The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 09, 1906, Image 3
CZAR VIEWS BATTLE
Gory Conflict Raged Near
Palace of Russ Autocrat.
IS PREPAREDTO "SKIDOO"
Rebels
Were Finally Subdijed, But
Battle Caused Wild Panic Among
Czar's Household?-Situation
at Other Points<
A St Petersburg special says: Foi
oul i-ours w eaaesaay nignt, within
s< sight of the czar's palace, wherein
the czar was preparing to flee, there
raged the most desperate battle of
the revolution. The sailors of the
twentieth and other equipages, together
with the sappers and miners
and other units, managed to escape
the surveillance of the guard and other
regiments which were stationed
at the barracks and revolted.
The rebels, however, were finally
crushed.
When the firing began there ensued !
a wild panic hi the imperial palace j
at Peterhof, as the palace lies under j
the guns of the fortress. All prepara- j
tions had been made in advance lo !
flee to Tsarskoe-Seloe, but the report i
? afloat during the afternoon that the j
emperor and his family actually had j
fled in the middle of the night, was de- j
nied later at the chancellory of tn? j
imperial household.
It was explained, however, that on j
account of "dampness" at Peterhof !
arrangements had been made for the
return of the imperial family to Tsarskoe-Selee.
The cruiser Asia has revolted and
the mutineers are sailing towards !
Sveaoorg.
Mutinies have been planned at Hi*
gan and Libau.
Although mutinies at Sveaborg
have been ended and the one at Cronstadt
has been practically put down,
the outlook is still black. The revolutionists,
whose hands were suddenly
forced by the premature rising at
Sveaborg, aparently are undaunted at
these initial reverses and intend to
persist in their programme of calling
, a general strike.
?ff
. One of the leaders of the revolutionists
with whom the Associated
/ wM-r^cnnndent sDent some time
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boasted that the word had gone forth
and that the fire of revolt would
spread to the corners of the empire.
His closing words to the corespon-1- j
ent were "Now watch Reval, Riga 1
and Libau."
In the Sveaborg mutiny seven companies
of artilery were concerned,
and oi the fortress steamers, the Vietroli,
Puskar, Rabotschi, Imgemier and
Mars were in the hands of the mutineers,
while the Bomba Opit and
. Sveaborg remained loyal.
The Opit was furiously bombarded
by the mutineers, and they threatend
to sink the Bomba at the first opportunity,
even if she hoisted the reu
flag.-During the Skatudden island mu*
tiny, only one, the Finn, of six vessels
stationed in the north harbor
fired on the marine barracks occupied
by the mutineers. The others remained
passive.
Martial law has been proclaimed
at Cronstadc and in the Donete basin,
the center of the mining and smelting
district
NORTHERN NEGROES ADVISED.
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Delegate from South Calls Down Race
Problem Agitators.
Before the Negro Young People's
Educational Congress at Washington,
Thursday, A. j. Cobb, of Barnesville,
Ga., in an address said:
" "You negroes in the north let the
southern negro alone. He can take
care of himself. He is a friend of
the white man and the white man a
friend of his. You discuss racial problems,
never forgetting to bring the
white man in. Let him alone. Stop antagonizing
him and mind my words,
he'll be your friend. Why, down south
I have actually forgotten that I was
a black man until I looked Into the
looking-glass."
BLOODSHED AT AN ELECTION.
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Two Men Lose Lives in Row at Polls
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* in mcrnpino.
One man was killed, another fatally
^ wounded and a third injured in a duel
in a polling place at Memphis, Tenn.,
within a few minutes after the polls
' closed Thursday afternoon.
J. G. Wellington, a saloon keeper,
was riddled with buckshot from a
repeating shotgun and died almost instantly.
W. J. Cooke, acting as judge
of election, was shot in the side and
will die. B. E. Conn, another judge
of election, was slightly wounded.
YOUNG MEN DETERIORATING.
Cigarette Smoking and Other Bad
Habits Unfit Them for Army#
A dispatch to the Chicago RecordHerald
from New -Orleans says:
That an alarming percentage of the
young men of the cities of the south
are physically unfit to enter the army*,
owing to cigarette smoking, lat
hours and other bad habits, is the
statement of Lieutenant Bennett, in
charge of the local recruiting office.
