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IN TOE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
A farmers' institute is to be held
in Orangeburg on Friday, July 31st.
It will be in charge of Dr. J. N. Harper,
of Clemson College.
, Insurance Commissioner McMaster
has revoked the license of the
Piedmont Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Spartanburg. He has also revoked
the license of the Palmetto Mutual
of the same city. Both of these
<vminanies were controlled by A. M.
Alexander.
Win Clark, manager of the Columbia
base ball team, was seriously
stabbed last Sunday by J. C. Bender,
one of the players. The stabbing occurred
on a Clyde Line steamer between
Jacksonville and Charleston.
Bender was drunk, and Clark tried
to quiet him.
The first hanging in Fairfield county
since 1893 took place last Friday,
when John Wesley Shedd was hang*
ed at Winnsboro for the murder of
' two negroes near Ridgeway in May
of this year. He confessed the murder
some weeks ago. He addressed
the crowd which had gathered to see
;him hung, telling them never to touch
whiskey, as this caused his crime.
Dr. W. H. Timmerman, of Batesburg,
died at his home in that town
Tuesday evening or lasi wees, aner
a short illness ?of pneumonia. Dr.
Timmerman was born in Edgefield
in 1832. He was State treasurer for
.several terms, and made a most excellent
official. He was a consistent
Christian gentleman, the type of man
the State can ill afford to lose.
Left to Die by Workmen.
New York, July 14.?Lashed to a
pier in front of Mrs. Frank Gould's
residence at Greenwich, Conn., Dominick
Bond, a superintendent of construction
on a sea wall being built
there, was left to die by his workmen
who believed him drowned.
Ilond had been in swimming and 1
was taken with cramps. He sank
twice and when he came up unconscious,
some of the men, believing 1
him dead, passed a rope around him
?nd tied him to a nearby pile while
they hastened for assistance.
Bond was dead when assistance
came. It is believed he could have
been recusitated if proper measures 1
had been promptly taken.
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An Accident Near Florence.
Florence, July 14.?News has just i
been received in the city of a very <
deplorable accident which happened, <
near Hyman, in the lower part of the <
oounty, on Sunday afternoon. Full 1
details are not available at present, }
but the following facts have been /
; given out: * Dolls Hyman and Louis
Finklea, 13 and 15 years of age, re- 1
spectively, went in bathing Sunday J
afternoon and took with them on 1
their expedition a pistol, and while i
playing with it it was accidentally 1
discharged and mortally wounded i
Louis Finklea. The woupded child *
died Monday morning. It is report- 1
ed that the jury at the inquest failed 1
to agree' upon a verdict, and the in
quest was continued until next Sat- <
urday. The shooting is said to have 1
been accidental, and the inquest was i
held by Magistrate Hyman. The two
boys are the children of Messrs. Van- i
der Finklea and Arthur Hyman, re- 1
spectively. These two gentlemen <
have the sympathy of the whole com- <
munity.
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v ; 1 Ticket Collector Under Arrest.
F. N. Willis, ticket collector on \
nassensrer train No. 39, was arrested \
at the Southern railway station yes?
terday morning by Deputy Becknell <
? "on a warrant sworn out by Coroner j
Turner before Magistrate Coan charg- \
, >ing him with breach of trust. It ]
seems that on last Wednesday Willis j
''charged passengers between Cowpens
end Spartanburg a rate of passage ]
that was exhorbitant and beyond all
law and reason. For two fares and {
a half Coroner Turner says he had to j
pay $1.50. Others were charged 40 (
cents for the trip. Coroner Turner
, in speaking with a Herald
reporter about .the matter, laid that
Willis used very rough . language to
the passengers who got on at Cow- <
pens for Spartanburg without tickets, -\
He said that a number of Spartan- (
burg people attended the Gossett fun- i
eral last Wednesday at Cowpens. t
/. They intended wanting aown 10 i
Clifton and from there taking the i
electric car line to Spartanburg. The <
passenger came along while they (
were deliberating, and with one ac- t
cord, they decided to come that way, i
getting aboard without tickets. When i
Willis struck the bunch without tick- i
ets he began talking roughly. It is 1
said that he even cursed. When he
came to Coroner Turner he charged <
him the exorbitant fare mentioned 1
above, and beside that they had some j
difficulty about the changing of a $0 i
bill, which the coroner turned over 1
to the collector for him to get five ,
cents out of. He spoke bemeaningly, <
says Mr. Turner, about his being a '
cowardly fellow, and made the boast
that he (Willis) was as gritty a man <
as ever come from old Virginia. Cor- i
oner Turner offered to settle with 1
him if he would stop the train and '
step outside. This Willis refused to i
do, saying that he would settle with 1
him in Spartanburg. A number of <
passengers talked the matter over <
with Mr. Turner (they had all been j
cheated, they thought) and it was 1
decided to put the matter in the ]
hands of the law. Willis when ar- ]
rested yesterday gave bond.?Spar- ]
taaburg Herald. ' 1
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BACK TO PRISON.
