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Escaped Spartanburg Prisoner Grew
Tired of Freedom in Canada.
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I Spartanburg, January 21.?John
Wheatley, white, who escaped from
the county chain gang in 1907 %has
surrendered to the county supervisor.
Wheatley was convicted in 1906 on
the charge of shooting Conductor Joe
Brunson on a Southern train at Inman.
He was sentenced to serve two
years, but escaped after serving six
\ months, going to Canada. Tired of
.. .freedom he decided to return to
Spartanburg and serve out his sentence.
Mrs. Wheatley, his mother, arranged
for her son to come back
and finish his term.
) Walsh Begins His Sentence.
Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 19.?On
an iron cot in a cell of the federal
' prison John R. Walsh, 72 years old,
* who to-day began serving a five year
sentence for misapplying the funds
of the Chicago National bank, spent
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Walsh accepted his new situation
with smiling god grace. While talk'
ing to-day with an old friend, Walsh
r remarked:
"I don't believe I shall ever live
out my sentence if I am not pardoned."
. The new surroundings did not
make Walsh, who is now known as
"Convict No. 6861," nervous. He
sat calmly in his cell to-night and
read until the big gong sounded
"lights out" at 9 o'clock. Then he
went to bed.
Walsh took his first meal in prison
to-night. It consisted of warm
biscuits, fried potatoes, onions and
* black coffee. Walsh ate heartily.
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fA History of Barnwell.
We are not authorized to give his
name but we know of our own
knowledge that one of the most
competent of the younger men of
the county is collecting data for a
history of Barnwell, town and county
And to give him such help as we
can we ask the older citizens from
the Savannah to the Edisto, and the
descendants of first settlers to send f
such traditions of the past as are!
preserved in their memories to us, {
and they will be conveyed to the i
history writer. Much and high history
has been made here and it is
well worth preservation. Before the
pictures of the old days have faded
from memory retouch them with
pen and ink. That much of respect
is due to those who made the record
of the past.?Barnwell People. 1
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INCREASES PASTOR'S SALARY.
Dillon Methodist Church Will Pay S
$1,800 a Year.
Dillon, January 19.?The Dillon
iMethodist church has raised the sal- 0
ary of its pastor to $1,800 per an- ?
num. This increase was decided on S
at a meeting of the board of stewards F
following a supper given by Mr. and t<
Mrs. T. W. Bethea. Under the lead- M
ership of Rev. W. C. Kirkland the 11
church is prospering, and a new
building is being talked of.
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Chicago, January 18.?John R. q
Walsh, 72 years old, after winning u
his way from newsboy to the control
of millions of dollars in banks, rail- ^
roads, newspapers and gold fields, a
to-night left for the federal prison y
at Leavenworth, Kan., to begin a five
years' sentence for misapplying the
funds of the Chicago National bank,
of which he was president at the j
time of its failure three years ago. t]
The start for prison followed a denial
by the United States circuit n
court of appeals of his petition for a
new trial on the ground of alleged j j
misconduct by the jurors who found ^
Walsh guilty. p
The final chapter in the financier's g
long fight against a prison term is
summarized as follows:
10 a. m.?Appeared at his office c<
in the Grand Central station and
conducted business as if nothing of g
unusual importance was pending. B
11.40 a. m.?Summoned to a hotel
where he heard over the telephone
that his petition for a new trial was E
denied. C1
4 p. m.?Heard read the mandate ^
committing him to prison. g,
5.15 p. m.?Bade his wife, daughter
and intimate friends good bye
at his Calumet avenue home and d
started for the station in an auto- 11
mobile. w
6 p. m.?Left on the Chicago, w
Milwaukee & St. Paul road for Leavenworth,
where he is due to-morrow. ^
By a coincidence Walsh started to
prison exactly two years after he '
was found guilty. It was on Janu- c>
ary 18, 1908, that a jury in Federal B
Judge Anderson's court brought in s'
its verdict.
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TWO MEN FATALLY CUT.
erious Affray in Greenville's Red ]
Light District.
Greenville, Jan. 22.?Traced for
ne mile from the County Court j
louse by streaks of blood on the
round, two young white men, Will 1
'oster and Tom Scott, were found (
>day by the police near the Caro-!(
na Mills, cut almost into mince t
leat. From what could be learned ^
rom the police it seems that in a (
ree-for-all fight in the red light dis- ,
rict last night, Foster and Scott were
lashed many times by an unknown ^
lan. They staggered up-town, and .
reat streaks of blood in front of the J
ourt House led the officers to beeve
that a myterious murder had
een committed. They traced the
rops of blood from street to street
nd located the men at the Carolina '
[ills. They are both fatally cut.
Bride Seeking Freedom.