PITIFUL TALE IS TOLD
By Alleged Lumber Camp "Slaves"
Before United States Commissioner
in Pensacola, Florida.
The investigation of peonage and
slavery conditions at the Jackson
Lumber company camps at Lockhart,
Ala., by the United States court commissioner
was begun at Pensacola,
Fla., Friday, and concluded Friday
night, and resulted in the unearthing
of a terrible state of affairs, if the
statements of the witnesses, told upon
the stand are true.
Three of the men are held to the
United States court for trial under
heavy bond. They are Robert Gallagher,
Superintendent; W. N. Grace and
Oscar S. Dander, the two latter also
employees of the company. Many witnesses
were examined and all testified
directly or indirectly as to how
mon hqfl hppn beaten and ill treated
at the camps.
The climax came when Manuel Jardemsi,
a foreigner, who had been
brought frcm New York, with others,
was placed on the stand. So weak
and exhausted that he could scarcely
hold himself in a seat, suffering from
bruises over the body and burning
up with fever, he told his story. H$
had been beaten with whips, struck
in the face with clenched fists and
kicked in the abdomen and lower
portions of the body. He could not
speak English, but pointed out Gallagher
in the court room as the man
who had inflicted most of the pun- !
ishment. His story was told through
an interpreter and so pitiable was his
condition that when he concluded and
could hardly leave the court room,
a purse was taken up to place him
in a hospital, and give him proper
treatment. Frequently during the
time he was on the stand he would
place his hands upon his stomach
and through his interpreter signify
that he was in pain from the kicks
he had received.
Mrs. Mary Paul Jones and Mrs. j
Gibson, ladies living near Laurel Hill, I
saw the men overtake a foreigner
near their houses with hounds and
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while one held him under cover with
a revolver, another beat him unmerciful}
with a whip.
PRINT SHOP SHAKE UP.
Two Foremen Dismissed from the
Government Printing Office.
W. A. Miller, assistant foreman of
bindery of the government printing
office at Washington, who was suspended
by the public printer on July
21 for insubordination and insolence,
was dismissed from the government
service Friday. Miller's former suspension
in 1903 was the cause of
President Roosevelt's order declaring
the government printing office and all !
offices where workmen are employed
by the government to be "open shops."
The public printer also dismissed
Milo Shanks, foreman of the second
typesetting division. The case of
Shanks furnished the president another
opportunity to again express
himself regarding the conduct of the
government printery. Shanks had complained
to the president that he had
not received fair treatment, secretary
Loeb wrote Mr. Stillings that inasmuch
as lie is charged with the administrative
details of the office, the
president would not interfere with
him in his efforts to put the government
printing office on an economical
and efficient basis, or in securing
proper discipline among the employees.
"What the president expects,"
says Secretary Loeb, "is results and
he will hold you responsible therefor.
In the obtaining of results you will
not be interfered with."
CONDITION OF FLEECY STAPLE.
Average on July 25 Was 82-9 According
to Government Report.
The crop reporting board of the
department of agriculture at Washington
in a bulletin issued at noon
Friday finds from the reports of the
agents of the bureau, that the average
condition of cotton on July 25
was 82.9, as compared with 83.3 on
July 25, 1906; 74.9 on July 25, 1905;
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91*6 at ?ne corrCkjyuiiuiug .?
1904, and a ten-year average of 82.4.
The following table shows the condition
by states on July 25:
Virginia 83
North Carolina . .75
South Carolina . .72
Georgia . . . .74
Florida 72
Alabama ... .83
Mississippi ... .86
Louisiana . . . .88
Texas 86
Arkansas ... .89
Tennessee 88
Missouri . . . .95
Oklahoma ... .92
Indian Territory . 85
ADMIRAL TRAIN DEAD.
Commander of United States Asiatic
Fleet Passes Away in Chefoo.
Hear Admiral Charles J. Train, the
commander-in-chief of the United /
States Asiatic fleet, died at Chefoo J
Friday morning of uraemia.
As commander-in-chief of the Asiatic
station, the important duty of maintaining
strict neutrality in Philippine
waters during the Russian-Japanesre
war devolved upon Admiral Train '
LABOR LAW BIFFED!