Converted by Salvation Army, Man
Believes This is His Duty.
Chicago July 14.?William McCarty,
forty years old, is going back to
the Indiana State penitentiary at
Michigan City. Unless his sentence
is commmuted by execution of a pardon,
fourteen years will pass before
he is again a free man. Yet no officer
of the law accompanied him on
his trip across the State line yesterday
and the railroad ticket on which
he came from North Yakima, Wash.,
to serve out his sentence was bought
out of his own earnings. McCarty
was "converted" recently at a Salvation
meeting in North Yakima, be
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came convinced llitll 1L was, ma uui.>
to return to the prison from which
he had escaped when on parole and
set to work earning money for his
passage.
Several years ago he gambled away
his money one evening in Montpelier,
Ind. Then he became intoxicated,
broke into a store, and stole $500
worth of surgical instruments, which
he sold later for $16.50. He was
caught and sentenced to from one to
fifteen years of hard labor in the Indiana
State penitentiary. After serving
two years he was paroled and
given a job on an ice wagon. For
weeks he did his work well. Then
he became intoxicated again and hit
a man over the head in a street ngnt,
and was told this would end his paroie
and he fled the State.
Months afterwards, after serving
half a dozen jail sentences and living
like a tramp, he drifted into
North Yakima, began attending oalvation
army meetings, and after a
time he joined the army. Soon after
his "conversion" McCarty's conscience
began to trouble him. Early
in June he wrote to Gov. Hanly, of
Indiana, telling of the circumstances
of his escape from the State and of
his intention to return and servfe out
his sentence.
"Come ahead," wrote Gov. Hanly
in reply. "Your broken parole will
mean a sentence of fourteen years,
but you have made me a promise.
Now fullfill it." There was no word
of possible pardon or mitigated sentence.
Within a few weeks McCarty had
earned enough to pay for the long
trip to Michigan City and last Wednesday
he started. He reached Chicago
yesterday, had a long talk with
Col. French, territorial secretary of
the Salvation Army in Chicago, and
then went to Michigan City.
SEVEN MINERS KILLED.
Horrible Accident in Williamstown ,
Colliery. ,
Pottsville, Pa., July 15.?Seven
mine workers, were killed and ten
Dthers injured' to-day by a terrific
explosion of gas in the Williamstown
colliery of the Summit Branch Mining
company in the lower part of the
anthracite coal fields. The mine was
wrecked and set on fire.'
The explosion shook the entire colliery.
The work of rescue was immediately
begun, and when volunteers
were called for almost every
man at the workings offered his ser- (
rices, which meant a hazardous trip
into the burning mine. Near the foot .
af the shaft the injured were found,
they having rushed toward the entrance
only to fall over unconscious. 1
All of the dead were found a short
iistance from the shaft, battered and
burned into^an almost unrecognizable I
mass.
Physicians from Willoamstown and
nearby villages treated the injured,
while a number of women volunteered
their services as nurses. Several
af the injured were removed to their ,
aomes after receiving temporary ,
treatment, but others were in tool1
serious a condition to be moved until
to-night and cots were provided \
tor them. The doctors say three of J
the injured may die.
One of the injured was taken to
:he morgue and it was ncrt until an
dentification of the bodies was made ,
that it was found that he was living. ,
fle was badly burned and battered, I
jut will probably recover.
The fire in the mine probably will
De extinguished.
The Williamstown colliery is oper- ,
ited by one of the companies con- \
:rolled by the Pennsylvania Railroad
jompany. 1
Prize Corn Crop at Laurens.
Laurens, July 18.?Stand with this
jorrespondent, as Frank Carpenter
vould say, at a good point of vantage 1
>ut beyond the Laurens cotton mills (
md behold one of the finest sights
:o be observed just now in this sec:ion?Mr.
