The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 27, 1913, Image 3
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HAOERO AND SUA81Z SLAIN BT
THE SOLDIERS
CANNOT HOLD PRIMARY
L'l.K<TIHN OHDKKKI) ItKKOHK IT
(X)IM) HK HKhl).
WERE ON WAY TO PRISON
I {lease Orders Kleclion for April 20,
When Democratic Executive Com-
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mittee Name May 27 for Primary.
I Governor Hlease has ordered an
Former Mexican President and Vice- Action to be held in the First con-
Prettiiiont .. iz,., ^ . sessional district on April 29th to
nelly Killed l>y the elect a successor to the late Geo. S.
Men Sent to Guard Them on the i? gare H8 a member of congress.
The proclamation was issued Satur-
Way From the Palace to the Peni- ^ the chief executive.
tentiarv democratic executive
committee meeting in Columbia on
Former President Madero and Friday named ' Ma y 27th,as the date
Vice-President Suarez were cruelly f ° r the 1>rimary in the First Di8tric G
and brutally murdered in cold blood ThiS mean3 that the general election
Saturday night while being taken h&S been ordered to be held a month
from the Palace to the Penitentiary ! the P rimary -
in Mexico City by the soldiers who' . H also means that the Republicans
were sent to guard them The cir ' WlU hokl ,he balance of P° wer in tbe
cumstances surrounding the death of eleCt,on ’ aad cau determine which of
the deposed i’resident and Vice-Pres the candidatc,s running will be elect-
ident of the Republic are unuknown ■ ( ' d by VOting for him Holi(ily - 11 wdl
except as given in official accounts’* alS ° bn,lg OUl the ful1 negro vote ‘
which do not in all cases conform’ 1 A ( ' ha, ' lpston dis » ,atch sa - vs the ac-
and which are not believed The tlUn ° f the t: ° v ernor in fixing a time
only witnesses were those actually f ° r the e'ection of a congressman of
concerned in the killing.
The Provisional President, Gen.
Vicforiano Huerta, says tin- killing
of the two men was incidental to i ,
, , , , , * Ml ' 11 a Hemocratic organizations are all corn-
light between their guards and a
the first district antedating the time
of the Democratic primary caused
much comment there. The candi
dates as ell as the respective county
party attempting to liberate them.
The minister of foreign relations,
Francisco de la Karra, a ids that the
prisoners attempted to escape. Neith
er makes a definite statement as to
which side fired the fatal shots. It is
mittod to the primary. The candi
dates were not willing to discuss for
publication their views save that
they are a unit on the proposition of
a primary.
It is said that some effort may be
made to have the law amended for
o mtposs, ) e that neither knows. Charleston county at the present ses-
^ n o k ia in\t stigation has been or- S j pn 0 f legislature because, as the
( * r . r>< 0 ‘ * b rmine the responsibility, situation now stands, there is a spec-
and promises have been made that i ■ / /-u i . ■ e »
,. , ,, iunue mat ia | law for < harleston providing for
the quilty wil be punished ... . . ' .i
* I the filing of the club rolls in the
Not unnaturally, a great part of rounty auditor's office sixty days be-
the public regards the official ver- fore an election and other rerjuire-
sions with doubt, having in mind the ments which will prevent the con-
use for centuries of the notorious duct of a legal election in any less
l.e\ i uga the unwritten law which time there is some legislative action
is Invoked when the death of a pris
oner Hi desired. After Us applica
tions there is writ'en on the records:
Prisoner «-hot tr>ing to escape "
Setlora Madero, Widow of the |'\
PreH'aien' n re Vei] >he first definite
information of his death from the
Spanish minister. Serwr (’ologan v
•h'logan Stie already ha 1 heard re-
]sirtn rhat seni. thing unusual and
ri'MiH had happened hut friends had
endeawTel up to that time to pre- f or ,. genera
v.-nt her from learning the whole
truth
.One being interview alaiut the mat
ter !' n. John Gary Evans, chairman
of the .state Democratic executive
renin 'tee said the date of the pri
mary for the Kir"t district had been
left b v t lie State executive commit
tee to the members from that dts-
tr.rt He said that the members
from the First district were trying
to reach an agreement whereby the
primary could be held tbe day be-
elect!on ordered by
the governor for April 29
1 The primary was fixed at the
Soon af’erwardi. accomftanled by earliest possible date, in the opinion
her brother. Jose Perez, and Mer- of the members of the committee
cetes Madero. a sister of Francisco, from the First district,'' said <'hair-
Senora Madero drove to the peniten- man Kvane Governor Please should
tlarv but was refused permission to have ordered the election to take
see the bmiv of her husband Sen- place after tbe primary was held .ho
nr i S.tur*/ a’sn w.is lenw-d adrnit-
t 'Hi* tn ’he nwrt u.arv where phvsj.
