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IN TUB PALMETTO STATE
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^ SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
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% Col. Asbury Coward has sent in
his resignation as superintendent of
the Citadel. , \
t .. The average protlt 01 tne various
county dispensaries in the State for
the past year was thirty-five per cent.
. Allendale's new school building,
, which cost $10,000, has been completed
and was dedicated Monday
with appropriate exercises.
A new post office is to be built at
Chester by the government Plans
and specifications have been prepar*
eckand the contract is to be let with-"
x>Ut delay.
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Mr. C. C. Featherstone last Friday
issued a statement withdrawing from
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- nig that as Governor Ansel would
fun this summer on a prohibition
platform, he would support him.'
Maj. Benjamin Sloan has resigned
as president of the South Carolina
i University at Columbia, his resignation
to take effect at the end of the
present session. He will retire from
active work, having been granted a
Carnegie annuity.
Burglars dynamited the safe in
Carpenter Brothers' branch drug
store at the union passenger station
in Greenville last Monday night and
got away with $500. No arrests have
been made. The work was evidently
i that of professional burglars.
A cyclone passed through a portion
of Spartanburg county last Wednesday
afternoon. Much damage was
'' v done, several houses being blown
down. One negro was killed by the
house being blown down on him: His
mother had an arm and leg broken.
An election on the question of dis[
pensary or no dispensary was held in
Aiken county Tuesday of last week,
and the dispensary won by about 150
majority. The election was hotly
. contested on both sides and much
feeling developed. The anti-dispensary
people speak of making a coni
test.
Governor Ansel has served notice
on two members of the dispensary
board of Williamsburg county to show
* cause "before him on Tuesday, the
27th instant, why they should not be
removed from office. There is some>
thing of a scandal over dispensary
affairs in that county, and members
* of the board are charged which attempting
to get rebates oh liquors
bought by the board.
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icev. Li. J. nnstow, writing in uie
Baptist Courier, says that Governor
7 Ansel will advocate State-wide prohibition
in the campaign this summer,
with the option to any county to vote
in the sal^ of liquor under the dispensary
plan, there to be only one
dispensary in a county, and that one
at the county seat, except in cities of
25,000 or more. He also states that
?Mr. Featherstone, the prohibition
candidate, will now withdraw from
the race and support Governor Ansel.
^ Bitten by Mad Dog.
$ Gaffney, April 17.?On Monday
\ afternoon the little 4-year-old girl of
Mr. Charles Earle, who lives about
fivb miles from Gaffney, was playing
- in the yard when a dog belonging to
* the household attacked the little girl,
c biting her severely on one of Her
^ <arms; the dog then ran to the house
of Mr. John Spake, a distance of 200
,xj' yards,' where it fell with a fit. Mr.'
Spake secured his gun and shot the
dog, killing it instantly. Ittranspiri
ed that the same dojg had a short
while before bitten the little girl, attanVpd
a neoro bov and attemDted to
bit him. Mr. Earle immediately
f brought the little girl to Gaffney, to
have Mr. Lowe's madstone applied.
The stone was applied to the wound
at 2:20 p. m. and it adhered to the
wound until 11:40, making nine h6urs
.. and 20 minutes. This is the eighth
* case that Mr. Lowe has successfully
treated. !
Would Wipe Out Deficit.
Washington, April 19?'The post-,
j master general is calling the atten-1
tion of congress to the fact that the
establishment of a special local parcel
post on rural routes would wipe out
the postal deficit," says a statement
given out at the postomce depart,
ment to-day, "and would tend to
make the rural free delivery selfsustaining,
besides being a boon to
the farmer and the retail country
merchant. There are now in operation
39,038 rural routes, serving a
population of 15,000,000 people and
should an average of five 11-pound
packages be carried on each trip
throughout the year it is estimated
that $15,000,000 would be realized
v and the net return to the government
would be more than sufficient
to equal the deficit."
A statement issued by the postmaster
general giving the postal receipts
for March, 1907, shows a decrease
of $260,957 or 3.11 per cent, at
the 50 largest postoffices.
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A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Dr. Swinney Shoots His Daughter
, and Kills Himself.