D. H. Counts's 50-acre
leld of upland corn. It is magnifi- i
;ent and is attracting the attention i
>f all who are interested in agricul- 1
;ure, especially the new corn produc- i
ng method, the Williamson plan, 1
vhich has been carried out in the i
ninutest detail by Mr. Counts in i
;his particular case. j
The weather conditions have been i
juite favorable and the entire field ]
vas laid by pretty free from grass. <
k fine stand was secured and through 1
ill the stages the"plan" has shown i
lp beautifully and satisfactorily. <
Just now the corn is tasseling and ]
silking, with from one to four 1
'shoots" to the stalk.
Mr. Counts has not yet placed any <
estimate on the probable yield, but i
many good farmers who have seen i
:he field think it will easily produce
75 bushels per acre. Mr. Counts is i
aaturally very enthusiastic over the i
flattering prospect, for he has given ;
ilose attention to and much thought <
an the subject. He is a large planter s
md as he expresses it, is greatly in- 1
terested in the matter of the South, 1
particularly South Carolina, growing i
its own corn. And the Williamson <
plan is the great impetus, and he ;
thinks the demonstrated solution. <
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, July 20.?Saturday closed
with a heavy electric storm and
rain. The rain was very acceptable,
as we were getting dry and hot.
Crops are practically laid by, as
the farmers term it, and they are
now cleaning the fence corners of
weeds and helping the appearance
of things in general.
Candidates are hustling around
i X- 9 1 i-.11-: V ~ 4- 4-Ur^-mr
minting VOLTO ILI1U till King wuai mcj
intend to do for the good people if
elected. We expect they will have a
hot day of it on the 22nd instant.
Base ball is the craze here. Nearly
every day there is a game going
on?embraces from the cradle to the
grave. It is amusing to hear the little
ones that can hardly talk holler, "Out
on first."
Mr. Charley Kinsey was taken Sunday
morning with acute indigestion.
He was at home preparing to go to
St. Johns church to preaching. He
went out to the lot to get some oats
for Mr. J. C. Kinard, and on his way
fell and gave the family and surrounding
neighbors quite a fright.
Mr. Kinsey was unconscious when
found. Friends took him in the
house and a doctor was summoned.
Think he will be all right in a few
days.
Our town must have the blues by
appearances. Nothing doing and
very little energy shown in anything
by our citizens. Perhaps its the
warm weather. Messrs Hiers Bros,
have their store about completed,
and have ordered some goods to put
in stock for their fall trade.
C. Enrnarat & sons nave cneir six
gins in perfect, order. Started them
up on Friday to see if everything was
in running shape.
The council should guard our shade
trees jnore than they do. People are
allowed to hitch horses to some of
them, and if allowed to continue it
will cause them to die.
Mr. E. C. Bruce and daughter
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr.
Henry Ehrhardt and family.
Mr. Tom D. Jones is on his vacation.
He will visit friends in Bishopville.
an<J relatives- and friends in
Newberry. His wife will join him
later in Newberry, on her way to Atlanta,
Ga., where she will go to buy
up fall millinery goods.
Mr. B. R. Loadholt and family are
visiting Mrs. Loadholt's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Chassereau. Ben looks
well and shows that tie gets enough
to eat.
During the electric storm on Saturday
afternoon Mr. Wm. McKenzie
had two of his mules killed by lightning.
Mr. McKenzie was in the stable
at the time, but it did not hurt
him. William is a wide awake young
farmer and the loss is heavy on him
at this time of the year. JEE.
News from Olar.
Olar, July 20.?Miss Burton, of
Monetta, is visiting Miss Emma
Cooke.
Mr. E. D. Bessinger left this morning
for Glenn Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Neeley returnad
Thursday from Glenn Springs.
Olar is a growing town. Eight
aew residence buildings have gone
up here in the last year, and still they
build. Mr. J. W. Smith is erecting
two handsome cottages on Main street i
for rent, and a contractor was here
last week to figure with Mr. G. M.
Neeley on a residence for himself.
Miss Brown, of Fitzgerald, Ga., is
risiting her brother, our efficient
railroad agent, Mr. Y. S. Brown.
Olar is soon to have a Methodist
jhurch. A contractor was here last
week to see the committee. We did
aot learn if they have let the contract
pet.