''ms in ac.nrdarice with the law
were perfnriu ng an au'op-y
in inti'nis' tn 'he widow whose
r - . ' ua= n' a ;.ij t ti!v s'K-nf charac-
• . r ex 1 T! M.bs M*t-I'dns Ma
dern, a iaut’fuI \oung woman, ed
ucated 'ii Kar s who has been a bril-
Ptnt leader of sevciety since the rev-
olut'on of 1 r < 1 ii was drv-iyed and
tigerish tn her •■mo’lons Kv the side
of the two women whose husbands
had been killed the girl hurled accu
sations at the officers who barred the
entrance
"Cowards' Assassins'" she called
them, her voice pitched high while
the officers «'ared impassively
"You' The men who fired on a
as tlie Democrats of the First dis
trict could have determined who
they want to represent them in Con-
gre-s Put *he Governor ignores the
pronarv and orders the election for
Congreesnian 'o take place one
h'oti''i 'iep»re the primary appointe,!
to deternniie who the candidate will
he is hel 1
ATTEMPT \T \SSAIT.T.
Serious (liarge Made NfPnst \\ \.
Hnrt/4>g by '.ally.
W A Hartzog, a w. 11-known white
farmer who resides about three miles
from Parnwell. was arrested Fridav
afternoon and lodged in Jail on the
defenceless man' You and your su~ rharge of attempting criminal as-
perior officers are traitors'"
No effort was made to remove the
women, nor did the officers attempt
fo silence them. Senora Madero con-
sault upon a young white woman of
hi* neighborhood Hartzog denies
the charge in toto The warrant was
sworn out by the husband of the
, , . , young woman. It is stated that the
tinned weeping and the girl did not Rt(pmpt wftfl rommitte(1 on
cease her hysterical tirade until the TupB(1av of th|i , wppk , t havlnK Wn
arrival of the Spanish minister and kept llDtil Frldav . ThPre i9 no
the Japanese charge, who came ^ pTfi(pmpnt , n (hp nplKhborh()od a j.
offer their service*.
The minister spoke with the of-
though it has been reported that a
meeting between the husband of the
fleers in charge, but was told that on young woman and Hartzog occurred
account of the autopsy It would be 1 pome time after the alleged act.
Impossible for any one to see the Hartzog is about 40 years of age and
bodies Later in the day, thev said, { g married.
the request would be eomnlled with.ji • + *
The diplomats then conducted the Drank Poisoned Mnnor.
women away from the penitentiary.
As a result of drinking whiskey
Madero’s father and Rafael Her- containing a great quantity of acid
nandez, former minister of the in- t n a boarding house in Memphis,
terior, and: other friends made efforts Tenn., Friday, Bernard Deaver, of
early in the day to recover the bodies, Allentown, Pa., and Jack Hartman,
and it as said Sunday afternoon that 0 f Xashville, Tenn., are dead and
the American ambassador, Henry t wo others are severely burned about
Lane Wilson, had interested himself the mouth and throat. The police
and secured the promise of Minister sav Deaver arranged a “suicide par-
dp la Barra that the bodies should be ty>> and ^erved poisoned whiskey to
delivered to their families for burial, friends as refreshments.
The tragedy occurred shortly after * * *
midnight. Madero and Saurez, who
had been prisoners in the National
Palace since their arrest on Tuesday
last, were placed in an automobile,
Herbert Suit Is Propped.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch
says advices received from South
7hlol. was 'uSompanM by another fwolina by attorneys of C. J. Herbert
ear ami escorted by 100 rurales, un- ( '! | y Indicate that all proseeu-
der the orders of Commandant Fran- t ' on on O'''' 1 a « aln ,f , ' lm
cisco Cardonas and Col. Rafael Plm- th <' s °''<b Carolina courts allejlnf:
j ento ■ the embezzlement of $9S.0000 in se-
en with instructions not to outdis-' curltlps from thR Spminole Land r i °'
lance the escort, the cars moved Columbia have been dropped by
elowly. No incident occurred until Attorney General Thomas Peeples of
they had reached a point near the that State -
penitentiary, where, in an open place,
the guards’ attention was attracted, on the detachment guarding the cars
according to the official version, to a and the exchange of shots lasted 2®
group of persona following. Shots minutes, when the attacking party
were fired at the escort out of the fled. The dead bodies of Madero and
darkness. The rurales closed In and Saurez were then found,
ordered the prisoners out of the car. The body of Madero shows only
Thirty of the guards surrounded one wound. A bullet entered the
the prisoners, while the remainder hack of the head and emerged at the
dieposed themselvee to resist an at- forehead. The body of Pino Saurez
tsek About 60 men, some afoot shows many wounds, entering from
and some mounted, threw themselves in front.