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Mew York Child-Woman !
Statute Declared illegal.
AN INVASION OF RIGHTS j
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so Declares Judge Olmstead in Court
Decision?The Right to Hire and
Work is Termed a Property
Right.
Tlie state law of New York restrict
ing the labor of women and children
to ten hours a day and sixty hours
a week in a factory, was declared Friday
by Justice Olmstead in a decis- !
ion handed down in the court of spe- j
cial sessions in New York city to be i
"an unwarranted invasion of consti- I
tutional rights."
The ruling was concurred In by
Jsfce McKean and Justice DeueL
Judge Olmstead declared that the law
was class legislation.
Justice Olmstead said in his decis- j
ion:
"To labor and employ labor ari I
inherent and inalienable rights of oia
citizens, and cannot be taken away
in whole or in part unless upon th j
broad ground of public good, which j
must be apparent, and cannot be pred- j
icated upon legislative dictum.
'It may be stated as a well settled !
legal proposition that the. right to i
labor and contract tor that labor i3
both a liberty and a property right;
when therefore the legislature enacts
a statute such as that under consideration
it must be admitted that it
has infringed in the enactment the
rights which are very clearly accorded
by the constitution to the individ- I
ual citizen. j
"The people, - therefore, are called i
upon to justify' this invasion, and j
there is but one plea in justification;
that the statute was enacted to protect
the comfort, welfare and safety
of the whole people, and the individual
must suffer this curtailment of his |
granted rights in the interest of the |
common good.
"In the case under consideration
the right of the employed and the
right of the employer are equally involved.
Nothing to the contrary appearing
it must be assumed that the
woman was a willing worker for a
willing employer and that the result
was mutually satisfactory and profitable.
"The present constitution of the i
state of New York was adopted in !
1S94, and became effective January 1, !
1895. All of the rights which adult I
women possessed at that time were j
nArfivinpH hv ihnt document. One of :
those rights certainly was the right
to contract for her labor and to work
when and where she pleased without
reference to the position of the hands
of the dial of the clock.
"It was not until four years after j
that the lawmaking power sought to J
place the limitation under considera- j
tion upo nthem. What was the leg- 1
islative intent in doing this? The at- i
torney general finds and urges no
other reason than that the general
welfare of the state demands that
the progeny of women of the factories
have mothers with healthy bodiees
to the end that the state may have
sturdy citizens. Does the state look
merely to the children of the factory
women for Its future good citizens?
Why should not the housewife, the
woman who toils at home, in mercantile
houses, in offices, or she who
toils not at all?the society woman?
be exempt from legislative interference,
injunctive or mandatory, for the
same reason? Some of them may be
mothers of future citizens, and it
should be of great interest to the
state that their progeny should have
birth and breeding to conserve it3
welfare."
Coal Miners Gain Every Point.
" nnaroMrc nf fhfl
UOai liliuei a auu v/^vntiuiu .
Coshocton, Ohio, field completed * I
settlement of the wage controversy
Friday, the miners winning out on I
?very point. The new scale adopted is
exactly that of 1903.
TWO IMPORTANT MEASURES
Passed by the Georgia State Senate
at Thursday's Session.
The Georgia senate Thursday pass- '
ed bills for the election of railroad
commissioners by the people and for
the lease of the Western and Atlantic
railroad for sixty years at $60,000
per month.
The bill for the election of railroad
nommfasirmers bv the oeopl? was
passed by a vote of 31 to 7. Tie |
senate immediately transmitted the
bill to the house.
ESCAPING CONVICT KILLED.
Negroes Make Desperate Attempt to
Vacate Chaingang Camp.
In a mad rush of desperate prisoners
to escape from the convict camp
of the Palmer Brick company in Atlanta
at about 12 o'clock Friday
night, one of the convicts, a negro
named Hargrove, was shot and killed
by Guard O. B. Jones, and another,
Willis Harris also a negro, made his
escape.
WITNESSES ARE JAILED
Parties Wanted to Testify in Lumber
Camp Peonage Case Are Detained
by Order of Court at Pensaccla.