Asheville, N. C., April 16?Enraged
at his sixteen-year-old daughter
Nellie, because of a harmless
school girl prank, Dr. C. 0. Swinney,
who recently came here from New
York, fired two shots at her, fatally
wounding'her, and then turning the
revolver on himself, he placed the
muzzle in his mouth and pulled the
trigger, dying almost instantly. Badly
wounded as she was, with two bullets
embedded in her skull, ,Miss
Swinney ran from the room and upstairs
to the principal's room before
she fell.
The froo-at]v nrvnrred in thereceD
tion room of the Normal and Collegiate
institute, a large girls' boarding
school in this city, qyhere Miss
Swinney had been a pupil for the
past session. Just what occurred
prior to the shooting is not known,
as there were no witnesses, and the
girl while still conscious, could give
but a vague account. Dr. Swinney,
who up to a fe^years ago had been
a prominent physician in New York
city, has for some time past been in
poor health, and of late, it is alleged,
his mind has been unbalanced.
Recently his daughter was one of a
number of school girls who, as an
April fool's joke, absented themselves
from school, and the father
brooded over the little escapade until
it assnmed to him the proportions
of actual wrong-doing. When Dr.
Swinney called on his daughter at the
school Wednesday afternoon about 5
o'clock he was shown into the reception
room, and a few minutes later
his daughter came down and went
into the room, closing the door behind
her.
She sat down at the piano, her
father sitting beside her. Half an
hour later girls and teachers were
startled by four shots ringing out,
and a second afterwards Miss Swinney,
blood streaming from the
wounds in her head, came rushing
from' the room. In a few minutes
the wildest confusion reigned, school
girls and women teachers running
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here ana tnere, dui miss xvodmson,
the principal, speedily restored order
and hastily summoned a physician.
Miss Swinney was desperately
wounded and there Is little chance
for her recovery.
The room in which the tragedy occurred
showed signs of a hard struggle.
Chairs were overturned, and
the piano stool, With one leg broken,
was lying in the middle of the room.
The father was lying on the floor
off />ne side, face downward with the
revolver with four chambers empty,
under him.
The attempted murder and suicide
were evidently deliberately planned,
as before going to the school Dr.
Swinney bought a revolver and two
rounds of cartridges at a pawn shop.
Although it is said his mind has
been unbalanced for some time he
had never been violent and his family
were totally unprepared for the
I dreadful tragedy. He" was a father!
in-law of Dr. J. A. Sinclair, a prom;
inent dentist of this city, and since
his return from New York a few
weeks ago, Dr. Swinney had made
his home with him.
Votes for Prohibition.
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JJAIN VILdjii, ?A., Apni J.U. X11C
city of Danville to-day voted against
licensing saloons by a majority of
forty-five.
The city voted against license on
April, 1903, but in September, 1905,
the second election resulted in a plurality
for license of eighteen.
Dangerously Wounded.
Mr. Arthur Fairey, who lives not
far from Branchville, was shot and
dangerously wounded by his little
nephew on Wednesday, The ball
penetrated the stomach producing a
painful wound. The shooting was
done with a parlor rifle, with which
the little boy was playing.
Negro's Lung Shot Out.
Columbus; Ga., April 16.?Emmett
Jones' and Tom Wilson, young
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negroes, quarrenea in a nouse on a
Chattahoochee county plantation today
and Jones picked up a shotgun
and discharged the contents into the
other negro, who was but a few feet
away in the same room. Wilson was
horribly mangled, one of his lungs
being shot out. Jones was subsequently
captured.
Accident In Marlboro.
Bennettsville, kpril 20.?While
returning from church at Pine Grove
Saturday morning a horse- driven by
Mrs. John E. Fletcher, became
frightened and ran away. At McNair's
pond, while the horse was running
down the hill, one of the holding-back
straps broke. In the buggy
with Mrs. Fletcher were two of her
children, and both of these were
thrown out. Her little boy, Marlin,
was thrown against a log, badly
fracturing his skull. The little girl
was not hurt. Mrs. Fletcher held to
the horse until he ran into a wire
fence, where she was thrown out and
badly bruised. Little Marlin lived
until 1:45 o'clock this afternoon,
when he passed away. The interment
will take place in Beaver Dam Cemetery
to-morrow. The Fletchers live
near McColl and are among the most
prominent people of the county.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, April 20.?Miss Lela F.
Epps, assistant teacher of Ehrhardt
graded school, left for her home in
Kingstree last Friday. Principal T.
