1! Rodgers. J B. Davis ln 9 ’ m1 L ’ !v * n flr9t » 1( J trestmsal W-
Mtrlhoro -rhlllp M Homer, Thos. f '"'" b ini ' ,0 ,h * hospital. Fk|K
Edens riel; ns ntd tho firemen la Irr1ngU»4
,..iy $ a Bridge# < w ere hurriedly summoned and sooa
(h ome It. Frank Sloan,' John A. HI the public and private amba
\ eri -r ln >Fe city were taking away
W. H. Recdish (Re- nl 11 ln ' urt ‘' 1 '
Tbr* two purines were almost eom-
F. Bradley, B. H. p'c’tdy te'escoped. They reared ap
when thrv came torether and wera
-W. P. Compton, Jno. so <> reck' d that it was not until aftar
Wofford, E. S. Allen, Charles Pet- daylight that the bo’y of the
ty. • n'cr on the pxssenger train
Sumter- J. II. Wcstberry (Repub- found in the rah. He had remi
trvTg to bring h's train to a halL
t’n'on W. H. Wallace (Speaker), The baggage car waa badly
S. I) Peake, Wm Jeffries. tend, hut the two passenger
York A E. Hutchison, J. A. Deal, lust behind, looked more like a
W. E By era. B. H. Morsey. of kindl'ng wood. They wera e
The Wallace House was organized nTtily telescoped. The gntranoe
on November 2 8, 1 87 6, and the fol- tveen the cxrs were so tamaned that
hid to be cut In the aide* l
to take out the dead and
Bartow Ha.; .1 Thomas Austin, of ](jwlng 0 fr>cers elected: W H. Wal- holes
T.ilevvcll, Ga.: John W . W o^o-d. of !act , i Speaker; John T. Sloan (Bleu- 4 rns 1
Honderaonville N. C. and John B. tenant Governon. clerk; W. McB. Jurei.
Erwin, of Washington, D C. Betters c, oan( a88l8tant c i e rk; W, R. Wil-I
from each of the last named were
ata. Okla.. and secured $2,500 and few miles from I.aka Charles. I a.
escaped. The robbers cut all tele- T hev e-caned with their one child,
phone and telegraph wires leading The kousa was do 0 '-'
into the town. Thev left Ochelata
or. a hand car. going 2 miles where
an automoMle awa'ted them. A
posse is In pursuit of the robbers.
Threw Raby in River.
Disappointed because their ten-
days' old baby was a bnv when they
wanted a Hrl. Fred Kinn and hls * ve th
wife, each 22 yeara old. of CinrinnsM
wrapped the child In a shawl and
tossed him into the Ohio River. They
Kmls Perilous Voyage.
After battling five months on a
seemingly shiploss ocean, Capt. El-
win L. Sml’h, of 1 orid 'Ti. h.r arrived
t Tiinidad with the "'''-foot oil
' v pa \Vo<vlha!l. fibm Fng'Ish ship
yards. The tn'n was undertaken to
P ' nepse of t-nw re.
He raid when h's stnrr was readv
to go to I os .Angelos h had a t 'ik
wi'h Tveitmoe. telling him ei’her h»
or c <'hmitt would have to do the-Bih
anl not ho*h of them, for Schmitt
w’9 too n'i'eh nf a talker and had a
j vv-r-an f- iend 'n Bos Angeles that he
| ( McNamara 1 did not want to g"t mix
ed no in th" job.
“Then ho told how he ha ' sent the
hotrb ip what is knov n nr Ink al-
’< v in The Ti’nes nlxnt among some
ink h-m's and o’d patters. Going in.
V v : d Le wr rtonnei bv lh A n’pbt
n ate’ 1 ei 'n. wlio arked h'm what h“
; vv-ari'rd in there. D,. r”t Bed he was
i gn(n? to the eo"ipo« ; ng rootn. The
: 'v HehP'an !(t hitn pas® He wn® again
•onprd hv a hoy- but he also told
Carnival 'Inn Killed.
Charles A. Abrams, manager of a
were arretPed Tuesday nlrht and the Houston. Texas, carnival attraction. ^ ^ hp ^ eojng tf1 TT10 r0yT1T , O8 .
husband confessed, blaming h' 9 wife was killed Tues’av near M chster ir? rnnm , )OV dlror *p d hfni t0
for wanting to dispose of the child. when hls automobile turned over. , door or „ Btalrwq> , trunk he said
He was enroute to Galveston. Ab- Hr , r p 8rbpd thp basement „nd while
rams home i> said to be In New York T ,x 88 t ng through It tore off a gas jet.
Twenty-eight Hurt tn Wreck.
Twenty-eight persons were injured, city,
one fatally. In a wreck on the ’Frisco
Railroad, near Sinton, Texas, Tues
day when an engine, naggace car.
I s'k'd- ‘Why did you break off the
gas let?’
"Pe renlled: ‘'Because I wanted the
Gamblers Are Robb"-!.