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opai uiuuuig, oau. xa. aiuci 61T_ ^
\g married life less than a month's (
*ial, Mrs. Nogie James Burnett, wife
f Rev. George W. Burnett, a Baptist ,
linister of Aberdeen, Miss., who, be- <
>re her marriage was Miss Nogie
ames, of Wellford, has returned to
partanburg county, pending an ap- 1
lication for divorce, which has been
led in the office of the clerk of court
f Monroe county, Miss. The appli- 1
ition for the divorce is made by *
Dnsent of both parties on the ground *
lat Mrs. Burnett declares that she ?
oes not love her husband. Rev. Mr. (
urnett, it is said, loved his wife c
ith a love akin to worship. He is
man 58 years of age, while Mrs. 6
urnett is but 25. They knew each *
ther but a month before marrying. 1
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. dispatch from Aberdeen, Miss., J
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"Parson Burnett has applied for 1
ivorce; case pending. Court now *
1 session. No reflection on lady, t
ho has respect and sympathy of all T
ho know her." 1
It is said that Rev. Mr. Burnett t
as a widower with ten children at ?
le time of his marriage to Miss 1
ames, which was on Sunday, De- 1
?mber 26, 1909. Yesterday Mrs.
urnett gave out a statement in re- c
ard to her asking for a divorce, in!6
'Inch she says her husband was 1
ind and loving, but that she was J1
ist dissatisfied and did not believe! c
tho T.r?rH'a will that shp rpmflin his I c
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RAILWAY WRECK IN CANADA.
Part of Train Plunges Into Ice-Coy
erea itiver.
North Bay, Out., January 21.?
Death in all its most terrible form:
blotted out the lives of at least j
3core and perhaps two score peopl<
this afternoon, when four cars of j
Canadian Pacific passenger train 01
the Soo branch leaped from th<
tracks, and tearing down a steep em
bankment, plunged through the ice
covered surface of the Spanish River
Some were drowned, others wer<
crushed to death in bridging timbers
Most terrible of all, maimed and in
[ured, caught in the wreckage of on<
Df the cars, were burned to death.
The exact number of dead and in
iured was still unknown here at i
late hour to-night, as telegraphii
communication has not yet been es
tablished with the scene of th<
wreck, but according to stories tol(
ay injured passengers brought t<
Sudbury, it was one of the worst ca
iastrophies in the history of Cana
lian railroads.
The train wrecked was known a*
\To. 7, en route from Montreal t<
Sault Sainte Marie and Milwaukee
\n official statement given out here
says that it probably was due to i
aroken rail.
The engine, baggage, express, mai
md one second-cless car remained or
:he rails, while one second-class, one
irst-class, a dining car and a sleepei
md second-class car stopped on the
embankment, the second-class cai
;atching fire.
The wreck occurred about thirtyleven
miles West of Sudbury where
he tracks cut into the side of a steep
lill, which is skirted by the river
rhe forward part of the train passed
>ver the break, whatever it was, safey.
The day coach, which was the
ourth from the end of the train was
he first to leave tne rails, me tram
vas running at the rate of aboul
brty miles an hour and the momen,um
carried the car down the hill ir
t terrific plunge. About twenty-five
>assengers were in the car and it is
>ractically certain that none escaped.
Two minutes after the first crash
>niv tho roof of the dav coach show
;d above the floating ice in the
iver. The second-class car, the next
n the train, smashed against the end
>f a culvert, and was crushed like
in egg-shell. Some of the passengers
were killed outright, but others
aught in the wreckage which almost
mmediately broke into flames, were
oasted to death before they could
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be rescued. The staunch construction
of the dining car saved its occu"
pants. It followed the day coach to
the very brink of the river, but every_
one on board escaped without seri3
ous injury. The sleeper turned over
a on its side on the embankment.
s There were only members of the
l train crew in the sleeper at the time
1 and they escaped with slight injuries.
3 Every man who was able to stand,
. at once turned to the work of rescue.
_ Snow was piled upon the burning
second-class car and the train crew
3 and uninjured passengers did
some Heroic work in trying to rescue
. those pinned in the burning wrecks
age. Physicians were hurried to tne
scene from Sudbury as soon as word
was received and a wrecking train
with General Superintendent Gutlius
made record time from North Bay.
_ Arrangements were made to bring a
a diver on a special train from Sault
J Ste Marie to recover the bodies from
the submerged car and he is now at
the wreck with a diving outfit. The
injured were taken to Sudbury Hospital.
3 STRANGLED SELF WITH APRON.
* Miss Minnie Finkenstedt, Formerly
of Charleston, a Suicide in Atlanta.'
Spartanburg, January 21.?News
1 reached here to-day of the suicide in
1 Atlanta of Miss Minnie Finkenstedt,
3 which occurred late yesterday evening.
She was a native of Walhalla
1 and leaves three brothers, William,
r Frederick and Charles Finkenstedt,
of Walhalla, and a sister, Miss Dora
Finkenstedt, of Atlanta, surviving. ?
All are known in Charleston, the
family having moved here with early
settlers of Walhalla from that city.
The deceased was about 40 years of J
age and had for several years been
employed in Atlanta at the Piedmont
Hotel. She took her own life at her
home, having used her apron with ,
which to strangle herself. She had ]
been in poor health for quite a while. {
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Mills Buying Futures.
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Savannah, Ga., Jan. 20?Savannah
brokers received reports to-day that
Southern mills were buying heavily
of cotton future contracts in New ?
York and would demand deliveries.
A cnosiderable amount was said to be
; for January delivery. By this means
the mills are enabled to take advanti
age of the low price of futures, spot
cotton in the Southern markets not
i having declined to anything like a
corresponding degree.
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PETER McAULEY,
Springfield, Mass.
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MRS. MYRTLE DAGUE,
Rochester, Ind.
"My daughter couldn't talk or
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MRS. NANNIE LAND,'
Ethel, Ind.
"Until my son was 30 years
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