D. Jones will continue our school for
one month, then it will close.
The town nine beat the school nine
in a game of ball last Thursday afternoon.
Some cotton comes to market every
week. Prices still decline, however,
and the farmers are calculating what
their loss is by holding on to their
cotton.
The cool wave had some of our
farmers blue for a day or two last
week. Don't think there was frost
or cold enough to do much damage,
if any, to the growing crop.
Messrs. Hiers Bros, will build themselves
a store on the site of their
burnt one and be ready for the fall
trade.
Mr. Frank Hiers will assist C. Ehrhardt
& Sons in waiting upon their
customers, and will be glad to wait
on his old friends and customers
across their counters.
The heavy rains last week washed
away some of the bridges in this section;
was heavier in the Folk section
than here. The new crossing over
Little Salkahatchie swamp near the
Isaac Carter homestead is in bad
shape and needs immediate attention,
as it is dangerous and may cost the
county a damage suit if not attended
to at once. - Jee.
News from Kearse.
Kearse, April 20.?Easter has
come and gone, how many know what
Raster reallv stands for? How many
enter in the morning of that day with
the true sense and hopes the day implies?
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The new hats, ribbons and dresses
occupy the larger thoughts and attention
of the multitudes than does
the springing buds to soon open in
the full fledged flower, that typify
the glorious rising^ of men and to
bloom in youth and beauty forever.
A happy thought to weak and weary
men that often pause and rashly say
what was man made for anyway.
These thoughts and many more crowd
themselves in the midst of all nature
awakening from the long sleep of winter;
the old scraggy oak of a few
weeks ago now clad in a suit of beauty,
that seemed dead and Kfeless. j
Now Mrs. Mocking Bird is busy
placing twig after twig forming her
nest to be finished with the roots of
grass and finally with cotton or hair
I to make it warm and snug for the
little birds to come later, while Mr.
Mocking Bird sits idly by and sings
in his sweetest strains as the good
work goes on, too much taken up in
song to even think of building the
future home for the family or providing
a single worm to fill the wide
open mouths of the little birds as the
pangs of hunger cause them to cry
for food, only the mother bird hears.
They are all protected by the leaves
that cover this once seemingly dead
old oak. and where only bare
branches and a rough old trunk stood
is the lordly oak that little boys and
girls, old men and animals find comfort
and pleasure sheltered from the
fierce rays of a sumrper'^Tsun. What
a change has been wrought in that
old tree and a greater change is
hoped for man when he awakes from
that long sleep of the centuries, is
the theme of the Easter tide.
Mrs. L. S. Chitty is still confined to
her bed. from the fall reported sev
eral days ago. Hope she will soon be
out again.
The boys had a match game of base
ball against the young men on Saturday
last. The boys will try to win
out with the Ehrhardt team on Saturday
next.
Several young-"folks came down
from Olar on Friday and Saturday
evenings and enjoyed a social given
them at the home of Mr. J. F. Kearse,
Sr. A very enjoyable evening was
i the verdict of all who attended.
Boat riding and driving was indulgi
ed in by some of the young folks on
i Saturday; only one reported as getting
a good ducking by falling out
of the boat.
Rev. R. A. Yongue preached at
White Point school house last evening;
had a full house. Subject: prohibition,
and a good sermon it was.
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Miss Aline Kearse will give a pumic
entertainment at White Point school
room on Thursday evening at 8 p. m.
All are invited to attend, as a pleasant
evening is looked for.
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Negro Lynched In Texas.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 19.?A
special to The Record from Atlanta,
Texas, says:
"Jasper Douglas, a negro, was
charged in a warrant sworn to yesterday,
with having criminally assaulted
his step-sister, a girl of 12
years. This morning his, body was
found hanging to the limb of a tree
near this place. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was that Douglas
came to his death at the hands of unknown
persons."
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SOLUTION OF RACE PROBLEM.
Georgia Congressman Would Disfranchise
Southern Negroes.
Washington, April 17?In an argument
favoring the disfranchisement
of the Southern negroes ]\lr. Griggs
of Georgia in the house of representatives
today declared that such disfranchisement
was necessary to insure
white control and the peace and
prosperity of the South.