JHETilMMRI)
UNITED STALES WILL SEE THAT
HE GETS IT OR
KNOW THE REASONS WHY
Will Intervene, If Nece*w*arj', to Pre
vent Hummary Punishment of the
Deposed Mexican President, Whose
Fate Has Not Yet Been Determin
ed by the*, New Government.
A Washington dispatch says inter
vention of the United States Govern
ment to secure justice, or at least a
fair trial, for Francisco I. Madero,
the deposed President of Mexico, as
announced by Secretary Knox at the
Cabinet meeting Friday, was an un
expected development of tl. > State
department’s policy in regard to that
Republic. As recently as Thursday it
was announced that there was no in
tention to depart from the policy of
non-intervention in the'Mexican trou
bles.
It appears, however, that this
statement was based upon the nat
ural assumption that the now estab
lished Mexican government would ob
serve Hie amenities of civilized war
fare in its treatment of prisoners of
either hitih or low degree and when
the killing of Gustavo Madero gave
ground for genuine apprehension for
the fate of the former President, It
was felt that the time had come to
stretch forth a restraining hand.
The administration feels that it
has not In any manner departed
from Its policy of strict neutrality.
Its action was purely impersonal and
probably would have followed as
surely had Gen Diaz been captured
by Madero and threatened with death
without the process of law The
fact Is. though not officially admitted,
that in an unofficial manner the State
department did bring to bear in
fluences which saved Diaz from death
whin he was captured by Gen. Bel
tran at Vera Cruz last fall.
It Is believed that the Mexican
people themselves, after the heat of
combat is over, will be the first to
express gratitude to the Unite,1 States
Government for preventing the plac
ing of such a spot on the reputation
of their country as would follow
practically what amounts to the mur
der of a deposed president.
It is recalled in some quarters that
the action of the Administration in
the rase of Madero Is precisely the
rsverse of that taken forty-six years
ago when President Andrew Johnson
refused to Intervene to prevent the
shooting of the unfortunate Maxi
milian. who was by a singular coin
cidence betrayed by the military lead
er Gen I/opez. who was his main re
liance in that case, however, it is
pointed out that Maximilian was in
Mexico greatly against the will of
the United States ami also that he
wa- fried by a legal tribunal in the
form of a Court-martial
While it is hoped that the Huerta
government will be able to draw to
Its support all of the revolutionarv
leaders of the north and the south
the Administration continues under
the belief that prudence dictates th"
continuance of the military and naval
policy of preparedness Pursuant to
this the first and fifth brigades of ‘he
army remain under preparatory or
dera for foreign service and the three
army transports which are due to ar
rive at Galveston early next week,
will be retained there ready to em
bark at a moment’s notice.
SENT TO THE CHAIN GANG.
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Man 107 Years of Age Convicted of
s
Helling Whiskey.
To go for 106 years without get
ting into jail and then be sent to
the chain gang as you enter your
107th year seems like mighty tough
luck, but that is what happened to
Dan Chappell, who is probably the
oldest convict in the world.
The Telfair county authorities
have appealed to Governor Brown to
pardon him or make some other dis
position of his case, as they do not
know what to do with him. Might
as well try to shackle a baby and
make it work on the chain gang as to
try to get that venerable old darkey
to lift a pick or shovel, -they say.
He is almost in his second childhood,
and has to be cared for like a child.
Dan wasn't too old to sell whiskey
on the sly, it seems, and hence his
conviction at the age of 107 years
after he had walked in the path of
rectitude for a long 100 years.
Bulgarian Aeroplane Destroyed.
A Bulgarian military aeroplane
while reconnoltering over the for
tress of Adrianople Saturday was hit
by a Turkish shell and fell inside
the lines. It was piloted by a Rus
sian officer, Lieutenant Nikolas, who
was made a prisoner by the Turks.