Because of the fact that one of
the most important witnesses has suddenly
disappeared from Pensacola, and
that overtures by unknown parties
to others to leave for New York and
not apear in the now famous Jackson
Lumber company cases, every witness
who is not a resident of Florida and
well known to the United States commi&ioner
has been placed in the local
jail in default of bond, where all will
be held until the caie comes up fo;
trial at the next term of thd United
States court.
Harry Lambert, who testified a ie\>
days ago that he had twice been
horsewhipped, after being caught with
bloodhounds, and who. exhibited welts
and scars, which, he claimed, - had
hppn infliotpd hv the bosses, has dis
apeared. When wanted to again testify
he could not *:e found and a
search revealed the fact that he wa3
not in Pensacola. Other witnesses
stated that they had been approached
by unknown parties speaking foreign
tongues with proposidcns not to stop
at Pensacola and testify, bat to go
on to NIew York, and if they would
do so money for their fare would be
given them.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Emil
Lesser, president'of the German Immigration
Society of Alabama, has returned
from Lcckhart, where he has
been for several days investigating
the charges of peonage in the camp
of the Jackson Lumber company at
that place.
Mr. Lesser has prepared a report,
which will be submitted to Governor
Jelks, in which he says that there is
no trace of peonage at the camp.
His report says in part: "I have
interviewed nearly a hundred laborers
and have not found a single person
who could or would make any complaint
about peonage or cruel treatment.
All the men I spoke to stated
they could leave if they wished. If
peonage has existed at Lockhart, then
all traces of it had been removed before
my coming. The German vice
cousul at Pensacola authorizes m? to
say officially and positively that the
statements as to complaints being
made to him by Germans escaping
from these camps are absolutely
false."
TROOPS TO PROTECT NEGROES.
Governor Beckham Calls Out Two
Companies of Kentucky Guards.
The Frankfort and Barbourville
(Kentucky) companies of the state
guard were ordered by Governor Beckham
to go on duty at Barbourville to
protect during their trial the negro
man and woman charged with the
murder of Mrs. Broughton.
The negroes are now in jail at Stanford,
and troops will proceed to that
place and accompany them to the
scene of the crime and trial. This
is owing to fears that an attempt to
lynch the negroes who committed the
crime to secure $40 will be made.
ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN.
English Lord Now Demands Apology
from Portland Officers.
Instead of having. in custody an
American bigamist known as "Lord
Douglass," wanted by the authorities
of many states, as was at first supposed,
the police at Portland, Maine,
have detained Lcrd Sholto Douglass,
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imra sou ui tut? iai.c ifim v*
Queensberry.
Lord Douglass says he wants to
avoid further notoriety and will be
satisfied with verbal apologies from
the sheriff and police. The consular
authorities await the apologies and
the matter may become a subject of
international inquiry.
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS.
Is Called to Meet in Kansas City No.
vember 20-23, Next.
The official call for the seventeenth
annual session of the trans-Mississippi
Commercial congress, to meet in Kansas
City, Mo., November 20, 21, 22 and
23 next, has been issued.
TWELVE YEARS FOR EX-MAYOR.
William Belcher Given Long Prison
Term for Embezzlement
William H. Belcher, who, while
mayor of Paterson, N. J., absconded
a year ago and who surrendered him
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self several aaxs ago, was scuicuucu
on Friday to twelve years' imprisonment
in the state prison at Trenton
on a charge of embezzlement.
Belcher was alleged to have embezzled
from $100,000 to $150,000 from
personal friends and from the Manchester
Building and Loan Association,
which was forced to suspend
business.
SPEED LIMIT FOR AUTOS.
Georgia House Passes Bill to Regulate
Their Running on Highways.
By an overwhelming vote of 119 to
2, the Georgia house of representative
Thursday passed a bill to regulate
the running of all automobiles
and other similarly propelled vehicles
upon the public highways of tEe~sta>e.
The measure conforms to the law of
most of the northern states.
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MOB STOPS TRIAL
Three Negroes Taken From
Jail, Hanged and Riddled.
MILITARY IS INEFFECTIVE
Victims Had Just Been Arraigned at
Salisbury, N. Cm Charged With
Murder of Lyerly Family.
Other Suspects Unmolested.
A mob of 3,000 determined men,
shortly before 11 o'clook Monday
night, forcibly entered Rowan county
jail at Salisbury, N. C., removed
therefrom three of the five negroes
charged with the murder of the Lyerly
family, at Barber Junction, July
13, an lynched them.