The protracted meeting at the Baptist
church fclosed Friday night. It
was a reviving series of worship.
Several new members were added,
rhe pastor, Rev. D. L. Rhoton, was
assisted by Rev. Bass, of New Brookland.
Crops in this Section are looking
well, but are badly in need of rain
just now. . !
We are very glad to report that,
Mrs. G. J1 Bessinger is improving,
liter an illness of several weeks.
Protracted meeting at Mizpah
Methodist church commenced to-day.
The pastor, Rev. R. A. Yongue, is
being assisted by Rev. G. W. Davis, i
bf Elloree. B. G. J.
Drowned in Charleston.
After approaching in a threatening
manner a young white man and woman,
who were sitting on a bench in
Lhe Battery Park at about 11 o'clock
Saturday evening, and laying his
band on the girl's shoulder or lurching
against her and later striking the
man, a negro man was pursued by
i small crowd, whose design was to
irrest him, and, springing into the
barbor from the Battery wall, was
Jrowned. His body was found yesterday
morning. The coroner was!
immediately notified and the body
the negro was transferred to the
Roper hospital, where an inquest was
tield at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.
In the Battery Park was a considerable
crowd at the time of the occurrence,
all enjoying the fine evening.
Suddenly the stillness was broken by i
i piercing scream, followed by sever-!
a.1 shouts. Rumor quickly had it that
i negro had assaulted a white girl, I
md in an instant everything was in
commotion. A crowd of men caught
sight of the accused negro and made
frenzied attempts to seize him. The
latter recognized his imminent dan-j
?er and, seeing no other way of escape
open to him, ran to the wall and
jumped into the harbor.?News and
Courier, July 20th.
MILLIONAIRE HUSBANDMAN.
How George W. Vanderbilt Runs His
Biltmore Farm.
At Biltmore, in North Carolina,
George W. Vanderbilt has spent over
$2,000,000 in creating the greatest
estate in America. He has torn down
a mountain, built a great castle and
owns seventeen square miles of
mountain country. These miles, however,
are under the most careful cultivation,
either as farming, grazing,
or timber lands.
The owner of Biltmore has the faculty
of picking the right man for the
right work. He induced a "book
farmer" from Louisiana to come into
the Carolina mountains and take
charge of the fields, flocks and herds.
That was eleven years ago, and until
Arthur S. Wheeler began riding up
and down the hills and through the
bottoms he had never known of agriculture.
except from the printed
page. He tested the soil of the few
little worn-out plantations on the estate,
he examined the hillsides. He
brought into play the knowledge of
fertilizing the earth, of crop rotation
of the fodder and grain which might
grow here, and especially of the livestock
which might thrive and yield
a profit. He decided that high-grade,
Jersey cattle would pay in milk and
butter, also hogs and poultry, and
that the product of the soil should
be first for their benefit. So the bare
hills became pastures and lots for
the swine to range, ample shelter being,
of course provided. The poultry
farm was stocked with record egglayers
of high degree, also pigeons
for squabs are profitable. Modern
incubators hatched chickens by the
hundreds. Everything, however, was
ponducted on strictly business lines.
Each Jersey had her own stall and
page in the dairy record. Every time
she is milked the number of quarts
she gives are marked on the record,1
as is also the butter test?the quantity
of butter which the cream would
make. All the ensilage and other
fodder she eats in a day are aemiea
against her. When a hen in the poultry
house wants to contribute to the
egg fund she enters a trap nest by
which she shuts a gate which keeps
her a prisoner until the poultry keeper
finds her. He looks at the number
on the feather band around her
neck, takes the egg and then releases
her. Each hen has also a record
page according to her number and
the number of eggs she lays in a
month or year of her life are noted
on the books of the farm office.
' Seventy-five farm hands are needed
for all purposes, including the
milking, whiclr is done by hand. The
creamery has such a mechanical system
that in it three men prepare over
1,000 quarts of milk daily bottles, in
butter* and in ic^ cream, the yield of
the cows ranging from eight to fifteen
quarts more a day. The Asheville
people who boast of having a VanderbilMor
a milkman have to pay 11
cents a quart as it comes from the
shiny yellow wagon bearing the sign
"Biltmore Dairy," and think it cheap.
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Mftrderer of Priest Hanged.
Canon City, Colo., July 15.?