The wireless report from the Turk
ish commander does not state wheth
er Nikolas was injured.
DECIDE FOR THE CHURCH
Coal Miners Dead.
Seventy-five coal miners were kill
ed in a mine explosion at the Swah
Pea mine in Manltobla. Rescue par
ties were sent to work at once to
clear away ths dekris and enter the
galleries where the dead were said
to be located.
SAYS VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
BELONGS TO IT.
MEXICO'S 1ROUBLE
REVOLUTION WILN0UT END THE
PROSPECT NOW.
Chancellor of Tennessee Held That
(\>llege of Bishops Has the Right
to Supervise the Institution.
At Nashville, Tenn., Chancellor
John Allison Friday handed down his
decision in the Vandeihilt University
case, involving the right of the board
of trustees to elect Us own members.
The decision was a sweeping one, In
favor of the College of Bishops of the
Methodist Church, South, as against
the board of trustees’ claim. The
chancellor’s findings briefly follow:
That the original charter was
granted to representatives of various
annual Methodist Conferences. That
Vanderbilt University was founded
by the Methodist Church, South, and
is now being largely maintained and
patronized by said church in the true
sense.
That the corporation brought into
existence by agents of the original
patronizing conference simply holds
it stitle to the universitj and its prop
erty in trust. That the trustees of
th,* university were never and are not
now members of the corporation and
do not hold and never have held the
richt to elect persons to fil vacancies
on the board.
That the annual conferences hav
ing create dthe board of trustees, the j
right to fill vacancies in "the crea
ture" was vested alone in the crea
tor, the annual conferences, which by
appropriate action transferred the
right elected N. F. Harris of Macon,
Ga , A W. Biggs of Memphis, Tenn ,
and V. A. Bodbey of Austin, Tex., to
the board at the Asheville confer
ence in 1910, who are entitled to
their seats.
That the College of Bishops consti
tutes a board of supervision of the
university and has the right jointly
with the board to elect officers and
professors and prescritve the course
of study and plan of government.
That "Commodore" Cornelius Van
derbilt did not impose and conditions
or reserve any oyf the rights or priv
ileges Prior to 1910 vacancies on
th,* board had been filled by tyhe 1
board, the annual conferences and la-*
ter the general conference through
the board of education The board of
trustees alleges this was a voluntary
concession on its part, to maintain In- i
timate relations w irh the church The (
position of the bishop's is that the,
church established and is maintain-,
ing and patronizing the university of
a "founded" in making his gift* to
the university.
The cour. in this connection paid
a handsome tribute to Commodore
Vanderbilt for his unselfish philan
thropy It Is expected that the - is >
will be appealed
HAVE TWO GREAT CLANS
SOME MORE PAROLES,
Seven of Them Granted by the Gov
ernor Friday.
The governor has granted a parole
to January Scott, w ho was convicted I
In Clarendon County in 19e$ on the
charge of forgery, and sentenced to
serve five >ears.
A parole ha* been granted to Her
bert Cason, convicted in Fairfield
count) in 19o9 on the charge of car-!
breaking and larceny, and sentenced
to five years.
A parole has been granted to
Frank Cason, convicted in Fairfield
County in 1 909 on the charge of car-
breaking and sentenced to five yeara.
A parole ha* been granted to
Wyatt Cason, convicted in Fairfield
County in 1 909 on the charge of car-
breaking and larceny, and sentenced
to serve five years.
- A parole ha* been granted to John
Rich, who was convicted in Union
County in 1911 on the charge of
manslaughter, and sentenced to three
years.
A parole has been granted to Thos.
Rogers, who was convicted in Aiken
in 1909 on the charge of manslaught
er, and sentenced to seven years.
A parole has been granted to
Prince Williams, who was convicted
in Florence County in 1911, and sen
tenced to fifteen years on the charge
of burglary. /
Christians Are Massacred.
One hundred Christians were mas
sacred by Turkish troops in the vil
lage of Kenaminio according to lis-
patches received by the Bulgarian
government at Sofia. Similar massa
cres were reported throughout the
Tchatalja district, a large portion of
which has been left unprotected by
the partial withdrawal of Bulgarian
troops.
Only One Man Along.
Only one man aside from the train
crew will ride in the special which
will carry the Illinois suffragettes to
the March third parade in Washing
ton. This man will be utilized t®
shine.shoes and perform all menial
tasks. If necessary, girls w 'il
the place of porters on the sleepers
and dining cars.