The mob began gathering at sundown.
Mayor Boyden promptly ordered
the saloons closed and, with other
prominent citizens, United States
Senator Overman, Judge Long, who
was holding the special term of court
to try the negroees, and Solicitor
Hammer, gathered on the jail steps
and addressed the crowd, which at
that time numbered 2,000. There were
howls and cat calls from the mob,
but for a time the:? was no move?
the mob lacking a leader. While citizens
were appealing to the mob, two
men slipped through the crowd and
were entering the jail with hammers.
They were discovered and arested.
The moh continued its yelling, but
there was still no concerted move.
About 9 o'clock, Mayor Boyden called
upon the local military Company,
the Rowan Rifles, for aid. They assembled
quickly, but were supplied
only with blank cartridges, having no
orders to shoot to kill.
Fireman McLendon of Charlotte, a
Southern railway employee, was shot
in the stomach by a bullet said to
have been fired by a member of the
mob. He was fatally wounded. Will
Troutman, a negro drayman, was also
seriously shot at about the same time.
Both are said to have been accidents,
occasioned by some of the few wild
shots fired by members of the mob,
with the evident intention of frightening
citizens.
At 10 0 CIOCK mere was a sui m
the mob?it was augmented by fully
five hundred men, who came, it is
said, from Whitney, where the Whitney
Reduction company % developing
the Yadkin water power. It was but
a few minutes after their arrival,
when a crowd of fifty, forming a
sort of flying wedge, made a break
for the jail doors, overpowered the
officers, and effected an entrance. The
great crowd outside surged in behind
the leaders, and in a few minutes
more epierged from the door with
their victims.
The negroes were marched northward
toward Spencer, but a halt was
made at Henderson's ball grounds in
the edge of town. There the negroes
were given time to confess the crime.
They refused to either deny or confess
and were so thoroughly frightened
as almost to have lost the
power of speech. John Gilespie wept
piteously and begged for his life. Tiring
of its efforts to secure statements
from the negroes, at midnight
the ropes were quickly brought forward
and adjusted and the three were
strung up to the limbs of one tree
and with howls and curses the crowd
riddled the dangling bodies with bullets.
nnvprnnr Clenn was at 11-10 nVnrk
Monday night told of the moo by
Judge Long over the telephone. He
at once wired orders to the military
companies at Charlotte. Greensboro
and Statesville to flurry by special
trains to Salisbury. Findiug these
were too late he countermanded the
orders. He states that some Ur.ie ago
he offered the sheriff the service of
the militia, but the offer was declined
as unnecessary. He declares the
lynching a blot on the state, and savs
he will at once *teps to discover
and bring to justice the guilty
parties.
PURE FOOD BILL PASSED.
Georgia Solons Go On Record ar
Against Adulterations.
The Georgia house of representatives
passed a pure food bill"' Monday,
framed in accordapce with the act recently
DassCd bv the national con
gress.
This bill provides for the prevention
of the adulteration, misbranding
and imitation of foods for man or
beast, of beverages, candies and condiments,
of medicines ,drugs and liquors
or their manufacture and sal9
in the state of Georgia.
GEORGIA AGRICULTURISTS.
To Hold Forth in Sixtieth Annual Convention
in Griffin
The annual convention of the Georgia
State Agricuiutral Society, now
in the sixtieth year of its existence,
will be held in Griffin, August 29-30.
A very atractive program has been
arranged, and the meeting promises
to be one of the best held in years.
There will be from 100 to 150 delegates
present.
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HOT WAVE KILLS SCOF ES
New York Hospital and Police Ambulances
Filled With Dead and
Dying?Other Cities Suffer.
New York and its environments
sweltered Monday far into the night,
for it was the hottest day of the
year so far. Upwards of twenty persons
in the city alone died from the
heat and hospital and police ambulances
were kept more than busy, so
numerous were the cases of prostration.
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These numbered scores. The government
thermometer registered 92 degrees
at its highest during the after
noon, which is a record for the year.