Giuseppe Alia was hanged here to?
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nignt LUl LUC U1U1UC1 ui lawv.
Heinrichs.
The crime for which Alia was executed
to-day.was committed at the
altar rail in St. Elizabeth's church,
Denver, on February 23. His victim
Father Lee Heinrichs, was in the act
of administering the sacrament of the
eucharist When he was shot. On the
morning of Sunday, February 23, he
was awakened by the chimes of the
church bells calling to worship. The
sound, he said, aroused in his mind
the remembrance of wrongs suffered
in Italy, which he ascribed to the
church.
Entering the church be went up
to the altar, and, as Father Leo was
administering the sacrament to him,
shot the priest near the heart. The
assassin then fled from the scene.
As he was leaving the church he
tripped and fell. He was at once
?1 J uHoniol Crnnin
btlZtJU uy ruiivcujau x/auiv. W ,
who was an attendant at the service.
At the plea of Father Lee's fellow
priests of the Franciscan order the
infuriated worshippers allowed the
policeman to take his prisoner to the
police station. Thence he was hurried
to Colorado Springs, where he
was held for trial.
The trial was brief, though every
opportunity was given the accused
to defend his life. The plea of insanity
was set up, but alienists declared
that Alia was sane.
Previous to coming to Denver Father
Leo had lived in Patterson, N.
J., and it is thought that there he
became the object of hatred of a body
of anarchists, personal in its nature
and applying only to him. Many believe
that Father Leo's murder was
no part of an anarchist plot against
the church, but there is no strong
proof to substantiate this view.
Wild Man Wears Corset.
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A wild man wno nas Deen terrorizing
Kearney, N. Y., for months, was
captured by special Officer Cuthbert
on the meadows here and sent yesterday
to the Hudson county jail.
Cuthbert's wife and children saw the
man come from the meadows. He
made a dash at the party, but their
screams drove the fellow back into
the swamp grass! A posse was organized,
but Cuthbert caught the man
alone. The prisoner's hair grew to
his shoulders. A heavy black beard
covered his chest. It was found he
wore corsets. He said he had them
on to protect him from mosquitoes
as well as to preserve his form.
The man said he was Robert
O'Brien, forty-five years, formerly of
Providence, R. I. His recent home,
he stated, had been in a natural cave
on the banks of the Hackensack river,
just across the stream from the
Snake Hill penitentiary to which he
was committed.?New York "World.
WHITES AND BLACKS CLASH
FIGHT IN THE WASHINGTON
MALL ALMOST A RACE RIOT.
Three Taken to Hospital.?WThite
Boys Say Negroes Crowded Them
Off the Sidewalk.
Washington, July 12.?The trouble
between negroes and whites in
Washington seems to be growing
more intense. Last night three
young white boys were attacked and
stabbed by two giant negroes in the
Mall Park.
The wounded are Garnet Callis,
15 years old, 411 Ninth street southwest;
Charles Fridley, 18 years old,
704 C. street southwest, and Harry
io vaoro nlH fiftft T, afreet
Uiauc, JL <J J wai t? V*V4, vw V
northwest. The two negroes said to
be responsible for the stabbing are
under arrest, charged with assault.
They gave their names as Robt. Hutchins,
34 years old, of 2150 Newport
place Northwest, and Harry Stevenson,
904 E. street southwest.
The question of right of way is
growing serious in some sections of
Washington as a cause of trouble between
negVoes and whites. The
whites say that the negroes insist
upon forcing themselves on the inside
of the pavements, jostling white
men who are keeping to the right,
and often observing no courtesy when
ladies are upon the streets and upon
the proper side. This was the cause
of the trouble last night.
, Three young boys were passing
through the Mall Park near the medical
museum, keeping to the right,
when they encountered the two negroes,
they say were walking abreast
and taking up all the pathway. When
the two factions came together the
white boys moved to the right, but
the negroes refused to allow them to
pass and sought to force them into
the gutter. Then the trouble started,
One of the negroes is< said to have
provoked the trouble by his abusive
language, and when the white boys
resented it the negroes drew their
pocket-knives, it is alleged.
fiio whitM ctnnri their eround and
were slashed by the negroes. A riot
call was sent to the/Fourth precinct.
The reserves responded with the patrol
wagon and succeeded, after a
struggle, in arresting the two blacks.