Dogs Ran Him Down.
Charged with the assassination of
Dr. R. P. Cochran of Bradley county,
Tenn., who was shot from ambush
recently. John Teague, a neighbor,
was arrested Friday morning. Blood
hounds followed a trail direct to Tea
gue’s home.
A Resident of Columbia, Who Spent
Six Years in the C'ity of Mexico,
Talks Most Interestingly of Con
ditions in that Unhappy Country
and of Her Future.
Revolution without end is what
Lewis A. Terven for six years a resi
dent of Mexico City, an electrical en
gineer of Columbia thinks is the pros
pect in Mexico, unless some of the
powers steps in and places a protec
torate over the riot-ridden country
which is now in the throes of one of
the uprisings that usually take place
within four or five years of each
other.
Mr. Terven sits in the outcome of
the present condition of affairs possi
bly a few quiet months, after which
another revolution will probably
break out at any moment. The un
rest. says Mr. Terven, may be attri-
hiitt il to a number of causes, the most
important ami potential of which is
Die spreading of socialistic ideas and
literature which the great masses of
people are learning to read and un
derstand its offerings, some of which
are not practicable or reasonable, but
which is readily believed, neverthe
less.
Lately the lower classes, and there
are but two classes in Mexico, be
came thoughtful enough to wish for
something better In the way of living
conditions, and started a rerolultion
led by Madero which resulted in the
overthrow of Porflrio Diaz, the lead
er himself a wealthy man, promising
to seize the lands owned by a com
paratively few and distribute them
among the common or poorer classes
of inhabitants.
Like the dream of "forty acres
and a mule ", Madero failed to make
good Instead of improving condi
tions, said Mr Terven, under Made
ro s regime conditions became worse,
and the restive peons, ready to Join
any' movement that promised some
thing, got down their weapons and
started on the rebellion that spelled
the end of the Madero adminlsfa-
tion during the past few memorable
days in the history of that country.
The country Is practically divided
into two clans, outside the federalists,
or the government The northern sec
tion is in the control of Salazar and
Orozco, whose bands are simply the
creatures of these ambttlduii leaders,
while on the south Zapata and Sal-
gado, brigands and free lancers, have
hundreds of armed men ready to do
their bidding Consequently, at all
times Mexico's so-called constituted
authority is between the upper and
nether millstones of disaffection and
unrest.
Madero. the deposed president, was
elected in October, 1911, and w as de
posed in a little more than 12
munthi. Mr. Terven and his family
witnessed the triumph of Madero and
the grand entry Into the capital city
that marked the Inauguration of his
power. The fate of Mader® is simply
history repeating Itself and a situa
tion that will, thinks Mr. Terven, b«
the predicament of any other success
ful leader, as the people again be
come dissatisfied with conditSons.
A few ambitious, educated men
simply lead the peons in any dlrectioa
that their plans find necessary. The
peons till the land, at least those who
work Instead of fight, at a few cents a
day, and their standard of living is in
consequence, on a very low scale.
Belem, a prison In Mexico City, Is a
very popular place, according to the
statistics of inmates as recalled by
Mr. Terven, there being at one time
10,000 prisoners confined behind its
dark walls, for various offences, most
of which were due to political
causes. The law of capital punish
ment is short and simple. A prison
er whom the authorities wish to be
rid of is simply tricked to his fate un
der the “fugitive law”.
He is given implied libertes and
when he seeks to take ad van tag# of
any form of freedom, a shot from a
guard puts him beyond the chance of
any more revolutionary activities. A
multitude of prisoners released from
Belem recently turned loose upon the
country .^and these, fighting at ran
dom, slay and pillage without Inter
ruption, making the life of residents
in constant danger.
"The Record, from which we take
the above, says Mr. Terven, who was
born and reared here, was forced to
leave Mexico because of the dangers
that constantly encompassed his fam
ily. The business outlook was gloomy
industrial developments being tied up
on account of the condition of the
country. He was graduated in the
engineering class at Clemson college
in 1 899 and the University of Wis
consin in 1905. He married a young
lady of Aiken.
Davis Aide-do-Camp Dead.
G. W.C. Lee, eldeet son of General
Robert E. Lee, former aide-de-camp
on the staff of Jefferam Davis, and
president emeritus of Washington
and Lee university, died at Ravens-
worth, Va., Tuesday. He was 8#
SOLVE EL0SSER TRAGEDY
FOUND THAT (TUPLE DIED OF
. CARBON MONOXIDE.