But it was much hotter in the streets *
and some thermometers recorded as ^
high as 102 degrees. The humidity
was excessive. H
Thousands of tenement house-dwellers
could not endure to stay in their
crowded homes and deserted them
for the time being for the city parks
and the seashore, where they slept
Monday night in the open. The curb
brokers in Broad street were obliged
to suspend business because of the ... ;|
fierceness of the sun's rays.
At Washington up to 2 p. m., no
diminution in the intensity of the *
heat wave was noticeable. At that . v,J|
hour the weather bureau reported the -Jm
temperature as 92 and the humidity . ?|i
as 53. On the street the temperature v yM
at 2 o'clock was 103. Only two cases
of heat prostration had been reportI
ed at that time.
! At Philadelphia the extreme heat
! of Sunday and Monday has caused
three deaths and a number of prostrations.
The government thermometer
on the postoffi.ce building at one
o'clock p. m. registered 93.
BIG CHICAGO BANK CLOSED.
Officials Wrecked Institution?Shock
Caused Death of Two Depositors;
With a deficit in its accounts es-'
timated to reach close to $1,000,000,
and the whereabouts of two of its ^
highest officials unknown to the an- ~ ':$S
thorities, the Milwaukee Avenue .-i?
State Dank, one of the largest out- >j
lying banks in the city of Chicago, '
was closed Monday by State Bank "dffl
Examiner C. C. Jones. -v
In the excitement following the announcement
of the failure, J. G. Wis- /JS
ser, an official of the Royal League, .
who had on deposit in the bank the
funds of that organization, fell dead, Jm
of heart failure. Henry Koepke, a '31
smal grocer, and a regular depositor, 1 Jg|
on hearing that the bank had suspended
payment, went to the rear ;;JI
of his store and shot himself.
Riotous scenes attended tlfe an- -ijm
nouncement of the failure, and a large
'force of poiice struggled all day.to ' l^J||
. avrti+orl rrnwrt of deDOSitOrS? .
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nearly all of them foreigners and jaj
many of them wonrrn?from rushing
the doors 'of the Institution. The fact
that the bank was on the verge
of failure was first revealed by Pres- |jj
ident Pauf O. Stensland, one of the
absent officials. A letter to his son,
Theodore, who is vice president, writ- 'jJ
ten from St. Paul, and received Saturday,
started tue investigation,
which brought about the suspension.
Another sensational feature of the J|
affair was the disappearance of the
cashier, Henry W. herring, and the
issuing of a warrant for his arrest
on a charge of embezzlement. , M
Many persons burst into tears when
they found that their savings were
endangered or lost.
CHINKS PROVE A FAILURE.
While Willing Workers, Turpentine ||
Labor is Too Hard for Them.
After having tried the experiment j' -4^
of substituting Chinamen for negroes
in the naval stores, C.- W. Chase, millionaire
phosphate miner and naval
stores operator of Gainesville, Fla.,
has decided that it is ndt a success/
! and has arranged to snip tne iortyeight
Chinamen back to Portland,
Ore, where he secured % them .three * f'S?
months ago. It is said the experiment ;
cost Mr. Chase $10,000. The China- 7Jj
men were willing workers, but were
| not physically able to stand the hard
labor. vjjj
SON OF SCHOFIELD SUICIDES. v
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Was Sick and Thought He Would Be a
Burden to His Wife.
Major and Paymaster William B.
Schofieid cf the regular army, son of
the late Lieutenant General Schofieid,
United States army, retired, shot and ? ?
killed himself in San Francisco on
Monday. Major Schofieid was on a,
leave cf absence on account of ill
neaith, and, it is* said, that he feared
an attack of locomotor ataxia, and
.1 t V? /-s tt'/miI/I K n l\iir/lon +/\ Vsl<<i
!l#lt lie VV'JUIU MCV/UUi^ CL WUIUCU W lll<9
wife.
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A VERDICT UNNECESSARY.
Girl Kills Herself While Sanity Commission
Was Considering Her Case.
At Augusta, Ga., Monday night,
, while a sanity commission was sitting
in consideration of a case questioning
her mental capacity, Miss Ida * , '
Calhoun escaped from McNaughton's
sanitarium, stealing. Br.McNaughton's
pistol. The girl, who is 18 years old, y
walked a distance of two miles to
Westyew cemetery, where she fired
a bullet through her heart. * " . %
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