Callis, with two stab wounds in
the shoulder; Fridley, wounded in
the neck and shoulder, ?nd Blaine
in the face and left hand, were ljurried
to Emergency Hospital, wliere
their wounds were dressed.
This case although of a more serious
nature than others, is but one
of the many such affrays that are
daily taking place in Washington and
the attitude of the authorities here,
who often inflict heavy punishments
upon white men who resent the impertinence
of negroes, only serves to
increase the hostile, attitude of the
blacks. \
The district government a few
[Weeks ago compelled the Mount Vernon
and Alexandria Railroad Company
to conceal their "Jim Crow"
signs as soon as they cross the highway
bridge entering Washington.
Although not running separate cars
for the blacks on this line, a portion
of the car is set apart for the negroes.
Borne of the negro leaders of the city
protested against the display of these
on+VnrlHoa onmnpllpri
PlgllSf ftUU tUC aUlfUVAAMVW
the car company to conceal them.
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GEO. A. WAGENER DEAD.
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Well Known Charleston Business
Man Passes Away.
Charleston, July 16.?Mr. George
A. Wagener died this afternoon at
about 1 o'clock, at his residence, 179
Rutledge avenue, after an illness of
several months. His death is heard
with deep regret by Charleston's citizens.
Mr. Wagener was one of Charleston's
foremost business men, and
interested in many of Charleston's
enterprises) His health for some
time had been wretched, and the end
came not unexpectedly to-day.
He was a partner in the firm of F.
W. Wagener '& Co., taking a very
active part in the wholesale business
of this firm. As- a member of the
drainage commission he devoted a
good deal of his time to the good of
the county. Perhaps his largest interest
was in the Royal Bag and Yarn
Manufacturing Co., of which he was
president. It was due to his energy
and business ability that this very
?n/w?RRfiii manufacturing concern has
been so flourishing. Mr. Wagener
was also a director of the bank of
Charleston, and vice president of the
Winnsboro Granite Co.
He is survived by two daughters
and a son; Miss Wagener, Mrs. W.
W. Way, and Mr. F. W. Wagener, Jr.
He Wouldn't Kiss.
St. Louis, July 17.?Mrs. Nora
Chalfant, a brunette with liquid
brown eyes gave Judge Kinsey a detailed
description of the "husband
who doesn't care." She is suing for
a divorce from her husband, Alfred
E. Chalfant, an insurance man, now
in San Diego, Cal.
"He wouldn't kiss me," Mrs. Chalfant
declared, her eyes filling with
tears. "He said that sort of thing
was silly.
"Once when I laughed at a joke
in a magazine he slapped me. He
said only silly people laughed.
"He wouldn't take me out evenings
afte we married. He said 10 cents
was too much to spend when I asked
him to take me street car riding, but
he often stayed out late playing pinochle,
and he told me he played at
$10 a game."
"Do you intend to marry again?"
asked Judge Kinsey.
"Indeed, I don't" said Mrs. Chalfant.
WOMEN THIEVES JAILED.
Husband of One Found to.be Serving
Sentence for Her Crime.
Indianapolis. Ind., July 16.?Mrs.
Maggie Spurrier and Miss Flora Knox
the latter 17 years old, were senten- -?
ced to the Indiana Reformatory for
Women to-day for horse-stealing. "
The two women took a horse and /5V
buggy in this city, drove to Jeffersonville,
and tried to sell the rig. .Their
actions excited suspicion, and they j'.4-;were
arrested.
Rufus Spurrier, husband of .the >fj&?
older woman, is serving a year in
the work-house for horse-stealing,
and the court was informed to-day
by relatives that Spurrier's wife stole >*
the horse found at his home, and that
he went to prison for the theft rather . ' ^
than make her guilt public.
Officers testified that they haa re- fj
covered three horses stolen by the
wnm<sn nnH that tho nalr haH hoan v ir' i
in the business for more than a yea/. ;/-^?|
Miss Knox, who is a niece'of Mrt.
Spurrier, smiled at Judge Pritchard '?j|
as he passed sentence and thanked
Ross Anderson is Killed. . . Asheville,
N. C., July 15.?Yard- h ^
master Ross Anderson was run dow^;-$|H
and instantly killed by a switch eiik - V'M
gine in the local yards of the Soattfera
railway at 6:30 o'clock this evening.
His skull was split open and .
one arm entirely cut off. -He was "n';
dead before assistance reached him.