Two Womea Nearly Die in Room
Where Twlgg and Fiancee, Grace
EloMter, Met Death.
More than two years after tbe
tragic deaths of Charles Twigg and
Grace Elosser, his fiance, Mrs. Mar
shall Wilson and her sister, iMra.
Pearl Mangold, were overcome by
gas in the same room where the
bodies of the engaged pair were
found.
They were revived with difficulty,
and physicians who attended them
said Saturday the case proved con
clusively that Twigg and Miss Elosser
were accidentally killed. They added
that the Twigg-Elosser case now be
comes one of the strangest outside
the realms of Action.
Carbon monoxide, one of the dead
liest gases known to science, killed
Twigg and Miss Elosser, physicians
at Cumberland now say, despite the
verdict of a coroner’s jury that they
died of cyanide of potassium poison
ing.
One of the peculiar features of the
tragedy Is tYiat Twigg and Miss Elos
ser sat In the parlor of the Elosser
home, which was heated by a nat
ural gas stove, an dchatted gayly
without realizing that they were be
ing slowly asphyxiated. It was the
same with Mrs. Wilson and her sis
ter
Twigg, a widower and a wealthy
merchant of Keyser, W, Va , met
Miss Elosser November 2 0, 1910. She
bad divorced Maurice C. 'Wilson, of
Cumberland, and again taken her
maiden name.
After a courtship of two weeks
Twigg proposed and was accepted.
They then began arranging for the
wedding, which was set for January
1. 1911.
On December 31 Twigg drove to
Cumberland with the wedding ring.
He visited the Elosser home and the
young woman received him in the
parlor, where they aat on a sofa and
chatted
Near an old-fashioned fireplace
was a natural gaa stove All of the
parlor window* and the door were
tightly closed. Fume* from the nat
ural ga* Btove, and chatted gaily
oxygen In the room resulted In the
forming of carbon monoxide. So
subtle la carbon monoxide that Its
odor cannot be detected by persons
Bitting In an Inclosed place where it
l* forming.
So Charles Twigg and Grace Eloe-
aer aat In the parlor, probably talk
ing of their wedding prana, entll they
became unconscious and thee were
killed by the gaa The glrl'a mother
found their bodie* For many weeks
It wa* believed they were murdered.
Phyaiclana disagreed aa to the
manner In which they met the’r
'eath* Thoae who held to th* jar-
l>on monoxide theory put rabtt»* and
'•'» In tte Eloaeer parlor and tl.'n
lighted the natural gas •ton*. The
mvimala died. Other phyairlana. how
ever, declared there wpi every use#
of rvanlde poisoning about the Iodic#
*f Twigg and Mias Eloeaer.
The Elosser*. completely uns’iung
by the tragedy, moved ftem their
home to a house next door and Mrs.
Wilson and her slater moved to the
building which had been vacated.
During a cold apell Friday they light
ed a gas stove In the parlor and sat
there talking, with the result that
they were overcome.
An examination of the parlor chim
ney Saturday showed that it was fill
ed with bricks and toot, so that the
fumes from the stove could not leave
the parlor.
ANDERSON COUNTY LOSES SUIT.
Mias Virginia Latimer Gets Verdict
of One Thousand Dollars.
For bodily injuries received when
an automobile she was riding in last
summer ran into a rope stretched
across a public road, little Miss Vir
ginia Latimer was given a verdict of
$1,000 against Anderson County, in
the Common Pleas Court late Friday
afternoon. The chauffeur failed to
see the rope, which had been placed
to warn drivers of road repair work
ahead and to detour them around the
work. The rope eanght the chauffeur
under the chin, Jerked him from hia-
seat and hurled him against Miss Lat
imer, who was sitting on the rear
seat. The blow knocked Miss Lati
mer unconscious, and she was in a
precarious condition for many weeks.
The suit was for $5,000 damages.
Strange Horse Disease.
Spartanburg County farmers are
alarmed by a disease which is attack
ing mules and horses and whi.*h in
the last few weeks has caused the
death of many valuable animals in
various sections of the comty. By
some farmers the sickness is attri
buted to rotten corn, and oats are be
ing generally substituted as feel for
live stock.
Negro Boy is Killed.
A negro boy about fifteen years of
age killed himself by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun Saturday at
the home of his father, Capers Allen,
near Siegling, a few miles from Al
lendale. The boy, with some other
children, was playing with the load
ed gun during the abaence of thatr
parents.