In consequence of^such action, he
said, the negro would be no less a
factor than he is now. "At present,"
Mr. Griggs said, "he is only a menace
and a scarcecrow?not a factor in determining
political issues." The
rights of the negro of the South, he
maintained, were guaranteed only
through white judges and white
jurors and those rights would not be
changed by disfranchisement.
Mr. Griggs took issue with those
who claimed that manufacturing and
technical education of the negroes of*
the South furnished a solution of the
race question. That in itself, he said,
was a declaration of the negro's inferiority.
"For God's sake,",he exclaimed,
"let us not depend upon
technical education of the negro to
solve this problem. It would, he said,
either drive the great majority of
Southern white men into other States I
or create the most terrible race war J
in the history of the world. He did
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not believe the soutnern wmie men
would be driven from their homes.
"If," he said, "they should refuse to
live in a larfd under conditions so deplorable
and like their fathers go out
and build homes in the wilderness we
would have left to us a land made up
of two classes of people?a professional
class of whites and a laboring
class of blacks." The absurdity of
such a condition, he declared, was apparent.
In the opinion of Mr. Griggs there
was no danger of the amalgamation
of white and blacks. There must be
perfect submission from the one, he
said, and complete control by the
other. This, he said, would result in
the negroes graduallly becoming
educated and their removal to other
States, where they could have greater
privileges. As the negroes increased
in numbers in those States,
he asserted, they would be disfranchised
"until finally, having grown
strong during these years of wandering
in the wilderness," they would
have the manhood to go out and with
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for themselves.
Negro Wounded by White Man.
Olar, April 18.?Last night about
8 o'clock J. G. Barker, Jr., of this
place, shot and probably fatally
wounded a negro man named John
Sanders. The affair occurred on
Barker's plantation.
Last night Mr. Barker went to the
negro to ask him about some work he
had failed to do. When Mr. Barker
spoke to the negro he was answered
with curses. Barker then shot the
negro once. When Sanders jumped
up and started to run Barker shot
him again.
The negro is wounded in the back
and the side. One of his lungs was
penetrated by the shot, and though
he is still alive there is no chance for
his rprnvprv.
Barker is the son of L. M. Barker
of this place and is a prominent citizen.
Sanders is said to be a desperate
negro. Yesterday morning he bought
a pint of whiskey and it is possible
that he had been drinking.
Honor Roll.
Following is the honor roll of the
Olar high-graded school for seventh
month.
High school?Ettie Kearse, James
Chitty, Belle Cooke, Emma Bessinger
Henry Kearse, Orrie Morris, Maida
Still, Annie Laura Kirkland and Agnes
Kearse.
Grammar school?Flossie Layne,
Delma Cooke, Earl Kearse, Nannie
Ray, Eloise Cave, Gilmore Hartzog,
Zelma Rizer and Edna Morris.
Primary?Malone Varn, Charles
Fail, Rosa Lee Reid, Ila Still, Corey
Hiers, Frank Hiers, LiOttie rroveaux
and Earle Rizer.
Nejjro Preacher Arrested.
Rev. J. C. Dean, colored, pastor of
the Gum Springs Baptist church,
near Cashville, was arrested in Spartanburg
yesterday by N. J. Alverson,
of Reidville, on the charge of having
committed adultery. The warrant
for Dean's arrest' was sworn out by
J. S. Rice, colored, before Magistrate
Pearson, of Reidville. The warrant
charges the preacher with having
ruined Carrie Rice, the eighteenyear-old
daughter of the said J. S.
Rice. Dean is from Greenwood originally,
and has a wife living there at
present. It is alleged that the girl
has letters from the preacher begging
that she throw the blame on a
certain youthful member of the polygamatically
inclined sheperd's
flock, that it would hurt his influence
as a saver of men's souls if it were
known that he had wronged one of
the sisters in the churcft.?spartanburg
Herald, Thursday, April 16th.
Mr. Asbury L. Kirkland, of the
Buford's Bridge section, announces
his candidacy for County Treasurer
in this issue. See his card.
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ACCIDENT AT BLACKVILLE
MISS BEULAH G1LLAM KILLED IN
A RUNAWAY.
While Out Driving the Horse Began
to Run and She Sprang from
the noving Buggy.
Blackville, April 20.?What is
considered one of the saddest accidents
that ever happened here was
the sudden death of Miss Beulah
Gillam, caused by a runaway horse.