Anderson, who was 30 years of 'V:>
age, had been in the employ of the
Southern railway 11 years. He leaveat-^sg
a widow and four small children. He
was a resident of Asheville and ex- i
ceedingly popular. f
Recorder Shot Down.
Metuchen, N. J., July 16.?
tuchen is in mourning to-day for the!
Rev. Samuel B. D. Prickett, who
was shot down and killed in cold- r
blood by Archibald Herron, a worth?
less character whom Mr. prickett, ^
when recorder of the town, had twice ;
sentenced to jail for wife-beating.
The dead man was formerly
pastor of the Methodist church here ^
and editor of the local paper. Herron
shot the minister on the Iatter's ddcrir',^ v
Herron was captured after being ' $ besieged
in his home by a posse of
more than 200, and then only upon
being threatened with suffocation by
sulphur fumes.
He was immediately taken to
county jail at New Brunswick in **'
automobile driven by Dr. Alfred El- V
lis, the mayor of Metuchen, as it was ?
believed that the local lock-up was ; ,
not sufficiently safe in view of the
attitude of the citizens of the towh.:_-,-f>^
Ever since his last conviction for p
wife-beating, Herron had declared he x . ,,
would "get even" with the man vho .t
sentenced him. ?%
Young Woman Tries to Shoot Faflfcerfe|a'';^
New York/ July 16.?Eighteen- ; ?
year-old Sarah Comiskey created et^ r 1 f |
citement 'opposite police headquar- p, 'ik
ters at New Rochelle last night by .
firing several shots at her father, ^ V ^
Sherman Comiskey. '^?sS9H
According to the police, the fath&li&Si
left his family in New York apgjp|i|-r45
time ago and canfe to board in New' -|^H
Rochelle. He told his fellow boarjl- ''v$j
era to warn him if his daughter eter *
called on him as she would probably
try to make trouble.
When the girl came out from Nejr M,
York last night Comiskey was warn- i.
ed. He went direct to the police sta* 4l
tion to ask for protection! When ha ?M|3v.
left the station he met his daughter. Va'Sgl
who had followed him. She drew a V4
revolver and opened fire. One of the 4
shots wounded Comiskey slightly in :4;: j
the head. The girl was disarmed add '\(m
locked up. She said she had emulated
Sarah Koten in shooting her fa- m
ther, since he had deserted her moth-v^V^B
er and herself. She is believed to be. ' 4^
demented. 4
Woman Kills Children.
Buffalo, N. Y., July 18.?Mrs. Isa-.
bella Sahlen fed her three small cb|t-*J|s?
dren poison today and then strangled
each with a handkerchief to make 14*3
her work sure. She then sent to the ^
grocery store for more poison, which .44
she took herself. Her three children
were dead when their mother
discovered and Mrs. Sahlen was dy- ' 44,
IMS* rUJ'SIl/iai^p uiu nuat iimv^
for her, but is thought' she can not,
In a statement which Mrs. Sahlen^<J|
made to the police and the medical ' ?
examiner, the woman blamed heraiir
ter-in-law, who, she said, caused her^:"-jaBS
much domestic unhappiness.
Just after 4 o'clock Mrs. Sahlen ;
ran out into her doorway and screamed
to her next door neighbor, "
Brown, that she had poisoned her 'three
children and herself. v Sfra^
Brown rushed into the Sahlen hOQW-f |ij?
and Mrs. Sahlen met her with a . 'i~#
bread knife. * $
The frantic mother made a thrust ^SSM
at Mrs. Erown, who retreated and
called for help. Physicians and the
police found the three children dead, /
and Mrs. Sahlen under the first effeets
of the poison.
Frank, the 15-months-old baby, ^
was dead in his go-cart in the dining ^ V^
room with a handkerchief stuffed into
his throat. Elizabeth, the 3-year- ; '
old girl, was evidently killed first andr-pig
Mrs. Sahlen took the 5-year-old boy
out of bed away from the dead body
of his sister and placed him on the >.
floor. Then she lay beside the lad,
fed him the poison and strangled him ;'-??3
in his agony.
The crazed woman had no more
poison left, so she called her neighbor's
boy, Willie Brown, and sent him
for more. When the boy returned
she took the poison and called her
neighbor.
The medical examiners said the '*' Xy!
children had died probably an hour
or more before the mother took the
poison.