A bandit held up am robbed nine vhole building to go to hell.’ I said
smoker and day coach Jumped the men In a gambling room at Staun- I w»s surprised he would do tt know-
track from some cause as yet on- ton. 111.. Tuesday and took nearly $1,- tng ther# were so many p®onle In the
knenra. All the In'ured are lo the 00 from the tables and the playera' hr tiding. He answered: ‘What’# the
Trlaco hoeptta] there. |pocket#. [difference?’ I *01 to make a good
cViring out and I did It ’ Then he
thought for a while and ad led: ‘But
I’m aorrv there were so many people.
I wanted to get Gen 0’ls.‘
"He told me he put the Infernal
maeh'nes •( th“ residences of Gen.
Harrison Gray Otis, prourlefor of The
Times, nn l of Felix J. Zechandlar,
seeretarv of the Merchants' and Man-
ufpCurer®‘ a®«oe|:ition. all to go off
S’ 1 o'c’ock tn the morning. He s-Md
,*n 'he way b'ek Fast h» wxs fright
en d hy the rvroelp talk-leg of t L e PT-
•ito«ien, >* 9alt T ake H’" he sxld he
sfennrd r*» ‘ h <» train and get in touch
" h T. F Mtinaer. w’’o hid him in
his hothc for two weeks."
He said after news of the Los An
geles e-nlosion .1. J McNamira sent
bi-n to Worres’er. Maes., to rsus* an
“echo" of the Pacific coast explosion
in the Fast. j
"I want an echo of that Lob An
geles at'air in the Fast so if they
catch J. A. they will think they have
the wrong man.’' |
VcMsrHral said that waa th# way
J. B. fnstructed him.
McManigal aaid he went to Wor
cester and caused two ssploalona
there October 9. 1
.. , liHma. renting clerk; J. D. Urown.i
read and to the absent onus & silent pr-rgeant-at-arms; D. R. Elkins, as-! L!Bt , ' Ar * pr ‘
tox®t was drunk. f-istant sergeant-at-arnis; L. N. Zealy.i Th# number of dead as a
Seen on the street and particlpaf- dootkeeper. j Ihe iecm wreck on the Yaxoo 4
ing In the parade was a negro. Joe It is recalled that Judge Thomp- 9 ts PP> Valley railroad at
A. Simon, pure Democrat and "Red son II. Cooke, of the then 8th Judicial is.placcd at eighteen and ^
Shirter." th# old fellow now quit" an e reuit, administered the oath of of- ‘* b passengers who sufft
amd man. He rode in the great fire.
suffered taji
are n a critical conditioa. I». ‘
Hampton parade. Thu’-sday he ro D*
Another fact of Interest In connec- > on to the identified dead takes
in an old or enrt of ’76. was dressed t!nn“*w;fh v the Wallace House Is that ,b ’' ruins the body of axi unldea
in the filming red insignia of defier, p r rsBEent'al electors voted upon v.'.iito man was found and the
m'nation that charneterized ‘76. H( ( n were: Theodore G. Barker, of ttn.a.ns of one child and two
"Old Toe’’ was the property of Dr. T Charleston, and Samuel McGowan,' "'*•’>e taken from the burned
T O'Bsnnon father of Harry O'Ban-, feh gates at large; Jno. \V. Harring- i-go.
ten. 1st disHict; Jolin Isaac Ingram,; Mystery in Village Murdcra,
Ind dLtriet; William Wallace, 2rd. John \V. Camphouse, former
d;:-‘r : ct: John R. Erwin, 4th district,'irge marshal of Maywood*
uni Robert Aldrich, nth district.
t * * •'
House
nop. Fsq., now of Ba-nwell.
Members of the Wallace
were »s follows:
Abbeville \V W. Brad’ey. R R.
TfempMll, E. A. Conner, Wm. Hood.
T. !,. Moore.
Aiken - C. F Sawyer, J. J. Wood
ward. L. M Asb ll, .1. G. G’’lgnard.
Anderron — H R. Vandiver, R W.
Simpson, W. C. Browfi. fas. L. Orr.-
Barnwell
W. Holmea, L. W’. Yonmans, M. A., tound lifeless.
Rountree. Robert Aldrrru.
Beaufort—T Hamilton and N. B
Mawers (both Republicans)
| Died in Tank of Gasoline.
Charles Groyer, of Slsseton, N. D.
r.gid 14 yeara^was assisting in un
loading a car (|f gasoline when tv
wxs overcome by\the fumes. He fe!
Isaac S Bamberg. John into the hlg gasoline tank and was
Fined $V> for Killing Negro,
tmit
1»1
^ ^ Cook, tried at\T.ouJevine for
Ghesterlleld—J. C Colt, D. T. Red- shooting and kllflrtg of Thomas
i Boon#, another negro, was found
Colleton—H E. Blseell. Wm. rnfity of g _
Har**» J. N. Cnaataga. L, E. For*, $19 mC pofts.
(•.igw, was found shot to
rail: or d yards near the
'he same spot, lees than
x bro'her-in-law of CampbOVM
found dead. He, too. had
an 1 the nvatery of hla
was cleared.
. • •
Thieve* Rob
Thtevea Entered lb#
Metbodlat Church at
Tuea’ay and glblab-I
communion
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