Miss Gillam and her friend, Miss
Alice Sojourner, were out driving and
had driven out on the road to the
Healingsprings, a favorite drive from
here. Numbers of buggies were in a
line coming from the springs and a
couple of young men undertook to
drive by Miss Sojourner's horse,
which was a very spirited animal.
The horse commenced running apd
soon got from under her control,
though she is an excellent driver.
Miss Gillam became very much excited
and jumped from_the buggy,striking
on her head.
She never regained consciousness
and died at 2 p. m. to-day. Miss Sojourner
remained in the buggy until
the horse struck a tree and threw her
out. She was very badly bruised and
is confined to her bed, but her injuries
are by no means fatal.
Miss Gillam will be buried to-mor
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ing ground, seven miles from here,
in an old family plot.
Miss Gillam is a daughter^ of Mrs.
M. Gillam, a widow, who is proprietress
i of the Hotel Blackville.
Miss Gillam was milliner for w*.
Morrison s millinery establishment
and was a very popular young lady.
State Will Borrow Money.
The list of pensioners who will receive
their share of the State appropriation
this year is being rapidly
completed and will be ready for the
various county boards shortly, ^s a
result it will be necessary for the
State to bcfrrow about $300,000.
There is at present enough in the
treasury or due from the franchise
i tax collections to pay the pension apI
propriation, amounting to $250,000,
but the ordinary expenses of the
State amount to about $60,000 per
month and on July 1 there is the
semi-annual interest on the public
debt, amounting to about $85,000, to
be paid out. This will make a loan
necessary and until taxes are sent in
during the fall months the State will
have very little to pay the ordinary
running expenses. A large loan will
give a lower rate of interest and it is
probable that it *yill be about $300,000
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Cutting Scrape Between White Hen.
Aiken, April 20.?On Saturday
night at Warrenville, Messrs. Mitchell,
Sr., and Haul Gregory engaged
in a very serious difficulty, and 'as a
result both are lying in a very serious
condition and one of tfoem, Gregory,
may be fatally injured: It is stated
that the men became involved in a
controversy about a trival matter
and that the argument became so
heated that knives were drawn and
both were severely cut. Gregory's
throat was cut,* and it is stated that
he may not recover. Mitchell is not
thought to be fatally injured, but he
is suffering very ^painful injuries.
They were taken to their homes and
medical attention given them. Both
were too badly injured to be brought
to jail, but John Mitchell, son of the
elder and injured Mitchell, has been
placed under arrest and is now in
jail. It is charged that be was connected
with the affair though his
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did the cutting himself, and that his
son had nothing to do with the affair/
Bloody Street Duel.
Bernice, La., April 20.^-One
spectator was killed and four others
were wounded during a street duel
here to-day. Both duellists were
wounded, but not seriously.
The fight was between C. J. Morton
and W. F. Barham, both prominent
in this section. The cause of
the quarrel is not known. Morton
was just stepping off an Arkansas
Southern passenger train, accompanied
by his wife and seveifyear-old
son, when Barham appeared. Both
men opened fire and Morton's little
son fell, probably mortally wounded.
T. W. Clarkevwas instantly killed and
Thomas Reeves was wounded in the
train
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and a male passenger, whose name
was not learned, were painfully
wounded.
Morton was struck by two bullets
and Barham hit by one.
Orangeburg District fleeting.
The district meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of
the Orangeburg district will be held
at Cope on May 10th. Opening services
Friday evening at 8 o'clock. All
auxilaries, young people and juvenile
societies are requested to elect
delegates at once and send names to
Miss Loulie Tatum, Cope, S. C. All
lady managers are expected. We
hope to have Mrs. Wightman and
Mrs. Humbert with us.
Mrs. A. S. Jennings,
District Secretary.
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r'ow at a school.
Five Men Iqpicted for a Disturbance
at Deborah.
At the closing exercises of the Deborah
school at Quick's Cross Roads,
in Smithville last Friday night, there
wai a general fight in which one man
was cut in the neck and another had
his coat cut in the back.
The school was in charge of Mrs. "
E. D. Grant, a daughter of Rev. T.
L. Belvin. Mrs. Grant's sister and:
her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dannelly,
of Ehrhardt, S. C., were visit- m1
ing Mrs. Grant, and attended the/ A
school closing. Mr. Grant is one of
the trustees of the school. County ,
Superintendent Easterling and Representative
J. P. Gibson were present
and took part in the exercises. - \ ...
Near the clcke there was an excit- ' I
ing negro dialogue, and the audience, >
which was out on the ground in front x
of the school house, crowded up to
see and hear the pupils, it seems that - js
Wesley Brigman was leaning'over
Mrs. Dannelly and using profane ^
and obscene language. Mr. Dannelly *
asked him nob to curse in the presence
of ladies. He kept on and dared
Mr. Dannelly to resent it. Dannelly
jumped up and collared Brigman and
the latter drew a knife. Dannelly
threw down and took the knife away
fromxhim. Brigman's friends then
crowded around Dannelly and a general
fight followed. Grant and Dan- i
belly's wife finally persuaded him to i
go into the school house. In the row *
somebody cut Dannelly's coat open ?
all the way across the back but the ~
knife did not penetrate the skin.
Jessie Chavis received a gash across*
the side of the neck several inches - CjS
long.
As a result of the melee, Rufus ;*sl
Odcrn, Richard Odgjn, Wesley Brig- -'M
man, White Odom, and S. J. T. Quick ^
are indicted before Magistrate Eas- %, y
terling for drunkenness, disorderly1" -M
conduct, and carrying cohcealed
weapons. The trial has not yet been %
Richard Odom was a trustee 01 tne vt
Deborah school. Quick was a trustee v ?|
of the Antioch. Both of them have yj|
been removed by the county board of
education, since the difficulty. White ' ''SM
Odom is the constable of Magistrate m
Hurley in Brightsville.?Bennetts- |Pj
yille Advocate.
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Owners of Ohio Grocery Store Killed
by Patrolmen.
| Columbus, Ohio, April 19.?Mis- /
taken for burglars John and Wm. D. i'i
Frank, sons of R. 0. Frank, grocer, hlM
were shot and instantly killed to-day :
by City Patrolmen Heinze and Casey.
Casey was suspended, pending investigation,
but Heinze remains on duty. , ?
Shortly before the shooting burglars ' yWa
were discovered by neighbors in
Frank's grocery, 1,221 Parsons ave-r -}4
nue. The owner of the store and the ;<
police were informed about the same X-.||
time of the burglary. The two
young men, who were later shot, and .
another brother, Albert Frank and
William Yoerger, hastily armed 0.
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Patrolmen Heinze and Casey were, ' --M
watching in the shadow of the build- "J
ing when the four youn? men ar- 1
rived, an? each party mistook the >,J;'
other for the burglars; C
According to Yoerger W. D. Frank $
fired a rifle four times at Patrolman %
Heinze, who drew a revolver and
fatally wounded the young man.
Patrolman Casey ordered the other ' 'J
three to throw up their hands, and if
they did so, the survivors say. Pa- jj
trolman Casey declares, however,
that John Frank did not throw up his
hands but aimed a revolver at the
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F^ank.
American Cotton Direct to the East. SI
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Mexico City, April 20?The Wolvin - J J
Steamship company has entered into
an agreement with the Teteuntepec
National railroad and the Eng-TokTong
Steamship company for conducting
a traffic between Galveston
and.Oriental ports. The new service
will go into effect May 1. The main '{ : U
purpose of the agreement is to supply
Japan with American cotton for which
there is a big* demand.
Heretofore American cotton had to -rj
be shipped across the continent bj/ rail
to San Francisco, where it was reshipped,
but the new traffic arrangement
will give an all-water route. /
with the exception of the small haul
of "the Tehauntepec railroad across the
isthmus.
Blease Will Run.
Mruforopv A-nril is.?Senator
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Cole L. Blease was seen this morning
and 3sked what effect Mr. Featherstone's
withdrawal, Governor Ansel's
card in the morning's paper would
have upon his candidacy for Governor,
Mr. Blease said:
"Mr Featherstone's withdrawal and
Governor Ansel's change of position
will have no effect whatever on
my candidacy. I am in the race and
in to the finish and will furnish the J
people an interesting campaign, it
matters not to me who may withdraw or
who may enter. I am getting all
my facts together and will be ready
when the State chairman says 'Gentlemen
proceed.'
"My platform has already been announced,
and on that platform I will '
I make my campaign."
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